Water Under a Bridge || BkDk || MHA

(Chapter 6) I must admit...

**Izuku's POV**

The summer had just started a week ago which gave me 2 months to figure out how I would be able to stay in the hero course.

I had a meeting with Mr. Aizawa and Principal Nezu about my quirk and plans for the future.

**flash back**

"Due to your lack of a quirk you may need to withdraw from the hero course" Principal Nezu squeaked out while stirring a cup of tea with his tiny white paws.

My heart dropped, I still wanted to be a hero, but there was never a quirkless pro hero before. It was just something that I had to accept, but this couldn't be it! There had to be another way!?

"Looking at your grades I see you are very bright, so you would do well outside of the hero course!" Nezu sipped his cup, "I hear you have a knack for studying others strengths and weaknesses, perhaps the support course could be of interest to you?"

Support course..? It wouldn't be terrible. I could help heros support their weaknesses, but it wasn't for me.

I thought back to Eri and Kacchan, both people I failed to protect once, by letting Eri go back with Overhaul, and by not being there in time for Kacchan. I had to protect innocent people, not just help other people do it.

"With all due respect Principal Nezu, I think that those classes are great and all, but I'm only interested in being a hero and protecting people!"

Principal Nezu put his cup down on the table, his nose twitching. "Yes, that determination is great and all, but you have to look at the reality, Midoriya." He took his tail in his hand and started petting it "I will never be human no matter if I am determined to be one or not. You may want to consider a police training academy instead if you insist on protecting people."

Mr. Aizawa sat up from his passive position slouched on the couch. "Midoriya is one of my brightest students. I've seen how much he grew and adapted to use a quirk that his body physically couldn't handle. I know we have never had a quirkless pro hero, but this is a new era."

My heart began to swell with hope. Could I really become a quirkless hero?

"Yes... but how do you suggest he fights?" Principal Nezu asked.

"Support gear!" I blurted out my eyes widening with the realization. "Technology is so advanced now, that quirkless people can become just as strong as people with quirks! I could learn martial arts or have a weapon!" There was so many possibilities and now that I thought about it, so many heros had support items and weapons.

Hagakure's quirk of invisibility didn't increase her strength and yet she was training to be a hero. Hawk becomes useless if his wings burn up or he uses too many of them. Toga can't copy anyone without their blood.

I was suddenly determined I could- no, I would become the world's first quirkless hero.

I thought back to the cruel world I grew up in as a kid. With everyone, even my mom, sweet as she was, disbelieving that I could become a hero. This world is unfair to those without a quirk, but what if the world's new symbol of peace... was a quirkless kid like me?

Principal Nezu considered this for a bit then spoke. "You have over the summer to figure out how you're going to become a hero, and after that we will have a test to prove to us that you are capable."

"Thank you! I won't disappoint you!" I beamed at the principal and especially at Mr. Aizawa for believing in me.

**Back to present tense**

I laid sprawled out in my room with tons of designs and prototypes littering the floor.

I had talked with Hatsume and she helped me come up with the idea of a sort of stored up energy that made me way stronger, but she left the hard part, of making it to me.