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-Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quicky Villian-
-Chapter 15, Part Two-
"Just a little to the left," Naruto said as he placed Setsuna's head back in its rightful place on her neck, gently twisting it side to side until it was perfectly lined up. "And done, how does that feel?"
"Seems alright, I think you got it this-oh wait." The dividing girl started to say, only to correct herself midsentence when everything seemed to start sliding forward. Then, with a dramatic sigh, her head flopped right back down into Naruto's lap, leaving her face first in the blonde's crotch.
Meanwhile, Tsuyu was working on reattaching her fellow greenette's hand, holding the detached limb and the wrist it belongs to together. However, as soon as she stopped and let go, they would separate again. "It looks like your poison is inhibiting her body's ability to reconnect itself, ribbit."
"Nh shfh sherfock," Setsuna mumbled into Naruto's pants, prompting the whiskered teen to pick her head up and prop it up properly. "No big deal though, just have to wait until the poison wears off then."
"Is that safe though?" A concerned Midnight asked, sipping from a large glass of pop with one hand while holding another one of carrot juice for Mirko. "I thought your pieces could only be separated for so long before complications occurred."
"If I'm moving around a lot or split up too much, but just laying around like this won't be an issue for at least a couple of hours." As she spoke, Setsuna wiggled her head as much as she could, snuggling herself deeper into Naruto's lap with a content sigh.
"…Alright, if you're sure," The adult rated heroine said with a shrug, deciding to take the girl's word since neither her or her boyfriend seemed concerned. Instead, she turned her attention back to the ensnared rabbit heroine beside as she took another sip of her drink. "Anyway, as I was saying, the Commission is getting way to prudish with costumes these days, right?"
"Don't I know it," Mirko muttered in exasperation, "I've lost count of how many 'requests' I've gotten about how I should cover more of my legs or that I should pad out my outfit. And they always try to make it sound like it's for our safety and totally not because they're tired of over nagging parents."
"Oh yeah, of course not."
"Hey… why are you two acting all buddy buddy all of a sudden?" Mina asked with a raised brow, her gaze flickering back and forth between the two pro-heroines in confusion. And for good reason considering that they'd been bickering and insulting each-other (and assaulting in Midnight's case with her glove slaps) just a few minutes ago.
Now they were just hanging out casually like nothing had happened.
"We decided to call a truce until the poison wears off," Shrugging again, Midnight picked up one of Mirko's arms and gave the floppy limb a shake as she spoke. "It's really not any fun messing around with her when she's basically a limp noodle like this."
"So what? You want her taking swings at you while mocking her?" The acidic pinkette asked, her brow rising even higher.
Instead of answering though, her art teacher simply smiled coyly before looking ahead, just in time for the Viewer to start playing again.
-All Might Headquarters-
"Whoa! What in the world?!"
"Huh?"
"Ribbit!?"
"Wha…."
"Mph!?"
Before the scene could even actually start, all the students in the room were stunned to see All Might appear on screen. The problem: He was in that scrawny bone form that they thought was from him being poisoned, and yet he was obviously NOT poisoned since he was walking around just fine still.
"Wow, uh… okay, why is All Might back to looking like Mighty Mummy?" Naruto asked once he got over the initial surprise, hitting the pause button so he could point at the scrawny number one hero. "I thought you guys said he only looked like that when I poisoned him."
"We… we thought it was…" Mina muttered, eyes wide in disbelief and confusion.
"Well obviously he's not so what gives?" This time it was Setsuna who spoke up, the bodiless head frowning as she waited for an answer. However, all she was met with was silence, which just made her scowl deepen.
Meanwhile, Midnight was doing her best to keep her expression schooled even as internally she was freaking out. ' SHIT! I should have known this was inevitably gonna come up again. Dammit, please just buy that it's a simulation. It's just a simulation and nothing more.'
"Hmm, maybe it's just his natural state whenever he's not using his quirk," Mei spoke up suddenly, cutting through the heroine's thoughts and getting the attention of the other students. "It would explain how All Might is able to go around off duty without anyone noticing him, would it not?"
"…I guess that could make sense, more than super weird allergic reaction anyway," Momo muttered with a tiny nod after mulling the theory over for a bit. "Maybe we could ask him about it later, or would he find that too intrusive?"
"Probably," Tsuyu said with a shrug. "You could talk to Izuku about it when he and Ochaku, he knows more about All Might than almost anybody ribbit."
"True-"
"Alright, enough fucking questions, lets just watch already." Mirko cut in irritably, glaring at the duo in annoyance as they fell silent.
"Aaaaaaah... I hope that Young Midoriya doesn't have to go through this much of the hassle I do when he becomes great." All Might stated as he went towards the mini fridge in his office, hidden under his desk.
"Midoriya? Midoriya? Where have I heard that name before?" Mirko mumbled to herself as she rubbed her chin thoughtfully before snapping her fingers. "Oh right, now I remember, the broccoli fanboy who kept fainting. Why'd All Might be talking about that squirt?"
"All Might-sensei has always had a soft spot for Izuku for some reason, ribbit." Tsuyu stated, getting her fellow 1-A students to nod in agreement.
"No kidding, he's always inviting him to join him for lunch or pulling him aside for a pep talk or just making sure he's doing okay," Mina listed off with a giggle. "Although with how huge an All Might fan Izuku is, I'm surprised he can even speak straight whenever the big man himself gets within fifty feet of him."
He opened it up, and grabbed a fresh new jug of milk. He sat back up in his desk, and was about to pour himself a glass of milk.
...
Before that though, All Might pulled out a small poison detector that he just bought this morning and placed it into the milk jug. Since Kurama's poison couldn't be detected through taste alone in its lower doses, and since the human body had trouble creating antibodies to poisons, he needed to be extra sure this milk wasn't poisoned. Kurama's poison was only ever used against heroes in non-lethal doses, meaning that Kurama could always change the dosage to match any resistance that they could form to it.
"Smart," Shoto stated. "Although it would probably been a good idea to add a lock or maybe hidden camera to be safe."
"You think little doodads like that could keep him out any better than UA's entire security grid?" Mei asked with a raised brow, getting the scarred boy to blink.
"Ah… fair point…"
All Might smiled widely as the poison detector went off, and shined a green light, showing there was no poison in the milk.
"Aaaaaah, a nice glass of cold milk, just a wonderful way to relax!" All Might poured himself a cup of milk, and swallowed large mouthfuls of it.
"Hmmm, I could go for a glass of milk right now." Momo mumbled to herself as she licked her lips, wishing she could get up and get herself a glass. However her brow soon rose in confusion when Mina started laughing out of the blue. "What? What's so funny?"
"Oh nothing," The acidic pinkette said with the best straight face she could manage… which was fooling absolutely nobody, before quickly bursting and exclaiming. "Just that with a chest like yours I think you've got enough milk already!"
"What? What are you…" The ravenette started to ask, only to trail off midsentence when the metaphoric lightbulb lit up and she glanced down at her more than modest chest dully. "Oh real mature Mina."
"Oh, you didn't drink that milk did you?"
"Kurama!"
All Might super quickly entered his usual large, muscular form in the blink of an eye, when Kurama made himself known, sitting on the ceiling with a grin visible under his mask.
"You know, I really wish I could say I was surprised he got the drop on All Might…" Midnight said with a sigh as she shook her head in amusement.
Naruto just waved down at All Might, and before the man could throw so much as a punch, he collapsed down to his knees as his body became skeletal and super skinny, his muscles vanishing as quickly as they appeared.
