Chapter 4: Unseen

As the police had set up a perimeter around the building, in the remains of the path of Peter's squad, Detective Tsukuachi had to refrain from being with the search for the League for a robbery of a very important serum. He is talking to the leading scientists of the building and he stuttered as he explained the situation to the detective. Yellow tape was being set up around the corporate building as they talked.

"That serum was going to be our triumph! If it is in the wrong hands-"

"I guess that the world ends?" Tsukuachi interrupted his speech and the professor corrects him.

"Worse… There will be nothing but the League's mitty gloves all over Japan!" The scientist explained and Tsukuachi just listened as he did.

'Wait… why would he say that? I need to get this guy to talk. This might get the League crumbling down.' Tsukuachi thinks and took out his cellphone to text someone to pick him up. He places his hand on the scientist's shoulder and assures him.

"Don't worry. We will soon have it. But first, you will need to tell us all that you know about the League." Tsukuachi said and the scientist went along with it. "Come over at the station today. I will place my men to protect you." "Thank you, Detective." Detective left the floor and went in the elevator.

He punches numbers on his phone to call Ken Takagi to see the operation was going. "Oh hey Detective. Need something?" "No, just checking up on you guys. Did you find anything on Sokudo's house?" "Well only evidence. We found black titanium gauntlets under his bed. and there's something more." Tsukuachi's eyes shot up to and he adjusts his phone to listen into the call. "Okay. What was it?"

"We went in a tunnel under his house, leading to the subway tunnels. We saw people getting in a locomotive. They seemed to be armed." Tsukuachi's eyes widened and tries to assess the situation. "Noted. For now, go back to Hosu Police Station. Get the gauntlets back there and we'll put all that we find on the table about it." "Sounds good. See you there then, Detective." With that, they ended their calls and went along with work.

The elevator had dinged and opened on the ground floor. He stepped out of the building and into the hallway with Officer Tamakawa, his cat sidekick. "What did we get from the CCTV cameras, Sansa?" Tsukuachi asks and Tamakawa shows him footage of people going in the facility with no problem. "They are unknown to us, but we have information that they are related to the League of Villains."

He gives Tsukuachi Kabe's and Stele's profiles and Tsukuachi holds onto them and reads on what their Quirks are. "Who are they?" "We don't know…" They stepped into their police cruiser and revved up the car. " Well, we'd better find out quick. I have a feeling that this will end badly." Tsukuachi turned worrisome as they went back to Hosu to determine what they had witnessed.

"Sounds good. See you there then, Detective." Ken ends his call and continues to walk back to the ladder to Sokudo's house. Kirishima's legs were turning into jelly at this point and Tamaki shrugs the hindering pain off his legs. The lights in the empty hallway were dim. They can barely see the ladder at the end of it.

"I see the ladder." "Finally! This walking seemed like hours!" Kirishima whined and they start feeling relieved. The hallways never seemed to end for them. They climbed out of the tunnel and back into the kitchen. Kirishima exhailed and exclaimed with groans.

"Am I glad to see this dump of a house again." Ken groaned and picked up the box of evidence from the charred doorway. "So what are we gonna do now?" Kirishima asked looking at them both. "We're going to Hosu to meet up with Tsukuachi. You are going home." Tamaki states and Kirishima groaned in frustration.

"But you might need help with things!" "Please, as if there's any danger here. We're only going to the station." Ken Takagi states the obvious. "Ugh fine then." Kirishima groaned and pouted as they went and sat in the car. Ken places the box in the back with Kirishima and his arms are crossed with frustration.

Lock-Rock revs up the car and drives toward the city of Hosu. Kirishima pouts as he looked back and forth on Ken and Tamaki and back at the houses and streets, then back at the burnt house. Suddenly, his vision was blocked by a black-and-white blur but notices nothing but the wind blew past him. He scratches his right cheek and looks back at the seat to see an empty box.

Kirishima exclaims in surprise and panic and tells the two in the front. "Guys! Guys! The gauntlets are gone!" Ken's and Tamaki's eyes widen and Ken stomps on the brakes. The car jiggles and stops before getting out of the driveway. "What?!" "Where'd they go, Kirishima?!" "I don't know! One minute, I was looking at the house then I look at the box and there's nothing there anymore!"

They were starting to argue now, but the thief has bigger fish to fry. Right now, the blur is speeding off towards an alleyway. He slows down in it. His hand lands on the wall then he falls down on the wall. He tries to breathe slowly but pants. He takes a minute to take a breather after getting out of the ice. 'Where to now?'

In a plane headed towards Musutafu Airport, Alice Smith dreams a very good dream. Connor Smith-Sanders was playing tunes in his iPhone as he waited for her haunt to wake up. He looks at her grinning face and notices that she is having a good dream. 'Hmm… wonder if she is dreaming about him again.'

She is in a dark place, where no hope had shown. She walks down on way, then her house forms up in front of her, then eventually bushes forming beside the pathway, the sun that was always blocked by clouds,then the mailbox she went to everyday with hopes of a letter from Sokudo and other

She walks up to her door to ring the bell. She heard footsteps from someone. The doors open and she sees a blonde teenager that looked like her, but perhaps a bit too much like her. "Mom! Where have you been? Dad's been looking for you all day." She exclaims as she dragged in Alice into the house.

'Mom?! Wh-Who's Dad?!' She started thinking erratically with thoughts and her face started turning red as a tomato.

