Side note: Anything Italicized is the character's inner thoughts.

Chapter 3: The Rogue

Hayato was ready to commence the op he was assigned by the group called Libra. Libra is a underground hero agency that deals with black market dealings,human trafficking and illegal drugs. But first had to sit through a briefing from his director.

"Do I have to bring him Kisara, you know I'm more than capable of clearing out the complex and looking for." Kisara, showing contempt in her face and reluctant to show any rebuttal, decides to argue anyway.

"Yes you have to bring Vagabond with you Hyorinmaru, you and I both know that it'll be much faster to have a partner with you." Hayato not wanting to deal with the back and forth decides to turn on his comms device to contact Vagabond.

"Vagabond, you're with me today, meet me at gate C in 5 minutes. I'll give you a quick debriefing then."

"On my way to gate C Hyorinmaru."

"Happy now Kisara." exclaimed a slightly annoyed Hayato.

"Yes,I'm overfilled with joy, and just so we're clear NON-LETHAL only. A fight is bound to happen and would rather not have to deal with interrogations from other agencies asking me why there are 20+ body bags."

"Trust me I hear you loud and clear besides I haven't had an assassination assignment in 6 years."

Hayato thinks back to that 6 year span. It was when he first found out Saori was pregnant and decided to marry her right there and then. It was also within that time span he felt at peace,from marrying the love of his life and raising his first child,he felt a happiness he thought never existed. "I know Hayato, I was saying that more so for Vagabond and not you." Kisara only refers to Hayato by his name when the conversation is serious. "I don't want you to go back to your old way of life before you met Saori. And how is Saori and the little one doing?" Hayato decides to take off his mask to have a proper heartfelt conversation with the person that is not only his boss but a longtime friend.

Hayato smiles and says"Saori and Snow are doing fine. Snow actually starts his first day in his new permanent school."

"Awww I'm so happy for him. It only feels like yesterday when I was at the hospital with you and Saori."

"Yeah time sure flies by doesn't it Kisara. I should get going, I don't want to keep Vagabond waiting."

"I'll be here at HQ watching your backs through the complex's camera system and keep me updated through your comm device."

"Got it Kisara." Hayato walks out of the debriefing room and makes his way towards gate C.

"Alright, Vagabond repeat to me what I just said to you." Hayato says this while not trying to show frustration and or annoyance because he has to work with Vagabond.

"We sneak into 's complex, get him to talk about the whereabouts of the titan drug and give him to the local authorities. I'm not some rookie Hyorinmaru. I've been at Libra for the same amount of time as you have."

"And yet you forgot one detail. We are to do this non-lethally, no casualties whatsoever." Hayato says in an annoyed tone.

Vagabond lets out a loud sigh and says "Sorry must've slipped my mind."

"Just don't forget that part Vagabond, now drive." Vagabond starts the car and drives off to their destination,Ayabe's complex. Some time passes by and they're on a hill overlooking the complex. "This is where we split Vagabond and limit your quirk usage. I don't want them to be alerted unless necessary. You enter through the west wing and I'll be on the east wing." All while Hayato is explaining their plan of action he activates his opsat virtual map to give a better picture on where they'll be going exactly. "They shouldn't be too heavily guarded but you never know sometimes. This is where we converge right in front of Ayabe's lab once there me make our presence known." Hayato turns off the virtual map and looks over to Vagabond. "Have any questions."

"Nope."

"Good." And they set off running to the opposite gates of the complex. Hayato canvases the east gate seeing if there's a better entrance other than waltzing through the front door. And there was a ventilation grate to the right of him. He walks over to the grate and forcibly removes the cover. Once the cover is off Hayato crawls inside the vent making sure to not make too much noise while moving.

Hayato comes to a stop when reaching the other end of the vent. He places his foot on the vent and progressively adds force to it so the cover can come loose. Once loose he pushes the vent aside and crawls out of the vent and surveys the area. "Looks like I'm inside a storage room,plenty of cover to hide behind." Hayato hears someone opening the door and hides behind a nearby box.

