"My name is Izuku Midoriya and I have a dream to become the greatest hero and to protect the world. But now that's not my only goal, I want to be strong enough to protect the one that's most precious, the one who holds my heart and is my light, this is my story "
Midoriya 7 years old
"Midoriya time for supper!" Inko called her son but there was no response. She signed before giggling a bit. She dropped on the floor and covered her eyes with her arm. "Help, I can't finish all this food by myself." Inko called.
"Don't worry," a little boy with green hair, dressed in All Might pajamas. "BECAUSE I AM HERE!" Izuku announced with arms in the air. He ran to the table and sat down, while Inko sat beside him. "What are we having Kaa-chan?"
"Chicken katsu with cabbage and miso soup." Inko answered, sitting across from Izuku.
"Eww, cabbage? But I.." Izuku started but was cut off by his mom.
"Heroes eat everything on their plate, especially strong ones like All might." Inko said, smirking, and noticed her son's reaction.
"Then I'll eat everything...including the cabbage." Izuku gave in, receiving a nod of approval from his mom. The night was a normal night, well that's what they expected until Izuku ate some of the cabbage. Inko looked up and dropped her fork as she was staring at Izuku.
"I-Izuku, your hair..!" Izuku gave her a confused look.
"What about it?"
"Your hair is glowing green, hold on!" Inko got up from the table and ran into the bathroom to grab a mirror. She came back and held it in front of Izuku. Izuku's mouth dropped as he dropped his fork and started to rub his hair, it was glowing green. Then he realized something
"Kaa-chan! I have a quirk!" Izuku cheered.
"That's great honey but what does it do?" Inko asked. She was happy that her son had a quirk but she never saw this. "How tomorrow you go to the park with lil Bakugo and practice it. Maybe you could find out what it does."
Izuku nodded and giggled in excitement at the idea of finding out what his new powers were. Him and his mom proceed to finishing their dinner before washing up and turning in for the night.
Next Day afternoon
Midoriya was expecting that his friends would be happy for him, that maybe he would finally be recognized by his childhood friend, but what happened was he was being made fun of by said friend. "So that's it? Your head is glowing like a night light, what's next? Is your power protecting kids from nightmares?"
"M-maybe, I got a hidden power." Izuku stuttered, beginning to sob.
"Or maybe you're just useless? You no what, your name is Deku now, useless lil Deku." Bakugo taunted with his two friends behind him. Midoriya backed away and ran away. "Aw, Deku is going to cry. You could use your headlight to comfort you." the three began to laugh as Deku ran away.
Deku ran towards the nearby park and crouched down by the lake sobbing. He was still happy he had a quirk but he was starting to think it might be useless. " hey what's wrong?" Izuku stopped crying and found the source of the voice coming from a raven hair girl with a ponytail wearing a yellow dress. Izuku started to blush a bit since it was the first time he came into contact with a girl. 'She's so pretty' was the thought that went through the head of the green hair boy.
The girl blushed a bit and started twirling her foot into the ground. "T-thank you." Izuku gave her a confused look until he realized he said it out loud.
"uh..I..mm." the girl began to giggle a bit.
"You're funny. My name is Momo Yayaoroza, what's yours?" Momo introduced herself.
"I-Izuku Midoriya."
"Well Midoriya, why were you crying earlier?" Momo asked with a concerned look.
Izuku looked down and started to sob. "Because my friends said I have a useless quirk and started calling me deku because I'm useless."
"What is your quirk?" Momo asked.
"Well when I ate some cabbage yesterday my hair turned to this." the boy pointed to the top of his head. "I thought i could do something cool with it."
"What did you try to do?" Izuku looked at Momo and was about to answer but stop. Now that he thought about it, he didn't do anything. He found out he had a quirk but didn't see what his abilities were. Momo was looking at him, studying his action but when he was quiet she got concerned. "Are you ok?"
Izuku blushed and looked down in embarrassment. "I didn't try to figure it out, I wanted to tell my friends and was hoping we could practice together."
Momo chuckled a bit. "I understand, I feel the same way when I awaken my quirk, but can I be honest?" Midoriya nodded. "I don't think you should be friends with those guys if they made fun of you."
"But they are my only friends, if I stop being friends with them, I'll be alone." the neon green head boy replied.
