AN: I do not own My Hero Academia.
Delusional777: I do try to throw small bits of humor here and there. I'm glad I could make someone laugh with it.
TheKursed: His analysis is going to a big part of how he reacts to situations.
Grimmich: Genos is a good basis on how Izuku works in this fic and he will be upgrading himself.
(End of English Class)
Present Mic, or Yamada-sensei, had just finished teaching class. I saw many of my fellow classmates struggle. But a few didn't. Like Katsuki, he had a love for American Comics, so he knew the language fairly well.
Yaoyorozu didn't struggle either, but that wasn't a surprise since she performed highly in all classes.
[Subject Yaoyorozu has a high level of intelligence.]
[Speculating she has had a large amount of private tutoring also.]
Surprisingly, Ashido didn't have any trouble either. I saw she was having difficulty during Mathematics and Science though.
[U.A. has curriculum that is leagues above any regular school.]
[Anyone who can past the written entrance exam has an intelligence level much higher than average.]
[Subject Ashido's intelligence has been determined to be below U.A.'s average, but higher than national average.]
I had Rosetta Stone installed, so this class was a cakewalk.
As I was getting ready to leave to the classroom, picking up my small backpack, Hitoshi had approached me.
"Midoriya."
"Hitoshi-san."
[Subject Hitoshi showing signs of well-hidden nervousness.]
"Is something wrong, Hitoshi-san?"
He fidgeted. "No. I just wanted to say thank you for the other day. I owe you."
I shook my head. "You don't. You helped me escape from the zero pointer."
"But I wouldn't have gotten into this class without your help."
"Deku! Stop cheating on Round Face with Baggy Eyes Jr. and get the fuck out of the room!" I turned towards the door to see Uraraka ducking out the doorway. I caught a glimpse of her face being red. I then looked at the approaching Katsuki. He had been watching me every since the quirk assessment test.
"Excuse me, but who gave you the right to interrupt us?" said Hitoshi.
[Subject Hitoshi showing hostility towards former friend Katsuki.]
[75% chance of physical altercation happening.]
[Intervention necessary.]
"Let's not fight. Katsuki, you are already on thin ice with Aizawa-sensei. Hitoshi-san, you do not want to give people a reason to think the same way as your former classmates did, do you?"
Hitoshi flinched, while Katsuki made that noise he always when he was angry.
"Whatever Deku, just fucking eat for once."
He walked away from Hitoshi and I, yelling at Uraraka on his way out.
[U.A. has an 85% chance of reforming his attitude.]
Uraraka walked over to us timidly. I saw Ilda walk back to into the classroom, going to his desk to pick up a forgotten folder.
"Do you all want to go to lunch together?" she asked shyly.
Hitoshi said yes. I said no, surprising the two. I explained I needed to speak to our homeroom about a pending request. I wished to be updated on it.
As I the left the pair behind, I heard Uraraka ask Ilda did he want to join them. He agreed.
[Unknown person following self.]
I was heading to the faculty lounge when I noticed that. I turned quickly around to get a glimpse of familiar blonde hair.
[95% chance of follower is former friend Katsuki Bakugo.]
[Adding extremely low sneaking skills to Katsuki's profile.]
I kept on walking, going by my internal map. I had updated it after the exam, staying a few hours afterwards. I was told to leave eventually by Pro Hero Vlad King, who was the other hero course teacher, after being accused of loitering.
U.A. had an interesting set of teachers. EraserHead, Vlad King, Midnight, Cementoss, Snipe, Present Mic, Ectoplasm, and Recovery Girl. I wonder if teaching was their full time job or being a Pro Hero was?
I arrived at the faculty door. I knocked two times. Present Mic opened it.
"Hey Shota, one of your kids is here. Plain face and green curly hair. The one who scored the highest on the exam."
I saw my eternally tired teach approach the door. He asked what did I want. I asked him about my pending request.
"You will know tomorrow. Now, go eat lunch," He waved me off.
I wandered off to a secluded area, the library, to put myself in rest mode. I set a timer for forty minutes. Save some energy today.
(End of School Day)
We had just finished our last class. Aizawa-sensei pulled me aside to tell me not linger on the school grounds today. If I did, it would negatively affect my request.
