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Izuku woke up to the annoying beeping of his alarm clock. He tiredly smacked the silence button and rolled onto his back. He stared up at the ceiling and watched Mr. Gooey slowly crawl across it. Izuku let the small blob roam his room at night, he felt it was only fair since he took all of the blobs free will. It made him feel slightly guilty.
"Gooey, come." Izuku calmly called out. He watched as the blob let go of the ceiling and fall into Izuku's open hand. He smiled at the obedience and placed the little slime on his shoulder. His hand brushed past the blobs paper face, Izuku frowned.
"I'll need to draw you a new face pretty soon buddy, yours is looking a little worn." The paper was nowhere near as large as the first one he drew all those years ago. He now drew them on small pieces of paper so it would be less noticeable. He did this simply because he hated explaining to people why he kept the blob around. It made him sound lonely, which he was. But he didn't need the whole world to know that.
"Well, it's time to start the day." He said out loud. He then let out a giggle and playfully poked the blob in its middle.
"Yea, I rather go back to sleep too. But we have school today so you know I can't do that." Izuku shook his head at the blob, he knew better.
The boy dragged his feet off the bed and forced himself to get up. He lethargically walked down the stairs and towards the kitchen. He gripped the fridge handle and pulled it open, the cold air flowed to his bare feet causing him to shiver.
"What do you think Gooey, fruit salad, or a breakfast sandwich?" He asked while holding out two pre-made meals in plastic containers. He had bought them from the nearby convenience store.
"You're right, fruit salad will go bad first." He placed the sandwich back into the fridge and slammed the door closed. He would eat the sandwich for dinner. Izuku grabbed himself a fork and plopped himself down at the kitchen table. He pulled the plastic container open and stabbed a piece of melon and plopped it in his mouth. He made a face, it wasn't ripe yet.
Izuku glanced at the calendar that hung on the wall and read the date, rent was due soon. He let out an annoyed sigh. He had no problem delivering rent, it was getting away from the landlady that was the problem. She loved to talk and his 'sick' mother just happened to be her favourite subject. He still had a few days until he had to endure that mental torture, he would worry about it later.
He stood up from the table, the chair made a loud squeaking sound as he moved it. Izuku grabbed the now empty plastic container and tossed into the nearby garbage can. He let out a small victory laugh.
"Nothing but net, huh Gooey?" He was met with silence. Izuku's smile slightly fell from his face. He gave the black mass a small reassuring pat.
"It's ok I'm not mad, it's not your fault you don't have vocal cords." He said earnestly.
Izuku walked back up the stairs and towards the bathroom to brush his teeth. He glanced at himself in the mirror. He had dark bags under eyes, he didn't sleep well that often anymore, he was lucky he got a full night's sleep. Usually he would be haunted by nightmares of his mom, and the horror from that day. He shuttered at the thought of it, he pinched his hand as a distraction. The pain snapped his attention back to the task at hand, getting ready.
A few minutes later he was back in his room slipping his new school uniform on. The only thing he had left was his tie. He picked up the red cloth and stared at it. He didn't know how to tie it, he had never needed to wear one until now.
"I don't suppose you know how to tie a tie, huh Gooey?" He was answered with silence.
"Yea, that's what I thought you would say." Izuku responded humourlessly.
He brought himself to his old computer and turned the power on. Once it had booted up, he searched up an instructional video on how to tie a tie. It helped some, but his tie still looked extremely messy. Oh well, it would have to do.
He brought himself to the apartment's front door and gripped the door handle. Anxiety was already flooding his system. He let out a shaky breath and brought Mr. Gooey down to cover above his heart. He didn't know why but the blobs position always comforted him.
"Alright Gooey, we can do this. It will be fine." Izuku wasn't so sure that he believed his own words.
Izuku walked up to the front gates practicing his breathing exercises. It didn't matter how many times he used public transportation services, they always flared his anxiety and put him on edge. He took one more deep inhale before he trudged forward.
It will be fine. Don't worry so much. What if it isn't fine?
