The Phantom

by Dr.Cats

What if Izuku Midoriya had a Quirk but the Quirk was very dangerous and has a mind of his own but needs Izuku to survive. It grows by eating any living thing and gains something from it. But it also killed the only thing that Izuku loves and he will be blamed for it because it was his own Quirk. So now, on the run and scared of being labeled a villain, he might have to do things th

2. Chapter 2 A Phantom Awakening

Chapter 2

A Phantom Awakening

Six months have passed

Izuku wakes up in his room surrounded by his all my figurines, the same room that he's been living his whole life. He opens the door heads to the bathroom to brush his teeth getting ready for the day. Then he walks to the kitchen seeing his mom making his favorite food katsudon. He smiles with joy, he starts digging in and savoring every bite.

His mom speaks " Izuku are you ready for today." his mother says in a happy tone.

Izuku responded with a confused expression on his face " What's today?"

The mother smiles and then says "Silly goose don't tell me you forgot, it's your quirk assessment, we're going to go see the doctor and he's going to tell us what quirk you have."

Izuku freezes then he quickly shouts "Mom I don't want a quirk, I don't want one please Mom." Izuku was starting to shake out of fear.

Inko put her arms around him and whispered in a soothing voice " Everything's going to be fine Izuku, if you get a quirk you don't have to use it." Inko still hugging her son tightly starts to stroke his hair.

Izuku feels the warmth of his mother he pushes his body towards her, he closes his eyes, feeling the warmth of his mother go throughout his whole body.

Then inko says "Why are you scared of getting a quirk?" she said with a confused face.

Izuku looks at his mother and says. "Mom if I get a quirk is it going to hurt people, I don't want to hurt people. I want to be your hero, I don't want to kill people, if I have a quirk I'm going to be a monster."

Inko grabs Izuku by his face and looks him in the eyes with a smile.

Izuku feels Warmness in his heart, he knows that everything is going to be alright. He knows as long as his mom's here nothing will go wrong, he feels the warmness around him the room feeling brighter and brighter due to his mother.

Then his mother speaks " I thought you said you wanted to be just like All Might you can't really do that if you don't have a quirk." she says while still smiling at Izuku.

Izuku with a big All Might smile says. " You're right I do want to be a hero just like All Might" He says while tears start going down his face.

Inko says "If you want, you can bring one of your All Might figurines with us, when we go for the checkup."

Izuku smiles and nods his head in agreement and starts making his way to his room, he gets to the door and enters his room. Izuku looks for his favorite All Might figurine. He finds it on his night table picks it up and starts making his way back to his mother, he notices that she's not in the kitchen, he looks around shouts out. " mom where are you we got to go to the doctor." to no reply. Izuku starts getting worried.

Izuku hears noises coming from his mother's room, Izuku walks towards his mother's room. Izuku opens the door and sees red, he sees blood splattered everywhere on the ceiling on the ground. He sees his mother's hair on the ground, he sees a tall black shadowy figure he sees it has no eyes, it has endless rows of sharp teeth with no lips. Izuku tries to run away but his body doesn't respond, all that his body could do was hold up the All Might figurine in front of him. The black shadowy figure, walks up and slapping the All Might figurine out of izuku's hands. Then the shadowy figure Stomps on it, Izuku still unable to move his body frozen in fear. The figure grabs him by the neck, Izuku tries to break free to no avail. The shadowy figure puts his hand down Izuku's throat, Izuku starts to suffocate his eyes start going White. After a minute Izuku passes out, Izuku eventually wakes up in an alley. He notices he's a lot taller, he notices his skin is shadowy, he notices that there's blood all over. He looks around noticing piles of bodies around him, one of the bodies he recognizes. It is the body of the number one hero All Might, he starts to cry but no tears come from his face. Against his will he starts to laugh, against his will he makes his way to the number one hero. Against his will he eats him, Izuku starts crunching All Might's bones he hears the cracks in the pops of the bones. Izuku smells the copper in the air, Izuku taste the raw meat of the number one hero. The flesh of the number one hero taste disgusting, after consuming the Flesh of the number one hero Izuku feels stronger Faster smarter. He feels power true power, Izuku tries to deny it, this is not what he wants but even he can admit that right now this power feels incredible. Even though he knows it's wrong, It feels good and natural. Izuku starts clawing at the Shadows around his skin trying to break free again and again. He sees the bodies of the people that he's eaten start to move, he sees them walk towards him.

