Prologue

('Thoughts' Flashbacks/dreams)

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Not all men were created equal.

"I'm sorry kid but your quirkless." the quirk doctor said, the tone in his voice showed no sympathy towards the young boy.

80% of the world's population people are born with quirks.

"..." The young boy sat frozen in place as his mother just sighed.

While the 20% were not born with a quirk and are looked down upon in the public's eye.

"Thank you sir." She said as she pulled an emotionless child out of the room.

The boy looked at his mother as he sat in the back of the small car and looked at his tiny hands.

"I'm sorry mommy…" The boy whispered out.

But his mother ignored him and drove home. Sadly a young boy by the name of Izuku Midoriya learned this from the age of four.

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That night the green haired boy had a very small dinner as he sat in his small room that had pictures of All Might hanging on the walls and a small picture frame of him and his blond haired friend, Kacchan. Izuku cried himself to sleep that night as he fell into a world of nightmares that plagued him.

"Daddy? Daddy where are you?" A young boy about the age of three and a half called out.

He looked around the dark misty room looking for his father. The darkness started to fade as colours of yellow orange and reds started to fill the room. The green haired child started to scream as the flames licked at his ankles and started crawling up to his knees.

"DADDY! MOMMY!" The child screamed.

All he could hear were screams of his parents from the time that his father left them and his mother not wanting him right after. The child was consumed by the angry flames of his father's anger and hatred.

The young boy woke up with trails of tears rolling down his flushed cheeks and his clothes drenched with sweat. Taking several deep breaths the young boy had calmed down and slipped from his bed and quickly changed out of his sweaty clothes and into a fresh pair of school clothes do to his alarm clock reading 6:30 in the morning and classes started at 8:30.

Izuku ran around his small room and gathered a small bag of things that he needed and quietly left his room to grab his lunch and a small breakfast before putting on his shoes and leaving the house by 7 to wait for his friend at the park like always.

It was times like these where he would think about his life so far and what might happen. But at the moment the green hair child thought about his parents, his father hated him ever since he was born while his mother loved him…. Until he turned three and his father left them to live in America where he could continue with what he wanted. After that his mother started to ignore him and neglect him at times, so not having a quirk means that he will be forever hated for not having something that everyone has.

"IZU!" a voice called out.

Izu, or Izuku, blinked once before turning to see his ginning friend and his two parents walking towards him.

"Morning Kacchan, morning Auntie and Uncle." Izuku greeted, his smile was filled with sadness and fake cheerfulness.

This made the parents frown, while Kacchan, or Katsuki, ran over and pulled the smaller boy into a warm hug. It was a routine for the four of them, Izuku would meet them at the park in the mornings so they would walk to school together and at the end of the day they would walk back to the park and Izuku would go home after playing with Kacchan for an hour. So they were used to never seeing Inko at the park but this never made the older Bakugo's feel comfortable in the mornings when they see that it is just Izuku alone at the park.

"Come on we got to go!" Kacchan called as he pulled Izuku behind him.

The parents smiled at this and followed and tried to ignore the uneasy feeling about the green haired boy.

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It happened during recess when a small group of kids surrounded Izuku and asked him about his quirk and the two teachers also looked at the young boy with gentle smiles. Izuku looked down at his tiny hands as he felt tears well up in his eyes.

"I… I d-don't…. Have… one…" He choked out and in an instant his fellow classmates turned on him and avoided him.

The teachers looked at him with pity.. but it wasn't for him it was for his mother instead! Izuku ran out of the room in tears and hid in the bathroom and waited for recess to end. Katsuki had walked back into the room his and Izuku's lunches just to see that his friend wasn't there and went off to find him. He heard the sound of sniffles and found him in the bathroom on the floor in tears.

"Izu?" Katsuki carefully called out.

Izuku gasped as his head shot up to see Katsuki looking at him with red eyes filled with concern. The green haired child roughly rubbed his eyes with the sleeve of his uniform, the blond walked over and sat next to his friend and waited for him to calm down enough for him to talk.

A minute or two later Izuku was calm enough for him to talk and Katsuki passed him his lunch so they could eat. They ate in silence before Katsuki spoke up.

"Why are you sad?" He asked.

"They don't like me." Came the reply in a soft tone.

"Why? I like you? So I don't see their problem in not liking you?" the blond said with a flat tone.

