Last night was still a blur for Izuku, the dream, the feeling of being in that void, indistinct murmurs that were falling deaf to his ears, the eerily feeling of someone watching him from afar, waiting to grasp him and the overwhelming feeling of power that was suddenly coursing through his veins. He had never felt like this before, he felt like a part of himself was free, a part that he didn't even know existed. He felt confident, like his charisma had just been leveled up, felt complete yet empty, like there was something he needed to find, take it for himself, it was like a part of himself was longing for something he could not figure out. He felt hunger, the type that typical meals cannot fulfill.
Then there were these physical changes he had gone through that night, when people said hitting puberty would be a different experience, they failed to mention it could be this surreal. His hair colour was partially changing, some bangs of white hair on the sides were clearly standing out, and the holes in his hands were uncanny, while they were not hindering any of his daily tasks, the curiosity in his mind was continuously growing by the second.
'How had this happened to me, what is the purpose of these changes and what is stopping me from getting that same feeling from before', these thoughts were plaguing his mind ever since he woke up, he couldn't shake the eldritch feeling, last time his quirk acted up, he lost the single most important person in his life, and now that he had reinstated that title, it was happening again.
Izuku might not show it, but he had started viewing Aizawa as his own father-figure, not adopted, not a step-father, but someone he held dearly in his heart, and if something were to happen to this man, he would go feral and instill the world to its doom. But it would be devastating if he were the cause of it.
He pushed these thoughts aside and focused on the outside world, Aizawa had talked it out with Nedzu on the phone that since the developments are not causing any distress at the moment, so they decided it can be looked into after school.
Aizawa informed Izuku that he would pick him up and they would visit UA. Currently, he was trying his best to push these phantasmagoric visions of the void as he looked at his palms.
The ride to the school was a quiet one, perhaps because both of them enjoyed the peaceful silence. As he bid his father goodbye, he was struck with the thought of how he would explain these changes to his comrades, especially his two best friends. He was jolted out of his thoughts when he found that he was already at his classroom's door and relentlessly entered.
He was immediately noticed by Melissa and Momo who were inanimately chatting, seeing the familiar set of eyes linger about his features was a little unnerving but finally they settled at the most recognizable alteration; his hair.
He stepped towards his seat, "Hey Melissa, Hello Momo, how are you two on this fine morning?", he gave them a warm smile as he sat next to Melissa. The sudden increment in his confidence seemed to be making him 'smooth', ' Well atleast I don't have to go to Auntie Nemuri's lessons on how to court a lady ', he mused.
"Someone's in a good mood~", Melissa teased as she lightly nudged him, over the time together Melissa had discovered that the weapon of teasing was quite effective against the resident greenette, but something was different today, he didn't even blushed, much less stuttered.
"Y'know Izuku, for someone who is turning old this fast, you are certainly joyful about it." Momo interjected, while she was taken aback by his sudden assertiveness, she felt like it would be best to acknowledge the elephant in the room, before anyone else called in on it, so she did, "So, what happened with your hair, you sure were just fine until yesterday, or did you dye it!?".
Izuku was about to voice his reasons, but Melissa beat him to it, "Yea, are you trying to look cool, though your purple veins from your quirk would look way better with white hair than the contrasting green tuft".
Taking control of the situation, and before more theories could be put together, he sighed, "To be honest, I don't know as to why these developments took place the way they did, but-", he explained to the girls the events that transpired that fateful night, the dream and the other changes.
"Oh wow, that is really weird… do you think it's your quirk acting up again?", Momo asked, she was flabbergasted, when she first saw Izuku's quirk in action. She even called it a godly power, to which both the teens reminded that her 'Creation' quirk fell into the very same category, after which she blushed and ultimately relented. She was even more amazed that he got to practice at UA, before even graduating middle school. She was aware that his adopted father was a pro Hero teacher there but, still it was no low feat in Momo's eyes. And when she got the chance to visit him at the said place, she was even impressed at how the pro teachers treated Izuku, as a part of their family. If she were being honest she was kind of jealous at first, but the more she learned about his past and his abilities it all made sense to her.
