Chapter 7: Before the Storm!
I do not own Boku No Hero Academia. I only own the characters that aren't in the anime/manga. And there are a lot. And the Quirks keep on coming. The Quirks you are about see here on out are mine and mine alone. Except for the ones that you see in the anime and the manga. Hope you enjoy reading.
While the rest of Musutafu was minding their own business, a young courier was surfing on his booster board through the cars and between in the streets. 'It's a slow day for me.' He thinks as he grins, making his last delivery of the day on the way back to his old mentor's warehouse. He's been hiding ever since he's gotten out of the ice some days ago.
Literally.
The young courier's name was Akihiro Tachibana. He had dirty blonde hair, and wears a dark blue track jacket and jeans. Under the jacket, he wears a thin white shirt.
He checks his watch as the time was nearing and he had to hustle to the warehouse quick. He presses the button on his remote and he zooms on through the streets. He sees the car lanes turn red and he turns to the sidewalk.
He sees pedestrians in his way. He veers his way left and right, earning gasps and exclaims from the crowd, along with some boos from them.
"You're on the wrong side of the street!" "Wrong country, delinquent scum!"
Every comment and insult he heard felt wrong, but he didn't care. For him, they were ghosts passing by him as he cruised by. He gets out of the streaming crowd and stops by the pedestrian lane. He looks at the destination on his GPS and looks around for any landmarks.
"Hmmmm…" He says viewing the area and seeing that he is in the center of Hosu District and nearing Block 14A, which was at his right. He checks the address and it was down two more blocks. 02B, nearing Orudera District.
He turns right and presses his remote to get faster. He sees no cars going toward him, which was good. He only gets faster and he does. His board makes zooming sounds as he went past a block. He slows down in front the apartment complex, to drop off some vegetables to an average housewife.
He walks up the stairs and goes to the door at the end of the hallway. He knocks on the door and a mature plump woman in an apron. Akihiro smiles softly at her, presenting the box of vegetables to her.
"Hello. I'm delivering vegetables for a… Mrs. Midoriya?" Akihiro asks and Inko Midoriya motions her hand saying that it was hers.
"Yeah it's mine. Thank you." Inko says and Akihiro takes a receipt from his bag, along with a pen.
"That'll be 1900 yen, ma'am-" he says handing them the receipt and starts pointing at the receipt. "-Write here the time of receiving and your signature." He says while pointing at the bottom page.
Inko shuffles her apron for the payment and the pen, but no payment was in her pocket. Izuku chimes in with the exact amount in his hands. "Here's the money." Izuku says as he runs to them. Akihiro's brows raise up.
Izuku hands the money to Akihiro. He inspects the money and seems good. Inko signs the time and signature on the receipt. Akihiro's eyes trail to Izuku and Izuku notices his gaze.
"You're Izuku Midoriya. I've seen you in the Sports Festival. Keep up the good work, hero." Akihiro says before taking the receipt and saying goodbye to them both. He rushes down the stairs and onto his boosted board.
Alice groggily wakes up from her slumber and looks out the sliding doors to the balcony overlooking the streets of Bord. She rubs her eyes and groggily sits up and looks around in the dim light of the sun as it hits the inside of the hotel.
She sees Connor still asleep on his bed, his back turned at her while he does. She slips out of her bed to step into the shower to start the day.
She drops her pajamas to the floor and balls it up to place it beside the sink. She takes off her tank-top and then her panties, then proceeds to put both on top of the pajamas.
She turns on the shower and lets the water hit her. She drags the water back and into her golden hair. She starts humming her favorite song.
She remembers the song that she sung as a teen, before she became a hero. She was on a stage, with her best friends, in front of two hundred people. Her last tour before becoming a hero.
"Bang, bang into the roooom! I know you want it!..." She felt like she was on top of the world that night.
She smiles softly at the memory and at the trailing butterfly tattoos at the side of her lower torso. She spreads the water all over her body and between her breasts. She chuckles on how sexy she still is, for her age.
She turns off the shower and steps out to grab the hair dryer. She turns it on and blows her hair. The heat hitting her face and then through her hair. Once she was done, she streams a comb through her hair and brushes her hair.
Alice grabs her bathrobe and wraps it around her body, showing none of her breasts as she steps put of the bathroom. She walks over to their suitcase to get their clothes out for the day. Starting with hers.
By the time she's finished, she slipped into black jeans, a white shirt with a black skull in the middle, combat boots, fingerless gloves and a dark blue hoodie. Not before long, Connor started to move as the sun hits his face. He stretches his arms and his right leg started vibrating like a rabbit starts thumping his foot.
He sits up and sees his aunt already changed for their interview, and if they have enough time for it, a raid.
Connor rubs his eyes as he sits up. "Morning." He says as he yawns and smacks his lips. His eyes look at her combat boots and his eyes roll to look at hers. Connor's eyes squint and peer on her.
Alice senses that he suspects something so she dares not to hide the truth from him.
"Errrmm… Could you fill in for me, dear nephew of mine?" Alice asks nervously and Connor sighs.
"Come on! I've got to do something productive than asking questions!" Alice exclaims and Connor gives up on the hammer that is her aunt. Man, did she and his mother have so much in common.
"Fine fine. But why?" Connor asks and Alice stands agape at the question. She scratches her temple before answering.
Her face frowns before twiddling her fingers around the spot of her missing yellow diamond ring. Her brows furrow as she remembers their last time seeing each other, and then the grey-scaled man she passed by at the diner.
She swore that he was wearing the same ring that she gave to Alan long time ago. "I have to find the guy that wore his ring… Did you see him?" She asks while showing him pictures of Ryusake.
