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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quirky Villain
-Chapter 5-
"Sheesh, how much longer does this thing need to buffer, it's taking forever." Mina groaned as she sank into her seat, a bored expression on her face while kicking her legs in boredom.
"It's only been five minutes, ribbit." Tsuyu stated blandly as her normally blank face shifted slightly into a deadpan.
"Like I said, it's taking forever." The acidic pink teen repeated in an overdramatic tone as she leaned on the frog girl's side, waving her arms up into the air and everything.
Rolling her eyes at her classmate's antics, Tsuyu pushed the girl back into her own seat before gesturing towards the rest of the room. "Why don't you do something to pass the time then, like everybody else has been?"
Sure enough, everyone else in the room was doing something to entertain themselves while the device loaded the next scene. Mei was working on yet another gadget, this time what appeared to be some kind of grenade that she was carefully filling with a light green powder. Meanwhile, Midnight was fiddling with her phone, a mischievous grin on her lips as she typed away rapidly and giggled not-so-quietly to herself.
And lastly, Mirko and Toru were chatting away, the invisible girl asking various questions ranging from the types of villains the Pro had beaten to tips on physical fitness, which the rabbit hero was more than happy to answer.
Heck, even as she spoke, Tsuyu herself finished carefully folding up a piece of paper into a slightly lopsided paper crane that she then set down to several others origami animals*.
"But I wanna see what happens next already," Mina whined with a grumpy pout. "The suspense is killing me."
"Well too bad, you'll just have to wait like the rest of us," Mirko cut into the conversation while fixing the pink pinkette with an annoyed look. "Now quit your whining, it's unbecoming of a hero-in-training and really starting to get on my nerves."
"Fiiiiine," The horned girl sighed out before resting her head onto the palms of her hands while staring back at the whitette and invisible teen with a playful grin. "Wanna talk boys?"
"Unless it's about wringing a certain blonde's neck, no thanks." The rabbit-eared woman stated bluntly as she made a strangling gesture with her hands, making the pair of teens giggle.
"Alrighty, then how about…" Mina started to suggest something once her laughing stopped, only to trail off when she saw Toru's sleeves suddenly moved up to Mirko's head as a lock of her white hair started to 'float'.
"Wow… your hair is so soft and fluffy," The invisible girl gushed as the clump of hair fluttered around in the air. "What's your secret? Is it actually hair or fur thanks to your quirk?"
"Proper diet mostly and it's just hair… I think. Speaking of hair though, hold still for a second," Mirko said with a shrug before licking the tip of her index finger and reaching out towards a confused Toru. The faint sound of ruffling hair filled the air as the rabbit woman stroked the invisible girl's head for a few moments with an approving nod. "There, all fixed, you should really brush more."
Silence filled the room for several moments as everyone turned their attention towards the pair, Mina looking shocked, Tsuyu interested and a little surprised, Mei curious, and Midnight… was amused?
"…You can see me?" Toru asked quietly, shock and surprise clear in her tone as her sleeves drifted to where her head was.
"Well duh, you're standing right next to me." The rabbit heroine stated while fixing the teen with a pointed dull look.
"B-but I'm i-invisible!" The girl exclaimed with a light stutter as her arms flailed around wildly.
Arcing a brow at this, Mirko gave the floating set of clothes a once over before her deadpan grew even deeper. Switching to her perspective, we find those clothes to be worn by a cute looking girl with slightly messy raven hair, lightly tanned skin, and a very shocked and confused look on her face. "Then they must've changed what being invisible means, because I see you just fine. You are using your quirk still, right?"
"I'm always using it! It doesn't turn off!"
"…You sure?"
"YES!"
"Yep, she's definitely invisible right now," Mina chipped in while waving a hand behind Toru for added emphasis. "How weird, why are you able to see her when nobody else can?"
"Why the hell are you asking me? I have no idea," The rabbit woman stated blandly before jabbing her thumb towards Midnight. "Ask her, she's the teacher here not me."
And just like that, all the attention in the room shifted over to the seductively sexy modern art teacher, who didn't seemed phased at all by this as she shrugged her shoulders while continuing to fiddle with her phone.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken rabbits have much better night vision compared to people, so my guess would be that Mirko's quirk allows her eyes to perceive light levels that the average human eye cannot thus rendering Hagakure's null^." She said without looking away from the device.
"Uh… what?" Mina asked with a confused tilt of her head.
"It's like someone who needs glasses compared to someone who doesn't, the former can't see as much as the latter without help," Mei simplified while going back to tinkering with her grenade-thing. "Or how my quirk lets me see way farther than you can."
"Ah, I get it now," The pink pinkette said with a nod as it clicked in her head… before pausing when a thought suddenly hit her while her eyes drifted over to a certain amphibian quirked girl. "Wait a second, don't frogs also have great night vision?"
Immediately realizing what she was implying, the focus of the room once again shifted abruptly, this time onto Tsuyu who despite her naturally blank face somehow managed to make a perfect 'Busted' expression.
