At Lunch

Y/n had developed a a new fear being in public, being recognized. As anything; the blind hero, the escaped patient from the mental hospital, or the hero student who's gone rouge. The lady at the cash register had recognized her as all of those names. To which Izuku said to her. "You watch too much television, perhaps you should go outside more and touch some fucking grass!!"

After that encounter, he dragged her elsewhere, a few miles away from the place, somewhere discreet enough so that she wasn't recognized. In reality, he did it for his own sake so he wasn't being bothered by pesky pedestrians.

They went to a small noodle shop, Izuku paid and chose a seat closest to window and further away from other people. Y/n ordered a small bowl of soba and he got a normal ramen noodle meal and they began talking after the waitress left.

"So...are you going to tell me?" Izuku rolled his eyes. "Or not, you don't have to, I'll just leave." Y/n began to scoot out of the booth and pretend to leave but he grabbed her hand.

"Alright! Sit down." Y/n smiled and scooted back inside where she sat directly in front of him.

"I—" He paused and sighed, almost as if he was embarrassed to talk about it. "I let my guard down once, after I left U.A I decided to turn to someone I used to hear stories about. He found me, and I trusted him until he stabbed me in my back and stole my quirk." Izuku slammed his fists on the table.

"He literally stabbed me in my back Y/n." He looked up at her with a serious expression, while her cheeks were extremely red and puffed up from holding in her laugh. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"I'm sorry, go on."

"I found that he took my quirk with some type of device, so I spent months searching for something to bring it back, and I found it. But I need four quirks from four willing participants. When I get One For All back, I will fucking destroy Zach and take everything he has, if it's the last thing I do..." He voice faded into a whisper as the waitress came with their meal, Y/n pondered about his story.

"Brave of you to trust me with this information, how do you know I'll go through with it?" She asked teasingly but he didn't seem to take it lightly, he grabbed her shirt over the table and pulled her in as far as the table would allow, knocking over the salt and some of the soup.

"Because if you don't, I will hunt you down and kill you." He seemed serious about that, something about his threatening tone even sent chills down her spine, and she never got cold.  He let her go and began to eat his food, but Y/n hesitated to touch hers.

"I see, but..what am I getting out of this?"

"Whatever you desire." He said with a mouth full of noodles. When he gulped them down he added on. "What is it you desire?" Izuku wiped the soup from his mouth.

"I need to...eliminate some people...so I can get what I want." Now that Y/n had said it out loud, it sounded more psychotic than before.

"I see why you got sent to the crazy people hospital, I love it."

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Things had escalated fast, first she was in a restaurant laughing with Deku, the next she was back in his rusty place he called home and next to three other people. She hated this idea, but she knew what she needed to do to get to her true love. Izuku was only a stepping stone, and hopefully wouldn't become an obstacle.

The three other guys talked to each other and laughed while Y/n sat alone on a a separate chair, staring at the watch Izuku gave her. She knew deep down that he still trusted her even after all he's been through, and he knew at least one version of Y/n would never take advantage of that small flame of trust he still held. Their younger selves, though pushed deep down by trauma, still yearned for each other and that was something worth denying.

Y/n watched the hands of the small clock slowly tic, she became so consumed into her thought that the watch was the only thing she could see, she had not noticed the three guys talking to her.

"Hey! I'm talkin' to you!" The guy grabbed the top of her forehead and forced her head up. Y/n's eyes widened as they became icy and cold within seconds.

"Y/n! Y/N IF I FUCKING CALL YOU THAT MEANS YOU FUCKING ANSWER YOU FUCKING BRAT!!"

She slammed her hand on top of his wrist and her hand went up in black flames, horror consumed his face as his entire arm froze inside and out, she squeezed and his arm shattered into million pieces of ice.

The other guys backed up as the room slowly froze just from where she was sitting. Y/n's eye, still wide and cold looked down at the guy screaming on the floor.

The door busts open. "It's time!~" Izuku yelled with excitement, he only raised an eyebrow at the guy screaming.

"You two, make him stop yelling, it's too early." The guys shuffled closer together and picked up the third one, they covered his mouth with their hands.

