Rejects (Assassination Classroom x BNHA)

Chapter 1

Midoriya Izumi had always been an outcast to society ever since she was diagnosed as quirkless by a doctor at the young age of four. 

At first, she hadn't seen the problem with being quirkless. While Izumi found quirks absolutely fascinating and was admittedly a bit disappointed at not having one of her own to analyze, it's not as though quirks were everything, especially in Japan where one couldn't use their quirk publicly unless they have a license or are a pro hero. Besides, Izumi knew that there were plenty of heroes out there with noncombatant quirks, so she wasn't worried about whether or not she'd be able to become a hero. She would just have to work hard is all.

And working hard had always been the plan in the first place. 

It wasn't until she arrived home, and her mother told her father about her quirklessness that she realized things were going to be a bit more difficult than expected.

Her family and life had been a happy one. She had friends, goals, and parents that loved her more than anything. At least, that's what she had thought. That fragile thought broke the second she saw the normally gentle expression on her father's face contort into one of rage. She still remembered the ensuing fight between her parents like it was yesterday. 

It was like they didn't even take notice of her as she huddled in the corner, tears filling her eyes as she watched them argue and begin to throw objects at each other. It only escalated from there. 

To this day, she still wasn't sure how exactly it got to such a point, but one moment she was huddled in a corner, the next, she was screaming and writhing in pain as flames began to engulf her back and lower neck along with part of her left arm. 

The next few days went on similarly until one day her father just up and vanished. Her mother tried to tell her that he had just moved to America for a work opportunity, but she knew better. She could hear the tenseness in the woman's voice and see the growing disgust in her eyes, and that disgust only grew throughout the years. Soon enough, that disgust grew so large that Midoriya Inko could barely stand to look at her daughter, much less be in the same room as her. 

And so, this ended up leading to the woman taking more and more hours at work and spending as much time outside of their shabby apartment as possible. Meanwhile, Izumi, who was all by her lonesome, was forced to begin waking herself up for school, learn to cook her own food, clean the house, and far too many other things that she shouldn't have been forced to teach herself at only four. Eventually, she had to begin picking up little jobs around the neighborhood to earn money for groceries when her mother stopped buying food for the apartment. (Even those little jobs were hard to come by once those in the neighborhood found out about her quirklessness.)

It was okay, though. Izumi didn't mind the work. She tried to think of it as preparation for the future when she would be an adult and therefore truly on her own. Besides, her home life was nowhere near as horrible as her school life. School, for lack of better words, had become literal hell. 

Teachers who had once praised her intellect that was leaps and bounds above the rest of her peers now looked down at her with sneers on their faces. Every year, they would purposely lower her grades to the lowest passing grade possible so that they would be just good enough to move her on to the next grade but still way too low to show her actual abilities. To the teachers, she could barely even be considered a human, so what was the harm? They had already made up their minds that she would never make it anywhere in this world. 

If the teachers were horrible, then the students, Izumi's classmates, had to have been ten times worse. 

All of her friends had turned on her the moment the word 'quirkless' had come out of her mouth. Even Kacchan, whose real name was Bakugo Katsuki, had turned on her despite having been friends with her since they were infants. At first, her peers had only lightly teased and made fun of her, but upon seeing and hearing the encouragement that they were receiving from the adults, they continuously stepped up their antics year by year as they tested to see just how much they could get away with.