Misaki Bakugo was an unexpected child. A surprise, when Mitsuki and Masaru were both quite busy with their work.
Stubborn as she was, Mitsuki worked till her third trimester before finally taking a well deserved break from her work. Fashion industry didn't wait for anyone, and she had worked hard to be good at what she did. She hadn't wanted to let it pass her by.
When Misaki was born, she would crawl around everywhere, and since the first time she almost ran into a sharp corner, Mitsuki was forced to pay more attention to her child. Misaki was even tempered, and thankfully didn't cry as much as people kept complaining about their own newborns. Masaru, of course, took the credit for his genes since there was no way that would be Mitsuki's characteristic.
They split their work and spent a bit more time at home with their child. Even if Misaki had been a surprise, they loved the child born from their own blood.
Unsurprisingly, Misaki seemed to take more and more after her father in temperament. She smiled, laughed, made friends easily. She was quick to laugh when with her friends and if Mitsuki and Masaru ever got frustrated at the other, she would try her best to resolve it.
Misaki was smart, but she never rubbed it in anyone's face, like Mitsuki used to. She was cheerful and bright, and honestly, watching her made any parent feel lucky.
Like all else, Misaki loved heroes. Unlike everyone else though, she hadn't instantly been taken in by All Might. She enjoyed watching his fights and rescues as anyone else, but she never pointed him out as her favorite hero. But she agreed that he was quite cool.
A few years later, they had another child, Katsuki. From the moment he was born, screaming his lungs out, the couple had taken one look at the boy and known he was going to be like Mitsuki. But they had already learnt much from their first child. Mitsuki didn't allow as much freedom as she had to Misaki. They always kept an eye on him, and had to, on occasion, get a toy out of his mouth before he swallowed it.
Misaki was a little above four when Katsuki was born, and she helped take care of Katsuki when she wasn't running around the playground with her friends.
To everyone's surprise, Misaki didn't manifest her quirk before or in the months after her forth birthday, and even more surprisingly, she never seemed to mind.
When Masaru carefully asked his daughter if anyone was bullying her, she would shrug and refuse. From the way she played with her friends, it seemed like she hadn't been lying either.
She had the possibility of being quirkless and yet, Masaru was surprised to find, no one treated her differently. He didn't drawn any attention to it though. He wanted his daughter's life to be as happy as he could possibly make it.
With her growing and them both being busy with their loud newborn, they let her roam around as long as she came back before sun down.
Of course, that was when it happened.
A boy being bullied by two others with mutation quirks.
Of course, she tried to intervene.
And of course, she got shoved away who told her to go away and play with her mommy.
And, of course.
It pissed her off.
It wasn't exactly his comments that pushed her that hard. It was the fact that he still had his dirty foot on top of a book while he was talking to her, and the bullied boy was looking at the dirty book and crying his heart out.
Her quirk activated.
Feathery wings emerged out of her back out of nowhere. It was huge, willowy and looked like a breeze would blow it apart. She stared over her shoulder with wide eyes, and the wing came forward and curled over her shoulder.
It brushed against her shoulder and she flinched away from it. The wing felt soft, like cotton taken out of a pillow. It looked delicate, felt delicate but she knew with a bone deep certainty that it certainly wasn't delicate.
After a moment of staring, she turned and looked at the two boys in front of her. They were looking at the wings as well, but they just burst out laughing after a while.
"They-they look so weak!" One of the boys laughed out. A mocking cruel tone that she instantly disliked. She snarled.
"If you think they're so weak, why don't you try and test that!" She challenged, feeling confident. The boy scowled.
"You'll just run off to cry at your mom when you lose!" The other one rejected, glancing at the part of the part where the parents were sitting together. She smirked.
"Well, lucky for you, my parents didn't come with me to the park today." The first boy's nervous look fell away entirely at that. She internally rolled her eyes at his sudden confidence in her words.
