I have pretty much begun to write this story because I couldn't find one fanfic with a truly quirkless deku, of course by what I define, I'm not taking jabs or dissing any qurikless-fanfic. But he has no exoskeleton or straight-up super genius on everything. He is the reverse of cannon Izuku, Y'know more logic than emotion, think of a more emotional Aizawa. Anyway, I hope you can enjoy it as much as I like writing.
That's it, I guess. My dream, just that, a dream. Maybe I have to get a new dream... I could just... Screw that. What's one more to everyone? I mean literally, everyone thinks I can't do anything the nr. 1 hero, my mom, but today I showed more guts than them heroes combined. YoU cOulD hAve diEd, so what my life isn't worth jack shit anyway.
"Hey! Deku!" a familiar obnoxious voice call out for me.
I stopped and faced my former friend.
"What the HELL were you doing!" He grabbed my collar with one hand and the other was raised while small explosions danced on his palm.
"I just wanted to be helpless alongside you." I grabbed his wrist and yanked his grip from me costing me a button from my collar.
"Fuck you! I wasn't helpless!" A more aggressive display of dancing explosions consumed his hands.
"Obviously." I turned around and walked.
" I am not done yet!... Fine run, but don't you dare try taking the exam."
"I am going to try and you know why? Because of you!"
I walk once again not caring about his threats, if one thing is sure is that Bakugo wasn't one to be dirty and attack from behind, and in a one on one, I would win like 2/10 fights. He is the reason I started martial arts and if I could not beat him at least once I would have properly given up on being a hero. But lo and behold if I play a little dirty I can win. I, a qurikless could draw a win from the lucky son of a bicht even amongst the quirked... I shouldn't think that... His mother did nothing to me.
I can't go home now, I need to calm down. Unless I want to make my mom worried. I sent a quick text that I was hanging out with friends, I laugh a little to myself.
I took a couple of random and odd turns and eventually ended up in the uglier and more quiet part of town. I decided to head back when I heard a cry for help. I rushed to the sound only to gradually stop, I think about what the heroes have told me.
"Somebody! Anybody help!" To hell with them, I need no quirk.
And thus my 'not vigilante' work began.
"This is the police, what can I do for you."
"The-there is a dead body. I-I don't know what to do, I-I just... " I say with a panicked voice and with the pause at the end, it would no doubt fool anyone.
"Sir, you there?"
"They saw me, oh god I'm gonna die."
"Keep calm and tell us of your location."
"Y-yes, of cour-" I broke the phone with my hands and threw it away. I looked down at the unconscious owner of the phone. I feel slightly sorry for him for the extra trashing since I'm still irritated by the stupid heroes, but most importantly he threw the first punch.
I'm guessing it would take them about 5 min to find the location of the phone call and another 15 min to get here. To be safe I gotta first try to engage in 10 min, meaning I have about 10 min to move this guy and prepare a plan.
I could have prepared a plan beforehand, but as a hero, I need to be able to improvise. And to improvise I need a rational and logical mind and fortunately, that is my forte. I see about 12 people packing drugs from the warehouse into trucks.
There's no way for me to take them all down, but if they were to split... There's only one way, but I hate using my strongest weapon: Being a Deku. I have to use my helplessness and my innocent face. But first I gotta prepare a little.
I force crocodile tears and found my shaken voice. I approached slowly and it didn't take long for them to notice me. "Oi who's there."
I stagger back a bit and lifts my head a bit from my hands. "I-I'm lost!" I cried.
Two of them come closer to only see a little crying child. "Are you lost, kid?"
I nodded and cried a little harder. The smaller one of them came closer, "Stupid kid, get outta here!" He yells and was about to kick me, but the other guy pulls him back.
"What the fuck man. He's just a kid." The smaller man mumbles something, but no one reacts to it. "Now he is right, you should get out of here." He tells me with a straight face.
I nodded, " I understand, b-but I'm scared, c-c-can you go with me." I tried my hardest to stop crying and like I thought it added more pity.
"Alright kid, I'll just show you out of this shitty place."
"Oi, you just wanna slack off!" The other guy yells.
"Shut up and stay, somebody gotta keep watch."
The smaller man scuffs and curses to himself.
I walk with the big man and I discreetly study him, he doesn't have any obvious mutations but his posture is kinda hunched. It could very well just be a birth defect, but that other crook had to respect this guy... It shouldn't be too bad. They really are small-time crooks, I mean a kid about to take an entrance exam could track them down.
We are about to leave the neighborhood as I fall. "You are pretty clumsy, kid." He reaches a hand towards me, however, what he grabs isn't my hand. He grabs an electric cord that I prepared. I'm protected by the rubber on the cord, but he is in direct touch with the metal.
He is currently getting 10.000 Volts if you can trust the electrical fence warning. Just to be sure that he is out, I pull the cord out of his hand and delivered a right palm strike to his chin. And sure enough, he is out cold, too bad he was a criminal he seems like a nice enough guy.
The other guy standing watch should be easy enough since luring one out is the hard part but I got that covered. I run back while pulling my cry face forth.
"Oi, why are you back? No, where's that bastard?!" He pulls me up to his face.
"I-I-We were attacked! I ran to get help when he let me escape!H-he is that way" I don't know if my disgraceful face was convincing him or just that his operation is going haywire.
"Tsh, should have sacrificed you. Oi, we have company!"
