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-Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quicky Villian-
-Chapter 15, Part one-
"HAX! I call hax!" Mirko shouted as she tore her gaming headset off and pointed at Naruto accusingly. "How the hell did you get a flawless seven hundred twenty combo!?"
Smirking as he took off his own VR set, the whiskered blonde just smiled cheekily while twirling the device on the tip of his finger. "Pure skill."
"Yeah, he games with the kids at the orphanage all the time, so he's got a lot of practice. How often have you picked up a console?" Setsuna asked as she gave Mirko a knowing look, which just made the bunny heroine huff as she turned her head away indignantly.
"Just a stupid game anyway…"
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
"Can we get back to the show now?" Mina cut in, getting the trio's attention, with her arms crossed and brow furrowed as she tapped her foot against the floor impatiently. "It's been done buffering for like an hour now."
"It's only been five minutes, ribbit." Tsuyu stated with her usual blank look.
"Five minutes too long." The acidic pinkette grumbled under her breath, getting several eyerolls from the room's other occupants while Mirko just hit the play button.
Nothing.
"So... what Kurama did isn't going to be on the news?" Naruto asked Nemuri as he looked at her watching television. It had been a day since his prank, or rather the next day, and he was surprised that what he had done hadn't been giant news at this point. He had unleashed a massive prank on the entirety of the U.A. school and all of the teacher heroes present. While he was slightly worried about putting a target on his back, with how big that target was already, nothing was going to make it that much bigger.
"Seriously? Top ranked villain of all time busts into top Hero school for prank and that's not in the news?" Mina repeated in disbelief as her eyebrow vanished into her fluffy pink hair. "How the hell did they manage that? Every student here would be blabbering about it all over social media."
"And what, admit that they got drugged, stripped, and dressed in drag against their wills?" Momo asked back rhetorically, getting the pink pinkette to blink before donning a thoughtful look.
"Oh yeah… hadn't thought about that."
Nemuri looked surprised to see him talking to her of his own free will, or rather, him starting the conversation.
"Well... the other teachers at U.A. thought it would be best to... keep this event under wraps. Since all of the cameras inside of the school had been destroyed-" Nemuri spoke, and Naruto nodded his head. He had destroyed any camera that could have caught sight of him, and used his camo ability from his Toad Quirk to make sure the cameras didn't see Kurama anyway. Erasing the evidence from the memory was as easy as a quick Google Search on his phone, and all the evidence that could link Naruto and Kurama together was gone. "-and we still don't know how he got into the school, we want to avoid a panic." Nemuri explained to him when he sat down.
A few snickers slipped past Setsuna's lips at that last part before turning into a full blown giggling fit as she leaned against Naruto for support. "Now this is just some sweet irony right there, trying to figure out how you got in when she's the one that got you an all-access pass in the first place."
"It is pretty funny," Her boyfriend agreed with a soft chuckle of his own before jabbing his thumb towards the 'real' Midnight. "But should you really be laughing at the lady who gives you homework right in front of her?"
"Nah, even she has to admit this is a pretty funny situation, right Midnight-sensei?" The greenette asked her teacher confidently… only for that confidence to quickly disappear when she saw the evil smirk growing on the adult rated heroine's lips.
"You know, it has been awhile since your last essay assignment…"
"And I'm shutting up now." Setsuna stated while snuggling deeper into Naruto's grasp. She may be in the top of her class grade wise but that didn't mean she liked having extra work dumped on her.
She stood up to start making breakfast, since for once, he was actually sitting down at the table with her.
"You don't want U.A.'s reputation to be ruined either right?" Naruto questioned her with a knowing smirk.
"That would certainly put a dent in UA's reputation, ribbit, especially if the League of Villains still attack like they did here." Almost everybody grimaced at Tsuyu's statement as all of them recalling the media frenzy they had to deal with after the USJ Incident. Those reporters could be bloody ruthless when they wanted to be, from hounding phone calls to popping out of seemingly nowhere trying to get an interview of what actually happened.
"Actually, the backlash would most likely be rather minimal with Kurama's break in." Mei, one of the few not to react, stated with a shrug as she tried to solve a rubik's cube.
…What, she didn't invent stuff ALL the time, sometimes she needed to give her brain a breather so it could come up with new ideas for babies first.
"And what makes you say that?" Mina asked with a tilted head, getting her fellow pinkette to shrug her shoulders as she waved ahand in a 'yadda yadda' way.
"He's Kurama... can anyone here really say that they couldn't see Kurama doing it... I mean... REALLY, would it be a surprise at all?" Mei asked back, only to be met with silence. "Exactly, this guy shows what it looks like when a really creative person makes full use of their quirk... can anyone imagine frog girl being anywhere as strong as him?"
"Hey, that is rude." Momo was quick to come to her friend's defense as a frown marred her lips, not liking how the inventive girl was talking about Tsuyu so dismissively.
"But she has a point, ribbit," Unfortunately said frog girl kind of messed up the rich teen's attempt when she actually agreed with Mei. Tapping her lip thoughtfully with one hand, Tsuyu was staring at her other one curiously as she fiddled with a little dollop of frog mucus. "Our quirks are practically the same and yet I never imagined myself doing even half of the things he's done. It makes me wonder if I've only scratched the surface on what my quirk is really capable of."
"…Huh, well when you put it like that…" Momo trailed off as she looked at her own hands. 'I wonder, what would he do if he had a quirk like mine instead?'
Would he still use it the same as her? Or would he find ways that she hadn't thought about before? Was there other ways to use it? Had she really been using it to its maximum capacity or had she'd been too focused on the more obvious applications to consider other possibilities?
Delving further and further into the rabbit hole of 'What if's, Momo didn't notice as almost everyone else in the room gained similar looks of contemplation as well. The only exceptions were Mirko, Mei Naruto, and Setsuna, who all just dismissed the thought as quickly as it came to mind for their own reasons.
She shook her head.