"Maybe, ribbit." She muttered while her cheeks gained a very light shade of red to them.
"So you can…" Toru started to ask as she unconsciously covered her chest, only to trail off when Tsuyu nodded. "Why didn't you say anything?!"
"I didn't want to embarrass you," Tsuyu stated bluntly while tapping her bottom lip rapidly, showing how nervous she was feeling despite her calm expression. "I wanted to tell you in private, but you were always hanging out with somebody so there was never an opportunity."
"…Yeah, I guess that makes sense," The invisible girl said shakily before suddenly hugging herself with a shiver. "God forbid someone like Mineta overheard about this."
-Meanwhile-
Over in the dorm rooms, a certain short pervert sneeze as he checked out the daily hero forums for any new pictures of any heroines he could… admire later.
-And Back-
"Ugh, someone pass me the brain bleach." Mina said with a grimace that Tsuyu and even Midnight shared, the latter finally putting her phone away.
"Do I wanna know?" Mirko asked her fellow pro-hero, who simply shook her head with an annoyed scowl. While she didn't mind when teens being teens, she was the R-rated heroine for a reason after all, she did not approve of the grape boy's repeated acts of outright sexual harassment on most of the female students of the first year heroics classes.
"So if you guys can see me then who else can? Oh god, who else has?!" Gripping her head, Toru's breathing started to grow rapid and heavy as images of all the people she'd been 'exposed' too flashing through her mind.
"Whoa… easy there Toru, relax," Mina said as she grabbed the panicking girl's shoulder and carefully pushed her into a seat before gently rubbing the back of her head, after she found where that was. At the same time, a very thin amount of pink mist floated around the pair, curtesy of Midnight. "Easy, deep breaths, I'm sure that noone else has seen you. They would have been a lot more vocal about it if they did."
"Yeah, yeah…. you're right, yeah…" Toru muttered while following the acidic girl's advice, the combination of that and sedative properties of the mist helping her calm back down.
The room settled into a somewhat awkward silence after that, one that went on for a while until it was finally broken by a certain machine finally finishing booting up.
"About damn time." Mirko muttered as the hologram started playing again, unknowingly speaking everyone else's thoughts as they were all thankful for the sudden distraction/change of subject.
"I've got ice-"
Naruto, coming home from the store, raised his hands up with a grin on his face, had his grin completely vanish from his face when he saw a pro hero was sitting amongst the children in the middle of the room.
"Hahahaha, hell yes!" Mirko cheered with a wide menacing grin while cracking her knuckles at the sight of the whiskered blonde's shocked face. "Nowhere to run now you little bastard, your ass is mine."
"Sorry to burst your bubble Mirko-san but I don't think the hero is you." Tsuyu said, having noticed a familiar pair of heels in the video, only to be ignored by the rabbit heroine as she kept cackling like a classical villain.
Naruto almost dropped his bags when he saw it was a famous pro hero, a pro hero at his home... and he was a villain.
Also, a very seductive hero.
And just like that Mirko's little celebration came to a instant grinding halt as the screen shifted to face the aforementioned Pro-Hero "…No way."
"Yes way." Midnight stated with a wide Cheshire grin, which only grew when she saw the rabbit woman gritting her teeth angrily.
"Oh great, these kids were just telling me about how great of a big brother you are, I can see why." The taller than him woman, even without heels on which were at the front of the door with the rest of the shoes, spoke as she rubbed the head of one of the young boys who had his head resting on her thighs. She had long, spiked black hair, and the same shade of blue eyes as him. She wore a tight body suit underneath her BDSM gear, her hero outfit, which complimented her seriously attractive body... she looked naked since the skinsuit was the same color as her skin, just a shade lighter.
Midnight, the 18+ Only Hero.
"OH BULLSHIT!" Mirko roared in pure anger, briefly forgetting her predicament as she tried to stand up only to be firmly reminded with a sharp zap, though that didn't stop her from sending a still smirking Midnight a withering glare. "This is bullshit! That should be me dammit!"
"Is that right?" The sultry heroine asked in a knowing tone while idly twirling a lock of her hair. "And why's that?"
"He's my villain! I'm the one who gets to pound that smug face of his into the ground not you!" The whitette growled out through grit teeth, her jaw starting to creak under the pressure it was under.
"Oh my, is that jealously I hear~?" Midnight asked coyly, her eyes sparkling with mischief and her grin growing just a teensy bit more as Mirko's face slowly turned dark red and a vein started to bulge on her forehead.
"Midnight really likes poking the sleeping dragon, huh?" Toru whispered to Mina in a slightly nervous tone, getting a short nod of agreement from the pink pinkette who looked both amused and just a tiny bit scared.
He was a teenage boy, naturally he knew who this bombshell was.
'Naturally.' Tsuyu, Mina, and Toru thought in sync, the latter two giggling quietly.
"Nii-chan/Onii-chan!"
