Chapter 32:
The Warning
Summary:
Class 1-A resumes school and trains for the license exam.
The student's of Class 1-A return to school the next day, refreshed and excited. The students wanted everything to return to normal. They were glad that all of their classmates were accounted for. Even though most students in the class are indifferent to Bakugo and Ace, they are still glad they were rescued and back in class. Some of the students are jealous because once again Izuku and his group were doing real hero work while they did nothing.
Iida has been thinking a lot lately, he still can't ignore the fact that something seems off with the group of boys. He doesn't understand how they keep getting permission to use their quirks and perform rescue missions while they are still in school. Iida believes they should be getting in trouble because essentially, they are no better than vigilantes. He is pissed because how is them going after Katsuki and Ace any different than the time he went after Stain to avenge his brother. They get praised for essentially the same thing; while he got scolded and threatened with expulsion.
As the students file in most of the class verbally express their relief at safe return of Bakugo and Ace. They receive thanks from Ace, and what they assume is grateful grunts from Katsuki. Iida ignores the group of boys and takes his spot at the back of the class. Kaminari approaches the group and smiles as he greets them receiving smiles in return. Ashido greets them cheerfully and it seems like the majority of the students are taking note of the friendly interactions.
Whispers of "When did they become so close?"
"I didn't know they even interacted with anyone else outside the classroom."
"Didn't Kaminari try to hang out with Kirishima at the start of the school year"
"Kaminari seems happier today."
"Why did Ashido greet them, she has never even spoken to them."
"Maybe we were wrong about them."
"Maybe they are capable of being friendly with others."
Katsuki frowns as he can pick up most of the whispers. He couldn't do that before, when the class would whisper it would all sound like white noise in the background. Now, he can actually pick up conversations. He will talk to the Nerd about it later, he has also noticed that his sight appears sharper, and his sense of smell has improved slightly. He can smell the natural scents of the other students around him. He will have to ask the Nerd how to ignore all the different smells, he is starting to get a headache. He puts his head on his desk and groans softly.
Izuku perks up, ignoring all the other conversations "Kacchan?" Izuku whispers out, not wanting to draw more attention to them. Katsuki grunts in response. Izuku looks worriedly at Katsuki "What's wrong?"
Katsuki sighs "Nothing Nerd. Just a bit of a headache."
Izuku lights two of his fingers on fire and gently presses them to Katsuki's forehead trying to relieve the explosive teen of his headache. It appears to be working because Katsuki slumps over as he loses all the tension in his frame. "Thanks Nerd."
"Of course Kacchan." Izuku smiles beautifully at the teen. "Let me know if it comes back, I'll keep healing you until we get out of class today. Then we can go to our room and cuddle."
Katsuki smiles softly and closes his eyes a bit "That sound's so fucking good right now."
Aizawa comes into Izuku's range and he makes a show of looking at the clock and twitching his ears to make it seem like he is listening for their teacher. As Aizawa approaches the classroom, Izuku calls the class to attention just as Aizawa opens the door.
"Good Morning Aizawa-Sensei." Greets the Class.
"Good Morning" Aizawa greets back. He walks to his podium and stares down at the class. "Now as I mentioned the other day, our first objective will be earning "provisional hero licenses" for you all." His face turns serious as he addresses the class "A hero license in essence, grants you permission to directly intervene when peoples' lives are at risk. This qualification carries an immense weight. And this goes without saying, but the examination required to earn the license is extremely strict. It is a provisional license, but even having said that, the pass rate of this exam, year to year, is less than 5 percent."
"Just for a provisional license? Isn't that a bit tough?" a student shouts.
Aizawa continues as if no one said anything "And that is why, from today onwards, we'll be having each of you come up with at least two of…"
Midnight, Cementoss, and Ectoplasm come into the classroom shouting "YOUR VERY OWN… SPECIAL MOVES!"
The class cheers "Finally, we're leaving the normal school-like stuff behind… and moving on to the hero-like stuff! ALLLRIGHT!"
"Special Moves!" Shouts Sero. "Finally! Some cool hero -like curriculum!"
"Special!" Ectoplasm shouts over the excited students "in other words, the techniques that will assure you victory!"
"These techniques must be deeply ingrained in who you are. Techniques that do not satisfy that requirement will not be allowed." Cementoss clarifies "to battle means to leverage one's own unique strengths"
"These techniques become symbols of who you are!" Midnight adds "nowadays, professional heroes without their own special moves are like an endangered species."
"We'll go into more specifics with you all shortly with live exercises." Aizawa drawls "Go change into you costumes. We'll meet at Gamma Gym."
The students of Class 1-A quickly and excitedly make their ways to the locker room with their costumes. Izuku looks at his group. "Once we find out what Aizawa is planning, I'll talk to him about visiting Kato to work on our upgrades."
"Good thinking Nerd. We have already figured out our individual special moves and our combo moves." Katsuki comments.
"Oh after we talk to Kato, we should help Kaminari with his lightening. Maybe we can come up with a full team attack." Luffy bounces excitedly.
"Oi, Pikachu!" Katsuki shouts over to the electric teen.
Kaminari looks up at Katsuki's shout, confused as to why the explosive teen is yelling at him. He smiles sheepishly and heads over to the group. "Sup Kats?"
"Have you given any though as to what you want to work on." Katsuki asks.
Izuku notices the confused look on Kaminari's face and reminds him "We promised we would help you control your quirk."
Understanding flits through Kaminari's face "Oh I didn't think you meant so soon. What about you guys? Don't you want to work on your own moves. I thought you would just give me pointers."
Izuku smiles "We already have quite a few special moves, my wolf form, my shoot style, the properties of my feathers. Katsuki has his AP shot and Howitzer Impact. Luffy has his gears. Ace has his flame commandment. Kirishima has his unbreakable from. And Shoto has his compression blast. We even have a few combo moves, like when me and Kacchan team up. Once we find out what Aizawa has planned for us we were going to go see Kato to start working on our upgrades. If anything I think that would be a good place to start for you. We can find out if he already has something to help direct electricity or try a few weapons that you can use to channel your electricity. We can even get Shanks to help, he uses lightening with a sword though his is a bit different. Maybe he can give us some pointers on how to channel lightening into a weapon and direct it to a specific spot." Izuku rambles.
Katsuki lets him finish without hitting the teen because he said what he needed to say. Even if it did come out as a mostly unintelligible string of letter sounds. Katsuki sighs "Nerd, I think you lost him."
Izuku blinks not understanding what Katsuki meant. He looks over to Kaminari and notices he looks even more confused then before. He smiles sheepishly "Sorry Kaminari, I got a bit carried away. Anyways the point is we promised to help you; so we will."
Kaminari blinks in shock and nods, he finishes changing into his costume and follows the others out of the locker rooms to Gamma Gym. The students meet up in a gaggle in front of the massive doors, Izuku gets head count and waits for the last couple of stragglers to join them. Once everyone is accounted for, he opens the doors. Upon entering the training facility Izuku's eye widen and he wants so bad to nerd over how this training room can be manipulated. "The Training Dreamland." Izuku supplies in awe.
Cementoss greets the students at the entrance with Aizawa and Midnight trailing behind him "This facility is of my own devising… here I am able to prepare terrains and training objects personalized for each and every one of you students!" Cementoss starts "Hence … Dreamland"
"Nice" the students sound out and mutter quietly.
"IF I COULD ASK A QUESTION!" Iida shouts hand shooting up. He gets a look from Aizawa and continues "WHY ARE SPECIAL MOVES NECESSARY TO OBTAIN A PROVISIONAL LICENSE? PLEASE ILLUMINATE US WITH THAT CONTEXT!"
"Chill out" Aizawa grumbles "I'll explain it to you step-by-step." He sighs "Incidents, accidents, disasters, human calamities… it is the job of a hero to rescue people from all types of trouble. Naturally the exam for the license is designed to measure that aptitude."
"Information gathering. Judgement. Mobility. Fighting ability. And in addition, Communication ability, Charm, and leadership. Every year the exam content changes to test these different aptitudes." Midnight points out. "But among them, fighting ability is a heavily weighted consideration for heroes. They say that being well-prepared means no worries! Having such techniques in your arsenal will greatly affect your chances of success."
"If instead of being controlled by the situation, you are able to bring stability to the situation" Cementoss points out "That is a mark of a hero's true fighting ability."
"Not all special moves are for offensive purposes either. For Example, Izuku's feather manipulation." Ectoplasm points out "To be able to heal injured civilians and heroes, while also simultaneously paralyze lesser villains can greatly lower the chances of people dying."
"You'd really call that a special move?" Iida asks a bit confused. "Isn't that no different then how he uses his quirk anyways."
"Not really Iida my fire heals not the feathers, I use the feathers to guide where my healing goes." Izuku starts "In essence if I just used my quirk I would most likely pulse heal for area affect or like everyone has seen me do touch an injured person with my fingers. Changing the properties of my feathers is considered a special move." Izuku still senses the confusion coming from Iida he sighs, "Think of it like your reciproburst. To be able to move a blinding speeds for a short amount of time. That would be a special move. Or Ace's flame commandment, Luffy's gear second, Kacchan's Howitzer Impact, or even Kaminari's indiscriminate shocks."
"I see so it is really about drawing from your natural strengths to create something that will give you a leg up" Sato summarizes
"Exactly! The lacquered chains prison used by Kamui Woods during the Hideout Raid… Is a perfect example. It is easy to understand, too." Midnight supplies "Suppressing your opponent before they are able to do anything."
"Before it was abruptly brought to an end, one of the objectives of the training camp was quirk development… that was referring to this process of creating your special moves"
The reactions of the class range from Understanding to disbelief to shock.
"In other words, between now and the start of the next school term… in the remaining ten days we have of summer break" Cementoss activates his quirk to make a labyrinth in the training facility.
"We're going to strengthen your quirks and work out your special moves…" Ectoplasm explains as he splits into 30 clones of himself.
"Welcome to Boot Camp" Midnight smirks sadistically as she cracks her whip.
"In addition, with the development of your quirks and the nature of your abilities in mind…" Aizawa begins as he starts to head to the observation room "Consider the ways in which your costume can also be improved." As he reaches the door he turns to the students and levels them with a predatory smirk "Let the spirit of Plus Ultra take you to new heights. Are you all ready?"
"I'm pumped up" The class cheers.
Ectoplasm's clones engage the students in working out their quirks. He launches to attack a student, Ojiro tries to attack back with his normal fighting style using his tail as an extra limb "you move exactly the way you'd predict for someone who has a tail!" Ectoplasm informs as he blocks the tail and counter attacks causing Ojiro to fall to the ground "We've got to go back to the basics and improve from there" He advises the student.
"Got it" Ojiro sounds out 'in other words, what's normal to me...'
In another area another clone is with Ashido. "Special Move! "Here… from my hands comes… Acid!" as she tries to launch a stream of acid out of her hands. "How's that?!"
