Disclaimer: The only thing I truly own is my parent's disappointment and a stale potato chip.
Hello there my dudes! First of all I would like to express my gratitude to y'all for giving this fanfic a chance, in all honesty I didn't expect it to get as much attention as it got on the first chapter, so I'll try to improve to meet everyone's expectations!
Anyways I'd like to address a couple of points that some people made, I've answered some of them in PMs but I'll do it anyways, first of all is the whole Genos/Sonic coming along in the story, originally the idea I had is that both Genos and Saitama came to My Hero Academia's universe together, Saitama would've still been deaged and Genos would've been acting as his guardian until they came to UA and Genos would've been a teacher and Saitama a student, keeping it a secret that Saitama is actually Genos' master until later chapters, this didn't convince me so I set it aside and thought of bringing Sonic instead, and he would've eventually met Stain, but once again I scraped it and just brought Saitama alone and had Yu act as his guardian, thank god I did it because the majority of you seem to agree with me that It was a bad idea to include them.
Now another person asked me why did I put the romance tag on the fic, and I answered that I'd like to pair up Saitama with either Mina or Momo, Yu I'm not too sure because if that was the case I'd like to keep a certain level of realism in the fic, and having the media find out that a 21 year old pro hero is dating a teenager would be quite troublesome for someone's career, so it'd have to be a secret, and due to Saitama's personality a harem route is almost, if not, impossible, he'd said something like 'One girlfriend is enough hassle already' or something like that, but it's all up to you guys, but if it was the case that both Momo, Mina and maybe even Yu were all interested in him, I'd like to make at least two of them do what Uraraka did with Deku, trying to put her hero work first while she sorts out her feelings, I don't know, time will tell what happens. But the point is that the romance bit is going to play a part, but not be the main focus of the story, so I'll change it to something else.
Another thing was the fact that Saitama blushed when pressed against Yu's breasts, some people say that he doesn't care about women and stuff, but that is incorrect, he may not be interested in a relationship, but it has already been shown that he isn't asexual, he is heterosexual and is shown when he misinterprets Cyborg Gorilla about Genus' plans and states that he 'doesn't swing that way', I may be wrong though, that is just how I like to interpret it, you could also throw in the fact that he has a teenager body now, hormones included.
And that is pretty much everything I wanted to address, I really don't like making an author's note this big because it looks like I'm trying to boost the word count, but I'll just have to make up for it, enjoy!.
"y'all'd've whomstdsoever wants Boba Bola" – Human speech.
"It's free real state" – Human whispering.
'i HAVE CAP LOCKS ON' – Human thoughts.
"KONO GUY FIERI DA!" – Inorganic/non-human speech/shouting.
'Do you think that crabs think that fish can fly?' – Inorganic/non-human thoughts.
*CLANG* - Sound effects/Gut's sword hitting something.
Chapter 1: Unofficial hero work.
Saitama yawned as he looked out of the window of the moving car, he had agreed to have this woman as his acting guardian, but he didn't agree to having to live with her, however when he voiced his disapproval, the wood looking guy said something along the lines of 'keeping an eye on you' and 'finding out more about you' or something like that, he didn't really care though, as he was used to having a roommate back in his old apartment, but at least this way he won't have to pay rent… hopefully.
"Hey, why are you so gloomy? Cheer up, you look as if you were going to jail." Yu said as she noticed Saitama looking a bit down. "Seriously, why do you always look so upset?"
"Uh? I'm not upset, this is just how my face is, I'm just bored that's it…" Saitama said as he turned his head away from the window and looked at Yu.
"You know, most kids these days would do anything to live with a hottie like me… You should be grateful you know?" Yu said as she fluttered her eyelashes at Saitama in hopes to get a blush or any kind of reaction out of him, but instead all she got was the same dead pan look on his face he was always wearing, it didn't have any ill intent, nor was he looking at her in disgust, but she still felt a faint chill going down her spine.
'Geez, why is he so distant? I haven't seen him make any kind of expression ever since we got out of the checkpoint, even back on the forest he didn't show any kind of emotion, what's up with this kid?' Yu thought as she looked at Saitama out of the corner of her eye, Kamui had told her to keep an eye on the kid, and try to get close to him to see if she could shed some light on who he was, the kid was a complete mystery.
"Sooo," Yu said as she tapped her thumbs on the stirring wheel as she thought of any topic to liven the mood a little bit. "Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
"Nah." Saitama said as he continued to look out of the window, watching the people go on about their day.
Ever since Saitama got here, he noticed that a lot of people looked like monsters, at first he thought those were hero costumes, but after they explained him about that 'quirk' thingy, he found out that people in here actually could look out the ordinary, such as a big slime with eyes, alligator looking people etc. He thought at first that this place was like a monster colony, but then scraped the idea as he saw regular looking humans amongst the crowds.
"So how about a girlfriend?" Yu asked Saitama, maybe if he had someone like that, they could track them down and find out more about the kid.
"Nope, never had one." Saitama said as he wondered if there monsters in this place, back home he usually killed any monsters he came across, and just incapacitate humans, that was a hero's job after all, but if everyone in here were actually just people, what was he supposed to do?
"Really? Sooo… Boyfriend?" Yu asked him, she didn't really want to offend the kid, but she was open minded, so she wouldn't judge him, this however made Saitama to look at her in a different expression, albeit a similar one, it looked like his regular bored face, but had a few sweat drops on the side of his head.
"I don't swing that way." Saitama quickly responded, just because he has never had a girlfriend before that doesn't mean he is interested in dudes, it's just that he has always thought that having a girlfriend is too much of a hassle, and expensive as well, so he really never gave it to much thought.
"Okay, okay sorry, I didn't mean anything by that, also I'm not saying that you look, well you know… argh." Yu groaned as she tried to explain herself, she was just trying to learn more about him, but it backfired and now she probably damaged their relationship.
"It's okay, I know you didn't mean anything by it," Saitama said as once again he looked out of the window, looking at an odd looking police officer covered in fur "Say, I've been meaning to ask you something, are there monsters around here?"
'Monsters? He means criminals? Boy, he must be really sheltered, isn't he?' Yu thought as he looked at the direction Saitama was looking, apparently there was a police officer giving a ticket to some biker for parking where he shouldn't be.
"Well, yeah unfortunately, people thought that long ago, when quirks first appeared, wars and crime would eventually disappear, but nothing really changed, sure we have heroes now, but we also have people who misuse their powers to hurt others." Yu explained to Saitama, maybe in the past he had a strong experience with a villain or something of the sort, so she looked at him and smiled warmly "but don't worry Saitama, heroes such as myself keep everyone safe, including you."
Saitama just looked back at Yu and hummed as he thought deeply about this, so there are monsters, but there's also people that look like monsters, so where is the line in between them? Maybe he'll find out eventually, he is a pro hero after all.
There was also the fact that there were pro heroes in this place, wherever this was, they weren't part of the Heroes Association, obviously, as he gave them his hero name, although reluctantly, first they said that there was no way there was a pro hero as young as him, but after a while, they looked it up, but found no records of any 'Caped Baldy', they also didn't seem to use the ranking system HA used, maybe they were another hero association, but he really didn't know much about that, he really didn't care about rankings, competition or any of that stuff, as long as people didn't think he was some kind of weirdo running around in a costume, he was fine.
And another thing he noticed is that there was only one moon, which was odd, also he looked at a map that Yu showed him to ask where he came from, but he wasn't familiar with the landscape, much less the cities, as seemingly 'City-Z' didn't exist, so people started to think that he was a delusional kid, or a chuunibyou, something that annoyed the living hell out of him, because not even in his teens was he like that… well maybe he was but just for a couple of weeks…
'Did I get transported to another world? Well to be honest it wouldn't be the weirdest thing that has happened to me… man I wish Genos was here, he probably would have a ton of theories of where we are.' Saitama thought to himself as he started to contemplate the fact he could've been thrown into another world, he has read a couple of mangas with that setting before and what they usually had in common is that someone in the fantasy world would summon a 'hero' and that would pull some random teen kid into their world… was that why he looked like a damn kid now? Does the world think that he is too old?!
Soon enough the car came to a stop in front of a house, Yu's house to be specific it was a little bigger than the average house, but other than a balcony, a pool and the three stories, there wasn't anything noteworthy, which surprised Saitama, because if his time in the HA taught him anything is that most heroes are after fame and fortune, and Yu had told him she is one of the most famous heroes, so maybe she wasn't like most heroes he was used to.
"So here we are, welcome to my humble little corner in the world, it isn't a manor but it's cozy." Yu said as she took out the keys and got out of the car along with Saitama, as they got in they both took out their shoes, and red boots, and Yu led him to the second floor to show him where he'd be staying.
"Well, you can stay here, it is a bit dusty but nothing a good afternoon of cleaning can't fix, usually my cousin stays here when she comes over, but whatever, we can't have you sleeping on the ground can we?" She said as she placed her hands on her hips, she looked at Saitama as he looked around the room, and then leaned in closer to him in an attempt to tease him "Unless you want to share a room with me, Mmmh?"
"Nah thanks, this is fine." He said dismissively as he turned his head to her "Plus, sometimes I kick while I sleep."