Naruto was surrounded by children, other than the smiling boy who was having his hair pet by Midnight. Naruto didn't take his eyes off of Midnight for even a second, and she just smiled at him and gently pushed the boy off her lap. Naruto started to hand out small tubs of ice cream and plastic spoons to the children, handing each their favorite ice cream.
"Awwww~!" Toru couldn't help but gush as the screen showed each child's face light up with glee when they got their ice-cream, getting her mood to perk up a lot. "So cute~!"
"Totally adorbs!" Mina agreed cheerfully.
"... A hero at this little orphanage... I'm surprised, usually it's the other places that get visits from heroes." Naruto forced a smile on his face.
"Hmm, not bad, he knows how to play it cool," Midnight said, nodding approvingly while sultrily licking her lips. "If I didn't know better I'd probably have thought he was just nervous to be around yours truly."
Naruto blinked and did a head count, noticing that the triplets were missing. "Where are Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest at?" Naruto used his affectionate names for the triplets. Naruto averted his eyes from Midnight, now only 3 ice creams tubs (small sized) left in the bag.
"They got adopted!"
"Ah... good for them!" Naruto smiled wide when he heard that, a couple adopting all three of the triplets was great for them, not being forced apart from their siblings.
"That is nice, ribbit." Tsuyu muttered with her lips briefly curling up into a smile. With two little siblings of her own, she could understand how saddening it would have been if she had to be separated from them forever.
"... I guess there are extras now though." Naruto glanced over at Midnight, who was walking towards him and reached into the bag, taking a cup out.
"These look just-" Midnight licked her lips sensually. "-delicious." Midnight gave her shot at teasing Naruto, breaking the ice so to say. She saw his guard was still up, up higher than most teenage boys, so she just peeled the top off the ice cream and used the small spoon to take a bite.
'Mmm, I could go for some ice cream right now.' The adult-rated heroine thought as she licked her lips again, this time from actual hunger as she stared at her other self in mild jealously.
They were extras, he wouldn't mind.
"... I'm sure a hero like you isn't just here to talk to kids." Naruto looked at her with a smile, because glaring wouldn't do him any good. The fact she hadn't told the kids who he was, the only natural reason she was there, was a good thing for him.
"I was wondering about that, why are you acting so chill around him?" Mina asked while glancing at the purplette. "I mean, shouldn't you be gassing him into Lala town by now or making some kinky joke as you cuff him?"
"And traumatize all those kids in the process as they watch their 'Nii-chan' get dragged away to jail by a hero?" Midnight asked sarcastically, making the pink pinkette wince as if the words had visibly struck her. "Hmph, seems I need to talk to Nezu about added tact lessons to the hero course, because you are clearly lacking."
At that, both Mina and Toru groaned, dreading the idea of even MORE classwork to deal with.
"I'm pretty sure you just got burned, ribbit." Tsuyu told the former bluntly, earning a round of giggles all around, even from Mina herself once she finished sulking.
"She's here to see you!"
"That's right, I'm here just. For. You." Midnight poked him in the forehead. "Can we speak in private?" Midnight asked normally, and Naruto stood up straighter and nodded his head. He had his own personal room in the orphanage, since it used to be his parents' room when they would stay late at night to take care of children.
"So they pretty much lived with the orphans they were caring for, talk about dedication," Mirko said as she calmed down from Midnight's previous teasing. "It's a shame they aren't around anymore, I would have loved to meet them."
Off to the side, Midnight looked ready to say something, likely some kind of funny quip or double entendre, but stopped with a conflicted look before slowly nodding. "Same here."
"There is fresh snow on the ground, why don't all of you go built some snowmen." Naruto's suggestion was instantly appreciated by the children, as they ran to their rooms to go and get changed into their snow gear. When the children were all gone, Naruto turned back to Midnight. "We can talk in my room." Naruto gestured for her to follow him.
"Oh-ho~ I like where this is going," The R-rated heroine said with a salacious grin that slightly unnerved the rest of the occupants in the room. "Perhaps the boy hopes to become a man before he's caught."
'Okay seriously, who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to give this woman a job around teenagers?' Mirko wondered to herself as she stared at the sultry purplette with a dull expression.
He had to find out a way to worm his way out of her grasp, as Midnight followed him, he was sure that he could feel her hero urge to arrest him rising.
"No, that would be her libido." Tsuyu stated in her usual blunt fashion, getting everyone else aside from Midnight to burst into laughter while said adult rated heroine just smiled casually without even a hint of shame.
"Dang Tsu, you are on fire." Mina said between fits of giggles as she patted the frog-like girl's back, who tilted her head 'innocently'.
"Are you sure? Because you're the ones who keep getting burned, ribbit."
…
…
"Bwahahaha! God damn you are a riot girl! Hahahaha!" Mirko guffawed while slamming her fist against the armrest of the Viewer, which was the only thing stopping her from falling to the floor like everyone else had.
Smiling slightly at the praise, a quiet happy sounding croak slipped from Tsuyu's lips before she paused the projection while everyone recomposed themselves.