"If that is the direction you are going for then… try bringing you fingers together so that it can jet out…" Ectoplasm watches as Ashido does as told "Yes like that"
Ashido tries her special move again "The distance increased!"
"It looks like you want to work on honing your acid spray, then." Ectoplasm informs.
Izuku is walking around his pack giving them pointers on training and improving their special moves. Kaminari tries to shape his lightening. Ectoplasm approaches the group.
"Why are you not working on your special moves?" He asks Izuku, the others of his group stop to watch.
"Ummm… well you see I already worked on my special moves and I am working on my analytical and strategic abilities." Izuku explains.
"While it is always good to work on observational techniques and strategies. Let's see your special moves."
Izuku smirks, "If you say so sensei. I have a few, I have several in wolf form and my own fighting style in this form. What do you want me to demonstrate."
"Let's start with your fighting style." Ectoplasm states as he sends several clones at Izuku. Katsuki approaches the two.
"Nerd?" he inquires as he glares at Ectoplasm. "What's going on? I thought you wanted to work on your analyzing abilities."
"Sorry Kacchan, but Ectoplasm Sensei wants a demonstration of my special moves." He apologizes with a feral smirk.
A matching smirk shows on Katsuki's face "Oh? Does he want a taste of our combo moves?"
Izuku looks at Ectoplasm "What do you say Sensei, want to see what else we have been working on?"
Ectoplasm feels a shiver down his spine, never being faced with looks so determined and filled with the thrill of battle then he is seeing right now. He looks over to Aizawa for some sort of idea what to do in this situation. All he gets is a lazy smirk and a cocked eyebrow as if to say "You have no idea what you just unleashed. Well not my problem." Ectoplasm gulps, "If you can defeat three of my clones by yourself, I would like to see your combo moves as well."
"Ok sensei" Izuku doesn't lose the grin "Lets do this" As he gets into his full cowling shoot style. He has perfected his shoot style to include kicks, punches, elbows and even his knees. Ectoplasm attacks first, Izuku smirks using his Observation Haki for a bit to dodge all of the attacks from the wave of clones. The clones disengage and Izuku starts his counterattack and engages with the clones swiftly and effectively taking them out. Using about 25 percent of OFA the clones were nothing but puddles after one hit. Izuku smiles triumphally "How was that sensei?"
"Impressive, how did you dodge all of my attacks?" Ectoplasm inquires.
"Really good observation skills Sensei." Izuku smiles.
"I see" He ponders "Ok well we did have a deal you wanted to show me your combo special move?"
Izuku hums "Yes, it is highly effective."
Katsuki smirks "You gonna wanna come after us with a stronger clone."
Ectoplasm considers this. If Izuku can take out three of his clones in a single attack than these two would probably take out all of his clones. Not to mention Katsuki's explosions would be able to take out a majority of his clones in a single blow. He decides to use this faux battle as a training tool. He glances up at Aizawa to convey this and he gets a nod from the lazy teacher.
"You guys are really into it huh?!" A voice sounds behind Aizawa.
Aizawa turns around "All Might?!"
"I wasn't asked to come, but I didn't really have anything to do today so…" He begins as he gets into his muscle form. "I have come" and loses his form immediately.
"No, please go and focus on recovering" Aizawa drawls "you need to be ready for next term"
"Come on now, don't be so cold. Today's special moves class, right? Of course I want to see something like that." All Might strolls in. "Besides I found someone on the way, I feel like he could help with some fighting styles." Shanks appears from behind him.
Aizawa rolls his eyes. "Fine, but our problem children are playing with Ectoplasm. So shut up and watch."
Aizawa watches as Ectoplasm starts recalling his clones back to him. The other students are in confusion and meander their ways to where Ectoplasm is standing in front of Bakugo and Izuku. Mutterings of questions sounding like white noise full the training room. Ectoplasm answers the unheard questions "We are pausing for a bit, Midoriya and Bakugo want to work on a combo move and they need something a bit bigger than 1 clone or a group of clones. If you want to watch that is up to you use this as a training opportunity to see if there is anything you can take away from this experience."
All Might and Shanks move to the railing, they already have an idea of what the two teens want to work on. They are excited to see how far the two boys have come. All Might watches as Izuku compresses his flames around Katsuki to form a protective layer on the teen to provide healing.
"What is that?" Ectoplasm asks.
"I call it a heal suit." Izuku states "It allows me to compress my healing flames into a suit like form and wrap my hero partner in a protective layer that will heal most injuries. It is capable of withstanding a full punch from All Might."
"Impressive." Ectoplasm praises.
Izuku turns to Katsuki "Have you figured out how to use it on your own."
Katsuki grunts "I can feel it but when I try to pull on it; it doesn't answer me."
Izuku smiles "That just means we need to train more. Ok how long could you hold the form last time."
Katsuki smirks "I was able to hold it for at least a half hour. We stopped using it before I felt the drain."
"Ok, wanna show off our skills then finish it with…"
"Yea… Sounds good Nerd."
Ectoplasm lets them talk while the massive clone is being formed. When the two stop their plans they stare at each other. Izuku gets an idea "Hey Sensei?"
"What is it?" Ectoplasm responds.
"Since we are using this as a training example, I was thinking of showing the class how a real team can operate with enough training and communication. How a good team covers weaknesses and supports strengths. Then we will finish with our combined Special move." Izuku suggests.
Before Ectoplasm could decline the suggestion because they are really not focusing on team building right now. Aizawa cuts in "I think that will be a good idea for training, since the provisional exam may evaluate you on teamwork and communication. I will allow a demonstration."
Ectoplasm nods. "Ok whenever you are ready."
Izuku and Katsuki share a look and get into mirroring fighting styles. They verbally communicate with each other for a bit calling out attacks from the enemy. Those that have seen them fight or have trained with them know that they are just verbally communicating to show the class that communication is important. The class gathers around Ace, Luffy, Shoto and Kirishima.
"They are only verbally talking right now to show the importance of communication." Shoto states.
"Truth is they don't need to words to communicate what they are going to do." Ace supplies.
"Huh? What do you mean Ace, how else would they know what the other will do." Ochaco asks.
Izuku hears this and shoots a nod to Katsuki followed by a smirk. Katsuki smirks back and nods. "Time to get serious" is conveyed in simple looks.
Ace smirks "Watch"
The students watch as Izuku and Katsuki dance around each other, Izuku using his feathers in tandem with Katsuki's explosions. Katsuki lands and notices Izuku is behind him blocking one of the arms from the clone with one of his longer feathers. Katsuki gives him a grateful smile. Izuku disengages and leads Katsuki to a weak spot he found the subtle twitch of his fingers giving away his intention to his partner. Katsuki follows hiding Izuku's movements with a few small explosions to make a smoke screen. Izuku lands a couple of his paralytic feathers into the clones neck and disengages. If this was a real person, the opponent would be down.
Izuku watches as Katsuki prepares a stun grenade and leaps behind the clone as the grenade flashes in front of his opponent. Izuku jabs another feather into the back of the clones neck. Izuku dodges the hand reaching to smack him out of the air with a downward gust of his wings launching him safely into the air. On his decent he folds his wings in and activates Full Cowling and lands an ax kick to the top of the clones head and flips to land next to Katsuki.
They continue dodging and dancing to a deadly tempo around the clone, almost mirror images of each other. They keep this up for a few moments letting Katsuki build up some sweat in his gauntlets. Katsuki gives the gauntlets an experimental shake. He smirks when he realizes they are full. Izuku and Katsuki disengage and land in front of Ectoplasms clone. They use their observation Haki to make sure there is no students behind the massive clone. They are surprised when the realize not even ectoplasm is behind the clone. Izuku pinpoints the teachers location to over where Aizawa is. That gives Izuku an idea and he starts shifting, pretending the other student are civilians.
Ace watches amused "Oh so he is doing it that way. I see"
"It's about to get really messy." Luffy comments.
Aizawa's voice sounds out. "Class 1-A with the exception of Midoriya and Bakugo all have the status of civilians, trapped in the danger zone. No one can escape on ground."
The class looks visibly confused. Ace, Shoto, Luffy and Kirishima laugh and approach the wolf. "Kacchan I need to get the civilians to safety; I'll leave it to you."
"Hurry up Nerd. You've got 2 minutes." Katsuki states.
"On it." He approaches the class in full wolf form and lowers his head in front of the group. "Get on, your safe now. I will take you higher ground."
Some of the class looks like they are going to refuse, but Kaminari and Ashido leap up onto the back of the wolf with Ace, Shoto, Luffy and Kirishima.
"Oh man this is going to be so cool. I can't believe I will get to fly on Fuji's back" Ashido cheers like a star struck civilian.
This gets the class moving as they load up on Fuji's back. Luffy uses his rubber like a makeshift seat belt wrapping around the class and wrapping his feet under the belly of Fuji. Ace uses a pulsing heat to convey to the wolf that everyone is ready.
Izuku lets a rumble out of his throat and leaps to the railing where the teachers are waiting to receive the students turned civilians. "Over here Fuji." All Might and Shanks hold their hands out to grasp at few of the students. After a short few moments with Aizawa using his capture weapon and Shoto using his Ice to make a ramp the students are safe and Izuku flies back to Katsuki. He folds his wings in a collides with the clone to get it to disengage with Katsuki. Katsuki leaps back and as Izuku drops down next to him.
"Did you get the civilians out of here."
Izuku nods "Let's finish this." He cuts his finger as Katsuki does the same thing. Going unnoticed by the other students he grasps Katsuki hand and shares OFA with him.
The class watches in shock as Katsuki bursts Lightening around him and seems to be glowing a faint orange, He looks like Izuku when he is using Full Cowling. The class watches amazed at the shock waves coming off the two students. Understanding why Aizawa made them civilians as they watch as the slabs of concrete, they were on a few moments ago start cracking and breaking apart. They watch as Katsuki and Izuku stand next to each other eyes glowing. Katsuki has orange lightening erupting from him as Izuku has green lightening coming from him.
They don't speak to each other; they already know what they are going to do. They throw their fists behind them and power up their punches. Katsuki's looks like lava and Izuku's looks like his green fire. They step forward and punch out in front of them arms together as a brilliant beam of lava, fire, and lightening erupts from them straight at the massive clone. The hit connects with an eruption of power going right through the clone. As the beam dies down and the smoke settles, the class barely breathing observe as Katsuki and Izuku stand tall. Eye's blazing observing the puddle that was previously a massive clone. The boys relax and the overwhelming power leaves Katsuki with a few last flickers of lightening fading away from him.
Gleeful chuckles cut through the silence like butter, the students follow the sound and are shocked to see the two teens giggling like a bunch of schoolgirls. Izuku calls out cheerfully "How was that sensei?"
"HOLY SHIT! WHAT WAS THAT!" most of the students shout.
Izuku smiles sweetly "That is our ultimate move."
"Pretty fitting for the two claiming to be the ultimate duo" Aizawa drawls.
