CAFÉ CHEZ NOUS

"You know, you could help a lot of people with your... 'broken quirk'. I mean, you could even surpass All Might himself, Aki-Chan!"

"Sounds fun... for at least a couple of weeks. I rather not be the one to ruin the hero gig for everyone, Miko."

"Oh come on! You always say that without even trying. You'd even wear that ridiculous get-up now and then and do what? Be a hero-"

"I think the phrase you're looking for is 'local friendly neighbourhood masked kid loiters around at night for a semblance of fun'. Yeah, I think that's the one."

"...Would you at least give it a shot? Just because of your own powerfully, stupid strength doesn't mean it'll ruin everybody's career choices."

"I know... just don't like the attention, that's all."

Inside a cafe, two childhood friends were having banter about whether the two of them should apply to the hero course At UA Academy next year.

Well, 'banter' as in the girl kept pestering her best friend to join her in the ranks of the hero line work properly, rather than doing his nightly escapades of vigilantism for a sliver of thrill.

The girl with short, black hair, Miko, had a frown on her face. She crossed her arms at her friend with a pout on her face, who was eating his Ice Choco Sundae without a care in the world.

With a huff of her breath, she then pulled an iron spoon to her hand, grabbing the silverware mid-air and eating the ice cream delicacy in front of them both. An annoyed stare her friend gave at her.

"Hey, what the-"

"I'm treating us both today, remember? So technically, you're eating my ice cream." A snarky comment she gave at the frowning boy. He didn't say anything, knowing she had a point.

"Touché..."

Then, the banter between them goes on, shifting towards something else entirely.

"So, let's say if you don't get into UA's Hero Course for some unknown reason whatsoever that I'm too lazy to think off... What're you gonna do? Support Course might seem a viable choice for you since you like building robots back when we were kids..." Miko listed off the boy's options career-wise.

"Okay, back up for a second. Why are you so interested in what job I should get in the first place?" He raised a question to his best friend Miko on why she was this interested in this subject at hand. An irritated groan was let out by Miko by his suspicion.

"We know each other since kindergarten, Akira. You know me well that my sense of curiosity is equivalent to Nikola Tesla on crack. Plus, you have the attention span of an ant in mostly anything that isn't mech related."

An odd analogy she had made about them both, earning a bead of a sweatdrop from the boy, now known as Akira.

"...For the record, you didn't have to compare my attention span to an ant, Miko. Also, mechs are incredibly awesome, mind you."

"Keep telling yourself that, Aki-Kun..." she didn't get all the facts that made Akira here fascinated about those giant robots. But hey, if it makes him happy, then who is she to call him weird for that alone? Boys will be boys...

"Anyways, back on topic... If Hero Course nor Support doesn't land you a spot. How about..." she ponders a bit. Akira too puts a finger on his chin, recalling what was the other courses that UA served out to middle school graduates.

"General studies?"

Both of them said it at the same time. A lengthy pause was held between them both. Drips of chocolate ice cream can be seen leaking out from its glass container it held altogether.

"...Nah."

They both concurred. Taking General Studies... in general at any school is good and all, but to take it in UA... Seems like a sad choice to be made by anyone, unless your that desperate to enter UA by any means necessary.

"Hmm... Business course seems interesting, but I can't count money for crap. Especially with the top dogs in class hounding the classroom charts 24/7." Akira crossed off the economics course in his list.

"You got that right, old buddy of mine."

A sigh of fatigue he lets off, scooping a chunk of chocolate goodness into his mouth to replace the energy spent on thinking these kinds of things.

Doing hero work is easy, but for some reason, these kinds of things that he's facing right now, are even more troublesome than getting a limited edition All-Might action figure

Welcome to teenager life, they say...

"But come on, think about the good things you'll have and do in class. First, you got me, Miko Hoshiruke, as a classmate."

MIKO HOSHIRUKE

AGE: 14

QUIRK: POLARITY

"Second, you probably break every record in school with your crazy ass superpowers that are totally like All Might-"

"That is something I prefer not to do, Miko."

