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“Hey, Kyo.” A young boy with freckles shaped as diamonds called out to a young girl with short purple hair who was sitting right next to him. The green-haired boy was named Izuku Midoriya and The girl was named Kyoka Jiro, the two were sitting in Kyoka’s room while Izuku’s mother Inko Midoriya was visiting Kyoka’s parents Kyotoku Jiro and Mika Jiro.
The girl looked at the boy and tilted her head. “What is it Zu?” She replied wondering what he had on this mind. “Well, what do you think of the fire soldiers?” This was a question Kyoka never heard from Izuku before. To be honest she hasn’t put much thought into it. Though, the thought of suddenly being set on fire haunts her. The same thing goes for Izuku.
This “suddenly being set on fire” is a phenomenon called Spontaneous Human Combustion. This phenomenon causes a human being to be randomly set on fire and become a beast of the flames known as an Infernal. These Infernals run rampant continuing to cause chaos until they are “put to rest”. This job does not prove to be easy because the only way to put an Infernal to rest was to destroy their core which was located where their heart once was. This was the purpose of the Special Fire Force. They put infernals to rest while saving lives in the process.
In this world, there are three generations of Pyrokinetics. The First Generation were the humans who all of a sudden set on fire and become infernals. The second generation were able to control flames as if they are puppets. Finally, the 3rd generation makes their own flames and can be very powerful.
“I…..I think they are cool… I don’t really know, I haven’t put much thought into that….” Kyoka said with poking the end of her pointer finger with her other, pushing the two together. “Well I think they are awesome, They are like heroes! I wanna be just like one.” Izuku said with glee and Kyoka giggled a bit. “But, Zu… We don’t even have powers… not yet anyways, but we are eleven now. Don’t you think we should have gotten ours?” Kyoka asked and Izuku looked at her with a smile that could melt any girl's heart, which is what happened to Kyoka. “ That doesn’t matter to me! I still want to be one!” Izuku shouted out and Kyoka giggled a bit.
“You dork.”
“Kyoka! Izuku! You might want to come down!”
Izuku and Kyoka could hear the call from Kyoka’s mother down the stairs. “Well let's go see what they want,” Kyoka said as she got up from her seat and Izuku followed suit. They exited Kyoka’s room and walked down the stairs to see Izuku’s mother and Kyoka’s parents. “Yea Mom?” Kyoka called out to her mother as the two young children continued to walk down the stairs.
They saw two men in suits and one of them had a paper at hand. “You must be Kyoka Jiro and Izuku Midoriya. Right?” One of the men said and the two nodded. “Well, you two have been confirmed to have third-generation prokinesis that has yet to awaken.” Izuku and Kyoka look at each other with shock and happiness written all over their faces. “We at Hijima help children with similar problems, we would like to help and take care of Kyoka and Izuku. Trust us as we will treat them with the utmost care.”
The man bowed and Inko, Mika, and Kyotoku all looked at each other. Then they look at Izuku and Kyoka who had begging faces on. It was clear that they really did want their pyrokinetic powers. The parents looked at each other and all sighed. “Do you children want this?” Mika asked and The two children nodded as they hugged their parents. “We are going to miss you two kiddos.” Kyotoku hugged his daughter. “I'm going to miss you Izuku, be safe.” Inko also hugged her son. “We will miss you guys too!” The children said simultaneously as they were released from the hug.
Kyoka and Izuku walked to the two men and they left the house. They got into the car of the two men and they drove away.
The four arrived at the Industry building and it was huge. There were large white buildings everywhere and Kyoka and Izuku starred in awe of the place. They looked at each other and smiled as the car parked. The two eleven-year-olds looked at each other with glee as they exited the car.
They entered one of the buildings and stopped in-front of what appeared to be an enclosed area with glass surrounding it with children and some sort of puppeteer. Kyoka and Izuku are shown to their room which has two beds and a bathroom. They were given white clothes which they had to throw on. The two throw on the clothes they were given and sat on the beds they have chosen, Izuku on the right of the room and Kyoka on the left. The two children began to wonder if they made the right decision to leave home and go to Hijima.
“Kyo?” Izuku spoke first and Kyoka lifted her head and hummed in response. “Do you think…. We did the right thing?”
Kyoka didn’t know how to respond. She didn’t really know how she felt about this, it felt like a prison of some sort. “I….I don’t know Izu. Let’s just see what happens.” Kyoka responded and Izuku nodded.
“I’m going to get some sleep.” Kyoka said laying on the white bed and pulling her sheets over her body. Izuku did the same as the purplette and rested his head on his pillow. “Night Kyo.” “Night Izu”
Izuku woke up in the morning, facing the concrete wall. He sat up on his bed and he looked over at Kyoka who also had just woken up “Morning Izu, how did you sleep?” Kyoka asked, rubbing her eyes and stretching afterwards. “Actually, not that bad.” Izuku said stretching himself a bit while groaning. He looked over at the door to their room to see a small box.
Izuku got up and off of his bed and walked over to the box. He took a glance at the door and noticed there was no doorknob for the inside of the room. “Uh, Kyo. We can’t leave this room….”
Kyoka looked confused, just then they heard a click from the door. Izuku backed away a bit and the door opened. There was another man in a suit and he had two trays of food. He handed them both to Izuku and he left the room.
“What?” Izuku and Kyoka simultaneously questioned but they were ignored.
After an hour, Izuku and Kyoka were sitting on the ground of their room as they were eating their breakfast, which was Teishoku. “Kyo, what do you think they would do to help us awaken our powers?” Izuku questioned taking a bite out of his rice ball. Kyoka took a bite out of her own as she thought. “I don’t know, training maybe?” Kyoka shrugged and continued to eat her breakfast and Izuku did the same.