Her daughter drags her through the living room with the couch and small tables and lamps and into the kitchen, where her husband had been speeding around putting the celebration stuffs in place for her birthday. The blur stopped to stand beside two boys, both with black hair, and one with yellow diamonds in his hair. "Welcome home, honey." Sokudo said with a smile, holding roses with his right and a box of chocolates with his left.

She smiles widely and blushes a deep crimson red that is plastered on her face. 'So- Sokudo is myhusband?!' She was starting to faint and she is swaying back and forth and side-to-side.

"Alice? Alice? Alice?" Connor was poking on her face and she snapped out of her dream. "wh- WHaaa? We there yet?" She mutters to Connor earning a nod from him. "We're almost there, auntie." Alice sighs out a relief and starts dropping sweats from her blissful dream. Her face goes back to red remembering.

Connor raises his brow in curiosity. He lets down his music to ask her about her dream. "So… What did you dream about?" Alice hears him and then catches a glimpse of it again. She slaps herself for thinking about her best friend like that. She starts to blush again. She turns her face away from Connor to not raise suspicion. "I-it's nothing, No need to worry."

She assures her nephew with her motto and Connor still feels curious. He lays back on his seat and gazes at the sun going down. "Are you worried about Sokudo?" Connor asks and Alice grips on her rings and remembers her giving one to him 12 years ago.

"Well, gotta go babysit." Sokudo said to her as she rounded up his luggage and into the taxi cab. She starts to tear but she shrugs the sadness off and fakes a smile. He looks at her shiny eyes and notices some tears. His head tilts in confusion and steps toward her. She sniffs and wipes her eyes of the tears. "It's nothing, Speedy. No need to worry. Really." She reassures him with her motto. He stops in front of her and they look into each other's eyes. His brown eyes into her plain black eyes. He spread his arms and Alice tilts her head in confusion.

"You~ need a hug?" Sokudo asks plainly with a smile and Alice throws herself at him and he catches her. She buries her face in his shoulder and Sokudo places his head over hers. She sobs on his shoulder and sniffs back the snot. He smiles and pats her back to comfort her and she tightens her grip. "There there, best friend. We'll see each other again. And that's a promise." He says jokely to reassure with a pat before each word, earning a giggle and a light punch from her. "That hurt." He jokes about it and says, "No need to worry by the way." He says her motto back at her. Alice backs away to look at his face with her arms on his neck and his arms around her waist.

"Ahhh I have something to give you." Alice retracts her arms and takes off one of her rings on her left. It had gold gilded on the sides of the obsidian gemstone that lay upon the golden ring. Sokudo sees this and raises an eyebrow. "I- I want you to have it. For good luck." Alice hands to him her lucky ring. Sokudo takes it and backs up from her. He puts it on his ring finger and grins at her. "Thanks. I'll cherish this forever." Alice punches him lightly for being a child again as he sped the last of his luggage into the taxi.

BTW IF YOU SEE ANY MISTAKES, PLEASE PAY NO HEED TO THEM. CONNOR SMITH-SANDERS IS A GUY, NOT A GIRL. IF THERE AREN'T ANY MORE SLIP-UPS, MOVING ON.

Alice waves him off and he looks back from the other side of the taxi and smiles. "You can visit anytime, Sokudo." "You too. Call me and I'll pick you up at the airport myself." They say to each other before the other leaves. She gazes at the taxi until it leaves the driveway and out of her sight before going inside. She frowns when the taxi went off. She goes back inside muffles her face with a pillow in her room, feeling embarrassment with red on her face. 'Why did I do that?' She thought and mentally slaps her grinning self under her pillow.

Back to reality, and after remembering that flashback, she mentally slaps herself and turns her face from her nephew. She puts her hands on her lap and hums to ignore Connor. He lays back on his seat and starts to guess. "was it Uncle Sokudo?" She staggers and shudders in her seat, and Connor takes that as a yes. "Well, if we make it to Japan, I'm sure that he's fine. He's fast after all." Connor reassures Alice before going back to his music. Alice takes one look at her wise nephew and goes back to listening for announcements from the pilot.

The plane ding-donged and the entirety notice. "Attention. This is the captain. We are arriving in Japan, Musutafu City Airport. Get ready." She smiles and Connor hears the announcement from his left. "See? We're halfway there already. I do hope that he has good food over there." Connor is getting ready and is excited and Alice smiles at the thought of seeing her best friend again.

A couple of hours earlier

"Ryu~ I'm getting bored." Ikari pouts and whines at Ryu, who was picking his teeth out of leftovers and then eating them on a branch. Ikari huffs at his display of ignorance and lay back down on the tree he was on.

The lizard/dragon just huffs too up in his branch. He keeps on chewing on the leftovers and decides to jump down. Ikari gets startled by him and looks at him walking to the edge of the trench and slides down. She follows suit before being abandoned. "Where to, scales?" 'I'm going on patrol. You will gather what food you can from the city.' "It's a long way to the city." Ryu listens to her as he gripped on his leather jacket and put it around him. He then tore his collar wider because he was being choked by it. He growled lowly and it made Ikari shudder fearfully.

'We'll be fine, as long as we use this as a way into the city.' He said as he scratched his scaly throat and pointed at the sewer they went through. "Nonono I went in the first time, didn't like it. I won't like it a second time." 'Says the cat that smells like garbage.' Ryu snaps and Ikari's hairs go up in anger, her face scowls and glares at him. "I don't smell like garbage!" Ikari fumed and Ryu huffs off into the dark of the sewer.

