All the students were already in the Dorm A common area except for the two they were all waiting for. Aizawa looked around to make sure everyone was accounted for and they tried to calm down, to sit or chat but they were all so nervous none of them could keep up the idle chatter for long.
They waited and then even at this unholy early hour of the day their phones chimed.
Deku: All Might is on his way. Eraserhead will you add our mothers and give them admin privileges?
*Eraserhead added two numbers to the chat.*
*Eraserhead assigned admin privileges to Midoriya Inko and Bakugo Mitsuki*
*Midoriya Inko changed name to Green Demon*
*Bakugo Mitsuki changed name to Life Giver*
Life Giver: Nice, I'm glad you can finally own the title you deserve Inko! 👍
Green Demon: I think you are being silly. Life Giver really? What about Bomb Shelter? That is much more like you Mitsuki.
Life Giver: Hmm...
*Life Giver changes name to Bomb Shelter*
Bomb Shelter: It does have a certain ring to it.
Dynamight: Are you about done playing around yet? We want to do this but we don't want it to take all day. 😤
Green Demon: 🙃 Katsuki dear?
Dynamight: Sorry Aunty! 🤐
Deku: MOM! We agreed! 😫
Green Demon: Izuku honey, Katsuki shouldn't talk to his mother that way.
Green Demon: Ever.
Dynamight: Won't happen again. 🤐
Green Demon: 😁
Deku: 😮💨 Can we please? We did what you asked.
Green Demon: Almost. We just need to set some parameters on the chat first.
Deku: 😑
*Green Demon has muted the chat. Permissions given to Deku, Dynamight and Bomb Shelter*
*Bomb Shelter restricted recording and snapshots. Chat placed on incognito mode; all content will be deleted when exited.*
Bomb Shelter: That should do it!
Green Demon: Thank you Mitsuki!
Dynamight: God help me.
Deku: Mom, Aunty? We still need to add All Might...
Green Demon: Go ahead dear. That's why we gave you admin permissions.
Deku: I have a bad feeling about this.
*Deku added All Might to the chat.*
*Green Demon muted All Might, Deku and Dynamight*
Bomb Shelter: There, now we can get this story actually going.
The boys walked into the dorm common area looking drained and barely alive before flopping into two empty seats with the rest of their class.
"They actually fucking muted us," Bakugo growled and Deku just nodded.
"Not like we didn't see that coming though. They did say that they would be the ones to tell everyone or it was a no deal." Deku sighed before leaning against the explosive blond who just looked at him confused before rolling his eyes and leaning back.
"The shit storm is about to start and your planning to sleep through it?" Bakugo looked at the greenette with mix of disbelief and pride.
"And?" Deku asked yawning.
"Sleep Nerd, I'll take care of what I can." Bakugo sighed, he knew the shorter male had been staying awake for at least the last three nights that he knew of and there was a high possibility that it was closer to ten if his performance during training was anything to go by. He had been obsessing over questions again, one of which was, can he make All Might proud? A question that was driving him crazy but was also hurting his progress and the blond knew it.
He stretched out his arm and Deku curled up against the blond and was soon asleep but none of the other people in the room said a word. All of them unsure of how to react to the fact that;
A. Bakugo was being kind to Midoriya?
B. Both boys looked like they had been through hell already today and it wasn't even 6 am yet.
C. Their mothers were now starting to type again and they were sending pictures.
"Damn Hag, you could have told them without the pictures." Bakugo frowned looking at his phone. With that everyone looked back at their phones including All Might who had joined them in the common area.
*Green Demon posted an image.*
Bomb Shelter: This is not going to be easy to talk about which is why we muted you all. Please understand that we are trying.
Green Demon: If at all possible please save your questions until the end and we will un-mute you all to answer as many as we can!
Bomb Shelter: So to start we will add a few pictures and then we will start the story.
Bomb Shelter: To start both of our boys have died in the past.
Green Demon: More than once.
*The class is utterly speechless but they look up to see both boys breathing, sitting in the room with them and Bakugo looked irritated but otherwise didn't say anything while Midoriya was fast asleep. Will he sleep through all of this?*
Bomb Shelter: We were lucky. The right person with the right quirk came at the right time but the damage was done. Neither of them were ever the same afterwards and even after several doctors appointments and people with specialized quirks they can never forget.
