The Future Quirk: BakuDeku Week

Chapter 7

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We head to the second floor and step out of the lift, going straight to the 3rd door. I get a little nervous since I'm used to people being weirded out by all the All Might merch.

"Go on. I don't have a key." Older me chuckled, awaiting me to go in. "Uhm.. Don't mind all th-" "The All Might merch? I 𝘢𝘮 you, remember? I've seen the room." 𝑂ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑎, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠- ℎ𝑢ℎ.

I fish out my key and unlock the door, allowing future me to go in first. Around the whole room was my All Might merch. Even now, after he's retired, I can still admire him can't I?

Older me doesn't bat an eye and simply sits on my bed, smiling at me. "So, I'm guessing you have a lot of questions huh? Let's get them out of the way and then maybe we can meet up with the Kacchan's and do something! Or go see your classmates."

"Oh uhm- sure thing! I do have a lot of questions... Yea..." I look down, scratching my neck before sitting at my desk and turning my chair to face the bed. "So first question: How'd you get the scar?"

"Oh, this is a surgery scar. The doctors had to open my head or something so they cut the hair off too, now hair can't grow back in the places the scars are." My eyes widen,l and my hands fiddle with themselves. I'm not used to not writing answers down to my questions.

"Why did I need surgery?" He thought for a moment, "well to put it shortly. War." His short answer made me think maybe he didn't want to talk about it, it's understandable. I decide not to press.

"Oh yea? War? Did we win?" Older me nods, I was expecting a yes since he's still here, happy and healthy. "Only course we won, Shigaraki and All For One are gone." I nod, smiling. It was reassuring to know we eventually take down the villains.

"What about the rest of my classmates? What do they do in the future?" "Well, we're all heroes, minus Aoyama- he left after the end of first year. Shinso took his place."

𝑊𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡?! "Aoyama left UA?! Why?!" Older me looks to contemplate whether he should share or not. "He's the UA traitor, we caught him and he agreed to help deceive All For One but he believed he wasn't a hero... So he left."

I gape, completely speechless. 𝐴𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑠- 𝒊𝒔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟! "So he was the one who told the League where to go... To kidnap Kacchan?" I don't look up, feeling unbelievably mad.

"Hey hey, calm down, he had no choice. He was quirkless too, his parents got All For On- okay it's annoying saying his full name- I'm calling him Shigaraki because that's his real last name-"

I cut him off, confused. "What no! Then I'll get confused with 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘢 Shigaraki and All For One!" "Ugh fine, he's AFO, okay?" I nod "Works for me."

"Fine, back to Aoyama. His parents sought out AFO who gave him a quirk but in exchange he was like a pawn. Had to do whatever AFO said or he and his family dies." I look down. So that's why he left, he didn't believe he could be a hero anymore.

Older me seemed to read my mind and nodded solemnly. "I understand your anger towards him because of Kacchan but he really had no other choice." I take a deep breath, calm once again, Kacchan is fine now after all.

We sat in silence for a while, I played with the hem of my short while older me was perfectly still. He was looking at my desk and the contents on it: homework, notebooks, pens and pencils, random prices of paper and gifts from other people. Everything scattered, like my brain.

"You know Izuku," older me looked up and smiled down at me, "You are one extraordinary person, quirk or quirkless. You're a true hero, you know that? And some day the world with know it too."

𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒! "Err- i- thanks! Thanks for- uhm... Yea." I blush and look down. That was embarrassing, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑? 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤!

He ruffles my hair which makes me freeze, I wasn't expecting that. "I used to be so positive and optimistic, huh?" I raise an eyebrow. 𝑼𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒? 𝐴𝑚 𝐼 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. "Uhm sure, yea I'm quite optimistic, anything can happen if you believe in it enough."

He seemed to think about that, sitting back on my pillow with his hands behind his head, legs crossed over and breathing gently. Older me looked so content, so happy, like his life isn't constant in danger in his timeline. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

"Hey uh- me?" He looks back at me, "we could just call each other Izuku ya know, they'll be no confusion. But sure, what's up?" I nod and concentrate on the question now, making sure not to stutter anymore.

"Yea, Izuku, I was wondering; how come Kacchan- 𝘖𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 Kacchan, showed up in his hero costume but you didn't? He smiled and looked away, admiring my Limited Edition Bronze Age All Might Poster like he hasn't seen it in years.

"You notice the tiniest things, Izuku. I was positive you'd ask something about my scar, our friends and family and Shigaraki. If we won, who died, if you could prevent it and learn how to save more people with your awesome quirk."

"Huh? Well you were right about some of it, I did ask about Mum, the scar and my classmates- wait are you saying people died?! Who?!" He chuckled, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒. "Yea yea, I know! Some people did die, like miss Midnight and some other heroes but now is not the time to mourn. Allow me to answer your questions you perceptive bastard."

𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟. Wait miss midnight died?! "But-" I'm cut off, "she died in battle, she was brave, now can I answer your question please? Why am I not in my hero suit?"

I look down, he shrugged miss Midnight off so casually... He must be used to her death then, I'm guessing she died a long time ago in his timeline. Maybe he doesn't want to bring up bad memories.

"Yes, please, answer me." He nods and smiles again, my smile is so cute in the future. "Well there's a long answer and a short answer, the short answer is... I'm not a hero anymore!"

Authors note:

I lost motivation half way through this one but I'm aiming for at least 10 chapters before I give up. If you have any requests on what I should put in with other people then please tell me!

-Friday
-2nd August
-12:26
-1164 words