Izuku ran merrily along Musutafu's streets, dressed up and ready for exercise indicated by his blue sweatpants and a white T-shirt with the words 'ALL MIGHT' imprinted on it in white, bold letters. It was the start of a new beginning for Izuku, the sun hadn't even fully came out yet as it was still rising up from the horizon. His smile beamed brightly as he recalled the happiest day of his life so far. Although it had started off rough with more bullying from his class, unlucky encounters, and discouraging words said from his hero, All Might, the day soon turned around when that same hero reached out to him and presented a chance for him to become the next number one hero.

"All Might is going to trust me with the most important quirk ever. I have to give it my all against anything he throws at me!" Izuku grinned.

He saw his destination in the distance, feeling happier the closer he got to it. As Izuku got to the corner of the street, he caught sight of something in the corner of his eye. He screeched to a halt and tilted his head to examine a small, broken-down building two floors high and without any trace of people in it. There were broken windows, chipped pieces of glass and stone, and even some moss growing on the side of the building. What really caught Izuku's attention about the structure, was at the top of the doorway, where there stood an old sign that read 'Dojo' on it. He made a mental note of the place in his head and continued on his way, getting a small idea.

After crossing the street, Izuku arrived at the Dagobah Municipal Beach Park, joyfully hopping down the stairs and landing atop the sandy beach.

He proudly stood tall as he looked up into the sky. "I still can't believe it, I'm going to be able to become a hero using All Might's quirk! I'll never get a lucky chance like this again!" he smiled.

However, after taking a sniff of the area, Izuku's cheerful mood was turned irritable as he made a sour expression and looked around. He saw heaps of trash piled around the beach, mixed in with broken down furniture, electronics, and all other sorts of other different items. Dagobah beach was once a very beautiful and popular beach, but due to unchecked illegal dumping, the beach became littered with all types of trash, ruining the beautiful look that it used to have.

"People really just don't care do they?" Izuku muttered disappointingly as he glanced at all the trash.

He then heard a proud laugh behind him, "Young Midoriya!" Izuku turned around to see All Might standing atop pickup truck with his arms crossed. He wore a black T-shirt along with gray sweatpants and was currently in his buff form.

"I am here!" All Might proudly yelled.

"All Might!" Izuku said with a smile.

Then behind him stepped out Enso Ureshi, the same person from yesterday.

"I'm here too."

Izuku and All Might sweatdropped.

"Um, Ureshi-" Izuku examined his young features, "-san?"

Enso tilted his head, "San?"

"U-Um... Then Ureshi-kun?

He tilted his way the other way. "Kun?"

"Which one is it!?" Izuku yelled in confusion.

"How about addressing each other by first names instead?" Enso asked him.

Izuku blinked, "Eh?"

"I've heard that if you constantly address someone you know by just their first name, then you'll have more trust in each other."

"I'm pretty sure addressing each other by that is when we ALREADY have that much trust in each other..." Izuku thought with a blank face.

"Just call me Enso, it's the simplest thing, Izuku."

Izuku couldn't help but flinch when he heard him use his first name so casually, "He really wants to go by first name basis? I don't think I could even convince him to change his mind anyway..."

"Alright... E-E-Enso..." Izuku muttered in a low tone of voice.

Enso turned to All Might, "Same to you, Toshinori."

"That feels a little awkward to hear that from him... No use complaining though."

All Might gave him a thumbs up, "I would be alright with calling you by your proud, desired name Enso! But call me by my hero name or my real name in accordance with the current form I'm in!"

He nodded, "Will do 'All Might'."

"Um, anyway..." Izuku glanced at the dirty beach, "What are we doing here?"

All Might put his hands onto his hips, "We are here for your training Midoirya! I didn't tell you this when you left the other day, but you're not a propper vessel!"

"Eh!? That's the opposite of what you told me yesterday!?" Izuku shouted with comical tears in his eyes.

"I'm referring to your body Midoirya." All Might corrected as he got off the truck and walked over to him.

"One For All is basically the physical ability of every person it was passed to, then put together into one vessel."

