The police investigation ended after the last student was questioned and treated with their minor injuries.

The students were ushered on to the bus back to the campus. Aki, after Itsuka embarrassingly released him from the bear hug, followed the crowd, before getting pulled to the side by a familiar voice.

"Mochizuki-kun, may I talk to you?"

Dogen Emma, in her red kimono with a black, long coat approached. She gestured to an empty spot under a tree before walking there with Aki behind.

When they arrived, Emma took a quick look around as if she was checking for anyone else. Confirmed that there was no one near enough to listen in to the conversation, she started.

"I heard of what happened. It must have been terrible. How are you feeling, Mochizuki-kun?"

Slightly taken aback and comforted by the warm voice and smile, Aki answered.

"I'm…fine, I guess. Just a little out of it, you know. Considering I just resurrected…"

She gently nod. Her voice was still at the same tone but her smile however, turned into a more serious one as she gazed at him.

"That's also why I'm here."

"To…ask about my Quirk? I know it's weir-"

"To warn you."

Aki shy demeanor was immediately changed to a serious one. His eyes narrowed as it stared at Emma, as if studying her. Taking that as a signal, she continued.

"Your Quirk, Resurrection, is a powerful one. One of a kind, to be more precise. Needless to say there will be more than a few who wants it for their own, and not all of them with good intention."

"Thank you for the heads-up, but I can't think of anyway for anyone to take my Quirk. Even my classmate's Quirk, Copy, has a time-limited."

"There are many things are there that we aren't aware of. No evidence of their existence, also means no evidence of them NOT existed."

"You're saying there are a way to take other people's Quirk?"

"I'm saying you need to be prepared for anything. Though I believe Wolf-sama has taught you that already."

Aki's eyes widen with shock at his master name was mentioned while Emma's serious gaze relaxed, turning into a nostalgic look with a giggle.

"I believe that's something you need to discuss with him. Wouldn't want your classmate to wait any further."

She smiled at Ibara, who was approaching them. Aki turned around looking at her for a second, before returning his stare at Emma.

"….We'll talk later. Take care. Dogen-san."

"You as well. And as I told you, please call me Emma."

"What were you guys talking about?"

Ibara broke the awkward silence as she and Aki walked back to the bus.

"She was just checking up on me after I got….." He made a slash over his neck with a smile, "you know."

Ibara slightly giggle before her expression turned into a gloomy one, which Aki quickly picked up.

"…..What's wrong?"

"I….You got…..You were…..dead because of my carelessness. I was supposed to be hero, someone who protect others instead of being protected.

And yet I was scared. I felt powerless, helpless, when I saw that….thing. I couldn't moved, even when that man's hand reached me. But you, and the others, you didn't hesitate. You saved me, and you were dead because of it. Everyone always told me that I'll make a good hero one day, that I'm going to save a lot of people. But it was the opposite. I needed saving. I…I…I-"

Her words broke. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she bit her lips, preventing any sobs to come out.

"I don't deserve to be here."

Aki stared at her. He couldn't tell what he was feeling as he stared at her. Pity? Sadness? Sympathize? He couldn't tell.

But he knew something.

"You're wrong. Remember the entrance exam?"

The word came out of his mouth made Ibara looked up at him with her teary eyes. She timidly nodded.

"You and Monoma-san were the only one who ran towards the zero-pointer to save someone. Someone you don't know, someone you never met before. From what I heard from Midoriya, you helped captured those villains at the Flood Zone, and took the teachers away from the Nomu thingy."

"But-But I couldn't saved you when…You were killed because I didn't know what to do!"

"I was killed because I decided to jump at the thing that was made to kill All Might…which now that I think about it, was a bad idea…..Point is!"

He stood in front of Ibara's face, stared straight at her eyes which made her slightly blush. He continued with a soft voice.

"I died because I made a choice, not your fault. You didn't make me save you. And so what if you didn't know what to do then!? We're here to learn. To be prepared for situations like this. Being here means that we have the opportunities to become better at being a hero, and you proved that you belong here.

You will become a great hero, Shiozaki-san. I believe it, and you should too."

Whatever was preventing Ibara from crying a river stopped working because as soon as Aki said those words, the dam at her eyes broke. She leaned towards Aki for support, which made Aki blushed, but he pushed his embarrassment down and returned the hug.

