(I would like to thank The Interviner for coming up with the idea about Z.E.A.L. and how Yuki has affected the hero society because of his outburst at the plaza. Thank you so much man.

Anyway, synopsis of this chapter since it's kind of confusing.

The aftermath of the federal facility occurs, Yuki is given a proposition, he continues to deny he's a villain, and his mental state continues to deteriorate as he ponders on the options he was given.)


Dr. Kurutta was currently in the middle of welding some metal together with a welder while he wore a mask. At that moment, a rod tapped his shoulder, prompting him to turn around. There, he saw Yuki standing behind him with the enhanced control rods he was sent after.

"Ah. Yuchi. I didn't hear you come in." Dr. Kurutta says.

"I took the back way." Yuki replies sarcastically.

"So," Dr. Kurutta says as he removes his welding mask. "I assume the heist went all."

"There were some complications." Yuki replies.

Dr. Kurutta caressed the rods next to him. "Like how?" he asks.

"You know the Deadly Trio?"

"The famous team of mercenaries who have been said to have never been defeated by a single soul out there in the world?"

"Their leader is dead." Yuki bluntly says.

Dr. Kurutta gave a surprised frown. "Oh." he says. "How'd he die?"

"He came up from behind me and I panicked and I… I sliced his chest." Yuki says in a traumatized tone.

"Oh, you poor thing." Dr. Kurutta said in a feigned sympathetic tone. "It's never easy getting over your first kill. I know I wasn't. The first life I took was of a homeless man as I used an experiment on him and, well, let's just say I'm not really allowed in China anymore."

"It wasn't my first kill." Yuki reveals.

"Of course it wasn't." Dr. Kurutta says. "Your first kill was in Horikoshi Plaza."

Yuki looked up, having a surprised expression on his face. "What?" he asks.

"Didn't you hear?" Dr. Kurutta asks. "They say you killed over a hundred civilians during the attack! What a great start to a villain career if you ask me."

"I'm- I'm not a villain." Yuki stutters.

"Oooh, yes you are. The city declared you a villain and are out to get you. Not only that, but you stole some enhanced control rods from a government facility-"

"To return myself back to normal!" Yuki angrily interjected. "You said that the chamber couldn't be rebuilt without the control rods so I did what I had to do just so I can return back to normal!"

Dr. Kurutta got up close to Yuki's face. "Why do you want to return to normal?" he asks.

"Because I'm scared!" Yuki shouts as his voice cracked. "I don't know what's going on with me. I mean, I do, but I don't understand why I got them. I have all these abilities, I'm the last one alive in my family. I have no other relatives. It's all too much for me to comprehend, Dr. Kurutta! It's only been a few days but I still feel so overwhelmed! I'm still treated like I was back when I was Quirkless, except now I'm getting the attention I wanted in a negative light! I'm a somebody now but that somebody is a villain! I don't want to be a villain! I don't want to be called a villain… I just want everything to return to normal."

"'Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.' Tinnekke Bebout." Dr. Kurutta quotes.

"I know who said that." Yuki bluntly says with lidded eyes.

"Do you now?" Dr. Kurutta asks.

"Yes."

"Do yoooou-"

"Doctor, what are you getting at with this?" Yuki asks in the same blunt manner with the same lidded eyes.

Dr. Kurutta suddenly started to walk around Yuki in circles. "What I'm saying is that you're not afraid of your condition… You're afraid of not understanding your condition."

"You quoted 'fear of the unknown', not 'fear of not understanding'... Of course, there really aren't any quotes about that certain fear… and to add to that there's no phobia about the actual fear itself."

"So you're admitting you're afraid of not understanding your powers?" Dr. Kurutta asks.

"No, I understand how my powers work. I've tested them. What I don't understand is… why?!" Yuki shouts.

"Why what?" Dr. Kurutta questions. "Why you were given these powers? 'With great power comes-'"

"'-great responsibility'. I read the comic." Yuki interrupts.

"Alright, smarty pants. If you're so smart, tell me why you were given these powers."

"I don't know! Your stupid bird activated the machine while I was in there!" Yuki shouts.

