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Just Dropping In
-Chapter 4-
-Last Time-
*Achoo* "Dammit." Standing just outside a large H shaped building wrapped up in a large yellow sleeping bag, Aizawa grumbled quietly under his breath as he wiped his nose. 'My annoyance sense is tingling, that brat must've signed up for here after all.'
It was what he'd been hoping for sure, but that didn't stop the feeling of dread the man felt as he went off to get ready for the no doubt many, MANY, headaches that were to come in the school year.
-And Now, A week Later-
"La da da ta~ Get a look at me~ La da da duh~ Free as a bunny~" Rumi sang slightly off key as she walked up the steps to her floor, a small shopping bag held in one arm whilst she twirled a certain tracking collar around with her free hand. "La da da ta~ Early release be my gift~ La da da dum~ For my hard work and extra shift~."
So into her tune, the rabbit heroine didn't even bother saying hi to Nemuri as she passed, the purplette going the same way she was.
"Well somebody seems to be in a good mood." The adult themed heroine stated curiously, her arms crossed behind her head as she walked alongside the cheerful rabbit woman.
"Of course I'm in a good mood, I finally don't have to wear this blasted thing anymore," As she spoke, Rumi grinned victoriously while clenching the collar in her grasp, the plastic and metal crumbling slightly under the pressure. "I swear this was so annoying, especially when I was trying to sleep."
"I can imagine," Nemuri said with a nod, briefly glancing at the whitette's neck where she could see a faint tan line from the collar surround by small red patches and a few scratch marks. "You're a pretty good singer by the way, ever consider trying out professionally? You never know, maybe you're Japan's next great superhero popstar."
Stopping briefly at the purplette's words, Rumi couldn't help but shiver uncomfortably before making an overexaggerated gagging sound. "Ugh, and have to possibly deal with even more creepy fans, no thank you. I already get enough of those already as it is."
"Fair enough." The adult rated heroine agreed with a nod.
While the fame and all was nice, being a top hero had some rather annoying drawbacks and one of the topmost ones either of them could think of were their self-proclaimed superfans. Unlike regular fans which aside from being a bit overly persistent at times are generally pretty alright, these were the ones who practically embody all the bad stereotypes of a fanbase.
It was something all heroes dealt with, for example Nemuri herself had to have six restraining orders filed just over the last year.
But for Rumi, with her quirk's… appeal and her top five rating, it meant she had to deal with an extra-large helping of this craziness. The whitette can't even begin to count how many times she's received 'supportive' letters from fans on how they 'saw her pent-up needs and desires but wanted to protect her public image' or 'were willing to help with her inner ravenousness'.
It really drove her up the wall in rage at times… and don't even get her started on the fanart.
"Why are you here?" Rumi asked her fellow heroine in an attempt to change the subject. "Shouldn't you be getting lesson plans ready for the new schoolyear or something?"
"Finished them yesterday and it's my day off today, so I don't really got anything to do," Nemuri waved the question off before grinning at the whitette. "So, I figured I'd pop in and see how things were going on over here. Roommate life treating you well?"
"Meh, it's going alright so far." Rumi stated plainly with a shrug, missing the disappointed look that flashed across her friend's face.
"Really? You got your own little stud living with ya and it's just alright?" The purplette asked in a hinting tone as she nudged the rabbit woman's side. "Come on girl, I want details. Any awkward accidents? Arguments about chores? Walk in on each-other in the shower?"
"For the love of… should have seen that coming," Rumi sighed irritably as she listened to her fellow pro hero list off different scenarios and suggestions, most of which sounded like they'd been ripped out of a cheesy Sitcom. "No, nothing like that happened with Naruto. It's actually been pretty boring these last few days."
Being the physically active person that she is, the bunny-eared woman really didn't have much in the form of indoor entertainment, a few streaming subscriptions, basic internet service, some workout gear, and an old boardgame she got as a present being about it. And even then, a good chunk of time had to be taken up with filling her new roommate in on important, yet incredibly boring, things such as quirk laws.
"Ah phooey, your no fun at all," Nemuri muttered with a defeated pout at Rumi's bland response. "At least tell me you got to know him a more?" 'And that all those romance mags I slipped in your mail weren't a total waste.'
…What? She loved playing matchmaker and her romance sense was telling her that these two would really hit it off.
"Maybe just a little bit," The rabbit heroine said cheekily with a chuckle at the pleading puppy dog eyes she got from the purplette before deciding to finally throw her a bone or two. "Naruto really likes ramen, like almost obsessively, and is not a morning person at all. Oh, and he's scared of ghosts, found that out when we watched Ghostbusters the night before yesterday. You should have seen it, he literally sprang up onto the ceiling like a cat when the librarian ghost transformed."
"Hehehe… that must've been hilarious." Nemuri said, giggling as she pictured the scene in her head whilst Rumi nodded with a smirk
"No kidding, honestly I almost pissed myself from laughing too hard when I heard the girly shriek he gave."
"I can imagine," The mature-rated heroine muttered amusedly before suddenly adopting a thoughtful expression. "By the way, I thought whiskers was supposed to be getting his citizenship sorted out today. Shouldn't you be with him given you're his 'legal guardian' at the moment?"