Izuku shushed his negative thoughts. It was best not to judge the day before it actually started. He pushed open the large school door and stepped inside the building. He was quickly overwhelmed by the chaos caused by the many roaming students. It was so loud. Izuku anxiously gripped Mr. Gooey. He could feel his hands shaking and his heart was pounding so loud he could feel the palpitations throughout his body.
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. You're fine. You're fine. Fine fine finefinefinefine.
He was in class 1-A, all he had to do was find the classroom and he would be fine. He timidly looked around the hallway trying to spot his classroom or even a school map. There was nothing.
What now? What now? Whatnowwhatnow? See, I knew it wouldn't be fine.
Izuku took another big inhale, it was much shallower this time. His chest was tight and his tremors increased to his whole body.
Pathetic, you can't even find a classroom. Why are you even here?
Izuku started to pinch the top of his hand, trying to distract himself from his quickly spiralling thoughts. He glanced around another time trying to find any indication where he should go. There was just so many people. It made it hard to focus.
So stupid. Stupid, stupid stupidstupidstupid-
He felt a gentle hand grip his shoulder. Izuku let out a small yelp and he flinched. Hard. He turned around to see whose hand it was. Green eyes lit up in recognition. It was the nice girl.
"Hey am I ever glad to see you! I'm so lost, what about you?" She asked in a very calm and sweet voice. But her eyes looked slightly guilty at startling Izuku.
"O-oh y-yea. I'm a-also l-l-lost. Th-there's j-just so many p-people." He stuttered out as a reply.
"Right? Well, then let's find our classes together. I'm supposed to be in 1-A, how about you?"
"M-me t-too." Izuku felt slightly better at the knowledge that the nice girl was in the same class as him.
Her deep brown eyes lit up in excitement. "Well that's perfect then!" She stuck out her hand and gripped Izuku's "I'm Ochaco Uraraka by the way. What's your name?" She asked cheerfully.
He was being pulled along with the girl, 'Uraraka' Izuku reminded himself. He wondered if she could feel his trembling through the contact.
"I-Izuku M-M-Midoriya." Was his only reply. Uraraka smiled at him sweetly and continued to drag him along.
They eventually stumbled upon their classroom. Uraraka had let out a happy "Ahah!" at the sign that read 1-A. Izuku let out a sigh of relief, he was worried they would never find it. Izuku inwardly smiled at the irony of the situation. In the practical exam Izuku rescued Uraraka from a ginormous destructive robot, but now he was being rescued by Uraraka from a simple mundane task.
She turned towards him "Alright, you ready to go in?" She asked. He nodded in return, his voice seemed to not be working at the moment. Izuku took a big inhale as she slid open the classroom door, he anxiously pet Mr. Gooey in anticipation. What was revealed was the glasses boy from the exam loudly arguing with Kacchan.
Oh, oh no.
Kacchan was in his class? This was not a good start. He expected half the class to be turned against him by the end of the day. Izuku felt his body deflate in disappointment.
See, it's not fine. Why do you always try to delude yourself? Worthless, useless Deku. That's all you will ever be. Stop bringing your hopes up.
The blonde turned his head at the sound of the classroom door being slid open, his eyes widened when he spotted Izuku.
He patiently waited for Kacchan to call him out, to explain to the class why he was such a Deku. To his surprise, the blonde turned his head away and went back to arguing with the glasses boy.
That was… weird?
He forced his shaky limbs to move forward and walked to an empty seat that was beside Uraraka. His movements felt clunky like his limbs were tied to a string and he was being controlled by a newbie puppeteer. He plopped himself in his chair and felt relief that he finally made it to his destination.
"Hello," his attention was brought to a girl that reminded him of a frog. "My name is Tsuyu Asui, but you can just call me Tsu."
He nodded at the girl she seemed nice enough, the colour of her hair distantly reminded him of his moms. "I'm I-Izuku M-Midoriya." He stuttered out.