"Wait wha…" And just like that the adult rated heroine's humor was replaced by shock.
Naruto chuckled to himself as he landed on All Might's desk, and picked up the glass of milk, finishing off the milk himself, drinking it through his mask.
"Aaaaaah, milk, a great way to relax after beating the Number 1 Hero for the third time." Naruto put the cup down upside down on All Might's desk.
"But... the milk didn't have any poison in it." All Might didn't fret about Kurama doing anything really evil. Other than being a prankster, he seemed just like a kid that wanted attention. All Might wasn't worried about his true form being seen either, since this was the third time that Kurama had seen this form, and his secret was still not known to the public. Kurama never told anyone, so it was safe to assume he had no plans. "I made sure to buy a poison detector so that this doesn't happen anymore."
"Yeah, he just checked that the milk wasn't poisoned, so how?" Mirko muttered, her brow furrowing in confusion.
"Hmm," Rubbing her chin, a mixture of a croak and a hum escaped Tsuyu's lips as her gaze flickered over the scene. "Perhaps he poisoned All Might beforehand ribbit. It wouldn't be the first time he used a delayed reaction to catch people off guard."
Naruto wiped his finger around the edge of the glass.
"Didn't poison the milk though, I poisoned the rim, so when your lips touched it, you got poisoned. You've got a lot of nice stuff here, what do you think I should make a trophy." Naruto got off of his desk and started to walk around the room with his hands behind his back, looking at the hero suits that were hung up on the wall.
"Oh, I remember that trick, you used it on that quirksist teacher back in middle school." Setsuna said as both her and Naruto started to snicker.
"Hahaha yeah, that was a good one."
"You two do realize you just admitted to poisoning a teacher and using a quirk illegally in front of Pro Heroes, right?" Shoto pointed out with a raised brow while pointing to Mirko and Midnight.
However Naruto just waved the scarred boy off with a shrug as he gently scratched the top of his girlfriend's head, much to her enjoyment. "I didn't use my poison, I used good ol fashioned super lax. And that guy had it coming anyway."
"Yeah, he was-oh, little more in the middle- the jerk was intentionally failing anyone with an animal-based quirk because they were 'too uncivilized for society'. Thank God he got fired." Setsuna added, sticking her tongue out in distaste while she spoke.
Naruto looked at a framed photo that was sitting there as well. "So this is what Young Might looks like... this woman is pretty, and she's got a nice smile."
"My Master, a wonderful hero... just like you could be if you applied yourself." All Might spoke from his position on the floor.
"She is pretty, reminds me of Kaa-san a little." Naruto said while Setsuna nodded… or at least it looked like she was trying to nod. Hard to tell considering she was a mostly paralyzed head on his lap.
Nope, still couldn't move, despite trying to.
Speaking of being able to move or not, Mirko's face scrunched up in focus as she tried her hardest to move anything. "Oh hey, I think I can move my hand again."
"Well…" Taking a peek at the limb in question, Midnight saw one of her pinkies twitching a little. "I wouldn't really call that moving-"
All of a sudden Mirko's arm jerked to the side and whapped against Momo's waist, causing said girl to cry out in shock and pain as she flopped over sideways.
"…And I stand corrected."
"Owwww! What was that for!?" An upset Momo demanded as Tsuyu helped her back up, the ravenette glowering at the whitette once she was back in view. Meanwhile, the frog girl carefully lifted the hem of her classmate's shirt to see a red mark forming on her torso but otherwise nothing serious.
"I didn't do on purpose, my arm just moved on its own." Mirko said defensively, glancing down at said arm to find it dangling at her side with just the pinkie moving once more.
"Probably a muscle spasm, it happens occasionally when the poison starts wearing off," Naruto added with a shrug before chuckling as he added. "Besides, I think you've got enough padding to take a little smack like that Muffintop."
"…M-Muffintop?" The creation quirked girl repeated, her cheeks gaining a light red color which only grew deeper when a few others snickered at the nickname.
"Not interested in hero stuff. Hero beats the villain and saves the day, you hear a ton of stories about that. What about a villain who doesn't lose, and makes fun of people, now that is a fun story to see in the news." Naruto stated as he grabbed one of the costumes from the wall, and held it up to All Might. "You mind if I take this?"
"Will me saying yes change anything?"
"I mean, I'm taking it either way." Naruto admitted as he started to fold it up and put it into his backpack. He just thought he would be formal and ask, since All Might was a great hero.
"Sure, being all nice and polite while robbing the number one hero of Japan after poisoning him for at least the third time now," Even with her naturally stoic expression, thesheer amount of sarcasm dripping from Tsuyu's words was palatable to even the densest person. "Never did I think I'd ever state a sentence like that with a straight face, ribbit."
"So, how is the school taking my little prank?" Naruto asked as he packed up what he was taking, and went over to put the milk jug up for All Might. He didn't want it to get warm after all, room temp milk was gross.
All Might was sure this was the weirdest conversation he would ever have with a villain.
"I wouldn't say that just yet, my foxy toad has a habit of finding ways to one up himself even when he isn't trying," Setsuna said while sighing nostalgically. "Like on our second date, you did not pull any stops with that one."
Chuckling softly, Naruto lifted his girlfriend's head up to eye level so he could give her a quick peck on the cheek. "Of course not, I was trying to impress the prettiest girl in Japan after all."
"Oh Naru," The greenette mumbled, her cheeks gaining a soft blush as she giggled even harder while she was set back down in the blonde's lap. "Why do you always have to be so corny?"
"Because it makes you laugh which is always a delight for me." Naruto said while going back to petting the top of her head, earning a soft appreciative hum from Setsuna as she nuzzled into his grasp as much she could.
"So, what did you guys do?" Mina asked when neither of them elaborated further, her nagging curiosity needing to be satisfied. And she wasn't the only one as everyone aside from Mei turned their gazes towards the loving couple.
"Oh, we went to McDonalds."
…
…
"…Seriously?" Mirko asked, the deepest deadpan even forming on the bunny heroine's (Along with everyone else's) face when Naruto nodded and Setsuna hummed in agreement. "Your super second date… was McDonalds?"
"Yep, we got two Super McSpecials, a couple double whoppers, a happy meal, and an extra-large Frappe to share," The dividing teen casually listed off with a smile, which only made the trapped heroine's deadpan grow as she and the others turned back to the screen with a grumble. However, had they been paying closer attention, they'd seen the saucy smirk that crossed Setsuna's lips as she added. "Had to make sure we had lots of food in our bellies before we went to Gentilezza dell'Italia."
For a second Naruto could almost swear he heard a record scratch as every girl, aside from Mei again, froze.
"Did you just say Gentilezza dell'Italia? As in THE Gentilezza dell'Italia, one of the nicest hotels of the Musutafu Province?" Mina asked with wide eyes, getting the bodiless head to smile cheekily. "Jeez, no wonder you guys only went to McDonalds first…"
She'd have to save up at least two months worth of her allowances to stay the night there, and that wasn't even counting things like the cost for room service or if you wanted one of the higher tier suites. Just thinking about how much that'd cost made her want to make sure her money wasn't being sucked away from her wallet somehow.
"Yep, cheap but filling, and with what Naru had planned we needed all the energy we could get," Setsuna said, her grin only growing wider as she glanced up at her boyfriend. "Isn't that right, Foxy Toad~?"
"Indeed my reptilian vixen, indeed." The whiskered blonde said with a chuckle.
