Kurogami Yasuo

My name is Kurogami Yasuo. I live in a world where roughly 80% of the world's population are born with superpowers, also known as quirks.

Because of such a phenomenon, there are many who have used their quirks for the purposes of evil. They are known as villains.

At the same time, there are also people who stands up to these people and uses their quirks to stop these villains. They are known as heroes.

Although heroism was seen as criminal vigilantism in the past, nowadays, being a pro-hero is a legitimate and respectable career. It is no longer an uncommon sight to see heroes chasing down villains and engaging them in epic battles.

When I was five, I awakened my quirk...

"Let's compete to see who can climb the free the fastest!" Takeo challenged.

It was completely unfair because Takeo had just recently awakened his quirk that let him climb on surfaces like a spider. And now he was looking for any chance to show off his quirk.

"Don't wanna."

"You will just cheat."

The rest of the boys rejected, already having experienced losing to Takeo in such challenges many times. They were five years old, but they weren't stupid enough to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

"Okay." However, I was the stubborn sort of person who would do exactly that.

"Ho ho, looks like Yasuo is the only one brave enough to accept my challenge!" Takeo grinned.

"Oi, you'll lose, Yasuo."

"Yeah, Takeo cheats, don't 'cha know?"

The rest of the boys tried to dissuade me, but I just smiled in response. "He can't always win! This time, I'm going Plus Ultra!"

Takeo smirked, "You think you're All Might? Hahah, watch this!"

The five year old boy ran at the tree, but before he crashed into the tree, Takeo jumped on the trunk letting his palms stick on to the surface. A moment after regaining his balance, Takeo climbed up the tree using his palms and knees, looking like a cockroach.

It only took ten seconds for the boy to reach the top, "Hahah! No one can beat me!"

"Shut up you damn spider!"

"Yeah you cockroach!"

The rest of the boys jeered before one of them pat me on the shoulder, "Yasuo, you have to beat him!"

I smiled confidently, "Leave it to me guys! Takeo, today is the end of your rain!"

"Huh? Is it raining?"

"Rain means... I don't know I heard it on the TV." I answered, "It doesn't matter! Here I go!"

I ran at the tree and tried running up the first few steps. As expected, gravity took hold of me and the initial momentum of my run started fading. However, before I fell, I lunged forward to catch the grip on the trunk. I started climbing up as quickly as I could, but it was quickly apparent to me that I couldn't climb as fast as Takeo did.

"Damnit! Plus Ultra!" I yelled out as I leaped off the trunk and reached towards a nearby branch - roughly 4 feet away. Of course, there was no way I could have reached that branch so I started falling to the ground instead.

"Oh no, Yasuo!" I heard my friends cry out as I was about to hit the ground.

'AHHHH HELP! I'M FALLING! OH NO IT'S GOING TO HURT SO MUCH! MOM IS GOING TO BE SO PISSED! …Why am I falling for so long?'

As I wondered why it took so long for me to actually hit the floor, I opened up my eyes that had been tightly shut for fear of the pain, I realized that I was still in the air... floating.

"Woah! Yasuo! You're floating!"

"Yasuo got his quirk!"

My friends exclaimed, even Takeo who was at the top of the tree looked shocked silent.

"I got a quirk? I got a quirk! Yes! I can float just like dad!" I cheered, before my quirk stopped working and I fell to the ground, albeit with a lot less force as I had previously stopped falling just a few feet from the ground.

After the discovery of my newly awakened quirk, I quickly ran home to tell my parents.

"Mom, dad! I got my quirk!" I yelled out as I ran into the house.

My mom looked pleasantly surprised as she came out of the kitchen, "Yasu-chan, you did!? That's amazing!"

I nodded vigorously, "Yep! Look, look!"

I jumped up, and strangely enough I instinctively knew how to repeat what I had just done at the playground. As I reached the apex of my jump, I froze in mid air, shrugging off gravity's pull on my small body as I levitated in the air.

"See! I can float like dad!"

My mom beamed in happiness before she started tearing up, "That's amazing, Yasu-chan! I'm so proud of you!"

I frowned at the sight of my mom's tears, "Mom, what's wrong, why are you crying? Are you sad?"

"No, no, mom isn't sad. This is tears of joy. I'm crying because I'm so happy." My mom quickly wiped away her tears, not wanting to show her son such a look.

Seeing my mom tearing up made my heart twist. I didn't want mom to cry, even if she said she it was happy crying. When I cry, mom hugs me and makes me feel all better. I have to hug mom so her tears won't come out anymore.

The next thing I knew, while I was still floating in mid air, I started moving towards mom before hugging her with my open arms.

"There, there, it's okay. I'm here." I said, remembering what mom usually told me when she hugged me when I was crying.

"Y-Yasuo, you flew!" My mom exclaimed in surprise.

"Huh?" I asked in confusion, wondering what she was surprised about.

"It's not just floating, you can fly!"

"Wow, I can fly!?"

My mom called my dad who was still at work to tell him the good news, and my dad took a half day off from work to celebrate with me.

When I showed him my quirk, he was even happier than mom.

"Amazing! Your quirk is better than mine!" He had happily cried out when he saw me floating around the house.

I learned that my father's quirk allowed him to hover a few feet in the air, but that was it. He couldn't move when floating like I could.

"Yasu-chan inherited my quirk! And it's better than mine! I'm so proud!" My dad cried out, and just like mom tears of joy started coming out of his eyes.

A few days later, my parents discovered that flight was not my only ability. In fact, flight was not my quirk at all, unlike what they had initially thought.

