HEY THERE EVERYONE! HERE WE HAVE THE NEXT CHAPTER, BECAUSE I FEEL BAD FOR LEAVING YA'LL ON A CLIFF HANGER!
SO HERE YOU GO!
I hope you all enjoy this one, because we're getting closer to the end of the anime, and honestly I'm going to start coming up with all kinds of shit real soon.
SO STAY TUNED!
Izuku lay in a hospital bed, staring up at the ceiling. She was stunned from what they had witnessed a last night on the streets. He hadn't licked any of their blood, but everyone that was there were frozen on the spot from the sheer force of the man's will and beliefs... They had heard that a rib had punctured one of his lungs which was why he passed out standing up...
"That was pretty impressive..." Todoroki muttered out as he sat up on his hospital bed with his arm wrapped up in bandages. Izuku turned her head to look at him as she struggled to sit up herself.
"IDIOT! STAY LAYING DOWN!" Katsuki snapped at her and she looked to him. He had spent the night in the hospital with the rest of them, but because he was uninjured he sat in a chair next to her bed.
"I'm fine, don't get so angry." Izuku said with a nervous laugh as she pushed herself up with her left arm. "You know... after how it ended I'm surprised we're all still alive..." She said with a nervous smile as she looked at her arm. Her back was stinging with pain, and the doctor said she was definitely going to have scars from her injuries... "I think, if he wanted to kill me, he would have been able too..."
"DONT SAY DEPRESSING SHIT LIKE THAT!" Katsuki snapped again and Izuku laughed a bit once more, looking over at him. He had been angry the whole night because she was sharing a room with Iida and Todoroki, but there weren't any more rooms in the hospital.
"He no doubt let us live..." Todoroki said with a frown as he looked to Katsuki. "And could you stop shouting, not only are you disturbing us but there other people in the hospital you know."
"Shut up!" Katsuki snapped at Todoroki now, but he was definitely quieter than before.
"You faced such intense blood lust, and yet you still stood right back up to face him, that's pretty kickass," Todoroki spoke again, looking to Iida who was also sitting up right now. "I was supposed to rescue you, but ended up having to be rescued by myself."
"No..." Iida said with a frown, looking down at his bed. "I'm... I'm not..."
"Todoroki, your personality is showing," Izuku said with a laugh from her bed and a soft pink blush crossed his cheeks as he looked over at her.
"You too, you saved me from betting a chest full of sword..." Todoroki said to her with a frown. "That was very cool."
"Haha, no it was-" Izuku started but Katsuki growled in anger.
"It was fucking dumb, is what it was! Next time just let him die!" He looked to her, and Izuku let out a nervous laugh at his statement.
"Oooh, so the hurt locker is awake now!" Izuku looked to the door as Gran Torino, Manual and Best Jeanist entered the room with a man taller than Best Jeanist himself with the head of a dog.
"G-Gran torino! Best Jeanist!" Izuku was nervous as she saw the looks they gave her.
"Unbelievable, I want make you read a hero's code of conduct 80 times, but... Before that some one wishes to speak with you all." Best Jeanist had his arms crossed as he walked over to Izuku's bed and looked down at her and Katsuki with a sigh. "It's the chief of the Hosu Police precinct, Mr. Tsuyagamae Kenji."
"TSURAGAMAE?! CHIEF TSURAGAMAE...!?" She asked, and moved to get out of bed, but Katsuki stopped her from doing so.
"Your fucking legs are still injured, moron!" He growled out at her, and she blushed a bit.
"The boys right, you can stay in bed, I see you've had it very RUFF!" The police chief said as he entered the room, but the others were all standing up, staring at him in awe except for Katsuki who just glared at Izuku to stay seated. She was quivering as she tried to hold back her laugh at the ruff from the police cheif. "So, you're the ones who put a stop to the Hero Killer! You're all Yuuei kids, all right! But... Regarding that..."
The man looked at them all with a firm gaze, and Izuku felt stiff from it. It was the eyes of an adult who was disappointed in their child for misbehaving.
