Chapter 2
I have 5 years old now and my life starts to become more... tolerable. Hisashi goes to business trips from time to time for the company, so for a month no man throwing glass, knives or bottles at me or burn me with his quirk. Fewer injuries for me from him but I gain a mother more violent, blaming me that her husband stays less time with her because of me. Maybe. He wants to be away from me, to go away from the problem, the disease.
Inko beats me every time I enter the house, yelling at me why can I have a quirk like them or if I didn't born, she will not suffer like that, to be mocked because she has a quirkless child or simply because she can't bear the looks of the others. She even stops preparing meals for me, I have to cook for myself and I eat only the morning. She won't let me eat after school with the reason, someone like me doesn't deserve to eat, it would be useless for them even every morning I wake early preparing breakfast for everyone.
Generosity gives nothing in return, I know but I have always this little hope believing they will open their eyes, a pure delusion of my part when I know it would never happen. But a least sometimes she doesn't hit me or less than she uses, it didn't really change for me at least I have fewer injuries. The pain has dull a long time ago when they abandoned me and betrayed me, I become more lifeless.
In the end, I am malnourished, thin and weak compared to other kid. I started to pay my own food and clothes because of my parents who don't want to pay anything for me. Thank I had finished repairing the laptop, rapidly I manage to learn how to hack to gain money. It's illegal but I do it to survive, thank I progress rapidly enough to not be located (and thank the firewall too).
I am less harassed at school than before, becoming somehow invisible even if I am covered with bruises, burns and cuts. Every day I have new wounds and some disappear. I see my wounds heal faster than anyone, sometimes I wonder if it's not my quirk. It just gives them another reason to beat me up. Kaachan somehow even if he bullies me (and be the main bully) he observes all my actions even to wait at the foot of his door so that I go home well. (That I don't, I favour my survival, thank you very much!) One day he tried to bring me home by force, read: tried. Even the weakness girl can win against a boy if she knows where to kick, this day I go home really late fear to face Inko if Kaachan has reported to his mother I kicked him who have reported to my mother. Lucky he didn't at least until the next in school he gave me a hard day which as to bully me with other kids and trip me, insult me and punch me to the basin.
(Such stupid brats and their ego for having a quirk and so one.)
My view of the heroes has changed too, I admit before I idolized them so much it was ridicule, especially All Might. (She keep liking him but with a critical eye.) Since there are heroes practically everywhere, doing patrol, it's simply normal to cross one in a week. But I realised plenty of them have just the title of hero, showing their quirks while shouting justice. But they are only in the profession for money and fame, they don't care who is injured as long as they catch the villain(s). Their incapacities to interact and fight villains are deplorable, I mean even three against one they can't manage to capture him until two others heroes came, and they answer because their quirks were ineffective and inadequate in this situation.
Sorry but even your quirks to control fabric as you wish or create flash are ineffective to fight a villain, your goal is to control and capture him. With a little imagination, you should are capable to capture him but no they stand here and wait for reinforcement. So imagine saving a quirkless from bullies, they really don't care about it even if I have a quirk it wouldn't change. They want a villain or a criminal to capture to boost their ego and fame. A hero is a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character but today, somehow being a hero is equal to be a (corrupted) policeman showing your quirk in a costume, really. I assume 65% of the heroes are like that, quite a number for my like, I am not surprised there are more Vigilantes in service. After these multiple observations, I create a blog who criticizes hero.
For each update, I have a video (easy to obtain with all the camera and a little hacking) and a review well-argued with what they could do, shouldn't do, the balance of injuries and damage caused by the fight, etc. Like every blog, I have good and bad comments, even death threat and insult. I snort every time I am seeing one, it's like I care about their opinions, I just want them to see the reality of the society. I didn't post an article about the situation about quirkless people and what they live every day...yet.
Time pass and I am 6 now, nothing has changed, abuse at home by Inko and Hisashi, bully at school and malnourish except one thing, I get a quirk. It appears when like every day I go after school: at my secret place.
