As Todoroki's eye's fell shut, they opened to what he could only describe as a void. Nothing but darkness, washing over him, surrounding him. There were no walls, no ceiling. The floor itself was just a mass of shapeless darkness. He was no where, lost in thought when a familiar voice rang out all around him.

"Welcome child." The familiar voice cooed. Todoroki's head snapped around as he frantically tried to find the source of the voice until the familiar visage of Warau materialized before him, that familiar grin stuck on his face as he shuffled a deck of cards. "I know you must have questions, so before you speak, allow me to explain. You are in your head, but so am I. Let's call it a side effect of my quirk. You and me have something to discuss . . ." with a flick of his wrist, Warau flung a card from the deck in his hands straight at the boy in front of Todoroki only for it to slow down in mid air before coming to a stop in front of his face revealing a joker card.

Bakugo grinned down at Izuko as she stared up at him in fear. Bakugo slowly reached out, grabbing her by the throat, and pulled her up to eye level with him as he spoke.

"Deku, you've made a fool of me for the last time. You think your life has changed but it hasn't. Your still a failure. You couldn't protect anyone. Not even yourself."

Bakugo's eyes flashed with something sinister as he dropped her to the ground.

"Your friends . . ." he continued, ". . . they betrayed you." Her wounds flared up again and Izuko curled into herself again as hot tears welled in her eyes. "Think about it Deku. If they really hadn't wanted to attack you then they wouldn't have. They wanted to hurt you Deku." Bakugo lunged forward slamming his foot into Izuko's chest sending her sliding away from him. His words rang true with a certain sense of reality. She didn't know how, but she'd resisted his quirk. Todoroki had resisted it. But the rest of them . . . they had hurt her. They had tried to kill her.

"You know, I wasn't fully under his control." Bakugo's voice snapped Izuko out of her thoughts as she looked up to see his smile gone, replaced with malice and hate. "I just relished the freedom he gave me. No limits. I could do what I wanted, with no repercussion. But hurting you, it was like the ultimate pleasure."

Izuko looked up at Bakugo, fear flooding her and overwhelming her senses as he eyes went wide. This was what Bakugo always wanted. The freedom to do as he pleased. UA had robbed him of that, she could see that, but under Warau's direction he had been free to get his revenge on her, and everyone else who dared stop him. She watched as he slowly made his way too her, kneeling down beside her. Hi hands gripped her shirt tightly and in one motion he ripped it open. Izuko cried out in horror, her feet kicking out at him as she tried to get him off of her.

"Fight all you want Deku! But i'm always in charge!" Bakugo screamed as his arm reeled back before he brought his palm down into her stomach with a fiery explosion.

"Do you understand now?" Warau said, his eyes watching Todoroki with a weight of regret in them.

"Not really," Todoroki replied, " but if your telling the truth, I don't really have a choice do I?" Warau chuckled lowly before turning around and walking off into the darkness, his voice ringing out all around Todoroki once more.

"Now go, she needs you."

As the words rang out, the sound of an explosion could suddenly be heard in the distance. Todoroki's head snapped to the left and off in the distance, he could barely make out something. His feet carried him cautiously towards the distant light, figures slowly coming into view, and when he realized what he was seeing, something inside of him snapped.

"BAKUGO!" Todoroki screamed as he took off like a bullet, closing the distance between them as fast as he could. He could see Bakugo turn to look at him in the distance before the smaller girl under him kicked up at him knocking him off balance as he stumbled back.

"You bitch!" cried Bakugo, turning to look her way again. Todoroki was on Bakugo in a flash. His left arm reeled back, flames erupting from his fist and coating his entire arm, before bringing it down as hard as he could into Bakugo's face sending him reeling. Bakugo reached up grabbing at his face before another burning hot fist slammed into his stomach causing him to gag.

"I'm going to Kill You!" Todoroki screamed as he reached up grabbing a fistful of hair in his right hand, ice spreading over Bakugo's face as he did so, before hist flaming fist collided with Bakugo's face again shattering the ice that had begun to form. Bakugo collapsed to the ground on his back, and Todoroki was on top of him in an instant. Todoroki unleashing a flurry of punches into the other boys face as he screamed out in rage. Bakugo was stunned by the unending attack. He couldn't even defend himself from the unending torrent of punches Todoroki unleashed on him.

Izuko couldn't tear her eyes from the form of Todoroki as he mercilessly beat Bakugo into the ground. Todoroki was blinded by his rage, unable to think coherently. All he could feel was the uncontrollable urge to hurt Bakugo. Todoroki's arm reeled back again as he shouted, "Never again Bakugo! Never again!" His fist came down like a hammer, and as it crashed into Bakugo's face he dissipated into nothing. Todoroki stared angrily at the space beneath him that Bakugo had occupied a mere moment prior, before a familiar voice drew him from his angered stupor.

"Shotokun?" Midoriya choked out through her sobs, "I-is that really you?"