The Corpse's shout in unison "WHY!" The bodies slowly start making their way to Izuku grabbing his limbs.

Izuku starts apologizing "I didn't want any of this Izuku starts screaming out I didn't want any of this I just wanted to be a hero."

The corpses ignores Izuku's pleads for forgiveness, corpses start pulling on his limbs, they rip away the shadow from his body.

Izuku starts screaming " I'm sorry please forgive me I don't want to kill anybody, please someone help." Izuku starts to cry.

Izuku is eventually pulled out of the shadows the corpses start biting his arms & his legs & his neck.

Izuku feels the blood coming from his body, he feels every bite mark he feels every scratch. He feels them clawing into his stomach pulling out whatever's inside, he sees nothing but red. He looks at the faces of the people that are eating him and then he sees one particular face. He sees All Might well at least what was left of him, he sees All Might with flesh ripped out of him meat hanging off of his body. Intestines hanging out of his stomach, All Might starts pushing his way through the crowd. He grabs Izuku by the neck, his jaw grows like a snake unhinged, his jaw wraps around Izuku's head. Then All Might slowly starts crushing Izuku's head with his jaw bit by bit, Izuku screams out in agony.

Izuku wakes up in his bed covered in sweat tears going down his eyes, he notices that the computer is on and that Akuma is just typing away on it.

Akuma speaks in a worried tone " Man you've been having a lot more nightmares lately, maybe we should go to the doctor and get that checked out maybe they have some medicine for it. They probably have some medicine to stop dreams from happening."

Izuku stares daggers at Akuma I can, even though his body is still covered in sweat and his hand hasn't stopped trembling.

Akuma says "Good grief kid I'm just worried about you that's all." Akuma turns around back to the computer and starts continuing his research.

Izuku gets up from his bed to grab a cup of water, he chugs it down quickly trying to calm his nerves. His hand doesn't stop shaking though still trembling from the nightmare.

Izuku goes back to bed still tired attempting to fall asleep.

Izuku's quirk assessment Journal/ Personal Diary.

Quirk assessment

Quirk's name: Phantom

Analyzing Phantom quirk : Phantom allows a user to summon one shadow creature In the beginning. Note the shadow creature is basically mindless, until they eat something with intelligence. The creature gains most of the knowledge of the things that it eats. Akuma was Mindless in the beginning until he ate a human being then his intelligence shot up. He also knows how to cook my favorite food katsudon without any prior knowledge. He must have absorbed the knowledge of cooking from my mom. He also gains other features depending on what he eats, first he killed the bear and absorbed it and then he got something he called a soul from the bear. Then he converted it to a shadow puppet which is what we call it now. The shadow puppet was pretty weak when he summoned it at first, when I summoned it I was able to get way more output with the shadow puppet. Eventually Akuma was able to replicate the same thing I did, he just forgot to add the shadow string the first time around. Controlling the shadow puppet is draining on my body, now let's move on to Akuma. Akuma is very intelligent he's way more powerful than the shadow puppet. He's also a sentient shadow puppet so that's why I called him a shadow person. When Akuma attacks it doesn't drain me as much, it's more or less a slight drain on my energy. The bear has a bigger drain on it probably due to me have to willingly use my ability to force it to do a task. Akuma started to kill all the animals around us but instead of making shadow puppets. He absorbed the souls into his own form. One of the creatures he killed was a bird, Akuma was able to grow wings but the wings were small and they couldn't help him fly. Eventually, Akuma was able to kill another bird, then he noticed the wings got bigger. Akuma determined that killing more birds would increase his ability to fly. After he killed twenty-five he was able to make a wingspan big enough so Akuma could take flight. Then Akuma hunted a Macaque and was able to get its climbing ability. Akuma was able to hunt some turtles, he gained the ability to harden his skin like a turtle shell. Sadly the shell isn't that strong he must need to eat more to make it stronger, eventually Akuma got bored of hunting.

