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I have two other MHA crossovers and an au that could be replacing this one once it's finished being posted. One of them is from quite some time ago while it has Luffy with the same quirk as in this one, but he goes to a different school with only one piece characters. It has a baby Luffy segment where he's just gotten this overpowered quirk at four years old and makes friends with MHA characters before that segment is over and it goes to the op characters. He is not ooc in that one. So there's that one!

Then there's one that's Ace-centric, who is brothers with Midoriya and when he got his quirk hand me down from All Might, Ace got his own quirk hand me down since both were quirkless, but his is that he can turn into a dragon. It doesn't go well for Ace like it does for Midoriya, so there's angst and fluff. Sabo and Marco are also main characters.

And then there's the au, where Luffy is very ooc after being tortured as a child and is attempting to live life happily again. Since it's an au, it's exclusively one piece characters in the mha world setting. Lot's of family fluff and good friends. They still go to UA but again, all OP characters.

vote 1 for overpowered, not ooc Luffy.

vote 2 for the hand me down dragon quirk with Ace and Midoriya (some boyxboy relationship in that one)

and 3 for the au.

Luffy flew to school an hour early, not happy with this development since he wanted more sleep, not less, but nothing could be done about it. He pulled out his log book and some binder paper, closing his eyes and searching for any of the teachers' voices. He brought out his pencil and set it on the paper as he heard chairs scrape and voices start speaking.

He could write with both hands if he tried hard enough, but focusing like that was impossible for him as he was now. He opened his eyes and stared at the paper. He made a key, for each teacher they had a different mark in front of their words. He'd be using his super strength to make his hand write quick enough.

He recorded the whole meeting like someone in an old timey court would, jotting down what was said during it. By the end, the script was seven pages long. Only he could read it. He'd need to type it up and send it. Great, more wasted time. Sunday. He could last until Sunday. Was this how Hawks felt over a long week? And it was only Monday.

Luffy was pathetic.

He put the script into a compressed ball and stuck it in his backpack where nobody could find it. He scoffed when he remembered how he used to never use any other quirks. Now he used a lot of them without a second thought. He balled his fists and put his backpack on, turning invisible and flying away.

It would be suspicious if they found out their words were being leaked when there was only one other person in the school. One who had the capability to do that. He wasn't really sure of what quirks he had. He'd shown a couple, but not nearly all the ones he had. Well, he'd shown many visible ones when he went out of control. Nobody knew of the camera quirk. Nobody besides Hawks and the commission. Nobody else in the world knew, and that was now his biggest secret.

He went to Starbucks for a frappuccino stuffed with caffeine and sugar, and flew back to the school, entering the class as everyone else was getting seated. "Yo! Aw, you should have gotten me one," Kirishima complained. Luffy said he got it on his way to school. "What's with your eyes?" Luffy didn't know what he meant.

"You look exhausted, dude," Kaminari supplied. Luffy replied he had trouble sleeping last night, but that he was fine.

"What do you think this is for?" he held up his half empty drink. "Guess how many shots? Four."

Jiro said she thought they could only get three. He pulled out an empty venti drink. "What, I'm exhausted!" He threw the empty one in the trash and chugged the rest of the other one, throwing it away, too. He gave the whipped cream to Sero since he was begging.

Luffy sat down, feeling happy. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad after all. Aizawa came in and Luffy started recording. Most days, nothing important was said. They didn't go over their logs on Mondays, but every other day.

The day was uneventful. Luffy felt bad, he really did. But, he'd started to push away the fact he was a spy, and enjoy high school. Was he heartless, to act like it was no big deal? Was he a monster for getting over it quickly? This was the fourth week of school… maybe, he should have gotten used to it.

How soon was too soon? The first two weeks had been hell. He was sweaty a lot, mostly with Aizawa who could read people easily. But he'd made it and had explained that it was just stress since he wasn't used to homework anymore. He hadn't been the only one feeling the sudden weight of everything that year.

But, he got used to the spying as he got used to the work, growing along with the class into a new normal. Nobody seemed suspicious of him then. He knew what he was recording because there was a tiny blue dot in his vision. His visor didn't interfere with the filming, luckily. Well, maybe that would have been lucky, he wouldn't have been able to do this shit, would he? There was no point in thinking about it.

