Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia, Kohei Horikoshi does.

Rated M for eventual gore and a lot of swearing.

Warning AU: UA is a university, so everyone is above 18 at the start, just don't want to write about teenagers fighting with adults since it will become quite ugly as time passes.

I have no beta reader. Every grammatically incorrect word I make is either because I either suck at writing or didn't see it when I re-read it. Bear with me as long as it is readable please.

A bit of a warning. If you look for a big harem master, overpowered, God-like, heir of a rich family, using One For All's 100% and all his Quirks entailed or even awakening mysterious power out of his arse and bashing characters just for the fun of it, you will be fairly disappointed.

Although it's a story where the OC will become fairly unstoppable as time passes by, bitch-slapping All For One easily and all that just for the fun of it, it will not be instant. It will be fast paced, yes, but not instant.

The main pairing is also decided and will be the OC with two girls. You'll see it unfold later.

Just before we start, one more little warning. The OC is not perfect, obviously. He has his own doubts, faults, bad attitudes. He is not Izuku, obviously, or just Izuku but 'better'. He will have a strong character. Not saying that Izuku doesn't have a strong character, just that they are different.

Even if the MC says he is right about something, and the story might make feels like he is in the right, he might not be right. It is his point of view after all. He is not all-knowing.

Anyway.

I hope you will like the story!

Chapter 1: Kai Sato and how he got One For All.

I was a failure.

Yeah, I know, it's not healthy to be self-deprecating and all that kind of shit. Blablabla.

But I was kind of a failure, that was facts.

What kind of dumbass dies like that and then, reincarnate in a world full of superpowers like Quirks, but still doesn't get one?

Oh, yeah.

My name is Kai Sato, if you want to know, not sure you will want to after you see what kind of a failure I am.

I don't remember much of my previous life. It had been 17 years since I was born again in this world.

Yes. I remember everything from my birth up to this point, unfortunately.

I was ecstatic when I understood that I was reincarnated in a world like My Hero Academia.

I watched most of the seasons before I died.

I watched as Izuku got powers after powers given to him. I loved Izuku's character. He was such a sweetheart and he deserved everything good that happened to him.

I don't remember my previous name. I just know that I was from the US, that I had a girlfriend somehow, a few of them in my previous life time actually, and that I had few close friends and lots of acquittance that I considered to be close enough to talk to but not that much.

I was a social person at heart. I hated all that technology stuff. I was a simple guy, with simple goals, and a kind of an obsession for heroic movies and sports in general. God how I loved sports.

I wasn't bad at school, I graduated from a Computer Science degree after all – which was hilarious considering I hated technology. I did it because I didn't know where to go and science seemed like a good idea at that time. Never worked in a job in this field though.

In my spare time, I was mainly boxing and running, Muay Thai to be precise. The deadly aspect of Muay Thai was what made me wake up every morning to go and practice it.

It was for that reason that I quit my job in a little flower shop to concentrate all my efforts to that sport, with my girlfriend supporting me.

I was an orphan, so having a girlfriend that supportive helped me go through life with a little less struggle each day.

When I woke up in an unknown bed, my new bed, or more like a crib at that time, I was both shocked and saddened.

It took me a few years to ignore my life-crisis questions, shock of losing everything I had and sadness of having to go through every step of growing up again.

Puberty hit like a bitch.

And the worst of it all, I was Quirkless.

Growing up in a orphanage near Mustafu, I was studying at the same school as Izuku and Katsuki.

The issue? Izuku has a Quirk and avoided all the 'Deku' thing, which was okay in my book of course because he deserved every happiness he could get, but now I was the 'Deku'.

At first, it bothered the inner child in me – I was 5 at that time for god's sake, but not so much anymore.

But then, when Katsuki started to become violent about it, I snapped.

I learned a hard lesson at first, getting put to the ground like a dog.

But I wasn't Izuku, I wasn't meek about it.

He might have got a Quirk, but he's still a little meek. Superpower doesn't give you a personality. He was not that much of a crybaby or wasn't that much intimidated by Katsuki though. Still intimidated, but not as much as before.

After the first altercation, when we were around 4 or 5, I started to train as hard as I could.

I started running again but that wasn't enough.

