Chapter 2 Act 1: The Truth Reveals Itself

"You two get back to work, we'll read into this file more. Thank you." An officer says to Takeyama and Nishiya dismissing the two with a hand gesture. The two head off and return to their patrol routes but before that…

Kamui woods asks "So what's the game plan since he is probably actively avoiding Yakuza activity because of us?"

Yu scratches her head thinking of ways to 'catch' him doing any Yakuza activity "Hmmm….." She raises her pointer finger as she says this "Let's pretend he isn't under my warrant or police watch anymore! But we watch him in the shadows or something like that if he does do anything sketchy, we can arrest him on the spot!"

Nishiya facepalms saying "That might be the dumbest thing I've heard from you."

Yu replies "You got anything better then?" while crossing her arms.

"A- Why don't we just, let him turn a new leaf in life. As much as I hate Yakuza scum, someone like Gang Orca goes out of their way to help them do that if they're struggling to do so."

"But can we still do the stalking?"

The wood man replies with a flustered "Wha- No"

"Please"

"No"

"Pleeeaaasseee" but this time with the her best attempt at a puppy face

"sigh Alright… But if you slip up and get caught, don't blame me."

"Yaaaay"

"Just stay close to where you last saw him, he can't go that far. Plus he's at UA according to you right?"

"Filing a job application… more like a death sentence to me, those 1-A kids are no joke! ….Hey wanna try the plan I mentioned by stalking him in UA?"

"No."

"Alright, I'll get going now"

The two separate and get back to their heroic and "heroic" duties

1.5 Hours later.

Mt Lady looks at her phone and says to herself. "sigh Woods isn't responding at aaaallll, guess I'll do this myself."

She goes to the prestigious school that is UA and enters the area 1-A is supposed to train with the Dragon. Realizing the students are on their way, hunkers down in a bush near a door that gives her a convenient view by the door. Sosuke unfortunately spots her immediately but she does not notice. Reading the situation, he whispers at her.

"Yohh what're you doing here?"

"AAH!" She immediately covers her mouth and pulls him inside the bush she was hiding and replies in a quiet whisper.

Sosuke panics and exclaims "What was tha-"

Takeyama puts her index finger on her lips and says "Shh- I'm gonna try and watch him without me in the way. I realized Kiryu's a Yakuza and want to see if he does anything that's… 'Yakuza' since he probably stops himself around me"

He places his hand on his chin and rubs "Gramps mentioned that once, but trust me he's a good person…"

"I know but I just want to see who he really is…"

"by the way Aizawa is 100% skeptical of so good luck getting anything from him with Kiryu-san involved" he adds on nearly monologuing with

"Kind of strange but I'll get going Gramp's is getting better by the day an-"

He gets shoved out of the bush and the woman whispers

"I'm sorry but you're wasting some time… also don't tell anyone about this!"

"Aight aight"

Komaki proceeds to run to the nearest taxi to get back to his Dojo.

She gets back to her 'premiere' seat at Kiryu's or 1-A's ass whopping and is trying to make herself comfortable for it.

"No popcorn but it's alright" She snickers to herself

"Alright Class, all of you know this is meant to be training for hand to hand quirkless combat, the basic ground rules are that you cannot use your quirk in training. I'm giving the exception to Yaoyorozu since weapons disarming is part of the outline…. Its fine if you don't use it in this exercise though…." Kiryu sighs to himself at what he is going to throw himself at "It's all of you versus me without using your quirks, this is to test how well you can deal with fighting without quirks."

"Is he insane?! I don't think random thugs are equal to the new generation of heroes-" Her self-monologue quickly gets interrupted as the traffic light haired trio's attempt at combating the Dragon of Dojima.

The fight rages on as more and more students charge in and taken down, Takeyama's eyes widen as each blow knocks one by one down.

Few moments later

Yu was met with a bunch of knocked down 1-A students with the onlooking ones having an expression of awe and surprise. She whisper to herself and thinks right after…

"That was barely even a fight sweet lord... Damn everyone really does underestimate him… He'll probably be at the park waiting for me (then I'll spill the 'good' news)"

Takeyama exits the bush and wipes off the twigs and leaves stuck onto her spandex. She was waltzing around the park waiting for Kiryu until

"Where were you?" Kazuma asks

Tekeyama replies with "Someone called me for a villain situation, apparently it was urgent"

"I see..."

