The morning he woke up, Izuku grimaced at the morning news as they played on the TV as they all ate breakfast.

"We inform everyone that last night, the infamous Hero killer Stain, identified as Chozome Akaguro, has been found dead after an anonymous tip relating to the villain being involved in a fight with a mysterious figure who police believe to be the mysterious vigilante that has been roaming the streets." Then they proceeded to show pictures of the last alley in which they finished their battle, the deep crater on the floor, the dry blood and the broken windows.

"Stain… I feel like I have heard that name before" Himiko said as she kept eating, Izuku wasn't really surprised at this, if he remembered correctly it was the message that Stain should have given in the future that brought forth a bunch of different villains from hiding, she being one of them and they joined the league as they believe him to be part of it but now, since no one saw his speech and both Shigaraki nor Stain should know each other, things might have changed by a great deal.

Izuku didn't like it but he would need to prepare for anything that might change in the future because changing Shinsous or Himikos future was one thing but killing Stain was another, this is probably one of the biggest changes he has made until now.

"You probably heard of him in the news, he's famous for having taken down the most heroes but it seems that his record has been cut short" Izuku said, the news made him feel nervous, he had hoped that maybe the police would have thought that maybe of the millions of people who hated the villain would have come to take revenge, he didn't expect them to pin the crime so quickly on him.

Maybe telling the detective that he was related to AFO was a bad idea… Ugh, no, it was the right thing to do, even if it put a target on Remnants.

Last time, All Might had let his guard down after he thought that he had killed AFO, yeah he still doubted his actual death but now, they were sure that he was alive so that meant that they would prepare better when he made his move.

"Those are rather dark new to begin the day with…" His mother complained but then smiled as she turned to her new daughter "Anyway, Himiko how are you feeling, are you settling in well do you need anything?" His mother asked.

"I'm really good, even though I've only been here for a few days it already feels much better than my old home but… Are you sure I'm not causing you any trouble?" She asked once more.

"Oh not at all dear the only problem would be the money but I can easily get a job with my years of experience" His mother answered, right he had forgotten about that, his mother was getting a job something she had never done last time so he was a little curious.

"What job are you going to get?"

"I'll just take up my old job as a lawyer"

"You were a lawyer?" Izuku and Himiko both asked, making Inko laugh.

"Yes, actually it was in one of my cases where I met you father" She said with a bright smile.

"What?" Izuku asked in surprise.

"Oh no" His father said, the panic obvious in his voice.

"You were put on trial!?" First screamed.

"And you didn't get the death sentence!?" Nana complained.

"For your knowledge, I wasn't the one on trial, I was just… trying to get a job to hide my identity…" His father tried to defend himself but as his voice became quieter and quieter it was obvious that he didn't have many excuses "Alright fine! It was after one of my fights when Shimura was still alive and I didn't have that big of an evil empire and since I had changed my actual name multiple times I had nowhere to go and needed money"

"Did you… Were you a lawyer? You know jackshit about law! You had an arts degree!" First continued.

"Oh so now the english major is trying to chew me out, why don't you go read Hamlet or something!" Hisahsi answered back, that's around the point where Izuku turned out of their argument as the two continued bickering and focused back on his mom.

"I was preparing for a case which I thought could be a challenge as I was going against another lawyer who I had never heard of but when it came down to it I was actually surprised when he didn't even know some of the most simple things which ended with him losing the arguments and his client deemed guilty" His mother laughed as she recalled the face of defeat and shocked from her husband "But I was even more surprised when he asked me out to eat, there he confessed to me that he actually lied to get the job and that he had no idea what he was doing, it was a really weird encounter but we continued to met up and he would tell me all these different jobs that he would take and one thing lead to another and we ended together, now he has a job overseas but he still sends us money"

Izuku was surprised at this, in his past life he never learned much about his father so hearing this was already new to him.

But he shouldn't focus on that because since today he didn't have school they were going to focus on his new sister.

Since only Izuku and his mom have lived in this house they don't have all the necessities to take in someone else, they need clothes, more food and they will have to move his room to make space for her too.

But first…

"It itches" Himiko complained as Izuku pushed away her hand as she tried to scratch her head as he and his mother applied the dye onto her hair.

They had bought the green haired dye for her yesterday and today was finally the day they got to work on her hair, their mother was the one that did the most in this part as he had never done this before but by the time they were done he was able to instead use all of the skill he got from playing dress up with Eri to make the two buns he had seen her with before.

"Wow Izuku! this is my favourite hairstyle, how did you know?" she asked as she looked at her green hair in the mirror, Izuku only laughed.

The day then seemed to fly by, they went to different clothing stores to find clothes for her, they tested different mattresses to see which one she would like.

During the entire time there was a strange feeling inside Izukus chest, it was something that he had not experienced in a long time, something that he had thought that he could never experience again.

"Izuku!" A familiar voice called out.

"What are you staring into space for you nerd!" A rough yet warm voice said.

"Come on, the others are waiting" A warm hand suddenly grabbed onto his own, her soft pink pads on her finger brushing against his scarred hand, He looked up and saw Ochakos bright smile, behind her was the rest of his class all smiling at him.

They were all walking around the plaza, it was the time before they went to the camp, and the first time he had ever done this with people he could honestly call friends.

"Izuku?" Himiko said, bringing him back to the present, she tilted her head looking at him with a small smile on her face, he apparently had stopped walking when he got stuck in his own old memories.

