"Good morning, Izuku." Sensei greeted the green haired child as he placed down a book about quirks. "This book is very interesting if you want to read it."

"S-Sorry for worrying you..."

"That's not a problem, Izuku." Sensei stood as he calmly approached the child. "But, I do have an offer for you."

"A-Another?" he asked as he saw Sensei nod.

"This is much different however."

"W-What is it?" he asked with childlike curiosity.

"Tell me...your quirkless are you not?"

Izuku looked down at the floorboards. "Y-Yes..." he croaked out softly.

"You know...I can fix that." He said as the child looked up. "I can give you a quirk."

The child's eyes couldn't grow any larger. "Y-You can?"

Sensei nodded. "But let me tell you something first." He said as the child took in every word. "You need to train and get stronger before I give you a quirk."

Izuku nodded as he continued. "Secondly, we are outcasts, thrown to the side of society and treated as villains. I'm sure you know what that means?"

"I can never be a hero." Izuku said as he remembered his parents' death...at the hands of a hero, a selfish hero who was willingly to use innocent lives. "If heroes are like that, then I never want to be a hero!"

Izuku felt Sensei's hand patting his head. "Yes, to society you being quirkless is pretty much equivalent to worthless." Sensei said. "But, you have the most potential."

"Huh?"

"All quirkless people have to work ten times harder, and even then, some of the strongest willed people were quirkless."

"R-Really?" he asked with a bit too much hope.

Sensei nodded again. "Now tell me Izuku...what's your opinion on All Might?" he asked the child.

"...I'm unsure now. I-I used to think he was a great hero...but..."

"You still have doubts? That's understandable." He smiled at the child. "However...I will tell you he is not all he seems to show himself as. The number one hero, the symbol of peace, All Might...he would even tell you...that you being quirkless is worthless. Unfit to be a hero without a quirk."

Izuku looked down to the floor once more. All Might too?

"Despite society looking down at you, I believe in you Izuku." Sensei said as he waved his hand. "I believe in your potential, not as a hero, but as a fellow outcast that would label us a villain at the smallest word of complaint."

And that's when Izuku unleashed the tears he didn't know how long he was holding back.

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He watched as he gave Izuku some papers on what to do. Shigaraki took the time to help his new younger brother.

However, he needed someone to watch them.

"I'll make sure they'll stay safe." A male voice said. He was entirely made up of mist and wore an elegant suit with a tie and five metal plates that go from around his collarbone to just below his eyes.

"Thank you, Kurogiri." He said before turning back to his work.

His finger tapped patiently on the desk as he saw another article of All Might appear on the corner of a most trending topic.

He immediately left the site.

He had found what he needed already, but it didn't hurt to look for more individuals.

Quirkless...those without quirks...

That's what he was originally looking for.

But then, Shigaraki wanted a younger brother.

So he decided to kill two birds with one stone. But it limited his search.

That was when he found him.

He turned with the chair following as he stopped to look at the green tubes filled with bodies.

All of them...became mindless dolls.

But that was simple, they all originally had quirks.

And once a quirk was introduced to an existing quirk they already had...well...that happened as a result to them.

Loss of their minds, loss of their personalities, no longer able to think for themselves, they could only take orders.

However, back in the day, he could remember there being more...successful attempts.

Back when quirkless ruled over those with quirks.

But there was one who was a success despite having a quirk...his younger brother...

He pushed those thoughts out of his head as he looked back to the creature in the tube. They were no longer human.

But he had a theory.

Those born without quirks, since they didn't have a quirk in their body were a clean state.

But that was just a theory.

He needed someone to stand at Shigaraki's side, someone for Shigaraki to fight for...and that person was Izuku.

He will have to take it slow and careful.

He didn't want to ruin young Izuku, plus if it failed. Shigaraki could still protect him and give him a striving goal.

But for him, he wanted Izuku to succeed.

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Kurogiri was polite and well mannered.

That was what Izuku learnt as he went through with Sensei's requests.

