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Izuku couldn't believe that their teachers planned for them to have a field trip to USJ after that break in yesterday. Most of their classmates seemed to be excited, jumping and hopping onto their designated seats as they chattered about what they expected to see in USJ. The only person who seemed to be the least interested in talking was Naruto.
His blond-haired classmate buried her head with a book, blond hair hiding her eyes as she flipped through the pages. What was Uzumaki reading? Izuku glanced down, his eyebrows knitted together as he tried to make out the characters of the book. The Tales of the Gutsy Ninja? His classmate didn't seem like the type to read this kind of book, but she seemed to be really engrossed with it.
Not once did she ever look up from her book.
"Uzumaki!" Blue eyes perked up from her book as Mineta stood up on his seat, hand pointing at the book in Naruto's hands and a righteous smile playing on his lips. "You talked about my bad habits but we are the same! You are reading a smut book! You are a hypocrite!"
Izuku felt his cheeks burning up as everyone swirled their heads to look at Uzumaki. Pink lips pressed into a thin line as Uzumaki closed her book like she was afraid of making a sound. She raised her eyebrow, looking at Mineta like he was the idiot.
"And what makes you think I will read smut in public?" Uzumaki held up the book for everyone to see. "This is a fictional book. Not one of those smut books that you like."
"Really? The great Jiraiya wrote that book!" Izuku knitted his eyebrow and scratched his head while Kaminari flushed a light shade of pink, blood dripping slightly out of the nose. "He wrote so many amazing books filled with so much smut! All of his books contain it! You can't fool me."
Uzumaki snorted. "Amazing? His books are shitty!"
Silence reined throughout the bus as everyone gawked at the implication of her words. Even Aizawa opened his eyes, head swirling at the blond-haired girl for implying that she read those books. Uzumaki slowly turned red, blue eyes closing and a nervous laugh escaped from her lips as the silence continued to take over the once noisy bus.
"You read smut?" Ashido cried.
Naruto groaned, hands covering her whole face and ears burning a bright shade of red as several of the boys looked at their classmate in a new light. The girl hunched her shoulders, hands opening and closing before she swirled her head at them. The annoyance shining through her eyes almost reminded him of Kacchan, except less scary.
"I was just curious to know what was the big deal about the stupid Icha-Icha series!" Naruto grumbled. "By the way, half of the things he wrote were just impossible. The proportions of a woman's body are not that proportionate! And—"
"You are making things worse," Yaoyorozu pointed out, burying her face against her hands. "Just stop, Uzumaki-san."
"Someone just kill me now!" Uzumaki cried.
This was probably the first time the girl ever acted like this, but when Uzumaki blushed red as a tomato and looked frantically at someone to save her; well Izuku understood why a few of the boys in Middle School developed crushes on her.
Asui patted the girl on the back, eyes still completely blank as her hands rubbed circles around the tense girl. His classmate turned to look at him, face completely blank. "I hope you don't mind me saying this Midoriya, but your Quirk resembles All Might."
Uzumaki's ears perked up, almost making the girl looked like a curious fox that was dying to eat its prey. Izuku sweated as more and more eyes shifted their attention away from Uzumaki to him. Was it too late for him to go out of the window? Yup, the bus had already started moving. He waved his arms frantically. What does he say? Uzumaki seemed to be on to him.
Actually only Uzumaki and Bakugou knew he used to be Quirkless, so it made sense they were the most curious to know what happened to him.
"All Might doesn't get hurt," Kirshima shook his head. "They are already different in that way but if we want to compare students with Quirks that are really similar to Pro-Heroes then we should compare Uzumaki. Her Quirk is really similar to Uzushiokage. Both of them can make clones and he also has insane strength."
Uzumaki stiffened, blue eyes avoiding the curious eyes of several of their classmates.
Ochako bobbed her head. "Uzumaki also uses the same type of tactics that Uzushiokage uses, whenever someone asked him about his Quirk."
Sweat began building up around Uzumaki's forehead. Didn't All Might use to make diversion tactics because he didn't want to reveal the truth about his own Quirk? Izuku nibbled his lips, fingers twitching as his green eyes focused on his sweating classmate. Was it possible that Uzumaki's Quirk worked in a similar way to his?
"Yeah but they are probably doing it because people like a mystery," Kirishima declared. Uzumaki let out a small sigh as people bobbed their heads and hummed. "You are just doing this in preparation for later when we get known by the public, right?"
