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He leaped off the building smiling to himself.
10 years ago
Hisashi and Inko silently sat next to their child waiting for them to get the name of his quirk or when it'll manifest. That's where it started, as the All Might figure fell the words set in for the parents.
“THERE'S BEEN A MISTAKE”
“He has to have pyrokinesis” Inko looked like she was going to cry any moment “It's the whole reason we married and had a child”
The All Might toy hit the ground but was embedded in the wall in a second and melted in the next. The parents grabbed Izuku and dragged him out of the office. Crying in the car as it sped home. His mom was telling him to just be quiet. Everything was too much as he sobbed harder. His parents never yelled at anyone let alone him
At home he sobbed at the computer drowning out his parents fighting with his favorite All Might videos.
He told his best friend Kacchan at daycare. He told him that he didn't want anyone to know because his parents were really mad when they heard his diagnosis. Kacchan didn’t even care; they spent the day like usual.
The next day Kacchan got to daycare and told everyone that he was quirkless. Kacchan was popular so he started a trend that would follow izuku for a very long time but only lasted till 4pm for Kacchan. At the end of day he'd pull him around back and patch up his cuts and bruises for the last 10 minutes of the day.
“The teachers are stupid” Kacchan grumbled whilst wrapping his arm. “ I could be out here beating you up. You come back in bandages and everything”
“They probably think you are” Izuku winced as Kacchan cleaned a cut “they told me i can't see the nurse because i'm wasteful of products and time”
Kacchan paused when he heard that radiating pure rage, “they're dumb” The conversation ended there. Over the next six months the conversation got lighter as the bruises got darker and the scratches turned to cuts. Kacchan wasn't stupid by any means; he was at the top of the class where his mom wanted him to be; so he noticed the bruises on him that weren't there the day before.That day he showed his own bruised torso and they got even closer.
A week later
Kacchan sped up while wrapping the cuts on Izuku's legs. They had gotten out late. The parents would be here in two minutes.
“KATSUKI” Mitsuki screamed. Masaru stood to the side not looking at anything particular “What do you think your doing” mitsuki grabbed his hair and started dragging him to Masaru
— — —
It was Mr. Midoriya's first time being here to pick up Izuku on time. The office started to complain about watching him ‘that's what we pay them for’ “So what” he grumbled to himself “You forget him one time, and he broke into the daycare to sleep. That's not my fault” he heard the screaming of Mitsuki. If her and Inko's tea time talks were true, that's where Izuku was.
“Suki get in the car, Masaru go with her” Mitsuki yelled “where are your parents insolent child”
“They won't be here for a while,” Izuku said, looking down to hide his tears which started to hit his pants.
“Stop crying before I give you a reason to” she growled annoyed at the childish behavior “your parents gave me permission to punish you to stop with these tantrums”
“No need Mitsuki” Hizashi was ready to go, no matter how entertaining watching that could be. Izuku froze when his dads voice was heard.
“You little liar you just wanted to stay out of trouble”
“I said no need Mitsuki” His dad had always been a little rough but since the diagnosis he has been cruel. The fact he stopped Mitsuki means something horrible later.
“Lets go boy” Hizashi commanded
“Yes sir,” Izuku whimpered. He ran to catch up to his father
Once at the car, Hizashi told him he'd be walking home today and from now on, he would come to “meet” him around the corner and then walk home. So that he wouldn't have to be bothered to come pick him up anymore.
6 hours later
Izuku was brought home by police after a lady found him crying at the opening of an alley 8 blocks from the school.
The parents acted as sober as they could; they'd hidden their celebratory items when the knock had sounded. Afraid they were found out for abusing their child. They really played the best parents. Saying the reason he wasn’t reported missing was because he hadn't been missing for 24 hours and they wouldn’t accept any request
“Are you ok to come with me?” Sansa asked Izuku, not wanting the kid to watch the upcoming lies. He was upset that Tsukauchi wasn't here to help.
