Chapter 2: Childhood Friend


My Hero Academia, or Boku no Hero Academia as called by the so-called 'elitist', is an amazing manga written by one mangaka that has somehow struck gold on this series. I have followed it since the very first chapter and saw the evolution of the story that is generic but well-executed, to a point that it has reached mainstream popularity, all when it has only 100+ chapters.

The characters are amazing, not to mention the world setting. A time where some kind of x-gene of sorts mutated majority of the world's population which resulted in a world full of superpowered people, that everyone is an X-men. What's to love in that?

And now, I'm born into it. Call me excited is an understatement.

Can you imagine, getting a unique superpower through genetics alone, with no super-soldier experiment, no accidental lightning shocks, no tragic backstory and all that stupid shit. I mean, unless you're in the Marvel universe then your life is going to be racial discrimination tone up to the max to what USA was like in the 1800s.

At any rate, after that stroll of the park and the neighborhood, all of the following days and months blended together. I usually ended up with the same schedule, sleep, eat, play with mom or Tetsu, occasionally with dad; it's a haze of events that changed nothing.

Although, I have found out more about my parents now. For like, my dad's last name was Tatsuya and his Hero name is Hermes, like the Greek messenger god Hermes, and he has a Quirk called Acceleration; which like the name said, is enables him to accelerate himself up to mach 1, but he can only move forward with it. I can sense a theme with him, speed-like Quirk and the wing motif on his costume. And he seems to be quite a popular hero, ranking in the three digits if what I have overheard my brother's conversations with his friends is true.

Speaking of which, my brother starts bringing his friends over from time to time. Or at least, when I'm awake during the time they are around. My nursery is right next to his room, and he and his friends get really loud at times. They seem to always be talking about some random kid stuff, like what's the latest game, or who did what, or even what trading card they manage to get. Speaking of which, I found out that he is actually quirkless, but he seems rather well-liked despite that. I guess just because he is quirkless doesn't mean he would get bullied…

Anyhow, his two friends sometimes come into the nursery to play with me too, or I sometimes got out and ran into the room without them knowing and was just included anyway. Those were fun times, especially when they sometimes try to teach me stuff that I wasn't supposed to know yet and got Tetsu into a lot of trouble. One time, mom got so angry when I said the word 'Fuck' in front of her and Tetsu immediately got a lecture followed by a little shock punishment from her quirk, which is that she can generate static shocks from her fingertips.

And I think dad too got one as well, for some reason.

Speaking of mom, I also found out about her job as a prosecutor. There are times where she asked for a babysitter before heading to court, or sometimes left me with some of her colleagues in at the prosecutor office if the sitter isn't available. I had so many fun times there, like this one time when I was 2 and I was left in the office with this lady who is obviously the newbie who panicked over it and just fuss over me the entire time I was there, and I being the nice person I am decides to help her de-stress by disappearing under tables and freaking her out which leads to a lot of laughs in the office. I got scolded later, but it was worth it!

Speaking of babysitters, I cannot believe who she always calls every time. Of all people to my babysitter, it would be Nemuri Kayama, aka future Midnight! She is different from the manga, considerably younger compared to her adult self plus that student uniform that doesn't look like Yuuei's, but she definitely is the same Midnight as in the manga. And she is surprisingly great as my babysitter, so nice with me and her Quirk really helped with my nap. Not only that, she is also my aunt! She's apparently is dad's cousin, his uncle's kid of all things.

And so, that was my life for my first few years growing up, until when I turned three and my mom decided to enroll me in a daycare.


My first day at daycare, or kindergarten as my mom puts it, is pretty lonely for me.

The very moment after my introductions and the toddlers are safe and are in free reign to do whatever within the compound, a lot of the kids ran off in all sorts of directions, often away from me.

I can't blame them; my blonde hair does seem to have the tendency to turn people away considering that I have my dad's dark eyes. I guess they've never seen such bright blonde hair before. And speaking of my hair, it has grown quite long over the years. Despite many protests from her, I had Mom trimmed them from time to time, but she often left it in a small bob surrounding my face.

