IZUKU SKIRT A WILD WIND

CHAPTER 26

AN: EVERYONE FAVOURITE ORANGE HAIRED MARTIAL ARTIST IS BACK PEOPLE.

HOSU

ABANDONED BUILDING

THIRD PERSON POV

Hiding behind a pillar Kendo was breathing as shallowly as possible, her nose still needed a few more days by Stain estimate before it recovered. Listening closely she heard the very faint almost missed sound of metal scratching against the stone under it. If she was not taught by him to play close attention to such things she would have missed him. Granted she was sure she would have learned this at UA eventually, but the speed at which he taught such tricks for battle was much more accelerated. How the man managed to sneak up on people in those shoes was a mystery to her, if he was wearing regular shoes she had serious doubt that she could have ended up being able to hear him at all. Taking the 'cat stance' as she taught him so as to make it easier for her to react to enemy attacks, she prepared to dodge and counter his next attack.

Stain however reminded her again about how only fools fight fair and square, flicking a pebble to her left to trick her. As she jumped out ready to strike he came from the right side behind her, putting the edge of his katakana to her throat he let out a sigh. "You did better this time, but you were so tense that you mistook the pebble I threw for a footstep." He told her pulling the sword away allowing her to slump back down to the ground as the tension he mentioned left her. Going around her to get a good look at her face he spoke up again, finishing what he was saying before. "It is good to have a little tension in battle to keep you from letting your guard down. But too much like this time will distract you resulting in potentially lethal damage if not worse, permanently debilitating injuries." Stain said reminding her, that for people like them who live to fight for their causes, being trapped in your body for the rest of your life forced to watch and do nothing, that is worse than any death.

Kendo who understood this well enough after he helped her pick up the broken pieces of her will got up shaking her head clear. "I understand sir, please can we try again!" Kendo asked him determined to at least master his almost sonar like hearing skill he seemed to have developed. Stain seeing how determined she was to learn this could not help the smile that spread across his face at her desire to make herself a better hero. With this they ran this training scenario a few more times before calling it quits for a lunch break. Lunch was a bit on the simple side though as they could not go outside of the building until nightfall, which even then they had to be extremely careful. Fortunately the public did not know his face and UA seemed to be taking a subtle approach and not tell the whole world that one of their students is missing. Kendo hated the fact that she was worrying her teachers and most likely her classmates as well by not making contact with them. But she needed to get stronger faster if she wanted to actually protect her friends. That meant that she needed to train under the man before her here, despite his extreme views on society that she was quite surprised he did not try to preach to her unless she brought it up.

"Sir, can I… ask you something?" She asked him referring to him as sir as she felt that he deserved to be addressed more properly like her teachers but could not bring herself to call him sensei either. Stain nodded to her giving his approval to proceed. "Why are you going through all of this effort to train me, I could be wrong but am I not taking the time you could spend hunting fake heroes?" She asked him wondering why he would put his crusade on hold to train her after seeing with her own eyes how passionate he was about it.

"… I assure what we are doing is not a waste of my time." He said putting aside the food cans they ate out of. Seeing she still wanted a more in depth answer he continued. "No matter how many fakes I cull to bring awareness to this world how rotten many of our heroes have become it does not mean proper heroes will take their place. That is why I am teaching you all that I know, so that way I know my knowledge will be used to create at least one true hero even when I eventually get caught stopped by such a hero." Stain said doubting a true hero other than All Might will be able to stop him, it was a true pity for him. As he told her, he truly did hope that through her even if his crusade failed, there would still be one true to born from his life work.

MUSTAFU UA

THIRD PERSON POV

The school was abuzz with rumours about the picture of Izuku handing Tetsutetsu a gift, the media was not helping much either. Several news outlets as usual had begun to circulate their trashy limelight stories of hero gossip. Izuku unfortunately was get almost all of the attention right now due to the big reveal during the sports festival. Despite the woes of Mount lady who was now getting shown up by him twice now, at least on her debut she could acknowledge it as one hundred percent an accident. The few heroes who were getting attention outside of Izuku small circle at the moment, were not getting what one could consider praise so in this sense she got lucky to be ignored. Death Arms and Kamui Woods especially were taking particular heat for chewing out during the sludge villian incident. The hypocrisy of this did not escape Nezu as no one cared about them scolding him when they did nothing before since he was just an ordinary kid. "Honestly, how many times am I going to have to arrest reporters todays?" He asked himself as less than five minutes ago they caught the seventh reporter so far today trying to trespass on UA property to try and interview the students without his permission. The quote on quote best part of it was that it was not even ten in the morning yet, and he knew there would be more. For once not even the threat of unleashing Midnight on the reporters deterred the vultures like it usually did since he made her the publicity representative for the school. Though he doubted that they knew she was currently away as she was to keep a low profile with the three students with her. Normally such a thing would be impossible to expect from her given her very aggressive and in your face hero persona. But with Izuku drawing all the attention as they had planned no one will look twice at her unlike how they usually react to her presence.

