Chapter 2: Back to School
The rest of Summer Vacation went well. Through there were a few hiccups…
Like once everything had settle with his mom, she started to tease him a bit.
Saying things like "You know I've always wanted a daughter".
Not to mention that All Might let him have a day off from training to let things settle… and also to buy some new necessities…
So in other words she dragged him to go shopping.
She did tease him throughout the trip like saying his cursed form would look cute in a certain dress or that purse would look good.
It was annoying but he knew his mom didn't mean anything by… she even reassured him that she didn't mean it when the teasing got too stressful.
She even admitted that men's clothes had better pants than women's clothes/.
"What?" asked Izuku.
"Don't' ask…" said Inko.
They did buy some clothes, but things Izuku would need. Namely some tank tops, a rash guard (as swimming was still good training, even with the new body) and a few sports bras.
Though Izuku was mortified at first about the last one.
"Mom! Do I have to!" cried Izuku.
"I'm sorry but you're going to have to." Sighed Inko.
Izuku couldn't help but to cry at the fact that All Might had agreed that he should wear the sports bra under his shirt.
Though Izuku did look up something online about Jusenkyo.
Not only did he find pages that predated when Jusenkyo Jin first appeared he learned more about the world he never thought.
He remembered a forum post from years before hand of someone describing how much the world was magical.
"It's not like Harry Potter, there's no global cabal trying to keep magic away from normal people. Any little bit of magic that people see they just choose to ignore. It can be explained away. But everyone has a point of no return when it comes to magic. When someone is exposed to magic in a way that they know is magic there's no turning back. Spells and curses are real. Magical object are just a part of life. Creatures thought to be myth are real… I hope your induction to magic wasn't a bad one, because from now on you're going to have a wild ride."
He also learned there are products that do give temporary cures for sale but they were very expensive. One was a soap that was extremely expensive. But it had to be constantly applied in order to be any good otherwise it would just wash off.
The other was Instant Spring Water. It was power that when applied to a source of water would turn it into Jusenkyo Spring. But it was a one-time use, meaning next time they get hit with water they would be back to their original curse.
But he did find forum posts about how while it wasn't a good cure it was a good prank item. Or to be used in an experiment to see how briefly life would be like if they had a different curse.
He also learned something about his two forms. While his cursed form what much stronger than his regular form. Training in either form affected the other. IE: Training as a boy did strengthen his cursed form and vice versa.
However due to the fact his cursed form was much stronger and could handle things much easier, it was realized it was better to mostly train in his male form. Though it somewhat difficult due to the occasional rouge wave or a sudden downpour. But there were still plenty of heavier objects that Izuku could move that was something of a hard time for his female form.
Also it helped that for some reason he had a harder swimming as a girl. He didn't know it was just that the form had a time swimming. He knew how to swim but the body wasn't used to it.
He later found out that that Akane never learned how to swim so there was that.
Even so Summer Vacation had to end sooner or later…
As it turned out his teachers made him explain about the curse.
"Before we begin class…" said their homeroom teacher, "Midoriya has announcement about something that happened to him during summer vacation…"
Izuku gulped and went to the front of the class.
"Hey… during the summer I was attacked by a villain… his quirk allowed him to summon water from a place in China called Jusenkyo." Said Izuku nervously.
He looked at his class. He had heard a statistic online, that there was a very good chicane that at least one classmate knew the truth about magic.
Either because they're family had been dealing with magic for years, they encountered magic in a way they couldn't deny it any more or they dabbled in the magical arts and learned that yeah… it is real…
He saw one girl's eyes widened as the name Jusenkyo.
"The thing is that water is magic… and now I'm cursed…" said Izuku.
He poured water on himself turning him into a girl.
"I now turned into a girl with cold water…" said Izuku-Chan.
She turned poured water on herself turned her back.
"And hot water turns me back." Said Izuku.
Most of the class erupted in laughter.
"Seriously! Magic water!" yelled Katsuki Bakugo.
Katsuki Bakugo was someone that Izuku grew up with. They were at one pointed best friends, but when Bakugo got his quirk and Izuku didn't things changed… however it was far more complicated than it seemed.
"STOP!" yelled the girl, "The water itself is indeed magical! And considering the certain state in the area around Jusenkyo, Midoriya is probably cursed for the rest of his life! This is no laughing matter! Just because you don't believe in magic, doesn't mean it's not real!"
The class stopped laughing.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked a boy in class.
"Magic is real… I know this because my family are exorcists." Said the girl, "We've been dealing with all sorts of evil for years…"
The class started laughing at her, whole the girl seemed to get angry and upset about this.
"That's enough!" Scolded the teacher, "Midoriya sit back down!"
Izuku sighed at that.
At the end of the day Izuku was walking home, when suddenly he was splashed by water.
Izuku sighed.
"You know Deku you didn't have to lie about this." Muttered Bakugo showing up, "Talking about curses… you could have just said you have gotten a quirk…"
Izuku-Chan began to shake.
