Izuku Quotes

Sometimes I do feel like I’m a failure. Like there’s no hope for me. But even so, I’m not gonna give up. Ever!” – Izuku Midoriya

My motivation might seem trivial compared to yours, but I can’t lose, either. I have to live up to the hopes of those who supported me.” – Izuku Midoriya

Hey. Remember what I said when Shigaraki made swiss cheese outta me? 'Stop trying to with this on your own.' But I had more to say. I needed to tell you that I got stabbed cuz my body moved on its own. You know, I always looked down on you cuz you were quirkless. You were s'posed to be beneath me... ...But I kept feeling like you were above me. I hated it. I couldn't bear to look at you. I couldn't accept you the way you were. So I kept you at arm's length and bullied you. I tried to act all superior by rejecting you... ...But I kept losing that fight. Ever since we got into U.A.... ...Nothing's worked out how I thought it would. Instead, this past year has forced me to understand your strength and my weakness. Now I don't expect this to change a thing between us, but I gotta speak... ...My truth. Izuku... I'm sorry for everything. There's nothing wrong with the path you've been walking down since inheriting One For All and following All Might's lead. But now... You're barely standing. And those ideals alone ain't enough to get you over the wall your facing. We're here to step in when you can't handle everything on your own. Because to live up to those ideals and surpass All Might... ...We gotta save you, the civilians at U.A., and the people on the streets. Because saving people is how we win. We get it." ~Katsuki Bakugo -aka- Great Explosion Murder God Dynamite

Don’t worry about what other people think. Hold your head up high and plunge forward.

The deeper the darkness, the more dazzling the light shines.

I thought I wasn’t your type.” And maybe he had been so quiet that Katsuki didn’t hear him, because after a couple minutes of silence, Izuku turned his head to the side, to find that Katsuki was still looking up towards the sky, awake. He must not have heard, so Izuku leaves it like that. He turns his head back up to the heavens, enjoying the gift Katsuki gave him. And he was about to simply slip away into a world of daydreams where he got to relive this past night, but in a world where Katsuki loved him too, when—after so long—Katsuki finally responded to his earlier statement. And Izuku heard it clearly. “I lied.

Weird, how love is,” Izuku talks to the sky, swinging his legs as Katsuki piggybacks him, “Someone can have the ability to crush your heart in the palm of their hands, stab it with words that kill and actions that torture. And you’d still hand it over to them.” Katsuki seemed to not know what to say to this for a while, for the blonde goes silent in what felt like contemplation. He kicked gravel on the road under his feet as he walked, and Izuku just held on. “Why would anyone do that,” Katsuki finally asks, tone genuinely curious, yet cautious. Izuku laughs and looks down at Katsuki’s side profile, mapping the blonde’s jaw, his eyes, the bridge of his nose, “Because, love feels like flying.” Katsuki slows down to a stop, looking ahead, words on the tip of his tongue, before glancing to the side where Izuku was facing, but not exactly looking at the greenette. And Katsuki tells him then, “Everything that flies eventually falls.” Oh .

The original Midoriya Izuku hardly died that day, he was reborn stronger than ever.

Do you know if someone can die of constipation?" He asked, still holding his innocent look. The student looked slightly disturbed. "What... why?" Izuku let his real smile return, "I'm worried senpai... you're just so full of shit.

He was a bully. But he was also a troubled friend, and Izuku resolved to treat him as such.

Aizawa watched as Izuku laughed genuinely at their childish jokes, and treated their naive dreams with a respect he could never muster even now. They were teenagers, they joked about killing themselves to avoid tests, complained about pushy or irritating parents... every word must have been a cruel stab wound for Izuku, yet none of it showed on his face, he'd laugh, eye roll and console. He never seemed to blame or despise them for it in the slightest and it seemed almost superhuman how he endured their ignorance and smiled.

All Might on the other hand wondered at how the bubbly cinnamon roll seemed to earn the friendship of both the quiet and the noisy in class alike, creating a kind of unity and trust between teens who would never have spoken otherwise. He had never been able to do that. With Izuku, Toshinoris and Aizawas laughed together.

The Erasure Hero didn't know what to think. As a teacher he should punish him for his recklessness. As a hero, he should praise Izuku for the invaluable information he obtained, and the quirk. As a father he should be telling his son off for taking risks? Not sounding the alarm? Kissing strange and dangerous men? In the end, he went for a bizarre combination of the three.