"What? Breaking records? Records are meant to be broken, my guy." she reasoned to him, trying to convince him that it's a good thing.

"Yeah, but not put it up on the highest bar possible, my guy," he replied to her, distorting the last part a bit while moving his fingers to annoy her.

It did work as she lets off an irritated grumble beneath her breath.

"To add that fact, Omnipotent beings running amok willy-nilly is a certain recipe for disaster to be unleashed."

"If you wanna be a wise-ass pessimist about this, then fine by me. I'll take this perfectly good ice cream from your hands then." she sulked at him.

"It's not being pessimistic, Miko. It's called being realistic."

"Says the guy who just punched the bejeebers out of a villain by accident and fled the crime scene in total panic, before any heroes showed up," she said this to him without even looking at his face, continuing to eat the Sundae like Akira, without a care in the world.

"Heard news of that guy is in Musutufa Public Hospital, in a vegetable state. Even though he did some bad stuff, can't help but pity the poor guy, no thanks to you."

"It was an accident, okay? Sure, I may have senses that go way beyond what any biological creature has, doesn't mean I'm 100% hero worthy." Akira tried to reason Miko he didn't mean to give that villain something worse than an ass whooping... by mistake.

"And that's the reason why I want you and me to enrol in UA. You got that power, Akira. A once in a lifetime miracle that anyone in this world has yet to see! And yet, here you are sitting in this cafe, doing nothing but being a lazy bum..."

Miko spread her arms wide as she stated to her best friend. Her hand nearly knocked down the Sundae to the floor, as the boy in front of her nearly got up to catch it from falling with a startled expression by her wild swings. She then resumed her speech.

"You got the power everyone can only ever hope to dream off. You just... How do I put it without offending you?"

"Um..." Akira didn't like what she was about to say next.

"You... you just suck at using it properly, that's it." Now that's a gut-wrenching stab to his own self-esteem. Way to go, Miko.

"How can I not ignore this?! How can YOU ignore this, though?"

The same question that was asked repeatedly in his head.

The same answer he spoke out every time about it.

"Miko, how many times do I have to say this... Unlimited power isn't cracked up as it should be."

"Honestly, having overwhelming strength..."

"it's pretty boring."

...

...

...

The two of them were silent. Did he really just said that? In response, Miko blurted out to her best friend who has zero passion, for the craft that shaped society today as they know it.

"...That's a load of bull-"

'BANG'

The earth slightly rumbled beneath them, the chandeliers above the modest abode trembling from the shockwave occurred. Everyone who was eating inside, minding their own business had stopped from their daily activity. Clearly, something was afoot to shake them all up.

For the exception of two teenagers, who just settled on their sits unprovoked, but a bit annoyed by what's going on that interrupted their 'lovely' conversation.

Then, a bystander in the walkway screamed out at the top of his lungs.

"OH MY GOD, A VILLAIN! SOMEBODY HELP!"

And thus, the crowd screamed in panic. On the streets and even inside the cafe.

"AHHHHHHH!"

'SOMEONE CALL A HERO!"

"MY BABY!"

"WAGHHHH!"

They all ran away from danger, scampering off towards the nearest safe space they could see in their adrenaline-filled eyes.

"Lovely day we're having, eh Aki-Kun?"

"Totally..." he remarked the situation them both, a sarcastic undertone behind those very words.

"Well, what's more lovely, is if this earthquake we're having would be put a stop to it... right?" she tilted her head to the side, eyes closed as a smile was adorned on her lips.

Hazel eyes narrowed down at the smiling girl in front of him. An ulterior motive approaching, he feels...

"...we're in public space, Miko. You want me to get into jail before even entering UA? Let the heroes handle this, they have a licence and I don't."

"Well, that's too bad. If only someone would have hyperspeed and gargantuan strength to make himself look like a whizzing blur in the naked eye, then maybe I wouldn't have to eat this bomb ass ice cream all by myself."

He knew it. An irritated groan was his answer to her as he replied back begrudgingly.

"...just give me 5 minutes tops. And don't you even think about finishing the banana sides! Those are mine!"

"Can't promise ya!"

