I've been away for a hot minute on both the stories I've been working on. I do plan on working on both Parasyte and Hellboy's Hero Academia still, but there's just a few other things using up my creative juices at the moment. I finally got the energy to do more of this and am still excited to see where both these stories will lead me.

A few people were a bit concerned about the direction of the story in regards to the whole Spider-Man and Venom thing. Because of Venom's own obsession with Spider-Man, as shown in comics, I want to show that obsession in one way or another.

nataku2709: I realize that, however the english title of the anime, Parasyte, is also evidently spelled with a 'y' where the 'i' would be, so instead of having the title be something like Venom X Parasyte I figured that would be a perfect way to tie the two together within the title. I could have probably made up a title for it but I do feel like that title was a little more appropriate.

Again, sorry for the hiatus, but I'm going to try and get these stories to anyone that's reading these as I can. Thank you for your patience.

When I finally got home, it was already eleven at night. I was beat, not by any of the criminals and people I helped in just that one night, but just tired. I climbed back through my window, the lights in my room still off. The symbiote morphed into my shorts and T-shirt from the Spider-Man outfit.

As I stretched, I yawned, falling on my bed, "Hey, Venom, did we get any texts?"

His gooey tendril emerged from my chest, laying the phone gently in my hand.

"Thanks." I flipped my phone open.

Yuko texted me.

Yuko: Spider-Man has been at it again! Just after school he saved two of our classmates from a mugging.

I smiled, and sent her my text.

Izumi: Really? Does that mean that you were wrong about him?

Yuko replied pretty quickly.

Yuko: Maybe. The police also released a statement that the monster from the alley, whom they found themselves calling him Venom, stopped 'one of the Mincemeat Murderers,' meaning there are multiple murderers involved. And this time, this Venom creature KILLED him.

Izumi: Would you look at that, two heroes fighting for the side of good!

Yuko: I would hardly call the monster a hero, heroes don't kill.

Izumi: And the other one?

Yuko: Spider-Man seems to be more heroic. The victims of the mugging claimed he was telling jokes as he fought.

After a minute Yuko sent another text.

Yuko: Do you think Spider-Man and Venom will ever fight it out?

Izumi: I couldn't tell you.

I exited our conversation, taking a deep breath. I picked myself up, crawling over to my pillow and laying back down. I looked back at my phone, seeing another text from Murano.

Murano: Hey, I was wondering, Izumi. What would you say about going out for pancakes tomorrow? After the crazy week you've had with the robbery and everything I was thinking hanging out with someone would be nice.

I looked over the message, thinking about the weekend and how things could go. I knew the symbiote felt the anxiety as he morphed a small head over the left side of my chest.

"What's the issue, don't we want to do this?"

I nodded, "I do, but with the whole Spider-Man thing, I don't want to miss someone in trouble."

The symbiote crawled in front of the screen, then looked back to me, "Why not just tell her we're Spider-Man?"

I bolted up, widening my stare at the alien, "Just like that? 'Oh, by the way, I'm Spider-Man! I have this cool alien, who is also the big monster that's been talked about.'" I waved my hand in front of my face, slumping back down, "I can't do that. I don't want you to scare her off."

The symbiote peered over to the closet, "Unless she doesn't figure anything out about us." I raised an eyebrow and he continued, "Let's say we are underneath our normal clothes and we act as a normal costume. We surprise her by bringing her up to a rooftop and swing around a little with her. It has worked before."

"You mean by the real 'Spider-Man' you keep referring to. What's your obsession with him, anyway?"

The symbiote hesitated, but eventually began again, "He was our best partner. Our first partner from our world."

"There were others?"

"Four after him. None of them could match what Spider-Man - what we - had. They are not important." The symbiote seemed to trail off, looking into the night sky as if to reminisce on what had been.

"So," the symbiote turned back to me, tongue flicking, "what happened to you and Spider-Man? Did he figure out you wanted to eat people and got rid of you?"

"That was not an issue until... later." It shook its head, "No, he only realized we wanted to permanently bond with him and rejected us. After we found another, Eddie Brock, who gave us a new path as Venom."