"So how was the students?" Mt Lady says in juxtaposed happy tone

Kiryu puts his hand on his chin, rubs it and says "They packed quite the punch but they mostly lacked skill without their quirks"

"Huh so you intend to teach them to fight quirkless?" Yu scratches her head at this

"Yeah, a lot of their quirks seem to be dangerous in enclosed spaces... to minimize collateral damage of course"

"I see... Huh now that you think of it, yeah it does make sense"

Now that she sees this as a chance to tell him that

"So here's the good news, you aren't under my supervision anymore because the school is! Which means you're free to do whatever you want!"

Kazuma, confused and a little intrigued "Where did that come from? Didn't you say it was still going to be a few weeks from now?"

"Ah! Uhm-(think… think… think!) What I meant to say was that you don't have my protective custody now, which means you can do whatever you want!"

"(Something tells me this is awfully familiar and suspicious) I…. see…."

Realizing that he is getting suspicious, switches the topic to something else to put his mind somewhere else.

"So! What are you going to do now."

"I was going to wait here for you to bring me around again but now that you don't have to…." Kiryu's metaphorical light bulb lights up and thinks

"You wouldn't mind me using your kitchen to cook up some food right?"

"Nope, it helps that I don't smell ramen for the rest of my days so go ahead… But why?"

"Since I'm training them, they're going to be hungry at some point in after class. I suppose I should also help them out of class…"

"Huh!? Wait why would you go out of your way just to help kids you've met literal hours ago?"

He replies in a slightly more comfortable tone "(I miss the Morning Glory kids) They remind me of my own ki-…" before being swiftly interrupted

"Right right…(He used to run an orphanage but he might've used it to do bad things) I'll keep an eye on what you're making…." She realizes that she has not asked the obvious and immediately raises her finger "Ah! Speaking of which what are you making? "

"Just a big pot of curry. Gonna try and leave it at their dorms that you mentioned…"

"Well… You've gotta go through Eraserhead if you want to bring anything inside orrrrrrr… We could snea-"

"No, we are bringing it ourselves if we can, maybe through Aizaw-" He gets quickly stopped by a reminder from Takeyama saying

"Oh by the way we refer to ourselves by our Hero names in public during work…. He's called Eraserhead if you haven't already picked up"

"Anyway, its either we bring it through him or we do it ourselves…"

"Its gonna be hard if its through him, and by the way he does not trust you at all from what Komaki said…"

"Wait you saw him? He just disappeared my sight right when he exi-"

Picking up immediately her stalking game might be caught quickly shifts the topic again

"Hey! So what are we going to buy for the curry"

"Hm… Heres the ingredients" Kiryu then lists down the ingredients for the dish as they head out to a local grocery store.

It's the afternoon and they're at the grocery store buying the ingredients to Kazuma's curry with Takeyama holding the shopping cart for him. Things go smoothly as expected, they reach the counter and notices something.

"G-good A-a-Aftern-nn-noon sir… I'm sorry about that…"

"I can tell your new, don't be nervous it's alright"

"Thank you."

Substory 3: Store Clerk

Friendship Level: 1/2

After that small string of events they get their grocery bag and enter Mt Lady's apartment, its quite late in the afternoon now…. This time it does not look like a sad mess but rather currently maintained by her. Kazuma removes his white blazer and hangs it on a clothes hanger as he rolls the sleeves of his undershirt.

"Took some notes on what you did and now this place isn't in a constant mess(I literally didn't touch anything at all so it stays that way aha~~)"

"Nice job… anyway let's get to cooking"

The two unpack their groceries and lay out the ingredients of the curry in the kitchen. Takeyama's large pot gets plopped down and the former owner of an orphanage fills it up with water to boil. Kiryu slices and dices an onion and to Yu's bafflement, his eyes are not shedding tears as much as she keeps wiping hers off every slice.

"Can you not cry?"