"Well if it's ok with you," Momo shifted nervously fumbling with her dress. "We could be friends." Izuku's eyes widened in shock, a real girl wanted to be friends with him but she didn't want him to be friends with Kaachan and the others. While he was trying to come up with an answer she broke his thoughts. "I-I don't have any friends," he looked up at her as she spoke. "You see my family rich, so people tried to be my friend for my money, while others look at me like a princess. I just want one friend who sees me as me." Momo explained with tears in her eye, causing Midoriya's heart to break.
Midoriya thought about her offer and his friendship with Bakugo, his childhood best friend was bullying now more than ever and they were growing distance plus Momo was right, why should he be friends with someone who makes fun of him. Plus momo was the first girl,besides his mom, he ever talked and she was willing to be his friend and she did seem like a nice person. He made his decision.
"It's ok, don't cry please." Momo looked at Izuku as he held his hand out towards her. "I'll be your friend." Momo eyes sparkled, then faster than All might , she wrapped the bush head boy in a hug. The boy was blushing up a storm. 'A girl is hugging me, why does it feel so nice?' she pulled away with a huge smile still on her face happy about making a friend. "Is it ok if i call you Izu-kun?"
"Umm.. that's fine Yaoyo-"
"Momo."
"Huh?"
"Call me Momo." Momo demanded, with a pouty look. Midoriya chuckled nervously. He thought about the nickname his new friend gave him and smiled.
"Mo-chan.." the raven-haired was shocked and blushed at the nickname.
"T-that's fine," Momo said nervously. And decided to divert the conversation. "So you ate some veggies and then a bush grew on your head? You could have some plant related quirk. Try to grow something and concentrate." Izuku nodded and put his hands to the ground but nothing happened. He then looked at his palm and signed in disappointment. He turned to face Momo as she was smiling at him. 'She believes in me,' he stared into her eyes and was drawn to it. 'So pretty'. And as he thought that, his hand glowed green and a pink rose sprouted from his hand. "Look Izu-kun!" Momo pointed at the flower.
Izuku looked at his palm and there was a flower on it. "I did it!" He turned to Momo and presented the flower to her. "Here you c-can h-have it." Momo took it slowly and held it close to her chest. She smiled thinking that she made a first real friend and he gave her a flower, her first gift from a friend. She put the flower behind her ear.
"Sooo..how do I look?" Momo asked, swaying back and forth, twisting her foot in the ground with arms behind her back.
"Um.. you look c-cute." Izuku answered honestly. Izuku might not have been showing it but he was happy, he just wasn't used to being around girls.
Momo gave him a warm smile and hugged, causing the nervous boy to shake. She then separated and giggled. "We have to fix your stuttering and nervousness also, so how about we go get some Ice cream, my treat?"
"It's ok, really. You don't have to." MIdoriya said, waving his hands side to side. Momo captures his left hand with her right one and smiles.
"It's ok." she then pulled him along with her to the ice cream cart near the park. When they arrived, Momo was still holding Izuku's hand, while the boy was blushing. 'She's holding my hand! She's holding my hand!' Izuku was repeating to himself. "Momo kept giggling while looking at her new friend. "Yes, you're holding a girls hand, is it ok?"
"H-how do you know what I was thinking?" Izuku asked.
"Because you were saying out loud silly." Izuku put his head in his hand and started to mutter to himself. Momo turned to the ice cream cart. "Two strawberry Ice cream cones please. Are you ok with strawberry Izu-kun?"
"Huh, oh yeah sure." Izuku answered. The man chuckled at the two and gave them the cones.
"It's on the house, since you two are a 97% match." the Ice cream man said.
Momo tilted her head in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"My quirk let me see the bond between two people."
Izuku heard and got excited. "That's a good quirk, so me and Mo-chan are going to be friends forever?"
'Heh heh, I could tell them but they're too young to understand.' "sure does kiddo anyway enjoy your ice cream." the man said, waving goodbye toward the kid as they went to sit on a bench. As they sat down, Momo pushed her cone in front of Izuku's face and smiled.
"Here." she offered, causing the nervous boy to blush. "Friends share, so here."
"I c-can't, it's y-yours, plus you bought me the same.." Izuku stopped talking when Momo gave him a pleading, with a tear in her right eye. "Ok, I'll do it so please don't be sad."
