It was All Might's turn to sit down, he was at a loss for words, confused, dazed, worried…What did this mean? Had the kid trained too hard? Not sleeping right? Not eating? "What do you mean?" His voice had an edge to it...it was more than the expected emotions….it was...anger.

"We don't know any details of why or how this came to be but one things for sure, the kids got at least 70 cuts on each arm, too precise and organized to be any villain attack. He went too far...nearly bled out due to one severe gash he made." Aizawa finished softly.

All Might put his head down, this was way worse than he had expected, this wasn't just obsession to be the best, at least that was in character of him, to push himself too far...but this...this was worse. This wasn't the Midoriya he knew at all.

Recovery Girl took that as her cue to jump in, Aizawa was known to be too harsh at times but she had to admit it was better to just rip the bandage off then repair the wound in this case. "He's stable, not sure when he will wake up at this point due to his recovery from the shock, once he wakes up he will be put on a 72 hour hold here at the hospital, depending on his behavior actions will vary from there."

"How could this have happened? I..just talked to him yesterday, I know he was down, why didn't he tell me he needed help? Does he not trust me?" All Might thought aloud, completely lost.

"With these kinds of behaviors it's expected for the individual to be fearful that they will be punished or ridiculed for self inflicting injury on themselves. It's not that he doesn't trust you, he is probably just hiding things out of fear. I know he looks up to you both, he probably didn't want to disappoint you."

Aizawa looked up in curiosity, Recovery Girl seemed to know alot about this specific subject, he knew she was a nurse but surely this wasn't a common thing. "What can we do?" Usually the teacher knew how to handle distraught students, grieving students, angry, low self esteem, down- but nothing like this. In his years of teaching he had never experienced anything like this. He was at a loss- and it was quickly getting to him.

All Might nodded, snapping out of the worried trance he was in, "we will do anything."

Recovery girl looked down in thought, she knew this was a touchy situation, one with trust and dignity in the balance for young Midoriya. "He needs to wake up to see his support system- I would suggest only one of you is there when he wakes up, and that you are prepared to comfort and question him. You both are welcome back to sit with him, but think about who should confront him first. It shouldn't be a student, we don't want this to spread. The last thing Midoriya needs is rumors swarming around. Also...I'll be calling his mother to inform her of the situation, I would highly suggest someone contact the principal immediately as well."

The two teachers looked at each other, feeling the responsibility weighing heavily on them both, they had to make two really hard decisions, who was going to face a depressed and potentially broken Deku, and who was going to explain the heart wrenching information to the principal.

Recovery Girl excused the worried duo to think, both men were in deep thought, All Might spoke softly, "It's only a matter of time before Inko arrives, once she does she will likely want to sit with him as much as they allow. We don't have a large frame of time to talk with him one on one before things start progressing. We need to let him know that we aren't disappointed or angry...he's gotta know that. That being said...I would like to be the first to speak to him."

As soon as Aizawa was about to agree, Recovery Girl burst through the ER doors, "we need help! He's taken down security!"

The two heroes reacted without thinking, they rushed through the doors- not knowing the "he" was none other than Izuku Midoriya.

He was barely standing, his ankle wrapped heavily, arm still attached to an IV, blood oozing slowly through his heavy bandages. And yet- there lay three guards at his feet. His eyes were glazed, like he wasn't all there. Those same forest green eyes cleared in an instant as the young boy looked up to see both his favorite teacher, and favorite mentor inching closer to him- to restrain him.

"I-I'm sorry...I- I thought I had been captured...I'm so sorry!" He unsuccessfully tried to run the opposite way down the hall. The IV machine tripped him, resulting in the poor boy falling on his face, the IV stand falling with him, busting the blood transfusion bag, crimson pouring everywhere around the teen.

All Might rushed forward before Aizawa or Recovery Girl could react. "Midoriya! Hey- come on, let's get you up, ok? Jeez kid...I'm so sorr-"

A scream unlike any other erupted from the boy, he remained collapsed to his side on the ground, eyes wide open, pupils shrinking, now hugging himself as he flinched at All Might's touch.

