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Chapter 50 - Blame

All characters and story belong to Kohei Horikoshi and Masashi Kishimoto

The figure that stood in front of Bakugo was without a doubt the figure of All Might in his maximum splendor.

"All Might? Is that you?" Bakugo asked with a trembling voice.

All Might remained impassive at Bakugo's question, maintaining a toothy smile and his arms akimbo.

—All Might? How did you get here? How did you find me? —Bakugo asked, wanting to cry. —And when did you get your power back? —Cough, cough, cough. —The boy twisted himself, falling to the ground from coughing. —There'll be time to catch up. —When he sat up, All Might's figure had completely disappeared. —Huh? Where...?—

—Kacchan...—he heard a voice behind him that he remembered very well.

—That voice and that stupid nickname...—he turned around to check that he was right. And he was. He was standing there in his hero costume and with the same appearance that the ash-blond remembered—Deku... So you've meddled where you're not called again and followed All Might. You're an idiot. By the way, where has All Might gone? We have to get out of here. Cough, cough, cough—he coughed uncontrollably again, spitting blood onto the ground

"Kacchan..." insisted Midoriya with eyes like a slaughtered lamb.

—Apart from being stupid, are you deaf, Deku? — Bakugo asked sarcastically with a vein on his forehead. — Cough, cough, cough, I told you we have to move our fucking asses! —

—Kacchan...—Midoriya said again without changing his tone of voice and without moving from the spot

"Cough, cough, cough." The coughing was getting worse. "When I recover, I'm going to beat you so badly that not even your mother will recognize you. Wait a minute, something's not right..." He finally realized that his former classmate hadn't changed at all. Not at all. "Why haven't you grown up? You're still...cough, cough, cough, cough... the same idiot I remember. You must be around 25..."

"Kacchan..." Midoriya repeated as if he hadn't heard anything the ash-blonde had said.

"Did you come just to piss me off?" Bakugo said, losing his temper. "Answer me for the fuck of it, Deku!" Bakugo grabbed him tightly by the collar of his hero suit. But, again, his cough made him lose strength and he let go. "Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough." Just as he was about to yell at him again, Midoriya was nowhere to be seen. "Huh? What's going on?"

"Young Bakugo, leave the chosen one alone," said the former number 1 hero, placing his hands on the shoulders of a 5-year-old Deku, who was wearing pajamas with images of All Might engraved on them.

—Cough, cough, cough. Hahahahaha —Bakugo laughed madly. —This is a fucking nightmare. I must have fallen unconscious and I'm dreaming about you and that stupid Deku bothering me. —He slapped himself hard to wake up, so hard he hit himself that blood came out of his cheek, but to his surprise he still saw the child Deku and All Might. —Are you really real? Did the red-haired bitch use her quirk on you too? Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough— this time the cough was so sharp that he fell to the ground clutching his chest from the damage he felt in his internal organs.

When Bakugo looked up, both All Might and the child version of Izuku Midoriya disappeared. In their place, the 16-year-old version of Deku reappeared, but this time he was wearing his school uniform instead of his hero suit, staring at him with the same sad face.

—Kacchan..., I just wanted to be your friend, why did you treat me like this? You abused me both mentally and physically! —Midoriya accused him with tears in his eyes

—What the fuck is this about? Stop wasting time with stupid things! Where is All Might? AAAAA! My head! It's going to explode! —He put his hands on his temples, but that only made his right shoulder explode with pain. But that sharp pain allowed him to have a moment of lucidity. —Mmm, you're not a kid anymore and not only that, you changed your clothes in an instant...—He touched his forehead with his left hand, which although it was somewhat numb from the poison, it was better than suffering again the pain he would feel if he raised his other arm. —I'm burning up, I'd say I must have around 42ºC fever. Fuck, I'm delirious with that stupid Deku. Why?—

—What would have happened if I had listened to you and jumped off the roof?—

—SHUT THE FUCKING MOUTH! YOU'RE NOT REAL, DEKU! SO SHUT THAT FUCKING MOUTH AND LEAVE ME ALONE! —Bakugo yelled, starting to lose his sense of smell and taste.

"I would have died! You would have killed me! So apologize to me!" Midoriya demanded, looking at him.

—Fuck you, you fucking hallucination! —Bakugo lost his sanity with rage, nearly bursting a vein in his forehead, and verbally attacked the hallucination.— Cough, cough, cough, cough, I'll repeat it if it isn't clear. Fuck you! Fuck you and fuck you in the ass! You want me to apologize? When pigs fly I'll apologize, you freak! Also...Fucking retard, you didn't jump! Thanks to me you were the fucking chosen one! The chosen one! You should kiss my feet for what I did for you!

"Ask me for forgiveness!" Midoriya's hallucination demanded again without reacting to what Bakugo said.

