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Just Dropping In

-Chapter 8-

*Thwack* *Thwack*

Naruto and Mirio winced with sheepish looks as they were whacked over the head by Recovery Girl's cane, the elderly woman giving them both the stink eye while Nejire stood off to the side. All four of them were once again in the medical ward where the more battered of the blondes could get patched up.

However, it seemed that Mirio hadn't been completely honest about how hurt he'd gotten which was evident by the large number of bandages and icepacks currently strapped to his chest.

"Kids these days, I can't let one of them out of my sight for five minutes these days without them getting into some sort of trouble." Recovery Girl grumbled, continuing to glower at the pair of blondes as she filled out a series of forms on a clipboard.

"Ah come on, it wasn't that bad Recovery Girl, we just went a little tiny bit overboard with a friendly spar." Mirio said while rubbing the back of his head with his iconic smile. However, the deadpan he got from the elderly woman told him that that had been the wrong thing to say.

"Not that bad you say, well then, let's just see what the chart has to say about that shall we?" Holding up the papers she'd just finished filling out, Recovery Girl cleared her throat dramatically before reading aloud. "Six fractured ribs; two of which were almost completely broken, a fractured scapula, a concussion, severe internal and external bruising of the abdomen, mild internal bruising, several first and second-degree burns, and no less than five stab wounds."

"…Okay, so we went very overboard." The muscular blonde admitted with a chuckle as the medical themed heroine rolled her eyes with an exasperated yet ever slightly amused Tsking.

"I swear nobody has any common sense anymore," She muttered under her breath while handing the clipboard off to a medic-bot to file away before slowly shambling over to check on Ragdoll, who was asleep once more. "If it wasn't for the fact that I have other things to attend to I'd be giving all three of you a nice long lecture about not being a bunch of reckless idiots."

While Naruto sighed in relief and Mirio chuckled at the healing hero's words, a confused Nejire tilted her head and pointed at herself. "All three? What did I do?"

"You were acting as ref yet didn't stop those two knuckleheads from beating each-other black and blue even after they leveled an entire training zone."

"But it was such a cool fight though," Nejire said with sparkles in her eyes, literally bouncing in place. "Naruto was all 'swoosh' and 'blam' while Mirio kept dodging with his quirk until…"

'Man, and people say I never shut up.' Naruto thought with a soft chuckle as Nejire continued to mime out the entire fight for what had to be the tenth time in a row already, along with an ever-growing list of possibilities that she'd come up with for what his 'quirk' could actually be.

"Ah Naruto, there you are," This time though her rambling was cut short by a knock on the door before the familiar face of Nemuri peeked in with a smirk. "I should have figured you'd have ended up back here already."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" The whiskered blond asked with a narrowed gaze as he crossed his arms.

"Well obviously it's because you're a total trouble magnet bestie, even I could tell you that." Toga chipped in playfully as her head popped in below the adult rated heroine's with a cheeky grin.

"Hey! I am not." Naruto said with an indignant huff while crossing his arms in annoyance as he glowered at the ever blushing blonde. However, his annoyance was quick to fade away into concern when he noticed how the girl's eyes were slightly bloodshot and puffy, showing that she had been crying recently despite her apparent jovial mood. 'Huh, guess her talk with the counselor guy got pretty emotional.'

"Of course you're not, you just happen to run into all sorts of misadventures every time you're left alone for more than five minutes," The blond was snapped out of his thoughts by Nemuri grabbing his shoulder with a playfully sarcastic drawl and pulling him out of his seat. "Now come on you little trouble attractant, I need to get you two back to Rumi's before you draw in something really annoying for us to deal with."

"I'm not that bad," Naruto grumbled as he shrugged the adult rated heroine off although still followed after her while grumbling under his breath. Stopping on the way out briefly, he looked back with a grin to wave to the students and elderly healer. "It was nice meeting you guys, and if you ever want a rematch just let me know Mirio."

"You can bet on it." The intangible teen said with a competitive smirk of his own while cracking his neck for added emphasis… before wincing as a deadpanning Recovery Girl gave him an extra whack on the head with her cane.