Enso added on to it, "By how All Might explained to me the passing of his quirk, it's clear that your body isn't ready to take in all that power. By his words-" Enso raised a finger and a mental image of Izuku exploding was showed. "-your limbs and body would explode."

Izuku shivered as he heard this, sweating nervously, "S-So, I guess I have to move all the trash here to build up my muscle, right?"

All Might gave Izuku a thumbs up "Why yes that is correct! If you clean up all the trash at this beach, then not only will you be doing the city a huge favor, but your body should be able to take in One For All!"

All Might then took out a few sheets of paper and tapped them, "This here is going to be your training schedule, if you follow it exactly, then you should be able to inherit One For All before the next U.A entrance exam starts!"

"U.A exam?" Enso repeated in a question.

"Ah, that's right, he isn't familiar with it." All Might turned to Enso, "Well young Enso, the U.A entrance exam will be, as it states, an exam that will test students on their abilities and will determine if they get accepted into U.A High School, the number one high school for heroics and considered to be the top hero academy in Japan!"

"I see... The school is named from a simple pronunciation. The school is called 'U.A' which sounds like 'Yuu' and 'Ei', and if you put them backwards, then it would be 'ei' and 'yuu' or 'eiyuu' which is how you pronounce 'hero' in Japanese. Therefore, you get U.A (Yuu Ei) high school with a hidden meaning of 'hero' in the name to reflect what the school is about."

"I didn't think he would analyze the name so quickly!" All Might thought, stunned by his realization. "W-Well yes, that is the name of the hero school Midoriya wishes to go to!"

"How long is it until the U.A exam then?" Enso asked.

"It'll be in ten months, so by then I have to make my body into a capable vessel." Izuku said in a determined response.

Enso looked over the beach and all of its trash. He then turned to Izuku and examined his rather skinny arms and body, no signs of muscles whatsoever.

"May I see that schedule you made for him All Might?" Enso asked as he held up a hand in expectation of receiving the papers.

"Of course! I came up with this schedule myself! I call it, Aim to pass: American Dream Pass!" All Might proudly stated as he handed the papers to him.

Enso carefully read the papers in his hands, looking at each part of the schedule and examining what each exercise would be for. After fully reading it, he glanced at how much trash was on the beach. Reaching a conclusion, he turned to All Might once more.

"When Izuku inherits your power All Might, exactly how much of it will he be able to use immediately?"

"Well, technically he would be able to use as much as his body could handle. However, he could risk injuring his body heavily if he is unable to control how much power he uses at once."

Enso squinted his eyes, "I see..."

All Might couldn't help but feel worried about the looks Enso was giving on his plan. "Is something wrong?"

"It won't be enough..."

"Hm?"

Enso turned to All Might, "This won't be enough to have him be fully prepared to take the exam in ten months if he's supposed to present his physical abilities in it."

All Might was actually shocked to hear this, "B-But! I'm sure he'll be able to take my quirk by then!"

"Well, based on what you said about your power on Izuku's body, then if he follows this schedule the way as it is, he will be able to take One For All in the ten months, but he wouldn't even be able to practice with it. Even if he did use it, then most likely he wouldn't even have a good handle on it, which would result in him just damaging himself from the drawback of misusing such intense amounts of power. He would only just be able to finish this schedule before the exam starts."

"What makes you think so?" Izuku asked, curious as to why Enso thinks that way.

"Well, one problem is... You're short."

"Excuse me?" Izuku asked with an offended face.

"Since you're short, your body would be able to build muscle a little easier since there is a smaller frame to distribute it to, but it's also because of that reason that there won't be much more to gain further once your muscles reach a certain size. Because you'll lack the muscles, you'll most likely won't be able to effectively use One For All. Especially for your exam."

"Eh!? So what should I do!?" Izuku frantically asked.

Enso examined the schedule for a moment before turning to All Might, "You may want to change a few things and let Izuku be with me for a few sessions of training. I believe that the exercises I have in mind will be essential for having him get in a better condition for receiving your quirk."

"Hold on! How can you be sure that my plan won't work?!" All Might asked.

"Did you not hear me explain that he's short?"

"Um... Well..." All Might awkwardly scratched the back of his head as he tried to figure out what to say.