"That still doesn't explain why you're still so obsessed with him." I raised my hand for emphasis.

He simply replied, "Because we were perfect." before going back to his form as my T-shirt.

We should get some rest for school tomorrow, and so we can be ready to impress Satomi as the hero of the town.

I laughed a little, Yeah, right, we're not doing that.

I turned to my phone, sending Satomi a reply.

Izumu: Pancakes sound really good. Let's do it!

The Next Day

The same routine went about the next day for us. Venom morphed into our uniform as I hopped out of bed, I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth, Venom used a tendril to grab my bag from my room as we walked by it and we ate breakfast.

I took more of a stroll this time around as I had plenty more time to get to school, which to me was fine. Then I got to class, which was boring compared to the most recent activities Venom and I had gotten involved in. Speaking of, I ended up taking his advice about wearing him like a normal costume, which to him translated to him being like that for the whole day. However, I took my notes and waited for the day to end. It was at the end of the day that I had finally met up with Murano, being greeted and greeting her with a warm smile.

"Izumi, hurry up! I want to get a good seat at the restaurant." She waved me over.

I smiled, speeding up to a slow jog, "I think you're a bit too worried about it, we'll get a really good seat, I promise you."

"We'll see about that." And with that, she took the lead.

We did get a good seat outside the restaurant where the umbrella tables were set up. We got our food pancakes, which were delicious.

Murano exhaled during the meal, taking a stretch, "Things really have been crazy lately, though. With the murders, the robbery, that monster and a superhero, it kind of makes you wonder what the future has in store for us, you know?"

I nodded, looking up to the sky, "Yeah, how much crazier could it get, right?"

"And it doesn't seem like anyone knows how to feel about this. On one hand, people are being murdered in the most visceral way imaginable and on the other hand we have superheroes swooping in and saving the day. Even last night, that spider guy saved a woman from getting jumped, stopped a bus from hitting a car that ran a red light and stopped a criminal that snatched a purse from an old lady." She placed her finger into the air for emphasis before restating, "All in a single night! How does someone do that?"

I shrugged as I took a bite of pancake. Once I swallowed, I replied, "To me it sounds like the Mincemeat Murders and the general safety of Tokyo just took a turn for the better."

She nodded, taking a bite of her whipped cream topped pancakes. I followed her lead, taking another bite from mine. As I was finishing up that bite she placed her hand on mine, which almost made me choke. Luckily the symbiote was somehow able to stop me from choking at all.

I could feel my face becoming more pink when I looked at her eyes, which were looking back at mine.

"How are you doing? About the robbery, I mean. You seemed really disturbed about it the other day and I just wanted to make sure."

My heart was racing now. I smiled, trying to seem as calm as I could. Venom even used whatever made him able to manipulate my emotions to calm me down. I nodded, giving a grin, "I'm doing fine, Satomi. Even great, now that I had a chance to hang out with you."

Murano's eyes widened and her face became a new shade of pink. Once I realized what I had just said, mine did as well. But she did return a small smile, looking away, "U-uh, that's good to hear! I'm glad that I could help you so much." She turned back to her food and took another bite.

I looked back down at my food, taking a bite myself as I contemplated telling her.

Venom gave me a silent, 'yes,' to which I still had to ask if it was right.

"Satomi!"

She perked up form her food, "Y-yes, Shinichi?"

I hesitated. Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean, what if she gets freaked out?

Satomi leaned forward, "Are you sure you're okay?"

I nodded, waving my hand, "O-oh, no, I was just wondering if we had homework in Math but the teacher was out today. Sorry for yelling like that."

She nodded with a giggle, "You're always so serious about your grades, Shinichi. You need to relax from time to time! Especially after this crazy week."

"You're right, but I shouldn't let my grades slip either. That would probably stress me out even more trying to catch up."

She waved that off, "You get straight A's most of the time, getting a little behind wouldn't be the end for you."'

"Maybe," I replied as I took another bite of pancake.

Smooth.

Quiet.

