A/N: Finals suck. Sorry for taking so long to write the next chapter...

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The Moon looked so pretty tonight. It was full, a giant orb floating in the sky. I took a few seconds to admire it before I summoned Iggy. "I want you to look at the Moon and tell me if something happens to it," I told him. We were on the roof of Gran Torino's agency building. I'd jumped up for the practice and because I wanted a good view of the moon for what I wanted to do.

"What should I be looking for?" he asked.

"If the Moon turns green, tell me."

"Why would the Moon turn green?" he asked me.

"I'm testing the absolute max range of Singularity," I explained. "I don't think it'll actually reach the Moon, but in case it does I'm worried that Illusion Barrier wouldn't either. So I want you to stop me before I alter the Moon's orbit, because even if I only do that slightly it could have devastating effects."

Iggy gaped. "Why would you be able to hit the Moon?"

"I noticed when I was using Singularity earlier that, when I used it on an object that was very far away, it felt like I wasn't even close to its max range. And when I asked, the past bearers told me that when they got One For All their birth Quirk got a lot more powerful. I still don't really have a good grasp on what Singularity's deal is, so I just want to test something ridiculous just to see how powerful it is."

Iggy nodded. "Sounds good, I guess. Do your thing, Boss."

"Thanks." I opened up an empty Illusion Barrier and looked up. I reached up with Singularity, letting my Quirk search for either its limit or the Moon. I felt no barrier at the end of my Illusion Barrier, and Singularity didn't stop until...

I felt Singularity connect with something so far away, yet still didn't feel any sort of strain from the range. I'd tested with other ranged Quirks (interesting sidenote: my elementals were not immune to Quirks like Brainwash or Fear, which was probably something to look out for come to think of it) and simply looked it up, and from what I could gather, you could normally feel it when you were starting to get to the end of your range limit. I didn't feel anything like that with Singularity. A second after Singularity connected, the Moon seemed to turn a brilliant emerald color, washing everything in green light. No, the Moon had already turned green the moment my Quirk took effect on it. It was just that it took about a second for the light to reach me due to the distance. "Amazing," I said. I was tempted to pull on it, just to see if I could, but I stopped myself. First...

I exited the barrier. "Any changes?" I asked Iggy. I felt my connection to the Moon from my Illusion Barrier fade with the Illusion Barrier, so I doubted it, but better safe than sorry.

He shook his head as he dematerialized. "Did it work?"

I smiled and remade my Illusion Barrier, pulling him and my other elementals through. "Wanna see?" I asked. I reached out for the Moon again. My elementals gasped in awe as the Moon turned green. It was beautiful. I still wondered, though...

"And now, Perry the Platypus," I said in my best Drusselstinian accent, "I will steal the Moon with my Sphere Attractinator Quirk!"

Blaise, who I'd manifested just for my joke, stared flatly at me. "First of all, I'm some sort of bug, not a platypus."

"You are?" I asked, still in my Doofenshmirtz impression. "You don't really look that much like a bug."

"Well I am," he said. "And second of all, what the fuck?"

I shrugged. "It kinda reminded me of that one episode of Phineas and Ferb."

"I have no idea what that is."

"Oh, we'll have to fix that later. But for now..." I raised a palm to the Moon and clenched my fist. I didn't actually need to do it to use Singularity, but I thought it looked cool. As I clenched my fist I pulled on the Moon. Like before, it took a second for the effects of my Quirk to show up due to the distance.

And then the Moon exploded, a large part of it flying off as emerald-glowing chunks. Whoops. I was very glad I was doing this in an Illusion Barrier now.

"You pissed on the Moon," Blaise said, awestruck.

"Really?" I asked, then dispelled the barrier before I could see any repercussions from exerting enough force on the Moon to make it explode. "You know that, but not Phineas and Ferb?" I winced, I was starting to feel that strange aching sensation in my stomach that I seemed to get after overusing Singularity. My regeneration definitely went down more than just a few points, too. Even if I was apparently only able to pull on a portion of it, exerting that amount of force on something that large and far away wasn't exactly effortless.

Blaise shrugged. "We watch YouTube sometimes."

"Fair. We can talk about that later, but for now can you guys watch my back?"

I opened up my skill window for Illusion Barrier. I figured it was about time I checked out my new Illusion Barrier. It was apparently ninja-themed. That sounded like it could potentially be very annoying, but also good practice.