"Don't talk about Archimedes like that!" Dr. Kurutta shouts in anger. He turned around to face his pet dove. "He didn't mean that." Archimedes simply cooed as he tilted his head.

"Look, all of this is just new to me. I'm scared. I'm confused. I'm a wanted man! Can't you see that?!" Yuki shouted.

"Of course I can see that." Dr. Kurutta replies. "And I understand your predicament fully. Which is why I need another favor from you."

"What now?" Yuki asks.

Dr. Kurutta then started looking at his nails as a sly smile appeared on his face. "In order to return you back to your original state, our little project requires… funding."

"I'm gonna stop you right there because I know what you're going to say." Yuki says.

"Highly doubtful."

"You want me to rob a bank."

Dr. Kurutta retained his expression as his mouth was slightly gaped. "Alright, maybe not highly doubtful." he says.

"I'm not gonna do that."

"Why? You might as well. Embrace your powers you were given. Your villain career is already-"

He was suddenly pinned to the wall as Yuki shot out his arm, engulfing his chest with thick snow. Yuki got close to his face as humanly as possible.

"I told you… I'm not. A villain." he says while gritting his teeth.

Dr. Kurutta slyly smiled. "You clearly don't see the full picture, Yuchi." he replies. "It doesn't matter what you think. The whole city, even myself included, considers you a villain. You've already done so much damage to the country that there is no possible way of turning back. Face it, Yuchi. You're a villain."

Yuki glared angrily at the doctor before throwing him to the side, where he crashed into a wall. He suddenly shape shifted his hand into a hammer as he smashed Dr. Kurutta's work table into pieces. He growled loudly as he gritted his teeth, tightly clenching his hands together; after his short anger fueled rage, he took deep breaths to calm down.

"As I was saying, your villain career has already begun ever since Horikoshi. There is no going back." Dr. Kurutta says.

Yuki sighed heavily as he morphed his hand back to normal before turning around to face the doctor. "I'll think about it." he says. "But just to be clear, I'm not doing this because I want to do it. I'm doing this because it's my only chance to return to normal."

"So you say." Dr. Kurutta responds. Yuki then proceeded to walk away from the doctor. "Have a good day, Yuchi."

Yuki briefly glanced at his direction before scoffing and shaking his head, returning to walking away.


Yuki walked down the sidewalk while wearing his disguise, which appeared to be working since nobody has stopped him yet. He had his hands in his pockets as he looked down, not paying attention to what was in front of him as he passed many civilians walking by him.

It's not right. He says deep in thought. It isn't my fault I turned into this freak of nature. I never wanted these powers… Of course, I always did want a Quirk. So why am I complaining?

He maneuvered his way through a crowd as they watched Kamui Woods take down a villain on the street. Yuki however seemed oblivious to the outside world as he continued to be deep in thought.

These powers… they're more powerful than a Quirk. A Quirk only has limits as to what it can do. But these powers, I have multiple abilities. Shape shifting. Snow manipulation and production. Density control. Even though I'm still working out the kinks and getting used to them, I'm still more powerful than a team of mercenaries and even some Pro Heroes. Including the #1 Pro Hero, Endeavor.

He suddenly turned into an alley.

People deemed me a villain just because I'm not accepted into society. They called me a villain because I did what was deemed "not normal". Just like today's society. Guilty until proven innocent. People are so quick to judge others whether they are Quirkless or because they are just different. You would think that with millions of different Quirks, people wouldn't be so judgmental, when it's the exact opposite. That's what the problem with this world is.

He suddenly stopped in his tracks as he took a look at his hand.

I'm not a villain but what does it matter? People won't believe me. Sure I… murdered innocent people, but… they deserved it. People have done nothing but bring me misery in my life… so it's alright, right? The Deadly Trio attacked me so I had a reason to kill Twister. Those three thugs tried to mug me again so I had a reason. The Pro Heroes attacked me without asking about my demands or even asked if I needed help. So they deserved it as well.

Unbeknownst to him, a shadowy figure was slowly approaching him with a large object in their hands.