"Hey where do I put this stuff?"

"Just leave it somewhere we gotta head back to our post soon."

"alright."

Hayato watches from cover as the two henchmen are having a conversation. Once one of them puts the box down they leave the room and close the door. Hayato emerges from cover and makes his way to the box. He opens it up and to his surprise it's the titan drug. Hayato lifts his wrist up so his opsat can take a picture of the contents within the box then puts two fingers behind his lower ear to activate his comms device."Hey Kisara, sent you some pictures, you should be getting them now."

"Just got them,this will be a great present to the right authorities. See if you can find a manifest or catalog of goods."

"Happy to help and I'll see what I can do. First I'm gonna have to find the central system for the camera's."

"Keep me posted until then." Hayato turns off his comms and slowly approaches the door,he kneels down and pulls a cable from his opsat to slide it underneath the door. The cabe is an optic cable. There's a camera at the end of it, it allows scouting of unknown areas without being detected. "The coast is clear." Hayato pulls the cable and it retracts back to the opsat and slowly opens the door.

"Kisara, this is Vagabond,I overheard some of Ayabe's crew talking about field testing."

"Thank you for telling me Vagabond,I'll relay the information to Hyorinmaru, keep out of sight and head towards the mission objective."

"On it Kisara,Vagabond out."

Kisara quickly contacts Hayato about the newfound information. "Hayato,Vagabond says he overheard some of Ayabe's crew talking about field testing. You need to hurry."

"Don't worry I won't let them." "Here I thought I'll just get in and out of course things need to be more complicated. I need to hurry and can't let people on Titan get to the public." Hayato progresses through the complex with ease as suspected there were little guards to be found. As Hayato rounds the next corner he spots the central camera room. He makes his way towards the door and notices someone in there. "How am I going to get in there?" An idea pops into his head. Hayato reaches for the small pouch on his belt and grabs a small circular device. It's a noisemaker and has low proximity noise making. He slides it into the room at an angle and goes on his opsat to activate the device.

"Hey, what's that noise?" The guard gets up from his chair and moves to the left side of the room. Hayato takes this opportunity to slowly open the door and makes his way towards the guard. The guard picks up the noisemaker and stands up and unbeknownst to him Hayato is right behind him. Hayato throws a low kick to the back of the guard's knee causing him to buckle,then Hayato performs a vascular hold. It's also known as a sleeper hold where you compress the carotid arteries on the sides of the neck,restricting blood flow to the brain and causing the target to pass out. The guard starts to struggle until his body falls limp,Hayato drags him out of view and places him against a wall.

"He should be out for awhile,Now on to the camera control system." Hayato walks towards the control panel and takes a cable from his opsat and connects it to the panel. With a couple button presses Hayato successfully hacks into the camera system giving Kisara full control. "There you go, Kisara,full access to the control room."

"Thanks Hayato, head towards Ayabe's lab,Vagabond is almost there." Hayato pulls out his optic cable to see if the coast is clear. Affirming there are no guards he puts away the optic cable and slowly opens the door and makes his way towards Ayabe's lab.

Hayato and Vagabond simultaneously reach the entrance of Ayabe's lab both on opposite side of the door. "Here's the plan Vagabond,first you head to the power system which is through that vent over there. You turn off the power and once that happens during the confusion I'll make my way towards the guards in the area taking them out one by I'm doing this you there's another vent within the room that you can crawl through and you'll be above the safe room. You'll know the signal to capture Ayabe once I've cleared the room out."

"Why do you get all of the fun….Fine I'll set the distractions up just don't screw this up." Vagabond says while heading towards the vent.

"Trust me I know what I'm doing, Vagabond." Hayato takes a readied position in front of the door waiting to bash through. A couple of minutes pass and the lights go out Hayato instantly bashes open the door to make his presence known.

"Hey did somebody hear that? You over there check it out."

