Midoriya stretched in his chair. He had just finished a little game session with his best friend. It was fun, as usual.

A while ago, Midoriya has come to the realization that he was in love with his online best friend. Sure, they didn't know each other's real names, but they knew for a fact that they lived in the same country and the same age. That's a start!

They were actually calling each other by their nicknames. Midoriya was called "Green", and he called his friend "NoNeed".

Midoriya was absolutely in love with NoNeed. He was head over heels. They had made many calls, some for games, and some just to talk, and over the past few months, they were getting to know a lot more about each other, and he was falling more and more in love with him. Thank god that over their calls, they couldn't see each other! Midoriya was always turning red as a tomato whenever NoNeed gave him the smallest compliment. And boy, did he give a lot of compliments!

But Midoriya began to cough. Over the past few days, he had begun to cough a lot. But this time, it was different.

Once he had finished coughing, he had come to the realization that there were many petals in his hand.

Did I... cough these out???

He was very confused. This was extremely odd. But he just decided to let it slide, as it would be over soon, and he thought that it wasn't a big deal.

It was, in fact, a big deal.

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Over the course of the week, both of them had been coughing a lot more, each cough more and more violent, and with more petals/flowers.

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Todoroki sighed. He hoped that this would soon wear off, but it wouldn't. Every cough made his throat hurt insanely, and he felt like it was on fire. He couldn't take it any more. He then decided to go see Recovery Girl for help.

Once he explained his case to her, Recovery Girl had come to the conclusion that he was suffering from an extremely rare disease called Hanahaki. She explained to him all of the effects, and how it can be cured. He has to be loved back from the one that he loves. Other than that, there's no other cure. It will result in death, if not cured.

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Midoriya, on his side, had done some research of his own. He was shocked when he found out that he was suffering from Hanahaki! He couldn't believe it.

And so, he went to Recovery Girl to double check, in case he was just mistaken. Turns out that he was indeed, not mistaken.

He was crushed when he heard the news. There's no way in hell that he can confess his love to NoNeed, never mind him feeling the same!

He knew that he had no chance. Why? Because during some of their calls, he had come to the realization that NoNeed was already in love with someone.

Whenever he talked about love, NoNeed would get super flustered, and would try to avoid/change the topic. Plus, whenever he asked NoNeed about his hangouts with his friends, he would get flustered and talk in a different manner.

All of the signs pointed to it. NoNeed was clearly in love with one of his friends. He really envied the girl that NoNeed was oh so clearly in love with.

There really was no way that he would get cured.

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"Ashido!"

"Oh Midoriya-kun. Hi!"

"I need your help. I'm in love with one of my friends."

"Oooh. Who's the lucky girl?"

"N-no one... but the thing is, she likes someone else!"

"Oh... ouch"

"_"

"_"

Once their conversation ended, Midoriya felt even worse. Ashido had tried to be as helpful as possible, but there really was nothing possible to help.

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Todoroki knew it. He knew that Midoriya was in love with someone else. He knew that he had absolutely no chance with him. He only heard the beginning of their conversation, but he had heard enough to come to a conclusion. How the hell was he supposed to get cured now?!?!?

Word from the author:

I hope you can all sorta see where this is going! It hurts to have to put both of my bois in so much pain, but it must be done :(