Chapter 71: Mourning a Legend

Summary:

Everyone dressed in black as the day for the funeral of Sir Nighteye came.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Meanwhile

Enji Todoroki stared at the body of the high end Nomu he'd just killed. As the man cooled his body with his new quirk steam started to leak from him. Endeavour lifted his fist and stared at his palm, this power he'd sought it for so long and now he just had it. Seconds, that was all it took, the problem he struggled his entire life over was solved by a 15 year old child. Part of the man wanted to laugh at the absurdity of the situation, the other part wanted to cry. That confession quirk was still making the man reel in thought, he'd only been able to think about Touya since it was used on him. His son died for the pro's goal, Endeavour fell to his knees in shame. "I'm sorry Touya." Endeavour muttered to himself.

A figure landed next to him seconds later. "Yo Endeavour-san you doing okay?"

"I just, I need time to think about something." Endeavour stood once more staring at his hand again, power without conviction is worthless. 'Touya I will make you proud of me, I swear it.'

"Well I'mma need you to snap out of it real fast Endeavour-san!" Hawks shouted as he held up one of his feather blades.

The panic in the voice made Endeavour suddenly snap to attention as a grey ooze started opening in front of him. "The teleport quirk!" Endeavour got back into a fighting stance. "Stand back Hawk's your in no condition to fight, on the other hand I'm rearing to go."

Hawks eyed the other hero and wondered where all his wounds went but didn't question it further, the other man was right, most of his feathers burned up while Endeavour seemed healthier than ever.

Slow clapping started as a man with black hair and blue eyes appeared from the ooze coughing as he stepped out. "God I hate the taste of that stuff. Good to see you Endeavour!"

"Dabi!" The number 1 shouted back. "I'm taking you in!"

"See that's just not gonna happen, I'm here to collect this body while your-" Dabi actually looked kind of shocked. "Injured? That can't be right, I saw you get impaled by Hood."

'Hood?' Endeavour followed the man's gaze, it must be the name of the Nomu. "Trick of the camera but you're not getting out of here!" Endeavour jumped forward blasting flame at his opponent. According to the reports Dabi overheats quickly due to his flames harming his body, in a battle of attrition normally Endeavour would lose but now? Time was his friend.

Dabi saw the blast coming and split it in two with his own flames before using his other hand to surround them in a fire tornado. "Can't risk any heroes coming to bother us after all." He snickered.

Endeavour knew his opponents flames were stronger but he just needed to outlast him so he kept blasting. "Stand down villain!" Endeavour roared.

'Tch' Dabi saw a blur coming. "Guess I was wrong, Ujiko get me out of here."

"No!" Endeavour screamed upping the intensity of his flames, he needed to stop him here!

As the grey ooze finished sucking up the villain he just smiled. "Catch you later, Enji Todoroki."

With his target gone he let his flames go out. "Teleportation quirks are actually the worst." Endeavour muttered as another figure slammed into the ground breaking the concrete.

"I'M HERE TO PUMMEL YA DABI!" A certain rabbit hero screamed as she scanned and couldn't find her target.

"Just missed em sweetie!" Hawks jokingly laughed from his spot behind Endeavour.

"DAMMNIT I MISS EVERYTHING!" Miruko pouted.


Back on top of the 1-A Dorms

Toshinori coughed into his hand at the exclamation. "What do you mean my boy?"

"Well theoretically with Rewind I could put your body back to before it get's injured. That being said I'll need to build up a lot energy with the quirk to do that, six years isn't exactly a short period of time. It would probably take somewhere in the ball park of 2 months to heal you that way. In addition I have no idea what that will do to One For All. It could do anything from rewinding the quirk out of Momo and back to you, to cloning it, to nothing if I'm being completely honest." Izuku explained. "Although we might be able to test that theory if I gave someone a quirk then rewound them to before I gave it to them, though that could potentially destroy the quirk so I'm not too keen on testing that."