"Hah! Then no one can save you!" The boy grinned at her. She steadied her stance and the other boy threw himself at her.
He leapt at her with a wide punch and she jerked backward, ducked and tried to disbalance him by hitting his legs and throwing him off.
She did. She was sure she swept her leg. But he didn't feel it at all. She swept her leg to throw him off. Her timing was fine, the distance was fine, but it just didn't go through. There was a dizzying moment where she felt a sharp headache, making her dizzy and bringing her out of the living world. And then she blinked, and her leg was on the other side. She had finished the sweep and the boy was looking at her feet in confusion.
"Wh-what." She stumbled over her words, wondering if she had just judged the distance wrong. She swept her feet back in its initial position, and she noticed her foot getting closer and the distance was fine. But then the headache hit her again and blacked out for the moment she should have swept his feet already.
The other boy stumbled and fell back, staring at her with horror.
"What are you?"
She blinked at him, her brows furrowing. She looked at the other boy and he seemed just as surprised at the first one's reaction.
"Oi, what's wrong, Takeru?" He asked the boy confused.
Takeru stood up shakily before holding his friend's hand.
"We should get away from this monster!" He said, his voice rising in pitch as he desperately tried to make his friend understand. They ran away, though Takeru kept looking at her with a fear-filled gaze.
"Hmm." She glanced at her foot, pushing against the solid ground. Her wings disappeared with barely a thought, and she walked up to the bullied boy who was staring at her with star struck eyes. She brushed the dirt off the book on the ground before handing it to the boy.
"Stay safe, yeah?" She walked away with a backward wave, wondering how she should describe her newly emerged quirk.
-x-
Misaki wasn't always Misaki.
Misaki was once a different girl, living in a different time, in a different world. This girl was good at making friends, was betrayed by them and continued the cycle until her death.
Who even knows how she died. But she did.
And then she spent time in the space between her death and her new life.
There were things she was aware of, some things that felt familiar, some things that came to her easily.
There were some things that wasn't. Things like her brother. Her brother was a totally unfamiliar territory. But she loved that about her life.
Misaki's parents were clumsy with their kids, but good natured. Misaki's brother was a total fiend but he was just as lovable. And Misaki was goddamn proud of her new family.
Though she might have had to scold her mom a bit too many times about not cursing in front of Katsuki.
She got her new quirk at age 5 and she was surprised to find her quirk was weird. Not that she should have, of course quirks in general were weird. But if she was going to get a mutation quirk, wouldn't it be better to have a permanent mutation quirk?
Through a few experiments and an accident with Katsuki where he fell through her, they found out that her quirk wasn't just some temporary mutation like her parents had registered.
There was a void that lived within her, connecting her to her last life. A connection that didn't go away, that wouldn't disappear.
This connection emerged as her quirk.
Quirk: Divinity
It gave her the wings of an angel and created a connection between realms.
She was connected to her new world, but somehow she was connected to her death too. And every time someone tried to touch her physical body, they felt the touch of the realm of death, phasing through her body.
When Katsuki had passed through her body, he had cried so hard, had been so scared of her that he didn't let her touch him for a month. Then he spent a day poking at her body to make sure it was solid, before throwing himself headfirst at her again.
She had made sure to never activate her quirk at home after that though.
And slowly her baby brother grew from a snot nosed brat to a bright, sunny and confident brat. Though she still made him cry. He got friends, and went out into the wild life with them, and she went back to her school, friends and training her quirk.
She found a hobby too. She had liked music before but somehow she had found herself going to music stores in her neighborhood and ended up playing the piano. She hadn't even known she knew how to play.
But when she started, it was like her fingers knew what to do and suddenly she was playing an piece that she was quite sure she hadn't even heard before.
She hadn't even thought about learning an instrument before, but suddenly she knew how to play it.
It had been surprising, but not as surprising as her brother looking at her newly bought piano and deciding he wanted to learn an instrument too.
