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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quirky Villain
-Chapter 3-
"Hahahaha!" Laughter filled the air once more as Mina giggled loudly, holding her sides as she barely managed to keep herself upright. This went on for almost five minutes before the pink girl finally managed to calm herself down, wiping a tear from her eye as she breathed heavily. "So… he led Mirko on a wild goose chase, stole a kiss while poisoning her, and then stole her gloves after doodling on her boobs?"
"And that was just their first encounter, who knows what he did the other times," Toru said with a nod… I think, hard to tell since she's invisible. "I kinda wish we got to see what happened now."
"I'll admit I am a bit curious myself ribbit," Tsuyu stated before glancing at Mirko, who was staring intently at the projection as she cracked her knuckles and neck while Midnight sat beside her casually munching on her popcorn. "Though I'm starting to become concerned about Mirko-sempai, she hasn't blinked since the video stopped."
"Eh, I don't blame her," Mei chipped in, making the other girls blink in surprise since as far as they could tell she'd been completely uninterested with their conversation, opting to continue tinkering with the plethora of gadgets she somehow had in her pockets. "This guy has beaten her counterpart repeatedly and apparently quite handily, that's a blow to the pride no fighter like her could stand for."
"I understand that, but she's overacting a bit over something that hasn't actually happened." Tsuyu retorted with her usual blank expression.
Shrugging at the frog girl's response, the pink-haired inventor turned her attention back to the device in her hands. "Perhaps, or perhaps you are underreacting over what could have happened."
This caused the frog girl to pause, tilting her head as she tapped her lip thoughtfully before nodding in agreement. "Perhaps, ribbit."
…
"Am I missing something here?" Mina asked Toru quietly after a moment of awkward silence, confused on what Mei and Tsuyu meant.
"Maybe they're talking about how this machine was supposed to show the future or something like that, I wasn't really paying attention when Mei explained it to us." The invisible girl admitted sheepishly, her outfit once against moving to show that she was rubbing the back of her head.
"Oh, well that sounds boring," The acid user said with a shrug, not really caring anymore now since it seemed more about confusing science stuff than drama like she'd hoped. Not like she had any time to ask anyway since the machine finished loading, getting everyone's attention as the screen started playing.
"S-s-s-s-s-so f-fucking cold."
Toads hibernated, and the cold was a nightmare to those with Quirks that made them like creatures who had to deal with this issue. The cold months had descended on Japan, and Naruto had pretty much been forced to take a small break from his criminal behavior, much to the surprise of the news that reported on his strange disappearance.
"I know how he feels." Tsuyu said sympathetically, instinctually rubbing her arms as she remembered how tired and sluggish she'd feel whenever it got cold.
"And it looks like you were right about his quirk after all, nice job Tsu-chan." Toru said while patting the frog girl's back.
"Dammit, this sucks." Mirko grumbled under her breath, making everyone else in the room blink in surprise as she pouted with crossed arms.
"What's wrong Mirko? I figured you'd be happy that your little nemesis was miserable." Midnight asked with a quirked brow.
"But how am I supposed to watch other me kick his ass if he's off taking a nap instead?" The bunny hero demanded back, huffing in annoyance as she spoke. "I was really looking forward to that, but no he goes and stands me up just cause it's a little chilly."
"Stood you up?" Midnight repeated, a sultry grin spreading across her lips as she nudged Mirko's side with her elbow. "You might want to watch what you say, you make it sound like you guys had a date or something."
Rolling her eyes at her fellow hero's antics, the bunny woman couldn't help but smirk as well. "We did, my foot had a reservation for right up his ass."
It would seem that if he wanted to stay in the news, he would have to commit another crime, at least 1 or 3 more if he wanted to make sure not to be forgotten or at least not to have his face vanish from the news completely.
"Do you hear me out there Kurama, just because your laying low, doesn't mean I haven't forgotten about you!"
