Chapter 4: Simularities
Izuku woke up that morning with Eri laying on top of him, lightly snoring. He tries to move her but then he gets a knock on his door.
"Izuku! Wake up, Ryosuke's come to talk to you." As soon as he hears this he shakes at her shoulder.
"Eri, Eri wake up. It's time to get up." 'I just got a feeling of déjà vu just then.'
She sits up slightly, rubbing her eye and nodding before getting off him and getting out of the All Might onesie that she has been wearing for the first time in a while.
"Good…morning Papa." Izuku smiles and gets changed and they step out of the room, both yawning.
They see Ryosuke sitting on the couch with a cup of tea, he sees them and motions for them to sit down. "So, Young Izuku. I have a little surprise for you."
"What's the surprise?!" Eri basically screamed out at them.
"Well, actually. I have a hero slightly in my debt and he owes me a favor, so I thought that he could help you and Asui train for the next few days while I'm getting some of my personal business done.
"What's your personal business, getting heroes in debt to you?" Ryosuke shakes his head and stands up, only to pick up his cup from the table in between them.
"No, no it is not. My personal business involves— Never mind, that's for another time." He claps his hand together, startling both Eri and Izuku. "Now, let's go over to the training spot. He should be waiting for us, as well as Asui. So, let's go." Izuku grabs a banana and leaves out with Ryosuke and Eri holding his hand and motions for him to let her on his shoulders, which he stops and crouches down. Ryosuke takes this opportunity think about what he should make them do.
He looks at Eri and his eyes start to glow. 'Woah, what an insane quirk!'
(Note, he just used the quirk: Analyze. A quirk that lets the user look at a target and searches for their quirk, it can also leave the head strained due to sudden use after a long period of inactivity).
"Oh yeah, Izuku. Have you figured out what you wanted to do after you get into U.A?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, they might have you move into dorms. So, I wanted to ask if you wanted to stay at your house or stay in the dorms with Eri. Oh, what are we going to do with Eri?" He thinks for a moment. "I know! How about we have the teachers take care of her during school hours." Izuku looks at him, concerned.
"I think you're reading to far into this, Sensei. I might not even get into U.A. So, I don't think you should be thinking that far." Ryosuke looks at him and pouts as Eri giggles at the conversation the two just shared.
They get to the beach to see Asui seating on the usual bench, then Izuku and Ryosuke are confronted by a man with rugged clothing, long black hair and a scarf.
"Ryosuke… Don't tell me I have to teach these two runs."
"Don't worry, Eraserhead, these two are stronger than they look. How have you been?"
He scratches the back of his head. "I don't know, I felt better before you saved my ass and told me to teach these two, combat training. I don't even think I'm that fluent in to be honest."
Ryosuke laughs and puts his arm around the man's shoulder. "Don't fret! You just have to teach them basic combat and they'll get better from there!" Eraserhead sighs and motions for both teens to follow him. (Asui walked over to them while they were talking).
"Now, before we start, my name is Aizawa Shota. I'm telling you this because I feel we're going to be here for a long while. Anyway, you two are going to U.A. right?" They both nods. "Well, it's not my place to say this, but I don't think you two have what it takes to get into it. Now, we're going to start with basic combat training, who wants to go first."
"What, we're fighting? Kero."
"I see we fight and get the basic movements of the fight and go from there on our own. Very well, I will go first."
Izuku walks to stand in front of the man, Asui steps to the side while Izuku and Aizawa are staring each other down, right in the eye. Izuku makes the first move and goes for a right hook to his head and Aizawa easily dodges by ducking under the attack and then jabs him in the gut. Izuku coughs and falls to the ground, he gets back up and charges at him again, he tries to roundhouse kick him but Aizawa blocks his foot and then garbs his leg and pulls Izuku toward himself and elbows him in the face.
Izuku gets a broken nose form that and goes flying backwards because he let go as he strikes him with his elbow. Aizawa runs at the lying Izuku and tries to pin him on the ground, Izuku then gets a sudden rush of adrenaline and feels his eyes burning as he retaliates by grabbing onto his ankle and gripping as hard as he can, making him get off of him and gets his ankle pulled, making Aizawa fall to the ground and Izuku tackles on top of him and restrains his arms and legs and leans into his ear.
"I win." He whispers, sending chills down Aizawa's spine.
