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A boy sat on a ledge. This had been going for too long, hadn't it? he was a hopeless dreamer, he knew, but it still hurt when All Might told him. A hero needs a quirk, he had said. He had hoped once, but hope is a useless thing, as useless as a line without a hook when it comes to dreams. So he sat there, waiting, waiting for all his classmates and teachers to finally leave the building. He was tired, he was tired and oh so done with society, but he wasn't heartless. He knew they would find his body anyways but he would rather they don't see him jump, he couldn't bear the idea of his innocent classmates watching him die.
He woke up in a dimly lit room. why... why was he alive? How? his whole body hurt. he couldn't be in a hospital, he'd been hospitalized before and this didn't look like a hospital room, actually, this place was rather grim-looking, where the hell was he? The sound of steps interrupted his frantic thoughts.
the door opened.
"Oh.. you're awake" a croaky voice spoke. the man in the doorway approached him. his eyes widened in fear, was.. was that a hand in his face?? was it his hand? what if it wasn't??.
"Hey, don't be afraid," the man said, the way he spoke, the way his voice sounded. It only made it worse. "I have a little offer for you"
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The school year at UA had started not too long ago, which sucked because his childhood "best friend" had gone missing. the police had found blood near their old middle school, his blood, but his body had completely vanished. Most of his old class believed him dead, suicide they had said, his family and Inko believed he was kidnapped. He didn't know what to believe.
He didn't want to believe either.
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"so... you want me to join your.. gang" Izuku spoke, well, it was more of a question really, and the other man, Shigaraki, had understood as much.
"you could put it that way" He was sitting in a chair next to Izuku's bed. He had explained how they had saved him and why. He, a quirkless middle schooler, was useful to a gang of villains, well, a league of villains.
"do you accept?" he couldn't not do it, if he refused they would kill him, and he had already chosen that he didn't want to die anymore, he now had a reason to be, a purpose. He nodded.
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When most of his wounds healed and he was no longer bedridden he was allowed to explore the place he had been taken into. He had found that the hall in which his room was located led to a small bar of the underground. The bartender, Kurogiri, was a rather nice man with a portal quirk, it was thanks to him that Izuku found out that he had been unconscious for over three months. It was in his fourth month with The League when they started training him.
Not only were quirkless people almost completely out of the way of the law (because most laws were specifically made for quirk users), but they were also thought of as useless, harmless, and worthless by the rest of society. Legally speaking, they couldn't even be considered villains, so having a quirkless teen trained to become an expert hero assassin was definitely something that The League wanted.
His training consisted on getting more agile, stronger and to have a faster reaction time, because you know, he'll be fighting pro heros soon and it was not fair how they fought with their quirks against weaker and stupid quirkless people. Izuku wasnt stupid, and he wasnt weak either, at least not now. He had never thought on learing how to fight because no matter what he did a quirked person would always win agains him, thats what he used to think at least. Technology is not always better than biology, but it is good competition, Izuku had always loved to investigate and learn how pro hero's garnments worked, he had a good technical eye some would say (and he'd had to agree, what else was he supposed to do when he didn't have any friends? spending all his time on his hyperfixations and special interests was the only thing he could do). Kurogiri was a smart man, not only did he know how to prepare several different cocktails, but he also was the one to help Izuku with his training, he thaught him