Naruto was technically an illegal alien after all, which meant that by all means he should be getting the boot from the country from day one. Thankfully though, while it was still a rather tedious process overall, immigration had become relatively easier since the rise of Quirks and many of the age-old prejudices of the pre-quirk era started crumbling away.
After all, once basically everyone around the world started sprouting tails, spitting fire, or literally turning purple, it wasn't exactly easy to define things like a person's race or ethnicity anymore. A good example of this would be All Might, one of Japan's greatest and revered societal icons despite looking, acting, and even sounding just like an American most of the time.
Plus, there was the fact he had not one, not two, not even three, but four Pro-Heroes vouching for him, along with some other support from a few other parties, so it was doubtful that there would be much of an issue.
"And get stuck sitting through all that boring bureaucratic red tape bullshit, yeah no thank you," Rumi stated blandly while shaking her hands and head in the ever classic 'fuck that shit' pose. "I'd rather have to deal with the crazy fans, at least then I get to punch something. Plus, I had an appointment of my own, otherwise known as having this infernal collar taken off."
'Yeah, should have figured that,' Nemuri thought with her dull expression, though hers was more towards herself for asking the question in the first place. "So who went with him then? Aizawa?"
"Nah, Ol' Scruffy is still busy with the aftermath of the Kaifuku incident, so Mt Lady took him instead." As Rumi spoke, a small tinge of sourness made its way into her tone. Yesterday, a two-bit drug addict with high-velocity cannons in his shoulders tried robbing a hospital for his next fix and ended up causing tons of property damage in the process until Eraserhead arrested him.
That wouldn't have been so bad, if it hadn't also been right smack dab in the middle of the rabbit heroine's turf and thus should have been her laying the beatdown on that idiot. She could have totally taken him down in five seconds flat, but no she had to be under damn house arrest so now a whole hospital was out of commission and hundreds of patients had to be transferred to other locations.
"Ah right, right, almost forgot about that mess," Midnight muttered with a nod while thinking to herself. 'Yu huh? Can't say I saw that coming, though that would explain why I haven't seen her milking the crowds for attention at all today.'
"Speaking of messes, you think Naruto's gotten into any trouble yet?" Rumi asked jokingly as she rubbed her chin in mock thought. "I don't know about you but I can just tell that guy is a magnet for trouble, especially if all those letters from home have anything to say about it."
"I wouldn't doubt it," The adult themed heroine agreed with a giggle. "But seriously, they're just going down to the embassy to sign some paperwork. What kind of trouble could they possibly get into?"
…
…
"You're a dumbass." Rumi stated blandly after several seconds of total silence, earning a stunned and confused look from Nemuri right.
"E-excuse me?"
"Did you really have to say that? You know that only an idiot says something like 'What could possibly go wrong'." The rabbit woman continued while fixing her companion with a dull glare.
Realizing what she was talking about, Nemuri couldn't help but roll her eyes and shake her head with an amused chuckle. "Oh come on Mirko, we're grown adults, you can't honestly still believe in that old superstition."
"If anything happens I swear I'm gonna punch you." Was all Rumi said in response.
"Yeah, sure, whatever you say," The sultry purplette said with a dismissive wave of her hand as they finally arrived at the rabbit woman's door. "I'm just quivering… in… my..."
Nemuri ended up trailing off midsentence the moment Rumi opened her door, both of their eyes widening in shock and perfect WTF expressions appearing their faces.
Why?
Naruto could be found sitting on the couch, a look of tired resignation on his face and a scratch on his cheek that was slowly fading out of view, while Yu was over in the kitchen area grabbing a fresh icepack from the freezer for the bad black eye she has.
Now that alone was odd enough… but then there were the two other people in the apartment as well, sitting on either side of Naruto.
To the whiskered blonde's left was a lovely middle-aged woman who could almost pass as Rumi's sister, with shoulder length pure white hair, pale skin, and light brown eyes, in a slightly tattered and messy white gown which seemed oddly familiar to the purplette. She appeared to have been crying recently due to her bloodshot puffy eyes and was halfheartedly eating some sushi whilst Naruto rubbed her back in a supporting manner.
Meanwhile, on his left was a teen girl about his age with straw blonde hair done up in two buns, wearing a slightly baggy school uniform. Oddly enough though, her arms and legs were bound in place by thin metallic wire along with a rather nasty road rash on the side of her face, leaving only her hands free to wiggle around at her waist.
Despite this however, said girl didn't seem to care at all, or rather looked blissfully content with a deep blush on her cheeks and lolled eyes as she… sucked on Naruto's thumb. No seriously, she was literally sucking on his thumb like a freaking toddler whilst trails of saliva and what looked suspiciously like blood slowly oozed down her lips.
"Hey Rumi, hey Midnight-san, how's it going?" Naruto asked once he saw the new arrivals, before gesturing towards the ladies on either side. "And before you ask, I do have an explanation for this."
…
"Wha-" *Wham* Midnight started to say something only to be cut off when Mirko suddenly smacked her right in the face with a surprise backhand, sending the adult rated heroine flying back into the hall.
"Start from the beginning." The rabbit heroine stated while flopping down on a nearby recliner, ignoring the stunned looks she was getting from everyone else in the room.
