Himiko was laying on her bed when she felt a familiar weight sit down on the end of her bed. "Go away Izu."

"Himi… I need to tell you something. Something I can't even tell mom. But you need to know."

"I don't care. Keep it to yourself."

"It's about my quirk."

"I don't care about your stupid quirk!" She flipped over to face him, happy to see him wince. "You lied to me! You said you were quirkless! We spent two years supporting each other! And suddenly now you just what? Have a quirk? How do you think that makes me feel?"

Izuku's face fell. "You're right. You probably feel terrible. And it's my fault."

Himiko pushed herself into a sitting position. "You're right it's your fault! Why? Why would you lead me on like this?" The hurt on her face was evident.

Izuku held his hands up in defense. "I didn't lead you on! And that's why I need to tell you this. The truth about my quirk. You see, I really am quirkless. Well, I was - I never lied to you about that."

"That doesn't even make sense!"

"That's what I am trying to tell you. I- my quirk isn't my own. It was given to me."

"Don't lie to me! I… I trusted you, and now you're lying to me." Himiko found herself crying again as she began punching her brother's chest.

She felt Izuku gently grab her wrists. "I am not lying Himi. I swear. When I was so happy 10 months ago? When All Might told me I could be a hero? I never told you or mom or anyone the rest of that conversation. He knows someone who could transfer an enhancement quirk to me." Izuku's head fell. "My training was actually to prepare myself to hold the quirk. I was so concerned with trying to hide the fact that I would be getting a quirk that I never really considered how you would feel when I suddenly came home with a quirk."

"What, are you just telling me there is someone out there who can, what? Transfer quirks to other people?"

Izuku gives her a wobbly smile. "Something like that, yes. And that's why I'm not supposed to tell anyone. Besides All Might and myself, there are only six other people that will know. You're the seventh." He sighed in defeat. "I wasn't supposed to tell anyone. But you are right Himi - you've trusted me from the moment you woke up in the hospital. And I was lying to you. If anyone deserves to know the truth, it's you."

Himiko still refused to look at him, but he could see fresh tears running down her cheeks. "Why Izu? Why do you have to be so you?"

"What do you mean Himi?"

She briefly looked up at him. "Y-you're trusting me with some big important secret, just because I'm mad at you!" She looked back down. "It's unfair."

Izuku gave a nervous laugh and rubbed the back of his head. "You're allowed to be upset. I kind of had to get really good at being evasive the last ten months?"

Himiko shook her head. "No, that's not what I mean. I mean you're the most selfless, caring person on the planet. If anyone deserves to benefit from being given a quirk, it's you. I'm just - I'm scared."

"Scared of what?"

Himiko bit her lip, hard enough to draw blood as she finally raised her head and made eye contact. "Scared of losing you. Now that you have some quirk that is apparently so strong you literally broke yourself when you used it."

Izuku gave her a sad smile and shook his head. "No, you're not going to lose me. I don't want to be that kind of hero. I actually didn't figure it out until after I knew I was going to be getting a quirk - the kind of hero I want to be. I thought being a hero was just about saving people from villains. But that's not all, I just never realized it. I want to be the hero who can tell a quirkless 4 year old boy that he can be a hero. I want to be the kind of hero who will save a little girl whose parents abused her because they didn't like her quirk. They need a hero too."

"Izu…" Himiko found herself crying again. "Way to make me feel terrible about myself." She grabbed his shirt sleeve. "You are just too much sometimes." She gave a wet laugh. "I guess that's why you were able to impress All Might of all people, to get him to do this - this massive thing for you."

Izuku smiled and took his sister's hand. "Like I said, quirk or no quirk I'm the same person. I guess the best way I can explain it is that All Might saw potential in me. And because of that, he offered me the power to chase my dreams in ways I never thought possible, if that makes sense?"

Himiko began to give her brother a fond smile. "More like, he saw you would kill yourself running into danger and wanted to make sure you don't die."

Izuku gave a nervous laugh. "Maybe, but it doesn't matter at this point." His face fell again. "I failed the practical portion of the exam. And I haven't applied to any other schools, so I don't know what I'm going to do."

A knock on the door to Himiko's room interrupted them, Inko opening the door to peer in. "I don't know why both of you are upset, but I made your favorite katsudon, and it's ready. If you two feel up for it we can talk over dinner? Or maybe talk about it afterwards?"

"Y-yeah, we will be out in a minute!" Izuku managed to stammer out. When their mom left he closed the door and turned around to face his sister, new panic etched into his face. "Crap, I haven't told mom yet that I have a quirk now, either."

Himiko sighed. "And you said mom can't know the truth?"

