Chapter 4: The Origin Story
They reached Tatooin-Station where a giant man was standing.
Automatically they stop.
"Ahh…!", gasped Izuku. "That's a huge villain!"
"And ugly.", added Michi and Ares.
Izuku wanted to take a closer look at the heroes and the villain and made his way into the crowd, Michi hanging off his hand sleepy.
She liked heroes well enough, but when she was this tired only her beloved Seraphina or Mirko would get her attention.
So she silently observed while Izuku asked who was fighting, only to respond himself.
"It's Kamui Woods! The young and talented rising star!"
"You were the one asking, but you gave a perfect commentary, kid.", says a man with shuriken in his head to him. "You're a fanboy, aren't you?"
Izuku giggles sheepishly, while Ares laughs and then deadpan at the sleeping Michi.
How his host could fall asleep, standing up and with all the sounds surprised him always.
Michi only woke up after this new female superhero took care of the villain and many men with cameras taking pictures of her, shouting: "Here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is."
"W-What?", Michi asked confused.
"You REALLY need to be aware of your surroundings!", chest her Ares.
The salmon-haired girl pulls him a bit, as they watch how this new superhero named Mt. Lady introduces herself and her ass-sets.
Michi nods in understanding.
No wonder the men and a few women were drolling.
Of course, it's all sexist, unfortunately, she was bi as fuck and can't resist pretty ladies either.
Mt. Lady takes the glory for the defeated villain and takes him away under the watchful eyes of the police and cheering crowds and camera crews.
Ares and Michi even see Kamui Woods sulking on one of the rooftops.
But Michi found Mt. Lady more interesting.
She will definitely become popular, but...
"She's nothing against Seraphina or Mirko," stated Michi, crossing her arms.
"You and your angel hero and bunny hero.", signs Ares. "This new one seems promising."
"You only say that, because you stared at her ass, didn't you?"
The ribbon just coughs embarrassed.
Meanwhile, Izuku has unpacked one of his hero notebooks theorising in it and writing it down.
Most find this annoying, however, Michi finds it cute when he's like that and doesn't bother him.
If he wants her opinion, he'll ask her.
"Hey, wait, you're taking notes? You wanna be a hero?", the bald man with the shurikens says to him. "That's great! You can do it!"
"Yes! I'll do my best!", promises Izuku with a beaming smile.
For a moment the glass-wearing girl can't help but twist her mouth and look up at Ares.
Their eyes meet.
They don't need words to communicate.
If there's anyone who was made to be a hero, it's Izuku, but unfortunately, there is a huge obstacle in his way.
The only thing Ares and Michi can do is to support him and protect him as best as they can.
They had decided this long ago.
After all the chaos with Mt. Lady and Co., they make it to Aldera Junior High just in time.
"When it's a Lunch Break, you come to my classroom and we'll eat there today," reminds him Michi, as they finish putting on their indoor shoes. "And if Bakugo harasses you-"
"-I'm calling you and Ares for help, I know Michi-Kun," he replies, almost ashamed.
She knows that he doesn't want her to fight his fights for him, yet sadly at the moment he isn't able to fight for himself and Bakugo with his quirk is dangerous and also stupid concerning Izuku.
The asshole should just try to hurt Izuku in front of Michi, she will slam him straight into the ground!
It wouldn't be the first time!
Michi pats Izuku on the shoulder, which makes him blush.
Since he is a head and a half shorter than her, he has to look up and she down so that they can look into each other's eyes.
"For me, you are already a hero, MY hero, don't forget that. No matter what others say," she reminds him.
The girl gives him her best smile.
It has the same effect as always.
Small tears run down his beautiful green eyes and he gives her a heart-warming smile.
Before he can say thank you, Michi can't help herself but cuddle him.
"M-Michi-K-Kun!", he shouts in shock and she can feel him heating up.
"Izu-Chan, you are sooooo cute!", Michi coos.
"M-Michi-K-Kun our c-c-classmates are s-s-staring at us!"
"Let them!"
"B-But…!"
"Shh! Let me cuddle you, you cutie pie!"
Izuku would probably have fainted here if the school bell hadn't saved him.
So Michi let him go and ruffled his curls.
"See you later Izu-Chan."
"Don't forget to breathe, boy!", advises him Ares as Michi walks briskly towards her classroom while Izuku imitates a statue.