"You look nervous." She said with a slight ribbit at the end of her statement. Izuku flinched back from the blunt affirmation. "But it's okay, everyone here doesn't seem that bad."
Wait, was she trying to comfort him? "T-thanks, Tsuyu er Tsu." He felt weird calling a person he just met by their first name, let alone a nickname. She let out another ribbit and walked over towards Uraraka.
Izuku started to listen to the loud argument near the front of the classroom, involving Bakugo and the glasses boy. He really needed to figure out his name.
He leaned forward in his desk. "Psst Uraraka," She brought her attention to Izuku. "Do y-you know what the g-glasses boy's n-name is?" He asked while tilting his head in said boys' direction.
"I think I heard him call himself Tenya Iida." Izuku nodded thanks at the answer. So glasses boy was named Iida, good to know.
Just as their argument seemed to get really heated the class was interrupted by a man that took the appearance of a yellow caterpillar. Said caterpillar slipped out of a sleeping bag and announced himself as Shouta Aizawa. Izuku smiled Eraserhead was their teacher! He felt butterfly's flap around in his chest at the revelation, he was going to be taught by Eraserhead, so cool!
"Alright class," The man drawled and picked up a gym uniform. "put these on and meet me outside."
The class slowly trickled their way out the door, Izuku stayed behind until there was only him and Aizawa left. He timidly walked up to the man.
"I n-never got to r-really t-t-thank you for w-what you did at the e-exam." Izuku bowed low. "So t-thank you f-for s-saving me." He squeaked out. It was silent for a while before the man said anything.
"It's fine kid, but later I expect you to explain to me what exactly I 'saved' you from." He said lazily.
"O-of course, n-not a problem." Izuku agreed and then scurried out of the room to catch up with his classmates. Izuku really didn't want to explain what he was saved from to the man, but he felt like he was obligated too. Besides, it would probably be best for his teacher to know exactly who he was teaching.
A murderer.
Izuku flinched at his own thoughts and lightly pinched his hand. He didn't need to think about that right now. Once they were outside, Aizawa gathered everyone's attention and explained that they were going to do a quirk assessment. Everyone seemed rather excited, that is until the man announced whoever was last would be expelled.
'Well, shit.' Izuku thought. There goes his hopes and dreams. He could already tell he was going to come in last place his quirk wasn't exactly made for increasing his physical abilities.
I'm screwed, screwed, screwed screwedscrewedscrewed. Breathe. Don't forget to breathe.
Izuku took a sharp inhale, he really did forget to breathe that time. He grabbed Mr. Gooey and brought him to his face and whispered "OK, Gooey we got this, we can do this." And then placed him on his shoulder. He wasn't sure if he was trying to convince Mr. Gooey more, or himself.
First up was the 50m dash. Izuku felt slight relief, his quirk doesn't increase his speed at all but due to the nature of it, he had trained up his agility, rather than his strength. He heard the loud beep ring out and he bolted.
'5.09 seconds' rang out when he crossed the finish line. He let out a sigh of relief that wasn't so bad he soothed.
Next was a grip strength test. Well, his quirk would be absolutely useless for this, he gripped the tester. It read out 56 kg. Well, it could have been worse. Standing long jump was next, now this was something he could do! This was something he actually had practiced in the past to test his blobs elasticity.
He quickly commanded a bunch of blobs that were in the area to gather in a giant pool right in front of the start line. He then had a bunch more stack on top of each other to form a small staircase. He let out a large grin as he climbed the pseudo stairs, everyone was staring. It must have looked very odd to those who couldn't see the blobs. Izuku bent his knees and then jumped off the stairs and landed into the pile of blobs. He was rocketed across the sand pit and landed a few meters away from the end of it. He heard several people making confused noises at his display. It amused him greatly.
The fourth test was repeated side steps, this was something he could also do. He stacked a few blobs so it formed small towers on his right and left side. He also stuck two blobs onto the soles of his shoes. He then started his side steps which quickly turned into him rapidly bouncing off the blobs like a pinball. He quickly told a few blobs to cover his head and neck, he felt like he was going to give himself a concussion otherwise.
