At therapy

Lee: You seem uncomfortable.

Izuku: Because I am. I've never been big on therapy; I mean, I just don't get it.

Lee: That's perfectly normal. Not a lot of people do; please sit down.

*Izuku sighed and sat down, like he promised Izuku Midoriya was finally in therapy. *Izuku's foot was fidgeting as he looked around the room.

Lee: Let's start with why you're here.

Izuku: There's not really a lot to say. I promised my fiancé that I would come here, and here I am.

Lee: and already deflecting my question. Want to try that again?

Zuku sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. He didn't talk for a few seconds before he finally opened his mouth.

Izuku: My wife wants me here because of my need to put everyone before me. How about that?

Lee: not bad, but I can still sense your not being entirely truthful.

Izuku: I'm going to take a wild guess and say your quirk allows you to read people's emotions.

Lee:correct. I have a weak version of the lying detector quirk. Instead of knowing that they're lying, I can sense the change in emotions, which made me choose this line of work. I can sense something bothering you—a recurring nightmare—but not much more than that.

Zuku sighed, feeling annoyed that they were already touching that subject.

Lee: We don't have to discuss it until you're ready. Mr. Midoriya

Izuku: What if I don't want to discuss it?

Lee:that's fine I get paid either way; honestly, you can just sit there without saying a word and I would still get paid. But in turn, you would feel shame and like you were lying to your fiancee; you care for her deeply, don't you?

Izuku: Yes, I love her with all my heart.

Lee: So the nightmares are about her?

Izuku:....yes

Lee: I see, so we're dealing with Anakin syndrome.

Izuku:what?

Lee: Oh, sorry, it's just how I call it. You fear the death of your loved one, and how are you powerless to stop it?

Izuku: Because I am. I don't have a quirk; I'm disabled; there are days I can't even get out of bed because my back pain is too great; I use a cane; I can't do anything but run with her in case things get dangerous.

Lee: It's not healthy to live a life of fear. Mr. Midoriya

Izuku: hard not to when the majority of this island hates my guts. I'm sure you know the basics of what happened to me: my time in jail, the trial, stuff like that.

Lee: It must've been hard. Six years of your
Life was taken from you because of fear. Four years of hiding were because of fear. It's only natural that your fears are starting to sip inside your mind.

Izuku:que será será

Lee: What will be is yes. But you can't tell me it doesn't affect you.

Izuku: Of course it does. If it weren't for that fear, because of the Todoroki family, I would be a pro-hero right about now. I would be out there saving people.

Lee is married to Momo Yapyorozu, while Tsuyu would probably be alone or with someone else. I sense hatred. You don't like that outcome?

Izuku: The idea of Tsuyu being with someone else romantically is... Unsettling, to say the least

Lee: I can sense that; it's clear that your mentality of being a hero has changed to a mentality of protecting Tsuyu Asui no matter the consequence, even if it means your own death. Now it's a shame.

Izuku:....

Lee: It's perfectly fine to sacrifice your life for a loved one if the situation presents itself; everyone would do the same, but you want to carry that burden by yourself. You don't want Tsuyu or anyone of your loved ones to carry that burden. I must say, for a man with a broken back, you can carry a whole lot. Let's try something. Tell me about your childhood.

Izuku:jail

Lee: Before that, before going to UA high school, tell me about your life as a quirkless child; it couldn't have been easy.

Izuku: There's not much to talk about; I had a normal childhood.

Lee: A life without a father, in the worst place on earth for quirkless since they treat people like you the worst than anywhere in the world.

Izuku: Like I said normal childhood

Zuku sighed and looked up to the ceiling, humming a little.

Izuku: You have a nice office; is that oak?

Lee: Yes, so, childhood goes

Izuku: Ok, fine, my father left us when I was born. At the time, my mother told me he left overseas to pay the bills, but that was a lie. My mother worked long hours as a waitress just to put a roof over my head and food on the table, so Christmas Santa always skipped over our house.

*Izuku chuckled at his dark humor, having stopped believing in stuff like Santa or the tooth fairy by the time he was 6*

Izuku, my childhood friend, soon transformed into an abusive bully who would harass and beat me up just for some sick-twisted fun. If you ask me, he should be the one in therapy, not me.

Days before with bakugo

Bakugo: And it just made me so angry at the idea of someone being better than me that I would lash out.

James: I see, and why would it make you angry? Why did you want to be the best, better than anyone else?

*Bakugo was lying on the couch, unlike Izuku, who had actually been taking therapy for years after losing his hero license.*

Back to Izuku

Lee:Probably, but we're here for you, not for him. Keep going.

Izuku: The school didn't do jack shit about the harassment me and other quirkless people would face; they would always turn a blind eye, but everyone with a quirk would always choose me to harass and abuse.

Lee, and why do you think that is?

Izuku: Because I wanted to become a hero even without a quirk, I wanted to save people. I guess in a way I did since most quirkless people in my school were left alone most of the time. The kids would rather have fun with the moron, who thought he could save everyone with a smile.

Lee: And do you still believe that? A hero without a quirk?

Izuku: Not even in a fantasy, a quirkless person can't be a hero; a quirkless person will never be a hero. We're the forgotten part of humanity that has to settle with the scraps of life.

Lee:quite the pessimistic view

Izuku: What do you believe a quirkless person can actually become?

Lee: We're not talking about what I believe; this is what you believe. But to grow some trust between us since I expected us to reunite at least once a week. I believe anything is possible. Yes, the chances are slim, but there is still a chance that someone will pull it off.

Izuku: Yeah, only for life to ruin it somehow. Mark my words: if that happens somehow, someway something terrible will happen to that person, proving that even the universe doesn't want a quirkless hero.

Lee: Better make it twice a week to deal with the pessimistic view of the world.

Izuku: You say pessimistic; I say realistic.

Lee: And what made you really want to be a hero? What started that spark?

Izuku: All might, I may hate that man now, but when I was a kid and alone at home, I would turn on the TV, and there he would be smiling that smile and saying, "Anyone can be a hero." What a load of crock!

Lee: Hm, I see and that phrase kept you going until you eventually met him?

Izuku: I'm guessing you remember that fight I had with him.

Lee:yes. Any thoughts about that?

Izuku: It was entertaining beating him one-sided. But looking back and telling the world about OFA and AFO just made them hate me more.

Lee: quite, so you met him, and then what happened?

Izuku: First, he told me I couldn't be a hero, breaking my dreams and shattering that last hope I had that maybe someone like All Might wouldn't be the same as the rest and actually see the quirkless as equals, but it turns out he was just like the rest of them, only worse, he was a hypocrite since he was quirkless.

Lee: And then he gave you OFA.

Izuku:yup, after that, my faith was restored yatta yatta yatta betrayed and imprisoned, did you get what you needed?

Lee: Yes, this is the first day, so I got most of the information I needed. Be warned that after every session, we'll go deeper than the last.

Izuku: Oh goody, I feel so much better about opening a box of the sh*t I've repressed all my life.

Lee: It's not about feeling good, Mr. Midoriya; it's about finding the problem and making a change. If you wanted to feel good, I could just fill you up with pills.

Izuku: Right, and would you?

Lee: No, I believe those joints in your pockets do a better job than anything that I can give you.

Izuku: Damn, are we done here?

Lee: Yes, but I expect you here at the same time next week. If not, I'm sure your fiancee would love to get a phone call from me.

Izuku:....damn you...

Lee:until next week, Mr. Midoriya

*Izuku sighed, got up, and left more, then was happy to go to work and fix cars with his workers, then dealt with his mental problems.*