Old… memories…

Could he even call them memories anymore? Those events might never even happen because of his actions and those memories were from a timeline that might not even exist, in all honesty these memories of times gone are nothing but a curse now.

So maybe…

Izuku wiped away the small tears that had gathered in his eyes and answered her smile with his own "Sorry, I got lost in thought" he walked faster to catch up to them.

Maybe it's time to make some new ones.

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Izuku let out a sigh.

Today had been a much more exciting day than he had expected. Walking around town with his family, going in and out of stores, it made him feel so… normal, like he wasn't some time traveller from a terrible future, it was nice.

But now all he wanted was to take a nice long rest as tomorrow he would need to go back to school and actually begin to deal with Bakugo.

He slowly opened the door and stepped inside, his feet causing a wet slap as he stepped on some kind of puddle.

"Huh?"

Only then did he realize that… this wasn't his room.

In front of him laid an entirely different world. The sky above him pitch black, not a single star could be seen above him but in front of him were many… things.

Bodies.

Corpses.

All covered in blood as their lifeless bodies made up the land, their white and empty eyes staring into nothing but they made him feel as if thousands of little needles were stabbing him.

He turned around to open the door and run but behind him was nothing, the door was gone leaving only the red and black wasteland to expand endlessly in front of him.

"Where… Where am I?" He asked nobody in particular, just a moment ago he had been in his own home so how come he was now in a completely different world?

Wait, didn't something like this happen before?

A nightmare.

That must be it, he was just having a nightmare again, he'll wake up any time soon, all of this isn't real and it- "It doesn't matter? That's what you wanted to say right?" A voice said behind Izuku which sent a shiver down his entire body, it wasn't scary or threatening, it was actually monotone, not showing a single hint of emotion, the reason it filled him with such fear was because…

It was his voice.

He slowly turned around and was shocked to see another him, the older version of him to be more specific.

His messy hair pulled back in a small ponytail, his sharp cold dark green eyes looked at him with no emotions, he was at least two heads taller than him and the green hero suit that was stained in blood only made him look more menacing.

"W-what are you?" Izuku asked, his voice trembling.

"What a stupid question, I'm you" The older Izuku answered but thats when he noticed, it wasn't exactly his voice, it was thousands of other voices all speaking at the same time.

"Where… where are we?" Izuku asked as he looked down, his feet were inside a small puddle of blood but around them the ground was made of thousands of dead bodies but he didn't recognize a single one of them.

"This place… It's a place made of your own guilt, these are the bodies of the people you couldn't save, the ones who lost their lives waiting for a hero to appear and save them only to drown in despair as they realized that no one was coming" Older Izuku explained, the thousand voices inside him making every word he said echo.

A heavy weight began to press on Izuku's chest as he heard the other version speak.

The people he couldn't save.

The ones he let down.

"But… But no one's dead yet, I got another chance, I can save them! I can- Ugh!" Izuku was cut off by the sudden hand that wrapped around his neck and lifted him into the air, making him choke.

"And you think that exempts you from your own sins, you're just making excuses and you know that" Older Izuku kept his strong hold on Izuku even as he clawed at his gloved hand, his expression never changing.

"You may have gone back in time but that doesn't mean that you can't make the same mistakes again" Older Izuku then began to walk holding Izuku in front of him to look at him straight in the eyes as he continued "You got another chance and yet look at what you've accomplished, you helped Shinsou and one of your past enemies congrats, but He is still alive, even as we talk he is controlling and killing people all because you thought that friendship was more important"

"You are wasting precious time, do you think that you can make those people your friends if they are dead?" As he kept walking Izuku noticed that the deeper they went in to the empty land the more corpses he recognized, at first they were just some heroes that he remembered having seen in the news but soon they became the one he remembered that had helped him like hawks or endeavor, their empty eyes only made the weight in his chest become heavier.

"People died and will die because of your faul, so use this chance to win " That last word was the first one that his other self said with any hint of emotion, and it was anger.

"You can't afford to lose because so many people died already to pave your way with their corpses and if you lose that would render their sacrifices meaningless" His voice only got louder and louder as his eyes began to take a red color and the grip on his neck tightened.

In the floor under their feet he saw his teacher, Mister Aizawa, Midnight, heroes that had tried to protect him and his class.

"You can't lose because you are the only one who remembers the tears they shed, the blood they spilled, the hopes they left for you to carry and if you lose, who will make them come true, who will make that brighter future that they died fighting for?"

His friends, Uraraka, Iida, Bakugo, he just stepped over them as if they were nothing more than stepping stones for him.

"So stop being a coward and walk through the blood and scale your way up with their bodies. Your hands are already dyed red with their blood so who cares if they get even more dirty"

Then his family, his mom, All Might, their faces so horribly empty that they made a whimper come from his mouth.

"Bare your teeth, a beast is better than a dead man and a villain is better than a dead hero"

Finally, he stopped leaving Izuku hanging over a massive pit that lead to an endless abyss, Izuku had stopped struggling and could only let the tears roll down his face as pathetic whimpers escaped his throat, he looked at his other self whose face was now contorted with anger, his red eyes looking at him as if he was nothing more than a pathetic insect.

"Whatever you do, whatever you become…" He let go and Izuku plummeted but his voice still reached his ears as if he was right in front of him " You cannot lose "