(Warning! Huge Manga Spoilers! Character death ahead)

As The World Caves In – Sarah Cothran (cover)

Bloodstream – Ed Sheeran

Dancing With Your Ghost – Sasha Alex Sloan

Hate you – Seann Bowe

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Chaos. Madness. Turmoil...

All around them mayhem was erupting everywhere. Civilians screaming and running away, while heroes did their best to keep the villains at bay. Quirks going off in different directions and clashing with others. Students doing their best to keep up with the villains. There were too many to keep count of. This was all so sudden and even if they were thrown off, they were trying and succeeding at keeping them off while giving the chance of those who could not fight, escape. There were many red feathers diving and flying around to remove people from the battle as quickly as possible. Burning hot flames erupting from the ground up to subdue those who had stronger quirks.

Screams of agony and confusion surrounding the stadium.

All of it background noise to Y/N.

This was not the first time she's experienced something like this, and she never thought she would have to again. The scared part of her, the little girl who was taken and smuggled from Mexico to Japan, was afraid. She was afraid. Not of her life, but of those around her. Those she deeply cared for. She was older and stronger now.

However, was she strong enough to fight her own friend?

The first boy she ever loved. The one that protected her until what she thought was his dying breath.

She felt torn and conflicted.

He was alive.

Tenko was alive.

This whole time, while she mourned him, drinking her sorrow away for a period of time while being trapped in the club. Finding solace in alcohol at a young age. All because she lost him. She'd found some sort of peace in liquor at the age of fifteen, until her brother snapped her back to reality. Because she still had Miguel and Rosalinda. Then she found, Aizawa, Eri and Hitoshi. Shoto, Izuku and Katsuki. Mina, Momo and Hanta. Nemuri and Hizashi. Mitsuki and Masaru. Hell, all of class 3-A, and even other teachers, her principal and other students from different classes. So many people she was able to connect with. So many people that were the reason for her to keep going.

However, this whole time. Tenko's been alive and her heart burned with so much pain for him and what this meant. All those lonely nights, she cried herself to sleep. All the days she wished to be with him and wished to have taken his place.

It was all for nothing...

He'd promised her he wouldn't leave her behind, but just like everyone in her life...

He lied.

She felt like the world was caving in. She didn't know what to feel? Elated, pissed, or scream in pain. All these lies, people have been throwing at her have been really getting on her nerves.

Why?

Why did everyone always lie to her...

"Put me down." Y/N whispered hoarsely to Izuku.

Izuku confused at first, shook his head violently. Where would he put her? He sure as hell was not going to take her down below because of all the chaos. And she couldn't fly to be left on the towers. With all the fighting happening down on the ground, they will surely be blown up soon.

"Y/N-"

"I said put me down Izuku." Y/N's scarlet eyes burned with so much sorrow and betrayal.

It vibrated through their connection. Izuku felt chills go down his spine, having never seen her this mad before. He was having a hard time keeping his composure. From the corners of his eyes, he even saw Shoto falter from where he stood.

"Please..." she whispered. "Just... I need a moment."

Chuckling darkly Tomura smiled in her direction. "Too much to handle love?"

"No, no." She ignored him as best as she could. "You." She pointed at Tomura, not believing him. "You don't get to talk. I don't even know if what you're saying is true. You could be lying for all I know."

Tomura already knowing she would be skeptical of this used his quirk again, one of many he had and one where they had a deep connection – just like she did with Izuku, Katsuki and Shoto.

Showing her more images of when they were little and both prisoners in the club. Playing when they had time. Reading stories to a very young Miguel when he was still a baby. Dancing with him in his room and dancing out on the wet dewy field when they escaped and went on little adventures. Sharing their food rations because sometimes one was always starved. Tenko taking most of the beating for them when they both got caught outside. With a bruised eye and missing teeth still smiling at her, even though she was crying. Comforting her and promising he was her hero and would not let anything happen to her.

Promising to never break her heart.

"Stop it!" Y/N cried, her fists in a tight grip, holding on to Izuku's jacket as tears freely flowed out.

