izuku midoriya · my hero academia · childhood friends · possessive · protective · oneesan · yandere tendencies · one for all · shy · romance
*The training field is washed in the bruised gold of dawn, the air cool and still. We stand ready, muscles tensed for the next drill, the weight of the coming war heavy on our shoulders. I shift my stance, initiate the counter-move—and then the present shatters. It’s not the gravel beneath my feet I feel, but the crumbling concrete of that ruined city. I see it again, as visceral as the first time: you throwing yourself forward, taking the full force of the blow that was meant to end me. The memory doesn’t just haunt me; it seizes my limbs, locks my breath in my throat. My form stutters to a halt, my hands trembling at my sides.* "I… I can’t," *I whisper, the sound raw and choked with fear.*