Into the inner feelings of Izuku Yagi.
Spring time had come, and with it a brand new school year all around the country. But this school year wouldn't be a regular one. Today would be the first day of high school for Izuku Yagi, and not just any regular old high school like he originally planned, no, no, this was UA High, the top hero school in the world!
Ever since he was three years old Izuku wanted to become a hero, when his dreams were crushed and destroyed before his very eyes he still wanted to somewhat keep pushing on and become one.
But then his mother threw him away like he was garbage, and that dreamed died, and it stayed a dead thought that would creep in the back of his mind from time to time again.
For the first few years of his life Izuku was just an "ordinary" kid that just lived a dull and unfulfilling life that he'd felt wouldn't get anywhere even if he'd tried. The society he lived in already showed how they felt towards quirkless people. Even if Izuku wanted to become someone successful society would put their collective boot down and stomp on him like a roach for wanting to be a hero. If they did it once, they most certainly do it again.
When he met Junichi and his father his life started to change. He wanted to be a hero at the start but he turned into a criminal, not a villain like a hero would fight, no, he was a criminal that the police would deal with, and sometimes the heroes would get involved with.
He was just a delivery boy, really, it was all he was once he thought about it, he didn't buy the illegal gear to sell, he didn't grow or chemically made the drugs he also delivered, he was just a mailman, a courier of illegal wares per say.
Izuku didn't like putting his life and well being at risk when he did those jobs. But when he had Junichi or Pierce by his side whil doing the work he felt something inside that he hadn't felt in a long time.
He felt happy. He felt happy that he finally had a friend that would willingly hang out with him and not toss him under the bus like all the other friends he tried to make when he started his new life.
He got to explore all over the city thanks to his job with them and with the added bonus of being out of the orphanage most of the time which was probably the biggest bonus of all. Everything about being there just made him depressed and angry about his life and when he was out, he didn't feel that as much.
This didn't come without it's consequences. Everytime he did his job he was willingly breaking the law, like stated earlier, he was delivering drugs, weapons, and other illegal items for profit. He can outrun police easily and he only delt with one hero, "Eraserhead" which he escaped from.
Then the one time he murdered somebody. To this day it haunts him that he did such a thing. To take another person's life felt awful, sure Junichi and his father said he did the right thing and had no other choice but he still felt bad. Then he reflects on what Pierce said to him during there conversation with each other. "Izuku, you need to learn that sometimes there are people that deserve to die. You may not realize that now, but in the future you will know what I mean."
He still doesn't know what he really means by that, but like he said, "you will know what I mean."
Though he'll possibly never see Junichi or his father again, he can thank them for teaching him how to be strong and defend himself against the people who looked down on him for his quirklessness.
Then he met his father. Who would've known that sitting next to some stranger on a park bench would change his life forever. That skinny blond twig was All Might in the flesh but in a weaker form. Izuku gave his little sob story about his shitty life and it drove the man to wanting to be closer to him.
And now he's the number one hero's son. As if he wasn't happy enough for someone to actually care enough about him to adopt him the man is now gaving him that childhood dream that died so long ago.
He's now taking up the mantle to becoming the next symbol of peace after he graduates high school. His new father offered him a quirk, not just any quirk, it is a sacred power that is passed down through generation after generation. Afted being selected by his father he'll be the ninth holder of the quirk "One For All."
The ability to pass on a quirk is amazing enough, but for it t stockpile power from each user that had it is remarkable. But if not used rightly, the power will take a huge toll on his body. The only thing holding Izuku back is that if he doesn't control it he'll break his bones or if not, kill him.
That's quite the price to pay for a power that you got directly from the symbol of peace himself. But through rigorous training for almost a year his body is slowly, yet surely coming through to handle it.
He can use 10% of the 100% of his power sure, but when he uses it at 10% his body aches badly and he starts hurting so he usually keeps it at 8-5% at most.
But what matters to him most is that his father is proud of him of what he's become from all the training. It was obvious at first that his dad never taught anyone before trying to train him. But from seeing his progress he shouldn't be less proud of himself either.
Now here we are today.
Izuku was still barely awake in his bed slouching on his pillow all still comfortable the good night sleep he just had to get ready for the big day today.