Green Demon: They can never forget what it is like to die. They remember, it is always in the back of their minds. Countless times I've run into Izuku's room from him screaming in his sleep for it to end.
Bomb Shelter: For it all to end. To make it stop. That he will never be looked down on again.
Green Demon: That he won't be weak anymore. That he will help those in need.
Bomb Shelter: That he will live for real.
Green Demon: That he will live for real.
Bomb Shelter: They told us how you have caught them sneaking off randomly throughout the day and night.
Green Demon: How no matter how hard they try the nightmares never end.
Green Demon: They are afraid of hurting you. They are afraid that one day they won't wake up and they will have to walk to the gates of purgatory all over again.
Bomb Shelter: Mind you they don't actually know if that is where they were. But they are sure it was not Heaven.
Green Demon: But they also said it was hell. I REFUSE to believe my baby could ever go to hell though!
*Again the class looked up to see the boys hadn't so much as moved an inch through all of this. Bakugo still irritated and Midoriya still asleep, curled up against the blond as if it were the safest place on earth.*
Bomb Shelter: First off we would like to say that no they are not doing anything bad. They are just doing as they have been instructed to.
Green Demon: On how to survive now. After several years of specialist and studies, lab work and hundreds of thousands of test we finally got a few answers.
Bomb Shelter: Our boys are still dying.
Green Demon: don't panic it's not in the way you think!
*Too late several had jumped up and Bakugo glared at them and held up his hand before mouthing "Fucking try me! I dare you!" While trying not to wake up the sleeping boy against him, before those that had jumped up were pulled back down to see what was added in the chat.*
Green Demon: You see since they have already seen at least one afterlife their souls are constantly being pulled towards their end. Their bodies are fine.
Bomb Shelter: Their mind are not weak either. They have seen horrors that most of us will never know. I've heard what my son screams. I know that he never told us half what he saw but I know that he never could.
Green Demon: when they were first woken up they were sure that they had been dead for years even decades, not seconds.
Bomb Shelter: And it is our fault for trusting the person who hurt them the most.
Green Demon: Someone who should have protected them with his life.
Green Demon: Midoriya, Hisashi
Bomb Shelter: Midoriya, Hisashi
Green Demon: My ex-husband and Izuku's father.
Bomb Shelter: The bastard doesn't deserve that title. To be that sweet boy's father and to hurt them? He is lucky that we were so tired that day we found him. Or he would have gotten much worse than a burn.
Green Demon: I guess we should show them a few pictures of him.
*Green Demon posted an image*
Bomb Shelter: This is of course before we burned the fuck out of the bastard. He lost all of his hair and his eyelids were cauterized shut.
Green Demon: I heard he had made a name for himself as a villain. Something self centered and selfish. All-For-One or something along those lines?
Bomb Shelter: Not that that matters at all. If we were given just a few minutes with the bastard we could end that name and put him 6ft under. Or at least cremate him and use his ashes for fertilizer or something. 🤷
Green Demon: Mitsuki...
Bomb Shelter: What? Dead is dead.
Green Demon: 🤦♀️
Green Demon: The boys can see these messages...
Bomb Shelter: ... Oh that... Sorry.
*Everyone looked up when they heard muttered cursing only to see that Bakugo was suppressing his need to scream profanities and they could clearly see the veins in his forehead and neck protruding out in his rage but Midoriya was still asleep, although he had started fidgeting and mumbling in his sleep. Something about fire?*
Green Demon: Anyway the man should have protected them but instead he killed them. The first time we thought it was an accident.
Bomb Shelter: We thought we were lucky that there happened to be someone with a regeneration quirk and we were able to restart their hearts.
Green Demon: They were only 4. Katsuki already had his quirk but there was a long time that he didn't use it at all.
Bomb Shelter: We even had to pull them out of daycare because he and Izuku couldn't stop trembling. They just couldn't stop crying.
Green Demon: It wasn't until I had taken Izuku to the doctor and we were told he was quirkless that they seemed to snap out of it. It was almost like they had forgotten the whole thing.
Bomb Shelter: Which was so much better then before. Even with them fighting and generally no longer getting along. It was so much better than their screams in the middle of the night.
Green Demon: So we let it go. If the cost of their sanity was their friendship then it was a price we were willing to pay.
Bomb Shelter: After all they are our sons. We only want what is best for them. Our babies.
Green Demon: Then we found my ex-husband burning them after school one day.
