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"... I'm sorry."
"... It's too late for apologies, Ochako." Toga sighs.
The wind whips their faces, bringing the smell of blood, sweat and tears with it. The cloudy, grey sky doesn't let any sunshine through, and the air is bitter and cold. The ground is partly destroyed, covered in rubble, debris and blood.
The two girls stand, tense, opposite each other.
"Sorry means nothing when we're in the middle of a war. We're on opposite sides, no matter what we feel or what we want, we will have to fight." Toga says tiredly.
"So I need you to hate me, okay?"
Uraraka's head snaps up to stare at Toga, eyes wide.
"Wait- wha-what do you mean?" She exclaims, voice shaky and unsure, hands half reached out.
Toga glares at the ground next to Uraraka, her expression a mix of anger, dejection and sadness.
"We will have to fight. And... And I just want it to be easy okay?!" She yells, a few stray tears flinging off her face as she leans forward, hands in her hair, frustrated.
"I just want to be able to think of you as any other hero and do what I'm meant to do! Kill you without caring! So please! Just hate me, so i can hate you, and then everything can go back to normal!" She screamed, fully bent down, tears streaming from her eyes.
Uraraka's eyes widened further, and she took a step back.
"I... I get it." She sighs, and turns her head away.
"I just want to go back to when things were 'good' and 'bad', because it was just so much easier!" She takes a deep breath. "So... Let's just forget about Ochako and Himiko, and we can focus on being a hero and a villain. Because I don't think Ochako can stop loving Himiko."
Toga looks Uraraka in the eyes and grins madly, nodding.
The hero and the villain stand, ready, opposite each other.
"Hero-chan~! I'm gonna drink all your pretty blood!" The villain yells cheerfully, pulling a knife from its holder.
"Never, villain! I'm going to put a stop to your evil ways here and now!" The hero exclaims loudly, grinning.
They yell and charge towards each other, the hero jumping, pulling her leg back, ready to launch a steel-toed-kick to the villain's side, while the villain lunges down to get behind the hero, attempting to stab her in the lower back. The hero quickly kicks her leg backwards, catching the villain in the shoulder and buying enough time to land and spin around so she faces the villain again. The villain quickly throws two knives aiming for the hero's arm and stomach, then dashing forward with another knife, aiming for her chest. The hero leans heavily to her right, one of the knives grazing her side, and kicks the villain in the chest and she lunges towards her, and the villain stabs her lower leg as she gets pushed backwards by the kick.
"Agh- fuck!" The hero cursed, clutching her leg.
"Now, that's not very heroic language, hero-chan~!" The villain giggles.
"Shut up!" The hero snaps, with a pained grimace.
"How rude!" The villain says petulantly, pulling another knife, now with a knife in each hand.
They charge at each other again, kicking, hitting, stabbing. The hero manages to push the villain to the ground, harshly, making a 'pop' sound.
"AGH!" The villain yells, eyes scrunched closed.
Ochako opens her mouth to say sorry, but she's pushed aside.
"Surrender now, villain." The hero says triumphantly.
Himiko looks hurt for a second, but then the villain flashes a watery grin.
"No way! As if I'd surrender to hero scum like you!" The villain declares with gritted teeth.
The villain stabs the hero in the stomach. Ochako stares in shock, letting out a pained whimper, then the hero grabs the villain's wrist tightly, crushing it almost.
"Ack!" The villain yelps, and tries to pull her wrist away.
The hero twists, and a distinct snapping noise rings out.
"AAAH! FUCK!" The villain screams, anger and pain burning in her eyes. "I'll fucking-" she pulls out the knife, and stabs it to the right of the previous knife wound. Ochako gasps "Himiko-" "KILL YOU!!!" The villain cries, stabbing the hero's stomach again. "HimIKO WAIT!" She screams desperately, eyes wide, panicking, pleading, full of regret, despair-
Himiko pauses, eyes wide, breathing heavily. She looks down to see Ochako gasping for air, eyes unfocused, face pale.
"Chako?" Himiko whispers, tears welling up in her eyes. Ochako looks up at the villain, terrified. "Ochako?" Himiko says a little louder, voice wavering and afraid.
"Y-yeah Himi?" Ochako says with a wobbly voice, face covered in tears.
They stare at each other for a moment, before Himiko starts to shake.
"Oh- oh god..." She mumbles, hands going to cover her mouth. "Oh god, Chako what did I do?" She starts hyperventilating, the shaking getting worse. "What did I do?!" She wails, hands going to cover the wound, trying to stop the bleeding somehow.
"It's o-okay, Himiko, it's- it's fine I'm fine everything will be fine-" Ochako rambles, eyes hazy and unfocused.
"I-I'm sorry! I'm so sorry Ochako!" Himiko sobs, ripping off Ochako's sleeve, trying to tie it around her stomach, and it wasn't working.
"... No matter what we f-felt," she says, staring into Himiko's eyes.
"Nonononono!" Himiko sobs harder, going to press her hands into her eyes.
"...Or what we wanted," she continues, grabbing Himiko's good hand with her own.
"Please, I'm sorry, no, Chako, please no!"
"We would've had to fight." Ochako stares at her, focused on nothing but Himiko. "And usually in fights, th-there's a winner and a loser." She says, grimacing from the pain. "How could I possibly b-blame you f-for winning?" She smiles up at Himiko brightly, but sadly at the same time. She looks on the verge of passing out.
"Nononono, I haven't won! I- you- y-you'll be f-fine! You have to! Because-" She says speedily, throwing the words out as quick as possible, and Ochako's grip gets weaker on her wrist.
She grips Ochako's upper arm with her bad arm, wincing. "B-because Chako, 'cause!-" She stutters, pausing.
Ochako's hand falls. She lets out a shaky sigh as her head falls to the side, a soft smile still on her face.
"BECAUSE HIMIKO LOVES OCHAKO TOO!" Toga screams, mouth stretching wide, but not enough, she has to scream loud enough for the heavens to hear- for Ochako to hear-
"I LOVE YOU OCHAKO!" She screams as she hugs the corpse close to her, letting the remaining warmth transfer to her as she shivers, feeling like the sun had disappeared and this was the only warmth she's ever get, but it was going, what was she going to do? She'd freeze, she'd-
"OCHAKO!" She sobs, pleads, but no one answers.
"Please..." She whispers, but no one hears.
She stares at the corpse that used to be her world, her everything, and oh god, Ochako didn't know Himiko loved her and she died thinking she hated her and what was she gonna do without her?
"I- I'll give you my blood!" She whispered to the corpse. "It- it'll make you better!" She smiled shakily, pulling out her needle, and stabbing it harshly into her broken wrist, letting out a pained sob, before carefully injecting the other end into Ochako's wrist. "I'll- I'll give you all my blood! Then we can- can be together forever right?" Himiko gently laid down Ochako, and laid herself besides her, intertwining their hands. Her eyes started to go cloudy, as she grew paler and paler. "Love you Chako..." She muttered sleepily.
"Let's have a nice nap together."
...
"May God forgive me."