The Green Valley Twins

Impasse

They were still standing on the beach edge, Nana telling stories about her time with the experimental children she saved, when something strange happened. Nana repeated what she had said previously about her friend, how he awoke his quirk with the memories of his ancestor. It was like a ton of bricks slamming into her brain, she understood what was happening.

"I don't need you now, you can leave." Nana and the man both turned to look at her, but she noticed they weren't truly looking at her. There was someone behind her, young and confident enough to speak her own mind. "Thank you for saving me but I don't need you anymore."

"Well you're a rude little brat," Nana commented, stopping low in the sand to look at the child with a fond smile.

"Your quirk is to awaken the sleeping quirk-genes in a person, the knowledge of how to use that quirk also gets awakened in that person." The child said calmly, as if the words she spoke were perfectly normal for a four-year old to say. "that said, if the spirit of the ancestor died contently they can freely leave the memories behind but if the spirit didn't die well then—"

"Then they would believe that they're still living," the man interrupted, "Ah now that explains things a little bit."

"I... I just wanted to make sure... that history wouldn't repeated itself." Her voice shook and trembled, like her hands fisting in her skirt.

"In order for my quirk to work, the ancestor themselves have to have a quirk themselves." Nana said, "that being said. You were born in a time before quirks. How could you have one?"

"That's not true," she bowed her head, fighting off the urge to cry. "Quirks have been around millions of years. It just that those were preserved as different were killed off rather quickly so..."

"So you changed that," the man murmured

"My parents thought I was the normal one," She gave a bitter laugh. "they thought my siblings had made deals with the devil and tried to make them repent. I just wanted it all to stop. I was tired of watching the people I love die pointlessly."

"Everyone thought that the glowing-kid was the first to develop a quirk but... that's not true," Nana straightened, surprise on her face as she stared at the auburn haired woman. "you made everyone change. You made Quirks as common as starlight."

"Yeah," she hiccuped, nearly choking on her own tears, "I just... I just didn't want to be alone anymore... my siblings all died because I couldn't protect them. What if someone else was born just like them? What if the whole world understood what it meant to be different from the masses?"

"You single-handled changed the genetic code of the human race," the man sounded impressed, horrified but impressed. "No wonder you died so young..."

"I didn't die because of my quirk," she gave a bitter smile, "I died because of the timing I used. I had just given birth to my daughter and I had wanted to punish my parents. So I used my quirk to my advantage and changed the whole world to see life as I saw it."

"Your daughter?" Nana questioned, "you're like sixteen!"

"Fifteen," she corrected, "and I didn't have a choice. Mama and papa swore I was the normal one. So they forced me to bear a child."

"That's why you're here," the man murmured. "You're not just her ancestor, you're my ancestor too."

"My daughter's name is Sayuri Shimizu,"

"that's my mother's name," the man murmured

"So you two are quite literally direct descendants of the first quirk-users," Nana asked, waving a hand between the three of them.

"Quirks have been around longer than you think," the young woman retorted with a raised eyebrow. "it's impossible to find out who had what first, much less who is the direct descendant." She felt a gentle tug on her hand, a child asking for her attention.

"Ancestor, you can go home now. Your siblings are waiting for you."

"What about you?" she asked, she didn't want to move on; what could she say to her siblings? She literally stood by as they all died one by one.

"I said they're waiting for you," the child sounded so insulted with those words. "I only need your memories of the quirk. Not your soul. Go home and see your family. They miss you." she was still scared, how could she face them again after all this time? she bound herself to this world so she wouldn't see them again. She was scared.

"sister?" the voice was gentle and soft

"What are you doing there?"

"Are you coming or not?"

"Big sister, what took you so long?" she didn't know when she turned and ran, she just knew the moment her siblings were wrapping their arms around her, laughing as if nothing in the world was wrong.

"One task down, heaven knows how many to go," the man smiled bitterly at the sky, as if he wanted to leave but didn't know how.

"Who else is coming?" the little girl asked, turning her big jade eyes towards them. "Will I see mama and Izuku soon?"

"Perhaps, sooner than you think," Nana smiled and pointed behind the girl. Izumi turned and looked, she could see someone walking through the sand. They were just as short as she was, with curly green hair and dressed in a familiar blue nighty.

"Izuku?" her voice was barely a whisper but somehow, from the distance he was at, her elder brother heard her.

"Izumi! Izumi!" he started running, nearly tripping several times as he hurried towards her but it was as if time stopped for her. She was unable to move and he was unable to get any closer. They were at an impasse, he was forever at that distance, cursed to chase after her as she watched helplessly as a statue.