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When Izuku was four he was Diagnosed as quirkless. His mother took him to a quirk specialist to make sure and sure enough he had the double pinky toe joint that was only ever found in quirkless people. When Izuku went to kindergarten the next day and told his classmates he wasn't expecting their reactions, especially that of his best friend Katsuki Bakugou. Bakugou had mocked him. he had known kacchans quirk was awesome so he wasn't expecting him to get mad at Izuku after complimenting him. Even though Bakugou often got mad at him he still let Izuku play with him and his other friends and was still mostly nice to Izuku. It all happened after Bakugou had mocked Izuku for being scared to go into a forest with a warning sign outside of it so Izuku went in with him and after a while, he forgot about his fear and was having fun with his friends. They were all singing as they approached a mossy log bridge they sang "Forward march and here we go, members, of the agency Bakugou, sound o-" Suddenly the song cuts off as Katsuki falls off and into the water below. Izuku was worried that he might have hit his head on a rock so he ran down to try and help kacchan. "Are you alright? he asked concerned for his friend. but Bakugou just slapped his hand away as he scoffed and glared.
"Stupid nerd of course I don't need your help. Why would I ever need help from a quirkless loser like you?" He snarled as though it were obvious that he wouldn't be hurt. For the rest of the day instead of just getting angry sometimes which Izuku suspected was an effect of his quirk, Bakugou had been genuinely mean to him. Deku didn't like it at all. he tried everything to get him to stop like giving him lots of compliments, agreeing with him, asking him nicely, and telling a teacher. That one just got both the teacher and Kachan mad, the teacher because he was quirkless and the other kids would play rough so he needed to not provoke them, and Kacchn because Izuku had rattled and tried to get him in trouble. Izuku went home that night, and upset and when his mother asked him what was wrong he flat out refused to tell her in case Kaccan found out and got mad again, he didn't want to be hurt again tomorrow. He cried himself to sleep that night and he woke up the next morning and got ready for preschool like usual. When got there everything happened the same as it did yesterday, down to the T. By the time it started the same the next day he figured out what was happening and started trying to fix it. It took him until his 8th total run through that instead of climbing down to help Kacchan he just called out
"You good?" to which receives a thumbs up and smile in return. The rest of the day goes great. No one hits him or calls him names plus no one tries to make fun of him for being quirkless or otherwise. He never did tell his classmates or mum about his quirk. When he gets home his only injury is an already bandaged cut on his knee from falling and scraping it during recess. when he got home his mom asked him how his day went and he cheerfully replied that it was great and told her all about the things he and Kacchan did and he went to bed that night happy. the next morning when he woke up it wasn't the same day anymore it was finally tomorrow and Izuku was so excited. That day while at the playground Kacchan accidentally misread "Izuku" as "Deku" and asked him why his bucket said worthless on it, when Izuku got stumped they went to ask his mom and Inko explained that it was just another way of reading the kanji for Izuku. After a few more times being stuck in loops for days, he realized that the loop starts when something bad happens and ends when he fixes it. Some are simple like saying sorry, wording a sentence differently to make his classmates and teachers happier, or even just asking for a cookie. He didn't understand some of them others he did but no matter what on the days when Kacchan began to be mean to him the loop always started without fail. It was as if whatever was looping him wanted him to be friends with Kacchan. Izuku thought it was a quirk but he was diagnosed quirkless so it couldn't be..... right? He wanted to tell his mom or Kacchan but something inside him was telling him not to unless it was life or death.
At one point during middle school, the bullying and suicide baiting got so severe that even with Kacchan's and his mom's support Izuku jumped. That was the day he learned dying made the loop start immediately. After all, it can't wait for him to sleep if he's dead. At the beginning of his first year in middle school, he began to clean up the landfill named "Dagoba Municipal Beach Park" Though Izuku doubted the latter two could be true anymore. He needed something to distract himself from the constant bullying. On days when he wasn't cleaning up the beach, he was instead sparring with Kacchan. He did both of these things to increase his chances of getting into U.A. After all no matter how smart he was, his teachers didn't like him so they marked him down, as if blaming him for other students' misgivings wasn't enough. The chances were pretty low thanks to them but if there was anything he could do to try and balance it out, he would, after all he would get no results if he didn't try. His time at Aldera Middle flew by, and though most were too afraid of Kacchan to bully him, a few still tried. In the middle of his third year in middle school, Kacchan left to use the bathroom and a few of the school bullies walked up to him.
"You're such a quirkless loser why can't you just die and go to hell already?" one of them mocked with a nasty sneer
"Because hell is empty. All the devils are here, and besides, if you want me to go away why send me to your home? You spawn of satan." He muttered the last words under his breath but evidently, they heard them when one of them threw a punch that he ducked under, and then he threw one of his own. If he was going to get in trouble it would be well worth his time, and besides he had fight training and they did not judging by their horrible form and even worse punch. He kneed one in the gut, making him double over in pain, and kicked the other in the nuts before knocking him out with a punch to the head jumping out the window, and walking down the street like nothing happened, he never even noticed Kacchan standing in the doorway mouth agape having witnessed the whole thing, exchange of words included. Shortly after Izuku left he doubled over in laughter. He texted Kacchan that he would be clearing the beach today and therefore couldn't spar. After he finished cackling Bakugou responded with a simple 'ok'
The next day at school the boys did not mess with him. After just 2 more weeks, he had finally finished cleaning the beach and now spent most of his days sparring with Kacchan, eventually, he figured out how to prevent restart days so they happened few and farther between, and when they did happened he just studied ahead to pass the time One day he was walking home with Kacchan when he heard a strange rattling noise coming from behind him but as soon as he turned back to see what had made it all he was washed in a huge wave of sludge. It was talking to him but he couldn't hear a word it said he was too drowned to think straight let alone listen then it restarted. He hadn't died yet he could still feel the oxygen in his lungs but whatever made him restart decided to do it before he died this time. That.... had never happened before... odd but whatever he was just glad he didn't have to be drowned alive. This time when he and Kacchan were walking home he somehow convinced the blonde boy to take a different route home. He never met Allmight and he never asked any question, he never heard a tale of how the strongest man alive was gravely injured and he never received a quirk.