After that, there was seated toe-touch, sit-ups, and a distance run. Izuku preformed rather averagely at them, except the distance run he did a bit better than others. The final test was a ball throw. He really didn't know how he could use the blobs to help him with that. Wait… Izuku felt like slapping himself this was a perfect opportunity for his cottons. He gathered a couple hundred raisin sized cottons towards him. He would need a lot to carry the ball. He had them form a cloud and when it was his turn to throw the ball, he placed it in the middle. He commanded them to fly as far as they could without dropping the ball. They moved slowly but they kept going, and going, and going until eventually they were no longer in view.
He heard Aizawa let out a bored sigh at the pace of the ball. He scanned it, much like Uraraka's it read 'infinity'. Izuku let out a small private smile towards Mr. Gooey.
'See little buddy, I told you we could do it.' He thought happily. There was a scoreboard that listed everyone's names and their score. Izuku was placed 10th.
Oh, thank god. I made it.
The person who was in last place was a boy with strange hair named Mineta. Aizawa told him to leave the school, none too kindly. A bunch of cottons had flooded the boys head and shortly after the short boy let out a flood of tears. Izuku felt bad for him, he really did, but at the same time, he was glad it wasn't him.
"Alright, go get your lunch and continue on with your day." Aizawa said while lazily flapping his hand in a shooing motion. Izuku was about to leave with the rest of the class when Aizawa made eye contact with him, signalling for him to stay behind.
"D-did you w-want to speak with m-me sir?" Izuku asked timidly.
"After your classes are done, meet me in my office so we can discuss your quirk." It was all the man said before he turned around and walked away.
Izuku turned to continue to the locker rooms, but when he got there he realized all his classmates had already changed and left. Izuku dragged Gooey towards his face.
"Great Gooey, I don't even know where the cafeteria is." Izuku let out an irritable sigh.
Really, what did you expect? Who would want to be friends with a Deku like you?
"Shut up." He muttered to himself, his brain seemed to be extra mean today.
Not only a Deku, but who would want to be friends with a murderer? What will you do if you kill them too?
Izuku went to argue with himself but stopped. How could he argue something like that? It was true, wasn't it?
*Sigh*
Izuku pulled on his school uniform and was about done getting ready when he realized his mistake. The tie. He didn't have the video with him, and he didn't think he could remember how to tie it.
Just great, now I get to look more like an idiot than I usually do.
He struggled to tie it. Immensely. But he managed to get it on and stay in a knot. It looked terrible but it was around his neck, it was the best he could do at the moment. He placed Mr. Gooey back over his heart and exited the change room. He was about to turn down the hall and wander until he found the cafeteria when he heard a shout.
"Ah, there you are! Uraraka had me wait for you so we could all eat lunch together." The glasses boy said while making a chopping motion with his arm and hand.
"O-oh, she did? W-well that's g-great! I was wor-ried I was g-going to get l-lost." The taller boy nodded at Izuku's concerns. "So your n-name's Tenya Iida r-right?" Izuku asked nervously. He still wasn't sure if this boy hated him or not. Izuku noticed a few cottons were flitting above the boys head.
"Yes, that is correct, but I would insist that you refer to me as Iida." He replied sternly.
"O-oh, of c-course. I would p-prefer if you just c-called me Midoriya."
"Very well! But before we continue I must insist that I apologize." Iida bowed towards Izuku. It caught him off guard.
"F-for what, you h-haven't done a-anything wrong?!"
"I behaved rudely towards you during the entrance exams. I was stressed that day and took it out on you. So please! Accept my apology!"
Izuku's eyes widened, he's never had someone apologize so fiercely to him before. "It's f-fine, a-apology a-a-accepted." He squeaked out. Izuku flinched slightly at his own words. His stutter was so embarrassing. Iida looked relieved once Izuku accepted his apology and the cottons flew away from his head. 'Hey that's pretty cool, I've never got rid of them without commanding them before.' He thought happily. They started to walk down the hall when he was stopped by the taller boy once again.
