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"AllMight..." Kamui Woods said after checking the body on the floor. The only reason he knew that it was AllMight is because everyone else was already accounted for. The body was crushed by what looked like thousands of mighty blows.
It took him about five minutes to even considere moving to check on the others. His shame from the fact he couldn't face Akuma made him just stand there... in silence.
After five more minutes the police was finallu able to get to him. They checked on the bodies and took them away. Kamui Woods was still unable to speak until the next day.
He explained what happened at the police station. Eraser head was the only pro hero present or should I say the only pro hero besides Kamui that had minor wounds after meeting Akuma.
They heard him without making a sound. They had their focus on every word that Kamui said trying to fully grasp the situation at hand. Kamui told them everything... everything expect the fact that he was too scared to face Akuma.
"The other heros must have jumped him after they got there." He explained. "That is what I belive happened... when I arrived Gouki had already dealt the final blow to them... I tried to stop the villain, but he escaped." Kamui shook his head on the final sentence.
Eraser Head understood what he meant. "AllMight was killed by Gouki then? It was a one on one fight, right? No sings of any other villain?" He asked while trying to rationalize AllMight's defeat. In his mind, he was trying to figure out a way to make it look like Akuma could be stopped.
"Mostlikely, it was just Gouki and AllMight..." Kamui lowered his head. "And AllMight lost."
Silence took over the room once again. The police chief took a deep breath. "How are we going to announce this?" Eraser Head asked himself with a loud voice.
"The real question is should we?" The police chief said. Both the heros looked at him. "I mean... AllMight was the symbol of peace. The number one hero... If the world knew that he was defeated by a villain... What would happen to AllMight's legacy?"
"You have a point." Eraser Head said. "But I don't like it. AllMight's death should be announced and his cause of death has to be said or it will create speculation..." He said while raising his finger.
"And besides... It's not like the villains woun't know what happened. This information will leak to throught the underground network. It's just a matter of time." Eraser Head placed his hand over Kamui's shoulder. "With that being said, we don't need to say it now. We will make it public after we get Gouki."
-Naruto OST- Departure To The Front Lines
Kamui raised his head revealing his crying expression. "I lied to you..." He started to cry even harder. "I let Gouki escape because..."
"You say it like you could have stopped him." Eraser said with a cold voice. "You were rational. You couldn't beat him so you refused to fight him and thanks to that decision you survived."
"But..." Kamui tried to speak, but couldn't.
"Next time." The police chief said. "Next time we will get him." He punched the table in frustration.
Kamui Woods wiped the tears of his face. "Next time... definietly."
-END THE MUSIC
"What about Endeavour?" The police chief asked. "He was taken to the hospital, right? How is he?" The police chief asked.
The camera moved to the hospital room where Endeavour was. He was still unconscious.
"Broken ribs and a few other broken bones, dislocated jaw and some bruises, but that is not what worries me." Eraser camera zoomed in Endeavours right hand where a faint purple light was forming. "I'm afraid he might have been infected with Gouki's quirk... wait a minute, it might not be a quirk." Eraser corrected himself.
"What do you mean it is not really a quirk?" Kamui asked.
Eraser shook his head. "I was unable to erase his quirk." The hero said. "Either..."
"Either that is a mutant quirk or the villain is quirkless. Is that what you want to say?" The police officer said.
"Impossible." Kamui said. "No way he is quirkless it must be a mutant quirk."
"If it is a mutant quirk." Eraser scratched his head. " That quirk can move to other people and control them. Gouki might not even be the first one to have that powers for all we know."
"That reminds me." The police chief said. "There was a kid that used similar abilities to those showed by the villain, a student."
"Yes." Eraser said. "Katsuki Bakugo."
At the hospital
Bakugo's mom was walking from one side of the waiting room to the next. The father kept quietly while biting his nails.
"Katsuki, my son. What happened to you? Why can't I see you?" She screamed at the father right before grabbing him by the collar. "Why?"
The father just hugged her. She started to cry again.
The nurse came in.
"Can we see him now?" The mom asked while wiping her tears.
"I'm sorry, but he is not ready yet." The nurse explained.
"Why not?!" She was about to throw a punch, but the father stopped her. The nurse took one step back.
"Your son is doing alright. Even though his wounds were grave he healed completly after a few hours. No scars or anything. He woke up and is eating breakfast." She said.