"It's showtime." Hayato darts towards the guard barking orders and sends a knee towards his gut and clasps his hands together and bashes his fists against the guards head instantly knocking him out.

"HEY WHAT WAS THAT." One of the guards activates their quirk quickly; they're able to emit light from their hand. The guard frantically shakes his hand to get a sighting of their assailant and they were able to catch a glimpse of Hayato jumping into the air. Hayato responds by throwing one of his daggers towards the source of the light. The dagger lands in the palm of the quirk user's hand immediately cutting out one source of light. The guards quickly ready their guns and start shooting in the air,Hayato quickly makes an ice shield.

"Absolute zero: absolute shield" Hayato blocks all of the shots through his descent and bashes the shield on a guards head breaking it in half. Hayato then takes his other dagger and rushes towards the quirk user that had his other dagger."I'll be taking this back." Hayato removes the dagger from the guard and holds him hostage to stop any oncoming fire at him. "Don't think you guys want to put any holes into your friend here."

"LET HIM GO" one of the guards shouted, readying his firearm. Hayato in an instant pushes his hostage towards the group to disorient them and raises foot and stomps it onto the ground, freezing anyone in his way. Some guards were quick to notice and they jumped out of the way either to the left or the right. Those who didn't dodge were frozen from the feet up except their heads.

"Almost forgot to hold back there." all while this is happening the back up generators start up and now the assailant is in full view."Dammit didn't account for them having back-up generators. Oh well this will give the doctor a good scare". One of the guards throws his gun to the floor and activates his quirk; he absorbs the steel floor from beneath him using the material as a suit of armor and shoulder charges towards Hayato. Hayato effortlessly jumps over him and shifts his attention to the 10 other people he has to deal with. He lunges towards the closest person; he moves the gun out of target range and pulls the guard forward, knees him in the stomach and then sends an elbow to the back of his neck. A guard starts firing his handgun at Hayato and in response rolls out of the way. Once the guard has to reload Hayato throws an icicle to their wrists causing the guard to drop the gun. Hayato takes the opening quickly and takes him out with swift blows to the body finishing off with a roundhouse kick. "9 left." The aforementioned quick user with a steel body decides to swing at Hayato while he's distracted. Hayato's reflexes kick in and dodges the punch,he notices there being a crater where he was standing. "That could've been a lot worse."

"YOU GET BACK HERE" the guard covered in steel rushes towards Hayato again and Hayato sends a snow flurry to his face blinding him. Hayato takes the chance to deliver a few blows until he hops on the back of the guard.

"Come on you gotta try harder than that." The guard tries with all of his might to get Hayato off his back but to no avail he isn't able to. So he decides to slam his back into the ground in hopes of crushing Hayato. Hayato leaps off him during mid slam and sends a flying kick towards one of the other guards knocking them out instantly. While the steel-covered man is rubbing his eyes, Hayato takes advantage of the situation and creates another shield to block the incoming fire. "I have to do something about this group. Easiest way to deal with it might be getting close and going for swift cuts with my I'll need to let some bullets graze me so I have an easier way of sending ice needles into their bloodstream." Hayato dissipates his own shield and takes out his daggers and starts to run in a straight line."Doing this will give them a false sense of security and make them think I'm an easy target" Hayato runs through the bullets and as planned they graze him creating small cuts around his body and in turn landing small cuts on the remaining guards the skirmish Hayato's blood is making its way onto the cuts after Hayato is done he stops in his tracks past the group and looks back at them. "Absolute zero: pin needles." And within an instant all of the gunmen literally froze in their tracks. Hayato starts to bend over, putting his hands on his knees trying to catch his breath. "That…took…. A lot out of me." The one quirk user Hayato forgot about takes him by surprise by picking him up and starts to crush Hayato's body with his arms.

"Did you forget about me, asshole? I'll make you pay for waltzing over here and taking everyone out." Hayato lets out screams of pain and agony feeling his bones being crushed.

