Author: hey yall! How yall doin? Soo this is a reboot of a story I deleted, there isn't enough Hawks ff out there so I wanted to write some, how there isn't is beyond me. Anyway, I'm not great at writing but I'm hoping to improve. Let me know what you think. Also this is gonna have MANGA SPOILERS also TW for abuse so read at your own risk. Cross posted from wattpad.
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
— Kahlil Gibran —
Keigo Takami sat in an office of the hero commission building. Irritated that he was called back. "I gave my status report, what else do they want?" He muttered annoyingly to himself because he didn't have much free time these days and these guys we're wasting it.
The door of the office swung open to reveal a man in a black suit.
"Thanks for waiting, I think you'd want to see this" the man beamed whilst throwing a file on the table in front of the hero. Hawks picked up the file and flicked through the pages eyes scanning what little information and blurred pictures of a masked person on the pages.
THE UNIDENTIFIABLE VIGILANTE
NAME: UNKNOWN
GENDER: MALE (?)
AGE: UNKNOWN
NATIONALITY: UNKNOWN
QUIRK: UNKNOWN
"This is the vigilante you guys always fail to catch, what about him?" He snapped remembering the run in he had with him a few months ago.
The man in the black suit grinned knowing full well Hawks was going to love what he was about to say. His run in was no secret, everyone saw and talked about it. The mysterious person who swooped in and took out a villain with ease that hawks had trouble subduing.
It's the fact that the vigilante even came to take out such a low class villain on their scale because this vigilante was much more dangerous as he took out more high class villains and gangs, worked in the dark, in and out fast, left no evidence not to be seen with the exception of a few bad pixilated CCTV photos and witness statements that weren't concrete.
It looked bad for the hero commission, a person who's not a hero with literally no identity going around taking out villains making civilians talk and lose faith in the pros basically making a mockery out of the them.
The suited man sat in the chair opposite Hawks.
"This was to be kept quiet, the less who knew the better, but for the last two months we've been surveilling, had to hire the best of the best for this and it cost a shit load of funds" the man grimaced at the last sentence.
"Aaaaannd?" Hawks replied gestured with his hand.
"Its paid off big time! If you'll come with me I'll show you now" the man said getting up walking towards the door.
Hawks stood with a sigh, dragging his feet behind.
"Rin you're killing me man, do you really need me for this? Last time I checked I'm still in the middle of the last mission you gave me" he pouted.
The suited man now known as Rin turned to Hawks with an devilish grin.
"I swear to god you don't want to miss this Hawks"
The two walked into a room, a very large interrogation room and were greeted by other suited men and women and a few heroes hawks had never seen before. Must of been the ones they hired he thought to himself. The tension in the room was giddy something told Hawks he didn't want to miss this and his interest was now piqued.
"Just in time, lets get down to business" a suited man said to the two that walked in. As hawks got closer he noticed someone covered from head to toe in black sitting on a chair with their hands behind their back, head down as if they were knocked out. His heart raced as he got closer, "It couldn't be, could it?" He thought.
"Is that...?" Hawks asked.
"Yup! I told ya you'd want to see this, literally just brought him in, thought we'd let you do the honours to unmask him" Rin squealed.
"You son of bitch" Hawks said surprised.
This was a huge deal, finally got him after a year of failed attempts, a year of trying to keep this from the public. The one thing they all wanted to know who it was, put a face to this person.
The unknown assailant lifted their head slightly and an evil feminine giggle filled the room. Everyone's head snapped towards the source shocked by the sound.
"No way" Hawks whispered, a woman? It was a woman all this time? Without hesitation he ran the small distance to the person and in one swift movement he yanked the mask clean off.
The room was filled with shocked gasps as a long mousey brown plait came down over her shoulder as the mask came off.
"You know, I'm really insulted, all this time you all thought I was a man, really sexist." the brown haired woman laughed in what Hawks presumed was an Western European accent. She scanned the room of people but the only thing that caught her interest was a pair of red wings. Her eyes locked on to Hawks.
"Ohh I remember you bird boy" she recalled looking his way. "I took care of that villain a while back for ya, I had to do something, I was watching the whole time, you were taking to long" she sneered.
All the time Hawks was in a trance studying the woman, he couldn't believe it, it was her this whole time, completely changed his perspective.
Her stoic blue eyes burned into his golden heavily lined eyes. She was very savage looking he thought, but in a good way, her sculpted face on pale skin, high arched eyebrows with a small scar going through the arch of her left one, slightly crooked nose maybe she broke it a few times? But the one thing that stood out was her smile, lips that were slightly asymmetrical not too thin or big, a perfect size, white teeth with slightly more pointed canines than the average person, she looked evil and unstable but had a certain charm about her. She was attractive, that probably helps her in her line of work.
A million thoughts and questions raced through his mind but there was no time for that.