Yu huffed as she straightened herself and huffed, this kid sure was tough to get at, but she'll get him eventually, she looked at him and analyzed his clothing, he needed something else to wear other than that oversized yellow jumpsuit, so she got an idea.
"You know you need clothes too, so how about we go downtown and we buy you some?" She asked Saitama, he placed his hand on his chin and closed his eyes as he thought.
"But I don't have my wallet on me." He told Yu, he really didn't want to have someone he just met pay for his stuff, Genos doesn't count.
"Oh, don't worry about it, plus I'm the one taking care of you right now right? So this is kind of my job, also you can call me onee-chan if you want." Yu told Saitama as she went back downstairs, and back in the car Saitama following her.
"Yeah, that isn't happening, plus Aunty would be more fitting." Saitama said as he got back in the car and smirked at Yu.
"AUNTY?! WH-… Wait! You cracked a joke?!" Yu lost her cool for a second but controlled herself when she noticed that Saitama was smiling, this was the first facial expression he had shown her besides the 'I don't know if I'm dead in the inside' one.
"Yeah, what about it?" Saitama asked the impressed Yu.
"Oh, well it's just that you know, you are so dull and look indifferent all the time, so I kind of thought you didn't have a sense of humor." She said as she twirled her hair, she didn't want to make him think she thought of him as a weirdo or something of the sort.
"I'm not indifferent, it's just that I'm bored, you shouldn't judge people by how they look." Saitama told her, he wasn't really mad, he's had trouble in the past with several people because of the way he acts, so he kind of understood her.
"Anyways, enough chatter! Let's go shopping!" Yu excitedly said as she backed out of the driveway and started driving towards the mall, Saitama just ignored her enthusiasm and leaned his head against the car's window.
Somewhere else, with Kamui Woods.
Kamui Woods huffed in irritation as he leaned against his chair waiting to be called inside the office of the leader of the Hero Agency he was currently in, however, an hour ago when he came in trying to report directly to him about recent events, he was stopped by one of the members, as supposedly he was attending other, more important, matters right now, but they'd tell him that Kamui was asking to see him.
But that was nearly an hour and thirty minutes ago, and since then no one has come in or out of that door, the only sound in the room was that of his inhaling and exhaling, the occasional slight creaking of the office chair he was sitting on, and the small decorative Zen fountain on the far corner of the room.
'Seriously, what's taking them so god damn long?' Kamui thought to himself as he stretched in the chair and arched his back, unfortunately, as he was stretching, he didn't calculate how much empty space was around, him so when he stuck out his legs to stretch them, his right foot slammed on the coffee table in front of him.
"AGHH! Son of a-, fuck! Why?!" Kamui cried in pain as he held his foot and fell out the chair, shaking in pain on the ground, and as if on cue, the door to the office opened, both the man he came to see and an unknown man in a tan suit stepped out.
"Either way, I hope to hear from you in the fu-" The unknown man trailed off as he looked down and saw a shaking Kamui woods on the ground, anyone else would've thought he was having a seizure. "What's the deal with this one?"
Next to the unknown man was the owner of this Hero Agency, he was a tall muscular man with long, wavy dark hair which he usually keep under his hat, he was wearing a black long coat along with black tanker boots and forearm guards, his name was Solomon Cruorem, but his hero name was Revenant, as it was said that he moves so fast in battle that one could only see a shadow.
His quirk, 'Hardened Blades', at first glance isn't anything special, it consisted of only growing long blades on his forearms and legs, but the blades were a product of his body and consisted of hardened callus and bone, these however could cut easily through steel and coupled with his remarkable speed and physical strength, it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
From time to time, his blades are said to shimmer, nobody knows the reason to this however and has been dismissed as a way to blind the enemy.
Kamui stopped shaking in pain and cursed under his breath as he heard the voice of someone, with blinding speed he straightened himself up and looked at them with serious eyes as if nothing had happened, only a few people could pick up the slightly shaky breath, an indication that he was embarrassed.
"Oh, allow me to introduce you," Solomon said as he stepped forward, seemingly unbothered by whatever Kamui was doing before he came out of his office. "This is Shinji Nishiya, his pro hero name is Kamui Woods, Shinji, this man has been working with me for the past couple of months."
"Oh, pleased to meet you sir." Kamui said as he slightly bowed, the man did the same and greeted him. "Like wise"
Once introductions were over, the man in suit made his leave, and told the Solomon that he'd be seeing him around and to keep up the good work as he walked away and turned a corner, Kamui had been following him with his eyes as he left.
'Must be a sponsor, but has that guy ever heard of lip balm?' Kamui wondered and then was brought back to reality as Solomon coughed, making him turn back to him. "So, I heard that you wished to have a word with me?"
Solomon asked Kamui as he stepped inside his office, Kamui following behind, the room was themed after the Roman Empire, just like the rest of the building, on each corner stood a Roman Tuscan, there were various old Roman weaponry in display cases such as bronze swords, some in good conditions and some that had seen better days.
But out of the whole room, the most eye catching decoration was the Fresco on the wall behind the desk, the painting displayed the owner of the Agency as he stood above triumphantly over three of his foes, it obviously was a representation of a battle in which he had singlehandedly defeated three highly dangerous criminals: Molten Angel, Corroded Iron and Clot, he defeated them all before backup arrived.
Some people would think he was incredibly egocentric because of this, but surprisingly enough he was quite humble despite his flashiness, anyone that knew him personally knew that.
"Yes, it is about the investigation in the forest that you entrusted us with." Kamui said as he stood in front of the desk, Solomon took a seat and spun around on his chair and faced Kamui.
"Mmh, yes I've read your report, other than Mt. Lady receiving injuries from an unknown assailant, nothing else went wrong, am I correct?" Solomon asked as he opened one of the drawers in his desk and pulled out a folder, inside of it there was a well detailed report of the event and pictures of the creature that had attacked Mt. Lady, it seemed to be some kind of mutated insect, it wouldn't have been the first time a quirk manifested itself on an animal.
However what caught his attention was the fact that the insect was in a state as if a howitzer canon had shot it point blank, nobody was able to tell what kind of creature it was because the body was in a terrible state, and the report says that Mt. Lady was knocked out of action during the attack, so someone else intervened, but she had been deployed alone.
"Indeed, however there is something else that wasn't included in the report." Kamui said as he took out a picture of what looked to be a bald kid with an extremely plain face, he looked quite goofy. "This kid was found in the forest while Mt. Lady was being attacked, what's more he is the one that saved her, and he said that all he did was 'punch the thing'."
This picked at his interest as he looked away from the piece of paper he was holding and shifted it to the photos, and then to Kamui.
"So a kid pops out of nowhere during a recognizance mission and stops a rampaging beast that even a pro hero was having trouble to deal with?" Solomon was obviously skeptical about this, but then again, who wouldn't be?
"I know how it sounds but it's the truth, there's even this security video feed." Kamui said as he pulled out his smartphone, handing it over to Solomon, the smartphone displayed a video of a young woman with little clothing as she tended to a Zen tree.
"Ahhh! No! That's not it! Give a sec…" Kamui shrieked as he took the phone out of his hands in a flash and swiped furiously through the contents of the device. "Ahem, this is what I wanted to show you." Kamui said as he once again handed over the phone.
This time it was a security feed of what it looked to be an interrogation room with the bald kid inside, soon enough the door opened and a bull looking man with a security staff shirt stepped in, he talked to the child for a moment and then proceeded to use more violent means, as he smashed the table and picked him up, after ignoring the kid's request to set him down, the kid proceeded to smack the man across the room, which sent him crashing across the mirror and into the wall of the other room.
This had impressed Solomon, the kid swatted this 6'10 man, and by the looks of it was around two hundred and ninety pounds of muscle, across the room like he was some fly and looked as if it wasn't that big of a deal either, still maintaining his monotone expression.
"And do we know who this kid might be?" Solomon asked as he paused the video when the kid turned to see the camera, something about him felt off.
"Actually, I was hoping you might help us in that area, you see the kid refuses to share his personal information other than his name, parents, homestead, anything, and when asked about his quirk he says 'I don't have a quirk'." Kamui explained as he received back his phone. "Either he has amnesia or he is hiding something, I suspect the former."
"And do you know where he is as of now?" Solomon asked as Kamui looked him straight in the eyes.
"Since he has no known relatives, nor is there any documentation of him, Mt. Lady took custody of him as her guardian for the time being." Kamui told him, initially, he wanted to have the authorities to take care of him, but Yu jumped in and suggested that she could take care of him instead, maybe she wanted to repay him for saving her.
Solomon spun his chair around and leaned back as he stared at his Fresco, so there was a mystery kid with a remarkable quirk that seemingly didn't know anything nor anyone? He seemed quite promising, but there were a lot of unknowns still, first he'll have to dig around for information.
'Usually when mystery arises, trouble comes soon after, we'll have to be wary.' Solomon thought to himself as he looked at the pictures of the deceased beast and Saitama, something told him that things were about to get rowdy around here.
Back with Saitama and Yu.
"Oh my god this dress is so pretty too, Saitama which one do you like more, blue or red?" Yu asked Saitama as she merrily held two summer dresses in each hand, Saitama just huffed at this.
