Chapter 5

('Thoughts' Flashbacks/dreams)

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Izuku stood a little bit aways from his classmates, not wanting them to look at him with distaste like the bluenette did. Their teacher had explained that they were going to a quirk assessment to see where they were at with their quirks. Izuku saw the brunette that he saved, question their teacher about meeting councillors and all of the other orientation stuff.

"Every teacher is different, plus we are in the hero course so that isn't of real importance…. Just saying." Izuku said, suddenly feeling very emotionally drained.

Being alone for three months in the middle of a forest will do that to you.

She turned and glared at Izuku before she gasped.

"Oh my gosh! What happened to you!" She shouted.

This made everyone, Aizawa included, turn and look at Izuku. This made the teen glare, which shocked Katsuki, Izuku huffed before looking at the ground.

"Alright! Midoriya is correct, I am your teacher and I do things my way." The Pro-Hero said, "Bakugo!"

"What?" said teen snapped.

"What was your throwing score in middle school?"

"Sixty-five meters." Katsuki replied.

"I want you to throw the ball again but this time I want you to use your quirk. Stay in the circle and do whatever you want… I don't care as long as you are in the circle." The Pro said, tossing the ball to the ash blond teen.

Izuku watched as his friend walked into the circle and swung his arms back and forth before throwing the ball with his quirk.

"DIE!" he shouted.

Izuku smiled at this but it had faded when his classmate started saying how it was weird for Katsuki to want to be a hero after shouting 'Die'. Izuku glared at them before looking down, he was no better since he was quirkless before the exam.

"This is going to be so much fun!" a girl with pink skin and black and yellow eyes cheered.

"You think this is fun?" Eraserhead said making everyone look at him. "Then how about this, whoever comes in last will be judged with zero potential to be a hero and expelled from the hero course." He said, looking at the students.

'That's a bluff, he is doing this to make us do our best.' Izuku thought, thanking all the years of being able to read people and to call their bluffs and lies on the spot.

This caused the whole class to protest, Izuku rolled his eyes and looked at Katsuki and mouthed 'They sure do whine a lot for heroes in training.' This made his friend snicker. Eraserhead saw this and smirked at the kid, for a teen that looks like he is dead on his feet he is sure smart and snarky in some shape or form.

"Alright! First test is the fifty meter dash." He said with a smirk and half of the class groaned.

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Izuku had to say that he did better than he thought he would, placing fifth was a good place then any really, minus the small detail of his teacher erasing his quirk and all that…. And the broken finger..

"NOOOOO!" a voice cried out in fear. "I haven't even seen the girls change rooms yet!" he cried.

Izuku looked at the small teen that was no taller than his knee, the greenette walked up to him and slapped him across the back of his head.

"Don't be a perv, you're here to be a hero." Izuku said sending a glare at the shorter male.

The girls sent thankful looks towards Izuku, Katsuki looked at his friend and knew that there was something that didn't really make sense. Why was Izuku so sad, tired and just looks done with everything.

"Alright everyone quit fooling around and pay attention!" The hero snapped, this caused everyone to turn to the hero and ignore the whimpering teen. "I would say that he is expelled but that was just a bluff to push you to do better." He said.

The short teen cheered while everyone shouted at the teacher on how 'that wasn't fair'. Katsuki watched Izuku closely and saw anger when the brunette, who he found out her name was Uraraka, mentioned that the bluff was unfair. Katsuki glanced at his teacher and saw that he also took notice of Izuku facial expression.

'So I'm not the only noticing Izuku's strange behaviour.' Katsuki thought.

After Aizawa mentioned how life isn't always fair before dismissing everyone. Izuku left in a flash before anyone could blink, this raised flags for both teacher and friend.

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Izuku arrived home after school finished to see his mother's car parked outside the apartment. The teen was about to go around to the firescape when she came out of the door with a sour look in her gaze.

"Izuku I thought I told you that I would get you!" she shouted.

Izuku's heart pounded when he saw her new boyfriend behind her and noticed that he was one that dated his mother a few years back. The feeling, no, the need to run hit the teen hard and Izuku slowly began to back up, trembling greatly.

"I-I... " Izuku started to stutter but a shadow fell upon the teen.

Izuku looked up to see the boyfriend using his quirk to grab the teen before dragging him in the apartment building. Izuku started to panic as he was shoved into the apartment then was dragged into him into the spare room and threw Izuku to the ground.

"Max just remember not to kill him, the school will be suspicious if he is suddenly gone after the first day of school." She said slyly this sent chill's down Izuku's spine.

Max just smirked before everything went dark for the teen.

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Izuku was running down the hallway towards his class room, ignoring the firey pain on his left side of his body.

'That stupid jerk… I can barely feel my arm or move it without my whole arm and side burning in pain… Stupid mother and her devil boyfriend….' Izuku inwardly cursed his mother for his pain.

Izuku slowed down when he saw his class room and carefully opened the door before closing it behind him. Aizawa was laying on the ground in his sleeping bag while everyone was chatting. But soon the tired Pro-hero looked at Izuku with a slight raise of a brow, Izuku couldn't bring himself to look at his teacher in the eyes. Fearing punishment if he did.

