~O~~O~~O~

Of Fortune

Narrow Path: 1.2

"-And that would be the bell"

Everyone began to rise from their desks, scooping up all their equipment in the movement.

"Could you for homework please revise pages 12 to 16 over the weekend" the teacher quickly continued. If he didn't speak fast enough then half the class would already be out the classroom and beyond hearing range.

I myself had already picked up my belongings, but unlike my normal routine in being one of those first out the doors as well. I instead stood and waited for my new, first friend to pick up his own books and items himself, then walked to group up with him outside at the door. He was looking deep in thought.

"Izuku"

His body jumped and I could practically see the sudden nervous vibrations leap up his spine before he swirled towards me.

"Oh, Fortuna-san, I didn't see you there. You gave me a fright for a second there" he finished his sentence with a more embarrassed expression than which he started with.

I nodded "You should try to maintain a constant awareness of your surroundings at all times. Vigilance is indeed an important part of being a hero". It was an often-overlooked subject of heroism, especially by wannabe heroes and those heroes who were constantly held on standby. This was a concept that was instantly drilled into my head as soon as I gained my quirk.

Izuku's head quickly nodded furiously with a look of intense focus in his eyes "Right!" Then promptly pulling his second notebook and pencil out of his bag and speedily writing.

Funny, he would occasionally do something like this every now and then. I would have called out on the fact that doing so out in the open could be problematic for a multitude of reasons, just from the top of my head… But everyone needs a hobby.

I frankly just found it head tilting as to how he was fully capable of both navigating around his surroundings while he did so. Puzzling.

Soon after a short walk down the hall and a flight of steps; we had reached the main school entrance. Izuku had lowered his pencil and was looking over his quick notes.

I took the time to subtly look over his shoulder at the page. At the top was 'VIGILANCE', written in full bold letter, the title was then proceeded with a handful of notes mentioning why vigilance was necessary and all its applicable uses. He had also quoted me as well, right beneath the title. It made me frown, what was the point of that?

I internally shook my head, if it helped then who was I to complain.

It still made me curious though.

Nodding his head in self-satisfaction, he shut his notebook and placed it back in his bag before turning back to me.

He gave a small jump at noticing me again before he regained his composure.

"So, Fortuna-san…" he raised his right hand to scratched the back of his neck. Even though we had been friends for two months, he still got embarrassed incredibly easily. Or maybe he only just realised that we had gone a full 2 minutes of silence where he had completely forgotten about my presence.

Knowing him… It was probably both.

"I've been wondering for a while now… And ever since we started discussing hero stats and stuff." His voice was pitching higher again I've always been curious about how you know all these little details and things! But you never explained how, so I've been getting really frustrated over figuring it and I know it's a thinking quirk so I've been trying to figure it out for practice but I can't. And you haven't said anything about it so I assumed you don't want to talk about it!"

I had frozen and was staring at him. My body had become cold and my eyes were unblinking. This was about my quirk? I refused to jump to conclusions and allowed him to continue.

But by then his speech had dramatically slowed and he had begun shaking lightly as he met my stare.

"S-o-so I was j-just wondering if you would tell me or not" he trailed off.

I stared at him for an extra second before questioning the path.

I want to know what he thinks about my quirk

Receiving the 'okay sing',I slowly breathed out in relief and then nodded to him.

"What have you discovered?"

"Well…" his eyes trailed off slightly to the left of me.

"It's okay, I don't mind"

"Well, I kind of thought back to how you act in class, especially when you face challenges and I found that you have scored a perfect score on every test we've ever had. And you also seem to have the right answer for everything and know lots of stuff. So I've been thinking that it's some type of knowledge type quirk right?" He looked up to me and made eye contact.

I nodded and smiled lightly "close, but not quite. While some type of knowledge type quirk would fit, it leaves too much unexplained"

He sighed and scraped the top of his head with a downward expression "I thought so."

I continued, my smile getting a bit brighter, he really does set high standards for himself "My quirk isn't a knowledge type, it's a precognition type".

His head snapped up just in time to catch my quick smirk. It was hard not to be arrogant sometimes. The main problem now though is to properly explain my made up quirk to him just right as to not let him suspect anything different.

Unfortunately, this meant coming up with one of those new slang names that kids had started naming their quirks with nowadays.

Izuku gasped "You can see the future" he almost whispered

"My quirk is called 'TRUE OR FALSE', it works similar to an input – output system" Izuku's eyes creased in confusion.

"How it works is that I can input a bunch of different options to my quirk and my quirk will pick which one of the options is the 'right' one or the best one. Ff there are any in the first place".

His head hung sideways, guess explaining it wasn't that easy after all.

"Picture it like this; on a test, I get a multiple choice question of a) b) c) or d). My quirk would then tell me which is the right one."

He nodded this time "But then how does it explain all the stuff that you know, and how does that make it a precog type?"

I smirked "Because, at a simple glance, you would assume that it only worked for simple options and responses. However, true or false can be applied to any situation. But this as well would not explain why it works on trick questions and complicated scenarios where the 'right' answer is the 'wrong' answer." I couldn't deny it, watching his eyes continue to widen in bewilderment was quite enjoyable.

"B-B-Buuu"

I cut him off "It's classified as precognition because my quirk looks into the future and compares each option I present to see which one is the most favourable."

"G-gArk"

My smirk widened further "As well as that, with enough study, I can create hypothetical scenarios to create my inputs"

Izuku was silent, I could see him chewing his lips frantically.

"B-" He started slowly, my smirk disappeared and I quirked [AN: no pun intended] an eyebrow partly worried. Was he okay?

"B-br" He took one big breath in.

"BROKEN!"

I took a step back in shock, my eyes raised. This was strange; Izuku was normally shy and quiet, making a forcible effort to remain quite.