Like with Kacchan's fire-filled barrier, normal reality seemed to completely fade away when I entered the barier. The building I was standing on became a much more traditional one, causing me to stumble a little when the roof suddenly changed from flat concrete to slanted shingles. I looked around the barrier. The small town had morphed into a thick forest of abnormally large sakura trees, pink petals falling from their branches. I wondered if they were only sakura trees because they were currently in season, and how the barrier would change depending on the time of year or honestly even the time of day...

Sense Danger flared as my elementals warned me about an attack from behind. I Flash Stepped out of the way of a shuriken made of a shadowy material. I looked back to see a humanoid figure made of the same shadowy material, except for a white kitsune mask.

"Ninjas," I said.

Light Cannot Exist Without Shadow

LV 42

Ninja Shade

The ninja didn't talk, it just charged at me with a hand on the shadowy hilt of a blade. I took a breath, remembering my idea from earlier. I activated One For All, drawing on the power of lightning as I did. I tried to merge my Lightning Aura with One For All, like a sort of reverse of my normal Limit Break. With a feeling like lightning along my spine I felt myself speed up, green lightning arcing off my body. I jumped at the shadow ninja, lightning scorching the shingles under my feet. I put a hand on my own sword, as I was still in my hero costume, and slashed at the ninja with a lightning-enhanced sword.

We both landed with our backs to the other. I flourished my sword and slowly sheathed it. My elementals cheered when the ninja fell at the same time.

"That was rather dramatic," Kaizen muttered.

I shrugged. "The elementals liked it."

"Do it again, do it again!" Rayne cheered.

I looked at the ninja. As I watched, its shadow body melted away, leaving behind only the mask. A shadowy shuriken fell from above, shattering the mask. I looked up, but didn't see any possible source it could've come from. When I looked back down I saw that the shards of the mask and the shuriken that shattered it were melting into shadows.

I looked around at the trees. "Juniper, I might need you."

The sakura petals swirled around, forming into my bio elemental. "Of course," she said. "Shall we, then?"

I nodded, then jumped with only a minor amount of... whatever I was going to call this new special move. Elemental Break? Elemental Fusion? No, that didn't feel quite right... I intentionally underpowered it so that the roof didn't break, aside from the scorching from the lightning arc. Once I was in the air I jumped again, off of an Immovable Object platform. Having used the Immovable Object enchantment in Illusion Barrier a few times, I could tell for sure that the two spells drew from the same source, that weird underlying field or barrier of magic that seemed to surround everything. I didn't know if that made it stronger in the barrier or not yet, because I hadn't actually used it in the real world, but I wondered if it did.

Of course, my jump off the immovable barrier was a lot stronger, closer to using the full power of my lightning-enhanced One For All. I winced in pain as I soared upward. It looked like that jump took a lot more out of my health than when I'd jumped with the normal full cowling of OFA. Why was that...

Oh, it was lightning damage, wasn't it? While it seemed like my body was starting to get a better handle on One For All's backlash, the main reason why I could handle the backlash was because of the synergy between Physical Endurance and Damage Resistance. But by turning it into an elemental power it changed either part or all of the backlash into elemental damage, which removed Physical Endurance from the equation. I hadn't noticed it much because I was only using a small percentage of it earlier, so it was offset by Damage Reduction still, but increasing the output also increased the recoil damage. It hopefully wasn't something I couldn't deal with, probably by keeping Super Regeneration in and not using higher power levels too much until the backlash started to go down more, but I'd still have to be careful about it.

Even though I hadn't used as much of OFA as the last time I'd jumped like that, I still jumped through the clouds. And this time the lightning arcing off of me lit up the clouds as I passed through them. I waved my hand at the clouds, blowing them away with vapor magic. With a better view of the ground below, I could see that the sakura trees spread out as far as I could see, occasionally breaking for a clearing or old-fashioned building. "That's pretty interesting..." I muttered, then made another platform. I touched the platform feet-first, preparing to jump down. But first I turned off my enhanced lightning aura, switching it out for a molten version. The electrical stinging faded, soon replaced by a sluggish burning.

Interestingly, this permutation was a little different from regular Molten Aura. Normally, Molten Aura just cloaked the user in an oppressive, dry heat that caused nearby rocks and other earth materials to get red-hot and even start melting at higher output. But this merging of One For All and Molten Aura caused parts of my body to turn into a craggy, rocklike material. I guessed maybe parts of Skeletal in One For All were being drawn out by the molten magic? Or maybe it was just merging an enhancement Quirk with molten magic in general that produced that effect..?