After three gruelling school hours, a nice Lunch Break with Izuku and a math test that the girl was sure she failed, the school day was over.
Michi set off to pick up Izuku from his classroom.
When she was around, Bakugo wasn't so terrible to him because the blonde knew that she could finish him off.
Thanks to Ares and because she also does martial arts.
What Michi sees when she enters Izuku's classroom makes her blood pressure rise to 180.
The asshole, Baguko, was holding her poor Izu-Chan by the shoulder and the smoke rising from the spot shows that he has activated his Quirk.
To put the blond assholes in his place, Michi doesn't need Ares, however, he unfurls, ready for anything.
Bakugo almost doubles over in pain as Michi grabs his wrist and pulls him away from Izuku.
"Didn't I tell you to leave Izuku alone, Bakugo?!", Michi hisses at him.
"He is under our protection!", adds the ribbon.
Like an annoying fly, Michi flinks the blond to his followers.
The two cardboard figures look at the girl in fear as she stands protectively before Izuku, Ares's "arms" flap around like whip lashes, while Bakugo rubs his wrist.
"Massaro!", he growls with his teeth clenched.
"H-Hey come on m-man l-let's go. The foreigner and her ribbon are not someone you mess with, you know that,", cardboard figure one whine, as cardboard figure two nods in agreement.
Michi wants to take a step towards the three, however Izuku grabs her by the sleeve of her school uniform.
"Michi-Kun, don't," he begs.
They know it's forbidden to use your Quirks and/or start fights and Michi has already done one of them, so she stands next to him and gives Bakugo a poisonous look.
"Tzz," Bakugo clicks his tongue and stops rubbing his wrist. Next time she will break it! "Massaro won't always be there to save you, Deku. In this shitty school, she's probably the only one who's my equal and you're dragging her down because you need to be saved. If she was smart she would dump you."
Michi could feel how Izuku behind her became unsure.
"And if you were smart, you would shut up and mind your own business," Michi fired back.
Bakugo just shrugs his shoulders.
He and his entourage turn to leave, which visibly pleases the two cardboard figures.
Scaredy-cats!
"I'm just telling him the truth Massaro. You're not helping him if you support him in his impossible goals,". he throws over his shoulders. "Without Quirk, Deku can never become a hero, let alone get into U.A."
"Just fuck off, stronzo!"
Finally, he and his lackeys do so.
Michi takes a deep breath, Ares shrinks back, as they turn to Izuku.
They are the only ones left in the classroom.
The green-haired boy looks at the ground defeated.
"Izuku…your shoulder?"
Michi would rather tell him to not give a rat's ass what Bakugo says, however, she notices that he doesn't want to talk right now.
No, he takes a deep breath without looking up.
She almost thinks he won't say anything until he whimpers softly: "...hurts. Probably burned."
"Okay," Michi simply said and led him to the Nurse's Office.
The nice Nurse, Ai-San, knows them well and without questions cures Izuku's wound.
After they thanked her and left, Izuku was ready to tell Michi what happened between him and his bully.
As it turns out, Bakugo has once again surpassed his level of being an asshole.
They are forced to fish out one of Izuku's notebooks, now half burned, from the tank where their school keeps fish.
The blonde just threw it out the window!
Fucking asshole!
Sidenote, Michi has the theory that the principal and teachers keep these fishes here to later make sushi, even if Izuku says that can't be true.
Irritatingly, Izuku was more upset about his burned and wet notebook than about the physical wounds from Bakugo.
Sometimes Michi wonders about his priorities, and then she remembers that Izuku practically lives from his superhero worshipping/studying and she understands it.
The salmon-haired girl understands it, but she can't really approve of it.
Like this masochist clinging to Bakugo or as he calls him Kacchan.
The blonde has gone from a childhood friend to a first-class bully!
Why can't Izuku let him go?
...Should Michi take him to a therapist?
This seems too high even for her as his best and only friend. Ares is not counted.
"That's not fish food, stupid.", Izuku grumbles to the koi fish and tries to shoo them away from the notebook. "That's my notebook…"
"They don't care," Michi points out dryly.
An idea comes to her and she digs out some leftover salami bread from her satchel. Her mom finally found a shop here that sells Italian food.
Michi knows there are bento boxes in Japan, but sometimes you just need some home here.
She removes the salami and throws bread crumbs to the fish.
"Eat this, my fishy friends."
It works as planned.
