I Love Him More!

Chapter 3

I can't believe this. How could I wuss out like that?! I face my brute of a father head on, and yet I can't just meet my classmate?

Currently we see our bi-colored, Canadian haired girl walking her way back to the fixed stadium. Who is internally berating herself for chickening out on her way to see Midoriya in the nurses room. Originally the plan was to meet him by herself, with the excuse to go to the nurse for herself, but was ruined when the 'Deku Squad' came in...plus Momo.

Why am I acting like this? It shouldn't have been that hard to say 'thank you'. And why do I feel so irritated at the thought of Uraraka or Yaoyorozu getting so close to Midoriya now?

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"All Might what should I do?"

"Well I believe that's for you to decide Young Midoriya. Keep your discovered, and actual, quirk a secret or find a way to make it sound believable as part of the power your classmates have seen."

"I think I can find a way. Though why can't my quirk," that still feels weird to say, "heal me now? Like it did before?"

All together the hero stopped walking. The words of Recovery Girl, their discussion came back in waves. Should he tell his successor the answer, and end up having to force Young Midoriya to talk about his depression? He wants to comfort the boy who helped him remember that there is more to life than fighting villains. But how can he? He never heard of a situation where the mind can override the functions of a quirk.

"I believe it had to do with the situation." In the end Toshinori opted for a white lie route. "It may be that since you were...," the memory of the event still made his body tremble, "in a life and death situation, your quirk might have bloomed under intense stress and bursted with enough power to save your life. There are cases when under stressful situations can a quirk improve, evolve per say, other than training it."

Not long after when Toshinori stopped walking, so did Midoriya. Remembering how close he came to having his career as a hero over before it even began. Did he regret it? No, not really. If he hadn't acted fast enough then Yaoyorozu-san would have been dead. Then again so would he had been if wasn't for the unexpected quirk he had.

And there it is again. The weird feeling that he gets whenever he says 'his' quirk. For so long he was considered quirkless, and for so long he believed he was one. Even with One For All in his possession, he still considers it as All Might's and not his. A 'blessing' from a the man he looks up to, a man he views as a literal 'god'.

"All Might....."

"Yeah."

"The reason you became a teacher at Yuuei.... was to find a successor, right? Today I saw everybody fighting with no holds barred. And I felt their keen, unwavering determination. So I think that it's better if—"

"Let me stop you there Young Midoriya." Said boy turned to face his idol. "While it's true that I came here at Yuuei, and that there are capable students, One For All is the cultivation of power passed down from one worthy individual to the next."

"So then it is best to choose a different..."

"However I too used to be quirkless."

"...What?" The whisper was barely heard.

"Yeah. While not to the extent of your generation, it was still rare to be one. My master had a quirk but she nonetheless believed in me...just like how I believe in you Young Midoriya."

"B-b-but you never told me that you were..!"

"You never asked."

Even though what All Might thinks that what he said was barely helpful for the boy, it was more than enough for Midoriya to feel thankful. Happy to know that his idol was too a quirkless boy, a boy who was denied to experience the wonders of quirks, a boy who might've wondered if he too could be a hero, a boy who was then chosen, a boy who was deemed worthy by someone else.