Ch 2 Childhood part 1

———364 days Later———-

Here I am, laying in a crib, barely able to sit up straight. Let alone walking. Life has been exceedingly boring for the past 11 months. As a baby, you can't do much except cry and sleep to pass the time. This room itself has gotten boring. The toys strewn across the floor, a baby mat in the corner, maybe one or two toy car tracks. Yeah, you get the point. I can't even use my quirk until I'm 4-6. The only real entertainment in my life is fiddling with the system, who has gone silent for the past 2 days, and my mother, the one who visits me frequently. She does come home late though, and in a hero costume at that. She seems to be a pro hero, but I haven't seen her use her quirk. In spite of that, I've really enjoyed her company recently. It's like she's my real mother. I've grown really fond of her recently. Currently I think it's around 11:50- 12 ish. From what I've heard, I'm currently the same age as Izuku and Baluchi, which is nice. I'm trying to fall asleep right now, so yeah... god I'm bored.

/The System Wishes Happy Birthday to Host! Would you like to open birthday package?/

"Well that's convenient. Never seen this one. Yes!" I say. I feel like I have plot armor. I hear a ding.

/Host has received: 1 Quirk Strengthening Pill, 1 Minor Quirk Lottery Ticket/

"What!? This is awesome!" I was very surprised . I thought it would probably just give me a minor quirk ticket but a quirk strengthening pill? Hell yeah!

"Use the minor quirk lottery ticket." It's fairly obvious what the quirk strengthening pill does, so I didn't ask. I'm not that stupid.

/Host has been given: Minor Quirk Strengthener: user can make other people's quirk stronger by 1.1 times. Requires contact through touch and be willed by the host./

"That's minor?! What about Todoroki, what's his quirk?"

/Shota Todoroki: Quirk: Ice and Fire: Allows him to use both ice and fire, causing massive area of effect damage. Quirk Level: Major Class./

"Hmm? What are the quirk ranks?"

/Bottom Rank: Quirks that have minimal effect . Ex: the ability to make light items float such as a spoon

Minor Rank: Quirks that have an effect, but the effects aren't large. Ex: The ability to make small things such as a 10 pound dumbbell float.

Middle Rank: Quirks have a medium effect. Ex: The ability to make items such as a large cabinet float.

Upper Class: Has a large effect. Ex: Able to make a small house float.

High Upper Class: Very large effect capable of causing mid scale destruction.

Ex: The ability to make a 10 story building float.

Major Class: Has a massive effect, able to destroy part of a city. Ex: The ability to make skyscrapers float and manipulate them./

"GODAMN, I thought my quirk was good, but Upper Class could bitch slap me to hell and then the moon!"

/Odd analogy, but yes./

"Looks like I have a long way to go... I'd there anyway for me to get more quirks?"

/Yes. Setting milestone....: Take your first steps.

Reward: Random Quirk Ticket, Random Item, 1000 QP/

"....I should have asked about this earlier. Godamn it. Whatever. Ima sleep. Goodnight system." I forget that I have a quirk Strengthening Pill. I'll probably use it in the morning.

———-9 Hours Later———-

"Happy birthday Eiko! I'm so proud of you, my little guy! You are such a big man. Yes you are, yes you are!" My mother says while shooting a small confetti popper as I smile. She makes me happy when she seems happy. This is my first birthday so I might as well act happy. This is actually entertaining. Well, compared to the previous days of boredom.

The day continues on like this and I actually enjoy myself. Now it's finally time to eat the cake. She lights the birthday candle and places it on the cake. She brings the cake toward me as I sit in anticipation at what flavor the cake is going to be.

"Happy birthday to you!" She sings as I watch happily. She brings the cake towards me and says "Make a wish!" She obviously doesn't expect me to make a wish, but I close my eyes and wish.

"My wish is to enjoy my time in this world and to become a hero!" I say happily which comes out as babbles which absolutely melts my mother. "Awww, so cute!" she says as she blows out the candle. Next is the presents which are as you'd expect for a 1 year old. The rest of the day passes on like this until it's finally time to go to sleep. My mother sets me in bed and whispers a "Goodnight" to me before heading to her bed.