"Okay we get it, you two went there to fuck, no need to drag it out," Mirko stated dryly, causing Naruto's cheeks to gain a red hue while Setsuna just kept smiling unashamedly. "If you're done gloating about your sex life, back to the show."
"Fine, fine, spoil my fun…" The greenette grumbled in faux irritation, her smirk never wavering.
"Wondering how you entered the school, and were able to destroy the cameras."
"Oh, that was easy. You've got a traitor in Class 1-A, your traitor was more than happy to sneak me into the school and tell me where your cameras were." Naruto lied with extreme ease, and he did it in a way that left no doubt that he was telling the truth. All Might froze up when he heard that there was a traitor among the students, and the way he froze up showed Naruto that his lie had been believed.
"Oh man," Mina groaned once she realized what Kurama was doing. "Now we're all gonna be in hot water for his antics…"
Naruto turned to hide the grin on his masked face.
Now, whenever Kurama pulled a prank on the school, the school would investigate one of the hero students. That would take the pressure off of him, considering he already created an alibi for himself anyway.
"Why are you telling me about a traitor?" All Might asked with a frown on his face.
Naruto turned to look All Might in the eyes.
"Because, isn't it really fun that I know who the traitor is, and you don't. Now, you know about a traitor, and I get to laugh that you have no clue who it is. My friend is a really good spy, so even if you investigate... you won't find a thing... funny huh?" Naruto asked as he tapped All Might's forehead, and he increased the poison dosage a little, since he noticed All Might regain some use of his fingers. All Might cursed under his breath when his ability to move was stripped from him again.
"That is quite clever of him," Mei said while fiddling with another of her immobilizing grenades. "He has everyone looking around for a spy that doesn't exist while keeping to his playful antics, so even those that don't believe him will likely suspect he's lying about which class the supposed spy is in at most."
"You're so talented... what would your parents say if they learned this is how you use your talents."
...
Mood. Killed.
Everyone in the room couldn't help but wince at that one as they saw Kurama's expression instantly sour even through his mask.
'What is with everyone and parents today?' Naruto stopped having fun and walked over towards the window, opening it up and jumping out without any hesitation. He was getting a little sick of being reminded of parentage today. Naruto felt the wind rush over him as he free fell, he might as well make his way home, since it wasn't like there was much else he could do today.
Today was less fun than he wanted his first day off of school to be.
Naruto slowed his fall by touching the side of the building, before he gently landed on the concrete sidewalk. People around were shocked when they saw him land, but he jumped onto the nearest moving car and started to surf on the traffic without much of a thought on where he was going to go next.
"Hehe… that reminds me of when your mom took us roller skating when we were little, doesn't it?" Setsuna asked rhetorically as she looked up at the whiskered blonde, obviously trying to change the subject.
"I remember you lost a foot because you wanted to prove that you could skate on just one leg." The whiskered blonde stated with a wry chuckle.
Smiling proudly, the greenette wiggled in her boyfriend's lap as her body puffed it's chest out a little bit. "Hey, I did it, didn't I?"
"Villain Kurama!"
"Mph-mmph!? Mmmph!"
"Seriously Iida, nobody can understand you." Mina muttered dully when the trapped teen tried yelling something again.
"Be nice Mina, I think he's just excited to see his brother in action again." Momo said with a stern look, causing the acidic teen to wince a little.
"Oh… right…"
"Oh, sup Ingenium... going for a run?" Naruto asked when he saw Ingenium running next to the car he was riding on top of. He hadn't committed a crime in this area to get a hero called on him... well, nobody would have known about the All Might thing just yet.
"Sorry, I can't play around with you, there is motorcycle gang terrorizing the elderly home. Have a pleasant day though!"
With that, Ingenium started to run on his way in front of the car, without a second's delay. Naruto frowned when he realized that this was the second, third counting All Might, that kind of blew him off today. All Might didn't have the choice, but the way he was talked to during that, suggested that All Might didn't consider him to be a serious villain. Naruto laid down on top of the car when he realized that everyone was... kind of used to him. At least the heroes were mostly used to him at this point, the ones that regularly dealt with him.
"Or in other words, they've all realized he's basically no real danger and decided he's not worth the trouble of chasing around," Midnight said with a giggle. "At least until they eventually hear what he did with the last hero who decided NOT to chase him."
As she spoke, the adult rated heroine looked towards Mirko and wiggled her eyebrows while the rabbit heroine grumbled sourly under her breath.
'Bullshit... just because I don't threaten innocent lives, doesn't make me any less of a villain than those other guys.' Naruto thought to himself with frustration.
"Do you mind signing this for me!?"
A teenage boy shouted as he stuck his head out of the car and showed a notebook to him. Naruto grabbed it and signed it, before handing it back to the boy. Naruto got up, and jumped off of the car, before landing on top of a truck that was changing into a different direction.
Naruto perked up when he heard the loud flapping of wings, and saw Ryukyu.
"How much you wanna bet she ends up ignoring him too?" Mina asked Tsuyu, getting the frog girl to shake her head with a soft croak.
"Too obvious."
Naruto jumped after her, going from car to car quickly, until he caught up with her and jumped higher. Landing on top of her neck, she blinked and turned her long neck back to face him.
"Kurama? Sorry, but I don't have time to chase you, just go and return whatever you stole okay?"
"Aaaaaah, not going to chase your favorite villain? I could really use another trophy from you, miss number 9." Naruto mocked her a little, and she just shook her head and neck, trying to knock him off of her. Naruto ended up just letting go of her, and landing on the ground in a park.
"I'll chase you when I have free time, so behave yourself!"
"God, it's like nobody has any time today. I might as well go mess with Endeavor or something, he's a hoot to mess with." Naruto would have to travel a bit to go to where Endeavor was located, but at least he was sure he would get Endeavor to chase him easily enough.
"Threat or not, he will want to burn him to a crisp after humiliating him so thoroughly." Shoto stated with a nod, knowing how obsessed his father could get with someone who slighted him that badly. Had it been a simple escape like the other heroes it wouldn't have been so bad since everyone was failing ot catch him. But after one upping him and beating All Might so easily?
It wouldn't matter if Kurama was a 'harmless' villain or not, Endeavor would hunt him down with everything he had just to prove he was the top dog again.
Naruto sighed to himself.
Naruto blinked when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye, looking towards the alley, Naruto walked. He could have sworn he felt a shiver go down his spine, and see somebody hiding in the alley.
"Psssst... over here."
Naruto saw a petite hand gesturing for him behind one of the turns in the alley, and Naruto knew it would be a bad idea for him to go and follow where the hand was pointing to. It was starting to get dark, and a lot of weirdos started to come out at this time. Now, it was an extremely bad idea to follow the hand, but Naruto also was extremely curious about who the hand belonged to. Somebody had seen him, and decided to hide away from him in an alley instead of talk to him. Not to mention the heroes today had been really boring.
This seemed kind of fun.
"…Is anyone else hearing horror music?" Mei asked with a raised brow, looking up from her project in confusion.
"You aren't going to stab me if I go over there, are you?" Naruto called out into the darkness.
"You would look cute cut up."
"Cool, honesty, points for that." Naruto grinned and started to walk deeper into the alley.
"Seriously? Creepy voice admits she wants to stab you and you follow it more?" If she could have Mirko would have facepalmed when the real Naruto just shrugged. "…And you call me the idiot."
At least the person was being honest about the fact that they were going to try and stab him. "So, I'm-"
"Kurama... I know everything about you."
"And she's a stalker too, even better."
"I get it cottontail, not my other self's brightest move." The whiskered blonde rolled his eyes. "Excuse me for having a sense of curiosity."
