Forgotten but not for long - Sergeant_Pepper - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia (2024)

Chapter 1: Prologue

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"I'm sorry, he's quirkless"

It was at that moment where everything shattered for young Midoriya Izuku, the only thing he ever wanted to do, be a hero felt out of reach, perhaps it was out of reach, the doctor's words cut deep into him. Especially since he thinks he still has a chance.

"B-but doctor... There's q-quirk genes in the big toe joints here no?" Izuku stammered out.

"Yeah no kid, you only have two toe joints, that means you're quirkless."

"B-But..."

"Izuku let's go" her mother called to him with a somber look on her face. She knew the implications, to be quirkless is basically a death sentence. The doctor gave them a pair of red shoes, "Fit for people like you" he added.

The whole theory of if someone has two toe joints then they're quirkless is actually still a hotly debated topic amongst quirk counselors, Izuku being fascinated with quirks knew that, however that theory is still considered true.

As they were exiting the quirk counselor office, they could hear whispers of "Poor kid..." "Unlucky..." "Stay away from him sweetie that's a defect..."

The mother met with the father outside, when they talked, the father's eyes sunk, devastated at the news, Izuku knew that being quirkless was going to be hard but he hoped that his parents would be there for him.

He was wrong, he was oh so wrong.

Ever since that doctor muttered that word, he had been kept inside the house, only allowed to go outside when it's school time, their parents say they love him but they can see how his mere existence can take a toll on them.

People say that they should just give him up, Izuku doesn't want that, he's read stories of people giving up quirkless kids, he doesn't want to be one of them.

His parents had protected him against all the snide remarks, all the threats, and yet the hits kept on coming.

People in school treat him as if he's some disease, staying away from him, mocking him and laughing at him. Even his childhood friend Bakugo who he called Kacchan who he swore that they will open a hero agency together someday started treated him as different, calling him a null or a defect and a Deku.

The people outside aren't good either, rumors spread, word gets around, soon enough people knew of the green haired family with a quirkless boy, they graffitied the apartment, words like "null and void" "defect" were present everywhere on the house one day, the breaking point came when he was 6 years old, people broke into their house and destroyed it's inside, and tried to hurt him, wielding knives and bats, leaving a large series of scars across his back, only leaving after the police received a noise complaint, not even a break in, a mere two weeks before his 7th birthday.

After patching up Izuku, he saw their parents talking to each other, each with a pensive and saddened face, he didn't want to ask.

"Inko, I don't think we can continue like this... You know I have a decent life in America, come with me please!"

"Hisashi... why...."

Two weeks later, on his 7th birthday, he woke up.

But his parents weren't there.

Their clothes are gone, the suitcases at the bottom of the bed as well.

He tries to call for them only to realize a note on the dining table with some money.

"We're sorry, Izuku"

Chapter 2

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Hunger, Desperation, and Sadness

Izuku didn't realize what being left behind would entail for him but this was defintely way worse

He had barely survive the first month with they money given, and the second month, he had to leave, his money ran dry and the landlord had kicked him out.

His first course of action of course, was to go to a hero agency, but the moment he step foot into the hero agency, the receptionist, his warm smile turned to one of disinterest and moved back to his office. Izuku thinking he was just busy with something. simply waiting at the lobby, munching the mints provided. But as he waited, and waited. He can't help but be curious, he lent his ear on the door and-

"Oh, don't worry, that kid's a defect."

Oh.

Izuku's eyes filled with tears as he slowly moved away, did the world really judged him that much, for something he couldn't control?

Why?

Izuku left the agency, and after all the time he waited, the sun was already setting, Izuku sighed, as he slowly trudged his way back, he made it through all the bustling crowd, and a dilemma he faced. He didn't have a place to stay. He considered his options, but he didn't know what to do, he kept on going, hungry and desperate, he saw a building in the distance, really old, run down, dilapidated, he looked around him, and realized that he made his way to a very bad part of town, the entire block was underdeveloped.

Well, no one seems to care about this place, like me...

He approached the building and tried to open the door, but it was locked, he didn't lose any resolve though, he needed a place to live, he gazed towards a trash can, and saw a needle, he didn't know what compelled him to do so, but his mind lingered to those movies he always watched where the spies would jostle around with needles in some locks and they would some how opened, he picked it up and prayed to himself that this would work, he stuck the needle into the door, and moved it around.

He kept on going

and going

and going

Until after what seems like decades, he finally managed to open the lock. He breathed a sigh of relief before slowly making his way in. inside the building was rundown, bits peeled off the walls, there were puddles on the floor, bugs crawled around. He gagged but he didn't have any other place to go.

He trudged his way up the stairs eventually finding a room with an old worn mattress, after what seems like forever, he could finally rest.

His rest didn't last long.

After a few hours, he was awoken by the sound of a man. Gruff and a bit scratchy.

"Get up here Tomura! Our work isn't done! I hid the findings here! If you want Sensei back, we need those papers!"

"Yeah shut up old man I got it!

Izuku froze. His mind ran wild, but then a young man appeared in the doorway, light blue hair, with hands all over his face like some grotesque mask.

"What the-"

Izuku immediately bolted for the door, slipping underneath the man's legs and ran, that man just screamed trouble, and he was not going to stay there for long.

Another voice rang through "Get that one! He's quirkless! He'll be perfect for the creation!"

Izuku's legs took off. running out the building, and into alleyways, the footsteps got further and further, until he couldn't hear them anymore, finally he collapsed exhausted.

Why can't life be easy?

Izuku wandered down the street, wearing a ragged hoodie and one hand fiddled with a lock and the other fiddled with a needle, he expertly clicked the lock open and a small smile tugged at his lips. Skills he have learnt himself, after two more months have passed and now he was eyeing up the passerby, ready to show off his next skill.

He noticed a man, walking with his coat pocket open, and in it, was a sleek black wallet. He didn't like to steal, but he didn't have much choice

Izuku eyed it up like a predator, as he slowly approached him his hand quietly and quickly took the wallet from the pocket and walked away, towards his next destanation.

A bakery. He had been waiting a few days for any decent food, and now that he has the money, he stepped in and pointed to a loaf of bread in the back, the cashier nodded and went to get his bread, as Izuku gave him the money. A voice behind him rang out.

"There he is! That's the rascal that took my wallet!"

Izuku didn't even hesitate as he took the bread and ran, pushing through the crowd, leaving the wallet behind.

He ran down a nearby alleyway, at this point, he knew the alleyways around here like the back of his hand. As he ran a group of people ran after him.

"Get the villain!"

Villain? I'm just trying to survive!

He ran through the alleyways, until, he saw a group of people, in front of him, "There he is!" They have cut him off. Izuku ran the other way, not clear on what exactly where he was going, just knowing he shouldn't be here. After a maze of alleyways, he finally lost his pursuers. He sat down, exhausted near a dumpster.

"You ok there?"

Izuku looked up in panic and clutched his bread, looking at a man with a tall muscular build, brown short hair. a small short rough beard on him with kind eyes and a small scar on his cheek. he was wearing a bartending outfit, white shirt, black vest and pants.

"Don't worry I'm not here to take your bread. It's just I want to help. My bar is back there, The Iron Haven, come on I'll take you there."

Izuku eyed him up with suspicion and stammered out "Y-You wouldn't want me... I'm -"

"Quirkless? That's fine by me!" The man calmly said.

Izuku looked up in shock and a glimmer of hope. He had asked for help before, but all of them stopped the moment they realized he was quirkless, seen as a relic of the past.

The man sat down next to him. Seemingly waiting for an answer, after a few minutes he asked "I'm Tetsuchi, want to tell me a bit about yourself?"

Izuku hesitated before responding. "I'm Izuku..."

"Let me guess, parents left you for being quirkless?" Tetsuchi asked in an empathetic tone.

"Yes..."

"What do you like to do Izuku?"

"I like quirks... heroes... katsudon... but I don't like heroes as much anymore..."

"Why?"

"I went to an agency and they didn't help... called me a defect..."

Tetsuchi clenched his fists. "Of course....f*cking fakes..." He muttered under his breath. "Well, kid I'm telling you, I've seen a lot of kids like you, just having no place to go, trust me I bet even you know you won't last long out here before something happening to you. Wanna come with me? As I said my bar is near here, I have a bowl of left over katsudon with your name on it."

Izuku looked up at him with a slightly skeptical look. But he knew he was right, he had to get help from someone.

So why not.

Izuku followed Tetsuchi to a building, four floors tall, when Tetsuchi opened the door, the bar came into view. A stage to his right side with amp, speakers, guitars, drum sets, bass, a piano and some violins. Red booth seats flanked both sides of the bar, as the moved up, they turned a corner and there were more booth seats but there was a bartop in the centre of the room, multiple glasses hung from on top, multiple bottles of liquor were on the shelves on the back and near it was a door labeled "Office" and one labeled "Kitchen" with an open window connecting to the bar top.

"Take a seat I'll get you food."

Izuku sat quietly as Tetsuchi started to heat up some food.

Izuku broke the silence "Tetsuchi... Why did you help me..."

Tetsuchi smiled. "Well, kid I know what it feels like to be left behind, I've seen people like you, and I've helped people like you."

"Like me?"

"Yeah, I help a lot of people and for you I can help you get a family if you want?"

"No," Izuku's mind wandered to all the possibilities of being in a foster home. Will the situation really be all that better? He doubts it, he'll rather not interact with the society that treats him like trash.

"Alright then, there's room upstairs you can stay there if you want."

Izuku blinked, he was offered food and shelter? Tetsuchi didn' t notice this and simply got the bowl out, and gave him his katsudon, as Izuku ate, he replied "I just can't do that, at least let me help."

Tetsuchi was hesitant. "Well, kid this bar here isn't normal. It's more than you think."

Izuku was now confused. "More? How so?"

Tetsuchi thought for a bit. "Well... Given that I can call you "one of our kind" I guess I can tell you, this bar is part of... I guess you can call a support network called The Forgotten Cove, or the TFC for short."

Izuku's curiosity was piqued. "What do you guys do?"

"Oh, a lot of things, job opportunities, education, places to stay, food, protection services, at a reduced price or sometimes even free!"

Izuku was shocked "Wait, how do you do that?" Tetsuchi smirked, "Well, I guess you can chalk it up to people we know who owe us favours or want to help out. And the thing is, these services are usually offered to people like mutants, quirkless, people with "villainous quirks", recovering villains or just people that got left behind in general like people who got stuck in poverty or people who just don't have anyone to rely on!"

Tetsuchi continued. "People usually shut up about us since they know if they talk to someone who's not supposed to know about us, then they might lose us, and to those who tell people about us maliciously? We got ways to deal with them. As for how we do it, some of these people, as I mentioned before may be people we helped out in the past and now that they're fine the help us back, slowly slowly it became this, we have people all across Japan!"

Izuku looked on in awe. "Wow... are there a lot of quirkless people here?"

Tetsuchi nodded "Yup! In fact a lot of quirkless people ask us about quirk counseling, since a lot of quirkless people are mis identified, and that they just didn't realize they have a quirk, maybe it's some specific activation requirements or something, whatever it is, the counselors will find out, and they also help with things like mutant quirks or transforming quirks where people might not understand things about their body."

Izuku nodded at the new of that. "Yeah! I still remember my x-ray showing quirk genes, but my doctor says that' its too like what little or too unconcentrated? To be a quirk. Actually how did you get involved with this Tetsuchi?"

Tetsuchi's smiled faltered as he scratched his chin. "Well, the thing is kid, I used to rob banks, people saw my quirk and they were scared of it, so I couldn't get any jobs so I had to steal, I got caught and served 10 years, when I got out, someone who I knew in prison, he got out a few years earlier, introduced me to these people. Then, since they didn't find all the money I got, I used the remaining money I got on this place!"

His smile grew warm "I thought I was done for, but now with places like this, though unnoticed or small, I could make a difference, quirks and background don't matter to folks here, you mentioned you liked heroes didn't you Izuku, well, this place makes me feel like one. I help so many people out of tough or dangerous situations, made it so that some people who was going to resort to crime didn't need to resort to crime! If that ain't heroic I don't know what is."

"I think Izuku, no matter if you have a quirk or not in the future. You could still be a hero and make a difference like so many people I know. Just differently"

Izuku was in awe. This man who would be treated as a dangerous villain, had shown him more compassion then he ever received in the past four months, his explanation and declaration made him think.

"The role I do is middle man, basically find people who need help and get them to people who can help, I negotiate prices, for a lot of things, to mundane things like oh help someone pick their kids up from school or to the more serious I need protection and so many people who would have otherwise gone on to do terrible things to survive like I did, they wouldn't need to do it!"

"So with that said, are you sure you want to help?"

Izuku's mind was racing.

If I couldn't stop crime by beating villains, maybe I can help by stopping them from being villains in the first place

I could be a hero.

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Chapter 3

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Tetsuchi stopped and looked at Izuku "Well kid are you sure?" Izuku nodded his head.

Tetsuchi was confused. Izuku elaborated "I-I don't care that you used to be a villain i realized that you needed help, a-and you did not get any and so you did w-what you did to survive but I want to help people from doing something like that in the first place and the TFC sounds p-perfect for this kind of work. Since you don't really need a quirk to do somethings l-like this and besides if i don't have a quirk after all then i can help h-heroes by preventing people from becoming villains. S-so please i beg you please let me learn how to do what you do when it comes to like finding the right people and information and negotiating with people." Izuku stood up and bowed

Izuku nodded and wrote on his notebookMust keep it secret.

"We have a secret code in this bar specifically which is in the form of these omamoris we keep at the entrance in a basket. When someone who needs our service they will give someone who works here an omamori they took from the basket there are four colors which are green , yellow, red and black. I'll get to black later but for the other three colors they would give it to you and write down specifically what they need on the paper provided at the tables. Those that give you green are thankfully doing fine and simply need simple things like a health checkup or a bodyguard for the night or someone to pick their kids up. Things i can easily arrange. Yellow ones are for people who need help since they are in a tough spot the usual services for these people include finding education or employment or they need a therapist. Those that give you the red ones are mentally or physically are on the end of their rope and need help immediately. Thankfully those are rare but since you are helping around here you need to send these people to me right away no questions asked about their condition ok?"

Izuku grabbed an empty notebook that was behind the cash register and started writing these down and nodded.

"Thirdly there are quite a lot of people here that have a history of villainy like me. They are not comfortable with using their real names in afraid their past crimes will be brought up and they will be judged for it and in turn are reluctant to call people by their real names so we have to come up with a nickname. We actually know their names they simply aren't comfortable with it so you can introduce yourself to them by saying your name and then your codename. People call each other by their nicknames anyway it's just fun to us so try to get used to call people by their nicknames and people calling you by your nickname do you have one in mind? Mine is "Bloodsmith" it's a reference on my quirk."

Izuku stopped and think for a momentI didn't realize that was a peeve people had in that case what can i call myself?

Izuku looked up at his green hair and looked in a nearby mirror and see his green eyes and said "h-how about something t-that's kinda silly like Broccoli cause of you know my g-green hair.

Tetsuchi laughed at it "Good answer kid! The people will certainly like someone like you now let me tell you about the black omamori. Those are people who have seen a crime or is a victim of one and wish to report it. Sadly some so called heroes will not even bother to take a damn statement since they don't see people like us as credible. Some of the patrons were a victim of villain attacks but they were saved pretty late in the fight. Some heroes would save people based on what quirks they have. Some wouldn't even get involved in their quirks did not serve well to fight the villain. So anyone of us witnessed a crime they would go to a trusted hero vetted by the TFC and proven by people who have personal experience dealing with them or a place owned by someone of the TFC to report it. They would write down what they saw and what happened or what they went through on the paper at their tables as well. and give it to you which in turn you will give it to me. Also if anyone reports a crime to us I want you to give them this list. It's a list of heroes that will not discriminate and treat all cases fairly. So far there are 132 heroes on that list. A substantial amount of them are underground and quite a lot of them are people who are limelight heroes. Tell them next time if they can't access the TFC and report to these heroes it will be faster and they will help them.

Izuku's face morphed into one of disgust. Growing up he thought heroes were supposed to help those who are in danger no matter what and knowing that there are hundreds upon thousands of hero across Japan and yet people like him can only fully trust not even 150 of them. It confuses and disgusts him. Especially after his experience in that one hero agency

"It's fine he's a defect."

Tetsuchi noticed his face and said "Hey look i know that kids like you are obsessed with heroes and hearing how so few of them can help disgusts me too but that's why people like us are here. We are their heroes."

Izuku looks on somberly before returning a small smile and sticks the list in his notebook and says "Yes Tetsuchi-san we can help them"

Tetsuchi continued "Three things left, one, sometimes fights might break out. Most of the times it's because of gang relations when that happens go upstairs to your room immediately i want you safe i will deal with it understood?" Izuku nervously nodded "Good, glad you understand that. Next is i should inform you we get quite a few foreign regulars meaning they might not speak Japanese well or at all really. They usually are people who worked in foreign crime syndicates that escaped to Japan to restart their life. If you don't understand you can tell me I know enough to get by with them constantly being here but if you are interested feel free to ask them they're mostly nice people just down on their luck." Izuku nodded and scribbled it down on his notebook

Izuku stammered a bit before turning his face into the most comforting and radiant smile Tetsuchi has seen Too bright! Too bright! God the kid's got a good smile! he thought.

"Good smile! any questions left?"

Izuku replied shyly " W-well i do quirk analysis a-and i love them s-since i-i don't have a quirk I do th-them on notebooks but t-they were lost after I-I ran away. T-They're usually about heroes but can i do them on t-the customers as well?"

Tetsuchi replied "Of course kid! Knock yourself out good to see someone like you interested in such things the quirk counselors will love you for that!"

Izuku looked so happy and then asked another question "A-Are there a lot of p-people h-here my age?"

Tetsuchi slightly frowned and shook his head "No sorry i don't know a lot of people who are kids here. A lot of my patrons do have children but they don't get them involved in the TFC but speaking of which i am arranging you tutors so don't need to worry about your education but sorry i don't see a lot of people your age but trust me that people here are nice soon enough you can see them as big brothers and sisters! Oh a lot of them will also use the instruments to jam out by the way just so you know"

Izuku seemed a little disappointed but nodded he didn't expect much after all.

"Lastly can you tell me about your quirk Tetsuchi-san?"

Tetsuchi leaned back on his bartop then said "Alright you know what fine I'll tell you" Izuku's eyes immediately shone. It was so rare that someone shared their quirk so openly Tetsuchi added "But if you are going to write this down do it in code think of a code only you can translate ok?" Izuku thought for a bit then nodded " Alright here goes, my quirk is that i can take the iron in blood to make weapons no i cannot take iron from just anywhere it has to be blood and that includes other's blood. When other realized I can just take their blood they freaked out. I realized my range is just 10 meters around me. If someone is 10 meters around me i can use their blood." He showcased this by focusing on his arm before a knife poked out of it. It was red and gooey but then it slowly settled into steel. Izuku looked on in awe. "I also have more blood generation and a slight regeneration a 8cm wound like this would be ok in 15 minutes i reckon. The fact i make weapons is how i got my name of "Bloodsmith""

Izuku started muttering "Is there a cooldown? What weapons can he make? What size can he make the weapons? Is it possible for him to make anything as long as it's made of iron whatabouttakingbloodoutofpeoplecanheregeneratepeople..........."

"Woah slow down there tiger i need my waiter to have a clear mind Midoriya!" Izuku looked up and apologized sheepishly with a flush on his face "S-sorry I g-get like this w-when it comes to analysis" "Ah it's fine kid it's a fine passion"

Izuku smiled brightly at this compliment at which Tetsuchi had to look away before the cuteness got to him but then a clock rang. Tetsuchi ran to the door and flipped the sign to "OPEN"

"Alright kid ready to help?"

"Y-Yes Sir!"

Chapter 4

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It was 7pm and group of young people around their early 20s walked into the bar that just opened. Judging from their laptops and bags, they seem like college students. One had a quirk that made his head looked like a bull. A girl with a quirk that makes her lower body that of a snake and yellow eyes that pierced through the soul followed by a boy with purple hands and a long tongue. Lastly a normal looking girl with red hair and blue eyes. He looked at her shoes and immediately understood the last girl was quirkless. They all looked tired but as soon as they entered the bar and took a seat they seem to immediately relax. The bull boy rose his hand only to see a green haired kid walk towards them with a nervous look on his face and with a notepad and pen wearing an apron on a red shirt that says "Shirt" and black pants. "Hi! I-I'm new here but y-you can call me Broccoli. W-What would you like?"

The group looked at each other dumbfounded before the boy with purple hands called out "Hey Bloodsmith! You didn't tell us you had a son!"

A voice from the kitchen calls back "Oh he's no son of mine Mauve just a kid that needs help and wants to help just tell him what you want damn it! I can get alcohol ready or some coffee for you right now if you want food you better order now!"

The bull boy seems surprised. Then the guy with purple hands said "Hey Broccoli nice to see Bloodsmith got some help how old are ya, You can call me Salazar by the way. The snake girl, you can call her Medusa. The girl over there is called Cherry. This idiot here is called Mino. Anyway I just want some miso udon and an iced tea. Thanks"

"Hey what do you mean idiot! Look kid don't listen to him alright I have to help him with chemistry since he's absolutely hopeless. Anyway I ate already so just a cappucino for me thanks."

"Well we're even considering you suck at physics."

"U-um i would like a bowl of katsudon that's it" Cherry said

"I'll have a beer just a glasssss. Thanksss Broccoli" Medusa said

As Izuku nodded and wrote down the orders with his tongue sticking out he heard Mino say "Hey kid where are your parents. They would be worried to see you with people like us"

Izuku replied "O-oh they uh left me I w-was homeless for 4 m-months but it's f-fine now. Tetsu- uh Bloodsmith took me in now."

"What bastard of a parent would leave a 7 year old!" Mino exclaimed "Language man! it's a kid!" Salazar yelled

Izuku stumbled a bit before saying " Well people b-bully me cause i'm q-quirkless. T-they fear i w-will spread the qu-uirklessness to them s-so my parents kept getting b-bothered for having s-someone l-like me as a son. They c-coudn't take it so on my 7th b-birthday they left m-me.

"I- I normally don't tell p-people i'm quirkless since I w-would get hurt bu-t i w-was told this was a safe haven i think B-Bloodsmith called it so I hope you don't m-mind me. As for what you said earlier. Y-you didn't choose your quirks. I s-shouldn't get scared of s-something someone had no c-control over I w-wanted to be a hero to help others b-but after my diagnosis I know I c-couldn't help in the way heroes normally do s-so i thought helping people like me w-who are treated b-bad for their q-quirks would be nice as well. It's not what i wanted in t-the beginning but now i think i-it's good and important work to do..."

Cherry rushed to hug the boy "It's ok Broccoli there are good people in this world trust me! and you are helping people!" As a small tear appeared on her face. She had been shunned for her quirklessness but she still had her family. She couldn't stomach the fact such a sweet and intelligent boy went through the things he did.

Mino yelled "Hey Bloodsmith know that if the kid gets in trouble or if anyone hurts them you can tell me! I'll bust a cap in their ass if they even think of laying a hand on him!"

Salazar exclaimed "Language! but yes i also agree if he is threatened he will have people in his corner and you can count me in! It's rare for people his age and condition to be safe or even live long and i don't want what we went through to happen to this kid."

Medusa said "Broccoli trusst mee when i say that you are way sssmarter than kids your age if you need help with anything. Whether it's tutoring, training or just on a new hobby. People here will help you, me included"

Izuku stood there stunned. He knew people were not as judgemental as others but he still did not expect people to just be so willing to help him this way. He started to sob a bit and said "Thank you guys, thank you.." He said as he smiled brightly and then ran to the bartop to give the student's order to Tetsuchi.

"So we have agreed to protect thissss kid right? Medusa asked

"Hell yeah!"

"Yes we have"

"No doubt, i have to try and help my people"

Slowly but surely more and more people started to fill the bar and started to notice the kid with green hair and eyes with a bright smile. People started to ask about him and what his deal is since they knew a lot of people his age are not in the TFC. When his backstory was revealed slowly but surely through the whispers in the restaurant everyone had looks of pity, anger, disgust, sympathy and determination. Similar to a silent agreement to help this kid have a chance at life. They also notice when there is downtime or just not many customers to serve he is always writing in this notebook of his with some strange symbols and numbers on it. Some people caught him looking at them and writing things down. They didn't pay it too much mind and just chalked it up to kid antics.

The day was going fine and Izuku was taking someone's order when he was handed a yellow omamori by a woman with what seems to have a spider mutation quirk with green hair, and she looked nervous. She said "I... heard from someone that you guys can help with things... He also told me to give you guys a nickname... You can call me Silk. Can you help me?" Izuku looked at her with a bright smile and says "No worries ma'am i'll get you what you need please follow me to Bloodsmith." The mantis lady nodded and followed Izuku to Tetsuchi's office. Izuku held out the yellow omamori and told Tetsuchi her nickname. Tetsuchi nodded signaling Izuku to sit down. The mantis lady was a bit confused before Tetsuchi said "No need to worry Silk. He's with me and learning how to help people by gathering info and making deals. He's just here to listen and observe"

The mantis lady known as Silk calmed down a bit and said " I know you people help others that have been discriminated for their quirks and even people who are down on their luck. I come here because my son who has a bug mutation like me keeps getting bullied when he gets off of school. I notice him coming back with cuts and bruises for two weeks now. I tried to ask but he says it's nothing. I want someone to follow him around make sure he's safe and find out who has been doing this to him. He's quite aggressive and his quirk allows him to grow blades out of his body so he's quite the one to take up any challenge thrown at him. Will that be possible and how much will we owe you."

Tetsuchi then nodded and asked "Well first things first your son sounds like an aggressive personality and would likely not trust and even attack the people we send for him. This is not a problem. It is understandable given the circ*mstances he faced. Therefore i am thinking of sending someone with a defensive quirk that has recon capabilities to protect him and themselves and also to watch him from a distance and try to catch the bullies. I am considering sending someone with a mutant quirk since he might not feel as threatened if someone similar to his condition would relate to him easier. In hopes of getting him to talk about his troubles. We consider what quirk is the best for the objective. What the person's personality would be like and who could handle situations like this the best depending on their personality and attitudes. Are you with me so far Silk?"

Tetsuchi continued. "Now with that said here are some candidates i think would do best. They are pleasant and calm but can fight and protect people. Their quirks also serve this problem to the best effect". He lays down some files. "In here are people who i would consider calling. A lot of them are sympathetic to discrimination victims since they were shunned as well. There is a brief description of their quirks and history. Please look and see which one you think is best to handle the situation. If you can't decide then i would recommend someone to you."

Silk looked through the files and said. "I think this person would be nice." She points to a man with a spider mutation. He looks young and his name was "Crawler" but he has eyes similar to a spider. He can grow spider legs from his back to about 9 meters long to fight and put people out of reach if they are attacking him it gave him the ability to climb walls easily. He also can talk to spiders giving him a good recon ability to spy on people since the spiders he controls can relay information to him.

Tetsuchi nodded "mm that was the person i would recommend as well. How long would you like this service to last?

Silk looked down and said "I was hoping for two weeks and see if things changed and if it doesn't get better is it possible for me to contact you for your services again?"

Tetsuchi smiled warmly and said "No worries ma'am it's what we do. You can use our service whenever you need it. I'll call him quickly"

Tetsuchi grabbed his phone and called Crawler "Hey man how's it going" "Yeah security, code yellow, kid getting beat for bug mutant quirk can you take it." "Alright i'll tell the news thanks for your service."

Tetsuchi spoke "Crawler will take this commision and has requested the cost of 750 yen a day to watch over your son. You can stop the service at any time and you don't need to pay if that;s the case. Or you can pay 10000 yen right now and he will look after him for the two weeks but if you take this offer you need to pay 2500 yen to me for getting you access to this service as a middleman. What is your response."

Silk looked shocked "That is surprisingly low cost are you sure it's fine?"

Tetsuchi responded "No worries Silk. The people I get to do this type of stuff usually have jobs this is more of a side hustle for them. Crawler in this case is a programmer and is more than happy to do it. Besides we know a lot of the folks here can't afford to pay high prices so yes it's fine."

Silk started to tear up and replied "I- I'll take the 750 yen a day offer" Tetsuchi responded " She wants the 750 yen a day. She will pay when your service is over." "Alright pleasure doing business with you man see ya" Tetsuchi looked back and smiled "No worries Silk, Crawler is very capable. He can find out what is going on and protect your son. If you need help with maybe transferring schools in case this goes wrong. We can help with that we have contacts to school who have a zero tolerance policy to discrimination. It's going to be ok."

Silk stood up and grabbed 2500 yen from her wallet and then bowed many times to a 90 degree angle "Thank you! Thank you! so much! You have no idea how much this means to me. If you ever need anything just call me! Here's my card, I make clothes for a living. It might not be much but if you ever need clothes just call me! Thank you so much!"

Silk proceeded to leave leaving Tetsuchi and Izuku alone in the office. Izuku looked on in awe as if seeing magic happened

Tetsuchi smiled and kneeled down. "Now kid what you saw me did there was two things. I helped someone by getting them help they otherwise couldn't have got and you need to consider your resources and people you know and think what should be the best course of action. I'll slowly teach you what to deduce the best course of action is the more times we do this. Alright? The second thing you saw me do is secure a contact. Now we have someone we can reach if we ever need clothes for people. A lot of our information and people we know come from people we have helped so it's important to treat everyone with kindness and understanding you got that?"

"Yes sir that was amazing to watch!"

"Glad to hear it kid, We're closing up shop can you help me wash some of the dishes. After that you can go upstairs and do whatever ok?"

"Yes Tetsuchi-san, on it!"

Tetsuchi thinks to himself as he sees Izuku run to the sink "That kid is gonna be something big i can see it right now. Good thing he has people in his corner."

It was closing time, Tetsuchi was closing up some numbers. "Broccoli, can you take out the trash?"

"S-sure Bloodsmith!"

As Izuku grabbed the trash bag and stumbled outside to the dumpster, he stopped dead in his tracks and yelled.

There was a corpse.

It looked as if someone fell onto the pavement. Tetsuchi, hearing this, ran towards Izuku, upon seeing the corpse, he covered Izuku's eyes and made a call.

"Eden? Yeah I need you to do something about a new situation."

Izuku was pulled back into the bar, Tetsuchi was on the phone, with a sad look on his face while nodding.

"Yeah, We'll pay for it and get the people at the workshop to fashion something up."

Tetsuchi sat on a barstool, seemingly contemplating, "Bloodsmith... Who was that?"

"Just, I'll talk to you later kid, After this is sorted."

"Well... can you tell me about the workshop?" Izuku asked.

"Sure, this network has people who are good at engineering, and they have workshops everywhere and make support gear, mostly prosthetics and clothes that could fit people with mutant quirks, they even makes some more fighting orientated gear for quirkless people. But now... They need to make a coffin for us..."

"I see..."

After around fifteen minutes a group of people arrived, some wore cross necklaces, they put a cloth over the body, put them on a stretcher and put them into a van.

"Eden, do you have space for him?" Tetsuchi asked.

"Yes, I'll make sure he rests easy in the arms of the Lord, please get the coffins ready."

The man who spoke was an old man in his sixties with short hair that sagged down, leaves sprouted from some of them, resembling bushy, hard tree branches.

"This was the kid, you're better at explaining this than I am, do you mind?"

"Of course."

Izuku stepped forward. "Who are you?" The old man smiled "The people call me Eden, but to others I am called Father Shiozaki, I'm a person that the cove gets help from." Izuku's looked at him eyes full of sorrow, "What happened to that man, and how will you help him..." Shiozaki smiled. "That man, was quirkless... He faced injustices too hard for his heart to bear, and now, I will make sure he rests easy in the arms of the Lord. No matter if anyone cared for his soul in his life. The cove wants people to be cared for, even in death, that is what I do."

Izuku seemingly understood, despite the vagueness of the statement, "Will I... be like him...I'm quirkless too..."

Shiozaki with a shocked look, kneeled and held the child's chin "No, child, the world was cruel to that man but now you are part of the cove, and I can assure you, the cove takes care of it's own, it is a cardinal rule. No matter how cruel the world is to you, the cove will be here, I swear upon my soul." Shiozaki's eyes were full of sorrow and started to tear up.

"Listen kid, for people like us, it's gonna be hard, but no matter rain or shine, the best we can do is to just smile through it, and give it your best shot, being sad about things now won't make things get better in the future." Tetsuchi said from behind.

"Thank you sir... Can I help people even if I don't get a quirk in the future?" The other people in the black robes, Shiozaki and Tetsuchi, all looked at him, and say at the same time

"Yes."

That was all Izuku needed to hear.

Chapter 5

Chapter Text

Things have been going well for Izuku these days. he's been working and living in the Iron Haven for 2 months now. He has received some tutoring from numerous people and had decently kept up with his studies to his age level. Of course the most obvious improvement is the fact he isn't homeless and he doesn't starve. He is so glad to have people that support him. The patrons have taken very kindly to him. Sympathizing with his situation and would help him. He's also gotten better at learning how to make contacts and broker deals and find information on people and institutions. He's nowhere near good enough to do stuff like this without supervision. So he does simple things like researching doctors and counselors on the internet that could help and sometimes playing messenger and deliver the number to people in the restaurant alongside their food to whoever need it if Tetsuchi was too busy to meet them personally.

And in his time working he has gotten better at socializing. Of course there are some people there who are definitely eccentric. In fact he's talked to quite a few of them now. They seem to be former villains and Izuku is still a bit scared of course but slowly starts to like their talks. If he learnt anything from the short time Izuku has been working at the Iron Haven it is that knowledge is power. It's what leads to contacts and getting people to safety. It doesn't matter to him what knowledge it could be and the ones who were former villains or vigilantes definitely have some of the weirdest knowledge that Izuku loves and is scared by at the same time.

"Hey Broccoli did ya know a body would melt in sulfuric acid in nine hours as long as you heat it up enough?"

"So you see Broccoli the main arteries are located here and here..."

"When you jump over and do parkour it is best to find buildings with ladders or flat surfaces. Also don't look down. You don't need to be reminded that you could fall flat at any moment"

Of course Izuku has no use for this knowledge but it was still fun to let these people talk about it freely without being judged for it and even if they are still technically villains they have proved time and time again that they are trying to be better so he trusts them. He sees this knowledge of a relic of their past life or the life they're trying to leave. In fact the table he is serving has a recent prison release secure himself an apartment and they are celebrating it now.

"Good on you Munch you finally got a place all to yourself!" a plain man with spikes coming out of him exclaimed! "Oh it's great Spike! Finally after so long I have something going for me. Hey Broccoli! Thanks for the number, the landlord on the other end was very understanding." Izuku blushed "Well Munch, Bloodsmith is the one who finds the numbers i simply deliver it" "Ah don't sell yourself short. I know he's sometimes too busy so you helping him out is a godsend. Thanks, it's rare to see a kid so understanding. Kids usually run after seeing my teeth so if you need anything Broccoli just know you can ask me ok?" Munch flexes a wide grin flashing his very sharp teeth to Izuku. "Also here's some money for ya" Spike hands Izuku a few thousand yen. "That analysis you did for me was a god send. Now i can actually control my damn spikes. instead of just ripping through all the clothes i have and before you say no. You deserve it ok. You are special just take it" Izuku stammered blushes took the money and ran "T-Thank you Spike-san!" Spike remarked as he saw Izuku ran back "Ah he's such a good kid"

Izuku has been doing analysis on people's quirks for quite a while now. In fact since a lot of people here have "villainous quirks" they are not very common to see in every day life. Some mutation quirks were easy to guess. While others really challenged him. A lot of them have little to no indication on what quirk they might have. Soon enough though he is starting to notice the small signs on what their quirk could be. The first find is that he noticed those with five point activation quirks typically have something on their fingertips whether it's a mark or some bumps on them. If someone walked in with artist gloves then it was a dead giveaway they had a five point activation quirk that they could not control. Another thing they notice is the type of food they order. People with quirks that have obvious mutations like reptilian or amphibious quirks or any animal that goes into hibernation or people who have quirks that emit cold typically do not enjoy cold food and enjoy food with a lot of flavor the opposite can be said about those who have quirks that emit heat or animals mutations that do well in heat. People who order food that had a lot of a certain type of nutrients can hint at the fact that their quirks need to utilize those nutrients to work. Slowly slowly he started to gather this information on quirks and started to guess what quirks the patrons have and at first he was right roughly 40% of the time but as time went on he was right about 70% of the time. The patrons typically are fine with telling little Broccoli about their quirks since they understand it came from a place of curiousity not judgement and in turn the little Broccoli would offer solutions that can help with them controlling their quirks. Which they are always thankful for since a lot of times the suggestions work and they would in turn pay Izuku for his service. He is still a bit hesitant on taking the money though.

Tetsuchi yelled out from his office. "Hey Broccoli can you come here I need you for some errands" "Right away Bloodsmith!" Tetsuchi gave him some money " There is a package that I need to be picked up give this money to the man at the counter. The package is a new set of kitchen knives that i ordered can you do that for me? You know the one, you've been there before. It's not far from here like less than a 10 minute walk just turn a corner on the park at the end of the street then walk down until you see a little shop. They do package pick up. There should be an old man sitting on the porch" "Yes sir!" Izuku replied before running out. Soon enough Izuku picked up the package of knives from the kind old man at the store and started heading back home but then he started to hear a little girl crying and a bunch of boys laughing.

Izuku thinking someone could be in trouble. Rushed to see a blonde little girl with her hair in buns wearing a school uniform crying on the ground when he saw a sight that made his heart stop.

Kacchan

Izuku couldn't even register the fact that he was rushing towards his childhood bully after fearing that the little girl can be in danger.

"Villain! Run away to your hole"

"Killer! When i become a hero i'll put you in your place!"

"Kacchan!"

Bakugo turned his head to see an absolutely pitiful and disgusting sight. The kid that went missing and ran away. The kid that still thinks he can do good despite being a defect.

"Deku."

"What are you doing to that girl Bakugo?" Was he hearing this right? This useless defect that was missing for 4 months is now talking back to him and his other extras and for what? To prevent them from taking down a villain to be?

He smiled like a rabid dog "Listen Deku I don't know what hole you screwed off to after being such a failure that your parents left you but that doesn't change the fact that you don't get to talk to me or do things to stop me being a hero!" Izuku grit his teeth " What has this girl done! It seems to me that you are just beating her for the fun of it! That's what a villain does Kacchan!" Bakugo snarled "Oh yeah if she's so innocent then why was she carrying this corpse in her pockets!" Bakugo threw a dead bird on the ground. Then proceeded to let an expolsion ring out and blasted at the girl. The girl stammered " I- I need i-it to s-survi-" before passing out.

Bakugo then grabbed Izuku by the collar " See she was a weakling, a few hits and she's out. Like all the villains i'll fight and beat to be the greatest hero!" Izuku grunted "Heroes beat villains to help people not just for the sake of fighting villains!" "Hold him down extras! I need to show him a lesson!" Bakugo's cronies held Izuku to the floor as Bakugo started blasting his body with explosions.

"LEARN" "YOUR" "PLACE" "DEFECT!"

By the time of the fifth blast. Izuku was out cold as well. The last thing he saw was Bakugo leaving the park laughing

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Tetsuchi was normally a calm man but Broccoli has been out for 30 minutes longer than expected. He started to worry.Could he have gotten lost? No way right?

Tetsuchi announced to the bar "I'm going out for a bit don't start sh*t when i'm gone!"

He ran out of the Iron Haven and started to head towards the shop. However when he got to the park his heart stopped.

Broccoli was out cold with a girl lying next to him. They both seem to have been burned.

Tetsuchi quickly ran towards them. Trying to wake them up. "COME ON PLEASE WAKE UP !"

After no response. Tetsuchi quickly picked them up and carried both of them back towards the bar but he didn't enter the bar instead he went past it to a building behind the bar and banged the door

"How's the catch?"

"Scarce! Now open the f*ck up! I have people that need help now!"

Sensing the urgency in his voice a woman behind the door quickly. She had pale skin and had short hair and had sunken eyelids with a red glow from her seemingly hollow eyes. She opened the door before finishing the safety code protocol and her jaw dropped as she saw two children barely clinging on to life. She quickly called down some more people and they carried them to two beds and started to try and heal them. The woman opened a cage and grabbed two rabbits. She held one of the rabbits in one hand and held Izuku's hand in the other. In a few moments. The rabbit struggled but then fell limp. Seemingly dying. While Izuku shot his eyes open, tired but alive. This process was also repeated on the girl. Then after confirming that they are alive. She then injected some anesthetics. Before passing out Izuku heard some conversation.

"Rest now both of you just sleep, you're safe. The Cove protects it's own I'll try to heal your scars."

She then turned to Bloodsmith and told him

"Bloodsmith these two are safe. I'll try to heal the scars with my crew but I'm not sure how much can be covered but right now i need you to leave so i can heal."

"Of course Necra thank you for this"

"Anything for our little Broccoli and after this we're gonna try to contact this girl's parents. Next time you do an information drop off try to tell the heroes what happened I'll try and get some details out of him when he's ok"

Izuku then passed out on the bed.

Back at the bar

"Hey Bloodsmith! a bottle of whiskey for us please! Also where did Broccoli go is he alright?"

"Yeah man you don't look too good everything good?"

Bloodsmith then proceeded to sit down on a stool then sighed before he said somberly. "Broccoli was attacked. He passed out alongside a little girl. Knowing him he was probably trying to help and protect the girl from being attacked by some bastards. I'm guessing they have some fire quirk or at least a quirk that can project a lot of heat since there were first degree burns across his body and some second degree. He and that little girl is at Necra's place right now. She said they'll be fine. She's trying to heal their scars now."

When that sentence finished everyone in the bar stopped eating and drinking even the happier ones who were playing music on the stage stopped playing their music. It was so silent. The tension amongst the bar was so thick you could cut it with a knife. After realizing Bloodsmith wasn't joking. Voices rang out across the bar.

"So who we killing! Did Broccoli say!"

"I'll gut that bastard. Who the f*ck attacks a kid!"

"We can't let this slide Bloodsmith!"

"Someone's gonna die tonight!"

As the people were yelling someone came through the bar.

"People people! I'm with Necra. Broccoli and the girl's fine. Broccoli's fine but he's asleep. The girl is awake but i think she might be in the same boat as Broccoli when Bloodsmith first met him. I think she's homeless. I called their parents and they said they don't have a daughter. Even going so far to say we insulted them by insinuating that they could ever give birth to a demon. I think she might have a "villainous quirk" and get this. The attackers were f*cking kids. They were kids. Some kid with an explosion quirk and his cronies. They left a few marks but nothing too serious. They're scars are mostly healed. Anyway that's all i'm here to say. Bloodsmith do whatever you want with that info. Also everyone side from Bloodsmith don't come visit! They're still recovering. Bloodsmith, the girl wants you there."

Bloodsmith left with the assistant immediately. The bar's atmosphere was less tense but still a bit somber.

"Those kids need help man."

"How bad has this society got when even kids are quirkist!"

"If anything that explosion quirk kids is villainous! It's tailored made for terrorism! What are they on about!"

"Does that mean we have another kid living in the bar now?" "Maybe?"

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Back at the clinic. Tetsuchi sat next to the girl watching over Izuku together.

"T-Thank you sir. What's your name?"

" You can call me Bloodsmith. What's your name girl? ."

"H-Himiko Toga, c-call me H-Himiko though I-I my p-parents didn't w-want me... so i don't w-want their n-name..."

"I see Himiko. Can you tell me what happened? Why those boys attacked you?"

"M-My quirk. I-I need to d-drink blood or e-else I'll starve. I killed a b-bird so t-they called me a villain. Bloodsmith... Am i a villain?"

"No, no Himiko. You're not a villain just because of your quirk. No one should be attacked for their quirk"

"T-That boy protected m-me. Will he hate m-me for my q-quirk?"

"What, Broccoli? Oh no he is a sweetheart he won't hurt anyone because of their quirk. In fact he loves quirks he loves studying them."

"H-He won't hate me? He g-got hurt because of m-me though"

"No no no. You and her are hurt because of that boy. If anything he's the villain. Listen Broccoli here is similar to you. His parents also left him. He's quirkless. People think he's a defect so he can sympathize with you."

Himiko looked surprised. Such a kind soul being abandoned. Would he really not judge her?

Himiko then asked him "Bloodsmith. That's not your actual name right? Why is it your name? And why is his Broccoli?"

"Because it's my quirk. I can use blood to make weapons. It was considered villainous so i was left alone as well like you. And i did do bad things in my life. But i've put it all behind me. As for why that's our names. Me and Broccoli here are part of a support network. It's called The Forgotten Cove or the TFC for short. Normally it's kept a secret but given your circ*mstances I think you could use our help. People in the network usually have nicknames. You don't need to use one if you don't want but i recommend it almost everyone has one. Anyway the network is for people with mutation quirks "villainous quirks" or quirkless people. We even help people who are just being treated badly by society and even former villains by giving them access to healing, food, jobs, schools or just any problem we can help with. Broccoli here is a special case. Since he's the youngest person we have ever accepted to help us. We tried to get him caretakers or foster parents but no one would take him so slowly he became one of us. He lives in the rooms above the bar i own. Also i have to ask this, given the fact that your parents don't want to take care of you anymore. Do you wish for us to find you foster parents. We can help you. The network's people are more than happy to take care of you. Anyone or anyplace in the TFC would be willing to take you no doubt in my mind.

Himiko's world was turned upside down in those few sentences. There were people like her and they were willing to help. She thought of the offer. However much she wanted to have parents to love her. She knew they gave up on her. While these people although they just met were showing her more kindness than she has been ever shown. So it wasn't a hard choice. " I want to be with you p-people"

Tetsuchi smiled. "Alright then girl. I think i can find you foster parents in fact if you want to see Broccoli again you can come to the bar It's rare for him to have someone his age. Oh i actually have something i need to show both of you. Wait here"

As Himiko saw him leaving the room. She looked at the boy who tried to protect her.

She whispered to him "Thank you... Broccoli...."

Chapter 6

Chapter Text

Izuku slowly opened his eyes before seeing the girl he tried to save looking at him and he can't help but blush a little.

"H-hi, thanks for trying to help me from that evil boy..."

"A-ah no worries, I just did what a h-hero would do after all and hey what's your name you can call me Broccoli!"

"Uh.. Oh right you guys use nicknames... I don't have one but you can call me by my first name, It's Himiko. I d-don't like my last name since my parents gave it to me and t-they didn't want me..."

Izuku frowned and sighed. He couldn't believe that another girl his age is going through something so similar to him. He won't wish what happened to him to happen to everyone. Not even Kaccha- Bakugo. It's Bakugo now. He lost that nickname after attacking both of them.

Izuku replied "I see... I'm the same as you. My parents didn't want to take care of me because of my quirk s-status..."

Himiko looked at Izuku " Oh yeah Bloodsmith told me you were quirkless.. My parents think my quirk makes me a villain"

Izuku stammered before replying "W-well yeah I'm quirkless... I holding out hope that I might be a late bloomer but im not seeing much signs of i-it..."

Himiko replied "O-oh i see, It's fine by me. You're one of the few who actually tried to help me so i could care less."

"Thanks Himiko, but what's your quirk? You never said" Himiko looked panicked for a second before breathing in and outRelax... Bloodsmith said he'll be ok with it besides I'll might be seeing him more often now that i'm part of this... He's gonna find out one way or another so might as well get it over with... "

"My-My quirk makes it so that if i drink the blood of someone i can turn into them for some time. The more blood i drink the longer i can transform I copy their voice as well but it causes me to rely on drinking blood to survive...."

Himiko closed her eyes expecting judgement only seeing Izuku look at her in wonder "Wow that's amazing! Can you copy their quirks? How would mutation quirks work? What'stheratioofbloodtotime..."

As Izuku started mumbling. Himiko blushed...Wow he really didn't care. In fact he looks... fascinated?

Izuku noticing his mumbling quickly stopped himself. Before asking "Can i see you use your quirk Himiko pleaaase?

Himiko's mind had to take a stepback. There was someone in front of him not only not scared of her quirk but now wanting her to use it

"But i need the blood of someone Izuku..."

"It's ok use mine! I noticed your canines are pretty sharp those are for you to suck blood right? You can use mine!"

If Himiko wasn't confused then she sure as sh*t was. Not only was he not scared, he was offering her blood?

"Aren't you s-scared of what I'll do to you, do with your identity after i have it and a-aren't you scared of feeding someone blood"

"Well that depends will you go do bad things after transforming into me?"

"Of course not! Especially after you helped me!"

"Then i have nothing to fear! No quirk is villainous, only the person wielding it can be villainous. As to your question before. No i'm not scared I worked at the bar Bloodsmith owns and i have seen people brought their own food that were way weirder than blood. Someone came in with a cage of rats! Bloodsmith told me to look away and after a while the rats were gone and the person was licking his fingers. Although I couldn't see it. I knew what had happened so no. I get it that some quirks change people into ways they or other people find bad but if you don't do anything villainous then you're not a villain! In fact you could be a hero if you wanted to!"

Izuku then raised his arm and offered it "Go on, I won't bite" he chuckled a little to himself at that joke.

Himiko could feel some tears going down her face as she went ahead and bit his arm. The taste of human blood tasted so good after so long... She relished in the feeling for a moment before letting go. Moments later a carbon copy of Izuku was sitting next to him with a school girl outfit on.

"That's so cool!"

"T-Thank you so much!" Himiko started to cry, though to Izuku it just looked like him crying which is suffice to say, very weird.

"People have judged me so much and I just can't believe that someone doesn't find my quirk dangerous..."

"It's ok we can find people to adopt you soon enough, Bloodsmith is super good at what he does he'll find people who love you for sure!"

"W-well Bloodsmith offered me to find me people who will take me and and look after me and i took on his o-offer"

"Oh that's great! I bet he can find you the right people. Wait do you have a nickname yet. If you are involved in this you should have one. We can use Himiko if you want or do you want one?"

"I kinda want a vampire nickname since I drink blood but i'm not sure... I'm thinking of Carmilla. Uh because of the book from Le Fanu, sorry i know it sounds dumb. You probably don't know that name anyway."

"No it's fine! If you like that name then you should go for it. Though i don't know Le Fanu sorry. Are you a fan of literature Himiko?"

"Ahh yes! It's probably my third favourite thing i like the most after blood and gore movies! No doubt my favorite is Dracula!"

Himiko felt a large weight off her shoulders but she shocked herself. She just revealed how much of a weirdo she was to this boy she just met.

"Ah that's nice of you to have things you like! I personally like quirks and analyizng them. I've also been wanting to ask some people in the bar to teach me instruments but i've always been a bit hesitant and shy to ask them. I'm thinking i want to learn the piano. I just like how it could be used in beautiful classical piece or in upbeat and even intense songs."

Himiko's weight was lifted once more. He didn't judge her and she was starting to feel a lot more safe in his presence. "Bloodsmith told me about the cove I want to help do you know much about it?"

Izuku replied "Well I'm still young and mainly my way of helping out is just by helping around in his bar where people will tell me of their problems. I would tell Bloodsmith their problems and he helps them by getting people who can help like doctors or therapist or people that can get them food and houses!"

Himiko looked on in wonder "Wow... do you think i can help around too after he finds me foster parents? I want to help too!"

Izuku grinned "Definitely! Bloodsmith would love to have you helping out!"

Himiko's disguise started to melt away revealing Himiko. It was at that moment that Tetsuchi returned

As they were talking Tetsuchi walked in with what seemed like a large scroll of paper.

"I heard everything, Himiko are you sure you want to help and stay with us? When i usually find people parents they are usually 4 years old or less. Don't you want to live a life without the whole drama of the TFC?"

"If I have the ability to help then i want to help. There are so many people like me being treated bad for their quirks and i think it's wrong!"

Tetsuchi nodded before sitting down next to them.

"Listen up kids I'm gonna tell you something more about the cove. I was hesitant at first but after seeing this happen i think you guys need to know" He unfurled the paper showing a map. It was a map of Musutafu on one half while a map of Japan as a whole. "Do you see these coloured in zones across Musutafu? Those are the "Coves" part of the TFC, they are essentially little zones in the city like townships that are sympathetic to or are majority owned and lived in by members of the cove. It's pretty run down and practically abandoned by the government. So practically no one knows the fact people live there. We have managed to fix it up just enough for it to be comfortable for humans to live in. There are four in Musutafu on the outskirts of the city one in all four of the primary directions. The west one is called Hinode, the southern one by the harbour is called Kokai. The east one is called Yuhi and the northern one by the country side is Ryokuno. The reason i am telling you this is because in the future if you guys are not anywhere near the Iron Haven then you should go to any one of these if you need help. Also these dots all across the city are places that work with us. Although our members are spread through out Japan and through out this city, our services will be most concentrated here. Do you understand so far?"

Both Himiko and Izuku nodded

"Now as you can see here." Tetsuchi pointed to the map of Japan "There are many coves through out Japan. I'm not gonna go in depth today but if you are curious or if you ever want to venture outside of this city. It will be wise to remember these places." He hands Izuku and Himiko two amulets. It was hexagonal in shape with a seigaiha with a koi fish jumping over it with a red and white color scheme. "This is a sigil. Show it to anyone in the coves then you will be recognized as one of us and gain access to their services. Here's also a list of code words and responses to give to them. Alongside made up words used amongst cove members. Kinda like a secret language. That's all i wish to tell you any questions?"

Izuku looked up and nodded. "Yes, Bloodsmith i heard the white pale lady and you talking and she said something about telling the heroes about this?"

Bloodsmith's mouth opened a bit before closing. "Well yes sometimes heroes will come to us and want us to get some information for them. In fact a lot of our income comes from the money they pay us. It's not as common as you'll think but still enough to get us going and I know you want to ask to be involved but for now, no. Definitely no you haven't even handled the services we provide normally like getting people doctors or food. Until you're older ok? I promise."

Izuku looked saddened but understood and nodded.

"Lastly, Himiko, I get that you would not like to be taken by your parents, but I got two people who are willing to take you in. They live a ten minute train ride away so if you ever want to come back here to help out or visit Broccoli here you can, they will be here tonight. I will let you meet them. If you don't like them I can get you other people. Their names are Rina and Daichi Chizue. If they ever abuse you in the future. They will be removed and you can decide what to do next. but if you accept, then you can sign the adoption papers, Sounds ok?"

At this point, Himiko was smiling and nodded quickly "Yes sir! Thank you, but since they aren't here now. Can i help out Broccoli and also why who's his caretaker for now?"

"Well, that would be me but I'm not officially his foster parent or anything, nor can I find anyone who has the time and effort to adopt someone. The reason I can get the Chizues to do it is because they did have a child at one point, but they were taken away from them in an attack... since they both have blood quirks, they want to adopt someone who has a blood quirk as well, that you fit..."

"Oh... I see... why doesn't Broccoli get adopted, why don't you adopt him?

Tetsuchi scratched the back of his head "Well... I just find it really daunting you know. I mean recognizing someone as your son and besides I'm really busy with the whole cove stuff so I'm afraid i can't take him not now at least and the Chizues can only take one child. They already struggle a little bit with their jobs. Two children will be a big load to off on them and despite how we accept quirkless people here, it's still hard to find someone who is willing to adopt a quirkless kid. No offense Broccoli."

Izuku smiled. "Don't worry Bloodsmith! I understand. Everyone here is so welcoming already! I feel like I'm part of a family in the first place!"

" I see well thanks kid and by the way. Himiko of course you can help out now. Do you have a nickname or do you just want to go with Himiko?"

"I want to use Carmilla! Since she's a vampire and i need blood for me to survive."

"Oh a fellow blood quirk user! In that case I'll add that to the list of things need around the bar. I'll the Chizues to get some blood ready too. Shouldn't be too hard. Rina is a surgeon after all."

Himiko grinned wildly "Yay more blood and i can help Broccoli!"

Tetsuchi " Slapped his head and asked "Oh right i came here to ask as well. Carmilla, Broccoli, Do you want to enroll in an actual public school? I can get you tutors if you want, actual long term ones not the ones that come and go. I know your feelings about this world Broccoli but i think it would be good for you to go out a bit and try to interact with society. What about you Carmilla?"

Izuku looked down in disappointment. "I'm still scared Bloodsmith. Bakugo already attacked me and Carmilla for our quirk status imagine if i met that at school also from everyone around me... I'm a bit scared he was still in elementary school. Imagine when I'm older! Those teenagers will be even meaner to me!"

Himiko also looked down "Sorry Bloodsmith I'm with Broccoli on this one. I also don't feel comfortable with going to school i remember attacking someone because i wanted blood so badly"

"No worries. I can get you both tutors that can help you long term. They are university graduates so no worries about the quality alright I got you both. The cove will watch out for you."

Tetsuchi then got up to leave "Alright You two, Broccoli you can come back to the bar after you feel rested. Carmilla you can join in a bit later. Imma go back to the bar for now."

"Thanks Bloodsmith!"

As Bloodsmith left and closed the door. He saw a bunch of Necra's assistants run back downstairs or back to their desks to do work

"Alright you guys were listening in weren't you? Why you interested?!"

An assistant turned her chair around and smiled. "Come on Bloodsmith! Two lost souls meeting together in a twist of cruel fate and she sounded so excited to help out with him! It's a romance novel in the making!"

