A/N: I don't own MHA or any Naruto references here.
A small child, with emerald green hair and diamond like freckles, stood there looking at the two people that were now on the floor, covered in their own blood and sand. His emerald eyes didn't blink at the sight, only moving when he heard the sobbing of hs mother in the corner. He looked up at her, and his eyes that were deranged gained a sense of familiarity and warmth at her.
"He broke our bond mommy." The four year old said to his mother, a woman with similar green hair and had small amounts of blood from the two murdered people, one of which was her husband and the father of the kid who just murdered him. "He broke your heart so I had to break his."
Inko was still in shock at the scene, but had dialed for the authorities to show up. She didn't know what to say and was hoping her son wouldn't attack her as well. "Izuku sweetie..." She tried to speak as calmly as she could, despite the Sand that was moving around her son.
"Yes mommy?" Izuku asked innocently, like he wasn't the one who had used his quirk, a unique power each person is born with, to kill his father and the woman his father was caught cheating with.
"Could you... please put away the sand?" She didn't know if it would anger him and make his sand lash out at her.
"Huh?" The child looked at his sand that was still moving around the area hectically. Then he gained a scared look. "I'm sorry mommy! I didn't mean to scare you!" The sand all dropped to the ground but flowed to the child's feet, surrounding the limbs. He began to start crying. "I'm sorry mommy!"
Inko's motherly instincts kicked in and she grabbed her son in a hug. "It's okay Izuku." As far as she knew her son was just mentally disturbed, but at least it was good for her that he doesn't want to harm her in any way.
When the police came it took some effort from Inko to get Izuku to not lash out at them, he fought against any attempt to separate him from his mother's side and his sand made it something no one wanted to attempt.
A twenty year old hero was called in because his quirk was to erase other quirks from being able to function momentarily. He kept his eyes on Izuku at all times, keeping his sight based quirk ready at a moment's notice to get rid of the child's control of that sand that followed him everywhere.
Currently Inko was being questioned by a police officer about what had occurred in her apartment. During that Izuku was still holding onto her leg with his sand swirling around his feet and that unhinged look in his eyes.
Inko began to tell what had transpired from a minute before it happened. "I had just come home from taking Izuku to the doctor after I got home from work, when we both found my husband, with another woman. I admit I was angry and shouted at him before he struck me to get me to be quiet. Then Izuku used his sand to..."
"Daddy didn't want to give his heart to mommy so I broke it apart." Izuku filled in unnecessarily, admitting to murdering his father.
The officer gave a worried look to Inko, he was definitely not at ease around this kid. The boy definitely had something wrong with his head. "And the other woman?"
"Right after killing his father Izuku killed her with his sand." Inko was very aware of the sand that was following her son everywhere and gathering in a swiping pattern at his feet. It definitely bothered her when it would brush against her.
"She wasn't mommy." Izuku added.
"Ma'am does your son suffer from any mental disorders? I don't mean to be rude but he..." The officer just looked at the boy who was staring back with those insane eyes.
"Our Doctor, Yuma Aken, had said something about the possibility when he developed his quirk last week. She said he might have a quirk based mental disorders but the check-up today still needed to be looked at before she was supposed to call me later." Inko didn't want to think that her son had a mental disorder but the way that he has been acting definitely made it plausible.
"I think that he should be put into quirk reformation regardless." The Pro Hero who was keeping his eye on Izuku said. "He clearly doesn't see how his murder of them is wrong and will end up using his sand to kill again."
Inko wanted to argue and say her son wasn't a killer, but she was there when he did in fact kill.
"It definitely would be best." The officer agreed.
"There is nothing wrong with me?" The child got confused, he truly didn't see anything wrong with what he did. His dad hurt his mom so he hurt his dad in return. What was wrong with that? He looked up at his mother, hoping she would tell them that he wasn't wrong, that he was her little angel. "Mom?"
Inko avoided the gaze of her son. "It... would be best."
Izuku felt his heart break and his sand began to vibrate more chaotically, before it stopped completely as the Pro Hero activated his own quirk to negate Izuku's. His sand stopped moving and dropped wherever it was.
"I will take him there." The Pro Hero said as he kept his eyes on the child.
"Now?" Inko had a worried look.
"Ma'am he isn't going to go through regular quirk reformation. He needs more attention because his quirk is able to kill without him having to take a single step. If he truly does have a mental disorder it will take more effort to make him understand how things actually work."
"I'm fine!" Izuku argued as he held onto Inko's leg harder. His unhinged eyes had a frantic look to them now.
"Does he have to be separated from me?" Inko asked, partially from not wanting her son taken away and partially because she was sure he would not react well to it.
"If she is the thing that is keeping him from flipping out it would be wise to not separate them." The officer pointed out. "She can accompany him to the place at the least."
The Pro Hero nodded. "Keep him calm." He began to walk away, leading them to the facility in Musutafu, Japan, where quirk reformation happens.
