Chapter 6
It's been three years Izumi lives in U.A with her two adoptive fathers, yes Aizawa Shota and Hizashi Yamada had agreed to adopt her. At the beginning it was not easy, there was a lot of tensions between Izumi very independent and trusting a very few people and Aizawa logical, responsible and a little paranoid taking his role of a parent very seriously (although he does not show it.) Hizashi dramatic and optimistic as he is was the one who calmed them most of the time, being the peacemaker.
Nezu was very proud of him, he has succeeded to make them adopt her. He was surprised that the couple of heroes and future teachers and alumni of U.A were uncertain about the adoption. He had played on the fact that they had been in a relationship for a good decade, married for three years, that they could start a family by adopting a child and she trust the both of them to make it succeed.
And who is more qualified than Izumi, a child who can defend and be loved by many villains, heroes and citizens.
Plus when the government has noticed that Izumi was in U.A, a group of government's agents and scientists tried to take her by force. They were stopped by the heroes-teachers and Nezu. Their grimacing faces was so hilarious to watch as Nezu explained she was adopted properly with the accords of the laws and that all the charges of vigilantism that she had were justified under the legitimate defences thus having committed no violation of the law.
(Izumi had filmed them, as a souvenir among others that she keeps carefully. Blackmails is a bliss. She doesn't care they can watch her more carefully, she can escape them whenever she wants.)
She has passed three years (almost) in security, managing between her work at school as a student from the support and heroic course and the work outside as Little Angel, Spring and her blog. She keeps contact with her Family and friends, whether her organization, the Yakuza, the Mafia (Italian) or the group of international vigilant (existing since a hundred years including the same members since its creation). Very few people know the extent of her connections and one of them is Nezu who became one of her accomplices in her plans. (That he gladly participate, the more the merrier!)
Being the best student during her three years, she becomes the youngest heroes in Japan. She refused to have the Pro heroes licence, not desired to be the puppet of the government but keep the Provisional licence with the excuse she is too young and that she can continue to save people without doing vigilantism and wanted to focus on his doctor and surgeon degree, plus she wants to be a teacher so the next year she will be an assistant teacher along to be nurse so a member of the staff.
She brings so many changes (directly or indirectly) in U.A, the Heroes System and the Law. 'For the great good' would say a goat but Izimu sees that as a minor change, those changes will take years to have results and she knows people don't change from one day to another. Her principal objective stays the children she will use the same strategy that the government, indoctrinated children to see the faults of their society. (And what's better than a school for this!)
Her popularity as Little Angle has reached the top to the point she was so popular that she was in the same league that the top 10. It was especially in her last year of schooling that her popularity peaked after her (and only) participation at the U.A Sports Festival (which she came first destroying anyone). The whole of Japan had seen her and modelling agencies, heroes agencies, support agencies, etc have contacted her to apply for a job (she was glad that her biological parents were on vacations trip in Europe, she didn't want to tamper with them and her life.)
Who doesn't know her face today?
Now fourteen years old, youngest heroes and future youngest doctor in a few hours. Travelling around Mustafa toward the medicine academy, she takes a shortcut to be attacked by a slimy villain.
It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... One day like these Izumi should not be molested.
Izumi dodges his attack and sneering at him.
"Oh lucky I am to find a cute medium-sized body. You're my hero! I didn't expect him to show up in this town. Let me hijacking your body, it only hurt for a few seconds."
Izumi huffs at the villain. "You're courting death! Like I will let you take my body! "
"Stupid kid!" Growl the slime before jumping at Izumi. She was able to dodge but an unknown and familiar voice (in the case of Izumi) stopped them.
"Fear not! Why?! Because I am here!"
All Might punch the slime, exploding him with the shocking wage.
"Yagi!"
"Oh, Izumi! I didn't see it was you! You could have beat him without me!" Laugh All Might. She shakes her head smiling then watches the n°1 Hero collects the villain in a bottle.
She uses her 'Health sight' and frown, glaring at him decrying his stat. "Yagi..." She growls.
The man flinched and shrink to his skeleton form.
Since the famous battle, he had become less skeleton since they meet again two years ago, Nezu presented him to her as potential 'successor'. Her fathers, Nezu and Yagi were surprised that she was the one who saved him five years ago after his battle against All For One. She had healed him with everything she can, it was enough for him to stay alive even without his stomach and a lung.
Live with a single lung is attainable but without a stomach, it's really difficult and he paid it hard. Only able to use his quirk, One For All, for a few hours but with special training and diet to follow, he can maintain his form longer.
If he follows the training and diet program!
