@kibouhero @bakusplosions - thread name: AM I JUST A GHOST IN MY OWN MACHINE?
SHOTO HAD ALWAYS DONE HIS BEST TO WIN THE APPROVAL OF THE LEAGUE, regardless of which member, but he had always been most desperate to receive any type of attention from Izuku, positive or negative. That was why he hadn’t thought twice when he came across Katsuki Bakugo, quick to engage in combat & use his quirk to knock him out by quickly raising & then dropping his body temperature, dragging him back to headquarters.
The room itself wasn’t much. Four white walls with a bed, the blond chained to it & quirk suppressed, an easy job. By the bed was a few chairs & a table, covered with the equipment Izuku often used to torture people — from what he’d washed up for him, at least. Shoto was never allowed to witness Izuku hurt people, never allowed to hear it, confined to his bedroom by the other’s orders. Not a witness, never afraid, never restrained — it was for his own good, he knew that much, because Izuku was aware of what he’d been through, was aware of the monsters who had stolen away his childhood & his dreams & his happiness.
His only mistake, in the end, was taking a seat & falling asleep after sending Izuku a text, head on Bakugo’s legs. It wouldn’t have been a mistake, at least, if he hadn’t awoken to Izuku’s voice & the blond’s thrashing, an incoherent mumble leaving his mouth as he moved over to Izuku instead, sitting on the ground & wrapping his arms around the green-haired boy’s legs, resting against him as he attempted to fall back into that dreamless sleep.
❝What’s going on, ‘zuku…?❞ A quiet question, eyes opening & looking up at the person in question, half-lidded & sleepy & confused all at once. It wasn’t unusual, not when Shoto struggled to sleep most days & took a while to fully wake himself from his slumber. ❝’s loud… want earmuffs…❞
( it was always loud back then. loud yelling as he trained with his father, his own loud screaming as knives dug into his skin again & again & again, until he couldn’t handle the sound of his own voice for months. loud was always bad & it was something he had always tried to avoid since he was gifted to izuku as a pet of some sort by all for one, a fact that never failed to piss him off. )
