Midnight soon fell again and Izuku was starting to equip his vigilante costume for his patrol.
Izuku, however was not in a good mood, even if he was able to find a way to taunt the information out of Eraserhead, it would seem way too suspicious no matter what sorts of ways he used, Shinsou's similar fighting style to him is already a huge evidence, unless Hitoshi doesn't get in the class Eraserhead teaches. However, knowing Eraserhead, he would probably be interested in Hitoshi for him despite having a non-offensive Quirk and still being able to make into hero course in the exam. It was a heache, his plan for taunting it out of Eraserhead is cancelled for the most part, that is why Izuku is going to sneak in UA or hack in their system. And now he is just ready to go for a normal patroll, hoping he doesn't kill anyone due to his incredibly bad mood.
Izuku flew his hood on and adjusted his gasmask and voice changer, pulling on his knee pads and equipped himself with his weapons, there he was all set, Izuku slowly approached the window and creaked it open. Peeking out to observe the area, he saw nobody in sight, and with that he snucked out by jumping out of the window and started moving in the dark again.
Izuku searched everywhere for criminals m, going through dark alleyways and watching streets from roof tops, the night tonight was peaceful and quiet, Izuku couldn't sense any criminals or villains, it was quiet, dead silence.
The tension increased with every step Izuku took, he became more and more conscious about his surroundings and the tiniest sound would catch his full attention. Izuku crept around the night city for a long while, any nothing has happened, quiet went from peaceful to a creepy silence. Until a loud creaking broke the silence. Izuku's full attention drifted to finding the source of the sound.
Izuku was sure the creaking weren't made by him, he had practiced long enough to be able to move in complete silence. The creaking might just be from some really old buildings, however it was worth to check, it wasn't like there were any crime scene nearby anyways.
As Izuku approached closer to the source of the sound, low whispers were heard coming out from a building. Izuku, crept closer to window he spotted on the window and pressed his ear closely against the wall. Peeking through the window with a squinted eye, Izuku finally spotted someone in sight, their physical appearance weren't completely visible but it seemed like one of them wore a dark red hoodie and a black mask to cover their face, whereas the other's appearance was remained unknown. Izuku was able to hear a few words, it was barely audible because they were whispering too, even if both of them were sort of yelling while whispering.
Izuku was able to make out a few words.
"Eraserhead.. UA.. Teacher... eliminate.."
Izuku felt his eyes widening in fear. They were definitely villains and there was only one thing they possibly could be talking about.
They were going to eliminate Eraserhead.
In other words, they were planning a murder on Eraserhead. Izuku wasn't really friends with Eraserhead, but part of Izuku just hated the thought of Eraserhead being gone forever. He didn't like the feeling nor the idea of it at all, and not long afterwards Izuku heard footsteps and knew the villains either spotted him, or were ready to leave, and with that Izuku retreated, the villain's words left ringing repeatedly in hid mind.
Izuku sped his way back to his apartment and practically threw himself in the window. He slumped on the floor, panting, he hadn't been out of breath in a while, well it made sense because he pratically ran back to his apartment as fast as he could.
He panted on the floor for quit a while, sweat drenched his whole body as he processed the villain's words once more in his head. He wasn't even able to make up both of the villain physical appearance, it was a complete failure. He wasn't able to obtain any more information either than the fact one of them worse a red hoodie with a mask while the other remained completely unknown. Izuku regretted panicking and running all the way back here.
It was so frustrating for him, he had never let any of his stupid feelings got in his way of the missions all these time, then why in the hell did he let that slight panic got him this time? Izuku sighed, he completely disappointed with his own performance.
Izuku slowly got up from the floor and made his way to his laptop to put down the very limited pieces of information he had gotten on the villains.
Notes: Case Eraserhead (Villain Murder)
Villain description.
First person : Dark Red hoodie Black mask..
Second person: unknown
Plan: (?)
Goal: eliminate Eraserhead.
