Hello, everyone. Your girl's back to update another story for you. Izuku is finally in! He and Mei won't be a couple just a reminder. There'll be no shipping in this fanfic. So, sorry for those who were hoping to see some romance in this. There'll just be friendship and family fluff here instead. I don't own the canon characters as they belong to their rightful owners while I only own my OC characters.
Warning: This chapter has dark themes of mental health and racism in it.
Izuku watch as the light turns green, allowing him and the other people to finally walk across the street. It had only been just a week since the green-haired boy had finally managed to get into his dream school after all of these years of endless bullying and abuse from his peers.
Izuku still couldn't believe it! He was going to U.A.! It still feels like a dream, and he'll wake up from it to a cruel one for believing that he actually made it into Japan's top hero school.
"Everyone, back away! Please don't get any closer to the scene!" A very familiar voice shouted from Izuku's right.
The hair on Izuku's body began to stand straight when he heard that voice. Whenever he heard that voice, he could only hear it scolding him and chewing him out...
That voice belongs to Death Arms.
The strong Pro Hero was fighting a villain that has the appearance of a bull. A crowd gathers at the scene before them, watching Death Arms fighting the bull villain with excitement in their eyes. Some of the little boys among the crowd watch the fight with admiration as the Death Arms keep the villain on the other side so the latter won't be close to the crowd of innocent people.
Izuku couldn't help but smile at seeing Death Arms trying to protect the civilians from harm. Despite what happened between them, Izuku still respected both Death Arms and Kamui Woods greatly... Even if they did not take it too kindly when he tried to help Kacchan from that slime villain and harshly scolded him in front of another crowd. Besides, Izuku knew that deep down they were in the right to scold him like that. What help he be when he couldn't even help Kacchan properly without a Quirk. It was only pure luck that All Might managed to step in and saved the two boys from certain death from the villain.
"All Might and the other heroes were right about me. It's not like I made any difference in the situation other than making everything difficult for the Pros than it already was. I just made everything worst for them" Izuku thought as he watches Death Arms wrestle the villain onto the ground before Kamui Woods show up.
The Wood Hero uses his Quirk to wrap the bull villain tightly while the latter tried to break free from the wood around his body with both his arms and legs. The bull villain began to thrust around like a wild animal. Izuku couldn't help but feel sorry for the man. He had heard stories of people with animal-like Quirks that made it difficult for them to live an everyday life since their Quirks give them animal-like behavior. The green-haired boy also some pills control those Quirks.
Izuku has some classmates with these Quirks with the same problems and others who have animal appearances but still act like humans despite having the Quirk appearance of an animal. Shuichi looks like a gecko but behaves like any human being that Izuku met. Looking at the man with the bull Quirk, Izuku could see that the former behave more like an actual bull than a person. The green-haired boy wonder if didn't take his pills.
The more he watched the bull person, the more of man's behavior resembles that of a scared bull instead of a sinister villain. Izuku could feel his stomach turning inside out as the horrible truth: that this is just an innocent man with a Quirk that he has no control over it while the Quirk itself is making him act like an animal.
Izuku felt disgusted with himself for even amusing that man was ever a villain. Looking at Death Arms and Kamui Woods, the two men were actually treating the bull-like man with gentleness and trying to calm him down while making sure that the man and the crowd of civilians are safe on both sides. At least they knew that this man wasn't a danger to anyone or a villain.
However, some people in the crowd soon made commons that made Izuku's blood boil in anger.
"This is why you need to stay in school, sweetie. I don't want to end up some hopeless street thug like this creature."
"I'm sure making a meme out of this."
"Some people just love to take their anger and stress on other people who did nothing to them."
"These animals need to be more watch out so they won't bother any more good humans."
"If this thing is the reason I'm late to work, then I make sure that it won't have anyone defend it."
"Just shut up. All of you. Why are you all judging him? None of us know him or his struggles. And yet, you're all villainizing him just because he's fighting the Pro Heroes. What if he was being controlled by a villain, would you still think he's a bad person after finding out the truth?" Izuku angrily thought in his mind as he looks at the crowd with rage.
It wasn't that the police took the man in their custody while the crowd soon left, all but Izuku look at the man with worriedness. The green-haired boy runs up to one of the police officers to ask if the man with the bull Quirk is going to be okay.
"Um... Excuse me. Is that man gonna be alright, sir?" Izuku asks the officer.
The officer was a bit puzzled about the young boy's question, but soon answer him without any hesitation.
"Why, yes. That person is going to be okay after he gets to the hospital and gets pills," The police officer said to Izuku.
"Do you know him, young man?" The officer asks.
"No, I don't. But I couldn't help but feel so worried and sad for him. He was clearly hurting while everyone else in the crowd took enjoyment in his pain while the heroes tried to help him. It wasn't right!" Izuku said as he could feel his eyes becoming wetting with hot tears coming out.
The officer places his hand on Izuku's shoulder to calm the boy down. It seems to work as the green-haired boy took in deep breaths.
"Listen, kid, the world has always been a cruel and dangerous place, even before Quirks even existed. There will always be people like those no matter what. Life won't give people easy treatment even they've been good. But, the least you can do is try to change how things are by working to help people in their time of need. Or you can just do nothing and let the world rot along with anyone who needed your help with it," He said to Izuku.
Izuku rubbed his eyes, taking what the man had just said to heart. The officer's right. Even before the Quirks came to be, people have always been terrible to each other. They hurt each other for their own selfish reasons without any at all. He won't let the world rot by horrible people like that crowd.
"You should get going, kid," The police officer said gently.
Izuku nodded and turn back to walk back home. However, he accidentally bumps into somebody, almost knocking him to the ground. But a large hand caught him before Izuku could even hit the ground. The green-haired boy froze when he realized that the hand belongs to Death Arms. Izuku kept his head down, too afraid to even look at the Pro Hero this close in person.
"Thank you, Hero!" Izuku said as he then quickly run past Death Arms and Kamui Woods in fear they might recognize him from that slime monster event.
"Who am I kidding? They probably won't recognize me. The Quirkless loser who ruins everything for the heroes. They might not even remember me if they did see me," Izuku thought as he stops running once he was far enough from the Pros and police.
Thank you all so much for reading this. I hope you like what I did here in this chapter. Sorry if this was too dark for any of you. I got the pill idea from another manga/anime series called "Beastars". It's a good series and you might even like it. Plus, there have been many characters in MHA with similar problems with their quirks. There's also a TV Tropes page of this story if any of you don't know.
