Alrain: Chapter 2 is here and so somebody asked me why I haven't updated the other stories and that this story will perhaps become one of them, long waiting for chapters that I can't promise and I'm sorry for that.
This story had been written on a whim because I couldn't find any good SI-Fics that start with the SI or the OC being...well, a dictionary of curses as they start with fuck, fuck, fuck, and fuck!? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you all trying to start the story like that as once I read the 1st chapter I didn't bother to continue!
That had been enough to not get my interest in reading this knowing the freaking SI gets easily pissed off! I don't care how many followers or favorites the story has can't you get a better start? Like explaining if the SI has done any changes to himself or actually behaves despite knowing that they are dealing with a ROB because honestly, I feel like they're nothing but dumb as shit and far too easy to anger!
I may just begin writing a SI Fic but my SI will certainly not go cursing all the time or in the beginning! I as a reader don't want to read someone curse constantly and instead give me something to read that I will enjoy, like asking the ROB if they can have any changes and such, and perhaps they are small things like changing hair color. It is at least better than to read constantly a sentence that has the word 'fuck' in it!
Chapter 2: Testing powers, Future Plans, and Messing with Canon.
Forest.
Watching Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra had always left me with one thought about it and that is that the Bending may look easy but certainly isn't and my situation isn't different, I had to combine the Martial Arts that complemented both Bending Arts as trying to casually move them didn't work which had been a weakness that is added by Death. A combination of a Quirk that can evolve quicker through meditation and thought of the process and I could live with that, though I didn't have to expressively use it as Shouto has shown that with small gestures to release giant pillars of ice and giant waves of flames, I had to do a bit more of movement there but decided to completely use the Martial Arts as that is easier to practice with.
It is more functional as combining small gestures and the Martial Arts that are needed to utilize the Bending powers of mine is far better, but again it came with a weakness that made my attacks come in far stronger as the Quirk department empowered it even greater. Instead of a chunk of ground that is my size I had risen a chunk of ground at least 5 times bigger than myself in both height, thickness, and wideness, I got weaknesses of both yet power of both sides and it is confusing in a manner for others to understand.
My Quirk is basically a fusion of a Quirk and Bending Powers of Avatar literally and both mixed rather well with me even with the weaknesses that came with it, the Quirk gave me more power and ease of rising the earth up and emitting winds and gathering it around me too, weaknesses that came with the Quirk department is that it does tire my body just a little bit quicker due to the sharp movements I made. The Bending powers will give me access to the next level of powers like Metalbending, Seismic Sense, Lavabending, Flight, Astral Projection, and Meditation, but also making it easier for me to get stronger too and the weakness isn't much as it just requires the Martial Arts to be implemented for easier use.
Not exactly the weaknesses of Shouto but that is due to him emitting the Ice and Fire out of his body and I don't do either and while I could do it with the wind I didn't really need to, I still would practice it but on a later date as for now I wanted to train without destroying the forest and get my body used to the Martial Arts that I practiced which isn't easy.
Watching is different from practicing it and it is hard as I tried using the movements I've seen in the show and practicing both is hard to do, especially with clashing sides that I could note as another weakness but Aang and Korra could do it and it isn't that hard for me to change my mind.
Earthbending is about all being stubborn and standing your ground and I had understood that as there will be times where I won't and refuse to move from spot knowing that if I did something bad would happen, that I had to face the problem head-on and not dance around it as there is no way around the problem I'm facing and just need to stand my ground.
Airbending is all about naturally avoiding trouble and try to find a way around it and solving things peacefully with a peaceful mind, it is basically the life lesson compressed for modern teenagers who mightily needed this type of advice, that things can be solved peacefully and not with your fists and verbal curses and that not everything is difficult as it seems and that an obstacle on your path always has a way around it and then we don't need certain things in our life to feel accomplished.
Still, I don't know if I will ever achieve flight as that requires you to let go of every earthly desire and I don't know if I could do that, I know that my powers aren't completely integrated with the Bending Powers of Avatar but I didn't know how much, I still make mistakes and I am perhaps a lot more understanding and calmer the most teenagers I am a modern kid and also used my phone and Laptop a lot though I know they don't compare to Zaheer losing Pli.
Moving around boulders and striking them against the natural stone wall to get me familiar with it made progress as my body gets a tiny bit more used to the sharp movements I make, but I would need to practice the Airbending powers of mine too to get my body used to the smooth movements of Airbending Martial Arts and not wait until I have masted my Earthbending a certain degree of level. Still, I had a good idea of practicing it and that comes in the form of Bakugou of him turning violent and I avoiding his attacks with Airbending to get my body accustomed to using smooth movements, Aang had been still a child and his body wasn't that developed and yet his body could memorize how to use Earthbending Martial Arts even after his whole life learning Airbending Martial Arts.