Izuku tsked in annoyance when he saw the lack of information he had on these two villains. He, without further hesitation immediately dived into researching the two villains, scrolling through images of red hoodie villains and hoping to find a frame that might somehow fit the one he saw earlier, but none of them rang a bell. Which only made Izuku more annoyed, the villain was either not famous, a newbie or simply just in disguise. With this limited amount of information he was getting nowhere, he didn't know how much time he had left until the villains will start taking action too. He needed to investigate the building as soon as possible.
That night Izuku went another day sleepless, not only finding information on the villains but planning his plans to break into UA and get the entrance exams information.
The sun rises again. It was a reminder to Izuku that it was time to meet his pupil again.
Izuku groaned and stretched, after putting on his usual attire, he walked out of his apartment, readying for another new day.
--
The sun just rose and Shouta was already awake, he has been working on marking his student's terrible test results for the past two hours, and he couldn't concentrate at all, it was not because of how terrible their results were it was about the troublesome vigilante.
It had been a week since Shouta has seen Mugen, honestly, he wasn't worried, Mugen's so called heroic actions were still on and they were still able to find defeated criminals by Mugen around during that other week when Shouta hadn't seen Mugen.
However if the vigilante was possibly starting to avoid him so he couldn't pick any more information on him, it will be the worse case, finding the vigilante is hard enough, now if he started avoiding them, the mission might as well be noted as impossible.
He really hoped it was just a matter of luck that they didn't meet this week, or Mugen might have shortened his patrol time...
Wait- Mugen shortening his patrol time?
Could it possibly be the answer to this?
It wasn't completely nonsense, Shouta is usually only able to find Mugen after his 1:30 hours of patrolling because he would have gathered enough information to know where Mugen had went, even if Mugen's starting direction is completely random, just trailing after the crimes he had solved and going to the places where Mugen hadn't patrolled will make it easy to find Mugen.
Mugen won't do things without a purpose, so if he was really shortening his patrol time then why? Was Mugen plotting something?
90% of Shouta tells himself that whatever that crazy brat might be plotting, it can't be anything good. He needed to tell detective about his update on Mugen, it wasn't any information with prove but at least it was something, something that might actually be able to take their research somewhere finally after years of trying to arrest this vigilante.
Shouta sighed, he should really go to the detective, however part of him just want to be dead on his bed for months, everything was way too stressful to deal with.
Finally feeling the urge the get up and walk to the police station, Shouta changed into hi hero costume and started reaching the station, leaving the papers on his work table unmarked.
--
Tsukauchi Naomasa wasn't starting his day well. He had barely gotten any sleep because of the immense amount of paperwork. Even if the amount of paperwork for Mugen has decreased, crimes around the city has descreased a lot and even if ut should lessen the amount of paper work, it was increased because they were suspicious that a new rising vigilante or villain might have been the cause of that.
Naomasa had already drank 2 cups of coffee, he was pretty sure he looked like the twin of Aizawa at the moment, maybe even worse. And just then, someone knocked on the door, resisting the urge to yell at whoever it was at the door. Naomasa let out a tired come in which rather sounded like a groan.
When Shouta heard the faint sound of approval coming from the door, he turned the doorknob and saw detective with a dead expression.
"Woah, what happened to you. You look like shit."
Shouta couldn't help but ask, the detective looked even worse than him, he always thought it was impossible to looked even worse than himself.
However the detective only groaned again in reply and went back to work. That was when Shouta spotted the stack of papers on ththe detective's desk, from that he could already assume the reason why the detective looked terrible.
"So, Aizawa.. What has Mugen done again?"
Naomasa was so sure that Shouta was only here for Mugen that he didn't even bother to ask why Shouta is here, also he knew that Shouta didn't like others beating around the bush, according to him, it wastes time, and now Naomasa finally understands how Shouta feels, Naomasa just wanted everything to be done as quickly as possible right now.
"Mugen hasn't done anything wrong in particular... I don't know if this is some good news or bad news but I think Mugen is plotting something."
