A fresh start

Chapter 2: A new norm

Pov Izuku

My eyes opened wide as I was woken from my slumber to the loud banging on my door with my mother telling me to get out and go to school. While getting dressed I noticed the purple bruise on my stomach right where my father had kicked me. The realization of what happened yesterday wasn't a dream I thought.

I'm quirkless

My parents hit me

Do they hate me?

How can I make them like me?

What's going to be my future?

Will this continue?

I thought to myself as I walked towards the kitchen. My stomach ached and I wasn't sure if it was from the pain or the hunger so I opened the fridge, only for my mom to say

Inko: Honey I made you some food over here come eat.

Me: Really? Thank you!

I knew she would go back to being my loving mom. I knew yesterday was a fluke. This is who she is my loving caring mom. When I got to the table I sat down in my seat like I normally would but nothing was there. I turned to her confused, then she started laughing.

Inko: oh my god I had you for a second you thought you mattered. No, you don't you useless brat you eat on the floor like the fucking animal you are.

She proceeded to grab me by the face throwing me to the floor and kicking the plate in my direction. Hunger giving in, I ate the food on the floor as she laughed at me. Occasionally she got bored and threw small objects from around the house with her quirk at me. When I was done eating she told me to clean it up and get to school.

After cleaning I started walking to school when I saw Kacchan. I was super excited to see him so I immediately ran up to him forgetting the last time I saw him was before I got my quirk diagnosis not knowing he would ask me about it.

Me: Kacchan wait up

Katsuki: oh Izuku what's up how did it go yesterday?

Me: yesterday?

Katsuki: yeah what quirk did you get?

Me: I-I-I'm q-q-quirkless

Katsuki: YOUR WHAT

Me: I'm quirkless

Katsuki: Great now how are we both gonna be heroes

Me: I can still be a hero without a quirk

Katsuki: no you can't god you're such a Deku now

I'm a Deku did he just call me useless

First my parents, now him

No not Kacchan

We are gonna be heroes together

I looked at him and he just turned away calling me a deku and speeding up. By the time I got to school, Kacchan had already told everyone that I was quirkless. All of my friends turned away from me and refused to talk to me. Even the teacher looked at me with disgust. During lunch, Kacchan walked up to me and I got excited only for him and his friends to shove me around calling me names like useless, worthless, deku, quirkless, loser, animal. Eventually, they all got bored or hungry, not sure which, but they walked away. At this point, I was dirty, hurt, and hungry. I stumbled towards the cafeteria but when I got there the lunch lady refused to put anything on my tray.

Lunch lady: quirkless freaks don't get to eat our food, bring some from home if you're hungry.

Kacchan and his friends started to snicker and pointed at me. I walked away empty-handed and I sat down watching everyone else enjoy lunch. As the day came to an end I was leaving class when I was shoved. I fell to the ground scraping both my knees. I didn't even know the girl that shoved me. She just kept walking like nothing happened. I felt the blood on my skin so I walked to the nurse's office hoping for some bandages but it went about as well as getting lunch so I just started walking home.

When I got home I saw both my mother and father eating dinner. It looked so delicious, my mouth was watering. They were having katsudon, my favorite. I looked for a bowl on the floor but couldn't find anything.

Me: I-I-Is there a b-b-bowl for me?

Inko: Animals only get fed twice a day and I know you're eating lunch at school you cheating brat.

Me: I'm not they won't even feed me

My father stood up from the table walked over towards me and grabbed me by the throat.

Hisashi: What did I tell you about talking, and now you're trying to talk back calling your mother a liar. I will show you what happens when you disrespect us.

He took me into our playroom for when I have friends over. I was thrown to the wall, my shoulder taking the brunt of the force. Fire shot from his mouth as he told me to take off my shirt. I did as he said not wanting things to get worse. He proceeded to take off his belt and beat me with it, my back and torso were riddled with bloody marks. I cried from the pain biting my shirt to try and not make noise. When my dad left I could barely move. I went to get up, but then he came back into the room and threw something at me. I instinctively tried to dodge but my body was in too much pain to do so. Luckily what hit me was quite soft, it was bandages.

Hisashi: clean yourself up. If we find out you talked to the school or neighbors know. You are dead

Me: *nod*

I went to bed that night bloody and hungry. Things proceeded like that from then on. I would get beaten up by Kacchan and his friends, then punished for being late to school. When I would get home more punishments for something I did wrong. Eventually, after a few months, things became normal. Of course, Kacchan was still hurting me but he was nothing compared to my mom and dad so I could handle the pain. I practically stopped talking unless I was called on in class but even then I got in trouble for speaking rudely somehow. This was now my life.

*********Author Notes*********

I still have no clue what I am doing but hey this was at least fun to write I think I enjoyed it not sure. I had a few notes written down for this chapter which helped. I say that like my notes weren't just Deku being abused at home. I didn't think of how to start this story too much when I made a bullet-point timeline of how I wanted it to go. I just put down some points key ideas I wanted and thought fuck future me I can deal with all this vague shit later.

I had to pretty much make up these chapters on the spot but I mean hey that's what most people do when writing right. I don't know. Oh yeah on the length of the chapters I'm honestly not trying to hit a word length I'm going until I feel I'm at a good or good enough resting point. I'm not sure if I will leave you all with any cliffhangers yet or not. I love/hate them myself so who knows? If I can find a good one I might because fuck it. I was also wondering if I should keep these author notes somewhat edited to check for spelling and grammar errors would you prefer I do that as I do with the story? Or would you like to see how fucked my shit is? Well until next time I guess.

Stats because yeah

Words roughly: 1049

Time writing: 3hr

Date Written: 10/02/23