I present you one of the latest stories, The Evolving Noumu! Crossover between Naruto and My Hero Academia/Boku No Hero Academia!
Like some of my stories, I won't describe characters' appearance until there are any changes. It will have few non-cannon arcs with a few cannon arcs.
Before anyone jump in, I have mentioned before in different stories, Naruto will be different, even with the origin. Just to let you guys know if anyone forget about it.
Warning: Slightly OP, will be OP in the future.
Most characters might be OOC but I'm trying my best.
Enjoy the first chapter of EN.
Disclaimer: I don't own Boku No Hero Academia, Naruto or anything mentioned in this story.
Chapter 1: Naruto the Noumu!
A pair of odd blue eyes with cross pupils scan every faces in a dimly area and the owner merely tilt its head slightly before a raspy voice catch the owner's attention. "What is it doing here?" Tomura Shigaraki narrowed his eyes at the owner with disembodied hands all over his body and face, "It doesn't follow my orders all the time, it's fucking useless!"
"It's okay, Sensei believe it will benefit him to stretch his legs out and with his quirks, it might aid us if anything goes wrong." Kurogiri reassured Tomura as he turned his head to a bulky black Noumu, "And beside, two of them are better than one."
"Tsk, whatever." Tomura clicked his tongue angrily, "That thing better not screw it up." He jammed his hands into his pockets as his eyes shift to his loyal second-in-commander, "It's time, get us in." Kurogiri's body emerges in black fog, blanketing everything in sight.
"That is all!" Thirteen bowed to the students after he gave them a long explanation about the USJ and his quirk, "You have my gratitude for listening so intently and patiently!"
"That was awesome!" Ochako shouted with pumping arms and several students applauding for the space hero.
"All right, first thing's first…" Aizawa muttered dully but he suddenly stop talking as something catch his attention from the corner of his eyes and he turn to see a odd black hole in the distance. The swirling hole slowly enlarge before a hand grab the edge of the hole, seems to stretch it open and a twisted face greeted the gloomy teacher with a psychotic glint. With many years of experience as pro hero and guts, Aizawa shout out to his students and fellow pro hero as sea of villains pour out of the black fog. "HUDDLE TOGETHER AND DON'T MOVE! THIRTEEN! PROTECT THE STUDENTS!"
"What is that!?" Kirishima peeked over the rail confusingly, "Is this like that training pattern at the entrance exam?"
"DON'T MOVE!" Aizawa pulled his goggles down with a bark, "THOSE ARE VILLAINS!"
"Eraserhead and Thirteen…" Kurogiri scanned their faces, "According to the teachers' curriculum we procured yesterday, Mr. All Might was supposed to be here, and yet…"
"I know it." Aizawa growled as he remembered the reporter incident, "So yesterday was the doing of you louts."
"Where is he…" Tomura whined angrily, "We went through all this trouble and rustled up so many of us to bring along. You can't tell me All Might…The symbol of peace…Isn't here…" He turned his eyes to the students eerily, "I wonder if he'll show up if we kill the kids?"
"V-Villains?!" Someone cried out, "GET OUT OF HERE! What kinda numbskull could think honest-to-god villains would be able to just waltz into the hero home base?!"
"Sensei!" Momo stared at the villains as they keep walking out of the black fog, "What about the intruder alarm sensors?!"
"Of course we have some set up, but…" Thirteen frowned behind his helmet and he can hear a student make some deduces.
"Thirteen, do the evacuation procedure!" Aizawa called out, "And try calling the school! These villains know how to get around the sensors! There's a chance there's an electrowave-type guy who'll try interfering!" He turned his eyes to one of his students, "Kaminari, you too! Try contracting Yuuei with your quirk!"
"S-Sensei!" Izuku noticed that the gloomy teacher run toward the rail, "Are you gonna fight them alone?! Even if you suppress all of their quirks, there's so many of them! The battle style of Eraserhead is to catch villains after erasing their quirks. Meaning, the main battle start now…"
"A hero always has more than one trick up their sleeves." Aizawa cut him off, "Thirteen, I'm counting on you!" He leap over the cliff toward the villains.
The owner of blue eyes watch on as Eraserhead singlehandedly took several villains out with his long bandages and several villains were in panic when they found out that they can't use their quirks for some reason. "His hand-to-hand combat skills, too, are commendade…" Tomura rambled in front of the owner, "Furthermore, we cannot be sure just whose quirks he's 'erased', since his line of sight is hidden by those goggles. That is why even a mass allied against him is tasting defeat. Now I see." He bit his fingernail annoyingly, "God, pro heroes are such a pain. If we were just any rabble, we wouldn't stand a chance." Kurogiri was about to reply but he notice Thirteen trying to flee with the students before he wrap in front of them.
"I'm afraid I can't allow that." The teleporter said, "Greetings. We are the Villain Alliance. I apologize for the presumption but we took it upon ourselves to enter Yuuei academy, the base of heroes…In order to engage with Mr. All Might, the 'symbol of peace'. We were wondering if we might be allowed the opportunity to extinguish him, you see." He calmly glances at the shocked faces, "Was Mr. All Might not meant to be in attendance at this juncture? Perchance, has something been altered? Ah well…" He sighed, "Setting that aside…" The black fog emerge out, "This is my role." Suddenly, Kirishima and Bakugou attack him with their quirks.
"Bet you didn't think we'd be able to do you in before you got a chance!" Kirishima grinned and he ignored Kurogiri's sentence.
"It's no use, just run!" Thirteen shouted, "RUN, YOU TWO!"
"You will be scattered…" Kurogiri blanketed the area in black fog, "And tortured! And slain!"
"Everyone!" Someone cried out before Kurogiri scattered the students and villains in random locations, the blue eyes' owner was taken to a certain zone.
It only have been about ten or more minutes and the owner just watch three students fight the villains until two of them cover themselves under a blanket, that was created by a girl with long hair, and the solo male student knock all the villains out with one giant lighting bolt. The owner wasn't affect by the bolt since he was out of the range, he merely tilts his head to his left and his feet step forward. "Now then…" Momo took the blanket off after she checked the situation.
"Uhh, you've got a pretty big tear in your shirt." Jirou stared at Momo's large chest embarrassingly, how can a fifteen years old developing this much?! Something catch her eyes and she look up to see a fifteen year old boy, crouching over the unconscious villain as he poke the twitching body with tilted head.
The boy have a lanky but muscular body with blond short spiky hair and he have a unique birthmarks, which look like six whispers on his cheeks, he only wear a black spandex pant that stop at his calves. Jirou have notice many odd thin tattoo-like lines all over his body, outlining and detailing every muscle and joints, and it make him look like a robot or something like that.
"Dammit, another one?" Momo spotted the blonde teenager with narrowed eyes and the boy suddenly turned his head to face them as if he just heard the creator from distance, revealing his dull blue eyes with odd cross pupils that seem to cover the whole of his eyeballs and for some reason, it send a chilling shiver down their spines, Even Kaminari in his derp personality. Jirou quickly shoot up on her feet with her sword and before she know it, the boy was at her side, following by a massive pain that course through her arm. She slowly look down to see that the boy just hold her right forearm in a grip and it swell up so badly, signaling that the boy just broke her arm. She cried out in pain as she drops down on her knees, trying not to pass out from the agonizing pain as she clutching her broken arm. "Jirou!" Momo shouted out before she hears laughter behind her and she look back to see that a helmet-wearing villain holding Kaminari hostage as the boy just giggling dumbly. 'Dammit!' She frozen up, is that how it'll end for them?!
"Good job, dude." The helmet-wearing villain chuckled evilly, "Now what will we do with th…" All of sudden, the blonde boy bury his fist in the helmet-wearing villain's stomach with a sickening crack as the villain bend in half with widened eyes before he launch across the field, releasing the lighting-wielding student in process, and the villain skip across until he stop few yards away, unmoving but still breathing.
"W-What the hell in world…" Momo stared at the blonde boy with Jirou as the boy studying his fist with corking head as if he have never seen it before, "Isn't he one of them?!"
"H-H-He's fucking psycho!" Jirou grunted painfully and she stiffened up as the boy look at them again before something hit their heads, creating bad headaches.
Why are humans so fragile?
"W-W-Wha…" The creator held her head with a wince.
"W-W-Was that a quirk?!" Jirou shot daggers at the boy, "Hey, you! Is that your doing?!"
The boy stare at her for a while before he open his mouth with a pop as if he haven't used it for a long time, "…Yes." His voice sound more robotically than their class president but it was so emotionless, "That is my doing. Answer me that, why are humans so fragile?" He cast his eyes upon the unconscious villains before his eyes shift to his opening palms, "They pass out after one hit from the lighting-user and when I touch this one's arm..." He pointed at Jirou, "This one also screams out loudly than these humans. Are humans this fragile?"
"T-Touch?!" Jirou spat out, "Y-Y-Y-You crazy bastard, you fucking broke my arm then you act like it's something new! And don't call me 'this one', I have a name!"
"Jirou, calm down!" Momo warned her teammate, she don't want her to escalating her pain.
"I-I-I am fucking calm!" The earjacking girl hissed angrily, "This psycho act like he's not a human!"
"Jirou, is that your name?" The boy suddenly appears in front of their faces, startling them in process and everything happened in a blur. Momo tried to create a weapon out of her body but the boy jam his hand into the ground before he tear it out, fling the earth up like a pebble and it knock Momo back few foot away from them. "Jirou, why are humans so fragile?" He asked again, his eyes stare eerily at the shocked girl.
