Erased Individuality

A New Hope

"How about this?"

"No."

"How about this then?"

"Nope."

"How about-"

"Ochako-san I'm not going to remember every single hallway in UA y'know?"

Following their earlier revelation, Uraraka Ochako decided to drag Izuku to every corner and crevice of the campus. Retracing their steps from that very first day at UA.

"But you actually remembered something! There has to be something, anything here that could help you remember!"

Izuku could sense the desperation in her voice, while he couldn't exactly sympathise with his lack of memory he could empathise.

Since barely any time had passed since Izuku lost his memories, both of them hadn't fully accepted what had happened.

She was enticed by the prospect hanging in front of her like bait.

She was given a glimmer of hope that the real Midoriya Izuku would be able return.

The anxiety in the air was palpable, Ochako was uncertain that if the original Midoriya Izuku would return or not.

It wasn't as if Izuku didn't want his memories back, but he had just been discharged from the hospital. He just barely got a grasp on his situation, he was in no position to start to fix a leak when he didn't even have the supplies necessary.

"How about we go to somewhere else? You know anyplace significant to Midoriya Izuku? Like a club? Favourite hangout? Or how about where we had our first date?"

"EH!" Ochako went full crimson.

"Eto..." The blushing mess fiddled with her fingers. "Oh wait! What am I doing? We should just go see Eri! You'd definitely remember her!"

Ochako dragged Izuku away from the hallway, toward the dorms.

But halfway through he suddenly stopped.

"Eh? Deku-kun?"

Izuku was staring straight at one of UA's several training grounds, an urban city with wide roads.

"Ochako-san... could we make a quick stop?"

"Do you remember something?"

"...I'm not sure yet......"

Izuku started to run toward the grounds.

"But for some reason that place makes me feel uncomfortable."

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It seemed like a normal urban city, but it was completely vacant.

A complete ghost town built within the UA campus, created to simulate urban operations for UA's hero course.

But it had another purpose as well...

This was one of the sites UA held their notoriously difficult entrance exam in.

Even if Midoriya Izuku had forgotten, Uraraka Ochako would not.

That day would be forever etched into the recesses of her mind.

She had gotten up early to take the bullet train to Mustafu from Mie, her nerves firing off like a supernova in her heart.

She was counting on this exam to make it into heroism.

She was counting on herself to help her parents.

They had been generous enough to let her pursue her dream, instead of burdening her with the family's finances.

Even when she insisted she could help out their construction business with her Zero Gravity quirk, they had insisted that they help her achieve her dream by signing her up for martial arts classes in high school.