I started Martial Arts again, Muay Thai and some grappling adding to the mix. Still not enough but I couldn't do anything else because I was too young.

Conditioning with pushup, squats and situps when I was 10.

Still not enough, but I was winning some bouts of the altercation and I never backed down, no matter the odds.

At 14, the table turned when I started adding swimming and cleaning the Dagobah Beach little by little.

I know Izuku needed that to become One For All's holder in the manga but he was pretty powerful in these universe. He might not need that while I absolutely did to survive against that maniac.

I started adding more exercises too. Dips, Chin-ups, Pull-Ups and Muscle-Ups adding to the mix.

I was pretty jacked to be honest, but still got lean because my body was more of an athletic build than an a muscular one.

So, when Katsuki tried to beat the 'uselessness' out of me again, I fought back as always.

But this time, Katsuki got the shit beat out of him.

I know it was petty, but I was pretty contempt with myself.

Until reality came back to me when you consider that, while he was going to be a hero, I was going to be left behind in the dust.

I thought about taking One For All since Izuku had a Quirk, but I think that getting in the way of Canon may be dangerous.

I know that I wanted to be a Hero. I always was obsessed with heroes in my previous life, and even if I never fanboyed like Izuku did, I wanted to become something more for once.

I mean, I died without much meaning to my life once. I wanted to be different for my second attempt at life!

I wanted to be the strongest. I know it was vain, but I wanted to become so strong that I could change the world for the better. I mean, this world was pretty fucked up. Heroes being corrupted, Villains being absolute assholes and government being his usual fucked up self.

So, since Izuku had a Quirk, why not taking One For All?

Because, in all honesty, it felt wrong. It would feel shallow of me to do it. It was supposed to be his power.

Even though I will accept the power without much thinking If I have the chance to, I will not seek it and steal it like a coward.

That question hunted me for years, prompting me to pick up new hobbies to occupy myself while I was trying to come up with a response.

Drawing for one. I always loved drawing even in my first life. I was pretty decent at it and got even better now.

Cooking was also another. It will help me become fitter as I learned to cook healthier recipe and it also was so much fun. I was decent at first, having to cook for myself since I was little in my previous life, but I got really good after I started to learn under the supervision of one of the kind matrons here.

I wasn't a chef but I was decent.

Parkour was my new second hobby. Getting the adrenaline of jumping from a rooftop to another was the best sensation in the world. I got to pick up some tricks along the way to avoid Katsuki and his clowns he called his friends.

It was the best hobby I picked up. The feeling of the wind rushing to my face, the thrill of danger, everything about it was just so perfect.

The only thing I hated about this new second chance at life was that, for the second time, I was left an orphan. First time it was a car accident, second time it was a villain attack.

That –

"Huh?" I murmured as I looked around the almost cleared up beach.

Now at 17, it took me 3 whole years to clean up that beach. Not that I wasn't stronger than Izuku was at that time, but I didn't have the car to travel to the near garbage dump, so it was a long way up to there.

Moreover, with all the other training and hobbies that I had, it was unavoidable.

A slim-like green goo appeared behind a broken television on my right and I stilled in horror as it jumped on me.

Oh well. SHIT!

Before I could even register what was happening, I was trapped by the slim bitch villain and my breath got taken away.

Now, how the heck All Might could find this place? I might have cleaned most of the beach here, but I was hidden around the remaining trash around here.

I tried to scream in help but my thoughts were foggy at best and I couldn't even murmur even if I wanted to.

"Don't worry kid, I just need your body for a while so that I can –" The thing was interrupted by a scream of something akin to a –

"Don't worry because I am HERE!" A buffed, awesome, blonde haired and blue-eyed man came out of nowhere. I felt the grip around my body loosen as All Might took me out of arm and then – "SMAAAAASH"

So cool!

The sludge villain exploded in a flurry of goo.

Damn, that was powerful.

XXXX

"Can I still be a hero without a Quirk?" I asked after all the usual 'Why am I a skeleton by All Might' explanation happened.

Nothing changed about the speech except that I wasn't Izuku and that I didn't grab his leg and didn't get propelled into the air with All Might. He was already at his limit because Dagobah Beach was at a bigger distance than where Izuku got trapped in the manga.

I know I shouldn't do this. I wasn't a hero like Izuku, but somehow, I always yearned to be just that, and I couldn't help myself.

