Izuka was sitting in Midnight's office, directly across from the woman herself.
"Isn't Hound Dog normally supposed to do this crap," Izuka asked, not having any patients for this.
"Yes but he's busy. So you're stuck with me." Midnight said.
"So U.A. 's options for a therapist are a dog and a stripper. I can see this country really values mental health." Izuku said sarcastically.
"Yes, yes you're so clever we've never heard that one before." Midnight rolled her eyes. "Now if we're done exchanging sarcasm, let's actually get to the session."
"Well you see it all started when daddy left, Izuku started getting bullied, mommy got cancer, Izuku killed himself, mom died of heart attack, and then Izuku came back to life as a crazy and crazy powerful skeleton murderer who doesn't even have control over himself and won't let anyone help him." Izuka summed up. "You already know all this shit."
"Yes, it is...quite a lot." Midnight sighed as she tried to figure out where the fuck to start with this tangled mess. "Let's...start with your brother. What was your reaction when your brother was diagnosed as quirkless."
"What the fuck." Was Izuka's simple response. "Obviously, it wasn't those exact words but it was basically that reaction. Me and Izuku talked a lot about being heroes and what kind of quirks we'd get. And now here I was with a cool quirk, while my brother got literally nothing."
"And did you still believe that your brother could be a hero afterward?" Midnight asked.
"At first, but after a while, I realized that I was fucking stupid and he would get himself killed if he even tried," Izuku said. "He couldn't even stand a chance against the fucking losers that attacks him. How would he fight actual fucking villains."
"Did you find yourself defending him from bullies often?" Midnight asked. "I understand if you used your quirk in self-defense in those cases. It happens a lot nowadays."
"Well yeah. Since everyone and their fucking mom now hated him for no good fucking reason, I had to keep off those fucking bigots." Izuka scowled. "And it's not like he made that fucking easy either! He kept trying to fight off bullies, even when they were bullying someone else when he knew damn well the only thing he could do was take the beating for them! Of course, he didn't think about how that would make me and mom feel, he was too busy thinking about how he saved someone, who'd probably help bully him the next day because that's just the fucking world we live in."
Ok, I'm starting to get a better picture of what's going on here. Midnight took down some notes. "Ok, and how did you and your family respond to this bullying, besides defending yourselves?"
"Mom tried to get the schools to do something." Izuka sighed, a forlorn look in her eyes. "But the schools didn't want to harm the records of possible future heroes, to help a quirkless boy and his violent sister. I had to do all the work. Fighting off the bullies and whoever else tried to fuck with us. But like I said, Izuku kept being fucking difficult. Eventually, I just couldn't let him out of my sight. Eventually, I couldn't even let him go outside."
"And, how did Izuku feel about that?" Midnight asked.
"He didn't like it but it probably felt better than getting the shit kicked out of him." Izuku crossed her arms. "I swear no matter how many times he got beat, and got abused, and got belittled, he never learned. He never appreciated what I did for him. He even tried getting away from me a few times, of course, my quirk made that pretty much impossible anytime he entered my line of sight."
"I see...and how did you react to Izuku being...difficult," Midnight asked.
"I...may have lost my temper a few times." Izuka shifted uncomfortably in her seat. "Look, I was a little high-strung from all the fighting and I may have taken it out on Izuku a few times by accident. But to be fair he was being way too difficult."
"Alright, so how successful were you in your endeavors to…protect your brother?" Midnight asked.
Izuka flinched and didn't answer at first memories of...the incident flashing in her mind. After shaking it off she glared at Midnight and asked. "What's the point of all these questions?!"
"The point of these questions is so I can get a better picture of how your life went." Midnight said. "And so far the picture I've got is a small girl trying and failing to protect her brother, and growing more and more frustrated by her failure. To the point where she starts taking more extreme measures, that end up hurting her brother in the end."
"I-" Izuka was about to object when Midnight cut her off.
"How do you think you looked in Izuku's eyes? His sister, telling him he can't achieve his dreams, restricting his freedom, and taking out her frustration on him. How do you think that affected his already ruinous mental health?" Midnight asked her. "How do you think having his freedom taken away, after already being treated like less than then human, made him feel? And from the sound of it, you sometimes even used your quirk to MAKE him comply. How do you think he felt?"
At first, every word Midnight said only served to make Izuka angrier, how dare she judge her, after all, she'd been through, all the pain she felt...but as she kept asking to think about how Izuku felt...the more she thought about Izuku's suicide note.
After...the incident, you were always so...so clingy. I missed my privacy a little, and it felt like you were taking control of my life sometimes. And your disapproval of my dreams hurt more than mom's.
Had she hurt Izuku in her attempts to protect him. Now that she thought about it, maybe using her quirk on Izuku, making him feel helpless in the face of other quirks, was in bad taste. Maybe being so aggressive in the dismissal of his dreams was a bad idea, especially after Bakugo betrayed him.
Bakugo.
