AN#1: I really like stories where a bad boy or a delinquent becomes a hero, it's like a true embodiment of "Don't judge a book by its cover", just because someone has a bad attitude or has a track record doesn't mean they can't turn their lives around for the good of society. This story will explore just that, Izuku Midoriya becomes a delinquent at a young age but makes a decision to turn his life around when he nearly loses his mother in an accident.
I haven't seen much, or at least any bad boy Izuku fanfics out there. I've seen the villain Izuku fanfics, but that's about it. I hope I made a good contribution to this fanfic community in terms of variety.
I'll be making small changes here and there, changes in character behavior, but it won't be too much of a difference, for example: Aoyama, he'll be a bit more toned down and Koda, he'll be a bit more talkative.
Okay, for now, we'll just jump right into the story; the back-story will be explored as we go on with the plot line.
Let's get started!
"Normal Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Flashback"
"All Might buff form speech"
PLUS ULTRA!
One day at Aldera Junior High, in Midoriya Izuku's class, we see a blonde haired teacher discussing about future career plans for the students. He had in his hands a stack of papers.
"Since you're all third years, it's time for you to think seriously about your future." The Teacher said. "I'll pass handouts for your future career plans now, but…you're all pretty much planning to get into the hero course, right?" The teacher excitedly as he simply tossed the career plan handouts into the air with no disregard whatsoever.
The classroom then erupted into a round of cheers and a weirdly awesome display of different quirks from each of the students.
"Yes, yes, you all have wonderful quirks…But using your powers at school is against the rules."
Midoriya Izuku, a young boy with dark green hair, had his head resting on his arm while the boy was lazily looking out the window. Izuku was tired, as in always because of his martial arts training. Izuku was lucky that Aldera Junior High had both a Karate, and Judo club. Because of the nature of his healing quirk, the boy found it easy to learn the fighting styles without having to worry about his body sustaining too much damage.
"Sensei!" The sound of a particular voice brought Izuku out of his daydream.
'Kacchan you asshole, don't start this again…' Izuku thought to himself with a smirk.
"Don't lump us all in the same group. I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects!" Said a blonde haired boy who had his feet resting on his desk while his head was slouched back, the young boy is Bakugou Katsuki, one of Aldera High's best students.
The rest of the students suddenly erupted into a chorus of complaints against the ashen blonde.
"That was uncalled for Katsuki!"
"Yeah, yeah!"
"You all should shut up like the extras you are!" Katsuki said with a mocking smirk.
"Oh, if I remember correctly, you want to go to U.A. High, right, Bakugou-kun?" The teacher said. The blonde's smirk turned into a full grin.
"That national school?"
"It was in the top 0.2% this year, you know!"
"Their acceptance rate is always really low too!"
The students were mostly shocked and in awe that Katsuki wanted to enroll in the best Hero Course offering school in Japan.
Izuku however just laughed silently to himself, he had planned to enroll in the same school after all.
"That's exactly why you guys are just extras!" Katsuki said as he jumped on top of his desk. "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 next No. 1 hero! I'll get my name written down on the list of top earners!"
"But that also reminds me Bakugou-kun, you came in second in the mock test." The teacher said causing Katsuki to almost fall from his desk. "I forgot to announce that Midoriya got the best score, also aren't you planning to get into U.A. as well, Midoriya-kun?"
"NO WAY!" The students yelled as they heard the resident bad-boy had gotten first best score in the U.A. mock test.
To rub it into Katsuki's face he even started laughing.
"Hahaha, that's right, I even finished 15 minutes early," Izuku said as he smirked at the blonde haired friend. "Who's the extra now, Baka-hatsu?! (A play on words. Baka means idiot. It sounds almost like Bakuhatsu which means explosion.)"
Katsuki jumped down from his desk and stomped over to Izuku's desk. "Oi, Deku." Katsuki said in dangerously soft tone. The students gulped in slight fear, it was one thing that the resident Hot-Head and resident Bad-Boy were in the same class them, but it was another thing when they'd rub off of one another.
It was very, very, very, VERY rare to see these two guys fight; there had been rumors going around that they were mortal enemies outside school and caused trouble wherever they went. Because of Izuku's healing quirk, Katsuki couldn't hurt him. And also because of their bad attitudes, they were always thought to have rubbed each other the wrong way.
Katsuki glared down at Izuku and the greenette glared back.