"Honestly, if this was some two-bit villain breaking into U.A. and doing this, then maybe... but considering it was Kurama... who took down the entire Top 10, including All Might himself... Kurama being capable of taking down U.A. is... something the public won't be surprised or shocked over." Nemuri reluctantly admitted to the fact. Kurama was perhaps the only known villain that could do this, and nobody would be shocked over it anymore. After his big stunt of taking down the Top 10, he had become a very controversial topic for a lot of people.
"Called it." The support student said with a half-hearted fist pump, snapping the rest of the room's occupants out of their thoughts.
A villain that could escape any hero, who had taken down the best of the best, was a villain that was extremely dangerous and worrying.
At the same time, the villain was Kurama, who had shown off many times the fact he meant no true harm to anyone, had never been violent once, and had risked his own life to save a person. Many people were convinced that Kurama would never actually hurt anyone, he just wanted to have fun, but there were others that believed a villain being this good at taking down heroes couldn't be allowed to stay.
'Yet another interesting conundrum,' Momo thought as she rubbed her chin with a puzzled look. "I know we've talked about this before but can he really be considered a villain? I mean yes, he stole stuff but he always gives it right back and he goes out of his way to avoid collateral damage."
"Don't forget risked his own life saving that guy from getting hit by traffic."
"Right, thank you Shoto," The bodacious ravenette nodded in appreciation to her classmate`. "In any case it really isn't hard to see why everyone is so conflicted on how to handle him. He's got the potential and skill to be one of if not the most dangerous villain ever recorded and yet… all he does is have fun."
Snickering softly, Setsuna wrapped her arms around Naruto she was sitting on as one of her hands detached to play around with his hair. "That sounds like my Naru alright, doesn't have a serious bone in his body unless it involves the little ones back home or when his mother starts to get on his case."
"He's really become popular." Naruto muttered with a frown as he looked at the TV screen.
"Behold, the newest, off the line, Kurama figure, and we are premiering them here first."
'Figures and toys of me... that's so...' Naruto didn't know what to think when he saw the news reporter in the toy store, going down the line of hero and villain toys, and showing off the newest and more expensive looking toys there. "So... what side of the argument are you on?" Naruto asked Nemuri, and she looked conflicted.
"Damn, I knew he was popular but that is a lot of merch for one villain," Mina said as the assortment of Kurama themed toys, ranging from action figures to cheap little plastic guns that shot 'Kurama Slime' and even costumes of his villain outfit. There was even the classic little lunchbox, notebooks, and backpacks for little kids, or enthusiastic adults, to use for day-to-day stuff. "They even have matched sets with Mirko."
"Of course there is." Said rabbit heroine wasn't sure if she wanted to scowl or laugh at the sight of boxed sets that included figures of herself in a fighting pose against the poisonous criminal and little speech bubbles of his quips. On the one hand it was a reminder that her fighting and failing to beat him was considered the norm, whereas on the other she did have to admit to liking the idea of having her own nemesis.
Momo was about to add in her own two cents as well but was cut off by a gentle tap on her shoulder. Turning her head towards the source, she was surprised to find the culprit was none other than Tsuyu, who was tapping her lip rapidly.
"…Could you make me one of those, ribbit?" The frog-quirked girl asked as she pointed to one of the Kurama figures still on the screen.
"Uh sure, but um… why?"
"My little brother, he loves playing with them and he's been really wanting one who has a quirk like us." Tsuyu explained, getting the creation-quirked teen to nod in understanding. While there were and had been a few frog and toad themed heroes, none of them had ever really risen to the point of being marketed into prominent toy lines.
So, after a bit of concentrating to get all the details she needed, Momo lifted up the side of her uniform as a perfect copy of one of the figures popped out of her waist in a dazzle of light. Handing it over to her classmate, the ravenette smiled when she saw Tsuyu's normally stoic expression break a little to show her happiness.
"I think... Kurama is good for society as a whole..." Nemuri reluctantly was truthful with this one. "Every time Kurama humiliates a hero, their public image falls a little... and to regain their image, the heroes he defeats were forced to work even harder to make up for the loss. While more criminals are trying to imitate Kurama... crime rates overall are actually dropping." Nemuri was reluctant to admit this for that very reason.
"So wait, he's actually causing crime to go down by constantly committing crimes? How does that make sense?" A confused Mina asked with her head tilted to the side…
Kurama's actions were making heroes better heroes by forcing them to try and save face, by becoming even more active in the community. It was an unintended side effect of his crimes, but the fact remains that if Kurama wasn't such a friendly villain, then the heroes he went after would be dead, and the public would be terrified, inciting panic.
"Oh… I get it now, heroes work harder to make up for their bruised egos."
"Huh?" Naruto didn't understand.
"I, and several other heroes, believe that Kurama is wasting his potential. He seems like a good guy at heart... I would even say... lonely." Nemuri explained her thoughts on it a little. Nobody really knew what they wanted done with Kurama anymore. The public, the majority of the public, adored the villain for his fun ways, and the fact that he never really did anything really evil. He was just, for them, a way for them to spice up their lives with good, clean, entertainment.
"Sometimes you do gotta mix things up a little otherwise they get kind of boring and stale," Setsuna said, idly slipping off Naruto's lap but staying nuzzled up to his side with her hand intwined with his as she leaned against the armrest. "But I guess that's one of the perks about the Hero course at least since we never know what the teachers will throw at us next."
"That's an understatement, ribbit." "Truer words have never been spoken." "Indeed." "Could do with less math homework if you ask me." Came the chorus of responses from her fellow students as they all recalled the various shenanigans they'd been caught up in during their classes. Even Mei, who wasn't even in the Hero course, nodded her head a little, having seen plenty of examples as she worked on support items for said students.
Naruto scowled.
"Lonely... he doesn't seem lonely to me." Naruto spoke under his breath with his scowl growing unpleasant. Nemuri gave him a concerned look when she saw his mood was changing, but she didn't directly comment on him.
'Oops, might have touched a nerve there.' Midnight thought with a small wince at the sour expression on the whiskered boy's face, before blinking in surprise when she noticed the exact same look on the 'real' one's face as well.
Noticing her gaze, Setsuna quickly motioned her not to say anything while her mouth detached and floated it over to the adult rated heroine. "Naruto hates being lonely, but he hates it even more when people say he looks lonely… it's a bit of a sore spot for him."