Ikari huffs and circles in the trench with her arms crossed. "Smells like garbage. A cat! Me?" She laughed off and sat down on the dirt. 'Garbage.' She thought and reconciled with herself. "MMMM Fine!..." She fumes again and stands up to follow him. "… But I'm going to get a new set of clothes on my way back."

Ryu is walking down the dark and he stumbles from the circular slope. He stopped to regain his composure in walking. He turns to his sense of smell and his hearing to see where he is going. He goes and steps on. 'Where to now?' He keeps thinking to himself as he walks.

Then he heard steps that seemed to be closing in on him. They were getting faster and louder. He kneels down and readies his claws to slash at it. He sniffs out the target and exhales to be relaxed. 'I thought you weren't coming, cat.' "Second thought come at the right moments, friend." Ikari said with her brows squinted and her arms crossed. Ryu huffs and continues on and Ikari following suit.

"We've never been properly introduced, lizard-guy. My name's Ikari." She said as she followed him. Ryu does not stop but he sniffs out as he turned left to the stream. 'I'm Ryusake. Just call me Ryu.' He sent and Ikari nods. They continue like this for some time until Ryu stumbles some more. "You alright there, Sakii?" She asks and Ryu continues stepping on. Ikari sees a rock on his path and tries to warn him. "Watch out." But the warning was useless for he still tripped and Ryu fell on his face.

Ikari helps him up and Ryu's arms go around her back and Ikari's around his. Ikari looks at his poor state . "You can't see well, can you?" Ikari asks and Ryu groans and continues going downstream and into the sewers headed to another part of the city.

Ikari catches up behind him and starts to pass the time with convos. "I never told you my name. My name is Ikari." 'I know who you are.' Ikari started becoming tense as her eyes start to widen. "Ho-How do you know that?" 'You talk to yourself.' Ryu states bluntly and Ikari laughs sheepishly. "So… What are you gonna do when we get there?" Ikari asks and Ryu glances at her but in the wrong direction. 'I'm going on patrol. Long time since my last take-down.' He sent to her and she makes an o with her face and nods.

As they went deeper and closer to the city, Ryu stumbled and fell into puddles and Ikari helped him up. "That's it." Ikari takes the initiative and slides her arm through his. Ryu starts going erratic and he sends stuttered thoughts. 'Wh-What are you doing?' "You can't see well. I can tell. You need a guide in the dark." Ikari argues and Ryu just went along with it. "Now which way is the closes one to town so we can leave?" Ikari asks with red under her cheeks and Ryu scratches his neck.

He points straight head and they go forward. Ikari started to ponder about him and why he's here. "Where did you come from?" She asked and Ryu fell for the bait in conversing. 'I am from Hosu.' "Ohh. Well I'm from the Camino ward." Ryu listens to her bickering and turned her to the left. "You said you were going on patrol. Are you a pro hero?" 'No. I just want to protect people.' "So you're a vigilante?" 'Yes.'

Ikari stops and yanks Ryu from tripping over a stair. They go up and Ikari guides him. "Well if you are going on patrol, then I'll be looking around a bit." Ikari states and Ryu agrees. As they walk, at the streets of Musutafu, Alice and Connor have been walking around for what seemed about hours. "Ughh where will we stay again, auntie? And how do we get a cab?" Connor complains and Alice holds up the map to look where they are. "Well~ we should be getting close now." Alice says and Connor was getting impatient.

He lets down the luggage he was carrying and asked some directions to the passing people going about the street. Alice doesn't bother him and sat down on the seats under the tree behind them. She lets out her cellphone and tries to call Sokudo again. /The number you dialed is-/ Alice does not let the phone finish its sentence out of anger towards it.

In the distance, giggles and gossips can be heard from the distance. Two boys and three girls in street clothing come their way. Connor spots them and calls them out. "Excuse me? Hi. Uhhhmmm can you direct me to the Osaka Hotel? ..." Connor shows to the blonde boy with a black streak on his head alongside his four other friends.

The spiked manly redhead ponders about it along with a girl with pink ruffled hair and smooth skin, a tall girl with fair skin and spiky hair and an invisible bright girl. The redhead has an idea about where it is. "It is in the Bord District. You will want to go two blocks down that way then turn a right, where their mall is. Once you do, keep going until you see their sign." "Ohh ok. Thanks man." "Ahh no problem."

While their conversation was being done, all Alice heard was his nephew speaking Japanese to a mere stranger.

Kirishima and Connor go along their separate ways, the other going across the street and the other down to the Bord Centermall. "Alright. We'll need to go down there then take a right at the mall. After that, it's downhill from there." Connor says and Alice is still in disbelief that her nephew did that. Connor looks at her face and snaps his fingers to catch her attention.

She shakes her head back to reality and gets going. "Alright. Thanks a bunch, Connor." She says while hoisting her luggage with her. "Let's get to the hotel and lay a squat." Alice says and regains herself and leaving Connor dumbfounded and questioning her act just now. He shrugs it off and follows suit.

Meanwhile, beneath the unsuspecting eyes of the streets, Ryusake and Ikari were holding onto each other for company as they walk toward the mall for food. "Why did you change your mind when you said we were going on patrol?" Ikari asked and he sniffs around for food. They were getting close to it now. 'I am still going on patrol. And we?' He asks and Ikari just smiles. "You'll need someone to watch your back. And you seem like you know what you're doing. So yeah. I'll follow you from now on." Ikari explains and Ryu had no time to argue with a blabbermouth. 'Fine. Just keep up.' He sends and Ikari nods with confidence.

