Making History

Chapter 1

Two months after Izuku is announced quirkless they move. Well, technically he was diagnosed, but everytime he was told he was 'diagnosed quirkless' he feels as if he was told he was sick.

And he wasn't sick! He was just quirkless! He may not have had what 98% of the population had, but he wasn't sick.

So... no. Izuku wasn't diagnosed quirkless- he was just announced quirkless. There's a difference, he swears.

He swears that when he comforts his mom after his dad yells and throws a broken bottle at the wall next to her. He swears that he isn't sick when kids run from him on the playground and refuse to play with him- calling him crude names that should never escape the mouths of children so young. He swears that he hasn't changed (and maybe that's the problem, that he hasn't changed by growing an extra limb, or gaining an extra limb) when his teachers glare at him when he cries, but look away when the other kids bully him.

He swears it was just an announcement and not a diagnosis to himself when he sees his mom bent over the table a month and a half after he was announced quirkless (two weeks after his dad had left one loud, angry night and hadn't come back), and crying over too high bills.

His mom finally vocally agrees with him after they hop into their small car with their belongings already in a cheap storage center, and begin to the next city of Hasetsu.

The move had been for two reasons. One, the apartment was getting too expensive to keep on a nurse's salary, and Izuku's dad wasn't doing anything to help- in fact neither Inko nor Izuku had heard from him since he had up and left. Two, Inko, busy and stressed as she was, loved her son dearly. She noticed the little spark that had kept him moving and talking and alive was dying out, and put two and two together after a single call to the principal's office.

Inko already regrets not leaving immediately after she saw her bastard of a soon-to-be ex-husband hit Izuku, she was not going to let that elementary school hurt her son anymore.

They drive five hours to a small hot springs resort named Yu-Topia. Inko's old dance friend Minako had ensured a room there for her until she got back on her feet. Hasetsu had a high elderly population, Minako had informed, and as such there was less quirkless discrimination than where they had previously been.

Inko hopes it's enough for Izuku to feel safe again. She hopes it's enough for her to feel safe again.

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Izuku watches from the backseat of his mom's car as a woman that the four year old vaguely recognizes from pictures talks to his mom right in front of the car. The two are close together, and the other woman's hand hasn't left his mom's shoulder since they stopped hugging.

Izuku clutches his All-Might plush closer to his chest as he sees their eyes flicker in his direction before quickly looking away again. He looks away from his mom to just outside his window at the hot springs- lit up in bright colors contrasting with the night sky, the sun having set early due to the autumn weather. It's bright, and Izuku has never been to a hot springs resort before. He sees a small toy poodle being watched by a tired looking teenager with glasses, and a slightly older teen girl smoking out of sight from the front windows.

A figure suddenly blocks his view of the hot spring, and he glances up to look at his mom. She's the only adult he's been able to look in the eye since he was announced quirkless. "Izu honey," His mom says softly- that's the only tone she's used with him since he'd stopped verbally responding to her, "I need to go check in. Would you like to come with me, or stay here with Minako-san?"

The thought of being alone with a stranger right now (even if she used to be a friend of his mom, because if his dad could turn on them what's stopping others?) makes his stomach twist and his throat close in slight panic. He twists one of his All-Might plushie's hair strands that stick up, and works to take off his seat belt and grab his backpack. Smiling slightly, his mom locks the car behind them, and holds his hand as they follow the woman--Minako-san--to the front. The older woman has his mom's and his own suitcase, filled with some clothes and toiletries, rolling behind her on the cobblestone.