Warnings for this chapter: A little BakuDeku in this one. Deku's in love, Bakugou wants to blow him up. Mentions of suicide (setup for attempt). Deku's insane... it's refferenced that he tortured his friends (though he does this very subtly). Ah, some violence, but not much... I think that's it... you have been warned.

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"My… my dream?" Izuku asked. "My dream to become a hero?"

"Oh yes, little Deku. Your dream to become a hero. That's the one."

"But I don't understand… how?"

"Now, now, let's not get too hasty. The correct question isn't, 'how', it's, 'why', and I'll tell you exactly why." Deku said. "It's because they were afraid of us, of what we could do. They were scared of how strong we were becoming, stronger than even the great All Might himself!"

"But that's impossible!" Izuku said. "People can't just take a quirk away unless…" Izuku frowned as he stared at the ground.

"Unless what?" Deku asked, with a smirk. "There's an 'unless'? Do tell."

Izuku glanced at Katsuki who only glared at him. "Unless… All For One did something."

"Yes, All For One did something!" Deku said, furrowing his eyebrows. "He was the one who took your quirk away! And do you know who helped him? All Might, and everyone else you ever trusted! They looked at you, and they didn't see your potential to become a hero!"

"They what?"

"They only saw your potential to become a villain." Deku said, sadness gleaming in his eyes, though Katsuki noted it seemed rather fake.

"That can't be true." Izuku said. "Everyone I care about cares about me."

"That's what I thought too… but I was wrong." Deku proclaimed. "They had to be punished for what they did to me."

"What did you do!" Katsuki snarled.

"Well, we were having fun… but they broke."

"Why you…"

"Kacchan, just calm down. I want to know everything."

"He's a lying piece of crap! Everything coming out of his mouth are lies!"

"They're not… nobody loved me."

Izuku knew himself enough to know when he was lying. And while this version of himself, and the Izuku now seemed to be very different, Izuku could still pick out small similarities, mostly lying within his physical features and facial expression.

Deku was being sincere with this statement.

Even Katsuki saw it, though he still wanted to murder the guy. "Save us the sob story, Deku." Katsuki growled.

Izuku almost wanted to know his own sob story, but he had to focus on beating Deku at whatever game they were playing so he would stop and he and Katsuki could actually start focusing on a way home. "What are we going to do now?" Izuku whispered, glancing behind them. Any one of the paths ahead could lead to a dead end.

Katsuki opened his mouth to say something, but Deku cut him off. "You know… I'm disappointing. I thought I would figure so many more things out by now, but I guess little Deku is just too panicked to think logically. There are several things that should be familiar about this situation."

Izuku didn't know what he meant. "There are three ways out. One of them is the easy way, the other way, the hard way, and the last one is so absurd it's nearly impossible. You know where to go to escape, though."

"How do I know where to go?" Izuku asked.

"Deku…" Katsuki said, staring at him intently. "I'm not sure about the other way… but one of our options is to take him out."

"Kacchan, I told you that we don't know his abilities! Everything is—!"

"No, I know his abilities. I can take him alone."

"You what!"

"Deku, we know the way out of here. He's giving us so many hints and if we don't figure it out we're just plain stupid. Now listen, it's obviously a very big building, one that we know, or one that's easily predictable. And not only that, but I can beat him too. I know he's fast, as he easily dodged my attack. I can tell he has very little strength and has probably put most of his training into his agility. I also know he's quirkless. It'll be an easy fight."

"I'll… I'll take a look out the window." Izuku said, feeling the need to have done something useful. "If I've been inside the building before… and I see the position of the town we're in, then I'll be able to determine it for sure! Based on that, we can make an escape route!" Izuku cried.

"THEN GET GOING, NERD!"

"Y-yes, right!" Izuku said. "But be careful, Kacchan."

Katsuki watched as Izuku took off to peer out one of the windows, before turning his full attention to the nerd's counterpart. Oh, it would feel so good to beat his face in without feeling an ounce of guilt. "Hm, Kacchan and me are alone together, this day just keeps getting better and better!"

"You know, Deku, it's almost like you want to lose. Either that, or you underestimate us way too much."

"Hehe, I'm only following the script. After all, I can't keep you here too long! Little Deku has to become me after all! Oh, and did you know that this is the incident that seals his fate?"

"What?"

"Yeah, I remember when I was Izuku, meeting me. Oh how scared I was. I told myself I'd never become him, but here I am!"

"Deku's different… what about this incident made him become you!"

"Oh, I can't tell you that! That would mess up the timeline!" Deku paused and then gave a sly smirk. "Maybe I'd be willing to tell you if I got a kiss from Kacchan~!"

"Hell no."

"Oh boo, you never were any fun, were you?" Deku pouted. "How selfish, don't you want to save me?"

"A kiss."

"A kiss, and I'll tell you how I became me, and you can prevent your little Deku from ever sharing the same fate."

"Fine."

Deku was visibly startled. "Fine?"

"Yes."

"You would do that… for me?"

Katsuki raised an eyebrow. "Um… yeah? Did I not do that before?"

"I don't know… I was looking out the window, remember? I would have assumed you said no because… I'm me."

"Whatever, just tell me."

"Nope, you kiss me first~!"

"You're a liar. I trust you about as far as I can throw you." Deku raised an eyebrow. "Oh… I guess that's pretty far. Forget I said it, I don't trust you!"

"Aw, fine. But honestly, it's rather simple." Katsuki stayed silent. "Well you see, we told the authorities."