"Awww, already? But we were having so much fun too…" The ever-energetic bluenette known as Nejire deflated with an adorable pout, giving off a perfect 'kicked puppy' vibe that just wrenched at the heartstrings. However, as per the course, she just as quickly perked back up to her normal cheery self as she waved enthusiastically. "Maybe we can hang out again later, for lunch or perhaps we could go hang out in an arcade. I love arcades! Especially this one in downtown which has this awesome dancing game and a fun little Skee Ball tournament where the winner gets free pizza all day."

"Oh, that sounds like fun! Count us in!" Toga popped right back into view with a huge grin before she was promptly scooped up onto Naruto's shoulder as he walked past her.

"Great! I'll set up reservations right away! Bye kitties!" The spiral haired teen said before pulling out her cellphone and excitedly dialing in a number at blinding speed.

"She's gonna call us that forever now, isn't she?" Naruto asked rhetorically as a giggling Toga continued to wave even though the others were already out of sight.

"Most likely you adorable little kitten~," Nemuri said in a seductively teasing tone while scratching the whiskered blonde's head like one would a pet, making him roll his eyes in exasperation and swat the limb away with a soft grumble about 'not being adorable'. "Besides its quite fitting if you ask me, you two even have matching collars."

"Oh yeah! Check it, we're totally twinsies now bestie!" Nimbly flipping herself around so she was now sitting on Naruto's shoulder's, Toga leaned forward till she was facing Naruto upside down and pulled on her jacket to reveal the new tracker strapped firmly around her neck.

"You know, most people wouldn't be so excited about having these." Naruto pointed out with a raised brow before rolling his eyes in amusement when his fellow blonde just stuck her tongue out playfully.

"I find it better to enjoy the silver lining than to wallow with a dingy cloud," Toga flipped herself again so she was doing a handstand on the blonde's shoulder, then allowing herself to fall back until she landed perfectly behind Naruto. Giving a short bow to her 'audience', the bloodthirsty blonde was quick to catch up to the other two, settling into an even gait beside her self-proclaimed 'bestiest bestie'. "Life's too short to always be stuck on the negatives anyway, wouldn't you agree bestie?"

"Eh, I can't say your wrong," The whiskered teen shrugged, before smirking mischievously. "But if you want to be twinsies…"

Briefly reaching into his pocket, Naruto pulled out a rag and started wiping his hand, which was suddenly covered in ink, while Nemuri started giggling for some reason. Confused, Toga opened her mouth to ask only to stop as she felt a soft tickling across her cheeks caused her to grab her face as she sat up.

"Then you can't forget the whiskers." He finished with a chuckle just as they passed by a large window, the reflection on the glass allowing Toga to see that she now had nearly identical whisker marks drawn to his own on her cheeks.

"Oooh~ I could get used to these," Coming to a stop right in front of the glass, the newly whiskered girl started striking poses from classic model to pretending to be a pouncing tiger. Sadly though her fun was short lived as she accidentally smeared the ink of her 'whiskers' while pretending to be a pouting puppy. "Ah man… hmm, you guys think we could stop at a tattoo parlor and-"

"Yeah, nipping that one in the bud right now, not happening kid," Nemuri cut the girl off, making her pout while Naruto wiped the ink off her cheeks, before the purplette grabbed them both by the collar and started pulling them along once more. "Now stop stalling and get moving already, I've got places to be and shit to do besides babysitting you two all day."

"Alright, alright, we're coming, no need to get your panties in a bunch." Naruto grumbled while pulling himself free and readjusting his jacket.

"You're assuming she even wears panties to get bunched bestie." Toga added with a giggle… before both her and Naruto turned to the adult rated heroine curiously.

Noticing the looks she was getting Midnight rolled her eyes and playfully smacked them both across the head. "Get your heads out of the gutter, just because I'm rated Adults Only doesn't mean I go around without underwear all the time."

"But you used to run around in nothing but a microkini and belt, occasionally with a trench coat when it was colder. So why wouldn't we think that?" Toga pointed out bluntly with a knowing smirk, causing Naruto to stumble at the mental picture while Midnight held her hands up in mock surrender.

"Alright, you got me there but my point remai-HEY!?" The pro-heroine tried to say before she was cut off when Toga suddenly pantsed her without warning. And it seemed that Toga's little theory was true as she and Naruto were greeted by the unobstructed view smooth creamy hips, ass, and thighs, causing the latter to pass out with a nosebleed of epic proportions.

