Chapter 3.
Mall Chaos and Meeting Demon Slayer.
One Month Later, Sindriobi Gym.
Aoki got up early and trains in his family Gym. After cleaning off the graffiti from their home, he trains till the sun comes up, punching the gym bag until he collapses onto the floor finally taking a breather. Looking out the window, he watches the sunrise, signaling a new day.
Mitsu Hospital.
Beep… Beep… Beep.
Giving blood to his mother, Aoki watches as she sleeps peacefully with him sitting beside her bed, and adjusting a picture frame of his family. He looks around the room which was decorated with flowers, balloons, and gift cards, wishing his mother to get better soon, from his grandmother, his sister, and including himself, also drawing from Hana covering most of the walls.
Knock! Knock!
Rapping on the door, The Doctor walks in.
"Okay Mr. Aoki, it's been about an hour, I'll go right ahead and remove the tubes on your arm." Said the Doctor, writing in his notepad, then removing the needles from Aoki's arm. Rubbing his wrist, Aoki thanked the older man and asked him about his mother's nurse and why she isn't here, wondering if she got a cold. "You're very welcome. Oh, Mis Midoriya, She is on leave after hearing about her son." Said the doctor. Seeing his concerned face he comments, "Don't worry about her, she promised everyone she will be back, Haha." Laughs the doctor, "But, to be honest with you, I'm amazed, at how dedicated you are, of taking care of your mother's health, and sharing your blood to improve her recovery. I think that is why Mis Midoriya takes a liking to you, after the disappearance of her son. Your grandmother told me as well you are a very hard worker, ha, I know most kids your age wouldn't care less, but not you. It's inspiring. Six years ago what happened to you and you're Parents was terrible. Oh, sorry I didn't mean to bring back any bad memories, still," said the Doctor curiously. "Your mother does have an interesting quirk. She managed to survive her flames from which most flame users would end up dying from. But somehow she didn't disintegrate, We are not sure how she managed to survive, but we speculate it might have something to do with your blood, but, we haven't found anything special about it and why it does what it does." Said the Doctor with an unsure expression, "That is fine Doc, Thank you for everything, I will be leaving now." Said Aoki bowing his head, and preparing to leave, " Oh. You're welcome, Your next appointment is scheduled next week, same as always." Said the Doctor, 'He's a good kid, I wish mine was more like him, haha.' Thought the Doctor. "Hey Aoki, I know you will be as great as your father." Said the doctor with a smile causing Aoki to smile and wave leaving the room.
Arriving into his classroom, Aoki was glared at as he took his seat. Quieting down the class his teacher begins to speak.
"Good, nice to see everyone has settled down, so, as third-year students it is about time you start thinking seriously about your future and what you want to do with your lives, I could start by passing out career aptitude tests, but, why bother!" said the teacher grabbing a set of papers. "Ha! I know you all want to go to the hero track!" throwing the papers towards his students as they cheer on flexing their quirks. "Right, right, settle down, You're still not allowed to use your quirk during school hours", " Hah! Unlike you lot, I would be the only one gifted enough to join any type of hero school! especially the most prestigious one of all, UA High!" said a student proudly making a rockstar symbol with his hands jumping above his desk. " Yeah! Niko has the strongest quirk of us all in our class, and the second person to have the highest score on the mock test!" said his two friends hyping him up, while the whole class murmured, agreeing with each other. "Ho, and Aoki, you're applying for UA as well?" said his teacher looking at a sheet of papers, causing Aoki to glare at him as the whole class became shocked, whispering to each other. "I heard he was the one to get the highest score on the mock test, even though he's quirkless," said some of the students murmuring as Aoki ignores them, continuing to look out the window. Meanwhile Niko looked at Aoki enraged, " alright everyone settle down, let's continue our class".
After school.
Hatsumei, Auto Tech Waste.
Jumping away from a trap, Aoki Gauntlets blasted two more traps above him, disintegrating them as Mei fired another round of her traps towards Aoki as two robots charged him, " yeah brother you got this!" shouts his sister from the sideline as Aoki smirked.
