Painted Red
Jewle Adina Enderson was the childhood friend of Katsuki Bakugou and Izuku Midoriya, when she moves to the U.S during their middle school years she loses contact with them. When Jewle returns 3 years later she takes the UA entrance exam, reuniting with Bakugou, but where is Izuku?
Villain!Deku x OC
I hope you guys enjoy this new chapter, I've been kinda stumped on what to do next with this story, but I keep getting random ideas that keep me going. Im not planning on cancelling this story, and I swear its gonna get finished eventually. Please enjoy and leave a comment if you like this new chapter! I love hearing all of you comments and opinions in the reviews!
Chapter 9: A Villains Past
A few days have passed since the battle at the gangsters mansion. The heroes mourned the loss of a great hero, treating their injured from the rough battle. When Kaden and Scarlet woke in the hospital they were disappointed by their failure to save their friend. "We failed her." Scarlet sobbed, "She needed us and we failed her." Kade glanced at her from his hospital bed, he was wrapped up like a mummy and had multiple broken bones.
"There was nothing we could have done Scar." He said solumley. "She was always more powerful than us, ever since we met her, and with Deku messing with her head..." Kaden paused as he thought back to how his quirk was canceled. "We had no chance." Scarlet whipped the tears from her eyes sniffling. "Do you remember when we all met? I met her on our first day of middle school, but with you? You guys didn't even notice you were in the same class!" She laughed.
Kaden chuckled with her. "Yeah, we all started at that prestigious school to train promising kids how to use their quirks to their full potential, The Blackstone Valley Hero's Vocational Training Middle School. (wow thats a mouthful, but tech schools always are.)We had the same homeroom teacher yet never noticed each other." He smiled at the memory of their old school. "I always sat in the back of the class, being loud with my friends from elementary school. Jae just sat in the front row, headphones in listening to her music and reading her ebooks on her phone."
"She would never put that phone down! You couldn't even talk to her when she read, even when she wasn't listening to music, it was like she could tune out the world!" Scarlet giggled. "I remember the day you guys met so well…"
~Flashback~
Scarlet was sitting at the score table, watching the matches with a bored expression. She was finished with her rounds for today and was now helping the instructors keep score for the other players. She looked to the door when she felt a wave of annoyance and anger flow through the door. Jae walked over and plopped down on the chair next to her sighing. "How was your quirk matches in the power class?" Scarlet asked, keeping some of her attention on the match before her.
"Ugh, it was horrible, they keep putting me on the weakest team because my quirk is so powerful. Everyone on my team hates me and always jumps in without thinking! They push me out of the way and blow the whole match! I'm so sick of these classes." She banged her head against the table groaning. "It can't be that bad." Scarlet tried to reason. "It really is, but enough of that. I need some good eye candy to cheer me up, so, what do ya got?"
Scarlet laughed at her friend's mood change. From disappointed to mischievous in two seconds flat. "Number 5 is really good. He's both handsome and dangerous." Jae barked out a laugh. "Ha! I'll be the judge of… wow." Jae watched in awe as the two males in the arena spared. His movements were fluid and deliberate as he dodged and parried his opponent. He had blonde hair that flowed with the movement of his strikes, blue eyes hardened with determination, and a cocky smirk on his face as he swiped his opponents legs from under him and pinned him to the mat.
"Damn." Jae breathed out as the male raised his hands in victory as the instructor called the match. Scarlet laughed. "That's Kaden, he's in the top of the influence class of our grade. His quirk is called seduction, he can make anyone do anything with just his voice." Jae elbowed Scarlet and smirked. "Well he can seduce me anytime~" They both looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Kaden looked over to them at the sound of their laughter, catching Jae's eyes. They started at each other for what felt like forever until Kaden winked at her and moved over to his friends. Jae blinked as a blush grew over her cheeks. "Oooo, he likes you! You should talk to him before he leaves after class." Jae's face turned tomato red as she looked at her. "No way! I can't just walk up to him! What am I going to say?"
