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"Failure will never be definitive, if the determination of reaching success it's so strong that it doesn't end or diminish"
The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968) Og Mandino
Gasping for breath Izuku woke up sweating from the dream he had.
As he breathed to even his respiration Izuku couldn't help but wonder about the dream, and promptly dismissed it, and forgot about it deciding to prepare for his day. As a normal monday he promptly changed clothes, ate breakfast and said goodbye to her mother, he parted to the school hoping to find an ocation to write more about heroes on his notebook, Hero Analysis for the Future Nº 12. As he arrived to the school and went to his class he saw his "friend" Katsuki Bakugo a.k.a. Kacchan - as he called him - entering the classroom.
Bakugo Katsuki has short, spiky ash-blond hair that choppy bangs that come to his eyebrows, with sharp, thin red eyes. He is of average height, and a slim but muscular build with fair skin. His personality is atrocious being crude, arrogant, short-tempered, and aggressive toward anyone he considers inferior (anyone) and is specially aggressive towards Izuku due to his quirkless nature.
Classes passed and Izuku had a feeling of deja-vu all the day, but probably it was because of the repetition of his rutine, where he was mocked almost every moment, bullied, and gained more bruises for defending a child from Kacchan, when his mom asked to accompany her to the mall, and as the good child he was he followed.
Gasping for breath Izuku woke up sweating from the dream he had. As he breathed to even his respiration Izuku couldn't help but wonder about the dream he- wait. This had already happened. Quickly checking his clock he saw it was, the same hour we had woken up in his dream, he quickly looked the date wishing that he was wrong. He wasn't. It was monday again.
Izuku felt like crying but he knew that if his mom heard him, he wouldn't have any answer to the question it was unavoidable. And how he could answer with anything other that I died? Because that was the problem, he had died. How he could react to somthing so utterly frightening like your own death? Even the Izuku prepared for school, and knowing there wouldnt be attacks he left his notebook.
It was interesting seeing things you didn't see througth the day due to your own concerns. But now that he knows what happens there's a lot of things that usually passed unseen. The way that the masses form, the way children playes which reminded him of better times, how people interact and how it's all covered in the form of indifference from the people. It is simply interesting to see.
Going to the school was a simple affair and since he already knew what would happen he decided to analyse what is happening. What the power he had did, for the only thing that it was always a constant was his death. He died twice, and each time he repeated his day. But everything else was a mistery. Did he conserve mucle memory, or only his memories? Anyone else remember? He didn't interact that much so he couldn't know. Does his ability can be triggered manually or he had to die everytime? If he had to die, did suicide count as a way to repeat or he would remain dead? Could he do anything else? The day continued as he tried to "reset" as he called the ability after all he did reset the day but nothing happened. Classes ended and he decided to stay there a little more in the school.
There he saw a petite, fair-skinned girl with slightly inward-tilting eyes. Her hair is a pale, dirty ash-blonde and is styled into two messy buns, numerous wild strands sticking out at all angles from their centers and where they're fastened, a straight fringe and two chin-length side bangs to frame her face. She was being bullied by two childs with quirks that were fairly pathetic, he should know after all he studied them.
The girl was in fetal position, crying and being kicked. "Freak" one of the kids said while kicking her ribs. "We should kill you" the other one said, and the girl feeebly asked for help. Izuku imediatly noticed that when he got close and ran for help, his body moving before he could think. The result? Izuku being beaten. Of course it wasn't so bad, they weren't as strong as kacchan and he even managed to hit them some times, and in the end he managed to complete his objective.
He turned aroun to check on the girl hoping that she stayed and inmediatly he got mesmerized. Izuku was greeted by bright yellow irises and their pupils thin slits, making them somewhat resemble those of a cat, she had a guarded expresion but even then it was full of curiosity. "Why did you help me?" She asked probably thinking that Izuku wanted something out of her.
"It's never wrong to help other people" Izuku answered
Relaxing she smiled an Izuku noticed that her wide mouth is also rather feline, as both her upper and lower canines are more pointed and longer than the rest of her teeth. Izuku couldn't help himself. "What's your quirk?" He asked exited, he could never pass the opportunity to study quirks.