"I don't know, aren't they the same but in different color?" Saitama answered as he was carrying shopping bags. "And why am I carrying these either way? Weren't we supposed to buy clothes for ME?" Saitama asked as he pointed at himself in the last sentence.
"What? Is the big bad kid that punches monsters tired from carrying a couple of shopping bags?" Yu asked Saitama in a mocking tone as she fluttered her eye lashes.
"Whatever, I'm going back to the car, I'll see you there." Saitama said as he turned and started to walk away, but on his second step he was stopped by Yu, who had grabbed his arm.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I won't do that again, just don't get mad okay?" Yu quickly apologized as Saitama turned around and faced her once more. "Just let me choose one of these and we'll go get your stuff." She said as she held both dresses up.
"Why don't you just get both? You have the money and you clearly like them." Saitama asked her, Yu just huffed and puffed her cheeks at this as she held both of the dresses close to her chest.
"It isn't that simple you know? You clearly don't know how women think…" She said as she took both dresses either way, and started to walk along with Saitama. "No, no I don't" Saitama simply replied.
After a couple of minutes of walking, Yu stopped and told Saitama to choose any clothing he wants and that she would meet him in about ten or fifteen minutes, Saitama complied and started to look through the clothing, eventually he chose two pairs of jeans, and two shirts, and a hoodie, one of the shirts were plain t-shirts with nothing noteworthy on them, but what really had caught his eye was the hoodie that he had found at the bottom of a pile of clothing, it was similar to his old hoodie, but this one was completely yellow, the inscription 'OPPAI' and the crude drawing of what resembled to be a pair of breasts were in black.
The hoodie had that distinctive smell of old clothing too, so Saitama had guessed that this thing had been in this store for a long time, waiting to be purchased, yearning to be worn.
It also had a 50% discount so why the fuck not.
And so, Saitama sat down and waited on a nearby bench as the minutes passed, Yu was supposed to be here already but she wasn't turning up, and he didn't have a phone on him either so there was no way of contacting her so all he could do was wait in boredom here.
However a couple of people dashed in front of him towards the exit, followed by more people, he faintly picked up the word 'villain' as they exited the mall, Saitama curious as to what the whole ruckus was about, picked up the shopping bags and walked to where the multitude of people had ran off.
Meanwhile, in the outside of the mall, a crowd of people had gathered in the parking lot, some of them talking in their cellphones either calling the authorities or spreading the news, and some others were taking pictures or videos, and in the middle of the crowd there were three heroes and a skinny looking man, this one seemed to be some kind of wannabe villain, at first people took him as a junkie just causing some trouble so the authorities tried to take him into custody, but this proved to be a mistake as the man had a quirk that allowed him to send a huge blasts of energy around him, which could even send cars sailing through the air, after that display, pro heroes were contacted to deal with the threat.
There were three heroes fighting the villain, even though no one could safely get near him, one of them was shooting icicles at him, another one was flying in the air on standby waiting for an opening and the third one was making a barrier in front of the civilians with what looked to be a string of water, most likely to stop them from getting any closer than anything.
"This isn't working! The Fly, do you see any openings?!" The woman shooting the icicles asked her flying comrade, every single one of her projectiles kept getting repelled by this man's shockwaves, and the few ones that did get through would just harmlessly bounce off him.
"You are a bunch of idiots! My shockwaves won't let any of your ice toothpicks reach me, and even if they do get through, I can just redirect my power around my body! You can't beat me, it's useless, useless, useless, useless!" The man cackled maniacally as the attacks kept missing their target.
"Oh really? Thanks for the input, Backdraft, do your thing!" The woman said as the hero that kept the civilians behind the water barrier moved one of his hydrant shaped hands and pointed at the feet of the villain, which unknown to him was standing over pipage, and suddenly a stream of water spurted out, the woman then used her quirk and froze the water, covering his lower half in ice.
"The fly, now!" She screamed to the flying hero, whom nodded in acknowledgement and sped down towards the villain.
"Didn't I tell you that it's useless?!" The man yelled as the protective barrier around his body switched over and destroyed the ice, this however wasn't their plan, because once he noticed the flying hero speeding towards him, he panicked and tried to repel him with his area shockwave, but couldn't switch powers in time and got punched square in the face at full speed, sending him sailing through the air and crashing against a car.
Once this happened the crowd started to go wild and take pictures of the heroes, the hydrokinetic hero used his powers to bind him and the other two started escorting him, but the fight was far from over as the villain somehow managed to free one of his bound hands and dug it in his pocket, pulling out what looked to be a toy, but detached the head and revealed it was in fact a syringe, before he could be stopped he jammed the syringe on the side of his neck and injected the contents as he fell to the ground convulsing.
"Yo, what happened?" "Did he kill himself?" "Good riddance" "Someone call an ambulance!" Were among the things the civilians said before the villain stopped convulsing and laid limp on the ground, one of the heroes approached his unmoving body, but before he could reach him they were all blasted away by a sudden, incredibly strong shockwave, some civilians were knocked off their feet as well.
As the villain stood up, everyone held their breath as they noticed his new form, his skin was now a leather black, his eyes were pure white without an iris, his mouth sported deformed, long thin teeth that resembled those ones of an angler fish, and he also had a hole in the palms of his hands.
Soon enough the heroes stood up to attack the threat once again, but before they could even balance themselves they were sent flying by a shockwave that destroyed all nearby windows, knocking two of them out of cold, The Fly being the only one conscious but with a broken leg, and could only watch helplessly as the man approached him and his comrades.
"This is amazing! Never had I felt so much power, I can do anything I wan-" The man was cut short as a ball of sticky acid stuck to his mouth followed by several other ones that stuck to all over his body, slowly burning his skin and flesh.
The villain desperately clawed at the ball of acid on his mouth as it painfully burned the area, ignoring all other balls until he finally pried it off, the damage on his facial area visible to anyone.
"WHO THE FUCK DID THAT?!" He screamed as a tar like fluid streamed out of the corner his eyes, until he spotted a smirking pink girl in school uniform, probably had done that of impulse, not that he cared either way.
"YOU!" The man screeched as he stretched both of his arms towards her, all of his fingers pointed at her, small holes the size of a marble appearing on the tip of each finger. "Next time stay at school, little shit!" He screamed as he unleashed a potent shockwave from each fingertip, the girl vaulted over to her right side, and started to slide around the villain with the same kind of sticky substance coming out of her feet.
"Stop moving you greasy pig!" He screamed as he attempted to shoot another shockwave, however before he could do so the girl shot another ball of acid towards him, landing on his hand and blocking the holes in it, this caused the incoming shockwave to implode in his hand instead. "ARRGH!" He screamed as he was sent flying back against the side of a car while holding his shredded, now ruined hand.
"Didn't your mother tell you to never call a girl pig or cow?!" The girl snickered as some of the spectators started to cheer on the girl for her bravery, they knew that civilians shouldn't get involved in these kind of situations, but they had to applaud her efforts either way. "Hey would you look at that, they love me! This will surely help my career!" She grinned as she turned around to look at her admirers.
This was however, a mistake, as the villain wasn't neither too injured to keep fighting and wasn't unconscious either, so unknowingly to the pink girl, he saw this as an opportunity and raised his uninjured arm towards her, as he charged up his attack.
However she noticed because of the whirring noise it made and turned to see him attempting something, she however dashed towards him, drunk in her own ego as she tried to finish this with something flashy, like an uppercut or something like that, she still needed to stop his attack first though, so she did the same thing she had previously done and threw an acid ball at his hand, obstructing the exits in his hand.
However when she got close enough to him to deliver the finishing blow he dodged her attack, and slammed his open, injured hand on her stomach and unleashed another attack, blasting her several feet back before she could react and slammed her back on the concrete wall nearby the injured heroes.
'W-what happened? I-I can't breathe, everything hurts…' The girl thought to herself as she tried to stand up, but her body failed to respond and barely twitched on the ground, she could only manage to look up at the silhouette of the villain darkened by the sun slowly approaching her.
"You little shit… that hurt y'know? Didn't your parents tell you to respect your elders? Doesn't matter, I'll educate you myself." The villain hissed as he approached her, his left arm was destroyed beyond recognition, it looked more like a piece of meat attached to a man than anything, pulsating muscle exposed to the air as well as splintered bones and cartilage, he had sacrificed his whole arm to land that one attack, and now she was going to regret getting so cocky.
"This is bad, you shouldn't have done that! You need to get out of here girl! Hey!" The injured conscious hero tried to stand up to get the girl to safety, but as he tried an unpleasant sound came out of his broken leg as he hissed and dropped once again on the ground, he felt truly powerless in this situation, his wings were unable to carry him, nor he could move, all he could do is watch helplessly as a girl was about to be slaughtered by this monster.
'No… get away please… don't come any closer, god why did I do this?! I shouldn't have come to the mall today… Mom, dad, I'm sorry.' The girl wept internally, she wanted to scream, to ask for help, but nothing came out of her throat, she was just a girl, what was she thinking? If pro heroes couldn't stand to this guy how could she?! 'Please, anyone… I don't want to die…' Was her last thought before the figure of the man lumbered over her, and reached down.