"Yeah but that's just because you're single and watch too many k-dramas but still they look cute together"

"Alright cupids put down your bows. Both are still 7 for crying out loud. I'm going back to the bar make sure they don't get any worse"

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Back in the patient's room Himiko and Izuku were having a conversation.

"Yeah and then they cut his head off to kill him. It was so cool! There was blood everywhere!"

"U-uh heh heh yeah Carmilla sounds great..."

Izuku didn't know how to feel about Himiko's obsession with blood. He understands why she is though and is just happy for her finally being able to talk about something she loves but he didn't realize she was normally this chipper and playful. Guess that's how she acts when she has enough blood. Like a happy go lucky girl.

"Uh hey Broccoli do you mind telling me your first name?"

"Really? why?"

Himiko blushed "W-well you did save me but i don't even know it! My full name is Himiko Toga by the way. Though hopefully it'll be Himiko Chizue soon!"

"Oh t-then in that c-case I'm Izuku Midoriya"

"Nice to meet you... Zuku~~" Himiko then hugged Izuku.

"A-ah Himiko!" Izuku blushed

"Hehe don't worry we can always call ourselves by our nicknames for each other. Besides we're friends now right? That's what friends do! Come on give me one as well!"

"W-well then I-I guess I can call y-you Himi?"

"I love it! Yay we have friends now Zuku!" She started nibbling on her neck.

"Ahh yeah I guess so H-Himi..."

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Tetsuchi walked back to the bar. As he did everyone looked towards him expectantly. He smiled before announcing. "Broccoli's fine! And that girl is safe as well in fact i got her parents already. She wants to help out as well. You can call her Carmilla. They're the first two kids they're age that we have who are a part of the cove. The kids we used to get are four or younger after all. They're the first ones. So treat them well alright! Because if I don't get you someone here will!"

The bar cheered at the news.

Chapter 7

Chapter Text

Izuku returned to the bar with Himiko soon. Izuku has told her what he usually does at the bar. Taking orders, giving food, how the omamori system words etc.

The patrons looked surprised to see Himiko there but quickly welcomed her to their community of outcasts

But when Izuku returned the first thing he heard was Tetsuchi calling out to him. He started to rush towards him before stopping in the kitchen seeing Tetsuchi grin at him.

"Alright kid now that Camilla is here to pick up do some work i want to teach you how to make drinks. Non-alcoholic of course! That would come later but what i mean is stuff like teas and coffees. Think you're up to the task?" "Yes Bloodsmith!"

"Alright, Carmilla! Do you know what to do?"

"Yes! Bloodsmith, Zuku already told me!"

"Good! Let's get this show on the road!"

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The night was going well, Himiko made a few mistakes here and there but thankfully the patrons were understanding, until a seemingly plain man came in. He sat down but scowled when seeing Himiko, drinking a half empty blood bag.

"Bloodfreak, stop drinking that!" and slaps the blood bag out of Himiko's hands, Himiko, seeing the wasted blood bag, started to exude a terrifying aura. The rest of the bar seeing this, some pulled out knives and bats, some readied their quirks, but before they could even do anything, Himiko lunged at the man and started biting him, Izuku seeing this, started to try and pull Himiko away, some people in the bar joined in as well, A man with a body made of rope broke up his body and pulled both of them away, when brought away, Himiko's face turned from one of anger to one of shock, seemingly not believing what she did.

The man was thrown out by the patrons, and as they did Himiko rushed up to the rooms upstairs.

The rest of the bar looked on in worry.

"I'll go talk to her." said Izuku.

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Izuku knocked on the door of the room Himiko was holed up in. "Can I come in Himi?"

"I'm sorry..." he heard Himiko said from inside. Izuku pushed on, realizing the door was not locked, he entered, seeing a sobbing Himiko in a corner.

Izuku gently closed the door behind him and slowly approached Himiko, making sure to move calmly so as not to startle her. "Hey, Himi, it's okay," he said softly, kneeling down beside her.

Izuku stepped inside, closing the door gently behind him. He walked over to Himiko and sat down beside her, giving her some space but making sure she knew he was there.

"Himi," he began softly, "it's okay. You don't need to apologize."

Himiko looked up at him, her eyes red and puffy from crying. "But I lost control, Izuku. I hurt someone. I couldn't help it, he just made me so mad..."

Izuku nodded, understanding. "I know, Himi. What he did was terrible. He shouldn't have treated you like that. But you're not alone in this. We can figure it out together."

She shook her head, tears streaming down her face. "You don't get it, Izuku. I'm a monster. I crave blood. I scare people."

Izuku reached out and gently took her hand. "You're not a monster. You're my friend. You don't scare me because of that, and friends help each other, no matter what."

Himiko sniffled, looking at their joined hands. "But how can you help me with this? It's not like I can just stop being... this."

Izuku squeezed her hand reassuringly. "We'll find a way. There has to be a way to manage it, to make sure you stay in control. And I'll be here with you every step of the way."

She looked into his eyes, searching for any sign of fear or disgust but finding only genuine concern and determination. "You really mean that?"

"Yes! Of course! That's what a hero does for people!"

It was at that moment Himiko felt as if something changed within her, her heart skipped multiple beats.

"Can you stay with me here for a while..." Himiko asked

"Ok..." replied Izuku as they both sat down and felt safe in each other's presence.

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Soon enough. Night has fallen. Izuku at this point has tried and learnt to make so many different drinks. He still has a lot to learn but it's not bad for a beginner. It was at this moment that two figures enter the bar. A woman and a man. The woman had beady eyes. They had yellow irisis. Almost cat like. Almost the same as Himiko's eyes. She had long red hair and a small mouth. She was wearing a suit. Similar to an office lady and had a slim build. The man was well-built and stood tall. with black hair he tied into a bun. His eyes were red and exuded a sense of calm. He wore simple T-shirts and jeans and he did not have any note worthy traits on his body. Except for his forearms where his veins look like they are on the verge of popping out. Tetsuchi called them over and Himiko was behind his leg looking at the new couple wearily.

"Himiko. This is Rina and Daichi Chisuke. They will be your new foster parents."

"Really... would they hate me?" Himiko whispered.

Daichi heard the little girl then he kneeled. "Of course we aren't little one. I heard about your quirk and what you parents did to you. It's not right but more importantly, It's not your fault. Both me and my darling here have blood quirks. We also don't feel right without blood. Rina is a surgeon. She can get blood for you. I promise everything is gonna be okay. Tell me what's your favorite bloodtype?"

"O Negative..."

"Ah that's great then I'm O Negative. My quirk makes it so that i make a lot of blood and sometimes have to extract it. If i ever get too much blood. You can help me. Your quirk can help me."

Himiko looked in awe not believing the fact that her quirk can help.

"Can i ask a few questions before taking you in Himiko?" Himiko nodded slowly "Can I ask what happened and what you did before you met Bloodsmith here?"

Himiko looked down and started to tear up

"Oh no you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to sweetie. Can i hug you?"

Himiko nodded as she was embraced and started saying "I-I was told t-that i can't drink blood. I w-wasn't normal. I thought why wasn't I born right? I couldn't drink blood so for so long i k-killed little rats and birds to s-survive. Everytime I see blood I just f-feel like it's so pretty. Sometimes it's too m-much and I just attack people. I t-try not to I swear! I run away each time b-before they can see my face. Why couldn't i have been born r-right? " After that sentence she started crying.

At this point Rina joined in the hug. Izuku as well Tetsuchi kneeled down to her level.

Rina said "It's ok sweetie. It's not your fault. You have us now alright?" You can always come back here if you want to. We won't stop you."

Himiko nodded and said in a muffled voice on Daichi's shoulder. "Can we go now Chizuke-San?"

"Oh of course dear. We can continue this at home. Come on let's go"

Himiko starts to leave before looking back and saying "Goodbye Zuku..."

Izuku blushed before replying "Bye H-Himi..."

Tetsuchi was off to a side smiling to himself

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Later that night around 12am after Himiko left Izuku was in Tetsuchi's office

"I want to learn how to fight"

Tetsuchi almost spat out the tea he was drinking. Izuku was in his office before he said he wanted to ask some questions but he didn't expect this.

"Kid what do you mean by that?!"

"I want to fight. I know some of the people here were villains or vigilantes. So some people here definitely knows how to fight."

"Why do you want to fight kid? Don't tell me you're wanting revenge? I understand why but that's a really stupid nonetheless, You shouldn't fight someone over something like reve-"

"No! I want to fight because i don't want to just sit there and take hits... I want to fight back... I saw what they did to Himi and me and I don't want to just get bullied anymore so I'm asking you to find people to train me. I hope they are tough and really know how to fight."

Tetsuchi sat there in contemplation for a while and said "I understand. I think I have a great candidate for you" He got up and whispered to Izuku's ear "He's a father of a pro hero" When Tetsuchi looked at Izuku's face. He saw a face of absolute wonder and a smile that could blind a man. Tetsuchi looked away before he succumbed to it "Oh wow you must be really excited huh kid! Don't get to excited yet he might not accept but even if he doesn't there are multiple more people i can get for you, sounds good?"

"Can I learn how to use weapons too?"

Tetsuchi did another spit take before calming himself "Why kid?"

"I'm quirkless! I need something to make me strong. I want weapons so i even have a chance against people with cool quirks!"

Tetsuchi fell into a deep silence. Realizing what Izuku said had a point.

"Alright but you can only train under supervision ok? Until we can trust you with a weapon. I can get you weapons easy enough. My quirk literally makes them."

Izuku nodded before Tetsuchi asked "Is there anything else Broccoli?"

"Uh yes... would it be possible for the tutor you are hiring aside from knowing basic stuff like math and science and stuff could the also have experience in quirk theory or quirk counseling? As you know from my analysis I find quirks fascinating and would like it if i knew more... and I'm still hoping to be a late bloomer... My diagnosis said i had quirk genes but my family never bothered to do a further check..."

Tetsuchi smiled "Of course kid thanks for telling me I can get you a good fit"

"Lastly I want to um learn some instruments..."

"Oh ho now that was unexpected. What instruments do you want to learn? and why do you want to learn in the first place?"

"Well i like the piano or if it's too expensive then a keyboard. I like the piano cause it seems so versatile! So many people come and they can play slow pieces or be used to play fast songs. Besides when I see people play in the bar all the time and everyone around them seem so happy. I want to make them happy too!"

"Oh it's completely fine kid. In fact Carmilla asked me during the shift if she could find someone that could teach her violin. I think it's to play into the whole medieval vampire thing but hey I won't deny a kid a dream but you can't help out at the bar as much will that be fine?"

"Well this place opens around 3pm to 12:30am and there aren't usually many people before 4:30, I talked to the Chizues and we have talked them into an arrangement where Carmilla usually helps out and then goes home at 9:30 to have some time with her family and I have quite some free time in the morning and early afternoon even after the tutoring lessons so yeah i think I should be fine if a sacrifice some time in the early shift."

"Yeah I hope Himi can help out to.

Tetsuchi looked at him with a raised eyebrow "Himi?"

"That's what she asked me to call her..."

Tetsuchi looked at Izuku, "You like her don't you"

Izuku waved his hands in front of himself, blushing "Not l-like that! I mean s-she's nice and doesn't m-mind my quirklessness and besides s-she's the only I've met who's my age around here!"

Tetsuchi looked at him and acted like to flutter his eyelashes a bit. "Well... do you think she's pretty?"

"Oh look at that! The kettle is done!" Izuku says as he rushes away.

Tetsuchi smirked "Don't worry kid! I'll get on it!"

"Thank you Bloodsmith!" Izuku yelled back.

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"I want to cash in a favor Hare"

"What is it Bloodsmith"

"I want you to train a kid"

Tetsuchi was now on the phone with a someone named Hare on the other side.

"Why me? You know I don't fight anymore."

"Oh that's crap Hare. I know you can still fight even if you are 50 by now and your hero days are behind you, You'll get paid for it. It's gonna be ok"

"Listen here Smith. I am still 30 at heart and besides why should i train this kid."

"Well 1. You owe me, you said it yourself multiple times. 2. This kid doesn't want to be a bitch anymore and wants to stand up to bullies. 3. Isn't that literally what you taught your daughter? and look how she turned out."

"Oh gosh don't remind me. But yeah i guess I do owe you. Only so many times you can bring ask someone for life-saving information so many times before he asks for something back and yes I have respect for people who want to stand up to bullies and idiots. But you serious about this kid? I mean is he serious about this at least. You know I trained my girl hard. And I will train that kid as hard.

"Oh trust me. He wants this bad. He even asked for weapons training. He is tough and resilient at least in heart."

"I'm surprised he didn't even ask me for quirk training."

"Oh that won't be neccesary. He's quirkless"

There was a silence on the phone

"I'm f*cking taking this job"

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"Hey i got two kids that i want you to tutor for the long run"

"Really? This kid must be very interesting if you're willing to contact me for his education"

"He is, I know you already teach the normal school subjects well but he wants to learn about quirk theory and I know you at least worked as a quirk counselor before and have a degree on it. Not to mention he does analysis on the customer's quirks and I know how you always say it's a damn shame kids these days only care about flashy combat quirks and how heroes already undervalue it and that quirk theory is a field that has been lacking talent and neglected so I thought that you would be interested. The other girl is a bit of a special case. She doesn't feel comfortable going to public school so she would rather be tutored by someone 10:15am to 4:15pm. Think you can do it?"

"Done deal Bloodsmith, done deal. Can't wait to meet this kid already."

"Also, there's this girl here that suffers from quirk drawbacks, she got a special dietary requirement, it's blood, there's a good chance that just making her drink blood would be fine but still take a look wouldn't you? Do your quirk counselor magic, would you?"

"Ooh.. yeah I'll cast a spell on her.... Nah but seriously though I'll take them both. See you there."

"Thanks Insight."

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"I'm in"

"I didn't even finish my question?"

"No all i need to hear was "Broccoli, Carmilla need help and you already have my full attention. So what do they need?"

"Well it's nothing too complicated I'll hammer out the details for you later but they want to learn instruments. Broccoli wants the piano while Carmilla wants violin and I thought you could teach them Wave."

"OH MY GOD YESSSS! I AM SO IN BLOODSMITH!"

"Alright glad to hear it Wave i'll send a schedule to you if you have any questions just ask me you'll be paid for it of course The times would be a bit late. like 4:30pm to 5:15pm."

"OH THANK YOU THIS WILL BE THE BEST! I'LL GET MY DIGITAL PIANO AND VIOLIN I"LL SEE YOU THERE!"

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After a week. Izuku started his lessons. The first being the fighting class starting at 7am.

Izuku walked into a warehouse near the bar. He entered to see a table full of weapons and a man inspecting them all. He was tall with broad shoulders and yet he had lean muscles. He had slight wrinkles on his face with brown eyes and short white hair but the most glaring trait is his bunny ears and rabbit like feet.

"So you're the kid I need to train"

"Y-Yes sir" Izuku replied

"Call me Hare, I'm here to train you in weapons and in close quarters combat know that I will not be easy on you. You got that?"

"Yes Hare-Sensei!"

'Just Hare now give me 50 sit ups, push ups lunges and 10 laps around this warehouse as a warmup to start with I wanna see what i'm dealing with. Also no need for the honorifics just Hare is fine"

"Ok Hare!"

Izuku started to get down on the ground and started to do the sit ups, push ups and lunges. Then started to run the laps around the warehouse. Hare looked at him in interest. It wasn't that bad of a warmup but a lot of people would be quick to give up by now. In fact when he trained his daughter at this age. She practically gave up after the warmup and yet although the kid was tired. He still kept going.Ok so he at least has some decent stamina. He thought to himself. When he's done Izuku ran up to him and asked what was next. He responded by throwing a punch at the kid. Which he was able to dodge a majority of it but not before it slightly grazing him and knocking him to the ground

"Next up is fighting training. Listen squirt for the next hour I want you to throw punches and kicks at me. All you need to do is land a hit on me. I won't attack you back but Every 15 minutes you don't hit me. I will stop you and you have to drop and give me 50 pushups. After next 15 minutes it's 50 squats we keep changing back and forth either until you hit me. Pass out in exhaustion or it's until 10am. Got that?"

"Yes Hare!"

Izuku immediately threw a punch at Hare only for him to jump to his side. Izuku spun a kick to hit Hare only for him to step back and dodge it with no effort. Izuku kept going for who knows how long but just can't seem to hit him. Until Izuku suddenly received a shock of pain to his left shoulder and stumbled down.

"Your form is sloppy! You're too predictable. You are so desperate to hit me you end up just flailing wildly. Fighting is about efficiency. Don't waste your energy on wild swings. Be precise. Every movement should have a purpose. You're too rigid. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent. This gives you balance and allows for quick movement. When you punch use your entire body rotate your hips and shoulder for more power and speed. You got that? Now give me 50."

"Yes sir!"

Izuku then continued the exercise. After what seems like thousands of pushups and squats. It took an hour and a half before he physically could not get back on his knees again. He was spent, Hare tried to get him back up but he fell down quickly after. Hare seeing how he was exhausted let him take a break. They started to talk.

"Broccoli, before we continue, there are some principles that I want you to learn when it comes to fighting. Listen closely."

Izuku focused up before Hare continued "Always, and I mean always, be efficient and logical in a fight, what I'm saying is, people tend to use big attacks or put a lot of power in their attacks, don't, if you can deal with your enemy with small precise attacks, do it, only use more power if it is needed. Always go for someone or something's weak points, For example a throat punch or a liver shot, Second, don't reveal all your tricks at once, keep people guessing what you can do, I have trained people with quirks before, and they never got it, some of them have very versatile quirks and yet they reveal their limit of what they can do almost immediately, the less your enemy knows about you, the better. Lastly, if you are going to fight someone, catch them off guard, use stealth before trying to go all out, I'll train you in both of course but did you get all that? Get that drilled into your head."

Izuku started muttering and repeating the advice Hare gave him. Only to be broken out of his focus by Hare.

"You see all those weapons on the table. I plan to teach you every single one. Do you have a preference on what you want to learn first? If not then take a look at this plan and tell me your thoughts. "

Izuku looked at it and was amazed. There were some standard stuff like a bo staff and throwing knives and dual short katanas and a standard two handed one and even bows and arrows. He planned to teach him things like how to walk silently, how to listen for people trying to sneak up on him.

"Where did you learn all this Hare?"

Hare saw this and smirked. "I was a vigilante turned hero. I never got into rankings since i was underground but that was when i learnt how to do all this. All those skills and rules I said, I got it from being an underground hero. If you want to learn more you can ask for some specific weapons"

Izuku looked puzzled "What's an underground hero?" "Oh right well underground heroes are heroes that stay out of the spotlight. We don't really interact with the hero rankings at all and we avoid the media like the plague. It's as simple as that really. The other difference being we usually do our stuff in the night. While we do work with limelight heroes. We only credit ourselves in official government documents. If a crime has been solved then our names will be kept out of the media."

Izuku looked very interested before Hare continued "I retired shortly after my daughter turned around 5. I was nearing 40 at the time and decided it was a fine time to retire I had the money to live a good life and now my baby girl is starting out her hero career. She was really rowdy growing up, always getting into fights and going into fight clubs but she just graduated from a hero school in Hiroshima. You might know her. Her hero name is Mirko."

Izuku nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah i recently saw her take out a bunch of villains trying to rob a bank! She's also one of the most prominent rising stars! One of the few graduates that broke into the top 100 in her first year! Wow knowing that you helped train such a powerful fighter makes me feel so honored sir. Actually why did you decide to train me?"

Hare smirked before saying "Ah so you know how strong she is, I will train you as I did her and teach you her moves. As for why I want to train you, you got spirit kid. My daughter was considered weak because she had traits of a timid shy bunny. She wanted to prove everyone wrong so i trained her to not take disrespect from anyone. Now Bloodsmith recently told me you got bullied and then he told me you want to fight back. To stop acting like a bi- I mean coward. Coward i mean... So i respect your drive and determination despite your quirklessness and given the fact that even with such a bad hand in life you still want to help people and fight. I respect you for that kid so that's why."

"Can you tell me more about underground heroes?"

"Well we usually deal with the nitty gritty things like gathering information, trying to break in to places, limelight heroes can do it too but they need to disguise themselves well, besides they're famous so it'll be hard to go undercover. We also deal with information networks like the TFC. They usually aren't the first place i'll go to find information but i know it's reliable. So sometimes I use it. Actually, now that we're on the topic,tell me kid what do you think of limelight heroes like All Might, Endeavour and Edgeshot."

"I thought people like them can save anyone. People like All Might seem so strong but after I became a part of the cove, I realize they can't save everyone, so many people here have lost their homes or people they knew to villain attacks so I know that unlike what every other kid seems to think, All Might is only human, he has limits, we rely on him too much, He's already starting to slow down in the past years and I asked Bloodsmith about this before. That was also the time a lot more reforming villains appeared around places that are with the TFC. Meaning just one man letting go can cause more crimeand something I also learnt is some heroes will save who they think is better and not save who they can. That's not a true hero. Not to mention as a quirkless. I think they put too much focus on flashy quirks. I think it's way cooler if someone had a "weaker" quirk and made good use of that to be a great hero. If we didn't put such a focus on quirks and more on the people themselves then dad and mom wouldn't have left me. Not to mention we can avoid heroes like Endeavour. He seems cold and aloof and all he cares about it seems, is power. Besides I've seen some people come to the bar and they have lost their houses because Endeavour burned them. He catches a lot of villains but I'm not sure if it's worth it. I just hope there will be a hero that can talk about the people like us."

Hare looked on in interest and in fascination. Someone his age having such a view on hero society is rare.

"I like what you're thinking kid. So many kids these days just think heroes can do it all. When in reality so many things can't rely on heroes and can and need to be done by other people. We burden and rely on them too much."

Izuku nodded along his answer, Hare continued "If you're lucky kid you could meet some heroes if they come to the bar. Most but not all are underground heroes. You might get lucky and meet some who are in the game and not some old man like me, Ha! Anyway it's been long enough up you get! Let's try again!"

"Yes sir!"

By the time the session was over, all Izuku got were a sore body, especially in the thighs, but a smile on his face.

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Izuku and Himiko are now sitting in a chair with his hand writing fast across his notebook on the desk

"Alright noting patterns in the individual's actions and reactions in various situations can give clues to their quirk's nature. If someone reacts badly to certain sounds that you don't find problematic then it could be a clue their ears are a part of their quirk. Secondly many emitter quirks manifest with unique physical traits or anomalies. For example, an individual with a fire-based quirk may have a higher body temperature or heat-resistant skin. Or someone that manipulates air might have bigger pores on their skin. Did you get all that Broccoli, Carmilla?"

"Yes Insight!"

"Alright take a small break for now. I must say Broccoli, Carmilla. Both of you are learning much faster than i expected. Good job! Bloodsmith was right about you."

Izuku scratched the back of his head and say "Well sir I was always quirkless so I guess I was just fascinated over things I could have gotten I guess. Besides it helps people on how to better use their quirks so it's a good thing!"

Himiko replied. "At first i wasn't too interested but after learning from you Insight I just slowly gained more interested in it. They are so fascinating! It's quite useful for people like me who need something special to survive and it helps me with my quirk"

"Ah I can't agree more you two!" Insight, a man with short blue hair with glasses and brown eyes of moderate build. "There are so many misconceptions about the whole concept of quirks! The toe joint theory is completely bonkers and just plain wrong! I have seen so many supposedly quirkless kids turn out to be quirked! I'm so glad i have someone to teach my life long passion to! As for people like you Carmilla. It's a shame people have stigma towards you people. Your quirks can evolve into something great! Like a quirk awakening."

Izuku and Himiko's eyes shot up and smiled as bright as the sun You sure these kids don't have a light quirk or something?

"Really?! What quirks have you seen and why didn't they manifest before?" asked Izuku

"What are quirk awakenings?" asked Izuku

"Well i helped some kid find out he had a water manipulation quirk like Backdraft but also he can make water from the mist in the air! Another kid can bend light to make mirages. Then another one had a speed quirk! The reason they are discovered late have multiple reasons. Like the one with the water quirk and light quirk. The way they activate it within their bodies are too different. For example. Normally when someone manipulates light or water. They would try to feel out the thing they are trying to manipulate it and bending it to their will. But instead for the person with the water quirk. His method was way more complicated he needed to imagine sending out vibrations or frequencies that resonate with the water molecules. By adjusting these vibrations, they could cause the water to move or change form. Which would also explain his ability to draw mist. For the person with the light quirk. She couldn't just imagine pulling or pushing the light she had to imagine it as different colors and then do a specific technique with her breathing to manipulate and create mirages. For that boy with the speed quirk the fuel was actual petrol. Yeah, everyone thought he was quirkless because no sane parent would let their child drink petrol and yet after multiple long sessions with me. We discovered that he had to drink petrol to use his quirk so I doubt every single quirkless diagnosis i see. Especially if it's done callously. Like yours you said your diagnosis said you had quirk genes but they never cared to investigate it further? That is irresponsible!"

"As for quirk awakenings. It refers to a significant and often dramatic enhancement or evolution of an individual's quirk. This awakening can lead to new abilities, greater control, or increased power. It usually occurs under extreme stress or emotional conditions, pushing the user beyond their previous limits. It could be met under some circ*mstances like in situations of high danger. It could lead to a forced quirk awakening. Or if someone feels a very powerful emotional catalyst like love. It could even be achieved with regular rigorous training when done long enough. For example your quirk, Carmilla if went under a quirk awakening can do things maybe like. Not needing someone's blood to transform or being able to use the quirks of the people you transform. Those are some possibilities."

Himiko's eyes widen in wonder aas she wrote it down on her notebook

Izuku beamed in fascination "I know you were a quirk counselor, do you think you could help me find out if i have quirk or not?" Insight smiled "Of course Broccoli! My quirk allows me to get a "feel" on what your quirk might be. It has helped me with a lot of my clients. Do you mind if i touch you?" Izuku held out a hand. "I don't mind!" Insight smiled then touched Izuku's hand. Immediately he felt a hot sensation throughout Izuku's body and that the sensation was moving around. He scrunched his eye brows. Normally hot sensations mean a heat or fire quirk but the pulling and moving sensation could mean something telekinetic. Perhaps a combination of both?

"Ok Broccoli I'm done before we do anything though do you remember what your parents quirks are?"

Izuku replied with a small frown on his face "W-well papa had a fire breathing quirk and mama had a telekinetic quirk that makes her move stuff with her mind. I can't remember much more about it."

Insight grinned "Well Broccoli i think you definitely have a quirk. However it's a latent quirk meaning it hasn't manifested yet. I bet you haven't met a certain activation requirement or you never tried imagining it in the right way. It seems to be combination of a fire quirk and telekinesis. Which is quite a rare quirk combination indeed. I can help you discover more of this and dedicate the last 30 minutes of each session to quirk counselling but remember this could take from weeks to years before we can even see a sign of a quirk. Are you sure you can take it if it turns out to be a weak quirk."

Izuku replied "YES! I don't really care if it's a weak quirk. Just having a quirk means people will be less mean to me and besides I've always wanted to help people. If i have a weak quirk then I can still help people in the TFC like you or Bloodsmith. If i have a really strong quirk then i can be a hero and help people in the TFC also saving people from villains. If i ever become a hero I want to help people like me find help and let other people know that they shouldn't be scared of us!"

"Wow that's inspiring! You want to spread a message if you become a hero! Well I'm sure if you two train hard enough you can be the best hero there ever were. Alright then let's get started! I have so many theories how your quirks could work! Listen up!"

"YES SIR!"

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"What are these CDs Wave?"

The woman known as Wave looked at Izuku with a borderline maniacal grin. She has long brown hair in a pony tail. wearing a black t-shirt with a band name on it and jeans. Also she was adorned with accessories from bracelets, earrings, piercings etc. Just fit the punk chic to a tee.

"These are songs from the pre quirk era. They're pretty rare you know but I think they are as good if not even better than the songs sang today! You want to learn piano right and Carmilla wants to learn the violin. Some of these songs can really help with getting you started! But first let me teach you guys some chords and notes before we do anything alright?"

Wave quickly set up the instruments: a polished wooden violin, and a digital piano on a stand with keys that seemed to glisten under the room’s light. She ushered Izuku to the piano and positioned the violin under Himiko’s chin.

Turning to Himiko, Wave adjusted her grip on the violin. "Carmilla, the violin is all about precision and posture. Rest it on your shoulder, like this. Your left hand will press the strings, and your right will use the bow. Let's start with a simple scale." She guided Himiko’s hand, showing her the correct finger placements.

The room filled with the sound of random notes and the from the piano and the violin. Wave moved between them, offering tips and corrections. "Izuku, relax your wrist. Don't tense up." She then turned to Himiko, "Smooth, steady strokes with the bow. Imagine you’re painting with it."

After a while with Himiko, she is guiding Izuku on the piano. "Now, for some piano basics. These are your home keys, C, D, E, F, G, A, B. Place your fingers like this." She demonstrated, her hands gliding over the keys effortlessly. "We'll start with a simple chord progression."

The sounds of piano and violin filled the room. If anyone was at the bar then they would have ripped their ears out at the sound but thankfully the bar just opened and barely anyone comes in during this time.

"Don't get too discouraged kiddos! you guys are still beginners! It takes time to get good at instruments. Let's just try our best each time ok?"

"Yes Wave!" Both Himiko and Izuku replied

Ahh, these kids....

Chapter 8

Chapter Text

"All right, Broccoli, Carmilla, do it again."

Izuku and Himiko both groaned "Why do we have to do this?" Himiko asked.

Because a lot of people think their quirks can get them far, that is false, you should always be in good physical shape! Right now your arm strength is not up to par, you can't even do one pull up, and Broccoli doesn't have good flexibility, so we need to fix that! Keep on training your arms, Broccoli keep doing the yoga routine!"

Izuku and Himiko exchanged a look of exhaustion before getting back to it, Himiko started doing assisted pull ups.

They kept on going until Izuku's muscles were sore and Himiko's arms were screaming at her.

"Nice work both of you! We need to keep this up later, you're free to leave."

As both Izuku and Himiko go back to the bar they talked.

"Thanks... Zuku..." Himiko said while throwing a small glare at izuku

"Hey, you were the one to ask me to have lessons with Hare."

"I just thought you were working out with him! I didn't think it was torture!" Himiko slaps her forehead

Izuku chuckled, "Well, do you still want to come with?"

Himiko's grin came back, "Oh of course Zuku! I still want to learn how to fight and to get strong with you after all!" Before pinching Izuku's subtle muscles, causing Izuku to fluster and wave his hands.

They were back at the bar after a few minutes of walking, when they entered, they went back to Izuku's room and changed into the bar tender outfits. After seeing other bartenders work, Izuku's fashion sense has changed as well, going from joke t-shirts and simple shorts to something more classy, Now, Izuku wore a black dress shirt with a forest green brocade vest with golden buttons, alongside black fitting dress pants with a subtle pin stripe pattern, he wore a forest green tie to compliment his vest. Putting on his iconic quirkless shoes the bar have known him for from the two years he spent at the bar and amongst the cove, making him 9 now. He puts a simple gold pocket watch on a chain in his vest pocket, he insisted upon it after seeing a patron walking in with such an accessory and basically begged Tetsuchi for one. Lastly he puts on black silk gloves with small golden ring pattern around the fingers, however these gloves were armed with metal rings sewn between the fabric. Putting that extra force when things get dirty. Himiko after seeing Izuku wearing such a suit, also wanted to copy him. She wore the same thing, except the dress shirt is crimson red and the tie was black like her vest it had silver buttons and with a silver chain pocket watch. Also with white silk gloves with silver rings pattern around the fingers, armed also with metal rings in the inseams. She chose white because "It showed the blood better."

After they were done changing in their separate rooms. They went back downstairs to meet Tetsuchi.

"Hey kids! I need you to come with me to deliver some things to Hinode, mind coming with?"

"Sure!" "You got it Bloodsmith!"

They were sitting in the car as Tetsuchi drove, a big van, apparently he had to deliver some supplies to Hinode and to meet up with someone, but there were simply too many and he needed some extra hands.

"So, Carmilla, how has things been going for you?"

"It's great! I get so much blood now thanks to daddy and mommy! They don't judge me and I feel so much stronger now!" Himiko flexed her arm to prove the point.

"Besides with all this blood, my skin is so much clearer! I get to be much cuter! Right Zuku?"

She fluttered her eyelashes at Izuku.

Izuku blushed "Y-Yeah Himi..."

Only a matter of time... Tetsuchi thought

They kept on driving but an explosion in the distance stopped them. Tetsuchi immediately pulled over to the side and got out of the van, a crater being present where they were. They got out of the car and looked forward. It was a villain attack, Izuku knew who he was, from talks in the bar, he identified that the man was Ending, with the quirk Whiteline. Makes him able to control lanes painted on the road, just now he triggered a gas explosion underground.

"BRING ME ENDEAVOUR!" He cried out, Izuku just also remembered how mentally ill he was, completely suicidal. Wanting to be killed by a hero, especially someone as ruthless as Endeavour, He was a Class C villain bordering Class B due to him being on the run for so long.

Of course, it wasn't long before heroes actually showed up. Izuku identified them, it was Native and Slugger, two heroes that came from other parts of Japan but came here to do some partner work according to the news. They communicated to each other for a while before they started to engage the villain. Slugger pulled out a metal ball from his back pocket and threw it at Ending, the metal ball flew at unimaginable speed towards Ending, nailing him right on the chin, making him stumble, as Izuku and Himiko both think the fight is over as they see Native approach the villain, but he seemingly starts to monologue as he runs towards him, doing unnecessarily flamboyant maneuvers. Both Izuku and Himiko were confused. Even though they weren't fighting experts, they knew for sure what Native was doing was exposing himself to weaknesses and it showed, he also constantly seemed to eyed to his side. Izuku followed the sightline and sees the cameras, he instantly knew what he was doing and he clenched his fists in anger. Ending seemingly noticing this took advantage of this and whipped Native in the head with a white stripe. Seeing that more heroes are showing up. He started to run away. "I'M NOT STOPPING UNTIL I GET KILLED BY THE ONLY HERO WORTHY OF ME!" Native and Slugger started to run after them, but he can hear Slugger yell out "I should not have agreed to that!"

Did they coordinate that?

Did two heroes coordinate how to fight a villain, not to beat them but how to get more media attention?

Seeing this he groaned in anger before getting back into the van, Himiko and Tetsuchi, seeing the threat gone, decided to pick up their pace back to Hinode.

"Zuku... what did you notice....?" Himiko timidly asked in the van. Looking at an Izuku that is in a state of intense rage.

Izuku sighed before replying "I... I saw that Native was paying more attention to the cameras than the actual villain. All those poses you see him do, that was fake, all for the damn camera. I heard Slugger also say that he shouldn't have agreed to something, I think the agreed that Slugger would take down the villain and Native would capture him, but we all saw how that went."

Himiko grimaced "Why can they be heroes when people like us can't! What makes them better!"

"They have "normal quirks" Himi, it's like people only care about quirks, not the human who has it. It makes fake heroes like them... heroes that don't help people, only when it benefits them..."

Himiko looked outside the window with a look of disgust. "You can be a much better hero than them, Zuku, hell, you already are! You help people have good lives, what they do is messed up, no wonder so many of us are forgotten."

"You're sounding a lot like Stain there Broccoli, do you think people like them should... y'know..."

Izuku shook his head. "Oh no! That's not what I mean! I just think they should lose their careers, not their lives! Just someone should hold them accountable, I don't think any of those heroes will last long anyway, but I guess people like them make me want to be a hero even more, quirk or no quirk."

"What, why? Zuku, you want to be one of them? After all those times heroes ignored you and even after that!" Himiko looked at Izuku with a face of disbelief.

"Think about it Himi, in this society, who do people listen to? The heroes, if you buy merch, who will be on it? Heroes, they're everywhere, I admit, I'm a hero fanboy and I respect them, but I'm not dumb enough to believe that they're perfect, especially with what I've seen, people just think they can solve everything. A lot of the former villains that come to the bar also say that they find this dumb, heck, it's what drove some of them to crime. Even though I believe that, I've seen where crime can take you, I also know that if I stay where I am now, things won't change for people like us in a wide scale. Imagine if All Might came out tomorrow and donated a million yen to a foundation that supports mutants and quirkless. Do you realize the effect that will have on people? He's the symbol of peace! People like us are always considered useless or future villains, if someone like All Might thinks we're good, society may be more open to people like us, especially kids. In the beginning I wanted to be a hero like All Might to save people with a smile on his face, but now, I want to be a hero for people like us, the people who don't even have the privilege to get saved."

HImiko's face turned to one of thought, pondering Izuku's words, in the deepest parts of her heart, she knew it to be true. All people cared about were heroes. If society wanted change, heroes have to be the ones to bring it, though big events could bring change, the cost was usually not worth it.

"Broccoli's got a point, the ones who bring change need to be the ones in power, I get his logic."

All three sat in silence for the car ride. Something in Himiko's mind formed.

Both of them got to Hinode, it was the first time they ever step into a cove, they stepped out of the van into what seems like an old town, with short buildings packed together, they seemed run down, a look inside suggested it was used as a storehouse, but further in, they found some buildings that seem to also be in disrepair but the buildings did have some work done, with new windows and painted buildings. They meet with a plain looking man, around 25 years old, he was quirkless based on his shoes, he had a bandana around his neck wearing some baggy jeans and a T-shirt with shoulder pads, with a cap and armed with two katanas on his back alongside with a handgun holstered to his hip.

"Hey! Bloodsmith, how's the supplies?"

"It's good Senko! Don't worry by the way the kids with me, they're part of the cove."

"Ah! Hello there! You must be Broccoli and Carmilla, looking dapper today you two! You can call me Senko, I'm part of the regiment here in Hinode." Senko flashed a sigil at Izuku, it was the same sigil he had, a hexagonal sigil with a koi fish jumping over a seigaha. except the six points of the hexagon are bright orange along side the eye of the koi fish.

Seeing Izuku and Himiko, confused faces, Tetsuchi proceeded to explain "Senko here manages the security and just basic everyday operations of Hinode alongside other people, they have sigils like that to prove it, they are chosen by the people here. Senko is just sent out to help with us today. "

Izuku and HImiko nodded before helping Tetsuchi unload the stuff from the van. They set up a table and started to unload, there were the basic stuff like food and medicine but also some out of place things, an entire box was just weapons, knives, katanas, spears. They were simply explained by Tetsuchi as "For the regiment here".

The started to unpack and more locals exited from the buildings, some seem to be shop owners as they haggled with Tetsuchi over the prices of some of the supplies and then proceeded to carry the crates back to a building.

Izuku and Himiko just started giving out the supplies to the people who needed them, there were a lot of people with mutant quirks that made them look wildly different. Some were quirkless, and some just seemed like normal people, most likely having "villainous quirks". The locals first see the pair of children with some skepticism. But after a while, after seeing that they don't care about their quirks. They started to get along, some gave them their numbers if they needed something, some showed off their quirks to Izuku after hearing he is learning quirk analysis. All thanked Izuku and Himiko for their help.

Eventually after 2 hours, all the supplies were managed, and the people went along with their day. Izuku observed. They had people sitting on ratty chairs drinking some beer, some people were doing some work on the buildings, some were just reading a book under a tree.

They were just normal people.

They weren't freaks, villains or useless.

They were people.

Izuku observed the scene,from a secluded tree, a feeling a mix of pride and sorrow as he watched the people around him. They were just like anyone else, living their lives despite the hardships they faced. His gaze lingered on a young boy, clearly quirkless, wearing worn-out shoes. Beside him, a man and a woman, presumably his parents, held hands and shared ice cream, their love and support for their son evident in their smiles.

A pang of sadness pierced Izuku's heart as he watched them. Memories of his own past flooded his mind—the ridicule, the loneliness, the feeling of being unwanted because he was quirkless. The echoes of harsh words and cruel laughter filled his ears, drowning out the present.

"Hey that's a defect!"

"Why do you keep a son like that?"

"f*cking Deku!"

His eyes started to dull and smile gone, he looked at the scene with jealousy.

Why couldn't he have a family like that?

Suddenly, a warm hand grasped his own, pulling him back to reality. Izuku blinked and turned to see Himiko standing beside him, concern etched on her face.

"Zuku," she said softly, her voice steady and grounding. "Breathe. You're not alone anymore."

Oh yeah,

He did have a family.

Izuku smiled "How did you know what I was thinking about?"

Himiko hugged Izuku, "I know what you're thinking about dummy, I have those thoughts too, why couldn't I have a family like that, I've seen you look at my family from afar with those eyes, I know what you think. It's ok, you're not there anymore."

"Thanks Himi."

"Anytime Zuku."

They sat down on the grass in silence and watched Hinode, a place for people like them prospering.

"Zuku, how was it like growing up quirkless?" Himiko asked.

"Like hell, you were somehow the cause of everyone's problems. In school, someone broke something? It had to be the quirkless kid! I was just a scapegoat for everything. It felt as if I was sub human. The breaking point was when some people broke into our house and broke our things, even gave me those nasty gashes on my back. At that point my parents decided to ditch me, I attracted trouble wherever I went it seems." They both shared a moment of silence before Izuku spoke, "Did you ever have a breaking point?" Himiko nodded. "In elementary school... There was this boy, Saito, I found him so cute... He was constantly getting into fights, having blood all over his face, I loved him, I wanted to be him, so I attacked him, trying to get blood out of him, it wasn't enough to kill him thankfully but when I tried to go home. They locked me out. I know now that I wasn't thinking straight. I didn't have any blood, but I still feel sorry for it..." She started tearing up "Why couldn't we have been normal?"

Izuku hugged her. "I'm sorry to hear that Himiko, well, we can't control what we got in life I guess. The best we can do is just try out best to live it, no matter rain or shine, we got to smile through it and give our best shot besides if we were born normal, we wouldn't have met these people now would we?"

Himiko nodded and smiled a bit. "I guess you're right Zuku..."

They both sat down on the dirt, not caring about their classy clothes, they thought more about their past and they started crying together.

Tetsuchi, from a distance saw and decided to give them some space.

When both of them returned from Hinode, it was about 6:30, they started to work in the bar.

The patrons were happy in the bar, some people with mutant quirks were sitting in a few of the booths, some were eating raw meat, as required of their quirks. A person with a bobcat mutation was picking their teeth. In the back corner some vigilantes were talking, laughing, some were inspecting their weapons and guns. Izuku was behind the bartop talking to the patrons and making drinks.

"So yeah, basically, this guy asked me out, and I'm really conflicted on whether or not I should take it." A woman with swirly irises and hands said. "It's tempting but I've been on fake dates before, and I'm scared my record would f*ck it up. What do you think Broccoli?"

Izuku pondered for a moment. "If you genuinely want a date, I think give it a go, if it goes bad then at least you tried. If he doesn't show up without a good reason, the cove can find him. I bet your friends here won't let him go even if we didn't try and find him. He smirked to see two other aggressive looking women gave the swirly woman a thumbs up.

"Thanks guys, you guys are the be-" Before she can finish the sentence ten masked men burst in with weapons while carrying some sack that looks like a person is inside of it, no one in the bar even flinched as Izuku grabbed a few knives from the bottom of the bar top and threw two of them at the men, it stabbed two of them in the shoulder, Himiko rushed and bit one of them on the neck while punching another to the ground, the brass knuckles in her gloves doing their job, a few of the vigilantes got up and fought the rest of the men, with sounds of katanas, bats, and bo staffs rang out against the men's weapons. Two patrons from the bar top got up, one opened her mouth and multiple tentacles shot out, her eyes losing color and shot out at the men, the other one got a bottle and conked one of the men on the head while dragging the sack towards the bar top. The woman with the swirly eyes got up, and looked at them as her eyes started to spiral, floating the masked men up, the rest of the bar just watched in amusem*nt, this wasn't the first time people have came to attack this bar, so they were pretty much used to it at this point.

The woman with the tentacle town wrapped them up, before grabbing a knife and cutting her tongue off, properly securing them. Tetsuchi peered out from his office "Any damage?" Izuku and Himiko shook their head. "Good I'll call the cops."

"What kind of filthy place is this! Full of mutant scum!" One of the men yelled, earning a glare from the mutants in the booth seats.

Izuku grabbed pieces of duct tape to tape the loud men shut, a close look at the skull masks made it clear that they were members of the Creature Rejection Clan, they claim to be oh so powerful, but in reality they were just a bunch of crazies that wanted some form of "purity"

Izuku opened the sack, to see a man with a lizard mutation coughing and crawling out. He had pink hair and was wearing jeans and a tank top. At the sight of this some of the patrons in the bar, especially the mutants got up and put him on a chair, feeding him some food and water.

"Holy sh*t you good man?" A man with a fox mutation asked. "It's all good, their done for, captured those bigot motherf*ckers, they ain't gonna get any of us." A woman with a wolf quirk bared her fangs and growled at the men.

"T-Thanks guys....Holy sh*t where am I." The lizard man asked.

Izuku smiled. "You're at the Iron Haven a bar, I don't know why these men brought you here in the first place but know that it's a bar where anyone is welcome, mutants, quirkless, "villainous quirks", former villains, you name it, you don't start anything, you won't get hurt." One of the men, one that Izuku stabbed, snorted, "Do that again and you'll have a knife in your other shoulder, I despise bigots like you." Izuku said coldly, the sight of a nine year old was somehow enough for him to shut up.

Izuku held the lizard man's hand, "What's your name, or what would you like us to call you? Majority of us go by nicknames anyways."

The lizard man opened his mouth but no word came out, he thought for a second before responding. "Spinner, you can call me Spinner."

"How can you be comfortable with that fr-" The bound man couldn't get a word out before getting kneed in the face by Izuku.

"You should go see that guy in the office there, he can help you out with life." Izuku gestured towards Tetsuchi, he gave a wave back to the lizard man, gesturing for him to come here.

"Alright, thanks...."

"Broccoli"

"Heh, guess that fits, thanks Broccoli."

Chapter 9

Chapter Text

It has been a few years now. Izuku was now wiping the bar top while standing on a stool. He's now 10 and have been a staple within the TFC community of Musutafu. The quirkless kid that stands behind the bar top constantly wearing an outfit consisting of a forest green dress shirt. black slacks and shoes and a black vest with gold buttons with a red tie. Like a little bartender, constantly with a smile on his face. Bright enough to make the sun jealous has become a favorite and considering his talents, People appreciate him and trust him enough that Tetsuchi even allowed him to handle code greens and some code yellows. Not to mention he makes a killer katsudon. Not to mention the blond girl that was with him. Always with a small cheshire grin, wearing the same attire except with a red dress shirt and a black vest with a black tie, and somehow an expert in blood and knives. The two make an amusing pair that seemed to brighten up patron's day just at the sight of them.

"Hey Broccoli a latte please!"

"A bottle of beer for me darling~ Thankssssss!"

"A beer for me as well! School has been killing us! I need a drink!"

Izuku smiled and replied "I got all that! Good luck on your studies people! Especially with your physics Mino!"

The table snickered. Mino looked at Izuku with mock offense "Oh really? Don't see you trying to solve electromagnetism!"

Izuku smiled "I'm 10 Mino I just started the elementary school version of that. Not to mention you got stumped by the work Insight gave me!"

"Yeah! Not to mention you didn't understand a word of the book I gave you!" Himiko wearing the same outfit except with a red vest teasingly quipped

"Hey you guys learnt English from a young age! Besides that book was some old pre quirk literature and the title was weird like 1984 that's just a year You can't blame me!"

"Excuses am I right or am i right Himi?"

"Oh definitely!"

"Oh come on don't switch to English on us now! How did you guys even learn it"

"I read a bunch of books and learnt it that way alongside videos of people talking about horror movies and literature I like. Broccoli learnt it thanks to Insight"

"Ah We're just messing with you! Anyway, Himi their drinks are done"

Himiko went ahead and grabbed the groups drinks and served the college students drink on a tray

"Hey Carmilla, how has the lessons with Hare coming along?"

"Me and Broccoli are getting really good! I found about Hare 6 months after I caught Broccoli going to a warehouse. I'm getting really good at the throwing knives and knives in general. Broccoli's getting better with the staff and katanas. He started on the bow and arrow but we both are still improving our CQC and we are starting on stealth which i am really excited about."

"That's good to hear How-"

"BROCCOLI!"

Insight rushed into the bar and ran to Izuku wiht eyebags and scruffy messy hair

Izuku was startled "W-Woah Insight what's wrong?"

"WE NEED TO GO TO THE WAREHOUSE NOW I HAVE A HYPOTHESIS FOR YOUR QUIRK I SWEAR!"

Izuku immediately understood and ran out the bar leaving a dumbfounded table of college students and an excited Himiko behind.

"Quirk?" Cherry asked

"Yeah Insight says Broccoli had a good chance of a latent quirk so he's taking him out to test it!"

"Oh good for him!"

"You're not jealous Cherry?" Salazar asked

"Why would I be? I'm not bitter that I'm quirkless. I'm bitter because people treat me like sh*t because I'm quirkless. I'm confident that Broccoli won't let it get to his head even if he gets a strong flashy quirk."

"Yeah you're right Zuku's not the type."

The entire table looked at Himiko

"Zuku?"

Himiko blushed "O-oh it's nicknames we call each other..."

They all looked at each other and then Medusa asked

"Ssssssooo when will you confessssss?"

Himiko flustered "I-I don't know what you're talking about! I-I need to clear a table now bye!"

The entire table was thinking the same thingOooh that girl has it bad!

Izuku was at the warehouse with a panting Insight.

"Alright Broccoli you remember all the possibilities we tried over the years. We have established your quirk is something heat or fire related. Since there have been multiple times you have emitted heat only it never lasted long. We have tried to imagine fire coming out of you. Imagine fire being pulled out of you but what if, It's a mental imagery quirk?"

"A what?"

"A mental imagery quirk! A lot of times people imagine things coming out of them in the real world but what if you imagine a completely different space in your mind. Instead of imaging your body pulling flames or generating flames. Imagine flames in a world of your own.

"I still don't get it..."

"Your mother had telekinesis which led me to believe perhaps your brain has something to do with your quirk. So i came up with the idea of a mental imagery quirk. Try to imagine a black space and a singular fire sparking and raging, calm down and imagine a black space and a big fire."

"Ok..."

Izuku sat down cross legged after a few moments he heard Insight gasp and yelp in joy "BROCCOLI KEEP THINKING OF THE FIRE OK? THEN OPEN YOUR EYES!" Izuku was startled athis sudden exclamation. He so far have only managed to feel heat but soon later when he opened his eyes he noticed that his uniform was on fire in a blaze of green. But it wasn't burning away the actual cloth. Izuku yelled in surprise before the fire stopped.

"HOLY sh*t! IT WORKED! OH MY GOD!"

Izuku didn't say anything. After an entire decade, an entire decade of suffering and discrimination.

He had a quirk

"ALRIGHT SCREW YOUR SHIFT WE ARE DOING THIS!"

"YEAHH" Izuku yelled back.

Izuku went to write on a piece of paper

Izuku Midoriya

Quirk: Telefire

"Really? Telefire? Surely you have something better than that. We don't even know if it has any telekinetic abilities."

"Well that's what we're trying to find out now isn't it?!"

"Alright we established that if you imagine a fire at the back of the mind like a separate space of your mind then you can generate fire. Now let's see if you can imagine the fire differently. Like making it a long thin shape like a rope then try to imagine the fire shooting out ok?"

Izuku then sat down and imagined a campfire at the back of his mind. While keeping his eyes open. It was harder to focus considering the whole having a quirk thing but eventually green flames appeared. As it appeared he got a closer look, his body parts were on fire, barely visible except for his face. His green hair caught on fire and flickered. Making Izuku seem like his hair was made of fire. Insight was sat nearby with an infrared thermometer with his eyes wide open and slack jawed but as he was doing this. Izuku imagined the fire thinning out and spreading into thin rope shapes. Izuku's fire started to change. The fire then morphed into around 2 tendrils of green hot fire, he felt a headache. In a moment, they were moving around randomly. Izuku was in awe. Then Izuku imagined the campfire shoot out of their side. Resulting in the fire shooting to his right and setting a small flame to a pile of cardboard. Izuku panicked as Insight rushed to a fire extinguisher and put out the flames quickly."

"That was so cool!"

"It certainly was something. Now let's review somethings. We have revealed that you can imagine the flames and my theory was that you imagine the flame and then change it into a tendril shape. Then you imagined the fire in you shooting to your right then that's what happened correct?

Izuku nodded. "I imagined a campfire. My whole body was lit up when i did. Then i imagined it turning into small thin ropes then imagined it shoot out to my right. You're correct"

"Alright that brings me to my second question. Did you feel any discomfort during that whole show of fire. Did you feel like you were overheating?"

"No i felt a bit warm like wearing two coats at summer noon but other than that it wasn't a big deal."

Insight went and touch Izuku on the shoulder. The clothes were burning hot "OW!" he yelped. "Your clothes are so hot like they're on fire and you feel fine?!"

"W-well I guess it's maybe because of fire resistant skin?"

"No! none of your skin shows attributes that resist fire. No obvious difference in body hair, pores whatever! That is very impressive and scary at the same time Broccoli. You know why?"

Izuku shook his head before Insight turned his thermometer around to reveal a reading.

1450 degrees celsius.

"WHAT!"

"Do you understand how hot that is? That is hot enough to melt steel. Normal people with fire quirks will be rolling in their grave right now if they reach that temperature! and yet here you are just dusting it off like two coats in noon as you call it."

"But how? I don't feel anything bad."

"That's what we're trying to figure out try doing it again but this time just imagine the fire burning and run around the warehouse and I will set a timer and thermometer to see what drawbacks this has. Try keeping yourself aware through out the whole thing alright?"

Izuku nodded before sitting down and imagining the fire. His body was alight once more. He started to run around. After only 3 minutes he started to feel discomfort. Before falling on the ground clutching his head after 2 more minutes of running.

Insight rushed to him and asked if he was ok. Izuku nodded and lied on the floor recovering.

"What did you feel?"

"A big headache like I just got hit by a hammer hard."

"Ahh i see the potential quirk exhaustion. Since your fire is mind based, your body isn't taking the strain but your brain and mind is. If you kept on going there was a good chance for a nose bleed or even worse brain damage. I hypothesize that the heat of your flames have something to do with it. Since it was in the 1400s the entire time through. Do you wish to continue or call it a day?"

"No keep going i have so many things I want to try!"

"Alright then let's take a rest before we try anything else."

They sat there is silence. As Izuku contemplated his life. He now had a quirk and it seemed really powerful. He could be a good hero if he trained hard enough.

"Insight, would i be betraying you guys?"

Insight looked in confusion. "Why would you be betraying us kid?"

"Now knowing I have a quirk I genuinely want to try my shot at being a hero but I want to keep helping people here. Can i do both or do i have to sacrifice all this to be a hero. If so then wouldn't I be betraying you guys? I want to be a hero to change the world so that people don't have to be scared of the people we take care of! Mutation quirks, "villainous quirks", recovering villains, quirkless and even the people who need our help for other reasons. I want there to be someone well-known in this world and then to say. That these people deserve our attention too. Let's help them! But i'm scared that i'll lose you guys and can't get to help you guys anymore since i'm not the quirkless kid being bullied and mocked by society anymore. I'm scared that people will think I'm not part of them anymore."

Insight softly smiled.

He knelt down to the boy’s level, his eyes soft with understanding. "You know, being a hero isn't just about having a flashy quirk or wearing a costume. It's about having a heart like yours, a heart that wants to help people and make the world a better place."

He reached out and gently placed a hand on his shoulder. "You don’t have to choose between being a hero and helping people here. You can do both. In fact, the best heroes are the ones who never forget where they came from and who they’re fighting for."

Insight's voice was steady and warm. "By becoming a hero, you'll have a bigger platform to tell the world about the amazing people here. You'll be able to show everyone that mutation quirks, so-called 'villainous quirks,'quirkless people and even those who’ve had a tough past deserve love, support, and understanding. You can be that bridge between our world and the world out there."

He smiled, a twinkle of pride in her eyes. "And as for losing us? That's not going to happen. We are basically family at this point, you are one of us , You are part of a family that can be found almost anywhere in Japan and can provide a home for you. You have shown us compassion and understanding and all of us know you aren't the type of person that will let a flashy quirk get to your head like that and we will always be here for you. No matter where you go or how high you rise, you'll always have a place here with us. If you become a hero. You will mean so much to so many people. A member of The Forgotten Cove being a hero and spreading the need of support for these people. Remember your roots and you will be fine, being a hero doesn’t mean leaving behind those you care about—it means fighting even harder for them."

"You can be a great hero"

As Insight was done. Izuku was crying on his shoulder. "Y-yes Insight, T-thank you!"

They sat there and Izuku kept on crying. They stayed like that for what seems like forever.

After a while Tetsuchi walked in the warehouse with Himiko.

"Hey Insight what's going on with Broccoli?"

"Yeah Zuku looks sad!"

Insight walked over to them and whispered into their ear about what happened. Tetsuchi and Himiko walked towards him and hugged him.

"He's right kid. You don't have to worry about losing us. If you want to be a hero go for it! We believe in you."

"Yeah Zuku you can do it!"

"T-thanks Bloodsmith T-thanks H-Himi..."