"Hun, just introduce yourself and ask for his number, easy." Jae fiddled her hands. "I don't know Scar," Scarlet sighed. "Jae, you are the prettiest and strongest girl in our grade! You can do this!" Jae slapped her cheeks and straightened up. "Yeah! I'll just walk up and do it!" "Well you better go fast girl, cause he just walked out of class." Jae spun around and caught a glaced of him walking out. "Shit!" She cursed as she got up and fixed herself. Not like she could do much, she was in her gym clothes and her hair was up, but it was the thought that counted.
She spotted him leaning against one of the pillars in the main lobby, talking to one boy she knew from class. "Hey Jason!" She waved as she walked up to the two males. "Oh, hey." Jason blushed when she saw her scratching the back of his neck. "Uh, I gotta go! My moms here." He fake checked his phone and rushed out the door. Jae and Kaden watched him leave, confused.
"Well, that was weird." Kaden said as he stared at the empty door. He turned back to Jae giving her a smile. She smiled back, "I'm Jewle, it's nice to meet you." "Kaden, it's a pleasure." He took her hand and kissed the back of it. Jae felt heat rise to her cheeks and pulled her hand back slowly. "Uh, I saw your match back there, you're pretty good." Kaden laughed. "It wasn't that impressive." he brushed it off.
"Well, could I maybe get your number?" Kaden blinked at her straightforwardness, but gave it to her anyways. His phone buzzed and he checked the screen. "Oh, my moms here, gotta go. Nice meeting you." He waved goodbye as he walked out the front doors, leaving Jae in the hallway.
She let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding. "That was great, girl!" Scarlet patted her on the back. Jae smiled brightly as she clutched her phone. "I did it!"
"She was so scared to talk to you." Scarlet pointed out. "You wouldn't know by how she acted. I was so surprised she even spoke to me! Everyone knew who she was, I just never knew what she looked like. I can't believe I walked past her everyday and didn't even know it was her!" Scarlet gave a sad smile and hymned. "Yeah, you wouldn't know it was her based on her reputation, she was always really shy outside of quirk classes, and always kept to herself. I only got to know her because we had the same math class, and she was utterly hopeless at math."
Their laughs soon quieted as their emotions saddened. Their friend was gone, and neither knew if she would ever come back.
Jae stood shakily, panting for breath as her lungs burned. She powered up another attack, slashing a jet of water at the wooden dummy in front of her. The dummy seemed to have withstood the assault, until the dummy's top half slid from the rest of its body. Jae stopped for a moment, catching her breath as the broken dummy clattered to the floor.
The sound of clapping broke the near silence in the room, echoing in the large chamber. Jae turned her gaze to the door, seeing Deku casually leaning against the door-frame, still clapping his hands lazily. Surprisingly, he wasn't wearing his iconic suit, but a pair if black joggers and a white wife beater. She narrowed her gaze, slightly glaring at him, she was not in the mood for talking.
"What do you want, Deku?" She sighed, not wanting to deal with this. Deku just laughed, amused by her behavior. The change happened after the heroes attacked the Hassaikai mansion, but Deku didn't mind at all. He liked the new attitude she had towards him. It wasn't solely based on fear that she stood by him, but because she realized their ideals were mostly the same. Plus, he enjoyed the snarky comebacks that she threw out despite the supposed consequences.
"Nothing Jae. I was just checking in on you, you've been quite angry lately." That was no understatement. Deku knew Jae, he knew just how angry she could get, and how to deal with that anger. She even insisted that he stop with the pet names, advently, if he might add. He indulged her, not minding it at all. Their relationship had changed. More teasing and retorts, than fear and punishments.
"I don't need to be checked up on." She insisted, shaking out her sore muscles. Deku glanced around the room, surveying the damage she had done. All of the dummy's in the room were cut to shreds and even the walls had damage.