However, before he could even brush a single one of the hairs on her head, the back of a fist slammed on his face, transmitting an impossible amount of force towards him as he was sent sailing back, several feet in the air at neck breaking speeds until he crashed against the window of an office building, his body didn't stop there as he kept crashing through a couple more walls until he finally lost all speed and his body just smacked like a piece of meat against a wall of the building, someone was going to have to pay for the damages, but it was likely that the one responsible for it won't do it either way.
The crowd had now gone completely silent at the events that had just unfolded, one moment ago a girl and a group of pro heroes were about to be slaughtered by a ruthless villain, and the next said villain had swatted out of everyone's sight by what looked to be a bald teenager with… shopping bags?
"That guy's power is so loud, it's really annoying to be honest." Saitama said as he looked at the building in which that guy had been blown off to, he just hoped they didn't try to charge him with any damages or anything, however he was brought off this thought as soon as he heard the mumbling girl in front of him.
"U-uh? What… Who…?" The pink girl tried to ask the newcomer what had just happened and who he was at the same time, but due to that, all she managed to get out of her mouth was incoherent mumbling.
"Are you feeling alright? You look pretty banged up, that must've been scary, right?" Saitama said as he kneeled in front of her. "You guys look pretty messed up too, don't worry someone should've called for an ambulance already." Saitama said to the barely conscious hero that had insect wings, as he rubbed the inside of his ear with his pinky finger.
"Either way, I need to go meet up with someone, if she thinks that I ran off somewhere without her, she'll get all annoying I bet." Saitama said as he stood up and grabbed his shopping bags before turning around and walked the way he came from.
"W-Wait, what's your name?!" The girl managed to finally blurt out as she tried to stand up, but fell on her knees and hissed as a sharp pain originated from the side of her torso.
Saitama managed to hear this and stopped to turn around, but before he could say anything a group of around four girls in similar school uniforms swarmed her and blocked her vision of Saitama.
"Jesus Christ, Mina! Are you ok?!" and "What is wrong with you, jackass! You can't just jump in without thinking!" were among the things she was being told by what looked to be her friends, as the scolding continued, Mina tried moving side to side to see where her savior was to no avail.
Saitama opted to not interrupt this and resumed on looking for Yu, but before he could take more than three steps, people started swarming him in a similar fashion, taking photos and asking random stuff like 'That was amazing!' or 'Are you a student from UA' and 'Why is you bald, B?'.
Saitama just got from this for multiple reasons, for one he didn't like it when strangers pressed themselves this tightly against him, and the fact that they would rather be asking him stuff rather than helping the injured heroes annoyed him as well, then, a camera man and what looked to be a reporter, squeezed in from the crowd.
"Excuse me young man, that display that you've shown right now was remarkable, may I know your name?" The reported asked as he basically shoved the microphone on Saitama's face.
"Uh, it's Saitama." Saitama said as he slightly pushed the microphone away from his face.
"So, Mr. Saitama, you had to step in and do the job that the pro heroes couldn't do to safe guard the lives of the civilians, would you say that the pro heroes of today aren't qualified to do their job?" The reporter asked as he once again pushed the microphone towards Saitama's face.
"Wait, what?" Saitama asked, all he did was help them out, he didn't mean to steal their 'glory' or anything like that. "Also, while it is true that you've saved multiple lives today, are you aware that public use of quirks without a license is forbidden and is punishable by law?"
"Oh, no I didn't know, but I don't have a-" But before he could finish his sentence, Yu's arm came out of nowhere and wrapped itself around Saitama's face, covering his mouth.
"OH MY! So you were here! Well, thanks for taking care of him while I was gone, Mr. Reporter, but we really should be anywhere else right now, so, BYE!" She said as she ran off dragging Saitama with her, leaving a very confused crowd behind.
Anywhere else right now, with Yu and Saitama.
Yu was trying to catch her breath as she leaned against her car, she had ran away dragging Saitama along with her for God knows how long, Saitama just stood beside her with a sweat drop rolling down the back of his head.
"You know, I could've run if you told me to, you didn't have to drag me and I could've carried you too…" Saitama said as he grew slightly worried, she was breathing like a claustrophobic person underground, she isn't going to faint from a lack of oxygen, right?
"Sh-shut up you *Cough* It's all your fault, you can't just do what you did back there!" Yu shouted at him. "It was reckless of you, you can't just expect to jump in and punch your way out of everything!"
"I can't?" Saitama asked as he tilted his head, Yu got even more irritated because of this.
"NO! No you can't! Don't you ever think that your actions have consequences? I mean sure you defeated a criminal, but there are a number of things that could've gone wrong!" Yu said as she tried to scold Saitama. "What if the villain had an ace up his sleeve or he had some kind of plan? He might've even stronger that he looked like!"
"Nah he wasn't, he went down with one punch, as usual… or should I say he went up?" Saitama said as he rubbed his chin in thought, but it was the truth, that guy was just a pushover in the end, maybe the heroes got careless or cocky like that one pink girl.
"W-wait, he did?" Yu asked him in curiosity, Saitama nodded at this, she didn't quite manage to see the fight, and had arrived only to see a trio of injured heroes and a young girl being carried away in an ambulance, and the parking lot was quite trashed as well, she did hear something along the lines of a kid appearing out of nowhere and smacking the villain responsible for all this, naturally she knew it was Saitama, but she had figured that the they were talking about how the fight had ended, never had she imagined that the whole fight was just that.
'Yeah, should've known, he did take care of that ugly looking thing back when I met him, so maybe this isn't that farfetched… but still.' Yu thought to herself as she looked at Saitama, the image of him standing before her with the sun shining behind him and his whole right arm covered in the blood of that giant spider was burned into her mind.
"Well, maybe you weren't in danger… but there are still rules and laws you have to abide you know?! I'm not saying that you should've left those people to their own fate, but when you do this kind of things, it inspires others to do the same!" Yu said as she took one step closer towards him, however, Saitama just raised an eyebrow at this.
"Well, isn't that a good thing? Inspiring people to help those in need?" He asked Yu, Yu in the other hand, pinched the bridge of her nose at his naivety.
"It's not that simple, people can't just use their quirks wherever or whenever they want, people who do that are called 'vigilantes' and they are no better than villains, Saitama, unrisponsable use of quirks usually ends up in disaster." Yu said as she looked at Saitama, the look of confusion was gone so it seemed that he understood that, that was a plus.
"So, what you are saying is that I should've helped them, but then that I shouldn't?" Saitama asked her, which caused her to sigh and lean against the side of her car as she slowly dropped to the ground. "*Sigh* you missed the whole point."
Yu was getting tired of this, the kid was completely oblivious to some things that were common knowledge, such as how people can drastically change their appearance due to their quirks, when they had first entered the city, Saitama asked her if monsters were a common thing around here, when she asked him why, he just pointed his thumb to a lady that resembled a 9 foot tiger, she scolded him later for saying something so mean based on someone's appearance.
"Look, you keep saying that you are a pro hero, right?" She said, Saitama nodded at her, honestly she didn't know why he kept acting like he WAS an actual registered hero, the so called Hero Association didn't even exist, there were some countries that catalogued heroes in ranks such as 'A, B, C and S class' but all of them claimed to have never heard of Saitama, she would get something out of him eventually, but for now she decided to play his game.
"Then, as a hero you need to abide the laws of wherever you are, even if they are different from the ones you are used to, right?" She said as she stood up from the ground and dusted her backside from dirt of the floor. "I guess." Saitama replied
"Well, Japan's laws are that in order for people to carry out heroic deeds, you need to be registered as one, and have a hero license, otherwise they are what we call 'vigilantes' and as I already told you, all they do is cause even more trouble." Yu said she took the shopping bags from Saitama's hands and put them inside the car.
"And the law sees them as criminals, regardless of what they do, so like any menace they subdue them, now it would be a big problem if you were a wanted man right? You can't just beat law enforcers and while trying to be a hero right?" She said as she got in the car and unlocked the doors so Saitama could do the same, she knew that the kid was strong, so he probably would be more than a match for policemen, but she knew that he had a good heart too, and wouldn't go as far as to do something like hurt innocent people.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, the police once interrogated me because they mistook me for a cop killer." Saitama said nonchalantly as he closed the door and put on the seat belt, not that he really needed it, but Yu kept insisting about 'safety first'.
"Wait what, how?!" This had caught Yu off-guard, she couldn't even phantom the idea of trained policemen picturing a teenager, and a plain looking one that at first glance didn't look like he couldn't hurt a fly, for a dangerous murderer.
"It was something silly really, I don't want to talk about that." Saitama said as he placed his elbow against the door and rested his chin on his hand as he looked out of the window.
"Come on, tell me, how bad could it be?" Yu prodded the topic further, she was genuinely curious as to why he went through that ordeal, Saitama grumbled at this but gave in.
"They made a pretty bad sketch based on what they heard he looked like, and… *Sigh* and he was bald, so they tried putting one and one together." Saitama said through his teeth that last part, Yu didn't say anything right away, from the short time she's been with the kid, she had found out that he was actually pretty self-conscious about his lack of hair, and it seemed to bother him to a certain level where he didn't hate that part of him, but annoyed him when people pointed it out.
