Howdy, I updated and improved the first chapter so I recommend you go check it out and if you enjoyed the first chapter then I hope you enjoy this one as much, if not more. By the way, sorry for the use of misdirection in the first chapter, so if you got fooled by it and thought I was gonna kill Bakugou, I apologize but that was the main point of it. In this fic I will try not to lie, but I will misdirect you. Its for the point of added suspense.

Hopefully you enjoy!

"Oh, no!" = spoken out loud

'Oh, no!' = thought in head

- insert song name here - = play or switch to the song

I do not own "Boku no Hero Academia"

It has been about a month since the incident, and in that time a few things have happened

Namely, Izuku has realised and figured out several things.

Firstly, he had gained another ability.

Secondly, he has no friends.

Thirdly, he had lost Kacchan and was left with Katsuki, who hates him.

Fourthly, he hates being useless and desperate.

Fifthly, it's all his fault.

His first realisation was sudden and surprising.

FLASHBACK

Izuku woke up to the bright sun shining through his barely open blinds. The sunlight was a heavy contrast to the rest of his room, which was still covered in a heavy darkness. Today was the day after the incident. After getting dressed and smelling the cooking food, he went downstairs to have breakfast with his mom. Izuku sat at the table, and in the room, it was significantly brighter compared to his room. He waited patiently for his mom to bring him his food while he mulled over the interactions that had happened the day before. He heard footsteps which brought him out of his train of thought and he assumed his mother had brought him his breakfast. Izuku heard a gasp, then a plate shattering on the floor. Izuku turned to his mother and saw her looking at him with wide eyes and an open mouth, she was obviously stunned and surprised by something.

"Mom?" Asked Izuku with concern in his voice.

She gave no reaction and just continued to stare at him.

"Mom?" Izuku repeated, but with an added hint of nervousness in his voice now.

"H-Honey?" Inko asked with a trembling voice.

"Yes" Answered Izuku, worry filling him.

"What happened to your ears?" Inko inquired with concern lacing her voice.

Izuku gave no response as he reached up and felt his ears with his hands. His ears felt fine? Then he felt the top of them and realised that they came to a point. His jaw dropped open as he went wide eyed.

He quickly got up from the table and ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror. He looked and saw that his ears did indeed come to a point, just like how an elf's ears would. He inspected them closer, as he continued to look at them in the mirror in disbelief.

His mother quickly burst into the bathroom and he turned to see his mother in the doorway covering her mouth with her hands in a surprised expression. After standing and staring at each other for a few seconds, Inko quickly got out of her stupor and ran to her son, enveloping him in a hug.

"What happened to my beautiful baby boy's ears!?" She cried out, to no one in particular.

Izuku just stood there in his mother's hug, while his mind ran a mile a minute trying to find out why his ears had suddenly changed.

Then it clicked.

Yesterday he had accessed the power that he had always felt from his quirk and he wouldn't be surprised if this was his body getting more accustomed to his quirk.

"Uh, mom" Izuku said, trying to get his mother's attention.

She continued to keep him in a tight embrace.

"Mom" Repeated Izuku, slightly louder than before.

Inko pulled back, but still held her son by the shoulders as she looked him in the eye, "Yes, honey?" Asked the worried mother.

"My quirk did this" Izuku both assuring and calmly said.

Izuku could feel his mother's hands relax on his shoulders

"Does that mean you can turn it back? Like with your wings" Inko questioned with slight hope leaking into her suddenly calm voice.

Izuku tried to imagine the power and pulling it back from his ears.

He can only assume it worked, because his mother enveloped him in another tight hug, while she screamed about how her baby boy was back.