Connor peers into the image and sees him walking around. Then he notices Ryusake's yellow ringed necklace on his neck. Though he can't make out that that is a ring, it's probably it.
"Yeah but how are you gonna find this guy?" – "For four years, He's been found around alleyways of cities with crime waves. Mostly around the Hosu and Bord Districts. If he's near, he'd be there."
Alice says and Connor is now unsure of what he should.
"Ntt If you are going to find that guy, then I am coming too..." Connor says and Alice makes a face that says no.
"No. You've got an interview to be. I don't need the Detective to ask me questions of why I blew them off.
"Please. You can't handle yakuza on your own."
With that of a taunt, Alice revealed her ultimate move. Her tiara reforms and the rest of her diamonds on her hair and skin form around and on her. Eventually, they wrapped all over her and formed pieces of glittering armor pieces. Between her palms, a yellow staff forms, and on the end of that staff, a blade comes outward, forming a sharp scythe.
Connor is just amazed that she made a super move this amazing. She twirls her diamond scythe around her fingers and holds it with two hands. She sends out a glare, bringing out her war-face. Connor just stands there, agape and astounded that her awesome side's returned.
"Don't think that I can't handle punks on a Saturday night, Connor." Alice glares at Connor, and the nephew is breaking down at a nervous sweat. He has been beat up by her aunt before. In training. This is different.
He holds both his hands up defensively. "Okay. Okay. I'll follow your lead then. Where do we start?" he clasps his hands together and looks at her, with forgiving eyes.
She smirks before spinning it out of existence and back onto her skin. The armor pieces sneak back and embed onto her skin and hair. Her smirk lets out a satisfying giggle and she walks and opens to let his nephew out, with the keys in hand.
"Any day now, nephew." She says while motioning her head to go. Connor scoffs at how drastically her aunt can change over time to find her best friend.
"Fine,… -" Connor says while walking through the door. Alice smiles to herself and closes the door. Connor just thought up an issue that had to be brought up. "… By the way, do my parents know that we're here?"
Five minutes later, At the outside of the hotel, Alice was cursing herself for not telling her sister and her husband of the details. She was typing on her phone some emails, texts and missed calls to her sister's phone, address in hopes that she hasn't come back from her hero business trip.
As they walk out of the hotel, Nasai's and Kasai's eyes roll to see them walking down the street. They nod to each other, and signaling that it was time to roll and follow them. After dealing with their little slip-up, which was Yagoi Hando. Already taken care off.
At the end of a hallway full of beaten-up-to-death cops, an open door to the right shows Kasai beating Yagoi Hando, who was strapped to a chair. Yagoi coughs up blood onto the floor. He coughs up more after the blood splatters on the ground.
Kasai's fist was not even enshrouded in flames yet, but he was very angry that Yagoi screwed the entire operation.
"I told you! *cough* *splatter* They know nothing!" Yagoi exclaims and Nasai twirls his baton in his fingers as he reads a file to prove Yagoi wrong.
" 'The apprehended, Yagoi Hando, had admitted that he was part of a very secretive yakuza group, which he was a part of. Further investigation will be done for the matter.' " After finishing the report, Nasai sends a glare at Yagoi.
Yagoi's eyes were starting to tear up as he heard that. His eyes then dart to Kasai's knuckles and their sound as he smeared off Yagoi's blood off his fist.
Kasai draws back his fist for a left hook. His entire forearm bursts into flames, lighting the entire room with red. Yagoi's face turns to tears as he squirms in his seat.
"Y-You don't ha-have to do this, buddy. You'll only make the situation wo-" Yagoi's statement was interrupted with a fist to his face. He was knocked out cold. Kasai's face turned into a face of disgust. He was disgusted from his worm of a friend. The coward. He despises any rat that crossed him and his brother. They'd give anything just to live. Even their own.
He repeatedly punches Yagoi's face, eventually making bruises on his cheek. Punch after punch after punch. He was growing tired of having snakes as friends. When it seemed enough, his head cracked and blood began dripping down from the cracks of his face. Kasai sighs as he relieved himself of his anger. Nasai 's baton swoops into his belt as he throws a damp towel at Kasai.
Kasai catches it and wipes it across his face, smearing off the blood. When he was done, He follows Nasai out the door, who was waiting for him by the door. By the time he walks out, Nasai walks ahead of him and out of the hallway. Both of them were snickering and chuckling over the masses of numbers of bodies that they had laid waste on the ground.
Kasai still snickers as they follow the heroes to their destination. Alice is following the map to the Bord District and Connor is helping with his GPS. They are closing in on a train station to ride the bullet train to Bord.
Kasai and Nasai sit down three seats behind them, who are looking at the scenes as they speed by in the train. The two thugs keep on their tabs on those two. Especially Kasai. His eyes were fixed on Alice. Just admiring her golden hair. 'Man. I should get her a drink sometime.'
In an alleyway, two thugs are running down and toward the streets, cowering from a figure that frightened them as children.
"Fucking hurry up your ass, Komatsu!" The woman shouts back, as she carries the stolen money from a convenience store. Komatsu looks up behind him to see Ryusake's claws in front of his face, and that was the last sight he sees before being knocked out.
Fujita looks behind her to see her partner on the ground behind the monster that only stared at her with eyes of anger. She stumbles and falls on her back, scared for life. Ryu trudges toward her and grabs her shirt.
Fujita trembles as Ryu stared into her eyes. His mouth gives off gusts of his breath. He ends it with a roar at her face, making her pass out. Ryu gives out a sigh as he drags the two burglars to a corner of the alley and leaves them tied up there. He grabs on the bag that Fujita was carrying and walks to the convenience store that they robbed.