"Today was a pretty alright day. Hopefully my next birthday is like this one." I say contently before drifting off to sleep land.

BANG!!!

A sound jolts me awake as I open my eyes to see part of my house collapsed with debris flying everywhere. A stray piece of debris flies toward me as I am still in a state of shock. Just as it was about to reach me. Something covers me before I suddenly shift to another place. It was my mother, still clad in her sleep gown looking vigilantly at something I can't see. I feel a red liquid slide on me. "Is that.. blood? It isn't mine..? Oh no, mom!" I quickly look up to see my mother bleeding with a large gash in her right shoulder, yet she has a look of motherly determination in her eyes. She quickly shifts somewhere else before placing me in a relatively safe and hidden location. It seems her shift ability is limited seeing as how she could have shifted somewhere far away.

"Oh, looks like you survived. That will make this even more interesting." A gruff yet sadistic voice echoed through the broken room ominously as a weirdly scary looking person walks towards us. He suddenly enlarged his hand while my mother teleported away from me as not to put me in danger. They start to duke it out for around 5 minutes, her shifting around and throwing a few attacks while the man flails his hand around. She starts getting sluggish, probably from all the teleporting she's doing.

SNAP

"No!"

sickening crack was heard. My mother had her leg snapped like a twig as she screamed in agony, not losing the look in her eyes. "I'm surprised you could hold for that long. I'm going to enjoy this." He says as he raised his hand.

SNAP

Another crack was heard as my mother screamed in agony. A realization dawns on me. "She could die." I start to tear up as more cracks are heard, my mothers voice becoming quieter as more bones are broken. Still, she doesn't lose that look in her eyes as she is being tortured. "Nono No No NO NOOOOO!" I scream and sob which comes out as shrieks. Damn this body. I'm being forced to watch my mother die as I can't do anything. Damn it! My mother looks at me as the supposed final hand was slowly being raised, the man trying to scare her. She smiled at me before muttering weakly, all while smiling in absolute kindness and care.

"I'm sorry Eiko. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't raise you. Make sure to brush your teeth, clean your room, make lots of friends and cook some really good food. Make sure to study and be in bed by ten. But most of all, be happy. I love you, I love you, I love you. I'm so sorry." Tears start streaming down her face as the hand finally reaches its apex height.

CRUNCH

"no" my mind couldn't comprehend what was happening. Just a little while ago I was smiling happy and singing with my mother, and now, and now....

My sobbing becomes wails of pain as I feel a part of my hear rip out. I feel everything horrible and nothing at all. I don't know my emotions.

"Well what do we have here?" The same sadistic voice sounds out as he appeared in front of me. He had a very dissatisfied expression. "She wouldn't even budge. No fun. But I guess you could make up for it." He says as he raises his hand, enlarging it in the process. I scream out as the hand lowers toward me.

BAM

Another sound echoes out. Surprisingly it didn't come with pain. I open my eyes while sobbing as I see a short man kick the sadistic man in the chin, effectively knocking him out. This only happens because he was small enough to fit in between the gaps of the mans fingers. He doesn't notice me as I sob quietly.

"We're too late.." says the man with a sad look on his face as he looks around, spotting my mother's mangled body on the ground. He clenched his fist in anger before closing her eyes, noting her sad but caring smile still there.

"Look for anybody around. There's a crib here and I think there might be a kid." He says as he too starts searching.

"There's a kid here! Quickly, he doesn't seem to be hurt!" Another hero says as he spots me under a small pile of debris.

One of the heroes pick me up, hearing my sniffles and tears falling.

"Shhh shhh, it's alright little guy. The heroes are here." The hero says and coddles me as my sobs instinctively start to quiet down. They take me out of the house so I won't have to see the gruesome scene.

"Poor Kid.." The old man says as I fall asleep. This day turned out to be one of the worst in my life.