DEER
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Disclaimer: Boku no Hero Academia belongs to Horikoshi Kohei
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Genre(s): Adventure/Hurt/Comfort
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Warning(s): Typo is my most loyal fan, spelling mistakes because English is not my mother language, Possibly OOC. NO BETA, so beware of grammar mistakes
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Summary: Shota thought discovering their 'Nightwalker' to be a kid was bad enough. Not to mention how the said kid is literally Quirkless, meaning the law cannot touch him.
"I don't wanna be a Hero. It's too troublesome"
And then this?
Maybe it's not too late to ask Nezu for a raise this year…
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Or, being a good citizen and stopping an illegal back-alley transaction resulted in him getting some High-Ranking Villain's attention. He didn't even raise a hand at those A-holes. Just glaring at them hard enough, they turned tail.
This second-chance of life is so not worth it. What a drag…
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Eijiro wasn't a person who got easily angry. He never like that emotion. So ugly and exhausting.
But now that he was staring straight at Nighteye's uncaring eyes, he felt his fury that was buried deep within his body started to resurfaced.
After the provisional license exam, it was time for Hero Work studies. The red-haired boy chose Nighteye agency. He was All-Might's sidekick, and Togata Mirio's—the third year of UA—current teacher. He is a nice senpai. Not only he was manly, he tried to lifted their spirit up from the depressing event by fighting them all off and gave them pointer here and there. He wasn't Izuku, nobody could even rival the greenette in his skill of spotting loophole and giving advice, but he was good enough. Mirio's presence was like a ray of sunshine in their midst and everyone thank him for the sentiment. Eijiro like him. Especially how he knew about the secret of One for All, he felt like a certain connection had formed between the two.
Speaking about One for All, however, his fond smile immediately slipped. This, is the root of his problem with Nighteye right now.
To thanked Mirio for his effort in cheering Class 1-A out of their funk, he decided to check the agency. Senpai had been singing praises of how cool and magnificent Nighteye was. Not to mention, he has a Foresight ability as his Quirk. One of the other reasons why he decided to come to him. Maybe he could ask NIghteye to search for Izuku? Making it their first priority and all. Everybody had been worried about Greeny. The teachers didn't have their whole heart in teaching them. Katsuki was trapped in his own dark thought and was even more aggressive than usual.
(He never realized that Izuku was their glue of harmony. When he's gone, everything crumbled)
The thing was, when Eijiro tried to bring this idea to him and negotiated, Nighteye instantly shut him down with a glare and biting remark. Instead of trying to listen, he was busy lecturing him about the responsibility of One for All and how the teen didn't deserve to get that Quirk from the Almighty All-Might.
What? What is he talking about? Eijiro didn't care about that right now, he just wanted to confirm if Nighteye could pinpoint Izuku's location or not. Sure, his status as One for All next successor gave him a free pass in the greenette's disappearance investigation, knowing that All for One was the main instigator of Izuku's kidnapping and he might one day had to fight that old villain just because of the second Quirk he had within his veins (although it had been taken care off for good now). All-Might never kept any secret from him. Eijiro was one of the only students, aside from Katsuki, who knew the true reason of why Izuku attended UA's school even though he wasn't a student himself. How hard it was to live in hiding just because you attracted the attention of a dangerous villain. The number one hero told him that his former sidekick was now the lead inspector of the Shie Hassakai's case. That means Nighteye was his only hope in ever finding his dearest friend, so let us forget about the difference in opinion and focused on the main problem first.
But Nighteye didn't deign any of his words. It almost like he erased Eijiro's previous explanation from his mind and just latched onto the 'forget about All-Might Quirk'. The bespectacled man slammed his fist on the table and shouted.
"You can't just set it aside. All for One is important!"
"My friend's life is more important than your big ego!"
…ah. Eijiro snapped. He didn't even realize.
He was unaware of Nighteye's stunned expression. Nor he noticed All-Might's fallen jaw. His eyes were burning like crazy. The sight was getting blur and the scenery in front of him swam uncontrollably. His body was trembling, his fist clenched. Izuku's previous breakdown flitted through his mind and Eijiro's sharp teeth instantly gnashed—
"Midoriya-kun was right," his voice stuttered. Meek, soft. But in this awkward silence, he was pretty much screaming. Angry tears pooled from within the red orb and his heart throbbed, "you heroes are disgusting."
Then the boy ran. Away from the agency. Away from the curious onlooker. He ignored All-Might and Mirio calling for his name. He ignored the confused gaze citizen threw at him. He ignored everything. All of his life, he always thought that Heroes are manly. That they're the symbol of peace and a shield for civilians to duck into. That they'll do anything to save others from harm and console them for every nightmare that visited their blissful dream.
Yet it was exactly that. A dream. Nothing but an overactive imagination of an innocent child. The perfect image he had on heroes cracked like a fragile mirror.
And Kirishima Eijiro could only sob over the loss of a beautiful fantasy.