The Songstress Reborn

Hisashi and Inko Midoriya knew their daughter is powerful.

When Inko's water broke, they received visions of a mark. A mark on the left hand of a male and a female by his side. Both forms unseen, just silhouettes. Then a pair of hands clasping together

When their baby girl was born, she seems normal...but her hair was a very pale green in color ombreing into dark green tips.

'Honey, I don't think I want our daughter's destiny mapped out for her already judging by what we saw.' said Hisashi. 'Just saying.' he said as his wife breast-fed their daughter.

'Now now...it's just a dream dear...'

'A dream we both saw?' Hisashi wondered. 'That dream...we named our daughter Inori because of what we saw. She must have had a mutated Quirk and those tend to be powerful.' he said. 'Its nothing like ours and that worries me.'

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As children...

Bakugo Katsuki stared at the silent girl with her mother.

She was like a doll.

His family recently moved to Musutafu because of his parents' job, and the lady, Midoriya Inko was the first welcomer to their neighborhood. His parents were relieved to have a friendly face around unfamiliar territory.

But dang, the girl is...CUTE!

He could only stare dumbly at the pigtailed girl with weird hair. Her eyes have thick, long lashes, jewel-green eyes that's nothing like her mother's but at least, same fair skin. She wore a white dress and doll shoes.

Her appearance was something that pushes anyone who sees her to protect her.

That was what he had known since preschool.

Midoriya Inori was a very quiet girl who only speaks when spoken to or necessary, but due to their parents' friendships, they grew up together.

Once she got used to him, she was actually friendly, but TOO reserved. She's also fond of making and singing songs. It was to the extent that her mother encourages her to enter singing contests...and since they're all original songs, along with her own music...she was famous since elementary for her song that became...controversial(My Dearest, Departures)...for its lyrics. It doesn't help that incase with tourists around, there was a big monitor onstage with an english translation! They're love songs but said songs were about 'love that hurts', making people wonder how she came up with those, when her family's a normal good family!

And in social media, said songs hit home to many, many people, she was asked WHY those songs by an interviewer!

'...you're asking me why with a world like ours?' Inori would deadpan in camera. 'Not all people who love have happy endings. That only happens in romance novels, fantasies of many people written in books. If you want love with a happy ending, tell people to stop bias and prejudice first when different people fall in love so sad love songs won't exist. But that's wishful thinking as people can be petty over small things they make big when it didn't have to be. You can speak, you can preach but will people put it to practice for pairs who have different social status to have happy endings?'

'I-is that what a nine years old girl should say?' the Contest Host squeaked, shaken. She won the contest for being original, making her own songs and even music, having had to hire a composer to make it sound how she wants it to sound but her mother was told to never let her kid near romance novels ever again.

'Huh? But I don't have any at home since my husband dislikes those unrealistic things.' Inko would sputter, 'Check my house if you like, we don't own a single romance novel or a movie! My TV Cables are all wired to show family-friendly and comedy things!' they checked and none!

So how did Inori come up with those morbid things, was a mystery by itself.

It became Katsuki's job to ahem, stop her from writing morbid songs and encourage her to write good ones.

Not only that, there was this!

'What do you want in your future'.

Hers was?

'I want to find my King.' said Inori, reading out her piece.

'HAAA?!'

'I-Inori-chan, what do you mean by that?' her teacher croaked out to her controversial student nervously.

'My Quirk was born a pair, but another person has control over half my Quirk. He is my king but he's somewhere.' said Inori. 'When I awakened my Quirk, all I could see was a shadow of a male when I crystallized my bedroom on my birthday. His right hand has a mark that lets him unleash my full power but only he gets to use it, I can't. I want to be with my King.'

That, pissed off Katsuki out of jealousy. Inori was his, first! And now some nobody will have her just because?!

He was paranoid since and glared at idiots who tried to draw on their hands with a sharpie since he wasn't the only one who has a crush on his childhood friend.

By the end of elementary...she entered another contest again and people DREADED she came onstage...music alone made them know its gonna be another sad love song again...but this time, its...cute?

