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Izuku has been bullied and insulted all his life. Why? Because he lacks something, most people have a quirk.
A quirk is a supernatural - well, he guesses its no longer a supernatural thing since 60-80% of the population has one for hundreds of years- which they inherit from their parents.
Izukus parents both have quirks, but izuku is quirkless. He always gets reminded that he's worthless and that he should just stop trying at all.
he even got told to kill himself once!
Even if he still wants to be a hero, even if that means he will be seen as no more than a speck of dust on the people, he saves shoes.he still wants to save them.
He knows that there is more to being a hero than fame and money its about saving people even when they don't want to be saved.
Well that was until his idol - the reason why he wanted to be a hero - told him that it was impossible that he was delusional. Why would he be anything more than another kid who needed saving from all might.
He couldn’t even save himself.
People don't even view him as human, and neither does he anymore.
He was no longer human as soon as he went into that doctors office.
No longer human? Where had he heard that before?
It doesn't matter anymore. He decided to take a friend's advice today. Sure, by now, his mother will be worried sick, but at least each day it will get easier right?
He should be home. Instead, he's at the building where all might left him after he crushed his dreams
He puts his bag down and starts taking one of his bright red shoes off, the other one shortly following.
A few more steps.
To his freedom.
To a place where he won't be bullied. 6ft under. Ha, that's if he even gets buried. His mom couldn't afford that even if she wanted to.
He takes those few steps.
He closes his eyes as peacefully. The world will be a better place now that he's gone.
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He wakes up. Hold up!
HE WAKES UP!!
he opens his eyes quickly startled. He tries to move only to find out he doesn't have a body. It seems like he just exists nothing more, nothing less
"Wha- is this life after death or something?" He says confused on where he is. Did he fail to kill himself and was this a side effect of a quirk if so does that mean that this would be a sort of a-
"You're awake," an unknown voice says He startles
"wha- Where are you!!? Where's that voice coming from!??
the voice sighs, and it sounds like a womans voice to him.
she then mumbles something incoherent.
"izuku midoriya" izuku startles once again, and if he had a body right now, he's sure he would've jumped in surprise. "i will only explain this once, okay izuku, so listen carefully."
the woman takes a deep breath
" This is not the first time I've met you; im stuck in a loop in your body in which i can not get out off, and you somehow always die in the end no matter what. Weve tried being a vigilante, a normal civilian or a runaway but it never matters in the end because after one year exactly you always die.i want you to promise me that this time you wont be such a goodie two shoes and live your one year out to the fullest izuku instead of trying to find a way to stop the inevitable. You will die in one year, so dont rot away trying to find a way out of this it never works. " she says this slowly but not slowly enough that he could interrupt to get a word in. She seemed to really care for him just like his mom, but why? But more importantly-
"and why should i trust you? I've never met you or at least in this 'loop'. The only thing you know about me is my name, and with enough looking, anyone can find that." Izuku midorya is no idiot he may be quirkless, but that doesn’t mean he lacks brain cells like some people actually believe
" im not asking for you trust i do not expect that to happen straight away and i do not need your trust; in my field of work you don't work on trust but facts that is what it means to be an detective even if im only their agency's doctor i know this fact from seeing my colleagues work and often working beside them or on my own as a detective. Trust is not something that happens easily it happens only when you go through something together. Im not asking for your trust but your cooperation izuku."/p>
the first thought he had after she did this little speech was 'wow, this lady really was weird' followed up by ' not that i mean that in a bad way! Im weird! Everyone is weird in some ways, like how kacchan expresses his love through violence, but he's pretty sure kacchan really just hates him. "Kid? Are you okay?"
he freezes he forgot all this was happening that he died and is now in this weird place and really he just wants to go home and eat his mums cooking.
it really all just hits him right then and there.
he will never be alive again, and hes stuck in this sort of purgatory with this woman - are they a woman? Cause at this point, he wouldn't be surprised if they weren't with that many quirks that change the human body and how it works- who he doesn't even know the name of!!!
the person -who he doesn't know what gender to call them now in case they could randomly start reading his mind and be offended - seems to realise his distress.