The quirk stealer paused again. "Alternatively I could fix you with Overhaul, but we'd need suitable donors for all the parts I'd be fusing you with and it will be a very messy and painful experience. In addition I don't have anywhere near the anatomical know how to do that right but Recovery Girl might be able to do it if I gave her the quirk."

Toshinori rubbed his chin in thought, truthfully he'd grown tired of being an invalid and hearing what was to come, he knew he needed to be back in action sooner rather than later. "Let us discuss this with Recovery Girl in the future my boy. I think I'd prefer the Overhaul route myself, waiting for Eri's quirk to fully charge might take too long."

The other two people sat on the roof in contemplative silence. Aizawa once again being reminded how dangerous and useful Eri's quirk is.

Momo was letting the fact she dies in the future settle in, she then thought of Nighteye and started crying a bit. "I can't believe he's dead. I mean I know he was rude and cruel to the both of us Izu, but I just -" She trailed off.

Toshinori had been holding that fact in the back of his mind, he'd finally become friends with the man again and just like that, he's gone. "I will miss him dearly as well, he was my faithful sidekick and friend for many years, even if we weren't on the best of terms as of late." Toshinori paused. "Midoriya can you send me back to Nedzu's office, I need to say my goodbyes." The gaunt man added with a sad tone.

"Of course Toshi. I'm sorry I made you have to come comfort me instead of letting you do that." Izuku looked down as he opened the portal but was forced to look up when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"My boy, do not be disappointed in yourself. Frankly you are all stronger than any first years I've met, I'm proud of you all, of you two especially. When you need help I will always come running. I shall see you later my boy, so keep your head up okay?"

"G-got it."

"I suppose I'll join you, I needed to talk with Nedzu about a few things as well."

With that the two adults turned and disappeared into the portal after which Izuku shut it down.

"Izuku."

A serious voice came from the only other person still on the roof.

"I know what you saw hurt you, and I won't lie, knowing you're supposed to die is ... scary. But I promise you, we WILL stop him okay? We have a location, we have numbers, we will be prepared for this. We will find that Nomu lab in no time, I'm sure Tsukauchi and the heroes are already closing in on it. If we can destroy it before whatever happens to turn Shigaraki into such a threat occurs then no one will die."

"I-I guess Mo." Izuku wanted to be strong, he wanted to believe with all his conviction that they would do this, but seeing a future with such clarity, such realism, it leaves its mark. Trying to tell yourself you'd never let such a reality come to pass when you know that it already has in some other timeline or however Nighteye's quirk works is different. He couldn't just wash away what his other self felt, the anger, the sadness, the betrayal, the loss.

Momo pulled the boy into a hug. "It'll be okay, for now let's just rest. And don't think I don't know about what you did to Endeavour."

"Heh, caught me red handed Mo." He cheekily wiped his nose.

"Normally I'd be mad you didn't bring me along for the fight, but I think I'll let you off this time with a warning." She joked.

"Next time I'll make sure I grab you okay?" He smiled at her. "Plus it's not like I really fought or anything."

"Semantics but fine Izuku." Momo smiled back. "Let's go find our surrogate daughter, I may have shoved her into Tenya's arms and ran after Aizawa to come find you without telling anyone anything." It was her turn to blush.

"That's so adorable."

She lightly hit his arm.


In Nedzu's office

Another portal opened and Nedzu nearly had another heart attack. 'Stop doing that Izuku, my poor animal heart can't take this.' So when All Might and Aizawa stepped through he was surprised then started panicking. His wards were here and no one was supposed to see them. It was a close enough call earlier, thankfully All Might was too focused on Izuku at the time. "Oh for what reason do I get the pleasure of seeing you two?" The rat said in a cheerful manner hoping it would distract them long enough for Aiba and Danjuro to go back into the side room.

Aizawa turned to look at the two people. "Who are they?" Aizawa asked the rat as he pointed.