What am I thinking?! I'm trying to convince myself that murdering innocent people- no… That murder itself is right and justified! What is wrong with me?!... Of course, no one paid attention to me nor cared about me when I was Quirkless. But now… I'm the talk of the town. Am I really a villain?... Or a… a misunderstood person? That's what I am! Misunderstood! Nobody seems to understand my situation because people don't want to hear what I have to say, right? So screw them! Let them parish! Let them bleed! Let them-

At that moment, the sound of a vacuum was heard behind him; Yuki's body suddenly started to dissolve as he slowly got sucked into the vacuum behind him.

"Vacuum?!" he shouts in surprise. He tried to run away but the suction power of the vacuum was too powerful for him. "It can't end… like this! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

With that final scream and cry for help, Yuki's entire body was sucked inside the vacuum as everything went dark.


Silence.

Just… silence.

Nothing could be heard in the outside world.

Nothing at all…

That is, until something indeed was heard in the outside world.

"Did you bring him?"

"I got him. Right here."

"That's a vacuum."

"Well he's inside."

"Why would he be inside?!"

"You really think he would've come with me willingly. I doubt he would."

"It never hurts to try." A tired sigh could be heard shortly afterwards. "Well, go on. Get him out of the damn vacuum."

The sound of a button being pressed followed by the engine of the vacuum roaring to life was suddenly heard. Snow and dust got blown out of the nozzle as the vacuum puked out its contents. Contents such as: snow, dust, dirt, leaves, various other small items, a single used condom.

The snow part of the trash started moving as it suddenly took the shape and form of Yuki. He screamed briefly with a disgusted expression on his face. His entire body was littered with the rest of the contents inside the vacuum, with the used condom being stuck in his head as the cherry on top.

"That vacuum… IS VERY CRAMPED!" he shouts. He jolted up back onto his feet, still with trash on him, as he turned to face his kidnappers. "Who int he hell… kidnap…" He looked all around him to see multiple people staring at him with blank expressions, which creeped him out slightly. "Why is everyone staring at me?"

At that moment, a familiar face to Yuki walked through the crowd. It was the same girl he saw before and met at the train station: Akira Hikari. "Yuki!" Hikari shouts enthusiastically.

"You." he gasps.

"Oh, it's so nice to finally meet you!"

"We've met twice before." Yuki reminds her.

"I meant after your accident. Before, you were just plain old Koru Yuki. But now, you're THE Koru Yuki! The-"

"The most wanted person in the country. I know. I've been told." Yuki interrupts.

"That's not at all what I was going to say, but okay. Might I be the one to say that it is our pleasure to meet you! Oh, you have changed our lives forever!" Hikari shouts.

Yuki raised a frozen eyebrow. "How?" he asks.

"You stood up to the hero society, showing that we Quirkless people don't have to take anything from the rest of the 80% of the population!"

"We?" Yuki questions as he grew a confused look

"Yes. We." Hikari replies. "You see, all of us in this little underground stage restaurant are Quirkless."

Yuki looked at the huge crowd to see everyone all smiling at him as a single person waved at him. "I can see that." he says. "Most likely because none of you have any distinct physical features that would normally distinguish you from the rest of society or any small crowd… except for him."

He pointed to a guy with an extremely deformed face. "I got run over by a combine!" he happily states.

Yuki simply gave him a disturbed expression. "Right." he says, not knowing the proper way to respond. "What the hell is this?"

"Our foundation." Hikari replies happily.

"Alright, let me rephrase that: What the hell?"

"Yuki," Hikari says. "we have a proposition for you that you cannot deny!"

Yuki shot her a skeptical look. "What is it?" he cautiously asks.

"For you to be the leader of Z.E.A.L.! Zero Enforced Abilities League!" Hikari exclaims as she raises her hands in the air.

Behind her, the E that was on the wall fell to the ground, crushing some tables upon impact. Yuki continued to give her a skeptical expression with a mix of confusion.

"Nope." he simply says as he walks away. "I'm out."

"Looks like he just denied the proposition." says a member.

