"No." said Recovery Girl flatly. "I refuse to heal a person who can't control their own quirk well."

Izuku face paled. It really happened. The guts inside Izuku tightened into a knot, and she mumbled, "That's right…I almost burnt the whole market district down…and I hurt myself by attracting All Might towards me at full speed."

"She has the true qualities of a true hero! She moved when nobody did!" defended All Might. "If she trains more, she'll become a great vessel for One For All along with her original quirk!"

Recovery Girl stood her ground. "I don't care if she has the same reckless attitude you have. I refuse to involve her in your schemes, All Might. Isn't it better to pick someone else who's recommended by the principal from the U.A. Academy to be your successor?"

Pick a recommended person from U.A. to be All Might's successor? Wow. That person must be really talented to be picked as the next successor of One For All…I guess that would be better…than picking me…

"No. It must be Midoriya! " All Might's blue pupils looked determinately into Recovery Girl's squint eyes. "If you're not willing to heal her arm, then I'll do other sorts of training with her while waiting for her arm to heal!"

"You're kidding, right?" Recovery Girl grimaces at the thought of having a patient training while injured.

"No, I'm serious. She has to be my successor."

She began rubbing her temples and gave a small sigh. "I suppose once you've set your mind on doing something, you'll do it anyway. It'd be bad if she hurt her arm while doing other sorts of training… I'll heal her on one condition: teach her how to utilize her quirk properly."

All Might's and Izuku's faces lit up, and both in sync said, "Thank you very much!"

With that said, Recovery Girl kisses Izuku's other arm, and she immediately felt sluggish to the point she almost fell down. Izuku alerted herself by grabbing the one of the bed's handle to prop herself back up. Recovery Girl stares at Izuku who's struggling to stand up a bit. "Young lady, I'm surprised that you didn't instantly fall asleep from that, but you should really rest-"

GURGGGGLLE! Izuku's face immediately flushed red at the loud noise of her stomach. The other two just stared at her for a bit until they began to laugh.

"I guess you're one of those people who can't rest on an empty stomach. " Recovery Girl chuckled.

If there was a hole in the wall to crawl and hide in, Izuku really needed it more than the food she wants to eat. As a result, Izuku received a bento from Recovery Girl and proceeded to head home and rest for the entire day.

It was around 6 am when Midoriya arrived at Dagobah Municipal Beach Park, which didn't look like a park at all with the surrounding garbage heaps. All Might in baggy sweatpants and hoodie waved towards her. She waves back and dashes towards him. He gets out a clipboard and pen. "Okay, Young Midoriya. Before I explain what you'll be doing, I'd like you to demonstrate and explain your quirk…From my understanding, you can breathe fire and attract things?"

"Yeah. It's a slap-on hybrid of my parents' quirks. I can breathe fire like my dad and attract things towards me like my mom." Izuku stretched her arm outwards towards a garbage heap, and a torn bear plushie immediately came flying to her grasp. Izuku puffed a tiny flame onto the dirty plush and drops it on the ground before the fire got to her hand. She blankly looks at the burning doll. "However, I can breathe larger flames than my dad and attract bigger things than my mom…"

All Might nod as he jots down some notes and asks, "Any other weaknesses or additional notes?"

"Oh...There's quite a lot. The more weight load I attract, the more my body temperature rises to the point faint, vomit, or go up in flames…"

All Might nearly drop his pen while writing that down. "Go up in flames?" That kinda explains her burning body last time…

"Yup. I don't burn up easily thanks to having some resistance to heat, but I can if hit the limit...I don't even know what the limit is because I faint before then... Haha…" Izuku chuckles emptily. "Anyways, to reduce the additional heat within my body, I tend to puff out some small flames because my body cools down when I do that…However, I can suffer from frostbite or hypothermia if I breathe too large of a flame...like in the marketplace…"

Noticing the gradual increase in her depressive mood, All Might slaps her back as he transform into muscle form. She collapses to the sand as the pain from her back overtook her. "Look here, Young Midoriya."

When she looks up to All Might, capturing sounds from a phone was heard. She instantly blushes and wonder why he took a picture of her. She then observes All Might as he walks towards the garbage heap covering the beach horizon.

Smash! Bunch of garbage flattened and flew out to the other heaps as he smacked them down. The beach side view cleared up a bit, and she could see dawn creeping up the horizon. He flashes a bright smile towards and beams, "This is what you'll be doing!"

