My Hero Academia: The Next Symbol
"You're lying!" Ichiro spurted,
"Say what you want, but I'm not" Replied Hanako, a calm and collected look now appearing on her face,
"But, but, there's no way something like that could happen, a quirk gaining sentience doesn't make any sense!"
"Look kid, I'm going to need you to cooperate with me, just until I can show you that what I'm saying is true, okay."
Ichiro scowled fiercely then realised a few people were staring at the pair due to their heated argument. Rather unexpectedly, a swarm of men and women with cameras flooded into the café.
"Damn it. I knew this would happen." Sighed Hanako, slender hands on her face,
"Miss Midoriya! Can we have an interview please?" A deep voice shouted through the bustling crowd,
"How do you feel about the recent events with your brother Miss Midoriya!" Cried another,
"Marry me Miss Midoriya," screamed a dainty man. However, Hanako simply shut all the noise out, despite them obnoxiously crowding around the pair.
"Please kid, just give me a chance and let me show you." Hanako smiled weakly. Considering, Ichiro focused to drown out the noise and made eye contact with the millionaire in front of him,
"Fine." And with that Hanako grabbed Ichiro's lean hand and began pushing through the crowd effulgently.
"Ichiro was impressed with her power as she dragged the boy along and once they finally got out of the ocean of reporters, cameramen and unusual fans, a deluxe limousine gracefully pulled up next to them. As fast as Hanako could pull the two of them, they climbed into the polished car. There were luscious, comfortable, white leather seats that extended all around the back part of the car. A rather portly man with blond receding hair was at the wheel. Before the next flash of a camera, the care was moving rapidly away from the paparazzi.
After about 10 minutes of impressing driving from the man that Hanako had called Haruto, the limousine stopped at an expanse of forest. The deep green trees swayed peacefully as Hanako and Ichiro stepped out of the car. Still not sure of what they were doing here, Ichiro was glad that he hadn't been kidnapped, or wasn't dead.
"Follow me." Hanako said, obtusely,
"Why?" Ichiro asked, knowing that he was pretty far away from the children's home,
"Telling you didn't work, so I'm going to show you."
"Your crazy." Ichiro murmured under his breath. The boy took a sigh of relief when Hanako simply carried on walking; she hadn't heard him. Ichiro marched, obediently, until they came to a small opening among the towering oak trees.
"Now can you tell me why we're here?" Ichiro pleaded, adamantly,
"I'm going to show you your quirk." Hanako told him,
"I'm Quirkless, and I don't want a quirk either. I don't want to end up like those entitled idiots!" Ichiro shouted. Hanako's calm expression shifted to one of sadness, as if she felt bad,
"I'm sorry you feel that way kid, but I need you to just listen to me." Hanako said,
"In half an hour, I'm leaving." Ichiro declared,
"Ok, I want you to close your eyes," Ichiro obliged, he shut his pale eyelids tight and was met with an array noises and colours. Everything seemed so much clearer all of a sudden: Ichiro could hear the birds chirping and the rustle of the leaves; the feeling was nice.
"Good, now put your right hand forward." Hanako instructed. Ichiro, once again, followed the instructions. Right hand forward, eyes closed, he took a deep breath.
"Now feel the power bubbling inside of you and try to focus all of that into your middle finger." At this point Ichiro was confused, but he was now curious to see whether this woman was truly crazy or not. The dark-haired boy focused and to his great surprise he felt something: An indescribable heat was coursing through his right arm. No way He thought.
An expression of joy was present on Hanako's face as Ichiro's arms then only his middle finger were surrounded by red and gold light.
"Now, use your thumb to prepare a flick" Ichiro did just that.
"And release all that power Ichiro, do it!" Ichiro flicked, and carnage reigned: A colossal, powerful, destructive gust of wind went flying from his finger and into the nearby trees. Although Hanako had already gotten a decent amount away, she had to hang on tightly to a nearby tree, a smile on her face. When the wind subsided, a long deep trench of mud and fallen trees was left in its wake. Once Ichiro realised what had happened, multiple beads of sweat ran down his face. Not only had he just broken his finger – which was now severely bruised – but also he'd just knocked down trees with just a flick of his finger. I'm quirkless! There's no way! Ichiro pondered,
"I told you." Hanako said from behind him, "I noticed that you're reasonably fit so I decided to let you do a finger flick, a whole arm attack would have probably blown your arm off."