Matsau Sekai took a breath as he finished looking at a scan a few hours later. Matsau was a doctor who studied brains and how quirks have effects on them. Every person's brain and thought process is affected by their quirk, although most people are effected in a way that is so insignificantly small that it is ignored. However some people, like the child he just scanned get affected in a more noticeable way. It was seen more easily in people who had quirks that had to do with or changed their blood in any way. This child's quirk however was definitely unique in how it worked. He doesn't spend much thought just to move his sand around and even if his quirk is suppressed the sand will follow him, he just couldn't manipulate it to do anything. It moved around him defensively anytime he felt worried and reacted to his emotions.
His brain however, was wait got Matsau's attention. He had a slightly higher level of thought processing then most intelligent adults, most likely to help his sand, but had clear insanity. It was small before his quirk awakened but after his quirk began to grow his view of everything around him was also altering. The boy completely believes to be in the right about his murder of his father and his mistress. His emotional aptitude was all over the place as well, he had emotions but they were too extreme in every action he had. From what Matsau saw he would also be quick to extreme anger as well, and with his sand that meant trouble for everyone. He would end up being obsessive and dangerous if he wasn't trained to behave normally.
This kid was definitely a piece of work.
"I believe he should definitely go through Quirk Reformation." Matsau said to Inko and the Pro Hero, who had not once stopped looking at the boy to keep his sand dormant. "There are five levels to quirk reformation and given his situation it would be irresponsible to put him in anything below level four, level five is where he should be."
"He isn't that bad is he?" Inko asked quietly, hoping Izuku would stay in his daydreaming state he had entered.
"I'm sorry ma'am but the records we got from your family doctor did not show any severity of his disorder before the last week. If he is already at this level then the right thing to do is stop the ground with as quickly as possible. He can definitely reform but it will definitely be some work."
"What happens in level five?"
"Anyone who qualifies as level four or five is taken to a separate facility, where they will stay until they show signs of being able to control their stability and not act out uncontrollably. It should at most take him a few years."
"He is being taken away?" Inko deep down knew it was for the best but the mother in her didn't want that.
"You can still see him." Matsau responded. "It's this way that the people can be watched better and make sure they are properly reformed."
"Where am I going?" Izuku started paying attention when he heard his mother ask her last question.
"Will he actually be properly cared for?" Inko asked.
"Miss Midoriya you have my word that we take reformation very seriously. Izuku will be handled with care."
"What is happening?" Izuku asked.
"You do have precautions to avoid his quirk acting out correct?" The Pro Hero asked the doctor, everyone ignoring the child.
"The facility will have measures to make sure he doesn't act out."
Izuku shook his mom's pants leg to get her attention. "Mommy, what is happening?"
Inko had a sad expression when she looked down at her son. She didn't know how to explain it to him correctly without saying something that could damage his already warped mind. "You are... this..."
"Miss Midoriya let us take it from here please." Matsau asked. "Izuku you are being taken to a place that we can help you and your sand."
"I don't want help." The kid didn't hesitate to respond with a dark look at the doctor. He saw this man as a threat because to Izuku it looked like he was trying to separate Izuku and his mom.
"Son your sand-"
"You're not my dad!" Izuku didn't like being called son. He didn't have a father, not even the person who was his father counted to him anymore since that man ruined his relationship with Izuku's mom.
Matsau looked up to the Pro Hero, who was still using his eyes to keep Izuku from doing anything with his eyes. "How long can you hold that power?"
"I need to rest my eyes soon." The man replied. "I suggest sedating him for now until you move him to the facility because I doubt he is going to go along with this."
"You're not taking me away from mommy!" Izuku shouted and held onto Inko's leg harder.
A guard was called over, a woman who actually had a quirk where she can send someone into unconsciousness with eye contact, and she promptly tried to make eye contact with the sand wielding child. When she finally did she admitted to herself that it was unnerving to see how intense Izuku's eyes were, like he was definitely insane.
Izuku almost fell over from being sent into unconsciousness but was caught by the Pro Hero, who turned to Matsau. "Where is this facility at?"
"I will take you there. It has high security so you will need someone like me or a pass to get in. I already sent over the file for him so they should have something ready when we get there." Matsau turned to Inko, who hadn't moved since her son was knocked out. "He will be okay ma'am."
Inko nodded, hoping that her son would end up alright.
When Izuku woke up he was in a white room. It had a bed with white sheets and a single pillow, and a shelf with a few books on it. There was also a desk with a new blank journal on it and a chair to match the desk.. What was most interesting to him was the large block of metal in the middle of the room. It looked like it was a box and he saw a single key slot to open it and nothing else.
"Hello Midoriya." A voice from the doorway got his attention and the teen saw a woman with bright orange hair in a ponytail, small yellow eyes and a lab coat. She had a very noticeable scar along the right side of her jawline that was a sickoy gray in color. "I am Sayuri Kaomoti."
"Where am I? Where is mommy?" The five year old asked.
The woman sat at the chair to the desk. "This place is called Cherry Waters Rehabilitation Center. Miss Midoriya is okay and at home right now."
"Why am I here? I want mommy!" Izuku felt scared for a second and heard a sound of buzzing from the box on the floor.
"She will visit in the allowed time two days from now. Izuku you have a disease and being here will make it better."
"I'm not sick!" He tred to use his sand and became aware if the fact that none of it was around him, except the box. "Where is my sand?"
"It is in there." The woman pointed to the box. "The sand was out in there for everyone's safety. Nothing can get in or out of the boxes unless they have one of these keys." She tapped on the key that was around her neck.