"Bastard," Katsuki said with a smile as he pulled Izuku into a headlock and started giving him a noogie. "Why didn't you tell me you took the mock test, you asshole, I thought you didn't want to get into U.A."
Izuku laughed as he playfully pushed Katsuki off. "I was gonna surprise you, but, whatever. At least you know now."
The two then shared a bro fist-bump and laughed it off.
This left the class in utter silence…
"So that's how it is."
"T-they're actually friends."
"Didn't see that one coming."
"*Phew* At least they didn't start a fight."
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Midoriya Izuku is a bad boy, his behavior can be seen as less than pleasant at times but he has his strong points. He had a violent nature brought upon by his healing quirk. The fact that he can take a hit and recover from it was mostly the reason our young protagonist is the way he is now, albeit to a lesser extent.
A few years ago, however, this attitude was much worse. At the age of 10 Izuku got into his first fight when a bully made fun of him because of his hero journals. The bully had taunted Izuku and even took the notebook from the kid and ripped it to shreds right in front of him.
The bully had a quirk that allowed him to harden his clothes. And as you can guess the boy was wearing gloves. In a fit of anger upon seeing his notebook, as well as his hard work, destroyed, Izuku handed his first punch. The bully was around 3 years older than Izuku and this didn't sit well with him.
The bully hit back by using his quirk, the punch hit Izuku's face directly and even drew blood through a large gash on Izuku's cheek. The bully had a look of triumph of his face upon seeing the blood, but was shocked when the blood started flowing back into the wound which subsequently healed.
The two then proceeded to exchange punch after punch, to the bully's dismay he could feel himself getting weaker and more tired while Izuku looked none to worse for wear. Getting one last punch Izuku knocked out his bully.
That was the start of Midoriya Izuku's path to delinquency. That first fight had lit a fire inside of Izuku, the adrenalin rush that he felt during the fight was almost intoxicating in a way, and this caused the boy to seek out fights from time to time on a weekly basis.
The basis eventually grew from weekly to daily in just a year.
Once he had turned 12, Izuku was a full blown delinquent. He would cause and instigate fights wherever and whenever he could; sometimes even trying to take on larger opponents.
This eventually led him to even seek out fights against villains, since he grew bored of fighting teens who were held back because of quirk restriction laws. As you can imagine, over the course of 2 years, Izuku developed a knack for combat but he didn't really have a style of fighting, he'd just punch, kick, or bite, whatever would do the job.
In one particular fight against a villain who had a quirk which gave him the ability to turn his fingers into sharp points, Izuku had been detained by police after beating the villain. Although he was praised for helping to capture a villain, he was reprimanded for his reckless behavior.
That day was also the day when his mother; Midoriya Inko learned of her son's delinquent like behavior. She ended up scolding her child for his fights and recklessness.
This went on for quite some time too, Izuku would get caught in a fight which he himself had started, and Inko would scold the boy for fighting.
That very night, the boy grew tired and yelled at his mother for her scolding.
"Will you shut up?!" Izuku yelled much to the shock of his mother. "I have a healing quirk, it's not like they can hurt me or anything!"
"But Izuku, you shouldn't be out fighting in the first place," Inko said with full blown worry. "You already have a track record and the police have warned that if they catch you starting another fight, you'll be put on juvenile probation."
"Tch, whatever," Izuku said impatiently. "I'm outta here."
Izuku then ran out the door of the apartment.
"Izuku wait!" Inko yelled as she ran after her son.
Izuku didn't know it then, but those 2 words would be the last words he'd ever hear his mother say for a long time.
The following day, Izuku was on his knees crying by the side of a hospital bed. On that bed laid his mother, deep in a comatose state.
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Later the afternoon, after Izuku and Katsuki were announced as U.A. applicants at Aldera Junior High, we can find the green haired bad boy walking home from school, along the way he walked through an underpass while reading and rifling through his notebook. The young boy was going over some notes he had recently taken of the new up and coming hero Kamui Woods and a new hero who suddenly made her debut; Mt Lady.
It was a hobby of his to study and analyze heroes and their quirks. Since Izuku's quirk was a healing factor, the best he could do was to learn martial arts and other forms of fighting techniques to make for the lack of 'flashiness' as most quirks were sometimes described as. Izuku believed that since he could take a hit, he would have to hit twice as hard when it came to dealing with his opponents.
