Well my home town had several different fires happen all at once almost had to evacuate my home. Though thankfully the fire department was able to stop it before it got too close. Though now the air right now around my home is very smokey and toxic so I hope you guys are doing better then me.

Also Just wanted to say Thank you to all of our firemen for handling all these fires. If you guys know a firefighter then please thank them for me.

Ryuxi: I'm glad you enjoyed the fights. There's more to come

Koncor the Great: Yeah I wanted to do something unique. To be honest Jack's story was another Idea I had for a MHA fanfiction. Because a lot of people in MHA veiw people who are quirkless to be less then weak and unable to do anything. I wanted it to somewhat reflect MHA society's view on the quirkless. Though I hope you like his story

Re the novice artist: He can use a few of them without the sword and I will reveal what breathing style he is good at in a later chapter. Though i wanted to show that he knows more because that was kind of my complaint while reading Kimetsu no Yaiba is that they show Tanjiro using other breathing styles later in the series but no one else and that no one uses more then one style when they are more then capable of doing so. Also yes their fight will be epic

Carrier: Alright. I hope you enjoyed the story so far and if you ever what to read it again your more then welcome to.

Ahutrojo1: well Here you go.

Just so you know the next chapter is up on my ~P-A-T-R-E-O-N~ Lorenzo the story teller

Chapter 21 One's Power

The class of 1B was stunned at what they just heard. Not only did one of their classmates just accuse another, the classmate in question had just agreed to fight three of them without using his powers.

Until Monama started laughing. "Does that moron really think he can fight without his quirk."

"That's what you got out of that," said Awase "Did you miss the part about him doing drugs?"

"That can't be true," said Kinoko "Can it?"

"I've heard the rumors about him." said Pony "But they did say he cheated a lot. But those were rumors."

"No way." Said Jurota. "UA would never allow some criminal into UA. Right Mr Toreno."

Gran Toreno stayed silent as he watched the screen. "Maybe the reason he's here is because UA is watching him." said Hibiki now getting interested in her classmate. "Maybe we're waiting for him to...slip up."

Gran Toreno gave her a side look. "One that's none of your business and two shut up, I'm trying to watch."

~o~

"Well" said Jack

"You're serious, you want to fight us without a quirk." said Kendo Jack's response was a simple grin. "Alright then." As she charged as Jack without enlarging her fist. Jack deflected her first punch but caught her second fist with ease, that's when Kendo realized she underestimated him. Jack twisted her arm and Judo threw her back across the room.

"Kendo." said Tesutesu charged at Jack who at the last moment made a flying kick to Tesutesu's face enough to stop him and before he could do anything else Jack grabbed him and used him as a shield as a giant coin rolled at them, that not only rolled over Testesu but took him with it.

Jack quickly back stepped as a giant fist came at him. As Kendo's fist almost grazed him, he could feel the air pressure it created. As her other fist came at him he reached out and redirected the fist. That caught her by surprise as only a few people have been able to do so. Jack's next move caught everyone by surprise as he wrapped his arms around Kendo's waist and lifted her over his head and performed a german suplex.

'German Suplex,' thought Yui. 'That's a wrestling move not martial arts.'

"Kendo, I'm coming." yelled Tesutesu as he charged again at Jack. This time he tried to punch Jack but everytime he tried Jack would dodge. Tesutesu knew a bit of hand to hand combat but that paled in comparison to what Jack knew. Soon Jack began to counter each of his blows, soon Tesutesu's steel was slowly cracking. 'He's cracking my steel with boxing. How? His hands should be bleeding by now.' Tesutesu was getting angry now. With a roar he tried to hammer both of his fists into Jack's skull but was easily caught by Jack. The next idea he had was to headbutt him but Jack kicked Tesutesu in the throat causing him to back away.

"Not bad, but you need to learn how to throw your weight around." said Jack before his sense told him something was coming. With a quick back stepped dodged a giant metal nut roll past him. He looked to see Yui enlarging some metal nuts, Jack then began to run at Yui in turn she then started to throw the nuts at Jack. He bobbed and weaved through the nuts and caught two of them in mid air and through them back. Yui quickly had to run out of the way.

