Chapter 7.1

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Izuku finally got a break and now Aizawa wants him to go to a special place. He imagines the most horrific places he could possibly imagine.

He feels the gentle breeze hitting and calming him down, his pain fades away. The bike stops, they were at the stairs of a shrine. Izuku was taken by the beauty of its surroundings, it was like he had finally reached heaven after living through hell.

They climbed the stairs, it wasn't very high. On reaching Izuku he finds an old man, a monk perhaps sparing with some people who are also wearing white robes. Aizawa moves towards the old man and bows, Izuku is still processing the situation but he follows his mentor and bows down to the old man.

"Shouta, how long were you gone? I haven't seen you since you left the shrine. I heard that you have become a hero and who is that kid, is he your child. Am I finally a grandfather but he doesn't look like you, does he resemble more like his mother?", the old man bombarded the Pro-Hero with questions, he was silent. Izuku looked at his mentor's face and replied, "I am not sensei's kid."

"Speak only when you are asked to", the old man points his stick at the green-haired boy. Izuku flinched and knew something bad was going to happen with him. Izuku looked at Aizawa's face, and he could see the difference.

The old man asks, "Shouta, is it that kid?". The Pro-Hero replies, "Yes, Sensei. He is the one I was talking about, my disciple."

"I see, come here kid. I forgot to introduce myself. I am Shouta's uncle and his mentor, Shino Aizawa.", Izuku expected something big but he could have never imagined that he would meet his grandmaster who is also his mentor's uncle.

Izuku introduces himself and thinks, "I still have a chance to impress him. The first impression is very important."

The old man asks the Pro-Hero to help the kids while he takes Izuku. The Pro-Hero gladly accepts the old man's request and leaves Izuku with his master, with a menacing smile on his face. Izuku had never seen him smiling and this smile of his mentor gave him a clue that he was going to suffer hell or worse.

The man asks Izuku to follow him and not get lost. They went into the nearby forest and reached near a small stream. He says, "I heard you want to be a hero but you don't have a quirk do you?"

Izuku nods his head, the old man continues, "Neither do I have a quirk, I am a quirkless too. It's been so long seeing a quirkless, I haven't seen any kid like you. My boy has a quirk that gives you the power to become either a villain or a hero but having a quirk isn't necessary for being a hero, one can become a hero without one. Sometimes gifted power corrupts people's minds and reduces them to nothing but dust."

Izuku was amazed at his speech, he wanted to say something but didn't open his mouth, he knew if he opened his mouth he would be in trouble again. His tension vanished.

"I will be training you to help you achieve your dream, I may not be able to teach you how to fight but you may be able to learn Fietsu, a secret technique that was passed down to me by my master and I passed to Aizawa. Your dream is even bigger than Aizawa therefore you must be better than him, he was my best student. Aizawa didn't know how to teach you so he asked me to teach you?"

The idea of learning a secret skill filled Izuku's mind with excitement but he realized soon that he would soon be asked to do hellish tasks.

The old man asks him to remove his shirt and go into the stream. Izuku couldn't understand but he followed his grandmaster's orders.

The old man gives him a piece of black cloth and asks him to cover his eyes. "What can you feel?", Izuku carefully analyses his surroundings and replies, "The water is warm, it isn't very hot but lukewarm."

"Okay, now there is a small stream of cold water, you have to find it", Izuku thinks, "I knew it, once I find this stream my body would be exhausted and faint again."

Izuku moves his hand through the water, he walks a bit and then stumbles and falls, he gets up. He knew that there weren't any big rocks that could have injured him if he fell down. He continues his search for the cold stream.

Time passed on but he still couldn't find it. He was frustrated, he had been in the stream for more than an hour, he had lost count of time a long time ago.

"You are a slow kid, how did you manage to get Shouta to teach you?"Izuku was already at his limit, he was moving his hand recklessly, searching the cold stream. Izuku fell down, his body is soaked in water.

He continues his search, he walks through the stream moving his hands searching the cold stream, he feels something cold. He removes the cloth and sees a small hole below his feet, he looks around it at noon. His face brightened up, he finally found the stream.

"Oh, you finally managed to find it, you are slow. Your mentor was able to find it in no time so tell me, kid, what can you feel?"Izuku still doesn't know what the old man was asking so he says that he could feel his body soaked in water and exhausted.

"Dumb, you are nothing like him. I doubt if you could learn Fietsu, maybe Aizawa was wrong taking you as his disciple. Did you notice anything else?", the green-haired boy frustratedly replied that everything else was the same as before.

The old man asks him to get out of the stream and put back his clothes. Izuku puts back his shirt and shorts that he had just brought just in case something unexpected happened. The old man tells Izuku that the stream was colder than earlier, he was focused on finding the stream and that he didn't focus on this environment. If he couldn't focus on his environment without losing his concentration then he could never learn Fietsu. Fietsu is not only a technique but also a sacred art, which allows the user to sense even small changes to their environment.

Izuku didn't know how to respond but he nodded his head, bowed down, and apologized for his failure.

The old man asks him to dry his head or else he might catch a cold and says, "You are nothing like your master, your master was able to learn Fietsu in just five months maybe you can learn it in two to three years if you keep on practice. You can never beat your mentor, he was a prodigy but you can only strive to be better, try your best to come near him."