MHA Stories i find on Ao3

Four for two

By: Blacksheeperton, Derpiest_Unicorn

Soulmates are something that everyone has, even the quirkless, and for that, Izuku hates the world.

Don't  get him wrong, he likes the fact that someone out there is fated to be  with him. He just wished that he wouldn't be burdening them.

Because even though he has a soulmate, like everyone else, he doesn't have a quirk. That makes him a Deku. Useless.

Izuku  loves his soulmates, though. All three of them. That's another thing  that makes Izuku different. Everyone has at least one or two soulmates,  but Izuku was lucky enough to have three.

Not that they know he exists.

It started off with a simple punch to the gut.

Izuku pukes into the grass at the sudden pain as he wonders where it came from.

No  one had hit him today. No one had even come near him, since the news  broke out that he was quirkless, as if they were afraid that it was  contagious.

Izuku went home that day and asked his mother about  the pain he had felt on the way home. He traced the names on his mom's  wrists for comfort. A smile of relief had taken over her face.

"Oh, that's just your soulmate, sweetie." His mom said as she placed him on her lap.

"But mom, why does it hurt?" He had asked her as he continued to clutch his stomach in hopes of dulling the pain.

Her  smile dimmed with sadness and understanding as she patted his head  lightly. "It means that your soulmate got hurt too. Whenever they get  hurt, you will feel it too. And so will they if you do." She explained  to him patiently.

"They're hurt?" Izuku's voice quivered as tears  threatened to spill over. She gave him a sympathetic nod. "How- uhm- how  do I make them stop hurting? I don't want them to be in pain!" He asked  desperately.

His mom smiled gently at him, her hand running  through his thick curls. "Always trying to be the hero. Your bond is  different from mine, but I think that you should be able to take their  pain away, but then you feel it twice as strong. I don't want you doing  it too often, ok? I don't want to see you in pain either" She asked him,  a serious expression crossing her face.

"I promise, mom!" Izuku nodded, not knowing just how quickly he would break that promise.

Izuku  at least remembered her saying she didn't want to see him in pain  either, so she never did. The injuries never showed, anyways.

A  natural smile when pain overtook his body quickly became second nature,  as he pulled his soulmate's pain from them and held onto it until the  pain went away. They never resisted.

So when a burning sensation  overtook the left side of his face, in the middle of the night, Izuku  stuffed his face into a pillow to muffle his screams, his soulmate's  pain clutched tightly in Izuku's hands. His mom was none the wiser the  next day.

He swore to be a hero, one way or another. If the only  way for him to be a hero was to take away his soulmate's pain, and there  was a lot of it, so be it.

So Izuku continued with his  quirkless life, taking away his soulmate's pain and making sure any of  Izuku's pain didn't transfer to them. He would make sure they knew  nothing of pain.

Then the writing started.

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Shouta  sighed, as he took out a pen and wrote a simple reminder on the back of  his hand for Hizashi. They were running out of cat food again, and  Sushi would eat anything if her food bowl was empty again. Anything.