Luffy couldn't help but scrutinize everyone other than his friends. As he looked at them, he searched for tells of being uncomfortable, traces of fakery in their voices. It was all unnecessary, of course. It was involuntary practice. But when he stopped recording, he stopped analyzing. He just joked around with his friends or moped about homework with them.

How are you doing? His phone buzzed, showing a text from Hawks. He smiled.

Okay. I did it just fine. Now just focusing on being with my friends. He got a smiley face in return. The text of simple care and concern was nice. Made him feel better, that he'd always have someone to back him up, no matter how bad he gets at school. If he can't keep up with the lies eventually and becomes obvious.

That couldn't happen, though. He wouldn't allow it.

After school and before going downstairs to start his work that day with the agency. He typed up the report of what he heard of the meeting, and sent it along with the footage. He waited for the automatic message, well, what he thought was automatic.

This method is enough for now. Keep up the good work.

Luffy scowled. So, eventually he'd need to record the meetings in person? The room was small, he'd been there once. Only once. But he knew it was too small for him to feel safe. He'd work on shrinking, doing the opposite of Mt. Lady's gigantification quirk. Otherwise he didn't know what he'd do. He could use a clone, but that would be risky, too.

He closed his laptop and got dressed in his hero outfit and headed downstairs. He found Hawks was on patrol, as was Tokoyami. He called Hawks on his newer, long range headset that he'd gotten as his gift for passing the first year. Ah, those were the days. He shook his head. "Can I go on patrol? I want to see if my new skills are helpful," Luffy said over the mic.

"Go ahead. Have fun."

"Okay," Luffy replied and grew wings to fly off, switching to the police scanner.

There was an incident immediately. A robbery of a minimart. No one was hurt, but there was a robbery. It was still a crime. Maybe not one punished with life in prison, but a crime nonetheless. He hurried over and assured the man the police were on the way and asked for the story.

He gave him descriptions of a red headed, small woman with her hair in pigtails and a "gentleman" looking man. He pretty much said they were lame villains, but said they were villains nonetheless. The young man was very honest and blunt. It was entertaining for him to just call them "lame-ass, loser villains".

Luffy hid a snicker and thanked him before flying much higher and scouting the area, opening his ears for the sound of jostling groceries. They had stolen a bag of random products. He didn't really think it was a big crime, but a crime was a crime. And if they called themselves villains and not simple criminals, they were willing themselves to be exposed to the villain world of the judicial system.

He found the sound, and heard a woman and a man along with the groceries. He followed the sound, landing on the roof of an apartment building above where they were both walking. He followed them with his eyes, indeed seeing the red headed woman, small. The other was an older man with a fancy mustache.

Didn't seem like the strongest, but again, it was his job to stop villains and help people. These two could rob other places that might have more dire consequences. Somebody could die easily. Even without using a quirk.

He dropped down and landed in front of them. "Excuse me, I'd like to ask you some questions," Luffy said simply.

"Yes, young hero, what would you like to ask? We just went shopping," the man said. He sounded pompous. And he was lying. Luffy said he was looking for two robbers.

"They were nowhere near here, but I'm just checking for redheads right now. So, you can see it's my job to ask questions. Where were you just now?"

The man said they had just gotten tea at a tea shop. Luffy asked which one and got a name that he knew was around there, but they didn't smell like that coffee shop. Because it was a coffee shop, not a tea shop. "Did you keep your receipts by any chance?"

"Ah no, we both forgot."

"I see. Do you have receipts for those groceries? Just having that would be assurance that you two aren't who I'm looking for." He had started filming once he felt these two were guilty with their first lie.

The woman was looking worried while the man was sweating. "I must have dropped it on the way out. Shoot, how unlucky."

Luffy nodded, saying that was indeed unfortunate. "I might have let you pass if you hadn't lied to me." He looked at them with an appraising look, calculating. "Multiple times actually. I can recount them for you. One fib may have been an accident, but multiple lies in a row don't look especially good."

Luffy pressed the button on his headset. "Found two robbers, one woman with red hair one man with white hair." He described their clothing, and the two ran. "They're making a run for it," he said and reported where he was and where the two were headed. They were slow of course, and he flew after them with ease.