"An interesting theory," Ichigo said. Did I say that out loud? "How 'bout we try to figure it out later, work on this Illusion Barrier now?"

I nodded. "Let's do this, then." I stopped Floating to keep my feet on the barrier and jumped. I used a fraction of the enhanced One For All, more than the lowered baseline I was using passively but not as much as the amount I'd used to jump up there, and shouted, "Limit Break! Meteorain!"

I hurtled to the ground, a fiery aura forming around me. I saw Juniper fighting with a few ninjas below me. Right, I had her materialize before I jumped. I sent a telepathic message to her, telling her that I'd take care of the ninjas and that she should leave now. She nodded, summoning a bunch of roots from the ground to entangle her opponents before scattering into sakura petals. Most of the ninjas were able to dodge or slash away the vines, but a couple were snared. I kicked off a quickly-made barrier, changing my trajectory slightly.

I crashed into the ground fist-first, smashing a partially-melted crater into it. The fiery shockwave immediately burned away most of the ninjas. One remained, very burnt but still ready to attack. I pointed a finger at it, readying a quick Bass Blast to take out the sliver of health it had remaining. My arms and legs burned from the backlash, but my HP wasn't even halfway down.

The ninja was taken down by a flurry of pink petals before I could shoot it. "Thanks for the assist," the petals said as they reformed into Juniper.

"Sorry," I said. "Probably shouldn't have just left you like that."

She nodded. "It's okay. Were you surveying the barrier?"

"Yeah." I switched my molten One For All back out for the lightning one. "As far as I can tell this place is all forest. Though I think the town we were in to begin with was pretty inland so I wonder if it might look different around the coastline? I'll check that out later, though. Probably when I'm back home near Dagobah Beach."

"Behind you," Juniper said. As I turned around I saw one of the trees suddenly engulf a ninja. There was a crunch, then the shadowy material the ninjas dissolved into after death seeped from the seams. "We should keep an eye out for more."

"Yeah," I agreed. More ninjas were appearing, forming from the same black mists they decomposed to. In a flurry of Flash Steps and flashing lightning, I slashed through half of them in an instant. Juniper tried to trap the other half with tree roots, but a few slipped away from her grasp. I hit them with a few quick bolts of lightning, though unfortunately that wasn't quite enough to kill them. Still, Juniper managed to grab and crush them when they flinched from the blast.

I shot a bolt behind me, frying a ninja that tried to sneak up on me. I flashed back, finishing the ninja off with a quick slash of my sword. More ninjas jumped at me, but I cut them off with a quick casting of Shock Sphere, then finished them off with my sword.

"How many more until we find the boss?" Juniper asked.

I shrugged. "To be honest I never really counted..."

"You probably should," she said, then looked down. "Though I suppose it's a moot point for now..."

I looked down. The shadowy material the ninjas dissolved into had returned, and now it was flowing into my shadow. My shadow darkened and shifted, separating from my feet and moving away from my body. It peeled off the ground, forming into a ninja.

Shadow Cannot Exist Without Light

LV 81

Shinobi's Shade

The boss ninja wore a mask almost identical to the ones that the regular ninjas wore, save for the fact that it was pitch black. The rest of its body, on the other hand, started out as black as its mask but slowly lightened until it was pure white. It drew its silver sword, gleaming in the moonlight, and brandished it at me.

"Get it, Juniper," I ordered as I drew my own sword. I copied the shade's gesture, keeping its attention as Juniper gathered the roots under it. When the shinobi didn't react to the roots gathering in the ground I had Juniper try to ensnare it, keeping ready for any tricks the ninja might pull. The roots lashed out at the shinobi.

And passed right through it. The ninja's title disappeared as its legs distorted and dissipated from the grabbing roots. The ninja, which upon using Analysis I learned was actually an illusory clone, faded into shadows.

"What?" Juniper said.

I looked around. There was no sign of the- there. Some of the falling sakura petals hit seemingly nothing, bouncing off of a vaguely person-shaped void in the air. "It's invisible!" I silently told Juniper. With an order from me Juniper made the petals surrounding the invisible ninja in all directions turn into pink spikes, driving them at it. Shadows leaked out as most of the spikes hit their mark. They probably didn't do a lot of damage, but it was enough that the ninja was forced to drop its invisibility. I Arc Stepped at the shade, propelled by lightning magic and One For All. Lightning wreathed my sword as I aimed it at its chest.

