Prologue

Welcome everybody! Welcome, to this new story that I couldn't help to write. To be honest I wanted to write it a long time ago, but that's another story for another time. Now, you probably read the summary but here are the most important points of the story:

Izuku won't get OFA.

Izuku will be a villain for most part of the story.

The pairing is undecided.

Izuku powers will be inspired by many characters that use shadows, like Shikamaru, Zed, Moria, etc.

Izuku personality will be somewhat serious.

And that's all. Now, we can begin.

Legend:

"Talking."

'Thinking...'

Prologue: A Good Villain

"And don't come close to us, you shadow freak!"

Izuku looked down to the floor with tears in his eyes as the other kids left to play without him. Because his quirk is different.

According to the doctor, he has what is called a 'sentient quirk'. A quirk that in its own way, is alive.

Izuku with wet eyes, looked to the wall where his shadow extended itself "Y-You want to play with me, right?"

The shadow quickly nodded as he gave Izuku his thumbs up.

Izuku grinned "Really? S-So are we friends too?"

The shadow grabbed a piece of itself and wrote with it 'Best Friends Forever'.

More tears came to Izuku's eyes, but this time were from joy. "T-Thank you! Hey, do you have a name?"

The shadow shrugged as it shook its head "No? Then what about I give you a name?" The shadow nodded excitedly and Izuku put his hand on his chin. "What about... Nara?"

The shadow thought about the name before giving Izuku a thumbs up as a grin formed on its face.

"That's great Nara! We are going to be great friends, we are going to have adventures and do all kind of awesome things!" Izuku cheered as Nara pumped his shadow fist to the air.

*Some Days Later*

"So, what you want to do Nara?" Izuku asked to his friend that shrugged. Izuku knew that Nara couldn't talk, for him being his shadow, so he had to learn what his gestures meant. A shrug is either, a no, I don't know or anything that you want.

"Well, do you want to go to the park today?" Nara made from his side another shadow that seemed to resemble Kachan but with two devil-like horns popping from his head. Izuku smiled at him "Don't worry Kachan won't be there today. He said something about going to a trip with his family."

Nara grinned as he nodded. They headed to the park with Izuku talking to Nara excitedly as the shadow listened with awe to every single word. They arrived to the park and Izuku sat on the sandbox and Nara watched him make a sand castle.

Izuku was still talking to Nara about heroes and about how great they would become by saving people. He stopped when he felt someone cover the sun from him.

He looked up to see a pale man with light-blue hair and red eyes looking at him "With who are you talking?"

Izuku gulped as he looked at the scary man "W-With N-Nara..." He said and the man, or teen, raised a brow.

"And who the hell is 'Nara'?"

The shadow of Izuku moved on its own and waved its hand to show the strange teen who he was.

"You did that?"

Izuku shook his head "No, Nara is alive. He can do anything that he wants."

The teen nodded as he turned around "Well that was interesting. Bye kid."

"W-Wait mister!" Izuku screamed and Tomura looked at him over his shoulder.

"What is it?"

"D-Do you want to play with me and Nara?" Izuku asked and Nara put his hands together like in a pleading manner.

The teen rolled his eyes as he walked to the sandbox "Ugh, fine. I'm Tomura by the way."

Izuku grinned "My name is Izuku!"

They played until the sky went dark. Izuku looked up and saw that Nara was now barely visible. "We should go. Mom will get worried if we don't arrive soon."

Tomura nodded "Want me to take you there? The night can be dangerous."

Izuku eyes brightened "Really!? Can you stay to eat too?"

Tomura shrugged "Sure. Why not."

Izuku cheered and guided Tomura to the building were him and his mom live. Tomura was hearing to Izuku ramble about their day together and how happy he was to have another friend besides Nara.

Tomura seemed disinterested but inside was a little confused. He barely knows the kid and he already think they are friends? Why? They just made a couple of stupid sand castles and that's it. Well, what else can he expect from a kid that his only friend its his own shadow.

They arrived to the building and Izuku guided Tomura up with a more visible Nara due to the lights of the building.

Tomura was honestly surprised by the hospitality of the Midoriyas. The mother simply asked if he was a friend of Izuku, thing that the kid answered for him, and done, he was welcomed to eat there and Izuku even invited him to have a sleepover.

He was about to accept when he saw all the All Might crap that was in the room.

After leaving he decided to see this brat and his shadow more often.

Maybe they will like video games?

*Weeks Later*

Tomura was angry. No. That's too short...

He is furious.

News broke out of a fire in Musutafu that consumed a building and they were little survivors. Now, this wouldn't bother Tomura too much, if it wasn't the fact that the building was the one were the Midoriyas lived in.

They showed the faces of the survivors and released a breath of relief seeing there was Izuku face. Sadly, Inko's was nowhere to be found.

"Tomura, stop." Kurogiri said as he saw Tomura starting to scratch his neck. Tomura stopped and glared at the TV.

"It's not fair... What the fuck were the heroes doing!? Waiting for the press to arrive!?"

"Who knows. For now, we should focus on young Midoriya." The bartender said and Tomura nodded. Right. Izuku, he is hurt and alone, surrounded by strangers. He knows that if Nara gets hurt by light or fire, Izuku will too. What if he can't walk? Or move his arms? Or-

"Tomura!" Kurogiri snapped as Tomura went for his neck again.

"Kurogiri... I want you to do something." Kurogiri raised a brow but nodded, waiting to hear the plan of his fellow villain.

*5 Minutes Later*

Izuku opened his eyes after being swallowed by that black mist that apeared next to him expecting the worse. When he did, he saw Tomura with a cake next to him.

"Tomura?... What's going on?" Izuku asked and Tomura grinned.

"This? This is your welcoming party!" Tomura exclaimed and Izuku looked behind him to see Kurogiri nodding his head.

"Wha-What do you mean?"

"Young Midoriya, we heard what happened these past days." Kurogiri said and Izuku looked down, feeling tears in his eyes remembering the event.

Tomura seeing that decided to act quickly "But! We decided to give you a place to stay. Here with us! Isn't it great!?"

Izuku wiped the tears from his eyes and looked at Tomura "Y-You mean it?"

Tomura nodded "I do."

Izuku couldn't hold back anymore. He ran and jumped to hug Tomura as he cried in his shoulder. Nara extended itself to the wall and hugged Kurogiri's shadow and the person reacted to the hug.

"Hey, Tomura..."

"Yeah?"

"You are my new favorite hero now." Izuku whispered making Tomura widen his eyes before grinning.

"Whatever kid."

And done! This took me more time than expected. If I am not wrong, I started to plan this story in 2017, started to write in December last year, and just now to publish it. So yeah, a long time. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the prologue of 'A Shadow'. I honestly don't know what else to say, so I'll leave a question:

Who should be the pairing?

This is open to vote for any girl in Izuku's age group. Leave your answer in the Reviews or PM me. Follow and Favorite me and the story.

Till Next Time.

Roy D. Harper.

Next Chapter: Evolving