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Many many years ago…
Izuku was mature for his age, that much was obvious. Speaking and walking at a few months old was clear evidence. It was a good thing Izuku was so mature too. It meant that he was able to help out his mother a lot more than the average child could. Being a single mother wasn’t easy for Midoriya Inko. As much as his mother tried to hide it, Izuku was a mind reader. Still despite being the most mature child to probably ever exist Izuku was left with a babysitter.
Izuku was very much capable of taking care of things by himself thank you very much. Getting things from tall cabinets or high shelves wasn’t a problem when you could use Telekinesis to get said objects or fly up the level the objects were at. Cooking was hardly an issue either since Izuku didn’t have to worry about burning the house down. Pyrokinesis would solve that issue. Still Izuku’s mother was a good mother, no matter how extraordinarily gifted her son was, Midoriya Inko wouldn’t just leave her child alone when he wasn’t even in Kindergarten yet.
Still things could be worse, the babysitter that Izuku got was one of the better ones. Not because she was a good babysitter or was a fun person, but because she was old. Like super old. She was the one who usually babysat Izuku since she was a neighbor and didn’t ask his mother for pay. Her oldness meant that she spent a majority of the time sleeping, and sleeping like the dead at that. It was almost impossible to wake her up, not that Izuku wanted to. Izuku would only wake up the woman if his mother was approaching the house. It was better for Izuku and his mother if the babysitter appeared to be a competent one.
The old woman had come in and made small chat with his mother. Of course after his mother had to leave, the woman sat down on the couch turned on the news and was down for her usual “nap”. Izuku was then free to do whatever he wanted. What he ended up doing was cleaning though. Izuku may be young but he wasn’t raised to be untidy. His mother did her best to clean, but she had to work to support Izuku and herself. Izuku took it upon himself to use his quirks for good and cleaned up the house. If Izuku had to describe the scene it would be a mixture of the magic from old Disney movies and Harry Potter. Dishes flying and scrubbing themselves while clothes folded themselves. Garbage was taken away and their old vacuum moved around the house like a Roomba. After inspecting each and every room to make sure it was clean, Izuku made his way out of the kitchen and towards his room. The new episode of Avatar: the First Quirk Holder was about to play and Izuku wasn’t going to have it spoiled by missing it.
These plans were ruined however by a small issue. LIES, it was a big issue. An issue so big and terrible and disgusting that Izuku ended up all the way in the United States in the town of El Paso, Texas.
Izuku might’ve been an almost god-like preschooler with an unfathomable amount of quirks and endless energy, but he had one weakness. Bugs. Those creepy-crawly things that end up in your house no matter how hard you try. Izuku hated bugs. They were terrible and vile creatures. The absolute worst thing about bugs were that they were suprises. Izuku was a very hard person to surprise. Someone could try to throw him a surprise party or spook him by jumping out of bush or from behind a corner, but he would never be surprised. He knew where people and even animals were in correlation to the area around him. He knew what they were planning and how they were going to execute their plans.
People and animals were easy to understand and were predictably boring, bugs though. Don’t even get Izuku started. He couldn’t even read their thoughts. Sure he couldn’t understand Kacchan’s thoughts but he could still hear them. Izuku had gotten the shock of his young life when he had woken up one morning to a spider above his head. That was probably the first time he felt fear. So much fear in fact that he had completely destroyed his room and the bug inside it. The bug was gone, but Izuku felt dirty. When he used his Restoration quirk to bring his room back to normal the thing had come back with it. Izuku had had to go to his mother to remove the dreaded arachnid from their house.
His mother couldn’t always be there though. This was one such time. There was a cockroach in his house. A few minutes have passed now which meant the monster must have moved. Izuku and his mother lived in a small one floor apartment which meant the bug could be almost anywhere. Izuku could have stayed in good old El Paso, but then he remembered a package was coming and his mother needed him to get it. Oh why was the world so cruel. Izuku hadn’t even made it to Kindergarten and Izuku was going to die via cockroach. Okay, think. Izuku’s room should be safe since the door is closed. He could sit on his bed too till the doorbell rang. After retrieving the package Izuku could make his way to Hong Kong or somewhere and wait till his mother was coming home. With the time limit on his Teleportation over Izuku made his way back to his room. Just in time too! The doorbell rang and Izuku made a mad sprint to the door, although his feet weren’t touching the ground. Wrenching the door open Izuku found Kacchan with a net waiting for him.
Izuku was gone again. This time he was St. Petersburg, Russia. O.K Izuku was a little afraid of Kacchan now. Izuku didn’t know how he had missed the explosion noises that usually accompanied Kacchan. Wait, Kacchan had been holding a bug net! That meant he probably wanted to go hunting for beetles. Izuku didn’t know why Kacchan was at his house, because Izuku always refused to go hunting with him, but he was glad the boy was there. Izuku waited till the time was up again and teleported back to his house.
“There you are stupid Deku. Where the fucking hell did you go?”
Ah Izuku had never been so happy to hear Kacchan’s cursing. Izuku explained his plight to Kacchan as best as he could.
“Eh, you really are such a useless Deku, Deku.”
Izuku could take the stupid nick name if it meant that Kacchan would just rid the bug from his home.
“Why didn’t you get the fucking hag to do it, shit for brains.”
Ah Izuku had forgotten about the old lady. Well it’s not like she would have been useful, she moved as fast as a snail and Izuku doubted she would be able to catch such a formidable threat. Kacchan strode towards the kitchen with his usual gusto, palms lightly crackling in preparation for an explosion that would send that bug to the nether world.
And of course the beast was under the fridge and of course Kacchan, for all his smarts, had decided to lift it up. Izuku had to quickly use Telekinesis to lift the fridge along with Kacchan’s movements. If it would get the bug gone, Izuku could stand of more of Kacchan’s taunts.
“HA! Bet you couldn’t be this strong Deku!”
Still the bug was soon blown to smithereens and the scorch marks were covered with the fridge. Izuku could finally rest. Well he could finally rest after he got Kacchan to leave. He missed the new episode, but Izuku was willing to watch already spoiled re-runs at this point. His mother came home a few hours later and sent the old woman home. She then proudly showed Izuku the candies she had bought for him at the 100 yen shop...Only to accidentally drop a few on the couch. Izuku may have overreacted to their bug like appearance because he ended up in the Republic of Palau on Ngardmau Island. Izuku felt a little embarrassed. It was almost as bad as that time he had erased an organization that was after him from existence, because the president had a bug quirk that had his head looking like a praying mantis.