That's when Kendo made her move and was able to hit Jack with her big fist. Before Jack was able to make a counter, Tesutesu came from behind and grabbed Jack. "Now Kendo, don't hold back."

"Okay." she said as she came at them with a massive right hook, but Jack wasn't going to let that happen. With a perfectly placed kick, Jack was able to deflect her fist and try to counter with another kick. Kendo was able to block the kick but Jack used her fist as a springboard to break free and backflip behind Tesutesu. Tesutesu tried to bake hand Jack but he caught and using the momentum, grabbed and spun with him before throwing him at Kendo. She was able to catch her teammate before Jack kicked her in the face.

Jacked looked at the two who were down before quickly scanning the room. "Ibara the bomb."

This broke Ibara out of her trace of watching the fight. As she turned towards the bomb she saw Yui going for the bomb. "No you don't." as Ibara shot vines from her hair catching Yui's leg as she was mere centimeters from touching the bomb. Yui tried to shrink to get away but Ibara was still able to catch her foot and shrinking made her light enough for Ibara to pull and throw Yui back across the room.

Yui flew through the room for a moment before being caught by Jack. Jack quickly turns to see Tesutesu charging at them. At the sight of Yui, Tesutesu slowed down to not hurt her while Yui ducked and Jack used this to kicked Tesutesu. He then saw Kendo getting ready for another bout. Jack was more than willing to accept though when he tried to push Yui out of the way, she grabbed his arm trying to keep a hold on him. Yui grabbed a paperclip and enlarged it to attack but Jack didn't want that to happen and tried to pull his arm away.

"Let go." When he did Yui pulled one of his arm rings off. 'She took one of my rings' as alarms went off in his head. Yui then quickly threw the giant paperclip at Jack who instinctively went to knock it away. Though he did it with the limb with one less ring.

Everyone felt the force created by the paperclip being launched across the room through the wall, making a massive hole in the wall. Everyone was stunned at the sight of the supposed 'quirkless kid' being able to blast a giant paperclip through the wall.

"What the hell." said Tesutesu 'He could have pounded us the second the match started.'

Yui looked at the ring in her hand. "He was holding back."

Kendo was lost for words. "But how…"

Jack sighed as he looked at the black spots on the back of his hand. 'I didn't want to use this just yet.' Jack slowly walked towards Yui, remembering his master's words. "People who can't accept their own weakness will make up excuses for their loss or lack of power. They will lie not only to themselves but to others to cover for such weakness. This turns weakness into foolishness and it spreads like a virus to those who are naive enough to believe it." Jack knelt down to Yui and held his hand out for the arm ring. Yui gave him the band and he quickly put it back on. Then holds his hand out for Yui. "Sometimes you need to open your mind to the possibilities of something more than you were told." As he helped Yui up.

"Time up brats." said Gran Toreno before anyone could say anything else. "Come on, come back it's time to wrap things up."

"Why." asked Kendo "If you had a quirk then why didn't you say anything or why did you allow rumors to spread or leave your dojo?"

Jack stopped in his tracks. 'Because I didn't have one at the time' he thought "Actions speak louder than words. Like the hole in the wall or me graduating UA."

~o~

The second day of UA has ended and all the students are heading home for the day. "Hey Bakugo, wait up." said Izuku using the breath of lightning to catch up.

"What the hell do you want Deku." yelled Bakugo

Izuku stood in front of Bakugo for a moment. "Do you wanna fight?"
"Huh?" Bakugo was surprised. For a while now he has thought of nothing but a chance to fight him, but Izuku suddenly asking out of the blue gave him pause. "Why? Why are you asking?" Izuku was silent for a moment, not sure how to answer. "Unless you say something, I'm leaving."

Bakugo moved past Izuku. "You're holding yourself back." that stopped him. "You didn't think I wouldn't notice your support equipment or the fact that you add weights to your costume."

Bakugo turned and looked Izuku straight in the eye. "How is any of that your problem."