"W-wow, that's pretty mean, judging someone based on his looks, that is…" Yu said as she backed out of the parking lot and starting driving home, she had a surprise for him so she couldn't wait.
"Nah its fine, they were doing their job and they even gave me katsudon, either way they found out that I wasn't the guy they were looking for, because it came to them and attacked them." He told her as he looked up at the clouds, he wondered what Genos and King were doing as of now.
"He did? What happened after?" She asked Saitama, as of today, the majority of the population had quirks, while some were more suited for heroic deeds and other ones were suited for labor, there were no shortage of impressive quirks in the law enforcement department, some of them could easily had become heroes, whom had more freedom to carry out their jobs, but decided to stay there for their own reasons, but even then they had trouble with villains, such as earlier today.
"Well, it trashed the place around and injured some officers, but I took care of it, I…" Saitama told her, but Yu cut him off before he could finish his sentence.
"Let me guess, you punched him right? Did he go flying?" She asked him and giggled, it would be silly if he said something like 'no I kicked him'.
"Nah, I blasted a hole through him." He uncaringly said as he kept looking out of the window.
The mood inside the car suddenly got colder, he did what?
"Y-you did what? H-he restrained a-after… right?" Yu stuttered as she started sweating, there was no way Saitama wasn't a murderer, the kid was insanely strong, but he wouldn't do something like outright killing someone right? "Saitama, h-he was treated after, right?"
"What? No, I killed it, it was a monster." Saitama turned his head to her and said that as if it was the most natural thing to do, as if it wasn't a big deal.
"YOU DID WHAT?!" She screamed as she slammed the breaks and pulled over, that scream had left a ringing in Saitama's ears.
"I killed it, it was a monster and it was attacking people, that's what heroes-" Saitama said as he rubbed one of his ears with his pinky finger, this woman had some lungs.
"NO! Don't give me that! Killing is not what heroes do, Saitama! We save lives!" Yu interrupted him, was this kid a sociopath? Did he even understand the gravity of taking someone's life? But earlier today he didn't kill that one guy, or at least she thought he didn't, God, what would Kamui do if he caught wind of this.
"But he wasn't a person, he was a monster, and he had killed people too, Yu." He retorted with a plain face. 'Monsters? He keeps going on with that? Is that how he copes with it?' Yu thought to herself, monsters only existed in fiction, even she wasn't sure that the thing that she had seen in the forest was a monster, maybe an animal, but not a 'monster'.
"Monsters aren't real, Saitama! I already told you, just because someone looks different doesn't mean that they aren't human." Yu told him as she stared at him right in the eyes, he didn't have a single hint of distress, fear, remorse or any kind of emotion on his face, he could be a professional gambler with that face, but that scared her, was he hiding his feelings or did he really not feel anything at all?
"Yeah they are, remember that one spider from when I met you? It was a monster, just like the one guy I'm talking about, plus if I hadn't done it, he would kept on hurting people, and heroes were coming to help too, so that means that even pro heroes could've been hurt." Saitama said as he shifted in his seat, monsters were more than real, maybe the rules were different here, but if he was to tell her that he came from another world, he was sure that he'd lose all credibility and be taken as a loon.
"Well I guess that you could call it self-defense..." Yu said as she looked down and tapped her thumbs on the stirring wheel, she had heard of times where the situation got out of hand in situations like robberies or hostage situations, and people involved would get fatally injured, and did experience it a couple of times in her relatively new career, at first it was stomach churning and put a lot of strain on her conscience, but eventually learned to somewhat cope with it, the world wasn't all flowers and rainbows after all.
"Saitama, I understand what you did, kind of, but you've got to promise me something." She said as she shifted in her seat so that her whole body was facing him, "Promise me that you won't do something like that again."
"Like what?" Saitama asked her, did she mean the whole killing monsters thing?
"Killing, I know that in the hero business sometimes it gets dangerous, and you have to act quickly, or that it is either you or them, but for the time being, please promise me that you'll have some kind of self-restraint." She explained him, she wasn't scared of him nor what he did, she cared deeply about him in all honestly, whether it was because he had saved her and she was subconsciously trying to repay her debt, or because she was his acting guardian and her motherly instincts were kicking in, she didn't know, but what she did know is that he didn't want to see him going down a path he couldn't come back nor make decisions he would regret, he was still so young.
"But I already told you, it was a monster, and I've fought a lot of criminals and villains before, and haven't killed any, heroes don't kill people." Saitama told her, it was true, ever since he decided to become a hero he had faced monsters and criminals alike, but not once had he actually killed a human, he would give them a good trashing, but never finish them off, he was a hero, not some psychopath, he knew the difference between a monster and a human.
"Okay, I understand that, but please just promise me this, at least for the time being, until you get a hero license at least." Yu retorted, she was adamant.
"You are not going to let this one go aren't you?" Saitama said as he looked at her, her expression unchanging, he sighed and just decided to get it over with. "Okay, I guess I won't kill anyone, not that I need to promise that in the first place, but whatever."
"*Sigh* Thanks, now let's go home, okay? I also got a surprise for you." She said with a smile as she resumed her driving and Saitama got back to staring at the outside of the window.
"Oh, hey by the way, we kind of trailed off from the main topic didn't we?" Yu asked Saitama, they were supposed to be talking about how he could become a fully-fledged hero in the eyes of society, but they got off topic for obvious reasons.
"Uh? Oh yeah, I guess, how do I get a 'Hero license?' do I turn in an application or something like that?" Saitama asked her, Yu chuckled at that, if it was that simple every John and Jane would easily become a hero.
"No, you need to have previous preparation and studies in order to apply to a hero license, kind of like college, you need to go to an academy that gives you hero training, and then when you graduate, you can actually apply." Yu told him, she saw him shift uncomfortably on his seat and heard him groan.
"What? Not a fan of school?" She teased him, he had a short attention span, that was for certain, so she guessed that he wasn't exactly an outstanding scholar.
"It's not that, it's just that I don't like the technical part of, well, anything." Saitama said as he remembered his days in high school, it wasn't the most thrilling part of his life, but neither it was the worst, he didn't get the best grades nor the worst, and he did get bullied from time to time, but who didn't get bothered by jerks in their youth anyway? Other than that his school life was pretty uneventful.
"Hehe, well that I figured as much but don't worry, I can help you in that aspect, believe it or not I was in the top three students with best grades when I graduated!" Yu exclaimed proudly, at first she was doing pretty bad in her studies, but somehow she pulled through and quickly climbed up in the scores.
"You? Are you sure you didn't appeal to the teachers to give you hand?" Saitama said without any malice, however Yu took it the wrong way.
"Appeal?! W-What are you implying?!" She asked she got half flustered half angry, never once in her younger days did she do something as use her body for favors! Well, now she would flaunt all her assets here and there, but now she was a woman! She could do whatever she wanted with her own body, but that didn't mean she was a slut!
"Well, I don't know, bribe them with money, or use connections your family had inside the school?" Saitama responded, which made Yu curse herself inside her head, she should know by now that he does have a sense of humor, but not a dirty mind.
"O-oh, that, no Saitama, I didn't do any of that, all I did was put effort in studying and it bore results." Yu told him, Saitama just made a humming noise and soon the car was filled with silence once again, this made her uncomfortable because she knew that if she didn't initiate a conversation, Saitama wouldn't talk at all.
"You know, depending on which academy you graduate, you might get better options when you finally graduate, you know, because of prestige and all that jazz." Yu told him, and it was true, a little bit unfair but true, depending on which academy the applicants came from, they would get different treatment, but that was they would expect more from certain people than others.
"And since you have no background nor papers, it's going to be hard to find you a spot anywhere, unless you have the time and patience to course from kindergarten all the way up?" Yu joked, however Saitama just glared at her. "Or, I could sort something out with Kamui, and we could help you out in that aspect, plus I have a friend that works at a pretty renowned academy, and she can put up a good word for you, what'd you say?" Yu asked him, to be honest, Saitama didn't really see the point with so much protocol with hero work, but as long as they let him do his work, he would be relatively fine.
"Why not? Let's give it a shot." He said as he leaned against his seat and looked at Yu, who was smiling at him.
"You won't regret it, it'll be lots of fun and you'll make lots of friends too! I wish I could go back to my high school days again." Yu told him as she reminisced how much fun she had when she was younger.
"Mmmh." Saitama hummed, he didn't really had anything better to do, and he was pretty sure that the hobo that had brought him here was dead, and he didn't really know how world transporting worked, so all he could do was stay put and maybe hope to find a way to go back home, if it was even possible.
At the local hospital.
Mina Ashido laid in a hospital bed, she had been brought to this hospital after the incident at the parking lot, she had been saved from a random bald guy, but she didn't manage to even get his name, and now she was being scolded by her friends, all of this put her on an awfully sour mood.
"Are you fucking crazy Mina?! You could've died!" One of her friends shouted at her, she was Yami, she was clumsy but caring, and no one in school could get mad at her.
"We know that you want to be a hero, but you won't last long if that is how you are going to act." Another one said, she was Lily, she was pretty uptight and had the best grades of the whole year, Mina had been hearing this kind of stuff for the past hour.
