My Love, Mine All Mine- Izuku Midoriya X Reader

2- I Hate Quirks

Summary: Shoto explains his distaste for quirks and his sadness for his sister.

~Shoto Todoroki~

The recommendation exam went by quickly and easily for Shoto. He had gotten second place behind a guy who declined the U.A. invite anyways.

Why the hell did that guy even go to the exam in the first place? To show off that he could beat us anyways? To show off his quirk?

God, he hated when people did that.

Showing off your quirk is like a smack to the face of those who are weak or even quirkless. Now, Shoto didn't know anyone who was either of those things. His whole family all inherited quite the strong quirks. Maybe not Fuyumi, but she didn't even want to go to hero school, anyway. That's besides the point, though. Shoto knew that many people envied his father and his power. He was the number two hero, of course he was strong. But sometimes it felt like he was just showing off to become flashier than All Might.

Shoto wished he had never gotten his quirk and oftentimes wished that he was never born. It was sad, yes. But was it true? Y/n always reassured him that it wasn't, that it was just the exhaustion from training talking.

But he didn't think so. He thought that if he was never born, he wouldn't have to go through this rigorous training only to try and achieve something that was so far out of reach it was only dreamable.

But, he thought again. If he were never born, who would the training fall onto? Would his father continue to abuse his mother, harder and more often if he weren't born? Would his father give up and train Y/n in the way he trained him?

If you asked him, Y/n was his favorite sibling. Was it because they were twins? Probably. But a lot of twins hated each other, so that was inconclusive. It was because she listened. She listened to what he said, held on tightly to every word and processed them, imputing her own thoughts here and there. But she let him speak. Vent. It was such a nice change of pace and Shoto wished he had gone up there sooner.

He didn't want any more members of his family to suffer.

So, he dealt with it.

At times he felt bad for his sister. He guessed that as much as he didn't want any of his father's attention anymore, that Y/n felt the exact opposite.

Why would anyone want to be neglected?

Shoto wanted so badly to be neglected at this point. He was a teenager, for fuck's sake.

Why did all of this shitty training have only EVERYTHING to do with his quirk?

If you gave Shoto a notebook and pencil and told him to write his feelings on quirks, he would fill the notebook with words of distaste and hate for them.

He wished that they never even popped up.

This is what Shoto thought,

Do you have a strong quirk? Good for you. Want a cookie? You have a weak quirk? Cool, I guess. At least you don't have to stand in the blinding spotlight like those other freaks. You were quirkless? Congratulations, you are the luckiest person in the world! Not only are you not in the spotlight but you're barely recognized at all! Introvert 2.0! (NOT sarcasm.)

What the hero society thought was way different.

If you have a strong, flashy quirk, you'll be recognized and receive awards and climb your way up the hero/ popularity ranks!

If you have a weak quirk, then you can just be a sidekick or work at a lower-grade agency as an apprentice.

Quirkless? A bunch of nobody's who managed to slip past their parents' quirk genes and are completely ignored and bullied their whole life.

Shoto remembers Y/n saying that she met a quirkless boy once.

She described him as...what was it again? Broccoli? Cabbage?

She said she wished she was him. That she had been the one born quirkless.

Maybe father would've put her out of her misery and never talked to her in the first place.

Shoto can hear her crying in her room at night to herself.

He wants to comfort her, he really does. But he knows he can't.

He loves his sister to pieces but he knows he doesn't know what to say or do to comfort her.

He also knows that it's not his place to comfort her when he knows full well that she wants the kind of attention Shoto gets from her father.

To be recognized.

Shoto sent her off with the biggest smile he could muster (which wasn't very big) as she made her way to the U.A. entrance exam to get into the hero course.

He knew she would come home and tell him all about how she passed it with flying colors.

He'd be home and waiting for her on the roof with two bowls of cold soba and the moon.

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