"I'm sure that's why the training room looks like a tornado filled with razor blades tore through it." He gestured to the room with his hand, giving her a look. She rolled her eyes, crossing her arms over her chest. "Well, I have a lot of emotions that need to be let out." Jae brushed him off, moving to the bench where her water was waiting for her.
As she bent down to pick it up she felt him at her back. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her back up to meet her chest. "There are other ways that you could let those emotions out." Deku whispered into her ear, leaning down to kiss her neck. Jae's body jumped from the contact, but she brushed his arms away and took a step forward. "Not today." Deku let her go, knowing not to push while he had her so compliant.
"Well then, why don't we spar instead." Deku suggested, causing her to pause in her retreat. "Spar? I can't even raise a hand to you without almost passing out from pain." She glared at him, wondering if he was trying to mess with her.
"No tricks my dear. If you go to hit me the mark won't activate, I'm allowing it this time." He paused for a second giving her a smile before continuing. "I'll even add another condition, no quirks." Her eyes widened and she spun her head around to look at him. "You want to spar hand-to-hand combat style?"
Deku just laughed. "Don't look so surprised Jae. I know what I'm doing, even if you were top of your class in combat training at BVH." He sent her a smirk, letting that tidbit of information that he had on her be known.
Jae just looked at him skeptically. She knew that he had information on her past, it would be surprising if he didnt. "You know that yet you still think you can beat me?" He definitely has something planned. She placed her bottle down and moved to the sparring mat that was nearby. Deku followed, looking cocky as ever.
"I don't think Jae, I know." He stepped up onto the mat kicking his shoes to the side and getting in a readied stance. Jae did the same, falling into her defensive, yet offensive stance. "On the count of three." Jae said, shifting her weight a bit. "One...Two...Three!" Jae stepped forwards, but dropped to the floor quickly, swiping her leg out to knock Deku's feet out from under him. He dodged her leg by jumping over it then spun his own leg around to attack her while she was low to the ground.
Jae, still in her rotation on the floor, used her supporting hand on the ground and her one foot on the mat to push her body up into an arch. She flipped over on her one hand, after pushing off the floor with her foot, kicking Deku's leg back and landing on her feet. She was ready for the next strike when Deku countered once again with a right hook that would have knocked her teeth out if she hadn't dodged.
Deku pressed his attack, keeping Jae on the defensive. She dodged and parried his swings, redirecting his fists with her swift movements. "Is this the best you can do Jae? Dodge me? I thought you were better than that!" He landed a solid hit to her stomach, making her slide backwards, but she was still on her feet. She coughed as she regained herself, and Deku let her. She glared up at him as she clutched her aching stomach.
"Where is that fire from the sports festival huh? Can't make it without your powerful quirk to back you up?" Deku baited her, trying to get a rise out of her. Jae only responded with an enraged cry as she threw herself at Deku effectively hitting him square in the jaw disorienting him. With his vision distorted, Deku tried to re center himself. He saw Jae from the corner of his eye and swung his fist out.
Jae, unfazed in her anger, grabbed his wrist and pulled him towards him. Deku tried to take a step back, but was unaware that Jae had placed one of her legs around his, causing him to fall back. Jae followed him in his decent, grabbing his other wrist as it tried to catch his fall. She pinned him to the floor, wrapping her legs around his waist and keeping all of her weight on him to keep him down.
"How dare you!" Deku's eyes widened as he saw the pure anger in her purple eyes and she gripped his wrists so tight he could feel his circulation being cut off. "You have no idea what I went through to get this far!"
"I am so sick of you treating me like some object that you can possess. You tortured me, kidnapped me, threatened and hurt my friends." She paused looking down at his chest. "Why? Why have you become like this? Why are you hurting me? Why can't you treat me like a human being? Why can't you look at me like you used to? Why?"
Deku blinked up at her, unable to see her face, but he could feel her tears as they landed on his shirt soaking onto his chest. "Jae, I-" "How?!" She cut him off snapping her eyes to his. Deku's mind stopped dead in its tracks. All he could do was stare into her captivating violet eyes that shone with tears. Where those tears for her? Or could they have possibly been for him? Deku didn't know.