In the 1-A and 1-B classrooms heated debates were taking place as to wether or not they should stop the two from becoming an official couple. Most of the boys just did not want to accept it as this would make them be forever considered equal at best or worst even further below the other class in terms of how everyone viewed. The worst case scenario would occur depending on who was seen as in charge in the relationship which they figured some news outlet would likely push for people to decided eventually. As for the girls, they were more concerned with Tetsutetsu or Kirishima swaying Izuku to play for the other team rather than the one they needed Izuku to be playing for. Well in 1-B case it was much less intense compared to 1-A as the absence of Kendo made them all worry. Despite the fact that the teachers had told them there was nothing wrong and she was just recovering, but would be good to come back to class after the internships. The students would normally have accepted what the teachers said considering her injuries during the sports festival, but the fact they could not contact her in any way made them worried that something was off.

Momo especially was concerned even more so than her classmates about the whole Izuku and Tetsutetsu situation brewing right now. This was because after her mother found out with certainty via the sports festival that he was All Might son she was more determined to have him marry into the family. So what do you supposed happened when the tabloids and a handful of major news outlets were already speculating the two boys were together? Well if anyone thought it was pleasant they were wrong, the maid who assisted Momo mother with her training had suggested something. They suggested to push the training further so as to have her prepared to invite him over anytime after they get back from the internships which she still got quite a few. Needing to keep up a strong image her mother agreed to let her do the internship as she acknowledge her daughter could use the chance to get the much needed exposure.

UA

NEZU OFFICE

THIRD PERSON POV

Nezu had gathered the teachers together after the school day had ended to discuss three very distinct issues, one of which he could barely discuss at all. "Ok everyone, which issue should we discuss first, any suggestions?" Nezu asked them waiting for the first issue to be decided.

Ectoplasm had coughed into his hand clearing his throat so as to signal for everyone attention. "I would like to discuss the issue of letting Midoriya and the other two boys intern in Hosu. With Stain known to be in the area I believe it is far too dangerous to let any of our students intern there." He said making it clear how much he was against sending them there. It was clear that he intended to leave the issue of Kendo who was missing for Vlad to bring when he felt comfortable.

"I understand how you feel, I really do, but he has not been active for over two weeks now." Midnight said trying to keep him from sticking his nose even further into the plan they were hiding.

"My apologies but I have a hard time believing that. I was surprised when you raised no issue with putting him in danger like that, even if you are known as the queen of sadists." Ectoplasm said getting a round of agreements from the others who did not know of the plan that had been put in place. Keep in mind the man did not hate her, but as someone who cared about proficiency above all else someone as chaotic never got more than a second glance from him outside of official duties.

Very few things hurt Midnight as she had learned at a young age to shrug off the idiotic opinions of those who judged her before knowing anything about her. Luckily for him, she could only intend this meeting through her laptop camera. The habit of shrugging off anyone who was not genuinely interested in knowing her had in turn caused her to rarely show her true self to anyone, including the majority of her co-workers. But just as she was about to snap at the man for saying she did not care about her family, Aizawa spoke up. "If you are that idiotic as to not see how much she cares about her nephew then I suggest you quit your job now. Before you teach the students to foolishly make judgments of people based solely on outward appearances or reputations." Aizawa said sending a spine chilling venom with his words to the fool who dare to insult his friend. Unlike him who did not know about plan, Aizawa knew first hand how much she did not want to send Izuku into that situation. Sadly for appearances sake and avoid any info leak of the plan reaching Stain in any way, both he had to keep quiet about the plan… well for now anyway and Midnight had to put up her usual front.

Nezu seeing the tension build up clapped his paws to get everyones attention before he spoke, making sure to defuse the situation. "Before this devolves into arguing, remember that Midoriya is interning with a hero who not only has a quirk that senses people presence. But also said hero does mostly commercials and charity balls so the amount of time he will spend on actual patrol will be low. As such I deemed it safe enough, and besides he will need all the help he can get learning how to roll with the punches the press will throw his way going forward." Nezu said making it clear that there would be no more arguing.

"Very well, then onto the second issue we need to tackle, what are we going to do about the reporters breaking into UA grounds to harass our students?" Cementoss said wanting to know what Nezu planned on doing about this thorn in their sides. Never before now were any of them grateful for Aizawa distain for the press that he was already prepared to capture and beat the vultures as he often called them, into submission on their behalf.
Nezu could not help but let out a sigh at the unfortunate news he had to deliver to them all. "As much as I dislike it, despite them literally breaking into the school we cannot do much. The news outlets they work for are claiming freedom of the press and defending them despite the police declaring we are in the right. Though the law suits are easy enough to turn aside. The tsunami of complaints on all forums involving UA by them for stopping them is starting to get bad for public image." Nezu said recalling how irrational the public was being by siding with the criminal reporters just because they wanted more information on Midoriya time at UA.

