chapter 1

It all starts with how the world is built.

A world with 80% of the living human population with the ability to use quirks. Quirk the ability to use powers unique for each person.

Why did it had to end like this...

20% of the world was known as quirkless, people that didn't possess those unique abilities. From those 20%, 18% were elderly, people born when quirks weren't even the norm. 2% of those people born without those unique powers in today's time.

Why did i not have one?

A boy excitedly goes to the hospital to visit the quirk doctor. A person that will tell you what your quirk is if you didn't know what it was. A boy only four years old, the normal age that quirks awaken, had his world crushed with the crude words of said doctor.

"Give up. Your son will not have a quirk." The doctor said to the mother of the boy.1

But even though...

A mother can be seen crouched on her son's lap crying. "I'm sorry Izuku! I'm so sorry!"

... Why did you give up on my dream?

The boy, now known as Izuku is seen crying trembling. His only wish was to be a hero.

Why couldn't you say the words I wanted to hear?

Izuku is now seen seated on the floor in the kindergarten, pale, motionless, only shock present in his face.

"Did you hear?"

"Yeah he is quirkless!"

"Whoa~! How lame!"

"Useless."

Why? I just wanted to be normal.

Now a boy is seen being thrown into the floor crying. Izuku stands in front of said boy, trembling. "K-Kacchan! I-If you continue this I will h-have to stop you!" Izuku said stuttering all the words.

Kacchan, the boy named Katsuki Bakugo, was born with the perfect quirk, a quirk that enabled him to make explosion, thanks to his mother's quirk nitroglycerin and his father's quirk sweat, a combination of the two made such a great quirk.

Bakugo cracked his knuckles letting small explosion seep through. "Deku! You! A useless quirkless, want to stop me!?" Bakugo smirks.

We were friends...

Deku the nickname that Bakugo came to torture the boy, a name that meant useless, one who can't do anything.

Next Izuku is seen lying in the floor, small tears in his eyes. He had been beaten and left there.

How did it turn into this?

Today... It started good...

How did it turn into this?

Oh... I remember now.

A much older Izuku can now be seen exiting his home. His mother now more roundish and smaller giving him her goodbyes. Izuku a smile in his face as he heard an explosion in the distance, rushing there he saw a giant being cornered by what he can call heroes.

"He snatched a purse and got cornered by heroes."

"Such a waste of a good quirk."

Whispers like this can be heard all around. Izuku ignores them and grabs his notebook. 'No.13 Hero Analysis for The Future', such notebooks like this labeled him as an Otaku, someone that nerds about a certain topic, in Izuku's case it was heroes. Izuku, in turn of not having a quirk, he decided to analyse every quirk around, appreciating them all.

This 'villain attack' was a good opportunity to gather more info about heroes. The 'villain', a giant of a man is seen growling, while 'Kamui Woods' a fairly new hero, easily recognized by the big group of fan-girls screaming his name, is seen preparing to engage in a fight.

Coming out of nowhere, a giant woman in a, white and purple, skin tight suit appears and kicks the villain, knocking him out. After that she turns to the cameras introducing herself out while doing obscene things to get more popularity. Izuku uses this opportunity to get more info about her.

A man looks to his side, seeing Izuku taking notes. "Hey! Bro. You an Otaku?" Hearing this Izuku blushes a bit, embarrassed, nodding in response. "Then are you aiming to be a hero?" Izuku looks down, thinks for a bit until looking at the man in the eyes and answering. "Yes!" The man gets the answer through and gives the kid a big smile. "Is that so! Then good luck!"

After bowing and thanking the kind man, Izuku heads to school, afraid to arrive late.

Once in school, Izuku mutes the whispers about him and reaches for his seat and prepares himself for the class.

The teacher comes in with a mass of papers. "So, as 3rd year students is time to think about the future." Now stopping and showing the papers to the students. "I could pass out some career aptitude tests, but..." Throwing all the papers in the air. "Why bother? I know you all want to go in to the hero path."

The entire class goes berserk, throwing quirks here and there, Izuku timidly rises his hand showing that he also wants to be a hero. "Yeah, Everyone has a nice quirk, but using your powers at school is against the rules!"

A boy that we can identify as a grown up Bakugo starts talking. "Teach! Don't lump me together with this extras. I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects!"3

The class refuses to accept such things and protests. "Huh? That was uncalled for, Katsuki!" "Yeah, Yeah!"

