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The last thing Izuku remembered was a battle, but now he was beginning to wake up in a bed, nothing new really, I mean he usually gets brought to recovery girl because of injuries. Thankfully not One For All related ones anymtr, but still, this was different though, it didn't smell like a hospital, it also wasn't his dorm or his bedroom. He opened his eyes and looked to one side, a wall, alright wrong side. He was in some pain but he didn't think he had been far enough in the battle to pass out from injuries. He turned to the other side, and with a stasrt he recognized the room he was in.
'shit,' he thought, 'is this real?'
He heard footsteps, "oh, he's awake," that voice...
"Really?" No, it couldn't be...
He looked and just as he'd heard it was.. Katsumi in the room with him, not All For One, yet, at least he hopes not.
"Yes." Katsumi replied and in came Yoichi, younger then in present but a bit older then when Tomura died,
'So this is after...' he thought, "hi, uhm, how did I get here?"
"We found you in a clearing near by, you seemed to have passed out, what's your name, kid?" Katsumi asked with a slight smile
He thought before realizing he could use his real name from his present life, "Izuku Midoriya, and you two?" He asked, despite knowing, but he couldn't let them find out, well not the full truth, they still seemed to be getting along still.
"I'm Katsumi and this runt," he said with a teasing tone, "is my little brother, Yoichi. It's nice to meet you, Midoriya."
"You two as well," Izuku said, seeing them still getting along makes his heart ache, he wishes Katsumi hadn't changed like he did in the future.
"So what happened for you to pass out Midoriya?" Young Yoichi asked
"Well. uhm, what if I said... that I was from the future?"
"How is that possible?" hat was Katsumi, his hand on his chin in a thinking pose
"Well you know how, uh are they called Meta Powers in this time?" Izuku asked, despite knowing, Katsumi nodded, "Well their called quirks in my time and uh, about 80% of the population has them.."
"Okay, but how then-"
"I was gettig to that- geez impatient much- anyway, I'm training to be a hero-"
"Wow," that was past Yoichi, "Really?"
"Yup. anyway, there was a villain attack-"
"real life has become like the comics we read!" Past Yoichi again, wow he'd frgotten how entralled with those Yoichi truly had been
"Yea, anyway, one of the villains must have had a quirk hat messed with time."
"Wait," that was Katsumi, "how do you know this is the past, you haven't even asked the year?"
"I- wait. I forgot to do that and you believe me?!"
"You forgot?!"
"Yea..."
'you're dumb'
'You're still there? Wouldn't it be time shattering, your soul is in two places at once.'
'The author is putting this segment in for fun.'
'Wait, why can you break the fourth wall?'
'I'm cool and the authors favorite!'
'Oh-'
'Anyway get back to talking, past me and Katsu are staring at you,'
Yoichi was quite right with his fourth wall breaking, his past self and Katsumi were indeed staring at Izuku "Uhm, anyway, fuck, why is my life so fucking insane?!"
"What do you mean?" That was Katsumi
"Well, first I find out my ultimate enemy is my father just weeks ago and then was sent back in time about 200 years," not to mention, said ultimate enemy being over 200 years old and his past life brother, who was currently in front of him, but younger and seemingly how he remembered.
"Like Star Wars!" Yoichi said, Izuku had almost forgotten about Star Wars and Dark Vader being Luke's father.
"Ultimate enemy?" Katsumi asked
"It's complicated..." He really doesn't want them to know about the vault and the quirk... He was sure that Katsumi here hadn't become All For One yet.
"How so?"
Izuku had to simplify it and not mention any specifics, "It started with two brothers... the older one had plans that the younger one couldn't stand behind."Izuku looked down, 'The younger brother had no power and the older one did, well they didn't think so, heh, turned out he did, but only after the older found a way to give him one... The two quirks merged... The one that was given was a stockpiler while the one the younger already had was a power that allowed him to pass down quirks. The two quirks merged into the one I now have, being the ninth wielder, while the older brother is still alive... Every wielder before my mentor was killed by him."
"I'm feeling a bit hungry, I'll get something to eat." Past Yoichi said, "you two want anything?"
"No thanks." Katsumi answers.
"Yea," Izuku said, "I'll have whatever you're having."