The three of us took our stroll back to home, where we accompanied each other. It was nice being able to talk to her at least somewhat normally, despite all the craziness going on.

"You know what would be fun, Shinichi?" Satomi asked.

I looked down to her, nodding, "Why? You been wanting to see something for a while?"

She shrugged, "I don't know, I haven't really kept up to date with that stuff. Wouldn't it be fun though?"

"Yeah, it could be." I tried thinking of any movies coming out but I couldn't think of any.

We had just turned the corner to where a small strip of grass and a line of trees were visible. Between some of these trees was a group of three boys. At first they just seemed to be loitering.

It was Satomi that saw the grey cat buried neck deep into the dirt. Then two of the teens launched a small rock at it.

She covered her mouth with her hands "What are they doing that for?"

I immediately marched ahead of her. The third boy had only just tossed his rock before I snatched it out of the air with ease. I didn't listen to them whine as I turned back around and dug the cat out from the dirt. As I did, the feline pranced away.

"Hey! What was that for?" One whined again.

I didn't turn to them, but instead began to walk and join Satomi back home. I did tell them, "You shouldn't do that to a cat, they're alive and have feelings just like us." However, I was stopped when my Spider-Sense went off.

I bolted back around, catching a rock about the size of the palm of my hand, then threw it back at him. The rock hit him in the stomach. The other two boys scrunched their faces. One boy even yelled back, "You're about to get the ass-whoopin' of your life, man! You won't be safe just because your girl is here."

Satomi tugged at the back of my shirt, "We should run, you saved the cat already."

I smiled back to her, "Don't worry, I'll be fine." Then I turned my attention back to them, "If you think you're tough just because there's three of you, you're in for a big surprise."

The one that was hit in the stomach began to step forward. He was larger than me by a lot, but I knew that wouldn't be an issue for me. For us.

"You're dead meat, you skinny little-" The larger boy had thrown a punch, which I responded with by slapping his hand out of my direction and showing him in the back towards his buddies. He stumbled forward and I was now facing Murano.

I pointed back to them without looking, "See? Not a problem."

She pointed with a gasp, then my Spider-Sense went off. I ducked, elbowing one of the other boys in the chest and sending him tumbling to the ground with him holding his chest. The third boy was behind him, throwing his right fist upwards towards me. I strafed right past him, tripping him onto his buddy on the ground.

By now the larger guy was up and going in for a tackle. To this I responded with jumping and rolling over his back, getting a position behind him. He went to turn, which earned him a solid fist to the cheek. The larger boy was sent to the ground again, this time out cold. The other two boys finally collected themselves, only to find their biggest guy on the ground.

They looked at him, then back at me, then to each other. They both shook their heads and turned back to me, "Alright, we're sorry man!" One declared as they both bowed at a perfect 90 degree angle.

The other nodded, "Yeah, we won't do nothing like that to a cat or any animal again, honest!"

I crossed my arms, nodding, "Good, and if I do find you guys doing this again, I won't stop at the big guy."

They bowed their heads again, "Thank you! You're too kind!" Then they bolted, leaving their big buddy on the ground to sleep it off.

Once they were a good distance away, I looked back to Satomi, who was bewildered. I walked back towards her, smiling, "See, I had it handled."

"Holy crap, Shinichi! That was amazing!" She declared as she grabbed onto my arm, "You were like an American action hero, with so much suave, too!" She got even closer, scrunching her eyebrows. She then poked my cheek, which made my already red face even more red, "Are you sure you're Izumi Shinichi?"

I laughed, moving her finger off my face, "Of course I'm me!"

But Venom helped.

"C'mon," I offered my arm, "We still have to walk home."

She took my arm, giggling, "Well, I must have been missing out all these years. Or maybe it turns out you're becoming one of these superheroes too?"

I laughed nervously, to which Venom interjected.

This is our chance.

"Hell no."

Satomi perked up, "What was that?"

"I mean," I began to sweat a little, "I could never be a superhero, you need powers for that."

She shrugged, hugging my arm a little tighter, "I don't know, you seemed pretty powerful back there."

You have no idea. With that, I could only chuckle.