"What's your name? Where are you from?" A suited woman barked, breaking Hawks out of his trance.
"I'll let you figure it out, you finally caught me, I'm sure you won't have trouble since you're all so good at your job" she replied sarcastically and fell into a fit of giggles. Fuck these guys she thought, she didn't owe them anything, if anything they should be thanking her.
"No need, I got it, I scanned her face" Rins voice piped up. He gestured for his colleagues to look at the projector screen behind the tied up woman. A mug shot of said tied up woman blew up the screen and also revealing the details they have waited for for so long.
NAME: REMI SLATER
D.O.B: 14/10/ 1995 (24)
NATIONALITY: IRISH (REPUBLIC OF IRELAND)
QUIRK: POWER BOOST AND MEMORY TAKE. Can increase strength and speed exponentially. No known draw backs.
Can see a persons memories and life by touching them. The person she uses it on is immobile as is she until she deactivates it.
NOTE: skilled in aikido and capoeira. No known affiliations.
Quiet gasps and whispers filled the room, "two quirks?!" "Aikido is assassin arts fighting style!" "no wonder she's been able to not get caught all this time" "we need to be careful"
Hawks inched closer to Remi crouching down so they're face to face, blue and gold burned into eachother.
"Why?" Hawks asked curiously with a hint of frustration in his voice.
"Why not?" She replied deadpan. She looked serious now, what is she thinking he thought.
"Your gonna have to do better than that sweetheart" he insisted with a wink.
"Oh god you don't need to flirt red, you ain't that good looking" She lied. I mean come on look at him but it also made her uneasy. She never saw him up close in person. He really was attractive, his messy hair, his heavily winged eyes is what got her, wow it really looks good on him she thought. Shit what am I doing? Getting rid of her trailing thoughts she composed herself.
"I did it because I can, we're not so different you know, we want the same only difference is I'm not a hero on paper and can play by my own rules, I can't just go out during the day like you can, so I had to up the ante, only the worst of the worst comes out at night" she explained with confidence.
"Why not become a hero so? Why come all the way to Japan" Hawks quizzed.
"I simply just didn't get the opportunity, the odds were stacked against me ever since I was born, and I wanted a change of scenery, thats why I came here"
"Still no better than a villain though" he dared to say with a raised eyebrow.
Remi felt a rage cook up in her stomach, who the fuck was he to tell her? At this stage her rage filled the air.
"You don't know shit" she spat.
"If anything I done ye a fuckin' favour, do you even know of half the shit that goes on with these villains. The shit I've seen will be burned into my brain until I die. YOU HAVE NO IDEA" she screamed.
"Ohh look at me, I can fly, I save people, I'm the number 2 hero dur dur" she jeered sarcastically.
Hawks had to hold back a laugh, she was funny, something he found really attractive, but this wasn't the time for those speculations.
"Some of those gangs you attacked were on our radar, we have been surveilling them for months and would attack when the time was right, you cost us money, resources and time" a woman interrupted angrily.
"Yeah and how many people died? Kids included, they were waiting for heroes to come but they never did. They died thinking heroes didn't care, I did what I could, there was no time for waiting. I'm not a bad person, I hate villains as much as the next person and it's only getting worse and will get more worse since All Might retired. He was a real hero, I didn't have to work as hard when he was around."
The room fell silent, she had a point. Crime was at an all time high ever since the symbol of peace stepped down. Maybe she was just doing her part but there's rules, Hawks didn't like the rules either but they were in place for a reason.
"Anyway I'm done here I don't need to explain myself, take me to prison or where ever you're taking me" she mumbled dejectedly.
"I know you think you're doing good but rules are in place for a reason. You can't just go around beating up who you want." Hawks replied deadpan inches from her face. There was more to what she was saying, he didn't know what but he wanted to find out. She had his interest. Never had he seen anyone like this hero or villain.
"Oh really? Is that so? Well let's take a looksy then shall we?" She bellowed with an unstable crack in her voice.
Before anyone could react the sound of handcuffs hit the floor and Remi was already off the chair charging for Hawks, the other heroes ran to stop her and Hawks fluttered his wings in an attempt to fly backwards but it was too late she had already caught his face in her hand and her eyes turned all white as did Hawks' as she activated her memory quirk and Hawks was immobile so was she, the heroes and other suited people rushed to separate them.
His life memories filled her mind until she got to a certain part, oh this is gold she thought as she got to a certain life event. She got what she needed and let go, Hawks was mobile again and angry, how could he let his guard down?
Two unknown heroes had Remi pinned back by each arm.
"Look at you go Mr. Espionage here eh? Besties with the LOV!" Remi laughed. "You fucking hypocrite, the whole lot of you!" She spat.
Now the room was filled with chaos, she knew, the biggest mission was compromised. What were they going do? She needed to be silenced but they can't kill her?