"I can't do that!" was Izuku's immediate response. Her green eyes widen as she clasps her mouth. She can't smack garbage like that!

"HAHAHA!" laughs All Might. "You take things quite literal, don't you? I meant get rid of all this garbage without using your quirk before U.A. entrance exam rolls around."

She nervously looks around the loads of garbage around her.

She had to haul all of this before UA entrance exam arrives…all of this trash…without her quirk…Her eyes were spinning as she kept murmuring at the possibility of her cleaning up all of this.

"Damn. That funny look makes me want to take a picture of you again. Haha." Izuku's instantly snapped back from her daze to blush even more. All Might continued, "Jokes aside. If I gave you my quirk right now, you're going to hurt all your limbs - like pop them off!"

"Not my limbs again!" She cries out loud as she thought about her arms getting crushed a few days ago.

"So don't worry, I'll get you in top shape in physical ability and quirk-wise to the best of my ability! Hahaha!" laughed All Might. He flips out a large packet with the words American Dream to be a Hero and smiles brightly towards her. With shaking hands, she took the book and listened to the further explanation of what she'll be doing with her quirk.

The ten months of hero training finally began.

Every day, about 5:30 am, Izuku would begin hauling various trash from the beach to the best of her physical capability. It was difficult at first because it was impossible for her to lift a lot of weight in the beginning. However, she worked her way up the "weights" from filled trash bags to tires to larger appliances like fridges and torn counters.

In addition to her weight training, she participated in a similar quirk training from the Hell that occurs in U.A. summer camp for heroics students. Izuku followed the garbage pickup truck to the incineration center to help take out the trash from the truck and burn them with her dual-like quirk. This made her constantly sick and nauseated while she struggled to control the outputs of her quirk. According to All Might, this strengthens her sensitivity to temperature fluctuations within her body, so she'll be able to use her quirk properly for an extended period of time.

Around 7:30 am, she'd rush home to get ready for school: shower, eat, and pack up. Izuku tends to barely make it to class by the time she arrives to school at 8:00 am.

Throughout the whole school day, she'd sit through the ordinary yet interesting classes while sheepishly taking the notes. Everybody finally ignores her, even Kacchan and his goons.

It's been a couple months since that sludge incident. She was able to eat her lunch, doodle a bit in class breaks, and go home in peace. Sure, she'd meet the glare of Kacchan every now and then when she looks at him, but she hasn't been beaten down by him for a while now. Izuku could really sink into this mundane routine of training, going to school, and training some more at-

"What are you doing?" The voice she didn't want to hear broke her train of thought behind her while she was packing up her bag. Izuku turns around to see it really was him, Kacchan. Just my luck as I was thinking about this peaceful time!

"Um-umm. H-hey, Kacchan! As you can see, I'm ge-ge-getting ready to go home by packing up my bag!" Izuku smiles nervously as she found herself facing a seething monster in front of her.

"Why haven't you registered for another school?"

"What do you mean?" Instantly, an explosion flew to the side of her head as she answered his question.

"Don't 'what do you mean' me! I overheard from the teachers that you were still applying to only UA!" As he stomped closer to her, she found herself being cornered the way to the wall behind her. "Dekuu…Do you still plan to be a hero or some shit?! After I clearly heard you won't!"

Izuku grimaces. Of course, he was confronting her about this again. That's all he ever cares about: having her beneath him, constantly.

Another explosion went incoming towards Izuku; this time, it landed on her face. A small, stinging red mark popped up on her right cheek. Kacchan continued, "Don't you dare give me that look, DEKU! Answer me, goddammit! Why are you still going to UA?!"

The time she was enjoying the peace was really the calm before another storm. Tears of frustration begin to well up in her eyes as she held onto to her uniform skirt. This time will be different. She glares back up to his wrathful red eyes and angrily yells back, "Why does it matter to you if I still go to UA?! I could be just there for General Education!"

BAM!

"'Could be'?!" He scoffs. She said the wrong thing. The explosion landed onto the wall the behind her. She finally arrived with no clear escape exit as he had one hand squeezing her shoulder, completely pinning her down. His crazed face was inches away from hers as he huffed out, "So you're still trying to be a hero, haah?"

"N-no. Of. Of c-course not! I was just saying that UA isn't...all about Heroics…and I'm just th-there for general education..." She stammered back to him.

His crimson red eyes peered into hers for the truth, "Oh realllly?!"