When I walked out of the room, Katsuki was leaning on the wall, glaring, and scowling at me. Was he waiting for me?
[Annoyance detected.]
"Did you need something, Katsuki?" I asked. His scowl deepened when I said his name.
"You're going straight home so I don't have to listen my mom's bitching," he told me.
"Why?"
[Annoyance levels increased.]
"Because your dumbass has been staying out past your curfew so much that you worried Auntie to the point where she has complained to my mom about it. So the old hag was fussing to me about getting your ass home safely."
"So you are babysitter now. I guess this could give you the much needed experience of handling people with care."
[Sarcasm used.]
Katsuki had a murderous expression on his face. The ones he had when I told him in middle school I still wanted to be a hero.
[Annoyance upgraded to Anger.]
[Fight or Flight response activated.]
[Flight chosen.]
[Planning possible escape routes.]
[3 suitable routes found.]
[Option 1: Run in opposite direction and hope to out speed Katsuki.]
[Option 2: Push Katsuki over and run past him.]
[Option 3: Jump out of window.]
"Shut the fuck up Deku and start walking!" He said as roughly pushed me.
[Katsuki has shown restraint.]
[Unknown if this a new behavior or a singular anomaly.]
I saw Uraraka, Ilda, and Hitoshi near the exit. They seemed to be waiting for me. They asked if I was heading towards the train station. I told I them I was, and they asked if I wanted to walk with them. I agreed, getting a grumble from Katsuki.
"You fucking extras better not expect to be able to stop and gawk at everything that interest your dumbasses."
Hitoshi narrowed his eyes.
[Anger rising in Subject Hitoshi.]
'Who invited you?"
"I don't fucking need any of you three's damn permission. I got to walk with this Deku because he's a fucking ass that stays out past his curfew and worries his mother!"
Ilda scolded me about this, with Urakara agreeing with him. Hitoshi was silent.
[Guilt levels rising by 35%.]
[Emotional dampeners not activating.]
[Causing Mother to worry is detrimental to objective of becoming a hero.]
I wasn't as talkative as usual. I still stayed in the conversation, but my input was reduced by forty percent. I'm sure everyone noticed, but decided not speak on it.
When we made it to the train station, everyone but Katsuki said their good byes and went their separate ways. Katsuki and I got on our train, which was empty. I saw a smirk appear on Katsuki's face.
[Interrogation attempt detected. Preparing dodgy answers.]
"So you got a fucking quirk now, huh Deku?" he asked.
[Lying is seen as unheroic, but necessary for this moment.]
"Maybe…"
"What you did during the softball throw wasn't normal."
I turned my head to him.
[Anger levels higher than normal.]
[Proceed with caution.]
"So?" I said, "Why does it matter to you?"
"You've been lying all these damn years to me?"
"No."
[Anger levels rising exponentially.]
He grabbed me by the collar. "Like fuck you aren't. Either you're lying, or you grew some quirk out of your ass."
"I got my quirk a few months ago. Superhuman physiology. All my physical attributes have increased to levels of weaker enhancer quirks of strength, speed, durability, and reflexes. Nothing particularly powerful, but versatile."
[Persuasion successful.]
He let go of me. "So you're going to be some C class hero at best. Fucking figures."
"No. I'm going to be the best hero. The once to replace All Might."
[All Might's time is limited. Must become powerful.]
"How the fuck are you going to do that with your weakass quirk?"
[Anger levels in self rising by 70%]
"I haven't found the limits of my quirk yet. I could be as strong as Sato, as fast as Ilda, and as durable as Kirishima. I can possibly reach All Might's level. And I'm going to be stronger than you, Kaachan!"
[Katsuki (Kaachan?) stunned by declaration.]
"Yeah right, Deku," he said after a second, turning away from me. The rest of the train ride and walk home was silent.
(?)
I have been on this site for only a week and learned so much about robotics, circuitry, code, and electrical engineering. Everything and anything you needed to know was here on this site. It almost made college seem irrelevant. Almost. There were still fields you needed the college experience for, like medicine.
I always knew I could process information quickly, but not at this rate! Maybe it had something to do with me focusing on a realistic idea. Something I could achieve. Just like All Might told me to do. To make the prefect robot hero.
