MHA Stories i find on Ao3

a (high) pitch cry for help

By: Problematic_Lara

Izuku had a loving family.

Until he didn't.

Izuku had friends.

Until he didn't.

Izuku always talked and murmured.

Until he didn't.

It actually was a progresive change that led to his life to be what it currently was.

It all started a few years back, the day that Izuku became Deku. The day that Izuku was diagnosed quirkless.

The  very first time he realized that life was unfair was at that doctor's  office, but the first time he connected being quirkless with being  lonely was the next day at school.

Kacchan always was a bit mean  to everyone (and why wouldn't he? kacchan was better than even the  teachers!) but once he realized he was quirkless Kacchan was not the  only one mean to him. Kacchan started encouraging everybody to be mean  to him. Izuku remembers thinking at some point that it was probably  okay, if the teachers at preschool also called him names he probably did  something wrong. If mama didn't say anything about him being treated  poorly by his peers she probably knew what he was doing wrong. If papa  stopped saying goodbye before going to work he also probably noticed how  bad Izuku must be behaving.
Izuku thought it was mean from them to  not tell him how to be good, but maybe it was something he had to figure  it out by himself, he was already 4 after all, almost an adult he  thought.

By the age of 5 he already knew that being quirkless was  bad, Kacchan made sure to let him know as everybody else. Papa went from  not saying goodbye before work to not talking to him at all. Izuku had  to either eat before papa came home or eat at his room while mama and  papa ate at the table. It made him a little sad but the adults must have  their reasons, maybe the conversation was only for grown ups. Yeah,  that must be it. He was just too young to understand, right?

Every  once in a while mama forgot to give Izuku his meal to take to  preschool, but that was okay too, she worked really hard after all. He  could do just fine with only eating dinner. Until mama stopped cooking  dinner.

By age 6 Izuku was almost another kid completely.

Mama  now ignored his existence completely. He got himself to preschool, he  got himself dinner whatever he could find in the cabinets when no one  looked, he got himself dressed and learned by watching videos how to tie  his shoes and how to open cans of food, he even learned how to wash his  clothes (kinda, he used the shampoo but it smelled nice even if it let  his clothes stiff sometimes) and more importantly, he learned to be  silent.

Hisashi, as he called now to his father, really liked  silence. He was almost never home, leaving for months at a time, but  when he was Izuku knew better than to let him know he was there.

Izuku  knew that people really disliked the quirkless (that was how most  people refer to him anyways) but there was no one that hated the  quirkless more than Hisashi.

It started with some pushing and  pulling, but after only a few days the pushing from Hisashi escalated to  full kicks. It really catched Izuku off guard, but like to learn and he  learned quickly that to not be kicked you hide. Just like in preschool. 

Izuku was grateful though.

Apparently Izuku had many  things that according to the News lady the quirkless didn't have. He had  a home, he had a family, he had food. Most of the time at least. Izuku  was grateful for that.

Izuku liked to pass the time watching  videos in his room, he was glad he knew how to read, having subtitles  really help to be fully silent. He even turned the lights off, to give  his parents the full experience of not having any children, to feel  completely invisible. Through videos and the News Izuku learned that the  quirkless don't live long.