Hey there everyone, coming at you now with the second of these new stories encouraged by my colleagues in the AizenTheGoat server. This was suggested by Scoopball, the same guy that suggested my Hungergames and Foodwars fics so another one from him might be another winner.
A quick heads up on this fic. It will be pretty episodic in nature for a while and closely follow the original content, being One Punch Man, at least for a while. There will be original stuff to come but it will take time to get there. This story over all is supposed to be a relaxed and light hearted one, but we will see how that goes.
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That is enough of that lets get to the story
Chapter-1
Naruto leaned over the arm of the couch while he and Saitama sat watching the news broadcast. The city was being ransacked by another ridiculously powerful monstrosity. By now it was a bit of a typical afternoon for City Z. Voted the number one best place to get massacred ten years in a row, City Z was pretty much always being ransacked by some monster or other.
"This one's really going after it, huh?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from his childhood friend.
"He's only about three blocks from here." Saitama responded.
As if to confirm his point the apartment building they were in shook violently as another highrise nearby crumbled down into a pile of rubble.
"Two blocks now." Naruto snorted.
The news crew on the television frantically explained the situation to the viewers. Evidently the nearest heroes headed toward the monster were already defeated…then again with names like Smiley Man or whatever it was that was sort of the expected result. The news team ducked briefly as they informed the audience that the government was still trying to analyze the threat level.
"As you can see behind me the wake of destruction caused by this monster is at an unprecedented scale!" The reporter shouted.
"Hardly, last month that giant beetle thing tore the warehouse district to pieces." Naruto commented.
"Yeah, but this guy is going after the commercial and residential sections of the city." Saitama pointed out.
Naruto hummed at that. He had a point, still the damage done to the warehouses had been something in the millions of dollars after only a few minutes of a rampage.
"The Hero Association is analyzing the threat level in order to–ahh!" The reporter continued before crying out in pain.
The news feed cut out after that and the television turned to nothing but static.
"Guess we can go." Saitama said as he stood up.
"Sure." Naruto agreed with a grin, as both men made their way to get dressed out in their outfits.
The purple humanoid creature made its way calmly through the rubble of City Z before stopping to smirk at the whimpering little girl before him. She cried out for her mom and dad, as they had been blown away in one of the blasts the creature launched against the city.
He laughed as his hand expanded to a size large enough to crush her in one clench of his fist. Just as it clamped down though, the girl was suddenly whisked out of his grasp as two figures appeared nearby.
They looked similar, one in a burnt orange jumpsuit with a red cape and the other in a bright yellow jumpsuit with a white cape. The yellow man, a bald guy, was couched down shielding the girl with his body, while the one in orange, with bright blond hair, stood between the two and the purple monster.
"Hmm?" The creature hummed in surprise as he didn't feel the crunch and pop[ of the girl in his hand. He slowly turned to look at the two heroes facing off against him while the man in yellow slowly set the girl down and began to stand beside his colleague.
"You're impressively fast, aren't you? Who are you anyway?" The creature asked blandly.
"Well, I'm just a guy who's a hero for fun." Saitama said with a small smirk.
"And I'm his babysitter." Naruto chimed in getting a rough elbow from his friend.
"Alright, alright. Same for me I guess." Naruto chuckled.
The creature stared at the pair for a moment before snorting in derision. "You're kidding right? What kind of half-assed reasoning is that. Don't you have some sort of back-story?"
Naruto and Saitama glanced at one another before looking back at the purple monster.
"I mean yeah but why would we tell you about it?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, do you even really want to hear it?" Saitama asked.
"Hah, you're right. Whatever background you could have couldn't compare to my own! I was formed from the pollution man wrought upon the earth!" The creature began to rant.
Saitama elbowed Naruto lightly again to get his attention before flapping one of his hands as if it was a puppet talking. Naruto snorted in laughter as Saitama blatantly mocked their opponent.
"I am Vaccine Man! The earth is a single living organism. You filthy humans are nothing but a disease causing bacteria eating away at her precious life force." Vaccine Man continued. "In order to wipe out humanity and the evil civilization built on her surface,"
As he spoke he continued to grow and become more brutal and horrendous in appearance as his eyes flashed a brilliant red. "The earth in her infinite wisdom has given birth to me!"
