And here we are with Chapter 43!

Sorry for the lateness, been dealing with IRL stuff, plus had some net issues that kinda bogged down this chapter.

Be sure to look forward to the 22nd as that is the one year anniversary of "Bearer of the Light"! :O!

So, let's keep this short and get right to the chapter!

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Chapter 43:

A History Revealed

"Brother! You dare try and defy me? Even after I gave you your quirk to become stronger?" A rather built, white-haired man stood before a fallen, bloody man who shared his hair color. The man on the ground was breathing harshly and coughing up blood as he stared hard at the man looming over him.

"You are nothing but a villain, brother! Taking their powers with little to no regard for the lives you've destroyed!"

"HA! I have brought ORDER to this chaotic world!" Boomed the bulky man as he raised his hands up; though his eyes were currently covered in darkness, the smile he was giving the fallen man was dripping with smugness and confidence.

"The only order you brought was YOUR OWN!" screamed the bloody and thinner young man, struggling to get up.

"And why not? Why let the quirkless try to dominate us? We are the superior beings! We are the next step in evolution!" bellowed the man in triumph, cackling loudly for a few moments before calming himself down, staring at his bloodied brother while raising a single hand up towards him, "Well, if you wish to oppose me, perhaps I should just take back my gift and let you die as the pathetic worm that you are."

As the last words of what the larger man said passed his lips, black tendrils suddenly shot out of his hand, impaling the barely living brother with a sickening squelch, lifting him off the ground as the blood began to pool underneath him. The more giant man's smile was broad and foreboding until it slowly morphed into one of shock, then of anger, "W-what foolishness is this? I cannot take your quirk!"

The sad yet struggling chuckle that came from the man dangling in the air could be heard as he was wheezing heavily, "T-Turns out… I had a quirk as well, brother… to pass on my quirk if someone ingests my… DNA… and it cannot be forcibly taken."

"... No…" The burly man brought back the dark tendrils, letting his brother fall to the ground with a heavy thud, still chuckling with a harsh cough of blood sputtering out.

"W-When you forced that 'stockpile' quirk upon my body… they combined… and became something glorious, brother." The bloodied man kept coughing harshly now, the last breaths of life slowly escaping his body as the taller man slowly began to walk towards his brother, his arm that summoned the tendril's now morphed into a giant blade.

"It's… long gone now… given to someone I know that will defeat you… or will continue to let it grow... " The dying man looked up to his unamused brother, the sword arm slowly rising up above him, "Would you like… me to tell you what I named it, brother?"

"...Fine, I'll humor you; what did you call your quirk?"

The nearly dead brother chuckled softly, smiling slightly as more blood slowly drooled out the corner of his mouth, "It's called… One... for… All." The younger-looking man's chuckle slowly faded onto the wind as the sword suddenly came down, as the world suddenly went black.

And that was when Izuku woke up.

The young student gasped for breath, panting heavily as his upper body shot up, beads of sweat ran down his face and chest as his eyes were wide and his pupils were constricted tightly, the muffled voices of those in the room trying to calm him down and lower him back onto the bed.

It took him a few moments to calm down, and after blinking his eyes, he could see the worried looks of Toshinori, Aizawa, and Krile looking at him. Izuku's emerald eyes slowly looked around the room and realized he was back in the infirmary, "W… what… what happened?"

"It seems there was an unforeseen issue when One for All was absorbed into your body." the sudden voice of Nezu spoke up as the small rodent had pulled a chair close to the medical bed and climbed up to stand beside Krile, "Tell me, what do you remember?"

Izuku looked down to his feet, frowning as he was deep in thought, "I remember pain… such excruciating pain… like my entire body was on fire. T-Then I heard Fray from within my mind. He said I had taken on too much 'light' aether… and it was corrupting me?"

Though Nezu remained unfazed by what Izuku had just revealed, both teachers of UA looked on in shock and confusion, while the little elderly nurse's face went pale in dread. Aizawa had seen her reaction and was staring hard at her for a few moments before speaking up, "You know what he's talking about, don't you?"

As all eyes shifted towards the petite elder, she frowned hard at Aizawa's own before relenting with a heavy sigh.

She was getting too old for this crap.

