Firstly, I do not own Boku no Hero Academia and I have no plans to make money off of this story. Also, I have taken some artistic liberties with the timeline, characters, and settings from BnHA that may or may not tick you off. Just fair warning.

Secondly, this is an experiment on my part. I have written for myself for quite some time, but I've never shared anything before. Feed back is very welcome.

Thirdly, this has not been looked over by anyone aside from myself and I expect there are sever errors throughout it. If you feel the need to point them out, I will try to correct them.

And finally, I have a hectic schedule. Writing is a passion and I love it, but it does not always get to come first in my life. This translates roughly to: updates will be irragular. I might add that my muses are flighty little things and often take long sabaticals to, I suspect, the Bermuda Triangle. Some of them never return...

So, I hope you enjoy and I'm happy to present...

Chapter 1: The Origins of an Unconventional Hero

When Izuku was younger, he had the aspiration of becoming a hero just like All Might. He would arrive to the scene of chaos and danger just in the nick of time with a bright smile and a confident pose. He would thwart the bad guys and save the innocent and never, ever ask for anything in return. Then, one day, he would get the meet All Might himself and thank the man for being his personal hero.

Fate, kind and cruel in equal measure, had a different plan. Izuku had been blessed with a beautiful mind that placed him firmly in the category of genius, but he was also a humble boy. He could remember things from very early in his life and he had quickly learned how to read people and situations. This skill was often used to deal with his volatile best friend Kacchan and to analyze the hero and villain fights he watched regularly. Mrs. Midoriya knew that her baby was very smart, but having only one child and his sole friend (who also happened to be very intellegent) as reference, she did not understand just how advanced Izuku was for his age. So, when the day came that Izuku developed his long anticipated Quirk, Inko had no clue that her son would not only notice, but understand her reaction to the situation it had caused.

She hadn't meant to show him her fear upon seeing what he could do. Heck, most of that fear had nothing to do with the actual Quirk and none of it was because of her son. Still, she had reacted and Izuku had seen it and felt responsible. Inko, shocked and scared, had failed to see her son's bright smile falter and his eyes harden with calculations. When her small son, the light of her life, came into the kitchen trailed by one of the most dangerous and sought after villain's on the news she had first feared for his life. Then, with his sweet smile, Izuku had shifted the fear into terror. "Mama! I made a new friend!" He cheered as she lost her ability to breath.

"When I was singing about my adventure, Mr. Grimace," he pointed to the man behind him (the dangerous, bad man), "who was on T.V. fighting Endeavor yesterday," Izuku bounced on the balls of his feet in excitement at the thought of the Hero fight he had watched on Herotube just as soon as it was released, "well, he walked over and asked to be my friend!" Inko felt her legs go weak as she grabbed the counter for support.

"I told him that, as a hero, it was my duty to be kind and that I would be his friend!" Izuku grinned at the Villain who, Inko finally gathered the courage to look at his face, smiled back in a way that sent chills of disgust and horror down her spine for a completely different reason than before. No adult should ever smile that way at a child! It was... wrong... so very, very wrong. "But," Izuku's voice turned into a 4 year old caricature of sternness, "he has to go to the police and take re... res..." Izuku paused for a second, "Mama, what's the word that means you tell the truth about what you did and then you face the bad stuff that happened because of it?"

Inko, still trying to figure out how to get her son away (far, far, please God get him far away) from the... monster behind him, blindly answered her baby. "R- responsibility..."

"Yes! He has to take re-spawns-ability for what he did and for being bad, because hero's can't be friends with bad guys! and guess what he said!" Izuku's smile grew painfully larger, still caught up in his excitement. "What did you say, Mr. Grimace? Tell her!" He looked at the man, who looked at him in a way that made Inko choke on what might have been a sob. That was when Izuku really looked at his mother for the first time after coming inside.

"Anything," the villain known as Grimace cooed at the four year old in front of him, "I would do anything for you, little angel..." as he spoke, eyes never leaving Izuku's small form, Inko watched the man with still rising horror and Izuku watched his mother. Smart as he may be, Izuku was still a child, so he didn't understand what his mother was so scared of. Sure, Mr. Grimace was a villain, but he had agreed to be good so he could be Izuku's friend. Didn't his mama understand that the villain was trying to be better and, as a hero, Izuku was obligated to help him? He had planned to ask his mama to drive he and Mr. Grimace to the police so that everything could be fixed right, but if she was that uncomfortable around the villain then Izuku couldn't ask her to.

"Mr. Grimace?" Izuku made sure to sound kind and a bit sorry. The man sighed as he gazed into Izuku's eyes.

"Yes, sweet one?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't think Mama is feeling well..." the boy looked at his still terrified mother, "will you be okay... walking yourself to the police?" the man shuddered, his smile going... weird and his eyes becoming hooded.