"He sustained several burns and bone fractures among other serious injuries. He is presently undergoing treatment for these." The chief linked his hands behind his back as he looked at all of them, Izuku paling as she listened to him with her full attention. "Since the dawning of the phenomenon, the police have emphasized leadership and protocol, and made a point to not wield the quirks of individuals as weapons. So then heroes rose up to fill that gap, becoming a profession of equal validity. Of course, such individual weaponization... is a force that can cause injury very easily. So the reason that the public can fully recognize such a prospect that, normally, would face censure... Is because their forebears adhered strictly to rules and morals."
Izuku felt a pain in her chest as she listened to the chief speak to them, and she looked too Kacchan who was clenching his fists tightly as he too listened.
"ON THE OTHER PAW," The chief continued and Izuku looked back up at him. "Those who aren't qualified yet might harm others through the use of their quirks with out the direction of their guardians or supervisors. Even if their opponent were, say, the hero killer himself. This is nevertheless a top calibre violation of the rules! You four pups and the pro heroes that were there, you all must be handed down an adequate and impartial punishment."
"Wait...!" Izuku went to stand up, but Katsuki reached out a hand to stop her. "If... If Iida hadn't moved in on him... then Mr Native would be dead..." she said with a frown on her lips.
"And... If Midoriya hadn't acted when she did, then both of them would have died." Todoroki interrupted, and looked at the chief. "At that time nobody had noticed the killer's appearance yet, sir."
"So... Is this fucking guy saying that we should've followed the rules...?" Katsuki growled as he stood up, gripping Izuku's shoulder in anger. "That fucker was about to kill her and the rest of them when I got there!"
"Sir, are you saying that if the end results turn out all right, you think we should just fudge the rules, is that it?" Todoroki continued as he stepped forwards. Izuku looked back and forth between the two angry boys, nervous as they started to get heated up. "Saving people is what Heroes do! It's their job!" Todoroki shouted, putting his hand on her shoulder as well.
"Good grief, this s why they call you eggs you know..." The chief sighed out and shook his head. "Your education at Yuuei and from your supervisors is hatching well."
"YOU FUCKING MUTT!" Katsuki shouted, about to set off an explosion but Izuku grabbed at his shirt, looking up at him pleadingly with her eyes.
"Wait! He has a point!" Iida called to them as he grabbed Todoroki by the arm to stop him from setting fire to the place as he glared at the chief.
"Wait, children." Best Jeanist said with his arms crossed, giving them all a look. "Listen to what else he has to say."
The chief cleared his throat, and looked at the angry students in front of him. "Well, that was my opinion as a police officer, as for the rest of what I have to say... Well, at the end of the say, punishment or what have you is only meted upon official disclosure." The man looked at them all, his big brown dog eyes analyzing them each in turn. "A public announcement would invite the praise and admiration of the people for you, but it would also necessitate punishment. If, however, I were to fail to go public with the true dirt of this affair, then it could be concluded that the Hero Killer's burns were sustained from Endeavor, and back up that version of events. Fortunately, the number of witnesses were very limited. What I'm saying is, that we can bury your violation like a bone in the yard."
Izuku stared at the chief with wide eyes, and looked to the others who were also staring, some with mouths slightly open. Her gaze then flicked up to Katsuki as he gripped her shoulder tightly, and glowered at the chief.
"However..." The chief continued, and Izuku looked back up at him. "That means no one can ever know of your dogged decisions and fetching feats! So which will it be?! Personally... I really don't want anyone barking at you for such a glorious 'misstep', especially since you youngsters stll have a promising future!"
"At any rate, we need to take responsibility for our negligence as supervisors..." Manual said with a sigh, and Iida bowed to him.
"I'm so sorry sir..." Iida apologized to his mentor, but Manual laughed and shook his head.
"All right! You caused other people a heap of trouble, so if you understand, don't do it again!" The hero said with a grin.
Izuku looked up at Katsuki who was still holding onto her shoulder, seeing the frustrated look on his face before glancing up at Best Jeanist who let out a sigh, and nodded his head to her.
"Thank you, sir." Izuku looked up to the chief before bowing her head to him. The others looked at her, and all bowed their heads too, even Katsuki begrudgingly doing so as well.
"Through the cheats of grown-ups, the calls of praise you should have received are no more... But at the very least..." The chief got their attention as they straightened up, and watched as he now bowed to them. "I, as a fellow human who keeps the peace... Give you my thanks."
