By Fang Wolfsbane
Watching buildings and open fields flashing by each window, Eijiro stared at the mismatch landscape each time the scenery changed.
Each moment that passed by, he felt the knot in his stomach grow. In less than an hour the train would stop and he'd meet up with someone from the League to take him to their hideout, probably not their real one, but a hideout nonetheless.
It would take some time but if he could somehow manage to convince the League that he had somehow turned his back on the hero society, then maybe, just maybe he could make his way up high enough on the command chain that he could get into contact with the leader himself, Tomura Shigaraki.
Eijiro had never personally seen the leader, but from what Katsuki had told him on more than one occasion, the leader was nothing if not creepy. The knot in his stomach twinged at the memory.
Class One-A and B had been on a training camp when a handful of members from the League of Villains attacked the impressionable young students. Their goal had been to take Katsuki, something they had succeeded in.
The heroes and their homeroom teacher at the time, Mister Aizawa, had tried to convince them to leave matters to them. The majority of their class had agreed to step down. All of them, except for five of them. Him, Izuku Midoriya, Tenya Iida, Shoto Todoroki and Momo Yaoyorozu.
Originally none of them had mentioned anything to the adults and would have failed if it wasn't for Katsuki's temper and a few other unpredictable events that had led to Katsuki grabbing onto his hand that night as they escaped from the League.
Although he'd never admit it, Katsuki had nightmares for days on end about the League. It was only because Eijiro had somehow managed to wear him down that Katsuki eventually admitted that fact to him, and him alone.
Thinking on it, Eijiro couldn't help but feel worse about the fact that he had refused to tell Katsuki the full reason for his sudden disappearance. He had wanted to. Hell, he'd wanted to set Katsuki down with Tamaki, Fatgum, Tetsutetsu, Mina, Denki, Hanta, even Hitoshi and Mister Aizawa and told them exactly what the Commission expected from him, but he couldn't. He just couldn't put them at risk like that.
The closer the train got to where it was meant to stop, Eijiro felt a weight settle in his chest until that dreaded announcement echoed over the train's speaker.
" We have arrived."
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