I walked through the doors and was greeted by All Might along with someone else.
I wasn't really paying much attention to their explanations or questions. They asked me stuff like, which villains I knew, what information I had on them, and other ones that I didn't bother answering.
I sighed as the officer wrote some stuff down after I answered. I just kinda figured he was keeping minor tabs on me.
Then I kinda just sat there until-
"Kuroshi," All Might placed his hand on my shoulder noticing something was off, "Is everything okay?"
I brushed off his hand and looked away from him, "I don't care about any of this... Don't you get that?"
A small bit of annoyance in my voice, "Sure... Sometimes they hate me, the feeling is mutual, but that doesn't change the fact they are my family..."
"A family that-" Naomasa, I believe, began to speak up-
"Don't even say it!" I snapped at him, my deep crimson eyes gleaming with rage. My body was tense, stiff, I wanted to release this pent up anger. The pounding of my racing heart and the adrenaline in my body was telling me to attack them, but I couldn't.
"There is nothing you can say, nothing at all, that would change how I feel about them..." The glare of hatred in my eyes, along with my intense aura of anger, made them both uneasy, "It's true that I hate the path they wish to lead me down, but that doesn't mean I don't know they care about me!"
He backed down and took a breath, intimidated by a child, a mere teenager, myself.
I swiftly moved and turned away from them, "It doesn't matter what anyone thinks... I don't care..."
All Might looked at me with eyes filled with worry, "Kuroshi-"
"And stop calling me by that pathetic name..." Sighing in annoyance I looked back at both of them, "It's a pitiful alias that has no meaning."
"Then what is your name?" All Might asked me, trying not to trip over the thousands of wires that would set off another bomb inside me.
"My name is Izuku, you need not worry about more lies. As for my last name..." I shook my head, "Just... forget it... It's not important to me, or to you. I just refuse to go by that... disgrace of a name."
Without another word, I stood up and walked out of the room and out of the building.
~ALL MIGHT~
I watched as Izuku walked out of the room, placing his hand in his pocket and pulling out a phone.
When he pulled his hand out of his pocket however, something fell out, and he didn't notice.
A pair of white gloves that matched the ones for his costume.
I stood up and went to pick them up off the ground.
I picked them up and looked at them, something catching both mine and Naomasas eyes.
"Is that... blood?" I felt as if my heart stopped for a moment, "Why are his gloves covered in blood?"
Naomasa walked over to me and took a closer look, "I'll have someone run a DNA analysis."
He took the gloves from me and placed them in a bag.
"As much as I don't want to doubt the boy-"
"He comes from villainy, and his behavior, as well as his actions, lead me to believe there is more to this boy than what he's feeding us," He told me, cutting me off.
"Trust me, I know what you mean, I've seen some concerning things from him already..." I sighed, "Even so..."
"Just a few moments ago, before he left when I was about to state his family abuses him," He stopped, I could tell that how Izuku acted set him off a bit, "He looked like he wanted to attack me, you realized that right?"
I sat there staring at my hands as they remained clasped together on my lap, "Of course I did, and I've seen it more than once."
He waited for me to continue, after all, I had been avoiding mentioning this to anyone else.
I sighed, "There was an incident at the USJ when Izuku was confronted by Shigaraki, and his words that followed once we were at the hospital."
"What did he do?" He asked.
"He stopped Shigaraki dead in place just with something so simple... He bared a sinister grin on his face, and he tried to hide it from me," I paused, "And I knew right then, I had never seen an expression worn by a child that inflicted such fear into another soul before. As for what he said at the hospital... he said he could kill them easily if he wanted to."
Naomasa sat there for a moment to think over my words, "This boy concerns me deeply, I'll admit it. And I know that, even though you say you see potential as a hero in him, you also see the possibility that he could fall victim to villainy."
I clenched my hands on my lap, I didn't want to think about that.
"Don't you think there is a reason behind him not telling you or even bringing up the event behind the gloves, besides his fear of being abused?" He implanted doubt in my mind.
"I do want to know just exactly who he is but, I can't force him to tell me anything. His emotions are intense at times and then he seems to completely lack them," I stated, "That's another factor that makes him so dangerous and difficult to understand."
I don't know just how dangerous, and now I don't truly know who he is… There is something about him that we can't understand, how he reacts to certain things is one for sure. I can never tell if he's lying or telling the truth and sometimes I feel like the boy I had known for years, was nothing but a mask.
~THE NEXT DAY~
Not too long ago I contacted Izuku. I told him we needed to speak with him again, but not why we needed to.
It didn't take long before he finally showed up, the expression he wore blank.
He walked into the room and sat down, "What was it you wanted to talk about?"
I choked on my words for a moment before I finally just spit them out, "Would you mind explaining why the gloves you dropped yesterday were covered in blood?"
Naomasa set the bag containing them on the table and almost instantly, Izuku froze. His eyes locked on the gloves, wide in shock.
"I- um…" He seemed to be struggling.
"Not just anyone's blood, the mixed blood of a family that was found dead recently," Naomasa pointed out.
Izuku was stiff, even trembling slightly. I looked at his hands, fidgeting with his fingers nervously.
He avoided eye contact with me as I spoke up, "Izuku, I asked you to tell me if you were forced to do anything. So what was it, why is their blood on your gloves?"