-Earlier that Day-
"Uhhg, I am so glad that's over with." Naruto groaned as he and Yu stepped out of a government building, the former rolling his wrist with an annoyed grimace whilst the latter rubbed her eye sleepily.
"You and me both," Yu muttered, yawning and stretching before sighing in relief as her joints popped audibly. "I swear these guys just love boring the hell out of people because they got it down to an art."
"No kidding-Ttebayo, but at least it's over with," The whiskered blonde said optimistically as he patted his pocket where his new Residence Visa was. It was only a temporary one which would expire in a few months, but by then he would hopefully have a permanent one approved, or something like that, he kinda zoned out at the end there. "So, are we heading back now?"
"Not quite, let's get something to eat first, I'm starving here," Yu said while rubbing her stomach as it growled softly in protest of its emptiness before grabbing Naruto's arm and walking along. "There's a nice little sushi joint just a few blocks from here, we can grab some to go."
Feeling more than a bit peckish himself, Naruto nodded in agreement and let the older blonde drag him along. "Sounds good to me."
Sure enough, after a few minutes of walking they arrived at the aforementioned sushi stand, a quaint little thing on the corner with a nice welcoming feel to it. Better yet, the place was pretty much empty at the time so the pair didn't have to wait long for to make their orders.
During that time, the two blondes idly chatted, tossing a few jokes back and forth about their first meeting and even a few funny stories of their pasts.
"And so, while everyone else was having their lunch, I snuck up on Kiba and nailed him with a balloon filled with catnip and tuna before letting loose a box full of cats I'd caught earlier. You should have seen it, the guy was scrambling all over the place for an hour trying to get away from them."
Speaking of which…
"Hehehehe, that must've been hilarious!" Yu exclaimed between fits of giggles as Naruto finished telling her of a prank he pulled on Kiba in revenge for when the dog boy spiked his instant ramen with hot sauce.
"Hell yeah it was, especially after he finally noticed that Akamaru wasn't helping him because I bribed him with a steak, or that his sis had showed up and was taking pictures of the whole thing," Naruto added with a smirk, getting the gigantism quirk user to double over in laughter. "Apparently she even put one up in their Living room but I've never seen it."
-Back in Konoha-
"Why!?" One Kiba Inuzuka demanded in horror as he stared at a slightly tattered picture of him as a child covered in green powder and chunks of tuna fish whilst dozens of cats clambered over him, some of which had gotten into his jacket and one on his head, proudly on display on the wall. "Of all the things that were salvaged why did this have to be one of them!? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?"
-And Back-
"Heh, remind me never to get on your bad side." Yu said once she managed to settle down, wiping a tear from her eye while accepting a pair of wrapped boxes from the man at the counter.
"You should if you know what's good for you," Naruto stated in a mock serious tone and fixing his fellow blonde with a goofy glare before both of them started laughing again. "Speaking of bad sides though, we should really start heading back to the apartment before I get in trouble with the police again."
"Oh you worry too much," The busty blonde said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "You'll be fine as long as I'm around, I am a Pro-Hero after all. Besides, we just stopped to get some lunch, how much trouble could you get into?"
As soon as those words left Yu's lips, all forms of humor suddenly vanished from Naruto's face as he stared at the woman with a complete deadpan that slightly unnerved her.
"What? Is there something on my face?"
"You just had to say it, didn't you?" The whiskered blonde asked in a completely dull tone. "You just had to go and jinx us."
It took a moment, but the lightbulb finally clicked on in the Pro-hero's brain after she thought over what she said before laughing slightly nervously. "Don't be so dramatic Naruto, that's just a silly supersti-"
"Heads-up!" *Wham* A voice suddenly shouted out, cutting Yu off and getting both blondes to snap their attention to the side just in time for the gigantism quirk user's face to become intimately familiar with a soccer ball, knocking her right on her ass.
Catching the black and white ball as it bounced back into the air, Naruto idly tossed it back to the group of kids that were playing with it while staring down at the downed Heroine, his expression unchanged.
"You were saying?"
-Back to the Present-
"Pfffft! Hahahahahahahah!" Nemuri fell out of her chair clutching her gut, one of the wads of tissue popping out of her bruised nose as she kicked her legs in the air.
"Hehehehe!" She wasn't the alone in her amusement either as Rumi giggled uncontrollably while pounding her fist on the arm of her chair so hard it started to crack.
"Oh shove it will ya, it wasn't that funny." Yu grumbled while glaring at the two laughing women, only to be completely ignored.
"Anyway," Naruto continued. "After that I helped Yu over to a nearby park bench and…"
-A few minutes after the 'Soccer accident'-
"Ugh, great, this is gonna take forever to go away," Yu groaned while sinking onto the bench, pressing a plastic cup full of ice against her swollen eye, a bruise already starting to form around it. "This proves nothing by the way."
"Yeah, yeah, just keep telling yourself that." The whiskered blonde retorted with an amused eyeroll before taking in the surrounding park. It wasn't very large, maybe two blocks at most, but made up for it with a lush variety of plants and trees.
Inhaling deeply, he couldn't help but smile wistfully and lean back on the bench with a sigh, earning a raised brow from his fellow blonde. "What's up with you? You sound like you got something on your mind."
"Nah… just feeling a bit homesick I guess." Naruto said with a shrug as his gaze drifted upwards.