If it can happen it can happen.
Smashing another rock into the stone wall I thrust my arms forward and the ground erupted and a small cliff structure struck against the wall and crumbled, stomping on the ground I managed to get a chunk of ground out and launched it to the rock wall, doing it again but instead of sending it to the wall, I made it come to me and used my hands to split it in half. Stomping the ground again I ruptured a line in the earth and made a crack in it of my height and held my hands out to widen the crack into a gap, once that had been done I stomped the ground but this time focused on trying to get the Seismic Sense.
Got nothing and made another crack in the ground so I tried it again and again without trying to get frustrated, I wouldn't get anything from blaming Toph for making it look easy in comparison but she used it to see the world around her and her senses are sharpened more due to being blind, stomping again and not changing my mind of wanting to lift the earth but try to see the world around me.
Still got nothing so I ended it there and resumed my training of bending the earth around.
Obviously, I do practice some Airbending and I'm not waiting for Katsuki so I got the basic movements down and I fell often on my side or back, I had to get used to timing when to disperse the air before landing and judging how strong I need to charge it as the Quirk department made it difficult for me. Maintaining balance is hard so I tried lowering my smooth movements by doing it even in a lighter motion, it did work only by a slight bit and almost blasted me back which reminded me that balance is important when you Airbend on the ground.
I just stick with the basics and some of the Intermediate Training and prevented myself from using too dangerous Bending Arts like Lavabending, no way I would play around with that nor would my parents allow it not that I'm telling them that I'm trying to. I'm not stupid to be mesmerized by fire. Metalbending is actually an option as I just required a chunk of metal and try to bend it as my Quirk department has made my Bending stronger and probably make it easier for me to bend, only weakness is that changing the shape of metal requires me to use smooth movements first so Airbending is practiced in it.
The powers of Airbending will be harder and Astral Projection will be easier for me to do than Flight as that doesn't allow me to bind myself to the Earth, so I opted to train in something else and that is perhaps maintaining my temperature and making my lungs become stronger and perhaps have the glider too! Still, to use the latest design of the glider which is a suit will have to take a few years and added the fact that I like to add metal and the cables the Officers of Republic City use to chase down criminals, so I had to make a combination of both.
A part of me kind of regret choosing these powers as I had looked back at my choices that I could get and that the Pyrokinesis and Hydrokinesis powers are even more versatile and flexible, as Firebending is on itself quite weak but it is cool and Lightningbending and Combustionbending compensated for that and the training is hard but I knew what it does hold in about mastering your Bending powers at a Master Level to telepathically use it. Waterbending allowed me for freezing water and healing powers that would've come to be useful and the Bloodbending made me shudder but I can't deny how powerful that would be added that both Bending Powers are stronger with day and night respectively, so in the end, I had the feeling that I wanted to have perhaps those 2 powers but no time for bitching about it I guess.
And with that, I end training options there as I didn't want to focus on too many practices that will just bring me a headache, oh, and also I'm ending my training here right now so I let the chunk of ground I held up and tossed it to a nearby tree-!
"Aah!"
"Huh?" my neck almost made a snapping sound as it turned towards the tree where I had thrown the piece of ground nearby and took the sight in of who it was that spied on me, dark green hair mixed with black and it made me groan that I still had no process with Seismic Sense as I took in the sight of a child Izuku on his back and trembling in fear.
"What are you doing here," I decided to be just a little bit strict for being reckless.
"U-Uhm!? I-I s-saw y-your...hiccup...Q-Quirk and w-wanted to k-know..."
"Hold it there, if you are going to explain to me why you are here then say it in a tone that I will understand and won't last too long!" not a minute had gone by and Izuku's stammering got annoying to me and while most would find it funny it would become a bane in his life, and right now I found it quite annoying and I could barely understand him and while it sounds like English to me it is Japanese.
"S-Sorry!"
"You're doing it again!"
That prompted to get me only more tears of Izuku trying to speak without stuttering and it made me sigh at how bad the boy is and wonder how he befriended Katsuki in the 1st place, he had only hung around the guy and only him and had hardly any friends meaning he had been so shy and was incapable of talking properly to new people. And how is he going to be a Hero with that attitude as he would only land him in trouble and not able to move because of fear, but then again he's a child and children are naive to the truth of being a Hero.
"Tell me what you're doing here unless you have a Quirk that is strong enough to be here and fend for yourself," I knew he's Quirkless but right now is treated normally like every other child. "And no stuttering otherwise I won't understand you at all,"
"U-Uhm, I wanted to see your training and saw you use your Quirk and wanted to know more about it," a single stutter was in his talking but I'll take it if that is what will give him a better speech.
