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Months have past upon meeting Luffy and the two training to help Izuku become more stronger with his rubber power. And let's just say, some things changed. Well, only two.
The first thing: with his training and encouragement, Luffy made the once nervous boy into a brave, confident child. Losing the fear and nervousness Katsuki put into him from his torture, Izuku felt ready to tackle any obstacles in his way.
And then was the second. Izuku was told by Luffy that since was reincarnation, he would inherited the 'D.' in his name.
The boy recognized this as from something he heard from a book he read where it was called the "the will of D.".
With this, Izuku decided to reshape his name to add the D. in. And with some recommendations from Luffy that weren't that good, he managed to do it.
From now on, Midoriya D. Izuku was ready to take on what it means to be a Hero.
Let's check out what's happening in the current present, shall we?
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Right now, Izuku was at a place known as "Takoba Municipal Beach Park," an area that was once popular with the locals before some jackasses decided to trash the place. Now, it was littered with trash, all over.
Izuku was there because it was the place he chose to continue his training. While he was doing that, Izuku also cleaned up piles of the garbage. Unaware a skinny skeleton-like figure was watching him from afar when he was here on his training days.
The boy was currently cleaning the beach as he grabbed tons of garbage before hulling it to the dump on top of the parking area.
"Whew! Finally, this hunk of junk isn't gonna be making this place as half as dirty as it use to be. All of this work is making me hungry, though.,." He said while dumping the trash into the bin.
"You'rw gwtting good at use Gum-Gum Fruit's power, hwh?" Luffy responded while eating from his head.
"Yeah. I'm able to use most of the moves. But I still have a long way to go. Good thing I wrote them down in my notebook to list them of-"
"Oh my! This is so outstanding!" A feminine voice pulled him out of his conversation. He turned to see a girl with raven hair looking at the contents of his notebook, which freaked him out a little because he remembered the doctor's warnings. But thankfully he didn't write anything like that in it. Just the moves.
She, too, also noticed him and looked surprised for a bit.
"Oh, I didn't know someone was here! Is this yours?" She asked while holding the notebook.
"Yeah, it is." He replied, stretching his arm and grabbed the notebook just before reeling it back towards him.
"Amazing!" She said in awe. "Is that your Quirk?"
"Uh... yeah. It's called Gum-Gum, allows me to stretch and bend my body like rubber. So I became a rubber boy." He pulls his cheek to show off the rubber effect on his body.
"Amazing!" She said, awed by the rubber effect on his body.
"Here. Try it." He puts his arm out to her. She moved her hand but hesitate before touching his arm, feeling the rubbery feel of it.
"Wow..."
While the girl was feeling and playing with his rubber skin, Izuku was kind of freaking out and feeling... hot. His face was pink with a blush on his face.
"This is amazing! It looks like it can stretch really far away, probably even more!"
"Not-not really... it has a limit."
"Really? How far?"
"72 Gum-Gums."
Now that was just confusing.
"Wh... What does that mean?"
He just shrugged while making a blank face.
"I just call the limit like that. It's how far I can stretch whenever I allow it to. Not only can I can stretch..." He takes his arm back before inhaling some air, causing his body to inflate like a balloon.
"...I can do this, too." He explained before blowing the air out.
"That move of yours..." She remembered back at the notebook to remember the moves he listed down and recalled seeing a person looking like a balloon. "You listed it as 'Gum-Gum Balloon'?"
"Yeah. I have a lot of other moves I listed in there."
"I see... I also want to apologize for looking at it without knowing it was yours. And I believe we haven't introduced ourselves, correct? I am Momo Yaoyorozu."
"Yaoyorozu? You mean you're the actual daughter/heir to the Yaoyorozu Corps? The business that involves with everything in the world? From clothes to business in the stockmarket to the scientists dealing with the knowledge Quirks and Devil Fruits?!"
"Um... yes. My family have ties in business that made us well known in the world, but I don't like to brag alot about it."
"Okay, then. I'm Midoriya D. Izuku. Midoriya is okay."
"'D.'?"
"It's a long story."
Soon, there a pregnant pause between the two.
"*ahem* So, Midoriya-san, what are you doing here?"
"I come here to train and clean the place, as you can tell." He mentioned the garbage bin being filled with trash from the beach.
"Amazing... you manage to pull this off? It's incredible!" She praised his efforts.