"i know this is a lot to take in, so I'll leave you to make your decision alone. If you make a decision or have a question, just think of my name really hard, and I'll know. My names yosano by the way."
Okay, so she is a woman, thankfully, hes glad he wssnt calling her by the wrong pronouns but addressing the elephant in the room.
Think of her name hard? ...What?
"Think of your name hard?thats stupid."
"i know it is im surprised we even found it out in the fourth loop. it seems like something you'd never find out unless you already knew about it."
from then on, he just sat in silence as yosano didn't bring up anything else
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Yosano wakes up.
She checks the date on the all might calendar atop of the bed she has been sleeping on for the past 30 years or so. She didn't really keep track of the amount anymore she was getting too old to care at that point.
She had just died again this time from a villain attack at the mall she was getting groceries at. She crosses the idea of living a discreet life of a civilian and staying out of the spotlight as that plan had failed too.
April 9, 2267
She used to love April. it was one of her favourite months back when she was known as yosano but slowly looped after loop. April now holds the spot for most dreaded months in the year. A countdown to her next death.
Death is not an easy thing.it has never been an easy thing even with 'thou shall not die'. she still feels the phantom pain from the pillar she was standing next to crashing down on her even as she gets up from the bed and goes downstairs to see inko.
It's been a few hours since she had found herself at the bottom of the building izuku jumped from.
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A few hours ago
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For once, she felt like drowning in her sorrows right after she died. Usually, she'd try to wake izuku up straight away to get him cooperative faster so they could start brainstorming, but what's the point after so many failed attempts.
She fiddled about in her pockets looking for inkos card that she lent izuku today to buy her groceries - Wednesdays were always the day she'd get groceries.
Ahah , here it is.
She goes to that one store that's always open at this time at night , he one she always used to go to get groceries for izukus mum as inko loved their milk and eggs.
She walks in feeling a bit out of place she usually doesn't go grocery shopping straight after she had failed to save herself and izuku again because its a bit too dark outside for that. Additionally , he always had aa loton her mind the first week or so with preventing her death again.
She'd usually make an excuse to her mum and go to her room.
Yet today , she felt different.
She felt hopeless.
So she continues throughout the store , etting all she needed " eggs check. Milk check. Apples apples where are they?"
Yosono starts to stomp her feet not only can she not find the apples but that she really needs to get home soon before it gets to dark to see.
She seems to only find any other fruit than apples. Like why does a small store like this have such a big fruit aisle that she can't even navigate it after all these years!?
She goes to her left but she doesn't see any apples just oranges; lots of oranges at that.
She's too busy trying to find the apples that she doesn't realise the man approaching her.
"If your looking for the apples they're at the other side of the fruit section to your right. Now if you could move slightly out of the way so I could get an orange please."
Yosano looks up to see a man who would look like he just came from the streets in which he lived in if he didn't have some expensive yellow goggles and what looks to be a expensive ring on his ring finger.
Married then and that ring looked so expensive. he wouldn't mind if that went missing to fund her wine addiction.
Well of course he would but he can have fun explaining to his wife why the expensive ring is missing. She wonders if his wife might accuse him of cheating because of this.
It's not her problem anyway.
Yosano moves to the side and utilises what she learnt as a runaway vigilante that one life.
She actually specialised in stealing jewellery like rings funnily enough because most people who look like they have alot of money in their wallet most likely don't
People would rather look rich then be rich these days as she found out real quick after stealing a few wallets and purses.
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Flashback
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Yosano had just swiped her first successful wallet from rich looking man.
It took her a only took her a few times - cough cough almost 70 attempts- to snatch one without getting caught straight away.
It had been a few months since she left inko and ran away. She felt bad for inko but it was for the best that she left.