"My hair is dark purple by the way, not the black you were thinking earlier... common mistake, I see it in cute boy's eyes all the time." Midnight spoke as they reached Naruto's room. Naruto turned his head and glanced at her with a confused look.
What?
""""What?"""" Toru, Mina, Mirko, and Mei asked simultaneously in confusion at the completely random statement.
"I'm sorry... what?"
"Everyone always calls my hair black, it's just a really dark purple. Common mistake, it's not really that big a deal, like how people mix up frogs and toads all the time." Midnight explained with a wide smile on her face, sadistic in nature.
"That was rude, ribbit." Tsuyu muttered, feeling a bit insulted by the crack Midnight's doppelganger had made on Naruto's, and indirectly her, quirk.
"…Uhh, nice to know, I guess," Mei said as she glanced at Midnight. "Any particular reason for that little fact?"
"It's just something I say to help break the ice with new people." The purplette said with a nonchalant shrug. "And sorry Asui-san, I'm sure I didn't mean any offense."
"You're forgiven."
"Do you need me to wait outside while you hide your porn mags?" Midnight asked him with a cocky smirk on her face.
"... Wait outside just a moment."
"Oh, an honest one! I like that, that is a youthful teenage boy right there." Midnight pat him on the top of the head. Naruto snuck into his room without letting her see inside of it.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the phone!" Mina yelled, smacking the pause button just as Naruto closed the door to his room before swiveling around towards Midnight. "Okay, I get not arresting him in front of the kids but now you're willingly letting him out of your sight? Isn't that just begging for him to make a break for it or something?"
"…Yes it is." The purplette admitted with a slow nod, her face scrunching up in confusion at her counterpart making such a blatant rookie move. There was no way she'd do something as dumb as that, not with someone so notoriously slippery as this kid was, which meant one of two things, the machine made a mistake or…
"Ha! You're not there to arrest him at all!" Mirko exclaimed victoriously, having come to the same conclusion as Midnight. "You probably don't even know he's Kurama!"
"Wait, what? You don't?" Toru asked, confusion clear in her tone. "If you aren't there to catch him then why do you want to talk Naruto?"
"How should I know?" Midnight asked back with a shrug. "She may be me but that doesn't mean I automatically know everything she does."
"But why-"
"Shut up and pay attention so we can find out already." Mirko cut the invisible girl off impatiently as she continued played the video.
He rushed over to his bed, and looked at his most recent trophy that he had gotten himself. Eraser Head's capture scarf he had been something that he had a lot of trouble stealing. With Eraser Head making it difficult to use his Quirk normally, but he had taken it.
How did Midnight find out who he was!?
"She didn't." The trapped rabbit heroine stated with a smug grin directed at Midnight, making the scantily clad teacher roll her eyes.
"We don't know that yet," She said calmly while brushing a few loose strands of her hair back behind her ear. "Perhaps this is another one of Nezu's crazy recruitment schemes. The kid did act pretty heroically before by saving that man, all his crimes were pretty much pranks like Ashido-san said, and no doubt he'd probably be drooling at the thought of having such a… talented student to teach."
"Grrr…" Loathe it as much as she did, Mirko had no choice but to agree with the wannabe dominatrix, that sounded exactly like something the eccentric principal of UA would try.
Naruto grabbed all of his Hero Trophies he had around the room, and threw them into the closet. Naruto closed, and locked up, his closet, tossing his own villain costume into the closet as well.
"Holy, that is a lot of trophies." Mina muttered when the screen shifted to show an unrestricted view of the closet's contents before Naruto locked it. There had to be at three or four dozen different pieces of hero outfits stuffed in there, ranging from masks to gloves to random clever nick-knacks heroes carried to look cool such as a fake belt of bullets and a themed deck of cards.
The most prominent however, were the ones from none other than Mirko's own outfit, which were all carefully set up to be the most on display. Said heroine could only grit her teeth as annoyance, and just small bit of respect, flowed through her when she saw he had two almost complete sets of her hero costume, the only thing missing being her leotard.
"Okay, you can come in." Naruto called out, and he sat down on the bed, his hand slipping underneath his pillow and touching his hidden knife.
Midnight walked in with a seductive hip sway, before she sat down at the chair in front of his desk, turning it to face him as she crossed her legs.
"So... you've been skipping school a lot, I'm just here to check to see if you're alright, and talk with you about getting you back on the right track."
…
…
Total silence filled the room as almost everyone in the room stared at the screen in dumb shock, stunned and/or confused at what the alternate R-rated hero said. The only exceptions were Mei, who seemed unphased aside from a quiet "Huh, odd." before returning her attention to a new device she was working on, and Mirko, who was grinning like the cat who ate the canary.
"I fucking called it!" The rabbit heroine cheered loudly, shattering the silence and making everyone else in the room jump slightly in surprise, snapping them out of their daze.
"Ugh, I should have known," Said purplette muttered in annoyance, palming her face as she did her best to ignore a certain whitette's loud gloating. "It seems so obvious now."