Turning up his Gauntlet flames to a higher stage he transfers the flames to his boot as he rockets himself above the robots causing his mask to construct towards his mouth taking in a lot of air, " Blazing Haze!." shouts Aoki as he bursts through the traps and kicked the robots apart, landing behind them as a big explosion happens with his Gauntlet and Boots clicked releasing steam, "Yeah Aoki!" shouts his sister.
Proud of his achievement, Aoki fell onto his knees, coughing, trying to catch his breath, finding it hard to breathe as his mask constructed back towards his neck. Mei and his sister rush towards Aoki, " Brother is everything okay" asked his sister patting his back, " Are you okay?" asked Mei with concern, "I might need to make some adjustment to the mask, and its airflow." Said Mei worried, " n-no It's not the m-mask" coughs Aoki, "I just made a unnecessary move to my technique, Your support Items match well with my father's Gauntlets. They are amazing." Said Aoki with amazement causing Mei to smile boastfully, " Of course! I design them myself! Just like the Gauntlets, the boots are a replica, made to match perfectly in combination, matching the flame power, allowing you to fly through the air with max speed working in combination perfectly, Hahahahaa!". laughs Mei.
Laying on the ground Aoki catches his breath, "Are you sure you're okaayy?". Asked his sister, "yeah" reassured Aoki, "I can finally prove them wrong." Said Aoki with a smile, "Just one more month before I can take the written Exam, I may not be allowed to take the Entrance Exams, but I will find another way to become a Hero." Said Aoki brightly, " Yeah, it is a bit unfair they change their regulations but as promised we both will get into UA and support each other's dreams." Said Mei standing over Aoki with her fist stretch outward towards him, " yeah." Responded Aoki fist bumping Mei.
"Don't forget I won't be left behind by you two either, I've been practicing with my quirk." Said Hana, summoning her flames, and shaping them into a sword, " You promise me if I manage to control my flame we can go out for milkshakes, and as you can see I managed to shape my flames into Mom's sword, Thanks to Soba." Said Hana with a grin. Rubbing his sister's head causing her to pout in annoyance, "We're still grounded you know." Said Aoki causing Hana to become sad, "Hmmm, but, if I think about it, she didn't say we couldn't go, well, at least once, without her knowing." Smiled Aoki as Hana becomes excited, "yaayy! Let's go! Come on." Said Hana pulling Aoki, " Mei are you coming". " Well I still have to work on my Ba-", clinging onto her arm, she gave Mei the puppy dog eye, "but I guess I could come just this one time." Convincing her, "Grate lets go!" shouted Hana with excitement pulling the two with her.
Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall.
exhales Aoki, "They were just here". 'Hhaa, the next thing I knew, we were all together, and they both ran off in separate directions' thought Aoki shaking his head, remembering Mei saying something about a Hero item, and his sister running off doing her own thing, sighed Aoki, placing his arms within his blue hoodie he went off looking for them.
"Ha-", muffled Aoki's voice as his face got covered over with a rag with him being dragged away, and then slammed into a wall.
Removing his face-cover, Aoki found it to be his classmates, "Aren't you guys tired of this?". Sighed Aoki not surprised as they punch him in his gut causing the other four guys to chuckle, "not until you know your place, villain." Said a familiar voice walking towards Aoki as he frowns, " what you think my father did in the past wasn't true despite what the news said about him", causing the boy to become angry, " I'm sorry what happened to your parents I'm sure they were great Heroes, but, that does not automatically make me a villain all because my father was branded as one" said Aoki pushing the other guy off him as they surround him, sighing he asks, "what do you want from me again, Niko?", "You're shameless, I'm this close to living my parents' dream as Heroes, and following in their footsteps, but you, you have to spoil that for me, the father of the kid that took everything away from me that day!". Shouted Niko revealing himself, "Wanting to be a Hero! Ha! Don't make me laugh!", "Do you think your parents would be proud of what you're doing!". Shouted back Aoki, "Yes, especially if it's the kid of the failed quirkless Hero!!", "Don't talk about my father!!!". Shouted Aoki, grabbing his collar to punch him, but then stopped. "No, you're using your quirk! Niko!" glared Aoki as Niko smirked.
