I'm Sorry

Chapter One

TW: abuse
Izuku's POV
"Just pray that you'll be born with a quirk in your next life and take a swan dive off the roof."

I wake up in a cold sweat. For some reason I still have nightmares about Kacchan. I look at a picture of when we were little sitting on my desk. I miss being his friend. Why'd he have end up hating me?

Well of course he would. I've always been a weak, quirkless burden on everyone. All Might saw something in me though and so many people are supporting me now that I know I have to try my hardest to show them I can be a hero!

Still, because I'm so weak Kacchan will never like me again. There's too much history between us.

I never blamed him for anything he did. Maybe if I was stronger he'd like me. I still think of him as my hero.

My heart flutters thinking about him. Ugh, I really need to stop that. It's not like he'd ever like me back and even if we did... we'd what... date? The idea is laughable. He hasn't been nice to me since we were kids. I can't even imagine him being civil to me for five minutes let alone loving me. He'd probably beat me up if he knew I even thought about it.

I go to the bathroom to start getting ready. I woke up early today so nobody would see me.

I take off my shirt and start cleaning the wound on my shoulder. I wince as I put burn cream on my wound. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be but it hurts like hell.

Unfortunately, my dad came home yesterday for the first time in two years. Not that I missed him. After he found out I was quirkless, every time he'd come home he would beat me. I guess even now that I have a quirk that hasn't changed.

I smile, at least I managed to kick him out yesterday. He used his quirk on me though, resulting in this nasty burn on my shoulder, some big bruises on my stomach which were turning a dark purple color, and a cut on my chest when he was slashing a knife around. Luckily between Kacchan and my dad I'm pretty good at treating wounds myself so I don't need anyone finding out. It would just put stress on them to find out and I'm scared social services might take me away from my mom who didn't do anything wrong.

I disinfect the knife wound, and wrap it up in bandages. It's not deep enough to need stitches thankfully. I do the same for my burn wound. Finally I get dressed in my UA uniform, wincing when it touches my wounds.

Yay I'm ready for school now!

I turn around only to see Todoroki standing at the doorway of the bathroom to staring at me. He didn't see anything right??? I feel myself starting to sweat. Hopefully he just arrived and didn't see anything!

"H-hi Todoroki. H-how long have uh been here?" I ask. Damnit get yourself together Izuku! Stop stuttering! You sound so suspicious right now!

"Why are you so hurt? Who did that to you?" he asks. Flip, he saw everything!

"Um.... it was uh..." I start. Oh god, why am I so bad at lying? I continue, "tr-training!"

Yeah that's good. Wow I pulled that out of nowhere but that's pretty good excuse!

"You're a really bad liar Midoriya. Who actually did this?" he says. His usual cold gaze is even more determined than usual. He's not going to give up.

"I'm sorry, I can't say," I reply. I look at him with pleading eyes. Please don't keep pressing me on this Todoroki.

"If you don't tell me, I'm going to tell a teacher," he responds. He can't be serious. I look at him again to be met with those unwavering eyes again. Okay, so he is serious. I think he'll actually run to a teacher if I don't tell him.

"Okay, I'll tell you, but you have to promise to not tell anyone else," I say.

"Alright," he replies.

"It was... my dad. He came home last night," I say. Suddenly tears fall down my face. I didn't cry till now but for some reason it's starting now. I tell him everything, and he hugs me. I bury my head in is his chest as I cry and he rubs my back. He's such a good friend. What did I do to deserve him?

Todoroki's POV
I wake up, smiling as I realize that today is Monday which means I have class today. Obviously I'm not excited about going to school. I'm not Iida. No, it's because I get to see Midoriya today.

I open up my closet to take out a UA uniform. I look lovingly at the wall of pictures I have of my Midoriya inside my closet. I frown, I'm running out of room for them though. I can't put it on a bigger wall though because someone might see and get the wrong idea.

Maybe I can get rid of a few of the less good ones? There are some where he let me take a photo of him when we were hanging out. Those are better quality so I should keep them. Most of them I took without him looking, and those are less good quality. There's a couple of him training, sleeping, in class, in the shower, walking home, etc.

Ugh, they are all too good, I can't decide. My eyes land on one of him smiling with Bakugo. My heart twists, why is he smiling at Bakugo? It pisses me off. I already scribbled Bakugo out of the picture but it still bothers me. I rip it off the wall and it burns in my hand. I stand there shocked for a moment. I didn't realize that I was so upset I activated my left side.

I guess Midoriya always bring out that side of me, but in a way that doesn't make me think about my old man. When I'm with him I'm never thinking of my dad. It's like I can finally be myself, free from all of my baggage. He's like a ray of light leading me out of a dark storm. Like an angel.

I can't be without him. Can't go back to the darkness.

I open up my laptop, and see him sleeping peacefully in bed from the cameras I secretly placed in his room when nobody was looking. A beam of light from the window falls on him, making his skin look like it's glowing. His dark green hair fans his face and I'm surprised by how long his dark green eyelashes are. I blush, he looks so cute.

He wakes up with a start, like something freaked him out. Maybe he had a nightmare? He yawns, and stretches. For some reason he winces after he stretches his arms. He gets out of bed and leaves his room.

I should go see him.

A/N: hi! Thanks so much for reading! How'd you like the twist at the end? I decided to make Todoroki crazy for the drama. Once again if you are a tododeku shipper, this story is not for you because as you can see Todoroki is bad in this one. Anyway, thanks so much for reading! Please comment or vote! I'd really appreciate the support especially since this is my first time writing a mha fanfic!