"Actually what's your quirk. Insight told me it was something to do with fire?"

Izuku and Insight both grinned. "Yeah Broccoli's quirk is one of the rarest i've seen! It's fire but it's produced by his mind! It reached 1400 celsius and he can run around for like 15 minutes before he passes out! We are trying to figure out how to either extend his limit or trying to make him last longer!"

"Woah..." Tetsuchi and Himiko muttered.

"Yeah! Now I have a suggestion Broccoli. Try imagining your fire but weaker. maybe instead of a size of a roaring campfire. What about a flame of a candle?"

"Ok!"

Izuku started to imagine a candle at the back of his mind and his body caught on fire again but this time he felt cooler still hot but not as hot as 1400 celsius.

"I feel much better and relaxed" he said.

"I think that's because this fire is around 600 degrees. around the temperature of a normal wood fire."

"That's so cool!"

Izuku's fire went out at that moment.

"Why did his fire go out?"

Izuku smiled sheepishly. "Well i have to focus on my mind. I have to think of the fire. I got distracted so it was gone."

"I see that's still so cool Zuku!"

"Alright that proves that you can regulate your flames. Now i want you to imagine the fire in some ways. I want you to imagine something and then it's caught on fire. Or the fire morphing into a shape of something like a sword for example. Then try to see if your fire can be separated from you. Some people can create fire constructs. Then try to make the fire solid. It's rare but possible. I think trying to imagine the fire being rigid and not flowing or flickering can help. Lastly try to see if you have telekinetic control over your potential fire constructs."

"Yes Sir!"

Izuku stood and imagined the fire. His body lit up again. He then imagined two small parts of the fire separating. Two small fire balls appeared around him and floated in front of him. He imagined them spinning around him and the fire complied. He then imagined the fire coming together to make a katana. It took a moment but a katana made of green flame appeared in front of him. He imagined the katana spinning rapidly. However it barely maintained it's form. Then Izuku concentrated hard. A small headache starting to flare up in his head. He imagined the flickering of the flaming katana to stop. He closed his eyes and concentrated. After a while he imagined it as a glowing green katana. He imagined it spinning around and the katana had a better and more clear shape. He then went to try and touch the katana. He slowly approached it and closed his eyes. Expecting to grasp at air. He touched the handle of it. He then proceeded to grab it and follow Hare's teaching routine of katanas. His katana flowed with him as if it was one made of steel. He felt like it he was at one with it. He didn't even realize his fire was out.

"Hey Broccoli? Your fire is out."

"Oh what?"

When Izuku looked around him. He realized the green fire is out but the katana was still there. What's more interesting is he could still control his katana through telekinesis. However when he grasped at it, and releasing his telekinetic control, he couldn't control it again, what's more is that when he tried to strike the katana against a steel beam, the katana broke.

"Interesting how did you feel when you made the katana?"

"It felt hard I had to concentrate really hard to stop the flickering."

"But it seems to stay behind even after your fire is burning. Are you imaging a fire right now?"

"No I just imagine pulling this katana around and it's working."

"It seems like any flame construct you make can survive even without you imagining a fire and you have telekinetic control over them but it seems to be pretty fragile, like glass, I think with enough training, it can get better. That is an amazing ability indeed according to my thermometer that katana is around 700 celsius the rough temperature you were burning at the time and yet here you are holding it in your hands and all fine and you controlling these constructs seem like how a standard telekinetic quirk works. We'll wrap it up today. Write down everything in those notebook of yours you hear! This is all important!"

"Yes sir! Thank you Sir!"

Later that night Himiko knocked on Izuku's room door

"Zuku... Can i ask a question before I leave."

"Of course Himi what is it?"

"Can someone like me be a hero?"

"Of course Himi! Why do you ask?"

"I saw how you wanted to help people after you got your quirk. Do you think I can help with my quirk? I always wanted people to stop hating people like me for their quirks. It means I can prove to people that people and heroes that even with villainous quirks I can still help right?"

"Yeah that's what that means and of course! There are so many ways you can help with your quirk. You can confuse villains into thinking you are one of them. You could break into their bases. You would be perfect for infiltration. I've seen you doing training with your quirk with Hare. You could stay transformed for so long now and you don't even need to worry about the clothes! You just shapeshift with the person's clothes over your own! I wouldn't be surprised if your quirk changed some way in the future but even as it is right now, You could definitely be a hero. We could go to hero schools and really train ourselves with pro heroes!"

"Which hero school do you want to go Zuku?

"Well if it were up to me then definitely UA since it's regarded as the best!"

"O-oh..."

"What's wrong Himi?"

"I asked Bloodsmith about hero schools after hearing you say you want to be a hero. I want to go to Shiketsu... I hope you aren't mad..."

"It's ok Himi! Shiketsu is considered to be the main competitor to UA they are still really good but why Shiketsu though?"

"I-I searched up UA's practical test and it says it was fighting robots... Even if my weapon and fighting skills were good enough. I couldn't do much against robots... Besides Shiketsu has a specific test for underground heroics. They will still train under the official hero course and that's the field of heroics I want to go into if I could... I want to be like Hare. Besides you said it yourself. My quirk is really more suited to underground heroics with stuff like infiltration... so yeah."

"It's fine Himi I'm not mad at all. I'm really proud that you can know what you want and be a hero. Besides we both work at this bar. Heck I live here. So it's not like we will see each other less right? You can come visit anytime outside of school and I'll likely be right here for you!" Izuku flashed her a bright smile. "I never knew you had an interest in heroics Himi. What spurred this on?"

"W-well aside from you getting your quirk and seeing how you want to help people like us really inspired me. It started way back when you saved me from that kid with the explosion quirk, and then that talk in the van after seeing Native and Slugger about how if we want to change the world, we need to be more than what we are now, but the main reason is I think I was given a second chance at life and want to do it for something good... Even if I know not to c-care about them. I s-still get people c-calling me vampire or v-villain when i need to d-drink blood in public. It feels bad. I am so t-thankful for mom and dad for defending me. But i keep thinking: If I hadn't met you that day. There's a g-good chance that I'll be a villain. I d-don't want that to be true but I had no one. It w-was only a matter of time before I started to hate e-everything. Thinking no one would love me. Until one d-day I would do s-something too far... I just t-think I want to prove to myself that i can do good and to others like me that they can be a good p-person even with a q-quirk like mine, even today I sometimes attack people, and yet people understand, sometimes whenever I see a quirkist I just want to gut them, to let my hate just take them... Why..." When Himiko was finished she started sobbing into Izuku's shoulder. Izuku embraced her and softly replied

"It's ok now Himi, what matters now is that you have people that do love you. People who are with you. People that will support you no matter what. You don't need to think of a world where you're a villain because you aren't one. You are a great person. Listen to me, those people who insult you are wrong. But no matter rain or shine or what they say. We should smile through it because time won't stop for us if we sit here and think about what could have been. Instead we could focus on what could be and that is being a hero to people like us. People who were forgotten. To make sure people realize that we exist!"

"But, don't you think that? Just think about it, I did some things that I weren't proud of, but I think that If I didn't find people like you, I would have hated this world. I would have actually killed someone... just taken what I want, what if that's who I was meant to be? Sometimes my blood urges still pop up an-"

Izuku looked at her with a soft and gentle look and hugs her,"Himi, that's not who you are now, nor will you ever be. You are not a villain. You never were, and you never will be. What they say, what they think about your quirk—it doesn’t define you. You define you."

Himiko’s eyes widened slightly, tears brimming at the corners as she gazed at him, her lips trembling. Izuku squeezed her hand, wanting her to feel the strength in his grip, the reassurance he was trying to convey.

"Those urges, those feelings—they don’t make you evil," Izuku continued. "They’re just a part of you, like any other quirk is a part of someone else. It doesn’t make you a villain, Himi. It just means you have something more to overcome, something that makes you stronger when you choose not to let it control you."

Himiko swallowed hard, trying to process his words, but the doubt still lingered in her eyes. "But what if one day I lose control? What if one day... I can’t fight it?"

Izuku shook his head, his expression resolute. "You won’t lose control because you’re stronger than that. And you’re not alone. You have me, and you have others who care about you. We’ll help you, Himi. We’ll be there for you, every step of the way. You don’t have to carry this burden alone."

Himiko's tear fell out at that statement and feeling a wave of realization before hugging Izuku harder.

"Thank you Zuku.... Thank you so much..." Himiko sobbed before nibbling on Izuku's neck

" Do you want to sing a song Wave taught us to calm down."

"Yes please..."

"Alright then let's do something simple."

"Somewhere, over the rainbow..."

Chapter 10

Chapter Text

Name: Midoriya Izuku

Quirk: Mindflare

Description: The ability to generate green energy by imagining it with his mind. Drawbacks are mental strain and potential brain damage."

"Really? This is what i'll be sending to the quirk registry?"

"Yeah! We can't give away everything now can we? Trust me you don't want to raise a lot of attention with a quirk like yours. I know the HPSC takes special notice on powerful quirks and you don't want them to give you extra attention. I worked for them before... It's not pretty."

Izuku shuddered at the insinuation "Alright then..."

"Alright! So you got yourself a quirk but you better expect for the training to get harder! Understood?"

"Yes Sir!"

"Alright this time around I will focus on Carmilla and let you have half the session trying out your quirk. I heard you can make weapons so try to train yourself in that since according to Insight, It's quite hard for you to make it solid. Also try to make multiple things solid at once. You got that? But also try to think of different ways you can use your quirk since it's really versatile. What's your current time to make something solid?"

"Like 10 seconds?"

"Alright get it down to 5 seconds. If you manage to do that then you can try to make multiple things solid alright?"

"Yes Hare!"

Izuku then proceeded to try imagining the fire and tried to get the flickers down as quick as he can. He timed himself and the fastest was still only about 9 seconds. He tried this for 30 minutes before getting stopped by Hare.

"Broccoli maybe you're going about this wrong. How about try imagining the fires differently. Like maybe there's a better way than just imagining the flickering stop. Do you have any ideas?"

Izuku ran to his notebook on a table to the side. He flipped through it before stopping on a page and then smiling to himself "Yes I have an idea Hare..."

Izuku then sat down and instead of imagining a campfire as he always did. He imagined two green glowing swords. When he did. Two flaming daggers appeared in front of him but his body was not on fire. "Woahh" Izuku muttered. He maintained focus on green daggers at the back of his mind. He took it in his hand and then stopped imaging it. The green daggers remained. Radiating heat throughout the room. Izuku holds one dagger in his hand while spinning the other dagger around him. He proceeded to do the sword fighting routine with parries, blocks and strikes. All while having a dagger spinning around his body. However, the one he was spinning, shatters and the one he was holding crumbles after hitting it on the wooden table."

"That's so cool Zuku!"

"Thanks Himi! It's so amazing to look at!"

"That's good kid try some different shapes would you?"

Izuku then imagined a fire with ten glowing tendrils coming out of it. Izuku's back popped out around 2 tendrils as he was lit on fire. Izuku then imagined two of them shift position to a place in the fire facing forward. As he did the two tendrils shifted out to his arm. He imagined the tendrils reach out and Izuku tried to grab on to the water bottle. Only for it to melt. Izuku panicked a bit. The fire flickering away before he refocused and tried to imagine the tendril to not glow as much. After he did he tried to grab a nearby knife. Izuku's fire didn't melt it. Instead picking up as if it were another limb of Izuku. Izuku then tried to use it as a grappling hook by shooting it upwards. But noticing losing control of it traveling about 15 meters.

"Why did you stop controlling it after a little while kid? You need to take this seriously!"

"I did try to control it! It just seems that may be my telekinetic range. I don't think i can try grappling in the traditional sense..."

"How about you control the part of it where it is in your range maybe imagine the fire moving or the tendril shortening Zuku!"

Izuku nodded with understanding before trying just that. He was flung up immediately and slowly sensed to gain control of the part of the tendril that was out of his range only to crash against the roof and the tendrils shattering, earning him the laughs of Himiko and Hare

With all this new knowledge Izuku then went on to try multiple different ways to imagine his fire.

He made a small buckler that was able to physically block attacks while setting the projectiles and hits on fire. (Courtesy of Himiko's knives and Hare's unfortunate pants.)

He made small 1 square meter square platforms that separate from his fire and is able to put it in a 15 meter range around him and climb up using them before shattering.

He even tried to make more complex weapons like his own fire version of a bow and arrow and smaller knives and even thin gauntlets and armor around his limbs.

"Good job! This session alone you manage to find so many ways to use your quirk. Good job on transformation times and stamina Carmilla! Now come here! I want 150 sets of Luna Ring, Luna Rush and Luna Fall, both of you use your quirks to make it better, you need to hit all the pressure points I taught you and attack this dummy. Come on let's go!"

"Yes Hare!"

Izuku went back to working at the bar top before Tetsuchi called him and Himiko into the office. Inside sat a white haired lady who looked like she was crying.

"Ok look I know both of you want to be more involved in information gathering and here's a chance I want to guide you through this. This woman came to me and gave me a red omamori and a black one at the same time. She is likely to have been a victim of a crime so I want you to try and ask her calmly what she needs ok?"

Izuku and Himiko nodded before quietly approach the white haired woman and got behind the desk. Izuku started

"Hello miss! You can call me Broccoli and this girl Carmilla. What can we call you? and what do you need? Do you have crime to report?"

The woman looked up in confusion. Himiko intercepted.

"I know we seem young miss but we really want to help! Bloodsmith is there and will listen and handle your problem! You can trust me on that miss!"

The woman nodded hesitantly before replying "Y-you can call me Frost. I-I'm here because I just couldn't take it a-anymore..." The woman started sobbing. Himiko and Izuku waited patiently and smiled softly before the woman continued. "I was abused by my h-husband. I got married off for a quirk marriage. He was a horrible man... He's a hero and he wanted his children to be heroes as well... They trained them so hard. My eldest was the first. He had great power so my husband trained him. However after years he realized that his quirk did not make him suitable as a "Successor" since it had such a negative effect on his body since his skin didn't go along his quirk. We kept on having children until they had the perfect blend of a dual quirk. That would be my youngest. My eldest hated the fact that he was replaced and couldn't be the one to succeed my husband. My husband wanted to make someone better than All Might... and my eldest just couldn't see that we stopped training him for his own good and wanted to be the one to surpass All Might. He wanted to be a hero like there was no other option in life! I think it would be better if my husband were to just listen and talk to him but he avoided his problems and instead focused on training our youngest. He was always so harsh on him. Whenever I defend my child he would hit me... One d-day I couldn't take it and I lashed out and hurt my youngest b-boy... I was so startled to see him I thought it was my husband about to hit me..."

She sobbed some more before continuing. "After I lashed out he sent me to a mental hospital... T-they kept me there for g-god knows how long. I admit I wasn't right in the head when i l-lashed out but I... They just wouldn't even visit me in the hospital. It felt so lonely... I stayed for so long. I passed all the tests given to me! I should have been free to go but still they wouldn't let me! I wanted to meet them. To atone, to try and fix the family. But I couldn't even talk to them. Until one day. Some n-nurse didn't lock the door at night and I escaped to you guys. I h-heard from someone that y-you guys might be able to help me since he said you helped him s-secure medical treatment there and can also help with abuse cases like mine. He told me after hearing about my situation... The hospital's probably looking for me now..."

Izuku nodded "I see miss. We can help you with getting you a new place to live and to find work. We can even offer you a chance at a new identity if you wish and give you access to psychiatrists. Do you have any other requests?"

Frost nodded slowly "I don't know if this is too much to ask... but my eldest son was deemed dead after an incident but i think he ran away. I don't think in my heart that he died! My husband trained and pushed him too hard and my son couldn't take the fact that he was replaced and still wanted to be a hero! I wanted him to explore the world. Not being clouded by his father's judgement and views, then decide his own path. But he trained in secret hoping to regain his father's favor. He trained in the mountains until. He started a mountain fire. That was also when he created blue fire. They assumed he died in the mountain fire but there was not even a body! My husband probably told the police to not look into it! I think that man wanted to cover his mistakes by disguising his so called death as an incident! He is hateful but as a mother I can't help but care for him. I don't want him to end up as a vigilante or a villain... If you can help me find him before he's too late or at least confirm his status then I will be forever in your debt!"

Himiko nodded and asked "Do you know what he looks like?"

Frost nodded " His name is Touya Todoroki...He would be around 19 years old... He has a fire quirk. It makes blue fire. He had white hair and blue eyes. He might have scars all over since the doctors said his skin is not made for a fire quirk so he might suffer scars all over his body... He is absolutely out of control though. He is brash and aggressive. He has been told all his life his purpose is to be a hero but after my youngest. Who my husband deemed "The perfect combination" He was neglected and told he shouldn't be a hero. since his quirk actively damaged him. But he didn't listen! He kept going and getting hurt even more..."

Izuku and Himiko's eyes widen at the name mentioned

"I see miss. Do you want to report this to the heroes?"

"NO!"

Izuku and Himiko both flinched

The woman calmed down before continuing. "Sorry... My husband is a pro hero... If you report this he might get wind of it... As for my eldest. I'm ready for whatever news it could be. I just want to try to search for him at least once... I will repay you tenfold for this in the future i swear upon it!"

"It's ok miss we'll help!" Izuku flashed her a bright smile. Soothing the young woman.

Tetsuchi piped up from the entrance "Frost we can help you with all that I can send some folk to find people that fit your son's description. These two can help you find a place for now. We can hammer out the details about work, mental help and a new identity once we got you a place to live. For now I have rooms at the top of the bar. Broccoli lives there also. If you need anything you can ask him. As for payment. We don't need it. This won't take too much on our resources but if you do wish to repay us. Then do so when you have more than enough for yourself ok?"

Frost got on her knees and clasped her hands "T-Thank you all so much...."

"It will be fine. Broccoli take her up stairs will you? Come back here after so I can guide you through the process. Miss if we want to start searching for your son, your name will be a good start."

"Rei... Rei Todoroki but my maiden name is Rei Himura..."

All the other three's jaw dropped. Before Izuku escorted Rei up to her rooms.

"Ok Bloodsmith, Zuku, isn't Himura that rich family with all those powerful ice quirks? Aren't they like uber rich? What is it they do again?" Himiko asked when Izuku came back to the office.

"You're right Carmilla they have a hand in a lot of businesses. They sell ice mainly. but they help a lot of big companies with their frozen processed food. All the big companies world wide have used their services. Making them really wealthy. Which doesn't make sense to me why they would agree to a quirk marriage..."

"What's a quirk marriage Bloodsmith?"

"It's when two people agree to marry each other but only on the basis of hoping their quirks can be enhanced and then be passed off to their offspring down the bloodline. It is pure eugenics. In Frost's case. Judging by the fact that her eldest has a fire quirk but apparently his skin is not made for a fire quirk..."

"Then that means his skin may be more suited to an ice quirk!" Izuku added

"Correct! Which means she married someone with a fire quirk! Now i guess it's no surprise that powerful families like the Himura want good quirks but according to Frost she was married off meaning the Himuras gave her up... Now the part that confuses me is that that means the Himuras. The rich family that has a hand in business worldwide! Has become desperate enough to marry someone in their family off... Since quirk marriages involve a lot of money and that they're heavily scrutinized in today's society. Maybe they could be suffering an in house crisis."

Izuku slammed the table and exclaimed. "Wait! Todoroki is the last name of Endeavour right?"

"Yeah you're right Zuku! When we watched those old videos of the UA sports festival it did say his name! It checks out on how her son can have a strong fire quirk! But that also means..."

"Endeavour participated in a quirk marriage and abused his wife and kids..."

Everyone in the office stopped for a second. All the evidence pointed towards the current number 2 hero being a piece of sh*t.

"Oh my god... Someone like him... The number 2 hero..."Izuku muttered curling his fists.

"I want to see his blood... what a fake..." Himiko gritted her teeth.

Izuku and Himiko immediately began to look through the files of land owners in contact with the TFC and properties owned by the TFC.

"This one's too expensive!"

"This one's too far!"

"The owner can't take anymore people for now with this one!"

It took them hours before finally settling on an apartment complex a 20 minute train ride from here. It was chosen because Rei could realistically afford it when she found work. It was safe since it had cameras and guards hired by the owner of the complex who was a part of the TFC and it was big enough to accomodate her and her son if they ever found him.

"Here Bloodsmith! We chose the place!" Himiko grinned while rushing towards Tetsuchi. "What do you think did we do good?"

Tetsuchi smiled. "Good choice! I can tell all those lessons are paying off. Soon enough I can start teaching you hero stuff. It'll be good for any hero to learn how to gather information."

Izuku and Himiko grinned to each other as they embraced. Himiko started nibbling on Izuku's neck. She has started doing that as a sign of affection. Although Izuku didn't understand it. He was glad that Himiko was happy.

"Alright I'll give this to Frost. Alongside the new government papers and identity to live under. You guys did good! Himiko you can wait her for you parents to pick you up. Izuku follow me to Frost's room"

Izuku followed Tetsuchi and opened a door seeing a somber looking Rei.

"Hey there Frost. We have some news for you"

Rei looked towards them in a slight smile and nodded signaling for them to continue

"From now on your name is not Rei Todoroki or Shimura, It will be Shimo Risa and we have found this place to be willing to give you a place to live. You can look over this file for details of the property. I can assure you it is safe and inconspicuous. No one from your husband's family should find you there. If you so wish I can arrange for someone to change up your appearance if you'd like."

"No it's fine Bloodsmith. I'm sure at this point you know i am married to Endeavour?" Izuku and Tetsuchi nodded

"In that case I have nothing to worry. I barely left the house. No one in the public should know I'm his wife. I'm sure why you know how going after him would be a bad idea. I was put in a mental hospital. That alone could make me not a suitable witness. Now i just want to have a chance at a new life with hopefully my eldest and all my children that are still under him..." Rei started to sob as her mind wandered to the other kids under him.

"It will be ok Frost. I believe one day his crimes will come to light. Unfortunately that will not be today but we can start by helping you. In regards to your eldest. Given the few hours. We have someone that does fit his description. After all blue fire quirks are quite hard to come by. He was last seen by the southern harbors. People learnt he had a blue fire quirk after people seeing him attack some thugs that tried to rob some of the boats there. My contacts have asked him questions regarding his upbringing. It matches your story. However we couldn't even get him to agree to a meeting. Would you like for me to take you there to meet him instead. He's currently staying at some abandoned building there. We can meet him there in a few days. He wouldn't be going anywhere in the mean time. Apparently he wants to stay because there's been an uptick in thieves around the harbor and says it would be "Good Traning"."

Rei's eyes widened and nodded "Please take me to see him! I just want to make sure he's at least safe!"

Tetsuchi nodded and picked up his phone and texted someone. After a while he said

"Alright next week Monday we can meet him. It's Friday today. You can stay here in the meantime."

Rei nodded and whispering under her breath. "Please come home Touya..."

Chapter 11

Chapter Text

It was 10am, Izuku and Himiko were watching from afar as Tetsuchi talked to a man on the bartop. Apparently he a contact has seen Touya near Kokai but before that He had to make some deal with someone. They were observing the exchange going down secretly while hiding under a table. They wanted to hear more clearly so they moved closer, barely raising a sound. Courtesy of their stealth training with Hare. They were whispering to each other

"They look so suspicious even though we know what they're doing is probably fine?"

"Well Himi, to the heroes and normal people. Two strong men in a shady bar talking to each other doesn't seem too nice."

"That man looks so weird! He's wearing full black. His hair looks messed up, He has with weird long scarf an goggles. Who is he?"

"Oh i think i might know who he is. He's an underground hero. I think his name's Eraserhead."

When close enough they listen to the deal going on.

"Hey! How's the job hunt going. Got something better than this bar yet?"

"Doing fine, you got the money back from your friend yet? He should pay you back by now."

"Oh yeah look I bought myself some shoes because of it."

Tetsuchi brought out a shoe box from under the bar and the other man opened it.

"These are some nice shoes Bloodsmith"

While he was saying that he silently dropped an envelope into the shoebox.

"Yeah man, I'm gonna place this box outside for now though. Need a drink?"

Tetsuchi grabbed a pair of shoes from the box with the envelope and walked towards the exit and placed it near the entrance.

"No thanks I'm just here to check up on you"

The man left while picking up the shoebox before leaving

As the man leaves the bar he picked up the shoe box and left.

"What was that Bloodsmith?" Himiko asked

Bloodsmith seemed to jump a bit when he saw Himiko and Izuku from under the table.

"Ah- that was uh an underground hero. I gave him info on some drug deals. It was in the shoebox"

At the mention of heroes. Izuku's eyes shined "Was that Eraserhead? I see him come around sometimes. Never orders or stays for long though. Sometimes he comes with a really tall man with white hair. With like a red jumpsuit. He has teeth like Himi's. I did some research. Is that guy Vlad King? He has a blood quirk but it says he retired. Do you know why? Couldtheyhavebeeninjuredormaybe..."

"Woah you're at it again kid. Slow down" Tetsuchi chuckled. Izuku slapped his hand over his mouth in exasperation while Himiko snickered in the background.

"You're right in that man was Eraserhead. The tall white hair man you see him with sometimes. Is indeed Vlad King, guess you're not our resident hero nerd for nothing huh" Izuku slightly blushed after that comment. "Well the reason Vlad King retired is that he got a better job offer. To teach at UA he teaches one of the hero course classes. Same with Eraserhead."

"W-Wait! You're telling me those two might be my sensei one day?!"

"You're right! Hope you didn't mess up too much in impressions did you?"

"W-well I've never interacted with them much! They usually go to you and don't stay for long. Also the TFC handles drug deals?"

"No! You see the heroes have their own networks of information and if they can't find anything they will go find some outside sources. We are one of those outside sources. They don't know about the TFC at all and what we do they just know we're a group that can get information for them. We are used sometimes but not a whole lot. They usually ask people like me to see if they can find any information on something and I can arrange the people to go find it. We do good so they trust us enough to use us. Since some of the people here were involved in some crime organizations. We typically have some information or are able to get some information from a lot of the more well known groups."

"Wow..." Himiko and Izuku stared at Tetsuchi starry eyed

"Well, that is a story for another day. Now we should go to Kokai to try and find Touya. You guys can follow us and meet with the people there. You guys should know about some of the customs of the coves by now right? You will try to talk to our contacts and observe us trying to talk to Touya and bring him to his mother. The point of this is for you to get used to the coves' customs and try to learn how to talk down someone. You guys have experience with that whenever someone gets mad or too drunk at the bar but this is a bit different. Touya is most likely traumatized so you will be going with me to Kokai to go find him. We are hoping to talk him down. You guys remembered the code words and the slang used in Kokai right?"

Izuku and Himiko nodded. When Tetsuchi gave them the booklet with all the codewords and slang. They have looked over it and memorized it. They have actually never been to one of the dedicated coves set up, this will be the first time they go to a cove. Today will be the first time they will get to use it! In this case Kokai is near the harbor so a lot of the words will be sea related. Izuku thought.

"Alright people the meeting will happen soon, get Frost down here and we can go"

"Alright Frost we're here." Tetsuchi said in his car "Now you're positive the photo I showed you was Touya."

Rei nodded " Yes I'm positive. It's him, my god the scars he has..."

"It's gonna be ok Frost we're getting closer to the buildings now." He parked his car at the side of the road "Broccoli Carmilla can you handle that guy there? They're the contacts. Everyone who lives here is TFC."

"Really? Does no one even bother to check on this place? Not even underground heroes?"

"Well, legally it's abandoned for years now. No one uses it so we repurposed it. No high profile villain would want to run their operations from places this run down, There are much better places for them to operate. So the heroes don't have a lot of reason to check here. Therefore our people can live here.

Izuku and Himiko nodded before approaching a man with three big holes on the side of each arm. Wearing only a vest and a pair of shorts and a cap leaning on a lamp post. Izuku asked while showing him his sigil

"Hey we're looking for the small fry, the fishwife's there."

"How small we talking."

"Just enough to swim the low tides."

"Alright what breed?"

"White scaled, with history of living to fire coral." Himiko replied

"Alright I know who you talking about. You can find him near the old shipyard. In the white ship with a yellow stripe. He's a hard catch though, you sure you want to reel him in?"

"The fishwife wants her fish so yes."

"Alright then, good luck on your trip. call me Cannon by the way. I heard of you two kids Broccoli and Carmilla? One of you is a scapegoat and the other's a baseline right?"

"Oh i'm the scapegoat. he's actually a latecomer. Don't worry he won't be some hotshot." Himiko replied

Cannon nodded "Good for you kid. You do quirk analysis right? You learn from Insight, I heard your records are coded so they're safe right? do you mind if i ask for one?"

Izuku smiled. "Sure just come down to the Iron Haven, I'm always there and don't worry they are safe and locked in a lockbox."

"Alright sounds good. Goodluck on the catch."

Izuku and Himiko walked back to Rei and Tetsuchi. Tetsuchi nodded. "Good job! seems like the codeword usage is very good. What did he say?"

"He said the white ship with the yellow stripe on the old shipyard, come on let's go!" Himiko exclaimed.

"Um... excuse me I heard some parts of the last bit of conversation what's a scapegoat, a baseline or a hotshot? and what's this about Broccoli doing quirk analysis?"

"Oh a baseline is what we call quirkless people, scapegoats are people like me, people with so called "villainous quirks". A hotshot are referred to people who have big powerful quirks that are mean to people. You also have Chimera for people with mutant quirks and Turncoats for recovering villains. As for the analysis. Since he studies under someone called Insight who was a former quirk counselor for the HPSC he taught him a lot about quirks and analysis. He's practically a prodigy. I learnt more on how to accomodate people with quirks like mine where they need a special diet requirement or other things. So i'm not as good as him at it. People talk to him and pay him if they need help with controlling their quirks."

"Oh i see... Do you think you can maybe help with Touya's quirk?"

"Sure Frost let's go see him first though!"

As the group walked down the street. There were people looking at them through windows on some rundown buildings before promptly ignoring them. The buildings although some seem renovated to a certain extent. They still look rundown. However the streets are surprisingly clean and all over there are small lamps shining from poles acting as makeshift lampposts. Some people were also walking around with the sigil tied on their hips. Although it's a black and white color scheme with a light blue dot on the points of the hexagons. There are some shops that seem open but they look run down as well. The only indication it's a shop are some signs outside saying what they sell. It seems that although not ideal. The people around here do take care of the area they live in. It seems like the coves also have their own flags, a flag split into two parts horizontally. white on top and ocean blue on the bottom, with the bottom part seemingly having three poked up spots like a curved pyramid, resembling a wave.

Rei asked Tetsuchi "These places seem surprisingly clean and the fact that there are shops here are surprising and are those people with the black and white sigils like guards?"

Tetsuchi nodded. "Yes, although it's a bad place to live. People still try to make their best with what they got and for your other question. They're not really guards. More like volunteers. A group of them is called a regiment. In this case, see the light blue dot, the regiment from Kokai are called the Aqua regiment. A lot of the time. They are trusted enough to have those sigils. Every few months a meeting of the people who live here will happen near the harbor. Talking about what they need, Talking about how they improved in their lives and maybe leaving or introducing new people into Kokai. It is there people are nominated and the others will decide if they are worthy of the sigil. If they are then locals could ask for their help or report someone doing a crime, usually small villains thinking they could harass or steal from some of the people here. The prerequesite is that the people need to be calm and kind and they're usually people with quirks that help with combat or individuals who are trained in weaponry in case something goes bad. Some even have fire arms but they are in a specified location only certain people know and are used in dire situations. Otherwise they won't be used. It's already hard to get guns already in Japan. We don't want to waste such armaments on people who aren't that dangerous."

"I see" Rei nodded. Soon enough they arrive at the white strip with the yellow stripe by the old shipyard.

"Stand back, go behind that destroyed wall, Let me try first" The rest complied. Tetsuchi said before knocking on the ship. "Hey is there a Touya in there?"

"Who the f*ck is asking and why are you here?!"

"We have people here that want to meet you. We want to help."

A figure pop out from the hole of the hull from the ship. Out came a man with white hair, blue eyes and scars all over. Most noticeably on his neck and there are signs of some light scars under his eyes. He held his arm out in a blue fire aiming it at Tetsuchi. "Listen I don't know who you are but if you think you have a right to call me that then you are mistaken. People around here call me Dabi, get the hell out of there before i cremate your ass!"

Tetsuchi startled at the movement and his arm cut itself before the bloody goo transforms to a shield.

"I was told to look for you! Someone told me that's your name!"

"No one who knows that name should look for me! I don't want them! They'll take me back!" Touya raised his arm preparing to strike

Rei, standing behind the wall couldn't take it anymore. She stepped out and yelled "Touya!"

"Mom?!"

Touya stopped his strike before blinking. That was his mom in the flesh standing there. He grit his teeth.

"Why the HELL are you here, don't even bother taking me back to father! Has the great Todoroki family fallen so low to use such people to find me!"

"I'm not taking you back! I don't even want to go anywhere near him after what he done to me and Shouto just please stop and let's talk!"

"f*ck do you mean you bitch! Isn't Shouto supposed to be your new best thing! All my life all you two wanted was for me to be a hero! Now since that little eugenics projects of yours worked out. You think you can throw me to the curb!"

"I-I'm sorry Touya..." Rei began sobbing. "I knew it was wrong for him to continue what he did to you but I did a lot of thinking in the mental hospital and I want to make amends please... Just one chance..."

"What the f*ck do you mean mental hospital?"

"After you left... your father blamed me for not controlling you and got mad at me, our relationship got worse and worse. Until one day I lashed out on Shouto. He put me in mental hospital after that for so many years... I escaped so I'm with these people. I'm not here to take you back to him. I just want a new chance of life and I want you to be with me... We won't be under his influence anymore I swear it! I want to do right by you. I failed as a mother and I want to be better!" Rei was crying on the ground at mentioning that.

Izuku walked out with Himiko "It's true. She came to us and wanted us to find you. Don't worry, anyone related or sent by your father does not know of this. We haven't told anyone about this. We have gave her a new identity and even a place to live."

"H-How the hell do i know you guys aren't lying to me!" Touya replied, though noticeably a hint of shock and guilt

Rei looked up at him, tears streaming down her face. "Touya, I understand why you don't trust me. I failed you, and I failed Shouto. But I need you to believe that I'm trying to make things right. I want us to have a new chance at life, away from his influence. Please, give me a chance to prove it."

Izuku stepped forward, his expression earnest. "Touya, we're not asking you to trust us blindly. We're asking you to take a small step of faith. Come with us and see for yourself. If you decide you don't want to stay, we'll respect your decision. But at least give us a chance to show you that there is more to life than being a hero under your father."

Himiko added, "We've seen what this life has done to you, and we don't want you to suffer any longer. There are people who care about you, who want to help you find a new path trust me I know that feeling.

Touya now wavering a bit yelled back "Who the hell are you people anyway! How do you know i was here!"

"We are a support network" Tetsuchi replied "We help people who are shunned by society for their quirks or people who can't access help for multitude of reasons. Including your mother. Considering the fact that the number 2 hero is legally her husband. It's clear that any official way to report him is gone. That's why she reached out to us. She heard about us in the hospital."

"As to why we know you're here. This run down harbor you see. A lot of the people who live here are part of the support network and when asked have they seen a random newcomer with a blue fire quirk. It's obvious to know."

"So that's what they meant... Some guys around here stopped me using my quirk and told me that a group of people will come looking for me soon. They told me not to worry about it. I thought they were wannabe vigilantes like me since they also use my quirk . Trying to warn me out of some code I guess..."

"So as you have heard... you should know we aren't here to hurt you right." Himiko hesitantly asked.

"Some people I don't know came with my mom to offer me a new life. That alone is suspicious as hell but if you're serious about the new life then I'm willing to give it one shot and that woman one chance. I'll come with you, but if this is a trap, all of you are dusted! You hear me!"

Rei looked up and clasped her hands. "Yes... Thank you Touya..."

Tetsuchi relaxed, putting down his shield. "Alright then... let's go to your mother's new place then. Let's get to my car."

They arrived at Rei's apartment. It was a fairly modest one, a simple 3 room apartment with a corridor connecting the entrance to the dining room, to their right was the kitchen and walk a bit further was the living room and there was a corridor that connected to a series of rooms with the bathroom at the end of corridor.

Touya was slack jawed. "You guys weren't bullsh*tting me..."

Himiko smirked "See~? We just wanted to help you is all!"

Touya looked at her before muttering out "Thanks..." under his breath. Though people barely noticed it.

Tetsuchi was on the phone with someone before he returns. "Alright your mother's name is now Shimo Risa, if you decide to stay with her and be her son they your name would be Shimo Toki. The rent of this place has been paid six months in advance Do you accept this? Do you want to live with your mother in the first place?"

Touya looked at her mother who was fidgeting in her seat before replying "Yes... I still do want a family of some form... even if it's only my mother"

Rei grabbed his hand "Trust me Touya I will make amends to you I swear upon it..."

"Ok mom... can i go into my room for now..." Rei nodded in response

After Touya left Izuku added "I trust you can tell him more about our network later Frost but for now let him cool down. Also get used to calling him Toki in public. We don't want people to be suspicious. If that's all then we should leave now... the Iron Haven needs us"

Rei got up and kneeled and bowed her head low. "I-I can't thank you enough for this... I wasn't kidding when I said I'll repay your kindness tenfold... I'm still technically a Himura. I still have access to some of the money... A monetary gift won't be enough but I already have an idea of what I want to do. I hope by then you will accept my token of gratitude."

She finished off saying

"Endeavour could never measure up to what you two did. You are my heroes."

Izuku and Himiko's heart fluttered at the praise. Seeing how this was their first time helping someone with a code red. Being thanked was a great feeling to enjoy.

Chapter 12: Chapter 12(Snapshots of Life)

Chapter Text

"I'm telling you right now. Endeavour can beat Hawks!"

"No he can't! Hero rankings don't mean everything!"

Izuku and Himiko looked on from the bartop in amusem*nt. Izuku polishing a glass and Himiko sucking on a bloodbag. Not wanting to interrupt the debate they whispered in English to each other

"They've been going at it huh"

"Yeah, the only times I get that heated is when I don't get enough blood. I have been this close to attacking someone if it weren't for this bag of sweet cow blood."

"I thought you liked O negative."

"Eh beggars can't be choosers I guess. It's pretty hard to get blood in the first place. Dad doesn't have infinite blood. Besides you might not understand this but sometimes drinking different types of blood can make me feel certain ways!"

"Really? How do you feel right now?"

Himiko paused, her eyes narrowing thoughtfully. "Hmm, right now? I'd say... content but a little antsy. Cow blood is good, but it lacks the... zing of human blood, you know?"

Izuku nodded, even though he didn't fully grasp the nuances of blood preferences. "That makes sense, I guess. It's kind of like how different foods make you feel different. You looked cute and content when you drink O negative. I guess that's how i feel about katsudon."

Himiko's cheeks turned a deep shade of red, a stark contrast to her usual demeanor. She almost choked on her blood bag, her heart racing. "C-Cute?"

Izuku, oblivious to her reaction, continued polishing the glass, a small smile on his face. "Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. You're so passionate when it comes to these things. It's kind of adorable."

Himiko fidgeted with the blood bag, her mind a whirlwind of emotions. She glanced at Izuku, who was still engrossed in his task, completely unaware of the effect his words had on her. She bit her lip, trying to calm the fluttering in her chest.

"Thanks, I guess," she mumbled, hoping he wouldn't notice the blush creeping up her neck.

Izuku finally looked up, catching her eye. "What was that?"

"N-Nothing! Just... glad you think so," she stammered, quickly turning her attention back to the debate at the other end of the bar.

Izuku shrugged, going back to his glass. "You're welcome, Himiko."

"Hey why does Carmilla's face look red. Did Broccoli say something?"

"Who knows it was in English and i can't speak it.

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"Please Zuku just play it!"

Izuku sighed, running a hand through his green hair as he looked at the digital piano on the stage. Himiko was practically bouncing on her toes beside him, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Please, Zuku! Just this once!" she pleaded, her hands clasped together in front of her. "It'll be so much fun, I promise! Both of us love that song!"

"Himi, it's just... it's a silly joke," Izuku replied, shaking his head. "I mean, playing that song in front of the bar just because of the date?"

"But it's not just any date!" Himiko insisted, her voice taking on a sing-song quality. "It's the night! Come on, Izuku, you know the song. It’s perfect for tonight!"

Izuku hesitated, glancing at the piano again. He had to admit, there was a certain charm to the idea. The thought of making Himiko happy with something as simple as playing a song was tempting.

"People here barely know about pre-quirk era music."

"But it doesn't matter does it? As Wave always says as long as it's good, people will love it!" She grabbed Izuku's arm and nibbled on it slightly while giving him the biggest puppy-dog eyes.

"Alright, fine," he said finally, unable to resist her puppy-dog eyes any longer. "I'll play it. But only because you’re so insistent."

"Yes!" Himiko cheered, grabbing his hand and practically dragging him over to the bass. "You won’t regret it, I promise!"

Izuku let go and walked towards the piano Himiko rushed to grab the violin.

"Hello all, under Carmilla's insistence I will be playing a pre quirk era song because it's sooo funny that the song just so happened to have today's date. It's in English but I still hope you guys can enjoy it"

He shot a small grin at Himiko before receiving a massive grin from her back.

Izuku started the to play the keyboard and started to sing.

"Do you remember? The 21st night of September?"

As Izuku was singing. Himiko looked to her phone on a tripod and it filmed her look of absolute fondness on her face.

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"Listen man I'm telling you this bar's food is so good."

"Alright I'll trust you dude. You sure this place takes people like me?"

There were two men walking down the alleyway towards the bar. One was a plain looking man with one eye like a cyclops while the other had a bear mutation quirk that made him quite large. Soon enough they arrived at the surprisingly big door of bar. Made to accomodate people with quirks that made them large. When they stepped in they heard some glass shatter. Everyone looked towards the sound before promptly ignoring it.

"What was that!" Said the bear man

"Just usual here." The cyclops replied. "I think Crystal there is getting his meal."

The bear man and cyclops approach the sound only to see Izuku feeding someone who has semi transparent glass skin. His skin getting clearer the more glass he eats. While Himiko was breaking used glass bottles against the table.

"Ah hey there Cy! Who's that behind you? Need anything special for him?" Himiko asked him

"Nothing too weird just raw meat will be fine for him. I want a beer though."

"Alright coming right up!" Said Izuku as he rushed to the kitchen before carrying out a slab of meat on a tray.

"Here you go sir!" He chirped before placing it down in front of the bear man and giving a beer to Cy before going back to Himiko. "I got you a blood bag as well Himi!"

"Thanks Zuku!"

The bear man looked on in awe. " Ok i know this place is weird already considering there are children working here, but they didn't even judge me... kids usually get scared of me needing to eat meat as raw as this... How did they even get this."

Cy smiled "Oh trust me my first time here, I was shocked, I don't ask too many questions about their sources since their boss handles it and dude you just saw them feeding a man glass and the boy feeding his girlfriend blood so yeah you asking for raw meat ain't nothing special here"

The bear man smiled " I think i'll like it here... Wait those two are dating?!"

Cy laughed "No! but it's only a matter of time honestly, they've known each other for so long and we know the girl likes the boy, it's down to who confesses first. Heck the regulars have a betting pot on it!"

The bear man chuckled. "Oh this place is getting better already."

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Izuku and Himiko stood in front of the newly opened teahouse, their mouths slightly agape. The building was an elegant mix of traditional Japanese architecture and modern design, with a serene garden in the front and a welcoming entrance.

“Did she really do all this in two months?” Izuku asked, his eyes wide with amazement.

“I mean, I know she has money, but…wow,” Himiko replied, equally stunned.

As they stepped inside, they were greeted by the soothing aroma of freshly brewed tea and the soft murmur of classical music playing in the background. The interior was just as impressive as the exterior, with beautifully arranged seating areas, tasteful decorations, and a calming ambiance that immediately put them at ease.

Shimo Risa, formerly Todoroki Rei dressed in a simple yet elegant kimono, approached them with a warm smile. “Broccoli, Carmilla, welcome! What do you think?”

“It’s incredible!” Izuku exclaimed, still taking in the surroundings. “How did you manage to do all this so quickly?”

"Well first things first, you guys helped me get out of that situation. I always wanted to open someplace like this and with your help you managed to get me out of it. So thank you" Rei bows "Also i have a business degree so it wasn't too hard to think that someone like me would open a shop and I said it before I still have some access to that Himura money. Let's just say with help from the cove I managed to get some of it anonymously..."

Izuku and Himiko smirked to each other before shrugging "Good for you Frost!" Himiko exclaimed "What's your specialty here?"

Rei smiled "Well I managed to secure a lot of different tea leaves. You name it I probably have it, Matcha, Gyokuro, green tea, earl grey, people usually like it hot but my specialty here of course is cold teas. My quirk allows my ice to have some small difference of properties and those small differences could really change the tea flavor. Not to mention I can make hot tea really fast with my son upstairs."

"How is he dong by the way?" Izuku asked, Rei gave a small smile. "At first he didn't trust me but we're both trying. We've been meeting regularly with the psychiatrist Bloodsmith set me up with and he still acts a bit distant but i've shown signs of him warming up to me and the concept of people in general. He sometimes come down to make tea, I think it calms him. I hope he keeps getting better. He might start school in a few months also but we'll get there when we get there." Izuku smiled "That's good to hear Frost!"

"Also this is my way of repaying you people." Rei's face turned serious for a second. "What you folks do is inspiring especially for someone as young as you two. I have already asked Bloodsmith. He talked to some people around Musutafu that own safe havens like this and have confirmed it. From now on this place will be a safe haven for the cove. Of course since I'm not experienced in things like quirks the main focus of this place will be abuse victims. That being said I do have a supply of things that are some of the most common special dietary requirements because of quirks like Carmilla's need for blood. But anyways, the victims can be sent here to stay, as people from the cove help them find places to live. I'll start learning from people of the cove to help me with finding them help. Just know that here is safe.

"That's wonderful..." Izuku and Himiko looked in awe

"Know that you helped in the creation of this. Also I know that you two have goals for hero schools. If you need anything, especially if it's monetary, know you can ask me for whatever. Now come sit, I have some teas I would like you to try! We can try some of it as we talk about your goals!"

"Yes please!"

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"We should keep it."

"Agreed"

"Do you think Bloodsmith will care?"

"No he won't!"

"Alright then she's ours"

Tetsuchi was definitely a little surprised when he saw a little ragdoll kitten with a green eye and red eye and a fluffy white coat on Izuku's shoulder and literally every patron fawning over it.

They called her Michi for her heterochromic eyes Mi for the beginning of green and Chi for her eyes were as red as blood."

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"Broccoli and Carmilla look kinda emotional at the bartop there what are they reading and arguing about?"

"I don't know but I've been here long enough to not ask especially when it devolves into English."

Himiko and Izuku were just debating on the theory of Vlad the Impaler being somehow related to Dracula. While holding a biography of Vlad the Impaler

"No Himi, you don't get it. Dracula was inspired by Vlad the Impaler. He is not related to Vlad at all."

" That's bullsh*t! Someone who's that bloody has to be related to one of the greatest vampires of all time!"

"Dracula isn't even real! Himi!"

"Wait what..."

Himiko's face dropped before Izuku continued."He was made up Himiko."

Himiko's face looks like that of a child who was told Santa wasn't real

Himiko looks empty now before saying "I need some time for myself" as she went upstairs and locked herself in.

When the amount of blood it took to comfort her almost drained half of the supply in a day. Suffice to say Tetsuchi couldn't help but be a little pissed.

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"Alright kids I have a new exercise for you today!" Hare said while holding some balloons in one hand and a pump in the other.

"Today I want you to train your mental ability to not get shocked or distracted by big noise! So you will be sparring with each other while I pop balloons, if you get startled then get down and give me 50 push ups."

Shouldn't be too hard right? Izuku and Himiko thought

After an hour, Izuku and Himiko could barely get the ringing in their ears and the soreness of their muscles out as they try to serve the food and drinks

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"Alright everyone! Welcome back to another trivia night!" Himiko announced to the bar with a borderline manic grin while on stage. The bar was also quite full tonight knowing there would be a special event today. Some new faces even showed up, even Touya who has never been a regular to the Iron Haven showed up as well.

"Tonight's event is a bit special because it will be about music! It's simple Zuku will play a tune on the piano and you have to identify the song played! A lot of them he has played in the past, so the regulars might know them. A lot of them are pre quirk era songs so you might have to reach into your brain to find what you're looking for! Now you might be wondering what's the prize? Well the first person in this here bar to get 25 songs right will get this!" Himiko revealed a black suitcase. "It was found in a warehouse near Yuhi! A baseline called Discover at the back of the bar there who studies archeology says it dates back to 2007! Around 250 years old! Someone with an x-ray quirk says it's a bunch of plastic packages that are thin and have some round shaped things in them. There are around 120 of whatever they are inside of this suitcase! Whoever wins will get this! With that said! Take it away Zuku!"

As Izuku started to play some songs guesses were thrown out left and right

Izuku played another

"Uh...it was that one by... what were they called? Oh right the Rolling Stones... Jumping Jack Flash?"

"Wrong!"

"Bitch!" Dabi exclaimed in frustration

"Hurtful there Dabi but correct! It was Bitch by The Rolling Stones!"

I didn't think that was an actual answer Dabi thought with a sweat drop coming from his forehead

and another song

"Fur Elise?"

"Wow! That's an old one good job!"

and another

"Pretty Woman?"

"I'm flattered but i have someone else in mind. Correct though!"

Until someone got 25 songs. It was surprising to see that the winner was one of Necra's assistants, Charlotte, she went by

"Alright! Let's see what we got here!"

Charlotte opened the suitcase to find it filled with plastic packaging as described before but they all had beautiful and charming cover art. On them had some English titles"Mario Kart" "Halo 3" ""Skyrim" "Team Fortress 2" "Stardew Valley" "The Sims" "Minecraft"When she opened one there was a round silver disc that had the cover art on it as well with a hole in the middle

"Hey Discover you mind coming over here! See what these things are!"

The archeologist student jogged over and kneeled down his eyes widen in shock and excitement, tears start forming

"These are pre quirk area video games! Creations by my people! I bet they still work with that old computer I have stashed away! I thought all these were lost but my goodness, yes! Finally games where I don't need to see some hero on the screen!"

The rest of the bar was immediately interested. Entertainment from 250 years ago sounded quite intriguing. They have no idea if it would be fun since a lot has changed for technology since then. Not to mention although no one in the bar believed it. There was the general consensus that quirkless people had less developed brains or what not so a lot of pre quirk era media was lost and regarded as things not worth preserving since "nothing good came out of those minds". The sentiment of heroes being everywhere is annoying was shared even amongst hero fanboys like Izuku. He still can't see past the fact that a lot of heroes would genuinely save someone that had a better quirk or looked better. The fact that over his years only 4 more heroes has been added to the list of "Safe Heroes" was appalling to him so he was really excited to see what these games had in store.

One hour later

"YOU BASTARD CARMILLA, WHO PUTS A BANANA PEEL THERE! I'LL HAVE YOUR BLOOD!"

"YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T HAVE YOURS FOR THAT BLUE SHELL DABI! I WAS DOING FINE!"

The rest of the bar was filled with raucous laughter as Touya, Himiko, Izuku and Discover were playing the first game they found in the suitcase. Mario Kart, Discover has jerry rigged a used pc and put the disc in and connected them to controllers and they started playing. They didn't pay it much mind as they thought the cartoon looking game was for children but when they started the first game everything devolved into yelling and laughing as soon as Discover threw the first red shell at Dabi. At first it was some frustration but as the game went on more threats were hurled and more laughs was heard from the bar. The group playing was looking like a comedy troupe as the other patrons laughed their asses off. Izuku at first found the threats scary but as they got into it he became used to it even laughing along as they were yelled out.

"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU BROCCOLI'S GONNA WIN AGAIN IF YOU DON"T FOCUS UP!"

Izuku was surprisingly good at playing these games, he has been on a 7 race win streak and as Dabi exclaimed in triumph as he threw a blue shell at Izuku....

It was too late

Izuku drove through the finish line at first place. Causing Dabi and Himiko to yell in anguish. The rest of the bar laughing along Tetsuchi amongst them. Wiping a tear from his eyes he said "OOH boy and Carmilla said there were 120 of them? Oh this is good!"

Izuku wanting to defuse the situation suggested changing the game he took out the Mario Kart disc and walked over a seething Touya and Himiko to reach into the suitcase for a new game. However, still wanting to rub it in a little. He grabbed a game and picked it up.

"How about this one, it's called Forza."

"Isn't that forward in Italian? What's the cover art? What do you think it's about?"

"Well there is this picture of this snazzy looking car..."

"NO!" exclaimed the makeshift comedy troupe.

Izuku giggled before picking up another game

"How about this one? It's called Minecraft"

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Chapter 13

Chapter Text

A year has passed, at this point, Izuku and Himiko were both 11.

It was Saturday, meaning Izuku and Himiko fortunately didn't have Insight' s lessons, however, unfortunately, that meant more time for Hare to mess with them, right now they were in an abandoned ware house again, Izuku, still reeling in the shock of him actually having a quirk from a year ago has asked Hare for more quirk training, since if he wants to be a hero, he is already behind, others have had their quirks for 7 years, and he only had one year under his belt, for now, they want to increase his mental capacity to lessen his strain bit by bit, so right now, Izuku is trying to solve a rubik's cube while trying to solve a 50 piece puzzle all while using 4 of his tendrils to do so while reciting pi, he's sweating heavily, Himiko sat beside him transforming into multiple people, repeatedly and rapidly, from a dashing brunette woman to a person with a rat quirk, the more dramatic the changes the harder, all of them having volunteered to give some blood of course.

"3.1415926535 8979323846 26..."Izuku muttered under his breath. like a Buddhist monk reciting a chant, Himiko had developed a looked like she was begging for death, they have been going at it for 3 hours.

"All right! Good job kids break time!" Hare declared, with that call, Izuku fell on his back and start slurring his words as if he was drunk, the headache taking a toll on him, Himiko rushed to a trashcan and threw up.

"Oh come on! It's not that bad, toughen up!" Hare chuckled, Himiko snapped a glare at Hare "Shut up old timer, now I know why Mirko always seem pissed on camera."

Hare snickered "Heh, no that's just her, always tried to teach her manners, but guess it didn't get through, I mean one time when she was 8 years old we went to a theme park and she threw a damn tantrum cause the rabbit plushie was out."

"Nirko gaving phlushies?" Izuku managed to slur out. Hare nodded "Oh yes, she has a few, her favorite one is the rabbit one of course, last time I visited, had that on her bed, first time I saw it I teased her non stop!" Hare snickered. Izuku and HImiko imagined a flustered Mirko and having her cuddle a plushie, the sight made them laugh.

"Alright, now before we continue with Broccoli's exercise of trying to make his constructs stronger and your speed exercise, apparently, there's an event in Ryokuno and you two are invited, just letting you guys know is all."

Himiko and Izuku both looked to each other, "An event?" "Am ebemt?" They said at the same time, Hare shrugged, "Eh, Bloodsmith can update you on the details, let's go! More training to do!"

They both groaned before, their sore bodies start to get up, Izuku made a mace in one hand and extended a green tendril in the other, beating a steel beam, over and over again, before his constructs broke, doing it again, and again, improving his concentration and speed each time, Himiko on the other hand kept dashing back and forth the abandoned ware house, leaping from one point to the other, apparently "It's the same thing I made Rumi do when she was 9!"

When the training session was over after 2 more hours, they dragged each other's sore bodies out of the warehouse, Izuku not needing to drink any alcohol to understand the pain of a hangover.

They were exited the van as Tetsuchi explained to them what they would be doing tonight.

"Tonight , there is a celebration, in Ryokuno, some people have gotten back on their feet and are leaving, we're giving them a send off and we will be helping with the cooking."

Izuku and Himiko looked surprised and pleased at that information, they have been to Ryokuno once, a cove, a safe haven for the people, it was tucked away in a mountain, covered by trees, you had to drive 20 minutes up the mountain just to get there, it was like a large sprawling old Japanese village, no tall buildings just a calm spot of serenity in the middle of the woods. They slowly walked into the village, wearing their classy suits, they approached the outskirts where multiple people came out of their wooden houses, greeting them as they walked past, some even grabbed some vegetables from their gardens and asked them if they could cook it tonight, they took them all in small boxes and made their way further in, small lanterns lit up the way as green banners with a white four point star flown in the air, they made their way into the town square, with multiple small stalls, to the side, a bunch of small campfires, with benches around each of them people barbecuing some food, to the side there was a makeshift bartop made of wood, along with some stoves, it was made of simple materials and looks a bit worn but Izuku and Himiko didn't mind, it was simple and added to it's charm.

Izuku adjusted the cuffs of his suit jacket, glancing around with a soft smile. "It feels different, doesn’t it?" he mused, more to himself than to Himiko.

Himiko, walking beside him with a spring in her step, nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah, it’s like... I don’t know, like the whole place is alive or something. And everyone’s so happy. It’s nice to be somewhere like this."

They approach the bar top with the stoves and a woman with white hair, incredibly sharp teeth, and pale skin greeted them.

"Ah, you must be the ones Bloodsmith mentioned!" she said, wiping her hands on her apron before extending one to Izuku. "I’m Ghost. It’s a pleasure to have you both here. We could certainly use the help tonight."

