Again, Boku no hero doesn't belongs to me and neither does Soulstice, the former belongs to Kouhei Horikoshi and the latter to Reply Studio Games.
Merry christmas ! Man, i can't believe that it has been more than a year since i wrote my first fic and if i were to compare my first attempt of writing a fic and now... i can see a BIG difference.
Anyway, if i don't post another chapter of any story at the New Years, i wish you, reader, a happy new year too !
Now let's go for the chapter.
Chapter 3
"And that's it for now Zumi." The eyepach teen frowns at Lute words.
It has been a few hours after their meeting with Yagi Toshinori and the two sisters are now inside of Aizawa guest room. After they arrived Lute start to tell Izumi about Yagi and his strange aura. Nedless to say, the girl is starting to suspect the skeleton man, seven differents auras aside of his own ?
"Did you recognize any of the auras ? Someone we fought or saved when in patrol ?" Lute starts to shake her head, but pauses and then frowns, and that's not a good signal for the older sister.
"Lute, what's wrong ?" Lute looks at Izumi eyes and grits her teeths as her hand clenches in fists, how would Izumi react when she tells her this ?
"Zumi, i could tell that those auras... they are old, decades old, and the oldest of them... is similar to that man." Izumi widen her eyes, she know exactly who is the man that Lute is talking about, she didn't even realized that her hands had clenched into fists, nor the scowl that appeared in her face but Lute noticed, and much for the spirit despair, she saw her sister uncovered eye turn into a familiar purple with her pupil transforming into slit.
"Sister calm down ! Don't let your anger blind you, please come back !" Lute shakes Izumi shoulder, the desesperation on her voice as she pleads for her to not lose control again.
Thankfully it works and the purple eye becomes the familiar green again as the slit disappears, Izumi blinks as she comes back to herself again.
"...Thank you Lute, i'm sorry for that, it's just that..." Lute shakes her head at her sister aplogies and the apologetic tone.
"It's not your fault, that man caused us so much pain and he is the responsable for our situation, remember that." Izumi frown is all that Lute needs to know that she still blames herself for Lute situation, but the spirit decides to avoid commenting and starting another discussion.
"So, is Yagi-san... his spy ?" Lute shakes her head, although the aura is similar to that man, she didn't felt the same thing that she always felt when seeing his aura.
"No, that aura despite being similar to his aura, i didn't felt any trace of despair and fear that i always did when i checked that man aura, instead i felt... hope ? Happiness ? I can't exactly say, but i'm sure that Yagi-san isn't an spy or his ally." Izumi let out a sigh of relief, she doesn't want for that monster to have a clue about her after years of hiding.
But then Izumi frowns at those news, she already didn't trust that man, and now her distrust grew even more, and not to mention her slight fear of him being in connection with that man.
'Who are you, Yagi Toshinori ?'
Izumi sits on the top of the building as she enjoy the wind and calmness of the night. One of the perks of patrolling at night is how calm it is when no villain are close by.
"Did you got any news about the trigger deal that we faced last week ?" Even with his goggles, Izumi could see his frown as he shakes his head.
It has been a week since their encounter with the trigger deal, they didn't found any clues to the so-called boss, no quirk, no localization, nothing.
Aizawa already spoke with Midnight, Present Mic and even Mr Joke, much to his headache and annoyance, but no clue either, he is considering asking the rat for help.
And on this week, Izumi didn't saw Yagi around UA, maybe it is because he is busy with something else but she is thankful for that, ever since Lute told her about how one of his auras is connected to that man, she fears the possibility of any contact between them despite the younger sister being sure that they aren't allies.
Izumi gets up and stretches her arms, time for rest is over "Feeling anything Lute ?" the spirit shakes her head.
Aizaw throws his capture weapon and balances himself towards the next building as Izumi jumps to the same building, Lute following her sister closely behind with a concentrated look on her eyes.
"There ! I feel some auras, and they aren't in a small number." Aizawa looks at where Lute is pointing and follows the direction, something tells him that this may be what he was seeking.
Sometimes Aizawa hates being right.
At least 19 goons are there, and if judging by the boxes of trigger around, it seems that it's an operation, and a really hidden one, if wasn't for Lute he doubts that he would have found this by himself.
"It's too many for you to fight alone Eraserhead." Izumi whispers as she sees the numbers of villains and Aizawa hates that she is right, he has no clue about what their quirks are, not to mention that some of them are armed with guns and knifes.
Izumi grips her sword as she tenses to fight, she won't use her sword and risk killing any of them, but she can't deny that she wants to fight, Aizawa always told her to stay back or handle the civilian, it's been a while since she last fought.