-Niko Ava quirk: "Pulse Waves" his quirk gives him the ability to let out a powerful burst wave when he speaks, and the ability to shift people's emotions causing them to become happy or angry, depending on the person's memories, emotional state, or opinions, making them, abnormally angry, happy, or sad.-
"People will know the truth about you and your family, villain! And remember what your father did!", "Intencity waaaavvess!". Shouts Niko as a pulse wave pushes Aoki back against the wall causing him to clutch his head in pain struggling with his emotions as Niko continue to shout trying to get a reaction out of Aoki.
Looking around the closed section of the mall they were in, Aoki wonders why hasn't someone noticed them by now, then realizing he was in a barrier concealing their presents, and a kid's arms raised projecting light, guessing it had to do something with his quirk, causing Aoki to curse to himself struggling to hold back his anger, knowing that is just what Niko wants as it slowly builds " Quirkless people like you shouldn't become Heroes, but you will make believable villains! just like your father!!!".
"HAAA!!" shouts Aoki, overcome with his anger as he tries to attack Niko just then a small bomb goes off breaking the barrier apart, and a makeshift trap that looks familiar to the mall decoration falls upon the kids trapping them.
Feeling himself being pulled away Aoki managed to straighten his mind, noticing it was Mei who was helping him, "Ha, they always do this." Said Mei shaking her head then slapping Aoki's face causing him to shout, "Ha, I'm fine! You didn't had to hit me so hard!" Complains Aoki as he rubbed his cheek, "Haha, sorry." Apologize Mei, "How did you manage to find us" asked Aoki, "Well, I saw when they dragged you away and set up that barrier, hehe, seeing what they did I set up a special gas bomb especially made for this occasion, including a trap to rescue you." Smiled Mei, "Gas bomb?". Asked Aoki as he weft a smell of something stink causing him to cover his nose.
"Agh, what's that smell" said someone in the mall as they gathered around to find the source. Finding the smell, the crowd gathers around the five kids and assumes they made an accident after the old Mall decorations fell on them causing the crowd to laugh at the boys. Surprised at what just happened Aoki started to chuckle as well finding the whole situation funny along with Mei as Niko and his friends ran off in embarrassment swearing he would get back at them.
"Hahaha I can't believe what you did, Thank you, I think it would have been a lot worse if it wasn't for your help." Said Aoki, giving Mei a genuine smile causing her to blush, then looking away in embarrassment. " Yo-your welcome", 'I never saw him smile like that before, don't blush, stop it' thought Mei, composing herself, 'he has an amazing smile.' "By the way, what's that you have on your hip?", "Oh, this, it's a support item from the Buster Hero Airjet, I managed to find one, and hassle for a great price." Smiles Mei happily with her find, while Aoki looks a bit concerned seeing it kinda looks like a bomb, giving him bad memories.
Crash!!!!
Hearing a commotion in the center of the mall, Aoki and Mei hurried over as they found Men being stuck to the Malls walls with something that looks like liquid metal as the person firing the shots with a rifle rides a bull man, and a hooded girl somersaulting and tossing men twice her size, using some sort of ribbon sword to counter those with firearm, and in the middle of the crazed group was the vigilante the news was talking about, Demon Slayer. Summoning a water dragon to slam into a large group of villains, surprising Mei and Aoki.
Watching closely Aoki noticed the way he breathed while fighting, finding it similar to his family's techniques, especially when he summoned fire with his sword, just then he noticed his sister was in the middle of the craziness as well drinking a milkshake with a white hair girl looking to be about her age, somehow failing to see the chaos around them as the rifle girl got off the Bull Villain with him continuing to charge at random heading towards the two little girls, seeing what was about to happen, Aoki charged towards the Bull-man causing his Gauntlets to burst outward tearing apart his sleeves, grabbing the Bull-man by his horns, and slamming him into the ground knocking him out, surprising the crowd and the three vigilantes.