"Yea, dad and I are going to visit Nedzu and Recovery Girl, to see if it's a major issue and what could be the logical course of action", Izuku stated as he saw the teacher enter and the whole class quieted down.
The rest of the classes were passed uneventfully, but Izuku still felt some visions clouding his mind, not to mention, the newfound confidence slipping away from his grasp.
Izuku wasn't aware how it happened but, just before recess, he fell asleep. Maybe it was because of the mind numbingly boring geography class, or the fact that he got little to no sleep last night. However when he woke up, he found that he was already in the cafeteria, and two pairs of familiar eyes were upon him, one was giggling and the other was looking in concern.
"Good morning sleepyhead, you are really lucky, Mr. Hirano didn't catch you dozing off there", Melissa informed as he picked up his head and tried to comprehend the situation he was in.
"Yeah, we thought you should eat before the rest of the classes ensue, so we brought you here", Momo said as she pushed a cup of hot steaming coffee towards him.
"Okay…", He took a sip, but backpedaled, "Hey what do you mean 'brought me here'?".
The girls just laughed it off, not letting the fact that they carried an unconscious Izuku to the cafeteria, and the awkward stares they received on the way. As if he was a drunk man who hung out with his friends at the bar.
Izuku took a massive bite off the pork he was eating and quickly ate more, seemingly as he had a never ending stomach. Especially when he's rushed from coffee as he ignored the looks he got from Momo and Melissa.
Setting down his silverware, he wiped his mouth but still felt somewhat, 'hungry'.
As if someone else took control of him, he felt something drawn to him, it made his body feel full and he wanted that. He was hungry, really hungry, and he felt something he never felt before, greed. Why did he feel greedy? Why? Izuku ignored the nagging thoughts that doubted his new feelings, not liking that he almost stopped himself from getting his own pleasure. Letting his body draw in that warm fuzzy feeling, Izuku felt like he was on cloud nine.
Izuku heard Momo yelp and shudder, but continued as he ignored everything else. Then there it was, he fully grasped on the new feeling, he felt a wave of power and exhilaration.
The trio walked to Principal Nedzu's office, called because of the incident. Even though Momo was now Quirkless, she didn't blame him for something he couldn't control. Izuku apologized so many times, and even groveled for forgiveness, despite the fact that she already forgave him.
"Principal Nedzu?", Izuku knocked. They heard some scuffling the moment he knocked.
Waiting for a response, they heard, "Please come in".
As they entered and sat on the three open seats, they noticed a skinny messy-blond haired man in the corner. Melissa noticed how he was seething, she couldn't help but be concerned and wonder what happened.
Izuku waited for Nedzu to finish sipping his tea and felt a trickle of sweat go down his neck during the quiet atmosphere. The Principal set down his tea on its coaster with the sound of a 'clat', making Izuku even more nervous. The animal sighed and set his elbows on the desk, leaning his head on his paws.
"Do you want to explain what exactly happened?", Nedzu said.
"I uh- um... I stole Yaoyorozu's quirk", Izuku gasped out, with his head facing down and his hands on thighs, almost like he was bowing.
Waiting for a response, Izuku peeked through his curly bangs, looking for any reaction, be it anger, fear, pity, or even absolute rage. What surprised him was that Nedzu only pinched the bridge of his nose. Izuku's mouth formed an 'O', it seemed that he wasn't specific enough.
"I-I got this feeling of fuzziness, warmth? Something like that, I wanted that feeling, I thought it was hunger of not eating, but it wasn't hunger. After I took her quirk, I saw strings on different other people, I think they represent people's quirks. But I didn't mean to! I only felt it when I thought I was still hungry for food!", Izuku tried to explain.
'Oh it's definitely hunger alright', Toshinori muttered as he crossed his arms and gritted his teeth, thankfully only Nedzu heard due to his enhanced hearing as an animal. The headmaster coughed into his paw and motioned for Izuku to breathe.
