BANG!
Midoriya jumped at the loud noise and on instinct immediately shot out of his chair, aiming his hand at the door on instinct. However it didn't open, he could hear muffled voices on the other side but not what they were saying.
Slowly he stalked forward as he started to lower his hand, though still remained ready to shoot it out at any moment. He briefly contemplated using Dark Vision but regardless of whether it was a normal quirk or not or if anyone could even see it being used, it would still break quirk regulation rules. He'd need a better reason than this to use it. Once he got to the door he kneeled down and looked out the key hole, ear close enough to the door to make out what was being said.
"-eriously! This building is not what it once was!" Came overseer Hisaki's voice, chewing out the other overseer.
"I can only apologize so much brother! If you wish to continue berating someone, find whoever messed up the carpet for me to trip!" The second overseer grumbled, the greenette didn't recognize the voice. "Now back to what we were talking about?"
"Of course, brother. As predicted, the heretic has proven to be difficult to get to talk." Hisaki complained and Midoriya's breathe hitched. 'Heretic? Oh please don't tell me…' "We have tried as many options as we could, even transferred him out of sight, onto the third floor so we could use our strongest methods. But evil, as always, is persistent. Still there are some left to try, and even if none work we can take solace in the fact we can eradicate one more evil from the world."
Crap…
"Father will not be pleased, I don't think." The unknown overseer comments.
"Then we are doing what is right, brother." Hisaki reassures as a new set of footsteps arrive outside.
"Of course."
'Do none of these guys know how to speak normally? Like seriously?!'
"Brothers! Do not discuss these matter so freely right now!" Came overseer Kobi's voice, sounding irritated. "We may have let that one child in, but only because we must use every avenue we have to convince people! He still may not accept our ways yet. He has surely found the books on our methods by now, now I must convince him these are important to how we proceed. This will be delicate as is and we can't have unnecessary information reaching him!"
"Of course, apologies brother." Hisaki says as he bows. "I will return outside in a moment."
"Yes and I think I will go see if they need help with….proceedings." The other overseer bows. Midoriya feels his anxiety spike at the word proceedings, knowing what it meant.
"Alright, then I shall do my best to rectify my failings. We can no longer bolster our ranks through normal safe measures, we must accept and use what we have from now on. I only hope it won't be too hard to convince him." Kobi says as he turns to face the door, reaching for the handle.
Midoriya immediately backed up as a scowl crossed his face. 'Yeah there's my reason, there's no way in hell I'm listening to you right now.'
He aimed his hand and shot out Far Reach, landing atop a bookshelf. It very nearly toppled from his weight but fortunately stayed upright. He pushed up against the wall and hoped he'd be out of sight long enough, activating Dark Vision to track the two overseers outside who merely left without looking back.
Kobi walked in and looked around, fortunately he didn't look up. He grumbled as he walked up to the books the greenette had left on the table. "So he's read them then…."
Midoriya took his chance while the overseer was distracted. Just above the door was a kind of window above, that was open and he used his tentacle to get over to it without making much noise. It was small, but not enough that Midoriya couldn't squeeze through with a little wriggling. Once he was on the other side he immediately hopped to the ground and took off as fast as he could while still maintaining the illusion of walking.
He avoided running into any overseers, using his Dark Vision to know when they were about to come near him so he could hide. He had a close call where he was nearly seen using his Far Reach to hide on top of some support beams at one point.
It only took five minutes to get to the third floor, the hard part would be finding the 'heretic'. As soon as it ran out, Midoriya would renew his vision power, carefully listing for any indication of someone aside from the overseers.
Eventually he happened upon a small hallway, and even without his powers he could have told something was off. His stomach twisted at the smell and upon the walls, there were small but visible red streaks. Just big enough for Midoriya to assume they were stains from fingers dragging against the walls.
Fortunately, this door also had a similar window above like in the library. Very few in the building didn't as Midoriya realized when he had rushed up here. He quickly used his tentacle power to get up to it and once more wiggle through, perching on the tiny bit of the path it give him on the other side.
It wasn't particularly well hidden but as soon as he looked around the inside of the room it quickly became apparent it was the only hiding spot. A tarp covered the walls to prevent stains, and a chair and table in the middle of the room were all furniture around.
Upon the table was many different tools, most of which seemed to have sharp pointy endings or clamps. What really made Midoriya want to throw up though, aside from how much worse the smell had got inside the room, was that most if not all of the tools were coated in something red. He had to hold a hand over his mouth not to throw up or even just gag and reveal his position.