"Please, Yaoyorozu, it's enough for someone like you to praise me. Anyway, I do it as part of my training regiment to be able to become stronger to pass the U.A. Entrance Exams after I pass my three years of High School. Tomorrow's my last day as a first year."
"U.A.? You plan to head there?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I plan to head there to hope of achieving my dream of becoming a pro Heroine."
"Nice. Say, Yaoyorozu, what kind of Quirk do you have."
"I wouldn't say much..."
A pink glow came from her hand and a handkerchief formed in her palm.
"I called it Creation. It allows me to use the fat in my body to create non-organic things, but I also have to known the molecular structure in order to make it."
"Woah... now that's a powerful Quirk."
"Please, Midoriya. It's nothing to other Quirks out there."
"No, I am serious. You can probably make like a nuke or something, or maybe even beyond that. If you use your mind, with that Quirk, you'll be a force that no one should mess with."
Momo was now in surprise as her mouth was agape. For her life up until this point, she never thought of doing something like he said with her Quirk. All she thought of to make were staff poles, handkerchiefs and other things, but never do what he said with her own power.
It was the most insane thing to think of, actually.
"I... I never thought of that before. All I used it for was to create things like handkerchiefs and Russian porcelain dolls when I was a little girl…"
"Well, hopefully I gave you some new ideas."
The two soon looked at the sky to see that it slowly started to become dusk.
"Looks like it's gonna be late soon."
"Indeed. I should head back. My parents would probably be worried for me. Good day, Midoriya."
Just as she was about to walk away, Izuku held Momo back by her arm.
"Hold on, Yaoyorozu. Don't you think it'll be dangerous if you had on your own?"
"Well... yes, but there's no other choice."
"I don't think there is."
"What do you mean, Midoriya?"
"I'm saying... how about I walk you back home? Just so you can make it back safe." As he said that, a pink hue was begin to form. Same can be said for Momo, who pulled her arm back while having pink on her face.
"N-No, it's fine! I can go by myself! Thank you, though! Goodbye!" She then rushed off in a flustered way.
"Oh... alright, then."
"What was that all about?" Luffy asked.
"I have no idea." Izuku responded before turning back to the beach of garbage. "With that happened, I might as well continue cleaning the beach."
Izuku continued his cleaning duties for the beach just as it slowly was becoming cleaner and cleaner. Now fully night, Izuku placed the last piece of garbage.
"Ah! That's it for now. I'm gonna call it a day."
Growl!
"Now I'm hungry... hopefully Mom will have a huge meal back home..." He drooled at the thought of plates on a table with loads of food on them.
"Talking about meat is making me hungry, too..." Luffy remarked.
"How do you even get hungry? You're nothing but a spirit in my head."
"I don't know. I guess the feeling never left me, even after death."
So, our protagonist headed home. It was a short but long walk but the path he took was to the beach park was worth it, as it he got a good night's sleep.
A new dawn rises as the morning sun shines on his face.
"A new day, same old business." Izuku muttered to himself before doing his annual thing to prepare himself, saying goodbye to his mother and headed to school.
It was still the same, even though it was the last day and some months later he'll become a second year.
It was in the middle of first period, the whole lot of the class were talking with each other, minus Izuku and Katsuki, and the teacher was missing.
The door then slammed open and the teacher walked in, holding stack of papers that which places on his desk.
"All right, class. As you all known, this is your last day as First Year students. After that, you'll become Second Years. With this, the principal and staff decided to make you guys figure out what you'll do with your lives. I could pass out some career aptitude tests, but..."
He picks up the pieces of paper with a grin.
"Why bother?"
His grin turn into a smile as the teacher proceeds to toss the papers in the air.
"I know you all want to become Hero, right?"
The students got up and showed off their powers, while Izuku was still writing in his notebook and Katsuki had his legs on his desk.
"I get it, you all have some amazing Quirks. But you know the law, no Quirk usage in school."
"Hey, teach!" Katsuki called out. "Don't lump me with these losers. They'll be lucky enough to be a sidekick to some random D lister, hah!"
"You think you're better than us, Katsuki?!" The class booed at him, which he only laughed at.
"Big deal! C'mon, I can take you all on!"
The teacher looked at his papers to see that Katsuki planned to head to U.A. in the future.
