Chapter 1: Every story has a beginning
A/N To be honest this idea has been sitting in my mind for a while now so I decided to type it out and hopefully people will like it so let's see where this goes yeah.
Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto nor Boku Hero Academia, if I did don't you think I would be chilling in the Bahamas with my future ex-wife right now and not writing fan-fiction *sigh*.
"The world has never been fair," a boy with blue eyes and a head of spiky messy blond hair said to a boy around the same age as him who had dark hair and green eyes.
"You always talk about how the world is unfair Naruto," said the dark haired boy to his blonde haired friend who was now gazing up at the clouds with a bright smile on his face and leaning back on the solid rooftop of the school as if it were a smooth mattress.
Naruto just continued to look at the sky but traded in for a thoughtful expression instead of his previous one," If I were wrong Izuku then you would probably have been born with a powerful quirk and there would be no villains to fight as well."
Izuku just had a sullen expression and a bitter-sweet smile at these words and said," that's why I have to work extra hard to keep up with people who have amazing qirks so that one day even I can be a hero too despite being quirkless."
Naruto felt a little bad for having to remind Izuku of his own powerlessness again, but quickly reminded himself of why he had done it. It was for Izuku's own good.
In the world 80% of the population possessed strange abilities called quirks. Some quirks were abilities like: flight, invisibility, super-strength and durability; well the flashy ones at least. While others were viewed as mediocre like the ability to have a springy neck or the ability to spit at someone from fifty yards away.
While that 80% were blessed with these quirks, the other 20% were forced to remain in a state of powerlessness and leave the empowered responsible for their safety from threats that the other normal law enforcement could not deter.
Ironically these threats were almost always caused by villains who possessed quirks and used them for their own evil gains. While another number of individuals used their quirks to keep these villains at bay and we call them superheroes.
My father was one such superhero.
Ten years ago he could have easily become one of the best, actually he would have been the best the top hero that is even a bigger hero than the current 'Symbol of Peace'. With his quirk 'Yellow Flash', I always thought there was no one out there that could hold a candle to my dad in the power department. He was a prominent pro hero clearly seen as the best there was at that time.
However all that changed one day when he just vanished into thin air. No explanation, no answer as to why and no notice to his only son that he would be leaving. Just leaving me behind with a whole lot of questions and never any answers.
Then just a few days after his disappearance the world receives a new shiny centerpiece for the people's adoration, this one however not camera shy at all and ready to shoulder everyone's problems. This was the nature of the hero known as All Might. Appearing out of nowhere he saved countless people from a burning building in a matter of seconds and the world quickly found its beacon of peace. He's the type of guy I would've wanted to become if things had turned out differently.
Heroes and Villains, Horrible Fathers and peace are all things I barely care about. I live my life by a creed I do everything I want and need as long as what I'm doing doesn't affect another person's happiness and freedom. Basically that means I seem like a carefree bastard to most people.
Except Izuku he saw right through my carefree crap and actually looked at me and saw the kind of person I was. Past all the fake smiles and crappy attitude to authority figures and anyone with a higher standing in life than me.
See back when my dad left without a trace, I fell into myself and became really depressed and way too destructive for my own good. I picked fights with a lot of the older kids and pulled pranks on most of the staff members and any adult that crossed my path all with the hopes that they would notice me, and hopefully act like a parent to me. I felt like my father had abandoned me because I wasn't good enough to be his son, so I trained my quirk everyday with the hopes that he would magically re-appear if I was stronger to tell me what a good job I did. I continued to act up and smile like a jack-ass until Izuku finally 'saved' me.
For one whole week I had chosen not to attend class in favor of training my quirk and also because I knew for a fact that no one would care if the child of a prominent 'missing' hero like The Yellow Flash didn't come to school. However, and to my surprise I answered the door on the weekend to be met with the sight of a boy around my age with messy dark hair and green highlights, freckles and a bright smile at my family home's doorstep. I of course immediately told him to get lost but he told me that he wanted to know if I was okay and that he and I were at the same school and even in the same class. Something in me told me to let him into my house and after a short conversation I led him on a tour of our rather large house and quickly realized that I enjoyed having someone to talk to as most kids my age avoided me out of fear that I would prank them or beat them unconscious. He on the other hand genuinely cared whether I was okay and we spent the most part of that afternoon playing games and talking. When it was time for him to leave I actually asked him if he was going to come by the next day and I was very happy when he said he would. From just that simple act of having one person notice me I chose to start coming to school more often just to play with my friend and he got me to play less pranks on people and have less to do with fighting. I was even impressed with his resolve to become a hero despite being born quirkless. He even got me to not give up on my dad coming back one day, cheered at me for training hard and gave me hope that just maybe I didn't have to be lonely.
