Izuku was over the , he hadn't expected to get married at 21, much less to a stranger. Despite that, marrying Shouto had filled him with a sense of joy he hadn't expected to have. Shouto was breathtaking in his pressed black tux with his red and white hair pulled out of his face it made Izuku light headed. When Shouto had kissed him at the ceremony, Izuku had to refrain from swooning. Everything had gone off perfectly (ignoring the little problem with the shrine in the beginning), and the press had asked all the right questions.

He now sat in the backseat of Yaoyorozu's Subaru beside his husband heading back towards Shouto's house. Shouto was going to be moving into his apartment and needed to grab his things. Honestly, Izuku was more than happy with how things were working out and he was excited for the company.

The silence of the car was broken when Izuku's phone began blaring the All Might theme song, indicating an incoming call.

He checked the screen and picked up the call.

"Good afternoon, All Might, is there something wrong?"

"Midoriya, my boy, I'm sorry to call you since you asked for the afternoon off. But unfortunately, there was a villain attack in our area of the ward. Endeavor agents are in the area and I didn't want to risk starting a scene so I thought you would be the best to send."

Izuku hummed into the phone. It made sense. All Might had been walking on eggshells ever since the bulletin was put out and wasn't about to risk making a fuss. As much as Izuku hated to admit it, there weren't many heroes in the Agency that had the diplomacy needed when it came to the Endeavor Agency.

"I understand sir. I'll be there as soon as I can."

All Might promised to send him the information and they hung up. Izuku turned to to address the others in the car.

"Yaoyorozu, my apartment is 5 minutes away from here, could you please go there first. I just got called to handle a villain."

She agreed and changed direction to go to his apartment.

"A villain? Do you need any help dealing with it?" Shouto asked him concerned.

Izuku gave a soft smile and shook his head. "I'm alright, but thank you. It sounds like there are already Endeavor Agents on the scene, the only reason I'm going is because it is in our sector. I'll be fine." He pulled out his wallet and gave Shouto a spare key to his building.

"Here, continue with the plan. I'll be back as soon as I finish this up."

Yaoyorozu pulled into his parking lot, and Izuku pressed a soft kiss to Shouto's cheek, "I'll see you later."

Izuku jumped out of the car and ran into his building. He had barely closed the door before he was stripping off his suit and frantically pulling on his hero costume. Really, you would think that by how often emergency calls came, he would have gotten better at putting on his outfit in a hurry and yet, it still took what felt like forever.

Once dressed, Izuku checked his phone and saw the information had come from All Might. He skimmed through the document before leaving the house in a hurry. The incident was a half hour walk away from his apartment but with his quirk it only took him minutes.

As he neared the scene he saw dark smoke coming from some areas. A cacophony of car alarms and police sirens blared with deafening dissonance. Izuku jumped to the top of a building and took note of the situation. He saw police frantically herding civilians out of the way as a few office buildings were beginning to collapse on the other half of the street. He remembered distinctly that the villain, Ear Piercer had an ultrasonic noise quirk, not unlike Present Mic. He most likely had used that to destabilize the foundations of the buildings. As Izuku scanned the area for where the villain would be, he saw bright blasts coming from an alley. Without thinking, Izuku jumped down from the roof so he was at the entrance of the alley. Kirishima and Bakugou were already fighting the villain.

Izuku leaped forward, "Ear Piercer, that's enough! The police have already began to surround the area."

Ear Piercer whipped around to see Izuku blocking his path and hesitated. The villain obviously looked like he had been put through the wringer by Bakugou, his purple jumpsuit scorched areas, and his face showing several nasty bruises. Izuku went to move forward, only to be brought to his knees when Ear Piercer slammed his hands against one of the buildings and let out a shriek. Bakugou and Kirishima both doubled over clutching their head.

Izuku grabbed his ears, unable to hear anything over the ringing. Distantly, he felt his ears bleeding from the noise.

Then Izuku's body was being jerked forward as a hand grabbed the front of his costume. His eyes focused on Bakugou's face in front of his own. Bakugou was yelling, but Izuku couldn't hear what he was saying. Slowly, things began to come into focus and he was able to put up and hand and stop Bakugou's rapidly oncoming fist from making contact with his face.

