Slowly and steadily, the black haired student creeped around the alleyway. Once she realized Izuku was out of her sight, she rushed till the opposite end so quirk that she didn't noticed that Izuku was crouching besides some boxes. Okay, she has black hair, about my height, and have a red bag. At the end of the alley, the girl looked to the left and right side of the street. She must still be trying to follow me. The girl left the alley and went to the right side. When a decent amount of time has passed, Izuku got out of his hiding spot and calmly walked to the warehouse. He was being extra cautious, making sure no one else was trailing him from behind.
She's wearing the school's uniform, so she must came from school and followed me there. Why would she followed me? I never even talked to her, I doubt she knows who I am.
Izuku was having an internal conversation and stopped talking to himself at the warehouse entrance. Going to the warehouse so often, Izuku was given his set of keys from Magne, so he let himself in without letting his presence being known. Within the warehouse, Izuku heard some of the people talking in beyond a pile of boxes, before revealing himself be decided listen. "Lune, where is Izuku? He hasn't missed a day of training." Magne stare at Lune who was trying to light cigarette.
After a quick inhale, he gave off a smile and replied, "I don't know. He left the school before I did. He should be here by now. Just wait a couple of minutes you impatient child." The two of them stare at one another, becoming agitated and trading off glances.
This is going to turn bad fast. Izuku pulled out from behind the boxes, "Sorry I'm late." He smiled rubbing the bruise on the side of his face. "Something came up." Maybe I should tell them about the girl? Izuku was in mid thought of thinking, weighing the options before him. Just when he decided to tell the truth, he looked at Doc who was sitting down in the distance. His voiced appeared in his head once more. 'And if you can, try and figure out who is following you. So this way we can dispose of them properly.' Izuku took a breath rather than saying anything. I cannot let them know about her. She's just curious, she does not need to die because of that.
"Oh, Lune, Doc, look." Izuku pulled out his and assemble his staff together. He planted it next to him. "After looking around in the assortments I found this." The two of them were looking at Izuku who was holding it.
Doc walked over to Izuku and bend over to look at him. He then grip the top of the child's head and turned it so Izuku is facing the walls. "Magne, what did Tomura told us?" He looked at Magne who was obviously averting his attention.
"I'm fine, Doc." The boy became defensive. "I told everyone a lie, and they all believe me."
"That's not important." Lune walked over, he took the staff that was too small for him. "People would start asking questions, and then we'll get discover." Now he was moving the staff like a bar. "We know you're smart Midoriya, but there are people who would start getting suspicious and question."
Izuku looked at Luna who just returned a glance. He means Toga. In an attempt to divert the argument, he tried to talk about the staff. "Anyway, what do you think?" The boy frantically smiled.
Lune passed the staff back to Doc, "It … suits you."
Doc swung the staff horizontally, almost hitting the right side of Izuku's torso. He manage to block blow with his hand and arm that was pressed against his body. "If you are going to learn how to use a staff, then I advise you to learn how it feel to get attack by one as well."
For the rest of the day Izuku was given those passive comments. It was obvious that the two of them did not approve of his choice, but they did not reject it. At least they didn't make fun of me. He trained for the rest of the day, but his mind was preoccupied trying to figure out what to do. By the end of the day, he persuaded himself to a decision, She could have been taking the same route as me, so maybe I shouldn't approach her. I'll see if she follows me tomorrow.
The green haired boy decided to take the passive path, not looking too deeply at the events that happen. For the next two week and half, Izuku went to school with a bandage covering his bruised to draw less attention. At school, he did not receive anymore weird glances and Toga even stopped agitating him as often, but she did get close to him when she can. At the warehouse he received two more injection of bone marrow and it was observed that the quirk factor in his body was decreasing at a slower rate than it was with the blood. On his walk to the warehouse Izuku took cautious behaviors. He took the long route and hid even if he didn't hear or sense something.
From doing this routine, he discovered that there was a group of people following him, never all at once, only one at a time. The people who followed him consisted of both genders, each with their own distinguishing features. He never gave in to his interest and ever approach the people at school, but he was beginning to feel flustered. This is bad, I cannot keep doing this or else the league would think something's up. I have to do something.
It was Thursday now and Izuku made the preparations to what he was going to do. He told his usually lie to his mother, he also called Magne and informed him that he'll be unable to make it for his usual session. That day, Izuku left behind some of his school supplies so he can put his black hoodie into his bag, he did not dare to leave behind his staff, he always carried them around with his person.
School has just ended, trying to remain calm, Izuku took the alleyways and walked to a spot he set up that morning. He rearrange some large trash he found to form a hiding spot. When he arrived at the spot, he kneaded down and put on his hoodle. And now I wait. Despite being the beginning of spring, it was still cold so a hoodie was nothing unusual. In the right arm of his hoodie was one of the component to his staff. Aside from training with the staff as a completed form, he also practice using one and two pieces from time to time, as if they were a tanbo or a hambo staff.
