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Name: Aoyama, Yuki

Age: 20

Body type: Very curvy (in all the right places)

Eyes: Chocolate brown

Hair: Purple (dyed)

Height: 5'5

Quirk: Illusions. They can make people see things. (like Itachi from Naruto ) When their quirk is activated their eyes turn pink.

After using their quirk for 15 minutes their eyes start to bleed and she gets dizzy.

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I was sitting at her desk when the doors to the office opened, I looked and saw Ground Zero walkthrough. I smiled and stood up slightly bowing. "Welcome back, Ground Zero."

He grunts and walks to his desk, takes off his gauntlets, and puts them in the left-hand corner behind his desk. He sits down and pushes his mask up onto the top of his and sighs running his fingers through his spiky blonde hair.

I walk to the front of his desk, "I'm assuming everything went well today." He looks up at me for a second and grunts again then goes to work on the papers that were on his desk. My shoulders slump and I sigh. "Your day is almost done, Sir." I lift the tablet I was holding and look at his schedule. "You have a meeting with Shoto at Shoto's agency at 4 PM then at 7 PM you have a dinner date-"

"Gonna have to cancel the date." I look up at him and he was still working on paperwork.

"Why K- I mean why Sir?"

He looks up at me for a second then back down at the papers and sighs, "Because I have another meeting."

"With who?"

"With Maboromicamie and some other heroes from her agency."

I feel my stomach drop. I sighed, "But we booked this date 3 months ago and you promised that you weren't-" my voice started to crack and my voice was starting to get a little louder. He glares at me and I shut up.

He looks at the clock on the desk to his right and sighs and gets up. "I'm gonna go to Shoto's agency early." He grabs his gauntlets and walks by me without even a glance. "Call the restaurant and cancel the reservation, or do whatever with it. I don't care." I hear the door open and close.

After a couple of minutes, I start crying and my whole body starts to shake. My knees give out and I fall onto them, wrapping my arms around myself and starting to cry harder. *But today is our 4th anniversary.*

After what felt like hours, I finally stopped crying and wiped my runny nose on the sleeve of my blazer. I got up and walked back to my desk and sat down. I opened the top drawer on the side of my desk and pull out my phone and see that it was 6:30. I sigh again and comb my fingers through my hair. "Damn, I cried for 4 hours." I also noticed some tweet notifications and texts from my parents. I put my phone in the pocket of my blazer and stood up stretching. "Fine, I'll just get some ramen and beer down the street."

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I left the office and got into the elevator to go down to the lobby. While the elevator is going down, my stomach dropped again when I started to think about him and Camie together. It worries me. *She's stunning and I can tell by the way she flirts with him, that she likes him. I know I shouldn't worry, but it's hard. I sigh as the elevator reaches the lobby and walk out of the building and start walking down the street to go to the ramen shop. While walking there my phone starts to go off. I reach into my pocket and pull out my phone and see that it's his mom calling me. I answer, "Hello Bakugo-san."

She chuckles, "Stop with the honorifics hun, you know you can just call me Mitsuki."

I chuckled, stopped walking, and leaned against the wall next to the entrance of the RamenSeas restaurant. "Alright, so what's up?"

"Well, I tried calling the brat but he isn't answering, I was wondering when you two were gonna come over for dinner? It's been a while since we've had a family dinner."

I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion. "What do you mean? Kat said he went over for a family dinner a couple of weeks ago."

She scoffs and I hear giggling behind me. "Please like he would come on his own accord. I always have to have you talk to him to come over."

*What???* I open my mouth to say something then I hear something that runs my blood cold. "Come on Kat, we shouldn't do this here. Let's go back to my place." I quickly turn around to the alleyway behind me and I see Kat pull Camie's arm pulling her into a kiss. I feel my heart shatter and my stomach drop. I gasp and put my hand over my mouth. He lets go of her arm and wraps his arms around her waist and leans against the wall. I see her wrap her arms around his neck while she tangles her fingers in his hair. I remove my phone from my ear not processing what Mitsuki is saying and open the camera app and take a picture of them kissing. I see her pull away and giggle and I see him smile down at her.

I finally pull myself away from the alleyway and quickly enter the ramen shop and get in line. I finally snap back and put my phone back to my ear, "Oi Yuki, are you there? Are you ok?"

I take a deep breath, "Yea I'm here, sorry. I got distracted. Hey, how about I get us some spicy ramen and have a girls' night? I have something you need to see."

My nose starts to scrunch up and tears start to threaten to fall. "Are you ok? Is something wrong?"

I look at the wall to my left and sigh, "I'll talk to you about it when I get there."

She goes quiet, "Alright, I'll get the wine ready." I can hear the concern in her voice.

I laugh dryly, "That sounds good. I'll see you soon."

"See you soon. Be safe."

"I will. Bye." I hang up and put my phone back into my pocket, taking a deep breath and trying to calm down before it was my turn to order. When it was my turn I ordered two orders of their spiciest ramen and drove to the Bakugos' residents.

I arrive and sit in the car taking a few deep breaths before grabbing the food and exiting the car. I walk up to the front door and take another deep breath before knocking on the front door. After a few seconds, the door opens and before she can even speak, I start to cry I feel her hug me and I use my free arm to hug her back crying on her shoulder. She pulls away and grabs my free hand and walks me to the dining table. I put the bag of ramen on the table and sit down and cry harder. She bends down and takes off my shoes and goes to put them away before coming back and sitting down on the other side of the table.

She grabs my hand and I squeeze it and she squeezes back, while she lets me cry with my head on my other arm. After a few minutes, I finally start to stop crying and they turn to sniffles. She breaks the silence, "What's wrong?" I lift my head and use my free hand to grab my phone, unlock and show her the photo. She grabs my phone and growls. "WHAT THE HELL?" I whimper and flinch. "Shit, sorry Yuki." I just shrugged. She kneeled next to my chair and hugged me again. "I'm sorry hun."

I started crying again and just started screaming while I feel my heart break more. "WHY? WHAT DID I DO WRONG?" I just kept screaming that on repeat till my voice started to get hoarse. After what felt like 30 minutes, my tears stopped flowing. I pulled away and rubbed my nose on my sleeve and sniffled. "I'm sorry about that?"

She grabbed my face and made me look at her, "You have nothing to apologize for, it's alright." She kisses my forehead and I smile a little. She gets up, "Let me get you some water then we can start eating, OK?" I just nod my head and she walks away.

I grab the bag with the ramen and take the take-out containers out. Putin one in front of me and one in front of her chair. She comes back and hands me a glass of water and puts two wine glasses down. "Thanks. I got us spicy ramen from RamenSeas. I hope that's ok for you?"

She smiles at me, "I love that place, their ramen, spicy or not is very good." She uncorks a bottle of red wine. "Would you like a glass?" I nod. She pours us a glass each. We both say, "Thank you for the food!" and dig into the ramen.

After about 5 minutes of eating my ramen, I finally ask the dreadful question. "So, when was the last time Katsuki came over for dinner?"

"As I said over the phone, the last time he came over, was when you guys came over in July."

I dropped my chopsticks into the bowl, which made a little bit of the broth splash onto the table. "6 months ago? So every time that he would cancel-". That's when it hit, hard. He has probably been cheating on me since then. I close my eyes and lean my head back against the dining chair. What happened in July that made this start happening? Right, we got into a fight about something and I accidentally used my quirk and saw some memories. I sighed and removed my head from the back of the chair. "After returning home from dinner with you guys we got into a huge fight and when it escalated I accidentally used my quirk and saw some memories that I probably shouldn't have."

"What did you see?"

I stirred my chopsticks in my ramen and sighed, "Kat was younger and was playing with a boy that looked to be around his age with green hair and a lot of freckles. Do you know who that is?" I saw her face lose color and she drops her chopsticks on her lap. "Wait, I'm sorry I asked. If you aren't comfortable talking about it, it's fine."

She takes a deep and stands up. "No, it's fine. Let me show you something." I watch her walk to a wall of frames and she grabs it, looks at it sadly, and walks back to the table handing it to me. I grab and see small kat with the same kid from the memories and they both were both missing a tooth. "Is this the kid you saw?"

"Is this the kid you saw?"
"Yes, that's him." she sits down and pushes her bowl to the side before putting her elbows on the table tangling her fingers together and putting her forehead on them, and sighing. She was quiet for a few minutes before I start to see her shoulder shaking and hear sniffling. "Mitsuki!" I quickly put the frame down and was about the get up before she puts out her hand to stop me.

She lifts her head and takes a deep breath before wiping a few tears that fell. "I'm fine, it's just been a very long time since he was brought up in any conversation." She looks at the frame and takes another deep breath before talking again. "His name was Midoryia Izuku and he was Katsuki's childhood friend before he committed suicide in their last year of junior high."

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I feel myself getting sick. "I'm sorry for bringing it up. And I'm sorry for your loss." I start to shake and cry.

She grabs my hand and gives it a slight squeeze. "It's fine. It's been a long time since I've talked about this to someone. A few years ago his mom checked herself in to get some help." it was quiet for a few minutes. "And thank you."

I sat there with no more appetite, memories of my late elementary and middle school years come back. I break the silence with a sigh, "I may not know what he went through, but I do know what it's like to want to commit suicide. I wanted to take my life, but I couldn't because I was scared." She gave my hand a gentle squeeze. "I was bullied for my quirk. Always called a villain. No matter how times I repeated that I would be a hero and they would always throw back the word 'villain' in my face. Once I reached middle school I tried to commit suicide but every time I got to the edge of the roof my body would freeze and I would turn around to go back to the bullying." A small smile formed on my face. "Then I got accepted into U.A. and got put into 1-C and met a purple-haired boy with a similar quirk, named Hitoshi Shinso. We became clicked quickly because of our shared pain of being bullied and being called villains. Always attached at the hip." I chuckled, "People kept believing that we were in a relationship no matter how times we denied it till he came out as gay halfway through our first year. Then in our second year when I went against Kat in a class vs class training." I sighed a chuckle. "Somehow I caught his attention and we started dating. He treated me like a normal person. Helped me feel better about myself and was always there for me when I needed him. I believed his words and his feelings." I frowned, "Well till now anyway."

"I'm sorry Yuki." I shrugged. We went silent again and ate our food. After we finished I threw the trash away and she washed the wine glasses. "Since it's late why don't you spend the night? I don't feel comfortable knowing you are like this and alone."

I shrugged "Sure, I'll sleep on the couch." She nods and leaves the kitchen to come back with a blanket and a pillow. I grabbed them. "Thank you."

She put her hand on my shoulder and gave it a soft grip. "Anytime. Get some sleep." I nodded. I watch her walk to the dining table and grab the frame before putting it back where it was hanging.

I put the pillow against the armrest. "Hey, Mitsuki." she turns around to look at me. "Even though I didn't know him, would it be ok if we go visit his grave so can my respects?"

