I've Become so Numb
Izuku genuinely now believes he is the unluckiest person on the planet, he thought that when he was diagnosed quirkless, when he was bullied and Suicide baited etc but now the world must be fucking with him.
It's the practical portion of finals week, a portion that makes up 70% of the final score compared to the written portion and he just had to be paired up with Bakugou.
Out of everyone it just had to be fucking Katsuki Bakugou.
How haven't his teachers even noticed they way he gets treated by the rabid animal in question.
Isn't it clear to see?
The only reason he hasn't said anything is that in his All-Might worshipping mind he believes he can change and deserves forgiveness.
Everyone deserves forgiveness he thinks...
Everyone deserves respect when they've shown why they deserve it.
Izuku is almost at his limit with the bullshit he's been put through, he also realised that All-Might just wants him to become the future generation's All-Might, not Izuku Midoriya, not the Pro Hero Deku, nope just a copy.
With that eating away at him he now has to work with Bakugou?
God fucking damnit...
"TEAM MIDORIYA AND BAKUGOU START!!
"Kacchan and I are a team... We have to talk properly..."
Izuku mumbled as he ran alongside Bakugou.
He has to talk to the walking timebomb next to him, steeling his nerves attempts to communicate with him.
"K-Kacchan, for this exam, the teacher
is the villain, and we're the heroes, so we need to keep in mind the villain's
combat ability and choose to either fight or run, but in our case, the villain is All Might, fighting against him is dangerous--"
"Tch"
Bakugou grunts and walks away from him.
I think it's a really bad idea, anyway--
Wait, Kacchan!"
Izuku shouts realising Bakugou walked away from him.
"Stop following me!"
Bakugou screams at the greenette following him.
"I-If we keep going straight,
All Might will probably be waiting for us."
He pauses as he thinks of what they should do to maximise their chance of passing.
"We should take a detour--"
"Why should we run away?
It'd definitely be better if we beat him up!"
"W-We should avoid combat if we can no matter what!"
"We'll toy with him until it's almost over, and then once he's tired out, I'll beat him up!"
Izuku looks over to the one he's partnered with, with exasperation.
'It really is hard for me to deal with Kacchan... He genuinely thinks he can beat All-Might here I thought his ego was what made him stupid but no he's just stupid full stop... But I can't think about that right now.'
"Who do you think All Might is? Even with the handicap, you can't win against him!"
Izuku shouted trying to make his idiot ex-best friend see reason, but sadly his head was too far up his own ass
"Don't say another word... Just because things are going better
for you doesn't mean you should talk. It's pissing me off."
Again walking away from his green haired teammate.
'Has me improving my quirk control really damaged his little pathetic ego? He has his head so far up his own fu-'
Izuku quickly shook his head to stop that train of thought, bewildered he asked.
"Where did that come from?"
Glancing up he noticed how far he's fallen behind the person he was supposed to work with.
"Wait, Kacchan! I'm saying this so we can pass the test!"
But his blonde teammate kept walking
"Listen, Kacchan!"
He shouted, trying to get his attention.
"I told you, your power isn't needed to pass--"
"Stop yelling! This is why we can never
have a real conversation!"
The constant bickering between the two of them was cut short as All-Might appeared in front of them sending a shockwave that destroyed the road in his close radius.
"Who gives a damn about damaging the city?"
He bellowed threateningly.
'What... What is this... this sense of intimidation?!'
The two of them unknowingly thought simultaneously.
"If you think of this as an exam, you'll be sorry. "
All-Might said, flexing his arms slowly as he spoke again.
"I am a villain, heroes. Come at me with everything you've got!"
"We can't take him head on. Let's run!"
Izuku said, planning a strategic retreat.
"Don't tell me what to do!"
Bakugou screamed back, launching at All-Might and burning Midoriya's arm quite badly with the explosion he used to propel himself.
"Kacchan!"
"Stun Grenade! "Come at me" you said, All-Might."
He was knocked out of his confident spiel as All-Might chuckled.
"SO THIS IS HOW IT'LL BE YOUNG BAKUGOU!"
'For fuck sakes Bakugou, no I'm leaving I'm not failing because he wanted to act like a rabid fucking animal!'
