16 One's Gain Is Another's Suffering

[A/N~ Do read the note at the End.]

Enjoy~ [2300 Words]

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Iida rushed out from the dorm not paying mind to his startled classmates. He quickly reached the gates of U.A but he was immediately blocked by the guards.

Fortunately, he was still rational enough to stop. "I- Someone in my family has been hurt I need to visit the hospital!" He quickly explained.

The guards looked at each other, They were in a difficult situation. They were told to not allow any student without permission to exit U.A but they could also see from the panic on the student's face that he was not lying about his family.

"Well, you can leave If you show us your approval to leave."

"Approval?" Iida quickly tried to recall why he was not being allowed to leave, He realized that principal Nezu had barred them from leaving due to safety reasons.

'Calm down Iida, Calm down. Me being there won't help in improving my brother's situation in any way. If I leave school without permission then it would only make him worry more.'

"I see, Sorry for troubling you" He bowed a little and left as quickly as he came.

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Iida returned to the dorms and Ochako rushed at him.

"What happened Iida-kun? Why did you leave in such a rush?"

"Yeah what happened Iida?" Kirishima chimed in.

Others looked over as well wondering what made the ever calm class president panic all of a sudden.

"Forgive me for not being able to tell but I need some time alone please, Thank You." He bowed to everyone and went inside his room.

"..."

"Ehm, Did Iida just ignore us?" Said Mina after noticing the awkward atmosphere.

"Maybe he's just tired?" Said Jiro while playing her unusually long earlobes.

"Yeah, I think we should leave him alone for now." Said Momo who glanced up from the book she was reading, She was trying to find innovative ways to use her quirk. She needed to find a way to protect herself and her classmates from Genesis's quirk.

She believed in herself and her quirk. She didn't believe that she couldn't find a way to counter his quirk.

They all nodded in response and went back to do whatever they were doing in the first place.

Only Todoroki could sense something was wrong. When he gazed at Iida's eyes he saw something he didn't expect to see.

'Hate'

Similar to how he wanted revenge, Iida too had that thirst for revenge in his eyes.

'What could've happened?'

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Iida entered his room and immediately called his brother.

*Ring* *Ring*

"Hello?" A sullen voice came from the mobile. Iida's heart ached to hear his voice like this. His brother had always been optimistic.

"Brother! It's me, Iida. Are you fine?"

"Ah, Iida how is school going? I heard your school had been attacked recently. You fine?" He tried changing the topic but Iida wasn't buying it.

"I'm obviously fine but WHAT about you?"

"I see... You should focus on your Hero Course, for now, Iida, There are some things that you shouldn't interfere in." His voice was solemn. He knew his little brother better than anyone. The last thing he wanted was for Iida to confront Stain.

Iida didn't answer back this time.

A minute passed in silence as neither of them said anything until Iida decided to break the silence.

"I understand brother." A light flashed through his eyes as he said those words.

"Cheer up Lil bro. The doctors said it couldn't be treated normally but don't forget we live in a world of wonders. Who knows there might be some quirk that could heal me up?" This time his voice wasn't as gloomy as before.

Maybe he wanted to help Iida cheer up...or was he himself hoping for such an outcome?

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Inside Of A Certain Hidden Base

In a certain room, The lights were dull as they flickered every now and then.

Grim silence permeated the room.

In the center of the room was a clean fluffy pink bed. The room was painted black while the floor was pure white. An interesting contrast along with the pink bed.

Sitting on the bed was a little girl with bluish, off-white hair, messy and unkempt, which was parted in the middle of her forehead, almost reaching down to her waist.

She had very wide, innocent-looking eyes, which were bright red. Poking out from the right side of her forehead was a very small, brown horn.

But currently, those innocent eyes were filled with terror and sadness.

'I'm scared. . . . . . It hurts. . . . . . Why me?' She thought as her body shivered remembering the whole process of her death again and again and again and again

'He will come and take me away again.'

"I-I-I didn't want to kill papa. I-It was an accident. I don't want to get taken away again..." She muttered to herself in fear.

Was that the reason she was being punished like this?

She gathered the courage to escape and jumped down from her bed. She looked around the room but there wasn't any opening in the room for her to leave besides a single window that was too high for her to approach.

She walked over to the wall and placed her hands on it.

A flash of hesitation passed through her eyes as a flashback of what happened when she first activated her quirk resurfaced.

Determination and Resolution filled her eyes. This was her only chance to escape and if she had to use her quirk to avoid what she might have to face again then she would use it.

She activated her quirk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but it didn't work.

". . . . . . Why?" She muttered as her eyes grew dull.

Why was her quirk not working when she wanted it to? Why did it only work when she never wanted it to? Why did she have such a useless quirk?

To her, the quirk was no less than a curse. It took away her father from her and her mother abandoned her because of fear. Leaving her all alone to face such torture.

Besides the window, the only way to leave was the large door of the room. But the problem was that someone was guarding it every time.

"Why does nobody love me?" She dropped to the ground as she whimpered to herself.

After a few minutes,

She wiped her tears and slowly walked over to the door with unsteady steps. She tried pushing it open but it was locked from the outside.

After a few more fruitless attempts she hopelessly walked back to her bed while wobbling.

*Click* *Sheee*

The sound of the opening of the door was heard.

