Chapter 1

I was born… cursed. While the world developed powers of all different kinds and natures I was left behind, abandoned by the world.

My name is Izuku Midoriya and I was born quirkless, despite that, I still wanted to be a hero. To be someone others smile when they see. Someone that can make those that helped me proud. Someone that can always smile. Someone… that I like.

However not everyone is equal, something which the world reminded me of day after day, Images of Kacchan flashed in his mind. But today that was all thrown in my face.

As Izuku made his way through a small tunnel on his way home after another… hard day of school, he looked at the burnt notebook in his hand and the words his "friend" said earlier resonated in his mind once again. "Take a swan dive off the roof!" He looked down for a second as his hair drooped down to cover his eyes.

He dropped the notebook and it landed on a page with a future hero costume on the front, he looked at it… and smiled. He picked up the notebook and raised his head. "Just you watch, I'll be a hero!" He stepped on a manhole covering and continued walking, then a feeling of wetness covered his left arm.

He turned around to see what was touching him and his jaw dropped as he let go of the notebook in his hands. Looming over him was a massive man-made out of sludge. Izuku was pulled into the sludge as he tried fighting back, after being mostly enveloped by it he could feel it entering his body and shoving itself down his throat. Izuku could hear the man saying something but it didn't register in his mind as he was too busy trying to fight back against his death.

He could feel his consciousness slipping away as the sludge continued to push its way down his throat. 'I don't want to die like this, please someone. Please save me!' These thoughts kept bashing against his skull as he struggled to do something. Anything.

He closed his eyes and accepted his death, it wasn't like he could fight back. Suddenly the sound of metal clacking on metal caused him to open his eyes and he saw him. All Might himself stood by the manhole.

The towering man took a step toward Izuku and the villain before he raised his right fist. "Texas SMASH!" All Might yelled as he shot his fist forward like a cannon, his hand didn't even make contact with the villain, the wind pressure was enough to blast the sludge into pieces.

Finally, Izuku lost consciousness.

He slowly opened his eyes and sunlight seeped through the cracks, he felt a very fast and slight impact smacking him on the cheek. His eyes fully opened and he saw the figure of a blond man with 2 massive stripes of hair sticking right up into the air. It was All Might leaning over him, All Might took a step to the side and his shadow blocked the sun from getting on Izuku's face. Looking up at the man it looked as if he was glowing, a silhouette.

All Might began speaking but Izuku wasn't listening as he was pulled into a trance by the number 1 hero. At least until he said he needs to go. Panic rushed through his veins as if it were adrenaline. All Might crouched down to get ready to leap into the air. Izuku shot toward him and grabbed onto his leg. His actions were fueled by a single desire to know if he can become a hero. He had to ask. To know if he could be like other people.

All Might tried to push him off but Izuku managed to stay attached despite that. The 2 landed on a nearby rooftop. All Might turned away from Izuku and was about to jump away while telling him not to do things that could get him killed like that again but Izuku stopped him. "I don't have a quirk!" Izuku shouted stopping the man from taking off again. All Might gave him a side glance.

"I know this but I still want to be a hero, I know it's childish but it's something I've always wanted to do. I want to help people, to let them know they are safe. Can I still be a hero even without a power?" Izuku looked up toward the hero and saw a cloud of smoke. And then saw a skinny man wearing the same thing All Might just was. Izuku eyes went wide while looking at the man, his eyes were sunken in his face the blond hair was the same but the two front stripes were now fallen going down past his chin.

"AHHHH!" Izuku let out a scream of fear seeing that the number 1 hero was gone and now stood was a man barely taller than Izuku himself. "Calm down kid. It's still me." Izuku stopped yelling and his eyes widened.

"All… Might?" Izuku asked unsure of what was happening.

"Yes, I am All Might, the number 1 hero in the world. The Symbol of Peace, pathetic." All Might said while taking a seat near the edge of the building, Izuku was about to say something but got cut off as the man pulled his shirt up to reveal a massive hole in his chest that seemed to make cracks coursing down his stomach and past the top of his jeans. "This happened in a fight a few years back, destroyed my stomach so I can only really do hero work for about 3 hours a day, this is what I look like the rest of the time." Izuku knew he wasn't lying, something about the tone of his voice gave that away. Izuku wanted to say something but wasn't sure what he could say.

"Oh yeah about your question, no I don't think a quirkless person can be a hero." Crack. Izuku felt something inside him shatter at those words, his entire world began breaking down and falling around him, All Might got up and made his way over to a door and said something about being a police officer, but Izuku didn't care, he couldn't care, everything he ever wanted just got snatched out right in front of him, his entire life. Taken by the number 1 hero.

He walked down the stairs and made his way out of the building, he looked around and knew around about where he was. He began making his way toward the train station, the world seemed darker, almost colourless as he went.

He was about to enter the station when he heard it, the familiar laughter that haunted his dreams, he turned around as sweat began bursting out of his hands. He saw the ashen-blonde teen that sent shivers down his spine standing behind him, his lackeys standing just next to him. Kacchan made his way up to Izuku and placed his arm around his shoulders bringing the boy in next to him. "Hey Deku, what say you come with me for a bit, yeah?" Smoke began gushing out of the boy's hand as he kept it oddly close to Izuku's face.