I wanted to be a hero because I wanted to stand by his side to walk the path of justice and be a generally awesome dude. Although my drive eventually faded, I saw heroism more as a popularity contest and less about saving people and my father as more of a deserter without a reason and less of someone I would want in my life. I basically stopped giving a shit about most of that shit.
Izuku never gave up on those things and carried on with his dream of becoming a hero that would even surpass All Might, made me promise that I would become a hero too just to help others. I of course accepted but the truth I couldn't tell him was that I wanted to help him not because of the reason he gave me.
The sound to signal that the lunch-break was over rang out over the school grounds and Izuku pulled a stubborn Naruto to his feet as the left the rooftop to return to their classroom.
As they walked along the hallways to their classroom they came around the corner of their hallway leading to their classroom they were met by the figure of none other than Katsuki Bakugo and his followers.
Blond haired, permanent scowl and a brawny build were just a few words to describe Bakugo. He had a quirk that granted him the ability to create explosions from his palm sweat and also a goal to be the number one hero similar to Izuku's. The only difference was that he was a total dick who abused his abilities and bullied those he deemed weaker than him and was granted nothing but praise from those around him. Naruto might have ignored Bakugo altogether if it wasn't for the fact that the boy hated him and Izuku for different reasons. He hated Naruto because people praised the boy for possessing a quirk just as amazing as his and he strongly believed the boy to be beneath him clearly visible to him from the choice of friends he kept in Izuku for example who he hated for being weak and called Deku which meant good at nothing.
Izuku started to shiver a bit as he knew that every time Naruto and Bakugo would be in the same place then something bad might happen, while Naruto tried to ignore him and urged Izuku along as well when Bakugo grabbed his arm to stop him.
"You trying to ignore me huh trash," Katsuki said with a mean expression.
"Not at all," Naruto replied with a wide foxy grin," I wouldn't want to offend the most insignificant piece of shit on the planet."
"YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PICK A FIGHT HUH FUCKER!"
"IT WOULDN'T BE MUCH OF A FIGHT NOW WOULD IT EXPLOSION BRAIN!"
"THAT'S IT DIE!"
Bakugo was about to take a swing at Naruto who in turn had pulled his left arm back far enough to deliver a deadly haymaker however they were stopped by a passing by teacher and the people spread out quickly having things like this happen was a commonplace in their school.
Naruto and Izuku quickly went to class along with Bakugo and his disciples after this with Naruto sticking his tongue out at Bakugo and the latter flashing a middle finger at him.
Ah yes that was the status quo of Oshigari Junior High.
With Izuku Somewhere in Town
Izuku was sad, apart from having one of his analysis books destroyed by Bakugo once school had let out and the day had just got worse when a villain made of sludge had tried to steal his body by entering him and doing who knows what. Gosh he could still taste the thing for Kami's sake he thought as he dry heaved a bit. He was saved from this fate by All Might however, yes he still couldn't believe it but All Might had saved him.
However despite meeting his idol and finding out about his rather serious secret Izuku's day just went downhill from there. When All Might, yes the very same All Might he looked up to, the very same man he worshipped and admired above everyone else had told him that he couldn't be a hero without a quirk.
Somewhere deep down in his heart Izuku had always known that no matter how hard he worked that he would probably never become a hero. Despite this he had carried on for years with his stupid childish dream of becoming a hero like All Might, a hero who would save others with a smile on his face and not fear anything.
"What a fucking joke," Izuku cursed. He continued to walk past the steady flowing traffic with these thoughts swimming in his head.
He lifted his face to look forward for a moment when he heard a noise and saw a crowd gathered at the entrance of an alleyway that had smoke billowing out of it. 'It's probably another villain attack,' he thought.
Despite this thought Izuku found himself drawn to the scene and squeezed himself in between the gathered crowd to get a close look at what was going down. The scene itself left him beyond shocked.
The pro heroes he had seen earlier in the day who had stopped a villain who was mugging were there all three of them again. Death Arms, Mountain Lady and Kaminari Woods stood there holding the crowd back safely as the sludge creature thrashed around creating confusion.
