The Beginning Of The End
Everything for Izuku Midoriya was anything but okay, bullied, abandoned, neglected, what else could be so awful? Let’s add another to the list then, suicide bating. Like life couldn’t get any fucking worse.
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School just ended with Bakugou deciding this is the last straw for him, just knowing I want to go to UA too? Can’t even be in the same fucking school? I never did anything but want to be a hero? Is that so bad? Picking up my now burnt AND soaking wet notebook, shaking it off a little.
Hopefully this can air dry, not lose too much of his work, even if Bakugou didn’t see any value in his analysis, I do. Getting up and brushing himself off to start heading back home slower than usual, hoping not to run into Bakugou again.
Going through an old overpass still trying to air dry his note book a voice spooked him.
“I knew I’d find a skin suit soon enough if I stayed in the sewers.” The gnarly looking green slime spoke harshly. “Wha-“ all Izuku could get out before the disgusting slime shot down his throat. Gagging immediately, trying to tear at it to no avail. This really couldn’t get any worse, was he really about to die after he got told to kill himself? Just as he’s about to lose consciousness he’s blasted against the brick of the overpass. That’s probably gonna hurt a lot more later.
“I AM HERE”
Finally inhaling something air, only to immediately to puke up some of the awful sewage slime. Barely looking up he sees All Might. Breathing a little more steady as All Might barley glances in his direction. Izuku really thought his civilian help was a bit better than this he probably has a concussion, maybe.
“Are you alright my boy?” All Might asks, again glancing around nervously almost. He’s always been rather good at picking up on these things, you have to be.
“Yeah, I’m fine, thank you All Might!” Izuku said, what else do you say to the number one hero!
“All Might I have a question.” Izuku spoke up again more nervously as All Might put the rest of the villain into, coke bottles? Interesting choice?
“Ah no time my boy, I have to take this villain to the police!” All Might told him with his smile always smiling. So Izuku did the only rational thing and he jumped, wrapped his arms around All mights leg, he was going to get that answer.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOUNG MAN, LET GO! All Might screamed.
“IF I LET GO IM GONNA DIE!” Izuku screamed back.
“Oh yeah of course! Sorry! Keep your eyes and mouth closed!” All Might said back.
Landing on a near by rooftop, All Might deflates on impact. “Ah I’m sorry about this my boy. Now don’t go telling this to anyone, or spreading this information online around but I’ve been this way for quite some time.” All Might explains.
“I won’t tell anyone, I promise! I just need to know, can a quirkless person become a hero?” Izuku looks at the ground as he desperately asks, the one question he’s been wanting to ask for years to the only persons opinion that really matters.
All Might lifts up his shirt showing the massive wound practically eating at his stomach. “No, even with all my power as the number 1 hero, I still have gotten bested, I don’t believe a quirkless person could become a hero.” All Might tells Izuku he says more about the police force or whatever else but he’s already checked out of the conversation, zoned into his bright red shoes that he hates; that put a target on him for anyone that knows where to look. The source of all of his misery, the beating, his father leaving, his mother working hours on end to never have to be around him. Why him? Does anyone else feel this way? Even the number one hero doesn’t even think he can be a quirkless hero?
Still lost in thought as All Might left him on the rooftop, ironically this is exactly where Bakugou wanted him.
“Just prey that you’ll be born with a quirk in you next life and take a swan dive off the roof of a building” like he’d actually fucking do that. Is this what the hero’s do? Leave you alone? Crush your dreams? Not wanting to think about it any more jumping down the fire escape, and landing safely on the ground just as the explosions started. Can’t really help but want to get his mind off of his dreams being crushed he started running towards the explosions, when he got there he seen the barricade put up trying to keep the citizens away from what was happening. Looking towards the commotion he seen the slime guy holding Bakugou.
The hero’s, aren’t doing anything. Why? Looking around he seen that Kamui Woods is just standing there in front of the civilians while Backdraft is putting out Bakugou’s explosions with his water cannon. Looking to his right in the crowd of other civilians he spots All Mights small version, he’s just watching. Why? Why isn’t All Might helping save Bakugou? Why aren’t they doing anything?
He runs, he runs as fast as he can, which is frankly pretty fast. If he’s good at one thing he’s always been good at running. He gets close to the slime guy again and throws his backpack as hard as he can, hitting the slime in the only place visible, his eyes. Bakugou got a breath from that. That’s a good sign, at least he can breathe for a minute, Bakugou’s lasted longer so far than he had when the slime guy had him.
“Fuck, not this brat again.” The slime guy not really expected to see his first skin suit he wanted, back. Especially not fighting back this time.
Izuku grabbed the pencil he had in his pocket for his notebook and stabbed the slimes eye this time making the slime scream and pull away just as All Might comes down once again and punches him, this time changing the weather staring to rain slime, then just regular rain. He didn’t it he get Bakugou. He saved Bakugou, not All Might Izuku was almost done by the time All Might had got here. He was just watching.
Bakugou grabbed Izuku’s already seared shirt, shaking him a little. “What the fuck? I didn’t need help from a shitty Deku.” Bakugou yelled at him, face bright red.
“I know you didn’t, Bakugou. No one else was going to help you though. ”Pushing Bakugou’s arms off of him as he just started to walk away. With Bakugou to stunned to speak, Deku never called him that?
All Might still busy with the press, Izuku just slipped away, it was pretty easy all the focus was on All Might of course.
Almost getting him All Might appeared again, landing right in front of him. “My boy! You were amazing! I almost forgot myself what being a true hero is, going beyond your limits! Plus ultra style!” Coughing blood as he shrinks.
“Ah All Might are you all right?” Izuku asked him.
“Please call me Yagi my boy, I have to ask, why did you do that?” Al- Yagi asked him.
“My feet, they just moved without me thinking.” Izuku tried to explain.
“That’s what I thought, you know every true hero has a story like that, their feet just move before their mind knows what’s happening. I was wrong my boy, you have what it takes to be a true hero. I’ll give you my power that was given to me from my predecessor.” Yagi tells Izuku
“What do you mean? Give me your power?” Izuku asks carefully. Thinking this can’t be real, just 30 minutes ago All Might said he couldn’t be a hero? Now he’s taking it back?
“It’s just that! My power One For All can be passed on it’s a quirk as old as quirks, and you young man will be the 9th holder, will you accept this power?” Yagi asks him expectedly.
Izuku thinks for just a second, this could be it, everything I ever dreamed of but different now. “Yes, I will accept!” He tells Yagi excited.
“Very good my boy!” Yagi tells him.
They exchange numbers and Izuku walks the rest of the way home, unlocking the apartment he already knows is empty, his mother is an another district right now working another double at the hospital. Smiling to himself as All Might texts him a plan to train his body up more his plan says he won’t need too much just about a few months.