"You do Truancy Officer work Midnight-sensei?" Toru asked curiously, getting a slow nod from the sultry heroine once she regained her composure.
"From time to time, mostly to help particularly stubborn young men and women who need some extra… convincing."
Naruto's hand came out from under his pillow.
"Oh, that... I've just got a lot on my plate with this place. I'm going to own this place in a few years anyway, and run it like my parents, so school isn't important." Naruto relaxed a lot more now that he realized that this wasn't about him being a villain, that maybe Midnight didn't even know that he was Kurama. It was a lot easier to relax with her in the same room, that was right as she pointed out, he skipped school a lot. He actually went to school maybe once or twice every week.
He skipped a lot.
"Ahhh, talk about living the dream." Mina sighed out in a longing tone, making Toru giggle and Mirko roll her eyes in amusement.
"At least he has a good reason for it, ribbit." Tsuyu stated with a shrug before helping herself to a soda. It made sense, Naruto already had the job he intended to do for the rest of his life along with the knowledge and experience on how to do it, so school was essentially pointless for him.
"Education is important, and high school isn't just for learning, it's a place where you'll gain some of your best memories of your teenage years. You're Toad Quirk is pretty amazing, and in physical education, you've got top marks. I even talked with your teachers, and they said you're always helping people around your school... with your looks, attitude, and good Quirk, I'm sure a hero high school would be perfect for you." Midnight explained a little more seriously, not an ounce of seductive purr to her tone. They were down to the issue at hand, the reason why she had been asked to help him out.
She was good at getting young men to do what she wanted them to, and she was even better when it came to helping them steer their life in a better direction.
*Snrk* "Hehehe…"
"Would you not-"
"Bwahahaha! Oh god damn!" Mirko cut Midnight off as she once again burst into uncontrollable laughter. "You're trying-Ahaha- to talk the most well-known villain into going to hero school-ahaha- and you don't even know who he is! I can't-ahaha- breathe!"
"Heh, it is kinda funny." Mina agreed with a snicker that Toru shared while Tsuyu simply nodded with a soft croak.
"I'm just not suited for it."
"I'd say." Mirko chuckled with a wide grin.
"Looking at how good you are with children, and your reputation around this area for giving people help when they ask, I would actually say you have the perfect disposition for hero work. Of course, it is your choice... but it would really be a shame. You're such a handsome young man, and being a hero would really give these children hope for the future." Midnight let out a small, this time seductive, sigh as she lowered her mask and bit the edge of it.
This move always got guys to be putty in her hands.
"Aww, bending young men to my whims, a delicate yet delightfully delicious talent that takes years to truly master as well as I have." Midnight boasted proudly as she gave a sexy pose, complete with playfully lusty expression that'd make almost anyone a bit hot under the collar…
"You say that, yet blondie isn't even blinking."
…Before blinking in confusion when Mei said that. Her gaze snapping towards the screen, the purplette was stunned to see that sure enough, Naruto wasn't even phased by her counterpart's actions.
"... and end up putting them all in danger, because a villain wanted to attack them to hurt me? I'm not suited to being a hero, because I can't put their lives in danger. I want them to have a future." Naruto didn't even need to use his villain status as an excuse, his words rang true enough. Heroes were often subject to praise and admiration, but if he became a hero, and his real name ever became known, villains would attack the children he looked after.
Midnight's eyes widened at his reason, before she nodded her head in complete understanding.
Likewise, the 'real' Midnight moved in sync with her alternate self, her previous surprise fading away as it was replaced with respect. 'He certainly is quite the smart young man.'
'Oh god, I never even thought of that.' Meanwhile, Mina, Toru, and Tsuyu were all unknowingly having the same thought as Naruto's explanation washed over them. While they had been aware that the hero profession was dangerous, obviously, it had never really occurred to them till now that it wasn't just them getting put in danger.
Each one of them had families, mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, all sorts of people who Villains would likely not even think twice about using as leverage or simply attacking in revenge, a thought that made all three teens pale dramatically ( yes, even Toru according to Mirko vision).
That was an extremely well thought out reason.
"That's a shame... not all villains can be like Kurama, good people who just like to have a little fun." Midnight sighed and figured she should give up trying to get Naruto into a hero school. His reasons were good, he did have a future ahead of him even without schooling. "Now that's a look." Midnight realized that Naruto was sending her a surprised look.
"You're a hero... you said something nice about Kurama."
"Even I'm a little surprised by that." Toru stated while the other muttered and/or nodded their agreements, even the R-rated heroine herself.
"Well, other than a few heroes with extreme views, most of us have already realized Kurama is just a boy looking for attention. He always returns what he steals, and the stuff he takes from heroes are so easy for us to replace it isn't even a bother. He seems like a good kid to me, he just likes to have fun... sadly, he uses his Quirk in public and does commit crime, and it is a heroes job to catch villains." Midnight admitted that she, among with many others, didn't really hold any real negative feelings towards Naruto, though she didn't know Kurama and Naruto were the same person. They had a job they had to do, and using your Quirk to commit crimes was something a hero wasn't allowed to ignore. "He's like you in a way, a boy with serious potential, but didn't chose the life of a hero." Midnight finished off with a comparison.
