Ingenious

Neito woke up the next day with relief washing over him, his previous day was pretty hectic as they had to stay out for a while.

" That's too much work for my four year old body. "

Neito fixed his messy blonde hair and got up with a smile, today is the day he would start his quirk training.

Quirk was also known as a superpower or meta ability, that was what he liked to call it anyway, because that was what it really was.

" So, first thing I gotta do is make a checklist of my abilities and it's weaknesses, then what I have to do to overcome them. "

Neito yawned lazily and began his early morning routine, he would have had to go to school today as well, but he just recieved his quirk, they give a week long break to such kids.

' Heh, it's less a break and more a grace period to get used to the new abilities, so kids don't wreak havoc in school with an out of control quirk. '

But that didn't apply to Neito as he hummed while washing his face.

While a four year old being so independent was not normally the case, Neito didn't bother to act childish for the sake of it either, why bother, this was the world of quirks.

Everything out of ordinary can be explained away with that alone.

" Neito are you awake, oh there is my baby, you really don't give me the chance to baby you Neito! Look at you getting up all on your own. "

Neito only chuckled internally, when you are a kid, even getting up on your own is a thing worthy of praise.

It felt surreal but he was used to it by now, turning towards his mom he gave a smile.

" I am up mom, good morning. "

His mother fawned over Neito for a while before going to do her own thing, and Neito went back to washing up.

After he was done and had breakfast, he was free.

Yes, that was the life of a four year old, get up, eat, then do wherever the hell you want throughout the day.

" Mom I want help with my quirk. "

Called out Neito, he was ready to start his day and currently had to do a few things, it would be good if someone helped him along.

That was the nature of his quirk, his time limit was really short, barely a minute before his copied quirk expired.

" Yes Neito, what is it? "

His mother came to him while wiping her hands, looking at Neito with curiousity.

She wondered what her son wanted to do exactly, he must have some idea about his quirk so she would help refine that so he doesn't hurt himself.

" Mom, can you please help me with my quirk training? "

His mom was not surprised, every child who received their new quirks liked to use them all the time, at least Neito wanted her help with it, she can make sure he doesn't overexert himself.

" Sure thing baby, I'll bring your quirk certificate in a second. "

Neito nodded and simply sat down while looking at the TV, All Might was on it again, saving people.

He was waiting for his mother to bring out the quirk certificate, it has every aspect of his Quirk written down accurately.

' At least that hour long test would help me with my training, I don't have to calculate everything by myself. '

While Neito watched All Might take out the most recent villan, his mom was back with a certificate and a notepad.

Sitting herself besides Neito, she looked at him with a smile.

" Neito, I am back, do you want to start now or would you wait until All Might's take is over? "

His mom asked Neito with a funny expression, All Might was the symbol of peace and the height of quirk strength, kids wanting to be like him was a common thing.

But Neito was not very interested in that, because he not only knew All Might's quirk's whole deal, he also knew that his day's were numbered.

So he turned off the TV without much thought and told his mom.

" No we can start now mom. "

His mom sighed at how sensible her boy was and looked at his quirk certificate, reading it out loud.

" Quirk : Copy, can copy the quirk of anyone the user touches, retaining time for the copied quirk is 50-60 seconds, depending on the time of contact with the target, number of copied quirks at once is one, might be possible of add more. "

His mom read the whole thing in one go then took out a pen and opened her notepad.

" Neito, according to this there seems to be two ways you can go about improving your Quirk, increasing the time limit and increasing the number of quirks you can hold. "

Neito nodded, that was indeed about it, but he wanted to concentrate on one thing in particular, because that was a fault he wanted to erase.

" I want to try and increase the time I can hold a quirk mom, but what I really want to do is copy a quirk permanently. "

His mom was startled as this was a little unexpected, but this seems to come under his quirk right.

" Well, I think it should be doable, the doctor said your quirk's nature is to copy, not temporarily mimic, you know what, it might be possible. "

Wondering how she should go about this Neito's mom thought hard, she bit her pen and her hair fluttered involuntarily, Neito watched it all with amusement, he knew she got like that under pressure.

Quirk's truly did change how one acted, calling them quirk's isn't that far fetched after all, wondered Neito.

" I get it, what if you, you know continuously copied one particular quirk, like always keep it copied as soon as the time limit is over, then your body might get conditioned to that quirk right..? "

Neito's mom asked herself the later part, she was not very sure but this seemed like the safest idea.

Neito meanwhile was interested, he also had something similar planned, so this worked out for him.

" I think I can do it. "

Confirmed Neito, while his mom again bit her pen and said out loud.

" But how would you do it? Even if you copy my Quirk, you will have to keep touching me evey minute to keep it going, your time limit is too short right now, this won't do at all.. "

Looking at Neito his mom apologized.

" Sorry baby, I thought of this idea because my Quirk works similarly, the body parts I morph more frequently are the easiest to change, but this seems to be hard for you to do. "

Neito nodded, he understood how her mother came up with this solid theory, it ran in the family after all.

But he had already solved this issue, he only needs to touch any part containing the quirk gene, hair worked just fine.

" Mom, I think I can activate copy with hair alone, I touched your hair yesterday, and it worked that time. "

His mom raised her eyebrows at that, alright, that seems to be a good thing.

But she needed to make sure of one thing.

" But does it work if the hair is detached from the person? Wait, try it once. "

* Pluck *

Plucking a long hair out of her head, Neito's mom handed it to Neito with a big smile.

Meanwhile Neito almost got flashbacks watching her smile and hand over her hair to him, he was half expecting her to say ' Eat it! ' loudly.

But thankfully that didn't happen, he only got his mother's Quirk, without having to go through the mental damage Izuku had to.

* Touch *

Touching the loose hair, Neito felt his copy activate immediately, and it showed with his own hair fluttering involuntarily from surprise.

" Haha, so it works after all! Give me your hand dear, mom will fix it for you. "

Neito gave his hand without much thought, wondering what his mom will do.

And she used her long hair handling skills to do what she does whenever excess hairfall happened to her at inconvenient places, it was a side effect of her quirk overuse.

* Twist *

Neito twitched his eyes as his mom tied her hair around his left pinky finger, it was a really good idea he had to admit, but it was not what he had in mind.

" There, now it's tied to your finger so it's always touching your hand, as soon as the time limit is over, it will automatically copy it again, all in a split second! "

His mom beamed, she was very happy to be able to come up with this idea.

Neito also gave up and accepted it, this was actually much better than his idea, at least his quirk training was easier than Hagakure's.

That ought to count for something right.