The thing that shocked Izuku the most however was the fact that every time the person within the villain thrashed they created explosions in a futile attempt to escape. The blond hair and frightened looking face that popped into view from the villain immediately sent out warning bells to Izuku.
Without a second thought Izuku Midoriya who no longer wanted anything to do with the world of heroes vaulted over the security line regardless of his own life with one thought in mind. 'I have to save Kaachan!'
With Naruto at The Namikaze Estate
Naruto stood on the diving board in his family home's backyard wearing nothing but a pair of black shorts and his mom's emerald necklace. He stared down at the rather large pool of water and inhaled and exhaled deeply,"here goes nothing," he said as he took a step of the ledge and propelled towards the water.
Just before he hit the water however he stretched his arms slightly from his sides and created twin streams of wind from his palms that kept him hovering above the water's surface while creating ripples as well.
Naruto grinned like a maniac when he saw this," awesome I finally got it down, now time for step two." He said this while looking across the pool to a tennis ball launcher that he instructed to activate by voice command and it began to hurl tiny black hardened projectiles at him at extreme speeds. Naruto continued to elevate his body with one arm with a greater strain while he used a knife hand motion to send sharp cutting winds to rip through the projectiles flying towards him.
Eventually after easily cutting through a dozen at blinding speeds he temporarily let go of his control of the streams and used both his arms to throw forward a dual shaped arc of wind that ripped apart the machine and destroyed it completely. He quickly re-adjusted his balance in the air and adjusted the winds to keep himself elevated with only a single toe brushing against the waters surface.
"Okay now for phase three, I guess," he said with an even bigger grin as some sweat began to trickle down his form. Dummies triggered to spring up the moment the machine was destroyed came up as criminals holding various fake victims all with fake pistols pointed at their victims heads, at least eight in total with four in front of him and four positioned behind him. He assigned hover control to one arm again and made a pistol like motion with his free hand as he rotated and said bang everytime he drew his arm back like a gun being fired sending forth a tiny compressed ball of wind that struck the villains right in the head and sent them reeling safely away off their hostages with Naruto finally rotating back to his original position.
He was panting heavily this time with sweat freely streaming down his form as his arms visibly shook from maintaining the jet streams of wind that he created to hover. "Final phase," he said with his ever bright yet dimming smile. Upon voice command another machine but this one from directly behind Naruto in the form of a turret began to fire off rubber bullets mainly used against rioters fired of towards him at a breakneck quickly pushed more power into the wind that sent him soaring higher, however the turret was adjusted in such a way that it steadily followed his movements and fired off bullets towards him very quickly. Naruto kept a serious face on as he watched the bullets head towards him at a terrifying pace and positioned himself in a dive bomb headfirst as he began to corkscrew towards the turret with a maniacal grin channeling more wind from the palms of his hands to thrust him forwards all the while spinning like a top and as a result the bullets were sucked up into torrent of wind he created with his spin while some managed to graze his skin and altogether even hit him on his torso and arms stinging like hell. Naruto turned at the last minute and sent the wind towards the machine with his arms releasing it in a twister motion shouting,"Burst Twister!"
The twister ripped into the soft metal turret and destroyed it upon contact ferociously ripping it apart until only a husk was left.
Naruto fell face first unceremoniously through the branches of a tree in the backyard and landed on the grass hard. He lay still for a few seconds before rolling over and laughing. "Damn that was fun but I hurt all over like a bitch." He turned his head to look over at the trees that surrounded the Namikaze Estate and just grinned," I know you've been watching me for awhile now and I also know that we're supposed to go jogging today so come on out you know I don't bite."
There was a rustling of bushes before a figure stepped out from behind one of the trees. She was a teenager with black hair with long bangs pushed to the right, a rather beautiful face, an amazing figure(according to Naruto), the largest boobs on a teenage girl he had ever seen( again as told by Naruto). She had a blush adorning her face and wore a indigo form fitting tracksuit with black sneakers. This girl was Yayorozu Momo, Naruto's neighbour and crush.
"As usual I come across you doing something quite stupid in an effort to improve your capabilities," she said while looking away from Naruto's prone form," would it kill you to put on a shirt as you work out."
"No, not really but would it kill you to stop blushing on account of how sexy I am?" Naruto said while winking at her from his position on the ground. Yayorozu scoffed," just hurry up and change so that we can go on our jog Namikaze-san."
Naruto just sighed but jumped to his feet nonetheless and stood up straight," could you stop with the titles Momo-chan."