"Um, Ureshi-" Izuku started.

"Enso."

"Enso? Exactly what kind of exercises do you have in mind to fix my problem?"

Enso crossed his arms, "Well, instead of making you do heavy lifting, running, and other usual exercises that All Might may have you do, I'll be giving you tasks that will test and improve the endurance of your body. Rather than increasing your muscles in size, we should be increasing their durability and density. This will be to get your body to be able to handle using One For All more effectively once you receive it. If your training goes well, then you may even be able to obtain it early to practice more with it."

"The way you described the task of testing my body sounds scary." Izuku couldn't help but shake.

"But it's necessary. You have to work harder than anyone else if you wish to become a hero."

Hearing him say exactly what Izuku had thought in his head before, he felt his determination returning. "Yes, I do..."

Enso looked back to the list, noticing something else. "There's nothing involving combat?" Enso asked.

"What? Combat?" Izuku questioned.

"Why would the boy have to learn to fight right now?"

"Will if Izuku will be receiving such a powerful power, then I'm sure that he'll need to learn ways of using it rather than just-" his eyes glanced over at All Might, "-punching through everything."

"Why do I feel like you're insulting me?"

"B-But All Might has done much more with his quirk and has won all the time up to now!" Izuku defended him.

"But you're not All Might." Enso bluntly told him.

Izuku didn't know why, but he felt a sting.

"You'll need to do much more than even he ever did-" Enso looked down as he thought about someone terrible. "-so you'll be able to handle anything he sends at you..." he mumbled.

"Huh? What was that?" Izuku asked, not catching that.

Enso ignored him and carried on, "So, under All Might's training you'll be gaining muscle mass to help your body be ready to inherit his power. And under my training, you'll be stretching your body's limits so that you'll be able to handle the power you receive and will also be learning combat from me to better ways of adapting your power into fighting."

Izuku turned to All Might, "Would that be alright All Might?"

"Don't ask me Midoriya, you're the one who wishes to get stronger! You just decide how you wish to do it!"

"I'm not going to lie, my training will indeed be more painful than the heavy lifting you'll be doing here, but it will be necessary for you to get stronger." Enso warned the boy.

Izuku looked down as he considered his options, "More painful? I've been used to pain for so long..."

He remembered all the bullying he had to face throughout his entire life, the painful beatings and explosions from Bakugo and his lackeys that would happen daily, as well as the emotional pain that his experiences have caused him.

He clenched his hands into fists as he decided what to do, looking up to Enso with a reassured look.

"I'll do it! I'll train with both of you!" he proudly declared.

"Ah, a part of me thought so. Guess I'll have to change your schedule a bit!" All Might laughed. Then from the corner of his eyes, he glanced down at Enso, who kept an unfazed look when Izuku agreed to exercise with him.

"Despite just meeting him yesterday, Midoriya appears to have already placed so much of his trust in him..."

"But Midoriya, I probably don't even need to ask this, but are you really sure you wish to do this? Young Enso said so himself that the experience will be painful and, although it may be rude, I personally don't fully trust him yet..."

"You say that, yet you still let me stay at your place yesterday." Enso remarked.

"Really!?" Izuku uttered out in surprise.

"Th-That was to ensure that I could keep an eye over him! I wouldn't want someone as mysterious as him going around in public after all!" All Might coughed and regained his composure, "Now back to my question Midoriya, are you sure about this?"

Izuku closed his eyes and took a deep breath, recollecting his thoughts with his judgment fueling them. He then looked up at All Might with a determined expression. "If this is what can get me stronger, if this can help me progress with my path as a hero, then I'll gladly take this chance. I also hope that along the way, I can help Ureshi-"

"Enso."

"-that I can help ENSO here, remember himself. I believe that he's helping me, so I wish to help him too."

All Might couldn't help but feel warmed by him, "He really has too much faith in people."

"Young Midoriya, your determination and desire to help others is very inspiring! If you're really sure about training under young Enso here then I have no right to stop you! I will simply approve of your decision and help you any way I can!"