"How could you have fallen so far in such a short time? I was only gone for a few years." She loosened her grip on his hands and eventually let him go completely. She placed her hands on his chest, hanging her head as she tried to calm herself down. She jumped when Deku lifted his hand to her face, wiping her tears away and cupping her face. She looked into his eyes, realizing that they weren't red, but green and gasped.
"If you really want to know how I became who I am now, I will tell you, but you wont like my answer." He stroked her cheek softly, smiling when she leaned into his touch. Jae lifted her weight off of him and rose to her feet. Deku followed suit brushing himself off and rubbed his sore wrists. She went to go sit down on one of the benches, but Deku grabbed her wrist, stopping her. "Not here, let's go somewhere more comfortable.
After a short walk through the mansions halls they reached Deku's office. He opened the door for her, allowing her to walk in first before closing and locking it behind them. He gestured for her to take a seat on one of the two couches, and she did so. He grabbed the hot kettle on the stove, pouring the steaming water into a teapot before placing them on the table. He sat on the couch across from her and poured them both a cup. Jae waited patiently as he did so, although she was getting anxious.
"I'll start at the beginning, right after you left for America. With you gone, everything changed…"
~Flashback~
Izuku sat in his room, pouting over Jae's abrupt departure. His mom tried to cheer him up, but nothing she said or did made him happy, not even All Might merchandise! Starting to lose hope, she dialed Mitsuki, hoping that she would have an idea. In fact, Mitsuki was having the same problem with Katsuki, and had come up with a plan.
Only a few hours later the doorbell rang, and Inko ran to grab the door. When she opened it, she saw quite the sight. "Let go off me you Old Hag!" Katsuki was pulling against his mother, trying to get her to release the tight grip she had on his wrist. Meanwhile, Mistuki just stood there, unaffected by her rambunctious sons attempts to break free. "Good Afternoon Inko, I assume you're doing well?" She smiled at her and Inko tried to return the gesture, but was still slightly disturbed by the scene before her.
"Yes, yes. Just fine Mistsuki." She moved to the side to let her guests in. "How is Izuku doing?" Inko grimaced, and gave an exasperated sigh. "Not well." She watched as the blond mother dragged her son into the house and took off their shoes, ignoring his protests and exclamations of wanting to go home. "Well then, call him down here so we can get started!" The loud woman exclaimed, making herself at home in the living room.
"Izuku, sweetie! Come down here please!" Inko called her son, and a minute later they heard shuffling footsteps coming from down the hall. "Yeah mom?" Izuku's sad voice answered back meekly. He trudged into the room, his face downcasted. "Katsuki's here, come say hi." Izuku's face brightened a bit more at the mention of his friend and observed the room to find his friend still trying to escape his mother's clutches, and failing.
"Hey Kacchan." Izuku waved shyly, a bit disturbed by his friends' struggles. "Hey Izuku, can't really talk right now, trying to escape this hag's evil clutches." He responded, putting more strength into his attempts at freeing himself. Mitsuki just scoffed and released her grip. Katsuki fell back, landing harshly on his butt.
"Now you two are gonna go out in the neighborhood and do something! No more sulking in your rooms like toddlers!" Mitsuki yelled at the two boys, causing them to flinch and step backwards. They both nodded their heads and quickly rushed out the door, pulling on their shoes as they went.
"While we were out in the neighborhood, we made new friends, just like our moms wanted, but things didn't go so well for me…"
With his new friends in tow, Katsuki marched through the forest, sending out small blasts as he went. "Let's go! Bakugo Hero Agency!" The two boys followed behind him, cheering along, while Izuku walked shyly behind them. Walking over a fallen tree, Katsuki slipped and fell. The two boys were unfazed, knowing that their leader was strong, but Izuku ran down to help, holding a hand out to help his fallen friend up.
