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Izuku Midoriya was walking home slowly… he had just been to his Sensei’s Dojo and he had brought his things as well as discussed his future, Sensei Ito suggested strength training to continue his training as well as it would allow him to increase his strength overall- it would be gruelling work but it would be rewarding. Now, Izuku would just need to find a place and he knew just the place to do so.
Izuku thought about how he met All-Might, when he was younger Izuku would have been ecstatic to meet him, but he had grown past that and now he didn’t want to be a hero, don’t get him wrong he admired heroes and was thankful that they existed and maintained the peace, he had nothing against them.. but he had let go of his childish dream and moved on, pursuing Martial Arts as a sport and exercise to maintain in shape rather than the last-ditch effort he first entered it as. He had given up on it and he had Sensei Ito to thank for putting him back together and helping him find purpose in life… even if he still told him he could be a hero.
Izuku’s thought abruptly stopped as his Instincts forced him to move away from a blast of explosive energy coming towards him, Izuku quickly moved away to see a boy escape it- the slime villain was back and had a new hostage.
Izuku looked at the hostage- all he could see through the flames that had appeared from the explosions, was beautiful onyx eyes desperately seeking help… until that emotion died out as a morbid acceptance replaced it…
Suddenly Izuku was running.
Izuku didn’t know why he was running or what he was going to do when he got there but he ran with his speed at it’s max running to the flames. All Izuku knew was he needed to help her, no matter what. Suddenly he felt a weight in his hands saw the blade again, and he felt a wave of energy pass through him as he ran through the flames. He suddenly knew what to do.
As Izuku ran he saw the girl looking straight at him, eyes slowly being covered by her eyelids, but enough was present for Izuku to see her emotions go from surprise to need… and then hope, cementing Izuku’s need to get there. As he saw her eyelids struggle to stay open, he saw her hand reach out to him, just as he neared her.
Izuku didn’t have a plan until he heard a voice in his head say-
“ Slash the blade .”
Izuku didn’t have time to question it so he slashed the blade and let loose a slash of energy which barrelled towards the villain heading directly towards its weak spot… it’s eyes. Izuku ran towards the villain never stopping as he relegated another piece of information to question at a later time.
Izuku rushed the villain and brought it down on the villain twice, separating it from the girl… and scattering the villain into pieces. The girl was unconscious and as soon as the villlian was removed from her, she lost anything maintaining upright and so her knees buckled as she fell forward towards the ground…
…where Izuku caught her before she fell, face to his ear as he check for breath, hearing none he turned her to the ground as the Pros yelled at him.
Ignoring them he started CPR as he screamed to them, “Call the ambulance you fucking useless bastards” as he silently counted to 10 while he pushed down on her chest each time, where he opened her mouth and breathed into her mouth. Izuku pulled back when he felt her convulsing, she coughed out of the sludge villain part. She grasped her reality before croaking out, “Stay with me.” Before passing out. At that moment the ambulance arrived, and the world became a blur around him as it focused on the girl, watching her, pushing past anyone who tried to stop him. Izuku could feel a bond form between them, he didn’t know what, but he knew he had to protect her and let her grow and save her from the demon that clutched her to his chest.
Izuku never noticed that Death Arms tried to grab him at that moment, he only realized when his hands were in front of him. Instinct drove Izuku- his own and something else, a primal force that emanated within him causing him to lash out in protection of her, from anyone… and Izuku knew at that moment that his life would forever as he suddenly understood that the girl will always be on his mind… to protect from anyone, even himself.
And Izuku accepted it and he felt peace as his life puzzle completed to show the girl, his purpose.
And as Izuku accepted that he pushed Death arms with a quick twirl and palm to the chest. As Death Arms fell to the ground, Izuku roared gutturally with a visceral, viscous warning as an undertone.
“What do you want?”
“I’m arresting you for public quirk use.” Death Arms said with a villainous snarl.
“I’m Quirkless. Check your records, Izuku Midoriya, As by operative article 3 of the Universal Quirk Registration Act passed 190 years ago by the United Nations, I have a week to register and any quirk usage will be discounted due to having no control over the quirk manifestation.”
“Hah, yeah righ- “Death Arms scoffed at Izuku.
“What would you have me do?” Izuku interrupted as he saw Kamui Woods check his Information with the officers, and his eyes widened at the records.
“What do you mean-“
“Would you have me let her die? As you were doing nothing and were going to get the young lady killed, you are a joke of a hero, a fake… THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED A GIRL BECAUSE HE IS A MOTHER_FUCKING IDIOT WHO THINKS JUST BECAUSE HE DOESN’T HAVE THE RIGHT QUIRK HE CAN JUST STAND THERE INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR WEAKNESSES OR ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING. ALL OF YOU COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING INSTEAD OF STANDING AROUND LIKE FUCKING IDIOTS, MT. LADY COULD’VE SHRUNK AND GOT HERE OR JUST GRABBED HER. KAMUI WOODS COULD HAVE JUST MOVED AROUND THE WOOD OR GOTTEN BACKDRAFT TO CLEAR HIM A PATH. BACKDRAFT COULD’VE EASILY DEALT WITH ALL THE FIRE GETTING RID OF ONE OBSTACLE AND YOU FUCKING BASTARD COULD’VE GOTTEN PEOPLE AWAY AND SAVED PEOPLE. YOU ALL ARE USELESS AND DON’T DESERVE TO CALL YOURSELVES HEROS.”
