Chapter 3
A year with a devil
A year living with Akuma
Update journal on akuma's abilities: Akuma has acquired human souls, now he uses the souls in different ways. Creating new abilities depending on what abilities that he wants would require more souls, could just eat the souls to make himself stronger.
New ability black flame: it took Akuma 6 months to create black flame. Black flame is an ability that allows the user to summon a black flame but the black flame isn't hot. When the summoner uses it the flames at room temperature, when black flame is exposed to something of a high temperature it absorbs the heat from the source. Then that heat can be used with the black flame to burn whatever the user commands. Black flame is only as strong as the source of the heat, the summoner can lower the temperature of black flame. The user can control it with pinpoint accuracy of course the user has to be trained first.
Deku and Akuma together for the next 6 months, nothing much happened Akuma started hunting more proficiently with the computer. Deku is being homeschooled by Akuma, Deku tries not to ask for help since he doesn't want to talk to Akuma. They just have normal routines except for Akuma's outings, after the six months are over, Akuma tells Deku that he needs to make at least one friend. Akuma says there's a park nearby that he should try, Deku agrees talking to kids his age would be nice and making friends. The problem is he can't leave Akuma, Deku decides it's the best course to take Akuma even though he doesn't want to bring him.
The park
I walked in and saw the park it looks pretty nice actually, the park had a pretty big slide and a sandbox next to some swings, the park is pretty nice.
"Hey" says a blond-haired girl.
"Hello" says Deku nervously with a blush.
"You must be new around here." the girl says with a smile while extending out her hand. "My name is Himiko Toga."
Deku stands there too nervous to say anything else.
"Say hi my name is Deku Midoriya" says Akuma.
"Stop talking and ignoring me right now I got this!" Deku says to the voice in his head.
Deku shakes Toga's hand and says. "NicetomeetyoumynameisDekumidoriya." He says in a muttering mess.
"What HAHA was that introduction HAHA!" Toga found the muttering hilarious and cute.
"I want to die now." Deku says in his head.
"You made a girl laugh that's an accomplishment for you." Akuma chimes in.
"No no no get out of my head, no talking!" Izuku thinks trying to drown out Akuma.
"Do you want to play on the swings with me?" Toga says after she's done laughing at Deku's muttering.
"Yeah that would be fun." Deku says with blush on his face, still obviously nervous. "Sorry for the weird introduction, I mumble a lot it's a bad habit." He says while putting his hands together rubbing them cuz he's nervous.
" I think it's cute, so it's okay." She says with a smile.
Deku freezes unable to move. "What does she mean cute, am I cute or what I do is cute? Does she like me or does she hate me, she clearly likes me because she thinks I'm cute. The muttering could be cute but not me?" Deku's thoughts were cut off.
"Hey are we going to play on the swings?" Toga says looking at Deku with a worried look.
" Yeah sorry I just thought of something, now let's go." Deku says with a tomato face.
Deku and Toga start walking to the swing set.
" I want to go first, can you push me?" Says Toga as she sits on the swing waiting for Deku to push her.
" Yeah" Says Deku, Deku starts pushing Toga on the swings.
"Faster faster" Toga says with a smile on her face.
"Faster huh okay." Says Deku then he proceeds to push her as fast as he can.
"aaaaaaaaa" Says Toga howling in pain.
"Are you okay? What happened?" Deku says while slowing her swinging on the swing set. "Oh my gosh you got a cut on your head." He says while panicking and trying to make sure she's okay.
"Get out of here monster and leave that boy alone!" Says a kid with rocks floating around him.
Toga starts to cry and then starts to run, Deku tried to stop her from running but she was too quick.
" Get out of here villain nobody wants you here!" Says the boy with the floating rocks, then the boy runs to Deku's side. " That was a close one you should really stay away from her her quirk is evil, good thing I was able to save you." he says heroically.
" There's no such thing as a evil quirk." Deku says while shouting at the boy.
" She likes to drink blood because of her quirk, she's an evil vampire." the boy says with worry.