"Fine, you win now get off me." They slowly get up and Aizawa looks his ankle to have it covered with a bruise and markings left of Izuku's hand. He stares at the kid before Izuku goes and stands next to Asui and makes his way over to the both.
'What was the sudden rush of adrenaline? Was that one of my quirks?' Izuku then grabs his phone and sees that the time says it is noon. He flashes Ryosuke a stare and he nodded back to him.
"Now, Asui-Chan, right?" She nods in confusion as to why he uses honorifics in her name. "Well Asui-chan. Did you notice what Midorya-san here did wrong?"
"No, I didn't sir. Kero."
"What he did wrong, was his first attack. While the move had a lot of power, it didn't have enough speed, so the target could easily duck under it and launch a counterattack, second was the way he tried to roundhouse kick me. His form was sloppy and didn't have enough time put into it, plus in that situation, the better move to use would be an axe kick or just a kick to the face, or a feint where you go for a punch, leading them to block their head and then you kick them in the side. Does that sound simple enough?" In the background Ryosuke face-palms and then give a worried look at Aizawa.
"What is it?"
"Listen, Eraserhead buddy. I don't think these kids can take these kinds of lessons for very long." Aizawa shrugs and continues on with the lesson.
2 Weeks later
Aizawa finishes his assignments at U.A. before realizing he had to go and train Asui and Izuku on the beach. Both teens had gotten way better even though it had only been about two weeks from when they started training.
Izuku especially, ever since the first training session, he's been getting stronger every time he fights either Asui or Aizawa, because every time they fought, it had always been noon. Aizawa didn't know this for sure but he knew he had a strength enhancer type quirk related to the sun of some kind.
Aizawa got to the beach that day and immediately saw Izuku doing some light sparring with Asui, it had been earlier in the morning before noon so Izuku wasn't as strong as he was when fighting with Aizawa, but he still had power to back up his techniques.
Both teens had completed their own type of fighting style before Aizawa could even say anything about it. Asui had created a style that was related to her quirk and always did something frog-like before she attacks or either she hid in some place that you wouldn't normally think anyone could hide in. 'She is incredibly quick on her feet, but her opponent right now is too much of a challenge for her fighting style.'
Izuku had made himself a fighting style as well, when they weren't training, he either practiced moves until he perfected them, or he would either be looking up ways to get yourself out of a sticky situation. (Not off the internet) He would go into the streets at night and go into a vigilante-wannabe costume and fought bad guys. Of course, Aizawa didn't now of this, neither did Asui. The only person he told was Ryosuke and he didn't want to break the news to Aizawa. (As he might arrest him on the spot)
Izuku was quite fond of what he was doing, fighting crime and beating up bad guys in the street causing havoc. He usually got into tough situations from some of the criminals he had fought and one day had returned home with cuts and bruises and Inko had freaked out and asked what happened, then he said he was doing some training when he got out of hand hurt himself recklessly.
Izuku was getting quite used to the training, except for his spars with Asui. They were always unexpected because of the places she would hide, but eventually used his unexpected development to search where people were in the are just by closing his eyes, Izuku had told Ryosuke about it.
'Ah that! That's another side effect of the changes I told you about! Eventually that might evolve enough to be able to sense where people are around you. Take me for example, I gained the ability to know where and when an enemy attack is coming at me, so far as I figured out. That was the last evolution before becoming a full sense.' Izuku thought back at the conversation.
Izuku wasn't paying attention when he had hardly hit Asui on the head as she was about to kick him in the face and she fell to the ground, when he realized what he had done he helped her up and then gave her a concerned look.
"Alright you little runts, that's enough sparring for today! Please go rest and I'll give you details about what we'll do since we've finished basic combat training." He held his chin in his palm and thought for a moment before turning around and walking away, ruffling Eri's hair while walking past her. Both teens gave each other a certain look but they didn't know what it was and shrugged it off and walking away together to get some lunch.
While they were walking to lunch, they talked about what they would do if they had to train separately.
"I think I might train my quirk instead of doing normal combat training, I might also learn how to completely use my quirk so it's completely in sync with my battle style. Kero."
"Really? That's surprising, I thought you would keep training your style and the train it when you and I got into U.A. Although, to be honest, I was going to try and train Eclipse and Breaking exposure. But I'm stuck between either training my quirks or having some time with Eri instead of leaving her on her own while I'm training." He looks down at her, but she is smiling brightly as she chews on her candy apple they bought from a nearby store.
