~ Chapter 2: Being Alive is a Bitch

Katsuki slowly made his way to school, not really caring that he was running a bit later as his mind firmly focused on the sniffling face of his childhood friend. He groaned as he ran his fingers through his hair, giving a shake of his head and made his way forward before he saw police tape. It was everywhere, cutting off the school and he saw a crowd of students and adults along with the media standing around looking at something before them.

He made his way through the crowd, roughly pushing people out of his way before he finally made his way to the front and stopped. His entire body stiffened and chilled as if someone dunked him into an ice bath.

The scene would forever be ingrained into his memory. There was a large pool of blood which was around an obviously petite body, those messy curly green locks that he could recognize from a mile away. The blood-stained All Might blanket and the shattered pieces of an action figure of All Might. He knew who was in front of him and he felt that he was going to be sick.

'No...It can't be...No, it's not her. She's probably just taking a day off,' He thought as he looked around him, trying to see any hint of her freckled face or curly green hair only for a hand to clap him on the shoulder.

He swirled around and saw one of his classmates who shook his head at him and his worst nightmare was confirmed as he looked down for a moment, his eyes were burning as he barely held in his tears, 'I didn't mean it! Dammit! Did I-'

Katsuki felt his mind implode as his eyes rolled to the back of his head and collapsed.

The last thing he heard was someone calling for help and the sound of footsteps rushing towards him before everything went black.

[Two Hours Later]

Katsuki gasp as he quickly sat up and saw that he was in the nurse's office and both of his parents were beside him.

"Why am I here?" He groaned, rubbing his aching head

"You collapsed. Don't you remember?" His father stated softly

"What? Why did I?" Then he stiffened and remembered as he looked at his parents, "It's not real right? She's alive. She's just at home with Inko."

The frown on both of their faces made his stomach twist, "What. What! Don't tell me-"

"She's gone..." His mother whispered... The words were was so softly spoken that he barely heard her but it felt like she screamed the words at him.

The nurse came by and said, "The school will be closed for the next three days and on Monday, there will be a late arrival. It would be best that you take him home to recover."

The parents nodded as Katsuki just moved his body, but he felt completely numb as he shuffled back home. When they reached their house, he raced for his room and slammed the door shut.

She chased after him, "Dammit, Katsuki! Get out here! We need to talk about this!"

"Leave me alone dammit!"

"Katsuki!"

"Just leave me -hiccup- alone..." He trailed off miserably

She rested her forehead and fist on the door before her husband pulled her away, hugging her from behind.

"Let's just give him his space. We will talk to him tomorrow. I'll bring him some food later."

She nodded and allowed him to pull her away as she let a few tears slip from her eyes as she thought about the quirky girl who had the sweetest smile.

'Inko... How's Inko going to take this?'

[Midoriya Residence]

Inko groaned as she sat up, confused as to why she was sitting at the table before she looked back to yesterday.

'I must have fallen asleep waiting for her. But why didn't she wake me?' She asked herself before she saw that she was covered in her plain blue blanket.

"Did Carly place this over me?"

She stood up, shaking off the stiffness and saw the letter and quickly opened it.

Dear mom,

By the time you read this...I will not be here anymore. Let me just say that it's not your fault. You are the best mom anyone could have asked for...it's just the fact that I am too dirty now. I was raped today...by the principal, he told me how he made you pay triple the tuition to keep me in school due to me being quirkless. I'm so sorry that I gave you so much trouble. Maybe if I had a quirk, Dad wouldn't have left. I know you still look at his pictures and weep at night, but at least when I am gone you can be happy again. Even though I've been nothing but trouble, I hope you are able to get the happiness that you deserve and maybe I'll get the chance to be your child again, hopefully with a quirk this time.

~ Carly

Inko felt hot tears run down her cheeks as she raced out of the apartment, still covered in the blanket her daughter placed around her and clutching her letter, hoping to God that this was all a sick and twisted nightmare and she would wake up to find her daughter asleep, curled up in her thick blanket.

When she arrived at the school and saw the police tape and the media reporters, she knew that her worst nightmare was a reality. The police and several low-ranking heroes had to push the media reporters back as they screamed questions at her. She made her way forward and saw the blood stain and the shattered pieces of an All Might action figure.

When several teachers made their way forward to give their condolences she looked at them, her eyes were empty and cold, which made them step back, "Why?"

As they tried to get their mouths working, she continued, "What did my daughter do to suffer so much? I knew she was quirkless but she was a lovely girl who never hated anyone even though you allowed her to be bullied. You allowed her to be isolated from her classmates and attacked."

They couldn't answer her or make eye contact as they knew she was right, Carly didn't deserve what she got. She was quirkless, but she was smart, neither arrogant or bitter as she only wanted to help people only for the sole purpose of helping people. The students that overheard her could only look down in shame as they were as far from heroes as they could get. Because what type of hero bullies someone for something out of their control? Not at a good one.

