Beginning A/N: Thank's for waiting! Sorry this took so long, but I felt like I seriously needed to rewrite the previous chapters and change up a few things regarding the plot for this story. At least in the beginning. I hope you all enjoy these rewritten chapters, as well as the new chapter that will be uploaded soon enough.
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A Not-So-Happy Birthday: Rewritten!
In a cold and lonely apartment in Musutafu, a young man with fluffy green hair, green eyes, and four freckles in diamond patterns below each eye sat curled up with his knees against his chest. He was dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, a pair of warmups, socks, and house slippers, and the look on his face was one of great misery.
This is Izuku Midoriya, a hero student in the famous 'hell class' of UA High School, Class 1-A, and his life has taken a serious nosedive recently.
Let me give you some context.
It was the night of Izuku Midoriya's fifteenth birthday, which would normally be seen as a happy time for the lad even though it was usually just him and his mother who celebrated since his father left them as soon as he found out that Izuku was diagnosed as quirkless. Unfortunately, this was far from being a happy birthday. You want to know why? Well, it's because of a number of factors that all add into it. But we'll start with the most important part.
And that's that Izuku's mother, Inko Midoriya, was dead.
It all started on the day of the Provisional License exams. Izuku was out taking the test that he would eventually pass and receive his Provisional Hero License, and Inko had gone to the market district to do some grocery shopping. All was going well as she had gotten everything she needed for the house. But as she was making her way home, a villain attacked and started destroying everything and attacking anyone who tried to run! Which was everyone! He had a quirk that allowed him to control the magnetic fields around him which worked perfectly for turning metal into weapons, especially in some of the sadistic ways he used it to kill civilians!
Medical implants were turned into internal spears that skewered the vital organs of his victims while dental fillings, make sure to brush those teeth kids, caused people's heads to pop like big, gory balloons sending blood, bone, and brain matter everywhere! As Inko herself ran for her life, she could only turn back and watch helplessly as the Magneto wannabe sent a semi-truck flying her way…
And crushed her!
By the time the heroes showed up and stopped him, Inko was in terrible shape with broken bones, internal and external bleeding, and several ruptured organs. The heroes did have someone with a healing quirk with them at the time, but he couldn't do much for her. The most he could do was keep her alive as she was rushed to the hospital for surgery.
She didn't have the best odds of survival at the time, and both Inko and the doctors knew it. It saddened them, but they knew that the only thing they could do now was let nature run its course. But despite her normally harmless appearance, Inko Midoriya was every bit a fighter as any hero could be, and she fought her own shortened lifespan to see her son make his next big step in becoming a hero.
She managed to stay alive long enough to read his text about the Provisional Hero License exams and how he passed, as well as see the picture of her son's new provisional license. That very same night, Inko passed away in her sleep with happy tears in her eyes and a proud smile on her face. The next morning, Izuku had received a phone call from the hospital telling him what happened, and the light just faded from his eyes. He was immediately called to Principal Nezu's office after that phone call and was excused from classes for the week so he could take care of funeral preparations and mourn his mother's death.
It was a very quiet event, the funeral. Aside from the priest who performed the funeral, the only ones to attend were Izuku himself, his mentor, Toshinori Yagi, A.K.A. All Might, and Inko's sister in all but blood, Mitsuki Bakugo along with her husband, Masaru. Three of the four attendees were a wreck as their tears mixed with the falling rain, as if the heavens themselves were crying over the death of such a sweet woman who was also such a loving and dedicated mother who loved her child with all her heart despite his previous quirklessness. Masaru had tried to comfort his wife, even though he was also trying to stop his own tears while Toshinori was there as a shoulder for Izuku to cry on, as he understood the pain of losing someone important to you, as he remembered how his own mentor, Nana Shimura, sacrificed herself all those years ago so he could live and be the hero she knew he could be.
It hurt the old man's heart just remembering that time.
After that day, Izuku started to change. And not for the better. He wasn't sleeping as he was constantly plagued by nightmares of his mother, mangled and bleeding, blaming him for her death and asking why he didn't save her, which were only made worse as he saw Sir Nighteye, Eraserhead, and others appearing and telling him how much of a failure he was and that he didn't deserve his quirk. How he was the villain for failing to save his mother. This in turn caused him to start skipping meals and focusing more and more on training to the point where he was on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion more than once and was only getting about one or two hours of sleep every night because of the nightmares that continued to plague him.
If Eraserhead ever paid attention to his so-called 'Problem Child' he'd realize that the poor boy was in serious need of counseling with Hound Dog and had long since developed PTSD from all of the events he's had to partake in this year alone.
He was still studying hard and wasn't slacking off in his school assignments, actually surpassing the likes of Momo, Shoto, and even Katsuki, much to the exploding blonde's anger, for top spot in his class. Unfortunately, his lack of self-care has been a hindrance to him during Hero training, but we'll get to that later.
Anyway, today was Izuku's birthday and he had actually been hoping that this would be a good day for him, considering the rather rotten few months he's been having recently. He had been hoping that he could have a nice birthday with the new friends that he made in Class 1-A, the first friends he's had since he was first diagnosed as quirkless a little more than ten years ago. Unfortunately, there were two problems with his plan.
