A/N:
-The certain arcs in Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia are going to play out a bit differently, but they will follow the similar story structure of the manga and anime
-This fanfiction may contain spoilers for the Boku No hero Academia Manga and Anime
-2100 Yens equals to 18.8 USD (Sorry about that)
-Thank you for all the reviews that you have given me on the first chapter and for pointing out some things in my story I may have missed DX. Also I do apologise for the late post of this second chapter. But other than that, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
-Just to inform people, I may not be updating new chapters soon due to being occupied by High school and stuff
Stupid mouse principal, this job is the worst! Saitama said to himself as he frustratingly mopped the floors in the male bathroom. It has already been a week since Saitama got hired into UA High as the janitor and he's already feeling disappointed. It was a normal school day today and the sky was gleaming its bright light through the windows of UA as all the students were studying in their classrooms.
Every day was hell for him, not in a hard labour way though, in a way that made Saitama feel embarrassed and hate his job. He would have to work at certain days of the week, mopping the floors after school, taking out the trash, replacing toilet paper supplies and a lot of other hellish duties Saitama hated. Every day he would feel his own frustrations and regret fuelling inside of him as he performed his daily chores.
Saitama knew that he couldn't be a teacher at UA due to the lack of knowledge he had regarding the context of quirks. He thought at first that he could become something like a security guard, or at least become involved in some heroic practical courses where he could at least show off a bit of his strength. He really despised becoming a janitor as some students would mock his bald head as they walked by him, urging Saitama to punch something or even someone like Kacchan. He knew he couldn't do that unfortunately.
The only thing that kept Saitama working at UA, were the decent wages he received. UA High is the best heroic school so there would be a lot of messes students and even staff leave By. Due to a lack of janitors at UA High, Saitama being one of them, was paid 2100 yens an hour for his work. It was the only reason as to why Saitama worked at UA High, despite it not being the job he really wanted. He was also broke, which really left him with no choice.
It was 11:00am Friday in the morning, it was recess and all the students were in the cafeteria, enjoying their meals as they talked to each other about their unique quirks. The cafeteria was huge with many seats to enjoy eating meals with friends. Saitama was tasked by his manager to collect the plastic bags of rubbish from the trash in the cafeteria as some of them were overwhelming with wasted food. As Saitama collected the last full rubbish bin, he noticed in the corner of his eye, a group of students talking to each other in enjoyment.
But what caught his eye was the spiky ash blonde kid in the group he saw a week ago who menacingly teased him, Kacchan. The raging boy was shouting at a spiky red-haired kid as he threw his food at him in uncontrolled anger. As soon as Saitama saw Kacchan, he hid behind the trash to escape his sight. Saitama didn't want Kacchan to start throwing out comments about his bald head and get everyone else into humiliating him.
Unfortunately, Kacchan saw him and let out a loud roar and shouted out "Hey baldy! I see you behind there, come out! I told you this isn't a wig shop and strangers like you shouldn't even be here at UA High!" Saitama gave into his hopelessness and came out from behind the trash bin, admitting his own defeat and prepared himself for humiliation. Kacchan got off his seat and walked up to Saitama with a big smirk on his face as soon as he saw his uniform. "Wait, no way, you're hired as the Janitor?! Oh man, that's even more comical than being fired! Going to the best heroic academic school, only to get hired into a job where you'll never get recognition!"
Kacchan was glaring at Saitama as he wanted to provoke Saitama into making him look bad, all to make Kacchan seem superior and significant in comparison to all the other students. Saitama was looking at the floor as he reflected on what Kacchan said. Despite Kacchan being a prick, Saitama knew what he said was right. He will never get recognition from society from mopping the floors or taking out the garbage. There will always be others who will take the spotlight from him, getting all the attention for their heroic work when Saitama would always be under their shadows, ignored.
All the students were silent as they all stared at the two of them in the centre of the cafeteria. Suddenly, the green haired boy from before ran in front of Saitama and stood up for him and said "Kacchan! You said that you wanted to become the best, right? Well the best don't pick on people and abuse and exploit their position, just make other people suffer for their own entertainment!" As the green haired boy stood up to Kacchan and said those words, all the other students started to boo at Kacchan as they felt disgusted towards his arrogant words and strongly agreed to what the green haired boy said.
Kacchan however, only shouted out "Shut the hell up Deku and screw you all!" Kacchan then walked out of the crowd of students. Everyone returned back to their seats as Kacchan left and continued on to their conversations as the commotion died out. The green haired boy, standing in front of Saitama turned around to him and said in an apologetic tone, "I'm really sorry this time, I should've done something to prevent this. Kacchan always thinks he's superior to everyone else so I guess he was just trying to show off."