Because he knew she needed it.

After a good 5 minutes of hugging and crying, Ibara finally calmed down. She whispered a soft 'thank you' near Aki's ear before releasing her arms around his back. Aki handed her a handkerchief, which she gratefully accepted and used to wipe the stain on her face.

"Feeling better? Please feel better." Aki joking pleaded, which made Ibara let out a small laugh as she wiped her tears.

He softly smiled upon seeing her smile, a weird feeling rose upon his chest, but he quickly pushed it down as he said.

"W-We should hurried back, Shiozaki-san. Don't want to keep the others waiting."

"Ibara."

"Eh?"

"Call me Ibara."

"…Aki." He raised his hand, gesturing a handshake.

She returned the handshake while giggling. They both smiled at each other before heading back to the bus.

As soon as class 1-B returned to the campus, everyone changed back to their uniform, collected their stuff at their classroom and went home.

All the students, except Aki, were picked up by their parents. Itsuka and her parents offered to walk Aki to the station, but he kindly declined, saying that he would be fine on his own. Seeing that there was no way to convince him, Itsuka told him to be safe before fist-bummed him a good-bye.

Standing lonely on the train, Aki was consumed by his thought.

'Those villains….they mentioned that the Nomus has multiple Quirks. But that's impossible, unless there is a way to give Quirk. A Quirk that could take and give…..Maybe Dogen-san has a point after all…..Wait!'

Holy Shit!

He forgot to call Wolf-sensei!

"Holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshithol-"

Chanting as he pulled put his phone and quickly dial to his master's phone, which after much combined efforts convincing from Aki, Kuro and Shiro, he finally used one, although only for communicating purpose.

After the terrifyingly long ring, he picked up.

"Hey-ey-ey, my dear teacher. I need to tell you about something-"

"I heard about the USJ. It's all over the news. Come by the dojo tomorrow."

His teacher demanding, serious voice didn't calm his nerve at all. But Aki stood strong and asked the thing that was worrying him the worst.

"C-c-copy that. H-hey, by any chance, does Shiro-chan kn-"

"She does. Come by tomorrow and one last thing:

…Good Luck." He hung up the phone with a blessing.

"Fuck…."

Aki's walk home was mostly him overwhelmed by the upcoming terror. If there's anything he fear more than his teacher, it was Shiro-chan's wrath.

However, as soon as he turned the corner to his apartment, something else caught his eyes and attention.

A brunette girl with bob cut which reminded him of Yui, was lying down at the stairs, unconscious. Aki was about to ignore her and grappled up to his floor, but what she was wearing caught his attention. She was wearing the uniform exactly same as his, UA's, only this one was for the female, and she was wearing black stocking that covered all of her thighs. She was faced down on the floor, wearing a pink bag.

Aki took a quick look around, checking for any clue for why the girl was here. No one was around, and it looks like she fainted from exhaustion, considering no head injuries in case she tripped.

Aki took out his phone to call the ambulance but to his luck, his phone was dead. He saw to girl's flip phone and tried to use it but the phone was badly damaged, probably from the fall. Judging that there was no one around because he has been here for awhile and saw no one, Aki picked the girl up in princess-carry and took her to his apartment, quietly cursing his life and his chances of going to prison for carrying an unconscious woman back to his place.

Uraraka Ochako wasn't having a good day. Her lunch, which was her only meal for the day, any day, was interrupted by someone breaking into the school. Worse, her field trip was wrecked by Villains breaking into the school. She wasn't injured at all during the mayhem, but the overusage of her Quirk made her vomited anything that was left in her stomach. She didn't care about it then, better hungry and alive than death with a full stomach….was it?

She really though that she made the wrong choice as she walked back home.

Home, she laughed at her own joke.

Her parents rented a small apartment near UA because her house was from Osaka. It takes a one-day train only to get to school. Her parents were….poor for the lack of a better word. They were hardly having a normal life. They never stop working, always have this tired look on their faces. But Ochako knew that they love her, and she love them. That's why she wanted to become a hero, for her parents to have an easy life.