But martial arts and hand to hand combat weren't the only things he could utilize in a fight; Izuku even took it upon himself to learn how to fight with weapons. His best weapons were the bo-staff and a pair of nun-chucks that he got from hobby shop. But despite all this, Izuku had developed a rather bad boy like nature earlier in life and it managed to stick, although he wasn't a delinquent anymore, he still behaved as though he was one.
As Izuku closed his notebook, he heard a faint gurgling sound. He then heard the sound of metal clanking, and suddenly a sludge-like monster came out from a nearby man hole.
"Oh shit, what the hell are you?" Izuku said taking a step back.
"Good, a meat shield," The sludge villain yelled. "Just what I needed to get away from that guy."
The sludge villain then lunged forward in an attempt to try and take Izuku hostage; the greenette tried to dodge but he was caught and was inevitably smothered by the sludge villain. Thinking quickly Izuku pulled out an electric stun baton from inside his uniform coat. 'Didn't think I'd be using this thing today,' Izuku thought as he tried to locate the baton's switch. 'This is gonna sting.'
The sludge villain laughed maniacally. "Don't worry kid; this'll only hurt for a few seconds. I never would've imagined that that guy would come here."
'Damn right this is gonna hurt, but not for me you pile of sewage crap!' Izuku managed to get his arm free, he then rammed his stun baton into the side of the sludge villain's liquid body; he then switched on the baton and a few thousand volts of electricity coursed through his and the villain's body, the villain let out garbled scream. The electricity had almost no effect on Izuku but the jolt caused the sludge villain to explode, Izuku and the tunnel were splattered with green slime.
Izuku had fallen to the ground, he was smoldering and his body was twitching as a result of the electricity running through him, but the greenette was fine nonetheless. Getting up on his feet, Izuku looked around and noted that he and the tunnel were covered in sludge.
"Great," Izuku said as he wiped the sludge from his face. "I'm covered in what can only amount to a shit based quirk. But that was easy, mutation quirks that turn the body into a liquid mass can easily succumb to electricity, I can only assume that ice or extreme cold also has the same effects-"
While Izuku continued on with his mumbling, a rather tall and muscular blonde man popped out of the same manhole that the sludge villain came from not too long ago.
The man looked at the scene with a mixture of confusion and awe. Awe, because the kid had taken care of the sludge villain and confusion because the kid was mumbling about water, ice, electricity and sludge.
"Hey Kid," The man called out, snapping Izuku out of his trance. "Did you do all this?"
Izuku turned to face whoever called out to him, he intended to just brush the person off with a 'Yeah, so?' but to his utter surprise, the man just happened to be…
"All Might." Izuku said in awe. "The no.1 hero…h-he's really here."
"That's right kid," All Might said. "I Am Here!"
'Oh man,' Izuku thought. 'He looks completely different in person!'
Izuku didn't know what to do, his hero, his personal hero, the reason why he himself wanted to be a hero; All Might was standing in front of him.
"I'll just say kid, you did a fine job subduing this villain," All Might said. "I've been after this evil-doer for a while now; I'd like to give you my thanks. And now, I should clean up this mess and take him to holding facility."
All Might then pulled out two soda bottles from his side pockets.
"H-here let me help." Izuku said as he reached out for the second bottle.
"I like that helpful attitude of yours kid, here you go." All Might said handing Izuku the bottle.
After bottling the slime villain, All Might then autographed Izuku's notebook, much to the greenette's pleasure.
"All right then, I need to take this guy to the police," All Might said patting bottles in his pockets. "See you again on the other side of the screen!"
All Might then did a squat and stretched his legs, preparing to jump off heroically.
"Wait already?" Izuku asked.
"Pros are constantly fighting enemies and time," All Might said.
'Wait, I need to ask you something.' Izuku thought as his mind raced back to his mother.
"Well then," All Might said he then jumped, about several meters into air. "I'm counting on your continued support!"
"Wait," Feeling something on his left leg, All Might looked to see the young boy who helped him with the sludge villain earlier, clinging on for dear life. "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!"
"Let go kid!" All Might said with his hand on the kid's face, trying to push him off. "Your fanaticism is too much."
"I can't, we're way too high up, even though I have a healing quirk, I'd rather not test my limits right now!" Izuku yelled as held on even tighter. "I might actually die if I fall from a height like this!"