"I want my sand." Izuku tried to open the box despite what he was just told.
"You will get it back eventually. You have to prove you are better from your disorder first."
Izuku didn't like this woman, or that other guy and the one who kept him from using his sand. They all took him from his mom. He wanted out if the place because he knew he wasn't suck or having a disorder like they were saying. They just were afraid of his sand. Izuku needed his sand back so he can get back to his mom.
Over the next few months Izuku got little sleep. He would stay up as long as he could, sometimes for days, trying to use his sand despite them being locked in a metal box that was cemented to the ground. True to the doctor's word there was seemingly nothing short of her key that would get his sand released. During the classes he had at that facility he only paid partial attention, just enough to make them believe he was there and not trying to gain his sand back.
Everytime his mother would visit he tried his hardest to convince her that he was okay and that he wanted to go home, or that he didn't want her to leave him there. Everytime she had to leave it was a very unpleasant feeling for Izuku. He blamed the facility for keeping him away from his mom, wanting to bury the place in his sand if he had that much of it. He only had as much sand to make a life size to scale sand statue of himself, but it was all still in that box.
Izuku could feel his sand, it was calling to him, they ng to get to him and he if use but it was trapped. He didn't like it. He actually hated it and it made him have a silent resentment of the facility. He knew he couldn't be vocal of his disdain if the place because that would make them view him as more mentally disturbed, when he wasn't at all. He had to find a way to his sand.
"Thank you for coming Nezu." Sayuri Kaomoti said to the person next to her.
"This is of interest to me, of course I would come." Nezu waved it off. Nezu was a small person, barely taller than a four year old, and wasn't even a human. He was actually a rare case of an animal gaining a quirk. What animal Nezu was exactly was a mystery however, the quirked animal looked like a mix of a mouse and a bear with white fur, a scar along his right eye and a tail. He had a suit and brown boots on. "I haven't heard of a case as severe as his before and I wanted to extend help, you just contacted me before I could contact you."
"He has pretty shut himself off from people since the accident a week ago." Sayuri stated.
"Run me through the accident." Nezu had heard about bit seeing ng as how it out the facility on lockdown and two guards had gotten injured.
"He was behaving well, but after the accident I believe it was an act so we wouldn't be as suspicious. We knew he had been spending days at a time not sleepy ng and using his spare time to try to break his sand out of the box, the sensors inside of it confirm that he was trying to do that."
"So he didn't break his sand out?" Nezu had a confused look. "From what I heard he had sand."
"Part of our outside area has sand in it. He had never shown control of any sand beyond the sand that followed him every. He must have been practicing in secret or just get her that higher control in that moment. He was allowed outside with the others to have some time to enjoy the at r and such, but he avoided the others like he always does. At first I assumed that was because the closest person to him in age was seventeen, a decade older than him. However I want to think he brushes everyone off because he believes they are not important enough to waste his time on. He always went to the sand and stayed there."
"He could have been practicing his control of sand or just being around other sand to make up for not being able to have contact with his actual batch." Nezu said.
"When time was up for him to be outside a guard, Sotashi, tried to inform him of the time but Midoriya did not listen, he just stayed sitting in the sand. Sotashi tried to step closer and Midoriya took that as a threat and lashed out with the sand around him. Sotashi had his arm broken and Nero tried to step in only to have her leg broken by the sand."
"What put a stop to the boy?" Nezu asked as they got to outside of Izuku's room that was locked.
"A sedative. When he went unconscious we put him in his room and the new sand didn't follow like his original sand. I theorise that he can control any sand with effort but his original batch is the only batch will follow him regardless."
"I would like to speak to him one on one." Nezu said. "He might not open up to people associated with the facility here, I am a principal of a school so I might have a chance."
"I suppose I can allow it." The woman nodded.
"I request that though." He pointed to an object on her person.
"I don't think that is wise." Sayuri held to small object.
"It will be a way to show I trust him." That and Nezu knew how much Izuku must despise being at that place. This would help him be at ease.
"I trust your judgement I suppose." The woman took the key from around her neck and handed it to the quirked animal.
"Thank you." Nezu took the key. "I will try to just see where his mind is at from his perspective." He entered the room alone to find Izuku just sitting against the box his sand was in.
Nezu had to admit the boy looked to be in bad condition. Had he not known that it was all the boy's actions that made him look like that he would immediately question the integrity of the people running this place. It wasn't as bad as it might seem but he really looked like he needed to eat more and definitely get sleep. Izuku's eyes had dark rings are und them from lack of sleep. Other than that his eyes were just... alarming to Nezu. The pupils we're so small they were almost non-existent and he could feel the barely hidden insanity the boy had. Nezu always thought quirks were fascinating but he never liked when quirks warped a person's mind like this boy's, granted it was partially Izuku's own fault and his surroundings as well.
Izuku wasn't saying anything but was keeping his eyes locked onto Nezu.
"Hello Izuku Midoriya." The animal greeted him as he entered and closed the door. "I am Nezu. I just wanted to chat."
"You wanted to see how crazy you think I am." The boy spoke up. "I'm not."