"That was impressive, boys" All Might praises.
"It good to see that you guys can still move." Shanks comments "The first time you used that move you were passed out for a few hours. I'm glad your training is paying off."
"The way I see it." Izuku states suddenly serious. "If a villain is strong enough for us to have to resort to this move." He thinks about All for One "Then we can't afford for it take us out as well."
"Good. You understand that this moves is too powerful." Aizawa states.
"We can control the output of power released from this move." Izuku guiltily rubs his head "To be honest we haven't used the maximum amount of power this move is capable of until today. We only did today because our opponent was a clone and would not have died."
"So in other words you just wanted to show off huh?" Ace smirks.
Izuku fidgets a bit "Yea"
"You wanna go Matchstick, I still have enough energy to kick your ass." Katsuki rages.
"Ace stop riling him up, Bakugo no fighting" Aizawa sighs completely done with the problem children today.
Izuku bounds over to Aizawa and Ectoplasm "Can we go to the support class to see what we can get upgraded I have few ideas I want to share with the engineering team?"
Aizawa studies him "All of you?" meaning the pack.
Izuku nods "And Kaminari."
Aizawa raises an eyebrow when did they get so close. Izuku hears the unanswered questions "I offered him my help, promised him we can see what we can do over then next 10 days." Giving Aizawa a meaningful look.
Aizawa seems to understand and nods his head. "Yea, get out of here problem children." He sighs.
Izuku smiles at Aizawa and retreats to his group. "Let's grab Denki and head to Kato's" receiving nods from the other boys.
"Pikachu!" Katsuki shouts. "Let's go" Ignoring the questioning looks from the other students. Kaminari trots after the group.
"Wow Kats, Izu your finishing move is awesome." Kaminari praises excitedly.
"Thank you, Denki." Izuku smiles. "We have been practicing it a lot lately. Still have some bugs to iron out." Izuku's eyes start to glaze over, as he goes over what they need to work on in his head. He needs to get Katsuki to meditate, maybe if he can get into OFA like he does, they won't need to share blood to use it. He is gonna help Katsuki access it instinctually.
They reach Kato's workspace and knock. Kato opens the door, decked out in a jumpsuit he uses when working on Machinery. One of Kato's eyes looks like the gear on Kaminari's back.
"Is that part of your quirk?" Izuku asks curiously studying the eye.
Kato nods. "It allows me to see the capabilities of what im working on. Like a computer I don't have to hook up to anything. It tells me the power output, optimal processing speed, durability, things like that." Kato leads the group to his workshop. "I've been working on some of the ideas we hashed out yesterday. I have a prototype made for Denki."
Kaminari perks up "Oh? Really for me? What is it? What does it do?"
Kato smiles fondly "Come here I'll show you." He leads the group to a desk that has an arm brace looking thing. "I call this Sharpshooting Gear. It will shoot small lightening rods that you can use to direct your electricity to. It has the capability to shoot multiple pointers, the lightening will connect to each one making a force field to protect something or a prison to keep a villain secured." He attaches it to the teens arm. "I tested the effective range with regular lightening its about 10meters."
"Oh wow, thank you Kato" Kaminari thanks with a smile.
"That's not all." Kato looks around for something. "I'm working on a optical visor for everyone. It will allow you to see information about your gear, in Denki's case it will give him information about his lightening rods. How far away they are? How many he has left? The durability of the pointers. Etc. I'm working on adding an air quality sensor and communication devices to them."
Kaminari smiles with stars in his eyes, he has the sudden urge to hug the other teen. He didn't think this would happen so soon. Danm when the pack says they are gonna do something, they mean the next day. This realization puts a bigger smile on his face, he has never had people that would drop everything for him. Don't get him wrong he has been promised things before, but they were always flaked on, or dropped. Kaminari has learnt not to except anything from anyone, even if it is promised. He was surprised earlier when Izuku approached him and told him the plan for today, they were gonna see Kato and if their gear is ready test it out. Kato told him this was a prototype, so he is unsure if it is useable. He understands the concept of this piece of equipment, and he is definitely excited to try it out.
"When will the final product for the Sharpshooting Gear be ready to be tested." Izuku asks.
Kato thinks this over. "I am also working on Katsuki's gauntlets and your upgrades. Shoto's thermal regulator I'll have finished tomorrow. So come back the day after tomorrow with your costumes. Shoto how attached are you to that suit."
"Um not really. Why?" Shoto asks hesitantly.
"What about the colors?" Kato asks.
"Blue is fine" Shoto states still confused.
Kato smiles predatorially "I have been working on some hero suits with different properties. Using my own creation of fabric. It uses the concept of nanotechnology." He rummages through some draws and finds a few bracelets. "Izuku come here for a sec."
Izuku the ever-willing Guinee pig happily stands in front of the other boy. "Ok"
"I need you to release your fire as much as you feel comfortable with." Kato explains.
Izuku nods and does as told releasing his fire, leaving just enough to resemble boxers on. "Ok now what?"
"I need to place these on you wrists, ankles, and this one around your neck." Kato explains.
Izuku holds out his wrists and watch fascinated as Kato clicks the bracelets around his wrists and they shift to fit snuggly around his wrists like a sweat band. The same happens when the ankle bracelets are clicked in place. Kato attaches the necklace around his neck. "How do they feel? Is the neck one lose enough?" Kato asks a bit of worry flitting through his eyes.
Izuku smiles disarmingly "Snug but I don't feel like I choking. They are surprisingly light."
"Good, you'll let me know if you get uncomfortable right?" Kato asks still not losing the worry. This is the first time he is testing this on someone. He has used mannequins to test them before.
"Of course." Izuku smiles "Now what?"
"There is a button on each one of the bracelets, but you only need to push one." Kato guides.
The other boys watch silently as Izuku does as told; they let out a gasp as a liquid like substance forms to fit him connecting to each of the bracelets. Once the Armor settles it looks like a metal version of his fire with greenish black flames come through the vents on the side. His wings and tails are left unobstructed.
"I designed this suit to form to the individual persons quirk and abilities. If Kaminari used this suit the accents would be yellow and instead of fire would use his electricity. If Shoto used this suit it would use, his fire on one side and his ice on the other." He hands Izuku a pair of green tinted glasses. "Put these on." Izuku does as told "This is a replica of my own quirk that is tailored to the suit. It shows you your temperature, the body on the side of the screen shows you the durability of the suit and highlights damaged areas. Black for not damaged, yellow for mild damages, and red for severe damages. The suit is capable of fixing itself if it stays in yellow, but if it becomes red the suit needs to be brought back to me."
"Oh my god Kato." Izuku stammers out "This is amazing. How will it work with my transformations?"
"I'm glad you asked" Kato starts. "the suit will transform with you. Though you will still look the same, with the addition of leg, belly and neck plates. Your back and sides with remain as they are now."
"Can I keep this? I wanna test it out." Izuku asks excitedly.
Kato smiles fondly "I actually made this suit with your transformations in mind" He gets a confused look from Izuku. "Your hero suit is made of your fire; you are basically naked without the fire suit. So I made this just in case something happens, and you can't use your fire suit. I don't think anyone but Katsuki wants to see you naked."
Katsuki growls "Like hell I'd let some extra's see my Nerd naked. I'll kill them!"
Kato laughs because even though Katsuki is growling and threatening non-existent threats; he is blushing brightly and pouting. "This is the other reason I started making this. We don't need our Bomberanian losing his shit over Izuku's modesty."
"HA BOMBERANIAN! AHAHAH" Ace explodes in laughter. Shoto cracks a small smile trying to hold in his chuckles.
Katsuki explodes at the nickname "FUCK YOU MATCHSTICK" Izuku holds him back from killing Ace. While Shoto erects and Ice wall around Ace.
"Kacchan." Izuku states fondly. He rubs Katsuki's mark and lightly trails his flames on Katsuki's back. Katsuki sags losing all will to kill someone.
"Ok fine," Katsuki slumps defeated.
Izuku notices something new about Katsuki and leads the explosive teen away from everyone else to investigate it. "We'll be right back. I'm gonna calm him down" Izuku informs. Finding a secluded spot away from the others eyes he inspects his Soulmate. He runs his fingers through the boys hair, his suspicions are correct when his fingers brush up against a pair of furry ash blond ears that weren't there before. He snaps his fingers in front of each one watching as they twitch with the irritating sound.
"What are you doing Nerd?" Katsuki asks a little slurred from the forced calming Izuku did.
"Ummm… Kacchan how is your hearing?"
"'S better than it was before. Noticed it earlier today when I was able to pick up some of the whispers that I normally would not have been able to before." Katsuki explains. "Why?"
"Ummm… Kacchan… I uh don't know how this is possible… but uh you've got my ears" Izuku stutters out.
"I uh What!" Katsuki asks shocked.
Izuku grabs Katsuki's hand and guide it to the boys hair. Letting him feel the new ears. "Why do they feel real, yours are made of fire, so if this is soulmate sharing then shouldn't mine also be fire?"
"Um yea, they should be. They are the same color as your hair and the only reason I noticed them is because of my enhanced sight." Izuku states "Um speaking of sight, has that improved."
Katsuki nods "Yea slightly, things look clearer, my sense of smell has also gotten a bit better too. I can smell your natural scent it smells like a forest and mint. If I have your ears am I gonna get your tails and wings too?"
"I'm not sure. I think right now you have the heightened sense and instincts of a wolf. I think the reason why you have my ears is because human ears are weaker than wolf ears. Even if they could be enhanced human ears are incapable of processing certain frequencies. I think this might also be a OFA thing too. It makes sense that these ears showed up after sharing OFA and using maximum power. I think we should talk to All Might. I can meditate and try to get in contact with the others and Fuji and find out what's happening." Izuku starts to mutter.
"Fucking Nerd." Katsuki mutters. Then hits him over the head as the others find them.
"Hey Izuku, Kats you've been back here so long we wanted to check up on you." Luffy states.
"Yea is Bakubro calm now?" Kirishima asks.
"Um yea, but uh we have to go see All Might really quick." Izuku rushes out. "We will explain later when we figure this out."
Shoto studies Katsuki and notices the new furry additions to Katsuki's head "What's that?"
Izuku sighs "Kacchan seems to be getting my wolf ears. We're not sure why so we were gonna talk to All Might and Shanks."
Ace studies Katsuki a bit "could it be because you have shared your quirk with him?"
"That's what we are thinking. I'll let you guys know what All Might says about this." He stands up and pulls Katsuki up to follow him. He pulls out his phone and sends a text to All Might saying "are you free right now I need to talk to you."
He doesn't have to wait long as All Might responds "Yea in the teacher lounge."
"Are you alone?" Izuku sends back.
"No, Shanks is with me. Is that ok?"
"Yea me and Kacchan will be there shortly." Izuku puts his phone is his pocket and pulls Katsuki away from the workshop "Lets go Kacchan."