She had saw inko dive infront of her to save her from the attack that was meant for yosano.
When she saw inko die she knew she couldn't just stay and let her face danger again.
It was better if she did this alone without any other casualties.
She wasn't good at pickpocketing and the only reason why she hasn't been caught yet Is because she has good stamina to run from hero's or anyone she's pickpocketed.
She could only stay in a part of a town or city for a few days before she had to move again as everyone knew there was a pickpocketer around before long.
A bad one at that but nonetheless everyone would get cautious.
She was currently opening the wallet on the floor of her temporary shelter.
It was a building that wasn't rebuilt after a villian attack a few months ago; the people there were already getting ready to move to a new location for their company apparently when the villians attacked according to the people who helped her find the place when she first came to the city.
She looks inside the wallet excited to actually carry money for the first time in months. She can actually walk into a shop without having to steal food for a while!!!
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THERES ONLY A THOUSAND YEN!?
no that can't be she must be hallucinating it.
She rubs her eyes and looks again. There's still only a thousand yen which isn't even enough for 3 whole meals if she bought the cheapest stuff available.
She sighs and realises she's going to have to steal alot more wallets.
Over the months she starts to get more experienced and starts to get bored of just swiping wallets of people.
She had learnt that the people who don't look as wealthy usually have much more money in their wallet and purses.
But it wasn't by much. The purses and wallets she had swiped that had more money then most only really had enough for 2 or so days so she'd had to still steal alot more wallets anyway so these was basically no difference.
So she started trying to steal jewellery. First bracelets or if she was feeling extra brave necklaces.
She'd bump into people at first knocking them down and helping them up by their arms. Little did her victims know that she swiped their bracelet right of their wrists.
It was easier to do then go straight for people's money as jewellery was meant to be seen while money was not. Jewellery also usually pawned the same or more as the wallets with the higher amount of money anyway.
Sometimes she even pawned something for a hundred thousand yen!!!!
But all these positives to stealing jewellery did not mean it was easy to do especially since at first she has had many people realise she was taking their bracelets off of them in the middle of her taking it but she played it off as an accident each time.
She learnt from her mistakes and mastered that in a month or so quite fast due to the months and months of experience she had at that point . Each time she mastered something she'd move onto a different type of jewellery.
Necklaces, rings, and then finally earings. All getting harder and harder to steal for her her to steal
Over a few loops she mastered pickpocketing these to the point she could casually swipe a ring off without having to crash into someone and help them up.
It gave them to much time to look at her face and that was how she caught one too many times in the past.
She worked endlessly to rid herself of that weakness consequently ending up with her hating anyone seeing her face even if it was a fear from lifetimes away.
Now it was as easy as swiping it off anyone, at anytime or place no matter how skilled they were in perception.
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End of flashback
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In one light motion she swipes the ring of his finger slipping it in her pocket as fast as she could without catching the mans suspicions and goes to get some apples.
She would not realise how much this one single act would crash any order in the hero industry as the hero who was known for his stealthiness was pickpocketed and he didn't even realise!! There was almost no here who wasn't rushing to find out who this pickpocketer was.
While a minority didn't believe he was pickpocketed everyone who had met Eraserhead would know he would hear a pin drop from meters away due to being on alert almost 24/7 even when he hadn't had a wink sleep in 48 hours so why wouldn't he hear his wedding ring drop.
There where many rumours of this aswell so no hero who had been in the profession for more then a year could deny the possibility of this especially since the rumours were made by very trust worthy and highly respected hero's.
Yosano would remaind oblivious to the butterfly effect she just put in motion by doing something she had done millions of times without batting an eye.
She got through her list after that pretty quickly and goes to the till to checkout.
Just as she payed she heard izukus voice in her head. Saying that same line once again.
"Wha- is this life after death or something?" He said clearly confused.
She sighs as she picks up the multiple bags of shopping turning around to the exit whispering to herself.
"Here we go again I guess. Another year another countdown "