Momo wiped the tear out of her eye and smiled as Izuku leaned forward to take a bite, his face red as a tomato. He took a small bite and when he swallowed it, Momo jaw and ice cream dropped. "Um Izu-kun, your hair?!"
"What about it?" the boy asked. Momo didn't answer and reached out to touch it and shivered a bit, confusing the boy more.
"Why is your hair so cold? And why did it change colors along with your eyes?" Momo asked. The boy's eyes widened.
"What color is it?"
"It turned white after.." Momo paused in realization.
"I ate the ice cream." Izuku finished. He looked at his palm with ice cream in the other hand. He closed his eyes and concentrated a bit. His hand started to glow white, then there was a ice flower in Izuku's looked at Momo with a huge smile. "I think I figured out my quirk Mo-chan!"
Momo nodded. "Me too, you get powers from certain food."
"That relates to elements."
"And your hair and eyes."
"Change to the color."
"That matches your form." Momo finished. The both laughed a bit. "How about we finish our.." she looked towards the ground and just remembered she dropped her cone. Izuku noticed and offered her his cone.
"We c-can share if you want?" Momo looked at him and the cone before smiling. Instead of taking the cone with her own hand, she leaned down and took a bite, causing the boy to blush. "Why d-did you do that?"
Momo swallowed the ice cream and chuckled. "Because I said I'll help with your nervousness, do you want to stay a scardy cat or a hero?"
"H-Hero..I mean I want to be a hero." Izuku said with a stronger tone. Momo nodded in approval and began to eat the ice cream with Izuku. Izuku began to smile a bit, he was glad to meet a new friend. He still was processing that it was a girl too. And she had a quirk too. 'What a minute?' "Mo-chan, what's your quirk?" Izuku asked.
Momo turned and blushed in embarrassment since she forgot to mention. "I can create any non-living object from exposing my skin by transforming my fat cells. But I have to know the structure of the object. But I have to eat a lot."
Izuku had sparkles in his eyes. "That's amazing, you can help anyone with almost any situation. You might be able to surpass All Might."
Momo blushed at the compliment, but before she could say anything another voice cut through. "Her? Surpass All Might, she's nothing but a bitch, I'm going to surpass All might and be number one hero." the two turned their attention forward and noticed Bakugou standing in front of them.
Momo was wondering who the stranger was until the insult he made registered. "Hey! Who are you calling a bi..bi.. The 'B' word?" Tears began to form in her eyes.
"Hahaha can't believe you found another crybaby Deku, I guess y'all travel in pacts. I can't believe you also think she could be #1 hero in the world. She's just a crying bitch." Bakugou teased.
"K-Kachan it's not.." Midoriya started but stopped when he heard sobbing noises. He turned his head and what he witnessed ignited an unfamiliar emotion inside of him. Beside him, his new friend Momo, was crying. The girl who was always happy, the girl who cheered him up, and the girl who helped him. Covering his eyes with his bangs, he turned to face Ka- no Bakugou, with a cold snowy breeze surrounding him. "Take it back."
Bakugou stopped laughing and turned to the white haired boy. " what di-did you say, nerd?" Bakugou tried to say, but his teeth were clacking together from the sudden cold air that came out of nowhere.
Izuku slowly lifted his head up and to Bakugou's surprise, he was glaring at the dirty blonde, with eyes glowing. "I said apologize, you can say what you want about me, but don't ever talk about Mo-chan, Bakugou!" Izuku yelled, forming a windy snow veil around him and ice forming around his fist. "Mo-chan have a better chance of being #1 than you, she is nice, smart and isn't mean like you are. Just watch, we'll both surpass you and All Might." izuku declared.
Bakugou was shivering even more than before, but what surprised him even more was the fact that Deku called him by his name. Not wanting to freeze to death, the dirty blonde ran but not before getting a last word in. " I get you back for this Deku!"
After Bakugou left, the wind died down and Izuku's hair returned back to normal. He breathed heavily after the performance but ignored him and turned back to Momo to check on her, but he was tackled to the ground by a blur. Momo leaped at him and wrapped her arm around him, engaging him in a hug. "Thank you Izu-kun." Momo said quietly. Izuku for once wasn't blushing a storm and returned the hug.
"No problem Mo-chan."