She had almost thought he would pick up a violin so they could play together. But of course not. He picked up drums instead.
She liked the fact her brother was following her footsteps, but couldn't he just pick something that she could deal with easier?
She literally had to wrack her memory to find songs that went with both piano and drums. They were quite a rare combination, but Katsuki had a love-at-first-beat going on with his drums, so she would keep playing until he found a beat to give her.
She might have been four years older than him, but they always got along well. Though their fights might have broken a few furniture, but while their mom loved to bitch about that, their dad always pointed out that she hadn't been any better in her youth.
She wasn't a daddy's girl, but she was totally a daddy's girl. Her dad was awesome, and gave the best hugs. Though her mom was equally happy to provide her with hugs, she liked to pretend that her mood didn't improve by 50% every time either of her kids hugged her.
But parents aside, her brother and she had the biggest disagreement ever on their preference of heroes. Katsuki fought viciously for All Might refusing to even consider other heroes worth his time, and she-
Well, she found her favorite hero.
A Hero who emerged to the Number 1 spot after All Might had left America, Phoenix, the Eternal Hero.
She had a crazy healing quirk that people would kill to have, but she was an impenetrable fortress. She had contact with every hero in America and for any big villain attacks, she would come out and basically make the heroes immortal.
Her Quirk was called Phoenix Fire, a flame that emerged from her body as a heat hot enough to kill a flame resistant hero, and the flame only got hotter the more people she healed. She would be high above a battlefield, untouchable and unreachable, and no matter the villain, she would heal any injury on any person in her vicinity.
The Sidekicks she had were combat heroes who had the will to keep going even with the pain of being hurt and healing in an instant.
Large Villain attacks were her specialty, but she was a common sight in any accidents that caused injuries.
Unfortunately, she couldn't heal any injuries that weren't recent.
Her quirk was all-powerful in a battlefield but she wasn't very helpful for injuries that had already started healing. Sometimes, she could injure someone worse and heal it, but it wasn't possible if someone already had a mortal wound, and it apparently wasn't always effective.
But she was so fucking cool.
Her fights were always epic and her combat heroes were no joke. Though there were rumors that she had a harem with her combat heroes, but she didn't really care about that. The way she used her quirk was so goddamn cool.
So. Yeah.
Katsuki and she had quite a few fights about which hero was the best.
But other than that, they got along pretty well.
-x-
Misaki was 15 and about to give her UA entrance exam. She was nervous but she knew quite a few people applying for the exam. Her written exam was pretty simple, considering she had grown up quite a bit in her first life and therefore remembered most of her studies, at least vaguely.
Japanese surprisingly hadn't been as hard as she had been expecting, and it was one of the more interesting languages she had learnt. She had liked learning exotic languages before too. Luckily, she had been fluent in English so there hadn't been many problems with her studies in general.
As she nervously waited for the gates to open so their practical exam "Kill the bots" started. They just had a time limit to destroy as many bots as they could. This had been the UA exam for as many years as she had known of it. Last year they had created civilian bots who they couldn't harm into the mix too, but this time they hadn't.
As soon as they started, she activated her quirk and flew into the mock city zone as fast as she could, slamming through the bots and destroying them as she went.
A side effect of her quirk was that while all living things could pass through her, any solid met a block. She could drop from a few kilometers high and slam into the ground, and as long as her quirk was activated, she was able to cause a earthquake, or drill herself through the earth. Her quirk was stupid OP and she was planning to take advantage of the UA exam to show how cool it was.
She plowed through the robots with barely any pause, taking out as many as she could without any consideration for the people behind her. Adding to her invulnerability to any objects, she could fly. So, there really wasn't any choice.
She got one of the highest scores in the history of UA entrance exam.
-x-
UA was fun. It was unexpected and there were so many things they put in the schedule that you barely had time to study.
Misaki was lucky, she wasn't the top in academics, but that was only because of a recommended student who was super smart. He was similar to Nezu, the principal in that regard.
