Chapter 4
After they finish breakfast Deku and Toga played all day, when night came Akuma decided to take Deku out with him on his hunt. Toga was clearly upset about this trying to protest that she wanted to come along. Akuma was persuasive enough to calm her worries and tell her to stay.
Somewhere in the city
Deku and Akuma on a rooftop, they're just standing there waiting, Akuma hands binoculars over to Deku. Akuma points over to an abandoned building, he explains to Deku that children are kept there against their will by human traffickers. He sees a few of the men outside of the warehouse waiting for something. After about 10 minutes have passed he sees a hero arrive, Deku smiles with happiness knowing that he was going to take out the bad guys. He sees the hero walk up to the guys, the big tough hero will take out these guys in no time he thinks to himself. Then he notices the hero doesn't have a fighting stance, the hero doesn't seem to be ready for a fight. He sees the hero stand their, one of the human traffickers just hands the hero a brown folder. He notices that the hero just opens the folder, he notices it's just full of money. He sees the smile on the hero's face, the hero walks away Deku watches in silent anger looking at the hero. He looks at the man with such disgust, if looks could kill Deku's would be a torture session with Satan himself. After that human waste of garbage leaves, Akuma goes into action. He makes his way down to the warehouse, while Deku stays on the rooftop. Deku hears Akuma going to work, he hears the human trafficker shouting in pain. He hears gunshots, he sees the hero coming back. Seeing this Deku starts making his way down the rooftop as quickly as possible, he starts rushing to the building where Akuma is finishing off the human traffickers. He arrives to see the hero fight Akuma even though the human traffickers are still there clearly the ones running this den of evil. Yet the hero fights on their side, Akuma wraps up the battle killing the last of the human traffickers. The hero notices Deku & then the hero rushed over to Deku & he puts himself between Akuma and Deku. The hero speaks bullshit about that he's here to save Deku, that everything is going to be alright. He says a hero will never fall to a villain, Deku had at this point had brought a knife just in case something were to happen. Akuma recommended him to do so, so he listened even though he didn't like him. Due to the hero being distracted by Akuma, he pulled out a knife and stabbed him right in the caf. The pile of garbage shrieked in pain, the shriek was cut short due to Akuma using that opening to pierce the hero's throat. Akuma starts to quickly eat the bodies of the deceased, after that he grabbed Deku and runs away, Akuma carries Deku a few buildings away on some rooftops.
Deku looks at Akuma with boiling rage, Deku takes a second to look at the knife covered in blood.
"It's all of his fault he's making me do this turning me into a killer. This is what he wants, he wants me to be a murderer, that's why he brought me here. That's why I did it, because of Akuma I stabbed somebody. I am turning into a monster, if I don't stop him now, what would he make me do next?" Deku thinks to himself while looking at the knife.
Deku lunges at Akuma while swinging the knife, Akuma evades Deku's attempts of stabbing him. Deku keeps slashing trying to get one hit in, Akuma grabs the knife before Deku could hurt him or himself.
"What the hell is wrong with you boy?!" Akuma shouts with rage while he yanks the knife away from Deku's hand.
"You're turning me into a killer this was your plan all along, you want me to end up just like you, that's why you showed me that hero!" Deku screams like a banshee towards Akuma.
"Calm down I just wanted to show yo-." Akuma says before being cut off.
"Calm down you want me to calm down you're the one that wants me to kill people!" Deku screams at Akuma with even more rage in his voice Deku's arm starts to shake with rage.
Akuma stands there staring at Deku, he just looks at the boy not knowing what to say to him.
Deku just looks at Akuma with so much hatred and anger, Deku feels a vein is about to pop. He starts taking small breaths to calm himself down, after a few minutes he's calm. He notices Akuma still standing there not saying a word looking away from him.
Akuma looks at Deku noticing he's trying to calm himself down, again Akuma can't say anything. He debates internally trying to figure out how to talk to Deku, minutes pass Deku is now calm, yet Akuma can't look him in the eyes, he's too ashamed.
" Why do you pretend to care?" Deku says in a defeated tone.
" I don't know." Akuma says with deep sadness in his voice.
" We got to fix this honestly or it's not going to work out." Deku says then he sits down on the rooftop. "I think it would be better if I die." Deku says while burying his head into his knees.