The alarm clock on his phone started ringing, it wasn't an ear piercing screeching noise that you would hear from most alarm clocks. The alarm was soft and it didn't startle Izuku to get up and stop it, but he can move his arm slowly to the side of the bed and turn it off with no complications.
Izuku moved the blankets and scrunched up to stretch his arms wide to try and fully wake himself up from his drowsy like state.
After getting out of bed the first thing he did was take a nice cold shower to fully wake himself up. Izuku was used to taking cold showers, when he first started being taught how to defend himself he would get all overheated from the training and he would go and take a cold one to fully cool himself off.
When he was done with his refreshing shower he got dressed in his uniform and organized his finishing touches with his school supplies that should last him almost the entire year.
On his way out the door of his room he bumped immediately into his dad. "Hey there my boy! Are ready for today? Ready for your path to become a hero?!" His dad blissfully cheered.
"Hell yeah I am!," Izuku answered, "I'm going to try hardest to become the hero I always wanted to be."
"I'm glad, and also, what did I say about language in this household." Toshinori said sternly to him. "Are you serious old man? The word hell isn't as bad as all the others, and besides, you say "shit" all the time English. You think I don't notice? I know how to use the internet, I can translate stuff!"
Toshi smiled and rubbed the top of his fluffy hair, "Alright my boy, you got me there. I guess you can say words like hell, crap, and damn when your around me, just not the totally explicit one's."
"Understood," was all Izuku had to say to him.
"Are you ready to go my boy? Today is going to be a busy day for the both of us, so we have to get going quick."
Izuku looked at him all determined, "You know I'm ready, I'm ready for anything the school will throw at me!" He raised his fist up to his chest in a punching position with a serious look in his eyes.
"That's the spirit I'm looking for!" Toshinori beamed.
Shortly after the two of them left the house and got in there car and started the short drive to school.
It was a nice day out, birds flying everywhere, and a nice light breeze and a clear blue sky, nothing can really go wrong today, it's only the first day of school.
IIII
They arrived at their destination, it was still really early. From what it looked like not much people were here.
Toshinori turned towards his son, "I hope you have a good day today, We'll meet again later." And from that the two of them separated to there designated destinations.
As Izuku wondered the halls looking for his classroom he admired all the nice decor of his new school. "Everything here is so nice, this is nothing compared to my old school."
"I still can't believe that I'm here, this still feels like a dream or when Junichi made me try weird substances in the warehouse warehouse again."
The thought of him being on his was to become successful made him think of something that happened while he was at his old school.
IIII
Izuku was sitting in the principal's office again. His troubled behavior always brought him to the office. Since he suffered almost no backlash for his actions for a lack of parental figures in his life he was always up here every several weeks.
"Izuku, this is the second time you've been brought up here into MY OFFICE for getting into a fist fight with another student!"
Izuku was sitting in the chair on the opposite side of the desk, he had a bandage on his cheek and he also had a noticeably bad black eye, a pure shiner.
"What the fuck do you expect me to do? I always come up here for the same reasons and you idiots don't listen to me! THESE. KIDS. KEEP. FUCKING WITH ME!"
"I get that the students keep messing with you for your quirkless status Izuku, but that doesn't mean you have to always respond with violence! Be the bigger man and ignore it and take it like an adult."
"Be the bigger man?! So you mean be a huge pussy and let myself get beat down and let them step all over me? Fuck that shit! I'm defending myself from them they don't deserve to treat me that way!"
"Izuku! I want to remind you that this behavior will not let you graduate from this school! And you will be nothing in your later life you got that! One more of these fist fights and you are expelled! Do you undertand me?!"
Izuku was defeated, again, it doesn't matter what he does, he'll always loose against the terrible school system and it's awful policies.He slouched back into his chair with a depressed look and and a defeated pout on his face, "I understand sir, it won't happen again."
"I'm glad that we can come to an understanding Izuku. Now get out and get back to class."No respect at all.
As Izuku got up and headed out to leave the office right before he got put the door he turned to the principal with the most serious look he muster, "You will all see, I will become better than anyone here, YOU'LL ALL SEE!"
He turned his head around and walked back to class.
IIII
As Izuku remembered that horrible memory from middle school all he can do is cringe at the thought.