FLASHBACK END

After the whole ordeal, he had somehow convinced his mother to allow him to keep his pointed ears as a permanent feature. Why? You may ask. The answer is simple. Allowing his ears to grow made his hearing sharper. Then he assumed that if he could do it with one sense, then he could probably do it with the others. His assumption was correct. Growing his tongue made it slightly longer, pointed, improved his taste and gave him the ability to taste the air like a snake can. Growing his nose made it slightly broader and made his sense of smell sky rocket. Growing his eyes made his pupils turn into slits, but his iris stayed the same shape and colour, his sight became significantly sharper and he could see farther. He tried testing if he could grow other parts of his body but felt like something was wrong and nothing happened. He assumed the rest of his body hadn't adapted fully to his quirks power. He also assumed that he could evolve his senses like he could do with his wings, but he knew how painful his wings felt when he did that, so he didn't want to do the same to his senses and possibly damage them by overloading them with his quirks power. He tried convincing his mother to let him keep his eyes permanently grown as well, since the sharper sight would be very useful, but she told him in her warm and kind tone of voice, "Please let me get used to your ears first. Then maybe we can consider it, okay honey?" he reluctantly agreed.

His second realisation was like a slow but surprisingly painful burn.

He kind of knew this before, but the fact was a lot more obvious and a lot more painful now. It's not that he didn't try to make friends, it's just that no one wanted to be his friend. Everyone was apparently intimidated by him or jealous of him, because he was…

"The strongest"

"The smartest"

"The one with the cool quirk"

There were people who did want to be his friends, but those people only wanted to be friends with him because of the reasons stated before, not because he was Izuku. It all showed how hollow everyone was, and it made him feel hollow too, but in a different kind of way, the lonely way.

The third realisation was one that he wanted to ignore. He could have done more, but he didn't, and he hated that he didn't. Kacchan was already lost, but he still tried to find him by trying to fix Katsuki. He was useless and desperate. Katsuki hates him and Izuku now knew why. Katsuki always wants to win, always wants to be the best, always believes, that's what a hero is. Katsuki hates losing, but Izuku always beats him, so Katsuki hates Izuku.

He should have seen it before, he should have noticed it, he should have tried harder. He should have let Katsuki win, but he knows Katsuki would hate him even more for doing so. He had power, but it was useless, because he didn't use it.

Now he's lost someone.

The forth realisation came quickly after the third.

He hates being useless, because it meant there is nothing he can do. He hates being desperate, because it meant there is no hope. They mean he can't do anything. He will never be like that. Ever again. He promises.

The fifth realisation was the simplest but most painful.

Everything was his fault and now he would fix his mistakes.

Also, he called what happened to his wings "evolution"

Over the month he had made attempts at talking to Katsuki, in response he would either get a physical reaction or be ignored. Izuku noticed the clenched and gritted teeth in Katsuki's mouth every time he talked to explosion user. The physical reaction usually entailed Katsuki trying to fight Izuku. Katsuki always held back when using his explosions, because he didn't want to seriously damage Izuku, but Izuku technically held back too, since he never used his evolved wings against Katsuki. Izuku would win the fights and it only made Katsuki angrier.

Katsuki got worse within the month. He got more aggressive and physical, not just with Izuku, but with other students as well. He would actively beat up anyone that did something he deemed disrespectful to him or anyone that, as he called it, challenged him.

Izuku knew this was his fault, but he also knew something else. He could fix Katsuki.

Not in the sense that he could make Katsuki into Kacchan, but in the sense that he could make Katsuki kinder, less aggressive, less abusive and less Katsuki. Izuku wouldn't be useless. He wouldn't be desperate. He had a plan.

Izuku was walking home today and he was thinking about his plan. It didn't entail getting friends. It didn't entail him being safe and unharmed, in fact it kind of made the exact opposite true. It entailed him losing to Katsuki, but he would lose by not fighting at all. He knows Katsuki would continue to beat on him no matter what and he knows that it would get a lot worse before it got better. Also, he would still need to show, at the same time, he was better than Kacch-… Katsuki, but he could do that by getting the top score in tests and physical exams, he was already doing that, it's just he would need to keep doing so.

His plan was to break Katsuki's over abundant confidence and show him that you couldn't beat someone by doing it physically to show your better than them, but he would need to not fight to do this. Everyone had a breaking point and he would need to find Katsuki's. He didn't know if it would take months, years, or a decade or two, but he would do it.

He knows he would be lonely, he knows it would eat him from the inside out, but he would have to deal with it. He had been without anyone for only a month, but it was easily the worst month of his short life and he knew it would only get worse from there, but he would do it.