All Might then turned and glanced down at Enso, who also looked up to All Might with his cold gaze, sending a shiver down All Might's spine. He cleared his throat and regained his composure, "As for you young Enso, I will look forward to working with you in order to help young Midoriya here become the next symbol of peace!"

All Might stuck his hand out for a handshake, to which Enso glanced down at it for a moment. He then reached out his own hand and shook it in agreement. Suddenly, Enso felt All Might's grip tighten, looking up to find him staring down with glowing blue eyes staring intensely at him.

"However, I warn you now that if you do anything that would do malicious harm to young Midoriya here, then I will not hold back to take you down." he said in a rare, threatening voice.

Enso didn't look intimidated at all by All Might's threat, he simply remarked, "What a father."

All Might backed up, caught off guard by the sudden statement, "Don't go spouting random things!"

Enso ignored him and turned to Izuku, "I'll have to look around for a place that would serve for me to stay and where we could also train in peace with a large space..."

Izuku then remembered what he had seen along the way to the beach, "Ah! When I was running here I saw an old building that didn't look like it was being used!"

"Oh? Where?" Enso asked him with a peaked interest.

Izuku pointed to where he had come from, "Just across the street over there! It's an old dojo that looks like it has other rooms in it, so that might be a good place to look."

"I see, thank you Izuku. I'll go take a look right now while you start your training with All Might. I will contact you later if I decide to stay there. We'll start training together once I set the area up to be perfectly fit for us. Goodbye."

Enso walked away from the two before suddenly launching upward off the ground at quick speeds, causing sand to blast upward from the shockwave he created.

Izuku and All Might had covered their eyes from the sand rising up, and when they looked again, there was no sign of Enso.

"Such force..." All Might thought in wonder. He then turned to Izuku and grinned from ear to ear as he put his hands on his hips in a proud stance.

"Remember why we're young Midoriya! It is your duty right now to clean up all the trash on the beach to help you build up your body! We've wasted enough time talking as it is, let us get starte-!" before All Might could finish, he suddenly spouted blood from his mouth and poofed back into his skinny form, coughing.

"*Cough* I hate when that happens unexpectedly... Anyway kiddo lets-" but it was at that moment that Toshinori saw a dumbfounded Izuku, whose face was entirely covered with his idol's blood.

"Um, sorry about that..." Toshinori said as he pulled a towel out of his pocket to wipe the blood off of Izuku's face.

"N-N-No p-p-problem" stuttered Izuku, admittingly frightened and a little traumatized by what just happened.

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Enso examined the old dojo building with a peaked interest. Although the building could've been in better condition for him, he immediately thought that it would be a perfect place for him to stay in terms of location. It wasn't too far from where Izuku lived and it was even close to the beach so he could constantly check on him on the days Izuku trained with All Might.

He was about to walk up the wooden steps, but he saw that they were on the brink of collapsing, so instead, he just jumped right into the doorway. He found the door's lock broken and was easily able to roam inside and explore the area. The place didn't even resemble a dojo as the floor, walls, and even ceiling were torn and withering away. A positive thing about the area was that it was certainly spacious and would be ideal for training in, with some fixing up that is. He caught sight of the stairs in the back right corner of the room, which he carefully went up as to not risk them suddenly breaking down on him. He went up to the second floor and discovered that it had an indoor balcony with wooden railing for people to overlook any others training below. Along the walls of the balcony were various doors, to which Enso simply stepped to each of the empty rooms and peeped into them, speculating what it was they used to be when the area was in use.

He concluded that this section would be where he would be staying, but there was, of course, clear difficulties.

"I need appliances and furniture for this place to function, as well as equipment and tools to fix the area... Where can I get those? Where can I get the funds at such a short amount of time for me to obtain those items?"

He thought about All Might, "Being the number one hero surely should be giving him exceeding amounts of funds, but I doubt he would trust me with that much. I have to find my own way of making money here."

He left the building and went onto the sidewalk, turning his head and gazing in the direction of the city, "Around there possibly..."