Izuku wasn't going to use his quirk and make their losses forgivable... he was going to go quirkless and humiliate them with five-second flat wins. And there was nothing they could fucking do about it.

What. The. Fuck. What was it with Izuku and complicated situations?

Izuku: Also let me be the first to congratulate you. Shinsou: On what? Izuku: I have no idea?

I don't think I could refuse even if I wanted to," replied Manual... and he meant it. Izuku smirked, "Good, you're learning.

*Izuku navigating his way to Stain* Left... Right... Straight - unlike me... Where the fuck am I?... Right... Right...

Iida..." Izuku sighed and put away his phone, "there is Bakugou who ruins perfectly good swear words by overusing them, then there is Ochako and you who miss out on a vital part of our language by avoiding them completely. If anything, twat is an understatement.

Tensei gave him an examining look, but it takes more than a few years working as a public hero to be able to look through Izuku's level of poker face. Even Aizawa could be fooled by it on occasion after a decade of nasty jobs that would certainly break the pure heart of the man before him.

Izuku missed flirting with danger. He missed the grotty side of town, the places only the forgotten go. His first home. He missed its rough edges, and rough people. They were a suspicious bunch... to strangers. but once you belonged... he truly loved the place if not the life. He'd spent so much time in the sun, and it was tiring and stuffy, he needed to return to the shadows and enjoy their cool embrace.

He remembered well the living embodiment of sunshine Izuku had once been. Big green eyes filled with wonder and innocence... and a smile that could have the cruellest of dictators acceding to his every whim. This... wasn't Midoriya Izuku.

When Masaru observed how close Katsuki and Izuku were now, he joked that maybe they should have offered a marriage contract instead. Izuku had snorted and asked what made Masaru think Katsuki would want to deal with him for the rest of his life. The greenette had been very confused when the two parents laughed and Katsuki had taken a sudden toilet break.

Izuku listen to me! You did what you had to and I don't care about that! Thank you for saving me!" One arm still restrained him, whilst the other moved to turn him into the blond's chest. Izuku whimpered and his arms weakly pushed around the other's chest. "You heard..." he whispered hoarsely, soaking the other's shoulder with tears. "I... I did, more or less." "Y-y-you know..." Izuku managed. Bakugou frowned, trying to work out exactly what Izuku thought he knew, "That you saved me? Got a badass quirk? Stole the dude's coat while you were at it?

Marry me?" Izuku chuckled. "Take me out to dinner first, Hiniyuki Touya." Honestly, Touya had been half-serious, but the expression on Shoto's face.

Izuku nodded immediately, though Bakugou wasn't so sure that was possible - that said... if anyone could kidnap a child and get away with it, it would be Izuku.

Touya cackled, "Mr Atomic Blond, I think we are going to get along well." "Shut the fuck up stitches, how did Izuku's healing make you uglier?" "Your mother disagrees." Bakugou grinned and offered his hand, Touya shook it, and Shoto spoke up. "What did I just see?" "Something no one will believe happened," replied Bakugou with a smirk.

I'm Eri, and I think I'm six years old!" Bakugou's heart cracked, but it was nothing compared to Izuku's reply. The greenette smiled sweetly and offered his hand to the girl. "Hi Eri, I'm Izuku and I think I'm sixteen years old!

You drink coffee, but there are good eight-hour periods of time when you don't answer messages... What sleeping disorder do you actually have?" "Reading." Izuku deadpanned. "You?" "Reddit.

That kid talks like Kacchan used to," murmured Izuku, not taking his gaze off of the retreating figure. "Like an arsehole," grunted the teen. "Like someone very scared and very angry but unsure why." "What glasses are you using?" muttered Shinsou.

His chest ached, but he'd made himself a promise and he was going to stand by it. He didn't and never would deserve Aizawa Izuku.

He and Shinsou followed his gaze to the horizon, and watched with interest as the sky became bluer and gold edged the distant mountains. Todoroki couldn't help a gasp as within minutes the sky was flooded with pinks and oranges, purples and golds. However when Shinsou also gasped he looked over, and froze. Izuku was leant forward, drinking in the view hungrily. The gold of the sunrise lit up his hair, a curly chaotic mass after sleep but angelic in the light. The sun picked out the different colours in his eyes, streaks of blue and flecks of gold among many shades of green. Those beautiful big eyes were wide and innocently fascinated with what they saw Izuku's lips parted in a broad smile. The sight of him like that took their breaths away.

Izuku was making him so damn soft, and the scariest part was that he couldn't care less.