"Oh, why?"
"Not my place to say." The dividing teen's mouth stated with a shake, which looked rather odd since it was just floating jaw, before floating back to their rightful place on her body.
She didn't argue with him either.
"What does he seem like to you then... since you asked, what do you think about Kurama?" Nemuri wanted to hear Naruto talk about his opinion, since he never really gave her his thoughts on this stuff. She put breakfast in front of the two of them, and sat down across from him.
"I don't know."
"You don't know?" Nemuri was a little curious about how Naruto didn't seem to know what he thought about Kurama.
"Oh he knows exactly what he thinks, he just can't say without giving himself up," Momo said with a giggle, clearing her voice as she did her best imitation of the whiskered teen. "'I think Kurama is alright because I am him', like that'd go over well."
"Ribbit, I doubt he'd say something like that but the best card to play is ignorance in this case." Tsuyu nodded in agreement.
"Well... I guess your conflicted like a lot of people then, with good reason. The guy did dress you in women's clothes that were too big for you." Nemuri sympathized with him on that at least.
Momo, a girl in the hero course, was a tall girl with large breasts and wide hips, and it was her clothes that Naruto had been forced to wear. She had height on him, and her figure made her clothes big on him. Being smaller than a girl, for any guy, could be a little humiliating. At least, that was what she thought about why Naruto might not feel strongly about Kurama.
"Heh, yeah, you could say he got the 'short' end of that exchange, huh?" Mina punned, snickering softly at her own joke and thus not noticing when Setsuna tried to subtly get her to stop.
However, she did notice the sudden feeling of eyes burning a hole into the back of her head and turned to find Naruto giving her a withering glare that admittedly sent more than a few shivers down her spine. "Did you just call me short?"
"…No?" The acidic teen meeped out softly, shrinking under his gaze with sweat pouring from her brow.
"Good, because I'm not and I'm still growing." The whiskered blonde stated with a huff as he went back to watching the screen, making Mina sigh in relief.
Naruto gave her a small glare for that.
"I'm just 15, I have a lot of room to grow, and my father was tall." Naruto told her quickly, and she raised her hands up in surrender.
Okay, so she touched a button there.
'I wonder why he's so touchy about that?' The adult rated heroine wondered as she glanced at the whiskered blonde curiously. He wasn't exactly short, more so on the average side, so it was a little odd to see him so defensive about his height.
"Gotcha, so, changing the topic. How was your first day at U.A., not counting what happened, did you like the school or make any friends?" Nemuri only got to teach the history and art classes, so she didn't get to see a lot of Naruto during the school hours. She had seen he wasn't great with art, and his grasp on history was a little odd. He seemed to have trouble learning the same way that other students learned, so she was going to have to try and work with him on that personally.
"Yeah, Naruto's always had a bit of a weird brain when it comes to learning," Setsuna said before playfully rocking her knuckles against the top of the toad-quirked boy's head. "Although I'd say part of its because he's got such a thick skull."
"I work best with Ice Cream metaphors." He added with a shrug, neither agreeing with nor denying his girlfriend's statement.
Thankfully, as his mother, she was in the perfect position to offer him help after school, and try and find out why he seemed to have problems. She had been allowed to look at his middle school records, and she saw that his grades had always been low. Which was odd, because he actually seemed very cunning, and that he had a good head on his shoulders.
"... I met a guy that was sitting alone... he's got a villain-like Quirk, and people were avoiding him... I want to try and get closer to him. He looks like he could use a friend." Naruto mentioned, since he had seen a guy sitting alone, and asked some other students about him. The guy tried and failed to get into the hero course because of his Quirk, and though Naruto didn't want to be a hero, he completely understood what the guy was going through.
"That's nice of him, sounds like the poor guy really needed a friend." Momo said with a little smile. She never liked how people nowadays tended to judge a person based on what kind of quirk they ended up getting. If you got a strong and/or cool one it was like winning the potluck for popularity, if you got an okay or meh one though it often left you getting overlooked. Then there were the ones who either got no quirk at all, the quirkless-
-Elsewhere-
Ochaco winced as she saw Izuku run face first into a tree during their training when he suddenly sneezed mid-run.
-And Back-
-Or got what was considered a 'Villain's quirk'.
While many quirks could be considered dangerous and have a lot of potential for villains, for example she could create all kinds of dangerous substances or counterfeit goods, it was typically only ones that were often aligned with evil or broke societal taboos that got such a title. And if someone was unlucky enough to get one that fit those requirements then they usually got thrown to the wolves as a lost cause by default, which as you'd expect more often than not drove them to villainy out of either revenge or desperation.
Having your dreams taken away was rough.
Nemuri smiled wide.
"Oh, friendships between men can just be the best of things. Men who prefer the company of women are fine, but having a male friend you can be yourself with is just good for you. I say you should go for it, try and make friends with him." Nemuri encouraged his plans with an open mind.
"Aw, already giving him life lesson advice, you're really getting into the swing of being a mom." Mina said, playfully nudging Midnight's side while the arts teacher gained an uncharacteristic bashful look.
"I wouldn't say that, guy needs a guy pal, gal needs a gal pal, that's just a simple fact of life."
"Don't sell yourself short," Setsuna chipped in, patting the adult rated heroine on the shoulder. "For only having a kid a few months at most you're rocking at the parenting. You and Mama Red would get along great."
"Thanks," The purplette said as she smiled in appreciation… before blinking in confusion. "Wait, Mama who?"
"It's what she calls my mother, don't ask." Naruto stated bluntly, quickly clapping a hand over Setsuna's lips when she tried to say something as well.
Naruto just played with the food in front of him, before silently eating, not sure what else he could say.
Nemuri just kept smiling though.
"... Do you hate villains?" Naruto asked Nemuri after a few moments thought.
...
"I can't say I hate them. There are a good number of villains out there who just need help... there are some really bad people I don't like, and it's my job to take all of them down, but when I can I do try and help the ones I feel can turn their life around. Heroes aren't here to hurt people, we're here to help them." Nemuri believed that she put her thoughts into proper words there, or at least explained them well enough for him to understand.
