"Ingenium, so you are brothers, huh?"
"I wanted to spread the news, and made sure stop injure him enough to keep him from recovering... But not enough to kill him. Too bad that anonymous intern interfered, hero worshippers who blindly follows and assists those fakes... They just may be worse."
Tenya cried out with pain as the metal spikes of the villain's shoe connected with his shoulder, the blood spilling out from the painful wounds as he fell, staining his clothes. Barely moments later his head was stepped on and Tenya found himself pinned to the floor, twitching and trembling in pain.
"You're weak."
He gritted his teeth. The insult further fueling his rage but otherwise did nothing. He wanted to bite back a response, only to let out a hoarse yell as a sharp, red-hot pain exploded in his shoulder, cutting off his thoughts. He barely registered the words the villain spoke after.
"You and your brother are both weak."
"Because you are fakes."
He gritted his teeth. How dare he... how dare this man, this monster call him a fake, his BROTHER a fake? His brother is the best hero in the entire world, this monster has no right to. He will never have the right to call anyone fakes, not him, not his brother, not anyone...!
"Shut up... Villain..." against the pain, he gritted out, "If Hibiki hadn't interfered, my brother would've been paralyzed from the waist down from all the spinal damage... He wouldn't been able to work as a hero anymore!"
"Tensei is an amazing hero who save so many people and led them... Hibiki would've died, taking all those injuries for him, for Akemi, for me and so many others she' s helped... they are both true heroes who helps others unconditionally, good people who don't deserve what they had to go through!"
Memories of Tensei returning home in casts, with scratches and days of cheering him on returned, along them those moments where Hibiki came to school hiding burns from cigarettes and cuts from smashed bottles, baring injuries from the latest person she helped and smiling and laughing despite how broken Tenya knows she is, "You have no right to call them fakes, they are both more of a hero than anyone can be, more of a hero than you will ever be!"
"They had always been my hero..."
"I can't do anything by myself yet, so they are supporting me. I need to work hard to return the favor too. I'm not that talented, but I'll have to live up to the name 'Hero', I'm glad that my work helps so many people though!"
"And they will always be heroes..."
"Just because I'm hurting myself doesn't give me an excuse to not help the others, if I just ignore those in need simply because I had a totally different injury that don't really bother me anyway, forget being a doctor or a hero, that'd just make me an asshole!"
"my brother is an amazing hero who gave me a dream!"
The tears overflow, as he remembered all those Tensei laid limp in his hospital bed, and all those days Hibiki spent in the hospital in his brother's stead, unconditionally, just like a hero.
"I won't forgive you..." He rasped, voice chocking up, "I'll kill you!"
There was a short beat of silence, and his body grew adjusted to the pain, the once sharp and prominent feeling fading into a dull pulsing in his shoulder.
"what about that guy?"
He froze.
"If they are really that great, why didn't it affect you? Save the others first. Quit using the power for yourself, for your revenge! Being blinded by hatred and selfishly seeking revenge... Aren't this the exact opposite of what you said your brother and that Hibiki would do?"
He cried out with pain as the blade in his shoulder was ripped out, the pain flaring up once again. And barely moments later, he stiffened and froze in his place, muscles and tendons locking and refusing to move, as if paralyzed.
He can't move.
"Goodbye, then." The arrogant voice spoke up once again, "I'll send you off as another offering to a better world."
A voice cut through the silence, and Tenya felt his heart sink.
"...Tenya?"
His blade stopped.
Chizome glanced up towards the mouth of the alley, where the voice came from, and frowned in slight confusion. What's up with kids these days? First the fake's little brother, now that girl standing over there? He huffed, seriously, what are they, trouble magnets?
The girl at the mouth of the alley is a tiny scrawny thing. She's so skinny she could almost pass for some fish bones, and had a head of stark white hair pulled into a messy ponytail. And by the look on her face, she must know the little fake.
Her eyes were blown wide with disbelief and horror, as they traveled upwards from the boy, then surprisingly, to the other fake leaning against the wall, and after that, finally, to him. The girl stood there, frozen, gripping the strap of her bag tightly, before the little fake beneath him finally spoke up.
"H-Hibiki?!"
Ah, so this is Hibiki. The little intern who saved Ingenium, huh? He narrowed his eyes, the girl now dropped her bag, and is making her way into the alley gradually, before speeding into a jog and stopping just a little away from them.
"So you're the Hibiki he mentioned?" He examined the girl, admittedly, even up close the girl don't seem much at all. Skinny and weak looking, with rolled up sleeves to reveal many bandaids and burns that Chizome knows too well their implications. At her name the girl eyes him with caution, but her trembling fists betrayed her fear. "Your friend here has quite the compliment for you."