Izuku what's a pimp?" "Uh... would you trust me if I said it's a job that really wouldn't suit you?" "Okay...

How the hell did you find me?" growled Kouta. "Followed the smell of societal hatred, led me straight here," Izuku replied almost without thinking.

What followed was Kouta trying some violent and highly dishonourable methods to get Izuku to go away. They were impressive, and would have put him at the top of Izuku's dirty fighting classes. He was pretty grateful the kid was fighting an illusion and he just sat in a tree watching.

Todoroki, Shinsou and Bakugou's hearts nearly flatlined at the sight of Izuku carrying a child toward them. A feeling that evaporated when the kid gave them the most venomous glare they'd ever witnessed. He quickly worked out their feelings towards Izuku and became a bizarre combination of guard dog and protective brother every time Izuku looked away, sending them all threatening stares and growls whenever they came too close. He even spat at Bakugou whilst the greenette was showing Shinsou how to break out of a new type of choke hold.

Pixie-Bob ruffled his hair. "If only you were a bit older, and straight..." she sighed. Izuku laughed, "I'm sure the right man for you is just around the corner." The blonde smiled, "Right back at you.

Izuku," stated Todoroki simply, and the group turned to blink at him, confused. "Gay?" supplied Kirishima but the bicoloured male shook his head. "Only Izuku." "Demi-sexual?" tried Kaminari. "Izuku." He repeated firmly. Shinsou chuckled, and patted his shoulder. "Fair enough, izusexual it is. I can get that, I think most of us can.

Jirou: Do you have any hobbies? Izuku: *thinking* Stripping, kissing strangers in night cubs, vigilantism, having sex with Hawks...

You and Asui need to talk." Uraraka sighed, "Izuku, you can't take us up onto the roof and leave us there to sort our problems." "Actually..." the greenette's eyes shone mischievously.

Aizawa did not need this. He was teaching review lessons in a classroom on the third floor, and how the fuck was he meant to tell Izuku not to do something stupid from here.

The quirk was called nightmare, and it required a 20-second period of skin-to-skin contact before it could take effect, and when it did... there was a reason Izuku had never really intended to use the quirk, it pleased his sadistic side way too much.

Every insult hit slightly closer to home than the last... and it really hurt. He'd never show it, Izuku had more pride than that, but it hit at quite a few - for he had many - of his insecurities and dredged up a fair few traumatic memories while he was at it.

Note to self: never, ever cross Aizawa Izuku.

The questions Shoto! How are you not curious?" Izuku slammed the analysis book shut, leaning forward to watch him closely, eyes sparkling. "Thinking of them all is overwhelming! I have a list that I add to daily! What is Dark Shadow? Is he really conscious? Like a separate entity or a part of Tokoyami, like he has M.P.D? Does Dark Shadow function when Tokoyami is unconscious? Can he die? Just how powerful is he in the dark? What happens when I erase his quirk? What if I copied or took it? Would I take Dark Shadow? Would I kill him? Would it create my own unique version? Would it be strong in the dark or would there be another environmental factor it is based around? What the hell would happen if I upgraded such a quirk?

Izuku had armed someone known for anger issues with the power to pulverise an eight-foot nomu with a single blast. The greenette's faith in him was terrifying.

Why does everyone think I am so reckless!" exclaimed Izuku. The teacher crossed his arms. "Where are you going?" "... The league of villains..." "What back up do you have?" "Plot armour?" "Izuku." "Fine...

What are we?" Izuku paused before answering, he turned to look into those warm red eyes and smiled. "I've no fucking clue Tomura. Friends is too little, best friends too childish... we're two touch starved people with shitty childhoods, on opposite sides of a messy fight. Sadly, this isn't a novel, there are more kinds of relationships than there are names to describe them.

Todorki turned his attention back to the game of cat and mouse playing before them. "Why is Bakugou so angry?" "He's not. He's happy." replied Izuku with an affectionate look in his eyes as he watched Shinsou swing up into a tree still taunting the blond with his quick tongue, and Bakugou shoot right after him yelling expletives. "How can you tell?" "Can't you see? He's smiling." Todoroki squinted and sure enough, spread across Bakugou's face was the most malicious smirk he'd ever seen. Smiling was not the verb that came to mind.

I'm making a lot of work for you, aren't I?" sighed Izuku guiltily. "You are," acknowledged Aizawa. "But it's hero work. I won't get credit for any of it, and it's messy as hell, but saving lives and avoiding the media is what I do. Besides, you know you have me round your pinky finger, Izu." The teen chuckled, "I love you too, Dad.