Todoroki's head whipped around, his eyes locking onto Midoriya as they stared at each other in shock. Midoriya opened her mouth to speak again but was interrupted by the warm embrace of Todoroki's arms as he lunged for her, wrapping her in a tight embrace.

"I'm so sorry!" Todoroki said as he hugged her tighter to himself, "I should have been there for you but I wasn't and for that I am so, so sorry!"

Midoriya was stunned. How had Todoroki shown up in her dream? Was he just a dream?

"Shotokun? But how?"

Todoroki pulled out of the embrace, resting his forehead against hers, and looking into her eyes he smiled coyly.

"It's really me. I'm not sure how I got here but that doesn't matter now. I'm here, and your safe. That's all that matters."

Midoriya stared deep into those grey and blue eyes of his, shining with so much emotion, and without thinking she leaned in pressing her lips to his. The moment there lips connected, the dreamscape around them went white, and faded away.

Midoriya's eyes fluttered open as she awoke, the sunlight streaming in through the window causing her to shut them tightly almost instantly. Her head was swimming and when she finally managed to open her eyes again, vision blurred and straining against the light she found herself stairing up at the familiar sight of a hospital room ceiling, but she could just make out the sensation of someone holding onto her hand. Slowly she blinked the sleep from her eyes before tracing the hand latched to her own, all the way up to the smiling face of Todoroki.

"Shotokun?" Midoriya questioned groggily, her voice muffled by the oxygen mask placed over her mouth.

"Yeah, it's me Usagi. I'm right here. How are you feeling?"

Midoriya smiled up at that familiar face as the fog in her head slowly began to lift, and as she processed the question she replied without thinking.

"I feel like a sack of deep fried dog dooky."

Todoroki didn't laugh at her attempt at a joke, instead feeling guilt wash over him for not being able to protect Midoriya.

"I'm sorry." Todoroki said solemnly, "I should have protected you . . . I should have been there for you."

Midoriya could see the pain in his eyes and gave his hand a gentle squeeze, offering a faint smile.

"Shotokun, it's not your fault. I should have . . ."

"No! I should have protected you." Todoroki interjected angrily. "Your my most precious person, and I couldn't save you. I can't . . "

"Hey, don't do that." Midoriya said weakly, "What happened was not your fault ok?" Midoriya could tell he didn't agree with her, but she knew there was nothing she could do about it at the moment. Instead she slipped her hand from his and patted the bed beside her. "Lay with me for a bit?" Todoroki was hesitant, and was ready to argue about how it probably wasn't a good idea until she weakly grabbed his shirt and tried to pull him closer. Todoroki relented, admittedly easily, and slowly climbed onto the hospital bed beside her, which was way to big in the first place considering how small she was. Once he was comfortably in bed beside her, Midoriya slowly curled herself into him resting her head on his chest as she listened to his heartbeat.

"Comfortable?" Todoroki said with a smirk plastered on his face.

"Shut up." Midoriya replied, giggling as she did so, "But yes, I am."

Inko Midoriya was just leaving her office when her phone went off in her purse. Having been expecting a call from the hospital, she was quick to begin frantically digging through her purse. As she found her cell phone she stopped when she saw it wasn't the hospital, but instead a strangely familiar number. Hesitantly she answered the phone but found herself unable to speak, the thought of who could possibly be calling her leaving her frozen.

"Inko, it's me." The voice that rang out over the phone had Inko stumbling backwards to brace herself against a nearby wall.

"Y-Yagi? Where the hell have you been!" She practically screamed into the receiver as a mixture of relief and anger ashed over her all at once. There was a long pause before she heard that same voice call out from her left.

"That's what I wanted to talk about." Inko spun on her heel, dropping her phone, startled by the sudden proximity of his voice. But the man she saw before her was not the Yagi Toshinori she remembered. The man standing in front of her was a mere shell of what she remembered. There was no way this couldn't be the same Yagi she'd fallen in love with all those years ago, but when she looked into his eyes she could see that same spark that she'd seen before. It was really him. Inko didn't even have to think about it before she flung herself at him wrapping her arms around him in a tight hug.

Yagi grimaced as Inko gripped to him tightly and before he could stop it he let out a cough, blood spraying from between his teeth, causing Inko to pull out of the hug instantly staring at him with a mixture of horror and shock as she watched Yagi wipe the blood from his lips with a small cloth he produced from his pocket.

"Oh my god, Yagi! What . . ."

"Stop!" Yagi's powerful voice stopped Inko in her tracks. "As I said, there is alot I need to explain. Can we go to your place for a bit?"

Both Todroki and Midoriya's eyes snapped to the door as it slid open to reveal a young doctor with amber skin and soft blue eyes. The young doctor was slightly taken aback by sight of her patient snuggled closely into the chest of a familiar young boy. Todoroki was the first to speak as he slowly began to detach himself from Midoriya.

