Toshinori didn't know what he was thinking when he took a seat at 7:00 am on a hazy day, seeing the small child taking junk out of the sand. He had been doing it for a week now, just observing the boy and taking mental notes on what he is doing wrong and how he is improving each day. Nothing spectacular in corporal conscience, but in a good rhythm.

He is thinking about the boy, just a skinny quirkless kid, a good mind for analysis of course and that could let him go a bit far… but Toshinori still remembers his talk with Mirai and Nedzu. They talked for hours about Quirkless people being heroes.

Nedzu talked about how politically it was impossible because of how society created itself based on quirks after the war. Mirai once said how difficult it would be at critical moments, like those he had only gotten out of due to his quirk, but that if heroes like him with non-combat quirks could be heroes, they should be able to, he concluded. And All Might, could just say about how insignificant it could be in some way.

He even asked Naomasa hoping that he could give him a good answer, but all of them said it was impossible. His friend said how for public safety letting quirkless people just live in the background is better because quirkless people do not have many good laws involving them. The quirkless hero would start a civil war without knowing, and an even worse one if they somehow did notice the power in their hands. "As much as I hate to say it, if a quirkless person wanted to be a hero they would have to start as a vigilante and try and get into that old program. We couldn't arrest them since they wouldn't have a quirk but they might not get into the program for the same reason if that came out." Is what his friend said, and those words echoed in his head ever since.

All Might tried to stay strong in the belief that strong quirks make strong heroes, even better when the heart is in the right place. However, Yagi could not deny he has hopes in this boy for being the first, he could help this future pillar, but somewhere deep down he has voices trying to say to him give the power for the kid, 'You need a quirkless one to pass it' an ugly sounding voice told him.

He knew that passing One-For-All onto the kid was an option, but he had a feeling that the kid might not want a quirk. He struck him as a kid who had something to prove. He decided that he would offer it to him once his body got closer to being able to withstand it. Yagi knew that his current body wouldn't be able to hold the immense power of the quirk that it had been more efficient compared to before. Even Yagi have problems dealing with energy balance.

"Yagi-san, what are you doing here today? Don't you say you have class?" Green deep dark eyes that resemble a dark forest stare at him confusingly. "Are you okay, Yagi-san? You are bleeding more today! Hamm, what do I do… Hospital is far away… Paid Ambulance… Where is my…" The joy comes from Yagi's lung boosted out his month, he is laughing hard, and more blood is coming out of his mouth. "YagiYagiYagi-san ple-please stop laughing, you will hurt yourself." The worry the boy had for him was refreshing. Just Yagi-san for this boy, not All Might…

"Everything okay, my boy." Toshinori flinched when it came out his mouth, he looked at the boy thinking he would not like to be called like that, but he could only see the worry in his green eyes. "Your mumbling is funny, young Midoriya, that's it." He took his handkerchief to clean his chin. "Jeez, boy, you are funny. You don't want to go into Stand-Up Comedy?"

"Yagi-san do not make me worry like that again... I am happy you are okay. And I want to be a hero, not a comedian. Humf!" Izuku flattened his cheeks in a cute way that just made Yagi laugh more. But his hero mind went out of control again and analyzed Izuku.

He was more away from the man, maintaining distance, it was unnatural to the kid he knew before the accident. His clothes here are made of a special fibber that doesn't feel it on your body.

The blonde observed the boy sweating, the shirt didn't absorb it, on this freezing day it was obvious how his cheeks were red not just from being embarrassed.

"My boy, you need to put on some clothes, it's cold today, and you are sweating a lot… Gosh here take my scarf and where is your backpack… Here takes your blouse, Shit you are cold, let's go get some tea to warm you up." Their worries seemed to swap bodies, resulting in Izuku blushing heavily while Yagi wrapped the blue scarf around his neck.

The tea shop they ended up going to have a very classical design to it both inside and out. Despite it being quite cold there, a few people decided to sit outside due to the slightly elevated position of the store and its patio, but the Duo went inside to order. Both the name of the shop, The Jasmine Dragon, and their Waiter whose name was Lee seemed familiar to Izuku, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

He also wondered if his scar was because of his quirk or not, it looked like a very bad burn and he has that look in the eyes like his father and Kacchan, one of the fire users have. So, it was not probably by his own quirk.

Once inside and seated at a table for two in the corner of the store, they both ordered the Bender Tea, because Yagi ordered first and Izuku had no idea what to get and stayed just talking normal things when they waited a little.

Midoriya did not feel how cold he was until he took his cup of tea in his hands. He took a deep breath before taking a sip, the warmth got to his hands first and soon after a taste he could, without doubt, say what nature would taste like (that is until he would eat dirt the following year).

