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Every kid wants to be a hero but has anyone ever noticed that most of the top heroes have extremely strong quirks. Now of course there are exceptions, Crust has a pretty simple quirk and Eraserhead doesn’t even have an offense quirk. But what if someone wants to be a hero but he lacks a quirk.
That’s where the story of Izuku Midoriya begins.
Izuku Midoriya has been called by many names: sweetie by his mom Inko, Midoriya by other adults, freak by the other kids and most importantly, Deku by Kacchan aka Bakugou Katsuki. You may ask why that punk Kacchan is such a dick to him but the answer is quite easy, Izuku is quirkless, powerless, WORTHLESS.
The early years of his life were great, watching All Might on his computer with Kacchan while their moms were drinking tea (and secretly taking pictures of the two toddlers)
Izuku still remembered the video they watched, it was All Might’s debut. The symbol of peace saved hundreds of people from a burning building. That video still inspired the greenette.
But the moment Kacchan got his quirk, things started to change. Bakugou got more and more violent. The breaking point was when Izuku tried defending a black haired boy with a small scar on his right eye. Bakugou and his buddies kicked, punched and burned izuku while the black haired boy ran away, muttering something to himself about being unmanly. And somehow 10 years later Bakugou only got worse.
“Alright settle down, settle down.” The teacher said unenthusiastically. “I know you all have great quirks and want to get into UA but calm down.”
“What the hell did you just say! Don’t compare my godlike power to these sorry excuses.” Bakugou roared through the classroom with a ugly scowl on his face.
“I know Bakugou, you probably have the best quirk in the school’s history but some of your classmates have good quirks too.” The teacher
“Kacchan, can you please calm down.” Izuku softly asked.
“Shut your fucking mouth Deku!” Was the blond’s loud response.
“Silence Midoriya or do you want detention?” The teacher asked, not acknowledging Kacchan’s yelling. “I’m pretty sure that a bad mark on your record will destroy your chances at going to UA even more than your quirkless status.” He continued without a care.
“You want to go to fucking UA!? How dare you, I’m the only one of this shithole who deserves to accomplish something at UA.” Kacchan snarled, exploding Izuku’s desk in fit of rage.
Eventually the angry piece of dynamite walked up to his target after class. ‘I know what you’re trying to do, you’re gonna try to get into UA and embarrass me. Well I have a better idea, don’t try it freak and take a swan dive off the roof, pray you hopefully get a quirk in your next life. Maybe it will be a tenth as awesome as mine is.’ After that he just left.
On his way home, Izuku decided to take a shortcut through a tunnel but what he saw inside made his day go from 3 to 2.
A boy, about his age, with short, wavy, light brown hair, brown eyes and a gasmask hanging around his neck. The boy was being attacked by a man made of a green, slimy liquid.
Izuku wanted to help the boy but what was he gonna do without a quirk, so he just stood there watching in terror and unable to move.
“What would a quirkless loser like me even do to help.” Izuku thought to himself.
Luckily just as the boy and slime-man noticed Izuku, a big silhouette appeared and got the gas mask wearing boy free with a single punch. It was All Might.
Izuku was speechless, his hero was standing in front of him.Should he ask for an autograph? “Maybe he knows if I can be a hero without a quirk,” he thought. So before All Might jump off, he grabbed the mant’s leg. About three rooftops further and a harsh scolding from his idol, the two noticed a third person on the rooftop with them: the boy with the gas mask, the gas mask currently hanging around Izuku’s leg.
“He followed us all this way just for his gasmask?” Izuku and All Might thought.
“You’re a moron, aren't you greenie, not noticing something hanging around your own leg and then hanging onto this gorilla’s leg”. “And you,” the boy pointed at All Might,”you’re number one, yet you don’t notice two boys hanging onto you. I kinda expected better.” They looked dumbfounded at the odd boy as he grabbed his mask.
“Are you alright?” Izuku asked cautiously.
“Why yeah, I’m doing perfect. Being attacked by shit, almost losing my mask and following All Might for a mile through the air. Why would you hang onto All Might? We could have fallen and died.’ The masked kid asked back.