"I'm…. cutting under the vents, they help a lot"

"Never knew that…" She snickers then "Alright my turn!" Pushes him aside with the onions included

"Ah!" He continues slicing and dicing once he got back into balance. Not even flinching from the oncoming tears from the amount he was slicing.

"How on earth-" She is completely baffled by the fact that he does not care about the tears but somewhat picks up whispers of him… Singing?-

"sou Tonight nandomo
mata Tonight tameiki tsuku
sonna hibi wa" kono yoru ga saigo sa"

Yu is surprised by his singing ability and gets into rhythm with his harmonic whispering, each slice coinciding with each syllable and every new phrase somehow the onion's not affecting her that much.
"saa Tonight subete wo
sou Tonight uwagakeru sa
konya koso
omae wa kitto kuru hazu"

The man erupts into a blue aura emanate around him as he sings and minces some meat

The woman is baffled by this but continues back to now placing the ingredients in the pot stirring it

"naa Tonight futari de mata aruketanara
nigirishimeta tenohira wo ore wa"

After that moment, the room returns to silence as they finish making the rest of the dish.

A few moments later

"Huh… Guess we're done thanks for that (that song must've meant a lot to him… I'll press on that later)"

"No pro- wait you heard me? Sigh its almost evening now… can we even enter UA at this time?"

"I mean… You do work there, now you can just say you left some documents."

"Guess we can just give them a meal too… we've made too much."

"You underestimate the stomachs of a bunch of teenagers"

"Fine. So are we just gonna tell them straight up? We're just bringing a giant pot in with the extra spoon, fork, or plate if they don't have any."

"What if they think its poisoned though… sigh its worth the shot then, if they can't let us in then there is a tomorrow"

"Alright, lets go-"

"Wait let me change into casual clothing"

"Sure thing, I'll go get my things that I left here and put them back into my place, I'll be right back"

"Sure- Then we go."

The man gets his extra things (mainly an extra bag of hygiene products and underwear) and leaves the condo for his hotel room.

Kaminari sighed loudly, letting himself collapse onto the couch, his wild blonde hair being a mess and sticking out at odd places.

"Ugh, today ripped me a new one. I'm pooped."

"Same, man." Ejiro replies with equal exhaustion, deciding to sit down, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Still thinking about how we ended up being no match for a quirkless nobod-"

Kaminari continued, but was interrupted as a certain Quirkless Nobody, and Takeyama Yu burst through the door. The students near where the two entered shoot up from their relaxed positions, stiff and visibly ready to defend themselves, despite being exhausted.

Takeyama quickly realizes the bombshell of an entrance they had made for themselves, attempting to defuse the situation with awkward hand gestures.

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"Kiryu-san?! Mt Lady! What?!" Everyone's quirks disengage except for Bakugo, Iida, and Todoroki, who continue to silently narrow their eyes at Kiryu.

"Wait… is that FOOD?!" Mina exclaims, a wide smile on her face as she points at what Kiryu was holding. Half the class was asking Kazuma how on earth he got in but not wanting to waste time, seeing as the students were practically watering at the mouth, pulls out the ID that lets teachers in. Kiryu sighs as he pulls this out.

"Finally, my pastries can live in peace… for now" Rikido sighs to himself

"I'm sorry for that entrance. Can't really open the doorwithout kicking it."

(Huh… I just realized that the description of Kiryu-san and a friend of a business partner of my Father and him are close to a 100% match… just who is this man?!) Iida thought, his expression a tense frown.

Tenya hesitantly decides to lead him to the dinner table on his own with Yaoyorozu trailing behind them. Kazuma plants the pot down in the center of the table. They all seem to pause, before the boy with glasses decides to ask the obvious while the raven-haired girl silent as she used her quirk to create something.

"Kiryu-san?"

"Hm?"

"Why did you go out of your way to get us-" Iida pauses, leaning his head down to subtly sniff at the pot. "-curry for dinner when everyone does not even trust you?"

"I wanted to make it up to all of you for. I'm not a fan of beating up teenagers who don't deserve it. So this is my compensation"

Momo chimes in, seemingly finishing what she was making. "Kiryu-san, would you mind if I dipped this straw into the pot? It's just to check for any drugs."

She looked like she felt a little bad, but did her best to conceal it.

"Go ahead."

