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Hey there whoever is reading this, just wanna say thanks forgiving this a chance, this is my first fanfic and I hope it doesn't disappoint, but still thanks for reading! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 1 - Undodgeable

"Young Bakugo! Don't do it! You'll kill him!"

"He'll be fine as long as he dodges!"

Izuku could barely believe his ears, Kacchan wasn't actually going to do what he thought he was going to do right? Wrong. Izuku could barely think, all he could try to do was use all for one to stop him, there was no room to dodge as the corridor they were in was too narrow so it was his only hope. He lunged forward desperately, reeling back his hand for a right hook to direct the catastrophic explosion elsewhere but it was too late.

"TAKE THIS YOU SHITTY DEKU!"

All Izuku could feel was pain, that and his body ragdolling across the corridor and smashing through the nearby window falling from the 3rd floor to directly meet his demise.

How could this be? His life was just about to finally go his way ever since he found out he was quirkless. His hero had taken intere-, heck interest was an understatement to the amount of attention he got from All might. He had been given the hero's quirk afterall.

As Izuku fell he could only feel sorrow for not getting to prove All might right about him. Kacchan was right, he really was just a worthless, shitty deku and that had cost him his life.

He could hear All might shouting something his ears couldn't quite make out anymore, if you could call them ears anymore that is. He presumed the hero was trying to make it intime to save him. But that wasn't going to happen. Before Izuku met the concrete floor, two words managed to escape his lungs. "I'm… sorry"

Then everything went dark.

Doctor Garaki was well known for his life saving work as a doctor and not known at all for his other work with his 'out-of-work friends' as he put it to anyone who asked what he wanted to borrow advanced medical tools from the hospital. Of course no one actually questioned why he even needed the tools for them as his work was so useful he might as well own the place.

Needless to say he was incredibly surprised when he was demanded to go to U.A to help save a child.

'What even made this kid so special anyway?' Well he knew that wasn't exactly the right question to be wondering as the kid was in an extremely critical condition but still why call him all the way from Jaku General Hospital just for one kid?

One look at the name of the kids file and he realized why. He recognised this child's name from when he would give quirk diagnosis to children before he found the work depressing when it came to having to inform parents of quirkless children the unfortunate news.

Most parents or children would just start to shout or scream at him to redo the tests but he remembered this boy differently, sure his mother was justifiably sad at the news but she didn't shout or scream at him. All the kid had done was stare into the abyss broken but not angry. He actually felt bad for this family which was saying a lot coming from what he did for his 'out-of-work friends'. The fact the kid had still managed to defy the odds and get into U.A. was beyond him.

But then he saw it.

Quirk - 'Muscle enhancement' - causes Izuku's muscles to surpass their limit to unimaginable feats of strength.

"What?" The doctor said a bit too loud.

"Something wrong Dr?" questioned the driver. He was currently being driven towards U.A. as fast, and frankly quite irresponsibly, as possible.

"N-No nothing to worry yourself about Takahashi just-" The doctor desperately tried to think of a good excuse "s-saw the boy's injuries that's all."

"Yeah I hear something awful happened during hero course training" replied Takahashi "Awful for that much to happen to someone so young.

"Indeed." suddenly he looked up and saw they were heading straight towards a fence "Takahashi eyes on the road for God's sake!"

Tasahashi quickly looked at what was happening on the road and luckily swerved away at the last second "Sorry Doctor. It won't happen again sir."

"Quite alright" The Doctor concluded.

'How is that possible? When I diagnosed that boy there was no chance of him ever developing a quirk. He had no extra joint in his toe and needless to say no quirk factor to speak of. Maybe All for one-. No that can't be it he always tells me who he gives quirks to. So how did this kid get one?'

"We're here Doctor"

As the doctor left the car he was greeted by Nezu, the principal of U.A., standing next to a particularly skinny man with rather peculiar looking hair both with worried and impatient looks on their faces.

"Thank goodness you're here," Nezu said, clearly in a rush. "You're needed in recovery girls ward. Toshinori here will take you there."

"Please follow me." The skinny man, apparently named Toshinori said as he started into a surprisingly fast run for someone of his condition. Even with the Doctor's quirk helping him maintain sturdy and youthful bones he still found it difficult to catch up with the man.

He entered Recovery Girl's ward to see a sorry sight. The boy lying in the hospital bed looked like he'd been next to some kind of bomb as it detonated. One of his ears was missing, the other missing a good chunk out of it, and his one of his cheeks was completely gone and his nose had significant burn wounds decorating the skin and his arms were completely ruined with several fingers missing from his right hand and the other not in a much better state, though without any missing fingers luckily. The mere sight was enough to make any average doctor turn tail and run.

Luckily Tsubasa was far from the average doctor.

"Tsubasa this is a strange time to call, during your work hours and all."

"My apologies Sensei but I'm going to need to ask for you to teleport me to my office."

"What's going on?!"

"I have someone here that I think may be of interest to you."

"Then why do you need to be teleported to your office, why not directly to me."

"Because if I don't act soon they're going to die and frankly as great as the tools are at U.A. they're not going to be enough to save them."

"A U.A. student then, why do you think that I might find this person interesting if they are aiming to become a hero Tsubasa?"

"Because I previously diagnosed this person when they were young as quirkless, yet somehow according to their file they have a quirk. It doesn't make any sense Sensei but I must find out how they didn't have an extra joint in their toe or any quirk factor at all so I have to find out how they now have one."

"What does their file say their quirk is?"

"It says 'Muscle enhancement'."

"...You're joking"

"I would never joke about something this important Sensei"

"Are you currently alone with the child?"

"Would I be making this call if I wasn't?"

"I'll send a portal over right now then" All for one was practically shaking all over. He couldn't believe his luck. He was about to meet the 9th inheritor of One for All and better yet

he was going to recruit them.

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Hey there, Chapter 2 time! Not much to say except thanks for all the support at the time I'm writing this, "Scorched" already has 5 followers and 4 favs (I know that might not sound like a lot but I really didn't expect many people to pay attention to this at all.) Anyway, I hope you enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 2 - Risen Corpse

Bakugo couldn't believe it. All he had tried to do was prove he could beat De- no, Izuku but he had managed to murde- wait, the doctors had said that Izuku was just in a highly critical state he wasn't dead, and he wasn't going to be. Right?

Just as his mind was drifting to a place he wasn't prepared to even think about yet Recovery Girl left the room Izuku was being treated in.

Bakugo hadn't been allowed to see Izuku yet, after the incident he had been rushed to Nezu's office and had been shouted at for about 5 minutes by him and Mr Aizawa, All Might had been waiting impatiently outside for some doctor to arrive he could hear the man muttering something about "inheritance" and "All for" something or other. Soon enough his parents had arrived and joined in on the yelling when Nezu had to leave to help great the doctor and Izuku's mom, who the police had apparently gone to help transport her here. He found it strange that even though it had been well over an hour by now he hadn't even seen a glance of Inko. Nothing to worry about though. Right?

"Is he okay?" Bakugo said, his voice racked with guilt and sadness. Even though he had always said he hated Izuku deep down he had just been saying that to stop Izuku from getting into serious danger, if that meant he was seen as a villain to Izuku, so be it. But he still wanted to make sure he could protect him for his 'Aunty Inko' as His mom had always referred to her as, no matter the cost. Well almost no matter the cost. He never wanted to permanently hurt or god forbid kill Izuku.

"He's alive for now, but we don't know how long he's going to stay that way for" replied Recovery Girl "The blast from your gauntlets alone would've definitely caused permanent damage and the fall after that should've killed him. Him still somehow being alive now is a miracle in itself."

"WELL THEN WHY AREN"T YOU IN THERE DOING SOMETHING OLD LADY, HE'S ALMOST DEAD AND YOU'RE OUT HERE TALKING TO SOME LOSER WHO'S ALMOST A MURDERER!" Bakugo snapped back "S-Sorry I mean."

Recovery girl quickly hit him over the head with her staff.

"HEY WHAT WAS THAT FOR YOU- oh, right the shouting my bad."

"It's fine dearie, you're clearly stressed out at the moment and I have to go out here while the other Doctor 'Works his magic'" Recovery Girl replied "Although I'm not sure why he needs me to leave while he does so."

Even though this man was the best surgeon in all of Japan she had to admit it was rather strange how quickly he wanted her to leave him alone and lock the door behind her, of course she had a copy of the keys, but still it was rather suspicious.

"Probably not comfortable having someone watch him operate on a child" replied Bakugo

"You're probably right dearie." Recovery girl was grateful for Bakugo's reassurance. This was incredibly serious, after all the next symbol of peace was in a highly critical condition. "You haven't heard when his mother will arrive yet have you dearie? Would've thought she'd be here by now."

"No, I haven't seen her, she probably is having trouble getting here from her work." Bakugo knew that was a lie Aunty Inko worked from home and U.A was only a quick train ride away, not to mention the fact she should be traveling in a police car to get there, so what was taking her so long?

Suddenly Bakugo's train of thought was completely derailed and crashed into a fire of panic.

"I'm sorry to say this but…" The Doctor hesitated, looking mournfully at the floor then continued. "Izuku Midoriya has passed away"

2 Days Later

Izuku's eyes flickered open. The room he was in barely had any light and he could barely see a thing. He heard the beeps of a heart monitor next to him, it was at a steady rate so he presumed he'd managed to survive and wasn't dead, although the room he was in suggested he wasn't in Musutafu any more, yet alone in any hospital. So where was he then?

"Ah you're awake, good, good." The voice he heard was familiar, he couldn't pinpoint when he'd heard it before but he definitely knew who this man was but all he could see was the reflection of glasses in the darkness that surrounded the hospital bed.

"W-Where am I" Izuku said, barely managing to pass the words through his mouth every part of his body hurt but he could still make out words luckily enough.

"That isn't the thing you should be most worried about boy" The second voice Izuku heard was one he had never heard before, but the mere presence of the voice was enough to make his blood run cold and his body stop moving, well if it had been moving before that is. He couldn't make out this person either but he suddenly knew he definitely wasn't with anyone friendly.

"Wh-Wh-Wh" Izuku had found it difficult to speak naturally before in front of this man Izuku could barely bring himself to even stutter. "Wh-Who a-are you?" he questioned the man.

"Hm I seem to have frightened you, I apologize. Doctor, please put on a light in here, the boy should at least be given his sight before anything else." Said the menacing voice.

"Yes Sensei." Said the first.

Now Izuku was even more confused, despite the menacing aura the man was emitting he seemed to be generally concerned for him. Maybe this man could be trusted?

Then the light switched on and Izuku immediately went back to fearing the figure. With the lights now on Izuku could make out that the first voice was in fact dressed in normal doctors attire and appeared to be in his late 60's, he was rather short with a bushy mustache and polished glasses. Whereas the second voice's appearance very much fit the bill for what he sounded like, the man was dressed in a very expensive looking Suit and was wearing a black reflective helmet with what looked like a respirator attached to where his mouth would be. Needless to say these two men were obviously villains.

"Thank you Doctor, you may leave now." The second man said after 'the doctor' had left he turned to Izuku and said "Greeting Young one, my name is All for One and I would like to talk to you." The man said it so casually, like he had bumped into Izuku while walking down the street, not like he had kidnapped - was kidnapped the right word? This man had saved him after all - Izuku and was currently talking to him from a hospital bed.

"T-Talk? About what?" Izuku replied he was admittingly curious about why this villain wanted to talk to him, there wasn't any way he knew about One for All- wait, but his name was almost the same thing, Does that mean he's one of All Might's nemeses?

"You could say that I suppose"

"H-How did you-"

"You were muttering under your breath and I have quirks that allow me to pick up the quietest of sounds. You really shouldn't talk about One for All in front of strangers y'know, you're lucky I know what it is, but, the real question is, how do you know about it?"

'What does he mean by quirks? Never mind, because of my stupid habit this villain knows that I know about One for All. What do I do now?' "I-er I…" 'Say something, change the subject, quickly!' "How long have I been out for?" 'Please allow it, please allow it.'

"Two days and 6 hours to be precise."

'Phew that was close- Wait TWO DAYS!' "W-What happened for me to be out that long? I can't remember much after we were told about our training exercise." Asked Izuku

"You were hit at point blank range by your friend's stored-up explosion quirk and fell out of the window on the third floor."

Suddenly the memory returned. The fight against Kacchan, the gauntlet explosion, his desperate attempt to stop Bakugo by punching him. 'Wait where was All Might? Shouldn't he have at least been trying to get there to stop Bakugo? I remember he shouted at him from the speaker to stop but. How could he just sit there and watch as I was desperately trying to survive the death match position he had placed me in. How could he just watch me fight against Kaccha- no, against Bakugo and do nothing but shout? He's the symbol of piece for Fucks sake, how could he just watch me die and do nothing but shout into a speaker at a boy he knew fully well wasn't going to stop? How could he just sit there and betray me? Was I not good enough? But he said-' Suddenly his train of thought stopped.

"Where's my mom? How is she, I mean?" Izuku said, his mother had suddenly re-entered his mind. She must be worried sick about him, his phone was still in his uniform back at U.A so he couldn't call her but maybe the villain could tell him if she was alright.

"Well you see Izuku, your mother is, how do I put this, she's- well she's dead."

Izuku's whole world went completely upside down upon hearing this. 'Moms dead but how?' He wanted to cry, but he couldn't. His body was severely dehydrated and if he cried he would most likely pass out. So he could only lie there staring at the man.

"H-How did she-?" Izuku couldn't bring himself to finish that sentence.

"When the police arrived at your house to help deliver your mother to you, they informed her of the incident and upon hearing about it she had a heart attack and despite getting to a hospital as soon as possible she didn't make it. I am sorry child."

Izuku couldn't believe his ears, he had no mother, he was alone. His dad had passed away when he was young and he had no friends at all, so his mother was the only person he could ever talk to about anything but now she was gone too. And it was his fault. If Bakugo had never used his gauntlets then he never would've been put in this situation, his mother wouldn't be dead and he would just be living his usual life back at Musutafu, happy and learning to become what he had wanted to be his whole life, a hero. Did he even want to be a hero anymore though, any person he had actually got to know well enough that wanted to be or was a hero were total jackasses. Bakugo had only ever cared about himself, calling everyone else "extras" and constantly being praised for hurting Izuku because of his powerful quirk. All Might, now that Izuku really thought about it, didn't care about him. Sure All Might had praised him and even given him his quirk, but he didn't care enough to save Izuku from Bakugo he probably just gave Izuku his quirk out of pity for the quirkless boy on the roof who desperately wanted to be a hero. At least Bakugo was definitely expelled from U.A and banned from being a hero. Right? He had to make sure.

"W-What happened to Kaccha- I mean Bakugo"

"Well from what me and the doctor have managed to find out he's still planned to go back to U.A when they allow students to re-enter the school after the incident."

"WHAT!" Yelled Izuku "HOW ARE THEY LETTING HIM BACK IN AFTER WHAT HE DID!" His eyes glowed green and electricity started to radiate his body.

All for One was marveling at the child's power, 'This is definitely the 9th inheritor' He thought 'I just have to recruit this boy and the league will be unstoppable, but for now he deserves to know what has happened in the last two days so I will entertain him with the knowledge he desires.' "From what we can tell he was initially supposed to be expelled; however, Principal Nezu changed his mind after All Might himself testified for the boy."

"What?" Izuku questioned, not quite believing his ears.

The Day Before

"So then, we are all agreed that Bakugo, Katsuki will be expelled with no further discussion." said Nezu. He was currently standing at the front of a rather long meeting table, the other occupants of the room being All Might and Recovery Girl.

"Wait, Sir." All Might spoke up. "I believe we should allow young Bakugo to stay at U.A.

Nezu was taken aback, he was expecting All Might to be the most enthusiastic when it came to expelling Bakugo, after all the boy had killed his successor but he was apparently mistaken.

"May I ask why Toshinori?" Questioned Nezu, he was interested to hear All Might's reasoning for this.

"During my talks with young Midoriya he did tell me about young Bakugo. From what he told me they were both rivals who were both pushing for the place of the number 1 hero, Bakugo's aggression mainly came from his fierce rivalry with young Midoriya and from what I have seen from him since young Midoriya's passing he definitely regrets his behavior. It's for this I believe that young Bakugo should be allowed to return to U.A as I fear that if we ruin his chances of becoming a hero he would feel as though he has not only failed himself,but young Midoriya as well." All Might explained. It was true, of course, that Izuku had told him that his relationship with Bakugo was a fierce rivalry and nothing more, however what All Might didn't know was Bakugo's actual relationship with Midoriya as his bully and tormentor.

"Well I must admit All Might, you do have a way with words. All right. I suppose we can allow him to return to U.A with the other students next Monday. We wouldn't want him to miss out on our trip to the U.S.J that day anyway, although he will have to be strictly watched over by any teacher who is there including you All Might." Replied Nezu.

"Thank you sir" Said All Might as he bowed then left the meeting room.

"Are you really going to let him off that easily Nezu?" Asked Recovery Girl who was extremely confused as to why Bakugo was literally getting away with murder.

"Well you see Shuzenji, from what All Might told us I can easily tell that the grief and knowledge of Modoriya's blood on Bakugo's hands will be a punishment on its own for him.

"Even so it's still a bit too little right"

"Well the murder will still go on his permanent record and we have a meeting with the press to explain the situation so the public's point of view will by no doubt also stack on as punishment for the boy."

"I see. Well then, I should get going. I have a lot of paperwork to do."

"Me too"

The pair, despite being in the room for a good hour had failed to notice the secret camera's that had been placed, not just in the meeting room, but all around the school.

Izuku suddenly wished he had died. In the last 30 minutes his whole life had changed, he no longer wanted to be a hero, that was for sure. He knew what he wanted and he knew this man was the only person who could help him with it and he was willing to do anything to get what he wanted.

"I understand if this is a lot of information to take in at once if you would like me to leave you have only to ask." Said All for One.

"No it's fine." replied Izuku the anger he had felt earlier had now been joined with a hollow, empty feeling balancing his emotions enough to allow him to speak without stuttering. "If you want to ask any question of your own you can."

All for one was slightly taken aback by this, he didn't expect the boy to accept his fate so soon but the boy's forwardness was certainly helping him save time so he couldn't complain. "Alright then" All for One said, preparing himself to have to crack the question he was about to ask out of the boy "How did you get your quirk?"

"All Might gave it to me."

"Now Now boy we know that you were born without a- Wait… what?" The boy had just answered without even trying to hide anything, perhaps the information he was given really did change him.

"You already told me you were his nemesis so I presume you want the quirk for yourself" Izuku replied, his voice fully monotone. He then plucked a hair from his head, looked at All for One and said "Here you go then." (Yeah I really meant anything)

All for One fully froze. He couldn't believe his luck. This boy was really offering the quirk he'd been waiting so long to destroy to him. Was he dreaming? If he was he didn't want to wake up. "A-Are you sure." he said, slightly giddy. "Just so you know when I get this quirk I will destroy it so there will be no getting it back."

"I understand"

All for One carefully plucked the hair from Izuku's hands, removed the respirator from his mask and consumed the hair. He could feel One for All fighting against him from the inside but it was an uphill battle for the quirk. He felt it derive back to the power stockpiling quirk it used to be and his brother's quirk merge with his as it was practically useless without the stockpiling quirk. He had done it finally, all that was left was to kill All Might and he could finally rule Japan with an iron fist.

"Izuku, my boy. For what you have just done I believe I owe you a pretty big favour. My quirk lets me transfer quirks to others or use them myself. You can take a pick of any quirk you want, consider it my honor."

"Can I ask for something different in my favour?"

"Depends" All for One replied, reattaching his respirator.

"Could you train me to become a villain?"

All for One grinned "It would be my pleasure Izuku." He gestured Izuku to the nearby mirror as if to tell him to take a look at himself.

Izuku grinned as well. He managed to get out of the hospital bed and drag himself to the nearby mirror by the side of the room. Now he could get a good look at himself. He saw that one of his eyes was a pale green while the other had maintained its green color. He was missing a part of his cheek on both sides of his face which allowed a good look at his teeth. His right hand was missing several fingers and burn marks crawled up his entire body. He was still dressed in his hero costume from two days ago, or what was left of it. He had clearly had surgeries on his spine and ribs as he could see that his skin was clinging closer to his bones around that area giving him a monster like appearance. Looking at himself in the mirror his grin turned to an insane looking smile that looked horrifying with the missing parts of his cheek. He looked like a living corpse.

"I'm going to get revenge on them all," Izuku said, still staring into the mirror. "All Might, Bakugo, the world and I'll do it as The Undead Villain - Corpse."

Dun Dun Dun. Izuku has officially set himself on revenge and with All for One's help, who will be able to stop him?

Also for anyone who's confused if One for All is actually gone or not I'll just say stay tuned for the next chapter 'Trained to Disappoint'.

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Hey There, back with another chapter! Don't know how long I'm going to be able to write chapters daily but I plan to have 1-2 chapters a week for this. Although for this week I'm planning to start off with a chapter a day or at least every 2 days to make sure I finish the first season by the end of the week. Also for anyone wondering this is going to follow the original story of MHA but there is obviously going to be major differences at the same time. Anyway, hope you guys enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 3 - Trained to Disappoint

All Might was having an extremely bad week, in fact he hadn't slept since 'young Midoriya' was killed unintentionally by 'young Bakugo'. Luckily, U.A had been closed since the incident while the police were getting the situation sorted and while Nezu had to deal with the press. Ever since word got out about the incident that both Mother and son Midoriya had died on the same day, the press had swarmed U.A like a moth to a flame.

Although, he had noticed a definite change in young Bakugo's behaviour. When he had first met the boy along with the rest of 1-A he could tell the boy was hotheaded and a bit of an egomaniac however, now that Modoriya was gone, he had noticed that young Bakugo was now much calm and collected, he still had the occasional flare of anger like usual but the boy had definitely changed. He even recalled the talk he'd had with the boy the previous day.

The previous day

All Might had walked into 1-A's classroom to see if he could find Midoryia's things, he had been sent there by Nezu to collect young Midoriya's things so he could put them with the rest of his things in the donation boxes that were to go to charity. He had not expected to see young Bakugo crying on the floor next to young Midoriya's desk holding something he had taken from the bag lying down next to it.

"Young Bakugo are you alright!?" He rushed over to see if the boy was okay, lowering himself to level himself with the boy.

"It's all my fault." Bakugo's voice was barely audible, his voice was gravelly and his eyes were bloodshot.

'How long has he been crying in here for?' All Might asked himself, looking at the defeated child with concern.

"Young Bakugo I assure you, your actions during training were only done because you thought young Midoriya would be fine. If you hadn't been sure he would be okay you wouldn't have unleashed that attack.

"He looked up to me despite everything between us. Despite what I did to make sure he was safe, now he's gone and it's my fault." He smacked his head against the leg of the desk several times, each time shouting "Idiot" at the top of his lungs.

"Young Bakugo, please do not bring harm to yourself." All Might moved the boy back a bit to make sure his head would no longer connect with the desk, doing this he noticed what Bakugo was holding. A notebook with the words 'Hero Analysis for the future Vol 14' and a small bookmark sticking out of the top with the words 'Progress so far' indicating that Izuku had only gotten a few pages into this notebook. All Might took the notebook from Bakugo's hands and looked at the most recent page.

The page in question was Bakugo's page, it had a short sketch of Bakugo on the left page with labels analysing the costume. All Might noticed that the part that labelled Bakugo's gauntlets simply had a question mark written in pencil, no one had realised what the purpose of those were until it was too late. The right page had a small analysis of Bakugo's costume then said 'More information in Vol 1,3,6 and 12'. 'They really must've been good friends if young Midoriya had that much written on his quirk. How else could he get to see enough of young Bakugo's quirk to write that much about it?'

"Young Bakugo, I understand that you feel as though you need to beat yourself up over this, however think about what young Midoriya would want for you."

"He'd probably want me to die for what I've done to him."

"Do you really believe that after all you and him have been through he'd want that? I knew young Midoriya well enough to know that he'd want for you to go on past this and become the greatest hero, he would want the best for you."

"You think?"

"I know."

"'Sniff' Thanks All Might."

"No problem young Bakugo" All Might then left the room leaving Bakugo with Izuku's bag. He knew it would be cruel to take it away from the boy.

They had been best friends after all.

*End Flashback*

All Might sighed, he knew that young Midoriya's death would be catastrophic for the future as One for All had also died with the boy. He had felt the quirk still surviving inside the boy for the first two days after his death but now any sign of it was completely gone. 'God, what am I going to do now?' Suddenly, All Might felt extremely drowsy, which made sense he'd been awake for about 3 days at this point. He figured that resting his eyes for a minute would be good for him.

Suddenly All Might's eyes opened, but he wasn't in his house any more, the place he was in was completely dark except for a strange room that looked like it had been disattached from some kind of apartment building, although the only thing in the room were 8 thrones, one of which he was sitting in. He immediately noticed one of the other people sitting on the thrones was his mentor, Nana Shimura, however when he tried to speak to her his mouth made no noise. None of the other people in the room looked familiar, however they all seemed to know him.

"Ah Toshinori you're finally here" Said a man who had particularly shaggy hair that covered his eyes and was by far the most simply dressed one there. "We need to talk about the current issue with the next successor."

'So that's what this is about, these people must all be the previous owners of One for All."

"We don't have much time, but I can tell you that your body still has enough of One for All in it to be able to give to another successor. However you don't have long to do so, I would guess about 2 months without any major disturbances to the amount you are currently using."

Toshinori's eyes widened at this 'That means there's still a chance at there being another symbol for Japan. Although two months is going to be a short amount of time to find a successor, maybe I should check out that Mirio kid Sir Nighteye recommended to me.'

"I know that may not seem like a lot of time but you must do this, if you don't All for One will destroy not only Japan, but civilisation across the planet as we know it."

'All for One? But he's- no I shouldn't be so sure of that, they never found his body. If he's still alive then I have only another reason to do this.'

Suddenly the world around Toshinori blurred as he heard the words "The fate of the world is on your shoulders so please, do not disappoint Toshinori."

Then he woke up. Getting out of the sofa he was previously resting on, Toshinori got up, looked in the mirror and said "I won't let you down. You or young Midoriya, wonder why he wasn't there though, maybe because of how recent his death was, that's probably it. Right?

Kamino Ward - All for One's hideout

Izuku placed his cutlery back on his plate, he admit despite the fact he hadn't eaten for 3 days now he did almost lose his appetite after realizing he was supposed to eat without any cheeks to keep the food in his mouth with. Needless to say it wasn't a pretty sight. Although he wasn't thinking about something as unimportant as that now, after all he was about to be trained by the most powerful villain in the world, he knew it wasn't going to be easy but it was still the only form of exhilaration he had in his life now.

All for One entered the room, behind him was some kind of Monster? Man? Bird? Maybe a mix of all three? Either way it didn't look natural at all.

"Ah Midoriya, you have finished your meal, good that means we can now start with your training." All for one suddenly opened a square shaped portal with blue flames dancing around it. "I have just summoned a special room for us to train in, don't worry about taking anything with you, the quirk I used is called 'Trick room'. It allows the user to teleport to an empty room that can only be opened by the user of the quirk. However it comes with the extra bonus of allowing your body to not have to go through the regular patterns it usually requires such as sleeping or eating and your muscles can't get tired while inside. So I figure it should be the perfect place to train you."

"Sir, why can't we just train somewhere else? I understand the added benefits of using this room, however I don't see what the rush is for."

"Well, first of all please do not call me sir, I am your teacher so I would prefer for you to call me Sensei. Second of all we only have about three days to train you as this Sunday I would like you to meet the leader of the team you shall be joining as I presume you would prefer to stay with us rather then take up a solo career on the streets and then next Monday you will have a mission to attend to so I must make sure you are prepared for that in time."

"Can I ask what this mission will be Sir- I mean Sensei?"

"All in good time Midoriya, for now you will be demonstrating to me your physical capabilities by fighting this Nomu here." He turned to show Izuku that he was referring to the monster behind him.

"What even is that by the way?" Izuku stared at the beast, still very unsure what it was.

"Nomu here is a bioengineered creature designed to be able to take multiple quirks, now if that's all the questions we must begin your training, even though All Might may have helped train your body but there is still more that you can still train."

The mere reminder of All Might's name made Izuku growl slightly before a grin spread over his face (It was hard to tell when Izuku was smiling or not without his cheeks, but the gleam in his right eye would always serve as a good tell). "Yes Sensei" He bowed and then they stepped into the portal.

3 Days Later (Yes, yet another timeskip)

All for One looked down at his watch, Izuku was currently fighting against Nomu and had shown a dramatic change of skill compared to their first fight 3 days before. Just then Izuku channeled One for All to land a roundhouse kick at Nomu's face, this caused the beast to fly back. "Hmm I believe I should ask the doctor to give Nomu a shock absorption quirk as well" All for one muttered under this breath making a mental note to do so later. "Now Midoriya it is time for you to meet your new leader, your training has ended."

"It's already been three days?" asked Izuku

"Indeed, I must say your training has gone very well. You learned how to channel One for All much quicker than I expected, although I wouldn't recommend using it unless you have to as the quirk is technically slowly leaving your body now."

"Yes Sensei."

"Let's get going then," All for One reopened the portal that would take them back to Kamino before they were to go to the bar where Tomura was. "Oh and before I forget, I think it's time for your first quirks." He turned to face Izuku, his arm in a handshake position with red lightning radiating around it.

"A-Are you sure Sensei?" Izuku said, nervously offering his hand in response but holding it back before he got his answer.

"Of course Midoriya, your body should be able to take it after all of your training with little repercussions." He then grabbed Izuku's hand and gave him the quirk.

A sharp stabbing pain briefly consumed Izuku's body before disappearing "What quirk did you give me?"

"I gave you two actually. The first is called 'Saving face', it's a quirk that lets you control your body from the neck up including hair, appearance and even your voice I figure you will need it as you are officially dead after all, and the second quirk is a simple regeneration quirk although it won't heal any of your previous scars."

Izuku was glad to hear that, despite the scars and missing parts of his body being unsettling to look at, he liked them as they reminded him of how much he despised those who had led him on the path he was now on. "Thank you Sensei, but don't you need these quirks for yourself?"