Nezu decided honesty was the best policy. "It is true that I wanted to see how you were mentally, but that was actually a side thing to why I really came. I heard about what happened last week through the grapevine and your quirk is interesting."
"My sand?"
"Control of sand is something I found interesting. I have met people who control fire, water, wind, people who can make poison, people who can change their size and so on. But sand, and at your level of control? I have not seen it before and I wanted to see it for myself."
"Why?"
"Can't I just be curious?"
"No. You wouldn't be here just to see someone move sand." Izuku showed his lack of trust.
"I admit I had a motive beyond that as well." Nezu heard that the boy was smart, that showed it. It either showed that he was smart or really paranoid and untrusting. "I believe that you can definitely prove to not be crazy or disturbed or anything like that. I was going to see if your were interested in becoming a hero in your future. One of the Pro Heroes that-"
"No." Izuku cut him off. "I don't need to prove anything to anyone."
"That can be true. However I believe-"
"I don't care." Izuku cut him off again. "I only wanted to be like my father before he turned out to be a horrible person and break mother's heart. I don't plan on doing that anymore and I am not going to do something you think I should do. I just want to go back home and have all of you leave me alone." He stopped looking at Nezu and faced forward towards the door again.
Nezu had a blank expression. He knew the boy would be difficult to talk to but the boy just didn't even plan on listening to anyone. He was only focused on going home. Nezu wasn't going to open the box today for sure. He didn't even think he could get anything else out of the boy at that point. The quirked animal waited for a moment to see if Izuku would change his mind and try to conversate but the boy didn't move at all, he just sat there, not even blinking.
"I hope you become well Midoriya." The mouse said as he got up and left, picking the door behind him. Nezu never noticed the said that had fallen from the key he had with him.
The second the door was closed a grin came onto Izuku's face and his eyes lit up. He had been using sand that he had hidden in his shoes the week prior to copy the shape of the key that he knew Nezu had the second he mentioned wanting to see Izuku's sand. Now all he had to do was wait for a good moment and he would have his actual sand back. He left the sand from his shoe in a hardened form that mimicked the key to the box and made it stay on the underside of his bed. He would wait for night, get his sand back, break out of this place and go back home to his mom.
"I am quite surprised that he is that shut in." Nezu admitted to Sayuri as they went down a hall.
"His obsessive nature must be affecting how he perceives others. He doesn't like the facility so he is relating all of us here as something bad and will no doubt continue to try his hardest to not have anything to do with anything or anyone here. Honestly I halfway want to just let him leave so he will not be here since he is obviously driving himself further into his insanity being here."
"That would just be dangerous for everyone else." Nezu said. "Although I do understand the sentiment. Perhaps he is just going through a phase at this point, even if that phrasing of mine is crass."
Night came and Izuku was ready. He had waited all day, something that proved to be a challenge, but it was now night and he went to the box, making his sand replica of the key enter the box and keeping it's shape as he used it to unlock the box.
He had wanted to try all week to open the box with the small amount of sand he had but he wasn't sure if a failed attempt at opening it would alert the guards that he was trying to open it. So he waited until that doctor Sayuri Kaomoti would enter the room so he could use the sand to copy the key, problem was she never did. It would always be someone else. Luck was on his side when Nezu had the key earlier in the day.
The box unlocked and the silent alarm unknown to Izuku went off. His sand key didn't have the chip that the real key had so when it did unlock a signal was sent to the security room.
Izuku was thrilled when for the first time in two years his sand flowed around him. His actual sand that belonged to him from the second he gained his quirk. It was a pleasant feeling. He mixed the key back into grains of sand and let it join his actual sand the way that any sand actually does, with his blood. Izuku made a cut on his palm through a quick slice of his sand and made the new sand go into the wound, getting covered with his blood and joining his true sand as it soaked it in. Once that was over he had some sand cover the cut so his blood wouldn't leak everywhere and made his way to leave that damned place forever.
"Somehow Midoriya broke open his box!" A guard said into the radio as he saw the alarm. "He has his sand again."
"I should've kept it somewhere else." Sayuri cursed as she began to grab a sedative to use on the boy. She left that box with him as a show that he wasn't imprisoned. He would no doubt act violently towards everyone who he encountered on his way out of the facility at this point.
"I see him on the cameras." A guard said as she watched the boy walk through the hallways unchallenged so far. "He is heading to the garden."
Why would he be heading to the garden? To get the sand there? He couldn't fly so there was no point to that idea. Unless...
"Fuck he is going to escape through the garden." Sayuri swore that she would bang her head against a wall if that kid can use his sand to fly.
Izuku stepped into the garden and looked up at the moon, it was something he found interesting. However he couldn't waste time so he quickly made part of his sand solid enough to support his weight and stepped onto it.
"Midoriya stop!" Sayuri ordered as she managed to get into the garden.
Izuku looked at her with his insane eyes. "I would kill you if I didn't want to taint my sand before I reunited with mother."
She held up her tranquilizer gun. "Midoriya this will hurt you if you start to leave."
"I don't care." Izuku began to float up with his sand as a mobile platform.
"Damn it." Sayuri shot the dart at Izuku and gaped as some of his sand immediately blocked the dart, without the boy even moving a muscle and looking at the dart like it was pathetic.