All Might paused, realizing the mistake he almost made. "That's true!"
"I need to ask you something All Might! It's really important!"
Seeing the look of determination on the boy's face made the no.1 hero relent. "All right, but we'll need to find a safe place to land, close your eyes and mouth."
The boy did as he was told.
The hero then saw a nearby high rise and shifted his landing trajectory. All Might then coughed a little, a large drop of blood leaked out from the side of his mouth.
As they landed on the building, Izuku got off and fell to his knees. "I-I-I-I-I'm a complete i-i-idiot sometimes." The boy said shakily. "T-t-that was intense."
"Good grief. If you talk to the people downstairs, I'm sure they'll let you down from here." All Might said facing out into the town with his hands on his sides. "I sorry, but, I am seriously out of time. I really must go."
Standing up, Izuku called out. "Wait, please…"
"No! I cannot wait!"
"But-"
Izuku then remembered the incident that had taken place a couple of years ago. The young boy saw his mother on a hospital bed; she had been hooked to several machines that were keeping her alive.
"I'm sorry young man," The doctor told him that time. "But your mother has fallen into a coma; it's unlikely she'll wake up any time soon."
"Mom," Izuku said with tears in his eyes. "This is all my fault, I'm so sorry."
Holding back the tears that were threatening to fall, Izuku straightened up. "My mother fell into a coma because of me! I was so stupid and reckless at the time! I just wanted to know-"
All Might stopped walking.
"I just wanted to know, can a guy who put his own mother in the hospital still become a hero."
It was no use; tears were already falling down Izuku's face.
All Might then turned to look at the young boy.
"Because of me," Izuku said. "Because of how stupid and reckless I was being, because I got mad at her that one time, my mom, she-"
"Your mother?" All Might asked.
"I really want to become a hero, so I can atone for what I did. I want to show my mom, when she wakes up, that I can become a cool hero like you; someone who saves people with a fearless smile." Izuku was wiping tears from his eyes, but when he opened them, what he saw nearly scarred him for life.
In front of Izuku was a skinny, skeleton of man.
"Who the hell are you?!" Izuku yelled in shock as he fell backwards. "Wait, up until now, a fake! You're not All Might, you must be a fake! You're like a skeleton!"
"I am All Might…*gah*" The man said, suddenly spitting out blood.
Izuku yelled in disbelief. "No way, that can't be you!"
"You know how guys at the pool are always flexing their bodies and making poses?" All Might asked. "It's kinda like that."
"What the hell kind of an explanation is that!?" Izuku yelled. "It can't be, what happened to you?! Why are you like this?! You're All Might right? The hero saves people with a fearless smile?"
All Might let out a sigh. "A fearless smile, huh?" He then sat on the ground. "Now that you've seen me like this, Shonen, I'd like to ask you to keep quiet about it; you can't say anything online either, even if by accident."
"All right." Izuku said. The boy was shocked by what he saw next.
All Might then lifted up his shirt to reveal a horrific scar on his upper left abdomen. "I received this injury from an enemy's attack five years ago. Half my respiratory organs were destroyed and I lost my whole stomach. I became emaciated from countless repeated surgeries and the aftereffects. Because of all that I'm now limited by time to the point where I can only maintain my buff form and do hero work for about three hours each day."
"Five years ago," Izuku said as remembered back to that time. "That was when you fought against toxic chainsaw, wasn't it?"
All Might nodded. The hero then went on to explain that despite the injury, he would still continue to work; he was the Symbol of Peace after all, and he would never be daunted by any evil. He explained that no matter what the cost, he would continue to be a light, a pillar of support that would keep evil at bay and to be an inspiration to other heroes.
"Pros are always risking their lives," All Might said. "If you're unsure of yourself, it's almost impossible to take up a hero's mantle, doubts will always hinder you in the line of work."
Izuku looked down at his feet. "My uncle, he told me the same thing, not word for word, but he told me that any doubt I have will turn against me in the end."
"Your uncle is right," All Might said. "Now, you said that your mother was in a coma, would you care to elaborate further?"
Izuku closed his eyes. "I was 12 years old at the time. We got into a fight one night; because of my healing quirk I became really arrogant. I could take a hit and dish out twice as much force, because of all that I got into fights with kids my age all the time. My mom would always tell me otherwise and scold me for what I did. One night I came back home from a really tough fight, and my mom scolded me like usual, I got tired of the scolding that night and yelled back, I ran away and she ran after me." At this point Izuku was now in tears. "She followed me all the way to the street and when I tried to run across the road, she followed after me and she-" Izuku clutched his chest. "She got hit by a car."
