Kurogiri's Void

"Thirteen, begin evacuation! One of the Villains must be jamming the sensors. There's a good chance one of those electric types is causing the interference. Kaminari try using your Quirk to signal for help."

Kaminari jerked but quickly calmed down again under Izuku's calming influence, nodding with determination. Izuku felt a great deal of relief that he was able to help out at times like this, even if he hadn't known his Quirk had developed this mutation.

"Thirteen, take good care of them!"

With that, Aizawa-sensei forcefully jumped off from the top of the stairs, quickly landing at the bottom. Izuku steeled himself as the surge of sickening glee the Villains were feeling slammed into him but managed to remain calm since Aizawa-sensei was radiating focus and determination in his Aura.

As the rest of his classmates were swiftly evacuated by Thirteen, Izuku couldn't tear his eyes from the sheer proficiency and nimbleness his teacher was showing in a real combat situation. This was what he and Kacchan had aspired to be. A Pro Hero! Brave, valiant and undaunted in the face of numerous enemies.

It was at this moment when Izuku felt a spine-chilling sensation make its way down his back, causing him to break out in goosebumps. Immediately, he whipped around, eyes wide. His heart was pounding in his chest. There was just something so unnatural about this Villain.

"I won't allow that." A dark suction that spread out in front of them slowly gave way to a single entity wearing a crisp suit, which was offset by the intense darkness that he radiated. He seemed akin to a black fog that smothered all light.

Izuku swallowed. Like the other Villains with hands, this one gave him a feeling that was just as intense, but it was the exact opposite. Where blue-haired Villain gave off a feeling of madness, instability, along with a mix of other emotions such as anger, greed and playfulness, the one in front of them now instead possessed a feeling akin to looking into a void.

Izuku just couldn't feel anything from him. If he had to describe it, it was the feeling of pure indifference. Where he could feel that the blue-haired Villain was clearly alive and perhaps insane, this villain with a black fog made him doubt he was even there. He had never felt anything even remotely like this before. Izuku couldn't tear his eyes away.

"Greetings. We are the league of Villains. Forgive our audacity, but today we've come here to UA high school – the bastion of Heroism… to end the life… of All Might, the Symbol of Peace." Izuku sucked in a breath at the shock that went through him, which was unfortunately further amplified by the various amounts of shock that were surrounding him. "We were under the impression that All Might would be here today but… it seems his schedule was revised?"

The Villain paused in his monologue, and was it Izuku's imagination, or was the Villain's gaze directed specifically at him? "Well… no matter. My role remains unchanged." Izuku just couldn't tear himself away. It was just so unnatural how the Villain put up the pretence of being polite, but all Izuku could feel was the bone-chilling indifference and lack of emotions that the Villain possessed. It was like watching a train wreck as a Quirkless person. Horrifying, but being unable to tear his eyes away.

Izuku's heart leapt to his throat when Kacchan and Kirishima took the initiative to attack the Villain without knowing anything about his capabilities. They already knew that the Villain was able to instantly teleport people with his Quirk – that was how the Villains arrived, after all, but they knew nothing else about what he could do with his Quirk.

Katsuki used his Quirk as he directed an almost lethal explosion at the Villain. He was secretly trembling slightly, and when he realized what he was doing, he just had to do something about it on the off chance that they could take him by surprise as he was talking. There were risks and dangers, of course, but victory was never made without any risks.

Unfortunately, his joint attack with Kirishima failed, leaving him with a lingering regret that he couldn't take care of a danger towards Izuku and the rest of his classmates.

"Bet you didn't see that coming!"

"That was close," the Villain said with a slightly inflection in his tone, but Izuku could feel that the Villain's Aura had no distinction now and before. It was almost like he didn't care about anything and nothing in the world was able to move him. All of this was making Izuku's mind run at a mile a minute to analyse everything.