He didn't say a word as the dart fell through his sand to the ground of the garden and he left at a high speed.
The orange haired woman looked at the now empty space above the garden. She exhaled sharply as she grabbed her radio. "Someone get the local authorities."
Izuku had made sure to be far enough away from the facility before he would make his return to his mother before he realized something. He didn't even know the way home from here. None of the buildings looked familiar and it has been two years. How will he actually find his way home? Izuku buried that thought, he would find his way home no matter what. Maybe he can use someone for directions.
"How do you let a seven year old play you like that?" A police officer asked no one in particular when his partner told him the situation.
"They said his sand is very powerful." His partner, a man with tusks for a quirk, replied. "I honestly wanna ignore it because they said he has no problems just murdering anyone who tries to get in his way."
"That's actually a good reason to find him." The first officer said. "He could be anywhere in Musutafu right now."
"And he can fly so this is even more of a hassle."
"Didn't they say he wanted to find his mother? Why not just wait for him around there?"
"That could work. Let's work on where she lives then."
Suddenly a pile of sand dropped on top of their car, covering the windshield completely.
"What the fuck!?" The tusked officer jumped in his seat.
"Where is my mother?" Both officers jumped when the driver's side had a boy outside of the car standing on a floating platform of sand. He was looking at them with intensity, expecting an answer fast.
"Umm..." The first officer did not like how that boy was just... there so quickly. He was going to play along with the child so as to not get killed with sand. "We can't help you find your mother unless we have a name for you kid."
"Izuku Midoriya." He responded dryly. "My mother's name is Inko Midoriya."
"You heard him Fukashi." He looked to his tusk having partner with an expression that said to look her up that second. "Look her up so we can get him to his mother."
Fukashi nodded as he noticed some sand had filtered into the car, no doubt the boy was planning on being aggressive if they didn't comply. He typed on his computer and soon had an address.
"Thank you." Izuku had read the address over his shoulder. "I won't kill you." He said to the two as his sand retreated back to him and he immediately flew up and away from them.
The two officers were silent for a second.
"Fuck me that kid is terrifying." Fukashi slumped into his seat.
"Well now we can let everyone know exactly where he is going to be." The first officer snapped back into character and grabbed his radio.
Izuku didn't know a direct path to his mother's apartment so he kind of ended up wandering for a bit as he tried to find it. He wouldn't have let those officers take him there because he didn't trust them beyond what they did tell him. They would definitely make him go back to that place. He wouldn't go back, they would takeaway his sand again and he will not let that happen.
He eventually found his way to the area his mother lived, knowing it was there because of the police around the area, they were there for him. They were trying to keep his family separated and he did not like that. He wouldn't lash out at them yet, no he had to wait because he didn't want their blood on his sand when he returns to his mother.
Izuku stopped on the roof of a building when it dawned on him. The police were there. Of course he knew they were there, he could see them. But He realized they were all there and that blocked his plans. They definitely had someone with his mother and he wouldn't be able to stay there if they were watching. He would have to wait, wait just long enough that they aren't with her. He didn't know where he would wait so he decided to go somewhere else for the time being.
Maybe somewhere with sand.
Hours later Sayuri was cursing herself under her breath. How could she let that brat go!? She had the perfect soldier for her master if she had just kept him at the facility for just a little bit longer, when he would actually be able to come grab the child for himself. Now she had to explain to her master that the insane kid with the powerful quirk was just missing. They expected him to arrive at his mother's place that night and he never did, even when two officers had confirmed he had the address. Where could the brat have gone?
Inko was panicking. She had trusted this facility to treat her son well, but he broke out of the place and was gone. She knew he really had some mental problems but she wanted to believe that he wouldn't just up and run away. She also wanted her son to show up to her at the least, so she could know if he was safe.
"Hello All Might." Nezu said as the man of that title entered the office for the meeting Nezu asked for.
"Ah hello Nezu. How are you today?" The booming voice of All Might came out if the phone.
"I have confirmed an ally of his." Nezu said as he looked at some papers he had gathered up.
"You have?"
"Indeed. A woman named Sayuri Kaomoti, she works at the Cherry Waters Quirk Reformation Center. I gather from my intel that she was using that position to find any persons who were not healthy mentally and to coax them into joining him."
"Exploiting the mentally ill? Why am I not surprised?"
"We should count ourselves lucky with a spectacle that occured last night. A child with a mindset all too perfect for one of his followers was under her direct watch."
"What happened to the child?"
"Oh he made a grand escape from the facility. I actually find it humorous that he used me like he did."
"He used you?" All Might raised one of his eyebrows. "How so?"
"I had the key to a box that they hid his sand from him. Oh his quirk is to control sand by the way, it seems really versatile. He had some sand and used it to replicate the key I had with me. I felt the sand just enough to know it was there but he did a good job of it. He used that to get his own sand back and he left the facility, without harming anyone like you would expect, and now is missing in Musutafu."
"Why would you willingly let him have a way to escape?"
"Because he would end up transfered away from her if it was a failed escape. I truthfully didn't think he would get away."
"Is that why you asked for me to come to Musutafu?"
"Indeed. He seems quite skilled with the sand if I am going by assumptions and only a few people can properly handle him to pacify him."