Then they started bouncing around the sky, getting faster while the man emitted pink waves of something from his body. He pumped his wings harder, zip tie out and was behind them instantly, yanking the man's arms back mid bounce and zip tying them tightly together. He did the same with the woman, and grabbed both of their collars and flew them down, where he had them pressed to the ground with his knees.

"I don't know what your reasoning for a small crime was, but it definitely wasn't worth jail time for defying a hero's order," Luffy said as a squad car arrived. They took the two, and looked in a data book.

The officer reported that the authorities had been looking for the man for a long time. 'Gentle Criminal'. "He's a YouTuber who uploads videos of small crimes." Luffy hid a laugh easily. A YouTuber villain, huh? "Thank you for your hard work."

"Same to you," Luffy said with a head bow. Of course, those lies would have been easy for anybody to see. At least he had something a little bit interesting to record in his log. He flew off to do a lap around the area, police scanner running. But nothing else happened.

He went home, not wanting to hang out with Tokoyami and changed and then went to his desk to record everything. He was really feeling the crash from that ridiculous amount of caffeine. Hawks would disapprove of that, but it wasn't really a big detail of the day. He jotted everything down, able to rewind it in his head and see what had happened. That's how he could do perfect dialogue.

He erased a lot of it. Way too suspicious. He didn't want people knowing about his recording power, especially someone he was actively spying on. That was just something stupid people would do. He wasn't stupid.

He was doing his english homework when Hawks came home, later than usual. Luffy finished his last bit and went to make dinner, just pasta with the zucchini sauce he'd made in the slow cooker while he did homework.

Hawks asked how he was. "Okay. Caught some small time villains. So I did something good today," he said. "Got up early and recorded the conversation from the library. Typed it out and then sent it to the bitch. I'm… getting overwhelmed already. There's so much to do. I have school, working, homework, training my quirks, making food, going to those classes every Friday and Saturday, taking up most of the day. The only reprieve I have is Sunday and even then all I'm thinking is about what I have to do on Monday," Luffy confessed.

Hawks said school was hard, especially when you got more responsibilities. "I hate responsibilities, but you gotta do 'em. I wish I could help you out other than moral support." Luffy said him being there for him was more than enough. "I sure would hope so."

"Just kidding, you make everything worse with your motivational talks," Luffy said.

"Well I know you're lying now. Google is always reliable." Luffy scoffed, but it was close to a laugh. He served the food and ate while using his other hand with the smaller therapy ball. So, he was being productive while eating. Then he did homework, and went on a brief flight to relax himself before bed. He remembered the days where he didn't need to intern each week day and could go flying wherever the hell he wanted to every day.

When he got back, he smelled chocolate chips and was alarmed before finding a plate of hot ones on the counter. "Hawks? Did you cook these?"

Hawks came out of his room. "No, the ghost who lives here did that."

"Phew, I thought the world had turned upside down and you actually baked something without burning it. Goodnight!"

"Little shit. You better eat them tomorrow or I'm taking them all for myself!" he called, making Luffy laugh before he went to bed. Hawks was really the best person to be with through this. He wished he could talk to Ace. But he'd been sad and understanding when Luffy told him he couldn't talk to Ace anytime soon. It was dangerous.

So they'd compromised and would send memes to one another in the mail. A roundabout way of contact, but it was still contact and Ace sent the best memes. So, their relationship wasn't dead completely. It made Luffy feel a lot better. Getting an envelope full of printed memes made him happy. That some things were abnormal, but in a good way.

The next day, Luffy again left early to eavesdrop, and again it went fine before he left and went to get tea this time. Calming tea that also had caffeine in it. He stayed on the roof of the school for a bit, kicking his legs over the side. He couldn't believe just a little over a year ago he'd taken the entrance exam and gotten first place.

He smiled nostalgically. Touching his flat shoulder blades, he just knew how much had changed. Luffy had changed. He wasn't sure if it was for the worse, but he was a different person on the inside. Maybe not to others, like his friends. He felt good, thinking that they didn't think anything was off about his behavior.

There were two parts of him at school, operating at the same time, but separate. The business part. His obligation to fulfill the contract, to spy on the staff. Then there was the side of him he used for his friends and fun classes. Todoroki hadn't noticed, which meant nobody else had.