She smiles and nods, "Of course. He was a very sweet kid. I'm sure he would be happy if I brought someone new."

"Thanks."

"Goodnight Yuki."

"Goodnight." she turns back around and walks to the back of the house to her shared room and lay down on the couch and thankfully fell into a dreamless sleep.

~THE NEXT MORNING~

I woke up to the smell of pancakes. I sat up and stretched then I folded the blanket and put the pillow on top before I walk to the kitchen and see Mituski making chocolate chip pancakes. She notices me walk in and smiles at me. "Good Morning Yuki, how was your sleep?"

I yawn, "Good Morning Mitsuki. I slept alright. thankfully it was a dreamless sleep."

she hums, "That's good. Go sit at the table, breakfast is almost ready."

"Ok." I walk to the table and see my phone. I grab it and unlock seeing texts from Shinso and none from Katsuki. I rolled my eyes and scoffed. I opened Shin's text:

Shinny 8 AM: "Hey would like to join me for lunch to catch up?"

I look at the time on my phone. 8:30 AM. I sigh.

Yuki 8:30 AM: Sure, I need to talk to you about something anyway.

And if you can, do you think you can pick up my stuff from Kat's office today?

I quit there this morning. I'll tell you everything during lunch.

Shinny 8:32 AM: Are you alright? What happened hun?

Yuki 8:33 AM: I'm safe. I'm with Mitsuki. I'll tell you everything during lunch.

Shinny 8:33 AM: Alright. See you then.

I open up my email app and send an email to Sakura, the lady in the front, saying that I quit effective immediately and that Mindjack will be picking up my things.

Then I opened Kat's text messages and texted him:

8:34 AM: I quit effective immediately and we are over asshole.

I sent him the image of him kissing Camie before blocking him. I sighed and put my phone into my pocket before placing my head on the table.

"what's up, hun?" I lift my head and see her putting the plates of pancakes down in front of us and two glasses of milk.

I sighed, "Well I texted Shinso saying that I need him to pick up my stuff from Katsuki's agency since I quit and that I will tell him what happened over lunch. Then I told sakura that I quit and Mindjack will be picking up my things. Then I texted Katsuki the picture and told him that I quit and we are over before blocking him." We put our hands together before saying, "Thanks for the food." And we dig in. I moan after taking a bite. "Man, it's been a while since I've had your pancakes. I've missed them."

She chuckles, "Thank you. You're always still welcome to over." I smile and we eat in comfortable silence. We finished eating and I helped her dry her dishes after she washed them. "Ready to go?"

I nodded. "I'll drive." She nods and we walk to my car driving over to the Musutafu Cemetary.

After 15 minutes of driving, we arrived and I followed her as we walked to his grave. We stopped in front of a grave that reads:

Midoriya, Izuku

July 15, 21xx- September 14,20xx

The sweetest and kindest boy who left us too early

We see 4 green roses in a small vase. Mitsuki chuckles, "Looks like we just missed his mother." I lightly chuckle. She smiles, "Hey Izuku, I brought someone new. Her name is Aoyama, Yuki. She knows Kacchan and wanted to meet you." I stood next to her and we put our hands together and prayed in silence. She touched my shoulder. "Thank you for coming."

I smiled, "Thank you for inviting me."

She smiles and nods, "You ready to go?"

"Actually would it be ok if I stay here by myself for a few minutes?"

"Of course. I'll wait by the car." I handed her the keys and she walks away.

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She watches her leave and when Mitsuki is out of sight she starts walking to the gravestone stepping on the grave. "Please forgive me for disrespecting your grave but," she puts the vase to her right before twirling on her heel and softly landing on her butt on the grave, leaning her back against the gravestone. "for some reason, I feel a pull and it makes it easier to talk to you. "Hi Midoyria-San my name is Aoyama, Yuki. I found out about you after accidentally using my quirk on Bakugo-san. It was the weekend around your birthday that we had a fight and it got so heated that my emotions got out of control and my quirk accidentally activated and I saw some of your guys' memories. I believe it was the one where you guys were playing with some balls."

What she doesn't notice was that said boy was leaning against the tree hiding in its shade a few rows to her right, watching and listening to her talk. He slightly smiled at the memory she was talking about.

She chuckles, "You were so cute. I wish I could have met you. But," she sighs, "Mitsuki told me that you took your own life in middle school." his smile falls. "I'm sorry that you went through what you went through to make you take your life. You see, I was also bullied growing up with a 'villain' quirk and tried multiple times to take my own life in middle school like you. But for some reason every time I reached the edge of the roof, my body froze and I couldn't do it. It sucks that you left us early but I'm glad that you don't hurt anymore." She sat there in silence for a few more minutes feeling the cold stone on her back and the wind blowing through her hair.

"Well, I should be going." She stands up, puts the flowers back in their spot, and walks off the grave before wiping away the dirt off the back of her pants and bowing. "It was nice meeting you Midoryia-San. I'll stop by again sometime soon. If I don't join you first."

As she walks away he steps out of the shade of the tree and watches her leave.

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It was 1:30 PM and I was meeting Shinso at our usual spot at a Cat cafe near his work. I was in the far left corner away from the windows in our usual spot petting a chubby Russian blue cat that was purring happily in my lap. I was scrolling through Instagram when I hear the chair in front of me move. I looked up from my phone to see him sitting on the seat with a small box in his hand that I'm assuming was my stuff. He put the box on the table to his left and leaned back in his seat while crossing his left ankle over his knee and crossing his arms at his chest. He was in his Hero costume, which resembled his teacher Eraserhead, a baggy black outfit that consists of a long-sleeved shirt and matching pants that tuck into his boots. He also wears a utility belt, his capturing scarf, and a detachable mask-like device that is hiding behind the scarf. his usual messy, indigo-colored hair was pulled back into a small ponytail. He sighs, "Alright, what happened?"

My chest tightened up and I stopped petting the cat. I took a deep breath, "I found Bakugo cheating on me. I found him kissing Camie in the alley next to the ramen shop down the street from work."

His eyebrow furrowed together, "What?! Did you confront him about it?" I shook my head. He growled, "Why not?"

I scoffed, "Why should I? It's not like he would care. I sent him the picture I took of him, told him that I quit work, and blocked him." I started petting the cat again, trying to calm myself.

He softly put his hand on my hand that was on the table. "I'm sorry."

I looked down at the cat shrugged as he removed his hand from mine, and mumbled, "At least now I know why he's been distant for 6 months."

I heard coughing from him and looked back at him, seeing him putting the drink in his hand down back on the table. "Wait, 6 months?"

I nodded, "Yea. Ever since we had that fight back in July, he has been distant from me. After finding him in the alleyway with Camie, I grabbed some ramen from the restaurant and went to see Mitsuki-san to talk about it. I found out that he has been lying to me about having to cancel some of our dates to have family dinners with his mom for 6 months. Also," I gripped my free hand into a tight fist, "I found out about the boy from the memory I saw."

My whole body started to shake, making the cat jump off my lap. I felt his hand grab my fist. "Hey, are you alright? You don't have to talk about it if you're feeling like this."

I took a deep breath, "The boy in the memory was Midoryia, Izuku. His childhood friend committed suicide in their last year of middle school. She told me that Bakugo told him that maybe he jump off the roof of the building and maybe that he'll get quirk in his next life."

He growled, "What the hell?!" He slammed a fist on the table. I jumped in my seat. "Ah, I'm sorry Yuki." I nodded and he took a deep breath, calming himself down.

"Thank you for picking my stuff up."

"No problem, Sakura says hi and hopes that everything is ok."

I smiled, "She is very sweet, I feel bad for just sending her an email like that will no other information. She always listened when I had my problems. I should text her later and let her know what's going on." he hummed and we silently sat there quietly drinking our coffees.

After 10 minutes we finished up and got up to leave. He was holding my box while we walked to my car. I unlocked my car and opened the back door on the driver's side. He handed me the box, "Thanks again for getting my stuff and asking me to lunch. I needed to talk to someone about this."

He nods, "No problem, and thanks for agreeing for meeting for lunch." We both lightly chuckled. He put his right hand on my right shoulder, "I'm sorry that this happened, but I promise that it will get better." He lightly tightened his grip on my shoulder before pulling me into a hug, which was surprising because he's usually never a touchy person, "I'm always here if you ever need me." I hugged him back.

"I know, Thank you Toshi. You're like a brother to me and I am very grateful to have you in my life." My voice started to crack and my body started to shake while I was saying the last few words. I started to cry and he tighten his grip around me while he repeatedly moved his hand up and down my back. "It's alright, let it out." We just stood there for another 10 minutes before his phone went off. He sighed, "That's my alarm, It's time for me to go back." He lets me go. "You should go home and get some rest. Call me if you need anything."

I nodded and sniffled while rubbing the tears from my eyes. "Bye Toshi."

He ruffles my hair and gives me a small smile, "Bye Yuki. Be safe getting home." I get in the driver's seat and he closes the door for me. "Text me when getting home." I nodded and started my car driving home.

It's been a month since the break-up and seeing them together in person and on the internet hurts so much. I couldn't believe that he would be so public about their relationship but kept ours a secret. I stood in front of the mirror in just my black bra and black shorties looking at my body. Looking at the stomach rolls, pinching at the fat that was flowing over the underwear, how my thighs are squished together, how bright red my chaffing is from my thighs rubbing together, noticing the old and healing scars from cutting on my fat thighs and inner forearms. I sighed, "Did he hide our relationship because he didn't want to be seen with me? Am I that disgusting?" I started crying again for the 5th time today. I fell onto my knees and cried into my hands.

"YOU'RE A MONSTER!! VILLAIN!!!! FATTY!! DIE!!! YOU'RE USELESS!!! YOU'LL NEVER BE A HERO!!! YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A VILLAIN!!!!"

I covered my ears. "STOP IT!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" I keep repeating that while hearing the demons in my head till I black out.

I woke up groaning with a headache from so much crying. "What time is it?" I sat up and walked over to the bedside table and pick up my phone. I turn on my screen, hissing from the brightness, and read 2:30 AM. I groaned and plopped in my bed sighing. "I should go back to sleep." I turn onto my side and close my eyes to try to sleep. After what feels like a long time I give and huff but sit up and look at the time again on my phone, reading 2:45 AM.

"Well if I can't sleep, might as well go back to the roof again." I got out of bed and walked to my closet pulling out a black shirt, black hoodie, and black jeans. After getting dressed, I grabbed my phone and buds before walking to the front door to put on my black sketches and then walk out the door, locking it. I put the hood up and started walking staring down at my shoes.

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A/N: The next few chapters are about to get very dark coming up. mention of suicide, body shaming, scars, cutting, and demons(voices). If you don't feel comfortable reading these things, you shouldn't continue.