"Hurry up and get dressed so that we can go jogging Naruto-kun," Yayorozu said as she shoved him playfully. "Oh so you want to play that game huh," Naruto said with a mischievous grin etched on his face and Yayorozu backed away quickly before high tailing it towards the former's estate with Naruto following in a mad dash to catch her.
They ran back into the grand American style home and stopped short of the stairs to the rooms faked a dive at Momo who screamed in fake horror before just waltzed passed a grinning Momo to head upstairs and change.
'he never changes,' she thought shaking her head as she began to look around the house like she usually did when she came around.
To this day it still surprised Yayorozu as to how someone as reckless as Naruto could manage to live on his own as long as he had and in such a big house to boot. Well considering the fact that she herself lived in a large estate that was the Namikaze household is direct neighbour made her accustomed to living in a large home as well only difference with Naruto however was he was always alone, no maids, no servants and no family. That's something that made Yayorozu pity him the first time she had heard of his situation.
Naruto came down the stairs not long after Yayorozu had begun her usual awestruck inspection of his immaculate house. Yayorozu sighed at his usual choice of tracksuit matte black with an orange zipper for the jumper and orange trim for the bottoms with a pair of well worn orange sneakers with black laces. "The weather is so hot it's still a miracle as to how you can jog so freely in that monstrosity of a tracksuit and not suffer from heat-stroke every time."
"Well black is an awesome colour Ya-chan, that and the fact that you made me get rid of most of my orange clothes and I needed a fix of the colour so I found a tracksuit close to the next best thing," Naruto said as the two began to stretch out before their jog.
Momo smirked,"I'm glad you got rid of that colour honestly it was really horrible for a person of your standing in society Naruto-kun."
"Who said I got rid of everything," Naruto grinned mischievously as he walked into the worship room and knelt down.
Yayorozu made to follow him and chew him out over his wardrobe when she came across him kneeling down in front of his mother's portrait saying a quick prayer.
"I'm off mom," he said as he stood up to leave.
"I know I always say it Naruto-kun but your mom was very beautiful." she said this while looking at the portrait of the woman with a bright smile and long red hair and eyes as green as the greenest shade of grass.
Naruto just gave her his thanks before the two of them took off at their usual pace jogging down past both their estates through the thick forest and on to town.
"You know I'm considering going to U.A next year,"Naruto said as they picked up the pace along the pavements of the city.
"Is it because of your friend, that guy you're always on about?"
"Izuku is pretty cool Ya-chan, it's just a shame that every time either one of you comes over the other one is always not around."
"Every time you mention that boy he sounds very unreasonable Naruto-kun especially his dream, he should realise that it's futile with his condition despite how noble his goal is."
"I know it seems unreasonable but I believe in him I just hope he gets into U.A too I'm only doing this because of him," Naruto said this as they rounded a corner and came across a large crowd of people gathered around an alleyway.
"It must be another hero and villain battle, we can always just keep go-.
Before Naruto had finished speaking Yayorozu had begun sprinting towards the crowd. "We can at least take the time to see a pro-hero in action, Naru-kun," Yayorozu said with a smirk knowing exactly how much he secretly loved it when she used that nickname on him.
Naruto just followed her grumbling all the way but jumping like a schoolgirl on the inside at the fact that she had used that name on him.
The two of them squeezed their way in between the spectators in the crowd to get a better look at what was going on but the crowd was very tight knit and from the looks of things being held back from whatever chaos was ensuing.
"Damn it I don't think we'll be able to see your pro heroes at this rate Ya-chan." "Language, Naruto-kun," Yayorozu said as she tightened her grip around his arm as he led and shoved their way through the crowd.
"Hey Mr ," Naruto said to some random guy," what's happening out there I can't see a thing." The man he asked took a second to look at the person who asked him that question and saw that the kid's other hand was holding on to a rather beautiful girl's hand. 'Damn kid sure is lucky, look at the size of the boobies on that one eish.' Naruto winked at the man as if to say,' I know you and I both acknowledge the fact that I'm awesome but now is not the time, the lady wants to know something so do me a solid." The man nodded his head and gave Naruto a thumbs up before he spoke and Yayorozu stood there unable to understand their hidden conversation. "There is a villain with a sludge like appearance that's taken hostage a kid around your age with a powerful quirk, it's been rampaging and causing destruction but the hero escape have confined it to this area, however just a few seconds ago some dumb kid with managed to get past the heroes perimeter screaming some dumb name like Kaachan and ran towards that thing I tell you kids these days are freaking suicidal."