Aizawa adjusts his goggles before speaking in a whisper "You are right, can i trust you to be careful ?"
If the situation wasn't serious, Izumi would have smirked, but she answer as serious as she can "Yes, i can take care of myself, and if needed Lute can fight alongside with me." Aizawa nods as he grips his capture weapon.
"Go for the left side, i will take the right." Aizawa saw that the villains noticed their presence and they prepared to attack, three villains rushed towards him, one somewhat faster than the other three, a speed quirk perhaps ?
Aizawa dodges the punch and quickly counters with an elbow right in the back of his neck, knocking him out and jumps to avoid the attack from the big one.
He throws his capture weapon at his neck and throws him at the third one, knocking them in the wall, he goes back to the ground and sees more six approaching, two has knifes, one has a gun and three are unnarmed.
The first unnarmed had a mutation quirk that made wings at his back, the second one had his first coated in metal and the last one had no visible quirk.
Aizawa quickly ducks to avoid the bullets and throws his capture weapon at the arm of the gun holder, he pulls the villain towards him and throw the gun away as he uses the villain to defend the blow from the iron hand villain, the punch hit the villain in the face and he was quickly knocked out, Aizawa didn't waste time and threw a kick at the chest of the iron villain before throwing the uncouscious body of the villain away.
Behind him, one of the villains with a knife ran at him, planning to stab his back "DIE HERO !"
Suddenly, a blue light hits his hand and the knife falls from his hand, Aizawa doesn't waste time and grabs the villain by the arm and throws at the another villain that was aiming to stab him with another knife, the guy was too slow to react and was throw in a few box, luckily it wasn't the ones filled with trigger and only normal drugs.
The one with wings rushed at him in the air as the one that didn't had any noticeable quirk rushed at him with a brass knuckle, he jumps back to avoid the punch, which upon the impact with the ground created an small crater, strength quirk it seems ?
He sees the winged villain coming at him again. This time, he throws his capture weapon at one of the drugs box and throws at the villain, he stops and dodges to the left, Aizawa quickly uses the chance to grab his arm with his capture weapon and spin him before throwing at the one with the brass knuckle, making them hit the wall and crack it, knocking both of them.
Aizawa frowns, seems like his quirk wouldn't be useful against them since they either had a mutation quirk or a weapon.
Aizawa realizes that one of them is missing, he looks around and sees the missing villain inject trigger onto himself. After he injected and used his quirk, the iron had gone until his shoulders, not to mention that spikes also grew from them.
Aizawa narrow his eyes at that, this was the first time that he saw one of the villains use the trigger, in the others encounters with trigger deal they never even looked at it, much less tried to use it.
The villain rushes to him, Aizawa activated Erasure and was glad to see that it worked and the villain quirk was erased, taking advantage of the surprise he threw his capture weapon at his neck and pulled before delivering a kick at his face, knocking him out.
"Strange, now that i think about it, the villains never tried to use trigger, why is that ?"
Izumi dodges one of the villains with a knife and kicked him on the chest, the sound of something breaking made her inwardly wince.
While Aizawa took 9 villains, Izumi ended up picking the others 10, not that she minds.
Five are already down, now the more troublesome ones, two of them had mutation quirks that made them bigger and stronger, one of them had a spear that has eletricity around it, one has what could be a telekinesis quirk, judging by the stones floating around him and the last one has fire covering his fists.
Just then, Lute gets out of Izumi hood and deflects the knife that was about to hit Aizawa, Izumi doesn't even blink at that since she knows that if her sister decided to get out of hiding, then it had a good reason.
"What the fuck ?! Who are you ?!" Izumi smirks at the shock in his tone but doesn't reply. Instead, she rushes at the two with mutation quirks, she jumps to avoid the punch from the first one and kicks him on the face, the one with telekinesis threw a rock at Izumi, but Lute used her powers to stop it completely, allowing the grenette jump over it as the second big one rushed at her and tried to punch her, and to his surprise, the stone resumed his speed and hit him on the head, knocking him out.
Izumi smirks again, Lute powers may allow her to deflect or, if it's too fast or too strong, stop it from moving completely, but that doesn't mean that it's original speed will be nullified.
The one with the lightning spear rushed at her, Izumi quickly took out her sword and parried it, thankfully the eletricity around the spear didn't catch her.
Izumi pushes her strength and the lightning spear villain takes a step back, seems like he doesn't have an strength augmentation like her.
Izumi jumps back but the spear wielder rushes at her, intent on hitting her heart. Lute used her power and an explosion hit the spear, it didn't cause too much damage but stunned the spear user.
Izumi rushed at him and punches his face, which made him lose his conscience and also broke his nose.
