Hero with Eyes of Death[MHA/KnK] - Chapter 1
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"Urgh," Izuku groaned as he felt himself wake up. Though for some reason, his entire body felt like shit. Like it had moved in a thousand years. The memories of the dream he had been having vanishing from his mind as if it was sand being blown away by the wind.
Though Izuku knew something was wrong the moment he opened his eyes, as he didn't see normal colours like he should be doing. No, everything was a much more muted colour, and the strangest thing was that he could see several red lines on the things that were around him. "What happened?" Izuku asked the thin air, but it, of course, provided no answer to his question. But he could see the red lines on himself as well. Though as he looked at his arm, he could see how they were much thinner than he remembered them to be. And to it, he saw a small tube that was connected to it. Izuku followed the tube with his and saw that it was connected to an IV pouch.
"Am I in a hospital?" Izuku asked out loud again as he continued to look around the room he was in, which was not his bedroom. The lack of All Might merchandise giving that fact away, and after finished his scan. Izuku concluded that he was in a hospital, as the room looked similar to those he had seen when Izuku had joined his mother a few times while she had been working night shifts as a nurse during the weekends when he had been younger. And she had been unable to find a babysitter. "But why am I here? And what is this the stuff I am seeing?"
For Izuku did not remember getting injured at all, unless his head had been injured to the point he had forgotten the incident. Which could explain what he saw, if his brain had gotten messed up. Though as he continued to look at the lines, he felt strangely compelled to touch them, to see if it would do anything.
It was the natural sense of curiosity that Izuku knew he had, and urge to constantly learn new things, which had been geared towards Quirks and the analysis of them.
And so Izuku looked around the room to find a thing he could test it on, as he did not want to touch one of his own lines. Like he knew if he did something bad would happen to him. And so his eyes, landed on the table next to the bed he was sitting in. Which had looked to have a rose in a bottle and four get-well cards next to it?
"Wonder who those could be from?" He asked as he couldn't think of anyone besides his mother and Aunt, who would be concerned about his health. Izuku really didn't count his Father as the man had practically bailed once he had learned Izuku had been diagnosed as Quirkless. While it had not been said, it had definitely felt like that to Izuku. As the man had not shown himself in years, constantly working in America and giving excuses as to not come home for anything.
And thoughts are getting off track. Izuku thought as he forced himself to get back on topic. Though as he picked up the rose, Izuku was able to get a reflection of himself in the window, which showed a clouded skyline. "Woah!" Izuku said in shock as he saw what his eyes looked like now.
Izuku could see that his eyes were no longer green, but an almost shining light blue, with a red ring that encircled his pupil. Did, did I unlock a Quirk? Izuku fearfully thought, unable to speak the words out loud.
But there was only one way to see if he was right.
Izuku lifted the rose up to his face, the red lines clearly visible on the plant. And with a nail, he traced the line that was in between the flower and the stalk. And the moment he did, Izuku watched the flower head fall onto the bed.
And the moment he did so Izuku, saw all other lines disappeared from the now destroyed rose.
It took a bit of time to register, but he moment it did, Izuku dropped the rose as he instinctually knew what he had done.
I killed it, I killed the rose when I cut the line. I don't know how, but whatever event put me in the hospital, it caused me to develop a Quirk, A Quirk that allows me to see lines, that when cut 'kills' the object in question. Izuku just continued to stare at the destroyed rose, he didn't quite know how he knew all that. He just did, like had it explained to him before.
But that didn't matter right now, because he didn't want this. He didn't want a power that seemingly revealed the death of everything around.
Go away, go away, go away! Izuku mentally shouted as he wished for the lines to disappear, for he couldn't handle looking at those lines of death anymore.
For that was what those were, lines of death which his eyes could now perceive.
Though as he grabbed his head and thought, wanting the lines to vanish, Izuku watched them disappear, and the world returned to its normal colouration. What? He though in surprise as he now looked at the line free hospital room. "Did I manage to turn it off?" Izuku asked himself, and now that he didn't see the lines anymore, his eyes felt much lighter than before and not straining like they had been. Which was something he had only noticed they had been doing now that they were off?