The fish leaves the notebook alone and accepts her gift.
...But they won't become piranhas now because there was definitely salami flavour on the bread, right?
Right?!
Izuku lets out an exasperated sigh and tries to shake the water away from the saved notebook.
"Thank you, Michi-Kun…"
"Sure, Izu-Chan, no problem."
Izuku isn't even looking her in the eyes.
Okay, she doesn't like that.
Time to say something.
"Bakugo has no idea, especially not about our friendship. You are so important to me Izuku, don't listen to the rubbish he says. We decided to become heroes together, which is why we applied together for the U.A. You will be a great hero even without Quirk, we just have to find the right way!"
Carefully Michi takes one of his hands and strokes the back of it with her thumb.
At least he lowers the notebook and blinks away his tears.
"…You're important to me too, Michi," he then says.
She hugs him carefully and he buries his head in the hollow of her shoulder.
Michi leans her head against his and rocks them both back and forth.
"I love you Izuku, don't forget that."
And one day, I will tell you how I want to be forever on your side.
She can literally feel that his face is burning like fire and how he is clinging to her tighter, but somehow... there is something sad in the air...
Ares signs and wraps his "arms" around the kids.
"You kids will send me to an early grave.", he mumbles.
Today Michi hates it like the plague that she has to go to her martial arts course.
She just knows that Izuku needs her, but Michi didn't go last week and her sensei doesn't like when you miss hours.
If you miss a certain amount of hours, you are out of the course.
And she can't risk this.
The salmon-haired girl needs it to be prepared for her heroic career.
For Izuku and her.
Ares can only make Michi strong, he doesn't give her the knowledge of how to fight.
Izuku also almost forced Michi to go to her course and promised that they would talk on the phone this evening.
He was already feeling better. She didn't have to worry.
Sure and she was All Might.
...Nah, better not. She doesn't want to imagine what kind of over-the-top reaction Izuku would have if he ever met his idol.
She couldn't promise, she wouldn't laugh.
Yes, hypocrite with Seraphina and Mirko you would go crazy too.
Anyway, after their hug and a few goodbyes, Izuku heads home and she heads to her course.
As soon as Sensei lets them go home, Michi decides to visit Izuku.
She texted him and Inko, his mom, and wrote to her parents that she wanted to spend a little more time with her best friend.
Michi gets approval from her parents and Inko, however, Izuku doesn't answer her.
Mmm, he's probably trying to save the notes in his burnt notebook.
...Should she call Stefano later, maybe he or one of her other cousins has a good idea for a prank on the blonde asshole Bakugo?
So she thinks nothing of it as she makes her way to Izuku's apartment.
Not even when she sees him talking to a blonde man who looks like he's suffering from anorexia.
Surely Izuku, the good soul, helped the poor sick man with something.
Michi only starts to notice something is going on that she doesn't know about when she sees Izuku throw himself on the ground when the blonde man tells him that he can be a hero.
Normally she would immediately run to Izuku...yet something inside her tells her that she needs to hear what's going on.
Also, Ares formally whisper-shouts to stay put because he wants to know what's going on.
Michi can shorten the following conversation into three words:
What.
The.
Fuck?!
The anorexia guy is All Might?!
Izuku has put himself in danger and shown his courage by trying to save Bakugo from a Slugde-Villain when all the real heroes did nothing and will receive his Quirk from All Might?!
Yes received!
All Might was also quirkless and got his Quirk One for All, which is its name, from another person.
And, and the Quirk gets stronger with each person receiving it!
WHAT?!
They were separated for mostly two and a half hours and Izuku not only met All Might, why does he seem so sick anyway, but All Might chose him to be the next bearer of One for All?!
This is really….wow!
Speechless, Michi was just speechless!
Even Ares was in shock.
He had become stiff.
Michi only finds the words again when she hears Izuku, of course, what else, accept to become the next wielder of the Quirk.
Maybe Michi should tell these two geniuses that it wasn't smart to have a secret conversation in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET!
"That's all well and good and I'm happy for Izuku, really," she calls out.
This causes All Might to freeze on the spot with wide eyes and Izuku spins towards her surprised.
"M-Michi-Kun?!"
"Young Midoriya?"
She ignores them both and puts her hands on her hips.
"You really shouldn't have such a conversation about such a huge secret in the open air, be glad it's only me and Ares here. So now it seems like we all are now on the same team. How can we help Izuku?"