Akuma is about to step towards Deku to comfort him, before he could do that he stops himself. He looks at Deku, Deku crying on the verge of giving up, he sees Deku needing somebody to be there. Akuma wants to say something but he doesn't know how, he sees the boy's life that he ruined. He sees all the pain that he's caused him, he looks at his own hand, he sees the hand that took the boy's mother away from him. He knows his hand is only good for killing, this hand is not meant to comfort. It's only meant to slaughter and destroy everything that's in Deku's way.
"I guess I'm just done." Deku whispers, he walks to the edge of the roof, Deku looks down. He stares at the ground knowing from this height that if he were to fall his life would be over and no more hiding no more Akuma. He knows if he were to jump it will be all over and maybe he can see his mom again. He puts one of his feet over the edge & he turns his head to Akuma. Deku just sees Akuma standing there and doing nothing, all Akuma does is look at the ground. Seeing that fills him up with rage, then he stops being angry because he knows the next step it won't matter no more. He wants the pain to go away, he wants what he did to go away. He steps forward he feels all of his anger all of his emotions start drifting away that pressure finally being lifted.
Akuma looks at Deku falling off the edge of the roof & Akuma runs towards him reaches out his hand & right before Deku starts the fall Akuma pulls his hand back before it touches him. Deku starts falling & Akuma knows this can't happen, he jumps off the edge.
He falls with Deku, Akuma wraps his arms around Deku and activates his wings before they hit the ground.
They both slammed to the ground, Deku gets the wind knocked out of him, Akuma absorbs most of the impact.
After Deku catches his breath he pushes Akuma away from him & after taking a few steps away from Akuma. Deku falls to his knees and tears started forming around his eyes.
"Why did I do that?" Deku whispers to himself.
Akuma finally recovers after the fall & he stands up from the ground and starts making his way towards Deku, he tries to touch Deku's shoulder and comfort him.
"Don't touch me you damn monster!" Deku shouts out in rage while slapping Akuma's hand away from him.
Deku crawls away he manages to get to one of the buildings walls, he rolls himself into a ball. He has both of his hands on his head & he starts to break down into tears.
" Stay away." Deku manages to sob out.
"I'm sorry." Akuma says
After hearing that Deku is filled with more rage than ever, he summons his bear claw weapon and he stares daggers at Akuma.
" Sorry that's all you have to say sorry, you ruined my life you bastard, sorry isn't going to cut it!" Deku says with murderous intent in his voice.
Deku lunges at Akuma & Deku swings his claw aiming for his throat & Akuma easily avoids the attack. Deku attempts to slash Akuma at his legs & Akuma quickly steps back and avoids Deku's attack. Deku keeps attacking Akuma like a wild animal, Akuma just avoids Deku's attacks due to the fact that he has way more experience fighting. After about 5 minutes of straight up attacking by Deku, he finally drops to his knees exhausted & he also loses focus on his bear claw and it dissipates.
Akuma walks up to Deku & he wraps his arm around Deku comforting him. "I'm sorry." Akuma whispers while holding Deku tightly.
"What's happening to me?" Deku says while sobbing into Akuma.
Akuma picks up Deku and carries him to the Rooftop so they can have a private conversation.
Akuma puts Deku down gently on the rooftop, Deku sits on the rooftop trying to control his breathing and calm himself down. After about 5 minutes have passed, he finally manages to calm down. Akuma walks up to Deku and wipes the tears from his face.
"Listen, we're going to get through this okay."Akuma says in a calm comforting voice.
" How because what I can see is that I'm going crazy?"Deku says while starting to stand.
"You're not going crazy." Akuma says trying to assure Deku.
"Really I am not going crazy is that what you're going to say to me, look at what I've done! I tried killing a hero with a knife, the worst part is I don't feel bad about it, I wanted him to die I wanted him to suffer & I wanted him dead and I know that's not me." Deku says in a defeated tone.
"You're just confused Deku calm yourself." Akuma says trying to assure Deku that he's not going crazy.
Deku stops talking for a second to calm himself down again before he gets too worked up, Deku sits on the rooftop he looks at the sky.
Akuma sits next to Deku & he puts his arm around him.
