Hello everyone! I'm happy to meet you, this is the first fanfic I wrote in English. Modesty aside, ideas are coming up more and more, and I believe that the saga of Tokoyami and Ajairou will go through a lot of cool things. For an intro, that's it. I wish everyone a good reading
It was about midnight and a half. Although clouds in the sky, a full moon was responsible for illuminating the great forest in the rural area of Musutafu, Japan. Looking from above, it seemed a quiet night. But two people in the woods were about to live hell on Earth ...
"Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT! We need to run, Tokoyami!" Ajairou shouted to his friend as they fled through the dark forest, taking advantage of the fact that the villain who attacked them seemed to have retreated.
The raven-headed boy didn't respond, but he remained right behind of Ragaku Ajairou, though he showed a tortuous countenance, as if he were suffering in deep pain. The fight with the villain, even the short duration, was debilitating. In the corner of his eyes, Ajairou noticed that Fumikage had a cut on his head, which blew blood, though in a small amount. But it was not the time to worry yet, the priority was to take distance to flee away from the place of the attack.
During the flight, Ajairou came to stumble on a root and fell to the ground. Conveniently, his reflexes were enough to avoid a head hit and luckily his glasses didn't fall. Find it in the pitch of the forest and still during an escape would be practically impossible, complicating the getaway. He was an aspiring hero, but he needed that little thing to see clearly.
"That damned lizard-faced ... I can't believe that the League of Villains ... is still willing to attack us ... the UA students ... and that bastard still managed to hurt me ... but, this isn't the time to worry about it. We have to get away!". The words flew by Ajairou's thought, while the pair strayed as far as possible from the villain's attack. His heart seemed to be coming out of his mouth from the pressure of the moment, and he felt a slight uneasiness in the fingers of left hand.
The high density of tree trunks made them travel slightly different paths, but taking care to not get disjointed. "Geez... I need to see if Tokoyami is okay as soon as we stop…". Ajairou was worried if his friend could have some serious injury, especially in the middle of the forest without being able to be rescued. At least, the boy with glasses had some bandages that might be useful.
The only thing that allowed the duo to roam in the darkness was the light reflected by the moon, faintly illuminating their way. This allowed to they avoid collisions with numerous trees and especially a gorge, which could provide an arm or a broken leg after a fall. Even with a few minutes on the run, and apparently no sign of the villain who attacked them, the rush still lingered.
Suddenly, the exhaustion began. After another few minutes in stampede, the pair finally decided to stop. "Tokoyami !?", Ajairou called for his friend, believing he was right behind, but didn't realize that the bird boy had stayed meters back. An affliction came to him when he didn't see his friend and he heard slow footsteps, crushing the dry leaves of the forest floor and was coming right to him. Ragaku put himself on guard for a round 2 against the villain, but there was no need to do anything. Fortunately, Ajairou can breathe a sigh of relief as he saw the characteristic beak of Fumikage Tokoyami, emerging from behind the trees. "Are you ok?" Ajairou asked. "You stayed behind and I heard noises, I thought he had come back ..."
"... Pff ... A ... A-Ajairou ... y-yeah, I ... I'm good ... aargh ...", Tokoyami replied, although his expression showed absolutely the opposite. Ajairou thought to contradict, analyzing his state, when it was interrupted by a babbling of the bird boy; "It's very strong ... very ... very strong ... but I ... I ... n-need to ... hold ooOOOOOOOONNN",
This last scream surprised Ajairou, who was properly astonished by Fumikage's behavior. Ragaku thinking that the reason for Tokoyami's suffering was the hurt on his head, one of the few times he could see the hide skin below those black feathers. However, the boy's last comment made him worry even more. "Please, please, let it not be that ...", the pain didn't seem to come from the injury, and Ajairou thought afraid, imagining the worst ... but the unpleasant sight of his bloody and upset friend didn't allow the boy to keep himself.
"Tokoyami, I need to see if this cut is too deep. We need to go back to- AAAARGH!", suddenly a fierce pang of pain ran through Ajairou's nerves, from the fingers of his left hand, especially the little and the ring ... or rather, of what's left of them.
"Aaaahh ... uh ... damn it ... DAMN, that Spinner bastard! Fucking pain ... aarh ... I can't believe… fuck… I lost a finger to that gecko! Son of a bitch! ". With the release of adrenaline, the pain arose and Ajairou finally realized that he had really lost his little finger in the fight against the villain Spinner, who had attacked the pair.
"A-... Ajairou! ... What ... the ... arghh ... what is it?" Tokoyami, still in torment, asked, for he had not realized that his friend had been wounded.
