In preparation of Midoriya's training for One For All, I devised a perfect set of plans. Midoriya already had an almost genius level intellect academically. With a bit of help from me, he was able to give an early graduation test along with me, enabling him to focus entirely on training and removing the need to attend school. Though Aunt Inko was worried about it initially, I assuaged her fears that it was my plan to help Midoriya achieve his dream.
The next few months were a constant series of physical tortures I made Midoriya go through. At one point All-Might was so scared of my training that he made me take Midoriya to an acquaintance of his, Granny Chiyo, to get healed after each session. If Midoriya was not able to complete my assigned task of the day, then I forcibly made his body complete it perfectly through my Aura Puppet Arts.
Aura Puppet Arts enabled me to control anything I attached my Aura Strings to, and I had now trained it to become strong enough to control bodies of living beings. Through the memories of the old man within me, I constantly kept modifying the routine Midoriya followed everyday, optimizing it to chip at his limits each day. His quick recovery thanks to Granny Chiyo only helped my plans even more.
It was barely through midway of the Eighth Month, when All-Might deemed that Midoriya had surpassed the limit All-Might had set to be able to inherit One For All without dying.
"Now pay attention Young Midoriya" All might said seriously "there are two components to inheriting process of One for All. First, accepting the DNA of the current holder. Second, the approval of the current holder to willingly pass on the power. You already the second, and now you only need to fulfill the first." he said while plucking off a strand of his hair. Midoriya looked at the hair horrified, looking ready to puke. I could understand the sentiment, it was an unnecessarily long hair strand.
I gestured All Might to stop before taking out my communication device. All might asked a question to me then "By the way, Young Kyoya, I always wanted to ask. didn't you ability let you communicate with someone's mind directly? Why do you need the device then?"
[My ability does let me communicate, but it does not use words. Its like my directly showing you my intent and thought. It will only feel like a bunch of emotions and understanding towards a topic that suddenly appeared in your brain. Often it can be an inefficient way in cases that need actual discussion to reach proper conclusion.]
[Back to Midoriya's case, that swallowing of hair looks gross. Can't you just let him ingest a drop of your blood? That will act as your DNA way better than a hair strand can.]
All-Might went stiff and blank at that, with his jaw dropped down comically. I was pretty sure he never thought of that solution. I even think I heard him mutter 'That means I didn't have to eat Nana-san's hair?'.
After All-Might calmed down, he threw away the hair in disgust and pricked his thumb with his teeth. It created a small wound and let out a few drop of blood. All-Might smeared it on Midoriya's finger and asked him to lick it. Midoriya obediently followed instructions, but we didn't see any change initially.
A few minutes later a weird rumbling sounds came from Midoriya's chest and stomach, signaling that One For All had begun its work. All-Might immediately began imparting Midoriya with advice on how to use it and how All-Might himself used it. But before Midoriya could act upon it, I stopped him using Aura strings.
I connected an aura string to All-Might and delivered a series of well chosen insults that left him depressed and crouching in a corner, doodling circles again. I turned to Midoriya with a stern expression and took out my communication device.
[Midoriya, forget everything that idiot taught you. All-Might is a genius at Physical combat, you can't copy his ways, if it can even be called a way. Though he doesn't mean to, his words make you think One For All is an external weapon to be used. It is not and should not be used as such, especially because your version of One For All is definitely even more powerful than what All-Might himself had.]
[One For All is just like any other quirk someone might possess. It is something that comes from within you, even if it was inherited through external means. You are no longer Midoriya the quirkless, you are Midoriya the Ninth Holder of One For All. I know its new for you. So don't use it in a hurry. Draw small amounts of it throughout your body and don't be afraid of it. Let your body acclimatize to the new sensation and energy.]
Under my instructions, Midoriya managed to control low amounts of his power and circulate it throughout his body, eliciting a pleased gasp from him. All-might came behind me to watch the progress before speaking to me "You know, I wanted him to reach the conclusion on his own. He is the Inheritor after all."
[And that is what makes you an idiot and unsuitable to teach. You gave a baby a nuclear bomb and asked it to disassemble it while not hurting itself. That is plain stupid of epic proportions. I am not making Midoriya a set of instructions on how to use his power. I am just letting him get over the illusion he had that this power is still yours.]
[He had to get used to the idea that it was his quirk now and not yours, other wise he would have tried to copy you blindly and possibly lose his life. No offence All-Might, but the fate of my family matters more to me than whatever heroic aspiration you may hold for him. Anyway, now that he has realized the truth about One For All and how it affects his body, he will be able to use it without my further guidance.]