"Fine… Yes, I have heard of the light 'corrupting' people before. Long story short, during one of his final adventures, Quinn had traveled to a place that was besieged by monsters that were made entirely of the light. They were practically mindless killing machines, hunting down anything with aether in their bodies to consume or, worse, corrupt and create more of their kin. They were called Sin Eaters."

Krile crossed her arms over her chest, "Suffice it to say, they were tough to kill, so the fact that Fray was able to prevent Midoriya here from becoming an unstoppable killing machine that would doom this world is a godsend."

The room fell silent at that new tidbit of information, especially to the young man currently in bed whose face also went deathly pale at the realization had he not acted as quickly as he did, then many people, including his classmates, would have been slaughtered.

"Well, thankfully, you acted quickly as you did to prevent that outcome. But was there anything else you remember, Midorya?" asked Nezu, all eyes returning to the boy who snapped out of his stupor when asked the question.

"Um… not so much during the 'limit break'... but I had an odd dream before I woke up."

Aizawa rolled his eyes at the naming conventions of his problem child of a student, while Toshinori chuckled lightly for the same reason as they both calmed themselves and listened to the boy describe his "dream".

"There were… two men, one was burly and imposing, while the other was frailer looking and severely beaten. Um, they had white hair and were brothers, apparently. They were talking about how the bulkier one had 'imposed his will' by… as strange as it sounds, by taking their quirks."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Toshinori's expression soon widened in shock and awe, his mouth agape as he was finding it hard to breathe as Izuku continued on with his tale, "He tried to take back a… 'gift'... which was a quirk given to the frailer man. But there was an issue… He couldn't, and dying brother began to chuckle; I think he was younger than the much larger guy, so he told his older brother that while everyone thought he was quirkless, apparently he had a quirk that could pass itself onto another person by consuming DNA, and the second quirk 'given' to him was a stockpiling one, both fusing into one new quirk… which…."

Izuku looked to his mentor, as did Aizawa and Krile, "Before he died, he gave it a name and told his brother what it was called... One for All."

Toshinori sighed heavily, moving to sit in a chair against the wall and bringing his hands up to his chin, his bright blue eyes betraying his feelings as he was deep in thought for a moment, before speaking up somberly, "I had no wish to bring this up after such a traumatic experience for you, young Midoriya, but it seems that time will not allow this."

"Or Her will, I might add." Nezu suddenly spoke up, catching everyone's attention, "Those blessed by Hydaelyn have in the past been known to not only see the past in clear detail but also foresee future events before they play out. This 'gift' is called the "Echo", and Quinn's was of the past, so it would make sense that Midoriya's is similar, yet different."

Aizawa suddenly spoke up, though his expression was unchanged. The apparent concern for his student was evident in his voice, "Different how?"

Nezu looked over to the tired teacher, his everlasting smile the same as always, "When Quinn got these 'visions', they would happen out of his control, at the most random of times and would cause the most horrendous of headaches if I can recall correctly,"

"Happened too damn much in his earlier adventures if you asked me," Spoke up Krile with her arms across her chest, "By the time I met him, they were a rare occurrence, popping up once every few months."

"Midoriya's is different in the fact it happens when he dreams apparently, from what I gathered in our little one on one's, you experienced moments of Quinn's life and hardships before in this way, correct?" Nezu asked, looking towards the boy who nodded in response, "The Echo cannot harm him, but depending upon the experience, it can be a little jarring."

"So, how does this tie into One for All and the… 'Echo' you mentioned?" asked Aizawa, leaning against a wall now.

"And why did One for All give so much aether that could potentially corrupt Young Midoriya?" asked Toshinori, snapping up in his seat as Izuku had that question suddenly running through his mind as well.

"Ah, yes… that is another thing we should discuss." Nezu said as he clambered up onto the medical be Izuku was lying in and stood up straight, "What I say stays in this room, as it is rather… baffling, to say the least. Am I understood?"

Everyone nodded quickly, given the rather severe tone of voice Nezu had taken. Once he got their acknowledgment, the diminutive dean smiled brightly once again.

