Superhuman Gifts
Chapter Four - Zero Gravity
Hello World! This chapter is gonna be a bit shorter than the others, but that's ok. Because this chapter is gonna introduce best girl!
Yes I said it, fight me.
Also, I'm still not going to acknowledge the cliffhanger from chapter 3.
MWAHAHAHA!
(Disclaimer: Doust thou not know that I ownest not Boku no Hero Academia)
Ochako Uraraka gripped the hem of her 'Super' hoodie tightly.
"I wanna help!" She cried to her dad, "When I get big and strong, I wanna help Papa's company with my quirk!"
Ochako's father smiled at her and ruffled her hair.
"You wanna work for me? That would make me really happy, but y'know what would make me a thousand times happier?"
Ochako shook her head, tears still threatening to fall from her eyes.
"I'd be happier if you followed your dreams and became a super hero!" He wiped away her tears, "Then once you get rich from saving people, you can take Mama and I to Hawaii!"
Ten Years Later…
Ochako stared into the freezer longingly.
She opened up her wallet and noted that it was much emptier than she would have liked it.
"Why does mochi have to be so expensive!?" She asked the sakura mochi ice cream that was sitting in the freezer, "It's so close!"
Her craving for mochi was set aside as her phone began ringing.
She turned away from the freezer and answered it, "Hello?"
"Ochako?"
"Papa! What's up?" She asked, leaving the convenience store.
"I was just calling to check up on you! Are you and your mom doing ok?"
Ochako smiled, "Yup, we're doing fine! There was a villain attack this morning, but he was apprehended pretty quickly. How's Tokyo?"
Her dad's reply sounded like an excited 4 year old, "It's amazing! Building are blowing up every other day!"
"That's not a good thing y'know…"
"Meh, matter of perspective. Sure it isn't good if the building happens to be your home, but it's great business for a construction company!"
"Some day your house is gonna blow up, and you'll regret saying that."
Her dad changed the subject, "What about school? Are you making friends?"
"School's great!" Ochako said cheerfully, "Everyone's super friendly and kind!"
"Well that's good to here."
"Thanks for checking in! But I need to get home now!"
"Alright then, I'll call you again soon! Make sure you eat stuff other than mochi!"
Ochako flushed red, "Wah!? What are you talking about!? I'm hanging up now! Bye!"
She hung up and slid her phone into her pocket.
There was a loud explosion from the local shopping district.
"Oo… Another villain attack?" She wondered aloud, "I'd better stay away from that area…"
Consciously ignoring the screaming and explosions, she made her way back to her apartment. Stopping only briefly to ogle the green tea that the coffee shop next to her apartment building was advertising.
"I'm home!" She called out to the empty building, "Mama?"
Ochako entered the 'kitchen'(a section of the two roomed apartment that had a sink, stove, and fridge) and saw a note magnetized to the fridge.
"Out shopping, be back soon. -Mama" Ochako smiled, "P.S. Don' eat all the mochi!"
Her smile faded, "Do none of my parents trust me!?"
She then remembered staring into a freezer less than ten minutes ago and realized that the suspicion was well founded.
"Oh well, I've got some time to kill!"
While Ochako had been born and raised in the Mie prefecture, a little over a month prior her dad's company moved to Tokyo.
Tokyo, being a densely populated metropolitan area, was known for villain attacks and short lived real-estate. While it was a good environment to raise a construction company, it was not a good environment to raise a child.
Ochako's father ended up moving to Tokyo by himself while her mother stayed back to live with her, until she had at least graduated middle school. This placed both of them in the Shizuoka prefecture.
They could have remained in their hometown, but they chose to move to Shizuoka. They moved not only because it was significantly closer to Tokyo, but also because it was close to Ochako's dream school Yuuei High School.
The conversation was interesting, to say the least.
"Hey Ochako! Where are you thinking about going to high school?"
"High school? I guess I'll try for the best hero school in the area…"
"But what would your dream school be?"
"Yuuei! It's where Number 13 graduated from! He also works there as a teacher! But- It's all the way over in the Shizuoka prefecture, so it's not very reasonable…"
"Alright then! Let's move to Shizuoka!"