He took a long stroll all the way to the city, the sun was nearly above him as morning fully commenced. Once in the city, he kept his eyes peeled for anything that could help him earn exceeding amounts of money. He glanced about the towering buildings and small stores for anything that could help him out. In previous worlds, he had taken tasks for money, stolen from evil groups, and at times just offered trades to people for materials or a place to stay. But this time, he couldn't immediately find anything easy that he could do for immense profit, he could only keep searching for a while.

That is until one building caught his focus.

"Hm?" he saw a rather obvious casino that stood out from the other buildings even during the daytime. It was more colorful from anything else surrounding it and many people were walking in and out, some going in with confidence and others coming out crying.

"Gambling..."

He considered his different skills of expertise, his skill at analyzing people and emotionless look would heavily contribute to many of the games that a casino would have. Not to mention that the casinos could give large amounts of money just by winning one game depending on what it is.

"Perfect."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a few gold coins that had been the currency for a previous world and would be much more valuable in the current world he was in.

"This should be enough to start me off if I trade it in somewhere."

He looked up at the building with his red eyes glaring up. "This shouldn't be too difficult."

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~{Three Weeks Later}~

"Eh!?! Izuku, you're going to be taking self-defense classes?! We've never even talked about this! Wait, could it be that you have to protect yourself from someone?!" Inko stammered in worry.

"N-No mom, that's not it! This just combat training to help me on my path to becoming a hero!" Izuku answered, flailing his arms around while trying to calm down his mother.

However, this actually made Inko even more worried, "A-A hero!? You still want to become one?! But you still don't even have a quir-!" Inko stopped herself from finishing her sentence as she realized how that could hurt Izuku.

Izuku just gave his mother a reassuring smile with confidence and hope in his eyes. "Don't worry mom, I know how worried you are about me taking this path, but I promise you that I can become a hero. A hero that you can be proud of!"

Inko didn't have the heart to straight-up tell Izuku not to become a hero, it was the only thing that he had ever wanted even after learning that he didn't have a quirk. She remembered how guilty she felt when the doctor told Izuku to give up in hoping for a quirk. In addition to that, when Izuku had asked her if he could become a hero, all she did was hug him and apologize over and over again in tears.

She knew that she just couldn't stop him now.

"Just...Just make sure you don't do anything to hurt yourself." Inko asked of him.

Izuku simply chuckled, "Mom, this is combat training we're talking about, I'm going to get hurt. Just not too bad."

"I hope I don't get too hurt at least..." Izuku thought to himself in some fear as he pictured what types of horrid things Enso would make him do.

He then stepped out of the door with a bag over his shoulder. "I'll be back later tonight, bye mom." And just like that, he left, leaving his mother alone in the house once more and sighing in her own sadness.

"Oh, Izuku... if only you knew..."

Izuku glanced down at his phone as he ran through the neighborhood streets, reading the text that had been sent to him by none other than Enso. It had been three weeks since he had last seen him. He had been training with All Might on the beach and balancing his schoolwork throughout all that time, wondering what the red-eyed teen was even doing. Not hearing back from him for a while made Izuku wonder if something had happened to him, but yesterday night was when he had finally received a text from Enso telling him that he had fixed up the place that Izuku had told him about and told him to arrive the next day so they could finally start his training on his body.

As Izuku put his phone away, he couldn't help but feel partially depressed. He knew that deep down his mother didn't want him to become a hero. And who could blame her? It was one of the most dangerous professions around. Additionally, the more hero deaths on the news lately and the fact that Izuku was quirkless itself (for now) were more than enough for reasons to see why Inko would be against it. However, he knew that she respected any decision he made for his future and she would merely support him all the way.

It didn't take him long to arrive at the building that he had seen three weeks earlier, still in the same spot that it was originally. The outside still looked nearly the same as it had been when he first saw it, but the stairs to the door, the door itself, and the windows were all fixed.

"Whoa, did Enso do this?!"

He carefully walked on the few steps up to the entrance door and reached for the handle, gently turning the doorknob and finding the door unlocked.

