Wait...What!?

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"Izuku!?" Was the only thing he heard in his catatonic state. The darkness surrounded him as he peered through the folds of his mind, revealing nothing but the void of his own head. "Where am I?" Izuku said groggily as he floated within the void, he looked around frantically to find nothing but darkness. "Wait" he said as he squinted his eyes in concentration, "did I just die?" All he remembered was clinging onto the Noumu for dear life as he plugged the aux cord into kyouka's boots, then turned the beast's brain into mush after shredding using a boosted subwoofer. "Pretty damn heroic way to go, if I do say so myself" he said in slight pride as he stared into the nothingness that surrounded him. "Izuku!" He heard once more as he tried to ignore the cacophony of his name being repeated and repeated with no known source. "I just wish I could've done more" he said in a sigh as he closed his eyes to ponder, he was starting to feel more and more lonely as the time within the darkness went on. "I kinda wanted to see where the club had in store for the future" the green-haired boy said with a weak and half-felt chuckle. "Ehh...Shoulda, coulda, woulda, I guess" he shrugged before he could hear the calls once more. "MIDORIYA!!" He clearly heard the desperation in the voice's tone this time, but what intrigued him the most was the voice had changed from feminine to masculine. "Is that you? God?" he asked as blinding light peered from what seemed to be the top. He covered his eyes as the light grew brighter, and brighter, and brighter.

"GAHHH!!!" Izuku said as he shot up the nursing bed. "I'm alive!?" He felt his head, hair, arms and legs to confirm that he was indeed in the land of the living. "Thank goodness, midoriya my boy. You gave us quite the scare" he looked towards a tall blonde skeleton accompanied by recovery girl. "How long was I out!?" He asked before the two looked at each other before answering. "Well, we estimated that you would be gone for at least 2 weeks" they said as the boy looked down in a solemn attempt to hide his tears. "But!" Izuku looked up to Allmight saying cheerfully, "luckily for us, we were wrong. You've only been in a coma for 2 days!" He said that gave Izuku a big smile. "Could you give us a minute?" Allmight directed his attention to the old woman who exited the room. "So...." Izuku said as the awkward silence had settled in after the recovery girl had left. "You've really helped me out, I've never thought that you would've done something like that" Allmight said in shame as he rubbed the back of his head. He never knew that Izuku was this heroic and selfless, he wronged him that day. The day they first met, the day he shot down the poor boy's dreams. But he saw him in action, how he threw caution to the wind to protect others. Like a true hero would. "I-I kinda just ran and did what I felt like" Izuku said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Im sorry for shooting your dreams down" Allmight said as he met eyes with the boy. "I have misjudged you, I thought that you might be another fanboy that wanted to copy me. But I'm so glad that I was wrong, you have the heart of a true hero. My boy, with a strong quirk you'd be a magnificent hero" the blonde skeleton said as the boy blushed at he compliment. "Which brings me to this" he said as the boy looked at him with curiosity. "I have made my decision, I have chosen you! Izuku Midoriya, to be my succesor! And to be the 9th user for one for all!" Allmight said as the tears Izuku held back started to flood out, he couldn't contain it. It took a lot to process what Allmight had just said, become his successor? That was absurd, and why did he have to just tell him now? 9th user for one for all? All of this information was extremely hard to process, he stopped sobbing as Allmight rubbed the boy's back in comfort. "I know it might be a lot to take in, but I assure you. You have all the qualities to be my successor" he said as the boy rubbed his eyes to wipe away the tears. "I-I'm sorry" Izuku said with remorse and a low tone. "What? My boy." Allmight said as he patted Izuku's back to try and comfort the sobbing boy. All his previous dreams were coming true, meeting Allmight, becoming a hero, and becoming the next top pro hero. But why did it feel so wrong? Was it considered cheating that the position of top hero was practically given to him on a silver platter? Or was it something else? "Are you okay, my boy?" The blonde skeleton asked as the boy coughed after choking on his own words. "I'm s-s-sorry, but I can't be your successor!" Izuku said as he steeled his convictions. "I-I-Its not like I don't want to become the next Allmight or anything it's just-" he mumbled on before the blonde skeleton sitting next to him gave a sigh. "I understand my boy" he said in a friendly tone. "It's a big decision, and I just gave it to you in a blink of an eye. Most people would take up that offer in a heartbeat, but I can see you have changed." He said as the boy looked at him curiously. "You may not have noticed it yourself, but something deep down in you has changed. You weren't the fragile little boy I saw during the slime incident" Allmight said as the boy gave a weak smile. "Something happen between the months since the slime incident?" Allmight said as the boy looked down to find his words. "Well..." he said as he rubbed the back of his neck, " I went into depression, until I found something that made me happy" Allmight nodded as he listened to the boy's story. "I met a few people that I could call my friends along the way, I founded the music club and made even more friends. But I couldn't have done it without kyou-senpai" Izuku said with a warm smile as he remembered the day they met, the times they spent goofing around in akihabara, and the first day of school. "Sounds like a keeper" Allmight said with a smirk that landed Izuku in a deep blush. "Please don't make this weird for me" he said as the latter gave a light chuckle. "Why? She seems as equally interested in you" Allmight said to the blushing boy. "I don't know! I kinda just want to stay like this, stay friends. No one actually wants to date someone like me" he said as he looked down in a sad tone. Allmight clapped both of his hands on the boy's shoulders as he said, "life is short, enjoy your youth. You won't know if you don't give it a shot" Izuku glanced a bit from side to side, avoiding eye contact as he blushed furiously. "She was the girl with purple hair and aux cord earlobes, right?" The blonde hero said as Izuku weakly nodded his head in confirmation. "We had to call her parents before she let go of you, she only left a while ago. The girl spent two whole nights sitting besides you and asking when you'll wake up" he said as the boy looked wide eyed as he heard these strange words. Sure he knows that jirou could be stubborn sometimes, but staying two days in a hospital with little to no rest was just dumb. He sighed before he could muster up a response, he didn't know how much he actually meant to her. Was it actually worth giving a shot? What if it all came crashing down? But what did he even have to lose? His dignity, most likely. "I-I-I don't kn-know what to say" he spoke before Allmight nodded. "It's getting late, you need rest. After all those injuries, you might want to try and sleep. But think about my offer if you have the time, I'm a patient man." He said before the blonde skeleton stormed off. "Become...a hero?" Izuku said as he gripped his hand to show off the whites of his knuckles as Allmight was out of earshot. "Can I become a hero?" He asked himself as he laid on the hospital bed, he was practically going to be given a quirk. Oh how his childhood self would freak out if given the chance. But he had his second thoughts, he put so much effort in his "music career" it would be a shame to just throw away all of his efforts. Especially since someone near and dear to his heart was cheering him on, he knew that the last thing that she wanted was to see him getting hurt. "Ugghh" he groaned before he tried getting some shuteye.

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