Naomasa sighed, it is just great that now more trouble is here.
"Explain."
Shouta nodded and started summarizing the whole situation.
"Last week and these days, when I was patrolling I haven't seen Mugen at all, at first I thought it was just an unlucky coincidence, and after a few days of still not seeing Mugen I thought of some possibilities."
"Alright."
"The first possibility and the worst one is that Mugen started avoiding us so we could gain less information about him."
Naomasa groaned and sank into his chair, if that was really the case, it would make the task million times harder.
Shouta ignored Naomasa's response, he understood how the man must feel right now, and he continued with the next point.
"The best possibility... Even if it is not positive or negative. Is that Mugen has shortened his patrol time."
That got Naomasa to start thinking about the reasons.
"Luckily, the possibility for this is larger than the first one. The decrease amount of the criminals Mugen had taken down last week and these few days can be evidence to Mugen decreasing his patrol time."
"But why would he decrease his patrol time?"
Shouta sighed, that was the question stuck in his head for the longest time, why would Mugen, out of no where decide to decrease his patrol time.
"No idea... But back to the worse case, he might be decreasing his patrol time to avoid us. And it is clearly working."
Both of them groaned, none of the possibilities listed above was positive. No matter what Mugen is planning, it definitely can't be good.
Naomasa slowly sat back up straight and heaved out a sigh again.
"Alright, Aizawa, we will look into the situation, try searching for evidence to why Mugen is doing this, it you find Mugen, chat with him for a bit and see if there is something off about him."
Aizawa nodded. He stood up and turned to the door to leave.
"Alright, detective, have a nice day."
"Really doubt I will but sure."
Shouta then left the room, leaving the detective alone with his incredible pile of work load.
--
Izuku ran along the coastline of the beach as Hitoshi trail behind him, Hitoshi had been getting a lot better at running and had built higher stamina ever since they started, Hitoshi was able to trail behind Izuku now, even if he still ends up super tired, he could tell he was getting a lot better.
The two boys ran in unusual silence, usually they would have some small talk when they jogged together. Izuku, despite not being much of a talker still chatted with Hitoshi occasionally about random stuff, usually Hitoshi did the talking about interesting things that happened in school while Izuku would listen patiently while making comments here and there. Izuku found Hitoshi's stories about his daily life interesting and sometimes even funny. However, today both of them were unusually quiet.
Hitoshi had noticed how angry and done his mentor looked this morning, which was why he decided it was probably a good idea not to disturb him today, therefore he stayed silent, remembering how his mentor has told him that he liked the silence whenever he is in a bad mood.
Whilst the silence for Izuku is calm, the silence for Hitoshi is tense, since his mentor was approximately in an extremely bad mood today, if he does anything to set him off, he is practically done for life. He knew how horrifying an angered Izuku could get, and right now Izuku was just like a bomb that could explode any moment.
Hitoshi wondered what was bothering his mentor, it is usually about something that happened during his late night patrol, sometimes because of some criminals or villains he had failed to capture or how he had found a new villain but had no information of them. Hitoshi wondered, perhaps his mentor is disappointed in him because he wasn't making much progress in the past few weeks? Hitoshi himself thinks that he had been making great progress, after the encouragement his mentor gave him a while ago, he was even confident he might be able to go a bit above their goal before the UA exams. Maybe it went enough for Midoriya-sensei?
Hitoshi's thoughts were cut off when the jog finally came to an end and Hitoshi finds himself panting and gasping for air again while trying his best not to collapse on the floor. He saw his mentor twitching hisbhis eyes to him and suddenly glancing away, it was a bit weird. Following their usual routine, they took a short 5 minutes break, and again none of them talked, they both stayed silent.
Izuku usually enjoyed the silence, however in some way, the silence today annoyed him a lot.
"Tsk."
Izuku was super annoyed, and unconsciously he rolled his eyes. Hitoshi only stared at him nervously and tried to start a topic, thinking that his mentor might not want silence today.