"What do you think your parents are going to do to you when they get here!?" One said, she was right, she was Rika, she was actually her neighbor and childhood friend since forever, and she was right, they are going to skin her alive, she might as well have died back there, because she was sure as hell going to now.
"What if you get nasty permanent scars?" Another one asked, this one was Rin, Rika's younger sister.
"Okay, okay I get it! I messed up, you don't have to rub it in all my goddamn face, ok?!" She finally retorted, all she wanted to do was rest right now, because whenever her parents got here she wasn't going to be able to.
"Messed up? You almost died back there, if it wasn't for that guy you'd be in a casket instead of a bed!" Rika told her, she was starting to get a headache because the room was so small, and yet everyone felt like shouting.
"Okay! I fucked up, big time!" Mina told her, she knew that she was in a pretty tight spot back there, and she was terrified, when she got to the hospital it turned out that she had three broken ribs and a slightly fractured collar bone, but other than that she got lucky. "What about the guy? Did you find anything about him?"
"Nope, I've checked in social media and forums, but no one knows who the guy is." Rin said as she swiped her phone screen with her thumb as she sipped from a juice box, "And everyone conveniently stopped recording the fight right before the guy appeared, maybe out of fear of witnessing a murder or something like that, there's just this messed up blurry picture." She said as she held her phone in front of Mina's face, the photo was the exact frame when the villain got smacked in the face, but the figure of the guy was completely distorted, as if he had moved at an incredible speed in a split second."
Mina huffed in exasperation, she wanted to at the very least give the guy a proper thanks, but odds were that she might never even see the guy again for the rest of her life, there wasn't a lot that she could do about it either way so she will let it go, right now all she wanted was to get some sleep before her parents arrived.
"That guy was like, super lame, a real hero is supposed to save the damsel and then like, charm her or invite her out or something like that." Rin said as she started typing on her phone. "And he wasn't like good looking at all either."
'He wasn't ugly… wait, how did he look like again?' Mina thought to herself as she plopped down on the relatively uncomfortable bed and looked up at the ceiling, it had just happened a couple of hours ago, and she couldn't recall his face at all, he was bald but that was all she could remember, his face was completely blurred out of her mind, the only thought that would subconsciously pop in her mind when she thought hard enough about it was 'egg', whatever that meant.
"Anyways, I'm pretty sure we've bothered Mina enough, we should let her rest." She said as she dragged her squirming younger sister and the rest of the group followed her close behind. "Get better soon, Mina!"
As soon as the door was closed, she sighed, today had been quite the day and she just hoped that she could use her impressively effective puppy eyes on his dad to convince him on letting her still apply on UA later on.
"Mom is going to be a pain though…" She muttered under her breath as she slowly drifted asleep, her breath steading up, her left hand slightly twitching every so often like it always did.
With Yu and Saitama, at Yu's place.
"Well, show them to me!" Yu said happily as she crept up from behind Saitama and stood on the tip of her toes as she looked at Saitama from above, her face reflecting from his shiny head as he was carrying his newly purchased clothes to his room.
"Show you what?" He asked her as he bent his neck backwards to look up at her and blew some of the hair that was getting in his eye.
Yu just kept quiet for a couple of seconds as she stared at his eyes, her breath giving his nose a slight tingle.
"Can you stop that? I hate breathing hot air." He said as he kept staring at her waiting to hear what she wanted.
"I could steal a kiss from you right now, you know?" She said in a low sultry voice, however Saitama was not amused at this and just looked at her with a plain face before he started walking towards his room without saying a single word.
"Okay, I'm sorry! Geez, you are hard to please…" She said as she grabbed the collar of his shirt.
"What do you want?" He repeated himself again.
"I want you to show me the clothes you bought." She answered, Saitama didn't really see a point in this however. "Why? They are just clothes."
"Whatever, you'll never understand the pure heart of a maiden as mine, so give me here." She dramatically said as she held a hand against her chest and then snatched the shopping bags from his hands.
And indeed it wasn't anything special, just some plain looking shirts and some jeans and… what is that?
"Saitama, what is this?" Yu asked him as she took out a yellow hoodie with that had written 'OPPAI' on it and literally had a pair of tits drawn on it.
"Oh? That, well it looked like a once my favorite hoodie, and it was on discount so-" Saitama didn't get to finish as Yu interrupted him.
"It looked like your favorite?! Do you mean that you had one like this?!" She asked in bewilderment. 'He couldn't have just bought it because of that right?' He is living with a woman after all, so there is no way Saitama would just do this and not expect to cause a misunderstanding with her, he was bold not dense… did he do it on purpose to tease her?.
"Yes." He answered, Yu just stared at him.
'Well, if this is supposed to be a joke it's fine, as long as it is between us, but he understands that if he wears this in public everyone will think of him as a creep right?' Yu thought to herself as she gripped the hoodie lightly by the shoulders.
"Uhh, Saitama its fine to joke around with each other like this and all, but you don't plan to actually wear this outside of the house, right?" She asked as she lightly laughed and a bead of sweat rolled down her cheek.
"What do you mean? Of course I'm going to wear it, why would I buy it then?" Saitama answered honestly he didn't knew what she meant by 'joking around' nor why was his hoodie such a big deal.
"What?! No uh-uh, it's fine if you want to be seen like a pervert, but I have a reputation to maintain you know? There is no way you are wearing this whit me around." Yu said as she shoved the hoodie back in the bag, she was thinking of throwing it away or putting it away in some place he'd where he'd never find it.
"Why would I be seen as a pervert? It's just a hoodie." Saitama asked as he reached out to grab it, but Yu took it out of his reach, and held it above her head.
"Are you serious? You are wearing a piece of clothing that has a pair of tits drawn on it! If you go out with that you'll never get a girlfriend." Yu told him. 'Not that I'd mind'.
"Okay whatever, I don't care so I'll won't use it if we are together, just give it back." He demanded, but before she could retort or give it back or whatever she was going to do, he snatched it out of her hands before she could even blink, she didn't try to take it back because she knew that arguing with him wouldn't go anywhere.
"God, thank god I bought you one myself in case something like this would happen." Yu said as she rummaged through one of the bags and pulled out a black track jacket that had a piece of meat as a logo and the brand 'Niku' right beneath it.
"Uh, thanks." He said as he took it in his hands, this one was similar to another one he used to have.
"Well, remember when I told you I had a surprise for you? It's on your room." She giddily said as she pushed him from the back until they were in front of his room.
Saitama opened the door and turned on the lights, and on top of his bed there were two objects, one of them were headphones, on the box it read 'Neats by Craig' he really didn't know much about stuff like headphone brands or stuff like that, but it he thought that they looked a bit expensive.
And right next to the box was a smartphone, he actually recognized it as it was Yu's phone and he had seen it a couple of times.
"Tadaa! I had just bought a new phone, so I decided to give the old one to you instead of selling it, it's only a year old so I don't think you'll mind that much." Yu said as she watched Saitama inspecting the headphones.
"Its fine, thanks, truth be told I actually never really had a phone before, so thanks." Saitama said as he took the headphones out of the box and held them as if it was made out of glass.
"Really? Then you'd be the only kid without a phone, even weirder that a quirkless person, how do you keep in touch with your friends? With pigeons?" She said as she snickered at her own joke.
"I don't really have a lot of friends so I never really needed it." Saitama simply said as he kept his eyes on the headphones, they were pretty neat. 'I hope I don't break them like I usually do with King's stuff…'
"O-oh, I see…" Yu said, a light tingle of regret swelling up in her chest, she hoped he didn't take any offense at that, as to why he didn't have a lot of friends, she decided not to probe any further, she might ask later on but not right now.
"So, am I your friend?" Yu asked him in hopes to cheer him up.
"Aren't these expensive?" He said as he pointed one finger at them.
'Evading the question? Did I make him uncomfortable?' She wondered to herself, but eventually let it go.
"*Sigh* aren't you too young to be worrying this much about money?" Yu asked him as she stepped in the room and plopped down on his bed. "Don't you worry about that, it's a gift so you really shouldn't be asking stuff like that."
"Oh, well thanks." He thanked her as he gently put the headphones inside a bag that was included inside the box, and picked up the phone.
"I don't really know how to use this thing." He said as he looked at the black screen of the phone.
"There is a button on the side, press it or the one at the bottom of the screen, the password is '1235' by the way." Yu happily told him as she eagerly waited for him to unlock the phone.
"Mmmh." Saitama hummed as he typed in the code and unlocked the phone, then he saw the background picture.
It was Yu taking a selfie with one eye her right eye closed and her right hand was making a peace sign in front of her close eye, a small pink heart emoji in between her fingers and her eye.
Saitama just stared at the screen, his face expressionless as usual while Yu giggled and tightly hugged a pillow.
"So, do you like your present?" She expectantly asked as she waited for any kind of response.
"How do I change the background picture?" Was all that Saitama asked.
"Waaa? You are so meeeaan~~" She whimpered.
"Oh, I found the option." He said as he started tapping on the screen.
"Wait, don't! Do you know how many boys in the country would give up their kidney for something like this?!" She said as she tried to reach for the phone, but failed to do so when he stopped her by holding her by the head with one hand.
"Hnnngh! If you delete it I'll just take another one!" She groaned while trying to push herself forward, but Saitama's grip wouldn't budge.