"More like a lack of common sense at times," Setsuna stated teasingly, earning herself half hearted poke to the cheek. "But yeah, you guys worry too much, Naruto basically has eyes in the-"
"Creepy, and rude." Naruto turned the corner, and saw nobody was in that part of the alley, raising an eyebrow, Naruto walked further into the alley. "Super fan." Naruto stated, and oddly enough, he wasn't feeling anyone around. Naruto blinked when he felt pain though.
He felt pain slash through his back.
"Of course I know everything about you, you're like the coolest. I like you... I wanna be you!"
A boxcutter tore through the back of Naruto's shoulder, and he jerked away from the girl that had dropped out of nowhere. Naruto grabbed onto his shoulder and jumped away from her.
"Holy shit!" Setsuna's eyes went wide she jerked in Naruto's lap while said boy nearly jumped out of his seat in surprise. They weren't the only ones either as a startled Tsuyu flicked her tongue out, Mina, Mirko, and Momo gasped, Shoto snapped up a hand with a layer of frost, and Midnight reached for her flogger. "Where did she come from?!"
"No idea but damn, she even got the jump on me." Naruto muttered, wincing in sympathy for his counterpart when he saw the bleeding gashes left behind. Those wounds weren't life threatening or anything for a toad quirked guy like him, but they would certainly sting like a bitch.
'The fuck!? Dropping in out of nowhere, and taking people by surprise is MY thing... and how the hell didn't I sense her? It's like she wasn't even there?' Naruto thought as he kept his eyes on the girl. She didn't chase him though, she looked at his blood that was dripping off of her boxcutter, and letting it drip on her face. Other than her freaky grin and super sharp canines, she was pretty cute, wearing a high school girl's uniform, and her hair done up in messy buns.
Her face and eyes gave off a very "vampire" vibe with the way she was looking at his blood so lovingly.
"I was totes right, you look cooler when you're bleeding. You never bleed when you fight heroes, so I wasn't sure how you would look bloody. I followed you, and followed you, and followed you, and followed you, and followed you, and followed you, and followed you-" The girl kept on repeating it as she started to lick the boxcutter that had his blood on it, letting the blood smear on her lips. "-... but you never bled."
"Okay, that's totally a yandere and you should really start running. Like right now." Mina stated dead seriously, no trace of humor in the normally jovial pink pinkette's voice. If television had taught her anything it was that when a creepy stalker schoolgirl with a knife took an interest in you then it did not end well. Ever.
"I'm with her," Setsuna muttered, her eyes focused on the masked whiskered blonde on the screen in concern. "Make like a bad meme and GTFO of there already before that girl turns you into her next love shrine idol."
Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"You know, it's really my thing to be a sneaky little villain... don't steal my thing."
"But Naruto-chan, I've been following since your first year is middle school. Don't you remember me?"
...
"I honestly can't say I've ever seen you before." Naruto was now alarmed when his real name was used. Only 3 other people were suppose to know who he was. The guy who paid Giran and gave him clothes, Giran, and Pop Step knew who he was for real. Nobody else was suppose to have that information. "... You've been stalking me for 3 years?" Naruto asked when he stood up straighter, never taking his eyes off her once.
She was blocking the only exit.
Wait, he was being stupid.
"YOU CAN JUMP YOU IDIOT! JU-mph!" Setsuna's shout was cut off when Naruto clapped a hand over her mouth. However that didn't stop the divided greenette from continuing to rant frantically into the blonde's palm.
"Whoa, chill out Setsuna-chan," He said while gently scratching her head again. "It's just a video, no need to completely lose your shit over."
Thankfully, this managed to snap some sense into his girlfriend and she soon calmed down, taking a few deep breaths through her nose before he uncovered her mouth again. "Sorry about that, guess I kind of-"
"Please don't say it."
"-Lost my head there." Setsuna finished despite the blonde's plea, grinning cheekily when she got another jab to the cheek for the terrible pun.
"Of course I have, I really, really, really like you. I wish I knew where you lived now... you're not in the orphanage anymore, and I really miss watching you sleep. You've got a really cute sleeping face." She spoke with her grin splitting her face almost literally as she gave him crazy eyes to match them. Naruto used a free hand to reach back, and he traced the size of the slash wound.
Fuck, it was a good 7 inches in length easy, and it was bleeding pretty heavily, thanks to his Toad Quirk, the bleeding would stop before it got dangerous. His healing slightly faster thanks to the nature of his Quirk, but the fact remains that he was bleeding a lot, and a wound like this would still need to be treated.
"Who are you, and how did you sneak up on me?" Naruto asked her with narrowed eyes.
' That's a good question.' Many in the room unknowingly thought in sync, all of them curious how this girl had somehow managed to get past Kurama's senses.
The answer would decide his reaction to her.
"Oh, when I hold my breath, and clear my mind, it's like I don't even exist. I'm Himeko Toga... call me Hime-chan." Himeko introduced herself as she got into a fighting position, and started to eye his body. She looked for the next part of his body that she wanted to cut. "I've been trying to hold back for years... it's been so hard not being my real self. I know almost everything about you... like how, thanks to your Quirk, you've sadly stopped bleeding already." Himeko couldn't hold herself back anymore.
"So basically she just wills herself not to be noticeable? Well that's not terrifying or annoying at all to imagine dealing." Midnight muttered under her breath sarcastically while Mirko, the only one to hear her, hummed in agreement. If even Naruto, a guy perpetually aware of basically everything around him, couldn't sense her coming with that trick neither of them liked the odds of if they could either.
She chose this alley, when she saw the news report Naruto was in this area, and this place was close to where All Might's building was. She knew that he had to be getting fed up, it was in his nature to be an attention hog. He would naturally go crazy, and she would admit, her plan required a lot of luck to work.
"So, you don't know where I live now... oh thank god." Naruto sighed in relief, before he jumped when she got in close and her boxcutter bit into his chest. He dodged most of it, but across his right pec, he got a light cut that stung like hell. She swung a second time quickly, far too quickly for his liking. "Hey now, I don't hit girls... also... OW!" Naruto jumped out of her reach and rubbed his bleeding chest, stopping the bleeding.
She nearly licked his blood again.
"... You put poison on my boxcutter, you let me cut you that time... you're so nice to let me do that."
Naruto's lips curled into a frown when Toga called out his criminal counterpart instantly. ' Damn, she does know me good.'
"I was hoping you would lick the boxcutter again... well, that plan is out. Can't believe I'm about to do this... today just isn't my day... you might be sneaky... but I have one advantage over you that will end this." Naruto grinned under his mask, since she was blocking the only normal exit.
Normal exit.
"Hmmm?"
"Toad Quirk! I can jump!" Naruto shouted as he jumped high enough to scale the entire building, and landed on top of it. He looked at her down below, before he jumped over several buildings and started to make his escape. The rapid movements allowing him to cross a larger distance than she would be able to cross. "I was right though, that was exciting... also... I hope this is my only stalker. I don't think my heart can take this stress." Naruto held his chest, since he was pretty sure he was going to be having nightmares tonight.
That girl was freaky.
"Now that's an understatement if I heard one." A shiver ran down Momo's back just thinking about how easily the girl had-
"You didn't think you would escape me that easy, did you?"
Shit!
"How, and why... but most importantly... STOP stabbing me!" Naruto felt the boxcutter go across his back again. He might have a Toad quirk, but he didn't feel like being dissected today or any day. Himeko had followed him to the top of the rooftops, how he didn't know, and had thrown a boxcutter into his back, before she pulled it out herself.