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she plops on the abandoned building's edge with one leg plopped on the edge and one hanging over the edge. she sighs, "I'm back. how's your night going edge-san?" She dryly chuckles and pulls out my phone and headphones plugging them in and clicking on 'Listen, Before I Go' and closing her eyes. She takes a deep breath and starts to sing while feeling her hair flow in the wind.

"Take me to the rooftop

I wanna see the world when I stop breathing

Turning blue

Tell me, love is endless, don't be so pretentious"

Dabi was sitting on the other side of the building, staring at the stars when he hears singing from behind him. He recognizes the voice, she has been coming for almost a week straight singing a few songs before leaving. He doesn't know why but tonight he decides to stand up and walk over to her.

"Leave me, like you do

If you need me

Wanna see me

Better hurry

'Cause I'm leaving soon

Sorry, can't save me now

Sorry, I don't know how

Sorry, there's no way out (sorry)

But down, mm down

Taste me, the salty tears on my cheek

That's what a year-long headache does to you

I'm not okay-" She senses someone behind her pulling out her right earbud "Can I help you..." and tilts her head back looking up to see who it is. The first thing she notices is the piercing blue eyes staring down at her. she squints her eyes and notices the purple scars on his chest that goes up his neck and over his jawline and he also has the same scars under his eyes. She tilts my head to the left"...Dabi?"

He arches his right eyebrow noticing the dried tear streaks, dark eyebags, and dull brown eyes. "You know me and aren't scared?"

She scoffs and taps the right earbud, pausing the music, pulling out the left one, and sticking both back in my pocket. "Please, I've noticed you on the other side of the big building for two weeks. If you wanted to hurt me, you would have done it by now."

He hums and then plops next to me with both legs dangling over the edge. "So why are you here?"

She puts her other leg over the edge and started kicking her feet back and forward, making her hit the wall of the building with the back of her shoes. She shrugs her shoulders. "I just like the feeling of being up here and singing my heart out. it's peaceful."

He hums and nods, "It is peaceful."

She looks at him. "Why are you here?"

"To get away from the chaotic duo, Toga, and Two-face. They're too hectic for me." He rolls his eyes and she giggled. He watched her while she giggled and smiled. *cute*

She sighed and mumbled, "It's been a while."

He arched an eyebrow, "So what started making you come here for the past two weeks."

She sighed and put her hands on her lap and started fidgeting with her fingers, picking at the skin on her right thumb. "Well, I've been coming here to get away from the life that I am done with." she looks down at the ground. "I wanna end this life. I'm tired and I'm done not listening to demons in my head. I come and sit here wondering if it's my turn to leave this world." She bit down on her bottom lip and he shook those thoughts out of his head. This wasn't the right time to think how hot that is. She sighed again. "Well since I'm gonna be leaving this world soon, might as well tell someone. When I was four my quirk manifested and I found out that I got my great-grandfather's quirk. Illusions. I don't remember how it activated," She lifted her right leg back up and put her hands on top of it and putting her chin on top of her hands. "but after it did my mom started me a monster for having his quirk since he was a villain in his time. So growing up it was harsh at home and when school started for me; it was the same way. I accidentally made a kid in my 4th year see his parents get murdered in front of him and it's been names like monster, devil, and villain. But I kept screaming back that they were wrong and that I will be a hero and not a villain when I grow up." Tears started to flow and fall off my cheeks to the ground below us reliving all these memories. "Then finally I got accepted into UA, even if I was just in 1-C and not 1-A. I was gonna show everyone that called me those names that I was gonna make it as a hero." She smiled a little, "Then when school started I met a new friend who also had a quirk that made people scared of him and make him a villain. So we hit it off and become close friends." Her smile faded. "Then I caught the attention of a hero in training and we started a relationship after he was able to bring down the walls I had built." Tears started to fall again and she sighed again. "Then we got into a huge fight and I accidentally used my quirk on him and saw memories from his past that he locked away. Till recently I thought that he was just keeping his distance from me because of the fight, but I found out two weeks ago that he was cheating on me for 6 months." Tears started to fall more. "So I ended it with him over text and blocked him on everything and just been keeping to myself since then."

"So you want to end your life because of a broken heart."

She scoffed, "No, he just added the cherry on top." She dryly laughed. "I've also decided to write apology letters to my friend and my ex's mom."

"Why his mom?"

She smiled, "Because I know she loves me and cares for me. She was there when I found out about the cheating. I was also debating if I wanted to be a petty bitch and write my ex a letter, letting him that was the cherry on top of all of this."

He laughs, "Well damn girl."

"Well, maybe I'll just write and then burn it."

He smirks and lifted his left hand and activates his quirk which was blue flames, "Well if you need help burning it just ask me." She chuckles.

They heard a whooshing noise behind them and turned around to see a purple wormhole form. A head of the same color and design and bright yellow eyes. Dabi sighs and stands up, "Alright I'm coming."

She chuckles, "Don't get caught."

He stops walking and turns his head and raises an eyebrow at her and chuckles when she shrugs. He smirks, "I won't." and walks away into the warped gate.

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Songs used in this chapter:

*Gumi-The defeated boy

*AJR-Karma

*Nico Collins-Take me away

*Tommee Profitt-In The End (Epic Cinematic Cover) feat. Fleurie & Jung Youth

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(1st POV)

I was sitting on the couch in my apartment with my knees against my chest and my forehead on my knees, my hands covering my ears. The voices have been louder lately and my depression getting hard to control. I looked over my knees at the overdue bills and letters that I wrote to Hitoshi, Mitsuki, and Dabi. My phone started ringing again. I looked over at it and can see Hitoshi calling me again. I just there watching it ring till it became the 15th missed call I got from him for the past two days. I reached over to the coffee table and grabbed the box cutter and stared at it moving it side to side watching the light reflecting off the silver metal and dried blood. I can feel myself starting to become numb while staring at it, not even feeling the sting from the fresh cuts I did on my arms 2 hours ago, probably. I looked at the time on my phone. 2:15 AM. I looked at the letters again and sighed. I stood up from the couch and pocketed the box cutter in my black hoodie before grabbing the letter and leaving the apartment walking to the usual spot.

(3rd POV)

Dabi was on the black run-down couch in the lounge, leaning his head back on the top of the couch and blowing out smoke. He looked at the clock on the wall behind him and saw that it was 2:15 AM. He smirked and got up and started walking out the door. He heard a cracking voice say, "Where are you going?" He turns around and sees Shigaraki sitting at the bar with a glass of some brown liquid.

Dabi rolled his eyes, "To my usual spot of course."

He heard a deep chuckle from the chair next to the couch. he looked over and saw Deku. "Are you gonna see your new girlfriend?"

Dabi scoffs, "She's not my girlfriend. She's just a friend who is going through what I went through when I was younger and I wanna help. She is interesting and not as boring as you guys." he rolls his eyes.

Shigaraki says, "Well, we got a mission from the boss so you can see her tomorrow."

Dabi sighs and turns to Kongiri. "Keep an eye out for her. I've been going to her place for the past 2 days and she hasn't even moved from the same spot on the couch. I don't think she even noticed that I was knocking on her window." He looks at Deku. "help him." Deku rolls his eyes and plays with his dagger.

The purple mist nods, "Of course Dabi."

Toga giggles, "Is Dabi getting soft for a girl?"

Dabi glares at her and threw some of his blue flames at her. She squeaks and jumps away before getting hit and Deku reaches out absorbing the flame into his hand. "Tch, try not to burn down the place over a little tease Dabi."

Dabi glare and they hear a glass slamming on the bar counter seeing Shigaraki standing up. "Alright, enough. Konigiri, open a gate to the bank." Konigiri warps a gate. "Alright, Deku you will stay here to keep an eye out. Dabi, Toga, Skinner, and two-face let's go." He walks through the warped gate and we all follow through.

She walked through the roof door and closed it behind her. "Dabi!" It was quiet. She looked for him at what was originally his side of the building before they started getting to each other for a couple of weeks. He wasn't there. she sighed, "Maybe he's just not here yet."

A voice in her head said, 'Or maybe he's gotten tired of you too.'

"Shut it." she sits down in my spot having her legs dangle over the edge and pulled out her earbuds and phone. she puts in the buds and started playing her music 'Defeated boy' started to play and she sighs. "It's been a while since I heard this song. she closes her eyes and listened to the song humming along.

Konigiri opens a warp gate and Deku steps through it and stays in the shadow, watching her.

After the song was over and Karma started next. She sighs, "I guess he's not coming after all." I looked at the spot he would sit while they would talk about what was going on and how their day went. She pushed up her left sleeve seeing healed, healing, and fresh scares going up and down her inner forearm. she pulled out the box cutter and started carving "MONSTER" into her left forearm.

Deku noticed the light reflecting off of something in her right hand. He watches her cut something into her arm and her face showed no expression. Seeing her like this actually makes his heart hurt because it reminds him of himself when he was suicidal and cutting himself and was saved by the league after his failed attempt at suicide. It hurt him that a beautiful girl like her would have this happen to her.

After she finished carving the word into her arm, she held out her over the edge and just watched the blood drink off her arm, becoming numb to the pain. That song stopped playing and 'Take Me Away' started to play. She sighed again and started singing along with the music.

when she got close to the end she stood up and started to scream the rest of the song while crying her eyes out. "Take me away

Take me away

Who am I to try to save me from myself

Take me away

To better days

I'd give anything to just be someone else

Show me that there's something more

Or someone else worth living for

Open up my eyes and lead the way

Cuz the lump is rising in my throat

The one that wants to see me choke

Suffocating me with misery

Take me away

Take me away

Who am I to try to save me from myself

Take me away

To better days

I'd give anything to just be someone else

Take me away

Take me away

Who am I to try to save me from myself

Take me away

To better days

I'd give anything to just be someone else

Help me I am drowning

And I wanna breathe again

Promise me that this is not the end."

She started to breathe hard and it started to rain on her face. She finally noticed that Konigri was there but there was also someone else. She sighed and combed her fingers through her hair. She turned around to the warped gate and stepped off the edge walking to it.

Deku noticed her walking over to the gate pulling what seems to be an envelope from her pocket. He turned one eye red when she turned to him. His heart ached when he saw the tears and rain falling down her beautiful face. Her eyes had no light in them like when he saw her last time at his grave. She looked into his eyes and held out the envelope to him.

"Can you give this to Dabi and tell him I said hi and thank you for everything? It was nice to meet him before I leave."

Deku lowered his voice range, "Of course Yuki."

She looked at him in shock. "So he talks about me?"

"Yes. He told me to keep an eye on you tonight since he got dragged into a mission."

She smiled a little. "So he wasn't tired of me."

"No, he wasn't. He actually likes you. He wishes he was here." She hums. "Deku."

"What?"

"My name. It's Deku."

She nods. "It's nice to meet you Deku. And thank you for giving him that. Tell him I'm sorry as well. Goodbye Deku."