"T-T-T-The fuck should I tell you that?!" Jirou held her injured arm to her chest with a shiver, "Y-You broke my arm then you keep demanding me for a stupid question after that! Are you fucking insane?!" The boy just stare at her for a while before he glance at her broken arm and he look back to her.
"…Are you refusing to answer me because I broke it?" The boy asked as she kept glaring at him, trying to be brave in front of creepy insane person and he grabs her broken arm again.
"Jirou!" Momo raced toward them as another sickening crack can be hear out again and Jirou jerk her arm away from the boy with tightened eyes, bracing herself for any pain but nothing come. Jirou's eyes snap widened and she look down at her injured arm…No, it's not broken anymore, there was no swelling, no dislocating bone, nothing but perfect healthy arm. "What the…" Momo whispered in shock as Jirou touched her healthily arm with widened eyes before she jerk her head up to the boy, who was still staring at her unmoving. 'M-Multiply quirks?!' Whoever this guy is, all she knows is that guy is very dangerous.
"Will you tell me why humans are so fragile now?" The boy asked again like a broken record.
"What the hell are you?" Jirou muttered absentmindedly as she scooted away from him.
"They call us Noumu." The boy said, "He named me Naruto. Why are humans so fragile…" He leaned closer, "Give me answer now. Tell me why…I need answer…" He took few steps forward and his hand reaches out toward ominously. "Why are humans so fragile?!"
"Not everyone are fragile!" Momo stepped back with Jirou as she shielded the dumb lighting-user, this guy keep skipping around giggling like a derp person because of this damn quirk! "It's true that there are some people weaker than us but there are people stronger and we're not fragile." She doesn't know why she answer his question in this situation.
"…I do not understand." Naruto halt in his track with tilted head as he stares at them blankly, "Humans are fragile but they are not?" His hand dropped down, "Why?"
"Just because!" Jirou snarled, what the hell is wrong with this guy?! "There are things that we don't understand but that are just how it is! After all, you and I are human! We're all humans, you psycho!"
"…Me, human?" Naruto turned his eyes to her, "That is incorrect, I am Noumu. I am…" The exploding sound cut him off and he turn to the source to see a muscular figure step through the front gate in the distance.
"Have no fear, for I have come!" All Might announced with angry expression.
"A-A-All Might!" Momo smiled at the announcement, the symbol of peace's voice can be heard all over the USJ.
"He's here…" Jirou grinned widely before she turns to Naruto with a smirk, "Now you're so done!"
"…" Naruto stared at the top hero as he swiftly took the rest of villains out before the hero pulled the rest of students away from the bulky Noumu, "…Who is he?" The girls can't help but to trip over at his question.
"H-H-How can you not know who he is?!" Jirou shouted at him with pointing finger, "Do you live somewhere under rock or what?! He is All Might, the symbol of peace and number one hero in the world!"
"He is All Might?" The blonde replied as the muscular hero attacked the bulky Noumu, "…So that is the one he want die?" His body tensed up intensely.
"Huh…" Momo barely registered the last sentence as the blonde sprint off down the mountain zone at astounding speed, "Dammit!"
"Don't worry, All Might can take him out easily." Jirou glanced at the direction, "…That guy…For a villain, he was so weird but scary…"
"Wheyy!" Kaminari jabbed his thumb-ups at them with a stupid giggle, "Wheyy!"
"Crap, crap, why did he run off?!" Tooru wander though the woods, if anyone were around, they would just see a pair of floating gloves moving around as if she was in panic. "But I really don't know Shouto was this strong! Wait until I tell…Huh?" Tooru spot a figure in the distance as it run toward her and she squirt her unseen eyes. "…Who is it…Ah!" She cried out in panic as soon as she realize it was not a student and this person was getting closer so faster that they might collide with each other, which might hurt or kill her from this high speed. "Shit, shit, shit!" The floating gloves waved around but her worries were for nothing as the figure suddenly jumps around her. Tooru glance at the figure to get a good look before she gasp out at the sight of a blonde and he stare at her with his unique eyes. It only last for few seconds before this mysterious boy vanish from her sight as he keep run and the gloves dropped down to the ground. "…H-H-Hey, can he see me?" She shook her invisible head, "Nah, that's not possible."
"A hero is someone who smashes though every obstacle life puts in his way!" All Might pummeled his fists into the bulky Noumu as the students watch on in amazement, "Do you know what I speak of, villains!?" He pull his right arm back before he smash it against the giant Noumu, "PLUS ULTRA!" He launched the giant creature out of the USJ with a powerful uppercut.
"W-What is that, a comic book?" Kirishima muttered in shock, missing All Might's comment about getting a little weaker.
"Now shall we put the end to our dance?" All Might lunged toward Tomura and Kurogiri.
"YOU USED CHEAT!" Tomura shouted out angrily and All Might was about to catch them but something appear in his sight. The muscular hero quickly bring his forearms up in guard as a leg smash into them and a figure flip backward on his feet. All Might bring his arms down and he see Naruto for the first time. "Uwoo! Naruto, why do you keep wandering off! Because of you, we lost the game! Uwoo!"
'…So young, he has to be fifteen like the students…' All Might frowned at the sight, 'And he looks so lifeless…' He feel a familiar feeling as the vapor form around him, 'Oh no, I'm gonna snap back to my truth form…I gotta bluff!' "Well, look like there's another one I have to take care! How about you three come at me?"
"What can we do, why do we fail to clear the final boss?!" Tomura whined.
"Tomura, calm down." Kurogiri appeared behind the leader, "The black Noumu have weakened him to a certain degree and now Naruto is here with us…We can break the symbol of peace."
"Yes…" Tomura muttered as he glanced at Naruto, "Naruto, Kurogiri, let's kill him!" With that, they all charge toward All Might but Izuku suddenly leap at them with his fist up in air.
"LET GO OF ALL MIGHT!" Izuku roared and Naruto suddenly appear in front of him, thrusting his opening hand at his face ominously but it never land because the blonde change his course in midair as he tackle Tomura down before the sound of gunshot rang out.
"So they finally arrived!" All Might glanced over his shoulders to see the group of teachers-slash-pro heroes with a student.
"Reporting for duty!" Iida called out among the teachers.
"Ah, ah, they came, it's our game over screen!" Tomura roared angrily, "Game over! Game over!" He was about to whine more but the bullets rain down on them, courtesy of the gunslinger hero, and Kurogiri can feel the pull of the black hole, courtesy of injured space hero.
"We have to get out of here…" Kurogiri wrapped Tomura away before he call out to Naruto as he charge toward All Might, "Leave him, we have to go back!" Naruto halt in his track as he look between All Might and Kurogiri.
"Target primary…" Naruto turned back to All Might and he was about to take another step.
"Naruto, come!" Kurogiri barked, "Obey or be aborted!" The boy froze up as the outline of dozen small sections form on his face before they slowly peel off, starting with his left eyeball, and the interior of his face were reveal to the world.
"Wha!" Izuku cried out in shock as his sensei stare at Naruto's skull with widened eyes and his hands fly up to his mouth, holding his bile back. Naruto stand there for few moments before he step back and his face return back to original, vanish as if his face weren't falling apart a few seconds ago.
"Yes, I will come." Naruto walked back to Kurogiri and he vanishes into the black fog along with the teleporter.
'So they might force him to do that…I can't forgive them for that!' All Might clenched his fist tighter before he overhears Izuku's comment about being useless and he speaks up to encourage his secret apprentice.
In a seedy bar, Naruto stare at the wall blankly as he ignored the discussion between Tomura and the figure on monitor screen before the voice call out to him few moments after the discussion ended. "Naruto, how was your first field trip?" The voice spoke with a deep raspy tone, "It must be very…Experiencing for you."
"…It was a curious day." Naruto merely tilt his head.
"Oh, why is that?" The voice asked.
"I do not know." The blonde boy answered, "…I learn that a single answer breed more questions when you receive it…" The voice was about to speak up but the boy cut it off, "Creator, am I a human?"
"No, you are a Noumu." The voice answered, "A living weapon."
"That is correct." Naruto simply nodded, "I am a Noumu, not a human."
"Why do you ask me when you know the answer?" The creator frowned with a hum but the unique Noumu turn back to the wall without a word and the creator hum again, this Noumu was unique because it have capable of speech, like the other one, but this creature don't follow the orders mostly of time. The creator decides to keep it around out of curiosity and there are those interesting quirks, it's a pity that he can't steal it for some reason. Maybe it's because he create Naruto from a...He wave it off since it's not this important, "Very well, I'll check in later." The monitor turns off.
"…I would like to go out again." The boy spoke up out of blue.
"I don't see any harm in that." Kurogiri wipe the glasses as if he didn't invade the Yuuei School few moments ago, "But not right now since the police and heroes are looking for us at the moment." He set the glasses down, "Why do you want go out again? Any reason?" This Noumu barely go out since he was created and today was the first time he went out, due to the real leader's wish and to see how it will affect the creature.
"…No reason." Naruto replied as a certain memory pass through his mind.
Two weeks and few days later, Naruto sit in the same spot like before, but instead of watching the wall, he was staring at the television as they show the Yuuei's Sports Festival. He overheard his creator telling Tomura to watch it and Kurogiri was kind enough to allow the boy to use his television while he went out for an errand. He has watched it from the beginning up to the matches between the top students and right now, the television were showing the replays of the final match. "…There…" Naruto leaned in closer as the camera's pov changed couple times, "…There...There…"
"Oi!" The boy's head rotate to face Tomura as the ringleader walked up to his stool chair annoyingly before he checks the television, "You're still watching that for days? Turn it off."
