„Okay, it's ready everyone say CHEESE! "Announced All Might as he set the camera on the table and hurried at nearly sonic speed to take his place behind the boy and his mother.
"CHEESE!" They all said simultaneously as the flash of the camera blinded them. Today was a very special day. One that deserved to be documented as such. It was Izuku's first ever school day.
Both his mom and the number one hero spent a lot of time, when they were trying to choose the best possible school for the boy out of the options available to them. It was a school which was not very far, it had many clubs to choose from, a brand-new gym, great overall ratings and if that was not enough, the school was in an area where villain activity was nearly non-existent for three years and counting.
Past two years were surprisingly uneventful after All Might and the other top heroes stopped the infighting between powerful villains which started after the death of All For One and now the crime rate was at the all-time low, heroes had much more time for their own lives, the economy was blossoming and people felt much safer.
All Might soon found himself with a lot of free time and spent most of it either with Izuku and Inko or making commercials. It especially entertained him when he watched Izuku whilst the little boy got excited over cartoons on the TV. The big man even began to transport the boy into the day care, which caused major unrest in the facility.
The little green haired boy was under constant fire of questions once the hero left. His friends were shocked, that he managed to hold this secret from them, but after an endless chain of teary apologies and a promise to get them both autographs, they forgave him.
Shoto was flabbergasted by this news and had no idea, how to react to it. Just imagine that one day you find out that the friend with whom you have been spending time for a month, lives not only with one of the most famous people on the planet but also your father's rival. Though before Todoroki had any real chance to feel anger, he was presented with an apology and a peace offering in a form of a firecracker popsicle.
It wasn't anything unusual for the green-haired boy to bring candy with him when he visited his scarred friend. It took some time, but they perfected the process of sneaking into the house of the number two hero. Once every week Izuku and Iida would visit Momo to play and once there, they would make some sort of distraction, which allowed the shorter of them to pick up Shoto and bring him back with him. It wasn't just an example of perfect planning on Iida's part, but it also allowed Midoriya to train his flight skills. Before, he had a serious problem trying to control even a single flying object, but now he was able to shuffle cards in the air, even if it was still very difficult.
The four of them quickly became great friends and the main trio celebrated every birthday together.
Tenya soon felt as if he gained two younger brothers and a sister, which he needed to protect from any and all dumb ideas, Momo finally gained test subjects for the make-up products she had appropriated from her mother's stash and Shoto was always so happy to be included in some way no matter what they were doing.
For the first time in his life, Izuku knew what it meant to have real friends, which is also why it came as such a shock, when he discovered that they wouldn't spend much time together in the future. Like it or not, his friends lived very far apart and if it wasn't for the special day-care they would have never even met each other.
Yet there was something, that would always keep them together, something stronger than any villain they could ever meet. They all had the same dream to become heroes. So, when their last day together in the day care finally came to its end they all promised to become the best heroes the world has ever seen.
Inko felt like crying for what seemed like the eight time today as she looked at her son who was all nice and dressed up for the first real big step in his life.
"Do you have your snacks?" She asked worriedly as she checked him over again.
"Yes mom! Let's go!" he exclaimed happily as he reached out for her, to take her hand and when he felt her fingers gently wrapped around his tiny ones, he began pulling her to the exit.
So cute! Thought Toshinori as he took one last picture before putting down his camera. Izuku was so excited to finally go to a school, but not just because he would meet new people, but also due to the fact that the number one hero gave him a special promise.
-8 months ago-
"Uncle Toshinori, uncle Toshinori! Can we start today?" The green-haired boy shouted for the third time this week dressed in his All Might pyjamas as he latched onto the big man's leg the moment, he left his bedroom.
Maybe it was the cute nickname or the determination, which was basically radiating off the boy, but the number one hero had a hard time rejecting the boy's advances lately.
"No, Izuku…it's too early." he said with a sigh.
"B-but I will try very hard, I wanna be as strong as you!" Izuku argued enthusiastically. All Might gave the boy a long look contemplating the pros and the cons, but no matter how he looked at it, the boy in front of him was not ready yet.
"Tell you what… we will start after you start going to school. How does that sound?"
"Pinkie promise?"
"Pinkie promise." The hero agreed and poked the boy's nose with his pinkie.
-Present-
Inko led her son through the buzzing city slowly, teaching him how to safely cross the road, what he should do if a stranger tries to talk to him, how traffic lights work and so on. She did everything to ensure that her Izuku not only gets safely to his school but also that he will soon be able to make his way there without her.