"I won't delete, I'll just change it so calm down already." He said as he finally changed the background to a stock image, then he withdrew the hand that was keeping Yu at bay and stood up from at the same time, Yu plopped down on the bed with an 'Oomph.'
"Anyways I think I'm going to go take a walk around the area, get familiar with the place and what not." Saitama said as he stretched his arms.
"Now that I remember I need to give Kamui and the Agency a report about you, man I hate paperwork." Yu groaned as she stuffed her face in one of the pillows.
"Your 'Agency'?" Saitama asked her, did she mean like one of those groups like the one Fubuki has?
"Yeah, it's basically a way pro heroes use to coordinate themselves, usually the Agency is run by an outstanding hero and takes in others as sidekicks." Yu said as she got up from the bed and rubbed the back of her neck. "Most people are sidekicks until they get a chance to prove themselves and either go freelance or create their own Agency, others lose that chance and stay as sidekicks forever."
"So do you run an Agency?" Saitama inquired, Yu shook her head at this. "So you are one of those eternal sidekicks then?"
"No! I told you only some Agencies work like that, others take in heroes and they either work together or do solo jobs, not like the sidekick ones where they depend on their boss to do anything." Yu said as she then pointed a finger at Saitama. "Plus I'm a relatively new hero, so in no time I'll have my own Agency, you'll see!"
"Uh, do your best then." Saitama gave Yu a thumbs up as he walked pass her and towards the door, but Yu grabbed him by the arm stopping him dead in his tracks.
"Before you go, can you help me with some bits of info, pretty please?" She asked Saitama, she could just make stuff up in the report, but it'd be a pain if Kamui found out that she did that, and she would rather go back in a forest all by herself again, than to let him lecture her ears off.
"Okay." Saitama plainly complied as he was led to the living room by Yu, where they sat down on the sofa as Yu placed her laptop on top of her legs.
"You shouldn't do that, the heat from the laptop-." Saitama was about to tell her the risks of having a laptop on her legs for extended periods of time, but was cut off by an annoyed Yu.
"Yes, I know, I don't do this very often so I don't need another Kamui, okay? Thanks." Yu said as she frowned while typing in her laptop. "Okay, I just need you to tell me some stuff and then you can do whatever."
"Okay, shoot." Saitama said as he got in a more comfortable position where he leaned against the armrest and hung his leg over the back of the sofa.
"Okay, what's your birthday?" Yu asked her first question.
"July third, 2XXX." He told Yu, whom looked at him over the laptop with an unamused look.
'Patience Yu, remember that either he has memory loss or he is just a chunni that doesn't trust us yet.' Yu thought to herself as she wrote 20XX instead.*
"Your last name?" Yu asked him, but Saitama replied with something along the lines of 'not comfortable of giving his last name away just like that'.
"Birth place?" Yu asked Saitama again, but once again answered something weird, 'Z-City' he said.
This went on for a couple of minutes with the rest of the questions, at the end she couldn't get anything that made sense out of him, so all she did was give up and sigh in frustration, she might as well have filled out the thing herself if she knew this is how it was going to go.
"So, is that it?" Saitama asked the worn out Yu.
"Yes, Saitama, that's all." She said with a hint of frustration in her voice as she rubbed her eyes.
"I'll go walk around then." He said as he walked towards the door.
"Do whatever you want, I don't care." Yu carelessly blurted out, not really caring if Saitama took it the wrong way.
"Oh, ok then." He said as he stepped out of the house and started walking down the street, there was a park a couple of blocks away, if he wasn't mistaken.
Saitama sighed as he looked up at the sky, this place was so similar to his own, except that there weren't any 'monsters' around, and the lack of the multiple moons as well.
It was weird, Yu got incredibly angry when she heard that he had killed that one monster, he doesn't really understand why though, it was a hero's job to save people form dangers and defeat monsters, but with everything he has witnessed it seems that people really just look different here, and aren't the monsters he was used to, either way he is going to have to be careful not to make a mistake in the future.
After a couple of minutes of walking down the street, he arrived the park he had been thinking about, it was rather common, it had a playground, a couple of benches and a vending machine, but other than that it was unremarkable.
Saitama approached the vending machine and scanned the contents displayed, one drink in particular caught his attention, 'Spicy peach', there's no way something like that can possibly taste good right?
Right?
Saitama's curiosity got the better of him and he soon started to rummage through his pockets, he pulled out a handful of coins that Yu had given him, it was roughly six hundred yen in total, which was more than enough to buy the drink.
Once he had bought the drink, he gave it a few shakes to have the contents mix evenly, but before he could open the can, some kid's laughter caught his attention, when he looked in the direction it came from, he saw what seemed to be four kids playing around, he assumed that was the case, but after a few seconds of spectating he saw that three kids were actually bullying the one on the ground, calling him stuff like 'wimp', 'weirdo', 'quirkless' and stuff like that.
By the time Saitama decided to intervene, the kids seemed to have gotten bored and decided to go on about their day, one of the kids threw what looked to be a burnt notebook over his head and landed in front of the kid, he simply picked it up and dusted the dirt off it, and then yelped when felt a sudden chilling sensation on the back of his neck.
When he turned his head around he saw a bald guy holding a can of juice on his outstretched arm, that must've been what he felt.
"Are you ok kid? Want some juice?" He asked him before lightly shaking the can in front of his face.
"U-uh? Oh, yeah thank you…" The green haired kid said as he reached out for the can and stood up, dusting his backside.
"What's your name kid?" Saitama asked the green haired kid as he eyed the burnt notebook that he was tightly grasping.
"I-It's Midoriya, I-Izuku Midoriya, p-pleasure to meet you!" Midoriya stuttered as he aggressively bowed. 'Why is he so stiff? It's not like I'm here to pick on him like those guys…' Saitama wondered as a bead of sweat rolled down his forehead.
"Oh, I'm Saitama, what was the deal with those kids? Did you do something to upset them?" He asked, truth be told he suspected that they were most likely messing with him for no reason, he experienced it himself back in middle school too, but he decided to give them the benefit of the doubt.
"Oh no, it's just that they like to pick on me, because w-well, I'm q-quirkless… and want to become a h-hero…" Midoriya said as he looked down and rubbed the back of his head as he waited for him to laugh at him or make a snarky remark like how the rest of people would do when they heard this. "You can laugh if you want." He said without daring to look up.
"Why would I?" Saitama asked him as he cocked an eyebrow.
"Because it's a stupid dream…" Midoriya said as he traced his finger around the lid of the juice can.
"It's not stupid, if you want to become a hero then just become one, it's as simple as that." Saitama replied.
"W-what do you mean? Didn't you hear me when I said I was quirkless?" Midoriya said as he looked up at him.
"Yeah, I heard you, it's no big deal." Saitama nonchalantly said as he buried his left hand in his pocket.
"No big deal?! What do you mean? It's impossible for someone without a quirk to be a pro hero!" He exclaimed making Saitama slightly recoil, this kid switched from a shy to hysterical in less than a second.
"Who says that?" Saitama asked him, he has had this kind of conversation across the years with multiple people multiple times, why does everyone think that they can't achieve what they desire just because someone else tells them so?
"W-Well it's obvious! All of the pro heroes have amazing powers to keep the peace and someone without a quirk would be next to useless!" Midoriya explained Saitama, whom didn't seem to be really paying any attention.
"What's in that notebook?" Saitama asked as he pointed his right index finger to it.
"Oh, this is just a silly hobby of mine, I like to write down everything I know about heroes and villains in here and analyze it… Kacchan burnt it a little while ago…" He told Saitama as he looked at the notebook in his hands, eventually he'd have to let all of this go and move on. "Who is Kacchan?" Saitama asked him.
"Oh, he is a friend… he was the blond one from a just now." Midoriya told Saitama.
"Wait THAT guy is your friend?" Saitama asked him bewildered, if he considered that a friend then who did he consider a bully?
"Yes, well it's complicated, hehe." Midoriya smiled sheepishly as he looked at Saitama.
"I see… well can I see your notebook?" Saitama asked him as his curiosity got the better of him.
"Uh… sure." Midoriya said as he handed the notebook to him, Saitama then opened the book and started to look through the pages.
"This is actually pretty cool, you know?" He said as he kept on reading various descriptions of heroes, both new, old and retired, with his own annotations about their personalities and quirks on the side. 'This looks almost like the notebooks Genos has about me… *shudder*' He though.
"Thanks, sometimes I make up my own ideas for hero costumes as well." He said with genuine happiness, he was one of the only people that so far hadn't made fun of him or singled him out for being different.
"Hey, have you noticed how a lot of these people's powers are situational? Like this guy that can only shoot water from his fingertips, this one that can temporarily suppress a quirk, and this one that can increase his bone density greatly by consuming calcium, they still need to deal with villains and criminals the old way, you know, punches and kicks.
"U-uh, yeah but they still have quirks that help them do so…" Midoriya replied.
"*Sigh* Look kid, there isn't a hand book nor a statement that says that you can't be a hero, right?" Saitama said as he closed the notebook and returned it to Midoriya.