The ninja did the invisibility clone trick again, but now that I was onto it Tactician told me the second it was replaced by a clone, and I was able to alter my trajectory slightly to where the petals were disturbed. My aim was a little off, but my sword carved a sparking gash into the ninja's side as it reappeared. The ninja snarled, the first noise I'd heard it make, then slashed its own sword at me. I Arc Stepped to the side, letting the arcs the spell made lash out at the ninja as I did so, but the gleam of the sword intensified and shot out at me even though I dodged the actual blade. A blade of pure moonlight scored a direct hit on me, launching me back and slicing off a chunk of both my HP and my shirt.

I winced and activated Super Regeneration. "Light magic... I guess it makes sense considering the outfit..." The ninja didn't give me any time to rest. As soon as I'd recovered, spikes of pure shadow burst through my chest. I was very glad that I'd activated Super Regeneration and my regeneration had recovered from my earlier stunt with Singularity, because those spikes did even more damage than the light blade.

"IZUKU!" Juniper screamed in concern, along with the rest of my elementals and the past bearers. Man, there were a lot of voices in my head...

I winced, but gave Juniper a thumbs-up. "I'm good," I coughed out, "focus on the boss." I altered the amount of energy from the cowl of lightning that I was keeping contained in my body, upping the light and disrupting the shadow spike from the lightning arcing onto it. I don't know if my wounds closed up as the spikes dissipated or if my weird physical body just didn't properly register the wounds aside from the spikes going through me to begin with, but I luckily didn't see any damage from the spikes aside from the holes they left on my clothes. It looked like the shadow attack came from the shadow that was made when I was hit by the light blade, so now I had to watch out for that; a few one-two hits like that in quick succession would probably kill me.

I looked back over to the ninja. Juniper was doing a good job of keeping the pressure on it. Even more sakura petals were swirling around it, scoring minor cuts and preventing it from disappearing again. It looked like the petals were only doing one or two points of damage at most, but the sheer amount of them was enough that it was steadily chipping away at his health. Though unfortunately the shade appeared to have a lot of health, so if it came down to a battle of endurance I'd be there for a while.

I gathered One For All in my hand, the lightning arcing off it intensifying, and punched at the ninja. Juniper tried to keep it in place, but it heard the bolt and dodged at the last second. It was a glancing hit, but it still hit. I jumped at the shinobi, readying my sword. I slashed down, but the ninja blocked with its own sword. Our swords met, then I saw the ninja's sword gleam again.

"Shit!" I ducked, just barely grazed by the attack. I looked down at my shadow, seeing the inky black spikes starting to form. I made an Immovable Object-enhanced Mana Shield between me and the shadow. I planted my feet on the shield, then slashed at the shade. I took a leaf from its book when it blocked again and forced my lightning through its sword before it could shoot me with a light beam again. "Limit Break!" I shouted, casting Shock Sphere. "Lightning Field!" A field of pure white lightning seared into existence around us. It hurt me a little, but from the looks of it it was hurting the shade a lot more. I kept the enhanced spell up, though I tried to shrink the field a bit so it'd cost less. Juniper couldn't make any roots grab the ninja due to the intense lightning, but I grabbed the ninja.

The white-clad shade screamed and tried to shake me off as I kept up the voltage. Its health quickly drained from the lightning. I added to the damage by turning Skeletal on and impaling it with some spikes of my own. Lightning arced along the spikes of bone that penetrated the ninja's body. The drain to the shade's health sped up, and the spikes greatly hindered its ability to shake me off. Shadow spikes hit me from somewhere, weaker now but still taking a little off my HP, so I calcified my skin to hopefully keep them from doing too much damage to me again. It took a minute and a chunk out of my MP, but eventually the shade's HP hit zero. I shut off my lightning and retracted my spikes as the shade started to unravel into shadow-stuff. I breathed a sigh of relief and dropped the shinobi. My costume was looking horrible by now, so I Mended it.

Your level has increased by one! (x2)

"Are you okay?" Juniper asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, that was more stressful than the samurai boss... Don't worry, Super Regeneration kept my health from dropping too low." My HP was almost back to full already, Super Regeneration was so good.

