Izuku Midoriya didn't have what we should know as Good luck on his life those past 3 years. Why? Let me explain: Three years ago, Izuku Midoriya always had a powerful dream: Convert on a Pro-Hero with his best friend Katsuki Bakugo, fighting between them for be the future number one Pro-Hero. Even Bakugo awakened his Explosive Quirk, generating explosions from his hands. Izuku waited that He could have his quirk soon… He never had it. Izuku was diagnosed as Quirkless, which in a world rounded by Quirk People, that is the lowest step on the society: You will be able to study, have a work and all the legal rights that appear on each Constitution. But zero chances of have REAL studies and a real work. You will be able to work as a plumber, as a bricklayer, as a truck driver… But you won't have chance of have a place on the College for study medicine, Engineering, Archaeology, etc. Just because you don't have a Quirk.
Cursed with that, He started to lost all slowly. The same year, his best friend transforms in a bully. He started to use his Quirk for hurt him, don't caring if a teacher was in front of him or was on an alley. And even started to call him 'Deku', because… What is a Quirkless person in a world full of Quirks? Just a waste of time and space.
And, who knows? Maybe with just that, He would be able to do something good. Hell, even could complete his dream of be a Pro-Hero of some way! But, the destiny prepared something different for him. The next year, a day coming back of 'play' (Translation: Try to defend a kid of Bakugo and his goons, just for be kicked by them and don't receive a wretched 'Thanks') on the park, He found, for the joy of the destiny, to his Idol, his reason to have a dream, his all: All Might. He asked for an autograph, that He received happily.
And with the innocence of a little kid, He made a simple question.
"All Might" Midoriya started, preparing the question. "Can I be a hero even being Quirkless?"
All Might's smile, which everyone could swear that was sculpting on his face, fell and answered the question. "With all the dangers that heroes must face every day, I have to say no. It's far too dangerous. But you can help people if you join the Police Force, which is a noble profession none the less. Goodbye, my boy". And then He took off. Izuku would try to ask more things, but that was the last teardrop on the glass: His friends, his mother, his teachers… and now, his idol. No one have faith on that Midoriya could be a Hero. All that for a kid that was just 5 years old. He didn't cry, He didn't scream, He didn't anything that the common kids would do at his age. He just got frozen and walked to his house.
But, like the old quote says: When everything goes bad, just can go worse. And that is what happened. When He was close to his district, He saw that has been cut for heroes. He tried to explain that He lived here, just for be ignored thinking that was a kid that just wanted see heroes.
For what He could hear, his district was destroyed completely for a powerful villain: Buildings, pipes, plant & animal life… And people. Just got a crater where the district was before. Almost in that moment, Mitsuki Bakugo, Katsuki's mother appeared, asking for something. Seconds later, She saw the little Midoriya and hugged him, while She sobbed. Then, Midoriya realized what happened now: He not just lost his house, his safe place. He also lost his mother, the only person who felt guilty for don't be able to help him.
Days later, Mitsuki was officially her legal guardian. And celebrated a quiet funeral for all the victims on the 'Musutafu Attack'. Since that day, He had been living on the Bakugo's house. And just for the same month that all happened, Bakugo stopped his bullying attacks. Sadly, he had to suffer for two years more the unintelligible rage of Bakugo.
As a 7 years old kid, a day just ran all that He could for hide of Bakugo, his rage and his goons. And that day, all changed.
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Izuku POV.
I had to hide of Bakugo and his friends again. Luckily, this time He didn't burn my T-Shirt. And later He has to go for train his Quirk. Maybe today I can avoid some explanations to aunt Mitsuki, but…
"Hello" A voice called him. Izuku stopped his thoughts and turned around for see who called him. He saw a pale and tall man. He also was slim, and was wearing an off-white Shirt with long sleeves and patterned with yellow crosses, jumper pants, and a black top hat. He was posing lay on the wooden fence. One of his pale hands was close and the punch was being used as support.
"Umm… I… ah…" Midoriya tried to talk, but was for some reason scared for that man. Midoriya was sure that the unknown wasn't there all the time that He was here.
"I can find unmannerly when a person doesn't give back a greeting. So, let's try it again: Hello." The pale man sent greetings to Midoriya.
"H-H-He-Hello" Midoriya responded, giving back the greeting to the pale man. The man just smile, don't showing the teeth. But Midoriya made a question. "Wh-Who are you?"
"Due that now you make correctly the greeting, I will introduce myself: I'm Laffitte." The pale man, revealed now as Laffitte, said. "Now, would you be able to introduce you?"
"I-I'm Izuku Midoriya, sir." Midoriya answered, introducing himself.
"Very polite, young boy." Laffitte concluded. "Could I know why a young boy is hiding in this little piece of waste ground? I can see that you're very young, and the memories of my youth were rounded by kids that I called 'friends'. Where are yours, young boy?"
The young Midoriya, who doesn't know if It was because He was scared, had the hope of that He never would see him again or just wanted talk to someone, tell to Laffitte all about his life and all what He happened: Bakugo, he being Quirkless, losing all in a day, Bakugo nowadays… And what He made nervous is that Laffitte, all the time, was with his tiny lip smile.
When Midoriya ended, He talked. "I can see. This world still surrounded by ignorant people."
"No. Bakugo is just… very enthusiast-" Midoriya talked, trying to defend Bakugo, when Laffitte continued.