"U-Um... Excuse me?" he uttered as he pushed the door inward and glanced inside. He was surprised to find simply one vast room that made up the whole two floors, but there was an inward wooden balcony up on the second floor so that people may look down to the ones training bellow. The whole ground was made out of smooth, bright wood like any dojo would have, the windows had been raised up to simply let light inward and not let the people outside gaze in. There were lanterns placed all around the beams that held up the balcony and also new lights placed on the ceilings as well. The dojo had everything and more than Izuku had expected he would find. There was a line of punching bags in the corner of the room, hoops hanging from above for acrobatic practice, wooden poles about ten feet tall for practicing to balance, and much more. Izuku stood in the room, mouth agape in awe as he looked everywhere.

"Wha-huh!? It looks so much nicer on the inside!"

"Oh, you made it." He then heard someone say above him.

Izuku eyes shot up at the balcony to see Enso wearing something other than his suit. It was a plain black t-shirt that exposed a few scars along his pale arms, along with baggy work pants with multiple pockets that held different types of tools in them. He wore a red bandana tied around his head to cover his hair while he had been working on fixing up the place. In his hands was a hammer and a bucket, showing that before Izuku came, he was fixing something.

"D-Did you remodel the whole place?" Izuku called up to him.

"I didn't really remodel the layout, but I did change the style to appear more fit as a dojo from the inside. But as you could tell from the outside this place looks like it's broken down so it'll avoid suspicion from people curiously peeking in."

"H-How did you even get all this stuff!?" Izuku asked as his eyes noticed all the different training equipment and few tools laying around.

"Gambling." He bluntly said

"...Eh?"

"Gambling." Enso repeated.

"G-Gambling!? But-!"

"Legally of course."

"For some reason, a part of me doubts that..." Izuku sweatdropped.

"Oh come on now, there's a casino down in the city. I found it quite productive in obtaining money."

"I didn't even know you could gamble..." Izuku sighed, still finding this hard to believe.

"Well, when people can't tell what you're thinking whatsoever, you can win a lot."

"Okay, that explains how you were able to afford this stuff, but wasn't this whole place broken down?

"What do you think I've been doing for the last three weeks?"

"By yourself!?"

"There are still many things to fix up here, but now this place is finally in a good enough condition for you to at least start your training with me. I'm still trying to fix a few things though, so I just plan on making you do certain tasks to train as I work. Now, let's get started." Enso put down the items he was holding and jumped over the wooden railing of the balcony, falling down to the first floor and landing on his feet in a crouching position.

He stood up and pulled the bandana off of his head, allowing his long hair to freely go down behind him as he shook his head. He then focused his gaze at Izuku and pointed over at a punching bag near the wall, "All right. To start off, I want you to keep punching that."

"Huh? Alright then." Izuku put his bag down and walked over to a black punching bag that was near twice his size. He started punching it softly at first, but as he set a rhythm he began to increase the power of his punches.

"Try not to punch the same place, switch it up." Enso told him nearly immediately.

"How long do I do this?" Izuku asked as he kept punching.

"Until your hands are bleeding and you can hear cracking from them with each punch."

"Until they bleed!?" Izuku shouted in disbelief, stopping his punches for a moment and turning his head to Enso with bulging eyes.

"Hey, I said it would be painful, but it is necessary. We're going to break the limits that your body can handle, with your hands being first." Enso explained.

Izuku thought about how painful punching the same thing over and over for so long would be, glancing down at his hands with a concerned look. He noticed the small scars that he already had on them, caused by the bullying sessions he had with Bakugo, taking many small explosions.

Remembering this, Izuku balled his hands into fists and began punching away once more. He kept punching, punching, and punching, remembering all of Bakugo's bullying, remembering the torment from his classmates, remembering the negativity everyone had towards him. His face had a sour expression and he became angrier and angrier the more he punched, picturing the punching bag as Bakugo himself.

"This exercise is also good to get rid of the stress he's been building up until now..." Enso thought, making clear his real reason of why he decided to have Izuku start with punching as his first exercise.

It felt as if hours had gone by as Izuku's punches echoed throughout the dojo. In the beginning, Enso had watched him punching, but after seeing how absorbed Izuku was in it, he trusted to leave him there and continued to remodel the building while occasionally checking in. It wasn't until he had fixed up his bedroom when he realized that the sky had begun to turn dark, then going back down to stop Izuku.

