xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Convenience Store- Musutafu, Japan, 11:30 a.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It was a normal day in the spring. Roughly a week has passed since an incident involving a sludge villain, two Aldera Junior High school students and the legendary Hero: All Might had occurred with the portion of the city that was destroyed being rebuilt.
"Hey Seiji! Get those sodas out of the back and get them to the coolers before this place gets packed!" said a tall bald man with a large nose, sporting an apron, pants and a collared shirt.
"Sure boss! just give me a sec!" said a young boy named Seiji as he got up from behind the counter of the store. Rushing to the back room to grab the sodas.
He stood 5'7, sporting brown messy hair that was held down by a black hair tie in the back, sporting a green unbuttoned collared shirt with a orange T-shirt underneath, jeans and black and white sneakers
"Ok where is it..." Seiji said as he searched for the containers in the backroom.
Meanwhile, behind the counter, the store boss was talking to a customer buying cigarettes.
"Can you believe All Might actually is in town now?" said the customer.
"Hard to believe. Why would he come to this city of all places?" said the store boss.
"I hear he got a job at the U.A. as a teacher."
"Really? Now that be interesting, the stories that guy must have to tell students probably would help those kids in the long run. Hey Seiji! Hurry up!" said the store owner before turning to shout at Seiji from behind the backroom door.
"I'm trying dammit!" Seiji shouted through the door.
"Trying to do what? Not get hurt or actually looking for the inventory!?" the store owner said.
"Hey, the kid ain't doing anything wrong, cut him some slack." said the customer holding the cigarettes. Prompting the store boss to turn his attention back to the customer.
"I've been easier on him more times than you can count. The kids Quirk causes more trouble than what he is worth." explained the store boss.
In response, the customer had shrugged his shoulders and begun to walk away. As he left, another man, wearing a purple hoodie with the hood up, a black t-shirt and black pants and shoes walked in. Bumping his shoulder before walking up to the counter.
"Hi, how can I help you?" said the store boss behind the counter.
"Hello...you can help me by opening the register and giving me what's inside..." said the man with the hoodie before brandishing a gun and pointing it in the face of the boss.
"Oh...please, I don't want no trouble..." said the boss as he opened the register. He took a plastic bag that was behind the counter and started putting the money in it, before handing it to the robber.
"Hehehe...smart man, I didn't even have to use my Quirk and you gave me the money outright..." the hooded criminal said as he began to walk out of the convenience store.
As he was starting to leave, the door to the back room had begun to slowly open, Seiji trying to squeeze through it while holding a box filled with cans of soda.
"Hey boss, I got the soda- Huh?" said Seiji as he peered through the door, stopping midway through his sentence to noticing the man in the hoodie jacket walking away with the stores money.
"What the- Ahhh!" Seiji was about to continue until he had caught his foot on the door. Dropping the sodas on the ground as well. Seiji had fallen forward from the sudden trip, landing hard on his face.
As the hooded man was about to exit the doorway, a jolt of sudden pain had rushed through his face as if he had smashed it clean against something. The feeling was immense and harsh, causing him to drop his gun and the bag of money on the ground near the entrance.
"Agrrrhh! Gah! ahhh...what the hell was that!" said the hooded man as he fell to his knees, his hands now grasping his face from the stinging sensation of pain that he begun to experience.
Seeing the criminal on the ground, the store owner had rushed out the side of the counter to the doorway carrying a baseball bat and holding his face similarly to the criminal. As the criminal was on the ground, he noticed the store owner lifting the weapon high over his head and tried to react in time to block the impending strike. However the store owner bashed him in the back of the head with the bat, knocking him out.
"Oh thank god..." the store owner said as he picked up the money bag and taking the magazine out of the gun. "Seiji, call the police or something."
"Yeah boss...ow..." Seiji said as he tried to pull himself up by grabbing a nearby magazine rack.
As he got up, he stepped on a soda can that fell from when he had dropped it earlier. His foot rolled off the can and caused Seiji to fall backwards as he was about to stand up. His fall made him land on his upper back and shoulders.
After landing, the store boss suddenly felt immense pain in his backside, in areas similar to where Seiji had landed.
"Gaaaahhh!" yelled the store owner as he dropped to his knees next to the now semi-unconscious criminal who had started to clutch his own back as well from a similar feeling of immense pain.
"Oh crap! Boss are you ok!?" Seiji said as he tried to get up from the floor.
