On Saturday I woke up early to head to Dagobah beach and meet with Yagi sensei, or All Might.
'I should probably stick to calling him Yagi sensei, because calling him All Might would probably attract unwanted attention." I thought to myself.
I get ready so, I put on a simple shirt saying 'All M,' some light colored track pants as well, and some shoes. I don't plan of wearing them much at the beach since being barefoot or having thin soles can help me earthbend a little better.
I grab a fruit to eat from the fridge and head out. It's surprisingly warm, and the sun is starting to rise a little. I get moving and briskly jog there. Once I'm there, I see the beach, littered with heaps of garbage.
"Wow, this beach looks like garbage." I bluntly say out loud.
"Well you're going to clean it, kid." I turn to where the voice is coming from, and see it's Yagi sensei.
"Wait, you want ME, to clean THE ENTIRE BEACH?" I ask him with emphasis.
"Yes, for a couple reasons." Yagi sensei explained. "The begining of heroes, it was a civil service job. We didn't have laws or actual jobs in place, before the hero profession. So it was mostly community service type things. Like cleaning up parks and stuff. The four-armed-hero Fourth Kind does this a lot with his agency, cleaning up nearby parks."
"Yeah, so that's why you want me to clean up the beach?" I respond.
"Well, yeah. This beach used to be beautiful. My old mentor, the 7th holder of One For All, helped train me here a little." Yagi sensei looked out to the sea, with a sad but also proud look on his face. He turned his head to me and continued. "So I'm going to help train you here. I also want to see the extent of your quirk. I'll give you a little history on the quirk One For All, it's actually two quirks."
"One For All is two quirks?" I ask with a confused look on my face.
"Yeah, the power to pass down quirks, and an energy stockpiling quirk. They both merged to become One For All. And it has special properties dealing with those with quirks, and the quirkless."
"The quirkless are able to inherit the power as well?"
"Yeah, but they need to train a lot more, and they need to learn to use it. I was actually quirkless you know. My mentor found me, and trained me, and fortunately I was able to control 100% of its power." Yagi sensei explained.
"So, I have a quirk. Would I also get the same power as you in addition to my quirk?" I asked
"No, probably not. From what's known about One For All is that it's a power up quirk. Meaning if you already have a quirk, then it just increases your power. So your Element Control quirk would get super charged. The 6th user of One For All had a quirk, and his power was increased greatly, and was able to achieve a state of power where he was able to exponentially increase his power. One For All gradually gets stronger as well. It's not the same power level compared to the 1st user. I'm partly responsible for that."
"So One For All is like getting a stat bonus in a video game?" I try to clarify for myself. Yagi Sensei laughs at this.
"Well when you put it that way kid, yeah. For you it should be passive, no need to think about One For All, probably just your power output when you're using you quirk." He replied with a smile and walks over and down the stairs leading to the beach. "Now, let's get to you cleaning up this beach! You can use your quirk. This is all about teaching you control and expanding your power output. By the way, what school are you planning to go to? I never asked."
We're walking down the steps to the sand, I sit on the second to last step to take off my shoes and socks.
"I'm planning on going to UA!" I turn to look up at him. "The same school where you learned to be a hero!"
He chuckled and beamed me a smile.
"Well, the Entrance exam is in 10 months. So we've got a good amount of time to do this." His face went from smiling to looking puzzled. "Why are you taking off your shoes and socks? There could be sharp and jagged pieces in the garbage here."
"Well, I'm able to control the earth and sand a lot better if I'm not wearing anything that cover my feet. I can wear thin soled shoes, but most I find are fairly costly. I try to stay in my family's budget since they had spent a lot of money in martial arts classes to help me with my quirk. And I know thin soled work the best as I had to buy some clothes from the dojo." I explain.
"Well, here you're able to be barefoot. But I could help you out with the shoe problem, I don't want you injuring a body part essential to your quirk, my boy."
'Why's he so willing to help me? I get everything else, the quirk, support, training, now to go and buy me something? What the hell, it's like he's treating me like a son.' I pondered.
"You don't have to Yagi sensei, I'm sure I'll be fine. I've gotten hurt from my own quirk. It took awhile, but getting used to heat, cold, and weight came with time for my quirk. Right now I want to see if I can get rid of that giant fridge." I reassure my teacher.
He beams me a grin and stands back.
'All Might is watching me, I want to make a good impression. But I shouldn't go all out and burn myself out. But I don't know what element to use, I'm also not trained in simultaneous bending yet. I should try and go for earthbending and crush it with a rock. Yeah, I bet that'll be cool.' I think to myself.
