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Just Dropping In

-Chapter 7-

-Last Time-

Recovery Girl was about to respond, likely to say it was or dissuade attention, but before even the first word could pass her lips Naruto was in front of the glass faster than she could blink…

*Creeeaa-CRACK*

Which he promptly ripped out of place one-handedly, along with a large portion of the wall itself, revealing the once hidden observation room with Nezu frantically trying to help a heavily convulsing Ragdoll.

"…"

"…"

"What the fuck?"

-And Now-

Meanwhile-

*Tick* *Tick* *Tick*

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*Tick* *Tick* *Tick*

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*Tick* *Ti-*

"Why do all Shrinks have very loud clocks?" Toga asked irritably while sending an annoyed glance at said clock, one of the few furnishings that decorated the room she was in. Speaking of which, the literally blood-thirsty teen could be found sitting on a plain but no less comfortable looking chair set in the middle of an equally plain office.

"You'd have to ask my boss, he was the one who insisted it be there," The only other occupant in the room, a man with a dog face and long shaggy blonde hair otherwise known as the pro-hero Hound Dog, said in a low growling tone mixed with the occasional stifled bark. In his hands was a thick manilla enveloped that he was idly flipping through, his gaze flickering from the pages within to the girl before him and back again several times. "And to be clear, I'm not a shrink just a guidance counselor with psychologist training."

"Eh tomato tomahto potato potahto," Toga shrugged as she plastered on a cheery smile. "So is this the part where you start by asking me how I'm feeling or something?"

"Normally yes but judging by the fact you've spent the last forty five minutes between hyperventilating and strangling the birthday gift I just got from my niece last week I'd say the answer to that question is pretty obvious." The dog-man stated bluntly while pointing downwards, causing Toga's gaze to drift downwards to her hands which were clasped tightly around a deformed and slightly chewed up rubber bone with '#1 Bestest Uncle Ever' sloppily scribbled on the side.

"Umm, hehehe, sorry about that." She muttered with a sheepish giggle, gingerly setting the ruined dog toy on the hero's desk before putting her hands behind her back with an innocent whistle.

"Don't worry about it, it was already doomed to such a fate eventually. Besides," As he spoke, Hound Dog set the folder in his grasp down revealing a picture of a younger Toga along with over a dozen police reports, health records, and other such documents. "I do believe we have other matters to discuss."

"Oh yeah…" Toga's smile became noticeable more strained and the faux cheery air around her evaporated away into nothingness. "I'll be honest, was kinda hoping we could skip this part."

"You would not be the first nor will you be the last, but you can only avoid the issue for so long." The UA counselor stated while steepling his fingers together so he could rest the end of his snout on them.

"If you say so," The petite blonde said dismissively as she leaned back into her seat and smiled casually. "So what'cha wanna talk about then Doc? Want me to say how naughty I've been and that I'm sorry for what I've done wrong? Tell me how I should be a good law-abiding little girl that does as she's told like everybody else? Or maybe-"

"Let's just start with you," Hound Dog interjected bluntly, getting Toga to pause with a confused look as he reached down and flipped the folder shut. "Tell me your story."

"My story?" Toga repeated as her head tilted to the side in thought until the metaphoric lightbulb finally lit up in her mind. "Ooooh, you mean like my past and all that stuff?"

"Correct." The dog-man stated with a nod, to which he got a shrug in response from the girl.

"What's there to tell? You already read all about me in those fancy files of yours, haven't you?"

"They've told me one side of the story, now I want to hear it from your side." Hound Dog retorted without pause as he made a 'go on' motion.

"Well if you insist," Toga said before smiling brightly and holding her hands up in a dramatic manner. "It all started a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away-"

"No Star Wars parodising."

"Party pooper."

-XoXoX-

"Ooooh, my head…"

Ragdoll groaned softly as she came back to the conscious world, a grimace marring her lips and her face scrunching up from the dull continuous throbbing that greeted her from within her skull, especially right behind her eyes. When she tried to open them though, the emeraldette felt a spike of confusion and worry shoot through her when she was greeted by nothing but darkness.

"What's going on?" She muttered in confusion as she sat up slightly from what felt like a bed, reaching up to her face to find that the reason she couldn't see was thanks to several layers of bandages wrapped around the top half of her face. "Wha… why can't I see?"

"Just a little precautionary treatment dearie," Recovery Girl's voice stated, making the cat-themed heroine jump slightly from the unexpected response before grabbing her head again as the sudden movement made her headache spike in intensity. "Oh sorry about that, didn't mean to startle you. How are you feeling?"