"Sounds about right to me." Midnight said in agreement with her other self, not feeling the need to add anything else.
"You know, this is the nicest conversation we've had... I hope we can have more like it." Nemuri added that on, and Naruto's face stayed flat and emotionless at that.
Naruto sighed.
"... I... don't hate you." Naruto was forced to admit to her.
He didn't like her, and he did not see her as his mother, but he was going to have to admit that he didn't hate her as a person. By the way she was talking, she seemed like a genuinely good person. After spending time with her, he could tell that she really did not mean to force the adoption on him the way she did. She made a mistake, and she really did feel sorry about how she took something dear away from him. She was not a bad person though, and the more time he spent with her, the more he was forced to admit it.
"Well, it's not much but at least you're making some progress with him, ribbit." Tsuyu said as her teacher nodded with a gentle smile.
"Probably more than you realize." Shoto stated cryptically, earning himself a few odd looks from the others.
Nemuri just smiled.
"Thank you, and for what it's worth, I'm going to be the best mother I can be. You're already dear to me." Nemuri spoke honestly as well. She didn't have him in her life long, but living with him, and trying to bond with him... and when he got really sick she practically felt her heart try and rip itself out of her chest to be with him. Having a child had awakened her inner maternal instincts, even if it wasn't through birth. "You're my child now Naruto... even though you don't hate me, you're angry with me though. I love you, and I hope you'll come to love me one day too." Nemuri watched as Naruto started to more quickly finish his breakfast, and how he kept his face flat without showing anything on it.
For her at least, the silence was more comfortable than it usually was.
"Just give it enough time and he'll warm right up to you," Setsuna said while nudging her boyfriend's side, making him roll his eyes in bemusement at her antics. "He's not really the kind of guy to hold a grudge, except if you hurt one of the little ones, so I'm sure he'll get over it sooner than you think."
"I did lose the orphanage in this though, that's not something I'd get over so easily Setsuna." The whiskered blonde reminded the dividing girl which she just waved off.
"That was an accident and you both know it," She said before smiling mischievously as she wiggled her eyebrows. "And besides, if all else fails she could just give you a good old-fashioned cuddle like thi-huh?"
Several startled screams rang out at once as an odd series of events unfolded all at once.
Firstly, Setsuna had started to get up, only to abruptly keel over and fall onto the floor like a puppet with its string cut. And, thanks to having still been in a half sitting position when she fell, this ended up leaving her in a rather… compromising position of ass up head down.
Speaking of her head though, it actually didn't join her body as it quite literally rolled off her shoulders as she fell over, landing face first onto Naruto's lap with a muffled grunt.
…
"…What the fuck just happened?" Mirko asked what everyone else was thinking as they all stared at either Setsuna's headless body or her bodiless head in shock.
"That was my fault." Naruto admitted with a sheepish smile, getting the room's attention as he raised a hand, Setsuna's hand to be precise. The disconnected appendage was still firmly locked in his grip as a familiar milky white fluid oozed between their palms.
The whiskered blonde then gently picked up his girlfriend's head with his free hand and held it up to reveal her surprisingly amused face. "Sheesh, I know I said I'm always falling head over heels for you but this is a little ridiculous."
"Sorry Setsuna, but it was for your own good." Naruto set Setsuna's head back down on his thighs as he spoke, upright this time, and started gently running his fingers through her hair.
"Aw, but I just wanted to give you a body snuggle, what's wrong with that?" Setsuna asked with a playful pout that made the blonde roll his eyes in exasperation.
"And end up showing everyone here your birthday suit in the process?"
"My birthday suit? What are you-" The dividing teen cut herself off when she looked back at her body as Naruto hoisted it into the air with his tongue. More specifically, her attention was on the standard school uniform she was still wearing, which unlike her Hero uniform was NOT attuned to work with her quirk. Which means had she'd been able to divide herself up like she had intended to for her body hug… Setsuna's cheek erupted into a bright red blush as she giggled awkwardly. "Whoops… guess I got a little ahead of myself there, pun not intended."
"Sure it wasn't." Naruto chuckled under his breath with a shake of his head as he carefully lowered the rest of her back into its rightful seat. Setting aside her poison covered hand to free up his own, the blonde gently grabbed Setsuna's shoulder to keep her from falling over while retracting his tongue.
Once he was sure she was all settled in though, a mischievous smirk crossed the toad boy's lips before he slowly moved his arm downwards.
'Oh-ho? What have we got here?' Setsuna thought while nibbling on her bottom lip, her spot on his thighs giving her the perfect unobscured view as she watched her boyfriend's hand descended across her back. Before long it'd made it all the way down to her ass and the blonde wasted no time grabbing himself a handful of that plump rump made of sexy junk, making the girl shiver as she repressed the urge to moan aloud.
*Thud* "Ow."
"Huh?" "What?" "Mina!?" Sadly, neither teen would get to enjoy the moment for long as they, and everyone else in the room, were startled when Mina flopped to the floor out of the blue.
Acting the fastest, Midnight and Shoto rushed over to the acidic girl's side, the former flipping her over as she looked the girl over in concern. However, as fast as it came said concern almost immediately evaporated away into exasperation when they were greeted to Mina smiling nervously with Setsuna's hand stuck to her cheek.
"What the…?" Blinking in surprise, Naruto's gaze flickered to where he'd left the hand just a second ago to find that it was gone.
Meanwhile, a deadpanning Midnight peeled the toad poison covered limb off of Mina's face, taking extra care not to get any of it on herself. "Ashido-san, did you seriously just poison yourself intentionally?"
"Uh… maybe?"
"Why would you go and do something stupid like that?" A confused Shoto asked with a tilted head.
"I just wanted to know what it was like." The pink pinkette admitted sheepishly, causing her teacher to shake her head exasperatedly.
"Well hopefully you've learned your lesson young-Ow!" Midnight yelped as Mirko shot her leg out and kicked Setsuna's hand out of her grasp, sending it flying through the air. Cradling her now limp wrist, the adult rated heroine gave her fellow pro hero a dirty look as the bunny woman caught the detached hand. "What the fuck Mirko?"
