章 75: Hopes and Dreams (Final Part)
Izuku was currently on the roof of the school, thinking about the crazy things that happened today. First the usual walk to the school, well not that usual, after all he got to observe a hero battle and the vigilante Glow suddenly appearing and start scolding about the state of the ghettos in the city.
After that was school, basically just a big catastrophe for him. Well, Arata was there for him for the clutch once again. Izuku wondered, what he was to Arata?
Him saving him all the time couldn't be a coincidence, right? So that would mean that he was repeatedly saved by Arata, Izuku had to chuckle. It was kind of obvious, yet he never realized, though to be fair, nobody else realized too.
He wondered, why did Arata do this all for him? Saving him that is, he wouldn't get anything out of it after all, indeed it didn't really seem inconvenient for him, but still, what was the point?
Well, back to his day.
After school, well it was Arata once again. Well, after his other bully session with Katsuki. He remembered Aratas bright, happy smile, just moments before it continued to contort into a very scary look.
Izuku got goosebumps thinking about it again. Arata.
Just like him he was quirkless, but other than him he trained hard to keep up with his peers, so why didn't he dream of becoming a hero?
It was probably because he realized that he couldn't keep up forever. They would all grow, grow alongside their quirk and with him? He just had his strong body to train, and train, and train in a rigorous inhuman training regime and for what? Just to keep up with lazy kiddy that didn't need this kind of training to be strong.
Arata probably realized that he didn't had the time to keep up with them, that's probably why he never intended to be a hero. Meanwhile here stood he, the lazy, quirkless boy that dreamed to become a hero.
On what basis? Absolutely none, he did nothing. He didn't step one step forward towards his goal, he just sat there at the starting point, hoping for a miracle to happen.
Hoping that he would suddenly be in the goal. He scoffed at this thought, how foolish of him to think that. Arata was right, he should have given up, but despite that, he didn't. He wanted to hold onto his dream, it was everything he had after all.
His dream, his old dream of becoming a hero. It hurt thinking about it, but he didn't want to give it up just yet. Until he met All Might, he was excited, excited to meet his idol! Maybe he would believe in him, maybe he knew a way, maybe he would have given him the push to take the first step towards his dream. Train, even though it was late, there might have still been hope left.
There wasn't, All Might said it. There was no hope in becoming a hero as a quirkless, just the same as Arata realized sooner than him. Arata trained and was strong, but he realized that there was no point in becoming a hero. He might have made it, but surely not very far, and as an unpopular hero you won't earn enough for a living.
Izuku sighed, he climbed over the railing and stood on the little ground that was left over it. He breathed in. He thought about the rest of the day.
Him saving a little kid, well not really. Turns out nobody's life was ever in danger. He read the just published articles, the news was really fast.
The gist of it was, Glow is bad, but Bullman too, because he faked his achievements. Though this time there were a lot of people on her side.
Izuku didn't care anymore though, this would be the end. He breathed out once again and opened his eyes.
He looked into the distance. The sunset was really beautiful here. He jumped. He just jumped light heartedly with a smile on his face.
The only thought that run through his head was...
"...the only thing I will regret in this life would be, worrying you once again, mother. I am sorry for being such a bad son. I hope you can forgive yourself for not being there for me, because you didn't. It was my fault, not yours."
"YOU IDIOT!"
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Chara was running with break neck speeds towards the school.
Yes, Chara, not Akane. Why?
"Why are you forcing me to run! Run yourself!"
"It's because you can actually use some magic, while I can't! You have reached your true image aka your soul-core! I didn't. Now run! He literally just reached the school!"
"Partner, you know that this is really straining for me, right? This body isn't supposed to use magic and I am basically forcing it with one eighth of a soul."
Akane sighed, she felt a little bad.
"Chara, you can take as much rest after you want after this. But my gut tells me that this is something I have to do, so please forgive me this once for putting you in harm's way."
Chara breathed heavily and gave Akane a big, toothy smile.
"It's fine, I have your back in things like this. But I won't be really active for some months though. Promise me that you will find that shop each night and buy some chocolate from there."