Though before Izuku could give any further thoughts on his very, very strange situation. The door to his hospital room opened and in walked a person that Izuku very much wanted in his presence at this very moment.
His Mother.
"Mom," Izuku croaked out as he saw his diminutive green-haired mother, who seemingly looked like she had lost a few pounds.
And she seemed to have heard him, as she stared at him in shock before exclaiming something that made Izuku think many, many disturbing things. "You're awake, you're actually awake!" She shouted and cried as she ran over to him and pulled Izuku into her embrace as tears fell down her face. Collapsing to her knees as she did so. "I was actually starting to worry that you would never wake up."
"Mom, what happened," Izuku as he stared down at his mother's teary green eyes.
"You don't remember sweet hear?" Inko Midoriya asked as she stood back up.
"I don't, Mom, the last thing I remember is going to school and seeing Mount Lady and Kamui Woods capture a villain," Yeah, the memory was clear as day in Izuku's mind with the only other memory being the dream he did not remember. And even as he tried to think about the thing he could recall was a woman's voice.
"You can call me Big Sis, Izuku."
It had probably been a very weird dream.
"Mom, what happened to me? How did I end up in the hospital?" Izuku asked, and he saw his mother take a deep breath before she began to talk.
"From what the police were able to gather, you were on your way home from school, when you were attacked by a villain with slime Quirk that tried to, that tried to hide in your body to escape from All Might. He was stopped, but in the process, he had punctured your lungs, as well as fracturing your skull," His Mother explained, looking sick while doing so, and Izuku found himself swallowing loudly as the grizzly image she was describing appeared in his mind. Though that did explain his memory loss
"But I am fine now, right?" He asked because his lungs didn't feel like they were burning or was having trouble breathing.
"Yeah, it was only thanks to All Might's quick action that managed to save your life and your lungs, as he managed to get you to a Hospital, also getting Recovery Girl in to heal you," Inko explained.
And Izuku could only react by dropping his jaw as he heard what she said. "They really did all of that for me?"
"Yeah, surprised me too. Especially when the man himself bowed down before and apologized for failing to save you," Inko said with a look that spoke of disbelief, as if she didn't even believe her own words. "One of the cards is actually from him."
"Really, who are the other ones from?" Izuku asked as he stared at the get-well cards.
"One is from Recovery Girl, the other is from Aunt Maaya, of course. The last one is from the Bakugous," And Izuku blinked at that.
"Really?" He asked as that was a bit of a surprise.
"Yep, Katsuki seemed very concerned about you met him a few times while I was visiting," She answered. And Izuku almost didn't believe what she was saying about Kacchan.
"Mom, I starting to get that I fell into a coma, due to my… injuries, but how long have I've been out?" Izuku asked as he needed to know.
"I know, this might come as a shock to you but, it's the middle of October, you been in a coma since May," Inko informed him, and he felt his eyes shrink at the revelation.
"Oh," Was all Izuku said as he released he had lost months of his life, months of school work, his birthday had passed he was fifteen now. "Oh."
"Now, just wait here, Izuku dear, I go and get a nurse to check up on you," Inko said. "But don't worry about what you missed Izuku, you're awake, and that is all that matters to me right now. We can deal with all of that later."
And now that was all Izuku could think about.
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"Izuku, are you ready to go home now?" Inko Midoriya asked her son, who stood dressed in his normal clothes.
It had been two weeks since Izuku had woken up from his Villain induced coma, and it was now early November. The only reason he had not been released earlier was due to having lost to much weight, and his muscles had atrophied due to being unused. So he had spent the last two weeks in physical therapy learning how to walk again, along with eating a lot of food so that he could regain some of his lost mass. The only reason he was leaving now was that Izuku had recovered faster than they had expected.
Though in those two weeks, Izuku's curiosity had gotten the better of him, and he had tested his new abilities out despite what it did. And he truly managed to confirm his out of nowhere thoughts when he had cut the rose. He did truly 'kill' a thing if he cut its lines of death. Having managed to test it out with a few objects, and Izuku had also discovered it was easier to cut a line if it was done using something with an edge. And then he cut the line the object he did it with seemed to completely the durability of the object being cut. As Izuku had managed to cut a brick wall with a butterknife.
Though even after testing out his new eyes, Izuku still didn't know one thing.