"Ah right," Yu muttered while nodding in understanding, knowing all about the boy's literally otherworldly origins before adopting a curious expression. "If you don't mind me asking, what is your home like?"
"Honestly, it's in a bit of a mess right now," Naruto said bluntly, making the heroine blink in surprise and confusion until he continued. "A man named Nagato, a villain as you'd call him, attacked a few weeks ago and ended up wrecking the place pretty badly. Thankfully everyone made it out alright, but he literally leveled almost every part of the village."
"Damn, he must've been pretty tough." The black-eyed blonde said with a grimace from picturing a single guy demolishing a whole town single handedly.
"You have no idea." Was all the whiskered blonde said in response, subconsciously rubbing his hands where they had been impaled with chakra rods. Loathe as he did to admit it, but it had been a close fight, one that could have gone either way at the tiniest of slip-ups.
And if that wasn't bad enough, he still had to worry about the rest of the Akatsuki and their true leader Tobi possibly attacking again while he's stuck in another universe… dimension… whatever he was in.
A silence fell over the pair after that, with Yu unsure how to go past what was no doubt a very sore subject and Naruto just not feeling like talking anymore. So instead, the former began to awkwardly help herself to her sushi whilst the latter kept staring up at the sky with a thousand-yard stare.
However, after a minute or so and unnoticed by the heroine next to him, the whiskered blonde's eyes suddenly closed and he became utterly still, with not even the rising of his chest able to be seen. The reason for this was revealed a few moments later though as a familiar orange coloration formed around Naruto's eyes.
'Man, I don't know if I'm ever gonna get used to this.' He thought as his sage mode enhanced senses picked up the literal thousands of people all around him. It simply astounded him how many different people could live all crammed up together in one place as he sieved through the tidal waves of different life energies.
This was something he had started doing every few hours after his second day staying with Rumi, partially to improve his focus so as to avoid being overwhelmed like he had when he first got here but mostly it was just something to do so he wouldn't die of absolute boredom.
That said though, he had made a few interesting discoveries about sage mode, such as how he could sort of 'feel' what kind of quirk someone had. For example, his roommate Rumi had a similar life signature to that of a rabbit while their neighbor a few rooms down, who had hair made of actual charcoal, had an earthen feel to him.
However, the most interesting thing he discovered was-
'Hmph?!' Naruto's eyes snapped open suddenly before his head jerked to the side, his now golden toad-eyes focused onto a teen girl passing by one end of the park. She was a pretty if not a bit bland at first glance, with short brown hair and an eyepatch covering one eye and a simple green and white school uniform, appearing to simply be enjoying a casual walk.
Despite this though, the whiskered blonde's gaze never wavered as he tracked her progress, his eyes narrowing as his senses locked onto the TWO life signatures within the girl's body. One was the girl herself but the other was, he didn't know what it was but it wasn't there for a good reason if the pure unfiltered tidal wave of despair, fear, and desperation he felt from the former said anything.
Oh yeah, the other discovery he made was that he could sense emotions in sage mode, but generally only if he focused all of his attention really hard on a single individual. So the fact this girl caught his attention without him even trying was one hell of a red flag. Focusing on her more intently, Naruto's lips fell into a frown upon 'seeing' the way the foreign presence was encroaching the girl within herself and 'feeling' the malicious intent literally oozing from it.
"I need to go take a piss." He said bluntly while standing up, ignoring the grossed-out retort he got about "Not saying that kinda stuff while I'm eating." from his fellow blonde as he headed towards the public restrooms that were across the park. Once he rounded the corner though to where the doors would be, and thus out of sight, the whiskered blonde vanished in a static blur.
Kuin was having a pretty good day so far, her new host body had finally been overtaken completely, she had her cover stories all ready to go, and according to the labs the new strain of Trigger they'd been working on would be ready for testing soon. So all in all, there was nothing for her to complain abo-
*Swoosh*
"What the fuck?" The one-eyed teen couldn't help but ask aloud when she blinked and suddenly found herself no longer at the edge of the park she walked past each day to and from school. Instead she was in the middle of dank grimy back alley, pinned against cold brick by a pair of kunai in her jacket, while an unknown whisker faced toad eyed guy loomed over her.
"I don't know what the hell you are but you've got five seconds to get out of this girl's body or else." He stated while staring right into her eye with such intensity that it made her whole body lock up in terror.
'What!? He knows!? How!?' Kuin thought in disbelief, shock flooding through her at being called out by some random nobody that neither she or her current host had ever met before. "L-look sir, c-clearly you've-"
"Three seconds." Naruto cut her attempt at bullshitting off as he raised his hand up, a soft blue glow starting to form around it which for some reason caused a huge amount of dread to flood through the one-eyed girl.
Starting to really panic, Kuin quickly tried to think of a way out of whatever was happening, before grinning sadistically as one idea popped out to her. "Fine, you got me, but what are you gonna do about it? If you try to force me out or turn me in, something dreadful could happen to this innocent little-"
"Times up." And just like that, her smugness was gone as this guy completely disregarded her bluff and moved his glowing hand towards the top of her head. As it got closer, that same feeling of dread kept growing and growing, an unending chill running down her spine and sweat pouring from her brow as her instincts told her that she needed to get away from whatever the hell that was, now.