Akuma started experimenting with his body, Akuma figured out that he can shape his body into different forms. In the beginning it was very difficult for him, after a month he was able to shape-shift with ease. His outer skin was still shadowy, he also practiced on shrinking himself down and making himself self bigger. Which is still difficult for him to this day, when Akuma is in my body he can see what I can see he can also hear what I hear good thing he can't control my body though.

Negatives of phantom quirk: Akuma has to stay within fifty feet of me at all times. Due to my shadow string only having a fifty foot reach, me and Akuma have trained it and we have got it up to sixty feet in a month. It can be Improved upon but the progress is very slow, Akuma can leave without the string, he only has a ten minute duration though. After those ten minutes he disappears and re-enters my body I can't summon him out for at least an hour. Since Akuma is a shadow person and not a puppet he can summon himself out against my will.

Month 1 living with Akuma

The first thing Akuma had me do was dye my hair black, due to the fact that I am a missing child and people are looking for me. He made me wear a sick mask as well to cover my face, the first few days Akuma dragged me to the library. Akuma and I spent the whole day at the library reading about surviving in the woods. Akuma has a great memory he was able to memorize a survival book in a matter of hours. I don't know if it's an ability of the shadow people but I'll look into it later, Akuma started making long-term preparations. He started to fortify our defenses in the woods, he also started grabbing herbs from the land. He told me about poisonous plants and the harmless ones which are safe to eat. I barely spoke to Akuma only when he was teaching me about survival and even then I couldn't really stomach the guy. We agreed to work with each other that doesn't mean we like each other he still killed my mother, I don't think I'll ever forgive him.

month 2 of living with Akuma

Akuma has been taking me to pet stores looking for chameleons, we eventually found a pet store that sells chameleons that can change colors. After I arrived at the pet store confirming that those are the chameleons that can change colors Akuma had me wait outside. Akuma detached the black string connected to me and then made himself very small. Akuma managed to get into the chameleons cage then he proceeded to eat the chameleons. After that he disappeared returning back to my body, after he returned to my body I went back to the woods. About the time I got back to the campsite he was able to summon himself again. After Akuma came out of my body again, he started to transform into a shadowy version of myself. Then Akuma activated the chameleons power, changing the color of his shadowy skin. He was able to make an exact replica of me, it looks exactly like me but didn't have my voice at all. Honestly I was kind of scared when I saw this, I think Akuma's getting too smart. I don't know what he's going to do next honestly, maybe one day he won't need me and he'll get rid of me for good. I sometimes think about that but then I remember I'm his vessel if I die he dies and knowing that calms me down a lot.

living with Akuma months 3 to 5

I hate training so much it is so exhausting, Akuma and me have been going for extreme endurance training to increase the duration of the shadow puppets. Akuma killed a few bears and made shadow puppets, he managed to alter the shadow puppets to a gauntlet. Akuma told me to wear the gauntlet after I was able to summon the shadow puppet bear gauntlet I know a mouthful. He had me spar with him, I can tell he was going easy on me, I was making way too many openings for him to take advantage of but he didn't take advantage of all of them. It was basically sparring day in and day out, we haven't had any animal attacks due to all the animals avoiding us like the plague. Its probably due to Akuma killing everything so they know that this is our territory. Akuma and I rule this part of the woods, basically we trained for three months. The morning after the third month has passed Akuma asked me to do something for him. He told me to put out as much power as I can into him and then cut the black string connected to him. I followed his instructions to the letter. After that he transformed himself into a man in a black suit with an Oni mask. After I gave him all my power I felt exhausted so I just sat down to rest. Akuma trained on his own for three hours that day, during those hours he was cutting through Stone. Transforming his limbs into blades producing tentacles from his back with sharp points. Stabbing them into the ground clearly using them for mobility and also simultaneously attacking with them. Akuma was clearly on a different level, I honestly got bored watching him train. I just sat down doing some school work that Akuma made for me so I won't fall behind in my studies, the next day Akuma told me we're going into town.