"Even if it's something stupid… I don't know why you have to claim it's a stupid curse." Said Bakugo.
Izuku-Chan felt a white hot rage.
"Kacchan! You idiot!" she yelling giving him an uppercut.
An uppercut that sent him flying high into the air.
It took a minute to realize what she did.
"Did I just do that!" yelled Izuku-Chan.
She turned back to being a boy and then ran in the direction where she sent Katsuki flying… somehow he was mostly unharmed.
"I'm so sorry Kacchan! I didn't mean to! It just happened! I don't know what happened… it was crazy…" said Izuku.
"Whatever Deku…" muttered Bakugo.
It should be noted that Kacchan was a nickname that Izuku gave Bakugo. When they were children he wasn't able to say his given name.
Bakugo got up and walked away.
However that was the start of a cycle.
Over the course of the next couple of weeks, Izuku's curse would activate and Bakugo would make a snide comment about it, angering Izuku's-Chan causing him to launch her him far away. Which made Izuku run over and apologize profusely for it.
Which many of their classmates had witnessed which made word spread like wildfire that Izuku-Chan was extremely strong.
But it did eventually lead to a breaking point Bakugo after she once again launched him with a punch.
"Deku will you just stop apologizing!" yelled Bakugo.
"But… I didn't mean to hurt you… I just get so angry in my cursed form sometimes and…" said Izuku.
"WILL YOU STOP FUCKING APOLOGIZING!" yelled Bakugo, "I DON'T NEED YOU TO CONSTANTLY LOOK DOWN ON ME!"
"What?" asked Izuku confused.
"APOLOGIZE TO ME ONE MORE TIME AFTER SENDING ME TO STRATOSPHERE I WILL KILL YOU!" yelled Bakugo.
Izuku just nodded.
However Bakugo's lackeys heard this and pulled him away.
Izuku sweat dropped when that happened but decided to listen in.
"Look! Do you have any idea what you doing by saying you don't want an apology?" asked one of the lackeys.
"What?" asked Bakugo.
"Look! Midoriya can kick your ass now!" said the other lackey.
"What!" yelled Bakugo.
"Come on! We all knows it's true." Said the first one.
Bakugo growled.
"Look! You demanding that he doesn't apologize to you means that you'll just be pushing him closer to being a villain." Said the second lackey.
"What the fuck does that mean!" yelled Bakugo.
"Midoriya has every reason to become a villain!" said the first lackey.
Izuku froze when he heard that.
"It's true!" said the second lackey, "Now that he the strength along with his creepy notes he has the power to become a very powerful villain!"
Izuku started to cry as he ran away.
He did after training after all.
Still to hear his classmates mention such things.
However it also meant this…
"Will you fucking shut up!" yelled Bakugo.
The two lackies froze.
"Deku isn't becoming a villain!" yelled Bakugo.
"But…" said the second lackey.
"There's no fucking way he would ever become a villain." Yelled Bakugo.
"What even makes you so sure?" asked the first one.
Bakugo just walked away.
Sometime later at the beach, Izuku was working on moving some of the medium sized thing.
All Might noticed the way that Izuku seemed off.
"Young Midoriya, is everything all right?" asked All Might.
"It's nothing…" said Izuku.
"It doesn't look like nothing." said All Might.
Izuku sighed.
"Do you think I would ever become a villain?" asked Izuku.
All Might was shocked and confused by that question.
"What makes you ask that?" asked All Might.
"I heard some of my classmates talking… they said that they were expecting me to become a villain now that I can back up my analysis." Said Izuku.
All Might looked at his soon to be successor with a broken hearted expression.
"Are you serious?" asked All Might.
Izuku nodded.
All Might ruffled Izuku's hair.
"You have been through a lot." Said All Might, "However I don't think so."
"Why?" asked Izuku.
"Because you have already been through a lot." Said All Might, "And you still have a pure heart… you want to be a hero to help people even after all of the pain you went through."
Izuku once again started to cry.
"Thank you All Might!" cried Izuku.
"No problem my boy!" said All Might smiling at the boy.
But of course after All Might said that a rogue wave hit both of them triggering the curse.
"Okay… maybe I shouldn't have said that…" joked All Might who had gotten used by the curse by this.
"So work on the heavier items now?" asked Izuku-Chan.
"Sounds like a good idea." Said All Might.
A few days later things got better in his class for him… not because of Bakugo or any of his other classmates not believing he could be a villain.
But other reasons… namely the entire class now believed he was cursed.
Because that girl's family insisted on a field trip to a job they had.
IT ended going horribly as several of Izuku's classmates were possessed in ways that showed their classmates that magic was real and horrible evil spirit could easily take control of them.
Though it should be noted that Bakugo wasn't among them… just pointing that out.
But still the class eased up on the "It can't be a curse thing" and magic isn't real…
Still Izuku had many months until the entrance exam and he had plenty of time to get used to his curse… and the anger that comes from it.
Next Time: After months of training and getting used to his cursed form! It's time to take the entrance exam! What will happen? Find out next time!