"What?"

"We told the authorities. We told them about the encounter with… well, me. And then they grew afraid I would become me, so they took my quirk away."

"But couldn't we tell them that you became this way BECAUSE they took your quirk away?"

Deku shrugged. "Don't know, now kiss."

"Fine."

"Ah, yay! I thought you would back out~!"

Katsuki stayed deathly still as that little terror came skipping up to him. Deku placed a small hand on his chest, leaning upwards. His cheeks were dusted a light shade of pink, eyes nervous. He tilted his head up, standing up on tiptoe to reach Katsuki. A bit of hair fell in his eyes, the epitome of cuteness… it made Katsuki want to punch the living daylights out of him.

Deku felt his Kacchan's arms wrap around his wrist. The touch was gentle at first, and Deku found it a rather romantic gesture. He realized a little too late, that this is what should've warned him something was horribly wrong. As Bakugou wasn't gentle, nor was he romantic. Unfortunately, he didn't process this information until his face was being smashed into the floor.

Deku's yelp echoed through the hallways, alerting Izuku that the fight was won. "Kacchan, you won't believe it." Izuku said, running over.

"What?" Katsuki grumbled, pinning Deku's hands behind his back.

"We're… from the position we're in, we're standing above the rest of Tokyo."

"Yeah, and?"

"Well, you see… you know there's only one large building that peers over Tokyo."

Katsuki was silent as burning realization dawned upon him. "We're standing in UA high school…"

"Wow, took you guys long enough." Deku said.

"You, shut up, nerd. You don't get to speak!" Katsuki roared.

"Ah, you really hurt my feelings."

"LIKE HELL I DID!"

"Hey, we beat you at your game, alright." Izuku said. "Now we have to get home."

"You're going home?" Deku asked. "But you'll become me."

"No, I won't. I'll never be like you."

Silence filled the halls of the former UA high school before Deku finally broke it. "I remember saying the exact same thing to myself two years ago… I really was naïve back then, wasn't I?"

"You still are." Katsuki said. Deku didn't like being called naïve. Being naïve meant he still trusted people too much, and he thought he'd stopped doing that. But he supposed old habits were hard to break.

"Don't say that Kacchan~!" Deku said cheerfully. "It's rude to belittle people!"

"So is treating them like toys, but it doesn't stop you." Katsuki said coldly.

"Harsh, Kacchan." Deku said, smirking.

Katsuki only glared at him and didn't say anything, because there was nothing to say to that except 'shut up' which they all knew wasn't going to happen.

"Hey, I've been curious." Izuku said softly. "What's the third way out?"

"That's one way I'll never tell." Deku said, smirking.

"YOU WILL TELL US, NERD!" Katsuki screamed. "OR I'LL MAKE YOU TELL US!"

"Ooo, I'd love to see how, Kacchan~!"

"We can't torture him, that's not only unhero-like, it's downright inhumane."

"I won't torture him! Just singe him a little until he talks!"

"… That is literally torture."

"Is not!"

"Is so!"

"IS NOT."

"Is so!"

"IS NOT!"

Izuku and Katsuki glared at each other. "It's called persuasion." Katsuki said. "THE HARD WAY!"

"I'm so scared, Kacchan." Deku said playfully.

"SHUT UP!"

"Make me."

Izuku seriously thought Katsuki was going to die of rage or something with the murderous glares he kept giving Deku. "Listen, if it's so impossible, then what's the point of keeping it a secret?"

"Well think about it, you won't have to escape a future, if that future is erased."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, if you change your future then I will disappear, like I was never here to begin with. And you'll probably get pulled back to your own time… probably." Deku smirked.

"Nerd, if you're lying, I will END you."

"Oh Kacchan, how mean of you."

"But how can we make sure that we changed the future?" Izuku asked.

"Oh, I think Kacchan already knows how."

Izuku looked inquiringly at Katsuki who shook his head. "I don't know if I should tell you… should we really chance changing the future? Who knows what could happen? Time is very delicate."

Izuku crouched beside Katsuki and Deku. "We should change the future, because if we don't, then everyone we care about will die."

Katsuki was silent and so was Izuku. "I know how you can change the future." Deku said smirking.

And Izuku and Deku stared at each other, both obviously thinking the same thing. Izuku's hands trembled, thinking of all the horrible things he was destined to do, thinking of all the pain he would bring his friends because of his own mental instability.

"What are you talking about, nerd, how do we change the future!" Katsuki demanded.

"Oh, I know how." Katsuki followed Deku's gaze to Izuku who was staring at the ground with what Bakugou could only describe as a haunted look.

"Well, how?" Katsuki asked, his voice softer this time. Deku glared at this, a bit of jealousy in the pit of his stomach. Hm, jealous of yourself, it couldn't go any lower than that.

Deku could see the moment the gaze of his counterpart hardened, and resolve filled every muscle. It filled him with glee. Oh, this would be so fun, so exciting. Deku bit his lip.

"I know how." Izuku said. "There's only one sure way to make sure I never become this, only one way to make sure I never hurt my friends." Izuku clenched his fist, and snatched one of the knives on Deku's hip, raising it up, and pressing it to his throat. Eyes filled with both fear and resolve, he said, "I'll kill myself."

A/N I'm sorry, I was going to post earlier, but then I got caught up on things and I was like, "I'll do it later" and then "later" became later, and then "later" became later... and now "later" is finally now! Yay! Okay, so here it is, I hope you liked it, I think we're getting closer to the end, maybe two or three chapters left.

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