"Hana are you okay" said Aoki looking his sister up and down with concern, "I'm fine, Where were you I made a new friend." Said Hana as Aoki still looks his sister over, then looking to his right finding the little girl slamming around a grown man twice her size causing Aoki's jaw to drop as she screamed out.
"You!"
Slam!!!
"Killed!"
Slam!!!
"My Best friend!"
Slam!!!
"And I!"
Slam!!!
"Milkshake!" screamed the little girls tossing the man around like a rag doll and then throwing him into the mall's wall embedding him into the concrete as the man shows an expression contemplating his life looking at a loss.
"That was so cool Eri, is like you're as strong as All Might!" Said Hana in amazement forcing herself from her brother's arms jumping with excitement with the little girl now known as Eri. Aoki watched in shock about what just happened, and was left in a daze as the pink hooded girl from earlier approached Aoki, "Are you guys okay." Asked the girl in the hood comforting Eri and his sister then walking towards Aoki. "Sorry to put your sister in danger, it, just sort of happened." Said the hood girl sheepishly giving a hand towards Aoki, "Ah, yeah sure." Said Aoki breaking out of his daze, and grabbing her hand as he stood back up.
"Hahaha, that was amazing what you did to that Bull Guy Arms! You earned 4 points." Said the rifle girl with her arm stretched out towards Aoki holding up four fingers with a wide grin, confusing him.
"Really Yea?" said Demon Slayer looking at his friend. "You know keeping score and all that isn't what hero work is all about." Confusing Yea, "Yea look around Not only did we stop the bad guys we made sure no one got hurt." as Demon Slayer said that the large crowd surrounding them began to clap, cheering for the group.
"Yeah! Way To Go Demon Slayer!", "Did you see those girls they kicked ass", "The little ones are so cute!", "Chick with guns! can't get any better than that!", "Can I Get An Autograph And Your Number!", "Did you see that guy! his support item was awesome!". Shouts the people in the crowd.
Aoki was surprised by the attention, giving a soft smile, and powering back down his Gauntlets rubbing the back of his head. While Mei watches Aoki in the crowd giving him a thumbs up, grinning.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST!" said a booming voice ruining the moment. Dropping in from the sky, Endeavor arrives approaching the group. They could all feel the tension in the air as Endeavor approaches them with a serious look in his eyes as Aoki matches his gaze, glaring. "You kids have caused enough trouble for one day.", "And Demon Slayer, your days as a vigilante have ended." said Endeavor at the group, giving Demon Slayer chills.
The Rifle girl now known as Yea was ready for a fight as the hooded girl was trying not to freak out. While Aoki continues to glare at Endeavor.
"YOUR FACE IS ON FIRE," yelled Eri, breaking the tension.
"Pfft" Demonslayer holds back his laugh as some people in the crowd begin to chuckle at Eri's question, "Eri, that's just his quirk" chuckle Hana, "I think that it's a part of his costume."
"Actually his quirk should give him some resistance, but doesn't that agitate your eyes? Or do you have some sort of contact lens?" said the girl in the hood.
These questions only served to annoy Endeavor. "Enough! You're all under arrest and you will have your question answered down at the police station!"
"Can't we got a curfew." said Yea, "Wait why do we have a curfew again?", "We have to get Eri home before her bedtime." informed Demon Slayer.
"So do I," said Aoki, coming down. "Let's go Hana."
"what? I'm not even tired yet.", "And I still want to spend time with Eri." said the two girls, yawning, causing the crowd to Aaaa in their adorableness.
Aoki gave his sister a soft smile, "We have to go, Soba will be worried." said Aoki patting his sister's head as Demonslayer picked up Eri.
"Hold it!" Endeavour fire flared. " I've already repeated myself enough none of you are going anywhere!"
