"Okay, this should be a good place" Izuku panted as he looked around the park he had run to, after investigating on Toga he found this park which was close to her school and many of the students went to visit, hopefully he would be lucky and he could catch her before she left for her house.

The sun was at its peak and he had ran all the way here so he moved to stand under the shadow of one of the trees, he looked around and saw parents, young kids and various students all of them wearing a similar uniform to his the only differences being how instead of black theirs was a white dress shirt and a light blue blazer with the emblem of their school on their arm but amongst all of them, there was no sign of the blonde girl, he knew that she looked different but she was nowhere to be seen, maybe he had been too late and she had already- "Saito?" Izuku felt a shiver run down his spine as he recognized the voice, he turned faster than he intended, surprising the short blonde girl behind him.

He had already seen her picture but seeing her in person somehow made it seem more real just how different she was from the killer that he knew, she was much shorter than before, her familiar messy buns were gone leaving her straight blonde hair to reach her shoulders, she wore a white dress shirt under a black vest and the same light blue blazer as her classmates, the only thing that told him it was Toga was her golden yellow colored eyes and thin slits.

"Freckles…" she softly muttered as she looked at him until she finally snapped out of it with a small blush "Ah! sorry, I thought you were someone from my class, it's just that both of you have fluffy hair but he doesn't have freckles and in the shadows I thought your hair was black like his and I-" Toga suddenly stopped her rambling when Izuku let out a laugh.

"Sorry sorry, it's just that the way you started panicking was really funny, I'm not that Saito guy but my name is Izuku Midoriya, nice to meet you" Izuku smiled and stretched out his hand to her, in reality the smile and laugh were all fake since his body was telling him to try and run or fight the girl in front of him before she could get any kind of sharp object in her hands, he still remembered just how dangerous Toga from his timeline was.

Toga blinked a few times before she smiled and shaked Izuku's hand "I'm Himiko Toga, pleasure to meet you! What are you doing here? Do you live close?" she innocently asked, he just couldn't tell her that he was here because of her so he thought up a lie.

"Well,I'm actually waiting on some friends since they wanted to hang out here" Izuku said with an excited smile on his face, this was one of the best lies he could come up with since most people would assume that he had friends and it also gave him a reason to just stand alone and not look weird "what about you Toga, are you here with your friends?" he asked

Her shoulders dropped a little "Not… really, I'm actually here alone, I just like coming to this park since it's so… peaceful" For a moment, her expression changed from one of happiness to a sorrowful one, he had seen her sad before, mostly because she couldn't kill one of her classmates or someone else but this one felt… different.

"Well, I'm going to be waiting for a while until they arrive so, want to chat for a bit?" Izuku asked which seemed to raise Toga's mood as she gave him a bright smile.

The two of them talked for a while under the tree, Izuku learned a bit more about the girl, she really was different at the one he knew, she was friends with her entire class and had good grades but for some reason the topic of quirks was always avoided, not by him but she always seemed to change the conversation when it went near it, another weird thing is that she didn't talk about her family, she mentioned in passing that she had an older sister but not once did she ever talk about her parents.

It was strange but for some reason, maybe it was because he knew the future Toga, the way she acted almost seemed… forced.

The sound of chimes interrupted made their conversation come to a halt and even weirder was when Toga took her phone out and checked something, and panic flickered on her face before quickly disappearing, if it had been anyone but Izuku they might have missed it completely "Sorry Izuku but I have to go but it was really nice talking to you"

"Oh, that's okay, I enjoyed talking to you too… would it be okay if we talked again another time?" Izuku said, Toga stopped and looked conflicted but only for a second as she smiled at him but this one felt just a little less fake.

"I'd love to!" Toga and Izuku exchanged numbers so that they could keep in contact, he waved at the blonde girl as she walked away and when she finally disappeared after taking a turn he let out a sigh.

"That was a lot more stressful than I expected…" Izuku turned from the park and kept walking until he found an empty dark alley that he thought of as good enough.