"Just call the police you idiot!" shouted the store manager clutching his back. "And then when they pick this dirtbag up...go to my office...we need to talk...ugh" he continued in a haze of pain.
"Uhhh...right..." Seiji said as he rushed to the phone to call the police
"I am so dead..." Seiji thought as he dialed buttons.
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"Ahhhhh..." said the store manager as he placed an ice pack on both his face and backside as he sat in a chair in front of a table.
"Are you ok?" said a concerned Seiji sitting in a chair nearby.
"Do I look and sound like I'm ok?" said an angry store owner. "Seiji, I'm sorry, I know your only a 15 year old and all but I'm going to have to cut you loose."
"What!? Why?! The criminal got caught and didn't get away with a single cent!" said Seiji in his defense.
"That's not the point, Seiji! It's practically every week now someone gets hurt because of you. Namely me!" said the store owner.
"Look I cant help it, its my Quirk acting up."
"Oh that's a real nice excuse kid, a Quirk that causes everyone around you to experience the pain you get when you self harm yourself or get into an accident. And you're gonna argue that that your constant accidents are just coincidences that happen as often as Heroes catching Villains around here?"
"Ehh... Uhhh..." Seiji said, unsure of what to say.
"Two months ago, the new girl ends up going to the hospital because she cant feel her leg and its all because you made it numb by having a bunch of boxes crush your leg!"
"Accident!" Seiji said in his defense.
"The month after that, you ate some bad anpan bread and then everybody who came into the store suddenly feels like vomiting everywhere."
"Ok that was my fault for not reading a label but that's not as bad as you think, no one got hurt technically!" Seiji argued.
"Want an example? Last week... you are out there cleaning the store sign on a ladder, you fall backwards into the street with a car coming straight towards you. What happens? It hits you. What happens next? Everyone on that street falls unconscious because they experience what it feels like to get hit by a car!" the store manager shouted.
"..." Seiji was silent, unsure of how to counteract the spiteful but honest words being said to him.
The store manager sighed, taking a deep breath as he walked over to a locker in the room and opened it, pulling out an envelope that was on the bottom of it.
"Here." the store owner said in a bothered fashion.
"...What's this?" Seiji said grabbing the envelope.
"Your last paycheck from me."
"What am I gonna do now!? I don't have another job to support myself."
"Find another job, just not here. If you seriously want to not be a everyone's problem... Stop. Getting. Hurt..."
Seiji was silent after hearing this. Not sure how to process the already painful thought about losing his main source of income but also being told to try and do something he has heard multiple times before by other people. All he could do at this point was walk away.
Leaving the store, he walked down the road, not even bothering to turn his head back at his old job or the black haired scruffy looking man with a grey scarf looking at him as he walked away.
"Hmmmmm..." said the scruffy looking man.
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Seiji had walked back to his home: a very small apartment complex in the city with minimal tenants. He lived on the second floor of the place with a very long overdue rent.
"Uuuuugghhhhh..." Seiji said droning on, feeling awful mentally from his situation and as he was taking a key out of his pocket to open the door to his home.
Opening the door, his home consisted of a very small amount of floor space with the only amenities being a mini-sized refrigerator, a work desk and a bed. There was also a small closet and a nightstand next to the bed with a lamp and a window that had a view of the back of the building.
Seiji walked in and closed the door behind him as he placed his face into the pillow of his bed and laid there with a feeling of shame.
"Kill me..." Seiji said to himself out loud. Suddenly, he heard a banging sound against the door.
"I didn't mean right now!" Seiji said, thinking that someone was here to kill him as he got up from the bed. Opening the door was a very large older woman with a bowl cut hair style and with a cane and sporting a pantsuit.
"Seiji! It's been four months, where is that rent you owe me?!" said the old woman in a raspy fashion, presumably the landlord.
"Oh right..." Seiji said as he reached into his pocket and giving the landlord his last paycheck from his old job.
"Hmmmmmm? This is hardly enough to cover how much overdue rent you owe!" the landlord shouted.
"Look I know, I just got fired and- Ow!" Seiji was going to continue until he felt the feeling of his shin being hit by something. What hit him was the cane of the landlord in response to his inability to pay his rent again.
"Look here you bum, I don't care if you are just a kid in my eyes. You live in my building, you pay on time or you get out! You have until the end of the week. Either pay up or start finding a box big enough for yourself!" said the landlord as she turned away from the teenage boy, holding his shin and holding back his tears of pain. "Oh and another thing, quit screwing around and hurting yourself, the other tenants are complaining about feelings of pain to me and I keep telling them that it's your Quirk."
