The One

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"Are you willing to help us save İzuku?"

Daigorou's question was suspended in the air between them, neither daring to utter a word. Ochako gazed at the boy in front of her.

He stood at the beach, but didn't feel the wind licking his cheeks and caressing his hair.

He couldn't smell the ocean's refreshing scent, even when it reached his nose.

He ate but couldn't taste the delicious food his mother cooked for him.

His heart beat and his lungs filled with oxygen but he couldn't  live.

He just slept, as these ghosts somehow lived through his body and experienced what he couldn't.

"Yes, I will do what I can to wake him up!"

"That's the spirit! we must tell you everything from the start, then."

Daigoro said and flopped down on the sand, patting the spot near him. Ochako sat down as well, hugging her legs against her chest. Then to her suprise, the boy man laid down,his head hitting the sand with a thud and his eyes were closed.She drew close to him and gently shaked his arm, to make sure the man was sleeping instead of dying for the second time.

"Uh, Daigorou-san? A-are you okay?"

Then suddenly the boy (?) jolted awake, green eyes filled with rage as he shouted;

"Fifth, if you pull this stunt one more time I swear to God-"

"İzuku-kun, is that you?"

"Oh, Uraraka-san! I apologise for my outburst! Sadly, I'm not İzuku. My name is Yoichi, nice to meet you."

He said and offered his hand to Ochako, which she shook gladly.

He is so polite! Wait, why did he shout at 'Fifth', who is that?

"Yoichi-san, who is Fifth? You seemed...angry at him."

"Ah, it's just Daigorou, don't worry! I was angry at him because he messed up our schedule again!"

"Your schedule?"

"Whenever we sleep, we have to switch.

I'm supposed to take hold tomorrow but whenever he feels 'bothered' he .. does this. "

"Am I a bother?"

"No, of course not! I guess he just got lazy and threw the explanation to me. He always claims I love monologuing so..Which is far from the truth, really!"

"Hmm, I think I understand! So will you tell me everything, then?"

Yoichi nodded and cleared his throat. Ochako sighed in anticipation, her eyes focused on the boy before her.

"Let's start from beginning., we, except Izuku, are all the past holders of an ancient quirk called One For All. I held it first and passed it on, and it traveled through eight people in total."

"A passable quirk? But what does that have to do with-"

"Please let me finish first, Uraraka-san. One for All is the result of a combination between a quirk that can pass other quirks on, which is my original quirk, and a stockpiling one. Turns out the stockpiling quirk stored not just physical power, but our consciousnesses as well. "

"Physical power? Like All Might?"

"Yes, because All Might is the eighth and current holder of One For All. Recently, our vestiges started to form inside One for All, which granted us the ability to observe the outside world through Eighth's eyes. That is how we first saw Ni- I mean Izuku."

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