Izuku and Katsuki leave the workshop and head to the teachers lounge. Once there Izuku knocks on the door and enters when he hears come in. As Izuku enters the room he sits on a couch in front of Shanks and All Might.
Shanks studies the two but doesn't notice anything different. "So, what did you need to talk about?"
Izuku sighs "I think OFA has merged completely with Fuji."
All Might perks up "What do you mean. That shouldn't be possible since Fuji isn't a quirk."
"Kacchan has wolf ears. The only thing I can think of is it happened when we shared OFA." Izuku states a bit helplessly. "I think every time we have shared OFA a bit of Fuji gets transferred to him. Since OFA never really leaves Kacchan it just goes dormant, the wolf aspects being a passive ability stay."
"My hearing, sight and sense of smell have increased. The nerd doesn't think I'll get all his abilities that Fuji gives him, but maybe just the wolfish part of it." Katsuki tries to explain.
"Have you tried to talk to Fuji about this? Maybe he would know what is happening. I have never seen a Devil Fruit act like this, but then again we don't have soulmates in the GL." Shanks supplies.
"I will talk to Fuji later, I just wanted to talk to you guys first. I was also going to see if I can get back into OFA and talk to the previous holders. They might also know what is happening." Izuku states with a shake in his voice.
"What's wrong nerd?" Katsuki asks a bit worried.
"It's nothing Kacchan." Izuku tries to hide his concerns.
"Tell me, Nerd" Katsuki growls. Shanks and All Might raise an eyebrow, they haven't hear that particular sound coming from the explosive teen before. Sure he has growled before, but this seems more animalistic.
Izuku looks down "It's stupid, Kacchan." He gets another growl from the teen, he sighs "I'm just worried, I don't want Kacchan to be treated like I have. People typically see a beast when you have animal ears and a tail. I just don't want Kacchan to go through that."
Katsuki 'tsks' "Like I care what the extras think of me." He huffs out trying to sooth Izuku. If Katsuki can read Izuku like an open book and find out the Nerd is hiding something from him; well Izuku can do the same thing. He is reminded of this fact when Izuku whines.
"But Kacchan does care what people think, even if he pretends it doesn't bother him." Izuku whimpers out "I'm sorry Kacchan."
"Listen Nerd, 's nothing to be sorry about" Katsuki says softly. "Even if they call me monster, freak, villain I have heard it all before. I can handle this Nerd."
Shanks observes the other two "Any other changes that you have noticed."
Izuku perks up "It's not just me that has noticed but Kacchan growls now." He smirks "Ace has started calling him Bomberanian." Receiving a growl from Katsuki at the new nickname.
"Oh god." Shanks states fondly trying to hold in his snickers. All Might is not doing any better even going so far as the cough to cover some of the giggles.
"Not funny Old Man." Katsuki grumbles out.
All Might sighs "This could be because OFA has bonded with Fuji, I didn't think it was possible, so I didn't mention it." He pauses "Now is a good time to tell you, eventually you will have access to the other holder quirks. I didn't mention it before because I was never able to use them. Seeing Katsuki with Wolf features makes me think that the quirk become strong enough that the other users abilities will start to show through. If Fuji has merged with OFA that will be the first of your arsenal that Katsuki can use, I didn't have a quirk so the next one would be float. It might not be obvious to you Izuku because you can fly. Katsuki you will need to tell me when you can use it."
Katsuki nods "I can't use OFA instinctually, but assuming we are correct, and the wolf ears come from that, do you think we will get to the point where I can use it without needing Izuku's blood?"
All Might looks deep in thought. "I'm not sure to be honest everything you two have done with the quirk as been new to me. I didn't even know it could be shared between Soulmates. When you first did it, I thought Izuku lost it and passed it along to you. Can you feel OFA in you right now?"
"Yea, its like a whisper of knowledge and strength" Katsuki sums up.
"What happens when you try to pull it to the surface?" Shanks asks.
"Um… It flickers and fades." Katsuki states a bit frustrated.
"I see." Shanks states thoughtfully.
"Have you tried to meditate and see if you can access the previous users?" All Might inquires.
Katsuki shakes his head "No, I haven't"
"Then I am assigning you to meditate and try to contact them." All Might instructs.
"Kacchan and I could meditate together." Izuku states. "Fuji was telling me it might be possible to bring Kacchan's consciousness into my subspace. Like how I used the quirk to talk to him when he was captured. He said his previous users were able to for short periods of time."
"How is that possible?" All Might asks
"I'm not sure I was going to meditate tonight to talk to Fuji. I'll ask him how to do it, then if it is safe, I will let you know so you can watch over us if it works." Izuku compromises. "Like what Shanks did for me when I first started trying to talk to Fuji."
Shanks nods "Ok I agree to these terms. Can you talk to Fuji now, it might be best to do this now."
Izuku nods and closes his eyes, his breathing slows as he enters his mind scape. Katsuki has seen him meditate enough times that it's not unexpected to see the other teen slump to the side. Katsuki catches him and lays Izuku's head in his lap. The room is silent as Izuku meditates.
*** Izuku's mind Fuji's den***
Izuku blinks his eyes open and looks around for Fuji. Spotting the wolf he approaches the massive form laying in the grass.
"Hey Fuji" Izuku greets happily.
"Pup?" Fuji grunts "What brings you here?"
"Ummm… Kacchan has formed wolf ears. We are trying to find out if this because of us being soulmates or from sharing OFA. You once told me I can bring Kacchan here…"
"So Mate has gotten ears has he… What do they look like? Does he have any other features?"
"They are ash blonde like his hair, his sight and sense of smell have improved as well. He has always growled but now it sounds more animalistic." Izuku studies Fuji, he appears to be thinking he gives him a few moments.
"I don't think this is the product of just OFA, I think that OFA helped but Mate has always had the instincts of a wolf, this seems more like a soulmate ability. I think OFA helped speed up the process, but this was going to happen whether or not you had OFA."
Izuku looks confused "If this was just soulmate abilities then wouldn't Kacchan's ears look like mine? Would he be able to use my healing? I thought we wouldn't be able to share Devil Fruits."
Fuji hums "While it is true that Devil Fruit abilities don't normally do this, this world has altered my devil fruit to be more quirk like. In essence I no longer exist as a devil fruit, I will not reform back into a fruit when you die. To an extent he might be able to use your healing, but Mate will have access to his own unique ability. His wolf is but a pup right now, still sleeping if you will. As more features start to appear his wolf's abilities will start to show. I won't be able to tell you what they might be, but I can guess they will have something to do with fire or his explosions. I will have to meet Mate to get a read on him."
"So Kacchan's spirit animal was always a wolf. You're saying that my Devil Fruit is giving him access to use his Spirit Animal? Or something like that?"
"Technically yes, I believe this is also why you are Soulmates. I have always sensed a wolfish presence in Mate. It also explains that even when he was younger, he has always had elongated canine teeth. When you consumed my fruit your Spirit Animal changed, I do not know what it was before that. However it was always fate that you and Katsuki would be mates."
"Ok, so you said you need to get a read on Kacchan, how do I bring him here?"
"While you both are meditating reach out to his consciousness with OFA I'll do the rest."
"Ok, I'll give it a shot. Thank you, Fuji" Izuku smiles.
"Go on, the faster you can bring him here the better." Fuji grumbles out.
"Ok, I'll see you later. Bye Fuji." Izuku waves him bye as he leaves.
*** Teacher's Lounge***
Izuku blinks his eye's open and sits up. "Ok so Fuji has told me a few things."
He gets expected looks from the occupants in the room. "Ok we're listening" Shanks pushes.
"So, as it turns out Fuji believes OFA didn't do this, well not entirely."
"What do you mean Nerd." Katsuki asks confused.
"Well Fuji said that he has always sensed a wolfish presence in you. He said you have always had wolfish instincts. He believes this is the result of a Soulmate ability." Izuku starts to explain.
"Then why doesn't Katsuki's ears look like yours." Shanks asks.
"I asked that as well, but he said that when I ate the devil fruit my DNA or something registered it as a Spirit ability. That Fuji's soul merged with mine. Technically speaking Kacchan has two soulmates, since Fuji shares my soul. He believes he no longer exists as a fruit, if I were to die, he will stay with my soul rather than becoming a new fruit. The soul mate ability I passed to Kacchan was access to his Spirit Animal. It is by coincidence that his Spirit Animal is also a wolf. This is mostly all theory, Fuji said he needs to see Kacchan to get a read on it."
"Did he say anything about OFA?" asks All Might.
"Yes, he said that while OFA probably sped up the process, this was always going to happen. I think it is because our bond is so much stronger than other bonds. I don't believe Luffy or Ace will be able to share their Devil Fruit abilities." Izuku theorizes.
"Did he say how wolf like Katsuki will get?" Shanks inquires.
"He is not sure since he thinks Kacchan's wolf is still asleep. Fuji said his wolf was still a pup. He said that Kacchan will have his own unique ability that his wolf would give him. He might have access to my healing to a certain extent. Probably a faster recovery time, or self-healing."
"So how do we meet Fuji?" Katsuki asks.
"We have to meditate, and I need to reach for your consciousness using OFA, similar to what I did when you were captured. Fuji said once I have your consciousness, he will pull us both into his Den." Izuku explains.
"Is it safe?" Shanks asks, All Might hums in agreement.
Izuku growls warningly "Fuji would not hurt Kacchan."
Shanks holds up his hands disarmingly "Was just checking. If you are ready, we should do this now. It is probably best to figure this out."
Izuku nods and turns to Katsuki "Are you ready Kacchan?"
"Yea let's do this Nerd." Katsuki grumbles he reaches for Izuku's hand and clasps it tightly. He is not scared but he feels more relaxed when he is holding Izuku's hand. Izuku squeezes the hand in his grasp seeking comfort from the explosive teen. Katsuki squeezes back enthused.
Taking a few calming breaths Izuku finally walks Katsuki through meditating "Ok let's do this. Kacchan close your eyes. Match your breathing to mine and clear your mind. Only focus on the presence of OFA we are going to use it as a bridge."
Shanks watches as Katsuki and Izuku relax into each other, breaths evening out and matching the other's. Shanks watches this for a few moments not wanting to speak and break the concentration doing this should take. After a few minutes Izuku and Katsuki both slump over.
*** In Izuku's mind***
Izuku goes into a meditative state and looks around for his connection to OFA. He finds it and moves closer to it. This time the quirk doesn't have the previous users milling about, so he heads over to Kacchan's flame. Kacchan's flame is massive now he can no longer cup it. He puts his hand on the flame and tries to guide Katsuki to One for All.
"Nerd?"
"Kacchan, follow my voice."
"Ok, I see a flame. What do I do?"
"Put your hand on it and close your eyes I'm gonna reach in pull you through."
Izuku feels the pressure of Katsuki pushing against the flame. Izuku reaches in a grasps onto Katsuki's hand and pulls. It takes quite a bit of strength to pull Katsuki through the quirk. He wasn't sure what he was expecting having never done anything like this before. Watching Katsuki come through the flame made him giddy. He watches as Katsuki blinks his eyes open.