Just as he suspected, someone came down the alley way. This time, it was someone Izuku recognize, he had silver hair and a calm expression as walked in the school uniform with his red bag. That's … I think Furuichi. Why is with the others? Izuku took some time to recognize some of the people in class and the neighboring class, and Furuichi was someone like him who kept to himself.
When Furuichi was at the corner of the alley way and headed around, Izuku started to trail the him with his hoodie on his head, covering his most distinguishing features. He was being more careful of where he was stepping because he did not want to be found out. Without someone to trail, Furuichi was anxiously walking around, block after block. He occasionally stopped and pulled out something from his red bag that appeared to be a vial. Must be medicine.
Hours have passed, the sun was already down, getting late. It was typically the time Izuku would be wrapping up his time at the warehouse but he was forcing himself to see it till the end. I need to know, even if I need to approach him. By then, Izuku followed Furuichi to the park that was a good fifteen minute walk from the school. At the park Furuichi went into the bathroom. Another break … He went into the woman's restroom. Starring from a distance behind a couple of bushes, Izuku keep on taking notes.
After a couple of minutes, Toga appeared from the bathroom wearing her school uniform holding the same bag Furuichi was carrying. Toga! The expression she had was grin as if she was angry. Why is she mad? Why does she have Furuichi bag? And where is he? Looking at the bathroom and at Toga, Izuku needed to make a decision of who to keep an eye of. He got up and followed Toga who was going deeper into a more city like aspect. She had her hand in her sweater she usually wears.
She has to know something. Just when Izuku was going to tap her shoulder and ask Toga some questions, she went into an alleyway that drunkard man previous walk through. What is she doing? The streets were dark and no one was walking through them at that time, the only light being shown was from the full moon. Peeking over the alley Izuku say that Toga was following the man into a side park of the alley, when they were out of Izuku sight he moved.
Izuku just reached the end and when he was going to turn his head he heard a scoffing sound. He looked over to see in shadows a man on the ground, his mouth must have been gag or something because no screams were coming out as Toga was stabbing the man who was on the ground against the wall. The man was in shock from being stab, and it was obvious that he was trying screaming for help.
The boy got around the corner to reveal his presence. "Toga!?" The girl stopped her stabbing rampage.
"Izuku! What are you doing?" She looked at him with a knife in her hand. She stood up and walked over. "I'm sorry, can you stay there." She charged towards Izuku who was just standing there. She thrust a knife forward in front of her aiming for Izuku's abdominal. In less then a second, Izuku lower the staff component into his right sleeve to his hand. He swung at Toga's hand knocking the knife out from her grasp. She was surprised, then Izuku grabbed her hand and tug to tilt her balance. Toga was now falling over and she was bracing for impact, but it came faster than she expected because Izuku grabbed the back of her head and threw it downward. There was a small sound ache of pain from Toga when she was on the ground and a small amount of blood flowed from her forehead. Toga was trying to stand, but immediately lossed her balance. Thank you Magne for teaching me that. Izuku thought back to the times Magne pinned him and tossed him to the ground.
The boy picked up the knife and walked over to the man on the ground. With closer inspection, his hands were restrain with cuffs. Next to him was the red bag Toga carried around. It was opened and Izuku peered inside to see a male uniform. What's going on? "Hmmmmm. Hmmmm."
Izuku looked at the man before him, tears were running down his face and blood down his chest and stomach. He couldn't scream but he was trying to. Izuku examined the cut, Toga, Toga did this, but I have to take care of this. He recognize the cuts were fatal and nothing he could have done was going to save him, even if a person with a healing quirk appeared out of nowhere.
Toga stood up and was walking over to Izuku with one hand on the wall and the other his hand on her forehead. Izuku held the small staff in his hand. "This is all I can do to help you." Izuku remembered back to one of the lesson from Lune, Doc, and Magne.
'The Hyoid Bone. This bone is located below the head on the top part of the neck. (Doc grabbed Izuku's hand who was partly resisting as he force Izuku to pressed his hand on a dead man.) If you break this bone, the neck will collapse on itself, stopping the airflow. Make sure you break it. Shatter It! Do not leave it fractured or they will suffer.'
With one trust, Izuku plunged the tip of the staff into the part that connected the head to the neck. The man's head lifted with his eyes wide. Slowly, his head collapsed to his torso life was draining from his eyes and eventually faded. I … I did it. I took a life.
Sorry that I made this chapter twice as long, when I was trying to type this as two parts I felt that it did not feel right so I left it as one. I already had a feeling that some you guessed that it was Toga following so I did not want to drag it on. Thank you all for reading "Intriguer", feel free to leave behind any feedback.