"There is no way I'm gonna miss out on the chance to prove once and for all that there is absolutely no way that I'd be taken out by some stupid poison in real life," Mirko stated with a confident grin as she held up the poison-soaked limb with a smirk. "And all I have to do is give this one little-" Before she could even finish her sentence her entire body suddenly went limp, causing her to drop the hand onto the floor. "Oi! What the fuck!? I haven't even taken any yet!"
"Ribbit, the poison doesn't have to be swallowed to work," Tsuyu pointed out while launching her tongue out to grab the appendage off the floor. Reeling it in, the frog girl dropped it into her own hand, smacking her lips a little as the taste of toad poison washed through her mouth. "Skin contact is just as effective, remember?"
"…Shut up, you poisoned yourself too by using your tongue so don't act so smart." The bunny heroine pointed out in a rather obvious attempt to save face… only for it to flop when the ever stoic faced teen didn't. "Hey, why aren't you on your ass yet?"
"Frog quirk, I have a natural resistance to toad poison… remember?"
"…Fuck you."
"Fascinating," Momo muttered as she took the hand from her classmate, her own hands covered in protective plastic gloves she'd made with her quirk just to be safe. Although it seemed to be an unnecessary precaution since all that was left was a small dollop on the center of the palm. 'It's exactly like with Kurama, just one touch and basically anyone is down for the count. I wonder… does that mean all the effects are the same?'
"Oh! Oh! Is there any left? Is there?" Momo was rudely brought out of her thoughts by Mei, who shoved herself right into the bodacious ravenette's personal space to get a better look at the hand. "OH! There is! Hang on, just give me a second to find a container to store it in. Once I analyze the chemical makeup I should be able to develop a synthetic variant-"
"Excuse me but I do not consent to that."
"To mass produce and then there's no telling what kind of babies I could..."
As the inventive pinkette kept rambling on and on about all the possible gadgets she could create using Naruto's poison, and ignoring said blonde's protest, Mei didn't notice the look of growing horror on Momo's face.
"Oh, perhaps a specialized paintball style gun with rapid fire and-hey! My sample!" She did notice however when the creation quirked girl suddenly licked up the last bit of poison left, causing her to keel over in her seat. "Whatcha do that for?"
"Sorry, I just couldn't help myself, wanted to know what it was like." Momo 'admitted', trying her best to sound embarrassed which was admittedly rather easy considering she was currently talking with her head between her knees.
"Ha! Looks like I'm not the only one that likes licking toads for fun, eh Naruto?" Setsuna asked jokingly, making Naruto roll his eyes as he just scratched her scalp without a word.
"Alright you guys, if you all are done being idiots and poisoning yourselves," Midnight started to say as she finished helping Mina back into her seat. "Why don't we get back to the show finally?"
Getting several muttered agreements in response, the seductive heroine reached over and hit the play button on the Viewer.
"…Could someone help me up please?"
"I've got you Momo, ribbit."
Naruto seemed in thought though.
-Later that Day-
"Come on Bun Bun, I'm honestly flattered."
Naruto allowed himself to relax as he dodged Mirko rather easily enough, since as she got used to the way he dodged, he was also getting used to her fighting style. Phones were out recording them, and Mirko was attacking with a more passion than normally as she tried to land a clean hit on him. She was grinning from ear to ear, having yet another chance to take this villain out was a blessing for her.
"Nice, at least I can watch myself kick ass for a bit." Mirko lips quirked upwards a little in excitement despite her immobilized state as she watched her counterpart duking it out with the blonde.
"Uh speaking of which, how long are we gonna be all… like this?" Mina asked as she tried to look at Naruto, but only managed to wiggle head a little.
"About twenty minutes give or take, I used a pretty strong dose to make sure it kicked in before Setsuna fully divided."
"Heard what you did... bet you got an eyeful." Mirko taunted him.
Right, he had seen every female (AND male) student of U.A. without their clothes on when he was switching them around. He had used the school's copier to leave notes in all of the students clothes that he didn't do anything perverted to their bodies. The fact remains that he had seen all of the students in the nude though, and thinking on that would usually be enough to get a blush on his cheek.
"Oh right, I almost forgot about that, ribbit." Tsuyu mumbled as she subconsciously covered herself at the reminder that someone, a boy no less, had seen her al naturel.
"Well, it is reassuring that he didn't do anything at the least." Momo tried to be optimistic, however the bright red glow on her cheeks belied her own embarrassment. Not only from the whiskered blonde having seen her in her birthday suit but the added fact he had personally worn her clothes, including her underwear.
"Do I hear a hint of jealousy in your voice Bun Bun? Should I strip you naked too?" Naruto asked her, and he ducked underneath a 100% power kick that she threw, one that unleashed a pretty strong shockwave. That one would have really, really, really hurt if it had actually hit him. Thankfully, he knew the way her body moved so well at this point, he could predict what she would do with his brain tied behind his back to make it fair. "Ooooooh, don't worry Bun Bun, your sexy thighs are the only ones I want trying to choke me. Those girls don't have nothing on you." Naruto ran his hand up her leg while she was pulling it back.
"Please, if those girls got you so flustered then one look at my hot bod would leave you out cold," Mirko huffed proudly as she flexed her muscles… or at least she would have had said muscles still been working at the moment. Although that didn't seem to deter her in the slightest as she sent the 'real' Naruto a challenging smirk. "Whatcha say hotshot? Your girl's thighs got anything on these beauties?"
Shaking his head with an amused sigh, Naruto reached over and bopped the pro heroine on the nose with a finger, causing her face to scrunch up. "Nice try cottontail but next time you try to get me flustered than you should really make sure you don't sound like a jealous girlfriend first."
"I-I do not sound like that!"
"You can put your hands all over them once I've beaten you." Mirko jumped up and tried to get him with a spin kick.
Mirko's phone rang, and she stopped her kick.
...
"Where the hell do you hero women even keep those phones?" Naruto asked when he saw her pull out her phone, and he tried to see where she pulled it from. She raised her hand up to her lips, and shushed him before he could say much else. "Did you just shush me?" Naruto asked with some shock.