*Squelch* *BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ* Finally, just as the hand touched the top of her head and this sense of impending doom spiked a thousand fold, Kuin couldn't take it anymore. The patch covering her eye was shredded off in a burst of blood to reveal quite possibly the fattest and most ugly bee Naruto had ever seen being carried by a swarm of smaller ones.
The disgusting thing tried flee, but unfortunately only managed to get about a foot until Naruto held up his other hand to cut them off, which had been behind his back this whole time, and revealed a familiar ball of spiraling chakra in his grasp. Faster than the swarm could react, he shoved it right into the middle of the swarm before it quadrupled in size, engulfing every single one of the insects before they even had a change to react.
A few moments later he let the Rasengan and the KI laced chakra in his other hand fade, thus revealing the sickening pile of shredded chitinous pulp that used to be the bees as it fell to the ground with a 'splat'. With that taken care of though, the blonde still had one major problem to take care off as he swiftly freed the now unconscious and bleeding girl from the wall, catching her in his arms as she fell free.
'Great, now how am I going to explain this to Yu?' Naruto wondered while checking the girl's pulse to find it slow but steady, missing as her one good eye fluttered open for a few moments, before both vanished in a static blur. 'Screw it, I'll just wing it.'
Exactly ten seconds later, everyone in a three block radius would find themselves flinching as a deafening cry of "WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK!?" rang out from the park.
-Present Time-
"So… let me see if I got this straight," Nemuri started as her brow rose into her hairline as she stared at Naruto with a mixture of disbelief and dumbfoundedness. "You went to the bathroom… and just found an unconscious young girl with one of her eyes gouged out?"
"Yep," The whiskered blonde said with a nod, having told the group the edited version of the story, because he doubted they'd like the whole 'Grabbing a girl off the streets and dragging her into an alley'. He may be an idiot but even he knew that would be considered a big no-no, no matter if it was for a good reason or not. "After making sure she was still breathing, I brought her to Yu and she called someone to take her to the hospital."
"Thankfully Ingenium was in the area from another job, so we didn't have to wait long for a pickup," Yu added. "He actually called me a few minutes before you guys got back to tell us she's been stabilized though they're keeping her under for the time being so her eye can heal a bit."
"…Okay then," Rumi muttered with a small nod before gesturing towards the still unknown woman and teen. "Then I'm guessing that after that is when you met… erm, sorry I never asked but what are your names?"
"My apologies as well, it seems I've forgotten my manner," The whitette beside Naruto said in a polite and soft almost whispery tone of voice while bowing lightly. "My name is Rei… Rei Sekisetsu*, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Don't worry about it, I'm Rumi Usagiyami." The bunny woman said while holding out her hand for a shake, which the now named Rei accepted albeit a bit reluctantly.
"Nemuri Kayama, the pleasure's all mine." Nemuri added in with a bow of her own.
"And this is Toga." Naruto said dully while pointing at the girl who was still happily suckling on his thumb.
"Hewo~!" Toga mumbled around the digit while waving at the pair.
"Anyway, back to where I was…"
-Que Rewinding affect-
"Thanks for coming so quickly Ingenium." Yu said to a man clad in modernistic looking knight armor as Naruto gingerly set the unconscious girl he was holding into the new guy's arms, some makeshift bandaging around her eye to staunch the bleeding.
"It's no problem whatsoever," Ingenium said in what sounded like a jovial tone, though it was a bit hard to tell since his helmet distorted his voice slightly. "You can always count on me when somebody needs help. Now, if you'll excuse me."
Not waiting for a response from the bruised blonde, the armored man zipped away at high speed, shrinking away into the distance and vanishing from view in just a few seconds.
"Well… that was a thing." Naruto stated bluntly while wiping the blood off his hands with the bottom of his shirt.
"Yes, yes it was," Yu agreed with a small nod before suddenly grabbing her fellow blonde's arm and dragging him away. "Let's get going before another 'thing' happens."
"Good idea."
As the pair was leaving though, neither noticed as a nearby conveinetly placed bush started to shake a bit before some leaves moved aside to reveal a pair of bright yellow eyes that were trained solely on Naruto, or more specifically the hard to see red stain on his shirt.
"Hehehe… he looks like a real cutie."
-About Five Minutes Later-
"I SWEAR! I SEE A HERO TAKE EVEN ONE STEP CLOSER AND THIS LADY GETS IT!"
""…You have got to be kidding me."" Naruto and Yu said in sync as they found themselves standing behind a police line along with several dozen civilians as they watched an ongoing hostage situation.
It seemed a trio of generic looking goons in ski masks had decided to rob a mini-mart, only to find their escape being cut off by the Pro-Heroes Kamui Woods and Death Arms, so they holed up in the store along with any unlucky patrons. As if that wasn't bad enough though, it just so happened that said mini-mart just so happened to be smack dab in the path Yu and Naruto needed to go through in order to get back to Rumi's apartment.
The apparent leader of these goons, which we'll now dub Goon#1, stood by the open doorway with one such patron, a woman with pure white hair and messy dress, yelling at the top of his lungs whilst a gun barrel poked out the middle of his palm against the hostage's chin. Meanwhile, Goon#2 and Goon#3 could be seen taking cover behind the checkout counter, the former having his hands turned into shotgun barrels aimed at the windows and the latter had pistol barrels for fingers trained on a trio of teen boys cowering in a corner.