Izuku let out a long held in sigh of relief after the adults had left, and she fell back onto her bed, groaning. "That was stressful..." she groaned out, and looked up at the boys who looked down on her. "We're lucky we got away with just a slap on the wrists!"
"Fucking idiot, lay in your bed properly!" Katsuki shouted down at her and Izuku laughed as she sat up again, before hearing her phone buzzing on the table. She reached out and grabbed it in her hand.
"It's Ochachan!" She said with a jump, and looked at the others. "Wh-what should I say?! She's going to know something is wrong!" She started to panic before Katsuki snapped again.
"Just go take the fucking call in the hallway!" He shouted and Izuku jumped up to her feet. She groaned a bit as her wounds ached, but before anyone could stop her she hurried out into the hall past a doctor who was entering, and groaned.
"O-Ochachan...!" Izuku answered the phone with a flick of her thumb as she wobbled over to a bench. She sat down with a sigh, and listened to her friend on the other side.
"Deku-chan! I got your message, I was wondering if you were okay?! I saw the news about Hosu city, and I was worried!" Uraraka's voice rang in her ear, and Izuku smiled to herself as she leaned back against the wall.
"Everythings alright, Iida and Kacchan are okay too." She told her friend, gripping the phone tightly in her hand.
"But when I got that message... I was so worried! It's not like you to just drop a location with out any context, what happened?"
"I was just helping some citizens get away from the craziness that was happening, I needed help from Katsuki and I was too busy to send a message..." Izuku felt bad for lying to her best friend, but there was no way she could tell her about the hero killer, not after their discussion with the police chief. "I got a bit injured during the commotion, so I'm just taking it easy."
"Geez!" Izuku could hear the worry in her voice, and let out a soft laugh. "You get lots of rest, okay! No more fighting crazy villains!" She could hear some one cutely calling her friend in the back ground and Uraraka groaned. "I've got to go, let's talk more at school when you get back, alright?"
"Yes yes! Go get in more training!" Izuku said brightly to her friend, before hanging up after their goodbyes. She stared down at her phone, feeling sad as she looked at it. She wanted nothing more than to discuss what happened with her... How Katsuki had hugged her so tightly and saved her... Izuku'z cheeks flared a bright hot read as she thought about that, and she clapped her hands over her cheeks, groaning.
"Hey!" She turned her head to look at Katsuki who was glaring at her from the door to their room. "Get your ass back in bed, you need to fucking rest!" he told her as he took her arm and helped her up gently from the bench. Her cheeks only got warmer as he helped her back into the room, passing a doctor as they went and she sat down on her bed, letting out a sigh.
"Oh... Hey, Iida. I just heard from Urara... ka..." She stopped as she looked at her friend who looked so pretty down. "... Iida...?"
"Midoriya..." Todoroki looked at her from his bed, before looking back at Iida. "... Iida... His... The results of his physical exam just came in."
Izuku looked over at Todoroki, her eyes wide before she looked back to her friend who spoke up.
"It seems my left hand will have residual complications..." He said, and lifted up his left arm which was still in a cast. "Both of my arms got thrashed, but this one took too much damage. They told me my Brachial plexus is impaired..." Iida looked up at her, "Actually, all it amounts too is it being hard to move my fingers and some numbness, and theres a chance it could heal with some grafting surgery..."
"Iida..." Izuku went to stand again, and felt a hand on her upper arm. Katsuki was helping her get up, and she hobbled over to her friend, full of concern.
"When I found the hero killer, I became incapable of rational thought... I should have contacted Manual first... I hate that bastard, but what he said was the truth. That's why, until I become a true hero, I'll leave my hand like this." Iida looked up at Izuku as she stood in front of him. She paused, stunned by his conviction. She slowly raised her right hand, and looked at the scars on it.
If only I pressed him harder that time...
No...
"Iida..." She started, and held her hand up to show the scars on it. "I'm the same." She told him with a smile, and clenched her fist. "Let's you and I become stronger, together." her grin got bigger as she beamed down at her friend, who smiled back at her.
"Fucking idiots," Katsuki growled out, his arms crossed, but his eyes were staring at her scarred hand intently.
