"Welcome back Izuku, how are things progressing? I hope well for you and your mediumship." Dr. Kurosaki talked to the now 8 year old child, the mother sitting beside them.
"Hi Dr. Kuro, I think things are going good. I've learned a new trick with auras! When it wiggles, the person is confused!", exclaimed Izuku.
"Very good! It seems you are able to grasp some of the more detailed aspects already on your own" Dr. Kurosaki said with smile. "I hope his questions and observations haven't been a problem to you Inko."
Inko midoryia smiled and shook her heard, "No, no, he hasn't been causing any hassle since the talk you had with him two years ago. Explaining why I can't fully understand what he sees, since I can't, had made where he tries harder to be clear about what he talks about with regarding to his medium powers." She smiled at her son as he started to talk to Dr. Kurosaki about things he experienced in the last six months.
Four years ago, Izuku had his medium abilities awaken, and every year he would make 2 visits to Dr. Kurosaki for updates and to see how he was dealing with this alteration. This would lead to Kurosaki becoming Izuku's main doctor as well. From the initial start to now, Izuku had gotten used to some things but still had hard times understanding certain concepts he now had to interact with. One thing he caught onto early was the aura glow around people. Everyone had one, from living to the dead, animals and even plants too, he had to focus to see those ones. They weren't as bright as human auras.
Auras had various colors and would form many shapes. Colors depended on the individuals nature, like blue was a normally calm and serious, with small amounts of kindness, like Dr. Kurosaki's, while pink was very good-hearted and sweet like his mother's. Shapes were interesting to the young child. These werent shapes like triangles and squares, these were the auras shifting. If it just outlined the body, the subject was calm/happy, if spikes started to raise out of the aura it meant scared/angry, and a new one Izuku learned was if the aura wiggled or had ripples meant confused/curious.
There was much more to auras but Dr. Kurosaki had told the child that that would be discussed when he got older. "The more you age, the easier it will be to understand the dynamics to mediumship", was what the doctor had told Izuku a year after the ability was unlocked. This sentence and how his physician helped him with medium powers had Izuku questioned, "How?" Kurosaki then explained that he too had medium powers and used those in his day-to-day life as a healthcare professional to help people. Being the experienced medium of the two, Kurosaki took a more personal interest in the Midyoria family, actively helping them with any questions and teaching the young boy. Now the two mediums saw each other as friends.
"I can't wait to use these powers to help people! Hopefully I will be able to touch spirits soon and can do more than just see!" Hearing the boy say this excitedly put a frown on the doctor's face. Izuku didnt notcie the frown, or why Dr. Kuro had gone quiet. Instead he saw the doctors aura start to make little bubbles on the surface. Watching this new phenomena, Izuku queried the doctor. "Why is your aura bubbling?"
Inko turned her head to the doctor, wondering what was going on. This was a new sentence from her son, one he never stated about auras before. This had her curiosity, but also fear. The frown on Dr. Kurosaki's face raised her aprhension to new heights as he started to look at her with sorrowful eyes.
"My aura is bubbling because I'm sad, Izuku. This visit shouldve have been happy and just an easy lesson, however, I'm sorry kid, that today is going to be a hard class." The doctor put his hands on his desk and leaned his head against them. "People like us, those with the old abilities, rarely can become Heros. These abilities are not combative, nor able to be used like rescue quirks. They only affect the owner. No one else. You could be a Hero, but nothing grand, maybe a sidekick used to help move people out of the area where a fight against Villains is happening, or, at best a Support Hero that is more their to help innocents through storms or talk someone out of a bad situation. We mainly use our powers to aid us in our work. Like me, I use mine to help ease my patients. I'm sorry Izuku, but this is not a power to fight Villains"
This revelation was a slap to the boys face.
Feeling his face being slapped, Izuku started to become aware he had passed out. His hearing started to return, and with it came a deep masculine voice. "Hey kiddo, hey! C'mon, don't you quit on me! Wake up! Hey, hey, HEY!"
