(THE OUTFIT ABOVE IS ONLY A SMALL BASE SKETCH I DID!)

Kirishima smiled proudly the next morning. He had gotten Bakugou to wait with him today while I finally was able to change into my new hero costume. I got the idea from my Mom, who once dressed the same.

I used knee-high boots like Bakugou with some added metal and made them a golden color. I kept black pants with them like what I wore the day I met Class 1A and used a golden-colored top that fit tight to my body like Bakugou's shirt. I then got the idea from the strap on Kirishima's chest for a blue and black colored one around mine.

Finally... in a mix of both my Mom and All Might, I had a cape. Her's was green and hoodied, but mine now was a bright blue to match the flowers on the hair clip, and there was no hood.  I have a black and blue colored glove with white stripes like from All Might's costume.

I learned with Todoroki that I wasn't ready to hold my hair back just yet, so instead, I used my Mom's clip to hold my cape together at the top.

"Sorry..." I said as I stepped outside the studio. Kirishima's smile was huge.

"You look so cool!" He yelled, "Doesn't she Bakugou!?" Bakugou's eyes didn't leave me once, he only stared at me before turning down the hall with his everyday scoff.

"Yeah, whatever," He said, "We're gonna be late..." There was something different about him today, something I didn't quite understand...

"Is he sick?" I asked Kirishima, "His face was really red..." Kirishima laughed it off, but never answered me.

Morning training was the same as it'd always been and went by pretty fast compared to a normal day in Gym Gamma. Completing day-by-day training so we would be ready for tomorrow. Yet, soon enough, we were off to lunch and I was off to see Grand Torino and All Might.

"Shouldn't you change out of your costume?" Todoroki asked as we got our food.

"One of the people from the rescue is here," I told him quietly, "I wanted to show them it..."

"Ah, so I take it you won't be eating lunch with us today?" Iida asked and I shook my head as All Might entered from the far door, calling me over to the exit. I walked off without another word, as I often did. After last night, I've been... calmer than before... it's easier for me to speak to people I know, harder for those I don't... but it's all easier than it once was. Even my writing and reading have gotten better for me, though I'm still much farther behind than I should be.

"Any issues training today?" All Might asked on our way there. I shook my head, his smiling eyes on me. "You really wanted to show Grand Torino your hero costume, huh?" I nodded. "Well you look good, I think costume suits you." I didn't say anything more... All Might and I had always had these strange moments of silence when talking to one another and though it's mostly because I'm still not much of a talker, he understands that, and it helps out a lot.

"Hey there, Kid," Grand Torino said once we walked inside. His bandages gone and his voice as rough as it had always been. "Glad to see you're doing better."

"They put me in the Hero Course," I told him with a nod.

"That's what Toshinori said," He replied, "Finally got your costume, I see." I nodded and set my food down so I could show him better. As he took in my appearance I watched his eyes gloss over as they focused on my right arm. He was looking at me as if he wasn't seeing the girl in front of him anymore, but someone from long ago. "Did you ever figure out your Quirk?" I didn't answer, instead, I sat down and started eating. Since I was rescued about a month ago my appetites grown and I have much more stamina. That being said I've been able to sleep in my own room fairly well, aside from the first few nights, but nothing with my Quirk. There was that one account with the window, and once when I woke up with ash in my bed, but nothing aside from that. The teachers were still just as confused as I was.

"Are you feeling better?" I asked him and he nodded as I had.

"Kid, I want to ask you a few questions, and I need your honest answer for all of them," Grand Torino said, "No beating around the bush, got that?" I nodded and set my food down, it could wait... the way he was talking and looking at me made me think this was extremely important. "Tell me how old you are."

"Fifteen," I said, he already knew that.

"And you were with All For One since you were born?" He asked, "Just you?"

"No, my Mom was too," I told him, "She was with me until I was... six."

"What was her name?" He asked, the room getting a bit tenser as I lowered my head to think. "Some saw me as a Villain, others saw me as a Hero. But only one Hero, ever saw me as someone trying to do the right thing." A part of me wanted to tell Grand Torino, and the part of me that didn't and was so unsure about it, looked to All Might for help. He had on a tense face and nodded slowly to me. He wanted me to choose... he wanted me to make this call.

"Why does that matter?" I asked him, still unsure of giving him the answer.

"You're not the only person I know," Grand Torino said and pointed his wooden cane toward my arm, "Not with that anyways. All I want is a name, Kid, and it will stay between the people in this room." I sat there staring at them, leaving my food untouched. I remember she had once given me a name that others called her, it was not her real name... but one many knew her by. I would give him that, and nothing else.

"Hood..." I said quiet but firmly, "People called her Hood." He looked at me with an emotionless face, a deep sadness uncovered in his eyes as they closed and he nodded.

"There's a story about a woman named Hood from a long time ago," He said, "But I'll have Toshinori tell you it instead. It's one I'd much rather listen to." He said and leaned back on the couch across from me, giving All Might a small glance.