"Okay, see you in a bit," and with that, the younger white haired boy walked out, shutting the door
After a moment as if making sure Yoichi is out of hearing distance, Katsumi speaks, "is it.. am I?"
"Wait, what, how?"
Katsumi sighed, "I know you're trying to keep the future a secret from us, probably to not ruin our relationship early but,I know I've been going downhill mentally, but my brother is.."
"Sickly I know, it's part of the story my mentor told me, and I'm guessing you only have enough money to survive"
"How did you..?"
"I'm a genius,"Izuku laughed, "just kidding, I just guessed, I mean this place might be nice but that alsomeans you need money to pay bills, which is a lot, I'm guessing."
"Yea." Katsumi sighed, "but if you know what I'll become, why don't you try to kill me now?"
"Because..." because I'm your dead brother reborn... because you're not him yet.. "because, you're nice and my only possible way home."
"Wait, I just realized, you probably shouldn't have recognized me, if it's been as long as I think it has, I should at least be grey-haired, if not well..."
"You don't uhg, I really am an idiot."
'Yes you are'
'Fuck off.'
'No.'
"Anyway," Izuku sighed, "if I said I was a reincarnation of someone you knew, what would you say?"
"Wait," Katsumi's eyes widened in realization, "that's why you seemed familiar... but, reincarnation, how?"
"I don't know, maybe my quirk, that I never knew I had, maybe I'm just cursed, considering villains attack me on basically a weekly basis, it could be that."
"Wow so how old are you?"
"If you're asking as Izuku Midoriya, then 16, but adding both lives, I'm 31, ha! I'm finally older, you're literally an ancient bastard in the future, not really you anymore, anyway and Yoi's soul is in my head. he died at 34, I hate being younger, finally I can say, just for a little bit that I'm older then you both."
"Nah, you're still younger, no matter what you say," Katsumi laughed, "you can't add past life and current together."
Izuku pouted, "Kacchan-" he realized to late that he'd used the nickname, being in the past messed with him
He heard the door open and looked to see a slightly sheepish Yoichi.
"Fuck, how much did you hear?" Izuku asked
"Uhm, 'reincarnation'? That's what I heard first but I didn't want to come in.."
"Well, looks like both of you know, I hadn't meant to-"
"Your just dumb."
"Goddamnit, that's not the first time a version of you told me that today... wait so you weren't here for the beginning but you...?"
"Yea, I kinda guessed from what I was hearing that it was us two, but maybe it's an alternate universe?'
Izuku shook his head, "no this is a room I remember well, nothing's different, it's the same universe, sorry you had to find out early..."
'They'll forget or at least I will, I'm only remembering the moments as they happen.'
'Why couldn't you tell me this before?'
'It never came up.'
"Nevermind, you'll forget, I was worrying over nothing,"
"What?" Izuku hadn't even realized he was staring down past Yoichi
"Sorry. well not really, you, your future self made me fucking worry over telling you stuff, when he hadn't remembered anything until it happened. I hate you sometimes." He wasn't being serious, not in the way it'd be serious with All For One.
"Because you're dumb?"
"No, because you like to make my life harder by not telling me important stuff. like, you gave me memories from the past.. well current future, I'm not telling you what because well, even if you're going to forget I don't want to ruin anything while I'm here..." He looked down, "h-how long ago was my..." he trailed off as he knew the quirk he was born with activated making him look like he used to, except at the age Izuku is.
"I- about two years..." It was Katsumi
"I-I'm sorry I didn't listen I should have... have come back and not ran so recklessly into the line of fire..." He felt his shoulders shake with his emotions, sure he'd apologized to present Yoichi, but his past self deserved to hear it and- his thoughts were cut short when arms wrapped around him, both his brothers were huggng him as he cried into Katsumi's chest.
"Shhh, listen, it's not you're fault, hell, I blame myself for not rushing the guy and taking his power... or just fighting him to protect you..." Katsumi said as he rubbed his back.
"Yea, hell even if I couldn't do much, I should have tried harder to keep you back..." That was Yoichi
"But we said we'd... we said we'd b-be together forever, I.. I promised, d-don't you remember?"
"Yea," Yoichi said, "but we were just kids at the time. remember you and I were 7 and Katsu was 12, we couldn't have predicted any of what would happen."
"Exactly," Katsumi said, " we were all just kids innocent as we could have been."