Today was the worst day. Between having been viciously ridiculed by my childhood best friend, being asphyxiated by a villian and saved by my idol, only to be told by him "Without power, can one become a hero? No, I should think not."

Izuku's chest, despite being filled and emptied with air, felt constantly empty, and more empty as his mind raced.

Born without a Quirk in this age, already is rare. With my heart having always been set up for having a quirk and wanting to be a hero... I never really stopped believing I could... but, when All Might of all people tells me I can't, I really can't can I?

Izuku aware or not had managed to make his way over to where he had hear explosions earlier.

I shouldn't even be here. Staring at the work of heroes, as they battle villains. At this point I am not even fit to watch such a spectacle.

An explosion shakes Izuku from his stupor.

What's going on?!

Izuku, despite his earlier thoughts, finally looks up at the battle. Heroes, small and mountainous, staring just as he was at a blurring figure. As Izuku focused his vision, he saw the fire, the smoke, the shockwaves he knew all too well. The explosive hair of his 'friend', being covered by the sludge and slime of Izuku's earlier assailant.

What is going on, didn't All Might already capture him? No. no no no no no… it's my fault, I made him drop them. I did this. I-I need t...to fix this. Ho-How can I… can I do this?

All Might's words echo "Without power… I should think not."

I am quirkless, I am worthless.

With that, Midoriya Izuku's legs rushed off. His feet no longer standing as a statue. He may not have meaning anymore, but in that meaningless, purposeless, existence Izuku reached a morbid answer.

Throwing his bag in some vein attempt to distract the villain Izuku began prying the liquid off of his bully.

"You! Why?!" spoke an angry and stressed Katsuki.

"I am worthless, right?! Then why does it matter if I die here!" Izuku screamed as his adrenaline caught up to him and he continued to frantically remove the villain from his bully.

If I am worthless, than why would it matter if I failed or died trying to save someone I care about?

In a flash, unseen by anyone, everything was over. In a desynced way the words "DETROIT SMASH" echoed in the destroyed alleyway. The villain was dispersed and the clouds broke apart, and the two boys All Might had in his hand were safe. Though as soon as All Might and the rest of the Heroes were distracted with the media and fans, Izuku slipped away behind the crowd, through the street and off to wherever his feet would take him.

Izuku already knew he would be in trouble with the other heros. Katsuki would only be mad at him. Nothing would change. Nothing would stop his thoughts from racing. Nothing would stop the void in his heart from growing.

What could I ever do?

I am quirkless.

The void grew.

I am worthless.

His heart empty.

I did nothing back there, I'll do nothing later.

He began to feel cold.

Before Izuku could realize what was going on he looked up as his feet stopped. Not knowing that this whole time he had been running since he was free of the crowd. He had forgotten the world and had been absorbed completely in thought. His body had lead him back to school. Where today had gone all wrong. Where everything started. Where everything would end.

"You wanna be a hero so bad? I've got a time saving idea for you. If you think you'll have a quirk in your next life… go take a swan dive off the roof!" The voice of Izuku's torturer came back to him, reminding him of earlier today.

Kacchan… I am worthless, like you have always said. I was too blinded by your amazingness to realize how much I must have been dragging you down. I get why you hate me now, why you hated me. The bruises and cuts, you were trying to wake me up. To show me how foolish I was being.

Izuku began wandering up the school building.

Four stories should be enough right? I may not weigh a lot but I have gravity on my side right!? Even if it fails, no one is around. I don't even know why the school was so… open. I should bleed out at least, hopefully a snapped bone or two should make me pass out.

Izuku reached the roof. Climbed the fence, turning around on top of it.

I am sorry Kacchan. I am sorry All Might. I can't do it. I can't try to be happy when I have nothing to be happy about anymore. I am worthless. I am nothing. To nothing I shall return.

"DEKU"

XXX

The voice had shouted too late. Izuku had already fallen off the top of the school fence.

Bakugou Katsuki had already been told by his shitty "saviors" that he was strong and courageous. He already knew that, the fucktards. The media, the crowd, praised him for his ability to hold out for so long. They knew nothing, the useless masses.

"Where is Deku" Katsuki thought out loud while he ignored his immediate surroundings, trying to find the plain looking boy. He found him. The shit green hair surfing between the crowd and the brickwall of the alleyway. Getting up from the debris he made, Katsuki began shuffling through the masses.

Knowing the crowd was too loud, and Katsuki's throat too sore from that filthy bastard he couldn't try to get his attention. When he finally got through them all and off to the street Katsuki looked down the street to see the fucker power walking down the road.

Why is he walking so fast? Where does he think he is going after all this?! GET BACK HERE DAMMIT… I need to know why you said it wouldn't matter if you died. You are probably overthinking things again you damn nerd.

Pushing his thoughts aside. Katsuki began running after Izuku, who's pace had only been increasing as he thought, though he didn't get much of a start as passing cars forced him to stop. Katsuki's focus now was solely on Izuku, and in this new intense focus he noticed something... weird around Izuku. There were shadowy vapors coming off of Izuku's legs and arms. Faint and hard to see, but Katsuki was sure he wasn't seeing things, his adrenaline from earlier was already gone. There shouldn't be anything clouding his head.

The lights refused to change to green.

No...no no… not now. I need to go. I need to get to him dammit. There isn't time for this shit.

Katsuki since earlier today had been a complete ass to Izuku. The reason, anger, inferiority, fear. Since they were young Izuku had always been there to try and help Katsuki. Before their quirks emerged and the tests done, they were the best of friends. They did everything together, shared everything.

