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"You can be a hero."
Those were the words of the number one hero to me. The words I had been waiting to hear ever since I started training. I remember the first day I had started to workout; just 5 sets of 10 push-ups and my arms were done for, I felt so weak and miserable. I cried resting on the floor where I did push-ups, but I was done with crying and so I stood up and started squats. Though I still cried at night sometimes and the times I didn't cry was when I was busy punching the walls. I was frustrated with myself. However, I knew I had to work hard to get ahead of my drawbacks. I needed a goal, I would be lying if I said my goal was All might. Instead, my goal was to be as good as my friend Kacchan. He was the best in everything be it sports or studies, no one had the guts to cross him nor did I. However, I wanted to catch up to him, it seemed impossible until I started my mix martial arts training under Sir Otami.
Morning 6:00 am (Izuku Midoriya age 10)
Izuku ran into the kitchen, his upper skinny body was exposed to the chilling wind blowing in from the half-open window. "Mom again forgot to shut it last night." He murmured while closing the window. His body Shivered as the last cold wind hit his bare body before the window was fully shut. "It is cold outside." He said. He had to leave for Otami's house at 6:15 and reach there at 6:30. He wore a black t-shirt and ate his breakfast; toast and omelette. He took his workout bag and took off.
As soon as he reached Otami's house which was old and rusty, it didn't even look like someone lived here. The door was left open like any other day. He entered, threw his bag on soft and started to do his daily workout plan; 5 sets 20 push-ups, 4 sets of 30 squats and 50 sit-ups. At the end he did dead push-ups he fell at 70. "Dammit, 100 was my target." He rested there for a while and then he unhurriedly picked up his bag, he could feel the pain in his muscles. Later he walks down the stairs to the basement where he was training to fight.
Otami was casually sitting on the chair holding a cigarette in his hand. He was a regular smoker and today was no different as he was smoking he heard someone's footsteps. He raised his hand towards the stairs while smoking.
Midoriya had hardly crossed the door when he saw his senpai launching a blade at him. He flinched aside and was barely able to avoid the blade.
"Good job kid." He said with a sadistic creepy smile.
Midoriya was trembling as well as his voice from fear when he said, "Senpai it was a blade and you went for my head." He was frozen outside the door.
"And you dodged it. Isn't that great." He said with a wide grin which was followed by a minute of silence. Later he continued, "Body tries to avoid anything which can cause it harm just like a blade if it was a banana I had thrown, you would catch it. It was a reflex action, we have to work on it so that you can be able to dodge the attacks which are surprises. Need to work on your speed too." He innocently smiled.
Haro Otami: height- 185 cm, age-30
Quirk: Blades; he can launch blades from his body which are harder than steel though he can manipulate the strength of the blades. He can make up to 80cm sword. He can crumble his blades even if they are miles away.
Hobbies: playing pranks, smoking, reading books. In addition, he is a little sadistic.
"You can come in boy," Otami said with a calm smile.
Midoriya relaxed his body and stepped inside. However, he didn't notice a string which got pulled by his legs and the bucket full of water unloaded on his head.
Otami burst out laughing and the cigarette which was in his mouth went flying out. "Stupid, never let your guard down." He managed to say as he choked while laughing.
On the other hand, Midoriya looked at him with a pale look while the water dripped down from his green hair.
After a while, Otami told Midoriya to do stretching and then pull-ups. So, Midoriya started downing pull-ups.
"You need to work on your reflexes and your body strength. There are many heroes or people who don't have strong quirk. So, they have to work on there body so that they can stand up and fight even without using their quirk. Reflexes, fighting skills and the will to fight all of that is needed if you want to be a hero even without a quirk." He said and continued, "Once you are done with pull-ups, you have to fight me."
Midoriya dropped to the ground to which Otami said, "So eager to fight, I like that." Otami took off his T-shirt, exposing his well-maintained body with a lot of scars and half-burn on his right arm. Midoriya half-heartedly nodded. "By the way, have you seen Eraserhead fight?"
"No Senpai. Why do you ask?" Midoriya asked him to which he smiled.
"He is good at close combat and his guts to fight are even above his combat skills. I think he is at UAE, you would be lucky if he teaches you some of his skills." Otami said, the smile never left his face.
