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“Mommy, where are we going?” 4-year-old young Izuku asked his mother, Inko, who was preparing things that look like files or requirements near the table.
“Honey, we’ll go see a doctor today! You get to know what quirk you’ll have!” His mother beamed, while she kneeled in one knee to face Izuku in his level. Much to her kid’s joy, she knows that her son has been itching to know what his quirk will be. Izuku jumped and began to run around the room, making her smile at her kid’s excitement. She stood up and approached him, then ruffled his hair.
“Really mommy? Can I get a quirk like Kacchan?!” The boy looked up to her mother, who reflected the same smile as him. She can’t help but chuckle to her boy. His excitement was just over the brim.
“Yeah, Izuku! Maybe you’ll get a quirk like Katsuki, or even better! Let’s go now, you don’t want to be late right?” His mother replied, and with that, she held Izuku by the hand to head off the doctors.
They arrived at the quirk doctor, and Inko let the doctor examine her son while she was waiting on the side. After a couple of tests, the doctor let Izuku accompany his mother, and they waited for the results of the test. After about fifteen minutes, the doctor came back, only to have a grim look in his face.
Both the mother and son didn’t know how to react when the bomb of reality was dropped to them.
Just give it up. The boy is quirkless. He can never have a quirk.
The doctor solemnly said to Inko, who froze in shock for a few moments then had a few tears flowing out of her eyes. Her kid was much worse. Izuku went on full out crying, and he already dropped his All Might toy, having a few cracks as its damage. Inko stopped crying, as she now had to face the truth. All now she can do is support her son even if there is a tough road ahead of him.
Inko thanked the doctor and grabbed Izuku out of the room.
The walk to their home was quiet, and Izuku was still crying, holding his All Might toy that had cracks on it.
There is a silence between them along the way to their home, and once they reached the door and his mother opened it, Izuku immediately ran off to his room, shutting it completely but not locking it.
He sniffled while he opens his computer, and opens the site- HeroTube, that lets him watch videos about heroes.
There he watched the debut of All Might, saving people with his signature smile and phrase.
On the other side, Inko sat on a chair on the dining table, having a few tears flowing out of her face out of shock in today’s events. She was heartbroken that Izuku will never get a quirk, and she was worried that many people will try to hurt him and discriminate against him because of the lack of it. She then heard the sobs Izuku had been making in his room and went to the door before proceeding to knock the door twice.
“Izuku, are you alright?” Inko asked quietly but enough to be heard inside the room. Once she didn’t get a reply, she opened the door and saw her child tears flowing out while watching his favorite hero on his computer.
“Mom, I can still be a hero like him…right?” Izuku asked between his sniffles, and that was enough for his mother to be crashing down to his side, hugging him tightly.
“I am sorry, Izuku... I am sorry!” His mother wailed while clutching him tightly. Izuku was crying but he felt empty inside. He felt like his life was ended just because he didn’t have a quirk, but then he realized that his mother was still at his side, crying at him. The words that flowed out of his mother’s mouth was not the one he wanted, but still, he knew that probably because of his lack of quirk, his mother was more saddened by the news than he was.
“Mom…please don’t cry…It’s not your fault,” Izuku said, and returned a hug back at his mother, who was still crying in front of him. He can feel his shirt getting wet, but he didn’t care. He didn’t know that his mother is that much worried about him, and thought that was probably blaming herself because he was quirkless.
“I’ll go to sleep now, mom. Please at least try to get sleep tonight.” Izuku smiled lightly to his mother, albeit strained. He helped his mother go up, and wiped a few tears in her face.
Her mother smiled a little, seeing that her son was, for now, okay, but the feeling of worry doesn’t leave her chest. For now, she ignored it and kissed Izuku good night on his bed. Both of them were crestfallen by the news, but for now, they need to go on to their life. Inko then went to her room, and she laid on the bed with tears on her face until she drifted off to sleep.
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3 years later.
Izuku didn’t forget the fact that he was quirkless, but he also didn’t forget his dream of being a hero. He wasn’t gonna let his quirklessness bind him off his dreams, and he will strive hard to achieve it, even though people shunned him about it and hurt him every day because of it. He was still going on in his life because he still had his mother, who was nonetheless ever supportive to him even though they both know that his dreams were hard to reach. God knows what he’ll do if his mother was gone.