Everyone was entertained with the lame villains Luffy had caught. The others were doing well, themselves. It wasn't just Luffy and Tokoyami getting in on the action. The others did it differently. Bakugo's reports were always full of swear words, though Luffy was sure nobody expected any different.

Midoriya was only allowed to fill up two pages instead of the six he'd done before. Those ones and Mineta's were the most distinct. Mineta half-assed his reports, and him being him, he couldn't not talk about the women heroes he was working with. Well, they were working him. How hadn't he noticed they were taking advantage of his perviness and were manipulating him into doing their chores or running "important missions" which were just transporting things.

Honestly, nobody told him it was bad or he wasn't actually being a hero. Luffy hated to say it, but he felt that some of the teachers had given up on him. He hadn't proven himself at all, really. Except when he helped during the USJ attack with Midoriya and Tsu.

Aizawa spoke at the end of class about something other than their logs. "We've made arrangements with your hero agencies to give you a break week next week. Sudden, overwhelming responsibility is something heroes must be able to handle. All of your work study pros agree that you deserve a mental break. So, no interning next week.

Luffy and some others dropped their heads onto their desk in relief while others whooped and cheered. "Your only break like this for the next three months. Get used to your schedules fast." Then he left, Present Mic replacing him to start english class.

Why didn't you to me there would be a break Luffy texted Hawks.

Uh, surprise!

Well, Luffy wasn't mad. A surprise was nice, but yesterday would have been good for a surprise, too. But it wasn't a break from school, just logging and spending hours after getting out on the streets. Luffy could actually go on long flights. It sounded wonderful. He wouldn't get used to it, though. He knew Hawks took Luffy's education seriously, and made sure he worked every day, even if he did play favorites on days he knew Luffy would be useless at and gave him a shorter shift schedule.

But, he did that for Tokoyami as well. When he noticed the student extra exhausted, he got breaks to take naps. He was surprised when he was told Hawks took naps after shifts, too. Luffy didn't know why he was surprised about anything having to do with Hawks by now. Oh well.

Everyone was in a good mood that was then ruined with their desert exercise. They all had huge jugs of water they chugged down. But they were all getting faster. Luffy did not try meditation again. He learned his lesson because it had burned and was embarrassing, but he was also still teased about it.

Sometimes he hated his friends. Bakugo still laughed at him about it. Oh well, it had been stupid to do. He probably deserved it. "Hey, that's not fair!" Ashido shouted when Luffy started crawling up the sand dune instead of walking. She said it wasn't fair since his palms healed over from the burns the sand gave.

"Snooze, you lose!" Luffy cheered, going over the sand dune and sliding down to the other side. He heard shouting from the side he had left. He trudged his way through shiftier sand. "The sand gets worse!" he called, wanting to be at least a little helpful. They groaned. Bakugo was running, but didn't slide down the side gracefully. He tumbled down.

Luffy couldn't help snicker while Kaminari laughed loudly, pointing at his classmate. Bakugo knew he'd be removed if he used his powers at all, so he took the laughter with swearing at them to shut up. But many of them lost their footing and hit the sand hard, shouting about the burning sand. Todoroki slid down easily, too. As a whole, they made it a lot farther that day, improving every class they did this. The other days' hero classes were strategy meetings, going through plans, etc. More mental training of a sorts. But at least they weren't hot and sweaty while doing them.

After class, after they all changed out of their costumes and showered the sweat off. As everyone were to head back to class, Luffy started his own mission. He didn't want her to make him spy on the meetings in person, so doing something else would be more distracting.

"All Might, do you know why UA was built here?" Luffy asked suddenly while they were walking back to the bus.

The former pro-hero looked surprised by the question, wondering where it came from. Time for Luffy's skill at lying to be put to use.

"Well, it's big enough to have more things built, but it's also in a location that won't expand forever, since it's surrounded by the park and city. Eventually it'll run out of room, right? So I'm wondering why it was built on land that can't expand forever," Luffy explained, itching his chin but no other movements. It was a lie. He didn't care about that.

This was his second plan after the one where he eavesdropped from across the building. Show interest in UA's history so he could try and get information not made to the public, especially the HPSC. He was, of course, filming this. Would he turn this in or cut it out? No, he'd send it. He wouldn't ever risk screwing this up and fucking him and Hawks over.

So much pressure was on him, but he could handle it. He could handle this. It was nothing.