"Sorry for interrupt, young boy." Laffitte interrupted politely "But I'm not talking about that parody of villain whose name is Bakugo. I'm talking about that the people still thinking that the powers just appears of that thing called Quirk." Then He started to move out of the fence, and in a jump, He landed on the dirt. Then Midoriya saw his shoes were tap dancing shoes, making more difficult to understand how He appeared without make his shoes sound.
"Wha-What do you mean?" Midoriya asked.
"Since that I received my powers, I received lots of Epithet: The Demon Sheriff, the curse of the devil, the walking fallen…" For each Epithet that Laffitte said, one of his fingers stretched. "And the only that described correctly was…" Then, a pair of white and longs wings appeared of his back, stretching majestically. "Angel of Death." Midoriya got impressed for those wings. But that didn't stop there. On his head, appeared a halo made of white fire. It was very shiny, and the feeling that produced on Midoriya was warmth and safety. And also, Laffitte's clothes transform on a white toga, with the most pure white that Midoriya has even seen.
"And now, young boy, I'm sure that you must ask which my Quirk is. But I must disappoint you, because this isn't a Quirk due to my age. I got this power in other way." Laffitte answered for Midoriya. "My power comes to one kind of fruit called 'Devil Fruits'. Those give you the biggest powers that the world can produce: controls and create abilities out of the Quirkless chances, transform your entire being in an element and control it, or transform your being in a creature different of the human. My fruit was the Human-Human Fruit: Model Angel. Between the abilities that gave my fruit, there are the immortality and create the 'Purifying Fire'."
After of explain his power, Laffitte walked two steps, getting close to Midoriya. But before that He continued talking, Laffitte snapped his fingers, disappearing all his transformation and coming back to his outfit. Then He continued talking. "I'm telling you this because since many centuries, I have been keeping all those Devil Fruits in my hands. I'm offering you the chance of give you a power out of the limits of the alchemy: Create and destroy, don't transform. Transform and control the un-minded elements."
"Why?" I asked. "Why do you prefer trust a power on me? I'm Quirkless." I didn't understand why this man would trust such power on me instead on anyone more capable of them: A pro-hero, a U-A Student… Anyone. Laffitte just moved his eyebrows up and answered.
"Even I couldn't give you an answer for that." Laffitte responded "Maybe I just want start the new age of the Devil Fruit, maybe I want see you enjoy that power… Even I'm just giving you a power for find the only Devil-Fruit power that someone took before that I could grab it." Laffitte shrugged his shoulders "It could be all those or it couldn't be a reason. I'm just giving you the power just with a condition: Tell me what you want."
"I-I just… I want… I want be the Nº1 Hero!" I said, telling him what I wanted.
"Can I ask you if you are sure?" Laffitte asked. But before that I could answer, He stretched a finger and talked "Well, I have lots of chances that can give you that position. But, if you allow me, let's see it on other point of view: You want a power that your no-friend Bakugo would hate, making bigger his hate for you; you want a power for share it with the same people that didn't trust you and never wanted be a friend of you just for don't have powers; you want a power for defend those who never trust on you, thanked you, or at least give you a chance of dignity for be how you are. Now, tell me what YOU want." Laffitte narrated, hiding his arms on his back for move it and shows weird fruits and make them disappear. The fruits had strange colors: Soft Purple, Thick Purple, Red Garnet, Grey, etc. But all those shared the same thing: Swirly patters covering the skin of those fruits.
I was close to cry. He was right: I didn't have friends; the only that I could consider one was my bully; my teachers always laugh of me for wanted be a hero; even, in a desperate way, I asked more Pro-Heroes, wishing that one of them could say that I could become a hero with no Quirk, just for discover that All Might was the only one that didn't laugh on my face for ask that question. In that point of my life, I just wanted something different…
"…Revenge" I answered with an open smile, showing my teeth and winning an affirmative look of Laffitte "I want that everyone suffer. I want scare everyone until that they just want disappear for don't see me. I want become the most powerful man and let everyone know that no one can take it in my life. I want make my dream real: Be a living nightmare for heroes and villains."
Laffitte just make a jump, landing on the fence and talked "Then, young boy, the fruit that you are looking for is that." Then, from, who knows where, appeared the last fruit: It was like a bunch of grapes, but those had the shape of tear-drops and had the swirly patters. He, gently, gave it to me. Not thinking on it, I just bit it, grabbing some of them. The taste was the worst even tasted. Like lick the ground of a landfill. But I swallowed it. After of it, my arms started to emanate some kind of dark smoke that felt cold on the skin.
"The Dark-Dark Fruit. The most evil of the Devil Fruits. The talent of control, convert and create the darkness." Laffitte explained, taking a red cane that was resting all the time on the other side of the fence. "Like my commodore said: Darkness is Gravity. It swallows everything around it… even light itself can't escape. Its power is infinite."
"Even light itself can't escape… What does that mean?" I asked. But when I looked back, Laffitte had disappeared. On his place, there was just a note, where It was written 'The world must wait your born and answer. Disappear, train and then, scare the world.' And on the other side of the paper there was written a direction.
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General POV
Midoriya walked all the day for the entire city, going to the other point of the city where Bakugo's house was. On the direction, there was an abandoned warehouse. It was cold, and due that was for the night, It was dark. But at least it wasn't empty. On some of the rooms of the warehouse, there were beds and couches. It was confortable at least.
But the world must wait until that Izuku Midoriya appears and the world was ready for him.