Uzumaki smiled tightly and nodded. Only Todoroki doesn't seem to believe her since his eyebrows knitted together into one thin line, almost like contemplating a deep mystery. Izuku pressed his lips together, hands fiddling together as his mind tried to piece up the knowledge of Uzushiokage.
"Uzumaki would be popular," Kaminari tilted his head. "She has got the mysterious vibe going on and she is insanely strong."
"So are Bakugou and Todoroki."
Uzumaki snorted. "Bakugou would have to work his ass off to become popular with people; no one likes to be saved by someone that screams and insults them while they are being saved."
Several heads nodded in agreement.
"What did you say, Whiskers!"
"I have to agree with Uzumaki," Kaminari laughed. "All of us have known each other for a short time, but you have already shown us that your personality is terrible."
"What did you say, Pikachu! How about I pound you?"
Kaminari blinked and scooted slightly closer to Iida as Kacchan waved his fist. The blond-haired boy stood up from his seat, red eyes blazing with fury at the taunt given to him by Kaminari. Uzumaki's lips twitched, blue eyes almost sparkled but slowly faded as a large smile took place. It was almost terrible because his classmate really did look better when she showed her real emotions.
Too bad it took Kacchan pointing out that Uzumaki kept sending her clones on certain days for him to spot the difference.
"Explosive Head, I didn't know you already developed feelings for Kaminari," Everyone blinked as Uzumaki tilted her head, eyebrows scrunched together and her head bobbed up and down. "I think you might need to slow down, Lover Boy."
"Whiskers!"
Uzumaki raised her eyebrow. "What? Everyone knows that underneath your threats is just a soft boy that just wants to come out and show his undying love for sweet Kaminari."
"I am going to fucking kill you, Whiskers!"
"Don't be embarrassed, Bakugou."
Laughter bounced off the walls of the bus as the students giggled at the antics of the two blonds. Izuku buried his face under his hands. How could Uzumaki be unfazed with teasing Bakugou like this? Was she insane? She had to be if she was continuing to agonize Bakugou. If Uzumaki acted like this then this bus ride was just going to be one long and loud bus ride.
He prayed Bakugou didn't end up killing Uzumaki.
Uzushiokage wasn't a name that could be associated with Heroes. A name like that meant that a shinobi decided to become a Hero after escaping from their village. It was the only explanation that Naruto could think of as she followed behind her classmates into USJ. But could a shinobi become a Hero? Could a Kage actually become a Hero after all the things they did?
Naruto chewed on her bottom lip and stared down at her clean hands. Blood might not soak her hands but she still felt the urge to constantly clean it in warm water. Only ten people had been murdered by her hands yet this was her reaction. What would a Kage feel? A shinobi? She shook her head.
She regarded the room. USJ was a gigantic place, bigger than any building that Naruto had ever seen. Even though she dawfed in comparison to the building, she could make out several different zones. Each one of them represented a different zone of destruction. What would the warzone look like? Did they have one? They probably did. A pair of fingers poked her ribs. Blue eyes grew wide when Todoroki regarded her.
"You should focus on where you are going, Uzumaki."
Naruto bobbed as Aizawa swirled his head around, black eyes searching for someone. Her teacher fixated his eyes on a person wearing a spacesuit. Was this person an astronaunt? Weren't Heroes supposed to be teaching them? She scratched her neck and leaned closer to Todoroki. Out of everyone here, her friend wouldn't be annoyed with the question.
"Can astronauts also become Heroes?"
Todoroki raised his eyebrow. "In theory it is possible for anyone to get the hero license, but Thirteen isn't an astronaut turned Hero."
Could have fooled me. Naruto chewed on her bottom lip and leaned further away from her friend, blue eyes fixated at Aizawa. Her teacher knitted his eyebrow together, leaned forward to Thirteen and darted his eyes around the chatting students.
Naruto channeled her chakra into her ear, her white teeth nibbling her bottom lip as the students around her chatted about their expectations for the day.
"Thirteen," Aizawa swirled his head around as Thirteen took a step forward. "Where's All Might? I thought he was supposed to be meeting us."
"Well about that, Senpai…" Thirteen's voice held almost a nervous tone as he lifted three fingers. "All Might seemed to have reached his limit while on his way to work. He is currently taking a break in the break room."