“Sure” he took the paw offered. They went to Mcdonalds officer Sansa didn't know what the kids life story was but it couldn’t be pretty. There were undone bandages covered in blood found in the alleys which are now in an evidence bag. Along with the fact he was still covered in bandages can only mean someone was intentionally hurting him. To make up for the fact the kid was not getting out of the house now, he got anything off the menu he wanted. He also gave the kid his phone number and told him to hide it from his parents.
The next day
Hisashi waited for 20 minutes after coming home before he burst into the closet where Izuku resides. Hisashi slammed Izuku's head into the wall. Izuku saw stars as the wood splintered at the impact. He collapsed on the ground and his father kicked his ribs repeatedly. Sickening cracks were heard through the apartment.
Inko walked in to hear sobbing, a gut twisting snap, and thud “Hizashi, you're going to kill him” she pushed him away from the crumpled body of Izuku. “I'm calling the police, leave now if you don't wanna be arrested.” Inko took a second to work herself up before calling the police “hello, my names Midoriya *sobs* Inko. I just got home and my husband beat our son. *sniffle* I think he is still breathing but there is just so much blood. *violent sob* yes my address is ******. Yes apartment 413. Please hurry, I can't put pressure because of the broken bones.”
Izuku spent a week in the hospital while Ma'am got to play an oblivious loving mom.
That day his father left
8 years later
“Midoriya, why does your transcript say you wanna go to UA” Gomu sensei sneered. He is the grossest and most despicable teacher in the school and that's saying something.
“Because I submitted an application to UA” Izuku sighed. The teacher glared at him, “It's not like it's against the rules anymore.”
“Fine it's not like you'll pass so sign up for Aldera high” Gomu-sensei sneered then continued his lesson. 3 minutes till the bell rings Izuku slowly started packing up, silently sliding pens in his bags grabbing the last notebook as the bell rang. He tried to run but someone grabbed his shoulder watching the teacher smirk as he left him in class with, you guessed it, Katsuki and his lackeys. With the burning grip on his shoulder and muffled ears he couldn't hear a word said until
“Why don't you do us a favor and jump,” one of the lackeys had said. They were not allowed to do that around Katsuki.
One of the other watch as Izuku stood in shock “Damn thought you had some fight in you”
Katsuki silently stood there fuming and snapped “ extras get out, I want to finish this myself”. After making sure they left “Are you ok zuku? I was holding them back from beating you in class. I had no idea they'd say some like that. Izu, are you here.” with no response he sat izuku in a chair, getting work on his injuries starting with the hand shaped burn on his shoulder.
1 hour later
Izuku blinked to see Katsuki's red eyes staring at him. “What time is it“
“5:00 i gotta go home or Mitsuki will be mad” bakugou said as he looked at his phone “Let's get you out of here Gomu sensei tried getting me to leave for your “detention”… again“
“Oh…” Izuku said sounding a bit lost
15 minutes later
They made it to the point where they had to split ways to go to their respective families' houses. Before they departed from each other, Katsuki reminded Izuku to do the breathing exercise on the way home. Later whilst walking through an underpass, he was doing a breathing exercise and fending off a panic attack so he didn't hear the sewer grate fall and the sludge villain had him before he knew it was happening. After fighting for as long as he could, he blacked out and awoke to All Might, slapping his face repeatedly. He rasped if an ambulance would come or if the police were on their way to retrieve the villain. All Might was jumping off before he could finish, in a moment of mental blindness he gripped on to All Might’s legs.
That conversation was the final straw, can he just ignore the number one hero and symbol of peace? When Izuku returned from dissociating, he came back to, at the edge of the roof looking past the fence at the night sky.
“zuku” Katsuki was walking down alleys, yelling for his best friend. When Inko called earlier wondering if he'd seen Izuku after school. Of course he lied and said no, but as soon as his parents left him for bed, he snuck out his window to go look for him. Now he never said that screaming in alleys in the dead of night was smart but the green slimy monster thought it was nice of him.
Izuku was on the fire escape when he heard Katsuki screaming his name, and then silence. When he looked down the alley and saw the sludge villain that attacked him earlier, he knew that it was his fault that it got away from All Might. He dived off the edge and into the slime pushing Katsuki out. Once Katsuki could breathe again. He realized who had pushed him out of the slime. He got ready to blow the villain up and Izuku shot his hand out. As they took each other's hands, Katsuki used the other hand to blow away all the slime.They made sure to grab the soda bottle it was originally in and make sure to get all the actual parts of the slime's body in there. They left it on the police's doorstep.
