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When Deku was four years old he was diagnosed as quirkless, and when kacchan, his best friend found out, he didn't mind and always defended izuku against the bullies. But a week later Izuku had come up with another idea. " Hey kacchan, what if you pretended to be mean to be me to me instead, then maybe they will be too scared to attack me. And besides this way, I'll know you don't mean it so it won't hurt. "
" But Izuku you're my friend I don't wanna be mean to you. "
" Yeah but, Kacchan then they won't hurt us both and you won't get in trouble and I won't be sad anymore cuz it's my idea so I can't be sad and we can still be friends just they won't know about it. "
"Hmm ok, fine." He agreed petulantly, "But what if we use another language to talk so they won't understand it?"
"That's a great idea Kacchan I heard of a language called mor- mor- morse code! we should learn that first!"
"Yeah! Let's do that one! It sounds awesome!" he said with sparkling eyes
"Okay Kacchan, let's ask auntie if you can come to my house and we can watch morse code videos on the computer!"
"Ok Izu let's go!" And they did. They started with morse code and by 5 five they were both fluent, but they got in trouble for making so many noises so they learned ASL and JSL too, and by 6 they were fluent in that too. But now they were being distracting and not paying attention, plus their classmates gave them both suspicious looks. So they gave up and came up with their own language. they started with a verbal version that sounded like complete nonsense, but to them it made sense. Next, it was turned into morse code and anyone who knew regular morse code would think it was utter gibberish. After that a signed version which took a bit more time and last but not least, a completely silent version of it. They could communicate completely silently without anyone knowing which had been the goal since they were four. Too bad it took until they were nine to be entirely fluent in it. Their last few years of elementary school and most of middle school were pretty easy, especially for Izuku who had gotten bored and developed a thirst for knowledge so he studied everything until he knew enough to graduate high school, and he had thirteen hero analyses journals, fifteen villain analyses journals, eleven invention and mechanics journals, and a hero costume design.
They used their secret language to talk all day in and out of class and they learned to multitask and took good notes. While Deku was technically barely passing he did that on purpose because it was either score low on purpose or fail but they wouldn't hold him back a year anyway because no way they were gonna teach the quirkless kid another year. He took advantage of this by not doing any homework. Izuku often got blamed for things Bakugou and occasionally others did so that he would have less of a chance of getting into a good school while they would have better chances. One day in their last year close to the end of the year the teacher just HapPenED to mention that Deku wanted to go to U.A which of course he got teased for and yelled at for by kacchan, though he knew the other boy didn't mean it, which, of course, the teacher ignored. After class that day Bakugou stopped him and said, " We're not done here yet Deku. You really think you can be a hero?" he asked while he exploded Izuku's notebook and threw it out the window. It was fine he had already copied the information into another notebook because he asked his friend to do this. "Why would U.A. want a useless Deku like you when they could have me huh?" Bakugou continued. As he and his cronies walked away he suddenly stopped and turned his head slightly back to look partially at Deku. "Y'know if you really want to be a hero that bad, there might be another way. Just pray for a quirk in your next life and take a swan dive off the roof of the building." to keep up the act Midoriya swiftly turned from the window where he'd been staring since his notebook was tossed and glared at Bakugou angrily with tears in his eyes but Bakugou just raised one hand and with a cruel smirk, created a small explosion in it. Immediately all the fake fight he'd put into his face drained and Bakugou and his cronies left.
Deku's usual walk took him under an overpass which didn't usually cause an issue so he didn't think it would this time, so after grabbing his notebook in case anyone was still watching he took his usual route home, however, today a giant blob of green goo suddenly burst from the manhole that was nearly underfoot. The sludge had jumped on him and started trying to force its way down his throat, as it did so it spoke but he was so panicked he couldn't hear a thing. Right as he began to black out he heard a very familiar voice shout "Never fear I am here!" then he fully lost consciousness. When he woke up it was to the number 1 hero quickly repeatedly slapping his face, though not enough to hurt. When he realized what was going on he frantically scrambled for something for Allmight to sign in the end it didn't matter as Allmight revealed he signed Midoriya's notebook while he had been asleep. "Now I must be off young man I need to turn this villain to the police!" Allmight's voice boomed.
"Wait Allmight I need to ask you a question!" But it didn't seem the man heard him as he prepared to jump off. Deku realized this so he ran up and grabbed onto Allmight's pant leg hoping to prevent him from taking off but instead, he just got dragged up with the large man. While they were in the air Allmight suddenly realized his weight seemed a bit off and when he looked down he realized the child from earlier was now holding onto his leg. He decided to land somewhere safe for the kid to get off at and he noticed a nearby roof and decided to land there.