"Isn't the big sister there getting angry for you locating her shop each night though?"
"Who cares? It's funny!"
And so, Chara landed directly in front of Aldera Middle School.
"Here, the body. Keep your promise! You won't hear from me for a month or so, bye!"
"Good night, partner."
"Hehe, you called me partner, partner."
And with that it was a temporary goodbye between the two of them. Akane still had to save Izuku though, but at least she knew where he was. He was already on the roof, beyond the railing.
"DAMMIT!"
Akane started to panic, she hoped that he would at linger there for some moments. Just enough time for her to save him.
She sprinted, she sprinted with all her might. She ran with top speed into the school building, ran with top speed to the supply room to grasp a rope, ran the stairs up with top speed. She managed to scale the entire building in under half a minute!
But that wasn't fast enough, she just saw Izuku jumping up into the air as she reached the roof.
She wouldn't make it.
"Sigh. Seal fourteen decision start."
"Flowey. Allowed."
"Napstablook. Allowed."
"sans. yes."
"Papyrus. Allowed."
"Asriel. Allowed."
"Five out of fourteen seals released. Activating, change! Time Alter!"
Suddenly time started to run slower for Akane. It seemed like everything stood still, but she saw that Izuku was still slowly falling.
Akane wanted to run towards him, but sadly she realized that she too was slowed down. What would be the point in this if she is slowed down too?
"Sigh. Didn't you train something for situations like this?"
Right. It was just a silly idea she once had, but what would happen if she managed to kick off the ground ten times in the blink of an eye? The answer was ridiculous, she would launch of the ground very fast!
The problem was that she didn't control it very well and that she kind of ripped a couple of her muscle fibers trying to use it. Having to explain this to her mother was difficult, getting this treated was difficult!
But now was not the time for these doubts and so Akane tried using this technique. As fast as possible did she try to step ten times in a blinks eye and before she knew it, she launched with normal speed (in her perspective) to Izuku.
She was happy that the rope she took was a lifeline rope. She could easily attach it to the railing as she reached it.
Oh, and she didn't forget to say the very important words, before grabbing Izuku.
"YOU IDIOT!"
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Izuku was surprised to say the least. In one moment, he launched himself from the roof of the school in the next moment he heard a loud 'you idiot' while being simultaneously being grabbed by a person on the waist.
The next moment he knew was the moment he crashed into the wall of the school. It didn't really hurt that much though, Arata took the blow for him.
Arata?
"Arata-kun! What are you doing here? No, why are you here? How..."
"This all doesn't matter! The fact that matters is that you idiot just tried to commit suicide! Are you really tired of living, just because someone told you that your goal is impossible? Because in all honestly, they should piss off! It never is too late to change! It is never too late to try! Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen, there are no wrongs in life! The only thing you can do wrong is giving up your chance on it!"
Izuku started to cry.
"Seriously? You are crying because I said to you that you should try? Bakugou was right in calling you a crybaby! Anyways, just because things seem hopeless, they rarely are so! Just now with you nearly jumping down here, my heart nearly gave out as I saw that I was almost too late, I mean you were already jumping down! But here I am, successfully managing to grab you!"
Izuku had to laugh at his cheerful words, even now in this predicament he tried to help him. He was happy that someone put his trust in him.
"Anyways, what now? I mean, we are hanging on a lifeline here, literally. I can't really grab the rope to pull us up, and with how things are looking, we won't receive any help until after the weekend. So, if you have any plans, you should cancel them now."
Izukus heart fell downstairs hearing this, they are going to hang here for two days?
"You didn't prepare anything else?"
"Nope."
This was the answer he got. Arata even answered with a beaming smile. Izuku just had to laugh, Arata followed suit.
"HEL..."
Luckily, they were already pulled upwards.
"HaHaHa! I am here! Don't worry, I have your back. Now let me..."
He just suddenly started coughing blood and lost grip on the rope.
"Hey be careful there! Don't get into all your heroism mode if that distracts you from helping us!"
"But I don't have the strength to..."