“I know that wasn't a small fall your land pushed me most of the way out “ Katsuki grumbled
“How high did you jump from“
“Id say about 23 meters” he guessed while looking at the wind he jumped from
“What“ Bakugou asked genuinely not hearing him
“23 meters ” Izuku exclaimed “Right from that fire escape”
“That's like 75 ft“ he gawked “that could have hurt you”
“I could have gotten hurt or you could have died”
“YOU could have died”
“I am more than willing to die”
“But I need you alive”
“YOU were willing to die” Izuku sighed
“Whatever, why were you in that building” Bakugou slowly turned paler “Please tell me you weren't going to listen to that extra”
“No I wasn't, just was left by the SYMBOL OF PEACE” he said in air quotation
“You're lying” Katsuki looked so confused by this ”No way you'd be okay with maybe dying. Did you ask your question?!“
Izuku looked off to the side “mhm”
“Why aren't you excited” Izuku started to walk away “hey Izuku, i'm talking to you”
“He's a quirkist bastard like the rest of them, told me I couldn't be a hero, told me to be realistic, to choose a safer option like police or doctor, to not be a liability in the field” Izuku was about to start crying “Doesn't he know the police have to have quirks or they won't accept you. To be a doctor you need money and a quirk or the colleges won't admit you cuz your a liability”
“You know without you I'd be dead so you are already a hero” Katsuki grinned trying to cheer up his friend “Screw All Might where was he during this, plus he left you on a roof”
“Yea fuck All Might”
15 minutes ago
Aizawa landed on the roof as the kid started climbing down. He was waiting for the standard 5 minutes when he heard a muffled scream before he could get to the edge where he would be able to help whoever screamed. He heard a Loud creek and a whoosh of air. He got to the edge in time to see the green haired child who was on the roof earlier to land in the Villain forcing the other child out of the goo/slime thing's body. As he’s going to go down to help the second kid grabs the first arm and pulls them out using a silent but deadly blast. That was excellent control. He pulls out his phone to record anything else they do because we already have an illegal quirk usage in here which can be a vigilante charge if they're not careful. Just to see them put the villain in containment. He followed them across the roofs continuing to record. He watched them drop it off in front of the police station and then they started arguing. He felt like you should turn off the camera, but felt like this should be important, and he always listens to his gut. Later, he had to report All Might for a lot of things, and then watch this child so he doesn’t become a villain.
Izuku started going out at night helping people he didn't want the credit or anything like one of those daylight heroes so he put on a hoodie and a mask. Two months into this endeavor, he overhears a hero, talking to a police officer after he leaves his criminals, tied up at the end of an alley talking about how it was the vigilante rabbit again. He decided to go home and research what a vigilante was because he walked away, he didn't hear Eraserhead saying that he wanted to befriend this vigilante and try to convince him to stop, or better yet switch to the hero side because if the villains got their hands on this one it'll be a whole different problem.
Realizing he was the rabbit vigilante, he decides to go all the way he gets himself, a dark green rabbit hoodie, some dark joggers with like all the little pockets in them. He hunts down some throwing knives at the dagoba beach, and decides to start cleaning that place up at the end of his patrols. He's now getting more stamina training from running across roofs, strength training from cleaning the beach and overall better at acting because of his parents. Plus, he deals with school every day. He's built a mental wall to keep Izuku from rabbit. No one's going to be able to tell it's the same person.
8 months later
The first time he had his run in with Eraserhead, he's on a convenience store roof that he just saved from a robbery, drinking a slushy. Izuku can tell Eraser is trying to walk silently; he can try to take the vigilante by surprise. But by time he lands on the roof and the vigilante already knows he's there.
“Hello Eraser” Rabbit because, of course, Rabbit knew he was here
“Hello Rabbit” Eraser sighed
“They have good coffee inside” rabbit told him
“Is that why you're drinking the slushy of death?”