"Because you want to fight me. You're holding yourself back so you can throw everything at me and I don't want that. I don't want to be the reason your going to fall be-"

Explosion

Bakugo caused an explosion right in front of Izuku causing some burns on his uniform, but Izuku didn't even flinch. "Let me make this clear. If you think for a second I'm not going to be at the top of the class because of you then clearly that sensei of yours must have shoved that stick a few inches too high up your ass. I will go all out when I want and when we fight I will show you and everyone else why I'm going to be the next number 1 hero. Understand I will leave both you and All Might in the dirt. SO FUCK OFF DEKU." Bakugo then stormed off.

"That did not go well." sighed Izuku

"Well what did you expect." As Yae and a few others walked up to Izuku. "I say let the idiot do what he wants. If he screws up then he screws up."

"Is it just me or is he moving kind of sluggish." Noticed Melissa

"It must be all those weights he's wearing." said Kirishima

"Weights what are you talking about?" asked Mina

"Back in the locker rooms we saw that Bakugo was wearing a lot of weights under his clothes," said Kirishima. "Not gonna lie it was kind of manly."

"Ha, knew it." said Yae. "That idiot's going to break himself like that."

"Wait he was wearing weights." asked Ochako "He was holding back."

"Yep, he probably thinks that old fashion weight training is going to help him but it will most likely work against him." explained Yae

"I hate to tell you this, Ochako but Bakugo was going back." said Melissa "If i'm not mistaken he wasn't even using his support equipment and his outfit looked like it had even more weights on it."

"What really but I thought we were evenly matched during our fight." said Ochako now a little disheartened that she wasn't at Bakugo's level.
"He wants to get stronger than anyone else, but I'm afraid that he might go over the edge because of it." Izuku was starting to feel bad. 'I know we aren't exactly friends anymore but I don't want to see him go down like this.'

"SHUT UP, ALL MIGHT, I KNOW MY LIMITS." they heard Bakugo yell. They all looked around the school gate to see All Might talking to Bakugo. It would seem that All Might was trying to talk to Bakugo. Soon Bakugo left and All Might turned back towards the school when he saw the group.

"Oh hello there students." said All Might with a wave.

"All Might," said Melissa "Were you talking to Bakugo about his weights."

"Indeed young Melissa." said All Might "Don't get me wrong. I love to see my students go PLUS ULTRA, but I don't want to see them over do it. You all need to make sure your bodies are in good condition if you want to train probably to be good heroes."

"You see Bravo here knows what he's talking about." said Yae

"I wish you'd stop calling me that."

"Flag man."

"No."

While everyone was talking with All Might, Ochako noticed some of the kids leaving the school. "Kendo." She called her friend but didn't get a response. Kendo just kept walking with her head down while her mind was elsewhere.

~o~

(Earlier in the observation room)

"I would like to apologize for everything." said Kendo bowing towards Jack. "You were right. I was foolish, I listened to all the rumors and all of the stories on TV without thinking that something else could be the case. I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it." Jack said simply.

"What, but I said all those things. I.."

"It's technically my fault anyway." said Jack, catching them by surprise. "I have my reasons for not using my quirk and my past is my problem, so I should have expected this. Especially with all those stories going around. You were just acting on some misinformation is all. No harm done."

"But I-"

"Don't worry about it, Kendo. it's all good."

"I-"

"Kendo," said Hibiki "I think our dear Jack has something to hide. Wouldn't you say." Jack eyed her for a moment, but didn't say anything. "I'm just saying there's a lot more to your story than your telling."

"Cause it's my story and it's my choice if I tell it or not." said Jack, realizing she was digging. 'I got to find out how to get them off my back. But how?'

"Alright that's enough you brats." said Gran Toreno "Class has ended already and I don't know about you but I don't want to stay here any longer than I have to. So let's go."

~o~

Even though Jack had pretty much forgiven Kendo, she didn't forgive herself. She left completely ruined, not by her defeat but by realizing that she let all the stories and rumors she heard not only swayed by them emotionally but swayed enough to act upon them. 'I don't deserve to be a hero'

"Kendo"

'I let my emotions get the better of me and accused someone without the facts.'