"Shut up you god damn hag!" he shouted as she left his room. With her gone, Seiji could only just get up and sit on his bed, continuing to sulk at the state his life has gotten to.
As he sat there, he noticed his cell phone had started to buzz in his pocket. Reaching inside, he pulled it out to see the call was coming from a number that he was familiar with.
"You are the last person I want calling me right now..." he said as he unlocked his phone to answer the call.
"Heeeyyyy...what's up?" said Seiji responding back. As Seiji answered his phone, he proceeded to walk to the doorway of his room.
"I'm doing fine, really I am. You shouldn't worry so much. I'm fine." Seiji said to the person on the line.
As Seiji continued to talk, he had left his apartment and proceeded to walk down the stairs from the second floor and to a vending machine.
"What? No, I don't need any money sent to me ok. I'm completely fine on my own... No you don't need to come over, my place is a real mess right now." Seiji said as he looked at his wallet and put a small amount of yen into the machine, hoping to get a drink.
"Things have been a bit rough lately but it's nothing I can't handle. Anyway, how's your studies going?" He said as he grabbed a can of lemonade that popped out of the machine.
Seiji had then began to walk back up the stairs to his room, just listening to the person on the other end of the phone call. Sipping on his lemonade and listening to the call, he had opened the door to see a peculiar sight.
Unlike a few minutes ago when he had left the nearly empty room. He noticed something different about his room: the window to the back was now open and on his nightstand was a large white envelope.
"Uhhh...hey, you think I can call you back. I just need a minute." he said hanging up his phone as he walked over to the window.
Closing the window, he looked out of it and scanned around to see if anyone was outside or nearby who might have opened it from the outside. Looking down at the nightstand, he got a look at the envelope that was now there. Opening the drawer to his nightstand, he pulled out a butterfly knife. Flipping it open, he used the blade to cut the top of the envelope.
"What do we have here?" after slicing the envelope slightly, he reached in and found what appeared to be a little ring-like object that looked like some form of advanced technology. It was small, had a green circular center and had a pair of buttons on it that read "yes" and "no" in bold letters. "The hell is this thing?"
Seiji had then begun to poke it with his finger, unsure of the device in front of him. As he poked it, his finger slipped and his finger had hit the "yes" button on the device.
"Uhhhh?" Seiji's response with nothing happening after pressing it. In his confusion, he looked back at the envelope that the device came with and looked inside, spotting a note that was inside that he missed when he pulled out the small ring device.
"Let's see what this thing is... "Dear, Seiji Orimura, you are-'" Seiji was going to continue reading until the sound of his phone going off again distracted him from the content of the letter.
"Again you're calling me?" he thought slightly bothered as he looked and saw the person he was talking to a few minutes ago calling him back. He unlocked his phone again to answer.
"Hey, I said I would call back." He responded with minor irritation. "I just got this note and-" He was cut off by listening to the person on the other line.
"Ok, ok fine, I'll listen... you really need to learn to calm down." Seiji said to his phone as he inadvertently crumpled the paper in his hand, throwing it into a waste paper basket.
As Seiji laid on his bed and listened to the person on the other end of the call talk to him. His hand on the phone and his other playing with the butterfly knife, opening and closing it. Unbeknownst to Seiji, however, was a low flashing light coming from the device that fell out of the envelope earlier that Seiji left on his desk, paying it no attention.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Small apartment complex- Musutafu, Japan, 6:01 p.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A few hours had passed until night fell as Seiji was still talking to the person on the other end of his phone.
"Hey, I'm running out of battery now, can we finish up or something?" Seiji said, still on the phone.
Seiji had then turned off his phone and began to breath a sigh of relief.
"Is she ever just gonna let me rest..." Seiji thought in his mind.
Now experiencing exhaustion, Seiji had then begun to lay on his bed and stare at the ceiling, the effects of his long day now taking a toll on his psyche.
"I need a drink..." said Seiji as he decided to get up and walk out of his room to go back to the vending machine from earlier to get another drink.
After leaving his room, the window had been opened again but this time, someone had crawled in. A familiar shaggy looking man wearing a black outfit, gray scarf, yellow goggles and a tired expression on his face.