"Like Ryuko dragged me out for a girl's night at the bar… twice," Ragdoll muttered as the top of the bed she lay on rose up into a seated position. "Ugh, what happened to me? The last thing I can remember I was about to use my quirk on Whiskers and then everything gets fuzzy."

"It would seem that your quirk has an unexpectedly severe adverse reaction when used on Uzumaki-san," Nezu chipped in as he sipped at a cup of tea at the edge of the emeraldette's bed while Recovery girl tended over her, the animal-man's lips curling upwards slightly in amusement at the nickname she'd given Naruto. "You were out for almost an hour, most of your retinal blood vessels had ruptured and you were just shy of a full-blown aneurysm."

"Thankfully you should make a full recovery within a week, however you absolutely must keep your eyes covered and avoid using your quirk if we want to keep it that way," The elderly healer heroine added in sternly while carefully readjusting the bandages. "And even then, you should seriously consider seeing an ophthalmologist afterwards just to be on the safe side."

"A whole week? Yeesh, I must've really been messed up if even you need that long to fix it." The (hopefully) temporarily blind heroine muttered with a nervous smile, given Recovery Girl could literally heal almost any injury near instantly with just a kiss.

"Indeed, had Shuzenji-san not been here right when it happened you'd likely have been mostly if not entirely blind the rest of your life," Nezu stated casually like he was talking about the weather, earning himself a light smack from Recovery Girl while Ragdoll shivered as she fought down the urge rub her bandaged eyes. "By the way, I've taken the liberty of informing the rest of your team of what happened already, so they should be here soon to pick you up."

"Oh…how badly did they take it?"

"Tsuchikawa-san kindly offered to put Uzumaki-san's eyes in a similar condition with her claws after Chatora-san introduces his foot to the boy's rear end."

"That sounds about right." Ragdoll muttered with a half-amused sigh, not even bothering to ask if Nezu had explained that it wasn't actually Naruto's fault given she knew just how overprotective her friends/colleagues could be at times. Like that one time a guy Pixie-bob had been dating for about a week actually tried flirting with Mandalay right in front of her.

Long story short that man now has an utmost fear of anything even remotely feline.

"So can you truly not remember anything after using your quirk?" Recovery Girl asked to change the subject, although there was a genuine hint of curiosity in her voice as she spoke.

Instead of answering right away though, Ragdoll hummed softly to herself while rubbing her chin, her brow furrowing as she went through her recent memories with a fine-tooth comb. Normally she had no trouble doing such a thing, in fact doing so quite often to help sort out the large amounts of information her quirk could collect.

"…Maybe, but it doesn't make any sense," She eventually said unsurely after several moments of silence, her lips curling into an uncharacteristic frown. "That seizure must've messed with my head or something, because for some reason I could swear my quirk says that there was a second person in the exact same spot as Uzumaki-san."

"Is that so?" Nezu asked curiously, his ear twitching slightly as he tilted his head to the side.

"Yeah, but not like a dual sentience quirk or something, it just-nnng!" Ragdoll started to say, only to yelp and grab her head when her headache erupted tenfold.

"Easy there dearie," Recovery Girl said softly as she reclined the bed back to a laying position. "We can focus more on that stuff later. For now you just work on getting some more rest and getting better, alright?"

"That sounds like a swell idea to me," The emeraldette said with a slow nod once the pain faded back to a dull throb. "Speaking of Whiskers though, where is he? Did he leave already?"

"Oh no, he's still around somewhere," A knowing smirk formed on Nezu's lips as he spoke, hidden just behind his teacup as an analytical gleam shined within his beady eyes. "He just got a bit antsy sitting around for so long, so Togata-san and Hado-san volunteered to show him somewhere he could 'blow off some steam' as they say."

-XoXoX-

"So they have an entire fake city just for training in?" Naruto asked with a raised brow as he took in the training zone between stretches, his voice echoing slightly through the lifeless 'city'. 'And people say I go overboard.'

"Uh-huh, it even has completely functional electricity, plumbing, and gas lines for full authenticity. Isn't that awesome?" Nejire, now free of her bee stings thanks to Recovery Girl, asked back excitedly as she bounced around the whiskered blonde, her feet emitting small golden spirals of energy that gave each hop a little extra oomph. "Although it's not really an entire city, only about four or five blocks worth. And your only supposed to use it if you have a teacher's permission or an open access permit like we do."

