A Will That Transcends Death

There was a dead silence in the park.

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No one moved.

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No one spoke.

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No one even breathed.

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The kid who had been crying on the ground stared in horror...

The boy with stretchy fingers and Tsubasa had mouths agape and eyes wide with shrunken pupils...

And Katsuki…

He stood there, arm still raised from the explosion he had fired…

Into a head that wasn't there anymore.

When the police showed up with an ambulance, they found four shell-shocked boys, and a site on the ground that would make All Might vomit.

On the ground, a body much too small laid cold and pale. The boy's head was a mess on the ground consisting of bloody chunks of grey matter and green hair. The shoulders were still smoldering from the heat of the blast that killed the poor boy instantly.

The saddest part, was the tiny thing cradled in his tiny arms, as though he were still trying to protect it.

It was a young kitten, a British Short Hair, just as lifeless as the kid who loved it in life. A little bit of blood leaked from the corners of its mouth and the fur on its back was singed. The shockwave from the explosion had pulverized its small organs despite its owners efforts.

"Get the kids out of here, we'll question them later! For now contact their families, and someone set up a crime scene" officer Naomasa ordered.

"Sir," another officer approached Naomasa, "we identified the boy as an Izuku Midoryia"

It was a normal day for 4-year-old Izuku, unfortunately. He had been miserable for a while now, and today was especially crummy. His former best friend had started calling him 'deku' or useless, and his quirk had still not developed even six months after his visit to the doctor. The doctor had told him and his mother that his quirk should be developing soon, but it was showing no signs. He lacked the toe joint, so why did his quirk not show up.

'Mew' Izuku was taken out of his sulking by the quiet sound. He looked around the alley he was passing and found the source. It was a little gray kitten, no bigger than his own hand. It looked at him from its dirty cardboard box and mewed at him with big pleading eyes. And he was instantly in love with the little thing.

He gently offered his hand to it and was rewarded with rubbing and purring. He picked it up gently and began to hurry home to show his mother his new best friend.

Inko was also taken with the kitten. She was at first concerned when her son brought home a stray, but caved the second it mewled at her. In five minutes she and Izuku were giving it a bath in the sink. The water was shallow enough for the kitten to pad around and bite at the occasional bubble.

"Can we keep him mom?! Pleeeeaaase?!" Izuku pleaded. "I promise to take care of him mom!"

"Izuku, taking care of a cat is a big responsibility. It needs-" Inko was cut off by the kitten, which had previously been rubbing itself fiercely into its towel, licked her forearm affectionately.

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"Okay we can keep him" Inko said with a blank mom face (Think Kanna Kamui from miss Kobayashi), which was undercut by the kitten pressed up against her cheek that was purring like a little motorboat. "What should we call him Izuku?"

Izuku gently took the kitten from his mom, and pondered the thought as he placed the kitten on the kitchen table so he could fetch it a snack. When he came back with a small bowl of ground beef, he saw that the kitten was curled into a perfect ball.

"Tama, I wanna call him Tama."

Izuku and Tama were quick to bond to the point of being near brothers. Izuku fed him by hand and brushed him every day to help the cat grow stronger. He would bathe Tama, help him play with his toys and would even clean Tama's litter they took him to the vet to get his proper shots, Izuku was the one who held him and gave him head pets to keep him calm. For his part, Tama took his shots like a champ, licking Izuku's hand to cope with the pain. Izuku knew that as long as he had Tama, things would be alright.

"Tama," Izuku declared as the cat curled up in his lap while he watched another All Might video "when I get my quirk, I'm going to be a hero and you're gonna be my sidekick and we'll both be number one and we'll be best friends forever!" Tama looked up at Izuku, tilted his head to the side, and laid back down with a yawn.

Inko watched from the door, a watery smile on her face. She was so happy to see her son with his cat.

