Loop
Midoriya was thrown aggressively to the floor, coughing and gasping for air. Before he could open his eyes, Kurogiri had disappeared.
He looked around himself, and realised he was in the middle of a corridor, as poorly lit as the room he had just left. He got up with a little difficulty, and started walking, looking at the ragged walls. He suddenly arrived at some sort of living room, where there was a little table surrounded by sofas, all in the same pitiful state as the walls. It was as if someone had had a rage quit, and hadn't come back to clean up the mess in years, judging by how dusty the furniture was.
He suddenly saw another picture, of a woman with a baby, but whose faces were both burnt. By the woman's hair, he recognized her as the same one that was in the room he was sharing with his classmates. Why was her face burnt now? And why was the baby's?
The living room connected to another corridor, and he continued his path through it. After some steps where he saw the same ragged walls, he got to another living room, that was identical to the other one: same small table, surrounded by the same sofas, and the same picture on the wall -the woman and the baby with burnt faces. Midoriya frowned. Why would someone arrange a room exactly the same as the previous one?
There was another corridor connecting that room, and with a strange feeling, he ran through it, just to arrive at the exact same room than the previous one. Desperate, he repeated the same steps through the other corridor connecting the other room, and then the other, just to discover his suspicions were true: he was in an infinite loop where the same corridor, and the same living room, repeated itself again and again.
Meanwhile, an awkward silence was installed in the room where Yaoyorozu and Todoroki were standing alert to the appearance of Kurogiri, the taller boy positioned at the spot where the villain placed himself to speak to them.
"I'm sorry, Yaoyorozu, I really am", Todoroki couldn't help apologizing again.
But the brunette seemed more relieved than before. "You like Midoriya, don't you?"
"Wh-what?", Todoroki stuttered, blushing furiously. Even though he had already made up his mind, it was the first time someone actually said it aloud.
Yaoyorozu smiled. "I knew it. That compliment was too obvious. And the way you treat each other, and smile to each other… It's definitely reciprocal", she nodded.
"You… you think so? I had never told anyone, I thought I was good at hiding it-"
Yaoyorozu laughed. "Come on! We've been here for a few hours and it couldn't be more obvious to me." Then her smile faded. "But why did you sleep with me if you were into Midoriya?" Her face showed anguish.
"I… I think you do know how pretty you are, Yaoyorozu. And I needed confirmation about this. It's not hard to get out of the closet when you've grown up with an old man damning 'faggots' as if they were scum… And it had never occured to me that I was gay until I met Izuku..."
"So you did use me", Yaoyorozu said resentfully.
"Not really", Todoroki sincerely said. "I've always liked you, Yaoyorozu. I think you're bright, and brave, and beautiful. I really thought my feelings for you could grow into something deeper. Until Izuku came in the way…"
"I appreciate the fact that you had that opinion of me. I'm not used to getting rejected, you know", she sighed. "Things in life have been quite easy for me so far. Love, school, people… I was worshipped in a way you must probably know too."
"Absolutely", Todoroki sighed. "Which led me to having no friends at all until entering UA."
"I guess I never really had friends either", Yaoyorozu said, lowering her gaze. "I used to be the leader in a girls group; everyone did as I told. It was fun, it sure was, but those relationships weren't deep as the ones I've created at UA. I think girls at my previous school just admired me, but they weren't really interested in getting to know me."
"Really? Well, at least you had a relationship with your classmates. My life at my previous school wasn't like that; I was solitary, and the kids were scared of me. They did as I told them, but more out of fear and reverence than friendship. I was too caught up training to be number one hero with my old man to make any friends." As anger rose in this tone, the left side of his face started to lit up a little, until he sighed and the fire was blown away.
"Hey, how do you think this quirk nullifying works? I just saw your face lit up!"
"I think it can be used at a little scale", Todoroki answered, remembering how he had used his quirk to freeze his face when Yaoyorozu had teased him about the compliment he had made to Midoriya.
Suddenly, the air started to densify in a mass of darkness, and Kurogiri appeared again. This time, Todoroki was ready to grab his metallic body with all his strength, and localizing it, he held on to it for dear life.
"What… What are you doing?!", Kurogiri exclaimed, moving brusquely. "Let go of me!"
The darkness started to spread itself to leave, but Yaoyorozu said: "If you're leaving, we're going with you! You can't get rid of us now!"
The darkness concentrated itself again against the wall, leaving its attempt to go.
"Okay, what do you want", the villain growled.
"First", Todoroki said, not letting go for a second of his firm grip on Kurogiri's body, "we want to know where the fuck we are."
"You are at an ancient house." Kurogiri started to move brusquely again, trying to let go of Todoroki, but the latter just pressed harder on the villain's body. Instinctively, he ignited his left side, and thunderstruck, he realized he could do it at a greater scale than before.
Kurogiri screamed in pain. "Okay! I will answer your questions!"
Without blowing out his fire, Todoroki smiled sadistically, and asked: "Who are our kidnappers?"
He temporarily shut down his flame, in order to let Kurogiri answer. With a crackled voice, the villain said: "If you keep doing this, you won't see your little Midoriya again."
Todoroki lit his fire. "I said, who are our kidnappers? You're not getting out of here, you bastard. You won't be able to ask for help."
"Aizawa!", Kurogiri suddenly screamed. "Why isn't your biomagnetic field working!"
Todoroki and Yaoyorozu's hearts sank. "Aizawa-sensei is behind this?", Yaoyorozu stammered. "I thought about him when we realised that our quirks were being nullyfied, but I never imagined that he was behind this!"
Kurogiri desperately tried to let go of the binary-colored haired boy's grip, but the latter kept grabbing him firmly, lighting his left side.
"That's why it was so easy to enter UA!", Yaoyorozu exclaimed. "That old bastard! No wonder he's not liked by anyone!"
"Who else is here?", Todoroki asked aggressively, activating his right side as to ease Kurogiri's pain momentarily, only to light up his fire again. It was an evil way of torture, but the villain certainly deserved it.
"There's just the two of us! Nobody else! Stop! STOP!", Kurogiri shrieked in pain.
"And why did you invite us here?", Yaoyorozu inquired, while Todoroki froze then lit up Kurogiri's body.
"STOP! JUST MAKE IT STOP!", the villain cried.
"You have not answered, sweetheart", Yaoyorozu said with a sadistic smile. "Why us? And what for?"
"You two are threats! Threats to the League of Villains!", Kurogiri articulated, gasping for air while Todoroki froze his body that was screaming in pain. "And the Midoriya boy…"
"What. Of. Him", Todoroki said darkly, starting to warm the villain's body.
"He needs to know the truth", Kurogiri sighed. "He deserves to know it."
Midoriya had stopped running across the corridors, trying to calm himself down and elaborate a plan. He had studied the walls; there were no windows: they seemed made of the same material the room he was previously in. He had looked underneath the table, the sofas, each corner of the room; he had found nothing more than spider webs and a few inhabitants of those. The sofas themselves didn't have cushions, so there was nothing to look for in them either. He had tried to use his quirk again, of course, but it had been as useless as before.
Tired and desperate, he had sat on the sofa, leaning his back against it, and looking at the roof. And suddenly, he remarked something that he hadn't seen before.
The woman in the picture. Her neck.
A necklace that he knew too well.
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