"Or just have one really obsessed heroine who can really hold a grudge on your case." Mei said with a giggle that everyone else but Mirko shared, said bunny woman to busy groaning in annoyance upon seeing that her other was yet again playing right into the boy's hands without realizing it.
"Nah..." Naruto huddled up in his blankets, realizing with a grin that because Mirko was so determined to catch him herself, that she wasn't going to let him be forgotten. Every time she was on the news, she would send a message to him about how she was going to catch him. "... I'm so tired." Naruto laid on his side, and rolled around his bed so that he was wrapped with even more blankets.
Maybe he would just... sleep until Spring.
"Okay, that's not his quirk, that's just every teenager's daydream." Mina said jokingly, getting a round of giggles from Mei, Toru, and Midnight while Tsuyu remained neutral and Mirko continued grumbling under her breath.
"Onii-chan!/Nii-chan, we're hungry!"
As soon as those two calls rang out, everyone's attention snapped towards the screen, completely focused on what was happening.
"... There goes that plan." Naruto felt small hands pushing against his blanket fortress against the cold. Naruto unwrapped himself, and he looked down and saw two very different looking children were staring up at him. A little boy who had the appearance of a Polar Bear, his Quirk making him look like a humanoid Polar Bear. The little girl showed no visible signs of having a Quirk, but she was only 3 years old, so she still had time.
"D'aaaaaaw~ They're so cute!" Toru and Mina cried out in sync, the former seemingly dancing in place from excitement while the latter made a grabbing motion towards the screen.
"Yukun, settle down... Buro... okay, stop, stop... I said stop you little..." Naruto jerked awake more clearly when they didn't stop pushing their hands against his face.
More children, between ages 3 and 8 started to come into the room, close to 11 of them in total.
"Holy crap! How many kids did his parents have?" Mirko asked, her eyes bugging out as all the children came in view. "Have they not heard of protection?"
'She really needs to work on her observational skills.' Midnight thought with a roll of her eyes, since it was pretty obvious that these kids were not actually Naruto's siblings, their quirks and physical appearances were far too varied.
Naruto could practically see on their faces just how hungry they were, so standing up, Naruto decided to get to it and make them something to eat.
"Thanks Nii-chan!"
He wasn't there brother, and he wasn't related to any of them by blood, marriage, or anything that would make him any of their siblings. They just called him that, because he was the oldest... and he was the one that did everything for that.
'I think I know where this is going.' Tsuyu thought, a tiny bit of unease appearing on her normal neutral expression as she had a pretty good idea where Naruto was. She wasn't the only one either as Midnight frowned slightly and Mei glanced at the projection with a flicker of pity in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Mirko, Toru, and Mina were too caught up in their gushing and/or shock to put the pieces together quite yet.
Naruto grabbed the smallest one of them, younger than 3, who was just a small baby being held by one of the other ones. Naruto let out a yawn as a baby played with his face, pushing his tiny hands up against his cheeks.
"That is just so kawaii~!" Toru gushed at the utterly adorable sight.
"I know right?" Mina said, pulling her phone out and taking several pictures. "Especially with those whiskers of his, it's almost like the baby is petting Naruto's cheeks."
"Oh, you're right!" The invisible girl squealed.
"Just so you guys know... I'm just making PB&J for all of you, except you... you get milk." Naruto jiggled the baby in his arms, and he was greeted with some cheers. Peanut butter was a luxury, quite expensive in Japan, so the fact he was making it at all showed that he was giving them a little gift for their taste buds.
"Ah PB&J, those are so good." Mei said while licking her lips. Sandwiches were her favorite kind of food as they were easy to make, came in several varieties, and didn't stop her from working on her babies as she ate.
Truthfully though, he was just so tired that he didn't have the energy to make anything else without heating himself up some.
Feeding them, that was his job... kind of.
The Uzu-Orphanage.
