chapter 2

I couldn't become a hero.

*SPLASH*

Izuku woke up in the alley that he thrown himself into, looking around he didn't see any blood, he questions himself if that was a dream. After getting up he looked around once more, noticing where he was, he decides to go home and think about what happened.

The green haired boy never once had thought about killing himself before, he needs to live to become a hero after all. You can't become a hero without power. Those words appear again in his mind and he decides to just sleep to the next day.

His everyday became gray. Now without a dream, he couldn't feel pleasure seeing the villain fights, but still goes to take notes, he decided to study quirks and maybe make a job out of it.

"DEKU!" Bakugo called Izuku as the school ends and everyone is heading home. "You still working on that useless shit?" He grins as he starts guiding his hand to take the book out of Izuku's hands.

Izuku hides his book in his backpack and starts heading to outside the classroom. This seems to trigger Bakugo more. Grabbing Izuku's shoulder and turning him around Bakugo says. "HEY! SHIT NERD! You ignoring me now?" Izuku turned around now scowls.

"Kacchan, I decided to stop aiming for hero." This takes Bakugo by surprise. "W-What do you mean? Weren't you going to be the greatest hero of all times?" Bakugo stutters taken in by the surprise.

"'It's not bad to dream. But you also have to consider what's realistic, young man.' That was what All Might told me after I asked the question." Izuku looks down holding back tears.

Bakugo looks even more surprised. "You met All Might!?" Izuku just nods in response. "And what will you do now?" Bakugo's face now showed only concern, completely different from his common angry and scary face.

Izuku's voice was now filled with sadness, "I will still aim for U.A., just not go for the hero course. I heard that the general studies are good for the future too." Izuku lifts his head and looks around. His eyes widening a bit. "Where are your companions?"

Bakugo now just gets frustrated. "They ditched me! I got attacked by a villain and they ditched me!" Bakugo shakes his head to take the thought of it. "Anyway, hold hag wants you and Auntie Inko for dinner today."

Izuku takes his phone out and messages his mom about the news, almost immediately he gets a 'Okay'. Izuku wanted to say more things but words wouldn't come out, he just looked at the Bakugo that was different from all the other times.

Bakugo 'tched' and finished with. "We will continue this later." And just like that Bakugo left, a emotion that Izuku couldn't identify.

Izuku remembered all the things that happened after his conversation with All Might, now with only his world getting grayer he didn't want to stay there anymore. Izuku made up his mind, he would try to leave this world. A quirkless, without a dream, friends or ideals, would just get in the way of all the other people.

Without even noticing he already was on the rooftop of a tall building, even though its a different one from last time. Now without hesitation he jumped out.

*SPLASH*

The green haired boy opening his eyes and looking around had the same result of last time. No blood, just a sound replaying in his head. "splash?" Izuku lets a small whisper come from his mouth. Now looking closer to himself, His uniform got dirty and his black jacket, from the uniform, was ripped on one of the sleeves.

Izuku started to feel something that he never felt before. Did I finally get my quirk? Izuku thought. Looking at his phone he noticed no more than 5 minutes had passed since he jumped. Izuku remembered about the dinner at Bakugo's house and started heading there.

As he left a strange figure was looking at him. Did he just splashed on the floor? His blood was everywhere! But then it was nowhere... It's a shame he looked cuter with all that blood.

At Bakugo's house Izuku arrived, knocking on the door getting answered by Bakugo's mother, Mitsuki, he notices that his mom was already there helping with the dinner.

"Inko! I already said that I would take care of things! You are a guest!" Mitsuki said in a high voice, more than what she actually needed.

"But Mitsuki, I want to help out. Now come help out here." Mitsuki sighing goes to Inko and helps out what she had started to prepare for the dinner.

Izuku just goes to the living room and sits on the sofa, taking out his hero analysis notebook and starts scribbling there. Bakugo arrives home and sees Izuku full nerd-mode in his notebook, the burned one that Bakugo burned.

Bakugo takes Izuku's notebook and starts actually reading it, getting a flustered Izuku trying to get it back. Bakugo reading it widens his eyes at how detailed it is, This has ways to defeat, strong points, weak points, compatible gear and a full page of theories about how their quirks work. Bakugo pauses a bit looking at Izuku. Izuku noticing that a smirk is back on Bakugo's face flinches.

"Hey, nerd. Do a section about me. You have until you get out of my house." Bakugo's voice was different, as if emanating a sense of pride about Izuku's notebook. Izuku takes his notebook back and starts writing in it again. Firstly finishing his 'Mt. Lady' analysis.

After dinner and some time doing the finishing touches at Bakugo's analysis, Bakugo reads it.

Bakugo Katsuki - Explosions

Explosion - Bakugo Katsuki sweats a substance close to nitroglycerin and uses his hands as a trigger to make it explode.