"I am sure any of the trained adult heroes in Musutafu can handle a child." All Might replied. He knew Nezu wasn't just saying these things but he also didn't think that kid was as much as Nezu said.
"He killed two people with a single blow to each of their hearts when he was five." Nezu responded. "Now he is seven. I saw him yesterday All Might. He definitely isn't above killing. I looked at his file from the facility, I believe Kaomoti is the only soy of his there by the way, and he has violent rage that made them sedate him a few times, a high level of obsession that so far is only focused on being back which the his mother, or his sand. He has a severe attachment to his sand and I think it being locked away from him right next to him was part of his downfall. Kaomoti definitely put it there purposely."
"Please tell me you removed this woman from that place."
"Oh I am going to later today. When I visited the boy yesterday I made sure to keep an eye on her, she is good at hiding her truth but I am better. I have been mounting evidence all day here." He waved to the papers on his desk. "Enough to warrant a search of her at a level I know would expose her. She will be arrested by the end of today."
"Any idea where the boy is though?"
"I would guess somewhere with sand. If I were on the run and able to control such a thing I would make sure to be around it in surplus."
"I will help find the boy." All Might stood up. "I am sure he will be found."
Izuku had indeed gone where there was sand. To a beach called Dagobah Municipal Beach Park. It was filthy and covered with a bunch of trash and that bothered Izuku to his core, all that trash was covering the beautiful sand. Izuku made it a goal to clean up all the trash so the sand can be free of the filth while he waits for a good time to go back to his mother. He wasted no time in using his true sand to crush all of the trash into small balls and set them aside. He started on the inside of the giant messy maze of trash so he wouldn't be immediately seen by someone happening to walk past the beach.
After a while, close to dawn, Izuku got tired and realized how little he had eaten recently at the facility and how he needed food. He stopped crushing trash and used his sand to travel into the city, staying close to the beach so he wouldn't be too far from his new temporary living space.
Izuku stopped outside of a small restaurant, one that had no signs and only had a counter, with no outer wall on the street side. It was more of a stand than a restaurant really. Whatever was in the place being cooked however was enticing to Izuku so he entered the small space. He wasn't exactly sure how places like this worked so he just sat at the counter on a stool until someone would notice him.
After a minute an odd looking woman exited the back and looked at him. She was pink, like her skin was entirely pink. She had violet hair that was all over the place despite being under a hairnet and her eyes were completely violet as well except for yellow pupils. She had an apron over a yellow dress, petting the child of know she was most likely the one who was cooking whatever that smell he liked was.
"Hello sweetie." The woman greeted him with a smile, while also looking around him. "Where are your parents?"
"My father is dead and my mother is with bad people." Izuku didn't know why he bothered to answer, he really didn't want to speak and just wanted that food.
The pink woman frowned. That really didn't sound pleasant but the way he said it made the feeling worse. Plus she was now aware of his eyes and his expression that seemed like he really didn't care and might not be a happy person, and that he needed sleep. "Well... who has been watching over you lately?"
"Can I have food?" Izuku ignored her question.
The woman sighed, this boy really only spoke about what he wanted to. He looked hungry so her motherly instincts said to at least indulge the odd boy. She also noticed he had sand flowing around his legs and some if it was on the counter. "I can get you a bowl if you at least keep the sand off of the counter."
Izuku looked at his sand, he didn't see how it was an issue but he wanted the food, the sand on the counter dropped to around his legs.
The woman gave him a small smile as she went into the back to get the food. She came back a second later with a bowl of miso ramen, a pot she didn't expect to have customers for this early in the morning. "Here you go... what is your name kiddo?"
"Izuku Midoriya." The seven year old replied.
"Well I am Marina Ashido." The woman introduced herself. She recognized his name because he was mentioned on the radio on her walk to her stand. "My husband had to be at one of those places too."
Izuku looked up confused, the first time an emotion past anger or apathy crossed his face in a while. "What?"
"A quirk reformation center. He was a level three. He didn't like it because he didn't think there was anything wrong with him. I think he would have left like you did."
"They took my sand and didn't let me have it."
"I wouldn't have enjoyed that."
"..." Izuku went back to silence.
"Tell you what. If you don't want to go back I guess I can let you eat here until you don't want to. I wouldn't send my husband there so I don't want to send a child there. Plus if you were as badass they say I thought no you would've hurt them on the way out or just took my ramen without a word."
"I didn't want to taint my sand before I returned to mother."
"That works I guess." Marina shrugged. Part of her was saying that the kid should be under the watch of a professional but she ignored that for the bigger part of her, the Ashido part of her that said in her gut that he wouldn't be a hassle to her. "Just don't kill anyone I guess."
"..." Izuku went back to eating, he wouldn't promise that. He didn't even think he would show up here ever again. he didn't trust her. Izuku suddenly felt weight on his sand and wanted to attack whoever was touching his sand. He turned to face the person before he ended them and was face to face with a girl his age.
"Have you ever built a sand castle with this!?" The girl asked really excitedly. She was pink like the woman who gave him the ramen, but her hair was also pink and she had horns in her hair. Her eyes actually intrigued Izuku because the sclera was black and her irises were yellow. She had a large smile and was standing on some of his sand that wasn't falling under her weight.