…Done exactly that.
"Great… so she's crazy, stabby, smart, and surprisingly athletic to boot, sounds like you got yourself the full Yandere Stalker package." Mina stated as she glanced at the 'real' Naruto with a mixture of amusement and sympathy, hoping to lighten the mood a little. Sure, this wasn't actually happening to him, but she could imagine that it was still a tad uncomfortable for him to see himself getting beaten and sliced up so easily.
Whether it did anything or not she wasn't sure though as the blonde simply continued to watch the projection while petting his girlfriend's head.
"But I want you to bleed more!"
This bitch was crazy!
-With Nemuri Later-
"Finally... got everything done today. Naruto likes to stay out a long time, so I can use this as a chance to start dinner, and run the bath." Nemuri stretched out her back. She had been stuck to her chair all day, grading homework, making test plans, and doing the paperwork for her hero activities. Not to mention she was going over the hours for the sidekicks that she had employed at her agency, so that they could be properly paid for their efforts.
"Hey! What the hell?!" Mirko exclaimed in frustration, a vein bulging on her forehead when the scene suddenly transitioned from Naruto's chase to Nemura's home out of the blue. "Go back you stupid hunk of junk! I wanna see what happened!"
"Boo! No skips!" "Go back!" Mina and Setsuna yelled as well, both annoyed by the abrupt cutaway as well.
"Hey! Don't you insult my baby!" An annoyed Mei shouted back with her eyebrow twitched a little as she gave all three of them a frustrated look.
"Then make it stop doing time-skips like that." The trapped rabbit heroine said, making the ever-tinkering pinkette huff and fold her arms.
"Even if I wanted to I can't, not without the remote that you broke."
She had a very busy day, hadn't really had much of a chance to do anything, but thankfully she would have some more free time for the near future.
She heard the sound of the door opening up.
"I'm home..."
"And look, there's your precious boy toy now, happy?"
"He's not my boy toy!" Mirko shouted, her face turning bright red while Mei just rolled her eyes and went back to tinkering.
"Yeah, unfortunately greenie over there beat her to it." Midnight just couldn't help herself as the quip left her lips before she knew it, earning herself an irritated glare from the immobilized pro-heroine as well.
"Welcome home Naruto, I was just about to make dinner. Any ideas on that?" Nemuri was stretching her legs out, since they had fallen asleep on her. She looked back at Naruto.
...
Naruto had a his left eye closed, with a long cut going across it, five cuts across his chest, no doubt a bunch on his back, his left arm had a boxcutter snapped off in it, the blade stuck in his arm, and his right arm was hanging limply at his side. His legs were undamaged, with almost all of the damage being on his upper body. None of the wounds were bleeding anymore, other than where the boxcutter was still shoved into his arm.
"Holy shit…" Those were only words that anyone could say or think upon seeing how bad the blonde's condition was.
"... I want ramen... I've had a really bad day."
"No shit!" Nemuri was on Naruto in a second as she grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him around to look at his back, which had easily a dozen wounds on it. His body looked like he had been put through a lawnmower, twice. None of the wounds were shallow either, and she didn't understand how he hadn't bled to death already. "Is your eye okay, what happened to you, who did this?" Nemuri asked him as she put her hands on his face and examined his eye.
She opened it up forcefully, and she saw with some relief his eye itself was okay, he wouldn't lose it. She looked down at his arm, and she grabbed the broken boxcutter, and pulled it out of his arm.
"Mmmmm!" Naruto held back the shout at that one.
"Naruto, who did this to you?"
"I got jumped... by a gang, there were like 16 of them... with boxcutters." Naruto was NOT going to admit that one girl was able to do this to him.
"Are you kidding me?" There was a loud smack as Midnight palmed her face. "You have psychotic and dangerously stealthy stalker who wants to stab you, that is not something you keep a secret just because your pride got bruised."
"Say that when you have to admit you got beat up by a teenage girl armed with only a box cutter." Naruto retorted without missing a beat, raising a brow as he stared down the pro-heroine challengingly.
The fact she was able to hide from him and his Quirk was freaky, and the fact that she was so quick and agile was worse because of her stealth abilities. He had never even known which direction she would come from, and whenever he took his eyes off her for even a second, it was like she vanished.
She was his Quirk's natural enemy, a person who his spacial awareness did not sense when they tried to sneak up on him.
"We should go report this to the police, and get you to a hospital. The people who did this to you need to be brought to justice. We can't let them get away with this, I won't let them get away with it. You should have called me the moment it happened Naruto, what if you had bled out?" Nemuri started to shake him on the shoulders. She gripped his shoulders hard, hard enough that her nails were digging into his skin.
She was really worried and angry.
"Oh my, you might want to ease up on him before you end up hurting him even more." Momo muttered, her face scrunching up in sympathy for the poor blonde. She may not look it at first glance but Midnight had a killer vice grip, something a few of her students had learned firsthand in past lessons.
"I'll be fine... the cuts aren't too bad, they'll heal soon enough... and because of my Toad Quirk, I won't even scar from it." Naruto wouldn't even get scars from his wounds. Only his pride would remain wounded, but now that he knew he had a stalker, and there was something that could get around his spacial awareness, he had something he could work on.
"How exactly did she kick his ass so easily anyway?" A confused Mina asked with a raised brow, "I mean sure she can avoid his fancy six sense, but it isn't that hard not to rely on it, right?"
This was a guy who had taken down scores of heroes, including the entire top ten at the same time, using nothing but his wits, quips, and a dash of poison. Surely he could have found a way to deal with one girl who got past his frog senses.
"Try to look at a room without using your eyes and you tell me," Naruto retorted dryly, making the acidic pinkette blink at the odd suggestion. "Besides, if miss stabs-a-lot had really been following me as long as she claims then no doubt she knew a lot more about me than just how to counter my 'six sense'."
"Oh right… crazy stalker, duh." That made a lot more sense, Toga probably knew every trick in the whiskered blonde's sleeves from following him. Which meant she most likely also knew how to counter all of his usual trump cards he would have used to pull his ass out of the fire.
"Speaking of," Tsuyu suddenly chipped in, gently tapping the blonde's shoulder to make sure she had his attention as she spoke. "I've been meaning to ask how you trained your spatial awareness. Was there any particular methods that helped improve upon in?"
"And what makes you think I have any idea about that?" Naruto asked back with a raised brow, which caused his fellow amphibian quirked teen to point at Mirko.
"You dodged her kick earlier perfectly, ribbit," She stated bluntly, "You had at most half a second to see the threat, realize what was happening, and react in time. If it was just you I would thought it was natural skill, but with Setsuna you had to adjust your balance too. No way someone without any training does that without stumbling at least a little bit."
…
A silence filled the room as everyone turned to Naruto, said blonde's lips curling into a frown as he seemed deep in thought.
After about a minute or so though he eventually just chuckled in a mixture of defeat and amusement while nodding his head. "Alright you got me there. I'll admit I may have gotten a few tips and lessons on how to better use my quirk over the years, mostly from my pervy godfather whenever he drops into town."
"Oh? Is your godfather a Pro-Hero?" Momo asked curiously, only to end up blinking in confusion when Naruto almost immediately burst into laughter. "What's so funny?"
"That ol perv a hero?! Pffft! Hahaha…. Oh I cant even say that with a straight face," The toad quirked teen chuckled out as he tried, and failed miserably, to get his amusement back under control. After about a minute or so he finally winded back down, idly wiping a tear from his eye as he settled back in his seat. "Oh man, sorry, it's just my godfather is definitely not a hero. In fact… he's actually a villain."