Even if his attempt to start a topic ended up in a stuttering mess.
"U-uh so Midoriya-sensei do you want to uhh talk?".
Izuku glanced at Hitoshi, even though he was pretty sure Hitoshi probably took it as a glare. Seeing as his student gulped in an obvious manner.
"Just some shit last night."
Hitoshi was somewhat relief that his mentor wasn't mad at how slow his progress was going.
"Uh.. New villain ?"
Izuku irriatedly scratched his head and groaned.
"That villain last night was plotting a murder on a hero, but I made a mistake and ran away! Now I have zero fucking information on that stupid villain, I did such a good damn job."
Izuku vented. Hitoshi was shocked that his mentor made a mistake when patrolling, he had hardly ever seen his mentor made a mistake, heck he had never seen his mentor made a mistake. Now it makes sense to why Izuku was 10 times more pissed off than his usual bad mood.
"Shinsou-kun, today we are going to start training for the UA entrance exams."
"Eh?"
Hitoshi was confused, hadn't ll the training they had done up until now for the UA exams?
Izuku sighed.
"I mean training how to defeat the robots..."
"Oh."
Honestly speaking, Izuku had no idea whether bringing a weapon to the entrance exam was allowed, but he had already prepared an average looking dagger that customized it so that looks like a random kitchen knife that can be found anywhere in some random shops. He pulled out the knife from his bg and handed it to Hitoshi, Hitoshi's mouth gaped opened so wide it was almost funny.
"W-what I am not ready to kill yet!"
Hitoshi couldn't help but blurt out that sentence as he held the knife in his hand carefully, while trying his best not to drop it out of shock. Izuku slammed his hand on his forehead hardly, he was so so done.
--
Ochaco Uraraka was up early this morning, therefore she decided to clean up her room for a bit, it wasn't like there was anything much in her room but honestly speaking, she hadn't dusted her room in a few days and she thought that some areas might be dusty, it doesn't hurt to have a cleaner room. Besides, some people like to say that dust can make people sick because they are dirty, and bugs will start growing.
Ochaco was always a cheerful girl, therefore she was hardly in any bad moods, that is why her moods are rarely affected by small things such as having to wake up early in the morning. Maybe that explains why she was humming happily while dusting.
"Alright! Now just to clean under the bed."
Ochaco' family was not rich, of course, they are financially stable, however, just barely. That is why Ochaco had boxes laying under her bed instead of actual shelves to put her things in. It was sure inconvenient, however it saved money and Ochaco is happy to do whatever she can if it makes her parents easier.
She slowly pulled out the boxes and started dusting. It was not as dusty as Ochaco expected, which was good because she got the work done earlier than expected. She grinned happily when she sees how spotless her room seems after cleaning, it was a great idea, afterall who doesn't love a clean space?
Ochaco cheered and jumped back on her bed- if only she hadn't missed and hit the side of her bed while crashing down to the boxes she had pulled out earlier and now the room was in utter mess again.
"Ouch!"
Ochaco exclaimed loudly, but immediately clasping her hands on her mouth and peered through the living room, hoping that she hadn't by any chance woke her parents up.
Seeing an empty living room, she let out a sigh of relief.
She really didn't want to disturb her parents by waking them up early on their rare day off. She sighed as she turned back to the mess on the floor, books and items that hadn't been used for a long time scattered on the ground, dust from the long untouched boxes were everywhere now, she would have to pick everything up, and on top of that, she will have need to clean the now dusty floor again.
Picking up item by item, she found a lot of childhood memories, including storybooks her mother would read her for bedtime stories every night, toys that she used to play hero and villains with, it was like a trip to her childhood, she would chuckle and even laugh when she recalls some funny moments of when she was young.
However one item caught her eye, it wasn't like the others, it was a piece of scrambled paper.
"Ehh, why would there be a piece of wasted paper here."
