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This fanfic starts when Izuku is 14. I know in the description he has a quirk but since it's quirk is knowledge he hasn't realised it. Resulting in him thinking he's quirkless. Just thought I'd mention that so no one gets confused!

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Izuku POV

I jolt awake in a dark alleyway with a splitting headache, I notice my leg also hurts. So, I try and find anything that doesn't hurt but there's just dull aches over my body. The worst of it in on my chest, as usual.

It was Kacchan and his gang. I'm a weak quirkless kid so it makes sense that someone so much better than me would bully me...

My dream is to get into UA but that's impossible because I don't have a quirk, being accepted is hard enough even with a quirk, let alone being quirkless. I wish I did because then I would be able to be a great hero like my idol All Might, He's so cool!

Slowly I try and move but I feel a stabbing pain shoot through my arm and gasp in pain and go back to my original position. Tears slide down my cheeks and fall to the ground. It feels like I'm being stabbed with tiny knives hundreds of times... over and over again.

Not to meantion the blistering burns all over my chest and back, they'll probably leave scars. Oh well I guess I'll just have to find a way around it.

I can't just sit here and do nothing, Mom will get worried! I start to panic, if I can't move then I might not get back home! What if No one finds me? At least Kacchan is smart enough to leave my backpack with me and only burn parts of me that aren't visible, although he bruises my arms and legs there's nothing that would give away that he did it.

He's thought about it that's for sure. If he takes it he could be asked why he had it and even if he tried to hide it someone could see him doing it and he would get into trouble. If they found out he's doing this to me then he might not be able to become a hero!

Oh god, he would kill me if that happened. Kacchan's words echo through my head as I'm laying on the cold ground; You wanna be a hero so bad? I've got a time saving idea for you. If you think you'll have a quirk in your next life... go take a swan dive off the roof! But I can't let his death threats get to me.

Suddenly I see a flash of murky green sludge and I hear deep growl that chills me to the bone "A medium sized body...to hide in" is that... a villain?! I guess this might actually be the end of me, I can't really move or stop it, I'm too weak.

But I won't go without a fight. The sludge creature wraps itself around my face so I can't breathe and I rapidly claw at it. "I'm just hijacking your body. Calm down" it says in a terrifying tone "don't worry, it'll only hurt for about 4 seconds... then it'll all be over." It adds.

I can't breathe! by body... getting too weak! I'm dying! I'm gonna die?! Someone! Anybody help! I'm dying! No... my conscience is rapidly fading.

A dark figure appears near the monster and starts trying to help and get it off me. I don't think I can hold on much longer my vision is fading my senses are numbing, everything is weakening.

The sludge is finally removed but it's too late, I desperately gasp for air but the last thing I see is the mysterious person before it all goes blank.

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My head feels like it's going to explode when I regain consciousness. My wounds are being tended to, I think. You'd think I would get used to the pain of being beaten by someone you might even consider a friend, but it's like every time is like the first.

At first I get confused when I feel my shirt being taken off of me and I start to worry. What's this person going to do to me?! Am I going to be kidnapped? I start visibly tensing up "it's okay, I'm treating your injuries," the voice who I presume to be male as it is too deep to be female. Since I don't trust my voice I just nod in response to him.

My head hurts, I don't want to open my eyes but I know I should so, reluctantly, I open my eyes. I look at my saviour, I don't recognise him from anywhere. So unless he's an underground hero I've never heard of then he's just a civilian. But why would a civilian fight a villain? What did he even do to it? He could go to jail!

"W-who are you?"As ask him, needing answers to the questions swirling around my head. "To-" he stops himself "I'm Dabi." I know that's not his real name but I just leave the subject, I'm too tired to enquire him. "Okay, why did you do that?" I ask referring to him saving me "do what?" He's playing dumb. "saving me,"I state as if I was saying the sky is blue.

From what I can see he looks fairly tall but I can't be sure because he's kneeling next to me. He's pale and looks to be around his early-twenties. He has black hair that spikes up around his head, similar to kacchan's His eyes are turquoise and fairly thin, his brows are furrowed in concentration while he's taking care of my injuries.

His most striking features are the patches of gnarled, wrinkled, purple skin that cover his lower face and neck, all the way down past his collarbone, below his eyes. The man moves his arm to grab something and I notice the purple patches are on his arms too. They appear to be attached to the rest of his skin by what look like surgical staples or hoop piercings, making it impossible to tell if these scars were accidental or self-inflicted. He has piercings in both ears, and a triple nostril piercing on the right side of his nose.

He is wearing a dark blue jacket with a high, ripped collar, and matching pants, cut off above just above his ankle a pair of dark dress shoes on his feet. He also has a plain white shirt.

He has turquoise eyes and what I assume to be burns that are very severe looking and being held together by what could be piercings. The 'burns' are from his mouth all the way down to the end of his neck. He moves his hands and I notice, those too, are burnt from halfway down his hands.

I wonder what he's seen and been through for that to happen, maybe it's his quirk, from memory I felt some heat before passing out so maybe it's his quirk that did this to him. It could also be self-inflicted, but what would drive someone to willingly do this to themselves. In a way that scares me even more!

The cool water being poured on the burns from Kacchan sting like a bee, causing me to hiss out in pain. "Sorry," Dabi apologises. "I-it's o-okay,"I stutter out stupidly.

I feel my conscience drifting away from me before it everything goes dark yet again.
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I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Thank you so much for reading if you have even read this far. I appreciate all of you!

I'm pretty sure this is obvious but dabi knows how to deal with burns because of past experiences. Also just so you know I actually looked up how to treat burns and it's says:

First, calm and reassure the person who is burned.

If clothing is not stuck to the burn, remove it. (why dabi took Izuku's shirt off) If the burn is caused by chemicals, take off all clothes that have the chemical on them.

Cool the burn:

Use cool water, not ice. The extreme cold from ice can injure the tissue even more.
If possible, particularly if the burn is caused by chemicals, hold the burned skin under cool running water for 10 to 15 minutes until it does not hurt as much. Use a sink, shower, or garden hose.
If this is not possible, put a cool, clean wet cloth on the burn, or soak the burn in a cool water bath for 5 minutes.

Stay safe! Have a good day or night!❤️