I looked down at the shade as it finished dissolving. This time a shuriken that glowed as if made of moonlight hit the shade's black mask. It split perfectly in two, then the two halves of the mask changed into black scrolls. I picked up the scrolls. Text boxes popped up, telling me that they were skill books for the skills 'Smoke' and 'Mirror.' I tried to read the scrolls, but again they were in a language that I simply didn't understand. I took pictures of the scrolls, then used them. The scrolls dissolved into light, then absorbed into me.

It seemed that they were the cloning and invisibility spells that the ninja used on me. Smoke let me cloak myself in a haze of magic that would make me invisible until I got hit hard enough (though I wondered how Damage Reduction would factor into that...), attacked anything, or used any skill that projected magic. Mirror allowed me to turn my magic inward to create an illusory duplicate of myself. The duplicate would remain totally still until touched, at which point it'd fade away. I wondered, given the wording, if I could enchant the decoys Mirror made with Item Enchantment. Something to play with later.

"I think I'm gonna Meditate and do some light spell practice for the rest of the night," I said. "That was a little tiring." I Floated back to the agency building, letting my elementals deal with any ninjas that showed up, then decided to try out Smoke before exiting the Illusion Barrier. It got a little harder to see due to that magical haze, turned out that that was literal and not just a way of describing the formation of the magic. It looked like there was a thin layer of smoke around me. Still, it did make me invisible and it didn't impair my vision too much, especially if I used Hawkeye.

I exited the barrier on top of the building, then jumped down. I used Float, which didn't disrupt Smoke, to get down gently (I wasn't worried about getting hurt, but I was a little worried about the pavement...). I walked up to the front door and carefully opened it. As long as I wasn't forceful enough, I was still able to interact with things. It seemed like Torino was still asleep, which made sense because it was still around midnight. I collapsed on a sofa made from Imaginary Architect, sighing. It looked like casting Imaginary Architect broke Smoke, unfortunately. Still, it seemed like a really good spell. Would be useful for stealth missions, at least.

"Good night," I said to nobody in particular, then closed my eyes to meditate.

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Also here's an omake I thought of like a while ago lol. To make up for the wait, I guess. It's from what is for some reason one of my favorite videos. If you wanna see the video, just look up 'what is a skeleton's favorite snack' on YouTube.

Ribs

Honenuki grinned at Midoriya. "I have a joke for you," he said.

"What?" Midoriya asked.

"What is a skeleton's favorite snack?"

"I dunno..."

Honenuki's grin widened. "Go on, guess!"

"Death?" Midoriya... didn't really guess.

"No," he chastised. "Go on, guess!"

Midoriya chuckled. "I don't know..."

"Come on!" he shouted, starting to sound angry. "Guess!"

Midoriya laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" Honenuki demanded. "I haven't told the punchline yet! What is a skeleton's! Favorite! Snack!"

Midoriya chuckled nervously.

"Guess!"

"You're putting me under a lot of pressure..." Midoriya muttered, still giggling a little.

"GUESS!" Honenuki yelled. "FUCK!" He banged his head against the wall, then turned back to Midoriya. "GUESS, GOD DAMN YOU!"

Midoriya didn't answer, too busy silently laughing.

"WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME!?"

Midoriya wiped a giant tear from his eye.

"WHAT IS MY FAVORITE SNACK!?"

"...bones?" Midoriya finally guessed.

Honenuki stared at Midoriya for a moment, fuming. "NO!" He banged his head into a different wall. "NO!"

Midoriya started to say something, but Honenuki cut him off.

"WHAT IS IT!? WHY MUST YOU FAIL ME SO OFTEN!?"

Midoriya had slumped over from his laughter.

"RIBS!" Honenuki screamed. "SPARE RIBS! FUCK!"

Hikiishi walked into the room. "...the hell happened here?"

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A/N: Again, sorry for the long wait. This semester has been kinda hard on me...

Elemental list:
Midoriya: Halitus, Dune, Rayne, Blaise, Juniper, Mifuyu, Raimon, Iggy, Sonia, and Claude
Bakugou: Pyra and Leaf
Tokoyami: Corvo
Uraraka: Nebula and Ion
Hagakure: Lucy
Tsu: Bubbles
Aizawa: Charlie and Cassiopeia
All Might: Seth O'Scope