Midoriya stood frozen in the water next to an equally shocked Asui and Mineta. Their petite classmate had wispy tendrils swirling around her and she stood in the center with a dark glint in her now white eyes.

And that voice. That wasn't the Amaya he was just starting to get to know. He'd never heard her speak with such venom in her voice before.

"This is why U.A. shouldn't have let a villain into their school! What the hell were they thinking! Now we're all gonna die!" Mineta cried, shaking in the water.

Midoriya frowned at him and looked back in concern at Amaya. He was going to help her, he just had to figure out the best way how.

Amaya smirked on the surface staring at her victims with malice.

"Heh. I wished I could've come out sooner, but that stupid moron just hates when I let loose. But then if she's letting me have control now that must mean you really pissed her off. Now let's have some fun!"

Amaya sped forward with a sudden surge of energy and let her misty dark tendrils wrap around the Nomu's body, black miasma beginning to fill every orifice available.

Due to its large size she had to let out enough miasma to fill the creature in hopes of destroying it from the inside out.

"Wait… killing is wrong, this thing is still a person. Hold back a little. We're not going to hurt anyone unnecessarily. Heroes don't do that."

"You've never been a hero and you'll never be one. Not in this society at least. This thing is not human anymore and even if it was it was going to kill Aizawa. So, shut up and let me do my thing."

The Nomu started shaking, screaming out in pain. Amaya focused her poisonous mist solely on the figure, it was taking much longer to suffocate than she realized. Sweat dripping down her face, veins getting darker on her pale skin, she felt herself losing her control to the animal inside her.

"That's right kid. Just sleep, I'll take care of everything."

Amaya's tail elongated, her claws becoming sharp points as well as her fangs. Each second she released miasma, the closer she was to losing total control to her feral side.

The Nomu was slowly starting to deteriorate, the bottom of its body disintegrating.

"I guess those fools weren't lying. Your quirk is quite powerful. Looks like a new character has entered the game. Even Nomu is having trouble with it, perhaps you're a glitch," Handman commented, his voice laced with interest and a disgusting amount of admiration.

"Don't think I forgot about you," she smirked, using the anger inside to create a single tendril to inch its way closer to the blue haired man.

"Tomura Shigaraki. Please do be careful, that girl seems to be expelling some kind of poisonous miasma," the warp figure warned, appearing suddenly and moving Shigaraki away before the tendril could reach him.

Amaya hissed but she couldn't lose her concentration for anything, otherwise the Nomu might begin regenerating. She was already at 80% percent of poison going through her and the blasted creature wasn't demolished yet.

"I don't understand why you're lowering yourself with a bunch of pathetic heroes. Look how they treat you; you still have that shock collar on your neck. Hitachi, why don't you join us instead? You'd be such an interesting player and I'm sure it'd make your parents proud," Shigaraki offered, going as far as reaching his hand out to her.

"What?"

It was in that split second that she lost her focus. That was enough for the Nomu to punch an arm out and knock the girl into the ground.

Blood spilled out of her mouth and she struggled to stand back up.

"Pity, not strong enough. Now then let's talk more about this another time okay kitty? I want to play with you again so don't die too soon. And my offer still stands, you might not accept it but you're more like us than you'll ever be like them," Shigaraki sighed, his voice echoing in Amaya's head.

Amaya grit her teeth, the last bit of self-control desperately grasping at any straws to speak. She wasn't like him; she was never going to be like him. Unfortunately, exhaustion was starting to peek through, and Amaya closed her mouth in an attempt to save her energy. She needed to do something other than mouth off this weirdo.

"Why don't you just watch as I kill the pride of the world's symbol of peace," Shigaraki stated before he moved, ending up in front of Midoriya, Asui, and Mineta who were in the water. Amaya didn't even notice them there; she was so focused on Aizawa.

She could only watch as Shigaraki reached his hand out and while she didn't know his quirk, she knew he was going to hurt her classmates.

Without thinking she ran, ignoring her pain.

Her heart stopped as he touched Asui's face, but nothing happened.

"Tch… You really are cool," Shigaraki complimented as he looked over to where Aizawa was.