The booming voice and light slaps to the face woke up the young student. His eyes slowly cracking open, squinting as the darkness was erased by the bright sunlight. Slowly gaining his bearing, he sat up and immediatly noticed who the voice belonged to. Standing before him was a behemonth of a man, with mucsles all over, a large iconic smile on his face and his iconic blonde hair style in its V-formation. The child's savior was none other than the Number One Hero, All Might! Izuku instantly started to scramble and talk rapidly.
"A-a-all Might?! Wh-what are y-you doing here?! How are you here? Wait, I'm alive? I'm alive! What happened to the slime guy? Is he gone? Oh! Where's my notebook? Can you sign my notebook?" The greenette kept talking and moving about, looking from the Hero, to looking for the Villain, and then for his notebook. All Might just looked on with his grin, though a small sweat bead did start on the back of his head. He gave a mighty laugh before tapping Izuku's shoulder.
"Relax young man, I think this is what you are looking for?" In the large mans hands was the notebook, All Might's signature on the cover. Taking the notbook, Izuku could only stare with awe. A real signature! He had to at least get a selfie to be even more proof he met the top Hero. But he also had a question he needed to know. Turning to the big man, Izuku noticed two bottles in the pockets of All Might's jeans. It didn't click what those were before he saw the auras around the bottles, a sickly blackish green aura.
"Is that the Villain? How'd you put him in those?"
All Might laughed and explained he had to scoop up the being and put him in the two 2-liter bottles. "Well young man, I'm very glad that you are alright but I must leave and deposit these to the correct authorites."
Seeing the Hero of Heros start to leave, Izuku scrambled to grab his attention and ask his question. "Wait! All Might please I need to know something!"
"Sorry but Hero duty calls and I can't stand here when this Villain and many others need to be turned in. And I know there are many other Heroes that are better to answer any questions you'd have for them." With his iconic smile, All Might prepared to jump away.
With the behemoth about to bolt, Izuku did the only thing he could think of. He literally grabbed at life and held on with a fierce grip. The feeling of air blasting his face, and the solid ground missing below his feet, Izuku held on for all his worth. All Might noticed he had more weight than he should and looked down to the source. A screaming, green haired child. "Woah! woah! I love my fans kid, but isn't this too far! You're gonna need to get off!"
"Not at this height! I'll definitely die!!", screamed the boy.
"Oh…. you are right about that", scratching the back of his head, All Might forgot that not everyone was built durable. "Ok hold on, I'll make sure to stop at the next roof with an access!"
The pair soared for a few more moments before All Might saw the right kind of rooftop and angled himself and his cargo to land on it. Once on the solid surface, Izuku let go and fell to his knees. Kissing the rooftop and taking solace in the fact that gravity was back to normal, he finally remembered why he had done such a stupid move.
Turning to his hero, the boy started to speak. "I'm sorry All Might. I didn't mean to make you take me with you, nor stop here, but I have to ask you something. Please answer my question, I know with your answer what to do." Izuku turned to look at the city, memories of the people telling him that he'll never be a Hero swirling to the front of his mind.
While Izuku was talking, thoughts raged within the Heros mind. 'Crap, crap, crap! I need to leave now before he looks. I'm sorry kid but I'm about to lose this form and you don't need to see this.' Patting his legs, All Might started to jump before realizing the bottles weren't there. That alone would've been bad, but that and the last few moments of his power leaving him was the last straw. With a sigh, All Might muttered softly in english, "Oh fuckin' shit."
Izuku was so lost in thought that he didn't hear a thing. He finally started to talk again after his memories subsided. "All my life, I've never had a great ability. Not one to fight nor one I could use to be truly helpful. Its one that only impacts me. But I was told that I may at least be a sidekick, so there's hope, right? With this power, do you think I could be more? To be a real Hero like you?"
Izuku turned around at that second only to see a small, skeletal man, with blonde hair that had two scraggly bangs. Gaunt cheeks, and darkened eyes, his teeth showing between his lips. Looking as if someone had draped a skin suit over a skeleton, then sucking out all the air to cling to the bones. Feeling his jaw drop to the floor, Izuku started to panic. "W-who are you?! Where's All Might?! Did I really just lay my heart out to a random stranger? Is All Might now going to hate me? I-"
"Hey kid"
"-cant believe I did that? Why did I grab hold of him?"