My words turned out to be near prophetic, as Midoriya stood up a few seconds later with his hair floating in a gravity defying manner and a layer of steam rising from his body. He ran across the beach we had been training in, surpassing his previous performance by nearly ten times. He threw a rough combination of punches, kicks and parkour tricks on the various junk that had been stored on a corner of the beach.
He looked like a someone had pressed the fast forward button on a video of a kid training, and held more power in his punches and kicks than an entire team of cranes with wrecking balls. His reflexes, perception and control over his body had improved immensely, as shown by his parkour tricks.
Midoriya came towards us with a smile on his face and tears in his eyes. He thanked All-Might and me profusely for making him able to become a hero and gave a sappy speech while promising to become the best hero ever. All-Might got emotional as well and hugged Midoriya with a emotional shout.
They reminded me of a certain green-spandex wearing bowl-cut haired duo. They even had a sunset in the background, which was just a coincidence as it was time for sunset anyway, at least I hoped it was so.
I warned Midoriya not to get complacent and that he had a really long way to go before gaining full control of his Quirk. Midoriya too promised that he would train everyday and never slack off, he remembered his promise about becoming the best hero and would do his best to make it true.
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It was a day before the entrance exam of U.A. High and the entire city was buzzing with excitement. Many aspirants had come from even far away to be a part of the examination. Many hidden and influential forces had decided to send their representatives, to either participate or make note of powerful quirk owners.
Oblivious to all this, a certain green haired kid kept doing push-ups on a beach. There was a tower-like structure placed on his back, made from various junk and broken appliances welded together. There was a duo that sat on top of this tower, counting the push-ups made by the green haired kid.
One of them was a skeletal looking man with long yellow hair, the other was a young teen with an androgynous face and long hair in a mix of blue and green, with a few pinkish-orange strands. The long haired teen had a very aesthetic lean muscled body, which would make others hard to judge whether he was a girl or a boy.
It was thanks to his face being 'more pretty than handsome', as quoted by the green haired teen doing the push-ups. It was also the reason he was being made to do the torturous push-up routine by the said 'pretty-faced' teen.
".… Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Six, Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Seven, Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Eight, Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine,... and finally Ten Thousand. Well done young Midoriya, and I hope you have learned you lesson?" the skeletal man said.
"Yup, never comment on Kyoya's face. Else he would kick your ass nine ways to Sunday and then make you do a torturous exercise routine on top of it." Midoriya said while groaning exhaustedly, while putting the metal tower monstrosity down on the ground. All-Might and I jumped down and landed on the beach sand.
I refused to speak to Midoriya and just tossed a certain package to All-Might, labeled Midoriya Training Suit, before going to sit a certain cafe a few blocks down from the beach. The Training Suit I gave All- Might was something I came up with to train Midoriya while he attends U.A. I was inspired through a certain anime I saw in the memory of the old man in my mind.
It was about some alien tech called GANTZ and how it would recruit various dead people to work for it. The agents of GANTZ had a peculiar suit that was extremely durable and provided resistance to shock, impacts and damage from various elements.
It also had a strength boosting component I didn't need. Instead I wanted the suit to constantly pressurize the body muscles to let them expend more effort than normal to do even a simple task. I got the suit made for Midoriya through a custom order and it was like a body suit, so it could be worn under regular clothes too.
I also got a custom suit made for myself, but it was very different than what I got for Midoriya. Mine was a sleeve-less two piece costume, designed with militaristic features, putting efficiency over looks. It was a slim fit, hence it hugged my body like a second skin. It was extremely durable, had carbon fiber plates interwoven into the sleeveless vest, protecting ribcage, shoulders and back. The pants were like a body suit, extra padded in areas like knees and crotch to ensure shock absorption.
The entire costume was extremely breathable and even had a auto drying and thermal resistance feature. Overall, I looked cool and deadly, like an assassin or a ninja. I even ordered a set of customized boots, they could transform into hover boots in an instant, with a certain signal from my toe.
I had also worked hard on my own powers during the time I was training Midoriya. Apart from the basic controlling and communication I achieved with Aura Puppetry Arts, I now had two new abilities.
First was an ability called Enhance. It was a simple body enhancing ability, inspired from One For All. It could overcharge my body with Aura, to make it perform better than normal. Its only side-effect was that it will exhaust my Aura faster and that my will get exhausted and strained faster. However, as a improvement to One For All, I could use it on individual parts of my body without hurting them, while also able to use it on the entire body, like Midoriya's Full Cowl.
