Izuku's P.O.V.

Not all men are created equal. I learned this lesson when I was 5.

In This World, people are born with powers called quirks.

Some are born with fantastic, powerful quirks and are destined for, either great or terrible thing's.

Some are born with quirks, which are not so great and are for the most part ignored by society.

Some are born with terrifying or inherently villainous quirks and are feared by the people around them.

But in this world, people like to say no matter what your quirk is you can achieve greatness, that you can succeed with hard work and determination.

And they weren't necessarily wrong.

Eraserhead had a quirk that only worked on certain villains and only for a certain amount of time, and yet he managed to not only be one of the greatest underground heroes but also secure himself a teaching job at the most prestigious hero academy in the world U.A.

Gang orca was voted third place in the heroes that most look like villain's list and yet he got popular enough to be ranked the tenth best hero. Yes, it seems like what they said was true that anyone could achieve their goals no matter what quirk they had. All they had to do was try.

But what about those who lacked a quirk.? Yes in this world there was still a measly 20 percent of people who lacked any sort of power whatsoever.

I am one of them.

One of the 20 percent of people who if they were lucky were ignored by society completely, and if they weren't would face the darkness of the world with no light in sight.

In most stores, the underdog protagonist will find out he is the chosen one and will gain the power achieve his goal no matter the obstacles, light would conquer the dark and everyone would live happily ever after.

But there's a reason why even in a world filled with superpowers those stories are still deemed unrealistic. Because no matter how bright the light shines it will always leave a shadow.

When I was 8 learned another matter how bad your life is, know that life does not take pity on anyone.

12 years ago

kacchan, myself and some other kids were playing in the forest, and by playing I mean beating me up, under the excuse of playing heroes and villains. Or that is what normally happens but for whatever reason today kacchan just sat off to the side staring at the floor.

"Hey, bakugo are you ok"one of the kids asked.

Kacchan looked back up with an annoyed look on his face "Of course I'm fine, I'm just trying to come up with a new nickname for the deku" he said.

The kids stopped beating me and turned their heads in confusion.

"But I thought deku was a perfect nickname, why would he need a new one?." One of them asked.

I had also turned my head but instead of confusion, my face held hope. Hope that he would finally stop calling me that him looking for a new nickname meant he didn't think I was that I could have my friend back. But that hope did not last long.

"Yeah too perfect. The old hag heard me call him that and fucking turned my ass red. She said if I called him that again she would do a lot worse. Not that I afraid of her It's just I don't want to have to go through all that trouble for stupid deku." he said scowling.

One of the kids pouted and said: "That sucks, why does your mom care what you call him anyways he's useless.".

" I don't know but now I have to find something else that means useless without it being obvious, "Kacchan said.

"O-or m-maybe you c-could just call me by my name"I chimed in still hoping I could walk away from this without getting called another degrading nickname.

Kacchan glared at me and yelled "Shut up deku you don't get a say in this, you lucky I don't come down there and kick your ass into next week"

Boom.

Angry and frustrated Kacchan decided to release an extra large explosion to scare me.

Then suddenly, disoriented by the sound of the large explosion a bat flew out of the cave.

"Ahhhhhhhhh" Everyone screamed except for Kacchan.

We all ran around trying to avoid the scary looking animal until suddenly-

Crash

-It slammed it a tree.

Almost immediately everyone except Kacchan backed up as far away as possible from it.

After a few moments had passed kacchan walked towards the creature picking up a stick and poking it.

Kacchan looked back at us and said: "It's dead so stop being a bunch of babies and get over here.".

Hesitantly we walked over to him and looked at it.

At this point in our lives, none of us had seen a bat before so knowing it was dead and couldn't hurt us we quickly dropped our fear and started poking and prodding the poor thing.

"What is it, it looks weird and ugly," one of the kids said.

"It's a bat, the hag took me to the zoo once and we saw them, apparently their blind or some shit, "Kacchan said.

"Wow you really do know a lot Kacchan," I said amazed quickly forgetting that we were just talking about finding me a new way to call me useless.

"Wait but if it's blind how does it see.?" one of the kids ask.

"The zoo guide said that they use sound to see somehow, I don't know wasn't paying attention to such useless information," Kacchan said in a bored tone.

His face then switched from bored to confused

"But if it could do that then how did it hit a tree.? Man, this thing must really be useless if it can't even avoid a tree."Kacchan said

…..

Then kacchan's eyes widen and a smile spread across his face."That it!"He said, "That's Deku's new nickname.".

We all looked at him confused.

"Bat is going to be my nickname.? Why? I asked.

"Don't you see Idiots, their both useless and they both have no reason to exist when there are much better things like birds, "Kacchan said.

"Kacchan t-that's mean, "I said tears now spilling out of my eyes.

"Can it de-, no not deku, you are now …. means bat and it sounds better."kacchan said proudly.

The other kids cheered as I cried knowing I couldn't do anything about it.

From that day on, I was Komori. A useless bat.