"Saving face was only mainly useful to help me stay hidden, however after I faked my death it is no longer of as much use, I also believe it might have some hidden potential to be used to attack as well as conceal however I haven't been able to figure out how so I think it would to useful for you to help figure it out for yourself. As for the regeneration quirk regeneration quirks may be hard to find nowadays but they are common enough for me to be able to get another soon and besides it isn't helping any of my current healing process" He tapped his helmet as if to explain what was actually helping his healing process. "Now then there's no time to talk. You must now meet him."

Suddenly Izuku felt the sudden desire to throw up and as he did he disappeared from infront of All for One and was teleported to what appeared to be a bar of some kind. There were only two other people there. The first person was dressed in all black except for the hands he had that were gripping onto his body with one over his face. The second was wearing a traditional barkeeper attire however had a metal collar that was where his neck should be and where his skin should be was a purple mist with two glowing yellow orbs that Izuku presumed were his eyes.

"What the- Kurogiri, who is this kid? He looks like he's dead" The hand man asked.

"I believe this is the child that Master informed us would arrive at some point today." Said the mist man who was apparently called Kurogiri.

"Oh yeah, right." The hand man turned to Izuku looking the boy up and down. "You look familiar." He narrowed his eyes "Wait a second" The man suddenly ran towards the nearby bin raiding as if he were a racoon looking for it's next meal although some of the stuff he was throwing out turned to dust as it left the bin. Suddenly he pulled out a newspaper with the heading keeping one finger off of the newspaper from each hand. Izuku could see the heading which said 'U.A STUDENT KILLED BY CLASSMATE, U.A ALLOWS MURDERER TO STAY AS A STUDENT' He looked between the picture of Izuku the newspaper had provided and then back at what Izuku looked like now. "Jesus, you really did die didn't you" the man chuckled to himself "So I presume Sensei revived you then" Izuku nodded in response. "Well then, I suppose you should learn our main objective then seeing as Sensei says you're going to be more than just a NPC tomorrow"

Izuku found the man's use of video game terms in normal speech rather strange, it was obvious this man was a man-child but he was also his boss according to All for One so he couldn't just say that to him. "Our goal as the league of villains is to destroy the symbol of peace." The hand man then turned the page of the newspaper to reveal a picture of All Might, he then placed his 5th finger of both hands onto the newspaper causing it to decay and turn to dust.

Despite knowing that was near impossible Izuku couldn't help but grin a Cheshire cat smile, his body subconsciously activating 'Saving Face' to contort his face into the grin. Izuku thought to himself 'I think I'm going to like it here'.

The hand man was taken aback by Izuku's sudden altered appearance but then he realised it was just related to Izuku's quirk and calmed himself. "So then kid we're planning to attack the symbol of peace tomorrow when he and the rest of your old class go to a training facility outside of the school. We got the information by sneaking in while the school was closed and taking a timetable of the next events. Are you with us or are you not?"

"As long as I get to take down Bakugo while we're there I'm in."

"Great, names Shigaraki by the way, that's Kurogiri" He gestured towards the smoky barman. "Have a drink if you like. We set off tomorrow at 9:00 so don't get too wasted."

Izuku laughed in response and followed up by saying "Names Midoriya, but I also go by Corpse." Then he sat down at one of the bar stools and began to chat to Shigaraki and Kurogiri. Although the two weren't the best conversationalists, Izuku knew he wasn't going to be leaving the league any time soon.

Third Chapter Complete - Izuku's now officially joined the league and gotten 2 quirks as well. Also I will mention now that Izuku won't be taking Tomura's place as AFO's successor; he's mainly getting quirks from AFO because he gave him OFA.

Stay tuned for the next chapter 'The Sweet taste of revenge'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Time for Chapter 4! Firstly, I apologize for the lack of horizontal lines between scene changes. I have no idea why they won't show but they just aren't right now.

Secondly, the reason I made AFO's reaction to consuming OFA destroying it was mainly just because I didn't want AFO to be extremely overpowered when it came to the Kamino Ward fight (basically it's just reverse plot armour lol) also he has gained the quirks that came with OFA as part of the stockpiling and when it comes to his brother, who's says he's not doing it to see him as well although due to how long it took Izuku to actually meet the vestiges AFO would most likely meet them at around the same time.

OFA will have more of an effect on Izuku later on aside from being a power boost that's destined to run out. Also All Might still being able to transfer OFA to another successor he isn't using the final embers of the quirk but rather the same amount as he would've used for Izuku, although after giving it away a second time he'll only be able to use the quirk for less than 15 mins, I know it doesn't make much sense in relating to the cannon but I can't just leave the hero side almost completely helpless against their new major problem.

Now, without further ado, Chapter 4.

Chapter 4 - The Sweet Taste of Revenge

Sunday - 21:00 pm

Izuku was standing in an abandoned storage house that belonged to the league along Kurogiri and about 70 back alley thugs, listening as Tomura had just finished explaining the plan for the next day.. "So does anyone have anything they need to ask about?" Izuku raised his hand causing Tomura to sigh and scratch the back of the neck in frustration "What is it Corpse."

"If it doesn't make much of a difference which kid goes where, can you pair me up against a specific student?" Izuku asked

"Let me guess, Bakugo?" Izuku nodded his head in confirmation, making Tomura sigh once more. "Fine Corpse will have the ruins zone to himself as he fights that kid, if you were meant to be there before you'll now be at the central plaza instead."

"Woah there boss" A female villain with particularly big, muscular arms said "Why the hell does weird face here get a say in where he wants to go" She had called Izuku "weird face' because, to conceal his identity and to train himself, he had 'Saving face' activated constantly which made his skin from the neck up swirl around making him look like a whirlpool was on his face.

"Cause Sensei said when it came to that kid Corpse could have free control over what happens to him." He was beginning to get more annoyed now scratching the back of his neck as if trying to claw through his own skin. He was getting impatient and wanted to leave so he could prepare for the next day (by 'prepare' he mainly just meant playing fighter games to 'train himself in combat' as he had put it to Sensei).

"Who the hell is this 'Sensei' guy anyways? Do you see us as so low that we don't deserve to meet him?" After saying this the rest of the villains began to murmur in agreement at what she had just said.

Although it would be the last thing she said as Tomura quickly lunged towards the woman touching her face with all 5 fingers leading her to scream in pain before too much of her disintegrated leaving her body to collapse on the floor. Tomura looked at the rest of the thugs "Listen here NPC's, I hate unskippable cutscenes and this one is a really long one so if no one else has anything to say I suggest you go back to your homes and meet here tomorrow at 8 am. If I find that any of you don't show up I'll use you to feed Nomu." The beast that was standing at the front of the room where Tomura had originally been let out a small roar to help provide some extra intimidation. "Are we understood"

The room collectively murmured "yes" still in shock after seeing what Tomura did to the woman whose body was still decaying, the arms were taking a long time as they really were big.

"Good"

The next Day 7:45 am

Bakugo was sitting by himself at the back of the bus heading to the USJ in his hero costume, except for the gauntlets obviously they had been taken away by the support course to see if they could lessen the output to a non-lethal amount. No one had talked to him out of his classmates yet. Who could blame them? They had all been there and witnessed what happened to Izuku, even Iida and Uruaraka who, after hearing the explosion, had collectively looked out the window to watch Izuku's bloodied body hit the ground.

Suddenly he felt someone else walk over to his seat looking over it was 'weird hair', he still hadn't learned anyone's name and so was using the nicknames he'd assigned everyone one subconsciously.

"H-Hey B-Bakobro mind if I sit here?" asked Kirishima who was obviously frightened by Bakugo but still wanted to sit with him anyway.

"Why not." Bakugo responded.

Kirishima sat down in the seat. Neither of them spoke for about a minute so Kirishima decided to start up a conversation. "S-So you have any idea where we're going?"

"Nope" Bakugo was staring out the window waiting for the awkward attempt at a conversation to end and for 'weird hair' to leave. Upon seeing that the boy hadn't left yet Bakugo just decided to answer the question he knew 'weird hair' wanted to ask. "I didn't do it on purpose just so you know. I lost control and I couldn't stop myself. If that's what you wanted to know you can go now."

"B-Bagubro, why don't you sit with the rest of us?"

"Eh?" Bakugo looked at the boy like he was nuts. Upon seeing no signs of lying on the boy's face he followed it up with "As long as you stop harassing then sure."

They both got up and sat down on separate sides of a row of seats that were facing each other near the front of the bus. Kirishima sitting next to Mina and Bakugo next to Tsuyu.

Upon the pair sitting down, Kirishima managed to get Bakugo in a conversation about what everyone was hoping to do when they got there. Despite getting nervous looks from some of his classmates after a while he found himself just as enthusiastic as the rest of them. Although after he started getting wrapped up in the conversation he found that Tsuyu kept on staring at him with curiosity (He had learned all of his classmates' actual names now after having an actual conversation with them). Whenever he looked back at her she would blush and look away. 'What's her deal?' He thought to himself.

Meanwhile

"Don't move! One step closer and I'll kill this whole family!" A Villain boomed "You wouldn't want the blood of these damned yuppies on your hands, now, do ya, heroes!"

All Might, in his true form, was walking through the streets when he saw what was going on 'Oh no, that villain has a whole family hostage I should-' he cut himself off, realizing he needed to reserve his energy. 'I can't risk using One for All unless I absolutely have to, I still need to teach today so I can't risk wasting any energy. It's for the greater good.' He thought to himself as he passed on by. He didn't have that much time to get to the USJ but he could still make it if he picked up the pace.

He turned to look at the scene to watch as Death Arms quickly charged into the villain after appearing out of nowhere, catching the previously-hostaged family and placing them on the ground, ordering them to run. 'See it's fine they have it all under control'

He then heard a woman's voice shriek then shout "A hit-and-run!"

'Control yourself Toshinori you'll be late otherwise now come on.' He started to run in the direction of the USJ.

The USJ - 9:00 am

"That's all I have to say. Thank you so much for listening" The Space Hero, Thirteen then bowed as All Might strutted over next to them.

"Well then class 1-A are you ready to go PLUS ULTRA!" he added raising a fist in the air

He was met with cheers from the class. However it was cut off as the lights suddenly went out and the fountain in the center stopped. And a portal appeared.

"God, that stupid motto makes me pissed." A voice remarked from the other side. "Especially from you, 'symbol of peace'." The portal opened further revealing the speaker to be a man with a hand covering his face appeared from the other side.

"Stay together and don't move," Eraserhead said urgently as the man stepped through the portal accompanied by 70 other villains, a mist man and a person who was about the same height as the rest of the students, although there face had the appearance of a whirlpool and their hair was black and appeared slightly charred.

"Wait, has the training already started?" Kirishima questioned "I thought we were saving people?"

"Stay back!" eraserhead ordered as he put on his goggles. "This is real, those are villains."

All the students gasped as finally a monster with its brain exposed stepped through the portal.

"It seems the schedule we received from U.A was correct. All Might is here along with Eraserhead and Thirteen." The mist man remarked.

"So you scumbags snuck onto the campus while the school was closed to take a schedule then." Eraserhead sneered, readying himself for the upcoming fight.

"There he is the symbol of peace, the final boss, ready to fight. Good thing too as I brought so many friends here who all want to see your face smeared across the floor." The hand man laughed. "This is going to be fun."

"Not for long villain." All Might said speeding towards Shigaraki, only to be met by the monster catching his body in mid air and throwing him away. "W-What the"

"You see All Might, Nomu here has been created to destroy you" Shigaraki remarked, clearly enjoying All Might's confusion. "He could easily take on any of the top 10 and come out on top. Now, Kurogiri, get rid of the kids."

The students gasped at the scene they saw before them, the collective thought being 'was All Might really just tossed by that thing?' None of them could move purely out of fear.

Eraserhead, noticing his students' hesitation, decided he had to act. "Thirteen get them out of here and make sure they're all safe." he then jumped down from the top of the staircase, at the hoard of villains prepared to fight.

"Kaminari, can you contact the school using your quirk?" Asked Thirteen

"I got nothing" He responded in despair.

"One of them must have a quirk that masks their presence here." said Todoroki "The question is however, If this is their only target, or is the whole campus under attack?"

"We can't worry about that now." replied Thirteen "Everyone get to the exit!"

However as they turned a portal appeared in their way, revealing the mist villain and the whirlpool face villain. (Btw if you're wondering what Izuku's villain costume is, it's a black, worn out Suit with tear marks in the clothing and muscle pads covering vital areas.)

"There is no escape for you." The mist villain boomed. "It's a pleasure to meet you. We are the league of villains. I know it's impolite, but we decided to invite ourselves into this haven of justice to say hello. And besides, isn't this a fitting place for All Might, the Symbol of Peace, to take his last breath? Look at him over there struggling against our Nomu." The students turned to see All might indeed struggling against the Nomu. "But we have our role to play as well."

Thirteen began to open the pads at the end of their fingers when Bakugo and Kirishima both lunged towards the mist man, both leaning back to attack. As the dust cleared it revealed that no harm had been brought to Kurogiri, however the whirlpool faced villain's face had been hit leaving only the flesh underneath although his body wasn't reacting to the pain. At the sight of this the students all took a step back in disbelief before the villain simply laughed as he reconstructed his face and said "Quite the attack you delivered there, although I shouldn't really be surprised that a murderer of U.A can pack a punch." He was of course referring to Bakugo when he said this. The villain's voice was calm, yet sounded like it belonged to a psychopath.

"You two, get out of the way right now!" Thirteen said, preparing to use their quirk.

"I'll scatter you across this facility to meet more of my comrades, and your deaths!" Suddenly the Mist Villain spread out his body unleashing a portal that surrounded the class.

"Crap. What is this?" Kirishima questioned before he was suddenly grabbed by a tendril of the mist and thrown into a portal.

"Are you ready Corpse?" asked Kurogiri

"More than ready" Responded Izuku, still using 'Saving Face' to alter his voice

"Enjoy then" He said as he placed a portal in front of Izuku, leading straight to the building Bakugo had been teleported to.

"Oh, I will"

Bakugo opened his eyes to find that he was in an abandoned building in the ruins zone. He was completely alone, there were no villains or his classmates nearby. He got up off the floor and suddenly heard a voice that had plagued his nightmares for the last week.

"K-Kacchan?"

Bakugo whipped his face around to see that Izuku was looking straight back at him. "I-Izuku?"

Suddenly, Izuku's face began to melt as his features distorted "Don't be silly," the voice of the figure was distorting between Izuku's and the whirlpool villain from before. "Izuku's dead." His voice began to fully distort to a monstrous tone "You Killed Him."

Bakugo suddenly realised that it had just been the whirlpool faced villain disguising himself "So you've got an appearance and voice changing quirk then." He said, wiping tears that had started to well in his eyes away. He wouldn't admit it but the villain had really made him believe he was Izuku so much it was disturbing. Like this villain had met him even.

"Wow, I thought that'd do more to you" The villain responded "You really don't care at all about what you did do you. And they call us the villains" He chuckled to himself "Names Corpse by the way, and I'm about to beat the shit out of you." The villain's eyes turned black and began to leak an inky substance from his eyes.

"Grr, Come at me you villain!" Bakugo challenged. 'Corpse' was really annoying him by constantly reminding him of what he'd done. Mainly because the villain was right in his analysis of Bakugo's behaviour. Bakugo believed he shouldn't be at U.A as well, but All Might had insisted to Nezu that Bakugo was to stay.

Faster than he could blink, Corpse lunged toward him, landing a kick directly in Bakugo's ribs and causing the boy to go flying backwards into a pillar. He tried to get up but his chest was in immense pain "D-Damn it" murmured Bakugo he'd let his opponent take the first shot and it was bad, he could tell that at least half of his ribs was broken because of that hit. He looked up only to be greeted by Izuku's face again.

"Something wrong Kacchan?" Izuku's voice feigned innocence.

"Y-You Don't deserve to even look like Izuku you bastard!" Bakugo bellowed back.

"Hah, knew I got to ya" Corpse chuckled to himself. He was then stopped by his earpiece beginning to communicate to him. "What" he asked. Bakugo could hear what sounded like Kurogiri's voice on the other end. "The Iida got out then, great"

'How does he know Iida's name? I might be on the news constantly at the moment but how does he know Iida?" Bakugo questioned, still unable to move from the pillar.

"Fine then, I'm finished here anyway" Corpse finished the call and looked back a Bakugo. "Sorry about that. But it seems like I have to go." He then made his neck stretch over to Bakugo, his body trailing behind as he got closer and once more altering his face to Izuku's "See you around Kacchan" He said Before knocking Bakugo out by punching his head into the pillar, breaking his nose in the process.

Izuku then changed his face to his whirlpool form and slowly left the building humming a happy tune to himself as if he hadn't just nearly murdered a child.

There we go, sorry if your a bit disappointed by Corpse vs Bakugo I haven't written a fight scene before and a still wanted this to show that Bakugo really doesn't stand a chance against Izuku at the moment.

Next time will include what was happening at the central plaza during this time with Aizawa and All Might and part of the aftermath of the USJ in the next chapter 'Everyone always loses'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Chapter 5 time, not much at all to say except I hope you're all enjoying the story. I won't be able to update it again until Sunday as I'm busy this weekend. Also I'm already thinking about writing other stories already. I know that it's kinda early to already be thinking of other stories but the ideas just keep coming to me. Don't worry though I'm sticking with just one story for now while I get used to writing but when I get more confident I'll start multi-writing. Hope you enjoy it! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 5 - Everyone always loses

Kurogiri teleported behind Tomura, slightly surprising the man-child, who had become so wrapped up in the fight between All Might and Nomu he had almost completely forgotten everything else. "Tomura Shigaraki" he said, soon after his arrival.

"Damn it Kurogiri, can't you see I'm in the middle of fighting the final boss right here. Did you at least kill Thirteen?" Shigaraki responded barely even turning his head to look at Kurogiri as he was taking too much joy in watching as Eraserhead struggled while taking on much more villains then he'd prefer and All Might who was currently struggling against the Nomu.

"The rescue hero is out of commission. But there were students I was unable to disperse and one of them got outside the facility."

"Huh. Why should I care about some dumb NPC escaping?" Tomura responded, scratching his neck in excitement. "By the time the 'heroes' arrive all that will be left for them to see is All Might's mangled corpse being devoured by Nomu."

As he said that All Might suddenly started to gain the upper hand and began to rain punches down on Nomu.

"C'mon give up All Might, I already told you, Nomu here has Shock absorption, your attacks won't do anything to it." Tomura commented, laughing to himself as he said so.

"Exactly," All Might retorted. "You said its quirk is shock absorption, not nullification. That means there's a limit to what he can take,right?" The Nomu got a good hit at All Might's side, causing the hero to wince a bit before coming back stronger announcing "So, you were made to fight me, big guy. If you can really withstand me firing at 100% of my power. I'll just have to go beyond that and force you to surrender." The Nomu started to show signs that it was taking damage from All Might's barrage of punches, as it was sent flying across the battlefield. All Might pursued it further saying "A real hero will always find a way for justice to be served!" He then lifted the beast into the air, spinning it around his body and chucking it directly towards the ground. "Now for a lesson. You may have heard these words before, but I'll teach you what they really mean. Go beyond!" He reeled back his fist aiming directly at the monster's gut. "PLUS ULTRA!" As his fist connected to the beast's stomach it was sent flying through the air, breaking through one of the walls of the dome and taking off from the USJ.

At the sight of this Kurogiri quickly began to call Izuku from his earpiece while Tomura began to stare in disbelief at what he had just witnessed.

"NO," Tomura shouted "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE YOU WERE GOING TO DIE, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DIE!" He growled "Fine then, if you're going to cheat I can always kill one of your students instead." He turned to the 3 students, Tsu, Mineta and Mina, who had all been warped to the flood zone together. He sped towards the trio hand outstretched towards Tsu's face, however as his hand made the connection he realised that his quirk wasn't working "God damn it Eraserhead you're supposed to be dead to. How come all of the NPC's managed to lose to a simple miniboss?" He began to scratch his neck out of pure fury "IT'S NOT FAIR!"

Seeing this Kurogiri decided it was time to leave. "Tomura Shigaraki we must now go, Corpse should be here any second and we have to regroup and prepare for the next fight."

"Oh no you don't villains." All Might flew over landing a few feet away from the pair " Surrender. We all want to get this over with quickly." However as he said this he failed to notice the person flying towards his head and he narrowly dodged them. He found it hard to move after pushing himself so far and there was a lot of smoke rising from his body, a sign that he had pushed himself too far.

"So you're still up after fighting Nomu eh" Said the villain, turning his face to reveal he was the whirlpool faced villain the others had called 'Corpse' although he had changed his face into a demonic smile with his eyes bigger and glowing red. Something about the villain felt familiar to All Might, but he couldn't put his finger on it. "We will be leaving now although if you have a problem with that why don't you just stop us yourself?"

'Damn it, he must know I'm at my limit' All Might thought, still standing his ground. However he knew this villain couldn't be good. Before he could respond Eraserhead sprinted over to Corpse, his capture scarf outstretched, ready to battle.

However at this Corpse just sighed and ran straight towards Eraserhead connecting his fist directly into the man's gut causing the man to fly backwards until he hit the ground at the bottom of a nearby tree, puking a bit as he laid there.

"So then 'symbol of peace', what'll it be?" Corpse remarked, casually standing still like he was talking to an old friend.

Before Corpse could continue he heard a voice flying towards him screaming "DIE" as it sped towards him.

"What the-" Suddenly Bakugo, who had managed to blast himself over, tackled Corpse to the ground. "Wow, you U.A students really are something eh" Corpse remarked, picking himself up off the ground looking at Bakugo who couldn't get up due to his broken ribcage "Although murderers do tend to be persistent."

"JUST SHUT UP!" Bellowed Bakugo

"Is that all you have to say?" Corpse responded "Sigh, I'm disappointed" He then picked Bakugo up from the ground by the neck watching as the boy writhed around trying to break free from Corpses grip. His demonic smile grew and became more horrifying, his eyes glowing a stronger red. "Don't worry, I won't kill you. Not yet anyway" He then used his other arm to grab hold of Bakugo's arm, twisting it directly out of place breaking the arm and making a satisfying cracking sound. Bakugo clenched his teeth through the pain, not wanting to show the villain any signs of weakness. The villain then broke his other arm and went to break his legs when All Might started to move over, staggering as he did so.

"G-Get away from him villain" All Might clenched his teeth, having to maintain his current form was way too hard.

"Fine" Corpse threw Bakugo directly at All Might causing them both to collapse. "Wow, Japan's strongest hero and his murderer's best friend." He chuckled to himself "Y'know what, maybe I will kill you" He reeled back his fist however before he could he was suddenly shot in the arm. Looking up he realised that Iida had just returned with the pro heroes.

All Might couldn't maintain his hero form any longer and returned to his true form, smoke covering the area surrounding them. Tomura, seeing this opportunity suddenly ran over, his hand outstretched before he too was shot in the arms and his legs after he tried multiple times to continue his attempt. "GOD DAMN IT" He shouted as he fell to the ground. Kurogiri surrounded them both and began to prepare a portal.

"Oh well" Corpse said as the bullet hole in his arm healed itself due to the healing quirk Sensei had given him. "Till we meet again. Toshinori." Toshinori gasped at the fact that this villain knew his name and tried to ask him how he knew but the trio had all teleported away from the scene.

All Might couldn't stay awake any longer, he felt himself going unconscious as Cementoss surrounded him and Bakugo, who was out cold a few feet away from him, with a cement wall while he said something to Kirishima, who had tried to see if All Might and Bakugo were okay.

Then he passed out.

Toshinori woke up back in the room with the previous owners of One for All. Looking around All Might noticed that there was a figure of a man who hadn't been there before although it was only a silhouette. The shaggy haired man, who he'd spoken to before turned to him and spoke. "Toshinori, you've used up too much of your power all in one go."

'Oh no, I completely forgot about not using too much of One for All when fighting those villains. Have I ruined the last chance at the next symbol of peace by forgetting something so simple? I really am an idiot aren't I'

"However there is still enough to give to a successor" Toshinoris eyes widened upon hearing this. Hope wasn't all lost yet. "The only problem is that you now only have one day to find someone before too much of the power leaves you. We trust that despite this small time limit you'll choose someone you deem worthy of this title." Toshinori nodded to this "Good, this is the last time you'll see us for a while but we trust you to pick the right successor. Good Luck Toshinori."

All Might woke up in the hospital. According to Recovery Girl (She was the only doctor who knew the true nature of All Might's quirk and therefore the only one allowed to treat him.) However he had no time to listen. He had to find young Bakugo and fast.

He got out of the hospital bed and sped over to where Bakugo was. Luckily, despite his injuries he was just resting for the time being as Recovery Girl had already used her quirk on him.

"Who the heck are you?" Bakugo asked, not being able to recognise All Might in his true form.

"Young Bakugo it's me" Toshinori responded "This is going to be quite a lot to take in, but I want you to listen to me when I tell you this." He then explained to Bakugo about his quirk and how it had previously been given to Izuku; however, now that he was dead he had to give it to someone else.

"What the- why are you telling me this?" questioned Bakugo

"Because young Bakugo, I have noticed how much you have changed since young Midoriya's passing and I believe that you have what it takes to be a true hero, however I want to ask you first what you believe that entitles."

Bakugo looked at Toshinori for a second then said "I used to think that a true hero was someone who always won but, ever since Izuku died I realised that he had been right about what a true hero was 'someone who always is there for others and will do whatever it takes to save people' and now that he's gone I want to become the number one. Not just for me but for him too."

Toshinori smiled at this "That's all I wanted to hear young Bakugo now" he plucked a hair from his head and held it out to Bakugo "Eat this"

"Excuse me what"

The League of villains bar

Izuku was currently sipping at his drink while thinking back to the events of the day. Tomura was currently being treated for his wounds so it was just him and Kurogiri in the bar, waiting for something to happen.

Suddenly Kurogiri received a call, he left the room to take it then, upon re-entering, told Izuku that All for One wanted him. Izuku was slightly worried at this 'Did I mess up during the USJ by monologuing too much or by not making sure if Bakugo was completely unconscious' He stepped through the portal Kurogiri had made and stood in front of All for One.

"Sensei" He bowed to the man "Can I ask why you've brought me here." Despite Izuku's now chaotic personality he was always formal infront of All for One, mainly out of respect and a little bit out of fear of the man.

"Do not worry Midoriya, you aren't in any trouble" Izuku relaxed at hearing this but then pondered why he was there if he wasn't in trouble. "You are here because I want to congratulate you for your efforts today on your first mission and to reward you."

Izuku raised his eyebrow when hearing this "What kind of reward?" he asked.

"Well, as you gave me One for All, I wanted to give you another quirk. I just needed you to prove to be a valuable asset to the league before doing so. The quirk I'm offering you is called 'Darkness incarnate'. It's a highly powerful quirk that allows the user to take the light from around them in a 5 meter radius and convert it into any form they see fit. I can no longer use this quirk as you need to be able to see the light you wish to manipulate to do so and I don't exactly have that luxury any more since my fight against All Might."

"A-Are you sure about this Sensei?" Izuku stammered, not quite believing how good of a reward it was.

"Well there is one catch." All for One added "If you wish to have this quirk I will give you it, however in doing so you must return to U.A."

"WHAT!?" shouted Izuku "How am I supposed to do that, as far as they know I'm dead and it's not like I have a disguise qui- oh yeah right. But still how am I supposed to attend? The school year has already begun and I doubt they'll let some random kid do the entrance exam now."

"You see Midoriya, we have a few students in your year who owe us favors. One of which is in the General Studies Course. He hasn't attended yet because his family has been recovering from a car crash that happened a few days before the school year began. We have managed to hide the fact that the boy actually died that day along with his parents by leaving him in the care of the same hospital the doctor works at. So as far as the police are concerned after his parents death he's been settling in with his Uncle for the last few weeks. The other students have never met the boy before so you won't have to worry about trying to mimic his style and people most likely won't question your burns or missing fingers because of the car crash. We also have people who can make it seem as though the boy has always had 'Darkness Incarnate' as his quirk. So what do you say?" All for One offered his hand to Izuku

Izuku thought it over for a few seconds before realising that the sports festival was going to happen soon which would mean the students would fight against each other to see who was the strongest. Which meant he could fight Bakugo again. Needing no further argument Izuku smiled his devilish grin "Let's do this then" he said taking One for All's hand as 'Darkness Incarnate' was transferred to him.

"Wonderful" All for was said as the transfer was completed "Now, we should train your new quirk" he used 'Trick Room' opening the blue portal "You'll start next week so until then we can train." They both stepped inside as the portal closed behind them.

Takoba Municipal Beach Park

Toshinori was training Bakugo at the same beach he head trained Miroriya at. He was currently explaining to Bakugo how One for All worked. "So I don't recommend using it unless you want to break your arms, however I believe your explosions would've been boosted by One for All so for now you can train them to help you use the quirk without hurting yourself more than you already have today. Don't worry about people telling you off for using your quirk. After all of Midoriya's hard work the council agreed to let me, him and anyone else we wanted use their quirks here."

"Alright then" Bakugo responded. He used an explosion to find that it was much more powerful than before, even sending himself back a bit from the pure force of the explosion. It wasn't catastrophic or anything, it was just more powerful than usual. "Jesus" he remarked, staring at his hands with wonder.

"Alright then young Bakugo, you have much to learn. We have three weeks before the sports festival begins so let's give it our all." All Might said, preparing Bakugo for the brutal training he would go through over the next few weeks.

'Don't worry Izuku,' Bakugo thought to himself 'I'll become the number one hero for both of us. I know that's what you'd want. So I'll give it my all.'

Chapter 5 complete. Now Bakugo officially has One for All and Izuku has his final new quirk, the race begins for who will become the strongest. The sports festival is coming up, however before that is something else in the next chapter 'Watching your own Funeral'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Chapter 6 time. After this chapter the update schedule is gonna be 1-2 times a week. Also if you think it's gonna be impossible for Izuku to beat Bakugo now he has OFA I wouldn't be so hasty, there's still one more thing that's gonna help Izuku. A lot. Also Izuku and Bakugo both kinda share the main character slot butIzuku mainly has it. This will eventually focus more on Izuku later on but for now both stories are important. Bakugo's taken Izuku's death as a lesson and him becoming popular is his reward from that lesson, one that Izuku won't like. This story is partly meant to echo "All men are not born equal" in the way that Bakugo is almost immediately forgiven as it was "an accident" and the two "were friends" as far as anyone knows anyway. Well anyway, onto chapter 6. :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 6 - Watching your own Funeral

School reopened on Wednesday, it should've been longer but due to the 'incident' last week giving everyone the previous week off they had to start lessons earlier to prevent parents getting frustrated with them for not teaching their children.

