Todoroki knew that his advantage had suddenly plumeted, but he tried to stay calm. People had been telling him that he needed to be less reliant on his quirk and to train his body as well, but since that advice had initially come from his father, he had a tendency to brush it off. His quirk had been enough before, but now he just felt useless.

Todoroki ducked a little too late as Deku swung a knife at his face. The blade grazed the side of his head and sent a wave of pain through Todoroki. He staggered, but refused to fall. Midoriya grinned when he saw the blood dripping from the wound on Todoroki's white side of his head. "You'll be a full redhead pretty soon. You'll look just like your good ol' dad, won't you?"

Todoroki grit his teeth. He was finally learning to accept his dad as just another part of his life instead of the monster he remembered from his childhood. He did not need Midoriya to try and top him over the edge with old news. He decided to get over his trauma when he found out about the death of his classmates and how it was all because of Midoriya.

Todoroki dodged a bullet, almost purly by luck, that was aimed at his feet. That's when he realized Midoriya was just playing with him at the moment. He's seen Kirishima's injuries. His legs no longer worked and he had taken serious head trauma. Even after he had healed, he refused to talk to anyone about what had happened. It was also affecting his school work. He was bumped down into General Education for his injuries, but everyone just thought that he deserved to just go home and love the rest of his life in peace.

Todorki was ripped out of his thoughts when he felt Midoriya grab him by his hair. He tried to pull away, but the shorter boy slammed his already bleeding head into his knee. Todoroki felt his nose break, but used his height to his advantage and knocked Midoriya over, grabbing his wrists to pin him down. There. Now if he could just hold him until Yaoyorozu showed up...

Pain erupted in Todoroki's groin as Midoriya kneed him there in a desperate attempt to get free. It was enough for Todoroki to momentarily loosen the grip on Midoriya's hands, which was all the villain needed to switch their positions. After two fights, Izuku knew how to Keep his victim from fighting back. "Sorry, Todoroki-kun, but I don't like a fair fight." With that, he pinned down one of Todoroki's hands with his foot, and the other with his hand. He hummed as he reached for one of his knives and swore when he realized they were all in the alleyway. Todoroki uses this to his advantage and used his body weight to his advantage to shove the lighter boy off of him. He didn't let Midoriya recover as he aimed his fist at his head.

Izuku's reflexes moved faster than Even he thought they could, and he stopped the fist. Unfortunatly, Todoroki was no weakling and the force of the blow made him stumble slightly. Todoroki used this moment to run past Midoriya, hoping to get back to the public. Where was Yaoyarozu?

Todoroki got to the sign that started it all before he was tackled to the ground by Midoriya. "Sorry. I had to pick up my knives."

~

Yaoyarozu ran down the alley, watching for Todoroki. She had called the pros and they were tracking Todoroki through his phone. Everyone had been required to have a tracker on them at all times due to the incidents with Bakugou and Uraraka. Yaoyarozu tried not to think about the bodies of her dead classmates as she ran to find Todoroki. She just didn't want to be too late. Kirishima's nightmares and condition were hard enough to watch, so she didn't want to have to live through them.

Images of Todoroki dying where all that filled her mind and she tried to move faster, but that was making her head spin. Her anxiety and self-doubt were coming back to haunt her, but she pushed through. The thought of failure pushed her thoughts away.

When she rounded a corner, she wasn't mentally prepared to see Todoroki on the ground with Midoriya over him, plunging a knife into his stomach.

She didn't realize she had made a steel rod until she had smacked Midoriya over the head with it, knocking him off of Todoroki. She made a pair of handcuffs and tried to pin Midoriya to the ground to capture him. Instead, he rolled out of the way, pulling out a gun. Yaoyarozu made a shield and used it to protect both herself and Todoroki. She snuck a glance at her classmate and instantly regreted it. His head was covered in blood, his nose was broken, and, worst of all, There was a knife in his abdomen. Yaoyarozu tried to stay calm. Hopefully the knife hadn't hit any of his vitals. The worst thing was he looked like he was in so much pain. He was gasping in air through his mouth and looked like he was trying to stop himself from pulling the knife out.

