He wakes with a start, shooting upwards as a harsh knocking fills the room. Kurogiri's voice filters through the wooden door. "Get up. It's time for school."
Groaning, Izuku rubs at his eyes, feeling off for some reason. "I'm up. Give me a second." He hears a grunt from the other side of the door, followed by footsteps.
Landing back on his bed, he lets out a puff a air. He has a terrible head ache and he feels strangely dehydrated.
Frowning, he reaches underneath his body as something rough brushes against his neck. Pulling his hand in front of him, his confusion only grows when he sees a piece of paper.
Wha-
He suddenly gasps as the events of two days ago come rushing back to him. Tears prick his eyes as he stares at the wrinkled piece of paper, the events running over and over again in his head.
Not that he hadn't had plenty of time to do that yesterday, of course. The day off from school had been welcome, giving him another day to prepare for his now quirkless school life.
He just can't believe that Sensei would actually do this. It is huge risk and the task of somehow hiding the fact that he is suddenly quirkless has been thrust onto him. He has no idea how he is going to hide this from everyone. The only hope he has now is that they don't do any training today. Or ever again, that is. He winces, yeah, that's not going to happen.
A knock sounds on the door. "Hurry up." Comes Shigaraki's voice.
"O-okay," he answers shakily.
Getting up is a chore, but he somehow ends up standing on his feet. He tries to smooth out the wrinkles formed on his uniform from sleeping in it, but he quotes halfway through, too tired to really care anymore.
Grabbing his bag on the way out, he leaves his room. Pushing his arms through the straps as he walks, he enters the bar area. Kurogiri and Shigaraki are there, as he expected they would be, and Shigaraki glances up as he passes.
"Not gonna have breakfast with us?" He asks mockingly.
Izuku doesn't look at him as he responds, "No. I don't want to be late." He knows it's just a trick. No matter how hungry he is, they don't just give him food.
Shigaraki shrugs and turns back to the bar, "Your loss. Oh, and you might want to wipe your face. You look terrible."
He hides a wince by reaching up and wiping his face. Yeah, he probably should have thought of that. Crying practically for practically two days straight usually has that effect.
Once he is satisfied with the state of his face, he opens the door and shuts it before Shigaraki can say anything more. The wind is pleasant on his face, cooling his raw face and making him feel oddly refreshed.
Walking down the barren street, he tries to lift his spirit by relishing in the fact that he doesn't have any major bruises or broken bones. Sure that night caused some light bruising wear Sensei hit him, but his high pain tolerance and day of doing nothing leaves him feeling almost no pain.
It works somewhat and he finds walking less draining than before and the world seems that much further away from crumbling all around him.
The rest of the walk and train ride to school is uneventful, thankfully, and he finds himself standing in front of Yuuei. It must just be him, but the school looks slightly darker than it did yesterday.
Walking through the gate, he sees a few other students hanging around, but he ignores them. He just wants to sit down at his desk and never get up again.
He's on his way to do just that when a particular group of students catch sight of him.
"Hey Midoriya! Over here!"
He turns to look at the group and sees Kirishima standing with practically the entire rest of the class. He sighs internally, but he goes over to them anyway.
Kirishima greets him with a pat on the shoulder while saying something about not wanting to be cramped in a classroom. Izuku gives him one ear while also looking around. Everyone is accounted for except for Bakugou, Aoyama, Uraraka, Tsuyu, and Yaoyorozu. He frowns at that, Yaoyorozu seems to be the type to be early.
While his eyes scan over his fellow classmates, they momentarily lock with Todoroki's. Staring into those mismatched eyes, he just gives him a tired smile. He is just too tired to be flustered right now.
Todoroki returns it, but it is also laced with something else. If he didn't know better, he would think it was concern, but he just shrugs it off. He is probably just imagining things.
His attention is drawn back to Kirishima when he waves a hand right in front of his face. Looking at Kirishima's worried smile, he gives him his full attention. "Hey, you okay dude? You don't look so good."
Izuku forces out another smile, "Yeah, I'm good. I just didn't sleep very well last night."
Kirishima pats his shoulder again and looks at him with an understanding look. "I know what you mean. Tuesday was pretty crazy."
Confusion clouds his mind for a moment before he remembers. Oh yeah, the USJ attack was two days ago too. He had nearly forgotten.
"Uh huh." He manages to force out. It is like there's a black hole in his chest that is just sucking all of his energy right out of his body. Everything he does just tires him and he has to constantly remind himself that he can't just lay down on the floor and never get up again.