Izuku shook her hand, his grip firm but gentle. "It’s a pleasure to be here, Mako. We’re happy to help in any way we can."

Himiko gave a cheerful wave. "We brought some veggies too! The folks at the outskirts were kind enough to give us some from their gardens."

Mako’s eyes lit up as she glanced at the boxes they carried. "Wonderful! Fresh vegetables are always a treat. Why don’t you set those down over there? We’re just about to start preparing some of the dishes."

They followed her instructions, placing the boxes on a large wooden table nearby, which was already filled with various ingredients—everything from freshly caught fish to rice, herbs, and spices. The air was rich with the mingling scents of garlic, ginger, and soy sauce, all mingling together in a mouthwatering aroma.

"Tonight we have 20 people leaving, most of them'll keep contact, but no matter what they did, I hope they find good lives out there. We are going to have a feast tonight!"

Izuku and Himiko cheered and nodded, and started to get to work, slowly but surely, the woks and pans started to sizzle with meat, the pots of rice gave off a pleasant aroma, a group of villagers all with different quirks and looks, came up to observe Izuku and Himiko cooking.

A couple of young kids, no older than six, shyly approached with a handful of herbs, looking up at Izuku and Himiko with wide, admiring eyes.

"Are you going to cook tonight?" one of the boys asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

Himiko crouched down to his level, her smile softening. "We sure are! And these herbs will make the food even better. Thank you!"

The kids walked on as they saw Himiko and Izuku cook, they have heard of the kids who help out in a bar that was owned by the network they were a part of, but seeing them in person cooking, it was a sight to see.

Izuku expertly moved the wok, making the stir fry come up as if a wave, before crashing back down, Himiko on the other hand was mixing drinks and operating some blenders with the help of an electric generator she plugged it into.

"Broccoli right? People say you make good katsudon, will you make it for us tonight?" One of the girls asked, wide eyed.

Izuku smiled. "Of course anything for you kids." "YAY!" the kids cheered.

A boy with brown hair, around 6 asked "Broccoli, I-Is it true you were quirkless?" Himiko turned her head around to see Izuku giving the kid a thoughtful look before nodding "And you now have this cool fire quirk right?" Izuku nodded as well.

"Do you think quirkless people like me could be useful?"

"Yes", Izuku answered with no doubt in his mind, "Not just in the form of being heroes, you could be a doctor, engineer, lawyer, actor or literally anything you set your mind to alright?"

"P-People always say I spread the quirklessness, is that true?" The boy timidly asked

"No, there's no proof at all, in fact next time, someone tells you that, tell me who, I'll beat them up." Izuku said in a slightly serious tone, though it still carried an undertone of humor.

The kid's eye light up "Thank you Broccoli!" and ran off to play in the square.

"Wow, look who's acting tough~" Himiko teased, Izuku replied "I stand by it, quirkists can screw off this planet." Himiko pouted a little, seeing her teasing attempts foiled, and continued to make food with Izuku

"Bloodsmith, you gotta know what's going to happen right?" Mako asked Tetsuchi to the side, looking at Himiko and Izuku cooking "They look like a newly wed couple!"

Tetsuchi simply facepalmed, "Why is everyone obsessed with their relationship..."

It wasn't before long before the village was filled with the aroma of cooked meat and with many people having big plates of food, the night seemed to fly past, as many talk with Himiko and Izuku through out.

Izuku was cooking some stir fry in a pan, Himiko mixed some drinks in a shaker as the rest of the village started to turn out. Soon enough, the main event began, the send offs.

One by one, people came up to the square and briefly told their life stories, how the cove helped them and lastly how they will come back and visit sometimes and never forget them.

"I used to rob stores but after I got out of prison, this place was the one to call me home, you guys are family in all but blood, I won't forget this place! I'll visit often, trust me, maybe with my kids one day" say a slightly blushing man.

"I will forever be a daughter of Ryokuno, of the cove, I mean, can't be a daughter of someone that doesn't even claim you can you? But I'm off! To a better place, but don't worry, if I ever make it big, you guys will be the first to benefit!" a quirkless woman laughed.

"I- I luv all of ya! I'll never for get yu all!" A man with a small fly mutation drunkenly declared.

More villagers followed, each with their own story, their own connection to the cove. Some spoke of how they had arrived at the village with nothing, broken and lost, and how they had found not just shelter, but a true home. The houses might be broken down, and yet their spirits weren't.

The 40 villagers gathered, and a member of the regiment stepped forward, carrying an intricate box, opening it to reveal 20 rings, made of silver, with a koi fish in the middle, connecting the two ends, it's eyes adorned with the same verdant green on the flag of Ryokuno.

"This is a tradition we do for all the ones who leave here, remember, if you need anything we won't hesitate to provide, in return we ask you help us in the future when you are able, may you never forget your roots and may your future be bright!" With a cheer from the crowd, the 20 people bowed, almost like a graduation ceremony.

Soon after, music started to play from a speaker, some of the villagers started to bob their heads, some started to dance.

However, soon the peace was broken by a large bang, a member of the Ryokuno regiment came running in.

"There's a villain attack going on a few blocks from the foot of the mountain, they're getting closer!"

At that moment, it was like everyone knew what to do, some people who had mobility quirks quickly moved, a woman quickly telekinetically pulled a bunch of vans towards the road from a garage a man with a bird quirk flew up high and flew out, a few minutes later, he came back and shouted what he saw.

"Some dude that can make fire, fighting... some sidekicks! I think they're Majestic's? Why is he here?"

"Don't matter get back down Falc ! If they ever make it close we gotta be ready, they can't get to Ryokuno!" another man shouted, preparing his rifle and swords, alongside him, many people readied their quirks, some people made constructs around the village such as walls and barriers, with their quirks, trees were uprooted to form pillars, dirt was reshaped to form mounds, some retreated into their homes. Many members of the regiment quickly got into the vans.

Tetsuchi quickly grabbed Izuku and Himiko and made his way into a house.

"Wait we need to help!" Izuku yelled

"No! You two can't go let the regiment handle this!" Tetsuchi exclaimed.

"We're training to be heroes damn it!" Himiko protested.

Tetsuchi pondered as his hand hovered over a doorknob. "Fine but only help set up the defenses, the moment you step out of the village, you're getting spikes through your legs!"

With that said, Izuku and Himiko grabbed weapons from one of the crates, Izuku grabbed a naginata and Himiko a pair of sais and strapped to their back and hips, they helped some of the villagers get back to their homes and carry supplies into safe houses, and calmed down people who were too scared because of the noise.

"It's gonna be ok, follow me." Izuku whispered to a boy, cowering in fear, then, a sharp sound was heard in the air, a fire ball appeared from above, about to land on them, Izuku manifested a green shield to block it, using a new technique he tested, in simply imaging the construct glowing, instead of there being fire flickering, the fire ball made impact and cracked the shield.

Multiple people of the regiment returned, showing up at the entrance, sensing that Ryokuno has been caught in the crossfire, and seeing Izuku blocking a fireball, proved their suspicions.

"The goddamn sidekicks lost sight of him, he even took one of them with him! He's coming up here!" the bird man, Falc yelled out.

"All right then! Everyone, take him down!" A man with a pistol rushed into the woods alongside other people, Izuku and Himiko rushed after them, "Hey wait!" Tetsuchi yelled out, but it was too late, they were out of his range.

They ran through the forest towards a large glowing flame, there, they saw a man, holding one of Majestic's sidekicks by the neck, he was tall and gruff, with literal fire in his eyes and from his legs, without another word, one man shot at him with a rubber bullet, nailing him right between the eyes, when he stumbled, Izuku alongside many others, went towards him quickly, Izuku manifesting a gauntlet and punching the man in the stomach, Himiko raised a foot and kicked him in the jaw, other people came forth as well, wings, tails, hands, even a water construct came crashing towards the villain, beating him to a pulp. In a moment, he was down.

Tetsuchi alongside other people rushed to the clearing.

"Thank God! If you two kids were hurt I don't know what I'll do, don't do that sh*t again!" Tetsuchi yelled.

"Sorry..." Izuku and Himiko apologized sheepishly.

"Alright, people, you know who you are, someone get him far away from here as possible." Someone commanded, a few people, walked forward, one placed a hand on the body, and the man flattened, then folded him and the sidekick like paper, then passed it to a man, his arms recoiled back in a curve and threw the "paper men" towards the city, after a while, the man with the folding quirk announced that they have stuck the landing safely.

After that whole fiasco was over, Izuku, Himiko and the rest of the regiment went back and announced the crisis was done, the entire village sighed in relief, they got back to the food, but it was clear that the atmosphere has dimmed greatly.

"Ok, so they released the news story, classic hero journalists, apparently, this sh*t happened in the next city over, how the f*ck did it get here?" Falc asked exasperated.

"Also, those were Majestic's sidekicks, but where was he?" a woman in the same table asked.

"I don't know, but at least they're long gone, I guess call it a night?" the head of the regiment asked.

Murmurs of agreement rang out, and Izuku and Himiko went back to the van with Tetsuchi, a bit shaken by what happened, but glad it was dealt with.

"In other news, the Magic Hero, Majestic is facing a fine up to 20 million yen for negligence, apparently letting his sidekicks face a villain alone in the downtown area, though cases like these are common amongst lower rank heroes, those on the higher up are rare to see, now we pass to our hero analyst Tanaka, Tanaka, how do you think it will affect his hero ranki-"

"That's so bullsh*t!" Dabi yelled in the teahouse, where Izuku and Himiko was visiting, they raise their eyebrows at the sudden outburst, Rei also peering her head into the living room at the back.

"Yeah, I get it, the fact that he only got off with a fine?" Izuku asked.

Himiko, who had been listening quietly, nodded in agreement. “It’s like they’re untouchable. It's true what they said, any other hero messed up like that, they’d probably lose their license or worse.”

"Yes! Like my old man, son of a bitch got away with a lot of things, if you can't tell, just because he's number two people don't give two f*cks! He's untouchable!" Dabi growled, however, Rei sighed with a content tone at that remark.

"What's so funny woman?!" Dabi yelled.

Rei waved her hands dismissively, "No, it's nothing, just you saying that makes me think back to the times he got in trouble with the HPSC, you know before he became number two."

"What do you mean, the HPSC barely does sh*t to him." Dabi said with a frown.

"He wasn't always the number 2 you know, when I first married him the law absolutely put quite a few dents in his career." Rei remarked, she continued, "All those stories of him getting buildings burnt? Those were during his early days, he trained a lot since then and has a lot of precision, I mean otherwise, he wouldn't be number 2 now would he? However, the very first incident was during a capture during a typhoon, he tried to throw fire at a villain running away, but the wind was too strong, the fire strayed off course and a civilian got his arm burnt pretty bad, there was a lot of blood, I'm pretty sure he lost some nerves during that."

"Woah... " Himiko looked with a surprised face,

Wonder what burnt blood tastes like.

"What happened next Rei? Tell us!" Himiko bounced up and down a bit on the couch, asking for details, always loving a good story of a bad hero being taken down.

"Well, the HPSC didn't care much for him at the time, so a fine of 60 million yen alongside heavy compensation for the civilian was issued, it was paid off easily, both our families didn't want to let that get too much attention, as the TV said, he should have lost his license but he didn't since the Todoroki family have a history of great heroes, alongside my family being rich as well, but that was the first, but then more incidents kept happening, to the point where if I saw him scowling at the bed, I knew the lawyers had something to do with it, but eventually as he rose the ranks, he got better at his quirk, and grew his own legal team, now not even the smallest infraction can get to him but those early days are very rough when it came to the law, you need one hell of a lawyer today and a stack load of evidence to even touch him." Rei shook her head disappointingly.

Dabi however was looking forward, with a hopeful look the bordered on predatory, "So you're saying that all this time, the only people who can serve him any sort of consequences was the law?"

Rei nodded "Yes, the last time I saw him he's still annoyed at it but the charges aren't that common, nor do they stick, they usually get dropped, a few property damages charges here and there but nothing too serious. I hope Shoto, Fuyumi and Natsuo are doing fine though, whenever the law pressure got too much, he usually lashes out."

Dabi had a calculating look on his face, Himiko and Izuku noticed, "Touya, what are you thinking?" Himiko asked in a confused sing song voice.

"Wait... You're thinking of becoming a lawyer now aren't you?" Izuku crossed his arms, his eyebrows raised with amusem*nt.

"Touya seriously?" Rei said with a sudden upbeat tone, and had a look of hope on her face. Izuku and Himiko noticed this, "Rei, you look very happy at that information. Surprisingly so. Why?" Izuku asked.

Rei pulled the both of them to a corner and whispered to them "Ever since Touya came back, he's still obsessed with fighting, becoming a hero all that, still sneaking out to train, but if he finally finds something else, maybe he can let go." They all glance at Touya who's still staring ahead like he suddenly knew what his life's purpose was, Himiko whispered back, "Look, I don't like a lot of heroes too, but becoming a lawyer out of spite?" Rei looked back with an exasperated look, "Listen, I'm taking anything right now, anything to get him off the track, besides I rather he destroy heroes with laws, subpoenas and revoking licenses, instead of burning everything down. Besides, the lawyers I've met might as well be made of spite, they are not pleasant."

Izuku and HImiko nodded, and glanced to Touya, his mind seemingly made up and nodding.

Well the heroes just made another headache for them to deal with

"Focus your fire! Damn it! just imagine it in your fingertips!"

"I am bookworm! Shut up and let me do my thing!"

"Broccoli, doing great there, just focus on not burning the wood."

"Thanks Insight."

Touya and Izuku was in a clearing in a forest, Touya was training to control his fire to a smaller scale to not burn himself, Izuku not suffering from that drawback trains to make his fire precise but big, shooting flames into a forest, where it bends left and right avoiding trees, he'll keep going until his mind can't take it anymore and stop, then try it again, trying to increase his range and precision, Touya was trying to make it so that his fire would be small, only appearing on his fingertips, but every time, it just bursts into an inferno.

"Goddamn it! Why am I here?" Touya exclaimed, "Because, your mother, being a good mother, doesn't want her child to suffer! And I'm trying to help you here!" Insight yelled.

Touya aimed a hand at Insight "This isn't working why are you insisting it does book for brains!" Touya clenched his fists, the flames on his fingertips flaring up in response to his agitation. “I don’t need a bookworm to tell me what to do! I need results!”" growling at him.

Insight pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Touya "Back down, I don't have a combative quirk but I can still put up a fight. Don't doubt my abilities."

Izuku got into the middle of them both and manifesting two fire walls, separating them, nervously laughing, "Ok... How about we all calm down for a second."

Touya begrudgingly put his hand down, and Insight holstered his pistol, Izuku suggested "Touya, I think you should calm down, whenever I try to use my fire when I'm mad, it's goes out of control, also, try to imagine a ball of fire flowing inside you and it growing smaller and bigger, I waited 10 years for my quirk you can't rush results, ."

"What the hell do you mean! I am perfectly fine!" Izuku and Insight looks at him with exasperated looks. "You have been doing nothing but complaining please at least try the suggestion."

"Well sorry! I've literally been trained to take my fire to the max! Forgive me if I can't light a small one!" Touya yelled in a sarcastic tone.

Izuku reached out to hold his arm. "Touya, please, if not for your mother, then at least for yourself, it's not good for you no matter what."

Touya kept his scowl, but kept his composure, with one more glare, he took a deep breath, and followed Izuku's advice, he calmed down and imagined a fire in his chest and it grew smaller and smaller, and when he opened his eyes, his hand was on fire, but it was steady, controlled.

"See? A calm mind gets you results, I suggest you try meditating." Insight said.

"S-Shut up man!" Touya yelled, making his fire combust, lighting a tree on fire.

"Damn it! Broccoli get the fire extinguisher!"

"Broccoli, Carmilla, please, let me introduce you to Jin! or his nickname Twice! My new employee!"

Beside Rei, a man who wore a gray and black mask, wearing a simple black obi, his demeanor is shy, a bit awkward.

"Hello there!I hate you!"

"I'm sorry!No i'm not!"

"sh*t stop!Keep going man!"

Rei showed the confused Izuku and Himiko a smile, "Twice was the person the support network referred to the hospital, and the one who referred me to the support network, and I offered him a job here, he's not comfortable with meeting people, so he'll be focused on making tea, but I feel in some way indebted to him since he told me about you guys so I want to help him as well.

"Thanks, I've been getting better but it still happens." Twice sighed, "Thanks Rei,Screw you bitch!" after that he clamped his hand over his mouth.

Rei smiled. "Its ok Twice, I know you don't mean it." Rei placed a comforting hand on Twice’s shoulder, helping to ground him. "Twice has a condition called Dissociative Identity Disorder, which means he sometimes struggles with conflicting thoughts and emotions and does the thing where he talks twice, thus his name. It’s a result of some very traumatic experiences he went with his quirk in the past."

Izuku and Himiko nodded, Himiko walked up to him "It's ok Twice! We don't judge, glad you're here! You'll be very happy!"Himiko grinned, Izuku to her side also said "If you ever need help you can tell Rei or one of us."

"Wow, she was right you kids do understand,Brats!"

"Now, how about let's have some tea shall we?"

Chapter 14

Chapter Text

Three more years have passed.

At 14 years of age Izuku and Himiko were the youngest members of the TFC. Well known amongst the underground community as "The future number 1 and 2 heroes" for being confident people and even more competent fighters. Amongst the TFC, people are buzzing with excitement with the news that there are people training to be heroes, heroes for people who were forgotten by them. Even though they both laugh it off and say they're not that great, They have become somewhat of legend. Because everyone knows those sweet looking and kind teenagers are fit with enough muscle and strength to really mess someone up. In fact it's as if someone flipped a switch within them. They become subtly threatening yet polite at the same time. If the aggressor still refuses to back down. Then they will unleash hell upon them for being a threat to, in their eyes "Family". Whenever someone messes with the bar or discriminates anyone. It usually doesn't go down well. In fact the 10 most notable times people did come in and start trouble. The patrons were absolutely flabbergasted at the sight of two teenagers taking out multiple people with seemingly no effort and with frightening speed and precision Making them think what the hell that rabbit man has taught them. The patrons even have a list near the door saying what could happen if you mess around here based on those ten most notable times people decided to test them. The list being:

• You get a burning bat straight to your temple, enough to make you see God and rethink your choices.

• You get a cut across your wrist, precisely where it hits the pressure point, causing your entire arm to go numb.

• You get a flaming whip lashed straight at your back, knocking the wind out of you instantly.

• You get a bite on your neck, not deep enough to be lethal, but enough to make you reconsider starting sh*t.

• You get a burning kick straight to your inner thigh, targeting a nerve cluster that will leave you immobile.

• You get a cut across your collarbone, making your dominant arm useless for the rest of the night.

• You get an elbow straight to your lower back, hitting the nerves that control your legs and sending you to the ground.

• You get a knife thrown from across the room and cut your Achilles tendon, making every step you take agony.

• You get a burning gauntlet straight to your elbow, causing your arm to lock up in pain.

• You get a knife hilt hit your sternum, a reminder that your heart isn't invincible.

With all this said. Izuku and Himiko also has been doing more business in the information market. They have reached a point where Tetsuchi trusts them enough to make them handle code reds if he is not available and even managed to handle finding information for some underground heroes. They never reveal themselves, since they were still minors and were planning to go into some of the most prestigious hero schools in Japan, they were always wearing masks and sometimes even wearing special footwear to manipulate how their height looked and even speaking in different tones and accents to throw people off. At first it was daunting for them but over the years, they developed a certain confidence, charm and professionalism in dealing with information. It was usually just a few drug deals and busts or a planned robbery but it was still satisfying for both of them to sniff out information from their sources and being able to use it for justice. But sometimes, they stumble upon something big. They're biggest accomplishment? With the help of Tetsuchi, both of them had a part in foiling a plan to rob the Central Musutafu Bank by convincing one of the heist members to join their side by promising them support. That night the job was foiled. The bar opened an unimaginable amount of champagne bottles when the heroes sent an unimaginable amount of money.

It was a good night.

Not to mention, both of them having gotten really good at their respective quirks, Izuku now capable of lighting himself on fire while orbiting fire balls for a new record of 18 hours straight! Insight had to force him to stop by giving him a good kick, since he was too into it and the warehouse walls were starting to melt, and the fact Izuku looked like his eyes lost all color, made them think that they probably shouldn't do that again.

As for Himiko, she can maintain a transformation of 25 hours now with just a cup of blood, not to mention, she has trained so that she doesn't make as much goop as she gets out of a transformation and can switch from one to another with just a few seconds.

Right now Izuku, wearing a nice button up and slacks was escorting and helping a quirkless man carry boxes to the store he owned. (Needless to say his fashion sense has improved over the years)

"I can't thank you enough for this Broccoli, it's rare enough someone like me gets to open my very own place!"

"Oh don't mention it sir! If you need help you know who to talk to and where right?"

"Oh of course! You guys are lifesavers."

As they were talking, a few teenagers across the street yelled out "Zero!" and "Defect!"

The man and Izuku continued walking on. Although the cove has developed their own special shoes that aren't red for quirkless people to wear, to blend in with society, Izuku still wears his original red ones more widely recognized by society for his personal reasons. They didn't mind the insults because they didn't think it was worth the trouble.

That was until one of those kids threw something at them

Instinctively, Izuku formed a shield of green flame covering him and the man. A clear sound of something being burnt was heard. Izuku looked at it's remains on the ground. It was a long sharp object, seemingly like a fingernail, probably a result of the person's quirk. The green shield was gone just as fast as it appeared.

The teenagers didn't need to know that they were in for a beating if they stayed even a moment longer, they all scattered at the sight of Izuku having a bright smile on his face but they can all tell the threatening undertones beneath it.

The man beside Izuku was a little startled at first but calmed down at seeing how easily Izuku dispatched the teens. "Huh, Idiots" "Ugh you can say that again." Izuku replied. "I recognize that uniform. I know someone who goes to that school, but i haven't seen him in years now. He was a quirkist idiot as well. Can't believe I used to be childhood friends with him. Oh and Tinker goes there too! Hope he's doing well."

"Oh was it the kid with explosion hands that bullied Carmilla all those years ago?"

"Yeah, it's gonna be hard forgetting him. He's gonna try to be a hero of course since he has the "heroic quirk""

The man snorted. "Yeah, I bet you can beat him out of the water in anything!"

"Well let's hope he doesn't get in the first place, at this point he'll be another Endeavour!"

The pair laughed before the man asked Izuku "Hey Broccoli I've always wondered, you have a powerful quirk now, so why do you still wear those shoes, or at least not a different design."

Izuku smiled "It's a reminder I suppose, to never forget what or who I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for those who were forgotten by society. like you and me, so I wear these shoes with pride. They are my roots. If anyone gives me crap for it then I can show how dangerous people like us can be."

"I'm glad to hear it Broccoli, it's about time someone actually cares for us and not caring about the money or the number 1 spo- What the hell is going on there?"

They both turn a corner to see what seems like a sludge villain holding a boy hostage. Upon closer inspection... "Huh, speak of the devil it's him being stuck there." Izuku looked and there it was, Bakugo being stuck and is trying to be suffocated by the sludge villain. Izuku eyes to the side, relief to see that there are heroes on site, he recognized them, being Death Arms, Mount Lady and Kamui Woods, but when listening in to their conversation, It's clear they're not gonna do much.

"We can't get close! That kid's explosions will light me on fire!"

"It's too narrow! I can't grow safely!

"My attacks won't do anything against the sludge!"

"Oh come on you gotta be kidding me! You're not even gonna try? Overreliance on quirks! Goddamn it, even from here I can see that the eyes are the weakpoints!" Izuku thought

He was about to rush in and intervene before seeing a boy running in with a strange small contraption on his arm, aiming it at the sludge villain's eye. When the boy flicked his fingers. Some chemical seemed to fire from his contraption and nail the sludge villain right in his eye. The villain let his grasp on Bakugo slip. Allowing Kamui Woods to swoop in to save him from the villain. However the boy who intervened was caught by the villain and was starting to suffocate. As he thought the boy was gonna die...

"DON'T WORRY! WHY? BECAUSE I'M HERE!"

All Might seemed to fly in from nowhere and punched the sludge villain into next Sunday. The sludge villain crumpled and was apprehended by the heroes.

When Izuku took a closer look, he realized he knew the boy.

He was quirkless as well. He went by Tinker, he was one year younger than Izuku and had unkempt black hair and brown eyes, a small scar on his right cheek. He was always seen with blue overalls with a black shirt underneath. A white lab coat tied around his waist, with grease marks and smudges. Though he has been getting more burn marks recently, maybe from the machines.... He is a rarity in the TFC given he actually had parents to support his dreams despite his quirklessness, something Izuku felt a little jealous of. Although not gifted with a quirk. He was gifted with a brilliant mind and a knack for making gadgets and gear. Izuku could already see him being one of the best support engineers.

Seeing that he was saved was a relief to Izuku. As he approached Tinker he sees him stop All Might and seem to talk to him. All Might shakes his head and Tinker looks sullen. All Might proceeds to leave. Tinker was too but was interrupted by the pro heroes and they started talking. Izuku at this point was close enough to hear them.

"Why did you jump in! Kid, the heroes had it under control!"

"You don't even have a quirk! We can't waste energy on careless people that just decide to jump in without thinking, that can't even protect themselves!"

Izuku's face darkened at that statement. The heroes didn't even ask if he was ok. The paramedics all seem to go towards Bakugo instead who was still hurling insults at Tinker for "not needing a weakling like him to help" and yet the person in front of them was being scolded for doing their jobs for them! Even though they never explicitly said it. He felt like he knew why Tinker gets this treatment.

Quirklessness.

Izuku rushed to grab Tinker's hand, the heroes tried to stop him by grabbing but Izuku shook off their hand on his shoulder and as he did he said with a tone that sent a chill down their spines "I'm taking this hero to get some medical help. You guys go pose in front of the cameras why don't you. You didn't even do anything that fight. Surely you have enough energy to just smile at them don't you? Go on and act like you saved the day. I'm taking this kid to get some help. Goodbye "Heroes""

Izuku rushed past the crowd and the flabbergasted heroes with Tinker holding his hand. The man called out to him and whispered in Izuku's ear "You take Tinker away from here and get his parents. My shop is near. I can handle this stuff. He needs help more." "Thank you. Good luck and congrats on the shop. See you soon!"

Then, he heard rapid footsteps come up behind them, it was Bakugo, he clasped Tinker's collar, completely ignoring Izuku.

"Listen here defect..." He growled. "I didn't need you saving me, and don't you dare, tell anyone at school how you saved me, you are still a piece of worthless crap on this earth! Do you hear me?"

"y-y-y-yes..." Muttered Tinker.

Izuku couldn't take in anymore, he quickly pushed Bakugo to the ground and grabbed Tinker's hand and ran.

Izuku took Tinker to a nearby park and they both sat down.

"You ok Tinker? Izuku asked in a concerned tone. Tinker first tried to nod but then he shook his head violently and started to cry "A-Am I really t-that w-worthless? Just because I'm q-quirkless..." Izuku got on his knees in front of Tinker with a glint of determination and a stern look in his eyes. "Listen here Tinker, you may not have a quirk. But quirkless doesn't mean useless. You hear me! No one is useless, especially someone like you. If we thought you were useless then me and Himi wouldn't bother asking you to think up our costume blueprints. You can be a great support engineer, or any goddamn thing you set your mind to!" Izuku tone turned soft. "Was it something the heroes said that got you like this?"

Tinker nodded before saying "Yes... I asked All Might if a quirkless person can help out in the hero industry, he shook his head... and said to be realistic. Not even saying things like oh you can be support engineer or oh you can be a PR agent for the heroes, not even something like a cop... "

Izuku was seething with anger. "Listen, Tinker do not listen to people who say you can't help, Even if that person is literally All Might, guess his whole spiel of anyone can be a hero was fake of course. Tinker I don't know how much it means to you but, I can at least say with confidence, quirkless people can be just as good if not better than quirked people in whatever field as long as they work hard and set their mind to it. Your passion in support is infectious! Don't give that up just because bigots tell you you can't! Do you understand?"

Tinker nodded violently "Y-Yes Broccoli!"

Izuku's face darkened "Now, another thing, what's your history with Bakugo, I know you guys aren't even in the same year group....Don't tell me he's responsible for the new marks I see on your neck..."

Tinker nodded slowly "W-well... I'm the only quirkless person in the school so... word gets around. He learnt about it and started just bullying me, I tried to use my inventions to help, but I have to hide them, one time I was in a lab messing with some chemicals, and he just came in, lit his hand up and the chemicals just exploded on me! Saying how I shouldn't even bother! I was so lucky I was wearing goggles and a lab coat, but.... Let's just say I didn't get off completely fine... Some of those chemicals were corrosive... they got on the machine I was working on and some on me... But today h-he... H-HE-"

Tinker let out a yell "HE TOLD ME TO f*ckING KILL MYSELF! HOPE I HAVE A QUIRK IN THE NEXT LIFE! WHY THE f*ck DOES HE GET TO BE A HERO BUT PEOPLE LIKE US CAN'T!"

Izuku hugged Tinker, " Tinker, tell me, you aren't thinking of doing it are you? Listen to me, you have me, you have the cove, we listen, we care, don't let an asshole tell you what you can't and can't do. You have helped so many people! Your prosthetics are amazing! The chemicals you use to run them might as well be witchcraft, they make people's lives great again, not to mention I've seen the work you did on our costumes, they look amazing! You matter to so many people!"

Tinker nodded with tears. "Thank you... Thank you so much...I might as well change my name to Tinker... People treat someone's name with respect, but no one treats Takahashi Haruto with respect, but when I'm Tinker, I can see the smiles of so many people. From normal grins to wolf fangs or to weird bug mandibles, they're treated as weird but, they are so much more human the people around me... Thank you... Broccoli..."

Izuku smiled. "Listen, I promise when I become a hero, my first support contract? It'll be with you. I promise Tinker, just remember, Quirkless isn't useless."

"quirkless isn't useless..."

"Repeat after me Tinker! Quirkless isn't useless!"

"Quirkless isn't useless!"

"Again! Quirkless isn't useless!"

"Quirkless isn't useless!"

"One last time! QUIRKLESS ISN'T USELESS!"

"QUIRKLESS ISN'T USELESS!!"

Izuku and Tinker was at the Iron Haven waiting for Tinker's parents.

"Hey Broccoli, why do you still bother helping people here?"

"What do you mean?" Izuku asked perplexed.

"I mean you have a quirk now! A powerful one at that! Why do you still want to help people here. You could be successful, people like me and the people that come here are considered useless or villains. Heck there are some known vigilantes and people that were villains that frequent here. Won't that make you a villain? Doesn't that hold you back, considering you're trying to be a UA student and all."

Izuku smiled at Tinker, "Listen, I have been through the pains of being quirkless in a society like this, No amount of fame, money, love can make me forget those times, stealing for food, lockpicking and squatting in random abandoned buildings. It does something to you, I am fortunate to be here, so are you, if you see the quirkless statistics then you know how bad things are, a third kill themselves before thirty. But those people didn't have help. You and me, we do. I know people expect me to raise my head and look down on those with "weaker" or "villainous quirks" but the thing is after being here, I realize heroes today, they don't save everyone, some are so fake, they just care for fame, money, the people around us rely on them too much, the amount of people that directed me to a hero agency only for me to receive little to no help, instead of helping me on their own, I know I sound like that Stain guy, but I think instead of breaking people's faith in heroes, I could try putting people's faith into people like us. I believe a lot of villains become villains due to their upbringing and circ*mstances and I want to make society realize that these people are worth something. The amount of people that come through here with such great talent for so many things, are just shunned for their quirks, looks, past, it is shameful. There are so many people here that have the character and the power to be heroes but society just decides to kick these people to the curb. So I think this place, is a blessing to me! I get to see so many fine people, people that heroes either wouldn't or couldn't save, and I have a chance to save them, and as a hero, isn't that a great gift in of itself? To save more people under society's radar."

"As for the vigilantes and villains, they are labels, some of them are simply called that because society doesn't like what they did and think that a mistake should stay and affect one's life forever or doesn't like what they do. The vigilantes we see here are people who want to be heroes, but couldn't get into hero school so they become vigilantes for reasons from quirk discrimination, some people with weak quirks were told or straight up rejected from hero schools since they're quirks are not "strong" enough, thankfully the hero schools have changed since then but still. Some simply don't want all the HPSC bureaucratic red tape. These people have heroic hearts and want to do good things, not to mention whenever something goes bad in the coves or other bad parts of cities. It is usually them that keep the peace. I don't participate in their activities but who am I to stop them from doing good, if they want a drink then I'll provide. Honestly, if I remained quirkless. There's a good chance I would have gone vigilante, if I am a villain for simply helping these people then let them call me that, it's a word, I'm helping people the best I can. If they just so happen to have done some bad things in the past, or do things society doesn't like, then it doesn't make them any less worthy of help and I am glad to be there to help. "

"So no, I would still like be with people like you, people who were like me. I want to be a hero to save the forgotten people like us."

Tinker put a hand on Izuku's shoulder. "Listen, Broccoli, never change. If UA or any of those hero bastards make you change, I will slap you myself until you change back to the Broccoli the people here know and love."

Izuku laughed. "Of course, I would like that as well, if there comes a time where I say I don't want to be a part of these people, someone needs to slap me, because either that's not me or I'm being mind controlled."

Izuku poured himself and Tinker some cider in a glass, they clinked their glasses and downed it in one swig.

"To people like us"

"To people like us"

Chapter 15

Chapter Text

Both Izuku and Himiko recently were getting excited and pumped. Both about to be 15 years old by the time they hit highs school. The patrons of the bar also sensing their excitement and were happy for them and proud for them. The first two cove members that could be heroes. Heroes for them That thought alone made them fill with pride. People within the community look at Izuku and Himiko as little siblings. Seeing them chase their dream was inspiring for all of them but right now Izuku and Himiko are being put in the wringer as they are both being trained in sparring with Hare.

"Alright squirts it's time to train up. It's about ten months before the UA and Shiketsu entrance exams. Although I'm confident in your skills. You'll be going up against some of the best of the best throughout Japan so no slacking off you got that!"

"Yes sir!" Izuku and Himiko both replied.

"Broccoli, let Carmilla take some of your blood. She will take some of mine too. Let her practice fighting while transforming. After that start sparring! Whoever gets hit first loses and restart with another round. We keep going for an hour."

Himiko swiftly drew blood from both Hare and Izuku, feeling the familiar rush of power as she ingested it. She has improved a lot even a small amount of blood like 5 ml can last her 1.5 hours. Allowing her to be less harmful and in need if she ever needed the blood of allies.

After Himiko took some of Izuku's blood she got into a sparring position. "Ready Zuku?"

Izuku nodded, his muscles tensing in preparation. “Ready. Let’s go.”

They circled each other for a moment, the air thick with concentration. Then, without warning, Himiko lunged and jumped forward.

"Luna Fall!" Himiko shouted, mimicking the rabbit hero's powerful downward kick. Izuku sidestepped just in time, feeling the wind rush past him as Himiko's foot slammed into the ground as she transformed to Izuku

"Nice try!" Izuku called out, countering with his own move. "Luna Rush!" He dashed forward, throwing a rapid series of punches aimed at Himiko's midsection. Himiko dodged and weaved, her agility matching Izuku's speed.

She laughed, having a chaotic smile on her face. springing back and preparing her next attack. "Luna Cross!" She leaped into the air, aiming a scissor kick at Izuku's head. Izuku ducked and rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the strike.

"Can't let you have all the fun," Izuku said, getting back to his feet. He focused, channeling his energy. "Luna Ring!" He launched himself into a spinning kick, aiming for Himiko's torso. Himiko blocked with her forearm, the impact sending a shockwave through the room. Transforming to Hare the moment the land hit

"You're good, Zuku" Himiko admitted, shaking out her arm. "But I'm not done yet!" She charged again, feinting to the left before delivering a right hook. "Luna Impact!"

Izuku caught her fist in his palm, the force pushing him back a few steps. "Impressive," he grunted, pushing back with equal force. "But so am I. Luna Burst!" He twisted his body, delivering a powerful side kick that caught Himiko off guard, sending her skidding back. Transforming to Izuku

Himiko wiped a trickle of blood from her lip, a wild grin spreading across her face. She jumped back into the fray, her movements a blur as she unleashed a flurry of kicks and punches.

Izuku matched her pace, the two of them moving in a deadly dance of fists and feet. The room echoed with their shouts and the sound of impacts, each trying to outdo the other.

"Luna Arc!" Izuku yelled, delivering a sweeping kick that knocked Himiko off her feet. She rolled with the impact, springing back up with a feral gleam in her eye.

She panted, her breath coming in short gasps. "But try this! Luna Crescendo!" She launched herself into a series of rapid kicks, each one aimed with deadly precision.

Izuku barely managed to block and dodge the onslaught, his arms and legs aching from the exertion. He saw an opening and took it. "Luna Finale!" He aimed a powerful roundhouse kick at Himiko's side, catching her off balance.

Himiko while still transformed as Izuku panicked a bit, she didn't know what came over her but she tried to summon Izuku's fire. At that moment she yelled out in pain as green fire erupted from the imposter's body. Though weaker and more diffuse. She gasped, feeling an unfamiliar exhaustion wash over her, and stumbled, collapsing to the ground and clutching her head.

Seeing this, Hare rushed over, concern etched on his face. "Carmilla! Are you okay?"

She nodded weakly, trying to catch her breath. "I...I summoned his fire," she whispered, her voice tinged with awe and confusion.

Her sensei frowned, immediately pulling out his phone to call Insight. "Stay here. We're getting this checked out."

An hour later, Insight arrived, he carefully examined Himiko. After a thorough check, and some experiments with her using Izuku's quirk he nodded thoughtfully. "It seems that Himiko has reached a new stage in her quirk development," he explained with a grin on his face "It's a quirk awakening Carmilla!" Himiko's eyes widened at that statement "What do you mean Insight?" "After training for so long and consuming so much blood, she’s begun to not only transform into others but also to access weaker versions of their quirks. I think what happened is that you tried to replicate Broccoli's quirk and in the end you did manage to do it. You imagined fire during those experiments right?"

Himiko's nodded and her eyes widened even further and a bright smile graced her lips. "You mean I can use Zuku's fire?"

Insight smiled. "Yes, but it comes with limitations. When i measured it the fire you produce will be weaker and not as hot as Broccoli's ,the maximum limit you have it seems is 300 degrees. Still hot but not as hot as his. Additionally, you won't have the telekinetic control that he does. It will be like a short range flamethrower. Also, using these abilities will drain your transformation time, according to these time tests, making it harder to maintain the form." Insight grinned widely "However, if you train this more I believe you can have better control over the other person's quirks! Not to mention it can help convince people that you are who you are transformed as! I can't wait to see more of it Carmilla!"

Himiko sat back, processing this new information. It was a revelation that opened up new possibilities but also brought new challenges. She looked at Izuku, who gave her an encouraging nod.

"Looks like we've got more training to do," he said with a grin. "But don't worry, we'll figure this out together."

"WHY DO WE NEED TO KNOW THIS! I SUCK AT THIS!"

"Because Carmilla! These are the top two hero schools we're talking about! You need to be good at academics as well if you want to get in!" Insight was currently standing in front of a board writing down equations. Teaching Izuku and Himiko calculus. Izuku was taking to it like a fish in the water but Himiko was barely holding on to her pencil as she was just ready to throw a knife she had in her sleeve at Insight. Izuku went ahead and held Himiko's hand, "Himi, Insight's right, these things seem useless but they can be really helpful in heroics. Besides it's ok if you can't handle things like calculus. We're gonna learn it anyway. It's just that it' better to have a base of it now. Not to mention I'm willing to bet you can blow anyone out of the water when it comes to English and Literature So let's try our best, OK?"

Himiko, not expecting Izuku's gesture had a deep blush on her face and stammered out"O-Ok Zuku..."

Guess we found out how to tame the vampire huh... I give it 5 more months before she breaks

"Alright kids, I must say you guys did much better at patching up my patient than I thought! Those weeks of training you weren't in vain huh?" Necra said as Izuku and Himiko finished bandaging a realistic dummy from his wounds. They have both asked Necra for advice on how to do basic first aid.

"Himiko good job on not sucking the blood out of the dummy these last few weeks of training. Really good on your part in controlling the cravings"

Himiko grinned "Of course! Zuku helped out a lot with his quirk analysis! He helped me set up a diet! I've been feeling better ever since!" She says as she hugs Izuku.

Izuku blushed and was panicked for a second, barely enough to notice before he responded "O-Oh of course Himi! I think we should leave now, Hare said he wants us to meet up at this beach let's go!" Izuku left quickly with Himiko following closely.

Necra walked out to meet her assistants before one of them, Charlotte piped up.

"The week before UA and Shiketsu, Carmilla confesses."

Necra looked up in exasperation. "Seriously? You still on that?" Charlotte looked with a small pout. "What? You see any of us having such a deep bond as them? I'm telling you! They are going to be a couple sooner or later, even then I think they can find people of their own if they don't get together."

Necra huffed before looking away. "Maybe... maybe..."

"Why are we here Hare?" Himiko asked, they were at an area near Yuhi, it's a small run down city with tall buildings filled with rubble around, looks like something out of a war. No one lived there.

"The Orange Regiment of Hinode is going against the Green regiment of Ryokuno in a game of war, no quirks allowed but weapons and fighting is fair game normally there would be leaders that coordinate things from a bird's eye view, but this time I managed to convince the Orange Regiment to let you two do the strategy."

"WHAT?" Izuku and Himiko both yelled. "What "game of war"? I've never heard them doing something like this ever!" Himiko exclaimed

"Yes! It's their second time ever doing this type of thing. You two helped a lot with your info work these years, after that bank job got foiled people have been paying the coves more, we have more weapons and now they want to train and fight with them. I've been helping them train! They have guns with fake rounds, fake katanas and staffs and bats, you name it. Being a hero needs you to strategize, both of you have received training from Insight for this, but It's my job to put it into practice! There's a server room up there in that tower with cameras connected to drones flying all around, you have 15 minutes prep time, If they get hit by paintballs or get knocked down or pinned down, they're out, now go! You will have to adapt mid battle!"

Izuku and Himiko immediately rushed to the tower, seeing multiple screens showing 30 people with Orange sashes on their arms. One they recognized, Senko, a regiment member and wearing a red sash on his head. Presumably the leader, some had spears, some had automatic or bolt action rifles a few of them even had bayonets, loaded with paint ball rounds, katanas, sword and riot shields, all lined up. Himiko moved the drone around they both just saw a bunch of rubble, and a lot of tall ruined buildings until Izuku saw a street with two short buildings flanking it. Himiko seeing what he meant and intended to do gave the order through their mics

"Senko, do you copy?" On the other side a bunch of roaring laughter ensued "Oh my god! I can't believe they're actually doing this!" The laughter continued before Senko responded. "Ah... sorry Carmilla, Broccoli, we copy."

Izuku and Himiko looked to each other with a sigh before Izuku gave the order. "750m to east, there's a street with two short buildings. with a lot of rubble to take cover from. I'll tell you when you guys are there, Over." "We copy. We're going, gang come on!"

Izuku and Himiko observed as Senko led his squadron over to the street. Himiko continued "Ok, now there's 9 people with guns amongst you, 5 of them go to one building and set up one floor above, the other 4 go to the other and set up. The rest, get some rubble and form a barricade, and stand behind it, shields in front, those with no shields in the back like a phalanx formation."

"Like a what?" A member asked.

"Just shields in front, weapons behind we have 5 minutes left, lets go!"

The regiment quickly talked amongst themselves as the gunmen go up one floor in the buildings hiding while pointing their guns out. The rest quickly got some rubble and made a shoddy make shift barricade. When 1 minute was remaining they got behind it, and formed a phalx or falanx or whatever the hell Carmilla said.

"Alright let them come to you, don't push, the moment I say, I want you to charge at them, gunmen shoot from up top! Over."

"Copy that over" Senko replied while crouching behind a window. Aiming an old bolt action rifle at the main entry point to the street.

After a few minutes, a lot of people wearing green sashes appeared from the nearby streets, and caught them off guard, coming from three points. Some gunmen were standing behind them, aiming. The phalanx blocked the bullets and bashed people that came too close. and the people behind with weapons poked from behind but it was clear that the line was buckling. Izuku and Himiko in the tower were biting their nails in nervousness.

"Fire at the enemy gunners!" Izuku commanded

With that order, the sounds of gun fire rounded out as the people hidden in the buildings fired, some of the gunners were shot down, the others found cover and returned fire.

"Phalanx! Charge!" Himiko roared

The people in the phalanx fanned out, spreading the blob of attackers out, separating them, the fight raged on, the green regiment, being separated quickly got overwhelmed. The gunners in the back were also shot down, leaving them to target the remaining fighters.

When the last person fell, everyone's communicators blared "HINODE VICTORY. 11 PEOPLE REMAINING."

The orange regiment cheered at their victory. "Good job guys! Thanks for leading us!" Senko said through his mic. "Let's get ready for round two!"

"ROUND TWO?" Himiko and Izuku shouted out. They slumped in their chairs, realizing that strategizing in practice was way harder than it looked.

"Where did you get these Hare?"

Izuku and Himiko were back at the abandoned warehouse, in front of a table of fire arms. pistol, revolvers, shotguns, bolt action and automatic rifles.

"We live in a world where people can have rabbit ears and some can destroy a building in a punch, there's many more questions that need answering. No need to ask kids." Hare winked at them. Himiko and Izuku shivered. "Well, why are we learning this?"

"I've always wanted to teach you guys about guns but you were literal children I can't do that to you back then, but now I can justify it by saying you guys are going to be heroes! and villains use guns. I trained you to fight guns but now I want to train you on how to use guns so let's start! These are a bit old but they work, so choose a side arm and a long arm that interests you." Hare's eyes turned serious "On a serious note I need you both to understand the gravity of this. Guns are tools, and like any tool, they can be used for good or ill. As future heroes, you must learn how to handle them responsibly." Himiko and Izuku nodded

" I won't let you start on anything more than pistols, later on I may allow you to use bolt actions or slow semi automatics, with that said, here."

Hare handed Izuku and Himiko a sleek black pistol with a silencer on, handing them a magazine each.

"Alright, rules when it comes to guns, always keep it on safety, only turn it off when you are planning to shoot something, and always ALWAYS treat it as if it's loaded even when you know it isn't! Never point it at anyone without the intention to shoot, keep your finger off the trigger until you shoot. DON'T BE IDIOTS!"

"YES SIR!"

"Good, I set up some dummies on the other side, try shooting at them, the form should be like this." Hare, proceeded to teach them proper shooting positions, form, proper techniques, and how to aim, and load and fire the gun. They both have taken to shooting surprisingly well, they kneeled, lied down, stood, and they have landed a couple of shots on the dummy, then he taught them how to inspect the weapons for faults, he pulled back the slide and ejected the mag, inspecting the firing pin, ejector inside, then looked down the pistol barrel to check the rifling with experience and precision. Himiko and Izuku followed suit.

"Good! Now go do everything again, and you're not leaving until you hit 100 shots at the dummies!"

"YES SIR!"

Himiko scampered along the treetops, silent the whole way. Izuku was on the other side of the area trying to sneak around as well.

They were in Ryokuno, that northern cove amongst the mountains, they had to find each other, and get the jump on them. Whoever gets ambushed, loses, Cameras were planted everywhere in the area, if they were spotted they failed.

Izuku jumped from treetop to treetop, hopped into hole after hole. and crawled on the floor to avoid detection.

Izuku had beaten Himiko three times in a row today, Himiko was not having it. She jumped up to a higher vantage point in one of the taller trees and hung her legs on one of the branches like a monkey, she then saw a slight bit of Izuku coming towards her, poking through the tree leaves nearby, with a goal now in sight. She jumped down, getting into some pile of leaves and hid there, as if it was a ghillie suit.

Izuku jumped down, knowing that Himiko was in this general area. He sneaked around, hiding in shadows as he went, He came across a pile of leaves. Without a second thought he jumped away. But it was a second too late, Himiko jumped out of the pile of leaves and grabbed his heel and tried to tackle Izuku to the ground.

Izuku escaped her grip, and tried to fight back, Himiko threw kick after kick, punch after punch and Izuku ducked dodged and weaved through all of them, trying to counter attack, he sees a tree he can jump and cling to, so he does, but Himiko, predicting that Izuku will retreat, lunged, tackling Izuku to the ground, putting his wrists on above his head. Himiko finally winning, growled out "You're mine..."

Izuku however instead of sighing or admitting defeat. Simply blushed and looked at Himiko with a shocked expression, the normally cute and chipper Himiko suddenly becoming like this...

Oh no, she's hot!Izuku thought.

Himiko oblivious to this, simply picks Izuku up, and sets him down. "Finally got you Zuku~ Think you can stay away from me?" Himiko teased.

Izuku stammered "U-Uh yeah, great one H-Himi, let's try again..."

Himiko grinned before running back to her initial starting position, A buzz from Izuku's communicator rang out.

"You know, that's how I knew I wanted to marry my wife." Hare said over the communicator.

"SHUT UP!" Izuku blushed and ran back to his starting position with a redness on his face that made him look like a strawberry

The bar was filled with noise, Wave was sitting on stage strumming a tune, the patrons looked happy, and Izuku was looking at the clock with baited breath,

"3-2-1..."

"YES!"

The entire bar looked over to Izuku, him doing a celebratory dance.

"Oh, you guys all suck at this!" Izuku yelled.

The rest of the bar was still confused on what the hell was going on, before one patron yelled out. "OH GODDAMN IT SHE DID IT AGAIN!"

Izuku started to melt away and revealing Himiko disguised as him.

"You thought it was Broccoli but it was me! Carmilla!" Himiko posed in a dramatic flair.

"9-0 people 9-0! My first time was so bad! The laughs were so weird! You should have caught me then!"

"She can't keep getting away with this!" a man at the bar top cried out. "I don't get it, you get his laugh, the way he walks, the things he likes, and you talking about Mt Lady, did you look at his notes?"

Himiko stuck her tongue out "Nope! I just pulled whatever information about Mt Lady out of thin air! I have no idea how the hell the bone marrow somehow helps her grow! You can't get mad at me! This is technically "training", I took acting lessons, and this is training given to me by Hare, but it's so fun! The first red flag was that Izuku went out with Hare to train his stealth again. Even though he just did that two days ago!"

The rest of the bar groaned before putting 100 yen into the betting jar, in celebration of Himiko's deception

Himiko and Izuku arrive at the beach. It was called Dagobah Beach and it was filled with scrap and trash. Hare was already there waiting. "Alright, listen here! This beach is filled with scrap. I want you to go all out. Carmilla I constructed an obstacle course there, It's way too hard for you but I want you to shift into me and do the course, try and increase your time in transformation while using the quirks. Use my rabbit quirk to enhance your strength to complete the course. Broccoli you can go over to that big pile of junk, do whatever you want with them. Burn them, smash them together with your tendrils. Just do whatever. Push yourself . Come on! Only two months left. There was supposed to be more here but I think the government might actually be caring about this place since a lot of it seemed cleaned up. Anyway enough talk. Let's go!"

Himiko took some of Hare's blood and started jumping from pillar to pillar, platform to platform, If someone saw from a distance, they could mistake it as some distant relative of Mirko jumping around some scrap. Himiko was already winded by the 15 minute mark. Constantly having to drink Hare's blood to push her limits bit by bit.

Izuku on the other hand experimented with some tendrils. He had 20 of them protrude from his back. He used 5 of them as tentacles to move and scale the larger piles of trash by using them similarly to grappling hooks. All the while using the rest of the tendrils to grab scrap to either throw them as far as he can, smash them together or simply cutting them precisely by increasing the heat on the end of the tendrils and snapping it around it. Making a clear cut in the scrap. All the while having 5 spears and 5 katanas floating around him. Stabbing some of the thrown scrap to train his acuracy, he has trained to a point where the constructs have similar durabilities to their real life counterparts, training his brain capacity to control his fire for more time without suffering the consequences. While holding a spear and shield and doing a fighting routine on a floating green platform. He tries his best to not use his new highest limit of 2000 degrees fire unless absolutely needed. He tried to maintain a constant 1000 degrees. Not enough to put Izuku out cold but still enough to deal damage for a nice period of time. With the constant training. He can usually control this much fire with only the cost of a little strain on his brain. Only raising his temperature when needing to melt something.

The rest of the day was spent doing training on the beach. By the time it was over. The pair were limping they're way to the bar. Izuku needed his head to be held up by Himiko and was slurring his words a bit cause he could not have thought straight for the rest of the day.

"Alright one final training session, you have to fight me!" Hare declared in a clearing in the forest.

With that done, he rushed towards Izuku and Himiko. Izuku ducked low as Himiko jumped high to land an axe kick, Hare dodged only to be met with punch towards his stomach by Izuku, he barely blocks it, and retaliates with a knee to Izuku's face which he knocks out of the way. The two teens kept on throwing punch after punch, kick after kick, and tried to use many tricks to catch him off guard, Izuku bounced off a tree to try and land a roundhouse kick, Himiko backflipped away while having her foot reaching out to kick again. Izuku rushed in with a barrage of punches while blocking all of Hare's attacks, every attack they blocked took quite a bit of energy from them, but Hare was also losing steam, through out their training Izuku and Himiko have developed a crazy amount of strength and a strong physique, not enough to match someone with a quirk like Hare's but still enough to not make Hare take them lightly.

Then Izuku and Himiko looked at each other, and nodded, then as if a synchronized dance, they start to attack Hare in a way more fierce manner, Izuku attacking his upper half while Himiko going for his lower half, switching after a few minutes, the hits weren't as strong but they were significantly faster, aiming to wear Hare down.

Then as Hare was starting to adapt to their new style of teamwork and fighting, they switched last minute, both of them got to the same level and kicked Hare, Hare, having lowered one of his arms to protect his lower half, was met with a mean side kick to his chest by Izuku, then stumbling got another kick in the neck courtesy of Himiko.

Izuku and Himiko got on top of him, their face unyielding, Hare looked at them with a look of pride as he tapped out, Izuku and Himiko yelled out "YES! FINALLY!" They have finally beaten their sensei, as they were celebrating Hare got up and threw two punches at both of them at the same time, only for his hand to be caught.

"Good, even after surrendering don't lose attention at your enemy." Hare nodded, "Now show me your weapon skills." Izuku nodded and manifested a naginata, blunted and to a normal temperature, Himiko grabbed two blunted sais, and having multiple blunt knives hidden under her, Izuku charged at her his naginata, to which Himiko responds by throwing two knives at him.

Izuku dodges and stabs the naginata to the ground and climbed on it as if it was a pole and held on to it and unleashed a kick barrage at Himiko. To which she blocked with her dual sais parrying all the kicks away.

Green fire clashed with cool steel as the continued to fight, Izuku decided to try something different as he jumped into a tree and manifested a bow and arrow and shot it towards Himiko, she dodged to the side and threw knives as she rapidly approached, Izuku manifested a katana and jumped down, poising for a strike, Himiko blocked it his katana dangerously close to her neck as she held it back with her weapon, on sai also dangerously close to his forehead, only being stopped by Izuku's hand.

"All right that's enough." Hare declared, both of them got off from each other and bowed. Giving each other a bright grin. "Lastly, your newest challenge, rifles."

Hare handed Izuku and Himiko a bolt action rifle each, filled with BB rounds and pointed them to targets in the distance, 5 of them set up across the clearing at 100 to 500 meters.

Izuku and Himiko steadied their breaths and pulled the trigger, one by one, the targets went down.

Izuku and Himiko looked back only to see Hare looking at them with eyes that was a mixture of pride and longing with unshed tears.

"I trained two more..." He muttered under his breath only to himself before he quickly coughed and said "Good job! You guys are ready!"

"YESSIR!"

"Find and use any weak spot! "

"Make it quick! Don't worry about spectacles just be efficient! Do whatever you need to get it done!"

"Keep them guessing what your quirk can do!"

"Keep moving! Keep them on their toes!"

"Use stealth first! If that don't work, only then beat the sh*t out of them!"

It was only a week until the exams. Right now Hare and Insight are in a classroom drilling into them and quizzing some last minute concepts for the last 2 hours. Just now Izuku and Himiko were reciting the rules Hare have taught them when it comes to fighting. Leaving them a small piece of paper that included his fighting and exam advice for both of them. Now it's Insight's turn to quiz them

"Here's a question packet with 50 questions! 10 questions for English, Maths, Literature, History and Science. Finish as much as you can in an hour go!"

After a little while. The question packets were collected. Izuku finished 42 out of 50 while Himiko got 39 out of 50

"You guys did good! You forgone questions you were bad at and went for questions you were good at! I didn't expect you to finish the entire thing but still good!"

"I think we can confidently say that both UA and Shiketsu are going to get a prodigy this year. Knock the teachers out cold you two, shock them all! You hear me!"

"YES SIR!"

"

Chapter 16

Chapter Text

Izuku was walking into the gates of UA alongside hundreds of other students. Hopeful for a shot at attending here. Since he had no school uniform, he decided on wearing a black button up with a dark red jumper with black pants. Hoping to pass off as a school uniform. He sits nearby at a bench and stares at his shoes.