"Can I call you Sakii?" Ikari blurts and Ryu scoffs at her words and his cutesy nickname. 'You choice.' Ryu said giving her a chance and Ikari smiles sweetly. 'Stop right here, cat.' He said and they stopped under a manhole in an alley near the mall.

'You get yourself better clothes if you are to eat at a table.' Ryu says to Ikari and she willfully nods before going up with her new friend. Ryu peeps out to make sure the coast was clear of suspicious eyes. There wasn't any and he went up and Ikari followed.

Ryu places his hector tic mask on his face to conceal his teeth. Ikari looks at him quizzically. "Why do you wear that?" She asks and Ryu does not take a glance at her. 'I don't want anyone to see my teeth.' "I saw your teeth." 'Then what do you think of it?' Ikari places a finger at her chin. "Hmmm you were a handsome guy once?"

Ryu shudders at her response and would blush if he could. 'Just get yourself some clothes. I'll get us some food.' Ryu sent orders and Ikari just smirked, getting a chance to get some other clothes instead of her potato sack bag for a blouse.

Ryu walks out into the crowd, perfectly unseen and unnoticed. He looks around for the hotdog stand he had encountered years ago. He looks around the streets, and sees nothing but a building that was in front of the missing hotdog stand to his 1'o'clock.

He crosses the street when the lights turn green. Once he did, he saw stands that sold street foods such as takoyaki, Yaki udons and others that were flashy to the nostrils. He walked straight up the street toward the mall to see what would taste good for him and his voice.

A few minutes passed and Ikari had picked on what she likes to wear besides her sack blouse. She found some white shorts, rubber shoes (white soles, and the rest is black, with some white trailings on its tongue and the heel), a black shirt with a silver drawing of a monster and a black cap to conceal her ruffy white hair. All stolen.

With a broken mirror, she judges her hair if she liked it or not. "Hmmmm." She pndered before getting an idea. She pulls down her bangs and pulls her long hair out of the hole in the back of the back to make a ponytail. She thought she looked cute. With that, she went out of the alley and looks for Ryu, who she would prefer as Sakii from now on.

She passes by the passersby of the street towards the mall to look for him there. The centermall was looking busy to her eyes, with guard going around, moving boxes at the side. Harumi Satoshi has been going non-stop with the social exchange for people in need since All Might's fight with All for One and the Yakuza's destruction.

"Hey Fukuda, thanks for helping me out." Harumi thanked Fukuda through one of his mannequins he makes. The mannequin nodded to her thanks and continues moving. She notices that the sun had dipped itself on the horizon. Harumi went on stage and made her announcements to the homeless people who came for the food.

Back to Ikari, people have been looking and glancing at her beautiful self, disregarding her suppressed stench. The men's jaws drop and drool drip down in shock of the sight. She feels shudders now.

'Wow. Cute girl.' 'How old is she? I'd like to take her.' She hears all of their thoughts spinning around their heads. 'I wish there was a way to turn off my Quirk.' She whines and hurries herself to the mall to get food. Suddenly, she stumbles and trips over a hole in the street. 'Damn.'

Suddenly, in a split second, a guy drops his bags catches her, in a romantic fashion. "Shoot. You .okay..?" The stranger asked her as they stared into each other's eyes with sparkle. Ikari never had this feeling before, this bursting feeling.

'Wow. She's pretty.' The guy thought to himself and Ikari hears this. "T-Thank you." The guy stands her up and they still stare into each other's eyes, both taken aback by the other. Then, a blonde woman with diamonds on her head had cleared her throat to catch their attention. They realized what they were doing and the guy turns red and tries to conceal it, with Ikari scratching the back of her head.

"Well, bye then mister." Ikari said to him before leaving and he reaches his hand out to take back a chance to know her name but was too late.

"OOOooo! Not a day has passed and my nephew is already in love." Alice coos and causes Connor to stammer. "N-No I'm not…" Alice smirks and raises an eyebrow. "Yeah. Sure thing, loverboy." Alice teases and Connor just groans and picks up their bags.

'Great.' While he goes left, he looks back to see if she was still there. He found no trace of her. Then he goes back to heading to the hotel. Ikari kept her head down in embarrassment with a crooked smile and tries to forget that. 'Can't believe he just did that.' She thought as she twirls inside. With a red face, she shakes it off and walks off to the mall to meet Sakii.

Meanwhile, Ryusake had been waiting for Ikari for what seemed to be ages. He stands by the entrance, looking at the people paying for food and the groups of ragged people coming in the mall entrance. He turns to look down upon a familiar child gaping up at him. "Hey there mister! Thanks for saving me from the bad men the other day." She thanked him for his bravery at the alley. He kneels down at head-level and reaches out for a high-five.

The girl grins at him and high-fives. Then she turns her head to look at her parents calling her. "I'll have to go now. Thanks again!" She says as she skips toward them and grabs their hands as they disappeared into the crowd. Ryu's heart slightly melts with that sight. Then a finger taps on his scaly shoulders. He turns his head to see Ikari there, smiling at him with her arms behind her.

"Hey there, Sakii. Want to go in now?" Ryu stood there, gazing at her new outfit. He feels a gint of pink and quickly shrugs it off.

'Yes.' He sends to her and she marches in front of him. He head turns back. "Well, let's go get some food." She says with a smile on her face. His heart slightly melts more, and he tredges to the mall to get the meals that were

"Out of stock?!" "Yeah. We kind of underestimated the homeless hungry people here in the Bord District. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. But for now,-" Harumi looked down at them noth as she apologized to Ikari and Ryu. "…maybe your friend can take some baskets? It's free for homeless people." Harumi said as she took some baskets behind her and offers it to them.

