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Lovers Incognito

Summary:

What happens when the quirkless loser finally finds a friend on a forum and falls in love, only for this "friend" to ghost him right as his bully starts acting way more ruthless than usual?
How will their relationship as enemies develop to maybe something less brutal but way more significant?

Or

That one online bf in middle school animation trend but make it fan fiction :P

Notes:

Hey guys!!
This is the first ever fic that I've ever written and english isn't my first language so please be nice :P

anyway very small TW for this chapter:
-self-deprication talk
-mention of abuse
-bullying

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Summer's Over

Chapter Text

Sophomore year Middle School, 2028

Summer vacation ended way too fast, in Izuku’s opinion. It felt as though it had been only yesterday that he could stay up late, texting on some random All Might fan forum he stumbled upon and then joined without thinking too much of it, without having to worry about waking up early the next day.

It’s not like there’s much to do when you’re a quirkless loser that people wouldn’t want to touch with a ten foot pole. And the ones that do are always cruel and harsh. Izuku stopped counting how many trips to the nearest makeup store he took to hide bruises from his mother. And if skin had been broken, he’d just say he ran into a door. Or fell down the stairs. Or slipped on ice during winter. He could make up any excuse on the spot. He’d gotten especially good at it, since he’s always trying to keep his mother in the dark about the abuse that he faces daily at school.

Just to clear up a bit; A quirk is a superhuman ability that 80% of the world has nowadays. It all started with a glowing baby. The parents were of course very shocked. After this glowing baby, the first human possessing a quirk, there came more and more. Eventually people started to realize that a quirk didn’t have to be just a flex and started using it for their own purposes, like seeking revenge, shoplifting, robbing banks and just crime in general. That’s when the most looked-up-to occupation nowadays started to gain popularity; the hero.

Up to this day there are many high schools that offer a hero course. Just some examples would be UA High, the most known and also where most of the high-ranking heroes went themselves, Shiketsu High, Ketsubutsu Academy, Seiai Academy and so on…

If you ask a kid what they wanna be when they grow up they won’t say a singer or a policeman/policewoman or any other occupation that once had been very liked, they’ll tell you that they want to be the next Nr. 1 hero.

Izuku Midoriya had also said that he’d save the day one day, like All Might, the current Nr. 1 hero. However, at the ripe age of four, he had found out that he did not possess a quirk, which meant that there was no way that his dream could ever come true. He’d just have to watch from the sidelines as other people would be able to live his dream, while he could only sit back and study to get at least a well-paid job.

They were now a bit into the start of the new semester. School started in March, so the summer vacation was much needed already. This day had been a hard day at school. He couldn’t wait to just plop on his bed and rest a bit before he’d have to get up to do his homework. His former childhood friend Kacchan (the nickname stuck even after their friendship eventually ended) had been in a particularly sour mood that day.

Izuku’s guess was that the blond had fought again with his mother that morning. They seem to always be at each other’s throats, Izuku doesn’t know how Mr. Bakugo manages to remain sane. That man is truly a saint.

He looked up from his pillow to get some air and saw a new notification from the All Might fan forum he recently joined. Joining that forum was truly one of the best decisions he’s ever made. He keeps his quirk, or rather his absence of one, hidden, to avoid any harassment on the internet as well as in his day to day life.

Dyn4m1ght: Hey, green, have you heard of the new All Might comic that’s releasing next week?

Izuku smiled at his computer. He found an user on this forum that is just as equally a fanatic as him, they always fought for first place in trivia games. After a while of competing they started talking and “fangirling” about their idol. They even gave each other nicknames at some point because always referring to each other as M1ghty_b0y1506 and Dyn4m1ght was becoming tiring. So he became green and Dyn4m1ght became orange.

M1ghty_b0y1506: Yes! I can’t wait to read it ^^ I already told my mother that we have to be the first ones at the comic store or they’ll be sold out in less than ten minutes!!! I told her that I wanted to camp out but she told me that camping out in front of a comic store for a comic is a bit too much >:c I don’t think she completely understands how quickly the new copies sold out.

M1ghty_b0y1506: Are you also planning on going to the store as quickly as possible? Or are you waiting for the resells? I think they’ll be really expensive though!! >.<

Dyn4m1ght: I told my parents to get it for me, I don’t like crowded places all that much.

M1ghty_b0y1506: That’s totally understandable! I don’t either but my mom works full time so she wouldn’t be able to get it for me :/ But that’s fine though!! Maybe I can get to know another hardcore fan ^^ It wouldn’t be bad to be able to talk to someone during school. Then maybe I’d get rid of my mumbling habit since I will have someone to let my thoughts out verbally ^^

‘I’m sure Kacchan would like that’, Izuku thought to himself. He doesn’t even notice it most of the time, it’s like he’s gotten so used to talking to himself in his room that he does it everywhere now.

Dyn4m1ght: Damn, am I not enough for you that you have to seek out other people to talk to? What, am I not interesting or something?

