The Honored Hero: Deku!

Gifted A Curse

"L-Leave her alone!" Spoke a young boy, face filled with a mix of fear and conviction.

"Or what Deku?! You'll stop me like you're some kind of hero?! Give me a break!" The ash-blonde child stared down at his trembling classmate, ruby red eyes meeting a shimmering sky blue.

"I-If that's w-what I have to do!" The smaller boy took a look behind him, taking note of the frightened look on the purple-haired girl's face, and steeled himself.

His first act of heroism started today.

"You'll remember your place Deku!" The ash-blonde tike screamed, igniting his palms and propelling himself toward the smaller boy. The greenette dove toward his right, narrowly avoiding the blow as the white tips of his hair lightly singed. Growling, the taller boy pivoted and threw a sloppy right hook that tagged Izuku in the jaw, sending him sprawling to the ground.

"DIE!" Katsuki attempted to mount the boy who responded by rolling onto his back and bucking his hips out, slamming his legs into the taller boy's chest. Scampering up, Izuku spat out a glob of blood before narrowing his eyes.

"Focus!" The smaller boy commanded himself, staring at his adversary for a few moments before the familiar dark blue hue enveloped Katsuki.

"USING THAT SHITTY QUIRK OF YOURS AREN'T YOU DEKU?!" The blonde growled before rushing in once more. The larger boy threw an explosive left hook that Izuku narrowly leaned to avoid. Using the momentum from his own dodge, Izuku snapped his right leg out, kicking Katsuki in the stomach. The blonde doubled over, painfully clutching his stomach as he desperately attempted to withhold today's lunch.

"I'm....going...TO KILL YOU!" The blonde lashed out with a left that Izuku moved to avoid.

"I GOT YOU!" The blonde growled, using an explosion to propel his right hand into Izuku's jaw. The greenette saw the fist heading towards him as though it had been captured by a high-quality camera and moved his left arm to block it as he'd seen All Might do a million times. Dropping his hips, Izuku sent his right fist barreling into the larger boy's sternum with everything he had, sending the boy sprawling to the ground, wheezing.

"You can see what now Izu?" Inko looked at her son as he eagerly bounced around the house.

"I can see the flow of energy whenever you use your quirk!" The small boy motioned to a syrup bottle on the dining table, silently instructing his mom to activate her quirk. Inko complied and slowly attracted the condiment toward her open palm.

"So what do you see Izu?" The green-eyed woman asked her son, a hint of excitement to her tone. Izuku's sky-blue eyes shimmered as his snow-white lashes fluttered with every blink.

"It's like you're covered in green stuff and when you pull the syrup to you that green stuff reaches out!" The greenette explained, eyes following the trail of energy only he could see.

"Is that all you can see?" His mother asked, releasing her quirk and setting the syrup bottle on the counter beside her.

"Kinda; if I concentrate super hard I can see really far away! And I can even see with my eyes closed but that makes my head hurt" Izuku gushed as he gave the overview of his quirk to his mother.

"That's quite the quirk Izu! I'm confident you'll use it to be a great hero!" Inko gave her son a genuine smile before scooping him up and wrapping him in a bear hug.

That was the only time someone had believed in his quirk.

Izuku jerked up, baby-blue eyes fluttering open and shut as he attempted to wipe the sleep out of his eyes.

"Pretty ironic that I'd dream about that right before committing to UA," The greenette thought to himself with a dry chuckle. Focusing his vision, Izuku stared out the window, watching people several kilometers away engage in their day-to-day activities.