The first was that, for some odd reason, his classmates had begun to actively avoid him.
And at first, Izuku didn't pay it too much attention. He figured that everyone was stressed due to all of the rampant villain attacks that their class was almost always at the center of… WHICH AIZAWA ONCE AGAIN DID NOT SEND THEM TO GET THERAPY FOR, THE LAZY HOBO! Anyway, he figured that they didn't want to talk to him because they weren't ready to talk about their trauma, which somewhat made sense to him at the time.
But as time went on, and days turned into weeks, they still didn't talk to him. They just gave him the cold shoulder, actively avoided him, and even gave him death glares.
It was even worse with several of the teachers behaving the same way. The only ones who treated Izuku normally were Midnight, Lunch Rush, Nezu, Hound Dog, and Thirteen. All Might isn't included here because, at the time, he was away for lessons and tutoring in order to get his teaching license, since he had to retire from hero work after his final battle with All For One, so he had no idea what was going on with his young protege. All of the other teachers, however, either gave him the cold shoulder or were outright hostile!
To Izuku, it felt like he was back in Aldera Middle School all over again!
But it all came to a head when, on his way back to the dorms from another rather grueling training session that he had put himself through, he was confronted by Aizawa, Vlad King, Ectoplasm, and a few police officers.
Izuku had been slapped with quirk suppressing cuffs and taken to an interrogation room where it was revealed why he was being treated the way he was. Apparently, Present Mic had brought up the possibility of there being a traitor in UA, probably since the USJ incident, which had some merit, even though it was also a little farfetched.
And they all thought that HE was the traitor!
Their evidence was flimsy and circumstantial, which happened to be one of Izuku's latest quirk analysis notebooks that held notes on all of his classmates' quirks along with weaknesses for those quirks. Iida had taken it and read through it before giving it to Aizawa, who also read it… but neither of them took the time to read the notes that gave information and ideas on how to protect against those weaknesses. Such as armored gloves to protect Ochako's hands, for example.
That didn't stop them from bringing Izuku into an interrogation that lasted for a full week before All Might and Nezu finally showed up with Detective Tsukauchi. The police detective had worked on many a case alongside All Might, and with his quirk, Lie Detector, he was able to prove that Izuku wasn't the traitor by asking one simple question.
But by the time they had arrived, Izuku had already been beaten relentlessly by the overzealous officers. He had a black eye, a busted lip, several new broken bones, and a couple of missing teeth.
Needless to say, Eraserhead and his accomplices were in very big trouble for what they did.
Not to mention the fact that Izuku no longer trusted any of his classmates because of what happened.
Which brings us to the current time. A time in which Izuku was wallowing in misery because of all that he had been through. The beatings, the isolation, the interrogation… all of it was just too much for the young lad to bear. He had thought about taking Katsuki's advice from middle school and just ending it all that night. But he decided against it.
He wouldn't give that blasted villain in hero's clothing the satisfaction of his death.
He just sat at the table of his apartment, which he knew wouldn't be in the Midoriya family's possession for much longer, which sucks because it would mean that Izuku would be homeless once the school year let out again. His landlord was generous enough to at least allow Izuku to remain at the apartment until he moved back into the UA dorms once the new school year started up. He just sat at the table with a small lemon cupcake in front of him with a single candle lit in its center. He knew that the wishes one makes on a birthday candle never come true. All those times he wished he'd manifest his own quirk since his fifth birthday, and each year it just led to the same disappointment. He would have just let it burn out on its own, but for some reason, he felt compelled to make a birthday wish.
It was like he had this odd gut feeling that his wish would come true this year. Because he had a more meaningful wish to make this year rather than wishing for a quirk. He slowly and carefully picked the candle out of the cake and lifted it up so that he could make his wish.
'I don't know why I'm doing this, but… I wish for a family. A real family that will love and protect me as I would do the same for them, just like how mom did for me. I don't care if we're rich or poor, so long as I am loved by them, I'll be happy. This is my wish.'
And so, he blew out the candle and made his wish.
Never dreaming of the chain of events he just set into motion because of it.
But with his wish made, Izuku got up from his seat and decided to see about preparing himself some dinner. He didn't really have much since he didn't get the chance to restock his fridge and cabinets due to everything that happened recently, but he would make do. Unfortunately, he didn't make it so much as ten steps towards his kitchen when he slipped on a banana peel that he was certain wasn't there before and fell flat on his back, hitting his head against the corner of the counter in the process! Izuku's vision blurred as he lay on the floor dazed from the impact. And as he slowly closed his eyes and lost consciousness, he had only one thought going through his mind.
'Why is my luck so horrible?'
With that final thought, Izuku's eyes closed as he fell into the blissful embrace of unconsciousness. And while he was konked out, if one looked outside, they would see a star in the night sky beginning to glow brighter than all the other stars as a chain of events was about to unfold.
All because of a lonely and hurting child making a wish on his birthday.
***To Be Continued…***
Ending A/N: And that's the end of the edited first chapter. I hope you like it. I know the whole 'Suspected Traitor Midoriya' genre is severely overdone, but I felt like it would make this story easier for me to write if I gave it a better starting point for the plot.