Did you ever tell him about your instinct quirk?" Izuku raised his eyes to meet Shinsou's tired ones, and his smirk widened. "More fun not to." "Why didn't you rescue Shoto and Katsuki from whatever's about to happen?" The greenette's expression was almost devilish. "More fun not to.

Shinsou stared blankly at Izuku, before they both burst into laughter. It had made Izuku chuckle at the time, but somehow Shinsou's reaction made it even funnier. They snickered like a pair of preschoolers, every time they recovered enough to see the other's face, it would send them back into fits. It wasn't even that funny, but they were too happy to care.

Thank you for sparing me!" The greenette laughed. "Don't say that just yet, the others are gonna kill you when they get back!" Shinsou snorted, "And not you?" Izuku gave him doe eyes and did a peace sign. "I'm too cute.

Let me guess, sweet, bubbly and intoxicating?" Izuku eyed him, "Try dark, bitter and too hot for you." "I was talking about your drink..." tried the waiter, backtracking. Izuku nodded innocently, "So was I.

The waiter returned with a coffee blacker than sin, and still boiling. He hung about to see the greenette's reaction, but stared with a shock to match his four companions, as Izuku took the coffee and downed the scalding monstrosity in one, not even wincing as he turned to look the waiter in the eyes, giving his sweetest megawatt smile. "Thank you, that was perfect!

When do you not have a comeback?" asked Shoji before Izuku could reply. "Monday mornings." answered the greenette, eyes shining.

When Izuku was far enough ahead, Todoroki spoke quietly to the others. "So I have to be friends with you two?" Shinsou snorted, "We can be, but explodopants... no chance." The blonde growled. "You idiots, he's not blind. We're gonna be fucking friends if it means I have to kill you prats. For Deku, yeah?" The pair raised their eyebrows, but reluctantly nodded and together-ish, they raced to catch up with Izuku.

The greenette opened his eyes and gazed at them with a happy smile. "I know. This is my favourite quirk. It's beautiful right?" "It is." said Todoroki, but he wasn't looking at organic alcove, but at the person who created it. Bakugou stared around in a poorly concealed attempt to avoid looking at Izuku, "this is some Disney princess shit.

Todoroki looked between them in confusion, "What's going on?" "Fucking pun war." growled Bakugou, "don't get involved." "Oh," Todoroki's expression didn't change from his poker face as he turned to look at Izuku, "I'm rooting for you.

The greenette had never had to ask Todoroki to make sure he could see him before the guy spoke to him or touched him, he was never the first to pull away when Izuku needed a hug, he knew which silences needed to be filled, and which topics to avoid... even if, when he realised he needed to change a topic, his go to subject was soba.

To be honest, Izuku's meals were so good, he was almost grateful to Endeavour at this point.

Todoroki: Should I tell Izuku that he would look best with nothing on? ... Yaoyorozu: Save that until after you've been on a few dates.

The shopping centre was already busy, people here, there and everywhere doing whatever people who don't have fucked up childhoods do. They looked happy mostly, but if you really looked, Izuku knew every person held a sadness in their hearts.

Izuku knew as shitty experiences went, he held a top trump, but he hated how he didn't think he'd met a single person who didn't have their own burdens.

He was sure Izuku had no idea, how much his daily acceptance of everything Todoroki was, meant to him. But he felt like every minute with the smaller teen erased another scar and bought him out from the fortress of apathy he'd hidden in for so long.

Gaze never leaving Izuku, Todoroki spoke up. "Why do I want to burn something?" Shinsou would have chuckled but wasn't in the mood. Making the best of his situation he admired Izuku's ass in his shorts, muttering, "It's called jealousy." "Come on extras." Growled Bakugou. "Let's get your fucking boots.

This one night stand had been with someone Izuku had actually really liked, and probably intended to see again if he'd hadn't already. In which case Aizawa needed to find them, find out if they were close to deserving his son, and beat the fear of death into them.

The hero knew immediately what that tone of voice meant. It meant he was going to go grey far sooner than expected, and probably at some point lose his hero commission-issued license. Though in honesty he might as well be a vigilante considering how little he was paid, and in a fight between Izuku and the entirety of Japan, he'd back Izuku.

Izuku left the stairs with a gain of one cat. Aizawa lay back down on the stairs with a gain of another unworthy man he had to find and protect his son from, as well as impending job loss.

What are you offering me?" asked the villain softly. Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat. "The only thing that has ever had value to others. My body.