She shushed him again.
"I don't know whether I should laugh or face palm right now." Shoto stated, with Midnight and Tsuyu both nodding in agreement.
"Mirko here... bank robbery a few minutes away... they hijacked a bus... I'm on it!" Mirko shouted over the phone at the end. She ended the phone call, before she turned towards Naruto. "Sorry Kurama, gotta take care of this. Chasing you will give more fame, but some real criminals are doing something." Mirko put her hands together in apology.
She hated to end their chase before one of them won, but when lives were in danger, she had to go and take care of it. She abandoned Naruto and jumped in the general direction of where the other crime was taking place. Catching him was something that would bring fame to whatever hero managed it, but when lives were at stake, those lives would always take priority.
"…Pfffft! Hahaha!" Fits of giggles burst from Setsuna's lips, her head almost tipping over on Naruto's lap when she saw the shock on the whiskered teen's counterpart. "Oh man, she actually ditched you mid chase! That is so fucking hilarious!"
"It is kinda funny," Momo agreed, unable to help as a few snickers escaped her own lips. "And it makes sense that since he's a 'safe' criminal, never thought I'd say those two words together, she'd prioritize the real danger over him."
Naruto put his hands in his pockets, with a frown on under his mask.
Well now.
Naruto jumped high into the air and followed after Mirko, unable to just let this one slide just like that. Jumping side by side with her, she glanced to her side, and shrugged her shoulders.
"You know, people can't just stop chasing me... I've got a reputation to uphold."
"Now the villain is chasing the hero? What is it, opposite day ribbit?" Tsuyu asked with a raised brow, getting Mirko to shrug.
"Who cares, it works for me," The rabbit heroine said with a smirk. "Just means I won't have to worry about tracking him back down afterwards to finish our business."
-Inside the Getaway Bus-
"Now, everyone stay down, keep your hands on your heads, and this won't turn bloody."
Call it a stereotype, but the crime was being committed by 3 men, all of them hiding their features with black masks and black sweaters as well. They had dangerous looking, and large, guns that took two hands to properly hold. Guns capable of easily wiping out all of the people on the bus in a few seconds flat.
"Wow, stereotype is an understatement, that is literally straight out of the textbook for hostage situations," Midnight stated with a shake of her head.
"Maybe they pick up a 'Robbing Banks for dummies' or something." Mina offered jokingly, getting a few chuckles and giggles from the rest of the room's occupants.
"So, we still using code names, also...?"
"Yes, we are still using codenames... I'm Hawk, you're Eagle, and he is Owl." Hawk stated as he gestured to Eagle and Owl in turn, since they seemed to have forgotten the important parts of the heist. This would be the last time he allied himself with Quirkless newbies like this. He was Quirkless too, but at least he was a pro when it came to escaping with the money. "What hero is following us... Ingenium, Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods were recently in this area. You two remembered to warn the police that we would shoot the passengers on hero sighting right?"
...
"Weren't you suppose to-"
"Idiots, never working with you two again." Hawk spoke as he palmed his forehead, and he glanced out of the side of his eye, and saw a passenger about to reach down.
"Oh lord, they even have the comically inept henchmen." Despite the tense situation on screen Midnight just could not help but giggle a little at the villains chatting.
Shooting out the window above their head, there were screams of panic through out the bus, and the passenger's hands went up to his head. "Eagle, do you have sights on any heroes?" Hawk asked as he looked back towards the front of the bus, and he saw that Eagle was downed.
Owl was still driving the bus, but Eagle down on the ground, twitching with foam coming from his mouth, clawing at his own throat, his eyes darting around like crazy. He gargled on the foam in his mouth, before his eyes started to roll up into his head, and he passed out in a horrifyingly silent way.
"Yikes, what the hell happened to that guy?" Mina asked, grimacing in discomfort at how creepy it was to watch the guy going down.
"Looks like he's overdosed on something or maybe he's having an allergic reaction," Momo said with a thoughtful look. "Or maybe a hero took him down, although I don't know any who cause that sort of reaction with their quirk."
""That's because it's not a hero's quirk doing it."" Naruto and Tsuyu said at the same time, causing everyone else to stare at the duo in surprise.
"Holy shit, Eagle is ODing! I knew he liked drugs, but I didn't realize he did them before the job!" Owl glanced back and saw his buddy collapsed on the ground.
Hawk wasn't as stupid.
"Okay! Show yourself hero, show yourself or I start shooting, starting with the kids, then the women, finally the men!" Hawk shouted out to the entire bus, and he shot a round into the roof of the bus to prove a point.
He felt a finger touch the back of his neck.
Snapping around, he saw that he was face to face with Kurama, another villain, and he relaxed when he realized it wasn't a hero. A fellow villain, and a pro at that, was always a welcome change to the idiots he was working with.
"Whelp, that idiot's dead." Setsuna stated dryly, with Naruto nodding in agreement...
"Hey! What the fuck is he doing!? And how the fuck did he beat me there!?" Not that anyone noticed since they were much more focused on a certain bunny throwing a tantrum.
"Why are you mad? By the looks of it he's joining in the heist so you have a reason to keep fighting him." Mina pointed out, getting Mirko to freeze mid complaint.
"…Oh yeah…"
"Holy shit, it's Kurama, the unstoppable hero beating machine, we're going to totally get away with things now."
"Thank you, total crime newbie, for the ever so kind introduction. Yes, it is I, the enemy of the people, nasty villain of far renown, and expert of all things poison, the master thief Kurama." Naruto performed a bow towards everyone in the bus. Naruto walked to the front of the bus, before he tapped his finger against the top of Owl's hand.
Owl collapsed, and Naruto grabbed the steering wheel.
"Or he's taking them out for you apparently." The acidic girl corrected herself as she and everyone else aside from Naruto, Tsuyu, and Setsuna watched Kurama defeating the criminals with wide eyes.
"Are you serious… Are. You. Fucking. Serious!?" A fire erupted in Mirko's eyes as she glared at the projection angrily, veins bulging all over her body as she furious tried to move. "That little fight stealing bastard! When I get my hands on him, I'll-*fpt*-Mph!?"
