Izumi awoke in her bed with a startle, she was vaguely aware of a loud dinging noise that interrupted whatever dream she was having. What she saw disturbed her slightly, but then she started to chuckle sadly.
'Great, yet another prank from those ass-clowns.'
What she was saying this to was a weird floating pane of something. It said.
|Achievement Unlocked: Quirk Awakened!|
|Rewards: Everyday Outfits|
She rolled her eyes and stood, stretching her arms to the sky and popping her back.
|Skill Unlocked: Health!|
|You are vaguely aware of how to do certain things to increase Strength, Vitality and Dexterity. Doing actions such as stretching and yoga will increase Dexterity, while stuff like weight training or going for a jog, which you seriously need to do, will increase Strength as well as Vitality.|
Izumi sighs yet again before hitting the x button on the health skill popup.
'Seriously? This shit's way too elaborate for them…' She does a double take. 'Wait, does that mean this is real?'
|Achievement Unlocked: The Quirk Is Real!|
|You realized that your quirk finally awoke!|
|Rewards: Help Menu (Tip: try saying 'menu', just, y'know, for kicks.)|
Izumi places her hand on her chin before finally sighing 'Fuck it, here's hoping Tsubasa doesn't just pop out of one of these screens to rend my face off for whatever reason.' She breathes deeply before finally muttering "Menu"
A brief moment of silence and nothing happened before a screen materialized in Izumi's view.
|Help|
|Wardrobe|
|Skills|
|Inventory|
|Status|
The rest were blanked out with some sort of corrupted text covering them. 'Weird, but it did take this thing 17 years to actually show up, so whatever I guess.' She pauses 'What should I call it? It acts a lot like a game interface from one of those old RPGs, level ups and all that, so maybe… UI?'
|Achievement Unlocked: Remember The Name!|
|Rewards: Basic User Interface, Vocal Command Mental Activation, A Few Settings. (Tip: It's pronounced Yui!)|
Three bars appeared in the corner of Izumi's vision, when she focuses on it the bars grow bigger, showing what they are.
A red bar, depicting her overall health.
A blue bar, depicting her overall stamina.
A white bar, depicting her Experience to next level.
How did Izumi know this? Little popups next to the bars showing 'HP' next to the red bar, 'MP' next to the blue bar (She just assumed that it would run out as she exerts herself) and the white bar had EXP next to it. She had played a number of games in her life as well.
After finishing up with the bars in her vision she looked back at the menu popup. There was a new button in place of one of the corrupted looking buttons.
|Settings|
She taps a few of the settings, mostly fiddling with the volume settings. The lighting settings seemed dangerous for now, she got too caught up in a mutterstorm and didn't notice her mother walking into her room, a concerned expression on her face.
"Izumi? Izumi what's going on? What's that scr-" Inko's eyes widen intensely before she starts smiling giddily, then she walks over to Izumi and taps her shoulder. "Izumi, I know you just discovered your quirk, but you need to head to school." When Izumi finally looks up she sees that her mother has a name and title above her head.
|Inko Midoriya|
|Lvl. ???|
|Mama Bear of Decimation|
Izumi lets out an amused sigh at the title Inko has.
"So, you can see my screen?"
"Yes? Is that bad?"
"No, but I don't really know much about this quirk yet." Izumi huffs, then pauses again, furrowing her brow. "Shouldn't we both be significantly more freaked out by this?"
"I prefer to take things in stride, plus with enough time as a lawyer you tend to be able to strangle excitement and nervousness before they show. Trust me, I'm freaking out. Don't really know why you aren't, but either way, change into your uniform and we can talk about the rest later." Inko stands up, dusting off her casual pants and leaving the room.
Izumi scratches her chin before finally saying "help" under her breath. Another window shows up.
|Enable Helper Fairy?|
|y/n|
Izumi, feeling decidedly reckless today, taps the y, and a small lime green ball of light with little bug wings coming out of it's 'back' appears. Said light then makes an excited noise.
"Finally! You have no idea how long I've been waiting to say hello to you!" The fairy flies around Izumi's head once before settling on her shoulder, somehow. "My name is Yui, spelled UI. Basically put I'm your quirk, granted, something that I feel I need to say" She clears her throat. "UI is an assistant not a direct upgrade or something. You still need to do the work, but I can help you with said work and reward your efforts, on occasion. Also most things you can do that seem like 'quirks' other people can do as well"
"When you say rewards, do you mean like the acievements and skills?"
"Yes and no. The achievements are my way of telling you what milestone you accomplished, most of them are made up on the fly, but the rewards I can give are kinda set." A hand sticks out of the ball of light and does a 'so-so' motion. "Mostly it's limited to new outfits and UI-related abilities. I can't really give you any spoilers, but I can tell you about your current capabilities, just call me if you have a question. For now though, try saying 'Wardrobe' in your head."