"Yes, of course, anything..." Izuku smiled brightly at the man, who shuddered again, and grabbed his hand. The man dropped to his knees with a sharp gasp and a guttural moan. Izuku feared he had hurt the man until he saw how happy and relaxed Mr. Grimaces face was.

"Thank you, you should go quickly and tell them I sent you so they know that I can visit you!" The man, on shaky legs with an odd wet patch growing at the front of his dark pants, stood and staggered out the door in the direction of the closest police station. As soon as Grimace turned around, Inko had gathered Izuku in her arms and began sobbing. Her baby, her sweet child, had just been touched by an adult in a way that gave said adult the type of pleasure no adult should ever get from a child. Izuku didn't understand, she knew that, but one day he would and he would remember this and it would scar him.

She grabbed her purse and her keys and began punching the number for Izuku's personal doctor into her cellphone as she swept out the front door with her child securely in her arms. Maybe Grimace was just a very sick man, but maybe there was something... more to the situation. Either way, she had no idea what had happened before her baby had come inside with that... man. It was safer to get a check up than to assume nothing had happened...

Izuku, buckled safely in his car seat, listened and watched as his mother set up an emergency appointment with his doctor. He had never seen her so scared in his life, even when she had seen the news report about the building Da worked in being blown up by villains and was worried he might have been hurt. When he heard her say something about Quirks he started to really think about what had happened. Maybe... maybe his Quirk had come in! And maybe it made bad guys want to be good! That would be such a great Hero quirk! But why was Mama so scared...?

He kept thinking about all the possibilities until his Mama stopped the car and got them both out. The lady who was at the front desk, a different one than Izuku was used to seeing there, asked for Mama's name and jumped up to open the door for them as soon as his Mama answered. "Dr. Yoshitome is expecting you, please come this way." Mama followed the lady quickly and soon they were in the room that Izuku always got his check-ups in with the same doctor he always saw. He smiled at the familiar man with his usual excitement and good cheer. The doctor's responding smile was smaller than usual and didn't quite reach his eyes. Now Izuku was beginning to worry. What had he done wrong?

"Hello Mrs. Midoriya and Izuku, I'm going to start with a physical exam like we always do and then we can do a quick Quirk assessment. I will have to draw a little blood like we did two exams ago, do you remember Izuku?" The man flashed that same tight smile again. Izuku nodded and held out his arm for the man. It stung a bit, getting his blood drawn, but it was only for a second. Then came the exam that had been standard every few months for as long as Izuku could recall. "Now, I'm going to have you do a few things while your blood is being processed so we can figure out if you've activated you quirk and what it is if you did! So, can you..." the doctor asked him to do several things. He had to grip a weird handle that sent information to the computer and jump up and down as high as he could and answer math problems. The doctor was very impressed with all the math problems he could solve and made a very large note about it... but then he asked Izuku to sing like he had when Mr. Grimace had asked to be his friend. Izuku couldn't remember the song he had made up, so he sang Twinkle Little Star instead.

He closed his eyes so he could focus on getting the tune right, like his music teacher suggested, and once he had finished he opened them. What he saw confused him. Both his Mama and the doctor and even the nurse who was returning with his blood results looked at him with slack jaws and wide eyes. "My... what a beautiful song..." his Mama said at last. The Doctor nodded in agreement and the nurse stepped closer to him. Izuku was confused. He had sang many times before and, though his music teacher said his voice was very good and that he was the best in the class, he had never gotten a reaction like this...

"Can..." he paused as all of the adults began leaning in with oddly twinkling eyes as if whatever he had to say must be the most interesting thing in the world, "can I know what my blood told you?" The nurse, who had a quirk that allowed her to change her hair color apparently because it was now the same shade as Izuku's instead of the light brown it had been, scrambled to hand the paper over to him. That... was unusual. The nurses always handed papers to the doctor, not the patient... "th-thank you." The nurse shuddered, her cheeks turning bright pink and her eyes going a little glossy as she braced herself against the counter nearest the door. Izuku did not fail to see the way her behavior was similar to Mr. Grimace's. Was she bad too?

He decided to read the paper, because maybe it could tell him...

Patient: 007135

Name: Midoriya, Izuku

Age: 4 yrs

Yes, this was his. He scanned passed the sections that listed his parents names and his medical history and got to the new stuff pretty guickly. There were some parts that, even as abnormally inelegant as he was, Izuku couldn't quite undertand so he asked the doctor to read it and help him. The doctor smiled very joyously and read over the paper out loud.

"BT results: Quirk Positive

Status: Activated

Type: combo- physical/mental

Catagory: 3+

Potential: unclear

Ability Summary: the Quirk seems to be activated by intent and voice. It effects the mind of the target or targets causing them to develop positive feelings towards the user. When exposed for more that a few moments, the target may grow increasingly attached to the user. The Quirk releases dopamine and other positive chemicals into the target's brain and can become addictive if the user is not careful. Obsession developing is highly possible especially on already obsessive personalities or addictive personalities. Essentially, the target could eventually become so dependant on the user that they would do literally anything for them. The limits of this Quirk are unknown. The draw back is that user must feed off of strong emotions in order to replenish their strength after extensive use.