It was just another day in the park, Izuku was sitting on a bench using a cat teaser to play with Tama. He flailed and jumped until he finally snagged the feathers, chewing them with wide happy eyes and a cat smile. 'Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom'

Izuku giggled as he watched his best friend play. He had been so happy to have Tama to love.

'Bang' Izuku heard in the distance. Tama looked up and tilted his head, cat smile still in place. Izuku knew that noise anywhere. He saw Katsuki and his goons picking on another kid who was crying in the dirt. Izuku knew what he had to do.

He leaned down to Tama's level so the kitten would jump into his arms, and then went to confront Katsuki with Tama to give him courage.

Even if he did not have his quirk yet, he would still be a hero.

The service was a small affair, with Inko herself being too numb to even cry. Hisashi had been divorced from Inko for two years now, but he had to show up to see his son's funeral. The casket was closed due to the state of the body, even advanced science could not properly reassemble the head. Tama the kitten was kept in his master's arms, so they could cuddle forever in the afterlife.

Izuku and Tama were lowered into the ground and the casket covered. Their headstone read:

"Here lie Izuku Midoriya 22xx-22xx and Tama Midoriya 22xx-22xx

Best Friends Forever"

It was 11:01pm when a small plant sprout grew up form the center of Izuku's grave. It was the same green as the tips of Izuku's hair, stood about 2 inches tall, and had two large, thick leaves sticking up with a large, round, pink bud between them. Over the course of the night the sprout grew quickly, growing taller and thicker around.

By 12:23am it stood at 10 inches tall and the leaves had curled away from the bud.

By 1:15am it stood at 17 inches tall and had grown considerably wider. The plant was at its widest where the two leaves met the stalk. The bud was much fuller and stood on a narrowed portion of the stem. The leaves were much longer and wider, curling in a way that resembled fists and their own stems had grown. A tiny protrusion began growing out of the left leaf stem, near the center.

2:53am, the plant had grown to 26 inches tall and the two leaf stems had lengthened to the point the resembled arms, with the leaves acting as hands. The protrusion had grown now into a tiny stem with a gray bud and four leaves: two at the base and two cradling the bud.

By 5:42 the plant stood at 40 inches tall, the two 'arms' were fully formed and hung by the plants side. The leaves on the end had developed oddly, with the leaves taking on a hand like shape with five large, wide veins that each gave a 'finger' structure. The bud had bloomed into a large, pink lotus flower with 10 large, pointed petal overlapping each other. The center front petal had what looked like two slits on the front near the middle and a smattering of black spots about an inch or two below them. At the bottom of the flower's front, there was an odd protrusion that looked a little like a chin. Two petals on the side curled outwards at the top slightly, resembling cat ears.

The stem on the left 'arm' had grown up completely. It had a long stem and the bud had bloomed into a cup shaped flower with an open front. It was gray with black spot all over it, including what looked to be two holes on the front. In the flower were a number of orange anthers with two having a gray bulb on them. The four leaves looked stubby, but had grown larger. There were pink growths along where the plant met its host. The growth as a whole dangled down from where it grew from its parent's stem, like a cat hanging by its tail asleep.

At 6:45am, the sun shone down on the plant in the grave. The plants rustled and the stems bent and flexed. After 5 minutes of sunlight, the plants straightened up; the bigger smaller one standing up to point to the sky.

The slits on the lotus and the bulbs on the grey flower, opened up to reveal pure green and pure yellow, respectively.

Both eyes had black slit pupils.

Author's notes:

Hope you all enjoy. Please leave feedback, and if anyone draws fan art I would love to see it.

More will be explained later. For now, they can be seen by anyone as they were brought back by a combination of stand and quirk. Izuku is the one with a quirk: Minor Aerokinesis, he could blow air bubbles that were incredibly weak, due to this and their invisibility Izuku never figured it out. Tama has the stand stray cat which allowed him to resurrect as a plant, his proximity and love for Izuku allowed him to bring Izuku back as well. At the cost of slight fusion.