"Pffffft-ahahahah! Yeah, you could say they were practically the same person! Ahahah!"
"Oh god dammit…" Midnight groaned at her other self unknowingly comparing the whiskered teen to his villainous alter ego, giving Mirko yet even more ammo to use against her. 'This is karma for teasing her all this time, isn't it?'
Just using your Quirk in public would get you a warning from a police officer, even that if your Quirk was super harmless. Using your Quirk in a way that disrupts the public though was a big no-no, and was usually met with hero intervention.
"Puh-lease, they say that but honestly all they really do these days is give you a slap on the wrist." Mina scoffed with a roll of her eyes, remembering plenty of times she'd seen 'illegal' quirk usage that nobody paid a single mind too, several of which happened right in front of cops.
It was pretty much an unwritten rule, as long as you weren't doing anything too blatant or dangerous, they would let it slide. Heck, a year ago she'd been using her acid to etch the image of a flower into a table in her favorite ice-cream shop while waiting for her order and got caught by a off-duty low ranking hero, yet all they did was ask her to do the same on some trinket of theirs.
"Do you have any leads on him... like his identity?" Naruto asked with a little more confidence in his voice.
"I'm sorry, I can't answer that... but if you find out anything, be sure to let me know. You know, I'm surprised you haven't been adopted. Your file said that you didn't just help run the place, but you were up for adoption." Midnight hadn't even remembered that until she realized they were still in an orphanage, and what Naruto's age was.
"With how he talks and acts all the time, it does make him seem so much older than he is, ribbit." Tsuyu said with an understanding nod that most of the room shared.
"Yeah, he just has the helpful and reliable yet laidback older brother vibe." Toru added in a cheery tone.
"You must be under a lot of stress, a boy your age helping take care of so many children. I hope you can find a way to... release that stress." Midnight thought she was teasing him when she put her hand on her whip, and teased the tip.
Naruto just grinned.
"You-"
-Several Days Later-
"-have no idea. What's up Midnight, you just have no idea what I go through to get these, do you?" Naruto asked in costume as he looked down at Midnight, a grin under his mask.
"Huh, talk about straight to the action." Mirko said with a mixture of approval and annoyance as the scene suddenly transitioned from the orphanage to inside some random building, getting a surprised squeak from Toru and a grin from Midnight.
He dropped down from the ceiling and tossed up a large diamond into the air. "Seriously, it wasn't easy to do this... so, what R-rated secrets do you want to whisper into my ear?" Naruto asked her as he tossed the diamond up into the air a few more times, before catching it and putting it into the front of his hoodie.
"Ooooh, I just love a man with some bite to him." The adult-rated heroine said with a sultry lick of her lips, clearly excited for the coming fight.
And she wasn't the only one either as Mirko seemed just as eager for this battle, though whether it was in hopes of seeing the annoying blonde or the annoying purplette taken down was up for debate. 'Kick her ass. Kick her ass. Kick her ass.'
…Nevermind.
"Daaaang, now that's a rock." On the other hand, Mina and Toru were more a bit more focused (Read: drooling) at the sight of the almost fist-sized diamond Naruto had been casually juggling.
"Oh, a boy with sass... that just sets my sadistic side on fire. I'm going to teach you a lesson, and then I'll give you a special treat." Midnight flirted with him as she reached up and ripped part of her suit off, a light pink gas spilling out of her skin, uncontained by the suit. It started to fill the area, and covered Naruto in the gas.
"And that's another victory for me." Midnight declared with a grin…
Naruto just grinned under his mask.
…That immediately vanished upon seeing Naruto yet again completely unphased by her actions.
"You're wasting your time, your gas won't reach my lungs so easy." Naruto spoke as he grabbed her whip when she took a swing at him. Naruto spoke, but he never once breathed in through his mouth or nose when he did it.
"The fuck?" The purplette muttered with a raised brow while turning towards the one person in the room who could answer her question, I.E. Tsuyu. "How is he doing that?"
Said frog girl tilted her head as she tapped her lip, seemingly thinking about the question for a moment before actually answering. "He's probably using cutaneous gas exchange, basically breathing through his skin like a toad can. I can do the same for a few minutes but only while in or right after getting out of water."
"Ah, well that sucks," Midnight said with a shrug, a bit annoyed by that since her mist needed to be absorbed through the lungs to affect someone, but otherwise still seemed rather eager. "Guess that means I'll actually have a challenge with this one."
"Or you're gonna get laid out on your ass like everyone else." Mirko retorted smugly, feeling much more confident now that Midnight's quirk was effectively useless.
"We'll see." Was the sultry hero's equally smug retort.
"Man, they are getting way too into this." Toru whispered to Mina, Mei, and Tsuyu with a nervous gulp, getting nods of agreement from the trio as all four of them watched the pro-heroes practically glaring at each-other with menacing auras.