He looked up to the beautiful blue sky and saw the brilliant sun in all its glory shining down without a cloud around. Today had been a peaceful day and pretty to.

Then he heard a shriek come from the park he was coming up on.

'Nothing lasts forever' Izuku joylessly thought as he ran to the commotion.

He came to the entrance of the park and was greeted by the sight of an angered Katsuki, the lackeys trying to look intimidating, and a crying girl, that he didn't know, on the dirt floor while backing away.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Screamed an enraged Katsuki, at the scared looking girl.

The girl looked to be the same age as both Katsuki and Midoriya and had messy dirty blond hair which ran down to her shoulders. Izuku couldn't make out what her face looked like since it was hidden by the shadows of the trees within the park. The girl's clothes were in tatters, dirty and definitely not clean. From the looks of it she was wearing a once white, long dress, that covered her from head to toe. Her feet had no shoes, and were brown with mud, and pink, from where it looked like she had scraped them raw from running bare foot for miles. The rest of her didn't look much better, she had scrapes all over her from where she had possibly fallen down a couple times. Izuku could make out that she was crying and still trying to back away while still on the ground, but Katsuki was stalking towards her and pumping his small fist into his other hand's open palm.

Izuku knew what would come next, and the thought that Katsuki would actually harm someone who looked like a defenceless beaten kitten kind of disgusted Izuku. He wasn't going to let that happen though.

"Hey! Leave her alone!" Shouted Izuku as he ran in-between the panicked girl and the fury filled boy. Izuku noticed a glint in the girl's eyes and firstly assumed it was relief, but then he realised it was fear, 'Why would she be scared of me?' Izuku shook the thought from his head, 'it doesn't matter right now' he quickly told himself.

"What the hell are you doing here, DEKU!" yelled Katsuki, who was now focused and glaring at the boy in front of him, rather than the cowering girl still on the floor.

"I'm sto- wait… what did you just call me?" Izuku was angry at Katsuki for possibly harming the girl but was caught off guard with what Katsuki had called him, he heard what katsuki had called him, but it's what the word meant and how the boy said it with such venom.

"I called you a deku! Because that's what you are!" Screeched Katsuki. His hate was palpable as it basically emanated off him, it made Izuku feel a mixture of scared, sad and…

…lonely.

"I'm not a deku!" Shouted back Izuku, his own anger starting to boil, but he would keep a level head, he knew not to let his emotions get the best of him, but Katsuki wasn't making it easy. He felt tears prick his eyes, but he wouldn't let them fall, he had to be brave, if not for this girl, then for himself.

"Yes, you are! ...Now get out of my way!" Shouted Katsuki as he tensed his tiny fists and clenched his teeth.

Izuku could tell that the second part of Katsuki's shout had a hidden meaning behind it and he now knew what.

"NO! I'm not gonna let you hurt her!" He raised his arms and spread them out in a protective manner.

'this is my fault anyway' thought Izuku, as he looked back into Katsuki's eyes, showing his determination.

He knew this was his fault because earlier today Katsuki had lost to him again, which enraged katsuki, so this was likely him getting his frustration out by beating on someone else.

"GODDAMMIT" Bellowed Katsuki as he raised his fists and started popping off small explosions on his equally small hands.

Izuku remembered the girl was still behind him and he didn't want her getting caught up in this, especially when he saw the manic look in Katsuki's eyes that felt extremely threatening. Katsuki would only get more angry now this involved izuku, and she looked bad enough anyway.

He knew why Katsuki was so ferocious and it was because he must feel like Izuku was challenging him. The challenge was that Izuku would protect the girl and Katsuki wouldn't be able to harm her.

'I will win' Ran through both boys' heads.

Katsuki turned to his lackeys, "Hey, idiots! Grab them!" Ordered Katsuki as he turned back around to give a death glare towards the broccoli headed boy.

Izuku simply turned around to the girl and shouted, "RUN!"

- My Hero Academia OST - You Say Run + Jet Set Run (You Say Run v2) -

When Izuku turned around he noticed Katsuki's lackeys charging him, so in response he grew his wings and made an almighty gust of wind by flapping them at the attackers. This sent the lackies flying back, while Izuku held his place and the girl got up.