Moreover, since Izuku had a quirk, he might not even have the same drive to be One For All's next successor. That wasn't likely but it comforted me in my choice.

Orphan in both worlds, useless in both and powerless to change anything about that in both.

You want to know how I died? I fell off the stairs like an idiot and broke my neck on one of the stairs. I died before I could even feel the pain.

I was so useless, yet I couldn't let that happen in both of my lifetime, especially when I had the opportunity.

That opportunity came to me. I didn't even try to take it selfishly.

"I am sorry young man" The words of All Might, or Toshinori, echoed in my mind and I felt it hurt me more than I would admit it "You still can become an officer or a firefighter. They might not get the –" What was I thinking?

I wasn't Izuku. I wasn't like him. Talking to All Might might be an opportunity but it doesn't mean I would be his primary choice to inherit it.

But I was fed up.

Fed up with Katsuki being a bitch about me being powerless, even when I was beating his ass for the last three years without a Quirk.

Fed up with whoever put me here as a fucking joke because I was unable to do something that mattered even though it was my second chance.

Fed up with Izuku being such a sweetheart that I couldn't even fathom the idea of stealing One For All from him. Damn him and his perfect hero-like attitude.

Fed up with All Might who was a Quirkless nobody like me before he got One For All too. That was a lot of nerve to say that coming from someone like him.

Fed up at –

Fed up at being lonely in both my life, being an orphan again.

"I want to be great!" I exclaimed to him, my anger rising for the first time in almost decades. Yes, I was social, exuberant sometimes, vocal most of the time to what I thought, but never that much of an angry person. Lately I was getting pettier and angrier though "I want to protect people, be a hero! I want to be the Symbol of Peace, just like you! I want to be so strong that no one will dare to touch any innocent again! I want to create great friendships and want to become something – something more than what I am now, something greater than myself!" I got up, leaving a stunned All Might behind. I looked at him a second time "If you don't believe or don't want to help me, fine! I will do it anyway! I don't need someone to tell me I can or can't!"

Seriously, I shouldn't have done that. I had two lives of experience. I should have been better, should have been more mature, but I wasn't.

I barely remember my first live anyway, so I was pretty much just a 17 years-old with some memories of a past life that became fuzzier as time passed.

I wasn't as mature as I thought I was, but right now I couldn't care less about being mature. I was just so done with all that bullshit.

Fine. I don't need One For All. I could still create something to become great.

Like some Iron Man suit or something. I never needed anyone before. It won't change anytime soon.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was skinny yet so powerful. I looked behind. It was All Might. He was smiling from ear to ear "I was wrong about you" He admitted. Letting my shoulder go, I turned around again, and he got serious "Are you sure?" I was confused, and it might have been written on my face because he specified "Are you sure you want to be everything you said you wanted to? Becoming the Symbol of Peace and all that?"

I reflected on that.

Did I? Did I want to?

The response was obvious. Yes. Fuck yes I wanted to it. I wanted it since I came here. It was just that I never allowed myself to indulge in that dream.

Fuck that. I wanted to be a hero since my first life too.

I nodded. I didn't trust my voice right now.

He smiled and sighed "Very well. Then I guess I need to test you before I could –" He stopped as he looked at the now empty bottle.

Oh no. That slimy bastard escaped.

Taking my phone out, I scanned for any activity on villains around here. I knew Katsuki would be attacked somehow but I didn't know where.

Or maybe it wouldn't be him. Just the fact that I was here, with All Might, instead of Izuku was such a drastic change that I might as well throw everything I knew about Canon right about now.

Fuck Canon anyway. I was too far away from it now. Well, since Izuku had a Quirk and Katsuki and him are still best friends, Canon had already changed a long time ago.

Found it.

I looked at the location and immediately shown it to All Might.

We looked at each other and All Might buffed in his buffed form before grabbing me and jumped.

More like flied for a little distance with how far we jumped.

I couldn't help but be surprised by the sudden shift of vision and screamed in joy and a little bit of fear.

That was INSANE.

And I liked it. Of course I liked it.

Jumping from rooftop to rooftop at miles of distance, we arrived at the scene in a few seconds.

Arriving at the scene, something dreading happened.