“I need to ask something.”
“Then ask him quickly because he is about to leave.” Izuku turned around and saw that All Might was indeed leaving while smoke started coming from him.
“Wait All Might, I need to ask you something.” All Might, still surrounded by smoke, stopped for a moment. “You see, I don’t have a quirk but I still want to be a hero. A hero like you who saves everyone with a smile. I dreamt of it my whole life. So do you think I can be a..” his words died down in his throat as the smoke revealed someone resembling a corpse.
Before the two boys could scream, the corpse quickly started explaining. “Before you ask, yes I am All Might.” The hero said. “I suppose that I should explain. Years ago I fought a very powerful villain, I managed to defeat him but at the cost of most of my organs.” All Might explained.
“Was it Moonfish or was it the healing killer, Ima Washiki?” Izuku quickly asked.
“No, but you know your stuff dontcha.” All Might answered with a laugh. “The fight I am talking about was kept secret from the public, and speaking of secrets, I advise you both to keep my appearance to yourselves.” Both the boys nodded.
“And lastly the answer to your question. No, I don’t think you can be a hero without a quirk, it’s just too dangerous.” All Might said a tat too harsh. “Having a dream is great but it should be realistic. If you want to save people you should become a police officer or paramedics, both are fantastic and important jobs.” And with that the hero left, not noticing that the missing slime villain he put in his pocket earlier, was missing.
Izuku was devastated, his hero told him to give up on his lifelong dream. He was about to sob until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
“For what it’s worth, I thought you were a hero when you at least thought about saving me. Plenty of people would have ran away.” The boy with the gasmask said.
“I still didn’t do anything.” Izuku said back dejected. The boy just shrugged.
“You got a name?” The boy then asked.
“Izuku Midoriya”
“Satoshi Shirakumo” he said back. “Let’s get down.” And just as they were about to leave, they noticed an explosion in the background. While Satoshi thought about him possibly making a friend in the form of this weird kid, Izuku thought about one thing
‘Kacchan’.
Bakugou katsuki was just minding his own business, which was mostly comprised of yelling at his lackeys about their lazy or dumb behavior. The useless fucks kept telling him that he may have been too harsh to that shitty nerd.
“I was not being too harsh to shitty Deku, he just had to know his place. Which is beneath my feet. Besides, what is he gonna do? He doesn’t even have a quirk. He’s like a bug, his only purpose is to be squashed!” Bakugou yelled back.
“Whatever, we’re leaving” his lackeys said.
Bakugou was dumbfounded, “you spineless, good-for-nothing, weak pieces of shit! You fuckers can’t just walk away from me!” He roared.
“Quiet down brat.” Some bystander said back.
“Zip it side character!”
Bakugou was just not angry, not just pissed, not even just furious, he was worse. So when he noticed a bottle on the ground, he put all that anger in one kick and broke the bottle in two against the wall. What he didn’t expect was the moving ooze coming from the broken bottle.
“A new skinsuit, and an even better one than the last.” The thing said before jumping onto Bakugou.
Despite being in constant danger with Kacchan around, Izuku never ran as fast as he’s doing now with Satoshi following him.
“Where the hell are you going?” Satoshi asks between gasps of air.
“Someone I know can make explosions with his quirk, so maybe he’s in danger.” Izuku said with an obvious panicky look on his face.
“Must be a friend of his.” Satoshi thought.
When they arrived at the scene they saw three heroes; Death arms, Kamui woods and Mt. lady. Izuku became excited and was about to grab his notebook until he saw who the three heroes were up against. The sludge villain that attacked Satoshi was now attacking Kacchan.
“Why is the villain free? Is this my fault? Of Course it’s my fault, I distracted All Might. Why aren't the heroes doing something? How long is this already going on?” All of these thoughts and more were going through Izuku's head.
“So should we go or do you want to keep staring at the heroes?” Satoshi asked casually.
“That thing got him.” his green haired friend answered.
”Got who?” Satoshi asked, confused.
“Kacchan” was the only word Izuku said back.
That got Satoshi’s attention but before he could say something, Izuku was already gone. The greenette ran past the heroes, ignoring theirs and his friend’s orders to come back.
