Hello, everyone! Sorry for the late update. I took a long break from writing. Now then, let's get into the story, shall we?

P.S. Thanks to a reviewer, I've gotten a great idea for this chapter.

Izuku flinched as Kurogiri placed the alcohol on his cheek. It stings a little. But this wasn't anything new. His classmates had often picked on him since preschool. Kids were cruel and mean. Kacchan was one of them after all. His mother was the one that patched him up after someone (aka Kacchan) beat him up. But now he was by himself. Honestly, Izuku had believed that he was going to fix himself after a beating. But here was Kurogiri patching him up instead. Izuku felt that he was being awful for letting the man be doing this. Kurogiri must have something better to do than fix a Quirkless nobody like him.

"Izuku, why those kids hurting you?" Kurogiri asked as he finished.

Izuku's eyes widen when his older neighbor had asked him that question. He never thought he'll tell them this, him getting bullied by his schoolmates, "I punched one of them. I didn't mean for it to happen."

Tomura looked surprised to hear that from where he was standing, "You actually managed to hurt someone?" He asked in disbelief.

The young teen looks down in shame, "I'm sorry that I dragged you both in my mess. It won't happen again," Izuku said as he bowed a few times. But he felt something hard hit his head. It didn't hurt much but still had made Izuku a bit jumpy.

"Don't apologize! If you live here, that means you're our responsibility now," Tomura said, being the one that hit him which Kurogiri didn't approve of since the latter had just patched him up.

"Tomura Shigaraki, don't so rough with him. He just got hurt," Kurogiri said in a serious tone in his voice. It sounded like the man was scolding him. But Kurogiri looked back to Izuku.

"But he's right, Izuku. As long as you live here, you're our responsibility as well," Kurogiri said in a much more gentle tone than he was with Tomura.

Hearing them saying that, caused the young boy to tear up. Both Kurogiri and Tomura were surprised to see him crying for a long time. They were wondering if Izuku was lying about being Quirkless since he had shed many tears coming from his beautiful green eyes.

Izuku, however, wondered how can someone unworthily like him had managed to have such kind people as his neighbors.

After calming down, Izuku and Tomura went to the latter's apartment. It was a bit messy. But then again, his apartment was still messy as well. Izuku had yet started unpacking. Maybe when after school he'll start unboxing his belongings. But for now, he was hanging out with someone that actually wanted to spend time with him. It felt a little weird. It had been a while since he hanged out someone. Kacchan was the only person that Izuku had to spend the day after school.

"So, Izuku? Have you ever played videogames before?" Tomura said.

That question had caused Izuku to froze. The younger boy had never actually played videogames. Izuku wondered if Tomura had suspected him to be a not gamer since the latter had played games almost all his life and could tell that someone had never played them before.

Taking a deep breath, Izuku revealed that he wasn't.

"No. I've never played videogames, Tomura," Izuku said, looking down.

"I kind of figured it out," Tomura said, not looking mad.

"Yeah. I also figured that you figured it out," Izuku said. This actually surprised Tomura.

"I'm sorry that I didn't told you this before. But no one had ever asked me to hang out after school in years," Izuku admitted.

Tomura looked at the green-haired boy for a minute.

"Izuku, you didn't tell Kurogiri the real reason that those kids hurt you. Why did you punch one of them?" Tomura asked.

The younger boy knew that he was trapped. Izuku knew that the truth will come out to his neighbors eventually. But he didn't realize that it was much sooner than he thought.

Taking a deep breath, Izuku soon told his new neighbor about his life before he came to live in the apartment. Ever since he was little, Izuku wanted nothing than to be a hero like All Might, to save the lives of innocent people with a smile on his face. But when he didn't develop a Quirk like the rest of his classmates, his mother took him to the doctor to see if anything wrong. But what the doctor discovered was something that had changed the lives of his mother and his. It there at the doctor, that Izuku was never going to have a Quirk of his own. He had the two joints in his picky toe, like the rest of the 20% of the world. The doctor even told them it was best to give up his dream of being a hero.