Bakugo walked into class, as he did Kirishima immediately walked up to him, joined with Mina, Sero and Tsu. "Yo, Bakubro you good man?" Kirishima asked, "After fighting that villain at the USJ you looked pretty roughed up." Of course Bakugo had been a little more than just "roughed up" but after Recovery Girls treatment he was already up and running like the event had never happened.

"He even took on All Might!" Mina said "And if it weren't for the heroes arriving, who knows what would've happened to you two."

"Yeah we were worried. Kero." Tsu said, blushing and turning away as Bakugo looked at her, confusing him.

'Why the hell is she blushing all the time?' Bakugo thought. 'Maybe she's ill or it's part of her frog quirk?'

After that the day went on as usual, Eraserhead was somehow teaching despite having a ridiculous amount of bandages on, not a full body cast but still a lot. They also had a cover for Hero studies now, Bakugo of course knew the cover was just All Might in his true form as he couldn't maintain his hero form for even 15 minutes any more. He could feel the power of One for All inside him, it felt like it was trying to tell him something, just a feeling though but he couldn't shake it.

'It's Izuku's funeral on Saturday' He thought 'Last chance to say goodbye' The Bakugo family were the only ones attending though Izuku had no relatives or any other friends so no one really even cared he was gone. That had eaten away at him recently. The only reason the story had been so big had been because of the press' desire to slander U.A not because of the dead teen. And to make things worse the entire class seem to have forgiven him because, as far as they knew, him and Izuku had been best friends, Izuku had told All Might that, presumably trying to spare getting him expelled. Even though he'd bullied Izuku his whole life the boy was still trying to help him. He had in the end, but it was only because he had died.

The league of villains hideout

Izuku had already finished training his new quirk and was currently relaxing at the bar. Until Shigaraki had walked in and started to complain to Kurogiri about the USJ mission failing. It had been obvious to Izuku it was always going to fail, he hadn't planned to almost kill All Might, it just kinda happened. It's not like Izuku could ever have taken the man at his full power like the Nomu, All Might had been weak during his fight against Corpse and couldn't even attack back.

When Shigaraki finally stopped bitching to Kurogiri Izuku decided to speak up. "Just so you know I'm not available at all on Saturday."

"The fuck not." Shigaraki snapped, he didn't have any reason to actually need Izuku that day, but he was pissed and was going to let off steam in any way possible. Without killing anyone of course, Sensei had told him not to kill anyone of high value to the league and Kurogiri and Izuku both fitted into that category, frustratingly.

"It's mine and my mothers funeral." Izuku responded.

"Well just-" Shigaraki had been prepared for something stupid but didn't know how to respond to 'I'm going to my own funeral'. He sighed "Fine."

"Thanks"

U.A school - Friday- 16:05 pm

Bakugo was preparing to leave school and go home so he could prepare for Izuku's funeral but was stopped by Tsu before he could leave.

"What's up?" He asked. They were the last people left in the classroom.

"Well Bakugo, I was wondering. Kero. Would you maybe." She stopped herself. Then restarted "Would you maybe wanna go?" She paused "on a date" She said the words so quietly not even Jiro could've heard them.

"Didn't catch that last bi-"

"A date"

"Excuse me"

"When I saw you on the bus you looked so sad, but then when you sat over with us you started to smile and you looked happy." Her face was tomato red at this point. "I also saw you outside the nurses office after 'the incident' and you were crying. You and Midoriya must've been good friends I guess. Kero."

"Y-You could say that" Bakugo stuttered. Partly because he couldn't believe what was happening and partly because he always found it awkward when he lied to people about what he had actually been like to Izuku. He originally planned to tell U.A about their past but then he hadn't been able to talk to Nezu because of the press and then All Might gave him his quirk and he knew he couldn't tell anyone anymore.

Tsu noticed his nervous glance "S-Sorry I didn't mean to-"

"It's fine" Bakugo responded

"S-So d-do you maybe wanna go g-get something to eat tomorrow. Kero"

"Not tomorrow. I'm busy then"

Tsu frowned and turned her head "What with?"

"It's Izuku's funeral"

"O-Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid I-" She turned like she was going to run away.

"The only way you're stupid is that you want to go out with a murderer. It's not your fault. You didn't know." Bakugo says, grabbing her by the shoulders as he did. Making them both blush.

"I-I don't see you as a murderer" Tsu responded as Bakugo released his grip from her shoulders. "It was a mistake, after all, you two were friends. Kero."

"Y-Yeah" Bakugo said, rubbing his arm. "M-Maybe we could go out on Sunday though?"

"S-Sure. Here's my number," She wrote it down on a piece of paper and then handed it to Bakugo "I'll text you the place. Kero" She then blushed and ran off.

Bakugo just slumped down by the leg of his desk. 'I don't deserve this' He thought

Truer words have never been thought. But life isn't always fair, sometimes it just seems to pick favorites.

Musutafu graveyard 13:00 pm

Izuku was currently looking like Izuku. He'd changed his face so none of his scars or missing parts were visible so he just looked like nothing had happened to him. He was wearing a hoodie, so others couldn't see the scars and burn marks that covered his body. The only injury visible was his missing index and middle fingers on his right hand. He was currently standing just far enough from the service outside that he could hear whatever was being said but not be seen by any members of the Bakugo family unless they actually tried to see him. He'd have to admit All for One had done a good job with his corpse. He'd used a quirk that let him disguise bodies, he'd had it because he'd originally planned to fake his death before All Might had found him. The body looked like an exact replica of what Izuku looked like without 'saving face' activated.

He'd mainly arrived to say goodbye to his mom one last time. But watching Bakugo crying over his grave was incredible entertainment while he waited to approach the grave after the family left. It took 20 minutes until they finally walked away. So Izuku went to say his final goodbyes as they walked off.

Bakugo had just cried his eyes out for the last 40 minutes while he was standing at the service with his family. He still had hoped that Izuku wasn't actually dead and somehow had survived up until he'd seen Izuku's body. His face alone was enough to make the guilt consume him. The only thing he'd found strange was that Izuku's hand looked strangely similar to the villain from the USJ that had nearly killed him. They were both missing the same fingers on the same hand. But that's just a cruel coincidence. Right?

His mom was just about to drive them back home when he realized something. "I've left my umbrella back at the grave."

His mother sighed. She'd also been grief stricken when she found out her best friend had died after finding out about Izuku. The pair had been best friends since kindergarten after all. "Quickly go and get it then."

Bakugo stepped out of the car and started to trudge back to Izuku's grave. On his way he noticed there was someone else by Izuku's grave. Wherever it was hadn't noticed him as their eyes were closed while they were praying. The person looked familiar, like he'd seen them before. Suddenly he realised who it was and couldn't help but call out their name. "IZUKU!"

Upon hearing the voice Izuku froze. He was sure Bakugo had left. Why would he- his eyes caught sight of the umbrella, he hadn't noticed it because he was too focused on saying goodbye. He had to get out of there and fast. He couldn't pretend he was Corpse in disguise because, why would Corpse even be there? It would only make the police suspect that he was alive. So he had to make sure they thought he was dead and Bakugo was just guilty minded. He stood up, put on his trademark Izuku smile and said "Hi Kacchan" in a cheery voice while waving.

"Is it- Is it really you?" Bakugo questioned

"What are you talking about Kacchan?" Izuku tilted his head in false ignorance. "Why wouldn't it be me?"

He noticed the boy was looking him up and down in disbelief before catching sight of his right hand. As Bakugo looked up from it Izuku decided to change to his true appearance, slowly though. "Kacchan, what's wrong? Did I get in your way again? I-I'm sorry if I did just don't-"

His face was halfway changed at this point revealing his left side cheek being gone and burns marks covering his face. Bakugo was horrified but cut Izuku off anyway "N-No Izuku, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm sorry. Don't go. Please don't-"

Izuku looked scared and backed away. Seeing this Bakugo felt One for All pulse through his body. He wasn't in control of his emotions and was about to accidentally hurt Izuku.

Izuku noticed the yellow lightning pulsing from the boy 'The hell. His quirk doesn't use electricity. Plus, I don't think I've seen an electric manipulation quirk work like that.' Suddenly he realised what quirk did use electricity like that 'No. NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo. How does he have One for All? All Might never said anything about not being able to give the quirk to multiple people but- God damn it. Of course that buffoon managed to give it to someone else. Why wouldn't he? Nothing ever goes my way, oh well this is going to piss Sensei off much more than me and I have to keep up appearances.' Suddenly a sinister thought popped into Izuku's head.

Izuku's face finally fully changed to his true form, making Bakugo more unstable, Izuku mentally grinned at this. So he decided to bury the hatchet. "K-Kacchan," His eyes went completely dark and his voice turned glitchy and demonic " ?" He then used 'Darkness Incarnate' to create a dark form that looked like Bakugo, which began to kick and punch Izuku.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE YOU BASTARD!" Bakugo cried, unleashing a One for All powered blast at the figure. Causing an explosion that burned up the ground across the street, luckily the blast wasn't aimed at any of the graves, but rather at the empty roads, it was aimed upwards so there was no damage to the roads or buildings, but the blast the hedge Izuku had been pinned against to fully catch fire and burn and caused a tree to uproot and collapse over Izuku's and his mothers graves.

After the explosion ended Bakugo looked at the Izuku that was before him. His head had even more burn marks and his jaw was fully unhooked from the rest of his mouth. The body made out the words "W-Why Kacchan why?"

Bakugo turned to see his parents running towards him, worry written all over their faces. He turned back to see Izuku was gone, only ashes in his place. He felt his parents grab him and begin to ask what had happened, but he couldn't hear them. He was fully focused on what he'd done.

Izuku was stumbling away from the scene, luckily Bakugo had looked away for long enough that he could manage to escape. Izuku hadn't faked the injuries from the blast. He was clasping at his jaw to try and withstand the pain. Suddenly he saw a purple smoke engulf him and he passed out.

1 day later

Izuku woke up back on the same hospital bed after he 'died'. Looking around he saw the doctor looking at him.

"Hello there Midoriya." The doctor was talking like he would to any patient "All for One is currently busy, but I've been told to tell you that what you did was extremely reckless. You were lucky that Kurogiri was watching over you otherwise I doubt you would've made it." Izuku sighed when he heard this, he clutched his jaw to find that it had stitches covering the top of his mandible and keeping his jaw in place. His right eye was completely missing, replaced by a mass of black he could still see out of, and there was a chunk of his flesh surrounding it that was gone only about a millimeter deep missing as well. Only other thing to note was his right ear had come off, apart from that he just had many more burn marks. "Although, he also said he was proud of you for putting him in his place. Basically he's proud of you for the psychological damage you've done to him. He is still in U.A just so you know. The whole incident has been written off as him having a physiological episode."

'Typical' Izuku thought 'But it makes sense. There's no evidence to prove he actually hurt anyone, I made sure to keep all the blood in using 'Saving Face' so they wouldn't have my DNA'

"The only punishment he's received is that he has to see your school therapist, Hound Dog." Continued the Doctor "Oh yes just so you know you've only missed one day and your mission for tomorrow is still happening"

"Good" Izuku replied "Mind if I have some water before I prepare myself."

"Be my guest"

As Izuku got up he had expected to stagger but he moved normally. He stretched his arm "Jesus, how did you even heal me that well so fast"

"Trade secret"

"Heh, of course it is" Izuku took a glass and was teleported to his room near the bar.

As he walked in he noticed his U.A uniform on the chair by his bed. His room was mostly empty except for a dartboard with separate pictures of All Might and Bakugo pinned to it.

There was a note by the uniform that mainly had the same instructions he'd been given the day before from All for One the only things that were new was the instruction to try and win the sports festival so he could get into 1-A again and that his stay would be short and he'd only be there until they can attack the students outside of campus again. Izuku had guessed both of these previously so they weren't much of a surprise to him.

He chuckled, then turned to face the dartboard and picked up a knife he had left on his desk for training then perfectly threw the knife so it impaled the image of Bakugo right in the head. "Get ready Kacchan, because when I'm done." He ran towards the dartboard and violently pulled the knife to slice the picture in half then impaled it in the image of All Might's head. "You'll wish you'd finished the job."

Bakugo's house

Bakugo was lying on his bed, he was tired but couldn't sleep. He kept on recalling how when All Might went to check if he was okay he'd begged the man to take his power back but All Might had insisted upon Bakugo keeping it. He heard his phone ringing and glanced over to see the call was from Tsu who he'd added into his contact list back on Friday. 'She's probably calling to say she no longer wants to date me and is glad we didn't go out today' He assumed as he picked up the phone. "Hey."

"Are you okay? Kero." Tsu asked worriedly.

"Why are you asking? Aren't you calling to say we shouldn't go out or something?"

"Why would I do that? Kero."

"Didn't you see the news? I flipped out and caused a massive explosion after the funeral."

"Yeah, I saw. Kero"

"S-So why then."

"Because if anything that's made me want to go out with you more. Kero"

"What?"

"W-Wait no, that sounded bad. What I mean is that after I saw you smiling on the bus I haven't been able to get your smile out of my head. On the first 2 days you would only scowl or look angry. Then, after the incident, you looked sad until Kirishima made you sit with us. But then after the USJ you've been looking sad and guilty all over again. I just want to see you smile again, I don't want to see you sad. I want to make you smile. It wasn't your fault!" Her voice got louder over time and she sounded like she was about to cry on the other side of the phone.

But Bakugo was too stunned to speak. He didn't understand why she wanted him to be happy after everything he'd done. He didn't deserve this. He really didn't. But he wasn't ready to tell people what had really happened between the two. "A-Are you sure?"

"Of course I am." she replied "We can reschedule our date for after school tomorrow if you like. Kero."

"I-" Bakugo was going to make up an excuse but she really seemed to care about him. Perhaps his situation hit close to home for her somehow. He decided he shouldn't deny her request. "I'd love to"

"Good. See you at school then."

"See you." The call ended and Bakugo looked up at the ceiling of his room with a small smile on his face. 'Tomorrow is going to be the start of something good' He thought. Not knowing how wrong he was.

There we go! That's what I'd call the first 'part' of scorched. The other parts will be longer than just six chapters. I like this story sort of focussing on Izuku as a villain but also focussing on Bakugo becoming a better hero, as I feel it's necessary character development for the both of them. Either way not much more to write except the death battle that came out yesterday was incredible they never disappoint and yesterday was no exception. Well then see you for the next chapter 'This could be the start of something great'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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First chapter of Izuku's return to U.A! So far I have decided that Izuku will get a love interest, however, you might be deceived at first as to who it is. What does that mean? You'll just have to wait and find out. Also I think AFO sees Izuku as more as a tool to break All Might and someone who can help expand knowledge of the league rather than a successor. He thinks of Izuku more as Tomura's right hand man in a way too, making things slightly easier for him and giving him advice. Now, without further ado-

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 7 - This could be the start of something great

Izuku had finally arrived at U.A. Well, not Izuku, but Daku Enomoto, the boy who he was currently disguised as. Akira had green, wavy hair somewhat resembling Izuku's but less curly and more calm and relaxed. His face wasn't anything out of the ordinary; he didn't have freckles, instead he had a small birthmark resembling a claw on his neck. He also had used 'Darkness Incarnate' to create two makeshift fingers for his right hand which worked surprisingly enough as he could control the state of matter that they were in. Izuku was currently going through the corridor, searching for class 1-C (General Studies). As he walked in the whole class stopped chatting to each other, staring at the newcomer.

Suddenly a boy with white hair that looked almost like a cloud ran over to him. "Hey, you must be the new kid! My name's Benjiro Inoue, what's yours? The boy was acting incredibly much like a little kid who just met some other kid at a park. He was slightly bouncing up and down and had an excited look on his face. Looking at the boy Izuku was reminded of who he used to be, before the world turned its back on him forever.

"Daku Enomoto" His voice was naturally monotone thanks to 'saving face'. He had already practiced not responding with his own name or not responding to his new name during his training with Sensei.

"Wow, that's such a cool name! What'syourfavoritecolororwhataboutyourfavoritefoodor maybefavoriteshape?" The boy was practically bouncing with excitement at the moment floating a bit in the air, then he began to go higher and higher and higher. Suddenly, before he could take off, someone grabbed him by the leg and rooted him back to the ground.

The girl sighed, "Inoue, calm down your going to break through the ceiling." She then turned to Enomoto "Sorry about him, he gets" she contemplated her next words "hyper around new people. My name's Chikuchi Togeike by the way."

Inoue, still bouncing up and down, finally managed to come up with an actual question "What's your quirk?" He asked Togeike to grab one of his shoulders to keep him on the ground.

"It's called 'Darkness Incarnate', it lets me manipulate all light within a 5 meter radius of myself and convert it into any form I want, although it always appears like inky darkness, hence the name, and if I collect too much I throw it up." (You don't want to know how he found that out.) He demonstrated, removing his shadow fingers and transforming them into a ball before he turned them back into two fingers which he attached back to his hand. A couple of other students' eyes widened at seeing how powerful it was.

"Wow that's such a cool quirk, a little scary, but really cool. How did you not get into the hero course with a quirk like that?" Inoue said, bouncing further up and down despite Togeike's grip on his shoulder.

Izuku was prepared for this question, Daku's original quirk hadn't been very strong and since he had been given it by All for One his body couldn't handle it very well so instead he was supposed to be a spy for the general course, not even doing the practical exam. He had already come up with an excuse if people asked him how he wasn't in the hero course. "Well, I originally just wanted to be in general studies, however, after some 'personal stuff' happened I want to become a hero to fulfill a promise I made." Of Course there hadn't been any promise but he had to make his reasoning make sense and, with the teachers being aware about what had happened to Daku (not fully aware mind you) this excuse would explain why he now aimed for the hero course without making himself look suspicious.

"Oh, I see that makes sense, well not a lot of sense but still." Inoue said, still over enthusiastically "My quirks called 'High Life', it lets me fly above the ground and use the air around me to move others the same way or even create small constructs with it. I can't make anything big yet like you can with light but I'm training it at the moment and I'm getting stronger too." He put a determined look on his face "I want to be just like my cousin Nejire-chan, she's in the big 3 of U.A and is super strong so I want to be just as strong as her."

Daku smiled a bit at the boy's determination. Inoue was currently talking about how strong his cousin was when a kid with purple hair, who kinda reminded Izuku of his former homeroom teacher, walked over interrupting the excited boy. "So then, that means you're also aiming for the empty spot in 1-A too then." He remarked while looking at Izuku's 'shadow fingers' "Gotta admit, apart from Inoue, you might be the only person strong enough to make it there."

"HEY WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?" Togeike bellowed, clearly annoyed at the boy's rudeness. Inoue, on the other hand, was looking rather proud of himself with his hands on his hips and a smug expression on his face.

"That includes me too" The purple haired boy responded "Name's Shinso by the way. My quirks called 'Brainwashing' . It lets me control people who respond to me within a certain time limit."

"How come you're not in the hero course either then?" Daku responded with an eyebrow raised in genuine confusion. "Seems to me like your quirk could be used easily in hostage scenarios or getting a rampaging villain to stop."

"Because they thought it'd be a great idea to use robots in the practical exam 'to make sure that all quirks can be used' as they put it." Shinso responded "I may not be as strong as either of you two, but i'll still become a hero regardless"

Before Daku could respond the door was suddenly kicked down as Present Mic bolted into the classroom. "HEY THERE KIDDOS! IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'VE ALREADY MET YOUR NEW CLASSMATE SO THAT JUST LEAVES ME WITH ONE THING TO SAY!" The whole class looked at him wondering what he was referring to. "AS YOU ALL KNOW THE SPORTS FESTIVAL IS UP SOON SO, IN PREPARATION, YOU LOT ARE ALLOWED TO GO AND HAVE A LOOKSY AT YOUR COMPETITION DURING HOMEROOM TODAY! WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALL PRAYING FOR THAT EMPTY SEAT-God bless the soul of the child who is gone from that seat-" Izuku mentally chuckled at the mans statement, although he was originally annoyed his death had been turned into a game for the other classes Present Mic's after statement had already made him forgive the man for what he'd said, purely out of amusement "-IN CLASS 1-A! SO GET THE INFO YOU NEED BEFORE THE FESTIVAL BEGINS NEXT WEEK! GOOD LUCK KIDDOS!"

With the hero's final remark the class of 1-C all collectively began to dash towards class 1-A.

'I wonder how it's going with everyone? Bakugo must've been outed by now so-' However Izuku's train of thought stopped upon seeing how 1-A was doing. As he approached the now open door next to Shinso he noticed that Bakugo had appeared to of been talking to a group of his former classmates and Asui-san was clinging to his arm ' WHAT THE FUCK, I KNEW THE TEACHERS HAD ALLOWED HIM TO STAY BUT EVEN URARAKU AND IIDA ARE TALKING TO HIM. Di-Did I really not matter that much at all to any of these people. It's not like any of us were close but still-' He began to walk off, not being able to watch what was going on any longer . 'Fine then, they can all be best friends for all I care. All this means is more people will look at Bakugo in disgust when they find out the truth- What if he's already told them the truth, what if they all know and they still don't care. Why would they? Who cares about stupid old quirkless Deku-"

"WAIT, YOU!" Suddenly Izuku heard Bakugo's voice shouting at him from behind. He felt the boy stop a meter away from him and said "I-Izuku?" He asked hope surrounding his voice.

Daku turned revealing his face that had previously been hidden to Bakugo before "Actually it's Enomoto, Daku Enomoto. You must be the 1-A murderer Bakugo."

Bakugo was slightly taken aback by the boy referring to him as the 1-A murderer and by his name, it sounded so similar to Deku it hurt along with the boys hair somewhat resembling Izuku's it felt like just talking to him he was talking to Izuku all over again.

"S-Sorry I just- I thought you were someone else." Bakugo then began to stumble looking at the ground with sorrow.

"Just so you know when we fight in the Sports Festival I'll make you feel almost as much pain as you brought to Izuku." Responded Enomoto

Bakugo turned to look at the boy, anger and sadness both reflecting in his eyes. He grabbed Enomoto by the shirt "Don't you say his name you asshole or I'll-" A crowd began to form around the two mainly composed of the other class 1-C students.

"You'll what? Kill me? Is that how you respond to anyone who actually opposes you? Pathetic." Daku responded, glaring back at Bakugo.

"Bakugo stop!" Tsu shouted, separating Bakugo with her tongue. "Calm down. It's fine"

"Thanks Tsu." Bakugo responded

Izuku watched as Tsu grabbed Bakugo by the hand and led him back to 1-A. He wanted to tear Bakugo away from her and rip him to shreds as everyone watched. But he knew full well he had to wait until the time was perfect to ruin Bakugo's perfect life.

The rest of the day proceeded as normal. He had sat with Inoue, Togeike and Shinso during lunch and they had talked about their training for the sports festival. Togeikes quirk allowed her to be completely immune to long lasting effects such as freezing, burns and even most poisons as long as they didn't immediately kill the target it also boosted her defense a lot making her a very defensive person. Her quirk wasn't all that useful for anything other than a human shield though so she hadn't been able to get much attention during the practical exam. Inoue hadn't made it as early on he had gotten so excited he'd flown all the way to the ceiling and couldn't control his quirk, an unfortunate side effect, meaning he hadn't been able to do a thing during the practical exam.

Izuku was currently on his way back, still disguised as Daku, he was about to disappear through an alleyway when someone had called for him.

"Hey Enomoto. Kero" The voice was familiar and as he turned around he came face to face with Asui.

"Oh it's you" Daku responded "What do you want?"

"How do you know Midoriya? Kero?"

"Excuse me!? I don't know your boyfriend's victim except from the news. I don't see how they even let him go back after murdering a student!"

"He didn't mean to murder him! Kero. They had both been best friends up until then."

"Yeah I'm sure that's what he told you"

"What do you mean? Kero"

"Oh, nothing," Daku said through gritted teeth "Just heard a different side to the story I guess."

"So you do know him. Kero. I figured when you went to see his gravestone a few minutes ago."

"What the-?! Have you been stalking me?"

"Earlier you seemed to really hate Kacchan like he'd hurt you personally. So I wondered how. Kero."

"Great, he's turned Kacchan into his own pet name for his girlfriend to call him, typical.' "If you must know, our parents knew each other before Izuku's mom died because of a heart attack and mine in a car crash. Any other questions?" Daku was gritting his teeth stronger now, if he didn't have 'Saving Face' the gritting would most likely permanently damage his teeth. He was lucky enough to have made a reasonable lie up on the spot.

"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't know tha-"

"Just leave me alone"

"O-Okay, I'm so sorry. Kero" She bowed, then speed walked past Izuku.

Upon the girl's departure Izuku finally walked into the alleyway. His mind was racing about the day he'd had. Had his classmates seriously just forgotten him that quickly? How the hell did Bakugo manage to get friends and a girlfriend because he'd murdered Izuku. Did all his classmates just hate him and because Bakugo was the only one who'd done what they'd wanted to do he's getting all the praise in the world? Why does no one care he's dead!?

A portal opened taking Izuku back to his apartment where he sat by his desk. 'I'll make them care, I'll make them all care about everything Bakugo's done. I'll make the name "Izuku Midoriya" be known as a symbol of unfairness and revenge. Yes that's it I'll make them all care when my name is used to help create the new world. This is going to be fun.

Suddenly a thought came through his head as he picked up one of his spare phones, he had to have a lot to make sure it was much trickier to catch him with the constant switching of devices that weren't his personal one.

He still remembered Bakugo's phone number so he entered the number and pressed the call button. Surely enough Bakugo responded.

"Hello?" Bakugo's voice said on the other side of the call

Izuku changed his voice to his corpse voice and spoke, "Hello Bakugo."

"C-Corpse how did you-"

"That's not important, but I just wanted to tell you that it's thanks to you that the world is going to crumble."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Oh, you'll see."

"You bastard, I've gotten stronger since last time we met and I'll destroy you the next time we meet."

"Oh yes I'm sure All Might's quirk is plenty useful alongside you explosion quirk"

"H-How d-did you?"

"I know a lot of things Bakugo, I know where you live, I know All Might's biggest secret, I know the truth about you and Midoriya's past and I even know where your girlfriend lives"

"Y-You wouldn't"

"HAH got you with that last one didn't I?"

"YOU BASTARD IF YOU EVER LAY A FINGER ON HER I SWEAR TO GOD-"

"Oh relax, I was joking with the last one. Either way I'm looking forward to watching your performance next week. Wonder if you'll make it past the first event with All Might's power combined with yours"

"You're a piece of shit you bastard."

"Well then Bakugo, It's been fun however I've got to go now." Izuku's voice changed to its demonic voice "See ya real soon you murderer." Then he hanged up the call leaving a horrified Bakugo on the other side of the call to be left alone.

There we go. Little bit shorter than usual but this is the first chapter of the second part of scorched! I don't really know how I came up with Inoue but when I was coming up with his quirk I had already described his hair as resembling a cloud so after some though I'd thought it'd be fun to make him Nejire cousin as I had already decided to make his personality a lot like hers. Just for clarification Togeike isn't an OC, she's actually in the manga (She's the girl in general studies who during the festival arc is complaining about 1-A performing with her class mate). That's all for this chapter see you in the next chapter 'Chase your regrets'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Back again! Sports Festival time, incase of confusion I'm just going to mention that Izuku's decision to use his name as a weapon won't actually happen until Hosu. The Sports Festival remains safe from villains.

I think Izuku is going to be similar to Garaki in the way that he is helping Tomura but he is more like a friend and less like a servant and he'll be the one giving advice rather than AFO just telling Garaki what he's doing. So he'll be a valuable part of the league unsurprisingly.

I'm currently deciding how much of an impact I want Inoue and Togeike to have in the story. I think I have a good idea at the moment but I'm not fully decided yet. Anyways on with the chapter

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 8 - Chase your regrets

Bakugo hadn't been barely got any sleep at all last night. All he could think about was Corpse's call earlier. He hadn't told his parents but he planned to tell All Might, he needed to know that Corpse was more than just the villain of the week. Hell, he somehow knew that Bakugo has One for All. As he tossed and turned thoughts of the villain arriving at his house any second plagued his mind. 'Thank fuck he doesn't know where Tsu lives' Despite Bakugo's change of personality since the 'incident' he still had temper issues and a tendancy to casually swear, more in his mind than to others however. He'd not been able to swear around any of his new friends, but if he was with family or strangers he'd let his mouth free of its constraints.

The only time he'd managed to fall asleep he'd had the worst nightmare. It started with him at the local park, looking around. He was about 4 years old and before him Izuku was protecting another kid he'd just been bullying, he was about to attack him but then he stopped. He then looked down to see he was in his hero costume, still at the park, as he stared at his gauntlets which were currently smoking as, even without doing a thing, Izuku was slowly melting in front of him.

He watched as Izuku's jaw began to unhinge and slack as it had done at the graveyard. All he could hear was cries of "Why Kacchan Why" as hundreds of hands resembling the ones the villain from the USJ had covered his body latching onto whichever part of him they could pull him into a misty portal.

When he arrived on the other side he was met with the sight of Corpse standing there, his face resembling a whirlpool before transforming to the horrible, demonic smile it had portrayed during the 'fight' he'd had against All Might. He suddenly saw All Might, brutalized and lying dead on the floor. The chilling laugh of Corpse rang through his head as the villain's eyes transformed into pools of inky mass covering the whole room. When the room had been fully engulfed Corpse had disappeared and Bakugo was in front of All Might in his true form the man holding out a hair from his head towards him and Tsu who was closely hugging his side as he ate the hair.

He then reappeared in a strange room. There were about 7 people staring with fear and horror towards the corner of the room, Bakugo didn't recognise any of the people however there was a chair with a dormant flame on it he felt he recognised. 'All Might?' he thought not being able to communicate as he appeared to just be a shadow resembling part of himself. As Bakugo peaked towards the corner he saw what they were looking at, stood there was part of another person, however this person had an extremely menacing aura surrounding them. He could hear one of them mutter "I-It c-can't b-be" and another say something about it being impossible for the man, who they had presumed to be his brother, to be there. Turning he noticed a green flame in the corner of the room, he recognised who that was as well.