Saitama simply replied back as if nothing happened, "It's cool kid."
The green haired boy, surprised at Saitama's quick and emotionless response, asked Saitama, "If you'd like, I can offer you some food with my spare lunch money, you deserve a break from all of this anyway."
Saitama, feeling comforted, accepted the green haired boy's offer and used his spare lunch money to buy himself some food.
"Oh, I nearly forgot. My name is Izuku Midoriya, it's nice to meet you sir..Saitama!" Midoriya said as he read Saitama's name on his uniform badge.
As Saitama and Midoriya were talking to each other as they walked through the crowds, a tall boy with glasses and blueish black hair walked up to Saitama and bowed before him in an enthusiastically and serious tone and said to Saitama "Sir, my name is Tenya Iida and I must deeply apologise for what Kacchan Bakugo Katsuki has wrongly said about you! You can be capable of so much in life! Such nonsense words should never influence anyone to become victimised into hopelessness and- ," Saitama interrupted him and said "It's all good."
Iida however continued on his speech to Saitama, "No, it's not good! Behaviour like this is unacceptable, especially for schools as honourable and great as UA High!" As Iida continued on, Saitama started to feel a little bit annoyed.
A girl with short curly hair came to the group of boys as Iida was still continuing his unnecessarily long speech. She wore a friendly smile towards the boys, then she raised her hand and offered a handshake to Saitama, "Hi, I'm Ochaco Uraraka, nice to meet you Saitama." Saitama accepted her handshake as she smiled brightly to him, making him feel a bit more at ease. She offered him to eat with their group. Saitama, having nothing better to do and having already finished collecting all the full trash bins, decided to join their group to show his appreciation to their hospitality.
As the group sat down, Saitama started to wonder what Midoriya meant when he was talking about becoming the "best". Saitama, being the janitor of the school was normally left devoid of the school activities or what the students would be normally learning in class, or what goals they each wanted to achieve. Saitama asked Midoriya from his curiosity, "Hey Midoriya, what did you mean when you said to Kacchan about becoming the best?"
Midoriya replied to Saitama's question "You've heard of the number one hero All Might right?" Saitama nodded, in which Midoriya turned his head, facing towards Saitama as he proudly said, "All the students in UA High aim to become a hero, but there are a few people who also aim for number one! I know this sounds a bit silly, but I also want to become the number one best, to fight evil and to be able to put a smile on everyone's faces just like All Might."
Saitama understood Midoriya's reason to becoming the best, to become a hero to save people from evil and chaos. Saitama felt like he's beginning to connect more to Midoriya, and respected his desires to become a hero. The bell rang and all the students had to return to their classrooms. Midoriya, Iida and Uraraka all waved goodbye to Saitama as they returned to their classroom.
After their chat, Saitama felt like he could relate more to the people of UA High, having realised that not everyone is as outrageous as Bakugo, or at least he hoped. He got of the seat and gathered all of his equipment and threw all the trash into the dumpster outside the building. After he threw all the trash into the dumpster, Saitama walked back into the building through the back doors and travelled the huge hallways of UA High to go to his manager and tell him that he finished his tasks. Saitama was honestly hoping for a raise rather than more work as he would prefer to rest in his apartment.
Saitama found his manager's room and opened the door. As Saitama entered the room, he saw principal Nezu sitting on the Manager's desk as he smiled towards Saitama, as if that Nezu had something exciting to tell him. The manager's room was smaller than the principal's office and a little bit less organised as well. There would be stacks of paper scattered on the manager's desk that that were mostly about cash budgets the manager would have to deal with. The desk now however, were all stacked into neat piles on the desk as principal Nezu presumably tidied them all up.
Nezu walked up to Saitama and asked him, "How is your time at UA High going so far? I know that being a janitor might've not been the best job we have to offer, but I hope that you find UA High and the staff to be quite comforting! Especially since All Might decided to join us!" Saitama responded to the principal as he scratched his head, "Well I don't know about comforting, but back at our interview last week, why did you ask me those questions about history about quirks and stuff when all you needed was a janitor?"
Principal Nezu responded to Saitama's question, feeling a bit guilty saying it, "Well, originally we wanted to hire more professional heroes into our academic courses, but because this area seems to be out of your reach, I offered you this job instead. I can see how you feel Saitama. Your eyes, they look like you've been bored for a long time so I hope you'll enjoy the experience at UA High. Although I'll be honest, All Might seems to still need his notes while teaching the classes."
