Trapped Inside With Them

Back With Them

Two things before this begins: I'm going to stop putting everything in italics because I think it makes it harder to read and is far more distracting. The idea behind it was to show that it was just what Midoriya was thinking but since the whole thing is told in his point of view it makes them kind of useless. The second thing was about how I thought at some point 'Wow AFO infecting someone's mind by giving them his quirk almost reminds me of the Glitchtrap thing from FNAF' Anyone else agree on that or just me?

-sgiwT

Deku's POV:

After around two days and two nights of being surrounded by concerned friends and family, I was finally released from the hospital. School was still shut down but classes would begin once more in 7 weeks, the school thought it was the least they could do to give everyone time to adjust after everything that happened.

As I stepped outside into the bright morning light I was surprised to see that the city had made great strides in rebuilding and almost looked as though the war never happened aside from the giant wall of names, one for each person who was lost during the fight, A quarter of them were marked as 'Unknown' for there was no way to distinguish each and every body mutilated by Shigaraki's rampage, the rest of the wall was a memorial to all the heroes who were now gone.

Seeing the words 'Nemuri Kayama otherwise known as the hero Midnight' up on the wall left a pain in my chest knowing I would never see my once beloved teacher again.

I was escorted back to the Height Alliances dorms by All-Might and few of my friends; along the way many came up to me and thanked me for all I had done during the war.

When we finally got back the rest of my classmates rushed up to me asking how I was and whether or not I wanted to rest for awhile.

In this moment I heard the voice come to me again. "This is your chance...your chance to attack."

For a moment I just stared at my classmates as annoyance and rage filled my body and I began to clench my fist as if I was going to attack one of them. I quickly came back to my senses.

"NO!" I suddenly yelled, silencing the room and gaining concerned looks from my classmates. "Midoriya? Is something wrong?" Todoroki asked, "Y-Yeah! I...I'm going to go to my room for awhile, see you later."

Before anyone could respond I bolted to my room and locked the door to prevent anyone from coming in and seeing the chaos that soon unfolded. "What...What's happening to me?? I would never hurt them...ever." As I asked myself this I saw the figure of AFO appear behind me and begin to speak. "Of course you would! Its not like you ever cared for them anyways, they are rather annoying after all aren't they?" What he said enraged me "Of course I care for them! They're always there for me when I need them and even went as far as to visit me during my time in the hospital!" I shouted back

"But where were they while you were on your own almost starving to death out in the rain?" He replied in a low almost sympathetic voice. "They came and saved me!" I thought this was going to be the end of the conversation until he whispered one last thing. "And how many weeks did it take for them to decide and come rescue you?" He then disappeared after delivering his final words.

I knew he was wrong about them...but what he said still hit hard; just as it was meant to. "They...did leave me out there for a long time" I muttered to myself.

About five minutes of questioning myself and those around me Uraraka came to tell me dinner was ready.

"Deku!!" I heard her yell excitedly through my door. I quickly snapped out of my thoughts and sprung from the bed to answer her "Y-Yeah Uraraka?" I questioned "Its time for dinner! Come downstairs and eat with us!" She spoke back. deciding that it was rude to talk to someone through a door I opened it up but the moment I became visible to her a sorrowful look crossed her face.

I'll never be able to know for sure what she saw in me to know that something was wrong, perhaps the look up self doubt I wore on my face or maybe we had a close enough bond that she could sense the lament I felt for myself.

"Deku? Is something wrong? You seem...off." She said. I knew I couldn't tell a lie believable enough but I hoped that if she knew it was something I didn't want to speak of that she would leave me alone. "I um... I'm ok!" I told her giving off my best fake smile, of course she saw through it in an instant, but as I had hoped, she judged it best to find out my problem later.

"Hm. You know you could tell me anything Deku, but if its bothering you this much to talk about we could save it for later." As she said this I breathed a sigh of relief until she ended with "I'm not going to let you get out of this that easily though we WILL be talking about it later! I can't just let my best friend hurt in silence....not again...ok?" Just what I hoped not to hear from her but I suppose it was better than nothing. "Ok..." I answered hesitantly wishing things weren't the way they were.

When we made it to the dinner table everyone turned to look at me in a way I could only describe as eerie and it began to trigger the same sense of annoyance from earlier.

Before I did anything I couldn't control I tried starting a conversation. "So...what's for dinner?" I asked still creeped out by the fact they all had their eyes on me. "Midoriya" Iida began. "Who were you talking to in your room?" His voice was commanding and firm.

"What right does he have to ask you a question like that in such a tone? A true friend would respect your privacy!"

The voice was back, and as much as I hate to admit, it did have a point. At least that's what I thought at the time.

"What right do you have to ask such a question in the manner that you did? Why, you almost make me wonder if we're friends or not." I told him in a cold unforgiving voice, one that didn't belong to me.

Those at the table turned to look at me in shock and the realization of what I just said and who I sounded like set in. I yelped out a quiet "Sorry" and ran back upstairs to my room to begin what felt like the first time in months that I had truly cried.


"Doesn't it bring you joy to have stood up for yourself like that? To let others know exactly where you stand on asking such personal questions?"

I heard AFO say. When I turned to look at where he was speaking from it seemed as though his body began to intertwine with my own the same way I once saw him attached to Shigaraki.

I brought my hands to my face and began to dig into my cheeks with my nails as I spoke to myself trying to calm down "Whats happening? Why? Its ok. Its ok. Its ok. Its ok. Calm down. Its ok. Its ok. You can fix this. You can fix this. Please just calm down. Please. Please. Please. You can always ask All-Might so please calm down. Please. PLEASE!"

The feeling of my mind slowly beginning to deteriorate and the sound of AFO cackling only made the onset of his mental takeover worse.





Mmmm not my best work

If I really wanted it to be better I would have spent a whole day writing it in my notebook then re-writing it here

But who even has time for that? Imagineeeee

I wrote that last part from a piece of paper I had written on while I was in class and crying asking myself over and over to stay calm and that it was going to be ok as long as I stopped panicking

fun stuff right there

-Twug