He breathed out and curved his face into the deep blue scarf that smelled like sunflowers. This simple thing with the quaint music and the sound of the pieces of Pai Sho, which two old people seemed to be playing, made Izuku feel like he could truly relax for the first time in he didn't know how long.

The fire would take care of you my son, when you are down someone will be there even not being me, they will warm you, because you are kind different than me. But anything, just call me.' Izuku remembers his father's small smile and hug. He loved his father's hugs, but that one was emblematic of him using a jiu-jitsu move on his father.

But of course, the talk the slime had with him did not go away when he was not working, he needed to take a sip to contain his smile to faint, 'You will be my hero' came to mind no matter how much he hated it. The 'Defying the impossible is the essence of being a hero' line also never left his brain, the feeling of fighting without carrying, ready to protect, made him high.

The image of All Might's back and how Kacchan treated the heroes who were constantly trying to fight the impossible give him a bad taste in his tongue. 'They really are trying to fight the impossible or just be famous?' Again, a new ugly thought passed him.

Izuku changed his focus for the game happening close to them, one of the old man with a kind smile look at him, an eyebrow up asking 'what do you think?', analyzing the board the boy shows seven fingers and that brings out a warm laugh from the man.

"What is in your mind, my boy? You seemed to space out, constantly." The man looked at him worried, but different from his mother, he did not see him weak or made of glass, it's more… out of kindness rather than pity, like his father. He didn't want to give his mother more reasons to worry about him.

"I am just thinking… That… I'm not hero material." Tears come to the corners of his eyes.

"Why do you think like that?" The man gave a warm smile. "You seem like a young hero to me. I watched you running to save the other boy… Bakugou if I am not wrong." Inside All Might looked at him seriously but said nothing.

"All Might say heroes are the ones that pass the impossible, but I am just… Deku." Tears quietly rolled down, and the smile grew on his face. The frown in Toshinori is hard when he sees it, even the old man frowns when seeing the boy doing it. "If i didn't get in the way of All Might by selfishness just me would have suffered, Kacchan wouldn't have experienced what happened. I heard my mother say Auntie was passing close to the route I passed in the air, and she could have…" He stopped talking, looking at the ceiling taking a deep breath swallowing what wanted to get out.

"Boy, it's All Might's fault to not take the villain earlier and I am so sorry that a hero couldn't deal with it earlier and save you from experiencing it. I'm really sorry." The man said, looking at the teary face of the boy, his voice was heavy.

"He couldn't save me in time, I can deal with it." He said, even just now everyone seems like he almost had an attack. "However, by my fault another one was a victim, I can't forgive myself from that. A hero shouldn't put others in danger because of selfishness." Yagi seems like one of All for One's attacks hit him.

The bitter taste with blood comes to his mouth. Yagi knows that All Might continuing acting is just selfishness of his own, he knows and helped people who had no hero heart. Endeavor is one of them, one who just does his job, but doesn't really care of protecting and saving civilians' hearts.

"You see that heroes are capable of not acting and not being very heroic. Young Midoriya, it is more common than you think." The smile of apologies didn't fade.

"Don't compare what I want to become, the hero I want to be, to fake heroes." His voice is sharp and angry, no fear or tears could be seen.

"What is a fake hero, Young Midoriya? Everyone has their licenses and pr-"

"People wearing clothes and using their powers in a show of lights. I watched close to the hero, Yagi, enough to fill twelve notebooks. However, I was so concentrating on how cool their quirk was that I didn't… I didn't understand that they were wearing masks, just to use it… No one goes to save Kacchan, no one." His eyes looking at the ceiling have weighed in his words, anger of feeling betrayal, anger of being so naive.

"It's a job." Yagi said, weakly.

"It shouldn't be. It shouldn't matter how your power is, not when a kid is being…" He stopped again, putting his hand on his mouth, swallowing back again.

Yagi couldn't know what happened by the time after the incident, he needed to go to India to help the country, All Might is after all an International Hero. However, looking at the boy, he didn't see the ball of sunshine like before, a lot more anger. Hurts him to look at the kid feeling so much sorrow and hatred, his own body didn't seem to understand how to react to those emotions.

"How are you feeling, my boy?" Midoriya takes a sip of the tea, looking at the leaves inside like it is telling him the secrets of the universe.

"I'm going forward. My mother is worse, and my father stayed home the longer that he could, however he needed to go away eventually." He signed, looking at the man. "Mom seems not to take things better than others."

"What do you mean to others? The Bakugou's?" The boy nods.

"Kacchan is okay, aunt said it is because of the ego blocking the trauma, I don't know. They come back to normal, and I can't have one of my mother's hugs because I could freeze in place. She fears hurting me, she seems guilty, and… I don't know Yagi, I just… I just wish I never went to that tunnel."