Izuku seeing the same thing and experiencing the same pain and turmoil she was. Felt his resolve slowly crack, for how much he was starting to feel conflicted in taking Tomura down.

However, Tomura didn't back down.

There was a moment of regret in his eyes. That only Shoto noticed form where he stood, but why would he seem conflicted of this? Shoto didn't want to believe that Tomura of all people didn't want to hurt Y/N.

He's a murderer, a selfish villain who only wants what will be in his favor, right?

"I promised I would never lie to you." Tomura whispered. It sounded just like him, like her Tenko. Only older and much different than the taunting he's been doing so far, giving her a whiplash of sorrow and happiness.

"Then why?!" Y/N yelled out in pain. "Why did you leave me there?" Her voice cracked with emotion. "Why did they lie of your death...?" She hiccupped. "Do you know what they did to me after you left? What they told me your last words were?" Shaking her head in disbelief Y/N whispered, "Tenko would never leave me behind. He promised..." tears cascading down her cheeks, Y/N harshly bit out. "You're not him. I refuse to believe that you are."

"My death was the only lie I ever told you. I was always there, even if you never saw me."

"Stop talking!" She begged him.

Her heart felt so heavy. Shuddering breaths leaving her lungs in small bursts of exhaustion. Lips trembling from trying to hold in the pain.

And all Izuku could do was hold her in his arms as he saw her falling apart. Her body trembling with fear and torment. Ready to catch her at any moment, and piece her back together as best as he could. He knew this would happen, and there was nothing he could do about it. She was going to find out eventually, but this hurt him as much as it was hurting her. He never wanted to be the cause of her pain, and unfortunately today, he was.

Had they done the right thing in hiding this from her?

"Master promised me, I could go back for you after I did what he told me to do. He would let me leave every so often to see you." Tomura called out, hurt lacing his words. "As long as I killed whoever he wanted me to kill. I was granted what I wanted. As long as I followed his plan and become this..." Like a switch being turned on, Tomura's personality changed to that of hurt to menacing. Arms extended out floating high above them, the sun shining down and casting his shadow. He looked terrifying. A true villain "Become a god." He laughed, giving a chill to Y/N.

"You became a murderer..." Y/N whispered slowly. "Tenko didn't want to hurt people." She remembered how lovely he was, how gentle and caring he treated even the smallest of butterflies. "Tenko wanted to save people." He told her of his dreams, and even if his mother, grandparents, and sister never supported him and always looked the other way when his father beat him, that never stopped him. "Tenko wanted to be a hero like his grandma." Even after the accident with his quirks he still had a sliver of hope. "Tenko looked up to heroes, to All-Might... He didn't hate anyone."

Yes, even if AFO 'saved' him when he was little and brought him to the club for Mama to look after him. Where he met Y/N. He still dreamt of becoming a hero. Even if afraid to touch her, she still saw the good in him. Even if he believed he was a monster she always saw otherwise coaxing him back to sanity. She helped him realize that it wasn't his fault for his family's death, and she was there for him, bringing him back from the darkness he was close to. However, now all she saw was the hate he's been harboring clear as day in his eyes. Not resembling at all the young boy, she met when they were little.

"And you... you can't be him. You can't... y-you-"

His eyes glowing ruby, she saw that something was wrong with him. She could feel it deep in her bones. There was no way this could be him. Even if it was Tenko floating just out of reach, only older and with a different shade of eyes and hair. She knew it was him, but then again it wasn't.

"But I am... Tenko Shimura was reborn as Tomura Shigaraki, Y/N. Now it's your time to be reborn as well. Join me... WE can make the dream we've always wanted a reality. Me and you can make this world new. Be by my side like you've always had. Like you were meant to. You belong with me. Not with them. They don't even know what your true capabilities are. WE won't ever let children go through what we had to go through." He was speaking robotically, trained to answer questions thrown at him. Voice so monotone and with little resemblance to who he used to be.

"You sound insane... What you're saying sounds like you and then it doesn't. This ideology of yours will kill people in the process." Y/N sneered. Hands shaking for realizing that she will have to fight him after all.

Fight the person that held a place in her heart, that meant the world to her. And that was a hard pill to swallow.