"Excuse me, young man"
"And now there's this guy? But he looks so past dead his bones show through. Maybe he's another spirit, no, he has an aura.
Agh! Why cant I get the answers I nee-"
"YOUNG MAN, WILL YOU STOP AND LISTEN?!"
Izuku was brought out of his mutterings by the shout from the stranger. The man seemed to be breathing heavier and started to slump down against the guard rail of the roof. "Young man, I assure you that All Might doesn't hate you. Trust me. And I'm sorry that I brought you up here, but what were you thinking?! Grabbing onto my leg like that could've been the end of you!"
Izuku could only stare at the man before the words finally clicked. 'Grabbed his leg? Brought me up here? Wait is he-'
"ALL MIGHT?"
"Indeed, my boy. Its me alri-bleh", All Might was interrupted as blood shot out of his mouth and ran down his chin. Izuku looked horrified for various reasons. His hero was not what he appeared to be, the man had just coughed up blood, and the way he just sat there like nothing happened showed that this was an everyday thing for the man.
"B-but how?!"
"You know how guys suck in their stomach to appear thinner or buffer? That's basically me." The image Izuku thought of was comparable to an old American cartoon featuring a cat and a mouse at the beach, where the cat tried to impress a female feline the exact same way as All Might's example.
"What h-happened to you?"
Knowing that now a civilian, outside of the ring of the right officials and close friends, now knew his secret, All Might sighed before explaining that this had to be kept a secret. The severity of this secret would destroy the current peace. Izuku realized this and nodded, knowing to keep his mouth shut on the subject. Lifting up his shirt, All Might showed Izuku that there was a massive wound on the left side of his stomach, looking as if a large horn had impaled the man and had poison that rotted away the area around it. "I got this a while back, nasty fight about five years ago."
"Five years... was that the fight with Toxic Chainsaw?"
All might let out a hallow laugh, "heh... you know your stuff kid, but no this was with a Villain much, much worse. A double S-ranker. Thanks to the bastard, my respiratory system is pretty much gone, lost my stomach too. Gross yeah?"
'Holy crap! A double S-rank Villain? S-ranks are already rare among rare for Heros. If what All Might says is true then that is a problem no one would ever see coming. And the Villain was able to do this to him! Seriously, how strong is All Might to be alive?!' Izuku's thoughts nearly made him miss the rest of All Might's conversation.
"This particular villian is above the rest, easily. I was barely able to stop him, but he still escaped. Not without recieving enough damage that will have destroyed most his body by now, but still."
"But why do you look this way now?"
"Thats because due to all the surgeries I had, now just moving about normally drains a serious amount of stanima, and shifting to my Hero persona takes ten times the amount. I can now only be a Hero for 3 hours maximum", All Might stated with a saddend face. "This must be hard to hear, young man, but I'm only human, and as such, even I can get hurt"
Izuku grimmaced at that, not having ever thought that All Might off all people would ever say that. Sure he was a person, but he was All Might! A hero so powerful, villians usually just stopped and asked to be handcuffed when he arrived on the scene. So to hear that his hero was still a mortal was reality shaking.
"Boy, you said that your power wasn't a strong combative or supportive quirk right?"
Looking up, Izuku realized that even though All Might had been trying to leave and had lost his normal size, he had still heard Izuku's speech. Now the man was going to give Izuku the answer! An answer he NEEDED to hear. "Yes sir, its a quirk that only can affect me, though I was told it would be good if I did anything with healthcare and helping people emotionally, though at best also a Search-Rescue type."
Standing up, All Might walked toward the child. Thoughts swirled around the blonde man's head as he rested his hand on the student's shoulder and took a few steps past him.
"I'm sorry, young man, but from what you describe it as, and if at best by straining yourself to find people, your dream is just that, a dream"