The shoes for those with two toe joints.

For quirkless people

The people he was once part of and the people he wants to fight for.

Not just them, but people who were wronged by society for something they can't control, also for people who deserve and tried for a second chance

When he graduates. He hopes he can make a mark in this world for them. For the people to recognize these people are not ones to be feared.

He contemplates all the help he has received through out the years. From being a quirkless 7 year old abandoned, to now a hero hopeful with a powerful quirk. At first he was worried what he could put down for his parental and education situation on the application. But that was handled by Tetsuchi by saying that it's fine to write that he was homeschooled and that for the parents he can write N/A. Since foster kids often wrote that down. Given how often they can change.

He vows to stay humble and never forget them.

His line of thought was cut short when the intercom blares.

"Those who are here to try out of the hero course. Please report to Hall 1,2, 3 and 4 according to the list outside the halls to participate in the written portion of the exam."

Izuku walked to inside the hall alongside many others. They sat down and a man with eccentric blond hair, black leather clothing and sunglasses was explaining the rules of the exam loudly That's Present Mic! Holy! He's so cool! His charity work for deaf people is amazing!

"Alright kiddos! You will have four hours to complete this test! with portions in all your main subjects YEAHH!" Some students seem surprised at his attitude, he continued "You can hand your work in anytime alright? No talking, no cheating, Just you, your pencil, and that big ol' brain of yours! So get ready, get set, and show us what you're made of!"

As he finished his line. A bunch of men in trench coats with dark blue skin started passing out the papers quicklyThat's Ectoplasm! Oh My God! His clones are so cool!" Izuku deep down was still a hero fanboy. Heck, his quirk analysis notebook was filled with heroes but seeing limelight ones up close was certainly quite exciting for him.

As the question packet was put in front of him. Izuku started to go to work. He followed Insight's advice and did the questions he was best at. That being Maths and English. He breezed through the English section considering he was quite fluent in it and as fit for one with an analytic mind. He breezed through the Maths section was well.

Guess those late night cram sessions with Insight were worth it huhIzuku thought

Izuku took a look at the clock.

45 minutes have passed.

Good progress, you're doing great so far Izuku silently affirmed to himself

He did the rest of the exams quickly. Only being stuck on one or two science and history questionsHow the hell is anyone supposed to know the birthday of the first president of the HPSC?Izuku laughed to himself. He glanced at the people around him. Some had panicked looks, some had faces that say they were having a tough time.

Alright I'm done all i need to do is this essay question.

He looked at the description

Extra credit question (Optional): Write an essay about hero society. Examples: Heroes and the media, Heroes effects on the youth, Government influence on Heroes (Note: It can be about anything, as long as it is related to hero society)

Izuku's eyes widened and look at the clock.

He had two hours left

Oh he is going to write this.

Overlooked and Forgotten aspects of Heroic Society

If anyone were to look at Izuku writing the essay, the look on his face looked like an impassioned writer writing a manifesto.

The teachers were at the front of the hall talking amongst themselves. Mic spoke up "Hey Ecto what do you think of that kid near the right corner, green hair, green eyes. I watched everyone's faces and he's the only one who looks calm. Not to mention he's the one who flips over his pages the fastest. He looks quite... passionate right now i say."

Ectoplasm with an unreadable look on his face replied "As much as I hate to doubt him. There's a chance he is not thinking his answers through. I've not seen someone do questions like he does. He does things way quicker than any of the students, right now he seems stuck on a page, maybe he finally got to a section where it stumped hi-"

As Ectoplasm was talking. He sees Izuku raise his hand, he looks to the clock

45 minutes left.

There was no way he's done right?

One of Ectoplasm's clones approach him and Izuku bowed in his seat while handing the clone his question packet with two hands

"Are you finished young man? Know that if you turn in now, you can't take it back, have you checked your work?"

Izuku replied with a small smile and a look of respect on his face. "Yes sir, I have checked my work multiple times. I am aware of the rules."

"Very well then, you may leave."

As the clone gathered his packet. Izuku gathered his things to leave. He received looks of shock and confusion from the students around him. He paid them no mind before leaving quietly

The clone walks up to the table before placing the paper on the table.

Present Mic and Ectoplasm whispered to each other, "You think that kid got co*cky?" asked Present Mic, "Maybe, we're gonna read his paper soon enough."

Outside, Izuku was sitting on a bench waiting for the practical part to start. His mind goes back to the advice Tinker gave him.

Flashback

Tinker was sitting with Izuku on the bartop with an excited look on his face

"Alright I'll tell you, it feels wrong as an inventor to tell you how to take down our own creations but if you pull through on your promise then it's fine."

"Thank you Tinker" Izuku nodded

"Well, if you're gonna fight robots then a good piece of general advice is to target the joints or the part that connects them. I'm assuming, given their budget, UA has the money to make some high tech stuff. The type of robots likely have highly flexible limbs in order to fight but it also provides a weakness." Tinker pulled out a notepad and drew a humanoid robot and points to the neck and shoulder. "The robots typically have a bit that connects for example the neck to the head or the shoulder to the arm. They are usually made of weaker materials. They sacrifice defense for mobility. So target these places, with enough precision, then you should be able to cut through the materials no problem. Like maybe slash them and sever them at that point or focus your fire to burn those bits. Also, these things typically have some sort of camera to detect people to fight, essentially their eyes, go for them, they can't hurt things if they can't see things. A telltale sign is red lights, you know how things like a remote will shine a red light when you press a button? That is infrared, they transmit a signal to the tv to tell it to change the channel for example. The robots typically don't have actual cameras. Instead it's infrared sensors, they detect heat signatures of people and are usually red so target them as well if no obvious weak joint can be found."

Izuku nodded along as he wrote down all the advice as Tinker kept on going.

"So... you promise to tell me about the UA robots and bring me a piece of scrap from them?"

"Of course Tinker, I'll see what i can do." Izuku smiled

"Thanks Broccoli! you're the best!"

End Flashback

Izuku was a bit disheartened at first to hear that the test was destroying robots. He knew it screwed over anyone that didn't have a flashy quirk.

People like Himiko.

He couldn't help but wonder the amount of people. Who at this point were as close to him as actual family, that wandered into the Iron Haven that could have been a hero or anything they wanted. If society was not so cruel. If society would care less about the quirk and more about the person.

Maybe Wave could be a great musician.

He didn't know what Insight went through in the HPSC but he hoped that maybe he could have stayed a quirk counselor or maybe even a university teacher.

Tetsuchi knew how to run a bar well. Maybe in another world he could have been an owner of a restaurant chain.

Well that's what he's trying to do now isn't he?

Izuku decided to not let his mind wander too far, he pulled a tablet and pulled a stylus from the end of it. He has managed to nurture his quirk analysis hobby over the years. With people praising him constantly for his insight. He has helped many with his mind but he also understands that quirks are also a very deep part of someone's identity, most want to keep it private especially in the presence of people with quirks that are looked down upon on society, and heroes especially, since they use them to fight. In the analyses. He included many of their weaknesses. Which could be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands. He had Tinker help him with making a tablet that has multiple security measures, such as passwords, fingerprint readers and even retina scanners. The quirk analysis application, alongside it's security measures was disguised as the "news" app on the tablet. It was inconspicuous, and the retina scanners could sense if it was Izuku writing in it, if someone were to try and open the news app then they would just get the news. It was an ingenious use of tech. Not to mention it was written in code only Izuku knew.

Izuku, after seeing Ectoplasm's clones up close decided to continue his analysis on him, plugged in his headphones and started writing

A playlist full of pre-quirk era music. That he and Wave have made

Some of them were sang by Himiko, those were his favourites

He wrote as he hoped that Himiko was doing well.

Himiko was sitting on a bench outside. She's clenching her red skirt while wearing a white cardigan, She has just finished her written exam with 15 minutes to spare and now found an isolated spot near the trees.

She had to take it all in.

Right now she could not believe she is trying to be a hero. All the crap life had thrown at her. Almost determined to turn her into a villain, maybe into a serial killer out for blood, maybe someone who didn't care about anything as LONG AS SHE CAN GET HER FILL OF BLOO-

Stop Himi

She had to stop herself in that line of thought. She had drunk almost 10 entire blood bags before this, the cravings will not get her today. Despite what anyone said. She wasn't any of that. She will never be any of that. Why? Because she has people in her corner, people who care for her, are willing to provide for her and willing to love her.

A family.

That status didn't just extend to the Chizues, it included Tetsuchi, any of the patrons in the Iron Haven were like family to them. All except one.

Izuku

Himiko could not get the green haired broccoli boy out of her mind. His selflessness, his gradual increase in confidence through out the years, his professionalism in info work, his absolute care for everyone regardless of quirks, looks or origin. He was the only kid her age that treated her with dignity, respect and care. While she could argue with herself he was like a brother, she couldn't, it might be something more.

It definitely started around the time she was helping around the bar more. With more and more time with him. She noticed how he interacts with people. Courteous, polite, kind and whenever she messed up with maybe like serving a table. He taught her slowly. Although she was the one to extend the relationship of friends to him, it was when she was little, she did not expect for this relationship to last until now. Especially with needing to deal with someone like her. There were times where she didn't get her fill of blood and attacked someone in the bar, it was always Izuku to hold her back and calm her down and help explain to people her condition, even going so far to threaten people who wanted to harm her. It was when it happened for the fourth time that Izuku extended an offer to her that rocked her world.

"You can drink my blood if you really need it Himi!"

Himiko always knew her view of love was a bit misguided, with her love of blood and all but goodness, her view of love when she was younger...

She knew now it was wrong

Flashback

"You look so cuteee, when you bleed! Look at me! I'm you!"

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME BLOODFREAK!"

"B-But y-you're cute, isn't this nice! I like you! I only turn into the things i love!"

"Himiko Toga you will unhand your classmate and put down your knife this instant! Your parents will be informed of this!"

"But why? I just wanted to tell him how cute he was, that's all"

"LEAVE ME ALONE BLOODFREAK! NO MANIAC WOULD LIKE YOU!"

"BLOODFREAK!"

Flashback end

Himiko shook her head, almost on the brink of a panic attack, she started crying. She fumbled for a bit before grabbing her phone and played a recording

Thinking back to those days were still hell for her.

The recording started to play and immediately she relaxed.

"Somewhere over the rainbow.."

They were recordings of Izuku singing songs, particularly soothing songs. She had other playlists for songs that are more upbeat or intense and songs she sang alone and duets they sang together.

She had a love song playlist hidden in a secure folder but no one had to know that...

She smiled and closed her eyes as she listened. It reminded her of that offer. She accepted it and she did good in trying to limit her cravings after that. When she got home she immediately screamed inside a pillow. To him it was being kind, but to her.

It was the most sincere sign of trust and love she could ever receive.

Granted he has offered her blood the day he saved her from that son of a bitch explosion asshole but she thought he just wanted to check out her quirk. She didn't even realize that he had the capacity to care about her needs in that way. She couldn't help it at that point. Slowly but surely she made more "signs of affection" to Izuku, those include nibbling on him, getting small drops of her blood on him, all of them related to flesh, blood or red, but through out the years. She understood.

She was different. There was no doubt about that, but Izuku accepted her, he didn't understand these signs were signs of affection, accepting someone and understanding someone were different.

One day, she hoped to make him understand.

For now she'll give Shiketsu a good showing. The intercom blares and announces the beginning of the practical exams.

Izuku was currently at the back of the auditorium. Where Present Mic was explaining the practical exam.

"HEY LITTLE LISTENERS! CAN I GET A YEAH!!!"

The entire auditorium was silent. Izuku can almost feel the man's pain inside.

"dull crowd..." Present Mic mumbled to himself.

"Anyways! During the practical exam, you kiddos will have to fight against robots! There are 3 types of villain bots, Yo! They're all tough cookies to crack worth different amount of points! The more you destroy the more points you get! You can read more about it in the leaflets under the chairs !"

Present Mic continued to go on about the exam. Izuku looked at the leaflet as he spoke. He noticed on the leaflet that there was a 0 pointer. There was a diagram next to the description. He didn't know why UA would even incorporate a robot that was worth nothing, not to mention the fact that Present Mic did not even bother mentioning it's existence. He assumes perhaps it was supposed to be a surprise or gimmick to see how people will react to a sudden situation which will be an important aspect of working as a hero.

It was at that moment that a boy with square glasses and having prim and proper uniform and well trimmed dark blue hair. He loudly questioned the exam and why the fact that the fact that there was a zero pointer robot was not mentioned at all. Even doubting whether or not UA is as great as the rest of society claim them to be. His voice, attitude and looks all scream of a privileged private school student. Izuku can't help but think "Oh days... here comes Mr. High and Mighty, maybe it's because that you weren't supposed to know everything about the test and want to test our skills?" To think there are a lot of people who were fighting tooth and nail for even a chance at trying out for UA while people like him had the gall to judge UA.

Now's not the time just focus up IzukuHe thought to himself

After the altercation between the boy and Present Mic, Izuku was instructed towards the testing ground. He sees some large buildings slightly poking out over a large enclose area.How much must this stuff have cost?Izuku was flabbergasted, he snapped out of it quickly and thought back to Hare's last minute advice.

"Be quick and efficient, do not waste energy on large attacks if smaller, precise attacks can do the job, be logical, lastly your quirk is versatile so it can be used in many situations, it is up to you to judge what way is the best way to fight under different situations"

Izuku could tell that from the large buildings poking out the enclosed area it was most likely a large simulation city. He decides that using his tendrils fight style to fight the robots would be best, a mix of mobility and offense, the tendrils will be used to maneuver and swing around the city. Also, the thin hot tendrils can give him a way to attack and target the smaller joints pointed out by Tinker and only using the weapons and fire when absolutely necessary.

He was walking towards the gate and arrived, Taking a few deep breaths before a hand rests on his shoulder. It was the same boy that questioned Present Mic. Izuku flashed him a small smile "Hey there, what's wrong?" The boy replies "People who are trying for the general course don't need to do the practical part of the exam. The exit is that way." Izuku was confused and replied "What? I'm here for the hero course?"

"Those shoes, it'll be unsafe for you, you still have a chance to leave."

Izuku's face darkened. So that's what's all this about.

He glanced down at his well-worn, red quirkless shoes. He had chosen to wear them today in solidarity with his quirkless past, a reminder of where he came from and how far he had come. "I appreciate your concern," Izuku said, his voice calm but edged with irritation. "But I'm here for the hero course. And these shoes.. I wear them for myself. Shoes don't define what a person can do."

The boy started to stammer but then the gate opened. Izuku immediately focused hard and made around 15 green, glowing, flaming tendrils appear. there are 9 at his back and 3 for each of his arms. The tendrils at his back pushed the ground beneath him as he sprung up and jumped into the fake city. He latched onto a building and swung further in. The voice of Present Mic piercing everyone's eardrums over the intercom.

"WHAT ARE YOU KIDS WAITING FOR! THERE'S NO COUNTDOWNS IN A REAL VILLAIN FIGHT! GO!"

Everyone immediately began to pick up the pace and rushed in afterwards. Already falling behind one green haired comet that is currently swinging through the sky.

Himiko made through the halls of Shiketsu, she didn't go for the hall that many other hero hopefuls go, since she's trying out for the underground hero course. She approached what seems to be a more isolated part of the school, All she got was a map and description of the venue. She followed the map only to see a humanoid robot blocking it, when she approached, the robot stopped her, "ONLY STAFF MEMBERS CAN PROCEED HERE" the robot said, but Himiko can see at the end of the corridor that there was a door to a hall and it matched the description on the paper to a tee, so it had to be there. She noticed a fire escape near the door

Maybe I can go through there?

"Oh well sorry! I'll be on my way now." Himiko ran away to the nearest fire escape, and ran through the door, hoping to somehow find a way to the fire escape on the other side. When she looked around she noticed her ticket to win it.

The vents.

Himiko looked closely and realized the only thing holding this thing together was a bunch of nails. So she took out a coin from her wallet and jumped on the tallest part of the railing on the stair and reach up, slowly she unscrewed the nails and caught the vent grate, gently putting down on the floor, she leaped in and started crawling towards the fire exit. After crawling for two minutes, she looked out of a vent grate and realized that it was right above the robot, meaning she was going the right way. After crawling a bit more and taking a slight turn, she approached the vent grate that and when she looked down, it was a fire escape. so she unscrewed the vent grate with the coin and jumped down, exiting the fire escape, then coming face to face with the venue in question

Seeing only one hall which entrance has signs of damage and with the sign that just says "GYM "She shrugs before walking in, the hall was dark, no lights were opened. Himiko was confused at the setting, she could barely see anything, she can only take notice at the sports equipment at the left side of the gym, she noticed a few balls, a few bats and a bunch of dumbbells. However, she stopped in her tracks after hearing something behind her, when she flicked her eyes to the side, she noticed and heard a small noise and seeing something in the corner of the building up top, she focused a bit before realizing that whatever it is, it could not be seen, but she could barely see the edges which seemed slightly distorted, following the edges, she could tell it was the shape of a human perching a top one of the beams up top.

She immediately clocked that his was probably a part of the test. She was not informed of anything about the test, only about the location. Underground heroics were more suited to stealth and quick takedowns, and to counter an attack from this person, likely a teacher here would be a good way to prove her worth. The person likely had some camouflage or illusion quirk, not full invisibility since she can see the edges. She acted clueless, though always having an eye on the distorted figure. She recalled the advice Hare had given her.

I've never seen an underground heroics test but I believe it will most likely be you having to infiltrate, silently takedown someone or prevent yourself from being taken down yourself. They would never tell you what it is beforehand. Since people like me need to be used to and be able to adapt to anything. A piece of general advice is that you should definitely look around to find anything that can be a weapon if you don't have any.

Himiko moved silently moved towards the left, all the while keeping track of the distorted figure, she made it to the equipment locker before asking "Is anyone there?"

Himiko noted at how frighteningly fast the figure with distorted edges had jumped down and approached her, she kept her cool, when she sensed a hand reaching out to her, she sidestepped to the figure's right while quickly grabbing a wooden bat and swinging it with enough speed to catch the figure off guard and striking it at their right side, aiming for a liver shot. Himiko can sense that her bat struck true. The figure gasped out air, and then Himiko proceeded to quickly rush behind the figure and press the bat to the figure's neck, pulling them towards her. She could hear the figure gasp for air. Himiko growled and whispered menacingly

"Who are you! If you're part of Shiketsu staff, tell me what is going on right now!"

It was at that moment when the lights came on, three figures revealed themselves at the end of the hall, seemingly wearing night vision goggles, all three were slack jawed as they took the goggles off. Himiko could have sworn he saw the figure to the right, a woman mouthed out "How..."

It was at this moment where the figure trapped in Himiko's chokehold revealed himself. A man in a skin tight black jump suit with armor padding for his arms and legs with white ascents going alongside his limbs with black hair in a small ponytail and brown eyes, Himiko now saw that he was quite athletic and was pretty tall, roughly around 183 centimeters but right now she was patting Himiko's arm rapidly, at the sight of this action, Himiko let the man go immediately, making him drop to the ground.

"How long did it take for you to notice me?" The man asked while gasping for air.

Himiko was a bit put on the spot before answering "U-Uhh well, around 20 seconds after I stepped in, I heard some scuttling, I turned my eye and saw some like distorted edges if something near the ceiling, I could tell the edge was in the shape of a human so I knew someone was up there, only I didn't know why, I know I'm here for the underground heroics test, so it had to have something related to stealth. In this case, it seems you guys were testing out my ability to sense if someone is sneaking up on me, I didn't know what you were aiming to do, whether or not you wanted to observe or try to take me down, I noticed some bats so I approached them just in case, and I was proven right, I heard a bunch of small patters coming towards me, So I dodged and then well, here we are now."

"Wait was I not suppose to hit you? If so I'm so sorry please give me a chance!" Himiko bowed.

The man was flabbergasted, to think that this girl who had caught him off guard and menacingly threatened him was being shy and polite right now was quite the contrast.

"No! That was part of the test, it was just not how it was supposed to go..."

"Huh what do you mean?" Himiko asked

"Well, it was supposed to go like this, when i extended my arm, I was hoping for it to get near enough to you to cause you to think there was someone there, I was planning to extend my hand past your ear and then dodge out the way. Then the idea was that you would go forward to meet those three and have an interview about underground heroics, they would then give you a task. All the while seeing if you notice me, but I did not expect to be bested barely two minutes in..."

"Oh... so what now?" Himiko asked.

"Well you should go to those three."

"Alright!" said the man in the middle, a lean, athletic man of average height, about 176 centimeters, with short, spiky black hair and dark brown eyes with yellow irises with a sharp grin wearing a suit exclaimed. "You are quite the student! Let's talk first!"

Himiko quickly rushed towards them and bowing. The man continued, " Hello! I am a heroics teacher here, you can call me Nariko sensei, that lady there is Akagi sensei, that man over there is Onimaru sensei and that is the vice principal of Shiketsu! Miyamoto sensei, tell me what's your name girl?"

"Chizue, Chizue Himiko sir" Himiko responded with a small grin.

"I see, now Chizue-san before we proceed can I ask how did you get past the robot?"

"Himiko looked a bit sheepish before saying "Well... I noticed there was a fire escape near the hall I needed to go to, so I made my way to another fire escape near me and found a vent grate. I unscrewed it using a coin in my wallet. Then I jumped in, and crawled past it into the fire escape near the hall, and that's how I got here..."

The man opened his mouth, seeming to try and speak before his eyes morphed into a perplexed look.

The woman behind him slapped her forehead. "Oh that's why we didn't see her on the camera!"

She is a tall woman with a slim build, standing at 182 cm. Her striking red hair is tied to a bun, and her eyes are a piercing green that seem to glow while wearing glasses.

The man in between of them, an older man in his late fifties, with a dignified appearance. He stands at 180cm with a lean frame, calm blue eyes and his hair is silver and neatly combed back, proceeded to ask. "Let's change the subject, Chizue-san. Let's start with the interview, what do you like about underground heroics. When people apply to our school, they don't even know that this course exists. In fact you are the only applicant. Did you ever consider limelight heroics?"

Himiko grinned wider. "The reason is sensei, I believe that the world of heroes is more than just flashy battles and public recognition. Who cares if you're popular, as long as you help people, it shouldn't matter. There are people out there who help people in ways that aren't always visible or celebrated. Underground heroics allow me to make a difference in the shadows, to protect and save those who are often overlooked. Not to mention, life has not been kind to me, but I have been saved by those people that live in society's shadow, by those that help people in ways that go unnoticed."

Himiko's eyes shone a glint of determination "Those people need help as much as I did and they don't receive a lot of help, and when they do, it's not from limelight heroes but from underground heroes and I realize as an underground hero I can really personally help those who just seem to be forgotten by society. The people that have helped me to where I am now and prevented my life from turning worse. I want to be there for them. I even witnessed someone got saved personally by an underground hero once, I admired the sheer efficiency and speed they had to deal with the situation. None of that fluff that the limelight heroes do, no really cool super moves or over the top attacks or speeches or saying how everything will be fine when in reality it isn't. Because trust me I know it isn't. That person was not afraid to go to some of the shadiest parts of the city and fight criminals that could potentially kill them, and most of the time it's for information and they didn't even expect a reward or any recognition, they simply took down the threat, called the police and went ahead to do something else and I realized that in a way, underground heroes are better than limelight heroes in my opinion. They are more selfless in the way that they are willing to risk their lives just so that people can live in peace and not even expect any reward. So that sold the deal to me. To help someone just for the sake of helping someone, like someone did for me when I was younger, that's why I wanted to do this."

Himiko put a finger to her chin "As for limelight heroics, the initial idea was to be someone who can speak on the behalf of those I feel like are left behind like I was and also doing underground work at the same time, but the more I thought about it, I see this as a more practical way of helping them since I have personal experience, and if I can handle it, then I would consider doing limelight heroics as well to try and speak out for them or to do work that benefits them, but for now I would like to be in underground heroics."

The man eyes widened and a small smile graced his lips "T-That's a really mature way of thinking young Chizue, did you ever have someone you learnt from or looked up to and also if you don't mind, you mentioned life was not the kindest to you, would you mind if you elaborated on that? Of course you don't have to say it if you feel uncomfortable!"

Himiko's face took on a softer tone. "Thank you sensei, I really mind actually, it's still things I have to process but as to who I always looked up to, it's kind of a bit awkward, Heh, people would expect like a hero or like their grandpa or something, but for me it was this boy. He is my friend and he had similar upbringings to me. He showed me great kindness, even if it meant it brought harm upon him, throughout the years he inspired me to want to be a hero, and to never forget what I want to fight for. Even as his life got better, he never forgot his roots. He continued to help people who were like him and I did the same as he did. So yes, that is who I look up to."

"I see... He must be a very bright and talented young man."

"He is, sensei, he really is."

"Well now is the portion where I will let you go do a task then come back here and answer more questions but I believe that can be skipped for you."

"Huh why is that sensei?"

"The task was to sneak past more robots to deliver this file to someone on the other side, but considering the fact that you just used the vent system. Something we did not see coming, it seems you have proved your mettle in stealth, besides with the fact that you used the vents the exercise would be redundant."

Himiko scratched the back of her head "Ah... hah... sorry sensei"

"No it's quite alright!" The vice principal replied, "It is always nice to see young people innovate and come up with different techniques and ideas to overcome obstacles. For now I want to ask you more questions."

"Ok Sensei!"

Izuku felt so free. It was rare to be able to just let loose with his quirk. He followed Tinker's advice throughout. If anyone seeing him eyeing up the robot's necks and arms, they could have sworn he was a vampire except he feasted on metal instead of blood.

He would wrap a tendril of fire around some of the robot's necks or arms before quickly heating up and snapping them in two. Leaving a clean cut. All the while swinging through the city. Cleanly executing any of the robots he came across. Some of the robots like the three pointers didn't have clear weaknesses, therefore he followed Tinker's other advice and aimed for their eyes. He used the tendrils at his arms to pierce through the red shining sensors of the robots. Rendering them useless. 4 of his 15 tendrils right now were clinging on to some big pieces of debris. Using them as a blunt force weapon as a last resort. Then swing through and scale the city. He took inspiration from that movie Discover found. "Spiderman 2".He copied the style of movement from both the villain and hero from that movie. He swung around the city like the hero Spiderman sometimes. While in other situations he would walk down the street or scale up a building like Doctor Octopus. He would have never guessed that a pre quirk era movie could give him so much inspiration. He traveled quickly, and around dark corners and alleyways of the fake city, catching the robots off guard, always too late before they realize the green tendrils of death were around them.

He also helped saved a lot of applicants, he wondered what the hell kind of fail safe there were to prevent an applicant from being injured, if at all. Up until now, he had to grab a big piece of debris before it fell on this pink skinned girl, slapped away a robot from this kid with blades coming out of his arms, grabbed this kid with yellow spiky hair away from a robot sneaking up on him, preventing this girl from falling off a building by grabbing her. He even helped that idiot blue haired kid by destroying a robot he didn't pay attention to that he could have ran head first into. All the while, fighting robots and navigating from the city. When he saved someone, it was quick and efficient as Hare have taught him. The people he saved didn't even get to say thank you before seeing a green blur or a robot falling apart under green heat. All the while having a focused look on his face with one eyebrow raised and breathing in and out. Izuku is trying to maintain his focus on his fire while trying his best not tire himself out.

He think he has at least a decent amount of points from destroying the robots. At least 40 he reckons. When he was swinging through the city, he heard a sound that felt louder than the big bang. He immediately swung towards it before landing on a building and seeing an absolute behemoth of metal towering all of the buildings. It was the zero pointer. He recognized it by the diagrams on the leaflet first provided.

As he proceeded towards the robot. He noticed a brown haired girl stuck under some rubble. While everyone else was running away from the robot.

Oh how great heroes you all are, well time to fulfill my promise to Tinker Izuku thought.

Izuku would admit he was a bit intimidated by the behemoth but he can't let this girl be harmed. So he used his tendrils to run down the street towards it. Ignoring the bewildered faces of the oncoming applicants He then redirected all of the tendrils not holding something into launching himself upwards. As he was going up. He used two of the tendrils to grab the rubble off the girl and then grabbed the girl with the other and dropped her off to the side to safety. With five pieces of rocks in his control. Izuku decided to use the fighting style of his multi generational ancestors back in the caveman era and threw two of the pieces of rubble at the zero pointer only to be met with a big metal arm swiping them away. Izuku feeling a sense of panic, started to assess the robot. He couldn't see any clear weak points. The neck was guarded by the fact that the robot had tucked it's head in like a boxer, it's other limbs have tough armor. Leaving no easy way to take it down, Izuku then kept swinging around the robot for a few minutes, only barely dodging some of it's attacks. Constantly keeping a face of focus, he started to sweat as he felt he was feeling the first signs of a splitting headache. Then with a look of realization, Izuku had an idea. He might be able to bait out a weak point. Armed with that Idea, Izuku threw the remaining three of his rocks upwards at the robot and as expected, the robot looked up. Wanting to whack it away as it did before but as he did this, Izuku's eyes lit up.

Weak point, the robot has revealed a weak point.

The words weak point kept reverberating around Izuku's mind as he grappled onto the robot's arm in an effort to get close. Then he quickly sent some tendrils to wrap around it's neck. It worked. The robot did not see his tendrils coming. as it whacked away the debris with it's other arm Izuku had already wrapped flaming tendrils around it's neck. He quickly increased the temperature near it's limit and imagine the tendril tightening around the neck violently. the head of the robot was snapped clean off, the head quickly fell to the ground and it's body started to fall. Fearing the body and the debris he threw could land on someone, Izuku grabbed the debris and then stuck some of his tendrils to a building while the rest went to wrap around the falling corpse of the robot. He strained under the weight. Creating more tendrils to secure it, then as he felt the robot starting to slow down, the intercom blared, signaling the end of the exam. He let it down gently on the road. Leaving only a small crater on the road, with that Izuku took a deep breath and got rid of most of his tendrils leaving only 5 for him to safely scale down the building he's on.

He took a deep breath before getting rid of his tendrils. He laughed heartily as he feels the leftover adrenaline and stretched his body. He had done it! He took down that big green metal abomination. Then looking like he missed something he rushed towards the head of the robot which at this point was smashed open. He ripped off a bunch of the wiring and pieces of scrap metal before putting it in his pocket quietly. He was a man of his word after all. He kneeled down and looked at the rest of the wiring seemingly studying it. He didn't understand a lick of it but perhaps Tinker would be able to. Oh who was he kidding, Tinker would definitely get this. He then sat down and rest, humming a soft tune. He knows it well, it was a song by a band called "Queen" he remembered it went"We are the champions my friend!" It felt really fitting for the situation at hand.

As he sat there. the applicants were stunned. Whispers amongst them started. Shocked and scared at what they saw. This kid just rushed into what seems like certain death and got out of it and not only that, he looked like as if he didn't even break a sweat and now he's just sitting there and humming as if nothing happened.

Unbeknownst to them Izuku's head was in unimaginable pain right now, he's just smiling through it.

He got up and started to make his way to exit along the others. People made way for him, as if he was a mob boss. He thanked everyone who did of course and walked away from the scrap.

When Izuku and Himiko returned to the bar. The entire place was cheering them on.

"Go show them what for!"

"You have this in the bag!"

"If they don't accept you we are going to raid them!"

Izuku and Himiko couldn't help but smile at the reception. Both have been left behind by their blood family, but this family...

It was better.

Izuku and Himiko recalled their tests and what they had to do. The bar was enamored. Tinker was over the moon over seeing the small pieces of wiring and scrap Izuku had got him. They chuckled at how Himiko gave a man whiplash. Gaping at how Izuku had to fight deadly killer robots and only some people in the bar threatening death of the blue haired boy for stopping Izuku because of his supposed quirkless status. They knew that if they didn't get in. Then they at least have people to fall back on.

Loving people

Caring people

Forgotten people.

But not for long.

Chapter 17

Chapter Text

Meanwhile in the Shiketsu staff meeting room

"I'm not joking! That girl just gave a liver shot to Gento over there! Her future teacher with a bat! It was the funniest sh*t I've ever seen! There's a video of it look!"

As the projector replayed Himiko's exam. it replayed the scene where Himiko knocked the air out of the man's lungs and put him in a chokehold. The rest of the room winced in shared pain.

"Holy crap!" A tall muscular woman with sharp teeth with green hair and black eyes exclaimed, she had scales running along her two arms. "That's the first time I've seen someone who isn't a villain managing to catch him off guard."

Onimaru Gento, the underground hero and teacher at Shiketsu blushed and sighed "Can we not talk about the fact that I got put in a chokehold by a teenager?"

'Nope! Considering she is now your student Gento-san!" Vice principal Miyamoto exclaimed. "From now on Chizue Himiko is a Shiketsu student and will follow a different time table from the heroic department students. Some of her heroic lessons will be switched to private lessons from you so she can learn the ins and outs of underground heroism."

"Wait she's a student here now?" the red haired Akagi Himari asked. "We still hadn't assessed any of the other hero course applicants?"

"While that is true Akagi-san, Chizue-san has proven that she has more than enough base skill to pursue underground heroics and being the only applicant. It wasn't a hard choice to make and it didn't take a long time to think over. Considering her ingenious way of getting past the robot and the fact that she quickly dispatched Onimaru-san here. She has my approval to be a heroics student here. We can't let talent like that go to waste." An old woman about in her sixties replied. The principal of Shiketsu Masuda Tomiko replied, a woman with slight wrinkles and her hair was light blue with some grey strands, she was shorter than a lot of the teachers around 169 centimeters tall and had a slim figure.

"I must admit I admire the skill. The fact that she noticed me early on was impressive enough. Added with the fact that she knew she had to secure an advantage, in this case a weapon. I wonder where she learnt it from? I'm willing to take her in" replied Onimaru.

"However I do think we could arrange some mental help for Chizue-san, I think she would benefit from having sessions with me." Akagi, the school counselor piped up

"Oh really? From the video she seemed like a happy go lucky type." The muscular woman asked.

"Well, Ryujin-san, Chizue-san has noted some concerning things during the interview including: and I quote "Life hasn't been kind to me" and "it's still things I have to process". This suggests a deep trauma. That led to her want of becoming an underground hero. Not to mention the speed and power that she showed when taking down Onimaru-san was quite shocking. While she has definitely trained for this, it almost seems practiced, like she has done it before, that response could suggest that she grew up in an environment that was violent. Forcing her to learn these techniques."

"Not to mention, during the interview she has mentioned times where she has witnessed people being hurt or discriminated against, and this does seem like a common thing for her sadly. It may lead to PTSD. Therefore I want to suggest getting her mental help. Also look at this footage at the near one of our entrances."

Akagi started playing some footage of Himiko sitting on a bench seemingly having a panic attack before playing something on her phone. Making her face turn into one of a dumb smile.

"It seems like she is prone to panic attacks. Thankfully she has shown that she has ways of coping but the point still stands I think we should get her mental help."

"I see, in that case, I will talk to her about it when the school year starts." The principal replied. "By the way did she ever explain her quirk?"

"No madam" Nariko replied, she didn't go much into it, I assume it has something to do with transforming considering that's what the quirk registry says, it also says that she has a special dietary requirement, in that she needs to drink blood to survive. Animal blood is fine but human blood is preferred, it says here, She says she has a way of securing blood thanks to her mother being a surgeon. It's more of a formality of letting us know so we don't freak out when we see her drink blood, but I think we'll learn about her quirk soon enough"

Onimaru added "Also whichever one of you get her, try to keep the information of her quirk a bit vague with her classmates, it's not a must, but we underground heroes shouldn't let our quirk be known amongst a lot of people. Just try to keep it for as long as possible."

Both of the heroics teacher nodded

The principal nodded "I must say, I am really surprised no one scouted her, judging from her skills. Any school would put her through some type of recommendation."

"Well Masuda-san, you see Chizue Himiko is homeschooled."

At that statement a man at the end of the table who has been silent through out the meeting did a spit take. The man had a normal human head, if you ignore the big yellow eyes and the feathers poking out of him resembling an owl, Taiki f*ckurou, the head of the general course of Shiketsu High. "THAT GIRL IS HOMESCHOOLED?"

Seeing the normally calm and quiet teacher freak out like this was surprising for the rest of the table. The principal spoke first "Yes Taiki-san is there a problem with that?"

"N-No it's not a problem at all! I-It's just that her written exam paper, it is the highest in her grade group. Granted the difference b-between her and the number 10 spot is only 1.7 but still I thought she went to an elite private school or something! Her paper blows the rest out of the water! To think that she is homeschooled makes me wonder what kind of teacher she must have had! Oh my god..."

Seeing the calm teacher praise his future's student's paper like that made Onimaru wonder "Hey f*cku, those are the papers right? You mind telling me about hers? I want to know of her academics."

"S-sure, well math is her weakest but even then, she used equations that are taught to high school first years. Equations that are in our current curriculum. She got a majority of the questions right, her science subjects are quite good as well, but what blew me away was her English/Literature part. She used tenses right, she had a wide vocabulary, she knew quite a lot about literature, especially European ones and you know how this year we made both of those sections shorter so that we had an essay at the final part. where if you did it you could count it towards English and Literature points. She did it and wrote about this book she read called "Farewell to Arms". Her writing style is clear and concise. As if she's a native speaker of English! I don't know where she got it, since it's a book published in 1929, almost 400 years ago. I had to go to the depths of my personal library to find a copy of this and when I read it, the English was too complicated for the average Japanese middle school student and the subject matter was even harder it was about a World War 1 soldier falling in love with a nurse. Somehow finding literature this old is an accomplishment in of itself but to find something this good! The essay was so fascinating to me and the essay she wrote gave it such a good analysis behind the romance, the conflict of it all. I swear if she doesn't want to be a hero one day, she can definitely be a writer!"

The rest of the table looked in intrigue. Someone like her not being noticed by a school was understandable but not being noticed by anyone? That was quite hard to believe if what f*ckurou said was true.

"Well I guess I can be glad that my future personal student is a bookworm and can kick ass, with that said though whose heroics class is she going into?"

Both Nariko and Ryujin stood up "MINE!" they both exclaimed before scowling at each other.

"Oh boy..."Thought the principal

At the same time, at UA

142

142, that was the number on everyone's minds in the staff meeting room. They were sorting out enrollments, they had managed everyone except for one.

Midoriya Izuku

The student that scored a whopping 142 points. 47 villain points and 95 rescue points. Granted 60 of those rescue points came from destroying the zero pointer but even without that 60, 82 points was nothing to scoff at.

But 142 was their new record. Beating All Might's of 129.

"Alright." Snipe piped up. "How the hell did this kid not get recommended by someone? ANYONE AT ALL?! WHERE DID HE EVEN COME FROM? No school records to speak off, and the documents we have on him are the bare minimum required for applying."

"Ok calm down everyone I know it's not everyday we get someone that beat the number 1 hero's high school score, but at least we can say... This kid is something else..." said Nezu, even he was a bit shocked at this boy.

"Very well, first of all, what's his quirk, Inui, you have the records right?"

"Yes, here it says Mindflare, the user can generate green energy from his mind. Possible drawbacks are mental strain and brain damage."

"That's not a lot to work with, you sure you don't have anything more?" Aizawa asked.

"Nope that's all it says. I'm as confused as you are Aizawa."

"Ectoplasm, Present Mic you two were looking over the written portions weren't you? You also have their graded papers. What can you tell me about this boy." Nezu asked

The two teachers shuddered as they recall the scene. Because they knew, the kid was smart, alongside being able to take down groups of robots and rescuing people all at the same time. The kid had a brain for academics.

"Well during the test when everyone seemed panicked at least over some portion of the exam. He was the only one remaining consistently calm through out and finished the entire thing along with the essay that is OPTIONAL with 45 minutes to spare. We thought he was co*cky, but when I graded the English and Ecto graded the math, We could tell two things. One the kid definitely knows English fluently, he got the entire portion right, and even though he messed up a few questions on the math portion. He used equations that are taught here in our high school first year curriculum correctly, a lot of questions that should have taken longer was solved quicker because he knew the equations. I swear I saw Cementoss tear up when he read his literature part, and his science and history is great too! Especially the part about quirk biology. He wrote his questions like a certified analyst! Ecto said he had no electronics on his person, and he was watched the whole time, so he didn't cheat. This kid is smart beyond belief alongside being a deadly robot killer!"

"Speaking of killing robots." Powerloader intercepted "That kid has to have some knowledge over mechanics. The spots he targeted, they were the weak points of the robot. They're made of softer materials for the robots to be able to turn around and move in. The cuts were clean. If you look through the footage he cut through the heads, the arms and was smart enough to target the red sensors. Pull up the footage now."

The footage played. Seeing Izuku swinging around and scaling buildings while beheading and blinding multiple robots.

Eraserhead intercepted. "I think that kid understands something underground heroes do, don't waste energy on big attacks if small precise ones can do the job. He was logical through out the entire exam. He's like a limelight hero that uses the techniques of underground heroes. He just took down the threat, and moved on to saving people."

Vlad King piped up as well. "That kid has remarkable control. Kids with flashy quirks tend to have poor control and they try to let their quirk go during these tests. Showing their raw power but it seems Midoriya doesn't focus on that, instead he seems to focus on speed and efficiency. Something hero students need to understand more considering lives are on the line. Also to be able to scale buildings like a spider and swing around like a monkey. While saving people and destroying robots. Where does he get his ideas for him to move like this? Where or who did he train under? The most impressive part though... pull up the zero pointer footage."

The footage played showing Izuku rushing towards the robot, jumping while removing a piece of debris and saving a girl stuck in rubble then tried to throw pieces of debris at the robot. Only for it to fail, he then swung around with a look of focus before a hint of realization took over his eyes. He threw the rest of the debris up, and as the robot looked up. Izuku brought down the figurative guillotine on it and caught the debris he threw and started to slowly guide the robot to fall.

"Three things. One, great spatial awareness. He knew where the girl was even after he jumped and saved her with remarkable precision. Two, ability to think on the fly. He saw his idea of throwing debris at it didn't work so he devised a plan where it would show it's weak spots and take advantage of it. Three, great sense for rescue heroics. Not only does he shows this by rescuing the other applicants. The fact the he looked like he knew there was a chance that someone could have been under that robot or the debris he threw, he caught the debris and slowed the robot's fall, allowing ample time for them to escape or for other heroes to save them. Not to mention, it limits property damage." Vlad King surmised.

"As a rescue hero I respect that." Thirteen cut in

"Those are concepts that third years today have some trouble over, and yet this kid knew what to do, it's as if he had a past life as a hero or something." Eraserhead muttered

"Did this student show any behavioral issues through out the test?" Asked Nezu.

Ectoplasm shook his head. "No, you would think someone with such power and such a quirk would be co*cky like the students we had before but from what I've seen at least, he is polite and courteous, even to my clones. After the practical, I noticed that the kids were kind of scared of him and moved away from him like a yakuza boss and he politely thanked all of them. He was quiet but did not seem aloof, just introverted."

"Really? Now that is a bit confusing indeed. It's rare we have someone this humble. What do the school records say."

Midnight gave her input "He's homeschooled sir so no school records."

The rest of the table had a similar reaction to that of the teachers in Shiketsu.

"Homeschooled?! I thought at least some private academy like Somei, but homeschooled?!" Present Mic exclaimed

"That is certainly a surprise. He must have had one hell of a dedicated teacher." Cementoss said.

"Wait, Yamada-san, you said he did the optional essay right what was it about?" Thirteen asked

"It was on and I quote "Overlooked and Forgotten aspects of Heroic Society"

"Interesting, not something hero students would normally write about, are there any passages that catch your eye? How long is it?" Nezu asked

"It is two and a half pages long, 10000 words. When i saw him write this he looked so impassioned, like he was writing a manifesto for a revolution." said Present Mic

"Let me take a look at it." Nezu said, as he read on, his smile grew wider and wider, before he straight up started cackling.

"f*ck that is never a good sign"Thought everyone in the room

"This child is something else! His insights, oh my i like him!"

"W-what part of the essay do you like sir" Cementoss swallowing his fear asked, if Nezu genuinely likes someone, that person is more likely or not someone with dangerous capabilities.

"Well there's a passage on villains he wrote and I quote"

One of the most neglected areas in heroic society is the rehabilitation of villains. The current system tends to focus on incarcerating those who misuse their quirks, often overlooking the potential for rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Villains, many of whom are driven to crime by societal rejection or lack of support, are seldom given the opportunity to reform. Effective rehabilitation programs could transform these individuals into productive members of society, reducing recidivism. Not to mention, a lot of villains are driven to crime over lack of support or opportunities. If we as a society were to show just a little kindness or understanding. We could prevent the formation of many villains in the first place.

"He then wrote one about my kind! and I quote"

These creatures, often with abilities as diverse as those of humans, are seldom acknowledged in discussions about heroism and quirk regulation. The only one relatively widely known is Principal Nezu of UA, people often think that these beings are lower than them because they originate as animals, not humans so they act like it's fine to experiment or test drugs on them. It is not right. The boon these animals could provide is remarkable. I would know, I regularly interact with one almost daily! Not the least Principal Nezu so far has proven capable to lead a school just as fine as a regular human would.

"And then he went on to take a guess of what my species is. He is the closest by far, in fact he's so close, oh Eraserhead, you'll like this one, It's about underground heroes, quote."

Although they aim to be, underground heroes are very unknown. I think limelight heroes should put more trust into them. they can definitely learn a thing or two from them also, underground heroes specialise in takedowns,stealth and information gathering, the main lesson I think they need to learn is a lot of times there is no need for a hero to do a massive attack when a better, quicker and more logical alternative is available, underground heroes understand that. I saw several in action in my life, Notably I think they were Eraserhead and Phantom, they were efficient and deadly, able to keep the peace and safety from the most rundown parts of the city. No unnecessary stuff, they first evaluated the situation then adjusted their fighting style and tactics to find a logical way to adapt to it. I respect heroes like Eraserhead and Phantom immensely even more than some limelight heroes for the fact that they do dangerous work and barely get any recognition. Just helping for the sake of it. I think that is a pure way to be a hero.

"Aww... Looks like you have a fan Sho!"

"Shut it Yamada, finally a kid that understands the concept of being logical."

"I'm surprised he got you in action, alongside Phantom? Do you know who that is?" Snipe asked

Aizawa replied "Yeah, he's a great underground hero, I work with him a lot, he got a new teaching job at Shiketsu."

"That is surprising though, you patrol in ungodly hours like 1am to 7am ? sometimes even longer!" Midnight said

"That is true I wonder how the hell that kid saw me..."

"Anyways, let's continue with this essay. Oh this is good, it talks about quirk discrimination. Quote"

Many times in my life I have seen people been cast aside for their quirks or lack thereof, no matter what talents they might have or how great of a person some of them are, people with mutant quirks are mocked. Even hunted down in some cases with organizations like the Creature Rejection Clan. Striving for a fool's idea of purity. They didn't choose to be born like this and even if they did. They shouldn't be treated any lesser. People with villainous quirks are also disregarded since they are considered dangerous. With quirks like blood manipulation, mind altering, emotion manipulation, quirks that control the body, quirks that can unleash great power at an instant are examples of quirks I've encountered. Even though, those people I've encountered were good natured. I believe as long as the person has a pure conscience then they shouldn't be feared. Regardless of quirks. I am willing to bet that some heroes to this day have faced discrimination in the past for their quirks. If my experience with blood manipulation and mutant quirks was present in the past. Heroes like Vlad King and Gang Orca definitely faced some discrimination and yet they didn't give in to the hate. To use a quirk that people consider villainous or weak to do good is way more impressive and admirable to me than if someone was born with a flashy quirk and was powerful form the beginning, and I think Vlad King and Gang Orca are fine examples of that. The Quirkless are by far the worst treated. Almost considered sub human if the suicide rates are anything to go by. They shouldn't be! Quirks have existed for around 200 years humans have done incredible feats before that! All while Quirkless! I admit that a quirk can help in a lot of situations but that doesn't make it right to doubt someone's talents or character just because of their quirk status. In fact it just makes them more impressive. To reach a point where a lot of quirked people can't means that they reached that point through sheer determination and talent. I think that all this creates a mean cycle where people are shunned for their quirks. Until they get pushed to the point of villainy and do crimes which only reinforces that type of thinking. I believe that if hero society keeps going like this. To focus on the quirk more than the human then we will reach a point where those forgotten by society will resort to drastic measures. People like Stain think that breaking faith in heroes and killing them would reveal flaws in society and change this, but I believe that society need to put more faith in societies lowest, forgotten people and put faith in their hearts towards society as well. We looked a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to these people. A lot of them are willing to be part of society and serve the people, in the form of being heroes, medical professionals, engineers. But society has kicked these people to the curb. If they can't help society, what is stopping them from turning into people who would make sure their talents known to society in some of the most destructive ways?

The rest of the table was stunned.

"God... It was like a manifesto."

"The kid got it right. I did face flak for my quirk. He is a rare gem of a student... To have such views at such an age."

"He definitely has great insight to a lot of topics, especially that of society. He shares similar thought about hero society to me. A great knowledge along with great power." Nezu said in fascination. " I need to meet this boy..."

"He is definitely a student here! We cannot let such talent go to waste!"

"Agreed, now let's put him in my class it's only logical." Aizawa quickly said before snatching the folder. Only for the folder to be grabbed by Vlad at the same time.

"Vlad... What are you doing?"

"Why I am simply putting him in the hero course." He replied with a glare.

"The give it to me, he clearly has a powerful quirk and needs to learn to control it. You know I take students like that Vlad. Besides this kid has a logical side I have not seen in any other student so it will be logical for me to teach him, he already respects me a lot so that's a bonus."

"Uh, did you hear us back there? He already has great control of his quirk, whatever it is, you admit it yourself. I take the ones with decent control and need to get stronger. This kid also seems to have an understanding side with his hate for quirk discrimination and also in case you were deaf. He also says he respects me.I think I should take this one."

"Alright you two, just admit it you both want the kid that beat All Might's score in your class, am I right?" Asked Midnight

"Nope! Totally not!" Yelled the both of them.

Nezu intervened "Now, now, I know that you both want him but Aizawa, you have 20 students already. So unless you are willing to take an extra or Vlad is willing to trade, which is something I don't think will happen. You can't have him."

Eraserhead stood up with a straight face. "I am willing to take him in, this kid has potential."

Vlad King also stood up. "No! You already have the 2nd and 4th and 5th highest scorer of the entrance exam, not to mention having two students who are related to pro heroes by blood and the daughter of one of the richest families in the country. Besides, he has proven that he has good control, just needs to get stronger. That falls under my jurisdiction. You take those with powerful quirks that need control." Vlad King flashed his canines before saying. "Back off..."

"Enough! We are sending him the acceptance letter at least. We can sort out what class he can be in later. We need to make sure no other hero schools take him!" Nezu slammed his hands on the table

Eraserhead and Vlad King both sat down each throwing a glare at each other.

Present Mic butted in "Also, whoever's class he gets into. You need to check into his attitude. The past has suggested that those with big flashy quirks are co*cky or too proud of themselves. I know the essay might suggest otherwise but we need to see and interact personally with the boy first for that to prove his character. I know Shouta isn't gonna have a problem with putting him down when needed but Kan, you need to watch out as well."

"Don't worry, I can put my foot down when I need to." Vlad King replied.

"Great now all that is sorted! Let's move on to the next topic of business. Our new heroics teacher! As you all know, it's All Might! He starts tomorrow but we need to wait for him to get here he's probably out there fighting villains right now."

"Ughhh. This is gonna be a long meeting" muttered Present Mic in English.

Himiko was having lunch with her parents at home. Her parents already notice her acting a bit strangely, her face looks more pensive.

"Alright, Himiko, both of us have noticed that you have been looking a bit worried, is it over the Shiketsu exam, I'm sure you did well dear." Daichi said.

Himiko blushed, embarrassed that they let her attitude effect her parents.

"Well, that but not just that. It's just I'm thinking things through..."

"Is it about something else, your mental health, your relationships..." Rina asked.

"maybe..." Himiko quietly squeaked. Hoping they didn't hear her.

"It's about Izuku isn't it." Rina and Daichi both said at the same time with a small smile.

Himiko blushed a shade of red deeper than the blood insider her.

"Listen darling, you might not know this, but you are not very subtle in your crush."

"R-Really?" Himiko whispered.

"Yes, you don't nibble on someone's arm or constantly wanting to be in someone's presence or instantly calm down when they're close or tease them, unless you like them Himi." Rina teased

"It's just... I'm scared..." Himiko replied.

"Why darling?" Daichi asked

"I mean... I never had a normal life, and now it finally seems to be going on track. and before all this, Izuku was my anchor. He didn't judge me, he protected me and provided for my needs... I like him... but there's so many things that I want to do with him, like a normal couple would but we aren't normal, we both know that. So I want to do things that couples usually do but what worries me is that... some of the things I want to do... might be too weird, but I just don't feel right without doing them! I'm scared that if I showed him more of me, he would hate me... Although I've come a long way from seeing blood on someone being cute, but even then, I might not be good enough for him... maybe I'm too weird, maybe I'm not beautiful enough, it's just that there's also a sense that I want to repay him for all he's done for me but I don't want to ruin what I have with him now! But I feel so much more pressured now. Especially with him maybe going to UA and me Shiketsu, there's a good chance we are going to see each other less. Not to mention, we are trying to be heroes. If either one of us were to be hurt too bad before I managed to say it...." Himiko cried at that last sentence.

Rina and Daichi shared a tender look, their concern for their daughter evident in their eyes. Daichi reached out, gently placing a hand on Himiko's shoulder. "Himiko, listen to me," he began softly, "Izuku has been there for you through everything. He's seen you at your worst and still stood by you. That's not something that changes easily."

Rina nodded, her expression warm and reassuring. "Darling, love isn't about being perfect. It's about accepting each other, flaws and all. Izuku knows who you are, and he cares about you deeply. If there's anyone who would understand and accept your unique ways of showing affection, it's him."

"But... what if it's too much?" Himiko sniffled, her eyes searching her parents' faces for reassurance.

Daichi squeezed her shoulder gently. "Then you talk it through. Relationships are about communication and trust. If something makes him uncomfortable, you'll find a way to adjust. And if it's truly important to you, he'll understand and support you, just like you support him."

Rina added, "And remember, you don't have to do everything all at once. Take it step by step. Share a little more of yourself with him each day. If he's the right person for you, he'll appreciate getting to know the real you."

Himiko wiped her tears, feeling a glimmer of hope. "But what if... what if he doesn't feel the same way?"

Daichi smiled gently. "Then at least you'll know, and you can move forward without regrets. But from what we've seen, it's clear that he cares about you a lot. Trust yourself, and trust him."

"Ok..." Himiko said a plan forming in her head

Himiko was in Izuku's room above the bar. Both clutching a letter, one from Shiketsu, the other from UA.

"So... you want to go first?" Izuku asked.

"Ok... I'll do it!" Himiko ripped open the envelope and read the letter.

"To Chizue Himiko. We at Shiketsu High are honored to accept your application for the underground hero cour-"

Himiko didn't even finish before being hugged by Izuku

"I knew you could do it Himi!" Himiko couldn't believe it either. She had done it, she was going to train to become a hero...

"I-I couldn't have done it without you Zuku!" Himiko teared up saying that. "Now open your UA letter!" immediately returning to her happy, playful grin.

Izuku opened the envelope only for a metal disc to fall out. Soon a holographic projection came out. Izuku and Himiko jumped at the sight. "Hello! Am I a dog, a bear or a mouse? What matters is I am the Principal of UA, Nezu!" "They certainly have money to blow if this is how the acceptance letters are like." Izuku whispered to a giggling Himiko.

"Now I want to say that you are quite the student! On the exam, you have acquired 47 villain points! However, what type of hero school would we be if we didn't account for the most important part of being a hero. Saving people! During the exam, you can earn rescue points! You earn these from saving people during the exam!" Footage started playing of the people Izuku saved, the pink skinned girl, the blade boy, the yellow haired kid and even the boy that called him out for being quirkless then it started playing the footage of Izuku saving a girl and taking on the zero-pointer. Himiko looked on in awe. "That was so cool! Zuku!" "Therefore I am glad to say, not only are you accepted into the hero course! You have broke the record of points earned! You have earned 95 rescue points! Meaning your point total is 142! Breaking All Might's of 129!" The leaderboard then appeared. Izuku was shocked when he realized that he beat All Might's score.That will make Tinker happy Izuku thought, but he started to laugh with glee when he saw who came second place.

Katsuki Bakugo 77 villain points.

0 rescue points

Himiko was confused at first before looking at the second place name, suddenly their room is filled with maniacal laughter.

"With that said this is your hero academia! However..."

Izuku's heart dropped. He was accepted, so what now?

"I'll come clean with you Midoriya, the situation is quite funny, no one have ever came close to beating All Might's score, and you are quite the sensation within the teachers." Nezu started to laugh. "The two heroics teacher begged me to not tell you this but right now, they are fighting tooth and nail for you to be in their class and the staff are debating which class you should be sent to as well. I will hope for the situation be resolved before class starts next week, but don't worry, if you haven't received anything from us, then please don't got to a classroom, instead come to my office so we can discuss your class placements, you can explore the campus on the first day and use our facilities if you come in early, from our training rooms to libraries, besides during our meeting, I want to talk with you personally especially after seeing your essay, However, don't worry, your spot in the hero course is secure. So I hope to see you in the coming school year Midoriya Izuku, with that said, once again, this is your hero academia!"

