A Man in A Woman's world
Chapter 2
Izuku felt HOT, the sizzling on his skin persisted as the fire raged onwards, spurred by his rage. His eyes glassed over as tears built up. Not for the woman, whose persisting screams could be heard over the crackle of the flame, no, they were not for her.
"Mom?" Izuku said as he collapsed to his knees, he tried to spur his mother awake, but deep in his mind he knew it was far too late. He saw her glazed over eyes that spoke of awareness of what she had done. He saw the knife, buried deep into the middle of her back, blood and a different, clear, liquid leaked from the wound mixing with the blood in swirls of paler red. "Mom?" He tried again, but nothing happened.
Once more the burn of anger filled the pit of his stomach, the screams were still echoing through the room, "Hmm, she must have excellent fire resistance, or maybe something else that helps her with this high temperature." Izuku analysed coldly, none of his usual fervour present. "That just means I need to send more heat and more fire."
The green fire slowly bled into a more vicious white as the flames surged in volume, still the screams came… quieter… quieter… Gone. The fire immediately cut out, eventually being reduced to a small smattering of flames that sputtered all over the ruined apartment building.
There had been 13 casualties that day, five had died of heat stroke, three from falling rubble, two from direct contact with the flames… and the three in the apartment next to his had roasted alive, their apartment becoming a furnace as he produced greater and greater intensity of flame as his anger crescendoed, their death had been slow, painful, the handle on their door turned to untouchable slag before they could get out
13 people had died that day… more than fifty had been injured… Izuku could not bring himself to feel sorry for even one of them… not in the face of his mother's murder. He would officially be classified as innocent by any power that mattered, after all, men didn't have quirks. That fact would soon change, by the time he got to U.A the Quirk Regulation and Safety department would officially announce that boys born after the year of 2289 could have quirks.
Life was changing fast for the green haired boy… very fast, would he rise above the issues and become the greatest? Or would he cave, be swept along by the rising tide of chaos in the world, and become the worst villain in history?
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"Izuku!" Mitsuki Bakugou called out, "It's breakfast time!" Izuku groaned as he forced himself out of bed, he growled at the loud noise.
There was knock on his bedroom door. Probably Katsumi
"Come in." Izuku said, annoyed.
Katsumi walked in two coffees in hand, one smelt nice, just right. The other smelled like death had warmed over, the smell was strong but also had a sickly sweet tinge in the mess of bitterness that was his sou-Coffee, he meant coffee.
Izuku grabbed the one that smelt entirely too much like raw coffee beans had been smashed directly into his nostrils and then ground in there. He took a sip. 'Ahhh, just right'
"I have been living in the same house as you for eleven years, you've been drinking that abomination for five. I still don't know how you don't die from the sheer caffeine intake from that one drink." She said bemused.
"I'm not a morning person" Izuku said while shrugging "I guess it just kind of figured out this way, after all, this is the only thing strong enough to actually wake me up."
"You go through coffee tins in three days with that thing!"
Once more Izuku shrugged offhandedly at her comment. Katsumi groaned in exasperation.
"Ughhh, just get your ass out of bed, we have career selection in class today. And you are not missing out on saying 'I will go to U.A and become the first male hero' ya' got me?" Katsumi said. Izuku nodded and stood up… he was tall he towered over Katsumi who stood at 5'7 whereas he stood at an absolutely gargantuan 6'4.
"Yeah, yeah, I gotcha', now get of my fucking ass Katsumi"
"Never!" Katsumi said teasingly.
"IF YOU TWO LOVEBIRDS ARE DONE FLIRTING GET YOUR ASSES DOWN HERE!" Mitsuki screeched.
Katsumi blushed and Izuku chuckled
"Hahaha, that never get's old, Don't worry Katsumi, she doesn't know what she's talking about." Izuku said.
'she might know more than you think, you dense fuck.' Katsumi thought while blushing further. "come on let's leave." Katsumi said while moving to leave the room… then she noticed Izuku wasn't following her. "What the fuck are you doing? Get your ass moving!"
"I still need to get changed" he pointed out, it was at this moment that Katsumi realised she had been standing and talking with Izuku while he was in nothing but his boxers.
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"Eeep!" Katsumi yelled as she quickly shut the door behind her, blushing furiously. "Stupid sexy Deku" She grumbled as she walked into the kitchen.
Mitsuki noticed her blushing as well as Katsumi's absent-minded fanning of her face. "Well, lookie here, what happened Katsumi? Like what you saw?" Mitsuki teased.
Katsumi blushed even more. "Shut the fuck up you old hag." She said, it was supposed to have bite to it, but her mind was slightly occupied with more images of Izuku in only boxers… and a few of him in even less.
Mitsuki cackled at her daughter's expense, loving the absolute torture she was going through. "now, now dear, you absolute fucking Tsundere, if you don't snatch him up soon some other girl will get him." Mitsuki said. Katsumi snarled at the thought, some other random, faceless, nameless bitch! Snatching him up! Not on her fucking watch!
"No, they won't." Katsumi growled… before realising she had actually growled that, which was followed by furious blushing. "You. Heard. Nothing." Katsumi whisper growled.