Hikari grew a panicked expression. "No no no no! Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't go! Please! I beg you!" She ran in front of him just before he could open the door. "If you go… I won't have a reason to keep this group."

"Why do I care?" Yuki asks.

"You don't." Hikari replies, earning an agreeable nod from Yuki. "But… those guys in there need someone to look up to. Most of us have been outcast by society! Those Pro Heroes out there, they don't care about us. You stood up to them! You helped me form this group! You're the start of a revolution! If you lead us, we can finally make an impact on the world and show what the world what we Quirkless people are capable of! We can finally be given the respect we deserve that we have been denied our entire lives!"

"I learned a long time ago that I shouldn't really care what other people say or do if they don't care what I say or do." Yuki retorts. "So I ask again, 'Why do I care?' Answer: I don't. I don't care about this club. I don't care about society. I don't care about the Pro Heroes. There's nothing I can do and there's nothing I will do. What I do care about is returning back to my normal state. As a normal, Quirkless human being with thoughts and feelings. Not some freak of nature with blue skin and frozen veins and- and- and-... and bloodshot eyes! My pupils aren't even red! They're supposed to be blue! Look at my fingernails!" He suddenly showed Hikari his fingernails. "They're blue! Do you know what that means? It means I'm deprived of oxygen, something I don't even need anymore! I'm a freak! I'm a monster!"

"How can you call yourself a monster when there's literally people out there seven to ten feet high?" Hikari asks.

"That's because of their Quirks. This isn't a Quirk. This is a medical condition I've never seen before. I doubt the coroner that I accidentally killed even knew what this was!" he shouts.

"Coroner?" Hikari asks, genuinely confused as to what he was talking about.

"I just want to be left alone, please. I have-" he let out a long, deserved sigh. "I have a lot going on through my mind right now."

"Like that condom on your head?" Hikari asks as she looks at his head.

Yuki placed his hand on his head, feeling the condom; he then looked up and noticed it sticking out of his head, before quickly grabbing it and throwing it to the ground.

"I'm not supposed to-"

His sentence was suddenly cut short when he felt a sticky substance on his fingers after he grabbed the used condom. He connected the dots as a disgusted expression was plastered on his face before he wiped his fingers on a random vest that was placed over a chair. He then turned to Hikari to finish his sentence.

"I'm not supposed to be like this." he finishes. "I just want to return to normal and, I don't know, skip town or something. I can't even head back to my own apartment because the public knows who I am. I can't return to school-"

"Then why go back to normal if your life is already ruined?" Hikari asks.

"Has it occurred to you that I don't care about my previous life as much as I care about curing my condition?" he asks. "Who knows? Maybe I'll get a good lawyer, get a not guilty verdict and get placed in another school in another town."

"But you've killed at least a hundred people-"

"I'm aware of my actions at the plaza, Hikari!" Yuki interjects her, anger in his voice. "But it wasn't my fault! None of it was my fault! All I wanted was help but no one gave me any! The first thing they did was shoot at me before the Pro Heroes showed up and immediately captured me then people started hurling insults and booing at me. They didn't even care about what I was doing. They didn't ask if I needed help. They just automatically assumed I was a villain. I'm not a villain! I don't know how many times I've said that already but I'll keep saying it. I'm not a villain! Besides, everyone deserved to die anyway."

"That's kind of dark." Hikari replies.

"It IS dark! What is wrong with me?!" Yuki shouts as he grabs his head before bending down.

"I'll tell you what's wrong with you." Hikari says as she bends down to his level.

"I swear, if you say that I need to lead your club, I won't hesitate to give you frostbite." he threatens.

"You're scared and confused as to what you need to do." she says. "Right now, you have no motivation to do anything whatsoever and you don't know what you want to do. There are so many questions running through your head like, 'What will happen when I return to normal?' 'Will I ever return to normal?' 'Will I still be considered a villain?' All those questions are flooding your mind and it's overwhelming you, Yuki."

Yuki sighed heavily as he fell on his butt before leaning up against a booth. "This is all just too much for me to take in." he quietly says.