"I blame you." Naruto told Yu bluntly as they were forced to wait while the two heroes and the police tried to resolve the situation, and based on how it was going so far-
"You are surrounded! There is nowhere to go! Just turn yourselves in and we can sort this all out peacefully!"
"How about you go fuck yourself instead!"
…It was probably gonna take a while.
"Oh come on, there is no way this is my fault." The gigantism-quirk heroine said with an annoyed huff while crossing her arms, giving her fellow blonde the stink eye as he adjusted his grip on the confused whitette in his arms before turning back to the scene.
…
'Wait, what?!' Snapping her gaze back towards Naruto, Yu's eyes widened as she saw that sure enough, the hostage Goon#1 had been threatening was being held in a bridal carry by the whiskered blonde, a baffled expression on her face as she looked around in confusion. Not only that, but the three boys that had been in the store as well were now a couple feet to their left now, looking equally confused.
"What the fuck!?" "How in the hell!?" "Hey! What's the deal!?" And for the cherry on top, all three of the would-be robbers were suddenly tied up together in a tight bundle by a thin metallic wire at the entrance of the mini-mart.
"Whoa…" "What the heck?" "So fast!" "Did you see that?" "See what? I blinked and it was over." "What just happened?" "You think it was All Might?" "All Might?! Where?!" "I did see something yellow for a second, I think." "Where is he then?" Similar comments and whispers broke out all through the crowd as everyone tried to figure out what just happened, especially the heroes and police as they awkwardly arrested the bound men.
"Hey, are you alright?" The only exception to this was Naruto, who's attention at the moment was the woman in his arm as he gently set her back down on her own two feet, which was a bit tricky since the crowd decided to start dispersing now that the action was over.
"Huh?" The whitette mumbled, her voice quiet and soft, as she looked at her rescuer before the question finally registered in her mind. "Oh, yes, I… I'm a-alright."
"Great, then would you mind letting me go then?" The whiskered blonde asked, gesturing downwards where the woman's hand had reflexively clenched onto his shirt for support.
"Ah, s-sorry." She stuttered sheepishly quickly releasing her grip and backing away, only to end up tripping on a piece of rubbish on the ground and almost falling onto her rear until Naruto caught her arm.
"Whoa there, that was close," He said while pulling her back up, placing a hand on her back for added support as he help her regain her bearings. However, in doing so, the boy got a good close up look at the whitette's face, thus seeing the light redness that showed she'd been crying recently along with the depression and regret within her gaze. "Are you sure you're-"
"Excuse me," A gruff and serious voice cut Naruto off, getting the pair to turn and see Death Arms standing before them with a bored and slightly annoyed look, arms crossed and everything. "If you two are done flirting, I need to ask you both some questions."
"O-Oi! We're not flirting!" Naruto exclaimed, putting some distance between himself and the woman as his face turned a bright red almost instantly while she simply blushed lightly with an embarrassed cough. Meanwhile, a few feet away, Yu was snickering to herself as she watched this go down, idly waving to a confused Kamui as he passed.
"Sure you weren't," The muscular hero said with an eyeroll, obviously not believing the whiskered blonde but not pushing further. "Let's just cut to the chase, I need your names and quirks."
"Uh right, sure, Naruto Uzumaki, Energy Manipulation." The blonde said, holding up a hand as a small marble-sized Rasengan formed for a few seconds.
"Rei To-Sekisetsu, C-Cryomancy." The now named Rei said quietly, stumbling on her words briefly while doing the same as the blonde only her hand released a small cloud of cold mist that quickly evaporated.
Nodding, the hero turned his sole attention towards the ice user, his stern gaze gaining some genuine concern as he looked her over. "Are you injured in any way Ma'am?"
"N-no sir, just a bit shaken."
"Hmm, good, thank you for your time, you'll be notified if you are needed for further testimony." Death Arms stated before walking off, not-so-quietly grumbling under his breath about 'Public displays of affection' and 'Time and place for things', getting the pair to burst into blushes again.
-Que Fast Forward-
""Bwahahahaha"" Nemuri and Rumi had to lean on each-other for support as they laughed uncontrollably while poor Naruto and Rei flushed in embarrassment, the former glowering at the laughing duo while the latter covered her rapidly reddening face with her hands.
Even Yu was laughing, albeit not nearly as hard, just quietly giggling into her hand with a mischievous smirk.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." The otherworldly blonde muttered dully, tapping the side of his chair in mild annoyance as he waited for the duo to calm back down.
"Oh don't be such a grumpy pants," Nemuri said once she managed to get herself under control, mostly. "Besides, I'd say ol Smokey was on to something given the current situation, wouldn't you?"
However, instead of the reaction the R-rated heroine was expecting, Naruto simply tilted with a raised brow. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Seriously dude?" Rumi asked incredulously at the blonde's obliviousness, which only grew when the blonde just kept staring at them in confusion. "You said you weren't flirting with her, but then ended up bringing her home with you. Do the math."