He went back down the stairs and marched up to the angry boy, ready to tell him to stop, but he took a moment to examine how Izuku's knuckles were completely cut and drenched in blood, which was dripping on the floor. Izuku's shirt was completely drenched in sweat and Izuku himself was panting hard, yet he still continued to punch away even harder than ever.

"Izuku, that's enough."

Izuku didn't even listen to him, he just continued to punch away, not even detecting Enso's presence next to him.

"Izuku, you're done."

He still kept going.

"Good grief... He really had a lot pent up didn't he?" he walked over to Izuku and put his hand on his shoulder, "Izuku-"

The moment his hand touched his shoulder, Izuku turned around and swung his already bloody fist towards Enso's face. Enso simply raised his other hand up and caught Izuku's attack, the blood smacking against his palm.

"Wake up."

Izuku had his head down as he recaught his breath. When he looked up and saw Enso there, he blinked multiple times in confusion, coming back to reality.

"U-Ureshi?"

"Enso."

"Working on that..." Izuku mumbled. He pulled his hands back and sighed, "How'd I do?"

"Well, considering that you haven't even noticed how bloody and beaten up your hands are, I'd say you did okay."

Izuku looked down at his palms and his eyes widened to see his own blood, "I-I-I..."

Enso reached over and patted him on the shoulder, "You're okay."

Izuku felt the warmth of his hands leaking out, feeling his legs go numb and falling to his knees. "I-I was so weak..." he said, remembering his traumas once more.

Enso simply reached his non-blood covered hand down and gently rustled Izuku's hair, assuming that it would calm him down.

"Sorry Izuku, but this is going to feel like hell for almost the rest of the year..."

Izuku then passed out on the spot from exhaustion.

"We're just getting started."

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~{Few Month Later}~

As time went on, so much ceaseless agony was what Izuku felt. All of this pain Izuku felt had been caused by visiting Enso nearly every day for body breaking exercises, testing his limits in painful ways.

At first, Enso's exercises had to do with Izuku breaking his muscle fibers for different parts of his body. Izuku starting doing so many push-ups for so long that he could sometimes hear his arms clicking or cracking, yet he still continued to do them with a fiery motivation. From there, he started performing leg exercises in the form of squats. Going up and down so many times, even when his legs felt so heavy and refused to move, he still continued to push on. Soon he started doing all sorts of other workouts, pullups, sit-ups, jogging, he overdid all of these basic exercises at Enso's instruction. His body would always feel more than just sore, it made Izuku feel like he would die at any moment.

However, as time went by, Izuku's body was beginning to change and he began to get used to any of the drills Enso threw at him. His mixture of lifting up heavy objects with All Might and the intense things he did with Enso was clearly beginning to show on his body. His muscles had so grown big and dense that some of his shirts looked a little tight on him and he was able to go to an even farther limit in his exercises.

His new gained in muscles also had an effect at his school as well. He was receiving more glances from girls, although he doesn't notice them, and some of the boys that had usually bullied him were now actually intimidated by Izuku's form.

Even Bakugo seemed to be picking on Izuku much less than before. But it didn't appear to be due to intimidation, he simply had been looking less angry recently, maybe due to preparing for his exam for U.A.

Of course, just when Izuku was feeling confident that he was getting used to the intense workouts, Enso decided to actually increase the difficulty of them all over again. He added extra weight to Izuku's back as he did push-ups, added weight to his legs when he jogged, and even putting weight onto his back when he was doing squats.

Then one day, something new happened.

Izuku walked inside the dojo once again after so many times, actually feeling less scared of whatever Enso may make him do. His body had gotten stronger to a point where Izuku was casually wearing ankle and wrist weights during the day and even when he was lifting up other objects with All Might on the beach.

Once he got to the middle of the dojo floor, he sat down and removed the weights he had on him, sighing in relief as he placed them on the ground.

"Man, those things feel like they get heavier after a while..." he muttered as he stood up straight and began doing some stretches with his arms. "I wonder what I'll be doing this time?"

"Actually, it'll be what we'll be doing Izuku."

Izuku wasn't surprised and looked up at the balcony to see Enso looking down at him. He was wearing his black suit once again with his hair hanging loosely behind him.