"And you followed me without me knowing it and unaware that there is somebody else on my training grounds?" a nod was given to me and I chopped his head firmly making Izuku squeak in pain. "You idiot! You shouldn't do that otherwise I could've accidentally hurt you unintentionally as that piece of ground almost hit ya!"
"S-Sorry!"
"Sigh! Anyways, you should just talk to me outside of my training hours or at least warn me so I am aware where you are, learn from the fact that your curiosity might have almost crippled you!"
That made Izuku squeak in fear this time and nodded heavily and I was pleased that he would take such lessons to heart better than most children, and he would only learn better once he would face the discrimination he would soon face once they discover he's Quirkless and how it crushed his dreams. Perhaps I could avoid Katsuki bullying him by displaying my power to the class and continue being humble, but then again it might just spark a fire in Katsuki to see me as a rival and a potential threat so I didn't know what would become.
"Well, my name is Mark Saji, and what's yours?"
"Midoriya Izuku is my name...uhm, Mark-san?"
"Just call me Mark, and Mark alone so no need to add something behind my name," I'm not really going to get used to having the added suffix added behind my name yet and I wanted to become friends with Izuku so no need for honorifics. "And you wanted to know about my Quirk, right? Well, I simply control the Earth and Air around me but I'm also able to emit Air out of my hands,"
"Wow! That's really a strong and cool Quirk!"
And a barrage of questions is fired at me of how it works and what weaknesses it possessed and it didn't surprise or overwhelm me at all that he got from a stuttering mess to a talkative one, once the topic of Quirks is in the air, I gave answers to each one of his questions and soon broke off the conversation of asking what his Quirk is.
"I don't know what my Quirk is but mom told me that in a few days I will get to know it!"
'It will happen a few days after I arrived, already?' the day that would crush him and destroy his dreams and only stubbornly cling to an unrealistic dream he would never get to, but due to luck he was able to get a chance to become a Hero due to his reckless action, I did enjoy the show 1st but after rewatching the episodes again it annoyed me most of the time as Izuku had time to prepare himself and train his body. But he wasn't really thinking straight as his obsession and constant bullying he would fail to muster up the courage to do anything, too meek and too narrow thinking and not wanting to burden his mom despite the fact he's doing the opposite.
But the fact is that Izuku will have no one to be there for him as his stupid friend Katsuki would get an overinflated ego and abuse him too many times for my liking, child or not what Katsuki did never left my mind and I certainly didn't consider him redemption at all of what abuse he put Izuku through. Those days I would befriend Izuku and talk about Quirks with him and encourage him that if he wanted to be a Hero without a Quirk he needed to train, train to be strong and it would give him a headstart with getting One for All.
A stray thought came across my mind if I would be able to become an idol to him that he can look up to and I certainly had been with my studies, but I never really did it with Superpowers but I didn't go further with my thinking like that as my rationality came in. I may not be the perfect candidate to tutor Izuku well but one thing is sure that I will try rather than leaving him all alone, I would try to be that figure to him and his emotional support to let him become a Hero and give him some encouraging thoughts to him.
"Well, remember not to be overly reliant on your Quirk and you should get back home as it is getting late now," it wasn't exactly late but for children around this tie it is, and that included for me. Izuku bid his farewell to me and left for home and so did I and entered my home with my parents greeting me and telling me that dinner won't be for another hour yet, I had trained all I could for today and could only increase it with more training to my body that is far stronger than the normal body back in the previous world.
My Hero Academia may not be like something of the humans who train so much they are beyond human thing without a Quirk but there is one thing that I remember, and that is that it is still an anime and it follows the rules of one and it means my body is stronger and more resistant against blunt force.
Well, I don't have to be constantly training and thinking about the future of what I can avoid and what I can't interfere with, as of right now I had the chance to relive my life as a child and get away with a few things that I wanted to do. It may not be the same as my previous life due to having the mind of an adult right now, but it is a 2nd chance that I would enjoy to my fullest.
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The next day at kindergarten I greeted Izuku who greeted me more enthusiastically back and he had quickly introduced me to Katsuki and let's just say...I don't like him one bit at all as even without a Quirk he was quite rude to everyone around him, down talking everyone even before getting his Quirk, and at this point, I really didn't care if I will be his rival in his eyes is not important as the fact that I would never see him as one and nor care what he said. I didn't want a rival that is a prideful psychopath that got away with abusing someone with his Quirk that could kill someone, especially with his temper that would increase power and do even more damage to anyone.
