Prologue

        All men are not born equal.  

This was the lesson that Izuku had learnt from a very young age.

Toshinori Yagi took over as his father at the age of 1, ever since his actual father, Hishashi Midoriya, left and never came back.

His half sister Izumi was born that year,  and they had great friends -

Katsuki, Shoto and Shoka Todoroki.

They all wanted to become heroes and were best friends.........

    That is,  until the day Izuku's life shattered.

Flashback

Three green heads can be seen going into a clinic. Two kids and their mom.

Today little Izuku and Izumi get to know their quirks. For young aspiring heroes, it's the crucial moment in their lives.

At the doctor's office

"Well, I have good news and bad news, Ms. Yagi. What would you like to hear first?" Asked the doctor to the excited trio.

Inko thought this over for a moment.

"Umm... The good news, please."

  Doc -," The good news is that young Izumi here has a very strong power up quirk. Imma call it stock.

Basically, her energy gets stockpiled as  she grows older. It gives her boosted strength but if she overdoes it, she ends up with burnt muscles."

Izumi smiled up to her mom.

"Yay, mom! Now I can be a powerful hero like All Might!"

"Yes you can, sweetie!" replied mom.

'Wow, I wonder what my quirk is'  thought Izuku.

"Umm... as for the bad news.. "the doctor began. 

  They all listened eagerly.

"I'm sorry, kid. It ain't happening," the doctor said,  turning to Izuku sadly.

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Nothing could be heard as Izuku's All Might figurine fell on the floor.

Yes, in a world where 80% of people manifested certain superpowers called quirks, poor Izuku was part of the unlucky 20%.

The doctor sadly explained why he wouldn't manifest a quirk, but Inko didn't seem to care. She was simply too focused on Izumi.

As they drove home, Izumi felt sad for Izuku. It seemed as if the whole world had fallen down for him.

He thought things would be better when they got home, but....

"How did the tests go?" asked an impatient Toshinori to Inko.

"It seems Izuku here is quirkless, but main thing is that Izumi has a very powerful quirk called stock!" She exclaimed.

   Toshinori smiled and lifted Izumi on his shoulders.

All this time, Izuku was in the corner, hurt by how his family didn't even acknowledge his existence.

Well, being the kind person that he was, he didn't want to ruin Izumi's special day, so he quietly went up to his room to weep.

    Things were sure to get better by tomorrow, right?

   Wrong

His parents completely forgot about him. They prepared a banquet breakfast for Izumi, saying a strong hero has to eat up to get stronger.

But it wasn't over yet

When he and his sister went to the playground to play with their friends, the kids immediately started discussing their quirks.

When they found out Izuku was quirkless, all shot pitiful glances at him.

Izumi shared her concern of Izuku hurting himself on the way to becoming a hero.

Then Katsuki had an idea.

Izumi went up to Izuku.

"Do you still wanna be a hero, big bro?"

"Yes! More than ev-" he was cut off as Katsuki punched him in the gut.

"Give up your damn dream, Deku!"

"You'll never be a hero," Shoto said as he froze him over.

Izumi was more than happy to join in with them.

Shoka just stood there, pitying him, not knowing what to do.

Thus began the hellish life of Izuku Midoriya.

He would go to school, get beat up to a pulp by his sister and her friends, then come back home with bruises, which his worthless excuses of parents couldn't notice because they were too focused on their princess, Izumi!

He learnt how to bandage himself and live independently, not that his family helped him out.

He felt so alone,  like no one cared, a quirkless person could never accomplish his dream, always be cast down, always be rejected.

The poor boy was on the verge of breaking, giving up, much to the anticipation of his 'friends'.

But then,

His hopes rose when he met David Sheild.

The former All Might sidekick was surprisingly a good friend of his dad, and had recently moved to their locality.

Uncle David had always been nice to him and Izumi, and his house was always open to them.

Izuku would often come by their house to play with Melissa when he wasn't getting beat to a pulp by his 'friends' and so,  he grew close to the Sheilds.

The thing he admired most was that Uncle David was also quirkless, and he still  didn't give up on his dream.

He took him as a role model, and model father.

But still,  as close as they were, Izuku had never opened up to him about what was going on in his life.

So still,

He kept on pushing, harder than yesterday, no matter how many times Izumi and gang bashed him, no matter how many times they abused him, he kept pushing.

He started doing graffiti to help out with the stress.

Any other guy would've given up, but he kept on pushing, harder than yesterday, 'cause he wanted a different tomorrow.

                   Flashback End

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