Shina set down her guitar and whipped some sweat from her brow. Noticing that her fingers were bruised up again. How long have I been practicing?

She looked up at the clock in her room, and her eyes widened. Seven hours!?

GRRRRRRRRRRR!

Shina looked down at her rumbling tummy. "I sure hope Fuku's in the kitchen."

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When Shina finally got down into the cafeteria, and found that Fuku was indeed there, serving bowls of Ramen to Shiruku, herself, and…Sansan?

The fact that Sansan was about to eat food, was not the only weird thing. Sansan herself wasn't in her normal colors.

Her outer slime was white, and her inner slime was purple.

It was an odd look, to say the least.

"Oh, Shina," Fuku said after taking notice of her. "Are you hungry? I made a lot of Ramen so please just wait a second, and I'll get you some."

"Ok, thanks," Shina said, as she went to sit down, right next to Sansan. "Um…"

"The scientist finally found a way for Sansan to taste food," Shiruku explained, seeing how confused Shina was. "They made this new chemical for her, that makes her outside parts white and not melt things, and the purple insides can melt and taste things."

"How does that work?" Shina asked, very confused as to how slime could taste things.

Shiruku shrugged.

Fuku finally came back, with another bowl of ramen. "Here you go, Shina!"

"Thank you!" Shina eagerly took the bowl, and all four of them sat down to eat.

Immediately, Sansan took the bowl and dumped the contents into her mouth all at once.

Everyone watched as the ramen melted inside of her.

And then she immediately turned into a puddle.

"EAP!" Fuku shouted out in a panic. "DID I JUST KILL SANSAN!? Did I do something wrong! I didn't put poison in there, did I!? Could poison hurt Sansan!? Was it the garlic!? Did I kill Sansan with too much garlic!?"

Sansan's head reformed from the puddle, with a big dopey grin. "Soooooooo! Gooooooooood! Foooood is amazshing!"

"Calm down Fuku, it was a happy melt, not a bad melt," Shiruku assured her, as she started eating her food. "Mmm. Seriously, Fuku. How could food so good ever kill someone."

"How do you do this?" Shina asked, on the verge of tears while eating her own food. "Whenever I try to make food it always ends up being awful! It's not fair! It's not fair damn it!"

"I'm sorry?" Fuku said to try and console the girl.

"You can apologize by giving me half of your talent!" Shina pouted. "Or even just 10% Just 10% of your talent! Cooking! Sewing! Writing! Drawing! Archery! Just give me one!"

"Come now Shina, you have your own talents." Shiruku encouraged her. "Your singing voice is something to behold! I honestly can't wait until you've mastered it and I can fully appreciate it."

"But that's it! That's my only thing!" Shina sighed. "I've got one thing! I'm a one-note character! I'm gonna be that person that shows up to every party with a guitar, even though it was only cool the first two times!"

"I mean you can fight." Fuku pointed out. "That's something."

"That's not a talent. It's not even really something I can do." Shina moped. "That's just my quirk."

"...What's the difference, between qwirks and talent?" Sansan asked.

Everyone took a second to really process that question.

They knew that there WAS a difference, but when they really thought about it, the two were more similar than they first thought.

Both were things that one was born with, sometimes dictated by genetics, that usually benefited a person, but would also usually require a lot of hard work to hone.

"Does that make my quirk a talent?" Shina pondered. "But it still feels like cheating when I use it. I mean I can just slash and do pretty much anything."

"Well, I guess the difference between quirks and talents is that quirks are just way stronger," Shiruku said. "At least some of them are. Still, I think that saying using quirks to help you do things is a bit unfair. I mean I use my quirk for my passion."

"Yeah, but you're different! You still go through hours of practice! I just have to cut myself once, and I'm good." Shina sighed.

"So it's kinda like how Ken makes video games?" Shiruku pointed out.

"Well, I don't think Ken cares too much about the art of making video games, or what's cheating or not," Shina explained. "Then again, I don't know that for sure."

"He doesn't. Trust me." Fuku sighed. "He just wants to make cool things, and use them to make money."

"Yeah, he's a pretty simple person," Shiruku said. "Oh, and Fuku dear, how is your planet exploring ideas coming along?"

"Slowly. But, pretty well." Fuku said. "I'm using the Simroom and the lab to help find new ideas and learn more about certain places. Also, I've learned I never want to go to a desert, ever. How do people live in places like that?"

"I can't wait to play that one day!" Sansan said. "A game wike that sounds super cool!"

"Oh well, I was kinda hoping maybe you'd help me with making some landmarks," Fuku asked shyly. "I mean your landmark art pieces are so amazing! If I could get that in this game I think people would really get attached to it."

"Sure!" Sansan said, giving her a big thumbs up.

"You two make me a bit jealous. Working on such massive projects." Shiruku sighed. "It makes my own work seem small."