"Haha! I knew it! You do go commando! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it~!"

"…I really should have seen this coming," Nemuri muttered with a facepalm as Toga danced and cheered around her. "You can quit the theatrics blondie, its not what it looks like, see?"

Stopping mid-dance, Toga watched the woman grab the side of her hip and pulled, revealing that 'bare waist' was actually covered by a pair of light tan spats that matched her skin tone.

"Ooooh… now that's clever," The blood loving teen said while clapping in approval. "Those must be fun to mess with people's heads with."

"Only on days that end with a Y." The adult-rated heroine retorted with a teasing smile as she pulled her pants back up. After making sure everything was nice and tightly secured once more she then walked over and hefted Naruto off the floor before promptly dropping him into Toga's arms.

"Wow, he's a lot lighter than he looks," The blushing blonde muttered in surprise when she found that she could almost effortlessly hold the unconscious teen. "I think he might actually weigh less than I do… I wonder what his secret is?"

"You can ask him later," Midnight stated as she continued walking, forcing Toga to hurry along after her before she was left behind. "If we hurry we can still beat the afternoon traffic."

-Later-

"Damn it!"

"Huh? Whuzit?" Naruto jerked back to consciousness as a loud swear rang out followed by a muffled thumping sound. Looking around blearily, the whiskered blonde blinked a few times to clear his vision and found himself in the backseat of Nemuri's car alongside Toga, who was humming in her seat with a content smile. "Toga, was that you?"

"Nope, it was Ms. Road Rage," She said in a mock whisper as she gestured up in the driver's seat, where Nemuri could be found leaning her head against the rim of the steering with a frustrated groan. Then she pointed out the window where Naruto could see nothing but cars, trucks, and other such automobiles all crammed together in the street. "We've been stuck in this same spot for almost ten minutes now and she's this close to snapping."

"If you keep up with that smart mouthing of yours the only thing that'll be snapping is my whip across your behind." The Pro-Hero said, raising her head up to glower at the blonde girl through the rearview mirror. A vein started to bulge on her forehead though when Toga just stuck out her tongue and pulled down an eyelid in response.

"So what's up with all the cars? Something happen?" Naruto asked while peering out the window.

"No, just the normal mid-day traffic I was hoping to avoid," Nemuri grumbled sourly, before taking a few deep breaths to calm down as the cars finally started to move again. While a mere snails pace at first, it soon picked up as the roads cleared out until they were cruising along at a decent pace. "About damn time, I swear if we were stuck for one more minute I wa-"

The purplette was abruptly cut off, both verbally and physically, as the front of a building half a block ahead of them abruptly exploded. Nearby cars were sent toppling away and debris rained down everywhere as the air was quickly clogged up with a huge cloud of thick black smog that made it almost impossible to see anything more than ten feet away.

"Shit!" Slamming on the brakes, Nemuri barely managed to swerve out of the way of another car careening right towards them before diving under the dashboard as shrapnel peppered through the windshield. Unfortunately this left her driving blind and within seconds she ended up steering straight into a street lamp.

Stars filled the Pro Heroine's vision as her head smacked against the radio while the air was knocked out of her lungs by the airbag slammed into the side of her chest. Dazed and gasping for breath, it was only thanks to years of training and experience that Nemuri was able to stay lucid enough to recognize Naruto as he pulled her out of the car.

Then the next thing she knew he was setting her down again, this time atop a roof several buildings away alongside Toga, who had a piece of metal embedded in her shoulder that a clone was helping her with.

"Hey, can you hear me? Are you alright?" The whiskered blonde asked, cupping the purplette's cheek and gently turning her head to get a better look at the bruise already rapidly spreading across the side of her face.

"Quit it… I'm fine, just a few bumps and bruises," She grumbled once she regained her breath, trying to swat away his hand before grabbing her arm with a hiss when a sharp pain shot through it. "Okay and maybe a broken arm."

"Let me look," Not waiting for permission, Naruto grabbed Nemuri's arm and pulled the sleeve out of the way to reveal another bruise that covering almost the entire limb. "Yikes, we need to get that in a splint pronto."