Bakugo's grin gets bigger. "You all should shut up like the extras you are!"

The teacher looks at Bakugo's file. "Oh, if I remember correctly, you want to go to U-A. High, right, Bakugo?" Everyone in class gasps at the statement. "It was in the top .2% this year, you know!" One student mutters. "Their acceptance rate's always really low, too!" Another one joins the chatter in class.

Bakugo starts laughing. "That's exactly why you guys are just extras!" Now jumping into his desk, standing on top of it. "I aced the mock test! I'm the only one at this school who could possibly get into U.A. I'll definitely surpass All Might and become the top hero!" Rising a hand on the hair, pride present in every word he screams. "My name'll be inscribed on the list of top earners!"1

Nonchalantly, mostly ignoring Bakugo's boasting. "Oh yeah, Midoriya wanted to go to U.A., too, right?" Izuku flinches at the end of the teacher's statement. Right after making every single one in class to laugh at him. "Huh? Midoriya? No way!" "You can't get into the hero course just by studying!"

Izuku hearing that reacts getting up. "Th-They got rid of that rule! There's just no precedent..."

A angry Bakugo instantaneously as Izuku finishes slams his hand, setting of an explosion, on his desk breaking it in half. "Hey, Deku! You're below the rejects! You're quirkless! How can you even stand in the same ring as me?"

"No, wait, Kacchan!" Izuku tries to defend himself, talking nonstop while dragging himself backwards until he hits a wall. "It's not like I'm trying to compete with you or anything! Believe me!" Now lowering his voice a bit. "It's just that it's been my goal ever since I was little. And well..." Izuku looks around himself, looking for a way of phrasing that won't trigger the ash blond haired boy. "...I won't know unless I try..."

Bakugo gets even angrier, as everyone is now glaring at Izuku. "Whaddaya mean, unless you try!? Are you taking the test for fun!? What the hell can you do? You're quirkless!" laughs and snickers can be heard throughout the class, Izuku couldn't be more embarrassed then that moment.

Now after a long day of classes, School finally is over, Izuku trying to wait for his bullies to go away, takes this time to see the news and take more notes in his notebook. As Izuku was getting ready to go home saving his notebook in his bag, Bakugo comes in and snatches it away. "We're not done talking yet, Deku."

Bakugo's side-kicks come in and start smirking at Izuku. "Katsuki, what's that?" Showing the notebook to his companions, "Huh? 'Hero Analysis for the Future'?" Now laughing. "Seriously?" Was doing analyses such a bad thing?

Izuku getting up flustered. "I-It's fine, isn't it? Give it back!" Bakugo instantaneously blows it up. Looking closely is not that destroyed, just the borders burned. "That's mean..." And Bakugo throws it out of the window. "What!?"

"Most top first-string heroes have stories about them from their school days. I want the shine of being able to be called the only student to make it into U.A. from this mediocre city junior high school. I mean, I'm a perfectionist" Bakugo says explaining is ways of acting, but his companions only think of him as a petty person. Now burning Izuku's shoulder. "So anyway, don't apply to U.A., nerd." And he starts to leave, leaving a stuttering trembling Izuku behind.

"Come on, you could at least say something back." One of Bakugo's companions taunts. "Don't say that. He's pathetic. He still can't face reality." The other joins in the taunt.

Bakugo stops in his tracks and looks behind, a smirk evident in his face. "If you wanna be a hero that badly, there's a quick way to do it. Believe that you'll be born with a Quirk in your next life and take a last chance dive off the roof!" That triggers Izuku making him look behind, but Bakugo sets off some explosions in his hand to make him back off. "What?". Izuku could only tremble in his spot.

Now looking for his notebook Izuku goes to the back of the school. Idiot! If I really jumped, that would mean you instigated a suicide! Think before you speak! Izuku though, since he didn't have the confidence to call him that out loud. Looking at the pond that was there for club activities, he sees his notebook being bitten by the koi fish there. "That's not fish food, stupid. That's my notebook..." He says grabbing it and looking that its contents are still readable. Cursing at himself he tries to get his sanity in check remembering his favorite videos of heroes.

On his way home he passes under a bridge, a normal route that he takes sometimes home. Regaining his confidence once again he trots towards his home. Laughing like the hero he his a fan off. All Might, the biggest hero, a symbol and pillar of hope, the top 1 hero, the hero he aims to be.

