The Number One "Sidekick" • {My Hero Academia}

prologue

Five years old

I was home alone and sat in my room while sitting on my window sill swinging my legs back and forth.  I was watching the park that was across the street and overheard some yelling from what I assumed were some other kids.  I hopped down from the window sill but not before looking back at my bedroom.  I landed on the ground with a thud and began walking over to the park.

Eventually I reached the area that had the kids that were yelling.  There were 5 boys, one was on the ground behind a green haired boy and 3 other boys standing opposite the two.  The one in front had spiked blonde hair and tanned skin.

"Hey what's going on?  Are you being mean to them?"  I pointed my finger at the blonde boy.

"What if I am?  They're just little bugs."  The blonde had little explosions form in his hand as if he was trying to intimidate me.  "What are you gonna do about it?"  He ran at me and tried to punch me with his little firecrackers, but before he could even reach me I punched him in the face.  The blonde flew back and skidded to a stop in front of the other two boys that were standing in front of me.

"Hey Bakugo, that girl seems kinda strong."

"Yeah we should seriously get out of here."

The one named Bakugo stood up and wiped his cheek and tched before turning around and started walking away.  "Whatever, bugs."

Once they were gone, I turned around to the green haired boy.  "Are you okay," I asked with a smile.

He shyly nodded before mumbling, "I'm sorry about Kacchan."

I cocked my head to the side, "Who's Kacchan?"  But before the boy could answer me, I pieced it together, "Oh do you mean the blonde one?"

He nodded again, "His name is Katsuki Bakugo."

"Oh okay.  My name's Arya."  I smiled kindly at him.

"Hi. I'm Izuku Midoriya."

"How come you didn't use your quirk before?"  I questioned him before thinking about the other possibility.

Izuku froze slightly before quietly responding, "I don't have one."

"That's okay!  I'll be your bodyguard then!" I gave him my biggest smile.  I could tell he wanted to be a hero when he grew up but sadly it was almost impossible without a quirk.  Unless…

10 years later

Since my dad was out running errands, I had decided to go on patrol around the city after school instead of going straight home.  I’m in the beginning of my 2nd year at UA and have my hero license, so I go on patrol fairly often as there is almost always something going on whether it’s small or big.

There were plenty of heroes in this area and I knew this was around where Izuku and Katsuki go to middle school.  I haven’t seen them in two years, but I keep tabs on them of course.  Which is why I’m in the area patrolling to begin with.

I was sitting on top of a building overlooking the city when an explosion went off in the distance.  I stood up and stared in the direction for a second wondering what the hell that could’ve been.  Eventually plumes of black smoke started to rise up in the air and that’s when I took off building hopping.  The closer I got, the more I could see the situation at hand.  Multiple buildings were on fire and the heroes on site don’t seem to be very well equipped for this.

I spotted the villain that seemed to be made of a type of liquid and then I noticed a splotch of ashy blonde hair among the dark green slime.  Don’t tell me--  An explosion goes off and I knew my hot-headed asshole childhood friend got taken hostage by a villain.  As I approached the scene I yelled, “EVERYONE!  OUT OF THE WAY!”  I swooped down off a building to take care of the fires first.  I took the moisture from the air and created enough water to put out all of the fires.  I landed and immediately blasted a stream of water towards every fire effectively putting most of them out.