He had learnt from Tomura that he went through a similar plan, slightly different, but mostly the same.

At first...it was hard, extremely so for a four year old.

But that didn't stop him.

He kept pushing. He kept at it. Sensei believed in him! Shigaraki accepted him! Kurogiri, who he only met today, took care of him! Made sure he ate right and stayed clean!

And when he harmed himself, he patched him up!

He...he didn't want to disappoint them.

They took him in. They gave him a chance.

Even...his own parents...thought he was worthless. His mother apologized for him not having a quirk.

She was looking down on him.

His father heard that he was quirkless.

He was disappointed.

He held them back. He held them both back from their dreams.

Yet, despite feeling sad for him being the cause. He...he was filled with rage...and happiness? Like they got what they deserved.

The biggest emotion he felt.

...Was confusion.

Should he be sad? Or should be angry at them?

Shigaraki told him to be angry at them as they saw him the same as society did.

Kurogiri told him that was something he needed to figure out on his own. Did his parents really held the same views as the sheep of Japan? Or did they love him till the end?

Sensei...told him everything is alright now. He was safe.

And so he dived back head first into the training regime for a four year old that sensei gave him.

He will succeed.

...No matter what.

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"He's doing well." Kurogiri said as he cleaned an empty glass...despite none being used.

"Yeah..." Shigaraki said with a worried glance. "But his working himself too hard..."

It had been a year since he started and was taken in by Sensei and became Izuku Shigaraki.

"He doesn't want to be a burden to you after all." Kurogiri placed the empty glass down and got another to clean. "You are his older brother, his idol. He just wants to make you proud."

"...I know..."

Right now, Izuku wasn't doing any physical training. Right now he was reading, absorbing knowledge.

There was a reason why villains were powerful if their quirks didn't give them an advantage in combat.

They relied on their smarts.

Izuku was currently reading a book about quirks. The same one sensei offered a year ago.

He learnt about Emitter, Transformation and Mutant typed quirks.

Or one might call Logia, Paramecia and Zoan...where did that come from?

Regardless, he learnt about the thing he desired since he was diagnosed as quirkless.

All because he happened to be born with two joints on his god damn pinky toe!

Reality was not fair, men were not born equal.

However, that didn't mean that he had to be fair or use fair methods.

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He was surpassing his expectations.

Then again, those without quirks worked a lot harder to achieve their goals.

He might have to grant Izuku the quirk sooner than he expected.

But he still had a long way to go.

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Three graves, that's all there was.

Three single graves.

A family of three...or what used to be.

A man wearing a closed coat complete with a hat took in the graves. He had a stocky frame, dark hair, and squarish features.

This was Naomasa Tsukauchi, a police detective.

He was sent to the scene of the destroyed apartment complex but...nothing remained.

He returned to the crime scene, it was highly discussed as either a villain attack or a force of nature during the late night storm.

Tsukauchi however knew more. This wasn't just a storm...this was an attack.

The same day he best friend Toshinori Yagi came to visit, was the same night that travesty struck.

Was it a coincidence?

Who knows, but Tsukauchi knew one thing.

This case was a cold one.

There was no evidence...only bodies...

He took of his hat and offered a pray.

It had been a year since the case, sure the building was repaired now, but there was one thing he caught in the murmurs.

Talk of quirkless.

The memory burned, he knew the case wasn't a force of nature, he knew someone attacked. There hadn't been any type of pinpoint destructive natural weather disasters like this one.

It had to be an attack.

He gritted his teeth as Toshi took it upon himself a bit too hard.

He was the first hero to arrive on the scene after all.

Talk of the parents deaths were shocking to those who heard, but once they heard of the quirkless child...interest seemed to vanish instantly.

"Being quirkless is equivalent to being worthless."

He didn't know why those thoughts appeared in his mind.

Oh wait.

His friend, used to be quirkless.

Maybe he projected his best friend onto the quirkless child. Maybe hearing that he was quirkless activated some worry for the child of memories of his best friend.