"No." Naruto turned back to the television, "Ah, there…"
"There, what?" Tomura's eyes narrowed at the boy's back but the chanting creature just ignore him, increasing his annoyance and the villain was about to say something but the black fog emerge from nowhere before two figures appear into seedy bar.
"I seeeee…" The new voice drawled out as the figure stepped out and his tongue snake out to lick the side of his cheek, revealing to be Stain the Hero Killer. His eyes slowly drift over the three individuals as Kurogiri return to his post behind the bar, "So it was you bastards who raided Yuuei…And you wanna add me to your little gang, too!"
"Yep, if you would." Tomura leaned on the bar with his elbow arrogantly, "You're the great senpai of us criminal filth."
"…What is your goal?" Stain narrowed his eyes at the leader and Naruto glance over his shoulder with a blink.
"First of all, we want to waste All Might." Tomura replied, "Then we'd like to destroy all the things that aren't to our liking." He pulled several pictures out of his pocket to present them to the hero killer as Stain glanced at the image of Izuku, "Like, say…These little shits…All of them."
"…I was ill-advised to be interested." Stain sneered deadly, "You…HAHH…You're the type I despite the most!"
"Huuh?" The leader raised his eyebrow behind his father's hand.
"You want me to rub shoulders with some childish temper tantrum? Hahh…Hahhhh…" Stain mocked him as he unsheathed his swords from his sides, "What sense is there to bloodlust without a cause?"
"Sensei…" Kurogiri whispered to the lit monitor behind him, "Is it alright to keep this going?"
"No, that is good!" Sensei's voice spoke, "If I simply tell him all the answers, it won't mean a thing! To make he himself think over his shortcomings! In so doing to stimulate his growth! That's what 'education' is all about!"
Meanwhile in a different location far away from the seedy bar, Jirou don't expect that two of her classmates would choose the same office for workplace and it was much unexpected because it happens to be one of the offices that specializing in combat. She chose this place because of USJ incident with this crazy bastard, she reliaze that she need to work on her strength and get some experience in combat but what was the worst of all is…Her hands clenched into fists…That guy just humiliated her! The way he talk and act toward her, she know the bastard can easily take her out from seeing his speed and strength up close and yet, he didn't. It makes her feel so powerless and useless as if she was just an insect to him and she hate this feeling.
"Heeeey, why the long face, Jirou-chan?" A cheerful voice snaps Jirou out of her thought and the rock-lover blinks her eyes rapidly at the floating clothes.
"It's nothing, Tooru." Jirou waved it off coldly.
"You sure?" Tooru asked, "Because you look waaay broody than Fumikage!"
"Excuse me?" The said boy turned his crow-like head to them, leaning against the wall with crossed arms. It turn out they were waiting in the dojo-like room.
"Yes, I'm sure." Jirou rubbed her right forearm with a grumble, she have checked it out with the doctor and to her confusion, the doctor inform her that her bone look like it never have been broken the whole time. Her small action was noticed by the shadow-controller.
"Thinking about this Naruto guy?" Fumikage glanced at her, he hear about her run-in with the said person in the mountain zone and several students mentioned that they saw him trying to take All Might on.
"Eh?!" Tooru looked between them, "Oh…"
"Maybe, but I don't want to talk about it." Jirou scowled, "It make me really pissed off…When I get my hands on him, I'm gonna…" She curse under her breath as she make various death threats quietly and Tooru slowly back away from her with a shiver.
"S-S-So scary…" The invisible girl sweatdropped, her male classmate just shrugs it off.
"Haha, you three are so early!" A booming voice laughed as the students looked up to see two men walk into the dojo and the laughing bald man shouldered his giant shinai. He stands at six foot tall and his muscular body was covered with countless tattoos and scars, even they were all over his face. "Youths these days, so eager for everything! Right, Crow?" He peek at the seven foot and five inches tall lanky man and the lanky man nod his head at him with a soft smile. He looks so much like a scarecrow, due to his tattered clothes and his sewed mouth.
"Good morning, Tattooed Bancho, Crow." Fumikage greeted politely.
"Tsk, don't call me that." Tattooed Bancho clicked his tongue annoyingly, "I hate that name! I can't forgive this damn reporter for naming me that, fucking reporter! Because of this bitch, everyone stuck this fucking name on me! Fuck them! I never asked for that or approved that! Fuck!" He ranted to the point where he just throw every swear words out and everyone just stare at him until Crow suddenly swing his fist downward onto Bancho's head. "OI, YOU FUCKER!" Bancho tackled Banshee down with a battle cry, "THAT HURT! ARE YOU TRY TO DO, FUCKER?!"
"Kami, why in the world did I chose this place?" Jirou looked up to the ceiling annoyingly as the two adult fight each other like a children.
"Don't you say you pick this place for Bancho's useable of sound quirk in combat?" Tooru replied and Jirou pinched the bridge of her nose.
"In order to accomplish anything, you need a creed…" Stain pinned Tomura down to the countertop with his blades after he managed to paralyzed Kurogiri and Naruto with his quirk, "A mind! That those weaklings, who lack them both, are culled is only natural. That is why you'll die."
"Owwww, you're too strong, dammit!" Tomura laughed with a whimper before his eyes glance over to his second-in-commander, "Kurogiri! Quick, send him back!" His eyes shifted over to the frozen boy, "You, do something!"
"Our body, it won't move…" Kurogiri struggled to move himself as Naruto just stared at the hero killer, his grasping hand froze in the air as if he was trying to grab something. "This must be the work of the Hero Killer's quirk…"
"The word 'hero' has lost all meaning!" Stain preached, "In this society overrun by fakes, even criminals who are just aimlessly scattering around their 'power' become target to purges…Hah…" The blade slowly lean in closer toward the dismembered hand on Tomura's face and the leader's eyes widened.
"Just, just wait a sec…" Tomura suddenly grabbed the blade's edge with his hand as he growled deadly, "This palm….You can't." The blade crumbled under his hand, "I'll kill you!" His warning receive a reaction from Stain, "You're awfully talkative…A conviction? A creed? I ain't got anything so dramatic…Though if I were forced to say…It's All Might…" A psychotic grin formed under his father's hand with glee, "I wanna crush the society where that trash is set up so high and mighty to the goddamn ground! That's what I've been thinking!" He swung his arm forward but Stain dodge it with a backward jump and he was about to lunge…
"So that's what you're about…" Stain spoke as Tomura stared at him out of curiosity, "It seems our goals lie at polar opposites…But destroying today's society is one point we have in common…"
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Tomura spat, "Get the fuck out and die. Aren't I the 'type you despise the most'?"
"I tested your mettle." The hero killer replied, "Those at Death's door always express their true colors. You're an odd one, but…A 'mind'…The sprouts of crooked creed dwells inside you." He looked around at each individual, "I wonder what fruit those sprouts will bear…I might save disposing of you for after I've ascertained you with my own eyes. It probably won't be too late…"
"Dispose of us…" Tomura scoffed, "I hate the idea of having such a nutjob around as a party member…"
"Shigaraki Tomura, if we add him to our ranks, then our battle power will magnify!" Kurogiri said sternly as he flexed his arms, "The negotiations have come through!"
"That order of business is settled!" Stain said, "Now return me to Hosu! There's still something I've left to do there!" One of the villains was about to speak up but…
What is creed?
The hero killer's head turn sharply to Naruto at his usual spot as the boy stare at him blankly and Stain narrow his eyes at the blonde boy, ignoring the massive headache. "Ah, fuck!" Tomura held the side of his head, "I told you to not use this quirk, you fucking useless thing!"
"What is creed you speak of?" Naruto tilted his head at Stain as he ignored Tomura, which pissed the leader off. "What is that?"
"It's something to explicate the actions that lead you to your goal." Kurogiri explained.
"A goal?" The blonde boy turned his head to the teleporter as Stain watch on, "Goal…What is my goal? What is our goal?"
"Nothing!" Tomura snarled, "You and the Noumus are the weapons for the party member! Their purpose is nothing but to follow our order, something that you useless tool can't do!" Naruto stares at him for a few moments before he turns back to the television, the leader took it as a sign that the boy understands him.
'That one…' Stain narrowed his eyes at the boy more as he studied their body signs the whole time, 'Something is off with him…I wonder if…'
"My apologies." Kurogiri set the glasses down on the bar with a click, unknowingly snapped Stain out from his thought. "You said Hosu, correct? Do you have a specific location for me to send us there?"
"Yes…" The hero killer muttered.
"Hey, before we go…" Tomura whispered to Kurogiri as soon as an idea hit him, "I want to pick up a couple of things or three at this place…"
Somewhere in Hosu, a black fog form above a building's water tower and Stain was first to step out, following by Tomura, Kurogiri and Naruto. "Hosu, man…" Tomura muttered, "It's surprisingly prosperous."
"I'm gonna reform this town and for that, more…" Stain looked over the city as his tongue flick out, "Sacrifices are needed."
"Is this the 'thing you've left to do' that you spoke of earlier?" Kurogiri asked and Naruto look around, taking in the sight.
"You, you're the kinda guy who gets it." The hero killer glanced over, indirectly mocking the leader.
"Don't keep pushing your luck…" Tomura clicked his tongue.