"You two say you do this for fun? For Fun? How dare you confront Mother Earth's Apostle for such a mindless reason!" The monster continued to rant as it bared down on them.
Naruto and Saitama briefly tuned him out as they turned to face one another again before each of them held up a fist and smirked at one another.
"I am so getting to go again." Naruto chuckled.
"Not this time, you can't win rock paper scissors five times in a row. It's not going to happen." Saitama laughed back, neither taking Vaccine Man or his ranting seriously in the slightest.
"On the count of three." Naruto said.
"Alright." Saitama said and both began to shake their fists. "Wait! Wait! On one, two, three, or on one, two, three, go?"
"Uhm, on go." Naruto said, getting a nod from his friend.
"One." They bobbed their hands causing the monster to narrow his eyes at them as he finally realized he was being ignored.
"Two." They said again.
"Three." The pair said, raising their hands for a final time.
"Go!" The pair stopped their hands with Naruto's still in a fist and Saitama's two fingers out like scissors.
"That's crap." Saitama pouted while Naruto cackled in victory.
"You dare ignore me you vile hu-" Vaccine Man roared as he launched toward them, only for Naruto's hand to lash out and connect with the creature's body splattering it into pulp across the whole district.
Both Naruto and Saitama stood still as they stared at one another. A small amount of steam wisped off of Naruto's knuckles from where he had connected with his punch.
"Well, shit." Naruto grumbled.
"Again? All it took was one punch again?" Saitama asked angrily.
"Relax man, that's all it ever takes." Naruto said with a sigh. He understood where his friend was coming from though.
"Come on, let's get the kid to some aid workers, I'm kind of hungry too." Naruto said as he picked up the little girl.
Saitama watched Naruto walk for a moment before he sighed and followed after the blond.
Naruto and Saitama were browsing the grocery store's selection of food as they hung out yet again. At this point that was just about all either of them did. Hang out, watch television, sometimes kill a monster. It was actually a pretty boring and comfortable life.
That had been their life for the last three years of so. Ever since they had first killed a monster together before awakening their powers. Though Saitama remained adamant he had just worked out until he had achieved his level of power. Not even Naruto could convince him otherwise.
"Hey check it out." Naruto said, tossing a package of crab legs over to Saitama. "Remind you of anyone."
Saitama looked down at the crab in his hands as he reflected on the first incident the pair had accomplished together.
Saitama still had hair back then, and was…well he was unemployed and struggling to find a job. Naruto similarly had trouble getting work but had been doing a little part time work at a local bar to cover his expenses. At least until he could find a better full-time gig for employment.
Naruto had been walking with Saitama on his way home from another job interview. He was trying to cheer him up and decided to pay for a round at the bar, using his discount of course. They'd both been surprised to come face to face with a crab monster of some kind. In the end He'd initially let them go because, well, he seemed to find some common ground with them. Naruto couldn't recall the exact reason, something to do with eyes or something.
Either way he had just carried on, evidently looking for some specific kid to kill. Of course when Naruto and Saitama passed by a playground they ran into that kid. Just a typical snot-nosed brat. But not one that deserved getting mauled by some freaky crab creature.
Needless to say, neither Naruto or Saitama were about to walk away and just let a little kid…brat or not, get mangled. So they stood their ground. And got the ever loving piss beaten out of them for a few minutes.
At least until Naruto managed to pull down the monster's claw giving Saitama a chance to use his back as a springboard and hook his tie around the monster's eyestalk.
The rest, as they say, is history. They killed him, and as tempting as it was, did not then package him up to have crab for dinner the rest of the year. Couldn't be sure if that still counted as cannibalism or not honestly.
"Can you believe it's been three years since then?" Naruto asked, pulling his friend from his thoughts.
"Hard to imagine. So much has happened since then, we trained so hard. I trained so hard." Saitama wistfully commented.
"Yeah man." Naruto agreed.
"It's still not fair that my training made me go bald and yours didn't." Saitama said with a frown.