"It can wait, I have a job to do still." The adult rated heroine said as she tried to get up only to get pushed right back down by the whiskered blonde.

"Oh no you don't, you are gonna stay right there and let me fix that arm," He stated with a stern look as he got to work splinting her arm. "Besides Boss can handle whatever mess is going on down there just fine."

"…Boss?" Nemuri repeated in confusion, before her eyes widened in realization once it clicked in her head. "Oh god dammit you're just a clone too, aren't you?"

"Bingo, boss is down below dealing with whatever the hell caused that mess." The revealed clone stated as he jerked his head towards the smoke billowing out from the blown-up building.

"That's what I was afraid of. Look, he doesn't have a license to use his powers legally in public," Midnight said as she once again tried to get up without success as the clone tending to her kept her firmly held in place. "Even you being around is illegal enough, he's going to get himself thrown in jail for vigilantism at this rate."

"Actually that only applies to quirks and last I checked Boss doesn't have a quirk," The whiskered blonde duplicate stated with a cheeky smirk as the woman froze with an unsure expression. "So how can he be arrested for breaking the law if he can't actually break the law in the first place?"

Midnight remained silent as she was unable to think of a rebuttal considering the cloned blonde was technically correct. After all, with a scientifically proven quirk factor of zero, Naruto was for all intents and purposes quirkless which in turn meant that none of the laws about quirks actually applied to his abilities.

"Uh, Bestie say what now?" Meanwhile a now very confused Toga asked as her head snapped towards Midnight's clone with a raised brow.

"And besides," However, the blood thirsty girl was ignored by the other Naruto as he continued. "Even if that isn't enough, Boss is going with plan B just to be safe."

""…What's plan B?"" Both ladies asked in confusion which just made the clones smirk knowingly before a loud crashing was heard down below, followed by distant shouts and swearing.

-Back on the Ground, one minute earlier-

"Move it! Move it!" Back at ground zero, a brunette woman dressed in a form fitting all-black infiltration outfit and a purple tinted suction on face shield that hid her… well face, hollered out at three men and two women all wearing similar outfits who rushed out of the wrecked building. Half of them were laden with armloads of expensive looking tech and machinery while the other half flanked them protectively as they booked it through the smoggy area.

Expertly weaving through the various debris and cars littering their path, the group made their way to a large van that had been carefully hidden away in a nearby alley.

"Alright, everything is on schedule! Let's keep it that way!" The masked woman snipped while pulling the side open so her group could climb inside with their loot. As soon as the last one was in, she slammed the door shut and jumped into the driver's seat, turning the key that was already in the ignition.

However, the engine didn't even have a chance to turn over thanks to a purple and white clad foot that slammed into the hood, squashing the entire front end of the van into the asphalt.

"What the fu-?!" Was all the thief was able to get out before another foot smashed through the windshield and straight into her masked face. Watching the driver slump over in her seat, the rest of the criminals could only stare in shock as the leg responsible was pulled back, shattering the rest of the windshield in the process, revealing none other than the number 5 hero of Japan herself.

"Well, well, seems you guys are having some car trouble," Mirko said from atop the smushed hood with a wide grin on her lips as she cracked her knuckles and neck at the same time. "How about I lend you a hand? I know this great little place called prison that could fix up all your travel problems for at least the next ten to twenty years."

"Shit!" "Oh fuck!" "What the hell is she doing here!?" "Bail! Bail!" Snapping out of their dazes as she spoke, chaos erupted in the vehicle as the masked thieves scrambled out as quickly as they could.

"Eat hot ash hero!" The first one to get out, a black-haired man with pepper grey skin visible around his mask, held an ungloved hand towards the bunny heroine and fired a concentrated stream of smoke from a strange smoldering mark on his palm that engulfed her form in a second. Pulling off the glove on his other hand with his teeth to reveal another mark, he blasted even more smoke from it as well as the air rapidly grew hotter by the second. "Forget the gear! Grab Nitra and go guys, I'll hold her off as long as I can!"

The other thieves didn't hesitate to do as their comrade said and tossed aside their ill gotten gains while one of them, a short girl with slimy looking orange hair, stretched out an arm several feet to grab Nitra from the driver's seat.