In the chair, was a normal looking man who'd been tied to it with rope. He had short black hair and a dark eye that seemed to have lost most of the life behind him, the other had swollen so Midoriya could only assume it was the same. He wore a normal suit, without a jacket. However it was stained and ripped in so many places, there was more red than white on the shirt. Incidentally it wasn't too dissimilar from how much of the color the greenette was starting to see in his mind.
"I will ask you one more time…" A new overseer growled at his victim, outfitted like the rest but covered in many, many red stains. "…what do you know about demons?!"
Midoriya froze. What?
"Go… fuck…. Yourself…" The man managed to say, in between violent coughing. "I told….you…..I don't know anything."
"Oh quite the contrary. You know exactly why we targeted you Haruki, I'd wager. Admit what you know you witch!" The overseer started to pick up a knife.
"It was….just a name! It doesn't…mean anything…you lunatics!" The man, Haruki hissed. Midoriya could see fresh blood in his mouth and with it yet another spike to the boy's rapidly increasing anger.
"Not good enough! Tell us why the Outsider created these foul machinations! Why did he create these demons?!" The overseer was inching closer. Midoriya took aim, he had hit his limit.
Haruki seemed to muster al his strength to do something, which turned out to be spitting on the overseer. It would be gross normally but the amount of blood in the one small ball of spit was copious.
It was even worse than All Might's occasional coughing fits.
The overseer held up the knife, clearly intent on stabbing Haruki and that's when Midoriya intervened. Far Reach shot out, wrapping around the overseers hand and yanking him back, right towards Midoriya who barely dodged out the way.
He landed on the floor and rolled to the side, the landing was hardly smooth but it could have been much worse. A soft broken laugh comes from the man tied up, it doesn't take Midoriya long to realize why as he turns.
In the window he had crawled through the Overseer was now half stuck in, feet wiggling. On the other side his muffled voice could be heard calling for help. Midoriya couldn't restrain his smirk but knew if he was still conscious then they didn't have long to escape.
He rushed over and grasped at the ropes, thanks to his enhanced strength they were tore apart in seconds. "Are you okay sir? Can you walk?"
"Y..yeah, what?" The man questioned when he actually got a proper look at Midoriya. "You're just a…. kid? Wha….what are you doing here?"
"Right now? Rescuing you hopefully." Midoriya said as he helped the man stand. He clearly wasn't going to get far as he nearly collapsed before the boy held him up. "We probably don't have long. I managed to trick them on my way in but they've probably realized by now. If they did this to you then I doubt we want to run into them."
"Kid….Shouldn't a pro be doing this?" The man questioned as Midoriya opened the door and they hobbled out as quickly as possible, both choosing to ignore the overseers angry yelling above them. "This isn't right, these guys have pistols and shit…. you shouldn't be here…"
"Neither should you I bet, but you are." Midoriya says back, not giving him a straight answer to his question and cursing his luck. 'Of course the masked racists have weapons, of course they do!' He activated his Dark Vision and almost swore when he saw a group of overseers coming their way from where he had travelled before. "They're coming from the normal route, we'll have to try the roof. It's not ideal but I'm gonna carry you ok?"
"Kid I really doubt you have the-WOAH!" The man didn't have the opportunity to finish his sentence as Midoriya hoisted him over his shoulder. "Well….never mind then."
"Sorry, but we can't really afford to be slow here." Midoriya said. They turn a corner and Midoriya can see a staircase coming up. Behind them Midoriya can hear stomping footsteps following. "And if you don't pass out it will be useful to have a pair of eyes looking behind."
"Yeah….that makes-" A harsh cough interrupts and Midoriya flinches, it really isn't pleasant. They quickly reach the top floor. "-sense…sorry about that. You never…answered my question…who are you?"
"Izuku Midoriya." The greenette supplies as he looks around and this time he does curse. The door to the rooftop was on the other side of the building from what Midoriya remembered about the outside. The fourth floor was mainly rooms in small halls and one giant balcony overlooking the first floor. A balcony crowed with angry overseers rushing towards them. "Haruki, right?"
"Haruki Aki, yeah. And we got incoming." The man said and Midoriya gritted his teeth. "And considering….we've stopped…"
Midoriya didn't confirm it. His legs slide across the floor as he prepared himself.
