What does it take to be a hero? Bravery to overcome your fears? Power to protect those, who cannot protect themselves? Determination to stand proud even in the most dreadful situation? What does a hero truly need? A heart of gold to be selfless? Maybe all those things, maybe just one of them, I cannot say for sure.
But what does it take to be a pro hero? A flashy quirk and just a tiny bit of ambition...
"Hey, great philosopher, lost in damn thoughts again?" A sleepy voice brought teenager in a black coat back into existence. Blank expression quickly turned into curious, while he was focusing his sight on a person sitting at the opposite side of a small table.
"Somewhat. What is the matter?"
"You'd better finish off your fucking soup, or we're going to be late" Though a teenager with a messy brown hair looked like he hasn't slept for a long time and right on the edge of blacking out, his voice was filled energy. Like a smile that hides the pain, his dozy appearance was hiding willingness to beat the crap out of everyone who dares to annoy him. On the contrary, the blond teen lazily looked at his cream stew.
"We have still thirty minutes before the last class, no need to hurry." With no less slothful voice answered the young man. "Apologies for my curiosity, but can you tell me the reason of you impatience?"
"'Cause we have two fucking openings in our schedule before the last lesson. And the last lesson is a freakin' homeroom class! I wanna go home, but that thot will fuck around with her complains tomorrow." Said sleepy guy loud enough for his companion to hear and to not disturb other people in the cafe.
"I think you should have a bit more respect to our class representative." Muttered his friend while chewing the meal.
"Respect my ass! Fuck that bitch, Kai. Fuck. That. Bitch." Thus the opinion about the class president was expressed. "Anyway, what were you thinking about?"
"My dear friend Teiro, is it really an interesting topic?" Muttered again Kai.
"I have nothing to talk about, so that will do. I'm bored and you're eating slow as fuck, we're here for another twenty minutes for sure, and I don't want to just watch how you're eating that bowl of vomit." Said Teiro, while giving a deadpanned look to his friend, who picked a fork out of nowhere and started using it to eat his soup.
"Well, It is a concern about the profession of heroes. Do you know the dictionary definition of hero? I am not referring to the main character of the story, it is obvious that I am talking about the other descriptions of this word. Hero is a person who, in the opinion of other has achievements, personal qualities or abilities and is regarded a role model or ideal. Or hero is a person who is admired for doing something extremely brave. And there lies a big problem. The profession of hero did not mean any of this before. Professional heroes were something like super policemen or super firefighters. Protectors of law who can use their unique powers legally. Thirty years ago, for example it was not that popular. But one moment all of a sudden appeared All Might. He became an idol, an ideal, a perfect role model. A true hero. During all his career the percent of crimes all over the country drastically dropped. But his existence made a devastating effect on the minds of all inhabitants of Japan. His god-like presence made job of professional hero ridiculously popular. And, as we all know, popular things attract people very efficiently, in our case children and teenagers are dreaming to become heroes. All Might is an iconic person and in order to get closer to that icon, they want to become heroes too. Granted, many teenagers have a tendency to change their priorities from willingness to save people, to being popular, rich or to earn a privilege to hurt bad people using their powers, but the method remains the same - become a hero... Are you listening to me?" Stopped his half-eating-half-speech Kai.
Teiro took a spoon and raised it with a stern look to the eye level of his friend. "Is this a joke to you?" During his speech, Kai managed to eat almost all of his cream stew. "How the fuck did you even do that? You ate this shit... with a fork."
"Practice makes perfect." Answered blond, while finishing his meal. "Could we have the bill please?" He asked the nearest waitress. "I shall pay for both of us." Added Kai, noticing that his friend started rumbling in his pockets.
"Am I your fucking girlfriend? I can pay for my damn part." Grumbled Teiro, but he couldn't find money in his jacket. "Shit, where did I put it?" When he finally understood that his money wasn't in his pockets, Kai already paid the bill.
"As I recall, you put your cash in the inner section of your backpack." Gave hint to his friend already standing teen.