"Y-yes. I'm just going to UA…for General Education…" She had to look back into his eyes, or else he'll know that she's blatantly lying! Her heart was beating to the point she wanted to vomit, but she couldn't. Is it working? There's a limit to how much she could look into his glaring red eyes! Just as she was about to look away, he forcefully releases his grip, and she falls to the ground.

"Tch." His hands were back in his pockets, and he began to walk away. "You better be!"

And he left just like that, Izuku was once again all alone in the classroom.

It's so frustrating…why does he always treat me like that? We weren't always like that… As Izuku began to think such thoughts, her welled up tears finally began to fall. It took her awhile to settle down and finally head back home to continue her own self-training.

As he walks away from the classroom, he heard her cry, and it hurts him. It was a weird pain-like sensation in his chest. This is so called feeling of 'love' and 'care'; understanding this, it frustrates him. That's why he must stop thinking about her. She just makes his head and entire body hurts more as he thinks of her. Izuku weakens him.

Make her stop wanting to be a hero. Make her quit following him. Make her hate him. That's what he needs to do rid of the strange feeling he has. Katsuki silently resolved this as he walked home.

"Come on! Get up! You can't be a hero at this rate if you're so exhausted! Kak!" Even though he was coughing a bit of blood, All Might kept yelling at Izuku, who collapsed on the ground.

When she tried to get back up, nausea suddenly hit her like a train. Vomit violently exits her body and burns her throat in the process. She flips to her side as she threw up even more. All Might's pumped look switched into a concerned one, and he takes a closer look at her. Izuku's face flushed as he touched her face. She croaked out, "U-um. All Might! Pl-please d-do-don't touch me! I'm dirty!"

"You're not following the American Dream to be a Hero at all, are you?" Izuku froze. Seeing her reaction, he sighs. "Young Midoriya, there's a method to my madness. Pushing yourself and doing more training is going to have the opposite effect."

"I'm sorry," apologized Izuku with a downcast look in her face. A few seconds later, tears began to fall to the ground. "I-I wanted to be strong as soon as possible, and I felt that your training wasn't enough for that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sir."

Izuku started to tear up now. All Might tried to calm her down, but she didn't hear him at all. Yet, she tearfully kept muttering her apologies to the point bystanders began to gather up.

"What is that creepy skeleton man doing to that poor girl?"

"That girl is clearly sick with that amount of puke on the ground."

"Should we call the police?"

All Might immediately start to pale and panic as he heard the whispers of the bystanders. He whispered to Izuku, "Um. Midoriya, can you stop that? We're in trouble…"

"I'm sorry for- oh." Breaking out of her trance, she realized what a big crowd she and All Might have attracted. He grabs her arm, and they clumsily dashed out of the scene. When they got back to the beach park, Izuku collapses to the sand from exhaustion again - and to hide with All Might away from the crowd among the trash heaps. Despite being short on breath, Izuku still went to apologize to him again, "Sir, I-I'm sorry…about the crowd…and-"

"Midoriya, stop talking. You're not well." Midoriya closes her mouth, and All Might crouch right next to her on the sand. "You know, I don't think it's a bad thing to have the desire to be strong as soon as possible, so…"

He immediately went into his muscle form and pulled her limp body up to stand together with him. All Might flash a grin towards her dazed eyes. "So let me adjust the plan properly, so you won't kill yourself this time!"

"Thank you, sir…" She tried her best to smile back while holding her tears back.

Izuku honestly felt too blessed.

Too blessed to have the number one hero to be her mentor. Too blessed to have him care so much about her. Too blessed for him put up with her selfish desires. Too blessed for him to do so much for her.

At the back of her mind, she thought to herself, "Do I deserve this treatment?"

Before she knew it, summer vacation has arrived. Four months already passed since the sludge incident, and Izuku has turned 15 years old.

"Happy 15th Birthday, Izuku~"

Pop! Midoriya's mom pulls out a small popper upon her daughter's entrance to the living room. Thin paper streamers flutter towards Izuku's face as she rubs her eyes clean from last night's sleep.

Seeing her mother's excited face, Izuku couldn't help but smile back as well. Then she was guided to the dining area where a tiny, green cake was sitting on the table with a number '1' candle lit onto it. Izuku couldn't help to smile again and crack a lame joke. "Mom, am I one year old again?"

Her mother chuckles nervously at her joke. "The candle doesn't signify your age, but it signifies you always being number one in my heart."