"But clothes are way more important than video games!" Fuku said. It hurt her pride as an otaku to say that but she had to admit the truth. "Whenever you see someone, the first thing you look at is probably their clothes! Nice clothes can help you during a date, or getting a job! And everyone LOVES hero costumes!"

"Yeah…yeah you're right!" Shiruku said, perking up. "I can't believe I forgot how important my work is for a minute! I'm ashamed of myself. Thank you for reminding me of that Fuku. I believe you deserve a head pat for that!"

"Mercy! Have mercy! I'm eating!" Fuku cried out.

"Fine, but the moment you're done, I'm giving you head pats," Shiruku said with a smile. "Don't try and run. You won't get far."

"I know." Fuku sighed. Accepting her fate.

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"Hmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmm." Giza hummed, as he strolled through the forest, with his arms behind his back.

CRASH!

Giza jumped back, just as Kiba crashed into the ground where he'd just been standing, creating a small crater as she landed.

"Chaos Arrows!" Le shouted as he jumped out of a tree.

As dozens of chaos arrows shot out from Le's hands towards Giza, he easily dodged every last one of them, before jumping and vanishing behind a tree.

Kiba formed a rough-looking hand out of shadows, and grabbed the tree, quickly uprooting it.

Only to reveal that Giza had vanished.

"Stupid ninja crap," Le swore under his breath.

"Ahem."

The two of them turned around and saw Giza standing on top of a tree, looking down at them.

Le teleported to and tried to punch him in the face, only for Giza to tilt his head and dodge. Before spitting in his eyes.

"Ah, fuck!?" Le hissed in pain and disgust, as he fell backward.

Giza was about to jump down off the tree, but he just managed to stop himself, as a shadow spear rushed, and nearly stabbed him.

At the same time, Kiba flew up to him and was in Giza's face before he knew it, ready to land a heavy blow.

Before Giza spits in her eyes, blinding her, and causing her punch to stall, allowing Giza to duck under it, and fall out of the tree. Vanishing between them.

"Curses!" Kiba cried. "Fine then! You leave me no choice!"

Kiba raised her hand and started gathering up shadows and bringing them up into the sky.

Those shadows formed into an orb in the sky that grew larger, and larger, and larger. Until it grew into a massive black ball, that almost seemed to radiate shadows, like the sun radiates light.

"All things have shadows! For where there is light, there is dark!" Kiba chanted. "Unseen sun! Shine your shadow upon the world! So commands your master! Black Sun's Flare!"

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The black sun roared, as black beams of shadows shot out of it, and started, curving around, smashing into everything around them.

Giza was forced to dodge the beams, as they smashed into every tree around him, destroying all the cover around him, as well as the whole forest.

"Woah!" Le was forced to teleport away, to avoid getting hit.

Every tree was swept away, boulders were shattered, and the ground shook from the might of her attack.

And only when the entire forest around them was decimated and laid bare, did Kiba's attack start to fade out.

The beams vanished, and the black sun she'd made, quickly began to shrink into nothing.

"Ugh." Kiba groaned as she clutched her head and stomach, as she fell to the ground, onto her knees. Using such a powerful attack had massively cut into her blood banks. Making her much, much weaker.

And then, the moment she started to try and get into her feet, Giza kicked her in the face, forcing her onto her back.

"Chaos Missile!" Le had teleported back in, and shot a tree-sized energy bolt at Giza, before teleporting over to them, grabbing Kiba, and teleporting them away.

Giza jumped to the side as the missile sailed by him.

Only for the missile to burst open, into hundreds of tiny sharp energy fragments.

Giza had no way to dodge this, and could only use his arms to cover his face and chest, as his body was cut and punctured by chaos energy.

By the end of the attack, Giza's clothes were torn, and he was covered in cuts that were bleeding all over.

"Ha! We hit him! We actually hit him!" Le cheered. Ignoring how his restrictor rings burned his wrist. That last attack used so much energy it made his head spin, but had been worth it, to finally land a hit on him.

"Impressive," Giza said. "To acknowledge your lack of skill, and compensate with overwhelming power, and teamwork. Well done."

"Heck yeah!" Le and Kiba high-fived, with huge grins on their faces.

Sure they didn't technically beat him, but getting this far was pretty sweet in their opinion.

Because it meant they were getting stronger.

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"Sir we have a problem," Chole said as she came to Izuku's desk, and showed Izuku a tablet.

Izuku looked at the tablet and saw a news article. "The number 1 hero of France is coming here. What's so concerning about that?"

"Please read the rest of the article," Chole told him.

"Ok…she wants to help the poor citizens of Japan in this trying time…and she's specifically here to find her cousin…Manami…Aiba. Oh." Izuku scowled. "Yeah, that's not good for us."

"What should we do sir?" Chole asked.

"Call them, I'll have them stay with the Sky Pirates until she leaves." Izuku sighed. "Hopefully, they can avoid having an encounter with them."

"And if they do?" Chole asked.

"Then we pray they're equipped to deal with the situation," Izuku said, rubbing his temples. "Otherwise things are going to get more complicated for us."

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