'It was the first time I fought him. At first, he just dodged all my attacks while advising me to use every part of my body to attack the enemies vital spot. He had made clear one thing there is no reason to push the fight long enough that you get tired. Attack enemies weak part and end it as soon as possible even if you have much more stamina. It is clear that I lost to him. Though I was able to hit him on the neck with a strong swing of my leg. However, to my surprise, it didn't have any effect on him. He didn't even move it was almost like he let me hit him to let me know that I was nowhere near as strong as him.
After that, we used to fight once in every month. My body was coming in shape, the skinny round-faced guy was long gone. I had noticed the change, my forearm was harder and strong even my stamina and speed boosted. Though my favourite moment was when I came second to Kacchan in the race.'
"And the winner like always is Bakugo Katsuki." The announcer said which was followed by huge applause.
I came second and was happy even my mom was though it took some time to make her stop crying. It was after the competition that Kacchan came to meet me.
"Hey, Deku are you trying to beat me?" He said with a creepy smile while making explosions from his hands.
"No no…. I could never." Midoriya said nervously.
"I can see you have build some strength. Still, you can't beat me Deku and it always will be like this." Bakugo screamed louder than he had ever screamed before even his explosions seemed like crackers. Later he stormed out of the house.
'It felt really good to hear it at that time, it felt like he had acknowledged me in his own way. And now I was going to meet All might after my last training day with Senpai Otami. I was excited to get the power of All might; One for All.
Midoriya stormed in the house and without wasting any time he started doing push-ups. All might told me that before he gives me his power he needs to test something so I'll work as hard as I can, Midoriya thought to himself as he did push-ups. He was filled with confidence, excitement and anxiety. His one action had changed everything if he hadn't jumped to save Bakugo he wouldn't be given one for all. However, if All might hadn't been there then he might be dead. Today he hit his target of 100 push-ups.
He took a towel out of his bag to wipe the sweat from his body and then threw it back in. He had a metal disk to add some weight to his bag to increase his speed. He walked down the stairs to the basement noticing that the door was half-open.
As soon as Midoriya opened the door Otami launched two blades at him. Midoriya reacted as soon as he saw it, he threw his bag towards the blade. The blades went right into the bag but couldn't pass the metal. The bag fell to his feet with the moment of the blades. Otami launched another right at Midoriya who dodged it with ease. He picked up his bag and saw the string, he took out the blade from his bag and cut of the string. However to his surprise, nothing happened, a decoy Midoriya thought to himself.
Otami smiled as Midoriya took a step inside, the blade which held the bucket full of water dissolved and it came crashing down on Midoriya.
He jumped ahead right on time avoiding it. "It was close." He whispered.
"That was good." He smiled and continued, "Today is your last day so feel free to do anything, I have to leave.." He checked the time on his watch which was on his right wrist. "Now."
"Senpai where are you going? You seem a little worried." Midoriya asked him.
"It's nothing," Otami replied while faking a smile. "You should focus on your UAE entrance exam. You have to make it kid." He left promptly.
'Otami senpai was always like this, he never shared what was going on his mind. He hadn't told me a single thing about his family or life. If he had I might have been able to help him at that time.'
After doing some exercise Midoriya left the basement. As he left the house he saw the keys of the house on the table with a note beside it. He picked it up and read, "All the best kid, Your dream is just inches away from you. You will make it in UAE. Whenever you feel like giving up just remember what all you did to make it here. Well wishes from Haro Otami."
"Thank you senpai." Midoriya said, locked the door behind him placing the key under the mat and left.
Soon he reached the beach which was covered by junk; lately, people had been dumping their broken things here. Midoriya saw All might sitting on the washing machine drinking water from a plastic bottle.
"All might so what is the test you were talking about?" Midoriya asked, eyes twinkling with excitement.
All might transformed into his muscular form crushing the plastic bottle in his hand. "So you are here finally." Just as he said that he coughed blood and turned back to normal.
"Be careful Sir," Midoriya said as he stepped ahead.
"You have to clean this place in about a week or in 2 weeks. After you do that, I'll give you, One for all." All might said with a smile.
"This whole place?" he looked at him not believing a word he said.
"Yes, I want to be sure if your body is fit to take in that power." All might said. Even if his body is fit it would still have a terrible effect on his body, All might thought to himself.
'So my training days started with all might and as a matter of fact, I was able to clean the beach in 2 weeks. I had to build up a balance between studies and exercises which turned out to be a great bother.