Izuku was silent and didn't respond, he kind of just stared at her blankly. Not his normal hateful or apathetic looks he gave everyone but a true blank look. He didn't know what to think. She was on his sand, which was something he would have gotten mad about if the question wasn't so... weird.
The girl continued to look at him with her cheerful and curious look as she was touching the sand. "Have you ever built a sandcastle with your sand!?" She repeated with the same enthusiasm.
"Mina I told you to stay behind the counter." Marina scolded. She was worried her daughter might set off the child who was known to have violent reactions.
"... a... sandcastle?" Izuku finally spoke with a question.
"Yea! Have you ever built one with this? I bet it would be SO cool!"
"I... no?" He answered confused. He never had someone actually be excited about his sand since he first got it and his parents were excited. However he killed his father with it and he scared his mother with it. Since then everyone had wanted to lock it up or use it for some selfish reason. But this girl wanted to know if he ever built a sandcastle?
"You should totally build one! You would have the BEST sandcastle!" Mina exclaimed.
"Why would I do that?"
"For fun!"
"Mina dear please get back behind the counter."
"What does a sandcastle look like exactly?" Izuku asked.
"A castle." Mina answered with confusion. "Do you not know?"
"I do not remember."
The pink girl scrunched up her face in thought before she snapped her fingers. "Oh I know!" Without another word she ran behind the counter into the kitchen.
"Mina don't run in the kitchen!" Marina sighed. She took her daughter to work with her so she wouldn't be left alone at home while her father was on a business trip that week. Marina was just glad that the boy didn't attack her daughter, maybe he wasn't as bad as he was said to be.
Izuku continued to eat his ramen in silence before Mina ran back out of the back with a picture book. She stayed behind the counter this time and sat across from Izuku.
"Like this!" She opened the picture book to a page with a castle on it and moved the book towards the other kid.
Izuku looked at the castle and recognized it. He had seen castles before and just forgot about them during his time in the Cherry Waters facility. "I have not made one before."
The pink girl pointed at the castle again. "Can you make your sand look like that one?"
"I could."
"Ooo please do it!" Mina asked excitedly.
Izuku didn't know why he was involving himself in the conversation, he didn't want to care about anything, but something about this girl was... interesting. He moved his sand and it began to shift itself into a small version of the castle.
"It's SO pretty!" The pink girl liked the castle. She poked it to feel the sand. "Your sand is SO cool!"
Izuku's cheeks turned the smallest possible shade of red that they could. He had never had someone say his sand was nice in any degree without their own selfish motives right behind it. Especially over something so trivial.
"Sorry about Mina." Marina was back from the kitchen. She was so glad that Mina hadn't accidentally sent off the sand user. She knew she could handle the boy if he decided not to play nice with her quirk, sue just didn't want Mina to set him off. "I know she can be a handful."
"Dad says I am two handfuls!" Mina defended herself.
"I... don't mind." Izuku was still looking at Mina in complete confusion of her. He didn't know why he felt odd with her and why she was so interested in his sand in such small ways. It was definitely different from the people at the facility.
"What else can you do with it?" Mina poked the sand again.
"Hello!" A booming voice got the attention of the people in the small establishment. They turned to see a massive, muscular, blond man who was big enough that his hair that was standing in the front in two long strands was against the ceiling. "You wouldn't happen to be that Midoriya boy I heard about right?"
Izuku's sand all swarmed to in front of him in defense of whatever would happen.
"OMIGOSH it's All Might!" Mina exclaimed excitedly.
The man gave a slightly nervous chuckle at the actions of Izuku. "Relax Midoriya my boy. I was just worried about where you are. Some nasty people want your sand and I think you want to keep it for yourself." All Might sat at the counter three seats away from Izuku with the sand still in between them. He turned to Marina and Mina. "Is it okay if we have the area please?"
Marina looked at Izuku and nodded. "For a minute I suppose." She picked up her daughter and went into the kitchen.
"I don't want to go back to that place." Izuku wouldn't go back no matter what.
"I understand Midoriya. You want to go back to your mother." All Might had talked more with Nezu and the chief of police in Musutafu about something that he thinks could work for Izuku. The boy wasn't right in the head that was for sure. but after some talking he thinks he found a solution that would help the boy. "She misses you and we have an idea that will keep people from your sand that you don't want near it."
"How did you find me?" Izuku asked his own question.
All Might assumed Izuku would only talk if the conversation went to where he wanted it to go. "Dagobah Municipal Beach Park. I figured you like sand and a beach has it. I appreciate you getting rid of some of that trash."
"It was ruining the sand."
"I agree. Miss Midoriya listened to an idea of mine and she thinks that if your like it that it will work."
"Where is my mother?"
"Currently at home. She misses you and wants to have you back. Someone at the facility has been proven to be of bad taste so I thought it best for you to not go back at all. There is a different place. It will just be you and your mother, only I, Nezu, a friend named Tsukauchi will know where it is. A few others will give food to you there but this way you won't have people trying to mess with you." All Might hopes the boy would accept it. He knew the boy wasn't trusting but it was the truth and he hoped his mother being involved would help him believe.
"I don't believe you."
Yea he definitely wasn't trusting. "Would you trust your mother?"