"Kendo"

'I don't deserve to even call myself a martial artist.'

"ISTUKA."

"Huh, oh hey Ochako." said Kendo, finally noticing her friend.

"Are you okay?" her friend said with concern.

"Oh yeah, I'm doing just fine. No need to worry." said Kendo as she quickly turned, wanting to leave. "Sorry but I need to get goi-OW." As a cane hit her leg. She looked to see her new teacher Gran Toreno. "Mr. Toreno!"

"Mistakes happen brat so get over it."

Kendo was stunned for the moment and could only respond, "HUH?"

"Look, it's been awhile since I've had to make a good emotional teacher speech, alright. I'm rusty."

"Would you like some help?" asked All Might, overhearing the situation.

"You've been a teacher for two days and know nothing of the situation. So zip it boy."

"Yes sir."

"Wait do you two know each other?" Asked Kendo, seeing their dynamic.

"I used to be his teacher back when he was a student at UA" he said casually. Though he regretted that as all the other students heard that as well and began bombarding him with questions. "SHUT UP. Ask those questions later." he said to the crowd before turning back to Kendo. "Look, you're not going to fix anything by being depressed like this. If you really want to make amends then you should simply do better next time. You can't fix the past but you can learn from it and use that knowledge for the future or maybe use it to fix the problems that lay before you." he said as he began to walk back to the school. "Or don't that's your choice."

All Might followed him. "I remember you telling me something like that when I accidentally hit my classmate too hard."

"Did I?"

"Yes but I remember you hitting me a lot more."

"What can I say, I've grown soft in my old age."

All Might gave him a look of disbelief while screaming BULL in his head. Though he quickly stopped as he got a notification on his phone. "Looks like we are needed in the teachers office."

"Kendo, what was that about?" asked Ochako, still worried about her friend.

"Well...I screwed up. I screwed up bad and I don't know how to make it right." said Kendo.

"Maybe we can help?" said Ochako, wanting to help her friend.

"Thanks but I have the feeling I need to fix this on my own." said Kendo. "Really, Ochako thanks for the offer. I appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow." as she turned and began walking away.

"You think she will be alright." asked Melissa

"I hope so," said Ochako now worrying a lot about her friend.

"Maybe we can ask some of the others in class 1B, maybe they know what happened."

"Your right, maybe they can tell us what happened." she said with renewed hope. "Come on let's go find them."

Yae stopped for a moment. "Hey guys, where did Izuku go?"

Kendo kept walking with her head down before she heard something. "Kendo, up here." She looked up to see Hibiki sitting on the school walls.

"Hibiki, what are you doing?"

Hibiki jumped down and wrapped an arm around Kendo. "I think I have something that may help you out." she said as she showed the phone to her. "Jackie boy is definitely hiding something."

~o~

"Jack"

"Huh, Izuku? What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you." said Izuku who has been searching for a bit to only find Jack on an abandoned road in the back streets. "We haven't had a chance to talk yet."

"That is true. We've been kind of busy since the entrance exam." said Jack

"Yeah," agreed Izuku "So have you told anyone?"

"You mean have I told anyone the real demonic origins of quirks, No." said Jack "Though not gonna lie, i've been tempted a little just to see how people will react."

"Yeah. I've thought of doing that too, but I don't think causing that panic would be very heroic." laughed Izuku. "So if you don't mind me asking, what's your story? How did you learn about demons?"

"You know I have the same question for you actually." said Jack "Yushiro told me he was training you but he never told me the full story."

"Huh really. That's about the same amount he told me about you."

"I guess he knows not to tell other people's stor-"

"THERE HE IS." Both Izuku and Jack turn to see a group of highschoolers in karate gi running at them. "We are the disciples of Ryozanpaku dojo. Jack Mukyu, for your crimes against martial arts you will be punished."

Izuku was greatly confused by this turn of events. "Jack what are they-" Izuku didn't finish as he turned to see Jack running down the road at top speed. Izuku then ran after him and within a few seconds was able to catch up to him. "Jack, what's going on? Why are they chasing you?"