"... I'm sorry..." Todoroki spoke up, and they all looked over at him as he lifted his own hand to look at it.
"Wh-why?" Izuku asked, confused as to why he was apologizing.
"Now I... I feel like when ever I'm involved... Peoples hands get crushed... Perhaps I'm cursed...?" He asked, and Izuku could see the nervous sweat falling down his face.
"Wuh... HAHAHAA!" She burst out laughing with Iida, and held her stomach. "What are you talking about?!"
"I guess even Todoroki can tell a joke!" Iida said with his own laugh.
"N-No.. I'm not joking, it's like there's some hand crusher-like presence in me..." Todoroki looked at them all with a serious look on his face, and Izuku felt tears come to her eyes from laughing. She wobbled back a bit but Katsuki steadied her with his own hands.
"Cut the fucking jokes, they're not funny." Katsuki grumbled, looking at Todoroki.
"I'm not joking!" Todoroki cried out, and Izuku continued to laugh.
Later that night, Iida had been excused from the hospital to return home, and so had Todoroki. Izuku lay in the hospital bed because she was required to stay one more night because of her leg injuries. She sighed as she stared out the window as the sky got dark and turned to night, feeling lonely in the big empty room with out her friends.
"Oi!" Katsuki kicked the door open to the room and entered with a tray. "I brought you some fucking food, so eat it and go to sleep!" He shouted at her, and Izuku let out a laugh as she sat up in her bed after he dropped the tray onto a table over her bed. "What are you laughing at?!"
"Nothing," Izuku said with a smile as she picked up the sandwich he brought her and took a bite. She ate it silently while he sat in the chair beside her bed. When she finished, she looked over at him nervously. "... Are you staying the night again? You should go back to Best Jeanist's agency... We're still allowed to finish our internships..."
"I'm not going back to that fucking place by myself!" He snapped, not looking at her.
"Alright, alright." She said with a smile once again as she lay back in her bed, resting her head on the pillow. "... I'm sorry if I worried you..."
"I wasn't worried!" She looked up at him, his face still turned away from hers. "I was fucking pissed, if anyone is going to kill you in a fight it's going to be me, moron."
"Right..." Izuku smiled up at him warmly as he finally turned his head to look at her. She had realized something from the night before, when she was about to die, and when she was saved, she only thought of him. No matter what happened, every time her life was threatened she just wanted to see him one more time... wanted to follow behind him to school... wanted him to hold her hand... to kiss her...to hold her tightly like he did, one last time...
She loved Katsuki...
At the end of the week, she was collecting her things from Best Jeanist's agency with Katsuki, and the two of them were escorted by him to the bullet train. The man had styled Katsuki's hair down almost permanently with some kind of glue this time, and the boy was fuming with anger. Izuku let out a small laugh, before Best Jeanist lifted her head up, and he applied mascara to her lashes and gloss to her lips one last time.
"Hmm, I think this is the best look for you." The man said with a nod to her, and Izuku blushed a bright red as Katsuki glared at him. "The incident that occurred... It must still be on your minds, as it is mine." The hero crossed his arms as he looked down at the two of them. "People always turn their attention towards big flare ups, but it's during times like those that Heroes must be cool and collected. On occasion, chaos comes to mislead people and try to coax out the cruelty and tyranny that slumbers at the roots of them..."
"Best Jeanist..." Izuku'z eyes shone with admiration towards the hero, and saw that familiar scrunch in his eyes that let her know he was smiling at them.
"You both have a lot to learn, and I hope that you both take away something from the incident that took place. Friends are a very precious thing to have, along with style you will not fail as Heroes." He put his hands on their shoulders, and gripped them gently. "I am proud of you both, you showed me that the next generation is worth trusting in. Now here's your train..." He turned his head to look at the train that pulled up, and Katsuki grabbed his bad and Izuku's and stormed onto the train in anger. "Ms Midoriya..."
"Yes...?" Izuku turned her head to look up at the hero, she was worried she'd miss the train.
"You're such a strong and wise girl, that in itself is true beauty... But no matter what I did to your hair or face, I couldn't pin down why it wouldn't shine through all the time... I see now..." The man patted her shoulder. "You shine brightest when fighting for justice, and when you're beside him."
