I sat on the steps of the building owned by Humarise. A large and recently destroyed yard in front of me. Villains are taken away in handcuffs, if not more. They gave me green tea and a blanket to wear, but I didn't use the other one, although it's used for someone in shock. Which is something that they think I am.
I looked around, I had seen the man with the lie detection Quirk who is All Might friend. So I've been trying to figure out how to get around it. I've gotten pretty good at telling half-truths, but if it's a weakness of his Quirk, he might have the practice to see through half-truths. What a mess this is.
All Might and some other Heros are now going through the lower floors, which I told them of. I told them about the lower floors, and they went there immediately after that.
Oh, they're trying to figure out how I beat Flect Turn unconscious when they can't even make him move.
After an hour and a couple of cups of tea, the lie detector walked up to me. "Good day, Miss Fukumoto. I'm detective Tsukauchi Naomasa. I was hoping I could ask you some questions." He reached out his hand to me with his greeting and I shook back.
"Ok, but want ask how All Might is doing."
"Yes, he is going through the lower floors for more villains. You don't have to worry that they'll go after you anymore," he said with a fake smile.
"Ok."
"Now, can you tell me what has happened? From your kidnapping until now. Please give as many details as possible."
" My dad and onii-chan had gone from my birthday party at the Midoriya before me and I was trying to catch up." I thought about whether I should tell him that I recognized the women from the street before, but decided against it. After all, that I focused on the stranger on the street enough to recognize her face is unusual. "Someone took a hand with a towel in front of my face and I became unconscious."
"Ok, and then.?" asked Tsukauchi as he wrote it down.
"I woke up in a room. One like in a hotel. Then a woman came in and called me sister. They wanted me to join them because I'm Quirkless. Unsure of what to do, I followed them and did what they told me to..." I stopped. It's not often I feel anger or disgust sometimes after it has happened.
"And then?" asked the detective.
"They were a sex cult!" Tsukauchi winced, he obviously didn't see it coming with how big his eyes are. "They want me to give birth to the next generation of Quirkless."
"I see." he said after he recovered. "How did you get to the situation they found you."
"Ah, after they explained it to me and tried to do it, I hit them."
"Excuse me." Tsukauchi winced again, not prepared for it.
"I beat them up. They were disgusting so I knocked them out. Then I was on the run. Their Quirk members have amask so I just took one and used it as a disguise and tried to find the way out."
"Wait. Where did you find the mask?"
"Oh, I sneaked up to one who had it and hit him in the head. When I think about it, I didn't meet that many down there who had defensive Quirk or made them tougher."
"I see..." He wrote it down and looked at me skeptically. "And how did you knock him out?"
"I just hit him. Of all the Quirkless I've met, which is like five at most. I am the strongest. It looks like everyone gave up on being strong just because they were Quirkless."
"Explain," he said, staring at me. I couldn't tell if I had lied by mistake or if it was something else.
"I see no reason to continue being weak just because I'm Quirkless. It's a motto that I follow. There is no shame at being weak, but it is at staying weak. Damn, this isn't even the first time I've won a fight against someone who has used their Quirk." I looked back to the door where I know Flect Turn is unconscious.
"Um, excuse me if I ask something irrelevant. But are you being bullied by someone with their Quirk"
"No, sir." I could see his eyebrow rise, but he didn't say anything more about it. "You can continue."
"Ok, I was trying to find a way out. I was also discovered and attacked."
"Really, what did you do then?".
"I used them as human shields. They attacked me so I think I have the right to defend myself by using them as living meat shields."
Detective Tsukauchi scratched the back of his head and said with an annoyed expression. "Most of the laws that apply now about self-defense are more about how one's Quirk reacts in this situation. So, with the way you're Quirkless, you can do almost anything you want as long as the others use their Quirk and you don't kill them." It was easy to see that he was really annoyed about it, I could also feel some against me.
"But after a lot of running and dodging arrows, I managed to get to the top, and then he came in as a video game boss." I pointed to the door. "He and I talked a little bit and he wanted me to join them because I was strong for a Quirkless. But I said no and then we started fighting."
"And how did you manage to do it? We can see wounds on him. The impression of your fist is quite obvious on his face."
"Ah, we went back and forth for a while until I remembered a character from an old anime that had a similar power. I tried to do the same thing as someone who got around the power, and it worked on him too."
"Miss, can you elaborate on that. Can you explain what you did."