Izuku shook his head. "No. As much as I love her, she's still a civilian - for her own safety I don't think she's ready to handle that big of a secret. One day though - I promised myself I would tell you both the truth one day. You just found out a little faster than I was expecting you to?" He gave a nervous laugh.

"Guess we'll see if mom takes the "official" story better than I did?"

Izuku nodded. "Y-yeah. The story I came up with is trying to make everything sound plausible."

Himiko sighed and pulled back. She hated the idea of lying to Inko after everything she has done for her, but she couldn't argue with Izuku's logic on this one. As a hero she is expected to be able to keep important secrets, even under duress. Meanwhile they could be putting their mom in danger if she found out something like this. "Ok, tell me what you've come up with."

"So there are some quirks that are unable to properly manifest if the person's body isn't ready to handle the strain of their quirk. Normally these quirks are discovered by the age of 11 or 12 at the latest, but it's still theoretically possible that at the age of 15 I could have such a quirk. The story, which we ar- were going to send to the quirk registration office was that over the course of my training to build my strength up for the UA entrance exam, my body's muscle mass became sufficient enough that a previously dormant storage and enhancement quirk we did not know I had was able to finally manifest properly."

"Ok, that sounds both simple enough and also nerdy enough to be coming from you." Himeko smirked. She stood up, and then pulled Izuku off of her bed. "Come on, let's go get cleaned up and talk to mom."

A few minutes later they all sat down to dinner, Inko dishing out plates, letting her children sit there quietly. Only once she sat down did she break the silence.

"Are either of you ready to talk about it?"

Izuku finally worked up the courage to speak. "I hurt myself really badly during the entrance exam. Himiko was really upset at me because of how bad it was - if UA didn't have Recovery Girl on hand, it would have taken me months to recover."

Inko's head shot up and she gave her son a concerned look. "W-what happened? Himi has had injuries from her training, but nothing that bad!"

Izuku looked down at his food. "I um. I manifested a quirk during the practical exam, and didn't know how to control it properly so I may have broken both of my legs and an arm in the process."

He heard her chopsticks clatter on her plate and looked up, seeing his mom's hands covering her mouth as tears were building up. "You- you have a quirk now?"

Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat. "Y-yeah. Apparently I've always had a quirk, but because I was so scrawny it never manifested itself because it would hurt me, like a built-in failsafe?" He put down his own chopsticks and looked at his hands. "It turns out that after ten months of intensive training, my body had enough muscle mass that my quirk was able to manifest."

Inko slowly stood up and slowly made her way around the table, looking at Izuku like he was made of glass. "And your quirk broke bones in 3 of your limbs?"

Izuku rubbed the back of his head and gave a nervous grin. "Yeah… I have a theory why that happened. Based on the way enhancement quirks work, if I'm right, that means I have been storing energy since I was four without ever using any of it? So I have a lot more energy to channel through my quirk than my body knows how to deal with."

"Are you going to be ok?"

Izuku nodded vigorously. "Y-yeah. I need to learn how to control it, but as long as I'm not using it, there is no risk of hurting myself." He held up his hands. "See? Perfectly fine."

Inko gasped, tears running down her face as she wrapped her arms around Izuku. "It's a miracle! You have a quirk!"

Izuku wrapped his arms around his mom and nodded into her shoulder. "Y-yeah, I do."

When she finally let him go, Inko turned to her daughter. "I think I get why you are upset. How are you feeling?"

It was Himiko's turn to look down at her food. "I… need time. I should be happy for Izu, but part of me feels like I'm losing something special between us."

Inko walked over to her daughter and hugged her. "You can take all the time you need. I know change can be scary, especially for you."

Himiko pulled herself deeper into her mother's hug. "It's hard." She admitted.

"Just know that no matter what, we're your family and we'll always be here for you."

Himiko could only nod, more tears flowing as she looked at her brother and saw him nodding in agreement as well.

Eventually Himiko loosened herself from her mom enough to drag her over to Izuku and pull him into a group hug. The three remained this way for several minutes later until everyone calmed down. After everyone began to feel better they returned to their meal. Eventually Himiko finally broached the other elephant in the room.

"Izu, we were interrupted earlier - you never explained exactly how you failed the practical portion?"

"I um, got so caught up in my own head that I forgot well, everything? All of the training that should have helped me deal with those robots. Something about seeing all of these people who were confident with their quirks destroying robots all around me really got to me. Until the giant zero point robot came out. There was a girl who was trapped under some rubble from when the robot crashed through a building. So I started running in to save her."

"And as I was running towards her, I suddenly felt different - my quirk was manifesting! I just didn't actually realize what was happening until I was a hundred feet in the air. So instead of rushing in to save the girl I um, punched the zero point robot in the face to destroy it?"