"I think now would be a good time to take cover." Mei muttered back while slowly sinking behind a desk, socially inept she ma be but even she could see the imminent explosion about to happen. Oddly enough, the other three girls could swear they heard a cartoony sinking sound play out as she did this, though that didn't stop them from doing the same a second later.
'He's got a resistance to my Quirk... this might be a little more of a challenge. Good thing I know how to hero without my Quirk, since it's not very effect on women either.' Midnight wrapped her hand around the side of her whip, and yanked on it. She pulled the thief off his feet and towards her, only for his feet to touch the ceiling and stick to it, right above where she was standing. "So, what is a cutie like you doing as a villain... a little stress relief, a fun prankster... a boy with mommy issues who wants a nice older lady to punish him?" Midnight snapped her whip as she pulled it back.
Naruto let loose a loud laugh as he dropped down from the ceiling in front of her, and grabbed onto her wrist. She closed her mouth tightly, sending him a smirk, before he gripped her exposed bicep. He let go of her and jumped back when she tried to slap him, and he turned around and spanked his own behind to taunt her.
"Come and give me a spanking Onee-chan."
"Oh ho ho, copping a feel and talking dirty? I like this boy's style," Midnight said sultrily as she smack the palm of her hand with her flogger whip that she somehow pulled out of her outfit. Don't ask me how, because even I don't know. "Naughty boys need a good spanking after all."
"Fine, if you insist." Midnight raised her whip up, before it fell out of her grip, and she dropped to her knees, sitting down on her butt moments later.
"…Wait, what?" "The hell?" Midnight and Mirko muttered in sync, their eyes going wide in shock at the purplette counterpart's sudden, unexpected, and totally un-climatic defeat.
"... How... you didn't get your poison in my mouth?" Midnight asked with her eyes widening.
She made sure he didn't touch her mouth.
Naruto showed his ungloved hands.
"I can adjust the danger levels of the poison from completely harmless, to fatal... but I never said that it had to be ingested. Skin to skin contact is all I need to put a person down... though it isn't easy to get the perfect dose." Naruto stated with a grin, showing white poison dripping from the palm of his hand like sweat.
"So, he only made it seem like he needed to get it in your mouth to throw people off guard later. I had a feeling that was the case, ribbit." Tsuyu stated knowingly as it had been rather odd for her that Naruto seemingly needed people to swallow his poison, whereas all toad and frog poisons she knew worked fine with just skin contact.
Sighing, Midnight nodded in understanding as a mixture of respect and annoyance settled into her expression, respect for Naruto's strategy and forward thinking and annoyance for the vindicated grin Mirko was sending her. "I said it before and I'll say it again, he is one clever kid."
"Wait, so doesn't that mean he's been holding back this whole time?" Mirko asked as her brows knit together and a frown marred her lips.
"Yes." Tsuyu stated bluntly with a nod, before sinking even further behind cover when she saw a vein actually bulging on the rabbit woman's forehead.
"Why that no good little son of a… I'LL SHOW YOUR SORRY ASS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU UNDERESTIMATE ME DAMMIT!" Mirko screamed in rage as she grabbed the closest thing she could, Midnight's flogger, and hurling it at the projection so hard it embedded almost halfway into the wall behind it. "WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I'M GONNA TWIST YOU INTO A PRETZAL THEN SNAP YOU IN HALF!"
As the pro-hero continued to quite vocally vent her anger, Mina and Toru turned towards their froggy friend with identical dull looks. "You just had to say it, didn't you?"
"Better to deal with it now than let it boil over later, ribbit." Was all Tsuyu said in response while discreetly shooting her tongue out and paused the projection until Mirko finished her not-so-little rage out, which took almost five minutes and probably would have gone on longer if she hadn't needed to stop to catch her breath.
Shaking the poison from his hand, Naruto walked over to Midnight, and leaned down to her level.
Midnight just grinned a little at him.
"Gonna take my mask?" Midnight asked him.
Go ahead, what he didn't know was that she already bugged her mask with a tracker, so that she could find him.
"Grrr… stupid… kick em hard…my catch." Mirko grumbled mostly inaudibly with a scowl at hearing Midnight's plan to catch the whiskered blonde, still more than a bit upset.
"Oh, nice." Mei said approvingly as the camera view changed towards the adult-rated heroine's face and highlighted the bug in her mask. "That's a cute baby, but I could totally make one smaller and even more discreet."
"Yeah, totally discreet, until it randomly explodes at least." Mina added while nudging her fellow pinkette's side, having heard of the inventor's devices' bad tendency to spontaneously combust.
She was surprised when he slipped her heels off, and took her stockings, before putting her heels back on her. He even looked over them, she still grinned, before she was surprised when he reached into them and pulled out the trackers in them, small little things.
…
…
"Okay, how the fu-"
"You heroes really need to keep your meeting times a secret, I already know about the bugs... and despite what my Quirk is, I'm not a fan of bugs." Naruto told her, and she blinked in confusion.