She declined her parents offered to sent her money for food, saying that she figured out a way. Little did they knew that she was lying, so that they won't have to spend more on her than they already did. That's why she was in this situation, hungry to death with not a coin in her purse.

'Why did I even need a purse?' was her last thought before she blacked out on the steps to her apartment.

Ochako smelled food. Ramen. She opened her eyes to an unfamiliar ceiling. The shock woke her up entirely. She sit up on a couch she never saw before, looking around and realising that she was in someone else's apartment.

Ochako tried to get up, only to fall down the floor. The noise of her falling was heard by Aki in the kitchen. Turning off the gas, he wiped his hand and hastily made his way to the living room. Opened the door to the living room, he saw Ochako on the floor, looking around scarily before she laid eyes on him.

They stared at each other for a few seconds, before Ochako's stomach growled. She quickly slapped her stomach with a red face, as if telling it to shut up, before looking back at Aki, who was suppressing a laugh as he asked.

"Ramen?"

She nodded.

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience…."

Ochako quietly mumbled an apology after finished eating….devouring her bowl of ramen, much to Aki's amusement.

"It's no big deal. Scared the hell out of me though. Thought we lost you already."

He joked, which got a smile out of her. Aki quickly finished his ramen before wiping his mouth. He raised a hand towards her.

"Mochizuki Aki, class 1-B of UA."

Ochako cheerfully shook his hand and introduced.

"Uraraka Ochako, class 1-A! Wait, if you're from 1-B then…."

"I was at the USJ, yes. I remembered you fan-girling over 13-sensei."

Ochako shyly scratched the back at her head with an awkward smile. Aki picked up his bowl, offered to pick Ochako's but the girl declined by bringing it there herself.

The two washed their dishes together, excitingly talking UA, their classmates and weirdly, the USJ.

After finishing with the dishes, they headed towards living room. Upon opening the door to the living room, Ochako was quickly charmed by the black cat that was resting on the couch. She quickly ran over, sitting next to it and started to pet.

"Oh My Gosh! Who's this cutie? Is she yours pet?"

"Luna, and she's not my pet. She's a stray cat that swings by time to time, and I feed her…..maybe in a way, she is my pet."

Luna made a 'Grr'.

"Alright, alright, you're not my pet. Oh, she understands what we say, by the way."

"If she's not your pet, can I take her~?"

Ochako mindlessly said as she hugged Luna, much to the cat annoyance and Aki's amusement.

After a long while of hugging, cuddling and playing with Luna, Ochako seems satisfied. She released Luna, who immediately jumped onto Aki's lap. Ochako slightly pouted and cooed at the scene.

"So, mind telling me why were you unconscious in front of my apartment."

"Your apartment? I swore I was at mine."

"Yeah, no. I came home and saw you unconcious on the steps."

"Wait, wait, wait…..We're at block 260 right?"

"Yes, exactly. I live at block 26-"

Aki realized what Ochako was talking about.

"Don't tell me we're-"

"Neighbors!"

Ochako excitedly yelled out.

"And we live in the same floor too!"

Aki buried his eyes inside his palm, before looking up at the excited girl.

"Ho-How are we neighbors!? I've been living here since I was 9 and yet, I never saw you!"

"It's because I just moved here last week!"

Letting out an exhausted sigh after accepting his fate, Aki decide to divert the conversation.

"Okay…..Then why were you unconscious?"

Ochako froze. Should she tell him the truth, that she was poor? Would he think less of her and kicked her out? Or would he laughed at her? Like everyone did middle school. She was torned between telling the truth and lying. She didn't want to lie, but she was afraid of the truth.

It's not like Ochako was embarrassed at her family's status, no. She was just afraid. Afraid of being looked down, being abandoned by her 'friends' as soon as they knew she was poor.

"I-I…"

Ochako's word stuck in her throat. She couldn't look at anywhere else except the floor. She could feel his worry gaze at her, but she still couldn't find the power to look up from the floor.

Suddenly, Luna jumped on her lap. She purred, being comfortable on Ochako's lap and stomach. Somehow, this seemingly selfish act of the cat comforts Ochako. She felt….warm. Safe.

Aki's soft laugh snapped Ochako out of her train of thoughts.