"Haruki Aki… I don't know who you are or why these guys wanted you, what you do or what you want…" Not just energy but fire flowed through Midoriya as several clicks rang through the air. A chandelier was the only thing between the two sides of the balconies, the only path without overseers. 'Only one shot at this' "…But like I said, I'm Izuku Midoriya. I'm a student at U.A. and I WILL save you! HOLD ON TIGHT!"
BANG, BANG, BANG!
Several bullets fly at them and finally, Midoriya is certain the way the world slows down whenever he is attacked must be a power in of itself. He tightens his grip on Haruki as his hand shot forward and Far Reach shoots out, wrapping around the chandelier and dragging him to it, just in time to avoid the incoming gunshots.
The greenette hears the pistols being reloaded and cocked but he refuses to be distracted as he flies across the room. A thought crosses his mind as he gets closer to the other side of the building. "By the way, if you are able to use it, it might be important to know your quirk!"
They landed safely enough before Aki can answer and immediately Izuku bolted towards the roof.
"Shadow control." Aki groaned and Midoriya grimaced. He doubted that stunt was good for the man's injuries. Midoriya kicked open a door and they found themselves on the roof finally. "I can manipulate….how shadows form or I can bring them…to life…temporarily. Only small ones though….I just do it as a party trick…for my daughter."
Midoriya processed that information slowly as he settled the man down on the ground for a moment so the marked boy could figure out how to get down. There was no near building nearby they could use his tentacle to get to and the floor was too far down to risk jumping, especially for Aki.
'He has a daughter…..'
"You know you can't fight them?" Aki asks and Midoriya looks down without answering. "There's no way you're more than a first year, you can't have a license yet. Fighting would get you in serious trouble. Don't do it for an old man like me."
"If I I'm going let something as small as a law stop me from saving someone's life, then I would never started down this path." Aki sighs but doesn't argue. "I have a plan, but it's going to depend on you Aki." Midoriya said. "It's going to really drag on your quirk though, if you can do it."
"Hey, can't let someone… your age do ALL the work." The man smirks and Midoriya can't help but smile back. "Might as well hear it out before they get here.
"Right, well…."
Aki had his eyes shut as he sat against the bars as he did his best to focus. Midoriya was worried what he had asked of the man was too much but it was the best plan he could come up with, with his limited information.
"You! Your hand….YOU ARE THE WORST KIND OF HERETIC!" Overseer Kobi's voice screamed out in indignant rage. Midoriya turned and to his surprise there was only three overseers stood there. Looking down revealed that at some point his wrap had fallen off, exposing his mark for all to see. "I can't believe we let this heretic in!"
"Calm yourself brother." The overseer in the middle of the three said, merely sounding irate. "Kobi, Hisaki. This is your mess, take aim and fix it."
"Oh? And who are you? If you're the guy running the place you SUCK at it you know!" Midoriya asked, stalling for time while the other two overseers went for their guns. The man seemed to be willing to amuse him as he took off his mask and Midoriya's breathed hitched.
A man with brown hair, and similarly brown eyes stared back, jawline strong with a crooked nose and harsh scar down the side of his face.
"High Overseer Naozumi, at your service." The man smirked at the shocked look on the greenette's face "And I'd say I run this place better than filth such as yourself ever could."
"Well, it's hardly my fault I'm not in any business school courses!"
…..
'Worst. Comeback. Ever. Thanks a lot brain.'
"…I'm going to be honest I don't know to respond to that." Naozumi said, his eyes showing clear confusion, shifting between him and the shadow manipulator. "I'm going to choose to draw a veil over that and just say this….It's nice to be able to rid the world of two evil souls now instead of one. Prepare to fire."
The pistols pointed at him were cocked.
It was a hopeless situation, he was outnumbered, his powers were useless or too dangerous to use and he was seconds away from being shot.
So he did the only thing he could in this situation.
He smiled.
His foot took a step forward, ready to attempt the impossible.
BANG! BANG!
The guns fired, and then it happened.
He froze and once more smoke clouded his vision.
Smoke from the guns. Smoke. Smoke.
Murder.
Time slowed down, he could still see reality, but he trapped in a false one at the same time, smoke all around.
Murderer
Smoke.
Demon.
The bullets flew. One at him, the other right at Aki.
He couldn't move.
Smoke.
Explosion.
Demon.
