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Kindergarten, Part 1

To say the next day was hard for Izuku would be a vast understatement. To start: he woke up after a routine nightmare and almost had a panic attack until he remembered the past (subjective) two days.

Next, he woke up at the ass-crack of dawn - normal for him in his 27 year old body, not so much his 3 year old one. Izuku knew he wouldn't be able to get more sleep, so he decided to continue writing in his new notebook. After a couple new entries he got dressed and went to get breakfast.

Turns out Inko had to be called in early for a huge case she was working on, so he had to suffer in an awkward silence eating breakfast with his father (who was trying to think of different ways on how to be stealthier about his true job).

They were almost late to kindergarten because of a traffic jam caused by a fight three blocks away between All Might and some spider villain. (Izuku would not recommend being in the same vehicle as an annoyed All for One.)

When they finally, FINALLY, get to their destination, Izuku came to the realization that he didn't know where anything was. Not the room he was supposed to be in and not which seat he sat in. Luckily Hisashi could help with the former, but he was on his own for the latter.

("Good morning Kacchan," Izuku greeted while unceremoniously dropping down into the chair next to said toddler. Bakugou's eyes flittered over to Izuku's disgruntled form in barely concealed concern.

"You good there Izuku?" Green eyes flicked over to meet red.

"I just - god. I had a very emotional day yesterday and I woke up today at dawn. Dawn Kacchan!" Izuku threw his hands in the air to try to emphasize his point, him falling into the habit he picked up in his third year at U.A. of ranting to Bakugou. He always seemed to be able to help even without meaning to. "I feel like I need several large cups of coffee just to function properly. And that's nothing on what I'm eventually going to have to do. I have to stop a 200 year old supervillain cryptid, somehow get into U.A. with or without the help of a certain pro hero, stop a sociopathic, PTSD-ridden villain that ends up controlling an army of multiqirked Frankenstein's Monsters, stop an S-class serial killer that targets heroes, and save a little girl from the yakuza, among other things."

Bakugou tilts his head in contemplation. "I don't get why you have to do all this stuff, but you better not do any of this without me 'Zuku. We're gonna be a Hero Duo remember? That means we gotta take down the villains together." Izuku blinked and stared at Bakugou for a second before he teared up. "Mm!")

Izuku was floored by the amount of quirk discrimination already among the three-year-olds in the room, being seemingly egged on by at least one of the adults in the room. No wonder the bullying started so quickly last time if this was the environment they were all in.

Things really only got better when lunch came around. Tsubasa was out of town with his parents and finger-kid was with some of the other kids. (He only remembers Tsubasa's name because of the whole Noumu deal. Finger-kid, if Izuku remembers right, had a long and strange name.)

Bakugou and Izuku were building things in the sandpit and playing with hero action figures, when someone across the yard got their quirk. (Neither Bakugou nor Izuku were particularly interested, but for different reasons. Bakugou because the quirk was just being able to make their hair glow and this wasn't "strong" or "cool", and Izuku because he was reveling in the fact that this was Kacchan being his best friend without all the decade-long resentment being a thing and actually being interested in him. It was a dream come true, really.) However, it did put a pause on playing with the figures.

"What quirks do you think we'll get Izuku? It has to be something cool and awesome and perfect for hero work." Izuku tried to stop the pang in his chest at this question, he really did.

"Well, Uncle Masaru makes sparks from his sweat doesn't he? It could be like that."

"Maybe! That sounds pretty cool!"

"Even if you get Aunt Mitsuki's quirk I know you'd be a great hero Kacchan." Bakugou scoffed at this.

"What can the hag's quirk even be good for? All it does is make her look pretty."

"That's not true Kacchan. Even if it doesn't have direct in-combat use, it could be helpful. You could collect it and explode it for one. In either gauntlets or in grenades."

"I guess so, maybe. But hey! What about you! If I'm going to get an awesome quirk that means you have to too!" (Izuku tried to stop the pang in his chest - and the flinch - , he really did).