Izumi makes a disgruntled noise but decided that ultimately, since her quirk can actually give her help and advice on how to use it, she wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
'Wardrobe' A screen appeared in Izumi's vision. Different names like 'Casual, cold weather' or 'Aldera High School Uniform'
"Good, now tap the one that says 'Aldera High School Uniform'" Izumi obeys, and in a flash of light she suddenly isn't in her sleep pants and undershirt combo, she's in her uniform, socks and shoes along with it.
"Oh, right, you can also select from three versions of this outfit once you do select it. 'At home, outside, at school.'" The little ball of light floats up and taps a button, and suddenly Izumi's in her home slippers.
"Like your body now, these clothes can't be physically hurt."
'Ha! Suck it, Katsuki.' Izumi lets out a victory cry in her head.
"We really need to work you up to actually talking shit outside your head."
"Why? They'll just hurt me worse." Izumi shudders.
"Alright, sure. Go ahead and think that way." Yui sighs. "Anyways, you need to talk to your mother, here." Another hand comes out of the light and does a snapping motion, then a few new screens pop up.
|Achievement Unlocked: Start the Day!|
|Rewards: Quest System.|
|Quest accepted: A Not-So Average Day|
|Goals:|
|Go and talk to Inko.|
|Go to School|
|???|
|Rewards:|
|1000 EXP|
|1200 Yen|
|+2 Intelligence|
|+2 Wisdom|
|Optional:|
|+15 Self-Confidence|
|+15 Reputation with ???????|
"Oh, looks like you have a packed day today. Later." The small fairy suddenly blinks out of existence before Izumi could ask another question.
Izumi makes a disgruntled noise but stands up anyways and heads downstairs, talks to Inko about getting an appointment for the next weekend to see what her quirk is, then moves to start heading to school. She tosses on the 'outside' version of her uniform, her red sneakers appearing on her feet, she picks up her bag and stands by the door for a good ten seconds.
"Izumi? You okay?"
"Yeah, just… thinking of something."
"What about?"
"Whether or not I should be vindictive or nonchalant."
Inko tilts her head. "Well if you're asking yourself 'what would mama do', it's vindictive, 90 percent of the time." Inko admits. "Just don't, y'know, kill anyone."
"Got it." Izumi thinks 'Inventory' and tosses her backpack inside, the contents and bag itself showing up as little icons in the UI.
She stretches again before leaning over to hug her mom. "Might be home later than normal, wanna test a bit."
Inko bites her lip, but nods. "Alright. We're having Katsudon, so don't be too late."
"Thanks, mom, you're the best." She waves at her before walking out the door, Inko locking it behind her.
Izumi makes her way to school without much preamble, she caught a fight along the way and wrote down some stuff on the debuting hero, Mount Lady, closing a skill screen that said something like 'Analyze', but she was already late, so she took off running after storing her notebook away.
By the time she got to school she got a new skill window again.
|Skill Unlocked: Running lvl 1|
|The ability to run, makes you faster and decreases stamina consumption the higher level the skill. Increases Vitality when used for an extended period of time.|
Izumi walks through the door after closing the notification and simply thinks 'At School' and her shoes change. 'Yay, it worked!' She continues to her classroom, holding her head high she looks straight at her homeroom teacher, then opens her inventory and grabs a notebook and pen out, she writes out a short note, and sets it on the teacher's desk after tearing it out of the book.
The note reads 'Told you I wasn't quirkless.'
She then closed the notebook and tossed it back into her inventory. Keeping the pen for the day.
Without another word she walks back to her desk and sits down, Katsuki, as always, is in front of her.
|Achievement Unlocked: Stand Your Ground!|
|Finally told your teacher to eat it, huh?|
|Rewards: +50 self-assurance.|
|Skill Unlocked: Planning!|
|The ability to create and execute plans. The higher the level this skill gets the easier it is to come up with plans and execute them without nerves getting in the way.|
|Not-So Average Day: Ask Katsuki to help you.|
She closed both of them after reading the descriptions and openly gawks at the new quest objective, but after doing a small breathing exercise, she decided to just go with it.
'Planning, huh? Sounds fun enough.' She pulls the new notebook that she had already titled 'My Quirk' and wrote down all she knows of her quirk on it, muttering all the while.
Katsuki turns around, probably about to give her a piece of his mind, when she says "Hey, Katsuki? Wanna hang out after school?"
"Why would I hang out with someone like you?" His voice sounds slightly more withdrawn than Izumi would think, her stomach twists, but instead of going slightly limp and folding in on herself, something pushes to the front of her mind and starts talking before she can bury it down again.