"What?" Ichiro shouted,
"Don't worry. If I saw you about to attack with your arm then I would've stopped you." Hanako reassured,
"I'm not evil you know,"
"I wouldn't be sure." Ichiro teased, playfully.
"Come on, I'll get you a bandage for that, we'll drop you home and we can talk on the way." The brown-haired woman pronounced.
Hanako stayed true to her word, after they got back to the car Ichiro's broken finger got bandaged and Haruto plot course to the Children's home.
"So, what do you think?" Hanako asked, calmly
"I can't believe it; you were right. I actually have a quirk." Ichiro replied,
"Yes, and a very powerful quirk as you can see." Hanako explained,
"This is crazy." Ichiro told himself,
"Ichiro, the villain that killed my brother is very powerful. My brother was the strongest hero in the world and he was defeated. This hero is a threat to the whole world, and, for whatever reason, you inherited One For All. It may be due to your quirklessness before, considering that multiple quirks usually turn someone into a hideous monster, but you're the only one with the potential to defeat that villain whenever he returns, okay." Hanako explained. Ichiro was utterly stunned.
"You're telling me, that you want me to become a hero, master this quirk and risk my life to defeat this villain all for a cause that I don't believe in." Hanako was now the one, who was stunned,
"Ichir-" But Ichiro cut her off this time,
"Heroes are just greedy idiots looking for fame and money. They don't care about actually saving people and, by inspiring quirked people to be like them, they only make things worse for quirkless people like –" Ichiro stopped himself, once again realising that he now had a quirk,
"So your telling me that you don't plan to do anything with this immense power that you wield." Hanako scolded,
"You don't want to protect your loved ones?" she continued,
Ichiro stopped; he imagined Ren, Yuuto and Chika dying in front of him, whilst he was powerless to stop it. He brushed the disturbing thought to the side.
"You want to protect the people that you love, right?"
Ichiro nodded weakly, clearly upset. The car had pulled onto his road now,
"You want hero society to change so that heroes are there to protect people and not for the money and glory, right?"
Ichiro gave a more determined nod this time,
"Then become a hero, protect the people that you love and change hero society for the better. I'll be supporting you all the way!" Hanako exclaimed, hopefully.
"I'll think about it." Ichiro said, blankly,
"Well then, here's my number." Hanako gave him a card with a long combination of numbers engraved on it. Nodding, Ichiro got out the car and it then proceeded to dive away into the beautiful setting sun. The boy grimaced as he unlocked the front door, entering the Children's Home. "Don't worry, Toshinori, Dad I'll get this boy on the right path, I'll continue your legacy."
Placing his right hand in his pocket to hide the bandaged finger, he proceeded to the kitchen area of the home to tell Chika that the trains were delayed, an excuse he gave a lot. And with that, Ichiro made his way to his room and did his homework for the night.
Today's been … eventful Ichiro thought. After dinner, which was fast food Ramen, Ren and Yuuto went to play with their Lego, making a bunch of (unrecognizable) structures.
Protect the people that you love. Hanako's words echoed through his head. Would the world really fall if he didn't become a hero and fight back? That's absurd he told himself, but Ren and Yuuto's childish laughter shifted something inside of him.
"Can I be excused please?" Ichiro asked, politely. Chika nodded. Swiftly, Ichiro made his way to his shared room and he slumped down on his bed, thinking.
"I do want to protect the people that I love. I do want hero society to change. So I can't sit around and expect people to do those things for me." Ichiro told himself in a determined voice. The boy sat up, grabbed his phone off the ancient wood dresser and dialled the number on the card,
"Hello?"
"Hanako?"
"Is that Ichiro?"
"Yes."
"What is it?"
Ichiro took a deep breath and replied,
"I'm ready."
And that was chapter 4. I hope you enjoyed. As of now there are 10/14 male slots taken and 2/6 female slots taken for 1A so please be mindful of that if you're sending in OC's, although I may change some things depending on the characters sent in. Don't be afraid to send in Hero or Villain OC's.
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