"To keep it short they chase me because they think I'm a fraud and have no quirk."

"Well then why don't you show them your power? I mean you don't need to attack them but can't you show them something?"

"While I'm very grateful for my sensei giving me his power, I promised that I would show the world my power before I would have to use his. So I don't want to use it unless absolutely necessary and using it on them isn't worth it."

Izuku looked back and saw they were still chasing them, while yelling insults at Jack. "They do this everyday?"

"Yep." said Jack as he dodged a can being tossed at him. "They've been doing this every day since I got to Japan. Though it looks worse then it is. I'm way faster than them and it's not too bad of a workout. Not to mention if their sensei or worse his wife shows up, then they get double garbage duty."

Izuku was silent for a moment as he looked at Jack seeing if there was any doubt in his words. "You know I've only known you for a short while but I got to say you're incredible." Jack raised his eyebrow at that. "You've been through so much and yet you're still tolerant of others actions towards you. To be honest I think I might have broken by this point."

Jack smiled. "Thanks, but don't sell yourself short. You've done a lot yourself with quite a bit of weight on your shoulders."

Izuku accepted the compliment. "Come on, I've lived in this city my whole life. I'll show you how to shake these guys." Jack smiled as he followed Izuku around the city giving the others the slip.

~o~

"So how were our students today?" asked Nezu, kicking off the teacher meeting.

"They're all doing quite well if you asked me." said All Might in his buff form. "I admit they all need work but i see great potential in all of them."

"Agreed, they are like diamonds in the ruff." said Ectoplasm "Though on another note I'm surprised to see you in your hero form All Might."

All Might struck a pose. "Thanks to Yushiro I now can hold my hero form for a whole eight hours."

"Yes, your surgery went well." said Yushiro before quirky jabbing his fist into All Might's side causing him to almost keel over. "But that doesn't mean you should be wasting your time when we all know about your condition."

"He's right you brat." said Gran Toreno "Just because you have more time in that form doesn't make it any less valuable. You need to save as much of it as you can."

All Might deflated back to his skinny form. "Yes, sir."

"Never thought I would see the number one hero get scolded." said Snipe, getting some of the other heroes to nod in agreement.

"Well All Might aside, how were our students in the non heroic classes?" asked Nezu, trying to get the meeting back on track.

"Doing alright from what I can see." said Snipe "Some of them clearly have potential."

"Indeed." said Midnight. "Though it seems some of them have caused a little issue." As she pointed out the depressed Present Mic. Who still had a bit of a dark cloud hovering over him. "What exactly happened to him anyway?"

"Demon Slayer and his friends managed to shut him up for once." said Aizawa. "I think they just became my favorite students."

"How cruel, what kind of friend are you?" asked Present Mic.

"How did they do during the battle trail." said Yushiro who was slightly curious how his former students were doing. "I was only really able to watch the first match. How did the students do?"

All Might froze for a moment as he tried to figure out how to describe the last battle he saw of class 1A. Part of him wanted to be nice and say they have some work to do and another part of him knew that he had to be honest. "They have work to do."

"They have work to do?" repeated Aizawa. "I saw every match on both sides and I have to say they all failed. In my opinion the last match of class A was by far the biggest mess I have ever seen. In my professional opinion you and Nezu should start your plan now rather than later."

This had some of the teachers confused; none of them have heard of any plan. All except Vlad King. "Now, now, Aizawa. I admit they have a lot of work to do, but I think it would be best before we jump the gun like that."

Cementoss then decided to speak for the teachers and asked. "What plan are you guys talking about?"

Yushiro and Nezu then began to explain their plan to the rest of the teachers. They both told the teachers everything and they didn't leave a single detail out. The end result was utter silence from the other teachers.

"ARE YOU CRAZY." yelled Present Mic. "How in the world do you guys think that's going to be okay?"

"Some parts of that plan I can somewhat agree with," said Snipe "But don't you think that would be a bit much?"

"I agree with snipe." said Ectoplasm. "There are some ideas in the plan that I can see having great potential. Though I can see the other half being problematic."