"You know I thought it was you making me hurt people but now I see that I'm doing this of my own accord." Deku says while he looks down at the Rooftop. " I blamed you for everything and I haven't took any responsibility at all. I blame you for my mother's death, I blame you for ruining my life. I blame you for me being more violent & I blame every bad thing that ever happened to me on you, but the person to blam-." Deku says before being cut off by Akuma
"It's not all on you Deku, like I said in the beginning, we're in this together. I killed your mother, I've murdered people for our survival, so please don't blame yourself for everything some of its on me." Akuma says in a gentle voice.
"I'm sorry for blaming you and not talking about it." Deku says with shame on his face
" It's okay Deku I never really tried reaching out to help you through your problems. Due to the fact that I was the one that killed your mother and for that I'm sorry. I should have been there to help you but I thought to myself that I could never help you, because all I'm good for is killing. Now I know that I need to help you out since we our partners, I'll do my best to keep us safe." Akuma says with a hint of worry in his voice then he reaches out to Deku and hugs him tight. "No matter what we'll always be together as partners." says Akuma
Deku and Akuma leave the rooftop and start making their way back home, unaware that somebody in the shadows was listening.
The next day at their Apartment
After they both made it back home safe, Deku slept next to Toga and was able to get another good night's rest. Akuma went back onto the computer searching for his next prey.
Deku wakes up next to Toga and jumps out of bed slamming his head to the ground again.
" You seriously got to get used to that if she's going to live with us." Akuma says while still typing on the computer.
" I know I know, I just get super nervous, I'll get over it soon." Deku says while lying on the floor still holding his head in pain.
"By the way Breakfast is almost ready, you should probably wake up Toga so you guys can eat soon." Akuma says while he gets up to check the breakfast that is still cooking.
"Okay oh um, Akuma thank you for everything. "Deku says in a genuine voice.
Akuma stops for a second after hearing those words he turns to Deku.
" Thank you for saying that." Akuma says with a smile on his face, then he gets back to preparing breakfast
A hour passes Deku and Toga finish getting ready and eating their breakfast.
"You guys can have fun for about two hours and then after that I need to take Deku to go somewhere" Akuma says.
"Okay Akuma bye." Deku and Toga say it at the same time and then they proceeded to hold hands and walk off. Deku is clearly nervous about holding Toga's hand due to his face going red like a tomato.
"You know you could call me Himiko." Himiko says with a smile.
Deku stops moving and turns to Himiko and his face starts turning even more red he looks down at the ground not trying to make eye contact with her.
" Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod. She wants me to call her by her first name, what do I do what do I do what do I do what do I do what do I do. mutter mutter mutter mutter mutter mutter." Deku thinks to himself
" You don't have to call me by my first name if you don't want to." Himiko says with a disappointed look.
"Uh... no it's fine, it's just that I never really…. you know talk to anybody by their first name ... that's a girl. The only time I called somebody by their first name was my friend Bakugou and I kind of mispronounced his a lot. So I don't want to make-, no I mean, wait wait wait, just give me a second please." Deku says nervously trying to calm himself down.
"HA HA HA you're so funny and cute when you mutter!" Himiko says while laughing so hard she starts to wheeze.
Deku seeing this realizes that he doesn't need to be nervous, he's actually quite happy seeing Toga smile, then an idea pops into his head.
"What about nicknames?" Deku says confidently.
Toga stops for a second to think about what Deku said.
" Yeah that could work." She says with a great big smile.
" Kitten, that's a good nickname right?"Deku says nervously
" Yeah that's a really good nickname." Toga says while jumping in the air with a big smile.
" You can just call me Deku since it's already my nickname." Deku says nervously while rubbing the back of his head.
"Thank God she likes the nickname, I don't know what I would do if she didn't like it. Honestly the only reason I said kitten is because she reminds me of one when I see her. I can't let her find out, I would die of embarrassment if she found out." Deku thinks to himself.
After hearing what Deku just said she stops cheering and turns to him.
" Wait Deku isn't your real name?" Himiko says shocked " Then what is your real name and why do you have a nickname?" Toga says with curiosity in her voice.
" I'll answer your first question real quick, Deku is not my real name, my full name is Izuku Midoriya." Deku says with shame in his voice.
"Izuku Midoriya that's your real name okay, so why did you hide it?" Toga says with curiosity trying to pry and get more information.