How would she ever fight him?

Izuku with remorse, didn't know what to do. He wanted to help her in bringing him back to the light, because he felt what she was feeling, saw what she was seeing, and it was too much for him too. Though he was only feeling it second handedly, he could only imagine what she was going through.

"Then let the weak die." Tomura spit out bitterly.

She flinched, at the words of her supposedly deceased best friend. Her first friend in that hell.

Y/N knowing something was wrong looked at Izuku, "Tell me is that really him?" Izuku looked troubled. "There's no point in lying now."

"Yes and no." Y/N raised her eyebrows to have him elaborate. "All For One is inside him right now. We think he has a quirk that can allow him to be one with him. Use him. We believe Shiga-" Izuku noticed how she grimaced from the foreign name, "Tenko..." he corrected himself quickly. "We believe he's letting him use his body. For what we don't know."

Cackling like a mad man, Tomura's voice changed to that of another. A smooth baritone voice. "You're quite perceptive All-Might's successor. If only I grabbed you first before he did. Even though you were quirkless before. I could have given you more power. I can see how cunning you are, young man."

Y/N held onto Izuku tighter. Not liking the way this AFO person, who was inside of Tenko, looked at Izuku like a prized possession. And it hurt even more that she had to protect him from the person who she thought was her best friend, who was her first love. The person who was supposed to be dead.

Who she looked up to while growing up. Who she fell in love with at the young age of nine.

"And you my dear, are very captivating." Izuku now protected Y/N from the eyes of AFO. "I can see why my underling is so attached to you." He grinned wickedly. "I was the one that took you from that god forsaken town you called home when I got a tip on an interesting family with such interesting quirks and children. Such pitting living circumstances, you and your brother had back then. I'd say I saved you and gave you an opportunity at greatness." Y/N was right, this whole time since her existence, she had a target on her back. "You were a backup should it have not worked with dear little Tenko. And though I was training him, I did not forget about you. In the meantime, while he was with me, I made you into the perfect weapon." His eyes held that of a soul eater. He had no remorse for what damage he's done, for what lives he's destroyed. "And now I've come to collect what I created. Both you and Izuku Midoriya belong to me. You either come with me willingly, or I will take you by force."

Y/N's eyes narrowed when she saw a single tear leave Tenko's eyes.

He was still in there.

"It seems like you don't have full control of his body yet. Which means he is still fighting you in there. Why do I get the feeling that you're having a hard time controlling him right now? And that it's not the first time." Y/N tilting her head, with resolve she spoke out. "I have a feeling you've been hiding this whole time trying to control him."

"Hmm, he always was such a fighter this one." He shrugged. "No matter, very soon there will no longer be a Tenko Shimura. I will use him until his dying breath."

"You're sick... You use people to your advantage... You were never going to give him what he wanted and I'm sure somewhere along the way he realized that too. Because he wouldn't be fighting you if he was truly with you. What the hell did you do to him?!" Y/N's sorrow flipped to that of anger.

"I made him into a perfect vessel. He is mine to use and dispose of, just like you are. Like you will be."

"I'm going to kill you for everything you've done." Y/N seethed with venom.

"Oh? That's not very hero like Y/N." Tomura being controlled by AFO taunted.

"I'm not All-Might. I won't let the government dictate how I should and should not save someone. Putting you in jail won't be enough. Your existence is a problem and if taking your life makes me a villain, so be it. But you will not take the people I care for from me. You will not continue to use Tenko. And you sure as hell will not have Izuku or anyone else." Y/N's voice cracked with a silent proclamation.

No more. No more will she allow anyone else to suffer.

"You and I are quite alike you know."

"I'm nothing like you. Yes, it's wrong that I want to kill you. But my soul was tainted a long time ago. Tainted by you and what you did... If taking you down means tainting my hands and dealing with the consequences, I don't care I'll do it. We can both go down together." Y/N meant it, if she had to sacrifice her life to keep everyone alive and safe from the hands of AFO, she would do it. She would be a martyr to give them their freedom.

"I should have taken you first." He laughed. Laughed. And with the face of her best friend. "But how could I have ignored the pleas and cries of Tenko when he begged me to take him instead?"