Izuka grit her teeth. It all came down to him. It was all his fault! She wouldn't have even had to do any of that if it wasn't for him!
In fact, why was she protecting him!? Why was he not in prison or something for encouraging suicide!? Why wasn't he facing consequences!?
Was it because she still wanted to beat him on her own terms? Was it because Izuku still wanted him to be a hero?
Well, fuck that!
Before Izuka could continue her train of thought, the alarms suddenly went off.
WRRRR! WRRRRR! Intruder alert! Intruder alert!
"Everyone!" Nezu's voice suddenly came over the loudspeaker. "There is a...villain attacking in the cafeteria, all students please evacuate the building and all heroes report to the cafeteria!"
Midnight shot up, eyes wide with shock, before regaining her composure in seconds and turning to Izuka. "Stay here!"
Without another word, the older woman ran out of the room, towards the cafeteria.
Izuka got up. She wanted to leave. To help.
And then she heard the sound of fire behind her.
FWOOSH!
She saw a ring of fire form in the air behind her, and she realized she had more important matters at hand.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
All Might and Mirio ran towards the cafeteria with One for All boosting their speed, but not too much otherwise they might hit one of the fleeing students. (For Mirio this wouldn't be a problem, but he had to match All Might's pace.)
"How did a villain get into the school!?" Mirio asked as they neared the cafeteria.
"I don't know, but we can't let them harm any of the students." All Might said.
When they reached the cafeteria, it wasn't what they expected.
What they thought they would see would be the heroes of the school subduing the villain.
What they actually saw was the U.A. staff...just standing there. They couldn't see past the crowd, it consisted of all the teachers as well as most of class 1A and class 1B, but they knew something was wrong.
"What's going on?" All Might asked, charging into the cafeteria and looking over the crowd. "What the-"
"Don't move," Nezu told him calmly.
The situation in front of them was...bizarre.
One of the students, Ojiro, was stuck on the floor. As if the ground itself has opened up and swallowed him up to his waist. Restricting his arms, legs, and tail, leaving him completely helpless.
And the one holding him hostage...was a small, black-haired little girl, with golden eyes. Looking about seven or eight, wearing plain shorts and a plain white shirt that said, "Sinner" in bright red.
Overhaul.
She was holding her hand over Ojiro, just barely not touching the top of his head.
"She just showed up in the cafeteria and started attacking the hero course students," Nezu explained. "She seems to have the ability to take things she touches apart and put them back together in any way she chooses. If she touches Ojiro."
"Then he dies." All Might concluded.
"Wait, that quirk." Mirio's eyes went wide with realization, as he recalled the last time he heard that description. "That's Overhaul's quirk!"
"You." Overhaul squinted at Mirio. "You know my quirk...you must have worked for Nighteye, correct?"
"And still do!" Mirio said proudly. "Mind telling me how you know that little miss, and why you're attacking our school while you're at it?"
"Peh. You think we weren't aware of your agency watching us? Closing in, trying to expose us?" Overhaul spoke with sheer disgust as if everyone in the room with her were cockroaches that had been crawling over her food. "We've known. We've always known. You've been pestering us for quite some time. It made things really annoying for me, although I don't suppose any of that matters now."
"By us, I'm assuming you mean the Yakuza?" Nezu asked. "I'm assuming you're Overhaul's daughter then? Both your quirk and your appearance are very similar to his after all, but I'm not sure why it is your attacking U.A? Aside from Mirio to a small extent, no one here had done anything to your father."
"Daughter?" Overhaul sneered. "No, you fool, as if I would allow some woman's plague-ridden body to touch me like that. No, I am Overhaul."
There was a small moment of silence before Present Mic spoke up and said. "Wow, we're just getting all the crazies huh?"
"I see." Said the girl with thorns for hair, Ibara Shiozaki, as she glared intensely at the small girl. "So you have returned from hell itself. This is no doubt the work of Midoriya Izuku."
"Shiozaki, now is not the time for this!" Kendo told her classmate.
FWOOSH!
Behind Overhaul, one of Izuku's fiery portals opened.
"Looks like he found her." Overhaul said, not looking or moving away from Ojiro.
Then, from the portal, a chain flew out, and wrapped around Overhaul's chest, and pulled her into it.
"No!" Mirio charged forward to try and tried to jump through the portal, but he was a bit too late, and it vanished before he could go through.
"Damn it!" Mirio cursed.
"Was that one of Ghost Rider's portals?" Mic asked.
"No one's seen Ghost Rider in months." Midnight pointed out. "Why pop up now? And why here?"
"You think he came here because of the girl?" Cementoss pondered. "You don't think he's going to hurt her do you!?"
Nezu shook his head. "No, she looked like she was expecting him. The better question is, where is Izuka Midoriya?"
Midnight's eyes widened. "Oh no."
Meanwhile, in the woods.
