Two months later,

Musutafu Japan-

It had taken some doing once they had left Karakura Town, but they had finally settled on a city that Kisuke firmly believed that they could all thrive in. Ichigo herself, was adamant about going back to school and finishing her education. And though he'd offered on multiple occasions to tutor her- she'd shot him down with the same excuse.

Socilaizing with people her own age wouldn't kill her.

He strongly disagreed with her about that.

Statistically speaking, peer pressure killed thousands of kids in one manner or another everyday.

But he understood that she was simply at that age where she needed to go out and lay roots of some kind for herself. Especially since any roots that she formerly had had been uprooted and destroyed.

So he figured that he'd allow it since the others would be going with her anyways. Besides, they all had good heads on their shoulders (Renji aside), they wouldn't give in to any lousy peer pressure. Especially after he'd stressed to each of them just what he'd do to them all if they did.

That was a one sided conversation the likes of which would never be repeated to anyone. And so what if the kids had all started to sleep with one eye open due to his threats of excessive bodily harm, at least he'd made his point.

So now all he had to do was find a nice school that met certain very specific criteria.

Ever since leaving Karakura Town, Kisuke and the others had been made painfully aware that the world was vastly different from how it had been portrayed in TV and the movies and such. Which is something that they had figured out for themselves the first time they'd run into someone with a quirk.

It hadn't been a particularly good run in. In fact it had been terrible.

Orihime and Rukia had both nearly wound up being kidnapped by human traffickers. So naturally after that particular incident, Kisuke had begun to keep an even more careful eye on the kids.

Ichigo in particular could be reckless. So could Renji, Chad and Rukia. But at least they thought before they usually acted. Whereas Ichigo tended to rely strongly on her instincts and used those to react to specific things. He couldn't exactly say that he blamed her any. Especially since her instincts had never been wrong about anything as of yet.

But even he knew that there was a first time for everything. Though the chances of her instincts steering her wrong were notoriously slim. Ichigo usually knew what she was doing when she relied on them to help her read people. And she usually tended to look pretty deeply into a person's mind and character too.

So...maybe her chances of being steered wrong bordered more on the astronomical?

Whatever.

Anyways, the schools that he was currently looking into had to meet certain specific criteria. A sound security system was among one of the things that the school had to have. The reason for this was so that he could secretly hack into the system and keep track of what happened.

That way if anything bad happened, he'd be one of the first people to know and could respond accordingly.

Excellent teachers were another criteria. After all, if the kids were going to go to school, then it better be a fucking fantastic one with excellent teachers. At present, he was standing outside of a place called U.A.

A supposed hero school.

He didn't really understand the reason for the label 'hero' and why it was attached to the school. But he couldn't help but be curious. So far everywhere else he'd gone had fallen woefully short of his expectations. And he'd heard nothing but good things about this place from everyone that had even mentioned it.

And yet...standing here eyeing the high wall surrounding the place- he could tell that while they had a security system of sorts, it would still be disgustingly easy to break inside. For him anyways. He didn't know how a high wall and security alarm was supposed to keep a quirk user out.

He supposed that it depended entirely on the quirk being used.

Humming, he wondered about the best way to get a tour of the place. Sure they had a phone number that you could call to schedule an appointment, but in his experience- people tended to either work best under pressure. Or completely cave under it.

So if he was going to see if this school was a perfect fit for the kids. Or more specifically Ichigo, then he supposed that the best way to go about it was to set off the alarm and see what would happen.

Sighing, he looked around to see if there were anyone that might actually impede his self appointed task. Luckily the only people that were out and about were simple civilians. So...no one to stop him there.

Awesome, now lets see about tripping that alarm. He thought to himself as he bent his legs a little bit and then jumped. He didn't have to use much strength or force considering the fact that the stone wall was fairly average as far as height went, even if it was over fifteen feet high. So jumping it was easy.

However his jumping it didn't seem to trip any kind of alarm.

Disappointing, but I'm not done yet. He mused to himself as soon as he landed on the grass. After all, sometimes being subtle didn't work. Maybe the school's security system was programed to go off at something else. A disruption in the wall maybe? Like having it damaged?

If so then he'd have to put a small hole in the wall and see if that set the alarm off. It wouldn't have to be big, in fact it would be no more than the size of a pebble. It would probably be unnoticeable to anyone who didn't know what to look for. So fixing it would be easy enough.

He was about to do just that when all of a sudden a large shadow fell over him and he heard a man growl out in a dark tone, "What. Do. You. Think. You're. Doing?"

He let out a low whistle of appreciation as he slowly turned his head to look at the giant wall of...holy shit was this guy even human? He was taller than Chad! And more built too.

He also looked about as friendly as a pissed off bear.

"Hi there, are you the security guard for this place?" If so, then color me impressed. Kisuke thought as the guy glared at him. His response time to his presence was pretty damned close to two minutes. That was far faster than most responses to a perceived threat.

The guy didn't bother to answer his question. Instead he reached out and almost before Kisuke realized it, he'd been apprehended and was tightly clutched in the man's large hands.