In any case, I ended up spending that morning alone with a picture book in my hands. Not that I have any problems with that, my mental age is at least of a twenty-over adult after all, but I guess I was hoping for some company to talk to. Guess I'll be alone for the rest of my time here.

"Hi!" At least that was what I thought until he shows up. A boy walks up to me with a bright grin on his face with dark brown hair and black eyes, "I'm Taikou! What your name?"

"Genko."

"Want to play?"

And with that, Naru Taikou became my very first friend in life.

We would hang out all the time, played all sorts of game and even got into a sleepover at his house sometimes. It turns out that his parents died when he was born, and he is currently being cared for by his uncle who is the land-owner for a small apartment building a couple streets down from where my house is.

He also has a making of a huge hero geek, considering all his shirts and pants has all sorts of homage to all the known heroes, with All Might being the most prominent of all. He even has action figures for all the top heroes, birthday gifts he got from the tenants of the apartment.

We were inseparable from each other, where one goes the other will follow suit.

Hell, we even found out what our Quirks are at the same time! It was a really interesting story that was…


It was my fourth birthday and the two of us are at his place that evening for a party with both our families celebrating with some of the tenants participating as well. I was finishing my slice of cake while Taikou is in his room getting his gift for me when I heard my mom's phone ringing. She has left her purse on the table when she went to the bathroom.

I decided to help take it to her, so I went against her rules of not rummaging through her bag and fish out her phone for her. But the very moment I rushes off to deliver it, it happened. I suddenly speed forward and slams my head right onto a wall hard. The noise of the party just stopped, as I sat on the floor and rub my sore forehead in pain.

My dad immediately rushes to my side to check on me, "Are you alright, Genko-chan?"

"Owie… that hurts…"

"What happened?" Taikou's uncle, Naru Kumori asked worriedly.

"I don't know. Mom's phone was ringing and I want to bring it to her, but then I ran really fast and…"

Dad took the phone from my hands to check on it, before his brow scrunched up in confusion, "Huh? Are you sure it was ringing; the battery is dead."

"Eh? But it was ringing!"

"What's this about my phone?" Mom walks up to us wiping her hands with a tissue.

"Honey, did you leave your phone uncharged before coming here?" He asked her.

She looked at him confused, "No, it was fully charged when I got here and I haven't used it since the party started."

"Well, it's dead now." He raised the black screen of her phone for her to see.

"That can't…" She turns to me slightly angry, "Were you playing on it again?"

"No! I wasn't!" I cried out, "I was just taking your phone out of your bag and then I ran really fast and slams into the wall and-"

"Wait, you touched the phone THEN ran really fast?" She asked, I nodded in reply. Reaching into her purse, mom took out a button battery and placed it in my hand, "Do you feel anything?"

The very moment the nickel dry cell touches my palm, something definitely was different. A slight tingly feeling floods my entire body from the tip of my toes to the crest of my head, as my body felt really energized and I reacted by running forward in which my surroundings immediately changed into a blur before I felt my forehead impacting hard on the wall hard.

I think I blacked out for a second as I collapsed on the ground confused as my parents immediately rushes to my aid, before sudden realization fills my mind with excitement. Is this…? Could this be my quirk?! I have a quirk!

And apparently, I wasn't the only one as the smell of smoke fills the room before a sudden cry caught all out that caught everyone's attention. Near the walkway, there stood Taikou with a badly wrapped box raised high above his head while his legs are on fire. Like blazing flames are licking his bare feet!

Of course, Kumori took action immediately and grabs him by the armpits and dunk his legs into the sink where he starts running tap water in hopes of putting the flames out while a few tenants plus my dad tries to put out the small embers of flames left on the wooden floor where he once stood. Let's just say it took quite a long while before the fire died away and he got me his gift, which is a limited-edition All Might plushie that was on said a couple of weeks ago that sold out for the very same day it is released.

