The Future Quirk: BakuDeku Week

Chapter 5

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We both looked at Mr Aizawa, nodding to let him know we were listening. "Yes Sir? How long will our future selves be staying?" I had been wondering this for a while now, hoping they would stay at least the day- I had so many questions to ask older me.

"They'll be staying for around 150 hours, which is almost a week. After that, they'll simply teleport out of this timeline and both of your memories will be wiped, along with anyone else who interacted with them. You'll still know your future selves were here, but you won't remember what they said, so as not to spoil the future for both of you or anyone else."

That makes sense- though this does mean that little boys quirk must have been incredibly powerful to be able to wipe memories and allow people to time travel! I wish I could ask him some questions to add to my notebook.

Kacchan sat forward in his seat, "So that means they'll answer any questions we ask and nothing bad will happen?" Aizawa shrugs and yawns, "Not necessarily, they can answer or refuse any questions they want, however I honestly don't think they'll hold back." Kacchan nods in response and relaxes back in his chair.

I stand up from the sofa and put my notebook away- I don't know why I stood up, it does nothing for me, not like I'm going to go anywhere. "You were saying about rules Mr Aizawa? What do you mean by that? What kind of rules and why?"

Aizawa shook his head so as to wake himself up more before continuing in his groggy voice, slurring some of the words. "Okay, so basically, your future counterparts will be staying in your rooms, with you. You can choose where they sleep and anything else like that. If they go outside, they should be disguised in some way, it just makes things easier for everybody- oh and don't push them to answer anything."

"Yes Sensei!" I reply, eager to ask my older self some questions about the future- though I probably shouldn't write anything down since it could jeopardise the memory thing and then I could ruin the future for myself- 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠.

I make my way to Kacchan and stand by his chair, "You coming Kacchan? We can go show the other us' our dorms!" Kacchan scoffs at me, "dumbass, they were us at some point remember? I'm sure they remember their own way back to the 1a dorms, and their rooms." I take a step back, "it's still nice to walk them there instead of being rude and expecting them to just show up-" "Just do what you want, Deku, and let me do what I want."

I nod reluctantly and step out of the room and back into Nezu's office where I see future me and Kacchan on the chairs. I watch as future me looks up and, with recognition, stands up then waits for me to lead the way. I begin to walk off, holding the door open for him to go through first, which he does, then close I the door behind me.

As we walk down the hall in the direction of the stairs, I think about what to ask him first. Should I start asking questions now or just walk with him? It might be nice for him to have an easy, quiet walk to his old dorm room without Kacchan- or me for that matter- being annoying and/or asking questions left, right and centre. I look up at him once again as we start descending the stair cases to the ground floor.

"You can ask me questions now if you want." I hear him say from next to me. I look at him in the eye this time, I recognised the expression, just a happy Izuku with a smile and joyful emerald eyes. His distinct four freckles closer to his eyes due to his cheeks being elevated by the smile. The only thing I wasn't used to was the half-shaved head and surgery scars- 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒.

"Really? You wouldn't mind? I have a lot- as you probably already know- cause you're me and I know myse-" I freeze as I hear myself start to mutter and slowly head into a rant of questions and comments. "Sorry." Older me laughed, "No need to be sorry mini me, i've been you, remember? I understand, it's a force of habit isn't it?" I nod in acknowledgement before we walk in silence again.

When we left the main building and started to head to the dorm building, strolling along the grass at an easy pace, I got curious. "So... what's the future like? Is it better than it is now?" Older me seemed to contemplate this for a second before answering. "Depends which part of 'The Future' we're talking here. Do you mean relationships? Family? Friends? Living? Heroing? Job-ing? Just day-to-day life?"

I nod, understand there's more specification needed for the question. "Let's go with family, how's Mum?" Older me nodded, "She's great, I'd say she got better, she's much healthier now and doesn't have to deal with as much stress. I don't live with her anymore but now she lives with Aunt and Uncle (Kacchan's parents) since she wanted company. It really helped with her mental health."

I smile, I'm glad Mum got better, she's currently 42, meaning in future me's timeline, she's 57. Mum started overeating because of her guilt with my lack of a quirk. Her mental health got bad too, she almost didn't let me come back to UA after the Kamino incident a couple weeks ago. I wonder when she started living with Aunt and Uncle, if company helps then I'm really glad she managed to get some, and I'm sure Aunt and Uncle don't mind sharing a house with her. 𝐻𝑢ℎ, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼'𝑚 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑢𝑚.

"That's good! That kind of makes me feel guilty for accepting the dorms though-" Older me seemed to realise something. "That reminds me, what's the date? No one has told me yet and I'd like to get a date on what part of my life you're currently living." 𝑂ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑎, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛? "Sure thing! It's currently the 2nd of September, I'm in my first year. The dorms have just been introduced and the Provisional license Exam starts on the 10th in about a week. So you'll be gone before that starts."

Future me nods, "So Kacchan has been kidnapped, saved, All Might lost One For All- basically, and you just managed to convince Mum to let you stay at UA?" I nod to show he has it all correct. "Yup, that's where we are, you remember the date so clearly?"

I notice older me looking ahead, we close in on the dorms as he sighs and shakes his shoulders. He doesn't look me in the eyes. "Kamino was a big thing I doubt I'll ever forget, it's not as big as other events I experience after that but still... it felt like such a big thing at the time... I could never forget."

He scrunched up his face then shook his head as if to help himself think clearly again. "Another weird thing, was that the week after summer break and before the exam- my mind was a blank, I couldn't remember for the life of me what had happened that week. I guess I know what happened now. I met future me, in your position right now, it only took me fifteen years to fill that gap of my memory..."

I looked up at him then back forwards. Huh, so I'll forget what happens during this week? Interesting- I mean I already knew I'd forget but I'm only really coming to terms with it now that I'm hearing my older self say it... I won't know anything that happens during this week until fifteen years in the future when I'm 30 years old.

Authors note:

Thanks for reading the chapter, I greatly appreciate it! Still thinking of names for the chapters instead of just the boring "Chapter X."

-Monday
-29th July
-03:18
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