"You handled it very well back then, for a second it seemed like you were going to punch her" fourth said and the worst thing is that he wasn't wrong.

"It was just my instincts acting up and after more than a few years of her trying to kill me, seeing her act so friendly made me feel weird" Izuku shuddered as he remembered the strangely normal conversation the had but then he remembers "Did any of you notice anything weird on how she acted?"

"Apart from her not being a serial killer, nothing really, she was just a normal middle school girl" third said.

"And that's exactly what's wrong" first said catching everyone's attention "one doesn't just start killing out of nowhere, they need a reason, something that triggers something inside of them like a kind of accident that makes them turn to villany"

Hisashi just shook his head "Little brother, I don't think your knowledge in comic book heroes is going to help us solve this case, so if you could just leave it to the adults that would be very kind of you"

Before first could answer Nana spoke "No no, he's got a point, many villains I fought back in my day had some kind of reason, be it money, revenge, a grudge or simply because they enjoyed the thrill of it, but that's only a few of them who have a small goal like that, but the thing is, Toga looked fine, I still don't see why she would become a villain in the first place"

"maybe… something caused her to snap" Izuku began "Through the entire thing I had this strange feeling where she wasn't being honest and… it reminded of myself, always just being kind, smiling and her expression looked similar to mine"

"Okay, that's a good theory but what would have caused her to snap so suddenly?" fifth asked "Her time at school seems fine so we can take it off the list"

"So you are saying that it's something outside of her school life, maybe her family?" sixth said, it was a good theory but it couldn't just be restricted to her family, maybe a group was messing with her and the stress finally brought her to insanity.

There were too many possibilities and he barely had any information on this version of Toga, the best thing to do now was wait and see if he could gain any more information from here and if it came down to it, he could probably follow her home and see for himself.

But for now, as red lighting sparked around Izuku as he activated a few body enhancing quirks at once and then the familiar green sparks of full cowl as he used two percent of One For All, he jumped shooting upwards and landing on the roof of a building, he needed to head home and begin the second art of his plan.

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Night soon fell on the city, the time Izuku had been waiting for, now wearing a red hoodie to cover his hair, a black face mask that covered his freckles, weighted gloves, a pair of knee pads and steel toed black shoes that he had stolen from a few stores, he was wearing these clothes because they are the exact opposite of what Izuku Midoriya would wear so like this he was trying to throw people off his tail by breaking his whole green dress code, he felt a little guilty but he had no time to waste on trying to get gear so this was the best choice.

"So far, what do you think of my quirk son? that warping quirk made stealing those items much easier and I told you that using those body enhancing quirks to use One For All was a good idea" Hisashi proudly said, Izuku was still not used to having him around and even less using the quirks he stole from others but if he wanted to have a chance at changing his future he would need to use every weapon in his arsenal.

He concentrated as he felt a kind of list of the different quirks he possessed appear in his mind, he searched through it to find the ones he would need "Strength enhancer three times, Healing booster four times, Blackwhip, smokescreen… this should be a good combination of quirks but maybe a few more amplifier quirks wouldn't be bad, so let's put OFA energy output at 30 percent to make them stronger…" Izuku kept muttering as he prepared his quirks, the vestiges felt a shiver run down their spines as they finally saw a scary resemblance to his father who looked proudly at his son.

Red sparks surrounded Izuku as the quirks were filled with energy, the strength enhancers putting his body somewhere along the same place he was when he finished All Mights training, the healing quirks keeping his body from the stress of the sudden enhancement and the other quirks from the vestiges.

Izuku began his move as he jumped from building to building getting closer to his target.

His investigation on Shinsou had to be a little more in depth as he had to search for the family that had adopted him at this time and their residence, his approach would be different then he one he gave to Toga, visiting him at school was almost impossible as his school wasn't just far away but at the other side of town so going from his school to then run to see Toga and then hurry to try and catch Shinsou and go back home at an hour that didn't make his mother start thinking something was wrong would be an impossible task since he didn't have a teleporting quirk.