Izuku started to cry at that message. The fact that he got into UA in the first place was crazy enough but to do so while beating All Might and to the point where the teachers are fighting over him. He did not expect that. He did not expect his life to turn out this way and yet it did.

Himiko hugged him tight also. both tearing up in each other's shoulders. They stayed like that for at least 10 minutes before Himiko pulled away.

She looked around her, the simple bed, the nightstand with her book recommendations on it, a computer on a desk to the side, with "A Farewell to Arms" on the top of the pile, a closet with all of his clothing, a bookshelf with so many book on academics. There were a lot of pre quirk era things and memorabilia from music discs to figurines of pre quirk characters and structures but to her the most moving part was the board stuck on the wall with multiple pictures on it. There were so many pictures of him and Himiko, so many pictures of people having fun at the bar, some pictures when they ventured into the coves of Musutafu, even a picture that her parents took when they took the both of them to Mount Fiji. It reminded her of what she planned to do today.

"Izuku, there's something I want to talk to you about..."

"Himi? What's wrong?"

"Well now that we are actually going to a public highschool and we might see each other less. I want to tell you something."

"Himi, our bond won't change you know that!" Izuku smiled.

"No! That's the thing I want my bond to change with you" Himiko said closing her eyes.

Izuku was about to speak before Himiko stopped him still having her eyes closed.

"Izuku, we've been through so much together. You've been my anchor, my protector, and my best friend. Literally the first person I ever met who was kind to me. I don't know where I'd be without you."

Izuku smiled softly. "Himi, you're my best friend too. We've always been there for each other."

She nodded, feeling tears prick at the corners of her eyes. "That's just it, Izuku. You've always been there for me, no matter what. And... I've realized that my feelings for you are more than just friendship. I want to be with you, your girlfriend."

Izuku's eyes widened slightly, but he remained silent, letting her continue.

"I... I like you, Izuku. Not just as a friend, but as something more. And I know I'm not perfect. I know I have things about me that might seem weird or even scary. But I want to be with you. I want to go out with you, I want to do all the things that couples do, even if some of them are a bit... unconventional. I want to be normal..."

"I know with things like the cove and high school, it's hard to find private time but, I just want to let you know before I regret it when it's too late... After hanging out here for so long with you, even if it's not a date. Even if it's just at the bar, I still feel joy whenever I'm with you. I didn't know why I waited so long to tell you this, but i guess it's that I'm scared, Izuku. I'm scared that if I show you more of who I am, let myself be free around you, you'll think I'm too weird or too much. I'm scared that I'm not good enough for you. But I can't keep these feelings inside anymore. I need you to know how much you mean to me."

There was a moment of silence, and Himiko felt her heart pounding in her chest. Then, Izuku squeezed her hand reassuringly. "I am shocked to hear that Himiko but, so happy at the same time. You know after being a part of this, being a part of your life for so long, I don't judge someone based on their needs or quirks and after all these years... I would be lying if I were to say I didn't have feelings for you too... You were one of the only friends I had that were my age growing up, so it was only natural, and don't ever think you're not good enough for someone cause you are to me, you got that? So yes, I accept your feelings Himiko."

Himiko started to sob loudly and kissed Izuku on the cheek. Muttering "Thank god.... thank god..." "I'll be there for you always Izuku, especially after we go to highschools. Especially after tonight..."

"I would do the same for you Himiko. We'll take it slow ok? We both know we aren't normal people." Izuku chuckled awkwardly.

"Ok..." Himiko collected herself before forcing down her happiness and putting on a playful and chaotic grin.

"Let's go tell the people about how we did!" Izuku smiled before both of them ran down the stairs. Holding each other's hands.

The entire bar was standing up. waiting on the news of their two prodigies. Everyone waited with baited breath. Some people from other safe spaces were there as well.

"WE GOT IN!" Izuku yelled out as he held Himiko's hand running down the stairs.

"YEAHHHHHHH!" The bar erupted into cheers, champagne bottles were popped opened. Quirks went off left and right, sparks, tentacles, weird dark matter started going everywhere, and blue fire erupted, courtesy of Dabi yelling at the back. Weird noises as well, bird like chirps, mouse like squeaks and even a howl erupted.

Himiko and Izuku were both embraced by Tetsuchi, Insight and Hare, saying how proud of them they are.

"I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU BRATS WERE GONNA GET IN!" Hare, the normally stoic man kneeled down and sobbed

Insight was at a lost hugging them while saying things like. "I realized their potential..."

Tetsuchi was just looking at the sky holding back his tears as he thought about this. The two children he found were now going to be heroes.

Amongst all this, Himiko couldn't keep her happiness in check as she slammed her lips on Izuku's

The whole bar was silent. Before someone rushed to the speaker at the stage and blasted a love song.

Everyone, especially the women shrieked in joy, the men started chanting for Izuku, making both Izuku and Himiko blush.

For that moment, that small, unassuming and dingy looking bar was the happiest place in the world.

Chapter 18: Chapter 18 (Slice of Life chapter)

Chapter Text

Himiko was lying in her room with a dumb smile on her face. kicking her legs while holding a picture of Izuku

"Wise men say... Only fools fall in..."

She was listening to her private playlist of love songs, all sung by Izuku.

"Zuku likes me.... hehehehe" She keeps repeating it to herself as she looks at a list of things she has written on a piece of paper stuck to the foot of her bed

"Go on dates... Go on picnics... Movie nights... Slow dancing... Exchanging blood, Sucking his blood... Oh so many things to do with Zuku! When can I get a ring?"

Rina and Daichi peeped into their love drunk's daughter room

"She's so happy now... do you think we should warn Izuku?"

"Hell no. Let him see how much she loves him himself."

Izuku and Himiko were both walking down the street, both standing closer than normal. Himiko was rolling two suitcases behind her filled with food. Izuku was carrying two boxes of canned goods and two bags of food as well. They both approached the building, as they entered, the pure white interior came into view, and benches and altars were seen.

"Ah! My children come! Oh I'm so glad you're here today!" A man in a black robe appeared from the back.

"Hiii! Father Shiozaki! We brought the left over food. From the bar!" Himiko called out.

"Oh good! Truly the lord has blessed me and this church today, these donations will surely be appreciated children!"

As they started to unload the food. Father Shiozaki asked. "Hey, Midoriya?" "Yes Father?" "Congratulations on getting into UA, also to you for getting into Shiketsu Chizue, but I want to ask Midoriya, is it true you got 142 as your entrance score?"

Izuku smiled and blushed a little, "Yeah, I did, I wasn't even thinking much of it honestly, I just swung around destroying robots and saving people along the way. Why do you ask?"

"Well you see, my granddaughter Ibara got into UA as well, she came 3rd actually, and she was shocked to see your score, in fact she prayed right then and there, thinking that you were blessed enough to reach such a score. I didn't tell her I knew you of course, as per the agreement we have, and I calmed her down saying that he didn't get blessed." the priest laughed, "It is still just mindboggling to me that the person that scored one of the highest scores in the UA entrance exam is standing right next to me."

Izuku rubbed the back of his neck "I just tried my best, honestly!"

Father Shiozaki smiled "Ah, humility, glad to see a hero hopeful having such a trait, truly the lord smiles upon you!"

He continued, "Actually Midoriya, can I ask a favor of you?"

"What is it father?"

"My granddaughter, Ibara, in middle school she didn't have many friends mostly from the church meet ups on Sunday, the people at school saw her as overly religious, if it isn't too much to ask, if you ever have the chance, could you keep an eye on her and maybe help her get along with her fellow classmates and maybe reign in some of her religious tendencies? He sometimes comes off as quite judging to people around her."

Izuku giggled a little, "Ah yes, I've never talked to your granddaughter, but according to the folk here, she is quite a character. Don't worry Father, I'll try to look out for her."

"Yeah Zuku'll help!" Himiko said before putting an arm around his shoulder.

"Himiko's right! If she needs to help she'll do too!" Izuku smiled warmly before kissing her hand. Causing Himiko to blush and return the favor by kissing him on the cheek.

Father Shiozaki upon seeing this, excused himself quickly, saying that he wished to speak to some of the church workers about something.

"Father? Did it happen?" a church worker whispered in excitement

"Yes It finally happened brother, It finally happened." Father Shiozaki replied, letting some of his own excitement seep through.

"I'll make sure to make a spot for them in the future."

"Yes if they ever need a wedding venue. Tell them it's free of charge. The help they have provided for this church is immense, especially with that fiasco with that gang telling us to pay "protection money". The Lord has handed them some of the hardest obstacles life has to offer and they have both survived to this day, seeing this young love bloom, if god wills it, then may they be joined in holy matrimony in the future and I will be the one in charge of the ceremony."

Izuku and Himiko looked towards the priest talking to the other church workers in intrigue wondering what got them putting on a such a giddy face.

The sounds of bottles and mixers dropping could be heard from the bar top just before it opened, him and Himiko were trying to figure out flair bartending, whoever managed to make a drink without messing up wins.

They were stuck in the room for two hours before Himiko yelled out "I DID IT!" making a non alcoholic co*cktail before drinking it down

"DAMN IT!" yelled Izuku, "Well, guess I got to handle the pre orders and have to clean Michi's litter tray huh?"

"Yes you do, don't worry Zuku! You'll get it done in no time!" Himiko showed a playful grin, meanwhile I'm gonna run some errands for Bloodsmith, be back in a sec!"

Izuku smiled as he sees her girlfriend"I still can't believe I have one"thought Izuku.

"Alright let's see here... copper nails dipped in mustard? Why did Cuppie change his order to mustard? That's way worse than his order before!"

Izuku was at Rei's teahouse, "'Shimo Chaya" kneeling in front of Rei

"Broccoli I know this is weird but I'm here to make a request." Rei said

"What is it Frost." Izuku asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I want you to keep an eye out for Shoto, my son, I know that being recommended by the number 2 hero is a sure fire way to get into UA, so he will be there. By the way call me Rei, let's only use Frost in front of other cove members and Shimo-san in front of everyday people"

"I see, two others have came to me to watch over their children in UA, Silk wanted me to watch over her Togaru and Father Shiozaki wants me to watch over his Ibara, you must be worried about him. Are you worried about his academics... his mental health... " Izuku asked

"Well mental health yes, but I want to know about his social life. I want to see him make friends... Can you just tell me how's he doing every once in a while?"

"Of course Rei-san, I'll do my best."

Touya popped from behind the door. "Also, if you ever see any new scars, or if the flaming piece of garbage ever treats him like sh*t. Record that, take photos of it, anything, you hear me? Call either of us if anything involves the two!" before going back upstairs

"Will do Dabi!" Izuku yelled back.

"How's Touya doing by the way?" Izuku asked

Rei smiled softly "He's doing a lot better, he's looking better thanks to some doctors and therapists. Your notes combined with Insight's experience really helped him control his fire. He can control the temperature really well now, and can do it in smaller bursts instead of just one big fire. I know that if you ever stop being a hero, you would want to be a quirk counselor?"

Izuku nodded quickly "Yeah! Maybe it's because I was quirkless for most of my life but I am fascinated with quirks. Insight even said my notes are more detailed than some certified counselors."

Rei smiled "Oh, with someone like you, I don't doubt it, anyways, Touya has actually been doing well, law school, he got into law school and studying for some exams. All of his books focus on hero misconduct and abuse cases, I didn't expect him to take an interest in abuse cases honestly."

"Really? I never expected Touya to be the type to go after that either, maybe his experience with abuse had something to do with it."

Rei sighed "I wished we could have started again as a whole family, but for now. I'm glad he's channeling all his frustration into something more productive. Hope he can learn to open to people."

"In due time Rei, in due time."

"Zuku... can I ask for something..." Himiko timidly asked.

"What is it Himi?" Himiko pulled a needle and two small vials from her pockets. One with blood

"Remember when I said that some of the things I wanted to do as a couple were unconventional... this is one of them... this vial has my blood in it, and right now I want to ask for yours- You don't need to do it if you don't want to! "

"Why do you want to do this Himi?"

"Well... you know how I really like blood, well I especially like yours, to me, blood is something really cute to me, and I want us to keep a small vial of it with each other. Again, you don't need to do i-" Before Himiko could finish, Izuku already pricked his hand with the needle. dripping blood into the small thin vial, after a few moments. He sealed it up with a cover and handed it to Himiko and took the vial of Himiko's blood, Himiko stood there stunned.

"You mean a lot of me Himiko and I know how much blood means to you, so I want to show you that I care about you and what you like... so yeah, I'll try my best to keep it on my at all times." Izuku grasped Himiko's hands "As long as you keep your vial of mine on you~" Izuku teased.

Himiko didn't spare another moment before lunging at Izuku while mumbling "I love you" over and over again. Izuku was startled at first before he returned the embrace as they cuddled on the floor.

Izuku was at the old warehouse Hare trained him and Himiko in, alongside five other people around his age, these people's caretakers have contacted him, wanting some help on controlling their quirks or they were rejected by quirk counselors for having a "villainous quirk"

"Hello all! You can call me Broccoli, you are here because you wanted help with your quirks, before we begin can you a little about yourself and what you need also about your quirks and what they can do and what you need help with?" Izuku asked before pulling out his stylus and tablet and ready to write notes and potential things they could do to help control their quirks

A short girl with an average figure with long black hair, covering one of her red eyes with a reddish black mark on the right side of her neck, wearing a black dress and necklace spoke in a hoarse and quite voice.

"You can call me Nocturn, I'm 13 and my quirk is Shadow, I can turn into one and merge with shadows and change what my shadow looks like, but I sometimes get stuck in the shadow form for a stupid amount of time, and can't go out of the form unless light is shone on me, so sometimes my parents have trouble finding me, really bright light irritates my skin as well, that's why i grow out my hair. If you help me, then thanks."

A boy with six arms, each pair being a different color. black hair and sharp yellow eyes, wearing a tank top and shorts "Hey people! You can call me Tune, I'm 14, my quirk is Beats! These arms can make beats by hitting something with them and those beats can cause different things to happen to your body!. Red makes you strong, Green makes you fast and Yellow makes you be more durable! I constantly make those beats unknowingly with the smallest movements in my arms, I can't control it well, constantly making me tired, and sometimes people might get affected by the effects, in a negative way, like one time my dad didn't expect himself to go so fast, when I snapped my fingers while listening to songs, and he crashed into a wall... so yeah I want to stop that, if you can help me, I will greatly appreciate it!"

A boy took off a muzzle, earning a sympathetic look from Izuku, he had gray hair and timid eyes, wearing a T-shirt and pants whispering "Y-you can call me Hushed, I'm 14, P-people think my quirk is v-villainous, my quirk is called Terror. If I speak to someone, the more I talk with them the more I learn about their fears and I can see replays of the memory... and I can sometimes accidentally make them feel scared sometimes by making the memories come to their minds, that's why I live with this muzzle... please help me control this!" Hushed bowed.

A girl with yellow slightly moving skin, with multiple black glossy eyes similar to a spider, with a horn sticking out her forehead like a rhino beetle, with small flesh colored wings sticking slightly out of her back showing through the button up she wore, and small bits stuck out the back of our leg, showing through her pants. "Hello Sir! We are called Hive! I prefer if you called us by "We" We have existed on this earth for 13 years now. People have called us villains due to our looks, but in honesty, we are not! We simply want to live our lives as we choose! Our quirk is called Hivemind, this body you see is made up of 500 bugs, We can break ourselves apart, we can fly like flies, and bite! Our bites have venom but it is weak, even if say half of us bit you, you will only feel some numbness, but if any of us were killed, it will take some time for our colony to reproduce and grow back to original strength! Sometimes, some of us will break up in reaction to different situations, such as sudden rush of water, or heat, we have many more weaknesses, if you can help us solve this dilemma, and find ways for us to keep our cohesion, we are forever in your debt!"

A girl with white hair, smooth blue skin, gills and a fin poking out of her back, while also having a wide grin and sharp teeth came forward. "Hi y'all! I'm Mako, my quirk is shark, I think it's pretty self explanatory, but yeah I'm here to train how to be faster and actually fight, my aim is to be a marine biologist! And I want to save all the animals getting hurt and get all the people who mess with the ocean, I'm a Mako shark according to my parents, and they swim fast! So I want to learn how to do that! I lived in Kokai before our family got out so I know how to swim well!"

A boy with thick round glasses, came forward, having brown short hair and in a brown cardigan and black pants, while holding a book, fitting the academic type to a tee. "Greetings, I'm Noton, it's a play on Newton, and my quirk is gravity manipulation I can control an area around me to make it so that gravity goes a different direction, for example I can touch an apple and it will be pulled upwards, sideways or downwards with more force, my foster parents heard about this place and hope you can help me control this, I don't want a repeat of what happened in my last home, I couldn't control my quirk and then I destroyed everything by making them fall upwards, so yes... Please help me."

Lastly, a boy with spiked black hair and white eyes wearing what seems a lab coat while wearing a long sleeve shirt and and pants, One of his hands seem to be able to turn into a sharp spike, while the other one looks like it can emit a soft white light, he spoke up with a grin. "Hey there! You can call me Fuse! my quirk is Cut and Fix! It's not really a creative name but yeah, anyways my left arm can turn into a spike and cut with speed and precision, and my white light can fuse things! But the only problem is, it only works on organic materials. like animals and human flesh and stuff. Strangely, the things I cut don't seem to feel pain when I cut them open, At the same time, my other hand lights up! I think the light has something to do with them not feeling pain or dying, people called me a freak when I tried to do dissections an animals that are living and breathing, I tried fusing their arteries into different spaces, or fuse bits of their bodies to their lungs, I even cut myself open once! It felt weird! but I want to be a surgeon dammit! If I can't use humans then of course I had to to use animals. The quirk counselors say I need to "not use my quirk" but thankfully my parents understood my potential and genius! So please help me Broccoli! You're looking at Japan's future number 1 surgeon!"

Izuku looked on and nodded, "Fascinating... Alright I already have some ideas on how I can help, Nocturn I will first try to have you try to activate your quirk. You need to use your quirk in order to better control it. I will be there, if you ever get stuck I want you to hold up a V symbol with your fingers and wave it, that is when I actually know to activate my fire and create light, these experiments will let me see what things you need to do or think in order to get out of shadow form at will."

"Tune, I can get someone to make you bracelets that can absorb vibrations, you will then try to control your quirk's effects, if you can do that then we will use weaker bands, until you can learn how to control your quirk without it."

"Hushed, as for you , since it's a mental quirk like mine. I think mental strength is a part of your quirk, I will try to learn more about it, in the meantime. I will find you people for you to experiment on, you need to use your quirk if you want to control it, don't worry, they will have to consent to it before hand and people like me can watch if things go out of hand. I think you need to mentally imagine a literal wall to block out the memories and if you actually want to send out the memories then you need them to be imagined as projectiles and throw them, at them."

"Hivemind, for you all, people like you with mutation quirks, typically share some similarities with the animals they got their mutations from. If you don't mind I would ask for you to sacrifice some of you so I can send them to someone to analyze what species of bugs you all are, that might help with your cohesion, or strength, since some bugs react strongly to different scents or chemicals. For now, I want to slowly take you through some situations to train your cohesion, we will take it slowly, in the case of you I will slowly increase my fire temperature and see how you adapt."

"Mako, I'm gonna call upon some people I know with aquatic quirks to help me train you, for the mean time I want to learn more about the Mako shark and the mutation it can give you, like spinal structure, skin, all of that, to see how you can use your body effectively to reach high speeds."

"Noton, I will place a bunch of things in a room and I will try to train you slowly but surely I will make you move small things, and see if you can stop them whenever you want so I can gauge your abilities, and focus on shifting your gravity subtly, my advice would be to really concentrate."

"Lastly for you Fuse, I think you would benefit from learning from an actual medical professional or at least have great anatomical knowledge. I know a doctor near here. Called Necra, she's on the third floor of the building behind us. Tell her Broccoli sent you and give her this paper for proof and tell her why you're there. That's all everyone, before we begin, any questions?"

The children slowly clapped their hands at the sight of a boy their age, breaking down and thinking of ways to help them with their quirks.

"Thanks, I guess..."

"Yeah! Thanks man! No surprise you got into UA!"

"T-Thank you so much Broccoli!"

"Good sir! We are glad that the rumors spoke true of your mind!"

"Oh heck yeah! Actual doctors! Thanks Broccoli!"

"Alright let's begin!"

"Peek me, do it coward." said a woman with eyes with spider web like patterns on it while having web like appendages.

They were currently having an in house match of a game they found called CSGO after the initial find of the suitcase back at the warehouse, shooter games have been a favorite amongst the patrons and within the cove. Right now, with the ten PCs installed in the rooms upstairs. People are listening to the communication. It's been a while since they found a more realistic shooter game, now a woman named Arach is trying to snipe someone hiding behind a wall. It was Tetsuchi, turns out he was surprisingly good at shooter games.

The rest of the bar was watching the match on a TV on the ground floor Izuku was shaking a drink and Himiko had Michi on her lap while looking at the chat.

After some digging, they found that people who used to play these pre quirk era video games will broadcast them or put them on as videos on online platforms. Such as Youtube and Twitch, instead of things today like HeroLive, with the help of Tinker, there is a twitch stream broadcasting the match, there's no actual camera footage of the people, just the audio of them talking and the bar's reaction but it has garnered quite an audience, all of them being part of the TFC, since no one in modern society uses these platforms anymore.

It happened in the blink of an eye, Tetsuchi threw a flashbang and after it went off, peeked from the wall he was hiding behind and shot off Arach's head.

The bar yelled in hype as they heard a shriek of "DAMN IT!" coming from Arach. The live chat also came alive at that moment, spamming random emoticons that they had no idea what it means.

Michi jumped from Himiko's lap as she jumped up in excitement, Izuku almost dropped the drink he's mixing at the sight of that play.

Days later, it was the night before both of them will officially start their high school journeys, Tetsuchi had already managed himself to take on more of the info work given that Himiko and Izuku had less time to spend, and the patrons thankfully understood if they didn't get to see them sometimes. Right now, they were both at the Izuku's room, both said they had something to reveal to another.

"Ok... I'll go first Zuku!"

Himiko revealed a simple necklace made of thread, but at the bottom hung the small vial of Izuku's blood.

"So yeah... this is what I came up with..." Himiko said. "I'll hide it under my shirt of course! but yeah I get it people might find it strange to have someone's blood around your neck, but I feel safe, knowing that some part of you is with me..."

Izuku smiled. "I think it's a beautiful sentiment Himi, I also have this." Izuku revealed a watch. "Tinker made it for me, it also serves as a voice recorder and there's a camera, and it can send a GPS signal and distress call to a bunch of people in the cove. Including some regiment leaders, but the most important thing is this." Izuku flipped the watch over to open the back of it, inside was a small, thin and long space and in it, a vial of Himiko's blood was put there. "I thought of a watch not just because it's inconspicuous but also because if I'm going to spend time on this earth, I want to spend it with you by my side, no matter how small "you" is" Izuku looked away blushing, after trying his best to be smooth.

It seemed to work though as Himiko embraced Izuku, Izuku didn't resist, she just sat there for a while, cuddling him, while purring like a cat, Izuku just sat there also, stroking her hair.

Chapter 19

Chapter Text

A lot of people stand in front of the bar in the early morning and were standing in front of the entrance in an overly dramatic way, saluting, as Himiko, with her hair in a ponytail in a Shiketsu uniform and Izuku in a UA uniform walk away to the train station. Waving to the people behind them.

"They grow up so fast..." one said

"Oh shut it, it's not like you're their parents."

The people in front of the bar started leaving as Izuku and Himiko walked to the train stations, snickering at the banter behind them.

They reach the train station, both needing to take different train lines.

"Did you bring enough blood bags?" asked Izuku

"Yeah..." replied Himiko

"Look, I know to say that we had a weird childhood would be an understatement Zuku, especially you since legally speaking, you don't even have parents but just remember what we talked about last night ok? You can be just as good as them! If you feel uncomfortable or weird or can't relate with them, I'm always just a call away ok? You don't need your egg and sperm donor, look at you, look at us both! We have gotten this far! We don't have them but we have other people! Your big brothers and sisters through out Musutafu, through out Japan, so don't go thinking you're alone alright? Especially with me!" Himiko flashed him a happy grin.

Izuku hugged Himiko while tearing up a bit. "Thank you Himi... You're the best friend and partner I could ever ask for..."

They both shared a few moments of silence.

"So this is it huh." said Izuku.

"Yeah... from abandoned children to heroes in training. Who would have thought?" Himiko chuckled.

Izuku grabbed Himiko's hands and kissed them both. "I couldn't have done it without you Himiko, I love you, and I can't thank you enough for being there for me."

Himiko blushed before kissing Izuku's cheek " I could say the same about you Mr save me from bullies. I love you a lot dummy. I mean it."

Himiko pulled out the necklace, as Izuku took off and revealed the compartment in his watch revealing the blood vials.

"Always together?"

"Of course Himi!"

"Thank you, Zuku, Let's try our best ok?"

"Yeah... see you Himi."

As Himiko and Izuku rushed to their trains, Izuku sent a heart emoji to Himiko on his phone, seeing Himiko on the opposite train car fluster and make a heart with her fingers and show it to Izuku, getting a blush from him as well.

Izuku arrived way earlier than predicted, he didn't want to risk being late but one hour early was perhaps unneeded. Regardless, he entered into UA grounds. He wanted to see some of their facilities after all, but he couldn't shake off that feeling of unfamiliarity.

Izuku felt a pang of envy. UA was a place for the best and brightest. Something Izuku believe that he was, but it was also filled with students with happy, normal upbringings. They had supportive families, dreams nurtured from a young age, and a clear path to becoming heroes. In contrast, Izuku had grown up abandoned, surrounded by people who were cast aside from society. Those people, with their rough edges and shared pain, felt like his true family. He wanted to be a hero for his family but he felt so out of place here. He forced those feelings down and moved on.

Unbeknownst to him, Nezu was already texting all the teachers

Nezu:

He's here.

Eraserhead:

Who?

Nezu:

The one you deem to have "potential"

Eraserhead:

WHAT? It's an hour before school even starts!

Nezu:

I know, maybe he doesn't want to risk being unpunctual.

Nezu:

Eraserhead, Vlad, stop right there I see you rushing to him through the cameras. I told him he can explore the campus, and use the facilities so let him. He'll discuss his class placements with me.

Vlad King:

You can't stop mejfojs

Nezu:

Back off before you run face first into another locked door Vlad.

Izuku POV

Izuku was amazed, he knew that UA had money, but seeing it in person was still stunning for him. Training grounds as big as cities, the materials were top of the line, he soon stumbled into the cafeteria where he saw

"Lunch Rush?!"

Lunch Rush looked up from his stove. Surprised to see a student here. "Oh hey there, what are you doing here? School doesn't start for like another hour, people don't come this early."

Izuku looked a little bit embarrassed before replying "It's my first day, I didn't want to risk being late but I may have overdone it... Heh..."

"I see don't sweat it kid, you need anything?" Izuku's eyes shone, a hint of pride. "Lunch Rush sir, people have always guessed what your quirk is, and apparently no one has done it, can I give you my guess?"

Lunch Rush looking intrigued, leaned on the counter top. "Alright, shoot what do you think my quirk is?"

"Some people think your quirk is a super speed type of quirk, allowing you to make a lot of food at the same time, but I don't think that's true. Given the fact I see you cooking and there's still six hours before lunch time, you wouldn't need to cook this early if you had a speed quirk. People also think you have the ability to create food that tastes different and fresh, therefore tasting good, but that is illogical, because I don't think you can produce such an amount of food for an entire school by yourself. Those are the leading theories but I think your quirk is similar to a creation quirk, only difference is you produce, concentrated chemicals that enhance the food's flavors. You know the chemicals needed because your body can remember any food you eaten and know what to make in order to enhance the flavor. This would explain why you have said in interviews that you eat a lot of wide variety of food even if they are rare, or ridiculously expensive. Because you need to expand your "arsenal" per se, and reviews by food critics say that even plain food cooked by you can have subtle tastes that normally can't happen with just cooking, and while your culinary skills are exceptional, the art of mixing different flavors you have tasted with the original dish, is the true challenge for you, to figure out what flavors mix together and taste well. Not to mention the fact that you cook food in big bulks which would make it easier for them all to taste good because all you need to do is spray chemicals over the mass bulk of food. It also explains your apparatus, the chemicals you produce are likely gas, giving them aroma and flavor, since it connects to your mouth, I assume you produce these chemicals through your mouth, and the apparatus acts like support gear."

Izuku finally took a breath after going on for a few minutes

"Am i close sir?" he said smiling at Lunch Rush.

Although behind a mask, Lunch Rush's face paled, the kid got it exactly right.

"H-holy crap kid, you got it completely r-right."

"Yes! Vindication!" Izuku exclaimed.

Lunch Rush was shocked at the kid in front of him but played along anyway. "Hey kid, what's your name and class?"

Izuku smiled "I'm Midoriya Izuku! I'm a hero course student but Principal Nezu said that my class is undecided."

Lunch Rush was contemplating running right then and there, not only was this kid smart, he knew him, the kid that beat All Might's record. No wonder Vlad and Eraser wanted him

"What do you think of the class and the teachers?" Lunch Rush asked.

"Well... I think the biggest factor to me is whether or not my classmates are pleasant people or not. If I'm stuck in a a class full of intolerable jerks, then I would go to the other class immediately. As for the teachers, I really like either of the teachers, if I'm right then I think it's Eraserhead and Vlad King, I wouldn't mind being taught by either, but if I have to choose, I'm conflicted but I think Vlad King would be an interesting teacher to have, I already learnt a lot about underground heroics since the person who trained me and taught me how to fight had experience in dealing with underground heroes which is what Eraserhead is. Not to mention I have seen him in action personally before, so I think I want to be taught by Vlad King who was a limelight hero before turning to teaching so I think he has more experience in things I don't know about but I think Eraserhead would be a great teacher nonetheless, I learnt a lot from my sensei, when it comes to how underground heroics operate but it could always be more and given Eraserhead's experience he could hone my existing skills."

"I see, well I hope you have a good time here no matter what class you get put in." Lunch Rush said with a smile beneath his mask.

"Thanks sir! I'll be heading off now!"

"Alright kid good luck!"

Izuku wandered around the massive campus more, until he came across the range, peering inside, he sees multiple different types of weapons, he began to practically salivate and his eyes have look of nostalgia.

He looked at the table, there were katanas, knives even long arms like spears and naginatas, it's a shame they don't have European weapons, he would love to train with a physical version of a mace or a zweihander, even a simple spear and shield but there was only so much UA could do, but it was made better in the fact that they had bows, now Izuku was used to a shorter historical horse bow or longbow he makes with his quirk but the ones in UA were compound modern bows, still, he didn't have many chances to use actual physical bows, so he picked up a quiver of arrows and a bow along with some knives. He noticed some controls, with one saying "DUMMIES AGGRESSIVE", he didn't know why the button was not guarded but he shrugged, he wanted a warm up, so he pressed the button, and 30 dummies dropping from the sky, they seem to have metal exoskeletons while having see through skin, made up of some gelatinous substance, showing all their inner organs

He entered the training grounds behind the glass, as soon as he did it's like all the dummies locked onto him and rushed towards him. Izuku breathed deeply, bowed and did a backflip while firing an arrow at a one of the dummies, hitting it's shoulder, he rushed in stabbed a dummy with an arrow then shot that arrow to a dummy far off, he dodged a punch from an attacking dummy by stepping to his side before pulling out a knife and stab it's side, he grabbed it out and slashed it across one of the other approaching dummy's chest. He gracefully spun and jumped up flipping to the back of another pair of dummies attacking him, dodging them, he pulled out another knife and threw the two of them through one of each of their knees, severing their Achilles tendon, causing them to limp. He rapidly loaded and fired five arrows within 5 seconds, hitting 5 dummies, sensing an attack from behind he ducked and swiped the knees of the dummy behind them. He used his thighs to choke the dummy as he used the dummy as firing platform, while sitting on it's shoulders after 3 more arrows and 3 more dummies, he jumped from the shoulders of the dummy he was on while stabbing them in the shoulder, he ran straight into a group of 5 dummies, throwing 5 knives at the same time as he rushed forward, all hitting their marks, pulls out a knife and slash one's thigh, before putting them in a chokehold and pulling out 3 arrows and taking down 3 more dummies, a dummy came up from behind and he used the one he was putting in a chokehold as a meat shield before delivering a kick and a knife slash to the chest.

Time to try something cool he thought

Seeing there are only 4 left, he loaded four arrows at the same time, and fired, all hitting it's mark but weaker, only making them stumble but Izuku took advantage of this and rushed in and whacked one of their chin with the bow, then dodge an attack from one of them before hitting their shins, and lastly threw two knives, hitting the dummies chest.

He calmed down after seeing the carnage he caused, inspecting the dummy's bodies.

No lethal hits, all are enough to incapacitate, pretty good if I do say so myself

The dummies got up and like robots, walked towards some secret trapdoor and dropped in.

That's so cool!

Izuku stretched and bowed and hummed a song before exiting the training grounds, putting the weapons back and exited the range, walking to Nezu's office but there he saw

Bakugo.

Izuku immediately turned the other way, he spent too much time in the range and was in the time frame where people started to come in, but as he turned, he heard him mutter

"Tch... where the f*ck is 1-A..."

Well that makes my choice easierthought Izuku

Izuku didn't want to start his school day by bumping into that explosive quirkist piece of sh*t. There's a good chance he forgot about him but he is not taking any chances. Especially not when he remembered what he did to him, what he did and say to quirkless people like Tinker and what he did to his Himi.

However, Izuku accidentally bumped into a mantis boy knocking him over, he had green hair like a mohawk with fain yellow skin. "Oh I'm so sorry!" the boy gets up and grumbles, "It's fine, just watch where you're going."

Izuku extended his hand. "Midoriya Izuku, what's your name?" "Kamakiri Togaru..." Kamakiri replied, though he half-expected Izuku to avoid his gaze or make a quick exit, like most people did. He extended his hand back to Izuku which he takes, catching Kamakiri off guard. "Well, have a nice day! I have a meeting to go to." With that said Izuku goes to the principal's office. Kamakiri stood there a little shocked at the normalcy Izuku gave him. He didn't comment nor get intimidated by his look like others.

Soon enough, Izuku was in front of the principal's office, but before he even knocks the door opens, revealing Nezu sitting on his chair. smiling while drinking some tea. "Hello! Midoriya-san, please take a seat we have much to discuss."

Nezu smiled "Well, to start off Midoriya-san, we at the faculty are leaning towards putting you in 1-B is that alright?"

Izuku nodded before Nezu continued "Well that makes everything much easier, I must say you are a very talented young man, you have quite an insight to so many things! I would like to pick your brain a little if that's ok?"

"Sure Principal Nezu what do you have in mind?"

"I want to talk about the essay you wrote, It is rare for someone your age to have such views, where did you cultivate these? I'm not saying it's bad but again it's just rare, these are similar views to mine,

Izuku hesitated for a moment, trying to find the right words. "Well, I guess it comes from a lot of observation and personal experiences. I've always been interested in the dynamics of hero society and how it impacts people, both heroes and civilians."

Nezu nodded, his eyes sharp and attentive. "Observation and experience, you say? Could you elaborate on that?"

Izuku took a deep breath. "Sure. Growing up, I saw a lot of things that made me question the way hero society operates. For example, the focus on quirks over the person wielding them. It often feels like people are valued more for their abilities than their character. And then there's the issue of quirk discrimination, especially towards those with so-called 'villainous' quirks or mutations that make them stand out."

"Interesting," Nezu said, steepling his fingers. "It sounds like you've seen the darker sides of hero society firsthand. How did you come to these conclusions at such a young age?"

Izuku smiled softly, choosing his words carefully. "I think it's just a matter of paying attention. When you see friends or classmates being judged for their quirks, or hear about people being ostracized because they don't fit the ideal image of a hero, it makes you think. Plus, there's a lot of history to consider. Hero society has evolved a lot, but there are still flaws that need addressing. I think the we rely on heroes too much, in the past people have organized protests to fight for things they want or fight against oppression, and yet we don't do that anymore, the civilians have become too complacent because of heroes."

They kept on talking for what seems like hours, two intellectuals talking with each other while sipping on tea, when Eraserhead and Vlad passed the door to the principal's office they saw the two of them engage in a heated discussion, and their face paled

f*ck not another one They thought.

"So you think he'll be good in your class?" asked Eraserhead. "If he's a problem you can always send him to mine."

"Oh I don't think I'm letting this one go to you Shouta, I can't risk having him expelled now can I?" Vlad snickered

"The ones last year had no potential, they don't understand a single lick of sense when it comes to heroics. That one actually has sense, you're lucky I already had 20, stupid two recommendation and one exchange rule..."

Half an hour later

"Well, It is certainly very enlightening talking to you Midoriya-san! However, I think we have to go now, both of us should be going to orientation now! You already missed the first homeroom lesson."

"Oh I'm sorry Principal Nezu I'll be on my way now!"

Izuku quickly ran towards the auditorium and opened the door slowly, he sees Vlad King from across the room and he signaled to him. Next to a large portion of seats that are empty. That has the small sign of 1-A besides the seats.

Guess they're doing something else

Izuku speed walked towards him and shuffled along the seated students, apologizing the whole way. Some looked at him in confusion and frustration.

Nezu came up on stage soon, and after a long winding speech about UA's history and how important it is to keep a heroic attitude to how important it is to have a healthy diet, to how he grooms his fur...

"And now! Our biggest announcement! The new foundational heroics teacher... Say hello to!"

"I AM HERE!"

"ALL MIGHT!"

The entire auditorium erupted in cheers, but Izuku can't help but deflate a little.

The entire auditorium erupted in cheers, but Izuku couldn't help but deflate a little. The sight of All Might, the Symbol of Peace, standing tall and exuding confidence, should have filled him with excitement and hope. Instead, it reminded him of past disappointments and the problematic aspects of hero society.

His mind drifted back to the memory of Tinker. Tinker had always been fascinated with hero gadgets and support items. Despite being quirkless, he dreamt of becoming a support engineer. One day, he'd had the chance to ask All Might if someone without a quirk could help heroes. All Might's response, though well-intentioned, had been devastating. He wondered if he was the one to ask, will they response be the same.

He couldn't help but feel that people have relied on this man too much, if nothing changes then All Might will be on the street less and less, crime will rise as it already have been. He greatly respects All Might for all the work he does but he can't help but think of his past.

Izuku looked at All Might giving a speech with an empty and exasperated look.

"Defect!"

"Why do I have a son like you?"

"You shouldn't even be here!"

"You can't be a hero, you null!"

Even with people back in the coves to support him, he can't help but let these words stew, he never really talked to anyone about his experiences, in fact only Tetsuchi knows the basics of his upbringing but only Himi knows all the details, and in turn she shared hers, that day at Hinode was the start of it, when they really got into the details, the tears could have flooded the whole bar. He thought giving it enough time would make it go away but it seems these feelings are here to stay, he feels safe amongst the cove, however he is not amongst them now, the vast majority of people here have no experience with dealing with the most darkest parts of life. None of them knew the pain of being abandoned for something you can't control. Being considered worthless for just existing.

He was brought back to reality by the applause that rang out as All Might's speech ended. Izuku's class started to shuffle out back to their classrooms.

"Alright class! Before we continue with today, I am glad to say that we have a new student, he was not here during the first period of the day because he had to meet the principal over some clerical errors. With that said, please welcome him!"

Izuku walked to the front of the class "Hi everyone! My name is Midoriya Izuku! I am pleased to make your acquaintance." and bowed. He looked around the room to multiple sets of curious eyes, he's glad that he doesn't see anyone he knew, not Bakugo or that blue haired boy.

"Ok, your seat is the one in the middle row, in the back next to Monoma and Awase and behind Tokage but right now, all of you need to come with me and change into your PE uniforms, we will be doing a quirk apprehension test, meet me outside at Training Grounds B. I'll meet you there."

The entire class got up and went to the changing room and changed into their PE uniform and started talking to each other, murmuring about their newest addition and started to get their PE uniforms, and change, Izuku went to a corner in the back to hide the scars on his back. Izuku quickly got his things and made his way to the grounds, knowing where it is due to his time this morning. The rest of the class though when stepping out. Looked lost, seeing this, Izuku said "The training grounds is this way." The rest of the class quickly followed his lead but he stopped when a hand got on his shoulder. "Hey, aren't you the dude that took down the Zero Pointer?" He turned around to see a boy with a headband as his head. It was as if a record scratched as the entire class now looked at Izuku, Izuku looks a bit sheepish before replying, "Yeah, I guess I am, Midoriya Izuku, what's your name?" Izuku extends a hand. The boy shakes his hand back "Awase Yosetsu! It's really dope that you took it down! I saw that! You just snapped it's f*cking neck clean off before catching it, and then you just laughed it off and sat down like nothing happened!" Izuku smiled before saying "Well, it was still quite a challenge, The first plan of being a caveman and throwing rocks at it didn't work so I decided to go a few centuries in the future and use a guillotine." Awase laughed at the line. The rest of the class looked on in a bit of a shock and a bit of weariness.

"That's the guy? Holy sh*t!"

"So that's the one blessed by the lord..."

"He looks kind of plain..."

"He doesn't seem like to have his head shoved so far up his ass..."

"What's your quirk man? Is it green tendrils?" Awase asked,

I don't want to seem like an asshole but I don't want to give away too much at the same time.

Izuku replied, "Well yeah, but I can make it into different things, I thought tendrils were the best form to use during the exam so I didn't use the other forms. What's yours?"

"Mine's called Weld! I can weld two things to a subatomic level as long as I have physical contact with them!"

Izuku's eyes glowed, his inner quirk analyst came to life "That's so -"

Before he can continue though, they've already came to the training ground and Vlad King stood in front of them.

"Alright zygotes! Today we will be doing the quirk apprehension tests, basically the physical tests you guys did in your middle school except you use your quirks, ball throws, long jumps, endurance runs, 50 meter dash, side steps, alongside other things, now follow me to the field for the first test, ball throw!"

The class stops in front of the field. Vlad King continued. "The ball throw is simple, as long as you stay in the circle, you can do whatever, use your quirks to throw the ball as far as you can, is that clear!" "Yes Sensei"

"Midoriya, you have the highest score on the entrance exam with 142, what's your middle school record for ball throw?" Izuku simply shook his head a bit awkwardly "I don't remember sir." While giving Vlad King some looks to tell him to let it go.

Vlad, remembering that Izuku was homeschooled quickly shifted the topic, "Very well then, it's ok, now though I want you to use your quirk to throw this ball as far as you can, please step up."

Let's see how this kid does... and also to see if he gets along with people Vlad King thought.

Izuku walked towards the circle as he hears whispers of "142?" "That's more than All Might's!" "What the hell how does he do it?" "Wonder how he does it...""Manly!"

Hmm, an English speaker... That last one was a bit out of nowhere...

Izuku stepped into the circle he looked at the ball for a few moments, seemingly thinking how he can do this, after a few seconds he thought of something, 20 tendrils sprouted from his body, and all grabbed onto the ball,the coiled back, similar to putting the ball in a slingshot, before Izuku swung the tendrils around and let the ball go into the air like a rock sling.

"713.2 meters"

Vlad King turned his device around to show the class, the class erupted into calls of awe.

"Very impressive Midoriya, please return to the rest of the class, Monoma you're up next."

The blond haired boy instead went towards Midoriya with a shaky smile on his face, "Hello there, can I touch your hand?" He asked, Midoriya had a look of confusion before the boy continued, "My quirk is copy, if I touch someone physically I can copy their quirk, and I would like to copy yours for this exercise. May I?"

Izuku grinned and stuck his hand out "That is a very nice quirk, Monoma, sure you can use mine, be warned though it's a bit tough to control!" Monoma's shaky smile turned to a surprised and happy grin as he shook Izuku's hand. "Thank you dearly my friend, I'll watch myself!"

As Monoma stepped in the circle, he realized no matter what he tried he can't summon the green tendrils. Izuku yelled from the sidelines "Imagine a fire in the back of your head!" Monoma proceeded to do so, only for a spark of green to appear around his body before clutching his head in pain.

"What on earth is this?" Monoma exclaimed. Izuku looked a bit embarrassed before saying "Well... the green energy is manifested from my mind, I had to train it for along time to not get a headache... So that might be why people can't use it effectively."

"I-I see." Monoma proceeded to ask Vlad King if he could copy someone else's quirk, he agreed and copied an orange haired girl's quirk, the ability to make her hands bigger, he threw the ball for a respectable 300 meters, before everyone else had a go, Izuku was amazed, a boy with a beast quirk, a blue haired boy with a quirk that seemingly can duplicate one's impact, a girl with vine hair tried to replicate his technique, "That's probably Shiozaki" but only to manage a few hundred, there were a few people that seemingly didn't use their quirks

Probably because their quirks don't help much in a ball throw.Izuku thought.

They proceeded to do the rest of the tests, for the 50 meter dash, Izuku just used his tendrils to push himself off the ground to get a time of 4 seconds, For the grip strength he got a respectable 253 kg with the help with two tendrils, for the standing long jump, he cleared the sandbox with his tendrils. He cleared the seated toe touch with no problems, the sit ups was easy for him to with a score of 82 in a minute, the side steps were also easy just extend the tendrils and move side to side rapidly, the endurance run was also cleared, he only lost to one girl, the blond English speaker that seemed to have like a horse or pony quirk? Speaking of which, Izuku got to see a lot of great quirks in action, a boy can merge into black things, the guy who yelled out manly could turn into steel, a girl even turned the grip strength test small and crushed it with finger, technically getting a score of 999 kg, he even saw a fellow telepathic in action, a white haired girl, a boy that can shoot glue from his head, and a boy that can spin himself up like a drill and a girl that can split into multiple pieces!

Be still my quirk loving heart, I'll let you run wild on the tablet soon enough."

Then it was over, and the results was shown, Izuku, of course had first place, and going down the list, he noticed the ones who were in the last five, give exasperated and disappointed sounds. Vlad King voice rang out from the front of them.

"Listen, these scores here are simply baselines for the beginning of the year, there is no need to feel down on yourself if you come in last, those that come in first, don't be so comfortable, if you don't keep up, it will only be a matter of time when the people at the bottom rise to the top. Remember, no matter where you place on this leaderboard, always go Plus Ultra!"

"YES SIR!" The class responded.

They proceeded back to the classroom in preparation for their next class, English. Izuku heard a voice from behind, he turned around to see a severed hand, it startled Izuku a bit before realizing it was the green haired girl's quirk, Setsuna Tokage if he remembered correctly from the introduction from Vlad King, the rest of the class still seemed to look at him with guarded looks, albeit a less intense.

"Hey there fellow Greenie!"

Izuku look of confusion dissipated quickly when he realized the point of similarities, they both have green hair. "Oh hi Tokage!"

Tokage grinned widely, her eyes twinkling with mischief. "So, you're the guy who obliterated the zero pointer robot, huh? That was pretty impressive. I bet you felt like a total badass doing that."

Izuku smiled "I just gave it my best shot really, my folks back home gave me a lot of training and advice so yeah."

Tokage teasingly smiled "Well, surely, it must have paid off, huh? You're making the rest of us look bad!"

Izuku shook his head. "Nah, getting into UA is a hard task in of it's own, anyone that got here has proven their mettle even in the support and general courses."

She leaned in a bit closer, her grin widening, whispering "Ah being humble eh? Still, scoring 142 on the entrance exam? You're setting the bar pretty high, Midoriya. And I've noticed those muscles of yours. Must be all that training, huh? Bet they come in handy for more than just fighting robots."

Izuku channeling the memories of all the times he sees patrons in the bar flirting with each other and him, and all the times Himi made him flustered when they were younger, he responded back in kind

Izuku chuckled, not missing a beat, whispered back in her ear. "Well, Tokage, muscles can be quite versatile. But it's not just about strength; it's also about how you use it." He leaned in slightly, his voice dropping to a playful whisper. "I'm sure you know a thing or two about using your assets effectively."

Tokage immediately flustered, her face turning bright red, before Izuku heartily laughs "Ah not used to when someone does it to you aren't you? It's alright Tokage"

Tokage turned to a smile "You're pretty good yourself Greenie! You seem like quite a guy. Nice to meet you."

"Thank you Tokage! Nice to meet you too!" Izuku bowed his head a little before Tokage returned to the rest of the girls looking a bit flustered.

The girl with the red hair, Itsuka Kendo seeing her friend in this state, asked "What happened Tokage?"

"I hoped you didn't say anything too sinful..." Shiozaki added.

Tokage replied a little bashfully "N-Nothing... let's just get to English"

Present Mic was in front of the board, spewing on about some passage in the English textbook, the rest of the class was split between a look of confusion or absolute boredom, with some faces of determination, seemingly wanting to actually learn English, Izuku was in the latter category, Insight had already drilled so many of these grammatical concepts into his head when he first taught him English, but Izuku was also feeling a sense of normalcy and peace, he was happy to have a normal lesson with classmates, instead of the sessions that are mostly just Insight and Himiko. Besides having Present Mic as a teacher was fun. He smiles slightly at the thought. He also noticed that a blond girl with horns on her head seemed bored as well, but seems to turn into a face of confusion and mock disgust when work is required to translate from English and Japanese or vice versa.

"ALL RIGHT LISTENERS! WHO CAN TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PASSAGE?" The blond girl raised her hand "Not you Tsunotori, you're American, you speak English already."

Ah, an American exchange student... Tsunotori... I wonder what her quirk is?

"All right, I can tell all of you little listeners are struggling to have some motivation, you do know why we have these English lessons right?"

"Because it's important for heroes to communicate to a wider international audience..." The majority of the class responded in a tone best described as "dead inside"

"Ok, how about this, some motivation, you guys seem deflated, if any one of you little listeners can do this challenge, it'll be extra credit for all of you! a 5% increase on the next test! But it won't be easy."

The rest of the class shot up in their seats, even those that seem deflated seem to have inflated themselves back to attention.

"You need to read out this passage from an old piece of literature from Shakespeare and translate it into Japanese!"

The rest of the class deflated again. Izuku remembered all those nights he stayed up with Himiko reading literature, he raised his hand.

"Oh, a challenger huh? Alright let's see what you got little listener!" Present Mic pulled out a piece of paper and put it on Izuku's desk. He began to read in a slightly exaggerated nobleman tone.

""To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..."

Izuku continued to read, after a while he repeated the passage in Japanese.

Present Mic, clearly not prepared that someone stepped up to the challenge, was not prepared to go in with his promise, the class including Izuku looks at him expectantly.

"Uh... so about the extra credit..." but as Present Mic was about to continue, before being saved by the bell and rushing out.

"HEY!" the class yelled but it was too late Present Mic was already nowhere to be seen.

It was lunch time and Izuku stayed behind a little to text Himiko

Zuku:

Hey It's my lunch break, everything going well on your end?"

Himi<3:

Yeah Zuku, it's been going great :3, say have you done any heroics classes yet???? I done mine, it was sparring with my class.

Zuku:

No not yet, mine's after lunch, hope I can see some action today. How did your's go?

Himi<3:

Oh! I kicked everyone's ass! They all looked at me and underestimated me cause I'm a small girl!! I showed them what's good really quick.

Zuku:

Well, It's clear that's the first mistake they made. If they have seen the way you fight against me, they would have ran away to America by now!

Himi<3:

Oh you flatterer!:3

Zuku:

What can I say, I love my chaotic rogue fighter<3 but anyways, I have to go eat lunch now, see you soon!

Himi<3:

Byeee!!<3

Izuku smiled to himself, a reminder of cove, a reminder of care is always welcome in his book, but he needs to get up, or else he might miss lunch.

Izuku proceeded to the cafeteria, Izuku ordered a bowl of katsudon, the first food he was ever offered by Tetsuchi, Lunch Rush seemingly winked under his mask, before giving him a big bowl of katsudon, giving it a whiff, he could smell some different spices, paprika Izuku thinks,but also a major dose of nostalgia and home, but before he can get lost in the smell, he sees a very chipper Tokage waving him over, sitting at a table with Monoma, Tsunotori, Kendo and Awase, he approaches them and Tokage said "Hey Greenie! Want to eat with us?". Izuku seeing that he does need to socialize more with his classmates, considering he missed his first period. He sat down and started talking, Tsunotori asked him the first question "Hey do you actually know how to speak English?"

Izuku nodded before replying,"Yeah, the person who taught me knew English so he taught that to me too."

Pony's eyes light up, "Really? Thank God! Do you think you can help me with Japanese? I still suck at it!"

Izuku's face frowned a little, "I'm sorry I don't think I have enough time in my schedule to have lessons with you, at least for now, but I do have all my notes on Japanese grammar, words and even the translation work I did, I'm willing to give it to you if you want it."

"That'll do just fine! Thank you!" Pony put her hands together and bowed her head a little.

Kendo then asked, "Say Midoriya, where did you go to middle school? The fact that you know English is pretty impressive, international school?"

Izuku shook his head "No, Kendo I was technically homeschooled, all the knowledge I have is from my tutor."

"That's awesome dude! You must be really smart, if you managed to do that!" Awase added.

"What do you do as hobbies Midoriya?" Monoma asked while eating a spoonful of rice.

"Oh, I like the usual, movies, gaming, cooking and drink making, and quirk analysis, but the last one is a bit niche." Monoma dropped his spoon and fork and looked at Izuku with practically glowing eyes.

"You do quirk analysis?!"

"Well, yeah, surprise surprise but the ability to deduce what you're opponent's quirk is and what you can do to counter it is pretty useful and important in a fight! With that said though, I know your quirk and Awase's but do you girls mind if I ask questions about your quirks?"

The three girls proceeded to explain their quirks, Izuku's mind already running a mile a minute,

"I can make my fists larger, and it's strength increases too."

"I can split my body into pieces, right now I can do up to 25."

"I can fire off my horns and control them telepathically! Right now I can control 2 only though."

Can she increase the amount of horns she can fire?

How big can she make her hands?

That quirk's so useful for recon!

"Monoma i guess you would be into quirk analysis huh, considering you need to use the quirks around you."

Monoma nodded "Yup! I'm so glad another fellow intellectual acknowledges the importance of analysis! I have a feeling we'll be quick friends!"

Izuku laughed and started to respond, but he was cut offwhen they heard explosions coming down the corridor towards them, Izuku hearing it and knowing what was coming, grabbed Monoma next to him and pulled both himself and him to the ground, under the table. Monoma was confused, why did Midoriya pull him to the ground? It was only when an explosion rang out above him that he realized why.

"GET THE f*ck OUT OF HERE FREAK!"

Izuku knew that voice anywhere, it was Bakugo, he came out from under the table, only to stop and dodge an explosion coming from his right hand, Izuku grabbed his right hand and pushed him away.

"Who the f*ck are you asshole!" Awase yelled, Monoma popped out from the table as well, "Why did you attack Midoriya you scoundrel! Back off!"

"I'm showing this freak that he shouldn't be here! DIE!" Bakugo activated his explosions, only to be met by Midoriya splashing water on both of his hands, immeadiately extinguishing his explosions, the nitroglycerin sweat not working. The entire cafeteria were looking at them at this point, Midoriya simply replied in a cold and dead voice."Bakugo Katsuki, leave me and all of my classmates alone, or else."

"Huh?! Or else what Deku!"

"Or else I will have something to say about it." Vlad King appeared at the cafeteria's entrance alongside Eraserhead, both having an angry and frustrated look on their faces.

Eraserhead, flung out his capture weapon and snagged Bakugo "We'll be talking this over in the principal's office problem child"

5 minutes earlier

"Hizashi, what is this I hear about you running out in my class?"

Present Mic stopped mid way through getting his coffee. Before slowly replying. "Well... I noticed your class seems very unmotivated with the lesson so I proposed a challenge! Extra credit for the entire class! One of them had to read and then translate a Shakespeare passage. Now I made that promise thinking I didn't have to go through with it, but then that Midoriya kid went and did it, spoke it in fluent English and translated it and all. Then I panicked, and was saved by the bell! So I ran out before I could say anything."

Vlad King started to laugh, alongside the rest of the faculty.

"Well, in that case you better give them that extra credit huh?"

Vlad King slapped Present Mic on the back, nearly causing him to spill his coffee. "Don't worry, Hizashi. We all have our moments. But maybe next time, think twice before issuing a challenge you're not prepared to follow through on."

Present Mic laughed, albeit a bit nervously. "Lesson learned. But you have to admit, it was a good way to break the monotony. I didn't expect Midoriya to actually know it!"

Cementoss spoke up, "You saw his paper, he knew English and Literature. You should have seen that coming. You know he has smarts as well."

"It didn't cross my mind!" It was at that moment when an alarm went off

"CODE PURPLE NEAR CAFETERIA!"

The TV in the staff room flashed to a screen of Bakugo flying to the cafeteria while making explosions.

"That doesn't seem good, Shouta let's go."

Eraserhead popped up from his sleeping bag while muttering "Damn problem child..."

Nezu was in the principal's office, sipping his tea while looking at the footage.

Bakugo Katsuki, just attacked a classmate for seemingly no reason at all. Right now, he and the two heroics teachers are in front of the Principal.