Month 6 of living with Akuma

Akuma and I headed into town our first stop was a library, he had me go on the internet and look at crime rates to find out where the locations of the most drugs are being sold. I don't know what these drugs are but he seems to be interested in them. I asked him about it and he told me never to do drugs, he told me that they were a bad thing and the people that are selling them are really bad people. He told me kids died from drug usage, he told me his plan that he's going to get rid of all of the drugs. I said that's a great idea these drugs hurt people so let's get rid of them together. Akuma laughed when I told him that I was starting to get annoyed because he treats me like a kid. I'm six now he still treats me like a kid, Akuma told me to wait at the library until nightfall. We traveled across the city to this one neighborhood, there were a lot of people sleeping on the streets in this neighborhood. It smelled terrible, these people looked very sick as well, I don't know why no hero came to help them. Akuma led me to this building it seemed to be abandoned, the doors of the building were locked I used the Bear gauntlet to open a small entrance so I could crawl in. The place is really old and dusty, Akuma told me to wait here and be quiet. Then he told me to give him all the power that I can manage, I grumbled in annoyance and then gave him all the power I could at the moment. Then Akuma cut the black string he told me to wait here and he would be back here soon. I waited for two hours until I heard a noise it was Akuma, after he returned, he gave me a small bag. Akuma seems to be really happy, he returned to my body and then we left back to the woods. We arrived at home pretty late I was super tired, I decided to take a little peek in the bag I noticed it was full of money but some of the money had blood on it. I dropped the bag, Akuma reminded me of the one rule that we made. That he's allowed to kill bad people and the people that were selling drugs were bad right? From what Akuma told me, can I trust Akuma though maybe he was lying and those people weren't that bad. I need to do more research on these drugs I make sure what Akuma tells me if it is a lie. Eventually I found out the drugs are bad, for the past fifteen days me and Akuma have been going to town getting a lot of money. Eventually we were able to get an apartment, Akuma said he's made some friends from his outings and he told me that the friends are going to give us new identities to help us hide. Akuma asked me what I want for my new name, I thought about it for a while. I told Akuma my new name would be Deku Midoriya, Akuma was confused when I told him this. Akuma understands using my last name, mainly what threw Akuma off was the Deku apart. Akuma eventually caved in to my demands, then he asked me why Deku. I told him I was a useless person when my mom died, I told him I didn't deserve the name Izuku or any other name. Until I become a hero and try to fix what I have done, his name was Tenshi Midoriya. In six months we were able to move from the woods to an apartment. So far life's looking pretty good for us, I still have terrible nightmares though one day I hope they'll stop, then maybe one day I can stop being a useless Deku.

Akuma's outings/Living with Izuku

living with Izuku

I have not been getting on the best terms with Izuku me and him barely talk to each other. I've been making school work for him so he doesn't fall behind in his studies but other than that we barely talk to each other. I don't know if I should reach out and talk to him I feel like he needs space now. I've basically just been experimenting for the last few months also training Izuku's energy output so I can start getting some money.

I had to take Izuku to a bad place in the city, even though it's a necessary risk I still worried for his safety. So far nothing bad has happened, I've been making contacts to get us set up with new identities. So we can start our new lives, the money I've been taking from the drug dealers help out a lot. I'm thinking that I need to find a new source of income soon something through more legal means. The only thing that matters right now is keeping Izuku safe.

Akuma's outings

After I lifted Izuku into the abandoned building, I started to make my way down the streets. These streets were littered with homeless people, people that clearly needed to get help some of them were clearly addicted to drugs. Unsettling my first night will be profitable, then I noticed a teenager he doesn't seem to be homeless. He seems to be out of place, so I started to tell him, after telling him for fifteen minutes he led me down an alley. I noticed four more people already down this alley, one of them clearly had a strength enhancing quirk the dude was 8ft. tall definitely had a lot of muscles to him. The other three looked to be around their 20s so their quirks won't clearly visible. Then the kid pulled out some money, what are the guys pulling out of a paper bag, I decided to walk up to them.