Yaoyorozu beams, quickly finishing checking the food. "Iida, the food's alright to serve. Tell everyone to get their stuff for dinner."

Meanwhile as that conversation transpired, Takeyama had to deal with her fair share of random questions.

"Wait, you know him?"

"How did you meet him?" Were the two statements that mainly engulfed the lobby.

A sudden silence filled the 's eyes turning to Mineta as he sulked at the farthest part of the lobby. They could almost hear what he was thinking.

(NOOO! NOW MY CHANCES WITH HER ARE GONE!) Everyone inwardly groaned. "As if you had a chance to begin with, creep." Was a collective thought.

"Say, Mt. Lady, what is it like being with him?" Midoriya quickly asks, hoping to ease the tension.

Takeyama finally managed to gather her thoughts, a bit rattled from being overwhelmed by a bunch of teenagers.

"Well, uhm…" Sweat beads slide down her face as she tries not to reveal too much. "Pretty… nice, he's like a dad. It's like he has a soft spot for kids like you and well…. He acts strangely heroic for someone without a quirk. None that we know of at least."

Momo hesitates, but decides to respond. "We'll take your word for it but he still has to earn our trust considering how he was introduced to us. Anyway, get your stuff for dinner, Kiryu-san brought some for us!"

Everyone shuffled in awkward silence as Kazuma enters the lobby. They go to the dinner table and are hesitant to eat the food they were given until Iida gulps to himself, mumbling a small

"Thank you for the food," Before taking a scoop at the meal and eating it.

The shock and surprise on his face fills the class with concern, some of them even activating their quirks. Iida suddenly grins, visibly happy with the taste.

"Kiryu-san! The food tastes good! Thank you!" The class president's reaction seems to create a butterfly effect as everyone relaxes and starts chowing down, except for a select few.

Izuku frowns, approaching his childhood friend. "C'mon Kacchan it's not bad."

Katsuki glares at him, his expression harsh, making Izuku take a step back anxiously. "Tch! Shut up, stupid Deku. You're all way too trusting. Idiots."

Shoto only stares, although he doesn't seem to disagree. Deku's shoulders slump sighing in resignation. Class 1-A's chatter fills the kitchen, the previous tension almost faded away.

This time Denki, Kirishima, and Mina take turns at convincing Bakugou to eat.

"Come on, Kacchan~!" Kaminari whines, tugging at the ash blonde boy's black t-shirt sleeve. The latter practically growls, taking a step back and shoving Denki's hand away.

"Leave me alone! I'm NOT going to fucking eat it!"

"You're such a party pooper! Just give it a try, Bakugou!" Mina pouts, punching Bakugou's shoulder playfully.

"I'd rather die!" He spits back.

"Bakubro, come on! Almost everyone's already tried it, and nothing bad's happened! It should be fine, right?" Kirishima reasoned, with a bowl of curry already in his hands. Bakugou merely glares at him darkly, finally tired of telling people off.

Kazuma suddenly looks at their direction sensing the situation might get worse and slowly approaches them until letting it off with a disheartened sigh. Ejiro notices this and immediately pleads with the Ash-blonde to take a bite.

"It's not manly to refuse stuff someone else got for us! Kiryu-San went through all the trouble to get us food, it would be rud-" Before Kirishima could start rambling on about manners being manly, Bakugou interrupts him, sick of the whining.

"Fuck's sake, fine! I'll do it! If it gets you idiots to leave me alone!" Katsuki shoves Kirishima out of the way as he heads over to the dinner table, the redhead only sighing in exasperation. Crimson eyes glare at Kazuma as Bakugou grabs a bowl and aggressively starts scooping food into it. He mumbles a small "Thank you for the food," before taking a bite. Kiryu lets out a slight but noticeable smile. He pauses, seeming a little surprised, before eyeing the curry quizzically.

He takes another bite. "S'not that bad."

Things go smoothly as the two planned until a certain broccoli haired boy asks a question that sparks a conversation relating to the Dragon.

"Kiryu-san, what was your world like and what did you do for a living?"

The class awaits the man's response. Kazuma on the other hand is thinking of ways to explain Kamurocho that doesn't boil down to "Help tojo clan and rescuing Haruka.". Silence and tension fills the room until Kiryu finally thought of something.

