"GIVE HIM BACK DAMMIT!" He screamed, tears pouring from his heterochromic eyes. Fire took over the air in an instant, crackling and licking the walls of the alley dangerously. He charged forward, throwing our flames.

A knife was thrown at him, cutting off his balanced footing. The person that threw it giggled gleefully, gold insanity present in her eyes. Her blond buns bounced as she hopped back out of the way of flames.

"I didn't get to him last time and he even put me in jail!" She pouted, "But lucky for you, little old me is back! But don't worry! We'll take good care of Izu-chan!"

"NO!" It was a choked sob. He knew he was too late.

A deep, scratchy voice chuckled, fingers wrapping even tighter around Izuku's throat as the purple fog swallowed the two of them up.

"You should know by now... happiness never lasts, Todoroki Shoto~"

let's back track a few hours earlier, shall we?

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"I'm ready Todo-chan!" Izuku beamed, skipping over to latch onto the halfie's arm.

"Let's go then." he smiled charmingly, moving to hold Izuku's hand.

They were off to go in there date at a terrible moment, but the perfect time for others.

They arrived to the mall with cheerful smiles, Izuku having a small bounce in his step.

"..I still can't believe you like me too..." Izuku murmured shyly. Todoroki's face pinked slightly.

"..w-well... what is there to not like..?" This made Izuku flush.

"D-does that mean w-we're t-together, t-together??" He looked up at Todoroki hopefully.

The latter smiled brightly and nodded. "..yeah! Yeah.. that sounds really nice."

Izuku beamed.

It was a shame all this happiness wasn't going to last.

They arrived at the mall quickly, it was an outdoor one. The buildings were separated by shadowed over and ignored alley ways. people didn't even do so much as spare a glance down them.

Their mistake.

The two fist stopped at a café, grinning ear to ear to each other. "So, what do you want to get?"

Todoroki was scanning the menu they were sharing as he asked Izuku this.

"Hm... m-maybe....." the bean pointed at a croissant breakfast sandwich. It actually looked very good, Todoroki decided he'd get one too.

The waitress that skipped over to take their order had a happy, fanged grin and eyes a metallic gold. Her blond hair was pulled up into two messy buns at either side of her head.

And her face was terrifyingly familiar.

Too bad the two of them couldn't remember where they had even seen it.

"May I take your order~?"

Izuku moved a little closer to Todoroki on the seat out of some nerves, holding his hand under the table.

"We'll take two orders of breakfast four." Todo answered for both of them with a small smile, though seeming quite protective because of Izuku's nerves.

She nodded jotting their order down on the little pad she had, "Drinks?"

Oddly, her seeming like a normal waitress brought Izuku some reassurance. He relaxed against Todoroki ever so slightly.

"..water. Deku, what do you want?" His guard wasn't let down just yet.

The little mean thought for a moment before going to speak, though stopped short when he saw the waitress's gaze zone in on him creepily.

Like she was living for his voice.

Don't you remember, she always had liked your voice... from the very start.

He tapped Todoroki's arm twice instead, suddenly feeling his throat close and prevent words.

"How about lemonade?" Deku just nodded, finding it a little comforting Todoroki knew him so well. "Okay, one water and one lemonade then."

The waitress grinned wider, "Coming right up~!"

She skipped away, causing Izuku to relax considerably.

Todoroki leaned over and squeezed his hand softly to gain his attention, "..you okay? She was a little weird."

Izuku smiled and nodded, "..M-m'fine."

His voice broke off slightly, though the two of them didn't comment on it. Though, Izuku did shirk down on himself ever so slightly.

Soon they forgot about the encounter when the food came back out. Todoroki made an effort to distract him, to make him laugh more.

And Izuku did. It faded out of his mind and he relaxed and giggled at his boyfriend.

"H-hey T-todo-Chan..?" Izuku mumbled out after a few moments.

"Yeah?"

"...c-call me Izuku?"

The halfie blushed at this but grinned, "Izuku.." he tried out the new name, feeling warmth blossom in his chest. "Then you can call me Shoto."

Izuku's mouth was a wobbly, embarrassed smile. "S-Sho..to. Sho..chan. Shocchan!"

He cheered, pink, freckled cheeks stretched in a gleeful grin.

Todoroki was dying over how cute Izuku was being.

Y o u b e t t e r s a v o r i t w h i l e i t l a s t s.

Izuku took a sip from his lemonade and paused, face shifting to intrigue. "Tastes funky..."

Todoroki shrugged, "It's probably not fresh lemonade, they probably used a powder mix."

Izuku nodded, taking another sip.

"T-.. S-Shocchan! C-can we go there-!" Izuku pointed excitedly towards a plushie shop, hopping up and down as he tugged on Todoroki's arm rather.. weakly.

Todoroki smiled, not thinking much on it, letting himself be dragged to another store.

They'd been out for a solid half hour now, both enjoying their time. Izuku was coughing a bit but whenever Todoroki fussed over him he'd simply say he was fine and grin.

They went into the toy store, Izuku pointing at various fluffy animals with awe, before coughing again, stumbling forward in an unstable sway.

But at this point Todoroki knew there was something wrong.

"Izuku? Are you sure you're okay? You look pale." He took Izuku's arm in a gentle grip, slowly leading him out of the store for fresh air.

"..m-m' h-head..feels f-fuzzy.." he admitted guiltily, walking along with uneven footing.

Todoroki brought them out into the open for fresh air, glaring at a crowd of people passing through. Why now of all times?

The crises of course was a little too much for Izuku as he still didn't do good around too many people.

They moved to the mouth of an alley way.

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Izuku held a hand over his mouth, coughing again.

"..S-shoccha.." his voice failed to carry out his words, he only seemed to be growing more and more pale.

Todoroki held him up with pure worry, grabbing his phone from his pocket to call for help but before he could even reach a number...

Izuku collapsed.

"I-Izuku?!"

A childish giggle bounced off the alley walls. "It's finally kicking in Shiggy~!"

Todoroki went to defense mode the moment the familiar voice rang out.

It was the waitress...?

"Shut the fuck up Toga." A blue haired male hissed, scratching at his neck.

Another face stepped was also there, scared over with electric blue eyes and black hair.

..he was familiar to Todoroki.

"Dabi, grab the kid." Shigaraki ordered. The ravenet stepped out without a word, eyes glaring absently.

Todoroki tried pulling Izuku back, panic rising in his chest...

 
But it was too late.

Izuku was easily stolen.

It felt like Todoroki's heart was being ripped out of his chest.

A sob rose in his throat, desperate for him back.

But they were already absorbed in the purple fog, disappearing without a trace.