Green eyes trailed along the path of the projectile. Heading straight for the man's heart.
Laughter.
Explosion.
Fearful eyes watched the bullet barreling towards them.
"I just do it as a party trick…for my daughter."
"I WILL save you!"
His hand shot out before he could even form a coherent thought, and Far Reach came out, pulling him right towards Aki. He couldn't aim to grab the bullet, he wasn't fast enough for that.
Aki couldn't take another hit.
But Midoriya could!
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed out as white hot pain suddenly ripped through his arm. It hurt like hell, he gritted his teeth and turned to face the overseers while clutching his arm. Aki jolted forward in surprise and his phone flew out his pocket when it happened.
"Midoriya!"
"He, ahh!….He has a daughter…and you were just going to throw his life away? Make an innocent girl suffer?" Izuku asks with a scowl. His mark glowed and he finally felt a bit of relief when he saw yellow smoke surrounding all three overseers' heads. He did his best to ignore the hot liquid pouring between his fingers.
"She'd manage. If she also follows her father's footsteps we will purge her as well."
Midoriya's energy surged, and not from any power this time. His eyes narrowed into a glare.
BEEP!
Aki's phone screen lit up. It was facing towards the greenette and when he saw what was written on it, the notification that had just arrived….
My little Kokage: Daddy, were are yu? Im scerd – 17:52
The writing was understandable but it didn't take Midoriya long to realize from how badly done it was that the kid couldn't be that old.
He liked to think he was patient. He could stand a lot of things.
"Aki….How old….How old is she?" He tried his best to keep a level voice, he really did. The shake got in their anyways.
"Scared?" Naozumi asked with a twisted grin as he noticed it.
Bakugou's temper, Aizawa's stress inducing 'falsehoods', the League of Villains deciding to attack.
"Four. She's… four."
That was the final push. Midoriya was no longer angry. He was pissed.
What he couldn't EVER stand was the thought of a child being hurt. Physically, mentally, at all.
"Aki. Do it, now." His voice dropped to being much colder, much more deadly. "DO IT!"
"R-right!" The man coughed and suddenly, a giant mass of shadow rose up, transforming into a ramp and wrapping around the bars on the roof. Aki clambered onto it. "Midoriya come on! I can't hold… this for long!"
"I'll be there in a minute. GO!" Midoriya screamed at him when he looked like he was about to protest and the man got the message quickly, sliding down and away from the scene. "We can't let you follow us anyways."
"Oh my, you're actively choosing to fight back?" Naozumi asked in a teasing voice, a dangerous look in his eyes. "Is that not illegal? I'm sure the police will not be happy when they hear this."
"Yeah, well I have some hefty sway." Midoriya snarled as he shot his hand out. Far Reach wrapped around Kobi's neck and stayed there. "Oh and speaking of the law, you're pointing pistols at me. Meaning I'm in my right to do this!"
Without restraint he smashed Kobi's head into the ground. The crunch wasn't pleasant. Barely a second after both Naozumi and Hisaki also felt the pain as they fell over. Midoriya wasn't worried, the mask would have blocked the brunt of the blow so they would live and he had to move. He quickly grabbed Aki's phone with his tentacle
He turned and leapt over most of the ramp, only landing and sliding down it right towards the end. It was faster than just sliding and he didn't want Aki holding it up for too long.
He reached the end of the ramp and immediately the giant shadow disappeared. Aki fell right into him, clearly tired. "Heh…..Didn't…..think I could….pull that off."
"You did great." Midoriya reassured with a small smile as he fished out his phone and handed the man his own. "Here. We need to move before they find us, I have a friend who lives nearby."
The two held onto each other and they hobbled forward as Midoriya pulled up his contacts.
The Invisionable Girl.
Hagakure: So if you can see me with Dark Vision, and I'm normally invisible….Does that make me "Invisionable"? – Yesterday
You: pfft….thats terrible. Also your new name. - yesterday
Hagakure: :p – yesterday
You: 119! Please, address. I'm nearby and need help! – 6:00
"Ok. So…." Aki coughed out. Midoriya stopped them both for a moment. "What the heck…..is your quirk anyways?"
"That's complicated." Midoriya said. They were waiting in the dark shadows of an alley. Out of sight. "Once we get you some help, I'll explain."
"You need…. help as well…. kid." Aki's strained voice brought through his concern and Midoriya winced slightly when his hand grazed against his bad arm. "That bullet…wound is gonna….need treatment."