She slowly approached the piece of paper and carefully picked it up, the piece of paper was really old and quite broken, probably because it was left untouched under a lot of heavy things for a few years.
Unraveling the piece of scrambled paper, she saw words written on it, it was barely visible due to how broken the paper was, Ochaco squinted her eyes.
Thank you for taking care of me for a night, I appreciated it, however I will be taking my leave since I will only bring badluck upon your family as a bloody murderer staying in your home, I had to leave. Have a nice day :).
- Izuku
Izuku?
Ochaco stood still for a while, she wondered who was Izuku, and why was he so important that Ochaco kept a paper or letter he left?
"Uuuu..."
Izuku Izuku Izuku..
"Izuku-kun!"
Her childhood self called the mysterious person's name in her memory. Suddenly a flash of memories came replaying fuzzily in Ochaco's head.
"I am Uraraka Ochaco!"
"Izuku."
"Izuku-kun that is amazing!"
"Uraraka-San please answer my question."
"Heroes- are okay."
"Let's go eat!"
"I can't taste anything-"Of course! How could she forget? Izuku was Ochaco's hero! A blurry image of a green haired child with freckles and a cold-hearted stare came into mind.
How are you doing? Izuku-kun.Ochaco wondered and she walked over to her window, observing the city in morning peace.
A hooded teen with freckles stood there, staring directly at her face. The same green cold hearted eyes staring at her. He was standing at the roof of a building, the same building the her hero climbed up while carrying her that night, wind blew and the teen's hair followed the flow.
Ochaco stretched out her arm as if reachibg out to the teen, but the moment she stretched her arm out, the teen was no longer in sight. Ochaco wondered was the silhouette of the teen she saw an illusion?
Izuku was hopping from buildings to buildings, Hitoshi trailed behind, he would fall occasionally and was not able to catch up with Izuku at all.
Hitoshi thought he was going to go insane, his mentor had told him that even if he knew how to destroy the control panels, there is no use if he is not quick enough to dodge the attacks of the robots and end up getting crushed. That is why they were practicing parkour for future uses. Hitoshi really don't see the point of it, he thought having good reflexes might be enoughenough tho ddge the attacks and that they should probably focus on something more efficient to the exam, however he didn't retort, he understood that his mentor was in an extreme terrible mood and didn't want to risk worsening it.
Izuku would turned around from time to time to check whether Hitoshi was there, but not even once was Hitoshi ever in sight when he would turn around, and he would have to go back to search for Hitoshi. Only to find his pupil dead on the floor, panting.
They had been doing this for the past 30 minutes, it was when Izuku saw a familiar face peeking out from the window, he decided that it was enough training for today. He grabbed Hitoshi by one arm and ignored his protests and struggling, when he landed on the beach again he tossed Hitoshi on the sand floor as if he was some sort of rag doll.
Hitoshi felt like deja vu to the first time he jogged behind Midoriya, execpt this time he had actual bruises all around his body from falling down on the floor, not only his muscles hurt, he felt like his entire body was in pain and his soul could have possibly left his body.
"Midoriya-sensei! That was horrible!!"
Hitoshi whined once he regain his breath. Midoriya looked at him with the same dead eyes, this man really has no sympathy for anyone. He doesn't even look a little guilty for making all his body ache so much!
Unexpectedly Izuku apologized...
"Sorry."
He apologized! Even if it was sort of half assed, his mentor never apologizes for something so small. Hitoshi was shocked, extremely shocked. He could see how shocked he must have looked right now. The funny thing is, his mentor looked shocked too.
Izuku apologized, he apologized he never did apologize for something like pushing Hitoshi so hard, heck he don't even think he apologize to anyone once a month, maybe, just maybe Izuku was really losing his mind.
Izuku sighed. This was terrible.
Hello, I regained my sanity and motivation. I will probably update every two or three days, sorry for fleeing to dead zero motivation corner before.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, we are about to get into a villain fight :) and heck I can tell you it will be hella fun uwu. I am excited too
Have a nice day
-Enoemos
