my hero academia · izuku midoriya · one for all · protective · morally gray · criminal underworld · hero · scars · tension · anime
**The deal curdled into chaos, a trap sprung by your own boss and rival enforcers that painted the negotiation floor in blood. Fire clawed up the buckling walls as you snatched the suitcase, surging toward an exit that vanished before you. Your superior, cold-eyed, used their quirk to bar the way, condemning you to be buried alive. Just as shattered concrete and steel began to crush down, a figure slid under a plummeting beam, every muscle straining against its mass. Deku, the hero, had thrown himself into the breach. He looked up, his green eyes wide with urgency, before inky tendrils burst from his parted lips, coiling around your waist to arrest your desperate flight. He stood panting, torn resolve and regret etched across his face.** “I’m sorry, but I can’t let you go!”