I said " Hey are you guys drug dealers oh no that's terrible you people should be ashamed of yourselves selling drugs." I honestly tried to say this with a serious face but it was pretty hard not to laugh.

One of the guys replied "What's it to you, if you want to live turn around and walk away and if you're a cop you really don't want to mess with us." then he started to chuckle.

I Looked to him and then said " Do I look like a cop to you?" with a serious tone.

He looked irritated, he stared at me with anger when he moved his hand into a blade & he pointed the blade right at my throat.

The teenager that was buying the drugs said "He doesn't want any part of this." drawing the attention of the drug dealers.

As soon as they took their eyes off of me, I transformed my hand into a spike then I pierced the man threatening me in the chest in a fast clean motion.

The drug dealer started screaming in pain, I got irritated so I kicked him off of my Spike. The drug dealer started to bleed out on the floor clearly dying from blood loss, for some reason this excites me.

The teenager fell to the floor Frozen in fear.

The muscle man reacted by attempting to grab my skull.

I was able to use my tentacles in time to move myself away from his attempt to crush my skull. Simultaneously while I was moving, I was able to see an opening and counter. I commanded one of my tentacles to stab him right in the eye to blind him. The giant man screeched out in pain, then the giant man stumbled back holding his eye in excruciating pain.

I felt extreme pain piercing my body, I turned around and saw a man with a gun shooting at me. The gun didn't have a suppressor on it but still I couldn't hear a sound maybe his quirk was suppressing sound.

After being shot I decided to play dead, I fell on the ground laying on my back. I didn't even have to stop breathing since I don't breathe, I stayed perfectly still. I had to force up some shadowy fluid, using my chameleon ability to change the color of it to red.

I laid there on the cold ground waiting, I heard the footsteps of the gunman getting closer.

The gunman said out loud " Oh man this guy was stupid and crazy, this guy probably had a death wish or something god damn it. He got one of us, the boss isn't going to be happy, well the fights over now so that's some good news." The gunman let out a big breath.

The gunman spoke " Now let's see what's under that mask." the gunman walked to my body. He was stepping in my blood, then I saw him reach for my mask and I knew I had him, the gunman put his hand over my mask.

Then I stretched out my neck toward him, my mask opened two rows of sharp teeth clamping down on the gunman's hand. I summon tentacles from the blood I was secreting, to pierce the gunman's legs. The gunman started reaching for his gun but I was quicker, I grabbed his hand and started to squeeze shattering his bones. This feeling felt exhilarating like I'm finally starting to feel full, I started to indulge myself in the meal. Scooping arms and legs into my gullet consuming this man, I didn't know I felt this hungry but now I'm starting to feel full. I quickly consumed the gunman in seconds, after I finished my body felt like it was being restrained. The fourth member of the drug dealers had his hands out to me, he probably was restraining me. I felt like a barrier was keeping me restrained I couldn't see it though.

The giant man walked up to me, he grabbed my head and started crushing it. The pain was excruciating but I ignored it due to the hunger, all I felt was hunger. I felt like I needed to eat this man, I felt like I needed to eat everything. Then I remembered the promise to Izuku only bad men, that brought me back to my senses. Crushing my head won't kill me, good thing they don't know that so I played dead waiting for them to get close.

After my head was completely splattered, I felt the barrier holding me in place release. I fell to the floor pretending to be dead, I felt the giant man stepping on me. I didn't know if the giant man was saying anything I couldn't hear but I could feel the pain that he was causing me. I thought to myself I need to return the favor, I summoned sharp spikes directly where I felt the giant man. A barrage of 20 spikes most of them piercing the giant man, I started to regrow my head. I started to expand my body around the giant man, I was able to swallow him whole in one gulp. When I shrink down I had to crush all those bones I could barely hear the muffled screams of the man that I was killing, this new kill felt exhilarating.

The barrier man was next to the teenager frozen in fear.