All Might stood up and walked over to the young boy, he put his hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Shonen," All Might said. "With one punch, I can level an entire city. At best, or worst, I could sink an entire island with my strength. I used to think that no one should have that kind of power, but I soon learned to control it and I use this power every day to help those who are in need."
Izuku looked at All Might, despite his emaciated form; he still gave off a strong sense of justice and heroism.
"You can be a great hero, especially with your healing quirk," All Might said. "I can't really say anything about the situation concerning your mother, but if you wish to atone for your sins in the past, take your mistake and use that as an example to do good."
"But can I really become hero? I used to have track record of delinquency and vandalism." Izuku said unable to look All Might in the eye.
"Your past doesn't define your future, like I said shonen, use what you have for good and to help those in need."
Izuku stared down at the ground trying to think of what could do or say. He really wanted to become a hero, but he still had doubts. Izuku then noticed All Might's pockets. "Wait, where are the bottles?"
"What?" All Might reacted and reached to feel his side pockets; to his horror the bottles containing the sludge villain were gone. "They must've fallen out when you grabbed on to me."
"But that was over the Tatooin shopping district." Izuku said panicking. "Oh man, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to."
"It's alright shonen, I made sure to cap the bottles as tight as possible," All Might said with a smile. "I can just run over and collect the bottles, what could go wrong?"
*BOOM*
It was then that a loud explosion was heard some distance away. All Might and Izuku turned to see thick, black smoke rising from the nearby shopping district.
The two then looked back at each other and shared a look of horror.
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All Might and Izuku were running to the area where they saw the smoke.
"Shit, I really messed up," Izuku said. "It's all my fault, if I hadn't grabbed onto you when you jumped this wouldn't have happened."
"No time for that now shonen," All Might said. "Let's just hope no one is in danger."
When they arrived on the scene, a crowd of people had gathered and were talking about the several heroes who were trying to deal with a sludge villain.
"Just as I thought, he managed to escape," All Might said as he coughed. "I just hope they can take control of the situation before it gets any worse."
All Might's hope however was shattered when he heard that the villain had taken a hostage, and was using the hostage's quirk to keep the heroes at bay.
Izuku had joined the crown and even managed to push his way to the front. Trying to get a better look he saw the heroes; Death Arms, Backdraft, and Kamui Woods along with some other heroes he didn't fully recognize. From what he tell from the situation alone was that Death Arms couldn't use his full strength for fear of hurting hostage, Backdraft was too busy putting out nearby fires, and Kamui Woods was helping to evacuated any civilians caught inside the danger zone.
But what Midoriya Izuku saw next caused him to freeze in horror. When he turned his eyes to the villain, he could faintly make out the hostage's blonde hair but when he took a closer look he was horrified to see that the hostage was none other than his best friend, Bakugou Katsuki.
The look that Katsuki had on his face was one of despair; Izuku knew from his earlier encounter with the sludge villain that the villain was suffocating his friend, trying to forcibly enter his body through Katsuki's mouth. When Izuku saw that look, something inside of him just snapped.
"Kacchan!" Izuku yelled as he dropped his bag and jumped into the fray, despite the other heroes calling for him to stop. 'I nearly lost my mother that night, I'm not about to lose my best friend today!'
Izuku picked a nearby metal pipe on the way and analyzed the situation. 'Disorient your opponent, aim for any vital areas.' After a quick analysis, Izuku focused on the villain's eyes. Raising his arms Izuku swung the pipe in a sideward arc and managed to hit the sludge villain's eye.
The villain roared in pain and loosened his grip on Katsuki. Seeing his chance, Izuku dropped the pipe began pulling away at the sludge. "Hold on you bastard, I'll get you out!"
"Well, don't just talk about it; get me the hell out of this!" Katsuki yelled back.
"Hold on," Izuku said. "Get a supernova ready!"
Katsuki smirked as he clenched the muscles on his right arm. Once enough of his upper body had been freed, Katsuki aimed his hand directly at the sludge villain.
"DIE!" A huge explosion erupted out of Katsuki's hand; the force would've blown him away had it not been for his friend holding him back.