Katsuki came charging himself, so in response Izuku tried the same trick, but it only slowed down Katsuki as he powered through the wind force. Sadly, Katsuki was stronger than the other two and was getting closer to Izuku and the girl.

Izuku tried to up the force of the winds and furiously beat his wings, but because of the recoil was having a hard time keeping his own feet planted. Katsuki was getting closer and eventually broke through Izuku's defence. Katsuki raised an arm and let off an explosion, but Izuku protected himself by putting his wings in front of himself like a shield. It worked and Izuku received no damage, but Katsuki was persistent and went under Izuku's wings. Katsuki gave Izuku an uppercut with an added explosion as to cause more damage. Izuku stumbled back but kept standing. He used his large and heavy wing to hit Katsuki, sending the boy backwards and away from Izuku and the girl.

Izuku looked back to the girl but saw that she was just standing there and staring at him in apparent confusion.

"Go!" Izuku shouted at the girl and in response she turned and finally ran.

"NO!" Izuku heard shouted by Katsuki in frustration, "Get her!"

Izuku turned around and saw that the lackeys had gotten up off the ground and were now running for the girl. Izuku started running himself and ended up charging the girl out of the way of one of the lackeys who was using their quirk to extend their fingers a couple feat. They likely intended to bind her, but Izuku didn't let that happen.

After letting go of the girl who was now looking at him in what seemed to be gratitude, he quickly turned back to the lackeys, and flicked away with his wings the one lackies overgrown fingers, that were now going for him.

Katsuki had gotten up at this point and was now running at them, with a look of pure hatred and anger filling his eyes.

Izuku knew he couldn't take on all three boys, so as a last-ditch effort to give the girl as much time as he could give her to get away, he sent out a very powerful gust of wind, this sent all boys flying. Izuku was sent into a tree and hurt his back and wings. He grunted with pain because of the collision, the three other boys were sent rolling along the ground in the opposite direction. Izuku slid down the tree and landed on his legs, but they gave out and his body slumped against the tree. He looked around and noticed the girl got away. A smile blossomed on his face

Katsuki raised his head towards Izuku as he got up from being thrown through the air and noticed the stupid smile Izuku always had whenever he had won or did something good. Katsuki was already pissed, but now he wanted to mutilate and murder Izuku. He started to see red.

Katsuki knew that Izuku had made a silent challenge that he wouldn't be able to harm the girl. And now Izuku had beat him again.

"Goddamn it! I'm going to kill you!" Katsuki spat as he once again charged the downed Izuku. Tired but triumphant eyes looked to him as he ran and if he wasn't seeing red before, he definitely was now.

Izuku noticed Katsuki run at him with an open sparking palm, he knew that Katsuki wasn't just angry but was immensely pissed to the point where he didn't have control of his actions and was actually going to kill Izuku. Izuku knew that Katsuki was only four, but he also knew that Katsuki held back when using his explosions. Izuku knew that Katsuki explosions were powerful and could do some serious harm and from the murderous look in his eyes, Katsuki wasn't going to hold back.

It genuinely terrified Izuku.

He took one final glance towards the other boy's eyes, they showed that Katsuki was blinded by his anger all but confirming his fear. Izuku was actually scared of what was to come, he would have protected himself with his wings, but he was only four and didn't have enough strength to raise them after his repeated heavy use of them and his impact with the tree. Instead he held his arms in front of his face, shut his eyes and braced, but somewhere in the back of his mind he got the feeling to grow his arms like he did with his wings. It worked, because rough and tough looking black scales covered his arms. Katsuki's destructive explosion collided with Izuku's arms. The explosion was quick but powerful and it threatened to rip Izuku apart. His body got suddenly forced against the tree causing his head to jolt back and strongly hit the tree. His hearing also hurt because of the influx of loud sound. His arms took the full force of the explosion and should be reduced to bloody pulps, Katsuki himself got sent away due to the force of the explosion.