And that was how to be a hero with a power that could only kill.
"Yeah, Mom, I am ready to go home," Izuku said with a heavy smile, for he was already starting to get tired of the place. Even if his mother's coworkers were very nice to him. He had missed so much stuff, and he needed to get behind his computer and truly catch up on what had happened in the months he had been out. And look at memes, god he had missed so many All Might memes. He had only been able to see the latest one on his phone, and it was the fantastic Y'all Might. Oh, Izuku wished he had come up with it.
"Okay, then let's go," Inko said, and the two of them left the hospital, and the two of them began to drive home. Though before they arrived at their apartment, Inko took a detour into the local mall. As she needed to buy things for dinner, that being stuff for Katsudon.
"Now, while I go shopping, you can go and buy anything you want with this," Inko said as she handed him ten-thousand Yen in bills. "As a belated birthday present, from me. And I have another one from your Aunt back home."
"Thank you, Mom," Izuku thank her as he took the money.
"You have no reason to thank me Izuku, I am just glad that you're okay now," Inko said as she hugged her son. After that, the two separated, and Izuku began to wander the mall, money in hand looking around various shops for something to buy.
Though most of what he saw did not really speak to him, not even the All Might merchandise, spoke to him like it usually did. Because Izuku was still utterly drained both mentally and physically and even though he had been in a coma and had slept eight hours each and every night. He still felt like he hadn't slept in days, and he was starting to wonder if it was a side effect of his new Quirk.
Though as Izuku walked through a clothing store, he finally found something that just intrigued him for some reason, a jacket that he had to get. As if the above-average red jacket was his missing half. So Izuku bought it alongside a pair of black jeans and a simple black t-shirt that fit it. And those three pieces of clothing together gave a discount which left him with 2000 Yen remaining of his original budget—a steal, in Izuku's opinion.
"Did you buy something, sweetheart?" Inko asked as Izuku met up with her at the mall's entrance. Her shopping cart was filled with wares now that two people had to eat.
"Yeah, I bought some new clothes," He answered as he took out the red jacket he had bought.
"Wow, that looks nice, Izuku, though I had expected you to buy some All Might stuff?" Inko asked with a smile on her face as her son had completely subverted her expectations.
"There wasn't anything I wanted, and these just spoke to me," Izuku told his mother honestly.
"That is fine now, let's get home properly," Inko said as the exited the mall together, and it seemed that despite being separated from each other for almost six months, it looked like their relationship had not suffered at all. And Inko couldn't help but smile at that, as she had expected the worst. As she knew what serious head injuries like her son had suffered could do to a person's personality.
Though over the last two weeks, she had noticed a few changes, few and minor, but they were noticeable. Izuku wasn't muttering as much anymore; he was smiling less. Small and minor, though noticeable. Compared to how he used to be.
But that didn't matter to Inko, she could care less that Izuku was possibly on his way to becoming an emo punk. Because he was her son, and he was the thing she cared most about in this world. This harsh world that had deprived him of the ability to one day fulfil his dream.
"Thank you for carrying the wares Izuku," Inko thanked her son again as he placed the wares on the kitchen counter, having carried them up to their apartment.
"You don't need to thank me, Mom. I just did what any son should do," Izuku replied, his face neutral.
"Still, thank you, now for the gift your Aunt wanted me to give you, while I don't want you to have such a thing. But with you being attacked on your way home, I think I have to agree with your Aunt's idea," Inko said as she walked over to the cabinet and pulled out the thing Maaya had wanted Izuku to have.
"What is it?" Izuku asked as he looked at the decorated wood. But he had a pretty good idea what it was.
"This is an object that has been in our family for a long time, and she thought it was time for you to have it as well," Inko explained. "It is a knife."
Yeah, Izuku had thought as much. He pulled the weapon out of its sheath, and he felt a sense of nostalgia as he looked at it for some reason. Izuku instinctually twirled it around in his and quickly sheathed the blade.
"My Izuku, it seemed you inherited the family affinity for the thing," Inko muttered as she looked with wide eyes at the finesse her son had just demonstrated.
"Affinity?" He asked as he kept holding the sheathed knife.