Inko just sniffled and shook her head, making her way home, ignoring everyone and everything as she made to weep over the loss of her daughter. Unnoticed to her, a skinny blond male watched her leave with a sad look on his face as he took one last glance at the blood stain before making sure Inko made her way home safely.

Once he was sure that she was safe, he made his way back to the crime scene and inwardly swore that he would make sure that the principal and all of his associates would pay for what they have done.

He closed his eyes and clasped his hands together in a praying motion, 'It's the least I can do for you, young Midoriya. May you rest in peace.'

[Two Days Later: With Carly]

"Ugh..." She groaned

She slowly opened her eyes, blinking once, then twice as she found herself in a dark room, suddenly the lights to the room turned on and a girl came into the room. She looked to be around 16-17 years old with curly cotton-candy blue hair, her skin was fair with a thin frame. She was wearing a light purple belly shirt with a pair of jean shorts.

"Hey, sleepy. You're awake."

Carly couldn't really speak as she continued to stare at her, making the older girl give a nervous laugh.

"You must be wondering where you are, huh? Well, you are at our hideout that I have with my team and my leader. You are quite lucky, hon. If Darren didn't see you before your attempt, your head would have been a smashed melon."

"...I would have preferred if it had."

The girl frowned, "Come on, you don't mean that."

Carly gave her a cold glare, "I should have died. I wanted to die, I was ready to die! I-"

"Are you?"

"Huh?"

"Did you really want to die? When Darren saw you on that ledge, you were trembling and weeping. Almost as if you had to force yourself to go through with it."

Carly looked down at her lap, before she felt a hand on her shoulder, making her look up before she saw a fading bruise around the girl's neck.

"Trust me, dear. I still see a spark in there even if you don't feel it yet. If I have to drag it out of you and make you a peppy person, I will do so."

Carly was really confused before she spoke again, "Now, enough dark stuff. You must be starving. Oh, my name is Mina by the way. The rest of the house will meet with you shortly but they won't hurt you."

She could only watch as the older girl skipped out of the room.

Carly gave a sigh and slumped against the pillow she had been resting on.

Whether it was minutes or hours, Mina came into her room again with a group of men behind her, making her tighten her grip on the blanket.

Mina placed a tray of beef stew, several slices of bread with a glass of milk and juice and a bowl of fruit.

"Okay, now introduce yourselves?" Mina said, pouting at the four men.

The oldest of the group, had a rough look about him, like that of a soldier raised in the sun who had just come from the war with a hard chin laced with stubble and a scar that came up from his chin and ended at the corner of his lip. His eyes were blue with a blunt nose, his red hair was shaggy. He was tallest of the group and was wearing a black t-shirt with a pair of jeans and boots.

"The name is Johnathan, the brats here call me Brazzer so call me what you like."

The youngest of the group, who looked be around her age had the pretty boy/geeky look about him. He had blond hair that curled at the ends with large circular glasses with barely noticeable purple eyes that could be seen beyond the glint of his glasses. He was wearing an oversized sweater over a white button-up shirt with a pair of sweatpants and sandals.

"My name is Jimmy. A pleasure to meet you."

The second oldest had this rebellious look about him, with spiky silver hair and fair skin, with yellowish green eyes and a sharp nose with a bow-shaped mouth. He had a strong build underneath a white t-shirt with a black leather jacket and dark washed jeans and cowboy boots.

He raised a hand up, "Yo, I'm Liam."

The third oldest had a slacker look about him with a lanky body type, brown hair that looked like he just got out of bed, he had dark eyebags underneath tired blue eyes. He was wearing a sweat jacket with gray shorts and slip on shoes.

"Um...Hi. I'm Darren."

Carly stared at them all for the moment and introduced herself, "Carly Midoriya. But the main question is...what am I supposed to do now?"

Ending the chapter. I'm alive, dammit! You all are probably wondering, where in the name of fuck have you been?! It's what...Months~, and when in the name of fuck are you going to update the rest of them, well, I'm in the middle of working on them. So just wait just a bit longer. Other than that, rest of luck for those of you that are in school.

Thank you for the reviews!

Kirara0922 - Thank you, although I may rewrite the first chapter considering how it makes me cringe a bit. It's a bit too short for my tastes and I may just add a bit more to make it better. Overall, I am happy you enjoyed it.

PsychoNightmare - I will don't worry.

Greer123 - You will.

Pravus666 - Yeah, but the dark start is needed especially for Carly's growth as a person and I'm still deciding whether she will have a quirk or not, but she will gain something that will make her a lot more dangerous. She will be reckless in the face of helping others but she will be darker and use her observation skills to her advantage to kill/maim her opponents. I hope you will still enjoy the story though.

~Kourtney Uzu Yato