"I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS." Hayato bashes his head against his and the quirk user staggers for a bit from the unsuspecting headbutt. His gripe slightly loosens on Hayato and within that moment he takes one of his daggers and stabs in into one the quirk users arm disabling that arm entirely. Hayato, now out of his assailant's clutches, makes a great distance between themselves. "Almost forgot about you. You know that quirk of yours is really unlucky for you though, steel tends to be brittle in low temperatures." During the entire fight Hayato's quirk usage has made the room temperature progressively drop. "Now to finish this up."

"My thoughts exactly." The steel covered man starts charging at Hayato and Hayato takes him up on that challenge by readying a dagger in his hand. Both run towards each other and within that brief moment of meeting each other in the middle Hayto makes a swift cut on his opponent's abdomen.

"NOW FREEZE." and on cue the steel covered man starts to freeze up from the feet up but stops at his head. "Dammit I'm definitely gonna have to see Kisara after we wrap up here." Hayato hold's his abdomen and makes his way towards the door all the way in the back of the room. During the fight has been watching through his own camera system and in horror he rushes towards his safe room. Hayato kicks the door down and enters Ayabe's office. He looks around to see if Ayabe was here and notices the door into the safe room. He tries to kick it down but to no avail the door won't budge. Hayato reaches for behind his ear to activate his comms system to contact Vagabond. "Vagabond you're up." Vagabond on cue bursts through the vent and quickly finds Ayabe. Ayabe in an attempt to protect himself takes out a handgun from his side and Vagabond quickly responds by grabbing Ayabe's wrist and redirecting the gun so he's no longer in target range. Then Vagabond put's Ayabe's arm behind his back and takes his handgun and points it at Ayabe's head.

"Don't make any sudden moves and we won't have an accident on our hands." Ayabe freezes and makes a barely audible noise saying he understands. "Now the code so I can open up the door for my partner. Ayabe clears his throat."

"The code is 5091 and the keypad is right behind us." With his free arm Vagabond punches in the code.

"The door is open Hyorinmaru." Hayato opens the door and walks towards Vagabond and Ayabe.

"Well then Ayabe seems like you've met my partner already so I'll ask you some simple questions and hopefully you'll have the answers we need. First, who are you developing this new titan formula for?"

"I don't know." Vagabond tightens the grip on the gun and his grip on Ayabe practically choking him. "I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW."

"He might be telling the truth but I can't let up. Vagabond has him scared so he's more liable to tell the truth." "Alright then if you don't know then why are you making titan in the first place?" Ayabe on edge, not wanting to get hurt, starts to talk.

"I recently came into some cash and I received an email with a new formula for titan. At first I declined the money but I kept on receiving more and more money and eventually I was threatened."

"By who?"

"I don't know." Vagabond, losing his patience, decides to tighten his grip even more and starts to speak.

"You're wasting our time here Ayabe. Stop with these "I don't know's" or you'll get to see what my quirk is."

"Vagabond that's enough. Scaring him even more isn't gonna expedite this any faster." Hayato rubs his temples from the frustration of having to deal with Vagabond's hyper aggressiveness towards their hostage. Hayato lets out a small sigh and tries to level with Ayabe. "Ayabe how were you threatened and is anyone else affected by this,family or friends even?"

"I was out with my family one day and someone approached me in the restroom. They said if I didn't comply they'd kill my wife and daughter."

"He was coerced into this and we have a possible location. We're getting somewhere at least." "Ayabe, can you remember the restaurant and possibly what he was wearing?"

"Umm it was like an old fashioned diner. It's located in central Aptos and the guy was wearing a long black trench coat,his voice was also muffled like he was wearing a mask or something." Hayato reaches for his comm system to contact Kisara.

"Hey Halo is that enough to go off of."

"Yeah, bring Ayabe here and I'll send some of our men over to get his family into witness protection. Good work out there you two. Mission complete time to head out there's a door in the lab that will lead you right outside."

