Izuku Midoriya woke up feeling drained, he sat up slowly and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"Izuku? Are you awake sweetie?" Came his mothers voice.
"Yes momma, I'll be out in a minute." Izuku spoke, he heard her footsteps walk away.
He stood, put on his clothes for today and went to brush his teeth and wash his face, not bothering to attempt with his hair and walked to the kitchen, pancakes and a glass of orange juice was waiting for him, he ate in silence and Inko stared at her son in sadness, oh how she wished she could help him.
"Are you ready for school?" She asked gently, Izuku shallowly nodded his head, Inko grabbed her keys and purse and handed Izuku his school bag and they left the house, Izuku clutched his mom's hand as they headed down the sidewalk and to the school.
Izuku wasn't looking forward to class, yesterday his dreams were crushed, his future yanked from his four year old hands before he could even fully grasp it.
"Sorry kid, it's not gonna happen. Looking at the evidence, it's obvious that you won't develop a quirk."
Izuku looked up at the school and then to his mom, she kneeled down and hugged him tightly.
"Have a great day my baby, I'll be here when you get out okay?" Inko spoke, he nodded.
"I love you Izuku."
"I love you too Momma."
"What your quirk Midoriya-kun!?" A child asked, Izuku sat silently before whining when Bakugou roughly put his arm on Izuku's head and leaned on him.
"He doesn't have one! The loser doesn't have a quirk at all! He's a useless, quirkless dork! Hahahaha!" Bakugou roared and everyone laughed, Izuku bit his lip.
This was why he didn't want to go to school today.
"Hey Izuku! The quirkless wonder!" Someone yelled, Izuku snatched his lunch and ran to the roof, where he always ate, he wouldn't be bothered up here and he could enjoy his half hour of silence.
Izuku wiped away his tears as he ate his rice, he sniffled.
After a while, he pulled out his All Might figurine.
"I wonder…if I could ever be a good hero…like you…" Izuku whispered.
"Poor child. Poor, sweet, innocent child."
Izuku whipped back but saw no one, his heart rate picked up a speed or two.
"Don't you wish they could just leave you alone?"
"It's not your fault your quirkless…"
"W-Who's there?" Izuku asked.
No one answered after that, Izuku held his All Might figurine. All Might give me strength…
"S-Show yourself!" Izuku yelled, the only sound being the wind whisking around him.
Riiiinnnngggg
Izuku rushed down the stairs and sat in his seat, he looked around.
"It wasn't a voice I recognized...who was that I heard?"
"Hey Deku!" Bakugou yelled slapping his hand on the table, Izuku jumped at the noise and looked up at the explosive blonde.
"W-What do you want Kacchan?" He asked.
"What are you gonna do since you're a quirkless loser!?" He yelled, a few laughing at his mockery.
"W-Well it doesn't matter if I have a quirk or not! I'll still be a great hero!" Izuku said proudly, Bakugou laughed harder.
"Yeah right! Like the #1 All Might!?" Bakugou said and snatched the figurine from Izuku's fingers.
"H-Hey! Give it back Kacchan!" Izuku yelled standing to grab it but Bakugou extended his hand just out of Izuku's reach.
"Don't make me laugh! You'll never be anything like All Might!" Bakugou yelled.
"Kacchan!" Izuku yelled.
"You'll never be like any hero! No damn way! You'll just be stuck a quirkless loser your whole life!" Bakugou yelled as he ripped the head off the figurine and it dropped to the floor. Izuku had had enough and shoved Bakugou back, the blonde fell to the ground and scratched his arm on a kids sharpened arm, the blonde yelped in pain and held his arm as blood poured from the wound.
"Ahh! Blood! Get a teacher quickly!"
"Bakugou are you okay!?"
"I-I'm sorry my quirk cut you!"
"Are you okay!?"
While the kids around them fluttered with panic, Izuku couldn't help but feel pride in himself, he finally got one on Kacchan! He finally did something to hurt him like he always did to him! Izuku smiled and picked up his All Might figurine.
"DEKU, YOU ASSHOLE! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" Bakugou yelled, blood trickling from between his fingers and pitter-pattering onto the tile flooring, Izuku smiled at the blood, it was Kacchan's.
"What's going on in here!"
A teacher rushed in and sent Izuku to the principal and Bakugou to the nurse.
Izuku wasn't really listening to the principal talk to his mom about what happened, he couldn't stop thinking of the pained look on Bakugou's face, how satisfying it felt to finally get him back.