The hero drew his hand back in shock, "what's happening?"

Recovery girl made her way to Deku's side as he lay frozen on the ground, "I think he is experiencing a flashback…"

Aizawa stepped forward as well, kneeling with everyone else. He didn't know a lot about PTSD, but he knew enough to know there was a trigger associated with the blood. "If I had to guess...The USJ incident...there was a lot of blood on that scene, he saw too much. Everyone did- the school never thought to even check on the mental status of the students after that...irresponsible." The teacher let out harshly, disappointed in himself.

"W-what do we do?" All Might wanted nothing more than to help.

Midoriya was already hyperventilating at this point, his eyes were somewhere else, still completely frozen as he brought his hands to hold his head- almost in pain.

With a grave expression Recovery Girl pulled out a needle, alarming the two teachers,

"What's that?!"

"A mild sedative, we won't be getting through to him in his current state, this is just a standard PRN, it will allow him to think clearly.

Sure enough, thirty minutes later they had the boy cleaned up and back in his hospital bed. He was coherent, leaving All Might as the only one left in the room, his mind brewing with concern and questions. All that was left now was to talk- that was until the doctor walked in with a fresh wrap of gauze, "we just need to check if you reopened the stitches, it's normal for them to be strained but we will have to do another procedure if they reopened completely. Ok?" He finished gently.

Midoriya silently nodded, feeling embarrassed about the entire situation, how much humiliation could he go through in one day? He had already made a scene, collapsed in front of his class, got caught, attacked innocent guards and had some kind of insane panic attack in front of the people he looked up to the most. Now his favorite mentor was about to see what he had been doing with his time.

As the doctor unwound the bandages, the smallest yet audible gasp came from All Might as the gash and cuts were revealed.

The hero was horrified. How? How could he let this happen under his mentoring? He was with the kid almost everyday for at least an hour- so how the hell was this possible? He found himself saying something before he could even think. "Young Midoriya...I am truly sorry."

Nothing more was said as the doctor checked the stitching over, finding that they had thankfully stayed together. "Looks like you are fine right now, just try not to strain the arm anymore, ok?" The doctor smiled, an uneasy, worried smile.

Deku nodded, never looking up as the doctor left.

Now there were two….All Might knew he would have to speak first. And so, "I'll be honest...I don't have the words to comfort you, I don't have the answers, I don't even have a peace of mind to give you...what I do have is reassurance. Young Midoriya I will not leave your side, I don't think any less of you, I only want to help you. So you can forget any thought of me being disappointed, I'm not, what I am is worried….what started this? How...How did it get this bad Midoriya?"

Izuku couldn't help but let a few tears flow, he held everything in for so long, he couldn't take it anymore. He was tired of being closed off, angry and distant- it just wasn't in his character. So with that, "I want to become the strongest hero- the best. However...I have been quirk less most of my life, bullied, put down, let down- maybe that has finally added up. Sometimes I have hope, I have the motivation, the headstrong attitude I started with. But It's like there's this dark part of me that knows I shouldn't even try…..like I'll just mess up. At first the thoughts were every now and then...but after we got attacked by the league of villains- nothing has been right since.

I can't sleep right,can't eat, s-somethings wrong and I can't figure it out. It scared me- so one day when I was training I accidentally cut myself- as soon as I saw the blood and felt the pain...Its like things became a little clearer, a little more manageable for once. But over time it started to become more like a punishment and obsession than a comfort. I tried to stop at one point, but it seemed like the longer I tried not cutting, the more severe it was when i relapsed.."

Midoriya finished with a whisper, he decided to continue- just to get it all out while he was at it, this was it, maybe it was time to express his true recent thought, he was already caught and he had to admit it was nice just getting it out of his head. So with tears rolling down his pale cheeks Izuku Midoriya admitted it, "I think...I want to die."