"Damn robbers." She curses the robbers that came in earlier and stole their money. And just about she was about to take off her apron to leave, the door slides open, and she sees a strange man with grey scales come through the door, with a bag.
He looked like he had a bad day, and she could see it from his bruises across his chest, his black shirt torn. She looks at his face and seeing him, earns her a bit of red on her cheeks.
She sees Ryu stopping in front of the counter and his pants can be heard loudly through the silence. An audible gulp can be heard from her throat. Ryu throws it on the counter before leaving. The storeclerk is only dumbstruck by the sight of someone coming in with a bag, and leaving the shop, along with the bag.
Her eyes trail toward the bag, and then she peers through the bag, and is astonished by the sight. Their money was granted back. She looks back at the door that Ryu went through and the path that he took to the right.
She is still astonished that a stranger came and left money for the store. She rushes to put the money inside the cashier.
Ryu checks the time on his new cheap watch. '3:30.' He sees down on his watch and eventually sees a wreck of a shirt. He takes it off and sees the handiwork that Ikari had done for him. She had her wounds stitched up, though it didn't need to happen. But he was still grateful for her healing.
He moves his bandaged right arm and then saw that too. 'Huh… Kind of looks good on me.' He compliments Ikari's handiwork on his arm.
"You need to stay away from fights now that you have me as a caretaker." Ikari advises and Ryu wears his black shirt, covering the stitches. Ikari takes the kit and back into the van. She's surprised that there is even a kit in a van. A gangster's van.
'Thank you.' Ryu sends to her and Ikari's eyes dart over to him. "Eh?" She asks out of surprise. His eyes stopped glaring at her and took on a bored face as he looks at her eyes.
'Yesterday, you've gotten me new clothes" He says motioning his hand to the mall bags with new clothes. "You've tended to me as if I was your friend.'
"But I am your friend. Aren't I?" Ikari asks which made Ryu stop for a moment. They stayed like that for a moment. Her white hair looked good when it was tied down the nape.
Ryu scoffs at the memory of his… He wouldn't know what to call her, now that they are…
"Friends." He mutters to himself, feeling a hint of disgust, since he had a friend before he stopped going to school. Shrugging off his flashbacks, he trudges his way back to the van. He sighs out the boredom from his chest.
Nothing big was happening in the districts. The day seemed like it was releasing small droplets, and now, the sun would come out to play.
Back to Akihiro, He continued on his boosted board and he reaches his secret warehouse. His skateboard makes a skidding sound in front of the door. He takes off his helmet to let free his hair as he opens the door and he sees his mentor speeding around the computers.
"Gotta find them. Gotta find them. Gotta find them." Sokudo keeps muttering as he types on one keyboard and the other. He was looking at CCTV footage, rumors, news reportage, police reports. He was drastic at finding the mercs that landed in Japan several days ago.
He also knew what's happened to Japan. The nation has lost its main pillar against crime. All Might. And the #1 Hero isn't too far behind. He's been going non-stop just to find those mercs. And his adopted son. How could he have done that? For duty? To protect? Or just because he wanted to return?
Akihiro places the bag of food on the table and Sokudo stops to see it and he grins for a second before whooshing to the couch to eat. Together, they eat their fries and Sokudo finshes his in a flash. He lets out a burp and turns to Akihiro for one question.
"Akihiro. Question. Do people still do good things?"
Akihiro drops his fry back into its container and looks at Sokudo, already knowing that he's going to do something stupid. Sokudo smirks at him as Akihiro stared at him for a second before zooming to the back room to get his old black-and-white armor-padded suit. His scowling helm was left in his right to hold up.
Akihiro notices something new on the chest. A small circle. It looked like a gem. A yellow gem that was smooth and looked like a pendant of a necklace. Akihiro points at it and asks,
"What's that?" pointing at the pendant on the costume's chest.
Sokudo looks at it and remembers why he put that there. "This is a gem. It was given to me by a good friend of mine." He says that while looking back at 12 years ago, his leave of America. It was a yellow sapphire. He got that from his burnt house the other day. His black and blue gauntlets added onto the superiority of the look of the costume.
Akihiro scoffs at him. "Yeah yeah, she felt like she was going to miss you, yada yada." Akihiro says while he motions his hands as if he was swatting a fly. "Are you going to go to her yet? She's staying at a hotel in Bord."
Sokudo turns into a frown as he laid down his suit on the table. He lays down on the couch and starts remembering. His four years of not sending anything to her… He thinks he changed her life ever since his mentorship of her. The thought of her breaking down didn't bother him, but it's there. He'd love to see her again, but if he risked himself being seen now, then his four years of secrecy will have been for nothing.
"Mmmm No. Not yet anyway." Sokudo says shrugging off the thoughts. Akihiro stuffs his face with more fries and saying mmhmmm. His crunching can be heard from where Sokudo was sitting.
He was sitting on a chair with wheels, and he rolls the chair toward the computers and keyboard to continue browsing for the news within his time in the ice. Then he catches glimpse of a grey-lizard man walking in the streets. He pauses to look at it and calls Akihiro over.
"You thinking about foiling their plans? You know where the meeting will take place, right?"
"Of course I do. The couriers you said are going to deliver them by plane two days from now, right? Then they might be going north, where one of the League of Villains' bases are." Sokudo explains and Akihiro gives off a simple nod. Over the years, he's been collecting intel on them, and their workings on the world.
The burning of Arizona was one of many more disasters just like it. They were meant to incite fear into the lives of people. Then his four years of absence in Japan, and it was the League's time to rise in Japan. Shrugging the events off, he continues to speed through the internet for reports and footage for the enemy's sightings and where they are.
"Akihiro?"