"That last part was only added last year because our home room teacher got tired of her pestering him about it all the time," Mirio added as he did some stretches as well on the other side of the street before chuckling when his blue-haired friend rubbed the back of her head with a sheepish smile. "So we doing this with or without quirks."

"Are you kidding, I've been itching for a good fight all week," Rolling his shoulders, Naruto grinned excitedly while cracking his knuckles and neck at the same time. "So unless you want another trip straight to the infirmary I'd suggest not holding back."

"Duly noted," The other blonde stated with a confident smirk of his own as he got into a ready pose. "Nejire, you mind being the ref?"

"Not a problem! You can count on me!" Nejire exclaimed while bouncing out of the way, popping down onto a nearby bench with a referee hat on her head and a bucket of popcorn and large fountain drink that she got from… somewhere in either hand. "Oooh, this is so exciting! I can't wait to see what happens! Will there be explosions? Oh, or maybe your gonna turn into a monster kitty? That would be so COOL! Or can you do everything a cat can-"

"Nejire!"

"Oh, right, right! Sorry! Ahem…" Stuffing a handful of the buttery popped kernels into her mouth, miraculously without getting a single drop or crumb on herself somehow, the bluenette held up a hand before slicing it downwards dramatically. "FO!"

~X~

Literally the second that garbled word was spoken, Naruto vanished in a static blur and reappeared right in front of Mirio mid-leap with a punched flying straight for the buffer blonde's face… only to end up blinking in confusion when it passed straight through.

'An illusion?' The whiskered blonde wondered as he took in the strange sight of his fist passing through someone's head without a mark, before instinctually twisting in the air to avoid a gut shot. Not one to stay down long, he planted a hand on the ground just before he landed and used his momentum to lash out with a leg sweep.

However, right when he was about to hit Mirio, the Tintin look-a-like's abruptly fell through the solid ground while his gym uniform collapsed onto his fellow blonde's extended leg.

'Okay, so not an illusion, something else,' Naruto thought to himself as he shook the clothing off and leapt onto a nearby light post, his gaze darting all over the ground for any sign of movement or disturbance. 'Must be his quirk thing, but what exactly is it? And why did his clothes-'

"POWER!" The whiskered teen was cut off mid-thought when he spotted movement in the corner of his eye followed by a loud battle cry, before he intentionally fell backwards to avoid his fellow blonde that hurtled over him.

Hooking himself to the bottom of the post with chakra, Naruto quickly aimed the palm of his hand at Mirio's mostly nude form (Thankfully he still had underpants on) as a spiraling ball of condensed air rapidly formed. "Fuuton: Kaze-kyū!"

Faster than the blink of an eye, the air sphere shot off and struck the other blonde's back hard enough to send him crashing through a nearby skyscraper window with a surprised grunt. Swinging back to an upright position, Naruto quickly fired several more blasts at Mirio's downed form but ended up hitting nothing but concrete when the hero-in-training phased through the floor.

"Fancy trick you have there," The whiskered blonde stated while backflipping onto another post when his opponent rocketed at him from below before throwing a trio of shuriken that passed clean through without a scratch. "Super annoying and all but still pretty neat."

"I could say the same for you," Mirio said as he fell back to the ground, stepping out of the way of another set of shuriken after he landed while rubbing his back. "Your speed is crazy and that wind attack of yours hits like a truck."

"Thanks, I actually just worked it out recently by accident," Naruto admitted with a sheepish grin while rolling his shoulders. "Well I'm all warmed up, how about we actually start taking this seriously?"

"I'd thought you'd never-gah!" The buffer blonde started to quip back, only to be cut off when Naruto closed the distance between them in an instant and delivered an uppercut that sent him rocketing back into another window of the same building from before.

Smashing clean through the glass and the plaster wall behind it, Mirio had all of two seconds to comprehend how much that hurt before Naruto once again appeared right next to him, this time from above with a drop kick that sent him plummeting straight to the floor. However, the young man was just able to activate his quirk before impact, allowing himself to zip straight through all the floors with ease.

'I knew it, it's not an automatic defense like Gaara's sand, whatever it is he's doing he has to turn on and off himself,' Naruto thought as he quickly hopped back out into the open, although instead of returning to his 'perch' the whiskered blonde opted for the street with his arms crossed and eyes closed. 'Just need to wait for my opening.'

As the teen ninja was thinking, his eyes snapped open and he sidestepped out of the way of a certain blonde hero-in-training that popped up from the ground right behind him. Retaliating with another trio of shuriken, Naruto swore softly when they passed through…

*Squlch* "Yowch!"