"Goodbye, Yuki." She turns around and walks back to the edge and hit play again having 'In the end' play loud.

She takes out the letters and lets them go into the air before she turns around and watches Deku walk through the warped gate before falling backward. The wind rushes around her and her hair as the rain falls on her face mixing with the tears. She closes her eyes, "Goodbye everyone."

After putting the letter on Dabi's bed, Deku sits on the couch in his room, "Now Konigiri." A warped gate opens under her just missing the letters and she falls through before landing on something hard and warm under her. "What?" She was groggy and tired.

She felt a hand pet her head and she barely opens her eyes seeing blurry green hair, "Shh, go to sleep doll." The warm hand starts to comb through her wet hair and she falls asleep.

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(3rd POV)

It was 4 in the morning when a purple warped gate opens in the bar, Dabi, Toga, Twice, and Shigaraki walk through the gate and walk to their rooms. Dani walks in and sees something on his bed. He quickly walks to his bed and sees that. It's an envelope with his name on it. His stomach drops and his heart races. He quickly walks out of his room and to Deku's before slamming it open. "Deku! I told you-"

Deku glares at him and puts his left pointer finger on his lips making a shh sound. Dabi sees Deku sitting in black velvet armchair in his room with the girl he was worried about all night in his arms asleep. Dabi falls to his knees and sighs combing his fingers through his black hair. He lifts his head and looks at the girl. Deku was combing his fingers through her slightly wet hair, dark bag under her eyes, dried tears on her cheeks, and she was wrapped in Deku's blanket.

He stood up and walked over to them and started petting her head. "Thank you for rescuing her Deku." He hears Deku hum and looks at him. He sees Deku smiling down at the sleeping girl.

Yuki starts to wake up from the talking. *Dabi? Wait! I'm alive* She tried her best to keep her breath and heart calm, pretending to sleep through their talk.

Deku looks up at Dabi, "Bring twice in here. I have a plan."

Dabi arches an eyebrow, "What kind of plan."

Yuki kept pretending to sleep. *Plan?*

Deku rolls his eyes. "You'll find out when you bring him in."

"Should we bring in Shigaraki?"

Deku scoffs, "We'll tell him later. I don't care about him much."

Dabi shrugs, "Alright, I'll be back." He leaves.

Deku smirks down at the girl, "Doll~ I know you're awake."

"Doll?" She opens her eyes and looks right into emerald eyes. She furrowed her eyes brown feeling like she remembers these piercing green eyes. Then she notices freckles on his cheeks and has a flashback to the young Midroyia. She gasps and then falls out of his arms and onto her knees on the floor. She slightly shivered from the absence of the warm blanket around her and looked at the guy in the chair. Her eyes widen in surprise. "You're M-Midoryia. How are you-" she squeaks when he growls.

His eyes turn red and he sits up straight. "How do you know that name?" he lifts his left hand and flame starts to form. Blue on the bottom and goes from red to orange. "Tell me NOW!"

She squeaks. "I accidentally used my quirk on Bakugo Katsuki and saw a part of your guys' history."

He makes the flame disappear with a flick of his wrist. "Kacchan?" He leans forward putting his elbows near his knees clasping his hands together and putting his chin on his fingers. "How do you know Kacchan." She bit her bottom lip and looks down at her lap and he arches his right eyebrow. "Doll?"

She sighs and looks up at him. She noticed the curly green hair, the deep emerald green eyes, 4 freckles in a diamond shape on each cheek, wearing a red button-up shirt, two straps around the upper arms, a black vest, a black tie with a gold clip, a silver ring on his right ring finger, a brown belt with a gold metal clasp, dark blue slacks and brown men's dress shoes. She slightly blushed *God how can a villain be so hot!* "I used to date Bakugo for 4 years before I broke up with him on our 4th anniversary 2 months ago when I found him cheating on me for 6 months." He hums. "We had a flight 8 months ago around the 15th of July," She saw him stiffen. 'and when it escalated I got emotional and accidentally activated my quirk seeing a flash of you guys together playing with balls."

She sees a sad smile form on his face before he sighs. "I see. What is your quirk?"

"Illusions. I can see and make people see memories."

He nods and someone knocks on the door. He leans back against his chair and crosses his left leg across his right knee. "Come in."

The door opens and she turns her head to see Dabi and twice walk in. She smiles, "Dabi!" He smiles and kneels down in front of her. She quickly hugs him tightly. "I'm sorry Dabi."

He wraps his arms around her and pets her head. "It's ok little one. You're here and that's all that matters hun." She cries in his arms. "Should I take her out of the room so we can talk?"

"No, and before you get upset, this plan is all up to her?"

She sniffles and removes her head from his chest and looks at Deku. "What do you mean it's up to me?"

"Would you like to fake your suicide and join us?"

"Join the LOV?"

He nods, "Yes, why not join us and start a new life with us?"

She looks up at Dabi and he shrugs. "It's up to you little one."

She looks down at her hands. *A new life?* She leans her head against Dabi's shoulder. *Should I? But I don't want to kill. If I join would they have me kill innocent people?* She grips Dabi's white shirt and he moves his hand up and down her back.

She lifts her head up and looks at Deku. "If I join, I only have one condition."

He puts his elbow on the armrest of the chair and put his cheek on his fist. "What is it?"

"I don't want to kill innocent people."

He smirks leans forward puts his pointer finger under her chin and lifts her head up to make her look up at him watching a blush flush go across her cheeks. "Oh, doll~ I have a special job just for you and your quirk." She blushes darker and looks away from his piercing green eyes. He chuckles, "But it's up to you." She bits her bottom lip and looks up at him and nods. He smiles and chuckles. He straightens up and reaches his hand out to me. "Well," She grabs his hand and he helps her up "welcome to LOV Doll~"

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(1st POV)

I sat on the bed and sat pretzel style. "So what's this plan you have?" Dabi sits next to me.

Deku sits back in his chair and smiles, "Well I am thinking of having twice making a double of you and making it jump looking like you're committing suicide."

Dabi sighs and stands up. I look up at him, "Where are you going?"

"Going to get the other person for this job." He walks out before coming back a few minutes later with a girl wearing a baggy black shirt and black sweats, she had dirty blonde down.

"Dabi, this better be import-" Her eyes widen when she notices me, and she quickly walks over. She squeals and hugs me pushing her cheek against mine. "She's so pretty Dabi. Where did you guys find her?"

Dabi sat back on the bed next to me. "This is the girl I was telling you about before."

She gasps and pushes my cheeks together making me do a fishy face. "She's so pretty. Does this mean she's joining us?"

Deku spoke up, "Yes, she's joining us. We-"

She squeals and sits next to me wrapping both arms around mine and giving me a wide smile showing off her fangs. "Can I have some of your blood?"

"Toga." Deku snapped making me slightly jump and squeak. She giggles and he sighs, "Why don't we just the introductions done so we can get the plan organized."

"Oooo... I'll go first." The girl next to me said with her hand in the air. *Cute* "My name is Toga, Himiko. My quirk is Transformation. I can transform into anyone whose blood I ingest. I can also use their quirk."

"My turn/no." I turned my head to the guy that was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room. He was wearing a full face mask and body suit. "My name is twice/I don't need to tell you shit. My quirk is double/I hate you."

I arched my eyebrow and Deku said, "You'll get used to it. Just believe the first thing he says. As he said, his quirk is double. He can create an exact duplicate of anything, living or not. Now that is taken care of. The plan is to have twice make a double of Yuki and have the double jump making it look like she has committed suicide. Toga do you have any small vials or tubes you can waste?"

She nods and quickly leaves before coming back a minute later with two and a syringe. "Hold out your arm." I bite my bottom lip and take a breath before pulling up myself and widening my eyes now realizing the wraps around my forearm. I look at Deku and he nodded before I nodded back. I just took off my jacket and held out my arm. She smiles and says, "Thank you for the meal." She pokes the needle into the inner part of my elbow and pulls out some blood. She pours the blood between the 2 Vials and hands one to Deku before leaving and coming back a few minutes empty-handed. "I'm keeping some for me to use another time."

I nod and Deku gets up from his seat and smiled. "Alright, Let's do this. Yuki, you should get some sleep. It's a rough day for you." I stood up and shook my head no. He arches an eyebrow in surprise. "No? You just tried to commit suicide a couple of hours ago, are you sure you are ok with watching yourself jump?"

*He's right. Can I watch myself jump?* "I don't think I'm mentally stable for it yet." he opened his to speak, but I interrupted him. "But, I feel like I need to be there."

Dabi stood up, "Are you sure about this?" I looked up at him and nodded.

Deku nods, "Alright. I'm gonna ask Konigiri to open up a gate for us." He leaves and a few seconds later the familiar purple warp gate appeared and Deku popped his head out. "Let's do this." he pops back and toga went, then twice, Dabi put his right foot in and held out his hand. I took a deep and grabbed it following behind him and going through the portal. We stepped onto the roof and Deku walked over to us. "Alright, Twice make that double."

Twice stuck out his hands and goop the color of his suit started coming out of his and started to form my clone. She stood up and I gasp squeezing Dabi's hand. She had very bags under her eyes, dull eyes, and hair messy. "Don't worry, You don't look like this, I made her look a lot worse./Yes you do, you look horrible."

I hummed and Deku hands the vial to her, "Put this in your mouth." She follows his orders. "When you hit the ground absorb the glass and leave the blood." She nods and walks to the edge.

I tighten my grip on Dabi's hand and I feel him move his thumb over my knuckles trying to calm down. She stepped over the edge and I put my face in Dabi's arm and flinched when I heard people screaming and multiple cars honking. Someone put their hand on my shoulder and I lift my head and see that it was Deku. "It's done. Are you ok?" I took a deep and nodded. I let go of Dabi's hand and started walking toward the edge.

I got a foot away before I felt someone grab my wrist. I looked behind me, it was Toga. "Are you sure you wanna look?" I nodded and she let go of my wrist slowly. I walk to the edge and look over the edge seeing people crowding the clone I took a deep breath before walking back to everyone.

Toga walked through the portal first, then Twice, Deku, and Dabi put their hand on my upper back and we walked through together. I watch the portal close as a tear falls to the floor. "Goodbye Aoyama, Yuki."

Deku goes back to his chair and sits crossing his left leg over his right. "Saying goodbye to yourself." I nodded.

Toga gasps and grabs my arm, "Do you already have a new name?"

I gave her a small smile."Yea, it's Kokoro."

"I love it! Does this mean that you're changing your look?"

"I didn't think about that. I probably should."

She squeals and side hugs me. "What should we do? cute and dye your hair? Defiantly new clothes."

Deku sighs, "Let's get some sleep and continue this conversation later."

"Koko, you and I can share my bed and have a girls' sleepover."

"I don't think we can fit in the same bed together."

Dabi sighs, "You can take my bed, I'll take the couch."