"Mom…That's so corny…" Izuku could feel the tears swelling up in her eyes.

"Come on, dear. Make a wish and blow out the candle before too much wax gets on your green tea cake." She held up the tiny cake to her daughter for her to blow.

I wish everything to continue to be the same: peaceful and happy.

Making her vague wish, Izuku blows out the candle and shares the half of the tiny cake with her mom. After finishing their cake proportions, her mother pulls out a green envelope and hands it to her. "Open it, sweetie."

Her mother's green eyes were brimming with excitement as Izuku opened the envelope. Izuku pulled out a ticket and a couple ten thousand-yen bills. She looks at the ticket and reads it out loud, "31st Annual All Might Convention on July 20th? Mom! This is…too much…Thank you, Mom."

Izuku began to tear up, gripping the ticket and money in her hand tightly. Her mother then walks on over to hug her. "Anything for you, my precious daughter."

Izuku hugs her mom back, and mutters one more time, "Thank you, Mom. You're the best."

Five days later

Izuku ties up her long, curly green hair with her All Might theme hair tie. Dressed in her Silver Age All Might hoodie over a plain white t-shirt, tan cargo shorts, and bright red shoes, she was ready to roll with her duffle bag strapped to her shoulder. Just as she opened her apartment door, her mother called out to her.

"Izuku." Her mother wore a worried expression. She had knees nervously glued together as she kept fiddling with her fingers.

"Yes, Mom. What's wrong?"

"Izuku, do you have everything? Ticket? Did you make sure to keep your money in a safe place? Did you get the packed lunch and bring plenty of water? You didn't forget the pepper spray, did you? Ah-"

"Mom. Don't worry. I got everything that was listed is in my bag except the pepper spray because I never knew we even had that." Izuku bear hugs her mom and grins at her one more time before leaving. "I'm going to go now! I love you, Mom!"

"Love you, too, dear! Stay safe and make sure to call me when you get there!"

Izuku quickens her pace as she passes the colorful streets of Musutafu to the train station. Upon her arrival to the train, she picks the closest seat to the exit and sat by herself. After a few minutes, she decides to pull her hood over her head and take a selfie to send to her mom and All Might.

She had asked him on her birthday if he wanted to go to the convention with her, but…

"Hey All Might, do you want to go to the 31st All Might Convention with me?" Izuku, all sweaty after workout, continued to beam at him.

He scratches his neck in a nervous manner and responds, "Going to my own convention this year with you? Hahaha...That's a bit too much for me…Feels off…"

"Hmmm…I guess it is a bit weird to go to a convention that's all about yourself, and it's been awhile since your last appearance, too…" Izuku mumbles to herself, and she comes to a sudden epiphany. "But you don't need to go as 'All Might'! You can just go there with me as you are now!"

His heart squeezed at her sunshine smile. He chuckles a bit at her response and looks away from her, covering his face. Izuku tries to get him to face her, but he kept dodging her. Finally, he looks down the sandy floor and mutters, "I'm sorry, Young Midoriya…I've got plans that day…"

"It's okay! I'll make sure to send you some pictures, then!"

…Izuku wonders what his plans are for today. Is it going to be a surprise appearance at the convention? Because it's been five years since his last appearance at the convention...the time he mysteriously disappeared for a while...and the time he got his injury and became the skeleton he is today…

Izuku slaps her freckled cheeks a bit. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts. Don't be so down on a fun day like this.

For the past hour, Izuku looks out to the passing city background. She plugs in some earbuds to listen and makes quick sketches of All Might on her sketchpad. There was another half an hour to go until she gets to where she needs to be – the Tokyo Brobdingnag Site, the largest convention center in Tokyo. Every 15 minutes, the train stops for 5 minutes at a station for each major neighborhood it passes by along the way to the seaside. People would continue to squeeze in and out of the train each stop, even the 4th stop right now. They began to settle in their seats like usual. Izuku paid no mind to the changes in her seat neighbor that happened each stop and continued to draw in her sketchbook.

Boom! Around Izuku's pencil immediately broke off the pad and flew into her neighbor's face. Her earbuds popped out of her ears as a loud commotion was being made by the passengers.

"There was a villain attack at the front of the train! Everyone, run!"