However, they only got about ten feet away before a rising kick to the chin knocked the smoke quirked man several feet up in the air before he was swiftly kicked straight back down, slamming face first into the unforgiving ground with a loud crack of shattering glass. Groaning in pain, the smoke quirked man briefly tried to get up only to collapse a second later, leaving a soot covered and slightly burnt but otherwise unharmed Mirko to step over his unconscious body. "Well that was boring, who's next?"

"Smog!?" A man with brown hair and three faces, based on how he wore three different masks around his head, called out in shock before clenching his fists in anger. "You bitch! I'll-"

"Triplex don't! You'll get caught too!" The stretchy orange girl said as she grabbed the multifaced man with her other arm. "We need to get out of here now!"

"Tako's right, you guys go. Me and Amp will keep miss hero here busy." The other woman of the group, who was tall and quite muscular with short black hair, stated as she and the last guy, a stout man with short black hair as well, stood between the three and the whitette.

"Grrr… fine, be careful Circuit." Triplex growled out as he turned to leave with Tako and Nitra. "Gah!"

…Only to end up joining his friend on the ground when his frontmost face was intimately introduced to Mirko's fist, shocking all of the thieves as they snapped their gaze to where she had just been standing and then back again in disbelief.

"You actually thought I was just gonna let you run away like that? How cute." The rabbit heroine said with a chuckle at their dumbfounded expressions before charging straight at them. Faster than most of the villains could even blink she stuck both raven haired thieves with a sweeping kick that sent them flying into an upturned car and a dumpster respectively, then spun around to slam a foot into Triplex's head when he started to get back up.

Tako stepped back as Mirko turned towards her next, her legs trembling in terror as the whitette stared her down with an almost predatory gleam in her eyes.

"Not so fast bitch!" Several cables suddenly burst out of the ground and coiled around the Pro Hero like snakes, quickly burying her under a pile of writhing rubber and metal cutesy of Circuit as she gripped a light post with a glowing hand. At the same time Amp pulled himself out of the trash and, after wiping off the coffee grounds stuck to his mask, fired several blasts of violet electricity at the bound heroine. "Go Tako! Get out of here!"

The girl didn't have to be told twice as she ran away as quickly as her legs could carry her with Nitra in tow.

Pulling her hands off the ground, Circuit instead placed them on the car behind her, causing the entire thing to split apart into its separate parts and fly towards the entrapped heroine. Then the masked woman clasped her hands together, causing both the wires and car parts to compress down even further as Amp ramped up his quirk so the metal began to heat up, effectively welding everything together.

"Ha… that should keep her for a while," Amp muttered breathlessly once he finally stopped blasting, his arms twitching and spasming rapidly as stray sparks still flickered between his fingers. The result of their combined attack being a lumpy metal heap roughly the same shape as their foe. "Assuming the bitch is still alive after all of that anyway."

"Let's not stick around to find out." Circuit stated while grabbing Amp's arm-

"Luna Fall!"

And promptly eating asphalt as both of them were struck over the head by a pair of drop kicks that knocked them both out instantly, all curtesy of… Mirko?

"Well, that was easy," Landing between the unconscious thieves in a crouch, the strangely immaculate bunny Pro Hero pretended to dust her hands off as she stood up. She cocked an eyebrow though when she saw the misshapen smoking statue of herself, then at the other two knocked out thieves, the half crush van, and the mess left in the street, before turning to the whiskered blonde sitting on an upended mailbox. "What the hell have you dragged me into?"

"I'll explain later, you might want to worry about the two ladies trying to make their getaway first." Naruto replied while pointing to the fleeing thieves, making Mirko smirk as she sprinted after them.

"Almost there… just a little further…" Tako muttered as ran as quickly as she could with Nitra in her arms while frequently glancing over her shoulder worriedly.

"Oi! Where the hell do you think your going punk?!"

"EEP!" And it was thanks to those constant paranoid looks that the orangette saw and was just narrowly able to avoid the flying kick aimed at her head by making her entire head flatten like a piece of paper. Stumbling to a stop as her head sprang back to normal shape with a muffled *pop*, a scared whimper escaped her lips at the sight of Mirko standing in her path.