Izumi turns around and glares at the fire fist villain and the telekinesis villain, Lute frowns and get ready to protect her sister from both of them.
But suddenly, the fire around the fists of the villain disappears and the rocks that the telekinesis villain was holding falls on the ground, while they were confused, Eraserhead came from behind and knocked them out.
Izumi sighs as she puts her sword on her back "I could have taken care of them, you know ?"
Aizawa doesn't say anything and looks around, many boxes of trigger and others drugs, hidden under a secret passage in a abandoned building, seems like they found some lead about those guys.
'But something that has been bugging me recently, every encounter with trigger deals, the villains never even looked at the drug, even the others heroes said that they never tried to use it, even if they were afraid of the backslash, one or two wouldn't care about it...' Aizawa sighs, better leave this to Tsukauchi and the police force.
Just when he was about to pick up the phone to call the detective, he looked at the two sisters, Lute had her eyes closed and was floating around, as if seeking something...
Aizawa almost facepalms, he forgot about her ability to pick aura leftovers and use them to discover what happened at the place.
When he saw the spirit open her eyes with a gasp, Aizawa decided to walk towards them "Did you found it Lute ?"
She nods before lifting her arms to focus on the aura. Aizawa saw Izumi from the corner of his eyes and saw the frown and worried look on her eyes which make Aizawa frowns as well, what is she worried about ?
Aizawa shuts his eyes when the blue light covered the place, opening his eyes he saw the same villains that are now on the ground talking, Aizawa pays attention to every little thing around and ignores his awe at such kind of power.
"The boss surely is smart, i never thought that something like this was possible." Aizawa saw the villain with wings say as he checks one of the trigger box.
"Create those fakes trigger and send some goons to distract the heroes around while we do the real work, really smart." Aizawa widen his eyes as he hears what the villain with iron hand quirk said, so it seems that all those encounters with trigger were just that, a distraction ?
"Not to mention that this place is really hidden, even if the building is destroyed, no hero will find this and interrupt the operation." Aizawa hates to admit, but the villain with lightning spear was right. If wasn't for Lute aura sensing powers, he doubts that he or others heroes that patrols around here would find this.
The villains fade away, Aizawa was surprised but that surprise quickly turns into dread as he heard Izumi scream "Lute !"
When he turned to see the spirit, Izumi was holding her in her arms, Lute form was flickering, as if she was going to disappear.
"Lute, you almost overdid it again, please rest for now." Izumi says but Lute shakes her head.
"I still... can keep going... don't worry." Aizawa couldn't help but frown, he doesn't know what is happening, but the eraser hero doesn't want to risk Lute keep going.
And Izumi also doesn't want to "No, rest for now, me and Eraserhead can finish the patrols."
"B-but i'm better now ! Please sister trust me and let me keep going." Aizawa sees that her form stopped flickering, but Izumi doesn't seem to care about it.
"No, i won't let you keep overusing your powers, don't try to change my mind." the older and younger sister keeps staring at each other, but Lute sighs and turn into her small blue light form and enters Izumi jacket as Izumi let out a sigh.
"Problem child... what was happening with Lute ?" Aizawa says while trying to keep his tone neutral despite his worry, even though he only knows her for a little more than a week, he had come to care about both her childish personality and her willingness to help people.
Izumi frowns before explaining "As you saw, Lute has a lot of differents powers, she can sense aura, stun people and deflect attacks, but abilities like the one she just did takes a lot more of her, and if she overuses her powers she can... disappear for a while." Aizawa widen his eyes, so that's the limit Izumi was talking about and why she always avoided using that power before.
"Even if she can recover her energy fast, i still fear of her disappearing, when that happens it feels like... a part of me dies, and i fear that every time it happens... she won't come back." When Lute reached the limit and disappeared for the first time, Izumi cried, and cried so hard at the thought of losing her sister, she knows that if Lute permanently disappears... she doesn't think that she can keep going living.
Inside of her jacket, Lute mutters "Zumi..."
Izumi snaps out of her thoughts when she feels a hand on her shoulder "Don't focus too much on that kid, remember that Lute is here and she won't leave you not today and not anytime soon, ok ?" Izumi nods before looking around at the defeated villains.
"We better call the cops before they wake up, i'm sure i can defeat them but maybe it will be too much for you old man." Now Aizawa eye twitches, this kid really enjoys testing his limits.
Aizawa sees the cops arresting the villains from a bit far and Izumi is right next to him, after a few cops asking her questions about someone at her age being here, he had step up and claim that she was his intern, thankfully that was all it needed to stop any cops from bothering her.