When Izuku told Katsuki he had no quirk, nothing changed at first. They were still friends after all, but… Katsuki after falling off a log a couple of feet into water on a trail, and seeing Izuku try to help him. Katsuki became… angry. Why would someone so weak and powerless be the one to help him? Why would he need saving from someone so pitiful. The inferiority came in.

Later in junior high, Katsuki had a sudden realization after watching hero fail to beat a deadly villain. What if Izuku tries to save someone in a dangerous situation, without a quirk, without power… what would happen to his childhood friend. His only friend. Fear.

Deku… In trying to save you, I only hurt you. I thought if I pushed you away you would leave me, you would be safe. Safe from me and what heroes do. I wanted you to be safe from harm. I didn't want to lose my only friend.

Katsuki didn't lose Izuku at the crosswalk, but he lost a lot of distance. The little shit wouldn't stop running. When did he get so fast. Katsuki thought.

I don't know where he's going. I do know that he isn't happy… What he said… "I am worthless, right?! " That mentality, that wasn't the Deku. He might do something I didn't mean for him to do. I was too much today. I need to catch him dammit. Why is he so fucking fast all of the sudden...

Running and thinking Katsuki lost Izuku. Hastily, Katsuki got out his phone, fumbling around for the GPS he was able to figure out where he was. Looking at the places near him, Katsuki surmised that Izuku was going back to school. It was the only thing closes to where he was that Izuku would go to.

Why school? The notebook I burned? Did he forget it? Please let it be that and not what I think it is. Don't be cliche Deku.

Though Katsuki tried to play it off in his head he was worried. He was… scared again. The people in his class weren't his friends. Those two bastards that followed him and ran when he was attacked weren't friends, they were just losers trying to look cool. It was Izuku that he knew actually cared about him. Katsuki didn't know how to break the ice though.

After all these years, I of all people have been so weak. I haven't been able to apologize, not once to Deku. I hurt him physically and mentally. He was my best friend and I was his. Yet I beat him ruthlessly because I can't control my… explosive temper. I am so sorry. I have been for so long Deku. Please be okay, I'll save you this time I promise. Just… Just hold out a little bit longer for me.

XXX

As the wind picked up Izuku turned his head around to figure out who shouted his sour name. It was strange. Izuku didn't understand why.

Why is Kacchan here? Probably to see his work firsthand.

His last thoughts as he hit the ground with a hard thud and crack of his bones. Katsuki's natural reaction forced his head away from Izuku, shorty he looked back. Blood had begun to pool around the boy's body. His left arm was mangled, bone protruding out his elbow. Katsuki had to repress his urge to vomit after he looked away again.

"Deku… no..." covering his mouth, muffling his quiet screams and holding back the vomit as he slowly walked closer.

He had been too late. Katsuki knelt in the blood near his dead victim. The eyes that use to always be covered in that twinkingly glow of enthusiasm, dull. lifeless. Uncontrollably, Katsuki began to shed his first tears in years, as picked up and held the head of his friend in his lap.

This can't be…

The void moved.

I failed. I completely failed

The void grew

I lost the one true friend I had. I did this to him. I… I k-killed Izuku.

The void was satiated.

Crack. Crack. Crack. The noise of bones moving and muscles reforming filled the quiet courtyard. Izuku Midoriya's body began to jitter, and shuffle. The once lifeless body began to move, its bones taking up their old positions again. The muscles attaching again. Katsuki was too absorbed in his own thoughts. Holding his dead friends head near his, his tears streaming down Izuku's face.

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"I DIDN'T WANT THIS" Katsuki screamed as loud as his damaged throat would allow.

"Kacchan? Wha..." said the broken boy.

"AAAHHHHH" The bully screamed in a tone he didn't know he could, dropping Izuku's head onto his lap.

"Owww... What was that fo.."

"WHAT THE FUCK DEKU!"

"Wh-what do you mean?"

The thoughts finally came together in Izuku's head. He had just fell, to what was suppose to be his death. Yet… here he was…

"YOU SHIT, WHY DID… WHY… why di-did you do it... " though Katsuki already knew why.

This confused the already addled Izuku more.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHY!?" The boy shouted back, picking himself off of his bully. "YOU TOLD ME TO!"

"I… I-I didn't mean for you to… actually DO IT DAMMIT" Katsuki's voice cracked, and started to hurt from earlier.

"You bullied me daily. You beat me, you verbally tormented me. What else could you possibly mean you didn't mean for me to actually do it." Izuku began to water, but not before he realized he already had tears on his face. They weren't his.

Izuku finally looked down. Katsuki was crying.

No longer able to control himself or his emotions, Katsuki grabbed Izuku's shirt and pulled him down, forcing him to lose his stability. In an action both didn't expect, the bully and the loser shared a warm embrace. For a long moment the two just cried, alone.

Katsuki broke the hold and his tears. "D-Do not do that again… I can't lose… I won't lose you again. Not to the world. Not to a villain. Not to me."

"What do you mean?! Why do you care so much all of the sudden. I thought… I thought you hated me... "Izuku protested.

"I..." The teary eyed blonde tried to speak but was overtaken by his own self hate and guilt. In a reactive state to his emotions, Katsuki hugged Izuku again. "I didn't… I never wanted this… I never wanted to stop being friends. I-I didn't… I didn't want to lose you, th-that's why. I didn't want you to get caught up in something you couldn't do, and because of it I lose you. I don't want to lose my only friend."

"Kacchan..." Izuku's already weary tear ducts were re-filled with tears of joy "L-let's go home first."

The two shuffled off each other, Katsuki stood, a little a rocky. Izuku however could barely stand. His legs weak from having been snapped prior, healed, but his nerves were still feeling fresh. With Katsuki's aid, he could walk. So the two left for their home. The sun had reaching the horizon spreading its hazy orange glow across the cityscape.