The explosion however only blasted away half of the sludge villain who, after recovering from the blast, raised a slimy arm in rage as he yelled. "You again! This time I'll just kill you brats!"
Katsuki and Izuku braced for impact, but it never came.
"Pathetic," All Might said he held back the sludge villain's attack. "I really am pathetic, even though I encouraged you by saying you could become a hero, I am truly ashamed that I myself am not living up to the standards I instilled into you shonen."
"All Might!" The sludge villain yelled.
"Pros like me are always risking their lives for a better cause!" All Might yelled as he reared back his right arm. "DETROIT SMASH!"
Once the aftermath of All Might's punch settled down, heroes, the police, and civilians alike just started in shock at the brute force of the no.1 hero. Katsuki and Izuku, who were right there beside All Might, just stared in awe at their idol.
Suddenly it started raining.
"Rain?"
"Don't tell me it's from the wind pressure just now?"
"Yeah, it must caused an updraft."
Death Arms looked up at the clouds and stared at All Might. "That punch, he made clouds?"
"With just his fist he changed the weather!"
Despite his injury, the unyielding Symbol of Peace; All Might stood while the civilians chanted their praises.
Sometime later the kids were checked for any injuries, Katsuki had some minor cuts and bruises, but Izuku was relatively unharmed. He explained to the medics that had arrived on scene about his healing quirk.
The pros then took their time praising Katsuki for his amazing quirk; they praised Izuku for jumping to save his friend, but also admonished him for being so reckless.
"That was really stupid of you to just jump in there kid," Death Arms said to Izuku. "Even if you did have a healing quirk. But, hey, at least you saved your friend."
Izuku looked to Katsuki who gave him a wry smile; the blonde shook his head and smacked Izuku upside his head. "Yeah, even if you tell this bonehead not to, he'd do it anyway."
"Hey, at least this makes us even." Izuku said.
All Might just watched the scene from where he stood. 'That boy, he might just be what I was looking for. And that healing quirk of his, he wouldn't have to worry about the kickback. I hope you still want to become a hero, shonen.'
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Later that afternoon, Izuku and Katsuki were making their way home. "Man, that was awesome," Katsuki said. "Being praised by heroes and getting to see All Might in action. On top of both of us getting into U.A. this day couldn't get any better, right?"
"Yeah," Izuku replied. "Not counting nearly being suffocated to death by that slime, this day was awesome!"
After walking and talking for a while, the teens came to crossroads.
"Well, I'm this way," Katsuki said. "I better go; I don't want the old hag yelling at me again."
"Yeah," Izuku said with a laugh. "See ya tomorrow then."
Once Katsuki was out sight Izuku kept walking until…
"I AM HERE!"
Startled, Izuku fell backwards. "A-All Might what are you doing here? I thought you were swamped by the press?"
All Might let out a laugh. "Getting away from them was a piece of cake. Why? Because I am All-*gah*-
-Might."
Izuku screamed when All Might deflated. Clutching his chest, Izuku couldn't help but yell. "Couldn't you at least give a little warning before that happens?! I'm too young to die of a heart attack!"
Wiping away the blood from his chin, All Might look to Izuku smiled. "Shonen, I knew you had it in you. Back there with the sludge-villain, you displayed something that not many heroes possess. You were truly heroic."
"How can you say that?" Izuku said as he looked away. "Because of me, Kacchan got hurt, you were nearly blamed for the villain attack, I got in the way of your work, and what's worse is that-"
"That doesn't really matter right now shonen," All Might said as he stopped the boy from rambling. "Because you ran in there with almost no regard for yourself, because you simply wanted to save your friend, you reminded me of what true heroism is. Because of what you did, I was able to act."
Izuku raised his head and looked at All Might.
"Top heroes have stories about them that go back to as early as their high school days," All Might said. "And most of those stories have one thing common: their bodies moved before they even had a chance to think."
As Izuku heard this, he was beginning to realize what All Might was trying to say. It was also at that moment, he remembered the words his mother told him some years before the incident.
"You have a wonderful quirk Izuku, and with it you'll become a wonderful hero as well. One day, I know you'll make me proud. But right now I'm already proud of you, because I know you'll do great things in the future."
Those words were then drowned out when Izuku won his first fist fight. He had developed a knack for fighting, and along the way he slowly became more and more arrogant to the point where he started disregarding his own mother's worry.
