AN: Hey y'all here's another chapter and all that. just wanted to say its high key surreal how many people are following this fic, so thanks for that.
10 Years Later
Izuku was stressed, sure the sun was shining and the weather was flawless, hell, he was in his last year of middle school and his grades were as close to perfect as he could get them. The sole focus of his worry was the teacher walking into the class with a broad smile plastered on his face. Which Izuku could only assume was a facsimile of All Might's with how intense it was. Walking up to the front of the class the teacher looked at the class and began Izuku's sentence to embarrassment.
"It's time for an important discussion about your future," the teacher began as the class filled with nervous energy, or maybe that was Seiteki-kun* activating his quirk out of nerves. "Today we will begin discussing your future careers, I know some of you might wish to join the workforce immediately, and some may wish to go the traditional route and enter a traditional business," droned the man, before his grin widened even further, if that was even possible, and Izuku felt the noose around his neck tighten, "ah who am I kidding, you all want to be heroes don't you!" The teacher said this before throwing the papers he had in the trash and pulled out another having details about possible hero courses. The class cheered activating their quirks before quieting down at the all too familiar crack of explosions near the front of the class.
"Oi teach, don't lump me and Izuku with the rest of these posers, there are only two people who are hero material here and that's us." Smirked a certain blonde, much to Izuku's dismay.
"Hey!"
"What the hell man!"
"Stop being such a dick Bakugo!"
Shouted the class in retaliation before Kachan spoke again. "Hey don't worry extras you can take this year as the highlight of your shitty lives, you can say you were in the same class as the top 2 heroes in middle school."
'Kacchan! Why are you like this!' Izuku mentally cried as the last unembarrassed part of Izuku crawled into a corner and died. 'Why can't you be polite and normal for once in your life.' Shrinking into his seat as the teacher lightly chided the explosive student. Then he heard the same words that he heard whenever the topic of heroics came up.
"I don't think Izuku fit for heroics after all he has a villain's quirk and we all know what that means.
Izuku winced internally after all that stigma was never going to go away. But he could hear the distinctive pop that signaled his best friend's agitation, likely at the earlier comment. Izuku sighed and resigned himself to having to reign in the blonde before he got charged with first-degree murder.
"Now now class settle down, on that note, you and Midoriya have both applied for UA's hero course?"
"Yes!" Izuku said quickly cutting the conversation off, "we're both applying there because their facilities are some of the best in the world." Izuku hoped that such a boring answer would get the teacher to move to another subject.
"Well then good luck to you two, now class let's get back to discussing the quadratic formula."
Later that day.
Izuku was quickly packing up as the teacher left dismissing the class to leave school and have a nice weekend. He hoped Katsuki had forgotten about that comment from earlier.
"Oi fucktard, what was that comment you said about Izuku."
Izuku sighed as he got up, 'guess not,' Izuku thought as he grimaced at the sound of desks crashing and a body slamming against a wall.
"Come on man, it was just a joke." Cried the student as he struggled against the wall flinching away from the sparking palm held near his head.
"Does it look like I'm laughing you shitty extra. You should know what happens to people who bad talk Izuku," Katsuki paused with a predatory gleam in his eyes that promised pain, "or maybe, you really wanted a date with a fucking toilet."
The student quavered under Katsuki, before noticing a slight figure sidling up behind the blonde. "Hey Kacchan let him go," spoke Izuku lightly tapping on his shoulder with a gloved hand, "I think he gets the point you wouldn't want to ruin your school record before the exam would you?" Muttering to himself Kastuki shrugged off Izuku's hand before glaring at the greenette.
"You keep letting these posers step on you and you'll never get them to shut up."
"Well Kachan you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, and sorry Takahashi-san**, Kachan is just a bit...protective." Izuku smiles lightly before following the blonde out the door. Leaving the now named, Takahashi to slowly recollect himself and leave, with at least some pride left intact.
Walking outside Izuku turned to his best friend "You know you don't have to threaten everyone who talks even the slightest bit negatively about me."