It all happened when I grabbed a fist full of candy from the jar my mom had hidden high up on the shelves from me. But with my new quirk, I could float up the shelf and take as much candy as I wanted.

"Yasu-chan! What did I say about flying at home?" My mom's voice sounded out from behind me, and in my shock at getting caught, I dropped the handful of candy from my hands that fell and clattered on to the floor noisily.

"You-! Come down here right now, Yasu-chan!" Mom lectured.

I despondently floated down, not daring to look at mom in the face. My mom was fearsome. Of course she would be, she used to be a pro-hero after all. Her quirk gave her the ability to inhale and exhale large volumes of air - allowing her to shoot out pressurized air cannons or even momentarily fly. However, she retired a year or two after I was born. Mostly because she had suffered a debilitating injury on her lungs that severely reduced her quirk's strength, but also partly to focus on raising her child - me.

So she was not unfamiliar with being strict when she had to be even though she is usually a very loving and doting mother.

"You have been really cheeky recently after getting your quirk huh? Do you want me to take away your game box?" She questioned.

Game box was what she used to refer to the game console I had received on my fifth birthday. It was what she usually used to threaten me with when I did something bad.

"S-sorry mom. Please don't!" My face scrunched up like I was going to cry, and my eyes filled up with tears.

"D-don't use that face on me. It only works on your father!" She forced herself to look away, muttering about how I used my 'cuteness' as a weapon.

I continued, however, letting a single tear fall from the corner of an eye while blasting the 'puppy dog' face at her at full power.

She saw my face and sighed helplessly, crouching down to my level and squeezing my cheeks, "You're lucky you're so cute. Fine, just clean up the mess and no candy for a week!"

As long as she wasn't taking away my game console, I was fine with that punishment. After all, I could just float up and take the candy when she wasn't watching.

"Yay! Thanks mom, you're the best! I love you!"

She smiled warmly, "Love you too, Yasu-chan. Now clean up the mess."

I bent down and started picking up the candy. But as I did, I accidentally nudged one of them with my feet, causing it to roll under the fridge.

I got on my stomach and tried reaching underneath the fridge to get the candy, but the gap was too tight even for my tiny arms to reach in.

Exasperated, I thought to myself how great it would be if the fridge could float like I could.

The gap suddenly became wider and I could reach in to grab the candy.

"Y-Yasu-chan, are you doing that?"

I heard my mom call out in shock, and as I looked up, I realized that the fridge was now floating in the air.

When my dad got home from work, mom told him about what I had done in the afternoon. Shocked, he agreed that they should bring me to specialists to assess my quirk as well as registering it with government. They told me it was important because since my quirk was different than what they had initially thought it was, they needed to find out just what it could do exactly before I accidentally hurt myself or others with m quirk.

So they brought me to some doctor person who put me through a series of tests over the course of a few days to see what my quirk was.

We discovered that my quirk wasn't floating or flying or anything like that. Rather, it was actually a pretty common quirk. Psychokinesis - a quirk that allowed the user to move matter with their mind. But where a vast majority of the population with this quirk can only pull and push things weighing just a little over a few grams, the scale of my quirk is on a completely different level. Rather than flying, I had been lifting and moving myself in mid air telekinetically.

During the quirk assessment tests, we found out just how much weight I could lift with my quirk. They put several dumbbells that were progressively heavier than the last in front of me, and then asked me to move them with my quirk.

The first dumbbell was just 5kg, which I easily lifted it up with my mind. Since I had already lifted up the fridge which weighed more than a 100kg, this feat did not surprise anyone.

I continued on with the other weights, each one heavier than the last. 10kg, 20kg, 30kg, 40kg and so on. This went on until I reached a dumbbell that I could only barely lift up an inch before I fell to my knees in pain. The dumbbell was 210kg.

This was when we discovered the drawback of my quirk - overuse of my psychokinetic power would result in a massive and terrible headache. Some rest was required for the headache to fade away and for my energy to be restored.

After figuring out the current maximum limit I could move, they wanted to see how many things I could move at once. It was pretty easy to figure out. I could manipulate as many things as I wanted to, so long as the combined total of the weight of the objects did not surpass 200kg. Meaning I could control four dumbbells of 50kg each or 200 objects weight 1kg each.

Next was the speed at which I could move the objects. Once more, it all depended on the weight of the object I was moving. The lighter the object, the faster I could move it. I could move a 200kg dumbbell at only 1m/s, but a 1kg dumbbell could be launched at 200m/s. That was a speed that was a few times faster than a baseball pitch made by professional baseball players.

Finally, I was tasked to levitate myself and others into the air. The doctor had sharply inhaled upon seeing that my quirk to exert pressure on other people as well, though I didn't understand what was so special about it.

It was only a basic quirk assessment designed to test the limits of my power, but after the testing was complete, my mother and father told me seriously that my quirk had the potential to be very powerful. They told me I would become a great hero in the future.

I wasn't super sure what they had meant, but hearing that I would become a great hero in the future, I just smiled, nodded and loudly agreed.

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Author's note:

My first My Hero Academia fanfic. I'm not super familiar with the world-building of this anime, so please forgive me if I make a mistake or miss something! Same with the characters and how they are supposed to speak/behave, but I'm learning! I'm rewatching the anime to get familiarized with the characters, so just bear with me for a bit.

First few chapters are more slowburn, and has more to do with character development. Canon starts in chapter 6, so hang in there!

10+ chapters scheduled to be published, so add it to your collection/library and hit me up with some powerstones!