A certain unexpected meeting

Author's Notes: My third attempt at a fanfic after a two year hiatus due to a lack of time to write. Constructive criticism is welcome, I am trying to get back into the feel of writing after a while. There will be some references to other media. If anyone knows the character Hajin you will more or less be familiar with him, he'll be taking questions at the end of the page answering questions about the fanfic.

PS. First guy to spot my references in each chapter(if there's one) I'll consider your suggestion or answer any question personally. (As long as it does not spoil the story)

PSS. This story will be Mikoto x Touma in the later parts.

Italics = Thoughts

Bold + Italics = Voice in Hajin's head.

Disclaimer: I do not own the To Aru series or its characters.

Date: June 17, 19:32

The hooded figure stood on top of the buildings it stared down to the streets of academy city, with a population of 2.3 Million he'd expect to find at least something worthwhile here in a city filled with espers and a few Magicians. As usual in his black cloak he generally avoided the streets since he would stand out and quite possibly draw attention since his figure was that of a young kid. Even though it is the summer season the heat does not really bother him despite his whole outfit being a long sleeved black shirt along with long black pants stretching down to his ankles.

The figure sighed as he looked down at the streets wanting something to happen, he did not care what as long as something happened. His wish came true as he saw an brown-chestnut haired Tokiwadai student being surrounded by a group of thugs, he began contemplating whether or not to get involved. He generally did not like situations like these but beggars can't be choosers, something like this is generally better than nothing in which case he had to put up with several months worth of boredom.

"Jeez don't you have anything better to do than play the hero Hajin?" said the voice in his head.

"Well we wanted something so this will suffice I suppose...?"

"If you wanted stuff to do why don't you join Judgment or anti-skill instead?" replied the voice in his head as if it were probing him.

"Lack of interest." Hajin replied instantly shooting down the voice's idea.

"Then I'd suggest you engage your prey before anti-skill or Judgment arrive." the voice said in his mind changing the subject.

"Understood...Moving to engage target." Nodding once acknowledging the voice's advice before leaping off the building into the streets below.

"Whoa looks like we got cutie here." said one of the thugs.

"And she's from Tokiwadai too."added in another thug stating the obvious.

"We'll take you back to your dorm, of course who knows how late that will be."

"Everybody else is pretending not to notice, if they do get involved they'd only get themselves hurt, or worse." Mikoto thinks to herself observing the situation.

"If there is someone who would get involved for a stranger, that person is a fool..." continuing her line of thought before being interrupted by a voice.

"Hey there you are." said a boy with spiky black hair barging into the conversation.

"Dammit...we were beaten to the punch." Hajin thought to himself while observing from the alley.

"Does it matter?" said the voice in his head edging him on.

"No...I guess not." Pulling his hood down slightly hiding most of his face revealing only his mouth.

"Thanks again, we'll be taking our leave." said the spiky haired student dragging the girl along.

"Mind telling me who you are?" Mikoto said in an annoyed tone blowing his cover.

"Why couldn't you plan along, the plan was I pretend to be your friend and casually walk you away and now that's ruined..." Touma said in a frantic outburst as his cover was blown.

"Why should I follow some convoluted plan from some stranger?"

"You tryin to make a fool outta us?" said one of the thugs as he placed his hand on the spiky haired boy's shoulder.

"My,my ganging up on a poor defenseless girl...you guys really are scum." Hajin said as he walked up to the group of thugs trying to provoke them.

"Isn't that cute...a little brat is trying to cosplay as a hero, why don't you run home before you get hurt." said another one of the thugs obviously not taking him seriously patting him on his head.

"Brat..." That word alone was enough to cause Hajin to snap. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLIN A KID?!" without any warning he hopped off the ground slightly delivering a kick to his throat sending flying into the shutters.

The group of thugs were completely baffled as to what just happened within that instant, the next thing that came to their mind was to avenge their fallen comrade. As they charged straight at the hooded figure Hajin took out the first thug charging straight at him and delivering a palm strike sending him flying into the shutters before he could even hit him. The second thug came swinging at him with a metal pipe which Hajin dodged with little effort, as the thug readied up for another strike but much to his surprise a punch came straight to his cheek from the spiky haired boy instead.