"Our story begins when Quinn was traveling towards Earth, moving towards the cries of an infant Midoriya. " Nezu said, smiling at the slightly blushing young adult, "This journey was not a short one, and what may have felt like twenty or so minutes to him, centuries had passed for both this planet and Eorzea, six hundred to be exact."

"Near the end of his journey, I was contacted by Hydaelyn herself and tasked to seek out the world that the Warrior of Light was heading towards. Thankfully, we Moogles have traversed the expanse of time and dimensions quite regularly, so the journey to earth allowed me to arrive on Earth nearly two centuries before Quinn's arrival."

Everyone, save Krile, listened in shock as Nezu continued to smile, "While I found this world beautiful, it was lacking one major thing if Quinn or whatever the cat man was planning on doing to succeed. Aether. This planet lacked the aether to properly support the abundance that Quinn carried not only within himself, but the soul stones he had taken with him."

"S-so what did you do?" asked Izuku, his fingers twitching as if he was ready to write down everything Nezu was saying.

"Why, I gave this entire planet aether, my boy!" Nezu raised his arms up as if he was giving a happy announcement, "To do such a thing, and allow this planet and its flora and fauna to begin making their own aether, one would need a significant amount of aether to cause such an effect, like say… the near-complete aether pool of a Moogle King?" Nezu said as he leaned into Izuku with an almost gleeful look in his eye.

Izuku gasped softly, realizing what the dean was inferring to, "I-Is that why you-?"

"Why am I currently as huggable and adorable as I am now? Absolutely!" Nezu interrupted, ignoring the scoff of both Krile and Aizawa, "It also created the giant Aetheryte crystal that is housed deep underground far beneath our lovely university, where the home of the Moogles resides."

"One moment," Aizawa suddenly spoke up, rubbing his chin, "This was two hundred years ago from this current date, correct?"

"Give or take a few months, but yes… did you figure it out, Shouta?" Nezu said with amusement as the underground hero's eyes slowly began to widen.

"... No, that's illogical."

"What? What's illogical?" Asked Toshinori, who looked a little frightened and confused until Aizawa looked at him and spoke.

"This happened during the dawn of quirks."

The room grew silent as the words from the tired teacher sunk into both Toshinori and Izuku; their eyes widened as Nezu chuckled lightly and gently nodded, "Yes, what I failed to know about was how… "effective" my aether would have on the populace of this planet. Admittedly, I had deduced that every man, woman, and child would gain a little bit of aether that would continue to grow over the generations, so much so that by the time Quinn had made it to Earth, both the planet and its people would have enough aether to support not only himself but perhaps at the time develop magitek possibly."

"What I failed to realize was that it would cause some of the people to develop quirks, based upon both the umbral and astral forms of aether that flowed from my body. And over time, as the aether within their descendants grew, so did the amount of 'quirked' people as well as the more powerful the quirk every generation. The problem is that the aether within their bodies wasn't growing over time like I hoped, but a little bit was added with each descendant." Nezu said, pacing up and down the bed, making sure not to step on Izuku, who was still listening in shock. He snapped out of the stupor and frowned at Nezu.

"Is that why Eri is so important to Hydaelyn?"

Nezu turned his attention to Izuku, meeting the fierce look of a protective father, which he waved off gently, "No no, Hydaelyn's interest in Eri is that she is one of her blessed children, similar to you and Krile here. And before you ask it of me, yes, Eri being the first human I've encountered to naturally be making aether within her body is somewhat important to me in the long run, but she is also a person and a daughter of one of my beloved students as well as an honorary Moogle."

Izuku continued to stare into the ever-pitched black eyes of the dean for a few more moments before relaxing; Nezu bowed his head toward the young man as a clearing of a throat caught the dean's attention.

"Sir, how does this all tie in with One for All?" Toshinori asked, his arms crossed over his chest, not in frustration, but to relax his aching bones.

"Ah yes, the million yen question. Well, it's quite simple. When the elder brother had given his sibling the stockpiling quirk, it fused not only with his original quirk but also with the aether contained within his body, and over time… while its power grew, so did the amount of aether. Normally, a body will have limits to how much aether they can hold within themselves; what you experienced was when that limit went far past its extremes."

"S-so, this could happen again?"