"…Say what now?" And that definitely got everyone's attention, especially Setsuna's as said girl's gaze snapped up to her boyfriend in disbelief. "Your godfather's a villain?"
"Yep."
"And you never told me?"
"Nope."
"You're gonna say I never asked if I ask why you didn't, aren't you?"
"Probably."
"Again, should you really be confessing this sort of stuff in front of pro-heroes and hero students?" Shoto asked with a raised brow while gesturing to the pair of heroines who were now paying very close attention to the blonde's every word.
However, Naruto seemed completely unconcerned as he just shrugged with a chuckle while leaning back in his seat. "Oh, and what exactly are any of you going to do? Track down some guy you've never even heard of and try to arrest him based solely on the word of a teenager?"
"He has a fair point." Midnight said as she relaxed while Mirko just nodded in agreement. Even if they were willing to believe the blonde's claim was legitimate, which both were admittedly inclined to, that still wouldn't amount to much. Considering Naruto was just some average kid whose parents ran an orphanage, it was laughably unlikely that anyone else would take him seriously, let alone actually want to waste valuable time investigating.
"Well, all of that aside," Croaking as she got the whiskered teen's attention again, Tsuyu started tapping her thumbs together a little nervously. "I was wondering if you would be willing to give me a few tips and pointers since we have such similar quirks. If it isn't too much of a bother that is, ribbit."
"Trust me... you do not want the training... you're a girl... and no, I'm not being sexist," Naruto said, adding the last part quickly when he saw the dirty looks he was already getting from the ladies in the room. "Trust me, unless you want to be naked in front of me, you don't want the training."
"Oh… uh, I see." Yeah, that definitely put a few dampers in Tsuyu's eagerness to learn from the boy, her cheeks lighting up a little just from the thought of being naked in front of the boy. Especially after the… ehem, singing incident not even half an hour ago.
So she wisely decided to let the matter drop for now and silently went back to watching TV.
"Naruto, we have to go to the police, and you need to be checked out... this isn't me asking you as Nemuri, I'm telling you as Midnight. What those boys-"
"Girl... it was a girl... just 1... I learned I have a stalker, and she surprised me. Anyway, I already took care of her." Naruto had to admit the truth of the gender and number, because he couldn't really afford to give the police a lie that would be so hard to believe. "Anyway... I already know who it was... Himeko Toga... I could really use a bowl of ramen and a bath right now."
"Oof, I could use some ramen now too." Naruto couldn't help but wince a little in sympathy for his counterpart having to suck up his already battered pride and spill the beans.
"At least you did beat her somehow apparently," Mina said, offering the boy a supportive smile, well used to the 'macho' nature of guys thanks to her friendship with her horn buddy Kirishima. After a moment though, her smile turned into a curious frown as she pondered something. "But that still begs the question on how you took her d-"
-With Himeko-
"Eheheheheh... he doesn't hit girls... that makes me special." Himeko whispered to herself as she recovered from the poison she suffered from. Naruto hadn't held back when he punched her in the face. Her nose was bleeding heavily, covering the lower half of her face in her own blood, her left eye was swollen shut, and she had a nasty bruise on her cheek. He had punched her in the face a few times, along with other parts of her body.
"-own. Holy shit!" The acidic teen swore when Toga appeared on screen again.
While everyone else was at a loss for words, Mirko gave an impressed whistle as she gave the battered stalker a once over. At just a glance she could tell that the girl definitely had a broken nose, probably a fractured jaw, and potentially a few cracked ribs if the way she was starting to cradle her side was to go by. "Damn kid, looks like you wrecked her shit just as much as she wrecked yours. Didn't think you had it in you considering how you never tried to fight back."
"Just because I don't like punching people doesn't mean I don't know how to when I need to." Was all Naruto said as he rolled his eyes.
"Still, not bad, for someone who supposedly couldn't punch a lady anyway." The rabbit heroine said with a teasing grin, making the toad quirked teen shake his head in exasperation.
"As I said before, there is a difference between can't and won't."
He never punched any of those dumb heroes, but he punched her... she was special, because she was the only person that he attacked. Himeko licked her own blood from her lips, and giggled to herself.
Out of everyone he took down, she was the only one he used violence against, and he did it oh so brutally too.
She really liked him!
"And all you did was make her more obsessed with you, because of course punching a stalker in the face makes her think you like her more." Real or not real, Setsuna did not like the idea of some crazy chick going around trying to stab her man.
-Back with Naruto-
"Yes... a young girl, blond hair, sharp canines, petite figure, high school age. Himeko Toga is her name. His wounds are stab and slash wounds, inflicted by a boxcutter. She admitted to stalking him for years... yes... yes... no, he doesn't know where she is now... thank you." Nemuri got off the phone moments later, since Naruto didn't want to personally visit the police. She let him go and run a bath, and since he had school tomorrow, she would make him visit the school nurse and have him get his cuts healed up by her.
"You didn't have to do this." Naruto mumbled to her.
She put her phone down.
"Yes, I did. You know how you take care of the orphanage children? Well, guess what, that is what I'm suppose to do for you. You're hurt, now strip down to your underwear while I go run a bath. I'm going to apply some basic first aid to make sure that you don't get an infection." Nemuri gave him his orders as she started to leave the room. Once she was done treating him, he was going to take a bath, and eat a good dinner, before going to bed early so that he could get a good night's rest in.
"Sounds about right to me." Midnight nodded in agreement, glad to see her counterpart taking charge like the mother she was supposed to be.
When Naruto stripped down and sat down, Nemuri came back into the room with a first aid kit.
'... I won the fight... but the fact she hurt me so much... the fact she stalked me for years... I've gotta learn how to feel when she is around.' Naruto thought as Nemuri started to clean the blood off his body to see what wounds were in the most need of cleaning. She winced every time he winced, and she looked to see a large wound that went above his heart.
"Seriously... you should have gone straight to the hospital and called me. You're really hurt, and your skin is cold... you've lost a lot of blood no doubt." Nemuri felt his pulse and how weak it was. The fact he was even up right now could only be because of his Quirk helping him out so much. If his Quirk wasn't a mutation-type, then he would have passed out and died by this point.
"Oof, nasty." Mina muttered as her face scrunched up once the blood was washed off to reveal the full extent of Naruto's injuries. And boy was it a lot worse than it looked at first, which was saying something considering he looked like shit to start with.
Even Mirko couldn't help but wince a little with a sympathetic hiss at all the nicks and cuts hidden underneath. ' Fucking hell, kid has more scratches on him than a scratching post.'
Naruto wished she would stop talking, because the more she talked, the worse he felt about this.
"I get it."
"Do you? Because I feel like you're going to ignore me, and the next time you get hurt, you won't ask anyone for help. You're young, and you need to learn that you don't have to handle everything alone. Also, sorry this is going to hurt a lot." Nemuri started as she started to dab ointment into the larger wounds, a green paste that would prevent the wounds from reopening in the bath."I'm going to have to put this stuff back on before you go to bed."
"It really stinks." Naruto had the smell of it overrun his nose, and he almost couldn't handle it.
"Good... sorry... I don't want to be harsh. I'm just really mad that this had to happen to you at all." Nemuri growled under her breath. She knew that because of her personal attachments to this case, she wouldn't be allowed to partake in it at all. It pissed her off that her new son had gotten so badly wounded, and she wasn't able to do anything but report it to the police and apply a minor heal to it.