But it seems that he didn't follow it, too much cholesterol and sugar in his blood and his muscle mass are less strengthened the time she sees him. Knowing his nature to save everyone in need his time should have reduced. She wonders which between him or her Dad is the worst to follow simple instructions or take care of themselves.
"You are not following the instructions, don't you? How many time should I say it's vital for you! You're dying slowly and by extensions your time quicker! It's you want to save everyone, first, take more care of yourself!"
"Izumi..." He mumbles trying to talk but she stopped him.
"Tut! Stubborn Hero! Delive the villain and I hope next time I see you in U.A next year you will be in good health Yagi Toshinori."
Yagi blanched seeing the smile on her face, he knows so well that this smile promise for him, torture and pain. She was scarier than his mentor and his master in her bad days reunite.
Bruhh.
Yagi transforms in All Might and leaves Izumi, salutes her with a jumping of him. Izumi huffs and goes see her result, she smirks at the panelboard. She excels all her exams with a flying record, rapidly she takes her degree, takes a photo of it and sends it to her dads and other people. Rapidly she receives their congratulations, her dads along with the staff of U.A want to celebrate it.
On her way back, she crossed the city centre to buy food but also to see one of her friends who is also one of her 'disciples' (more the only disciple while others are comrade and family) or rather she's the sadistic instructor who gives hell to her student.
She sees in front of a neko-bar a big tuft of purple hair looking at his phone that can only belong to him.
"Hello insomniac-purple-tall boy, guess who passes its exams with a flying record and finally become a doctor!?"
The teenager turns to her and looks at her with tired eyes with huge dark circles and a lazy smile.
"Yo Izumi-shisho, congratulations on finally be a doctor. Let's go training-!"
Izumi pinches his cheek before he finishes his sentence.
"What these hyper dark undereye bags! And look at you, your body is tired! No, today you will rest and I will give your stick next week."
The insomniac-purple-tall boy, Hitoshi Shinso wants to refute but one look from her make him closes his mouth. They walk inside the bar and talk about him. Izumi listens to him how his school life is and all. She was sad that he doesn't have friends other than her, he's a cool guy, a cat lover and sassy like her dad but always here for the people he loves. Just because people discriminate his quirk as villainy they don't want to talk to him.
Fucking bullshit! People are always stupid. Quirk doesn't make what we will be.
She pets a cat that comes to her insulting the stupidity of the humans and their cruelty. She starts noticing that Hitoshi talks to her.
"-remember how we meet. Some tug cornered me and was yelling and kicking me because of my quirk, saying that it was because I brainwashing one of them to surrender himself when he was clearly his fault that he assaulted someone. You came and kicked all of them like a hero, I didn't know that a girl can be strong." He says embarrassed, she raises a brow and smirks.
"Never see a girl kicks ass before? I hope now you can understand that women are not weak, how many time I kick your ass? The first time was so hilarious, too bad I didn't take a photo or a video of this moment."
Hitoshi groaned hiding his embarrassment behind a cat, Izumi chuckles and pat a black cat on her laps.
"If I remember well after I kicked the asses of these pathetic guys and healed you, you have recognized me as Little Angel with my hair clip and my bag and ask why I am this young while I am the same age at you and didn't even thank me."
"Oh my~~ He is so cute!" He was so red, knowing what happened after.
"Then when I brought you home you told me you wanted to go to AU confidante, and you did not appreciate when I made you the remark that at your level you will not go in the course Heroes because even with a useful quirk like yours it will not be enough to access U.A. You shouted at me like I was like the others, criticizing you that you were unable to be a hero, that I found you pathetic compared to me, that I had a useful quirk to be a Pro-Hero compared to your villain quirk and that I had a good life and so much more. I slapped you and I do not regret it, I was so mad at you that it was a miracle that I only slapped you."
He gulps at the smile she wore, thank God that she only slap him this time. He remembers the last time she was angry and she was so fucking scary, she has literally destroyed the genital organs of the poor guy as she calls this a quick way to castrate pervert guys.
"I asked why you worried what other people say about you and why their opinion should lead your future. They are not you and they will never plus I think I made you note that my quirk is totally not fit for being a hero because healing can't help to kick other ass. Then I explained to you that people who managed to enter in U.A are not Heroes in made but teenagers like you with quirks that the government want but the ones who are mind quirks like you or no impact on the physical need to train harder before to take the test. I said you were an idiot to think you can go in by turning your thumbs and without a little training or knowing a martial art."
He growls and says hiding his face behind his hands that Izumi chuckles at his attitude.