We arrived –

"Oh no" Just before All Might's form dwindled before a puff of smoke replaced the buffy figure of All Might, the frail form of All Might's true form taking it's place.

The distance. The distance might have changed everything. He can't use its form, like at all.

Coughing blood like crazy, I was reminded that, despite being the Number One Hero, it wouldn't be long before he had to retire.

I had so little time before shit hit the fan.

I need to act.

Looking at the scene, my eyes widened in shock.

There was no Katsuki trapped in here, who was currently looking helplessly as the scene was unfolding.

No. It was Izuku. I don't know how the heck it happened, but it happened.

His Quirk was a Fire one, a mix of his father's and mother's Quirk, so there was bouts of flames everywhere, which was the reason why the Heroes couldn't act without risking Izuku's life and others.

It was stupid. They were cowards, the lots of them. I wasn't better though because I was just watching as helplessly as they were.

Looking at All Might, I knew this time it won't happen as it did in the Manga.

This time All Might can't save the day.

And I wasn't Izuku.

I wasn't like him.

I wasn't going to head headfirst in the danger without thinking.

Huh?

Fuck. I was already sprinting toward the scene without even knowing.

I wasn't Izuku. I can't magically save the day. I didn't have plot armor! Damnit!

But it was too late anyway.

I was already there, sprinting toward the scene, the voices of the heroes echoing in the back of my mind, but I wasn't listening to it anymore.

'The eyes' I looked at the sludge villain while it was thrashing around 'It's his weakness' I remembered from the show.

I didn't have a schoolbag to throw at him though.

But I could do it. I had to. I can't let the protagonist of this world die like that.

I can't. I can't. I –

"YOU AGAIN? NOW YOU DIE!" The sludge villain screamed as his two hands extended dangerously toward me.

In the last second, I dodged the first hand that came at me, sprinting to the left, and jumped on the wall.

Before I jumped toward the opposite direction – where the villain was.

I arched my hands back, his second hand passing below me as time slowed.

"LET HIM GO!" I screamed while I swinged both of my hands at his eyes.

I wasn't thinking anymore. I had one mission: Save Midoriya, the most important character of this world.

The sludge villain's eyes widened as I aimed at both his eyes.

The thing screamed as I planted both my hands in his eyes without thinking.

One of his hands came to my right, swinging at me.

My vision blurred as pain filled my mind and body. I had barely time to react as I felt my left side impacting against the wall, cracks on the wall erupting from where I was. Such was the impact.

Coughing blood out of my mouth, I lifted my head to the sludge villain and –

Grinned.

"You like that bitch, huh?" I said without much thinking. The villain roared in anger as I jumped again in battle, sprinting shakily toward it.

"Let go of him you bastard!" I screamed as I scratched the sludge out as much as I could.

I could see Midoriya's eyes as he watched me helplessly trying to help him. His mouth got free "Why? Why doing that?" He said in pure shock. Why would I do that?

"I don't fucking know dude! Just help me get you out of that psycho!" I said as I tried to free his hands so that he can use his fire Quirk somehow.

Fuck it. All Might really can't do anything right now. I understood why but it complicated everything.

As I tried to help him, I heard echoing explosions cracking on my right.

I didn't need to look at it to know who that was. Katsuki.

"DIIEEEEEEE!" Katsuki said as a wave of explosion poured out of his hands toward the sludge villain.

Well not like a wave to his whole body –

But a concentrated explosions toward his head.

The villain screamed and I felt the grip that he had on Izuku loosen – ignoring the gross smelling of burned goo.

I screamed, putting everything I got into getting him out of that bastard.

"ARGHHHH!" I shouted as, finally, Izuku got out of the sludge, resulting in both of us falling to the ground in a pile of corpses.

After that it was just blurry.

I felt someone taking me in their hands and saw Izuku and Katsuki getting carried by other heroes.

I smiled "Finally" I said as unconsciousness gripped my mind.

And I embraced it.

XXXX

I groaned as I walked toward my house.

The fucking nerves of those guys.

They praised both Katsuki for his quick thinking and Izuku for not giving up till the end and processed to scold the shit out of me for my brashness.

I replied back of course. If I hadn't done what I did, Izuku would have died.

They grew pretty quiet after that.