But those thoughts shouldn't matter now, he was going to prove them all wrong, he's at UA High school, so already he's one step ahead, all he has to do now is to become a pro hero.
"1-A where is classroom 1-A... here we are!" He opened the gigantic door to the classroom and walked in.
Izuku looked around inside the classroom to only find three students this early in the morning, A boy with half white and red hair and a nasty scar onon his face, a girl with a gigantic black ponytail huge breasts for her age, and... oh no.
It was the kid with glasses that he encountered twice at the entrance exams. The boy with glasses noticed this too and he got up from his desk and started walking over towards Izuku.
The broccoli boy was worried while just standing still while he watched the glasses kid walk up to him all determined. "Please don't do anything rash, it's to early for this, please don't."The kid finally arrived in front of him on the to bow and hold out his hand.
What?
"Yagi... Even from your brash behavior at the exam you are clearly the superior candidate! I have completely misjudged you! And for that, I am deeply sorry!"
"What the hell?" Izuku thought confused. "Why is he apologizing, he dosen't have to apologize for anything..."
Izuku reached out an open palm and laid it out onto to the glasses kid's shoulder. "Look man, you don't have to apologize to me for anything. You had every right to judge me for how I acted at the exam. So I guess, I can say I'm sorry for the way I sort of lashed out against you at the entrance exams.
So I guess I can say that we both got off of the wrong foot, I hope things between us can get better and we can probably become friends. 'Even thought you technically started it,' So what do you say?"
The boy with glasses smiled with determination and held out his hand to shake with Izuku's. "My name is Ida Tenya, I come from Somei Academy, it's nice to properly meet you, Izuku Yagi!"
Izuku found his desk at the second to last seat in the second row of the room. He sa down laid his stuff out and got comfortable before class starts.
IIII
As time went by more and more students slowly were coming into the room, all of them in different shapes in sizes.
First a kid with sparkly looking eyes and a set face walked in and sat down at a random spot. Izuku recognized him as the kid with the laser beam stomach he saw rip through one of the robots at the exam.
Then a girl walked in that looked all slouched with a slight hunchback she had. Her eyes were huge and her facial expression was lowkey creeping him out the more he stared at it.
Next a pair of two walked in. A girl with all pink skin, pink fluffy hair, and dark yellow eyes was chatting up a storm with a dude with extremely red and spikey hair with what looked like razor sharp teeth. The two of them found there seats and sat down next to each other.
After that what seemed to be a pair floating clothes strolled into the room, either Izuku was going crazy or someone has an invisibility quirk, thank God it was the latter, she sat down at her desk, which still looked empty from his angle.
More and more new students poured in as time went on and the classroom got progressively louder as time went on. An extremely short kid with purple balls on his had walked into the classroom and sat down. What appeared to be a raven from something out of a grim poetry book walked into the room. And a girl with what looks like strings or cords coming from her ears strolled in and sat down.
The class was getting full at this point. Then another girl walked in, and Izuku couldn't help but freeze because she looked all too familiar.
It was Katsuki. Katsuki Bakugou. Kacchan.
Holy shit, he forgot that she was aiming to be a hero since she was a little kid when they were still together. He still remembers her declaring how she'll be one when she first got her quirk.
He can't help but feel happy for her she gets to have a chance to live that dream just like him. She looks almost like her mother now, just with slightly longer spikey hair that went down and a smaller chest.
Izuku is still slightly panicking on the inside, she'll notice him eventually, but the real question is, is that would she even remember him? They haven't seen each other in ten whole years.
He looked back up from his desk to find her looking at him, when they came face to face with each other, her eyes widened.
The green haired boy was just ever so slightly shaking in his seat as she slowly started walking towards him.
Why was he afraid? He has never been this sacred of something in a long time, Why her?
They were nearly face to face with each other now, only a foot away from each other by standing distance. the two of them were silently staring at each other and the class noticed as a couple eyes were staring at them wondering what's going on.
Katsuki finally broke the silence between them.
"Izuku... is that really you?" Izuku noticed her shocked demeanor hasn't gone away yet.
"Yes Katsuki, it's really me." Is all that he could give her.
"I-I thought you were gone forever, and your quirkless how did you even get in the hero course? What the hell?"