"That was true for you, too, wasn't it?"
"Yeah." Izuku said as tears began falling down his face.
Izuku always regretted that day when his he saw his mother's lifeless body on ground. He regretted ever yelling at her, he regretted ignoring his mother's worry, he regretted his actions for so long, and for an equally long amount of time he tried to do anything and everything make things better.
"That is why, shonen," All Might said. "I deem you worthy to inherit my power."
Izuku raised his head. "Wait what?"
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Izuku stared at the massive piles of trash that littered the Dagoba municipal beach, thinking back to what All Might said; Izuku didn't know whether to regret his decision or just accept it and just as the hero said.
The boy thought that this was impossible, but he'd done community service before. Izuku's uncle, who was teacher in martial arts, had taught him the value of doing things for others, even if you didn't receive anything else in return. What mattered was that you did something out of the goodness of your heart and not for the attention that followed.
Cracking his knuckles, Izuku smirked. "All right, let's get this place cleaned up."
And so began the next 10 hellish months of Midoriya Izuku's life.
Despite the copious amounts of garbage and trash heaps littered on the beach, Izuku had managed to finish up earlier than expected.
It was only 8 months in and the beach was clean and free of any trash. Most of the remaining trash had been piled up at the upper viewing deck. All Might could only stare in amazement at the young 14 year old boy who stood atop a pile of scrap screaming his lungs out.
"Hey, hey, hey…" All Might looked out and stared at something that amazed him further. "He even cleaned outside of where I told him to! Seriously? There's not even a speck of dust left! Seriously!? He finished in only 8 months! More than perfectly! Oh my…oh my…GOODNESS!"
Izuku then jumped down and sat on a refrigerator. "Hey, All Might, how's that for 'worthy to inherit your power'?"
"Good work, Midoriya-Shonen," All Might said giving the boy a thumbs up. "You surprised me, you entertainer you. Teenagers are amazing! Look at this."
As Izuku jumped down from his perch, All Might pulled out a his phone showed a picture of Izuku 8 months earlier, the picture showed a short young boy with a lean muscled body, struggling to move a large piece of trash.
"This is…"
"That's you, 8 months ago." All Might said. "You did good! You really did! The mirage of it is finally just barely visible, but you certainly become a suitable vessel! I really thought it would take at least 10 months, but I can't you actually forced your body so hard."
"Hey *huff* with my healing," Izuku said as he tried to catch his breath. "I can *huff* tear my muscles apart without *huff* any worry."
Izuku had his shirt hanging off his right shoulder his body had grown increasingly more muscular, his pectorals, his abs, his biceps, and even his trapezius muscles on his shoulders had buffed up giving him broader shoulders. He even managed to grow a little taller during his training regime, the boy previously stood 166 cm(5'5") but now here he was standing at 179cm(5'8").
"It feels like I'm cheating though," Izuku said with a smile. "You're doing all this for me, All Might, I'm too blessed…"
All Might let out short laugh. "Your humble attitude is wonderful; I just wish I could work on your bad boy habits. Well, never mind about that for now."
All Might then plucked a single strand of his blonde hair. "This is something I was once told: "Something that you receive because you're lucky and something that you are given because you are recognized are different is essence." Take that to heart. This is power you earned because of your own effort."
Izuku looked up to All Might then down at his more muscular physique, he nodded his head in understanding.
"Now then," All Might said as he stretched out his hand with the strand of hair in between his thumb and index finger. "Eat this."
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!
"W-w-w-what?!" Izuku grimaced.
"It doesn't really matter what it is as long you ingest some of my DNA." All Might said.
"Whoa," Izuku said putting up his arms in defense. "I'm not putting your hair in my mouth! It's too different from what is imagined! This isn't what I signed up for!"
"I said it doesn't matter," All Might said defensively. "Just eat the hair."
Izuku yelled All Might tried to force the hair down his throat. "Get your follicles away from me!"
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After some time, All Might managed to get Izuku to eat the strand of hair.
"I don't feel any different," Izuku said as he flexed his muscles. "Did it work? And *BLECH!* hair tastes sour? Why does hair taste sour?"
"I imagine it did, but you probably know how the digestive system works, give it some time," All Might said. "You can just go home now and take a rest; we'll start your training tomorrow."
Izuku nodded his head and made his way over to his bag.