It was Izuku.

Before he could think further on the subject one of the people quickly grabbed him by the shoulders. They were saying something however Bakugo felt himself fading away all he heard was "He's still alive" before he reawoke in the halls of U.A staring at the boy he'd met earlier that day. Tsu had messaged him about their interaction but Bakugo didn't believe the boy's story of them being friends via their parents. He knew that both of Izuku's parents had only ever had one friend they'd stayed in contact with, that being his mom. The boy stared at him with disgust before his body was impaled just by Corpse's hand alone. As Enomoto's body fell Bakugo collapsed at what he saw next Corpse had Tsu in his left hand, holding her by the neck, her body was limp and he let her drop to the floor. Once again with a demonic laugh, Bakugo tried to scream but he had no mouth and he collapsed on the cold hallway floor. He looked up again to see Corpse looking down on him, surrounding him were the bodies of everyone he'd ever cared about including all his family and friends.

Corpse held Izuku's body in his hand. "Looks like I was too late to kill this one, someone already beat me to it." Followed by his laugh filling every crevice of Bakugo's mind. "Thanks for that by the way." The hallway began to reshape itself back to his room. He looked down at his phone to see the previous scene plastered on it via a video call. Corpse's eyes grew brighter as he repeated the last thing he'd said to Bakugo on their call. "See ya real soon you murderer."

Bakugo had woken in a cold sweat, he looked around his room, not being able to tell if he was still in his nightmare or not. He looked at his clock to see he'd only been asleep for about an hour, meaning he still had 3 hours until he had to get up although he knew there wasn't any chance of him getting sleep after what he'd just experienced. Trying to calm his nerves he remembered what he'd been told while with the 7 other people "He's still alive" 'Who's still alive? That guy's brother? All Might?, who was he talking about.' His mind darted to the thought that it could be Izuku however he waved the thought away. He'd been to the boy's funeral, he'd killed him, he was already seeing him wherever he went he didn't need to get his hopes up again.

Bakugo sighed, 'I just have to get through this, Izuku would've done so, he would have passed this and started training for the Sports festival already. One week left now.' He thought to himself. Before he tried, and failed, to get back to sleep.

One week later

Izuku's second first week at U.A had been much more easy going than his last first week. His lessons weren't that hard and he just hung out with his friends he met on the first day while he was at school and either trained or stuck around the league's bar when he wasn't. It was the day of the Sports festival and he was recalling the words of advice he'd been given by Tomura of all people.

The previous evening

Izuku had been conversing with Kurogiri when Tomura began he talk, he wasn't playing as he had to take a break after getting extremely angry while playing MarioKart 34 as someone playing as a sidestepper had red shelled him at the last second and overtook him winning the race and causing him to decay both the controllers he was holding before shouting and destroying all but 2 bar stools.

"You've got your sports festival tomorrow don't ya Corpse?" He asked. Tomura liked Izuku, mostly because he loved the idea of someone who was so close to All Might become part of the organization set to destroy him, however during the odd conversation they'd have after one of Tomura's video-game-induced crash outs he'd enjoyed talking to the kid about destruction. (It wasn't surprising how much Izuku had changed after being almost killed by his classmate and being left to rot as a past memory by everyone else he knew.) He even let the kid advise him on how to lead, although for the time being his first goal was to find his 'conviction' why that was important he didn't know but he was curious to find out why so he'd been trying to figure it out for the past week to no avail.

"Sure do" responded Izuku "Can't wait to stick it to my old classmates" He clenched his right fist.

"Hm, next time you're on the field you'll need to have some kind of replacement for your missing fingers or else people might start to catch on."

Izuku looked at his fist, realizing the obvious connections that would be easy to make given that he'd now be on TV the next day as Daku Enomoto and if the league were ever to succeed on day as Corpse too. "Yeah you're probably right about that" He 'frowned', looking at his hand, of course he couldn't really frown as his face no longer had cheeks making it impossible for him to express most emotions with 'Saving Face' which he was only using to make his right eye, which had stayed a strange black blob, have a red iris to make himself appear more menacing.

"Oh, also Corpse when you're out there, make yourself very noticeable to the crowd to make sure that when you win that stupid school will have to put you back in your old seat. They usually do a team event second, do that one alone and it'll put you on the map. I guarantee it."

"Wait, you're giving me advice? That's ironic." Izuku responded

"Fuck you"

"Right back atcha hands"

Present Day

'Daku' was waiting for the competition to start and was currently talking with his classmates. Enomoto, Inoue and Shinso had all been getting tons of support from their classmates as their quirks were the strongest meaning their classmates were constantly making sure they were ready for the competition. He was currently talking to Togeike, who was also getting her own fair share of support as she stood a strong chance of beating the elemental users in 1-A if she could make it that far, when Midnight had called them all to the arena.

Midnight explained how the competition worked, mentioning that there was a chance that any of the general course students could take the empty place in 1-A. She then called Bakugo to the stage to make a speech.

Most of the audience were murmuring as they all recognised the boy from the news as the kid who killed his classmate. Bakugo got up to the stage and began his speech "I just want to say I'm going to win for Izuku Midoriya and become the best hero possible." He then left the stage. No one in the crowd of students knew how to react to the speech as they didn't want to applaud him for his cockyness yet they didn't want to boo him as he was doing it for his dead classmate.

'Can't believe he's using my death as an excuse to look down on everyone' Izuku murmured, no one heard him as the crowd was applauding the boy's speech mostly as a sign of respect towards the dead teen he'd mentioned. He saw Bakugo walk over to his classmates as Tsu gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek which made both of them blush a little bit. 'No one actually gives a damn about my death. Not yet anyway' A small grin began to form on his face. 'But for now I'll just have to settle with kicking his ass'

After the crowd stopped clapping, Midnight explained the first event, the obstacle course. After the explanation the students all formed around the starting line, all except one, that is, Izuku had noticed that the first obstacle was actually going to be getting out of the arena and had already planned on how he'd pass this.

"BEGIN!" Midnight shouted

Izuku quickly released two tendrils out of his back, latched them onto each side of the tunnel and catapulted himself through the tunnel. He then used the tendrils to stabilise his landing then altered them into hands, using them to speed ahead of the rest.

Looking back he noticed Todoroki who was noticeably looking shocked that this general course student had managed to not only get past his ice trap but even overtake him and was currently gliding across the ground. Closely following him was Bakugo who was using his explosions to help boost himself in mid air.

"WOW WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT!" Present Mic's voice rang out through the arena "TODOROKI FREEZES HIS COMPETITION HOWEVER FAILS TO NOTICE THAT GENERAL COURSE STUDENT, DAKU ENOMOTO, ALREADY PAST HIM AND HAS TAKEN AN EARLY LEAD!"

Eraserhead watched as the boy, that Yamada had been calling the general courses 'air to the 1-A throne' as his friend had put it, was steamrolling ahead of his two strongest students who were both struggling to keep up with each other yet alone the strange boy who was already at the first obstacle. 'The heck is this kid' he thought to himself. He decided when he had the time he'd check to see why this kid hadn't been placed in his class prior to this meeting. Yet something about the boy seemed familiar to the underground hero.

"Daku Enomoto, who are you?" He murmured to himself.

Izuku ducked under the giant fist of one of the zero pointers 'Seriously, how are these things legal?' He thought to himself as he used his shadow hands to leap up then, turning the one on his right into a lengthy blade, cleanly sliced off the zero pointer's head. Allowing it to slide off the body causing both parts to collapse. No one was around and even if anyone was there he didn't care about where the machine landed.

"AND WITH ONE CLEAN HIT ENOMOTO SLICES HIS WAY PAST THE FIRST OBSTACLE! STILL HAVING A MASSIVE LEAD ON TODOROKI AND BAKUGO!"

Izuku kept moving forwards, noticing Todoroki approaching the robots from behind him followed by the rest of his opponents. He slightly chuckled when he noticed both Tokeike and Shinso were being carried by several students who Shinso had clearly hypnotised.

Approaching the second obstacle, Izuku repeated what he'd done at the start of the race, catapulting himself using the tendrils from his body, to fully pass the gorge with no difficulty whatsoever.

"AND ENOMOTO DOES IT AGAIN! FULLY PASSING THE SECOND OBSTACLE WITHOUT EVEN TRYING!"

Appreciating his current homeroom teacher's commentary, Izuku continued his pursuit towards the finish line. The third obstacle was much trickier than the first two but was still easily solvable by the villain in disguise as he simply transformed his shadow hands back to small tendrils and carefully and quickly maneuvered his way past the obstacle.

"HE'S MAKING IT LOOK TO EASY! ENOMOTO FINISHING THE THIRD OBSTACLE STILL YET TO EVEN TOUCH THE GROUND! PRACTICALLY MILES AHEAD FROM SECOND AND THIRD PLACE WHO ARE ONLY JUST BEGINNING TO CATCH SIGHT OF THE THIRD OBSTACLE!"

Knowing he'd already won, Izuku made it to the final tunnel and crossed the finish line, slightly sweating from the constant use of his quirk for a while but not nearly as bad as the others in the race.

"CLASS 1-C'S VERY OWN DAKU ENOMOTO PASSES THE FINISH LINE IN RECORD TIME! WITH THAT TIME HE'S SURE TO OF SHOWN HIS OPPONENTS WHO'S REALLY BOSS!"

Waiting for the other 41 people to cross the finish line, Izuku stood, watching as Bakugo and Todoroki took second and third. Bakugo had used an One for All boosted explosion near the end, setting Todoroki back a bit and propelling himself straight past the finish line and face planting into the ground. The sight alone made Izuku chuckle.

Shinso, Togeike and Inoue had all made it to the next round. Inoue even managed to make it into fourth place as his quirk had come in very useful for the second and third obstacle.

Izuku noticed Todoroki staring at him with confusion to which he responded by sending him a devilish smile back which wasn't boosted by 'Saving Face", can't give the game away that easily.

The quartet formed together as Midnight explained the next event to be the Cavalry Battle. Izuku wasn't surprised that his headband was going to be worth a lot more than the rest although that'd just make what he'd do next all the more impressive.

As Midnight finished explaining and left them to create teams, Izuku's friends turned to him. "So we a team then?" Shinso asked.

"Actually I was wondering if I could do this without a team." Enomoto responded to which his friends responded with looks of confusion "Don't get me wrong I definitely know the danger I'm in this round which is why I'll do it alone. If I demolish the competition by myself again then I'll definitely begin to be more of an actual threat in their eyes."

Shinso chuckled at this "I get it, good luck with that. I can always find another teammate anyways." He then turned to a student who was currently looking for a team. "Nice tail"

The student turned "Tha-" He was cut of as Shinso activated his quirk

"See"

Enomoto chuckled "See you guys for the final battles"

"Right back at ya" Togeike responded as the four walked of to plan strategy

After the time was up Midnight walked over to Enomoto "Are you going to do this as a one man team?" she asked

"Yep" the boy responded

"Wow that young courage! It's making me really hot." The flirtatious heroine said before turning around and getting ready to announce the beginning of the second round. "Everyones ready then"

"WHAT'S THIS!? IT SEEMS THE NUMBER ONE IS GOING AT THE NEXT ROUND ALONE!" Present Mic Shouted through the speaker, causing all the other teams to turn stare at Enomoto with overconfidence practically oozing from them, with the only exceptions being Shinso's, Bakugo's and Todoroki's teams who all appeared slightly worried and/or confused at the information.

Eraserhead raised an eyebrow at this 'He doesn't seem like the cocky type, is he really that confident in himself that he's making this big a risk. If he loses that headband he definitely won't be able to steal another from a team. Is he really that strong?'

Midnight raised a flag "Begin"

Every team except for Shinso's ran towards Enomoto, seeing this he smiled.

"This is going to be fun"

Sports Festival part 1 complete! Couldn't really imagine Izuku having the same heated battle for first that he does in the original for the first event. And I figured it just makes sense for him to be soaring ahead in the first round due to Darkness Incarnate basically being the ultimate quirk for it. Don't worry, when it comes to the Battles later on it's not going to just be easy no sweat wins like that. Hope Bakugo's nightmare was good btw, I knew I wanted Bakugo to have an awful nightmare at some point and I thought after the ending of the last chapter this would be the best time for it. Anyways see you in the next chapter 'The Uphill Downhill Battle'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Feeling fine, it's chapter 9! Nothing to say this time except this is the chapter where Izuku discovers a new trick up his sleeve. Well apart from that…

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 9 - The Uphill Downhill Battle

"This is going to be fun" As soon as the words left Enomoto's mouth he unleashed 5 tendrils out of his back and used them to leap into the air where he then used two of the tendrils as helicopter blades, keeping him in the air, as he watched the other teams all collide into each other as the boy's movements had been so fast they hadn't noticed in time causing almost a war between the other groups. All of which were now fighting each other with the only ones not being Team Shinso who were currently sneaking around and taking random teams headbands while laying low from the fighting and team Bakugo and Todoroki who were both replanning how to catch the powerful teen.

Meanwhile - The League of Villains bar

"Tomura Shigaraki" Kurogiri began while cleaning a dirty glass with a bar rag "May I ask why you decided it would be a good idea for Corpse to go it alone during this section of the festival?"

"Simple" Tomura responded "For starters Sensei has already trained him well enough that he'll easily be able to deal with a bunch of low level NPCs like the ones at U.A. Secondly the more attention he gets the more likely he is to get back into the Hero Course."

"Do we not already have a spy in the Hero Course?" Kurogiri questioned

"Sensei says we can't bet on him being loyal forever and that if he were to get caught it wouldn't go well, besides Corpse is only gonna be there until he decides to reveal who he really is and if they believe he was the spy the whole time…"

"Then they won't suspect any one else"

"Precisely. Even if it's risky he'll still crush those U.A brats" He scratched the back of his neck "Especially that explosion brat" He pointed at the screen which was currently showing Bakugo chasing after some weird blonde kid from 1-B that had taken his headband "If it hadn't been for him ignoring being KO'd then we would of easily crushed All Might. And then he's even given the final bosses quirk after that" (Yep Izuku told the others) "Stupid All Might spamming upgrades on whatever NPC he finds" He began to pick up the pace and aggressiveness of his neck scratches "It's no wonder Corpse hates the brat, he's getting everything he wants gifted to him while the rest of us gotta pay for it"

Kurogiri remembered when All for One had discovered that One for All wasn't exactly as dead as he thought it was.

Flashback

All For One had just been told about how Bakugo's explosion had done so much more damage than previously.

His hand was twitching by his side and he wasn't moving.

"Erm Sensei-" Izuku began before noticing The Doctor and Kurogiri, who were both slowly backing away from the immediate threat.

"Izuku, could you please leave the room." All for One said in a voice that you would normally hear from someone who's about to go into a full breakdown.

Izuku complied immediately, rushing over to the nearest exit where the Doctor and Kurogiri were standing, or rather shaking for that matter. The second the door closed All For One opened his mouth.

"MOTHER FU-"

Despite the trio being composed of a man who was in his two-hundreds, a Nomu, and a boy who'd grown up with Katsuki Bakugo all three of them agreed that what they'd heard through the door was the longest, most inappropriate and violentest outburst they'd ever heard. Tomura himself hadn't actually been there for the confrontation turned trauma however, he was about to walk into All for One's office to ask for a new controller after he'd freaked out that he'd been beaten by a cow in MarioKart. Then he'd heard the final few minutes of the tantrum.

Needless to say he'd been reluctant to ask for a new controller after that.

"Well he's doing well so far it seems" Kurogiri commented, trying to get the horrifying thing his master had shouted out of his head once again. As both he and Tomura turned back to the TV

Back at the Sports Festival

Izuku was currently dealing with Todoroki's team which consisted of Todoroki, Iida, Yaoyorozu and Kaminari. He was using the tendrils to keep up his defense while he hovered over the other teams.

"Kaminari, use your quirk at full power to get him down. Yaoyorozu, make an insulator sheet to protect us from the blast" Todoroki instructed. Seeing as Enomoto didn't have a team they could attack him without having to worry about getting disqualified for causing a team to fall apart.

"On it" the pair replied. Once Yaoyorozu had finished her creation Kaminari prepared himself to unleash his quirk.

"100 MILLION VOLTS!" He shouted unleashing his quirk at max output

"AND KAMINARI UNLEASHES A FULL POWER ATTACK ON ENOMOTO! IS THIS IT FOR THE UNDERDOG OF THE GENERAL COURSE?!" Present Mic bellowed through the speakers

"You know, you don't have to shout through the microphones." Eraserhead deadpanned, acting disinterested despite secretly wondering how Enomoto was going to deal with the attack.

Izuku (or rather Enomoto) panicked at this, his defenses weren't enough to avoid that whole attack; it would most likely break though his shield. In a panic he quickly built up the tendrils in a firm wall facing Kaminari to minimise the damage done to him.

But that damage never came

Opening his eyes Izuku noticed that the tendrils were glowing while radiating the energy from Kaminari's attack.

"WHAT THE!? IT SEEMS LIKE ENOMOTO SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ABSORB KAMINARI'S ATTACK! WHAT CAN HIS QUIRK NOT DO!?"

Izuku looked at his two darkness fingers on his right hand noticing that they too were radiating the electricity despite not getting any contact with the attack. 'This must be some kind of quirk awakening' He thought to himself 'I'll have to ask Sensei to see what it's full capabilities are"

Todoroki had expected to remove the sheet from over his team to see Enomoto falling from the sky, however was met with the boy using Kaminari's attack back on his own team. His eyes widened, however luckily Yaoyorozu pulled the sheet back over their team before they could get hit by the attack. As he saw Enomoto fly, one thought shrouded his mind "Who is that kid?"

Apparently he couldn't catch a break as he turned around to see Bakugo's team, which consisted of Bakugo, Tsu, Hatsume and Kirishima charging towards Enomoto after finally getting Monoma's team's headband along with their own. Their pursuit on Enomoto was so fierce that Bakugo had unleashed an explosion that almost caused Todoroki to fall over, his fire consuming half of his body for about a second before he calmed himself.

Izuku looked down at the new found power 'Seems like I have an infinite supply of electricity now. Perhaps 'Darkness Incarnate' reacted to All for One and gave me a similar ability, however it seems I can copy a quirk as long as I get its energy instead? Interesting'

Eraserhead couldn't believe what he was seeing. This kid from the general course was completely destroying everyone of his students in 1-A 'Ugh, I'm never going to hear the end of this am I?' He thought, knowing Present Mic would forever recall this as a moment to prove he was a better teacher than Aizawa. He still couldn't shake the feeling that he knew Enomoto. As soon as the second event ended he was definitely going over this kids file.

Bakugo's team were gaining ground on Enomoto. Tsu unleashed her tongue to try and grab the points from Enomoto. She was, however, met with a 'shocking' surprise instead.

"TSU!" Bakugo shouted checking to see if his girlfriend was okay.

"Kero. I'm fine." She said "He didn't shock me too bad, although I don't think I'll be able to use my tongue for the rest of the round."

Bakugo growled, turning to Enomoto "Hey dipshit. TAKE THIS!" He unleashed a blast mixed with One for All, using the quirks combined wasn't an issue however using One for All on its own was painful to say the least.

"AND BAKUGO UNLEASHES A LEGENDARY EXPLOSION ON ENOMOTO! Wait, should we make sure he survived that?"

As the dust cleared Bakugo gasped as he saw Enomoto was completely unscathed, The general course student had completely shielded himself with a thick layer of darkness in a complete shield that had cost him his bird's eye view.

"AND ENOMOTO DOES IT AGAIN! IT'S JUST ONE SURPRISE AFTER ANOTHER WITH THIS KID!"

As the forcefield hit the ground Enomoto jumped out of it as both Bakugo's and Todoroki's teams charged towards him. The teen however simply released a few tendrils out of his back as he stood there with confidence written all over his face. As the three teams were about to collide, Midnight's voice surrounded the arena announcing that the second round was over.

"WELL THEN WASN'T THAT A ROUND TO REMEMBER! IN FIRST PLACE WE HAVE THE STUDENT WHO'S JUST ONE SURPRISE AFTER ANOTHER TEAM ENOMOTO!" The audience burst into cheers and applause at this. "IN SECOND PLACE THE EXPLOSIVE TEAM OF CHAOS TEAM BAKUGO! IN THIRD WE HAVE- HOLD UP WHERE DID THESE GUYS COME FROM!? IT'S TEAM SHINSO! AND IN FOURTH WE HAVE THE POWERHOUSE TEAM OF TEAM TODOROKI!" The crowd was full of applause for the students who had made it "HOWEVER" Present Mic continued "SEEMING AS ENOMOTO WAS A ONE PERSON TEAM IN FIFTH PLACE WE HAVE TEAM ASHIDO" The camera's changed to show the team of Mina, Uraraka and Sero who were all laying down and sighing with relief at the good news. "NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK TO ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO PREPARE FOR THE FINAL TOURNAMENT!" The crowd all cheered as the students walked away.

All for One's office

"Hmm that is quite something, it appears 'Darkness Incarnate' had a whole new side I had no idea about." All for One turned his chair to The Doctor "When Midoriya returns be sure to bring him here so we can test that new ability"

"Of course Sensei, however don't you think the boy might desire a break afterwards? I believe they get the day after the Sports Festival off if you desire to do it then"

All for One pouted "Fine, however I still find this incredibly intriguing it appears it reacted to All for One while I owned the quirk, however it couldn't be used by me as I already had the ability to take quirks. Although it seems to mimic or copy them rather than steal." He was grinning like a madman under his helmet "I simply cannot wait to find out"

The League of Villains bar

"Alright, it seems Corpse unlocked a new ability." Tomura and Kurogiri were currently in the middle of a darts contest involving a picture of All Might however had both stopped as they saw Izuku absorb and use electricity. "See Kurogiri even if you fight low level enemies like these you can still level up, and if he'd of been on a team he wouldn't of gotten enough XP to do so"

"It appears you were correct Shigaraki" Kurogiri commented

"Of course I was. Now," He turned back to the dart board, aiming the dart at All Might's head and releasing it to hit its mark perfectly. "Bullseye" He remarked smirking underneath his hand mask.

Back at the Sports Festival

Izuu was currently sitting with his friends, they were eating lunch and talking about how the sports festival was going.

"Wow Enomoto! You were so cool! That electric guy tried to hit you with that huge burst of electricity but you just absorbed the attack, I didn't know your quirk could do that!" Inoue was as enthusiastic as always, Togeike holding his arm to anchor him with one hand while she ate her meal with the other.

"To be honest I didn't know either." 'Enomoto' responded

"You mean you just discovered it on the spot!?" Togeike asked, her eyes widening at the implication "That's gotta be one of the biggest strokes of luck ever!"

"Yeah, don't know if I would have still been in the running if that attack had hit me-" Before he could continue 'Enomoto noticed that Todoroki had gone over to Bakugo he watched as the explosive murderer got up and followed Todoroki. "-Just a sec guys I'll be back"

'Enomoto' followed the pair stopping around the corner as he picked up on their conversation. He hadn't heard the start of the interaction, however he could tell Todoroki must've called Bakugo over as he had startled Todoroki earlier.

What 'Enomoto' heard next didn't surprise, nor frighten him

"Have you ever heard of quirk marriages?"

There had always been suspicions around the Todoroki children; the first child had mysteriously died in a 'training accident' as Endeavour had put it, although reporters had always noted his lack of grief. Todoroki also had a burn mark on his face, so to Izuku it made sense. People in the underworld always new information a long time before the public and, despite his short time as a villain, Izuku already knew a lot more than any media company knew about illegal behaviors of high-ranking pro heroes. Although he enjoyed having closure on the subject.

"W-Why are you telling me this?" Bakugo questioned "Why not that General Course kid who's winning the tournament right now."

"Frankly I do not see him as a threat." Todoroki responded "Sure he has a strong quirk, but he acts recklessly and relies on it too much, I believe he should be an easy opponent."

Around the corner 'Enomoto's' eyes, which were normally a dark blue, began to glow Izuku's classic forest green as a psychotic smile etched its way on his face.

'Oh Todoroki, if only you knew how wrong you were.' He mentally chuckled 'If only I could go all out on you during this tournament, although I suppose it's fair as you're only putting a half assed attempt at this.'

He adjusted his face back to Enomoto's and walked into the center of the corridor the boys were both standing in.

"Well then." A disturbing, yet not affected by 'Saving Face', smile covered the bottom half of 'Enomoto's' face "See you in the arena Todoroki" He waved then strolled passed the pair, Bakugo's face looked fearful and intimidated, whereas Todoroki appeared only slightly put of by the remark. Izuku knew that was a fake.

Hey there! Sorry if the writing isn't the best for the Cavalry Battle. I'm not the biggest fan of the Sports Festival arc and I'm also not the best when it comes to fight scenes so the writing might seem crappy in this chapter which I'm sorry if it is. Next time the first fight commences, but who is Enomoto against? See you in the next chapter 'The time we spent apart'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Double Digits! Thanks again for all the support as I've said before I really didn't expect anyone to pay much attention to this but I've clearly been proven wrong. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as I attempt once more to write a fight scene. :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 10 - The time we spent apart

"ALRIGHT EVERYBODY! ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE!" Present Mic boomed through the speakers as the remaining students all gathered around the central area.

"Excuse me, Ms Midnight" The tailed-teen that Shinso had hypnotised raised his hand, Izuku couldn't remember his name. The boy was more plain than Izuku looked. "I don't remember much about the second event and I don't feel that it would be alright for me to proceed without even being aware of my previous victory, therefore I wish to forfeit the third event."

"Wow, that virtuous youthful vigor," Midnight responded squealing slightly "It's incredible! If that is what you want, young man, then I don't see any issue with it." She raised her flag above her head "Anything for such a virtuous lad such as yourself!"

Meanwhile - The League of Villains bar

"Oh yeah, when a pro hero flirts with a 15 year old it's fine. But when I want to kill All Might I'm the villain." Tomura deadpanned, glancing over to the television in the bar that usually hosted one of his many video games now had Midnight flirtatiously glancing at the teen with the tail covering the screen "I mean honestly, how is she a teacher! Those kids would be better off with Sensei in their classroom."

Kurogiri, who was currently attempting to perfectly stack wine glasses on top of each other while waiting for Izuku's match, and therefore not paying attention, didn't even through Tomura a glance as he simply just said "I agree, the R-rated heroine is certainly not suited for heroics teaching." He had no idea what Tomura had previously said but could easily guess it was regarding one of the teachers at U.A and seeming as Midnight was the hostess of the first years festival he presumed she was the teacher in question.

"Perfect" He stepped back to reveal his masterpiece, a stacked pyramid of wine glasses on the bar.

"Why do we even have so many wine glasses? No one here drinks wine." Tomura questioned.

"Who said they were ours?" Kurogiri responded before opening a warp portal under the structure, teleporting them all back to the massive mansion he'd taken from causing them to smash on the kitchen floor. "Oh well" He shrugged

"You're just going to shrug that off." Tomura asked, suppressing a chuckle from the bartenders antics

"The Yaoyorozu family can certainly afford new wine glasses. And we've already done much worse"

"Point taken, oh look they replaced the tail brat" The pair turned to the screen displaying a girl with vines for hair joining the group.

Back at the Sports Festival

Izuku looked at the screen that was showing the first round fights.

First Round

Daku Enomoto vs Tenya Iida

Second round

Benjiro Inoue vs Denki Kaminari

Third Round

Mina Ashido vs Chikuchi Togeike

Fourth Round

Shoto Todoroki vs Hanta Sero

Fifth Round

Momo Yaoyorozu vs Hitoshi Shinso

Sixth Round

Ibara Shiosaki vs Katsuki Bakugo

Seventh Round

Tsuyu Asui vs Ochako Uraraka

Eighth Round

Eijiro Kirishima vs Mei Hatsume

'Iida first eh, this should be a walk in the park although that means I'll be against Inoue next' Izuku though knowing there was no way Kaminari was going to win despite his relieved expression at the sight of his opponent being in the General Course 'Inoue won't go down without a fight so that might be difficult but after that it's either Togeike or Todoroki I didn't get to see if Todoroki know any hand to hand combat seeming as Togeike's quirk will easily let her beat Ashido so if Todoroki depends too much on his quirk it'll be his downfall. Then it'll be me vs Bakugo, oh won't that be fun." Izuku knew that Shinso wasn't likely to lose his first round but Bakugo would most likely understand his quirk and stay silent during their fight, if Bakugo could go silent that is.

"Hey Enomoto?" Izuku turned to face Inoue. "Why are you smiling so much?" The cloud haired boy asked

Izuku mentally panicked, worrying that he'd subconsciously used 'Saving Face' at the thought of crushing Bakugo, luckily he just had a normal psychotic smile on his face. Thank God. "Oh, I'm just excited, next round it'll be me vs you after all."

"Yeah! I won't go easy on you y'know"

"Wouldn't have it any other way" The duo looked at each other, fires of rivalry blazing in their eyes.

"You two are certainly cocky for General Course students" The pair turned to see Kaminari who was looking incredibly cocky himself. A smile painting his face.

'God, he really thinks he stands a chance against Inoue' Izuku thought, stifling a laugh.

"I mean I can understand you" He pointed to Enomoto "But our fight hasn't begun yet cloud boy"

"Cloud boy" Inoue said to himself "I like that name! Maybe I should make it my hero name! Thatwouldbesocoolpeoplewouldgolookit'scloudboyandpointintheairandIwouldbeflyingaroundand-"

"If you ever call yourself Cloud boy I'll make fun of you forever" Enomoto interrupted.

"Oh C'mon it's a good name" Inoue pouted, crossing his arms at the statement.

'These General Course kids are crazy' Kaminari thought 'I'll still beat both of them and come out in the top three at least'

He really was an idiot

"NOW THEN IIDA AND ENOMOTO, YOU BOTH HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO PREPARE! THE REST OF YOU GO BACK TO THE STANDS AND PREPARE FOR YOUR FIGHTS!" Present Mic bellowed

The League of Villains Bar

Tomura turned to Kurogiri. "Corpse is going to win."

"Without a doubt"

"Get us some popcorn while we watch these brats get destroyed"

"Already done" Kurogiri said as an entire cinema popcorn machine appeared through a warp gate.

"Gotta love the annual U.A teen fights" Tomura said, putting on gloves that allowed him to touch things without disintegrating them and took a fist full of popcorn straight from the machine while Kurogiri got himself a large popcorn bucket and scooped some out.