"DEKU, YOU VILLAINOUS SCUM! YOU FUCKING LET HIM GET AWAY! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Bakugou yelled, spit flying everywhere.

Kirishima was standing in the next moment, and forced his way in between the two of them.

"Let's just calm down a bit. There's no need for us to get in a fight." Kirishima said trying to calm Bakugou.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY, SHITTY HAIR! I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL HIM." Bakugou responded as he lunged forward, trying to shove Kirishima out of the way, who stubbornly tried to keep himself planted between them.

"I'm sorry that Ear Piercer got away, but we can still catch up to him if we go now." Izuku tried to reason with Bakugou from behind Kirishima.

Bakugou let out an animalistic enraged yell.

The next moment seemed to slow down for Izuku. He saw Bakugou activate his quirk, and grab Kirishima by the shoulder burning a hole in his costume. Izuku saw Kirishima choose not put up his body shield against Bakugou, his once closest friend (distantly a phone call came to mind where Kirishima told Izuku that Bakugou may act tough but would never intentionally hurt a friend). He saw Bakugou throw Kirishima against the destabilized wall of the collapsing building. What would of normally been a painful but mostly harmless throw at once turned into something more with the force of the explosion Bakugou let off with it. He saw the surprise and hurt on Kirishima's face, his quirk still not activated. Izuku saw the building completely collapse.

Izuku's body was protesting. He had Full Cowl activated as he was forced onto his hands and knees with tons of rubble from the building on his back. His quirk the only thing keeping him from being fully crushed. He coughed out the dust and dirt from his lungs trying to relieve the suffocating weights from his chest. Gradually, as he familiarized himself with his surroundings, he began shifting his body weight. Slowly and with great effort he began moving his body into a more upright position, forcing the rubble off of his back. With one last push he was able to free himself from the debris and was able to scramble on top of the pile. The entire alley was filled with rubble and large piles leaning against the stilling crumbling building. He looked around urgently trying to see if he could find Bakugou or Kirishima. Dust was still heavy in the air, obscuring his vision and making it hard to breathe. He pulled his bottom face mask up over his mouth so that he wasn't breathing in so much of it.

Then he heard cursing coming from the end of the end of the alley, and saw Bakugou blasting himself free from the the debris. He must of blasted his way out of the alley when the majority of the building began to fall. Izuku noted the Bakugou seemed mostly unharmed.

With Bakugou accounted for, Izuku turned his attention back to searching for Kirishima. He began moving his way towards the largest area of rubble where he had been thrown before the building collapsed. Izuku desperately began pulling away large chunks of concrete and bricks trying to get to where his friend was.

"Kirishima!" He called out as he pulled out another sheet of concrete out of his way. He saw the tell tale of red hair and began scrambling with more ferocity to get the debris off his friend. He pulled what he hoped to be the last piece of rubble off his friends face. Izuku lurched back his stomach recoiling. He let out a gasping wet noise as he stared down at his friends face. Desperate tears filling his eyes as he stared at the bloody mess that was his friends face.

Gingerly, he placed his shaking hands on Kirishima's throat… There was no pulse and his friend wasn't breathing. Izuku began shoving more debris off of his friends body trying to get to his chest so he could try CPR. He tried pulling off a piece of concrete, but stopped when he felt if catching and stuck to something. He looked around it, and saw that there was a 3 foot pipe that was connecting the piece of concrete to his friends chest. Each time Izuku had tried to move it, it gouged and tore up Kirishima's chest a bit more, making the bloody cavity deeper each time.

Izuku dropped it and let out a gasping sob, his whole body shaking.

"Kirishima… I'm so sorry, so sorry, sorry..."

Izuku turned when he heard rubble shifting to his side. He saw Bakugou staring at him slack jawed, his eyes not moving from Kirishima's mangled face. Izuku stared at his friend. His stomach felt like a brick, and Izuku couldn't be sure if he was actually breathing right then. Kirishima was dead. Izuku's head was fuzzy (when had it began bleeding?) and his ears were still ringing. He felt the adrenaline pumping his veins. Kirishima was dead because of him, because he stepped in between him and Bakugou. Kirishima was dead because he stepped in between a stupid childish rivalry. Kirishima was fucking dead because Bakugou was stupid and childish.