So I displayed my Quirk by levitating a few rocks around my palm and making a mini-tornado on the ground and it had been enough to impress everyone, and as expected Katsuki glared at me for a moment before admiring my powers not used to having the attention away from him. The caretakers allowed me to use my Quirk as long as it wasn't that dangerous and I internally scoffed at that as these caretakers are the worst, they ignored how downcast Izuku had become once it was known he's Quirkless and left him there in his shocked state.
"Tch! Is that all you can do? Just lifting a few rocks and making mini tornado's!?" scoffed Katsuki losing his interest in my Quirk as I didn't do much which I couldn't.
"I can do more but I'm not allowed to do that due to the law and the caretakers," I reasoned calmly and most children took the answer as everyone in this world is taught about the law of Quirks, and perhaps scary but the parents did leave a threat of that using you're Quirk excessively will get you in trouble with the police and such important people.
Though it didn't seem enough for Katsuki who scoffed again.
"Maybe you're just a coward with a weak Quirk and can't do much more than just lifting pebbles and breezes!" taunted Katsuki and some even joined in his laughter while most remembered me talking about the law, those children were definitely his future lackeys that won't make it in UA High and just help Katsuki abuse Izuku in his childhood.
"Or maybe I don't want to get trouble with the police," reasoning did the work and I am not easy to anger at all nor fall for any taunts but Katsuki did get a tiny rise out of me, I blamed it on my child body reacting to such taunts and that they are the cause that I react to it and I have read this somewhere. That those who are taken away by a ROB that their minds are often mashed together with a child-like thought, and often those with Time-Travel needed to get used to being back in their child bodies as their mind perceives them of the thought that they have an adult body and sometimes the powers they possessed are also out of control.
But Katsuki had always been annoying the hell out of me even watching the show for the 1st time in my life I yelled at Izuku to freaking punch the guy at least once in the face, so it didn't really matter that I'm back in the body of a child I just found Katsuki always annoying but unfortunately, I can't punch him without a good reason. Perhaps I can avoid it that he becomes a total D-hole but something told me that it won't work well and that I would take the place of Izuku, though I don't think I would take his place in trying to help Katsuki who fell into a steep river would come to mind.
But since I'm a child I decided to do a few harmless taunts.
"Besides, why do I need to show it to you?" and it worked as Katsuki's expression is priceless before taking a bit of red and a more murderous expression and children around me laughed at Katsuki for looking embarrassed. "I prefer to show what I'm capable of to a Hero who would give me pointers and perhaps train me,"
Many nodded in agreement that they would rather want to do that too as the excitement of a Hero possibly training them if they displayed their Quirks to one.
"U-Uhm, Mark? Perhaps you can be a bit more kind to Kacchan?" whispered Izuku who didn't join in the laughter of the other children when I taunted Katsuki back, even right now with my reasonable and limited taunting Izuku is just too kind towards the future bully of his.
"Why? He tried to make me use my Quirk that could get me into trouble and possibly deny me from becoming a Hero, and besides that, he's quite rude to everyone here even to you," I replied to the greennette who tried to reply but couldn't find any flaw in my explanation to defend Katsuki from my remarks.
"No! You just have a weak Quirk!" shouted Katsuki angrily pointing at me.
"So you really want me to use my Quirk to display that it is strong on you...did everyone hear that clear and loud?" I asked and I got nods again and that made me grin as I flex my hand just a tiny bit and shuffled my left feet with the intent to raise the ground underneath Katsuki, the ground trembled around Katsuki and slowly rose as the ground he stood on slowly rose and became an earth pillar and soon he was at the height of a child standing on a short closet. Katsuki cried out in surprise and fear and slowly got on his knees and peered over the edge and it wasn't that high but to his eyes it certainly is and he began crying, children around him began to laugh as they are smart enough to see that the pillar isn't even that taller than the caretakers.
"What's going on here!?" shouted the caretaker finally taking notice of the commotion around them.
"Katsuki asked me to use my Quirk on him and not wanting to hurt him I rose the ground underneath him a little bit upwards," I told them with an innocent expression and asked the other kids and they nodded too, and I was left off and got a simple warning not to do it ever again so I asked in return what I should do if it would happen again.
Got no response to that.
And Katsuki hated my guts for that and Izuku didn't distance himself away from me at all but looked more torn in between choosing between me and Katsuki, that actually did surprise me that he regarded me that well but if it is about my Quirk or just who I am is something I don't know, the good thing that matters was that Izuku still spend time around me and a bit less around Katsuki as I am the only one able to make a good conversation about Quirks. Because even know Izuku has a great insight into Quirks and how they work and showed me his intelligence that is on par with me, but he only talked about the strong parts of the Quirk so I made a little game for him to choose between 2 powers but also telling him the weaknesses of them.
