I'm not on EITHER side

"I wouldn't have been able to meet you."

Izuku POV

"I guess that makes sense. He doesn't really bully anyone at U.A., but he certainly is a bit of a jerk." I chuckle a little at her comment and take a few deep breaths to calm down before getting ready to close down the shop.

"He was the worst when we were kids. He made my life a living hell all because I didn't have a stupid fucking quirk. It pisses me off to know that he succeeded while I had to leave my hometown. Though, if I didn't have to leave, I wouldn't have this place and I wouldn't have been able to meet you." I look back at Uraraka and smile. I can see her blush and smile while turning away.

I proceed to put everything away and lock the doors. I get the broom to sweep and stay silent until Uraraka talks first. It takes a few minutes, but she eventually calms down and starts up a conversation.

"Can you tell me what he did to you? If it was bad enough to make you leave, I wanna be able to warn my classmates or get him kicked out." I take a minute to think about how to respond before saying anything.

"Don't report him or anything. As much as I hate to admit it, he'd make a great hero. Only when fighting villains though, not in any other aspect though. I'll tell you though, and I want you to stay as far away from him as possible. I don't mean to sound controlling, but I'm just trying to look out for your safety."

"I understand. Tell me everything that you feel comfortable saying. If it's as bad as you say it was, I want to be able to distance myself as best as possible. The sports festival is coming up, and I want to be able to piss him off and make him irrational just in case."

"Smart. But let me just preface that I have proof of what he did, and it might help to show it. But it'll require me taking my shirt off. I want your consent before I do it though." Her face flares up all red and she slowly nods. "Okay.

"When we were really little, he was my best friend. Our moms had been friends since high school, so we were close as kids. But when we turned four, everything changed. He got his quirk, and I didn't. He changed a lot. He started to get cockier. His whole mindset shifted. Since I was quirkless, he deemed me useless. He called me Deku because of it. He started to get malicious. It started with name-calling and insults. Then it got physical. He started off with just hitting me and beating me up. After a while, that wasn't enough. He used his quirk. He'd burn me daily and I'd have to hide it from my mom. I still have scars from everything he did."

I start pulling off my shirt and turn around to show her my back. I hear her gasp and she starts to walk up towards me. She touches my back and I can feel her fingers running across the scars. "A little over a year ago, my mom died. That was the month I ran away. He didn't really interact with me much, but the day I ran away, he said something I'll never forget. I was still so determined to be a hero, but he still just thought of putting me down. He told me..." I start getting choked up and need to take a few seconds to calm down before I finish my sentence. "He told me to kill myself."

I feel Uraraka's hand fall from my back and I turn around to see her crying. I slowly put my arms out for a hug and she accepts it and cries on me. We stay there for a while before she lets go and back away. I put my shirt back on and she sits down on a chair at one of the tables. "H-how did your mom pass?"

I walk over to her and sit down while trying to calm myself. "We were in a pretty bad car wreck, and she got pretty injured. I got out with just a broken arm. She was in the hospital for a few weeks, but she didn't pull through. I kinda just coasted in the last month of my usual life."

"Where'd you go after that?" I panic a little internally before thinking of a lie really quick.

"I moved in with my dad. This place is technically his. He lets me run the place and live here. He homeschools me and he just helps me cope with losing my mom." I smile at the thought of having an actual figure like that in my life. Yagi is here for me, but he hasn't really reached that status yet.

I look back up and see Uraraka smiling at me. I can tell I'm blushing a little, but it doesn't bother me. I feel my phone buzz and look at it. My alarm to start getting ready for patrol is going off and I notice that almost an hour has passed since I locked everything up.

"Hey, it's getting pretty late, you should head on home. I don't want your parents to worry about where you are." Uraraka looks at the clock and starts rushing to collect her stuff and goes to head out the door only to realize that it's locked. "Let me get that for you." I go over and unlock the door. She says a quick goodbye and runs out the door.

I wait for a few minutes before running upstairs and getting dressed. I changed my costume a bit in the past few weeks with the money I saved up. I take some black face paint and smear it around my eyes, and grab my forest green hoodie and throw it on over my kevlar vest. I toss off my jeans and grab my black cargo pants and put all my weapons in my pockets. I look around and try and remember where I put my mask before finding it and fastening it around my mouth to make sure my voice is modified.

For the first time in almost a week, I'm going on patrol.

Word Count: 1046

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