In the world where being extraordinary was normal, being ordinary was a torture.
The rain was heavy that day. Maybe it was because of the monsoon, or maybe it was because someone used their quirk for their own benefit or others.
Or maybe, it was just the world's way to hide the tears that were running down on a small boy who seems didn't care about getting the cold from being wet in the rain.
The boy was Midoriya Izuku, or Deku as what his "friends" love to call him and sadly, he was in pain. Unfortunately for Izuku, his choice of the t-shirt of that day was red, a tribute to the number one hero's fourth year anniversary of his début. If he wore other colour, the passerby who somehow walked passed him as if he didn't exist might notice that it was caked with blood that was slowly being washed away by the rain. But the deep wound on his chest was not what made him cry. The pain was on the inside. It was his in his heart, in his feeling, in his mind.
Everything started years ago when a baby was born somewhere in a rural village in China, glowing. That was the first time a superpower, or a quirk, was officially recorded. Since then, people with quirks began to pop out like the mushrooms after the rain. Soon, the world was populated with quirk users. Some were amazing like shooting fire or running at a great speed while some, wasn't that much great like the ability to lengthen one's finger. nevertheless, almost everyone has a quirk.
And those who don't, the twenty per cent, were sadly discriminated. Even though the discrimination was not as harsh as it used to be, the hate and the feeling of superiority was still there.
Young Izuku was one of them.
His life came crashing down at the age of four years old when he was deemed quirkless by the expert. To add salt to the wound, his father died when they were caught in a crossfire between the cops and a villain the very next day. The heroes were not there to stop it. The villain was too petty for someone of their calibre.
School life was a hell for Izuku. His old friend, Bakugao, or Kacchan as he called him, turn into his worst tormentor as the boy was gifted with a powerful explosion quirk. He and his gang have since used their quirk on your Izuku. They were the hero prospect, as what Bakugao used to say, hence Izuku, the quirkless must be the villain so they can practice their skill. They never care that Izuku too wants to be a hero.
"How can a quirkless like you be a hero Deku!" sneered the explosive boy. "You are useless!"
The teachers were no help either. They all look at him with a blind eye when Izuku was involved. Especially when Bakugao was the perpetrator.
"Why?" cried Izuku. He was clutching his chest tightly, trying to stop the pain and blood, hoping that it won't ruin his t-shirt anymore. He suddenly flinched. It seems that his hand accidentally touched the deep wound. That evening Bakugao had created a new move and as usual, Izuku was chosen as target practice.
"I just want to be a hero. Like them. Why is the world so unfair!" he screamed. Only after he stops screaming he realized that during his mindless walk, Izuku ended up in some back alley area he didn't recognize at all. Like a ten years old he was, he began to panic, trying to find his bearing so he could return home.
"Well what do we have here?" said a voice.
Izuku quickly turned and a man was standing in front of him. No. It was a man.
Izuku was just a boy but he knew that the...thing...that had been standing in front of him was not a man. he can feel the evil rolled out from the thing's body, crashing his mind and spirit like waves.
"Hm, what quirk do you own my child?" Izuku started as the being in front of him grinned and reaches his hand towards the boy's head. Both Izuku's heart and mind screamed for the boy, telling him to run. But his body, weakened by the wound and rain and the evil radiating from the thing in front of him froze Izuku. He's stuck. like a statue on the mall fountain.
"Well a quirkless," there was a pause in his voice. "Interesting."
Izuku looked up. Hoping that his quirklessness will somehow save his life for the first time in his entire existence.
"You will be what I'm looking for." It was all black than for Izuku.