"The title 'hero' should only be permitted to those who have achieved great undertakings!" Stain spreading his arms wide open as he face the city again, "There's too many of them…Counterfeit 'heroes' who worship the almighty dollar!" He leaped off the building, "Until society realizes its error on its own, I shall continue to appear!"
"You keep waxing on like that, you wanna raise up a damn grassroots movement or what?" Tomura complained to himself as he watched the hero killer disappeared into the urban jungle, "I'm about to weep from the gallantry."
"…You can't make fun of him for that." Kurogiri spoke up as his allies turned to him, "The places where he's appeared up to now have seen crime rates abating across the board. One theorist has it that there's been 'bashing' linked to the increase of awareness of heros."
"Wow, that's fantastic!" Tomura said sarcastically, "So the heroes doing their best, reduces the number just in it to put food on their tables! The hero-killer is also the hero-breeder! How circumspect!" He crossed his arms bitterly, "As I thought…At root, we just don't get along…Pisses me off…" He glanced over, "Release the Noumus. I'm not satisfied with having a blade in my side! If you wannna kill shit, then kill shit!" He laughed madly as Kurogiri summoned three new Noumus, "This is a completion of who can rampage the most! I'm goona take your precious pride, your self-worth, your prestige, and crush them, great senpai!" Tomura send the new Noumus out into Hosu to create chaos before he turns to Naruto, "Now you see? They follow my orders without any problem, that's how useful they are. I still don't understand why sensei wants to keep you around. You're lucky that we can't destroy you because of your Heal quirk…"
"A butterfly…" Naruto weren't paying attention to him, due to a blue butterfly that flutter near him and the boy follow it with his eyes before it land on his hand. He raise his hand up in front of his eyes, that's the first time he have seen a creature and he stare at it for a while before Tomura kill it by grabbing his hand violently.
"Oi, listen to me when I speak!" Tomura growled before he turns back to the skyline annoyingly, "Fucking useless piece of shit!" The blonde boy stares at the green smear on his hand with a tilted head before he look up to him.
"Why did you kill it?" The blonde boy asked flatly.
"Huh?" The leader scoffed at his question, "It's just a fucking useless bug! There are no point for them to exist since they didn't do anything useful…They exist for nothing but to be killed! That is survival of the strongest, weaklings is weeded out to die!" He watched on as several pillars of smoke rise from the skyline and the blonde boy tilt his head again, his eyes dart over to the city with a blink.
"We interrupt the bulletin in progress with live footage!" The reporter lady shouted in the helicopter on the television screen as it flew over Hosu, "Sudden black smoke and sounds of destruction, rising from the scene!"
"Eh?" Itsuka looked at the screen before she turns to Momo, "Do you know anyone in Hosu?" She knows there were some workplaces in the city but she wasn't sure if she knows anyone going there.
"I know Iida and Todoroki are there but I'm not worried about them since they have enough common sense to leave it to the pro…" Momo said before something catch her eyes from the news and her eyes widened, causing Itsuka to glance back puzzlingly.
"What's that over there?" The reporter asked as the camera zoomed into the water tower, showing three figures on top of the tower as they look over the city. "Rubberneckers? Camping out way over there?"
"I don't know…" The cameraman's voice replied as the camera keep zoom in to get a good look and one of the figures suddenly turn his head toward the camera, his eerily eyes stare back. "EEEK!" The cameraman nearly dropped his camera as the figure tilt his head and the black-mist man turn to him before it look up to see them.
"T-That is bad!" Momo said, worried for the reporters' safety.
"What's the matter?" Itsuka asked confusingly.
"There are the villains that invaded the USJ a while ago!" Momo replied and Itsuka quickly look back at the television.
Naruto have been watching the battle between Stain and these students from Yuuei academy in the distance with one of his quirks before he hear something above him and he look back to see a helicopter with a cameraman and reporter inside. "Ah, helicopter…" Naruto tilted his head.
"Mmm?" Kurogiri glanced up to see the helicopter, "Look like we have to get out of here before they report us to the nearby pro heroes…"
"Whoa there, buddy!" Tomura suddenly threw the binocular away furiously after he saw the aftermath of the battle and the loss of one of his Noumus at Stain's hands, "What the fuck are you doing? How the hell did that Noumu get killed!? And what are those little shits doing there?! I can't even find the words, fucking goddamn! Why…" He tugged his collar down furiously, "Why won't it all just go as I want?" He clenched his hands tightened as soon as he found out that the rest of his Noumus have been incapacitated.
"Do I collect them?" Naruto suddenly spoke up.
"No, let's go home." The leader growled angrily.
"Are these results to your satisfaction?" Kurogiri summoned his quirk, "Shigaraki Tomura."
"Dumbass." Tomura grunted as the black fog covered them, "That all depends on tomorrow."
The next day, Tomura shredded the newspaper as he listens to the news and they all keep talking about the hero killer and the attacks. "He's all over the news…" The leader complained, "And the Noumus are always only mentioned second! Like they'd forget him now…In fact, we're the ones that are being treated like second bananas." He stormed out of the bar, "So fucking annoying!"
"Are you sure it's okay to leave him be, sensei?" Kurogiri polished the glasses with a sideway glance.
"Yes, like I said, he will learn few things from this result and it will give him more motivate for the near future." Sensei's voice spoke from the monitor and everything was quiet until the voice speaks again. "Ah, would you be kindly to wrap Naruto into this place? I have get my hands on a very interesting quirk that would be very useful for you guys."
"Oh?" Kurogiri hummed, "Are you sure that you want to give it to him? I mean, once you 'grant' it to him, you can't get it back because of…"
"I know." Sensei replied, "I don't mind it since I have no need for this interesting quirk. After all, I have some powerful quirks that will allow me to kill One For All off for good. Send him in."
"As you wish." Kurogiri turned to Naruto, who have been unmoving for hours in his spot, as he create the black fog, "Naruto, your creator have a upgrade for you. Please step in."
"Yes." Naruto calmly stood up and he walk into the black hole before he vanishes from the sight as the teleporter turn back to his glasses.
The first thing the blonde see is a cold metal table and he take a quick glance around in a large warehouse, many crates surrounding him and he spot some developing Noumus in several large metal crate. "Hello, Naruto." The said boy turns his head to see his creator in his suit, revealing his scarred eyeless face. "How long have it been since your…" Sensei tightened his tie, "Upgrade? Were there any problem with it?"
"One year ago." Naruto replied, "No, the enhanced reflex quirk has been useful when I combine it with other quirks."
"Ah…" Sensei nodded pleasingly, "What about this quirk? Did it give you something new?"
"Yes…" The boy brings his right hand up before his fingernails expand out like a claw as the veins bulging out around his fingertips, "It comes in five months ago and I discover that it only work with right hand."
"Interesting." Sensei waved it off uninterestingly before he gesture at the table, "Anyway, lie down and I'll 'upgrade' you in a moment." Naruto obeyed him as he lied down and his creator places his hand on the boy's chest.
"Creator, what kind of quirk am I getting?" Naruto asked.
"You'll find out eventually." Sensei used his quirk and the boy blacked out, it was very common for the Noumus to black out each time he 'grant' a quirk. He pulls a note out, flicking it at the sleeping boy's side and he uses his quirk to teleport out from the place. Everything was so quiet for several hours until a zippy footsteps can be heard in the distance and a bizarre creature peek out behind the crate before it zip at the side of the boy.
"Behyuum…" The creature poked the boy with its arm, "Behyuum…Behyuum…" Naruto slowly open his eyes to see a four legged slug lizard white creature with clay-like human face and eyeless snakes for arms, many small tentacles on its back. The odd feature it has is two tentacle-antennas were covered with some red polka-dot socks. "Are you awake?"
"Who are you?" Naruto merely blinked as if it was a normal sight.
"It's me." The creature smiled, "You know, me!"
"You are a Noumu, right?" The boy said.
"Yeah." The creature nodded happily, "I'm a Noumu!" The snake arm beat on its chest, "'Something' is in us." The boy tilted his head slightly before the creature point at the metal crate, "We're different from the other Noumus…How should I say it…They're like empty shells." Its snake arm shift to the blonde, "But you and I have a thing in us."
"I do not understand." Naruto replied.
"'I' am in me." The creature pointed at itself with a smile.
"I?" The boy blinked.
"I do nooot, I do nooot know for what reaaason I was booorn buuuuuut I am meeeee." The creature suddenly sang before it thrust the snake arm at him, "Take it!"
"…I do noooot know?" Naruto sang before he close his mouth, "Why do I need to say this?"
"Hah!" The creature laughed, "That's it! That's proof that you've got it in you! Hahahaha!" Its snake arms enlarged out, beating on the floor with a roaring laughter as the boy watch on in confusion.
"…I do not understand that." The boy spoke and the creature halt its laughter to stare at the boy stone-faced.
"…You and I have something inside us." The creature repeated, "Something that make us alive! Like the living beings, humans!"
"Alive?" Naruto said flatly, "But we are living weapons, a tool for the creator and his allies…"
"No, we are not weapons or tools!" The creature waved its arms wildly, "You and I are different from them…" Its point at the crate again, "We can think, we can speak, we have 'it' in us, we can feel it!"
"Feel 'it'?" The boy blinked.
"Yes, yes!" The creature nodded furiously, "'It' make us question things! Have you ever asked some questions that make you think more?!"
"…Yes…" Naruto nodded, "But what is 'something'? Why cannot you tell me?"
"…Because I can't!" The creature crossed its arms with a shaking head, "It is something that you have to ask someone who know the answers! All you have to do is ask the right one!"