What?
His Quirk was Poison creation, wasn't it?
*SMACK*
"Hey now!"
"Ah, but you've been a bad girl... still, in your 30s and still single. Might want to think about finding yourself a man with prospects. Who knows, maybe somebody can see if the carpets match those purple drapes soon." Naruto teased her as he jumped out of the window, shattering the glass, leaving a very confused Midnight behind.
Now she HAD to know who this villain really was.
Also... she wasn't old!
"Pfffft-Bwahahahah-Oh god!-Ahahahah-Can't breathe!-Ahahahah!" The now buffering Viewer shook as Mirko's mood took a one-eighty and she erupted into her biggest laughing fit yet, her face rapidly turning red and tears pouring from her eyes from how hard she was laughing her ass off.
"Hahahaha!" "Hehehehe!" At the same time, both Mina and Toru devolved into fits on giggles, leaning against each-other for support as they slipped to the floor. Meanwhile Tsuyu croaked softly in amusement and Mei simply chuckled briefly from their hiding places.
And lastly, an exasperated and now thoroughly annoyed Midnight was gritting her teeth in barely contained irritation as she massaged her brow. "Oh would you quit it already, it wasn't that funny."
"Are you kidding?! It's god damn hilarious!" The rabbit heroine exclaimed, "He just outsmarted you, beat you, defused your trap, got a wicked burn on you, felt you up, and basically dangled his real identity right in front of you all at once! Face it you wannabe stripper, he just owned your ass six times in a row!"
As much as she wanted, the purplette could not argue with Mirko's words, not only had Naruto torn her counterpart's entire plan apart before the fight even really started, he had openly yet discreetly mocked her about their earlier encounter by subtly mentioning his toad quirk and emphasizing her hair color.
'Note to self, tell Nezu about being more discreet with meet times and beefing up security.' Even worse, the blonde had even gotten a burn on the hero community as a whole by revealing he'd successfully snuck into and out of a Hero meeting. Such a feat should have been insanely risky since there were at least ten Pros at any given meeting, but the way the boy so casually mentioned it implied that not only was it easy but unlikely the first time he'd done so.
"Heh… heh… man, this cannot get any funnier." Mirko said breathlessly as her gradually got her composure back, idly wiping the tears from her eyes as she spoke, thus missing as Midnight facepalmed.
*Rumble* *Thud-Thud-Thud-Thud* Everyone in the room jumped slightly as an ominous rumble shook through the room, followed by the sound of stomping that was rapidly getting closer.
"Huh? What is th-*BANG*-EEEP!" Toru started to ask, only yelp in surprise when the door slammed open, nearly knocked off its hinges and leaving a noticeable indent in the wall.
"THERE YOU ARE!" The cause of this was swiftly revealed as a familiar super growing blonde heroine, otherwise known as Mt. Lady, burst into the room with an angry snarl and a cell phone held up in hand, along with a red-faced Izuku stuck in a headlock by said blonde's free arm, and a sheepish Momo and Iida behind them. Her gaze instantly zeroing in on Midnight, Mt Lady stomped her way past everyone else and shoved her phone in the purplette's face. "MIND EXPLAINING THIS YOU BITCH!?"
Taking a glance at said device, Midnight took all of three seconds before her lips curved up from their previous frown into a malicious grin, for on the screen was a gif.
Not just any gif though, no, this was a gif of Mt Lady repeatedly punching herself in the face whilst the words 'Stop hitting yourself' flashed in large bold letters at the bottom.
-End Chapter-
AN:
*Tsuyu's Origami: Given how her quirk makes her hands a bit larger than they proportionally should be, I think it's plausible Tsuyu would pick up a hobby that helps improve hand control to avoid fumbling her grasp on smaller items like chopsticks or pencils.
^Toru's Invisibility (Warning, lots of nerdage, skip if easily bored or don't care): Based on the fact we can't see anything Toru eats or drinks, I am going to safely assume her invisibility is caused by light warping or reflecting around her body. Fun fact, if you were actually invisible like that you would also be completely blind since light would be unable to enter your eyes. So that begs the question, how can Toru see?
My theory is that a very, very small percentage of light does actually hit her, so small that the average eye can't see it but she can due to her quirk giving her incredibly light sensitive eyes that can pick up this small amount of light to compensate. This is based on the idea that she can see herself, as Toru has given a description of herself, albeit vague, which would explain how she can walk around without constantly stumbling or tripping and why she tends to forget that she's invisible when she undresses to sneak around.
This in turn though would mean that anyone or anything that also has higher visual sensitivity to light, such as rabbits and frogs (Another fun fact: some if not most frogs can see color even in near total darkness) would also be able to see or at least somewhat see Toru as well by picking up that trace amount of light. I'm pretty sure I've found evidence of this in the manga as I noticed Tsuyu's gaze tends to randomly wander at times towards seemingly empty areas during training and combat exercises, which I believe is actually where Toru is during those times.
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