Hajin raised his eyebrow slightly as he thought that the high school student wouldn't have any fighting experience. With their numbers cut in half within just a few minutes the remaining members of the group began fleeing the scene leaving their fallen comrades behind. Hajin sighed once again in disappointment as the fight did not last nearly as long as he would like.

"What do you guys think you're doing, I was perfectly capable of handling these guys myself!" the chestnut haired student said in an outburst.

"My apologies Ms. Railgun-san, you need not waste your time with street trash such as them." Hajin said bowing his head attempting to avoid conflict with the Tokiwadai student.

"Well, its fine I suppose seeing as you didn't get hurt..." she replied him, suddenly realizing that his figure stood at about 120 cm she knew something was off about him. "Hey wait...what's a kid like you doing out past curfew time?"

"Um...well...that's...uh..." Hajin said pretending to be at a loss for words before being interrupted by the spiky haired student.

"Um, what's a 'Railgun'...?"Touma said completely oblivious of her status.

"Don't tell me you've never heard of 'Railgun' the third most powerful esper in academy city...?"

"Wait, this girl here looks barely old enough to respect her elders, you're telling me she's ranked third?" Touma said pointing his finger at her.

"Oh great now this idiot has really gone and done it." Hajin thought as he saw sparks emitting from her in anger, within the next moment she unleashed enough electricity to shock everyone within a 2-meter radius of her unconscious. Hajin instinctively used his cloak as a shield to block off the electric attack, as the smoke began to clear he saw the spiky haired boy holding out his right hand completely unaffected by the attack.

"Hey wait...why didn't my attack work? What kind of power did you use?" She said in shock as the two figures were still standing.

"That's a secret." Hajin said hiding the fact that his clothing is actually protected against electrical attacks.

"Rather than a power...During the system scan I was labeled a 'level zero' ." This time she launched another electric spear at the spiky haired student much smaller size. As he held up his right hand to intercept the attack it was completely erased upon contact of his right hand. This in turn caused Hajin to raise his eyebrow slightly in surprise at his new discovery, knowing the situation would get from bad to worse if they stayed here any longer, he grabbed the spiky haired student's left hand and began running off into the crowd in an attempt to lose her.

"Hey get back here!" Yelled the Tokiwadai student as she began chasing after them.

After several minutes of running they eventually lost their pursuer, in the alleyway the spiky haired boy slumped onto the ground exhausted after running that long Hajin on the other hand was still in perfectly normal condition. "What misfortune...what did I do to deserve this?" The spiky haired boy said in a depressing tone.

"You sound as if you constantly run afoul of such things."

"You don't even know half of what I went through today..." said the spiky haired boy as his life was really full of misfortune to the point that it almost seems unbelievable.

"Heh, guess I really can't say much after that encounter...what's your name? Mine's Hajin."

"Touma Kamijou, wait just 'Hajin' no last name?"

"Well we don't really have a last name..."

"I see...nice meeting you then." said Touma as he began waving off to Hajin.

"Wait, are you really goanna leave me all alone in streets I don't really have anywhere to go..." Hajin said in a pitiful tone in an attempt to trick Touma.

"Geez, guess I have no choice I can take a freeloader at my place I suppose."

"Wait, really? Thanks Touma-Nii-chan." Hajin said as he grabbed onto Touma's waist snuggling into it while feigning innocence.

"You should really get off me before you catch my misfortune." Touma states jokingly trying to get Hajin off him.

"Oh, you don't have to worry a talking black manjuu bun thought me how to be immune to bad luck." Which to this statement Touma has no idea if he was actually making stuff up or actually believes in such a thing.

"Wow...he's really easy to manipulate." Hajin thought to himself as he imagined it would be much harder to persuade him.

"With this we can study his abilities up close."

"His power will no doubt attract a lot of attention...especially from the magic side."

"What do you plan to do then...?"

"That overall depends."

One Month Later

Date: July 16, 15:36

As it has nearly a month since their encounter Touma's misfortune landed him in various kinds of trouble ranging from being chased by wild dogs to tripping on tennis balls as well as several fights with gangs. Hajin on the other hand ended beating up the thugs that came their way, they even once faced off against no less than twenty thugs at once, while Touma would curse misfortune Hajin enjoyed the fights to a certain degree.