"It's possible," Nezu said, his tiny paw rubbing his chin, "However, this was more of an 'overflowing cup' scenario, hence why you had to immediately use the excess and passed out once it was gone. It will be something to keep an eye on from now on, but for now, you should be safe."

"That's good," Izuku sighed in relief, leaning back for a moment before his eyes widened and he shot back up again, "But Eri-"

"Eri won't have to suffer what you experienced," It was Krile that spoke up next, a small smile on her lips, "Her body would have the 'limit' set already, so there is no worry in that regard."

"Indeed, now…" Nezu turned towards Toshinori, who sat up straight at the sudden attention, "Perhaps it is time to tell Midoriya here about the older brother he saw and the legacy he has inherited, wouldn't you agree, Yagi?"

The confused look on Izuku's face was all the skeletal number one hero to sigh heavily and begin his tale of the two brothers and their two century-long conflict.

"I hope Izuku is alright… I never saw him that exhausted after using a spell before." spoke up Momo as she was sitting on the couch down in the commons room, gently petting the head of a sleeping Eri, who was resting her head on her lap.

"Same, but we have to let the teachers do what they need to do." Kyoka said as she sat on the opposite side of the heiress, gently twirling one of her jacks around her finger with her other arm resting behind Momo's neck and shoulder.

"Whatever it was, it looked really painful," Ochako said from one of the other couches, leaning back and munching on a single mochi she had saved from lunch earlier in the day, "Plus, the power he was giving off was super bright and overwhelming, it was hard to breathe even near him."

"Maybe he got one of those um…." Kirishima was snapping his fingers, his usually spiked-up hair now hanging down with a towel around his neck since he just got out of the shower from his evening workout with several of the other guys and Bakugo.

"Quirk Evolutions?" Mina spoke up as she, along with Toru and Yuga, had exited from the kitchen after cooking popcorn to munch on as a pre-bedtime snack. Kirishima looked to his pink-skinned best bud and nodded his head rapidly.

"Yea! Thanks, Mina! He could have gotten a Quirk Evolution! I mean, I heard it happens when someone gets either messed up or under extreme stress, but considering when he faced off against that thing at the sports festival, even taking that hit for Baku-bro! That was super manly!" The shark-toothed young man beamed loudly, completely missing most, if not all, of the girl's unmistakable look of disgust at the mere mention of Bakugo's name.

"It's possible, but I'm sure that UA has the equipment to check that out or call in a quirk specialist." the voice of Todoroki came down the stairs and nearly caught everyone by surprise as he casually walked up towards the gathering group, holding a bowl of soba, "I remember when I first made a glacier that it nearly kept me in bed for a half a day to recover."

"Wait? Did you have one too, Todo-bro?"

"No, but it was the first time where I came close to one, according to the specialist. Since then, with some time and practicing, the toll it took on my body drastically lessened." Todoroki continued on, ignoring or letting the nickname given to him by Kirishima pass, before slurping up some of his cold noodles silently and with his expressionless face still present.

Yuga rubbed his chin in thought as he sat down on another couch with Toru, the bundle of clothes nuzzling up to him as his other hand went to rest around the invisible girl's side, "Je me demande… what would happen if Monsieur Midoriya were able to just to.… hmm…." The Frenchman grumbled, even with his decent skills in speaking and reading Japanese, he would still have issues in trying to pronounce words or think of proper terminology.

Thank the heavens for his too beautiful to see girlfriend.

"Spam it over and over again and just take the fun out of being a hero?"

Yuga turned towards Toru, though he couldn't actually see her eyes, he still somehow was able to gaze into them as he gave her a bright smile, "Oui! Thank you, my dazzling lumière."

The giggle and more rustling of clothes as well as seeing Yuga's cheek sunken in slightly revealed that Toru was nuzzling her cheek with his, her arm sleeves draped around her neck.

Before anyone could say anything, a loud heavy metal tune could be heard coming from underneath Kyoka; the music had nearly startled everyone from how loud it was, even muffled, as well as it stirring Eri awake from her short nap on Momo's thighs. Quickly tilting her body to fish it out of her back pocket, the punk rocker's eyes gazed at the name of who was calling her, and the smirk she had on her face faded as she answered it, "Oi, where the hell are you?"

