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Backstage Lovers | PT. 1
⊹ ࣪ ˖ Find part 2 here!! : Backstage Lovers | PT. 2
⋆˚꩜｡ zomzom's extras : Fic request from multiple friends!!! This is a Band + Quirkless AU fic, mentions suicide/suicidal intentions and drug usage, you have been warned!!
⤷ chapt summary : Izuku and Katsuki quit talking, avoiding each other for months until Katsuki purely gave into his temptations.
mha!aged up ; angst!
🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆ 19:54 ; Saturday Night Gig
The wind blew harsh against Izuku's skin. It whipped through his green hair as he clutched tightly onto his guitar pic. With a deep inhale he stepped up a short staircase which had a door that led backstage. There sat his other two band members, the only two friends he had left.
"Are you two ready?", His voice rang out, it echoed through the backstage dressing room. The two of them looked up, one with brown hair and big brown eyes, the other with green hair that was long enough it almost dragged across the floor when she walked.
They both gave an enthusiastic thumbs up before standing up. The three of them walk out onto stage giving the roaring crowd a wave. Ochako took her spot first, her hand wrapped tightly around the shaft of the mic. Next was Tsuyu, she sat down on a small stool behind her keyboard stand, the poles were covered in stickers. Lastly came Izuku, his heart racing like crazy in his chest, with each thump he felt his headache grow.
With a gentle strum he started them off after Tsu's count. Majority of their performance he kept his eyes closed, trying to avoid staring into the crowd. This didn't help though, he felt a pair of eyes on him, granted there were hundreds, but there was one pair that he could feel more than the others. His own eyes fluttered open only to be met with a red pair staring back at him.
His breaths grew heavier as he continued playing. For only a second he glanced away before looking back to where he saw his childhood spiky haired friend sitting in the stands. While doing his double take, he noticed that who he saw wasn't truly there. He tried to shrug it off and keep preforming, but it ate away at him the entire time right until the last moment.
As they were exiting stage he heard his name being shouted out in the crowd, he stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face the hundreds of people. He could hear his heart thumping in his ears just before he heard his name again.
"IZUKU!", The voice was raspy, a tone only a certain person that he knew could make. Once again he peered out into the crowd, not seeing whom he had been looking for. He held his hands over his ears until he made it backstage with the other two.
Tossing his guitar onto the couch, he chugged a bottle of water. Both Tsu and Ochako both gave concerned glances at each other before one of them spoke up.
"Deku..? Is everything alright?", Ochako asked, her tone gentle but still mildly concerned.
"Oh? Yeah I'm fine. Don't worry about it." Such an awkward interaction left the walk back to his car silent, as well as majority of the drive back to their shared apartment.
゛ ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆ 23:38 ; Damn Near Sunday Mornin'
Mina tied up her shoes and readjusted her clothes, standing in front of the mirror before turning to Katsuki, who sat with his feet propped up on a coffee table in front of the couch. Although he didn't say a word, there was a certain expression that was plastered across his face that didn't quite scream his usual demeanor.
"What's wrong Bakubabe?", Mina questioned before turning to face her back to Denki to zip up her top in the back.
"Nothings wrong, freak. And quit calling me that. It's getting old.", His voice sliced through the upbeat atmosphere in the room like a knife through butter.
"Yeesh, no need to be so harsh dude!", Exclaimed Hanta before Denki butted in "Yeah c'mon man, we're on in five."
He grabbed his drum sticks, they were battered. The same wooden pair he had since they were 1st years in highschool. The four of them stepped on stage, Mina in the middle near the front where the mic stand stood.
"How we feelin' out there tonight!?", Mina excitedly shouted into the mic in attempts to get the crowd riled up, and sure enough it worked. They were met back with screams louder than the ones when they stepped on stage.
Kyoka, from backstage, gave them the okay to start and began working the lights and making sure that their instruments sounded just as good through the speakers of the venue. Katsuki gave the count per usual with a four count tap on the rim of his drum.
In the middle of the 2nd song, right before his solo, something inside him snapped. His mind kept rewinding to that moment, the last moment he shared with Izuku. Their last few words uttered to each other in the pouring rain.
As the band continued his playing grew sloppy and off beat, his mind running off to other places that weren't the sheet music he had memorized days in advance. With each movement the sticks slammed harder into the cymbals. Without paying attention to where exactly his sticks were landing, he hit his wrist.
Once it made contact all hell broke loose from there, the force from the impact fractured his wrist causing a chain reaction of events that left the audience in shock.
Without a second noticed he stormed off stage shoving Kyoka out of the way but not hard enough for her to fall. He slammed the door to his dressing room shut and let out a loud and guttural scream. With it came a string of swears.
Back on stage Mina was making an attempt to keep the crowd calm whilst Hanta and Denki continued playing. "Alright guys, Bakubabe seems to be having a bit of wardrobe malfunction, we'll be back out in 10!"
The three of them quickly exited off-stage only to be met with the not-so-muffled sounds of Katsuki's yells. Before long he was quiet, not even a peep could be heard.
On the other side of the door he hesitated with his contacts open. His finger hovered over the call button before he gave in and pushed it. Impatiently he tapped his foot as he heard the dial tone.
✎ᝰ. AHH SO SORRY FOR THE CLIFFHANGER ENDING!! Depending on how fast I can finish editing part two it'll most likely be up tonight as well or tomorrow evening!! part 2 finished and up now!! linked above!