"Jeez...this kid needs some space. I can barely move in here..." said the shaggy man. His attention had then turned to the blinking device.
"Looks like my one choice for a student has been made..." said the shaggy man as he took the blinking device and put it in his pocket. As he turned his head, he noticed the door was being opened again.
"Barely even could afford a damn soda...dammit- Huh?!" Seiji was mumbling to himself as he looked up and saw a disturbing shaggy man standing in his room.
"Oh hi, my name is Eraser Head or you can just call me Aizawa, you answered "yes" to my message so I am here to-" Aizawa stated plainly until he noticed Seiji reached into his pocket and flipped open his butterfly knife in self defense.
"Ok you smelly squatter! Get out of my house!" Seiji shouted in defense.
"Hey, calm down. I'm not here to hurt you, I'm here to talk about your acceptance to-" Before he could finish, Aizawa had jumped out of the way, now standing on Seijis bed, as Seiji had tried to lunge at him with his knife.
"Get out of here you crazy homeless guy! Or else!" Seiji had threatened Aizawa. He then moved his knife towards his own wrist and sliced a gash into his wrist.
"Geh!" Aizawa then grasped his wrist at the feeling of what felt like a cut had been made on it.
"'Voodoo"...a Quirk that allows this kid to send all pain he can inflict to himself to anyone around him. And he cant feel a thing when it happens..." Aizawa thought in his head as he watched him prepare to make a longer cut into his arm.
In response, Aizawa put his goggles on and begun to stare at Seiji, his long hair now standing upright. Seiji, worried that this mysterious man intends to do harm, had then taken his knife and stabbed it through his foot, intending it transfer to Aizawa.
"Arrrrgghhh! What the fuck!" Seiji shouted as he felt the intense pain of having a knife stab through his foot. "Why didn't my power activate?!"
"Because I halted it with my Quirk, "Erasure." It blocks Quirks from activating as long as I'm staring at you." Aizawa said with a stern look. "Also, sorry."
"Huh?" Seiji said in confusion as he gripped his foot to stop the pain
Aizawa then moved away from the bed, grabbing the lamp on the nightstand. Yanking it and its power cord out of the outlet, he swung it at Seiji's head, knocking Seiji out cold.
"Your power works to send damage to others but only when you do it to yourself, not when someone else hits you." Aizawa said as he loomed over Seijis lifeless body.
Aizawa then used his grey scarf weapon to wrap up Seijis body like a hunter would do to an animal with a rope. Followed by picking him up and onto his shoulders. As he picked him up, Aizawa saw the butterfly knife he had on the ground and picked it up, putting it in Seijis shoe.
"Where you are going kid, you are gonna need this." Aizawa said as he tucked it into the back of Seijis sneaker in his unconscious state. He then preceded to carry Seiji out of his room and away from his apartment.
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Seiji had begun to slowly open his eyes as begun to look up at the unfamiliar ceiling. He slowly turned his head left and right to try and see where he was.
"Oh crap...where am I?" Seiji said as he looked around, unsure of where he was.
The large room was plain with absolutely nothing in it except for indentation lines making the walls appear to be plain white squares from top to bottom and side to side. The only other thing in the room was a chair and something sitting in the chair.
"Hello! Is anyone there!? I could use some help!" Seiji shouted, not noticing the chair or the thing sitting in it. He then had begun to look around, attempting to find anything resembling a door.
"Crap, I don't see any doors in here...Huh?" Seiji said as he noticed the chair.
Laying on the chair was a dark colored object that looks like it was the shape of body, sitting in the chair and hanging off it. It looked remotely human and had a pair of antennas hanging from its head.
"Is this a mannequin?" Seiji said as he walked over to it as he grabbed its arm to see if it was alive.
Suddenly, the antennas on its head begun to spark and the eyes had begun to light up and slowly begun to stand up.
"Kill. Kill. Kill." the mysterious mannequin had begun to say on repeat.
"Whoa!? What the hell?!" Seiji said as he started to slowly back away from the mannequin. The mannequin had begun to walk slowly towards him, its arm outstretched, aiming for his neck.
"Oh shit, oh shit..." stepping back, Seiji had hit the wall lightly and felt something in his shoe touching his foot. Reaching into his shoe, he found his butterfly knife closed. "Oh thank god!" Seiji thought as he flipped open his knife.
"Don't come closer or else!" Seiji said to no avail as the mannequin moved closer. "You asked for it buddy!" Seiji said as he cut his wrist with the blade, attempting to transfer the pain with his Quirk. However the mysterious mannequin didn't act effected by the slice.