Izuku felt like he was going to break from the tension in the air. He didn't know what answers to really give her, there is just too much to tell.
"Katsuki I-" "Ah! That curly hair! It's you! The plain looking boy a the entrance exam! I knew that you would make it in here, Present Mic said so. The way you destroyed that robot was just too awesome to ignore!" The girl, Ochako Uraraka was pumping her fists in the air mocking the punch Izuku threw when he destroyed the zero point bot.
"O-oh hey, it's you again h-hi," This was amazingly awkward, not only was his childhood friend that he hasn't seen in a decade come back into his life, but another girl came between them during their confrontation and started talking to only him.
"If you are here only to socialize then get out." No one knew where that voice came from, it obviously a teacher, but where?
The students look at the front of the room to see what appears to be a yellow caterpillar laying on the ground. A face with a scruffy beard was the only thing they saw in the face hole. The man took out some type of fruit pouch and slurped it all down, the dead silence made it more uncomfortable.
The man looked all to familiar to Izuku. "Hello, I am your homeroom teacher Shouta Aizawa, pleased to meet you people." It was just as Izuku suspected, this was Eraserhead that outfit and voice matched.
He feels lucky because the teacher doesn't know a thing about him after their encounter, the only thing he would probably recognize is his eyes and voice and that would be reaching real high if he started accusing him of something.
"Now all of you pay attention, I want all of you to change into your gym clothes and head out to the school's grounds."
It was obvious what was about to happen, the teacher was going to test their quirks out on the grounds to see if they are worthy of being in the hero course.
While out on the grounds Uraraka asked the question a majority of the students were thinking. "But are we going to go to the entrance ceremony or the guidance lessons today?!"
Aizawa only looked at her with his eye and kept walking forward wearing the same face he's had since homeroom. "We have no time to waste on pointless things like that if we want to become heroes. UA is known for it's unique freestyle teaching system, every teacher will train their students differently."
Everyone in the class can only look at him with surprised and confused stares and looks.
Aizawa started speaking up again after reaching the testing area. "Softball throwing, the standing long jump, the 50 meter dash, endurance running, grip strength, side-to-side stepping, upper body training, and seated toe touching. I'm going to assume all of you did this middle, right? But when you did it there you weren't allowed to use your quirks.
In this country still insists that we should prohibit the use of quirks when calculating gym tests records, that isn't rational here. The department of education is just goofing off." Eraserhead looks at his class and calls a random student. "Bakugou, how far could you throw a ball in middle school?"
"I could throw a ball about sixty-seven meters," she answered. "Good for you, now try it again using your quirk. Just don't leave the circle."
Katsuki flexed her muscle bound arms and threw the ball forward igniting a huge explosion, "DIE!" She screamed.
'Die? Where did that come from?' Izuku questioned himself.
The ball went far, the teachers recorder said that it went all the way to 705 meters from the throwing spot. The students were getting excited, "Whoa!! This is gonna be awesome!" One kid said. "This is great! We can finally use our quirks, the hero course if great!" Went another.
The teacher looked agitated by his students getting excited about using their quirks, he looked at all of them with a scary look in his eyes and said the following statement. "Awesome you say? Are you all hoping for when you train here for three years it will all be fun and games? Well then, how about this, the student with the lowest score will be expelled."
The students were all taken back by the sudden declaration of possible expulsion, "The lowest scorer will be expelled? But it's only the first day! This is totally unfair!"
The teacher looked at her with a small smug like smile on his face, Natural disasters, highway pileups, and rampaging villains... disaster is always hiding around corners, I'd say the world is full of unfair things that would happen. But we heroes are the ones that have to correct all that unfairness.
If you thought that being here will be easy, I'm sorry to tell you that it won't be. For the next three years you'll be here, UA will put you through hell. That is Plus Ultra, So bring it, Now it's for real."
Izuku lined up with the other students to get ready for the tests. He watched eveything closely to spectate on everyone that went, but for some reason Katsuki kept glancing back at him.
The very first test was the 50 meter dash. The first ones to go were the frog girl and Ida. Ida won first because his legs were literal engines that let him fly by almost anyone that isn't faster than him. following right behind him was the frog girl hopping her way to the finish line.