Izuku let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding, mentally thanking Nedzu.
"I believe this was an accident, no?", he said as he got the boy to nod.
Nedzu sighed and cleared his throat.
"You know what this means right?", Izuku drowned in the dramatic silence he let on, "It means more training and seeing if we can get you to give Young Yaoyoruzo's quirk back".
He weakly nodded,
"Now, I believe Recovery Girl would like to perform some tests, the two of you shall accompany Izuku to her office, once Aizawa gets here I want to discuss some things, you are dismissed", he finished.
The three of them obeyed and made their way to the 'Youthful' Heroine's office.
Aizawa considers himself to be a calm and collected man, that acts rationally, but there is one anomaly to this nature, an individual who could single handedly make him lose his cool, and that was his son.
He was supposed to pick him up after school and come back to UA to find out the reasons behind his uncanny developments. His quirk(s) were already one of a kind and its growing complexity was starting to piss him off. The look he saw on Izuku's face when he dropped him off to school was enough to make his rational side go away, but he held his head and went through with it.
And now he was regretting his decision.
He was teaching his class, when Nemuri barged in, at first he was going to throw her out, but when he saw her expression, he paled. This rare expression of concern was dedicated to only one being, and that meant 'Something happened with Izuku', without a single thought he ran out of his class, leaving them dumbfounded, he only heard some faint words which just made his movement faster,
'Nedzu picked Izuku from school' and 'Izuku stole..-'
Aizawa was pacing his way to Nedzu's office while he heard some familiar muttering coming from the Nurse's room, thinking of the worst, he busted in startling all the occupants.
He sighed in relief as he saw Izuku was physically looking fine, trying his best to keep his composure he was about to voice his inquiries, but Recovery Girl interjected,
"Aizawa, principal Nedzu had called you in his office. You should not keep him waiting".
"Yes Recovery Girl, but first I want to know, are you fine Izuku? And what happened? Are you sick? Did someone hurt you? I was supposed to pick you up after a couple of hours, then what was the emergency?! Was there a villain attack!? Damn it, I need to get those two id-", the occupants saw Aizawa mutter over his son and they couldn't help but smile,
While Izuku was having a deja vu, and he was definitely seeing some of his mom in Aizawa today, if he wasn't in such a pinch, he would have cried his heart out and hugged him with all his might.
"Y-Yes dad, I am f-fine", Aizawa recognized that stutter, he was so darn angry at whoever was responsible to bring that side of his son back!
'WHO DARED !'
Still the rational side came and took control soon enough, "Izuku. Explain. Now", he questioned as he ignored Chiyo's demands to visit nedzu.
"Y-you remember earlier today, I told you I was having these visions, kind of like the dream and everything", Aizawa simply nodded and motioned him to continue, "Yeah, we were eating lunch when they happened again, the feeling of being in that void again, and then suddenly the hunger grew, it was almost controllable, but something in me just wanted to let go. Momo was sitting beside me, and as my palm touched her skin, I had her quirk. In fact I can now see strings in people, they are distinct for each and I just have to tug on them to take them".
Aizawa was bewildered, he knew Momo won't go feral just because her quirk was stolen, so there must be more to the story,
Melissa felt it would be appropriate if she'd said something, "When he had her quirk, he tried to use it and some weird goop came out, it happens when the process of 'Creation' is not done right. Things were under control until then and Izuku was about to try to give it back when a guy from a different section shouted that he and Izuku have the same quirk".
Aizawa was now in utter shock, he knew about the power of All For One, the quirk that allows a person to steal other quirks. The idea of not one but two people in the whole world with the said power, was horrifying.
Momo interjected, "I don't know his name but, he has some sort of 'copy' quirk and likes to brag how his class is better than ours, when he found that I was unable to use my quirk, he spread the commotion and caused panic in the cafeteria shouting that, Izuku is a... sorry for my language, but a 'freak' with a villainous power and would steal all of their quirks. The word got around and before the recess could finish, the teachers were upon us. That's when Mother called Principal Nedzu and now we're here".