"Ok. In the anime, it was a scientist who had made a glove that retracted his arm just before it was reflected. When the vector turned around, it shot towards him instead because of the reflection happened when something was going away from him. I did the same thing, but without the device, so it took me a couple of tries." I moved my arm, the pain wasstill there. But slowly getting healed by my Enhancement Nen. At 40% it won't heal quickly, but it allows me to recover in a couple of days. Nen is really flexible and useful. "After I got it right, he panicked because he had never been hit before and I discovered a very important part about his Quirk."
"What?" he asked. Worried that it might be something dangerous. A quick glance towards the door.
"He can store attacks. But when he panicked, he let everything out and that's why the room looks the way it does."
"How, how did you survive that?" he asked with wide eyes.
Not sure what to say, I shrugged my shoulders to wordlessly say don't know. "It wasn't directed against me. And when he was empty, I beat him until he didn't move anymore... Just to be clear. I didn't intend to kill him or something like that."
"I see. Are you really Quirkless. It's hard to believe what I've heard."
Before I answered, I recognized All Might's Aura and Flect Turn's. I saw an opportunity and decided to take it and stood up. "Yes, I'm Quirkless. And I can show you how I did it." Just then, Flect Turn came through the door. One of the Heroes used his Quirk to lift the ground he was lying on in mid-air. I punched and pulled back. The effect happened and my fist hit his face.
"What the!?" Shouted the police and Heros around me. "We've been trying for half an hour to get around his Quirk!."
"See, it's just a matter of good timing," I said.
"Young Fu- I mean young lady. Miss, please don't hit the unconscious Villain." said All Might and waved his hand to the others. "You can move on. I just want a few words the young Miss."
The others continue to walk. A Hero tried to recreate my trick with less then good results. " Yagi, I know you want to scold her, but I'm interviewing her right now," said Detective Tsukauchi. I decided to ignore him.
"You didn't answer my question before. How is your side? I hope this doesn't take up too much of your Quirk's time."
And with that, detective Tsukauchi's eyes became as big as a saucer. "EH!?"
"Yeah, I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask it in front of others in the future. I was asked about it. But thanks for asking. Luckily, I was told in the morning by young Midoriya so I hadn't used up my time for the day. But I don't think I'll be able to do much after this."
"Uh? Wait, she knows?" asked Tsukauchi. The question was directed at All Might, but I enjoyed a little too much of how he reacts and answered instead.
"Yes, I even know." I look around to see if somebody was listening in and said quietly." One For All".
Now he looked at me with his jaw hanging three times further down than it should.
"Young Fukumoto! You just can't say it like that. You don't know if Naomasa-san knows it or not."
Oops, a fuck up. "Well, he said Yagi-san, which I guess is the name." I stopped for a second to come up with the right words." You look like good friends." If I remember correctly, I saw it a bit in the anime. Or I made it up. It was around ten years since I saw it.
They just looked at me for a moment before looking at each other and letting out a deep breath. It looked like they were going to say something more but a Police officer went up to us. "Sir, I have a message that I need to deliver."
"Ok, let's step aside. Sorry Miss Fukumoto, it looks like we'll have to continue our interview later."
"Um, sir. The message is for her."
"Heh?" The three of us erupted in different tones and volumes.
"Um, what is it?" I asked. Not sure what it could be.
"It's about your father's miss. He's in the hospital."
I ran down the hall at the hospital. I was lucky that Humarise had a warp type of Quirk that let them sneak away. Sure, it's not great but it gave All Might the time to be able to get me to the hospital by himself, which is faster than any other way available to me. It also means that I do have the same bloody and torn clothes. And with the way my face expression looked, most of the people here went out of my way. I even heard one shouting that someone should call a Hero. Which is ironic because I know that All Might is not far behind me.
I opened the door to my dad's room and saw him in a bed, and Onii-chan next to him in a chair. I went in and towards my father, but he spoke first before I could ask how he was doing and what happened. "Tomoe! What happened-pressssss." Blood came out of his mouth and he started coughing.
"Hey, take it easy." said Onii-chan and I realized what was happening. I was aware of how I looked, but I didn't think about how my father would react to it.
"Don't worry, Dad. I'm ok. It's not my blood." Well, not all of it. I took his hand and waited for the coughing to calm down. Which gave All Might time to catch up.