I wanted to create a robot that could beat down all the villains it came across. It would be extremely durable and have super strength and speed, resembling All Might. It needed to replace him, for he wasn't going to be around too long. And Endeavor wasn't the next model hero Japan needed. Strong he was for certain, but he didn't inspire hope like All Might.
That's why I have been solely focused on this goal now. No more hero chasing! No more watching All Might videos all day! Japan was going to need a new number one hero and I was going to create it.
I looked down at my new notebook collection. All the notes I took about the new subjects I learned where in these. I almost had as many as my hero notebooks, which I have hidden under my bed so I don't get distracted. Even the one Kaachan messed up.
I felt a little pride at how dedicated I was at my new goal. I even made a new routine for it. I woke up three hours earlier, giving me time to watch videos and go over my notes I made before I went to sleep. Just to refresh myself.
I always made sure to have my headphones plugged in so I wouldn't accidentally wake up my mom. I also placed my cover against the bottom of the door so no light would creep out. She worked hard enough at her job and worried so much about me, her quirkless son, that she needed all the sleep she could get.
I would then leave my room at my regular time and do my morning routines and hygiene. I would learn more on my way to school, headphones in and volume turned up. Not high enough to not notice someone trying attack me, but enough to drown out the mindless background noise of the city. I would also not look away, even when a hero got into a fight with a villain. I could always get a recap of the fight online. If I had the time, which I didn't.
I started to notice all the strange looks my classmates would give me when they talked about some incident with a hero and I wouldn't try to join in. Their eyes seemed to be filled with concern, but why? They always ignored me when I tried to join in earlier, so why they did suddenly care? Never did before.
I stayed out of Kaachan's way while at school, trying not to gain his ire. Which was hard to do. Even when I was silent, he still channeled his anger on me. He didn't attack me anymore, but the insults never stopped. But they weren't as derogative as they used to be.
I took to eating lunch on the roof so I could learn more without people bothering me. Some of my classmates even started to question if I was okay. And I felt myself getting angry at them. Which then made me feel terrible because I was angry at their concern for my well-being. But I kept thinking of how they ignored me in the past and I would go numb. Numb was good.
Today, I was watching a really good video on how to increase the power of a hydraulic system temporarily. Kaachan interrupted it by slamming the roof door open. His eyes were filled with panic until he saw me just sitting down in the middle of the roof with my headphones in. They lost the panic and gained the familiar angry gaze.
I was glad I had finished eating already or I would have spilled my lunch. Then I would not have as much energy and I would have to slog through the day. And lose precious hours adding extra sleep to make up for the lack of energy. My new schedule was really punctual about energy and sleep. Maybe I should look up how to optimize my carb intake?
"Why the fuck are you up here, Deku?" his voice didn't have the same amount of heat and cracked once. Weird.
"Just watching videos."
"About?"
"Hydraulic systems." No need to lie.
"Why?" His face of utter confusion was kind of hard not to laugh at.
"It's a subject that's easy for me to learn and interest me. Maybe I could learn enough to about it and other mechanical systems to get some course in the Support department of U.A." He was mighty curious today.
He stared at me for a minute or two, looking me in the eyes. Like he was trying to see my soul to figure out if I was telling the truth or not.
He finally broke the gaze. "Don't you fucking dare think about doing what I said last week. I was just kidding you damn idiot."
"The thought never crossed my mind," I told him the truth.
"Better fucking not," he mumbled before leaving.
Kaachan hasn't apologized for anything in a long time under his own will. The last time he apologized to me was about a month ago when his mother found out he ate my lunch because he forgot his. Auntie Mitsuki had said I needed my own food because I was already a string bean and would be anorexic if I didn't eat. Today was a pleasant surprise.
AN: I got about one more chapter to churn out before I have to actually write again. I always put my stuff on paper first and then type.
Weird habit of mine, but it seems to lengthen my stories since I always add more.
Half of this was going to be chapter two, but then I added that flashback scene. And the one in this chapter.
So chapter 4 is going to be the start of the original chapter 3.
I hope this chapter keeps you all interested and thank you for the support.