Everybody was in a state of panic and attempted to run to the back of the train or hide behind their seats. Izuku had to do latter the best because her neighbor, an enormous old man in a trench coat, was blocking her exit! Loud snoring noises joined the chaotic sounds of panicking passengers. Izuku finds the source of the noise was the old man. After all, drool could be seen dripping out from his mouth to the bottom of his scarred left cheek as he wore the silly sleeping mask over his eyes.

"Mister...I'm sorry about the pencil…but we need to move to a safer place, sir." said Izuku as she pokes him in the shoulder. No response. Her neighbor didn't budge at all to her warning – or the commotion around him. He was so peaceful in his sleep that she could forget the predicament they were all in. Some kept banging on the train doors to open up while others cowered in their seats from fear.

BOOM! Another explosion was felt by her and the passengers. This time, the shockwave was much closer and behind them. At this point, most people forgot about the villain attack from one minute ago and began to dash further to the front of the train. All sorts of people emerged from other compartments through the room: freaked out, limping, injured, and crying from pain. In amidst hellish scene, the old man was still asleep!

Izuku couldn't get out of her seat at all as she became sandwiched under the weight of the large man from the second explosion's shockwave. She had to wake him up! She balled up her fists and began to hit the entire left side of his body in a rapid manner.

"Sir! Please wake up!" Izuku nervously kept yelling at him as she continued to hit him.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?!" Her arms were pushed away instantly as he jolts up to his side from his slumber.

"FINALLY! Took you long enough to get up! We're in trouble, sir!"

"WHAT KINDA TROUBLE DESERVES MY - Oh shit." He said as he pulled off his sleep mask to see the commotion and smoke around them. "We are in trouble."

"Yes! We have to move! Mo-"

KA BOOM! Instantly, the old man grabbed her in a tight hug to shield her from the blast with his back towards the explosion. A bomb has gone off in the room Izuku was currently in. It was the third one to go off in two minutes since the first one. The dust cleared a bit from until explosion, but fire rampaged everywhere. The layout of the train has become unrecognizable as the surrounding walls and structures collapses on top of each other. The debris even trapped some people. Izuku's heart rate began racing. This was bad. We have to hurry and get the others away if a compartment was going to explode each minute!

"What the hell are the heroes doing…" He grumbled. Blood dripped on her face as she looks up to him in shock.

"Sir! Are you alrigh-?!"

"Raaaghh!" Veins could be seen popping out on his head as he uses immense strength to shove all the rubble off his back. Finally, he releases her from his grip as he gets up and surveys his hellish surroundings. As he turned around, Izuku sees blood soaking the trench coat on his broad back. He immediately hopped over the debris to help a young lady collapsed underneath the rubble nearby.

"Wait!" Izuku followed in pursuit of the old man through the destructed path. He holds up the rubble for the lady to crawl out, but she couldn't.

"What are you doi-" Just as he was about to yell at her for doing nothing, she did something. She attracted the fragile lady out of the debris at full force before the train shakes again from an explosion again that happens in the distance.

That was the fourth explosion. What the hell is going on?! The old man thought to himself as he dons his brass knuckles and mask on. Well. It didn't matter to him. He will find the person responsible for these explosions and beat them up like usual. A small tap on his bloodied back broke his trance.

"What are you doing, sir?" A pair of worried green eyes flickered back to him.

"Gonna to punch the Hell outta whoever pulled this crap." The man had a maniac grin as he said that and dashed towards the fourth explosion.

"Wait!" Izuku said again, but he already disappeared through the smoke. She was just left alone there with the staggering lady, who had simple hair braids and sunglasses on.

He has a mask on and stuff...Is he a hero on a break? I hope he'll be okay…

"Is it you who set up the bombs?!" Knuckleduster held up the half-dead punk in a bomber like outfit and began shaking him for an answer. No go. He carried the punk to the outside. Dammit. The perpetrator is definitely disguised among the victims…but who is it?

As the old man searched for suspects and intimidated some for an answer, he also rescued them by clearing a path for them to the outside. He continued this arduous process for several minutes now until more heroes came in and told him to stop whatever he was doing.

"Nope." He grinned and dashed off further up the train.

"Wait, sir!" The hero initially dashed after him, but decided it was not worth their time to be chasing after him and secured other nearby injured people instead.

The old man looked and looked. No suspicious movement from anyone. In fact, it seems like the explosions have stopped for a while.

Are they done? Have they left the scene? It's so weird that they would just set off four explosions in intervals, and leave it at that…

Through the train wreckage, he continued looking for the perpetrator because a gut feeling is telling him it's not over yet.

