Hello, I'm back at it again. Time to take a break from that intense Sports Festival Arc and prepare to set up internships shortly. But let's see how the others think about that incident. Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 28: All Alone Entrapped In Time.

Somewhere in Mustafu…

For Izuku Midoriya, it was good to be back at home, eating breakfast with his mother.

"I'm serious Izuku, I fainted seven times all through the festival… then that Kazume boy… something's up with him,"Inko commented to her young son.

"Yeah, I'm a little worried, Mom… he's usually not like that…"

"He isn't? Then what's gotten into him? Did something happen?" asked Inko.

"I mean, he's intense… but not up to that level…" Izuku mumbled.

"Then stay away from him! He's a dangerous kid…" Inko warned.

"Uh… sure thing, mom," Izuku softly responded.

*RRIIIIINNNNGGGGG* the home phone of the Midoriya household started to ring, Inko came to pick it up to see who was calling.

"Hello?" asked Inko

"Good morning, Mrs. Midoriya, this is the principal calling. I'm calling for a mandatory meeting with your son." said Nezu on the phone.

"Is he in trouble?! He's such a good boy…"

"Of course not. I just need to ask a couple questions about the Sports Festival incident that Kazume caused. So how soon can your son arrive on campus?" replied Nezu.

"Oh thank goodness…" she sighed, "He won't be busy, he'll be there as soon as we finish breakfast," she answered.

"Excellent! I'll be looking forward to meeting with your son. Have a nice day, Mrs. Midoriya," Nezu concluded as he hung up.

"Who was calling, mom?" asked Izuku, still yet to finish his breakfast.

"The principal of your school, dear," answered Inko.

"What does he want me for?" Izuku asked again.

"It's about that Kazume boy," stated Inko.

"I see… I guess I'll need to get ready right away after breakfast," replied Midoriya.

At the Train Station…

After finishing his breakfast, the One For All user made his way to the train station, but on the way there, constant news feeds of the Hero Killer attack and the Sports Festival incident flooded all over the media. It always appeared on every TV, Jumbotron, and radio. As the train arrived at the station, Izuku was surprised to see a certain someone waiting inside.

Uraraka was there, "Oh, so you're going back there, too?" she asked.

"Y-yeah, Uraraka… I'm a little worried about Kazume, I mean… with all that happening, what could Mr. Nezu want, too?" he asked.

"How're your hands?" Uraraka asked.

"Fine, how did your parents react?" Izuku asked, blushing a little.

"They visited me at my place, it was nice…" Uraraka mumbled.

"How about Iida? How's he?" she asked.

"I don't know, but I hope his brother's okay after that Hero Killer took him out," Izuku sighed.

Moments later, the train had arrived at the stop near the UA campus. Both Izuku and Uraraka went off together through a dense crowd, not realizing they're holding hands to avoid getting separated. Izuku realized this when he felt a bit light on his feet and then started to slowly float off the ground. He was neon-red from it.

"Uhh, Uraraka… you're h-holding my h-hand, and I'm kinda… floating… here," Izuku stuttered, as he lost footing with the ground.

"O-oh… sorry…" Uraraka mumbled and released him.

Izuku gently landed with both feet on the ground. Both avoided eye contact with each other, still having the fresh memory of holding each other's hand. It made them extremely embarrassed and uncomfortable.

"L-let's head to our meeting," Izuku stuttered a bit.

"Y-yeah," Uraraka replied.

They arrived at the lavish office of Principal Nezu, he rolled out on a segway. He was a white mouse, and everything was normally sized, but he liked to use his height for certain things. Izuku had never seen him before.

"Mr. Midoriya, you're first," Nezu said.

"Y-yes sir…" Izuku responded.

Izuku entered the office and took a seat in front of the desk. Nezu sat on his office chair, and he pushed down the lever that elevates his seat. He kept pushing and pushing until he could clearly see his student.

"Sorry about that, it's kinda hard for me to see others eye-to-eye… I do hope you understand," Nezu stated.

Izuku nodded.

"Great, let's get started. So I have a few questions about the incident in the Sports Festival, and I need you and your classmates to get to the bottom of what happened to Kazume. First question is when did he start to… act like his other self?" asked Nezu.

"It was after the first round of the fights… and he acted kinda like a robot, then the fight with Kacchan happened,"

"So after his fight with Denki, right? Did you have an idea what happened in the second round? What Kazume did to Iida?" asked Nezu.

"N-no… I was pretty broken from my fights…" Izuku replied

"So when you returned back to your classmates, have you met with Kazume, or maybe the other him?"

"The other him, I'm pretty sure… because he was acting weird. It was before his match with Todoroki," Midoriya answered.

"Oh, and how did his hostile side act?" asked Nezu.