And so, Akira had sped off towards the crime scene, wearing a black Pitta mask and covering his head with his black hoodie to hide his identity from the general public in compensation for his 'vigilante gear'. You gotta do what you gotta do in these circumstances.

Especially if it involves your favourite, past-time dessert on the line.

Miko, who was watching him speeding off, puts her hand on her face as she stared at his running figure towards the area that gave off a cloud of thick, black smoke. An amused smirk she lets off from this sight.

"Heh... works every single time." she pats herself on the back. But then, that amused smirk slowly shifts into a solemn look, recalling what he said about his 'gift'.

"But then again... what did he mean as in 'boring'?"

She could only wonder what's going on in the mind of her scatterbrained best friend, Akira.


"RAGHHHHH!"

"You are the incarnation of evil!"

On a railway track of Musutafa City, a giant villain was seen ravaging the premises, committing robbery, arson and illegal quirk usage during rush hour. The villain howled at a certain man on top of a train compartment who listed out his crimes out loud, in order to enact justice on this evildoer.

The man in question was in fact, the rising star of today's hero society, Kamui Woods himself.

Outstreching his wooden arm, tendrils of wooden branches seemingly branch off from it as he initiates his signature move to subdue the hulking man who threatens the peace of their time.

A young kid, with green fluffy hair, with emerald eyes, staring at the hero up top in wonder. This is it! He was about to do his signature move!

"Oh, here it comes!" He declared out loud, a finger pointing at the Hero of the Day.

"Show us something flashy, Tree-Man!" An old man with star-shaped body features joins in the boy's cheering.

With his fist tightening in anticipation, he commented out Kamui Woods' signature move along with the hero.

"Pre-emptive..."

"...Binding..."

He leans his arm backwards, before thrusting the branches in front with all of his might.

"...Laquered Chain Prison!"

Those elongated veins of wooden branches lash towards the giant villain at great speed. However, before they could reach the villain...

"Canyon Cannon!"

Someone had already beaten him to the punch, or rather kick so to speak...

The villain had come down crashing towards the streets below the railways. Shocked faces were made as a certain new hero had stolen his thunder.

"...Eh?"

The pro hero, with his pre-emptive binding lacquered chain prison move looking like a dead, ornamental Christmas tree just stood there, dumbfounded by this twist of events that had occurred to him on this very day.

As the villain laid unconscious on the empty streets of the boulevard, the sudden instigator of this attack had landed herself onto the same streets of the fallen villain.

The outfit she was wearing was garnering a lot of attention as she had hoped for, as a wild of paparazzi photographers came into the streets like a herd of coyotes. Flashing light photos from the DSLR cameras shine through the streets from this spectacular save.

"Here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is..." They had found their new source of gossip and drama in town. A new hero in the makings towards stardom.

"Today is the day of my debut. My name is Mt. Lady. A pleasure to make your ass-quintance." a dirty pun the rookie pro hero had thrown to the reporters, followed by a wink of her sultry, purple eyes behind that mask.

The crowd had gone wild from this. Mostly by the guys there, blushing at her saucy commentary. Moreover, more photographers had shown up, filling the entire street for this new hero's debut.

The women however, beg to differ on her shameless remarks as well as a certain green-haired kid. He was fiddling with something on his oversized yellow backpack, not interested in her lewd commentary by the slightest.

Over the distance, he was scurrying off out of the premises to prevent people from discovering him.

"S-She's getting the credit..." this was Kamui's Woods dreadful thoughts as it hit him. Mt. Lady here had stolen the limelight from him.

Few minutes had been passed from that one of a kind entrance, and the local police officers had finally arrived to detain the shrunken villain with the help of the new hero on the block. She merely waves at them, thanking them for all of their support and generous compliments.

Deep inside her though...

"Hehehe... all according to plan. But, feels weird though. I could have sworn I kicked him by the side of his numbskull head. So, why did he fall like he'd been hit on his stomach?" She wondered to herself, before shrugging that thought off.

"Meh... if it gets the job done, I won't complain about it."

