Chapter 1

Hey guys. This is my first fanfic, so please, criticize me, but no unnecessary flaming ok? Thanks for reading!

Not all men are born equally. This was a fact Izuku Midoriya learned at a very young age. You see, in this super powered society, 80% of the world's population is born with a superpower, or, more commonly named, a "Quirk". This is a story unlike the one you know, where Midoriya is born quirkless. Midoriya had been born with a quirk, albeit a weak one. Midoriya's quirk is called portal, which allows him to create a portal as far as he can see, though he can only make them as big as his index finger. While his quirk may have been useful, their small size inhibits them from being hero material. In fact, his quirk is almost absolutely useless.

Enter Katsuki Bakugou, Midoriya's childhood friend since before they could even remember. After they both developed their quirks, Bakugou was extremely praised, and as his arrogance grew, so did a rift in their friendship. Midoriya, however, still thought that they were still friends, but he was proven wrong one day, when he stepped in to stop Bakugou and his friends from hurting another kid.

"Why are you so mean Kacchan?" Midoriya cried out. Bakugou Katsuki, otherwise known as "Kacchan" put his fist in his other hand and made another explosion.

"Because you're useless," Kacchan smirked. "Just a useless Deku!"

That was 10 years ago, when Midoriya realized that all men are not born equally.

Now it was ten years later. At this point, he was at age 14, and Midoriya was in his last year of middle school. As the teacher droned on about career paths, Midoriya wasn't paying too much attention, just trying to keep his head down and write in his notebooks.

He zoned out until the teacher said, "Oh, you're also going for UA, aren't you Midoriya?" Everyone turned to him, dead silent… Midoriya waited with baited breath, hoping someone, anyone, would say anything. Then, as if answering his request in the worst way possible, they all burst out laughing. There were comments like

"No way!"

"Good grades alone won't get you in!"

Midoriya stood up nervously, to deny their statements, but before he could even get a word in, the top of his was completely scorched, knocking him back down in the process. As Midoriya expected, it was his once childhood friend with a literally explosive temper, of course, due to his quirk, explosion.

"The rest of these losers can do something…" Bakugou grinned. "You're quirk is totally useless! Go ahead! Tell me what you could possibly do with a portal?!"

"W-well, t-there's n-no harm in t-trying? Right?" Midoriya said while on the ground.

The class only continued to laugh, causing Midoriya to look down dejectedly at the floor. At one point, Midoriya may have had friends, but, for some reason or another, Bakugou had turned everyone against him, just for the sake of it. Midoriya still didn't understand how he could do that to someone he used to call a friend.

At the end of the school day, Midoriya scrolled through his phone, looking at an article about the criminal incident that he had been to earlier.

'The incident this morning is all over the web!' Midoriya thought as he scrolled through his phone. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but this time, the giantess hero, Mt. Lady had made her debut, although at the cost of Kamui Wood's victory.

He got up and was leaving with his 13th notebook, but a hand snatched it away.

"We ain't done here Deku." Bakugou put his hand up.

"Wait, Kacchan! We can talk abo-" Midoriya's voice died in his throat as Bakugou put his hand up to it and activated his quirk, completely decimating it. After that, he tossed it out the window into the pond. Bakugou was saying something, but Midoriya couldn't hear, as his heart was pounding in his ears. All his work, really the only thing keeping him going every day, ruined in a matter of seconds. Midoriya was shaken out of his shock, he felt his shoulder burning.

"... What I'm sayin' is don't even dare of going to UA, nerd." his friends smirked, laughing when Midoriya said nothing. They turned to leave.

But before they went, Bakugou turned around and said, "Oh yeah. If you want to be a hero, take a swan dive off the roof and hope you're born with a better quirk in the next life!" Midoriya turned to glare at Bakugou, but one glare back sent him back into a shaking mess. Midoriya looked to the ground. Even Bakugou's friends grimaced at his word, thinking he had went too far.

Midoriya went to go pick up his notebook, yanking it from a few fish in the pond. Midoriya turned and stared at the school for a bit, remembering Bakugou;s especially harsh words. Midoriya turned away, and began to walk home walk home.

'Stupid Kacchan! Why would you say that? if I actually jumped, you would be charged with bullying into suicide!'

Unfortunately, this was not an irregular occurrence for Midoriya. Almost all of his life, he had been told he couldn't be a hero. Even his own mother couldn't bring herself to say he could be a hero. That's why Midoriya kept trying, studying heroes feverously. It was all kept in the notebooks, one of which Bakugou burned.

'That's while I'll keep walking with my head held high! I will be a hero!' Midoriya thought with conviction, wiping away the tears forming in his eyes from remembering his early childhood memories. Midoriya laughed loudly, as All Might would.

"Hehehehe… what a great impression of All Might!"

Midoriya turned to see a girl about his height, with long pink hair. Her eyes bore into him, probably because they looked like crosshairs. She laughed at him without restraint, which wasn't anything new to Midoriya, but he was in a pretty foul mood after the events.

Seeing his face darken at her laughter, she stopped. "Sorry about… that?"