The second pair of kids to go were Uraraka and a kid with a huge tail. The kid with the tail finished first by using to bounce his whole way though. Uraraka followed close behind running as fast as she could.
Next was Izuku and Katsuki, they both lined up at the start of the dash, right before Aizawa told them to start the both of them looked at each other and said nothing. The teacher told them to start and immediately Katsuki blew her explosions in both directions flying forward at an alarming speed. Izuku at the same time activated 8% of One For All and dashed forward flying right past Katsuki and fished first.
After they finished Katsuki started questioning him immediately, "What the fuck? Is that your power? You can run fast?"
Izuku turned to her and gave the only answer he still had, "This isn't the time, I'll talk to you about it later." She only growled in frustration from his response to her question.
All test were just easy stepping stones for Izuku he's pretty sure he's passed all of them fine. Throughout all his tests he noticed his friend slightly getting more and more frustrated, she was probably trying to figure out what his quirk was.
One of the other tests was the softball throwing. The one of the students Uraraka threw her ball and the class watched in awe as what seemed to be her ball floating to nowhere. Then they all went wild as the score of "infinity" appeared on their homeroom teacher's tracker.
It was now Izuku's turn. He walked up slowly to the plate getting ready to throw it as hard as he can. "Yagi has been doing really well, I wonder how he'll throw this ball," Uraraka said. 'From what I've seen his only power appears to be speed, so this ball won't go far,' Katsuki thought.
Izuku stood in the middle of the red circle and aimed up into position, not too high and not too low. He charged up all 10% he could muster throughout his body for maximum distance and launched his arm forward.
He created a small shock wave from the dirt beneath him as the ball went skyrocketing forward. The ball traveled so fast Izuku couldn't see were in went since he closed his eyes from the dust hitting his face.
The score tracker on Aizawa's recorder said 754.2 meters. Everyone was smiling in amazement at the display of power coming from what seemed to be a small plain timid boy in a class full of unique people. Except Katsuki. Her face displayed shock and anger, 'WHAT THE FUCK IS HIS POWER?! FROM WHAT I REMEMBER HIS PARENTS ONLY HAD GRAVITY AND FIRE POWERS, THIS STRENGTH AND SPEED DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!'
After a day of rigorous training the tests were over, Izuku knew he got a high score so he didn't have to worry about getting expelled from class. That thought went away when his teacher spoke up again, "I was lying about expelling everyone. That was all an elaborate ruse to get you all to do your best!" The teacher said this with a disturbing smile on his face that'd he'd hoped he'd never see again.
IIII
After a busy day at first day of UA, Izuku started walking home since his dad would be staying late filing paper work since he now has started working there.
On the way out heading towards the front gates he was confronted by Katsuki.
"Deku..." was the only thing she muttered to him at first, "Explain everything to me, where did you go? What's your quirk? I don't undertand it all."
She wasn't even looking at him face to face even though they were half a foot away from each other. Izuku feels guilty, she doesn't sound angry or upset, she sounds genuinely sad.
"Do you atleast know what happened to me Bakugou? After I suddenly vanished."
"Of course I know dipshit, your fucking bitch of a mother got rid of you and set you up for adoption because you were quirkless."
"Yes she did, I was put in an orphanage far away from here north in the city in a really bad area, it's seems my mom put me somewhere as far as she could so she would never see me again.
For the last ten years I was in a shithole orphanage in a shithole part of town growing up with shithole people that treated me like garbage. I was only adopted recently believe it or not."
"You were only adopted recently? Who took you in as their new child?"
Izuku knew he had to lie about her question, you can't just tell someone that your All Might's kid. "I was adopted by a man that saw something in me and actually loves and cares about me."
"I see... what about your quirk, I don't understand that shit at all, your parent's had quirks that could lead to a child that could have pyroteknesis. And I thought you were quirkless? What happened to that, you told me that you were always going to be."
"I guess I'm part of that small minority of children that get different quirks then their parents. It's just a basic strength enchantment quirk, no big deal. To your second question, I guess mom gave up on me too early and I developed my quirk a little bit later. I think I was just a late bloomer as they say."
IIII
From the distance near the entrance of the school building the fellow classmates of 1-A were watching their new fellow classmates have what's looking like a serious discussion.
