Izuku was excited, He knew Shinso had it in him. Even he felt the moment that Shinso's quirk evolved, when he had shrugged it felt like chains had been wrapped around him. Now he was in the infirmary waiting with the still passed out Shinso and texting Mei. Now Izuku knew how love worked or affection, he knew what the fluttery feeling he got in his chest was when Mei smiled at him or when she hung off him. But he was scared, relationships never went well for him. People got hurt when they were close with him or they would fake it and leave him out to dry. He had been left with a fake love letter to many times to. It have some wariness. He wondered if Mei would be different, he had already shown her more than even his classmates. She only ever asked once about the handprints on his chest and the other scars littering his body once. And she had respected his privacy, more than anybody else. Just then Shinso stirred and Recovery girl bustled over.
"Uhhh, I hate broccoli guys…"
Shinso muttered and Izuku snorted making his head snap up in a small blush.
"So…did you feel it?"
Izuku asked even though he knew. Recovery girl took some looks at Shinso then let him go.
"Yeah, I did… I see so many attachments. I don't think I even need the response activation anymore… not if I push it."
He responded in wonder looking at all the students in abstract fascination.
"The exam will take course over a week, an entire city with occupants has been constructed for your use, the villain leader will be required to attack at least once every day. The hero's must act as this was real life, patrols, signings and the such."
Nezu spoke to the hero team. Nezu had a sneaking suspicion that a camera to his left was being hacked and watching him. Due to the Absence of Izuku Midoriya, a mutter went though the students and a few glanced to the side where the boy was supposed to be. They had one final week and it seemed to him as if they weren't taking this seriously.
"I have a question,"
a robotic voice spoke out off the camera he had suspected.
"Yes, Midoriya?" Nezu smiled at the confused looks on the other students.
"Is an all out war allowed?"
The question left the crowed silent for only a moment,
"huhhh!! You Shitty deku! You think your tuff calling for an all out war?! I'll show you a war! Where the hell are you you coward?!"
Bakugo yelled and the people around him flinched.
"I am currently being a useless deku and not training like you all have been doing."
The cold reply left the crowed stunned,
"I like the effort some of you have put in, but if you think that that's enough to win the your wrong."
Nezu was going to enjoy this
"and why wouldn't we?! Huh deku? You're only one guy and a liability for fuck sake! You'll be no more use then when you shitty mom died and did nothing!!"
Bakugo yelled and the Auditorium was suddenly quiet and Nezu knew that a line was crossed.
"Good luck hero's, I hope you take some initiative and start training."
The reply was calm but Nezu knew he knew that a storm had just been unleashed and it was ent going to stop at a ninety percent it was going to moo the floor with the entire floor using the hero team.
He really hated Bakugo, he knew it was ent his fault and there was nothing he could have done. But he felt responsible, and the thoughts started creeping in as he made his way to Mei's room.
"I'll never be good enough, why couldn't I save her? It's my fault, should she have died if I didn't exist? Why did it have to be her."
He found tears falling down his face as he stumbled into Mei's room and found her working on some code. When she saw him she immediately got up and ran to hug him. He cried into her shoulder as he wept.
"Why does this world hate me? I try so hard but no matter what I do it's not enough… why should I keep trying if everybody will just keep betraying me?"
He asked into her shoulder wrapping his arms around the slender figure. Mei was silent for a moment,
"What makes you not good enough? From what I've been told you've saved your classmates more times then any of them have. You saved Eri from the yakuza and kota from muscular. I am sure those people think that you're good enough. I think you good enough."
She hugged him tight and he reciprocated.
"Why? Why do you not leave like the others? You don't have to stay, why?"
Izuku nearly pleaded. The emotions he had bottled up for years to stay strong cracking at the caring embrace.
"Because you have always been there for me."
She replied simply and they stayed there holding each other for a moment before either spoke.
"I don't know what it is, but whenever I touch you it feels like showering in warm water, or when you smile at me butterfly's fill my stomachs."
Mei asked and Izuku smiled in her neck
"I can pretty easily tell you cause I feel the same way Mei."
He spoke her first name making her smile