I see the eyes of the crooks and only 3 of them look to be confident, the rest seem scared, but they comply anyway. I feel a firm hand on my shoulder, "Don't think I forgot about you. You three guard the goods and tie this brat up."
He lets go of me and runs with the other crooks except for three random crooks. One of them lay a hand on my shoulder "I'm sorry kid, but I gotta tie you up, I'll make sure not to tie-" As soon as the running criminals turned a corner I elbowed the crook. And that caught the other two off guard surprising them and in midst of their moment, I delivered a knee into the one I elbowed.
As it now stood two against me I take a quick glance to get an idea of their quirks. One of them has the eyes of a feline and the other had more than one join in his arms. I wanna take care of the feline one since it's more than likely he has more features in common with felines.
"C'mon can't you take care of a little kid?" I mockingly asked. For a second or two they made eye contact with each other and at that moment I made my move to punch the cat in the face, followed by a kick to the other that makes him lose balance.
While the cat is staggered I take advantage of his unprotected groin area and deliver a soccer kick to his balls. I honestly grimaced as I did so, but only for a moment since the other guy is on his feet again. He is rather young for a crook, but then again one is a hero when one graduates from a hero course in high school.
I take a battle stance, but he surprises me with his actions. "You can just go, I didn't sign up for this." He takes his hands up in surrender.
"You know I could have escaped at any time yet I haven't," I stated. I walked closer to him, " You wonder why I haven't left, don't you?" It seems even I can scare him as he is visibly scared. "Revenge?Vengeance? No! I-I'm sorry." I apologize as I just unnecessarily scared him.
"You seem pretty new to this, how about I let you go? but there is one condition." He nodded. "Don't ever do shit like this again or else I will castrate you when I find you." He is thinking of my proposal, but me popping my knuckles made him accept and so he ran.
I was about to run after the crooks I sent away, but it is too late as I hear the police in their direction. "It would seem I underestimated the police," I whisper to myself.
"Him again?!" detective Naomasa shouted in the room next door.
A man in a trench coat stood at the now open door and immediately grabbed the bridge of his nose when he saw me.
"Hello Mr. Detective," I said with a knowing smile.
"Midoriya... at this point you might as well call me Naomasa." He sarcastically said.
"In that case, you can call me Izuku, Naomasa." The detective took a deep breath and when he exhaled I could smell his coffee-breath and I was at least 3 meters from him.
He took the seat opposite of me and placed his hat on the table between us. "At this point, it can't be a mere coincidence."
"I was just at the wrong place-"
"-At the wrong time. Do you take me for a fool? You just happened to be 30 km away from your home?"
"You know my address!? That is kinda creepy, but no, I was there to go to the cafe; Drungus with the rumored delicious icecream. On my way, I heard weird noises and went to check it out. And I was apparently spotted and they attacked me. I defended myself, I didn't throw the first punch."
It wasn't necessary for me to be a brat, but I kinda enjoy being one, however, I guess it only goes one way. The detective visible gave up, and it was understandable. I did only tell half the truth, well only what I wanted to share and he knew it too. I bet he hates the rule that forced him to tell me what his quick is and that he is using it when we first meet.
"You are free to leave to our waiting room, we have called your mother."
"You are not going to ask if I used a quirk?" The detective gave me a tired look. It seems that every time I'm here the fewer questions are asked. It sucks that he doesn't wanna have a conversation with me, but that won't deter me. "So, what kinda quirk did they think I have?"
"You think this is a game?!" He slammed a fist on the table, crushing his poor fedora.
Jeez who pissed in his cereal this morning. Normally it is impossible for me to get him riled up. Perhaps I should just apologize then again, he is the only one I can be sassy with. Since starting to 'be at the wrong place at the wrong time', I have begun to embody a motto; go big or go home. That is for everything and so I'm gonna be a brat until the end with him.
"Are you dumb?" This earned me a subtle twitch from one of his eyes. "I'm just coping with the trauma by using humor. I could have died!"
"Midoriya..." He looked down at the crushed fedora. "That might have worked the first time! But I know damn well you don't feel an ounce of trauma." He outbursted and here I thought I got him, his quirk should very much say that I said the truth which I did, even if I exaggerated it.
I was about to come with a sassy reply, but the worst part of this farce came. "Ohh, my little baby boy! You aren't hurt, are you?!" Comically she runs through the detective, not past or around but straight-up running him over to hug me.
"I-I'm okay, mom. Sorry..." I hate to worry my mother and make her waste time on this, however, this is all I can do to make it to UA. I'm truly sorry that my dream will make you worry. And annoying as it is I can't hide my remorse from the detective from the soft look he's having right now.
"Not to ruin the mood, but I'm afraid You have to leave."
"Oh yes, of course, I'm sorry for running into you." She says with a bow.
"No need to apologize, I should have learned to move out of your way by now." He jokes and makes my mother laugh.
" Nah, I'm sure mom has another quirk, whenever she is worried about me she gains super speed and strength."
"That would certainly explain it." He laughs as he shows us out, but not before he mouths "Stay out of trouble" to me.
I don't know how but the ride home took 30 min while she came in less than five when I'm older I definitely need her instructions on how to drive. Anyway, the rest of the noon wasn't anything special, body training, a shower, and then bed. In a few days, I will take the entrance exam to UA.
If you made it this far I hope you liked it, nothing more to say than that.