The other reason as to approach him as a vigilante was to try and help him believe in people more than he did before, Shinsou usually thought that everyone was out to get him because of his quirk and that made him become bitter and lonely as he pushed everyone away, both of them meeting in the sports festival was a kind of trigger for both of them, Shinsou saw that his quirk wasn't a burden and that people did like him and for Izuku it reminded him as to why he fought and remind him of his roots.

Finally Izuku made it to the home of Shinsous adoptive parents, it was a rather luxurious home, nowhere near anything from Todoroki or Yaoyorozu but above a lot of others, he looked through them and saw that they already had a few younger kids but they adopted to make themselves seem like better people to their friends and strengthen their connections.

Izuku jumped off the roof and activated air walk and float allowing him to easily walk in the middle of the air and walk to an open window with a few purple hair sticking out.

"Hello" Izuku said as he finally reached the window surprising Shinsou who jumped back and fell off his bed "Ah! Sorry I didn't mean to startle you, are you okay?" Izuku asked as Shinsou looked at him with surprise.

"Who… who are you?" Shinsou asked, Izuku was surprised not only by how he looked like but the way he acted, future Shinsou was skinny but this one had no meat on his bones, his hair was even more of a mess than usual, his arms were covered is red and blue bruises and the bags under his eyes looked worse then normal and he seemed a lot more shy than his future self who had a sharp silver tongue.

Izuku's blood boiled, he was being abused and barely fed by his own family, it seems like the situation is much worse than Izuku had originally thought "Hi, I don't mean you any harm I'm just your friendly vigilante passing by" Izuku said hoping that he doesn't come off as a threat.

Shinsou still looked at him with nervousness but his guard seemed to lower even if just a little "And… what are you doing here?"

"I was just passing by, searching for any bad guys who need a little asskicking, you know, the usual, but then I saw you sitting there all sad and moopy looking at the stars, is something wrong?" Izuku acted in a much more outgoing and goofy manner than he usually would, this was to try and get closer to Shinsou, to look like a kind and warm person who wore their emotions on their sleeve.

"Uh no, nothings wrong, but… what's a vigilante?" Shinsou asked, seeming less tense, Izuku smiled as he saw that his plan was already working but felt a little bad since he was using the trust Shinsou was putting on him like this but he knew it was for the better so he pushed it aside, he can deal with it later.

"Wow, you don't know about us, I don't know if I should be offended or suprised" he chuckled "Well, vigilantes are like heroes, we go around beating bad guys with our quirks but the only difference is that heroes need to do all this annoying paperwork but we just can't wait…" His voice suddenly took a sadder tone as he continued "the reason we can't wait depends on who you ask, some have a grudge, some just didn't want the paperwork others… have lost important people and don't want others to go through that, but in the end, all we want is to help others'' Izuku turned to Shinsou with a sad expression, the purple haired boy now looked at him with less fear and more awe.

"You know what? I like you kid, I have to go but I'll come and visit when I can" Izuku was about to leave when Shinsou called out to him.

"Wait! what… what's your name?" Izuku froze.

A name… He hadn't thought about that, in his last life he had tried going nameless, he used the name Deku if things went badly but he never gave the idea much thought, even now he didn't care about it since he wouldn't be helping people too much as he would be looking for information so he didn't expect himself to stand out too much, but it was only one person, how much would it hurt?

But it only brought the same problem back, a name, he couldn't go with Deku again, it was too early and if somehow word of him does get out, it could be traced back to him. A new name would be better, maybe a nickname or something from his past life?

Izuku started going back on memory lane of his past life, the time he spend with his friends, his family, his teachers, all the battles he went through, one would think that being able to think of them and still stand would make someone happy but for him these memories are bittersweet.

Those times haven't happened and with how much he was messing with the timeline they might never happen again, these were memories that only he held and the people in them would never know, he smiled with them, laughed with them, he grieved their deaths and after all of that, he was the only one who was left, the scraps that fell off the table.

"...Remnant, call me remnant" with that Izuku disappeared into the night.