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Izuku Midoriya was four years old when he learned that all men are ot created equal
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“Mom, hurry, I don’t want to be late!”, Izuku said and clutched his All Might figure. “Calm down Izuku”, his mother said calmly “There are still ten minutes left until our appointment” Izuku had just turned four years old and like all the other kids he was going to go to the quirk doctor to figure out what his quirk was. Izuku was feeling really excited, he’d waited for this moment his entire life! Five minutes later they finally arrived and he rushed out of his mother's car to get insideShe jogged after him and after sitting down it didn’t take long before they got called into the doctor's office. "Good afternoon Mrs Inko”, said a grumbly voice from the inside of the office. It was a bald middle aged man with green glasses. Izuku thought that he looked kind of weird but he didn’t say anything. “Good afternoon”, the man looked down at his notebook “You’re here for your son Izuku Midoriya’s appointment, correct?” She nodded. “So what’s my quirk? I bet it’s cool like Kacchan’s quirk, he’s going to love this! Maybe it’s like All Might?”, Izuku's rambling turned into a muttering storm. “Whoa, whoa hold your horses kid!” The doctor said and Izuku stopped to look at him expectantly. “Unfortunately I have some bad news. You see this X-ray?”, he held up an X-ray of a foot. “This is your foot” “Cool” “Yeah” The doctor smiled kindly at him “Your foot has an extra toe joint. This toejoint is essentially useless. It disappeared alongside the tailbone when quirks first came into the world. But you have this toe joint. It means that you’re quirkless, I’m sorry” Izuku’s All Might figure dropped to the ground with a clang but beside that there was only silence for a few moments until the doctor awkwardly cleared his throat and told them to leave. The silence on the way back was deafening and Izuku wanted to cry. But he couldn’t, too shocked to do anything but stare into a nothingness only he could see. He was never going to get a cool quirk like Kacchan or All Might. He was never going to be like Endeavor or Best Jeanist. Never, never, NEVER! He quietly followed his mom into their house where his father was waiting for them.
“Hey honey”, he greeted his wife with a short kiss. “Did you find out what his quirk is?”tears welled up in Inko’s eyes “Love?” He asked in a concerned tone before bending down to Izuku. “Izuku, can you go to your room? Mommy and Daddy have to talk for a little while” Izuku sprinted up the stairs and locked the door to his room. He fell down to the floor and put his face in his hands. Soon after the screaming began. Even though he covered his ears it was still not enough. He still heard everything his father screamed at his mom. “What do you mean by he’s quirkless?! My son cannot be quirkless!!”, “B-but the doctor-”, “I don’t fucking care what the doctor said you bitch!” He heard a loud smacking sound and his mother sobbing, “Please Hisash-”, another sound and another sob. It continued on. For How Long? Izuku didn't know. All he could focus on was the sounds of his mother's sobs and his father's screams.
"Stop it!", he yelled, unable to bear it any longer. Then he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. It was his father. He slammed his body against Izuku's locked door. "Open up, you freak!", his father quickly lost his patience and burned Izuku's door to ashes. He looked around until he saw Izuku's form hunched up in a corner. He grabbed Izuku's throat and lifted his small body. Izuku kicked him but he was too small to make the other let go. He was starting to feel dizzy. Inko rushed into the room and wrenched her son away from her husband. "What are you doing?! Leave now!", "Or what?", "Or I'll call the fucking police!!", she screamed. He looked at them with pure flames in his eyes. Then he finally looked away. "Whore" he muttered before walking out their door for the last time.
Izuku looked up at his mother. She was bleeding in multiple places and her skin was red with angry burns. She looked at him with tired empty eyes. "Try to go to sleep", she kissed his forehead and walked away. Izuku turned around and changed into his pajamas as if in a trance. It was first when he was in bed with his All Might plushie that he realized what had happened. He put his face in his pillow and cried. He cried and cried until he had no more tears to cry. Until his eyes couldn't stay open and he fell asleep. His father's hands were once again on his neck when he dreamed.