Tsukauchi walk towards the hero and the vigilante, and when he looked at Izumi he let out a smile. Aizawa told him a little about the vigilante and he was glad that the hero is now taking care of her... although he still won't say who she is.
"Eraser, Huntress, seems like you found something for this trigger case, is there any clues that you found out ?"
Aizawa nods "We did, it seems like all those deals that me and the others hero stopped was just a distraction while the real trigger is sold in hiding. It makes sense since i never saw any of them using the trigger and the others hero never mentioned it either. At first i thought that they feared the consequences of using the drug, but at least one or two should have tried to use, but they didn't even looked at it." Tsukauchi frowns, he never thought on something like that being possible, but they analised the trigger. Unless they lied about it, there is no way that it doesn't work.
"Strange, we checked the trigger and all the tests told us that it's a funcional trigger, i would guess that the boss have a lot of this drug and wouldn't mind sacrificing some of it to distract us, but the fact that not even one of them tried to use it to fight against you or the others..." Aizawa nods, even if they did knew about the plan, it would be possible that at least one would try to use the trigger to have a chance to kill one of the heroes.
"It's possible that it's the work of a quirk" Tsukauchi and Aizaw looks at the petite girl, Tsukauchi raises an eyebrow while Aizawa silently asks her to explain.
"Can it be possible for one of the villains under the work of the boss have a quirk that can create an exactly replica of the drug, but the only difference is that it doesn't have the effects of boosting the user quirk ?" Tsukauchi hums, it isn't impossible for the boss have someone like that under his command.
Aizawa nods "It's possible, but there is also the possibility of him buying the police for them to lie about the fake trigger, can you check it just to be sure Tsukauchi ?" The detective nods, although he doesn't like it, there is always the chance of someone corrupt under the police department, the same goes for the heroes, unfortunaly.
"If that's all, then we better be going." The hero said as the vigilante nods before walking away.
Tsukauchi sighs, the good thing is that he doesn't have to worry about Huntress vigilantism since she is under Aizawa care... but now he will have to go another night without sleep to focus on this case.
"Better get more coffe." Tsukauchi mutters before going to see if there is anything else.
Izumi lies down on the bed, thinking about the recents events.
After they arrived Aizawa home, Izumi asks what they will do now with this information, they know the boss plan of distracting them and how their true trigger deal are hidden, but they can't just let the fakes triggers keep going.
Aizawa told her that for now they will keep patrolling as always, but he asked Lute to keep an eye about the auras and if she feels too many auras on the same place, then they will check it first.
Izumi can see that they are the only ones that can find the real trigger more easily thanks to Lute aura sensing, she can only hopes that the next time they find another of those operation, they find a lead for the boss localization.
"...Are you awake Zumi ?" The eyepach girl turns to look at the worried face of her sister.
"Yeah... i'm just thinking about this trigger thing, and what about you, how are you feeling ?" Lute lies down on the bed right at Izumi side as she look at the ceiling.
"I'm fine, don't forget that i can recover my powers quickly." Izumi didn't miss what Lute meant about that sentence and frowns.
"You know that i don't like you going over your limit, even if you can recover your powers quickly i still fear your disappearing." Lute sighs at her older sister worry, but she can understand how she feels, if Izumi left her...
"I'm not mad at you Zumi, i can understand your fear, but you have to trust me, i promise you that if i feel close to my limit i will warn you, ok ?" Izumi frowns but nods, Lute sees that Izumi still isn't completely comfortable with that idea and sighs.
But then she smiles when she remembers their promise "...Do you remember our promise sister ?" That made Izumi smile at the memory of the promise they made to each other when they finally escaped.
"How can i forget it Lute ?" Izumi sits up in the bed and Lute floats in front of her.
"We will always protect each other" Izumi starts.
"We will always watch each other back." Lute continues.
"We will always stay together against any challenge." Izumi extends her pinky finger.
"And we will never allow the other to be alone." Lute connects her pinky finger with Izumi.
"Until the end." The sisters finishes together, both smiling at each other as they lie down on the bed again.
"Good night sister." Lute says before closing her eyes and hugging Izumi.
The older sister smiles at Lute before letting out a yawn "Good night Lute."
That night, Izumi didn't have any nightmares.
"Do you need something Nezu ?" Izumi says as she and Lute waits for the rat (dog ? bear ?) speak.
It has been a month since their discovery of the fake trigger and it seems that Izumi theory makes more sense, Tsukauchi interrogated everyone that analised the trigger, and his quirk told him that all of them spoke the truth, but just to be sure, the detective decided to not fully trust on that theory, something that the hero and the vigilante agrees.