Looking annoyed and concerned about what he got himself into, Aoki approaches Endeavour racing his arms up, " Okay, okay, fine I'll sur-." Cutting him off, Yea pulls Aoki back towards the group, grinning, "Really flame face." said Yea, Pulling her jacket up slightly causing a few metal orbs to drop from the second they hit the ground the area becomes flooded with lights. Slightly blinding Endeavour as he tried to rush quickly and grab at least one of them, but the second his vision was clear he was surrounded in mist. "See ya later Flame Face, wait I was-." yelled the girl's voice pulling Aoki and his sister with her as Endeavour Anger Flare, leaving him to deal with their mess.
Aoki, being dragged along by the group, they stopped on top of a construction building, far away from the Mall and people's eyes, "WE ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!" yelled the hooded girl freaking out. "MY DAD IS GOING TO KILL ME!", "HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET INTO UA NOW!?".
"Relax Milissa." said Demon Slayer standing beside her. " Sensei said he had plans to help me and I'm sure he can help."
"Yeah, what are you crying about, this was fun." said Yea, slapping Aoki back, "WHY DID YOU BRING ME ALONG!! I WAS GOING TO SURRENDER, NOW I'M GOING TO GET INTO SO MUCH TROUBLE!" yelled Aoki slouching down holding his head, "IF I GET ARRESTED HOW WILL I BECOME A HERO!" panicked Aoki, "AAAaa, SOBA IS GOING TO BE SO MAD!" yelled Aoki as Hana patted his back.
"YEA IF WE GET ARRESTED!" said the now-name Mellissa with tears rolling down her eyes holding Eri.
"Come down you two! Like Izuku said the old man would know what to do." said Yea nonchalantly, "And why I brought you along Arms, That was really cool what you did to that bull villain and I would like to try my skills fighting you!" said Yea holding up her Rifle.
"WHAT! You brought me here to fight and you're trying to be a Hero?!" said Aoki with anger still in his voice, getting up to face Yea.
"Wait you two, sorry we got you into our situation, but I can assure you, you won't get into any trouble." said the now-name Izuku stepping in between them.
"Let's start over, my name is Izuku Midoriya. I go by the hero name Demon Slayer, this is Yea, Mellissa, and as your sister already knows, Eri." Said Izuku trying to calm everyone down.
"Izuku, you're that quirkless kid that went missing two years ago. Your mother is Inko Midoriya.", "Yeah?! You know my mother?" said Izuku in surprise, "Your mother looks after my mom in the hospital" said Aoki in surprise as well. "Hahaha, I wasn't expecting that" laughs Izuku, "what a small world we live in."
"HEY! Don't ignore me!" shouts Yea, coming in between them, still looking for a fight, "Yea, you were injured not too long ago and you're still ready for a next fight." Said Izuku.
Looking to his right Aoki notices the hood girl admiring his Bracers, recognizing that she is a foreigner possibly from America causing him to become annoyed with her, "what do you want!" shouts Aoki as Demon Slayer and the Rifle girl continues to bicker. Startling her she composed herself, " Your Bracer looks very uniquely built, I've never seen anyone design a support item like yours before, it has so many different parts, Did you make it yourself?''. Ask Melissa admiring Aoki Bracers, "Yeah and the way you fight taking down that villain in one swift move. It's like you know what you were doing. Are you a martial artist if so in what field?" mumbled Izuku, turning his attention back towards Aoki, summoning a notebook in his hands out of nowhere, taking down notes while bombarding Aoki with questions causing Aoki to become angry and annoyed.
"What quirk do you have? And How do you manage the weight for your support item? Is it your quirk?", "Does the weight affect the way you fight?" asked Melissa joining Izuku in his bombardment. "Ah! I see, even having so many peaces you were still able to move very quickly. Ahha, I remember, your shoes change at the same time as your braces, shooting out flames!". Shouts Melissa as Izuku moves closer to Aoki. "How do your support items work together? Ake!" Yea hits Izuku and Melissa on their heads stopping their mumbling.