Principal Nezu then gave Saitama his weekly income and dismissed Saitama for the week. Saitama, despite feeling a bit displeased of his job, felt relief that he could finally get paid to afford food for himself. Saitama walked out of the front doors of UA High and looked forward to buying whatever meats were on sale at the supermarkets.
The sky was shining bright and Saitama could feel the cool breeze blowing onto his skin. Saitama pulled out his Friday Sales from his pocket which were on a paper from a supermarket. He checked out what kind of meats they had on sale. While he was reading the sales, he didn't notice how strong the winds have gradually became. Eventually the wind became so ferocious that leaves started to blow on Saitama, one leaf managed to get their way onto Saitama's eyes, causing him to flinch and accidently letting go of the Friday Sales out of his hands and into the air. Saitama started to panic when his sales paper flew into the sky. Those meats on sale meant more than anything to him. Saitama jumped from the ground into the air at an amazing height and grabbed the Friday sales paper.
Suddenly, a man with a very strong build, along with a huge V as his hairstyle who wore a strong smile arrived at the front gates of UA High and saw Saitama jump the incredible height. He walked up to Saitama, impressed and said to him, "You must have an incredible quirk to jump that high! You almost jumped half the height of the building itself!" Saitama saw the man, and he knew it was All Might, the famous number one hero and the symbol of peace.
Saitama wasn't exactly the biggest fan of All might, but he did respect the man. The two men saw each other as they both stood on the entrance ground of UA High. All Might said to Saitama, in an enthusiastic tone, "That was an outstanding stunt, but I must warn you my friend. Using quirks so freely and for your own benefit, especially those that are flashy to the public in front of famous places such as UA High, can be considered illegal. You'd normally be able to use them against villains who attack you or when you are granted permission by certain people or systems. I know it can sound crazy, but do be careful when do that!"
Saitama responded, slightly confused, "Okay, well thanks."
"I nearly forgot that I was late for my class! Anyways, have a great day sir!" All Might said as he quickly ran into the building as his embarrassment from being late slightly overwhelmed him.
It was the next week Monday in the afternoon and Saitama was cleaning the room of Class 1-A as their class was going to trip to a place called USJ. Saitama wasn't informed with a lot of detail about it, but he remembered from eavesdropping on some of the teachers that it was about rescuing people in different situations and scenarios. Saitama would sometimes feel a little bit jealous that he would miss out on activities or field trips that the students would enjoy while Saitama had to clean up at UA High.
The day was starting to get warmer as the clouds began to clear from the sun. The bald man was outside the building as he was opening the dumpster to put the trash out as his daily routine for his annoying job. When he finished taking the trash out, he walked back into the building through the back doors and prepared himself as his next unpleasant duty was to clean the gums under the desks of class 1-B as they were outside doing quirk practical training. As Saitama was walking to Class 1-B's classroom, he saw in a distance, a boy in armour who was running across the hallway. As the boy got closer, Saitama recognised that the boy was Iida, however his face was covered with dread and terror as he was running.
Iida saw Saitama in a distance and ran towards him desperately. Iida stopped in front of Saitama and cried out to him, "Saitama, please tell this to the other teachers as soon as possible!"
Saitama replied back, "Whatever it is, can you at least shorten it to 20 words or less?"
Iida responded back to the him in a terrified tone, "A villainous league has infiltrated USJ and all of my classmates are desperately fighting back against them as we speak! We need to gather all of the teachers to USJ to save them! I've already told All Might about this and he's already rushing to the situation!"
Saitama, realising the gravity of the situation, asked Iida, "Where is this USJ place?"
Iida, having his arms resting on his knees as he became overwhelmed from his tiredness, answered Saitama as he pointed with his hand, "USJ is at that direction. You should see a huge dome as you make your way there."
When their conversation finished, Iida quickly ran towards the principal's office to inform him about the situation. Saitama started to become intrigued in the situation. He trained himself to become a hero and he knew that this was his chance to save other people from villains. Saitama decided to go to USJ and fight against the villains to save class 1-A, also to avoid picking out gum under the desks.
Using his superhuman strength, Saitama ran towards the direction Iida pointed at and tried to find a big dome on the way while still wearing his janitor uniform. Eventually he found the massive dome, which could only mean that it was USJ. The structure so immense that it could potentially fit a majority of a population of an urban area. As Saitama ran towards the dome, he started to feel a little bit of excitement as he hadn't fought villains for a while due his janitor work. He ran towards the front doors, but as soon as he climbed up the stairs, he saw a bunch of students drowned in fear as they stood outside the dome in front of the broken doors.
