"Go fuck yourself."
Silence rang out after that, as the blonde let out a noise almost like a squeak in surprise. Finally, after a couple moments of searching he found a response.
"W-well…. Can't say I expected to be refused like that…" He muttered, while Izuku just shook her head. "You are absolutely sure about this? This is not a light offer and I wouldn't want a split second decision-"
"All Might." She began, with a tone that demanded his attention so he gave it. "I… appreciate what you're trying to do. I do. I used to think you were some kind of god among men, but now I realize you're a human like anyone else. You make mistakes. You've already done more than most people by trying to make up for them, but I don't want this… special power, and I think it's safe to say unless I somehow get weaker than I was before, I never will."
"… I see…" The number one pro muttered, running his hand through his own mane of hair. Meeting the regenerated girl's determined purple eyes, he had but one question. "If you don't mind me asking, why?"
"One of two things will happen soon I think." She explained, standing up and beginning to pace. "Option one, these weird side effects that have been happening are here to stay or at least I will be able to regenerate multiple times, giving me some kind of power to use. If that's the case, which I'll admit I'm more hopeful for… I will have an easier time getting to be a hero, and if that does happen then I want to get by on my own merits. No one else's. My own."
"And… option two?"
"All this extra energy goes away, I never regenerate again and I'm left just a quirkless girl instead of a quirkless boy." She explained, before meeting his eye with a fire he'd never seen from anyone before in his life, hero or villain. "And I'll still apply to U.A. and I'll be damned if I don't get in. I'll get in, and do whatever I need to, whatever extra lessons I need to do, whoever I need to fight… I will still be a hero. I already lost once today, and I got a second chance and I would rather burn than lose again."
All Might chose not to comment on that, considering what happened last time though now he found himself not as immediately opposed to the idea, if only because the absolute fire radiating from Izuku made it near impossible to tell her otherwise.
"Sure, no quirkless heroes exist yet. Sure, it's one of the most dangerous jobs you can have but you know what… There were no firemen, no bakers…. there were no police, there were no pro's and there. Were. No. people…. until one day, oops, here's the human race!" She began to rant, fists glowing lightly and she paced back and forth. "We didn't just always have people who could go off into space, and even now most people can't do it safely but it never stopped us before because you know what… quirks are NOT the be all and end all of the human race, they just appeared same as anything else so you know what, I don't care if it's dangerous…"
She took a deep breathe, having worked herself up over this.
"I died today and do you know what?" She asked, finally meeting his eye. He raised a brow, honestly intimidated by this side of her. 'She was so timid… I can't see that boy from before ranting anything like this… She really did change…' "It was painful. It was so… so painful. But pain of death can never, ever compare to the pain of life when you have nothing. I will be a hero, even if I have to fight everyone else just to have a chance at it."
Finally, she sat back down, rubbing her face with her hands which had finally stopped glowing. She let out a groan and All Might just sighed.
"I…. can tell you feel strongly on this." He said simply, scratching the back of his neck, unsure what to say. "I… suppose… if you want me to leave now, I will. I will understand if you're not exactly keen to have me around…"
"….Do you really want to make it up?" She asked, looking up to him. Without hesitation he nodded his head.
"Yes I do. There is nothing I can do to make up for it really, but whatever little I can do, I will. Just name it." He offered without hesitation. "Just name it. Aside from something like murder of course, I will do whatever it takes."
"Well there goes that plan to deal with Bakugou." She said, but grinned at him as she said it to assure him it was a joke. "In all seriousness though… Will you be in Mustafu long?"
"Well, initially I was on a short trip but if need be I can extend my stay as long as needed, there was nowhere else I really needed to be and I have an arrangement with a local hotel."
"Well, you know… If there are other parts to this power, if this energy isn't just a one and gone…" She grinned lightly. "I have missed out on… what, a decade of experience? Could do with a little help catching up-"
"Miss Midoriya-" Toju walked into the room all of a sudden, before halting as he saw the two inside, Inko behind him. "Oh, my apologies, I didn't realize you had a visitor."
"It's fine, doc." The purple eyed teen waved away the issue, turning to him while her mother just looked confused.
"Uh, who are you?" Inko asked before anyone else could talk.
"Ah, of course you won't know me. I'm the one who… called the ambulance." He said, changing course at the last moment from saying the full truth.
"Oh… Thank you..," She muttered, while Toju walked towards the youngest member in the room.
"Midoriya, if you could please come with me? I have something I want to test as soon as possible about your quirk. It's not my area of expertise but you're my patient and I've discussed it with a few other doctors, and I don't something bad to happen from a delay." He explain, and the girl nodded as she stood up.
"Yeah alright, I think this conversation was more or less done for now." She said, stretching before turning to her once idol one last time. "Gives you some time to think I guess. Mom can give you her number, seeing as my phone's not exactly useable anyways. Let's go doc!"