"S-Sir..." Izuku blushed a flaming red all over her face, and the man laughed.
"Hurry now, you'll miss your train!" He said, pointing at the bullet train. Izuku nodded her head and she took off to get on the train.
"What the fuck is wrong with you now?" Katsuki grumbled out as he looked up at her while she took her seat next to him.
"N-Nothing... I... just got a compliment is all..." She said, and looked out the train at Hosu one last time.
The next day, Izuku and Katsuki had walked to school normally, but she was sighting back her laughter as she noticed Katsuki's hair must have been truly glued down because it was still styled the way Best Jeanist had done it for him. He glared at her darkly as they entered the room, and were met with howls of laughter from Kirishima, Sero and Uraraka who spotted him step inside.
"ARE YOU FOR REAL, BAKUGO?! SERIOUSLY?!" Kirishima was in stitches and crying with laughter as Katsuki growled darkly in anger.
"STOP FUCKING LAUGHING, IT'S FUCKING STUCK LIKE THIS AND WASHING WON'T FIX IT!" He snapped at the small group. "I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU, QUIT YOUR LAUGHING!"
"AHAHAHA! GO AHEAD AND TRY IT, SCHOOL LAD!" Uraraka cackled with them as she took a picture with her phone. Izuku let out a nervous laugh, and saw Iida and Todoroki at the back of the room. She smiled over at them as she walked over to them to greet them.
"Morning..." she said with a smile to her friends, seeing their injuries were much better.
"Midoriya, you're tie is a mess." Iida told her with a look her way, and she blushed.
"I've never been very good at it..." She said nervously as Todoroki stood up and undid the mess she had it in. "T-Todoroki?"
"Just hold still..." He told her as he retied it, and Izuku blushed a bright red at how close he was to her. Katsuki stormed over, his hair finally back to normal after setting off some explosions, and he glared at Todoroki.
"The fuck are you doing?" He asked, sturggling to keep from yelling.
"Fixing her tie, it's a mess." Todoroki said, looking up at him with a raised eyebrow. "What are you doing? Holding onto her arm like that."
Izuku blushed, noticing that Katsuki had took her by the upper arm, and she looked up at him as he released her an grabbed at Todoroki's shirt to pull him close. The two boys seemed to have a staring contest with their foreheads pressed together, glaring darkly at the other.
"... When did they get so close...?" Uraraka was beside Izuku, her arms crossed. "Actually all of you, what happened to you guys in Hosu?"
"I heard you guys were rescued by Endeavor." Yaoyorozu said as she took her seat near by.
"Yep..." Todoroki said as he pushed Katsuki off of him and took his seat. "Rescued." He said with a look to the other boy who was glaring down at him.
"I saw it on the news..." Oijiro spoke up now, looking concerned. "Something about the Hero Killer and Villain Alliance being connected? I shiver just thinking about how USJ would have played out if they had him back then..."
"Right, he was pretty scary, buuuut" Kaminari was speaking, leaning back in his chair. "Did you watch the video? I dunno if it was his single-track mind or tenacity, but didn't you think he was kinda cool...?"
Izuku froze at the boys careless words, and she turned her head to look at him, "K-Kaminari!" She snapped at him, frustrated about how others would think that murderer was 'cool.' Katsuki stomped over to the blonde and smacked him on the back of the head with a growl.
"It's alright..." Iida said as he looked to his left hand. "He was certainly a man of conviction... So I understand if people find him 'Cool'. However, he chose to advance his cause by means of a purge. So whatever beliefs you may hold, that and that alone is an error!" Iida started chopping at the air with his right hand full of fire and fight. "AND SO, IN ORDER TOO THAT, PEOPLE LIKE ME MAY NOT HEREAFTER MULTIPLY, I SHALL PROCEED DOWN THE PATH TOWARDS BEING A HERO ANEW!"
"I-Iida..." Izuku smiled at him warmly, before she headed over to her seat. Uraraka followed her, looking at her with narrowed eyes as she studied the small girls face. Izuku looked at her with a nervous sweat, "Uhm... Ochachan...?"
