1 Chapter 1: Using Everything but the Eyes to See

Quirks.

Abilities that manifested over a century ago when the first came about with a baby glowing in China. Society had to adapt and change as many theories were pushed out with it saying it was human evolution or experimentation. Now it is the societal norm along with the occupation Hero. They are ranked by their popularity and quirks as all people are.

With our population dropping down to only 500 million in the world from the recorded 7 billion due to low birth rates, wars, and villain attacks, laws and old traditions were thrown out for survival as polygamy became a norm as well. It went from not only judging people by their race and skin color, now being discriminating for your quirk is a thing. Especially for those five percent who were born quirkless.

How do I know they are discriminated?

Well not only am I qurikless but also blind.

Been blind since I was six when I saw a teenager about to be run over by a truck and pushed him out of the way. Turns out that chemicals in the eyes can make a person go permanently blind who knew. Well from then on I had to live in darkness bumping into walls and shit. My mom cried all day while I was in the hospital.

And my dad you asked? He left us to run off with my childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo's dad in a shotgun gay wedding. Nothing ever goes right for me and I can't cry because the fucking chemicals burned away my tear ducts. You know what is craziest thing? I still want to be a hero. I know, I am insane and Kacchan had told me the same but with a few extra words in there.

However, I know a few things that others don't. I gained a quirk or ability when I was hit with those chemicals. They heightened my senses, agility, brain, and strength to superhuman levels. I found out about them when in the hospital bed as I could hear doctors talking ten floors up and could smell Katsuki's nitroglycerin sweat before he even walked into the building. Of course I had to experiment on the limit and whether I could train it.

Each step I took gave a vibration that would send out towards the entire floor, almost like echolocation and seismic activity at the same time. My brain was able to process all the new information I was receiving and made it so my memory and comprehension were developed more. That was how I was able to learn about what these abilities meant as I could read a high school level book when I was barely eight and understand nearly completely. My strength was enhanced, not to All Might's level of course, but it was far stronger than the average quirk user.

My sense of balance made parkour and gymnastics way easier as my equilibrium reminded me of cats, spiders, and monkeys when they moved. I also begged my mom to take me to martial art schools so that I could learn how to fight. She eventually relented when I gave out strong arguments on why it was a good idea ie. groveling on the floor. At eight years old, I met my sensei, a man named Matt.

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The dojo did not look like those you see from famous heroes such as Gun head as it had all the normal dojo stuff, punching bags, weight sets, a large area for sparring, and nothing much else. The instructor was sitting in a kneeling position with his back to us while the rest of the kids and I stood there with our parents. Before we could take a step in, "Shoes off before you walk on the sparring mat, I just cleaned it an hour ago and you with the gum, spit it out outside." The man never even looked at us, but we still did what he said as we took our shoes off before going onto the mat.

He stood up to reveal that he was about 6'2", was in his sixties, and was built like a gymnast. "Now I am only going to say this once. Once you are learning from me then you cannot use these techniques purely to harm others, bully others, use your quirks unless I tell you to, or discriminate amongst anyone here or outside. Am I clear?" Murmurs were heard throughout the dojo as kids were talking and pointing at me. "Well what about the blind kid?" The instructor looked straight at him with his glasses on. "What about him? He is here to learn just like the rest of you." Other kids voiced out their disagreements, "But he's blind!" "I don't want to fight a blind kid. That is messed up." "He's quirkless. He will only get himself hurt." and many more were voiced out by not only the children but also some of the parents.

"Well if that is how you all feel then you can all leave. I don't need students who will already discriminate before they even start their lives." He waved them off as many disgruntled families left until only Izuku was left there.

"I don't care what they said. I'm used to it. You could have way more money if you had just accepted them." Izuku had felt bad as he thought it was his fault that the man was losing business. "Nonsense kid. I knew they weren't serious about learning so I was just going to kick them out anyways. Saved me time on training them for a little bit before they all quit. What's your name kid?" Izuku looked stunned before shaking his head and smiling up at the man by following his voice. "My name is Izuku Midoriya sensei. Please take care of me" He bowed before the man who only smiled a bit. "Heh at least you have some manners. Call me Matt. All that sensei nonsense irritates me. Come and follow me Ms. Midoriya so we could talk about price." Inko followed him in the small office of to the side of the building in a corner.

"So your kid blind huh? Small world." Matt took off his sunglasses to reveal his light blue eyes that held no pupil or response, just dead. Inko was shocked at the small reveal, "You're blind sir! I never even noticed. Is it possible to train my baby to be like that?" Matt chuckled before putting his glasses back on. "Yeah don't worry he will be one of the greatest heroes for generations to come. Besides, his quirks will come in handy." This froze Inko as she couldn't believe her ears before getting emotional.