With the faint woman on her shoulders, Izuku orientated her way out to the outside while smoke and flames engulfed the train. As she passed through the area, she noticed many others that needed help. Kids crying behind flames. People yelping the word 'Help' in all directions. Others dead silent, buried under the rubble. She wanted to help them all, but what can she do?

Her eyes were stinging. Smoke was choking her. She could feel herself burning up as her whole body resonated with the surrounding heat. Yet she kept moving, she was moving through the screams, cries, and blood of others! I'm sorry. You guys have to wait…I'm certain heroes are already here… and I'll come back for you all as well…I promise…

When she saw the outside, she was immediately grasped by branches from a falling train structure with the woman. It was a hero!

"You've done well, kid- ouch!" Kamui Woods retracts his branch-like fingers from her and drops her on the floor as he attempts to gets rid of the tiny flame that got on his finger. Perplexed by why he suddenly caught on fire for a second, he continued, "It looks like you're well enough to walk, so you can go on ahead right to that cleared area."

"There's multiple people that need help in there!" Right when she was about to grab him, he flinched away instantly.

"You're kinda…uh…burning up?" He was right; her whole body felt like it was on fire. "So, rest easy and get yourself checked up. The pro-heroes got this, alright?"

Then, she followed Kamui to the cleared area and settled down as she was told. Izuku peers into the distance of the wrecked train to see some of the people she mentioned come out with the heroes. She lets out a relieved sigh and continues to hope for the safety of the old man that chased after the villain.

"Ami! Where are you?! Kaugh!"A young man rushed right into the rescued area, coughing small amounts of blood as he distraughtly yelled for 'Ami'. Medics tried to attend to him, but he shoved them away. The man had unusually, orange-padded fingers along with four blue-padded fingers among the ten as he held his hands close to his mouth to yell for his loved one.

The lady with braids sitting right next to Izuku responded back sweetly, "I'm here!"

She was awake this whole time?

'Ami' was immediately embraced in a hug by the yelling man. Izuku couldn't help but smile at the heartwarming scene in front of her. After all, the person she saved is reunited with her loved one. Izuku's face flushed bright red and hot as she looked away from the couple locking their lips in an intensely kiss.

"EVERYTHING'S FINE NOW, FOR I AM HERE!" A familiar shout rang through the station. With that one line, her worries certainly did wash away. All Might stood on top of the train, holding many people just like in his debut many years ago among the fire and wreckage. From those around her and herself were endless cheering.

BOOM! All Might tumbles with the many people he held when the train shook. After that explosion, five more consecutive explosions followed in various areas: the train, the train station, and a couple cleared rescued areas like the one Izuku was in. The explosions were more intense than the ones that occurred inside the train.

It was a landscape from Hell. Civilians were not the only ones injured; now, even pro-heroes were injured, too. People were dashing towards the collapsed exit of the station. Heroes that were able to move tried to guide the panicking people and save other injured people. All Might is nowhere to be sighted yet. Worry overcame Izuku again. Her whole body began to burn up again. She couldn't stop breathing heavily and wanted to vomit.

All Might…Old man…Everyone…

"That's a pretty expression." In her blurry vision, Izuku looks up to see the owner of the voice was the lady with braided hair. Izuku instantly paled. The lady was painted with so much blood on her chest and mouth. The man who hugged Ami was completely collapsed on the ground, in his own puddle of blood. "Mifuda-san, how did the maximum potential of using your quirk feel?"

The lady named 'Ami' crouched down to hold his cold, blue-padded fingers to her face. Izuku couldn't see her face clearly, but she knew the lady had a twisted smile on her bloodied face. With her honey-like voice, she whispered on, "I bet it felt amazing…"

What am I doing? I need to get away from this crazy lady…Izuku forced her nausea-afflicted body to move, but the Ami's swift movements caught up with hers.

"Where do you think you're going? I have to give my savior a thank-you present!" Her agape mouth was instantly locked with Ami's. Izuku's immediate response was to breathe out fire, but this insane lady had her breathless in the iron-tasting kiss. When she was finally released, she puffed put large scale flames to her surroundings to which Ami effortlessly dodged. Izuku'z body turned cold right when the fire left her mouth, but her body burned up again right afterwards. What is going on…

"Oof! That was dangerous! You almost burnt my lips off!" Ami blew off the tiny embers that caught on her braids. Izuku sloppily runs to her and tries to grab her. Ami moves to the side, causing Izuku to slip and fall. Her body was getting hotter every second, and her heart feels like it's about to explode with the rate it's beating at. It hurts!