He was also the reason she found another part of her quirk.
She could partially manipulate reality to her liking. Enhance a strength or make a weakness even worse.
Or as she liked to call it, give someone a Buff or a Debuff.
She couldn't manipulate non-lining things, but just opening up a whole new part of her quirk was amazing for her. Whenever they had team fights, she buffed her partner to hell and back. Her problem was she could give one effect to one person at a time, but the effect of that was absolutely amazing.
She could increase strength or speed to twice their original ability.
She couldn't add any ability, but she could tweak a person so they had an exponential increase to their ability.
A person with strength to punch a wall, could probably break a building with her buffing them.
While she was amazing at support, and could fly. Her ultimate weakness was any type of rescue. She couldn't fly with anyone else, she could increase their skills but she couldn't touch another person with her skills active. She couldn't fight another person, but maybe give them a trauma- which all of her classmates had already experienced when trying to touch her-but that was it.
When she was trying to rescue a person, she had to deactivate her quirk so she could touch them.
Being in UA taught her a lot, and when the sports festival started, she was excited to show off how much she had grown.
The first had been a race against time. They had to climb a hill, grab a flag and come back to the start zone.
Since there was sabotage allowed, most people started off with a big splash. One created a wild churning water wall, while trying to get a head start, another created mud pits behind him as he went. She had to activate her quirk and still had to dodge and run away from quite a few of her problems. A few people tried to ambush her but since she could phase through people it wasn't a big deal.
There were a few trees thrown at her, but she managed to dodge them all. She didn't want to show off everything she had after all.
She ended up passing to the next round.
The second round happened to be a Capture the Flag as well. Though there were multiple groups, each of which would have a "base" where they needed to grab and put as many flags as possible. Flags not in base weren't counted.
Of course, she cheated the hell out of the game, buffing their defender, getting a few to distract and she flew in and grabbed the flags and bringing it back. Some people didn't bother to defend, and they just ran around with their flags, one team created a strong defense of fire and water around their base while their teammates were responsible for getting flags. In the end, a team passed even though they didn't get any new flags.
There was an extra round which she didn't use her ability for. Her side effect for her quirk was dissociation, and she didn't exactly enjoy it. Her quirk was OP but that didn't make the dissociation- the way she could feel the death inside her and the world outside- any easier.
The third round was a one on one battle.
Just like her buff was a multiplier, her debuff was the same, but in the opposite direction.
She generally decreased speed, but the moment she disabled her quirk to hit the other person, her buff or debuff got cancelled too.
So of course, she just fought with objects.
She just flew high up and then crashed into the platform and used the pieces to throw them out of bounds. It worked since her first opponent wasn't a strength type.
Her second opponent was the water user and her debuff wasn't very useful for his long range attacks- not that they could touch her- she went in close, and had to disable her quirk to fight hand to hand.
Every time he used his quirk, Misaki activated her quirk instantly and her opponent winced if he happened to pass through Misaki's body.
She actually had learnt to use her quirk like an on and off switch so her opponent's blows passed through her, but her blows didn't. She switched off her quirk for the single moment her blow met her opponent.
Since this was UA, her opponent caught on quickly and met her blow with one of his the instant she disabled her quirk.
It was still quite an unfair fight and she won with a few bruises after a few minutes.
Her third opponent was one of her classmates with a fire quirk.
Fire, like air, could actually affect her even with her quirk active.
She flew up high, and threw herself toward him like a high speed train, guided by her wings.
He burnt up her wings, but she still tossed him out of the field.
Her forth and final round was against some kind of body dissociating quirk. She threw her body parts everywhere and it surrounded Misaki. It would try to capture or disable her the second her stopped her quirk.
Like her first match, she destroyed the platform and to throw her out. It didn't work out so well this time. But that was the only decent option she had. This match would take longer would she could win.