It didn't take long for her to find his classroom since there were many other parents here and soon, she found herself standing in front of their goal hand-in-hand with her son.
"Are you ready?" She asked Izuku as she looked down on him with a warm smile and he in return gave her a small nod and a brave smile before letting go of her hand and entering the classroom.
This was a very interesting day for little Izuku, his teacher, miss Taka explained to them how school works, what is recess and what they would learn. The green-haired boy was excited, that he would finally be able to read about his favourite heroes in magazines he always stared at, when his mom took him to the store for ice-cream.
On the first day, their teacher took them all outside the classroom, showed them the entire building and after they came back from their tour, each one of them was encouraged to introduce themselves in front of the class and soon, the time for their first recess came.
Izuku was happy to get up from the provided tiny chair since he was not used to sitting for so long. There were many new faces all around him and once again he had no idea, how to start a conversation with his new classmates. Then he noticed two girls sitting just two seats behind him one of them had hair with green rectangular spots and the other looked rather plain except for the yellow gemstones replacing her eyes. Both of them looked frustrated and hopeless as they wrestled with something small on their desk.
Izuku walked over to see, what was wrong, and in a few seconds, he understood that the girls were futilely trying to open two yogurts, both of which appeared to be stuck.
Once he saw it, Izuku had a brilliant idea how to solve their problem.
"Hi. Want some help?" He asked awkwardly as he raised his hand in greetings.
"Can you open it?" The yellow-eyed asked hopefully gesturing to the cup.
"I-I think so." He said before removing his glove. Izuku focused on his index finger and watched as it elongated and flesh on it transformed into a sharp blade made from bone covered in hard enamel. He swiftly cut a large hole in the top of the cup before setting it back on their desk.
His mother sometimes let him help her, when she was cutting vegetables after she got over the initial shock, which she experienced when she first witnessed his ability.
He was just about to reach for the second cup but noticed that both girls took a step back and that their faces adopted a completely terrified expression.
When he saw this, Izuku himself felt shocked. This emotion only grew when tears of fear appeared in their eyes.
"Wait, it's okay…" he tried to say as he outstretched his glowed hand towards the girl with white hair only to be quickly stopped.
"Get away from me, monster!" One of the girls shouted as they both ran away from the class, trying to find a teacher whilst Izuku just stood there frozen, scared and sad. Soon enough his own eyes filled with tears and the green-haired boy began sobbing.
The whole incident was quickly resolved and miss Taka calmly explained to him, that sharp objects shouldn't be used in school without supervision. Yet even though he didn't get into any sort of trouble, Izuku's fate was pretty much sealed. Now everyone in class feared him. Whenever he tried talking to someone, they would either ignore him or avoid him like the plague. For all they knew, he could have it, underneath his bodysuit.
Later that day, when Izuku came home with his mother, he already lost all of his excitement over the promised training. All Might quickly noticed this and when he discovered what had happened, he tried to cheer the boy up a bit, yet the hero's words didn't help much.
Unfortunately for the boy, this situation only got worse. Words travelled quickly and soon everyone heard about the 'crying demon' of their school. It didn't take long and Izuku became something akin to an attraction. No one really messed with him, yet he felt as if he was always being watched.
An entire week went like this, but luckily he was able to meet with friends during the weekend, this improved his mood a bit, but after he returned to school nothing changed. After a few more days Izuku sort of accepted that he wouldn't make any more friends in school and so he stopped trying. Then Thursday came around.
The boy was walking home, it was a beautiful afternoon. The birds were singing, and a few rays of warm sunlight forced themselves through the clouds and so he decided to enjoy the weather for a while longer and chose to walk through a small park, which was relatively close to the penthouse.
Today a curious thing happened. His school bag somehow got displaced after the boy left to use the toilet and he only found it after nearly thirty minutes with a help from the janitor on top of a large file cabinet.
"Come on! Show us!" Angry words carried by an angry voice suddenly came from the nearby playground. Izuku immediately tensed, when he heard that voice.
Izuku walked a bit closer to see what was going on. There were three boys in total and he knew only one of them. Two tall boys were standing around one of his classmates not allowing him to leave. He remembered the boy, he was sitting in the back corner of the classroom. He was always very quiet, and no one paid much attention to him. He had purple hair and eyes that always seemed to be tired, which were right now opened wide in panic, trying to find a way to escape.