"Quit it, you guys are getting annoying" shouts Yea, "Hmm, I didn't make them, my support item they work on a unique flame, and no, it's not my quirk, because I'm quirkless, and yeah I know martial arts." said Aoki, catching Millessa and Izuku off guard hearing that he is quirkless, "Waw really." Said Izuku In surprised as Millessa looks at Aoki in shock, "What have a problem with that." Said Aoki noticing their shift, "No no no no! It was just surprising I didn't know someone without a quirk could take down a villain." said Millessa still surprised but beginning to notice it now, seeing the scars on Aoki's body.
Hearing the girls giggling and playing in the background, everyone became quiet for a while, "My name is Aoki Sindriobi." said Aoki, "and my sister over there, is Hana." Trying to start back up the conversation, "You guys said something about a Hero school earlier." Ask Aoki, "Yeah." Said Yea, looking up with a curious look, "UA, that's the Hero school right? Hey, why do you guys want to be Heroes?" asked Yea looking at them.
Melissa Had to think for a moment but Izuku spoke before her, "I've always wanted to be a Hero. I used to watch videos of All Might saving people and for the longest time and most likely until the day I die, I think that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. I want to help people and save people with a smile on my face just like him. I will be the number one hero and I will save as many people as I can and I'll do everything Sensei Yushiro has taught me so I can be a pillar of hope for everyone, even other pillars." As Izuku said that, Aoki was reminded of something, "I will make it into the pinnacle of what it means to be a Hero and be a pillar of hope for other pillars, just like All Might." Said the man in Aoki's memories, 'Dad' thought Aoki, amazed by what Demon Slayer said.
"Of course, If All Might can do so much as the symbol of hope and symbol of peace, imagine what more could do. I want to find others so we could all hold up this world together".
Everyone looked at Izuku with a bit of admiration, having no doubt in his words, if anyone could do it, he would be the one. "But to answer your question I want to help people plain and simple."
"Cool." said Yea, "That's it I've made up my mind I'm going with you guys." Said Yea, pumped up.
Giving a soft smile, Aoki agrees with Izuku, "You're really something Demon Slayer." chuckled Aoki.
"And what's your reason for wanting to become a Hero?" asked Izuku.
"My father was a Hero, and since the day I was born, we shared the same dream…. Even though were quirkless, he became a Hero, and I will follow in his footsteps" said Aoki. Causing Melissa and Izuku to look at him with admiration, seeing themselves in Aoki, and Izuku finally remembered where he knew his last name from.
"Yeah we all will become Heroes, it's a promise," said Yea reaching for a fist bump within the group as it followed up by Melissa, Izuku, Aoki, and then, Hana, and Eri. Making a promise to each other on that day.
Aoki residents.
Making it back home with Hana sleeping on his back, Aoki found Mei and his Grandmother along with his uncle. "Nice to see you finally make it back, after putting your sister to bed, You should tell me everything that happened." said his Uncle.
Knowing he is a detective, Aoki complied. After telling him everything that went down, he got up to leave, then rubbing Aoki's head, "Your father would've done the same thing, but what you did was wrong, if you haven't had a quirk and a permit for your support item, you guys would have gotten into a lot of trouble, next time please don't do anything stupid.", "Yeah, Uncle Naomasa," said Aoki as he watched Naomasa leave for his car, asking him a question, "Have you heard anything about Muscular," asks Aoki. Turning back to look at him, Naomasa replied, "No, we haven't found anything about Muscular, but promise me we will," said Naomasa, leaving in his car.
Watching him leave Aoki clenched his fist, "Aoki" said his Soba causing him to shiver.
Hello, it's me again, Kingpanther, but I have changed my username to JTheStoryteller2, similar to my favorite creator on this website. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter; it took me a while to write, so please leave any reviews, positive or negative, as I am trying to improve as a writer.
The original story is from LorenzoJ10's: "Breath of a Hero" I'm writing my oc within his Universe.