"Not too different from this one, a bunch of people wanting to fight me, wild hijinks with the residents, and of course…. Well…. uhm" The Taxi Driver/Cabaret Club owner/Orphanage runner thinks of which one is the least suspicious and age appropriate causing him to respond with.

"I used to run an Orphanage, it was fun taking care of the kids there…" The man reminisces and delves into nostalgia again making him continue talking with a genuine smile "They had their struggles and such and I helped them out on it-"

Todoroki gets somewhat inspired by this internally while the dots connect for Midoriya changing the look on his face causing a cascading effect that makes the dots connect for the rest of the class.

"So was that why you made this for us?"

"You're almost correct"

"Almost?"

"I also just missed being running the place"

Kaminari suddenly comes out of nowhere and asks

"So… Are you turning this place to an orphanage or not?"

The entire class is attempting to contain their laughter but Mina broke containment asking him back in banter

"Are you still recovering from the quirk training?"

"I- No"

Ejiro enters this banter by calling out Denki saying

"I swear you ask the strangest questions…" Reading that this conversation is basically taking turns to say or ask something about Kiryu, takes a moment and raises his hand until he finally blurts out something

"Kiryu-san, you are one of the manliest people I've ever seen-"

Kazuma extremely confused and gets an abrupt flashback to

Kiryu: I love you, Master… Mwah 3

*random camera clicking*

Poison Mitsuo: My God..! You're perfect, Kiryu-Kun! Perfect, I tell you! Such heart-throbbing maidliness from such a manly man! A stunning contradiction! Ah! My camera's moving on its own! It wants to capture every beautiful pore! This shoot will make us both famous, Kiryu-Kun!

Kiryu: Why do these compliments make me feel worse..

The flashback end and the man shivers a little from the statement before replying "A- Thank you?" in an awkwardly tone

"A- Sorry if that made you uncomfortable…"

"Don't worry, it was just some strange memory that popped up again... Continue"

"What were the kids like?"

"Just a bunch of rowdy teenagers, just like most of you…" The orphanage owner looks at his wrist and realizes that its almost time for him to go and so does Takeyama who has mainly been silently sitting beside him somewhat jealous of him being the center of attention "Would you look at the time… Well most of you probably got to do some homework or something like that, I'll get going now"

Takeyama says in a semi exhausted tone "I'll get going too kids, goodbye."

The two leave and go back to their living quarters with Kiryu dealing with one or two skirmishes with thugs on his way there only to realize that one of the two groups were working with a certain Tojo family…

"The Nishikiyama family insignia?... Nishiki's here!? No maybe it's the other patriarchs sigh" Kazuma leaves the alleyway where they attacked him and returned to his hotel room.

Takeyama is on her laptop checking the rest of the Tojo Clan documents that she found relevant

"He mentioned someone called Goro Majima… Hmmm I wonder"

Goro Majima

Alias: Mad Dog of Shimano

Age: Allegedly 53(?), Biologically 31

Associations: Patriarch of the Majima Family, President of Majima Construction, Associate of-

[FILE CORRUPT]

"Aw man… should've dismounted the drive before unplugging it… I don't know if the detective will let me get another copy bu- Oh its only Majima's and others that are heavily connected to it, neat"

The woman then reads to more and more files and slowly unmasks Kiryu's past through primarily various incidents that happened in the Tojo Clan, while ignoring some other files that had more information on him out of laziness

"Strange… He's still a good person even when involved with the Yakuza, It was like he was the favorite child of the Kazama family which made his brother mad… Man this is some anticlimactic stuff, it's literally just some dude getting dragged into Yakuza matters sigh" She closes the laptop and goes to bed

"Well, I should just do the stalking just in case…"

The silence then hums her to sleep. And the day ends

A/N: Im sorry for uploading nearly a week late, not doing good in the head… anyway this chapter is somewhat experimental for me so I'd like to see your thoughts on this(credits to my friend finndaydreams for helping a bunch with the dinner scene dialogue and other dialogue with the 1-A kids), and I'll be making a couple of announcements on the next A/N. Anyway bye :DD