"I'm terribly sorry Midoriya, but I can't ignore this. Your tie is a mess please fix it." The boy said sternly. Izuku flinched back from the comment.
"T-this is the b-best I can d-do. I don't r-really k-know how to t-tie a t-t-t-t-tie yet." Izuku's face reddened when he couldn't get the word 'tie' out. Iida made no indication that he was going to make fun of his stutter, which made him feel slightly better.
"Please, then I urge you to let me fix it for you." Izuku searched the other boy's eyes for any indication that he was messing with him. He didn't find any.
"O-okay." He nodded.
Iida walked over and gently pulled the tie apart and repositioned it. He then easily made the knot and before Izuku could process what exactly he did the tie was finished.
"There, done. Tomorrow morning I urge you to get a parent to help you with your tie."
Izuku faltered. "R-right… of course."
They eventually made their way to the cafeteria. When they entered Izuku was quickly overwhelmed by all the students in the room. Where would he even sit? Was he even welcomed to sit with his class? Iida said Uraraka wanted them to eat lunch together, so it must be okay.
What if she lied?
Izuku hushed his thoughts, Uraraka didn't seem to be the type of person to lie.
"There she is." Iida said while pointing across the cafeteria towards a happily waving Uraraka. They walked over together, sitting with Uraraka was Tsu. Iida took a seat across from Tsu, which only left one spot left, which was in front of Uraraka. He slid into the spot hesitantly, ready to move if they told him to. They didn't.
"Hi guys! I hope you don't mind that I invited Tsu to eat with us." She said happily munching on a bowl of rice.
"Of course not." Iida responded. Uraraka then turned towards Izuku waiting for a reply.
"I d-don't m-mind." He was slightly surprised that they even cared for his input. Its only been half a day and it was already so much different from his old school. Everyone was so much nicer.
It's because they don't know what you are yet. A Deku, a stupid pathetic worthless Deku. A murd-
"So Midoriya, what do you think of Mr. Aizawa so far?" Uraraka leaned in a bit closer towards him and whispered "I think he's kinda scary." Tsu seemed to nod in agreement.
"U-uhm I t-think h-he's great. He's my s-second favourite hero and w-well he's j-just so c-cool. I can u-understand w-why you think h-he's s-scary though." He stuttered out, blushing a little that he admitted he was a fan of their teachers.
"What hero is Mr. Aizawa? Ribbit" Tsu questioned.
"H-he's called E-Eraserhead. He's an underground h-hero, so it's u-understandable that y-you don't recognize h-him."
"What is his quirk?" Iida asked curiously.
"H-he can erase your q-quirk if he can m-make eye contact w-with you." The trio made a slight impressed 'ooo' sound.
"That's pretty cool." Uraraka admitted. "But if he's your second favourite who's your first?" She questioned.
Izuku didn't even hesitate in his answer. "All Might." Everyone nodded like they expected that answer. All Might was a lot of people's favourite hero.
Everyone was happily munching on their lunch while Izuku absentmindedly pat Mr. Gooey. He didn't have a lunch, his dad had been giving him money for the bare minimum, which meant he had to skip lunches in favour of breakfasts and dinners.
"Where's your lunch, ribbit?" Asked Tsu.
"O-oh uhmm I d-don't have o-one." He admitted shyly, it was a bit embarrassing.
They are going to make fun of you. They are going to laugh at you. So pathet-
"Lunch is an important meal of the day!" Iida started. "I insist that you take some of mine!" He quickly split a quarter of his sandwich and gave it to Izuku.
"Have some of mine too!" Uraraka said cheerfully, giving him half of her apple slices.
"Me too, ribbit." Tsu slid him a small bowl of rice.