And really ... Tokoyami and Ajairou had been attacked overnight in a forest near Fumikage house. The villain who ambushed them was Spinner, a lizard skin guy who appears to be a staunch follower of Stain, the famous Heroes Killer. The villain shouted that in the name of the League of Villains he would take dead or alive the student Fumikage Tokoyami, who was almost kidnapped a few weeks ago. Apparently, the boy's immense power stood out in the eyes of the villains, assuming that alive he would be an acquisition to the team or at least a tool of exchange, now with the leader All for One imprisoned on extremely high security. In the last case, his death would serve to prevent the emergence of a hero that would cause problems ahead, and in this topic Ajairou also fit.
Even if it was a brief fight, it was a difficult time for the pair of future heroes. Spinner had advanced fighting skills as well as a great ability to handle cutting weapons. The battle was arduous mainly because Tokoyami couldn't count on the full force of his Dark Shadow (since they were immersed in the darkness of the forest, where his individuality becomes rebellious) and that, due to the absence of solar rays, one of Ajairou's Quirks wasn't available for use.
Although, given the disadvantages, both boys were alive, which mattered most. However, shortly after Tokoyami's Dark Shadow made a massive attack that made Spinner retreat, a knife was launched from the darkness by the lizard, towards the heart of Fumikage, stunned and vulnerable trying to regain control of his Quirk. Dark Shadow was having his wrath fueled by darkness.
For a moment, it seems that one of Ajairou's Quirk, superhuman reflex, worked even in the absence of sunlight. It was the best thing that could have happened at the moment and that allowed him to save Tokoyami's life by pushing him out of the blade's path. Otherwise there would be a result of a dead student and another psychologically degenerate by the murder of his friend before his eyes. However, it was during this moment that the dagger, continuing its deadly route, cut Ajairou's fingers, responsible for his anguish at the moment.
Ventely, when they stopped after the escape, there was no evidence that Spinner or anyone else was following them. Even with the pain, Ajairou didn't fail to notice that the night pitch had intensified, due to a formation of clouds that moved in front of the moon. Darkness increased, as did Tokoyami's disruption, which left the situation more terrible.
The whole situation created a great deal of stress, adrenaline bubbled through their bodies. The exacerbated "fight or flight" instinct instilled in the duo a degree of miosis so persistent that waiting for the sight to adjust to the dark wasn't an option. Using his right hand, that there were some lacerations but, fortunately was entire and functional, Ajairou pulled out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight to check the damage on his left hand. He don't know how deeply he would repent of this act ...
The sight was not pretty, which was obvious. When the light came on, the pain seemed to increase ... in fact, the blade cut off all of her little finger, and a part of the ring finger was also cut together, hung only by a lint of flesh. Ajairou twisted his face in pain and disgust at the sight.
"How do I stop this blood?", "And the other finger, will I lose it?", "How am I going to explain this to the other people?", "Does it affect my Quirk?" , "Is going to infect?" The situation caused questions to fly through Ajairou's mind ... but he felt the biggest garbage on the face of Earth when he realized that in the midst of his selfish thoughts he was forgetting something crucial: Your friend! Ajairou immediately turned to check.
"TOKOYAMI, ARE YOU AL... right?" Suddenly, despair became concern. The crow boy had a completely perplexed look, fixed on Ajairou's wound. He even ceased his snarls of suffering. Ragaku was also astonished to see the face of Tokoyami, fearing for the psychological of his friend. Quickly, he hung up the lantern to spare the bird boy from that unpleasant sight.
"W ... When ... when did this happened, Ajairou?" Tokoyami asked, incredulous from his sight.
"That was when that bastard threw that knife ... I was reckless, keep my left arm fluttering and vulnerable." Ajairou's pain was fading, giving way to a mixture of discontent with his failure and, especially, a tension over Tokoyami's mind state.
"..." ... Ajairou realized that Fumikage wanted to say something, but it seemed that the words were stuck in his throat.
... until finally they came ...
"... it was ... it was my fault"
"TOKOYAMI, DON' T SAY THIS! Do not blame yourself, It was my failure, you can't just throw that burden on you. No! You can't! "Ajairou even forgot the pain in uttering those words. Ragaku never looked at Tokoyami as guilty of his injury, listening to him assuming a mistake that was not his own created an inconceivable situation of being silent.
"Of course it was, Ajairou! You jumped to save me, it was then! ... Was then… If I was not so weak, so pathetic ... you wouldn't need ... you would not have ..." the expression of anguish of Tokoyami gradually increased after his speech.