"Where are we?" Katsuki asks.
"We are in the heart of OFA" Izuku smiles and engulfs Katsuki in a hug. "I didn't know if it would work. But your are here maybe before we talk to Fuji, I can show you around."
Katsuki looks at Izuku then notices the massive ball of orange behind him. "What's this?"
"Oh Kacchan, this is the echo you leave behind when you use OFA. It was smaller when I saw it before, but I used it to talk to you when you were captured." Izuku explains with a smile.
Katsuki stares at it in awe. "This is essentially me?" he asks breathlessly.
"Yea, it's pretty isn't it?"
"Yea. I can't believe this is possible." Katsuki states awed.
"Maybe the next time we do this we can wake up some of the previous users and talk to them. They have been trying to talk to you. They don't know if you can hear them, but I think it would help us figure out how to use OFA together with out needing to share blood."
"Next time Nerd." Katsuki agrees fondly "We came here to talk to Fuji. How do we get there from here?"
Izuku smiles and closes his eyes still holding Katsuki's hand. Katsuki watches as the scene starts to change. In the blink of a eye he is now sitting in a massive familiar forest. "Is this?" He asks breathlessly.
"Yea, the forest we used to play in when we were younger. Fuji liked it. He made a den over there." Izuku points to a small waterfall. Izuku pulls Katsuki with him and the teen follows looking at every detail of the replicated trails they walked as kids. He can almost forget he is actually in his nerds mind or soul and not really in the forest they grew up playing in.
Izuku comes to a stop in front of a missive cave. "Fuji! I brought Kacchan."
Katsuki did not know what to expect, he supposed he expected Fuji to look exactly like His nerds wolf form. He gasps as Fuji steps out of his cave, plant forms coming to life with every step the massive wolf makes. Fuji is at least double the size Izuku's wolf is, with ten massive tails swaying behind him. Brilliant misty green wings folded to Fuji's sides. Fuji looks to be made of smoke rather than fire, Katsuki supposed this is because he is a spirit. Though Katsuki thought Fuji would look more solid.
"That was quick pup." Fuji turns his massive eyes to look at Katsuki "Did you have any problems bringing Mate here?"
Katsuki's shock at hearing the deep rumbling growl like voice fades to embarrassment at being called Mate. Izuku smiles at the wolf "No problems, Ne Fuji can you tell us what Kacchan's wolf form will be."
Fuji hums as he studies the pup "Mate's wolf will definitely be a strong warrior type. I am unsure if you will get an element, if you do it will most likely be a fire type. It is hard to tell since the pup is asleep. He is soon going to wake since you are already getting features."
"Do you know what features I will get? Will I get the nerds tails and wings?" Katsuki asks.
"As I have told the pup your wolf abilities will be your own. You may get some of your Mates healing abilities, but they will most likely be in the form of self-healing, or a faster recovery time. If you get wings, they will not be the mine, you will only get them if your wolf has them."
Katsuki thinks for a moment "You told the nerd that you have always sensed a wolfish side to me. Why didn't we get a warning if this was going to happen."
Fuji thinks for a moment "I honestly didn't think it would happen like this. I knew you would get enhanced senses, but I did not know you would start getting wolf features. When my previous users consumed my fruit, I was my own separate entity with my own soul. Here in this world where pup gained my power, we merged souls. I am forever bound to him; I will go where his soul goes. When we die that is it I will not reform into another fruit. Take firepup for example his devil fruit has a soul when he dies that soul will move to another fruit. Same with rubberpup's devil fruit. Devil fruits cannot be transferred like this, your soulmate bond plays a massive role into why this is possible. Because your bond to my pup is so strong, and I am bound to his soul, I was able to manipulate the soulmate ability to wake your spirit animal. I just didn't know it would change your appearance."
"I guess I get it" Katsuki starts "Why didn't you tell us that you can never reform. Not that I am upset that my Nerd got a bad ass power. I just don't understand, aren't you upset that this is essentially your last life."
"As I told the pup, it was always fate for me to come here, it was always going to happen that the pup would consume my fruit and gain my power. It was always fate that you both would be soulmates. Your bond goes far beyond anything mortals can fathom. Meaning you two are meant to change things, no other soulmate pair will achieve the heights you will achieve. In my thousand years living as a fruit and eons of consciousness before then; it was always known to me. I had time to process that someday I will find the rightful holder to my power and become one with him. I have found him in my pup. He has the same soul as my first user, I was always meant to come back to him. So I am not upset, if anything I am relieved, I will always be with the pup in every life. Just like you, you will always be Mate. Your names may change your worlds may change but you are bound for eternity to each other and me. There is a reason you have always been able to understand me, there is a reason that since your teeth came in, they were elongated. There is a reason why your instincts were more animalistic then other kids. There is a reason why you growl and snarl to display displeasure. Our pack was only exaggerating a little bit when they said you growl more than me. Mate was always meant to be able to access his spirit wolf. OFA just sped up the process. In order to defeat a great evil. AFO is nothing but a bug compared to what you will face." Fuji tries to explain.
"What do you mean by that, what could be worse than AFO?"
"I am not sure what from it will have, or when it will appear. But it is an evil that is capable of destroying entire worlds. My home world fell to this calamity. Countless other worlds have fallen because of him. I am not sure if this world will be targeted but you need to be prepared if he does come. Demons will over run the world destroying all life in their paths. It will be like Armageddon all over again. Without you both this world stands no chance." Fuji warns.
Izuku's mind processes all of this information. He should notify Shanks, and All Might, perhaps principal Nezu, Aizawa and Hawks. Maybe he can talk with Nighteye and have the hero search his future for any sort of calamity. If he can find out when this will happen, he can plan and train for their success. He looks over at Kacchan and sees the worry flashing in his eyes. "Kacchan?" Izuku reaches out.
Katsuki grumbles "We should let the others know also the pros we trust. If this is a threat greater than AFO we will need others on our side."
Izuku nods "Fuji what can you tell us of this threat, is it one entity or a series of catastrophic events."
Fuji thinks back "I can tell you that a darkness will spread through the world, from the darkness those with evil hearts will band together to form an army with the demons. It will be a world ending battle between good and evil. That is the form that took out my home world. The form that almost took out the Grandline 900 years ago pitted the world against each other. The D clan summoned us spirits to Aid them in battle. With the fall of JOYBOY the calamity sealed us away in fruits. We were given the moniker of Devils, the Grandline is still being plagued by this endless war, though the calamity has not shown his true form. History says The Celestial Dragons are the descendants of the original 20 kings, this is false they are the descendants of the 20 Generals of the calamity. The old red furred one and his two pups were always meant to come here and find you. What happened at the beach that day was not random. I called out to you, you followed the call and threw caution to the wind and ate me. When you saw the three and wanted them to be better it was my instincts that put that feeling in your heart. Firepup and Rubberpup are descendants of JOYBOY that is the true reason why the Celestials want their blood lines extinguished. There are 8 other descendants of the D clan, the late Pirate kind was one, Firepup's mother was also a descendant. Another is the Rubberpup's Father the leader of the revolutionary Army and his Grandfather Vice Admiral of the Marines. Another was taken out by the Marines when he tried to save a little girl from an island that was so close to uncovering the truth of the void century. One has already been corrupted by darkness. And the final one it is unknown weather he survived his illnesses. There is a gate way if you will that will allow you to travel to the Grandline and find these other D clan descendants. Tell the red furred one it is located at the end of the world.
The red Furred one is a descendant of the ancient sealing clan in my era they were known as the Uzumaki. I am unsure if there are any Uzumaki left, they are capable of breaking the seal on the Devil fruits and releasing us to our true forms. Their homeland was destroyed during the purge as far as I know the red furred one was the only survivor. They occupied an island shrouded in mystery; it was rumored the inhabitants of that island were able to use their spirits which they called Chakra to manipulate the elements around them. My fellow Spirit animals were all forcibly sealed into hosts on that island. Shukaku is the one tailed sand raccoon dog. Matatabi is the two tailed fire cat. Isobu is the three tailed water turtle. Son Goku is the four tailed lava Monkey. Kokuo is the five tailed steam goat. Saiken is the six tailed acid slug. Chomei is the seven tailed winged beetle. Gyuki the eight tailed Octopus. And finally Kurama the nine tailed felfire fox. Their spirits cry and lash out against the hosts, all they want is freedom. In that land my kin are called demon beasts, due to the rage in their souls for being prisoners for eons their souls are red, with hatred. If the red furred one can unseal them, we can purify their souls and have nine other spirit beasts on our sides."
"We need to tell Shanks; how long do we have before this great battle?" Izuku asks.
"Like I said before I do not know, all I know is AFO is just a pawn. Now go pup, I also advise you to talk to OFA to find out their involvement in accelerating Mates access to his wolf." Fuji huffs out having already taken a lot of their time.
"We will come back Fuji, there is still so much you can tell us." Izuku states.
Katsuki watches as Izuku gives the massive wolf a hug and turns to look at him. Izuku's face is pulled into a serious frown. He looks grim as his face is settles into a look that adds 20 years to his features. Katsuki wont show that he is scared, he needs to be strong for the nerd. If Katsuki didn't witness this, he cannot be completely sure the nerd would have told him about it. Knowing the self-sacrificing idiot he probably would have attempted to take the burden on alone. He will remind the nerd later that he is not alone. Katsuki will follow him to the ends of the world soulmate or not, bound by eternity or not. "Come on Nerd. We need to inform the others. We should probably get the pack here."
"How do you feel about Denki? Should we tell him? We will need Kato to speed up making our gear. Kacchan I also think we need to talk to Nighteye he might be able to pinpoint exactly when this is supposed to happen." Izuku starts panicking.
"Let's tackle this one at a time, Like Pikachu said yesterday there is not many people who would believe him if he did tell. This also affects him too; he would rather be on our side rather than being left behind. I think we should talk to All Might, Shanks and Aizawa first before we bring the others in. It will be hard to keep this from Ace and Luffy since it directly affects them. Shoto and Kirishima too, if we tell Ace and Luffy they won't be able to keep it from them. I suggest we tell them what they need to know and let them decide if they are going to come with us. I will always be by your side and you know Ace and Luffy will as well." Katsuki suggests.
"Ok Kacchan, Thank you." Izuku takes a moment to settle himself. "Alright let's get out of here."
Katsuki nods "lead the way, Nerd." Grabbing onto Izuku's hand. He closes his eyes as he feels his surroundings shift. When he opens his eyes again, he is back in the heart of OFA. Izuku leads him to his flame.
"Ok Kacchan you should be able to get back to your body from here I'll wake you up if you are not up before I get out." Izuku instructs
Katsuki nods and walks into his flame. Izuku watches as Katsuki's consciousness leaves, he walks over to the seventh holder of OFA and leaves a message that he will come back with Katsuki to talk. He closes his eyes to leave OFA.