She gulped, fists tightening. Ah, another coward. He sneered, opening his mouth to speak once again only to be caught off-guard when the girl ripped one of the bin covers right off and threw it straight towards him. Her aim was off but it surprised him none the less, side stepping he dodged the projectile and was thrown off balance as the girl crashed right into him, her hand reaching for his sword and attempting to pull it out of his hand. He snorted at the euseless effort and flung the girl off easily, but as soon as she hits the ground near the little fake, she grabbed him and with wide eyes, he watched as a bright pale blue glow emmitted from her hands, and the wound on the boy's shoulder was gone.
A Healing quirk, huh? Quite a powerful one at that too. But what of the other-
Chizome froze as his eyes traveled back towards the other fake, his wounds are gone as well, but he seems to be still unconscious and paralyzed against the wall. A cry of pain sounded and his gaze shot back towards the girl, and she's holding her own shoulder in pain, large gaping wounds quickly closing and stitching back together.
She don't have a healing quirk.
Her quirk take other's wounds.
Ah.
He raised an eyebrow, If this is the intern that saved Ingenium, it would mean that she took the hero's wounds for him, putting herself at risk. No wonder the little. Fake is so impressed with her. "I see." He straightened and began to make his way towards the girl, where she is crouched by the boy, eyeing him. "So you think taking the wounds for others without considering the consequences is heroic? Helping these fakes who poisons this society... they might even just be wors—"
"Why does it matter what they've done?!"
Chizome blinked in surprise, the girl had suddenly shouted out, her head whipping around to glare at him.
"Whatever they've done, what ever they are going to do, does that make them any less human? NO!" She stood up, protectively over his two paralyzed victims, "It gives me no excuse to not help them! They are human, injured, and alive, and that's all I need to know. Nothing else matters!"
"'Everyone is just as vivid and alive and complicated as you are.'" She gritted out, "In this world, the word Hero refers to two things. One is the original meaning, which is selfless people who did great deeds, and the other is simply the fricking job, get them right!" She sobbed, "A person doing the job Can do it for the money, they can do it for the fame, it donesn't even matter because what they are doing is helping people! Don't tell people how to do their jobs; it's annoying!"
Chizome watched as the girl glared at him, "someone doing it for the money might be struggling to support their family, someone doing it for the fame might just be unsecured and wanted to be sure of themselves, everything has a reason, so quit being so frigging shallow and nieve and see it! Everyone is the hero of their own life just as everyone is a villain in others. You might have a thousand reasons to kill these people, but you don't need a reason to save a person, so stop being an idiot and think you are high and mighty and accept this fucked-up world as it is!"
He stared at the frail girl before him, a little stunned, then grins.
"I think I might like you." He hums, "A herotic heart... perhaps different from what I imagined but herotic none the less, too bad. I'll let you go, but step aside, or else I might be forced to hurt you."
The girl stubbornly shook her head, tears leaking from her big doe eyes, refusing to buldge.
"Then do't fault me for what I must do."
Hibiki is scared.
She is no combatant, but Tenya can't move, the other hero is unconscious, and she have to protect them while she could.
But she can't fight.
She could always transfer the injuries she got back to the Hero Killer, but she can't do that. She swore she won't use her quirk to hurt another human, and she won't. She sniffled as the villain readied his knife and she raised a hand, remembering the little tips Akemi gave her to deflect blows.
"Hibiki, you aren't strong, but you are light on your feet and fast."
She readied her stance so she won't trip, hand hovering in front of her chest.
"So let them strike first."
She watched as the blade gleamed and pointed towards her, and gulped.
"Then slap their attack away,"
The blade sped towards her, and her hand shot out. Then with the back of the hand she slapped the flat of the blade, moving it off course and letting it hit the wall. Her hand stung, and there was a long cut quickly closing on it, but she ignored it and lifting a leg, she nailed the guy right where the sun doesn't shine.
He stumbled back, winded, then glared right up at her, eye twitching and with so much spite she was almost sure he's going to kill her anyway.
Then Midori came in screaming and crackling with lightning, and nailed a punch in his face.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 12
Midoriya Izuku: 1
Iida Tenya: 2
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Ueno Hibiki: 3
Kaminari Denki: 0 ( I should just cancel this option...)
Bakugou Katsuki: 3
Tokoyami Fumikage: 0 (maybe this one too?)
Iida Tensei: 1
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Iida Tenya: 4
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Kimura Akemi: 3
Shinsou Hitoshi: 5
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki is the best.
So now there's someone to keep the injuries in check I think the fight might just be a little easier! But I'm gonna feel bad letting her get hurt...
Onto the comments!
To you don't knowme: humm, I really don't know you... And, vote received! Though I think Smudge is a little too big... Well whatever, Akemi's clipboard defies the laws of physics, so why not her cat?
To darkpaladin89: Aaaand she didn't listen.