Midoriya stared at her, confused. No one had ever really apologized to him

"The name's Mei Hatsume! Sorry, I'm better with machines than I am with people. You know, people are just so hard to figure out, right… um…"

Midoriya helped fill in the silence. "M-Midoriya. I-Izuku Midoriya."

"Psht! That's boring. I'm gonna call you Midori! You know, 'cause of the green hair."

Midoriya had already been blushing, as he never talked to girls, but the new nickname made his face turn an interesting shade of strawberry, causing Hatsume to chuckle.

"Well, it's been fun, but I got to go! Babies to make and all." She turned to leave and Midoriya was left a stuttering mess.

"B-b-b-babies?!"

"My inventions of course!" Midoriya sighed in relief, and when he looked up, she was already walking the other way, with one hand raised in a farewell.

"I guess I'll see you later, Midori!"

Midoriya waved back. His spirits had been effectively raised, and Midoriya felt a lot better about himself. As he walked under the overpass, he realized one thing.

'I just talked to a girl!'

He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the green sludge forming behind him. The villain surrounded Midoriya on all sides, leaving him unable to escape.

"Finally! My first good catch of the day!"

Midoriya shield his face in fear, as the villain took a hold of Midoriya and started to suffocate him. Midoriya tried to claw at his face, but the sludge kept coming back, cutting off his airway.

'Can't… breathe! Body… getting weak…' Midoriya panicked. It was long shot, but he tried to use a portal on one of his nostrils, to get back some air, but due to his lack of practice, it didn't work on the liquid like substance.

'Am I gonna die? No! Someone help! I'm dying!'

The villain only grinned more. "Don't struggle kid! It'll only make this more painful for you!"

Just as Midoriya started to lose hope, as the lack of oxygen started to make him lose consciousness, he heard a familiar voice, not from personal connection, but from on television.

"Fear not kid!" someone stated. "I AM HERE!" "Texas… SMASH!"

As Midoriya lost consciousness, he thought 'n-no way… is that... A-All Might?'

"Kid. Kid. Kid. Hey kid!" All Might slapped Midoriya on the face until he woke up. Midoriya jolted awake and just screamed. It seemed as if All Might didn't notice the incessant screaming and continued.

"Sorry to get you caught up in my villain work, but I am new to the city!" All Might stated in a charismatic fashion.

"Now, I must be off now kid!" Midoriya scrambled to his feet, desperately looking for his notebook, only to find All Might had already signed it. It was open with All Might written across both pages.

"OhmygodThankyouAllMightthiswilbeafamilyheirloomthatwillbepasseddownforgenerations..." Midoriya rambled on, only to look at All Might preparing to jump away. "All Might wait!" Despite it, Midoriya's cry was left unheard.

As All Might flew he could have sworn that he heard something… or someone. He looked down to see Midoriya clinging to his pants leg.

All Might, for once, started to panic. "Hey kid, let go!" All Might exclaimed. "I love my fans, but this is too much!"

Midoriya, couldn't really move his face, with the wind pressure, and it took all he had to hang on, and he refused to let go. "Are you kidding? If I fall from this high I'll die!"

All Might frowned and coughed up a bit of blood. "Fair enough kid!"

All Might and Midoriya landed on the rooftop, with Midoriya gasping for air after traveling so fast.

"Of all the…" All Might grumbled. "Hopefully the people downstairs will help us get down. But I'm running out of time!"

As All Might prepared to jump once more, Midoriya gathered up the courage to ask the question that weighed heavily on his mind. "C-Can I become a hero with a quirk like mine?"

All Might paused. He was short on time, but not so much as to not be able to answer a simple question. He might as well answer the boy. "Well, what is your quirk?"

Midoriya looked down, explaining his relatively weak quirk, "Well I can create portals, but they can only be about ½ inch…"

All Might was expecting to be able to say yes and go on with his day but…

"I'm sorry to say-" All Might felt steam coming from his body, and for the second time today, he panicked. 'Shit! Of all the timing!' there was a puff of smoke and in All Might's place was a skeleton. Midoriya was looking down, awaiting an answers, but when some steam wafted his way, he looked up to see the skeleton of a man.

"WHAT?! Where's All Might?" Midoriya shouted. "You're all shriveled up! You're not him!"

All Might looked at him and said "I am All Might." while coughing up a large amount of blood. All Might heaved a sigh and sat down against the gate. Seeing Midoriya's dumbfounded face, he explained in one of the most confusing ways possible.

"I'm like a guy who sucks in his gut at a pool." All Might pulled up his shirt to reveal a scar. No, not a scar, more like a disfigurement. It ran up the whole side of left side of his torso. It looked like someone had taken out the whole left side of his torso, and then a five year old tried to stitch it back together.

"Five years ago, a villain did this to me…" The only thing Midoriya could do was cringe away in slight disgust and worry. "Now, because of the after effects, I can only do hero work for 3 hours a day." All Might looked up.

"Was it Toxic Chainsaw?" Midoriya's wracked his brain, and that was the only possible battle that made sense.

All Might only continued to stare upwards. "No, he couldn't do this to me. I kept this away from the public. The Symbol of Peace must never be daunted by evil." Midoriya was taken aback by All Might's unusually grim tone.

