A/N: Hello everyone welcome to the new version of mine and Max's story Class is in Session. I just deleted the old version earlier today, we finished this late night and now here we are, we hope you like it. Thanks of course to MaxGentlman1, my friend co-author and beta for this story! Check out his solo stories he's awesome!
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-Musutafu, Japan. Seven Years Ago-
A little boy was walking alone through the city, his blonde hair long and matted covering dark purple eyes. As he walked people turned a blind eye or deliberately looked away. He was tired, cold and most importantly of all, at least for him right now, hungry. He was so hungry and thirsty in fact that he almost wished he hadn't run away. Almost. But he knew that running had been the right thing to do.
-Flashback-
He was suspended in a large vat filled with dark green and grey liquid. In front of him was what could only be called a purple mist with glowing yellow eyes dressed in a suit. The mist looked down at a console and then over to another man dressed in a black suit.
"The quirk seems to have stabilised well, Master." The mist said carefully.
"Excellent, I expected nothing less, though I wish we hadn't had to raise this particular project so slowly." The man in the black suit said as they let the liquid drain from the tube. The boy slowly landed on his feet as he was handed a pair of black pants and black shirt.
"So what are you going to do with it?" Asked a teenage boy with long blue hair, and pale skin sounding almost bored.
"Now that we can be sure the quirk has manifested properly, I am going to have him altered. Changed so that his very appearance will be a blight to All Might." The man said.
"Changed? What do you mean dad? I don't want to change!" The boy said backing away.
"Aw, isn't that sweet? The Nomu thinks he's a person." The Teenage Boy said tauntingly as the boy began to back away from them all.
"No, no! Leave me alone!" He said staggering and stumbling backward and falling over.
"Be still child it won't hurt for long." The Mist said beginning to expand around him.
"No! Stay away from me! I said STAY AWAY!" The boy shouted his eyes glowing bright purple as suddenly a wave of force blasted from him in all directions. It shattered the instruments, and computers all around him.
More importantly the three men in the room, not expecting something quite so strong, were flung backward. The teen crashed through a computer bank the mist dissipated before forming in the suit slumped against a wall. The man in the black suit had been flung backwards and hit a wall slumping against it.
Without thinking, still terrified, the boy ran, sprinting to the door down several hallways moving faster than he ever had before he stumbled out into the streets and kept running as fast as his feet could carry him.
-Flashback Ends-
That had been nearly three or four days ago from what he could tell. That time between then and now became a bit of a blur to him. All that he could really remember doing was running as fast as he could for as long as he could. The results of which were him being exhausted, dehydrated, and near starving to death.
He licked his tongue across his dry, chapped, and cracked lips. He had to eat and drink something before he keeled over. His stomach growled seemingly in agreement with his thoughts.
However he had no real way to get those things. Not without getting himself arrested, which might get him what he wanted, or may not.
As he thought about it all, it began to rain. Looking up somewhat hopefully, he opened his mouth and allowed droplets of water to fall in. Closing his eyes he drank whatever he could manage. Then after a few mouthfuls of water the rain stopped, or rather it stopped hitting him. He could still hear it hitting objects around or above him.
He opened his eyes, and was surprised to see a family of three looking down at him. All three had deep black eyes as well as light skin. The man had long shaggy looking blonde hair, while the woman and her daughter each had long hair as black as their eyes tied into ponytails. All three were smiling down at him as the man held their large umbrella over them all. They all were dressed in expensive looking clothes.
"Hello young man, are you alright?" The woman asked gently.
"Yes, I mean no… I… I don't know," He admitted, starting to tear up a little.
"Hey, don't cry! We can help you!" The girl said, smiling as she squatted down to look him in the eyes.
"No, you can't. No one can," He said bitterly.
"We can. Come on, young man, where's your family live?" The man asked.
"I… I don't really have one anymore I ran from some… bad people," The boy said carefully, he couldn't really tell them who he had run from, mostly because he wasn't sure how much people knew about the man.
"Oh, you poor thing," The woman squatted down beside her daughter placing a hand on the boys shoulder; "Tell you what, why don't you come with us? We can try and find your family, and in the meantime we can keep you safe," She offered.
"Yeah, come on! We have room, it'll be fun!" The girl said excitedly pulling at his arm and trying to get him to move.
"You.., you don't have to do that. Really, I don't want to impose on you all," He said, stunned at the offer.
"Believe me, you wouldn't be. Come on. It's alright," The man said, offering a hand to the boy.