"You know, I'm surprised you haven't called Recovery Girl over already," Mei said while twisting a few last screws into place on her latest side project, holding it up to her eyes for a closer look. After only a few seconds though, her lips curled into a frown before she started taking it back apart for some reason. "Shouldn't you have her on speed dial or something for emergencies like this?"
"Of course I do, however as much as I and my other self no doubt want to call her in right away it'd do Naruto better to rest and regain his strength for a bit first." Midnight stated, getting the tech savvy pinkette to raise an eyebrow curiously.
"Why would rest be more important than getting healed?"
"Because Recover Girl's quirk uses her patient's own energy to boost their healing," Momo answered before the adult rated heroine could. "And with how much blood Naruto lost and how hard he had to exert himself to get away from Toga he's too exhausted for her to do anything for him right away."
"Oh, okay yeah that makes more sense," Mei nodded in understanding before focusing back on her tinkering- *Pft-poof* "Gak!" …Just in time to get a face full of pink powder when a panel popped with a small. "Whoops, too much pressure on the compound mixer."
"Turn around." Nemuri told him, and he did as she told him.
The wounds on his back looked far worse than any of the others.
He wasn't going to be sleeping on his back for awhile, and bending over for anything would be a horrible experience for him. Nemuri started to apply the ointment to his back wounds, and she saw one that went from his lower hip into his underwear.
...
"She stabbed my ass."
...
"I promise I will not laugh at this." Nemuri maintained a professional tone, which Naruto gave her credit for.
"That'd be poor taste even for me to joke about, at least right away anyway." Setsuna said with a shake of her head.
Snorting, Naruto once more poked the greenette's cheek as he gave her a knowing look. "I give it a day till you make at least one pain in the ass crack."
"A whole day huh? Someone's feeling optimistic." The bodiless head said jokingly as she leaned back in the blonde's lap, before both teens broke into fits of laughter.
She applied the ointment to the injured area carefully, before she was done and rubbed the top of his head. "You take a nice, long, relaxing soak and I'll get some ramen cooked up. If you don't mind the instant stuff at least." Nemuri didn't have the stuff to make home cooked ramen, but she had enough of the instant to make a decent meal of it.
When Naruto left to take a bath, Nemuri growled and bared her teeth.
She knew she could not come face to face with this girl, or she would do something that she wasn't allowed to do as a hero. She would beat the girl within an inch of her life, and make her suffer for what she did. That was against her personal code, and excessive violence was against hero rules anyway, without good reason. Revenge did not constitute a good enough reason for excessive force though.
The frown on Midnight's lips deepened just a little more as she crossed her arms. ' Sometimes I really hate having to stay professional.'
"Nemuri."
"Yeah?" Nemuri asked when she saw him stick his head out of the bathroom.
"... Thank you." And just like that, his head went back into the door, and she just smiled to herself when she got a thanks. She didn't get those a lot, so she would value the fact that he appreciated what she was doing for him. That thank you sounded like it hurt him to say it, which meant he really did mean it. He did not want to tell her that, and did it anyway.
He told her he didn't hate her.
He also thanked her.
Even though there was a long way to go before he saw her as his family, she felt like she had taken a good step in the right direction with this.
"You're welcome."
' Well at least there's a little silver lining.' The adult rated heroine's dour mood lifted a little seeing her counterpart making progress with her adoptive son. It was slow going but still progress nonetheless and gave her a little more hope that the two would eventually get along like real family one day.
"Awww~ MaMidnight is totally becoming a thing." Meanwhile, Mina just couldn't help at the cuteness, glad for the change in mood.
-Next Day-
"This hurts more than actually getting stabbed does!" Naruto shouted out as he was given a big wet kiss by Recovery Girl, and his wounds were healing like they had never been there. But still, being given a healing kiss by an old granny, that didn't hurt his body. No, that hurt something worse, that hurt him right in his already damaged pride.
A shiver ran down Naruto, and almost everyone else's, spine at the sight of the dreaded granny kiss. Speedy healing or not, that did not seem like a pleasant experience that he wanted to go through anytime soon.
"Oh shut up you big baby, you're lucky you don't need surgery as well." Recovery Girl added, since his wounds could have easily required surgery as well as a healing were he somebody else. "So, you got yourself a stalker with a love for cutting. Most boys have to stop their girlfriends from cutting themselves. Not you though." Recovery Girl made a small joke at his expense to lighten the mood.
She offered him gummy bears moments later when his wounds were fully healed, and Naruto moved his arms around and twisted his back. He was a little sore, but otherwise, his wounds felt completely better.
"Haven't I suffered en- I don't need a gummy bear." Naruto pointed out when she practically pushed it towards his face. Naruto sighed and in the end took one of them, swallowing it with one bite.
"Don't even bother, she can be very insistent on giving people those gummies when she wants to be." Shoto stated matter of factly while his fellow students nodded and/or laughed softly when they remembered whenever the elderly handed out sweets.
"I don't see why you'd turn her down though, free candy is free candy." Mina added with a smile, idly licking her lips as she tried to grab some from a table. However, she was swiftly reminded of her present situation when she could barely even move her arm a few inches before it dropped back to her side, dangling limply in the air. "Ah man, now I've got a hankering for sweets and I still can't move yet. How much longer until this stupid poison wears off already?"
"Maybe you should have thought about that before you poisoned yourself, ribbit." Despite her condescending words, Tsuyu was still kind enough to grab a chocolate bar off the table and setting a few pieces in the immobilized pinkette's mouth.
"Is he going to be okay?" Midnight, full costume, asked with some concern over him, looking at his now healed body. While his wounds were healed, she didn't know about his mental state, since he wouldn't tell her if she asked. "I mean... he learned he was stalked for-"
"I'm fine, just weirded out is all... you learn you have a stalker, it isn't exactly something that you just accept. It was super creepy." Naruto shivered when he remembered the day before and meeting his stalker. He hoped that he never had the displeasure of meeting that girl again. Hopefully, she found somebody new and moved on since he beat her face up. Not a lot of people wanted to stay with somebody that punched their face a lot like he did.
Stay with?
He meant to say 'follow like an obsession', since that was what she was going to him, following him like a creep.
"Just let me at her," Mirko said while tilting her head to the side, causing her neck to give a satisfying crack. "When I'm done with her she won't be do any kind of stalking or even just walking for a loooooong time."
"And probably get your hero license suspended if not completely revoked due to over-excessive force in the process." Midnight pointed out, causing the rabbit heroine to pause with a thoughtful expression… and shrug.
"Meh, it'd be worth it."
"Are you serious… wait, who am I kidding, of course you're serious." The adult rated heroine shook her head with an exasperated sigh, not feeling like explaining things over. If Mirko didn't realize that her license getting revoked that meant she wouldn't be allowed to go around kicking ass like she loved then that was what she got for being a dumb bunny.
"You know, I could try and heal these scars on your face." Recovery Girl pointed out as she looked at his face, which the whisker marks.
"... How did you get those?" Midnight asked when she looked at his face as well, since Naruto had never explained where the whisker marks came from. They can't be part of his Quirk, since his Quirk is Toad. It made no sense for him to have them, unless they were scars from something. There had to be a really good story behind those scars, and facial scars could effect a person's mental health depending on how bad they were.
"I've been meaning to ask about that for a while myself," Shoto said while glancing at the 'real' blonde, specifically the iconic whisker like markings decorating his cheeks. He had been a bit hesitant to voice his curiosity aloud, considering his facial scar and it's painful history, but since the question had already been raised he might as well. "Did you get in an accident or something?"