Yagi didn't know what to say, so he said nothing, looking at the kid's reaction. Even trying his best, the voice laughing, the ghost sound of his classmates laughing in a cacophony experience.

"Useless, worthless, idiot Deku… I wanted to give up, I am just Deku… A wooden doll… Deku the useless o-one…" Toshinori was fast to be at the boy's side when he started to hyperventilate.

He hugged the boy saying breath in and out, just close he could see the eye bags like his or even like Mirai. The boy was fast to get out of the embrace.

"Please, just… Don't touch me… Please." When the boy says it he give him more room.

"Calm down boy, I promise I will not do anything bad to you, I just wanted to calm you down." Between looking at the man and losing his internal battle he gave up. He froze in place.

The old man rushed inside the shop and faster than Yagi expected, the man brought a blanket to put at the boy's shoulder. "He is disassociated. You need to bring him back to earth or call his parents."

Yagi looks at the boy, he tries to think of a solution and All Might would know how to help, but Izuku doesn't know the hero, he can't just appear right there. So, he just gets closer and hugs him.

"I am a hero, remember boy? Everything is fine, you are fine now, no one will come to do that gain. You will be a hero, so don't give up. Fight. You need to win against the impossible."

Time passed enough for him to worry, but Izuku's hand touched his and weakly pushed it away. "Sorry, Yagi-san… I just can't stop thinking about that Wednesday. I got in a villain attack, and, and, they tried to use my body, even calling me their hero..." More cries went down with the grip the boy had on his necklace firm and strong, and Yagi's heart almost broke for being too slow to save that kid. 'You've slowed down' a female voice told him in his mind.

"I- I cannot appreciate people getting closer after that, cannot stay in close locals anymore for a long time, and I miss so much a hug but it's not like I got any from anyone but my mother, a-and All Might said that he thought that I couldn't be a hero but that that was great because I could prove him wrong? I still haven't figured out what he really meant, but can I stay here just a second more?" The blonde man just smiles and sits on the other side.

Lee appears bringing another cup of tea to Midoriya, he said nothing, but by the look of the old man he had something to do with it.

Still, he felt bad for what he said when All Might took control, but that was the truth from what he had heard, that it was impossible for him to be a hero. That it would be at the very least very difficult, but… that boy has a hero's heart, he can feel it. He needed to help that boy.

"I see." Toshinori doesn't know how happy the boy was for not looking at him with pity, by how much patience he is giving. Yagi doesn't know how much the boy trusts him for it. "You don't need to fear." His voice for a second became like has more behind it, but no one seemed to pay attention to it. And they stay like that for a time drinking tea and in silence until the boy breaks it.

"Yagi-san, how did you become a hero?" Blue Star eyes focus on him with a confused expression. "You are like me, skinny, and I don't know your Quirk, but how did you become a hero? How could you pass the impossible? " The boy's eyes have no malice on it, just innocent expressions, it hurt a lot more when he has to half lie.

"I have a transformation Quirk boy and when I was about your age I trained like my life depended on it… But I got overconfident one day and a villain attacked me, and now I am retired."

"What happened?"

"The villain used my overconfidence, my beloved one's memories, and so he attacked." He put his hands to his side, feeling the scar burning. "Surgeries and medication after a year, and now I am like this, without a lung and a stomach. That's why I still cough up blood a bit, and why I'm going to pick up teaching in my retirement since I can't just do nothing with the experience I had." Toshinori takes a sip again. "A hero has to pass the impossible my boy, but it always has praise, maybe you could not be as powerful as say All Might or Ryuko, it is impossible because of how you are born, but you can be an underground hero like Nighteye and Ms. Joke. However-" He took a sip and saw the child looking at him, so small and desperate, big deep forest eyes staring at him. "-I could train you and try to help you go there. If you want, of course. It is your option to choose, but I want to help after I see you… And why are you crying again? Shit, are you okay boy? What did I do? Me and my big mouth… Sorry kid, did I say something wrong?"

To everyone's surprise a warm and delightful laugh comes from the boy, looking at the man with a worried face. Midoriya is so much happier. He gave Yagi a sunshine smile that made him think about how fake the others were.

"Yes, Yagi-san, please… I would like your help… I want to be bigger than… what I am right now." His heart is filled with good thoughts… Someone is finally on his side, someone thinks he has something useful, is someone useful.

Izuku even drinks another sip, and the taste is surprisingly tasty. The smile the other gave him with so much relief, he almost feels bad for the man, and he is smiling at him too and laughing.

"Okay, are you sure your quirk is not crying, my boy?" The freckled boy laughed with the older one. "For starters, I need to talk to your parents for consent and know them a bit better. It is good to work with your parents…"

Izuku seemed to stop working for a second and under his breath, he said something that is a crime in nine hundred thousand universes.

"Oh Shit…"