Nezu trying his best to hold down his rage forced a smile on his face asked "Now, Bakugo can you explain as to why did you attack Midoriya?"

"He shouldn't be here! That's why! Weak people like him shouldn't ever be a hero! He has to have cheated to get in here!"

"Now Bakugo, I don't know who Midoriya is to you, but he not only scored the top score in the entrance exam, beating All Might's record, he also did so quickly and efficiently, it is one of the best showings UA has seen in history."

But, Bakugo couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did the nerd have a quirk? Has he been hiding it from him all this time?

He was looking down on him.

The moment he saw who beat him in the entrance exam, he was determined to show people like him his place, at the bottom of his boot and punish him for cheating. How can a defect like him get into UA?

"T-That's impossible, he's quirkless!"

"I'm afraid you are mistaken Bakugo, Midoriya has shown great control of his quirk."

"That's bullsh*t! Th-"

"Enough Bakugo!" Nezu yelled, gritting his teeth "This is a serious offense, I'm disappointed, your record was spotless! This could get you expelled, and thrown into prison, what you did there was assault, no other way to describe it, and that's a crime."

"I am giving you one last chance, according to Aizawa sensei, you have already shown signs of aggression, and blatant disregard for your classmates, Not to mention, during the practical exercise in heroics class today, you went overboard and almost critically injured two female students and adding on the fact that you assaulted a classmate, I recommend you not waste it, you would have to write an apology letter to Midoriya, and have detention for the rest of the term, and this will be going on your school record as a misconduct, that will only be removed if you have shown improvement in your attitude to everything, and the teachers approve of it, Hound Dog our counselor will be informed of this, if this continues then you will have to take mandatory anger management classes and your parents will be informed of this, do you understand?"

Bakugo couldn't believe what he was hearing, back at Aldera, he didn't get in trouble for anything, it was almost a rule that people like him, strong people, could do whatever, that quirkless kid especially, the whole school almost hated him, it was right, he was weak after all, but now he was being punished for showing people their place?

"Bu-"

"No buts! That is all I have to say, Aizawa you need to keep an eye out for Bakugo from here on out, you got it?"

"Yes Principal, a very keen eye..." he said while glaring at Bakugo, not even needing to activate his quirk to stop Bakugo.

Kan was at the other end of the room. Glaring at Bakugo as well, he would have to ask Izuku what's his history with him later.

Bakugo was seething, a misconduct record from one of the most prestigious hero school in the whole of Japan? That will almost kill his career.

"If that is all then this meeting is dismissed, Kan I believe 1B has their heroics class you better go prepare. All Might has to deal with... you know..."

"I see, I'll go prepare the lesson then."

Walking back to the classroom, Kendo put a hand on Izuku's shoulder. "Are you OK Izuku? Do you mind if I ask about that kid."

Izuku nodded "Yeah, I know that kid from childhood, he's someone in 1A. I hadn't seen him for years, but it seems he still remembers me, and he was a bully, he had this explosion quirk and was praised for it, I think it got to his head, I don't wanna talk about him too much though."

Tsunotori added "What a jerk! How was allowed he in the Hero course!"

"Pretty close there Tsunotori but yeah I agree with you, can't believe 1-A has people like that!" Monoma exclaimed.

Then Izuku's second most hated person in the school, the blue haired boy with glasses.

He approached Izuku with great haste and started to do weird hand gestures at him

"You! What have you done to result in one of my classmates to be sent to the principal's office?"

"Excuse me? He attacked me unprovoked, who are you anyways?" Izuku asked.

"Why I am Iida Tenya of class 1-A, and I'm sorry but I don't think you were free of responsibility of this altercation!"

"Hey! Blasty attacked Greenie over here for no reason, he was just being a jerk!" Tokage stood in front of Izuku.

"Yeah you look like you got a stick up your ass. Don't just assume things about people!" Awase approached Iida and stuck a finger in his chest.

"What! How dare you! As students of this institution, we should uphold the values of this institution. We should-"

"Hey Iida, isn't it 5 minutes until your next class, surely as great students of UA, you wouldn't risk a tardy now would you?"

Iida sputtered before realizing he was almost late, so just letting it go for now, he left in quick haste.

"Sounds like 1A is filled with intolerable idiots..." Monoma said under his breath.

The class was once again in their PE uniforms in a gym.

"Alright zygotes! We are doing quirkless sparring today! All Might unfortunately had to deal with some business with the school after teaching 1-A."

The entire class groaned, Izuku was neutral at this news, there was a part of him that wanted All Might to teach them, considering his experience, but he was also a reminder to the pains Izuku has faced.

"I know this is disappointing for all of you, but for me, I would like to get a baseline on your skills for the first day. Trust me, things will get more interesting tomorrow, It will work like this, I will draw lots here, the two people will then get on the mat and fight, first to fall out of the mat or be pinned down and become immobile or be knocked down loses and goes back to the benches, whoever wins will stay, and fight the next person I choose. They will keep going until they lose, for those watching, make notes on how the people winning are fighting, Also, no excessive force! If I catch you using excessive force for no reason, it is detention for you! Understood?

"YES SIR!"

"Alright let's draw the lots here... It will be Kamakiri Togaru, against Midoriya Izuku.

The mantis boy grinned widely and strided to the mat with confidence, looking at Izuku up and down, sizing him up, he was taller thatn Izuku, so he felt good about this fight,when both of the stand on the opposite sides of the mat, Izuku bowed. Before the match can begin Kamakiri yelled out "Hey dork! Don't hold back on me! Cause I won't!" Izuku smiled softly "Of course Kamakiri! I wouldn't dream of it." After this interaction, Vlad King counted down 3 seconds, and the match began. Kamakiri lunged forward with impressive speed, aiming to take down Izuku as quickly as possible. Throwing an impressive punch at Izuku's face, Izuku simply caught his fist, and pushed him aside, with his back to Izuku, Izuku raised his leg and delivered an axe kick(Luna Axe!)to Kamakiri's shoulder, making him fall, Kamakiri eyes widen in shock before quickly rolling over and standing up only to see Izuku rush to him, He threw a left hook only for Izuku to duck down and send a sweeping kick to his left shin,(Moonlight Rabbit Sweep Kick!) Kamakiri stumbled and on the way down, Izuku chopped his neck with his hand, finally, stunning Kamakiri enough, he pins him down by kneeling on his legs and pinning his hands down.

"M-Midoriya wins! Kamakiri please go back to the benches." Izuku helps Kamakiri up, Kamakiri looked a bit flustered and gasped for air a little, not expecting to be beaten so easily. "G-Good match dork..." Izuku smiled brightly "To you too Kamakiri!"

What a bright smile!Everyone looked away to not get blinded.

"So Vlad- Sensei, who's next?"

The rest of the class shuddered, the kind and seemingly reserved boy just took down someone in mere seconds with such speed and power.

'Is it just me or does he fight like Mirko..." Vlad King muttered under his breath, before calling out. "Next up is... Shiozaki Ibara!"

The vine haired girl slowly walked up to the mat, amongst the pitying looks of the others in the class.

"Before we begin... I pray that you take it easier on me... I do not have much experience with fighting hand to hand..."

"Of course Shiozaki!" Izuku got into a fighting stance but more noticeably, it is looser, with more weaknesses to exploit.

Shiozaki ran forward and delivered a side kick, Izuku dodged it and commented "Rotate your standing foot, it generates more power." Before delivering a punch that was slower than his normal strikes, Shiozaki barely dodged it, before following his advice and delivered another kick while rotating her standing foot, immediately noticing her kicks had more power and speed behind it, catching Izuku off guard a little and raising his forearm to block it, "Good!" he said before giving a slower coming round house kick, Shiozaki, ducked under it before going for a punch only to be whacked away, "Don't tuck your thumbs inside your fist, rotate your hips as well." Shiozaki continued to throw slightly better and smoother punches and kicks at Izuku for one minute before managing to slightly graze Izuku's cheek with a punch, at that moment, Izuku grabbed on to her arm swung her to the side so that her foot is out of the mat.

"Midoriya wins!"

Shiozaki and Izuku bowed at each other. "Thank you Midoriya, you are blessed with control and patience, the guidance you have given me during the fight is appreciated, so thank you." "Of course Shiozaki! Anytime."

As Izuku went on to spar more and more people, some people asked for a full fight and some asked for the treatment Shiozaki got, like Awase, Yanagi, and another girl that looked like a mushroom named Kinoko Komori, by the time the lesson was over, everyone including Izuku was sweating buckets and lying on the mat, but some clearly needed more time to recover, notable Kendo with a sore side and the spinning boy, Kaibara Sen with a bruise on his chest.

"Good job all of you! Especially to you Midoriya, you managed to keep winning through out! As to the rest of you, good showing! I hope this reminds you all of your weaknesses and how to improve, with that said, keep going Plus Ultra!"

"YES SIR!"

I wonder how Himiko's day went... Izuku thought lying on the mat.

Right now the faculty was having a meeting in the staff room

"Alright aside from the "cafeteria incident" I'll say today went off without a hitch!" Nezu exclaimed. "Anything from the students? Aizawa, Kan?"

"Nothing much from me, everyone here seems to get along just fine." Vlad King replied "Though they did seem disappointed when I was the one teaching them heroics today." He looked at All Might as he said it. "Sorry..." the scrawny All Might said.

Eraserhead sighed and cursed to himself "Lucky... Right now I have 4 under my radar, Bakugo Katsuki for you know what. Todoroki Shoto, he just seems aloof and doesn't want to approach anyone, he also seems to not want to use his fire. He's limiting himself for no logical reason, and it will limit his potential as a hero, and Iida Tenya, he's a good student but he's a real big stickler for the rules. Also jumps to conclusions, I heard he confronted Midoriya after the whole cafeteria incident, it makes it really easy for him to accidentally offend someone. Then lastly Mineta Minoru, hasn't done anything wild yet, but he has shown tendencies to be a bit perverted. Other than that though, all the students seem fine."

"Very well, then I'll keep that in mind. With that said does anyone have anything else to say?" Lunch Rush raised his hand, Nezu nodded signaling him to continue. "I want to ask all the teachers, how smart is one Midoriya Izuku?" Vlad King replied "Well, he is courteous, polite and kind, willing to help and very humble despite having great power. It's quite rare to see." The other teachers looked confused and responded with answers like saying he's bright, he's capable, and after that Lunch Rush said "He guessed my quirk the first student to do so."

The rest of the faculty sat straight up upon hearing that, it wasn't a national secret or anything, but it was still surprising nonetheless. "Pull up the camera footage this morning. Listen to it."

Nezu accessed the camera footage, and slowly started to grin as he did. "Yes...... Vlad, tell Midoriya to meet me tomorrow, before school..."

The teachers shivered,Don't corrupt the young boy please!They all thought.

"Y-Yes sir..."

1-B

Tokage Setsuna has added 18+ to the chat

T-rex: HI EVERYONE!

Big Fist: So this is why you wanted all our numbers.

Mantis: Oh Lord this is not gonna be good.

Vines: Language.

Mantis: Oh right the Christian girl.

Mantis: Oh no this is not gonna be good

Vines: Thank you

T-rex: Nice usernames y'all!

Pony: I didn't set mine so I'm just Pony!

Tsuburaba: I'm just me, the solid air guy

Real Steel: Yeah! This chat will be awesome! Got my heart pumping! Tetsutetsu btw!

Glue: Kojiro here.

MANGA: HI GUYS!

Darkness: Kuroiro

Rule: Hi

Copy: Hello all! It is I Monoma!

Beast: Good day sirs and madams, I am Shishida Jurota

Spook: I am Yanagi Reiko, pleased to see that the spirits have gathered us all here

Mines: Hi! I'm Nirengeki Shoda!

Drill: Hi i'm Kaibara, nice to meet you.

Softy: Sup it's Honenuki

Welder: Hell yeah! Group chat! Awase here!

Shroom!: It's me Kinoko :3

T-rex: Alright! The gang's all here!

T-rex: Wait...

T-rex: MIDORIYA ISN'T HERE! HE WASN'T HERE FIRST PERIOD!

Copy: Out of all the numbers you didn't get, you forgot the other intellectual????

Mantis: What do you mean other intellectual? You're one of them?

Copy: Oh come on! I don't see any of you do quirk analysis like him! Me and him are going to be the main characters of this class!

Welder: Woahhhh really bold there Monoma, Midoriya maybe, you have a bit to go

Welder: He already took the spot of main character of the class by getting 142 and killing the zero pointer and being a bad ass.

Soft: I'm a bit confused, i took recommendations, what's a zero pointer?

Welder: Just this big f*cking robot size of a building. People ran away from it but he just snapped off it's neck! He caught the robot when it fell! It was f*cking awesome!

Vines: Language

Welder: Sorry!

Mantis: I'm surprised he isn't an asshole, I bumped into him before class, he apologized and shook my hand, he didn't care about the mutation unlike some people.

MANGA: I'M SORRY MAN. YOU CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD!

Mantis: You literally have a speech bubble for a head, but fine, I guess

MANGA: THAT SAID, MIDORIYA IS SURPRISINGLY CHILL WITH SOME OF OUR MUTATIONS.

Glue: Yeah, he didn't flinch when he saw my head, just shook my hand like a normal person.

Mantis: At least he's not an asshole. People with flashy quirks like him are typically assholes are just act like they're better than everyone else. At least he knows we're just as good as him

Welder: You're kidding right.

Mantis: What?

Welder: Today's heroics lesson.

Mantis: What about it we did good.

Welder:...

Big Fist:....

Drill: ...

Beast: ...

Beast: I apologize Sir Kamakiri, although Sir Midoriya does seem to be a humble and kind man, you have to admit that he is better than us in many ways

Drill: Dude all of us got destroyed in the heroics lesson, me, you, Kendo, Tetsutetsu and Shishida got nuked. Setsuna tried it once and never again. Kendo lasted the longest and that's only because she said she trained in martial arts.

Tsuburaba: Well technically you guys did literally ask for it. Shiozaki asked for him to go easy and he did, I did as well, and even then I got whooped. At least he gave me good advice.

T-rex: Worst mistake of my life, he seems cute but he kicked my shoulder so hard, I swear it's dislocated. It's like fighting a non rabbit Mirko.

T-rex: He seems smart as well, I mean we got 5% extra credit because of him.

Shroom!: Yeah! English sucks! It'll make the next test easier.

Pony:Yeah, glad to have someone who can understand me, he offered me his notes, and I can trash talk and only he can understand it!

Copy: Yes truly main character energy. If someone like him can understand whatever Pony said. Too bad that 1-A hooligan attacked him.

T-rex: Yeah Ikr what's his problem?

Mines: What happened?

Big Fist: Some guy in 1-A came towards Midoriya and used his explosion quirk on him. he dodged it and pulled Monoma out of the way, then some other guy in 1-A stopped us after that and said how Midoriya had also done something to get him in trouble.

Spooky: He seems like a very nice individual, why would one attack him?

Big Fist: Apparently he knew him from childhood, he lost contact but last he remembered he had this really powerful explosion quirk and people praised him for it, it got to his head. Thank God Midoriya isn't like that.

Vines: The Lord has truly blessed Midoriya with humility

Welder: At least that dude got what was coming. Saw Vlad-Sensei and some hobo drag him out.

Pony: Hobo?

Big Fist: I guess I know why Awase thought so, unkempt hair, and scraggly black clothes, big eyebags, everything screamed hobo.

Copy: @T-rex you better get his number tomorrow alright?

Real Steel: Hell yeah! He got to have a lot of strength training to kick like that! I need to get his work out routine!

T-rex: Of course! Did you know he knows how to tease like me? I gotta get his number.

Big Fist: You teased him and he flipped it on you, from what I heard, so he doesn't tease like you.

T-rex: Shh!! I'm still the master of teasing!

Big Fist: Sure, just get his number tomorrow alright, I want everyone to be in this group chat.

T-rex: Alright...

Big Fist: You guys excited for tomorrow? It'll be our first heroics lesson where we get to use our quirks!

Chapter 20

Chapter Text

Himiko walked through the gates of Shiketsu, wearing the sleek and stylish uniform along side the cap, all this still felt unreal to her, to be a hero student, if you told that to 7 year old her, she would not have believed it, and yet here she was, all those years of suffering and she persevered and here she was.

She took out the vial at the end of the necklace, kissing it for good luck "I hope you're having a good day Zuku." she whispered under her breath. Before tucking it under her shirt.

She got into the building and was enamored, sleek marble columns holding up the entrance gate, into a yard with chatting students and a beautiful garden, the main building in front of her was a big building, standing tall and wide, with a pointed roof with the flag of Japan on top, made of concrete with big windows even spaced out into a grid patter, two towers flanked both sides with two long and tall buildings connecting them to the main building. Himiko steps into the main building, finding her class.

"You got lucky Ryujin."

"Oh come on Nariko! It was trial by combat, besides, it was a fair trade, you got the person who came in first in the practical exam!"

"Oh my god, every year there's a first place, it's not every year that the underground heroics course actually gets someone! Stupid electric discharge..."

"Hey, the electric discharge was your fault, you lost concentration for a second, and you quirk acted up. Ironic consider you keep telling your students-"

"Never lose concentration if you do it'll cost lives, yeah I know Ryujin." Nariko pouted.

"Hmph well, see you at lunch I guess I have to go now, you sort out your stuff quick before you're late for the first class."

"Yeah yeah, I got it."

Himiko was quite late, only getting into her classroom 2 minutes before the bell. She found a seat in the corner and sat down, it seemed the rest of the class have already started to chat each other up. Himiko decided to just wait for the teacher, and keep silent, she decided to do what Zuku does and observes the people around her to see what quirks they could have, considering there's a good chance she has to fight these people. She looked around her, a majority of the students looked normal, but there were a few outliers. A boy with spiky stone for hair that was slicked back like a hedgehog. A girl with a larger jaw and bigger mouth than others and she noticed rings in her mouth. Another boy with yellow hair and blue eyes was talking with a girl when a hole appeared on his face and one on his belly, then he made a hole appear on a desk before resealing all of them. Seemingly showing off his quirk to her. The girl in kind rolled her eyes and smiled. Before transforming her eyes to seemingly spin, her irises split into four, resulting in eight across her two eyes, seemingly opening and closing. A tall muscular and quiet boy with what seems like red marks near his eyes was a part of the conversation as well, his arm bulked up quite a bit, barely clinging on to his uniform. A girl with a full body bird mutation. Lastly a pigtailed girl who was writing in her notebook, and when she needed to grab an eraser, she grabbed the one that was orbiting around her before throwing it away as the eraser started to orbit her again

Woah, a gravity quirk! Man Zuku would be so happy to see these!Himiko thought, already picturing the wide grin her boyfriend will make when she describes her classmate's quirks to him. Slowly molding her face to a cheshire grin as she stared off to the sky.

A loud clap alerted her back to the classroom. It was Wyrmling, the homeroom teacher of her class, 1-B in a booming voice, "Hello all! I am Ryujin Tatsuko! Your homeroom teacher for this year!, My hero name is Wyrmling. I only have one rule, treat others how you want to be treated, if you wanted to be treated with respect, then treat others with respect. I will be tough but fair, is that understood?"

"YES MA'AM!" the class yelled out

"Alright! That's what I like to hear! Now today our first order of business, as heroes, it is important for you all to know your physical abilities, so today, it will just be a test to see how your physical capabilities are! No quirks, just pure effort and physical ability! Now, follow me to the training field!"

Himiko walked down the corridors with the rest of the classmates, with a glance, she sees that in her class there's seven girls including her and thirteen boys. The students bantered with each other with talks like how they thought of the entrance exam, Himiko obviously can't join in, considering she didn't take the same exam as them and they didn't seem to notice her, Himiko didn't mind but still hoped to socialize with someone.

Soon enough, they have changed into their PE uniforms and put her necklace of Izuku's blood in her bag, kissing it one more time and arrived at the big training field, she sees many exercise equipment, some dummies, some pull up bars, a big running track, a warehouse with sports equipment and multiple big buildings that are supposed to be quirk gyms.

"The reason we are doing this, is that I believe that as heroes, you shouldn't rely solely on your quirks, so I want to see just what you can do without quirks. Understood?"

Some groans can be heard, clearly not happy not being able to let loose of their quirks. "Yes Ma'am..."

"All right! First thing we have to do is pull ups! Everyone! get to the pull up bars, the moment you stop, the next person goes on, all right, go!"

Himiko saw people go on the pull up bar one by one, immediately, Himiko knew why some of them groaned, they were not in shape at all, a majority of them could do around 7 to 8, some of them can only do 1 or 2. But there was a girl that could do 17 before giving out, It seems like a lot of them think they could coast through with their quirks.

Himiko remembered what Hare said,"A lot of people think their quirks can get them far, that is false, you should always be in good physical shape!"Himiko smiled at that line, it was the time when she complained about not being able to do 1 pull up.

"Chizue! Please step up."

Himiko approached the pull up bar, and started, she did it at a steady pace, but slowly but surely, she started to lose energy, and she let go soon after.

"21 reps, good job Chizue!" Himiko grinned, at least she broke 20, "Thank you sensei!"

The rest of the tests were relatively simple, the endurance run she ran for half an hour, for the sit ups she went 103 before giving up, for the 50 meter dash, she did it in 5.1 seconds. A 2 meter record for the standing jump, a 16.7 meters for the shotput. The knife throwing exercise really helped her out on that one, for the flexibility test, she could do a full split.

At the end of the test, she have came first.

"All right good effort to all of you! This will be the bench mark of your physical capabilities, I expect by the end of this term, these scores will be up 50% understood?"

"YES MA'AM!"

"Good! I'll see you kids in the heroics class later today, dismissed!"

They started to go back to the changing room, when Himiko finished changing. One of the girls approached her. The girl had a slightly muscular build, with a short red bobcut and red eyes, the girl that got 17 pull ups and barked. "Hey, what's your name?"

Himiko slowly replied "Chizue Himiko, Who are you?"

"Name's Miko Tenka! You were so good during that test girl! How did you learn all that!"

Himiko's look relaxed, she wasn't here to pick a fight, just here to learn from her, she grew a grin, "Well...let's just say I had a really good sensei. I did assisted band pull ups for the most part."

"Oh, of course, that guy must have trained you hard huh? And here I thought I worked hard, clearly I have to up my game!."

"You still did good Miko, second place isn't bad either!"

"Thanks! But still, I didn't expect that from you, I trained hard because my quirk needs it."'

"Really? What's your quirk?"

"It's called Heat! It's not a cool name but my body has a really high natural temperature, I need a bigger frame to store more heat, and I can draw in heat from the things around me, like the air, then I can heat up my body really hot or expel it by just breathing hot air out! Like breathing fire but just really hot air y'know? When I punched those villains actors, with a hot fist they surrender immediately! How did you do on that by the way?"

Himiko mind stopped for a moment

"Ok, villain actors, that must be the entrance exam, just play it off."

"Well, I just fought them off, caught them off guard is all."

"How! There were so many of them, none of them saw you?" The girl that could have 8 irises asked from behind another locker, she was a tall and slender, with long brown hair, "Juho Hachime by the way, I constantly tried to keep hidden in the buildings but they're just everywhere! I can't hide from them! When I try to snipe them with my eyes, someone is already at my position!"

"Well, I learnt stealth so I guess they didn't notice me, what do you mean by snipe by the way?"

Hachime's eyes split, one eye had 4 irises and the other's irises increased in size. "My quirk just turns my eyes into little guns, I can make my iris bigger for longer range or split into four if I want to use something close to a minigun, I can shoot out anything in my body, I usually do my stomach acid, but I can do other bodily fluids, don't ask, I didn't want to waste too much acid because I don't know how long the test will last, so I tried to just hide in a building and take them down, but people kept getting close to me and finding me!"

"Well what type of buildings did you choose? How far away were you anyways?"

"I was at like 100 meters, but they kept finding me somehow, I found some faraway high ground, but after a few times, I just decided to go minigun on them."

"Were you just on top of the roofs? If so, then it shouldn't be too far for them to find you, 100 meters is not that far in regards of a sniper shot, did you at least have something to cover you? Or go behind walls to shoot? After discovered, did you just fight them off and kept on sniping from the same spot?"

Hachime blushed and looked down "No... and yeah I did..."

"Then no wonder! After your first few shots they would have known where you were. If you wanna go stealth then stay in shadows, stay away from things like glass or anything that's reflective, if you make sound when you shoot wait until there's a big noise then shoot. Lastly I think learning to walk and run quietly would be great as well!" Himiko stopped and smiled to herself, she rambled, it was a habit he got from Izuku, it normally shocked people especially when they rambled criminal's personal information to heroes or cops and in this case, it worked, as Hachime was looking at her in eyes of surprise then exasperation "Gah! Why didn't I think of that! Where did you learn this Chizue?"

"Oh don't beat yourself up about it! We're here to learn! Well my sensei worked with heroes before and did intel, so yeah! He taught some of his tricks to me. Look at this!"

Himiko then went to one end of the changing room corridor and dashed to the other end in remarkable speed, the girls in the changing room almost missed her, but noticeably, her steps and jumps made no sound, it was like an owl flying.

"Girl! That's sick! You gotta teach me that!" Tenka exclaimed, the rest of the girls were also looking at her, enamored with the feat of speed and silence.

"Thanks! It helps with my fighting style!" A short girl with blonde pigtails came up to her "Does it help with your quirk? What is your q-"

"If you girls are done then you need to make it to your next class now!"

"SORRY MA'AM!"

Himiko was glad for the interception, she didn't want to reveal her quirk yet.

The rest of the day dragged on, especially in f*ckurou sensei's lesson. There was nothing the owl headed teacher was talking about in regards of the book that she didn't know, she had read it already, it was a romance story, one she already read, "A Farewell to Arms" It was weird because according to the syllabus, they wouldn't study literature at this period of time, they would start with Shakespeare. They were waiting for the bell to finally ring to get to their next class, the class she wants to see the most

Heroics

As soon as the bells rang almost all of the class ran out, leaving an exasperated owl man near the blackboard.

"It's ok sensei, if it's worth anything, I enjoyed the book." Himiko showed a sympathetic smiled

f*ckurou smiled "At least there's a student here who appreciates literature."

Himiko walked out of the classroom to meet a kind looking Akagi. The school counselor

"Hello there Chizue. I would like to talk to you about something."

Himiko tilted her head to the side. "What is it Akagi sensei?"

The counselor smiled and handed her a card. "During the interview, you mentioned that life was not kind to you, I simply want to offer you my services as a counselor if you want to talk about it sometime. I'm always open for the students here."

Himiko nodded and gave a small smile "I'll consider it Sensei. Thank you..."

Akagi smiled then left Himiko to her next class.

Soon enough they were in their PE uniforms again, their hero costumes not yet prepared, and it was no wonder especially for hers, Tinker went crazy with her costume.

"Alright people! I know how much you love to use your quirks. And today you'll get to do it, you will be doing some fights with quirks, but this is a bit special."

"First of all," Ryujin pointed to her side, Onimaru was there, "This is Onimaru sensei, hero name Phantom, he will be watching over this lesson with me. I wanted another's opinion on your skills."

She pointed to a stretch of land, around 1km by 1km with city buildings "You will be fighting in this city, it will be 3 against 1, I don't expect the 1 person to beat all 3 of course, but, the 1 either need to beat the rest of the 3 people, by arresting them with these handcuffs that you will be given and vice versa. Or they have to get to the other side of the city, since, there won't be quirks, the 1 person will have a gps tracker on them, while the rest will know of their location, while also equipped with communication devices, we will observe you with the cameras. the goal of this exercise is to see how good you can handle crowd fights and unfavorable situations, sometimes, if you can, you should face them head on, other times you need to learn how to let go. With that said, I'll use this generator on the computer to give me some names!"

"Chizue Himiko vs...

Kazuki Sora

Hiroshi Tsuyoi

and lastly... Yuto Mizumi!

The three boys stepped up, a boy with light blue hair and sky-blue eyes in a bun, Kazuki, a tall and muscular boy, with brown hair and black eyes, with seemingly red marks going from his eyes like war paint, Hiroshi. The last boy was short and a bit thin but projected himself in a confident stride and smirk, he had deep blue hair that seemingly flow like waves, and wearing a pair of red glasses that accompanied his dark blue eyes, Yuto.

"Really teach? We have to go against this girl? Is this fair?" Yuto adjusted his glasses and smirked. Kazuki nodded in response "I...I also feel like this could be a little unfair..." the last boy Hiroshi simply stayed quiet but nodded in response.

Miko from the side yelled out "Hey! Don't underestimate her just because she's a girl! She got the highest score out of all you!"

"True, but it's still 3 on 1." Yuto raised his eyebrows in skepticism.

Himiko simply smiled "Well, I don't mind. As Sensei said, they don't expect the one person to win, so I'm just gonna try my best out there!"

Yuto sneered and muttered under his breath but Himiko could hear him, "Sure... As if 1 can take on 3..."

Oh she was gonna beat him to the ground, Himiko decided. Three on one were really good odds for her even without weapons or quirks. Himiko did what Izuku always did and asses the threats in front of her, from a glance, if she were to fight them, then the muscular Hiroshi would be her biggest threat. With a plan in mind, she entered the city from one end with a gps tracker, and the other three boys entered from the other end.

"You're lucky I owe you one Gento, I seriously don't know what this exercise can do for the rest of my students. You just want to see your student in action..." Ryujin grumbled Onimaru smiled "Oh come on Tatsuko, it's logical for teachers to gauge their student's fighting capabilities, quirk or not!" Ryujin replied "I agree but I also think 3 on 1 might be a bit too unfair." "Well, let's see what she can do shall we?" Onimaru grinned. Confident in his student.

Immediately, Himiko went to scale a building. She walked up the stairs to the tallest building near her and when on the tallest floor she climbed out the window and leapt on to the roof. She immediately started to silently jump across the rooftops, hearing for any sound or sign of the boys. Then, after around 2 minutes later, she jumped on a 2 story building and noticed her target in an alley below, Hiroshi, Himiko listened in and could pick up "No sign of her here...".

Himiko knew there were cameras watching her, so when that line was over, Himiko jumped off the building, and slammed her foot violently on Hiroshi's shoulder, before he can catch his breath, Himiko jumped down from his shoulders and throat punched him. Then she had an idea. She quickly and subtly bit his neck while doing so, taking some of his blood, all without leaving a mark, Like the during the training Hare did with her. She moved him into a camera blind spot and quickly ran, she went into the building opposite of her, She quickly went behind a stair case where the cameras can't see her, then, Himiko, the blond, chipper bubbly girl was now the tall quiet muscular boy with red marks near his eyes. She hid the gps tracker underneath his clothes. Then grabbed some loose bits of concrete and smeared it on his face, lastly, she lied limp on the ground, waiting for the boys to come.

Soon enough, after 5 minutes, the boys showed up, Yuto and Kazuki entered the building and followed the gps signal, only to see a Hiroshi lying limp.

"Hiroshi! What the hell happened!" Yuto cried out.

Himiko didn't know the boy well, so she didn't know how to act but based on what she saw, the boy was not expressive and was quiet, so she acted like it.

"C-Caught m-me off guard, she's in this building still!" Himiko panted and cried out. "I'll follow you two!"

"Alright! Then, Hiroshi, watch our backs! Me and Kazuki will go find her!" Yuto and Kazuki quickly ran up the stairs.

They didn't notice the smiling Hiroshi behind them, she quickly caught up to them, and activated his quirk. Immediately Himiko felt her strength increase, and felt she could jump way further and run faster, hear and see slightly better, the muscles bulged out as well. So a physical enhancement quirk then... Himiko then cried out "Wait! I think I hear something!" She put her ear to the ground as the boys around her came closer, then she remembered Hare's advice of trying to hide what her quirk is, at least the activation, so she made a sound with her mouth similar to a big click and slowly looked up while clutching her head. "AGH!!" She yelled out, before grabbing the two boys, picking them up and slamming them to the ground.

The two boys, not expecting this, tried to use their quirks, Yuto's lower body started to turn into water, and Kazuki seemingly started to glide away. But Himiko quickly put the handcuffs on Yuto's hands and jumped after Kazuki, catching him and handcuffing him as well. The intercom blared.

"Yuto Mizumi and Kazuki Sora is out!"

Himiko immediately jumped out towards the building opposite her, getting into the blind spot before losing her transformation. Then she put handcuffs on the knocked out Hiroshi and carried him back out.

"Hiroshi Tsuyoi is out! All students return to the bleachers! Medic bots please escort Hiroshi to the nurse's office!"

In the spectator booth a while ago...

"Holy sh*t! Gento look at her go!" Ryujin was looking at the screen shell shocked, she turned her head only to see Onimaru was sticking his ear into the speaker that broadcasted Himiko's communication device and started to tear up in joy. "No sound... She knows how to scale roofs and run without sound... Thank you Kami for giving me such a student.... I would have to change the syllabus for her though..."

"That good? Really, oop Hiroshi is there. Let's see how she does it, he is bigger th-"

They witnessed the scene, of this girl just take down this boy twice her size, like an assassin, then dragged his body into a blind spot of the camera, and then a flash of a human being bolted from the shadows into the building.

"Wait, isn't Hiroshi technically out now?" Onimaru asked, "Well, she never cuffed him so no, technically no- wait, look at Yuto and Kazuki, they're rushing towards... Hiroshi?" Ryujin's eyes squinted in confusion, how was Hiroshi here when he was knocked out? He heard "Hiroshi" say, "Wait! I think I hear something!" and the two boys rush to him, but then Hiroshi proceeded to beat them and handcuff them, Ryujin announced their capture, and soon later a notification comes through. It was saying that the handcuffs have been placed on Hiroshi, then she made the announcement to get him to the nurse office.

"That was quick..." Onimaru muttered out.

"Onimaru, what the hell was that?" Ryujin asked. Onimaru squinted his eyes "I-I think that's her quirk." "What is it mind control?" Onimaru shook his head. "What's the activation? Beating the sh*t out of someone? I don't think so. I think I should ask her, maybe something with blood? Considering her special dietary requirements. I know we said to keep it a secret as long as we can but we as teachers should know if we are to teach her well."

"Alright we'll talk to her, I'll go see to the other students."

Himiko was immediately called to the spectator booth after the fight.

"Sensei? I'm sorry if I went too hard on them..." Himiko quietly said.

Both teachers shook their heads, "No, Chizue, it's just that in your records there was not really a good description of your quirk so we are just confused, what exactly did you do to him to make him attack his teammates? We understand that as an underground heroics student you might not be too open to reveal your quirks but as teachers we should know to help you improve it."

"You promise not to freak out..."Himiko asked. The teachers looked to each other before slowly nodding, Himiko sighed then turned into Hiroshi, The teachers were stunned.

"W-Wait so you're quirk is shapeshifting!" Ryujin exclaimed.

Himiko smiled still in the Hiroshi disguise. "Yeah... the voice comes naturally by the way."

Onimaru was the next one to ask, "That Hiroshi was able to bulge his muscles still, can you use their quirks?"

"Yeah, but it's weaker though, but I'm training!" Himiko grinned.

Himiko transformed back into herself. leaving a pair of slack jawed teachers.

"So... wait, does blood have anything to do with your quirk?" Ryujin asked.

"Well... yeah, I have to drink their blood, If i have a say a cup of it I can be them for like 22 hours, after all my training, but using their quirks shortens the time."

"Wait, when did you take Hiroshi's blood?" Onimaru asked.

"Can you pull up the footage ma'am." Ryujin complied Himiko went through the footage and stopped on the scene of him taking down Hiroshi.

"There", she pointed to a place on the freeze framed screen. "I have sharp canines, so I quickly bit him right there. I taught myself how not to leave too much of a mark." Himiko then went forward three more frames, then Hiroshi was down.

"So you did that in less than 10 frames." Onimaru asked. "Yeah... I did." Himiko sheepishly replied.

"You acted quite well there, do you take acting classes?" asked Ryujin, Himiko struck a dramatic pose before replying "Yeah! I also have a lot of chances to act as other people!"

"I see... well thank you Chizue, you may leave now, you did well." Ryujin said to her. Himiko grinned then left bowing as she did.

The moment the door closed, Onimaru got on his knees and pumped his fist "YES! HOLY sh*t, I CAN TEACH HER SO MANY MORE THINGS THAN I THOUGHT!"

"Alright calm down there before you become an actual phantom, let's just continue with this exercise." Ryujin rolled her eyes. "Still where did she learn all of this! At this rate, she might be one of the few first years that can do the provisional license exams!"

Himiko watched through the rest of the exercise with her classmates, the girls around her congratulating her "victory over the boys" but the boys and some of the other girls watch her with some amount of fear; Miko slapped Himiko on the back. "HELL YEAH GIRL! YOU SHOWED THEM!" Himiko waved her hands and laughed "Ah, thanks Miko, I just did what I was trained!." The girl with the pigtails, came up towards them. "H-Hi there, I want to ask, how do you hit people as hard as that..." Himiko smiled, "Well, I twisted my foot as I kicked, the gravity from jumping off the building helped, and I also hit him in a very specific point of the shoulder, so he went down quick!" The pig tailed girl muttered out "I was wondering... that if you could maybe teach me when you have time..." Himiko's grin widened "Of course! What's your name!" "Kido Uku, and thank you!" Kido thanked her. and the girls proceeded to talk, but Himiko noticed the girl with the bird mutation off to the side, all by herself. she made a note to herself to talk to her later.

The exercise proceeded to go off without a hitch, and Himiko saw all the quirks in action. The girl seemingly could fly short distances, but her kicks were devastating. There was a boy who could teleport short distances and blinked around the fight, a boy could harden things he touched. a girl that could extend her limbs, a boy that seemingly able to take a stupid amount of damage, the energy just seemed to get directed to the ground beneath him and the girls with rings in her mouth and large jaw can launch sonar waves. Himiko followed Izuku's advice and tried to analyze it the best she can, even if she wasn't as good at it as him. Soon enough, the lesson was over, and they were off to lunch. Himiko decided to text her favorite boy in the world.

Zuku:

Hey It's my lunch break, everything going well on your end?"

Himi<3:

Yeah Zuku, it's been going great :3, say have you done any heroics classes yet???? I done mine, it was sparring with my class.

Zuku:

No not yet, mine's after lunch, hope I can see some action today. How did your's go?

Himi<3:

Oh! I kicked everyone's ass! They all looked at me and underestimated me cause I'm a small girl!! I showed them what's good really quick.

Zuku:

Well, It's clear that's the first mistake they made. If they have seen the way you fight against me, they would have ran away to America by now!

Himi<3:

Oh you flatterer!:3

Zuku:

What can I say, I love my chaotic rogue fighter<3 but anyways, I have to go eat lunch now, see you soon!

Himi<3:

Byeee!!<3

Himiko sighed,How did I get so lucky she thought. She always loved her dose of Zuku today, loved it as much as blood

Himiko made her way to the cafeteria, while also grabbing a "juice box" that was actually full of blood from her bag. She got a plate of food and walked around, she spotted the bird girl. she has seen that look on so many of the patron's faces, the one as if no one would accept them. She put on a smile and made her way to her.

"Hey mind if I sit here?" She asked the bird girl. She looked up with a face of perplexion and nodded. "What's your name?" "Tobu Kisho..." Himiko grinned "Nice to meet you! Chizue Himiko! You did great on that heroics exercise today! What did you think of it?" Tobu looked at Himiko with a sight of slight distrust. "Why are you asking me?" She asked. "You did way better than the rest of the class. Why me?"

"I wanted to ask about the kicks! How did you get them to be so strong?" Tori, slowly replied, "Well... It's my mutation. I'm a bird but more specifically I'm a secretary bird, they have great kicks, and can fly but not as fast or far as others..." "That's so cool!" Himiko exclaimed Tori's eyes widened "You don't think it's weird?" she asks "About the mutation? No, quirks have been around for so long, mutation quirks also, I know people can look different and they didn't choose that, so I'm not put off if that's what you're asking!" Himiko said, Tori seemingly smiled at that "I know right! It's like why are you surprised at this point! There's so many weird quirks out there. Why is a bird quirk so surprising!" They both share a laugh before the other girls. Came towards them. "Hey y'all! How's it going!" Miko approached the pair, alongside the other girls of the class, Kido and Juho included, alongside the two other girls that can extend her limbs and send sonar waves. They introduced themselves as Nobasu Inori and Yubiwa Haruko respectively.

Himiko chatted to the girls al through out lunch, they shared their last classes, and it was the end of the first day for them. Himiko made it pass the gate but was called over by the girls on the other side of the street.

"Hey Chizue! Wanna go to the mall with us?" Miko yelled out.

Himiko's heart skipped a beat, because although she acted extroverted and happy go lucky, she has never gone on a casual hangout with friends. She didn't have many people her age to go out with after all. After a shocked expressions, she grinned widely and rushed over.

"Yeah! Let's go together!"

She was finally glad to be remembered

"Onimaru, why are you shredding all your learning materials?" Principal Masuda asked.

"I need an entirely new syllabus! This is too easy for her!" Onimaru replied with a determined look on his face "Teaching her this would be an insult to her abilities!"

Nariko asked. "What on earth happened in your class?"

Ryujin pulled up a video.

"Ah I see... No wonder Gento is like this... Goddamn it, how did I miss someone like her..."

"So her quirk is shapeshifting? While also being able to use their quirks?!" Vice principal Miyamoto asked.

"Yeah! It's so good for underground! She takes acting classes as well! She knows what she's doing!" Onimaru exclaimed.

"Well, I'm glad you are having a good day..." Nariko grumbled.

Chapter 21

Chapter Text

Izuku was standing in front of a train station. Seemingly waiting for someone, he looks at his watch over and over before...

"Zuku!"

Izuku turned around to see a Himiko lunged towards his embrace. They spun around for a second before Izuku set her down.

"Hi, Himi!"

Izuku spun Himiko around once, and held her hand as they went back to the bar and discussed their day.

"And they some girl with a gravity orbit quirk! It was so cool! Then some girl with a secretary bird quirk? They invited me to the mall! I was so happy! I got you this!"

Izuku looked down and saw a beautiful keychain of a cat, nibbling on a bloody steak.

"Reminds you of Michi doesn't it." Himiko grins

Izuku eyes sparkled and looked down to think as she talked about the quirks, and so glad that his girlfriend was happy, before Himiko flicked his forehead.

"Hey eyes up here. I know I'm beautiful but calm it." Izuku waved his hands "H-Himi you know I'm not like that!"

Himiko giggled "I know, it's just that you're so cute!"

Izuku sighed "There's this girl in my class that teases as well, not as good as you but still. I swear you're the only one who can tease me and get me flustered. I don't get it!"

Himiko laughed. "Well, it's because of love Izuku!"

Izuku squeezed her hand a little "You're so cheesy..."

"So yeah, Broccoli set me up with this girl, and she was so nic-"

"We're back!" Himiko announced

The bar cheered, happy that the "Future top two heroes" are back, "How did the first day go? I bet Broccoli was holding himself back from writing down all the quirks he saw!" Tetsuchi teased

Izuku flustered before replying "Hey! They were cool as hell! If you saw them you will be fascinated as well!" The bar chuckled to themselves, as Tinker popped up his head from a booth, sitting with Spinner.

"Broccoli~" He called.

"Yes Tinker I gave my ideas for support gear, you can make them and think of ones of your own and write them down~" Izuku replied in a sing song tone before Tinker grabbed some paper with glee.

"Spinner make sure he doesn't cause a gas leak or something."

Spinner gave a thumbs up and a chuckle before diving back to his laptop, seemingly trying to program something.

"Mine went great! All the girls were so welcoming! Especially when I kicked three of the boy's asses!" three on one!"

"That's our girl!" A muscular woman with sharp teeth responded.

"Are the UA kids any good?" A man with the rat mutation asked.

"They looked scared of me at first I don't know why." Izuku said. The rest of the bar looked at himThis kid is joking right?

"Broccoli maybe it's because you snapped off a giant robot's neck and got a higher score than All Might?" A woman in the back sarcastically responded. Izuku chuckled. "Yeah maybe that's it... Silk's son and Father Shiozaki's grand daughter are in my class by the way!"

Silk stood up, the mantis lady nervously asked "Is he doing well?" Izuku smiled "Yeah, he was good, a bit aggressive to classmates and don't talk to them much but he can have good attitude and manners when he needs to. The class have neutral opinions of him so far." Silk sighed "At least he has the manners... Did he get into any fights?" Izuku shrugged "Well he fought me."

"WHAT! WHY DID HE DO THAT!" Silk yelled, Izuku waved his hands "It was a sparring lesson! The whole class fought me. He was just the first one after all!" Silk slumped back down "Oh thank goodness. I'm guessing he didn't win." She chuckled, Izuku blushed, "Yeah... No he didn't, the way it worked was people will come up one by one to fight, whoever won stayed and fought the next."

"And you fought all of them cause our boy doesn't lose!" Mino yelled from the back. "Yeah, I did! Some people asked me to go easy on them so I did, but Togaru just kept asking for a full fight, called me dork the entire way through" Izuku grinned. Silk sighed, "That boy... No wonder he had bruises when I video called him."

"Trust me, the entire class got along well from what I saw. A few introverted ones but no one too eccentric, we do have an American girl in there, she asked for my notes on English and Japanese."

Himiko grasped her chest in mock shock, "Gasp! Izuku you're cheating on me already?"

Izuku flustered "What! No!"

Himiko grinned "I know, silly just teasing!" Before pecking him on the cheek.

"Alright someone add one mark to the board!" A man with three eyes cried out before someone near the front of the bar grabbed a marker and added another mark to a board.

"What's that board for?" Asked Himiko.

"Every time you or Broccoli do something sweet or cute or anything couple like we add one mark to it. We're at... 42 now, 30 of them you caused. We just like seeing romance I guess." The man snickered

"Well, it's because I love him!" as she went into another peck, Izuku leaned in for it. the man shook his head and added another stroke "43..."

"I'm glad that I got into the class I did, right now the people I talk to the most is this red haired girl, this blond guy with blue eyes that acts quite a bit, he just screams theatre kid, guy with a headband that's a bit of a hype man, the American girl and this green haired girl with sharp teeth. It's way better than what I could have gotten in class 1A."

"You met any of those kids?" Izuku smirked, "Yeah the explosive idiot is in there, class 1A and that blue haired boy with glasses? He's there too, the one that told me my shoes make me worse. That explosion guy tried to attack me but got sent to the principal's the guy with glasses just stopped me and said that I had a part in getting him in trouble."

"Broccoli could you perhaps reveal his name?" A group of quirkless people stood up with bats and swords and pistolsf, Izuku waved them off "No, I won't tell you if I know you're gonna beat them up." the group settled down before grumbling "At least we know where he is most of the time..."

"So, that Bakugo got in huh." Himiko grinned deviously while flashing a knife. "Also attacked my Zuku today... beat him up for me whenever you get the chance Zuku, for me." She showed an angry and devious grin "Before I get to him..." Izuku smiled and kissed her on the forehead. "Of course Himi, but hey, at least he did something good in getting us together." Causing Himiko to blush and hide her face.

"44..." The rest of the bar clenched their hearts at the sight of these two lovebirds.

"OH! Broccoli, Carmilla, Silk and I got your costumes done! You can take it to school tomorrow!" Tinker exclaimed before handing them two packages.

"Everything to your standards! You won't be unsatisfied! The materials and tech fit your needs to a tee!"

Spinner and Silk gave them a smile, Spinner exclaimed. "Send them to the stratosphere, if any of them are quirkists, send them higher! You two are the only true heroes I've seen!"

"Hell yeah!"Himiko exclaimed.

"We're gonna go changed now see you in a bit!" Izuku and Himiko went up to their rooms and the closet.

Izuku and Himiko both changed into their attire, Izuku's dark green shirt and vest, and Himiko's red shirt and vest, but before they go down, Himiko took Izuku's hand.

"Zuku~ We haven't been dating long but we know each other for so long~ Can I ask for something?"

Izuku sensing the teasing tone, asked "What is it Himi?"

Himiko grabbed Izuku's tie and pulled it towards her. "Just normal couple things~" As she kissed her fingers then placed them on his lips

Izuku immediately knew what she meant, he couldn't even respond before Himiko shoved her lips into his, soon her tongue wanted access which he granted, they had a private moment to themselves as they were making out. Izuku slowly started to ease into the situation and put his hands on her hips.

Both of them continued to share this moment of passion before Himiko let go, giving Izuku a dreamy look then, bit on his shoulder, but not for blood, as Izuku looked down, a hickey remained.

"Better hide that Zuku~" Himiko teased.

"Oh really?" Izuku responded in small gasps "That must have been worth 100 marks on the board." He said before deeply kissing Himiko on her neck, causing her to whimper, "Better hide that one, darling."

They went down and started preparing drinks and food for the patrons. "Hey Broccoli your tie is a bit messed up." Izuku smirked "Oh sorry about that." As he looked towards a blushing Himiko, raising the collar of her shirt.

Today was a beautiful day as Izuku whistled a tune and walked to UA, only to be rudely interrupte-

"Is it true All Might is a teacher here?

"How does it feel to be taught by the number 1 hero!"

"Is he a good teacher?"

Izuku tried to navigate through the sea of reporters before facing a solid group of them who actively stop him and grab him.

"You people are bothering the students, please leave..." Izuku sighed.

"Just one statement! Please!" The reporter grabbing on to him said.

"One statement and you'll ask for more, also, you know that the heroes in this building are well within their rights to use their quirks on you right?"

"What? Of course they won't!" Izuku looked onto the distance and pointed at something, "Look!"

All the reporters, looked to where he pointed, only to see nothing, when they looked back, Izuku was gone into the school gates, looking back to give them a smirk.

He was here early, because he received and email from Vlad King that Nezu wanted to see him, he didn't know what for, but he hoped it's nothing too bad.

He approached the door of the office, and of course like last time, the door opened without him knocking, to see a very chipper looking Nezu.

"Ah! Hello Midoriya! I'll get straight to business, considering you still need to get to class, You have the honor of being the first student to guess Lunch Rush's quirk! I watched over the footage and you have proven to be quite good at quirk analysis. Do you perhaps have notes?"

Izuku nodded "Yes sir, on heroes, our teachers even some captured villains in the past."

Nezu eyes sparkled "Do you have them on you?"

"Yes sir just it's all digital. If you would like them I could use the printer in your room."

Nezu nodded, "Please, any notes you have on our teachers, please let me see them."

Izuku went to a corner and pulled out a tablet from what seems like nowhere, before doing a retina scan and converting his code to normal, his sketches became unblurred.

He plugged a cable into the printer, connecting his tablet to it and paper started printing, occasionally, grabbing large stacks of paper and stapling them together. After a while, every teacher's notes were printed.

"Sir, here they are." Izuku handed him a large stack of papers, Nezu reached out to grab them only to realize Izuku had hardened his grip on the stack, he looks up to see Izuku give him a knowing smile.

"Oh.... Are you trying to bargain with me Midoriya?"

"Yes Sir! I know how intel like this can be so valuable to heroes, especially heroes like you." Izuku leaned in and winked, "Besides, I have full faith in my quality of work. I know it's worth." Nezu's smile became maniacal, "Very well! Let's get down to business!"

The rest of the teachers walked past the office, all ready for a morning meeting with the principal, only to see through the door's window a maniacal Nezu reading through some papers with awe with a smirk wearing Izuku, Nezu got up and signed a piece of paper and gave it along with an envelope to Izuku. Izuku took it and shook his hand with a knowing smile. He exited the office and changed to a bright smile as he saw the teachers outside. "Hello Sensei! Before going away.

All of the teachers felt a shiver go down their spine as they started to get into their seats.

Nezu stood up and announced "I'm pleased to say that me and Midoriya have come to an agreement! He has handed over his quirk analysis of all of you, in exchange for... some other things of interest from me."

The rest of the teachers sat there frigid, the fact that a student had came to a deal with THE Nezu, is a scary thought.

"Well... are the analysis that good?" Present Mic asked.

"Of course! it was a fair and good deal!"

Nezu handed out the packets to each of the teachers and told them to go one by one. Starting with Eraserhead and Vlad as the heroics teachers at the left edge of the table, he skeptically opened his packet to have his eyes widen at what he saw. It was sketch of his face and a close up dissected view of his eye alongside some support items. He turned it around to reveal the sketch to everyone, shocking them.

"The way Eraserhead's quirk likely works is his eyes exude a ray of a certain wavelength, like x-ray, except his is just enough to temporarily disable the quirk genes of people and not kill them completely. Strengthening this ray with could be enough to either leave a more permanent effect on his enemies and make it so that they can't use their quirks for a while. However this is very risky and most likely not worth it considering, surgery is needed to change the retina structure if he were to increase the amount of rays he could produce which is a very delicate surgery.... I didn't know that...." Eraserhead muttered. The rest of the teachers also looked like they were about to have their brains fried. He continued "Potential ideas: He ever tried winking? Wonder if that works through mirrors? GET SOME SLEEP FOR F**KS SAKE TRUST ME IT HELPS YOUR EYES." The rest of the table snickered as he holds his head in exasperation. "Potential support gear: goggles that can have switchable lenses depending on the situation that can break up and spread the rays, potentially the effect can be increased from his own line of sight to a 240 degrees vision cone surrounding him. Though it comes at a cost of his erasing abilities to be lowered, weakening their quirks significantly instead of erasing them. The goggles will be made of a metal alloy, similar to the ones used in his capture scarf. With solidified impact gel inside the casing, weakening blunt attacks... Special eyedrops solution... A solution that not only moisturizes the eyes but aims to keep the moisture to be added to the goggles through a small tube and canisters attached to the goggles and into his eyes, reducing his need to blink and doesn't need him to take off the goggles to apply the eyedrops... These support gear are called..." Eraserhead's face dimmed to an expression and looked to Nezu, saying "Really?" Nezu nodded for Eraserhead to continue, "The Eye-zawa set..."

The rest of the room ruptured into laughter before Eraserhead retreated back into his sleeping bag, cursing "problem children..."

"Weakness: Blinding lights, if you were to fight against Eraserhead, jab him in the eyes, that works for anyone really but him especially, tear gas, If you were to capture him alive but his quirk functioning , don't pierce, slash his eyelids...."

"That's a bit morbid..." Thirteen muttered

Vlad King read his out, with a sketch of a piece of bone marrow and sketches of support items. "Vlad King's quirk is blood control, solidifying it after it exits the body, The most likely explanation of this is because his bone marrow likely has enhanced stem cells thanks to his genes that produce red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets at a rapid pace. This allows him to recover quickly from blood loss and maintain his combat abilities. I do not know how long he can control his blood after it leaves his body, but assuming it is indefinite then it will be wise to include gear that can help him store blood just in case he can't use his blood. Some attacks could maybe include: Make blood come out of his entire body and them make them into spikes, making a defensive and offensive move in battle. Make hardened blood armor, or blood weapons. However I'm not sure if he has weapons training, I have some...." Vlad King mutters. "Some support gear can include some blood gauntlets that are wore around his wrists and has a revolving firing mechanism, he can store his blood there and fire them on a later day, another idea is a bandolier that can have packs of his blood on it and inject it into his body through some tubes when he suffers from blood loss. Similar to his current gauntlets." Vlad King facepalmed before saying, "The Vladolier.."

The rest of the room laughed and read their own, but as they read on, their face morphed into ones of shock and confusion,

"How the hell does he know this about me?"

"I did used to live in that place..."

"Wait this is quite morbid..."

Vlad King says out loud. "Lethal Move: Vlad King ejects blood into someone's body and solidified it inside their body, if in case of the most desperate situations, or against non biological enemies... Why does he have ideas like this... There's even a sketch on how I could do it. With blood and stuff."

Ectoplasm slowly replies "Well... i suppose sometimes as heroes would have to resort to such measures..."

"But still, why does he think of this... I guess it goes to show how good he is at this...But this is a bit concerning how he knows so much about anatomy, Thoughts on this Inui?" Thirteen muttered.

"A bit concerning, but it can be written off as analysis and just telling us our weaknesses."

"Well, I want you all to study this packet I can confidently say that the deal was well worth it!" Nezu exclaimed.

"Wait where's All Might?" asked Present Mic.

Nezu looked around and looked at his phone.

"ALL MIGHT DEFEATS FIRE VILLAIN"8:32am

"That blond idiot..." Nezu cursed under his breath.

Izuku made it into the classroom, opening the door to see Tokage rushing up to him holding her phone.

"Greenie! Give me your number!" Tokage exclaimed.

Izuku surprised, thinking Tokage is teasing him again, "Woah, really bold there Tokage."

"No silly! We have a group chat! You're not in it! And that's not right!" Tokage pouted before shoving her phone in front of his face.

Izuku chuckled before adding his number to her phone, noticing at the corner of his eye Monoma and Awase pumping their fists.

"Hey Midoriya! How did you get past that mob in the front?" Kendo came to him and asked. Izuku snickered before recounting how he just pointed at somewhere in the sky and say look. Causing Tokage and Kendo to laugh.

"Hey, what do you think we're gonna do in our heroics lesson today? It's the first lesson we have!" Awase asked from the background.

"I don't know but I hope All Might gets to teach us! That'll be so cool and manly!" Tetsutetsu turned his fists into steel before punching them together.

"I too hope that All Might gets to guide us, however even if he doesn't I'm positive that today's lesson will at least let us utilize our quirks." A nearby Yanagi said.