"Yes…yesssss…doesn't it feel good?"
Izuku whipped his head around the room, that voice again!
"You finally got the bully back for hurting you, doesn't it feel good?"
"-isn't very hero like of him-"
Izuku looked at the principal in shock.
"What!?"
Inko jumped at her son's exclamation.
"Kacchan was being mean to me! Calling me names and took my things from me!" Izuku yelled and showed up the headless All Might figurine.
"We understand that young Midoriya but Bakugou was still seriously injured when you shoved him, the correct thing would've been to alert your teacher." The Principal spoke gently yet firmly.
"B-But!"
"I agree with your principal Izuku, I know you didn't mean to hurt him but talking to your teacher would've been better and it'd only be Bakugou getting lectured, not you." Inko spoke and she gently ruffled Izuku's hair.
"We understand it was an accident so you'll only be getting a detention today. That is all, thank you."
That day Bakugou got a scar on his left forearm, it was faint but still able to see and feel, it made Bakugou hate the boy even more and continued to tease and bully him relentlessly.
In middle school, Bakugou told Izuku he should just swan dive off the roof as he left the room with a dark laugh, Izuku wondered what would his Kacchan do if he actually did, what he be guilty? Would he be happy? Izuku didn't fully know.
"Why not make him take the swan dive hmm?"
The voice, Izuku has grown accustomed to the voice in his head by now. He has since he was four, the voice telling him dark and twisted ideas on what to do to his 'friends' and many, many things. However, the man always suggested a something before going silent.
"I can give you the power to be whatever you desire to be, just join me…"
"Never gonna happen." Izuku mentioned gently as he walked down the halls and out the door, his tired eyes scanning the skies. He had eye-bags for days.
"Hmm but imagine of what you could do."
Izuku figured out around age six that the voice was one of a villain, a strong one. He never mentioned a name or his quirk but Izuku figured it was a telepathic quirk of some sort.
Even if he was quirkless, he did kept information of many heroes and villains alike. From their name to their blood type, Izuku didn't know where his infatuation for blood came from but how the blue blood turns red when meeting oxygen, how it glides so smoothly down the skin, the beautiful red color it produced and even how it tasted, it was such a wonderful thing.
He eventually named the villain in his mind Akuyaku, which meant villain.
"What do you want Aku-kun?" Izuku wondered, ignoring the glances from his classmates.
"Why continue on this track when I could give you a purpose and the power you oh so desperately desire."
"I don't need your power."
"Deku!"
Izuku fell to the ground in a painful thud, Bakugou had his foot out from where he kicked the green haired teen.
"What is it now Kacchan?" Izuku asked holding his bleeding nose, smiling behind his hand when the copper taste coated his lips.
"You think you can just ignore me and walk away!?" Bakugou yelled.
"Please just leave me alone." Izuku spoke, trying to reason with the explosive blonde but it never worked out. The scars on his body proving just how violent Bakugou can get, why Izuku still cared for him even though he's put him through hell since childhood is beyond him.
Bakugou's quirk is so powerful, he's almost mastered it since they were kids and the greenette has lost count at how many times that power has been used on him.
He knew deep down that Bakugou was kind but he never let it show, ever.
"No way ya damn nerd! I also heard you applied for U.A." Bakugou yelled angrily.
"You expect to be accept to a hero school when you don't even have a quirk! They won't even let you in!" One of Bakugou's friend said smirking.
"They got rid of that rule, I could be the first-"
Izuku gasped when Bakugou slammed his foot on his chest, knocking the wind clear from his lungs.
"Listen up Deku, you're even worse than these losers you damn, quirkless wannabe! You think they'd let someone like you in when they have me!?" He yelled, Izuku was gasping for breath when he grabbed Bakugou's ankle.
"I've w-wanted to be a hero since we were kids K-Kacchan! I may not have a q-quirk but that doesn't mean I-I can't try my hardest and-!"
"And do what!? You don't have at all what it takes to hang with the best of the best! You'd easily die in the entrance exams!" Bakugou yelled and pressed down harder, Izuku tried to push his foot away but he wasn't strong enough.
"Defenceless Izuku, you wanna embarrass yourself and the school by failing so hard!?" Bakugou yelled.
"If you had my power, you could easily stop him…"
"S-Shut up!"
"Come to me Izuku Midoriya, let me give you the power you rightfully deserve…"
"I said shut up!"
