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Izuku had tears in his eyes when he went to sleep, things were supposed to be different now weren’t they?
He had a quirk
He was one of the top students in the hero course
He had friends
Then why did this still hurt?
Why did he still feel the pain for something that hasn’t happened in 2 years?
It started with a youtube video that got recommended to him, he was looking at some of the fights from the sports festival which he had missed when he saw a thumbnail and then his mind wandered to the title
‘ Story Time: We showed this arrogant loser his place’
4 years ago
He clicked,
He watched,
A boy with long hair appeared in frame of a shaky camera , his hair covered most of his face and
Izuku knew this person
This was Watashi San , his old classmate from Aldera Junior high
Another face appeared in the frame , a tall girl with spikey hair
Makao San his mind supplied
She was also his classmate from Aldera
Watashi’s voice cut in “Hey there guys, long time no see, what can we say we were on vacation, but we are back with another story time video” , his overly cheerful voice felt cringy and forced
“So today was our first day at middle school, and as you all know first days are always interesting, so we took the camera to the school and guess what no one said no”, the cheerful voice of Makao san continued
“Something wicked happened and we are gonna show you , stay tuned”
A transition and Izuku was looking at his old class from his first year , no he did not remember exactly what each class looked like , he came to this conclusion after seeing his very own mop of green hair seated firmly behind Katsuki ,
“So guys guess what we found out , we have a quirkless loser in our class”, Makao whispered into the mic
The camera focused on him
A female voice started narrating “See this greenie over there, yeah, this is the one, why is he even here, fucking waste of oxygen, someone better could be in his place, I so wanna kick him in the nu…”
“Hey Mak quiet down the teacher is coming”, Watashi’s whisper cut in,
The camera changed direction and focused on the direction of the teacher’s desk, The teacher was standing but still his face was obscure and blurry at best, the camera wasn’t high quality but the mic was a pretty decent one, able to record most of what was happening while tuning out the obnoxious noise,
“I am Yamamoto Gesugao, you can call me Yamamoto sensei, I will be teaching you English and will be your homeroom teacher for the year, I was not here in the morning so I guess we will make this homeroom for today” the man paused for a while and continued
“since it is the first day let’s get to the introductions, when I call your name, come over here and introduce yourself, throw in a hobby if you want, get along with likeminded people”
The slimy man’s voice was devoid of emotion, it already felt like the guy was stuck here!
“Ooo I thought we missed the chance to record this in the morning but we have another chance, Watashi, focus on greenie on his turn, I have an idea, See you guys in a sec”, Makao’s whisper was clear and Izuku could feel the malicious intent she was radiating.
A hand came in front of the camera and it transitioned into the scene of a green haired boy walking up to the front of the class,
He did not make it there though, he tripped and fell just when he was about to reach there, Clumsy loser someone (Watashi) shouted from the back, but he wasn’t clumsy someone had tripped him it was clear and Izuku saw the familiar tuft of spiky pink hair sitting on the first bench,
Back then he had no idea how he fell, but looking back he clearly knew the culprit
He got back up and tried to clean himself of the dust but the teacher cut in,
“Mr. Midoriya can you stop wasting everyone’s time here including mine, we have more to focus on then you” The man sounded annoyed
Izuku rushed towards the front and turned around to face the class,
“Hi, my name is Midoriya Izuku, I really love knowing about quirks and would love to make new friends and also I w.w.want to be a H.H.HERO” he stuttered out in the end .
Izuku bowed politely towards the class and then towards the teacher and started to shuffle back to his seat
“Umm.. Mr. Midoriya, where do you think you are going, your introduction isn’t complete”, the annoyed and angry man continued , “you withheld important information child, I was willing to give you a chance but you are as manipulative and worthless as the records say.”
Izuku gave the man an incredulous look but the teacher continued anyways
“ don’t look at me like that I know what you are you pathetic quirkless peace of shit”
A few gasps were heard and many students started whispering among themselves
Izuku could be seen scrunching up in himself, trying to appear as small as possible
The man hadn’t finished yet and started to address the class “I am not allowed to share the information I am about to share with you lot but for your wellbeing and to save you from this pathetic excuse of a low class being , I will tell you , Midoriya izuku is a lying piece of shit who blames everyone but himself for what happens to him, his record from elementary states that he is known for instigating fights and antagonizing fellow classmates just to gain the attention of the teacher , he has gone as far as faking injuries and blamed them on his classmates , he will get close to you and then start blaming you for things you haven’t done to him, It’s in your best interest to stay away from him , Mr. Bakugo here is one of his previous victims , If he does anything to you you come to me , I will make sure he learns his lesson here at Aldera.” The man finished
The green haired boy had tears rolling down his cheeks, his head held low and he made it back to his seat.