"Well you heard her Vagabond." Vagabond releases Ayabe from his hold and dismantles the gun. "Vagabond, you escort Ayabe out of here I'll be right behind you."

"Alright I'll meet you outside." Vagabond and Ayabe leave the safe room and Hayato goes through Ayabe's file cabinets and find's a shipping manifest. He takes the folder and follows behind Vagabond and Ayabe.

The party of 3 head into the car getting ready to make their getaway. "Hold on before we leave, I have to make a quick call." Hayato pulls out a phone from the glove department and dials a number. On the other side of the phone Eyepatch looks at his phone in confusion because of the unknown caller.

"Hello? Who is this and how did you get this number?" Hayato pushes a button on suit beneath his collar to activate his mask's voice changer.

"Just someone you'll be hearing from every now and again. Now that introductions are out of the way I assume you're tracing this number as we speak. I want you to come here and see the present I have wrapped for you oh and bring some policeman. I hope you like popsicles."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Well that's easy,if you don't get ready to see people on an untested version of titan running around the streets. I look forward to your cooperation." Hayato hangs up and tosses the phone outside the window and gestures to Vagabond to start driving. Ayabe, curious about what just happened decides to ask a question. "

Why did you do that Hyrorinmaru?"

"Well for starters you should know the way we act and conduct ourselves isn't very becoming of a hero. To simply put it, we do what heroes can't bring themselves to do at times,we work in the dark for light to shine once again. It's better we stay far away from the heroes. The things I've done and the rest of the members at the agency we work at have done wouldn't be good for the public eye."

"I guess what happened at my lab today was just a small piece of what you two are capable of then?" Vagabond decided to chime in the conversation.

"You'd be correct Ayabe but we chose these lives ourselves, this is just something we have to get used to."

"Vagabond is right we may never get any recognition for what we've done but who would praise train killers who only seem heroic every now and again. Even Saori was afraid of who I was and eventually came to terms of who I was and loved me unconditionally." One long drive later and here they are pulling up in front of Libra HQ. As Vagabond is parking the car Ayabe notices his wife and daughter. Once the car is parked Hayto looks over to Ayabe. "Go to them. Let them know you're safe. I'll be right behind you." Ayabe opens the door and rushes over to his family. They rejoice at the fact that he's alive and well. Hayato hands over the documents to Vagabond. "Vagabond get this to Kisara I'm gonna stick around for a bit."

"Are you sure about that? Well just make sure you stop by the infirmary to get patched up you look like hell."

"Oh so you have some compassion after all."

"Shut up and go to Ayabe already." Hayato lets out a small laugh and steps out of the car and walks over to Ayabe and his family. Ayabe's wife notices Hayato and stands in front of his daughter.

"It's alright Nanako dear he's the one that saved me."

"It doesn't mean I have to trust look at him, he doesn't look like a hero."

"She's not entirely wrong but I can't exactly blame her."

"I'm so sorry about that Hyorinmaru."

"She has every right to not trust me." Hayato kneels down to the little girl who was no older than 3 and takes off his mask. "Hi there little one, your father is safe now and you don't have to worry about any scary men anymore." The little girl extends her hand out for a handshake but Nanako is hesitant to stop her but let's anyway. Hayato shakes the girl's hand and gives her a small smile.

"Do you have any kids Hyyorinmaru?"

"Just one Ayabe and like you I'm willing to do everything that I can to protect him."

"I can't thank you enough Hyorinmaru, you really saved my life."

"I was only doing my job and now follow that man he'll take you to our relocator. They'll help relocate you and your family out of Aptos and untraceable trust me it works." Ayabe nods in affirmation and leaves with his family to go visit the relocator.

"Alright once again you two, great work out there." Kisara applauds her employees and turns over to her desk to grab something. "Alright but the fun doesn't stop there,Vagabond with the documents you gave me. I need you to go to these locations and see if you can find any titan there and report your findings to me and local authorities. Get prepared and depart when you're ready."