I look at him. "Yea, it's fine. It's normal for me to pass out on the couch sometimes anyway."

"Alright, thank you, Dabi." He nods and I follow him out of the room after saying goodnight to everyone.

We arrive outside his room which was 2 rooms down from Deku's. "Well, here it is. Night little one."

I smiled at him. "Thank you, Dabi. Goodnight." I walk into his room and close the door behind me and hear his steps slowly fade away. I sigh and plop on his bed. It smelled of smoke and his cologne. I inhaled his smell and calmed down and cried for the first time in weeks crying myself to sleep.

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I woke up to someone shaking my shoulders. I groan and open my eyes and see 2 gold eyes looking down at me. "Good Morning Koko. Deku is asking for you."

I sat up and stretched my arms above my head. "Why?"

"He wants to know about your quirk more." she steps away from the bed

I get out of bed. "Ok." I follow her out of Dabi's room and back to Deku's room two doors down.

I knock on the door. "Come in." I open the door and see him sitting at his desk. He was wearing a long sleeve black button-up shirt that had the sleeves rolled up just above his elbows, and some dark wash jeans. He put his pen down stopping whatever he was writing and looked at me. "Come sit down in my chair." He pointed to the big chair next to his desk. I sat down in the chair and picked up the pencil again. He gave me a slight smile, "Now tell me about your quirk."

"Well, it's called Illusions. When I make eye contact with someone I can see people's memories. It's any random memory. My eyes turn pink when I activate my quirk. There was one time when I got into a heated battle with a villain and Pinky noticed my eyes turn red the villain started screaming about being burned alive but he wasn't actually being burned. I made him believe that he was being burned. We both passed out from it." I gripped the sleeves of my jacket and took a deep breath. "The next day at school I heard the students whispering about me and about what happened. Calling my quirk a villain quirk. Wondering what I was even doing at the school with such a quirk. Etc, Etc." I sighed. "I stopped to try it and use it like that since to show them that I am not a villain." I saw him nod his head and write down what I was saying. While he was writing things down I looked around his room. It was a bit plain. His bed was pushed up against the wall across from the door. There was a poster of All Might in his signature stance with two red crosses where his eyes are. His desk was in front of his bed and the chair I was sitting in was right next to his desk.

He stopped writing and looked at me leaning back in his desk chair. "I want you to use your quirk on me."

I looked at him surprised. "Are you sure? It's any memory. you might even re-live..."

''It's fine. Those memories don't affect me anymore."

I sighed "Alright." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before opening my eyes and looking him in his green eyes activating my quirk.

I was flying in the air above the city for a minute before crashing onto a roof of a building, rolling before slamming into a wall. I coughed and sat up. "Can even someone without a quirk be a hero?" I looked over and saw a kid in what seemed to be a middle school uniform. I saw the green fluffy hair and realized that it was Deku. In front of him was All Might.

It was hard to hear what was being said so I slowly started walking over. Smoke poofed around All Might and once it dispersed someone else was standing there. I stopped a few feet from them and just watched.

The guy sighed and said, "A Pro should always be ready to risk his life. Without power can one become a hero? No, I should think not. You need to be more realistic, you can not be a hero without a quirk." I gasped. "There are other ways you can help without being a hero kid." He poofed back into All Might and jumped off the building.

Mini Deku fell to his knees and started crying. It broke my heart to see him like that. A hero he looked up to just crushed his dreams. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath deactivating my quirk.

I opened my eyes and saw blurs of grey. I blink a few times and I was back in his room. I looked at him. "I'm sorry Deku."

He shook his head. "It's fine, doll. That was a long time ago." He gave me a small smile and reached out touching my cheek and rubbing his thumb against my cheekbone. "You don't need to cry for me Doll." I touched my other cheek and felt that it was wet. "It's all in the past. It doesn't make me sad anymore. It makes me even more motivated to act on my revenge sooner than later." He writes down in his notebook more. "I wanna test something."

"What?"

"I know you said that it's only random but what if I think about a certain memory while you activate your quirk."

"We can try. Whenever you're ready." He closes his eyes and takes a deep before nodding. I blink and activate my quirk looking into his emerald eyes.

I open my eyes and look around seeing a simple-looking living room. I see All Might on the news with his signature smile. I hear giggling and someone saying, "Help." The lady wasn't in distress. I feel something run past me. I watch a small child with what looks like an All Might onesie run in the direction of the voice. I close my eyes and was transported to where the lady was seeing her with blue pants and a yellow long-sleeve shirt. She also had a blanket covering her head and her back. She had green pieces framing her face and bright emerald eyes. She was smiling. This was Deku's mom

The sliding door slammed open and I see the kid with the All Might Onesie. It was a small Deku. He had his hands in the air. "I AM HERE!" He was smiling big and his eyes were full of happiness. He runs to his mom. He smiled "I am here to save you, ma'am."

The lady smiled at the little hero. "My hero." She picked him up and twirled in a circle with him in the air. He giggled. She brought him to her chest and hugged him close. "I love you my Izuku."

He smiled wide and closed his eyes. "I love you too mama."

I smiled and closed my eyes deactivating my quirk. I opened my eyes back and back in Deku's room. I blinked my eyes till they weren't blurry again. I looked at Deku and saw a sad smile while looking at his hands in his lap. I grabbed his hand. He squeezed my hand and we were just there in a comfortable quiet for a bit. "Do you miss her?"

He nods. "Even though I see her when she visits the grave, it hurts my heart to see her sad and hurt. She thinks that I died but here I am, alive." He looks at me and I can see the sadness in his eyes while they were filling up with tears. "There are times when I would try to go visit her. I would get to the entrance of the parking lot of the hospital before freezing and scared that she would hate me for what I did or what I have become." I rub my thumb over his knuckles. He pulls at my arm making me stand up before pulling me into his lap and putting his head on my chest. "Please let me be like this for a while."

"Of course." I combed my fingers through his hair. He groans and relaxes against my chest. I heard sniffles and feel him start to shake while he quietly cries against me. I continued to comb my fingers through his hair and started humming 'Somewhere only we know'.

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His breathing was starting to slow down when the door slammed open making us slightly jump. "Hey-" I look at the door and see Toga standing there with a surprised look on her face. "Uh... they're talking about you on the TV Ko."

I nodded. "Thank you toga. We'll be right out. Just give us a moment, please." She nods and leaves closing the door behind her. I looked down at the curly green and continued to comb my fingers through his hair. "Feeling better?"

He nods against my chest before lifting his head and helping me off of his lap. He took a deep breath and fixed his hair. "Let's go and see what's going on." I nod and follow him out of his room.

"...she will be missed." I looked at the TV and saw Mitsuki crying holding the envelope with my goodbye letter.

It broke my heart to see her like this. I sat down on the couch next to Dabi and sighed. I put my head on his shoulder. I looked down at my hands *Did I do the right thing?* I zoned out and just started at Shinso on the TV not understanding what he was saying.

I felt someone shake my shoulder snapping me back to reality. I blinked a few times before I sit up straight and see Toga looking at me worried. "You ok Ko?" I nodded. "Why don't we take you back to your place to grab some clothes."

I furrowed my eyebrows, "isn't that a bad idea to go right now? What if the police are there for an investigation?"

She sits down next to me. "Not now. Later tonight." She gasps and then quickly stands up making me flinch. "Let's start on the new makeover. Come on!" She tugs on my hand. I sighed and stood up and followed her. "You guys come on too!"

Deku groans and Dabi arched an eyebrow. "Why should we come? I thought it was a girl thing?"

"Because it would be fun to do it together."

I sighed, "It's fine Toga. I already have an idea of what I wanna do for my hair anyway. I just need a mask to cover my face so I can go to the store to get some hair dye." (Forgot to put that she was able to fit in Dabi's sweats and hoodie before going to bed.)

She gasps, "What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking a dark purple and some blunt bangs. Also, start putting my hair in twin tails."

She looked excited! "OMG!! Yes, Koko." She pulls me to her room. "I have some masks and I know the best place to go." we got to her room and handed me a plain black mask.

"Do you have hair ties?" She nods and hands me one. I put my hair in a bun. "You shouldn't do your usual buns. You will get noticed. Just keep it down or in a different hairstyle."

She also puts her hair in a ponytail and we leave her room. "We'll be back. Going to the store. Dabi, do you need your hair dye as well?"

I looked at him in shock. "Wait? you dye your hair?"

He hums and stands up and putting his hands in his trench coat. "Yea. I'll come along. I was planning on going tomorrow anyway."

He walks up next to me and I tilted my head to the side and reach up to touch his hair. "The black looks so natural and soft. Never thought it was dyed."

"If you wish to give your respects," I turned my head to the TV. "we will hold the funeral ceremony next Saturday, on XX/XX/XXXX at XXXX."

I rolled my eyes, "What's the point, no one's gonna show up. Let's just go." I turned to Deku. "Coming?" Deku shook his head no. "Alright. Please have the channel changed when I get back. I'm done dealing with my "death". He nods and grabs the remote flicking through the channels. I rolled my eyes noticing my death on the other news channels. I just walked out the door with Toga and Dabi behind me.

We arrived at the store and followed Dabi straight to the hair section. He grabbed his black dye while I looked at the options. I saw a box of dark purple hair dye. I picked it up and went to the snack aisle to get some baked cheese-it. while looking at the snacks Toga and Dabi walked over to me. "You guys ready to go?"

Toga nodded while Dabi was on the phone. The purple warp showed up and Toga grabbed my arm and pulled me through. We were back in the base and I blink a few times trying to process what just happened. "You alright Koko?" I looked at Toga.

"Did we-" I blinking at the space where the warp used to be.

She giggled, "Yup, now let's do your hair." She drags me into the bathroom.

Toga squealed, "You look so beautiful, Koko. It fits you perfectly." I fixed the two pigtails and bangs in the bathroom mirror. "Let's show the guys." She grabbed my arm dragging me out of the bathroom towards the living room. "Guys! Look!" The guys stopped talking together and looked over and I blushed."What do you guys think?"

Dabi smirked, "Looks good Ko." I nodded.

I looked at Deku and saw him slightly blushing. "I-It." He coughs in his fist. "I agree. It looks good Koko." He smiles.

My heart skips a beat at the smile and I blush. "Thank you."

"Dynimight! Dynimght! how does it feel to have one of your-" I growled and grabbed the remote turning off the TV. I tossed the remote onto the couch and walked to the bar sitting down.

I clicked my tongue. "Kigi, give me a jack & coke please."

He nods and makes my drink. He slides it over, but before I can catch it a purple patchy hand shoots in from of mine and grabs it. I growl and glare up at Dabi. "Oi, that's mine."

"It's still early in the evening. You don't need to get drunk."

I try to reach for the drink but Dabi puts it out of my reach. "I'm not trying to get drunk. I just want one drink to get through this shit. That's it."

