Everything tasted like charcoal
Burns..... Everything burns.
Head spinning, legs wobbling, Izuku was barely making it to home. School has been... Unkind to the green-haired boy. Bullies from every corner harassing, teachers cheering them with claps and praises and other students..... Well they just stood and watch
Just another video to post.To share with the ones they called friends. The way towards his home seemed long and hurtful.
Society has changed these past few decades. Heroes were no longer fantasies and in a world where power seals your faith, those who craved for it turned to the path of villany.
Those with powers lived their life contently and those without one....shunned.
But despite all of this, Izuku couldn't bring himself to give up, His quirklessness brought on hatred towards him. Lost best friend, painful childhood and torturous life.
There is one thing that keeps him going, one person.
Izuku's phone buzzed. Dusting himself off and wiping the smidge of blood on his face. He took his phone out and saw a message.
Kenji Midoriya : Hey buddy, school's over?
Kenji, His older brother. Izuku's one true hero.Hero in training but to izuku his brother will always be a hero. Born with Cybernetic augmemtation quirk, his body is is fully capable of accepting and adapting any cyberware augmentation along with a mind so sophisticated to build and implant those cyberware into his own body.
It was a sick twisted turn of events that the universe only deemed one of the siblings worthy of a quirk.
Izuku : Yep! All's good!
Hit send
Shit! Izuku internally cringed after sending the message without thinking about it. Of all the times for his overly analytical brain to not be analytical!
Kenji : Izuku.... What happened?
" Dammit, If nii-san's gonna know any more than he already knows, things might get hairy for my school "
Izuku's phine buzzed again
Kenji : Are those dipshits giving you trouble again!?
Kenji : I'm coming there right now!
Frantically and quite sweatily typing, Izuku was trying his best to save his school from getting ripped to bits.
Izuku : No! No. Stay where you are!. Come on nii-san, you really should take a chill pill. It wasn't even that bad this time
....
Double shit!!
" This time! This time?! Great.... Well it was nice knowing you aldera. My condolences "
Kenji : This time!!! That's it!! Im bringing that cesspool you call a school to the ground. I got the detes. The media's gonna love that.
Izuku : nii-san please dont
Before his brother could type a word in.
Izuku : Are you free?
Kenji : want me to come?
Izuku :... Yeah, sorry.
Kenji : don't be buddy, I'll talk to aizawa sensei. I'll be home before you know it
Izuku smiled, a genuine smile which only his nii-san was able to make him do nowadays.
Izuku looked ahead, the sunset kissed street seemed more peaceful now. Izuku felt more at ease, excited even. His brother will be back home after so many months!.
Strange just how a few words from him could bring izuku to an ease.
Izuku looked up at the sky.... The orange sky seemed serene and the day was not completely at a loss. He had some thing to look forward to now.
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"Mom! I'm home! Is nii-san home?! "
" In the living room honey!"
As soon as those words came out of his mother's mouth, Izuku smiled even wider. Running through the hallway not caring his shoes was splayed all over the entrance, Izuku made his way to the living room.
Inko was on the couch, her reading glasses on, in her usual attire. Reading through what seemed to be horror novel.
" Honey, i told you to neatly put away your shoes. Your brother coming home is not an excuse to not be tidy " She chastised without looking away from the book
" Sorry mom " Izuku said, sheepishly rubbing his hand on the back of his head. Only now, his mom took off her glasses and looked up from her book and.....
" Izuku! What happened?! "
"Umm....." He tried to explain but with tattered uniform, bruises on his hand and blood smudged on face, he can only do so much.
" Izuku home yet, Mom? " Inko and izuku looked up on the stairs to see Kenji leaning in the railing with a smug smile on his face.
" You know? If i didn't know any better izuku? I'd say you were rolling in a sewage. "
"Kenji! " Their mom chastised them both. These boys really are giving her a headache
" Well... I do look the part " Izuku replied
That prompted a chuckle from his older brother. Jumping down from the stairs. He made his way towards izuku.
" So who was it this time? "
Izuku sighed, his brother was not gonna leave this, might as well go through with this.
"Nii-san..... It's just a little bruise. Nothing maj- "
" Izuku! Burned uniform and blood does not count as little. Now get on the couch, let me sanitize it. " Mom was already stressed it seems. Izuku felt bad for doing this to his mother and his brother. Some son he was.
Hanging his head low, izuku could only meakly say his apologies
" I'm sorry mom "
Inko looked at her youngest son and could only sadly smile. He looked so small in this world, a cruel world. She just wanted to wrap him up in warm blanket and hug him forever. For the second time she didn't know what to say.
She remembers something like this. A memory she wished never would have happened.
" Can i be a hero without a.... Quirk, mom? "
A hand gently grasped her's,Shaking her out of her not so goood thoughts. She turned to see that her eldest son was smiling at her..... Fondly..... Like only a son could.
" Go " Kenji leaned to his mom's ear and whispered
" He needs you "
With a newfound confidence, inko stepped towards izuku and gently cupped his face, tilting his head to kiss his forehead.
Slowly bringing his head forward, touching each others foreheads, she whispered to her youngest son
" I am not angry at you baby. You know that right?. I am just worried. A mom is entitled to that much, isn't she? "
Chuckling, izuku slowly wrapped his arm around her. Then not long after kenji joined the group hug.
If every thing fails even if thing go badly south. They always will have each other.