"…Do I ask the creator?" The boy asked.
"No!" The creature shook its head.
"Tomura, Kurogiri?"
"No, no!" The creature shook its head again, "You can't ask the bad people! They'll give you wrong answers!"
"…Wrong answers?" Naruto asked confusingly, "But they are correct about everything…"
"Yes, they are…" The creature hummed in deep thought, "But it's because they are bad guys and to them, their answers are right…B-But! Do you think it's right?" It bumped the arm against its chest, "What did 'it' tell you inside?! Have you ever ask someone different to hear their answer, someone like good people or pro heroes? Have you?"
"…Yes…" The boy replied, "One time…"
"And what did you think of this person's answer?" The creature asked.
"…I do not know…" Naruto muttered, "It breed more questions and I want to ask more but…"
"Then go find this person and ask them!" The creature cut him off excitingly as it bang the table with its arms, "You will finally find the answer to everything! Like what is inside us!"
"…Why does it have to be me?" The boy asked the creature, "Why not you?"
"…It has to be you." The creature looked down, "B-Because you are the special one! You're different from me in a way…Because you were born from…" It pauses in midsentence as it notices a paper on the table, "What's that?"
"Ah, it is from the creator." Naruto picked it up to read the paper, "It says I need to train with the new quirk."
"…" The creature looked at the boy, 'Could I say something more to help him or…?' He was going to tell him the origin of his birth but it decides to hold the info back, due to its gut feeling. "Oh, oh, where is my manner?!" The creature gasped as it catches the boy's attention, "Do you have a name?"
"Naruto." The boy answered, "And you are?"
"…I do not have one!" The creature wailed with gaped expression as if it just forgets its name, "…Hey, hey, will you give me one?" Naruto stare at him for a while and he look around until he see different logos on the crates.
"…Salad Udon." The boy named the creature.
"S-Salad Udon?!" The creature dropped its jaw in shock as its body shakes, "M-My name is Salad Udon?"
"Do you not like it?" Naruto asked with blank expression as if he didn't say anything wrong.
"No, I love it!" The creature hopped around exictingly as it starts to singing, "My naaaaaame issssss Saaaaaalaaaaad Udooooooon! I am Salad Udon! My naaaaaaaaaaame…" Naruto watch the singing creature for a long time before he walk away to test his quirk as he pound on his conversation with odd Noumu who keep rambling nonsense, wondering what was inside him.
Two weeks later after Naruto got used to his new quirk and right now, he was standing in front of Kurogiri as the teleporter hand a wad of cashes to the boy. He hasn't told anyone about Salad because the creature stressed that he can't tell a soul about the creature or their conversation and it will end bad for them both. When he questioned the creature about certain things, Salad keep changing the topic or dance away with an odd song after it told him that he won't understand.
"Remember, Naruto, do not take this sunglasses off." Kurogiri warned the blonde boy, "And do not do anything that would catch the pro's attentions. If you do, run and tell me so I'll wrap you out there. Understand?"
"Yes, I understand." Naruto nodded his head, he wear a red hoodie with blue jean that cover his black sneakers and a pair of sunglasses that cover his unique eyes. It's his first day out in the real world without any villains and Sensei told Kurogiri to let him so he can have some experience to disguise himself and hide himself from public sight if anything went south. "I'll be off."
"Have you decide where you will go today?" Kurogiri asked so he can know where to bail Naruto out, just in case.
"Yes, the mall." The blonde boy walked out of the bar.
"…The mall?" Kurogiri muttered to himself as Tomura entered the bar, he wonder where did Naruto pick this word up from.
Many people walk around in a opening mall, known as Kiyashi-Ward Shopping Mall, and Naruto stand in the middle of the crowd unmoving as he look around curiously. He start to wander around, glancing at each stores he walk pass while he also glance at the humans around him and they all have different kinds of expressions that he never have seen on these villains, he can't explain it very well but they stand out for some reasons. The boy's feet stop in front of a bookstore as a title of a book catch his eyes and he read it out loud to himself. "Importance of insects…" Naruto tilted his head as he remembered Tomura's comment about useless bugs and he look at the book again, remembering Salad's conversation. For some reason, he pick it up before he step inside and the boy scan each books as he search for some certain topics or anything that catch his interest.
"Importance of Insects, Wildlife of the World…" Naruto checked the books in his bag as several people gave him odd looks for talking out loud, "Inside Our Body …" Something bright catch his eyes and he halt in his walk to take a good look behind the store's window. It was an orange jacket with a ridiculous price tag and the boy just stare at it blankly.
"The shoes store must be over there." Ashido gestured at a certain direction as she walk with Tooru, Iida, Momo and Kaminari, the creator decide to tag along since Jirou already purchased a large duffle bag and decide to check a nearby music store.
"Alright!" Tooru suddenly ran forward, "Last one there has to pay half for the winner!"
"Don't run!" Iida warned her, "You will hurt someone if you run or do not pay attention to your surrounding and we…" He rambled on.
"Chill, don't be such a worrywa…" The invisible girl bump into someone, nearly knock the person down and the figure's sunglasses fall off his face. "Oh, sorry, sorry!" She apologized, "I wasn't paying attention!"
"Ah, sunglasses…" The person muttered with his head down, reaching out for his sunglasses.
"What did I just tell you!" Iida rushed over before everyone hears a crack and he slowly look down to see that he just accidentally step on the sunglasses, breaking it in half. "…I AM VERY SORRY!" He bowed furiously, "LET ME PAY YOU FOR THE NEW ONE!"
"It is fine, I have no need for it." The figure lifts his head up and Momo's eyes widened at the familiar face of Naruto as his unique eyes stare at Iida and Tooru.
"Eh, have we met before?" Tooru tilted her invisible head with finger on her cheek, "You look familiar…"
"Get back!" Momo hissed under her breath as she pulled them back while Kaminari and Ashido look between them confusingly, "He's one of the guys that attacked us at USJ!"
"What?!" Iida turned to the blonde boy as he pushed his glasses up, "He's a villain?!" He quickly look around at his surrounding in horror as the students get on guard without letting the bystanders know to prevent a chaotic scene, "Does that mean they're gonna attack the mall with these innocent people this time?!" He chopped the air in front of him, pointing at the blonde boy. "What are your nefarious plans?!"
"…" Naruto glance down at his right side and everyone follow his gaze down to a shopping bag in his hands, which they can see some books, before he look back up. "There is no mission. I am here to shopping."
"…What?" Momo uttered and her classmates blink at him, they don't know how to react to the news or ever heard of a villain shopping in an opening place, where pro heroes can arrest the criminals.
"I am here to shopping." The blonde boy repeated to her, mistaking it as a question. "…You, I remember you…You were with Jirou." He looked around, "…Where is Jirou? Is she here? I want to see her." His last sentence caused the students to stiffened up with suspicion expression.
"No, why?" Momo lied with gritted teeth.
"Ah, I do not know." Naruto replied flatly with tilted head, "I want to ask her questions. I want to know the answers…"
"What kind of question?" Tooru asked nervously as the blonde boy turn to her before his eyes gaze at each students and he tilt his head.
Do you have 'something' inside you?
"Ah, my head!" A random bystander yelped out as the crowd held onto their heads, complaining about sudden headaches and the students look at the blonde boy with bad headaches.
"S-Something?" Tooru winced at her headaches.
"Yes, Salad said we have 'it' in us." Naruto said as the students stared at him in confusion, "But Salad will not tell me what 'it' is." He brings his hands up, "Salad said we are different from Noumus because they are empty shell and we have 'something' inside us…Like humans…"
"What are you talking about?" Iida narrowed his eyes.
"I do not know." The blonde boy tilted his head, "Salad and I are Noumus but Salad said we are same like humans."
"Noumus?" Momo blinked before she realize something, "…Naruto, are you saying you're a Noumu? Like these things that attack Hosu and USJ?"
"Yes." Naruto nodded, "We are Noumus, the living weapons who must obey him."
"…Tomura?" Iida muttered, trying to make a head out of this one.
"…No, our creator." Naruto said eerily as it send shivers down the students' spine, "All For One."
"W-What are you ta…" Momo whispered before the loudspeaker cut her off.
"Due to the security reason, the mall is closing now and everyone will be escorted out by police for your safety." The voice spoke, "We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for understanding."
"I will be going." The blonde boy spun around on his heels and he walk off into the crowd.
"Hey, wait!" Iida attempted to stop the boy with the rest of his classmates but it was too late as soon as they lose sight of him among the confusing crowd.
Naruto step into the bar and he spot three new faces as they glance at the door with different reactions. A schoolgirl skip up to him cheerily, "Hiya, I'm Toga Himiko! Are you here to join Villain's Alliance because of Mr. Stainy?" The blonde boy just walks past her without uttering a word and he sit down in his usual spot, staring at the wall.
"Oi, it's rude not to answer her!" A man in black-and-grey suit suddenly stands at his side with waving arms before he give him a thumb-up, "It's alright to not answer her, you must be pretty shy!"
"Tsk, another one." The stitched-littered teenager muttered.
"He's not here to join us because he is one of us from the beginning." Kurogiri cleaned the bar counter before he look at the boy, "Naruto, let me introduce you to the new recruits." He gestured at the teenager boy, "That is Dabi. The one at your side is Twice and you already met Toga Himiko." He shifted his arm to the blonde boy, "That is Naruto."
"Wait, you outrank me and you're so young!" Twice gasped at the blonde boy, "Damn you! Don't think about pushing me around! I'm looking forward to work with you, senpai-sama!"