"Well, thanks for that, bro." Said Teiro. When he got up and put on backpack, another one of his
distinctive features was revealed. While Kai had above average height for fifteen year old Japanese, Teiro was near two meters high. "Oh, fuck!" He exclaimed suddenly. There was a half dry coffee stain on his pants. "The fuck am I supposed to do now?"
"There is no scientific way of approaching this. You just have to rub it with something wet and hope for the best." Said Kai. He wasn't paying much attention to his friend's struggles to wipe out the stain. He was watching at the traffic on the street. Kai was sure, something was about to happen. One of the wheels on the passing car suddenly exploded, driver lost control over the vehicle and crushed into the alcohol store on the opposite side of the street. Due to the products of the store, the outcome of this accident was quite flashy. Something made a spark during the collision and everything in ten meter radius was set afire. "Fascinating." Mumbled Kai.
"Thanks, Einstein, didn't know about that." Groaned Teiro with some irritation. After the explosion he looked in the direction of the noise. "The fuck happened?"
"The tire bursted and a car exploded." Responded Kai. "Do you want to hear a stupid joke?" Asked blond.
"Yeah, surprise me."
"There were at least 7 people in that store. They all wanted to escape from reality through alcohol intoxication, and now they are all literally escaped from reality, thanks to the alcohol."
In response his friend made a loud inhale through his nose. "It's so fucking dumb. I swear to god, Kai, you'll burn in fucking hell for such shit." He said and stopped rubbing the stain.
"Yes, my friend, you swear a lot." Kai made another stupid joke and started moving toward the exit. He could hear a quiet 'Fuck you, mate' from behind.
When they went outside they noticed that traffic on the street has stopped and there was a crowd watching how the fire started to grow, consuming the building entirely.
"Why is everyone swarmed around the fire? Is it really that exiting? I mean, it's a fucking fire! There is something crawling out of it, for fucks sake! Why are they just watching this shit?"
Exclaimed Teiro, standing on the edge of the sidewalk.
"They are waiting for the hero with a suitable quirk to solve this problem." Said Kai lazily. "Why are you always boil over when something like this happens?"
"'Cause there is a man! His flesh is literally boiling from heat! He's going to fucking die if no one does something about it the next thirty freakin' seconds! And ALL this fucking just gathered to watch how someone famous and maybe not famous will solve this shit with a snap of his fingers!" Teiro continued to yell. "I would understand if they gathered 'round to help, but no! They did that 'cause they want to watch some live action and get an autograph!"
"They shall not receive any autographs." Kai said plainly. "Firemen are on their way." Just a second later a distant sound of sirens filled the street.
"That dude is fucking dead." The person who crawled out of the fire burned to death. His didn't got any help from the crowd. "I don't believe there wasn't a single goddamn person who could do something about it. So many people watching and zero actions. Are they idiots?" Teiro said with annoyance.
"We were watching how he was dying too and did nothing, are we stupid too?" Asked Kai.
"First, we are not part of the crowd." Started explaining Teiro. "Second, we couldn't do a damn thing about it, could you do something about it?"
"There is nothing I could use to do anything."
"Me neither. That's why you shouldn't ask me dumb questions, Kai. We should get fucking going." Finished Teiro and started walking down the street. "Shouldn't you make some photos for you newspaper?"
"No need of it already." Kai said, catching up to his friend. "By the way, there is apparently a fat boy in the crow with a quirk that emits water from his fingertips, but he was held from action by his parents. Does this make his parents idiots?"
TO BE CONTINUED
Author's notes:
The beginning of this story is a bit too small, i'm planning to make chapters more than 2k each at least, but I couldn't come up with a bigger opening. And it wasn't so interesting, just two OC characters and tons of dialogues between them. I can't say surely that there won't be tons of dialogues in the next several chapters, but making action without introduction of the characters is not in my style, they'll talk A LOT and rarely do something.
But hope you'll enjoy reading this and leave some reviews pointing out on some things that I should improve or just some thoughts about it. I also hope that my English is not so bad that someone's eyes will bleed. If there are any mistakes lest in the text I'll try to fix them, be cause I'm quite forgetful and inattentive.
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia and it's characters. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to the real persons, companies and brands are purely coincidental.