Meanwhile, a reporter who was looking at her footage since the start of the crime scene even before Mt. Lady's arrival was having a bit of confusion with what she was seeing.

"Hmm... huh? What's this..."

She zoomed in towards the segment of the film where Mt. Lady kicked the villain on the head. However, instead of his arching back his head from the blow like usual, he appeared to be arching his back as if he was being punched on the stomach before toppling down.

What's more, if she slowed down the footage by 5 times speed...

"...The hell is that black blur?"

There was a speeding black blur on the stomach region of the hulking villain. Anyone would miss it if they don't have keen eyesight or the help of technology to render the images down.

"...maybe it's just a crow flying through my shot." She shrugs it off, nevertheless...

Completely unaware that a teen with short, black hair was walking past her with his hands on his hoodie. He was looking at the new hero with a bored look, before taking off towards a certain cafe nearby.

After walking a fair amount of distance from the paparazzi group...

"Oi, Akira! Oiii~" Earth to Matsuzaki Akira!" Miko, who was out front of the cafe, called out to him with a wave of her hand.

Hazel orbs squinted at the waving figure in front of him, before letting out a surprised 'eh?' at her whereabouts.

"E-eh?! Miko?! you were supposed to-"

"Ice cream was melting fast, so I kinda finish it all by myself."

"EHHH?!"

"What?! You were taking so long to get here! It'll be a waste of a good Chocolate Sunday if I don't ravage it up like a giddy kid on a candy store." she defended her actions, causing the boy to slump his shoulders in disappointment.

"But... my bananas..." he dejectedly says this to no one in particular, prompting the girl to quickly come up with a solution to lift his spirits up in some ways.

"Aw come on. Cheer up already. Next time, we'll get your stupid bananas on vanilla. If it makes you feel better, how about we go to Family Mart now for something you'd like?"

"...okay fine."

He gives in to her, putting a grin on Miko's face as they walked towards the convenience store in compensation for Akira's lack of ice cream intake.

This was the daily thing Akira Matsuzaki would do for the first years of his adolescent years.

Being an illegal vigilante in secret in search of a thrill he had hoped to find again after unknown reasons had bequeathed him this powerful gift.

It was a blessing at first... but in time, that blessing turned sour by the sheer realization of something he didn't think of.

His life was in shambles, nothing would excite him anymore. Mechs were his favourite items to collect, but they were just temporary distractions...

When he was a kid, he always boasted to Miko to become like the number one hero in the country, just like All Might...

The girl looked at him with starry eyes, thinking of him as a cool kid to have that dream.

It seems that dream was beginning to dim out for the boy...

As overwhelming strength...

Had caused him asunder to what he really wants in life.

Welcome to the journey of teenagerhood, Akira.

AKIRA MATSUZAKI

AGE: 14

QUIRKLESS


Prologue: Complete

Next chapter: 1

A legit Reason To Be...


A.N: Hey guys, this is Griffin Hunter 02 speaking here. This is the second fanfiction I've been thinking about for the past few weeks other than my main one.

I was thinking of this more as a side project, cause one: The idea of making an MHA and OPM fanfiction does appeal to me.

The cast of MHA will be the same, just the element of an overpowered hero searching meaning in life is what I took in One-Punch Man.

Also, there will be OC's in this story, So, no Saitama, Genos, or anyone from the One Punch Man universe.

Two: I'm trying something new other than my main fic at the moment.

If you'd like how this chapter turned out, please do give a moment of your time to follow this story.

Another appreciating thing you could do is to check out and give a chance to my main story, Kill la Kill: Spiral Saga.

That baby is my pride and joy and I'm still working on the chapter for more to come. If you like what you're seeing right now, rest assured that you will definitely love what I had in store for my main fic.

I would also occasionally post new chapters here in Part-Time Hero, Full-Time Teenager since I would prioritise KLK: SS first.

But, I'll try my best to juggle between these two.

Disclaimer, I do not own MHA nor OPM, since both belong to Horikoshi sensei and ONE Senpai respectively.

With that, I'll see you in the next possible chapters my dudes, and don't forget to check out KLK: SS on my profile! Toodles!