"And muted," Midnight said with a snicker after borrowing Mei's web shooter to put a stopper on the whitette's rant. Ignoring as said bunny babe glared at her balefully, the adult rated heroine tossed the device back to its creator while turning her attention back to the projection. "But in all seriousness what is that about? That is a lot more… violent reaction than his poison usually has."
"There's more than one type of toad poison in the world, ribbit," Tsuyu explained, "And some far more unpleasant than others."
"…Noted."
(Play Music: Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni OST - Senkou)
"You're here to stop us! If pull this bus over, I'm going to open fire!" Hawk shouted out when he realized he was not in the presence of an ally. Naruto sat down in driver's seat as Owl started to twitch on the ground, and took off the real driver's hat from where he was tied up.
He grabbed the walkie talkie.
"Hello everyone, my name is Kurama, and I'll be your tour guide on this poisonous trip. The first stage in my special poison, is paralysis." Naruto started to explain the steps.
Hawk froze when he realized he couldn't move his arms, and the gun fell out of his hands. Realizing that he had been poisoned when Kurama had touched him, he could do nothing but fall to the ground.
"Stage two of this poison is your sense of reality starting to fade, as you hallucinate... seeing things that aren't there."
The world started to vanish, and it was replaced by horrifying shapes and colors, the flames of hell itself burning around him. Hawk was forced to watch as his arms were melted off by the fires, and grew back, and were melted off again. His hair was grabbed, and his head jerked so that he was looking into Kurama's yellow eyes, which were narrowed dangerously.
'Holy shit…'
That was the only thought going through the minds of most of the room's occupants as they saw everything from Hawk's perspective. Even Mei stopped whatever she was doing, unable to pull her gaze away from the macabre display.
"Stage three, is when you realize that you just fucked up, threatening a child's life in front of me, and beg for mercy before you start to feel."
"Please... please... make it stop."
"Stage four... you feel utter agony, as every nerve in your body sends pain signals straight to your brain, making you feel like your entire body is on fire, and no water in the world is cold enough to put you out." Just like Kurama spoke, Hawk's eyes started to roll back into his head as he gave out a silent scream of agony. His entire body feeling just like it was explained, like a fire had overtaken every limp and his insides.
Naruto stood up, he had already pulled the bus to a stop when Hawk had collapsed.
There was silence as Hawk twitched and suffered for a few moments (which would feel like eternity) for the poisoned man, before finally passing out and ending his own suffering. Naruto leaned down to the man, even though he was passed out, and whispered into his ear.
Nobody would ever hear this, but it needed to be said.
"You almost killed children, and turned the children of these people into orphans... consider yourself lucky... next time I catch you... you won't wake up... ever."
"Fuck, that was intense," Midnight said once she snapped out of her shock. "I'll say you really know how to make a convincing bluff kid, I almost believed you were gonna kill them for a second."
"That wasn't a bluff sensei," Setsuna stated bluntly, getting the adult rated heroine, and everyone else, to look at the detached head in shock. "If they ignore his warning then he will kill them, no question about it. In fact there is a solid twenty five percent chance they could have died just now... a hundred percent if there had been a dead kid on that bus."
"…You're kidding right?"
Turning her head as best she could, Setsuna stared the adult rated heroine right in the eye with a completely blank and humorless expression on her face. "Do I look like I'm kidding?"
At this, the room's attention shifted to Naruto himself, who'd been oddly silent during the whole exchange.
"...Don't stare at me like that, don't murder kids in front of me, and I most likely won't murder you... I'm NOT a hero like you guys, I don't have a no killing rule."
And like that everyone but Mirko quickly diverted their gazes again, none of them wanting to incur the whiskered teen's suddenly very scary wrath.
With that said, Naruto stood up and waved to everyone on the bus, who were cheering him.
"He's a hero!"
"Now, now, I'm no hero... I'm just your friendly neighborhood Peni Parker..." Naruto even made a cute pose to go with the statement, before he laughed at his own joke. "You see, this is the part when a giant robot crashes next to the bus, and I make my escape in a robot... this would be that part, but this isn't Marvel... so instead, I'm just going to have to make my wonderful villain escape." Naruto exclaimed loudly to everyone who could hear him.
'And just like that, the mood is back to normal.' Midnight thought, the tension shattered and everyone relaxing upon the masked blonde speaking in his usual jovial tone. Although there was still a distinct edge of unease left over as several kept eyeing Naruto warily.
Naruto jumped out of the bus just as Mirko came crashing through the window.
"I was wondering how long it'd take you to show up, ribbit." As she spoke, Tsuyu grabbed the corner of the webbing covering Mirko's mouth and, after getting a nod from the bunny, ripped it clean off.
"Ow! Trying to rip my lips off too?" The bunny heroine asked sarcastically, licking her lips as they throbbed tenderly. "But that is a good question, why did I-"
"You bastard, how dare you paralysis me! It is ONE thing to steal my clothes and my heart, but stealing MY JOB, you've crossed the line little man! I'm the hero, you're the villain, and I'm going to... oh shit." Mirko realized not only was Naruto not in the bus anymore, but people were recording her with their phones, and a news reporter was getting on the bus. They had just recorded her admitting to something that was very bad for her.
"…Fuuuuuuuuuuuck…" If she had been capable of moving, Mirko would have smashed her head into a wall repeatedly as she bore witness to her counterpart blabbing about their infatuation literally right in front of the press. Of course that was nothing compared to the big teasing grin that spread across Midnight's face as she knit her fingers together.
"So much for keeping it on the down low, huh Mirko?"
"Go fuck yourself hag."
"Ah, ah, that's future mother-in-law to you, musume."
"Oh will you stop with that already!?"
"Never."
Whilst those two continued to toss insults and jabs at each-other, neither noticed a red cheeked Naruto palming his face as Setsuna smiled cheekily. "Shut it."
"I'm not saying anything~." She stated in a sing-song tone.