Or at least two did, whilst the third dug into his leg briefly before clattering to the floor when he phased away. 'Ah-ha, so he has to leave parts of himself exposed to stay grounded, perfect.'

A split second later, the whiskered blonde stepped back to avoid an uppercut and quickly went for a leg sweep, only for his opponent immediately fall through the asphalt. Then he tried to attack from the side, and after that from other side, and then from behind again, and again, and again… and again…

'Look like I wasn't the only one who's got wise,' Naruto thought in amusement while idly dodging yet another punch, flicking another shuriken at his legs which predictably passed straight through the buff blonde without harm when he fell through the floor again. 'This is gonna take a while.'

And sure enough for the next several minutes Mirio would repeatedly use these hit and run rushes from all sides, never once managing to land a blow on his nimble adversary yet neither could he be struck. From an outside view, IE Nejire's, it almost appeared like the pair were playing a very strange form of whack-a-mole.

However, like all things, this stalemate had to come to an end eventually, or in this case it was Naruto's patience when he yet AGAIN hit nothing but air as Mirio fell back through the earth.

"This is getting old real fast dude, you wanna play hide and seek?" The whiskered blonde asked rhetorically in annoyance before cocking his arm back and slamming his fist into the ground. "Fine then, let's see how well you hide from THIS!"

*KRAKA-BOOOOM*

"HOVY SHRAP!" Nejire shouted out through a mouthful of popcorn as that single punch made the entire training zone shake, cracks spiderwebbing out in all directions and the ground rippling almost like water as massive hunks of asphalt and cement burst upwards. The bubbly bluenette ended up taking to the air, almost dropping her snacks in the process, when the ground beneath her bench split and her cast iron seating vanished into the depths of the earth.

That turned out to be for the best though since it meant she was safely out of the way as a few of the closer buildings actually collapsed from the sudden localized impact that completely destroyed their foundations.

'Ooh boy… maybe we should have mentioned that the teachers don't like when we cause excessive damage.' Nejire thought with a mixture of dread and awe on her face as she took in the utter devastation Naruto had unleashed, wincing slightly when one of the collapsed building spontaneously caught fire.

Meanwhile, back at ground zero, Naruto ripped his fist free of the crater he'd made and quickly spun around just in time to see Mirio shoot out of the fractured ground facing the wrong way. If he had been the right way, the whiskered teen might have seen the shock and confusion on his fellow blonde's face before quickly turning to pain as he was knocked skyward by a kick to the back of his head. "U-"

Dazed from the first hit, Mirio couldn't react as another Naruto appeared right in front of him from a puff of smoke with a follow up kick to the chin that sent him even higher. "-Zu-"

Two more whiskered blondes appeared this time form either side whom drove their heels into the buff teen's gut, launching him back towards the ground. "-Maki!"

Just before impact, the original Naruto intercepted him with a drop kick that blasted him into the asphalt, further obliterating the already wrecked terrain. "Naruto Rendan!"

~X~

Hopping out of the newly formed crater, the whiskered blonde casually dusted off his jacket before peeking into the hole he made curiously, idly noting as a completely flabbergasted Nejire landed beside him. "You still good to go down there?"

"…Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…"

…

"I'll take that as I win." Naruto said while grinning victoriously, before blinking when his vision was filled with obscured by blue.

"Oh my gosh, that was so COOOOOL~! One moment you were here then you were there and then way over there!" Nejire exclaimed excitedly as she grabbed his shoulders and started bouncing around. "And then you were like 'Take that!' and everything was Fwoosh and Boom while Mirio was all 'Whaaaat!?' until you went all wham bam ULTRA COMBO!"

"…I have literally no idea what anything you just said means." Naruto stated with a tilted head, only to be completely ignored by the rambling student.

"So what is your quirk anyway? I saw wind stuff and copies and leaping and super speed and wall climbing. Oh, did you get a combined quirk from your parents? Could they do all that cool stuff? Were they also kitty people? Do they purr t-mmmpgh?"

"Hey, not that this isn't amazingly uncomfortable and all," This time as he spoke the whiskered blonde pointedly reached out and pinched Nejire's lips together, getting the bluenette to finally stop talking. "But don't you think we should un-plant your friend and make sure he's okay?"

Blinking in confusion at first, Nejire's eyes lit up in realization and understanding when Naruto pointed to the crater right as Mirio emerged, surprisingly unharmed aside a black eye, a few scratches, and bruises across his chest and face.

"Thanks for the concern but I'm alright," The battered blond stated as he got to his feet and started dusting himself off, wincing when his back cracking loudly from the movement. "Aside from bruised pride, and maybe a few bruised ribs, at least."