"Yes, master?" Akihiro asks as he walks over beside Sokudo. By the time Sokudo scoots over, Akihiro squints his eyes in familiarity of the figure that was walking through the streets.
"Ahhh. It's another one of those vigilantes. Did you know that he saved me last year?"
Akihiro looks at his master and his face turned into one of despair and surprise. Akihiro shakes his shoulders to bring him back.
"Hey. Hey! You okay?" Akihiro asks worriedly, and Sokudo looks at the figure, knowing that he was his stepson. Wait. He still is!
Akihiro feels a gust of wind blowing against him and he sees Sokudo blurring towards the table then through the door. He glances to the table and sees no costume. Akihiro runs through the door and does not bother to shout. He looks around but can't find the old hero, and has seen that he has sped off to find that vigilante, whoever he was to him.
"That guy is so troublesome." He speaks to himself, expecting something big happening in the city later on.
"That train ride was the comfiest by far! Their seats were amazing!" Connor says as he praised the train's seats. They had a train ride around the city, and got lost because of how fast it was going.
Alice shrugs his praising off as he stretches his back. She had to find that guy by tonight. If there are any yakuza in the streets, it would be the Hosu District.
They are now in the streets and in front of the train station at Hosu and the nearest to Bord District.
"Connor, here is your GPS. I'm going to ask around now." Alice hands to Connor his GPS and walks into the fray. Connor shoves his GPS into his bag and follows her. Alice looks around for someone who knows the area well.
Alice smiles when she sees a couple walking towards the mall. They were about the same size as each other. The brunette girl had a cap on her hair, and her pink shirt had long sleeves that had two lines going down to the wrists and she was wearing a high black skirt that reached below her knees. It was strapped along her waist she with broad strings at the back like a corset.
Her boyfriend had only a black shirt with a white circle in the middle and he wore dark blue jeans and some rubber shoes. He was wearing a white and yellow track jacket because it was so cold for him.
It was Fukuda Watari and Harumi Sakatoshi. They looked like a couple in her eyes but they really weren't. They were just good friends ever since he started to live near her apartment and decided to help her out on a good cause.
"What are you so focused on over there?" Harumi asks plainly and Fukuda glances at her while he is controlling his puppets at home. Fukuda glances at her to answer her question but is interrupted by Alice's voice directed at him.
"Hey. Have you seen this man?" Alice asks Fukuda. He lowers his glasses to see her in plain view. He opens his mouth to speak but is interrupted again by Harumi exclaiming softly.
"I remember this guy!"
"Really~?"
"Yeahh. He came to one of my campaigns and got a basket from me the other day." Harumi explains and Alice lights up.
"Do you know where he is?" Alice asks.
"Noo sorry. All I know is he comes and goes saving people from yakuza threatening this side of Musutafu." Harumi says, making Alice fistbumps in the air knowing that she was right.
'Come to think of it… I would have loved to talk to him again.' Harumi thinks as Alice took mental note of Harumi's words. Meanwhile, Connor's ears were travelling off to hear some gossips around them.
"Did you hear that hot guy saved a girl the other day?" / "How's Sakura?" / "There's this Tili Tili Bom Character that got the perps that stole Yo-san's money earlier."
He eavesdrops on the two guys talking about one convo in particular as they come his way.
"What did he do with it?"
"He gave it back to Yo-san."
The gossips turned to exclaims of surprise as they laugh it off beside Connor. He pursues them to strike a conversation with them, and nonchalantly and friendly as possible. Connor turns around to have a chat with the guy with the weird hair.
He taps his right shoulder and his laser-like gaze hits him like a truck as he jumps in place.
"Where did you see this guy?" Connor says as he shows a picture of Ryusake walking in the street. The two in question just pointed at the picture, finding it familiar to the guy in their conversation.
"This is the guy! The guys that I was telling you about, Jube!" Ichimoku says to his friend, making him and his short friend excited.
"Where did you hear of this guy?" Connor asks and they happily provided information. Meanwhile, Alice is finishing up conversing with Harumi and Fukuda as they left for the mall and on their separate ways.
"Well, it is nice to meet you two. Have a nice day." She says smiling and going to where Connor is. Harumi and Fukuda turned heel right and to the mall to shop, and Fukuda controls his puppet mannequins to drive a truck to a warehouse. Harumi sees this and asks.
But before that, she had to guide him with her arms. She swoops her arms under his and She looks at Fukuda's face still focused and keeping a straight face. Alice smiles sweetly at the sight of friendship.
"You really need to prioritize yourself, Fukuda." Harumi titters and Fukuda grumbles in response, earning a huff from her. Fukuda glances at her face, seeing a tint of red on her cheeks. So they walk toward the mall to buy their stuff.
In the alleyways, Ryusake is finishing tying up three more yakuza in the Bord District. He pulls the ropes and claps the dusts off his hands. His eyes trail to a yakuza's face to find that he had a cool facemask on him.
The facemask was pitch black and had opening holes that looked like a gas-mask. The strap was shiny Velcro. He tilts his head and grumbles before swiping it and wearing it to see if it looked good on him. He felt good but he wasn't sure if he looked good in it.
One of the thugs is starting to wake up and he glances at him. His eyes start to flutter as he regains consciousness.
"You little… shitter…" the thug grunts and coughs as he comes to. Then he remembers that he came here to kill Ryu, for that embarrassment from a week ago. He underestimated Ryu too much when he was killing that little girl.
Then it hit Ryu. He recognized his raspy voice and realizes that this was the thug that he had beaten and slashed a week ago. It was Takie.
He struggles and squirms in the ropes and tries to get out but couldn't. He glares at him as he glances at his pathetic form. He continues doing his business with wearing his facemask. He nuzzles to fit his face in.