"Ooh, he's so cute but he's totally not my type." Himiko giggled, "I like my man tattered and bloody like Mr. Stainy…Hey, what is he like in person? Tell me, tell me." Again, Naruto just ignore her.
"Is he mute or what?" Dabi muttered.
"…Oh, Naruto." Kurogiri spoke up, "How was the mall, did you get something?"
"…It was interesting." Naruto replied with deadpan expression as he raise the bag up before he put it back on his lap, "I bought three books that might give me some answers." He turned back to the wall again.
"Oh, so he speak." Dabi scoffed, "Do he have something against us like Tomura?"
"No, it's just how he is." Kurogiri served him a nonalcoholic drink, "After all, he's a Noumu."
"A what?" Dabi corked his eyebrow.
"It will be explained in time." Kurogiri turned back to the shelves and the recruits glance between him and the blonde boy.
"Wait, what?" Jirou narrowed her eyes at her classmates after they leave the mall, "The psycho was asking for me?!"
"Y-Yeah…" Momo scratched her cheek nervously, "It's good thing that you were not with us when it happened…Who would know what will go down between you two."
"Jirou, you need to be more careful from now on." Iida said worriedly, "He knows your name and he seems to be after you for some reason…"
"I bet the reason is he has a thing for her." Ashido joked, drawing a deadly glare from the music-lover.
"Don't be fucking ridiculous." Jirou shot draggers at her with a deep scowl, "The last thing I want is some fucking psycho stalker!"
"I-I was just kidding, just kidding!" The pink-skinned girl held her hands up with nervous laughter and Jirou stomped away as couple classmates can't help but to shaking their heads at Ashido. "Don't be mad! I'm sorry!"
Several days later at night, several figures stand at the edge of a cliff, overlooking a forest, and one of them speak up with a raspy voice. "It throbs…" The cloaked figure hissed, "Pulses…Let's hurry up and go…!"
"It's not yet time." The middle-school student replied under his gas mask, "Also…Didn't I tell you….We don't have to overdo it?"
"Yeah, quit tryna' act like the boss." The third figure turned his head, revealing to be Dabi. "We're only sending up a warning flare this time. These heroes, riddled with holes…Will fall to the earth." He smiled wickedly, "All for the sake of a brighter future."
"But like, I totally hate this." Himiko fastened her gas mask, "It's not cute at all!"
"We had an underground designer make these for us." The gas-masker replied, "Regardless of how they look, they will serve their purpose and function properly."
"This is me caring!" Himiko snarled, "They're still so not cute!"
"Honestly, I couldn't care less about all that crap." The giant figure hissed angrily with flexing hand, "Just let me at 'em already! I'm so amped up, I'm shaking in my boots!"
"Shut up, you psychopaths…" Dabi glanced over his shoulders with a scowl, "It's not time yet, not until…" Several more figures appeared behind them, "All eleven of us are together."
"Sorry, we're late." A long-haired man with glasses smirked coldly.
"Job…" The bondage-wearing man moaned, "Job…"
"We can call up as many poser punks as we want, all that gonna happen is the job'll get risker." The long-haired man said, "If we're gonna do this, we need a select team of experienced members."
"First we drill into their heads…" Dabi spoke, "That their peaceful lives are over."
"When is the time?" Naruto stood next to a chainsaw-wielding Noumu.
"Tomorrow night." Dabi replied, "Kurogiri give us an info that they're gonna have a courage challenge and it's an ideal time to hit them." His eyes peeked at the blonde boy out of the corner of his eyes, "Remember, follow the plan and complete your mission without any fail." The blonde Noumu does not give him any reply and Dabi release a faintly huff before he turn to the others to make sure that they understand their roles, Naruto just stare at the forest motionlessly.
The Yuuei students were making curry for dinners under the eyes of their teachers and pro heroes. Pixie-Bob stare at some male students with darting eyes as she try to figure out whose she will call dib on for the possible marriage before she notice Ragdoll at her side and she realize the blue-haired woman was too quiet, way far out from her character. "What's the matter?" Pixie-Bob asked curiously, causing Ragdoll to leap up slightly.
"O-Oh, nothing!" Ragdoll grinned widely before she looks back at the students, "It's just…" Her grin saddened as she places her right hand on her belly, "He should be at their age now…"
"…O-Oh!" Pixie-Bob's eyes widened at her with a small wince, "Um…S-Sorry, I-I forget about…"
"Don't be." Ragdoll smiled sadly, "It's no one fault but mine…"
"Hey, it's not your fault." Pixie-Bob frowned, "No one know what was going to happen this day…"
"Yes, it was…" The blue-haired woman whispered softly, "Because of me, he's gone…"
"Hey, Ragdoll, are you okay?" Kirishima asked with a concern after he notices her expression.
"…Yeah, I'm hundred percent fine!" Ragdoll suddenly threw her hands up with a wide grin as she hop around hyperactively before she thrust her paw glove at him, "You better eat up more because we're not gonna hold back tomorrow morning and we're gonna work you hard to raw!"
"O-Okay…" Kirishima gulped with paled face, he doesn't want to go through this training again tomorrow morning. Pixie-Bob glance at her friend sadly as she move around the students with a hyperactive giggle, unsure what to say right now.
The next night, Naruto stand alone behind trees as he wait for the signal and his eyes draw to the full moon in the starry sky. He keeps staring until a voice speaks into his earcomm, "Now, it begins." Dabi's voice uttered, "Fall to the Earth. Villain Alliance, first strike team!" The blonde boy step out onto the trail, stroll up the trail as he keep his eyes out for his targets or anyone that come across him. He don't know how many minutes have gone by since he wander around in the forest and it take a while until he come across a sight of three people as they run toward his direction. He takes a step forward and the group suddenly halts in their trail as soon as they see him. His eyes study each individuals swiftly, a female with thorny vines for hair and two males, a large male appear to have head that look like some kind of glue top with six holes in front and other male look like a Bigfoot with large canine teeth.
"I-Is he a student or one of these villains?" The Bigfoot male stared at Naruto through his glasses, they were fleeing from the poison gas and they happen to receive a permission to use their quirks to defend themselves.
"I've never seen him before, so he must be the latter." The girl muttered and they stay on their guards while he stares back.
"…You three are not on the list." Naruto finally speak up after a long pause of silence, "Neither targets."
"List?" The girl uttered with a whisper and the blonde boy suddenly takes another step forward, causing the Bigfoot boy to react on his natural instinct. "Shishida, wait!" She called out as the Bigfoot boy charged toward Naruto, "We don't know anything about him!"
Shishida use his feet to kick himself off the ground and he leap above behind Naruto's back, his right leg swing downward to the blonde boy's head. Naruto can see the wild boy's leg out of the corner of his eyes and the boy's right hand snake out, gripping on Shishida's outstretching ankle before the blonde boy smash the wild boy against the ground in front of him. Shishida gritted his teeth with widened eyes as he quickly roll away at his left side, candling his bruised leg and he tense up as soon as the blonde boy take third step forward before the glue-like liquid flow around Naruto's legs. The wild boy can feel the giant hands picking him up with a yank, pulling him away from the Noumu and he look up to the giant male. "Thank, Bondo." The said giant nod wordlessly.
"I told you to wait!" The girl hissed as her vine hairs wrapped around Naruto's upper body.
"Sorry, Shiozaki." Shishida apologized before he look at the blonde boy, "This guy's quirk must be enhanced reflex, like mine…" He rubbed his bruised leg as he winced from his sore back, "Plus, his strength is no joke."
Shiozaki open her mouth, only to tensed up as soon as she feel the tearing of her vines and she sharply turn around with widened eyes as Naruto remove the vines from himself. 'How is that possible?!' She thought until she spot the expanding claw-fingernails from his right hand and she realize that he just cut through the vine ropes without her noticing. Naruto lift his left leg up, tearing through the glue enclosure and he break his other foot free before he walk toward them calmly. "Bondo, make a wall!" Shiozaki hollered out and the giant boy obeys her, creating a giant wall out of glue liquid.
The hand break through the wall with an ease and another hand break through before the wall split apart in half, due to Naruto. As soon as it happen, a bind of thorny vines whipping toward his face and he lean his head back, receiving a small cut across his nose brigade. He quickly grab the vine whip with his left hand and he fix his glance on Shiozaki, he was about to yank her toward him but Shishida quickly bite the bind of vines to free his classmate as he ignore the taste of metallic iron in his mouth. The blonde boy drop the vines down as the cut on his nose brigade fade away, something that surprise his opponents, and Bondo charge toward the blonde boy to buy his classmates some time. The giant attempt to grab him with his large arms but Naruto duck under the swing at last minute, stepping closer to Bondo's chest and the blonde boy cork his right fist back before he strike the giant's left ribcage as it send Bondo flying across the field until his back hit the tree. The shattered shards fling away from the trunk and one of the shards cut across Shiozaki's right cheek deeply, drawing a blood.
"BONDO!" Shishida called out worriedly before he turns his eyes to Naruto with a deadly glare, "YOU…" He charge toward the boy with a roar but Naruto suddenly appear behind him with his elevated hand before the boy smash it on the wild boy's back with a mighty chop and Shishida scream out in pain as he feel his spine snapping in half, forcing him to plop on the ground in agony.