"Are you okay? That was a big fall!" Izuku's kindness backfired on him though, when the two boys started to gossip. "Wow, what's that quirkless loser doing? Bakugo doesn't need any help! He's the greatest." One of them said. "Yeah, how embarrassing. Nobody wants a loser like him helping out." The other one scoffed.
Katsuki, hearing his new friends words, scowled at Izuku. He slapped his hand away, glaring at him. "Get lost nerd. Nobody wants your useless self around!" Izuku flinched back, aws if burned by the harsh words. "That's right, you know what? A useless nobody like you could never be a hero. Isn't that right Deku?" Izuku's eyes watered, not understanding why his friend was being so mean.
"Deku, the perfect name for a useless nobody who will never amount to anything!"
"After that day, I was dubbed as Deku. A quirkless nobody who would never amount to anything. I was beaten and bullied constantly, and Katsuki was the cause of it all. Day after day, he spat on my dreams, beating me when I wouldnt give up, leaving me to limp home with the bruises. Things only escalated from there."
Izuku was sitting at his desk, class had already ended and he was writing in his notebook. On his way to school he came across another villain attack, and he wanted to write some notes about how the new hero had defeated the villain while it was still fresh in his mind. Suddenly the notebook was ripped from his desk, causing him to look up in surprise.
Katsuki stood above him, dangling Izuku's notebook in his grasp, his lackeys looming behind him. "Hero Analysis for the Future? How lame. Still think you can be a hero without a quirk, stupid Deku." Izuku started to shake a bit at his friends, if you could call him that, and tried to reach for the book slowly. "Just because I don't have a quirk doesn't mean I can't try." Katsuki pulled the book further from his grasp, exploding it with a small blast, and casually threw the notebook out the open window behind him.
Izuku freaked out, trying to move to the window, but was stopped when Katsuki placed a hand on his shoulder burning him slightly with his quirk. Iuku winced, shaking as he turned to face the bully. "You'll never be a hero Deku, so why don't you just do the world a favor, and take a swan dive off the roof. Maybe you'll get lucky, and be born with a quirk in your next life!"
Katsuki then sauntered out of the classroom, his lackies in tow, laughing as they went.
"If Katsuki telling me to kill myself wasnt enough torture for one day, I ran into trouble on my way home, a villain."
Walking home with his now wet notebook clutched in his hands, Izuku mumbled to himself as he shuffled his feet. "Why would he say something like that. Telling me to kill myself, what would he do if I actually did it?" Unawares to the danger around him, Izuku didn't notice the green sludge that rose from a nearby sewer drain. The villain laughed, launching himself at the unsuspecting boy, covering him in his slime.
"Ahaha. What luck! Even though this body is weak, it'll give me a chance to get away from that meddlesome hero!" Izuku struggled as the slime covered his nose and mouth, cutting off his air supply. He tried to pry the slime away from his mouth, but he couldn't grab onto the sticky material. "Don't struggle kid, I just need you to get me away from this city! It'll be over soon."
As Izuku started to lose consciousness, he didn't register the panicked voice of the villain behind him. Suddenly, a blast of wind blew the slime away from Izuku's body, freeing him from the villains grasp. Izuku opened his eyes as he regained consciousness, due to a light slapping on his face. When his vision focused, he couldn't believe his eyes! It was All Might!
"Sorry about that young man! This villain gave me the slip, but you should be okay now!" All Might held up the villain, who was being stored in an old soda bottle. "It's all been taken care of!" Izuku's fanboy self immediately exploded out and he tried to find his notebook so All Might could sign it, but when he found and opened it, he saw that it had already been signed. He looked over to the hero in shock, and realized that he was about to leave.
Not thinking straight, he grabbed onto the number one hero's legs as he jumped into the skies. They had quite the conversation in the skies, and then landed on a nearby building. "You need to be more careful kid, you can't just jump onto someone when they are taking off like that! Now I don't have any time to waste, I have to get this villain to the police. Start banging on the door, I'm sure someone will let you in." All Might said as he went to take off once again.