The video cut again and transitioned into what sounded like the final bell , it was still focused on the green haired boy (on him ) and izuku did not have the heart to watch the rest , he knew what happened after this , and as the camera moved closer to the boy 4 different students were warning him to stay away while one was holding his bag away from him and suddenly all of the students crowding him started pushing and shoving and kicking and punching him for some godforsaken reason and izuku stayed still , what the teacher hadn’t realized or now to think of it had done on purpose was give everyone in the classroom a license to go at him , all he could do was take it .
He paused the video, disliked it, reported it, he was angry, the video only had around a few hundred views, the channel seemed to be in the early stages of growth at that point so it's understandable to have very little engagement if any at all so he did the logical thing see if anyone even commented on the wrongdoings that were presented in it.
He predictably found none, most of the comments went like ‘ serves the bastard right’ or ‘he should know his place’ or even ‘ this is a prime example of why all the quirkless people should be killed’.
Izuku gave up after this comment and went on to find out that the video had basically over 500 videos of him being bullied, he did not watch all of them, just their titles and dates were sufficient to know what it will show.
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‘I wish someone in your life taught you to be a decent human cause that school never did I wish people like you and that man face consequences for this but you never will’
14 th July
He angrily commented on the video he had watched first.
He cried himself to sleep and hoped tomorrow would be better, for he did not know what chaos he had just wished upon the world .
Nedzu considered sleeping a very worthless necessity that the humans had to bend their will to , being a half rodent half bear with an intelligence quirk made it so that his brain never required rest and he made sure his body was never tired enough to make him go to sleep.
Often times though, he found that sleep was a very convenient time skip button which is useful when you have nothing better to do for the day, Nedzu however not willing to waste precious hours had acquired another hobby so as to pass his time productively and also enjoy himself while he encountered nights where he had nothing better to day, spying on his students .
No, not their private lives, just no, he may be a being dead set on hating all human kind except for Aizawa but even he knew the concept of boundaries… somewhat …
He spied on their internet lives, for this he had the wifi of the dormitories set up such that it was as easy as a click of a button to access to the device of any student who was using said wifi, which meant all of them because these students could not live without internet, not when the prestigious U.A. dormitories offered high speed internet for free.
Usually, it would be some of the 3 rd years watching horror movies or some 1 st and 2 nd years watching videos of other humans mating, Nedzu did not understand what was the reason to do so and he never got an answer from Aizawa kun when he asked.
Today however he found an unsuspecting customer, the golden boy of 1A, the future symbol or what he coined as the Keeper of Peace, Midoriya Izuku.
With the knowledge of his training regimen and most of his schedule he came to the conclusion that the boy should not be up at this hour so Nedzu in a fit of curiosity hacked his device and shared the screen to one of his monitors.
Nedzu hummed in excitement as he saw Midoriya watching the highlights of the sports festival and the boy paused the video frequently presumably to take notes , oh what a wonderful mind the boy had , the ability to think on his feet, come up with strategies on the spot keeping in mind the strengths and weaknesses of his teammates and his opponents and no one thought he kept count but Midoriya izuku was as of yet undefeated in any and all team exercises that he participated in. The only person who even ever came close to his intellect was his classmate Momo yayorozu, the girl groomed to be a hero but even she did not reach that level, shame he hid this peculiar talent from everyone under the excuse of getting lucky , Nedzu had already decided to take the boy under his wing in his 3 rd year.
A sudden change in what the boy was watching snapped Nedzu out of his mind and he watched in horror as the video continued, why was Midoriya watching his own school video Nedzu had thought but now the answers all became clear.
He felt his teeth barring, he was furious, the man who called himself their teacher had broken 8 different rules of the student / teacher confidentiality act, right then and there and this was when he did not even go into the ethical laws.
Even if he was telling the truth, it was illegal, the student records were present so that their future teachers can help them and are never disclosed among their peers even if they are very bad, that just does more harm than good and Nedzu knew what the man just told the class a lie, Midoriya Izuku was not the person the man had made him out to be.
Nedzu thought he would get the good detective to investigate and close down the school for its wrongdoing
Then he saw the comment
One of his favourite humans made a wish on his birthday
‘I wish someone in your life taught you to be a decent human cause that school never did I wish people like you and that man face consequences for this but you never will’
And unlike Aizawa’s wish of a world where only cats exist, this was one he could fulfil without wiping out all human life , with a mission to make the wrongdoers regret their whole lives he got to work.