"You shouldn't of done that sweetheart, do you have any idea what you've done? Hawks responded with death glares.
"I know what I done" she asserted cheekily. Fuck this guy she thought. Invading her mind with his good looks and shit. Backed into a corner, time to do what she do best.
Her expression changed in a split second to stony faced.
"Gonna have to kill me now are ya? Come on, DO IT! She spat with a smirk.
"Let's all calm down please!" A suit ordered. "And will you please restrain her properly! He barked looking at Remi who was desperately trying to get out of the two heroes hold.
"COME ON FIGHT ME!" Remi snarled to Hawks.
"Get a tranquilliser! This is getting out of hand! Quick before she does something else!" Rin shouted to one of his colleagues.
Hawks looked on at the woman who was now acting like a deranged lunatic. What the fuck is wrong with her? He asked himself 0-100 in a split second. And honestly he kind of did want to fight her for payback for what she done, a lot of people had a lot to say after that day. She made him look like a fool.
"Hawks get back!" Rin stated as he pushed Hawks back and walked towards Remi with the tranquilliser.
"Oh no you don't" Remi sneered as she done a back flip getting out of the heroes grasp and swung her leg around managing to kick then two in the head knocking them to the ground. Her mask was on the table in front of her. She dove over Rin onto the table to retrieve her mask and put it on in a split second.
"She's so fast! What the hell?!" A scream filled the room.
Hawks got ready, She was coming from him, he didn't want to fight here but he had to defend himself.
Remi screamed as she lunged off the table towards Hawks, twisting her leg at the right time to deliver a kick. Hawks jumped back and grabbed her leg just before impact and swung her around and let her go as she flew crashing through the doubled mirrored window, she jumped back out as fast as she crashed through. She was injured now her black cat like suit was ripped in all different places with blood dripping out.
"Wow looks like you'll be a worthy opponent!" She noted as she licked the blood coming out of her ripped mask only showing her mouth and a part of the eye was missing.
"Remi screamed once again but this time it was different there was a demonic like tone in her voice, her body all of the sudden bulked up into a more muscular frame.
This must be her other quirk Hawks thought, he was worried now she looked more terrifying than ever, and in her eye part of where her mask was ripped her blue eyes were replaced with black. He wasted no time and shot his feathers out towards her, Remi jumped up trying her best to avoid the blade like feathers from getting her but even in this form his feathers were fast as she was. Jumping from wall to wall like a monkey she couldn't out run them. They were ripping at her suit tearing more fabric away.
"Shit shit shit!" She thought, she had to revert back, they couldn't see what she really looked like while in this form. Was he on to her? The feathers were only ripping her suit not hitting her skin but Hawks wasn't on to her, he figured if ripped at her suit well enough she'd get embarrassed and stop fighting. He didn't want to fight here not with all the others here. They were all panicking, running around screaming trying to stop the altercation.
Remi jumped from a wall back into the room where she crashed through followed by Hawks' feathers. She was practically in her underwear now and she wasn't wearing a bra. She deactivated her quirk and jumped out. Embarrassed and shocked gasps filled the room as Remi stood all bloodied and half naked, her mask was gone, what was left of her suit barely covered her breasts.
"You fucking pervert" she screamed as she launched herself towards Hawks once again. He lost too many feathers he had to save the ones he didn't use so he got into a fighting stance ready to take her on. As hawks went to grab her as she inched closer Remi dropped to the ground and swung her legs around using her arms to hold herself up as if she was break dancing but this was her capoeira. Her legs swung under Hawks making him crash to the ground. She swung her legs behind her and over her head and used her hands to flip forward landing on top of the winged hero pinning him down.
He looked up and saw a pair of deranged eyes peering into his soul almost. She was definitely unstable.
"Oh well you got me sweetheart, you win" he goaded.
"No you were holding back to protect everyone else. Look at you big hero huh?" She purred.
"Why attack me? I didn't do anything" he questioned.
"I dunno, I just wanted a fight" she shrugged. But why did she though? Because he's attractive, no that's not it, but when I realised I actually found him attractive I attacked. Why? To keep him away? Maybe. I don't have much experience with this stuff so I don't know what I'm doing this was my reaction to this feeling.
Remi thoughts were interrupted as Hawks screamed "NOW". Now? Now what she quizzed in her brain and then she realised "SHIIITT" but it was too late, Rin shot the tranquilliser in her neck while she was distracted.
Eyes heavy and losing consciousness. She fell forward on top of Hawks her head directly under his, loose strands of her hair landed on his face and he took in her scent. She had a nice scent.
Thoughts flooded Remi's head before completely going under. She wouldn't of lost because of him. He distracted her with his stupid handsome face and charm. Never in my life has anyone made me act like this. Just as well I'm going to prison she thought as the tranquilliser took full effect. God knows where she'll wake up tomorrow.