"Wait! Please, I just want to ask you something!" Izuku tried to get the hero to stop, but he wouldn't be deterred. "I really don't have the time-" "Please!" Izuku cut the hero off. "I just need to know." His voice became more saddened. "Is it possible for me to become a hero without a quirk!"
All Might turned and looked at the pitiful boy before him. "I'm sorry kid, but you can't" Izuku felt his heart shatter with those words, and he fell to his knees. Suddenly, there was a puff of smoke and a skeleton like man, took the place of the hero. "Wait. Where did All Might go?" Izuku said shocked as he looked at the disheveled man. All Might sighed. "Calm down kid, it's still me. Look at this." He showed him his battle wound and Izuku started shocked. "This happened 5 years ago, in a battle with a seriously powerful villain."
Izuku started at his hero with shock written on his face. "This is what real villains can do, it's not safe for those without power to fight as a hero, Villains are powerful, with dangerous quirks. You can't stop them without a power of your own. I'm sorry, but it just isn't possible." All Might lowered his shirt and moved towards the door, finding it unlocked.
"Please keep this to yourself kid, I've been trying to keep this under wraps." With those last words, All Might walked through the door, leaving Izuku broken in his spirits.
"I don't know how long I stayed on the rooftop. My dreams were crushed into dust, by the one hero that I looked up to more than anything. The sun had long set and I was still sitting there, on that rooftop, when a voice flowed into my head…"
"Why don't you do the world a favor, and take a swan dive off the roof." Izuku started out at the city, yet didn't see anything. Those harsh words spoken by his supposed friend flowed through his thoughts over and over again. Why has he even here? Nobody wanted him. Nobody believed in him. He was just a quirkless loser who would never achieve his dream of becoming a hero.
Izuku rose to his feet and made his way to the edge of the building. He carefully climbed over the railing and looked down at the bustling city below him with blank eyes. "There is nothing left for me here." With those last words, his hands released their grip on the railing, and he was falling through the air, waiting for his death.
"After losing everything I had ever hoped to achieve all in one day, I decided to give up on living, but someone told me that it wasn't my time yet. That there was still so much I could do to change this unforgiving world."
Izuku closed his eyes as he free fell through the air, waiting for the impact that would release him from his suffering. "Sorry to interrupt." Izuku's eyes snapped open and saw a shadowy figure falling through the air with him. "Wha-" suddenly he was surrounded by the purple mist and he no longer felt the pull of falling.
His feet landed softly on the ground and the mist dissipated, revealing a dark room. There were machines surrounding a chair, where he could see the figure of a man sitting in front of a computer screen. Soft beeps and the sound of a ventilator were the only sounds in the room, and the soft glow of the computer screen was the only light source.
"Master, I have brought him as requested." The smoke like man addressed the figure, stepping away from Izuku as he pushed him forwards slightly. "Good, you may leave, Kurogiri." Izuku watched as the man disappeared into his mist, leaving him alone with this strange man.
"W-who are you? Why did you stop me?" Izuku asked quietly, not understanding what was going on. "I am known as All for One, and I brought you here to offer you what you desire most." The man spun his chair around, revealing his misshapen face and all the tubes supporting his life. Izuku took a step back, disturbed by the sight before him. "A quirk."
Izuku took a step back, not knowing what to do. "T-that's impossible, and why would you give a quirk to me anyways. I'm just a worthless nobody who won't ever do anything useful." Izuku started at the floor in defeat. The man just laughed. "I see. So those pompous heroes and their society have broken you down have they? Why not show them that they are wrong?"
Izuku looked up in shock. "What?" He didn't understand, how could he show society that they were wrong about him if they wouldn't give him a chance? "It's simple my boy, take the power that I am offering you, join my league of villains and you can have your revenge on the people who have wronged you."