"Well, Tsuyu told me everything, and well…" Izuku mumbled.

"Go on. Take your time to think things through," Nezu commented.

"Well, Tsuyu told me about it...

"I see… well one more question. What about the situation with Tenya Iida? Did he know about the news? If so, how did Kazume or the other react to the news?"

"Pretty violently, sir… Almost like he was about to go out and fight again…"

"And this happened when? I'm just making sure," asked Nezu

"Right before the Semi-Final match," Izuku answered.

"I see, do you think that maybe… the cause of him lashing out was due to the Hero Killer incident?" Nezu asked him again.

"Yeah, I can't stop thinking about it…" Izuku admitted, "I mean… it's so clear…"

"It is quite apparent that we're in the same mindset. Thank you for sharing your answers. Please call in the next student, I don't want to move out of the chair and adjust it again," Nezu responded.

Izuku walked out of the office and called Uraraka to enter. Uraraka then took a seat in front of the desk. It was her turn to answer his questions.

"Miss Uraraka, how are you today?" Nezu asked.

"I'm… uh, good, sir," Uraraka mumbled.

"That's good, very good. Now then, to business. You know more about this incident than Midoriya does, since you directly interacted with Pain," Nezu said.

"Well, yeah… he seemed to be really stilted, robotic, like he was trying to figure out what Kazume sounded like," she said.

"Well, it didn't work effectively, did it?" asked the principal.

"Nope… pretty soon Tsu and I knew it wasn't Kazume at all, he kinda got… violent," she sighed.

"Did you remember how he acted with the other students?" Nezu questioned.

"Oh yeah, him and Todoroki had an intense staredown, Kazume never really liked him too much, but Pain… he took it to another level entirely. It was like… two storms, but one was like a hurricane and the other a regular rainstorm," Uraraka explained.

"So did you know about the situation with Iida?" Nezu asked the brunette.

"You mean his brother being all over the news because of the Hero Killer?" Uraraka asked.

"So you do? Did … the other him mention anything to you about that?" Nezu asked again.

"No, but he seemed to react to something on his phone, he seemed really torn up about it," Uraraka said, "Still, ask Tsu about it, she was on his Cavalry team."

"Don't worry, she's actually next. I was pretty sure she's got something interesting to share. Thank you for sharing this information with me. I wish you luck with your internships," Nezu concluded.

"Thank you sir!" Uraraka exclaimed. Izuku was waiting when she got out of there, it wasn't weird at all. Still, he couldn't stop thinking about the incident with Kazume and Iida at the same time.

"Come in, Asui," Nezu demanded.

Asui entered his office and took a seat in front of his desk. Nezu was holding a small block of cheese and then shoved it down his mouth to quickly get back to work with a small amount of difficulty. Tsuyu was a blunt say-it-like-it-is type of person, not one to hide anything.

"I have a few questions to ask about the incident in the Sports Festival and Uraraka says that you knew more about Kazume as well as that you were a member of his cavalry team. Is that true?" Nezu stated.

"Yep, he was okay up until after the first round, then he lost it. Honestly I worry about him sometimes," Asui replied.

"And why is that?" Nezu was curious about that last sentence from the frog student.

"He seems so violent and so alone at the same time, it's like there's the sad Kazume and the Pain side of him," she said, remembering all the times he had trusted her or that time he accidentally stabbed her. He never meant to hurt anyone.

"Are you a close friend of his?" Nezu asked.

"I'd say I am at this point, he's not as bad as people think he is… he's just stuck inside his own head. Most of the time he just sits next to me and I just listen to him air out his dirty laundry to me," Tsuyu responded.

"I appreciate that you're trying your best to help him with his troubles," Nezu said with a slight smile on his face.

"Well, it's more like he likes me because I listen to him, I'm quiet and don't really talk to him," Tsuyu said, "That's the extent of our usual interactions when I get the chance to be around him."

"Well… other than the time in the Battle simulation training, did he… act hostile to you?" asked Nezu, concerned if he did any harm to the close friend that tries her best to help him.

"Not really, he preferred to go for more verbal attacks than physical, maybe because he knew that if he caused an outside incident, he'd be no better than his brother," Tsuyu surmised.

"Brother? W-when did you h-hear this?" Nezu stuttered. Concerned if she knew about Kazume's real past. She cannot know the old him.

"I just listen, he rants a lot about a bastard and his brother, he mutters a ton," Tsuyu answered.

"I see… well it's probably nothing to worry about," Nezu chuckled a bit, an odd emotion from him.

"Ribbit?" Tsuyu croaked in confusion.

"Thanks for coming. Have a nice day. Good luck on your internships. Goodbye! We're done reviewing! Please head home safely!" Nezu said, getting on his segway and speeding off. Leaving Tsuyu one confused frog and an angry explosive boy, who was supposed to be next for questioning.