"As snarky as she usually is, Luna was always there when I was sad. It likes she knows when someone needed comfort, and she is always to comfort them. If it's uncomfortable, you won't have to explain. Just know this is a non-judging zone. Whatever the reason is, no one is going to judge you for anything."

"…Even if the reason would make you look down on me?"

"I'm asking, ain't I? Besides, anyone Luna willingly cuddles with always have my respect."

Hearing Ochako's giggle lighten the mood up for a bit.

After a while of petting Luna, Ochako managed to build up the courage to explain.

"My family is…poor for the lack of a better word. My parents work day and night to raise always have this…exhausted look on their face, and I hate it. That's why I….I want to be a hero to help them having an easy life. A life that they deserved!"

Ochako looked up, expecting a disappointment look from Aki. Anyone she ever told her story to either laughed out loud or said that her reason was selfish, unhero-like. What she didn't expect was the boy looked at her with widen, amazements eyes.

"Wow that- that's very admirable, Uraraka-san!"

"You-You don't think it's unheroic?"

"You wanted to help your parents, Uraraka-san. If that's not heroic, nothing else is."

Ochako didn't know what, but his smile, his word made her felt….. comfortably weird. Ignoring it, she continued.

"For why I was unconscious, it was because I was….hungry. The last time I ate was Tuesday's lunch. I usually skipped breakfast and dinner to save money, you know. But the break-in today at lunch ruined my meal and the USJ made me overused my Quirk, which made me threw up whatever I had left in my stomach. So I must have fainted from exhaustion."

"Luckily I found you before someone else, huh? Imagine the hospital bill."

"Thank you, but I won't. It's just gonna make me faint again."

They both laughed at their own silly jokes.

"Say, that reminds me."

Aki walked over to the counter, picked up Ochako's flip phone and handed it to her.

"I found this on you. It must have broken from the impact."

Ochako took the phone examining it as she tried to turn it on to no avail.

"Crap….This is my only way to call my parents….."

"Is the SIM card still working?"

Confused of Aki's question, Ochako pulled it out of her phone to check. Luckily, it was still intact.

"Yes. Why?"

"Great. Here."

Aki handed Ochako a smartphone.

"W-What are you-I can't take it!"

"Relax, it's my old one. I kept my stuff very carefully. It's an old model but it'll have to do."

"S-Still, I can't just accept a phone from you!"

" 'Course you can. Just take it. Think of it as a gift."

Reluctantly, Ochako took the phone from Aki's hand, much to the boy's relief. He thought he had to slip it inside her pocket.

"I know we're on the same floor, but how the hell are living next to each other!?"

Ochako amusingly giggled at Aki pushing his forehead on the wall. They were standing in front of Ochako's apartment after Aki helped Ochako set up her phone. The girl was literally techno-blinded.

"This has been fun, Mochizuki-san! Again, thank you for helping me! I'll see you at school."

"No proble-What do you mean at school?"

"Because we go to the same school?"

"Yeah, I know that! We have two day rest and the weekends. You said you eat for free from Lunch Rush. How are you going to do that without school?"

"I guess…sleeping until Monday? Can't feel hungry if you're not awake!"

"You know you can just come over my place and eat right? I don't mind the company. Gotta finish all that ramen anyway."

"I appreciate it, Mochizuki-san, I really do. But you helped me too much already. I can't ask you for more."

"Jesus woman, you're damn stubborn! Okay, okay, I have a plan. It involves you having three meal a day but you have to work for it. How does that sound?"

"Dangerous and pervert, but I'm listening!"

"N-n-no, that's not-" Aki blushed, much to Ochako's amusement.

"What I meant was I gave you money to buy groceries, and you have to cook both of our meal. As much as I love eating ramen, 3 ramen bowl a day ain't healthy, and you not eating at all is worse. I can't cook a proper meal. So with this, maybe we can both having proper nutrients. What do you say?"

"It actually sounds…..fun! I'm in, boss!"

Ochako raised her hand to Aki,

"I'm not your boss."

Which he happily shook.

"I take it back. I hate this deal."

"No can do! Come on, we need to buy some flavor!"

Aki grumbled while being pulled away by Ochako by his hand. Apparently, Ochako is an early-riser. She woke up at 6 a.m on a holiday, woke Aki up and dragged him to the supermarket, much to the boy annoyance. Currently, they were browsing from stall to stall, looking for ingredients for their meal. Aki, who was half-asleep at the moment, couldn't get away from Ochako.