"wait… That's mine!" Takie shouts and he shakes up in his spot tied up with his two compatriots. "Give it back!" Takie shouts after Ryu who was going out of his sights. He screams to get out of the ropes and struggles relentlessly to do so. In his last words, hoping that he will hear this, he screams, "Fucking scum! You'll regret this!" He said grunting to get out.
Ryusake heard nothing and kept walking in the crowd with his new facemask. He slides his hands into his pockets, shrugging off the glances from the crowd. He hastens to get back to the van which was maybe four blocks down the street.
Meanwhile, Ikari was cleaning the insides of the van. Or was at least trying. In every opening she found, it was only filled with more stuff that she found gross. She let out her tongue in disgust at every one.
Ikari feels accomplished now that the van seemed spotless, throwing out the yakuza's garbage out of the van. The graffiti was still there and she can't be bothered to clean paint. She hears a knock and her head turns to see that Ryu had come back. She brightens up as she opens the door and hops out of the
Ryu walks beside the passenger's seat and leans on the door. Ikari smiles at him coming back. He huffs out his frustration out of his nose and glares softly at her, making her smile melt into his memory as she smiles at him.
His eyes trail to the inside of the van, seeing that most of the garbage inside is gone. Ikari sees his eyes looking at the back.
"Umm I did a little spring cleaning. You like it?" Ikari says as she holds out her palms. Ryu doesn't move as he looked at her palms with his brow raised in suspicion.
"I-I did a little spring cleaning. You like it?" She says motioning her hands to the back. Ryu glances at it then to her and eyes her clothes. She was wearing the skirt that she was using the other day. And her garbage scent was coming back again.
He shrugs it off and pats her head like a child and she purrs to his touch on her head. He shrugs off the moment and backs up to walk to the driver's seat, but then a whoosh comes from behind and sweeps Ryusake away.
Ikari's eyes widen and stare at the spot Ryu used to be in. Her head rolls left and right to find him. She runs toward the street and looks around with Ryu out of sight. She veers around to sprint to the alleyway and looks ahead and back.
"Sakiiee! Where are you?" She shrieks out into the alleys in search for her friend. She looks back to the van and contemplates on what she should do now. She can't leave a friend because she'd feel bad about this later. She did not want to go through that again.
She goes back to the van but was stopped by a hand on her waist hosting her up and whooshes to God knows where. Then in a second, Ikari was placed on a couch beside a bewildered Sakii.
"S-Sakii!" She exclaims feeling a huge force of relief in her chest. Ryu looks at her keeping his scowl on as she looks his way.
'Yeah. I'm fine.' He sends at her just looking at the familiar figure standing and leaning on one of the tables. His arms had been crossed as if he was disappointed. He huffs out a breath and looks at Ryusake.
"You remember me, Ryu?" Sokudo asks with a sympathetic face. Ikari jerks her head and looks at Ryu.
Ryu stands up and walks over to face Sokudo. Sokudo stands over him by a couple inches. Ryu's shiny yellow eyes strike Sokudo but is unfazed. Sokudo shrugs off his glare and looks at his stepson.
Ikari was staring at their face-off. Akihiro slumps on the couch beside her. He holds out his hand to Ikari to shake hers and to make her acquaintance.
"Hi. I'm Akihiro. What's your name?" Akihiro asks making her head jerk to look at him. She looks at his hand and hesitantly shakes it.
"Ikari." She says plainly and swipes her hand off and looks at the two facing off.
"Before you do something, I have something for you." Sokudo speeds to the table behind him and hands him a burger. Ryu looks down upon it and he huffs before taking it. He glares up at Sokudo and places the burger in his left to punch him with his right.
Sokudo grunts at the punch to his stomach. Akihiro and Ikair suddenly stand up ready to have a fight.
"No don't, Akie. I deserved that." Sokudo says stopping Akihiro from throwing punches. Ryu keeps his glaring gaze fixed on Sokudo. Sokudo puts his weight on his knees to get more strength. Ryusake punched him hard on the spleen.
He looks at his stepson's yellow eyes again. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you all alone…" Sokudo pans looking up at Ryu and Ryu lets out a growl at his traitor of a caretaker.
Sokudo looks at him and backs away to let him breath, but he still keeps his glare fixed on him. Behind them, Ikari and Akihiro sit by and watch. 'Man, this guy is something else.' Akihiro says in thought. Ikari catches that and agrees.
'You have no idea.' She thinks to herself and continues watching the small family hash it out.
Sokudo regains his stand and looks at his stepson. "I should have been there…" Sokudo's eyes start to form tears in his eyes. He turns around and finds a wheelie chair to slump on. Ryu shuffles his arms and crosses them to listen to what Sokudo has to say.
"I should have been there for you… For your mom… I let everybody down… it's my fault that you have no home… I'm sorry…" Sokudo says with tears coming out from his eyes and sniffles trying to stop the tears.
Ryu looks at his stepfather and contemplates about everything that happened.
'This guy does not deserve forgiveness. He should pay for leaving me.'
'But you should forgive him. He's taken care of you for five years. That was just one mistake.'
'And that mistake has changed you for the worse. You have become a vigilante because of him.'
Ikari hears the conflicting thoughts in Ryusake's head. Her eyes widen at her friend's breakdown. Before this, he was so calm and even-tempered. His glare turned into a wide surprised look, his mouth agape and his fists clenched. His entire body was shaking slightly.
His thoughts in a mental state of disarray and he was fighting with himself. 'jeez Ryu… I never thought that you would act like this to your family.'
Sokudo starts sobbing in his seat. Ryu is still thinking whether he should forgive him. Then he thinks of what his mother would have wanted… She wouldn't have wanted him to have a heart full of hate. She would have wanted him to be a forgiving man, like his missing father.
