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Aizawa's POV

I heard something like a door slam from upstairs but I shook the thought out of my head after all, all my students are down here. Along with this boy who only heard Bakugo call himself one of the Drug Loves and he panicked so bad he was willing to do anything and everything these two said regardless of if they killed his sister or not. What exactly did those two do to get that kind of reputation? They were undercover for months, yes but still. This level of fear came from years upon years of torture. Unless...

I put erassure cuffs on both his arms and legs and picked up the smelling salts the boys left behind. Do I really want to do this? No, I don't, but I need to...

I opened the canister and waved it under his nose and he was startled awake the moment I did. He looked around in fear for a second then seemed to calm down before looking at me.

"Why did you wake me up here? Are they gone?" I see him looking around again nervously as if just remembering what all happened.

"They aren't too far away," I see him almost shrink in his seat no longer trying to look brave or defiant. "Look I did everything they said to the letter, why are you doing this to me?" He was crying, not little tears either. His face was almost instantly covered as tears streamed down his face.

"I was good, just take me to the heroes. I swear I won't do anything. I won't fight them even, I'll just go. I'll confess to all of my crimes. Please don't make them come back," He was pleading as sobs rocked his body.

"Shh, they don't know I woke you up yet." I see him jolt back up in his seat as he looks at me terrified.

"Anything you want, ask and it's yours please don't tell them. I'll still go with the heroes. Please they already said it, it's law now." He was looking around frantically. "You're heroes in training right? Just call the emergency number so they can pick me up with no problems. Wait, is it your friend? That's right. Two said I was impersonating their friend. He is fine. I just put him to sleep. He is in his bed where I found him just sleeping. He'll wake up if you use the smelling salts I swear!" The boy was trembling trying to tell us everything he knew.

I held up a hand and he shut his mouth instantly, terror still very evident in his face. "How did you know that stuff about them when they pegged you?" If he's willing to talk he can talk but it needs to be on my terms.

"A source told me, I didn't believe it but their reaction told me it was true. Why am I even trying to hide who it is? I don't know his name, not his real one but he goes by Time Bomb, word on the street is that you never know when he is going to explode literally. He can't even tell sometimes. That's the word anyway." He looked around as if trying to gage if we were trustworthy. "You would never guess he was a villain and from what I've seen, he was taken away for prison already anyway, along with the rest. But I still don't know his name."

I blinked, it was almost too easy, "Why are you just telling me this?" I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth but if this intel was false...

He started laughing and sobbing at the same time. "Why?" He seemed completely amused and terrified to even really answer me. "You have the fucking Drug Lovers behind you and you're asking why I'm answering your questions? Are you sick in the head? Do you even know what they can do? Do you know what they have done?" He dissolved into sobs at the use of their code name again, even though he is the one that did it.

"What did they do to make you like this?" I emphasized the word you so I would only hear what I had to hear.

"Have you heard of the villain called Blob?" I shook my head no and waited. "They spent a week on him, he was the only one to ever return after the second time but then I was in the Control Room the day Lucy ordered them to kill him and Two threw the knife so hard it went all the way into his chest like it was nothing!" He was starting to panic again looking around for my two students. Now that I think about it they have been in the kitchen a long time now...

"Then she told him that it didn't matter, they needed to kill someone that they weren't going to put on their table that night. That night! One took the same blade and it went into Chupika's number one right hand woman's neck. When he got the blade out, Two said they would be happy to go all day. All fucking day!" His voice had slowly been rising and he screeched that last part before clamping his mouth shut.

"Undercover or not, those two are killers. They enjoyed it. They enjoy killing and I want to be exactly where they tell me to be. Prison. Please let me go now. I was the one who had to clean their bodies and dispose of them. I SAW what they did to Blob. I don't want that to happen to me. Please just call the police and let me go to them. Please, please I'm begging you. Please?" He was inconsolable at this point; he wasn't able to repeat anything or answer any more questions.

"What did they do to Blob?" I didn't even hear myself ask but the boy lost it screaming for someone, anyone to call the police, please! Eventually I had to knock him out for his own sanity as well as mine.

I checked his cuffs and found they were both perfectly secure and called the detective with the lie detecting quirk who came almost as soon as I hung up. He took him away and I told him to keep him quarantined from everyone else because he had information I needed. He nodded and took him away and I looked around at my students, they all seemed to be rooted to the spot. That boy, whatever his name is, shook them. He shook them all.

I turn and walk to the kitchen only to find it empty. "Where are the boys?" I yelled hoping someone saw them leave and when but no one noticed. We probably spent an hour, maybe two questioning the boy and as much as he was looking around I'm pretty sure he would have noticed if they just walked by. Then I saw a very sleepy and still in his PJ's Todoroki coming down a set of stairs and into the kitchen. Since when did...? Wait, did they maybe go to their rooms?