Misaki used the debris to aim for her body parts. She had high agility but Misaki was untouchable. All she needed to do was wear her down before her quirk came back to bite her in the ass. She took a deep breath, mentally strengthening against the pull of death.
She couldn't avoid long matches every time.
Her wings, the edges of which had turned black and scorched due to her last match, was crumbling like ash.
She turned back to her opponent who had a few body parts phased through her body at any moment. Her teeth gritting with the sheer will to overcome the fear that came when you entered the realm of death.
Misaki's lips quirked up.
Then she flew higher. Higher than she had the first time.
Time to risk her second life for fun.
She flew above the safety levels she had been told by her flight instructor.
She felt the caress of water droplets on her skin, the heat of the sun and the cold air that seemed to chill her to her bone. She breathed out, before extending her arms out like a child and feeling the cold wind and water rush at her. Through her.
She was doing what she had been specifically warned not to do.
She grinned, her wings disappearing for a moment. Fear unlike any other gripped her, but-
It was so exciting. It was so exciting, she almost wished she had gone higher.
She spotted the stadium growing larger and called back her wings. Her quirk activated and her protection was back on. The wind dulled away, her senses dulled and the even if she tried to reach out for it, she didn't feel the wind, or the cold anymore.
Her hands instinctively blacked her face and she crash landed head first into the ground.
-x-
Like a white line in a black paper.
She drew a line from the sky and to the earth. A flash of white drawing all eyes to the center as she crashed in the stadium with a thundering crash.
The stadium shattered, the barrier held in place stopped the debris from being thrown out.
Cementoss was standing at the edge of the stadium, looking at the destruction with wide eyes, his hands had been guiding cement to soften so as not to harm either of the participants.
From the center of the dusty crater, Misaki stared at the sky with a blissed out expression.
She never would have been allowed to do that in any of her classes.
She stifled a breathless giggle, shivering from the memory of the cold rushing through her as she freefell through the air.
She barely even cared about her opponent.
When she stood up again, the dust cleared up and a loud roaring cheer echoed from every direction to her.
She grinned.
-x-
"Mom, Dad! I got an offer!" Misaki burst through the door in her excitement.
The living room was surprisingly empty of her parents. Katsuki, being the sole occupant, sat on the dinner table chewing on the back of the pencil. He didn't even look up from his homework, lifting his hands above his head to sarcastically clap at her.
She rolled her eyes, before a smile burst through.
"Katsuki! I got an amazing offer!" She ran to him. He stiffened, his hands coming up to blow up her face, and she ducked under it, tucking his elbows over her shoulders and hugging him tightly.
"Ugh." He rolled his eyes. "Go show it to mom or something. I'm busy right now!"
She let go, her hand coming up to fondly ruffle his hair.
"You're such a dedicated student Katsuki!" She teased.
"Yeah, well. I have no idea how your grades hold up when you're always so fucking lazy." She smacked his head.
"Studying for the sake of studying is just boring." She pouted. "What am I supposed to do? Sit and learn up useless shit I'll never need? Meh. I'll leave that for the hard worker of the family!"
Katsuki smacked her off him.
"Go away, you lazy idiot. You're reducing the IQ by osmosis."
"Aww! I thought you'd want to know how your sister just got an opportunity of the lifetime!" She grinned at him. He looked at her suspiciously.
"The only opportunity of the lifetime you got was the UA acceptance letter." He scoffed, but he glanced at her from the corner of his eye. He wanted to know.
"Too bad then~ I'll go tell mom the good news!" He made this adorable growl noise at the back of his throat. She smirked.
"Alright, fine! Tell me!" He gave up, looking at her with interest.
Katsuki was a tsundere through and through, but he was quite easy to deal with in situations like this. He loved hero work, she was in hero school. He was interested in heroes and her progress, and she was taunting him with both.
"I got an offer from Phoenix!"
Katsuki's brow furrowed in confusion.