Everyone watched on in silence as Kyoka's stern expression soon morphed into one of worry and then relief, "So, everything is alright now? What the heck happened, Green?"

A few more moments passed before Kyoka sighed softly and nodded, "Alright, we figured it was something like that... Hmm?... Eri? Yea, she just woke up, one sec." Kyoka said and slowly brought her phone towards the still half-asleep child, gently rubbing her eyes, "Hey sweety… papa is on the phone, and he wants to talk with ya." the punk rocker spoke gently with a smile as the announcement that Izuku was on the phone and wished to talk to her. Quickly snatching up the phone, the small child brought it to her ear.

"H-Hello? Papa?"

"Hey, pumpkin…" Izuku's voice was soft and sounded just as tired as hers; Eri's eyes slowly opened as Izuku continued, "Sorry I couldn't be there this evening, Papa's quirk went a little overboard."

"A-Are you alright, Papa?!" Eri suddenly shouted, tears beginning to form at the corner of her eyes, and that nearly had everyone about to jump and calm her down. What the small unicorn had failed to realize was that her tiny finger slipped and hit the speakerphone option, making the private phone call now more public.

"I'm fine, sweety…." Izuku chuckled softly as Eri began to calm down, "It happens to people as they grow older, sometimes their quirks get really powerful, and it surprises them. Granny just wants me to stay in the infirmary tonight to make sure nothing else happens."

"B-but, what about storytime? O-or checking under the bed for monsters?"

"I'm sorry, sweety, you know how Granny is when we don't listen to her…." Izuku said with a bit of sadness in his voice, he hated when Eri would get upset like this, or the usual way things would happen didn't pan out, and it nearly broke Izuku's heart, "But, I know your mothers would love to read you a story! I bet they could come up with something far better than the ones I tell you."

The girls blushed softly, with each wearing a gentle smile on their lips as Izuku continued, "And they can make sure the monsters aren't under your bed as well. If the monsters thought I was scary, good lord, should they ever come across your mamas, right?"

"Mhmm! My mamas are super strong!" Eri said proudly, giggling gently as well as did everyone that could listen in. Izuku passed off the additional voices as his friends and lovers just reacted to Eri's giggles, "Now, I need some rest, and I'll see you in the morning, pumpkin. Mr. Aizawa said you can be with us the whole day to make up for me being stuck here. How does that sound?"

Eri's only response was to smile brightly and gasp, clutching the phone tightly in her tiny hands. It wasn't rare for Eri to join Class 1-A in their daily school lives, but she was only usually there for the first homeroom period before her Grandma came to pick her up, and she would go to her own studies. She looked towards her mothers and pseudo Aunts and Uncles with glee before she looked down at the phone, "I-I can?"

"Yep, and he'd even said he'd make sure there were some apple jellies in the room for snacks between classes for you as well."

And now, her "Unca Aizawa" was her favorite.

Izuku yawned gently, obviously tired, as Eri giggled at the funny noise he made while doing so, "You sound sleepy, Papa!"

"Yea, I think I'm going to turn in shortly; you have a good night, ok, Eri?"

"Mhmm, sleep well, Papa! I love you!"

Izuku chuckled softly, "I love you too, princess." and after a few moments of silence, the call ended. A sniffle coming from one of the couches caught everyone's attention as Kirishima was tearing up with the biggest grin on his face.

"T-That's so manly."

Everyone sighed heavily as Kyoka got her phone back from her daughter, pushing herself off of the couch and standing before Momo and Eri, "Alright munchkin, it's time to have a bath and get ready for bed."

"O.k., Mama." Eri said with no hesitation, first leaning up and kissing Momo's cheek and hugging her tightly, "Good Night, Mama Momo."

The heiress smiled, hugging and kissing the top of Eri's head, "Good night, sweetness. I'll see you upstairs to check under your bed and perhaps lay a few traps."

Eri beamed a happy smile at her before slowly climbing off the couch and going over to hug and kiss Mina's cheek, "G'night, Mama Mina!"

Mina giggled and gave her daughter the biggest of hugs before kissing her cheek, then gently maneuvering her head to lightly tap one of her thin yellow horns against Eri's small but more stubby one, "Good night, Eri! You need anything, you give me a buzz, ok?"