Izuku staggered to his feet. He never got a chance to fight back, he was never allowed to act childish. Bakugou was allowed to throw fucking tantrums whenever he wanted with no repercussions. Now, one of Izuku's closest friends was dead because of it. He let out another sob as his grief was replaced with anger. How was that fucking fair? Kirishima was one of the best people in the world. He didn't deserve this.

Izuku knew distantly, that he would regret this. Regret giving into his anger and grief. He knew he wasn't thinking straight and was probably concussed and in shock. Despite that, when he looked at Bakugou all he could feel was a burning rage.

"KACCHAN!" He yelled activating his quirk.

Bakugou's head turned around to see Izuku rushing at him, his quirk filling his veins with superhuman strength and power. He threw a punch at Bakugou. Bakugou backed away, and returned it with a blast to push Izuku away.

"YOU WANTED A FIGHT? WELL CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE ONE!" Izuku screamed out. His voice was hoarse and cracked.

Bakugou's face contorted into a snarl and blasted his way towards Izuku. They became locked in combat. Izuku threw punch after punch, while Bakugou made explosions erupt all around them. Desperation and anger fuelled Izuku's movements. Bakugou stumbled back after very narrowly avoiding a sucker punch to the stomach. His feet got caught on a piece of concrete. Izuku saw the opening, he wound his arm back, and for the first time in his life, he didn't worry about what power level he was using to punch.

His fist connected to Bakugou's face. He felt bones snapping under the force of the punch. Bakugou's cheekbones and nose broke. He fell back onto the ground blood beginning to poor out of his nose. Izuku didn't let up, he grabbed the front of Bakugou's shirt, mirroring the position they had been in just a few minutes ago. Apart of Izuku felt sick at the sight of what he did to Bakugou's face, but a louder part of him was still screaming for blood.

Izuku let another punch hit Bakugou's face. Then another and another. Bakugou's broken bones turned to mush and his face into a bloody mess. Izuku didn't stop until he felt Bakugou's skull crack under his hands. When he heard the loud crack, everything seemed to snap back to him. His stomach filled tight with dread as he stared at the broken boy in front of him. Blood (and brain matter) had coated Izuku's fist, he couldn't look at Bakugou's completely destroyed face and still body.

Hesitantly, he checked for Bakugou's pulse.

Izuku retched. He stumbled off of Bakugou's body and gasped for breath, unable to breathe. He killed Bakugou. He fucking killed Bakugou. Oh God. Izuku stumbled blindly deeper into the alleyway. He just killed Bakugou. He killed Kacchan. He made a gasping noise. He stumbled past Kirishima's body. Dead body. What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck.

He fell down knees giving out a foot away from Kirishima. His body face down on the ground he gasped out a sob, trying to stop the shaking of his body that was now overcome with grief and guilt. Tears streamed messily down his face. Voices were coming towards the alley, Izuku couldn't look up to see who it was. There were people filling the alley. He heard shouted questions and panicked voices. A pair of arms were pulling him up and demanding answers that he couldn't give. He heard the sound of ambulances and someone was dragging him out of the alley.

There was a sharp slap against his cheek and he looked up and saw Eraserhead staring down at him.

"What happened Deku? Who killed Red Riot and The Exploder?"

Izuku leaned around the veteran hero and vomited. He was an awful person, he was going to hell, he deserved to fucking die with them. He wheezed out in desperation, "They were my friends."

Aizawa said nothing and waited for him to continue.

Izuku was scum, but he already knew that he couldn't confess to this crime that he committed, to the blood on his hands. "Ear Piercer. Ear Piercer killed them." He let out a sob, grief tightening his chest making it hard to breathe much less talk. "I got here too late. He had already collapsed the building killing Kirishima. Bakugou was like that. I don't know, anything." He cried out unable to breathe.

Aizawa stared at him a moment more before he reached out and squeezed Izuku's shoulder. "Get looked over by the paramedics, the Head Office will handle things from here. I'm going to be suspending your hero license for the time being. There will be an investigation into this situation in the meantime. We will try to recapture Ear Piercer." He stated gruffly before walking away to talk to the police.

Izuku noticed that he was sitting on a gurney in an ambulance and there were people talking to him. He saw news reporters flooding the area trying to get shots of the bodies being pulled from the rubble.

Izuku couldn't will himself to feel anything but crushing guilt. He had killed his first friend.