"When we go there, you all will follow my instructions very clearly. Y/n, ladies first." Y/n sat up from her frozen chair and walked towards the door that Deku held open for her, her face emotionless as she walked past him.

"Come on." He said to the guys and held the door open for them as well, they dragged the guy out into the hallway, making sure he made no other noises to upset Deku.

They walked down a different hallway then which they came in, eventually they reached a large room that was bigger than their eyes could see, it was dark, all they knew was that their voices echoed for ages and this is where the 'ritual' would take place.

"Ahah!" Izuku turned the light on, revealing a large machine that was at least 30 ft tall, it was mostly metal and looked like some futuristic time machine. on the sides at human level, were four ports which they could only assume is where they would come in at.

"Now, I've drawn circles where each of you idiots stand—no offense Y/n." It was so clear that Deku thought so lowly of these guys, that he just had to make it clear Y/n was his favorite.

"So when I turn it on, it's going to light up like a Christmas tree and you're going to do your magic. ONLY aim it into the hole, no where else, got it?" Everyone silently nodded, he smiled and gave a thumbs up to them as he dragged Y/n to her circle, and the three other guys to theirs. When it came to the one that had his arm frozen off her turned to Izuku and said.

"But I only have one arm?! How this gonna work?!" He whined, Izuku furrowed his eyebrows. "Make it work."

Izuku went to his position That was where the beam at top was aimed. He had calculated this many times, he had visioned it and got it down to a T, if this went any type of wrong, he would kill everybody in the room.

"Are we ready?!—Never mind, I don't care!" He said his last smart remark before pushing the lever to the opposite side. The giant machine instantly powered on and lit up, almost blinding the four. "Now!" He yelled as the light reached the top, Y/n aimed her black flames into the hole, the first guy aimed his fire, the second his wind, and the third his lightning. The machine made a loud whirring noise as the four continued, Y/n felt a huge regret from this, it was already draining her.

"Yes!" Izuku laughed, he stared into the barrel of the beam, it slowly lit up with power, a light that slowly changed from red, to blue, and many other colors. Eventually, the beam became too much, overloaded with power. It shot out all of that power towards Izuku, right where he stood and he embraced it. The light hit his bare chest and he sure felt it in his heart, it was warm, like bliss had touched him. But it was far from it. He was doing something cruel—almost illegal and unethical.

It took about two minutes for the whole thing to be completed. The machine shut off and there was no signal from Izuku but everyone stopped. Y/n fell to the ground, weak and stripped of her energy. She hadn't checked to see if Deku was okay, but something told her that if he was, then he probably would have laughed or said something smart. No, this was different.

Y/n rolled on her stomach and looked up, sweat dripped down her forehead as she looked up at the ball of light that stood in front of the four. Her vision was blurry, the guys yelled about something but she was on the verge of passing out.

It was too late, the ball of light slowly faded but Y/n was already unconscious and fell into a deep sleep. It felt like years but in reality it was only a few seconds until she was back up, her eyes fluttered open as she felt someone's warm hands caress her cheek.

"It's okay." He said, Y/n looked up, Izuku seemed alright. He smiled warmly in her face and his touch seemed to restore her energy. She furrowed her eyebrows and quickly sat up. Izuku looked down at her with a warm smile on his face, assuming it had worked, she congratulated him very sarcastically, however the two guys were still angry.

"You took our quirks! You said it wouldn't!" Izuku cocked his head to the side.

"Well I bended the truth, so what? I'm afraid your time has run out, bye." Deku clasped his hands together and smiled, they waited, and waited for something to happen, five seconds later, before they knew it a hole had opened up beneath them and swallowed them whole. Then closed up.

Y/n raised an eyebrow, this wasn't One for All, at least not the one she remembered.

"So you lied, what else did you lie about?" Y/n asked as he turned around. "Nooo, I lied to them, as promised, I gave you your quirk back. I told you guys that this would give me my power back, not make it stronger or give me any new abilities. It simply returned what was once mine." He held up his hand, making a small tornado in his hand and lightning in the other.

"So, are you gonna kill me now?" Deku looked genuinely shocked by her question. "Why would I?! You held up your end, now I will hold up mine. So, who do I have to kill?"