—Pfffff—he bit his fist to calm down because he didn't want to waste his energy on a hallucination. —I wish you weren't a hallucination so I could smash your stupid face in, just to see if you were going to keep saying I should apologize. They'd put more bandages on you than the fucking bastard mummy.—said Bakugo, starting to not distinguish what was real from what wasn't. The forest was blurry, the only thing he could see clearly was Deku's figure. —Cough, cough, cough, cough. —They talk so frequently and without pause made this new cough even worse than the previous ones. Again the hallucination disappeared. —Fuck, it's finally gone.

—Bakubro, can't you even ask for forgiveness now? —someone was speaking to him again from behind.

"Kirishima..." Bakugo turned around and almost fell to the ground from the emotion he felt at seeing his old friend. His mind was becoming more and more delirious and he was starting to believe the hallucinations were real.

—Why didn't you tell me all the shit you put Midoriya through? You're not a good bro, Bakugo. It's not manly to act like a bully, Kirishima chided him in disappointment.

—Don't come and bother me too, Kirishima! —Bakugo replied.

"But I know why you didn't say anything. You knew everyone would leave you out," Kirishisma continued.

"I didn't say anything because it was none of your fucking business!" Bakugo said, angry at his friend.

"When you disappeared, everyone was relieved. I was the most relieved. That way I didn't have to defend your unjustifiable actions anymore," Kirishima said. Bakugo took a step back at Kirishima's harshness, but recovered by shaking his head.

—Ha. And that's why you, Ponytail, the bastard Half-Half, Four-Eyes, Deku, and you risked your lives? —Bakugo said ironically.

—That was before I knew you were a bully. If I had known you almost caused Deku to commit suicide, no one would have come to your aid. Not even All Might. Not even me.—Kirishisma replied, looking at him with disgust.

"You're lying..." Bakugo faltered, his voice breaking.

"Young Kirishima is right. I should have let All for One kill you," All Might said, appearing out of nowhere.

"Well, you should have! I never asked for help! I would have run away anyway!" Bakugo defended himself.

"Who's lying now, Bakugo?" Uraraka said ironically.

— Round-Face ... —said Bakugo, overwhelmed by having so many people against him.

"Bakugo, why don't you do us all a favor and die?" Todoroki asked in a dark voice.

—WHAT DID YOU SAY, FUCKING ICY-HOT?—Bakugo shouted, despite the pain in his throat, anger prevailed over common sense.

"Don't you see that no one loves you? It was proven at the sports festival; no one supported you even though you were the winner," Uraraka insisted.

—What was proven is that I kicked all of your asses! —Bakugo counterattacked

"Only because I let you beat me. I felt sorry for you," Todoroki replied with disdain.

"Bastard," Bakugo said, ignoring that the poison was already starting to send shivers down his spine.

"Young Bakugo, listen to young Todoroki and die. Nobody loves you." All Might reasoned, keeping his smile.

"And what's it to me?" he said, standing up straight to appear normal and composed. "My only goal is to become the number 1 hero and surpass you, All Might! I'll leave the Mr. Popularity trophy to the bastard Half-Half and that stupid Deku."

—But young Bakugo..., how are you going to do that...?—All Might began to say

—If you're not capable of saving anyone...—Mikoto, Dosu, Kin, Zaku and Best Jeanist (remember that in my version I said that Best Jeanist died in All for One's attack) said simultaneously, appearing behind the ash-blonde. Bakugo jumped back, scared to see the people he thought were dead.

—And you are not able to defeat anyone either...—said this time Orochimaru, Zabuza, Itachi and All for One.

—SHUT UP EVERYONE! YOU'RE NOT REAL! YOU'RE A FIGURE OF MY IMAGINATION! SO SHUT YOUR FUCKS!—he touched the pus on his shoulder, trying to make it hurt so much that it would go away. But it was still there.

"Young Bakugo, aren't these civilians real either?" All Might asked, teleporting to his side.

Thousands of zombies circled around All Might and Bakugo. They slowly approached where All Might and Bakugo were.

"Who are they?" Bakugo asked, scared.

"They're all the ones who died at the hands of villains after I lost my powers. They're all the ones who died because of you, young Bakugo," All Might whispered, his thin build in Bakugo's ear.

Bakugo shook his head, trembling, his chest tightening. Red tears flowed uncontrollably from his tear glands.

"Murderer!" the zombies yelled, slurring their words.

"I..." Bakugo tried to defend himself against the accusations, but the words wouldn't come out. "Did all those people die because of me?" he thought out loud, dejected.

"That's right! Now accept your responsibility!" All Might said in a harsh tone. "Accept your responsibility by giving them your life, young Bakugo!" he added, pointing at the huge number of zombies approaching.

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