"What? That's not why you idiot. I told you not to use those Cambodian supplements you bought online. How the hell they didn't just kill you is the confusing part." Naruto shot back.
"Tch, maybe." Saitama replied.
Both were silent for a while before they sighed again and just finished up their grocery shopping. They were…well they were bored. The only one that either could honestly be challenged by was one another and sparring honestly became pretty boring after a while. They pretty much always had to stop before destroying too much of the landscape around them so they never could find who was the top spot in their power ranking.
No monster stood up against them for more than a single strike. It was painfully annoying at this point. They knew there was something wrong with them. They were…lifeless. Bored. Dangerously so.
The only highlights of their day…
The building they were in was torn to pieces as a ridiculously huge giant strode past. Its feet leveled entire blocks of the city simply by stepping on them. Naruto and Satiama blinked in surprise as the monster continued to walk on, occasionally swinging a massive arm and creating a shock way that rip up huge swathes of the city no doubt killing thousands.
"Rock Paper Scissors?" Naruto suggested with a smirk aimed at Saitama.
"Not a chance. Coin toss this time." Saitama replied before fishing a single penny out and flipping it.
"Call it." He said to Naruto.
"Tails never fails." The blond shrugged.
Saitama caught the coin and slowly revealed which side had landed up, causing Naruto to groan and Saitama himself to cackle.
"Today it fails. This dude is mine!" Saitama cheered before disappearing in a burst of speed.
Naruto grumbled, though he supposed fair was fair. He'd gotten the last several monsters after all. He blurred away at ridiculous levels of speed of his own to watch Saitama's fight.
When he stopped he watched as the giant swatted its own brother instead of Saitama by accident and couldn't help but chuckle at what was going on. His laughter turned to annoyance soon after though as the monster flung Saitama down through a highrise apartment building causing it to collapse in on itself. He then leapt into the air to stomp down on the bald man with all of his titanic weight coming right down on top of him.
"Oh come on Saitama, stop screwing around man!" He called out to his friend.
"Man, shut up. Let me savor this." Saitama called back.
"Booooo!" Naruto called back while he sat down on a pile of rubble and cracked the tab of a soda he had snagged back at the grocery store.
Naruto again rolled his eyes as the giant began throwing punch after punch into the spot where Saitama had fallen. Really this was just ridiculous. Eventually he had created a massive crate in the center of what had once been the middle of City D. With that, the giant stood and caught it's breath.
"I am the strongest man." He said calmly before looking at the splattered remains of his brother on his palm.
"But what does that matter…all I feel is emptiness." He groaned.
"Oh, you get it right?" Saitama asked as he jumped out of the crater unscathed.
In a single leap he was at head height with the giant and landed a punch against its jaw. The bony armor plate on its head shattered and its face contorted from the blow as it was hurled backwards from the strike.
"Having overwhelming strength is pretty boring, actually." Saitama blandly commented as the giant collapsed dead on top of the city.
"Oops." Saitama commented as he landed beside Naruto.
The two men strolled home, having returned back to CIty Z from City D. As they took in the rough appearance of their neighborhood neither was in all that high of spirits. They weren't angry or even really all that sad. Simply put they had both long realized that they were more or less listless.
They were unbeatable, literally. Still that didn't do much to change the world for the better. It didn't even really change their lives for the better. They woke up, milled around, and occasionally hit something. It was a bit depressing.
How could they complain though? They didn't want for anything really. They had more power than most could ever imagine. And yet all that strength didn't make any real difference. Their only real enjoyable part of the day was hanging out together and goofing around. Typically being incredibly sarcastic assholes to one another.
When your life could be summed up as day in and day out of nothingness and snark….was it really a life at all?
They paused when they heard someone rustling in the engine compartment of one of the cars on the roadway and both stared boredly at the car human hybrid as it tore into the engine before stopping as it noticed Naruto and Saitama nearby.
"Haha no sense in hid-" The monster began only to get clocked by Naruto splattering the creature across the roadway.
"Dude, you didn't even let him finish his monologue." Saitama complained.
"Am I supposed to stand here and let every asshole run through his whole practiced speech? Man it's late and I'm hungry." Naruto grumbled.