I have closed fists, and slash them down in an x formation turning into an open palm, and a stone wall rises. I change my position and stomp, the stone wall levitates, and punch the air, sending the stone wall flying and crushing the fridge. Every movement I make with earthbending, it sounds like a rumbling of boulders.
"Good job kid, but remember, we need to clean up the beach, not make more of a mess." Stated Yagi sensei.
"Oh yeah, forgot about that." I rub the back of my head and let out a small chuckle.
Over the next few hours, Yagi sensei encouraged me to go and reach limits I couldn't before. He was definitely correct that One For All was passive. My weight limit got higher. I was able to create boulders. I also found that my contemporary moves were stronger as well. Same speed, but more power and and increased amount of elements I would be able to use. Reaching melting points with my fire was easier, I also didn't need to breath out to freeze water, I just needed to think about it. I was also able to turn sand into a dense solid, and return it back to sand, and being able to see from earthbending was much clearer now. At the end of the day, probably around 3 in the afternoon, Yagi sensei wanted to talk to me about tomorrow.
"Young Midoriya, I'm proud of the improvements you've claimed you made. I wasn't sure of your quirk control before, but now you've got this 'stat boost' as you say, and I'm proud to see how you use your quirk in such interesting methods, levitating the trash from the beach and returning the sand back to the beach or finding more trash buried under the sand. Tomorrow, we'll be doing quirk work, and not trash. You've cleaned up a lot and the garbage truck is coming soon. We'll call ourselves done for today. I'm amazed by your power, Midoriya."
I beam him a smile, my idol is proud of me.
"Thank you, Yagi sensei. I'll be sure to put in even more effort at tomorrow's training." I reply to him.
"Two more things Midoriya, we'll meet here, but we're going somewhere else to train, some place where we won't be bothered as much. We're going to go to UA tomorrow, but don't tell your friends, you can tell your mother so she knows of your whereabouts. While you were cleaning up the beach, I talked it out with the principle, and he's fine with using a location for you to train. He also knows about our arrangement, that I would train and mentor you. You won't get a recommendation, but I know you've got it in you to get into UA. I know you're smart, and I also wanted to talk about your academics."
"What about my academics?"
"I want you to stay on top of it. I know training with your idol is great, but be sure to study, getting into UA isn't just about your quirk, but your mind as well. Take care of yourself. We'll meet, say around 7 if that's fine with you."
"7 it is All Might!" I respond to him.
"All Might? Where's All Might?" a couple of strangers nearby over heard.
"Midoriya, repeat after me, 'Oh never mind, I was mistaken.'" Yagi sensei whispered to me.
"OH NEVER MIND, I WAS MISTAKEN!" I repeated loudly so they could hear me.
"Oh, alright." responded someone.
I should really learn to watch my tone, but it's just so amazing that All Might, the #1 Hero, is my teacher now!
All Might, er, Yagi sensei and I left the beach, I went home. I hadn't realized how hungry I was until I smelled some food my mom was cooking. She had weekends off from her office job, so she decided to make some lunch for us, I could tell from smelling the air.
"Hey mom! I'm back from the training!" I say taking off my shoes. I walk over into the small kitchen to see her making something.
"Hi Izuku!, how was it? You must be tired."
"Well, not tired, but I am hungry! It went by pretty well, I was surprised by how much I'm able to do now!"
"Well I figured you'd be hungry, so I made us some sandwiches!" My mom beamed me a smile.
I told her about the training, cleaning up the beach to find my new limits. I also made sure to tell her about tomorrow, going to a location on UA's campus. And how All Might wanted to be updated on my school work. She was surprised by this, how involved All Might was being, almost fatherly. I know times had been rough since dad went overseas to work. But we are both grateful for him in our lives, otherwise we wouldn't be able to be where we are.
My father, Hisashi Midoriya, he tries to visit as much as he can, usually about once a year for holidays. He has a well paying job, and always sends us a portion of the money to pay for the apartment. I also inherited a part of his quirk, the fire aspect. He can breath fire, and with my quirk, I can make the illusion that I could. So for his birthday I always show him a fire trick I record when I'm at the dojo. Either tossing around a fireball with other people who have pyrokinesis quirks, or breathing fire, to pay homage to him. He loves seeing me improve, he does worry about me, when he sees my small burns and scars from doing too much with my quirk, but he's always been supportive of me, even though he's mile and miles away from us and visits once a year.