"Sorry for being late… i-it won't h-happen a-again." Izuku said in a soft tone.

A red flag raised, but not wanting to jump to anything the teacher just nodded. Izuku rushed to his seat not noticing two people looking at him. Katsuki was itching to ask…. No… demand Izuku to tell him what the problem is, but knew better then to force him to talk. The other was a teen with red and white hair. Todoroki took notice of Izuku ever since the first day of classes, especially when they had to go to the change rooms. He noticed that Izuku would go somewhere else to change, but seeing him so timid and frightened made him think that something was wrong at home for the green haired teen.

"Okay everyone, let class begin." the tired man said as the bell rang.

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"I AM COMING THOUGH THIS DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" A familiar voice said.

Everyone cheered, except for Izuku and Katsuki, when All Might came in with his Silver age hero outfit on. The hero had his signature smile and stood before the class with pride.

"Today I am your teacher," He said, everyone grinned at this.

Izuku looked at his favorite hero with a smile before the poisonous words of his mother and her boyfriend slowly echoed in his head causing his smile to vanish. All Might was explaining that they would be doing battle training and that they would have their hero costumes to battle in. Everyone cheered at this, as the hero pressed a button on the remote and the walls opened to reveal suitcases with numbers on them.

"Each case is the number that you came in at the exam, so grabbed your gear and meet me at the battleground." He said, this made every student rush up to get their case and leave the classroom.

Izuku grabbed his and slowly walked to the change room, hoping that everyone would be gone by then. Sadly they weren't. Izuku sighed before going to the stalls to change and to keep everyone from seeing the cuts, bruises and burns that littered his arms, legs and torso. Though his left side was worst, a dark bruise covered his whole left side of his; snaking around to the front and half way down his left arm.

Izuku silently sighed as he put on his gear, struggling a bit as he did.

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All Might smiled as he looked at the class chatting with each other and smiled at the gear that was made for them and them alone. When Izuku stepped out of the exit All might frowned slightly. The teens outfit was plain looking, it was a light mint green jumpsuit with a utility belt, a lower mask that covered his mouth and nose, a hood with two bunny like ears sticking out on top. But the whole look may have reminded him of… well… himself but the look in the teens eyes and how pale he is made the hero frown. Sadly the hero couldn't ask since he had to teach, he planned on talking to the teen after.

All Might called the class to attention and explained how this was going to work, pulling out a script and gave the class a situation and then called out teams of two. Izuku was paired with Uraraka while Katsuki was with Iida for the assignment. The first group to go was sadly Izuku and Katsuki's group, Izuku and Uraraka being the 'Heroes' while Katsuki and Iida were the 'Villains'.

"So what's the plan?" she asked.

"Uh…. K-keep your g-guard up…. K-kacchan w-will m-most l-l-likely c-come a-a-after u-us." Izuku stuttered out.

Uraraka was shocked by the teens stuttering.

'I don't think he was stuttering this much at all yesterday…. Or at all?' she thought.

All Might took note of this but didn't say anything until he talked to his student after class.

"Co-come on, l-let's go…" Izuku said before going into the building with the brunette following him in as well.

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Izuku and Uraraka were about a minute into the building before Katsuki came out of nowhere, but due to Izuku being out in the middle of nowhere he had trained his ears to pick up the slightest of sounds that came out of nowhere. So Izuku had heard his friend long before he appeared so Izuku was able to pull his teammate out of the way of the explosion.

"Uraraka, go find the bomb. I got this." Izuku said, as he got into a fighting stance.

She nodded before leaving him with his friend. Katsuki looked at his friend and noticed how poor his stance was. Izuku was favoring his right then his left while his left arm was just barely high enough to throw a punch or defend himself from a punch, not to mention his fingers were slightly open like his hand was delicate and would break if it was closed.

"Izu, what happened." Katsuki asked, getting ready for a fight.

"I-I'm f-fine." Izuku said, red flags were going off.

"Izu I need you to tell me what is the matter."

"I'm f-fine K-kacchan…" Izuku said.

'If you won't tell me then…. I'll have to make you I guess.' Katsuki thought to himself.

"I'm sorry in advance Izu….. but you gave me no choice." He said before attacking.

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"What is he saying?" Kirishima asked.

"Yeah? Why aren't they fighting?" Kaminari asked.

"I gave each team an ear piece so I can comunitate with them if the situation gets out of hand, so for now I am the only one who can hear what is being said." All Might said, watching the two teenage boys.

Suddenly Katsuki ran forward, a fist raised for a punch. The whole class watched as Izuku Judo flip the Ash blond teen, this surprised everyone.

Izuku bit his lip in pain before backing up from his friend, Katsuki didn't hold back afterwards. The whole class watched as Izuku dodge explosions, punches, and kicks from the Ash blond teen. Izuku would throw his own punches but he would also be leading the other to deeper into the building. Everyone watched with their breaths held after one last blow delt from Katsuki, Izuku had charged up One for All and punched upward causing the upper levels of the building to explode from the high pressure.