Amaya's widened eyes trailed over to Aizawa too, in shock that he could still activate his quirk, even in his current state. Then the Nomu slammed Aizawa's head into the floor once more.

Amaya felt her conscious snap. Giving up any power she had before she gave full control to let the beast inside take over.

Jaw snapping, she pounced on Shigaraki and bit his neck, sinking her claws into his shoulders.

He cried out and reached out to touch her, but she used her tail to stop his arm. She growled next to his ear and moved her claws down scratching all of his back, satisfied at the blood dripping from the tips.

"That was for Aizawa."

Manically smiling she jumped off him, leaving with a bit of his skin hanging in her mouth, her teeth covered in blood. She felt utter satisfaction as she watched blood trail down his neck.

His insane looking eyes turned towards her and he reached out to touch her when Midoriya jumped out screaming, "SMASH!"

The power from his punch caused her to move back and a dust cloud to form. When she opened her eyes, the Nomu was standing in Shigaraki's place.

"That bastard!"

Growling Amaya ran to attack him again but the Nomu caught her and smashed her into the ground.

Dizzy, nose most likely broken, body aching she couldn't hear what was occurring around her, but she knew one thing.

She was fucking pissed.

Letting out a hellish scream, her tendrils exploded around her and wrapped itself around the Nomu. Not caring that she'd poison herself, she pushed her body to its limit and placed all the poison she could into her miasma.

The Nomu screamed and she did too. Blood started leaking out of her eyes and she felt a disgusting smug start to fill her lungs. It didn't matter. This thing hurt Aizawa, this thing was important to that creep Shigaraki, this thing was going to die now!

Black dots appeared before her eyes, but she continued. Finally, the Nomu started disintegrating, much faster than before. She knew it was because she was letting 100% of her poison escape, but she just hoped to kill the damned thing before she passed out.

Around her she could faintly hear Shigaraki screaming that she was cheating and the sound of fighting.

Was Midoriya protecting her?

She thought she could hear All Might in the back but wasn't sure.

The Nomu only had its head left when she felt a large hand pat her shoulder and she knew that she couldn't fight it any longer. She let herself fall.

"Is Amaya-chan going to be alright?"

"Wow she almost killed herself to protect Aizawa-sensei!"

"What was that thing that came out of her? A hidden quirk? They have to lock her back up right? Did anyone know she could do that?"

"Did you see how she looked fighting those guys? She looked scarier than the actual villains!"

"Did she do this? Is she working with them? She shouldn't be here!"

"Ahh Young Hitachi, you did so well. Thank you…"

Amaya groaned; her eyelids were almost too heavy to open. She didn't even want to decipher the voices that spoke while she was unconscious.

Instead, she tried to sit up, but her chest ached and begged her not to. Her ribs didn't seem to be broken but there was still a sharp pain when she breathed in. She heard a gasp to her left.

"Amaya-chan! You're awake! Do you need anything? Recovery Girl didn't expect you to wake up until at least tomorrow morning," Midoriya's voice rang out, speaking faster with each sentence.

Her eyes landed on his tense form in the chair and she tried to speak but her throat felt like it was on fire. She grasped at it wanting to soothe it but felt her shock collar in its place.

"I don't understand why you're lowering yourself with a bunch of pathetic heroes. Look how they treat you; you still have that shock collar on your neck. Hitachi, why don't you join us instead?"

Shigaraki's words echoed through her head. She felt fire blaze in her gut at just remembering those words. It didn't matter how the world saw her, she was going to help people and that's all.

She winced as she felt a cough coming up and so she weakly pointed to the glass of water near Midoriya.

He followed her finger and nodded quickly, grabbing it and handing it to her. She slowly sat up, ignoring her protesting limbs, and took small sips of the water; the liquid soothing her dry throat.

Now that she had time to take in her surroundings, she realized that Midoriya was staring at her with a relieved smile and felt confusion whirl up in her.

"Why is he here?"

She saw that he didn't really have any injuries besides some bandages on his arm. Looking outside it was pretty late, the moon was out. And he saw.

Oh god he saw her in that state.