Nedzu scrolled through and screen recorded each and every part of blatant quirk discrimination the man and all the other teachers and students displayed towards the victim, he wasn’t shocked that someone would post evidence of such things on the internet why wouldn’t they, they had nothing to fear, if this was his record who would ever believe their victim? The wrong doers had never thought of one very important detail, the victim wanted to be a hero
and now
The victim was a Provisional hero
The victim was the ever smiling, filled with determination, famous, Midoriya Izuku
Aldera junior high had thought that the boy drew the short end of the straw and was destined to suffer so they piled on his misery, in the position they were going to be in now, turns out they had drawn a shorter one.
He called in some favours and he had a warrant for all the teachers , an order to close down the school and 43 summons for questioning by 5 in the morning.
He called Aizawa and Kayama to lead the raids on the middle school and the elementary school respectively after debriefing them about the situation and now called in his old student Shimamura Yu for the final nail in the coffin .
Everything in order he set out to freshen up and enjoy the show.
Midoriya Izuku woke up from a frantic knock on his door, He cracked one eye open, it was 8 am, he did text Allmight about staying up late and had apologized for not making it to their morning routine so it couldn’t be him then who ?
Classes were not supposed to happen till 10 so why was someone so eager to wake him up?
“Izu, you need to open the door” It was Sho,
“It’s already open” he yelled out
Not a second later Shouto was in his room
“Wake up Izu, have you watched the news?” Sho sounded frantic
He sat up rubbing the sleep out of his eyes
“Almost a month of dating you and I never realized you act just like a cat when you wake up, it’s so cute”
Izuku looked flustered by the compliment and blushed bright pink.
Trying to stop the string of complements he changed the topic and asked what happened.
“It would be better if I show you” shouto said, giving him a peck on his forehead and taking his hand leading him down to the common area.
The class saw them coming together holding hands and gasped a little, some had surprised looks on their faces.
He had spent a few nights with resident pretty boy, it wasn’t a secret, Mina knew and that meant at this point the whole class was in the know. Hagakure had been so sad that the pretty boy swung the other way.
What was the fuss about?
He was snapped out of it when he diverted his attention to the news, a reporter stood in front of a gate,
“This is Shimamura Yu reporting live from what used to be Aldera junior high, this was a school that has been in the news for being the middle school of the winner of the first-year sports festival Bakugo Katsuki.
Earlier today a group of Heroes and the police raided the school and it's now closed forever. According to sources they received an anonymas tip from someone that held evidence that the school was not only ignoring but promoting quirk discrimination.
We have a video compilation of what was received by the police, it will play shortly on this very channel, this is a warning for graphic violence so don’t watch if you are uncomfortable.”
A video played, a video Izuku knew all too well and for the next hour, the country saw a quirkless kid facing baseless discrimination, getting beaten, being called names and asked to stop being a waste of oxygen by students and teachers alike , his pleas of help ignored and if someone knew what to look for they would find they saw the boy being broken.
The quirkless boy was him .
Then he saw a footage of all his middle school and elementary school teachers getting arrested, he was confused,
“These are the teachers who enabled and oftentimes instigated this treatment of the poor boy, Its an insult to the profession, I reckon if they can be called human anymore” the reporter continued
“The official statement from the police has been received, according to which all the students visible in the videos will be questioned and most certainly face consequences for their actions.
Good work in my opinion
It's high time someone in their life taught them how to be a decent human cause that school never did.
It's time these people face consequences for their actions”
The reported finished
Izuku had tears in his eyes, his wish had come true
After all these years, they would face their sins.
This was the best thing that ever happened to him, well this and …. His attention diverted towards his boyfriend.
Shouto was holding his hand a little tighter, he already knew, Izuku had told him everything when he had asked him out on a date, Shouto had taken it really well or so he thought till he found Bakugo covered in ice the night after, but they took care of that situation on their own, but Shouto was acting weird, he was looking at his watch and then at the door, he was waiting for someone, who?
His questions were answered a moment later,
The gates of dorm opened and the students diverted their attention to the creature who had come in, it was their very own principal Nedzu
Nedzu had a smile on his face
He began addressing Izuku without any formal greetings “That man Yamamoto Gesugao is wrong Midoriya, dead wrong, because if you possessed even a fraction of malice he claimed you had, the world would fall apart.”
“You are and will be one of the most pure-hearted humans I have ever met, you wear your heart on your sleeve, you love with all your heart, that means that you get hurt pretty easily too but don’t stop being like that, this world needs more people like you not less and on that note…”
“Happy Birthday Midoriya, did you like your present?” Nedzu exclaimed and on cue he saw his mom, all might and Endevour and Rei walk in with a cake and a happy birthday balloon
It had been so long ago that he had forgotten that you were supposed to celebrate birthdays
Well now seemed as good a time as any to start it again why? it was the first wish that was fulfilled since he was 4