Izuku had to admit that the offer did sound good, but he was still confused. "Why would you give me this chance? What makes me special? Why would you think that I would want to be a villain?" He observed the man with questioning eyes. The man smiled. "Your mind, my boy. You have a gift for observation. You can analyze any hero, any quirk, and produce strategies that can either help them win, or help others defeat them. You have a gift. You can use that gift for your revenge on society." Izuku just started at the man shocked, not believing that he was getting such praise.
"Also, you, Izuku Midoryia. The son of Inko and Hisashi Midoryia." He gave a soft chuckle. "I haven't gone by that name in such a long time." Izuku just recoiled, his mind running as he tried to process. "Wait, what did you just say? You couldn't… My mom said… My father died in a villain attack when I was just a baby!"
All for One sighed. "So, that's what Inko told you." He paused, contemplating something. "Have you ever wondered why you were born without a quirk, when both of your parents possessed one?" He stayed silent, trying to understand. "You are my son, I met Inko when she was young. She was working as a clerk at a support items company. I had infiltrated that facility to gain access to certain weapons, and accidentally fell in love with her."
"It was never my plan to have a lover, with all of my plans for recreating the world, but things just seemed to happen, and then you came along." Izuku listened advantly, soaking up every word. "Your mother knew that I was a villain, and with new heroes surfacing and trying to take me down, it became too dangerous for me to be in the open. I left to protect you from the scrutiny of the heroes."
"But, how do I know you aren't just lying to me? I've grown up without my father, I've never even seen a picture of him! Why should I trust what you say!" Izuku tried to calm down. "None of this makes any sense, I just wanted to die in peace! After that bastard All Might and stupid Kacchan crushed my dreams! All I wanted was to help people, to save lives! Why wouldn't anyone just give me a chance?" Tears flowed from his eyes, and Izuku fell to his knees, utterly lost.
"This world is cruel my son, but you can rise up and change it for the better." All for One grabbed a book off of his desk and held it out for Izuku to take. "These are the photos that your mother has sent me over the years, this should be proof enough." Izuku took the book with shaking hands and looked through the photographs. All of them were of him, and at the bottom were little notes. He recognized his mother's hand writing, and snapped the book closed.
"So, I guess it's true." Izuku let out a small laugh. "I'm the son of a villain, with no quirk and no support from this useless society. What a day it's been." Izuku continued to laugh a bit. "Okay, father. What is it that you have planned, I want to know the whole story." All for One smiled as he saw his sons hardened eyes look up at him confidently. From that moment on, All for One knew that his successor had come home.
"My father told me everything, about his origins as one of the first generations to have a quirk, how he created an empire, and how his brother had betrayed him, using the quirk that he had gifted him and passing it down to others hoping that one day it would be strong enough to defeat him. He told me of his battle with All Might, and also why I was born quirkless."
"You were born quirkless because of my power." All for One explained, and Izuku listened carefully, wanting to know all about his father's quirk. "My quirk 'All for One' gives me the ability to steal quirks from others, and give them to who I chose or keep them for myself. Due to the nature of my quirk, I believe that when you were conceived, your body was born without a power so it could accommodate mine."
"When you are ready to attain this power, I will pass it on to you as my heir. As you can see, my body is damaged, and I can no longer strive for the goal I have been working towards for over a century. You will inherit my power and continue my legacy!"
"From that day onwards, I was trained personally by my father, and given a special quik. I fell off the map, leaving everything behind to prepare for my new role."
"Telekinesis?" Izuku flexed his hands wondering why he didn't feel any different. The process to gain the quirk was painful, he wasn't going to lie, the pain was excruciating. "Yes, I thought you might want to start with a power that's familiar to you, it is your mother's power after all." Izuku smiled, thinking about his mother. Inko was informed about her son's decision to join his father down the path of villainy, and she wasn't very pleased. She wished that her son had taken a different path, but she wouldn't stop him. After all she was the one who fell in love with the villain, who was she to judge her sons choices.