"You know, I became a hero… well I'm not a hero in HERE, but where I come from I'm actually a certified hero. And you know what's funny about it? That I'm like you, no psychic powers nor fancy fighting styles, I got there through training." Saitama said as he started to walk back to the vending machine.
"To be completely honest, I remember when people kept telling me that trying to become a hero was a waste of my time." He said as he rummaged through his back pocket looking for the spare change buy another drink.
"But even then, I really didn't pay it any mind, why? Because it was MY dream, not theirs, your life is yours, so you should live each day." Saitama said as Midoriya approached him, was he telling the truth and not pulling his leg? Was he really a hero? What was his quirk? There were so many questions that he wanted to ask him but he decided to listen first.
"A lot of people are born with powers or stuff like that, that discourages people from even trying, that reminds me of what my mother used to tell me 'Everyone is special in their own way', and if you really think about it, that is just way to say that everyone is actually the same." He said as he looked inside the vending machine, the 'spicy peach' can he gave to the kid was the last one, so he would have to buy something else.
"Then, wouldn't that mean that if everyone's not special maybe you can be what you want to be, or do you need to be special to feel okay?" Saitama asked him as he moved his gaze to him, Midoriya was at a loss of words, even his mother didn't even try to tell him he could still be a hero without a quirk, and yet this guy that he just met was encouraging him for being different.
"I'm not going to sugar coat it for you, the path is harsh, because it's true that you have to compensate the lack of skills or powers, you will suffer through joy in pain, but once you achieve it you will find out that you make your own obstacles." Saitama added, Midoriya was honestly moved by the fact Saitama believed in him even if he knew it was impossible for someone as himself.
"But there are a lot of dangers in a hero's life… How will I…" Midoriya stuttered as he looked down, he wanted to believe in himself, he really did, but how could he?
"You are right, I trained for three years to become strong, and at the start fighting was quite scary, and I would get injured a lot, but eventually it became easier and easier, and well, I'm here now." He said as he was about to put in a coin it slipped from his hand and rolled underneath the machine.
"Oh, wait, that was a one-hundred-yen coin, right? I think I have one…" Midoriya was going to give him a coin to replace the one he lost, but trailed of as he saw Saitama effortlessly lifting the entire thing over his head and crouching down to get his money.
"W-w-w-wha…" Midoriya stuttered as he kept staring at Saitama, he had told him he was quirkless, was it a lie? Was he just making fun of him all along?
"Uh? What?" Saitama asked him as he set the vending machine down.
"Y-you told me you were quirkless!" Midoriya lashed out.
"Yeah, I also told you that I trained three years to become strong, didn't I?" Saitama asked him as he stood up.
"There is no way someone can train and do what you just did without a quirk!" Midoriya shouted as he pointed a finger at him.
"But I just did..." Saitama retorted with a more than usual deadpan expression.
"Aren't you going to answer your phone?" Midoriya said as he looked at the glow in Saitama's right pocket.
"Uh?" Saitama was confused but then checked his phone and felt goose bumps.
"I thought you were ignoring it, so I didn't say anything but…" Midoriya was didn't finish as Saitama bolted off and started running, raising a cloud of smoke in front of his face.
"Gottagobyecatchyoulatter!" He screamed as he got farther and farther away, leaving a confused and coughing Izuku in the park.
"What *cough* was that about?" He said to himself as he looked at the direction he had ran off to, what a strange guy.
Just as he was about to start walking home, he noticed a bulge in his notebook, when he opened it he saw it was in fact a red pen, HIS red pen, just when did he take it?
And right in the corner of the page there was a message that Saitama had left, when he read it, he involuntarily smiled and hoped that one day he may meet this curious bald guy again.
'If I remember correctly, quirkless people are quite rare these days, right? Then that means that you are the special one, I'm sure that if you become the first top ranking quirkless hero, you'd become the greatest hero ever'. It read, with a small happy face underneath the text.
With Saitama.
"CRAP, CRAP, CRAP." He repeatedly cursed as he ran back home, back in the park when he checked his phone, he saw that he had eighteen voice messages and thirty-three unread messages from Yu, the thing is that he didn't ignore them, but he never noticed he got them, the must've been on silence or broken, yeah that is it.
But the thing is that Yu didn't know that.
The first call was her telling him that she was ordering pizza for dinner, and that he should hurry back home, some of first messages were about this as well, the second call was her asking him if he'd rather have Chinese food instead, then the next couple of messages were her, sounding quite annoyed, telling him to pick up the damn phone and hurry back home before it gets dark, then he skipped a couple of the messages and she was pissed, telling him that she was going to give him hell for this, and then skipped to the last messages that sounded like she was genuinely worried and on the verge of crying, apologizing for screaming at him earlier today and to please come home.
'Stupid phone.' He cursed as the house finally came into view, the car was still there so the chances of her being outside looking for him were slim, so he opened he door and called out for her.
"Yu! Are you here? I'm home!" He loudly said, he honestly expected for her to come down the stairs angry at him for not picking up her calls, but instead she tackled him from behind, he didn't fall over, but this was still unexpected to him.
"Where were you! I was worried you had ran off, I'm sorry if I was mean to you, but you shouldn't have done that!" She said as she wrapped her arms tightly around his torso.
"I didn't ignore your calls, I never noticed I got them, the phone must've been on mute I think, I'm sorry." Saitama explained this to Yu, who seemed to calm down.
"S-so you are not mad at me for being mean to you?" She asked as she let go of him and took a step back.
"What are you on about?" Saitama asked Yu, why was she acting like this? Did he do something wrong, or did he misunderstand something?
"This morning, when I asked about your life to… you know what? Just forget about it." Yu said then sighed.
"Oh, you mean when you got angry after I couldn't tell you half the stuff you asked me?" Saitama inquired.
"What? Well, yes that, I kinda lost my temper, so…" She replied as she started fidgeting her fingers.
"I didn't get mad, the thought of you being mean didn't even cross my mind to be honest, I just kind of assumed you weren't a morning person." Saitama told her as he made his way up the stairs and walked towards his room.
"Uh, well good to know that… Wait! You still haven't told me what to order for dinner!" She yelled at him from the first floor.
"I don't really mind, just get pizza." His reply came as the sound of a door closing was heard, the door to Saitama's room obviously.
"Uh, well that's that I guess." Yu said to herself as she walked towards the land phone and dialed the pizzeria's number, it was a shame that she couldn't really find out anything about his past, but now it's Kamui's problem now, she almost pitied him, he almost hated extensive paperwork as much as she did, but then again who doesn't?
For now, she would have to wait to get word from him and then she'll start looking in academies that specialize in training heroes, U.A would be the best choice, but she doesn't know if he has what it takes be accepted, he was strong, but it had more aspects than that in the entrance exam, but whatever she'll worry about that when the time comes.
What if…
Yu tried a more daring approach?
"*Sigh* aren't you too young to be worrying this much about money?" Yu asked him as she stepped in the room and plopped down on his bed. "Don't you worry about that, it's a gift so you really shouldn't be asking stuff like that."
"Oh, well thanks." He thanked her as he gently put the headphones inside a bag that was included inside the box, and picked up the phone.
"I don't really know how to use this thing." He said as he looked at the black screen of the phone.
"There is a button on the side, press it or the one at the bottom of the screen, the password is '1235' by the way." Yu happily told him as she eagerly waited for him to unlock the phone.
"Mmmh." Saitama hummed as he typed in the code and unlocked the phone, but then was completely frozen when he saw the background picture.
It was Yu taking a selfie with one eye her right eye and the tip of her tongue out with a small heart emoji on it, she also looked to be inside of a bathroom stall, but that wasn't what made Saitama freeze up.
With her free hand she was slightly pulling her shirt forward, the camera of the phone was high enough to capture the inside of her shirt, revealing that she didn't have a bra on, exposing two thirds of her cherry pink nipple to the camera.
Saitama just stared at the screen, obscured by a shadow while Yu giggled and tightly hugged a pillow, hiding a crimson blush behind it.
"So, do you like your present?" She expectantly asked as she waited for any kind of response.
Saitama however slowly turned his head towards her, his expression wasn't any different than the one he always had, but his eyes.
Those damned eyes looked like they were piercing the very core of her soul, it's as if it was burning her, shaming her from her sins and lack of shame.
"Y-your eyes look so cold… Like you are staring at a pig." Yu exclaimed as she unintentionally recoiled in fear.
Saitama just laid the phone on the bed and slowly rose up and took a deep breath.
"Serious series:" He said in a barely audible voice "Serious thrusting."
"What is-*HYUK*" She didn't manage to finish her sentence in time, her frail and pure female body never stood a chance.
ONE-HURRICANE 69: Coming never.
Hey guys~~~ Thanks for all the support you've shown me during all this Miura like hiatus time, well it really wasn't a hiatus, to tell the truth this chapter had been sitting in my computer for quite a while now, and just now I finished it, college and other stuff are a bitch so I really couldn't bring myself around to do it, but from now on I'll be more consistent in my updates.
Another thing is that in my PMs some people thought that I'd be going into hiatus, this isn't the case, the only way I'd do that is if I both had no time to write because of my personal life obligations got writer's block at the same time, and I already have planned out how 10+ chapters from now are going to play out, so yeah, hope you enjoyed this and feel free to leave your feedback if you so desire