The second ability I developed was something to surpass the body limits, inspired by the motto of U.A., 'Plus Ultra'. I had even named it after the said motto. It involved me boosting my Body's Regeneration using my Aura, letting me heal quickly from injuries and even recovering my stamina. It also produced improvements in my body, depending on the stress it had undergone.
The combination of Enhance and Plus Ultra created a rapid improvement in my body quality and aura reserves. I abused the combination of this abilities constantly, especially ever since I had discovered unintentional but pleasant side effect. My body was growing stronger at a rapid pace, giving me twice as much benefit for half the work Midoriya does.
After I had calmed down, I went back home with Midoriya and told him to simply rest and not do any late night exercises. His body needed to recover from the stress he had put it through to be in top shape. I followed my own advice and rested for the night while only keeping Plus Ultra active in low amounts to recover perfectly.
The next day, both of us woke up in top condition. After a quick breakfast, both of us wore out costumes and put on a regular shirt and jeans combo over it. There was no need to stick out like a sore thumb after all. We decided to walk to U.A since we had time, while discussing the various strategies to employ in various situation.
I had to admit Midoriya was a natural in Quirk analysis and counter. The stuff he had saved up in his notebooks was priceless to any hero or villain organization. He had detailed analysis on the quirks and their weaknesses, the various situations and environments where they will be most helpful, and they measures that can be taken to counter the quirk. If there was a quirk that Midoriya can't devise a counter to, they would be of peak level quirks such as All For One, One For All, Dragonization, and My Quirk 'Aura'.
Hence I would often have these strategy meetings with Midoriya, helped me keep my mind open to new possibilities and techniques. It was also a way to be prepared for any possible situation at all times.
When we reached U.A. Entrance, a few random people joined us and started asking about us. Midoriya handled all the chatter for obvious reason while I decided to not react to them. Suddenly Midoriya stumbled on a random stone while chatting and nearly fell. One of the girls who was chatting with us suddenly put out a hand and effortlessly caught Midoriya.
After looking closely, I realized that she had not caught him, rather he was floating. The girl must have a Quirk to make things float. She carefully set Midoriya down, but before he could thank her, the bell rung and we had to enter the assembly auditorium.
The auditorium was a gigantic thing, made to hold thousands of kids easily. There was a huge screen in front with the U.A. High logo. Once everyone was assembled, we were given our ID's and a certain Pro hero called Pro Mic took care of our orientation.
The guy was needlessly enthusiastic, as if he was hosting some live concert event. His greeting of 'Hey' were met with stunned silence. The next time he asked for a 'Hey', I obliged and connected him with hundreds of my aura strings, all blasting his senses with a huge cacophony of 'Hey'.
That must have stunned him because he was silent for a few seconds, but then he recovered and continued. This time in a more serious and controlled manner. We were told about the faux villains we will be made to face. There were three main types that would score us points, a one wheeled brawler robot for one point, a scorpion like robot for two point and finally a quadruplet one that had huge missile launchers on its back for three points.
Some overly serious bespectacled kid rose up and gave some speech about U.A. forgetting to explain the fourth type and scolded Midoriya for being a fan boy and disturbing others. I simply gave him a stink eye and shut him up with an Aura String, he was disturbing everyone more than Midoriya ever managed.
After the four-eyes struggled for a while before sitting down, Present Mic continued his explanation. The final one was kind of like a unneeded obstacle with zero points and students were not required to defeat it, but the way he said and acted made me think he didn't expect most of us to be able to defeat it.
However, both Izuku and I looked at each other and nodded, we had both noticed their deception. For a hero work that is supposed to be about saving people, they were awfully focused about directing the attention of students to defeating villains. Fortunately, this was one of the things Midoriya and I discussed, the possibility of hidden parameters for the exam.
We were directed to the place for written examination after that, and I had no doubt that Izuku and I will pass with flying colors. When the time for practical came, I found myself being directed towards Area G, while Izuku was in Area B. however I was not worried, I had let Izuku gain enough practice with One For All. Unless he does something stupid and reckless he would be fine and pass this effortlessly.
I was currently standing in the middle of a group of people that were to take the practical in Area G. A little farther away from me was a peculiar Mutant/Emitter type quirk user who looked like a midget with a head made of sticky rotten grapes.