He was now in his Small Might form, presumably to save his time. "Young Fukumoto, don't run away like that-Gah!" he said before spraying out blood.
"Oh my god! Are you o-Gah!" my dad said before he was also spraying blood out of his mouth and I wondered if this was a running gag now. Onii-chan and I waited for them to finish coughing, much less worried now for some reason.
"Aren't you Mr. Yagi, All Might's Assistant" Onii-chan asked.
"Yes, I was on the back line and looked over the operation. When it was over, All Might was kind enough to carry us here as quickly as he could, but had to go directly afterward."
"Tomoe, are you ok?" asked Dad when he could talk again.
"Yes, but what happened. Why are you in the hospital?"
"It's because he couldn't sit still. I can understand why he was so stressed, but even though I tried to calm him down and said this could happen. He still moves around and hurts himself" said Onii-chan and fixed his glasses. The light from the ceiling reflected off it.
"How can I just sit still. My only daughter had been kidnapped, I don't know what I would do if I lost you," he said with rivers of tears running from his eyes, but not on the same level as a Midoriya.
"It reminds me. Why did you leave me at the Midoriya?" After I asked my question, there was silence. Dad and Onii-chan looked at each other before looking back at Small Might.
"Um, Mr Yagi. Can you leave us? We're going to have a private conversation." Small Might looked at us for a second before he said OK and left the room.
"So?" I said, expecting an answer.
"Yeah… You see... Damn, this is harder than I thought." he said, scratching the back ofhis head. You and Midoriya Izuku remind me of when your mother and I were young. Sure, we didn't meet so young, Nor was I so easily startled and jumpy, but you two remind me of us." He lay down and look up at the ceiling. But it was as if he was looking at something beyond that. "The first time we spent a night together, we didn't do it. But that's when we became a couple." He smiled at a memory that only he remembers now. The only other one was gone a long time ago. "I was hoping that something similar would happen. Even with how close you are. It's like you say, you don't date. So, I hoped a night in each other's arms would do it. No sex, just affection."
"So, this was a plan to get me and Izuku together," I said deadpan. I have a bit of a hard time believing that this was what started all this. And then I realized that they may have planned to kidnap me anyway, and if I was with them, they could end up hurt.
"That and... It's getting too late for my last chance." Dad said before coughing into a paper.
"Heh?"
He got up on the bed and looked straight into my eyes. "I don't have that long to live. I won't last more than a year, and certainly not until you're eighteen. I don't want you to get pregnant so young, but I also want to see my grandchildren. If you get pregnant soon, I can probably make it until it's born, but that's it."
Normally I would turn red and react to the pregnant part, but there was something much more important there. It takes about nine to ten months until the baby is born, if he just makes it there, he has less than a year to live. No, I can feel it in his Aura. It's only if he tries. I've heard of parents who have survived until their grandchildren are born, but not much more. Their goal was then to see their grandchildren be born, but one can only survive so long on determination. Three years is not within that limet.
"So yes, I'm sorry for leaving you," he said, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"No, I'm the one who should apologize. You worried so much that you went to the hospital."
"No, it was-"
"Before getting into a loop of excuses, you can just say that you both made mistakes," Onii-chan said, interrupting us. We looked at him before we looked at each other, after a second we turned back to him and said ok.
We started talking to each other. I told them about what happened, with a little understating of my injuries and the ones I fight strengths. But when the sun started to set in the sky, someone knocked on the door. My eyes widened when I saw All Might come in with Recovery Girl.
"Sorry if I'm interrupting you," Small Might said as he walked in.
"So which one are you worrying so much about" said the Youthful Heroine before looking at dad and then at me. "Oh, found them."
"Yes, um. you see, I used some of my contacts and checked if Miss Recovery Girl here had time to help you with your injuries. And luckily she did," Small Might said with a smile.
"Hardly. I don't have much time, but I've checked over your health report. I can't fix the damage you've had for a long time now, but the wounds you created I can help with." She said and walked over to Dad, her lips stretch much longer than they should, and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "There you go. Now, don't move around too much and open it again, got it?"
"Um, yes Miss." said the man of the Fukumoto household. A hand on his cheek and tried to remember the last time he had gotten a kiss.
"You're going to have to stay here under the night so they can monitor you." she then turned to me and said. "And you, you look like you don't have any major injuries so I can fix that without any complications."
"Ok. Hey, can I get an autograph. My friend is a big fan."