"All we were doing was playing" Deku shouted anger coursing through his veins. " She didn't ask for any blood!" He shouted even getting more angry.
" Deku stop wasting your time and go to Toga, make her feel better." Akuma says with haste
" You're right, Akuma I got to help Toga but first." Deku says in his head, then Deku throws a straight punch into the kid with the floating rocks face. Directly hitting the kid's nose causing little spurts of blood to come out of him. Deku takes off running heading out to find Toga.
"I Think you broke my nose!" The boy with the floating rock starts to cry while holding his nose, tears start going down his face. "I'm going to tell everybody you're with the villain!" The boy started running away with tears in his eyes.
" I actually never thought you'd break somebody's nose what's gotten into you?" Says Akuma demanding a explanation.
" It's none of your business!" Deku replies in his head, he thinks to himself "Why was I so angry? When kacchan beat me up I didn't throw a punch at all. Now I just punched somebody cuz I was angry. It has to be Akuma he's messing with me somehow."
Deku turns on the corner where Toga ran off, he saw her walking with a man. The man looked around 40 years old, he was wearing a bow tie and a dress shirt and dress pants. He also looks chubby, Toga was holding hands with a bear but the bear was walking next to Toga.
" This isn't good, Deko you need to get her away from that man." Says Akuma
" Shut up Akuma you don't know anything!" Deku mind shouts to Akuma.
" Deku listen that man is dangerous. " Akuma pleads.
" Now you want to save somebody?!" Deku says with vitriol.
Akuma decide to stay silent not responding
" Hey Toga!" Deku shouts while approaching the man and Toga.
Toga just freezes when she hears Deku call out for her, she stands watching wondering what he's going to do next she thinks to herself. " Deku knows about my quirk now, he probably came to call me a villain to my face."
"Are you okay?" Deku says with worry in his voice.
" Yes, thanks to this nice man, he gave me a bandage and cleaned up my wounds."Toga says while smiling. "Deku you know about my quirk, so why don't you hate me? Why don't you call me villain like everybody else?" Toga says with a smile in the beginning, the more she talks the more her smile turns into a frown, tears start going down her eyes.
" You're not a villain, Toga you're one of the nicest people that I know, besides the quirk doesn't make you a villain. Anybody who says that to you I'll beat them up." Deku says with confidence.
The man next to Toga grabs some tissues and gives it to her, Toga wipes her eyes for the tears to go away & then blows her nose.
" Thank you." Toga says with a big smile, Toga turns to the man. "Is it okay if Deku joins us?" she says to the man.
" Of course the more the merrier is what I always say." The man says with a smile.
" You hear that Deku." Toga says as happy as can be.
Deku nods in agreement and walks next to Toga.
On the way there, the man asked about our quirks, I told him I didn't have a quirk. I didn't want to lie to the man but I just didn't want to talk about Akuma, Toga said she doesn't know about her quirk that much. After about a 30 minute walk, we all arrived at the man's house.
The nice man's house.
The nice man had a small house, a nice and comfortable house I would say. The man walked across the house leading us to a door, the man opens the door, then he turned on the lights. There's a stage full of toys and a camera.
"Go on kids play as long as you want." The man says with the nicest smile.
Toga grabs Deku's hand and drags him to the stage, Toga and Deku start playing with the toys. The nice man starts taking pictures of them playing, the man starts using his quirk to make the toys come to life. The toys are playing with Deku and Toga, they play for about an hour, Deku and Toga start getting tired.
"It was a fun day today I got to get back home now though." Deku says a little out of breath.
" Yeah me too, my parents will get worried if I don't show up soon." Toga says equally out of breath.
" Sorry you guys can't leave yet until you guys do one favor for me."The man said with a smile.
" Sure what is it?." Toga says with an enormous smile on her face.
" I just need you to stay here forever" The man says with a cheerful smile, then the man reaches out in his back pocket for a needle. " Oh and one more thing take your medicine." The man's smile starts changing to more of a Menacing one. The man starts approaching Toga.
Toga steps back behind Deku. " Deku I'm scared." She says with a frightened voice, her body starts to whimper in fear.