"I don't want to talk about it." Deku says while having a frown on his face, he turned his head to the ground.
" Come on Izuku y-" That's all that Toga managers to say before she gets interrupted.
" You do not ever call me by that name do you hear me!" Deku screams at Toga he lets go of her hand and he puts his finger right at her chest, tears start going down his eyes.
Toga takes a step back scared of the sudden mood change, she looked into his eyes she notices his green eyes start slightly turning red. Then they start to flicker on and off of red and green, until they become solid green. She noticed they started turning solid green when Deku tried to calm himself down.
" Sorry just don't call me by that name." Deku says while looking at the ground, the tears coming from his eyes start to blur his vision, Deku starts grabbing onto his head with one of his hands and starts pulling on his hair. "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to explode on you like that I just don't-." That's all Deku manages to say before he feels warm arms are wrapped around him. He slowly starts to weep in to Toga's arms, he muffles out & apologizes he didn't mean to snap at her. Toga silently accepts the apology and hugged him tighter & after about 10 minutes had passed they continued walking to the park.
Not noticing that someone was following them.
The park
Deku stayed silent on the way to the park, Toga was still holding his hand. Deku felt terrible for what he did to her, they eventually arrive at the park. They started playing on the swings, taking turns pushing each other on the swings, having fun & no care in the world.
"Zuzu" Toga says with a smile.
" What?" Deku says with a confused expression on his face.
"That's your nickname Zuzu." Toga proudly announces.
"Uh...thank you so much Toga." Deku nervously blurts out.
" Zuzu you call me Kitten." Toga says while making a pouting face.
" Sorry uh... ki- Kit- ...Kitten." Zuzu says nervously, after saying so puts his hands over his face due to him feeling embarrassed.
"I'm so sorry Zuzu, I didn't mean to pry, I mean I did mean to pry just that I didn't know it was a touchy subject. ...please... don't hate me." Kitten says with tears starting to come out of her eyes.
" I could never hate you Toga, I mean Kitten sorry still trying to get used to the nicknames, it's okay." Zuzu whimpers out
" It's okay, that's all I can say to her, even though we just met a few days ago she's been there for me. I need to help her, I don't know what to do, dammit why can't I just help her? I need to fix this maybe if I get Akuma, no I need to rely on myself to fix this. I've been relying on him too much taking him for granted, I need to start carrying my own weight damn it." Zuzu thinks to himself, while he looks at kitten, seeing her cry knowing that he's caused this. " I can trust her, I'll tell the truth."
"Izuku Midoriya... is the name of the boy... that died... the same day he killed his mother. On the same day Deku was born, a useless person who can't do anything and relies on others to fix his problems. A terrible person who takes advantage of people, he's also the type of person who hurt friends." Zuzu says with sadness in his voice and frustration but also confidence, like a burden that somebody carries not by choice but out of Duty.
Kitten stood there still sobbing a bit but now calming herself down. Zuzu started wiping the tears from her face and hugged her tightly, after about a few minutes Kitten was able to return to a normal state of mind.
"Why do you hate yourself?" Kitten says carefully trying not to set Zuzu off.
" Kitten can we not talk about this please, I just want to forget about it, so can we please change the subject, I told you the truth because I trust you." Zuzu says while still holding on too tightly and making sure she's all right.
Kitten unwrapped Zuzu's arms around her and then grabbed his hand. She leads Zuzu to a tree & she sits down at the base of the tree and Zuzu follows by sitting down next to her.
"No matter what I always want to be together with you, because you're the only person who likes me for me. I never wanted to change, do you know if you did bad things in your past I would still be here for you, do you understand?"
Zuzu nods his head in agreement, without saying a word Zuzu takes out a pocket knife. He puts in the hand that he's using that is holding Kitten's hand so they're both holding the pocket knife. He starts carving into the tree k and z, they both look at the carvings they put on the tree and make a smile to rival all Might's. Zuzu puts his pocket knife away & sits down under the tree with Kitten. They both sit together enjoying the nice weather and the fresh air. Enjoying the silence of the park just holding each others hands but all good things must come to an end sadly.