"Yes, some people in our family just seem to have a natural affinity for blades and swords, apparently according to family legend. It's a remnant from when our family apparently hunted demons," Inko said with a roll of her eyes. Not believing the story at all.
"Huh," Was all Izuku said as he looked at the weapon. He had not known that about his maternal side of his family. "I have to call and thank Aunt Maaya for this later, though, Mom?" Izuku began to ask. "I don't think I am allowed to go around with a concealed knife?"
"You are that name of ours gives us permission to carry many kinds of concealed weapons," Inko answered as a matter of fact.
"Oh, right," Izuku said back. For that made sense, for the Ryougi family was basically Yakuza in all but name. And was also one of the richest families in Japan, as well as one of the oldest that was still active well into the Age of Quirks. With the Yaoyorozu Family being one of the few others that could be spoken about in the same breath.
Hell, the only reason the two of them weren't living in the lap of luxury, was because Inko did not want to live that. And didn't want Izuku growing up in the demanding environment she had grown up in. That was why they were Ryougi Midoriya, and not Midoriya Ryougi even after Hisashi had practically left them.
Though they still got financial support when needed because Aunt Maaya was the current family head and she very much loved her sister and nephew.
She especially loved Izuku, which was why, besides the small physical gifts, she gave Izuku every year. She also put 50K Yen on a secret bank account every month, since he had been born. And on every birthday she put in and additional 150K. And Izuku only knew this because she had spilt the beans while drunk two New Years ago. All while she had pushed his face into her large breasts.
Though there was a pretty damn high chance of Izuku getting the position if Maaya did not get any children of her own soon enough.
Though that was a matter for another time.
"Yes, now go up to your room, I call then the food is done," Inko said as she began to but the bought stuff on their rightful spots.
"Okay," Izuku simply responded as he walked up the stairs to his room.
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"So, you're really up and about nerd?" Bakugo asked as he stared down at Izuku, who was sitting at his desk once again after six months of absence from his school.
Though with how the Japanese education system worked, it didn't really matter if he was in class or not. As the only that mattered were test scores, though to get good test scores, one would have to go to class and learn. Though the results of these tests didn't technically mater as you could have the lowest score or even fail all of them. If you passed your High School exam tests, you could go to that school despite your previous grades. Though the higher your test scores were, the higher, the better Highschools and Colleges you could go to.
And now I am ranting. Izuku thought to himself as he looked up at Kacchan's face, which had an expression he couldn't really read.
"I am Kacchan," Izuku responded.
"Good, and don't freaking, walk your loser legs and nerd face into the waiting arms of a villain again, or I am going to kick its and your ass," He said and returned to his own seat.
He really does care in his Katsuki Bakugo way. Izuku thought as he stared at the explosion Quirk wielding blond who was scowling as he took out his books. For Izuku had long since learned that the only language Kacchan could physically speak was curses and explosions. Though even if his actions and words seemed hurtful and violent. Izuku had learned there was no maliciousness behind his actions, it was just the way Kacchan was.
Though should I tell him about my unlocked Quirk… Nah, I don't think he would believe me. Izuku thought as he pulled out his books. He had a lot of work he needed to catch up too.
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"Thank you for the purchase, though I think you should start to head home, son, it is getting rather late," The 247 Clerk said to Izuku, who was pocketing the protein bar he had just bought.
"Wah?" Izuku asked as he was taken out his thoughts.
"I said you should probably head some son, it is getting late," the store clerk said once more as he pointed a blocky finger at the wall.
And Izuku saw that is was almost eleven. "It's that late? Good thing it's a weekend then," Izuku said to himself. "Thank you for telling me, sir," Izuku thanked the man whose Quirk made him look like he was made out of lego.
"You're welcome, son," The man said back as Izuku left the store.
And how many times does it make I've done that now the past month? Izuku thought as the early December moon shined down on him. Yes, this was not the first time that Izuku had been walking through the Outer Tokyo Metropolitan Area, which Musutafu was a part of late into the evening during weekends. He didn't really know why he had started doing it, but Izuku probably guessed it had something to do with the feeling of restlessness that had started growing after he had returned home from the hospital.
And so he had tried to alleviate it by walking around the enormous Metropolis. He, of course, had his knife on him at all times like his mother desired. Though thankfully, he had not yet run into any villain.
