Magic, Kings, And Dragons

UNDERWORLD

Midoriya's pov

And so our journey for this magical cure starts. Two days later we still haven't found it. I lay face-up on the mat underneath a large oak tree. I haven't slept, whenever I try, these thoughts flood my head. Like I'm not good enough or I'm better off dead. If I die then I don't have to feel like this, I hate this feeling. This feeling of numbness. Of not feeling any sadness or joy. Nothing.

"Deku, eat, now" the thought of eating makes me physically sick.

"No" I turn my head away from the bread.

"Deku!! You need food!" Eijiro yells, trying to shove the bread in my mouth.

On my face where his hand is touching I feel seething pain. Pain is the only thing I feel so I melt into it. I need more. More of this feeling. When I feel the pain I feel better, I feel something. I want to feel something, anything. Anything to take my mind off of him.

"No!"

If I push everyone away then they won't miss me when I'm gone...

"What would Shoto say if he saw you right now, would he be happy that you're starving yourself, or would he be hurt" this tugs on my heart.

"Fine," I mumble, taking the bread from him. I nibble off enough so both kacchan and Eijiro are satisfied. I feel like I'm gonna be sick. Bile slowly crawls up my throat.

"I'm gonna be sick" I cough before spilling what was left in my stomach out onto the forest floor.

"Deku!" Kacchan exclaims. My throat burns and tastes of acid.

"I'm fine" I cough, Eijiro hands me a glass of water but I push it away.

"Hey, what's that" kacchan points out. It's a patch of bright purple flowers.

"It's the cure,"

Well. Do I take it?

"Here," kacchan hands me one of the flowers.

"Eat this" I reluctantly put it in my mouth and swallow

The pain I was feeling melts away. In its place there's nothing. It didn't work.

"It didn't work, nothing will" well, one thing will. Death.

"I'm sorry Deku," Kacchan says after eating his own flower.

"Whatever" I mumble, laying back down.

I need to find a way to feel again. Pain seems to work right? I dig my fingernails into the palms of my hands. I don't feel it. There's no pain there. It's nothing. There's nothing. I can't feel anything!

"We should go back to the border," Eijiro says to kacchan.

"He needs to be closer to Shoto in case something happens" and they're talking about me again.

"You've ever heard of true love's kiss?" Kacchan asks.

"Who hasn't?" Eijiro scoffs.

"Maybe it can repair Deku's heart. since the curse of a broken heart is real, true love's kiss could be as well"

but Shoto doesn't love me anymore, no one does

Todoroki's pov

"This is the underworld," my mother says.

It's a large inn?

Uhhhhhhh

"This is an inn," I say, she nods.

"Each family has a room, there's a mirror to watch loved ones in each of them" she explains.

"People with unfinished business wake up here after...you know"