"Roger that Kisara." Vagabond takes the list from Kisara and leaves her office leaving Hayato and Kisara by themselves. "As for you Hyroinmaru, I need you to take off your clothes."

"Huh?"

"So I can use my quirk to heal you."

"Oh right." Hayato starts to undress, only taking off the upper half of his clothes. Kisara blushes a little bit from the sight of Hayato's well defined body. Hayato sit's down on the small sofa and Kisara stands behind him and puts her hands on his shoulders. A small green light starts to emanate from her hands signifying her quirk is active.

"Hey Hayato, has Saori ever asked you about some of these scars before?"

"Once or twice, why do you ask?"

"Well they are kinda just there in full view, curious if she ever asked the story behind them."

"The few times she's asked I've only ever told snippets. I try not to tell her all of the details of the missions I've been on."

"That's fair." Hayato enjoys the silence between the two, clear his thoughts and relaxes his body from the soothing touch of Kisara's hands and quirk working in tandem. Hayato decides to break the silence.

"So what's my next assignment?"

"You never skip a beat do you? But if you must know, it's a simple one to investigate that diner Ayabe was talking about and get the camera footage of that night. Hopefully the footage is still there oh and go in as a civie of course to not draw any attention."

"Well a restaurant owner isn't exactly gonna give a random person camera footage."

"Well that's why I made a fake detective ID for you to use. Also this will give you some time to spend with your family. You deserve it."

"Thank you Kisara. Actually next time you're free you should stop by our house and have dinner with us. It would be great for Snow to get to know you."

"Sounds like a lot of fun.I'll let you know when I'm free." Hayato checks his watch and notices the time it's 1:30 pm.

"Good, I have time to eat and relax in my office before I have to pick up Snow." 10 minutes pass and for the most part Hayato's body is healed, some sore spots and minor pains from making sharp movements but nonetheless ready to go. "Thanks Kisara, I'll be in my office if you need anything." Hayato starts to put on a long black sleeved shirt and pack his gear into a briefcase.

"It's no problem Hayato just don't make any sharp movements." Hayato waves towards Kisara and leaves the room to head towards his office. Hayato makes his way into his office and locks the door behind him. He heads over to his desk and starts looking through the file cabinets. He finally found what he was looking for the prior night,the matching locket he and Saori have."Saori would've killed me if I lost this. Especially when I'm the one who even suggested the idea of getting matching lockets." Hayato takes out the bento box that Saori gave him and enjoys his lunch.

Author's note:

To know what an opsat is look up splinter cell and if you knew what a opsat is thumbs up to you.

Sorry for the long gap guys. I came down with a cold but I'm feeling so much better now than I was a week ago or so but switching topics this was a pretty long chapter to say the least and I'm glad I revoked the idea of having 3 characters in one chapter. Let me know how I did with the fight scene and how you guys feel about the inner thoughts. Thought it would be a nice touch to add those for characters when they're the main focus of the chapter. For some character descriptions Kisara Tsunemori is in her 20's,she's average height, long black hair, and for her work attire it's mainly a dark gray blazer, a white collarless blouse,black skirt and black heels. Her quirk is healing touch and as the name applies it does exactly what you think it does. Vagabond in his hero outfit wears a black coat with a hood,kevlar pants and combat boots. Hood and coat are also made of kevlar so his clothes don't burn up from his quirk. His quirk as you could guess is fire based don't have a name for it yet but he's able to shoot purplish black flames from his hands. For facial features he has red hair; it's short,ruffled and spiked with two strands of hair falling over his face at the opposite side of his head. Oh and he has auburn eyes with a scar going over his left eye. He's as tall as Hayato and of similar body stature. I think that's it for now I would do a description on Ayabe but he's very much a one off character just know who looks like your typical anime scientist. Next chapter I wanna have it just be Saori and Saya focused so it shouldn't be too terribly long but I could be entirely wrong lol. Until then I'll see guys in the next chapter take care.