I'm standing there right by your side,
I'm always waiting for you.
But you don't return my advances,
I've been disappointed oh so many times.
When I fall in love with someone,
why does it cause me so much pain?
It's like I've fallen sick all by myself.

And now it's Baby Baby Love.
Please I beg of you Baby Baby Love.
When I feel I am going to lose to this loneliness,
I have to look into my hand mirror.

And now it's Baby Baby Love.
Seems like every day I'm crying through the night.
I long for the past, smiling to myself,
Wanting to be together with you.

Nobody knows about these secret tears,
The one to wipe them away is Only,
not just by myself, but wanting to be together with you.

Love brings a Lonely Lonely Heart.
I'm just all alone now Lonely Lonely Heart.
All the joy and pain I feel, I'm always dreaming it by myself.

Love brings a Lonely Lonely Heart.
But I know that someday it will come.
While I'm being held in your strong arms,
wanting to be together with you.

Well, its a song about First Puppy Love this time, it was better than what she's got before!

And she's 13 years old.

Then again, at that age...what she sang about happens a lot at Puberty!

xxx

15 years old...she sang her last song...she made it clear in her last contest.

'Inori, this is it.' said Katsuki as they looked at their would-be high school, UA Academy. 'We're gonna be Heroes for sure!'

'Hero...huh? I wonder what it'll be like if we make it...I'm kinda nervous.' Inori gulped.

'Come on Inori, we can do this! We got strong Quirks!' Katsuki scoffed. 'Only the strongest win! You can't beat villains much less throw em' in the slammer if you're weak.'

Inori took to thinking as Katsuki dragged her in school.

In her past life, she was a superhuman who can take on Endlaves by herself.

But now, she's not superhuman anymore. Her human abilities are hard-earned through hard training to reach peak strength. But while she retains her ability to control crystals, at least they're no longer a disease but instead, diamond constructs, though the Void Power remains, hence her need of her new King. She tested on insects and caught rats in sewers, they didn't get 'that virus'. They're ordinary crystals now but it can still be sharp and durable how she wanted them to be...and then there's her former crystal forme.

Her Crystal Forme boosts her physical prowess by a factor of ten, hence she had to be at her physical peak at base form to make her Forme worth using.

She hoped she doesn't have to resort to that...

She tested her powers on the sly, and the unwanted stuff are gone, though changes came to be as compensation.

But the important part is, nobody dies unless she deliberately kills by a stab and hack.

Present Mic hosted the Practical Exams. But...

'Ah...we'll be separated...' Inori mused as Bakugo snorted.

'Makes sense, to avoid too many from the same school to pass or to avoid them sabotaging each other instead of focusing on the exams.' he said. 'Those two things can happen when the purpose was sieving flour from clumps.'

'...I think you've seen too many cooking shows.'

'Because I want new spicy stuff in the house.' and they all got up to go to their assigned blocks and get changed in the changing rooms there.

xxx

In her block, Block H...

She wore a black turtleneck backless one piece suit ending in shorts. She also has thigh-high tights, ankle boots, and elbow warmers.

'Hey, isn't that girl Inori-chan?'

'She's trying for the Hero Course too!'

'She's so cute up close!'

'What's her Quirk like though? She mentioned in the last contest she'll stop singing. No idea she'd try out.'

'Begin!'

Inori was the first to dash, exploiting the fact they were too busy ogling her.

'Hey! I already said begin! Run run! The die's been cast!' Present Mic yelled.

xxx

'Well, at least someone in this block is paying attention.' said Midnight wryly as they watched Inori being way ahead onscreen.

'Famous, but Controversial Singer, Midoriya Inori...who wouldn't know her?' said Snipe. 'As a kid she sings...rather twisted love songs she writes and composes herself and has a rather twisted view about it making people wonder if she saw real live examples just by walking home from school or something. She got better with her Baby Love song.'

'Well, this one will go to Counseling that's for sure.' Recovery Girl chuckled. 'Love isn't always painful. Its in fact, a very good thing. We should set her straight on that notion if she becomes our student.'

'I'd say she's one of our more...competent ones if you ask me.' said Ectoplasm, scratching his cheek as they watched her move like a pro onscreen.

