It's the third year of middle school, the year where the pressure of career choices begin to press against you. Gotta pick a high school, maybe think about jobs, have to choose the "correct" courses so you can get a stable career, etcetera.
"However, you're pretty much all going to pick the hero course, aren't you?"
Cheers erupted from the class as almost everyone hastened to show off their Quirk. Hands raised, almost everyone declared their want for the hero course proudly. Almost everyone.
"Yes, yes, you all have amazing Quirks but it's against the rules to use them in school." The teacher warned nonchalantly.
Yeah, when have you ever enforced that? Izuku thought as he sat quietly, hand half-raised to show he wished to be a hero too.
Midoriya Izuku, fourteen years old, was seated at his desk. He was still idealistic in his drive to be a hero and has spent day after day trying to figure out how to use his Quirk if he were to be a pro hero. Many of the times Izuku thought he had something though, there was always this brick wall he ran into. What if there were girls who don't look up to me? Screw that, what if there isn't even any girls at the scene! What could I even do then..?
Izuku always wondered why his Quirk had to affect only women. Any hostages or scared children, if Izuku appeared heroic to them, he could use his Quirk and have them calmly flee the scene. But only the girls. What about the guys? Would he have to save them manually, practically Quirkless?
Then again, if his Quirk did affect everyone, how bad would his situation be then? He'd be treated as even more of a villain than he was being treated now.
Losing himself once again in the nuances of his Quirk, Izuku hadn't realized he had been singled out by the teacher by his choice of high school. Thus, he hadn't seen Bakugo coming.
Launched backwards out of his seat, Izuku looked up from the floor to see Bakugo glaring down at him in front of his now burnt desk.
"Shitty Deku! I guess after all these years, you still haven't learned your place in life." Bakugo displayed his hand which crackled and smoked dangerously. "All you amount to is an empty can on the side of the road. Trying to even think you can get into U.A. alongside me will just get you kicked and run over!"
Izuku felt the urge to back up to the wall, appear small and hope he doesn't get humiliated further but he paused to remember who he is. Who he wants to be.
He hesitated before looking up at Bakugo straight in the eye. "I'm going to be a hero Kacchan. I will use my Quirk heroically and save everyone to become the greatest hero! So I will be at U.A. so expect to see me- Agh!"
Getting shoved violently towards the wall, Izuku clutched his head from the impact.
"Shut up, fucking Deku!"
The classroom was quiet. The students feared saying anything. The teacher hoped Bakugo would finish so he can just get back to teaching.
No one moved to help.
Crying, Izuku clutched his head harder as he leaned into his lap. Bakugo snorted, seeing he got his point across, and slinked back into his seat. As silently as a broken person could, Izuku also returned to his seat.
Things were tense. Then the teacher started his next lesson.
No one moved to help... Am I really that worthless?
He usually didn't run off so pathetically with his tail between his legs but Izuku really didn't want to risk encountering...just about anyone from school. Only caring about leaving, Izuku ran and ran until he was reduced to a walk.
It was only then that Izuku realized he didn't recognize where in the city he was. Looking around, Izuku saw he was near an apartment complex. Wondering where the heck he was, the green-haired teen was caught by surprise when, in the distance, a manhole cover burst open with a green liquid. Said liquid quickly melded into a form with a face, indicating that it was someone with a Quirk.
Gasping in shock, Izuku covered his mouth as he realized he was witnessing an escaping criminal as he saw some loose cash scatter from its body. Hiding from sight, Izuku watched the moving goop slither towards the apartments and climb up the wall to the highest floor.
What are they doing? Why are they going to the apartments- wait. I've seen this before. A villain that's being chased but not yet caught will usually search for a hostage! Oh no!
Izuku felt like he was falling forward. However, he wasn't hitting the ground. Why wasn't gravity doing its job? Seeing the apartments coming closer, he realized that it was because he was running full force towards it.
Skidding to the side of the building the villain climbed up, Izuku looked up tensely. Hearing a scream echo off of the floor the villain escaped to, Izuku gripped his hair as he had no idea what to do.
Racking his brain for ideas, Izuku (embarrassingly) got a solution from a movie. There was a chase scene behind an apartment complex and the guy fled to the roof using a ladder. Not knowing whether following a movie would be the right choice or not, Izuku dashed behind the building.
All Might couldn't believe himself. Here he was, running through the sewer systems after losing the villain he had been chasing. This is what he gets for overestimating himself again! Now, who knows how many innocent lives are put at stake because of his blunder?
He could only hope a hero would save the people he could not.
Uraraka Ochako just finished getting settled into her new apartment. On her parents insistence and a little bit of rationalization, the Urarakas decided that Ochako should get accustomed to living on her own for a while. She just didn't expect it to be ten months before she even did the U.A. entrance exams!
Her parents kept telling her it was okay on their wallets and that they've been saving up for this moment for years. Knowing she simply couldn't let this opportunity and her parents hard work go to waste, Ochako worked just as hard as she knew her parents did to settle into her new home as fast as possible. She even used her Quirk to aid her so she could get a little training in as well.
Though, maybe that wasn't such a good idea... Oogh, why does my Quirk have to do this to me?
Lying on her couch, Uraraka heard a noise outside her apartment. Breathing in and out slowly to calm her stomach, Ochako got up from the couch and tiredly opened the door.
"Hello?"
"Stay still. This will only kill you."