Izuku grit his teeth as he threw caution to the wind, probing the Villain to see if he could affect him. He tried to a slight hesitation in the Villain to make him feel even the slightest bit of leniency, watching the Villain's body movement and body closely. He knew he had succeeded when he saw the Villain's eyes widen slightly, with the faintest traces of shock that was diffused almost instantly.

"Begone."

The black fog raged as it swallowed the students whole like a starving beast, giving them no chance to resist as they were instantly warped away.

Izuku cried out and tried to grab Kacchan, who had silently repositioned himself in front of him, but the void swallowed him just like the rest. The green-haired teen stumbled, his hands closing around nothing as Kacchan was sucked away.

The faintest traces of fear made itself known in his heart before he violently stomped it out. He didn't have time for that right now. He was left alone with the Villain as the rest of his classmates were teleported away, and Thirteen was nowhere to be found. He was alone with no backup against an experienced and older Villain. Why? Why was he the only one the Villain didn't touch? Was it due to the split second that he had influenced the Villain with feelings?

Izuku held himself in a ready stance, focusing but making sure he kept an eye on his surroundings as well in case of any sneak attacks. He'd debated running, but against a Villain with a Quirk that was essentially teleportation was useless. He could only face this head on.

"Again. I'm feeling again," he heard faintly. Izuku could feel the little sparks of shock that made itself known in the Villain's Aura. "What did you do?"

Izuku subconsciously made a step back when the Villain's glowing yellow eyes peered into him, his face a mere thirty centimetres away from his, triggering the Villain's notice.

"Ah, my apologies. My name is Kurogiri, from the league of Villains," the Villain said, stepping away from his personal space.

Izuku hesitated, somehow getting the feeling that the Villain didn't have the intention of attacking him. His fists remained raised, not lowering his guard. "Deku," he said as he decided to give his nickname instead of his real name before he knew the intentions of this Villain. He had said he wanted to kill All Might, after all.

"Deku…" Kurogiri murmured, silently engraving the student's name in his heart. "Your Quirk. You can allow others to feel certain emotions?"

It was strange, but Izuku could feel that the other truly didn't mean any harm to him, and his Aura was showing the tiniest sparks of desperation that he was unable to keep out of his voice. It truly was a puzzling experience. Why did the Villain's emotions flicker and spark before dying out? It was almost like he was desperately lighting a candle only for the little flame to be snuffed out the next moment.

Tentatively, Izuku let his Quirk unravel slightly to probe the Villain, pressing the feeling of his curiosity to the other's Aura. The Villain gasped, and his gaseous head and hands seemed to flicker and waver as he felt. The indifference that the other was steeped in seemed to mellow the slightest bit as the oppressing feeling in his Aura melted away bit by bit, leaving Kurogiri breathless and giddy.

"Feel… I can feel again," Kurogiri said with a voice tinted with wonder, pressing his hand to his heart. Izuku could feel the disbelief slowly bloom in the man's Aura, slowly but steadily becoming thicker.

The green-haired teen's eyes softened a little as his heart ached at the wonder and joy and in the Villain's voice. Slowly, he withdrew his Quirk, causing the Villain's Aura to slowly descend back into indifference. It was as if Izuku had jumped into a still pond, causing ripples that reverberated, but the moment he left the water, the pond abruptly stilled again.

Kurogiri's Aura was instantly wrecked with a desperation that was snuffed out the next moment.

"Please," the Villain said pleadingly, injecting as much of it as possible based on what he could remember feeling in his voice. "Please."

Izuku watched the desperate Villain with wavering eyes. On one hand, this was a Villain, but on the other, Izuku really did want to help him. In the end, he decided to make a deal with him.

"If you ensure the safety of my classmates as well as my two teachers, then you can come with me."

Kurogiri felt a flicker of hesitation. "You want me to defect from the league?"

Izuku watched him silently, waiting for the Villain to make a decision. He watched as a bright burst of determination and hope that exploded like a supernova in its brightness in Kurogiri's Aura before disappearing.

"That is acceptable," Kurogiri said, throwing caution to the wind.