"A..Ar..Are you telling the truth? My little Izuku has a quirk? H..he isn't quirkless?" Inko, despite everything that has happened, has tried to be cheerful and support her son in being a hero despite all of setbacks. She even stopped stress eating just so she could focus on her work to support her son. Hearing that son may have a quirk made her release an imaginary weight that was on her shoulders.

"Yes, these eyes maybe useless but my quirk is not. Mine allows me to detect a person and their potential for anything physical. One look at your kid and I knew exactly how I could train him. He has a quirk or a set of quirks that would make him an amazing hero. Isn't that right kid?" Inko turned around to see that her son was there with eyebrows raised. "I..I.I have more than one?" He thought the superhuman senses and strength were it. "Yes. I can see it as clear as day. My quirk turns the information into small summaries and pictures. One is something like a circle of the five senses and the other one shows a man with a muscular body. You have some special quirks here kid." Matt was just as surprised as the Midoriya family on what this could mean. "Well anyway, let's start your training today. Ms. Midoriya you can pick him up at six."

And that was how my six years of tort..training began.

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2 years later:

"Come on Izuku! You need to dodge faster than that kid. I might be old but these limbs can still throw a ball." Matt had a wicked smile on his face as he throwing rocks at the poor kid. "GAAH! God damn it Matt! You almost got my temple with that last one." Izuku was doing twists, flips, rolls, and small minute movements all in order to dodge his sensei's erratic pitches. "Who the fuck calls a rock a ball?! You are an insane old man you know!" Matt just kept laughing and throwing harder at him.

"I am only ten you know! Hell, grown ass men can barely do this." Izuku was glaring at the red head while barely dodging one rock that made a small crater in the concrete wall. "Well most men can't dodge bullets or listen to a person's heartbeat ten miles away so you ain't normal kid. Let's stop here and you rest for the obstacle course run." Izuku groaned and laid spread eagle on the ground for a breather. "Huff huff. Fine. I just need to run under 4:45 right?" Matt confirmed it and walked over to a timer. "You ready kid?" Izuku yelled out a yes. "Alright. Set GO!" And Izuku was off with a sprint.

His training with Matt-never told me his last name-was in one word, hell. He made him do the splits and stretch every joint in his body to unbelievable angles. Izuku was to go under sensory deprivation training by blocking everything but his sense of touch so he wouldn't rely on them so much. They also found out what his other quirks were.

When a muscle is under stress and pressure they microtear then rebuild upon it making it stronger and bigger. Cells and genetics play a large role in what type of physique and muscle insertions you have. A person can be a swimmer but while they trained for years to gain those muscles and technique, a kid whose genetics are naturally disposed to swimming will be undoubtedly faster and more skill than him. Izuku's quirk bypasses all that and essentially makes him go through micro-evolutions that enhance the muscles where the density of the fibers are over 4x times heavier, meaning stronger, than a normal man. His bones are also just as dense and his tendons/ligaments are over 5x more elastic, and you know what the crazy thing was. He was still going through the evolution and he will be hitting puberty as well which will increase his physical growth even more.

It doesn't just make the body stronger, but also makes his body adapt. His skin was tougher and stronger, but still retained the smoothness from before just like a shark's. His liver can filter out poisons of all types and make him immune to them while his blood destroys any foreign substance that it deems harmful to the body so making him immune to diseases and cancers. It enhanced his cells to unlock the true human potential within him so he can not just run faster and hit harder, but also take the hits as well. The doctor even said that his eye sight may come back one day just from adapting to the chemicals. That one earned Izuku and Matt a bone crushing hug from Inko.

So here was the two martial arts blind men. Izuku's obstacle course consisted of a mile of running, jumping, climbing, and flipping through buildings and their rooftops in a giant circle at a certain amount of time. He was at the last quarter when something strange happened.

His ears began ringing and a scream was heard not too far from where he was. A gunshot went off and a male's body dropped with the girl screaming again until another gunshot rang out and she stopped with a thud. Izuku could picture the entire thing in detail, the gun was a revolver, two men were in the building with the woman, it was a struggle beforehand, the man sounded older based on his heart rate and breathing. He left and drove off while Izuku could hear their blood dripping out onto the floor.

Izuku clenched his fists in anger and shame as he couldn't do anything but listen to them die. This motivated him to push even harder on his training. He was about to sprint again when he heard something that made his blood freeze. "Mama. Papa. You need to wake up. You can't be sleeping on the ground. Wake up." A three year old's voice made him forget everything as he ran towards the noise while pulling out his phone to call the police. This changed things for the young future hero's timeline.