Her face contorted into one of shame. She didn't understand. Why was he here? She was almost too afraid to stare into his eyes, but she wanted—no needed—to know why he was still here.

He didn't look scared at all, keeping eye contact with her as he began speaking, "Ahh you're probably wondering what happened right?" She nodded waiting for him to continue.

"Well you see after you passed out, even though you did a lot of damage to the Nomu it started to regenerate. But thankfully All Might came and thanks to you was able to beat it pretty easily. I broke my legs because I used my quirk and well yea, I don't have the best control over it yet."

Ignoring his description of her own quirk, she took in his words.

"But I'm okay now thanks to Recovery Girl, while you still have some serious injuries. Even though she told me you might not wake up tonight I had to make sure," Midoriya finished, face starting to grow red as he scratched at his cheek. She felt her own face heating up as she realized that he stayed just for her.

"I don't get it. After you saw what I did, what I can do… how could you want to wait for someone like me? My quirk didn't even do anything useful, it only showed how disgusting I really am..." she berated herself, glaring at her sheets.

Fists clenching the material she didn't notice that she had said that out loud until Midoriya reached out and softly placed his hand over hers.

"You're wrong Amaya-chan! If it wasn't for you the Nomu would never have been weakened, you bought the heroes time! You're not disgusting at all! You're really amazing!" Midoriya exclaimed, staring at her honestly.

Both began blushing at his words and while Midoriya started mumbling, Amaya looked down and bit her lip to stop herself from smiling.

"I didn't mean to say that out loud. Is it possible he really thinks that? Midoriya isn't a liar so I'm pretty sure I can believe him. He doesn't think I'm a monster after all!"

"Shut up girly, I'm tired and don't need this mushy shit right now. How's the teach doing?"

Eyes wide, Amaya snapped her head up and gripped the sheets in slight fear.

"Aizawa, how is Aizawa?" Amaya croaked, her voice rough from the smug. She felt guilty that Aizawa wasn't the first thing that came to her mind.

Midoriya looked at her in shock from her sudden question before he transformed his face into a mix of reassurance and sympathy.

"He's okay. He's currently in the hospital right now. His eyes and quirk might be in trouble but he's alive and will be fine," he explained, looking at the cat-girl's ears droop.

Determined Amaya moved to the side and threw her legs onto the floor standing up shakily.

"I have to see him," she stated as she tried to take a step forward and stumbled. Thankfully Midoriya rushed and caught her before she could fall.

Before he could argue with her that she needed to rest, two new voices spoke out.

"Look here little miss, you might've woken up before I thought you would, but you still need to rest. Your body is weak because of all that miasma you took in. That's a lot of poison for such a small body! Now lay back down!" A short, elderly woman with gray hair styled into a netted bun demanded, opening the curtain that gave Amaya her privacy and staring at her with a scolding look as well.

Amaya opened her mouth to protest but All Might entered the area, interrupting her.

"Listen to Recovery Girl Young Hitachi, Aizawa is fine and you can visit him once you're cleared but right now lay back down. Besides, unfortunately you cannot leave until we speak to the police."

Amaya stiffened in Midoriya's hold and the boy himself felt his face fall.

"The police? Is that really necessary? Didn't you explain to the captain what she did?" Midoriya asked, his tone coming out almost frustrated.

Amaya looked between both of them in shock.

So the captain of the police came in just to see her?

She didn't know why she felt surprised she should've suspected it. Just because she attended a hero school didn't mean the public saw her as one.

They'd always see her as a Hitachi.

All Might sighed, sitting on the bed nearby and shook his head.

"I too believe it is unnecessary, but it has to do with Young Hitachi's new quirk. Or I suppose hidden quirk, either way that quirk was never registered and well…" All Might trailed off looking at Amaya with worry, but there was a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

Amaya sat back down on her bed and sighed. She never should've used that stupid quirk, or she should've at least told Aizawa about it once she knew she could trust him. Thinking about him made her chest hurt. She really needed to see him but now she might be sent back to prison all because she didn't reveal she had this dumb power.