Ikari looks at Ryu for what they should do with it. He looks back and then at the baskets. He inspects one of them and sees some packages of bread, noodles, butter, canned fish and milk. As he inspects the baskets, his head jerks at Ikari creeping in and her eyes sparkling at the sight of so many milk.

"We'll take two." She blurts out suddenly and Harumi smiles as she gave it to them both. Harumi notices Ryu being familiar. Her eyes widen at the same guy that came earlier.

"Hey! You're that guy!..." She exclaims while looking at him and with a soft smile. "… Thanks for saving my sister few years back." She says and Ryu's and Ikari's eyes widen at her abrupt words. "Huh?" Ikari blurts out.

"You saved her from bleeding out in an alley. Remember? Four years ago? She said you dragged her into the hospital in Hosu." Ryusake tries to recollect his memories by looking up. Then, he remembers. 'Say to her that I am very welcome.' He instructs Ikari to tell Harumi that. Ikari looks at them both back and forth and stopping to look at Harumi.

She says to Harumi with a factful face, index finger pointed upward. "Sakii says that he is very welcome." "Sakii? Who is Sakii?" Harumi asks. "Oh. It's this guy." Ikari says while pointing at Ryusake, who looks at the crowd looking for danger. "Oh well could you give these to the homeless or the disadvataged? We are about to run out here, and we don't need people hogging it all." Harumi snaps at them. Ikari spikes up. "We're homeless and disadvantaged!" Ikari spikes up and says pointing at themselves"Ohh. I'm… I'm sorry." "mehh it's fine." "Take them then. It is yours, after all." Harumi says before getting tapped on the back by one of Fukuda's mannequins.

"What is it, Fukuda?" She asks it and the mannequin points with its thumb behind it and news vans stop in front of the mall. A reporter comes out of the van, with a camera. Harumi dashes along and looks to say to Ryu and Ikari, "Thanks a bunch guys. And .thanks for the save, Sakii!". Harumi thanks him mostly.

Ryu and Ikari were left dumbfounded. Ikari looks at Ryu and his eyes roll at her with a low growl that Ikari breaks down a nervous sweat. Then some nervous laughs. Ryu walks forward and out of the mall. Ikari follows and looks at him for what they will do next.

'Let's eat first, then we go on patrol. Keep up with me. I don't need to save some lost kitten in a tree.' He says with grumbles in his thoughts at Ikari. She only nods with mmm-hmm. They walk to an alley near the mall and turn right and out of sight of the street. They slump and sit down on the dirty floor and eat their food from the baskets.

Meanwhile, as the moon came out and the city lights turned on in the city, game was afoot in the corporate building. Of Giran, the broker.

"What about our money, Pete?" "Don't worry. We'll get it. As long as we don't do anything stupid. Leave the talking to me, bro." Pete assures Takumi's and Stele's nerves. Kabe is in front of them in the elevator. "More like leave the talking to me, Peter." Kabe corrects and Peter just snacks on his crackers.

The elevator dings on the top floor and the doors slide open to see Giran, sitting on his throne in his castle. Kabe goes first and sides with Giran. Peter follow and Stele and Takumi come with him. Peter smacks his gums to eat the rest of the left crackers in his mouth, with Kabe's nerves hit.

"'Sup, mister broker?" "Hey. You and your team have been proving efficient these past few months." Giran compliments with his hands together in front of his mouth in an inquisitive manner. "Why than-." "But you still haven't gotten my new recruit." Giran snapped and interrupts Peter, breking him down into a nervous sweat.

Kabe looks at the two at the back and sees Takumi readying his gun and Stele ready to slash him and Giran. He readies to freeze them both with his Quirk. "You found him but you did not capture him…" He says before standing up. Takumi aims his gun at Giran and Stele steps beside Peter and sprints at Giran, but Kabe stops them both.

Takumi gasps as his gun is pointed at Giran's head and Stele's claws stop in front of Giran's face. Peter's smile widens across his face despite the danger happening.

"… But I'm going to let that come to pass." Giran said out of the blue and Peter and his comrades raise an eyebrow. Giran takes out a file and hands it over to Kabe. He grabs to folder and rummages through it and releases the three mercenaries. Stele stumbles on Giran's desk and Takumi looks at the people around him before putting his gun in his lap belt. Stele walks back behind Peter to sit down.

Kabe hands the folder to Peter and he grabs it and starts to read the file. It takes only seconds to realize what Giran wants from Peter. "So this Sokudo guy… You want us to find him?" "Yes. He is the cause of my empire. If he goes to the police, …" "Yeah yeah, gotcha… And what about our money?"

Giran takes out a hundred thousand yen, for compensation and to get the job done faster. Peter counts the money in the plastic bag and notices something wrong. "It's missing the other 400 thousand yen, broker." Giran sits back down on his throne behind the desk. "You'll get the other 400 thousand yen when you find him…" Giran says as he pointed to the file. Peter nods and motions for him and his croneys to go.

"… Wait just a minute. Kabe…" "Yessir?" "Go with them to make sure they do the job." "Yessir." The three mercs spike up in shock and Kabe smirks as he pushed the three into the elevator. "Don't fail me, disciple." Giran said to Kabe and he willfully nods as he went in the elevator.

