In the middle of the night, Midoriya walks down a trail in the forest. His hands inside his pants' pocket and knives safely tucked inside his vest. His pale green hair dances in the cold wind that blows in the wintery season. Despite the low temperature, he only wears his usual outfit.

Walking through the path of balding trees and falling snow, Midoriya has no care if someone is following him. In this time around, he doesn't care anymore if the rest of the league find out of his secret.

"This will be far enough," he muttered then smirked. He took out his right hand and his veins started to glow bright red. His grinned widely this time as the red glow slowly becomes purple and black. He started to laugh to himself and faced the north side of the forest.

"Hell..." He stood in a stance and clutched his fist as he develop a momentum of his power, "SMASH!"

He released his energy and that created a strong impact in the air creating fierce winds that continued to move until it hit the nearest hill. This gave Midoriya the satisfaction of his capability as he grins widely. He did it. Months of training and he finally did it. He finally mastered the dark version of AllMight's signature moves. Hell Smash.

Of course, his other self doesn't know about this because he doesn't know where the heck and what the f*ck he is doing whenever he is out of the leash. He can't go bragging how better he is than him now, can he?

"I really love the dark side," he muttered and looked at his calloused hands. He smiled seeing that it is not damaged or anything, "I think I know what my purpose of being a villain now, Damn Izuku."

He felt something tug inside of him and cackled loudly, enjoying his inner self's suffering and displeasure.

'You demon!'

"Yes! Yes! Call me that! I love the sound of that entity in my ears. I shall take that name for myself and rule with darkness with it!" He exclaimed, outstretching his arms as if inviting something in. The glint in his green eyes shows pure madness and pleasure in destruction.

"Forget Deku! From now on, my name is Akuma! I will be the demon that lurks in the shadows. The demon that hides in every fear a person have. The demon that will bring total darkness in this twisted society. I will be the epitome of chaos, wrath, melancholy and hell! I will bring shame to the heroes that are foolishly trying to step on society and bring shame to my predecessors of this quirk. Mark my word, AllMight! I am no longer Deku! I am Akuma!"

---

The League of Villains stares at the huge dent on the hill nearest to the warehouse. Toga rubs her eyes several times before hopelessly doubting them. Twice double checked if he is dreaming which he is not. The most dazed in the group are Bakugo, Nekta and Shigaraki.

"Deku...did this?" Bakugo muttered in disbelief. He turned to the said green haired who was smirking for himself under a tree nearby with his arms crossed over his chest.

"How amazing," Shigaraki said loudly and a smirk grew behind his father's cut off hand, "A power like this is very essential. Very useful. Very, very much. And you manifested it?"

"Trained months for it. You could say I trained the hardest in this group. As...always," Midoriya smirked at Bakugo, knowing very well that this will piss him off. And of course, it did.

"Hmm...I see. That quirk you've inherited...you finally found a way to fully tame it and make it suitable for us?" Shigaraka inquired as the teen raised his fist with glowing purple veins with a wide grin on his face.

"Hell yeah, Handf*ck. I really did," he said, putting his hand down, forcefully and creating a satisfying hole on the ground. Bakugo gritted his teeth together and sparks started to manifest by his fists.

He is at it again. Making it look like he is way ahead of him. Like he is stronger than him. Like whatever he do, he won't catch up to Midoriya. That's how it has been ever since he became the Chosen One for AllMight. And man, that makes him jealous. As if he'll admit that to himself. Right from the start, he was always better than him. Bakugo was always on top. Bakugo was always number one. Not until AllMight came into the picture. Not until Midoriya inherited that stupid quirk.

And now, he is stealing his spotlight, once again. Even in the villain world.

He will not let this go on.

"Deku, that's very impressive. As expected from my main dish," something burned violently inside Bakugo as Nekta compliments and walk towards Midoriya. She smiled and put her hands on Midoriya's cheeks and leaned in, "That's no regrets on my part."

"Of course, Senpai," Midoriya replied then put his hand on top of Nekta's. Bakugo growled, but was ignored, "I shall do anything for you, Senpai."

A deranged glint in Midoriya's eyes says it. His admiration and devotion to Nekta is obvious and that alone is frustratingly annoying.

"As expected, you will," she said then tapped his cheek before pulling away then turned to the rest, having a small eye contact with Shigaraki then nodding.

"The year will end soon. And with that, so as AllMight," Shigaraki said with an excited tone. He stretched out his arms and his grin grew wider, "we only have another five days to get even stronger and stronger. Midoriya already showed his potential. Now, I want to see yours. Be strong and don't disappoint me. If you do..."

He a bunch of snow and even those turned to delicate gray ash.

"Well, you already know."

That little pep talk didn't fazed the league but instead seems to fire them up, despite the cold winter. Even Bakugo is inspired by this. And to be inspired by a villain's words, you have to be villain.

---

"They are what?" Iida exclaimed once Uraraka and Midoriya told him the news. Actually, Uraraka did most of the talking. Midoriya is a bit down because of the self-proclaimed Demon inside of him. He'll be really pissed when he find out he got out again.

"I know it's horrible, Iida-kun, that's why you must tell the others and the rest of UA about it. The future lies within you, guys," Uraraka said and Midoriya finally decided to speak.

"And there's another. The other me found a dark way to use his--I mean, my quirk. He's gonna use it against AllMight, and probably anyone if he gets the chance," Uraraka and Iida's eyes widened.

"What are you talking about, Midoriya?"

"Deku!"

"You have to tell them to create a ward or room perfect to withstand even AllMight's most powerful attacks then they can arrest me to put a stop to Akuma," he said and shivered, saying his other self's name.

"Deku, you can't! You just can't!" Uraraka exclaimed and Iida nodded in agreement with the girl.

"Midoriya-kun, there must be another way. We can still think of another way," but Midoriya only shook his head with a determined look.

"There is no other way. Nekta won't remove these parasites that she put in me because I'm her greatest work. She won't let that go pass through her. If you let me go out there, freely, there's a possibility that A...A- my other self will cause more damage. As a hero, I won't let that happen!" Midoriya said.

"But...Deku..." Uraraka muttered, looking sad and fazed. Midoriya smiled at her then look confidently at Iida who is giving him his signature stern look.

"Are you sure? As a hero, I would too, but as your friend-"

"You know I am right and you will do it for me," Midoriya interrupted, offering his hand which the blue haired megane stared at, "I'm fine with it. I thought about it for a long time."

Iida gave him one last mortifying look before taking the sternness once again and taking Midoriya's hand again and shaked it.

"Before any of those happens, I want to tell you that I am happy to get to know you and be your friend."

"Me too, Iida-kun."

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Merry Christmas, everyone! Two more days before Christmas and I'm excited. Well, yesterday was a bit sad and reminiscing. It's an important date for my classmates in seventh grade. It's the anniversary of one of our classmate's umm...untimely passing and I feel really bad for not being able to visit her for the second time around.

To make up for it, I went to our municipality's church and lit up a candle for her and prayed her for her soul. I wish she is well up there.

Anyway, anyway! It's nearing the end and I hope you keep on the support! Happy Holidays, everybody!

~RSE out