Katsuki's hands stung painfully because of what he did, but it didn't matter, because when he looked towards Izuku, the nerds body fell to the side unconscious with steaming arms.

Katsuki had lost to Izuku's silent challenge but had still beaten him, Katsuki had won.

Then he passed out from exhaustion.

- Stop Playing Music -

The lackeys of Katsuki got up and looked at the aftermath, and to their surprise all anyone had were minor scrapes, aside from Katsuki who's hands were bright pink. The two lackies shared a glance of fear. The boys had seen the explosion and it was frightening to say the least, but what made them shake, was that Izuku took it directly in front of him and…

…he looked completely fine.

Both boys had seen the wings Izuku had made about a month ago, when he saved Katsuki, and the sight made them frightened, but happy he didn't use them here.

The wings Izuku made were absolutely huge, pitch-black, sleek, strong, dangerous, scary looking wings. The thinner parts of the wings were thicker than before and had a dark green colour to them. The thicker parts looked scary, black, strong and sturdy. Also, it looked like a hand and arm. The big long fingers separated each section of the thinner parts of the wings, while the thumb at the top of the wings was like a spike that originated from the sturdy palm that connected all the parts. The strong arm that connected to the palm came down and at the elbow-like joint a larger black spike came off, then the arm came up and turned broader and more muscular as it connected to Izuku's shoulder. They were nightmarish wings. They gave the feeling of assured power. They were within Izuku. The four-year-old Izuku, that was smart, that was strong, that had a powerful quirk, that just fought his childhood friend and took an explosion, the size a grenade would make, directly in front of him… and he didn't even have a scratch. Both lackies at the same time thought the exact same thing.

'I'm out'

The lackeys woke up Katsuki and when he did eventually wake up, he immediately went home, laughing in proud triumph, leaving behind Izuku

Izuku woke up later and felt like he was hit with a ton of bricks. On his way home he was slow and heavy and just wanted to go to bed. That's why it was slightly jarring when on his way home, he was ambushed.

Izuku heard someone approaching from the alley way, but he still felt sore, stiff and groggy, so he wasn't entirely sure. It was confirmed when he looked down the alley and the girl from earlier lunged at him. She still had her dirty and messy blond hair that went down to her shoulders, she was dirty, she had shoeless, scraped, muddy feet and ragged clothes that looked unclean. She lunged at him with a large smile, red rimmed eyes from where she'd been crying and had a light red blush on her face.

Izuku was taken aback, in both the literal and metaphorical way, he was kind of out of it, so it took him awhile to process what happened.

'I'm on my back, on the ground and a girl just tackled me?' He looked up and blushed 'she's cute' Izuku thought and then immediately regretted thinking it, because now his face was 50 shades of red. Then he noticed the sharp cat-like canine teeth and yellow eyes with slit pupils that accompanied the large toothy smile and light red blush.

Her hair fell from behind her shoulder and was close to tickling Izuku's face as she stared down at him. "Hi! I'm Himiko Toga! Thanks for saving me!" The now named Himiko Toga exclaimed with joy filling her voice.

"its ok if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire." - Colette Werden

Okay, the second chapter is finished and I put a surprising amount of work into it, mainly because I had to plan pretty far ahead for a couple things in this chapter.

By the way, i wanted to thank MarvelNinja10 who pointed out a problem in my writing. I believe that I have improved on the problem, as I went back and fixed it in the first chapter and in this one I tried to keep the problem in mind while writing it, so thank you again. And thanks to, BlazaWolf who pointed out my name capitalization problem. I genuinely did not notice Katsuki's name was in a lower case K the entire time, since in the font I use the lower and higher case look really similar. Also for the kids acting how they do, I actually believe it to be rather accurate. The lackeys become delinquents so i wouldn't be surprised that they are rude from a young age. Izuku is a genius, so that's why he knows all the advanced words. Also, katsuki. He's a kid so he doesn't have as good of control with his emotions as when he is older, in fact i plan on him regretting this day later on, since he almost killed a kid out of his pride.

Hope you enjoyed!

I ask that you please review what you thought about this chapter, your own ideas, how I could improve and etc.

Thank you for your time, I'll be taking my leave now.