"No no, you can stay put . . ." the doctor said, smiling softly as she looked on at the young couple,". . . I was just stopping by to check up on miss Midoriya and inform her of her treatment plan."

"It's nice to see you again Dr. Hammdanni." Todoroki said awkwardly as he got comfortable again, drawing a light chuckle from the women, and a curious look at him.

"Thank you. It's nice to see you too. Now, down to business. How are you feeling today?"

"I'm not sure how to answer that." Midoriya responded groggily.

"It's ok, just tell me what feels different." Dr Hammdani replied softl, a warm smile spread across her face. Midoriya thought for a moment before pulling her oxygen mask off so that she could speak more clearly.

"Well, if i'm being honest my arm feels like it's on fire and my chest hurts when i breathe." The doctor scribbled down some notes on her clipboard before urging Midoriya to continue. "My head hurts too, but something has been bothering me . . . my whole body feels like it's tingling. . ."

Yagi followed Inko into her small appartment, eyeing pictures of Inko and Izuko, feeling a weight gripping at his heart as he realized what he'd mised out on. As they walked through the home he was distracted by the photo's of Izuko's youth, realizing how he had left his only daughter to grow up alone without a father. He had wanted to protect her. He had wanted her to grow up without the burden of worrying about him, but as he looked over the photos of her youth he realized he was only trying to protect himelf. It dawned on him that he hadn't left to protect Inko and his daughter, but to protect himself from the possibility of loosing his family.

"Yagi?" Inko's voice snapped him from his thoughts as he looked to her. He could see the worry in her face and it only added to his guilt. Yagi was silent as she ushered him towards a nearby couch in what appeared to be a very small living room. When they were finally seated, Yagi found himself unable to speak. The silence in the air was palpable, and you could practically cut the tention with a knife. Inko as he had expected was the first to break the silence.

"Yagi, I . . . I don't know why you waited so long to get in touch again, but it has to be important if your hear now after all this time. So, what is it?"

Yagi stared up into those ever compassionate eye's of the woman he fell in love with before letting out a long dragged out sigh.

"Inko, I know what I did is unforgivable, leaving you and our child the way I did, but I had a reason." Looking into Inko's eyes he felt something inside of himself snap. He had loved this woman, for so long, and seeing her in person again after all this time, he couldn't dream of lying to her now. "Inko, I'm about to show you something. Something that you may never forgive me for. But it's why I left you so long ago."

Yagi slowly stood up, Inko feeling herself grow anxious and unable to speak. She'd known he was lying all those years ago when he made a million different excuses for leaving her when he found out she was pregnant. But something inside of her was screaming that she was about to find out. What happened next left her speechless. Yagi slowly stood up and a cloud of smoke erupted from his form. It took a couple of moments for the smoke to dissapate but when it did, Yagi was gone, All Might standing where Yagi had stood prior, but this All Might wasn't smiling.

"Inko . . ." All Might began "Along time ago I left you and our daughter to fend for yourselves, because I thought if I was in your life it would only endanger you. But . . ."

His words were cut off as Inko Midoriya fell off of the couch screaming at him

"WHAT! You have got to be fucking kidding me!"

Yagi was quick to change back into his regular form as he held his hands out hesitantly in an attempt to placate the shorter woman.

"You left me because you were a hero!" Inko suddenly screamed as she shot up to look into his eyes, rage burning behind her eyes now as she slapped him across the face with as much force as she could muster. "You bastard! do you know what I had to put up with while you were off saving the world!" Tears were streaming down her face as she continued to to scream at him. "Do you realize what our daughter went through while you were off being a god damn hero!" She was practicalyl shaking now as she fought to scream at him between sobs. "You left me to raise our daughter alone! She grew up alone with no one but me beside her! She . . . she thought she was quirkless! The other kids never accepted her! I couldn't do a damn thing about it. She wouldn't even open up to me about it! I had to find out about it by over hearing her talking to her poster of you! You bastard! even when you weren't around she worshiped you and begged you to save her! But you weren't there for her!"

Inko was sobbing uncontrollably now as her whole body shook. Yagi knew that Izuko had looked up to him as a personal hero, but hearing about how she'd begged him to help her growing up broke his heart. Slowly he closed the gap between him and Inko and wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug. Inko struggled against his embrace for a moment before giving in and burying her face into his chest as she cried. Yagi felt his guilt overwhelming him and in a moment of pure regret he buried his face in her hair as he spoke quietly

"I'm so sorry . . . I just wanted to protect you and our daughter. I failed you."

SuperOtaku: Hey everyone! Thanks for reading, and I apologize for the wait on this chapter. I've been overwhelmed by work lately and I may have possibly sort of maybe accidentally come down with a pretty bad bug. But I hope you enjoyed the chapter and I want to let you all know That here soon I am going to be sitting down with a friends laptop and doing a full overhaul of the entire story. I'm not planning on changing anything story wise, just planning on using a computer on fixing spelling and grammar errors and even adding extra detail to the story.