*** Teachers' Lounge***
Shanks watches as Izuku's eyes flutter open and a ragged breath leaves his lungs, he searches his surroundings a bit. Izuku's eyes land on Katsuki's form and he hovers to wake him.
"Kacchan, wake up" Izuku sounds sternly.
Katsuki blinks awake and like Izuku observes his surroundings. Izuku gives him a few moments as being inside OFA can be disorienting. Seeing Katsuki's eyes clear as the teen takes in his surroundings Izuku flashes him a smile.
"Hey Nerd." Katsuki whispers breathlessly.
Shanks clears his throat reminding the other two of his presence. Izuku looks at Shanks and All Might his eyes void of the usual brightness causing Shanks to gasp. "Boys what have you learnt?"
Izuku's eyes harden "Shanks, All Might we need to get Pack, Aizawa and Nighteye here."
"Explain what is going on Izuku." All Might asks sternly.
"Trust the Nerd All Might, we need to get everyone here. Fuji warned us of a threat that makes AFO look like a bug." Katsuki states seriously.
All Might gasps for one, Katsuki never calls him All Might he is always referred to as Old Man. Secondly, he cannot understand a threat greater than AFO. "What do you mean? A threat greater than AFO? How is this possible."
"Please All Might" Izuku begs "Please, gather everyone here. We could use Principal Nezu as well."
Shanks picks up the shakiness of Izuku's frame the hardness of his form matched by the tense form of Katsuki and listens to the plea. He takes out his phone and sends a group text.
To Shota, Nighteye, Hawks, and Nezu.
"Come to the teachers lounge it is an emergency."
From Shota
"On my way"
From Hawks
"I'll be there as soon as I can"
From Nighteye
"On my way"
From principal Nezu:
"Just finished a meeting I will be there soon"
To Shota, Nighteye, Hawks, and Nezu.
"Thanks, Midoriya and Bakugo have information for us. Fuji warned them of a threat that is possibly bigger than AFO"
From Hawks:
5 minutes ETA
From Nighteye:
Same
Shanks replies with a quick ok, there is a knock on the door. All Might stands to answer it. Shota steps in losing his tired demeaner instead looking more like Eraserhead. Nezu pops out of Aizawa's scarfs and shimmies down onto the table.
Shota observes his two students, he notices the light in Izuku's eyes appears dull. There is a hardness to the boys' features that make the pair seem older, battle hardened, and wiser. What could have happened between them fighting Ectoplasm and now.
Nezu stays quiet and observes, the reason he is in the know about Izuku and Fuji is because he sensed Fuji in the boy. Being an animal of prey his instincts flared around the teen. Shanks introduced them before the entrance exam. Nezu is smart and would not have let his instincts control his decision to accept the teen into the hero course. Nevertheless he is thankful for the introduction his instincts have settled to make way for more logical decisions.
Izuku and Katsuki sent a mass text to their pack telling them to come to the teachers lounge and to hurry. Ace asked if Denki should come, since he was not added to the group message. To be honest Izuku forgot to add the electric boy to the conversation and sends a separate text to the Electric boy. Telling him to go with Ace to the teachers lounge.
About 10 Minutes after the mass texts went out all of the asked for people have arrived. The pack sits as close together as possible sensing the distress rolling off the two boys. Once everyone is settled Principal Nezu calls the room to attention. "Now that everyone is here, nothing that is said in this room leaves this room. If you cannot follow this only rule leave now. Am I understood?" Nezu gives the group several moments to leave or nod their agreements. "Ok, if any information leaves this room under any circumstances the perpetrator will be charged as a criminal. Any objections?" The group shakes their heads. "Now as I understand it Midoriya and Bakugo have information, they deem important enough to share with everyone here." He looks at the two teens.
Izuku clears his throat, "Let me start at the beginning" he brings everyone up to speed about how his spirit wolf quirk is not a quirk. He tells them about OFA being his real quirk. He tells them about finding Shanks, Luffy, and Ace at the beach. He goes on to tell them that him and Katsuki have shared OFA and that was what that power was in the training room. "So after training we went to Kato's to look at some gear, I noticed something different about Kacchan. I found out he has started to get my wolf features. I needed to talk to All Might and Shanks since they would hopefully be able to tell me if this came from Fuji or if this is the result of sharing OFA. Any questions so far?"
"If Fuji is not a quirk what is he?" Nezu asks.
"He is a devil fruit; it is a fruit I ate at the beach when I was five. When I ate the fruit his soul merged with mine. Devil Fruits come from another world. But here they act like quirks no one would take a second look at someone whose entire body is made of rubber or someone who can turn into a massive wolf on fire that can heal, or someone that is essentially fire. Ace, Luffy and I all have devil fruits instead of quirks. That is beside the point."
"How did this power come to the world" Nezu asks more fascinated than anything else.
"Shanks, Luffy and Ace were escaping the Grandline and were shipwrecked, they ended up on the beach I found them at. The Grandline is another world, I'll explain more about that world when I get to what Fuji warned me about. Shanks had Fuji's fruit with him when he left the Grandline and it washed up here and called out to me. I ate it and gained Fuji. Fuji informed me that Shanks, Ace, and Luffy were always meant to come here. They were always meant to meet me. And I was always meant to find and consume Fuji's fruit."
"Please continue" Nezu states.
"Me and Kacchan came here to talk to Shanks and All Might. Shanks because he knows about devil fruits and how they should behave. All Might because of OFA. It was decided that what was happening to Kacchan was not normal of both of the powers. So I meditated to talk to Fuji. He told me that OFA helped speed up the process but Kacchan has always had a wolfish side to him. He told me that because when I consumed Fuji's fruit we merged, basically Kacchan is developing traits of his own Spirit wolf. His wolf will have it's own unique ability that is different than my healing. Basically the soulmate ability I passed to Kacchan is access to his Spirit Wolf." Izuku pauses and takes a couple of breaths "Fuji wanted to see Kacchan so he could determine what Spirit Wolf he would have. So we meditated and I brought his consciousness into Fuji's den."
"How did you do this" Nezu asks.
"I used OFA as a bridge. When Kacchan was captured by the LOV; I was unconscious and woke up in the heart of OFA the previous holders of the quirk showed me an orange flame and explained to me that flame is the echo of Kacchan's spirit or Soul if you will, that is left behind every time we share the quirk. During that time the flame was small I could cup my hands around it. I was able to contact him to keep him calm and find out if he was ok. After that I was able to do the same thing with All Might before I woke up. I relayed everything Kacchan told me to help All Might find him. This time the flame was much bigger about the size of me. Possibly due to the amount of power we shared today in training. I will need to talk to the quirk again to know for sure. Anyways while meditating I went into OFA and used the flame to reach out to Kacchan's consciousness. Once I felt Kacchan on the other side I pulled him through into the quirk. From there we went to Fuji."
"Ok we will talk more about this later I am fascinated by all of this." Nezu states "Anyways please continue"
"When we got to Fuji, he told us Kacchan's spirit wolf will be a strong warrior with possible fire affinity. We asked him why he didn't give us a warning that this would happen, he said he didn't think it would work like this. According to Fuji all devil fruits have their own soul. When a devil fruit user dies the soul of the fruit will move to another fruit. However, Fuji is different; he told us for the 900 years he has been a fruit and the eons he lived before that; he has always known he would be consumed by me. In other words he is bound to my soul now, when we die, he will not reform into another fruit. He said Devil Fruit abilities cannot be transferred like this, that our soulmate bond plays a huge role into why this was possible. Because mine and Kacchan's bond is so strong he was able to manipulate the soulmate ability to awaken Kacchan's spirit animal. He didn't know it would change his appearance." Izuku continues to explain.
"I asked him why he didn't seem upset that this is essentially his last life." Katsuki informed.
"He told us it was always fate for him to come here, for me to gain his power. It was always fate that me and Kacchan would be soulmates. According to Fuji our bond goes far beyond anything we can understand. He told us we are meant to change things and that no other soulmate pair will reach the heights we will achieve. According to Fuji all three of us are bound together for eternity. He said there was always a reason why Kacchan could understand Fuji, there is a reason he always growled and snarled to display displeasure. He said Pack was only exaggerating a little bit when they said Kacchan growls more than Fuji. He said Kacchan was always meant to be able to access his Spirit wolf, OFA just sped up the process; In order to defeat a great evil. He said AFO is nothing, but a bug compared to what we will face." Izuku explains shakily.
"What could be worse than AFO?" All Might shouts.
Katsuki takes over for a bit to give Izuku time to calm down. "Fuji isn't sure what form it will take or when it will appear. He said it is an evil capable of destroying entire worlds, his home world fell to this calamity in the form of an Armageddon. He said countless other worlds have fallen because of it. He said demons will over run the world destroying everything in their paths. With out us this world stands no chance."
"How would we know how to fight it if we don't know what it is?" Ace asks.
"Fuji said a darkness will spread through the world, from the darkness those with evil hearts will band together with the demons to form an army. It will be a world ending battle between good and evil. He said that is the form that took out his home world." Izuku continues. He levels a look at Shanks "Shanks he said the void century was also caused by this. The form that almost took out the Grandline 900 years ago pitted the world against each other. He said the D Clan summoned the great spirits that are known as Devil fruits to aid in the battle against the demons. With the fall of JOYBOY the calamity sealed the great Spirits into fruits. He said the calamity is still targeting the Grandline though he has not shown his true form. He told us that History says The Celestial Dragons are the descendants of the original 20 kings."
Shanks stares wide eye "Yes that is exactly what we know of the void century."
"It's wrong, they are the descendants of the 20 generals of the calamity. He said you, Ace and Luffy were always meant to come here and find me. He said what happened at the beach that day was no accident. He called out to me and I followed the call and received his power. It was his instincts that made me heal you. He said Ace and Luffy are descendants of JOYBOY that is the true reason why the Celestials want their bloodline purged. There were 8 other descendants of the D Clan Ace's parents both of which are dead, Luffy's Dad, and Garp both of which are alive. An ex-marine that was killed for saving the life of a little girl whose island was erased because they were close to finding out the truth of the void century. One that has already been corrupted by darkness his name Fuji recalls as Teach. The final descendant is the possible survivor of Flevance, Fuji does not know if he survived the Amber Lead Poisoning. He wanted me to tell you there is a way that will allow us to travel there and find these D Clan descendants. He wanted me to tell Shanks this it is located at the end of the world. He seemed to think you would know where that is."
Shanks thinks for a bit "If we were in the Grandline I would know where it is. The end of the Grandline is Raftel. The Pirate King and his crew are the only ones who know where that is. I don't know of a way to get there from here. I will need to talk to The Detective to talk with Blueno, He is the one with the door ability. There is no guarantee he would help us though."
"What happens if we don't find these other D clan members. Take no offense but why should we stick our nose into another world's problems?" Hawks asks.