"With my gift, you can do whatever you want to do right now!" Ami squealed with excitement as she walked away from Izuku. "So, show me your marvelous accomplishments, okay?"

Wait!

The sunglasses lady with braided hair vanished from her sight before she could even stand up and chase after her.

"You can do whatever you want to do right now…" Those sweet words rang in Izuku's pounding head. For some reason, those words were making sense despite coming from a crazy woman.

The sleeves of her hoodie and cargo pants began to ignite. In response, she took the burning clothes off as fast as she could with her snail-like movements before the fire could consume her entire body. She was swaying back and forth as she tried to stand up; her whole body was hurting – like the skin-cracking sense of pain.

"I…can do…whatever I want …" Izuku huffed out slowly. Her heartbeat grew faster at the thought of that. Large flames exited her mouth and flew into the surrounding blaze. Her whole body became cold again when she blew the fire. However, Izuku's body quickly warmed up as it sucked the surrounding heat from nearby fire.

I want to help people.

It was an endless process of cooling down by blowing fire to the her surroundings and mysteriously heating herself up as she aimlessly wandered around the wreckage of the train station, searching for collapsed survivors. Many have already left the vicinity in a panic from earlier, but there must be people that couldn't move around at all like inside the train.

Listening through the shouts, crackling of flames, and rushing water, she was able to sort out a single cry for help very close by. It was from a little girl cornered by rubble and fire. Izuku knew just what to do with her ability. The little girl came flying at the lightening speed to her grasp. Screams from the girl pierced her eardrums right when Izuku touched her. Izuku collapses to the ground as pain swallowed her blood red hands.

"Mommy! It hurts! It hurts!" The little girl's crying echoed in her thrashing head. Her rapid heartbeat is vibrating in her eardrums when she saw the burns on the little girl's arms.

What am I doing…

The familiar figure of an old man grabs the crying girl away from her. Another nearby survivor following the old man screams the phrase she dreaded the most being called as, "Help! It's the villain!"

Izuku's body flared even more, igniting the remaining clothes she had on herself. She wanted to apologize, but that made it worse when she blew out another large set of flames towards the people running away from her. They were all screaming at the hideous sight of her.

She wanted to cry, but the instant she did, the tears evaporated as her body heated up again. She wanted to control the outputs of her quirk, but she couldn't at all…even though that's what she trained on so much these past few months.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry!

Izuku refrained from breathing anymore flames out, but she winces at the pain circulating through her whole body. Her body felt like cracking – no, it is cracking.

Izuku was cracking. Her head felt so dead, and she was hurting everywhere. She couldn't help herself to release more large-scale flames to her surroundings, causing even more chaos as it added onto the surrounding blaze.

"Help! It's the villain!" A faraway scream was heard inside the destroyed train station as All Might set down more injured civilians and pro-heroes to a safe place. He instantly headed back inside the station to face the perpetrator of these atrocious explosions.

He was prepared to see the hellish scene again, but he was not prepared to see who the villain was. It is impossible for her to be one!

It was a horrifying sight. People were running away, and others were on the floor, screaming from the burns they've obtained. An old man in a mask passed by All Might as he carried a little girl, screaming for her mother as she held onto her charred arm. In amidst this chaos, Izuku was in the center of with her bloody appearance.

Izuku's bare skin was burning red to the point the incision scars she had on her whole upper body and arms glowed white. Her arms and legs were literally cracking with blood everywhere. She kept breathing large flames everywhere like a dragon on a rampage. All Might instantly rush to rescue injured and other bystanders from the incoming flames. Up close, he could see she looked calm after breathing the fire, but her expression instantly turned into a painful one.

"I got this." A dark figure with yellow, visor goggles swept past All Might while he carried the injured to the exit. White fabric was instantly wrapped around her whole body and face. In response, she began to wriggle to no avail of getting out. Eraser Head, the hero restraining her, grumbled, "You should really just lay down, already. My dry eyes are going to be excessively dry now…"

Then, he swung her to the ground with his scarf. At least, he thought he did until he realized his scarf around her broke off.

What the hell? I thought I erased her quirk! He accidentally blinked from the shock of her breaking his tool. Shit!