"Yeah."
Bleep!
Midoriya looked at the notification. Directions from Hagakure and a message asking what was going on. He sent her an apology text, saying he'd explain when he arrived and asked her to be ready in case of a need of first aid.
"Come on, my friend sent me her address. Once we're there we can get some actual pros and medics." Midoriya said as he guided them towards the invisible girls house. In the back of the mind he knew he's going to have to find a way to make this up to her.
While he remembered, he also texted All Might the address and told him to get there ASAP in his skinny form.
Midoriya knocked on the wooden door as Aki leaned against him. The man looked like he was on the verge of passing out and Midoriya couldn't blame him. He had only took one hit and he was still tired as hell from the altercation, he could only imagine what the father must be going through.
The door was suddenly yanked open at speed Midoriya didn't think he could reach even employing One for All.
"Midori, are you-?! OH MY GOD!" The floating shirt and shorts suddenly backed up in surprise. "MOM, CALL AN AMUBLANCE!"
"What, why?!" A voice not to dissimilar from his invisible friends own rang out concerned. A floating sundress rounded the corner with a phone and suddenly raised higher in the area. 'Did she actually jump?' "OH MY!"
Immediately numbers were being dialed into the phone in what Midoriya presumed to be Hagakure's mother's hand and an ambulance was on its way. Hagakure helped Midoriya onto the couch with the man before running to get a towel and wrapping it around his arm. "Midori, what the hell?!"
"Long story…." Was all he could say, not wanting to recount it just yet. He pointed at Aki. "Don't worry about me too much, he's the one who really needs help."
"Right…" The girl said and she seemed to consider something for a moment before invisible arms were suddenly wrapped around him tightly. "You were reckless again, weren't you?"
"What can I say, it's what I'm good at." Midoriya joked as he hugged back with his good hand. Then a thought went through his head. "Oh yeah, from now on you're not allowed to walk home alone. It's too dangerous to pass the Abbey alone."
"You…..You have a bullet in your arm, you look exhausted and you're worried about me? Who wasn't even there?" She asked, incredulous. The hug tightened. "Mido….You really are too pure for your own good, you know that?"
"I'm serious, they're dangerous!" Midoriya exclaimed and the hug loosened.
"Wait….did they do this?!" The girl asked as if realizing the connection between his warning and his injury. The greenette just looked down. It was answer enough. "Those…..Ugh! I hated them enough! I already hated them and they do this?!"
"You….gotta good friend there….Midoriya." Aki finally spoke up with a small smile. "Thank you….You didn't need to do…..any of this…"
"You're wrong." Midoriya objected immediately and winced as the jolt from his sudden movement aggravated his wound. The adrenaline had finally worn off properly and he was really starting to feel the pain of the injury. "It would have been wrong to just leave you there. And besides, I couldn't leave your daughter fatherless…I know what that's like and I won't let anyone else go through it if I can help it."
"You're a….good kid…." Aki said as he sat up and switched his gaze to Hagkure. "So….Translucent…..I suppose I should….introduce myself. Haruki Aki."
"Toru Hagakure." The girl answered back. "Are you sure you should be talking sir? That's a lot of injuries you have…"
"I'll be fine….After what he did…..would be pretty rude….to just die on him." His coughing was worse but he was laughing.
Just a moment later, sirens could be heard and all three let out a sigh of relief.
Paramedics rushed in and immediately upon laying eyes on the two went to work. They had wanted them to both go to the hospital but the greenette was stubborn, refusing to move. After all he gave All Might Hagakure's address, not a hospital's.
Aki went into the ambulance straight away however with the greenette it was another story. It was an intense staring match but Midoriya eventually won out. Thanks to medical advancements in recent years, these kinds of wounds could be treated easily enough, they just preferred to bring you to a hospital still.
"Fine kid. Just get to a hospital as soon as possible ok?" The paramedic grumbled and Midoriya had to admit he did feel guilty that he was making the man's job harder.
A knock at the door interrupted them all and Hagakure went to answer. Midoriya's face lit up when he saw Toshinori on the other side, looking very worried.
"Mister Toshinori? What are you doing here?" Hagakure asked, clearly confused. Midoriya spoke up before the skinny man could.
"He's my uncle. Its why he was at my bedside in the infirmary." Midoriya explained and the blonde didn't object. "We just didn't want to tell anyone. Its why I was so insistent to stay, I know he was coming."