No one spoke, they were patiently waiting for her to explain, but she was hesitant. She hadn't spoken about her quirk at length to anyone since the day that she received it. She was always taught to hide it, trained to control it and never reveal it. It was for good reason too. She would never forget the look of horror on her parents face when it appeared.

Little four-year-old Amaya was playing tag with her younger brother Kou on the streets in front of her house. Even though they weren't supposed too, the twins usually played in this area because hardly anyone ever came down this specific road.

As children their parents were always busy with their pro-hero work, so they had come to rely solely on each other for back up.

They were both confident in each other's abilities to be able to do something if anything suspicious happened. Plus, even though the maids never checked to look after them with all the chores they had to deal with, the twins knew if they really needed help, they could shout for it. Even with a property as massive as theirs, there was always a maid somewhere.

Their sweet, innocent laughter could be heard throughout the neighborhood as they chased each other around.

"Nee-chan I'm going to get you!" Kou squealed, his stubby little legs racing to catch up to his big sister.

"Haha! You wish!" Amaya laughed, pausing only to stick her tongue out at him before running away.

The twins were so busy having fun that they didn't hear the rapid running of a large wild dog approaching them until it was too late.

Amaya froze at hearing her little brother's scream. She quickly turned around and trembled as she watched Kou fall down at the paws of a snarling brown dog snapping its jaw near his frightened face.

Snapping out of her dazed state she ran towards him crying and screaming, tiny fists raised.

"Get off my brother! Get off of him! Bad dog!" Amaya cried, hitting the dog who barked loudly at her. Kou whimpered underneath, looking at his older sister for help.

Where were the maids? Couldn't they hear all the chaos that was happening.

Amaya couldn't dwell on the lack of staff and instead tried pushing the massive animal off, but it just wouldn't budge. It wasn't hurting Kou, but it was scaring him, and Amaya couldn't have that.

Her fear transformed into anger and frustration at the stupid animal for not moving and causing her brother distress.

"I said get off!" Amaya shouted, her squeaky little voice changing into something darker.

Her veins became black visible vines that crawled up her small body and her gold irises became white. Small purple tendrils came out of her arms and wrapped themselves around the dog, filling its lungs with miasma. It whimpered and staggered off her little brother who was sobbing too much to even notice what was happening.

Amaya should've stopped there but there was something that was telling her to permanently hurt the animal that made her brother cry.

Looking at his curled up form, shaking and muttering for 'Mommy' confirmed her sinister thoughts.

"This is for Kou you stupid mutt!" The young girl raged, not knowing she was increasing the poison in the dog's body, only watching in malicious glee as it cried and shook on the ground.

"Amaya stop! Stop child," her mother's voice cried out, running towards the children. She was coming home from work at the agency when she saw her sweet baby girl turn into a nasty dark figure torturing some brown dog, and her little Kou paralyzed on the ground sobbing.

Her mother's voice shook Amaya out of… whatever that was. Instantly the tendrils disappeared, and she transformed back to normal. The mean side of her disappearing… for now.

"What was that?! What did you do?!" Amaya's mother questioned, voice shaky as she looked at Amaya in disgusted shock, gathering Kou in her arms rocking the frightened boy.

Amaya tensed.

She didn't know what she did.

One moment she was trying to move the big bad dog off her brother, the next she started feeling mad and then nothing. It was like something overtook her mind and now she was back to reality with her mother furious and looking at her like she was some kind of monster, Kou sniffling and clinging onto their mother's chest and the brown dog slumped over on the floor not moving.

Not moving.

Her eyes widened…

Did she do that?

"Mama why isn't the dog moving? It was scaring Kou, so I tried to make it leave. I-I-I didn't mean to hurt it! Why isn't it moving?" Amaya shrieked, running over to the dog, not noticing the bit of blood that suddenly escaped her mouth. She didn't make it too far before large hands grasped her small body and lifted her away.

"I'm afraid that you killed that dog Amaya. Or at least your quirk did," her father explained, appearing suddenly.

He too was arriving home when he saw his little girl's quirk appear for the first time. He had just watched, too shocked to do anything before his wife's loud voice got him moving.