"Not bad reflexes, this might actually be some fun." The bunny heroine said with an excited grin as she thumped her foot eagerly, cracking the sidewalk a bit.

"EEEK! Stay away from me!" The girl shrieked before her and Nitra's bodies squished down like an accordion as Mirko flew over her once again, then contorting into a U shape when the whitette tried to hit them with a spin kick. Stopping on a light post, Mirko quickly launched herself back and unleashed a flurry of kicks and punches at blinding speeds.

However, Tako continued to contort herself and her partner around the rabbit woman's attacks, leaving her to hit nothing but thin air over and over. Yet rather than being annoyed by this, Mirko only seemed to get more excited by the second as her grin practically split her face in half.

"Guh!"

"Gotcha!" After about an entire minute of continuous back and forth though, Tako's constant shifting started to slow down until the whitette finally managed to get a solid hit in. On what exactly she wasn't sure, but it was enough to knock the contorting girl off her feet and tumbling away several feet, eventually skidding to a stop in the middle of the empty street and *popping* back to normal. "That was a nice workout kid but it's time to wrap this up."

"No… get away… get away…" The thief whimpered out breathlessly, part of her mask broken away to reveal a tearing up orange eye dilated in fear.

"No can do," Mirko stated while punching the palm of her hand. "Now we can do this the easy way or the fun way, your choice."

And choose Tako did, albeit the choice she went with was… unexpected to say the least.

"I said… Get. Away!" In a move that completely caught Mirko off guard, the orangette grabbed Nitra's arm and tore the limb off with a sickening squelch. Before the Pro Hero could even comprehend this seemingly pointless act of betrayal against her unconscious companion, Tako hurled the severed limb right at her.

With how tired the girl was though, the arm barely even made it about ten feet before flopping against the ground uselessly. It did succeed in getting Mirko to stop though as she stared at the bleeding limb with a blank expression and her eyebrows vanished into her hairline. "Okay, what the-"

That was all she managed to say before her vision was engulfed by a searing white light.

…

…

…

"…Ugh…" A groan escaped Mirko's lips as her senses slowly came back to her, first with her hearing which made her wince as a loud ringing echoed in her ears. Blinking several times as her vision started to return next, the rabbit woman found herself flat on the ground with Naruto kneeling beside her.

"Hey, are you okay? Can you hear me?" He asked in concern while gently slapping her cheek before she swatted it away.

"I'm fine, it takes more than a little…" Mirko grumbled as she started to sit up only to trail off when she saw the huge smoldering crater in the middle of the street. Meanwhile, dozens of emergency vehicles were cordoning the area off with the help of a few low ranked local heroes. "Damn, what happened?"

"That girl you were fighting threw an exploding severed arm at you," Naruto stated bluntly as he grabbed the rabbit woman's arm and helped her up to her feet. "And before you ask she got away, disappeared right after the arm blew up."

"Yeah, I figured as much, she was definitely a slippery one," Stretching a bit, Mirko sighed as several joints popped before patting off the dust and soot all over her body. "But that'll just make it all the more fun when I kick her ass next time."

"That's assuming there is a next time." Naruto pointed out, making the whitette look back at him with a challenging smirk.

"Oh there will be," She said while plucking a small chunk of cement out of her side and flicking it into the crater. "Even if I have to track her down myself for it to happen."

"If you say so, but let's worry about that later. First we should probably get out of here before they get down and mob us with questions?" The whiskered blonde said while jabbing a thumb up at the rooftops where hundreds of confused looking men and women were being helped down by the police and firemen.

"Sure, sounds good to me." Mirko nodded in agreement as the duo hurried out of the area. "By the way, what was the deal with that metal statue of me in the alley?"

"Funny story about that actually…"

-End Chapter-

AN: Plan B: Get the Bunny, Naruto leaves a disguised clone or clones to keep the villains distracted and keep civilians out of harms way long enough for him to bring Mirko onto the scene. While he could just knock out the villains himself with ease, doing so multiple times could potentially get him in legal hot water despite the technicality of not having a quirk so he came up with this plan as a 'Just to be Safe' option. Yes he could also just knock them all out while disguised as Mirko but knows Mirko would most likely not take credit for something she did not do out of pride hence leaving some of them awake long enough for her to take over.