"It's 6.30, woman! How are you so energetic!?"

"The store become more crowded at 7! We need to snatch all the good stuff before then! Over here, this one!"

Ochako happily replied as she handed Aki some ingredients.

"You could do all this by yourself-this one?"

"Yup, it helps spices the food. Considering that you have zero cooking item in your house, we'll have to purchase a lot of stuff. You don't expect a cute lady to carry all this by herself, do you?" Ochako teased.

"I will if that 'cute lady' woke me up 6.30 on a holiday. What are you making anyway?"

"For morning will be tuna onigiri, lunch will be fried egg on rice with natto and miso soup and dinner, will be a s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e!"

"...The food better be good if you woke me up this early."

"So when you said you can cook…."

"Yeah? What about it?"

They got back after another 30 minutes of shopping. After Ochako went inside his kitchen to cook up breakfast, Aki set up the table and cleaned the house. Currently, the two were sitting in Aki's dining room.

"You didn't say you were good. I could eat this my whole life."

"Hehe. I'm glad you like it." Ochako embarrassingly scratched the back of her head at the compliment.

"I'll do the dishes. You go find Luna and give her the food, otherwise she'll scratch wall. Again."

Around 4 p.m in the evening, Aki finally mustered up the courage to go to Wolf's place. After he knocked the door, the one he wanted to see the least opened the door. Shiro, with a kind smile that gave out a murderous vibe, greeted him. She was in her usual white kimono that emphasized her gorgeous black hair.

"Aki-nii-sama, you're finally here. Please come inside! I need to talk to you."

"….yes ma'am."

The two walked in silence, until they arrived at the dojo. Inside was Wolf meditated silently near a Buddha statue and Kuro sitting in a corner reading a book. They looked up as soon as they heard the door opened.

"Aki-nii! We heard about the USJ! Are you okay!? Was anyone hurt?"

Kuro gently asked, but anyone could sense the worry in his tone. Aki couldn't help but let out a relief sigh.

"Everyone's fine. Our teachers were taken to emergency, but they're fine now. Although….."

"Although what?" Wolf firmly questioned.

"….I had to use Resurrection."

"So….you were….?" Shiro shakily asked.

"They had this weird creature called Nomu. It has- well, had multiple Quirks. I was caught off guard."

*sigh* "I guess there's no point in reprimanding you for something you weren't aware of. But please, be careful next time. For us?" Shiro asked as she and Kuro held Aki in an embrace.

"…Promise. Now, I need to talk to Wolf-sensei. Mind giving us the room?"

The nodded and quickly left the room. Wolf gestured Aki to sit on the floor.

"There is this lady, nurse in my school knows who you are."

"Name?"

"Dogen Emma."

Aki swore he saw Wolf slightly flinched at the mention of Emma's name. His master let out an exhausted sigh, before explaining.

"Emma-dono was…an acquaintance. She helped me multiple times before."

"Aaaaaand why is this the first time I'm hearing about this?"

"Because I did many things back then that I'm not proud of. Emma-dono was my past, and I abandoned it."

"…..So why do you think she's approaching me now?"

"A signal."

"?"

"That it's finally time for me to teach you…..higher techniques."

"And you don't want to?"

"Because these techniques are not made for protection. They are used to….kill, to take away a person life."

"I'm not a child, and this is not the first time I k-"

"Killing a monster versus killing a human is different, Aki-kun. You sure you could look into a person eyes, as you killed them?"

His word wasn't a question, it was more of a statement. Aki felt something stuck in his throat as he tried to answer. He killed monsters before. He killed the Nomu, which was a human. But the thought of killing a living person…..it made him feel sicken.

"I-I'm not sure….but,

I know that soon, I'll have to do what is necessary."

Hearing his student confidence made Wolf nodded with pride.

"Good. Then, we should get started."

He pulled out an old scroll, put it in front of Aki.

"First, Ashina Cross."

A/N: None XD

Btw, would adding Toga to the harem too much? I got some idea for her but there's too many girls already. If you guys want her in, let me know,

Till next time!