"Oh yeah, Bakugo. You planned to head to U.A. once you're done with high school, right?"
Hearing this, everyone was taken back by the latter's choice.
"U.A.? As in that national university?!"
"They have a 0.2% acceptance rate! It's rare to get in!"
Katsuki then got up from his seat and stood on the desk before proceeding to make a bullshit speech about how he is only one of the school that is able to make it in and that lead him to become the greatest Hero of all, even more than the current Number One Hero, All Might.
Izuku didn't pay attention as he continued writing down in his notebook. However, the teacher then noticed something else that was gonna end the ash-blonde's confidence.
"Yeah... that's right. Midoriya, didn't you want to go to U.A. too?"
Katsuki was shocked by this news while everyone was silent... before proceeding to laugh.
"Seriously, Midoriya?!"
"You can't get in! You're Quirkless!"
As they all laughed and insulted him, Izuku looked down at his desk... to hide the small grin that was on his face.
"Think that all you want... I may be Quirkless, but I have my own power to help me."
Suddenly, he sensed a familiar attack coming and dodged to make Katsuki miss blasting an explosion.
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Deku?!" Katsuki retorted to the green teen, but Izuku was still focused on how he knew Katsuki was gonna attack.
"How the hell did I know that he was gonna attack me like that? Luffy would've warned me, but... it wasn't him."
"Are you trying to compete in the same ring as me? Don't forget that you're Quirkless!"
"Who knows?"
The explosive-boy stopped when he saw how he looked at him.
"Maybe I am."
Katsuki gritted his teeth before exploding around the room.
"You couldn't throw a punch when we were kids! What makes you think you can stand against me?! Stop dreaming!"
As he blasts around, the class cheered for the ash-blonde, hoping the boy would put the greenette in his place.
Speaking of Izuku, the boy stood his ground before he raised his fist.
"Couldn't throw a punch, you say?" He said, cracking his knuckles.
"Finish him off, Bakugo!"
"Fools like him don't have the right to live in reality!"
"DIE, DEKU!"
He charged at him, ready with an explosion in hand. However...
Izuku quickly punched the latter, making him crash into the ground from the force of his punch, leaving the mark of a fist in his face and knocking him unconscious.
That left everyone speechless as they saw the so-called weak Quirkless Deku punch the crap out of the student that they had high hopes of getting into U.A.
"H-Hey, Bakugo, knock it off will ya?" One student asked, not getting a response from the latter.
"Oi, Katsuki! Stop messing around and end him!"
Again, the ash-blonde couldn't respond due to being knocked out cold. The bell then rang, signaling that first period was over.
"You look down and underestimate people... Karma's gonna hit you like a bitch."
As Izuku said that, he grabbed his bag and was about to leave, when another student, a boy who was half-naked, showing off his muscles, attempted to attack him, but Izuku raised his fist again.
"What? You wanna taste what he felt?" This was enough to make the boy stop in fear.
Just as he was at the door, he was interjected.
"Midoriya, stop! You have to take Bakugo to the nurse!"
"Why should I?"
"Because you made him like that!"
"And? You told me to pick myself up and g to the nurse alone. Do the same for this idiot."
"Well... if you leave without doing it, you'll fail the whole two school years!" He said with a smug grin.
This wasn't even surprising for him.
"So what? Even if I was trying my hardest, you manipulation my grade to always be an F just for being Quirkless. It doesn't even matter anymore."
The teacher lost his grin as he saw Izuku leave the classroom. After that, as the day proceeded, no one bothered him.
With school over, Izuku made his way over to the beach park. As he looked at the sunset of the place of where he lived at in the Grand Line, he recalls everything in his life.
"Besides Mom and Luffy, no one else believes that I could be a Hero. But I don't need them to tell me that I can be one."
"You may be right, young man." An unfamiliar voice dragged his attention to see a scrawny blonde skeleton-like man wearing a jacket.
"Who are you?"
"Who am I is not important. I've been watching you and your progress for months."
"W-What are you talking about? Were you stalking me?"
"No, I was keeping tabs on you because... I know you able to be a Hero. Everything you had spells it out." The man said, surprising the boy.
"What did I even have?"
"Determination, courage, drive--all the things that a Hero has. Not only that, but... I see you worthy enough... to inherit my power."
"...WHAT?!"
Next time: "What's One For All? Saving a Future Lover".