Flames broke out in a second. The fabric around her melted and stuck to her body. Eraser Head immediately reactivated his quirk before she could blow a second set of flames. A screech filled the whole area when she couldn't breathe anymore fire. After the screech, she kept coughing blood while her skin-cracked hands were clamping onto her own neck…it was like she was trying to kill herself!

Seeing that, All Might dashes towards her in a flash after setting the rescued down near the exit. He quickly rips her hands away from her neck, and forcefully restrains them behind her back.

"I'm sorry, Midoriya." All Might said as he knocks her down to the ground. Cheers from the survivors and other pro-heroes filled the whole station when Izuku stayed down. All Might didn't feel like doing so, but he still turned around to give his usual smile to reassure the masses he got it under control. Right when he tried to do that, he sensed some movement from behind and dodged the stumble from Izuku. He hugs her tightly from behind to prevent her from moving anywhere else.

What…in the world…How is she still not down?

Her breathing was erratic and shallow. Likewise, it could be said the same for how fast her heart is beating at like it wants to come out of her chest. Her skin was dry, cracking, and still blood red. When he thought of how unusually hot her body is now, he begins to recall the nature of her quirk...

"…more weight load I attract, the more my body temperature rises to the point faint, vomit, or go up in flames…"

"I don't burn up easily thanks to having some resistance to heat, but I can if hit the limit..."

"…to reduce the additional heat within my body, I tend to puff out some small flames because my body cools down when I do that…"

She could die if she doesn't release any heat from her body!

Coming to the quick understanding behind Midoriya's mysterious symptoms, All Might shouts towards Eraser Head, "Eraser Head, stop your quirk! I got her!"

"Are you crazy?! There's still people around to be eva–"

"Just trust me!" And so, Eraser Head just complied. He released her quirk, and simultaneously, another set of large flames spewed out. However, it was away from the civilians as All Might directed Izuku away from them.

Her bloodied and dry-cracked fingers kept digging into his arms to be released from. She won't stop breathing the flames like her life depended on it. All Might could feel her body temperature constantly fluctuated as she puffed out fire. It went from hot to cold every time she spewed fire, and cold to hot as she absorbed nearby heat. More dried blood and salt gunk gathered in the corners of her wild, whiten eyes as she blew the flames everywhere. Now, it seemed like…she was crying and conscious of being around him…

"It's okay, Midoriya. Everything's fine. I'm here." He whispers towards her. It looks like his words still couldn't get through her as she still wriggled against his grip on her. Survivors and pro-heroes around them kept cheering him on that he restrained the struggling 'villain'. All Might could feel her body burning up even more while the cheers grew louder. He couldn't even a crack the heroic smile he needed to do again right now.

This is not what I wanted, nor what she wanted as well.

"You did your best, so please calm down. Everything will be alright, please trust me…Izuku…" All Might had his head down as he talked softly and hugged her even tighter.

Izuku's struggling finally slowed down to a stop as she puffed out smaller flames now. Her body wasn't as hot as before. And then, she was finally still.

No, she was finally subdued. After all, that's what the whole crowd celebrated when they saw her go down.

Endnote rant: And so the tragedy finally begins! It's a real tragedy that Izuku's first kiss was stolen by a crazy woman who activates her quirk by kissing, amrite? *cues "I Kissed a Girl"by Katy Perry* (jk. plz don't kill me.)

I hope the side-effects of Izuku's quirk is a bit clearer in this chapter (I mean, I tried to put a few smol hints here and there in the first chapter). Here's a simplified explanation if you're confused: Izuku suffers from something like heat exhaustion or heat stroke when she attracts too many objects (and too much heat, now). When she uses too much body heat to breathe fire, she can suffer from symptoms similar to frostbite and hypothermia. You can say, her dual quirk is pretty troublesome compared to Todoroki's.

Now worries, who Mifuda-san is and his quirk will be further explained in the next chapter (but I think some of y'all may have an idea of what it is. Here's a lil hint: Mifuda = Tag). The mysterious 'Ami' will be further discussed in the next chapter, too.

Whew. A lil over 7000 words to start a tragedy. I guess this is what they call a slow-burn fanfic. This could be like my 25 pages of a research proposal and introduction. We're still in the beginning of the whole story, too. It'll probably be awhile till I post chapter 3, considering how long it actually took me to type out and revise chapter 2 to make sure it makes sense and flows. What makes sense to the writer doesn't necessarily mean it'll make sense to the readers, so I'd like to hear more of y'all's opinions and ideas on this.