Inko helped secure her sons departure from society, reporting him missing and putting on a show for the police. Izuku couldn't have been happier with his mother's support. "Now, lets begin your training. To activate the quirk you must use your mind." All for One began the lesson. "This is the perfect quirk for you to start with, as you have a great and powerful mind. Now, imagine the can in front of you lifting off the table. Picture it in your mind and extend your hand outwards."
Izuku did as instructed, focusing on the can attentively. "Close your eyes, imagine the weight of the can in your mind, feel your hand gripping the cool metal." Izuku flexed his hand, imagining that the can was in his grasp. "Lift it." All for One ordered as he watched his son raise his hand a bit. The can floated off the table rising into the air. "Good, open your eyes." Izuku peaked his eyes open slowly and gave an excited shout of joy when he saw the can floating over the table. "I did it! I have a quirk!"
"After that, my whole life changed. I met with Shigaraki and Kurogiri, becoming well acquainted with them both as my training continued. After a while I gained connections in the criminal underworld as my name became more known. I was gifted the quirk 'All for One' after my training was finished. The league began to grow and we started to execute the first part of our plans, to make the people lose their trust in the heroes. The best way to do that was U.A, and you know how that turned out." Deku finished his story, and looked at Jae with a questioning gaze. Jae just sat there, trying to process all the new information. She sighed, leaning back in her seat.
"How did you know I was at U.A?" She asked softly. Deku laced his fingers in front of him, leaning his chin on the locked digits. "I had done prior surveillance in the school, and also my spy informed me of all the information on every student in class 1-A. When I found out that you were back in Japan and at U.A no less, I grew angry. I hadn't quelled my rage from the past, and I let it get the better of me."
Jae's eyes widened. "You have a spy at U.A! In my previous class? Who?" Deku gave a mischievous smile. "I actually have two informants in the school. One of them is in your class, but I won't tell you who it is just yet. They'll be by for their monthly meeting with me soon anyways." He skipped over the subject easily, brushing it away like dust on his clothes.
"I have one more question." Jae started into Deku's still green eyes. He gestured for her to ask away with a wave of his hand. "How did your name spread through the underworld? No one knew of you until you attacked the USJ." Deku just laughed, crossing his legs and leaning against the armrest of his couch. "The heroes really are quite daft. My fighting style is pretty consistent and I'm surprised that I slipped below their radar."
"When I was up and coming, I was known as The Reaper. I was most known for putting arrogant villains in their place and killing false heroes." Deku explained smiling smugly as he reminisced on the beginning of his villain career. Jae recognised the name, she had read about it in the newspapers when she first moved back to Japan. "I see, I guess that just goes to show how inept this country's heroes are. It's just sad. Compared to America, this government is like a struggling toddler trying to figure out how to tie their own shoe laces." She gave a chuckle.
"Aren't they?" Deku laughed with her, feeling that she understood him more now that he told her what had happened after she left. "I'm a bit disappointed to be frank." Jae said suddenly, causing Deku's laughter to stop at the dark tone in her voice. "To think that Kastuki would stoop so low in order to gain popularity, and the nerve of All Might. The supposed number one hero, who says that all people are worth something, is nothing but a fake when it comes to those shunned by society."
"The irony of this world is something to laugh at. Isn't it, Deku?" She smirked at him, a slightly crazed look in her eyes. Deku started for a moment, shocked. He regained his composure, his eyes bleeding back to red. "It is Jae, it truly is a pitiful world that we live in."
Well, there's chapter 9! I hope that the flashbacks were informative and interesting. I kinda feel like they weren't that good but i'm gonna go with my first thoughts and keep them in there. The next chapter probably won't be up for another 2-3 weeks, well that's what I'm aiming for. I dont have anymore chapters written in advance, so it will take me awhile to finish long chapters like these.
Next time! Who are the spies at UA? What are Deku's plans for the future now that Jae is willingly at his side? What will Jae do with the new information that she has acquired? Find out next time in Painted Red~
~Jewle Enderson