Peter follows Kabe into the elevator and Stele follows. Takumi glares at Giran and goes into the elevator last. The doors slide back and the elevator goes back down to the first floor. Giran puffs out a smoke as he dials down the numbers to call some of his associates. "Hey. How are you, madam?" /Hey there, Giran. My organization's doing good. We have the entire country under our control. You done with yours yet?/ "It's a work in progress." He says as he smirks and puffs his second smoke.

Meanwhile, in an alley, Ryu and Ikari step out of it and into the street and the river of people walking by. "That meal was real delicious, Sakii. Thanks for the meal." 'It was free and I did not treat you to that. And you still smell.' Ryu said as he covered his nose and Ikari scoffs at him. They continue to walk toward the deeper parts of Musutafu, passing by arcades and small clothing shops.

Some moments later, Ikari becomes curious about him and how he became to be. 'Maybe I should ask him…' She thinks about it. About what happened to him… When he was a child… How he ended up in alleys eating leftovers and free food.

She shrugs it off before he gets angry, which he will in the next minutes. Ryu continues and sniffs out anything that might seem to connect with the words "gun" and "blood". He is also hearing out anything that would seem to connect with those words too. Then, he hears and sees some rustling in the crowd up ahead. He sees a face that is afraid of a cop that is catching up to him. He looks down. 'Get out the way, Ikari.' He sent to Ikari and she looks at him quizzically.

When the thief was about to pass, he extends his right foot and makes the guy trip, making the duffle bag with pounds of cash fall in front of him. The guy tries to stand up but Ryu steps on his back, grinding on his spine with his heel. BTW he has no shoes now. He rips the tips and the heels rip out because of his claws at the feet.

The cop catches up to the guy and looks at Ryu. "Thanks man. You made it easier." The cop thanked him as he pats his shoulder. Ryu bows his head before leaving the thief to the cops. Ikari is just astonished at his timing and how he played it cool with the situation. She shakes her head and goes along with Ryu beside him.

"That was amazing, Sakii!" Ikari said with stars around her and Ryu rolls his eyes at her then returns her compliment with a low purr-like growl with a lecture. 'That is what a hero needs to be. Simple and free.' Ryu lectures a bit and Ikari is paying more attention to butterflies than him.

Ryu continues walking on and into the deeper pockets of Musutafu. Sometime ago, while the sun was still up, Alice washes her face with soap after a long wash. After a long day of travelling to see her best friend, she needs rest. After wiping off the wet from her face, she slips into her clothes in the bathroom and comes out. Connor is in their room, slipped into pants and a shirt to get some food into his system.

"So auntie. Ready to go?" "Yes please. Let's." Alice says to him and they go out of the hotel they were staying and frolic around Japan for the night. An hour later, they find themselves walking in the streets, taking in the sights of the city lights and Japan in the night. "Wow, Connor. Who knew that Japan would look this good!" She exclaims as they walked about in the streets and into the x-shaped crosswalks.

They take it in before moving on to playing in arcades and junk. Connor smiles as he sees his aunt happy again. He chuckles as he did. Back to walking, Alice is waiting for her best friend's reply from her hundreds of texts and calls from him. She frowns from the lifeless side of him. He never missed a text from anyone. Shuffling her phone to her pocket, she points at a restaurant that her eyes sparkle at. "Connor, we have to try this out! It looks cute!..." She says jumping up and down like a child.

The restaurant had fairy light inside, fences at the outside with tables and chairs inside. The inside had the same tables and chairs and it looked like a café, with plants inside. "… Come on! Let's go!" Alice said and drags her nephew inside. 'You and my mother are exactly alike.' He thinks about his aunt and goes inside.

After stuffing themselves with cherry cheesecakes and some truffles, and finishing the last bit of dessert, their stomach felt full now. "That was bliss." "You can say that again." Alice blurts and Connor adds to it.

Alice playfully hums and smiles with her hand supporting her face while fiddling her fork. "Hey aunt Alice?" "Hmm?" "You still worried about Uncle Sokudo?" Her smile and hums disappear into a frown while she slowly fiddles the bits of her cake. "He's never… I just…" Alice stammers at answering his question.

"… He never got this troubled with stuff before. And… I didn't get any letters from him since four years ago and I've been waiting in front of our house…" Connor sympathizes for her and he just listens.

"He's my friend… and a promise is a promise. No matter what." She tenses up and makes sure that she will find him. Connor holds her hand and Alice smiles at her nephew. "Don't worry auntie… we will find him… But for now, we rest." Connor plants advice into his aunt's head. "By the way… Before I forget… How did you learn to speak Japanese?" Connor smirks at her at his skill. "All those sleepless nights watching movies with japans subtitles paid off." Alice spikes up at him, seeing that that is slightly weird.

Outside of the café, Ryu and Ikari are just outside, walking by. "Sakiii… We've been walking around for hours! Can't we take a sit-down?" Ikari whined and Ryu shrugged her complains. Ikari groans at him. "You're no fun." 'I'm not here for fun. I'm here for work.' Ryu said coldly to Ikari and she crosses her arms and pouts as she walks. Again, Ryu swipes that off his day and goes on.

He stops suddenly at the front of an entrance of an alley near the café and hears some punches going down, behind a turn. He walks down the alley, and Ikari reaches out her arm and grabs him. "What are you doing?!" Ikari asks and Ryu shushes her with his finger between his lips. Ikari follows his lead and sneaks with him.

They stop at the wall and crouch to peek what is happening to their right. 'Three guys, a van at the parking lot behind them.' The thug that was beating up the muffled man was wearing masks too familiar to him. It looked like Mr. Compress' masks. They all had it.