"Hood, huh?" All Might asked and swallowed hard, "My Master actually told me a bit about her while to be honest. But no matter how you saw her, Hood was a kind woman who would steal from the rich and give to the poor. She did this all over Japan and so many people didn't know how to take her actions. Some claimed her to be a thief, where many others saw her as a Hero whose lives they saved. Though she would only steal food and nothing else, only giving it to starving children on the streets."

"Hero," I said under my breath.

"No," He continued, his reply shocking me, "Personally, I thought she was a Villain at first. Grand Torino and I went to capture her and couldn't understand the villainous acts she was committing, but once we found her... I realized there was nothing to understand at all. She was doing what was right. She didn't get to go to a school to learn how to do it, nor could she get a Hero License without ruining the name of Heroes. She took what she knew, and made her own call, sticking with it, true to her cause."

We all stayed silent, the truth finally uncovering that the one and only Hero who had seen her as a Hero, was not sitting before me. All Might's eyes gloss over as if he was thinking of something else to say, something distant and broken from his past... something that he lost... something he knew he could never get back. "In the end, we let her go. Neither of us had heard from her since then."

"It's nice..." I tell them both after another quiet moment, "To finally know something about her... I mean... Not even All For One would tell me stories of her past... and she would always stay quiet about it." She didn't like to tell me, she always feared that he had known. Grand Torino nodded but didn't smile himself, not the way All Might did, something else was still on his mind.

"Of course!" All Might said cheerfully, "Honestly... it feels nice to talk about an old friend, even if we were enemies at one point." Another silent moment passed.

"Grand Torino?" I said and turned to him, "Why did you want to know these things? Why tell me this story?" Grand Torino is one of few that actually know of my past with All For One, and he knew I was with my Mom from my time in the hospital, so why not ask then? What changed?

"She was your Mother, correct?" He asked and I nodded, "And those markings on your arm are just like her's?" I nodded again. "I have a few theories, but the big one is about your Quirk and her's. If she really was your Mother was what I needed to know." He stood up and walked over to me. "You remember Hood's Quirk, don't you Toshinori?"

"Yes, Sir," He said, eyes on him, "She was able to do things like that of a dragon in a story book. She could control fire with her hands and was able to summon large golden wings and a tail that she used to fly. On a rare occasion, she could conjure one to her side or breath golden flames."

"I miss her, a lot," I confessed and reached up for the hair clip that now hooked my cape together, "I wanted her to be here..." I began to play with the hair clip. Slowly, I could feel myself pulling away from All For One again, becoming free even more than I was before. All Might's smiling face helped, as it always had.

"Toshinori," Grand Torino said, their eyes locking for a minute, "When was the last time you spoke to Hood?"

"Hmm," All Might thought, "I'd have to say it was when we freed her." As Grand Torino and I looked at him his bright and fearless smile slowly began to fall into a confused look and his tired eyes began to close, he was thinking. Finally... his face turned white, cold, and looked absolutely broken. I could only watch as a longing fear spread through the room like the sunlight. All For One had me back in his grasp, holding me tight once more.

"What'd you pick for a hero name, Kid?" Grand Torino asked, "Are you going to stick with your Mom's name?"

"Something from a story she told me," I said, my voice backed to it's hushed whisper, "And... considering everything... I think it fits well with who I am..."

"Nana..." All Might said and I held my head down, closing my eyes and thinking about what I would say next. "I wanted my Hero name to be something that was me... something that I could hold onto completely and never forgot about my past... I wanted it to be... One For All..." I could hear their shocked breaths as I let out my own, opening my eyes to look at them. "Say the rest... tell them what you want to be more than anything..."

I couldn't do it... I couldn't get the next words out of my mouth without crying. Only she had ever called me it... it was something special I had forgotten all about until getting this hair clip back, but I still couldn't say it.

The bell rang, and I ran outside without saying a word.

Bakugou was in the hall and I spotted him right away as I always had, yet today the people in the hall seemed to triple. I was just to scared, to worked up, I had so many more emotions pouring out than ever before, and right now it seemed so much worse. I called out in the crowd and reached for him, "B-Bakugou!" I grabbed his sleeve and pulled myself through, not being able to meet his gaze and staying close to his side as we weaved through everyone. We would be heading back to training now...

"You were talking with All Might?" He said, his voice grumpy and tired.

"Someone from the rescue was visiting," I told him quietly, trying to hide my tears. He scoffed and pulled himself away from my grasp, a look of anger on his face. "H-Hey wai-" I didn't want to lose him in this crowd. I didn't want to be left alone again... to be forgotten so easily like she was.

"WILL YOU STOP CLINGING TO ME ALREADY YOU DAMN EXTRA!" He snapped, an explosive blast coming from his hands in my direction. My body trembled as I recoiled back... and for the first time in a such a short time... I felt like I couldn't trust anyone again. I felt like everyone was ready to put me back into that small room... and forget that I ever came out of it.

I didn't go to training again that day... and that was the first day I had kept the door to my room closed.

No one came in, but someone did knock.