And on that month Izumi made a significantly progress on her education, thanks to her mind being enhanced due to her past, she can learn faster and she also has a good memory than a normal human... although it doesn't allow her to enjoy the tests nor it helps with her fried brain every time she has to do calculus.
Unfortunaly, there is still not much information about the boss whereabouts, but the good thing is that they had came across two more trigger operation, and the last one may give them some good leads for the boss, they can only hope that Tsukauchi succeds on interrogating them.
And Izumi can say that she is starting to trust the UA staff, it's a slow progress but Izumi can see that they are nice, Midnight can be funny and a nice person outside her hero persona, Present Mic is a loud guy, but just like Midnight, he is a nice person to stay around... although she would like for him to remember to not shout.
She even started to have therapy sessions with Houd Dog. Sure, the chances of her telling something about her and Lute past for him is almost zero, but she is thankful that he doesn't want to force her to tell him, and talking about her nightmares helped a little.
Lunch Rush is also a very nice, if only a bit too energetic guy, his food really makes him worthy of being UA cook, not to mention that when he made that Katsudon she loved it, although she couldn't help but feel nostalgic about that food.
Recovery Girl is also a nice lady and a excellent medic, Izumi was a bit wary of her at the start due to... past troubles with doctors, but she was kind and understanding of it and didn't forced Izumi to anything that she wasn't comfortable, and slowly Izumi start to trust her a bit more and get past her trauma.
And now there is Nezu, the principal of the UA, an smart guy... animal... whatever, Izumi admit that out of every UA staff aside from Aizawa, he was the first that she start to trust, maybe it was their similar past with being experimented and having old scars from those days or something else, she doesn't know.
"Well Miss Izumi, Miss Lute, how are you feeling about living with Aizawa-san ?" Izumi hums as she thinks about the past month, they were... nice, definitely better than living alone, despite what Aizawa shows, he cares about her and Lute, he always asks how she is feeling and even tries to comfort her when she has the nightmares, and recently, those nightmares are becoming less frequent, something that she feels grateful.
"It's nice, i guess it was a good idea that you basically forced me to live with him." She grins at the last part and Nezu chuckles a little.
"As i thought, and another thing i was curious, how are yours and Lute studies going ?" That made Izumi groans as she remembers the many calculations that she had to make.
"Good... for the most part." Izumi mutters the last part, the petite girl has no doubt that if she were to ask Nezu to reduce the calculus on her tests, the rat would put even more.
"I see, and what about you miss Lute ?" Unlike the older sister, Lute beams at the principal.
"It's really good, i feel great every time i learn something new." Nezu chuckles a little at the spirit excitment, but quickly adopts a serious expression, something that made the two sisters uneasy.
"Miss Izumi, i'm happy that you two are getting better, even if it's a slow progress i can see that you seems happier than before, but i need to talk with you about... the man that kidnapped you two." Izumi clenches her hands into fists and grits her teeths while trying to calm herself down at her anger towards that man, Lute frowns as she floats closer to Izumi and hugs her tight, it helps a little to calm the older sister but she still feels angry.
Nezu frowns at the two sisters, they feel a lot of rightful anger towards All for One, will the news about his death help them ?
Nezu sighs before speaking again "The man that... you two met, his name was All for One." It could have been the light, but Nezu was sure that, for a second, Izumi uncovered eye became purple when he mentioned the name.
"I know who he is Nezu." Izumi growls, which made Nezu frown and Lute whisper for her to calm down, the younger sister only hopes that Nezu gets straight to the point.
"Miss Izumi, do you remember seeing someone fighting All for One when you two escaped ?" Izumi takes a few deep breaths to calm herself down, thanks to that and her sister hug she feels a bit more calm.
"Yes, we saw All Might fighting him, it was thanks to him that we managed to escape." And judging by the fact that the hero is still alive, it means that he either defeated All for One and that monster escaped or he allowed All Might to live, which seems less possible since Izumi remembers how much he despites the number one hero.
Nezu nods "I see, but before we can continue, can i invite someone to this conversation ?" Izumi frowns and so does Lute, unless if it's Aizawa then they doesn't feel comfortable with the idea of someone else here.
As if reading their mind, Nezu smiles "Don't worry, you already know him, and he is needed to talk about the fight that happened when you two escaped." Izumi looks at Lute, silently asking if it's alright and when the spirit nods, the grenette agreed for him to enter.
When Nezu opened the door, she expected anyone, Aizawa, Midnight, even Tsukauchi, but not him "I AM... COMING THROUGH THE DOOR !" Lute eyes fills with stars, she would recognize that voice anywhere, and to a lesser degree, Izumi also feels excitment, despite not having any memories of ever seeing the hero before escaping, she always wanted to thank him for helping her, even if indirectly.