I hadn't seen Otami after that day his home was locked every time I visited for the next few weeks. I had no idea that he was walking on a path to his death.'
The day came when Izuku Midoriya was going to get One for All and was going to start his journey as a hero.
"Young Midoriya eat this." All might said in his muscular form with a grin, known to every All might fan. He held a single strand of hair in his hand.
"What?" Midoriya looked at him confusingly. "It's hair."
"You need to take my DNA in you that's the only way you get the power." All might explained.
"But.. B… I thought it would be something flashy like a transfer of power through thin air or some kind of magical spell." Midoriya spoke waking actions of something of a spell he had seen in a movie.
All might coughed blood turning back to his skinny form. "Midoriya it's not a movie going on here. Now be quick and swallow it." He forced the hair inside his mouth before he could start his never-ending murmuring.
"Now you just need to wait, it will start acting up soon. When it does you would feel it inside you. And yes I forgot to tell you that I am a teacher at UAE." All might said but before he could finish Midoriya started to murmurer things.
"All might a teacher at UAE that's so amazing, that means you can train me even after I enter in UAE. Wait a minute if I enter UAE in all this mess I forgot that the exam is so near I can't believe it. If I fail that would mean I will fail you and Otami senpai that would be so bad. I can't fail I have to pass.. Oh my God, I didn't know it would be so stressful.." Midoriya murmured.
"Midoriya relax! You will pass don't worry." He shaped him for some time till he was back to his senses, "So I was telling that as a teacher I have to leave today for the exam as you know so best of luck." All might gave him a final grin and left.
I don't know what I see in him but he is just like me before I got this power All might thought to himself and said, "He will be a great hero."
On the other side Otami was making his way towards the head officers room, his hands inside the pocket of his old brown long coat which stretched to his knees. Every officer in the police station looked at him with disgrace and dishonour. As he reached closer to the room one of the fresher stopped him.
"Where are you going, Sir? If you need any help you can ask me." The officer said.
"The only person who needs help here is the person sitting in that cabin." Otami said as he removed officers hand from his shoulder and continued, "You should just mind your own fucking business."
Before the officer could act up in anger he was stopped by the head police officer, "Leave him and go back on your desk and Otami just come inside."
Otami followed him inside while lighting up the cigarette. He sat in front of him and smoked.
"He is active again." Sai said with a depressed tone. Otami looked up at him in disbelieve. Officer Sai continued, "He killed another hero in Tokyo who was on his daily patrol duty."
"I think it's still good news." Otami said and continued, "Cause if you ask me finding Stain is almost impossible for the force you hold. It's good, now we know where is he."
"What about the heroes he killed?" Sai said aggressively.
"They died surfing their purpose." Otami replied as the tossed the remaining cigarette in the dustbin.
"I'm not going to take that bullshit Haro Otami, commonly known as Mask Blades." He said and gazed at him in the same way as everyone sitting outside did.
Otami smiled and said, "I honour heroes. However, one should always keep his focus on the goal, take tough decisions and face the consequences. If we catch Stain then that heroes death would have saved other heroes."
"We are leaving for Tokyo this evening. Tell me everything about Hero killer Stain again." Sai said as he wore his coat.
"That's the name he is called by now. Where did the Mask blood go?" Otami said sadly?
"After you got caught The black mask group split and everyone went on their own ways. They follow their own goals now; Stain killing of heroes, Mask Iron, Mask Hacker, Mask healer is all missing." Sai explained as they walked out of the police station.
"I wasn't there for one minute and everything goes to shit." Otami said with a grin.
Sai stared him and said, "If you turn on me I won't hesitate to shot you. I don't trust you Mask Blades, it's good that Eraserhead caught you. Even though you are assisting, in this case. But you were a villain, once a villain always a villain."
"Seems like we have trust issues." Otami chuckled and continued, "By the way, if we want to defeat him we have to outnumber him like 10 heroes surrounding him. That would be hard but you have me so that should do it."
As the car drove to the airport Otami didn't think of his reunion with his partner Stain but the boy he had been training. Kid do good and make it into UAE. All the best Izuku Midoriya your days have just started.
Thank you for reading and for the reviews. I have tried my best to work on it. More new characters will be introduced as story goes on. Give reviews and your advices on this chapter too. I'll work upon it.