Eight
The Past
Izuku Midoriya

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After the incident, my friends gave me some time to recover. They didn't ask questions.

Until a few days later, during lunch...

"Hey, Deku?" Uraraka asks, I glance up.

"Yeah?" I question.

"I, hate to bring this up, but... about what happened a few days ago..."

I noticeably flinched when she mentioned it.

"Ah, heh... I was... wondering when that was going to come up..."

"Can you... explain what was going on? Why Bakugo was so mad, and where you got those scars?" Uraraka asks. All my friends are quiet.

"I... I guess I should start from the beggining..." I sigh, pushing my food away. I wasn't hungry anymore suddenly.

"When I was 5...

"Mama?" I looked inside an alleyway, and saw Mama lying on the ground, with a large red circle on the front of her shirt.

"Mama!" I ran over, happy that I has found her.

"Izuku, wait!" Aunty Mitsuki followed me with Kacchan.

"Oh my God..." she covered her mouth. Mama was asleep. Why was she asleep?

I shook her, trying to wake Mama up.

"Mama wake up!"

"She's not going to wake up kid."

"Hah! Stupid quirkless Deku!" Kacchan exclaimed, laughing.

"Why are you so mean to me Kacchan?" I asked, looking up at him sadly.

"Just because you don't have parents doesn't mean I'll pity you dumbass."

"Izuku, these are your new parents." I smiled happily.

Mrs. Vettel smiled at me, and so did Mr Vettel. They seemed kind.

That was the day I left the orphanage.

"YOU LITTLE SHIT!" I yelped as Mr Vettel punched me in the face, I don't know what I had done. What did I do?

He kept hitting me, when I fell over he kicked me.

The next day, Mrs Vettel did the same.

And that was what happened every day when I came home from school, from that day forward.

"Oi! Deku!" I flinched and turned to face Kacchan.

"Y-Yeah Kacchan?" I asked.

"Why have you been moping around so much? It's freakin me out, what happened to the cheerful dumbass?"

I wasn't expecting to be asked that, so I was startled and unsure what to say.

So I didn't say anything.

"Well?!" He demanded. I squeaked in fear, and my legs started moving without command.

Before I knew it, I was running to the house, with Kacchan chasing me and yelling.

I opened the door, and fell over, my backpack falling off my back. Mrs Vettel had slapped me, for being home late.

"You motherfucker, you. Are. Late." She hissed.

"I-I'm sorry..." I mumbled.

She kicked me, "WHAT WAS THAT?!"

"I'm sorry!" I squeaked, standing up and grabbing my bag. She pushed me off the steps, and I fell on my back with a painful thump.

"Because of your tardiness, you can stay outside until tomorrow. Have fun little shit."

After that Kacchan had approached me.

I quickly scrambled up, and backed away, until I was against the wall. He towered over me, and I gulped. His eyes were like daggers, piercing into me. I looked down, waiting to get hit or blown up.

"Are they abusing you?" He asked finally.

"H-huh?" I looked up, startled that he didn't hit me or laugh.

"Your parents DUMBASS! He exclaimed, "Are they abusing you?!"

I took a moment to process his concern, before shaking my head in a no.

"O-of course not, why would th-"

"Don't lie to me Deku, I saw what just happened." He crossed his arms, and glared at me.

I sighed, and looked down. "Yeah... They are... i-its just their way of taking out their anger, it's not their fault!" I defend them quickly for some reason.

"Come on." Kacchan grabbed my wrist and dragged me next door to his house.

"K-Kacchan, hey let go! What are you doing?!" I exclaimed.

"You can stay at my place tonight, I'm not leaving you outside."

I collapsed in the middle of my room, as tears started falling.

My back was bleeding, and it hurt.

It hurt so damn much, and I can't even begin to describe it.

I managed to grab my phone. I had to call someone, but who? I didn't have many friends.

"Ring... ring... ring... r-"

"Hello?"

"Kacchan?" I asked weakly.

"Deku?! What the hell happened, you sound terrible!"

"My back..." I managed out, between tears, "help..."

He hung up.

Just when I thought hope was lost, there was a thud at my open window.

"Shit!" Kacchan exclaimed, running over to me.

I smiled weakly at him, and without saying anything, he grabbed the first aid kit in my room, and peeled my shirt off, cleaning the gashes and bandaging them.

"Thank you Kacchan..." I mumbled, avoiding meeting his gaze.

Unexpectedly, he hugged me. I flinched, but hugged back.

And still, without saying anything, he left."

My friends were silent. Uraraka and Asui- Tsu, were crying. Iida looked shocked, and Todoroki looked sympathetic.

Then they all hugged me. I smiled, and hugged back.

"I'm sorry for bringing them," Todoroki said.

"We won't let them hurt you again!" Iida exclaimed.

"I can't believe you went through that Deku~kun!" Uraraka cried.

"I'm so sorry, kero." Tsu murmured.

I assured them all that it was fine, and by then, lunch was over.

So we left to join the others in class.