"Yes, yes and after I asked you to train me when you can and reply why you should train me. I answer that I will prove that a boy like me with a villain quirk can be a hero. You laughed and give me your phone numbers, take mine and leave. The next week you contacted me to meet at Dagobah Municipal Beach and make me train my body by creating a hellish training course while I should clean the beach. I remember so fucking well you saying that I have only 8 months to do it while you explained to me with a sadistic smile the training program, what I should eat and when I should sleep. If I managed to clean the beach within 8 months it would let me 3 months to train me in martial arts and to use a stick saying that the weapon suits me."
"Mmmmh be happy you finish two months early. If it's not for the man who let us rent his truck to have helped you and me and some people to have collected some household electrical appliances that working or needed to be repaired and the spare parts you finished early. Really I can understand why throwing away objects that can work and throwing them to a beach. I'm glad the stuff we collect can help people in need, seriously we accumulate at least 400.000 yen of household electrical appliances. People really like to throw money down the train."
Hitoshi caught hearing the total amount of money they collected at the beach, he ignores Izumi huffing about what she says after but he will be agreed on what she said.
"So what next?"
Izumi looks at him, blank face mode 'are you serious?' then pinch his cheek again.
"Now my purple lazy cat until next week you will rest. And when I say rest it's; not running, sleep 8 hours, eat correctly and relax. Next week I will give you the prototype stick and we will train with it and to martial arts. I will not able to train you the month before the entrance exam, so you have to train alone for this time. Plus I'm not sure to be really present for the next four months so I expect you to watch the videos I give you and train by yourself."
Izumi takes a USB stick out of her pocket and gives it to him, he takes it nodding to her instructions. He understands that she is really occupied with the patrols, her research in medicine for her thesis and certificates, the development of her inventions, her job as a nurse in U.A and many things she didn't say but take a lot of her time. Just giving her time to teach him how to fight and train him, make him think that it's a miracle she has accepted to sacrifice a little of her time to do it when she could have to use the time she spent for him to something more important. He will work hard to make her proud and become stronger to walk next to her and protect her.
Little Angel, previously a vigilante with a good reputation among the citizens, Pro-Heroes, other Vigilantes and Villains is now a Pro-Heroes (not by choice that he hear), a genius inventor and nurse (now a doctor). The Healer Hero, the Angel of Hope and Future, many titles she received last year when she finished first at the Sports Festival. All eyes are on her but no one can recognize her right now, how strange he thinks.
He didn't what life she has before but he guesses it's not a pretty one and he hears on the blogs and fanbases dedicate to her she was subject to kidnapping attempts. It's only a rumour, of course, but what if it is true?
He couldn't stop thinking about it and seeing the girl in constant vigilance in public like someone will attack her anytime make him realise that it's not a rumour.
"By the way, do you always want to be underground?"
"Of course. I'm not for the spotlight and all."
"Yep, you are not fit about it with your sassy personality but I thought it was you are a big fan of Eraserhead~~" Tease Izumi, it's rare to see someone being a big fan of her dad, but even underground Heroes have video or testimonies about them so to have fans.
Hitoshi blushes and Izumi laughs then grins.
"Hey, would you like to come with me tonight to celebrate my degree with other people at a sushi restaurant?"
"Euh y-yeah why not. My father works tonight so there no one at the house who is waiting for me."
Izumi smiles happily but she is sad inside, Hitoshi loses his mother when he was only ten. An accident, a car accident and in front of him. He only has his father now, he works practically every day for both of them. She met his father (she is not irresponsible to not know that she trains his son when there a risk of injuries (though she can heal them)) who thanks her, bowing his head to help his son and being his friends. It was awkward but say it was not a problem and was happy to help, they have exchanged their phone number in case that something occurs.
"Well let's go! I need some clothes and I need a handman."
They leave the neko-bar and walk toward a clothing store when they hear a huge explosion. Izumi reacts immediately and runs toward the smock come from. Arriving at the place she saw the villain she had come across early taking someone hostage. She noticed that no one was doing anything, especially the Heroes watching the poor boy struggle with his explosions. To believe that they waited for things to be done by itself, to hear them that they need a certain quirk to save someone.
"Stupid! They can save them! They just need to use their fuck*** brain!"
Wait! Explosion?!
She looks closely at the boy, she knows who is he. How can she does not remember the brat who bullied her and hurt her with his explosion because she was 'quirkless'.
Hitoshi arrives and cursed in front of the chaos, there were flames around the villain and the hostage and no one was doing something to save him. He looks at Izumi about to ask what to do and was startled on what he sees. She was smiling happily? Excited? He doesn't know and it was the same about her eyes, they were dilated with surprised or scared. He didn't know what to think, it was the first time he saw her like that, she was usually calm, a small smile on her face with serious eyes.
She suddenly ruffles her hair violently and growls looking with hard eyes or more glaring furiously at the hostage.
"I do not believe that I'm going to do for that bastard."