Izuku thought bitterly and he bit his lip to keep him from screaming out in pain.
Deciding he has had enough, he left his "teammate" behind and made his way to the arena exit.
All-Might watched, while dodging Bakugou's attacks, as his successor walked off.
Not even glancing back to his teammate, All-Might frowned this was not who he picked as his successor.
'Did I choose wrong?'
"EXAM OVER, IZUKU MIDORIYA HAS ESCAPED THEREFORE TEAM MIDORIYA AND BAKUGOU HAVE PASSED"
All-Might frowned, chopping the neck of the angry Bakugou to knock him out, as he made his way to the exit to reprimand his successor at abandoning his partner in the exam.
He glanced around to see Midoriya being carted away to the infirmary for treatment on a severe burn on his arm.
'What happened there?'
At the infirmary
"Sorry Midoriya, the wound was almost fully cauterised because of the heat of the blast, I managed to heal it however the scarring is permanent..."
Izuku sighed.
"It's okay Recovery Girl, what's one more scar to add to the collection."
He said squeezing his hand trying to keep his emotions in check.
"Yeah"
She replied as she went back to her desk to sort out some paperwork she had to complete whenever a student was injured.
It was at this time All-Might decided to show up, frown still etched on his face.
Izuku groaned and looked towards the want.
"Yes, Toshinori?"
He said not even trying to hide his irritation.
"What was that at the final exam? You abandoned your teammate in the fight, a hero should never do that, I don't care what petty squabble you have you shouldn't do that. That's not what a future symbol of peace does!"
Izuku took a deep breath as he levelled a glare so vicious that Toshinori felt his soul begin to burn, he's been on the recieving end of many glares, especially from Recovery Girl, but this was something else.
"Well if you must know Toshinori Yagi, I did try to work with that disgrace and you know what he did? Shout and scream at me, and the when he launched at you he purposefully aimed his explosion at me, causing this."
He said lifting up his arm to show the new scar he obtained.
"But you don't care about me as a person do you?"
He asked, voice leaking pure venom.
"W-what do you mean?"
All-Might stuttered out.
"You said it yourself, you called me the "future symbol of peace" that is the only reason I'm here, you want me to become another you, not my own hero no. Get off your fucking high horse All-Might, when your master handed you this quirk they didn't make you become another them so what gives you the right to do that to me."
"I-"
"No, you listen, I talk okay?!"
He shouted at his mediocre teacher.
All-Might could only nod as Recover Girl was frozen at her desk at the pure anger radiating from this usually polite happy child.
"Let's take this from the top, what gave you the right to tell me I can't be a hero with a quirk and then turn around and say I can be a hero but only with your quirk, what gives you the fucking right to reprimand me when Bakugou viciously attacks basically everyone and insults me daily and nothing fucking happens to him.
Also let's go back to this quirk you've given me, you gave me a volatile quirk without any fucking training, because of you I've destroyed myself countless times because of your subpar teaching.
I could've been expelled by Aizawa because of this, I could've died as well!"
He rolls up his sleeves for All-Might to see.
"You see these scars, these are because you gave me a fucking quirk that gets more powerful as it's passed on, you gave me a quirk more powerful than you were in your prime and for some reason you fucking neglected to mention Gran Torino's existence until after I pushed my self to the brink of permanent destruction at the sports festival. I could've lost all use of my arms because of your stupidity as Nd negligence, I-I'm just so fucking tired of this, tired of being who you want me to be, I'm I just can't-"
After his passionate rant Izuku breaks, tears careening down his face as he buries himself in his hospital bed.
All-Might attempts to go and comfort him.
"Young Midoriya I-"
"Get the fuck away from me Toshinori, Just LEAVE!"
"Youn-"
"LEAVE NOW!"
"Toshinori if you don't leave my infirmary so help me I'll give you a beating worse than anything you've ever been through."
Recovery Girl said in an angry but stern voice.
All-Might seeing that he'll just aggravate the situation further slumps out of the infirmary, reeling not at the chewing out he received from his successor, no reeling at the fact that everything said was true.
Unbeknownst to everyone there was one purple haired rocker girl who managed to hear it all while waiting to see Recovery Girl after her final exam.
'Midoriya, what happened to you...'
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