Chapter eleven - With power comes great pain and enlightenment.

"BRAT! Get the fuck up!"

Izuku was suddenly awoken by a female voice shouting aggressively. For a few seconds, he was confused as to where he was and who the voice belonged to but then remembered everything that happened the day before. Izuku groaned in laziness and disappointment as he sloppily put his face in his hands.

The door swung open and a pair of blue high-tops connected to his jaw with painful force.

"I said, wake up! Are you deaf or something?" Tezobi clicked her tongue and glared at Izuku evilly. Izuku winced in pain and rubbed his jaw before shakily getting up.

"Why does she feel to the need to abuse me like this.." thought Izuku. Tezobi was wearing the same outfit she wore during their first meeting; black tank top, blue high-tops and black shorts. She never seemed afraid or nervous and Izuku envied that.

"Follow me." she said in an irritated voice, as she walked down a dimly lit hallway with many doors scattered about. They walked quite the distance with only the sound of their walking feet. Izuku was wondering how much longer it would take before they arrived to wherever they were going.

Tezobi stopped in front a watered-down black door before turning to face Izuku, who wore a stoic expression.

"Okay, brat, Sensei said I should train you on all the shit he said yesterday. So, today is the day. Got it? I'm not going easy on you." stated Tezobi in a firm tone. Izuku just nodded in response.

"This is going to be hell on earth." thought Izuku.

When he walked in, he was first met with several practice dummies. Some old, some new and some that were completely disfigured. There were concrete walls across the room that were meant for destroying. There were two or three mats to use for safety but Izuku doubted Tezobi would allow him to use them.

"Okay, you little shit, Sensei told me you could choose what you wanted to work on first. So, what is it?" asked Tezobi. Izuku thought about it.

"I don't really want to be alive right now but that's not possible for many reasons, so an invisibility quirk would be nice. But I'm quirkless, so that's also not possible..meaning I'll need to have people think I'm not there." thought Izuku.

"I want to conceal my presence." said Izuku, bluntly.

"Fine." said Tezobi. "Brat, you can feel my presence in this room, right?"

"Yes."

"Close your eyes and feel this." said Tezobi. Izuku seriously didn't like the way things were going and didn't like or trust Tezobi for a second. He reluctantly closed his eyes as he did not want the girl to forcingly close his eyes for him. Once he closed his eyes, Izuku patiently waited to feel something on his skin. About three seconds later, he felt as though something left him. Some kind of aura or maybe part of his soul had left his body, he felt incomplete. It reminded him of an empty feeling.

"What the fu.." thought Izuku, as he opened his eyes with a shocked expression. He was baffled, to say the least.

"So you CAN look shocked? Hm." said the white haired girl in a mocking tone. "That's what it feels like when somebody conceals their presence when they are right in front of you, but when you are hiding and nobody is expecting you, it will be like you aren't even there."

Izuku nodded in understanding.

"To conceal your presence, close your eyes and take a slow, deep breath in and briefly imagine the room you are in without you in it. Once you've done that, open your eyes and move about as you please in a silent manner. Got it, brat?" explained Tezobi. "Now, try it."

"Okay." replied Izuku.

"This should be fairly simple.." he thought. With that, he closed his eyes and imagined the room without him in it and opened his eyes. He quickly made his way behind Tezobi and attempted to kick her in the spine for revenge for what she did to him, but was instead met with a punch to the gut by Tezobi.

"Not bad, for a brat. Never thought a timid shit like him had the balls to try a sneak attack." thought Tezobi as she glared at Izuku with those same soulless, hatred-filled eyes.

Izuku clutched his side as he vomited a little because of the force. It didn't hurt him as much as the previous attacks he received, though.

"Okay, you little shit, you are gonna learn all the martial arts techniques in existence. If you get it wrong, I don't care what you say or do, you will get beat up for it. Grow some balls." with that, Tezobi punched Izuku in the jaw then kicked him in the groin. It was unexpected as a few seconds ago, she was just talking but now he was getting beaten up. Izuku was kneed in the stomach and got elbowed in the ribs. This violence went on for about fifteen minutes and Izuku got bruises and swellings. He teared up a little, but not much.