"Actually these aren't scars at all, they're birthmarks." Naruto shook his head with a chuckle as he scratched the back of his head.
"So you inherited from your parents then?" Momo asked, getting the blonde to shake his head again.
"Nope, random mutation apparently."
Both of the heroes stared at Naruto, in wait of an answer.
"I mean, they're natural... I can't explain it either. As far as I know, I've had these for as long as I can remember. If this is all, I think I'll go to class now." Naruto got up and made his way out of the nurse's office.
"Wait, he's seriously going to class right after he got assaulted by a crazy stab-happy stalker? And they're just letting him?" Mina mumbled in disbelief. "I may not be the smartest but you don't just deal with something like that and then go back to normal the next day."
Even they'd been given a day off after the USJ incident… although the whole school had been closed for the day after that incident too.
"Actually some normalcy would probably help settle his nerves after an encounter like that, ribbit." Tsuyu said while Momo and Midnight nodded in agreement.
...
"Any news on how Kurama got into the school?" Midnight asked Recovery Girl, who waited until she was absolutely sure that Naruto wasn't listening on the other side of the door. "You know something?" Midnight asked when there was a long pause.
"... It would seem that in the hero class, Class 1-A... we have a traitor. Keep an eye on the hero students, a close eye on them. Yesterday, Kurama took down All Might and mocked him with this information." Recovery Girl added, which did support the information of a traitor a little. The fact that based on how Kurama was, he didn't seem like he would lie about this (bragging rights) made the claim had some validity to it.
"You know, with all the stalker stuff that happened I completely forgot about the fake spy thing." Momo muttered, giggling in embarrassment at letting such an important detail slip her mind.
"Can't blame you there, that girl really threw us all off," Setsuna said while wiggling in place in what was assumed to be a shrug before she smirked. "Just be glad Monoma isn't here, could you imagine the rant he'd get into about 1-A being the obvious choice of having a spy in it?"
"No kidding, does that guy ever stop nagging about us?"
"Only when Kendo chops him."
Midnight seemed shocked, before her eyes narrowed.
"I'll be sure to keep an eye out... are we able to rule anyone out at least?" Midnight wanted to know who she didn't need to worry about.
"All Might says Midoriya and Todoroki are clean for different reasons. Since we believe there is a traitor among us, we're going to be secretly moving the date of their training at the USJ... it's too far from the school. A villain could attack, and our staff would have trouble getting there in time." Recovery Girl added with a deep frown, since this meant that they had to be very careful about all the information that they told to the students from now on. It also meant that they were going to be potentially increasing the power of a future villain, so the quicker they could weed out the villain, the better.
They would also need to be on high alert for Kurama.
They didn't know if he would strike again.
"Hold on a second, did they just say they're moving the day we're supposed to go to the USJ?" Mina demanded as she pointed at the screen in shock as it went back to buffering… only to end up looking down at her arm in even more shock once she realized it was up. Blinking, the pink pinkette idly flexed the limb some more before trying her other arm to find that both were moving again, albeit more than a bit sluggishly. "Oh sweet, I can move again!"
"Me too," A relieved Momo said, holding up a wobbling arm for a few moments before letting it drop back to her side. "Somewhat anyway."
Meanwhile, Mirko smirked proudly as she held up her arms and started to flex them, striking a few playfully dramatic poses while giving her biceps a kiss. "I knew no stupid ass poison could keep me down for long."
"Yeah, sure, and it has nothing to do with the fact the poison itself has just worn off." Setsuna said sarcastically, giggling when the bunny heroine flipped her the bird, while her body held up it's handless arm to Tsuyu so the frog girl could reattach said missing limb. Her head seemed ready to follow, slowly rising into the air a few inches by itself, only to quickly flop back onto Naruto's lap once more as she nuzzled into it with a sigh.
"Sweet freedom of movement, how I have missed thee," Mina said in a faux English accent, giggling softly as she grabbed the rest of the chocolate bar Tsuyu had been feeding her and took a big bite out of it. Not bothering to savor the taste, the acidic girl hoovered up the rest of the sweet treat before washing it down with a soda. "Ahhh, that hit the spot. Now like I was saying, did they actually just change the USJ date? Because if they did then doesn't that mean that when those League of Villain guys attack-"
"They'll only find an empty building." Shoto finished with a nod.
…
"Pffft! Hahaha! Oh man that is gonna be hilarious!" Mina almost fell out of her seat as she doubled over laughing, her brain already imagining the looks on all the villains faces when they discovered this. Her laughter proved contagious as Momo, Midnight, and Setsuna devolved into fits of giggles while Mirko and Naruto both chuckled.
"A villain attack accidentally thwarting another villain attack, it is rather ironic." Even Mei couldn't help but snicker a little during her tinkering.
The only ones not to laugh was Shoto, although he was grinning a little, and Tsuyu, who was tapping her lip with a contemplative croaking.
Eventually, she reached over and tapped Naruto on the shoulder to get the blonde's attention as she quietly asked. "So... uh... about that naked training... how fast does it show results, ribbit?"
"Do you really want to know?" Quirking a brow when the frog girl hesitantly nodded, Naruto sighed before holding up three fingers. "There are three stages to it, with the first I can say takes about a week at most. Stage two I can't really give a solid number, t takes however long it takes you to get it, and it is the more humiliating one. If you make it to Stage three, then you've pretty much got the sixth Sense always active."
"And what exactly do those stages entail, ribbit?"
"Well, the first one would involve having you jumping through security cameras without your crotch or tits being shown, with the cameras placed at locations where they are hard to see, and to avoid getting parts seen, you need to constantly be flipping as you jump." With every word that left Naruto's lips Tsuyu's cheeks gradually grew redder and redder until her face resembled a tomato. The idea she had to be naked for the training was one thing, but she'd have to be naked AND on camera? Just the idea of being caught on film like that was absolutely mortifying.
Granted, she could definitely see why that'd be such a great motivator not to be caught at all…
"Are you sure that's actually training? Sounds to me like you just want an excuse to get a pretty girl naked on film," Setsuna suddenly chipped in, snapping Tsuyu out of her thoughts. The disembodied greenette had a mischievous grin that quickly changed to one of faux hurt as she looked up to her boyfriend. "Are the ones you have of me not good eno-"
"That's enough out of you," Now it was Naruto's turn to blush as he quickly clapped a hand over Setsuna's mouth, although that didn't stop her from wiggling her eyebrows knowingly at him. Shaking his head, the blonde then turned his attention back to Tsuyu with a serious look. "It is training, but it is very VERY embarrassing training, like never want to show your face in public again if anyone found out training. Got it?"
Not saying anything, Tsuyu just nodded to show she understood, making Naruto nod back before he lifted up his girlfriend's head.
"Great, now then, to put this back where it belongs," He said while lining up the head with its neck… only to frown when the two pieces refused to stay together. "Okay Setsuna stop goofing around."
"I'm not messing around, I can't reattach." The greenette said with a frown, her face scrunching up in concentration as she tried to will herself back together like she'd done a million times over. However, no matter what she did, her neck remained disconnected. In fact now that she was paying attention she could feel a slight unevenness that caused her to start sweating nervously. "You don't think that…"
Knowing where she was going, Naruto raised the detached head up so he was eye-level with the stump of the neck, before sighing exasperatedly. What he was met with was a small quarter sized lump that was gradually spreading from the center of her neck. "Yep, you're regenerating."
"Ah crap."
-End Chapter-