"Yeah kids are-. Naruto froze mid-sentence. "What name did you say that kid screamed Mr!" Naruto screamed with a frantic look on his face as he shook him. "Kaachan he said Kaachan kid Geez let go of me."
"Ya-chan I'm sorry but I'm about to do something really stupid," Naruto said with a sincere grin as he ripped up his jacket with his quirk in a second and remained with a white t-shirt on.
Before Yayorozu could even speak Naruto had pushed off the ground pushing himself high up and blowing some people to the side with the winds he had created to push himself upwards.
Naruto quickly began to hover when he was a good distance above the alleyway. He spied the kid who had been mentioned earlier and took note that without a doubt it was Izuku.
"So that means the hostage in that slime thing Izuku is clawing desperately at is Bakugo, damn it's now or never if I'm going to see if I can pull off a safe rescue without an injury."
Naruto dive bombed in the same fashion as in his backyard and spun like a top creating more winds as he surged towards the creature.
"THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!" Naruto grinned like a maniac while screaming this at the top of his lungs.
Naruto plowed right into the sludge creature and ripped it apart whilst simultaneously grabbing Izuku and Katsuki and failing to slow his momentum enough that he ended up getting all three of them to slam into a nearby garbage heap.
"My arms feel like their on fire," Naruto said as he tried to unsuccessfully get up and discovered he had used up all of his energy to in his Kamikaze plunge. "Hang on Kamikaze plunge isn't a half bad name for that move," Naruto said as he looked at a stirring Izuku.
"Eh Naruto-kun did you just save us from the thing," Izuku said as he looked over at the unconscious Bakugo and the immobile Naruto.
"Yeah you know awesome guy like myself comes across his best buddy and a rather ugly damsel in distress in trouble and so-called pro heroes unable to help, of course I would help you, you reckless bastard."
Izuku just smiled at Naruto," I'm sorry for acting so un-hero like Naruto I know I caused a lot of trouble for you."
"Buddy you acted like a hero today these bastards who couldn't risk their lives for that piece of crap over there can't hold a candle to you, so let's not sweat the details and try to become the best heroes ever."
Tears welled up in Izuku's eyes at Naruto's words and he nodded his head at them, with a smile.
The pro-heroes began to advance towards the boys to check if they were injured when all of a sudden the sludge monster reformed to block their path.
'Damn it I can't move and explosion brain is still dow for the count, if the heroes can't make it to us in time it's over,' Naruto thought.
Izuku on the other hand fixed the villain with a steely expression and spread his arms wide as he stared the villain down. "I'll protect them no matter what, so just try it and you'll see what I'm really made of."
"I'll kill you all especially the blond brat!" the villain said as it shot forward to end them all.
However before it could even strike them down it was destroyed by one mighty blow delivered by the number one hero in the world himself: All Might. Standing at his impressive towering height and with his infallible smile he said," don't worry, why because I'm here."
The punch was so powerful it caused an up-draft and rain began to pour down on everyone in the alleyway.
Naruto felt the rain trickle down his face and took one look at All Might with a smirk on his face and said," No doubt about it now I'm definitely...going to surpass you."
A/N
Okay quick explanation on this story. Naruto likes a challenge, he doesn't particularly care about being a hero but he wants to support Izuku. He wants to help his friend become the best but also stand at the same level as him. Despite him not liking the hero lifestyle he doesn't like Injustice so he will always try to help where he can. His quirk and others will be explained in detail eventually. In this story however he and Izuku will face the same path but have way different hardships, like if I'm making Izuku run a mile you best know I'm making Naruto run a damn marathon. Let's just run with this okay. Oh and Ya-chan will be Naruto's girlfriend in this fic eventually.
Here is some brief Naruto information for now.
Naruto Namikaze:
Age: 14
Height: 180cm (5'10)
Weight: 65 kg
Quirk: (Patience my dear reader all will be explained soon.)
Likes: Yayorozu Momo, Izuku Midoriya, Training and The colour orange
Dislikes: His father, Bakugo Katsuki, Cowards, Villains and Heroes (Somewhat)
Bio: Born into a family of heroes, the son of The Yellow Flash and Red Wind, also the grandson of Jiraiya The Sage. Naruto aspired to be a hero like his father until his supposed abandonment by the man and now aspires to be a hero like Izuku who saved him from his self pity. He likes Yayorozu Momo and has been something close to being her boyfriend for over a year now.