Well is not really secret place when it is in a house unoccupied by his owner, this one works in another country but has a house in Japan. I don't complain about it, it permits me to stay here in security from my parents and my bullies. But I don't want to be a parasite and let the poor man pay for the electricity, internet and water I use. And yes I said water because now I can't eat or wash at home with the reason I am a hindrance, a pest to them, I'm not considered as a human anymore but more to a parasite or a pain in the neck they really want to get ride very soon. I had to come back home to not catch the attention of the authorities, they made it clear to me. Why I didn't run away? Simply Hisashi's company has a great influence on police stations by providing them weapons and other stuff for their function. And like he has a good statue inside of the company as heir and hardworking man, he could use his connection to get me back in this house of torture and I think I will not see the sun again after that. Come back home at night is nothing (even I will be kick and torture) to leave early in the morning before they wake up.
But let's come back how I get a quirk, this day I went to the 'unoccupied house' like usual when I saw two teenagers giving kicks to Mellow the old cat who shares his time with me, keeping me company. I shouted at them to leave him alone, they hit me too before to left laughing proud of what they did. I ignored my condition I was being constantly hit had an advantage, you gain a huge tolerance for pain but I was more concerned for Mellow. He was dying, I didn't how I know at the moment but seeing a black aura around me help to guess it. Rapidly I took the first aid kit and started to disinfect and bandage him but I knew it was pointless. I have struck his white fur with my right hand to appease him, praying and encourage him to live, suddenly a white-green light glowed at my hand. Instinctively I know what to do, I placed my hand on his body. A few minutes later he was completely healed but I was extremely exhausted that I couldn't move for hours. (She falls asleep without knowing.) When I woke up I was so happy that I wanted to tell at every one I have a quirk now especially when it's a rare quirk, a healing quirk but I stopped in my happy trance. I couldn't forget these past two years of torture because I was presumed quirkless and all the possibilities run in my mind if I tell them about my quirk.
First I could be shrugged and ignored (or worst) because they will think I want attention, then I can be welcome and praise like nothing had happened before. Just thinking and imagine the last consequences make me sick. Especially with Hisashi and Inko, I do not want to be lulled by illusion by raising their suppose daughter and not a quirkless child they pick on the street. Their sweet words and warm gestures can be tempting but I know it would be false.
Hisashi would say it to his family and get more chance to be the future CEO of the company and Inko will say it to the world just to stop the gossip on them. It would boost their fucking ego to the top and I won't let this pleasure even it can make my life better. I prefer to live in misery and violence seeing the true side of the world than to live with falses fantasy and security and love, thank you very much.
Besides if someone knows I have a healing quirk I won't be in peace, doctors will be at my ass and especially heroes and villains, just imagined what they could make my blood run cold. Moreover, I don't want to be in the spotlight with the reason I could not do what I want, creating gadgets, hacking and observing and analyzing heroes, villains and vigilantes. I will constantly be guarded and I will not really live. I decided to keep it secret, my future, my life, priorities.
The next day I found a new extension of my quirk, if my right hand can heal then my left hand can kill. I discovered it by accident, I was so tired and hungry plus with the injuries, I thought I will pass out and never see the light again. I took support with my left hand to a tree, little by little I felt better then I observed that I was not injured anymore like I was never beaten. But the tree was dead, the trunk, the leaves, all were black, dead. At that moment I became aware of the responsibility of having a quirk and all the consequences and damages they may cause. A semblance of dominance power had invaded me to have a deadly quirk but this quickly replaces with fear. Even if I wanted to take revenge on all those who hurt me, I was afraid like any normal person to kill. I looked around me if someone has seen me and run away from there.
It seems something will happen.
Why?
Hisashi is too happy for my like, he even stops hit me. (Minus Inko who continue by jealousy by the sudden took interest in her, while Hisashi continues to yell at her.) Somehow I suddenly become interesting to Hisashi and I might know why: my gadgets.
It can be a great income for his company, the company he belongs, the BlackFire Defense. Its specialities are weapons, protections and devices to track and capture criminals and villains and one of my gadgets it's exactly what their need: a microscopic tracking device able to camouflage itself in several environments. Cool but if I can complete it. I don't have the equipment required but BlackFire Defense has and it was the only gadget I have brought at home, the biggest and stupid idea I have at this moment. Because the next week I was tied to a chair with several cuts, bruise and burns in my and house and abandoned by my parents.
A great new start for my future life. Freedom and revolution, I'm here.