Saitama walked towards the front gates and Uraraka saw Saitama and ran up to him saying, "Saitama! Is help coming soon? There are villains in there and All Might is fighting them to protect us! Aizawa-sensei was badly wounded when he was also trying to protect us."
Saitama responded, "Iida's got them gathered by now"
Saitama then saw Aizawa as he was bleeding all over the place and was not able to move a muscle. Saitama started to respect Aizawa a bit more as he realised how serious and willing Aizawa was to protect his students, even if he was at the brink of his own demise. Saitama walked to the front doors but as he did, all the students forced Saitama to stay out of it as they warned Saitama that it was too dangerous to go inside.
Uraraka cried out to Saitama, "Saitama, please don't go inside! These villains are really powerful and malevolent, they're not your ordinary thugs!"
Saitama replied to Uraraka, "That's why I'm here"
Saitama entered the broken doors into USJ as the students outside saw him as he went inside. As Saitama entered the building, he could see a whole bunch of thugs all over the place as they each stared at the main fight at the centre of the dome. In the centre, he could barely see All Might fighting against a huge humanoid monster and saw four students as they watched their clash.
Some thugs then noticed that Saitama was inside, on top of the stairs. They shouted out, "Hey who's that bald guy over? Doesn't seem like one of us… Let's kill him!"
All of the thugs then came rushing towards Saitama up the stairs as they all activated their quirks to massacre him. Saitama then raised his fist and threw a normal punch at the first thug who came up to him who seemed immensely big and thick. The thug fell victim to Saitama's direct punch and got immediately pushed back, forcing him all the way down the stairs and came crashing down on the ground. The other thugs got pushed back by the shockwave of the punch, clearing the way for Saitama and rendering all the thugs unconscious. Saitama ran down and came to the centre fight to help All Might fight against the villains.
There were three villains that Saitama saw, all who had distinctive and disturbing features. One of them was a slender man who had hands all over his body, including his face and wore black clothing. The other one standing beside him was a black mist who had yellow glaring eyes and a metallic neck on it. The last villain, the one All Might was fighting, was a huge, muscular and darkened skinned humanoid with a bird-like face.
The slender man, Shigaraki Toumara, saw the five people outside of All Might's fight and asked the black mist, Kurogiri, "Kurogiri, who is that bald man and how did he even get here? He doesn't look like one of our henchmen. Those students as well…it's annoying me! Always supporting All Might as their beloved Symbol of Peace! Kurogiri, get rid of these unwanted spectators! We're here for All Might after all."
A huge black portal suddenly opened underneath the four students and Saitama as they fell into it. Midoriya, realising that Saitama was behind him screamed out to him as he fell into the portal, "Saitama, why are you here? Please get out of here right now!" The four students fell into the portals into random locations around USJ. Saitama however, disappeared from his spot before the portal could've sucked him in from underneath. Kurogiri and Shigaraki became shocked as soon as they realised that Saitama disappeared before the portal got him.
Kurogiri, said as he was surprised, "Where'd that guy go? I'm sure I saw him vanish before my-"
Saitama appeared behind Kurogiri, and before Kurogiri discerned his presence, Saitama interrupted his sentence and threw a normal punch on his back and said, "I'm right here."
Kurogiri was knocked all the way to the wall and his impact was so severe, that the wall itself broke, causing Kurogiri to instantly lose consciousness.
Shigaraki, becoming astonished by Saitama's strength, called out the monster Nomu to attack Saitama. Nomu had his giant hands crushing All Might's waist, hitting his weak spot causing him to lose his strength. Nomu let go of him and ran at blinding speed as soon as it heard Shigaraki's command and threw a relentless punch at Saitama. The shockwaves of the punch were so extraordinary that the area around it began to shake. The ground started to cause a small earthquake and the air around blew at an enormous strength. Shigaraki was blown away by the punch. Dust was covering around Nomu and Saitama.
All Might was lying on the ground as he was slowly losing his strength and could not focus on the battle as his weak spot was heavily damaged by Nomu. The dust started to clear out and Shigaraki was excited to see Saitama's blood leak on the ground as he desperately wanted to see him smashed into smithereens. Shigaraki saw the aftermath of the punch, and he could not believe what he saw. Saitama was still standing on his exact position with his fist emitting a steam and the arm that Nomu used to punch Saitama with was completely obliterated.