The orphanage that had been started up by his mother, to help find new families for children with no parents. Well, at least that was what he had heard, since he had never met his mother or father personally. Ironically enough, his parents had died shortly after he was born, and had left him not just a part of the family business... but as a resident of the orphanage as well.
…
A long silence filled the room, broken only by the clatter of Mina's phone falling to the floor, followed soon by the pink pinkette's jaw.
"Ribbit, I was hoping I was wrong." Tsuyu muttered quietly while staring at the whiskered blonde sympathetically.
'The owner of an orphanage being a resident orphan who is the child of orphanage's original owners, it's almost poetic in a sad way.' Midnight thought with a quiet sigh before suddenly pinching her brow. 'Damn maternal instinct, calm down Nemuri, it's just a simulation… it's just a simulation.'
While all of the other children were adopted, Naruto never had been, because this was his home in a way.
Didn't matter though.
He had his parents dreams on his shoulders, all of the responsibilities they had were his now, and the future of these orphans were on his shoulders. When the caretakers went home for the day, it was up to Naruto to take care of the children after hours, since none of the caretakers needed to stay after hours now that he was old enough to take care of the young children.
"Wow… talk about a one eighty on the mood." Mina couldn't help but say at the sudden bomb that had been dropped on them.
"Understatement." *Sniff* "That's so sad~." "Ribbit, no kidding." Were the responses she got from Mei, Toru, and Tsuyu respectively.
"To give up his own chances for happiness for the sake of his parents' dream and those children's sake… truly admirable." Mirko said, pausing briefly with a conflicted expression at the end.
"Indeed." Midnight stated, not even bothering to ask the bunny hero what was wrong because she already knew exactly what it was. Mirko was what many might call a black-and-whiter at times, someone who generally saw things as only good or bad.
That's not to say she didn't understand that some villains were just victims of circumstance or just plain desperate, but she tended to shelve those kind of thoughts in the back corner of her brain so not to hinder her ability to act as the heroine she was.
However, upon seeing Naruto surrounded by those kids, all of them looking at him with admiration and joy left Mirko with a feeling she'd never had to deal with when it came to capturing a villain…
Doubt that she should.
"Aaaaaaah, Kurama isn't in the news today either... when is he going to do his cool tricks and flips and stuff!?"
Naruto looked at the TV in the play room as he walked to the kitchen, and saw some kids huddled in front of it. A lot of the children loved watching the news when it was about heroes and villains, well the older kids (6-9 years old) were able to watch it. When regular news stuff played, they turned it back to cartoons.
"Heh, looks like somebody got himself some fans," Midnight said with a soft giggle. "How much you bet he's gonna do something stupid to show off?"
Snapping out of her little dilemma upon hearing her fellow hero's question, Mirko shook her head with a dry chuckle of her own. "Please… that's a sucker's bet."
"Dinner is coming up soon, so turn that off and get plates set up. Anyway, I'm sure Kurama is going to show up in the news any day now." Naruto rubbed the top of the oldest boy's head with a grin on his face.
-Next Day-
Music: RWBY Soundtrack: R.W.B.Y. vs F.N.K.I.
"Huh, that's weird," Mei muttered to herself with a raised brow as a jazzy tune started playing, the name of which popped up at the bottom of the screen as it transitioned to a new scene. "I don't remember programing my baby to play music."
"Ribbit, didn't you say you used parts from some old inventions you scrapped?" Tsuyu asked having overheard what the pinkette inventor said, getting a nod in response. "Well, is it possible one of those had the coding in it already and simply got added in when you put this together?"
Rubbing her chin, Mei tilted her head as her eyes flickered back and forth, almost like she was reading from a page. "…Maybe, I did use parts from my old MP26 to help stabilize the sound system, I had this problem with overlapping audio frequencies and erratic static levels that kept jumbling the…"
Mei's rambling soon grew to rapid and convoluted for Tsuyu to understand, and soon the frog girl stopped listening altogether when the inventor pulled out a small notebook and started writing several complex looking equations and notes while quietly mumbling under her breath.