Izuku tries to hold his growl in but fails "besides the fact that we are heroes; we will need them here to help us. It won't be just villains to fight when this happens, anyone with evil in their hearts will band together. Heroes that are corrupt, Civilians that are greedy or plagued with negative emotions, the weak minded, and demons will be a fraction of what we may need to face. If we want to survive, we are going to need all the help we can get. Fuji didn't just mention the D clan, there are others in the Grandline we will need. Shanks he mentioned that your homeland that was involved in a purge was the land of the Uzumaki. They specialized in sealing and can unseal the souls in the Devil Fruits. Fuji told me about 9 of his kin that have been forcibly sealed into living vessels their spirits cry and live in agony as they are lashing out against their prisons. He said if you can unseal them Me and Fuji can repair and heal their souls. That will give us at least 10 spirit gods that will turn the tide in our favor."
"How long do we have before this great battle?" Nezu asks.
"Fuji said he doesn't, all he knows is AFO is just a pawn. I asked for Nighteye to come use his quirk on me so we can get a timeline. I know you don't want to use it on me, but I would rather be prepared and have the time to train rather then be surprised by this."
Nighteye steps forward, "I see. Yes as much as I do not want to know how you die; it is for the best to know this information as soon as possible."
"Thank you Nighteye." Izuku says gratefully.
Nighteye approaches Izuku and touches his forehead he activates his quirk. He looks through multiple different scenarios using the information provided. He can see a future where there is multiple spirit beasts fighting alongside who he recognizes as Fuji. He sees the kids he has helped train and nurture standing tall all on the Spirit beasts leading an army against this terrible foe. He sees the aftermath of the battle and a world in ruins, but there is grief and hope and rebuilding that takes place. This is the future that if everything goes right and they get everyone they need will be reality. He judges the timeline to be between 5 and ten years into the future. That might give them enough time to form a working plan.
He changes the scenario to be more realistic, not having everyone and while the futures with Fuji and Katsuki fighting side by side are far better then the ones with them missing, well unless they get everyone their chances of victory are grim.
Nighteye deactivates his quirk and moves away so he can see everyone in the group. Once he gets everyone's attention "I have seen many versions of how this future will play out. There are some where victory looks grim, we are missing key players, we do not follow Fuji's advise and because of that our world falls in nothing but ash. There is a future where only our boys carry this burden and while they fair a lot better the result is still then same; failure. The only future I see that we are victorious is where we have the D Clan, the Kin of Fuji, an army of elemental users, and the good of our world lead by Fuji and his pack. There is still a lot of death, but we win, we rebuild."
"Did you see what we will face? When will this happen?" Izuku asks shakily curling into Katsuki for comfort whimpering slightly.
"All I saw was darkness and hordes of evil. I did not get a clear view of the cause of this." Nighteye sighs "By the looks of your ages, it appears to be five to ten years down the road."
"This gives them plenty of time to go to these places and assemble an army." Nezu states.
"Yes, however the longer the wait to get these people the more likely we will be missing key players. We do not know what is happening in these areas they need to go. Say they wait three years so they can finish school; there is no way of knowing if the D clan will still be alive. Or the Spirit beasts may be so lost to rage that we will not be able to save them." Nighteye informs. "They need to start forming this great army as soon as they are able to."
"I agree." All Might "The question is how do we go about this unnoticed, we can't pull them out of school for long periods of time, and it would be to suspicious to fast track them"
"We have nine days before the start of the term." Aizawa informs "I propose they find out how to get to the Grandline or as much information as they can find out. If it will be simple to get them there and back with the people, they need then we will work something out."
Shanks clears his throat "There is a way to get to the Grandline, however I will need to get the detective in on this. I will need access to a prisoner, he has the ability to open doors from here to the Grandline. That was how they were planning on bringing Ace and Luffy back for public execution. If I can convince him to help that will be our way into the Grandline. Then we will just need to find Luffy's father and the Flevance survivor, I have a few capable soldiers that I left behind that will help. I was pretty good friends with another pirate emperor named White Beard. If I tell him I have Rogers Son safe he will come. If I can talk to the Pirate Kings first mate, he can train them and lead them to Raftel to come here. He might also be able to help find the Elemental Isles. The only possible problem is where and how do we hide an army."
"Why would Whitebeard care that I'm Alive?" Ace wonders.
"Even though your father was his rival, they were best friends, they would meet up after battles and drink and retell stories of victory. Before your father turned himself in to Garp he asked Whitebeard to find you and take you under his protection. Garp convinced your father that you would be safer from the marines under his care. Whitebeard never stopped looking for you, whether or not you were Rogers son didn't matter to him. He told me if you ever sought him out, he would welcome you with open arms because you are a child of the sea and he is the father to all the younger people who have no where to go. He is probably thinking Garp turned you in to the Marines, or that you died in that fire. If I tell him, you are alive he will drop everything to come help. My crew will come, if not for me than for Luffy. We might also be able to get the revolutionary army as well. If I tell them I have information to take down The Celestials and that I have Luffy he will come." Shanks states already picturing who he would have to talk to.
"Wont the government notice that many people leaving." Nezu questions
"Yes, most likely. I don't think they will be able to tell where they went. Nighteye? When you looked through Izuku's future did you see any soldiers in a white and blue uniform?"
"Not that I could see."
"What about a golden god perhaps in the form of Buddha. Or a man raining lava down on the ground."
"No I have not seen anything matching those features."
"Those are the most powerful Marines if they do not show up then that bodes well for us." Shanks states "Though I was more concerned about the Lava user. He follows his own rules of justice has caused many innocent people to die. He led the purge of all Pregnant women and newborns for a year after the pirate King's execution looking for Ace. He blamed his purge on the blood flowing through Ace."
Shoto leans into Ace's side to offer comfort. Kaminari is appalled "How could someone blame the countless murders of innocent women and children on a baby? That is not right, he sounds like nothing more than a villain to me."
"Denki, It's ok" Ace whispers.
"No! it is not ok. This Grandline sounds like a truly awful place. Why was a child being hunted? Why doesn't anyone stop them?" Kaminari shouts enraged lightening threatening to lash out. Luffy hugs the sparky teen to absorb the lightening.
"Kaminari, there are people who are working on stopping the corruption in the Grandline. If fuji is right that this corruption is the result of the calamity then the few people who are fighting it dwindles every day. Take Luffy's father, he is the revolutionary army's leader, he has been working for over 20 years to overthrow the corruption in the government. His armies are just not strong enough." Shanks tries to explain. "It also doesn't help that the marines don't see what they are doing is wrong. They are all told who to hate; Pirates like myself are the bad people. They spread their ideals in the news paper to convince the public that what they are doing is just. Take Luffy and Ace for example, if we stayed there and made it back to my crew the papers would have said they found and eliminated the spawn of the revolutionary dragon, and the Spawn of the Pirate King. They would leave out that they burnt an entire islands worth of people to accomplish that. The people would be able to sleep at night knowing an evil was purged that the marines have their safety in mind. When the truth is, they Hunted children and murdered a thousand people. That is the way that world is run, but if we can stop the calamity the survivors can rebuild."
"All we can really do Denki is make sure this world doesn't turn out the same." Izuku states determinedly.
"At the end of the day, the point is we need to fight. If Shanks can gather an army from the Grandline I will start looking for a place to hide them. There are plenty of Islands around here that we can hide them." Nezu states.
"I'm not a hero anymore I can buy one of the Islands as my private island. All my years of being a hero and I've hardly spent any money." All Might states. "I can donate it to U.A. as a training ground. The people there could be registered as staff."
"That could work" Aizawa suggests.
"Due to the risks the students have endured in the past the training ground will remain private. Is what we will tell the press" Nezu states "We tell them that due to the involvement with the villains this year it is best for our students that the islands location be kept confidential. Even from the hero commission."
"Ok so we have a plan for the Grandline, now we need to figure out where the Spirit Beasts are." Aizawa reminds. "Midoriya, you need to talk to Fuji, find out how you will locate them. Find out where you need to look. I believe he said something about the Elemental Isles. Where are they, are they in the Grandline as well. Or a different world."
"I will contact him tonight Sensei" Izuku states sounding drained.
Aizawa nods, "The rest of us will support you in anyway we can. All Information regarding this mission is to be told face to face. I propose as far as faculty goes Shanks or All Might take point. If they cannot be found I can relay information to them. Any objections?" He looks at everyone "Shanks, All Might if you find out more information relay it to me, I will give it to Midoriya and Bakugo. I will designate myself to be a messenger."
"Agreed, people already wonder what my relationship is with Shanks and All Might. Shanks is easy to explain I just tell him he is my step-father." Izuku states receiving a sputtering response from Shanks. Izuku smirks "Well you are dating my mom, so… besides everyone thinks Ace and Luffy are my brothers so it fits better because you're their dad." Izuku takes in Shanks wide eyes "Oh we didn't tell you… oh well now you know to me, Kacchan, Ace and Luffy you are our Father figure."
The four boys burst out laughing, they have always seen Shanks as a father figure. They never told him because they assumed, he already knew that. "We should stop before we give the old man a heart attack" Katsuki smirks.
"I didn't know you boys felt that way." Shanks whispers "I mean I have always viewed you as my boys, but I didn't know you saw me as your father figure. That makes me so happy."
"Well My dad abandoned me when my quirk failed to come in, Kacchan's dad died in a fire saving Kacchan. Ace's dad died before he was born and Garp took Luffy away from his dad. So you were the only older male role model we could count on. So it was only logical we view you as Dad." Izuku states logically. He knows this isn't the right time to be discussing this but Izuku can't deny that this conversation has significantly lightened the tension in the room.
Izuku takes in the looks on the adults faces with the exception of a blubbering Shanks they all have small smiles on their face. Izuku want to tease the others "I don't know about the others, but All Might is my uncle."
Shoto laughs "That is better then secret love child" This makes boy's except Kaminari double over laughing. All Might is reduced to another sputtering mess.
"I don't get it" Kaminari states.
Izuku catches his breath "Before mine and Shoto's match at the Sports festival, Shoto approached me and asked if I was All Might's secret love child. He said I gave off the same vibe that All Might does. I of course denied it, but it was still hilarious." Izuku explains.
"Ahh… I didn't think you reminded me of All Might." Kaminari states.
"Shoto said that when I use OFA I gave off the same energy that All Might did during the USJ incident." Izuku clarifies.
"So you are not really related to All Might?" Kaminari asks.
"No. I am not" Izuku smiles.
In a rare show of intelligence from Kaminari he blurts "If you are not related to All Might then how do you have his quirk?"
All Might's sputtering stops abruptly, and silence falls over the room. Izuku feels tension rising again and sighs "Relax, if I didn't trust Denki he wouldn't be in this room. I have spilled more secrets in our conversation earlier that the secret of OFA pales in comparison."