"Just because your a pushover doesn't mean I am." Katsuki scoffed in response.
"W-What! I'm not a pushover Kacchan." Izuku shouted as his friend guffawed
"Yeah sure and I'm a pink unicorn. Honestly, if you used your quirk and didn't take so much shit from those losers you'd actually be respected."
As they exited the school a small mound of fur fell in line with the two teenagers. "Hey Mochi, did Mom let you out again?" Cooed Izuku as he scratched behind the giant dog's ear. "You want to walk with me and Kacchan? Of course, you do, come on let's get you some food." To say Mochi had grown in the last ten years was a bit of an understatement. The brown ball of fluff had almost doubled in mass growing to a jaw-dropping 4 tons. This led to many problems as the dog often forgot his own weight and would break furniture more often than Kacchan curses.
Originally Izuku had been worried that Mochi would one day die, but apparently having no organs meant that Mochi posed little to no risk from organ failure or degeneration. However, no matter how old he got Mochi would still act like a hyperactive puppy from time to time.
"Honestly Izuku if you keep feeding the mutt like this he's gonna gain another ton." Katsuki rolled his eyes as Izuku played around with his dog.
"It'll be fine besides, an extra ton would probably help more with hero work." Answered Izuku playfully. The two stopped in front of a convenience store to buy a small snack, a spicy curry bun for Katsuki and some pork buns for Izuku and Mochi. Chowing down on their snack Katsuki turned to Izuku.
"It feels good you know, soon we'll be in the best hero school in the country and after that the best heroes in the country."
"You shouldn't be too cocky Kacchan, after all, there may be stronger people out there."
"Maybe for you, you barely train your body, but I've been training both my body and quirk since I was 6 I'm more than ready."
"I'm not weak," Izuku gave an indignant squeak, "I'm perfectly fine, besides I've been focusing on quirk training."
"Fine if you're so 'fine' let's do a quick race no quirks, just to our house it's only what, a couple blocks away."
"You're on." Izuku grinned a fire lit in his eyes. As the two lines up side by side readying for their race, Izuku turned to Mochi. "Okay boy go home we'll meet you there." The large dog barked before racing off in the direction of home.
"Aight, Izuku we start on go. Ready...set… GO!" Katsuki yelled before he exploded off on the concrete sprinting ahead.
Izuku followed behind trying to keep up with the taller blonde. His feet slamming flat against the concrete as he saw the gap between the two widening almost exponentially. Within seconds Izuku could feel the fatigue coming in full force, his lungs burned and his muscles screaming as his skin flushed. Suddenly a spell of dizziness sent the green haired teen tumbling down wheezing and gasping for any air to fill his lungs before retching on the ground. The world spun and colors and lights flashed in sickening patterns forcing Izuku to squeeze his eyes shut in an attempt to dispel the dizziness. A shadow covered him as Izuku looked up he saw a figure with spiked blonde hair looking at him with an unamused expression.
"I'm perfectly fine my ass," Katsuki spoke in a high pitch imitation of Izuku's voice, "if that wasn't fucking pathetic I don't know what is."
"Plea-...Kach...help," Izuku wheezed out.
"Now that I've seen how weak you are there's going to be a being fucking change to your shitty workout ethic. From now on you will be coming with me on workouts until I decide that you are not on the level of a fucking extra." Katsuki reached for and grabbed a sleeve of his shirt hauling him up and laying his arm around his shoulder. "Come on we're going home...Oi, don't put all your weight on me you shitty bastard." Katsuki sighed as he lugged the tired body of his friend home.
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Izuku and Katsuki finally made it home with Izuku looking only a little worse for wear. As the two entered the door with Mochi in tow they saw their parents crowded around the TV looking worriedly at the news anchor relaying the latest villain incident.
"Hey, we're home," Katsuki announced as he unceremoniously dropped Izuku onto one of the unoccupied chairs.
"Where were you two we called several times and you never picked up, and what happened to Izuku!" Katsuki winced at his mother's shrieking.