"S-Shishida, Bondo…" Shiozaki dropped down on her rear with a terrified tremble, this guy just took them out without a blink and she finch as the blonde…No, a monster turn his eyes to her. With a stride, Naruto look over her with his chilling eyes and his right hand reach out toward her. She quickly closed her eyes with another shiver as she wait for her soon-to-be demise but she feel something warm on her cheek and Shiozaki slowly peek out of her eyes to see Naruto's hand, touching her cheek with a tender. "Wha…" She stare at the boy's face before she notice something, 'When did he cut his cheek?' There was a deep cut on his right cheek before it vanishes slowly.
Naruto silently remove his hand from her cheek and he move over to Bondo as the giant breathe shallowly, due to the caved-in rib, before the blonde boy place his hand on the giant's chest. Bondo's breathing slowly returns to normal and Shiozaki's eyes widened at the sight of Naruto's caved-in chest before it repair itself. Once again, Naruto move over to Shishida and he touch the wild boy's back with his right hand.
"W-What the hell?" Shishida whispered in shock as he felt his agony fading away, witnessing the whole thing from his downed position and he lifts himself up slightly with widened eyes. "M-My back...It's not broken?!" Naruto abruptly drop down on his back before he stand back up on his wobbly legs and he walk toward Shiozaki again as his shaking steps slowly become normal again. Her breath baited up as soon as Naruto get closer to her until he just walks pass her without breaking his stride.
"…W-Wait!" Shiozaki quickly looked over her shoulder as he stopped in his trail, still shocked by his action. "D-D-Did you just heal us? WHY?!" She bit her lip, "…WHY?! Aren't you a villain?! You should have ki…" She can't bring herself to say it, that guy should have ended their heroic career or their lives.
"Because you are not on the list or the targets." Naruto replied without looking back.
"But why did you heal us if we are your enemies?!" Shishida stared at his back with suspicion.
"…I do not know." The blonde boy said before he walk again, ignoring the shouting voices.
"T-That guy, what in the world is he?" Shiozaki muttered shakily and Shishida does not say anything to her.
She was dying somewhere in the forest and it don't look too good for Ragdoll, she tried to stop a certain villain from attacking the students but this person was too strong for her. Ragdoll barely see through her eyes as she hold onto her stomach, trying to stop the bleeding but it will end in vain because she know she have lost so much blood. She shakily roll on her back to face the starry sky with shallow breaths and she have hard time seeing the stars with her blurry vision. "…S-S-Sorry, Pussycat…" Shiretoko Tomoko whispered softly, "I-I-It look like…That's it…For me…" The corner of her mouth twitches upward slightly, "…A-At least, my…B-Baby won't be…Alone any longer…" Her eyes slowly close before they snap open as soon as she hear a footstep getting closer to her, her quirk should have give her something but she have hard time with it because of her gravely wound, and a blurry figure stand above her.
"Target located…Are you a pro hero?" A voice asked as its head tilted, "I have some questions to ask you. Will you give me answers?"
"…R-Really, are you…" Ragdoll breathed heavily with a wearily laughter, "S-Serious? I'm dying…And you…Want to ask…Me some…Questions? Sorry…I'll love to…But with these wounds…I can't…" She hissed sharply as a hand press against her stomach, "W-W-Wha…" She gasped out as her wound close up and there was so much blood flowing through her body. Tomoko attempt to take a good look at her savior but she pass out from mental stress and exhaustion.
"Humans are so fragile." Naruto looked over Ragdoll's unconscious body as the deep gash on his stomach close up and he toss her over his shoulder, he was told to catch any pro heroes and bring them to the warehouse for his creator. The blonde boy starts to wander again for a while until he hears a voice above him.
"Oh, I see you get someone." A masked fancy gentleman hopped down from the tree branch as he hold onto his top hat, "And a pro hero at that one, bravo! Would you allow me to lighten your hostage?"
"Yes, Mr. Compress." The blonde boy said and Mr. Compress uses his quirk to compress Ragdoll into a marble, which was caught by Naruto.
"You're gonna hold onto it?" Mr. Compress tipped his hat back with his cane as Naruto just nod slightly, "Alright…" He snapped his fingers as the blonde boy pocketed it in his hidden pocket within the spandex pant, "But remember, she'll be release if you happen to be out of my radius or within a certain time limit." He can easily compress everything into a marble as long as he wish but there are some limit when it come to organism.
"Understand." Naruto walk away from his ally.
"Happy hunting!" Mr. Compress called out with a chuckle before he hop up into the tree and he skip across the treetops with several flips.
"Hold on, we're almost there…" Aoyame whispered to his unconscious classmates on his back with struggle, Momo just pass Tooru and Jirou to him as soon as they run into each other and she told him to bring them back to the cabin while she search for the stragglers. He kept carry them for a long time until he stop to take a very short break to catch his breath as he hide themselves from the sight and he look at his classmates worriedly. They were in some pain because of this poison gas and the gas mask barely can help them at the moment. A snapped twig jolt him up and he look behind to see a blonde boy with unique eyes and birthmarks as he stare back before he glance at his classmates. Aoyame quickly recognize him as their enemy after he hear some description from his classmates who have ran into him before.
"Ah, Jirou…" Before the French boy knows it, Naruto kneeled between Aoyame's classmates with a tilted head as he stares at her sweating paled face and he can hear her slow heartbeats. "Is there something wrong with Jirou?" He turn his eyes to Tooru, "This one is same like Jirou." He looked up to Aoyame, drawing out a flinch from him. "Do you know why?"
"…T-T-They've been poisoned." Aoyame can't help but to answer him and he don't know why. "I-I-If they don't get help in time, they'll die."
"Die?" Naruto looked down at Jirou before he place his hands on their chest and Aoyame was about to stop him with a shout, only to notice the blonde boy's current stage. His face become paled as the colors return to Jirou's face and Tooru start to breath normally.
"You…" Aoyame checked their status in bewildered and he look up to Naruto as the Noumu stand up with some difficultly. "I-I don't know what to say but tha…" His breath got caught in his throat after he saw the blonde boy's expression and his eyes shakily follow Naruto's body as the Noumu quietly walk off into the forest.
He doesn't know why he feels something inside him snap, he doesn't understand why it makes him acting like that when he sees Jirou like that. He was baffled by his tightened fists as they draw the blood out of his palms, even his footsteps leave behind a trail of deep imprints with cracks. He can feel something burn inside his chest and he want to get rid of it, he don't know why a face pop into his face, neither why he want to take this person out. He start to pick up his speed and the animals, that remained behind in attempt of bravely, scattered everywhere to get away from the Noumu.
"Two against one, so you thought one of you could hide and attack me by surprise, right?!…" Mustard flashing his handgun around with a evil laughter after Tetsutetsu shielded Itsuka from the bullet, "So naïve, that plan…" He gestured at the gas fog around them, "You see, this gas…It comes out of me, and I can control it! Every shaky movement of yours betrays you. I can sense it all! In other words, I can see right through you!" He can sense someone coming from behind and he look back to see Naruto with his blond hairs covering his eyes. "Ah, now it's gonna be two against two and I don't have to do anything now!"
"Shit!" Itsuka helped Tetsutetsu up as he covered his orifice, "Momo told me about this guy, he's dangerous!"
"Naruto, now be a good weapon and ki…" Mustard laughed right before Naruto unexpectedly clawed his back out with his expanding fingernails and the gas-controller screams out in pain as he move away from the Noumu. "Y-Y-YOU! WHAT THE FUCKING ARE Y…" His breath hitched up in fear as he saw Naruto's face for the first time and the Yuuei students behind him stiffened in similar stage.
"MUSTARD!" Naruto snarled, his blood-red orbs, filling up his sclera, stare into Mustard's gas mask as if it was burning into his soul and his lips draw back like a snarling predator as his sneer show his fangs off. "YOU POISONED JIROOOOU!" He lunged at Mustard with a savage roar and the gas-controller barely dodges the swipe as it cut through several trees down. "YOU DID THAT TO JIROU!"
"STOP IT, STOP IT!" The gas-controller cried out with his right hand up as he crawled backward away from raging Noumu, "I ORDER YOU TO STOP!" A fist strike into his face with a straight, shattering the mask in pieces as the gas-controller hit the tree with a thud.
"W-What the hell?!" Tetsutetsu spoke through his hands with widened eyes, "Aren't they on same side?!"
"We gotta stop them!" Itsuka shouted, "At this rate, he'll kill him!"
"RRRRGH!" The raging Noumu jump up in air and he attempt to stomp his feet down on the screaming gas-controller's face but the giant hand swat him into the nearby tree. Naruto flip up on his feet as soon as he land on the ground and his red eyes sharply turn to Itsuka before a steel fist smash into the right side of his face, launching him into another tree.
"Alright, got a good one in!" Tetsutetsu pumped his right arm, he feel his fist land on the blonde boy's face and this guy will stay down for good…His mini-celebration was short-lived as Naruto stood back up and he have a broken jaw, which was rapidly healing right away with few cracks. 'Regeneration?!' His eyes widened, that don't make any sense! No one should have more than one quirk! The blonde boy was about to charge at Tetsutetsu but the gunshot catch his attention and he fixated his eyes upon Mustard as the gas-controller fired his weapon at the raging Noumu, only to miss him by miles. "This idiot!"
"MUSTARD!" Naruto charged toward the gas-controller with a roar before the Yuuei students can do anything to stop him and he throw a hard right hook at Mustard, only to bury his hand into the ground as Itsuka yank Mustard away from his range. Before she know it, Tetsutetsu tackle her down as Naruto's leg swing pass over their heads and the blonde boy once again lunge at Mustard.