He stares at the drink for a few seconds before walking away with it. "Fine, this ONE drink, but you're drinking over here away from the bar." He looks back at me over his shoulder.

"Alright." I hop off the stool and follow him to the couch. I plop on the couch and he hands me my drink while Toga sits next to me and flips through the channel trying to find a movie to watch.

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I was standing on a branch in one of the trees a few feet away from my grave watching the very few people that were around it. I saw some heroes from the agency, Mitsuki, Toshi, Easurehead and honestly not suprised that Bakugo isn't there. I rolled my eyes knowing he wouldn't care or come and it honestly stung a little. It hurts me to see my best friend and someone I saw as a mother cry because of me. I sat down on the branch as my eyes started to sting from tearing up and my nose scrunching from a burning sention. I leaned my head against the trunk and swung my legs back and forward while looking at Toshi crying into Easurehead's chest. I started to cry while feeling my heart break for him. I tightly gripped on my black mesh shirt tightly near my chest. I started to cry harder and put my other hand over my mouth so i can't be heard. *I'm so sorry Toshi. I love you. You are my best friend.* I slightly jumped when i felt a hand on my shoulder. My breath hitched and I sniffled looking to my right to see Dabi sitting next to me.

"Dabi?" I wiped my nose with my sleeve.

"We figured you would be here."

"We?" He points behind us. I turn my head and see Toga and Deku. Deku was staring at us with a poker face and toga was waving at us. Deku climbed up the tree and sat on the branch above us. His legs on either side of my head. I sniffled. "It hurts to see how much i have hurt the people i care about and who actually cares about me." I put my hands into fists on my legs and started shaking. "I'm trying so hard not to jump down and run to Toshi and tell him that i am alive. He tried his hardest to help me and i bet he feels like he has failed. I hate myself for making him feel this way." I closed my eyes and bit down on my bottom lip to stop my crying noises from being heard by the other people. I felt a warm hand on my head, one touching my left leg, and my fist. I opened my eyes and see a purple scared hand on mine and moving a thumb over my white knuckles. The hand on my head was petting the top of my head.

"Let's get out of here. This is not good for your mental health." Deku said. I looked up at him and nodded. He pats my head and jumps down behind me. Dabi jumps down and reaches to me. "Come on, I'll help you down." I hesitated before slowly sliding down and putting my arms on his shoulders and his hands on my waist, He helped me down and made a call. A portal opened up, Toga walked through first, then Dabi, then Izuku, I put my left foot in and looked back for a few seconds before walking though the portal and back to the base.

"Ko?" Toga touched my shoulder.

"I just need to be alone right now." She took her hand off and I walked to my room. I slammed my door close, fell to my knees and wrapped my arms around myself and screamed my heart out. after crying for awhile I fell asleep on the floor only to wake up in my bed. I looked out the window next to my bed and see that it's night time. I sighed and groaned from a headache. I got out of bed and walked out of my room and go to the living room sitting at the bar. "Hey Kigi." He was cleaning a glass.

"Good Evening Miss. Ko. What can I get for you?"

"Just a cup of water for now." he nods pours me a cup and sliding to me while his phone starts to ring.

"Yes Sir, opening it now." I drink my water while watching him making a portal. A guy with bluish gray hair and a hand over his face walk through it.

He sits down and outs the hand down on the table. "The usual."

"Got sir."

I go back to concentrating on my water when I notice that it's quiet. I look at the couches and notice that no one is here. "Hey, where is Deku and everyone?" I feel the guy glaring at me.

Kigi says, "they went on a quick mission a few hours ago. They should be back soon. Would you like another water?"

"Yes, please." He nods and refills my water. "Thanks."

"Who are you?" I look to my left and see the guy standing neck to me. he growls then grabs my throat and lifts me slightly off the floor. "Don't make me repeat myself."

"M-my name is is Koko. I just joined you guys 2 weeks ago."

"You're lying. Tell me the truth or I won't hesitate to turn you into dust."

I coughed as he tightened his grip around my neck making it hard for me to breath. "I-It's true."

"Sir, please calm down and put her down. She's-"

"KOKO!" I look over and Toga looking scared with Deku and Dabi looking pissed off.

The guys run over and Deku tackles the guy making him release his hand. Dabi pulls me behind him while he faces the two guys. I look from behind Dabi and I see Deku very pissed off and his eyes are red. Deku and the other guy were fist fighting and Deku was winning so far. He punches the guy in the face hard making the guy fall back onto the floor, "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

He grabs him by the collar and lifts his arm about to punch him again. I scream, "Deku!" He looks back at me. "I'm ok. Please stop."

He looks back at the dude and get's really close to his face. "You're lucky. You're alive because I made a promise to dad." *Dad?* He throws the guy on the floor. "Konigiri take him to his room and fix him up." Walks over to us wiping the blood off of his face.

Dabi says, "He's gonna flip when he finds out what happens."

Deku shoots him a look before his eyes turn back to green, "I don't give a shit. Shigaraki was hurting her." He looks at me. "Are you all right."

I rub the front of my neck. "Just a sore neck, but I'm ok."

He softly but firmly grabs my chin and lifts my head slightly looking at my neck making me slightly blush. He sighs and relaxes a little, "A slight bruise but he didn't use his quirk so that's good."

"What's his quirk?" He lets go of my chin.

"It's called Decay. He can destroy anything he touches with all five fingers of his hand."

I nod and feel Toga run into me and hugging me tightly. "Thank god you're ok." I pet the back of her head as she cries.

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(Ko's POV)

It's been a few weeks since the funeral, which means it's been a little over a month since my fake suicide.

I was behind a tree in the backyard of the bakugou's residents. I had a to-go bag from the ramen shop for Mitsuki, plus my apology note. I looked down at my 'gift' and softly scoffed. I know she won't accept my apology, but I don't know what to do.

After a few more moments, Mitsuki walked out of the kitchen. I quietly walked over the sliding door and waited a few more moments before quietly sinking into the house and stealthily trying to put the bag and note onto the dining table. I stood in front of the table with my back towards the door she exited through. I touched the table, remembering the night that happened here.

"Oi, how the fuck did you get in here?" I froze thinking that it was Katsuki but realized that it was a women's voice.

I activated my quirk and turned around to look at her. She was wearing what she would call her signature outfit. Brown skirt, white white and purple cardigan. She also had a beige apron on. She had he arms crossed at her chest. She was glaring at the image she was seeing.

She started to walk closer, "I said-" She quickly looked at the bag on the table and then back at me. She did that a few times, and I saw her face expression change from anger to suprise. "No..." Her face expression turned angry and hurt at the same time. "Turn it off right now." I bit my bottom lip and took a deep breath before deactivating my quirk and her seeing the real me. I watched her face as she was trying to figure this out. "You're alive? What? How?"

I put my hand up to stop her. "Yes, I'm alive. I am so sorry that I lied to you and everyone like this. If you would like, we could sit at the table and talk about everything."

I watched as her hands clenched and unclench before she walked over to the table and sat down. I sat down across from her and told her the basic things she needed to know. After I was done, we both stayed quiet for a while. I broke the silence, "I'm sorry I didn't come to you before for help. I know you said I could, but it was hard for me. If you don't - " I gasped as I felt her wrap her arms around me tightly.

"I'm so happy you're alive hun."

"I've missed you, Mitsuki." I hugged her back.

"I've missed you too." We hugged in silence for a bit while crying. She pulled away and wiped her tears away. "Are you happy with your new life?"

I wiped my tears and smiled, "Yes, very much. Being with them makes me very happy, even thought it still pretty rough to get along with shigarki." I chuckled.

We talked a little bit longer before I realized the time and I have to leave. "I'm sorry to cut this short but I have another gift to give to old friend."

"Hitoshi?"

I gave her a sad smile and nodded. "Yes, I feel really bad for what I did to him. He has been there for me through everything, and I do this to him. I doubt he'll want to see me, but I want to see him. I miss him." I grabbed her hands, "Thank you again for seeing me."

She slightly tightly the hold she has on my hands. "Of course. I miss you. Don't hesitate to come visit again." We hug. "Be safe."

We let go of each other and noticed that we both were tearing. "Of course. Bye, Mitsuki."

I walked out the back door and quietly snuck away from the house. My next trip was to the coffee shop. I put on my black face covering and walk down the street to my car. I drove to the coffee shop and grabbed our drinks before driving to his place.

After a few minutes, I arrive and sit in my car. I was a few houses down, and I looked at the coffees in the passenger seat. I was about to get out of the car with the coffee when I noticed his front door opening. He was his hero outfit. He looked around the area before looking at my car. He looked at my car for a few seconds. It was night, so I know he can't really see me clearly, but it felt like he was looking directly at me before leaving using his capture scarf.

After watching him leave and a block away, I finally get out of my car and stealthily walk to his house. I grab my drink from the to-go carrier and put his down on his doorstep with my note before deciding to climb up the tree and watching his house and thinking about some old memories. I sigh and drink some of my coffee, "I'm sorry, Hitoshi." After a minute, I decided it was time to leave. I was reaching into my jacket pocket to grab my phone when a grey fabric wrapped around my wrist. "Oh shit." I got pulled out of the tree, and my coffee slipped out of my hand. I groaned when I hit the ground and the coffee spilled all over me.

"Who are yo-" I looked up at hitoshi and watched the color leave his face.

I chuckled awkwardly, "Hey Hitoshi..."

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I saw his face get red and a rare pissed off look formed on his face. He gripped my neck, making me choke. "Who the hell are you? How dare you use that form. Remove it now."

It was starting to get difficult to breathe. "T-Toshi, l-let go. P-please."

The grip was starting to get harder. "Don't make me ask again." I could feel the familiar tingling feeling in my head when he tried to use his quirk on me. During our first 1v1, we figured out that our quirks didn't affect each other but could still slightly feel it.

"K-kat." coughing out the second half of his nickname and activated my quirk, making my eyes turn pink.

He looked between my eyes, his expression going from anger to confusion to shock. He let go of me, and I fell to my knees, holding my neck coughing. "N-no, this can't be." He fell to his knees, shaking. He started to cry, and it hurt me to see him like this. This was my fault, honestly.

I laid back against the trunk of the tree groaning. 'Maybe coming here was a mistake after all'. "Hi-" I started to say softly, kinda nervous.

He quickly lifted his head, looking at me, a hurt and scared look. "N-no, you're supposed to be dead."

I bit my lip, trying not to cry. 'This is your fault, you monster. You really should have died. Look at him. He's hurting.' My eyes started to sting from tears rying to leave. 'I know I am.'

"How are you alive?" He gripped his hair. "HUH?" He looked at me pissed. I opened my mouth to speak, but he continued. "I was the one they called when they found your body." He started to yell. "I saw your body, lifeless, in the hospital as they put the white cloth over your body and rolled you away." The tears fell down both of our faces as it combined with the rain that had started.