"So I came here… for NOTHING?! WHAT THE FUCK!" Bakugo angrily yelled.

Meanwhile, somewhere near the dorm...

"Chaos at the Sports Festivals as Kazume Shi-"

"Brutal Beatdowns spark-"

"He's a killer and should-"

Kazume sat dumbstruck, he was being treated like a villain when in reality he was sick. Pain was oddly dormant now, but… it hurt. It hurt so much to see him being demonized when it really wasn't him.

To pour salt in the wound, he was denied internships. And now his depression and ennui came back full force. They treated him like an animal. Something broken and odd. Something wrong as well.

He walked back to his dorm room with his head down, as he opened the door to his room. He felt like he didn't belong here at UA. He wanted to empty everything or at least as much as he could. He thought about returning to I-island, but he was scared to return back there as the most hated student in UA history. Melissa witnessed it all on TV, did she?

Also, Ingenium was taken down… Iida's older brother. Kazume had a bad feeling that Iida would try to get revenge and go after that bastard. So he made his decision… pack everything he could, dump it in a dumpster, and defeat Stain once and for all.

.

.

Or die trying.

.

As he was about to leave his dorm for good. Melissa was outside the door.

"S-sis? What are you doing here?" asked Kazume. She sternly crossed her arms.

"Oh, I don't know, you should know why," Melissa replied.

"Uh… to kiss my brother goodbye?" Kazume responded.

"Augh… you're really pulling that card?" she huffed, glaring at him.

"Okay, okay. You came to check on me, sis. I guess nothing gets past you," Kazume huffed.

"Yeah, of course, but I can't just wait for all of this to be over. It's either you swallow your pride and get help or I'm going to Shanghai you and force you," she growled.

"You know that second option won't work on me sis, unless you have some special invention you made behind my back, which I doubt it," Kazume stated.

"I have my ways," Melissa continued.

"Yeah but on UA grounds? That's pretty much suicide, sis. I just… I just…" Kazume dropped his bag full of his stuff and hugged his sister tightly, "I don't know what to do, sis! I don't even know if I belong anywhere! I'm… I'm trapped, sis. Like when I was surrounded by cement. Stuck in the darkness," he sniffled, letting out his tears.

Melissa just held him, she wasn't all that confident that she could make a difference.

"I'm… a monster. Just like him. I'll always be compared to him. Homeless, violent, thinking he's some kind of hero." Kazume growled, "Maybe I was better off a villain than a hero."

"If you were better off that way, then why are you here?"

"Because…" he took a moment to think why he was here before responding back, "I wanted to help change the hero society and lead them to the right path of a true hero by self-sacrifice and protecting the lives of innocent civilians. But… after that trip with you to the beach, I found another reason. I wanted to impress you with the new me that will fix all my wrongs. Because… because…"

"Because?" she asked.

Kazume was at a loss for words. He doesn't know how to tell her. He only had one way to respond…

He gently wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her in for a kiss on her lips. It was a little messy, since he was having mixed emotions in his head. His past was filled with nothing but brutal training, hatred against the hero society, and being distant with his close friends at UA.

But Melissa, she was the only light. The only thing that kept him going and the only thing worth fighting for. It wasn't about fixing society anymore. It was about stopping those that prevent that change. His brother was preventing it. And the only way to fix it was to work together.

Melissa pulled back. Her cheeks are a little red. Taking a moment to process what the hell just happened. She missed him. Missed him strolling into the lab, missed him just… being around.

"I know it's a little odd. Your brother little brother kissing his big si-" Melissa clashed into his lips for another kiss, cutting him off.

This time, it was more passionate than before, more comfortable. They both gave in and Kazume didn't care anymore. All he wanted was to stay with her. He wanted to be more than a hero. He wanted to be her hero. Sure, the society was fucked, but at least he was doing fine.

He still had a loose end to tie up… but at least he finally took that leap of faith.

"So… did you bring your stuff this time, my sweet Melissa? Because… I don't wanna, share clothes with ya. My colors don't match well with you like it does with me," Kazume asked.

"What else is the small baggage for?" replied Melissa.

"Right, right…" Kazume sighed. He awkwardly sidled back into the dorm, forgetting all about what made him start to pack up in the first place. He had his sist- girlfriend here. She settled in on the couch and patted the cushion right by her side.

Kazume sat down stiffly, robotic and clinical. He felt Melissa's arm wind around him and she hugged him to her chest, he stiffly laid there until her heartbeat soothed him, soon enough he was loosely playing with her hair, listening to her heartbeat and her breathing, feeling the gentle rising and falling of her chest.

He slowly drifted off.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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