Aiba went pale and Danjuro started sweating profusely.

Crap. "Oh they're just here to move Nighteye's body." 'Yes, good lie Nedzu.'

"Oh and you got a small little girl and an elderly looking man to do it? And why do I feel like I recognize them?" Aizawa countered.

Toshinori oblivious to the situation cut in. "Where is his body if I may ask? I wished to pay respects to one of my oldest friends and confidants."

"Oh yes, he's been moved to Recovery Girl's room where he's being treated if you wish to see him." Nedzu thanked the stars for the number ones obliviousness and the change of topic.

"Thank you." Toshinori gave a low bow before exiting the room.

Aizawa's stare never left the rat. "They're still here after moving the body? They just dropped off Nighteye and came back here? Not to mention they somehow moved it without getting blood on them and once again, I reiterate you had this child move the body? With her stature?" Aizawa pointed out the shoddy logic.

"HEY! I'M TWENTY-ONE!" Aiba angrily cut back.

"Right. If this is some dumb scheme you've cooked up to mess with me somehow can you just not? Like I just want to go rest for a bit, I'm tired and it's getting late. Otherwise I don't care rat, do whatever you want." Aizawa dryly commented.

"I can promise you that I am not here to cause you any duress young man, I am simply a hmmm 'business' partner of dear Nedzu. I have recently been shown his splendor and am hoping to learn from him."

"Right, well anyway." He turned back to the mouse. "We need to talk Nedzu, specifically what are we going to do about Nighteye's vision. I consider myself rational and knowing a good portion of my students are going to die is certainly not helping my conscience. Especially since it sounds like Shigaraki is going to level a city or two in the near future." Aizawa sat down in an unoccupied chair before pulling out a juice packet, the smell of the room was awful. Blood still pooled on the floor near Nedzu's desk. Why had the problem child thought to bring the body here again?

"Ah yes I was thinking the same. It's hard to believe such a story but I trust the boy implicitly, he has never given me a reason to doubt him." Nedzu turned to the other two people. "Aiba, Danjuro, you two should probably head back for the day." Nedzu gestured to the door which they quickly fled into.

Aizawa stared as they left before shaking his head. "Like I said, I don't care. Before we get started though are we still going on with 'THAT'? It seems pretty risky to send them out when we know what's going to happen."

With everyone that had happened Nedzu completely forgot about the Nabu island hero agency training. "Hmm I think we should continue it, they will be isolated in an area known for never having villain attacks, plus the experience in running an agency is indispensable for our students. Honestly it might be the safest place in all of Japan for them at the moment. Without Kurogiri's warp portal they are much safer so far away. The grey ooze quirk seems to have a limit in distance unlike Izuku's Warp Gate."

"Well let's just put that on the backburner for now, let's start planning. We should start with known associates and work our way up. Tsukauchi has raided three separate facilities with connection to Nomu corpses, but now we can tell him to focus on hospitals in Jakku." Aizawa explained.

"Speaking of he's on his way." Nedzu added. "We may want to wait for him before we start planning."

"That's fine I'll just take a beauty nap then." Aizawa said before realizing he left his sleeping bag behind, truly a terrible day.


"Hello old friend." Toshinori said as he looked at the corpse.

"You know you said I was the one who'd die a horrific death but at least you went out with a smile on your face huh Mirai." All Might felt some tears forming in his sunken eye sockets, he hadn't cried in a long time but this time he thought it fine to indulge himself.

The man pulled out his wallet before laying down against the wall, he needed to talk to her. "Nana I miss you, I need your guidance, your successor needs your guidance, my other student needs your guidance." He cried as he turned and stared at the body of his sidekick. "I can't let them know just how weak I am, I need to be strong especially for them. But it's hard. We just keep losing, and losing, and losing."