"Come on now, don't make this too easy for me now." Naruto jumped backwards, flipping over a large pink dragon claw that made to grab him. Naruto landed on top of a moving truck, watching as a large pink dragon with spiky blond hair flew after him, a dragon wearing chinese-styled combat clothing for a female.
"Ryukyu huh? This should be interesting." Mirko said with intrigue clear in her voice, her mood lifting a bit as she focused on the action happening.
"You know, you'll be like the third person in the Top 10 to give me a victory trophy." Naruto ducked underneath a claw and laid down on his side with an unseen grin.
"You're reign of villainy ends today!"
"Mmmm, sexy, dirty talk me some more... reign of villainy just makes me sound like a king." Naruto teased as he rolled off the side of the truck and onto the street, rolling across the ground as the Number 9 Hero Ryukyu flew over him, his arms behind his head as he stopped rolling.
"Heh, nice," Midnight said, giggling as Naruto continued to seemingly effortlessly avoid the dragon heroine's attacks while teasing her relentlessly. "If only he wasn't a villain, he'd be the perfect sidekick for me."
"I can imagine." Mina said with a goofy grin on her lips as her brain conjured up images of the duo doing all sorts of naughty things like [CENSORED], [CENSORED], and [CENSORED] all night long. Sure she knew the likelihood of those actually happening were very slim to none but hey, a girl can daydream.
Ryukyu ended up losing control of her ability to fly as she was forced to stop abruptly, because flying was one thing she could do, but slowing down and stopping at the drop of a dime wasn't easy for something the size of a dragon.
"Inertia can be quite the fickle mistress at times." Mei said knowingly, thinking back to some of her more… ambitious inventions she'd worked on in the past.
Before she hit the ground or the cars in the busy street, she transformed back into a human form. She landed on her feet, facing Naruto's direction as he managed to lay down in the street right between the passing traffic.
"Do you take anything seriously, or is this all just a game to you?" Ryukyu asked as she started to run towards him as he sat up.
"Hmmm, you know what they say, when it comes to heroes and villains... it takes one of each to play the game."
"Well, he's not wrong." Midnight admitted reluctantly while Mirko crossed her arms with a huff. As much as most heroes didn't want to admit it, they all essentially relied on villains being around to cause trouble, because if they weren't then there'd be no point in even having heroes in the first place.
Truth be told, despite how popularized the idea of being a hero was the average number of active heroes in the last few years had actually been slowly yet steadily declining. This was mostly thanks to All Might's reputation as the 'Symbol of Peace' helping trim down crime rates by such a dramatic amount, which left many low-ranked heroes little-to-no work, forcing them to remain sidekicks or to find other kinds of employ just to make ends meet.
Naruto flipped and landed on the side of a passing truck, because while she ran at him, he rode the truck and passed by her. "Sup, don't mind me, just hitching a ride." Naruto winked at the driver of the truck, who had his window rolled down to enjoy the brisk air, something Naruto didn't really agree with.
…
…
"Is that guy seriously still driving?" Mina asked incredulously, her gaze turning dull as the driver just kept going along like nothing happened.
"Yes, yes he is." Tsuyu said in her usual blank tone with a nod.
"…Why?" A known villain literally just hitched a ride on the dude's car with a top ten ranked Pro on his tail, the pink pinkette was pretty sure that was no better time to slam the brakes.
Nobody answered her, none of them able to come up with a reasonable excuse for that one.
Naruto looked and saw Ryukyu had already transformed, and was chasing after him again. Looking ahead, Naruto saw his target.
"You won't be thinking this is a game when you're in jail." Ryukyu quickly, quickly, gained ground on Naruto as he made his way to the top of the truck. Naruto leaned near the edge of the truck though and glanced to the side. Her hand was feet away from grabbing Naruto, when he raised his hands up and allowed himself to fall over the edge of the truck.