"I think you should build your relationship with Eri first before training your quirks and then when we got into U.A. you would then train your quirk, right?"
He looked unsatisfied and then looked back at Asui giving her a concerned look. "Right. But I think I should train my quirks while I was spending time with Eri. Though, your suggestion is good as well. Thank you Asui!" He gives her a warm and bright smile making her blush and looking at the floor.
When they get to their usual lunch spot, they were greeted by the man that would work at the cashier and would always see them on days like this. They sat down and ordered their usual lunch and together and watching Eri as she satisfyingly eats her candy apple. Eri then turns to the two.
"Hey, hey Tsu-chan! Are you going to be my mother as well as Papa being my Papa?" This mad both teens blush and then immediately turn to her while she just sits there confused as to what's happening.
"Moving on, Tsu-chan. So, why do you want to become a hero?"
She thought a little bit about his question and then answered in its simplest forms. "I want to help people."
Izuku lightly chuckled as he thought about how good she was at combat.
"Why are you laughing so much? It's not that funny, is it? Kero?"
"No, no, that's not why I was laughing."
"Then why?"
"Well, mainly it's because of how good your fighting ability was that it was surprising that you wanted to be a rescue hero other than a combat hero."
"Oh, that's the reason? It's actually because of what happened to me that caused me to become a rescue hero. I didn't want anyone else to be in the same situation I was when my family died."
"Surprisingly, you're very calm about this, are you going to be a rescue and combat hero?"
"No, I think I'll just stick with saving other people rather than fighting with other people. Kero."
"But you fight so well!" She was quite shocked and didn't know how to respond.
", the reason I fight so well in our spars, is that I know they're just that, spars… So, when I'm fighting with people, I don't know then I get uncomfortable, like when we first started. I didn't know you so I tried to fight you calmly and evasively, I was told by Ryosuke that if I were to do that in the middle of a fight, then the villain would win. Besides, I couldn't fight a villain for my life."
Izuku felt all sorts of feelings towards that answer and could only nod in agreement as he was lost for words. "Anyway, I feel like it's getting kind of late now." He said as he looked at his phone to see it was reaching the evening. He hadn't realized they were talking that long.
"Crap I have to get home, see you tomorrow! Tsu-chan!" He said while winking and smiling, making her fluster and blush at the sudden brightness that is Izuku.
'What was that? Was he trying to be cute?' Asui could only make a slight 'kero' before going back to her apartment.
Two months later
Izuku and Asui had just finished their basic combat training when Aizawa must stop teaching them so he could go and work for the upcoming classes that would come five months later. Even though it was a lot of time before the entrance exams, the teachers still had to work for the paper assignments and work on scheduling the classes for the students of U.A. Izuku was extremely stronger than when he first started, it showed too. He was now 6'3 feet and was way more defined in muscle than he was before, almost every shirt he wore would show his bulging muscles through his shirt.
"Now you two." Ryosuke had called them early in the morning and told them to come straight to the beach once they woke up.
"We're going to train the most important part of our bodies and the strength to win, you two will do separate training so you can still match each other in skill. Izuku, you will be training your speed and agility while Tsu-chan here will be training her quirk. Izuku, you don't have to do this since Eclipse will improve over time anyway, and Breaking exposure will only improve when the quirk is active, meaning you will have to be hurt and I don't want you to get hurt while training to be stronger. So, you won't have to worry about your quirks improving." Izuku nods in response, so does Asui.
Two weeks later
Izuku and Asui have hellish s=training and can overcome their flaws and weaknesses, such as for Izuku, his weakness was his agility and speed. Now he's able to run about 25 miles without getting overly tired and is also able to keep up with speeds such as (in Australia) 40 km/ hour. Asui had overcome the massive gap she had and was trying to overcome it; the gap was the power with her fighting g style intone with her quirk. Meaning she can't use her quirk when she fights properly.
"Alright! I think you two are ready to go and fight in the exam. But there's one thing I would like to say to you two." He kneels and motions for them to kneel with them and they do so.
"You two are so far the best and only students I've ever had and so far, I think you both can surpass me in power and strength, especially you Izuku." They both turn their heads towards Izuku, and he nods at Ryosuke, giving him a more definite understanding that Izuku wanted to be stronger.