Clones or Telekinesis and both their weaknesses and he caught quickly one and almost began muttering but I prevented him from doing that by gently flicking his head, and so on continued giving him choices between 2 powers and making it as difficult as possible of not only weaknesses but also preference.
"Healing Factor or Healing Powers, with the Healing Factor you heal far faster than most people but it does rely on your own energy and nutrients that you currently possess, and with the Healing Powers you can heal people but can't heal yourself and has the same weakness as the Healing Factor," another choice is given and this one set Izuku really hard on thinking but it didn't take too long for him to choose.
"I'll go with the Healing Powers!"
"And why?"
"Because I can help heroes and civilians out and it is better to fight together and assure the people we're okay!" answered Izuku and I nodded satisfied with a small smile as the boy picked up the signal that he had it right.
I had planned and spend time with Izuku and observing the children around me and what their Quirks are and most of them still don't have one, except for a few like Katsuki's lackey with the Devil Wings that can generate some wind but nowhere near the level of mine. Once everything will go beginning with the Canon memories I would train the hell out of myself knowing the future events that would come, the intake exams, the USJ, and all the other events that would come and I would be ready to face them and couldn't wait for them to come.
Perhaps I will meet some of my future classmates as I'm aiming for Class 1-A and not 1-B and no offense to those students but 1-A is where it all starts, but I can't be too sure as I may not be in the same timeline as the one I watched as there can be some minor changes but so far I haven't seen any of them, some genders could be reversed, some won't be in Class 1-A because of me, and various other things
I want to see them.
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Over the course of the next few days, I had spent time around deepening my friendship with Izuku and Bakugou, and surprisingly the latter had become a friend of mine but was still angry about the humiliation he suffered, but cheered a bit up as I did apologize and told him that he should be careful that others might not react well if he talked them down without knowing anything.
And it happened as the awakening of Quirks happened that would later come in the Canon and that's Katsuki awakening his Quirk 'Explosion' as children around him looked at his palms, they produced small explosions and Katsuki looked amazed at them like the rest while I kept calm about it and observed it and I could see that the praise is getting to his head.
"I think Mark's Quirk is still stronger," was the comment, and that had been enough for me to want to choke the kid that said that out loud as many others agreed that my Quirk is better in a sense, though few of them disagreed with the others and those are children that are lackeys of Katsuki and Izuku being one of them and right now I can only see him something else than a friend.
A lackey to Katsuki as he would see no one as his equal and straight-up refuse or deny that they are in his supposed league, and it seems that is going on as said boy is glaring at me with hatred and anger and made me internally sigh. In no way loud noises scare or surprise me at all and I expect an insult of me being an American Halfblood and that honestly annoyed the hell out of me, people just had to resort to such insults and that is for me hitting a low point and not something they will walk out from.
I never let someone who made such a remark and didn't stop would get a punch in the face and where it counts cuz I would say that the bro code can screw itself in the ass, oh yeah, no time to remember memories of my previous life since that would only leave me sad so instead of trying to dissuade the situation. "I don't care if mine is stronger or something like that, as long as I can use it to become a Hero,"
Didn't work as the damage had been done the moment the stupid kid said that out loud...wait, is Katsuki not glaring but looking determined and I remembered one thing that Katsuki had also been a child that had been burdened with expectation.
"But why don't you want to be the best?!"
"Because that's tiring and I want free time to play around and not be stuck 24/7 working or being best at everything, far too much work for me to do so," that idea alone of me being the best in everything disgusted me as that sentence had a double meaning and I don't want that, but it certainly had some effect for Bakugou and I made it simple and clear to understand that almost every child understood.
Well, perhaps I have helped him a little bit to prevent him from having a nasty attitude.
Alrain: Chapter 2, I used to be someone who also liked those Bash-fics until my reasonable side had come in and try to view from different points, not to say that I'm completely on Katsuki's side but I'm willing to see the other side for their reason of doing. Even in the few Naruto fics, I avoid the good ones that have bashing Sasuke although I don't like Sakura, I am not a one-sided person anymore so which had been another reason for me to delete DQ Izuku.
Didn't realize it instantly but my perception changed a lot that I don't do bashing a lot and try to avoid that path of becoming a person that just wants to see someone punished, well, just cases like Bakugou and Sasuke and people just not seeing the truth to it for their reason though not completely sympathizing with them.
You can only have sympathy and understand someone's pain if you have suffered from that as well, even trying to place yourself in their shoes is far different than experiencing it for yourself.