" I'll protect you Toga." Deku says it with a All Might smile.
"No get off of me!" Toga screams.
The toys that Deku and Toga were playing with start to restrain Toga's body. Then a few other toys lunge at Deku, the toys start restraining Deku, the toys eventually put them both to the ground.
"Wow it looks like I told you he was dangerous and then he turned out to be dangerous, what a surprise?" Akuma sarcastically says
" I don't need your help so shut up!" Deku shouts in his head
The man started walking towards Deku and Toga, Deku and Toga start to struggle but there unable to break free. Deku is unable to summon his bear gauntlet, due to the fact that he's in a high-stress situation, the bear gauntlet it also takes a minute to summon.
The man grabs Toga by her hair and pulls really hard.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... stop please!" Toga screams at the top of her lungs.
"Shut up." The man says while he proceeds to pull on her hair even harder. "That's it, I like to hear your scream, scream louder for me, hahahahaha." The man says with a chilling smile while laughing.
" I can't let her die, I can't do anything, I won't let this happen to her, she doesn't deserve any of this, what can I do? What can I do, I'm just a deku, I can't use my quirk, only one person could help me now, dang it why am I so weak?!" Deku thinks to himself while looking at the man with a glare that could kill a man.
"I order you Akuma save her!" Deku shouts out With all of his anger sounding like a crazed child.
" You finally wised up." Akuma says with a sigh of relief, Akuma Lunges and grabs the man by the arm shattering it with his grip strength. With Akuma's other hand he grabs the man by the mouth. " Deku grab the girl and get her out of here, things are going to get messy." Akuma says with a gleeful smile on his face. While he stares at the man soon to be his new victim.
Deku gets up noticing that the toys have stopped being controlled. He grabs Toga and carries her up the stairs out of the basement. After Deku closes the door he hears screaming, sounds of bones being crunched. Sounds of Flesh being ripped apart, and a horrible scream of a dying man being cut off. He hears the thud of a limp body.
After about three minutes have past Akuma walks out of the basement, covered in blood, Akuma crosses his arms and looks at Deku.
"Don't say it." Decku says annoyed.
" I told you he was dangerous and you didn't listen, I told you so. " Akuma says in a scolding tone.
Deku staring at the ground understanding this is his fault, while still caring for Toga.
Toga stares at Akuma, she focuses on the blood all over him, her heart starts to race, she starts getting excited. She gets to her feet runs to Akuma stops in front of them.
" You're pretty!" Toga says with excitement.
" That's a first, people call me scary not pretty." Akuma says confused.
" Sorry I shouldn't talk about blood, calling you pretty and stuff, I don't want to make Mom and Dad angry again please don't tell them I said this." Toga pleads
" Sure kid I won't tell your parents, this is natural though because of your quirk I'm assuming, do you need blood?" Akuma says cautiously trying to pry answers.
"Well I don't know how my quirk works exactly, When I see blood I just have an urge to drink it, it makes me feel good."Toga says in a sad tone, Toga starts to frown and hold her arm. "Every time I talk about blood Mom and Dad get very angry." Toga starts to cry at this point.
Izuku starts to comfort her, while her holding onto her hand. " It's your quirk it's fine, it doesn't make you a bad person." Deku says in a soothing voice.
Akuma pulls Toga's sleeves, Toga's arms have cuts most likely from a razor, Akuma also notices bruises.
Toga realizing what Akuma just did, she covers up her arm." Please don't tell my parents you saw that, I don't want my parents getting in trouble!" Toga shouts out in a plea. Toga starts to cry again, she starts holding her chest due to her starting to breathe erratically.
" Do you like living with your parents?" Akuma says staring into Toga's eyes.
"In the beginning, my parents were very nice to me, then I got this quirk and now they hate me." Toga says while falling to her knees looking at Akuma, " Why do my parents hate me?" Toga whispers the question out.
" That's not your fault, no matter how much you go an blame yourself it's not going to change anything. Sorry to say your parents don't-"Akuma says while trying to break the news to Toga.