After hearing strange noises behind him, Izuku looks back finding a giant mass of green liquid, slime. Izuku identifies the creature as a villain and starts trembling afraid. "A medium-sized invisibility cloak..." The villain says jumping into Izuku submerging him in his body. "Don't worry. I'm just going to take over your body. Calm down. It'll only hurt for about 45 seconds. You'll feel better soon."

Izuku not being able to breath tries to grab the villains body not having much success in doing so. "You can't grab me. I'm fluid! Thanks for your help. You're my hero." Izuku now losing strength in his body is starting to think that he will actually die, until. "IT'S ALL RIGHT NOW, YOUNG MAN. I AM HERE!" All Might comes to the scene, a shopping bag in one hand and a clenched fist in his other.5

The villain quickly tries to fight off All might, but All Might his just too strong. Dashing in front of him, he readies a punch and clenches his fist further. "TEXAS SMASH!" And the villains body flies all around only leaving his eyes behind.

Izuku wakes up with light taps on his face. All Might calls out to him. "Oh, good!" Izuku is too excited to react in a good way, only being able to scream out. "I'm glad you're okay! Sorry 'bout getting you caught up in my villain fighting. I don't usually make mistakes like this, but I was in high spirits on my day off in a new place." All Might explains trying to laugh it off. Showing off two bottles of coke with the previous villain inside he thanks the boy. Izuku now a stuttering mess from meeting his Idol.

Coming out of his muttering he looks for his notebook and a pen asking for an autograph. Finding it and opening it he founds out that he already signed it, bowing nervously he thanks All Might.

All Might saying his goodbyes leaps off only to notice that Izuku his clinging to his leg. All Might tries to get the boy out of leg but after the boy says that he would die if he lets go he stops at the roof of a very high building.

"Good grief. If you talk to the people downstairs, I'm sure they'll let you down. I seriously am outta time, so I really must go." All Might says approaching the rails of the building. Izuku snaps out of confusion and the fear of being in such a high place while leaping. "Wait! Um..." Izuku calls for the hero. "No! I will not wait!" All Might says clearly in a hurry.

'You should give it up.'

'I'm sorry, Izuku! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!'

'What the hell can you do? You're quirkless!'

The voices of the people go through Izuku's mind losing hope of asking the question he wants to All Might. Trying to convince himself to ask All Might the question. "Even if I don't have a quirk, can I become a hero? Can even someone without a quirk be like you?" Izuku asks, making the hero stop to answer.

Izuku having his eyes closed doesn't see as All Might goes into a cloud of smoke. As Izuku starts opening his eyes not looking at the hero he tells him his dream. "It might've been because I don't have a quirk, but I'm always made fun of... Maybe that's why... I don't know... But I think saving people is super cool. Saving people with a fearless smile. I want to be the greatest hero, like you...!"

All Might now looking skinny and small shocks Izuku as he notices that he isn't the buff All Might he is used to see. After a quick explanation on why he become skinny and Izuku coming into terms with it he answers his question. "Pros are always risking their lives. I cannot simply say, 'You can become a hero even without a power.'" Izuku looks down upon hearing his answer. "If you want to help others, then you could also become a police officer. They're often teased because they get villains delivered to their doorstep, but that is also a fine occupation. It's not bad to dream. But you also have to consider what's realistic, young man."

Hearing an explosion in the distance Izuku comes out of his trance. Starting to head there only to stop remembering All Might's words.

He stops thinks a bit and sighs.

'You should give it up.'

'I'm sorry, Izuku! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!'

'What the hell can you do? You're quirkless!'

'It's not bad to dream.'

'But you also have to consider what's realistic, young man.'

'You can become a hero even without a power.'

'Quirkless!'

'Useless!'

'You are just a Deku.'

Izuku starts walking to the rails of the building only stopping on the other side of them. Looking down Izuku thinks of reasons not to jump. Only to remember the final words to make him take another step.

'Believe that you'll be born with a Quirk in your next life and take a last chance dive off the roof!'

And Izuku took the final step of his ordinary quirkless life.

As he falls he starts to think, remembering everything as his life flashes through his eyes.

It all starts with how the world is built.

Why did it had to end like this...

Why did i not have one?

But even though... Why did you give up on my dream?

Why couldn't you say the words I wanted to hear?

Why? I just wanted to be normal.

We were friends...

How did it turn into this?

Today... It started good...

How did it turn into this?

Oh... I remember now.