"W-what…" Katsuki choked out.

"I-It was…. T-the o-o-only w-way…" Izuku said before collapsing.

"IZUKU!" Katsuki shouted, faintly hearing about the heroes winning.

The teen pulled his friend into his arms and rocked him slightly, the right side of his costume was ripped and slightly charred while other parts of his costume suffered from the explosions. As Katsuki held his friend he noticed that there were bits of red staining his clothes, this made the teen slowly go over everything about his friends attitude over the years and it hit him.

Abuse.

All Might appeared next to Katsuki with a small medical team with him, they took Izuku from Katsuki and the teen turned to the hero with panicked ruby eyes.

"Young Bakugo?" All Might started but the teen cut him off.

"I… I knew that there was something wrong… why… why did I not notice it?" Katsuki muttered, this confused the hero but alas there was no time for chit chat.

"Come young Bakugo lets head back to the viewing room." The hero said guiding a pale teen out of the building.

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Izuku woke up to see a white ceiling above him, along with white curtains indicating that Izuku is in the school's medical room. The teen shifted a bit and looked to his left to see Katsuki sitting next to his bed, arms crossed and and his head bowed as light snores could be heard. Shifting into a sitting position Izuku looked down to see multiple bandages wrapping around his arms and torso. This made Izuku slightly panicked about other people seeing what his mother's boyfriend did to him, though on the brightside his left side is nothing but a dull throb.

"Izu…. IZUKU YOU NERD! YOU SCARED ME AND ALL THE EXTRAS IN OUR CLASS!" Katsuki shouted as he pulled his friend into a hug.

"S-s-s-sorry…" Izuku stuttered out.

Katsuki just huffed before running a hand through Izuku's fluffy green hair, pulling away just in time for Recovery Girl to walk in with his All Might following close behind.

"Ah my dear I see that you are finally awake! That's good." she said, walking over and gave Izuku some gummies to help heal the last bit of his injuries.

"Young Midoriya, how are you feeling?" The hero asked as Izuku popped a gummy into his mouth.

"I-I'm f-fine…" Izuku said, not making any eye contact with his hero.

The pro's and Katsuki all shared a look, Katsuki knew that he had to play his cards right if he wanted to help his friend.

"Izu, I never got to ask you this since school started and all. How was your trip with Auntie?" Katsuki asked.

The question didn't seem out of place since they were friends to the heroes but to Katsuki and Izuku it had a hidden meaning. That is when the three saw it, the light in his eyes dulled to the point where it looked dead.

"I-It was great!" Izuku lied. "W-we w-w-went c-c-camping!" Izuku said.

Katsuki knew that it was a lie, Izuku's eyes told a different story but Katsuki had to play the 'Oblivious' friend in order to keep Izuku figuring out that he knew.

"That is awesome! I wished I went with you, then we would have an amazing time!" Katsuki said grinning, in other words saying 'I wish I was there for you'.

Izuku nodded but looked sad.

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Izuku was allowed to leave and he was soon ganged up on by his classmates asking questions and making Izuku really uncomfortable. It got to the point where he just ran off saying that he had to get home before dark. Katsuki worried for the teen as he watched him leave.

When Izuku got home he snuck to his room and closed the door looking around his room to make sure that Max wasn't there…. Sadly he was. Izuku tried to run but Max grabbed him and threw him into the wall, pinning him with his quirk. Max's quirk is called Moulton which allows him to melt and mold anything he wants. Izuku bit his lip to keep him from screaming, Max threw punches at the teens torso and at his shoulders before leaving the room bored off beating the teen who gave him no satisfaction of a scream or a whimper of pain.

'I hate my life….' Izuku thought before passing out.

It has been three days since school started and yesterday was very eventful. The media had gotten wind of All Might teaching at the school and they tried to get an interview with the hero before being turned away by Eraserhead. The Media had caused the schools alarm to go off, and Izuku had gotten a beating for being a 'attention seeking brat' since the media showed him being a blushing stuttering mess before Eraserhead pulled him behind him and told him to head to class.

Make-up can do so much to cover the dark bruises on his face and wrists. Aizawa kept glancing over at Izuku as he explained what they did right or wrong with their 'battle training' with all Might before going over that they were going to a specialized training ground for working on their quirks for rescuing, which caused the whole class to cheer. Izuku on the other hand was trying to keep himself from groaning in pain as his head throbbed.

"Now go get into your gear and meet me out in the front in ten or we'll leave you behind." He stated.

Everyone grabbed their assigned case before running to the change rooms. Izuku rushed to the bathroom stalls to change, he had his gym uniform since his hero outfit was being fixed but he had his mouth guard and tool belt so he would be okay. Izuku rushed to the buses and stood next to his as they started to board the bus. Katsuki looked at Izuku real hard before seeing a faint bruising under his eye and that he was wearing make-up. This confirmed his fears, Izuku was being abused, physically and most likely mentally as well.

'Izuku…. What is going on…. Please tell me, I'll help you…. I'll be your hero.' Katsuki thought as the bus finally came to a stop.

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