Bomb Shelter: We went into a blind rage. 😤 We also have no actual memories of what happened but there was someone making a home video at the time and they caught the whole thing on camera in our backyard.
Green Demon: We were let off by police because we were only trying to protect our children.
Bomb Shelter: Thankfully that person's daughter had a healing quirk and she was able to heal both boys' burns and even what looked like cuts and bruises from before.
Green Demon: As it turned out Hisashi had been tormenting them, experimenting on them. Somehow poor little Izuku had been launched into a tree and no matter what anyone said or did both boys insisted that it was Izuku's quirk.
Bomb Shelter: But he was never able to do it after the fact. Hisashi's quirk is a fire breathing one but there would be times that I could swear he was doing something else only to turn and see him doing nothing at all.
Green Demon: So we don't actually know what happened. It wasn't until the neighbor girl had healed the boys that we realized that their hearts were not beating. They were only five and they have already died twice.
*Everyone looked up again and this time they found sparks coming from Bakugo and Midoriya slowly rubbing at his eyes. He looked at Bakugo before he took his phone and locked it before assisting the explosive teen in laying down. The blond wrapped his still fizzling hands around the greenette and buried his face in the greenette's chest. Midoriya started humming a sweet tune and before long the only signs of the blond's rage were the burn and scorch marks on the back of Midoriya's shirt. They both closed their eyes and simply fell asleep, holding each other.*
Bomb Shelter: We almost killed him but he got away. The police were able to with the help of the person with the video evidence help Inko get the divorce and restraining orders that we needed.
Green Demon: But even with him gone our lives only got harder. The boys seemed to find new ways to fight. They never knew that we saw it all.
Bomb Shelter: The way my brat bullied Izuku was down right criminal but somehow they were both better off from it. I am well aware that makes zero sense at all.
Green Demon: But it is true. They were able to just pretend to be normal kids so long as they fought. So long as they were always hostile with each other.
Bomb Shelter: And any time they would start to get along the nightmares would return and we would go weeks without sleeping because let's face it.
Green Demon: Who can sleep while their baby is screaming for the world to end?
The story telling went on but the basis of it was simple, they needed each other. Bakugo and Midoriya both repelled and attracted each other. Without one the other would go insane or could even die.
The boys were sound asleep still on the little loveseat they had claimed and for once many things that had happened in the past started to make sense to their classmates.
How they always fight each other as if they truly hated one another only to turn around and help the other up again when they were done. How even after their less than stellar past Midoriya would still follow Bakugo with all the trust of a newborn kitten. How Bakugo would go out of his way to shield the smaller male from any kind of backstabbing.
How could two boys who showed absolute hate or fear still show such trust and understanding in one another? How could they trust each other so fully that when there was a very real chance they could die they still trusted their back to no one more than each other?
It didn't feel like long but in reality hours had passed by in silence for those in the common area of the A dorms. For class A and their teachers time had frozen as the horrors were unveiled one by one.
Green Demon: If we ever find Hisashi there will not be enough of him to identify and I expect you all to look away if you care even 1% for our boys as they do for you.
Bomb Shelter: Seriously do you have any idea what they actually agreed to just for us to tell you this much?
Green Demon: Hush Mitsuki, I trust them. If Izuku and Katsuki didn't feel this strongly about it I would have never told them. But the fact is that they do.
Bomb Shelter: 😮💨 Why do our trouble makers have to have such good hearts?
Green Demon: I'm sorry I think I need some time before I answer any questions but I'll go ahead and un-mute you all before we leave.
Bomb Shelter: We'll come back on tomorrow, give you all time to process what all was said.
*Green Demon un-muted chat.*
*Green Demon gave Eraserhead admin privileges*
*Incognito Mode was deactivated and chat was deleted from when it began*
*Green Demon and Bomb Shelter went offline*
Everyone started at their phones for a long time, when they did look up they still saw the two cuddled on the couch sleeping deeply, if no one knew better they would think that neither has slept in days but that was crazy... Wasn't it?
They sat there with questions turning around in their minds as they seemed to fit everything together in their heads.
"Shinso?" Kaminari asked quietly making everyone turn to him but he was only looking at his boyfriend. "Can you meet my family on a different day? I think I'm going to need time to process all that."
"I think we all do," Shinso answered pulling the blond into his arms carefully, but anyone could see just how tight his grip on him was. "I really do "