Toshinori paused as tears hit the photo. "Now we lost Nighteye, even if you never met him he supported me so diligently, you would've liked him, I think. You also would've really liked your successor by the way, she's brilliant, the spitting image of you actually. If your in One for All like they say you are, please help them. This cruel world is going to take her away if I don't do something, maybe I can see why Nighteye thought of his quirk as a curse now."

Toshinori sniffled and breathed once more. "When it was my death I didn't even care, but now that it's both of them dying it's ... it's much harder to handle. They're only 15 for Christ's sake Nana, they're children, one of them is destroying their body in a way that'd I'd call unhealthy if he didn't ... yeah no it's unhealthy. The other is going to die at the hands of your grandson, well they both are but still. I don't know if I can do it, he's trampling on my every memory of you Nana. It's been fourty years, I miss you so so much. -sniff- -sniff-"

If Chiyo were a heartless woman she'd have told the man to keep the racket down in here.

If she were a heartless woman.


The Funeral was held in two days, it was a sad but small affair. Nighteye didn't have many people close to him but that just made it so the people who did come were all the more welcome. In attendance was what remained of Mirai's immediate family, Mirio, Centipeder, Bubble Girl, Toshinori, Izuku, Momo, and Nedzu.

The funeral itself was rather short, just as Nighteye had asked it to be, the man wasn't one to stand on ceremony and it showed. Everyone came up and gave a few words with the exception of All Might who had multiple pages written. Izuku mostly sat silently in the back wondering how much a quirk like that could be torture to a person's mind. Imagine seeing so many futures that you couldn't discern what was reality anymore. The quirk stealer wondered if such a thing was a curse or a blessing, sure there were quirks that were bad such as having your head turned into a cactus, and there were quirks that were amazing such as nitroglycerin sweat. But this? Izuku wasn't sure.

When it was finally time for the boy to approach he did so slowly and looked down at the body. Thankfully he hadn't been openly injured too much and as such it was an open casket. Nomus were made from corpses, he'd never tried it but he could still see the string as he got closer. Izuku tentatively struck his hand out and touched the man's hand, it would be so easy to take and nobody would ever know. "Rest easy Nighteye."

Izuku turned and walked back to the U.A. group after his brief goodbyes were said. He smiled as much as one could during an event like this before settling back into an easy silence, letting the ceremony continue.

But a certain Ravenette stared at the Greenette in bewilderment, 'He hadn't ... surely?'

Notes:

Current Quirk List
Izuku Midoriya: Kuroe, Breath of Life, Tempo, Ultra Sight, Muscle Augmentation (Renamed to Muscular), Warp Gate, Galeforce, Quirk Enhancer, Confession, Overhaul, Minor Regeneration, Elasticity, Rewind
Bakugo Katsuki: Explosion, Pyrokinesis
Tenya Iida: Engine, Air Step
Jirou Kyoka: Earphone Jack
Koji Koda: Animal Speak, Voice Throwing.
Mina Ashido: Acid, Liquid Manipulation
Sero Hanta: Tape, Minor Fire Resistance, Fire Breath
Yuga Aoyama: Navel Laser, Photokinesis
Kirishima Ejiro: Hardening, Shunpo
Yaoyorozu Momo: One for All, Creation, Blackwhip
Shinsou Hitoshi: Thunderclap, Brainwashing
Denki Kaminari: Electrification, Lightning Rod
All For One: Unknown
Eri: Zero Gravity
Nedzu: High Specs, Silence
Uraraka: Air Cannon
Mirio: Permeation
Sato: Sugar Rush
Eraserhead: Erasure, Super Strength
Setsuna Tokage: Lizard Tail Splitter, Vitality Stealing
Kinoko Komori: Mushroom, Float
Jurota Shishida: Beast, Mute
Hiryu Rin: Scales, EMP
Manami Aiba: -None-
Danjuro Tobita: -None-
Arakiel: Spider
Endeavour: Hellflame, Molecular Manipulation
Quirk Bank: Love, Paralysis, Bad Luck
Foresight: ?