"If all they want is information on Midoriya then why not just arrange an interview for the kid?" Present Mic asked, not seeing the harm in having a teacher or two escort him onto a talk show. Aizawa could not help but give his friend a dead stare… well deader then his usual stare. "What did I say?" He asked his friend confused as to why he was receiving such a look from them.

"I would like for you to describe Midoriya behaviour in class and his personality, then tell me that he can handle it." Aizawa said as a pregnant silence overtook the room that was filled with noise moments ago.

"… Ok I see your point, hopefully Uwabami can get him camera ready by the time he gets back." Present Mic said realizing there was no way the current Midoriya could actually succeed in quelling the horde of news reporters.

"That aside, since we cannot come up with any further actions to get the public to come to their senses like rational people. I suggest we move onto the last item and come back to this after Midoriya gets back from his internship so as to assess wether or not he has improved enough for us to make any moves." Nezu said getting a round of nods and verbal agreements from all of those here he moved onto the last part. This subject was the one of most delicacy, especially for Vlad King who was feeling the worse out of all the teachers that were here about it. "Moving onto the last topic… the disappearance of Itsuka Kendo." He said as they all collectively winced at the knowledge they failed to protect one of their students to the point it became this mess that it was.

An uncomfortable silence was filling the air once again as Vlad King could be seen visibly shaking with his forehead pressed against his clasped hands as he rested his elbows on the table with his arms up. "My class is starting to suspect something is wrong… how much longer do I need to lie to them?" He said upset at himself for being too late to help his student.

Midnight spoke up first. "You can't tell them anything, not unless your goal is to make them worry even more. There has been no sightings from the heroes we asked to keep this on the down low, and the four of us here haven't noticed her either." She said empathizing to a degree to how he felt right now. Though no one said it, the idea of suicide hung in the air, but as they say it is better not to temp fate by leaving it unsaid. Midnight noticed that she had Setsuna phone with her as a notification popped up. It was just a silly little twitter picture of a selfie someone took in the rain, it was dated at about the time she went missing.

Aizawa noticing Midnight was looking at he assumed was her phone cleared his throat to get her to focus again, but she ignored him. "Midnight what has you so glued to your phone right now?" Aizawa said annoyed that she was getting distracted during such a topic. That was when he noticed her squinting at the phone, looking closer at the phone screen. "Mid-" but he was cut off before he could continue.
"SHE'S IN HOSU!" Midnight shouted getting all to turn to her screen with hope on their faces. Waiting for her to continue she looked up at them with certainty written across her face. "This is definitely her in this twitter photo… Nezu I am texting you the name of the person since this is on Setsuna phone." Midnight said sending the name to Nezu. After he saw her text he pulled up the twitter feed and found the photo she was talking about. Right in the far background barely visible, it was clear as day, so Nezu used an image enhancing software in order to zoom in and enhance it as best as he could. There it was, assuming it was the Hero Killer Stain the individual was currently holding a sword above her neck while standing beside her.

"KENDO!" Vlad King shouted as he tried to storm out of there to go to Hosu.

"Calm down Vlad! You need to think straight!" Aizawa yelled holding the blood quirk user back with his scarf while nullifying their quirk.

"YOU WOULDN'T BE CALM IF THAT WAS ONE OF YOUR STUDENTS THAT GOT EXECUTED!" He said to his long time rival, barely holding back their tears, wanting to just go and retrieve his student body for a proper funeral service.

"Calm down Vlad, for what it is worth I do not think young Kendo is dead." Nezu said shocking them all with his declaration.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN!" Vlad King asked the quirked animal not understanding their logic.

"If she did die, her body would have been discovered by now. After all I doubt Stain would care if people found the decapitated body of a hero student based of his previously gruesome works on pro heroes." Nezu said smiling, sure of his theory. Seeing that the previously distraught teacher was beginning to catch up and calm down he continued. "Odds are he is holding her hostage to soon come after one of us, if so then we still have a chance of rescuing her." He said unable to help himself from grinning ear to ear at the idea that they could still save their precious student if they moved their resources right. The first step to doing this was announcing a week for the whole of the student body to have off to celebrate one of the most likely greatest sports festivals to ever had or will occur.

Despite everything Nezu said, despite his calm smile as he reassured his teachers, he was for lack of a better set of words… INTERNALLY SCREAMING AND RIPPING HIS FUR OUT! Having Midoriya go face to face against Stain was already a tricky enough situation, but now they had the added pressure of Kendo as well. Normally he would just straight jump suggest they injure him enough that he has no choice but to retreat. Then they would go track him back to his temporary base where young Kendo was likely to be held hostage. But the issue with that is that they would waste their best chance of capturing him by using Midoriya as bait a second as he would see through it after escaping this time. So they had to hope that Stain attacked them before Midoriya, or else they run the risk of losing Stain and wasting their one chance to use Midoriya to trap him. Sadly since they do not know who he would consider a more important target, it was up to chance for them to figure out.