All Might, in his golden age hero costume, enters on the room, his sole presence fills Izumi and Lute with a sense of hope, as if everything would be okay with him here.
All Might voice booms with power "HAHAHA, IT'S A PLEASURE TO FINALLY MEET YOU TWO YOUNG IZUMI AND YOUNG LUTE, I HOPE YOU TWO WERE DOING WELL IN AIZAWA CARE." Izumi nods, still in a sort of awe at seeing the hero so close and not being distracted with the thoughts on escaping.
Izumi looks at Lute, who she expected to already have floated up to All Might and start to speak with him, since she always loved speaking about the hero. But the older sister was surprised when she was looking at him shocked, and that makes Izumi frowns a little, but her confusion quickly turns into shock when she heard what her sister said next "Yagi...san ?"
All Might does everything on his power to not cough blood in surprise, but he couldn't stop a normal cough "I'M AFRAID THAT YOU GOT THE WRONG PERSON YOUNG LUTE. YAGI TOSHINORI IS MY SECRETARY, I BELIEVE THAT YOU AND YOUR OLDER SISTER HAD MEET HIM WHEN HE CAME TO UA AND ASKED ABOUT THE TEACHING POSITION, IF YOU DON'T MIND, PLEASE KEEP IT A SECRET, AS BOTH ME AND THE PRINCIPAL WANTS TO AVOID THE MEDIA FINDING OUT." Izumi takes a step back from All Might and Lute stays behind her sister, both of them frowing at the hero.
"You are not All Might, although your aura is somewhat different from Yagi-san, i can still sense the similarities of them." Lute accuses and this time All Might couldn't stop some blood from coming at the next cough, but thankfully the sisters didn't saw.
"W-WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUNG LUTE, YAGI TOSHINORI IS MY SECRETARY, ME AND HIM ARE BOTH DIFFERENT PEOPLE." Izumi raises an eyebrow at the hero stutter, if that's the case then...
"What is your name then, not your hero name nor any nickname, your real name." Izumi inwardly smirks at the panic on the hero face despite his best attempts to hide it.
"UM, YOU SEE, I CAN'T REVEAL MY NAME FOR... PERSONAL REASONS."
And that's when Nezu decides to speak "I believe you should tell them the truth All Might, Lute aura sensing never is wrong." All Might sents a look at Nezu before he sighs and transforms back on his civilian form.
The older and younger sister turns to Nezu to ask the questions but the white animal raises his hand (paws?) to silence them "Everything will be explained soon and yes, he is All Might. The reason to why he became this and everything about his fight with All For One will be explained." On their meeting with the hero, the sisters forgot about the reason they were here to begin with, they frown but nods as Yagi takes a seat.
"Before anything, i believe i should explain some things beforehand." Yagi takes a deep breath and tells the sisters about his past, how he was a late bloomer and about his master, how she trained him and teached him a lot of things that he still carries over to this day.
"Her name was Shimura Nana, she was the most kind and brave woman i had ever met. She taught me everything i know about what it means to be a hero." Yagi says with sadness on his tone, he owns her everything that he has, she gave him the chance to become the hero and taught him everything she could about One for All.
Yagi clenches his fists when he remembers the day she died to that monster and her last words to him.
"All Might, i'm counting on you !" Those were her last words... before that monster killed her in cold blood.
"One day, we both ended up meeting... the monster in human skin called All for One." Izumi and Lute was a bit taken aback from the hate present in his tone, there is no way that it can be faked.
"He was strong, far stronger than anyone that she had ever saw. At that time, a friend of hers called Gran Torino was also there with us, Nana did her best to buy time for me and Gran Torino to escape, she believed that i could defeat him... that was the last time i saw her." Izumi grits her teeth and Lute does her best to control her tears at the sadness on his tone, both of them can see how he admired and cared about his master.
"I wanted to fight him, to fight alongside with my master, but i was too weak and i had to run and hide while training for the day that i finally faced him. It took years of training before i finally faced him again, that was the day you two escaped." Yagi then lifts his costume and Lute let out a gasp as Izumi grimaced at the sight of the scar on his body.
"That fight took a lot from me, it took a lot of time and surgery for me to survive, but i still lost my stomach and my respiratory system was affected by that fight, for now i can hold my hero form for three hours per day, maybe a little more if i strain myself." Izumi clenches her hands into fists, if even the strongest hero lost to him... what hope she has that she can escape him ?
"But i did it, that monster won't ever hurt someone again." Izumi and Lute widen their eyes at that, did they heard him wrong ?