The physical part of this quirk effects the user's appearance mostly. The user will slowly grow more attractive as the Quirk develops. The users sent will also become something that draws people in. Agility, strength, flexibility and speed will all increase to above average with time and even more so with effort. Body will be resistant to heat and cold due to was seems to be a steadily increasing core temperature.

It is possible that this is a dual quirk as the physical enhancements seem to want to develop separate from the mental."

There was silence for a moment as Izuku and the adults absorbed the information the doctor had read. Izuku looked up at his Mama and saw a flash of emotion in her eyes that was quickly swallowed up but the same haze that had clouded Mr. Grimace's eyes. Somehow, Izuku knew his Mama was scared, but his Quirk had made it so she couldn't feel that way even though she wanted to. Izuku thought about what that meant as the doctor spoke again.

"Well, it seems that sweet Izuku has developed an extreme mutation of your Quirk Mrs. Midoriya that is activated similarly to your husband's..." the haze over the doctor's eyes faded for a moment as he studied the paper, but it came back as soon as he looked at Izuku. "The secondary enhancing Quirk seems to be in response to the raw power of the Primary Quirk. It's a way to ensure your body can handle the pressure of such a strong Quirk. And to think, there was no detectable limiter on the potential growth of either Quirk!" The doctor chuckled as if it were the best thing in the world. Izuku wasn't so sure...

Izuku looked at the three adults in the room for a moment. They all met his eyes with the same hazy, eager look as Mr. Grimace had. In that moment, Izuku knew that he could never be a hero. He could never use his quirk again, because it was too strong. So strong that he now held the fragile minds of his Mama, his doctor and the nurse in the palm of his hand. If he said one thing wrong he could crush them even if he didn't mean to... so, Izuku made a decision. He balled his tiny hands into tiny fists and fought against the tears threatening to fall from his resigned eyes. He used his quirk intentionally for the first time.

"I," he nearly sobbed as the tree adults' eyes lost even more focus as he spoke, "need you to change what this report says..." he tried to focus his intentions on only the nurse as he spoke.

"anything..." the nurse whispers reverently. So, if he focused on one person they were the only one obligated to follow the order. That was important to know...

"G-good, umm, make it say... that I'm... Quirkless. That I have the extra toe joint... so it is impossible for me to have a quirk... now please." The nurse wiggled her hips and pressed her thighs together as she bit her lip around a strange groan.

"Y-esss~" she sighed out and left the room on unsteady legs.

"D-doctor..." the Doctor leaned forward and started to reach out like he wanted to touch Izuku, but retracted his hand and used it to cover his mouth as if he were too shy, "I want you to remember only what I'm going to tell you... you too Mama." He felt his Mama shiver as she hugged him closer on her lap and rested her face against his soft curls. "We... we came in today because I fell down and..." Izuku had an idea in this moment that would solve most of his problems and later become the cause of them, "hit my head really hard. You decided to do a full check-up and a blood test because, as a four year old, I should be getting my quirk soon... but I won't... e-ever. Because I have an extra toe joint... I can't have a quirk. and... when I hit my head... it made me... l-loose m-my voice..." the two adults had vacant looks in their eyes. The nurse returned, her eyes hooded and filled with some emotion that Izuku didn't understand.

"I did what you asked, pretty, can I have a treat?" Her voice was low and breathy and it freaked Izuku out. The tears fell without his consent.

"Y-you have to f-forget what happened. I... I was only hear because I hit my head really hard. I a-am Quirkless a-and I lost m-my v-voice." He sobbed as he spoke and his words took hold of the three adults. The next thing he knew, his mom was sobbing too and the doctor was looking at him with so much pity it made him nauseous. The nurse, who had been besotted only moments before, shot Izuku a sad look and the doctor a knowing glance and left the room.

"I... I am so sorry, Mrs. Midoriya, little Izuku... I wish there was something that could be done..." Izuku felt so shameful as his mother's silent sobbing rocked his small body, but at least she could think and feel for herself... at least he hadn't hurt her like that.

"L-let's go h-home Izu, I s-still have to make d-dinner. Thank Y-you Doctor..." the drive home was a blur, dinner tasted like sand in his mouth and Izuku went to bed early that night, but he never did get to sleep. Instead, he went over every dream he had ever envisioned for his future and imagined them fading to dust... because Izuku had intentionally used his Quirk to take away the will of other people and only villains took things from people. Izuku didn't want to be a bad guy, so he would never use his bad guy Quirk again and he would find a way to do good without it!

Thank you for reading~

WitS