"She is..just like Kacchan. What does she gain from this abusive behaviour.." he weakly thought.

It wasn't until ten minutes into the abusive that he recognised a karate move she was doing. He noticed how she wasn't punching his pressure points but wasn't holding back either. He blacked out for a few seconds, before being slapped hard to wake him up.

"S-Seiken punch.." said Izuku weakly, who had no strength within him.

"So you do know something, huh, brat." scoffed Tezobi, who easily picked up Izuku, despite him wearing his yukata and sword. She sat him down on a mat and gave him some water and waited 20 minutes to let him get up again. She might have been violent, but she wasn't so delusional to believe that he'd learn high level martial arts in a day. She wasn't going to punish him for being human. Once Izuku was well enough to get up again, he looked Tezobi with nothing but hatred in his eyes. He even clenched his fists so much, his knuckles turned white. His eyes were an evil green and looked like the eyes of a demon. Tezobi saw this and for two seconds was scared but was then she regained her composure.

"What the fuck was that? Was I just scared right now? By a whiny, little brat?" she thought in disbelief. Tezobi wasn't afraid of anybody, not even All for One. She was just cautious and respected the guy. How in the world Izuku scared her, she didn't know, but she wanted to use that pure, horrific rage of his to fuel his strength in martial arts and one-on-one combat.

She smirked. "Brat, look and listen here. Watch what I do to the dummy over there."

"That bitch thinks that she is all that. She must have thought I was some idiot.." Izuku thought. While Tezobi was beating up Izuku with different fighting techniques, Izuku was memorising her movements and the points where he was being hit and the damage he was receiving. Tezobi was by far the strongest person Izuku had seen or met in his life, beside All Might. It was kind of ironic how the strongest people he encountered were the people who seemed to look down on him. Little did Izuku know, that neither Tezobi nor All Might thought little of him at all.

He snapped back to reality, and saw that Tezobi was shouting certain fighting techniques and what the techniques would be doing to the person being hit. She did this all while hitting or destroying the dummy in a certain way. Izuku thought back to a few minutes ago when he was being hit and saw that he was hit in similar ways to the dummy, except he didn't know what the techniques were called back then.

Izuku's eyes widened in realisation as to what Tezobi had been doing the entire time.

"Oh..Oh my God..that kind of makes sense..so she wasn't beating me senseless without a reason. She was using certain martial art techniques on me and then demonstrated it on a practice dummy while naming what the techniques were, the damage it did to the person being hit and how weapons could be incorporated into the fighting. Why didn't she just say so in the first place, my god.." thought Izuku in annoyance.

While Izuku was thinking this, he was still absorbing all the information he was getting from Tezobi, like a dry sponge would absorb in all the moisture it could get. Tezobi noticed that he had realised her teaching style and smiled to herself in slight satisfaction. While this teaching style was not taught amongst the masses and shouldn't be encouraged amongst children, it kind of worked with Izuku.

Morning turned to afternoon, days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and Tezobi had now taught Izuku defence mechanisms to learn that countered all the techniques he was previously taught. Izuku was sent on different jobs to analyse different thugs and villains and send the information to Sensei via the computer he was given in his room and him being the top-tier analyst he was, he quickly caught on to everything he was taught. Even Tezobi was impressed at how fast he was learning. Tomura was annoyed, angry and slightly envious at Izuku's competence. Izuku remained with his stoic expression all the while. He was taught his flexibility, martial arts, enhancing of the five senses, concealing presence, ways to use different weapons like throwing knives, machete, cane and baton and speed enhancing. Izuku got a six pack but kept his slender, small physique.

He sparred with Tezobi on par most of the time but he still got insulted and got his ass handed to him. But Izuku noticed that Tezobi was slightly nicer to him than when they first met.

Even though Izuku was taught how to use many different weapons in battle, he would stay loyal to his samurai sword.

Thank you for reading. I will be writing and posting new chapters when I have free time or when I feel like writing. I have no fixed writing schedule but I won't be on any long hiatuses. Stay tuned. - Takahiro.