"You could have at least flipped the coin." Saitama said as he turned toward the path home again.
"Hah, see you don't care that I interrupted him. You're just annoyed that you didn't splat him." Naruto pointed out.
"Whatever." Saitama said as they headed up the stairs to the cheap apartment they split.
Once back home both men ate a quiet dinner. Watched some television, and promptly headed to bed. Another boring end to another boring day.
Saitama could lie, he was ecstatic. Someone shouldn't be happy that they were fighting monsters that had killed over seventy percent of the world's population. Especially if that someone was a hero. Still it had been so long since he'd had a real good fight. One where he didn't have to hold back anymore.
He had forgotten what it felt like. To cut loose and fight. To carve a path through these Mole Men while the world around them shattered from the power of their battle. It was almost perfect. The only way it would be better would be if his partner, no, his sidekick Naruto was here fighting alongside him!
But he could ignore that for now to enjoy the exhilaration of a real fight. Just as he raced forward to crush the Subterranean King who was massive in size and in power….
"Man shut the hell up! It's like six in the morning!" Naruto shouted as he ricocheted a slipper off of Saitama's head before embedding it into the wall.
Saitama stared up at the ceiling in horror as he realized he had only been dreaming. That horror suddenly turned back to joy as he heard a crash outside and raced to his balcony to see…well a mockery of the creatures he'd been battling in his dream below.
He cheered at the sight of them though. Maybe they would put up a fight just like in his dream even if they didn't look quite as terror inspiring as he had imagined.
Naruto watched boredly as Saitama jumped into the street below. He was a bit miffed at being woken up so early, but sighed before making his way to his feet and getting around for the day. It's not like Saitama was going to relax after fighting such pitiful monsters.
As Naruto prepped the coffeemaker he groaned in annoyance as he heard his friend shout about the subterraneans giving up too easily.
"We're out of milk…" He realized before thumping his head against the refrigerator door.
"We're too strong!" Saitama growled as he stepped back into the apartment.
Naruto just looked at his roommate and best friend blandly before scribbling milk onto the list on the fridge door.
Naruto clicked through the news channels on the television while Saitama took care of his half of the chores for the day. The blond was still a bit testy after being woken up by the other man at the crack of dawn over a damn dream of all things.
"These odd trends in the mosquito population ov-" One news broadcaster said before Naruto clicked to the next channel.
"The cause of the massive mosquito outbreak plaguing our nation-" Another began before Naruto clicked past it and twisted around as Saitama walked past to water the cactus they kept on the balcony.
"Let's take a look at some diagrams showing the trajectory for this new species of mosquito as they build into a massive swarm-" A third commented.
"Man, City Z's right in their path. Now we've got a mosquito plague to deal with?" Saitama asked as he began watering the cactus.
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an emergency alert. A large swarm of mosquitoes has been sighted in City Z. Mummified remains of farm animals have also been found." The emergency broadcaster began but neither Naruto or Saitama were listening, having both moved out to the balcony.
"Hey, stop already." Naruto demanded.
"Relax. I know what I'm doing." Saitama argued.
"Obviously not. You are over watering the cactus man." Naruto said, trying to snatch the water sprinkler out of his friend's hand.
"Hey, this is my cactus, let me handle it." Saitama said as he pulled the container away while still watering the plant.
Both stopped as they watched a mosquito circle Saitama's head before it settled onto his hand. The bald man narrowed his eyes before super-powered swatting it. Somehow though the bug managed to survive and buzzed back out of his hands before circling around him again causing him and Naruto to both stare in mild awe.
Taking it as a challenge, Saitama began trying to catch the mosquito as his hands sped up faster and more powerfully. Soon Naruto sat watching as his roommate began utilizing his super powered speed and agility to try and swat the bug bothering him.
That is until it settled onto Saitama's head. Realizing where it had landed, Naruto's face split into a broad grin. Rearing back his hand, Saitama realized what was about to happen a moment too late.
"I got you bro!" Naruto cackled before roughly smacking his roommates face to the side with a crack of thunder, leaving a bright painful red spot on the side of Saitama's face.