M1ghty_b0y1506: Ah, it’s not like that at all >.< I’m so sorry if it seemed like that I really didn’t mean to, you’re a great friend and I enjoy talking to you so much!!<3 It’s just that I don’t have a phone yet so I always miss you when I’m in school!!! And I don’t really have many friends there…

Dyn4m1ght: Chill, I was just teasing you.

Dyn4m1ght: *typing…*

Dyn4m1ght: *typing…*

Dyn4m1ght: *typing…*

Dyn4m1ght: I miss talking to you when you’re in school too <3

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Izuku read and re-read that message, violently blushing. He stayed like that for five minutes. ‘He misses talking to me? To me?? Am I dead and ended up in heaven??’, he internally panics. Only then does he realize that he’s left the other boy on read for ten minutes now.

M1ghty-b0y1506: <333

M1ghty_b0y1506: Sorry for the late reply>.< my mom needed my help with something.

Dyn4m1ght: Don’t worry about it.

Dyn4m1ght: My mom is calling me for dinner.

Dyn4m1ght: Talk to you later?

M1ghty_b0y1506: Sure!!! :D Enjoy your meal!!

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Talking to this person really was Izuku’s Highlight of the day. They would talk for hours on end during their free time about anything and everything. It made Izuku feel like maybe not all hope was lost for him. Like he always had someone in his corner.

Of course he has his mother that he loves more than anything but it can also get really lonely when she’s the only person Izuku can talk to about how his day went, knowing he’ll never tell her about all the harassing and bullying that he’s going through. What could she even do? Tell the teachers? As if they haven’t noticed the way that the skinny boy is always flinching at the smallest of sounds. More than that, his classmates don’t even try to hide it. Some teachers even take it as a joke and throw in some crude comments or snarky remarks of their own.

The only times the greenette can distract himself from the daily hate that he has to endure are when he’s home and he gets to act like not every dream of his got crushed at the age of four, he gets to act all happy and bubbly and without a care in the world.

Little does his mother and online friend know that he cries himself to sleep every other night, wondering about what could’ve been if only he had that little extra joint in his pinky toe. Would he and Kacchan still be friends? Would he be able to become the Nr. 1 hero? Would he be able to work closely with All Might?

But that’s just wishful thinking.

The extra joint isn’t there.

At the end of the day he’s just a friendless loser.

A useless Deku.

 

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The next day when he’s getting ready for school he sees a notification on his computer:

Dyn4m1ght: Good morning, nerd. How’d you sleep?

Izuku found himself smiling again. At least someone except my mom doesn’t hate me, he thought to himself.

M1ghty_b0y1506: Good morning!!! :D I slept great!! I’m getting ready for school, you? ^^

Dyn4m1ght: Same.

Dyn4m1ght: Glad you slept okay.

Dyn4m1ght: Go get ready for school, Plus Ultra.

M1ghty_b0y1506: Okay!! Talk to you later <3

Dyn4m1ght: <3

Izuku starts to run around the room in a frenzy, hurrying to get ready because he lost time talking to orange again. This habit has got to stop, he has to get a straight head for school. That’s his only hope in ever achieving something in life. Maybe he could study to be a police officer. Or a doctor. Anything to save people since his current dream occupation would be impossible to achieve.

He ran out the door, throwing his mom a quick ‘bye, have a nice day, I love you!’. As soon as he turned around he got blinded by the sun. There wasn’t a cloud around during the beginning of September. His eyes still had to get used to all that sun, being stuck in his room all day during summer vacation really took a toll on his eyesight.

Getting to school he seated himself quickly, readying his school material and pulling his notebook out, just to pass time before the lesson starts.

Katsuki and his friends walked in, all very loud except Katsuki. “Hey, Deku! Writing in that notebook of yours again? Haven’t you realized yet that you won’t ever be able to become a hero as a quirkless loser?”, one of Katsuki’s friends said, bringing everyone in the group to laugh. Izuku ducked in his seat, ready for some sort of yelling from Katsuki to ‘GIVE UP ALREADY, YOU DAMN NERD!’ or whatever he was always yelling about. Nothing came. He looked up just to find Katsuki in his seat, glaring at his buddies. Not friends. Kacchan didn’t have any friends. Izuku thought that was very lonely. He wasn’t saying anything though, just glaring. It was still more than basically ever.

“Good morning class! Everyone get to your seats please and take out the homework you had for today.” The teacher announced, putting his bag on the desk, taking out the material for class and putting it on his desk. “Yes, sensei!”, the class said in unison.

Izuku looked at Katsuki swiftly, as to not alarm the blonde, trying to figure out why he hadn’t said anything this morning. Did he see the teacher walking right behind them? Not like he would’ve said anything. Was he in a good mood? That would be good, meaning less stress for him today.

The teacher started the roll call and Izuku looked out of the window, getting lost in thought.

Maybe today was going to be a good day.

Notes:

I hope you guys liked the first chapter :D idk yet how many chapters there are gonna be in total, I just started writing and going with the flow.
me and my beta reader were talking abt all the events that should still happen in this fic, be prepared for angst and stupid gays :P