"G-G-GET BACK!" Mustard held his handgun up with a scream and he was about to pull the trigger but the weapon fall apart in pieces, due to Naruto's right claw. The gas-controller's eyes widened in fear as the raging Noumu hold his left fist up with a savage snarl, the moonlight at its back creating a terrified silhouette. Naruto bring it down but Tetsutetsu and Itsuka shoulder-tackle the raging Noumu back and the steel boy drag the gas-controller back by his collar. "LET ME GO, LET ME…"
"SHUT UP!" Tetsutetsu knocked him out with a steel punch, this guy keep making it worse as long as he stays conscious.
"YOU HURT HER!" The roaring Noumu's left arm gain a metallic grey tone, making it appear like an cybernetic arm, before his forearm morph into something. "WEAPON ARM: GATLING GUN!" A small Gatling gun takes place of his forearm and he aim it at Mustard's body with another roar.
"FUCK, GET DOWN!" Tetsutetsu hardened his body as he shield Itsuka and Mustard, just in time before the Noumu unleash the hell of bullets at his back.
"TETSUTETSU!" Itsuka shouted out as soon as the gunfire cease.
"I'm fine!" The steel boy grunted out with a wince, "A round is nothing!" He glanced over his shoulder, "But how can we take this guy out?! We threw everything at him and he keeps coming!"
"Then we'll run…" Itsuka muttered with gritted teeth until a theory form in her head as she realize something and before they know it, Naruto knock them away in opposite directions. She quickly stood up from the ground with a painful grunt as the raging Noumu lift his right claw up over Mustard for a finishing blow and she have to take the gamble. "DON'T!" She quickly place herself between Naruto and Mustard with her spreading arms and Naruto's red eyes flick down to her with a deadly growl.
"ITSUKA, GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Tetsutetsu scrambled up to his feet and Naruto was about to thrust his claw downward until…
"THAT'S NOT WHAT JIROU WANT!" The claw stop a few inches before the girl's eyes as the raging Noumu froze up, "What would Jirou think of that if she knows?!" She barked, "…If you take a life then she will never forgive you for that!
"…Jirou…" Naruto whispered with a low growl as if he was snapping out of daze, "Jirou do not want that?" His red eyes flicked to Mustard as the sclera whitened, "But he hurt her. His quirk poisoned her…" The sclera start to bleeding red again, "MUSTARD MUST PAY…"
"Yes, he will pay for everything after we turn him in to the police!" Itsuka speak hastily, "The justice sees to it and it will happen, I swear!"
"…Justice?" His eyes color flicked back to blue as his fangs slowly transform back to normal teeth and the blonde boy bring his hand down, staring at Itsuka. "…Do Jirou want that?" His response was a mutely nod as he tilted his head, "…I do not understand, but very well." He abruptly spun around on his heels and the blonde boy walk toward the woods. "Then I must continue with my mission."
"…H-Hey, wait!" Tetsutetsu quickly tried to stop the blonde boy, "You're also a criminal and we'll have to take you in!"
"Weapon arm: flamethrower." Naruto said calmly as his left arm take a form of flamethrower and he spray the fire between him and the Yuuei students, producing a wall of fire to keep them at bay. The steel boy quickly breaks through the fires with his quirk but he doesn't see the blonde boy anywhere in his sight.
"Dammit!" The steel boy muttered before he return to his classmate, "I lost him. I really don't get him at all, they are on same side and yet…"
"I think I do understand." Itsuka replied in deep thought, "I heard a bit about him from Momo, a student from class 1-A, and after seeing his action and reaction…"
"Wait, isn't Jirou from class 1-A too?" Tetsutetsu cut her off, "Does that mean he's obsessing with her or something?"
"Well, that's one of few possibilities." Itsuka said, "There is one strong possibility that I think but I'm not sure because he's a Noumu." The steel boy blinked confusingly since he never heard of Noumu before, "I think in some kind of twisted way, he fall for Jirou…"
"As planned, you have five minutes to rendezvous at the 'collection points'." Mr. Compress spoke through the earpiece as Naruto wordlessly walk into a clearing and he quietly stand all by himself. After a while, a black fog form in front of him before Kurogiri step out and the teleporter glance at the blonde boy.
"Ah, you're on time." Kurogiri spoke, "Have you catch any pro heroes for Sensei?"
"One." Naruto replied.
"Oh?" The teleporter hummed lightly, "Well, I guess that is not bad since it's very difficult to catch more than one pro heroes." He glanced at the boy, "I'll send you to the warehouse first before I collect the rest of our comrades. Sensei won't appear at the warehouse until tomorrow morning so your mission is to watch after our 'guest'."
"Understand." The blonde boy step through the black hole before he vanishes and Kurogiri wrap himself to the second collection point.
Salad wander around the warehouse with a cheerful hum and the creature check each Noumu in the crates to see if there was any like Salad and Naruto, only to be disappoint when it find nothing. "Nobody have 'it' in them." Salad sighed before it hears a soft footstep and the creature peek out from its hiding place to see Naruto with some woman in his arms. "Ah, Naruto!" Salad ran over to the boy cheerfully before it looks down at the woman, "Who is she?"
"She is a pro hero." Naruto placed Ragdoll on the table, "I found her and she said she will answer my questions."
Salad Udon release a shocked gasp before it slamming its arms on the floor repeating with excitation, "R-R-Really, she will?! Wake her up! Wake her up!"
"She will not wake up for a while because she went through a mental stress, due to heavy wound." The boy said with blank expression before he looks at her, "But I can ask her the questions without waking her up."
"How?" Salad asked.
"I will go into her mindscape." Naruto answered, "Time flow different here and in there." He placed his hand on Tomoko's forehead before he close his eyes and he don't notice a smile on Salad's face behind him, everything is going very well and it can't wait to see the result. After all, there is a greater purpose for this boy.
Tomoko find herself in a sunny field and she look around confusingly, noticing there was no cloud in sight and there was a barren field nearly. She finch at the sight of empty crib within the barren field and she hear a voice behind her. "Are you ready to answer to my questions?" She turned around to see a blonde boy.
"W-W-Who are you?" Tomoko asked with widened eyes as she notices some certain features of the boy before she look around, "Is that a dream?"
"No, we are in your mindscape and my name is Naruto." Naruto replied as a chair materialized in front of him before he sits down backward with his arms on the headrest, "I want to ask you questions."
"Y-Yes?" Tomoko can't help but to say it since she don't know what's going on. "…W-Wait, did you said your name is…"
"What are humans? For what reason were we born?" Naruto opened his mouth, cutting her off. "Humans, animals, insects, Noumus…What is our purpose in this world? What do I have inside me?"
"…E-Eh?!" Tomoko stared at him with gaped expression.
To Be Continued…
And that end the first chapter of EN! Like it? Hate it?
If you want to know the reason why I cram everything in at once, it will be explained in the next chapter! Plus, I hope some of you catch some hints in few certain scenes…Wink, nudge, wink!
That's right, Naruto is a Noumu (Artificial Human with many quirks for these who don't read the manga) and he's different from the rest of Noumus because he's self-awaken like Salad Udon! I got a crazy idea after I re-read the manga, Doubutsu No Kuni (which I borrowed some elements like Naruto's peeling face (same like Luke's condition and his eyes) from and where Salad Udon come from)!
The reason why Naruto seems to be all over is because he recently become self-awaken and he start to question everything that he don't understand. He also experiences many things for the first time like emotions for example. Which might be why he seems to be obsessing with Jirou for some reason or...Hmm…
Here is the list of Naruto's quirks with some drawbacks, there are more than that but I won't spoiler anything else, you know me.
Heal quirk: A combination of two different quirks. A unknown quirk allow him to 'take' their injuries away but he gain their injuries and it must be recent within five days, meaning he can't 'heal' any old injuries (Like All Mighty's serious injury for example). Second quirk is Regeneration that allows him to heal himself and some of injuries will take time to heal, which counter the unknown quirk.
Telepathy quirk: Allow the user to send message to anyone within range but it can infect headaches upon anyone when forced into their minds. Also allow the user to enter anyone's mindscape.
Enhanced Body quirk: Combination of various quirks that enhanced reflex, strength, speed and etc, which make user near superhuman. (Or super-Noumu in Naruto's case)
Zoom quirk: Similar to Hatsume Mei's quirk.
Weapon Arm quirk: It can transform his left arm into any existing weapons but only one weapon can be used at a time.
Unknown quirk: A mysterious quirk 'lock' any quirks within his body, preventing anyone like All-For-One to steal them. Given by another mysterious quirk.
Claw quirk: The user's fingernails can expanded out like feline and it can cut through anything but it can't cut through something tough like diamond.
Berserker quirk: Given by All-For-One (Recently), Amp up the power of user by folds, even the quirks can be powered up, but it comes with cost. The user won't able to think straight, due to rage, and attack everyone in sight until something snap the berserker out or nothing is in its sight.
Unknown quirk: A very unique quirk that 'grant' him new quirks but it's very random and come at random time, it's possible the user will get a useless quirk.
And many more yet exist in this chapter.
What will happen in the next chapter? How will Tomoko answer to his questions? Will we know why Naruto think so much about Jirou or acting like that? Will his actions draw some attention from the villains? What's up with Salad Udon? What is this creature up to?! Why are they different from the rest of Noumus?! Let's find out in the next issue…Eh, I mean, next chapter!
Anyway, I think that's all I can say for now. Thank you for your time to read it.
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