He stared at the hand for a moment as though it were some mystic object and then in addition to the girl pulling at his arm he let them help him up and followed them to a large car not too far away.
As they got in and he admired the inside of the car the girl finally asked "So, what's your name?"
"Yusei… I don't really have a last name. You?" He asked.
"I'm Momo. Momo Yaoyorozu," She said, smiling at him as he, for the first time in a while, smiled back.
-Musutafu Park. Six Months Later-
Izuku Midoriya was not having a good day. Not at all, which wasn't new for the seven year old, but this day in particular was shaping up bad. He was staring down his… well... he couldn't really say friend. More frenemy?
Katsuki Bakugo, along with a few other boys were all smirking at him as he stood alone in front of another boy.
"Stop hurting him Ka-Chan, you don't have to do this!" Izuku said desperately.
"Get out of the way Deku, you don't want to get hurt too, do you?" Bakugo asked a small explosion going off in his hands.
"If you won't stop then I… I'll stop you myself!" Izuku said still sounding terrified but determined.
"Okay, have it your way Deku!" Bakugo said as he raised his fist, preparing to strike as Izuku closed his eyes, ready to feel pain. However, that pain didn't come. Confused, Izuku opened his eyes and looked up and, to his utter shock and awe, Bakugo's arm was being held back by someone's hand.
"Hey, blondie, leave him alone, will ya?" A new voice said. Izuku and the others looked behind them to see three other kids, two boys and one girl, all glaring at Bakugo and the others. One of them, a young boy about their age with black, messy hair and wearing a green shirt, and appearing to be the source of the voice, was also the one holding the ash blonde boy back by his wrist.
"Hey, you stay out of this! It's none of your business!" Bakugo yelled in anger, turning to them and yanking his wrist free from the boy.
"Really? Because when a bunch of jerks are trying to act tough and seem cool by beating up a couple of defenseless kids, that's when it becomes our business!" The second boy of the three-person group said. He had short brown hair tied into a short ponytail in the back.
"Who the heck do you think you are to call us 'jerks', huh?" One of Bakugo's lackys demanded of the group.
"Right, how could we forget to introduce ourselves?" The boy in green asked in a tone heavy with sarcasm before smirking and gesturing to himself and his comrades, "Name's Yusuke Kobayashi," He said before pointing his thumb toward the girl of the group on his left, who looked similar to the other boy but with purple streaks in her longer hair and softer features.
"This my friend, Jolyne," He said before turning to the other boy.
"And this is her brother, Yamato. Now, like I was saying, blondie, why don't you and your… I wanna say 'friends', turn around and leave before we make you," The boy challenged, cracking his knuckles.
Izuku was in shock. He knew these people, granted it was by reputation only, but still. Though it didn't seem that Bakugo knew of them like he did. If he listened to the rumors and, if half of them were true, this was Yusuke Kobayashi and the Higashikata Siblings. The meanest, toughest, and youngest gang of kid delinquents this side of Tokyo. They were so infamous that they made Bakugo look like a kitten by comparison.
Bakugo, however, seemed unfazed. Almost amused, even.
"Why would any of you want to help Deku? He's a Quirkless nobody. Besides, you all don't look half as tough as rumors say you are. Aren't you supposed to be mean enough that older kids don't even fight you?" Bakugo asked with a chuckle.
"Well, you're welcome to find out," Yamato said.
"Just because he's Quirkless doesn't give you the right to beat on him. Now get lost or get hurt. Final warning," Yusuke said, glaring at the explosive child.
Bakugo's friends chuckled a bit before one of them stepped up with a smirk of confidence as he approached them.
"Why should we be afraid of you guys? I bet you're not even that tough. You know what I think?" He said as he stepped up to Jolyne and got in her face. "I bet that you're all nothing but talk."
The second the kid said that, Jolyne, fast as a bullet, delivered a powerful punch to the kid's face, knocking him to the ground as something red and white hit the pavement with him as he screamed in pain.
"Aaaaahhhh! My face! M-my tooth!" The kid yelled.
Indeed, what hit the ground was, in fact, the kid's tooth.
"All talk huh?" She asked smirking, before faster than Izuku could keep up with her brother rushed forward hitting Bakugo's other friend right in the stomach, delivering enough force to make the kid keel over in pain.