"Indeed"

Back at the Festival

Izuku was waiting in the tunnel for his fight to begin when he heard Present Mic's booming voice echo throughout the arena "ALRIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN STARTING OF THE THIRD SECTION OF THE FESTIVAL WE HAVE THE BOY WHO SINGLE HANDEDLY BEAT EVERY OTHER KID HERE ALONE, THE PRINCE OF SHADOWS HIMSELF DAKU ENOMOTO!"

Izuku held back a laugh at how Present Mics statement introduction had made him sound a lot like a villain, which of course he was. But they didn't know that. He approached the centre of the stage.

"AND HIS OPPONENT, THE BROTHER OF INGENIUM AND SPEEDSTER OF THE RULES TENYA IIDA!"

Iida approached the opposite side of the square "I hope we can have a fair and proper fight, Enomoto" He said bowing as he prepared to take off.

"Same here" 'Enomoto' responded

"Begin!" Midnight shouted as she raised her flag

Iida quickly sped over to 'Enomoto' however he would find that a forward approach wasn't the way to go.

"Bad move" Was all 'Enomoto' said before he unleashed a shadow in the shape of a hand, grabbing Iida before he made it to him and tossing him out of the ring.

Iida hit the wall the spectators were watching from above and groaned as he fell over backwards.

"Tenya Iida is out of bounds and unable to continue, Daku Enomoto passes on to the next round." Midnight stated as she lowered her flag

"WOW! ENOMOTO SIMPLY CHUCKED IIDA OUT OF THE RING THAT MIGHT JUST BE THE SHORTEST MATCH IN THE SPORTS FESTIVAL HISTORY!" Present Mic bellowed

"As Iida's homeroom teacher his only mistake was underestimating his opponent, he clearly thought that Enomoto would panic from the pressure allowing him to push him out of bounds without any effort. If Iida had taken note of Enomoto's previous feats he would know not to be so foolish just because the boy isn't already in the hero course." Eraserheads voice echoed through the arena.

"WOW! I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE EVEN AWAKE ERASERHEAD!"

"How could I possibly be asleep with you sitting right next to me shouting into a microphone." Eraserhead deadpanned glaring at his friend

"WHO KNOWS HOW BUT NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT WHY ISN'T ENOMOTO ALREADY IN THE HERO COURSE?"

"From what I could find he originally just wanted to be in General studies and didn't even take the practical test however he now does want the chance to be moved into the hero course and out of the remaining students who aren't in the hero course I suspect he'll be the one who is entered in although he won't be able to take part in the internships due to him not being trained in hero studies yet."

"THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS! ERASERHEAD BEING NICE! ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS IT MOST LIKELY WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!"

'Oh great, not going to live that down either'

Twenty minutes prior to the first match

"Aizawa?" Toshinori popped his head into the room Aizawa was currently in "What are you doing in the student files room?"

"Searching up this 'Enomoto' kid, he seems way to familiar to me and I don't like it" Aizawa responded

"I agree he does seem familiar although I believe it may just be his physical similarities to M-Midoriya" Toshinori stuttered when saying his previous successors name, he had purposefully tried not to think about Izuku unless he was with Bakugo as he would feel too depressed to do a thing unless he could feel certain that Izuku would be proud of him for choosing Bakugo as his second successor. Why wouldn't he, they were best friends after all.

"It's not just how their hair is similar but both of them walk the exact same way and Enomoto is missing the exact same fingers that Midoriya was missing after the incident" He recalled Izuku's appearance as he was the person who had to file the incident which included an image of Midoriya's corpse he'd nearly puked at the boys missing cheeks that revealed his teeth and burnt flesh that outlined the missing area. Midoriya was working his way to being Aizawa's newest problem child and, although he'd never admit it, he was impressed by the boy's quick thinking during the first day.

"Aizawa I know it's difficult to endure the death of a student however you're sounding crazy, we both saw his corpse and Dr Garaki even attempted to operate on the boy himself and he's the most trustworthy doctor in all of Japan"

Meanwhile The Doctor was giving All for One a back massage as they both waited for the festival to continue. When the pair both suddenly burst out with laughter.

"W-Why are we l-laughing" All for One questioned attempting to suppress the sudden outburst

"I-I have n-no idea" The Doctor responded before he began to roll around on the floor hooting with laughter

"There would be no reason for him to lie to us whatsoever, and we both saw Midoriya's corpse. As much as it pains me to say he is definitely dead."

In response Aizawa sighed "You're right, I was thinking illogically, but you have to admit apart from their demeanours the two are certainly alike."

"That is true, however I believe you should return back to the spectators box, the third event should be staring in about 15 minutes but you should be ready for when it starts"

"Thanks"

Aizawa looked down at the arena which was already prepared for the next match thanks to Cementoss' quirk. 'Well at least I've got Kaminari making a fool of himself to cheer me up'

"ALRIGHT, NOW ONTO THE SECOND FIGHT WE HAVE THE CLOUD OF EXCITEDNESS HIMSELF BENJIRO INOUE," He paused as the audience cheered and applauded the boy as he stepped up to the ring "AND HIS OPPONENT THE LIGHTNING BEFORE THE STORM DENKI KAMINARI!" The audience cheered and applauded the boy who was already incredibly cocky looking as he casually strolled up to the ring.

"Begin" Midnight stated

"Alright sorry, you seem really nice but I'm going to give you a taste of 1-A's power," Kaminari said as he charged himself up "100 MILLION VOLTS!"

"AND KAMINARI STARTS THE ROUND OF WITH AN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL MOVE, IS THAT ALL IT GOING TO TAKE TO TAKE DOWN INOUE!?"

The attack surged throughout the arena causing smoke to cover the ring however as it subsided the audience noticed that Inoue was nowhere to be seen.

"WHAT?! INOUE IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN"

"How about you look up then" Eraserhead suggested

The audience all looked up to see Inoue managed to dodge the attack by floating in the air now with Kaminari short circuiting and not being able to do much all Inoue had to do was give the electric user a light push that caused the boy to fall out of bounds.

"Denki Kaminari is out of bounds. Therefore Benjiro Inoue passes on to the next round" Midnight said, lowering her flag once more.

"INCREDIBLE! SO FAR DESPITE ONLY BEING FIVE STUDENTS WHO AREN'T IN THE HERO COURSE TWO OF THEM HAVE ALREADY PROGRESS TO THE NEXT ROUND! NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL PLUS ULTRA!"

Kaminari wouldn't regain consciousness for another hour; however, the boy felt extremely stupid after discovering the results of the round.

Class 1-C's section in the audience

"Well then, that means I'm up then" Togeike said as she got out of her seat preparing to go out to the ring

The class responded with words of encouragement as they had done with the previous members who had already fought.

"Give em hell" Shinso said as she walked pass

Togekie blushed slightly "W-Will do" she said before she jogged off

Seeing the interaction 'Enomoto' chuckled slightly "Lovebirds" he murmured under his breath

"What did you say?" Shinso asked, knowing Enomoto must've just made some kind of joke about his crush on Togeike.

"Oh, nothing"

"ALRIGHT FIGHT THREE AND OUR COMPETITORS ARE THE GIRL WHO JUST SAYS NO TO STATUS CONDITIONS CHIKUCHI TOGEIKE! AND THE MEAN, LEAN ACID SHOOTING MACHINE MINA ASHIDO!"

"Ready?" Midnight asked as the two girls who both nodded in response "Begin"

"Take this!" Mina said as she ran towards Togeike and unleashed acid towards her. She was incredibly taken aback when Togeike made no physical response to the acid. "W-What the"

Before she knew what was happening Togeike ran up to her and punched her in the gut causing Mina to double back before Togeike quickly grabbed her and suplexed her and before Mina could even hope to move Togeike pinned her down in a position that wouldn't allow her any movement.

"Can you move Ashido?" Midnight questioned

"N-Nope" Mina responded still in shock of being dealt with so easily

"Mina Ashido is unable to move. Chikuchi Togeike moves on to the next round"

"AND THE GENERAL COURSE DOES IT AGAIN! THREE FOR THREE OF THE STUDENTS MAKE IT TO THE SECOND ROUND!"

"Jeez girl, what kinda quirk do you have to pull that off?" Mina asked as Togeike pulled her up from the ground.

"Well my quirk just makes me immune to attacks that include fire, ice or poison. The fighting was just stuff I picked up from my dad, he's really big on wrestling." Togeike responded rubbing the back of her neck

"Wow that's so cool, can you teach me that stuff some time?"

"I'd love to" Togeike responded as the pair walked out of the arena, somehow already forgetting they were both fighting less than thirty seconds ago.

"AND NOW FOR THE FOURTH BATTLE WE HAVE THE SON OF THE NUMBER TWO HERO ENDEAVOR AND DUAL QUIRK WIELDER SHOTO TODOROKI! AND HIS OPPONENT THE BOOTLEG SPIDER MAN HANTA SERO!"

"Hey, words hurt y'know!" Sero said clearly offended at being referred to as a 'bootleg'

"NOT AS MUCH AS YOUR NEXT BATTLE!"

"Fair point"

"Alright then, begin!" Midnight said starting the battle

"I apologize for this" Todoroki said as he unleashed a huge mountain of ice completely consuming all of Sero except for his head.

"Sero, can you move?" Midnight asked

"What do you think?" He retorted

"Hanta Sero is unable to continue. Shoto Todoroki continues to the next round"

Looking down at Todoroki Izuku noticed the ice user was looking directly at Bakugo while he was heating up the ice to remove it.

Enomoto grinned once more 'Still underestimating me, eh Todoroki well if Togeike doesn't deal with you first, I'll be happy to oblige'

There we go, half of the battles in the first round are already finished and are all incredibly short, sorry about that by the way. Not much to say except I'll see you in the next chapter - 'Power Through'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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What's this, another chapter already!? I haven't got much going this week so expect at least 4 new chapters by the end of the week. Also I've decided on the next story I'm going to write. I won't start writing it for another week or two so all I'm going to tell you is that it's a hero Izuku story but with a pretty depressing start and a very disturbing quirk. I'll tease the name in the final chapter I release this week. Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 11 - Power Through

"WOW! TODOROKI COMPLETELY SUB-ZEROS SERO! THAT'S THE SON OF THE NUMBER TWO HERO FOR YOU!" Bellowed Present Mic through the sound system, despite the whole point of microphones being that you don't have to shout.

Looking down from his place in the audience Izuku could clearly see Todoroki's frustration at only being recognised for his father and was thoroughly enjoying it, he couldn't wait to see either him or Togeike wipe the floor with him. Maybe in another world he would've seen the boys struggle and want to help him, but that's not fun at all.

"Right then, I'm up I guess" Shinso said his voice monotone, from what they'd seen The boy with a tail in 1-A, hadn't told anyone else in his class about Shinso's quirk he'd tried to warn Yaoyorozu but she was busy with a call, apparently someone had stolen their wine glasses before returning and destroying them.

"Good luck Shinso" Togeike said as the boy began to leave

"Thanks Togeike" He replied with a slight blush covering the pairs face as they made eye contact before Shinso noticed 'Enomoto' had a massive grin on his face "G-Gotta go" He then rushed off.

"ALRIGHT TIME FOR THE FOURTH BATTLE! ON ONE SIDE WE HAVE ALL-PURPOSE CREATION, SHE WAS ADMITTED THROUGH RECOMMENDATIONS SO HER ABILITIES ARE CERTIFIED! MOMO YAOYOROZU! AND HER OPPONENT FROM GENERAL COURSE HITOSHI SHINSO!"

Midnight once again raised her flag "Begin"

Yaoyorozu created a shield to protect herself from whatever Shinso's quirk was not expecting that the boy would stand still in response "So, who stole your family's wine glasses?"

"Hm, oh you heard that? Well they don't know yet bu-" Before she could continue Shinso activated his quirk causing her body to stop moving.

"Well then I hope you find out the culprit soon," Shinso deadpanned with a slight smile on his face "now please step outside the ring for me"

"WHAT'S THIS!? YAOYOROZU IS STEPPING OUT OF THE RING, DOES SHE NOT WANT TO FIGHT?" Present Mic's voice boomed through the speakers

Meanwhile - Class 1-A

"What the. Why is Yaoyorozu walking out of the ring?" Kyoka asked, sharing confusion with the rest of her classmates and the audience. "What did that kid say that made her immediately want to leave?"

"Oh no, it's my fault" Ojiro said, sincerely smacking his head "I meant to tell her, but she was busy with a call so I didn't get the chance"

"Tell her what? Kero" Tsu asked joining in on the conversation

"That kid's quirk lets him mind control people he speaks to. That's how he got me on his team during the cavalry battle"

"Wow, kero, we really underestimated the General Course then didn't we"

"I'll say" Bakugo added, still slightly uneasy after Enomoto's behaviour despite all he did he couldn't stop comparing him to Izuku both of their mannerisms were incredibly alike, 'Maybe he's Izuku's secret twin who wasn't allowed to see other kids? No, that's stupid. But then why are he and Izuku so alike?' The words he heard in his nightmare a few weeks ago came back to him '"He's alive", Who's alive? I have to talk to All Might about that dream soon but I haven't been able to find the right moment yet. Maybe he'll know. It's probably just that guy's brother but why would he be there? None of this makes sense'

He groaned, watching Yaoyorozu snap out of the mind control who now looked incredibly confused and upset that she had lost. Bakugo hadn't told anyone about the call he'd had with Corpse out of fear the villain would know but he knew he had to and talking to All Might would be the best option.

Meanwhile - The League of villains bar

"It's a bad day for the Yaoyorozus then," Tomura mocked "That Yaoyorozu brat just got completely dunked on by that sleepy looking brat"

"Indeed" Kurogiri responded "I do hope they do not take my robbery to seriously, I simply wished to pass the time"

"Doesn't change how funny that just was"

Back at the Sports Festival

Izuku was currently watching the fight between Shiozaki and Bakugo, he couldn't help but chuckle under his breath whenever the explosive blonde took a direct hit from one of Shiozaki's vines.

"Hey Enomoto," Togeike began "What's up between you and that spiky haired kid from 1-A? I mean I know he accidentally killed his classmate but you always seem like you're forcing yourself not to attack him whenever you two are near each other."

"My reasons are my own, but I'll just tell you he's not telling people the full truth about his relation to the victim." 'Enomoto' replied, his words coated with venom "Oh, great"

Just then Bakugo managed to leap over one of Shiozaki's vines and unleashed an One for All-boosted explosion at the cocoon the girl was inside of, instantly destroying the shield before he grabbed her and threw her out of the arena.

"Ibara Shiozaki is out of bounds. Katsuki Bakugo passes to the next round." Midnight said, lowering her flag.

Seeing this 'Enomoto' smiled, he couldn't wait to get to fight Bakugo again, even if he wasn't allowed to do anything too serious to the boy. It was too early to kill him after all.

The next two rounds weren't anything special, Tsu had attempted to grab Ochako with her tongue during their fight, however in response Ochako had simply used her quirk on her and threw her out of the arena. Making Ochako the victor.

Hatsume had convinced Kirishima to help her show off her invention, or 'babies as she would put it, by telling him it was the manly thing to do. So their round was simply a presentation before Hatsume decided to walk out of bounds. Making Kirishima the victor.

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE, THAT'S THE END OF THE FIRST ROUND OF FIGHTS, THERE WILL BE A SHORT, FIVE MINUTE BREAK BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH THE SECOND ROUND!"

"Alright then, that means it's you versus me next Enomoto" Inoue said, beaming and bouncing on the heel of his shoes. "I can't wait!"

"Same here," 'Enomoto' responded, both of their eyes burning with competitive flames.

Seeing this both Shinso and Togeike chuckled "Battle of the titans, am I right" Shinso joked.

"Yeah" Togeike said, halting the pair's chuckles as they both realized their arms had accidentally made contact with each other, making them both blush profusely and scooch away from each other out of embarrassment.

Looking at the pair, 'Enomoto' laughed. Inoue looked confused. "Are they in love?" he asked, tilting his head to the side with a completely naive expression on his face causing 'Enomoto' to burst into laughter as the duo blushed and tried to cover up and avoid eye contact with Inoue.

"Come on Inoue, we have to go down to the arena the break's almost over now." 'Enomoto' said, stopping the interaction and starting to walk off. "See ya lovebirds"

"AND NOW FOR THE FIRST FIGHT OF THE SECOND ROUND! WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL COURSE WHO HAVE BOTH MANAGED TO END THEIR PREVIOUS FIGHTS IN RECORD TIME, THE DARK DESTROYER DAKU ENOMOTO AND THE BOY BOY WHO'S AS FREE AS A CLOUD CAUSE HIS HAIRS LITERALLY A CLOUD, BENJIRO INOUE!"

"You boys ready?" Midnight asked, slightly flirtatiously.

"Yes" The duo said at the same time both in ready positions.

"Alright then, begin!"

'Enomoto' quickly absorbed the darkness around him as Inoue tried to get close enough to move him into the sky; however was instead met with a fist that came out of the ground landing a hit on his jaw.

Keeping his distance Inoue decided to create small air bullets and fire them at 'Enomoto'. In response the boy quickly moved his body around to dodge them while also running over to Inoue at the same time creating dark claws around his hands and landing a direct hit in Inoue's gut causing the boy to almost lose his footing before he responded by raising 'Enomoto' into the air.

'Damn it, that move didn't knock him over and now I'm up here' He thought to himself

"There we go," Inoue said with a smile plastered on his face "Now you're in my domain, the sky" He then punched 'Enomoto' out of the ring, however there was no call from Midnight.

"Hey! That kid's out of bounds" One member of the audience shouted, causing others in the audience to question why the battle hadn't ended.

Eraserheads voice then blared through the sound system "Before you heckle make sure you at least know the rules, to be considered 'out of bounds' you have to be touching the ground, and as you can see Enomoto is still under the effects of Inoue's quirk."

"Oh yeah right" Inoue said releasing his mistake too late as he released 'Enomoto' from his quirk at the same time the boy extended his claws back to the arena pulling himself back in. "Oh damn it" he pouted.

Seeing his chance, 'Enomoto' dashed over and attempted to punch Inoue out of bounds however the boy dodged, taking off into the sky.

"Uh, uh, uh oh no you don't" Inoue retorted as he unleashed air bullets from above. "Enomoto' in return dodged them and attempted to launch himself up to hit Inoue, however the boy was too fast when in the air. Even when 'Enomoto' created his own bullets to hit Inoue the boy easily dodged them, responding with an even bigger display of bullets.

"INOUE'S GOT ENOMOTO ON THE ROPES, HOW WILL HE COME BACK FROM THIS!?"

'Now what?' 'Enomoto' thought, looking up while dodging 'Wait' He looked down at his makeshift claws and focused causing Kaminari's electricity to flow through them 'So I can use it at any time, now it's time to end this' A determined expression plastered his face

"WHAT'S THIS?! ENOMOTO LOOKING CONFIDENT, WHAT DOES HE HAVE UP HIS SLEEVE NOW!?"

"Inoue this was fun but," His face altered into a smile "It's over now, 100 BILLION VOLTS!" A huge amount of electricity dispelled from his claws striking Inoue down from the sky before he ran over and connected his electrified fist to the falling boy's stomach causing him to ragdoll out of the arena slumping as he hit the ground. After the devastating attack 'Enomoto's' claws disbursed as the attack had used a lot of electricity. 'Jeez that was a lot, but at least this way I'll know for sure whether I can recreate the energy'

The crowd burst into applause and cheers "INCREDIBLE! ENOMOTO DELIVERS AN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL PUNCH ON INOUE! HOW POWERFUL CAN HE BE!?" Boomed Present Mic

"Benjiro Inoue is unable to fight and out of bounds, Daku Enomoto moves on to the semi finals" Midnight said, lowering her flag once more.

Meanwhile - Class 1-A in the audience

Kaminari, was completely slack jawed "H-How did he"

"His quirk must also let him absorb energy through the darkness he creates" Yaoyorozu said, rather professionally, although completely surprised at the sight of the attack. "He absorbed it when you unleashed your attack on him during the Cavalry Battle."

"S-Still he even upgraded my attack, using that much electricity would cause me to die but he's not only still standing but he's also completely fine"

"Such rivalry in the dark" Tokoyami said in approval

'How is he so strong?' Bakugo thought 'His quirk lets him absorb and copy energy, does that mean he could absorb part One for All. If we end up fighting I'll have to be careful'

"Kero, You okay Kacchan?" Tsu asked leaning against his shoulder "It's okay to be worried about a fight y'know"

"He just- he just looks so much like Izuku and-" Bakugo started "-and he hates me it just doesn't make me feel… right y'know and plus he's strong so if we fight I don't know if I'll be able to fight him properly."

"Kero, Like I said, that's okay. If you feel bad about fighting someone who looks so much like Midoriya, you don't have to fight him, Kero."

"I know I don't have to but… I want to because I know that's what Izuku would want. I'll make it up to him."

"Kero, If that's what you want Kacchan" Tsu said, pecking him on the cheek.

"ALRIGHTY THEN NOW WE HAVE A FIGHT BETWEEN THE SON OF ENDEAVOUR, SHOTO TODOROKI AND THE THIRD STUDENT WHO'S MADE IT THIS FAR FROM THE GENERAL COURSE CHIKUCHI TOGEIKE!"

"Alright, are you both ready?" Midnight asked to which both teens nodded in response "Then, begin!"

"I apologize to you for this," Todoroki said before he unleashed another mountain of ice towards Togeike.

Midnight sighed "Togeike is unable to ba-"

"Yes I can" Looking over they both saw Togeike was standing in front of the mountain completely unharmed.

"H-How did you?" Todoroki asked

"You really need to stop underestimating us in the General Course y'know" Before he knew it Togeike was charging towards him, in defense Todoroki attempted to unleash more ice however each time it made contact with Togeike the ice would simply break and Togeike would show no sign of injury. "Take this" She punched him in the gut causing him to slightly double back in pain.

Suddenly Todoroki accidentally activated his fire and automatically used it on her which further proved to have no effect as Togeike attempted to push him out of bounds he panicked and punched her in the face before shoving her then tossing her out of bounds.

"Chikuchi Togeike is out of bounds, Shoto Todoroki moves on to the next round" Midnight said, lowering her flag.

Todoroki was just left staring at his left arm with disgust and horror.

"Y-You're a real piece of shit y'know" Togeike said getting up from the ground.

"I'm not" Todoroki said as he looked into the crowd at his father who was grinning back at his son who'd just used his fire quirk "He is"

"That's funny cause I don't remember fighting your dad I remember fighting you, and you were real shitty"

"That's only because I used his quirk"

"His quirk? Yeah you really are stupid."

"What do you mean, it's his quirk"

"No it's not it's yours"

"No it's his"

"This is like arguing with a brick wall, I'm outta here" Togeike then got up and left the arena

As he watched Togeike leave Todoroki looked back at his father then back at his left arm "It's his quirk, it's his" he murmured under his breath as he left through the opposite side.

"NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE THIRD FIGHT OF THE SECOND ROUND! UP FIRST WE HAVE THE NOT SO SILENT YET STILL DEADLY HUMAN EXPLOSION KATSUKI BAKUGO! AND HIS OPPONENT, THE TALKATIVE ONE, HITOSHI SHINSO!"

"Begin" Midnight said while looking at her phone (she was beginning to get bored of just raising and lowering her flag while saying begin for what felt like hours).

Meanwhile - The League of Villains Bar

"SERIOUSLY HOW THE FUCK IS SHE A TEACHER?! Tomura screeched

"Please, calm yourself Tomura Shigaraki" Kurogiri said, attempting to deal with Tomura was always difficult, especially when he got into a tantrum.

Tomua sighed "At least I've got the purple haired brat using his quirk on that explosive brat to cheer me up"

"Thank God" Kurogiri murmured under his breath

Back at the Sports Festival

"Hey Bakugo, quick question." Shinso started as the fight began and Bakugo charged towards him "Did you enjoy killing that kid in your class?" Hearing this Bakugo stopped dead in his tracks but didn't say anything. "Well because from what I hear you seemed to always be shouting at him and calling him worthless during your first day, so it must've felt good getting rid of him huh. Well I should thank you really because thanks to you…" Bakugo was currently still standing however his eye and hand were both twitching "Another shitty Deku is gone from this planet"

Hearing that Bakugo snapped he knew that information about how he behaved during the first day had already been made public but using it against him really hurt. He charged at Shinso "SHUT UP YOU SICK FU-" however he was stopped by Shinso's quirk.

"Hah, too easy, now please step out of the ring for me, I've got a semi-finals to prepare for"

Bakugo began to step over to the edge of the ring, 'Crap, no he's hypnotised me. How did I fall for that" However he noticed there were the eight people from his dream looking at him from the tunnel

"What do we do?" One of them asked

"I say we help him out, he needs all the victories he can get at the moment, plus we need to learn more about that Enomoto guy, I don't trust him" Said another

"You mean you think he's…"

"Possibly, but it can't hurt to find out even if he isn't"

"Godspeed kid, godspeed"

Looking around Bakugo also noticed the shadowy figure the others were worrying about was staring at him from the outside of the arena the only feature he had was that his figure was surrounded by a crimson red aura but the intimidating figure was standing next to the small green flame he recognised as Izuku his only features being a flamy green aura surrounding his figure. 'Why is Izuku standing with the guy they're all worried about? And who do they think Enomoto is?"

Before he could question further he felt his fingers twitch as he snapped back to reality he turned around with fire in his eyes to meet Shinso's confused look "W-What the- How did you-" before the teen could continue Bakugo sped over to him and slammed his fist that was boosted by One for All, luckily only at five percent, and landed it directly into Shinso's abdomen, sending the boy flying out of the ring.

"Hitoshi Shinso is out of bounds and unable to continue, Katsuki Bakugo goes on to the next round" Midnight said, her voice monotone as she wasn't paying attention to the fight.

"WOW! I WONDER WHAT SHINSO SAID TO GET BAKUGO ALL FIRED UP LIKE THAT!? EITHER WAY I DON'T THINK ANYONE SAW THAT COMING!"

Bakugo stared at Shinso who was currently unconscious and laying in a heap in front of the wall he'd connected with, looking at him reminded him of the countless times he'd left Izuku in a similar state back during middle school. The true guilt he was hiding was too much, there had been rumours of him and Izuku having a negative relationship prior to U.A however none had been proven correct as all over students in his year and even teachers and the headmaster had lied and said the duo were best buds from childhood.

He hated having to lie to everyone he cared about but he knew if he told people they'd be disgusted and he'd be expelled and never get to be the hero Izuku would've wanted him to be. It ate away at him, especially after discovering that Corpse knew everything about their past. He could tell anyone at any time and ruin his life yet he didn't, he was waiting for him to reach an alltime high before he shot him down, and that was horrifying to think about. He knew he deserved it but he didn't want Izuku's death to be in vain so he'd vowed to become better.

The reminder of what he'd done was too much so he sprinted out of the arena and hid in the Janitors closet. He'd been there for about five minutes before the door opened, revealing Tsu who closed the door then sat down next to him and hugged him saying nothing as she knew he just needed to be with someone.

"T-Thanks Tsu" Bakugo said holding back tears

"Kero, it's fine Kacchan, I asked Jiro what he said and I'm sorry he had no right to say any of those things. He doesn't know how great you are now. Kero" Tsu responded

"I don't deserve someone as nice as you" He responded

"Kero, Yes you do. You're incredible and don't let anyone tell you elsewise. Kero"

Then the door opened again to reveal Mitsuki Bakugo

"Hey brat- hold on who's this" Mitsuki said "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU HAD A GIRLFRIEND YOU BRAT!?"

"WE'RE HAVING A MOMENT RIGHT NOW YOU OLD HAG!" Katsuki shouted back completely leaving the emotions behind him to shout at his mom.

"FINE BUT AFTER THIS SHE'S GOING TO COME OVER TO OUR PLACE AND HAVE DINNER!" Mitsuki bellowed before turning to Tsu and completely changing her tone "Hello dear I'm Mitsuki Bakugo, Katsuki's mom it's a pleasure to meet you"

Tsu chuckled at the interaction 'Like mother like son i suppose' "My name's Tsuyu Asui it's nice to meet you too. Kero. And I'd love to have dinner at your place some time"

"We'd love to have you around some day," Mitsuku said "Now then, if you two re done making out in here you should get back to the audience"

"WE WEREN'T MAKING OUT OLD HAG WE WERE JUST HUGGING"

"WELL EXCUSE ME FOR THINKING MY SON COULD ACTUALLY GET INTIMATE WITH A GIRL"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU HAG!?"

Watching the pair, Tsu giggled before giving Katsuki a kiss on the cheek then taking his hand and walking him back to 1-A's section in the audience.

As the pair walked away Mitsuki smirked 'Way to go brat, way to go' She then walked off to go back to her seat in the audience.

As Tsu and Katsuki returned they watched as Kirishima was currently completely made of rock to weigh himself down against Ochako's quirk before he ran over the currently completely destroyed arena and punched her out of the ring. As Midnight made the call that the battle ended Kirishima walked over to help Ochako up as it was the 'manly' thing to do and also because after what the pair had just been through this was to be expected.

"Sniff, Wow folks, that was the most emotionally beautiful and intense fight I've ever seen, something that incredible should be remembered for centuries." Present Mics voice boomed through the arena before he reverted back to his usually loud state "SUCKS TO SUCK IF YOU MISSED IT!"

"The hell happened here?" Bakugo asked

"It was, sniff, so beautiful, so, sniff, manly" Sero said through sobs that the class was all fully emotional after the extremely manly display from both sides during the battle of the millennium. Even Todoroki was covering his face to hide his tears.

Meanwhile - The League of Villains Bar

"Kurogiri that was-" Tomura started "incredible" he said as he then burst into tears

"I know it was so beautiful" Kurogiri sobbed

Meanwhile - All For One's office

"D-Doctor it's time like this I wish I still had my eyes, that was so incredibly beautiful" All for One said

"It was so incredibly beautiful Sensei" The Doctor responded through tears as nothing he'd seen in his life had ever been so beautiful

Bakugo and Tsu looked at each other "Eh, I'll just watch it on catch up when I get back" Bakugo said

"Kero, Me too" Tsu responded

"Nothing can ever match how beautiful and manly that was. Watching it after it had happened would be an insult to cinema as a whole" Aoyama said, for once not being dramatic.