Both the father and the mother calmed down. "That doesn't make any sense. Katsuki has no healing quirk." The father said. "What do you mean? He's healed that's all that matters." The mom screamed.
"You're right, mister Masaru. Your son had no healing quirk, but we belive that the villain that attacked him gave it to him."
"WHAT?!" They both asked confused.
"We don't understand that either, but the pro heros asked to not let him see anyone until they figure out what happened." The nurse said.
"How long is that gonna take?" The mom asked.
"There is someone coming to see you son today. He's a monk. After that, Eraser is going to talk to you son and then he will say if Bakugo is able to see anyone." She said.
"A monk? What does a monk have to do with medicine?!" The mom screamed. The father had to pull her with even more streanght. "Calm down."
The nurse took another step back. "The other students said that the villain asked them to 'make sure to clean their ki' afterwards. We belive that what he said possibly as some connection to his quirk and the current condition of Bakugo. That's why we called a monk to see him."
The mom finally calmed down a bit. "What is he's condition? Is the villain quirk that dangerous?" The father asked.
"We don't know that yet." The nurse answered. "We belive that Gouki's quirk has some psychological effect as well as a physical one. We need to establish a profile on Bakugo to see what's going on with him."
Another nurse walked in the room. "The monk is here." She said. Tall, bald and with the most neutral face they had ever monk walked into to room.
"Greetings." He said. "My name is Felix and I'm here to talk with your son." The monk said.
"You don't look like a monk to me." The mom said.
"Indeed, I am not from Asian. I am actually Canadian." The monk explained. "But spirutal enlightenment is not confined to Asian people alone." He took a small bow.
"They say you can help my son." The father said. "Can you really?"
The monk shook his head. "The only on that help your son is you son himself. I am going to help him go throught whatever is happening to him, but at the end of the day. Your son will have to be the one to go throught it."
"The nurse said something about 'cleaning you ki' or something. Can you help him do that?" The mom asked.
"If he is in need of spiritual guidence I'll show him the path to better himself and 'fix' whatever is wrong." The monk explained. "I will have a better ideia after I see him." He turned to the nurse.
"Where is his room?' The monk asked.
"It's this way." The nurse started to walk.
"Felix, right? Please, help my son." The mom said with tears in her eyes.
"I'll do the best I can." The monk said with a small bow.
They walked together all the way to the door. The nurse stopped and tried to open the door, but for some reason she was unable to... no... she didn't want to open it. After a few moments the monk walked fowards.
"No need to worry. I can handle it from here." The monk said. She nodded and walked away quickly. Felix waited until she was far from there.
He grabbed the door and was about to open it when he felt the hair on his arms standing up. "This feeling..." He said with a small voice. " I've felt it before..."
The monk took a deep breath and slamed the door open. He saw Bakugo siting on his bed eating a soup. The boy didn't even look at the monk.
Felix walked in and closed the door. He stood for a few moments before siting on the chair besides Bakugo's bead. The kid din't look at him and kept eating.
"My name is Felix." The monk said. "You're Katsuki Bakugo, right? I am a monk and came here to talk with you."
Bakugo stopped eating with the spoon and drank the soup from the bowl. He placed it over the cart where there was another 5 bowls.
"Why did they give you so much food?" The monk asked.
"They didn't." Bakugo said. His voice had a trace of a demonic tone in it.
"When one of the nurses came to bring me the food they left the cart and ran." The boy said. "In fact, you are the first one to enter this room, at least after I woke up." Bakugo said right before looking at the monk. His eyes were showed a distant and sad look.
"I see..." The monk said. "I belive you understand what is going on with you." Felix continued.
"Not really." The boy responded. "I feel as if I'm different somehow. Different from the person I was before meeting that villain, but I can't pinpoint it."
The monk nodded. "Yes, you are different from the normal kids. Your energy is completly different."
Bakugo raised an eyebrown. "My energy?"
Felix nodded. "Your energy... your hado is completly different then what would be normally accepted by the average person."
"..." Bakugo looked at his own closed fist.
"Do you know what hado is?" The monk asked. Bakugo didn't reply. Felix grabbed his phone and showed him a drawing of a human figure with the kanji for hado inside it's stomach.
"Hado is the energy of life. The energy that lives inside every creature." He explained. "Hado itself is pure and represents only the life energy of the creature in question, but it can also take different forms."