Their conversation was interrupted by Vlad King entering the classroom they all shuffled back into their seats. Vlad King shot a slightly terrified look at Izuku before breathing a deep breath. "Class... All Might can't make it today..."

"UGHHHHH!!!" The whole class groaned, "I know! I know! He has matters to attend to this morning, he is still the number 1 hero after all but don't worry! Because today there will be a simulated combat exercise with your quirks! You also get your costumes!" Vlad King quickly said, hoping to reign in the disappointment of his class. It seemed to work as the cases revealed behind them.

"Midoriya? Where's yours?" A confused Nirengeki asked.

Izuku lifted a case, "I was late when I registered my costume so It's right here!"

"All right class! Get to the training grounds!"

"YESSIR"

The whole class arrived at the changing rooms, and slowly changed into their costumes, Izuku of course same as before, waited a little and went to a more secluded area, and arrived to the training grounds.

"Looking good man!" Awase said to a white coat and pant wearing Kaibara.

"Thanks dude, nice armor you got there." Kaibara responded.

"I must say all of our costumes look really good and well made. Sir Honenuki's costume looks really technological."

"Thanks, Shishida, I made quite a bit of requests to the support department for it."

Some more people arrived. Monoma walked in before posing and making a flourish with his suit. Kendo behind in a qipao and domino mask flicked his forehead, with a group of students snickering behind.

"There's no need to be so dramatic Monoma." Kendo quipped. "Oh come on Kendo you must admit I look quite good in this costume!" Monoma spun around. "Are you sure it's even practical Monoma?" Tokage asked in the back. "Of course! You just have a jump suit, how is that practical?" "Hey! It's made of my DNA, my hair, to be exact so I can split up when I'm in this form, so hell yeah it's practical!"

"Looking good! Bronoma!" Tetsutetsu yelled out to him. "Thank you friend! At least someone appreciates it!" The rest of the class just chuckled and rolled their eyes before they seat on the benches. "All of us look so cute!" Kinoko said. "Yeah man! Although I don't think it's practical, I do think that Monoma looks the best right now in his suit." "Thank you Tsubaraba! Now-"

"Monoma shut up." Manga cut him off while looking behind him. Monoma confused looked behind him alongside the rest of the class and their jaws dropped.

Flashback

Himiko and Izuku go to an underground workshop underneath a warehouse, near a giant junk yard, when the open the doors, they see welding torches fire up, sounds of hammer clashing and the occasional explosion and the smell of chemicals are present too

Alright Broccoli, Carmilla! All done! Tinker removes a tarp covering a clothing rack, revealing Izuku's and Himiko's hero costume, he wanted one that reminded him of the people here so it was based on his bartending uniform, it was a dark green dress shirt with a black brocade vest with gold buttons, black pinstripe pants along with his black gloves with gold patterns and a red tie, he noticed that Tinker had made combat boots, in the style of his quirkless shoes. steel tipped, with straps to attach hidden knives and on the soles, a retractable knife. Also with noise cancelling abilities

"Alright let me explain this to you guys! For Broccoli, These shirts and pants? Kevlar, sandwiched between two layers of nomex for fire resistance! bullet resistance and knife resistant! With a special surprise... a mix of spider silk! Silk couldn't make a lot of it but we fashioned some substitutes that's close enough to the original so it's even stronger than just normal kevlar. The vest looks a bit bulky? That's because it's made of the same material but inside of it is impact gel! No punch or kicks can hurt you much there! The gloves are made of the same material and have the same metal brass knuckles in the fabric and are made longer with padding sewn in it, acting as bracers. And, what really makes this a hero costume? These armor pads! On your shoulder, knees and shoulders are armor pads that are made of carbon fiber, I decided to keep it lightweight, since you can make armor of your own by just adding fire plating around you using your quirk, but still! Then you have these utility belts! Made of black leather, you can have them fit with you know, whatever you want! Right now it's filled with first aid supplies courtesy of Necra like bandages, some gauze even some syringe shots, adrenaline and such, a notebook and pen, and there's a lock pick in there, you can use your skills from when you were younger I guess." Tinker took a breath after that long explanation.

"Then, onto Carmilla's, you wanted stealth, so body suit it is. A full red body suit with black pants, it's made of the same materials, armor pads on shoulders, knees and elbows, vest with the same materials and utility belt with the same things and with the same types of gloves, but inside the vests are a lot of vest pockets the size of blood bags just in case you ever get "thirsty" or need someone's powers in a pinch. Lastly, bandoliers for your knives and other weapons like katanas and such, though I know you particularly like the sais and have been learning it, so I've fitted some things on your belt for you to hold them. Spinner, the last part of this creation!'

Spinner soon came through with a gadget of his own. A green lower face mask with golden edges and a red face mask with silver edges, "Here, it's a mask, it's made of carbon fiber again but it's way more than that. A communicator is in there. Alongside this." The lizard man pressed a button on the left and a green visor covering one eye popped up, similar to the shape of a square monocle. "It's a program I wrote, It makes it so that you can zoom in on things and search things up on the internet if you look at it and press the buttons on the right. It can even record and broadcast a live feed as long as you connected it to something. It's good tech, Carmilla gets one too."

Tinker leaned into their ears, "Also I included enough space in the vest, if you want, it can have a shoulder gun holster, but your school doesn't need to know that." Tinker winked to see a knowing smile for both Himiko and Izuku.

"Thank you Spinner, you're the best!" Himiko took her red and silver mask in awe. Spinner laughed "Are you kidding me? You kids literally saved my life and gave me a new one, you found me people willing to teach me the sh*t I want to learn, so to me you two are the only two true heroes!" Izuku looked towards the rest of the workshop "Thank you all for making this for us! We owe you all!"

The rest of the workshop cheered and laughed. "We already owe you! Treat this as repayment kids!" A gecko man shouted from the back.

End of Flashback

"DAMN!"Pony yelled, "That's classy Midoriya holy hell! I didn't know you were into things like this!"Izuku took of his mask and smiled. " You're lucky Shiozaki didn't hear you say that, but yeah I enjoy some of the finer things in life, it's made of some nice materials, so I'm confident in it. It's pretty nice ain't it."Pony nodded,"Yeah you look like a bartender that'll mess someone up if they caused trouble in the bar!" Izuku laughed and thanked Pony and muttered under his breath."You're closer than you think Pony..."

"Midoriya! That suit is manly!" Tetustetsu came up and slapped him in the back "Are you trying to fight villains or going to church man?" Kamakiri sneered. A vine slap from Shiozaki in a white robe come soon after, "Oh I think it is a wonderful costume Midoriya, if you were to come to church I'm sure the people will appreciate it." Midoriya snickered, "Oh, thanks Shiozaki, I don't think Kamakiri meant any ill will from that statement."

"MIDORIYA!" The other group of boys came towards him. Some were fanning him, "Damn man, leave some girls for us!" Tsubaraba said "Midoriya! I'm so glad that someone knows the importance of class!" "Well at least I can tell he considered practicality unlike you." Kaibara quipped

"Alright, zygotes!" Vlad King interrupted," Yes, you all look great in your costumes but listen up, what you see in front of you is the place you would need to fight in, there will be a villain team and a hero team, the villain team would have to break into this building and get files from a filing cabinet, the file you need will be marked with a green UA logo, the heroes need to stop them! Either side win if they manage to capture each other with these handcuffs. I will draw lots to decide the teams, now our first match will be..."

"Kuroiro Shihai and Shishida Jurota as the hero team..."

"Against Midoriya Izuku and Kinoko Komori as the villain team!"

All four grabbed communicators and headed out. Kuroiro and Shishida were talking, likely discussing strategy. Midoriya made his way towards Kinoko, with her brown bangs covering her face, wearing a nervous smile.

"Hello there Kinoko! I hope we'll work well together."

"U-Uh hey yeah you too Midoriya..."

"Do you have any idea how you want to execute this? If not I can give you my ideas and suggestion. Also do you mind telling me about your quirk." Midoriya said with a smile.

"Well... I can't really help much... My quirk is to make mushrooms, I can make mushrooms around me, by spreading fungal spores... if it's more humid then I can spread them better like... in a 200 meter radius? I have a vague sense of what I grow mushrooms on, these spray bottles on my hero costume, are to spread the humidity around me... I'm sorry if it's not much or cool..."

"That's not true, your quirk is so cool! How large can you make the mushrooms and can you make any mushrooms?"

"Really? I can make any mushroom... and the largest one i've ever made is 3 foot tall but I've only made it in a shorter range...Sorry..."

"What are you sorry for Kinoko, do you feel unwell?"

"No! It's just that you have such a strong quirk... and mine is so weak, I'm afraid of holding you back, I have little to no combat abilities with my quirk, I feel so useless around you!"

Izuku looked at her with a stern but kind look "Kinoko look around you, you're in UA, best hero school in the country! Tell me how did you defeat the robots?"

Kinoko looked at him with a shy look "I- I made mushrooms in their circuitry and they all malfunctioned..." Izuku's eyes light up. "See, that alone is combat ability, if you can make mushrooms inside robots, you can make mushrooms inside people!"

Kinoko had a scared look in her eye "B-but that can kill people!"

"Well yes, but there are places where it could work without killing, like your throat and make them choke on it, incapacitating them before getting rid of it, or you can make on in front of their eyes to make them blind, make some covering their ears to make them deaf. and if you train hard enough you might be able to make mushrooms that coil around people's legs, making them unable to escape. Besides not every quirk is combat oriented. I think your quirk has a lot of uses, you just need to be creative. I don't know much about mushrooms but I know that a lot of them are bioluminescent, if you can manipulate that then you can communicate in the dark with morse code, if you make a lot of mushrooms it can create cover, making you great for stealth. Besides, it works great in disaster scenarios, if you can vaguely sense of what or who you grow, you could find people in the rubble and some mushrooms have medicinal properties you can make stuff like pain killers. Don't sell yourself short because of a quirk Kinoko, ok? Now with that said, I think I have a solid plan if I can correctly predict what they're about to do..."

Kinoko looked on stunned, "Wow- I thought you were gonna be dismissive about it..."

"Why would I be?" replied Izuku.

"Well, growing up, i saw people with so many cool quirks! Telekinesis, fire, water, making themselves elastic, and they were jerks! So not cute! They even said that people with quirks like me couldn't be heroes! In fact people were scared of you in the beginning, some people in the group chat at first thought you would be a jerk and were thankful you weren't a jerk, Ah! no offense..."

Izuku laughed "First of all, none taken, second of all those jerks were wrong, because well do you see them around in UA, no you don't so they're not as good as you, lastly, Kinoko if I ever judge someone or think lower of someone just because of their quirk. Shoot me, stab me, punch me whatever, because that is someone pretending to be me I promise you, the day I hate someone for their quirks is the day hell freezes over. You got that? In fact it's not just quirks, if someone hates someone just because they look weird for their quirks those people can stay away from me. Don't doubt yourself, in fact I think this plan can show you how well your quirk can help."

Kinoko smiled brightly and wiped away her bangs revealing her eyes that resemble sh*take mushrooms, "Okay! Tell me I'll do it, shroom!"

Izuku and Kinoko were standing on the street, opposite of them was the building.

"Alright, we're both villains trying to steal something, so we both agreed to go stealth right? So I think we should go up top." Izuku pointed to the building in front of him.

"Ok! Let's use your tendrils to get up there!" Kinoko brightly chirped. Only to receive a finger wag from Izuku.

"No if I use my tendrils there will be too much noise, besides it'll be quite the spectacle if they're watching, we can say goodbye to stealth, so I have another idea." Izuku, guided Kinoko to a nearby alley and snapped his fingers, fire producing from his hand, he looked at it focused and the fire split and turn into two long boards. "We'll float up there, hop on!" He extended his hand towards Kinoko.

Kinoko had a face of confusion and shock, at first he just thought his power was green tendrils, but what was this?

"Confused by my power? Yeah I was too, my ability is to make fire, but i trained it enough to solidify them into solids and can telekinetically control them, that's why my hero costume has nomex, to be fire resistant. Hop on the other one, don't worry! You won't fall on my watch!"

Kinoko took his hand and got onto the other board, and Izuku slowly floated them up high and landed them on the roof.

"Woah, what the f*ck is that?" Awase exclaimed after seeing the floating green boards, earning a vine whip from Shiozaki "Language."

"His quirk is telekinetic fire?" Monoma asked, his mouth frothing, "Main character power..."

"Ok Kinoko, use your quirk to try and sense where they are and where the cabinet is, it's fine if they know we're near as long as they don't know where we come from or where we are, you remember the specifications of the mushrooms right?"

"Yup! Don't worry! It'll be shroomtastic!"

Kinoko pressed her hands together, and a few moments later, Izuku slightly scaled down a wall and peered into a window, seeing the insides of the building filled with mushrooms, Although Izuku didn't know Shishida's quirk but he could make a fair assumption that it enhances his sense of smell. So he told Kinoko to make the building fill with mushrooms that give off strong smells to throw their own scent off. He got back on the roof, Kinoko said "Something tall rectangular and heavy on the top floor, end of the corridor in a room." Izuku nodded and signaled Kinoko to follow him, they descended the stairs into the top floor and quietly crouched down using the mushrooms as something akin to tall grass to cover themselves, they eventually arrived at the room and went inside, sure enough there was a filing cabinet, a chair and a table, Kinoko tried to pry it open only to find it locked. "How are we going to-" Before she can complete that sentence, Izuku already got out his lockpick from his belt and started to pick it, opening one cabinet in the matter of a few minutes. "Come on, help me scan through these." Kinoko snapped out of her stupor started to look through the files with him. He picked more locks and scanned through them.

Only for Kinoko to snap her head up and say, "Something is moving in this room." Izuku remembering what Kuroiro's quirk was, lit his hand brightly with fire, in a moment Kuroiro popped from a shadow below the table, the shadow he merged with disappearing because of the fire.

He rushed tried to throw a punch at Kinoko, only to get his fist caught by Izuku and flipped over, "Shishida!" Kuroiro yelled and Izuku and Kinoko heard stomping noises from the corridor, realizing he had to end this quick, he summoned multiple tendrils, and held Kuroiro in the air, making him unable to merge into anything black. "Kinoko! NOW!" Izuku yelled, Kinoko stumbled to her feet and cuffed Kuroiro.

"Kuroiro is captured!"

After that announcement however, Shishida burst through the door, flinging the door of it's hinges and towards Kinoko, knocking her over and hitting her head, seemingly knocking her out, he went in to grab her, only for Izuku to rush in front and manifested a shield and knock his hand away and respond in kind with a shield bash, he manifested a blunted spear, and pointed at Shishida, while also manifested two katanas around him.

Shishida roared and rushed towards Izuku, only to receive a bright flash of fire, stunning and burning him, before he can recollect himself though, Izuku already closed the distance and bashed his head with the shield again and stabbing him with the blunted end of the spear, eliciting a roar from the beast boy, He threw a punch which Izuku blocked with the shield. However, not full expecting the strength he faced, he buckled a bit, and had to narrowly dodge out of a second punch.

Figuring to switch things up, he changed his spear into another shield and grabbed the two katanas floating around him and let the shields orbit around him, Shishida threw punch after punch, only to be blocked by the floating shields, while Izuku kept on slashing and slashing him with his blunted fire katanas, the pain and the heat started to get to Shishida, Izuku jumped up and bounced off the wall, aiming to stab Shishida to finish things off. However that fell short as Shishida whacked him away then bringing a hand chop on him. He crossed his katanas to block the blow, and parrying it by knocking his hand off side, he delivered a doubled slash towards his body. Getting a howl from him.

"STAB HIM! GO FOR THE KNEES!" Kamakiri yelled.

"Dude, you are way too into this!" Kaibara said while holding him back

"I DIDN'T KNOW THE DORK COULD USE BLADES LIKE THAT! I NEED TO FIGHT HIM!" Kamakiri kicked in his seat

"CALM DOWN, YOU CAN FIGHT HIM LATER!"

Shishida seemed to notice something at the back of the room, the filing cabinet. He rushed towards it and picked it up and started to run away.

"Three minutes remaining!"

Izuku internally cursed, they've been sneaking and fighting for so long there were only 3 minutes left, at this point Kinoko had woken up. "Kinoko! Follow me!" Kinoko didn't hesitate as she rushed behind Izuku, They peered outside a broken window seeing Shishida having jumped from the window in his beast form and running away a fair bit of distance, almost about to enter the maze of alleyways of the city.

"Shrooms! How are we supposed to catch up!" Izuku simply sticked his katanas together at the hilt and produced a thin line of fire between them, turning it into a bow, he made a fire arrow and he pressed a button on his mask, the visor came up "Not on my watch."

216 meters.

Izuku zoomed in with the visor and aimed, loosed his arrow, and hitting Shishida in the leg, hearing a howl from the boy. He then grabbed Kinoko with a tendril and scaled down the building. Getting a startled yell from her. When they touched ground. They rushed towards him, he limped slightly but he was swinging the filing cabinet around like a big mace, files being flown everywhere, he had seemingly lost it. Both of them had to step back to avoid being hit.

Izuku manifested a naginata, and as the filing cabinet was being swung he made the naginata burning hot and cut horizontally through the filing cabinet as it was being swung, Shishida panicked and ran towards him. However stopping and kneeling and started coughing, Izuku seeing this didn't hesitate to put the cuffs around his wrists.

"Shishida has been captured! Villains win!"

Shishida coughed up a small mushroom, seeing this Izuku shot Kinoko a bright smile "Well done! Kinoko nice one! I knew you could do it!"

Kinoko blushed, as red as her hero costume at receiving the praise. "Thank you Midoriya... I simply took your advice..."

"Nonsense, you did great! Come on let's get back up to the observation deck!"

"Holy sh*t! What a snipe!"Pony yelled

"A bow? Greenie knows archery?" Tokage said wide eyed

"Midoriya is truly a man of many talents." Yanagi added.

"Wonder what made Shishida cough so bad" Kendo pondered.

"That went pretty well, all things considered. Good job Kinoko!"

"Really?"

"Of course! You were the one who sensed Kuroiro and you were the one that got Shishida!"

"I did huh, I really did... "

"Exactly! So don't sell yourself short alright?"

"Yeah I won't!"

They were walking back to the deck and meet Shishida and Kuroiro on the way.

"I'm sorry for choking you Shishida..."

"It's fine Madam Kinoko, we were conducting a combat exercise and you simply fought me with your quirk, I hold no ill will for you doing that."

"Still feels kind of bad though... It doesn't look cute on someone like me..."

Izuku patted her shoulder "Kinoko, when we become heroes, we're gonna have to fight villains, there's no shame in using "underhanded tactics" if they are used to save lives alright?"

Kinoko nodded, "I guess so... It's a good point, though I want to be an idol hero so I would have to think it through..."

"Oh really? Well if you need help, I'm sure me and Monoma could help with your quirks, we both do analysis after all, the offer goes to you too Shishida and Kuroiro."

'Thanks."

"Thank you Sir Midoriya."

"Midoriya I must say, I didn't expect someone like you to be adept in the ways of darkness. To go from the roof really caught us off guard." Kuroiro said.

Izuku only slightly surprised at his interesting way of talking replied. "Well, just because I could go in guns blazing doesn't mean I should, should I? I know my power is flashy but I can be discreet with the right skills, I know stealth and precision is valuable and sometimes better, so my sensei trained me in it."

"Your sensei sounds like a very powerful man, truly one with who lives within the darkness, I'm assuming he taught you weapons and archery?" Kuroiro asked

Izuku smiled at the thought of Hare. "Yes he did and yes he was, He trained me until I couldn't even move properly but it was worth it."

"Reverly in the darkness..." Izuku chuckled under his breath at the way he talked.

They opened the door, and Midoriya is immediately met with a manic looking Kamakiri

"DORK FIGHT ME!"

"W-What?" Izuku stepped back startled.

Kaibara, Tsuburaba and Manga rushed to hold him back, Manga explained "You know how you fought Shishida with katanas and naginatas? Well, he can make blades and you're the only one in class that knows how to fight with them. So yeah, he wants to sword fight."

"Ohhhh I see... Well, if you want me as a sparring partner we can do it sometime soon! I'm sure." Izuku smiled

"YESS! FINALLY!" Kamakiri yelled, only to receive a hand chop from Kendo.

"That's enough out of him, Midoriya! That was amazing! You make fire?" Kendo asked.

"Well yes, it's fire, but I trained it to compress the fire into solids, and I can telekinetically control them."

"That's sick!" Honenuki said.

"Yeah it is g-"

"Alright! everyone, now we have to do the evaluation of the battle! Can anyone tell me who the MVP of that match was?"

Kendo raised her hand "It was Midoriya, he thought of a strategy, and was able to quickly dispatch both targets, hoisting Kuroiro up, making it so that he can't merge with anything black, also holding his ground with Shishida even with his increased strength, especially with that bow shot. He also worked well with Kinoko's quirk, and used it in tandem."

"Any other thoughts?" Vlad King asked, only to see people shaking their heads. "T-Thanks guys, I just tried my best is all." Izuku smiled sheepishly.

"Alright next up..."

Right now, it was lunch time, and Izuku was sitting with his usual group. Pony, Kendo, Awase, Monoma and Tokage

Izuku pulls up a large stack of papers from his backpack and slammed it on the table.

"Here you go Pony, all my notes for Japanese and English."

The rest of the table just looked on as if cavemen seeing fire for the first time.

"Holy sh*t... These are so detailed... How did you not lose your mind Midoriya? Looks like I got my work cut out for me..." Pony said with her eyes still scanning through some of the papers.

"Trust me Pony, it was hard, my brain was barely chugging along when I started on past tense when I started English, you'll have a hard time with that Japanese kanji I think."

"f*ck..."

"Hey... Greenie... Mind if i take some of this, these are nice..." Tokage flipped through the notes. "I might actually get a B this year..."

"Well, you can share it with Pony, but I'm willing to help anyway I can. Even tutoring."

Tokage and Awase clapped their hands and bowed. "Please help us Midoriya Sensei!"

Midoriya shook his hands around "P-Please I just want to help is all."

Kendo smiled. "Still, Midoriya, my Science is bad, I would also like to have some tutoring."

"Well, I'll try my best for y-"

It was at that moment when the alarm blared through out the cafeteria"CODE 3 SECURITY BREACH DETECTED, STUDENTS, PLEASE REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE"

The table covered their ears.

"What on earth is a Code 3 security breach?" Monoma asked, trying his best to yell over the alarm.

"I think it's when someone breaks into the school!" Kendo replied

"WHAT?! Does that mean there's villains here?" Awase yelled

"This is just like those lockdown drills in America..." Pony muttered

"Calm down! It doesn't mean that it's a vill-"

That line was cut off, as the entire group at the table, was pushed onto their feet by the stampede of students rushing towards the exits. The group was broken up in the resulting sea of people. Izuku was pushed around the crowd, their feet stepping over his. He got his face pressed to their window to see a bunch of press members going into UA grounds through a seemingly disintegrated door.

Izuku sees a head of red hair and had an idea.

"KENDO! GROW YOUR HANDS OUT AND CLAP!"

Kendo hearing this, didn't hesitate as she enlarged her hands and clapped, the sound reverberating through the hallways, a small shockwave rung out from where she was and everyone, stunned by the sound stopped in their tracks.

Izuku got on a small green fire board and floated up slightly.

"Guys! It's the media, it's not villains or anything dangerous! People by the window look outside, there's no need to panic! The teachers are already dealing with this, calm down!"

The crowd looked outside to see the teachers chasing the media back outside the gates.

The disintegrated gates?

Huh that's weirdIzuku thought

After people realized it really was just the media, they slowly shuffled back into the cafeteria to have their lunch, and Izuku and his group also sat down.

"So, as I was saying, I'll try my best to he-"

"That was badass Greenie!" Tokage slapped him on the back. "You just got up and told everyone to just calm down like it's nothing!"

Izuku shrugged "Well it was literally nothing, just people begging for a headline, one scream from Present Mic would scatter them, they wouldn't do anything too drastic. I've been in situations where things are worse and people act way more calm. You got to asses the threat level and act accordingly, if you want to be a good hero, at least that's what my sensei taught me."

"Really? Your sensei seemed really experienced Greenie, with someone like you, your sensei must be a tough cookie to crack right?"

Izuku chuckled "Tough? Yeah that's an understatement, I started training when I was 7 it took me 7 more years to actually beat him in a spar, so yes, tough is one way you could say it."

"7 years old!? Holy sh*t dude no wonder you act like you've been fighting your entire life, you basically have been!" Awase exclaimed.

"Well, it ain't easy but looking back, I'm glad I did." Izuku fondly smiled.

It was at this point the table was approached by Bakugo, Kendo stood up and got between him and Midoriya, Monoma and Tokage did so as well.

"What are you doing here?" Kendo coldly asked.

Bakugo shoved a piece of paper into her hands "It's for that useless Deku there, I don't have time for a class full of extras."

With that he stomped off, "What a jerk..." Monoma muttered.

Kendo handed izuku the paper, he took a look at it only to shake his head.

"All right class, glad to see everyone is safe from that whole break in fiasco. Midoriya good job for calming everyone down, you too Kendo for getting everyone's attention, with that said, we have some class business to manage." Vlad King said.

"The question being, who will be our class representative?". at that moment the entire class erupted into cheers and multiple people yelling to be class president.

"Vote for me and I will bring class 1B into victory!" Monoma exclaimed,

"May the Lord grant me the position of class representative, Amen."

"Perhaps the spirits might be a better choice..."

Vlad King silenced the class. "Nice try zygotes but, I'm not picking, you guys are picking, by voting, It's simple, the only rule is you can't vote for yourselves. With that said, go."

Izuku was aware of the prospect of being a class president, normally it just meant more work, but there was actual weight to the title especially in a hero school, it showed that you were capable of leading, keeping a level head in chaotic situations, even a vice was pretty good, he wasn't really too invested in it, his mind wandered to the people he could vote for, Monoma? Bit eccentric, Tokage? Nice and smart and she is on recommendations, but she seems a bit laid back might not take it seriously, Kendo... She seems like a nice choice, calm, level headed, even have people calling her big sis for when she's always reigning in some more chaotic tendencies in some of the classmate, and she proved herself capable in that break in, with his mind set he cast his vote along the others.

Midoriya Izuku: 13 votes

Kendo Itsuka: 5 votes

Vlad King had tallied the votes and written on the board and the results were surprising to only one person.

"Me?" Izuku asked the class, the others looked at him as if it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world.

"Dude, in case you haven't noticed, you're kind of a badass, 142 points, killed the 0 pointer, powerful quirk. I mean you can make fire and make that into swords and telepathically control them? That's sick!" Awase exclaimed.

"Wait, I don't want you voting for me if it's just because of my quirk. I want you to vote for me because you genuinely believe and have faith in me that I can lead." Izuku said with a slightly concerned tone.

"Well, I for one believe you're a fine choice Sir Midoriya. That fiasco in the cafeteria was proof that you could hold your own in a bad situation." Shishida said.

"I think you're a good choice Midoriya." Nirengeki added. The rest of the class sounded their approval. With that, Izuku looked at Kendo, "You ok being vice?"

Kendo nodded a bit flustered "It's unexpected for me as well, but yeah I'll do it."

"All right class! Here's you new class reps!" Vlad King exclaimed, the classroom was filled with applause after.

After class was over for the day and Izuku and Himiko were in the bar again.

"So... my boyfriend is a class rep huh?" Himiko teased. Izuku smirked "Yeah... I am."

"Nice! You're just getting better and better huh Broccoli?" a patron at the bar top said, "Anything special today?"

"Well, we had our first practical fighting exercise today! Me and this mushroom girl went against this boy that can turn into a beast and the other where he can merge into black things, similar to Nocturn. The suit worked well! And the visor too, helps me with my bow aiming." Izuku said resulting in a fist bump between Tinker and Spinner.

"Oh there's also this." Izuku chuckled and pulled out a piece of crumpled paper, "That little firecracker gave me this as an "apology letter" he was forced to write. It's hilarious."

Izuku started reading the letter in Bakugo's voice and sounds like a bad yakuza gangster "HEY, DEKU! I'M SO SORRY FOR BEING TOO STRONG FOR YOU, YOU AND YOUR CLASS OF EXTRAS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY PATH TO BEING THE GREATEST HERO, EAT sh*t!"

The rest of the bar laughed as Izuku kept reading the letter in a dramatic flair, "He thinks he can become the number 1 hero when you exist? It's a joke!" Tinker said between laughs.

The rest of the night went smoothly with Izuku even doing a show of bartending and only almost smashing one bottle. It was close to midnight closing time that a man in a mask and top hat barged in.

"Ah! Compress! What brings you here today?"

Compress looked ragged and his breathing in short gasps as he pulled out a USB stick from his phone.

"You, me, Tetsuchi office now."

Chapter 22

Chapter Text

Compress, Tetsuchi and Izuku was in the office. As Compress grabbed a marble from his pocket and they turned into some sheets of paper, he also handed them a USB stick.

"What is this Compr-" Izuku was about to ask when he noticed the paper, they were maps, maps of UA to be exact, and a big red X on a facility in one of the further areas.

"The USJ?"

Compress nodded "Yes, Broccoli, you are correct, it appears that danger is coming to UA soon." He grabbed Izuku by the shoulder. "Tell me Broccoli, did anything happen at school today that was odd?"

Izuku nodded "Yeah, I didn't talk about it in the bar but there was a break in, the door was disintegrated!"

Compress pinched his forehead "Oh dear... So that's how they did it..."

"What is it Compress? And what's a USJ?" Tetsuchi asked

"The Unforseen Simulation Joint, it's a facility in UA that is used to train students for rescue operations, according to the handbook they have so many areas, from ruined cities, to landslides to earthquakes, they can simulate live disasters but since it's so big, it's quite away from the main campus, like a 10 minute bus ride away."

"Where does Nezu get all this money..." "Trust me, I ask myself that question everyday Bloodsmith." Izuku shook his head.

"Anyways, you see one of my buddies got an invitation to a little raid, he didn't accept of course, he's a member of the cove, but he realizes how dangerous this could be and especially to you Broccoli."

"Yeah, I could tell, a raid on UA itself? On the USJ?" Izuku asked in a concerned tone.

"That's right, they are planning to attack UA." Compress confirmed.

"Wait wait wait- How does the break in have to do with this?"

Compress pulled away the map to revealed a photocopy of a timetable, "This, is what they stole, when you said disintegrated door, I knew it had to be the leader. he had a disintegration quirk It's a timetable, and as you can see here they circled, 2 days from now, that Class 1A will do a rescue training at the USJ. I'm no evil mastermind, but if one were to steal this info, there is no way they have pure intentions. Also take a look at this." Compress then handed Tetsuchi the USB stick, inside there was a video. They hit play.

The camera was shaky, but soon enough he could make out what was happening, there was a group of villains sitting around in a bar, with a man made of black purple mist, alongside a guy with multiple hands on his face and light blue hair, he looked frustrated and just didn't want to be there.

The mist man spoke. "Good day to you all, I'm glad you have came to us for this operation we have. I will skip the pleasantries and get into the main goal of today-" The mist man barely finished, before the man with the blue hair spoke "All right, you NPCs! We have a raid mission to do, UA! The raid boss? All Might!"

The video continued playing, the camera’s perspective shifting slightly as if someone holding it was trying to get a better view. The bar was dimly lit, the only light coming from the dim lamps above and the faint glow of the television in the background. The man with the blue hair, now clearly visible, looked even more agitated as he addressed the group.

“Listen up, you useless NPCs,” Shigaraki sneered, his voice dripping with disdain and disintegrating a class in his hands. "We’re going to send a message, one that will shake the foundation of hero society to its core.”

He leaned forward, his hands twitching slightly as he spoke. “We have a special surprise for All Might, something that will make him regret ever standing in our way, our cheat code! It’s something that will ensure he can’t keep playing hero for much longer.”

The mist man, Kurogiri, chimed in smoothly. “Yes, and with our special weapon, victory is all but assured. You all need to play your roles perfectly. This operation will mark the beginning of the end for the hero society as we know it.”

Shigaraki’s eyes gleamed with a dangerous light. “That’s right. Once we deploy our little experiment, UA won’t know what hit them. And All Might? He won’t be able to save anyone.”

The villains around the table nodded, some of them chuckling darkly, clearly anticipating the chaos to come. Shigaraki smirked, his hand reaching toward his face, fingers brushing over the disembodied hands that clung to him like a grotesque mask."

The video ended. "That video was secretly recorded by my friend who went to the meeting before he was asked to join, he didn't so he doesn't have the details, but as you can see someone is planning to do the unimaginable."

"Well f*ck." said Izuku, "All right then, well first things first is we warn UA, that's a given, also try to find out more about the leaders, which is I guess the blue hair guy and the mist guy that seems like his assistant? Maybe?"

Tetsuchi pondered, "What is the current stage of their plan?"

"Right now, they have everything except manpower, they need more villains to do the job. They're recruiting, according to my contact there are 25 people interested, and are going. I think we should pass this on, not just because of the fact Broccoli is a UA student, also the fact that you know UA is about to get attacked."

Izuku shook his head, "This doesn't seem well planned at all on their part."

"What do you mean Broccoli?" Compress asked.

"One major oversight is that there will be students, and granted the teachers will try to evacuate them, but they probably have a plan to stop them, after all, they're here to send a message and I doubt killing some hero students won't get a message across, but according to the papers here, they don't have anything on them, they're quirks, not even they're names, they might still be students, but they can put up a hell of a fight. They'll be a problem."

"I see the wisdom in that, well how can we as the TFC proceed."

Tetsuchi suggested, "What about we try to strike a deal with UA."

"What deal?" Izuku asked

"They're likely going to get extra heroes to protect the school, no doubt, but any help is good help, what if we offered them double agents. There are a lot of regiment members and other former villains here that could really fight, so to these people, they might be glad to include them, and maybe with a bit of cash, and a clean slate..."

"They will be willing to fight against them." Izuku concluded.

"Yes, there are a lot of people here that would be interested in such an offer indeed, however we do need to make sure that we don't take it too far, we can't asked them to pardon people with a lot of serious crimes unless it's been a long time."

Izuku nodded, "Yeah...Knowing Nezu, he could do it, do you have any idea who would be interested?"

"Yes I do, that includes me, with a clean slate, I could do much more with this place, so many credentials and licenses are locked because of my criminal past, and the rest have been fighting for a majority of their life, so I'll tell them as soon as we secure a deal with Nezu."

"You're going to fight?" Izuku asked, bewildered

"Hey I know I gave up that life but I can still fight, you've seen me deal with people who mess with us." Tetsuchi smirked. "I guess so..." Izuku smiled and relented.

"How are we going to make contact though?" Asked Compress, Izuku looked at him and gestured towards himself

"Oh right...You literally go to UA..." Compress facepalmed.

"I can't just give it to Nezu though, he'll know, I think I have to go in the route of Vlad King, my homeroom teacher." Izuku thought out loud

"Yeah, if the rumors are true Nezu is one scary son of a gun, how do you want to do this."

"How about this, I'll write down your number, and give it alongside the USB stick, that way he understands the threat and can make contact with us." Izuku suggested

"Are you really just going to give it to him? What's the difference between that and Nezu?" Compress asked

Izuku pulled out Compress's wallet, he checks his pocket, to find a slip of paper with a smiley face on it, realizing that Izuku did steal it from him "Oh of course, you're crafty."

Izuku smirked "I know i don't look like it but I still have that street kid in me, I've picked from some people with quirks that heightened their senses, all I need to do is just put the USB stick and the number in his pocket ,and if Vlad King just so happens to leave his wallet in the classroom, even easier."

"Alright, I trust you Broccoli, but if I don't get a response in a day, I'm pulling the plug, we're finding another way."

"Yeah, also get the workshop people to fashion some sort of voice filter, don't want them to track us down." Compress added "We are some pretty suspicious individuals and it we don't want them to get too involved."

Izuku had a slightly pensive look, "Don't you think they could help us? In my experience they are all good people who aren't quirkists..."

"Still, revealing our existence voluntarily to a bunch of people we don't really know doesn't sound much of a good idea." Compress countered.

"Let's see how this deal goes, then we can consider that I guess" Tetsuchi.

Izuku nodded "I'll see to it guys."

The next day it was lunch time, Izuku said to his usual group of friends that he wanted to go to the support studio and stayed behind, he was in a corridor when he found his target, Vlad King, his homeroom teacher, walking in front of him, he slowly creeps up behind him. Making his footsteps as silent as possible, he approached him, he was looking over some papers, so he didn't notice Izuku.

Izuku carefully reached out his hand to Vlad King's pocket, and tucks in the USB stick and number, quickly and quietly, seeing no reaction, he sees his mission complete and leaves.

"Midoriya?"

Damn it.

"Yes Sensei?"

"It's lunch time where are you going?"

"To the support studio sir."

"I see well be quick about it."

"Of course Sensei." With that Vlad King continued walking on

I still got it baby!Izuku fist pumped internally. Now he just has to wait for the calls to come through.

Izuku returned to the cafeteria, where his table was surrounded by more people from his class, Kinoko, Manga and Tsubaraba.

"There he is!" Kinoko exclaimed. The people from his class looked towards him, with pleading eyes.

"Midoriya!" Monoma called him over. "Kinoko was just done saying how you helped her come up with new ways to use her quirk! The rest of us want your opinion!"

Izuku always excited to help with quirks. Quickly sat down, the class peppered him with questions about their quirks. Izuku listened to them.

"Midoriya how do you think I can do more effects?" Manga asked.

"Well... there are some onomatopoeia that cannot be made with just the Japanese language, so I think if you were to read some onomatopoeia from different languages, it could unlock more effects."

"Really? What do you have in mind?"

"For example, in Japanese there are some words for a burning sound, but there are many different other forms in different language, for example, in English, you could say something like"Sizzle~" Which is the sound of burning something with oil, if you do that on someone, it could make them feel like they're burning, it could be a lighter way to harm a villain than straight up burning them." Izuku suggested.

"Oh! I never thought of that! That means i have to actually pay attention in English..."Manga groaned.

Izuku chuckled and said in a mockingly pretentious tone "Well Manga, as students of UA we must always pay attention to our classes, as class president I implore you to put all of your effort into your studies!" eliciting a laugh from everyone.

"What about me Midoriya? Kinoko said that you asked her questions about her quirk and that got you going, do you have any questions for me?" Tsuburaba asked.

"How exactly does your quirk work? Just any air you breathe in and in your lungs, you can solidify it when you breathe it out?"

"Well, if you put it that way then yeah. Why ask?"

"Tell me, in the winter, the air is colder, when you use your quirk then, are the constructs colder?" Izuku put his hands together

"Yeah, when I breathe it out and solidify it, it's like cold glass."

"In that case, you could try inhaling different gases, if the things you make in winter are colder, then that means the air you breathed in does have an effect! Think of the gas you could inhale, safely of course, you could ask the support course to make you canisters that store different gas that you could inhale, some gases have higher density so that might mean your constructs would be stronger then!" Izuku smiled as he finished his questions

"That... makes sense! Thanks Midoriya, I have a question for you! What got you into quirk analysis? I understand why Monoma does it, but you don't really have a reason to, it just seems you could adapt to any situation!"

Izuku put on a more gentle look seemingly reminiscing, and phrased his words carefully, "Well, I grew up in a place where I saw a lot of quirks in action, they were great people, but some of them had to fight, and some of them have so called "weak" quirks and yet they kept beating people! It made me think that it's cool to have a powerful or "heroic" quirk and beat people with it, but to use the strong quirk cleverly and outsmart people, is even better, and if someone used a "weak" quirk to do it, it simply makes you more impressive! So that inspired me to think of different ways that quirks can be used in daily life, and thus it made me interested in quirks analysis!"

The rest of the table nodded, Monoma however looked slightly pensive, having a shaky smile.

The rest of the lunch time was spent talking about each other's quirks and how they can improve them, when the bell rang, Monoma grabbed Izuku by the shoulder, "Midoriya can I talk to you for a sec?" Monoma typically full of drama and flair had a slightly embarrassed look on his face, "Midoriya I was asking that during training, if I could copy your quirk to try and get better at controlling it? It's just that it's so interesting and I want to try and use it, I don't mean any offen-"

"Sure, I don't see why not?" Izuku cheerfully replied

"R-really? You don't mind? Monoma asked, slightly bewildered. Izuku patted him on his shoulder "No, I don't mind in fact why do you think I would be offended?"

"I-" before Monoma could continue, Izuku stopped him "Let me guess, people see you as a parasite that can't win on your own and need to rely on someone's power and you fear that if you somehow got better than me at using my quirk I'll be offended. Is that right?"

"Y-yes..."Monoma stuttered out.

Izuku sighed "Monoma, as I mentioned before, growing up I faced a lot of quirks and with that comes quirk discrimination, it sickens me, and I oppose it with all my heart, I will not hate you because of your quirk, I will do it normally and hate you if you're an jerk, simple as that. As one quirk enthusiast to another I understand, the ability to use any quirks is fascinating to beyond belief, you have a quirk that lets you copy others, but it’s not just about mimicking them. You have to learn how to use those quirks in a short amount of time, right? That takes a lot of skill and quick thinking. You’re not just copying a quirk; you’re adapting to it and figuring out how to make it work for you. That’s not something just anyone can do. trust me, don't hate yourself because of your quirk. You're not a thief, many people will kill for your quirk."

Yeah, considering many don't even have one

Izuku felt the scars on his back sting a little

"T-Thank you, Midoriya..."Monoma didn’t know what to say. He had spent so much of his life feeling like he was constantly trying to prove himself, to show that he wasn’t just some quirk thief. And here was Izuku, someone who didn’t see him as a threat or a rival, but as someone with potential.

"Even if you take away the ideological reasons, some practical reasons include if a hero has a quirk that has an important role in a mission, and is the only one who can help with a certain situation, and he somehow goes down, then you can be there to take up his post, and with your skills I'm sure you can use whatever quirk you encounter, so you aren't useless ok?"

Monoma seemingly got back to his usuall dramatic self, "Well then Midoriya! I'm glad that my vote for class rep was not a bad choice!"

Izuku smiled "Monoma on a serious note, you can come to me when it comes to quirks anytime you want ok?"

Monoma seemingly reigned in his dramatic self and nodded slowly "Thank you, thank you Midoriya."

“Listen up, you useless NPCs,” Shigaraki sneered, his voice dripping with disdain and disintegrating a class in his hands. "We’re going to send a message, one that will shake the foundation of hero society to its core.”

He leaned forward, his hands twitching slightly as he spoke. “We have a special surprise for All Might, something that will make him regret ever standing in our way, our cheat code! It’s something that will ensure he can’t keep playing hero for much longer.”

The staff room looked on in concern and horror as the video went on, the break in made sense now, they were missing timetables but they still had the digital copies of it.

"2 days," Eraserhead muttered, his voice grim. "We have 2 days until these villains plan to attack."

"Kan, where in the god damn hell did you find this?" Snipe demanded, turning to Vlad King with a look of disbelief.

Vlad King looked pale, his usually confident demeanor replaced with uncertainty. He raised his hands defensively. "I-I don't know! It was literally seemingly placed in my pocket! I swear!"

The room fell silent for a moment as everyone processed his words. It was almost impossible to believe that something so crucial could have just appeared in his possession, yet the urgency of the situation made it clear that it wasn’t the time to question the details.

Nezu, perched on his seat with a contemplative look, broke the silence. "Whoever placed that video in your pocket clearly wanted us to find it. The question is, why? And more importantly, who did it?"

Present Mic leaned forward, his voice uncharacteristically serious. "The number on that slip of paper… what’s the deal with that? Is it a trap or some kind of code?"

Aizawa crossed his arms, narrowing his eyes at the screen, as if trying to glean more information from the video. "If it were a trap, they wouldn’t have needed to be so subtle about it. They could’ve just sent us on a wild goose chase. This feels like a warning, or maybe even a challenge."

Midnight, seated nearby, tapped a finger against her chin. "What if it’s someone trying to help us? A defector, maybe? Someone on the inside who wants to give us a fighting chance?"

All Might, who had been standing silently in the corner, finally spoke up, his deep voice resonating in the tense air. "It doesn’t matter who or why at this moment. What matters is how we respond. We need to take this seriously, and that means we can’t dismiss any possibility."

Cementoss nodded in agreement. "We should call the number, see what information we can gather. But we need to be cautious—this could be a trap."

Nezu nodded, "Alright I'll make the call, make sure to tap the phones, I want to learn where they're calling from."

It was 4:30 pm, Izuku, Compress and Tetsuchi were waiting in the office, waiting for the call.

"Ok, so you're sure you slipped the USB stick with the paper right?" Izuku nodded, "Now we have the voice filter, and the device Spinner made to stop them from tracking us and if they're tapping us it's gonna show we're in somewhere in the world. I think we're r-"

It was at that moment the phone rang, Compress put on the voice filter, making his voice higher pitched and slightly muffled but still clear. "Hello? To who do i owe the pleasure of speaking to today?"

"This is Principal Nezu of UA High, I believe you know why we're calling?" Nezu on the other line asked in a stressed tone, that he tried to sound cheerful.

"Ah yes, Principal Nezu, what is it you would want to ask?" Compress asked in his silky tone.

"How did you stumble upon that information, what are your motives, and are you villains." Nezu asked in quick succession.

"Principal, some of us received invites for a raid, they gave them to us under the assumption that we will join, and even if we didn't, they would assume we didn't squeal but yet here we are." Compress replied in a casual tone. "As for our motives? Honestly not much to be said, we are simply some concerned citizens who just so happened to come across information like this, however we do have an offer, and as for the last question, well no, I'm not a villain."

"Wait, some of us? and an offer? Elaborate, now." Eraserhead spoke through the phone.

"Ahh Eraserhead! Of course, well we're a group and we have an offer, we will join in the raid against UA-"

"Oh so it's a ransom call isn't it!" Eraserhead barked.

"You didn't even let me finish my sentence, my my, it's as if you are trying to delay me so you can tap our phone." the response on the other side became very quiet.

"No matter, as I was saying, we will join in the raid against UA, on the surface, I understand you will likely have more heroes to join you to prepare, but hey, any help is still good help, we will join and then offer you information, double agents if you will, we have hold on," Compress mouthed to Tetsuchi "How many are willing to go?" To which Tetsuchi wrote on a piece of paper and slid it to his face. " We can offer you 40 people, as double agents and when the raid does happen, we'll fight them as long as you give the signal at the USJ."

"What's your price and besides why would we trust you and if you really can plant 40 people in there and give us info, then why don't we just raid their base before they can even raid us in the first place?" Nezu asked

"Nice, quick and to the point, well the price would be 70 million yen alongside a clean slate for some of these people, don't say you don't have the money anyone who has lived in Japan has seen the absurd amount of money you guys pour into fake cities for your hero students."

"Wait clean slate?" Eraserhead asked over the phone.

"Well yes, some of these people let's say have made mistakes in the past, but it is also exactly the reason the villains will trust them. They know better than to go around snooping in other people's business. They wish for a new life so yes a clean slate, to be provided anonymously of course."

Nezu on the other side of the phone pondered "If what you speak is true and there will be people attacking us, then yes the money can be sent and the records can be erased."

"As for your previous questions, we're the ones who gave you this information, without it students will likely die and maybe even the teachers, if we wish harm we would simply shut up, and as for the whole base raiding thing, none of us know, for all we know that bar in the video could be a front, besides, my friend says that before that video is recorded that mist man, told them that if they wish to join, they should text him, so likely they have some sort of way to get the members around without them actually knowing where they're going and lastly, I don't mean to be snide, but can you heroes really manage to find where they are based out of in two days, when you couldn't even sleuth out an attack on your very own property?"

The other side of the phone was silent, "Very well, if the attack happens and you stick true to your promise, then you will receive your payment alongside the the clean slates you want. But how will you give us the information?"

"Perfect! I will mobilize them now, and don't worry, we have our ways, see you at the USJ!" With that said Compress hung up and nodded to Izuku and Tetsuchi, they started to make calls left and right. Saying things like "It's done." "The deal is up, are you ready to fight?"

They high fived each other, "Hell yeah! We're about to be loaded!" Tetsuchi exclaimed, Compress nodded to himself. "Yes... this money will be helpful to the cove indeed."

Izuku shook Compress's hand, "As a student of UA, thank you for giving us this information, I'm sure the people will appreciate the money and UA will be safe."

A small device Powerloader made beeped.

"Anything from them?" Thirteen asked urgently.

"Yes! It's based out of...."

"Casablanca Morocco?" Midnight asked

Power Loader sighed, shaking his head. “Damn it! They must’ve done something with their phones, scrambled the signals or rerouted them through some kind of relay. There’s no way to trace the call directly.”

The room fell into a tense silence, the weight of the situation pressing down on everyone. Nezu, who had been quietly analyzing the conversation, finally spoke up, his voice calm but laced with concern. “This complicates things. We don’t know who these people are or how reliable they might be. We’re being asked to trust former villains, and while I’m inclined to give people a second chance, we must be cautious.”

"Yeah, when we use double agents they're usually underground heroes. But now we're forced to rely on these people, I still can't believe you took the deal!" Vlad King exclamined.

"They're right! we can't send anyone to try and find out information, they're our best bet, and what the hell did they say about some secret weapon against All Might? They say they're here to kill him to send a message to hero society!" Present Mic yelled.

"Ok the students, how can we best protect them?" Nezu asks

Aizawa intercepted "As their teacher I think we should still let them go to the USJ."

"What why?" The rest of the room was confused.

"Think about it, the students are the safest when they are surrounded by teachers, if we just leave them at campus and got to prepare for the USJ attack, what if it's a diversion, what if the attack is on the campus itself? Therefore I believe, that we should follow class 1A, and leave some of us in UA, we can't just tell them to not come to school, when we make that announcement, they will know no one's there and leave, and then attack another day so we have to fight them."

The rest of the staff room became silent, thinking of their next move.

"ALL RIGHT PEOPLE, THE DEAL IS THROUGH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" A woman in goggles in the workshop declared.

"MONEY!" The entire workshop yelled out, the moment that the offer was accepted, they wasted no time to make costumes and armor for the people joining the raid on the USJ as double agents.

Saws whirred, people got their measurements taken, nails getting drilled in.

“All right, team, let’s get to work!” Tinker called out, his voice carrying over the hum of machinery. “We’ve got armor and costumes to make, and we’ve got to do it fast. The double agents are counting on us to get them equipped for the USJ raid and if we this goes well, we'll be rolling in the dough! Maybe we'll get a 3d printer!”

The engineers sprang into action, each person diving into their respective tasks with practiced ease. Sparks flew as welding torches were ignited, and the sound of metal clanging against metal filled the air. The room was a symphony of creation, each engineer contributing their expertise to the project.

Izuku walked over to Tinker’s station, where his friend was already hard at work on a piece of chest armor. Tinker was focused, his hands moving with precision as he adjusted the fit and made sure the plating would be secure.

"Hi there Tinker, need a hand?

Tinker didn't even realize his existence, Izuku smiled to himself, thinking it's best to leave him alone.

One day later

Izuku and Himiko met up with a few masked figures, they quickly exchanged a handshake, and slips of paper was exchanged, results of years of experience, after that, he quickly left, and putting on a voice filter, and enabling the rerouting application and called UA, after one beep, Nezu picked up.

"Hello Principal Nezu, I'm glad to say we have new information on the USJ villains."

Nezu on the other line, pensively looked at the other teachers, Powerloader with a new and improved gadget gave them a thumbs up.

"You see, they have two main components to get into UA in the first place, one, that mist man has a warp quirk, as long as he knows the coordinates, he can teleport you there, that's how they aim to get in, secondly, they have a jammer, to stop all the electric signals so that you can't call for help. We can't do too much about the mist man, but apparently, he's not completely made of mist, there is a body at the bottom of all that, like a metal frame, I suggest you go for him first, he's the escape route, Thirteen's quirk combined with Eraserhead's can really do damage to him, then the jammer, we can counter it with just our own people bypassing it."

Nezu nodded, "Well, anything on the "weapon against All Might?""

Izuku sighed "Unfortunately not much, apparently to some of the people who have been involved in this plot longer than us, say it's a biological weapon, and apparently has immense power, something that can rival All Might's strength, judging by that description, it's not biological in the sense like a virus, maybe some biological being they made? That's my personal hypothesis though."

Nezu grimaced, a biological being, capable of beating All Might? The rest of the staff looked worried as well, All Might especially had a look of terror, could it be? he thought.

"Anyway, their plan is the same, teleport into the middle of the USJ by the fountain, jam all the signals, scatter the hero students, kill All Might, tomorrow, they will attack when Class 1A has their classes, do you have any requests on what the agents should do? Any assignments or people to target?"

"Let us think." Nezu muted their end and discussed with the rest of the teachers, after a few minutes, Nezu gave his reply.

"The top priority is the student's safety, if any of your agents are stuck between a decision, prioritize the students."

Izuku chuckled "Of course you'll care for the students, all right then I'll tell them all."

Nezu's voice came through again, in an eerily cheerful tone. "Listen, if this is a trick, not only will you not be seeing a cent of that money, your record will be tainted to the point the devil will be scared, you will not live to see prison, you hear me? If there is a villain attack, you better uphold your end of the deal, if there isn't you could still be in trouble for false reporting, no matter what your motive is."

No wonder the teachers are afraid of himIzuku thought, "I -I assure you sir, we have given you this information out of pure concern, and have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it's true, I wouldn't dare offend any of UA staff, I know you all are smarter than that. With that said, there is one thing left, can you tell Ectoplasm to feel his pocket?"

Nezu, asked Ectoplasm to do so, perplexed, Ectoplasm reached into his back pocket and pulled out a sigil, a hexagon, with a seigaha at the bottom and a koi fish jumping over it. Alongside many small whistles "What the fu-"

"That is the sigil of our group, and the whistles are the signal, whenever you are ready, just blow on it, then the agents will be activated and turn on the villains, any sigil bearer is a member of the group, do not harm them."

Nezu immediately pressed for questions. "How on earth, did you get those items to UA grounds and into the pockets of a UA teacher!"

"We have our ways sir, with that said, that is all I have for you today, if nothing else, I'm going to hang up now, bye!"

With the dull tone of a hung up phone, Nezu looked to Power loader, where he shook his head.

"Novosibirsk, Russia, we can't pin point any location."

"Well, let's hope this isn't a trap..." Present Mic pinched the bridge of his nose.

On the other end, Izuku breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, at least they made plans for it, now let's just wait and see."

Himiko tugged on Izuku's hand, "Zuku... I know you're not going to the USJ but it's still scary... be safe ok?"

Izuku smiled warmly at his girlfriend, "Of course Himi."

Eraserhead, Aizawa Shouta wasn't normally a nervous man but knowing what the hell might be happening next he can't help but feel worried.

They have summoned all the heroes, except for Hound Dog and Power Loader to stay at the school just in case, the rest of the teachers after telling their class they had a free period, gathered a couple hundred meters away from the USJ, alongside some local heroes they have called in, amongst them included Kamui Woods, Death Arms, Mount Lady and Mr Brave.

"What do you think we're gonna do today?" Mina asked

Oh right his problem children, they will be the most difficult part of this lesson.

"I don't know, but I hope I get to meet Thirteen! She's one of my favorites!" Uraraka said from the back of the bus.

"Shut up, It's just a rescue training exercise you extras!" Bakugo snarled.

"Oh of course you wouldn't like a rescue exercise wouldn't you, you just care about beating people up." Kaminari joked.

"Tch..."

"Yeah, you're very mean and unbearable to be with kero." Tsuyu added.

"Yeah man, what's your problem? You have a personality of a flaming garbage can." Rin said next to her.

"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU EXT-"

"Bakugo! It is unbecoming of you to yell at your fellow classmates! Please sit down and refrain from yelling!"

"Quiet, we're almost there." Eraserhead said tiredly from the front of the bus.

They get off the bus and approach the gates of the USJ, Thirteen was there to meet them.

"Hello students!"

"Thirteen!" Uraraka exclaimed.

"Yes that's me! And welcome to my domain, the USJ! Where you will be learning about rescue operations, as a rescue hero myself, it is very important to consider every little detail in a disaster situation. First of all, you guys all know my quirk right? Blackhole, I can make a blackhole suction effect from my hands. Do you know how strong it could be?"

The rest of the class shook their heads, "They're so strong, that not even light can escape them, I am telling you this because I want to say your powers are not meant to inflict harm. I hope you leave here today with the understanding that you're meant to help people. Heroes aren't only about beating up villains you know."

The rest of the class nodded their heads, except for Bakugo who just rolled his eyes, and Shoto who just looked forward with an uninterested look.

As the class walked into the USJ closer to the entrance main training grounds. Eraserhead approached Thriteen.

"You got everything ready? You do know we are the ones in charge of getting rid of their get away right?"

"Of course Shouta, I have the quirk suppressant cuffs ready, so do you, I still have doubts on whether or not it's a genuine tip off or just an elaborate plot, I'm still worried. At least the buses are still outside, waiting."

"I get it Anan, Hound Dog and Power loader are back at campus, just in case."

"Hey! Look they even have villain actors here!" Kirishima exclaimed.

Eraserhead and Thirteen whipped their head towards the USJ, seeing a black mist appear.

"sh*t." "sh*t."