My heart started to hurt, and it was starting to breathe. I wanted to hug him and apologize, but I know he needed to let everything out before I could say anything.

"I was the one who planned your funeral. I was one who did everything because I felt it was all my fault. I felt as a failure as a friend that you couldn't come to when you needed me the most, even when I tried to reach out to you over and over again." I could see confusion, sadness, lost, hated, and mad in his eyes. "How are you alive?"

"I... I'm not supposed to be alive. I did plan to take my life. I jumped but...I was saved..."

"By who?" I looked him then looked away, too scared to say because I didn't want him to hate me.

He sighs, and I look up at him as he reaches for his phone and calls someone, "Hey, it's me. A family emergency came up, and I'm not gonna be able to make it in today." He was quiet for a few seconds. "Thank you. See you later." He hangs up and reaches out his hand. "Come on, we should get you inside before you get sick."

I was hesitant at first, but I grabbed his hand, and he helped me up. He turned around and froze when he noticed the cup in the cup holder. I laughed awkwardly, rubbing the nape of my neck. "I doubt it's good anymore with the rain in it. Let's just throw it away." I walked past him with my fave red from embressment and grabbed it.

He arched one of his eyebrows at me. "You were gonna leave a coffee in the rain."

I huffed, "Well, for one, it didn't look like it was gonna rain when I went to drop off ramen at Mitsuki's place. And two, I was too much of a coward to see you in person right now." He was opening the door and letting us in while I was speaking.

"You went to the Bakugou residents?"

I hummed as we took our shoes off and told him what happened.

He hums and steps into his living room before turning his head and motioning me to follow him. i nervousily follow him, passing the living room. I noticed pictures hung on the wall. There were pictures of us, which stung a little, pictures of him with his teacher and Eri, and then i noticed a few new pictures of him and Denki. I noticed a certain photo and froze in front of it shocked. It was a photo of Denki and Toshi. Denki was laughing and leaning against Toshi, and Toshi's arm was around his wasit. Toshi was looking down at him with so much in his eyes.

"Yuki," I turned to look at him. he was holding a grey towel and some clothes. He handed them to me.

I grabbed them, "Thanks." I looked back at the photo. "So you finally confessed?"

He sighed, "Yea. It's only been a couple of weeks. We got closer when you," he cleared his throat. "I drunkingly confessed, but he didn't believe me at first. The next day, he asked about it, and I confessed again."

It broke my heart for what I did to him. "Toshi, I-"

He turned around, "Take a warm shower. We don't need you to get sick. I found some clothes that you had left. We can talk after." He walked into his room and closed the door.

I softly said, "Ok." Before walking the familiar path to the guest room. I walked into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. I sighed, seeing how much of a mess I was. I stripped out of clothes and looked down at my body. The cuts I did the night of my jump were slowly healing and becoming scared. Adding to the rest i had made during the spiral that i went through after the break-up. I looked down at the 'MONSTER' that I carved deepily into my left arm. It was scaring up a lot. It looked like it was going to be more prominent than the others. I turned on the shower and got in once I got it to a temperature where I wanted it.

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Hitoshi walked into his room and leaned against the door taking a deep breath. He couldn't believe what just happened. His best friend showed up to his house, not dead. He heard her footsteps walk by his door, open then close the bathroom door. His eyes started to sting. Tears threatening to leave his eyes. His best friend is here. She's alive. She's not dead. Not in the black casket that he watched be buried at her grave. Not underground. Not under his feet when he would be standing by her grave almost everyday, crying, wondering he could have done to help her more. The tears finally broke free from their prison in his eyes and stream down his face.

He slid down to the floor with his back against the door and tangled his fingers through his hair. She was alive.

Scenes from the encounter outside replayed in his head. There she was on the ground soaked from her coffee with his capture weapon on her wrist. He looked at the woman on the ground. It was her, he knew it was her even if she did change her style. Her hair now purple and in pigtails with bangs instead of the blonde that she used to have. So many emotions following through him, not truly understanding what was going on. Is it really her, is he seeing things, is a villain playing with him. It had to be a villain. She was dead.

He was the person, the hospital called to identify that it was her that was lying on the cold metal table. Her body was so pale, her lips blue, the healed, healing, and fresh scars from harming herself were real. That was her body that they rolled away.

It was all real, he remembers touching her cold hand as tears fell down her face. So heartbroken that he just lost his best friend. The person he tried so hard to save. The person he promised he would protect from this world that hated them for their so called 'Villain quirks'. He remembers the cold tiles he felt through his hero costume paints when he fell to his knees and they rolled her away. The last time he knew he would ever see her.

He were there at the cemetery, watching them lower the casket down in her grave. He remembers the feeling of his heart breaking knowing that he will never see her again. Never hear her laugh. Never be able to go to the cat cafe for lunch breaks. He remembers feeling the tears falling down his face and onto jacket of the person he saw a father figure. The feeling of Denki's hand rubbing his back, trying to help. He remembers standing at the grave hours after everyone else, crying.

He remembers being depressed, having no motivation to do anything. He took a week off from work to morn. After that week he got back to work and used that as a distraction from everything. He would work himself to the bone to keep himself busy and distracted.

After a couple of weeks Denki started to notice what he was doing and confronted him about it. One day Denki stood outside Toshi's house and forced him back inside after Toshi tried to go to work even when Denki and Aizawa told him to take a break. They sat on the couch and finally had that long awaited talk. They talked and cried together. After a few hours they both fell asleep from exhaustion. After a few hours Hitoshi woke up to him cuddling with Denki in his arms. He slightly blushed at the energized boy in his arms before falling back to sleep.

Since that day the two boys started to get close over the month, until one day Toshi and Denki were hanging out in Toshi's living room playing Mario Cart on Denki's switch. Toshi was nervous, he was gonna confess to Denki but didn't want to break the comfort atmosphere they've been having for a while. He finally confessed a week later and things have been going good so far. Until today.

She's alive and here in his house. He sat up and grabbed a towel to dry his hair, deciding to take a shower later. After drying his hair, he stepped out of his room and walked into the kitchen. He walked into the kitchen and made two cups of coffee.

While he was making the coffee, Ko walks out of the guest room and followed the smell of coffee. She walked into the kitchen to see Hitoshi wearing the same outfit. "I thought you were gonna take a shower too?"

He walked over and handed her, her cup of coffee. "I can take mine later. I wasn't the one who had coffee spilled on her because her sneaking skills still shitty after all these years." He slightly smirked at her. She giggled and they walked to the living room. They sit across from each other with Ko on the couch and Toshi on a lover's seats slightly to her right. They sat in slightly uncomfortable silence, trying to figure out how to start this conversation that is definitely overdue.

Toshi was about to speak up when he heard keys moving frantically and the door slamming open, with a worried Denki barging into the house. "Toshi, what 's wrong? Are you ok?" He froze just before reaching the furniture noticing a girl he didn't recognize sitting on the couch. He looked at her confused. She was skinny, with great eyes, and long blonde hair. "Who are you?"

Hitoshi looked at Denki confused. Yes, she changed her looks but she didn't change everything completely to where she was unrecognizable. He looked at her and noticed that her eyes were pink. He sighed, "Turn it off." Denki and Ko looked at Hitoshi. Hitoshi raised an eyebrow at Ko while Denki looked between the both of them. Hitoshi spoke up again, "I said turn it off. Now."

Ko was a little worried at first and just kept the staring contest with Hitoshi for a little longer till he softened his face expression and nodded lightly. She sighed and blinked deactivating her quirk.

Denki blinked a few times and held his head from feeling a little lightheaded and a familiar brain tingle. A mind quirk was just used on him by the girl. He looked over to the person at the couch and noticed that it was completely different person. This person on the couch was curvy, purple hair in twin pig-tails with bangs, and brown eyes. "Wait a minute..." it clicked in his head. "You're Aoyama-San?" He notices her cringe at the name. "You're alive?!" He looked at both them shocked.

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A/N: Mention of suicide

Even though the girl's looks have changed, it was her. Hitoshi's best friend who took her life a few months ago. She should be dead, but she's sitting here. On his couch. In front of them. "How are you alive?"

Ko looked at Hitoshi and he nodded. She sighed and put her coffee down on the coffee table in front of her. "I faked my death."

"Why?"

She sighed again and motioned with her hand to a seat. "Take a seat, I was about to tell Hitoshi everything."

Denki looked at Hitoshi who nodded. Denki took a deep breath and took a seat on the couch. He was one cushion away from her. "Ok."

She took a deep breath. "Before I start the story, I should let you know that I was planning on taking my life but I was saved and decided to change my mind and stay leading to faking my death." She looked at the guys to let them say something before continuing her story. She did tell them that she had talked with Dabi on the roof which freaked the guys out. But she vaguely told them who saved her, nervous to let them know that she is now a villain. Scared that Hitoshi would hate her, because he was the one who helped her get out of the thought process of her quirk being a villain quirk.

After she finished telling them everything vaguely, they sat in silence. Ko looked at Hitoshi and his facial expression went from a poker face expression to mad. He crossed his arms at his chest squinting his eyes at her "You are not telling us everything. Who saved you?"

Ko froze in her seat. She knew this question was coming. She knew Hitoshi would catch on easily to details. She got nervous and started fidgeting with her fingers. Should she tell him the truth and lose her closest friend that she just reunited with or try to lie and hopefully he doesn't see right through it?

Hitoshi noticed how she was fidgeting with her fingers and was about to speak when they noticed a vibration coming from Ko's phone in her pocket and the guys watched her freeze in her seat before standing up quickly, groaning. "Fucking hell." She combed her fingers through the hair and sighed.

They heard the whooshing sound before they saw the purple portal form. She groans when she notices the boys get into a fighting stance. She turns to the portal as the person comes through. He smiled at Ko, "Are you almost done?"

Ko sighed, "I told Kuro that I would call for him when I was done."

Hitoshi and Denki looked at each other worried. Hitoshi spoke up, "What's going on?" Looking between Ko and the villain in his home. He's heard about this villain before but never seen him in person. "Yuki?"

They watch her flinch at that name and Deku glares at him with one eye turning red. She puts her hand up and he stops. She took a deep breath and turned to Hitoshi and Denki, giving them a sad smile. "The Yuki you know is dead. My name is Kokoro now and..." she bites her bottom lip. "I'm part of the LOV." She watches the color leave their faces. She tears up. "I'm sorry Toshi. I hope you don't come to hate me for this decision." She looks down and grabs her left arm. After a few awkward seconds of silence Ko looks at Toshi with tears in her eyes and smiles, "Goodbye Toshi, I'll try to visit you again."

Toshi wanted to speak and move but for reason, his body was frozen in his spot shocked to hear what happened. He watched her walk away with Deku through the portal. Then his body moves on its own and follows her through the portal. He didn't hear Denki call out to him.

Denki watched the portal close behind Toshi and started to freak out. "Oh fuck!"