"If she can wake you up, of course." Kyoka ribbed, which caused everyone to chuckle, even Eri, while Mina looked at her 'girlfriend' and puffed her cheeks out at her.

Eri then waved to everyone else a gentle goodbye, and then she was picked up by Kyoka, heading upstairs to the baths to get her clean before bed. As the pair were in the elevator, Kyoka looked to the small child in her arms with a raised eyebrow, "Shall we go say goodnight to Tsuyu?"

"Mama Tsu already did earlier," Eri said with a smile, "she said that she was really tired and needed to get some rest after supper."

"Huh… I wondered where she went after dinner, but it makes sense." Kyoka sighed gently and hoisted Eri up in her arms, "You want a song tonight instead of a story, kiddo?"

The only response the punk rocker got was a blinding smile with giggles and a rapid nodding of the little girl's head.

Izuku sighed as he hung up his phone, leaning his head back onto the relatively firm pillows of his medical bed, his emerald eyes looking up at the ceiling as the events of his earlier discussions with the teachers kept buzzing in his head.

To think that Quinn's coming to Earth was one of the reasons why quirks were even a thing, and that had ties towards this generational war between two brothers that HE was now a part of, and that the older brother may come after him and those he loved and cared for to get back One for All, which was going to be that much harder to do when Nezu revealed to him that by taking the mighty quirk into his body, his 'blessing' had effectively absorbed it!

The student sighed heavily as he brought his hands up to his face and covered them for a few brief moments before sliding them down onto his bare chest while still staring up at the ceiling.

"Sounds like you had a pretty rough day, Kero."

"You don't know half of it, Tsu." Izuku sighed as he closed his eyes for a moment before they shot wide open, and the young man bolted upward to see his girlfriend standing by the closed door of the infirmary room with a duffle bag in her hands, "T-TSU! W-When…? H-How?"

"Recovery Girl texted me earlier to bring over a change of clothes, kero, and she was the one to let me in."

Izuku kept staring at the frog-like girl, who was just doing the same thing back to him. The silence in the room grew heavy until Izuku spoke softly with a cool bead of sweat running down the side of his face, "... I muttered all that out, didn't I?"

"About something called 'One for All'? Yes, kero." Tsuyu now walked over to an empty chair and placed the duffle bag on the seat. Izuku groaned and slammed his head back down on the pillow in defeat, "I take it from that groan; it was meant to be kept a secret."

"For now, at least… until my body accumulated to the new rise in power given to me by One for All. I did try and protest to let you and the others know, given how much I really hate lying to you all, but Nezu had to make a compromise between me and All Might."

"Kero, that's sweet, Izuku." Tsuyu said as she walked over to the side of his medical bed, a ghost of a smile on her lips, "But I'll keep it secret until you can tell the others, and I know they will understand the secrecy when you tell them it was due to Nezu and All Might asking you to do so."

Izuku turned his head towards Tsuyu, smiling gently and placing his hand on top of hers as she ribbited in delight from the contact, "Thanks, Tsu."

"No problem, kero." Tsuyu said as she moved her hand from his and suddenly jumped onto the bed, perching herself on top of him with her legs straddling his hips and both her hands on his bare chest. Izuku grunted slightly when the frog girl jumped on top of him and sat as well; his eyes slowly looked up to see that the woman was wearing a loose t-shirt, one of his own in fact, and some deceptively short shorts, feeling her bare thighs squeeze against his hips while he felt her hands where were oddly warm to the touch on his bare chest.

As his gaze met hers, Izuku felt goosebumps begin to form along his skin due to the rather hungry and predatory eyes of his girlfriend looking down at him, her chest slowly rising and falling with heavy breaths.

"T-Tsu?"

"I wanted to also discuss something with you as well, Izuku." Tsuyu began to speak in between those heavy breaths, her gaze never leaving his as her hands slowly began to rub up and down his torso, "Something I need help with, kero."

Izuku suddenly perked up at this, his heroic side kicking in at the list of possibilities of aid he could give her, "O-oh? What is it?"

There was dead silence in the room for a few brief moments, Tsuyu shifting left and right in her seat as she took a deep but labored breath.

"I need you to mate with me."