Izuku, Izuka, and Overhaul were all standing in a clearing located in the woods, Izuka stayed silent, a nervous yet stern look on her face while Izuku transformed into his human state after just retrieving Overhaul.
"Kai, go outside of hearing range, I want this talk to be private," Izuku ordered.
"Tch." Kai glared at the two of them, but followed the instruction anyway, walking away from them with haste.
Once Kai was out of sight, Izuka spoke.
"Who was that?" Izuka asked him sternly, worried her brother's insanity might be harming children now.
"Kai Chisaki, aka Overhaul, former leader of the Yakuza," Izuku explained nonchalantly, his tone being a bit too...peppy.
"...Izuku, you killed Overhaul." Izuka pointed out with a pained sigh. "And I don't remember but they look like but I doubt they were a little girl."
"Well, I revived them and put them in that body as a punishment," Izuku explained like it was the simplest thing in the world.
"Izuku, come on. You can't revive the dead. Please just...think about what you're saying!" Izuka pleaded with him.
Izuku sighed and shook his head.
Then, he burst into flames, transforming much quicker than they'd ever seen him do it before, and startling his sister.
He then made a chain and spun it around in a circle to make a portal.
"What are you doing?" Izuka asked.
Izuku didn't answer and finished making the portal.
Izuka looked in, and her eyes went wide with shock and horror. "What the-"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
From the portals poured the anguished screamed of the damned. Their cries so loud and so pained, that they knocked Izuka off her feet.
Inside she could see a twisted hellscape, where the sky was just as black as the scorched ground, the only light coming not from a sun, but instead from horrid fires and lakes of lava. She could see people there but they looked more like screaming human candles, seeming to be in constant agony.
It looked like Izuku had opened a portal into her nightmares.
Izuku transformed into his normal state and walked next to his fallen sister. "This is hell. Or at least a version of hell. A layer of hell? I don't really know. It's inside of me, and whenever I kill someone, I devour their souls and they get sent there."
Izuka didn't respond, too mesmerized by the horror in front of her.
She reached out her hand to put it through the portal, however, when her fingers were about to go through it, an invisible force blocked her. It was as if there was some kind of barrier blocking her from going through.
"You can't go through it. It's not a physical place." Izuku explained. "It's a metaphysical plane of existence, where only souls can go. Your body can't go there, only your soul can. And vice versa, none of the souls can exit through one of these portals, because they don't have physical bodies. Even I can't just walk through a portal to go there."
Suddenly Izuku stopped talking, his body relaxed and his eyes glazed over.
Then, in the hellscape, another Izuku walked into view, right in front of the portal.
"I have to use my soul to appear here," Izuku said. "In order for a mortal to come here, I'd have to kill them, although I can't eat non-sinners so they can't come here at all."
Then, the portal closed, and after a moment Izuku's body jutted into alertness.
"So, do you believe me now?" Izuku asked her.
"I...I don't…" Izuka honestly didn't know what to believe.
Izuku sighed and brought his palm to his face. "Well, it doesn't matter, anyway. What does matter is this. We need to spend more time together."
Izuka blinked at her brother in disbelief, not quite sure if she heard him right. "Huh?"
"My time on this earth is never-ending. And even if it did end, I wouldn't be heading to Heaven most likely." Izuku wore a saddened expression. "But yours isn't. Once you die. I will never see you again. So I want to spend a lot of time with you."
"I-I." Izuka thought about what she could...possibly say to respond to that. It was just so...insane.
"We have some things to work through. But I know we can get through it together! Just like old times!" Izuku said, his chipperness returning. "So get ready! Because next time we meet, we're gonna...well I don't know. But it'll be something fun!"
Izuku then opened up another portal, this time one that led right outside of U.A. "But for now, I have things to do."
Before Izuka could even respond to this, Izuku transformed, and wrapped a chain around her torso, and threw her into the portal.
After landing on her ass she pulled herself up and saw Izuku waving goodbye to her. "Bye sis!"
And with that, the portal closed. Leaving Izuka alone with her thoughts.
Okay...pull it together Izuka. What the hell do I do now? Izuka wondered
Well, there was one of two explanations for what she saw.
A Izuku now had some kind of illusion powers.
Or B, Izuku was right about the whole hell and demon thing.
She wanted it to be A. She wanted it to be A so bad. Because putting aside the terrifying notion that what she was in fact hell, she would also have to deal with the fact that her brother was now a demon, and she had no idea how to even start figuring that out.
But the feeling she felt when she gazed into that portal. Deep down. She didn't feel like that was an illusion. She felt like she was staring at eternal damnation. So she couldn't take option B off the table.
Putting that aside(easier said than done), there was the fact that Izuku said they would be spending more time together. Meaning that he would most likely pop in whenever he wanted to, and do...something with her. Which overall didn't sound so bad. And it would be a chance for her to really see if the demon thing was really legit.
And if it was...well. She'd figure that out.
Next chapter we see Eri again! Yay! As well as more of Izuku's plans! If you can call it that.