Inmediatly her expresion became guarded and when he was about to apologize, she said "I can shape-shift into anyone's appearance by consuming their blood. It gives me the full ability to copy another person's appearance and create a perfect image of them, including tiny details and an exact replica of the voice of the person I've copied. It's called transform". She had a defeated expresion, like she knew that the nice kid beside her would inmediatly bully her. But this was the last chance she gave for this was a rare show of support since she got her quirk, her parents already had forsaken her, and she didn't want to lie to her savior. Even if he abandoned her she would treasure the nice interaction. But the answer surprised her.
"God that is so awsome, the sheer number of aplications this quirk has when dealing with villains are so mumble, mumble, mumble" Izuku had a mumbling attack and he inmediatly regretted not bringing his notebook.
The girl smiled in relief and it was like a weight she didn't know she was wearing had been lift. Izuku felt this moment was important but didn't know why - He had no clue. Izuku liked her smile and decided to make her smile more, she looked like she could have a friend. Smiling he introduced himself "Oh, it seems that we haven't introduced ourselves yet. My name is Izuku Midoriya"
The girl seemed taken aback, blushed a bit (Izuku thought it looked cute), but answered "O-Oh s-sorry about that" she stuttered before composing herself "Ehem... Sorry, My name is Himiko, Himiko Toga"
Promptly after exchanging pleasantries, they quickly befriendedd as they bonded in how they were outcasts, one for being quirkless (kinda as he never told Toga of the resets), and the other for having a quirk viewed as villainous, time passed and both parted ways happy for having new friends. Before leaving he could swore he heard a faint "I'll tell him next time"
He came back home, a little apartment complex, and announced himself. He passed the kitchen, saw some bags of groceries and remembered. 'God dammit the attack from the villain!' Izuku paniked and looked for his mom who thankfully was on the living room. Composing himself after seen she was uninjured he decided to ask "Hi mom, I saw the bags, did you went to buy groceries? Did something exciting happened along the way?"
"Yes I went out to buy groceries and no, nothing happened. Thanks for your concern" Answered her mom. Her mom - called Inko Midoriya- is a short woman with green hair and eyes, styling her hair in a simple ponytail. Relieved and confused - why there was no attack?- he finished his day relived that he passed the day. Izuku went to sleep fairly early - at 8. He couldn't wait to talk to Toga tomorrow.
Startled he woke up and checked the clock - it was 10. A rumble could be heard and tired he looked ot on the window. His eyes widened as he saw the heroes fighting a familiar face - the villain who killed him twice! - And as he recognised him the villain hit the building to make it fall towards the heroes, and the building fell foward. Izuku understood - he was going to die.
Gasping for breath Izuku woke up sweating from - god dammit this was now personal. As he fumed down to see his mother something weird appeared at the center of her chest - a green heart. But his mom didn't seem to coment on it - a new aspect of his quirk?
He passed his day studying the quirk of the villain, but he didn't have enough information. He stayed to save Toga again. As he befriended her he made sure to come back home earlier, even if he didn't went with his mom and he had more time, he couldn't bear with the tought of more inocents dying, after all in the mall he is the first one attacked, on his house the neighboorhood is already damaged.
As he went on all the information on the villain he thinked back on how different the hearts Toga and the ones of his schoolmates were. Toga's heart was green but it's light was being suffocated by weird black tendrils, breaking the heart. When he befriended her again the heart stopped breaking but it didn't stopped loosing it's luster. Kacchan's heart was interesting to say the least. It was a dull dark blue but half and only half was broken, a surrounding area was a dull red, and it was hugged by black vines. Those characteristics were somehow enhanced when he was around. His classmates's hearts were predominantly dull broken orange, with some of them having dull broken dark blue and there were rarely seen dull broken yellow and purple. The rarest were the bright unblemished hearts.
As he arrived to the mall he pushed his mom, knowing about the attack and evaded to the left, he managed to look at the spike in front of the villain - who had a dull broken green heart - before another one pierced his heart.
"Hey Toga"
"Yes Izuku"
"Quick question, are you sure your quirk doesn't have anything to do with cats or for that matter felines?"
"No, why?"
"Well your eye are like a cat and you have fangs. I honestly think it makes you look like a cat."
"Well the fangs are to draw blood if I bite a person after all"
"Huh cool, wonder how strong they are..."
Death by stabbing
"Does your quirk have anything extra?"
"Yea, I sometimes have the urge to consume blood though I usually supress it"
"That can't be healthy. Here, bite my neck"
Toga was shocked "Really?"