Right when it passed by a bridge, meaning Naruto fell off the side of the bridge as well, towards the icy cold water down below.
"Ribbit, or that's just what he wants people to think." Tsuyu stated, with Midnight and Mei nodding in agreement while Mirko grumbled under her breath in annoyance.
When he vanished from sight, Ryukyu flapped her wings and slowed down, before she changed directions and flew off the side of the bridge. She transformed into her human form and landed on the dead grass next to the water. Turning around sharply, she didn't see any hint of the villain she was chasing.
She felt a hand on her shoulder though.
"Found him!" Mina called out jokingly, getting giggles from most of the others in the room.
Her eyes widened and she looked up, seeing her target dropped down from the bottom of the bridge above them. Before she could transform, she was already reaching up to her head to activate her Quirk, he shoved a handful of fingers into her mouth. She felt all of her strength quickly leave her body, and she dropped down on her face.
"You... what is your Quirk?" Ryukyu couldn't help but find it hard to connect the dots between the traits of his Quirk.
'He has been doing a pretty impressive job keeping that a secret.' Midnight thought with a small impressed nod. Almost all villains these days would all but scream what their quirks were whenever they struck, wanting to show off their 'cool powers' and such while they could.
Naruto however, was instead putting a large emphasis on just a singular part of his quirk, his ability to secrete highly potent poison, thus causing everyone to either unintentionally ignore the other less noticeable aspects or somehow link them to what he wanted them to think his quirk was.
It was a brilliant idea as that meant nobody would be able to do something like say, look his quirk up in the quirk registry, which is how the majority of villains who somehow managed to escape initial capture were usually rounded up afterwards.
Naruto just reached into his pocket, and pulled out the item he stole, something personal of Ryukyu's, an antique watch from so many years ago that it was worth a fortune. Naruto put it next to her head, before he grabbed her headband from her hair, and pulled it off. Naruto looked at her shivering in the cold, before he also took a blanket he had in his backpack, and he draped it over her.
"The poison will wear off soon enough, this will keep you warm until you can go home... I understand your pain." Naruto ignored her question and saluted her.
"Aw, that was nice of him." Toru said, gushing at the kind gesture.
Standing up and looking towards the news who had arrived at the side of the bridge, Naruto gave a large bow to his audience. "Another day, another trophy, and my dear Ryukyu here will always remember this as a day she won't be able to forget!" Naruto jumped into the water next to him and vanished underneath the currents.
"…That was a terrible idea, ribbit." Tsuyu muttered in a much duller tone than she usually spoke in, her expression shifting slightly to a straight up deadpan.
-Later-
"Kurama is sooooo cool!"
Naruto sat on the couch behind the children watching the video of what he had done today, absolutely huddled up in blankets and completely shivering. Jumping into the icy water had been a huge mistake, and it had nearly cost him big, even though it was a cool escape. Doing it had nearly put him to sleep on the spot, but thankfully he had been a little prepared and was wearing warming pads under his clothes. They saved his life and allowed him to get to a dry spot out of the view of the cameras. For hours though now, he had been unable to do much of anything, the cold was still getting to him that badly.
Naruto grinned down at the children, though they couldn't see him do it since their eyes were glued to the TV.
"Dammit, that is sweet." Mirko admitted, her lips curling up in a small smile despite her annoyed words.
Now.
Now, he was going to take a few weeks to recover from this.
"And that's time," Mei said as the projection blacked out back to the loading screen before walking towards the door. "Just in time too, I need to use the restroom."
"Same here." "Me too." Tsuyu and Toru said, following after the pinkette inventor.
"Yeah, I gotta go t-*Zzzt*-Yeowch!" Mirko started to say as she tried to stand up, only to be quickly reminded of her current predicament by a painful zap.
…
"Oh son of a-"
"I'll get a bucket." Midnight said, trying (and failing epically) to keep her expression straight as Mirko swore rapidly under her breath.
-End Chapter-