'You'll do great one day shonen; you actually managed to shave two entire months off my training plan.' All Might thought to himself as he stared out at the sunrise over the horizon. Closing his eyes, the pro hero thought back to when he first inherited One for All, he was able to use the quirk right of the bat. 'I wonder if his healing quirk can really take the kickback though.'
All Might was then interrupted from this musings when he heard a loud thump. He looked back and saw that Izuku had passed out next to a refrigerator. Letting out a laugh, All Might went over to check on the boy. "I guess you really did push yourself too far, I should get you home, you deserve to rest after doing all this."
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The next 2 months would begin Izuku's training on how to properly utilize One for All.
Izuku came back to the beach and was met with All Might in his true form. The bad boy already knew various forms of martial arts, learning from not only his uncle, but from the few dojos in the area that still taught martial arts to better a person's quirk or combat prowess.
"You're late shonen," All Might said. "I appreciate that your uncle has been taking care of you this far, but you still need to work on your punctuality."
"Yeah, yeah," Izuku said waving his hand. "I'll get to that later, first I need to learn how to use the power you gave me."
"You're right," All Might said. "All you have to do is clench your buttocks and yell this inside your heart. SMASH!" All Might yelled as he quickly shifted to muscle form and let loose a powerful shock-wave that flew right over the open ocean.
Izuku would've been awed by this display of All Might's power but—
"You want me? To clench?" Izuku said with a blank emotion. "My ass?"
AN#2: Well, that was new, I hope this idea wasn't too bad. Please leave a review if you thought this story was good, fave and follow, all that good stuff. I'll talk about the pairings in the next chapter.
I know Deku didn't really feel like much of a bad boy in this chapter, but you'll get to see more in the following chapters. Remember, he's trying to become a hero so he won't necessarily be much of an ass…but you'll get to see that as we progress with the overall story-line. But for future chapters, here are some previews.
Tenya was worried and very concerned for Izuku, the bad boy attitude was something the bespectacled boy couldn't stand; I mean he already had to deal with Katsuki.
Following him home one day, Tenya saw Izuku get into a verbal argument with some teens from another school.
'I should stop this,' Tenya thought. 'Even though he can fight, he really shouldn't be fighting like this though. It just goes against being a hero.'
One of the bigger kids got tired of the arguing and just grabbed Izuku by the collar of his uniform. "Alright, I heard enough, you're s'pposed to be tough, but all I see is that you're all just talk!"
"Oh really?" Izuku smirked condescendingly; he then rammed his head into the large teen's forehead. The bigger teen didn't budge however, his friends even started smirking and snickering.
"Healing quirk huh?" The large boy said taking notice of the wound on the Izuku's forehead starting to close. "That ain't gonna work." To Izuku's mild surprise, the guy's head and entire body had turned to stone.
Izuku smirked again and channeled One for All at 25% into his forehead. "Alright, try this one. Headbutt SMASH!" Izuku rammed his forehead again and this time the larger boy was flung several feet away.
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"Alright pal," Izuku said as he grabbed the delinquent's hand. "What's the big idea picking on these girls?"
"Hruh!?" The delinquent growled as he turned to face who touched his hand. "Who the hell do you-" To the delinquent's shock however, he was met with an enraged face, one that he never would have thought to run into again. "Deku? Demon Izuku?"
Izuku let go of the guy's hand and glared at the delinquents. "Yeah, it's me, now let me ask again."
Ochako, Mina, and Tsuyu could only watch in amazement as the five delinquents began shaking in fear for their lives.
"What's the big idea picking on these girls?!"
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"Look I appreciate the gestures but why are you doing this for me?" Izuku asked the beautiful young girl standing in front of him.
"I just wanted to repay the favor." The girl said.
"Favor? What favor?"
"For when you saved me," The girl replied as she shyly tucked her jet black hair behind her ear. "Remember that small girl? The one with short hair? The girl who was lost?"
Izuku cupped his chin and tapped his lips trying to put his thoughts in order. It then dawned on him at that moment. "Wait," He said looking the girl up and down. "That girl was you? That tiny runt of a girl was YOU!?"
The girl smiled as a blush creeped up on her face. "Yes, Deku-sama."
"Don't call me that! It's embarrassing enough as it is." Izuku yelled as he too started blushing.
AN#3: See guys and girl in the next chapter.
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