"You look different." She said with a thought and Izuku blushed a bit. "... Makeup.. YOU'RE WEARING MASCARA AND LIP GLOSS!" She shouted in excitement as she noticed the small details and clapped her hands. "You look so cute! I love it!" The girl threw her arms around her in a tight hug and Izuku laughed a bit.
Later that day, the class suited up in their costumes. Izuku was surprised the repairs on hers were done so quickly again, and groaned as she saw they still hadn't given her back the legs to her suit. She looked down at her thighs, and thin silvery scars stared back at her glaringly. She clenched her fists as she looked at the reminders the Hero Killer had left on her skin.
"HI! FOR I AM HERE!" All Might called out to the class as they stood outside a battle ground, and Izuku looked up at her hero, smiling warmly. She had missed seeing him around, and clenched her fists as she looked to him.
"What a luke warm greeting..." Kirishima commented beside her and Izuku let out a small laugh.
"It's been a while girls and boys! In good spirits I hope!" The mountain of a man said with a grin to them all. The class gave back a resounding yes, and Izuku grinned brightly. "Right on the heels of all your workplace experience, this time we'll mix in an element of play! It's a Resuce training race!" All Might let out a booming laugh.
"If it's rescue training, then should it not be carried out at USJ?" Iida asked with his hand high in the air.
"No, that place is for disaster relief." All Might said with a finger pointed up in the air. "What was I saying? AH YES! A race! This is playing ground Gamma! Where densely packed lanes make this construction site seem more like a maze! Make four groups of five, and we'll do the training one group at a time! When I give the signal, some where in the area you all start simultaneously from outside the limits! This is a competition to see who can come to my aid first! Of course..." All Might looked towards Katsuki now, "Keep the damage of buildings to a minimum!" He said, pointing at finger at him.
"DON'T POINT AT ME!" Katsuki snapped at him, and let out a grumble.
"Now! Let's start with group one, take your positions!"
Izuku gulped as she hurried to her position to start. She was in a group with Ojiro, Iida, Ashido and Sero. She was nervous as she got ready at her starting point, but she took a calming breath. Now was the time to show everyone what she had learned... How she had gotten better control of her quirks...
"Heeey, who do you think will win?" Asui asked with a kero as the others sat in a waiting room. "Iida-chan should be resting from his wounds."
"I think it'll be Sero, his quirk lets him move fast!" Kirishima said with a grin as he sat next to Uraraka and Asui.
"I dunno, I think it will be Deku-chan." Uraraka said with a bright smile. "She can move very fast, I think she'll be able to pull through!"
"Nah nah, she'll hurt herself!" Mineta piped in, his nose dripping blood. "Wouldn't want those beautiful legs to get hurt!"
"Pervert." Asui croaked out, cracking him in the face with her powerful tongue.
Uraraka looked over at Katsuki who was abnormally quiet with his arms crossed. He was staring at the screen intently, and Uraraka turned her head to look up at the frame with Izuku in it, frowning. She remembered Izuku had mentioned her legs were injured in their internship, and wondered if everything would be alright...
Izuku took one last deep breath, before she channeled her quirk through out her body. She felt it electrify her skin and muscles, and she looked up with a fierce gaze as she focused on the task at hand.
"START!" All might shouted, and she took off with a bang, launching herself across the industrial play ground. She used her quirk to move quickly, thinking back to how Katsuki moved, how he made it seem so easy.
"WHAAAA?! MIDORIYA?!" She heard Sero shout out to her left, and she looked over at him with a grin, before she focused on the task at hand again, landing on a pipe and taking off again to launch herself over a tall tank. "WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THOSE MOVES?!"
"What..." Uraraka and the rest of the class were shocked at the extreme change in Izuku, seeing that instead of glowing green, she have off a golden glow with pops of red electricity all over. "WHAT?!" She shouted, standing up to get a better look at the screen. "SHE'S AMAZING! SHE'S GOTTEN SO GOOD! EVERYONE!" She turned her head back with a snap to the class who were watching in stunned silence. "LOOK AT MY FUTURE WIFE, ISN'T SHE JUST BEAUTIFUL AND GREAT?!"
"Ochacochan, calm down." Asui said wit a croak and looked to the screen. "But... Now that I think about it... She's moving like Bakugo..." The girls turned to look back at Katsuki who was watching with stunned eyes. He hadn't seen her use this power when they were interning... He was too late to the fight to watch her move like this...