So what would an insecure, quirkless, 14-year old do against a man with no nervesystem?
Why scratch his eye out long enough to get his classmate free of course. So while Izuku kept digging into the sludge villain, Bakugou used his first opportunity to say something, by insulting Izuku and threatening to kill both him and the villain. His yelling really didn’t help either of them as the villain regain his composure and began to attack Izuku.
And just when Izuku thought that it was over, he heard three glorious words.
“ I am here! ”
And before he could even say “look All Might” the two boys were already free.
The following hour was a blur; the heroes kept praising Kacchan for making their job harder and scolded Deku for trying to do their job. The only redeeming thing was that Satoshi stood up for him. But why did he have to do it by insulting the heroes?
“He was doing the job you useless fakes were too scared to do.”
“Can you three actually do your jobs with your o-so powerful quirks?”
“You three really couldn’t handle an overgrown turt? So much for that.”
It took another hour of the pros scolding both of them and Satoshi flipping them off before the boys could leave.
“Superpower, control over their own body which is made of wood and the ability to grow ginormous, and they still couldn’t do anything. What a bunch of frauds.” Satoshi growled to himself, Izuku could still hear him.
Upon noticing that his new friend was awfully quiet, Satoshi decided to change the subject. So he asked “I know today must suck for you but would you like to come play video games with me and my best friend?”
“Thanks but I should probably get home before my mom gets a heart attack.” Izuku answered. “Aren’t your parents worried about you?” He then asked his first sorta friend since Kacchan.
“I live alone with said friend.” Answered Satoshi. “And according to the tracker we put on both our phones he is coming around the corner, probably looking for me in three seconds.”
“Why do you have trackers on each other’s phone?”
“He gets lost very often.”
Two seconds later Satoshi’s friend came running around the corner but the weird thing was that this kid looked like a lizard.
“Where the hell were you and who is this kid?” The lizard asked while pointing at Izuku.
“Flipping off some heroes a few streets ago after almost being molested by a literal turd monster. Also this is Izuku Midoriya.” Izuku just waved at the reptilian boy. “Midoriya, this is Shuichi Iguchi. My brother from a different mother.”
“Alright then, nice to meet you Midoriya.” Shuichi said casually like his best friend wasn’t almost killed by a villain.
And as if the moment couldn’t get any weirder the trio heard someone loudly running towards them; it was All Might.
“Young man, I would like to speak to you persona-bluh…” he couldn’t finish his sentence as he began coughing up blood.
Izuku quickly began helping the man, Satoshi reluctantly began helping the sick man too and Shuichi, he was vomiting into some bushes.
“Christ All Might, you look much better on tv.” Shuichi said with a sore throat.
“Sorry young men, but can I please talk to your green haired friend in private.” All Might asked.
Satoshi and Shuichi exchanged a look and Satoshi answered; “Fine with us but
Midoriya, if All Might tries to touch you. Give us a call and we’ll beat him up for you.” Satoshi said while Shuichi cracked his knuckles.
The one of all user and future one for all user were dumbfounded.“Did these two just threaten the number one hero?” They asked themselves.
After exchanging numbers with Izuku, the two boys left to go home and probably play video games for the next 5 hours. Izuku and All Might could finally start their conversation.
“You have great friends, young man.” All Might said with a small smile on his face.
“I met one just before you told me I couldn’t be a hero. And the other I just met three minutes ago. But I Guess you're right.”Izuku said with a disappointed look, remembering his hero crushing his lifelong dream.
All Might noticed this and began to speak. “I could have told you that in a more subtle way, but you needed to know that without powers being a hero is impossible.”
Hearing this made Izuku only feel worse.
“Yet, you jumped into danger, recklessly might I add, just to save someone.” That got Izuku to feel a little better. “So let’s change the no powers part because I think, no I know you have what it takes to be a hero.”
At that point, the tears began to run over Izuku's cheeks.
“What is your name, young man?”
“Izuku Midoriya sir” the greenette answered.
“Young Midoriya, you are worthy to inherit my power.”