"We're fine hag, we just went for a run and realized Izuku is too fucking weak." Answered the young blonde glaring at his mother impetuously.
"Language! And also you could have at least told us there was a villain incident near your school, we were so worried." Mitsuki yelled as she chopped the back of Katsuki's head.
As the two Bakugo's screaming match continued Izuku scooted closer to his mother. The changes he placed on Inko's body had left her frail and unable to move much without help. "Hey Mom, sorry we're late." looking at the scales peppering along her arms always shot a sharp pang of guilt through Izuku's heart.
"It's ok honey.," smiled Inko as she laid a thin pale hand over his gloved ones, "I'm just glad your ok, I'm sure you would've told us if something happened especially since All Might was the one who stopped the villain."
"What!" Izuku mouth hung open in surprise. "Why would All Might be here isn't he based over in America?"
"I know it was a bit surprising but I'm sure he has a reason. Now, why don't you help Masaru break up Mitsuki and Katsuki-Kim." Nodding over to Masaru as he struggled to separate the two explosive blondes.
Gripping onto Mochi he activated his quirk and muttered "extensiontailfivemeterssplitcreatetwoends." As he did this Mochi's tail extended outwards and between the mother-son pair and created two bone-like structures which pushed them apart. "Hey, you two calm down you're going to make my mom stressed," Izuku called out laughing lightly at the two.
"Fine."
"Good, now that you two are done squabbling why don't Izuku and Katsuki help Masaru with dinner." Smiled Izuku's mother as she made a shooing motion with her hand.
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It was still dark out when Izuku was pulled out of his bed and sent tumbling to the floor for the fifth time this week. Looking up he saw Katsuki dressed up in workout clothes and a leashed up Mochi at his side. "Come on nerd we're going to get you fit if it kills you." Smirked Katsuki.
"Kachan two things first off, isn't it way too early, and I think the saying is even if it kills me." Izuku blearily rubes the sleep out of his eyes. To see Katsuki's smirk morph into a grin that promised pain.
"Nope it's not too early, and I know exactly what I said, so move your sorry ass we got a lot to do." The blonde cackled as he walked out the door.
With stumbling steps, Izuku put on a long sleeved workout shirt grumbling to himself about the unfairness of morning workouts and caffeineless mornings.
They started with a slow jog to a small park. Izuku recognized it even at a glance from the monkey bars glistening with morning dew and the small concrete court worn from thousands of small shoes to the forest behind the structures which contained a small winding path of malformed and twisted branches. They had been coming back here for weeks ever since his best friend had decided that it would be a great idea to break Izuku's body.
"Aight were here," huffed Katsuki, "we got to start with pushups so drop down we're starting with at least 20." Before dropping himself and immediately starting pushups. Nodding silently Izuku got into position and started his set.
About halfway through their workout, Izuku felt a weight press against his back and the sound of soft whining. Looking back he saw Mochi staring at him with a stick.
"Not now boy," Izuku chuckled as he tried to continue his set, "We don't want Kachan yelling at us, do we boy?"
"Oi enough talking with the furball and more mountain climbers, come on, get your ass in gear!" Shouted the blonde as he powered through the set.
"Hai haii…" groaned Izuku as he continued the torture his explosive friend called a workout regimen. "Hey Kachan, why can't we go train at the beach it's close but and at least there we can cool off by taking a dip."
"It'd be a good idea but Dabogah is a piece of shit trash heap, and even if we only go to the good parts, apparently there's a pair of weirdos screaming about shit about being manly day and night, I'm not being associated with that."
Sneezing lightly Katsuki cursed again, "Fucking allergies."
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Dabogah beach same time.
Kirishima Eijiro felt his muscles strain as he lifted up another fridge. Feeling his legs scream in protest as he carried it over to the bed of a nearby truck. "Hnngg," he groaned out as he dropped onto the truck, "Sensei, I got this truck loaded up can where should I put the next stuff I collect?"