"Hey, you're the one who wanted to know when I got my quirk, assgoblin." She breathes out heavily. "Guess what, fucker, I got it. Now either help me figure it out, or I do it on my own and you have zero say in my life ever again." Izumi does not feel good, her stomach is twisting harder and harder into a knot, sure, it felt good to finally speak out her anger, but at the same time, bomb boy over here has actual explosives for hands.
Katsuki has no idea what to say, those words hit harder than a freight train. "The fuck you mean you got your quirk? You're quirkless!"
"I mean, 'MENU'!" the glass-like pane appears in front of her. "It's one of those gaming quirks, multiple aspects, stuff like that." She opens up her inventory and shoves her notebook in, before pulling out her empty backpack and setting it on the ground next to her. "I've already named it Yui."
"You've always been quirkless!-"
"No the fuck I haven't." She deadpans. "I told you, we went to the doctor and he fucking said that I have a quirk, but it won't appear for quite a while." She sighs, still remembering that day. "And unlike you I have somewhat of a fucking memory, now, help me figure this shit out, or I drop you like the sack of garbage you've been acting like for years."
"I'm not garbage!" He moves his hand to detonate Izumi's desk, but she grabs his wrist.
"You're right, you're at the very least recycling." Izumi deadpans, before letting him out of her grip. Katsuki starts laughing his ass off.
"Damn, still remember that joke? Okay, yeah, fine. I'll help." He sighs and slumps in his desk. "Fucking finally all of the rest of these people are total wimps." He murmurs under his breath. Izumi totally heard him though.
|Achievement Unlocked: Friendship!|
|Finally got back in contact with Kacchan? Good for you!|
|Rewards: Party System, Chat System, Friends List.|
Izumi closes out the windows, smiling to herself, she writes down a few more things in the 'My Quirk' journal before finally starting the school day.
—
During a class about quirk laws the teacher turned to Izumi "Say, Izumi, I heard you got your quirk today, mind showing the class?" It had obvious venom that made Izumi want to roll her eyes. However, much to the confusion and fear of everyone in the room, Izumi's eyes do roll.
"Depends, you gonna call me disruptive and 'asking for it' when someone beats me for no reason again? Yes? Well then eat my non-existent chode, Teach." she says the word like it has no meaning when applied to him. A smile appears that shakes Katsuki a little.
'Oh FUCK' He thinks, looking at the same face that Inko makes while plotting a case. 'This school is fuckin' dead.' He sighs "It has been a displeasure, Teach."
Izumi snorts "Yeah not gonna show you all my quirk when you all thought I was quirkless and suicide baited me for years over not having one. I have ONEthing to say to you fucks and that is… Drumroll please:" an actual drumroll plays through the room. "Eat a DICK!"
Katsuki snorts, really hard. "Oh my god… Mizu, you're killin' me already." He starts laughing so hard he's in tears.
"Hmmm, haven't really wanted to kill you before, but I can list off a few people on my hit-list right here, right now. And the exact reason they really should be in some form of imprisonment by now. SEVERAL with attempted manslaughter." She winks at the teacher, causing him to shiver. Then she remembers something that she repressed, and pure unadulterated fury replaces the normal fear that resides there. "Including a few teachers with sexual harassment lawsuits that will be filed. And… at least one count of attempted rape. Though I guess I was just asking for it then, wasn't I?" She smiles, really smugly, then switches to english briefly, her eye twitching with rage. "Filthy pig, worthless cunt, sack of gar-" Katsuki walks over and covers her mouth, then drags her out the door of the classroom by her shirt, and continues all the way out of the school building, out of the gate, eventually bringing them both all the way to the gate of Katsuki's house.
Izumi, wiping the tears from her face, asks Katsuki "What're we doing here?"
"I need somewhere soundproof to scream until I don't feel like becoming a terrorist, and I have a feeling you need the same thing right now. Then you're staying at my place to explain exactly what happened in the past 10 years." Katsuki says matter-of-factly.
"What do you care? I'm just useless Izumi. Constantly crying an-" Katsuki looses an explosion pointed straight up, not in any way a threat, though.
"See, That's one of the reasons I need to scream, Mizu. I fucked up." His voice is wet, and sad sounding. "I fucked up so hard. The reason I left you alone after what, year five? Was because I realized I fucked up. But after year five, I really didn't want to try and worm my way back into your life, so I left you alone, which, if by the way you acted back there is any indication, was actually a bigger fuckup." He wipes away his own tears and takes a deep breath, his lungs shuddering with the effort. "So, we both need somewhere to scream until we calm down, and my room is built to withstand and mute the sound of me accidentally exploding due to a nightmare. Plus you wanted to hang out anyways, right?"
"Yeah. Let's hang out." This is also when it appears that Izumi realized that she was crying as well, she wipes the tears away and follows Katsuki inside.