"I can't use it." Shinso exclaimed but the boys were undeterred. The bigger one took a step towards the purple-haired boy and threw a punch to his shoulder so strong, that the purple haired boy lost his balance and tripped into a sandpit.
"Everyone knows you've got a villain's quirk, so show us!" The taller of the two ordered angrily as he made a cloud of steam shoot up in the air out of his palm.
Why can't you just leave me alone? Shinso thought. Ever since his quirk first manifested in kindergarten everyone was always afraid to speak to him since sometimes people would just freeze randomly, when he was talking to them and came into their senses only when he ordered them to.
Hitoshi was trying his best to avoid talking to everyone, but he slipped when he asked an upperclassman where to find the light switch. There was that weird twitch and in an instant all emotion vanished from the girl's face. Once he woke her up, she ran away scared and told her friends.
Shinso was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard an familiar voice yelling.
"Leave him alone!" Izuku shouted as he hurried over to them, which grabbed the attention of everyone.
"Hey Ryuji, look at that, it's the other creep." One of the upperclassmen said, when the green-haired boy stopped in front of them.
"Looks like it Kichi. Now we have the demon AND the weirdo." Said smiling Ryuji with steam still coming out of his palm in short bursts. Izuku just now noticed that the other one had only one eye with two pupils, which was slightly larger than normal, positioned in the centre of his forehead.
Both of the upperclassmen had to be at least two years older and taller by more than a head. The green haired boy was however not affected by these facts as he pushed through them and blocked them from getting into the sandpit.
"Get out of my way!" Ordered Ryuji angrily, but the boy didn't move.
"Don't hurt him or-or I will stop you!" Izuku stuttered and rose his shaking little fists under his chin as a warning, which had little effect.
Kichi tried to push the green-haired boy into the sandpit but froze when the solid ground vanished from under his feet and he found himself floating a foot in the air. Once Ryuji saw this, he panicked.
"Let him go you monster!" He yelled and sprayed a cloud of boiling hot water straight at Izuku. The green haired boy tried to dodge the small blast, even though he knew, that there was no chance he would be able to move fast enough, but then, something strange happened.
"-o you monster!" The words seemingly repeated themself as the hot blast flew harmlessly past him and softly dispersed in the air. Ryuji prepared another blast and when the younger boy noticed, he acted on instinct.
Kichi suddenly fell from the air right on top of his best friend, which made them both end up on the ground. After seeing just how easily Izuku dodged their attacks without moving more than a few inches made them very nervous, but fear really set in when they looked at him and saw the soft purple glow in his eyes. Both quickly scrambled to their feet and ran away like scared little rabbits without another word.
Shinso watched the green-haired boy as he quickly turned towards him once the bullies were gone. His eyes were still shining ominously as he reached out his hand. Hitoshi recoiled a bit, he felt scared after seeing the other in a fight, yet there was something gentle, which shone even brighter out of the "demon's" face.
"Are you ok?" The green-haired boy asked nervously, as he took Shinso's hand softly into his own gloved one and carefully pulled him up with surprising strength.
"Yeah, I'm fine, how-how did you do that? I thought your quirk was for cutting things." Hitoshi asked still scared a bit of the other boy. Such feelings quickly vanished though, when Izuku's face adopted a small smile.
"I'm not sure..." Admitted Izuku after a few seconds of silence. Once the words left his mouth, Shinso couldn't hold back an amusedchuckle. Maybe it was the honesty in the "demon's" voice or the cluelessness on his face, but the situation immediately lost its seriousness.
The two of them quickly became friends after this event. It was clear immediately that Izuku didn't ever judge anyone by their quirk. Soon the two of them spent every recess and every meal together. Bullies never dared to mess with the either again and it didn't take long until Izuku invited Hitoshi to hang out with his other three friends. Despite his insomniac appearance Shinso fit right into the group.
A few days later Izuku began his training with All Might and it was not an easy task.
Toshinori always seemed like a gentle soul, but he was one hell of a trainer.
"Twenty more burpees?!" The green boy gasped for breath as he was given another order by the number one hero.
"Do I hear a quitter?" All Might asked playfully as he took a sip from his sports bottle, while running at a calm pace on the treadmill.
"N-no!" Izuku answered as he quickly dropped to the floor, did a push-up only to jump back up only a second later. Exercise was just a small part of this training though, Toshinori also asked his mother to prepare him meals that were bigger than normal, which was no hard task since she also didn't want her son to remain skinny forever.