Scratching the back of his head sheepishly, Naruto offered his fellow blond an apologetic smile. "Sorry about that, I might have gone just a bit overboard."

"Nah, don't worry about it, you gave me fair warning after all," Mirio waved the apology off, his trademark grin back in place as he patted his fellow blonde on the back. At the exact same time though, yet another building nearby suddenly started collapsing, causing both blonds to blink in surprise before apparently finally noticing all the devastation around them. "By the way, did I forget to mention that the teacher's generally don't like it when we cause a lot of excess damage?"

"Yes, yes you did."

"Ah… whoops?"

"Mmmph! Mph Mmm Mph!" Nejire mumbled out unintelligibly while waving her hands around wildly, getting the pair of blonds to stare at her in confusion.

""What?""

Mumbling incoherently even more, the bluenette paused mid mutter to pry Naruto's hand away from her mouth. "I said that was totally what I was just thinking earlier. Well that and how that super punch was kinda like one of All Might's famous smashes. You should have seen it Mirio, he was all like 'Hide from this!' and everything went Ka-Boom!"

"I could believe it," Mirio muttered with a nod as he turned his head from side to side in order to take in the mess that used to be a simulated city block before focusing back on Naruto again. "You fight kinda like him too, was he our inspiration?"

"You mean that loud guy everyone talks about on TV? Looks kinda like you but bigger with weird antenna hair, spooky skeleton eyes, and always screaming 'I AM HERE' whenever he shows up?" Naruto asked with a quirked brow while holding his hands up at his head in a V shape, making the two students blink a few times…

"Pfffft-hahahah!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Before promptly erupting into fits of laughter.

"Well I never heard him described quite like that but yes that would be who I meant." Mirio said between chuckles while Nejire had to lean against him for support to keep herself from falling over.

"Then I'd have to say no," The whiskered blonde said with a shake of his head. 'Although he does remind me a lot of Bushy Brows and Super Bushy Brows now that I think about it.'

-Meanwhile-

""Achoo!"" Both Guy and Lee sneezed at the exact same time as they were doing pushups with huge boulders strapped to their backs, the sudden distraction causing them both to faceplant with the earth.

"Huh that was random, maybe someone is talking about you guys." Tenten said from the sidelines while sharpening her various weapons, giggling as she watched the spandex wearing duo struggling to get free of their earthy confines.

-And Back-

"Sooo… should we clean this up or what?" Naruto asked while jabbing his thumb at the wrecked simulated city.

"Ah no worries, the repair drones will get to it in a bit," Mirio said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "With them and Cementoss this place will be back in tip top shape by tomorrow-"

*CRASH*

"…By the day after tomorrow." The buff blonde corrected sheepishly as one of the half-destroyed buildings collapsed fully.

"Then I think I should head back to Nurse Granny's before she gets impatient." Naruto said, getting nods of agreement from Mirio and Nejire once the latter managed to get her laughter under control.

"Now that sounds like a good idea to me, although she's definitely gonna be grouchy when she sees me." Mirio said while rubbing the growing bruise on his cheek before walking over to where his discarded gym uniform had landed.

"I hope she has been able to help out Ragdoll-san out," Nejire mumbled softly, her natural good mood dimming a bit when she remembered the condition the heroine had been when they last saw her. However, not even a second later it was right back to full exuberance as she bounced in place. "Who am I kidding, Recovery Girl is the best of the best so she's probably already all better. I wonder what happened to her? Oh, perhaps she'll be able to tell us what happened. Maybe her quirk was stressed out from a hard mission, or maybe she was trying a new super move and it didn't work out like planned."

"Only one way to find out, let's get going." Naruto said as he headed off…

"Recovery Girl's office is this way silly." Only for Nejire to grab his arm and pull him in the exact opposite direction he was headed.

"I knew that, I was just uhhh… taking the scenic route?" The whiskered blonde offered weakly, making the bubbly heroine giggle at the terrible excuse.

"I guess that means you'll have plenty of time to answer ALL my questions then, right?"

"Uuuuh…"

"And don't forget to pet his whiskers some more." Mirio chipped in 'helpfully' as he rejoined the duo fully dressed once more, earning himself an annoyed look from Naruto when Nejire did just that with an excited cheer.

-End Chapter-

~X~: Battle music

AN: Sorry for the long wait, things have been so crazy as of late that I barely have any time to write anymore and what time I do have I'm usually too exhausted to actually do so. I do hope that this chapter was enjoyable regardless and please leave a review.