Izuku looked at the man. "My mother wouldn't lie to me."
"Let's go to her then." All Might said. "I promise you Midoriya that I will make sure no one separates you from your mother or your sand. I just hope you don't use the sand in a way to harm those who don't deserve the harm."
"I make no promises." Izuku stated.
"I suppose my just asking should suffice for now. So will you come with me to your mother?"
Izuku looked at the man, and then got off of his stool. "I will kill you if this is a lie."
All Might believed the could easily defeat Izuku in a conflict so he took no stress from that. It was alarming however how much he could hear the tone of Izuku's seriousness in that threat. "Then it is good that she is our destination." The man began to leave
"I want to say bye." Izuku didn't follow All Might out of the building.
"That... is acceptable." All Might raised an eyebrow, he thought this kid had no emotional aptitude or care for anyone past his mother? Him saying bye felt random.
Marina, who had been subtly listening, walked out of the kitchen. "Goodbye Midoriya."
"I meant her." Izuku pointed to the picture book still on the counter.
Marina would have been insulted if she didn't know the kid wasn't right mentally. Well she was insulted just the same. "Mina." She called into the back for her daughter.
"Hello!" Mina ran to the counter and tried to greet All Might. "Hi Mister All Might!"
"Hello Young one." All Might grinned at her enthusiasm.
"Hi Sandcastle Boy!" Mina turned to Izuku.
"Goodbye Pink girl." Izuku said his goodbye.
"No it is Mina." The girl corrected. "We're friends now so first names!"
"Friends?" Izuku asked with confusion.
"Yep!" Mina nodded hard. "I am Mina to you now and you can't change that!"
"Okay." Izuku accepted it with an unknown feeling. "I am Izuku then."
"Nice." Mina grinned. "Bye Izuku!"
"... Bye... Mina." Izuku nodded as he ten followed All Might out of the shop.
"If need be I can hold you and we can get there faster." All Might offered.
"I am fine with my sand." The sand user said as he followed behind All Might, trialing him on a pile of his sand. The rest of it swirling around his feet and calves.
"That is a way to travel." The man found it interesting that Izuku didn't have to move a muscle to control his sand, heck the boy was just standing there as his sand moved him through the air behind All Might.
They eventually got to a small motel across from a gas station. It was on the outskirts of Musutafu and not the final destination, it was just where the others were waiting. One was Nezu, and then there was Inko, and finally the third person was a police officer. He wasn't a plan officer but one of the middle officers between regular law enforcement and Pro Heroes.
The man had his eyes shut, not opening them for a second. His hair was bone white and and tied back in a low knot that reached his shoulders. His plain navy blue uniform did little to hide the fact that he had a strong buil as well. He looked intimidating but gave off a calm energy instead despite his appearance.
"Ah hello All Might, Izuku." Nezu greeted them.
"Hello Nezu." All Might smiled. He turned o the third person, the officer. "Hello Raia."
The man now identified as Raia nodded without a word.
"Why is the police here?" Izuku asked.
"This is a system of trust." Raia answered, his voice sounded toneless, like anything past monotone wasn't something he could do. He still hadn't opened his eyes but his face was aimed directly at Izuku. "You are known and registered as a level five QMD. It would be unwise for us in law enforcement to not know where you are."
"Raia is trustworthy." Nezu said. "While your condition is something to worry us it is clear that you don't trust us and others will try to take advantage of your being a level five Quirk Mental Disorder. It is not the best idea but you being away from everyone would be best for the time being."
"Of course we couldn't leave a child by himself and you clearly don't want anything to do with anyone past your mother."
"So I agreed to move to this new spot that only we here would really know of." Inko continued. As much as she was admittedly afraid of her son's sand and his insanity he still loves her and she as a mother wanted the best for him.
Izuku silently got off of his sand and approached his mother, hugging her tightly and not letting go.
"We should get you to the safehouse." Nezu said. They didn't get to arrest Sayuri Kaomoti because she had inexplicably disappeared. He knew that there were definitely other methods that would be used to go after Izuku for his mental state and quirk were a golden opportunity to villains to try to manipulate for their own goals. If they took him far away from anywhere he would be fine, especially since there was no way they would know at this point where he would be besides a group of no less than ten people. It might not be the best thing to do with a kid like Izuku but with the looming idea of that villain having interest in Izuku was not good.
A/N: That's the end of the first chapter. More will be stated in chapter two regarding Izuku and his condition if this wasn't enough.
Izuku's not going to be a straight up villain but he obviously isn't going to be a perfect acting hero. I also haven't finished with his quirk's powers yet since I didn't think he should have them all yet at the age of seven.
I dunno if it is just me being critical if what I do but some of his interaction with All Might feels out of the character I built for Izuku, but also feels in character as well because he wants his mom.
Izuku's personality is kinda just going to become like Gaara's from the beginning of Naruto somewhat. Not him constantly sayin he wants his existence proven or blood and the whatnot. But more like cood and violent when provoked.
I also know who is getting OFA in this story and it isn't Izuku. His quirk is pretty OP and he is not mentally right enough to be the person who gets it.
Anyways that's all I gotta say. Thank Reapingdemon for asking me about the beginning of an idea for this story and it getting started. Let me know how it was and have a good day!