With that, she walked off, Toju quickly running to catch up a moment later. She almost felt guilty as she listened, and heard All Might talking to her mother.
"So… I should probably explain my relation to all of this… and I must say… I'm sorry…."
She tuned out then, the doctor walking out ahead of her. She almost felt guilty, almost.
The wrath of Inko Midoriya was something she wouldn't wish even on the worst people she could ever think of.
She'd only seen her get angry once before, and the then greenette had never forgotten for his entire life.
She actually smirked as she realized technically she remembered it for two lifetimes now.
"So what are we going to do anyways, doc?"
"I guess you could call it an X-Ray of sorts…."
It took half an hour, by Izuku's count but eventually after much poking, prodding and being given once overs by a bunch of lasers she was sat on a stool in front of Toju, who was going over the results.
"So, doc? Now you got what you want, want to explain what this is all about?" She asked with a quirked brow. "It wouldn't even break any records so I'm not exactly keen to end up dying twice if this is something bad."
"Sorry, it's just..." The doctor took a breath, and showed her what appeared to be an outline of her body. Within her chest, there was a spot highlighted orange and shades of orange and red pouring out from it. "I assume you've been exerting odd green energy a fair bit?"
"Yeah, glowing hands and misty breathe. Like when it's cold."
"Well, this is the cause of it as well as… well everything." He explained, gesturing towards her whole body. "This 'regeneration energy' for lack of a better term is what let you change and heal Bakugou."
"Wait you know about that?!" She asked, before blushing at his light glare.
"Now I definitely do. Still, kid dies then comes back to life with green eyes when no one was able to save him and none of has have a resurrection quirk? I took an educated guess. I appreciate your desire to help but it was reckless, we know next to nothing about your quirk and will have to keep him longer now to make sure there is no ill effect. In the future, at least ask one of the doctors first." He berated, and she nodded not making eye contact. "Still, it might be a good thing you did for yourself. Mind you, a lot of this is just guess work but I think I was right to say you have left over energy from your explosion, but said explosion came from a core inside you activating."
"A core?"
"Of energy, yes." He nodded, pointing right into the centre of her chest with a pencil. "Right in here. Reason you were quirkless before is likely because the second it activated it would because a Regeneration, it was for your own sake but you always had it, hidden in plain sight. For the same reason, your body is leaking away the left overs now, avoiding building up too much so you don't change with the massive amounts brought to the surface."
"So, I'm safe from accidentally regenerating?"
"Not quite…" The doctor shook his head, pointing to one of the pieces of paper. "This has the amount of energy you have available written down on it. Tell me what it says?"
"It's… blank." She said, face contorting in confusion as she turned to the doctor. "But, I still have energy. I can feel it, if I just focus…."
"Yes. It's not blank because you have none, it's blank because there is no limit." He said simply, causing her purple eyes to go wide. "It's an unlimited well of energy, constantly produced so when the time comes you will be safe and regenerate. As it's related to healing yourself, this is likely why you were also able to heal Bakugou. You brought up as much as you needed and instead of regenerating yourself, you transferred it to him and healed him, likely with just enough to avoid major changes. If that was easy for you as well, it's likely because your core was activated very recently with your first regeneration, bringing up the exact energy you want is easy, it might get harder."
She went silent, leaning back as she took that in. Sighing, she met the doctor's eye as the implications settled in. "And let me guess, I need to be sure I let off energy whenever I can because once my core settles down, if I let too much build up I'll regenerate again?"
"More than likely." Toju nodded, glad the regeneration teen caught on quick. "Also, it's worth noting that when you were brought in it was mentioned you did quite a number on the buildings around you with the energy you let off. The explosion itself may have been more of a product of years of unreleased build up that couldn't affect you but it does mean this energy can be utilized in a destructive manner. If you want to train this quirk, or when you need to let it out, try to make sure you aren't aiming at anyone until you've got the hang of it."
"So… I can use it for fighting? If I wanted to be a hero?" She questioned, and after a moment the doctor nodded. Despite herself, she grinned at that however it faded a moment later as she remembered to bring up something with the doctor. "Hey doc? Some of my classmates came by earlier…"
"Ah yes, bin head." Toju nodded, causing the blonde to snort. "That bin will probably be coming out of my budget, he ran off still wearing it. I don't think he realized you weren't following."
"heh… But… when I was talking to them… I know things about me will have changed, that my looks and that are different but at first it was just self-confidence. An overabundance of it, maybe but just that. When they walked in though, I snapped at them like I know I couldn't do before." She explained, and waited for an answer as a thoughtful look came over the grey haired man's face. "Any idea why I'd have ended up snapping? It was almost like it was out my control…"
"Well… be honest with me here please, would you say they contributed to your 'death' at all in anyway?" He asked, and after a moment's hesitation, she nodded. "What else might have contributed to it?"