He huffs out all his thoughts. He steps in front of his Sokudo and he looks up at Ryu.
Ryu softens his glare to a stoic face and places his hand on his shoulder, as a sign of comfort and understanding. Sokudo's head turns up to look at him.
"…I'll give you. One more chance. Sokudo." Ryu grumbles lightly, making Ikari and Akihiro spike up at his voice. Their mouths agape at Ryu, especially Ikari.
'That's the first time I've heard of his voice. Again.' Ikari thinks to herself
'His voice is the deepest I've heard so far. I don't think.' Akihiro thinks to himself, munching the rest of his fries.
Sokudo's eyes stop tearing and he smears off the tears and stands up. They look at each other's eyes and stare at each other.
"You're still the same guy my mom met. And it's just sad." Ryusake snaps at Sokudo took it as a joke. He chuckles leaving Ikari and Ryu bewildered.
Sokudo breaks off with a smile and looks at Ryusake.
"All right then. *sniffle* Ryusake. For now,-" Sokudo reaches out his hand to sake Ryu's. The scaled vigilante looks down on it then his brown eyes. Ryusake grabs it and shakes on it, making their fight and misunderstanding understood. Ikari looks at this display and is just in awe and shock.
It's every emotion in this one scene, poorly crammed. It's as if the author got tired and scared at the same time because he was watching Stanley Kubrick's The Shining in 1980.
Ikari sniffles off potential tears and Akihiro notices her. He smiles and lets out a chuckle. His hand reaches out to pat her on the shoulder. Ikari inches her way away from Akihiro, making him spike up and more cautious around her.
In the alleyways, Alice follows Connor, who is in his werewolf form, down the path that took them closer to where the 'Tili Tili Bom' character might be. Alice walks beside her nephew as he sniffs down the path.
Alice gives out a sigh feeling defeat, and in a wild goose chase. She looks disappointed and Connor's eyes look up from the ground and at Alice, seeing her disappointed. He saw that she was a bit depressed without the guy that made her life more interesting.
'We'll need to find him.' Connor says in thought as he sniffs on the ground. He suddenly spikes up at the scent of Sokudo being awfully close. He rockets off to the place ahead of Alice. She sees this and she shouts off after him.
"W-Wait! Did you find something?!" Alice shouts running after him. She sees him going left and into the street. She hears exclaims in the crowd from seeing a werewolf going around in the streets. She groans as she jumps into the fray.
Alice follows the short screams and yells as she runs toward Connor. Meanwhile, two gangsters were following them as well and hot on their tail. Nasai texts Peter about where they are going and to track his phone so they know where they are.
Alice sees him hopping on a fence and jumps off. and Alice follows. She opens the metal gate and continues the chase. Connor speeds up, knowing that they are closer to where Ryu was. Alice sees that he's stopped at the turn ahead. She hustles beside him to see what he was staring at.
She sees a van with all of its doors opened in an alley turning left leading to the streets. She walks past the bipedal wolf and scopes out the van.
Connor changes back to his form and surveys the surroundings with Alice. Alice peeks in the through the opened doors and sees clothes in packages at the back. One package was about to fall and one fell, leaving the clothes on the floor.
Alice's eye catches one of the sweaters on the floor and her eyes turn red at it. Connor peers through the side door and raises his brow at her. Been a long time since she saw that side of her.
He turns his head to a wolf's and sniffs the van for something. He sniffs the front first for anything. He gets a sniff of the man they are looking for. Then someone else. He found that smell familiar. His nose brings him outside of the van, and he gets a small whiff of someone else's scent.
His brain was going erratic, thinking of whom the scent might belong to. Alice walks over to him, seeing him spacing out.
'wait. Is it… Uncle Sokudo's?!' He thought to himself. He veers to the spot where Ryu was, beside the car. He found where they were, and the gray-scaled guy was definitely here, and Sokudo's scent disappears.
Alice sees Connor sniffing around and taps his shoulder. But before she does, she hears slips behind them. Her head flings to see what it was. She grows cautious about their surroundings and Connor shifts his head back to normal.
He stand back up and does reports what he found out. "The guy was here, with two others. I uhh…" Connor stops before saying that Sokudo was here. Alice looks at him with a questioning look.
"What is it?... Connor." Alice furrows her brow before saying his name. Connor looks at her.
"I got the guy's and Uncle Sokudo's scents around here, but barely. It seemed like they were speeding around. But where did they go?" Connor says pulling out his detective skills to work. Alice hears something behind them again, and she turns her head around to see what it was, again.
She walks slowly toward the noise and scopes out the scene. She manifests a yellow diamond sword in her hand and her tiara on her head. She holds the sword on her side and readies to throw a shard with her left as she nears the turn by the cans. She jumps at the corner and sees nothing. She turns around and she sees a baton that's swung at her.
She waits for the hard impact but it was stopped. She looks at Connor who blocked the swing and threw the baton at Nasai and punches his gut. Nasai grunts the pain and steps back. Kasai shrouds his right arm on fire and throws a shuriken at Connor.
Alice throws her shards at the shuriken, making clings and clangs on the ground. Nasai sends electricity to his arms and clenches his fists at them. Kasai chuckles at them, making Alice turn her sword to a longsword.
"So, you're this Diamondback, huh? A heroine to the small people in Detroit?" Kasai strikes a conversation at them. Alice shrugs off the taunt and stands her ground beside Connor. Kasai unsheathes his katana and points it at Connor and Alice.
"We are assigned to off you. So I hope there aren't any hard feelings!" Kasai says as he jumps at Connor first, ready to swing his katana at them. Alice runs in front of Connor, blocking the katana with her longsword. A loud clang is heard. A spark bounces off of their swords.