This guy's attitude disgusted me, he kept moving about in the group, staring at the boobs and asses of the various girls in the group. He even came close to molestation when he tried to sneak in a feel of a particularly well endowed one of the group.
I couldn't take it any longer and gave the guy a sideways smack, knocking him out. If he doesn't get up in time for the practical then too bad. I was about to move away to prepare myself for the faux villains but the girl I just saved, from being the victim of the perv, patted my shoulder with a grin.
"Yo, thank for the help with the little perv" She said with a grin, "The name's Itsuka Kendo, what's yours?"
I gestured that I couldn't speak and gave a friendly nod to her. She smiled back apologetically "Sorry about that, I didn't know. Umm, want to get a coffee or something later? My treat as an apology for being insensitive."
I waved it off with a smile, [Don't worry about it, not your fault. I am Kyoya Jin, nice to meet you.]
"That is a nifty way to talk" Itsuka said looking at my device with interest "Anyway we need to get ready" Itsuka said as the doors opened.
I got ready with a nod, release a multitude of invisible aura strings. Ass soon as the door opened enough for me to pass, I boosted myself with Enhance and Plus Ultra, and rushed in before the others. Once inside, I ran towards one of the tall buildings near to me and scaled it rapidly with a few well timed jumps.
I calmly surveyed the layout of the Area G, making note of the various places that hosted most amounts of the villains. Once I had prepared my mental map, I boosted my Enhance output and leapt out like a bullet. I ran swiftly along the mental path I made, demolishing the villains I encountered with a well placed punch or dismantling them with my Aura Strings. I barely took more than a second for any enemy and my points piled up rapidly.
After five minutes of this, I started noticing the reduction in the amount of available villains. Seeing that I already had over forty points now, I decided to act on the backup plan I had made based on what Midoriya and I suspected. I roamed the area, finding the participants who were injured or trapped under rubble and helped them out the best I could.
With my Aura Strings, I could easily remove the rubble and junk parts from destroyed robots like controlling puppets. I even helped those who were frozen with despair or fear move by controlling their bodies with Aura Strings. I made a improvised shelter in a corner of the Area, created from stacking the rubble and junk into a makeshift wall to protect the injured applicants there.
When it was one minute remaining before the end of the test, they released the gigantic faux villain, who was made to serve as the deterrent with zero points. As it was causing wide spread destruction, I managed to get more opportunities to save people who were caught in its attacks.
Pretty soon the sound for the completion of the exam was announced. I was joined by Itsuka while I was leaving the area, we discussed the actions we had taken and how we could have done better. I gave her some advice on how to react in certain situations.
For eg: she had a tendency to punch directly at the opponent rather than crippling then at the weak points. I pointed out that she could have taken care of the one and two pointers more easily if she attacked the wheel joints of the one pointer and the tail joint of the two pointer.
Itsuka listened to all my advice carefully and formulated her own strategies to discuss with me. I happily accompanied her in the discussion as I had nothing else to do while waiting for Izuku. Itsuka too graciously accompanied me.
"Well, I did promise you a date-- coffee together after the test. Since I have the rest of my schedule open, I don't mind waiting." While waiting we also discussed the ways she can improve upon her quirk.
Her quirk was called Big Fist, a pretty straight forward body manipulation type quirk. However, the intricacies of the quirk was much more than just expanding. At the moment she expanded her hands, her upper body, waist and legs all would have to be enhanced simultaneously too.
This was because they had to support the hand while in their enlarged state and Itsuka had mentioned that she never had any body pain while walking or fighting with her hands enlarged. When I pointed this out to her, she was surprised that she had not noticed this about her own body before blushing a bit.
[I think you can develop a unique sort of martial arts customized based on your quirk. I have heard about a sort of punching technique that focuses on unleashing maximum force of the punch when it is close to hitting the body. I think it was called 'One-Inch Fist' or something along those lines.]
[Your quirk could be perfect to devise a fighting style based on this, imagine your fist enlarging right at the moment your punch is about to connect. It would create a throwback effect along with damaging your target's internal organs based on the amount of shock force your fist would be unleashing in that one instant.]
[Plus you take advantage of the increased balanced provided by your enlarged hands and the increased strength of your legs to execute devastating whirlwind kicks or the double kick. Not to mention you could throw air shock-waves and sound attacks if you train your Big Fist properly. It is all about imagination and training.]
"Wow, you are the complete package aren't you?" Itsuka said with an admiring gaze "You are extremely strong, you are smart to the level of a genius and a complete looker to boot. How did you stay unnoticed until now?"
