Midoriya Izuku has been bullied for being quikless in a world where 80% of its population is loitered by superhuman abilities. Unbeknownst to the whole world of the origin of quirks, Izuku awakens what has been the zero point breakthrough of quirks...
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Izuku was conflicted. Like, how is he supposed to break the news to his newfound Rain? He cant just walk up to Iida and say, hey, you're famiglia now, welcome to the mafia. The guy would probably literally drop dead, considering he's too idealistic it hurts.
He didn't plan on making Tenya Iida his Rain, it just happened when he went out of his way to tell the poor, mourning guy to not act on anything such as petty revenge - not that Izuku had any ground to walk on in such issue, so that's pot calling the kettle back. But hey, he didn't want Iida to end up as hollow as he felt at certain times. Yes, getting revenge have its perks: the enjoyment at the chase and the thrill of the hunt and the hit of dopamine once he'd confirmed he'd succeeded at another mission. Its basically what kept Izuku alive all those times, but thinking back on a specific period of time, he felt empty. Because time and time again, the heroes failed him.
He didn't have faith in heroes, nor in the government, which is why he refused that one time offer. He had more leeway being a mafia kid than being the Prime Minister's shadow guard dog, no thankyou.
(Had he known he'd stumble upon the oh so righteous Vongola and become one of them, he would'e accepted that offer. Tsuna and the rest wouldn't be here at UA as students for the Heroic Class if Izuku already had what Reborn wanted that spurred on this plan. Izuku himself wouldn't be here.)
He didn't know the stern Tenya Iida would be his Rain. Had he known, he would have ignored and avoided him like the plague. Curse these Sky instincts. Iida was too much sticking up to his ideals, everything would be harder with him compared to with Shoto, who was a hero's kid and was brought up to be a hero. No, seriously, the only thing that made it easier with Shoto was because he already had lost his faith on heroes, what with the abuse he himself had suffered and had to witness, all from the maestro who called himself a hero.
Iida was different, Izuku can't keep on comparing them. Iida had his ideals, had his own way how to stick with them, and was blindly believing in heroes. His life had been filtered, had been rainbow and sunshines, that's why he never got to see the dark side of the Hero world.
Which is why when his brother completely lost his hero career to Stain, his world tilted its axis.
Heroes tend to fall a lot, and Izuku knew very well how small a detail was needed for one's world to flip into a 180degree, to shake one's world until one passed out of dizziness.
The main difference between the classification heroes and villains wasn't their ideals or their morality, nor was it the methods they used in order to achieve their goals. It was how well they appeared to suppress their virulent cruelty.
Heroes hide their mistakes and cruelty in masks of concern. Of pride, happiness and approchability that vanish the moment the crowd did. Their ire, according to the masses, could only be earned by a truely despicable beast. There was no consideration of the purity of Heroes nowadays, when in all reality, they should be in an even more scrutiny than ever.
Vilains, on the other hand, externalized their carnage in a way that made the violence singing in their soul as clear and as bright as the day. They didn't bother hiding it, unlike their counterparts who pretended they were saints who could do no wrong (ironic, very, very so), that honesty was employed more commonly by the blemishes of society than the shinning examples of virtue.
Appearing as solicitous made heroes into figures that the idealistic civilians could imagine as just like them: human, but strong enough to persevere to use their quirks to save them.
Villains were shunned, their actions stigmatized from not fitting into the perfect version of civilization that was driven by upholding the appearance of rectitude in public.
And it was this set up that was tearing them apart. Heroes would burn their skeletons in secret, civilians would forever remain blind to their own flaws, and villains are too bitter to try to garner their own empathetic listeners.
Rest assured, this system would decay soon enough, along with this rotten world.
The Hero Killer: Stain himself had seen how ugly this world they live in is. He had a similar story. He was a hero student, saw something that changed all of his opinions about heroes. He dropped out and took it upon himself to correct the wrong deeds, becoming a vigilante.
That was when they met, Akaguro as Stendhal and Akatani (Izuku) as Yamikumo.
Stain saw another boy falling victim to his so-called fake heroes in Yamikumo, thus he spiraled even more. Izuku never bothered to correct his assumptions of the symbol of peace during their continued meet ups, though. Let him live in his own world.
Stain walked a rather thorny and bloody path, from hero student vigilante to villain, playing the devils advocate in reforming heroism. Iida took the easy way out and dumbly thought his actions wouldn't have consequences. He blindedly hoped he wouldn't have to pay the price, and Izku knew, hoping is a disaster just waiting to happen.
(Too bad though, that he was about to die when a deus ex machina came in the form of Shoto and Kacchan to buy him some time, for another powerhouse to save all their asses.)
Izuku wanted to scold Iida on the spot, because why, just why, oh why, did he have to act on revenge. He was like hell hath no fury like Tenya Iida on a warpath for his now disabled brother. He was a stuck up, rule-bound asshole so why did he let revenge take over his own ideals. Seems like his ideals weren't as solid as he thought.
Izuku never would have thought of Iida as someone just rearing to go execute something... Unheroic, when the right buttons were pressed. His ideology, revenge, love, all twisted into absolute agony, but then again, love, hatred and revenge were all what makes people move. Izuku wouldn't have liters and liters of blood on his hands if that wasn't true. He had been hopeful, he had been innocent. He had realized hoping was futile. And when an innocent person breaks after all hell broke loose, it was one of the hardest things to fix. He never sought redemption. All he chased was the sweet aftertaste revenge brought with it.
Iida was strict. He had a stick up on his ass it could have been his dear brother's dick shoved all the way with how he practically worshipped the older guy. It was reason enough for Tenya to enact his "perfectly planned revenge", or so he thought. Too bad Stain had more experience than him.
Iida Tenya was just another victim of hero uselessness.
All in all, Iida just lessened Izuku's faith in heroes even more, if that was even possible, since Izuku already reached the rock bottom of the rabbit hole. There was no way out for him, no lights in sight that would help him scramble up in climbing.
He tried to help Iida, just so there'd be one less person like him and Akaguro, but instead had placed a fledgeling bond with him. Iida was raw, so raw that one interaction was worthy enough to place a half-made bond Izuku wasn't even trying to make. Again, curse his Sky instincts.
Izuku knew he had to finish what he'd unconsciously done. He can't be half-assed about things like Harmony and Flame Bonds. So with the aftermath of what they now dub as the Stain Incident, he talked to Iida.
Iida wasn't raw and wide open anymore. He knew the feeling. He was just empty and sore and guilty and mad at himself. And if the gratitude of Izuku and Shoto and Tsuna helping him played its role for a more click-bait Bond to place, one would never know.
Though that gave Izuku and everyone else involved one hell of a headache, because Iida stuck even more to his practices, claiming that the Stain Incident had been an eye opener to him on being more vigilant to his surroundings, and more open to people.
Honestly, Izuku is willing to just keep Iida in the dark.