Kasai grunts and punches her with his free right arm, and she jumps back to dodge and lands beside Connor, who was shifting to his werewolf form slowly. A shing can be heard from the claws as he speeds toward Kasai with his claws pointed at him.
"Tch, Nasai!" Kasai says as he jumps back, shouting for aid. Kasai electrifies his batons. Connor notices this and lands on the ground to dodge. By the time Nasai's landed, Connor veers left and right from Nasai's swings.
Kasai swings horizontally downward and hit Connor's elbow. He roars at the pain and shakes from the electricity. He slices him with his right, grazing Nasai's arm. Connor jumps back to dodge the vertical downward strike.
Connor stumbles a bit and regains his footing. He hisses from the pain and holds his elbow. Alice runs in front of him and points the tip of her longsword at them, the handle below her waist in front of her.
"Connor! You okay?" She asks and Connor nods growling. Kasai laughs while he swings his katana around while he walks around.
"Look at you! All honor! Ready for a battle but never finding one. That's the way we like it! Heroes!" Kasai monologues. Alice looks at them, glaring at the yakuza scum. And Nasai was just putting pressure on the wound on his left shoulder. Kasai pats his brother's left shoulder as he passes by. Nasai lets go of his bleeding shoulder and regains his form at them.
Connor realigns and snaps his elbow back in place and points his claws at Nasai. Kasai laughs as he reignites his right forearm on fire. Nasai looks at the Werewolf, shooting glares at him. His phone rings and Kasai hears the ringtone. Nasai gives him the look that Peter and his gang of misfits are close by.
"Sorry kid, but you're not needed, and neither is your Quirk. Get lost." Nasai charges at him, surging electricity to his batons to stick him with them. Alice runs in front of him and blocks the batons with a shield. She had turned her longsword into a circular disc, almost like Captain America's.
Nasai grunts at her display. Alice kicks him back, making Nasai stumble back. Alice turns her shield into a gauntlet with claws. She taunts using her fingers and Nasai falls for it.
Connor regains consciousness and runs on the wall to take care of the other brother. Kasai sees him and thrusts his arm to shoot his fire at him. Connor dodges and lands on the ground and boosts himself to throw his face down on the ground.
Nasai grunts, swinging furiously. Alice dodges and holds one of his batons and punches his gut with her free arm. Nasai stumbles back and Alice throws his baton on the ground.
"I'm getting bored, scum. If you really need me so much, then why haven't you beaten me already?" Alice snaps at Nasai, who was basically at the verge of losing his calming mind.
Electric surges run through and from the ground. He clenches his fist and recalls the surges back to his body. Alice looked on to the lights going away and toward his body. Nasai chuckles and looks back at Alice.
"You almost pressed my buttons girl." Nasai smiles at her, making her more cautious. She manifests another gauntlet on her right and shings can be heard from both as she waves them around, making her shoulders loose. She poses a boxing stance. One arm near her chin and the other below it.
"Alright then. Fists." Nasai says as he lets go of his baton and summons his electricity to his fists and closes in on her.
"Sounds like your last Saturday night." Alice mocks before Nasai grunts at her, punching furiously, the electricity surging in his entire being and fists.
Connor swipes his claws left then right then downward, but Kasai dodges. He punches his Firefist upward to Connor's chest, making him fall down. As soon he got his head back up, Kasai points his sword to his face, making Connor spike up.
"Poor form, one would say." Kasai says. Connor uses his feet to grapple Kasai's, making him look down. Connor pulls him down and gets up to put him in a chokehold.
Connor stands up to lift him up in the air. Kasai chokes on the grip and struggles to let loose. He reignites his fist and starts punching his gut. While they were fighting, Alice was being electrocuted from his fist. Nasai was getting too close to her, which granted her the opportunity to punch his nose and throw him behind her.
Nasai grunts from the roll and stands back up. Then he sees Kasai being hurled toward him. "Motherf-" He says before being hit with Kasai's body. Connor walks beside Alice who dusted off the dirt on her.
Connor growls at them as the brothers stood back up. Nasai holds his left abdomen while Kasai was just panting. Nasai glares at his brother's incompetent form.
"He was bigger than me!" Kasai whines, making Nasai cringe and face the two heroes by himself. Alice forms her gauntlets back into a longsword and it manifests on her right hand, holding it below her waist with both hands.
Nasai surges his fists with his electricity and punches the ground, sending out the electricity to the ground. The electricity flashed over to where Alice and Connor were standing, shocking them both.
Alice and Connor shake and scream out the pain from the shocks. Nasai's eyes glow a yellow color as his electricity surges from his body to the heroes. After a moment, Nasai recalls the electricity back to his body.
Alice and Connor fall down to the ground. Both panting from the pain they were having. They can't move anything from the fatigue Nasai's shocks brought. Alice stands on her knees and weighs on her longsword's handles. She uses it as a walking stick and crutches to Connor.
"Connor. Get up. Get up!" Alice says shaking Connor, who was knocked out, but still sensing. Nasai looks at her form and is just amazed. Even though she's sucked out of her energy, she relentlessly defends her nephew.
Then a helicopter can be heard nearby them. Kasai and Nasai look up to see what's up. They see ropes being let loose, falling down to the ground in front of them. Peter and his team have arrived from above. Then followed Takumi and Stele. Takumi points his assault rifle at Alice, standing her ground. Peter smiling at her as he circles around her.
"Hello there. Damn you look good!" He mocks at her. Alice glares at the villains surrounding them. She lifts her sword at Stele, who was giving her the eye.