[the same reason why most of the unusual stuff gets overlooked. People don't like to be associated with those who are too different from themselves. Despite all the qualities you mentioned, the fact that I am too mature in my actions and the fact that I can't speak were major disadvantages to me making any friends. In fact, if not for my cousin, my friend list would probably be blank.]
"That is horrible, but I can understand. A lot of people were not too fond of me when I displayed my quirk for the first time. Can you imagine a chubby little girl suddenly growing a pair of hands bigger than her entire body? I lost all my friends with a month. It didn't help that my quirk would be uncontrollable when I was upset as a child, making them pop out at random moments. That scared the rest , who tried becoming my friend, away."
"It was only much later when I had gained control over my quirk that I gained the few friends I have now. So believe me, I totally understand your history."
[Thanks, that honestly helps a bit. You are good people, Itsuka. Most wouldn't have been so accepting of someone they just met, especially those of opposite gender.]
"Well, how could I not have a positive impression of my heroic knight in shining armor?" Itsuka said with a teasing smile and a wink "Tell you what, from today you can add me in that list of yours. Friends for life, through thick or thin."
As I smiled at her for that, I saw a certain green haired moron, who had apparently broken his arm somehow, coming towards me. I frowned in his direction and walked towards him, with Itsuka following behind interested.
[After all those hours we put into the training, how were you still injured? Please tell me you weren't impulsive and followed the plan?]
"Umm," Midoriya hedged while not meeting my eyes "Well, you see there was this girl. I was going according to the plan and managed to score a decent amount of points, but she got trapped in a pile of rubble when that Zero Pointer appeared, right in the middle of its way. I had no choice to go past the limits we discussed and destroy that Zero pointer to save her. That injured my legs slightly and my right arm will have to be rested for half a day."
[You do realize that you could have run faster than the Zero pointer easily, picked up that girl and carried her far away from that robot's range before it could get to you?] I asked and saw him stiffening [I was there when it got unleashed in our area and I know precisely the speed and strength it had.]
"Umm … he! he! he!…" Midoriya said sheepishly while scratching his head with his left hand. I gave him an exasperated expression before turning to Itsuka.
[This is my cousin Izuku Midoriya, someone who makes the paradoxical state, of being an idiot and genius simultaneously, possible. Izuku, this is Itsuka Kendo, my newest friend. We met during the exam.]
"Hi, I am Izuku" Midoriya said with left hand raised in greeting "Nice to meet you."
"Itsuka kendo here and like wise" Itsuka said "Kyoya told me about your speciality of being able to analyse quirks in depths and that you are even better at it than him. If it is true then I am mighty impressed, because I could barely get the thought process of Kyoya here, let alone someone who is even better at it than him."
"Its no big deal" Izuku said shyly.
"I am serious" Itsuka said with an arm around my shoulder "Can you believe it that this guy devised a whole new training regime for me in the time that we have been waiting for you? And from the looks of it, it is leagues better than the one I am following. I doubt even most of the newly graduated heroes have something as good. You guys lucked out in both brains and brawn, I am more of an instinctual girl myself. I make plans on the fly, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't."
"Kyoya is a great strategist, he is the one who trained me to be what I am today and also helped me get used to the various strategies I might have to employ as a hero." Izuku said "Anyway, ready to go home Kyoya?"
[You go ahead] I told Izuku [Itsuka is taking me out for a treat because I protected her from a perv.]
"Ooh-- I mean-" Izuku stopped his teasing halfway when he saw my glare "Yeah, fine. I will go ahead and rest, that is what the doctor ordered anyway. Take care and have fun!" he said while hurriedly running away to get away from me. I will get him later, it seems he didn't get it after yesterday's lesson after all.
"So," Itsuka began, clasping her hands behind her back while nervously scuffing the ground with her foot "Where would you like to go?"
[Well, there is a decent cafe that was opened near the newly cleaned horizon beach. Want to grab a coffee there? I heard there are some delicious pastries too.]
"Horizon Beach? I thought that beach was closed down because there was a lot of junk being accumulated there?"
[Well, my cousin and I did some volunteer work there. We used the junk at the beach for training, while also cleaning the beach at the same time. It is a pretty nice place to hang out and watch sunset now. Want to check it out after the coffee?]
"Yeah sure I would love to" Itsuka said with a pleasant smile and we made our way towards the cafe, discussing random stuff and interests. In a way, it was a perfect ending to a very nice day.