Yaoyarozu was becoming more aware of her surroundings and was confused at the lack of ice and signs of fire. Izuku looked like her been burned slightly, but not in critical condition. Why wasn't Todoroki using his quirk?

In too of that, Yaoyarozu was realizing that she wasn't going to be able to use her quirk much longer. She'd used a lot of her body fat already and she was starting to get hungry and tired.

Todoroki grabbed onto what was left of Yaoyrozu's school blazer. "You've gotta...go."

"Don't worry, Todoroki. The pros will be here soon."

"No...he's gonna-"

The shield was ripped out of Yaoyorozu's hands in the moment she was distracted and she was face to face with a gun to her head. She didn't react fast enough, but Todoroki did. He shoved her under him, letting out a cry as the knife was shoved further into his torso and another quirk erasing vial was shot into his back.

"Hmph," Midoriya pouted. "You already lost yours. That's no fair."

Yaoyarozu felt Todoroki's blood soaking into her clothes and deperatly but carefully placed him on his back again. Midoriya grabbed her by the hair and shoved her to the ground. "Guess I'll just have to aim carefully this time."

He was reloading the gun when a faint cry of, "Deku?" was heard. The voice was young and scared. Izuk u froze and saw Eri watching all this play out. "What are you doing?"

Izuku glanced down at Yaoyorozu, but was met with a punch to the face hard enough to throw him off balance. She used that advantage to pin him to the ground and secure his wrists with the handcuffs.

Izuku snarled and, when Yaoyarozu's hand got too close, he but her. She pulled away with a yelp and he squirmed out of her grip, trying to get his hands in front of him. "Eri, get out of here. I don't want you to get hurt."

"But you're hurting other people. I don't want you to do that. Why are you doing it?"

"No, you don't understand! I...I need to because...because..." Midoriya desperately tried to find an excuse. "I want to...I want to...ugh! I don't know?! I can't even think straight right now! Leave me alone!"

Eri winced and Izuku felt bad about yelling at her. He took a deep breath. "I can't get caught Eri. They'll...they'll kill me!"

Yaoyarozu was trying to patch up Todoroki, but she didn't know what to do about the knife. It had twisted and she didn't know enough about medicine to do much about it. Midoriya was still trying to explain himself to Eri when Todoroki grabbed her hand. "I'm fine. Or, I will be. Make sure that kid's safe."

Yaoyarozu glanced at Midoriya then she looked back to Todoroki before setting her eyes on the little girl. How did she know Midoriya? This was all just so messed up.

"What did we miss?"

A wave of relief washed over Yaoyarozu to see Mr. Aizawa and Recovery Girl had shown up. Behind them was Endevor and Midnight.

Izuku scrambled to his feet. He had gotten his hands in front of him by this point and grabbed onto Eri. "Let's get out of here, Eri-chan. You're in danger!"

Aizawa wrapped his scarf around Izuku and Midnight gently took Eri out of Izuku's hands, whispering soothing words to her.

Recovery Girl was at Todoroki's side in an instant. "When I say so, pull out the knife."

Yaoyarozu didn't realize that the school nurse was talking her her at first, but her hands followed her instructions anyway. She wanted to comfort Todoroki, seeing him in so much pain like this, but couldn't get the words out. She did as Recovery Girl instructed and pulled the knife out at a steady pace. Todoroki yelped, but tried not to show how much pain He was in. As soon as the blade was out, Recovery Girl got to work. Yaoyarozu looked away from all the blood to see Midoriya's struggle. "Let me go! Don't kill me! I won't do it again! I promise! I'll kill you all! You'll pay for this!"

The contradictory statements rang out even as the other heroes came to take Midoriya away and his curses turned to mindless babbling and tears before Yaoyarozu's eyes as he had a mental breakdown.

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Oh man...this is really late...

Sorry dudes. I've been busy with school and art, plus I had 0 motivation to write this chapter until now. At least it's done.

I think I'll do one more chapter after this one.

Also, Sorry Tododeku shippers, I ship Todomomo

Also, this might be a little anti climatic. Sorry.

One more thing.
WATCH MOB PSYCO 100!! This is one of the reasons I haven't updated in a while. Because this anime is beautiful and is rivaling my top spot with My Hero Academia and Bungou Stray Dogs!!