"Yep"
"Okay, thanks for the food!"
For that action her heart lost almost completely the black tendrils and began to gain again it's luster.
Died by being stabbed in the head
"Ugh I have a killer headache, pun not intended."
"Note to himself, never be killed by being hit in the head"
Death by being crushed by a wall
"My back! god dammit"
Death by being stabbed in the stomach
"Huh, I half expected to have a stomachache, oh well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
Death by stabbing
'Ok I should have enough information on the villain to escape the loop. I'm tired of dying.'
After Izuku gave Toga his blood, he was about to leave when something happened.
"Can I go with you? Something happened at home and I can't be back so early" Toga asked
'What?, this has never happened...'
"Uhhh, sure"
'No, damm mouth!, now I have to worry for her as well. It'll be hard but I won't let her be harmed'
"Yay, thanks" Toga smiled
When he arrived home he managed to introduce his mother to Toga, his mother cried because finally he had a friend making everything awkward, but soon it dispersed itself, and soon they were going to the mall, were the villain attacked.
He recalled what the villain's quirk did acording to his analisys: Earthspikes. It only did earthspikes of any length, and it seem that he could generate at maximum two at the same time, and had to wait some minutes if he wanted to generate more. If he generate a single spike he had to wait five seconds to generate more. He couldn't generate spikes over his spikes and when he wanted or if he fell unconsious the spikes would disolve. A fearsome quirk indeed.
Knowing this and after making sure Toga and her mother were safe, he decided to attack. Rolling to the right to avoid the first spike that would stab him through his stomach - his favourite spot it seemed - he rushed foward and did some manouvers to avoid more spikes that generated, he managed to get close - because even if the villain was near because of the spikes it seemed that it was too far - and launched a right hood conecting to the jaw. It didnt do much damage - he was still very weak after all, even if he managed to use the most eficient rute to avoid losing too much energy - but managed to stun him for enough time to land a hit to the stomach. After tat he jumped back to avoid being impaled - He avoided that out of luck the first time, and taken aback he was pierced through the head, even with the headache he thanked for not being impaled - and moved his head to the left, and a spike passed there.
'I'm getting tired, if I take any longer I'll die, and where the hell are the heroes!'
"God dammit brat, stay put"
"What do you really think I'll stay here and take the attack?"
And when he was about to win, because he managed to glimpse the heroes coming - what? he was weak and he knew it so there was no chance in hell that he could defeat the villain by himself, and for Toga and his mom this was their first fight - the villain panicked, and then suddenly three spikes at the same time were generated! The spikes pierced him on his lower chest and the third one on his side.
'How!? I managed to make him spill his limits when we were fighting after some resets! and by that note god bless and curse the cocky and arrogant villain'
"Huh, that's new... But it doesn't matter" 'Of course it does!' "I win and now I - crap the heroes! No it doesn't matter I will use the girl as a hostage and run!" 'NO!'
As Izuku was passing out he saw the villain get close to Toga, and remembered his promise, but he couldn't do anything, 'God dammit, if only I had more power!'
And then the world stopped and lost his colour, only the colorful hearts were shining. And he heard the voice.
"You've met a terrible fate, haven't you?"
"Huh?"
"You prisioner of fate, always trapped in a perpetual loop, are you giving up?"
"But I can't do it I dont have enough power to win this fight"
"Then I shall give you more strength, if you acept having me on your soul. Will you?"
Izuku heard the offer, looked at Toga and his mom and resoluted accepted.
"Very well"
And time resumed it's course. Izuku opened his eyes, but there was something different. His sclera was black, his iris were a mix of green and blue, and his pupils were like his sclera pitch black. He saw his mother and Toga crying and Toga having a terrifying expresion of anger. He saw the villain getting close to them with toga prepared to enter a helpless fight, and saw red.
With energy he didn't know he had, and knowledge that wasn't there before, he reached out for the broken heart and focused. The energy that now coursed his veins reacted and the villain's heart turned a brilliant dark blue, and the villain fell to the floor and which cracked from the pressure. The next instant three bones appeared and stabbed the villian, leaving him unconscious with no visible injuries.
Izuku fell to the floor as darkness claimed him, not before hearing the shout of "Izuku!" from his mother and Toga.
And that's all folks.
If you are wondering about Chara being OOC (Because let's face it, it's not that hard to deduce) you'll see the reason next chapter.