That did it.

Y/N not giving a damn that she was in midair, hit Izuku in the ribs, making him falter and let her go. Not wasting a second, she jumped across to Tomura. Tackling him while in midair. Using the smoke from her quirk in an instant to shut his off, because she knew he could kill her in an instant. Though and upper hand, this however, also meant that she would be shutting off whatever other quirk he had that was helping him fly. And even though this meant her death, she didn't give a damn as they both fell from the sky.

While they fell towards the ground, in horrifying slow-motion, Shoto and Izuku looked in horror and cried out her name. Hearts trying to jump out of their ribcage as they saw their love strangle Tomura and take him down along with her. Both not wasting a second, they jumped into action to capture her before she hit the ground.

"Where's Kyoka!" Y/N wrestled with Tomura, towards the ground. However, he didn't answer, he was laughing hysterically for how riled up she was. Breaking her heart that much more, for how lost he was. And how far out of reach he actually was.

Katsuki on the ground and already seeing his girlfriend in the hands of Tomura freaked out, panicking that somehow Izuku was taken down.

"Zombie! Send me to your sister with that thing around your neck!" He frantically yelled towards Hitoshi who was fighting alongside him.

Hitoshi was able to get his scarf for the sports festival and it was a good thing, because this was the weapon he'd learned to use and the only weapon that would be saving his sister.

Hitoshi with wide eyes, saw his sister falling from high up on the sky having Tomura in a headlock. Hurriedly following Katsuki as they made their way to her, avoiding those who were fighting around them. Once close, he wrapped Katsuki in his capture scarf and the ash blond using his quirk, propelled himself forward. Snatching Y/N away from Tomura with ease. Hitoshi already knowing Katsuki's quirk was going to turn off because of the smoke surrounding Y/N. Pulled the scarf down with force after hanging it on a high tower ledge. Bringing his sister and Katsuki up before they touched the ground.

Once in her arms. Katsuki tightened his hold, not letting her go even for just a second. "Y/N what the hell are you doing?!"

"Let me go!" Y/N yelled, frantically trying to get away from him. "I'm going to fucking murder that son of bitch!" Her eyes were glowing scarlet with intent to kill.

"Darlin calm down!" Katsuki didn't want to hurt her, and he was having a hard time in keeping his composure to settle her down.

"Calm down?!" Y/N seethed. Glowering with untamed anger. "You lied to me! This whole time you knew, and you lied to me."

"What else did you want me to do?!" Katsuki's grip tightened impossible more. His quirked scarlet eyes searching into hers. "Tell you, hey love of my life, I know were in a great place right now, but just FYI your dead boyfriend is back."

"Katsuki this isn't funny." Y/N with tears of irritation and frustration tried to wiggle out of his hold.

"I never said that it was. You thought I was kidding when I told you, I love you and will do anything for you? I'm not going to let you ruin your life for someone that's clearly gone." Katsuki with as much anger that ignited in him because of her, fought back.

"That's not what this is about?!" Y/N yelled with frustrated tears. "T-this whole time, he was alive, suffering because of me!" Katsuki gave her a perplexed look. "Don't you get it? He sacrificed himself and took my place because that thing!" She pointed at Tomura who was still being controlled by AFO, who unsurprisingly landed gracefully on the ground without as scratch. It was so hard to see the face of her childhood friend with such menacing intention. "Wanted me instead. He used Tenko's weakness against him, and unfortunately, I was that weakness-"

"Rather him than you." Katsuki bit out without a second thought, interrupting her.

"How can you say that?" Y/N breathed out in anger. "I'm alive and here with YOU, because of him."

"We're not doing this." Katsuki with resolve ignored her protests.

"The hell?" Y/N reeled back.

"You don't fucking get to play martyr anymore you got that? You promised you wouldn't throw yourself in danger anymore like a fucking lunatic. You fucking promised Shoto. You promised me and Izuku, your family, at the hospital may I remind you. So, no. Whatever the fuck you have planned I'm shutting that down, right. Fucking. Now. Before you get yourself killed. You're leaving with Izuku, now."

"Suki!?"