"Right... I forgot about this..." Todoroki said beside him with a thoughtful look. "When did she learn that...? She's changed so much in just a week..."
"Grr..." Katsuki growled in anger as he stood next to Todoroki. How did he not notice? Had she trained in secret behind his back? She was late to the internship... But how had she gotten so much better in a such a short time with out him seeing?
"Gotta clam down... gotta calm down...!" Izuku was hopping from pipe to pipe, landing with graze each time she did, before taking off again into the air. She wanted to win this race... She had to win! She landed on another pipe one more time, and with all her power, she blasted off into the air, and soared through it, grinning madly as she did, before she came to a landing with a bang in front of All Might who looked down at her with a shocked look on his face. She looked up at him, huffing to catch her breath and she grinned brightly. When the others landed, she let out a laugh as she hugged Ashido.
"WHOA THAT WAS SOOOO COOL!" Ashido said happily, spinning the girl around. Izuku laughed brightly as she pumped her hands in the air.
"Young Midoriya was number 1! Good job!" All Might said proudly as he looked down at them all. "All of you have learned how to use your quirks more broadly since you first entered the academy! Now keep at it for me and begin preparing for the End-of-term test!" He said with booming laugh. The others started to head back towards the start, before All Might looked to her and smiled.
"You surprised me, almost didn't recognize you!" He said in a hushed voice and gave her a thumbs up. "When this lesson is over, come see me in the teachers lounge... I'd like to tell you the story bout me, and One for All..."
"Deku-chan! That was crazy!" Uraraka cried out as the girls got changed. Izuku blushed a bright red as she held her blouse up in front of her chest, and looked away. "How did you learn to do that?!"
"I just trained really hard." Izuku said shyly as she looked up at her. "It's not a big deal."
"that's right, you did some special training, well you did a fantastic job! So much improvement in such a short time." Yaoyorosu said with a smile as she pulled her skirt on. Izuku looked away from her big chested friend, still blushing as she fiddled with her blouse in her hands. She still wasn't used to seeing all her friends in their underwear, no mater how many times it had happened.
"Hey, do you hear shouting...?" Ashido asked, looking up at the others. Izuku looked up, and then at the wall that the locker room shared with the boys locker room. She was a bit confused because she could hear shouting as well, and Jirou used her earphone jacks to listen into the wall.
"HEY MAN, MY LITTLE MINETA'S ARE ALREADY A FLAGRANT CRIME IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" Izuku was shocked as she heard the loud yells from the other side of the wall through a small hole. "YAOYOROZUS HONKERS! ASHIDO'S FIGURE! HAGAKURE'S FLOATING PANTIES! URARAKA'S BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL BODY! ASUI'S ASS! MIDORIYA'S KILLER LEGS AND BREASTS! I WANNAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The girls were all blushing as they heard the shouts from the wall as Jirou used her her jacks to make a surprise attack through the wal.
"How cowardly! Let's plug it up quickly!" Yaoyorozu said with a huff, and Izuku hurried to pull on her blouse nervously.
"FUCKING PERVERT GET AWAY FROM THAT FUCKING WALL!" She could hear a loud explosion from the other side of the wall as she did up her blouse, and paled a bit, wondering if Mineta still had a head at this point...
After class, Izuku left the class room to go to the teachers lounge, and entered the room. She saw a skeletal All Might standing there, and he looked at her with a grim expression. "Lock the door," He told her as he took a seat and let out a sigh. Izuku did as she was told, before she went to take a seat, feeling the heavy atmosphere hanging around in the air. "You've been through a lot, I'm sorry I wasn't there..." He said with a frown as Izuku sat down.
"No... All Might you don't need to apologize," Izuku said with a frown as she looked at him. "But before that... uhm... Whats this about the story of One for All...?" She asked nervously.
"I heard you got your blood licked by the Hero Killer..." All Might looked at her with an expression she couldn't pin.
"Ah yeah... It was a wuirk that could from the freedom of others whose blood he ingested... But what about it?" She asked curiously, tilting her head to the side.