My mother, Inko Midoriya, she's always been there. She was the first one to know about my quirk. I told her immediately after defending a boy from Kacchan, and then she video called my dad about it, and helped convince my father to let me train my quirk at a dojo. She also helped feed my interest of being an All Might fanboy. Getting me All Might onesies when I was little, one for every costume he had. My favorite is his Golden Age costume. We'd play hero games. She was there for me, always has. My parents were my pillar, and so was All Might.
It's so strange, how life works, and the blessings you can recieve. Even the turn of events in a negative light.
Katsuki Bakugo, or Kacchan as I always call him. He's been my friend since we were in diapers. He's older than me by a few months. We only know each other thanks to our moms, they knew each other in high school and Kacchan's mom, Mitsuki, has actually introduced my mom to my dad.
For a while, it was like Kacchan and I couldn't be separated, until his quirk had manifested. Everyone praised him for such a strong quirk, and he developed a superiority complex. I was praised as well, but after the moment of praise of showing people my still developing quirk, he told me my quirk could never match up to his.
Over the years we've had many battles, of which our parents scolded us for. But I have to thank Kacchan, for pushing me to be stronger, and helping me discover new things about my quirk, like discovering my waterbending, my firebending, and my airbending which I don't really use much, the first time I used it I accidentally sucked out the air in his lungs, when I had made a pulling back motion with my arms, I suddenly activated it. I stopped and ran home after realizing what I had done.
I still consider Kacchan a friend and rival. He mostly sees me as a rival who he casually bullies, his words don't hurt me, because I know he's saying it for me to get stronger, so in turn it motivates him to be stronger. There's still a bridge between us, but we don't talk as normal friends do. We tease each other during our fights, calling each other names, 'Dirt-Boy,' 'Firecracker,' 'Airhead,' 'Blasty,' and even 'Hot-Hands.' That last one was lame, but in the heat of the moment, his hands heated up and once I said it he laughed with me and we stopped fighting.
Kacchan and I have a, 'sustainable' relationship. He loves to win and prove he's the best. I want to save people. Our reasons for being heroes are both halves of what All Might represents, defeating the villain, winning, and saving people with a smile.
Kacchan was also a part of why I went to a dojo to train my quirk. I went to a place where they train those with elemental quirks. I was able to control earth the time I enrolled. Soon later I learned water and needed more instructors, after that was air, the latest one was my most recent one, fire. Of all of these, air was the one I had the most trouble with since I had suffocated Kacchan with it. I did make friends with the different quirks. The most memorable was Inasa Yoarashi. His quirk was whirlwind, a bit stronger than my airbending, and he helped me get through my trouble with air, we made little tricks while we were there, like having little objects fly in circles between our hands. We even learned to control the air to allow us to float a little.
At the dojo, some pro heroes even visited, the pros had quirks dealing with some elements so they inspired me to do more. I found my my quirk to be very similar to pro heroes like Pixie Bob and the Water Hose duo. I felt a connection to Endeavor as well, for the fire, but he wasn't really a hero I look up to. His eyes, they seemed, so cruel and angry. He held an interest in me, being able to control four elements, but never spoke to me. The pros who dealt with air, there weren't many memorable ones, but I knew Inasa and I wanted to be pro heroes and we'd be ones to show the next generation of air quirk users what they can do and we'd be memorable!
There are so many people in my life who've helped me grow and become stronger. Every one of them had helped forge me to become a hero. The hero I wanted to be. The hero that saved people with a smile!
A/N : Shout out to Kfbanime87 for starting to help out with the stories. Anyways, next chapter might have a large time skip just to get to the entrance exam. I've officially confirmed there will me a fem Shoto, and a few love interests. I also want to include some fluff pieces, like dates in the future of this story. I also mentioned something 'Avatar State' like in this story, and the issue with the air bending someone pointed out. If you're curious about the love interests I'll list it out, it'll be fem Shoto, Momo, Ochaco, Jiro, Kendo (I'll have it be a bridge to 1-B), and Mina. I won't do Asui or Hagakure. Hagakure for the reason that we don't know too much about her. Asui because, I don't actually think she's cute, (I'll be burned at the stake for this) and it'll be kind of hard for me to write something of a character I have no interest in, if you guys can understand. They'll be friends, but no romantic stuff between her and Midoriya. I've also been on YouTube a lot, looking at the bending movements, the part with the wall was takin from King Bumi when they first meet and fight, mostly from Last Airbender, I need to look at more Legend of Korra bending styles like the pro-bending fighting to make Midoriya's fighting maybe less drawn out than they should be. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this story! Please follow, favorite, review, all that jazz. I might get another quirk chapter done tonight or up by tomorrow morning, it's Friday so I've got lots of free time today.