Aizawa pinched his nose. "That man is not just the Symbol of Peace, he is also the symbol of irrationality."
Limit? What did they mean by limit? Naruto scrunched her eyebrows together, head tilted to the side as Thirteen began to make a speech about his Quirk. The students shuffled together, moving closer to the soft-spoken hero. Do Quirks have a time limit? But All Might could still be here even if his Quirk had a limit, couldn't he? Maybe she was overthinking things again.
"You need to focus on Thirteen's speech, Uzumaki." Todoroki regarded her, lips pressed into a thin line as the blond-haired girl bounced slightly on her spot. Blue eyes gazed at Aizawa.
Naruto tore her eyes away and stared at her mismatch friend. "It's too long and it's kinda boring."
"Are you still bothered about the knowledge about Uzushiokage?" Naruto tensed up at the mention of the Hero. She relaxed her body, forcing it to become like jelly and shook her head. Her friend regarded her, lips pressed to a thin line before stiffly nodding his head.
In that moment, the air pressure around them began to change. The lightness of the air seemed to grow thicker and thicker till a blanket of pressure wrapped around them. The bright sun rays seemed to dim as black mist appeared around them. Blue eyes darted to the windows, then to the door behind them before finally fixating at the lower staircase.
A dark portal materialized from underneath there. Aizawa must have noticed it too since he seemed to tense up as his black eyes focused on the center of the room. Blue eyes blew up as a man climbed out of the portal, face covered with…was that an actual hand? Naruto gulped down the bile forming around her throat.
"Huddle together and don't move!" Aizawa commanded, clicking his heels together and spurning around to the students. Most of her classmates froze, bodies trembling and eyes filled with so much fear at the sight in front of them. "Thirteen! Protect the students!"
More and more villains came out of the portal, each one uglier and more scarier than the next and the scene almost played like the horror movies that Naruto really tried her hardest not to see. Most of them looked like they could star in her nightmares. How did these people become Villains? Was it because of their appearance? Maybe. She flickered her eyes to her sweating classmates.
Her throat dried up when a monster came out of the portal, looking almost like it could tower over a truck.
"What's happening?" Kirishima demanded, lifting his eyes to shield them from the sunlight. His eyes squinted together. "Is this training pattern like the one we had to do in the entrance exam?"
"Don't move!" Aizawa barked. "Those are villains."
Naruto flickered her eyes to her classmates, lips pressed into a thin line as her hand fingered the custom kunai pocket in her pants. She took a step forward, blue eyes grew slightly wide as both Bakugou and Midoriya took a step forward. Their hands seemed to reach out, almost like they wanted to shield her.
She relaxed as they stood right next to her.
"How did they get here?" Izuku trembled slightly as Bakugou balled his hands into a tight fist.
"This is school property!" Yaoyorozu swirled her head around to Thirteen. "Sensei, aren't there security systems?"
Naruto pulled her hand away from the kunai pocket, her blue eyes still locked on the villains climbing out of the portal. "Every security system has a glitch."
Everyone swirled their heads at the blond-haired girl, eyes blowing wide at her words. The blond-haired girl squatted down, head tilted to the side and eyebrows scrunched together. "You just need to have one blind spot in the system; one weak area to take advantage when it comes to sneaking in. Once you find it then sneaking in would be a piece of cake."
Sneaking into the Hokage Tower to steal the forbidden scroll had been a piece of cake once Naruto recalled the weak points of the building.
"The system would have been alerted even then," Thirteen balled his gloved hands into a fist. "They must have someone who can short-circuit the system."
Black mist reformed around the main villain as Naruto brought her fingers together. She poked her tongue against her cheeks, blue eyes never leaving the main villain's eyes. That guy had to be the head poncho since the villains seemed to crowd around him. Black mist seemed to partially reform to a human shape near the main guy.
The mist guy lacked pupils so it was hard for Naruto to make out who he seemed to be staring at. Not that it matter because he seemed to be just behind the main guy, speaking volumes of who was the main guy.
"Eraserhead and Thirteen," The blackmist guy hummed. "According to the teachers' curriculum we received before, All Might-san was supposed to be here, and yet—"
His voice drowned out as Naruto stiffened. Those guys broke in yesterday during the chaos that was their lunch time. They probably had someone cause a distraction, snuck in and got the information they needed. It was either that or they had a spy like Kabuto. Her stomach turned at the thought, lips wobbling slightly as a pair of black eyes flashed before her eyes.