"Oh, well then come in sir!" Hagakure immediately offered bowing and the blonde thanked her before rushing over to Midoriya.
"Young man are you ok? What was that text about and….why is your arm covered in dry blood?" The second the skinny blonde's eyes laid upon the aftermath of the injury, he looked like he would pass out.
"Long story short, something needs to be done about the Abbey of the Everyman." Midoriya said as slowly stood. "Well, our 'mutual friend' needs to do something at least."
"Ok…" All Might said slowly. "And that man I saw outside?"
"His name….." Midoriya's eyes widened as he realized something important. "You have to make sure he's looked after! He's called Haruki Aki….He has a shadow manipulation quirk. They were…The abbey were…"
"Midoriya?" Hagakure questioned as the boy suddenly became a lot more panicked. "You ok?"
"Young man?"
"The abbey were…..They were torturing him….They were….They kidnapped and tortured him." Midoriya looked right into his mentors eyes, pleading. "Please, you have to make sure they can't get him again."
"I will young man, I promise I will." The blonde says immediately. "Now, I believe we should get you home. Inko will no doubt be wondering where you are now and this isn't going to help matters."
"Yes sir." Midoriya says and he breathes for a moment. He hadn't meant to suddenly panic like that but he had only just realized that the Abbey could just try to kidnap Aki again. He knew it was unlikely, that he'd be watched now but the thought had scared him. He looked at his invisible friend and gave her a soft but shaky smile. "I'm sorry."
"It's….it's ok. Just be more careful, please…" The girl says, walking forward and wrapping in a hug again that he gladly returns. "At least limit you're recklessness to class, eh?"
"I'll try. No promised though." Midoriya says and got a soft smack on his head for it. "Hey, trouble keeps finding me so…"
"Still…."
The train ride back was quiet. All Might didn't pry nor did he assume anything. He merely was there, holding the boys shoulder as a small act of support and Midoriya couldn't be more thankful for it.
They arrived at the stop soon enough and as they walked Midoriya finally collected his thoughts. Now that no one but the two of them was listening. "So….You're probably wondering why this all happened."
"I can hardly NOT wonder why student has bullet wound and a sudden knowledge about an organization apparently committing some serious crimes."
"That's fair." Midoriya scratches the back of his head with his good arm. His other arm wasn't in a cast or anything but the Paramedic had still insisted not use it too much for the next two or three days then exercise it as much as possible. "Well….It started when Jirou, Hagakure and Asui joined me and my friends for lunch…"
And Midoriya explained everything, leaving no detail unturned. He explained Hagakure's unease, his surprise when he found out about the things the Abbey talked about. The research he did later that night and the Outsider's visit.
He explained how they acted when he arrived, the sickening things he read in the library, how incompetent all of them actually were now that he thought about it, what they did Aki. Everything he learned about Aki and how he had done everything in his power to save the man. How he had managed to fight off his PTSD and blocked the bullet that would have killed him. The text that came through the mans phone.
Then he stops and looks at the ground. The blonde is patient but he clearly has something to say as the story goes on. "And…..I snapped…."
"Midoriya?" His mentor asked confused.
"I should be upset, I attacked them without holding back. But for some reason I'm not. I was just so angry….i'm still angry that they would of hurt anyone, especially a child like that and it just….I….Does that make me a bad person?"
Two skinny but deceptively strong arms wrapped around him. Midoriya hugged back and he felt the pinprick of tears in his eyes. He couldn't believe he held them in so long for once. "No. It's understandable. I can't say I'm happy that you risked it like that but I don't blame you. You are right, it can't be held against you as it was self-defense at that moment. Overall….I'm proud of you."
"Really?" Midoriya asked surprised as he pulled back and he saw Yagi Toshinori give him a smile with more warmth than any smile he had ever seen from All Might.
"Of course. This is exactly why I choose you as my successor, you saved a life today and I couldn't be more proud." His teacher reassured. "You didn't REALLY go looking for this fight or problem, it just happened upon you and you did the best you could. Now a little girl is going to be able to see her father again and it's because of you."
Midoriya barreled into his mentor with another hug, who nearly toppled over but was laughing all the while. "Thank you."
"Seriously though kid, young Hagakure has a point. You really need to stop being so reckless." All Might said as he rolled his eyes.
"Hypocrite."
"…..Ok that's fair."