"Well, I guess my self-confi….dence…. and…"
Suddenly, it hit her exactly why she would of reacted like that.
"You're healing and destruction were impressive, but they were just side effects of your real power. Your power saves you from death, it's not so much a stretch that it also goes out it's way in changing you to eliminate what it perceived to be the 'problems.'" The doctor explained, twirling his pen in his hand. "Your lack of confidence and the way others treated you contributed towards your attempt, so your power gave you confidence and the ability to fight back. As well as that, you probably haven't even noticed but am I wrong to presume you've already settled into female pronouns internally?"
"I- Oh holy crap…" She muttered, having not even noticed earlier when All Might had said 'my girl' instead of 'my boy'. "Why-"
"Adjustment won't be easy at all, but while I doubt It'll do everything for you, your quirk should at least help make some areas a little easier. When you were-" Suddenly the doctor stopped, frowning. "We might need a way to separate you now from you back then easily. Especially if there are going to be more potential Regenerations in the future."
"Hmm… oh, well how about this: We call me Midoriya, but when we need to refer to a specific version of me, Izuku is number one and I can be IzuTwo!"
"…Well, I hate the pun but it works." The doctor shrugged, making the girl frown. 'I thought it was clever.' "Anyways when you were Izuku, you may have been completely used to male pronouns and unable to change but now your IzuTwo, you still count as a new person. The same but different I think, bit like a new brand of coffee maker. Works the same, but is still new and different, so you adjusted."
"Huh…." Was all the girl could think to say as she leaned back, no more questions in mind.
"I think, without any more data to work with, that will likely be all I can tell you from a hospital room and some scans." Toju announced, before turning to her with a grin. "So it's a good thing you're being discharged."
"Wait already!?" Izuku exclaimed, surprised. "It's not even been a day!"
"True, and normally I would make you stay a lot longer but I can't exactly make you more healed. You're quirk has already dealt with the pesky problem of a repeat, fortunately and the only real danger is your quirks energy overflowing. Of course, you'll likely learn how to deal with that much better if you can leave so really I have no more reason to keep you." He said, giving her a genuine smile. "I'm already making plans with your mother about fixing up medical records and licenses and that to reflect your sex now, so no complications arise in future. Will also try to update your I.D. photos as soon as possible. Amazingly still won't be the most difficult one I've had to make. Had a family of invisible people come through once a few years ago, getting one for their daughter was a nightmare!"
"I can imagine." Midoriya said with a small laugh, before standing up. "Well then, I guess I better get back to my mom and Al- I mean, my… mentor!"
Toju raised an eye at that but didn't question it, giving her a small wave. "Well then, hope I see you no time soon."
"You too, doc." She laughed, turning and making her way out. "Thanks for the heads up!"
It didn't take her long to get back up the stairs towards her room, where she saw her mother and All Might in the hall, the pro hero facing away from her. Her mother though…
She was smiling, teeth showing with her eyes closed and a little twitch at the corner of her lip. The absolute image of calm.
So Izuku did the sensible thing and literally dove for cover behind the wall, watching the end of the interaction unfold.
"I'm not sure…" All Might squeaked out in a terrified small voice, to whatever she'd just said to him.
"Well let's see, if I remember correctly, the average human heart is twelve centimetres in length and eight centimetres in width. Everyone's is close to the size of their hand so yours is probably a little bigger though." She said casually, as if discussing the weather. "Still, well within my size limit, and even if it wasn't, all the tubes inside letting blood flow would be. You may be able to work as a hero still without a stomach, but I doubt the same could be said for the heart."
Izuku shivered at how somehow despite her not changing in demeanour at all, the entire room practically chilled from the silent anger pouring off of her.
"So do you know what you're going to do?"
"W-what ma'am?!"
"You are going to train my baby, to the absolute best of your ability." She said simply, finally opening her eyes and making direct eye contact. "And if I here you slacked on a single day, or didn't give your absolute best, I will come to you and I will crush every last pipe in your heart before crushing that which remains. Understood?"
"Yes, Ma'am!" All Might nodded, absolutely terrified.
"Good, now Izuku stop spying, it's rude." She said, mouth still twitching and the girl immediately came out her hiding spot.
"Yes mom, sorry mom."
"Now, I'm going to go get something from the snacks machine to tear into. If you want anything Izuku just say. Yagi, follow me and suffer the consequences."
"Uh, just some chocolate to try I guess." She muttered. "Don't you think your threat was to harsh?"
"Break my baby's heart, I break yours." Inko stated simply, walking off while All Might collapsed onto the floor, looking like he was about to start crying.
"S-so… y-young Midoriya…."
"You'll train me?" she asked, already knowing the answer.
"YES! JUST PLEASE DON'T LET HER NEAR ME AGAIN!"
"No promises, matchstick."