"Jeez, that last one was kinda close you know..." Hajin said as he sat on a bench close a crepe shop with a certain spiky haired friend of his.

"How was I supposed to know there were that many of them?" Touma said in an outburst to Hajin's statement.

"You got a point, still I am proud of my disciple's improvement considering you took on five of them. Before you would normally start running away from three on one fights." Hajin spoke as if he was some old kung-fu master lecturing his disciple. In the past Touma normally fought one on one fights and sometimes two on one assuming the odds were in his favor, if it were anything higher than two his policy was to run.

"Yes, yes master" Touma said nonchalantly pretending to go with the flow.

"Still I am quite surprised, your bad luck really knows no bounds, its almost as if the whole world wants you to be miserable." Hajin said as he sipped his cup of tea.

Just then an explosion is hear from behind them, Hajin immediately turned around to see the explosion coming from the Isobe Bank. "Great, here we go again...these jackasses will pay for disturbing my tea break." Hajin this time was more serious than usual took out a short stick which extended out from both sides turning into a half-bo staff 90 cm in length. "Stay here and observe the situation, I'll deal with this one personally." Touma at this point knew not to try and stop Hajin.

As Hajin dashed straight to intercept the criminals, he saw three of them as he closed in from the side he struck the overweight guy with a thrust to his stomach knocking the wind out of him then finally turning one full round clockwise and smacking him in the face knocking him out cold. "Wh-who the hell are you...?!" said one guy with spiky black hair with a white handkerchief covering his mouth, panicking at the fact one of their guys were taken out quite easily.

"Hmph, I have no name to give to garbage such as you...!" Hajin spat at the man preparing for a counter attack.

"Screw you punk, I'm not some pushover!" As the thug held out his right hand flames began to gather, burning much like a mini inferno. "Pyrokinesis huh...?" Hajin said as he observes the esper's powers. As he threw the fireball straight at the cloaked figure, Hajin swung his staff like a bat using the wind to redirect the fireball straight back at the esper sending it flying past him. Hajin used the opening to deliver a thrust straight to his throat knocking him out cold as well, as he scanned the area for the other criminal he could see him attempting to take a young boy hostage with another schoolgirl trying to stop him.

"Touma, catch!" Hajin threw his staff like a javelin straight at Touma which he instinctively caught it upon hearing Hajin's voice. The thug finally got loose by kicking the girl in the face and ditching the hostage heading to their getaway car before he could reach out to the handle of the car door Touma smacked him in the face full-force with Hajin's staff knocking him out in one strike.

"And that's a wrap, now we let anti-skill or Judgment deal with these guys." Hajin said while dusting off himself preparing to walk off until he felt his hand being restrained by something.

"I'm Shirai Kuroko and you are under arrest for property destruction, disturbing the peace, reckless endangerment and interfering with Judgment." said a girl behind him with auburn hair tied into two curly pigtails.

"Wait, I didn't do all that did I...?" Hajin said as he tried to weasel his way out of it.

"Uhh...Touma help...?" Hajin tried to call out for him but as he saw him coming towards him he was being handcuffed by another Judgment officer with a headband made out of flowers.

"Good work Uiharu, we'll be taking the both of you to headquarters."

"You've gotta be kidding me!"

"What misfortune!" The both of them cried out in unison.

Author's notes: Well some people can guess where this is going I suppose, well the first reference is out already so the prize still stands for anyone who can guess what it is. Hajin's cloak and outfit is reinforced with several different kinds of materials to the point that electrical attacks won't work on it, its fire proof and even the metal eater sniper rifle can't pierce through it albeit he will suffer some really heavy kickback if it were to get hit. Meltdowner can pierce through his Armour assuming it is used long enough on it,the only downside to his Armour its really heavy. His fighting style revolves around eliminating all known weaknesses forcing his opponent into a melee brawl with him in which case he will more than likely win. That's all I can give you this time about Hajin, Yeah he has no last name for...various reasons which I won't disclose currently.

The voice in Hajin's head is not anyone from the To aru universe if anyone's wondering.