Shit, his grip is stronger than steel too. Kisuke noted absently. Though he could still break free if he wanted too, he was curious to see what would happen now. Luckily for him, the local authorities weren't called. Instead the guy just unceremoniously tossed him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and ran off.

The next thing he knew he was being placed in a large wing back chair somewhere inside of the large building that he'd been looking at earlier, where he was then cuffed. Literally. The thick metal cuffs slapped into place around his wrists were a precaution.

Even he was aware of that much. Likely meant to subdue any quirk-like abilities that he had. Sadly, they would do nothing for his usual abilities since none of them were even remotely quirk related.

It didn't matter though, the second that he finished analyzing the cuffs he lifted his eyes to see a two foot nine in a half inch tall white furred...thingy with black mouse-like eyes staring at him curiously.

"Well, what have we here? A villain?" The furred little thingy asked the tall bear of a man whom was lounging close by. Apparently the fact that he was cuffed and supposedly helpless meant nothing to the man. He had decided to stay in the room to make sure that Kisuke behaved.

Which was a smart move on his part, if a bit unnecessary.

"A trespasser, I think." The giant said. He spat the word 'trespasser' as if it were something foul. Apparently his mood hadn't gotten any better with Kisuke's 'capture'.

"Ah, I see." The thiny said before shifting it's attention back to him. "And what brings trespasser-san here today?"

"Well first of all, you're rude. I'm not sure that I like the idea of transferring my kids here if they're going to pick up lousy manners." Kisuke said in a slightly bored tone, watching as the furred thingy and his giant friend both perked up at the mention of the words 'transfer' and 'kids'. "Second of all, since the safety and well being of my kids is important to me, I was testing your schools defenses-"

"Oh!" The furred thingy said, his entire demeanor changing from guarded to cheerful. "I see. So you were trying to see if our schools defenses were up to par! You must be wonderful father." The thingy said before turning to his giant friend and saying in a softer tone, "Yagi, take those cuffs off of him so that we can talk a little more in depth."

The giant, Yagi, nodded his head and moved to remove the cuffs from his wrists while whispering to him from between clenched teeth. "If you try to do anything suspicious, I'll rip you apart."

"No worries there. I'd like to live another few dozen years or so." Kisuke muttered under his breath, knowing that the giant could hear him. The man looked at him strangely for a moment, but quickly removed the cuffs from his wrists and then moved back to his original place against the wall.

"Now, then. I apologize for the slightly cold reception that you've had so far. I should have realized sooner that you were a concerned parent," The thingy said. "You say that you have several kids that you'd like to transfer here? Can you tell us a little bit about them? What makes you think that they would fit in here? Are their quirks very powerful?"

"Well, first of all...they're like me. They don't have quirks."

"No quirks, you say?"

"No. I mean, they have abilities- but nothing remotely quirk related."

"Sir, this school is for children who have quirks and wish to one day be pro-heroes. I'm afraid that we don't really have any place for non-quirk users at this time."

"So you're one of those people," Kisuke said more to himself than the thingy and his friend. Both of whom stiffened and looked at him as if they'd both like to squash him like a bug or something. "Bigoted and narrowminded. What a shame. Ichigo in particular would have excelled here. Oh well, I look elsewhere for a good school then." Kisuke said as he slowly stood up to leave when the thingy spoke in a fierce tone.

"We are hardly bigoted or narrowminded, sir."

"Oh? Sure sounds like you discriminate to me." Kisuke said as he glanced at the creature from over his shoulder.

"We do not allow discrimination of any kind in our school!" The thingy's voice sounded irked as he said before going on to explain. "The reason that we do not have non-quirk users here has far more to do with the fact that they simply do not do well here. This may be a place of learning, but the lessons that children learn here are more specifically geared towards training them to use their quirks and become heroes."

Kisuke made a thoughtful humming sound before then saying, "Then you're right. Abilities or not, my kids wouldn't do well here. Especially since none of them have any desire to become heroes... Well, I'm sorry to have wasted your time. I'll go now."

The two of them looked as if they'd been struck. The giant in particular looked upset to hear that Kisuke's kids had no desire to be heroes.

"Wait!" The man called out as Kisuke started to walk through the door. He paused for a moment as the giant then asked, "Why would you're kids not want to be heroes?" He sounded...curious. Maybe even a little bit puzzled and hurt.

"I owe you no explanations about my kid's feelings. Now goodbye, Bear-san." He said firmly as he walked off. No doubt leaving the giant floundering since he could hear him sputtering.

The moment that the man was gone, Nezu glanced at Toshinori and sighed. The man looked positively flummoxed. As if he couldn't figure out what had just happened. But Nezu knew.

So, he wishes to play mind games with me. Very well then. Nezu would play his little game of manipulation. But he couldn't say that the man would like the outcome any. Especially if he turned out to have any villainous connections.

"Toshinori, would you please tail that man and learn what you can of him. I want to be sure that he wasn't here to learn what he could about our school's defenses."

Toshinori suddenly snapped his mouth shut and looked at him curiously before catching on and nodding his head. "Sure, I'll report whatever I find back to you."

"See that you do." Nezu said as he waved the man off and smirked evilly as the man vanished.