"Good, now Tsu-chan, I expect you to help him train for as long as he needs as well as you train her, okay Izuku?"
"Right, I will do my best!"
"We both will! Kero."
"Right now, Tsu-chan, you can head home if you want but I need to talk with you Izuku alright?" He nods and Asui bows before she walks away from them.
"Y'know, it's pretty overwhelming that you gave me your quirks and that I've become as strong as I am now."
"It must be pretty good to have someone interested in you as well doesn't it?" He muttered under his breath.
"What?"
Nothing. God, you're oblivious, aren't you? Whatever doesn't matter. I just wanted to say to you that you can spend the rest of this extra time you have with Eri or you train on your own or with Asui, honestly, it's your decision. I'm telling you this as I will be continuing my work overseas and I will not be back until after the exam, so I want you to go beyond…"
"PLUS, ULTRA!" They both yelled in unison.
Both chuckled and giggled at the expedition they showed.
"Listen Ryosuke. I honestly can't thank you enough, for giving me this chance and making me as strong as I am now. I am forever in your debt." He said before Ryosuke had pulled him into a hug and Izuku accepted it and let his tears roll onto his cheeks and then onto his shirt. They continued like his for a few minutes before Ryosuke had pulled away.
"Listen Young Izuku, I want you to train as hard as you can and have the best time with your new family and friend. Please, at least do that while I'm gone…" Ryosuke had wanted the boy to answer instantly but Izuku waited a few seconds before answering.
"Right! I will do my best!"
"Very good, now I'm off so… I guess I'll see you after the exam." Izuku nodded in response as Ryosuke had walked away, continuously waving at him.
'Please train your hardest Young Izuku. I'm counting on you!'
Little did they know, Asui was watching the exchange behind a tree nearby and perfectly masked her presence so she wouldn't be seen or heard.
'Izuku-san… You're even cooler than I'd have imagined!' She thought as she started walking away, leaving Izuku on the beach.
"So, this is it, huh?" Ryosuke had said before going out of view of Izuku.
As soon as he was out of sight, he waited a few minutes before a portal opened in front of him. He stepped into it, knowing what was on the other side. He stepped in; he was teleported into a bar like place when he sees a single black mist behind the bar.
"Hey Kurogiri, where's Sensei?"
"I don't know, he's probably in with the IV medical equipment, so you should go see him. Oh, and welcome back, you finally visited us after all this time." The black mist greeted Ryosuke as he was polishing glasses behind the bar that they were standing next to.
"Yeah, it has been a ling time. Kurogiri, can you please teleport me to where he is?"
"Yeah, yeah." As he finished his sentence, another portal opened in front of Ryosuke, which he had stepped into and was greeted by a man in IV equipment, sitting in a chair and most likely on the verge of death.
"Greetings Ryosuke, how did finding a successor go?" He was greeted by the man; his name was All for One.
"I found the perfect one, though I don't know why you asked me to find one. Even when you killed my master, you still offered me a place of comfort. I am thankful to you, Sensei."
"Oh please, we both know that Stephanie Steel was a weakling and that she was never going to kill me, but even so. I had to commemorate her efforts by taking in her successor and training him under my wing."
"Right…" Ryosuke can't say anything because he knows what he's saying is right, but his master was anything but a weakling! She knew that she would die when she would fight All for One, but even so. She was still the greatest person that Ryosuke had ever met.
"Ryosuke, is your successor like Steel? Is he trying to gain stronger and become the hero everyone deserves?"
"He is trying to help people who are in need and in danger, as well as having the goal to be the number one hero. He is a lot like my master in some ways, but the difference in strength is just too big now."
"I see, well that was not surprising. Especially since she was one of the only people that could trade blows with me more than once and would still be alive, I'm going to commemorate he for that and let her grand successor live, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to send troops to attack U.A. do you understand."
"Yes Sensei."
"Good, you are dismissed!"
"Very well. Goodbye Sensei." He said before walking out again through another portal that led to Ryosuke's so called 'home'.
'Ryosuke's successor huh? I wonder what the kid is like. I will have to find out soon enough, Izuku Midorya.'
Hello everyone! I was excited when doing this chapter, so I hope you all liked it! I know that even though Ryosuke is good, I still decided to put him on both sides of good and evil. Sorry if it took too long even though it's so short, I would still like to work on this as much as I can, so I will see all of you around for the next chapter. Bye!