"Do not you dare demote yourself this way," Ajairou said those words with an hatred intonation, though obviously involuntary. "You're incredible, Tokoyami… don't do this to you". "We're alive, a finger is a reasonable price for that. Look, we can survive an attack from a villain at a disadvantage ..." Ajairou's argument was based primarily on time and environment. Tokoyami, however, was not accepting the situation well, and the pair began to discut.
"Fine, what if you jumped at the wrong time? You could have died in my spot!"; "We can't work with 'IF', that's not what happened, it's past '; "Then as you don't work with possibilities, I must remind you that it was I who come up with the idea of coming here to train at night"; "And both of us were going to know that we would be attacked? It was a fatality, we don't have what to make, man! Take on the blaming isn't going to reverse things, it will worsen eve-"; "SHUT UP!". And it was getting worse, after all. The nerves were starting to get anger between the pair when, suddenly after shout to the boy with glasses to shut up, Tokoyami shrank in anguish and began to whisper;
"Pathetic ... and how does someone like ... arrgh ... like me who got into a situation like that ... uff ... even can CALL HIMSELF OF A HERO ?", Ajairou realized that the emphasis in the final stretch of the speaks of bird boy came accompanied of intense anguish.
"DON'T STAY UNDERESTIMATING YOURSELF!", Ajairou thought of screaming, but something was very wrong with the bird ... it really seemed to be ... it.
It's true ... Ajairou finally had to gulp the possibility that Tokoyami is losing control of Dark Shadow. Given all the variables, an unfortunate combination was being provided for disaster. Darkness, danger, emotional imbalance ... even seeming inevitable, Ajairou decided to persist.
"Tokoyami ... listen to me ... it's Dark Shadow, isn't it?", Tokoyami looked quickly and directly at the face of the boy with glasses, even not responding verbally, his gaze was more than enough for Ajairou to note which the crow had nodded with the questioning. "Oh no ..."
"We have to go back, NOW! Let's do what we can, you'll be able to resist it, I know it will!" Even with the encouraging words and helping his friend to walk, the fate seemed sealed. "No ... aaaaaaarrrrghhh ... n-no ... no, no, I can't! A ... A-Ajairou, he ... he's doing everything ... pff ... pfff ... he's go- ... he's going to leave ... he is, he's v-very strong! ", Tokoyami's effort to stop the demon seemed descommunal.
Ajairou was perplexed, he had notion that Tokoyami couldn't submit to the destructive desire of Dark Shadow, especially in that situation. His ex-finger and his hanging ring finger have disappeared from their worries, there was something extremely serious to deal with at the moment.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit ... Tokoyami, I know you're giving it your all ... but if you do not resist, I understand ... I shouldn't have yelled at you ... it served as food for the fury of Dark Shadow ... I'm such a fool, I'm don't believe that I not able to understand my best friend's feelings ... and now Ajairou? Think! You got yourself into this, you're have to solve!"
"Dude, you're doing great, we're making progress," was a white lie to motivate the raven, Ajairou didn't really know if he was heading for the forest exit. That's when the worst happened ...
"HHUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHH!", Fumikage's agonizing cry seemed to be able to freeze the spine of anything alive. The timing of the calamity seemed imminent.
"A-AJAIROU, I CAN'T! I DOESN'T ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH! E-ESCAPE, PLEASE! ... I ... I FAILED... HE IS COMING ..."
"RROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAARRRRR!" ... And, in an instant, the 'revelry in the dark' began. Ajairou hid behind a nearby tree, with a terror so intense that it made his entire body tingle. The corrupted image of Dark Shadow, swollen by the darkness and rendering it extremely frightening, provided a sense of paralysis in the remotest corners of the soul. The demon, before with small, friendly yellow eyes, now showed a thirst for blood in his large red eyes. Not enough as the intimidating Quirk, one more thing made Ajairou find himself in an extreme situation:
His friend, his BEST friend, Fumikage Tokoyami, was the source of vicious darkness. Fumikage was in incomparable suffer, with expressions and cries of torture that Ajairou had never witnessed. At that moment, Ajairou did not bother to escape, the only thing that filled his mind was "I HAVE TO SAVE YOU!"
I apologize if there were mistakes in writing, I am not what you can call fluent in English, but I try to work.
So will Ajairou be able to save his friend? And speaking of it, what exactly will be the Quirks of Ajairou? One tip: his name is adapted from Ajairo Kagaku, whose meaning reflects his individualities.
I hope you have enjoyed it, any criticisms or suggestions are very welcome.
A big hug, and see you in chapter 2!