It did not, however, end there. Once Bakugo had a chance to take in the situation, he was in shock as Jolyne seemed to tap the one who was now bleeding from the mouth on his shoulder. His tooth suddenly floated up off the ground and shot back into place with a very painful sounding
SQUELCH
"So do you want us to spend a few minutes knocking out your teeth over and over or are we done here?" Yusuke asked as Yamato, quick as a flash, appeared beside his sister, helped the other boy up before pushing him back to his friends, before the two stood beside Yusuke.
Knowing that he was outmatched (Or at least the very least outnumbered), Bakugo let out a "Tsk" in annoyance before turning to Izuku and glared at him.
"Alright fine. You got lucky, Deku. Just keep an eye open. They can't always be there to protect you."
"You say that, but we'll see, firework," Jolyne said sticking her tongue out at him. Bakugo's eyes narrowed, but he let out a breath and walked away, his friends walking along in his wake.
Once they were satisfied that the others were not going to turn around and attack, they turned to Izuku, who flinched slightly. He wasn't sure what to expect. What if they wanted something from him? What if they had only saved him so that they could beat him up, or worse, rob him of his pocket money?
"Sheesh, will you calm down. You look like your going to piss your pants from fear any second now," Yusuke said in a somewhat annoyed-sounding voice as he looked down at the green-haired boy.
This made Izuku flinch a bit at the boy's somewhat crass language. Though, if he was being honest, he wasn't too far off the mark.
"Look, are you okay or what?" He asked with a somewhat quizzical look on his face.
Straightening up and steeling himself a bit, Izuku tried his best to look the taller boy in the eye, but failed miserably as he mumbled somewhat incoherently.
"Um, yeah, I'm fine," He said under his breath, utterly afraid.
"What was that?" Yusuke asked, sounding intimidating, even though he didn't seem to be trying.
"I said, 'Yes, I'm fine'!" Izuku yelped out in utter terror and dread of what the boy could do to him.
"Alright then," Yusuke said, his eyes closed as he turned on his heel and started walking away. "Come on, guys," He said as the group began to take their leave.
"Hey, wait! So that's it? I mean… you aren't going to hurt me or anything?" Izuku asked carefully, preparing to run if they said yes.
"Nope," Yusuke said, popping the 'p' as they turned to face Izuku again.
"Why? Should we want to?" Yamato asked casually and Izuku backed away, waving his arms back and forth at a frantic pace.
"No, no, I mean I'm not a threat to you, why would you want to? It's just… thank you. All of you seriously saved me and I appreciate it," He said. They all smiled a little at that.
"Well we saw you standing up for that other kid, even though you didn't have to. Seems this was the least we could do. You've got guts," Jolyne said.
"Yeah, though do you really know how to fight? Your stance was… sloppy," Yamato chuckled as Izuku shook his head.
"No, but I had to do something right? A hero wouldn't back down and I… really want to be one someday," He admitted after a pause.
Yusuke stared at him, eyebrow raised, and then gestured to the twins. The three fell into a kind of huddle and Izuku couldn't hear them for a few moments as they conversed. He was starting to wonder if they expected him to leave when the huddle broke apart.
"Okay then. Well, congratulations, kid. Welcome to our little club," Yusuke said, smiling and offering his hand.
"Wait, what!?" Izuku asked, completely stunned.
"Are you hard of hearing?" Yusuke asked sarcastically. "I said 'welcome to our little club'. If you want in, of course. You seem like a good guy, and we can respect that. So? What do ya say?" He asked.
"I mean… I… you guys aren't like a gang, are you?" Izuku asked.
"No, at least not exactly. We only fight when the situation calls for it or if Yusuke's big mouth gets us in a situation," Jolyne said.
"That happened one time!" Yusuke said indignantly.
"Five times," Yamato corrected.
"Nearly six if you count those kids from Hosu City," Jolyne.
"One, six, who's really counting?" Yusuke asked, seeming unfazed by the twins taunting but offering Izuku his hand again.
"We can teach you to fight that way even without a quirk, at least so you can defend yourself. Besides, you're our friend now we'll be there too," He said. Izuku seemed to pause for a moment and then, nervously smiling, shook the other boy's hand.
"Welcome to the club, kid. Now where do you live? it's getting dark out and I bet mom's getting ready to start stressing about where the hell I am," He sighed.
Izuku gave them directions and together, the four of them went off into the city, away from the setting sun. Izuku couldn't help but smile. For the first time in years, he had real friends. And for the first time in a long time… He was happy.
A/N: So ends chapter 1...not much to say here really. We hope you liked it leave a review, fav or follow all that good stuff. See you next chapter!