His tone was resigned and disappointed and Amaya's eyes filled with tears as she realized both her parents avoided eye contact with her. Her father might've been holding her, but she could feel the rigidness of his arms.

They were scared of her.

"B-but I didn't mean to papa. I promise! Please I didn't mean to hurt it! Please believe me!"

"Amaya-chan? Are you alright?" Midoriya's soft voice questioned, bringing Amaya back into the moment.

She flinched not answering.

No, she wasn't okay.

She was in a lot of physical pain and really didn't want to talk about her quirk. But she knew she had to.

Sighing, she looked at the three figures in front of her. Recovery Girl was sitting by her desk working on some papers, but Amaya knew she was listening.

Still she appreciated that she wasn't being crowded. All Might and Midoriya were staring at her, but it wasn't in horror, just curiosity. They were calmly waiting for her to speak, whenever she was ready.

"Guess this was going to happen sooner or later."

"No shit Sherlock."

"I thought you were tired, be quiet."

Voice shaky she started, "Right so… my… parents were rather adamant about no one knowing about my true quirk. I know everyone thinks that my quirk is that I'm part feline but that's just because I got that from my… father's side. My real quirk was a mutation and supposed to be hidden because my parents thought people would judge me and treat me as a villain. Pretty ironic huh," Amaya laughed bitterly.

All Might, Recovery Girl and Midoriya all stayed quiet, the last one wincing at her tone.

"Anyways, my quirk is Miasma. I know you've seen my black cat tattoo, and well it actually works as a seal to keep my poison from coming out when I get too emotional. Someone with a sealing quirk that we knew did that for me as a favor. Anyways, to activate it I have to bite it and let it bleed and then my tendrils come out," she explained, holding out her trembling arm, showing off her misty black cat tattoo.

Midoriya's eyes almost popped out of his head. That's why she had one and why she disliked it so much. He resisted the urge to write down everything she was saying and bit his tongue from interrupting her with questions.

"The tendrils are made of miasma so anything they touch starts to disintegrate and if living things breathe it in it'll poison them. I was trained to contain it and had only ever been allowed to release 50% of the poison that's in my body. That's why I'm here right now, if I use all of the poison, I have then it starts to affect me too. It's a very dangerous power that I've been forced to hide my entire life," Amaya sighed, scratching at the black tattoo, not wanting to explain that she also has an annoying and destructive inner beast that comes out whenever she uses it.

"Of course, just don't talk about me. How I'm a part of you. I'm that feral and animalistic side that you have hidden inside. Well guess what dumbass, I still exist even if you don't talk about me."

"Not the time. Just rest right now!"

"And well I realized I couldn't fight that Nomu thing on my own and well Aizawa he…" she couldn't continue as her throat closed up and tears formed in her eyes.

Midoriya quickly reached out and placed his hand on her arm, as did All Might.

"It's alright Young Hitachi, anyone would've done the same thing in your place. Everything will be fine," All Might reassured, giving her a smile.

"But won't the police take me in because I've hidden this? Aren't I going to be locked up again?" Amaya whispered, voice cracking on the last word.

"Ugh you're really letting yourself get emotional in front of these people? Stop embarrassing yourself, you're making yourself look weak."

"Shut up, it's been a long day and I miss Aizawa and besides I don't think these guys want to lock me up."

"Yea, you think."

"Don't worry Amaya-chan I'm sure that All Might won't let that happen. You helped save the day, they can't just take you away after that. You did what was best!" Midoriya encouraged, hating the vulnerable and lost look in her eyes.

He was still curious about her quirk and that whole voice changing thing but right now he just wanted to reassure her. He needed her to know that people believed in her and weren't scared of her.

He wasn't.

"Listen Young Hitachi, I know you are good, and I can understand why you've hidden this. I'll be with you when the police question you and will make you a promise that you'll continue to study to be a hero because that's what you were meant to be."

Midoriya nodded in agreement and Amaya felt a small smile slipping past her. For some reason she didn't feel the weight of her shock collar like usual. She still didn't understand why they were helping someone like her out, but it warmed her chest.

"Thank you."