"No... What the hell happened!?" Todoroki demanded.

Everyone was dead silent.

"Answer me!" Todoroki rose his voice, "What happened!?"

Iida looked around and saw some other students listening in on the conversation, "Upstairs." He whispered.

Todoroki looked confused for a second before nodding and making his way to Izuku's room.

Iida walked through the kitchen carrying Izuku In his arms and he started fidgeting, "Iida I can walk now, let me down." Izuku whispered, "This is embarrassing." His face turned red.

"Are you sure?" Iida looked at him.

"Yes I can walk."

"Right, Sorry then." He slowly let Izuku down.

Mina walked over, "Hey, why was Iida carrying you, did something happen?"

Izuku gulped and looked at Iida, guilt written all over his face.

Iida suddenly knew what Izuku was deciding. He knew Izuku would normally try to keep something like this to himself, but there were people who would know if he lied or said he was fine. So would he lie in front of them?

"Nothing happened. Just tired." Izuku looked away and starting walking to his room.

He really doesn't like making people worry. I'm sorry Midoriya, I want to help you so badly.

"What were you yelling about then with Todoroki?" Kaminari walked over and questioned Iida.

"O-oh! It was nothing, just a misunderstanding!" Kirishima answered for him.

"Ooohh gotcha!"

"Anyways... we got something to do." Kirishima chuckled and slipped away.

Iida sighed and followed with Bakugo behind him.

~

"What the hell happened!?"

Izuku sat confused on his bed. They were telling the story for him? He was right here, why were they talking like he wasn't there?

"Midoriya got a text from his mom, and we tried to stop him. He ran out and when we found him, he was in an alleyway... Yuu had gotten to him before we could." Kirishima explained.

Todoroki froze, "Yuu! We forgot about him- his mother even gave me her address... how could we forget?" He buried his face in his hands, "If we had gone to save Yuu before he was kidnapped none of this would have happened."

"It's okay, Todoroki," Iida said quietly, "We all forgot. We have him now he's okay."

"My Mom!" Yuu yelped, "How do you know if she's fine?"

"We can go get her to a safe house. I'll leave right now." Iida volunteered.

"I'll go too." Todoroki responded, "I feel horrible. Yuu would you like to come with us?"

"Please! I wanna see my Mom!"

The three left.

Bakugo took a deep breath, he was slightly panicky. Of course, he would never let anyone else see him like this.

Bakugo leaned over to Kirishima and whispered, "Don't you dare let him fall asleep. You fucking hear me?"

Kirishima locked eyed with Izuku, "Got it." He assured.

Bakugo walked out to try and calm down.

Izuku eyed Kirishima suspiciously.

Kirishima smiled weakly back and spoke, "Are you doing okay?"

"I feel fine now." Izuku responded.

"Good!"

Izuku clenched his fists and dropped his head, "Did you know that was going to happen?"

"W-What?" Kirishima jumped and stared dumbfounded.

"It seems like you all knew exactly what was going on!" Izuku lifted his head and glared at him.

"Let me explain-"

"Oh PLEASE DO.  All you guys have done is keep secrets from me!" He snarled.

"We're just worried about you."

"What made you worried!?"

"I m-mean..." Kirishima rubbed his head awkwardly, "I know your past is a little fucked up-"

"My past?" Izuku widened his eyes, "how do you know- KACCHAN." Izuku suddenly stood up from the bed and took some threatening steps forward, "Kacchan told you about my past!?  He has no right-"

"Calm down please-"

"You're telling me to calm down!?  You're all pitying me for-for- GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" He screamed suddenly, his eyes watered.

It was the quirk.  The corruption quirk was messing with his emotions and making him feel vulnerable.

It was amplifying his negative emotions, anger, sadness, fear.  He was at the mercy of the quirk.

"I can't leave..." Kirishima took a few steps back, "calm down."

"GET OUT."  Izuku pointed at the door.

"I can't!"

"WHY!?"

"I'm sorry." Kirishima said firmly, "I'm not leaving."

A look of betrayal crossed Izuku's face.  He stomped over to his desk and grabbed his notebook and a pencil off of it, giving Kirishima a glare along the way.

He walked back to his bed and buried himself under his blankets.

Kirishima faintly heard the sound of pencil scratching on paper.  He sighed guiltily before sitting down on the floor.

He looked around Izuku's room.  Lots of All Might figures.  He smiled slightly.

After a little while Izuku peeked out from under his blankets, his eyes were read and puffy, "I'm sorry, Kirishima, I dunno why I got so angry I just-"

"Don't apologize, it's okay." Kirishima laughed, "It's no big deal."

"But it is a big deal.  I'm just so... sensitive about everything that's happened... and for Kacchan to tell you..?  Why would he?"

"He didn't tell me anything." Kirishima walked over to the bed and sat down, "I just know you had it rough."

"How do you-"

"You know when I was in middle school, I saw this story about a middle schooler that jumped into a fight to save his friend from a sludge villain.  And he didn't even use his quirk!  That was you wasn't it?"

Izuku stared at him wide eyed.

"You inspired me.  To this very day, I- no not just me- the whole class looks up to you, Midoriya."

"W-why are you telling me this?" Izuku's eyes started spilling more tears.

"Because you are strong.  We don't want you to forget that."

"But why?"

"Just thought you should know."

Izuku sat up and hugged him tightly, "Thank you.  After I got hit with that quirk, I-I've been feeling-"

"The hell is going on?" Bakugo slammed open the door.

In Kirishima's arms he felt Izuku immediately tense up before he was pushed away.  Izuku wouldn't make eye contact with Bakugo.

Kirishima looked at Izuku helplessly, and gave Bakugo a look, "Now's not the greatest time, Man."  He was so close, so close to telling me what was wrong.  To finally share what he was feeling.

"Huh?"

"N-no, it's fine." Izuku said quickly.

"Good I wasn't gonna leave." Bakugo sat down in Izuku's desk chair.

"You guys wanna do something?" Kirishima asked.

Izuku looked away nervously and Bakugo spoke, "I brought some cards."

"Sounds good, and when everyone goes to bed we can go play some video games downstairs!"

Izuku looked at him completely confused, "Wha- it's a school night?"

"And?" Bakugo growled.

"I need to s-sleep, I can't be tired or I'll fall
behind in class-"

"We're having a friends night!" Kirishima smiled brightly.

"Can't we do that on a weekend?"

"Nahhhhhhh"

"O-okay?"  Izuku was lost.

"What game are we playing?"  Bakugo asked.  Izuku was scared.  He was asking, asking like they were old friends.  But... Kacchan HATES ME.  So why?

"Let's play Go fish!" Kirishima cheered.

"Kirishima how old are you, 5?!"

"Set it up let's go!!!"

Izuku was basically forced to play a game with Bakugo and he didn't like it one bit. It was pretty obvious during the game too, he only ever asked Kirishima for cards. Never Bakugo. And whenever Bakugo asked Izuku for cards, he looked terrified.

This was no good, the quirk was definitely effecting him.

It seems he was fated to suffer.

Feel free to ask questions about me or the story!