The smaller boy fell into silence before the bell rang, startling the two. They cleaned up and left for class and Izuku felt their stares and disgust burning into his skin like burning coals, Katsuki glared at them all and pulled Izuku to his table and they sat together for the rest of the day and the blond child would gare at anyone who looked at Izuku the wrong way, including the teachers as well.

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"I can't believe that everyone would do that! What is their problem!" He growled, sparks crackled from his hands.

"I don't blame them…" Izuku said, looking at the ground.

This made the other child freeze before looking at the now teary green eyed boy.

"I'm.. quirkless…. I-I can't have a quirk like you and the others…" Izuku cried out, the tears spilled over his eyes and they ran down his reddened cheeks.

Katsuki froze and stared at his friend with wide eyes. Thoughts filled his head as he watched his only true friend sobbed on his knees.

'Izu is… quirkless?' Katsuki thought to himself but what he heard next made his blood boil.

"P-pl-please don't h-hate me…. Like m-mommy and da-daddy… Pl-please!" Izuku whispered.

Katsuki had a feeling that what Izuku had said was something that wasn't meant for him to hear but he had heard it so he was going to do something about it. So Katsuki grabbed Izuku by his wrist gently before pulling him up and walking to his home. Oh was his parents not going to be pleased with what Katsuki is about to tell them.

Once the two boys got to Katsuki's house Mitsuki and Masaru were surprised to see their son home an hour early and with Izuku with him, in tears no less.

"Katsuki what happened! Why is Izuku crying!" His mother asked rushing over to the two boys and pulled Izuku into a gentle hug trying to calm the younger boy down.

"Izu said that he was quirkless and that he didn't want me to hate him like the other kids and teachers. But he said not to hate him like his mommy and daddy!" The four year old said, looking very upset.

This made both Mitsuki and Masaru very upset that this little, sweet kind, child was treated differently just because he didn't have a quirk. Izuku sobbed harder this made Katsuki join in on the hug not liking the tears that fell from his friends eyes.

"Masaru…. We are going to pay Inko a little visit." Mitsuki said, having known Inko the longest this made the mother angry at her friend.

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Izuku had calmed down after being told that they wouldn't hate him and that Katsuki would never leave him like his father did. The Bakugo's knew about Hasashi's bale on the Midoriya's the year before but learning that a child at a young age was scared of being hated because of losing his parents love.

Inko heard pounding on the door and rushed to answer it, when she did, she found the Bakugi's and her son Izuku standing there. Mitsuki growled, her face a deep red as her full body trembled with rage fit for a Mother.

"INKO YOU IDIOT!" She shouted.

This made Inko blink in surprise.

"Wha-" she was cut off.

"How could you do this to Izu-kun! He thinks that we're going to hate him for being quirkless after his class and teachers showed their hate!" She snarled.

Inko looked at her son and took in how he looked. His light mossy green hair was a mess, his bright forest green eyes were red and puffy from all the crying and rubbing he has done while his cheeks were red and his nose was running. He looked like a total wreck to be honest but this didn't worry Inko; she didn't really care all she cared about was work then her little boy who she cared for before her husband left. So she put on a fake look of worry and shed false tears.

"Oh Izuku~ I don't hate you." Her voice filled with fake love, fooling everyone. "Mommy is just very stressed about work that is all… I love you Izuku, I love you very much." She finished.

To Izuku it didn't feel right but he was so emotionally drained from today that he bought it. Though the Bakugo's felt the same but the older ones brushed it off thinking that it might have been just stress but Mitsuki didn't completely brush it off. Katsuki on the other hand felt like the one he called Auntie was lying, but he didn't want to get scolded for saying such things in case he was wrong.

"I-It's okay Mommy…" Izuku said, feeling nothing but cold in his mother's embrace unlike how he felt when he was hugged but his Auntie.

"I guess we should head back, got some things to finish and Katsuki needs to do his homework. Bye Izu-kun, bye Inko!" Mitsuki said pulling her son away with her.

"BYE IZU SEE YOU TOMORROW!" Katsuki called back.

"BYE KACCHAN!" Izuku called back, watching his friend and his family leave.

The door closed and Inko glared at her son before going back to her work ignoring him and his constant chattering.

This was just the beginning of his life that is filled with sadness, disappointment and pain.

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