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.

Beta'd by Eternal King.Thank you so much~

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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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Torino was sick.

What…what did I just watch?

A thriller movie? Prank video? No. This—

This…is reality.

Santa turned off the recording; somehow, face paler than ever before. They (Nezu, Shota, Kenji, Naomasa. And of course, the police from Osaka and the olden hero) were assembled inside the head hospital room right about now, borrowing his computer to oversee the clue they had just got in regards to the disappearance of Midoriya Izuku. With the help of his Quirk and Hawk's cooperation, they managed to find the duo vigilante's bunker (underground, twenty-five meters off of the UA campus. So close, yet so far. How in the hell they didn't see that?) and procured any evidence they left behind. Aside from a mountain of a variety of weapons that was pushed to the side, the heroes found a small laptop. A black choker equipped with small cameras that clearly belonged to the green-haired boy had been sitting quietly beside it; one, that was bequeathed to the number two hero as well.

In it, was a recording of Izuku's criminal activity.

Izuku's merciless killing, or so to say.

The blood and muted scream. Torino faced a bunch of corpses in this line of work, but blatant torture like that?

He could feel butterflies fluttering inside his stomach.

(Every single one of them was glad Inko wasn't here to see this horror)

After hours—that felt like days—of mental mistreatment, Kenji had enough consciousness to order one of his subordinates to check over the truth. And when they did corroborate the video, they couldn't turn a blind eye anymore. All for One was indeed dead; mouth sewn shut, skin peeled, and neck cut open. Nobody knew how or when did it happen, as most of the guard of Tartarus believed in the might of their sophisticated technology, so they didn't check on their prisoners that regularly (oh, they'll definitely receive more than a slap to the wrist, after this, Torino was one-hundred percent sure). The perpetrator didn't leave a track when they did the deed also, though the securities assumed they disguised themselves as one of them and acted like a night-shift guard. It was a perfect crime on the run and may take years to solve if Santa wasn't here to facilitate the easy way.

Izuku's felony didn't end on that, however. From the memory the police officer had gathered, Toga Himiko's death wasn't an incident (they found her torn up, burned body. They thought she was just unlucky and couldn't get out of the way, hence her entire being was then crushed by the tiles, rock, and ceiling). And Shie Hassakai's massacre was certainly not a feud between Family, who want to enact an act of revenge towards those baddies. No. Those atrocious wickednesses were created by the hand of a kid. A single kid. Who doesn't have any destructible Quirk and did everything by the power of self and science.

But why, was their next question. Why did Izuku choose the dark path instead of asking for help? Torino didn't ask him to accept his fate and just…let those villains beat him up for no reason, of course; the old man instead hates anyone who doesn't try to change their destiny just because of a bad card that was bestowed upon them. Yet, why would he do something he couldn't take back? When the life of a person is extinguished, he couldn't wish it all back—

Santa brought the reason up before long. That the answer to why Izuku's way of doing things was unorthodox, different than a child surrounded by uprising hero students should be—

—was because long before he attended UA, he was a student of another academy.

A ninja academy.

Reincarnation.

Or remembering a life he lived in the past, one way or another.

That was ridiculous. And, if Torino lived in the era where Quirks weren't common, he may think Santa lost his mind (that said something, from a man above fifty). Except, they did live in an era where Quirks are common. Where you can teleport to places kilometers away within a blink of an eye. Or mingling with half-human, half-animal like it was natural. Or even animals with intelligence itself. Be it reincarnation or having memories from the past life—or someone had altered the mind of Midoriya Izuku and planted fake images—it was clear that those horrid things he painstakingly experienced had built Greeny's cold-blooded character to this day.

(War, sacrifices. Loyalty and betrayal. Izuku's memories were filled to the brim with it that nobody blamed him when Santa puked the moment he ejected himself from the not-so-much-of-a-kid's messed up mind)

They were building a child army, was Naomasa's conclusion then. He gritted his teeth and fist clenched while he lamented over the cruelty of the old world, for teaching children how to 'dispose' of the enemy and sowing suspicion from a tender age. How could such an establishment be allowed to be built?

Naomasa. You're so naïve. And so, so innocent.

"Aren't we calling pot kettle black," Torino scoffed. The dads (Shota grumbled and Naomasa flustered when he called them this in near future) turned to look at him, question clears at each orbs of different colors. Torino was glad to clarify their confusion and said, "What do you think we're doing, directing those kids to be a 'Hero'? Doing this is good, and doing that is bad. These bunch of people are heroes, and those bunch of people are villains. Didn't we just basically teach them how to 'dispose' of the enemy and sowing suspicion from a tender age as well?"

Yes. He ignored the solemn look everyone got as he stared at a paused video of Izuku cutting of All for One's neck. Hero or Ninja, the base foundations are all the same.

They were trying to protect their hometown, a place where their most precious people were born.

If by killing them was an efficient way to do exactly that—that being a killer was a way for them to be a protector—then becoming a killer it is.

Anyway! They couldn't let anybody see this recording, Nezu concluded; the rest of them instantly nodded in agreement. This kind of 'shows', even though Izuku vanquished the greatest villain of all time and nobody would ever miss him, the inhumanity shown within was too much to handle. They won't sweep it under the rug, sure (they won't let the 'Endeavor fiasco' happen all over again). Izuku will face his own punishment when his treatment is over. But for now, they should focus on cleaning up the remainder of the war and—

"Bad news!" Kenji's lackey slammed the door open and hollered with all of his might. Panting, groaning, his complexion was as white as paint as he stared at the occupant inside, quivering mouth opened, "the video. The video was—"

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"The video got leaked!"