Compatible gears - Something that could store sweat and at a moment that the user desires send it to his hands causing massive explosions. CAUTION WHEN INDOORS! Also small disposable fragile capsules, with the explosive component, would be useful until Bakugo Katsuki has started getting warmer and sweating more.

Possible uses - If reduced the space of the trigger the explosion could shoot out giving projectiles, also could be possible to make it brighter with training and/or create more smoke to create smoke screens. For projectiles it could be useful as a way to penetrate walls because of the force of a concentrated explosion.

Bakugo's eyes couldn't grow wider at only this short amount of information, and that it was only written in such a short amount of time. He continues.

Attitude - High sense of pride. Dangerous in many cases. Highly intelligent and even though he shows himself as an uncontrollable person, he is actually in control of every action. Good fighting potential and body to be more compatible to his quirk. Needs more surrounding control and minimize the amount of damage caused to his surroundings. Easy to taunt and can be unpredictable when angered. Fighting style manly focus on firstly start with a right hook and follow with explosion, only uses his feet when really needed.

Ways to possibly defeat - Counter first right hook and send him to the floor, control his hands to, if explosions are to be triggered, point at his own body to cause damage to himself. Quirks that would be good against him would be mostly projectiles and maybe predicting movements and related. His biggest problem would be to go against full defense quirk users with trained fighting abilities.

"Hey, nerd. Did you really mean everything that is here." Bakugo asks, not even taking his eyes out of the notebook and re-reading every piece of information. Izuku also not even looking at him says. "Yeah. I kinda used you as practice to study fighting styles and behavior patterns." Izuku realizing what he said starts waving his hands in front of himself in a defensive manner. "I-I-I din't m-mean that in a b-bad way."

"I can guess. I will take a copy of this I will give it back to you tomorrow." Bakugo says going to his room. This caught Izuku by surprise. Did he actually like my analysis.

The next day started weird. First his body seemed to be feeling much better, and even muscles started showing themselves in his body. Izuku was not certain on how it happened. In school Bakugo approached him without making a scene and returned him his notebook. All this was taking him by surprise.

The following days, Izuku was still trying to exit his gray world but without success. His relationship with Bakugo become much better, he would even talk to Izuku in a friendly manner during breaks and lunch. Izuku decided to take different approaches to end his gray world. He tried to poison himself with poison to rats, cockroaches and other pests. Izuku was not knowledgeable about poisons so he goes with what he knew. This resulted with him throwing up blood some times but it stopped after one time, only leaving pain throughout his whole body.

He noticed that his body changed completely when he was doing the dishes and he cut himself with a knife. This time not on purpose. Looking at it closer the cut closed quickly but Izuku didn't understand why. Before wounds wouldn't heal like this... Looking around he saw that not piece of blood was around as if the wound never happen to begin with.

All this become clear when one day he was getting his usual bullying, when a boy in his year with a fire hand quirk, burned his face up, after leaving laughing with his friends, Izuku rushed to the bathroom to treat it. When he looked at the mirror, he was shocked, his burn was healing like it was never there. His surprise was a bad thing because of the pain that he was still feeling from all the poison he ingested become more clear as he lost control. Don't get him wrong he may not show it but the pain he felt was always present, with time he learned to ignore it, just that.

Now with a smile he goes to class. "Nerd? Why the grin?" Bakugo asks as sees Izuku going to his seat. "Kacchan! I think I finally have a quirk!" Izuku says as he gets laughs and snickers from everyone around them, Bakugo only looking surprised. "So? What do you think is that great quirk that you, the quirkless deku, has?"

"Not sure... Try exploding me a bit." Izuku says now thinking hard. Bakugo without hesitating does as he was told. Right in the face. "Well? How was i--" Bakugo stops mid sentence as he sees the burn he caused disappear like it was nothing, Izuku didn't even react to the pain of the explosion. "How!?" Bakugo asks frantically looking around.

"Don't know." Izuku shrugs. "When did this start?" Bakugo asks now curious. Izuku shrugs again "No Idea."

"Today we will go to the hospital. I want to know how and why." Bakugo says with a smirk. Izuku continued with a dumb smile on his face, happy that he finally got a quirk.

At the hospital Izuku was tested and examined. About two hours of tests and one more of waiting the results were out. A doctor, seemingly young starts talking with a surprised face. "How are you alive?" This surprises both, Izuku and Bakugo. "Your body has so many different poisons killing you that it shouldn't be possible for you to be alive!" Now something clicks in Izuku's head.

"Now I know why my wounds heal just like that!" He says now shock evident in the other two. "Well..." Izuku looks down. "I don't want to explain that." Izuku's voice was close to a whisper but both heard. Looking up again Izuku continues. "So my quirk is something similar to regeneration that only activates when I die."

Bakugo looks surprised biting his lower lip as he takes in the information. Both then go to their respective houses and pass the night.

I finally got a quirk! But I will not become a hero. I will try a different route... Maybe open a cafe or something. I still have 9 months until the entrance exam for U.A. after all!