Greener Pastures

Heyo. It's been awhile since I've posted one of these One-shots. But after this, I will be getting back into my groove of writing continuously. Unfortunately this one has been taking up a majority of my focus and my other books haven't been getting as much love as they should. Not only that, but I'm way past the deadline that I planned on having this out by. But I promise that other books will finally be seeing some things soon. It's just gonna be a while.

This is something that I've been putting over 1 year of dedication into for you guys. I will explain at the bottom.

This One-shot is featuring the Boku no Hero Academia world with Izuku Midoriya as the main character. Side characters are Toshinori Yagi, Camie Utsushimi, Katsuki Bakugou, and Ejiro Kirishima. Character mentions will be Tsuyu Asui, Mina Ashido, Toru Hagakure, Momo Yaoyorozu Seiji Shishikura, Mora Nagamasa, and Inasa Yoarashi. Plot will be revealed within the story. Camie and the rest of the second years that were shown in the show/manga are the same age as Izuku, and the two went to the same high school together.

Izuku will not have received One For All on the day of the U.A entrance exam, but instead at a much later date.

For the sake of the story, I'm going to place Shiketsu in the Tokushima Prefecture in Western Japan. There'll be relevance to the story later.

No song fic or OCs. Just canon characters. Songs from the show will be included.

With that, let's start.

Izuku Midoriya didn't really have it easy growing up. In a world where everyone but roughly 20% of the population had a super power, or Quirk-and in his generation where only 2% of that aforementioned twenty were powerless-he found out pretty easily that not all men were created equal. He was one of the powerless ones, a Quirkless, one could say.

Most of the quirkless don't ever make it to their twenties, either being ruthlessly murdered in the streets with the police not giving a damn, or just commit suicide from all the trauma controlling them over people treating them differently than normal human beings. Maybe when Quirks first appeared, they were the normal ones; but after so many years and generations taking over, anyone that didn't have something unique labelled them as a freak.

It was truly terrible how society changed for the worse. It was bad enough with some people just having a quirk that labelled them as 'villainy material', but Quirk Discrimination is a terrible, yet real thing. Racist? Nah, that word was eventually replaced with Quirkist, but no one ever really got in trouble for it if it was directed towards a quirkless.

Anyways, he's been dealt probably the worse hand of the Quirkless, as soon as he found out he didn't have a power of his own, he lost everyone that once called him a friend. Those he wasn't really close with didn't really care, and just abandoned him. He wasn't really upset by that. However, the betrayal of his best friend hit him differently than anyone else.

As soon as the Explosion Quirk user found out that Izuku was Quirkless, he turned on him. People who followed him for his power did the same. He did a multitude of things to the young boy. Using his quirk illegally on him, beating the snot out of him everyday, and one that will forever stay with him.

Written in Kanji, a different way of writing his first name, it was read as "Deku". Katsuki took advantage of this, and said that it stood for "Defenseless Izuku". This continued on for the next ten years, each time worse than the last.

An old man noticed all of the things that were happening to the boy at such a young age, and decided that before he willingly left for the afterlife, he would teach the kid how to defend himself with various martial arts, weaponized combat, and even how to use numerous firearms; the latter being done on private grounds as to not get into legal trouble with any authorities because guns were banned in Japan. He named his teachings the Westward Wind Dragon Style. For the moves flowed so smoothly like the westward wind, yet just as ferocious and powerful as a dragon. The most valuable technique that he taught to the boy were his famous "Cut-Ins", the fighter would take turns at extremely sharp angles, which for the normal human body, could permanently damage the ankles of the fighter. But Izuku trained his entire body, and was able to master these steps until his stamina would run dry without injury.