Izuku was walking down the street when he saw a child his age was getting bullied by three boys. He then ran ahead and caught the punch that was directed at the boy, only to realize that the bully was none other than his childhood friend, Katsuki Bakugo.
“Oi, nerd! What a quirkless freak like you doing here?!” Bakugo shouted, and his lackeys behind him snickered at the sight in front of them. Izuku put out his arms in a protective stance in front of the kid, who was telling him to go away before both of them get badly hurt.
“Midoriya, go away now, they are picking on me not you!” the kid behind him whispered harshly, but Izuku just shushed him. This kid was the only one in his class that didn’t mock him that much, like hell he will let him be hurt.
“You are the one who should go away now, your mother will be angry if they saw that bruises you had. Please run away.” Izuku whispered back, and the boy hesitated on Izuku’s request. Izuku then gave him a look that ‘if you don’t run, I’ll make you’ and the boy stood up and ran, giving him a sympathetic look before he was far away.
Another thing. Due to him being quirkless and being bullied, well he started to ignore all the people around him and just went to the flow of life. He didn’t care about how they perceive him, but he still stood tall to his dreams and ideals. Much to the dismay of Bakugo.
Now back to the present, Izuku was left with an angry Bakugo and his lackeys who were still snickering on him. Izuku couldn’t help but have the urge to punch the other two behind Bakugo. Well, because only he knows that his lackeys were probably just friends with him because of his wonderful quirk.
“Why do you even protected that kid? At least he had a quirk to protect himself, but you don’t have one!” Bakugo’s lackey snorted, while the other one laughed. Bakugo then landed a punch at Izuku and let off an explosion in his shoulder, before picking him up by his collar and looked him straight in the eyes.
“Listen Deku. I don’t have time for a useless quirkless freak like you, but if you keep getting on my way and if you are still aiming to be a hero, I’ll throw you to the side like the pebble you are. You got that?!” Bakugo then threw Izuku to the ground, which Izuku hesitantly nodded to him. He then huffed out of frustration and walked away, with his lackeys tailing him, leaving a battered and bruised Izuku on the ground.
Izuku then stood up and dusted off dirt on his shirt, and started his walk home mindlessly. That was the everyday occurrence between him and Bakugo, so he couldn’t care less. He was about three minutes away from his home when he heard the sounds of the sirens blaring near their apartment. Out of panic, Izuku ran as fast as he could to reach their home, only to see it, engulfed on fire.
His heart was pumping fast, as he could see that there are heroes on standby, and doing nothing but look to their burning apartment.
Before he can even think logically, his body moved on his own, rushing to the fire. The images of his mother’s smiles flashing in his mind.
She is the only one I had, I have to save her!
Izuku reached the door to their burning apartment, and saw his mother on the floor, with burns and blood over her.
Their house is in ruins, and the fire was consuming everything. The smoke made everything less visible, and also made Izuku cough.
He tried to get inside, but the heroes that were capable of the situation are now there and drag him out of the harm’s way.
He could only cry and thrash at the hold of the hero who was holding him, but he didn’t care. His mother is dying, or possibly even dead by now, and no one even tried to save her when there could be still hope.
He was then given to the police, only to be scolded by them that he was reckless or something like that but it just went out of his ears, because his mind was still blank at the moment.
The emptiness he felt when he was diagnosed as a quirkless person returned, and he couldn’t help but just feel a flood of emotions in his chest. The void is consuming him, and there was no one to pull him out of it now.
People were looking to the kid, only to give him sympathizing and sad looks. It was the looks of pity, and he absolutely hated that.
“So what will happen to the kid? He doesn’t seem to have any relatives left.” A police officer asked a detective on-site, and the latter just sighed.
“I guess he’ll just go to an orphanage after this. After all, there is no one that can take care of him here, especially due to his quirkless status. Man, how I hate this society for having that mentality.” The detective then bent down to Izuku’s level and asked him a couple of questions before accompanying him to the police car. The whole time after that event, Izuku’s face held nothing but blank emotion.
Inside the car, Izuku then felt sleepy along the way to the police station and promptly fell asleep.