"For the last time, we weren't flirting!" Naruto exclaimed, a vein bulging on his forehead and his face turning deep scarlet as it finally clicked in his head. "And that's not why I brought Rei-san here! She had nowhere else to go and I couldn't just let her sleep in the street."
"…Excuse me?" Nemuri asked while Rumi simply raised a brow.
"If I may, you know of the attack at Kaifuku Medical yesterday?" Rei asked, getting a pair of nods as the attention of the room to shift to her. "I was a patient their psyche ward, but during the attack I and many others were forced to flee to safety."
"Ah, that's why that dress looks familiar," The purplette muttered as the metaphoric lightbulb went off in her head. The gown was a standard long-term residence outfit for hospital patients, made to be comfortable and functional unlike the basic single use ones that left your back exposed. "So you just want to enjoy your freedom a bit?"
"Oh no, nothing like that, I honestly tried to return right away once the villain was taken care of," The cryomancy quirk user stated with a shake of her head. "Unfortunately the hospital's computers were destroyed during the attack and they couldn't find any hard copies of my files*."
"I see." Nemuri said, a bit dubious still yet not seeing any signs of deceit from the whitette.
"She's telling the truth, I tried calling it in when she told us," Yu added as a small frown marred her lips. "They said their trying to get it sorted out but until then there's nothing they can do for her."
"Yeah, and that was about the time we ran into bloodthirsty here." Naruto added while pointing towards Toga, who finally let go of his thumb with a happy burb, revealing the small bleeding gash on the end of the digit and several bite marks.
"Ahhhh… *hic* that was nice," She said with a grin while snuggling up against the whiskered blonde's side. "Thaaaanks Naru-chan, you are the bestiest bestie ever."
'Is… is she drunk?' Nemuri, Rei, Yu, Naruto, and Rumi unknowingly thought at the same time as they watched the giggling and hiccupping girl, which combined with her deep blush and dazedly giddy expression made her look completely hammered.
"If you say so," The whiskered blonde said unsurely while patting the top of the girl's head before turning his attention back to Nemuri and Rumi, who were staring at him intently. "So yeah…"
-Que Rewind, Fifteen Minutes after Hostage Incident-
"Alright… uh-huh… seriously? There has to be… but… alright … yes, thank you… you as well," Yu sighed in frustration as she hung up her cell phone, rubbing the side of her head in a vain attempt to stave off her coming headache. "Well that was a waste of five minutes of my life."
"I told you it wouldn't do any good but thank you for trying Takeyama-san." Rei said with a small bow which the gigantism quirk user waved off. They along with a certain whiskered blonde could be found walking along down a wide back alley that cut straight towards their current destination.
"It was the least I could do, and just call me Yu."
"Of course Yu-san."
The whitette had just finished telling the pair of blondes about her situation after Naruto had asked why she was walking around barefoot and dirty clothes, prompting Yu to try and help. Sadly though, this was just one of those situations where all they could do was wait and see how it all turned out.
"Well it was worth a shot at least, better to have tried and failed than never try at all," Naruto chipped in with his arms crossed behind his head. "And don't worry Rei, like I said you can stay with me and Rumi until we can get everything all sorted out."
"Which I am grateful for Naruto-san, but I really wouldn't want to impose." Rei said softly as she turned away, before giving a quiet 'Eeep' when Naruto patted her back with a supportive grin.
"It's really no problem at all, besides what kind of…"
Rei blinked in confusion when Naruto suddenly trailed off, his grin slipping away into a frown as his gaze flickered around the area.
"Naruto-sAH!" The whitette started to ask, only to end up yelping in surprise when the whiskered blonde shoved her towards Yu right as a slender hand holding a knife zipped by his face, slicing open his cheek.
"Hi there!" The owner of said hand, a smiling blonde girl with her hair done up in buns and a perpetual blush on her face, said in a cheery tone while swiping her blade at Naruto again, making him hop back to avoid getting cut again. "I'm Toga! Let's be friends!"
…
"…I don't know how to reply to that." Naruto stated honestly, a question mark blinking above his head at his attacker's random statement, but that didn't stop him from avoiding the stab aimed for his gut or smacking Toga's hand away, knocking her blade out of her grasp and flying away in the process.
"Whoopsie, looks like I got butterfingers," The blushing blonde said sheepishly before flicking her wrists and allowing two more knives previously hidden up her sleeves to slide into her grasp. "Good thing I carry spares!"
Charging again, Toga feinted another stab to the gut, and quickly slid to his right when he tried to block, slashing at his exposed elbow-
*Smack* "Owchie!" Only for the whiskered teen to immediately smack her hand away again, once more launching her weapon off into the distance. "Hey! That's no way to treat a pretty girl mister!"
"Says the one trying to stab me with a knife," Naruto retorted while grabbing her other hand when she tried to do just that and giving it a sharp twist, forcing her to drop her remaining weapon. "Why are you even attacking me anyway?"
Instead of answering, the blushing blonde suddenly moved in closer and grabbed his other hand with her free one, and with an impressive display of dexterity flipped herself onto his shoulders.
"Hehe, this is fun, I've always wanted to ride a cute boy," Toga said giddily as she locked her legs around Naruto's neck, squeezing tightly as she wiggled into a comfortable spot. "Oh yeah, we're gonna be super besties."