"Bakugou would never hurt you again…"
"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up! Hahh!" Izuku grabbed Bakugou's ankle and used his knee to hit the blondes other leg, he gasped as he caved to the ground and Izuku scrambled to his feet and ran away.
"Get back here!"
Izuku hid in an alleyway as he tried to catch his breath, he could hear the footsteps coming and ran further down the alley and crashed into something sticky and smelly.
"W-What!?"
"Ahh, a perfect vessel!"
Izuku was engulfed, he couldn't breathe, couldn't see, he struggled against the villain and tried desperately to get free but he couldn't, he was trapped!
"A-Am I going to die here!?"
"If you had my power, you could've defeated this villain before he could even touch you…"
Oh how tempting that offer was right now, he wanted to be free, he wanted to get away from here!
Help! Help someone! Anyone!
Izuku cried and begged but no one came.
"Accept me…"
"I-I do-"
"Izuku?"
"No..!"
"Izuku!?"
"No, no, no!"
"YOU LET GO OF MY BABY RIGHT NOW!" Inko Midoriya yelled, tears forming in her eyes, she held out her hands to try to pull Izuku to her.
"Ahh, someone with a quirk!" The villain screeched and threw Izuku to the side and quickly rushed to Inko and quickly engulfed the small woman.
Izuku cried out when he was slammed into the trash cans, the metal crunching loudly as he struggled to his feet.
"NO! MOM!" Izuku ran and tried to rip the monster away from his mother, he was panicking, his heart racing over time and struggled to free her. The sludge slipped through his fingers, he couldn't reach her and she was starting to pale.
"If you would've joined me then you could've saved her!"
"I ACCEPT! I ACCEPT DAMNIT NOW GIVE ME TH-"
"Halt villainest scum!"
The sludge monster and Izuku looked to the entrance of the alley way where a hero stood with his hands on his hips, Izuku recognized the young hero, he was new to the hero world and Izuku didn't know much about him besides his hero name.
Ōkinoken.
...his name literally means big fist in Japanese.
"You're lucky I showed up in time! The villain could've gotten you! Stop aside child while I defeat him!" The hero said pulling Izuku out of the way!
"No! Stop! I'm not-!"
"In danger no longer! I know!" The hero's fists grew and he smacked the villain to the ground in a loud, cringe worthy smack.
"STOP! WHAT'RE YOU DOING!? MY MOM IS IN THERE!" Izuku yelled, the hero gasped and withdrew his hands.
The sludge villain groaned in agony of the awful smack to the pavement of the alleyway and Izuku gasped in horror looking at his mother.
"MOM! NO!"
"That's enough!"
In a flash, Izuku and Ōkinaken were on the sidewalk and the sludge was gone and a tall figure stood in the alleyway.
"I wish I could've been here sooner!"
Izuku knew that voice anywhere.
"Well look who it is…"
"A-All Might!" Izuku gasped, the hero turned and held little Inko in his arms, he dropped to a knee and Izuku rushed to her, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"I-I'm sorry young man." All Might spoke, he gently cupped Izuku's shoulder.
"No! No! Not my mom! She can't be! She can't be!" Izuku cried into his mother's chest, his tears falling on her bloodied chest.
"YOU!" Izuku whipped back and glared at the new hero.
"YOU CRUSHED HER!" Izuku yelled.
"I-I didn't know she was there!" He yelled, his face paling.
"YOU DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A CHANCE TO TELL YOU! YOU DIDN'T ACCESS THE SITUATION, YOU DIDN'T MAKE SURE EVERYONE WAS SAFE BEFORE YOU ATTACKED! SHE IS DEAD AND IT COULD BE YOUR FAULT! YOU KILLED MY MOTHER!" Izuku yelled, his body and eyes fueling with anger, he saw red, the hero looked like he was about to pass out.
They didn't know the crowd starting to grow but All Might did, he signaled the paramedics to come closer, he gently placed Inko on the stretcher and held Izuku's shoulder again.
"Go to the hospital young man, I'll handle everything from here. Believe me." All Might spoke, the hero coward at the number one hero staring at him, Izuku glared at the man and got into the ambulance and held his mother's cold hand.
One of the medics closed the door while Izuku started to cry again, he looked at his mother and gently brought her eyelids to a close, she was pale and looked so peaceful.
"I swear mother, I'll avenge you. I'll destroy the blasted "hero" who did this to you." Izuku growled.
"Yes, come to me my child…I'll be waiting for you…"
The ambulance's sirens roared to life again as it rushed down the street.