"My parents don't what? love me is that what you're going to say, because I already know that!" Toga screams in anger.
During this conversation Deku was trying to calm her down holding her hand. Making sure that somebody was there for her, while Akuma was prying information out of her.
" Akuma we need to help her." Deku says with puppy dog eyes with a puppy dog look.
" good grief kid, fine I'll help if she's okay with it." Akuma says with reluctance. He turns to the girl, looks around the eye. " Do you want to live with us and if you do, I'll make sure you're treated right, I will help you control your quirk." Akuma says with sincerity looking at Toga directly in the eyes.
Toga stands up, looking at Akuma and looking at Deku, she thinks about her parents how much they've changed how much they pushed her away. They're even thinking about having another child, even though she doesn't know Akuma or Deku. She knows they care, maybe the only ones that care about her now. " Yes a million times yes!" Toga shouts out tears running down her face. She smiles now because somebody actually cares about her.
" Good choice now let's go to your house and I'll deal with your parents. Don't worry Deku no killing, I'll just talk to them." Akuma says with a calm demanding voice, then Akuma transforms into an older Deku. " I want to pretend to be your dad so act like I'm your dad." Akuma says attempting to convince Deku to play along with him.
Deku now just had an agreement and grabs Toga's hand, Toga takes Deku's hand and walk beside him, she starts to lead both of them to where she lives.
Toga's house
Her house is a decent-sized house, her family is clearly well off, Akuma walks to the front door. He rings the doorbell and waits after a few minutes he hears footsteps coming to the door. A woman opens the door she looks identical to Toga if she was older. She looks at Toga with a disgusted look, then she turns to Akuma before she could speak.
"Look I'm just going to be blunt here, you people are pieces of shit. Now we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way. All I want is custody of your daughter or I'll report you for child abuse, if you don't comply I'll just report you for child abuse. Then I will adopt her on my own accord, make your choice?" Akuma says in a businessman tone, no hint of emotion just straight to the point. Akuma was like an animal going for the kill.
Toga's mother is stunned due to what Akuma said to her and knowing the consequences of disobeying.
" You're blackmailing me?!" She says angrily.
Akuma takes out a cell phone starts typing in 3 numbers, he turns the phone to her.
She glares at the phone and saw 110, she also noticed Akuma's finger right over the call button.
"Okay you win." Toga's mother says while crossing her arms." Honestly this is a blessing, now our abomination of a daughter won't be bothering us anymore." She says coldly, while staring at her daughter. She notices Toga starting to shake a bit due to what she just said. "What are you scared about?" She kneels down to Toga's eye level. "You're the monster here ruining my marriage, thanks to this we can start our new lives again with another kid." She stands up grabs the door and starts to close it, before it closes she speaks one more time while looking at Toga. "That isn't a monster."
Deku holding on to Toga's hand, he wanted to say something but the words wouldn't find their way out his mouth. He stood there holding on to Toga, feeling her hands start to shake, seeing tears start going down her eyes. Deku wasn't strong enough to say anything.
" Why didn't I say anything, she was saying terrible things to my friend and I didn't do anything, I'm just a worthless deku." Deku thinks to himself. Deku wraps his arms around Toga, holding her tight. "Akuma why didn't you say anything?!" He says angrily sobbing, while staring at Akuma with a death glare. " Why did you just stand there? I told you to help her but you just stood there why?"
" She needed to hear the truth." Akuma says it bluntly while glaring back a Deku.
Then Akuma grabs Deku and starts dragging him home while Deku Comforts Toga.
Akuma and Deku's apartment.
" You two should get some sleep, honestly Deku we will talk about this tomorrow." Akuma says while grabbing his head like he has a headache.
Deku grabs Toga and takes her to the bed.
" I guess we're sharing my bed today, so... you…" Deku says with a red blush on his face. He looks down since he can't even look at Toga in the eyes at the moment. "Just try to get some sleep on my bed, I'm going to go change into my All Might pajamas!" He shouts while he runs to change in the bathroom.