The next thing he knew he was standing in a back alleyway as a fist collided with his face, bloodshot out of his mouth as another fist slammed into his stomach, Izuku fell to the ground and was struggling to breathe. "When will you learn." Kacchan kicked him in the stomach as he said that. "You'll never be a hero, you'll always be a worthless Deku!" A few of Kacchans friends grabbed him and slammed him against a wall and held him there as they pulled his shirt up to reveal a back full of scars from previous tortures. Kacchan placed his hand on the centre of Izuku's back and began increasing the heat on his hands, creating small explosions.

Izuku was about to scream out in pain but as soon as he opened his mouth to do so another person with the power to increase the length of his fingers placed them in Izuku's mouth stopping him from shouting. This torture continued for a few minutes until they just left him there in a pile of trash.

By the time Izuku had enough strength to move the sun was setting. He didn't want to go home. He didn't want his mum to see him in such a state, so instead, he made his way back to the rooftop All Might had left him on earlier in the day.

He looked out over the city, 'Nobody would notice if you disappeared.'

"But what about my mum."

'She would better off, after all, she wouldn't need to feed you or care for you anymore.'

"Yeah, I guess your right." He said to the voice in his head as he looked down toward the ground, a fall from this height. Would kill him. He teetered on the edge of the building unsure if he wanted to go through with it. But the voice was very convincing.

He stood on the edge of life and death.

"I can't be friends with Kacchan, I can't be friends with anyone. I'll never find any love."

"I'll never be a hero." He said the voice from within pushing its way out. He lifted his foot and held it above the edge, watching it while in the background of his vision was the ground, so far away. Yet so close.

"Hey!" A voice from behind him caught him off guard, he jumped back and off the edge as he turned to face the person. He saw a girl with elbow-length black hair had seemed to shine in the sunset. She was wearing just black, Izuku was noticing a common thing with the colour black and her. "What are you doing up here."

Her voice was soft yet carried a lot of weight behind it given the situation. "Umm just enjoying the view." Izuku said while forcing a smile, he was pretty good at that.

"You're not convincing anyone, kid." The girl said. "So you want to be a hero huh?" She followed up with which caused Izuku to flinch. "What would you say if I said I could give you the power to do so?" Izuku's eye widened and he looked up at the girl. But then quickly looked back down to the ground.

"You can't, no one can."

"Yeah, I can. I'm a demon after all."

"Huh?" Izuku was not even more confused, a demon, the hell did she mean by that, demons aren't real.

"I can give you the power to be a hero, but only if we make a deal."

As much as Izuku didn't want to go along with the woman he had no choice, if he wanted to be a hero this shady ass woman was right now his best shot. "You let me live inside your soul and I'll give you all the power you could ever ask for. All you need to do is take my hand."

Knowing this was his only chance Izuku extended his hand and shook her's. Then she disappeared right in front of his eyes. Izuku began looking around for her but to no avail. Then he heard a voice coming from behind. "In here." He turned around and saw…nothing. "I said in here, not over there." He turned around again hoping to see her this time, however once again there was nothing. "God, you're slow. I'm within your body."

"WHAT!" Izuku shouted.

"Shut up kid. You're the only one that can hear me, so if anyone heard you, you're gonna get funny looks."

"How are you inside me." Izuku asked, fear was clear in his voice.

"That's what happened when you took my hand, our souls got entwined. Now I can give you power, enough to become a hero. Well if you train with it." She said that last bit under her breath.

He raised his hand, for a second. Hoping something, anything would happen. After a few seconds of nothing, he dropped his hand rather dejected by the nothing. "What the hell was that." The voice of the demon echoed in his head.

"Trying to use my quirk." Izuku said as red began pushing through his face, he began scratching the back of his head.

"Quirk? Kid, I said I'd give you power, not a quirk." As she said that, Izuku felt a tinging sensation on his right hand. He looked down at it and saw a pitch-black ball that wasn't there 5 minutes ago. "That's one of your powers, call it Darkness." Izuku threw the ball up into the air, then he caught it.

"One of my powers?" He asked the demon.

"You'll see. For now to your house."

Izuku walked toward the exit, but then stopped. "What can I call you."

A few seconds of silence passed before she replied. "Call me Kyuin."

"That's a nice name." Izuku said as he made his way back home.

After arriving home after dark, Izuku got scolded by his mother. Had he taken his life his mother was the one thing he would regret leaving behind.

He went into his room and without saying anything to Kyuin he immediately began taking down all his All Might merch and stuffing it into bags. When he was done he sat down on his bed and looked up to the ceiling. "So you want to get into UA, then we got 10 months of training. So we'll start with your body, don't want ya breaking while using the powers do we. Luckily you have demonic power flowing through you, so shaping your body should be a lot easier than normal people."

"Yeah." Izuku agreed and they set out on their 10-month journey to get Izuku into shape.

And so 10 months passed.

Authors note.

I hope you enjoyed the start of this, not gonna lie some of this was hard to write, mainly the Kacchan scene but I wanted to show just a taste of what Izuku had to go through.

I will hopefully see you next chapter.