"ALL MIGHT IS TOSHINORI YAGI!?"
"Yes." Venom groaned. "No need to be so damn loud about it."
"That… He… what… HOW?"
Izuku was currently in his room, alone in the apartment. Venom had waited until they came home to drop whatever news he had been sitting on for the day.
That news, being that All Might was actually his manager, the sickly Toshinori Yagi. A man, who frankly, looked like he was at death's door.
Izuku tried to process it.
"Ar-are you sure?!" It seemed so… Impossible that All Might could actually be a guy who looked like he would fall over by a stiff breeze.
"Of course we are sure! He also has some sort of injury in his gut that causes him horrible pain, ALL the time. Now, we could be wrong, given we didn't understand the words, but didn't Toshinori at some point suffer an injury that made him the way he is now? He looked pretty normal in those old photos you were looking at back when we first encountered him."
Izuku, still frozen, tried to contemplate this. Yes… He had read that Toshinori had an injury that destroyed his health, but…
Izuku pulled out his phone with shaking hands, then went through his browsing history, and soon found what he was looking for. An All Might article from a couple of weeks back.
There it was, a picture of Toshinori Yagi, looking kinda like a starving ghoul.
"If he really is as sickly as this… How can he do the stuff All Might does?"
Venom snorted. "His quirk obviously. At the very least, it allows him to drastically bulk up in muscle. He probably changes between his regular standard form and the huge musclebound titan the world knows him as."
That… wasn't impossible. There were quirks who worked like that. Hell, in his quest to try and restore his books he had encountered no less than 36 heroes who had a powerset of that variety. But with such amazing power? None of what he had seen came close.
As he looked down on the photo of Toshinori Yagi talking to the press, a thought suddenly struck Izuku, and he quickly went to Toshinori's Wikipedia page.
It wasn't large, but it did exist. More to the point, it also covered his injury with a nice before and after comparison shots.
Toshinori before the injury was a relatively average man, perhaps with muscles a bit larger than an average salaryman, judging by his build. It was kinda hard to say for sure given his clothing.
Two details struck him though. Details he had never really noticed before, but now that he knew what to look for, they seemed incredibly obvious.
Toshinoris' eyes had been pretty normal, a bit sunken in due to age mayhaps. Just like All Might's had been.
Then, after Injury, his eyes had gotten more and more sunken in, until they seemed completely surrounded by shadows. Just like All Might.
Izuku actually remembered having visited forums about half a decade ago talking about this very topic, how All Might's eyes had begun to change. Most attributed it to his age finally catching up with him. Izuku had argued against that since he wasn't THAT old. Was he…?
Now that he had heard Venom's information… The connection was there, obvious as the sun.
The second thing he noticed, was the way Toshinori styled his hair. Compared to All Might's ever windswept mane, he had very messy hair. He also had two long, blonde bangs down across his face. Bangs that were about as long as All Might's iconic V hairstyle.
He could feel a knot in his stomach.
"It's true… He really is Toshinori Yagi."
"Of course it is! We told you he was."
Izuku ignored his tone and just tried to process it.
After a while, another question popped up into his head. One he had asked himself in passing once before but not really focused on.
Why was All Might suddenly teaching at Yuei?
He remembered being really surprised by the news that All Might was becoming a teacher at Yuei. But he had been so happy he had gotten in he hadn't really delved into it. He had also been dealing with the reveals about Venom, which had also taken up much of his time.
So. What did they know?
All Might suddenly started teaching at Yuei, years after suffering a critical injury that completely changed his appearance, and put him in constant pain, all the time.
He did not start teaching that year because of some whim. He had to have a reason behind it.
Bu what? What could the reason possibly be? There was an answer here, one Izuku felt like he only needed one single other piece to figure out.
All Might had become a teacher. He had become a teacher this year. That meant there was someone in this year's students who he wanted to personally teach… Or keep his eye on.
A horrible fear that All Might knew about his secret, and was keeping an eye on him specifically shot through his mind, before he crushed the idea hard. It was flat out paranoid to think anyone else knew. Only him, venom, and Mom knew. No one else.
No, it had to be one of the other students, but who and why?
Who did he know that All Might, might be interested in? The fact was that he didn't know anyone who fit that description, but he DID know someone who Toshinori Yagi was interested in.
Uraraka.
The first time he met Uraraka, had been on the beach, the same time he had first seen Toshinori Yagi. She had been jogging behind him as he drove past him.
Why would All Might be interested in Uraraka?
Izuku froze, as a sentence once again ran through his mind.
Yeah… It's… A fused quirk from my parents.
It all fell into place.
Uraraka had a quirk that was a fusion between two different quirks, that by her own admittance was a mix between her parents.
One of which happened to be a freakishly strong power quirk.
He put his phone to his face as he went on YouTube. He didn't really need to check the next part out. He had seen videos of All Might more than enough times to remember them perfectly.
He quickly found an old video, showcasing a fight between All Might and a Villain with the ability to turn into incredibly hard steel.
As All Might prepared his strike, yellow lightning burst around his arm. It didn't happen that often, but they were there when All Might really put his back into it.
Lightning. Just before a blow.
He remembered the punch that had almost caved in his ribs and the pink lightning that had surrounded it.
It was so obvious.
Uraraka Ochaco was All Might's daughter.
He had joined Yuei as a teacher to train her, and help her reach his full potential.
THAT was why he had chosen this year to become a teacher.
...
As Izuku, Iida, and Uraraka sat and ate lunch together the next day, Izuku was still trying to wrap his head around it all.
There had been stuff during the start of the day, where they had chosen a class president, and with two votes(From him and Uraraka), Iida had become tied with Momo for the most votes, the two of them being the only one with more votes than anyone else.
It all seemed so unimportant to Izuku, at the moment as he tried to look at Uraraka, and really take her in detail, without it looking like he was leering at her.
It was both a simple, yet so hard thing to wrap his head around. On one hand, the fact All Might might have a family somewhere wasn't the most difficult thing to believe.
On the other hand, it was difficult to imagine that Uraraka was actually All Might's daughter.
Izuku felt like he was a terrible friend, but frankly, other than her quirk, it didn't seem like Uraraka had inherited Anything from All Might.
The way her hair flowed down was different, her colors both in skin, hair, and eyes weren't anything like All Might's, and though she had muscles(Whether they be trained or due to her quirk), her build was very different than All Might's.
He intensely looked at her eyebrows, for any sign she might have dyed it, but if so, he couldn't see a strand that wasn't completely brown. In every way, it looked like her natural hair color.
If Uraraka really was All Might's child, then the symbol of peace had left very little of himself in her. Except…
It all came back to the quirk, the enormous powers that did not lie.
He had gone through several hundred videos of All Might through the years, and he was more certain than ever that her powers were the same as All Might's.
He was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts by Iida.
"Midoriya, are you well?"
"What?"
He turned his head to look at Iida, who was looking at him with a concerned expression.
"Are you feeling well? Something is very clearly bothering you." He motioned towards Izuku with one of his arms in a needlessly dramatic way.
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