The logic of this statement and the unwavering trust in Izuku's voice relaxes the adults and Katsuki. All Might gives him a nod to continue. "Ok so OFA is a stockpiling quirk that can be passed down. So far there has been 9 holders of OFA and 1 temporary holder. I am the ninth holder and the only one who has been able to share it with my soulmate without losing the power. All Might passed the power down to me when I was nine. Eventually I will pass it along to the next person. Before Fuji mentioned this new threat OFA is the only quirk that can take down AFO."
"Holy shit man, how many powers do you have?" Denki asks shocked.
Izuku smirks "A few"
Denki pouts but leaves it like that. If he has to absorb any more information, then his brain is going to explode. "I guess now I see how Shoto came to the conclusion you were All Might's love child." Denki laughs.
"Nah, I just view him as my uncle." Izuku smiles.
"Do you consider anyone else to be family in here?" Denki asks.
"Yea basically Nighteye is another Uncle, Aizawa sensei is the strict older brother I've known him since I was seven. Hawks is the fun older brother." There is no reaction from Nighteye, Aizawa glares, while Hawks has a stupid grin on his face.
Katsuki smirks "Maybe if you didn't call us problem children, we wouldn't call you the strict older brother."
"If you four stopped getting into trouble every time I look away you wouldn't be problem children." Aizawa counters. He lays a smirk on Hawks "Besides Hawks is just as much of a child as you all are."
"Not cool Aniki" Hawks pouts.
The boys laugh at the twos antics. Izuku relaxes and pulls Katsuki's head into his lap so he can play with the other's ears. Izuku finds this helps calm him down and Katsuki is letting him essentially pet him in public. The others sit there for a bit talking about everything. Nezu is asking questions about how their training is coming along. Izuku tells him they will talk on another day when he is not so overwhelmed. Eventually Izuku starts to get restless and just wants to go cuddle.
"Kacchan is exhausted from the strain of being pulled into OFA. I'm gonna take him to the dorms." He looks at Nezu. "Are we done here?"
Nezu nods "Let Shanks or Aizawa know if Fuji tells you anything else. Go get some rest." He dismisses the boys.
Izuku tries wakes up the almost asleep Katsuki. "Come on Kacchan, Lets go cuddle."
Katsuki mumbles something unintelligible and snuggles harder into Izuku's lap. Izuku smiles fondly down at Katsuki. "I'll carry him, after all we did share OFA today at max power, so he was pretty tired from that too."
Shanks smirks "You sure you can carry him; he is taller than you."
"Shut up old man." Izuku blushes and snarls.
Shanks laughs and even Aizawa looks amused. Izuku maneuvers Katsuki to place one hand behind his knees and the other supporting his back and stand up. He gently shifts so he doesn't wake him up. He leaves the teachers lounge. Approaching the dorms he knows Katsuki won't like to be seen being carried so he uses a small amount of OFA and leaps up to their balcony. He waits for one of the others to let him in. He doesn't have to wait long as Shoto opens the patio door.
"Thanks Shoto." Izuku smiles genuinely.
Shoto nods "Ace invited us to watch a movie. He said something about an All Might documentary. Do you want to join."
"I would love to, but I don't want to leave Kacchan on his own." Izuku regretfully declines.
"You can have the couch and cuddle with Bakugo out here." Shoto Suggests.
Izuku studies Shoto, he can pick up Shoto's unease. He considers the offer and nods "Yea, I'll join. Thank you for the invite." Izuku concedes as he makes his way to the couch. He sits down and maneuvers Katsuki to a more comfortable position. Katsuki's head is nestled in Izuku's lap and Izuku begins playing with his hair and ears. Izuku watches as the other boys settle around the living room. Shoto has come out of Izuku's room carrying a blanket and a pillow. He drapes the blanket over Katsuki and smiles as the teen curls further into Izuku's stomach. He hands the pillow to Izuku.
"Do you need anything else? Are you comfortable?" Shoto asks quietly.
Izuku smiles fondly "Thanks Shoto, 'm fine" Shoto nods and sits in front of Izuku next to Ace. Before the movie plays Ace lightly pats Izuku's knee to offer a silent message that Ace is here accompanied with a small smile. Izuku tries his hardest to smile back but his mind is working overtime going through all the plans and every what if scenario he can think of. The outcome looks grim, and this make him want to cry and hide in Katsuki. Izuku reminds himself he needs to be strong he can't let his pack worry about him. He drowns himself in the silent comfort of Katsuki resting in his lap. He focuses only on running his fingers through the feather soft hair and lightly playing with the new fluffy soft ears.
Halfway through the movie Katsuki starts to shift restlessly. He opens his eyes with a gasp not recognizing where he is or why he is hearing the sounds of a battle. He feels a pressure on his head that grounds him. He takes a moment to observe his surrounds, he realizes he is in their suite's common area. The battle noises he was hearing coming from the T.V. playing a movie he knows by heart. He sighs relieved once his breathing and heart rate return to normal. He moves his head off his pillow and notices Izuku has fallen asleep with his hand in Katsuki's hair. The nerd must be mentally exhausted if he can't stay awake for his favorite All Might movie. Katsuki is so glad that Izuku sleeps like a fucking log, nothing short of a world ending bomb or the sound of his stupid All Might alarm clock will wake him. With the finesse and speed he has trained for over 10 years; he maneuvers Izuku into a more comfortable position. Laying Izuku down on the couch and putting himself between the Nerd and the couch allowing him to share the blanket and pillow.
He ignores the movie he has watched at least a million times, in favor of rubbing calming circles down Izuku spine. Izuku twitches against him with a frantic edge to his movements; most likely from a nightmare. Katsuki tries to sooth the teen with soft words of "I'm here Nerd." Izuku's breathing starts to quicken, heartrate sky rocketing, twitching and shaking of muscles more prominent. Katsuki tries to wake up the sleeping Izuku; he is not successful. Katsuki's barely hidden panicked eyes fall on Shoto and they make eye contact. Shoto gently taps Ace's arm to get his attention. Ace follows Shoto's gaze to fall on the helpless looking Katsuki as the explosive teen tries to wake Izuku from his nightmare.
Ace pauses the movie grabbing everyone's attention.
"Ace? What's wrong? Luffy asks. Ace doesn't need to respond since the silent room is now filled with whimpers and whines. Shoto has turned on the lights and retreats to the bathroom to grab a wet cloth. In the illuminated room Ace can see there are tear tracks streaming down Izuku's face. Feeling a little helpless he moves to sit on the side of the two teens and lightly puts his hand on Izuku sopping forehead. He can clearly see the pained broken expression of the boy trapped in his own nightmares. Ace notices Izuku is unconsciously lighting his body in flames, he turns his panicked look to Katsuki.
"We need to get Aizawa up here." Ace warns "His fire is green right now, but we know how fast it will change. If he hurts you, he would never forgive himself. Whatever the nightmare is showing him must be so painful he is subconsciously calling on his fire."
Katsuki nods. Ace calls for Shoto. "Shoto call Aizawa. Tell him Izuku is in the middle of devastating Nightmare. Tell him he is on fire."
Shoto calls Aizawa and relays the message, Aizawa remains calm picking up the subtle shakiness in Shoto's voice. Izuku hasn't had a nightmare this bad since they were seven and his mind kept replaying ways Katsuki could die. Aizawa doesn't take long and comes into the room.
The first thing Aizawa does is touch Izuku with a Sea Stone laced rod. Just long enough to get the flames to recede.
"We need to wake him." Aizawa states.
"I've been trying to wake him for a good half hour now" Katsuki wants to rage, but he doesn't have the energy to do that.
While everyone is lost to their thoughts of how to wake the sleeping teen, Katsuki is whispering soothing words to Izuku. All of sudden a loud blood curling scream of "NO KACCHAN" rips through the room. Not giving anyone time to react; Fuji starts to take over.
All Of the times Izuku has shifted has never looked like this. A pale green glow takes over the room, Katsuki blinks rapidly for a few moments to rid his vision of the spots caused by the bright light. Once Katsuki's vision clears he notices Izuku look more like the fuji in his mind then he normally does, if a bit more solid. Katsuki's ears pick up the growls and instinctually knows what the wolf is relaying to him.
Aizawa is about to touch Fuji with the Sea Stone rod he has when Katsuki barks out "STOP!"
Fuji keeps growling and making rumbling noises Katsuki translates "Fuji says Izuku is safe right now. He forcibly came out so the nerd wouldn't hurt anyone. Fuji said if he didn't come out Izuku would have unconsciously unleashed all of his power in a single blast."
"Ask him what was going on in there? Does he know what Izuku is seeing right now?" Aizawa asks trying to hide his panic.
Fuji growls and whimpers and bunts his head against Katsuki's stomach. "He said death, more specifically my death." Katsuki translates with a whimper. He pets the wolfs head. "He said he won't let Izuku out until the night terrors pass. He promises Izuku is safe and will not be a danger to anyone while in his mind. The holders of OFA are with him, they are going to try to wake him up."
Katsuki sighs "You know the Nerd. He probably feel asleep with every worst possible scenario of what we found out today running through his overactive mind. The All Might movie we were watching probably didn't help. The Nightmare started getting worse, most likely with the sounds of battle in the background."
"How long is Izuku going to be under?" Aizawa asks directly to the wolf.
Fuji growls long and low. "He is not sure shouldn't be more than a few hours possibly the rest of the night."
Aizawa sighs "Ok, if anything changes, or Midoriya wakes up notify me immediately." He levels the students with a glare "I do not care what time it may be. The safety of Izuku means more to me then sleep. I suggest you all get some rest for the time being."
"Yes Sensei" calls Kirishima, Shoto, and Denki.
"Yea Aniki" Call the others, noticing Aizawa's overprotective oldest brother voice.
"Thank you" Katsuki mumbles out.
Aizawa nods and gives a fond smile to his problem children "Keep him company, even if Izuku is unaware right now. He will be happy he wont wake alone." He finishes as he leave the room.
Shoto disappeared to go get blankets and pillows from the rooms as the others get settled against Fuji. He enters the room again and spreads the blankets around everyone. Once everyone has a blanket, he makes himself comfortable in Fuji's tails. Perhaps if this was a less stressful occasion, he would comment on how much softer these tails are. He wisely keeps his mouth shut. The boys fall asleep soothed by the comforting warmth radiating off Fuji.
NOTES:
I know this chapter seems confusing but I thought a lot about Izuku's final enemy and let's face it he is a lot stronger than Shigaraki now that he has experience on his side, his fight with Shigaraki in the anime will not result in Katsuki sacrificing himself because Izuku would never be in that situation. I needed a "World ending Battle" and thought to myself I wanted a massive war at the end so I tried to tie in the relation between Fuji and the nine tailed beasts from Naruto. I am finally putting Blueno to use, I always had the intention of having him bring the group to the Grandline they will have a little time timeline there and then comeback to the MHA universe. I am still undecided if I am going to have the elemental nations be their own world or an island shrouded in mystery somewhere in the Grandline.