After a few minutes Deku finally comes out, Deku nervously walks to his bed noticing Toga's already asleep. Deku climbs into bed without waking up Toga & Deku closes his eyes trying to get some sleep. Trying not to think about Toga next to him, after about 15 minutes he falls asleep. While he sleeps the nightmare starts happening again, he starts getting restless in his bed. Deku starts to sweat, it starts getting hard for him to breathe, Deku starts thrashing and kicking in his sleep, the nightmare intensifies.
" I am a monster!" Deku shouts terrified.
"No you're not!" A voice shouts out.
"I am a monster what I've done, only a monster could do that." Deka weeps out.
" You're not a monster you saved me, to me you're my hero and nothing will change that!" The voice shouts out.
Deku feels water droplets hit his face, he feels a warm feeling wrap around his hand. He opens his eyes and sees Toga above him, Tears falling from her face onto his.
"I'm sorry for waking you." Deku whispers, he reaches out his hand wiping the tears from her face, "Now let's get some sleep." he says with a smile.
While Deku sleeps he hangs on to Toga's hand, the nightmare stops. Deku sleeps comfortably next to Toga, no screaming, no shouting, no kicking. Just peaceful sleep, for the first time in a year.
" For a year I saw this kid have nightmares, all he needed was somebody to be there when he sleeps." Akuma thinks to himself while typing on the computer. Akuma stands up, he makes his way towards Deku. "All he needed was somebody to be there for him, I couldn't do that. What's wrong with me, I need to protect him. Yet I can't do the simplest things, yet when Toga was being scared out of her mind by her mother. I did nothing, I told Izuku a lie." Akuma grabs onto his head frustrated out of his mind. "I never tried to fix anything, I keep telling myself Izuku needs space but that's a lie. I just don't want to talk to him, I mean I murdered his mother, I have no right to comfort him. He Wouldn't want to hold my hand because this is the hand that murdered his mother. This is the hand that took everything from him." Akuma starts clawing into his skull, bits of shadow start flaking off of him and disappearing. "I have destroyed everything he loved, I have destroyed every aspect of happiness that he could have had. He calls himself a monster, he calls himself Deku, he hates himself because of me, he has nightmares because of me. What have I done to help him, I've given him a home, I've given him shelter, I couldn't give him my hand but maybe I could give him the tools to be a hero. Maybe I can show him the truth of the world and how it works." Akuma Stops clawing at his head and walks back to the computer. "I need to help in a different way, if Deku is going to be a hero he needs to train he needs to get stronger. I also need to get stronger, I need to find a trainer for him, I need to find the greatest trainer, so he can be the hero that he wants to be." Akuma starts typing away at the computer, determined to find Izuku a master, so Izuku can fulfill his dream.
The next day
Deku woke up holding on to Toga's hand, Deku started to blush he quickly pulled his hand away from her. Then he jumped off the bed, then he slammed head first into the floor. Deku holds his head in pain while still being laid out on the floor.
" Seriously how are you this nervous with a girl, but when you're in a more dangerous situation your calm and collective." Akuma says sitting at the computer looking at Deku.
"Shut up!" Deku blurts out with a blush on his face and a red mark on his forehead, he stands up and then walks towards Akuma. " I just don't want to come off as creepy okay." Deku Whispers to Akuma.
" Oh my Satan you have a crush?" Akuma says while face-palming. "How do you have a crush on Toga already you just met." Akuma says while massaging his forehead.
" Be quiet I don't want her to hear." Deku whispers while his face is as red as a tomato. "She is the first girl to ever talk to me and besides she's really pretty." Deku whispers while looking down nervous.
"Deku I know I'm part of you but this is just sad." Akuma says while holding his hands in front of his face like he's embarrassed. "I'm Deku I like the first girl that talks to me because I've never talked to a girl now I have a crush on her." Akuma says in a mocking tone. "I mean good luck I guess, hey maybe you'll meet another girl that you have a crush on her if she says hi to you. You know how stupid that sounds, I guess kids will be kids." Akuma says with a defeated tone.
"Shut up I don't like you mocking me!" Deku shouts at the top of his lungs.