She slowly looked back and saw a man staring at her. He had dark brown hair and golden eyes.

Her eyes slowly moved upwards as she matched her gaze with those cold and merciless eyes that looked over at her.

She shuddered and froze as terror washed over her sending a chill down her spine.

"N-No!"

The man came towards her and crouched down to her level. He extended his hand and softly caressed her cheek.

Was she trying to escape again?

"Don't be selfish Eri... We have a world to change. You will be the means for the Yakuza to revive and We will together remove this widespread disease from this corrupted world..."

He softly spoke as if he was trying to comfort her and maybe if he didn't have a mask on his face then his smiling face could've also been seen.

These words did not comfort Eri in any way as she grew even more terrified. She whimpered and collapsed to the ground with trembling legs.

The man paid no mind to her condition and grabbed her collar as he started dragging her away.

"N-No, please don't I don't like this, it hurts, I don't want to change the world!"

She started yelling and screaming out of fear and an annoyed look appeared in the man's eyes.

Before she could struggle or scream any further the man used his quirk on her as her little mouth started shrinking before ultimately disappearing.

Despair took over her as she silently sobbed in his grasp.

He dragged her away until he ultimately disappeared from the corridor as the lights flickered in the dark.

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Medical Ward Of U.A

[PoV Midoriya]

I got off from my bed and jumped a bit on my toes. I also stretched my arms out. After smoothly completing these movements I sighed in relief.

"I'm finally healed" I muttered to myself.

All Might had come 10 minutes ago and told me about the sports festival next week.

At first, I was shocked by the audacity of U.A to conduct The Sports Festival after the tragedy at U.S.J but I calmed down after I was told that it was being held privately to help in selecting internships and improving as heroes.

All Might said that he would take me to his Sensei in a few hours to train. I wonder who was the one to train the Number One Hero.

Since I have time to spare....

I looked at my hands and clenched them.

'One For All had too much energy for me to currently use without damaging myself but what if I distribute that energy to lower the damage?'

The process was similar to how I channeled One For All in my finger at the Quirk Test held by Aizawa Sensei.

I tapped into my power and made it move towards the center of my chest instead of my hands. But instead of using it all at once I only took a very little amount from my quirk.

If the time I smashed that zero pointer was 100% then the amount I used this time should amount to approximately 1%. I also have to make sure the energy spread is even or it might disrupt the rest of the flow.

Slowly...Slowly....Slowly

I slowly spread it from my chest to my arms then my legs and then lastly my whole body.

I could see some very little faint greenish sparks around my body and red vein-like lines had appeared on my body.

I could tell that something changed. I looked at my arms and legs in awe as I saw the faint green electric sparks every now and then.

*SWOOSH*

I punched ahead and it created a very little gust of air but that didn't stop me from widening my eyes in surprise. I was using 1% of One For All. Just 1% had such power.

'Maybe I can push it more?'

I carefully added another percent to the already present energy. It increased my power. but didn't harm my body in any way. Feeling exhilarated I kept on channeling energy until I couldn't go further than 5%.

'It worked!' As I grew excited, I suddenly lost control of the energy and fell down on my knees as sweat dripped down my forehead.

'Adding another percent seemed to strain my body. I've just healed from my previous injuries, I'll experiment more later.' I thought.

'I need to train more before I can keep it activated for longer amounts of time.' I thought with a satisfied smile.

'Maybe if I had paid attention to myself before then I could've saved them.' Sadness appeared in my as eyes as I couldn't help but blame myself.

'No!' Nothing would come out of regretting it now. I can't let my regret hold me back.

I walked towards the window and gazed at the sky, "Tsuyu, Mineta, Kaminari, Ojiro, Thirteen Sensei, and Aizawa Sensei.... I'll avenge you all..."

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In A Certain Bar In A City,

Tomura sat on the chair in his room and took out a piece of paper from within it. He picked up a pen and started writing something on it.

After listing out hundreds of ingredients and chemicals he folded it and kept it in his pocket.

He walked out of his room and headed down. Arriving there he called out to Kurogiri who seemed to be playing with some purple fog in his hands.

"Hmm, Kurogiri come with me." Said Tomura as he walked out wearing a black shirt and white pants along with black boots.

Kurogiri looked at him questionably but agreed nonetheless.

"Where are we going, Young Master?" He questioned as he got ready to open up a portal.

Tomura looked back at him as his eyes gleamed, With a smirk, he said, "We're going to Hosu, It's time to recruit Stain."

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[End]

I couldn't come up with an appropriate title for this chapter. Do you guys have any suggestions as to what to name this chapter?

Welp, Things should slowly start spicing up a bit again. As much as writing Fillers, Info Dumps and Character's Point Of View are boring they ultimately are necessary to give depth to characters.

Why is going to Stain? Why not just invite him to the bar like the anime? Why does he want to recruit him, What's his goal? etc, will be answered next chapter.

Btw about the whole sports festival thing, I'm just gonna gloss over things and not waste too many chapters on it. I don't think anyone is interested in it. Till now I have a shown subtle changes in the students and others etc but they aren't enough to cause major changes at the moment.

It would quite similar to what happened in Canon and any change or something will be told to you by me :)

At most, The last two fights will be shown and the rest will only be summarized. So if anyone was expecting the whole sports festival arc or a series of chapters on it I'm sorry.