The two finished and stacked their trays on top of each other and placed them between the two.
About thirty minutes after they finished the door clicked again and the same man that brought their breakfast was at the door. “Midoriya, come out.”
“Bye Kyo.” Izuku said getting up and about to walk out. “Bye Zu!” Kyoka yelled out and Izuku left the room and the door was closed.
The greenette and the man continued to walk through the halls. Izuku was wondering where they were going. “Hey, so um….. What are we going to do for our unawakened powers?” Izuku asked and the man didn’t respond as they came to a stop in front of a slide-open door. The man punctured in a code to the keypad and the door opened up. “Get in” The man ordered and Izuku obeyed.
When he entered it was a large enclosure with a singular glass wall with people wearing lab coats looking through it. They also had controls and buttons. Another door opened across from Izuku and a tall man with squinted orange eyes with snake-like pupils.
The man moved his eyes around very creepily like he was morphing them around. “Yes, nice and weak. Try to entertain Me the reaper” The man started walking over to Izuku.
Kyoka was waiting in her and Izuku’s shared room for about an hour now. She had opened the box that was in front of their door before and it was just a bunch of bathroom stuff, Toothbrushes/paste, soap, shampoo, etc.
After that, it was really boring in the room, especially without Izuku. She began to play with her fingers which passed the time keeping her at least a little bit busy.
The door clicked and her head instantly beamed up with a smile. That smile quickly dropped and she felt tears stream down her eyes. The same man was holding a passed-out Izuku and he placed him on his bed. Izuku had burn marks and bruises all over his body. “W-What happened?” Kyoka questioned the man before he walked out. He stopped and gave a glance at Kyoka. “N-n-no, I- we want to go home.”
The man looked Kyoka dead in the eye which scared her to her spine. “If you're going home, it's not going to be alive.”
And with that, the man turned away and left the room and Kyoka just started to sob over a passed-out Izuku.
Izuku and Kyoka are now 16 years old. Kyoka has been overcome with fear these past few years and has become somewhat socially awkward towards anyone but Izuku. The greenette does try his best to be there for his best friend, but it just isn't enough. This "reaper" guy who's real name is Kurono Yuichiro has been beating them up recklessly because he likes to. He likes beating down on the weak. Izuku doesn't let him knock him down, but he has completely traumatized Kyoka.
She began to wonder if the two had any pyrokinetic powers to begin with and they were just there to be playthings for Kurono. Everyday Izuku does his best to keep Kyoka in check, making her have at least a little hope. No matter what he does though, she would have a sudden panic attack at least once a day. Whether it be in a conversation or not. Kyoka said it feels like Kurono just pierced her chest every time that happens. Izuku would calm Kyoka down from this by hugging her and singing her a soft melody which calms her nerves.
Currently, Izuku is hugging Kyoka who had her head on his chest. She had just gone through another panic attack which Izuku effectively calmed her nerves by singing her the melody.
The door clicked and Izuku felt the shiver of Kyoka’s spine, she began to hate the click of the door. “Midoriya, Jiro come out.” A masculine voice can be heard and Kyoka raised her head up from Izuku’s chest.
“B-both of us?” Kyoka questioned and the man peered his head through the opened door with a glare. “Did I stutter?”
Kyoka quickly got off the bed as the man stopped peering and Izuku followed suit. Izuku and Kyoka have grown a lot these past five years, Izuku is now five foot eight and Kyoka is four foot eight.
Izuku and Kyoka along with the man went down the same route they have been going for years. This path has always given Kyoka anxiety and her breaths become very shaky. Izuku had a stern look on his face, if anything happens, his first instinct is to protect Kyoka. At all costs.
The door they knew all to well opened up. This was the first time Izuku and Kyoka did this together throughout the five years they had been here at Hijima. They walked inside the enclosure and they both looked at the door that was about to open. The door they were looking at opened and Kurono walked through. Through the five years, he had gotten Tephrosis on his right arm which he covers in wrapping cloth.
Tephrosis happens when a 3rd generation pyrokinetic uses up too much of their power and overheats themselves when they are low on oxygen supply.
“Two weaklings here? It must be my birthday. I’m glad you are still weak. I want you to stay that way.” Kurono said as he pulled the cloth off of his right arm. Kyoka started slowly hiding behind Izuku and the greenette gave Kurono a stern look. He was only two inches shorter than Kurono, but the snake-eyed man was taller than Kyoka by a whole foot.
Kurono began to close the distance between the two and was licking his mouth with excitement of beating the two up again. The only difference was that they were now together and now there are even more possibilities to what he can do to them.
He and Izuku were face to face and before Izuku could even react he was punched in the gut then uppercutted. Kurono grabbed his head and threw him to the side. “I want to fight the weakest first.” He said and Kyoka began to tremble as she fell on her ass. She started back shuffling trying to get away from Kurono.
He was about to throw a punch at Kyoka, but his fist met something other than Kyoka’s terrified face. It was Izuku’s back. Kyoka felt an embrace around her as Izuku tried to protect her. “Come on. Move it. I need to defeat the weak one first.” Kurono punched Izuku’s back again as he said that. Izuku didn’t respond as he refused to move. He threw another punch and Izuku groaned.
All of a sudden Izuku felt power surging through him and Kyoka for some reason behind her tears felt the same power Izuku was feeling. Izuku’s green eyes began to glow and so did Kyoka’s violet eyes. Green flames started to ignite on Izuku’s back and violet ones started on Kyoka’s earlobes. Their flames exploded as Kurono jumped back. “Kurono! Pull out now!” One of the men said through the speaker as an order as the flames started to explode even further covering the enclosure in green and violet flames as the alarms started blaring.
The flames subsided and Kurono was on the other side of the glass view for the room.
Izuku and Kyoka were nowhere to be seen.