Well then, that was a long chapter. Kinda got carried away there but at least there's only the semi finals and the final left now of this arc. Hope you enjoyed it. Especially how beautiful Ochako's and Kirishima's fight was ;) Anyways the next chapter is… 'All's well that ends well'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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And the finale of the least eventful arc is finally here! (No offense if you like the Sports Festival arc, I just think there's a lot that happens yet barely anything that happens if you get what I mean.) Also I still suck at fight scenes so… Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My hero Academia

Chapter 12 - All's well that ends well

"ALRIGHT LISTENERS! NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE SEMI FINALS BUT BEFORE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A QUICK FIVE MINUTE BREAK BEFORE THE FIRST MATCH!" Present Mic bellowed

"Well I'm up first then" 'Enomoto' said "Guess it's finally time for me to show that arrogant prick what's what." 'That's before I completely destroy Bakugo of course'

"Yeah, you show him Enomoto" Togeike cheered before dramatically putting the back of her hand on her head and putting on a fancy accent "Avenge my death, for I cannot any more"

Shinso chuckled "Y'know you could become an actress if being a hero doesn't work out"

"One, I will never stop trying to be a hero" Togeike started "And two, am I that good?"

"Not at all" Shinso deadpanned

"Oh c'mon I would make a great- no, an amazing actress" Argued Togeike

"Quit bickering lovebirds" 'Enomoto' said, stopping the pair and causing them both to blush at his new nickname for the duo. "I should start going before I lose track of time"

As the pair were still blushing, Inoue decided to wish him farewell "See ya Enomoto! I'll take care of the lovebirds" He said, chuckling at the sight of both of their blushes getting deeper as their new nickname spread.

'Enomoto' was strolling along the corridors towards the tunnels when he was suddenly met with Endeavour's muscular build standing in his path. When he simply tried to walk past the fire hero Endeavour stopped him. "Listen here, before you go out there I have a proposition for you"

Intrigued 'Enomoto' stopped and looked up at the man "What is it?" he questioned.

"I have seen your performance in previous rounds, you're strong. What I want is for you to make Shoto use my fire"

"Your fire? If it's yours make him use it" 'Enomoto' responded

"I can't, he is in the process of a childish tantrum and refuses to use it."

"I see, so why do you want him to use it"

"Because without it he will not be able to become the best hero"

"And succeed you by beating All Might?"

"Exactly, if you manage to get him to use his fire I'll reward you in cash"

"As much as I'd like to annoy your son, I'm going to have to deny your offer"

On hearing this Endeavor raised an eyebrow "And why are you going to do that?"

'Enomoto' simply shrugged then said "Simple, from what I've learnt in life, experience is the best teacher. One day there will be a problem that will specifically require Todoroki to use his fire and if he doesn't use it then he will realize that his actions have consequences. But if you wanted to make him use it faster then I'd suggest being an actual father to him"

"What do you mean, I already have provided him with all the tools he needs for a better life" Endeavor said, starting to get annoyed by the teen

"No offense, but I happened to overhear a conversation regarding how you raised him and despite you giving him a 'better life' as you put it you are not a father figure to him. To be that you must show compassion and demonstrate you can be more than just the number two hero."

"... Did you hear about his mother"

"Yep"

"I see" Endeavor looked down, his mind recalling how he'd behaved towards his wife in the past. Then his voice turned calm "Thank you young man, I shall take what you have said and use it" He said taking a small bow to 'Enomoto'

"No problem, I'm afraid I have to kick your son's ass now but I hope your family's situation improves."

Endeavor lightly chuckled "Do not underestimate Shoto and I hope you are transferred into the hero course after this" The man then walked off in the opposite direction

'Finally, he's gone.' Izuku thought to himself 'Can't believe I didn't lose my cool with him, bastard's the number two hero yet abused his wife and kids, guess that's someone else to add to my list of reveals but I'll do his separately from Bakugo's otherwise people will focus on him more.' He then donned a slightly psychotic smile 'Well then, it's time to crush some ice'

"WE'RE BACK LISTENERS! IT'S TIME FOR THE SEMI FINALS AND WE HAVE THE GENERAL COURSE STUDENT WHO JUST KEEPS ON SURPRISING THE COMPETITION, DAKU ENOMOTO! AND HIS OPPONENT, THE SON OF THE NUMBER TWO HERO AND RECOMMENDED HERO COURSE STUDENT, SHOTO TODOROKI"

"Alright then boys, you both ready?" The duo nodded back at her, both standing calmly and casual. Seeing this Midnight just shrugged "Alright then. Begin!" She said, raising her flag.

"You're done" Todoroki said as he unleashed another iceberg towards 'Enomoto' however his eyes widened when he watched the ice fully break upon impact to 'Enomoto' "H-How did you-" Before he could continue he was met with a punch straight to the face that made him almost fly out of the ring before he caught himself.

"Simple" "Enomoto' started "You underestimated me" He then charged at Todoroki, ploughing through the ice attacks by creating a dark shield that moved in front of him. When he got close enough he landed another punch, except this one was boosted by a gauntlet made of darkness he'd made and the impact was so strong that Todoroki couldn't use his ice to protect himself from going out of bounds sending him once again flying as he smashed into one of the walls surrounding the arena.

The crowd was completely silent at how easily 'Enomoto' had dealt with Todoroki. Midnight herself was also stunned at just how simply he'd ended the fight "S-Shoto T-T-Todoroki is out of b-bounds, D-Daku Enomoto goes on to the finals" Upon hearing his official victory 'Enomoto' smirked before looking into the crowd and glaring at Bakugo, smiling when he saw the boy flinch, before walking out the way he'd come from.

"H-Holy shit- I mean" Present Mic cleared his throat "ENOMOTO IS OUR FIRST FINALIST NOW THE NEXT FIGHT SHALL START SHORTLY AND THEN IT'S ON TO THE FINALS!"

Class 1-A

"H-He- He just completely destroyed Todoroki, without even breaking a sweat" Kaminari muttered.

"H-How did he- Who even is this kid?" Bakugo whispered, his voice barely audible. He knew Todoroki was half-assing it but 'Enomoto' had easily defeated him like he was a complete amateur. In truth Bakugo had noticed how Todoroki had looked after beating Sero and he wanted to help him. Guess that wasn't going to happen soon.

"Hey Bakubro, I think we need to head down there now" Kirishima said, still in shock from the previous fight and just starting to get up

"Y-Yeah, right," Bakugo said, getting up from his seat and turning to leave before Tsu put her hand on his arm, stopping him.

"Kero, Remember what we talked about" She said "If you don't want to fight him you don't have to"

"I know, and I probably shouldn't but…" He remembered how 'Enomoto' looked at him, like he was a monster "...he clearly hates me but I still don't know why. My family was Izuku's family's only friend yet he clearly knew him and I don't know how but I feel like I've met him too, more than just his physical similarities to Izuku but I feel like I know him, the look in his eyes, even if I killed Izuku that look is of complete betrayal and anger. Like I've hurt him personally. It doesn't add up and I have to find out more… After all, Izuku said that being a hero is all about giving help that's not asked for, and that kid clearly needs help. So I'll fight him, and I'll show him I've changed. That's what Izuku would do so it's what I'll do"

Tsu smiled, getting up and hugging him, "You're so great Kacchan. Kero" She said

"Only because of you" He responded

"Okay as manly as that speech was," Kirishima started "We should really start heading down there Bakubro"

"Right" He turned back to Tsu, pecking her on the cheek as they disbanded from their hug "See you after the match"

Tsu giggled, then gave Bakugo her own kiss on the cheek "See you then. Kero"

Meanwhile - The League of Villains Bar

"Hah! Serves that arrogant brat right" Tomura said, cackling at the crowd's response to Todoroki's defeat. "Corpse sure showed him who's boss"

"Indeed" Kurogiri said "It is always most satisfying when those who are arrogant and think they are above fall"

Tomura chuckled "I'll drink to that" He said, raising a glass "So it's gonna be Corpse vs the explosion brat in the finals eh. That's gonna be interesting"

"That fight could indeed go either way, the explosive child has not yet used All Might's quirk apart from one explosion earlier so there is no way for us to tell his mastery over it yet, however at base level he appears an easy opponent having One for All alongside it could make him nearly unstoppable for all we know, no matter the result of their fight we shall have new information about the tenth wielder. That is if he wins against his next opponent." He looked at the screen which was showing Kirishima landing a hardened punch to Bakugo's jaw "Although I suspect he shall" the pair watched as Bakugo quickly responded with a devastating explosion sending Kirishima back despite the boy being in his hardened form.

"Well at least he used it again for that hit." Tomura started before his mind drifted elsewhere "Wait, is he the tenth wielder? I mean Corpse hasn't been able to call upon it that much since he gave it to Sensei, said whenever he did he felt like someone was trying to pull it away from him and stop him from using it, so does he even count? Plus Sensei also has the quirk so wouldn't that technically make him the tenth and the explosion brat the eleventh? But he technically absorbed it so he only has the quirks attached to it instead of the excess power that would usually come with it so does that even count?"

"This is the hardest you've thought about anything since you got stuck on that boss fight" Kurogiri deadpanned "And it's simply just who came first, although you are correct he would be the eleventh with master included"

"Hey! That boss was incredibly difficult"

"You just had to attack the brain sticking out it's head, that's fairly obvious"

"Well not to me! That's why I had Sensei tell the Doctor not to worry about protecting Nomu's head and All Might didn't think once to hit it there during their fight."

Kurogiri sighed "When will you grow up"

"Eh, probably when I go through some kind of mid life crisis that leads me to talking to the explosion brat about what I should do by blackmailing him."

"That's… oddly specific"

"It's the only way" Tomura said smirking under his hand mask

Back at the Sports Festival

"KIRISHIMA HAS BAKUGO ON THE ROPES! IS THIS IT FOR THE EXPLOSIVE BLONDE?!" Present Mic boomed

Kirishima was currently releasing a non-stop barrage of hardened punches as he finished his attack he stood back "Sorry Bakubro but this is where it ends" He pulled back his fist then charged towards Bakugo however at the last second his attack was caught by the explosive teen

"Maybe for you, but I've got questions to be answered with someone and there's only one way for my to do that" Bakugo responded, pushing Kirishima back "By going beyond" They both charged towards each other both were grinning like maniacs the whole time before Kirishima reeled back for a punch and Bakugo got ready to unleash a huge explosion.

The pair both met in the centre of the arena, as they connected they both shouted "PLUS ULTRA!" as Bakugo unleashed a huge explosion as Kirishima's hardened fist hit his chest.

When the dust settled it revealed that Bakugo was crouched on one knee, still in the centre of the arena and tired. Whereas Kirishima was laying on the ground on his back, his hardening saving him from major damage but not the impact from Bakugo's explosion.

"Eijiro Kirishima is out of bounds! Katsuki Bakugo makes it to the finals!" Midnight announced lowering her flag for the penultimate time.

The crowd burst into cheers and applause at the ending of the fight. Bakugo got up and walked over to Kirishima, helping the boy up as the pair walked out of the arena. "Jeez, guess you out manned me there Bakubro" Kirishima said, the pair chuckling at his statement.

"You bet your ass I did" Bakugo responded causing Kirishima to chuckle even more

"Nice to see that you can still be aggressive when you want to be" Kirishima joked

Bakugo laughed "Guess I still can be, can't I"

"You betcha Bakubro"

"I'll get you to Recovery Girl's office"

"No need for that dearie I'm already here," the pair looked up to see Recovery Girl walking over to them before she hit them both on the head with her cane "That was for being so reckless, the pair of you. If it weren't for your hardening this would be much more serious."

Bakugo gulped, recalling how Izuku had looked when he'd seen him after the incident on the hospital bed. "Sorry Recovery Girl" He said lowering his head

"It's okay dearie, here have a gummy" She said, handing them both a gummy before kissing both boys on their arms, healing them both completely.

"Phew, I'm wiped" Kirishima said "Good luck in the finals Bakubro"

"Thanks" Bakugo responded "I get the feeling I'm going to need it" he said recalling how 'Enomoto' had looked at him.

"ALRIGHT PEOPLE! IT'S TIME FOR THE FINALS! THIS YEAR HAS BEEN ONE HELL OF A DOOZY WITH HOW MUCH EFFORT THERE'S BEEN FROM EVERYONE BUT THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WINNER! WILL IT BE, THE LORD OF EXPLOSIONS HIMSELF, KATSUKI BAKUGO! OR WILL IT BE, THE CREATOR OF DARKNESS, DAKU ENOMOTO!"

"Right then, you two ready?" Midnight asked, hiding her sorrow of only being able to raise her flag once more.

"More than" 'Enomoto' responded while Bakugo just nodded.

"Well then, Begin!"

Faster than Bakugo could see 'Enomoto' dashed at him, his fist connecting with Bakugo's abdomen causing the boy to wince as he flew back a few feet "Come on murderer, what was all that strength I saw earlier, come at me" He dashed over and once again landed a hit, this time kicking Bakugo in the shin causing the explosive blond to lose his balance and fall on the floor. "Pathetic"

Bakugo quickly used his explosions to get himself back up "How did you know him?" he asked, simply standing there staring at 'Enomoto'.

"Know who?" He asked, his voice feigning innocence

"You know who, Izuku, how did you know him?"

"Didn't your girlfriend tell you already?"

"I know that was a lie, my family were the only ones who were friends with his parents and he didn't have any friends except me. So how'd you know him?"

"You're smarter than I thought. Although I find it strange you refer to yourself as his only friend. Doesn't matter though, you wouldn't believe me if I told you how I know Izuku Midoriya."

"Try me"

'Enomoto' tutted in response "You'll just have to wait for me to tell you, trust me the wait will be worth it but you'll find out. So don't worry about it. Just fight."

He charged once more at Bakugo although the blond managed to dodge at the last second to which 'Enomoto' sprouted four extra darkness arms that sprouted out of his back using his quirk. He used two of them to lift himself off the ground then launched himself at Bakugo using the other two arms to grab him.

Bakugo tried to jump to avoid 'Enomoto's' grasp however the hands curved and caught him in mid air. 'Enomoto' then launched himself foot first at Bakugo's head then tossed the boy across the ring.

Upon watching 'Enomoto' fly towards him once more Bakugo knew he had to go all out. So he quickly released a boosted explosion when 'Enomoto' got close enough, sending the boy backwards. Bakugo quickly charged over, using his explosions to boost his speed before he released another explosion which 'Enomoto' blocked using his shadow arms, he then sprouted two more which he used to land blows at Bakugo's gut while he kept his defensive stance.

"What's the matter Bakugo? Actually having to try in a fight? How high up must I be to get to see your true power" 'Enomoto' said sarcastically, his voice dripping with venom "Guess it's my lucky day then"

Bakugo growled, he was gonna have to go all out, which meant using One for All to boost his punches. He reeled back his fist before smashing it into 'Enomoto's' shield, breaking it along with his arm. Strangely enough 'Enomoto' didn't seem surprised at the sudden display of strength instead the boy just scowled as Bakugo then used his other fist to punch 'Enomoto' straight in the gut sending him flying backwards.

Before 'Enomoto' went out of bounds he stopped himself by using the two arms Bakugo hadn't destroyed to grip onto the ground. Seeing both of Bakugo's arms broken he knew it was over.

He threw himself one last time at Bakugo, combining both of his darkness arms into one huge one then sending electricity through it while it altered his own appearance, giving his eyes electric sparks that radiated from the irises "FIST OF JUDGEMENT!" he shouted as he got closer to Bakugo but before the explosive blond could even hope to dodge the attack, 'Enomoto' created two more shadow arms charged with electricity out of the ground next to Bakugo both of the holding him in place while also electrocuting him before the huge fist connected with him just as the two hand disappeared, sending him flying out of bounds.

"Katsuki Bakugo is out of bounds and unable to continue. Daku Enomoto wins the Sports Festival!" Upon announcing his victory the crowd burst into cheers as 'Enomoto' then raised both his own fist and the huge darkness one which was idle next to him, no one noticing his slightly disturbing smile that accompanied it.

"INCREDIBLE! ENOMOTO MANAGES TO DEFY ALL ODDS AND EMERGES VICTORIOUS OVER THE 1-A POWERHOUSE BAKUGO! THIS KID IS REALLY PLUS ULTRA!"

Looking down at the boy Eraserhead couldn't help but once again get the feeling he knew this kid. When he used his ultimate move his eyes had glowed and sparked and it reminded him too much of Midoriya. "There's something weird about this kid, and I'm gonna figure out what it is." he murmured to himself as he finished signing the papers to move 'Enomoto' to the Hero Course.

All for Ones office

"Magnificent, simply magnificent." All for One said "It seems all our training has really paid off and that new power, I wonder could it perhaps allow Midoriya access to One for All once again?"

"Why do you think that Sensei?" Questioned the doctor

"From what I can tell, it appears that once the quirk absorbs certain energies it can recreate them from scratch, hence how it was possible for Midoriya to use an attack more powerful than the one the quirk originally absorbed."

"So you believe that if he manages to use One for All once more the vestiges will stop preventing him use as it will become part of the darkness quirk? Most intriguing Sensei"

"Precisely Doctor, I may love my brother however the feeling is not reciprocated back to me after discovering Midoriya had changed to my side he has clearly been preventing use of One for All unless Midoriya can force him. Even though I have to force vestiges to use their quirks, attempting to push against eight at once is difficult even for me and the ones Midoriya has to push against are all determined to prevent him however now if he uses the quirk for even one second while maintaining Darkness Incarnate, he regains full power. If only All Might hadn't managed to give the quirk away once more, then we'd be unstoppable"

"What's the fun in a game if you always win?" The Doctor responded

All for one chuckled at that "Right you are Doctor, if there is no challenge there is no fun although sometimes I wish it could be easier to take over the world and become it's new demon king"

The League of Villains Bar

"Called it" Tomura said smugly

"I agreed with you" Kurogiri deadpanned

Tomura pouted "Still called it"

Kurogiri just sighed "We've got a lot of new information to work with now, our future encounters with U.A should go much smoother now."

Tomura grinned under his mask "And people say sidequests are pointless, this is going to be fun. Although we should find new party members for our next mission. Ask Giran to find people who'll work"

"I shall" Kurogiri said, mentally proud that Tomura was finally doing something smart for the league.

Back at the Sports Festival

'Enomoto' was currently standing on the first place podium, forcing himself to be calm and not attack All Might who was currently hugging him as he had done to Todoroki, Kirishima and Bakugo prior. He breathed a breath of relief as All Might turned to talk to the audience.

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE!" All Might's voice boomed "I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALL SAY NOW THAT THE FESTIVAL IT OVER! SAY IT WITH ME NOW!"

"PLUS ULTRA!"

"THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK!"

'Enomoto' cackled as he watched All Might deal with the crowd who had been expecting the school's motto.

As he was walking to the point where Kurogiri would warp him 'Enomoto' was suddenly stopped by Tsu again this time, however, she was accompanied by Bakugo.

"Hey, stop" Bakugo said from behind 'Enomoto'

'Enomoto' turned, his eyes showing clear signs of annoyance. "What do you want?" He asked.

"To know who you are, Kero." Tsu responded standing beside Bakugo

"What do you mean by that?" 'Enomoto' asked, worried he'd accidentally messed up and showed his face in the heat of the battle.

"How did you know Izuku?" Bakugo asked, his fist clenched at his side out of annoyance.

"I've told you my answer already. You'll find out murderer, now leave me be" 'Enomoto' said dismissing the pair

"Then why are you so familiar?" Bakugo asked "Both you and Izuku look similar I get that, but your demeanor is like his as well, plus I get this feeling that I know you, so why then"

'Enomoto' just sighed "That's just you being guilty" He shrugged "Not my fault, next time don't murder your victims, just keep bullying them instead"

Both Bakugo's and Tsu's eyes widened "Kero. He's lying, right Kacchan?" She asked, turning to Bakugo his eyes however didn't meet hers

"Go on, tell her the truth" 'Enomoto' said "I don't have all day"

"Those rumours about me bullying Izuku before U.A weren't rumours, we weren't friends or rather I was his friend but he wasn't mine. I didn't mean to lie to you, it's just… I didn't want to fail him by not becoming a hero. I feel awful, I'm sorry I just-" He was however cut off by Tsu kissing him on the lips.

"Kero. It's okay" She said after the pair disconnected "You know it was wrong and you're trying to make it better, what you did was bad but you still clearly didn't want him to die. So I forgive you"

The pair then went to turn back to 'Enomoto' however he'd disappeared. They tried to find him but he wasn't anywhere nearby, like he simply disappeared.

Izuku's apartment

Back in his true form Izuku sat down at the desk in his room contemplating what just happened 'She didn't care, she didn't care at all' He clenched his fists "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T SHE CARE! It's not fair, after everything he'd done he's still favoured, he's still rewarded for his cruelty. WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYTHING GO HIS WAY! It doesn't matter, as long as one person disagrees with what he's done it will spread and soon…" His mouth extended into a demonic smile using 'Saving Face' "He and all his friend will be nothing but corpses"

More unfairness! If you think that everyone is just gonna forgive Bakugo that's not what'll happen, his friends will however the public view of him will be… less than pleasant to put it nicely. Next chapter will be Izuku's first day in the Hero Course, including a random hero name I'm going to have to make up. If you guys have any good suggestions for a Hero name then comment it otherwise I'm going to have to have a brainstorm sesh. I also want to clarify Izuku won't have an internship, I think it'd be strange for U.A to instantly send a student who just got transferred to an internship so instead he's just going to have to train with Aizawa for the week, but that's not going to be touched on that much. Well then see you in the next chapter - 'Welcome Home'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Final chapter of the week, (I think anyway) the title of the next fanfic I'm gonna write will be at the end for anyones that's interested. Also Scorched is now on A03 for those of you who wanted it there! (If you're reading this one A03 right now… Sup) This chapter's more of a set up chapter so don't expect it to be very long. No one commented with a hero name so I just made something up. Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 13 - Welcome Home

"Morning," Izuku said, lazily yawning. He was already fully dressed in his uniform and had just arrived at the League's bar, leaving early wasn't a huge concern as Kurogiri would simply warp him to an alley around the corner from U.A so he could relax when it came to mornings.

Looking over, Tomura was already gaming on a barstool while Kurogiri was watching him. Clearly waiting for something else to distract him from watching Tomura shouting at the screen Kurogiri immediately responded "Good morning Izuku Midoriya, how are you?"

"I'm good, thanks." Izuku responded as Kurogiri poured him coffee "It's gonna be weird seeing them all again" He sighed. In truth Izuku didn't want to be at U.A again, every now and then while he was in the General Course he'd seen his old classmates talking and had almost walked over before realizing what he was doing. His vengeance was with Bakugo and All Might yet it still hurt him to see how Uraraka and Iida had seemed less cheerful than before, he hadn't gotten a chance to get to know the pair well so he never felt that bad but the feeling was there. But they had all abandoned his memory from class, it was almost funny how he was just forgotten. One day his memory was there, the next gone without a trace. And for that he was glad they were his enemies as well.

If it were up to him he'd just be a member of the league, however Sensei said he should return to U.A and go back to the hero course despite already having a spy in 1-A. He hadn't been told why but he had to so he did.

In a way the two personas he had helped him with his negative emotions. Corpse was a maniac who only had intentions to ruin and hurt those who'd hurt him which helped him deal with the amounts of anger and wrath he constantly felt. Whereas Enomoto was more solemn and strategic, helping him deal with how sad he felt after his mothers passing. It was thanks to them that Izuku could still be considered relatively sane and still feel himself when he wanted to. That was the only reason he could think of Sensei's decision to place him back in U.A, to fix himself. And come out stronger and better as a result.

"That's understandable, even though you were there for a small amount of time you still made friends at it shall most likely be weird to see them once more," Kurogiri responded

"That's part of it but…" Izuku paused, trying to find the right words "... I hate them all, a lot, from what I've seen they've all fully forgiven Bakugo for what he's done, hell Asui even knows that he bullied me when we were kids but she doesn't care. It's just going to be hard not to break y'know just burst out but…"

"But what?" Kurogiri asked, cleaning an already clean glass with a bar rag.

"... But I don't know how I'll burst out. Will I burst into tears or…" Izuku paused looking at his coffee "...Will I kill them all? Either way I blow my cover. I wouldn't care if I ended up just killing Bakugo, or maybe even Asui, but the others don't deserve that, not yet anyway. I just need some kind of clarity y'know, something to help me feel free. I definitely feel much more free now than before but I'm still attached in some ways, the chains that held me have been cut but the cuffs that they were attached to me by are still there, like Tomura and his hands I guess." (The latter was not paying attention at all to the conversation)

Kurogiri put the glass he was cleaning away and rested his elbows on the other side of the counter displaying a rare sign of relaxation from the Nomu. "That too is understandable, a lot has happened to you Izuku and you are still processing it and letting out your emotions is natural, I cannot tell you what the future has in store, however I can tell you that one day you will get the clarity you seek. It might be today, tomorrow, maybe even years from now but it shall arrive and hopefully you shall be happy with what you receive from the experience."

Izuku looked up from his coffee and looked into Kurogiri's glowing yellow eyes, then,sensing the sincerity in the mans words, he smiled "Thanks Kurogiri, that helped me get some stuff of my back"

"No problem, Izuku. Now you best head off to U.A now, I shall get a warp portal ready when you return. We shall be interviewing a new member so I will warp you straight to your room so you can change into your costume to make sure you don't blow your cover." Kurogiri responded, rising from the counter.

Quickly drinking the rest of his coffee Izuku got up from his barstool and grabbed his bag, however before he stepped inside the warp gate the television in the corner of the room turned on showing it's usual 'Audio Only' sign.

"Before you leave Midoriya, would you mind trying one thing for me if it isn't much trouble that is" All for One's voice said through the television

"What is it Sensei?" Izuku asked wondering what was so important

"Would you mind trying to use One for All while using 'Darkness Incarnate' on your whole body for me."

"I can try sure" Izuku said as he coated his entire body with 'Darkness Incarnate' before attempting to pull on One for All once again feeling the quirk trying to escape his grasp however it was much stronger than before, like it's life depended on Izuku not using it even for one second. As Izuku pulled he suddenly felt his body re attach itself to the quirk as he looked at his hands he noticed One for All was flowing through them, it felt much weaker than before, just enough for him to use without breaking bones he reckoned unless he tried to use more, and it felt more attached to 'Darkness Incarnate' "What the- It's working again, not nearly as strong as before but it's still working"

"Then it's as I suspected, you see when you discovered 'Darkness Incarnates' new aspect during the Sports Festival I wondered if it worked by absorbing energies and recreating them. It appears my theory was correct as now that the energy that One for All distributes has combined with 'Darkness Incarnate' you can now effectively recreate a nullified version of it I presume that's because of the small amount your quirk received so I ask you to try and pull on it more often while using Darkness Incarnate. Now enjoy your day at school"

"I will Sensei" Izuku said bowing, then reconstructing his face as Enomoto's "Thank you" Izuku then stepped through the warp portal.

After the warp gate close Kurogiri walked in front of the screen "I presume you heard my earlier conversation with Izuku Sensei"

"Indeed and before you ask, the closure he desires will come to him one day and no it won't require any of my outside 'assistance'" All for One said, acting as if his 'assistance' wouldn't be traumatising "If everything goes the way it should that boy should be just fine after I fight All Might once again, and ready to assist Tomura from the inside"

Kurogiri bowed "Thank you Sensei"

U.A School - Class 1-A

The class were currently all eagerly chatting about the Sports Festival before Aizawa entered the room, causing them all to suddenly return to their seats in the blink of an eye.

"Morning everyone" Aizawa said in his usual monotone fashion "Firstly, I was pleased by all of your performances in the Sports Festival, however I for those of you who placed low in the Festival I would recommend more training. Secondly we have a new student who has moved from the General Course today," He turned his head to the door as 'Enomoto' entered the room, the class all responded with slightly nervous murmurs at the boy who had managed to out play everyone in the room, Todoroki grumbling and turning his head he other way. "Daku Enomoto. I presume you all already know his quirk from the festival and if you have any questions ask them in your free time"

'Emonoto' noticed Bakugo's determined look after hearing that and mentally winced. 'Thanks Aizawa, give him more motivation to frustrate me' He thought sarcastically as he directed himself to the empty seat that used to be his about four weeks before.

"Finally you all have a hero informatives class now, and a special one at that" The class all grumbled, worried about another hero law test "Today you'll be creating your hero aliases" Aizawa said, causing the class to all burst into excitement. "However" Aizawa's tone brought the class back to silence "First, here are the pro hero drafts you all received from the Sports Festival, Enomoto you will not appear here as instead of an internship you shall be training here at U.A with me so I can see your skills." 'Enomoto' simply nodded in response already expecting something like that

"They are usually more spread out, but this year most votes went to the top 3" The board changed to show the amounts of offers each student had received.

Bakugo - 5,384

Kirishima - 4,057

Todoroki - 3,849

Ochako - 482

Asui - 326

Yaoyorozu - 63

Mina - 47

Iida - 20

Kaminari - 12

Sero - 9

The students who weren't picked all mumbled about the others being 'In a different league' from the rest while those who were picked all had excited expressions

"With that settled whether you were picked or not you will all have the chance to work alongside the pros. It's true that you all have experienced more than most but seeing the pros in action and taking part will still be worthwhile 's where your hero names come in, they're only tentative but you still want to pick something appropriate-" Before Aizawa could continue he was cut of by a new voice

"-Or else you'll have hell to pay!" Midnight's voice boomed as she entered the room catching most of the boys' attention with the exceptions being Bakugo and 'Enomoto' "The name you pick now may be what the world ends up calling you. That's happened to plenty of heroes out there"

"I suppose that's true enough" Aizawa monotone "Midnight here will be assessing the sensibility of the names you pick. What future do you see for yourself? The name you chose will be ever closer to cementing a certain image because names are capable of representing one's true character."

After Aizawa's speech the class all began writing their hero names some had to be abbreviated like Aoyama's, some had to be changed like Mina's and some couldn't decide on a name like Iida, Todoroki and Bakugo who instead settled with just their current names.

When it was 'Enomoto's' turn he presented his new hero name. "Hmm, Notan, as in the concept of harmony between light and dark?" Midnight asked looking at the board that read 'The Shadow Stealer Hero - Notan'

"Yep, I couldn't think of much else that would fit with my quirk without making me sound to villainous" 'Enomoto' replied

"Well I think it's simply wonderful, approved!"