"I'm not sure. After all, this is only my second year here, and while I went to school here as a student myself, that was long ago and the campus had already been built." Luffy frowned in disappointment.

"Well, maybe I can Google it," Luffy replied, sounding a bit irritated on purpose.

He said what Luffy wanted next. "UA is very private, so there's not much online about the school. To keep UA separated from the hero society that could interfere. I'm sure there are books somewhere in the library about UA's history," All Might said helpfully.

Luffy said he'd look, not breaking character with knowing he was exactly what UA didn't want. He flew off to the bus, landing on the top and waiting for the teacher to come so they could board the bus. "What did you talk to All Might about?" Midoriya asked.

"I was curious about why they built UA here. Since it'll eventually run out of room. Built smack dab in the middle of a city," Luffy replied. He stopped filming after taking off from the teacher. Bakugo said he shouldn't be concerned with boring shit like that. That he was a loser. Luffy shrugged, saying he was just curious. Wasn't like he was making a presentation about it or something like that.

He dropped down and all of them boarded the bus to go back. Luffy took a detour and went to the library to search for anything about UA's history. It's practices, philosophies. Any private information he could get a hold of.

He was doing this for Hawks. He could do this. He wasn't… wasn't doing the wrong thing. No, he was doing this for his family. He kept all emotion off of his face besides deliberate frustration. Luffy went to the librarian and asked if there were any books on UA.

"I was curious about the plot of land's location but now I'm curious about stuff that's not online. But I can't find any books about it," Luffy said quietly, as there were kids inside. He had his brows furrowed in a look of annoyance, but not at the librarian.

When he'd grown to learn to lie well, his expressions had followed automatically. He could lie just by his emotions on his face and his body language. "There are no books in here about that. Those ones are referenced and in the staff room. I can put in a request for you."

Luffy looked hesitant. "I don't know, it's kind of weird to ask. I don't need to know," he said.

"There's nothing wrong with being curious. I'll put a note in for you as being curious. I'm sure it won't be a problem," she said. Luffy smiled and thanked her. He hiked his backpack up and grabbed his briefcase and went outside to fly away, still controlling his expressions.

Then he saw All Might leaving campus. He dropped down, landing lightly. "All Might, I looked in the library, but there was nothing. So the librarian put a notice in to principal Nezu to look at referenced books. I feel weird about that, but now I'm even more curious."

All Might said he was sure that it would be fine. Luffy thanked him and flew home. He put his day in the computer, in the editing software Hawks had bought for him. He typed out the teachers' meeting, too. He put a note in the email, the confidential email connecting to the HPSC, that he was trying to get more information on the school history. He sent it.

It was when he was with Tokoyami on patrol that he got a reply. Two hours later. There wasn't much action as both of them flew around. His friend was much less steady than he or Hawks, but Dark Shadow did its best and made it work. He only pulled the phone out once they'd landed.

Good work. I expect more information on this soon.

Luffy scowled at his phone and put it back in his zip up pocket next to the one with all the zip ties. Tokoyami wasn't a nosy person, but did look curious. "I keep getting stupid spam emails." He pulled his phone out and went to the fake spam emails he'd planted in his personal email in case something like this happened.

He showed Tokoyami the "spam" that was for women's hair products. "I looked it up, too. They're liars, it damages the hair. Look! They keep sending it to me." He scrolled through the dozens of emails he'd planted from another email account.

"That sounds really annoying," Tokoyami said, completely fooled. Luffy was upset with himself, but he couldn't be exposed this late in the game.

"It is. Sorry for interrupting our patrol. I actually thought it might be something important." Tokoyami said it was fine, and both of them went back on patrol, following the police scanner in Luffy's headset. They didn't catch anybody, but did find a guy on a motorcycle with no helmet, and Luffy had him stop.

"It's illegal to drive a motorcycle without a helmet in this area," Luffy said. "I can lead you to a store for them, if you'd like." His voice was light, but also showing authority. He was a hero on the street, as long as he had a license. The guy was flustered and nervous, but followed Luffy to a low cost bike shop Hawks had taken many people to.

He bought a helmet, and said he'd wear it now. "Place is cheap, but quality. If you have any other friends who ride without helmets, remind them that heroes handle small things, too. Have a nice day," Luffy said with a wave.