"Simple young Kirishima, pile it over here, also your progress is going a lot faster than I thought it would be it's...what do you say...manly." Smiled a gaunt man as he watched his protege.
"Yeah!" Whooped the black haired teen, "I'm going to be super manly!" Watching Kirishima rush off to clean more of the beach All Might thought back to the moment he had discovered his successor.
He had been chasing down the sludge villain for hours and he was close to his limit. The villain had finally surfaced close to a hero agency which All Might had thought was a stroke of luck, only for that to crumble away as he looked out on the situation. The sludge villain had apparently teamed up with another hulking villain who had been laying waste to the hero agency.
"Hey All Might," gurgled the Villain as he encased himself around the second villain, "I'm so glad you could join us with our combined power you won't be alive for much longer, Symbol of Peace~" a grotesque smile spreading across both villains face.
Charging forward Yagi had hoped to end the fight quickly only for the pair of villains to match him blow for blow. The sludge acting as a sort of armor for the hulking man whose quirk seemed to be to manipulate and harden the fat in his body. It was even worse now that civilians were watching Yagi had to worry about making sure none of the villains' attacks hit the growing crowd.
'I hope backup can come soon, I'm not sure how much longer I can keep up my form." Thought the pro hero as he took another hammering blow to the body.
Suddenly a tendril had whipped out launching his feet out from under him. Tumbling down Yagi saw the Villain manipulate his fat into a crude blade. "And so ends the era of peace," crooned the sludge villain, "All the world will learn to fear us." The crude blade sliced down to All Might's neck reaching forward to clock the blade the blonde saw a shadow cover his body and the loud thud of metal on stone. Standing over him stood a middle schooler, shaking at the knees he started down the hulking villains.
"I ain't gonna be a coward anymore, I'll be as manly as Crimson Riot, and you'll never get through me." An all too familiar fire burned in the youth's eyes as he stood firm. His quirk, which seemed to give him stone-like skin cracking under the power of the blow.
"You brat, how dare you stop us," growled the pair, "let us show you why you shouldn't mess with villains."
"And let me show you why you should never underestimate a hero." Came a low rumble as All Might got up cocking back an arm, "and let me show you what it means to be a hero. TEXAS SMASH!" As he let loose a wild uppercut the wind whipped around him as the sludge was ripped from the body and splattered against a wall. Simultaneously the hulking villain was lifted upwards in the air 20 feet before falling to the ground unconscious.
Quickly leaping away onto a neighboring building before letting go off his form all might sighed as he felt the raging flow that was One-For-All quiet down to a slow weak trickle. As he looked down at the crowd he heard the heroes scolding the child who had intervened.
"Kid that was too dangerous."
"What were you thinking you could've died."
"Don't be so reckless."
Looking forward the kids answered with a shaky determination, "I want to be a hero like Red Riot so that means even if I'm scared, even if I want to cry and hide I won't. I will be a manly hero who stares at his fears and breaks past them."
Those words stuck Yagi as something more genuine then he would've have thought a teen would say. The teen was someone who was selfless and maybe a bit reckless but who would be a great hero someday, maybe even one of the best.
'Hey Yagi, always remembers this, your successor doesn't need a powerful quirk or a lot of training, all they need is the drive to be a hero to help others, to save people and tell them it's all right, even when they're scared."
The words of his mentor raced through his mind as Yagi smiled, he had just found his successor.
Shaking himself out of his stupor the number one hero thought about their exercise plan and how to adjust it to young Kirishima's particular zeal. Originally he had wanted to use a nearby park for more calisthenic training but he had rumors of a pair of teens who kept yelling expletive remarks like they were dying. There's no way he'd associate either himself or his successor with that pair.
Suddenly sneezing lightly All Might was shaken right out of his thoughts and he looked at his young protege as he continues to strive to his goal.
AN: Thanks for reading another chapter have a wonderful day y'all.
*Seiteki: means static or well thats one of its meanings
**Takahashi: is just a super common surname