"Yes, of course, your friend. Ok, I can give you my autograph." said Recovery Girl, misunderstanding what I said. Dad tried to hide his chuckling. No, not only him, I could also see Onii-chan chuckling too. Apparently, seeing Recovery Girl not believe me when he knows I'm telling the truth is funny enough for him to do that. "Okay, sit still." Her lips stretch towards me, but after the slightly wet kiss, I noticed something strange and alarming. My Aura level started to drop fast, and before I knew it, it was almost empty. I got dizzy and fell out of my chair.
"Hey!? Tomoe!" said Dad, almost standing up, but stopped with a sharp pain in the stomach and began to cough up blood. I lay on the floor, too tired to move, too tired to answer, too tired to think. All I could do was listen.
"Eh, what happened?!"
"I don't know. This has never happened before. Is it a negative reaction to her Quirk?"
"It's impossible. Tomoe has no Quirk. Could it be? Does your Quirk use the Quirk Factors to heal?"
"No. I've used my Quirk on Quirkless before. It must be something else. Could I have misjudged the energy she had?"
"What?"
"My Quirk amplify and speed up the human body's natural healing process. The process is fueled by a large amount of life energy that comes from the recipient and could potentially drain enough energy to…"
"What?"
"Her wounds. It healed in record time. Even the swelling is gone, I don't even see scar tissue."
"What? What does that have to do with this?"
"Oh right. We need to give her energy before she dies."
"WHHHAAAAT!?"
I felt something in my mouth. When I opened my eyes, I was sitting on something. I looked around and saw that I wasn't in the same room, and it took a second to realize that I was in a car. A door opened next to me and I heard a voice.
"Tomoe? Are you awake?"
I turned to the voice and saw Onii-chan there. "Uh, what happened?" The sun had gone down, I could move, but I was stiff everywhere and it felt like there was particularly heavy water in my head.
"Can you walk? After Recovery Girl used her Quirk on you, you became unconscious. After she checked over you, she said it was because of thelack of energy. For some reason, her Quirk had overdone the job and was taking a lot more energy than it should."
I stopped listening to him. I remember what she said. Life energy. Like Aura. Her Quirk, I felt it. It took over my Aura and did the same thing as when I healed my wounds, but it was like I had a hundred percent Enhancement. Wait, could that I have my Aura unlock be why it took so much? Like when you try to lift something heavy, but it was easier than you thought and you stumbled.
I felt Onii-chan try to get me out of the car that I realized was a taxi. "Hey, can you hear me?".
"Um yes. Sorry. I remember what happened. I can walk. I just need to lie down in my bed." Onii-chan helped me up the stairs where he and Dad met Izuku for the first time. I opened the door and I walked towards my room.
"Do you need-"
"I'm good. I just need to rest a little." And Zetsu, it will help me recover. But I can't disappear in front of him. Wait, I'm not going to disappear, I'm just getting hard to focus on. I think. I can't think right now. "Good night." I went into my room and started to take off my clothes. My blouse sticks to my skin where the now dried blood is. But when I had taken off my blouse and skirt I heard a voice from the other side of the room.
"Oooh, you put on such a good show just for me. And is that your blood? How sweet of you." It took me half a second before I recognized the cheerful tone. The fatigue disappeared and horror replaced it. I turned around and saw a figure in the dark with glowing eyes. I looked down and realized that there were patches of dried blood all over my half-naked body. What, bloody and half naked in front of Himiko Toga, the girl who fell in love when she saw someone bloody... Fac-
Well now, it looks like I'm trying to put her in worse positions than the prior one. I mean, just look at the latest chapters. Confronted by Flect Turn, gets seen standing over Flect Turn's unconscious body and now this. Might as well have tied her up covered in honey in front of a bear. A polar bear.
But in this chapter we came to something that I have planned from chapter 1. Recovery Girl's Quirk. Why? Well, if you look at the MHA wiki you'll see this.
"Quirk
Heal (癒いやし Iyashi?): Chiyo's Quirk allows her to amplify and speed up the human body's natural healing process by planting a kiss on the injured person. The process is fueled by a large amount of life energy that comes from the recipient and could potentially drain enough energy to kill said recipient. She also seems to be able to stretch her lips to an abnormal length."
yes, it says life energy. Like Nen. It's something I've been waiting to show. But this is it for this chapter. Hope you like it.