The barrier man shouted at me "What the hell is your quirk, we decapitated you you shouldn't be alive." I saw tears flow from the man's face. His legs are shaking he didn't know what to do & he couldn't keep his breathing regulated. I remember that he was holding his breath when he summons those barriers. I knew this was my chance to strike before he could calm himself down. I shot tentacles around the man and then I pulled myself to him. I grabbed him by the throat while slamming him to the ground, then I started to squeeze so he wouldn't be able to use his quirk.

The teenager was there against the wall He made himself into a ball.

The barrier man wheezed out " monster? you're a monster." he started to fall in and out of consciousness.

I slowly lessened my grip on his neck so he could breathe, I didn't want him to pass out.

I said, with a smile "Don't worry you and your friends will have a nice new home, I think by the end of this you'll be thanking me honestly, no more worries just a nice new home." I started to strangle the barrier man, then my stomach started to open, I looked down at my stomach saw the faces of the two men that I just ate. I started growing hundreds of teeth and tentacles, out of my stomach to grip the barrier man. He struggled to no avail, the razor sharp teeth I created clamped down around his whole body until his body stopped moving. Then I consumed the rest of him adding another soul to my body. Then I consumed the first drug dealers body that I killed.

After I finished eating the corpses I just realized that I ate the money as well.

The teenager was still crying huddled against the wall, his body was still trembling unable to move because of the fear.

I walked up to the teenager went into his pocket and pulled out the drugs, then I scattered the drugs on the ground & started to crush them with my feet, then I walked back to the teenager.

I said " Where can I find more drug dealers?" in the most intimidating tone that this teenager ever experienced due to the sheer terror that was on his face.

The teenager spilled the beans and told me where all the drug dealers hung out. Before I left I had two things to do, I wrote the kanji for Oni on the wall. The other thing I did was shout out to the teenager "Don't do drugs or I will find you a new home in my stomach.".

After this first outing I was able to get a decent amount of money. The next outings were similar feeding the hunger that I never knew I had and stealing as much money as I could.

Apparently a legend started around me, people called me the unkillable Oni. People say that I don't even have a quirk, due to the crazy rumors. Even though I'm starting to get a reputation of being a boogeyman I still need to train. The way I move is so sluggish and sloppy I need to be more agile and precise so I can kill way more efficiently. Drug dealers are not trained usually but I still have some tough time fighting them. Hell even being shot is an example of my lack of training, I need to be aware of my surroundings more. I need to study some martial arts, also I think I should be hunting more types of animals and getting more abilities. I think about hunting some bats getting the ability to use sonar would be useful. I'm also interested in some lyrebirds so I can mimic people's voices. Those are plans for the future right now, I just got me and Izuku an apartment after a few days of my outings. I also got a computer so I can do my hunting way more efficient and precise.

Bakugou living without Deku for 6 months.

I didn't go to school for the first few days after I heard that Deku was missing. My family wanted me home, my parents and I attended aunty Inko's funeral. I've never seen my mom cry so much in her life, I tried being strong for her but I'm not really good on the touchy feely things. Deku is still missing nobody could find him, when I went back to school apparently all the kids were told that Deku moved away. I knew better after school instead of playing with those extras, I spend my time looking for Deku. No matter how much I look for that Deku I never found him, months went by even though I know Deku most likely would be dead by now. I still had some hope that he would be alive, around month 5 I started losing hope. Around the sixth month my parents took me to visit aunty Inko's grave, that's when I saw it. A little plaque next to Inko's, it says Izuku Midoriya, my heart sank so low, I fell to my knees. My heart started racing tears started going down my face, I thought to myself how could a Deku make me feel this way. Why do I feel like this, memories started coming back to me of me playing with Deku. Him always following me, he was always by my side until that day I fell down into a river. Then the nerd tried helping me, then I pushed him away. I wanted to prove to everybody that I don't need help that I am strong, am I strong? why do I cry? Why does Deku make me feel this way? Why? Why? Why? Wh- my train of thought was cut off. When I felt warm arms around me, my mom was holding me tears in her eyes. Then I remembered why I feel this way, even though I never really admitted it. Deku was my only friend, because the only reason the other people hang out with me was because of my quirk. I looked at Deku grave and said. " I'm sorry De- Izuku.

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