The very next day, we pretty much caused mayhem in the daycare center as we tries to experiment with our quirks that lead to lot of unintended damages, and a very long lecture from the daycare's manager as well as from my mother on our way home.

Most fun we ever had.

But, like all good things eventually, it all came to an end suddenly one day when I turned five.


It was just another normal day for me and my best friend. Playing and learning at the daycare, causing a bit of trouble with our quirks unintentionally via Taikou accidentally ignites his feet when he sneezes. And then, it was evening and everyone left home with their parents except for me.

I waited to almost dusk when Nemuri rushes up to me with a worried look on her face to my confusion. Usually it would be mom or Tetsu who would fetch me from the daycare, sometimes dad if he was lucky with his schedule, but Nemuri never came to fetch me herself before.

"Nemuri-san, where's mom?" I asked worriedly on our way home.

"Genko-chan, your mom…" She swallowed a little before continuing, "Your father suffered a rather bad injury during work, and is in the hospital for-"

"Hospital?!" That doesn't sound good! What happened to him?! "I-Is dad…?" I choked up from the tears that are threatening to spill as I tries to hold myself together. I keep forgetting that my body now is that of a five-year-old kid, self-restraint isn't visible at this age, but even with my adult body I probably wouldn't be able to hold back my tears either. My father, the man that raised me is in the hospital for a bad injury, that in all accords could be lethal!

"H-He's fine!" My aunt assures me the best she could, "Probably… at any rate, you'll be staying with me tonight. We'll visit your dad first thing tomorrow morning, okay?"

"O-Okay…"

The very next morning, my entire life changed forever.

When we went to visit dad in the hospital, he isn't in the best of shapes. For starters, he is alive and well, which is huge relief; but…

"I'm sorry, Tatsuya-san." The doctor tells Maki on his bed with a huge cast over his right leg, "But I'm afraid your hero career is over."

As it turns out, whatever happened to my dad pretty much shattered his knee-joint, ripping the ligaments to the point that it became unrepairable. He could still walk, a surgery to insert a metal joint in-place of the shredded ligament was successful, but even with physical therapy, he probably wouldn't be able to walk as he used to; not to mention that he couldn't stress the metal joint with any rigorous work.

All in all, it is end of the hero Hermes.

The next few weeks were… tense to say the least.

Dad is placed on light-duty as he works things out with his hero agency, but he always has this defeated look in his eyes, not the ones that he always had before. He keeps looking at the closet where his old uniform is kept, and sometimes he just surfs the television channels until he just tosses the remote away in anger.

Dad is just… not dad anymore.

He just lays about on the couch, occasionally on his bed, doing nothing. He lost that determined look, that hardy smile he always shows me; now he rarely smiles anymore, just a lot of shouting from time to time.

It got to a point where my mom and dad are constantly arguing every night, almost always about the same thing over and over and over again. They were so loud that I couldn't sleep at all, just laying on my bed covering my ears in hope of blocking it all out.

I hate this! I hate them yelling! I hate him for shouting all the time! I want my dad back! I want him back!

To be continued…


Done! Chapter two finish! So, tragedy struck! I mean, of course it is going to happen, it's an anime! It is bound to happen one way or the other.

So, the Naru family! Another OC with my OC. I was originally planned to have one of the main cast be acquainted with Genko, but none of them seems to fit so Taikou is born! Now, I'll explain more about their quirks in future chapters soon, so be patient!

Also, just to fanboy a little here, TheRealEvanSG reviewed my work! Oh I never thought the day would come would someone like him review little old me! Oh you would not believe the excitement I got when I received it! Thank you, honestly, it is a real honor to be reviewed by you!

On the same tangent, I cannot believe that the writer of Lamarckian actually favourite this too! Please, check her fic out on , I guarantee it would be worth your time!

With that, I thank you for reading this!