She runs toward the villain with inhuman speed and grabs the boy, throwing him to the Heroes ignoring the shouts and cries. In the same moment, the slime-villain is blast by an unknown force. All-Might was the cause and rapidly journalist and people gather around them, some of them have recognized her but she walks stray toward the Heroes who were praising the boy for his formidable quirk and all.
She literally yells at them for their inability to save someone when they could instead to watch or waiting for someone with a 'useful' quirk. No matter what they say to justify their action Izumi has always an argument to prove the contrary. In the end, she shouts at them to be idiots that can't use their brain to save someone and praising the boy for his quirk when he is in shock in front of everyone, doesn't care what happens after or that people were shaken to see her yelling. She goes quickly to heal the blond boy ignoring the look he has then go away from the crowd following by Hitoshi.
They say nothing on the way to the restaurant until Hitoshi take his courage with his two hands.
"Izumi? Are you okay? What happens there to make you so... harsh and angry?"
She looks at him with a small smile and dark eyes hint with sadness and bitterness.
"Don't worry, it's just... I hate them whether the heroes, the crowd or the hostage. This world is cruel and a lot of have forgotten that but there no second chance when it comes to life. They think that everything will be fine, that someone or something will come to help and save them but it's false security that a lot believe. They are lies that they, their parents and grandparents were rocked by the government. You see it don't you? The heroes were doing nothing, waiting for a miracle to happen, the public was only watching and take photos or video like it was a spectacle forgetting someone could have died and the hostage was using his quirk in a miss and hit situation trying to save himself without letting others to save him." She explains, apathy the word heroes, public and hostage with venom. It surprised Hitoshi who has always seen her gentle and smiling he discovers that now that he does not know the person next to him, that she is more than she shows.
"We live in, such a cruel world with a wrecked society created by greed ideas and powers. Do you know the expression 'the two side of the same coin'? Well, the coin is our society, Japan and the two side the are bad and the good. We represent the good to the heroes, the light, the hope and the bad to the villains, shadows and despair. But is this really the case? Is it really significant?"
"I don't understand what are you talking..."
"Really? But you know more than anyone else about it no? Because of your quirk, you were put on the bad side immediately and the others who bullied you were on the good side. They did something considered as bad when they are supposedly good when you, did nothing but want to help while you're supposed to be bad. Ironic doesn't it?"
Hitoshi looks at the ground, what she says it's true. Before he has his quirk he was friends with everyone but at the first apparition of his quirk, those people stop talking and turn their back to him and distance themselves to him. Little by little, they decreed him as a villain because of his quirk when he didn't attack or hurt someone.
"See? There are many examples I can say, like for the flashy quirks, they are like the White Bull, powerful and beautiful but also deadly. Nowadays people are unhappy about the increase in crime unaware that this increase is due to the discrimination that the government implements and that they apply it in place without question it. They do not understand that it is because of this stupid discriminations that there are more villains, some know it but do not say anything, don't want to be outcasts. In addition, one can add low-quality heroes and the nearly no experiences in the field throwing in nature doing everything and anything. The government is trying to suffocate the villains by the number doesn't question if the heroes are competent or not. Heroes schools have had to increase class sizes, making it harder for teachers to do their work by monitoring more and more arrogant students. But what the government does not understand is that it is useless. I told you about the faces of the medal, the shining and bright face are the heroes and the hidden side and obscure the villains. The brighter the face, the darker will be hidden, but if we increase the number of brilliant faces, what will happen?"
"Logically the number of the dark side will rise."
"Yes, and if the bright side is of poor quality the dark side will be too. There is always a contrary for anything; fire & ice, water & lightning or simply life & death. But in our society, it creates a huge gap between reality and expectations."
Hitoshi looks at her on a new day today, she is serious, each word she said were logical but more importantly come from the heart as she had experienced it, saw it... Himself he didn't question what the government was doing or had done because the government was created to protect the people, a purpose that it should follow no?
"But inexperienced heroes can do more damage than any villains and I don't talk about the heroes that only care for the fame or the money. Take Endeavour, he captures always the villain but for which price? Innocent people injured, degradation or destruction of buildings and public infrastructures or even death are the prices of this. And you know what Hitoshi? It's the same everywhere in the world. Kids and teenagers of our age are far too innocent of our society, they trust what they hear but they don't build their own view, their own opinion, they are not curious about what happens and why. A piece of advice, start reading articles and reviews on Heroes, the judicial and political system of our country or internationally. You will be surprised."
"Izumi... How long you see our society like..."
"That? Years Hitoshi, years I see the truth with my eyes. But let that aside, we have to go to a party!"
Hitoshi follows an excited Izumi without knowing what he awaits him.