The rest of the day went as normal, Izuku decided to continue to sit with his friends in 1-C to make sure he stayed calm, despite being asked to sit with the rest of 1-A.

Bakugo had decided that today was the day he'd tell All Might about his phone call, luckily for him All Might had appeared when he was leaving class in "a peculiar position" as he'd put it and asked to talk to him.

"What is it All Might?" Bakugo asked "Something to do with One for All?"

After finding them a private room in the teachers lounge All Might shrunk down to his true form "There are multiple topics for us to discuss today young Bakugo, although first I should ask if you've made a decision on who you will intern with yet?"

"No, not yet"

"Well then, I suppose I should tell you that my mentor would like to intern you"

"Who's your mentor?"

"Gran Torino"

"When was he a pro- Wait All Might are you… are you sweating?"

"W-Well y-you s-s-see Y-Young B-B-Bakugo, G-Gr-Gran T-Torino was my homeroom teacher and he was a strict teacher" Toshinoro said shaking while trying to remove the bad memories

"Must've been to make you that afraid of him"

"I-Indeed, well anyway I strongly recommend choosing him to intern with him as he already knows about One for All, in fact he was friends with my predecessor"

"Heh, so the old guy knows too huh, okay I'll probably go with him the people who wanted me probably want me because I came second place and they wouldn't be able to help me much anyway. What else did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well Young Bakugo I think It's time you learnt about how One for All came to be"

"So I get to find out its backstory?"

"Pretty much"

"Sweet"

Toshinoro explained to Bakugo the full story however by the time it had ended he noticed that Bakugo looked horrified

"Young Bakugo are you alright?" Toshinori asked "You look like you've seen a ghost"

"A-All Might." Bakugo said "Y-You said that the first person to have O-O-One for A-All was the brother of A-All for O-One right?"

"Indeed, I have fought All for One in the past myself and he was a formidable opponent, I thought that I killed him however, recently I am becoming more and more doubtful about tha-"

"He's alive" Bakugo interrupted

"He's wha- How do you- How do you even know that he is, can you really be so sure"

"Because I saw him," Bakugo responded. "A couple of weeks ago I had a nightmare, however during it there was a moment where I was in some kind of room in a strange void, there were others there too, the other wielders of One for All. I even saw you and Izuku there although you were flamy and Izuku wasn't whole, there were only parts of him. They were all talking about how the first's brother was there and how he shouldn't and they were all crowded around a weird red flame in the corner of the room"

All Might's eyes widened "H-How is that-"

Bakugo interrupted him before he could continue "I don't know, I didn't even know what it meant back then, but I also saw him again when Shinso hypnotised me. You and the others were all standing in the tunnel I was headed for, however he was standing just by the edge of the arena. But for some reason he was standing next to Izuku, I don't know why he was but they were both watching while separated from the rest of you."

"Oh no that can't be good."

"What can't be good?"

"One for All can usually be sensed by other users, a few days after Izuku died I felt it fade until I gave it to you, however I felt a different pressense once Izuku's left, more sinister. If what you're saying is correct then it would mean he somehow managed to take One for All from Izuku's dead body. It's a good thing that I had enough of the quirk to give to you my boy"

"Aren't you worried about how powerful he'll be with One for All on his side?"

"From what I can tell One for All has a mind of it's own and won't just allow him to use it I also would guess that once he got the quirk it would've decomposed back into the seven previous quirks so he shouldn't have a power boost apart from the extra quirks"

"I should tell you one more thing" Bakugo said

"What is it Young Bakugo?" Toshinori asked, sensing Bakugo's nervousness about what he was going to talk about

"The reason I had that nightmare was because… Corpse, the villain with the appearance altering quirk called me and told me he knew everything about me, my address, my phone number hell he even knows about One for All. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner but I just got so scared I didn't know what to do" Bakugo said as tears rolled down his face, he hadn't told anyone at all about the call and the feeling of helplessness returned to him.

Toshinori got up from where he was sitting and hugged Bakugo "It's okay Young Bakugo, you were frightened and that villain would be a fool to try and harm you or your family, not under my watch"

Bakugo sniffed "Thanks All Might"

"Call me Yagi"

"Thanks Yagi"

Bit of a short one but I digress. Took me a while to discover Izuku's new hero name and I thought it worked extremely well. Well then the name of the next fanfic I'll write will be - 'The Flesh and Blood that makes us' And the next Chapter of Scorched will be - 'Convicted Killers'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Chapter 14! The Hero Killer arc shouldn't be as long as the Sports Festival (or at least the chapters won't be as long (I think)). However this arc is much more crucial to the story than the Sports Festival which was mainly relevant only for Izuku to be moved to 1-A. But apart from that! Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer - I don't own My Hero Academia

Chapter 14 - Convicted Killers

As Izuku entered the League's bar he was met with a sight he found not at all surprising. Tomura was currently pinned to the ground by the Hero Killer while Kurogiri was paralyzed behind the bars counter. Luckily Kurogiri had already warped him to his room to change into the tattered suit he used as Corpse's costume and had walked in from the room. Unluckily, he had walked in with his true face, if you could even call it a face anymore that is.

Upon seeing another fool enter the bar, Stain dashed over and attempted to cut Izuku, the latter stepping out of the way with ease despite the man's great speed. Surprised at the newcomers managing to avoid his attack, Stain turned to them "Who the hell are you?" he asked, raising a blade.

Realizing he'd forgotten to alter his appearance prior to his entrance, Izuku decided it'd be stupid to change his face now. "Names Corpse, I presume you must be the new recruit then Hero Killer"

"You're leader over there could not meet my expectations as worthy, so I will not be joining, although you seem familiar. Have we met before perhaps?" Stain asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

Hearing this, Izuku sighed, he knew he couldn't claim himself as simply Corpse using his quirk to disguise him. That would be stupid, why would a villain be disguised as a dead teenager's dead body? The lie would make no sense. "I appeared all over the news about a month ago although my appearance has certainly changed in that time."

"Izuku Midoriya," Stain said, as his memory finally managed to pin the teen's name to his face? Could it even be considered one anymore as it appeared instead to be a painting of injuries "You were a student at U.A until you were killed during a training incident by another student. Although it doesn't seem like you did die in the end, care to explain how?"

"Indeed I did," Izuku replied "how I survived isn't important though so I'm going to need you to keep this a secret, I can't have anyone spoiling my big reveal now can I"

Stain sneered in response "Nah I don't think I will" He then charged once more at Izuku, however Izuku jumped in the air and landed on the Hero Killers back, pinning him to the ground.

"Oh, well the thing about that is…" Izuku began as he altered his appearance to his 'Demon' face, complete with his scarlet glowing eyes, horrifyingly exaggerated smile and pointy teeth. He then grabbed two of Stain's daggers and plunged one each into the Hero Killer's arms. "I wasn't asking"

"F-Fine" Stain grumbled from his pinned position on the floor

From the other side of the room Izuku heard someone laughing their head off, looking over he watched as Tomura got up from the floor donning similar injuries on both his shoulders to the ones Stain now had in his arms "Well then Stain, you may be a great Assassin class but Corpse here is a damned good Rogue class himself. You sure talk a lot about conviction, I don't have any of that shit but if you want to know what drives me, I'd say that's All Might. That piece of garbage and the society that worships him I want to turn them all to dust. That's my conviction." Tomura monologued.

"My injuries from last time were just healing, Corpse may be a good rogue but we don't have a healer in our party. So why don't you take responsibility for what you've done"

"You first" Stain grunted, still pinned down by Izuku. "Our retrospective goals couldn't be further apart but destroying status quo, that's one things we can agree on"

"Corpse, let him go" Tomura ordered, Izuku complying although personally wanting to kill Stain there and then, the man was careless with his crusade and just killed any hero that wasn't All Might even pros who were actually competent like Ingenium were severely injured if he was feeling generous "Kurogiri, get this piece of shit out of my sight"

"Take me back to Hosu, I have unfinished business there"

The Next Day

Bakugo approached the location he'd been given to find Gran Torino, however the house he was standing in front of was completely run down. 'Did I get the wrong address or something?' He wondered to himself before opening the door.

There are many unexpected things that have happened in the life of Katsuki Bakugo. To name a few would include the time where he'd tried to use his quirk to get his ball out of the tree his friend had accidentally kicked it into back when he was six however accidentally had caused the tree to completely lose all of it's leaves as they collectively crashed onto little Bakugo a squirrel even landed on his nose. Another incident would be when Izuku suddenly had an incredibly powerful quirk and his most recent had been Izuku's death and how he'd been treated by people who, in fairness, didn't know the full story. However he had a new contender for his most unexpected moments when he entered the house to see the hero he was interning with lying on the ground with his blood and intestines spilt on the floor.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" Bakugo shouted, which was his usual response to whenever he experienced an unexpected moment.

Suddenly the elder hero raised his head from the floor with a comical expression "I'm alive!"

"THE HELL WAS THAT FOR! JESUS CHRIST YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME!" Bakugo shouted, now completely overcome by anger

"Who are you?" the elder hero asked.

"WHO AM I? I'M THE SHITTING STUDENT YOU'RE MENTORING YOU ASSHOLE!"

"Who are you?" Gran Torino repeated

Bakugo suddenly felt very bad for shouting at the old man "S-Sorry I didn't realise" However the man suddenly disappeared from site along with his suitcase containing his costume

"I like ya kid you've got spunk," Gran Torino said, his personality taking a full 180 as he looked in the suitcase at Bakugo's costume "fire of an attack, show me your One for All. But don't use your explosions just the strength enhancer, I need to see how well you can control it. Nice costume by the way."

If Bakugo wasn't confused before he certainly was now "I-er I mean yeah sure"

"Who are you again?" Gran Torino asked, his previous expression and personality returning.

"Listen, I didn't intern here just to mess around, I need to get better at controlling One for All, if your just gonna fuck with me I won't stay here" Bakugo said as he turned to leave before he was kicked directly in the back, when following the noise he looked up to see Gran Torino perched on the top of the doorway.

"Well then, come at me you neophyte"

A few hours later

Bakugo lay on the ground, defeated. He didn't use the strength aspect of One for All often, due to the amount of damage it did to him when he used it so he just lay there in defeat. He hadn't learned a thing apart from the fact that he was helpless against a speedster like Gran Torino.

"Jesus kid, you really haven't figured it out yet have you." Gran Torino commented, looking down at the boy both literally and figuratively.

"Figured what out?" Bakugo asked

"How you're using One for All, you're doing it all wrong"

"What!? But I'm using it at five percent and it's still painful"

"Kid, do you think that All Might only uses One for All in one part of his body?"

"What? I mean no but-" Bakugo suddenly sat up from the ground embarrassed by his stupidity "Oh"

"Jesus, take your time next time" Gran Torino said as he pinched the bridge of his nose

"HEY LOOK, I'VE ONLY HAD THIS FOR LIKE A MONTH OLD TIMER" Bakugo shouted back

"This 'old timer' has been kicking your ass for the last hour kid"

"Tch, doesn't matter, now I know what to do I can really fight now"

"You wanna bet kid"

"Oh your on"

The previous night - Hosu rooftops

"So this is Hosu," Tomura said, stepping through the warp with Izuku and Kurogiri both tailing behind Stain "livelier than I thought"

"I will reform this town" Stain commented "But for that… more sacrifices are needed."

"Before you go" Izuku intervened - still sporting his demonic smile and eyes - right before Stain's monologue "If you tell anyone who I am, I'll know and I'll find you"

"Tch, got it" Stain responded before he descended from the rooftops, annoyed that he was interrupted before he could make his speech about society.

When Stain was out of view Izuku turned to Tomura "What now?" he asked

Tomura scratched his neck "That guy pissed me off, all that high and mighty talk and he can't even get past the small potatoes stage"

"You both shouldn't criticize him so much" Kurogiri said "The cities he's appeared in have all shown a decrease in crime rate that is believed to be because of more hero awareness"

"Well that's great, so much for putting a stop to heroism." Tomura responded "Hero killer, more like hero breeder, at least indirectly"

"He's the embodiment of irony basically" Izuku commented

"Exactly! I knew it, he's too different from us, pisses me off, Kurogiri, prepare the Nomu for Wednesday." Tomura ordered "Corpse, I think it's a good time for you to put that Operation Chaos you came up with into play." He said, turning to Izuku who's smile somehow managed to widen.

Izuku chuckled "Wednesday's gonna be so much fun" he said, his voice mimicking that of an old doll which needed a new voice box

"Well then Stain, which of us can cause more destruction? Let's see. I'll crush your pride and dignity Stain"

Two Days Later (Second Day of internships) - U.A

'Enomoto' entered U.A's training grounds, he had to train with Aizawa to make sure he could catch up with the rest of his class (like he needed it anyway). He was dressed in U.A's sports uniform as his Hero Costume was currently still being made.

"You're here on time, that's good. I personally don't understand why you need this training, you came first in the Sports Festival while taking down all other students," Aizawa started, standing in front on 'Enomoto' with his natural bad posture "but the principle has forced me to train you despite that, highly illogical if you ask me. From what I could tell from the festival you're already well trained so all we'll be doing is sparring but I might train you with certain weapons if I get bored of that. Everything clear?"

"Yes Aizawa Sensei" 'Enomoto' responded with a short bow.

"Right then, come at me new problem child"

Bakugo had once again been pinned to the ground by the senior Hero. "Fuck, I'll admit for someone so short you do pack a punch old man" He said, smirking as Gran Torino got of from him.

Gran Torino simply huffed in response "You're getting better with your One for All, you've officially passed the point of not being a complete disappointment in fact."

"Well is it really my fault that you didn't teach All Might how to be a good teacher?" Bakugo said as he picked himself up from the ground

"Touche" Gran Torino responded "Now I think we've earned ourselves a break don't you?"

"Speak for yourself, I could still go" Bakugo said, despite him still struggling to stand upright

Seeing the boys struggle Gran Torino simply chuckled "Oh yeah"

"A hundred percent old man" Bakugo responded before Gran Torino gently poked him causing him to go down immediately "On second thoughts a break sounds great"

"You'll need it, later we're going on patrol"

Bakugo's head perked up at this "Oh yeah, where to?"

"We're going to Hosu, it's been relatively quiet crime wise since the Hero Killer attacked last week"

Bakugo's mind reminded him of Iida who'd decided to intern at Hosu after the Hero Killer attacked his brother "Don't they think the Hero Killer might still be there?"

"That's another reason we'll be there, some heroes have decided to quit out of fear of the Hero Killer so the more heroes there the better" Gran Torino responded

"Alright then" Bakugo replied, sitting up and using the banister of the stairs he'd landed on to help him stand

A few hours later

"Got you!" Bakugo said as he managed to finally connect his fist to Gran Torino, sending the elder hero flying into the wall "Shit, are you good?"

"I'm fine kid, it'll take much more than that to hurt me" Gran Torino said as he lifted himself from the demolished wall "That was your room by the way," he said gesturing to the fresh hole in the wall.

"Ah Fuck" Bakugo responded "Well it was worth it in the end I guess"

"Yep you've gotten very good at handling One for All now," Gran Torino said, dusting of pieces of bits of wall of him before walking to the door "right then it's time for patrol"

"Just like that?"

"It's late now kid, check the clock"

Bakugo looked over to where the clock was "The clock's destroyed"

"Just get going kid"

The League of Villains Bar

"Everything ready?" Izuku asked, now donning his 'whirlpool' face

"The Nomu are all prepared, all that's left is to warp you to Hosu" Kurogiri responded, opening a warp gate revealing three Nomu "They are not as strong as the one we used at the USJ so it is alright if they do not return, however they should not fail you before you are ready to depart"

"Perfect!" Izuku responded in an overly happy voice before changing it back to normal "I'm ready Kurogiri"

"Excellent, now please step through." Kurogiri said, opening a portal to the same rooftop they dropped Stain of at the day before

"Make sure that you cause as much chaos as possible when you make that speech of yours, we have to make sure that when this night ends people will completely forgotten about Stain"

"On it handjob" Izuku responded with a thumbs up

"Don't call me that you prick" Tomura responded holding up a middle finger

Izuku just laughed then looked back to the warp portal "Let's get this show on the road" he said in his demonic tone as he walked through the warp gate followed by the three Nomu's.

"Nomu's, wreak havoc" He ordered as the beasts all roared and began to attack "It's time for my debut" He said as he straightened his bow tie before he leaped from the top of the building onto one of the Nomu's backs as it lead him to the center of the destruction.

Noticing people already recording him Izuku figured it'd be a good time for him to start his share of the chaos "Greetings people of Hosu, I am Corpse from the League of Villains and I'm here to bring you a special message"

More of a short set up chapter this one but next time Izuku's rampage begins! But with Stain knowing his real identity who knows what could go wrong, I do of course but the you'll have to wait for the next chapter - 'Chaos reigns supreme'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Hey there! Once again wanna thank y'all for all the support towards Scorched. I know it doesn't seem like a lot but I want you guys to know I really do appreciate whenever you guys favorite, review, heck even read Scorched. I've said it a lot of times before but I honestly didn't think anyone would care about this story so seeing it get even this popular makes me feel amazing.

Izuku's really changed, I know my writing might now be the best when it comes to that change, but he has. There's now a thick shell surrounding him, I think it kinda makes sense for him to give up on heroes at this point, All Might wasn't a good teacher to him and imagine when you die the person you looked up to started to praise your worst enemy. Even if you don't agree with Izuku changing so quickly off the bat learning everything that's happened elsewise it's no wonder at this point.

Maybe I'm excited for when he eventually has his epiphany

As always, I don't Own My Hero Academia (Kinda wish I did though)

Chapter 15 - Chaos Reigns Supreme

"Greetings people of Hosu, I am Corpse from the League of Villains and I'm here to bring you a special message"

Despite the attack only just beginning, the streets were already beginning to slip into chaos. Apart from the brave souls who stayed to film the events, people were already fleeing the area, the winged Nomu Izuku was riding had already flown off to civilians. This left Izuku with the eyeless Nomu he'd been told had super regeneration. The third Nomu had rampaged in the opposite direction from the winged Nomu towards the train tracks up on a bridge, presumably to 'catch' the next train.

Almost immediately after the two Nomu's had departed several Heroes arrived, moving civilians away and readying themselves to fight. "Wow, I knew people were worried about Stain but a reaction this fast must be record breaking." Izuku joked, his face currently his now famous whirlpool form and his voice sounding familiar to his demonic voice but less frightening.

"What are you here for villain?" A hero, who Izuku recognised as Manual asked

"I just said, I'm here to bring you all a special message and I'd thought I'd bring you all some chaos while I'm at it." Izuku replied calmly, his hands casually in the pockets of his villain outfits suit.

"Message?" Another pro questioned "you're acting as though the lives of people don't matter at all."

"In the long run they don't." Izuku replied nonchalantly "This is only the beginning, the league has big plans for the future y'know"

"Enough of the small talk, we have to stop this." Another pro said "Surrender and withcall the monsters or we'll have to take you down ourselves"

Izuku burst into manic laughter causing the pro's to all flinch at the almost nightmarish sound. "Oh my god that's hilarious. Such a 'hero' thing to say. I'm pretty confident I could take you all down myself." He then turned to the eyeless Nomu standing next to him "Nomu, go run off and cause your own chaos but stay relatively close to the center of Hosu" The beast roared in response before bounding off to Izuku's right.

"Well then, let's start shall we?"

The third pro chuckled "And you said I was stereotypical-" He stopped when he was met with Izuku's fist smashing into his face making the pro stumble back slightly "Shit" He muttered as he held his hand over his now bloody nose before he was met with another punch to the gut which made him throw up slightly as he fell over backwards from the hit and was knocked out.

"One down" Izuku muttered before he turned around "Two to go"

"Manual to my right" The second pro said as her long hair formed into tendrils and attempted to stab into Corpses arms which he dodged before pulling out a knife from inside his suit and cutting the hair.

"Are you sure about this Golden Flow? We don't know his quirk and he's certainly strong. Shouldn't we try to stall him and wait for more pros to help us"

"I think his quirk will be something related to creating whirlpools or maybe even black holes like Eighteen. But we don't have time, that's why we'll have to fight together"

"Okay then, Iida, make sure the public is safe I'll-" Manual looked to behind him "Shit, where is he?"

"Looks like the so-called hero's can't even take care of their own interns." Izuku said, as he cracked his knuckles "Well if we're going to do this I might as well get it done with quickly, I still have a message to deliver"

"We'll see about that" Manual said "There's not much water here but I'll try as much as I can"

"Same here" Golden Flow agreed

"Aww, 'the power of friendship saves everyone' crap. Adorable, but it didn't save me." Izuku responded before he ran over to the duo, knife in hand. He now had mechanical fingers for his right hand and was wearing gloves over them to avoid suspicions of him being Enomoto.

Izuku jumped in the air and landed on one of Golden Flow's hair tendrils, running across it until the pro removed its harder state to which he responded by rolling as he met the ground before sprinting faster. Knife in hand he stabbed Golden Flow in her lower abdomen then backflipped off her when met with a water attack from Manual, grabbing the pro's shoulders causing Manual to stumble and fall backwards. Izuku then stood in front of Manual wielding his knife.

Izuku let out another manic laugh, sending chills into those who heard it before looking down at Manual "And it certainly won't save you" He then stabbed both of Manual's shoulders and legs, making sure not to cause any permanent damage. He wasn't going to kill anyone not worth his time after all.

"Damnit, this things strong" Gran Torino muttered as he leapt of the four eyed Nomu's back "Gonna take a lot of effort to take this guy down

"Gran Torino!" Bakugo shouted as he ran over

"The hell are you doing here quirt, I told you to wait on the train!"

"I had to make sure you were okay!"

"I'll be fine kid, I was a pro for ages. If you insist on being here, help people escape from the destruction. Only use your quirk if it's to save someone you hear me!"

"Crystal" Bakugo said as he ran off into an alleyway to make it to where most people were running to. However he was met with the sight of the Hero Killer standing over a paralyzed Iida.

Thinking fast Bakugo quickly sent his location to his classmates before running in to save Iida. Using his explosions he tackled Stain to the ground, however was stabbed in the shoulder. The Hero Killer quickly went to lick the blade, however Bakugo used an explosion to knock Stain off of him, sending the blade flying into the streets.

"B-Bakugo? What are you doing here? Go away, this is my fight not yours!" Iida shouted, still unable to move.

Hearing the explosive teens name Stain smirked "Bakugo Katsuki eh, gotta admit I've been excited to purge you since I heard about what you did to that classmate of yours. I suppose All Might vouched for you, but I doubt he knows the full story. I don't, but I can tell there was more to it than just that day. Either way, you must prove to me you are worthy of remaining in that Hero school of yours" He said raising a blade

Using a small, yet hot explosion (One for All helped him to regulate what temperature his explosions were) Bakugo burned the wound in his shoulder, preventing him losing any more blood. "You're on" He said charging at Stain. Stain dodged him easily however Bakugo passed him and tried to grab Iida and Native who were both close to each other.

Stain, noticing Bakuog's rescuing attempts, smiled to himself before he ran in front of the explosive teen and attempted to stab him in the shoulder again, however Bakugo jumped back with an explosion.

"Not bad, I can tell you've learned from your mistakes. But, can you keep up?" Stain asked before he ran over to Native and began to pull his sword back however Bakugo used One for All to speed over and attempted to kick Stain in the gut however the Hero Killer turned at the last second and used his arms to protect himself before launching Bakugo off of him.

"Neat trick, at the rate you're going perhaps you are worthy of surviving? Maybe I'll even tell you a secret if you're lucky." Stain said, chuckling to himself

"Let's just get this done with," Bakugo replied, panting before both sides charged at each other.

"Now then," Izuku said, standing upright after stabbing Manual "Hero's nowadays don't know what heroism is do they?" He said, once more returning to his casual state and looking at the nearby news channel camera pointed at him. "Quirks are valued more than actual skill and heart. I didn't even break a sweat fighting those three and I didn't use my quirk. What does that tell you?"

He then chuckled to himself "Y'know, one of my favourite stories of this is a very recent one that was all over the news only a month ago. 'The U.A training death' it was dubbed. On paper it may seem like a training incident where one student was being more careless but I didn't think that sounded right. I looked into both Katsuki Bakugo's and Izuku Midoriya's files and what do ya know, they both went to the same high school before U.A. Even more strange was Midoriya's high school file, multiple incidents of him being sick and feeling queasy at school, incidents of his desk and locker being vandalized by other students. And most shockingly reports of him spending plenty of his time on the roof of the school just sitting there looking over the edge."

"Now, I know what you're all wondering, 'How does any of this relate to what you previously said about quirks and heroes Corpse?'" Izuku mimicked, using his hand as a puppet "Well the thing that most intrigues me was that until Izuku Midoriya was fifteen he was quirkless. I even found multiple hidden security camera files that showed him being beaten up by his classmates and made fun of all for being quirkless. Then his quirk manifested and he made it to U.A, but then on the second day he was killed. And wouldn't you know it, it was none other than Katsuki Bakugo who beat him up and made fun of him. Because of how popular Bakugo was for his quirk he was never questioned by teachers or other kids and his behaviour made others bully Midoriya as well."

"After discovering this information I was simply captivated, two children, one pure yet powerless, the other corrupt yet strong and the one who'll make it to being a hero, the corrupt one. Don't you people see, nowadays being a hero isn't important. Being powerful is. I even discovered that when the principal of U.A did his file checks for both students he not only saw every incident I described, he even saw the camera file by hacking into their high school's mainframe out of curiosity. Then still thought it was a good idea to not only allow Bakugo into the school, but let him into the same class as Midoriya." Izuku's voice was gaining more venom as he spoke, however he calmed himself and continued. "The League doesn't see you as a quirk. Trust them and they'll lead you to greatness."

Before Izuku could continue he felt a burst of heat emerge from behind him, he quickly jumped out of the way then turned to see the origin of the flames. "Well if it isn't the number two hero, Endeavor. Well I've already finished my speech so I could leave now but." He finally allowed himself to use his quirk, creating his demonic face out of the whirlpool, his eyes glowing a gentle ruby. "I might as well have a challenge before I depart"

"An appearance quirk eh, shouldn't be that hard to take down" Endeavour scoffed

Izuku quickly turned back to the cameras "Told you" he said before turning back to Endeavour

"Don't you mock me villain" Endeavour scolded before unleashing more flames towards Izuku. Which the latter once again dodged.

Izuku made his eyes glow brighter "Lets go flameboy," he mocked as he began to sprint over to Endeavour

"Alright kid, this has been fun and all but it's time to end this" Stain said as he flipped over Bakugo before trying to press his blade in Bakugo's arm. Seeing the attack Bakugo swerved to the right however Stain managed to cut him slightly, before Bakugo could stop Stain the Hero Killer licked the blade paralysing him making his body collapse to the ground.

"C-Crap" Bakugo cursed. He had guessed that Stain's quirk had something to do with blood so he'd been trying to stop Stain from cutting him.

Raising his sword to Bakugo's head Stain smirked "Y'know what kid, I like ya. You certainly show traits of a true hero no matter what your past suggests." He said before chuckling "So, I'll spare you, but your friend here won't be so lucky" He then directed his sword towards Iida, however before he killed the speedster he turned to Bakugo one last time. "Wanna hear that secret I was talking about earlier?" He then lowered himself to Bakugo's level and whispering in his ear.

"Izuku Midoriya is alive"

He watched as Bakugo's eyes widened, his mouth trying to form words but nothing coming out. Once more Stain chuckled to himself "Now then where was I-" However before he could cut Iida in two a wall of ice appeared in front of him. "What the-" He lept into the air dodging a wave of ice aimed at him, moving him away from Iida.

"You should really be more clear with your texts Bakugo. It took me a while to realize what you meant when you just sent your location." Moving his eyes, Bakugo saw Todoroki approach from the corner of the alleyway.

"No! Both of you go! This is my fight! He hurt my brother! I must bring him to justice! I must prove myself worthy of his name!" Iida shouted, still imobile.

"Really," Todoroki deadpanned "Because the Ingenium I knew wasn't driven by revenge."

"Shoto Todoroki, son of Endeavour. Your father is one of the heroes I hate the most, y'know." Stain started "And your performance in the Sports Festival was far too cocky and arrogant even after fighting that girl who almost took you out you continued to underestimate opponents in the General Course. You are shaping up to be an awful fake so far, but I believe there's more to it then that. Prove to me you are worthy"

"Todoroki, be careful not to get cut!" Bakugo shouted "His quirk paralyzes you if he tastes your blood!"

"Thank you." Todoroki responded before turning to Stain and releasing an ice attack at the Hero Killer

"I find it strange you don't use your fire" Stain noted "Perhaps you too see your father as the fake he is, what else has he done? He must atone for his sins but that doesn't change the fact that your fire is yours not his." Stain then dashed forwards

"Thanks, but I don't need counseling from a serial killer" Todoroki responded

Izuku side stepped to the left as Endeavour unleashed his fire towards him. Getting closer, Izuku leapt forwards and kicked Endeavour in the chin, causing the flame hero to spit out blood from his lip.

"All that effort for a drop of blood" Endeavour commented, wiping more blood from his mouth.

"Least I've landed a hit" Izuku responded

"Shut up villain" Endeavour ordered before once more unleashing fire towards Corpse

Izuku leaned back under the flames then ran up close to Endeavour, landing hit after hit on the number two hero, slowly chipping away at him as Endeavour attempted to swat him away.

"Take this shitflames!" Corpse shouted before winding back his fist before smashing it into Endeavour gut, causing the fiery hero to fly backwards into a nearby building.

Growling, Endeavour wiped the dust off his costume "Enough of this" he muttered before dashing towards Izuku and grabbing him by the throat.

"You have ten seconds to call off the Nomu or I will destroy you" Endeavour ordered, lifting Izuku off the ground. The latter was however incredibly calm, disturbingly calm.

"Destroy me eh. Not very heroic I must say" Izuku chuckled "Although, I'd say you should be the one who's scared"

"Oh yeah, why's that?" Endeavour asked, smirking.