"We'll be doing something together? You're not working on the place today?"

"As a matter of fact, I actually managed the remodeling just the other day. Now it's in a perfect condition for living in."

"Great to hear! Are you gonna give me a tour later?" Izuku smiled.

"Maybe later, but for now..." Enso jumped over the balcony and came falling right over Izuku. His right fist radiated a white aura around it and he aimed it straight down at Izuku.

"GYAH!" Izuku dove out of the way and Enso's punch landed to where he was just standing. A powerful shockwave shook the room and caused immense winds to send Izuku even farther back than when he had jumped to avoid the punch.

Izuku tumbled along the ground before hitting the wall, then shooting up to his feet with a panicked look.

"Wh-Why did you do that!?"

Enso stood up and held his fist in front of him, the white aura still emitting from it but with additional steam.

"We're starting your official combat training now."

Izuku stared at the white color surrounding Enso's fist, curious to find out exactly what he just did.

"I've never actually seen what sort of power you have." Izuku told him in curiosity.

"You'll see much more of it once you actually receive One For All so we can fight higher level. Now..."

Enso turned his body sideways with one foot facing forward and the other turned ninety degrees. His raised his hands in front of him in a stance as he stared down Izuku.

"Come at me."

Izuku couldn't help but not want to.

"I-Isn't this a little too sudden?!"

"Things will always come suddenly in life, you have to learn to adapt."

"I don't think that should apply to this..."

Izuku felt his feet suddenly swept underneath him, causing him to trip backward with his head looking up. He didn't even process what had happened yet before feeling a palm grab onto his face and suddenly slam the back of his head onto the ground.

"ACK!"

His head felt dizzy, he felt pain in the back of his head, and his vision got completely dark.

Wait, no, he realized that his vision was dark because someone had their hand over his face.

He felt the hand got removed, letting the lights from above shine down on Izuku as he saw a silhouette hovering over him. It didn't him long to realize that it was Enso standing over him, due to the intense red eyes that shined down on him.

"H-How... did you even-?" Izuku grunted in pain.

"Too slow." Enso bluntly told him, crossing his arms. "We have a lot to work on."

"Oh boy..." Izuku said in a sarcastic tone.

"Get up."

Izuku used his arms to support himself up and then rubbed the back of his head. "No mercy, huh?"

He fully got back to his feet and watched Enso get into another fighting position, this time holding his arms and fists in front of him like a boxer would.

"Could you at least tell me what kind of fighting I'll actually be learning!?"

"It should be obvious. I intend to teach you every kind of martial art I've experienced before."

"Eh?"

"There were many martial arts that I've learned from many people while going through different worlds. I've even made some of my own fighting styles based on a mixture of some of these fighters, but for now, I'll just be teaching you the basics and maybe more of each of these martial art styles."

"Shouldn't you be telling me information about each of them instead of using them on me!?"

"But... I prefer to demonstrate them to you as I explain them. Now allow me to display boxing on your body."

"I'm gonna die!" Izuku couldn't help but panic.

Cries of comedic pain were heard inside the dojo along with the echoing of punches and slams.

Toshinori stood outside of the dojo, peeking in from the doorway at his successor and the otherworldly person. His instincts had told him that Izuku was in some sort trouble and he came to Enso's dojo, but that was when he learned that his instincts were only half-right. He watched Izuku comically getting tossed around the room like a ragdoll.

Toshinori sighed, but then couldn't help but form a smile.

"Lately young Midoriya has been cleaning more trash on the beach than I've been expecting and his body has been growing at such a good rate. Perhaps it's nearly time... I didn't think it would only take just a few months instead of the ten I thought we needed for him to form into the perfect vessel. I suppose Enso really is being a help after all."

He then saw Izuku flung at the wall with his back slamming into it, actually sticking there for a few moments before sliding down onto the ground in pain.

Toshinori couldn't help but shiver, "Th-This looks just as bad as my training with G-Gran Torino."

He saw Izuku's body and eyes turned comically white on the ground as his soul was visibly leaving from his open mouth.

"Hang in there kid..."