"Izuku… I you okay?"

He sighed, his head bowing as if in defeat.

"broken" he whispered again.

I nodded (mostly to myself than to him) and shrugged my shoulders lightly "Don't worry, quirks only make sense in the most rare of cases." Then in afterthought "My father actually has a very similar quirk himself".

He groaned before looking back to the floor dejectedly.

"So unfair" he whispered slightly dejectedly.

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After that, we continued walking towards the school gate; stopping just two steps outside face each other before heading on our separate ways.

There was a second of quiet before I spoke, "I'll see you tomorrow"

He smiled, but for some reason, it also held signs of embarrassment with his cheeks a touch red. I initially believe that this was due to brining up the topic of personal quirks and his lack of one. It was strange, we've been friends for over two months now and have almost always been discussing heroes and quirks. And whenever the topic of his lack of possessing a quirk was unfortunately brought to light (this still angered me), he never reacted like this. Normally he would instead take on a much more dejected look and be constantly looking to his side behind him.

"I-Ah, was wondering if at some point you would want to come over for dinner!"

Oh, so it was embarrassment. Figuring these things out for myself is such a hassle.

Then his words fully reached my brain.

I stared frozen at Izuku. I could feel the tips of my cheeks warming up.

"Could you repeat that?"

He quite visibly gulped "I've been kind of talking about school to my mom and I mentioned you… Annnnd she kind of wanted to know if you would mind coming over for dinner one night…"

His eyes suddenly widened as if he only just realised something and he quickly began waving his hands in front of him as if to ward my away.

"OF COURSE, THAT'S ONLY IF IT'S FINE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, THAT IS OF COURSE"

I blinked.

Then again.

"Ummm, Fortuna-san?"

I was quickly shocked out of my daze by his tone, then returned to my natural state of staring to compensate for my lack of words.

Then a thought occurred to me.

"When were you planning to have me over?"

"Aaaarre… Well actually, I was kind of supposed to ask you this morning if you wanted to come over tonight" he began chuckling to himself slightly.

He must have fallen out of bed and hit his head this morning.

He scratched the back of his head, "But I kind of forgot"

I felt my heart speed up slightly before I quickly calmed myself down and closed my eyes for good measure. This was an opportunity. Opening them, I leaned toward him.

"Tonight is fine"

I may have said it too strongly because the instant I did he began backing away.

"But what about your parents?" his response was frantic, yet quick.

My eyes darted to the side to stare down the street and the small smile that I hadn't even realised had been growing began faded.

"I'll message her on the way"

Izuku looked uncomfortable for a few seconds and an awkward silence fell upon us momentarily.

Izuku coughed into his fist, "Well if it's fine with you then.."

I nodded strongly, "It is"

He nodded back, "Well okay then, if it's fine with you then I guess we will just head off then".

I nodded again and we began to head off with me following next to him.

"Though now that I thin about it. You could just use your quirk constantly and figure it out the way on you own, couldn't you?"

I just smirked, but that seemed to be enough of an answer for him.

His head sunk.

"So unfair"

But my hands never touched my phone for the rest of the night

~O~~O~~O~

Now, many hours later and fully into night, I approached the tall gate that blocked off the entrance to what looked like a completely ordinary house.

Walking past the final security precaution that was a simple 12 digit number code that changed ever month at the front gates, I walked forward through the front yard. The atmosphere was quite and mellow; only the small metallic sound of the metal gate closing behind me offered any escape.

On the rare occurrence that a visitor would pass through, they would generally be surprised by what lay just a short distance beyond the high-end security. It wasn't a compound, nor a mansion or any other home of grandeur. Instead, the home took the appearance of a common, if higher standard modern house. Not something overly unusual unless you ignored the fact that it was located in one of the more financially expensive areas of the large town in which they were living in.

Walking up the front steps to the door, I paused. Then took 10 seconds to stand in relative silence, gathering my thoughts and will, before reaching up, placing my key in the doorknob, and opening the door to expose its hideous insides to the world.

Because despite its outwards appearance, its was a completely different story inside.

In all, you could liken it to a palace.

This place was in all ways, the complete opposite to the Midoriya household that I had just left from.

Where the Midoriya household had simple blue carpet, here the carpet was that of a royal gold with red streaks brushed throughout it. Where the Midoriya household had plain white walls with the occasional common family photo, the walls here contained multiple masterful portraits by famous artists depicting incredible landscapes and you could be sure each one was the original. There were no windows on the first floor and there was a faint classic record playing beneath the air, filled with the faint smells of expensive fragrances.

And where in the Midoriya household I experienced joy and kindness…

Here, this was my hell.

By heading down the hall and taking a minor right turn; I had reached the dining hall. The features of the room were exactly the same as all the others and in the centre sat a large oak table with many large chairs with dramatic engravings being situated around it. And in the chair closest to me, facing away, was her.

In terms of physical appearance she was beautiful. Wearing a simple, yet but expensive business dress with the same black hair that I have, done up into a single bun. She didn't turn to greet me, she rarely did. Instead, she simply gestured towards the chair next to her, facing half to the table and half to her seat.

I then foolishly braced myself, and slowly marched towards the chair that she had appointed me. The removing the bag from my back and placing it besides the chair, I sat down.

Her head then turned to place her focus on to me and I could see her features and expression.

Her looks were attractive, yet they were also almost identical to mine, a detail that I hated incredibly. Her dark dull eyes, something that others often found intimidating looked into mine. If they weren't so similar to mine then I would have been more satisfied in the fact that they totally juxtapositioned her pristine face.

Her expression remained calm. Though I thought that I could almost sense a feeling of disappointment in them.

"I've been waiting, Fortuna-chan" He voice was high and pristine.

It pissed me off, but I didn't show it.

"Hello mother"

She smirked

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