The thugs slunk behind the thugs with brass knuckles and beating up some copper with them. The cop was bleeding on the floor and had blood all over his head. The thug grasps his head's hair and drags it up to make him look at the thug's eyes.

"Listen man. Our employer never takes excuses and we'll be dead… Surely, you don't want that, right?" The cops bruises covered his eye and chests. In answer to the thug's question, he spat blood at his face. The thug knee-kicked him at the stomach in return.

The cop groaned as he felt a sharp pain at his stomach. "I'ma ask you one last time. Where. Is. The lizard?" The thug asked and showed a picture. Ikari leans above him and still can't see. She leans on Ryu's shoulders to get a better look at the situation. "We can't just let them kill him, right?" Ikari whispers at Ryu, getting no answer.

Ryu, getting shocked that the yakuza are looking for him, retracts back to hide behind the wall. 'Damn. I didn't expect there'd be yakuza. Fine. 'Ikari, you stay here. I'll handle them.' Ryu said pointing downward at Ikari and she nods silently.

He sneaks his way behind the dumpster, then behind the van. He peeps out to look at them and motions back behind the van. He moves to the other side of the van and he scratches the side of the van to attract their attention.

One of the thugs hear the air rushing out of the wheels and goes around to the back to see what it was. Ryu crouches down and the thug did not see him until Ryu slashes the thug's chest and muffles the thug's pain. Ryu's claws had punched the thug's abdomen, to make sure he does not go anywhere. And he slashes his legs to disable his walking.

Ikari decides she had enough of waiting. She sneaks behind the dumpster and waits for her moment to slash. The thug pondered about where his friend was but shrugged it off as Takie interrogated the cop with pain. "Now for the last time. Where. Is. The lizard?"

Takie had a rough week. His gang had been jailed, his left eye can't see straight and his chest is compressed now. He can't breathe. Now, he had to find Ryu to enact revenge and for the money. "Hey! Soman! Call that broker guy. We -.." Takie exclaims before seeing Soman knocked out and Ryusake sitting beside him, glaring at him. "You!" Takie shouts before being knocked out by a two-by-four.

Ikari wipes her forehead after sweating buckets. "Whoo. Glad that's over." She said smiling at him while holding the two-by-four. Ryu stands up and walks over to the bleeding cop. So does Ikari. "What are we gonna do about him?" Ikari asks throwing away the two-by-four. Ryusake growls a low one and grabs him to be carried over to the back of the van and drags the thugs out of the van and put together and one supporting the other and the other. "Aww. They're like best friends."

Ikari cooed on how they looked and Ryu motions to the front seat and she followed suit. Ryu closes the door and Ikari closed the doors to the back and the front row seat. Moments of remembering what was missing, her fingers snap and she buckles Ryu's and her seatbelt.

Ryu looks at her with his brow muscles upward and she smiles at him sweetly. Ryu's nerves go up and he points at back. 'Take care of the cop. I'll drive us to a hospital.' Ryu sent and she nods at him an hops out back. Ryu cranks the lever to a mid-slow pace and presses softly downward on the gas. The van moves out of the alley and into the road. He stops before the main road and ponders on where the hospital was again.

Suddenly, sirens of an ambulance came blaring past to the left of the road. 'That was convenient.' He thought to himself. He would smile if he could. He steers left and follows the leader to the hospital. Though the van has some graffiti on the side, they should be fine all the way.

In the back, the cop is slowly regaining consciousness. He makes a few groans as he tries to get up. Then he hisses on the sharp pains of his bruises. "SShhh it's okay. You're with us, mister." The cop being blinded by blood, closes his right eye and opens his left. "Wh-Who are you?" "Hold still." Ikari says to the cop while tending to him with a damp towel to wash the blood off his face.

He hisses and jerks from the stings. "What's your name, mister?" She asks while laying his head on a rolled-up towel for support. "Yogi. Yogi… Yoson" "It's okay. We're gonna get you to the doctors and you'll be just fine, Yogi." Ikari assures his safety before he drifts off to sleep. "Hey, stay awake, mister." Officer Yogi heard before getting a glimpse of Ryu's face. 'Wait a second… I… know you…' He thought before he drifted to sleep. "Sakii, he's becoming feverish. Can't you go faster?" Ryu rumbles at her, doing the best he can.

With Ryusake, he sees people looking at him with those eyes of disgust again. Ryu then remembers his facemask and he puts it back on, but not without glaring and growling at the crowd. The ambulance turns right and Ryu stops the van and Ikari fell on the floor, with a bump sound. She hisses at the head-pain and glowers at Ryu, who was working out how to turn right again. Ikari points to the right saying, "The ambulance is that way."

'Right to turn right. Right.' He remembers and turns the wheel right. Ikari just pinches the bridge of her nose and goes back on the front seat beside him. "By the way, how did you learn to drive a car?" Ikari asks while buckling up and Ryu begins telling a shorty.

'In the four years of living in the streets, I immersed myself in teaching myself how to survive. Including how to drive.' Ryu sent to Ikari and Ikari ponders about that. "Ahhh I see. You're self-taught." She high-brows at him and brings kudos to him. Ryu growls on how too much fuzziness is happening.

"Ok ok I'll stop now." Ikari laughs nervously and she faces back to the front. Ryu sees the hospital turning up and the ambulance comes to a stop, and he parks the van behind the ambulance. Ryu comes out of the van and opens the doors to the back, revealing the bloody officer. He comes up to the people taking the injured out of the ambulance and into the hospital.