"Do you remember what I told you when I granted you this power...?" All Might asked, holding up his hand.
"Eat this." Izuku said with a straight face, doing her best impression of him.
"No, not that!" he said, spitting out blood. "I must have told you something along the lines of 'It doesn't matter how, as long as you take in my DNA'."
"Oh... OH MY GOD! DOES THAT MEAN THAT HE... THAT HE HAS ONE FOR ALL?! THE HERO KILLER?!" Izuku stood up suddenly, panicking. How could she be so stupid?!
"No no, settle down." He told her and she looked at him nervously. "I just thought that you might be worrying about that, but I see you forgot. One for All won't transfer to a new recipient unless you wish it. So it can't be forcibly stolen, though it can be forcibly passed on... It's a special quirk you know, and the same goes for it's origin... One for All is derived from a separate quirk which has existed since the begining."
Izuku sweated nervously as she looked at All Might while sitting back down on her stool. All Might looked so serious and it was starting to frighten her a bit.
"All for One, it robs others of their quirks and renders them the user's own. It's also a quirk that can grant them to others..." All Might looked down at his hands, sighing.
"A-All for one...? So it's just like it sounds..." Izuku said, biting her lip nervously as she looked at the sad All Might.
"It started during the dawn of the penomenon... When Society hadn't yet adapted to the shift... Yes... And during that age, rose a figure who promptly gathered the people together. He stole people's quirks and through his overwhelming power his influence spread... He moved them like pawns in a chess game... Taking control of Japan in the blink of an eye as an evil ruler..."
"I've seen the rumors all the time surfing the net, but... It's not just fiction? I mean... It's not in ny of our text books..." Izuku was really not liking the sound of all this, and she gripped the hem of her skirt in her hands.
"the dealings of underworld thugs and yakuza don't make it into textbooks, people with power want a place they can use it." All Might looked up at her.
"So... How is that connected to One for All...?" Izuku asked, but she wasn't sure if she wanted an answer.
"I told you, didn't I? All for One can grant quirks... either he placed his trust in those granted, or they were meant to make them submit... Only the bodies of those whom he granted quirks couldn't handle the strain, and many of them became virtual dolls with out speech... Just like Nomu."
Izuku gasped, an covered her mouth with her hands.
"On the other hand, among those who were granted quirks, there were also cases where their quirks mutated and blended together. The man had a quirkless brother who was small and frail... But he harbored a strong sense of justice, so he opposed him. The man forced a quirk upon his little brother, one that stockpiles power... I don't know if it was out of kindness or to make him bend to his will.. He who was thought quirkless, did in fact possess one prior. Though neither brothers knew or noticed... A quirk that could only grant itself to another. AND SO!" All Might sat up, his arms wide. "The quirk to stock pile power and the quirk that could pass itself on merged together! That is the Origin of One for All! It's pretty ironic," the man said with a sigh, "Justice is always born from the bowels of evil."
"H-Hold on... I undertand how it was born but..." Izuku held her hands up to look at them, then back at All Might. "About that bad guy from so long ago... How could he be still..."
"He's a man who can steal quirks, remember? Meaning anything goes. He probably picked up one that stops him from aging. He's a symbol of evil that will live on indefintely. The gap between power meant the younger brother could not beat the older, so the one who suffered defeat decided to entrust this power to the next generation, and so on. The power accumulated little by little, until it could one day stop All for One... And I was the successor to finally beat him! Or so I thought..." All Might let out a loud sigh as he leaned forwards. "He's still alive, and on the move again... He must be the brains behind the Villain Alliance! One for All is the power handd down through generations to defeat him, and you too might have to confront him... That great evil... In a final show down.
Izuku froze as All Might said that, and he looked up at her with a sad gaze. "I'm afraid it might be too much though...
"I'll do my best..." Izuku said, clenching her fists in front of her. "What ever you task me with... I'll answer to your call, All Might! As long as you're with me..." Izuku smiled at him as she stood up. "As long as you're here, I can do anything... I can feel it... I know it's true!"
All might stood up as he looked at her, and she thought he looked sad for a moment before he crossed the floor to her and hugged her in a fatherly way. She felt him tremble a bit, but she hugged him back and patted his back.
"Thank you... Izuku..."