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A/N: mention of Suicide

Deku exited the portal first and then I did. I sighed and crossed my arms while the portal closed behind us. "Wha-" Then i noticed a person to my right and noticed it was Hitoshi. I turned to him. "Why did you follow me here? Are you insane?"

He looked at me. "I just couldn't let you leave after you just dropped back into my life like that?"

I sighed and turned to Konigiri, "Can you open a warp gate again to where I was." He nods and it opens behind us.

Hitoshi started to look worried, "I'm not leaving."

I rolled my eyes, "I'm grabbing Pika. He's probably freaking out right now since you just walked through the gate and into Villian teartory without him." I halfway walked through the gate and saw Denki just staring in space with the worried look on his face. 'OI, Pika." He looked over at me shocked and confused. "Hurry up." He walked over to me and left the gate letting him walk through.

He froze in his spot noticing that he was in LOV's lair. I noticed that he was freaking out because everyone was looking at him. "Alright." I clapped my hands once and everyone's attention was one me. "No hurting each other alright. They are my guests right now. Got it?"

Dabi spoke up while drinking his jack, 'Whatever."

Shigeraki scratched the side of his neck, "This is annoying." Before going back to playing his game on the couch.

Toga whined, "Aww! But I want some of their blood."

I noticed Denki yelp and quickly get behind Toshi. I rolled my eyes, "No, you're not getting any of their blood." She pouts before boing back to whatever she was doing with twice. I sighed and looked at my guest. "Let's go to room to finish the conversation I guess." The two heroes nodded and followed me to my room.

We got to my room and opened the door to let them in first. "Sorry there isn't much room. But you guys can sit on the bed." Toshi nodded and they sat on the bed and I sat at my desk. "You're insane to follow me into the base, you know that right?"

Toshi looked at me and nodded. "I couldn't just let the conversation end just like that after what you said."

"That I became a Villain?"

Toshi nodded before speaking, 'Why?"

"Well this wasn't my original plan obviously. I only planned to just take my life. Deku saved me though and changed those plans I guess." I shrugged.

Denki spoke up, "Wait? Deku?" He looked confused. "I haven't heard of a villain with a name like that before."

"That's because I work in the shadow and stay out of the public." Denki and I yelped in our seats. He glared at Denki, "And I would like to keep it that way. Got it Electric boy." Denki quickly nodded.

"When did you get in my room." I looked at him leaning back against my door.

"I've been here to whole time. I don't trust the heroes being here alone with you. Especially the blonde one. I know he can't keep his mouth shut about anything."

Denki started to look worried. "How do you know-"

Deku started walking slow to him as the boy spoke before bending at the waist and becoming eye level with Pika, "I know everything. I work in the shadows, remember. You're the gossip in your group of friends along with the pink hero" Hitoshi activated his scarf weapon and puts an arm between the two mean blocking Denki from Deku.

"Deku, please step back. I don't need you scaring my friends, got it."

Deku stands up and looks back at me before looking at my friends. "Shadow, got it." Denki quickly nods before Deku walks back over to me and leans back against the wall next to me.

I sighed, "I decided to choose join the LOV after Deku saved because I decided it would be better then going to the life i was living in before. I couldn't deal with anymore." I see the hurt in Hitoshi eyes. I dropped my shoulders and stood up from my seat and walked to him before kneeling in front of him and carefully took his hands. "I'm sorry i didn't reach out to you for help. It was hard to reach out with the demons talking in my head." I looked at our hands. "I understand if you don't want to be my friend after finding out all of this." It broke my heart to say that.

He squeezed my hand and looked at me with tears in his eyes. 'You're still my best friend Y- I mean Ko. That won't change." I gave him a small smile and he gave me one back before we let go of each other hands and I stand up.

Denki spoke up, "How come we haven't heard about you with the LOV?"

Deku growled and I chuckled, "Well i can't tell you my job but i do work in the dark with Deku, so I'm not in the spotlight with the rest of the LOV. I told them that i would join but i will not be part of the killing. Let's just say I work in part of the grey area." Toshi nods. I walk over to my desk and scribble down my new number. I hand him the paper. "This is my new number. For your eyes only."

"But what if I need to reach out to you if he gets hurt?" Denki asked.

"Ha! Nice try. I'm not giving you my number. You can reach out to me through his phone.

Deku's phone rings and he answers it, "Yes father." He walks out of the room.

Denki looked at me confused, 'You defiantly do not want the answer." He kept his mouth shut and nodded.

Deku comes back into the room, "Father said that he would like to speak to us."

I nodded and turned to the guys on my bed. "Well, i guess times up. Let's get back to the living room. They nodded and we walked out of room to the living room. I noticed that Kon was the only one left in the lair drying a glass with a towel. "Can we get a gate to his place again please?"

"Of course Ko."

A gate opens and i turn to Toshi. "I'll reach out soon ok?" He nods and we hugged for a minute before he lets go and grabs Denki's hand before leaving through the gate.

The gate closed and I took a deep breath and wrapped my arms around me. Deku looked at me worried. "Are you alright?"

I gave him a small smile. "Yea, today was just a little stressful, but it well liked i hoped. I'm glad they don't hate me."

Deku nods and squeezed my shoulder for comfort. "You'll be ok. Let's go." I nodded. He turned to Kon. "Gate please."

"Yes sir." He opened a gate and we walked through. We arrived at the location and noticed that it was just us alone. "How come Kon calls you sir?" I asked as we started walking.

Deku looks at me and sighed, "I'll tell you about everything after the meeting with father." We arrived at a door.

"How come he wanted to just meet us?" Deku knocked on the door before opening the door. He walked in then I entered after him. I closed the door and froze when a formilar voice spoke up.

"Welcome son, thank you for coming." I quickly turned and saw the guy smile. "Ah, it's nice to finally meet you Kokoro. Deku has told me about you. Welcome to the League."

I felt my blood run cold and a shiver went up my back. AFO sat there in his seat in front of us. Deku knelt down on one knee. "Father."

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Ko stood there frozen in her spot, shocked to see All for One in the flesh. She always heard about him in the past when she was in meetings with Bakugo and the other heroes. She can't believe that she's standing in front of him in the flesh. The leader of LOV. She looks over at Deku and his father. She blinks before kneeling next to Deku. "My apologies, Sir."

She hears him chuckle, "It's alright, please stand." I look over at Deku, he nods at me, and we stand. "Welcome, Kokoro. My apologies for the late introductions. Deku has told me all about you and your quirk. He thinks it's quite useful for us. But he also told us that you used to be a hero." his smile turned into a frown, and I felt a shiver go down my back, making me shiver.

"I-I was a sidekick and an a-assistant to Ground Zero, Sir."

He lifts his head like he is looking down at me. "You were also in a relationship with him, yes?"

I flinched, "Yes, Sir. I was. But I broke up with him after finding out he was cheating on me with another hero."

He turns his head to Deku. "And you. You let Heroes pass through the gate and into our base."

Deku was about to speak, but I stepped forward and spoke. "Please, Sir. It was my fault. I should have-" I felt a hand on my shoulder. I stopped speaking and looked at Deku.

He shook his head and stepped forward. "My apologies, Father. I did not expect him to follow us."

"Sir, please." It is my fault. I was the one who decided to go out and visit him and a family member. I will take the blame for this. Please do not punish Deku."

He was quiet in his seat, which made me nervous. "Come here, Kokoro." I nervously walked over to him and kneeled, looking down at the ground, ready to take my punishment."

"Father.." I hear Deku say. It sounded like a plea. I have never heard his voice sound like that before.

I heard him get up from his seat and walk down the steps before stopping in front of me. " I do not trust you at the moment..." he put his head on my head. "As punishment, I will be taking your quirk..." My head started to feel hot, and I was in intense pain. I began to scream from the pain. He talked over my screaming. "And you will be on lockdown at the base till I see fit." He took his hand away. I started to feel a crazy headache and grabbed my head. "This will be your one and only warning. Do you understand Kokoyo?" There was a rough tone in his command.

"Yes, sir... Thank you, sir." He walks back to his seat.

"You may leave now." Deku helped me stand up. I got dizzy and leaned against him. He picked me up and carried me bridal style out of the room.

I gripped his shirt, and my head started to feel like it was spinning, and I felt tired. I weakly spoke, "I'm sorry..."

He looked down at me with a concerned look. "You have nothing to apologize for, Ko. Sleep. Your body went through a lot when Father took away your quirk." I weakly nodded my head before closing my eyes and falling asleep. "Goodnight Doll..." Then everything went black.

~time skip~

I woke up groaning with my head still hurting, but it wasn't as bad as before. I sat up in bed and took a deep breath. When I moved my leg, I felt something cold around my ankle and heard what sounded like heavy chains moving. I looked down at my ankle and noticed that I was locked to the bed. I sighed and combed my fingers through my hair. I groaned, catching a few knots. I sighed and leaned against the wall. I looked around the room. "Well, at least I'm in my room and not some cold dungeon." After what felt like a few minutes, there were a couple of knocks on my door. "Come in."

The door opens, and Toga walks in carrying a tray with food and a brush. She smiles, "Good morning, Ko."

I smiled at her. "Good Morning, Toga. How long was I out?"

She puts the tray on the bedside table before picking up the hair brush and sitting down next to me. "Two days sleeping beauty."

"How is Deku doing?"

"He's stressed out. He's been stressing out his body with training. Why don't you eat while I brush your hair, I'm sure you're hungry."

"Ok." I ate the food as she carefully brushed my hair. After we were both done, I nervously asked. "Do you think you can get Deku for me, please?"

Toga chuckles, "Of course." She took the tray and left the room.

I stared out my window, zoning out, thinking about what happened when I heard someone knocking on the door. "Come in."

The door opens, and I see Deku come in. He did look rough and had dark circles under his eyes. "Hey, Ko. How are you feeling?"

"Still a little weak but fine. I should be asking you that." I looked at him, worried. I stood up and walked over to him and touched his face softly. He closes his eyes and sighs. It's like he relaxed against my touch. "Toga says that you are pushing yourself."

"I'm fine." He walked away from my touch. He looks down at my ankle. "I'm sorry about the cuff and chain."

I look down at it and shrug, "It's fine. It's understandable. This is my punishment." I sat back down on my bed. "Did he say how long?"

"5 days."

I sighed, "So I'm chained to this bed for a week?"

Deku sat next to me. "Yes, I'm sorry. That's father's orders."

"It's fine. I'll take my punishment. I have 3 days after sleeping for 2." We chuckle, and I fall back onto my bed. "Well, at least I'm not in one of our dungeons as punishment."

He rubs the back of his neck and chuckles nervously, "Yeah, I convinced father."

I looked at him, shocked, but then asked the question that had been on my mind for a while. "Why do you call him Father?"

He sighed, looking at the floor nervously before finally looking at me. "Because he is my actual father. My biological father, Ko."