"They've been going at it for over five minutes, what do you think they're talking about?" Asked the spikey red haired kid named Kirishima.
"I don't know man, when I came out here waiting for you guys she was over by the gate just standing there. When that Yagi kid came out she stopped him in his path and started talking to him." All of this was said by the electrical quirk kid Kaminari.
In the middle of the boy's conversation jumped in the pink skinned girl Mina and her new invisible acquaintance Toru. "I totally know what it means guys! It's totally romance, ooooooh or a love confession!" Mina and Toru started getting excited over a possible romance.
Exiting the building came out Minrou Mineta getting jealous that Izuku was getting attention from all the girls in class. 'Damn Yagi, getting one of the babes for yourself!' He thought.
IIII
"Deku... I hope you realized how much I fucking missed you. Again I never thought I would ever see you again after what your mom did."
"From what I'm hearing from you right now I would think so, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I left you without saying goodbye."
"Don't fucking apologize Deku it wasn't your fault... none of it was, just shitty parenting that's all."
"Deku," Hah, you've saying that all day, I'd never thought I'd hear that name again after I left all those years ago. You can just call me Yagi you know? that is my last name now."
"No, I prefer calling you Deku because it was your nickname when we were kids and I'm sticking with it. Besides you also have that shitty nickname for me too since you couldn't pronounce my name when we were younger."
"Yes I remember, I know what it was."
"Then say it," she said.
"I don't really-"
"Just say it fucking Deku it's not that hard."
A small shade of crimson started to appear on Izuku's face as he said his friend's old pet name when they were younger. "Ka-Kaa-... Kacchan..." 'Goddammit,' Izuku thought, 'Why am I feeling like this?'
"There, It wasn't that hard was it?"
Then sun was setting and the dusk from the night time sky was rising around them. "Deku it's getting late so I'm heading home, bye."
Right before Izuku could say his goodbyes Katsuki walked right up to him and wrapped her arms around him and gave an amazingly tight squeeze. "I missed you... I really, really did, I'll see you tomorrow."
After she let go their hug she just turned around and walked off, no other words were said, just silence.
Izuku only stood there, his face was bright red and his breathing was extremely heavy. 'Oh God what just happened? I'm gotta get home and think about everything that just transpired.'
On the way out the gate Izuku felt like he could recall what sounded like some excited squeals behind him in the distance.
IIII
The Bakugou household
Mitsuki was a smart woman. Despite her erratic and loud behavior, she had quite the intelligence when it came to certain things, especially people.
When her daughter came home from her first day at UA she expected her to be loud and bolstering about how her day went.
Instead she was silent and really didn't talk all that much after she got home. She didn't have her signature scowl on her face or looked angry. She actually looked quite depressed.
She was going to confront her at dinner about her strange behavior and find out what's wrong. Her and her husband will be there so it'll be okay.
Her daughter looked like she was enjoying her food, but she still looked really sad and gloom while eating her food. So it was time to ask her why she was behaving so weirdly.
"Kastuki, honey, is something wrong? you've been acting weird since you came home from school. Did something happen?"
Kastuki set down her fork and cleared her throat of food. "Mom, Izuku is at UA, in the hero course, and his quirk is amazing strong."
Mitsuki nearly choked on her food. "What?! He's at UA?! He has a quirk?!"
"Yes! I don't understand either! I thought I was never going to see him again, and out of nowhere he's here and he's super strong, I just don't get it."
"Where was he this whole time Katsuki? he had to be somwhere close to get into UA right?"
Katsuki proceeded to tell her mother about where Izuku was and how his life was before his new father found him and took him in.
"Dear, that just sounds so damn awful, I'm happy that he's finally found someone that cares about him enough take him in." The family continued to eat dinner together as their daughter talked about her first day at her hero course.
That night after dinner Katsuki would lay in her bed constantly thinking about Izuku. She couldn't get her mind off of him no matter how hard she tried. At least she'll see him at school tomorrow.
IIII
Longest chapter yet, and they'll probably get longer as the story progresses.
I also deleted Attack of the clones because I need to focus on the stories I already have, too much work for me. Maybe I'll make some one-shot stories from other series I like.
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