Aizawa sighed, as he comprehended the information, he realised that Melissa was here so Toshinori would have picked them up. He paled yet again, Yagi's stigma to that man and the quirk was not good for Izuku right now, so he asked the million dollar question, "Izuku can you return the quirk you took?".
"Yes dad, we were just waiting for my test results and I connected my palm to Momo, I can feel the emptiness inside and the ability to push as well as pull quirks, so I pushed and Momo had her quirk back!", Izuku smiled, Aizawa was so glad that he didn't lose his smile, even in the situation he was in.
Aizawa ruffled Izuku's hair and complied with Recovery Girls constant requests to visit Nedzu.
He was outside Nedzu's room when some light argument seemed to be taking place inside.
The door flew wide open, revealing an annoyed Aizawa.
"Mind telling me what the hell you both are arguing for?", Aizawa said, making them glad that they have someone else to sway into their judgment.
As always, Nedzu took charge, "Well you see, we aren't sure what to do with Young Izuku, with the whole new adjustment he has now". Toshinori fumbled with his hands as he pulled out a handkerchief to wipe off the blood he had from arguing.
The raven haired man sighed, "Are you talking about Izuku stealing a quirk?"
"You know about that?! How?", Toshinori said as he spat out blood.
Aizawa only sighed, "They were being loud in the infirmary, I swear, one would think that they are anime characters", he shook his head. Aizawa stepped aside, revealing the three tired kids.
"Let's get this over with".
The things were getting chaotic so Aizawa felt like a summary was in order, hence he began.
"Alright, let me get this straight, you felt horn-"
"Pleasured and hungry!"
"Same thing, you felt a tug and you pulled, that happened to be Yaoyorozu's quirk, which you returned from your possession...", Aizawa summarized.
"Please don't be mad Sir!", Momo said, standing up for her male friend,
"I know that it sounds bad bu-", she stuttered as soon as the man motioned her to stop.
"I'm not mad, it's just, how are we going to explain this to your parents, besides, more training for Izuku... again. You are such a problem child" , the very poor and tired man said as he rubbed his face.
Izuku, fearing that he might've disappointed his dad, spoke up, "I-I'm sorry dad! I saw the string and I pulled it, I didn't know wha-"
"String?" Nedzu perked up, as he never heard from anyone describing quirks as strings.
"Yeah, I think it represents a quirk, kinda like you and you and... you?", Izuku said, confused as to why his blond best friend didn't have one.
Izuku looked to where Momo stood, 'When I saw her, she didn't have one, but now, she has a string, obviously, now that I returned her quirk, but Melissa...', he thought.
"Melissa... are you quirkless? And why does that man have seven strings?", narrowing his eyes to the somewhat abnormal people in the room.
Toshinori and Melissa paled, they knew that their secret is out in the open now and they'd have to do something about it.
Aizawa noticed the turn of emotions on Toshinori's face from slight anger to intense horror, before he could take any rash decisions he called out to him.
"Yagi, lets talk.."
Toshinori nodded and left the room with Aizawa in tow.
Thirty minutes after the two adults left the room, they reentered with content looks. As the office fell silent, Nedzu gave Toshinori the final nudge that he needed, he suddenly inflated into his heroic form, startling the two teens, while Nedzu and Aizawa grinned as Melissa sighed in relief.
"I am Here! To explain!"
Not trusting their words they just stared in shock as All Might continued
"You see, the true name of my power is One for All… "
Notes:
Heyy Folks, gtm here,
Thanks to our Editor Notthismfcker96, for his amazing work.
Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, there is much to come and will be updated frequently.
This is my first Fanfic constructive criticism is welcomed..
Just wanted to clarify some things, it had been brought to my attention that in Japan middle schoolers don't have recesses, but I did when I was in one, so we have in here too..!
Next time
Toshinori is ALL MIGHT!
Melissa prepares herself for the power of One for All, her friends will help her!
Izuku finds his new quirk might be doing more bad than good to him.
see ya!