Izuku was pissed, these fucking idiots were the reason she might’ve died!
“Now see here-“Death Arms started as the rest just watched in shocked silence due to his tirade, even the media which came and filmed the entire thing.
Izuku interrupted him again, “Oh I get it, you already have the arms so now you just wanted to earn your name right, Death Arms. You make me sick, now someone tell me where the Ambulance took the girl, she asked me to stay with her, so I’ll be damned if I’m not there when she wakes up.”
The officers quickly tell Izuku that she is at the general hospital nearby, and he nods but before he leaves, he looks towards them and nods before saying,
“I just want to thank you all for your work, you do a job that is not popular, and most people think only heroes are responsible for Law Enforcement, so I salute you for your work in protecting the people.” Izuku states towards the shocked group before giving a perfect military salute and proceeding to break into a sprint towards Mustafa General Hospital, running through back alleys and taking shortcuts only a native would know.
Izuku reaches the hospital at the moment the ambulance arrives as well. HE rushes over and gets to the ambulance as the EMTs pull her out, they proceed to get her into the hospital before turning around to see me.
One of the EMTs recognises me and says, “You are the guy that saved that girl right?”
“Yeah is there anyway to be able to see how she is?”
“You’re probably the most eligible so we’ll tell them that you are here for her.”
And with that began Izuku’s hour-long wait as he sat and waited, at one moment he received a call from his mother and had to explain the situation and hoe he was safe and that he was in the hospital, she said she would meet him there and as he put his phone down he heard his name called and looked up to find out he could see the girl cause she was conscious and asking for him.
Izuku just nodded before following the Nurse, furiously wondering what to do or say and how to ask her how he wished to help her as he could just tell that she needed help, from something.
As Izuku walked through the long, plain white halls, following the blue scrubs-clad nurse, the only spot of colour he could see in his line of sight. Izuku walked at a casual pace to keep pace with the nurse who didn’t seem worried at all, which was a good thing.
The pair reached a door and they entered it to find an empty room except for a bed and the girl, laying on the bed, looking at the door and now, the pair.
The nurse excused herself and walked out of the room to afford the teenagers some privacy.
Izuku steeled himself and asked quietly, “Are you okay?”
The girl smiled for some unknown reason, “I’m fine, I only have 2 broken ribs, thanks to you.”
“I’m sor- “
“It’s okay, I know you meant well and you only wished to help, not many people these days learn CPR, so when I woke up with broken ribs and I almost suffocated, I knew what happened and I just wish to thank you.”
“Thank you for not getting angry at me. Do you have anyone that I should call for you, the hospital would’ve asked you later but, I feel it would be good to have someone close to you with you.”
“OH… Okay-“
Suddenly, a door opens and the nurse barges into the room,
“Are you Midoriya Izuku,” she received a confused nod as a response, before quickly continuing,” It’s your mother, she has just been admitted, and she was in a car crash, she’s fading and asked for you.”
Izuku immediately bolted to the door, following the nurse without hesitation, to his mother, his last family as he left behind an understanding girl.
Izuku rushed as fast as he could while keeping pace with the nurse, soon they reached his mother’s room, barging in he skid to a kneeling stop next to his mother, covered head to toe in burn marks as well as small cuts, which were partially cauterised but still oozed blood and a piece of glass in her lungs.
“MOM… Mom, ple- please don’t leave me.”
In the faintest whisper ever uttered on the planet, Inko Midoriya spoke to her son as a single tear rolled downwards from her scarred and burnt right eye, “Izuku, I wan- want to tell you this, I want you to know I believe that you can be a hero, I know you can be the best one, a hero to the world as the world knows heroes to-today, and a real one, a hero to those around you, to those you love , I believe and love you, I want you to know this, I love you to the ends of the earth…”
Inko Midoriya, a loving and caring parent to one, due to her husband leaving her, a parent ridiculed for her ‘failed’ progeny who she loved to the ends of the earth, breathed her last in that hospital, on that hospital bed, parting with her last bit of encouragement to her son, and affirming her love for him, telling him what she knew the second he left from that dojo, he was hero and he would show it to the world, she knew it.
That was the last thought filled with electrical impulses in her brain, leaving this mortal plane forever, but she knew her son would be alright, he was her fighter, her warrior, her protector, her hero, her pride , her joy, and her little dragon.
Little did Inko Midoriya know, she was right, just not about the little bit.