"…Okay seriously, why are we fighting? Are you planning to kill me? Rape me? Rape and kill me? I honestly can't tell." Naruto said as he glanced up at the odd girl, barely even affected by her attempted stranglehold thanks to chakra boosting his neck while thinking of a way around their current stalemate.
'He is way too calm about this.' Yu thought from the sidelines as she stood in front of Rei protectively, the whitette being one of the two reasons she hadn't charged in to help her fellow blonde. The other was the fact that aside from looking a bit annoyed and embarrassed, Naruto seemed utterly unphased by this random girl running up out of nowhere and trying to stab him.
"Hehehe, somebody's got some naughty thoughts~, but that's not what I want at all," Toga said in a teasing tone while leaning in close to the whiskered blonde's bleeding cheek and dragging her tongue across it with a shivering moan. "Now this, this is what I want. Such a wonderful taste. I need to have more of this beautiful blood."
"Great, so you're one of those types," Naruto muttered in the driest tone possible, his expression shifting to a solid deadpan as the blushing blonde kept licking his cut before sighing in tired aggravation. "Oh fuck this."
"HuWHAA-" *Thump* In a swift move that caught Toga by surprise, her 'captive' almost effortlessly wrenched her off his shoulders and slammed her into the ground, knocking the wind out of her and scraping up the side of her face on the rough asphalt. Then, while kneeling on her gut to keep her down, Naruto bit into his thumb hard enough to cause it to start bleeding and popped it into the dazed girl's mouth, making her blink in surprise.
She wasn't the only one either as both Rei and Yu stared with dumbfounded looks at the whiskered blonde's actions.
After a few seconds though, Toga's blush rapidly darkened as her lips curled upwards into a large and no small bit creepy smile as she started suckling, not even caring as Naruto wrapped her up in ninja wire.
"I am so done with today." He muttered once he was done before stomping off towards home, literally dragging the tied-up girl along with his thumb as a still stunned Rei and Yu followed after them.
-Present-
"And that's what happened." Naruto finished his tale with a sigh, idly patting a now napping Toga's head as she kept affectionally snuggling with his side.
"So that girl tried to stab you repeatedly, and instead of taking her to the police after beating her you brought her into my home?" Rumi asked incredulously, her brow started to twitch rapidly as she spoke.
"Yep."
"Why?"
"Aside from all the rest of the bullshit that's happened so far today?" Naruto asked back, getting a pair of nods from the rabbit woman and Nemuri. "She's an addict, I've seen enough in the red-light district back home to see the signs, she didn't attack me for fun but in desperation to get her next 'fix'. I'm guessing it has something to do with her twerk thing."
"It's quirk… but yeah, it's possible." Nemuri said while glancing at Toga's sleeping form. Since the rise of quirks, many people have had to struggle with strange addictions as a side affect of their own powers. A good example would be one of her own sidekicks with a fire breathing quirk who had the near constant urge to drink flammable liquids like lighter fluid.
"Wouldn't be the first one I've dealt with," Rumi added with a nod, thinking back to the dozen or so villains she'd beaten who'd just been victims of their own quirks. "Even so, that doesn't change the fact she needs to be turned in. If this is a case of Quirk Induced Insanity then she'll be taken to rehab or a psyche ward."
"Yeah because those have proven to be so reliable," The whiskered blonde retorted while jabbing a thumb at Rei, making both heroines wince slightly while said whitette scratched her cheek sheepishly. Meanwhile, with his point made and story finished, Naruto gently pushed Toga off and stood up, stretching his arms out wide as his joints popped. "Look, it's been a really long day and I'm tired as hell. Why don't we call it a night and finish talking about this in the morning? Okay? Great. Night."
Not even pretending to wait for a response, he walked out of the room towards the bedrooms… before popping back in for a second and pointing at Toga. "She had better still be there in the morning or I'm kicking all your asses, well except for you Rei."
With his absence followed a long awkward silence fell over the three heroines, former mental patient, and still sleeping blood addict.
"God, can this day get any weir-" *Wham* "AGH!" Hmm, seems Nemuri hadn't learned her lesson yet.
-End Chapter-
Kaifuku: Recovery
Sekisetsu: Fallen Snow/Snow Cover: Since the show hasn't revealed what Rei's maiden name is, I picked this one for the time being. And given how obsessed with being number one he is, Endeavor would likely list her under her maiden name to avoid anyone connecting the two together.
Energy Manipulation: If anyone has a better 'quirk name' for Naruto's abilities, feel free to leave it in the reviews
Rei's Missing Paperwork: Again, given Endeavour's strong desire to become number one, it's likely he took several measures to ensure nobody could trace Rei to him since having a mental ill wife who would had blatant signs of physical and phycological abuse would majorly kill his Career. So, to prevent this, he likely committed her 'under the radar' as it were. Simply put, he made sure there was no paper trail connecting her to him and minimal digital presence, which unfortunately means that once the computers were destroyed there was no proof Rei was even a patient at all.
Toga: Going over her backstory and actions fully, I honestly feel sad for Toga as she seems less like a psychopath and more like a drug addict who doesn't even understand her own addiction. I'm especially pissed with her parents, who instead of helping her when it started, instead went with the whole 'ignore it until it goes away' mindset and forced her to bottle up the issues until she broke.
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