"Y-you really d-don't h-have to do t-this." Izuku tried to explain that he would be fine without lunch but he was met with several looks that screamed 'Eat the food'. So he did and it was delicious. Most of Izuku's meals for the past 6 years had been pre-made from the convenience store. He never had anything fresh due to the small amount of money he had. Izuku had tried to teach himself how to cook but it always ended up with charred inedible food. Since he didn't have enough money to keep buying more food to keep attempting to cook he decided to not risk missing any more meals. Thus he bought premade, they were bland and sometimes old but they were cheap. That's all that mattered to Izuku. Every once in a while Izuku would save up his leftover money from over the months and buy himself a small pack of cookies. It was a nice little treat, he usually ended up eating all the cookies the same day he bought them. He couldn't help himself he had a huge sweet tooth, and the cookies were just so good.
The group had been talking about their favourite heroes, Izuku was trying to listen he really was. But he was so distracted by the blob that was waving around on Uraraka's enthusiastic hands. He didn't even see it crawl on her which bothered him more than it should of. It must have happened while he was distracted by the food.
"U-Uraraka this i-is g-going to sound w-weird, but can y-you p-please give me y-your hand."
She made a confused face but did, Izuku was relieved that she did it without arguing. He lightly held onto it and told the blobs to go elsewhere. He let out a relief when her hand was a hand again. He let go feeling much better.
"So, you going to tell us what that was about?" She asked curiously.
"It's a q-quirk thing. You had a b-blob on you." He was met with confused faces. "Before y-you ask I'll j-just exp-plain it."
Izuku went on to explain the bare bones of his quirk, he didn't feel like boring them with all the nitty-gritty details. The three seemed very interested in what he had to say. He only told them about the blobs and cottons though, he didn't think he wanted to scare them with the horrors just yet.
"Is that why you appeared to be floating during the quirk assessment?" Uraraka asked.
"Y-yea, I was a-actually standing o-on a b-bunch of blobs. It p-probably l-looked really strange t-t-to you guys."
Iida raised his hand up with a question. Izuku was slightly amused at the gesture. "Y-yes Iida?"
"You described these blobs at being sticky, but you climbed and bounced off them for the long jump assessment. Why did all the blobs not stick to you?"
"I j-just told th-them n-not to stick t-to me." Iida nodded satisfied at the given answer.
Tsu asked the next question. "I understand you can make a blob armour for yourself, but what about for others, ribbit?"
Izuku brought his hand up to his chin in a thinking gesture. "N-no, I don't t-think so. It w-works for me b-because my b-body is interacting with both realities a-at the same t-t-time. Yours is o-only in one, so the b-blobs would probably just a-amplify y-your bad luck i-instead. It w-would be m-more l-like me r-ringing a dinner bell, r-rather than c-creating a suit of a-armour."
"That makes sense, ribbit."
Izuku glanced at his watch and hastily stood up. There were five minutes until their next class, he didn't even know where it was. He got so distracted by the questions he wasn't paying attention.
Stupid, stupid, stupid stuipidstupidstupidstu-
"You alright, Midoriya?" Iida asked, he probably noticed his sudden panic.
"It's a-almost time for c-class and I d-don't know where t-to g-go." The last part came out a little shriller then he wanted. He anxiously squeezed Mr. Gooey.
Uraraka took that moment to stand up and say "Oh that's ok don't worry! I already know where our next classroom is. Tsu and I found it on the way here."
Just like that, all the panic left his system just leaving behind a dull sense of relief. It was okay, Uraraka knew where the classroom was. He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, yet again she rescued him.
The rest of the day was a fairly normal school day. He had enjoyed most of the teacher's classes, some more than others. Present Mic's class was one of the more enjoyable ones since the man seemed to have a sense of humour. It made the subject of English more tolerable. Izuku also made a few more acquaintances throughout the day (He wasn't sure if he should call anybody a friend yet. Or even if they wanted to be friends.) There was Eijiro Kirishima, the spikey red-haired kid had approached him first, gushing about how 'manly' he was during the quirk assessment. Izuku really didn't think he was manly at all if he was honest.