Shigaraki's arms started to shake as he became possessed in uncertainity and rage and started to shout out, "What the hell… Who the hell is this guy?!
Nomu used its other arm to deliver a fury of punches on Saitama and using its regeneration quirk, Nomu was able to regrow its obliterated arm back and threw even more furious punches at Saitama. Saitama only stood there, taking all the damage Nomu gave him. Saitama then threw his consecutive normal punches back at Nomu, only that Nomu's shock absorption quirk was not able to endure the overwhelming strength of Saitama's multiple punches. Nomu was then sent flying through the dome of USJ into the sky. The students outside USJ saw Nomu flying into the sky, thinking it was All Might who did it. They all cheered as they sighed in relief that the monster Nomu was gone.
Shigaraki was scratching his neck and his anger manipulated him when he saw how easily Saitama took out Nomu. A portal then started to form around Shigaraki as Kurogiri managed to make an escape with him as soon as Kurogiri managed to regain his consciousness.
Shigaraki said to himself in uncontrolled anger, "This is impossible, Nomu was meant to take on All Might's 100% of his strength! Then this guy showed up out of nowhere and took out Nomu like it was nothing! He's cheating! It's not fair! he's cheating!"
The two of them vanished but Saitama didn't seem to pay attention to what Shigaraki said as Saitama was more concerned with the hole he made on the dome he punched Nomu through.
The students who were teleported away into different locations in the dome got back to the centre, only to find out that it was all over. They were all amazed when they saw the three villains disappear and saw Saitama as he was the only one standing, unscathed. They were all generally confused as to what happened during the fight. The only thing they saw was Nomu being sent flying through the dome into the sky when they were all scattered, not knowing who punched him. At first, they all assumed it was All Might, but Saitama was the only one who was standing after Nomu got sent off flying.
The spikey red-haired kid, Kirishima, was next to Bakugo and said to him, "Hey Bakugo, I know this sounds impossible, but do you think that the janitor dude actually-"
Bakugo interrupted his sentence and shouted back at Kirishima, "Are you an idiot? That thing was able to take on All Might! There's no way a bald janitor could've done that! Only All Might is capable of doing that!"
There was confusion and uncertainty stirring among the students as they debated on what actually happened. Midoriya came up to Saitama and asked him, "Hey Saitama, do you know what happened here?! What happened to All Might?! He looks like he's out of ti-, out of strength."
Saitama paused for a while, thinking on what he was going to say to Midoriya. He answered Midoriya as his curiosity grew, "All Might saved me. That's what happened. He used every ounce of his strength to defeat that bird thing and to protect me."
Saitama knew what he was saying. He knew that if he told them his true strength that he could've become more popular and he could've gotten a chance to take the spotlight. He knew that he could've even escaped his job as a boring janitor. He knew however by doing that, All Might's efforts to save the students, would've damaged his reputation. Saitama wanted All Might to continue being the symbol of peace so that it would never be tarnished by villains, so people wouldn't think that All Might was defeated in battle. He wanted All Might's efforts to be all his own, so that the students who looked up to him will continue on aiming to become the best.
Suddenly a wall quickly formed around All Might as he was emitting steam from his body. The teachers of UA High all appeared on top of the stairs as they all begun starting to rescue all of the students of Class 1-A while dealing with the remaining thugs and arresting them. The four remaining students and Saitama were all told to come back outside while the teachers took care of All Might behind the wall.
Kurogiri teleported himself and Shigaraki into a mysterious dark tavern. Shigaraki was still consumed by his rage when he was teleported back. He tightly gripped the wooden floor, causing it to corrode with his quirk. There was a television on the wall that had the words, "sound only". Shigaraki shouted out to the television, "Master, you lied to us! You said that All Might was the strongest of all heroes right?
A voice spoke out of the television and said, "What do you mean? what happened?"
Shigaraki responded as his anger started to intensify, "If All Might was the strongest above all and Nomu was meant to take him on 100%, then why was Nomu so easily defeated by a simple janitor?!"
The voice spoke out again and replied, "Nomu was defeated? Kurogiri, did you see this happen?"
Kurogiri responded in embarrassment, "Unfortunately I lost consciousness before I saw their clash. I think that janitor managed to knock me out cold. But I remembered what he looked like, he was bald and had an…odd looking face on him."
The voice then said as he became interested in the situation, "He easily defeated Nomu you say? His quirk seems extremely powerful, it may be rather… useful to us."
TO BE CONTINUED