"Where is he?" The main villain asked. His voice was rough and disgust laced around his tone. Her hands steadied as those eyes swept across them. "We went through all of this trouble and brought so many of us here. You can't tell me All Might, the Symbol of Peace, isn't here."
The man tilted his head, murderous intent flooded the whole area and the students around her began to shake. They trembled with fear. None of them had ever faced killer's intent, not when all of them had been normal middle school students until just a week ago.
Naruto's hands reached out to the nearest student, who turned out to be Izuku, and slapped them hard on the head.
"W-What was that for, Uzumaki?" Izuku rubbed his head.
Naruto inhaled. "Because the only way to break through this kind of killer intent is to feel pain. Pain brings you back to reality. Now do the same for next person and spread it around."
She relaxed her fingers before smacking Bakugou on the head. At first glance, no one would think Bakugou was terrified but the slight tremor in his body hinted that he still felt some fear. She was about to pinch Todoroki, only for the boy to catch her hand and shake his head. Right. Todoroki was fine. Probably living with an asshole of a father could do that to a person.
Naruto gritted her teeth as Aizawa pulled down his goggles and whipped the ends of his neck cloth. His hair rose away from his face, not allowing anyone to see his eyes.
A creepy smile appeared on the Villain's face. "I wonder if All Might will show up if we kill the students."
Her body froze at the declaration, blue eyes growing completely blank as her classmates panicked. Aizawa flickered his eyes around them, barking at everyone to stay together and not to move away from the group. Naruto pinched herself, took a deep breaths and nibbled her lips. Could Aizawa-sensei really handle this many people?
He didn't really look like much but Aizawa-sensei seemed confident. It was not like she could leave, not when her classmates needed to be protected.
None of them had been through a life-and-death situations. Some of them had Quirks that needed to be fine tuning while others just didn't know how to fight. They might be training to be heroes, but they were civilians. Before she came to Japan, Naruto had been a kunoichi.
She was still a kunoichi, not a good one but it mattered now.
Fight these assholes and show them who is the Head Bitch in Charge.
The air around them began to shift, moving away as a portal clouded around them. Her ears barely catch the polite way that the man mentioned his desire to kill All Might, asking them about the man's whereabouts. Naruto pressed her fingers together, channeled her chakra into her fingers as Bakugou leaned forward, fingers crackling with sparks.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Clouds of smoke appeared as hundreds of Naruto clones surrounded the area. Eyes grew wide as Naruto, her clones, Bakugou and Kirishima launched themselves at the mist. The black mist began to spread around the air. Do physical attacks work on this guy? Kirishima swirled his leg around into a hardened kick as Naruto aimed for the man's face, hands balled into a fist while blast of fire enclosed the man.
The explosion seemed to have scattered the mist man just a little bit.
"Bet you didn't think we'd be able to do that before you have the chance to attack us!" Kirishima pumped his fist in the air.
Naruto tensed up as anger leaked around the area. "Kirishima…I think we made things worse."
The mist guy was not affected by the attack. He just gathered his smoky bits to his body as his voice hummed, yellow eyes fixated on them. "That was quite dangerous," he declared. "This is to be expected. Even though all of you are just students, you are also the cream of the top for the next generation of heroes."
"It's no use!" Thirteen yelled, drawing the attention of the three students. He pointed his open fingertips at Kurogiri as if his fingers could do anything. "Run, you three!"
Naruto tensed up as black mist exploded all around them. Darkness slowly clouded her eyes and the sound seemed to be muffled as her classmates screamed out in fear. "You will be scattered." Naruto tensed up as Todoroki seemed to reach out towards her. His mouth was forming something but she couldn't hear it, not with the smoke being stuffed in her ear. "And you will be tortured."
You son of a bitch. Naruto clenched her hands into a fist as she her hands punched through the empty air. Her punches slowed down when red eyes met her own. An emotion appeared in those red eyes, an emotion that Naruto never thought to see from her ever angry classmate. Concern and fear. She had to protect them with everything she got.
That was her last thought as the black mist clouded her vision.
A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter. Tell me of your thoughts of the interactions that Naruto has with her classmates and Bakugou. What can be improved about this chapter?