"WHA- MAMA!? I haven't even applied!"
"Don't worry! I'm sure you'll make it in! You're our little hero after all!"
"PAPA!"
Ochako collapsed on her bed as she thought about the moving conversation.
"Now that I think about it… It might be that happy-go-lucky attitude that put Papa's company in the red…"
The floor collapsed.
"Wake up!" Ochako regained consciousness by someone shaking her shoulders.
A grown man, with a normal face and black hair, was standing over her. He had blood trickling down his head and over one of his eyes.
Ochako lost all feelings of drowsiness, "What happened!?"
The man smiled, "Thank goodness you're awake, we need to get you out of here!"
"But- Where are we?" Ochako looked around at the dark unfamiliar scenery. There were a couple things from her room, a bed, a dresser, a table, never mind; there was everything from her room.
"The building collapsed, heroes are evacuating everyone right now! You need to get out of here before this area collapses even more."
Ochako looked up and noticed that the roof was made up of rubble; rubble that could give in any second. The walls were made up of similar material and had metal bars sticking up here and there. The only reason she could see anything was because of the large flashlight that her rescuer was holding.
"The exit is that way!" He pointed towards a gap in the twisted metal and concrete, "Just keep heading in that direction and run when you make it out." He turned to leave.
"What I happening?" Ochako thought, "Who is this man? Did he just save me?"
"Is he a hero?"
"I've never seen him before."
"What is he doing here?"
"I don't think he lives in this apartment complex."
"Is he going deeper in to save people?"
"By himself?"
"WAIT!" Ochako called out to him before he could get deeper in the rubble, "I-I want to help!"
"I can't let you-"
"Please let me help!" Ochako steadied herself and stood up.
"Be careful you might have a concussion!"
She picked up a chunk of concrete and made it float, "With my quirk, I can help these people! Please take me with you!"
The man stared at the floating rubble and grinned, "You sure?"
Ochako grinned in response, "I want to be a hero after all!"
He held out his hand, "The name's Naomasa Tsukauchi."
"Ochako Uraraka!" She shook it.
"Perfect! Let's evacuate everyone in this concrete nightmare!"
Ok, let's talk names.
First off, Ochako's parent's names are still unknown. That being said, I'm trying to write a story with Ochako's mom playing a fairly prevalent role!
I could pull a fairly odd parent's and just have everyone call her Ochako's mom, but that would get very old very fast. So I decided that I would name them on my own based on Horikoshi's naming techniques.
So family's in the Boku no Hero universe tend to share more than their last name. Izuku(出久) for instance, has his father's name within his own(Hisashi(久)) And while Inko(引子) doesn't match, she does share the first sylable being an "I"
This phenomenon's actually more obvious with the Bakugous. With Katsuki(勝己) being a compilation of Masaru(勝) and the end of Mitsuki(光己)
Now to Ochako(お茶子) the girl with nameless parents. While I could add the ko(子)(Which means child) at the end of her mother's name with something like Aiko(愛子) or Rumiko(留美子) it is actually a pretty common ending for japanese female names, like Inko(引子). On the other hand I could add the beginning of her name, the ocha(お茶)(Which means tea), but there aren't many Japanese names that have ocha in them.
So this put me in a pickle.
But then, I realized, why bother with all of this work when I can make my readers do it?
So welcome to the first reader poll for "Superhuman Gifts"!
I'll be accepting names for the week of September 15, 2018 and will select my favorite names of the group. Then, in the chapter five Author's Note, you guys will be able to vote on which name you think is the best.
I guess we need to vote on Ochako's dad too…
Oh well! We'll cross that bridge when we get there!
Also, since their quirks also haven't been revealed, I'm just gonna say that Ochako's mom's quirk allows her to regulate her own weight, and her dad's quirk allows him to know how much pressure is being placed on objects he touches.
Welp, that should be all!
I'm looking forward to checking my email every hour hoping for a submission only to realize that nobody cares enough to review!
What am I doing with my life…
Next chapter, "Wind Cannon"
-TitaniumDragon22