But a few weeks into the training, his small body began to feel different, he had more stamina than ever and his baby noodle arms began to slowly harden, yet he was still banned from using All Might's quirk, which was a bit frustrating.
Over time he adapted to this routine, he was faster, stronger and just a bit more confident, going from his normal "I don't know if I can…" attitude into a better "I will try…" attitude. To say that Toshinori was proud would be an understatement. Instead of walking, he would run home from school without getting winded or sweaty.
It was only Wednesday, and he was running home from school, when he saw it. An adorable puff of white and black fur peering at him from an alleyway with big bright blue eyes.
He stopped to take a closer look, but the puff immediately turned around and sprinted away on its four legs.
"Hey, wait up!" Izuku yelled and quickly followed the small animal into the alleyway, but it vanished in seconds and he reached a dead end.
A ghost?
After looking around for a while he became confused and disappointed, but as he got ready to leave, he heard a growl from behind. There just a few feet away from him was a small puppy that looked quite angry.
Its coat was white with a large streak of black across its back. It looked like a husky, but much wider, it was not fat per say, just heavy built. Its shining blue eyes were completely focused on the boy. It couldn't be older than three months.
The growls were soon accompanied by surprisingly loud barks, which made Izuku take a step back.
"What do you want, little guy?" He asked, but the puppy just wouldn't stop barking and showing its baby teeth.
Is this a holdup?!
"Are you hungry little guy?" Izuku asked as he took off his bag and reached for a mostly empty bento box, his mom prepared for him. Even his school lunch portions were increased, and he often found himself, bringing some of it back home.
There were three baby sausages left so he took one and threw it to the small dog, who simply leapt up and caught the piece of meat in the mid-air, which made the boy smile excitedly. The other two sausages soon had the same fate.
After filling its belly, the puppy completely lost all of its aggression, quickly wagged its tail in happiness and Izuku was incited to give the dog a friendly pet. This attempt was happily accepted. After getting its TNC the dog hurried away, yet the boy somehow knew it wouldn't be the last time he saw this little menace.
And lo behold two days later, when Izuku was once again making his way home, the dog appeared yet again and this time it obediently waited for the boy's approach and led him back into the alleyway. This time Izuku was prepared to pay his tribute, but this time the puppy swiftly crawled under a small trash container only to emerge again, just thirty seconds later with something grey in its mouth.
Izuku felt very nauseous when he understood just what it was. It was a half-eaten medium sized rat.
The boy felt his stomach twist once he saw the thing and it only worsened once the dog put its prey down and pushed it towards the boy with its nose before sitting down and looking up expectantly.
"Oh-ummm, you didn't have to… no, really that's pretty gross." The boy commented nervously once he was faced with this strange offering.
Once again out came the bento box with some ham rolls still in it. When the dog understood just how much better they tasted than the mouse, it completely forgot about the dead critter and payed it no mind, when the small creature, ended up in the trash.
This sort of thing repeated a few more times until one day, the dog didn't stay behind. It walked side by side with the green-haired boy straight into the penthouse and after a bit of pleading from Izuku and a lot of puppy eyes from the little mutt, there was no way that the newly named Hiro was going to stay outside.
TO BE CONTINUED…
PLACE FOR RESPONSES:
SMASHton2741: Glad you like it, mate and no, he is not, it's clear from the manga and anime, that On efor all doesn't have a clear limit it always grows in power with every user, but right now, he is on the same level as All Might if that's what you are asking. :)
Shaedy Mo: Oh no, I don't want to give anyone such a serious disease, I am still glad that you enjoyed the story though.
X: Mate, you need to chill! I promise that his abilities will slowly grow, but if I gave him all of these powers he might turn into a Mary Sue, which is something I want to avoid at all costs since it takes all the tension and excitement away from a story, but I am still grateful for your review and I promise that he will get at least one of the powers you suggested.
Mugetsu1996: I am glad you have found it and even happier that you enjoyed it, mate.
eddiehowell: And I am happy that I have gained a new reader.
darkpaladin89: As always, your review fills me with positive energy and I am glad that you have remained a reader for so long, mate :).
Guests: There were some of you who asked me to give Momo All Might's power, but it's still too early to think about who will get it since Toshinori is still in his prime, but this is not a no, I just have to think about it a little longer. And as always thanks for reading and giving me such positive reviews.