Hikari sat down next to him and got close to him. "So do you still want to lead our group?" she asks.

"Agh! Forget about the group, Hikari!" he shouts as he stands back up. "I told you, no! The answer is no! I'm not going to lead your stupid club with no purpose. It'll run itself to the ground. Now if you excuse me, I gotta get back to my run down warehouse of a hideout and heavily ponder on the options I was given in the last 24 hours!"

"Including Z.E.A.L.?" Hikari asks.

Yuki instantly shape shifted his hand into a meat tenderizer hammer and destroyed a booth as a response to Hikari's ridiculous question. Everyone stood in silence as they stared at Yuki, who had an expression of pure rage on his face, while a single person in the group stared at the rubble and the remnants of the booth.

"That was our favorite booth." says the member.

"I got run over by a combine." randomly said the deformed man.

Yuki shape shifted his hand back to normal as he turned to Hikari. "I told you, I'm not leading this renegade… group… thing of yours." he says as he waves his hand around spiratically. "That last thing I need is some crazy Ku Klux Klan group that's against Quirks following me and- and- and… What are your goals again?" he asks.

"To give the Quirkless a chance to live in society and be respected members of the community." Hikari happily replies.

"And how are you gonna achieve this?" he asks.

Hikari opened her mouth to respond only to not say anything. "I have no idea." she says, still retaining the smile.

Yuki leaned over to the other members. "She's your leader?" he asks in utter disbelief, pointing to her.

"No, she just founded this group." one member says.

"It's a start to something that'll hopefully evolve into something bigger." a second member says.

"She has dedication. I'll give her that." a third member says.

"I got run over by a combine."

Yuki turned back to Hikari. "Alright, first off, what's wrong with him?" Yuki asks, referring to the deformed man.

"He got run over by a combine." Hikari instantly replies.

Yuki simply gave her a blank expression as he stood there in silence. "I'm surrounded by idiots." he says.

"Hey! I'm only half an idiot. Get it right." exclaimed a random member.

"Secondly, you won't get anywhere with this group if you have no idea how you're gonna achieve your goals." Yuki continues.

"Well, your goal is obviously to return back to normal so how's that gonna work?" Hikari asks.

"I have someone helping me achieve that goal. We just have a few more… 'complications' to overcome." Yuki replies.

"And what about afterwards?" she asked.

"I'll figure something out."

"You have no idea, do you?" Hikari asks. Yuki groaned in response as he rolled his eyes. "Look, at least consider the idea, but I really mean it when I say that you would be the perfect leader for this group."

"I'm not going to start a second French Revolution… except Japanese." Yuki replies. "I might end up as Robespierre with a bullet in my jaw and my head getting cut off… Of course I'm immune to physical pain and attacks overall so I don't think it'll even affect me at all. Look, the point is, I'm not crazy enough to start a country wide revolution about the Quirkless. Yes, I was Quirkless before, but now that's not my biggest issue. My biggest issue right now is EVERYTHING THAT HAS LITERALLY HAPPENED TO ME IN THE SPAN OF THREE DAYS!"

"You are very angry, Yuki." says a random member of the group as Yuki turned to him. "You may need to calm down a bit by joining our group."

Outside of the building in an alley, the man crashed through a window as he impacted with the alley wall before sliding down as he groaned in pain. Back inside, Yuki had his hand lifted up as ice cold air was briefly seen hovering over his hand, indicating that he used his snowstorm blast to throw the man out of the window. He turned back to Hikari and gave her a deathly glare.

"Don't ever come to me again because I won't hesitate to hospitalize you." he threatens.

"You keep saying you're not a villain and yet you keep using villainous threats." Pointed out a random member.

Yuki simply glared at the man; back outside, the previous man was rubbing dust off his pants. The moment was interrupted when the second man got blasted out of the same window and impacted with the first man, causing them both to slide into the rubble of trash as they groaned in pain.

"Hi, Riku." greeted the second man.

"Hey, Haruki." replied the second man.