It broke Izuku's heart, he even asked his mother if he could still be a hero, even without a Quirk. But the poor woman could only break down in tears as she apologized to him as if it was her fault. However, that wasn't what Izuku wanted to hear. He just wanted her to say that he could still be a hero.

Things soon turn bad at school as well. When his classmates found out that he'll never have a Quirk, they began to taunt him for being weak. His best friend Kacchan soon became his bully. The saddest thing was, he and Izuku knew each other since they babies. After trying to help out Kacchan after he fell into a river when they younger, Kacchan saw it as pity from Izuku. Thinking that the green-haired boy was looking down on him while he was down. Soon after that, Kacchan began to bullied Izuku mercilessly and beat him up whenever he showed signs of wanting to become a hero. Kacchan will always that he'll surpass All Might and be the next number 1 hero of Japan.

For Kacchan, that was a great insult that someone Quirkless like Izuku wanted to become a hero while they were weak. The teachers didn't try to stop the bullying because many of them didn't care for the Quirkless. Izuku once heard one of them said that he was making their jobs harder in his first year of middle school. The only one that cared about him was the school libraries who help him look for books about heroes from the past. But when he tried to check out the new books about heroes, he was sadly too late.

They were checked out by five cruel kids that bullied him as well. It was rare for the other students to picked on him other than Kacchan, so it kind of scared him. But those five students didn't care for those books, they drew on them to taunt him. Seeing how he could never read them now, Izuku actually felt something in him, he finally snapped. He punched one of them. He came to regret it since it caused them to follow him home and beat him up.

"Then, you and Kurogiri came and saved me," Izuku finished his story. He had tears coming from his eyes.

Tomura was surprised to hear that Izuku was horribly treated at school. Even the teachers thought that he was worthless in their eyes. This Kacchan, Tomura might haven't met this guy, but he already dislikes him. Especially when this Kacchan person was someone that wanted to be the next number 1 hero while he wasn't very heroic.

Carefully reaching Izuku's face, Tomura dyed the younger boy's tears while making sure that all five of his fingers won't Izuku's face as to not to Decayed him, "Come on now, let's play that game now. If you like, I could teach you how to play videogames," He said.

Izuku smiled, following the older boy into his bedroom. It felt nice to talk to someone about his life. He wondered if Kurogiri would understand him as Tomura has.

Apartment bar

It was nighttime already. Tomura was at the bar as usual. Izuku went back to his apartment since it was time for him to go to bed. Even the green-haired boy was now living by himself, he could still stay up as long as he liked. But Izuku was already tired after a long day. Besides, it was a school night.

However, after hearing little Izuku's life story, Tomura couldn't help be angry that the idea of a bully becoming the number 1 hero someday. This Kacchan, who tormented someone was Quirkless just because they wanted to become a hero. The teachers, they were grooming some asshole that was trying take All Might's ranking in this sickly society. Looking at the All Might poster, Tomura now knew that people like Kacchan didn't care about other people's lives.

Izuku had even said that his former friend saw heroes who never lose. Tomura, however, begged to differ. Sensei had managed to capture some of the heroes that still believed that he was alive. Even after his downfall by All Might, some heroes refused to believe that he was dead. Some even went as far as to try and track him down. Of course, they were low ranked heroes, so they won't be noticed by the public after a few months after going missing.

Kurogiri soon entered the bar with his Quirk. He went to do something that involved five little, sick mice that got trapped in his cage for them. He gives the mice to Daruma Ujiko to see what he can do to make them "feel" better.

"So, how did everything go with the doctor?" Tomura said.

"Daruma said that while they don't have strong Quirks, they can still be useful for you," Kurogiri said.

"How's Izuku doing? Did he eat anything?" Kurogiri asked in a worried tone.

Tomura told that he and the younger boy had ordered pizza when the mist being was out. However, he also him about Izuku's life before coming here. It was hard to see what kind of emotion Kurogiri was feeling, Tomura knew that it was anger.

"Perhaps we should ask Izuku about his old friend Kacchan," Kurogiri said.

That's it for chapter five. Again, so sorry for the late update, guys. Also, in Japan, handing bullying there is different than here in the West.