'Mm. I'd say she invested a lot of time but her Quirk is also interesting...its not ice but...glass?' Cementoss mused.

'Glass can't cut robots...what's in her file?'

'Crystal Constructs.' Nezu piped as he looked into his computer. 'They're diamonds.'

'WHAT?!'

'The catch was, they're only worth something when still attached to her body when she makes them. However, if disconnected from her, they become worthless, losing the properties diamonds naturally have, not to mention she can turn them to dust at will to keep her crystals away from those wanting to circulate 'fakes' in the market and get her in trouble. So the police memorized the properties of diamonds she makes and just about warned every jewelry store for the signs of fake diamonds. But these fakes are still as hard and sharp of course. I also got copies of Police Records regarding her diamonds.'

'Wow, that's a big problem alright...' Midnight blinked before grinning optimistically. 'Well I'd want some shiny blings myself as fancy add-ons, since there's no way I can afford the real thing!'

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'Being a Hero...' Inori mused as she slices up robots. 'From TV shows...they save people first and fight villains.' she remembered all the news footages in Hero News Network.

Heroes who work solo had to act fast. They neutralize Villains before they could save a life.

Heroes who work in teams focus more on stalling to rescue.

But right now, she's solo.

But Inori began to think fast, and what would HE say.

'...its what he'd say what a Hero should be.' she muttered while speaking in wistful reminiscence. 'I'm not a thug with a power anyway.'

So she focused more on doing double-duty. Saving those who had accidents while destroying robots. But doing so racked her 40 VP and 35 RP by the end of the exams.

Although one problem came...

'...I think this means we get out but...'

One of the examinees was trapped in the rubble caused by the giant robot.

She encased the robot in a giant crystal prison before rushing as if she's rescuing in real-time while everyone else fled.

'T-thank you!' the brown-haired girl cried. 'I was rescuing someone and this just had to happen!'

'...too bad whoever that was didn't return the favor.' said Inori as she carried the girl away. 'Watch out...for people who take and take in this world. There is one and only give-and-take.'

'Ahahaha...right...' and the exams ended right then and there.

'IT'S ALL OOOOVEEEEERRRR!' Present Mic hollered. 'Your exam results will be delivered home in a week and that'll determine your fate! See you in UA to those who got it made!'

xxx

'...so that giant appeared in your block too and you blew it up.' Inori mused as Katsuki told her how his end went after she told him hers. His lower arms were shaking and he was trying hard not to show how much in pain he was to her while they looked for the clinic for Recovery Girl for this very reason.

'Haha, even if its a Zero-Pointer I just had to blow it up. Gotta show who's the best and strongest in my block!' Katsuki sneered. 'We're the strongest for blasting it alone!'

"I didn't blast mine..."

And so, Recovery Girl's Clinic...

'No one here.' Katsuki frowned at the empty clinic.

'She's probably going around all blocks.' said Inori. 'We wait here.'

So they did.

Soon, Recovery Girl came.

'Oh, you waited here instead?'

'Yes.' said Inori. 'Please take care of Katsuki's arms. His Quirk has recoil damage from his explosion Quirk.'

'Mm. That'd hurt a lot...' Recovery Girl agreed as Katsuki's lower arms were pinkish. 'Aaaaand you'll get tireder than you are after this.' she said. 'My Quirk heals my patients but it consumes their stamina in turn. You might want to call your parents to give you a ride home...and smooch...'

'Huh?!' Katsuki balked as the granny's lips literally stretched towards his arms in a creepy way. 'Hiiiii!' he got utterly creeped out, but too late.

And yeah, he got so weak...

'The fuck...?'

'I did warn you.' Recovery Girl chuckled. 'Ojouchan, you know each other?'

'Hai. Childhood friends.' said Inori, holding up Katsuki in her arms as he fell weak and limp. 'I have Mitsuki-basan's number.'

'That's good to know.'

Katsuki's last memory was something he'd keep for life despite how he got it in the first place that made him shudder as he fell unconscious.

Inori holding him in a way that his face was against her soft breasts.

Then again, she wouldn't care what people are normally shy at doing and he's milking it for all its worth. Well, until she finds this King of hers...and takes this away from him.

Why couldn't it be him instead?