"It didn't work? That means that...this guy isn't a human?" Seiji said as he grasped his knife tight, unsure of what to do as the android-looking mannequin had gotten closer to Seijis position.
Seiji, in a fit of desperation, had proceeded to slid between the mannequins legs and faced its backside.
"I'm not gonna feel bad about this because you're not a human!" He said as he swapped positions of his hand to have the blade of the knife facing downwards.
With a downward swing, Seiji had placed his knife straight into the head of the android, receiving a minor shock from the feeling of his knife touching the circuiting but deactivating the android regardless. It tumbling to the floor.
"Oh god...I've...never had to..." Seiji said clutching his hand with the knife, shocked at the sudden destruction he had caused.
A sound then came from the opposite end of where the two were standing in the room, sounded like a buzzer going off. Glancing over, Seiji had seen that a portion of the wall had begun to slowly open, revealing an exit.
Seiji, not thinking twice, proceeded to walk over to the doorway. As he approached, he peered through the door to see a long hallway spanning his left and right sides. It looked similar to the bright white room he was in but instead was blackish gray.
"Well this is trippy..." Seiji said aloud as he saw other doors adjacent and next to the room he was in. Nine other rooms.
Suddenly, similar buzzer sounds were made as he looked around to notice the doors were beginning to open slightly. From each doorway, a different individual had stepped out.
One of the people that stepped out was a female with crimson red hair, a lean figure and a set of animal ears and a tail. She had a large smile as if she had just accomplished something.
Another was large boy with light grey hair and misty eyes. He was tall, almost like a tower of a young man and intimidating to look at.
There was a girl sported beige colored hair and an athletic appearance but her real distracting feature was her face that looked a skull. Her lack of lips, exposing her white teeth had made her appear menacing.
A boy who was hunched over with a lazy expression and dark shaggy hair. Yawning loudly as if he didn't care about where he was right now.
A girl with jet black hair and a curvaceous figure that reached down to her shoulders with a neutral expression on her face. Her eyes scanning everyone around her, as if to gain knowledge of her situation.
Another boy who was short in stature, messy dark brownish hair with long bangs and a piece of hair covering one eye. But noticeably of all was the scowl he sported, as if he was ready to tear someone to pieces using his teeth.
A very muscular boy with medium length dark navy hair that was pushed back and to the right was also there with a smirk on his face and a cleft chin.
Then a lanky looking young man had arrived, shaggy wild blue hair that ends just above his eyes in length in the front, almond shaped red eyes with black marks around his eyes that had a cheerfulness to them. But the smirk he sported was different from the muscular one. His smirk was more disturbed and almost unhinged.
Lastly, a young woman had emerged with a face that screamed "feisty." Fair skin, she had a youthful appearance with brown hair and large bust with her athletic form.
Upon seeing each other, everyone, except for Seiji, had begun to look at each other with eyes that gave them the impression of a fight was about to occur. They all seemed ready to begin to brawl with one another.
"I'm definitely not alone now but these people...they don't look friendly right now..." said Seiji as his face turned slightly blue, had begun to sweat and swallowed the spit he had gained.
Alright! Second chapter done (or first chapter if you consider the cast has now arrived)
Lets start with the thank yous to: keller75863548274483, PainX65, JackHammerMan, Hofund, Ultimate Hunter X, ThalioTP, UnoriginalName, reven228 and Firealis for the characters that you have given me. But I wont stop there.
Here are all the people who sent characters that I didn't use but deserve credit for their hard work (i'm sorry I didn't use them but i'll give you the proper credit you deserve for the work) Their names are:
FireDusk, Liquidation, Mintywater, Climatingthechange, KingBishop, TitaniumDragon22, YoMadrigal, HiroshitheHawk, MysteryAgain, 0B13, 101romansoldier, quran harling, Reapergenesis32, KingKatsu, The Shadow Meister and Fool Arcana Kaiju. I hope you all will still read the story even without your characters in it and I appreciate the interest in the story.
The Cast has been chosen, our young main character Seiji is the odd man out in this cast of semi-violent, thuggish delinquents and rogues. Is it possible he can survive when he can barely go without hurting everyone around by hurting himself with his Quirk? Well...See you next time when the HRI Class gets introduced to their "wild teacher." Please review and read. Thank you. Gin-san out!