Izuku could hear other people talking around him. He'd been playing with Kaachan before they got quirks, it was the happiest time for him, when his reality shifted and started to fade. Then the voices started getting louder and Izuku was having trouble recognizing the voices, but he felt like he should now them.

His eyes wouldn't open and when he tried to speak, nothing but whimpers and groans escaped him. He wanted to talk to the people in the room. What was going on with his head?

"your mind." a gentle voice says.

Another signs from further away, "I think he should rest, I'll come again tomorrow. School starts in a few weeks again, I hope he's better before then."

Izuku tried to reach for that voice, it sounded so familiar. "ngh..ka...ch...n."

It was horrible and broken, but had managed to almost say the name, but he couldn't picture the face. And for some reason his eyes wouldn't open.

Someone grabbed his hand firmly. "Izuku if you can hear me, squeeze once for yes and twice for no."

It seemed like everyone was holding their breath, but he squeezed once for yes anyway.

"Do you recognize us?" the boy asked.

Two squeezes this time. "ey…..ss."

Another boy stood quickly. "Are your eyes bothering you?"

He squeezed the hand he still held once./

"I'll go get a doctor then." the same boy started, before leaving the room.

"Izuku, is anything else bothering you?" the gentle voice asked.

Two squeezes, but why wouldn't his eyes work.

Suddenly two footsteps returned. "Mr. Midoriya, I see you've woken up. How are you feeling?"

Izuku cringed slightly and whimpered, "ba…..d."

"You were right, his speech is stilted. How did you get him to respond?"

"We asked him to squeeze Bakugos hand."

"Yeah, I alm-"

Kaachan is here? Why? "ka….ch...n."

"I haven't left Izuku. That's exactly what he said, right before I left." Bakugo sighed. "Why is he having this sort of reaction from me?"

The doctor wrote something down before answering. "Hm, well, it all depends on what he's been experiencing in his mind for the last three months."

Three months?! Where am I? Wheres my mom?! "

Everyone turned towards Izuku when the heart monitor spiked suddenly. They watched as the boy twitched and jerked. "I suggest you kept talking to him, so he doesn't fall back into a drop. I'll inform your parents Bakugo."

The teen sighed before sitting beside Izuku. "I hope you were somewhere nice Izuku. Everyone at the dorms has missed you, and want you to return as soon as you can. They've all worried. You worried me too Izu-chan. I'm so sorry that I treated you shitty."

"Whe...re….wee?"

Bakugo chuckled. "We are in the hospital, can you remember what happened?"

Izuku squeezed twice, was he supposed to? "whoo….here?"

"You don't have to remember right now, just let it go and it'll eventually come back to you. As for whose in the room, that would be me, Shoto and Shinso. Do you remember them?"

Two squeezes, "who?"

There were two signs before Bakugo spoke. "They are your best friends Izuku, they were the first friends you made after getting into UA."

Izukus heart rate sped up, he want to UA? Him? "How?"

Shoto chuckled. "Your very persuasive Izuku, I didn't even want to friends, but you changed my mind. Pretty sure that's exactly what happened to Shinso, after I said 'so you think you have a choice?' It was great."

Izuku calmed a little, his chest filling with a fuzzy feeling. He'd made friends! But what about Kaachan, weren't they friends? "Us, kaa...chan?"

"We weren't friends for a very long time Izuku, I got my quirk during the summer before middle school. I became really mean and a big bully when you didn't get your own quirk." Bakugo stated.

"Why...here?" Izuku wheezed.

Kaachan sighed, "I did some really stupid things, and you tried to kill yourself because of it. But i got therapy, and i'm better now. I want to be your real friend. Would you like that?"

A whimper escaped, but he squeezed Kaachans hand once. "Fri..ends...alw...ays"/span/p