One of them notices Ryusake leaning on the ambulance which made the ambulance jiggle a bit. "Ohh. Hello again. You got another man in blood in store?" He nods and leads him to the van, and gesturing to the bloodied officer and Ikari leans back to show herself. "Oh. Hi there."

The medic chuckled as he stared at the scene. "Thanks for making the job easy, man…" The medic thanked Ryu and he just bows. He whistles the other medics and they take another wheelie for the sleeping officer. Ryu just watched the sleeping officer being put for healing from the driver's seat with Ikari watching too.

Ryu feels a sense of accomplishment as he starts up the van. Ikari hums cheerfully in her seat, pattering her hands on her thighs and raising and lowering her feet in a waggish manner, one after the other. The engine starts whirring. He drives the car away from the hospital and back to the deeper parts of Bord district.

Meanwhile, with Alice and Connor, they walk down a street and they come across "Oh. They have a Starbucks here too. Huh." She stated as they passed by. They were coming up on an alley and they heard muffled screaming and snickering of three men.

Alice looks into the darkness and Connor noticed his aunt fell behind. "Hey auntie, wh…" Connor begins and stopped by Alice's hand motioning to stop. She walks into the alley and hides behind the wall that leads right to the situation happening. She peeks with Connor over her head and hear out the happening.

The yakuza had facemasks resembling old doctor's masks that look like a crow. Two wore black shirts with common designs for teenagers and they all wore pants and black sneakers and gloves. They were snickering and laughing as they bullied the woman, whose boyfriend has been knocked out behind them.

They were touching her all over her privates, and her sobs were being blocked by the yakuza's hands. "SShhhh now." He was snickering and breathing all over her, and the woman feels helpless to the man's touches. The other two notice Alice coming up behind them. "Hey!..." The three of their head's turn towards her, allowing her to get away from the man touching her before and wakes up her bruised boyfriend.

The three yakuza take out their guns from their pants and Alice's eyes glow a low yellow light and her hair floats up with the diamonds in her hair and she whips her right hand to aim for their guns. The diamonds flew straight to their guns, abolishing them from the yakuza.

The three delinquents hiss and wince at the stings at their hands, then they go for melee with scythes and swords. One of them steps up with a scythe in his right and a fist enshrouded in fire on his left. "You fishing on yakuza or something, lady?" "Stop this and you will go free." "Ahhhh so you're a cop huh? Well…" The yakuza on the right held his sword with two hands and casts his blue lightning upon it, wrapping it in blue electricity.

"… get lost." He says before dashing towards her, but in a split-second, she was saved by an arm that blocked the sword with its palm, from Connor. He grunts at the pain and his palm bleeds a drop before shoving the sword away from her.

"C-Connor! I'm handling this!" Connor looks at his aunt and then the situation and raises his right eyebrow. "RRRight…" He says before his skin starts to change. His hair starts growing longer and his hands turn into claws. The yakuza step three paces back afraid a bit.

The hair stops and he looks like a Werewolf. The 5-foot Connor turned into a 7-foot Werewolf. That is his Quirk or power where he comes from, he can turn into a werewolf at will. The yakuza grunt at him, readying their weapons and Quirks.

"Khh die!" The man with the electric sword tries to slash him with it and Connor dashes toward him and shoves him to fly behind the other two. The other readies his Firefist Quirk to shoot him but is rendered disabled by Alice's diamonds when she shoots it with hers. Her eyes are still glowing and she whips her hands to the other, aiming at his legs to be disabled. Both of her hands raise and floats her diamonds back to her hair.

"Why you!..Guhh" The yakuza said before being hurled to the wall behind him and landing on the yakuza holding a scythe. The victimized woman manages to get away with her boyfriend. "Let's get out of here!" She said before running off back to the street.

The yakuza groan as they stood up and leaned on some dumpsters. "Get out of here now! I'm feeling merciful today." Connor says crossing his arms and Alice is watching. "Tssk Gahh!" One of them scoffs and picks up a scythe and slashes at him but Connor dodges and jumps back before he is slashed by his scythe again.

Alice whips out and shoots three diamonds towards the pervert's shoulders and foot. The yakuza falls on his back, shrieking from the pain. Alice steps on the injured leg and floats her diamonds back to her hair. She grinds her heel on his leg and he hisses from the pain.

"You two can still walk away from this scum. I'd take that chance." Alice threatens the other two and they scoff before leaving the last one. The pervert scoffs and he monologues now. "You… you think you're some pros?" The yakuza laughs and Connor kneels down and punches his chest, causing him to jerk upwards and to moan on the pain and drifts off to sleep.

Connor's skin starts changing back to human and looks at Alice and frowns. "Let's go back to the hotel auntie. Cops are on their way now." Alice nods and she goes out the alley first and Connor turning off his phone. Alice checks his bleeding hand as they walked put. "Your hand!" "It's nothing," Connor assures and whisking his right hand away. "No need to worry."

"I'm supposed to say that!" Alice elbows Connor at his arm and he chuckles as they got out of the alley. With Another arrest, they go back to their hotel with plans to find Detective Tsukauchi the next day.

Hehehe. There. Alice is getting action. And a bit of friendliness is being instilled in Ryusake and Ikari is still the same. An airhead who lives under a rock. And sorry if this is horrible to your tastes. By the way, this is the first time I wrote anything in like months. Keep reading to the big finale. Thanks for staying with me.