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"Now, you are all in your third year of Junior High, so you need to start seriously thinking about your career…" The teacher turned around, and then rapidly spun while tossing the papers in the air, "But you all want to go the hero track don't you!?"
Izuku saw a few girls scowl at the papers that had been thrown on the floor, they were the few that had not wanted to be heroes. He understood the sentiment, he had been like that for a while after his mothers' death, and through the majority of the court hearings as to where he would go.
A vicious explosion followed by a plume of green flame silenced the rest of the class. As they looked towards the two, class powerhouses, Katsumi Bakugou, and Izuku Midoriya. "Oh, yes that's right, you two wanted to go to U.A, right?" the two nodded.
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Katsumi caught a few of the other girls stare at Midoriya, drooling. She scowled at them; they felt a killing intent so potent it could stop stain in her tracks. They immediately looked away from Izuku and Katsumi, for Katsumi was the only one who had that amount of killing intent to waste on protecting someone who was tall, green haired, and had a fire quirk… and was also a male.
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The day ended, Izuku and Katsumi started walking home. "You shouldn't let them ogle Izuku" Katsumi said.
"Why not? It's not like I'm taken, you make sure of that." Izuku said.
'That's because I want you to be taken, by me, you idiot!' Katsumi screamed in her head. "That's because none of them are good enough for you." She said instead.
Izuku chuckled, "Careful. If you keep doing things like this, I'm going to start thinking you're a Tsundere." He said, not noticing as she looked away, blushing madly.
In the streets people stared, little girls pointed, and even one little boy, looked at him with a face of awe.
Izuku squatted down so that he was eye level with the kid.
"Hey kid, I'm Izuku Midoriya, what's your name?" He said caringly.
The small boy took a little bit to respond. "I-I'm Ren, Ren Hito" The small boy responded.
"Wow, that's a cool name! how old are you?" Izuku asked, Katsumi and the boy's mother were standing to the side conversing.
"Does he do this often?" The boy's mother asked Katsumi.
"To every boy he sees. Doesn't want them going through a life with no encouragement like he did." Katsumi said.
"He seems like such a nice boy." The woman said. "It's a shame he can't be a hero with a personality like that."
"Weeeelllll…" Katsumi said. "We're actually planning to both go the hero route."
The woman looked at her surprised. "But he doesn-" Katsumi cut her off by pointing at Izuku and her son.
"That's so cool!" the little boy said, watching as the emerald flames danced across Izuku's fingertips with practiced ease. Izuku smiled brightly at the boy.
"Thanks kid! You're pretty cool yourself!" Izuku said encouragingly. The boy blushed at the praise obviously not used to it.
"…" The mother stared mouth agape. She looked to Katsumi while pointing at Izuku.
"He's an anomaly" Katsumi explained. "The Quirk Regulation and Safety department refuse to acknowledge that he exists, they said it would destroy world order or some shit. But the number of boys with quirks keeps rising. Currently there are twenty in Japan. Izuku's the oldest." The mother looked at her shocked. "Don't be discouraged, your son might be one of the lucky few born with the Y+ gene. Don't get your hopes up, but don't lose them entirely." The woman looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"Thank you… thank you for sharing this with me." She said.
"Don't mention it." Katsumi said as she walked over to Izuku who was deep in conversation with the child. "Come on Izuku, if we don't get home mum's gonna' beat our asses." She whispered into his ear. Izuku nodded while rubbing a spot on the back of his head.
"Well, I sure I'll see ya' 'round kid," Izuku said as he walked off waving at the now energetic boy, he smiled when he saw that the boy was also waving, enthusiastically.
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"You're such a softy" Katsumi said as she and Izuku walked into the Bakugou house.
"Well I can't help it if I want to help a little boy." Izuku said while pouting.
"You always stop when ever you see a little boy, you just want to encourage them, so that they don't have to go through life with no words of encouragement I know… but every time really?" Izuku shrugged in response.
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Nariko Hito sat on her couch, watching the news closely pondering on what she had been told earlier… "Y+ gene" She wondered if her child had it, it was slim, but if he did have a quirk then it would make his life so much easier. She had seen it in the nice boy earlier, Izuku was his name if she remembered correctly…
"Mummy! Mummy!" Her four-year-old son yelled from the living room. She turned quickly, and there she saw him, her son crackling with electricity, hair standing on end. She practically leapt over the couch and hugged her little boy, tighter than she had ever hugged him before. "It's just like yours mummy" He said excitedly, Nariko nodded as tears rolled down her face. She allowed her own crackling electricity to cover her body.
At this moment she would have given everything just to stay there with her son in her arms, as he became the twenty first quirked male.
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A/N
Something more upbeat and humorous or this chapter, Sludge villain next chapter. Will Bakugou stop being a Tsundere? Probably not!
All Might meets the first man with a quirk. She deems him worthy.
Izuku deems Katsumi worthy of knowing about it.
And everything stays happy for the rest of the story…
*Insane cackling rips from the author's throat as he writes this*
"Totally"
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Chao