Second Chance

1 - Pain

Midoriya's POV

                 When I first entered U.A, I thought I could kiss my once worthless existence goodbye. Now, I'm right back to where I started. I got discharged from the hospital a week after the accident, and began to feel the dormant feeling of uselessness once again. My arms were now even more damaged. I couldn't do much outside of holding a pencil or opening a door, and even those were difficult. With all that being said, being a hero was now out of the question.

                Upon my return to school, I was forced to transfer out of 1-A and into Class 1-C of the Gen Ed. Department. The General Education department wasn't nearly as good as the Hero Course. None of the teachers were heroes, and they weren't as nice or unique as them either. I didn't know anyone in there besides Hitoshi from the Sports Festival, so I figured it wouldn't be that bad if I had him. On my first day in my new class I looked for him, but he wasn't there. It was then that I was shocked to learn that he was selected as my replacement in the hero course. Now I had no one. The 1-C homeroom teacher made me stand up and introduce myself... so I could supposedly "make friends", but it didn't matter. I could tell that everyone else didn't like me since I was from the Hero Course, and things got worse when they found out I was quirkless. I was hoping they would just ignore me but instead they began teasing me and bullying me. Most weren't so bad but a few of them were just as bad as Kaachan was back in the day. I'd get pushed around, made fun of, and my new dorm room would be raided and trashed whenever I wasn't there. I've told the teacher every time, and they would say they'd take action, but they never would.

              Things haven't been so good with my former classmates since I left. They would always try to get me to sit with them during lunch or hang out in their dorm after school. I did the first few times, but they would always give me that LOOK. Eventually I just started to ignore them. A useless kid like me would just hold them down, not to mention get me in more trouble. Almost everyone gave up after about a week. Uraraka was still trying to be with me allot, but I ignored her just as much, usually by making some random excuse. I like Uraraka... hell I even had a crush on her for a while, but some quirkless loser like me wasn't good enough for her. She lasted longer than anyone else before she too gave up. She said I could always call her, but I never did. 

              My relationship with All Might has also deteriorated to some degree. I've been avoiding him as well. Ever since he took back his quirk.... ever since he made me useless again.... Ever since he BETRAYED me.... I haven't spoken to him. He would message me to meet at the beach, I ignored them. If he tried catching me in the hallway, I'd duck out of sight. I just hated him and everyone else for looking down on me. Most were those disgusting faces of pity but one stood out, Kaachan. Rather than seeing pity, I only saw a look of what seemed like disappointment. Dunno why but screw him. Screw everyone. Screw this whole school. I was heading back to my dorm room expecting it to be trashed, and I was right, seeing the words: "GET OUT OF OUR SCHOOL QUIRKLESS DEKU" written on my door. I sighed and went inside and lied down on my bed. My new dorm room was nothing like my old one. Rather than being decked out in All Might Memorabilia, there was nothing. No furniture except for my bed and a desk, in which my laptop sat. It was a gift from my mom to make me feel better, but nothing materialistic could heal these wounds. That didn't mean I didn't use it. 

              I was laying on my bed, thinking about the accident that got me here in the first place. I was on a patrol with a local Pro Hero when a villain decided to attack. It was just some thug and not a LOV member, luckily. Things were in our favor in the beginning, until the villain managed to get a drop on the hero, knocking him out. He was allot like the muscular villain in the training camp knocked over a building where several bystanders were next to, making them in the drop zone. I immediately ran and jumped to kick the building to pieces. But then, the villain managed to grab my legs before he swung me to the ground multiple times before throwing me towards the building. I didn't have much time to think, so instead of using my feet, I used my arms to punch the falling building to save those trapped. I was losing allot of blood already, and I accidentally used 100 percent of One For All. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground, surrounded by reinforcements, struggling to stay awake. My eyes eventually shut before I found myself in the hospital.

               I couldn't fall asleep like I wanted to, so I decided to go to the local market to kill time before curfew. I locked my door and left the building. I got a few disgusted looks from my classmates on the way out, but I just ignored them. I walked past my old dormitory on the way out where I saw my classmates also walk out, looking like they're going somewhere. Uraraka saw me walking by and tried calling me over. I just looked at them before continuing my way.

Uraraka's POV

               Why did everything have to turn out this way? Ever since that fight, everything changed. They pulled Deku from the Hero Course and he's withdrawn from everyone. No one really has been the same since then, even Mr. Aizawa and Bakugou were affected. Mr. Aizawa lost a student, and Bakugou lost his rival. I know Deku's been avoiding us lately and it makes me feel horrible. What did we do to him? I was thinking about this as our class was getting ready to go to the mall to kill some time. As we stepped outside, I saw Deku walking past our dorm and towards the main gate. I called out to him, hoping he'd come with us, but he just ignored us. Bakugou saw this before he exploded like usual. 

                "Hey Deku!" He shouted. To his surprise, he still ignored him, not even fazed. We saw him then round a corner and disappear behind the building. Bakugou grunted before using his quirk to shoot himself towards where Deku was going. A few of us ran after him to try to calm him down, but were surprised to see him just around the corner looking around. After some convincing, we all went back to meet up with our class. Deku maybe just needed some alone time. We gathered with the others and left for the mall. I hope Deku snaps out of it soon... I have been meaning to express my feelings to him... but he just won't open up. Why?

Midoriya's POV

                 After I avoided that encounter with Kaachan, I managed to make it to the gate and into town. I headed towards a small park nearby where I would go to as a kid. As I sat down on a small bench, I saw the only two kids playing leave which made me the only guy there. It was winter, so it got dark out earlier than I expected. I closed my eyes and put in my earbuds. I didn't want to hear anyone or see anything. I managed to enjoy my solitude for a few songs before I felt someone sit down next to me. I opened one eye in annoyance only to see a tall guy in a black hoodie. His face was obscured by the hood but I saw strands of light blue. Before I realized who it was I felt his hand wrap around my neck, with one finger off. He then turned towards me and showed his face. Tomura Shigaraki.

                 "Ah Izuku Midoriya. What a surprise to find you here at this hour." He said with a sinister smile. I didn't even resist, and this apparently surprised him. "Huh? What is this? Are you not gonna at least try? That's not the Midoriya I know." I just looked up at him with no expression.

                 "Don't waste your time with me Shigaraki. I'm no longer of use, to you, or anyone." Saying this made him smile again. 

                "Ah well ya see, that's why I'm here. Sensei sent me to fetch you for something. Otherwise I would have just killed you here and now." He said as he yanked me up. A dark portal opened a meter away from us and he forced me inside. I would have panicked, but I didn't see the reasoning. It wasn't worth saving a useless child.