"I, uh, I could have an evolved form of Mum's quirk, giving me gravity control or telekinesis - it's unknown on just how her quirk works so it could be either really - or I could breathe fire like Dad, or maybe pyrokinesis, or- wait." A thought struck. His Dad's quirk isn't actually fire breath. It's All for One. This changes things. They only tested for fire breath and Attraction, never for All for One. The thought didn't cross any of their minds. Well, maybe his Dad's but he obviously didn't say anything about it. Maybe - just maybe - he does have a quirk after all. The toe thing is bogus anyway, they found that out two years after graduation.

"What? What is it?" Bakugou's voice snapped Izuku out of his thoughts.

"I had a thought. I'll need to test it though. Hold on." His eyes flicked over to the kid who's quirk just came in, and started analyzing by habit. He felt an instinctual tug inside him that he never really paid attention to before, thinking it was nothing. Now it makes a LOT more sense. Feeling the string in his gut that connected him to the kid in question, he pulled. In that moment, four things happened. First, the other kid's quirk cut off. Second, Izuku felt something new in him. Third, the people around the now quirkless kid were murmuring in confusion. And finally, Bakugou muttered "What the hell did you just do Izuku?" while looking back and forth between the two other kids in question.

Izuku looked back over to Bakugou and activated the new quirk. "I think I know what my quirk is Kacchan."

                                                                Notes of Future-Past
                                                                          Volume 1

Entry 1: Bakugou Katsuki, left page

Birthday: April 20th
Age: 27
Height: 187cm
Blood type: A
Quirk: Explosion
Kacchan's sweat contains a nitroglycerin-like substance and he can trigger an explosion using his sweat from his palms.

Kacchan was easy to rile up, but also quick to appease (unless of course he was in a particularly bad mood). Prideful and driven, he mellowed out in U.A. and continued to do so after graduation.

He was one of the last remaining heroes alive due to his skill, quick thinking and sheer determination to win. When Kacchan arrived on the battlefield, you knew you were getting out of there at least alive, if not winning the battle entirely.

He carried grudges for seemingly ever, or at least until he could prove that he was better than the person who wronged him.

Kacchan is brutally honest, and loathes liars and cheaters with a burning passion. He also hates pity (or what he perceives as pity) and being looked down upon, but if you earn his respect he will at the very least tolerate you better than others, at most possibly befriend you.

Because of his upbringing he developed a superiority complex (which steadily lessened after admittance into U.A.), and later on an inferiority complex too (which started to lesson ever so slightly shortly after it was discovered).

Even though Kacchan was loud and brash, he was actually an introvert. He was also rather creative with his insults, one of my favourites being "I will kick your ass so hard your vertebrae will pop out of your mouth one by one like a pez dispenser."

Kacchan enjoyed spicy food, and while he wasn't the biggest fan of sweet he did have his favourites. He also enjoyed hiking and mountain climbing.

After the War begun, Kacchan was both one of the first responders to most large threats, but also one of the strongest and most trustworthy commanders. He was head of the Chiba area, which held out until the end of the War. As such, as the War wore on, he was seen less and less outside of his area of jurisdiction. The last major incident he was directly involved in was the Fall of Kyoto, where he held of entire hordes of Noumu himself while everyone evacuated. During this battle he was severely wounded and was only barely saved from death. His left leg needed to be amputated right elbow replaced. Both of these issues were solved by Hatsume Mei, giving Kacchan a robotic leg and internally robotic elbow, both of which connected to his nerves through nanotechnology. However, the nanotech was still slightly fragile and thus he couldn't participate in many battles, but he through his all into them and the administrative and strategic work he had.

Kacchan was adamant in at least attempting Operation Butterfly, he volunteered for trial runs that sent him back a week or two, and was the first to nominate me for the jump back. Part of his reasoning was "He may be a dumbass, but Deku can get shit done when he puts his fucking mind to it, he knows more shit than anyone else in this room about the Hell Cryptid and his cocktail of devilspawn, and the little shit also knows more about that quirk of his than anyone past or present - including both its dumbass creator and All Might."