Right after he says that he feels a finger poke his shoulder he turns and sees Toga standing there, he freezes.
" Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god!" Deku shouts in his mind, Deku just bolts to the bathroom slammed it as hard as he can. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Deku shouts while pounding his head against the door.
" Is he okay?" Toga questions.
" Probably not but he will figure it out." Akuma says with no confidence.
" Can I get some food please?" Toga quietly asks.
" Yeah I already finished making breakfast so I just have to put it on the table." Akuma says with a smile. "By the way you're not scared of how I look?" He says with caution.
"No why would I be scared of Deku's dad?" She says with concern in her voice. "You and Deku saved me from the bad man that was trying to hurt me, you're one of the good guys, you two are my heroes." She happily proclaims.
"Uh...Thanks I guess." Akuma mutters out in confusion.
Toga hugs Akuma, she has a happy smile on her face, Akuma feels mortified due to the fact that he looks like a monster and this little girl hugging him. Toga grabs Akuma's hand and pulls him towards the dinner table. Akuma realizes what she's trying to do so he starts preparing the plates. After the food is plated he walks to the bathroom and knocks on the door.
" Foods ready." Akuma says, he slowly turns around and makes his way back to the dinner table seeing Toga waiting for Deku.
After about a minute Deku comes out, he slowly makes his way to the table, he sits down next to Toga. He doesn't look at her at all his face is just blushing red probably out of embarrassment.
"Thanks for the meal." Toga says breaking the silence at the dinner table, then she proceeded to dig into the food. She makes happy noises probably due to the food tasting good.
Deku just starts digging into the food doesn't say anything at all.
" Deku you didn't say thanks." Toga says looking at Deku.
"Why I don't need to thank him." Deku says with a hint of anger, his hand starts squeezing the chopsticks that he's holding.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you mad." Toga quickly apologized.
" I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at him, so you're fine Toga." Deku states clearly repressing his anger.
"You shouldn't be angry at your dad." Toga cautiously says.
" He's not my dad he's my quirk." Deku says with anger and disgust in his voice.
"Um...ok." Toga whimpers out, she starts eating her food, she takes small glances at Deku, she notices he's starting to calm down.
Akuma stays silent not caring about anything that they're saying, Akuma does think it's funny that Toga thinks that he's Deku's dad. Akuma knowing what needs to happen next nervously waits until they finish their meal. He knows what he's going to have to say next is going to be difficult. Especially to the young lady, knowing that he should not keep a secret that he kills people at night and by extension Deku, after about 15 minutes they finish their meal.
" I need both of you to listen." Akuma states with a serious tone.
Deku and Toga sit and nod confirming that they're listening to Akuma.
"I am Deku's quirk, you know this already, due to the outburst that Deku had but what you don't know is that. I am currently going around hunting bad people and killing them."Akuma cautiously says.
Deku was about to speak but then he stopped himself, Deku starts to think about the situation. He understood this was the best course of action if she would have found out later it probably would have ended up worse, now they both wait for Toga's response.
Toga sits there and thinks, she looks at Deku then she looks at Akuma. She thinks about what they have done for her, she knows they're not bad people. These two have given her a home and food, they're not scared of her. They want to help her she knows that they're not going to hurt her.
Akuma and Deku wait patiently waiting for Toga's response. A minute passes the tension in the air grows, another minute passes Deku starts getting nervous. Another minute passes Deku's heartbeat starts racing.
"I have decided." Toga states.
Deku nearly jumped out of his chair startled due to Toga speaking.
"I'm staying with you guys, no matter what happens I will be with you guys to the very end!" Toga shouts while tears are going down her face. "Because you're the only people that don't treat me like a monster. I don't think of you guys as monsters especially since you're only hurting bad people." She declares while standing on a chair, putting her hand on her chest.
Akuma and Deku each grabbed one of Toga's hands, they both declared that they will protect her. She declares that she will do whatever she can to protect them as well.
Notes: Thank you for reading, comments review and follow.
I got a new editor/beta reader DeamonLordZack.