Despite the serious atmosphere, Himiko started laughing. "N-nobody in my class is going to believe it. They break out those giant robots when they really want us to sweat, since none of us can deal with them easily, or at all. And here Izu just breaks one by punching it in the face."

"Hey!" Izuku found himself crossing his arms in defiance. "Even though I did wreck the robot, I still broke my arm in the process!"

Calming down, she looked at her brother again. "Don't you remember there's a second scoring component to the exam? You probably got a ton of points by helping this girl out."

Izuku momentarily brightened at that, but then his face immediately fell. "In the end, after I punched out the robot, I was falling from the sky because I had no way to control my descent, and my limbs were a mess because of my quirk activation. And the girl I was trying to save? She ultimately had to save me from crashing into the pavement with her zero gravity quirk. So if anyone would have gotten points for that, it would have been her, not me."

Himiko hummed at that. "I think you're selling yourself short, but we will have to just wait and see when the results come in."

For the next week Izuku was in a slump. He couldn't get over the feeling of failing everyone, and that wasn't helped by the fact that All Might wasn't responding to his messages. He was also scared of trying to use One For All again. It was so strong, he didn't want to use it and shatter bones without a better idea of what he was doing. His days were spent in a haze as he went to school, then returned home and holed up in his room until dinner.

Even though Himiko was still having some difficulty adjusting to the fact that Izuku now had a quirk, she hated seeing him like this, and tried her best to cheer him up. Meanwhile Inko spent hours each day looking into other hero schools that were accepting late applications to take their entrance exams.

Finally, a week after his entrance exam, Izuku was studying in his room when he heard his mom come rushing in. "Izu, your letter from UA is here!"

With a sense of dread he took the letter and opened it, seeing the familiar message disc falling onto his desk. He looked at his mom, and saw Himiko also peeking into the room.

"If you want to watch it in private that's ok." His mom reassured him.

Izuku shook his head. "No, it's ok. We can watch it together."

He flipped it over and felt the weight of it, before he sat it on the desk and pressed the button to start the message.

"I am here!" All Might's face appeared on the screen. "I must apologize for not contacting you recently, but I was caught up in paperwork! You see, next year I will be joining the UA staff as a heroics teacher!"

He heard a gasp from Himiko behind him, and was reminded that his new position wasn't common knowledge yet.

Meanwhile the projection of All Might continued "But that is not why I am here! Let's review your results. For the written portion of the exam, you have scored a 93%! You scored the second highest written score among the candidates. This is a testament to your bright mind. However that alone is not enough to get into the hero course. There is also the matter of the practical exam! Unfortunately, the only robot that you were able to destroy was worth zero points."

Izuku braced himself. Here it comes.

"And if that was the only metric for scoring the practical exam, you would have failed. However, it is not! Allow me to demonstrate with a video."

The video switched to a camera in Present Mic's office. The three saw a brown-haired girl - Uraraka is her name, Izuku remembers - enter the office. "Um, Excuse me, Mic-Sensei?"

"What is it, little listener?"

"There was someone in my group - Izuku Midoriya. He hurt himself really badly trying to save me, and I saw him afterwards saying he needed just one point. It doesn't feel right for him to fail the exam because of me. Could I give him some of my points? He at least deserves the points he could have earned if he didn't save me!"

"Sorry! No-can-do!" Mic came over and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Even though your heart's in the right place, rules are rules! You don't worry about him though! He may not have any villain points, but he's going to have a good score anyways!"

"What?" Izuku was shaking at the revelation, as the scene cut back to All Might.

"Your actions are already inspiring others! As Nezu is fond of saying, it would be irresponsible of us to let that go to waste. And it would be irresponsible of UA to test on only one metric. You see, there is another score - when there is serious danger and someone is in trouble, what do you do? These are the types of questions that go into our second score - Hero Points, given out by a panel of the staff and teachers. And this year, you have set a new school record of 60 points! This alone propels you into the top 10 scores among students this year."

On screen, All Might paused for dramatic effect. "Congratulations young Midoriya. This is your Hero Academia!"

Izuku heard Himiko cheer behind him right before she and their mom latched onto him, all three crying and embracing in a deep hug.

"I-I did it! I'm going to UA!"

AN: Bit of a downer chapter this time around, but it was bound to happen. Normally Inko finding out that Izuku suddenly has a quirk is something that goes unaddressed, but in the context of everything so far, Izuku coming home and suddenly having a quirk was going to cause tension.

As for how quickly it happened - given how Izuku told Bakugo about being given OFA on the second day of school, I took it as a testament to Izuku's dedication to All Might that he was able to survive the entire trip home, plus another couple of hours stewing in his room, before he broke down and admitted that someone gave him a quirk to Himiko.

I'm hoping to get 2 chapters out this week, but work may get in the way of my plans and I'm not sure what day I will be able to post during the week.