"Well," Kirishima continues, "we're just waiting for a few others, and then we'll head up together. Bakugou and Aoyama already went up to the classroom, but other than that, everyone's agreed to stay down here for everyone. Who knows, it might even become a daily routine for our class! How cool would that be!"
Some of his energy rubs off on him and he nods. "That would be nice." He agrees.
Kirishima beams. "Right?! This way we'll all become closer than any of the other classes!"
Izuku nods once more. It really is a good idea, he just wishes he could enjoy it with the rest of his friends.
Suddenly Kirishima perks up as he catches sight of something at the gate. "Oh look! They're here!"
Turning around to see what he is talking about, he sees Yaoyorozu, Uraraka, Tsuyu, and Hagakure getting out of a fancy looking car. He briefly feels guilt at the fact that he hadn't even realized that the invisible girl was missing.
Tsuyu is animatedly talking to Uraraka while Yaoyorozu and Hagakure seem to be laughing about something.
They catch sight of the class and wave while they start walking towards them. The fancy car quickly drives away behind them.
"Hey guys!" Kirishima greets them as they get closer, "I didn't know you were going to be arriving together."
Yaoyorozu nods. "They live near where I live, so I offered to bring them to school."
"And of course we said yes!" Hagakure exclaims, "Momo is the best!"
"Momo?"
Yaoyorozu smiles at them softly. "Yes. I consider you all to be my friends now, so please call me Momo." She bows her head slightly.
Mina suddenly bursts from the crowd and practically tackles Yaoyorozu in an attempt to hug her. "Thank you so much, Momo! I know we all consider you to be our friend as well," she glances back at us, "right guys?"
Their class stirs into action, almost everyone yelling out their agreement while the others, like Izuku, nod their head.
"Now come on!" Mina squeals, "Let's go to class!" She leads everyone towards the building.
They happily follow and his classmates begin to chat amongst themselves. Yaoyorozu herself had the largest crowd around her out the group, but he's not surprised. He himself ends up trailing after everyone, no one really paying him any attention as they focus on either what just happened or their own things.
Izuku doesn't really mind, he prefers to be alone when he's like this anyways, but he can't quite push away the hurt. It feels like he's being forgotten now that everything is over. Not even Iida and Uraraka have come up to say hi, and all the rest of his friends are with Yaoyorozu.
"Hey." He jumps at the voice, not expecting it. Turning his head, he sees Todoroki walking beside him. He blinks, when did he get there?
"H-hey." He says nervously. "W-Whatcha doing?"
Todoroki looks at him strangely. "Walking."
Izuku glances away. "R-right."
They continue in silence as they enter the building. They turn a corner with their classmates, no one paying any attention to the pair.
"You seem off today."
Izuku chances a glance at Todoroki, but only sees his classmate looking straight a head with a bored looking expression.
He glances down at his shoes. "I don't know what you're talking about."
A sigh comes from beside him. "Don't play dumb, I know there's something wrong. You don't seem as bright as you usually do."
His nose wrinkles at that. Bright? What the heck does that mean?
"Well," he says, "you have known me for like a total of three days and we've only ever had a real conversation once."
Todoroki huffs. "I don't need to know you to know that this isn't you. You light up our classroom with your smiles and your personality outshines everyone else." He pauses, "Well, when you show it that is."
Izuku holds back a snort.
A groan. "Listen, I'm not good with stuff like this, but I've seen the way you've effected those in our class, and even me." This confuses Izuku, but he can feel his spirits lift at the words.
"How have I effected you?" He asks the teen tentatively.
There is a lull in the conversation and Izuku steals another glance at Todoroki. He has a contemplative look on his face.
"I'm not sure I want to talk about this here." He says after a bit.
Izuku glances around and nods. They are getting close to the classroom and there are many students all around, not including their classmates. "I understand. Do you want to talk about it some other time?"
He nods. "Is right after school okay with you?"
Thinking about what he needs to do after school, Izuku nods. There isn't anything that he needs to do after school other than get back to the base, so he thinks he can do that.
Izuku smiles at Todoroki and he smiles hesitantly back. This conversation has really helped him. The black hole in his chest has almost completely faded. It's not completely gone, but it feels like he can make it through the day now.
Not long after that they reach the classroom and the first students go inside. Instantly people are rushing forward and he can hear yelling from inside.