This continued on for another rough five minutes, but eventually, they reached the roof again.
Izuku huffed for hair as he finally reached the rooftop, but what surprised him more was the sight in front of him.
Arata suddenly pulled several hairbands out of his hair and suddenly it got very long. He unbuttoned his school shirt, revealing his chest a bit. It was bound.
"Oh man, having fake short hair feels really scuffed, and especially with your chest bound so tight!"
After a while he...
...she managed to unbound the bandages around her chest, only leaving her chest binder to cover up her chest.
All Might, no Yagi and Izuku looked at the girl surprised. She was really beautiful.
"What? Surprised seeing my true form? I mean, I understand with Izuku being all surprised, but didn't you already find out that I was a girl, All Might?"
"No, I mean, you are..."
"YOU ARE SEIGI AKANE, I AM ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS! CAN I HAVE A..."
He just got his notebook slammed into his face.
"Same page as All Might's, have my autograph."
Izuku looked with beaming eyes, he met his favorite idol today and his favorite hero, this would have been a good day didn't all the bad things happen.
Meanwhile Akane was binding her hair into a ponytail and spinning like crazy. At the end of her spin she suddenly wore Alderas female uniform.
"Man, what a hard day. Tailing you and preventing you from suiciding, seriously what is wrong with you?"
"You were stalking me?"
Izuku didn't know what to think about the fact that his favorite idol was stalking him.
"Should I have not? I mean you were the only other quirkless person that I ever met that wanted to be a hero, the same a me. I was interested what you did for it, turns out you did nothing, what a bummer."
"Wait? Didn't you say that you didn't want to be a hero?"
Akane laughed.
"Arata said that. Akane plans to be a hero after she was an idol! So, don't go around thinking that I thought that I can't keep up with the other brats, all right?"
Izuku got read, not only because he was embarrassed for thinking exactly that, but because she got uncomfortably close to him.
"Ähem."
All Might was still here.
"Right, you are still here, why?"
"Young Akane, I came to think about your words and your personal story. I wanted to make some corrections."
Akane nodded. Izuku didn't know what to think about it.
"I came to think about your words. About me being the symbol of peace, that I didn't know how you two felt then hearing me say that quirkless don't stand a chance. For that I must say that, I am sorry. I once knew, but after all these years I simply forgot how it was, I was busy fighting villains, protecting civilians after all."
Akane scoffed, he wasn't here just to apologize, she could feel it.
"Get to the point."
"So, you knew, huh. Akane, you are worthy of inheriting my power."
Izuku was surprised hearing this, inheriting his power?
"My quirk is a quirk that can get passed down. It's like the sacred torch in the legend! And I, All Might, have chosen you to inherit this power! You have the virtue, the strength and the righteousness to inherit it."
Izuku was surprised hearing this.
"It's the power to transfer power and the name of that ability that I've been entrusted with is...
...One for All."
Izuku was surprised hearing this, One for All. An incredible ability, it basically said that one person trained and culminated strength, which he would then pass down to someone else, so he can continue to culminate it.
Izuku was jealous, with that he could become a hero, but he couldn't blame anyone. Why would All Might choose him, when there is such a perfect candidate in front of him, it was nonsensical.
"Normally you would need a strong vessel to hold this power, but I can already see that you are plenty strong, so we can skip all that training procedure. So, do you want to inherit my strength, Seigi Akane?"
Said girl just gave them a beautiful, dazzling, blinding, big, smile. Both the man had to gulp at that beautiful sight.
"No."
Was her answer.
Silence.
""EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!""
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Outside the universe, in another realm:
Two goddesses laughed their gut out, the reaction was just priceless.
(Glad you two like it!)
Both of them just gave the Hikkikomori a thumbs up.
(I am happy! Thank you!)
"Can we do something for your vessel?"
(Honestly, you can't! Bye!)
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HopelessHikikomori Hippity Hoppity, a second chapter for you good fans!
Good, I really wanted to finally finish this Hopes and Dreams arc! I managed to squeeze 8 chapters of content from a single chapter of the original thing! That's crazy!
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