He swapped the picture to Gouki's image. Bakugo's eyes widdened in shock. There it was... the villain who made him weird, who changed him into whatever he was now.
"You met him before. This is Gouki and the energy that you see surrouding him is his hado. Or at least that's what I belive." The monk said as he placed his phone back inside his pocket. " Hado takes different form thanks to the emotions of the person you observe. If you are in love your hado will change to represent that and if you are angry it will also change."
Felix looked at Bakugo. "How are you feeling now?"
The boy looked at the monk's eyes. "I'm afraid... afraid that whatever happened to me changed me. I'm afraid that I won't be able to be myself again." Bakugo said.
"You're being very honest with me." The monk said with a smile. "I came here expecting you to say scream that you don't need any help, but you are being very understanting of your situation. That's very good."
"SHUT UP. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND NOTHING. I'M DIFFERENT AND PEOPLE KNOW IT. THEY ARE AFRAID OF ME AND WORST OF ALL... they are right to be." Bakugo said.
The monk placed his hand over the boy's shoulder. "You are differnt indeed. From what I was told about you, you are a lot more calm and collected."
"BUT..."
The monk smiled. "You feel as if you could hurt people, right? Your mom and your father..."
Bakugo nodded. "I feel a burning sensation inside of me. I feel like I can't control it... that it could control me at any time."
"Not true." The monk said. Bakugo looked at him confused. "You emontions are a part of you, but they shouldn't take control your actions. These new impulses you have can be controlled."
"How?" Bakugo asked.
The monk placed his hand over Bakugo's chest. "Your energy, that is your hado, is out of balance. There is a new presence inside of you trying to grow."
"Coming from a place so deep inside of me it feels like it's coming from my soul." Bakugo said. "What is going on?"
"Indeed, but it's not forcing itself in you." The monk got up and walked over to the window.
"Look at this room..." He said while closing the windows blinds. The room became a bit darker.
"Even if I take a few precautions light still finds a way in." He opened them again. "If I wanted this room to not recive any light I would need to cover the windows, the door and even then the light would still be trying to get in here." He looked at Bakugo.
"You are not like this room. This energy that's growing inside of you is growing because you are letting it." The monk said with a neutral voice.
"Some part of you wants it to happen. That's why it is happening."
Bakugo used his quirk causing small explosions on top of his palms. " You're saying that I want this?! Ridiculous."
"Not at all, Katsuki. How do you feel about this energy, this power?"
Bakugo made a larger explosion. The noise was heard at the nearby rooms, but everyone was too afraid to check.
"It's... bad... and good at the same time. It's..."
"Powerfull." Felix finished Bakugo's sentence. The boy nodded.
"I won't lie to you. Looking at what the villain can do I would say that this power must be quite extraordinary... If you have the control."
"How?" Bakugo asked. "How can someone control a quirk that belongs to someone else?"
The monk shook his head. "I'm not talking about controling this energy. I'm talking about controlling yourself."
Bakugo looked confused by that. "Controlling myself while using that energy?" He asked.
The monk shook his head. "The other students said that the villain wanted them to 'clean their ki'. I think I know what he meant by that. I belive that in order to take back the control of yourself you need to learn to control your energy and disassociate your sense of self from your emotions."
"My sense of self?' The boy asked.
"Indeed. In other words, you need to reach enlightnment and achive nothingness, the mu. Only then will your hado be cleaned by this dark emotions you have. It will return to it's more pure state."
Bakugo looked at the monk once again.
"How?"
"Let's start with simple meditation."
At another hospital
Endeavour had just woken up. He coulnd't move thanks to the wounds he recieved. The pro hero was frustraited with the fact that he had lost to a villain.
"Gouki!" He said as a small purple energy started to surround him. He heard steps coming towards his room. The energy retreated.
"You're awaken, Mister Endeavour." The male nurse said. "I'll go get Eraser Head." The nurse closed the door.
After a few minutes the pro hero walked in.
"I'm glad you're alright. Endeavour." Eraser said. "I was worried you might not make it."
"Of course I made it. I'm the number two hero." He said with pride and a bit of frustration.
"Not anymore." Eraser said.
"What do you mean?" Endeavour asked with a confused look.
"AllMight is dead."
And that's all folks. See you next chapter.