The silence is broken, footsteps approach the two under the tree. At first it's normal walking pace, the closer the footsteps get the faster the pace becomes. Zuzu notices this first, something is running at them, he turns his head around the tree and sees a person. A man with a mask and a cloak over his body, steel toe boots with spikes. Things slow down for Zuzu, he saw the man in slow motion, he saw what he carried under his cloak. A heavy old blade recently sharpened & from what glances he could tell that this thing was used every day, he quickly took out his pocket knife.
" Kitten go home and get Akuma, there's a dangerous man coming our way." Zuzu quickly whispered to her.
Before Kitten could react, the man appears around the tree swinging his blade towards Kitten. Before the blade could connect, Kitten is pulled away from the blade swinging at her by Zuzu. The blade cuts deeply into the tree right into the carving that they just made,the blade seems to be stuck on the tree.
" Run!" Zuzu shouts.
Kitten starts running as fast as she can go back home but then she notices her hand is missing the warmth of Zuzu. Zuzu looks at her he gives a hand signal to keep on going. She looks at him & she hesitates for a second but then she remembers he promised, so she keeps on running back home to get it to come out.
Deku grabs a rock and throws it at the cloaked man & hitting him on the head. It doesn't seem to hurt him and it only seems to annoy him but it also seems to get his attention. Deku starts bolting out of the park in the opposite direction that Toga went. The cloaked man was able to get his blade out of the tree and started making chase towards Deku. At the end of the park Decker was able to see a decent amount of bushes that you could possibly hide in. Deku needed to plan, the man comes and ran over towards the bushes and started swinging wildly. The bushes were really thick so it's hard to see anybody in there, especially a small child. After a few swings the man in the cloak composed himself and he waited for movement on the bushes knowing that his prey was still in there knowing the second it moved as a second it's life will be over. He waited for any signs of movement for any hints of a breath, then he saw it moving in the bushes he lifted his blade and started swinging. Slashing stabbing in the area where he saw the movement and after he stabbed it he noticed his blade had a black gunk on it. It wasn't blood but before he could realize what was going on it was too late. Deku lunged out, aiming with his pocket knife aiming to kill, the pocket knife was an inch away from piercing the cloaked man in the stomach. Before I could even hit the man his hand grabbed Deku's hand that was holding the blade. Deku had a twisted smile when that happened, what the cloaked man wasn't able to notice is that Deku was wearing a strange black backpack now in the shape of a bear. The bear backpack claws lunges at the hand holding Deku. He manages to catch the masked man off guard and cause him to bleed from his hand. He was disappointed that the cut wasn't that deep, it caused enough pain that the man let go of Deku's hand. The backpack bears legs slammed to the ground & launch Deku close to the man so he could lunge his pocket knife into his chest and finish this. The masked man moved quickly way more quickly, like the man had some type of speed enhancing quirk. Deku didn't account for this so far the man seemed to be clumsy and wild. Yet now he seems to be focused like an animal that just found it's prey.
Deku feels pain around his chest before being launched several feet away from the cloaked man, he felt something sharp pierce his chest it was one of the spikes from the boots. Small amounts of blood started leaking from Deku's chest, he tries to muster up strength so he could get up but his body was already exhausted from making Akuma this morning and conjuring the two shadow bears. It zapped most of his strength away, speaking of which the shadow bear on his back started to fade. He tried concentrating to keep the bear still there so he can use it to fight back but doing so left him wide open again to another kick but this time it was to the face. The kick was painful and left a small gash on his cheek, Deku was launched onto his back. He saw the man, collecting some blood from his boot and precedes to lick it. After the blood is consumed, Deku's body freezes like a statue unable to move. Deku can feel Akuma's presence he's only a minute away but he also noticed that when he was frozen Akuma was frozen as well. That's when Deku knew that he was going to die but Deku didn't feel scared. Sure he didn't want to die but for some reason at this moment he felt clarity. It was like a switch being turned off all of his emotions all of his fear all of his regrets we're off. The only thing he could focus on was killing the person in front of him, just like a wild animal.
" I guess this is how Akuma feels when he's killing people." Deku last thought to himself.
The cloaked man grabbed Deku by the throat, lifting him up in the air. Deku looked to the mask and saw a slight reflection, another thought came into his head " Why are my eyes red?"
"Hello Oni killer my name is Stendhal." The masked man says while cackling a horrible laugh.
Notes: Thank you for reading, comments review and follow.
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