“No, the slushy is actually really good and sugar helps me with my energy a lot more than coffee ever will”
There was a scream in the distance “Guess that coffee is going to have to wait for a while my dude.”
“You have to be super old because no one says dude anymore”
Izuku fights the mutation by himself as Eraser goes against the emitter. While narrowly avoiding getting stabbed by a knife he knocks out the mutation. Whilst helping a Eraser fight the emitter, he gets hit with a blast and gets slammed into a wall, making him flashback to the day his father left. When he comes back to himself, Eraser standing over him, trying to help him up or take off his mask, either would be a possibility.
He tries taking him to the hospital and Rabbit refuses because he's a child with a secret identity. He even refuses to go see the recovery girl because it was a concussion, and he could survive.
Bringing Rabbit back to the corner store where his slushy resides, he hops up to the roof first and then pulls a vigilante up, having him sit down and drink his slushy. He goes inside and gets a coffee and two sandwiches cause that child was way too light.
2 months later
Eraser was jumping up to a roof when he heard a garbage can fall over he saw Rabbit from stumbling out of an alley bleeding and clutching his side, he goes down and drops into the alley seeing a scaly mutation beaten, with a knife next to them, more of like a machete than a knife. He called Tsukauchi to get his men over here now while he looks for the kid because if the kid got stabbed with that, he was on death's door. He needs to see recovery girl now.
He found a kid in an alley four blocks away, trying to give himself stitches and not doing a horrible job for you know, being half dead from blood loss, having a probable concussion, and most likely being a fucking child. He picked up Rabbit and carried him while running to UA about eight blocks away. He was immediately let in.
He runs to the recovery girls' dorm and she immediately helps him through the door. They leave rabbits mask on and hood up, so that he's more comfortable when he wakes up.They did have to handcuff him to the table so that he wouldn't run away, though only on one wrist to give him some freedom of movement. It takes him three days but he wakes up. He's been in and out of it for two days now, waking up and going right back to sleep after a couple minutes. When he woke up on the third day and stayed awake for longer than 10 minutes. Recovery girl was called in and they explained to him that he's been in and out for three days straight. As this was said, he began to grow pale, recovery girl being concerned about his health because he just woke up from a coma. She starts to do a check up over him and finds all of his scars.
*Izuku internal monologue*
‘My Parents are going to fucking kill me not only did they see my scars, but I've been gone for three days. If they haven't already moved to fucking America I'll be surprised.’
Izuku comes back to the real world. Aizawa doesn't wanna ask him if he's okay at home but does anyway. As Rabbit does a so-so motion. He easily pulls out his phone number. Telling him that if he needs anything to call him as soon as he can and let izuku go. Before leaving he made sure that they didn't ever take off his mask and left.
It was confirmed when he got home, his parents were still there and very upset that he's been gone for this long. They made him put on his gloves, mask,and hair net; which he hasn’t had to do for weeks to make sure that his quirkless germs stayed to himself. Izuku's pretty sure that the reason they hadn't made him wear the gloves was because they forgot he existed, but when the school calls that you've been missing all your classes, they tend to notice. He goes into his room and hides erasers phone number with Sansa from all those years ago. He wonders what he would do if he ever called them he couldn't go into the foster system or he'd be killed, probably. His step dad and mom got really drunk that night, screaming at him through his door.If they weren't so drunk, they’d remember it locks from the outside so that they could open it. Which he wished he hadn't thought to because 10 minutes later, his stepdad opened it, and his mom started throwing stuff at him, telling him what a waste of space he was, which was a change, before his dad had left she was the neglectful parent, but after he left her, things slowly got worse and got better when his step dad came around but then his stepdad neglected him, and his mother literally said “oh so you don't like him” leading her to start abusing him again, and just kept getting worse and worse.
Eventually, his mother got tired of throwing glasses at him so his stepdad closed the door and locked him in his tiny closet full of glass shards so he couldn't move around. Later that night, he grabbed the lock pics he kept in the closet, and undid the lock the put on his vigilante gear that was hidden in his backpack.he had a lot of little cuts from where the glass shards fell down on him or hit him directly, but he put gauze around the actively bleeding one that would stain his costume. Whilst fighting a gang Eraserhead dropped down, asking him why he was out when he had just gotten out of the recovery girl's office. He sarcastically says “it's either here doing something and getting beaten up, or at the house and getting beaten up.”