"Can you become a hero with a quirk like yours? I don't think so. If you want to save people, you could always be a police officer. They are mocked, stated to just be the cleanup crew, but it's a fine profession." He said this, but it fell on Midoriya's deaf ears. He had lost him at 'I don't think so.' The one he looked up to had just told him that 12 years of dreaming were a waste of time. All Might turned to leave, and as All Might opened the door and walked down the stairs, he heard an explosion in the distance. Looking out of the window, he saw a fire had broken out. All Might patted his pocket, where the villain was supposed to be, only to find it not there. All Might's eyes widened in shock, realizing his mistake.

"Oh no…"

LINE-

"We need to wait for someone with the right quirk to show up!" Death Arms, a pro-hero shouted.

Water Hose yelled back, "Yeah, well until then, keep the damage to a minimum!"

Meanwhile, All Might had finally made it to the scene, although he wasn't in his hero form. He was forced to just watch, standing among the crowd.

'How could this have happened!' He thought back to the incident with his fan.

'It must have happened back then… Shit!"

Said fan was walking down the street, utterly shattered from his idol's crushing words. He could take the word of his classmates and those around him, but All Might? That was beyond brutal.

'Even the best of the best said it… Don't cry! You already knew this… But I tried so damned hard…'

As he walked, he turned to see the disaster unfolding to his left. 'Just give it up...'

Despite that thought, Midoriya found himself being drawn to the scene. He just couldn't kick his old habits, even in despair. The next thing he saw though, made him want to vomit. It was the sludge villain All Might had saved him from

Seeing him was a shock, as All Might had caught him. He was freaking All Might! He doesn't fail! Then Midoriya remembered when he clung to his idols pants in mid-air.

'Oh no, I did this!' Midoriya covered his mouth with his hands. 'I'm so sorry! Whoever it is, I'm so sorry!'

All Might was nearby in the crowd, clutching his injury, in both pain and frustration.

'Shit! I can't do anything but sit and watch! But that's all anyone can do right now…' Then, before anyone could register it, Midoriya ran right at the sludge villain.

'What the hell?!' Midoriya though as he ran. "Why am I running?" Then he remembered. The sludge villain just happened to turn, and he could see Bakugou, looking at him in pure terror.

He barely had time to formulate a plan as he ran, but he remembered a page of his notebook. He put a small portal on his jacket, and on the side of the sludge villain's eye. Then he thrust his middle finger in the portal and poked the villain as hard as he could, stunning the villain long enough to buy Bakugou a few seconds.

"Kacchan!"

Bakugou glared, but still panicked. "Deku? Why are you here?!"

Midoriya smiled desperately. "You looked like you needed saving!"

In the background, All Might grit his teeth.

'Pathetic… I should practice what I preach.' Midoriya felt a gust of wind behind him, and then saw All Might grab Bakugou's arm.

"A pro should always be willing to risk his life! DETROIT… SMASH!"

With that punch, the villain was blown to pieces, scattered among the street. The punch also happened to knock the boys unconscious.

One bystander looked up. "What the hell…? The reason for this was the sudden change in weather.

"Holy shit! He just changed the weather with a single punch!"

Afterwards, Midoriya began to walk home, as he was before all of that day's events had occurred. Midoriya was sure that his mother would be extremely worried. Looking back on the incident, Midoriya was was scolded for being so reckless, while Bakugou was praised for having a great quirk. Typical. On his way down a street, he was stopped by a voice

"Deku!"

Midoriya turned. It was Bakugou standing behind him.

"I didn't need your help, I could've saved myself, you stupid fucking nerd!" He turned on his heel and stalked off.

'What a tough guy…' Midoriya sweatdropped. He turned to continue walking home, when another person stopped him, sliding onto the street.

"I am here!" All Might entered dramatically.

"All Might? Why are you here? You were surrounded by reporters!"

If it were possible, he would have grinned wider.

"Shaking them off was nothing to me! After all, I am All Mi-!" His dramatic entrance was cut off by him coughing up blood again. "Anyway… I've come to thank you. Without you, I would have been as fake as my muscles!" Midoriya tried to deny it but All Might cut him off.

"I'm going to cut to the chase. There are stories of heroes when they were young. They say they rushed into danger without thinking. I believe the same is true for you, is it not? To think, someone whose quirk is practically useless, rushed headfirst into danger, even among all of the pros. That spurred me into action. You have the attributes of a true hero." Midoriya kneeled and started sobbing, not of sadness, but of joy. "Do you understand? What I am saying is that you, you CAN be a hero."

(A/N) Oh boy, the first chapter of the fanfiction done! Ok, so to whoever reads this, I'm sorry I'm a terrible writer. But that aside, a lot of the flaws you may have seen were intentional. Such as skipping Midoriya's tragic backstory or sticking so close to the cannon, that you can't even tell he has a quirk. I'll answer all questions in the next chapter. Thanks for reading you, lubbly people!

(Note from future me: How do you like the revised version? Hopefully it's better. I'm gonna go slap past me for his negligence of the quality of his story.)