"Problematic is putting it mildly." said Vlad King. "I can already hear the parents screaming at us. Let alone the media."

"I say do it." said Gran Toreno, shocking several teachers.

"Gran Toreno." said Midnight. "I know you and Yushiro have been teacher and a hero for a long time but-"
"But nothing." said Gran Toreno. "This is a hero school and our job as teachers is to make sure that these kids will be able to handle anything that comes at them. We are heroes and that job is not an easy one. I know it may sound cruel and a bit much, but if we want to make sure they are able to retire out of this job then we need to be tough on them. I don't know about you but I don't want to go to their funeral before I'm dead."

This caused several of them to pause and think about the plan. It also caused several of them to reminisce to their fallen comrades. To the friends and family that fell in the line of duty. It also reminded them of their own scars they acquired while on the job.

Yushiro saw this and decided to come to the middle. "We don't need to put everything in place immediately, we can wait and see how the students grow and learn, but with Nezu's permission I would like to tests the students myself if that's alright."

"Oh you would like to test the new rats yourself, eh." said Nezu

"If it's alright with you and everyone else here. I've been preparing for the year so I haven't been paying too much attention to the students. I would like to see if any of them pass my qualifications."

That's when a majority of teachers remembered that Yushiro has been around since the dawn of quirks. He's seen the best heroes under the sun. "Yushiro I hate to tell you this but aside from your former wards, I don't think many of the other students will meet your expectations." said Aizawa "heck I would put money on it."

"Well then we will just have to wait for tomorrow and see." said Yushiro with a smile.

~o~

Izuku listened to Jack's tale. They both were able to dodge the angry mob and

afterwards grabbed a few sandwiches and were currently eating on top of a large office building at least 20 stories high, but neither of them minded as they both knew they could survive the fall.

"After I woke up I saw Yushiro talking with my master. Yushiro explained what the demon power was doing to me and that I should be fine. Though he did scold my master for giving it to me. After that I gave one final goodbye to him before he returned to the afterlife."

"Wow." said Izuku "To think people who have long since past were the ones to help us."

"Yeah who would have guessed that one." said Jack. "Anyway after that I trained as hard as I could, so I could become a hero. I realized that I should head to one of the best schools that the world had to offer. Not to mention Yushiro said you would be going to UA so that kind of already decided it for me."

"Me?"

"Yeah you. You are the only other human I know who knows anything about demons and the history of the world. Not to mention you learned the power that counters my own. I kind of wanted to fight you, to see how my power stakes against yours."

Izuku thought about it for a moment. "Yeah that would be kind of interesting wouldn't it."

"Yeah though the Kaioh wanted to put me to the test. Called upon several warriors to fight me to see if I was strong enough to move forward. I was able to take on a good amount of them before I had to use my power. After that I was on my way to Japan to see if I could get into UA. You pretty much know the rest."

Izuku nodded as he remembered. Though it turned into a frown as he thought of the first part of the story. "Um I know we just started off talking all though and you don't have to say anything if you don't want to, but what happened to your parents?"

Jack frowned for a moment thinking about his parents. "My mom is currently staying with her sister and my dad is in jail for tampering with medical documents."

"Have you talked to them at all since you left?" Jack stayed silent at the question. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset or anything."

"No it's alright. I understand why my dad did it but… It's complicated. I've known for a long time it's going to be something that I'm going to need to confront someday." Jack stood up. "Though I think right now both of us need to focus on becoming heroes first before that."

"Yeah your right." said Izuku standing up. "We both have a ways to go." They both stared at the sun for a moment looking over Musutafu. "I think it's about time to head home." They both nodded before grabbing their trash and jumping off the building and heading home to get ready for another day.

Next time: Demon's Test | you can read this now ~P-A-T-R-E-O-N~ Lorenzo the Story Teller

This chapter I wanted to show how propaganda can influence people and how quick people can jump to a conclusion even someone like kendo. I also wanted her to show how MHA society thinks or views quirkless people. And before you ask I will reveal Jack's mentor who gave him his power eventually. Though your more then welcome to guess. I hope you enjoy and stay safe out there.

~Lorenzo the story Teller