A bull mutation ran at Eraser as he dodged, he asked “kami, are you actually alright kid?”
Rabbit responded, sarcastically “yes of course I'm fine that is why I am out here clobbering people up for fun.”
“Wow you really got that teenage sass and old man Language” Eraser fired back as he wrapped his capture scarf around the bullhorns and threw them into a wall
“Did you just assume my gender good sir” rabbit said in his most karen voice
“No, I give you a piece of information of what's on your file”
“Really isn't that like against code?”
“Yeah, but i actively hate the commission so why not”
They had gotten so distracted by their conversation, and then didn't notice the two guys coming up behind them till they were getting stabbed. Eraser got stabbed in the hip, rabbit dodged just fast enough that he got stabbed in the thigh, rabbit called 119 for eraser, did first aid, tied up the bad guys and left.
— — — — — — —
“It's been two weeks and no sign of the kid. What should I do? Tsukauchi" Eraser asked not allowed on patrol due to his hip injury.
“Well, you are the only hero he talks to so it's not surprising no other hero has heard from him. He probably thinks you're dead, and is blaming himself as well so…” he responded
“You're not being helpful, the kid tells me he's being abused and just doesn't show up anywhere for two weeks. It's weird he usually works every night for at least five hours”
“What is up with you and Sansa finding abused children and worrying about them nonstop. Sansa hasn't even seen his kid for like 8 maybe 9 years”
“That's not like Sansa he should have checked on him by now”
“He tried, but the families profile was erased, and they moved” Tsukauchi explained “No forwarding address to either”
“Damn, I feel bad for Sansa. We should really look into that and try to see if we can find them.”
“We have, they just disappeared overnight, nothing we can do that we haven't tried the case went cold, back to your kid.” Tsukauchi looked hesitant before saying, the next part “ if we check with Mic we could adopt him only if the kid wants it to.”
They had been looking for a kid for a while to adopt, but hadn't found any candidates.”I think we should talk to Mic about it. I really really like this kid. I don't wanna see him in that type of household anymore.”
A week later
Eraserhead was finally back on his feet. He never got a call from his kid but reports started coming in about more Criminals being captured by Rabbit again about 4 days ago but the criminals were getting larger and more dangerous. He was worried Rabbit was going to get himself killed.
Later that night Eraser was on the roof, looking down to an alley where Rabbit was fighting when he was about to drop down. He saw Rabbit jump kick the emitter into the wall. Just as she set her quirk off causing Rabbit to drop. Eraser started flashbacks to the time Rabbit almost died just a couple months ago. He grabbed the vigilante and ran to Matstafu General Hospital, where Recovery girl was in on a surgery. He immediately got admitted to the hero ward and a quirk test was run. It came back that it was a mental quirk that spreads noxious stimuli. Rabbit passed out from pain, but his mask slipped down. Eraserhead took a picture of his face, not letting the opportunity pass to save his kid. Eraser slid the mask back in place as recovery girl walked in.
He sent the picture to his husband to see if he could find a match in any database. Tsukachi couldn't find it in the police database. He was able to find it in school databases,and found his name. It was Sansa's kid whose file was erased. He found out his father was arrested for abusing Izuku, but his mother was left to care for him.
Aizawa stepped out of the room to use the bathroom and call his husbands. When he got back he sat down, and the kid had a stroke and started flatlining. He hit the button and yelled code Blue. People came in with crash carts and his last thoughts before everything happened was ‘I can't let this kid die, not now. Not when I finally got him.’
— — — — — — —
Waking up was painful, it felt like his nerves were on fire and his muscles felt like he went on a 15 hour patrol.
“Izuku” izuku paused at the sound of his mothers furious voice hidden under layers of fake sweetness “your wake, you scared me and your father half to death” izuku tightened his fist feeling a note crinkle as his hand as his mother flicked hood saying “what is this ridiculous outfit why where out this late at night sweet heart”