Thankfully.
But he didn't want to test, so Izuku began to head home. Though he stopped, then he heard a scream ring through the night. It was a human scream, a female scream—one of pain and fear.
And before he knew what he was doing, Izuku was running towards where the sound had come from. As it was the sound of one that needed help.
Izuku ran faster than he had ever done, but within a minute, he had located the alleyway where the scream had originated from.
And Izuku's eyes widened as they looked upon the scene of blood and death he was currently looking upon. His eyes scanned the scene in less than a second; there three bodies lying in pools of blood, who looked like they had their throats slit open. A quick and painless death, but the fourth victim was currently alive. Grunting in pain as the killer of three others was showing a chipped katana into her shoulder.
Twisting the blade to increase the pain she was feeling, and Izuku recognized her. It was Mt. Lady dressed in civilian clothing, and who looked to be in absolute pain.
"What the hell are you doing?" Izuku shouted before he could stop himself, trying to get the man waring numerous blades on his body. Who wore a red scarf and a white bandana that served as a mask.
"Oh, it seems that we've got an unexpected guest, I hoped it was another fake hero, but it's just a kid," The man spoke as he pulled the katana out of Mt. Lady's shoulder and gave it a lick. The Villain's attention now focused upon Izuku.
"Kid you need to run, leave an find a hero," Mt. Lady spoke while coughing up a bit of blood. Though Izuku didn't hear her as he was to busy analyzing the situation.
Mt. Lady has not moved after the Villain took out his sword, and not transformed, which either. This means that she is to injured to do so, or the Villain's Quirk prevents her from doing so. Izuku as he stared at the man covered head to toe in blades.
"Oh, you're not going to run? You're actually going to try and help them yourself?" The Villain asked.
"Yes," Izuku answered, goading the man to keep talking so that he could analyze the situation further.
"Well, aren't you ballsy kid, or stupid one of the two. But in respect, I answer your question, for I do love educating kids and telling the truth about their 'beloved' heroes," The Villain insanely spoke his noseless face starring intently at Izuku. "You asked what I was doing? The answer is simple I am removing false heroes like her and those other three from the ecosystem, so that true heroes may grow instead."
"Fuck you those were my friends," Mt. Lady growled from her position.
"False Heroes?" Izuku as he didn't get what the man was talking about.
"Yes, false heroes that besmirch the name of a true hero like All Might. Those that are heroes, not out selflessness. But those like her whore out and sell their bodies to the media, who are only heroes for money and shame. Yes, these false heroes are what I Stain remove from society so that it might improve," The Villain, Stain spoke. The name clicking in Izuku's head, this man was the infamous Hero-Killer. "And now child, you know the truth of my mission. Now leave and spread the name of Stain."
And after that Izuku mind almost crashed because that was… "The stupidest thing I've ever heard!" He almost shouted.
"Huh?" Was the only thing Stain said in response.
"So what if they are only in it for fame and money! That doesn't undo the good work they have done. It shouldn't matter why they choose to be a hero, so long as they are competent and save lives. It shouldn't matter, they saved a life. And life is precious and fragile," Izuku said, for, with his eyes, he knew exactly how fragile and precious it was. "It was a good deed, and no amount of selfishness can undermine that good deed. That is why Endeavor-" And Kacchan. "-Can be a hero despite having the personality of a cactus. Because he saves more lives than anybody else!" Izuku declared, and he saw both Stain and Mt. Lady looked at him with wide eyes.
"It seems that this cancerous society has corrupted another individual, how tragic. But I must cut you down before you become another cancer," Stain spoke for, of course, Izuku's words had no effect on the Villain despite how logical they were.
Because the man before Izuku was a deranged lunatic.
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"Kid!" Yu Takeyama screamed as she saw Stain throw a knife at the boy who had tried to save her life, by making a rather passionate speech. But her eyes widened as she saw the boy deflect the knife with his own. Which he seemed to have drawn in an instant.
"No, the only one who deserves to die here is you," The kid spoke coldly his entire demeanour changed from what it was before. And Yu saw that his eyes were now a shining light blue, with a red in the centre. "For you directly remove good deeds from the world."