Next, there was Fumikage Tokoyami, the dude had a bird head. It intrigued Izuku to the point that he had to introduce himself regardless of how his anxiety felt. He had almost asked "Did you know your head is a bird?" But he quickly stopped himself, because of course he knew. 'Don't be stupid Izuku'.
He was also briefly introduced to another boy named Denki Kaminari, he seemed pretty nice. Izuku really liked his hair it reminded him of lightning bolts. He almost told the boy that but quickly stopped himself, he was afraid he was going to weird him out if he did.
Lastly, there was Shoto Todoroki. He had so many cottons above his head that Izuku felt obligated to talk to him so he could remove them. He was lucky that the boy let him lightly tap his hand without asking for an explanation. He felt it would have been pretty awkward to be like "Hey! I can see your bad thoughts." He's pretty sure nobody would appreciate that.
Everyone had said their goodbye's to each other and were trickling out the classroom to head their way home. All except Izuku since he was supposed to meet Mr. Aizawa after class. He nervously found his way to his office and hesitantly knocked on the door. He heard a muffled "come in" Izuku took that as the okay to enter.
"Alright Midoriya, take a seat." Aizawa said while lazily pointing to a chair. Izuku sat down in the appointed chair and nervously tapped his fingers together. He wasn't really sure what he was supposed to say.
"The reason why I've called you here is because I want to talk about your quirk. Specifically what happened at the end of the entrance exams." Aizawa said this in a bored sounding tone. Izuku nodded, indicating he was ready for any questions he had.
"I already know the basics of your quirk from your quirk sheet. What I want to know is what had attacked you?" He questioned.
Ah. That was a hard question. Images from a week ago played through his mind. The fish-eyed face horror was putrid looking and it almost ate him.
It almost ate him. It was going to eat him eathimeathimeathimea-
"Th-that was a H-Horror sir. They are t-terrifying c-creatures of my q-quirk reality. Th-they all look different and are o-often violent."
"I see. It says here that you can control the creatures in this reality, if you can then why did it attack you?"
"I-I c-can't c-control H-horrors? Or at l-least I thought I c-couldn't. During the e-exam I m-made one a-attack the g-giant zero p-pointer robot. But t-then it t-turned on me. I t-thought it was going to e-eat me, but then you s-saved me."
Aizawa's eyes seemed to search Izuku's and then he carefully asked. "What happens if a Horror eats you?"
Izuku flinched at the question, he thought of his mom. "I-I d-don't know. There's a l-lot of things I-I s-still don't k-know about my q-quirk." Then he muttered really quietly "I-it can be r-really s-scary sometimes." The man made no indication that he heard the last part.
"I have one more question and then you can go." Izuku nodded. "When I erased your quirk, did it make the horror lose interest in you?"
"W-when you erased my q-quirk, e-everything d-disappeared like my b-body was only in one r-reality. When m-my quirk c-came back the h-horror h-had left, like i-it lost interest in me. I have a th-theory that these c-creatures can't actually see p-people, they can only s-sense auras. I d-don't really h-have a way to c-confirm it th-though. But it would e-explain why it lost interest in m-me." Aizawa nodded at his long-winded explanation.
"Alright, just one last thing. If on school grounds you are ever attacked or targeted by a horror do not hesitate to find me. I'll use my quirk on you until you think you're safe." He said firmly.
Izuku's eyes widened at the implication of what he said. 'He's saying he'll keep me safe if he needs too.' He felt his cheeks heat up a bit. "T-thank you, Mr. Aizawa." He stuttered out.
Izuku left the school grounds with a warm feeling in his chest. Mr. Aizawa's words were repeating themselves in his head. It made him feel better. It was hard living alone without knowing where the next Horror would be, so he's glad that he can feel safe at school.
Careful, don't get to close. You might kill him too.
Izuku shuttered at his thoughts. He couldn't let that happen to anybody else. He promised himself to not get to close to anybody at U.A. it was for their safety. He grabbed Mr. Gooey and spoke to the blob.
"All's I need is you right Gooey?" He was answered with silence. He nodded in response towards the blob "Right."