Tokoyami was surprised. "You really have lived with a pro. I would have never thought of doing anything other than giving a ticket," he said honestly. Luffy grinned and said Hawks was a nice guy. He helped the little people, even the little people rule breakers. Both of them noticed the darkening sky and headed back to the agency to write up their reports.

They worked in the quiet of the lounge room where they found Hawks napping. Tokoyami was nervous about waking him up while Luffy just didn't give a shit and squeaked the chair in the desk. He knew Hawks wouldn't wake from little sounds like that. Tokoymai was even trying his best not to make noise with his writing.

"It's fine, you won't be able to see the writing if you write it that light," Luffy said quietly, but not a whisper.

"Tsukuyomi is trying to be polite," Hawks said with a yawn. The birdman looked startled and worried about waking Hawks. "So, do anything fun while I was asleep?"

"Brought a guy not wearing a helmet to a shop and he bought one, said he'd wear it. That was really the only thing we did," Luffy replied, writing at the same time.

"Aw, my heroes are so nice," Hawks said and put his visor and headphones back on. "Good work, guys," and he left the room to work before the end of his hours. Tokoyami looked down sadly.

Luffy said, "Well, now you know, right? That bike shop is somewhere Hawks visits a lot. He makes the pay lower by giving them a monthly allowance so people who can't afford helmets get them anyways. Safety over money, but some people just can't afford it." He was still writing as he did this.

"Hawks is an honorable man," he said. Luffy said he'd be sure to tell him he said that. Then he got back to writing his log. "I'm happy I can patrol with you sometimes. It's fun to go with somebody else."

Tokoyami smiled at him as best as his beak allowed and said he was glad he was there, too. And he would be forever grateful for helping him learn to fly. Luffy said it was no problem, and closed his log book and the more brief log on the agency's papers. "I'll see you tomorrow," he said.

"Have a nice night, Luffy." Luffy nodded and went upstairs, changing into pajama clothes and tossing his costume on the bed. He walked to the window and stared out of it. Putting his hand on it and remembering how much smaller he'd been 8 years ago. He'd lived half of his life with Hawks.

He sighed and dropped his hand. He would never be a hero like Hawks was. He clenched his fists and leaned his forehead against the window. "I'm not a bad person. I'm doing a bad thing. I'm a good person, I'm going to be a hero. I'm not a terrible person," he whispered before sinking to his knees, tears coming from his eyes and driving onto the carpet.

Looking at his phone, he looked at the photos from last year. The first day of school, the photo Hawks had taken of him in his new uniform, his wings poking out. Luffy looked up at the wall and his wings, and smiled a watery smile. He wanted to go back to who he was, who he had been.

But he knew that person from a year ago was gone. Luffy had been through too much in too short a time. He couldn't erase those scars, no matter if they were invisible on his body. He broke again, sobbing out the feelings he'd bottled up all day.

Two years of this. He wanted it to get easier, but when it did he'd feel even worse.

Luffy got to work on his other homework and then started dinner. He was making something nice. He didn't know what until he started to cook. He only recognized the food he was making when he smelled it, too focused on his own problems.

Hawks came in and probably saw Luffy's hunched shoulders. He walked up next to him. "C'mere," he said and hugged Luffy, who sobbed. Hawks turned the stove off and walked Luffy to the couch. "Want to talk about it?"

Luffy nodded, and immediately said everything. His plans, the lies, the manipulation. Hawks didn't look at him in disgust. "I did all of this, too. And I didn't feel bad about it. You're not a bad person, okay? You're doing what you see as a bad thing. But you aren't a bad person." The food was getting cold, so he got it and served it to both of them.

"I want to go to how things were before. Before I had the quirk problems. Before the League of Villains and losing my wings. Before the torture, before everything. But I know I can't be that person again. There are too many scars," he said, voicing his thoughts from before.

"I'm happy, right? You can tell?" Luffy nodded, not knowing what he was meaning. "I have scars, too. I have things that I feel guilt over, things I wish I hadn't done. We've both lived hard lives. But I know you can get through this. And even if you do get caught, I would never hate you or blame you. Besides, a number 2 pro-hero? Any country would welcome me! I want to stay here, with these people, but failing this isn't going to ruin our lives forever."

Luffy sniffled and nodded.