"Wha-what do you mean Y-Yagi-san ?" Izumi doesn't want to get hopeful, she saw how powerful All for One is, but... a small part of her couldn't stop the hope from coming.
Yagi nods "Exactly what it means young Izumi, that monster won't ever hurt someone again, i... killed him." Lute couldn't hold her tears any longer and Izumi eyes start to water a little.
"Are you sure Yagi-san ? Is he really dead ? Are we... finally free ?" The grenette whispers the last part, but the two heroes caught it and frowns, what did they had gone through on that monster hand ?
But the number one hero gives them a smile, a genuine one "That's right young Izumi, he will never hurt you or young Lute ever again, believe me." And Izumi couldn't hold her tears anymore, they always had been running, from fear of him catch them again, they always feared even getting in contact with anyone due to the fear of any cop or hero having connection with him, even now they feared that All for One would find them and... kill Aizawa and the others, to hear that they don't have to worry about him again, it... finally feels like they are truly free.
Nezu couldn't help but let out a small smile. He, more than anyone can understand what those two sisters are feeling right now, when he escaped he also feared ever going back to that place, and that fear followed him until his captors disappearance
He takes a sip of his tea, no one needs to know what happened to them.
It took a few minutes for the two sisters to recover, and they both still have trouble to believe that they finally are free, All for One is gone forever.
"Are you two feeling better ?" Nezu asks as he looks the two sisters, despite Izumi eyes being red from crying, she feels far better than before.
"Yeah, it's just... hard to believe, but i guess those are the best thing that happened today, perhaps the best thing that happened in my whole live... aside from meeting Lute." Nezu nods as he takes a sip of his tea.
But then Izumi remembers what Lute said about Yagi aura and frowns, if All for One is really dead, then why does he has that aura, or seven differents auras ?
"Yagi-san, there is something that i'm curious about." Yagi was a bit surprised at the change of her tone, but gestures for her to ask.
She takes a deep breath "Your aura... Lute said that it has seven differents auras aside from your own, and... she feels that one of them is similar to his." Yagi widen his eyes and coughs a bit of blood in surprise, that last action made the sisters worry about him but Yagi shakes his head and tells them to not worry as he cleans his mouth.
Nezu too was taken by surprise at that question, if his theory is right then those auras that Lute felt are from One for All, especially if the aura that shares a similarity with All for One is the first holder and originator of the quirk.
While Nezu is thinking about the possibility of Lute sensing the auras of the past sucessors, Yagi was panicking at how to escape from this, he didn't expected that Lute was able to feel One for All inside of him, although she doesn't know it, but All Might is sure that those seven auras are the predecessors.
"Um, well, you see..." Yagi tries to think on something, any excuse to avoid telling them about One for All but he couldn't think on anything, he doesn't even know how Lute aura sensing works, and if her ability to sense auras also allows her to see if someone is lying or not then it's pointless to think on a excuse.
He shares a look with Nezu, the mouse nods at him, as if telling him to reveal the One for All, is it okay to reveal it for them ? All for One is dead and he already revealed his true form to them...
Yagi sighs, it's the only way "I guess i can tell you the truth, but you must know that this secret is far more important than anything i told you so far, you two understand ?" Izumi and Lute were surprised at how serious he was, and even Nezu was looking at them with the same look, the sisters looked at each other before nodding at the hero.
Yagi takes a deep breath "As you know, All for One quirk which it bears the same name as the villain allows him to take and transfer quirks at will, right ?" Izumi nods, she saw how that quirk work very closely, and even felt how that damned quirk worked.
"But what if i told you that there is a quirk that can be passed to another person ?" The sisters widen their eyes at that, is such a quirk possible ?
Lute gasps as a thought enters her mind "Yagi-san... are you talking about your quirk ?" Yagi nod and extends his hand foward, and much for the sisters awe and surprise, a bright light shines from it. Lute, who has the power to sense auras, can feel the power and the auras in that light, the seven auras she felt on Yagi-san are much more clearer now.
"This is One for All, a quirk that was passed through generations since the dawn of quirks, Nana was the seventh and she allowed me to become the eighth user." The sisters doesn't have words to say about it, just by looking at the light, the two can feel that Yagi is speaking the truth.
Until they caught the name "Wait... One for All... is that quirk related to All for One ?"
Yagi nods "You are right Young Lute, i will keep the story short, but All for One had a brother, he was born weak, frail and also didn't have any quirk, but unlike his brother, he had a strong sense of justice, he never agreed with All for One and refused to join him, i don't know whenever it was out of love or an attempt to make his brother join him, but he forced a stockpile quirk into his brother." Izumi and Lute were surprised at the fact that All for One had a sibling, but she couldn't supress her anger at the thought of that monster forcing him to submit to his will, how can All for One do that to his own family...