Meanwhile, a certain Class Rep was practically going rabid in his pink confines as he ranted and raved incomprehensibly, causing Momo to roll her eyes. "Seriously Iida, could you please calm down already? Nobody can understand what you're saying."
Mirko looked down on the floor, and saw a piece of paper.
For leaving me behind earlier, I leave you with this mess to clean up.
Any humiliation you face, will be your fault, so don't go saying anything I wouldn't say.
Love, your sexy little villain Kurama.
"Son of a bitch... he played me like a fiddle... I fucking love that man." Mirko growled to herself when she realized this was the ass she was in love with.
"Yes! Mi-ra-ma! Mi-ra-ma! Mi-ra-ma!" Mina cheered, with Setsuna and even Midnight joining in after a moment whilst a blushing Mirko groaned again and Naruto palmed his face.
"Oh my…" A light blush spread across Momo's cheeks as she cupped her mouth.
"Isn't he your boyfriend?" Tsuyu asked Setsuna with a raised brow, getting her fellow greenette to nod as best she could. "Then why are you cheering for them, ribbit?"
"Because A: Them going at it sounds really hot, B: how many girls can boast their man got with a top ten heroine, and C: potential threesome with said heroine." The detached head admitted without even an ounce of shame before giggling when her now furiously blushing boyfriend swatted the top of her head. "Oh come on, you think it's just as hot as I do."
"Mirko, do you have any comments about your relationship with Kurama!?"
Damn did that villain know how to play people.
"Well maybe that'll teach you not to ignore the number one villain." Midnight said with a smirk as she patted Mirko's head like one would a puppy, only made more so when the whitette literally growled at the adult rated heroine.
-With Naruto (Later)-
"Sup Pop, you busy today?" Naruto asked as he jumped in through Pop Step's home window, and landed on her bed without a worry in the world. She yelped from her study desk, and stopped doing her homework. Naruto pulled his mask down, and the same with his hoodie, so that his face was revealed. "Whoops, your out of costume... you got any plans for today Kazuho?" Naruto asked her with her real name, and she turned to face him, holding her chest.
"You know Pop Step?" Setsuna demanded, Naruto having uncovered her mouth when the scene changed, before pouting. "Damn, now I wish I could ask you to get me her autograph…"
"Well, you know her real name and address now, so you could just ask for one yourself." The whiskered blonde pointed out, only for the head on his lap to scoff.
"And come off as some creepy stalker? No thank you."
"Yeah… creepy stalker… totally bad…" Mina parroted nervously, mentally scratching off her own plans that she'd been concocting to do just that.
He nearly gave her a heart attack!
"The fuck is wrong with you Ku-" Kazuho stopped herself. "-the FUCK is wrong with you Naruto!? Yes, I'm super busy, I've got a buttload of homework!"
"Are we talking your definition of buttload, or mine... because you have plenty of ass to go around... sorry, sorry, still in Kurama-mode." Naruto mentioned when she threw a pillow at him. It took him a minute to stop making pervy jokes, since part of his Kurama persona, was making perverse jokes. She threw another pillow at him, and he let it hit him in the face. "Okay, I get it... anyway, wanna hold a concert tonight?" Naruto asked her with a grin on his face.
A snort escaped Setsuna's lips as she looked up at her boyfriend with a knowing look. "Don't you even try to blame that on 'Kurama-mode', you're a total ass man and you know it."
"Setsuna… you don't have to say that out loud…" The whiskered blonde muttered with a dry look which just made the dividing girl snort once more.
"What? You're not exactly hiding it considering you've been gro-ow!" Setsuna cut herself off when she yelped midsentence for seemingly no reason. However, the more astute of the group would notice a subtle tensing in the muscles of Naruto's arm that was still wrapped around the girl's body. "Alright, alright, point taken, I'm stopping."
Beating Mirko was putting him in a good mood.
"Can't, I've got homework, and a lot of it. As much as I want to do that, I have to make my parents happy, or they will ground me." Kazuho stated to him, and Naruto's smile vanished from his face.
Right, she had parents that she had to please.
Naruto's smile returned to his face as he shrugged and walked backwards towards the window, putting his hoodie and mask back on. If he couldn't do something with Kazuho because of her homework, then he would just go and find a hero he could have some more fun with or something. He needed to take his mind off of family stuff anyway.
"See ya later then Pop, text me later... and when you do, be sure to do something for me." Naruto sat on the edge of the window, and started to lean backwards. "Send nudes."
"Perv!"
"Pfft! Hahaha, that was a good one!" Midnight doubled over in her seat from giggles at the mortified look on the Idol's face. "Ten out of ten for delivery, timing, and presentation."
"Yeah, now if only he'd given a certain bunny the same offer," Mina said with a wide grin, wiggling her eyebrows playfully as she spoke. "Then we might have gotten ourselves a show."
"Oh please, there is absolutely no way I… would… okay fine, yeah, I totally would have if I could." Mirko admitted quietly as everyone, even Tenya, looked at her disbelievingly when she tried to deny the accusation.
Naruto backflipped out of the window when a pillow went flying after him, a grin on his face under his mask. He had to wonder what hero he was going to mess with this time, since not a lot of heroes in this area were anything to write home about. Naruto jumped and landed on a house rooftop, before he started to hop from roof to roof with little difficulty.
Oh, he had the perfect target.
"Well, that was certainly an… interesting episode," Naruto muttered once the projection switched back to buffering mode again.
"You could say that again." Mirko said with a huff, her cheeks still a little red although it was quickly fading as Midnight grabbed one of her arms and peeled a glove off… "Wait, wha-" *Slap* "Oi! What the fuck?!" *Slap* "Stop that!" *Slap* "I said STOP!"
"No," The adult rated heroine stated bluntly, smirking vindictively as she kept slapping the rabbit heroine in the face with her own glove. "Consider this payback."
"For what?!" *Slap*
"Breaking my nose and almost breaking my wrist."
"Speaking of wrists," As she spoke, Tsuyu's tongue shot from her mouth and picked up Setsuna's hand off the floor once again before holding it up to Naruto. "Shouldn't we put Setsuna back together, ribbit?"
"Yeah, that'd probably be a good idea."
-End Chapter-