Four months ago I might have come with you Touya. But I have been taught a lot since then. I have learned about friendship, and jokes..." He smiled, slightly starting Dabi. "Conspiracy theories, LGBTQ... memes, coffee, twerking... I was shown what love truly was..." Shoto turned to look into those icy blue eyes. "I have lived more in the last four months than I have in the rest of my life... and there is so much more to it than punishing our father. Izuku and I will take him down, and the corrupt system that allowed him to do what he did to me, and to you. But even if he somehow gets away from that... I will still stand by the people who love me... who got my heart beating again, who got me to laugh for the first time in so long-" He stopped when Dabi laughed and ruffled his hair. "What?" The older man grinned. "You've made my year Shoto... I know I'll never be able to make up for never coming back for you. But I am so happy you've found where you belong." Shoto swallowed, his eyes felt tingly but he blinked rapidly and it went away. "I have.

Seriously, Izuku. What the fuck is happening," he growled. He'd lost count by now, how many times Izuku had ignored that question, the greenette playing deaf, rummaging in a shopping bag, pulling out a red ribbon of all things. "Now, I like to keep promises I make people. Do you respect that?" asked the greenette. "Uh..." He didn't think this level of confusion was possible. "Of course." "Then stay still." Izuku moved him to the doorstep before tying him up in the red ribbon, making a big red bow at the front, before pressing the doorbell and stepping back. "If this is a fucking police stat-" The door burst open and beautiful golden eyes found his. Keigo and Touya stared at each other for so long, Izuku wondered if making this a surprise was a good idea after all. "Um..." he spoke up when neither of the men seemed inclined to. Blue and golden eyes slowly moved to look at him. "I told you I'd deliver him wrapped in ribbon, Kei?

Shinsou stretched, yawning. "Can't believe we're going back to school soon. Why do I feel like we haven't even had a holiday?" "Because we went on a training camp and got attacked by villains?" asked Izuku dryly without looking up from his phone.

Todoroki sighed, "I don't understand why you can't just close your eyes at nine, and just sleep for ten hours?" Izuku and Shinsou both shared a look before turning to face him with slightly broken chuckles. "You wouldn't get it.

Aizawa's home seemed to be turning into a youth hostel. He did not know how this had happened, but for some reason he was no longer able to refuse Izuku anything. Anything.

He was lucky, he knew that more than anyone... But a son... He hadn't been there when Izuku had first spoken, first gone to school. He hadn't been there when Izuku had gone to the quirk doctors - and been able to look him in the eyes and tell the child he could still be a hero without a quirk.

Todoroki Touya, villain, son of the number two hero, meet the once Midoriya Izuku, hero trainee, son of the number one villain.

He staggered over to the tree he'd been stood against and gathered up his clothes, suddenly bringing realisation to Bakugou to exactly what degree Izuku had been prepared to carry out his offer, and just why he'd been so horrified of Bakugou overhearing. It hadn't been a bluff. Izuku had been prepared to get raped by a villain to get him back.

You can stay," said a gruff voice from the doorway, and he saw the hero watching him. "Just don't fucking be here in the morning, so I can pretend this was a nightmare." "Y-yes Eraserhead." "It's Aizawa, Hawks. I've no idea what the fuck you are to my son, but since, after going through what he just went through, the person he wanted there is you, you'd best call me Aizawa." "Okay, Aiz-" was all he managed before the underground hero had closed the door leaving him alone with the sleeping Izuku.

You sighed and picked up your phone. It was a text from your part-time therapist, thank god. Broccoli Boi: Hey! Sorry I didn't see your text... You can come over if you want - 8:34 P.M. You smiled to yourself and replied. You: Thanks so much, Izuku! Open your window. I'll be there in a bit - 8:35 P.M.

Yes, there's more. Most of the class knows, actually. They know because it's really obvious you like him. And don't worry, the only one who's even denser than you is Kacchan." Izuku layed it out for you.

Maybe if you confessed, Katsuki's feelings would grow and Izuku's ship could sail.

Izuku really wanted to yell out "You! He likes you!", but refrained himself. It wouldn't be really nice to expose Katsuki like that. If he could, he would explain everything to you, but he knew he'd be spilling tea about Kacchan and he really wanted to live to see the next day.

You were in the waiting room with your classmates when Todoroki suddenly announced a declaration of war with Izuku, which Izuku returned right back at him, surprising you in the process.

I swear I'm not into girls...I just like a little bit of Shima and 3/4 of Paige once in a while