"Dick!" Saitama shouted as his hands flew to his aching face.
"Ah, shit I missed somehow." Naruto chuckled before trying to catch the mosquito between his hands.
Saitama joined in shortly after as both attempted to catch the buzzing insect with little success despite their inhuman abilities.
Alarms blared as a woman's voice warned the citizens of City Z to remain indoors or evacuate to escape the massive swarm of murderous mosquitoes wafting over the city and announcing the threat level as that of Demon.
"All residents of City Z are to remain indoors." The voice continued as a looter chuckled while clearing out a small shop.
"Heh, thanks to that warning everything's completely empty. As if someone is actually going to die from a mosquito bite." He turned to look at his ridiculous haul of ill gotten gains. "What's a little blood loss if I get to walk away with all of this?"
On cue the swarm of mosquitoes rushed onto the looter and wrapped up around him entirely as he screamed. Within seconds he was drained dry and left as a literal husk of his former self. Letting the drop collapse the bugs swirled around their apparent mistress surrendering the blood they had stolen from their victim to her, causing her to moan lewdly as she ingested it.
"Moh, that's not near enough to keep me satisfied. All of you go get some more for me." She commanded the swarm.
The swarm hadn't gotten a chance to leave before a burst of flame impacted them and singed the mosquito woman's body faintly causing her to turn to glare at her newly arrived opponent in contempt.
"I see. You make the mosquitoes suck the blood and then take it all for yourself. You must be controlling each one by using some kind of signal. That would explain their mysterious behavior. So if I were to get rid of you, their leader, would the swarm disperse as well?" A young hero with a body composed almost entirely of machinery wondered aloud.
As he spoke the swarm the woman controlled collected and grew in size until it had reformed into a massive dark cloud of buzzing insects, hovering just behind her.
"Oh, hmhmhm, our next meal is here. Go drain that fool dry!" She practically moaned to her pets.
As they circled him though the cyborg remained calm and formed a massive pillar of flame that engulfed the sward around him and burned them away in a cloud of ash and smoke. The mosquito monster woman…thingy, gasped as she watched her swarm so easily be destroyed.
"I am here to eliminate you. Stay right where you are." He said as he lifted his hand up to take aim at her.
"You believe that you can eliminate me? Then go on and try!" She mocked. Her answer was a massive blast of flame fired directly at her.
Meanwhile though, both Naruto and Saitama had begun to give chase to their mosquito prey as it left the confines of their balcony and took off over the city. Neither aware of the real battle going on between the monster leading the bug that had earned their annoyance and the cyborg hero intent on destroying her.
Both had injured the other, with him taking her legs but losing an arm to her in the exchange. She had an ace up her sleeve though. The majority of her swarm had been unable to feed on humans due to them hiding indoors, but that didn't protect the multitude of animals spread across both City Z and the surrounding countryside.
"Now come to me little ones and fill me up with all those precious juices you all have for me!" She cried before the swarm engulfed and fed her.
The cyborg began charging up a massive attack, fearing exactly what would happen if she finished absorbing all the blood the swarm had gotten for her. He took aim only to be interrupted as he saw two men stop in the roadway nearby.
"I swear to god man, I heard some nympho chick screaming about taking everyone's precious juices over here somewhere." Naruto said as he and Saitama looked around.
"You have to be imagining things. Everyone is hiding indoors because of the bugs. If someone was screaming about that it'd be like in a hotel room or something not in the middle of the street." Saitama argued, annoyed that the mosquito had escaped him somehow.
"I'm telling you. Freaks love that shit." Naruto argued.
"Whatever." Saitama huffed.
Both stopped as they stared up at the massive swarm of mosquitos.
"No way." Naruto mumbled.
"You there." The cyborg said, getting their attention.
"Evacuate, that swarm is conscious and if it senses you it will attack." He informed them.
"Seriously? That's bad news. We should get–" Saitama began to say, only for an ear splitting laugh to boom out from within the swarm.
They never got the chance as the swarm cascaded down onto them like a black avalanche. It carried such a huge amount of insects and smashed down with so much power it managed to weaken the foundation of nearby buildings and topple them.