"I… I didn't do anything…" He mumbled, "I didn't hurt-…"
Why did he stop?
"Izuku, it's okay… Just tell us what happened," I told him.
"I didn't do anything!" He shouted then took a breath, "I just… disposed of them." There was a slight cold behind his words.
Wait… Is he saying he killed them or merely disposed of the bodies?
I was going to speak up but Naomasa beat me to it, "Interesting choice of words, 'disposed.'"
Izuku tended up again, "I- I didn't mean it like that…"
"This is why we need you to cooperate with us Izuku," I told him.
He shook his head and hung it down, "I can't…"
"The fact that you're continually making an effort to keep your 'family' out of harm's way, is less like you can't and more like you won't," Naomasa looked directly at Izuku, "What exactly do you want Izuku?"
"I want to help people…" He clenched his hands on his lap, "That's all I want."
"Even if it's helping the cause you're against?" Naomasa pressured him, I could tell why he was trying to do but…
"No… that's…" Izuku sighed, "Not it… They're just important to me… What am I supposed to do?"
Naomasa sighed, "They're important to you, even after all they've done to you?"
"That doesn't matter," Izuku went from his childlike, slightly fearful, self to cold almost instantly, "I'm the one who disobeyed them, I-"
"What is it?" I spoke up.
"I disobeyed them, so I deserved to be punished," He looked me directly in the eyes. His cold dead eyes made me uneasy along with the small, barely noticeable, grin on his face.
Why is he grinning? And why does he think that's punishment?
I remained silent for a moment before I let out a sigh, "Izuku, what you're receiving is not punishment, it's life-threatening-"
"Life threatening?" The lights in the room dimmed and flickered as he interrupted me in a dark tone. Naomasa and I looked around the room before looking back at Izuku realizing his bone chilling gaze.
"How is it threatening my life in any way?" His eyes widened with a slight smile on his face, "I don't think you understand All Might, they can't kill me… Nor can anyone else."
The cold in his voice echoed around us, almost in a psychotic way he laughed under his breath for a moment before the lights brightened, "You need to stop underestimating me All Might… It's not very smart."
It was then I realized, I was staring into the eyes of a boy I no longer knew. He was different this time, more than he ever had been before. There wasn't an essence of light in his eyes or in the way he spoke, only darkness.
He was telling the truth, but that seemed to be the only thing that registered in my mind.
"Tell me All Might…" He stood up and tilted his head, eyes slightly squinted, with a grin on his face, baring his teeth slightly, "Just what do you believe?"
~IZUKU~
He just stood there, almost as if were frozen in place.
I sighed, placing my hand on my head, and looked at the ground, "All Might, tell me what you think of me. I know more than you think, so please, just say it…"
Still no response from All Might, Naomasa spoke up, "As far as I know, you're dangerous."
I looked over at Naomasa and smiled, raising an eyebrow, "Oh... really? I didn't know that."
"Izuku, just stop," All Might spoke up finally, "This is enough…"
"Hehe…" I laughed under my breath, "All Might, I know what you're thinking… and, honestly, you're right."
His eyes darted towards me in shock.
I spun around for a second, "Still, even with this villainous behavior of mine, I wish to become a hero."
I heard a slight sigh from him.
"My behavior and the fact I'm good at deceiving others makes me dangerous, right?" I sighed, "Well, that and other things, but still… that combined with my quirk, if my father gets to me, I'll be a rather devastating threat. That's what you're thinking."
I could see the look in his eyes which seemed to be full of regret, and yet somehow, hope…
I despised the look in his eyes, but I couldn't do a thing about it. I hung my head in shame, "Do you really think I'd become a villain of my own free will?"
"Izuku…" All Might looked at me, "What do you want me to believe?"
Tears rolled down my face as I clenched my hands to my sides, "I want to be good… I don't want to hurt anybody, but that's all I ever do!"
"Can I believe you Izuku?" He asked me.
"I don't know anymore!" I screamed, tears falling from my face, "I don't know what to think!"
I fell to my knees and hid my head in my arms, shaking, trembling, deceiving…
"Please… Please… Don't let me make the wrong decision!" I dug my hands into my head and held it tight.
I felt a tender hand on my shoulder and I froze, I lifted my head and saw All Might kneeling in front of me, "Izuku, I already promised you I wouldn't let that happen, didn't I?"
I swiftly looked away from him and shuddered, "Yeah…"
He patted me on the back while I calmed down, "You don't need to worry so much, it only makes it worse…"
I looked up at him and smiled slightly, "See you after the sports festival…"
~ALL MIGHT~
Without a second to spare, he vanished.
"I almost forgot he could read our thoughts…" I sighed.
"It's hard to tell what he really wants out of life," Naomasa stated, "His erratic emotions make it difficult to tell…"
"I agree."
"As for his quirk, may I ask you something?" He asked.
"Ask away," I told him.
"You said before he's unconsciously activated it," He stated, "What if he really ends up hurting someone at school?"
And for that, I didn't have an answer.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES, IM WORKING ON CHAPTERS NOW BUT I STILL HAVE SCHOOL TO WORK ON.THANK YOU GUY'S FOR CONTINUING TO READ.