The front entrance of the building was suddenly destroyed by a hammer made out of snow. Yuki retracted his hand as he morphed it back to normal before turning to glare at Hikari yet again.

"We're done here." he says in a stern voice as he walks out of the building. "And never kidnap me again!" He walked out into the streets only to realize one thing: he recognized nothing around him. "Where the hell am I?!" he shouts.

"Oh, we're not in Musutafu anymore." replied Hikari from the broken entrance of the door.

"Well where am I?" Yuki asks.

On the outskirts of the city, a single sign was seen that read: SAITAMA PREFECTURE.

"WHAAAT?!" Yuki's shout of anger echoed through the air.


The empty, dark warehouse that was now the new hideout for Yuki was as it is: dark and empty. It wasn't until a trail of snow leaked in through one of the various cracks of the wooden walls brought a new light to the warehouse. The trail of snow grouped up into a pile before it eventually formed itself back into Koru Yuki. After reforming back to his usual state, he walked over to the bulletin board where there was a single piece of paper pinned to it.

Said piece of paper was the list of Yuki's overall abilities that he examined after his accident. He looked at the piece of paper before sighing through his nose. He suddenly turned around and ripped a piece of paper from a notebook that was lying on a wooden box before grabbing a sharpie. He then scribbled down a note before grabbing a tac and pinning the new note to the wall. The piece of paper read:

GOALS:

To return back to normal and resume my already messed up life.

He sighed heavily as he read his single goal before carelessly flinging the sharpie. He walked over to some boxes as he grabbed a newspaper that he "borrowed" from a person in a public outside restaurant. He sat down as he took a look at the front page of the newspaper. The front news of the paper read:

NEW VILLAIN IN TOWN! Koru Yuki: Threat or Menace?

A picture showing the backside of Midoriya talking to him was shown underneath it as the main picture. A smaller picture of a low res Yuki, the same picture that has been the most popular image when related to Yuki on any search engine, was shown on the side. At that moment, Yuki grew a hateful glare as he stared at Midoriya in the picture. He remembered how the curly, green hair kid said he could make a change in the world and how he could be a hero, before getting attacked by the Pro Heroes afterwards. He promised him help but later went against his word.

This enraged Yuki as anger fueled his frozen veins. He gritted his teeth as he ripped the newspaper in half. He slammed the contents onto the floor as he kicked a few boxes in front of them. Midoriya lied to him and betrayed his trust. He was desperate and at the end of his rope, and at the moment, only one option that was given to him sounded like the only resolution to everything that has been happening to him:

To help Dr. Kurutta in getting the necessities to return him to normal.

He grabbed the phone and immediately dialed the doctor's number. After a few rings, a voice was heard on the other line.

"Dr. Kurutta," Yuki starts. "I think you're going to be pleased on the answer I'm going to give." He smiled mischievously afterwards.


(Number of deaths in this chapter: 0

Overall Casualty Count: 141

And now it's time for some character trivia! Today's character is: Koru Yuki! [WELL DUUUUUUUH!]

Before his accident, Yuki was already mentally unstable having built up so much anger and resentment towards society and how it treated him. He often fantasized of him brutally murdering his enemies as a way to not act out on his anger, which hinted to an early homicidal mindset before his first kill.

Yuki was also asexual before the accident and is, and forever will be, a virgin. Though Yuki didn't care about this as he was too busy studying for tests or avoiding conflict or working to help pay for his grandmother's improper healthcare as well as their rent. Though it is said that the Quirkless aren't given health insurance, Yuma, Yuki's nurse friend, volunteered to take care of his grandmother while he was out and smuggled medicine to their house.

Another set of trivia about him is that Yuki often examined his classmates' Quirks and heavily deduced their weaknesses in order to exploit them for his own use. However, because of his meek and quiet personality, he never got the chance to use this to his advantage. Though he still does studies his enemy's Quirks and is quick to form a plan to use their weaknesses when he finds them.

I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I have no idea what I'm doing with this story anymore. I'm just making things up as I go before I get to the climax and resolution of this story where it will definitely show Yuki's villainous side.

...

I shouldn't be allowed to make stories.)