"Because…" Izuku made his face disturbingly tall, his teeth morphing to become more slender and sharp and his eyes gleaming a nightmarish scarlet. Giving him the appearance of some kind of demonic shark. He morphed his voice to become 'full demon' as he called it "You never know when you're in the deep end" Endeavour's eyes widened however Corpse's appearance was the least of his concerns as Izuku elongated his neck over to Endeavour's upper arm, opened his mouth and…

The sound of tearing flesh and Endeavour screaming filled the streets of Hosu as Izuku ripped Endeavour's arm from its socket.

What an ending! I've had that final scene in my mind for ages, I definitely wanted Izuku to humble Endeavour and make him regret messing with him and I definitely wanted Izuku to have a horrifying demon moment. So I decided to combine the two! The next chapter is - 'Burn in Hell'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Sorry for the wait! I've been busy writing my second fic all of this week, from now on the update schedule will most likely be one chapter per week, maybe once every two weeks. Anywho, it's time for the chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer - My Hero Academia is not a part of my collection, I unfortunately do not own it

Chapter 16 - Burn in Hell

Todoroki flipped over Stain as the killer attempted to stab his side, while in midair, he shot out ice shards towards the murderer, Stain however simple side stepped the attack dashing over and grabbing Todoroki by the neck.

"C'mon," The Hero Killer began, "use your flames. There is no hope for a future hero who refuses to use all of their might to help people. If you just half ass it either you or someone else will end up dead."

"Shut up! Just shut up!" Todoroki yelled, as he unleashed a wall of ice to separate him from the hero killer "You know nothing! Just shut up and fight me!"

Stain shook his head "tsk tsk hero. You're acting more like your old man now."

Then Todoroki froze (no pun intended) but not because of what Stain had said, neither had the Hero Killer tasted his blood. But because of what he heard. A blood curdling (Again, no pun intended) scream. But not just any scream. It was his fathers.

Todoroki began to sprint over in the direction however he stopped when he heard Stain again "You're really just going to leave me here with them?" Stain smirked as Todoroki turned to face him once more "C'mon kid, if you want to save your dad you'll have to take me down first. And the only way you're doing that is if you use your fire."

Almost instinctively, Todoroki activated his flames, ready to end this quickly. Seeing this Stain grinned "Here we go"

As Endeavour screams spread across the streets Izuku backflipped off him and landed a few feet away. Looking at the disembodied arm Izuku swung it around "Huh, for someone so tough you sure do tear easily." He taunted "How's your family by the way? Would've thought your youngest would be nearby with him being a hero in training and all."

"Y-You don't get to talk about them you bastard" Endeavour growled as he used his fire to burn his wound "Now burn!"

As Endeavour unleashed an inferno of flames Izuku quickly leapt back and managed to squeeze himself behind the decapitated arm in time.

"Thank god you're immune to your own flames" Izuku said, getting out from behind the protection after the inferno ended "Or else I'd be ash by now"

"D-Damn you" Endeavour said, clutching the stump were his arm used to be

"Well, it's been fun and I think I've made my point now so I'll be going now" Izuku replied as he began to walk away

"G-Get back here" Endeavour weakly responded, trying to find the effort to chase Corpse but failing, tripping over his own feet.

"Don't think I will, byeeee!"

Stain dashed to the left, avoiding the beam of fire Todoroki just shot at him before speeding towards him, dagger in hand. Todoroki quickly erected an ice wall to stop Stain, however when he removed the barrier Stain was nowhere to be seen.

Todoroki immediately turned to his fallen classmates and Native however Stain wasn't with them either. Before the dual haired boy could question further he felt Stain's body fall on him from above, pinning him to the ground.

"Well you put up a good fight kid" Stain commented as Todoroki tried to squirm his way out from under the Hero Killer however it wasn't any use "However that look in your eyes reminds me too much of your old man, he is the unworthiest hero of them all and must be culled"

"D-Don't compare me to him you bastard" Todoroki muttered before Stain could continue his monologue

Stain sighed "Oh well, bitter to the end I guess" He remarked as he raised his daggers above Todoroki "Say goodbye"

"GOODBYE FUCKER!" Bakugo cried, getting up from the ground before unleashing a One for All boosted explosion. Reacting fast Stain tried to jump out of the way but he wasn't that fast as he ragdolled out of the alley.

Before he could celebrate the victory he felt a cane hit him in the back of his head "Idiot!" Turning around Bakugo saw Gran Torino was perched on the wall next to him behind him at the other end of the valley where there were several other pro heroes who had helped him take care of the other Nomu. "When I said use your quirk to make sure people are okay this isn't what I meant!"

"We can't argue now," Bakugo groaned "You have to make sure Iida and Native are okay."

"Fine" Gran Torino huffed "Can you stand?" He asked, extending a hand

"I-I think so-" However before Bakugo could continue he was suddenly picked up by a winged Nomu "Shit!" He cried, not having the energy to fight back. However before the Nomu could drop him he felt someone grab him. The figure stabbed the winged Nomu and brought themselves and Bakugo down to the streets.

As Bakugo looked up at his saviour he saw that it wasn't a friendly face he would hope for instead it was Stain. The latter standing over Bakugo's over exhausted body, his mask had fallen off, revealing he was missing his nose, he was also covered in small burns from head to toe.

Bakugo then looked past him to see Gran Torino and the other pros. A particularly brave probegan to run in to catch him, transforming his hands into mallets "Hammerhead wait!" Gran Torino shouted, trying to stop the pro from worsening the situation. However he didn't need to as Stain directed his glance towards the heroes.

His eyes were filled with such incredible killing intent that even without his quirk he froze everyone there, the pros completely helpless. "You fakes" He snarled "If I don't fix it now, if someone isn't stained in blood. If I don't prove the status a hero should have." He began to step towards the fleet of pros making each and everyone of them flinch and take a step back. Bakugo himself was too afraid to even breathe watching as the man above him intimidated over half a dozen pro heroes with only his gaze. "Come, just try me. You fakes!" He took another step towards the petrified pros causing one to stumble and fall over backwards "The only one allowed to kill me is All Might, a true hero!"

However just then Stain completely froze, his eyes going blank. "H-He's o-out cold" Gran Torino murmured. None of them knew it at the time but one of Stain's broken ribs had just punctured one of his lungs. However the chaos wasn't over yet as Bakugo was grabbed by the head by a newcomer and held like some kind of toy.

"Why, isn't this a nice surprise" Hearing the voice Bakugo's blood went cold, that was Corpse's voice "If it isn't my good pal Bakugo, funny I was just talking about you too" The hand grasped around Bakugo's head turned him so he could see the villain, their smile demonic and sharp with their eyes glowing a low crimson.

"Shit, not another one!" One of the pros commented, the same one who was about to run in to attack Stain about to run in to fight Corpse as well however he was stopped.

"Now, now, I don't want any more trouble" Corpse said, shaking Bakugo by the head "would be a shame if I had to kill someone I'm only just getting to have so much fun with"

"What do you want?" Gran Torino asked, nervously twitching his fingers

"Nothing much" Corpse replied "Just this" He then slammed Bakugo's head into a wall, knocking him unconscious for good measure he kicked the explosive boy in the abdomen "Now catch" He commented, chucking Bakugo body like it was a toy.

"I've got him" A pro hero said, catching Bakugo. However by the time Bakugo had landed Corpse was nowhere to be seen.

The Next Day - The League of Villains bar

"Alright, now it's time for us to reap the rewards of our efforts," Tomura said, sitting on the barstool next to Izuku as Kurogiri handed him the newspaper. Looking at the front the headline read HOSU IN RUIN AFTER JOINT VILLAIN ATTACK "Alright, not bad, not bad at all. Now let's read more shall we- the fuck"

As Tomura flipped through the newspaper he noticed that League of Villains was only mentioned once, which was after Corpses name. Apart from that the information was all either on what Izuku had said, what Izuku had done or what Stain had said and done. "Why the hell aren't they scared of me! I told you to go there! You even said that! And why the hell are they only talking about Stain apart from you!? Bullshit! Absolute Bullshit!" Tomura seethed before laying his fifth finger on the paper causing the whole thing to turn to dust

"Now now Tomura" All for One's voice said from the old monitor he always spoke from "You cannot expect complete victory in every category now can you? What's important is the fear you caused not if people know you were the one who caused it"

"It's just that no matter what news I see, the Nomu are just an afterthought!" Tomura complained, crossing his arms.

"Oh this is hilarious!" Izuku cackled, looking at his own copy of the news and not paying attention to Tomura, instead reading aloud from the article. "U.A are currently under extreme criticism for having full knowledge of the relationship between Izuku Midoriya and Bakugo Katsuki and placing them in the same class. As a mother of a child who wants to become a hero I am appalled and fearful. What if U.A is deliberately doing this in some sick game to divide the weak from the strong? When asked by reporters the principle of U.A, Nezu has not made any comment. HAHAHAHAHA! That's fucking comedy right there, oh, and to top it all of after fighting against the Hero Killer Bakugo Katsuki is yet to wake from the hospital."

"Jesus Corpse," Tomura growled "shut the fuck up!"

Izuku continued to ignore him, laughing so much he fell off the barstool he was sitting on.

Hosu Hospital

"The fuck happened?" Bakugo groaned as he got up from the hospital bed

"YOU FOUGHT THE HERO KILLER THAT'S WHAT BRAT!" Mitsuki yelled, the blonde haired mother standing right next to his hospital bed "YOU'VE BEEN OUT FOR A DAY IDIOT!"

"WELL IT WASN'T MY FAULT!" Bakugo shouted back "HE WAS GONNA KILL IIDA, WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO JUST STAND THERE AND WATCH LIKE A SICKO!?"

"OF COURSE YOU WEREN'T BRAT! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ALERT THE HEROES!"

"THEY WERE ALL FOCUSED ON THE VILLAIN ATTACK!"

"Oh yeah I almost forgot" Mitsuki began, her voice overly calm before returning to it's previous volume "YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE MISTER! YOU HEAR ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BULLIED IZUKU, THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH YOU!? AND TO HEAR ABOUT IT FROM A VILLAIN ON LIVE TV!"

"W-Wait what?" Bakugo responded, his eyes widening

Quick as a flash, Mitsuki brought up a video on her phone that showed footage of Bakugo raising Izuku by his shirt and using his explosions on the poor boy "THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BRAT! WHAT DID HE EVER DO TO YOU! THE VILLAIN SENT VIDEOS OF EVERY TIME YOU BULLIED HIM THROUGH HIS ENTIRE LIFE!"

"I-I didn't- I didn't mean to I-"

"YOU WHAT KATSUKI?!" Mitsuki yelled, tears in her eyes "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS, YOU BULLIED HIM HIS ENTIRE LIFE THEN KILLED HIM! YOU HAVE TO REALISE YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES BRAT!"

"I know they do," Bakugo meekly responded, crying slightly. "That's why I stayed at U.A, because if Izuku can't be the greatest hero, I'll be the greatest for the both of us. Even if he's gone."

Mitsuki sighed "When you get home you're grounded for two months, no games, no gym, nothing."

"Okay"

"Also, yesterday the chief of police came here, the deal is you can't tell anyone you fought the hero killer and you don't go to jail."

"Okay" Bakugo repeated as his mom left the room, leaving him with his guilt.

"So it is true" Bakugo turned his head to see Iida sitting up in his hospital bed "Y-You actually did those things to Midoriya?" The boy asked, betrayal painting his face.

"Yeah" Bakugo meekly responded, lowering his head

"How could you do that!" Iida shouted "What did Midoriya ever do to you? He was always such a kind person, how could you even think to do something so cruel to him?" Unlike when Iida usually scolded people, Bakugo could tell what Iida was saying was coming straight from him rather than the rules.

"I-I I have no excuse" Bakugo replied "I was a total shithead and now he's gone because of me" He held back a tear from the thought of Izuku and him walking through the woods as kids.

"You're right" Iida responded "He is" The tall boy then closed the curtains around his bed. Bakugo turned his gaze to Todoroki. The latter simply staring at him.

"I already guessed that was your relationship with him before" Despite Todoroki's neutral tone his eyes still looked uncomfortable as he too closed the curtains around his bed.

Again, sorry for the wait and the short chapter! I've now implemented an upload schedule so Scorched should be updated either Wednesdays or Thursdays from now on. Also my third fic should be releasing tomorrow called 'Emperor of the other side'. It's a villain Izuku fic for those that were wondering. Anyway the next chapter is 'Glee and Anger'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Back for another chapter! First of, I'm so sorry I'm late, I know I just changed the schedule so this story only updates on Wednesdays or Thursdays but I think I'm going to change the schedule as my brain won't let me not think about another story I wanna write (the story will be my first crossover btw and will include MHA). So it's likely I change the schedule into a 'week 1, week 2' type thing where I update this story and another one during week 1 and the other two stories on week 2 so don't worry if it takes longer for Scorched to update from now on. That being said if I find the time I'll gladly update this story outside of schedule which I know will happen at least once.

Chapter 17 - Glee and Anger

"Young Bakugo what are you doing?" All Might asked, looking at Bakugo with confusion as the boy held out one of his hairs to Toshinori.

"What's it look like?" Bakugo replied solemnly, still holding out the hair yet not making eye contact with the number one hero "I don't deserve one for all. I'm sorry for lying about me and Izuku, just take it back."

"Young Bakugo, two things, firstly, after transferring one for all the previous wielder cannot be transferred the quirk back. And secondly, as much as I disagree with your past actions against young Midoriya I must confess I already knew about your real history with each other before we even met" All Might responded, currently in his true form as he had to stay in it constantly for the time being. The press were getting concerned about the disappearance of Japan's number one hero and he couldn't teach as All Might anymore but as Toshinori Yagi, despite the students having no knowledge of that.

"Y-You what? The hell were you thinking!" Bakugo responded in a mix of anger and confusion "Your successor's bully kills him then you think 'You know what would be a good idea. To give him the most powerful quirk in the world.' Why on earth would you do that!?"

"It's because of what you did that I chose you young Bakugo" All Might responded, causing Bakugo to stare at the man with a mix of confusion and horror. "Wait, that came out wrong, what I meant was that despite all you did, you were still desperate to make amends and become a better hero, you didn't lose control, you learned from your mistakes and carried on, stronger than ever. Remember young Bakugo, what's important is not what you've done, but how you respond to it."

Bakugo donned a sad expression "I'm still a terrible person" He replied

"Young Bakugo, you are not a terrible person" All Might responded "The look in your eyes is not one of delight and evil but one of regret and perseverance, that look does not belong to a terrible person, but a hero"

Bakugo widened his eyes and looked up at Toshinori "You mean it?" He asked

"Of course young Bakugo" All Might replied "I still blame myself for what happened to Izuku as well."

"How was it your fault?" Bakugo asked, tilting his head

"Firstly, I knew about your past after Nezu informed me about the both of you yet I still decided to put you against each other for the lesson. And secondly, I didn't save Izuku. I let it go on. If I'd just of stopped the battle when I thought I should've then maybe… maybe he'd still be here"

Bakugo glanced at the shrunken form of the number one hero "You already did save him" he put bluntly

"S-Sorry?" All Might replied, raising an eyebrow

"You realise how much he wanted to be a hero" Bakugo replied "heh, it was incredible really, he wouldn't stop talking about heroes when we were kids, it was like a gift. Even though he died he still got to live one of his dreams of going to U.A and that's because of you. He may not be able to become a hero now, but because of you he died happy."

Toshinori let out a small smile "Thank you young Bakugo"

As Bakugo entered his class everyone went completely silent, staring at him with wide eyes. All apart from Iida, who refused to even look at him, Todoroki who wasn't talking to anyone prior and continued to read his book and Enomoto who was looking at him however with pure insane glee. At least someone was happy.

"I-Is it true B-Bakubro?" Kirishima asked, being the first to say anything since the explosive boy's arrival "D-Did you a-actually do those t-things to M-Midoriya?"

Bakugo avoided eye contact with his fellow classmates, settling to stare at the floor but still answering Kirishima's question "Y-Yes"

As soon as the word left his mouth Bakugo heard his classmates begin murmuring and avoiding him as he went to sit in his seat. He noticed Tsu gave him a sympathetic look from her seat as she had already known about Bakugo's past with Izuku. Meanwhile Enomoto stared at him like a predator stares at its prey when it's cornered, having his head resting on the palms of his hands.

Enomoto was still a complete question mark to Bakugo, he easily reminded him of Izuku through how he moved however his behavior was either completely calm or reminded him of Corpse, not to mention that he was missing two fingers on his right hand like Izuku's body was. As he looked at the shadow fingers Enomoto used to replace his missing digits he felt a strange sense of recognition, like he'd seen them somewhere before but not from Izuku, so who?

"Alright class" Aizawa said as he approached the front of the class, the murmuring coming from Bakugo's classmates finally stopping at his authority. "I hope your internships went well, I've received reports from each hero you interned with on how well you worked which will be used to help advance you for the future."

"I also understand that there has been news popping up about one of your classmates however it is illogical to dwell in gossip so please do not complain or whine about it, although, that being said, I too must admit that if it was up to me that classmate would not be here" He commented, not showing any emotion as per usual yet Bakugo could feel the anger from the underground hero.

The fury alone made Bakugo gulp plus with the news that his teacher wanted him gone he could practically feel Enomoto grin through the back of his head. "However Nezu has insisted that that classmate stays" This once more caused the class to murmur to each other as Nezu too had been dragged through the mud by the news "so I'll instead tell you that you should all put on your hero costumes and head to field gamma for your hero course lesson."

Bakugo left the changing rooms in his knew costume, he no longer wore the gauntlets (before he'd been forced not to but now they were no longer part of his costume) however instead he wore tight white gloves with green at the end and at his palms the gloves stretched down to his elbow which worked similarly to his gauntlets as they were made of his hair meaning they would absorb sweat however these were much less destructive as the limit of what they could absorb was much lower however they increased his agility from their lower weight compared to the gauntlet.

He wore the same black vest and pants as before, however now wore a red belt, as he entered field gamma he heard a few gasps and murmurs as they saw his costume, he noticed Enomoto scowl at it as well. This reaction was brought from the other accessories Bakugo now wore including a mouth guard that currently hangs off his neck, the mouth guard was white and had vertical lines on it, giving it the appearance of a smile. It was an undoubtable reference to Izuku but so was the rabbit like hood he was currently wearing, it was almost an exact copy of Izuku with the differences being that it was black rather than green and instead of having ears the mask now had two explosion like tufts of equal length.

He had designed the new version of his costume to pay direct homage to Izuku, it meant that no matter who Bakugo was saving it wasn't him, it was Izuku.

Enomoto practically growled at the costume, the former was wearing a simple costume that consisted of almost all white with hints of grey at his chest and lines following down his arms and legs. He also wore a grey belt and darker grey cloak with the hood up, seemingly creating darkness over his eyes and leaving glowing whites in their place.

He noticed All Might, currently in his true form, approaching the front of the class. The man looked at Bakugo, taken aback by the choice of costume but he quickly calmed himself and began to teach "Good morning everyone!" He said cheerfully "It's good you're all here! Why, you ask, because it's time for your basic hero training!" The class all began to talk to each other cheerfully apart from Bakugo and Enomoto who remained silent. "As an immediate follow up to your internships, today's activity is a fun one! A rescue training race!"

Iida immediately raised his arm, "Shouldn't rescue training be conducted at the USJ Yagi Sensei?"

Toshinori simply chuckled at this "Well you see young Iida the USJ is strictly only for disaster training in particular however this is simply a race"

"I understand now Yagi Sensei, thank you" Iida replied, lowering his arm like a robot

"Quite alright young Iida," Toshinori chuckled. "You see, this is Field Gamma, a terrain made up of a dense spread of factories that wind together to create an intricate network of maze-like alleys! You'll be split up into groups of five with each team going one at a time. I myself will be somewhere inside the maze and you will all start at the border, it's a race to see who can get to me first and rescue me!"

"Now here are the teams!" He then turned and pressed a button on a remote, which made the giant screen behind him switch to reveal the teams.

Group 1

Hanta Sero, Tsuyu Asui, Daku Enomoto, Mezo Shoji, Bakugo Katsuki

Group 2

Fumikage Tokoyami, Ochako Uraraka, Mashirao Ojiro, Shoto Todoroki, Mina Ashido

Group 3

Kyoka Jiro, Eijiro Kirishima, Minoru Mineta, Denki Kaminari, Yuga Aoyama

Group 4

Tenya Iida, Tooru Hagakure, Momo Yaoyorozu, Koji Koda, Rikido Sato

"Team 1 please position yourself and get ready for the race to begin!"

As the rest of class A watched the huge screen in front of them that showed the five people in group 1 preparing themselves for the race, doing stretches and jogging on the spot.

Mina was the first to speak, "So who do you think is gonna win?" She asked enthusiastically.

"Definitely Enomoto," Jiro replied "His quirk is practically made for compact places"

"I guess that's true…" Mina started before squinting at the screen that had just changed to Enomoto who was simply standing at his place waiting for the race to begin. "Hey, has anyone here even spoken to Enomoto?"

"I don't think so" Kaminari replied "He's always with his friends from General studies."

"It's respectable that he does not want to leave his friends despite being moved to a different class than them" Iida responded

"Still, it feels like we should be doing more to help him feel normal with us" Jiro replied, "He's always really emotionless apart from whenever he looks at Bakugo, then he just seems angry"

"Been watching him a lot huh" Mina replied, smirking as her comment caused Jiro to blush slightly. "Just kidding" Mina interrupted, sticking out her tongue causing Jiro to groan at the girls constant teasing. "You're right though. It's strange how he acts around Bakugo"

"Maybe they knew each other from their last school?" Tokayami replied.

"Would explain how he seemed to know Midoriya" Jiro replied

"What do you mean?" Mina asked raising an eyebrow as she looked at her classmate

"When Bakugo walked out wearing the same hood as Midoriya wore he gritted his teeth, like he knew what it was referencing and didn't like it"

"Maybe he was friends with Midoriya before U.A" Mina replied

"That would explain it I guess… but it feels like there's more to it than that. There's something beyond hate about how he looks at Bakugo, it's like he's forcing himself not to attack him every time they're in the same room" Kyoka responded

"Who knows what else Bakugo did before U.A" Tooru responded "For all we know Bakugo could've treated Enomoto like he treated Midoriya"

"Doubt it" Jiro replied "He definitely would've said something by now with how the story is all over the news at the moment"

"So then what?" Mina asked

"I… don't know"

"Hey look, the race is starting!" Ojiro called out, interrupting the conversation as the whole class watched the screen, which had split into five sectors.

"Wow, look at Enomoto!" Mina said, pointing to the screen that displayed Enomoto using darkness wrapped around his back to turn into two hands which he used to grab and use every pipe and wall available to propel him further. "He's practically owning the field!"

"Watching him reminds me of someone" Todoroki murmured, thinking about who it could be

"Wait, I know!" Kaminari called out "Those are Mr Aizawa's moves!"

"Oh yeah! He must've learned that when he was tutored by Mr Aizawa instead of going for internships!" Mina replied "Can't believe Mr Aizawa would teach him that!"

"Called it" Jiro called out as Enomoto arrived at the center of the maze where All Might was with Tsuyu arriving about thirty second later followed by Sero, Bakugo then lastly Shoji.

As the lesson went on 'Enomoto' noticed a lot of his classmates attempting to talk with him, he replied to them all of course as he wasn't going to be rude to anyone who wasn't Bakugo or maybe Tsuyu.

Finally after the lesson ended and they were all getting changed Mineta decided to make an announcement "Hey guys I just made the discovery of the century, look!" The purple pervert called out causing the boys in the changing room to look over to him.

'Enomoto' sighed "What is it?"

"It's a hole! Our predecessors must've worked really hard to make it and you know what's next door?"

"A special intervention to help you with your problems just for you?" 'Enomoto' responded, causing the rest of the boys to snicker,

However Mineta didn't pay any attention, instead he simply continued with his pervy behavior "No, It's the girls changing room!"

"Stop that Mineta, peeping is considered a very serious offense!" Iida scolded, raising and lowering his arm at rapid rates.

"Well then take me away officer, here I go-" However before he could continue he was plucked from his position by a tentacle of inky black.

Everyone in the room turned to see 'Enomoto' at the giving end of it, the tentacle exiting from the palm of his hand. He quickly lifted Mineta until the boy was eye level with him "I wouldn't do that if I were you…" 'Enomoto' started in a calm yet cold voice, before secretly using 'Saving Face' to change his voice to a more demonic version of his 'Enomoto' voice rather than his Corpse voice, which was luckily much different. "I hear interrogations pretty shit" He then coated himself in darkness making him look like some sort of eldritch monster the very sight alarming everyone in the room, especially Mineta who desperately squirmed around however was secure in his bindings "So how about you just continue getting changed then get the fuck out of here" He then calmed his voice down, "Do I make myself clear?"

"Y-Yes s-sir" Mineta replied, shaking severely as 'Enomoto' let him down, using another tentacle to close up the poster over the hole.

"Good" 'Enomoto' replied, his voice once more completely calm and neutral as if he hadn't just scared the living hell out of everyone in the room. After that everyone continued to get changed. However 'Enomoto' had no idea about the girls on the other side of the changing room wall who heard the whole thing and were greatly relieved as, even though Jiro was already prepared to jab Mineta's eye if he tried to speak, they preferred not to risk the purple pervert seeing anything.

Hope you enjoyed it! Next chapter is 'The blaze of darkness'

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Hey there guys! In case you haven't read the name for this chapter this isn't going to be a normal chapter. I've sorta hit a temporary writer's block with this fic. Don't worry I won't abandon this story, I have no intentions of doing that with any of my stories.

The main issue is simply that we're about to hit the good stuff but I have to make the final push to get there, I said this before but I don't like season two and I found it incredibly difficult to write and it's just the final exam arc thats in my way before we can get to the juicy stuff.

So I have decided that this chapter is a dedicated trailer chapter! (It is what it sounds like) This will help me reflect on the next couple of chapters and will give you guys a fun sneak peek so I hope it makes up for the missing chapter! Please enjoy!

Disclaimer - I do not, cannot and will not own My Hero Academia

Double Disclaimer - Don't read if you don't want any spoilers

"What is it All Might?" Bakugo asked

"Ever since you told me about All for One's survival, I don't know how much longer I have left as the number one hero or even alive altogether" All Might responded

"I know you said he was strong but you beat him before and plus you said that you crushed his head in. He can't possibly be that much of a threat anymore, right?"

"I wouldn't be so sure of that young Bakugo, I've only met the man once but he's a complete wild card, strategic yes, but also consumed with evil and chaos. One second he's offering you a cup of tea, the next he's tearing out half your respiratory system."

"Young Bakugo I don't know what shall happen in the future but always remember this man is not weak even when weakened. As long as he breathes he spreads chaos, he'll try and corrupt anyone and everything he meets, he's the boogeyman all children fear and most importantly…"

"He's after you"

(If you'd like please turn on 'DARKSIDE' by Neoni at 0:17)

"It's time for your practical exams" Aizawa said

All Might delivered a punch directly at Izuku's shield of darkness, shattering it. He then reeled back his fist once more however Izuku interrupted him, having enough he lept into the air and formed a massive fist that would've smacked All Might into the ground if not for the hero catching it at the last second before throwing him directly at Bakugo causing them both to smash into a nearby building

"You almost got me there Notan, but you heroes will have to do better then that!" The number one hero boomed

'Enomoto' pinned Bakugo against a wall, holding him by the neck with 'Darkness Incarnate'. "You will shut the fuck up! Or else I will tear you apart and show your precious All Might your shrunken, wrinkled heart"

"He at least makes some fucking sense that's why!" Bakugo retorted, growling as Tomura grinned like a madman at his anger, his four fingers still wrapped firmly around Bakugo's neck. He would unleash an explosion at him right now and rescue Tsu from that maniac if not for Tomura's promise to attack others.

"You're an insane villain!" Tsu growled as Corpse grinned his demonic smile, holding Uraraka by the neck. He was lucky he'd caught them in the alleyway of the mall and no one had bothered to go down there.

"And yet you're dating a villain as well!" He retorted, chuckling slightly before his voice became more serious "So how come you all get to act all high and mighty while the rest of us dwell in the dark?"

"You can see him too?" Bakugo asked, his eyes wide

"That doesn't mean it is him!" Tsu quickly replied, seeing where Bakugo was going with this "It could be anyone!" However the person seemed to hear her and turned around.

It was him.

"Come on kid! Show me some blood!" Muscular bellowed as he brought his fist down on Bakugo

"Enomoto, what are you doing?" Aizawa asked

Izuku then activated his demonic grin and eyes as Enomoto's face slowly morphed into Corpse's "Just toying with ya" he retorted as everyone made horrified gasps.

"This training camp was supposed to be fun!" Ashido shouted "Who are you guys to decide who gets to enjoy their life and who doesn't!"

"What do you want with me?"

Tomura grinned "Nothing, and that's the beauty of it all,

All Might delivered a destructive punch directly at Muscular, bellowing "DETROIT SMASH!" sending the villain flying backwards

Tomura took a step closer "The heroes will all be worrying their heads of about you, doing everything in their power to find you and we're not even doing a thing…" he cackled

Bakugo charged directly at Corpse, explosion prepared, however the villain couldn't keep his face from melting to his true form, he was out of energy.

"And the best part is…

All Might reeled back his fist as he flew towards his worst nightmare, "YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH ME ANYMORE!"

All for One chuckled, clearly not afraid "I wouldn't bet on that" he retorted as his arm expanded into his ultimate quirk combination, breaking the sleeve of his suit as he caught All Might's fist.

"We'll win no matter what"

Woohoo! That's it, hopefully that makes up for no chapter this two weeks. I know it sounds stupid but that definitely helped me so I might do more of these in the future if I run out of time or get stuck on something but let me know what you think. The song should've ended at about 2:10 for anyone wondering, but I also thought I'd do one more scene.

"We're not dating we're friends" Izuku corrected, showing Toga a tired look to which she just smiled more

"Oh come on Izu~," She teased "don't you wanna bathe in blood with little old me"

"Depends on whose blood it is-" Izuku replied, not even thinking before realising what he'd said and pinched the bridge of his nose "Not the point" He said, causing both Tomura and Toga to laugh.

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree

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Hello! It's been months and I'm fairly sure no one gives a shit that this fic hasn't updated and I think that's completely fair because in my opinion this fic is very poorly written, both with the rules of MHA and just in general, therefore I will be rewriting this fic to make it better, so look out for that anyone who cares!

See ya real soon - The Lost Tree