He muttered an apology.

This case came to a close.

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Six years old. He was six now.

He usually trained with Kurogiri as Sensei tended to Tomura about grooming.

He thought his older brother's hair was fine.

Kurogiri chuckled at that one.

"Now, Izuku." The mist man said in a voice that he could only label as a teacher. "If your enemy had an invisibility quirk, what is the best course of action?"

"I'll use my other senses. If I can't see them, I'll listen and smell for them and their footsteps as well." He said. "But would the quirk be a transformation or a mutation?"

Kurogiri paused for a brief moment. "Transformation. How do you deal with it?"

"Well, I'll use my sense of smell and hearing to find out where they are and follow any footprints, but since they are a transformation, I'll wait to see if the transformation can drop, if not I'll perform a sneak attack, if it does drop, then I'll steal go for the sneak attack if I can."

"Now, the mutant-type one." He said as the child almost repeated himself.

"I will do nearly the same but I'll also look for signs of them having anything on their body."

"Add quirks to the mix."

"If I have any quirks that enhanced my smell and hearing, I will use them for location purposes." The six year old started. "However I will also use any eye quirk that allows me to see them like x-ray vision or infrared."

Kurogiri's mist hand extended as it patted him on the head. "Good job." He praised. "Most people wouldn't bring in x-ray vision. Why did you choose that one?"

"To see their bones." He answered. "The outside may be invisible but their insides aren't."

"Shall we move onto the next scenario?"

Izuku gladly nodded.

Sensei and Kurogiri's teaching methods were a lot different from those of schools. They not only taught them what they needed to learn, but also more practical teachings of quirks, scenarios and much more.

Even combat for example, quirk use too if you had one.

Sensei didn't believe in teaching him and Tomura the same things that schools would. Sensei's methods were much more enjoyable and he probably learnt more than most kids going to school.

Then again, he did work ten times harder.

"You were born with a fire quirk." Kurogiri started. "However, you are up against users of water quirk users. How can you turn this into your favour?"

Izuku seemed to be in thought for about a minute.

"May I ask where the battleground is, Kurogiri?"

"You are fighting on rocky landscapes."

"I'll increase the heat of my flames and fire at the ground."

"At the ground?" he asked the young child.

"Yes, that way the ground can also heat up getting hotter!"

"Ah, I see. That way it makes the water users immobile...but you too."

"That's right. Their water can take out my fire but they also have to take care of whatever I set a light." Izuku started. "Then when they try to cool the ground..."

"Steam appears." They said at once.

Izuku nodded. "Yep, depending on other battlefields, I'll light the area around me on fire."

"How would you combat them head on?"

"I'll increase my fire to make steam once it connects with their water quirks, or I'll increase my fire till the water reaches a boiling point."

"Turns out you have a second quirk that acts similar to your fire, however its not the ability to use electricity or ice. Solve it."

"I'll fight water with water." He said. "I'll use my fire and water quirk together to create steam that I'll just as a smoke screen but when attacking I'll boil my water to scald them."

"And if you don't have a water quirk?"

"I'll use a wind quirk to blow back the waves of water while also adding it on to my flames to make my fire attacks faster and more powerful."

"Good job yet again, Izuku."

Izuku beamed at the praise.

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"Izuku." The deep voice of Sensei called out.

"Yes, sensei?" he asked glancing to the green tubes on the wall.

"It's time."

"R-Really?" he asked as his eyes widened.

The man nodded. "Yes, you have impressed me and Kurogiri says that you excel at his studies." He nodded. "It is time, to bestow you a quirk."

"Um...what quirk will I be getting?" he asked nervously.

"Why...the quirk of your parents, young Izuku." He said as the child's jaw dropped.

"My...parents...quirks...?"

"I know your confused and it may not be much to start. But the ability to breathe fire and the ability to attract small objects are a lot more useful than you think." Sensei said sagely. "Will you accept?"

"I-I accept!"

"Then we shall prepare immediately."