I understood their point of view though. If I was a hero I wouldn't want civilians to try and end up injuring themselves. But they did nothing to help either!

I apologized though, because it was the right thing to do, the mature thing to do, and they apologized back. They were good lads, the lot of them.

Death Arms and Kamui Wood especially.

"HEY! DEKU!" I turned around. It still felt weird to be called that since it was Izuku's original name. I sighed as I saw who it was. Katsuki, of course "Don't act like you are superior to me because you acted before me or some shit! If I wasn't there, you wouldn't have done anything! You hear me!?"

"You are right" I said, and he got silent pretty quick "Without you, I wouldn't have saved Izuku. I thank you for that" Truthfully, I knew he wouldn't take that very well, but it was the truth. Without him, I and Izuku would have been fucked.

"Tch" He said before turning around and didn't say anything else. It ended better than I thought it would.

I slowly walked back to the orphanage. At least I got to see a little bit of the show with my own –

BOOM.

"I came here like a normal person!" The booming and echoing voice of All Might appeared just in front of me – prompting me to jump in surprise.

Before he transformed back and coughed out blood.

I let him recover back as he regained composure after a few seconds.

Looking at me with a genuine smile, he ruffled my hair while I tried to not blush at the gentle gesture.

It was … pleasant for once.

Wait – DON'T TELL ME –

"Young Sato" He said while he withdraws his hand from my head "Today, you demonstrated how wrong I was about you for a second time and for that, I apologize to you" He said and bowed at me.

I waved off his concerns "There is no need for that"

He insisted "No. I must insist. You are the definition of what a true hero is"

I wasn't. I really wasn't. I was scared. I didn't think before sprinting to the danger. I was just a dumb idiot with a dumb dream and –

I wasn't fucking Izuku okay? I wasn't heroic and –

"So that is for that that I want you to inherit my power" He extended his arm, his blonde bangs whirling in the wind as a weird multicolored ball of power appeared in the palm of his hand. His blue eyes shined stronger than ever "One For All" he intoned in a grave voice.

I can't. I can't. I wasn't that brave –

"I can't do it" I said as tears come out of my eyes "I am a failure. I am a useless, Quirkless, nobody, orphan with a pipe dream of becoming something more than he is" I admitted, and All Might remained silent "I don't know why I did it. I just – I – I –"

I realized then and there why I did it.

Not because of selfish intention or because I wanted to steal the power from Izuku.

It's because, if Izuku died, I knew I would have to step in and somehow save this world of All For One and Shigaraki.

I was scared of that.

I was a fucking coward coupled to a fucking loser. I can't stay like that forever. I had to step up.

"Did you do it without thinking?" I nodded "Without any other intention?" Well – "At that time, at that right moment, did you even think about something else but save someone?" He inquired and I couldn't respond to him.

Because I was just like Izuku, in a way. I too was Quirkless like he was in the show, a useless, boring fucking looser, in a way. I too wanted to become something greater.

He wanted the power to protect everyone.

I wanted the power so that I can be the strongest and assure that no one dare harming anyone.

I realized that, at that exact moment, that I was getting it all wrong.

Izuku wasn't the main character of this story anymore.

I was. All that Canon shit with All Might coming to me instead of Izuku was a clear indication of that. The fact that he wasn't Quirkless alimented my theory.

Fuck.

"All right" I sighed as tears came out of my eyes "I accept. I'll do it. I'll become the next Symbol of Peace" I promised.

Toshinori alias All Might grinned. He was glad that I accepted his offer.

"Young Sato" He said as he put both hands on my shoulder, his eyes piercing mines with a bright smile "You too, can be a hero"

I smiled back, wiping my tears as I laughed "I know I can"

Because it was my story.

I am Kai Sato, future Symbol of Peace and Protector of this World.

I am no Izuku Midoriya. I am not a fanboy, meek, powerful but weird Hero that you all love – like I love too. He was too awesome to be hated.

I am my own person. I love talking to other people. I love sports. I hate studying even though I graduated from college, in a scientific field at that. I love heroes and superpowers.

And, for once in my lifetime, I wanted to be great.

The greatest even.

This is my story.

Take a seat and welcome to My Hero Academia Remastered.

Because I don't care about Canon.

Fuck Canon.

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