"But the young brother wasn't quirkless as All for One thought, he did have a quirk, the power to pass quirks to another person. When All for One gave him the stockpile quirk, both his quirk and the one he received merged and ended up creating One for All, it's poetic isn't it ? Justice born out of evil." So that's why the aura that Lute felt was similar to All for One, because the onwer of said aura is his brother.
"All for One hunted each user of the quirk, every single one died but they managed to pass the quirk for the next before their death, each one hoping that their successor would defeat All for One forever, and i was the one who finally managed to defeat him." Now Izumi feels bad for ever thinking that Yagi could ever have an connection with All for One, he hates the quirk stealer as much as she do.
"Now that i told you two everything, i beg you to not allow anything to leave this room, especially the secret about One for All." The sisters nodded at him, it's not their secret to tell and not to say that it's the minimum they can do for the man.
"Out of curiosity, who else knows about your wound and true form ?" Lute asks, the little spirit can surely say that she never expected to hear something like that, but she isn't complaining.
"The UA teachers, Nezu, Recovery Girl, Gran Torino and a few others, but about One for All, only Nezu, Recovery Girl, Gran Torino and a friend of mine called Tsukauchi." Yagi considered on telling her about Sir Nighteye also knowing, but decided to keep it to himself.
Lute and Izumi exchanges surprised looks, the detective knew about All Might ?!
Izumi shakes her head and sighs. "Today was a really full of surprises, meeting All Might himself and learning all of this, can't wait to go home and sleep the entire day."
Lute widen her eyes "That's right, All Might is here !" After everything that they discussed today she forgot that they were talking to All Might.
Izumi and Nezu chuckled at how the spirit attitude changed entirely while Yagi was a bit surprised since he forgot how excited Lute was when he arrived with his cover story.
Lute starts to ramble about some of his feats "And there is also the day of your debut in Japan when you saved a hundred of people, and all of that while smiling, that debut is the most awesome debut that i ever saw !" While Lute speaks about some of his other awesome feats, Izumi couldn't help but feel something strange, everytime she sees or hears about the day of All Might debut where he saved those hundred civilians, she feels a strange sense of nostalgia.
"He is so cool, when i get my quirk i will become a heroine just like him !" Izumi frowns as she feels a headache, she closes her eyes rubs her temples to try and soothe the pain.
Izumi opens her eyes again and smiles at Lute, she can see that her little sister is so happy to speak with All Might, the grenette doesn't remember ever seeing her so happy, and it's nice to see her acting as a child despite everything that happened.
"We finally are free." Izumi says as she lies down on the bed.
After their talk with Nezu and Yagi, the principal decided to give the sisters a day off from tests, and maybe it is a coincidence but Aizawa also allowed them a day off from patrol, one that was very much needed.
"Yeah, we don't have to fear him ever again, we can finally look towards the future." Lute says and Izumi nods while sitting up.
"We can finally be heroes without any worry." Izumi says, truthfully, the grenette had often thought on becoming a hero while doing her patrol before, but she refused to try it due to the fear, it would be far easier for All for One to find out where they are, not to mention that there is a lot of people that owned him favors, both hero and cops.
Lute nods "But still, i never thought that something like One for All existed, i do wonder what the past users were like." Lute words made Izumi think a little about the past users, more specifically the first one, what would he think about what his brother became.
Izumi sighs, what a day "Think of the good side, All Might now knows that he has a very dedicated fan." Izumi smirks at her sister pout, the grenette was sure that if Lute could, she would be red instead of blue.
"I just couldn't help myself ! All Might was there and i didn't want to miss the chance !" Izumi nods while giggling at the spirit, who was pouting at the eyepach girl.
But then Izumi laugh stops and she adopts a frown, Lute instantly was worried at that "Zumi ? What's wrong ?"
The petite teen glanced at Lute and quickly looks away "It's just... i couldn't ask him if someone like me can become a hero." The spirit sighs and floats closer to Izumi before putting her arms around her neck.
"You know that you can, Aizawa thinks so and without a doubt All Might thinks the same. We are free now, we need to move on from the past and look at the future Zumi." The older sister sighs but smiles at Lute.
"You are right, i need to move on but... i can't really forget it anytime soon." Lute nods as she tighens the hug.
"It's okay, take your time sister, but remember that i don't blame you and i never will." Izumi nods as the two sisters enjoy the silence of the night.
Chapter end.
Hey there, another chapter done and all... hope this one didn't disappointed you all.
Welp... i got nothing to say here, no reviews... no commentaries from me or anything... so... bye !