He was snickering to himself while he views his long claws. "When can we get a piece of this action?" Stele says as he nonchalantly walks up to her. Alice swings her sword at Stele's face, almost grazing his face.
"Whoaa~! Aggressive!" Stele shouts at Alice. Takumi holds a knife to her neck and holds her arms in place. Her sword drops to the floor and disappears.
"Easy there, Scope. We still need her." Peter titters on Takumi. Takumi nods and brings her back away from Connor. Then, groaning can be heard from Connor as he struggles to lift himself back up. Alice's eyes widen that he starts to regain consciousness at the worst time possible.
"Ohhh~ What have we here?!" Peter says as he walks closer to Connor. The werewolf started to go back to his human form and and he gets to his knees. Peter stops in front of him to drag his hair up to see his face.
He pants and hyperventilates . Connor looks into Peter's eyes. Peters head tilts as he surveys the boy.
"Hmmm… You look familiar. Have I seen you on TV recently?" Peter asks,getting no answer from Connor but struggles to be free.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE! You want me, right? Take me!" Alice begs at Peter. He looks at her form, and is just cringing.
"What happened to you? You used to be so coo~l! What happened? Did you find somebody?" Peter asks, whining at what she looks like now.
"Well, people change. Say, who is this child? He looks handsome like me."
That comment made Connor cringe inward. Peter notices this and he looks at Connor dead at the eye. This made Connor drop into a nervous sweat.
"Something on my face, boy?"
"I said LEAVE HIM! I'LL KILL YOU!" Alice shouts at Peter, making him spike up at her shrieking.
"Jeez woman. Earlier, I can stand you before. Now I can't" Peter says complaining about her behavior. He pulls out a piece of cloth. Dampened with chlorophyll. "Here. Let's take them both. The bosses could want hers too." He says throwing the cloth at Takumi to smother her with it.
She screams but is muffled by the cloth, making her go to sleep. Then Takumi throws it back to Peter to smother Connor with it. Kasai and Nasai were tapping their boots in unison, expecting something. With Connor asleep, he lumps Connor to Alice. Then, a van pulls up alongside them, outside of the alley behind them.
The person that was driving was Takie. The thug from earlier. "Yo! You guys are good for the money, right?" Takie asks while Peter hoists Alice on his shoulder. Takumi hoists Connor up his shoulder.
'Why did I hoist this kid up? It would have been more efficient if I hoisted her so we'd be on our way now.' Takumi complains in his head. Stele looks at him with a devilish grin. Takumi glares at him, looking off to the van.
"Yeaah~. The broker's giving us five million if we do this right." Peter says placing Alice down at the back of the van. Takie exclaims and laughs out of shock.
"That's a nice ass!" Takie says as
Peter closes the door after Takumi places Connor in. Loud coughs are heard behind them, making Takumi and Peter face the two yakuza.
"What about us?" Kasai asks Peter, irritated that the past couple months had proved uneventful and without fruit. Peter holds his hands up in defense.
"Don't worry! The full pay will come and we'll split the deal." Peter assures, making the two of them walk toward him with glares at him. Takumi stands on guard, readying his wrist guns for a fight.
The two brothers cross their arms as they look at Peter. Meanwhile, Takie is tapping his fingers on the wheel while Stele shines his claws.
"Fine then. But you better be good for it!" Kasai says, pointing a finger at Peter. Nasai nods behind him and takes out his phone.
"Yeah?"
/You think you two are free to take on a job?/
While the two walked away, they discuss about a job that they'll take up next week. As the sun set, Peter and Takumi sit on the back, and Stele wears his beanie on his head and Takie drives, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
"Hey boss! When's the money coming?"
"As soon as we get Sokudo back. And uhh how's your thing going?"
"It's a uhhh. Work in progress."
"Good. And if you get paid from it, you can keep it. For you and your crew."
"Really! Thanks a lot!" Takie says while turning his head back, revealing a little scar on his face. Peter spikes up from his face and tries not to look again.
"Get the subjects out now. We don't want anyone seeing this."
"Will do… guy." The thug says awkwardly to Kabe, feeling intimidated. He moves the now quirkless people into the truck and into the body bags, to be shipped back to their homes. Kabe looks at the sun and smiles.
'Now, we'll see what will happen if he wins.' Kabe thinks to himself, chuckling and excited for the outcome of this one act. His watch beeps as the time has come to take them back. The people missing them might pose a threat to them if they had come to.
"You think that you will win?" Kabe hears the voice of a certain Hero under control of his quirk. Kabe puts both of his hands behind him and walks slowly through the frozen-in-place police officers. Some of them gasp quietly as he pass by to get to Taishiro Toyomitsu, a.k.a Fatgum just beside Tamaki Amajiki, grasping for what was in front of him with squid tentacles.
Kabe stops in front of Fatgum and looks at his glaring eyes. "Hmmm... I wonder if you have the capacity to think better than this. It's sad. You people never thought that there're always bigger fish than you." Kabe says as he cups Tamaki's face. He winces from the touch, making Fatgum angry.
"I swear! Once you make a mistake, that'll be the end of yo-" Toyomitsu says before his mouth is stopped by his Quirk. His face turns to Toyomitsu. He goes past him and into the hallway to make a call.
Then in Giran's ivory tower, he receives a text from his favorite disciple. He reads it silently. /The Quirks are ready for transport, sir./ Giran smiles as he smokes from his third cigar.
"Yeah. It's all coming together."
Hoooooooooo DONE! I know I was going to get a rest, but I just can't stop. With all my Quirks lined up, I can't wait to get them in my story for you guys. Thank you to the 13 follow and the 9 who put a favorite on my story. You keep me going when I can't. Thank you so much. And this chapter too me so long to make. Three weeks in the making bitch!