I ran up the stairs and stopped outside Midoriya's door. Please for the love of God let them be in one of their rooms. I used my teacher's key, not willing to wait for teens to maybe open the door or not. I pushed the door open only to hear, "AAAAHHHHHH!" Before I quickly shut the door again. Yep they are in there. I could have done without hearing that. My nerves were already on edge as it was.

I take a second to collect myself before raising a hand to knock on the door. As much as I want to lecture them about sexual activity on school grounds. I can't deal with that at the moment. One problem at a time. I wait knowing full well that they won't be opening the door anytime soon. Why am I waiting? I know where they are and they are safe. They are of age, regardless of the fact that they shouldn't be doing it here but they really don't have anywhere else to go, do they?

I'll talk to them about it later. I take a deep breath and walk back downstairs never actually knocking. My students, still running around, froze when they saw me. "They are in Midoriya's room, just don't let them leave the dorms without telling me first." I groan, I am way too tired for this shit. I mean why do I have to deal with any of it?

I walk out the door and to my car, I still have to go to the police station...

I arrive and the detective from earlier greets me. "Where is he? Do you have a recorder? This will probably take a while." I just say, I'm already tired. My students take so much of my time. So much of my energy.

"This way," he motioned and we went into one of many interrogation rooms and I saw the boy with erassure cuffs sitting quietly at a table and for the first time he looked calm and at peace. I walk in and he flinches and sees the detective behind me who closes the door.

"Are they here?" He asked looking up at me, he looked sick to his stomach.

"No, they don't even know where you are. Only the three of us do," I answer slowly watching the way his face contorted at the news.

"No, you need to tell them! They need to know that I did what I was told. If they don't know then..." I watched his breathing speed up as he started to panic.

"Will a text do? They left you to me, they knew you were going to be arrested regardless. So it's not like they are going to go looking for you." I sat in the seat in front of him as he tried to calm himself down.

"That's right, you are a hero. They know I went and so long as you go back everything should be fine," he was rocking himself in his seat trying to calm himself down.

"Do you understand your rights as a citizen as well as an accused villain?" I asked him and he nodded. "Everything you say will be recorded and this is a Detective. His quirk is a lie detector one so you won't be able to lie without us knowing. Of course everything will be recorded for future viewing and listening." I motioned to the camera and the voice recorder on the table.

"I understand I will not lie, not with you as their friend or whatever." I frowned at his words but otherwise ignored it. I looked at the detective to make sure he was ready and he nodded.

"Why are you afraid of the heroes, Deku and Dynamight?" I watched as he laughed in response to my question.

"It's not their hero names that make a villain's blood run cold Pro-Hero Eraserhead. It's their Villain names, One and Two otherwise known as the Drug Lovers. They are merciless killers and those who have the misfortune to end up on their table will never talk. No matter what you do to them." I looked at the Detective who nodded letting me know that everything he said was in fact true. At least as true as he knew it to be.

"Fine, then what makes you so afraid of them? You keep mentioning a table but not what you mean." The boy looked around nervously.

"Word is they drug you and carry you away, sometimes for days on end and when you return, if you return, you have no idea what they did to you. Your quirk is never the same though. It's like they put some kind of limiter on you. Making it so that you can't do as much as before. No one really knows though." He let out a sigh as if resigning himself to his fate.

"They will kill me, you know that? It might not be them directly but I will die. I know too much. I will end up on their table, maybe you could just invite them here and with this detective guy they will let me just answer their questions? Now that I know it was them I know my sister died painlessly compared to what they would have done if they chose to." I looked at the detective again who was just watching the boy in front of us.

"What makes you think that we can?" I ask him and see him droop in his seat.

"I see then there is no going around it. I will be on their table, you know no one ever comes back a second time. Unless, well there was Blob but I know he was a special case." I see a violent shiver run through the boy. "Will you please just kill me? The same way my sister died would be perfect. Her neck was snapped by One. If not a bullet between the eyes will be alright too. Anyway it is better than their table."

"A second time?"

The boy looked up and saw that I was serious and stood up slowly. I used my quirk on him just in case he tried anything, in case he managed to break the cuffs. He shook his head no before pulling up his shirt and I saw a smiley face stitched into his side with red and green surgical thread. It was ugly and his skin was puffed up like it was only just done and hadn't healed yet. The eyes were just thick X's one red and one green.

"These will never heal, this was done almost three months ago by the Drug Lovers before they really got that name. This is the mark known as death among the League." I froze at the sight remembering how many corpses I found with the same signature in the same place on them.

What have Midoriya and Bakugo done?

TO BE CONTINUED... Book 2

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