The Cyborg wasted no time in his response to the attack and shifted the shape of his arm to unleash a new powerful attack against the mosquitos. For a moment blue charges of energy coalesced within the swarm before detonating into a massive explosion that set the mosquitoes and even the nearby air on fire as it burned everything nearby.
"Since she could speak I assumed she had at least near human intelligence. Instead it seems as if she was just another bug. She foolishly brought all the insects together for one easy to burn swarm. When I first arrived I confirmed that there were no living beings within five hundred meters in all directions, so this location allowed me to fire at will." He said calmly and confidently before he recalled the two strangers.
"Wait those two idiots-" He began.
"Man, you saved us." Saitama said.
"Don't give him a big head Sai. I mean listen to him. He doesn't need you boosting his ego on some dumb shit." Naruto chided.
"What man, he totally made the bugs but out of here." Saitama said as he and Naruto stood in mere scorched rags.
"Why?" The blond asked as he shook his head at Saitama's joke, though he couldn't stop the small smirk he had.
The Cyborg stared at the two as both seemed completely uncaring for the situation at hand. The moment ended quickly as a mad cackle from the woman broke them out of it and drew their attention back to the sky to see the mosquito monster woman.
"You idiot! I no longer need my tiny, little helpers." She said as she stared down at them.
"Oh shit, that was the chick I heard." Naruto pointed up at her as he elbowed Siatama.
"Freak covered her pretty nicely I guess." Saitama commented.
"That's no joke. Shit though, she's the hottest monster I've seen to date. Like why does she have that body shape if she is supposed to be a freaky mosquito or something?" Naruto asked.
"I dunno. I mean she has hair…and lipstick too?" Saitama asked, turning his head to the side in confusion.
"Just look at how strong I have become!" She shouted before wrecking a building with a slash of her claws.
With a mad giggle she blurred around the Cyborg before landing a devastating slash against his side, nearly tearing him in half. The machine man wasn't out of the fight yet though as he swung his fist up against her to try and land a solid blow. Instead, she casually flicked him up into the sky, following after him all while giggling madly.
"Can't your macho punches kill a little mosquito? What a weakling." She mocked while beating him apart.
Naruto and Saitama watched on before turning to one another.
"She is really killing that man." Saitama said while Naruto produced his fist for a round of rock paper scissors.
After the customary count, Naruto was groaning as he sat down on the hood of an old car and Saitama chuckled smugly while rolling his shoulder to wind up his arm.
Just as the Cyborg prepared himself to self-destruct, Saitama appeared beside them and casually slapped the bug woman, painting the buildings nearby in red as he turned her to a paste.
"Well that was something." Naruto rolled his eyes, getting Saitama to snicker as he knew that the blond was only annoyed that he didn't get to hit her.
The cyborg stared at the two as they prepared to leave. He could see that not only had the man's slap instantly killed the monster it had split the ground and cleared the skies as well. Like a force of nature contained in arguably the weakest form of attack he could imagine.
"What? Who are you?" He asked the two men who seemed completely unbothered by the situation. Why should they be after all? It was pretty normal for them.
"Ah, well I'm Saitama and this is Naruto." Saitama explained.
"I would like to be your disciple." He proclaimed catching both overpowered individuals off guard before they glanced at one another.
Naruto realized what Saitama intended the moment his eyes narrowed. Unluckily for the bald man, Naruto was just a slight bit faster than him at speaking.
"That is an excellent idea. I learned everything I know from him as well. He is the perfect teacher, a new era sage for real." Naruto said, causing Saitama to turn to look at him in shock.
"Truly?" The Cyborg asked.
"For sure. He was just telling me how with my training complete recently he needed a new student. This is just too perfect. Saitama, no doubt you will fulfill this poor man's request and become his master!" Naruto passionately cheered.
Caught off guard Saitama stammered for a moment before he answered. "Um, sure."
Naruto smirked at the stink eye his friend was shooting at him but he didn't mind. Being the strongest was incredibly boring, but now he was sure to be entertained for a long while to come.
Alright that is that for chapter one. I hope you enjoyed, obviously we have a lot more to come.
Till Next Time.