"I didn't hear about her coming to Japan." She wanted to tease him about keeping up to date with her favorite hero, but there were more important things to think about.
"Don't tell me you're planning-" Katsuki started, his voice getting louder.
"Yup!" She interrupted him cheerfully. His eye twitched at the interruption, or maybe her confirmation.
"But then you'd have to-"
"Yup," she repeated. He looked at her face seriously before looking away.
"Tch. Do whatever you want."
"Okay. Thanks, Katsuki." She smiled at him.
"I'll get the hag!" He shouted up the stairs.
"I heard that!" A muffled familiar voice spoke. Katsuki tch'd then kicked the door open.
"Then come out already!"
"I already was!" Mitsuki came out of her room, dressed formally and her make up done with perfection. It was then she remembered that her parents were going out for a date night.
"Oh." She blinked. Mitsuki came down and then raised her eyebrow at her.
Her mom's skin really was flawless. Misaki was the kid who got the odd quirk. She was jealous. Even Katsuki would have such perfect skin in the future. He had such good genes. She wanted to cry...
When he made hero, she was going to rub his amazing skin in everyone's face. So everyone could die with jealousy too.
"Misaki?" Her mom said, her brightly colored lips tilting up in a perfect in-your-face smirk. She pouted. She already knew what Misaki was thinking. Every time Mitsuki dressed up, Misaki was always to first to exclaim about how amazing she looked.
"You look great, mom." She admitted defeat. Mitsuki's smirk went from bitch-you-jealous to damn-right-I-am.
"I heard you got an internship offer." Misaki sighed, wishing her dad would come back soon. She wanted to have this talk with both of them present.
"Yeah. Phoenix asked me to study in America." Mitsuki's eyes widened, her hands on Misaki's shoulder. She looked happy for a moment, before the wording registered.
"Wait. You said study? Not internship, but study." Misaki pulled away, shrugging uncomfortably.
"Yeah. She sent an offer to me directly. She promised to transfer me to the Hero Academy in America and would make me a full time intern under her. She even promised to take me in as her sidekick if I kept impressing her." Mitsuki watched her daughter gasp and word vomit about her favorite hero, while stoically looking on.
"Hm. Then you can't fail her right? After all, she's the Number 1 Support Hero in the world." Mitsuki smirked. Misaki took a deep breath, her word vomit stopping at the interruption. She looked her in the eyes, taking assurance in the confidence she had even though Misaki was falling apart in front of her with nerves. She nodded, her eyes filling with tears she didn't want to let fall.
Mitsuki pulled her in for a hug.
"You've done well Misaki." She gently combed through her hair, letting Misaki cry in relief into her beautiful formal dress.
"Thanks, mom." She told her with a trembling voice. Mitsuki acknowledged it with a hum.
When her dad came back home with a bouquet of flowers and found Mitsuki sitting on the couch and his daughter sleeping with her head on her lap, he just sighed.
"I guess tonight is cancelled." He murmured to himself, turning to find the vase he had kept near.
"Yeah, no shit," said Katsuki, disrupting Masaru's thoughts. He looked at the table he was studying, and Katsuki pushed the vase towards him without another word.
"What happened?" He asked, his voice low. Katsuki snorted.
"Oi, answer him, sleepy head. I know you're awake." Mitsuki started in surprise but Misaki opened her eyes to glare at Katsuki.
"I'm not gonna let you freeload your way out of telling him." Katsuki said, correctly interpreting her thoughts.
"Shitty bro." She scowled.
"Shitty sis." He mocked her back.
"I'm going to America." Misaki stated bluntly.
"WHAT!" Masaru, the normally mild tempered man, shouted in shock.
"Mom agreed." Misaki threw her mom under the truck without hesitation.
"WHAT!"
"UA already agreed to transfer request."
"WHAT!" This time both her parents shouted, and Misaki winced.
Maybe she shouldn't have been that blunt?