Chapter X.

Trial & Error

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Kagome had not stopped frowning since her outburst at her father.

The absolute fucking nerve of that guy.

A father? Don't make her laugh.

She sat on top of a building looking down on the city; it was 2am at night. Kagome hadn't even returned home since the incident.

And everything had been broadcast on T.V.

Her week was just getting worse.

Thankfully the audio of the incident was not captured due to the sirens and whatnot, just the physical altercation.

After all, only her family knew she was related to the no.1 hero.

It was not public knowledge that Frost Fire and Endeavour were of relation.

Kagome just stared into the night with wide open-eyed that could not shut. While her whole world was breaking, cars drove by… she didn't even shake from the shock of the incident.

Just sat there in total paralysis, without realising what would happen after.

She didn't know what to do anymore.

But Kagome did know that she couldn't return home in this state. She couldn't scare Shippo.

And hence it had been two days... she had yet to return home.

Shippo, thankfully, was being looked after by his other grandparents. The ones she trusted.

All she could do was return to the familiarity of pro-hero work; the strange comfort of her ice cracking and the heat of battle was her home.

A blast went off nearby, and she shot up.

Two days of little sleep and eating did not deter her from her responsibility nor the need to punch a motherfucker to relieve some stress.

Her lilac flames came alight, and she skated across buildings, the icy flames forming an ice path.

There she saw the villain.

Ah, if ever there were a foe to be called her arch-nemesis, it was this man.

Trail & Error.

A moniker for both his quirk and affliction.

God, this man was insufferable!

Error was an ex-therapist turned villain. He had spent so much time with his clients, diving into their psyches, that the questions of "what if I did this" instead or what if "I was better" became a trigger for a psychological break.

He was nightmarish to deal with, but Kagome knew he was probably off his meds again. He was just a sick man at the end of the day, no matter how crazy.

She skated straight towards him, and the battle began.

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Kagome was flying through the air, preparing to break her fall. She groaned as she noticed how high up she was.

Shit.

Of all the villains that had it out for her, Trail & Error was a migraine.

This was the fifth time he forced her to travel to an alternate reality.

Their fights were always predictable, as Kagome dealt with the criminally insane more often than not.

Apparently, she was one of the few heroes who did not mind dealing with villains who were mentally ill. Which, in hindsight, should really be a fundamental class in hero school.

With Error, it was cut and dry; he broke out of the asylum and started regressing because he wasn't taking his medications. She would receive the call about him, track him down and begin having a fight. She did it to exhaust him mainly; she knocked him out and got him back on his medications as she carried extra for him.

Now his quirk was a problem. Alternate Reality Traveling quirk was a nightmare; Error himself could hop from reality to reality but take someone with him? That required a lot of energy and power.

Often when he would use his quirk on himself and her, they would have to wait up to a month for his quirk to recharge and then they left without damaging the reality he brought them to.

Thankfully he could return her to the exact moment he took them from, and then she turned him in back to the police and his asylum and got on with her day.

But today was different.

Error was more aggressive. He spoke rapidly of a drug that enhanced quirks.

So she tried to knock him out before he used his quirk, but it was too late.

And now she was falling.

Worst of all, Kagome couldn't stop her descent with her fiery ice.

Unlike her relative, while she could blast out her lilac flame, the negative temperatures meant her quirk couldn't propel her like a jet engine.

She needed it to grip something to even begin skating on it. And being miles high in the sky, she couldn't precisely just aim her fire while falling.

She just had to wait to splat into the earth.

As she descended, she tried to spot Error when suddenly he knocked into her as he spun in the air.

"Hello, frost fire! Recognise this forest at all?" He grinned manically as he laughed. Kagome ignored his taunts and tried to grab the villain.

But the ground was approaching fast.

This was going to hurt.

Pushing the villain to an open area with a kick of her feet, she pushed herself to a line of trees. She braced her arms against her head and felt the first branches against her stomach.

They snapped and twisted as they broke her fall. They stabbed her repeatedly and scratched her arms and legs, ripping her costume in several places.

With a final thud, she reached the ground, and she ached.

Her forearms felt raw from the number of cuts, and her stomach hurt. A sharp shooting pain, in particular, was causing her agony; when she pressed her palm against the area, she felt a branch and something warm and wet.

Looking down, she saw the branch deep in her abdomen, blood oozing.

Damn, that's a gonna be a pain to deal with, she thought grimly.

Not like she can rock up to any hospital in another reality dressed as pro-hero with a bleeding wound and a mentally unstable villain and ask for treatment but no questions.

Maybe there was an off-grid local doctor's surgery she could utilise. Right now, though, she needed to detain the villain and get him medicated.

Thus Kagome ripped off her sleeve and created a compression bandage around her abdomen. It wasn't perfect, but it would keep her from dying for now. Slowly she got up, and she gritted her teeth hard.

Fuck, it hurt so bad.

But she had to get him before he hurt himself or someone else.

There was what looked like some urban sprawl barely half a kilometre from where they landed, if she recalled correctly.

Error needed to be medicated, and then she could deal with the wound.

There was a problem; as she shifted, she noticed that her thermal body regulator was damaged.

Removing her support gear, she surveyed that several connectors were torn, and even the manual control pad was cracked. In its current state, it was unrepairable, the actual regulator sheets were torn, and unless she had spare parts, there was no way she could use it.

So to recap, she had a branch stuck in her side, her thermal regulator was broken, her body was torn to shreds, and she was stuck in an alternate reality…. with an unstable villain.

Shit. Were those quirk diagnosing doctors sure she didn't have a bad luck quirk?

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A/N: IM SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING ON TIME IM NOT DEAD - I was just busy graduating university among other social events i attended but no seriously heh the ceremony was very long I was very tired so i just decided not to update lol

soooo i would love to hear what every body thinks about this chapter cus i wasnt sure if i was gonna go through with this plot point which also another reason why it took longer - its complicated cus personally i don't like universe hopping stuff but i thought you might want some wholesome todoroki family fluff hah

but i feel like it adds another layer of complexity to Kagome - to know that you not wanted is one thing but to know that you aren't meant to exist thus making it appear taht you are the sole cause of all the bad things that happen is another (at least thats how Kags sees it, we know differently)

ANYWAY expect a double or maybe triple update this week im in the writing mood