"Regular speech,"
"Flashback speech,"
'Inner dialogue,'
'Phone Text Chat'
"Are you sure you have to go," Ms. Midoriya asked as Himiko opened the apartment door.
"Sorry, I've got some important stuff I need to do, but I'll be back later when Izu comes home," she smiled.
"Bye momma," Eri said a little forlorn at Himiko leaving.
Himiko crouched down giving the girl a big hug," I'll be back later with papa, so don't be to upset!"
"O-Okay," the girl nodded, sniffling and wiping at her eyes.
Himiko softly smiled rubbing the girl's head and walked out of the apartment, she made her way to the other side of Musutafu.
Honestly, if she didn't need to do this she wouldn't have left the apartment, but at this point, she had no other choice.
Most people didn't know it, and even some heroes weren't aware, but every city had its own center of activity for most of its criminals. The western edge of Musutafu was where she would be headed today.
It was gradual but anyone who could see the signs would know they had entered a seedier part of the city. Pristine and clean streets gave way to cracked roads and stained sidewalks that abounded with garbage.
Where you normally saw people walking about individually on the main streets, you would now commonly see people sticking in large groups. In a few cases, these were simply for protection, but most of them were in actuality independent gangs.
The only out-of-place sight to the residents of Western Musutafu was the smiling blonde girl, skipping down the sidewalk humming to herself.
"Hmm~ Hmm~ Hmm~" Himiko hummed looking at the address on her phone again.
'It should be the next apartment building on the left,' Himiko skipped a few more feet coming to a slow walk along the apartment's walkway.
A group of men stood outside the building, all smoking and watching her approach.
"The fuck you want, kid," One of the men with a beard barked at her," we ain't babysitters!"
"Nah, I think she's looking for a good time Daisuke," the man said to the first one who had called out to her. The man made his way over to Himiko throwing his arm around her shoulder.
As the man's arm wrapped around her shoulder, his hand grabbed for her breast, and Himiko immediately pulled out her knife in a flourish severing his pointer finger. The smile on her face grew wider as the man screamed, he tried to pull away, but Himiko grabbed his wrist and watched the blood spurt out.
"The fuck!? Hey, psycho bitch, let go of Souta," yelled Daisuke pointing a gun at her, as he did Himiko jerked Souta's wrist to bring his body to block the gun.
"If ya wanna shoot me you're gonna have to shoot your friend~," Himiko laughed in a sing-song voice.
The seconds stretched on and the gun didn't fire, so Himiko pushed Souta forward, keeping him between her and the gun. Once they were within a few feet Himiko shoved the defingered thug at his friend and she ran around to the side in a tight arch.
The gun fired, but that was just from the man bumping into his friend, who fell over with a gunshot wound to the stomach.
"Y-You bitch you made me shoot S-," before he could finish yelling, Himiko had stabbed the man in the Achilles tendon of his right leg, and then severed his left tendon as well.
Her last move was to press her knife to the man's throat," which apartment number are the rest of your buddies in," Himiko asked.
"T-Twenty-five."
"Any keys or passwords?"
"I-In my left pocket, I got the spare key."
"Good boy," Himiko smiled, taking the knife away from his throat, and fished the keys out. She turned quickly kicking the man so hard in the face that he tumbled down the steps, unconscious along with his friend.
"Hmm~ Hmm~ Gonna make some money~," Himiko began humming again as she opened the entrance door to the apartment complex.
"I swear it's only been two days and you've already been in my office both days," Recovery Girl grouched waving her cane dangerously at the groggy Izuku.
"S-Sorry," Izuku yawned," it wasn't exactly my fault I got this hurt, my opponent didn't really care too much about hurting me."
"Then I'll have to recommend you not be paired with that student to your teachers. Now you should be all better, just be careful of the stress put on your right leg, it was nearly fractured," Izuku nodded standing up and putting his weight on the leg experimentally. It was a bit stiff, but he'd be able to walk it off heading back to ground Beta.
Ratty, that was the only way Himiko could describe the inside of the apartment building. There were piled-up bags of trash under the stairs, litter all over the hallways, and junkies in the halls. Each shooting up various drugs that made her crinkle her nose in disgust.
Apartment twenty-five was on the third floor, and it had the cleanest corridors by far. It looked like the entire floor was occupied by whoever was supplying the people downstairs with drugs.
Himiko cracked her neck and stretched a little bit, there wasn't any way she was going to be able to go through an entire floor of bad guys if she wasn't limber.
She readied herself and unlocked the door.
"Did I make you wait," Izuku asked Yaoyorozu trying to figure out how to look at her without getting flashed, and turning extremely red.
"Not at all," she answered back, watching the screen attentively," we're watching the fight between teams H and J."
Izuku studied the screen for only a moment before he started feeling very bad for Kirishima and Sero. They had been put up against Tokoyami and Asui. The battle wasn't going too well to say the least, while Sero had put up multiple lines of his tape to create traps all around the building, it didn't look like Tokoyami's quirk Dark Shadow cared as he tore them apart.
When the heroes finally found the villains and the bomb, the villains opened up strong with even more trap tape between them and the heroes. But of course, it hadn't gone well when Asui started shattering the lights and strengthening Dark Shadow.
Kirishima could take a lot of punishment, but that didn't mean anything when Dark Shadow just started pushing him away instead of trying to overwhelm him.
Sero did his best to repel Asui, but she just had too much maneuverability indoors as she sprang from wall to wall.
Eventually, Asui pushed Sero close enough to where Kirishima and Dark Shadow were fighting, so that the shadow creature could grab the two villains and restrain them while Asui touched the bomb.
Izuku nodded writing entries on the four in his newest notebook he'd started so he could analyze his classmates," so it looks like Asui's quirk is well suited to cramped spaces for maneuverability, and would most likely be very compatible with aquatic hero work. While I imagine Sero's would be ideal for city traversal and villain capture. If Tokoyami's quirk is strengthened when it's darker, would that mean the opposite is true with more light? What is the upper damage limit of Kirishima's hardening quirk?"
A light tap on his shoulder snapped Izuku out of his wandering thoughts. Looking up he saw that it was Yaoyorozu," you were mumbling to yourself."
He blushed, putting his notebook away," t-thank you for telling me."
Once All Might had finished giving his breakdown of the fight between the two teams, he asked if Izuku and Yaoyorozu were ready to begin.
"Yes, sir," they both answered.
"Good! Then here are your communicators and as usual, you'll be given a head start to begin preparations," All Might said giving them both a thumbs up.
"I believe our best course of action is telling one another the specifics of our quirks and their limitations. Does that sound agreeable," Yaoyorozu asked giving Izuku a very serious stare.
"O-Of course, my quirk i-is super power, it allows me to stockpile energy and convert i-it into strength. I can't use my full power though, I have too much stockpiled, and if I did use full power then it would backfire and break my body. Kind of like w-what happened when I threw the softball the other day, but imagine broken bones instead of a torn muscle. Oh, If I use an amount of power my body can handle then I can augment my overall physical ability with that power."
Yaoyorozu nodded taking in Izuku's explanation of his quirk," if it comes down to it you'll have to be the main frontline attacker, is that alright with you?"
"That suits me just fine, I might need some insulation against Kaminari though. Close quarters and electricity quirks don't exactly mix," Izuku said tapping his chin in thought.
"Well hopefully it won't come to that, but if it does, I can make you a set of rubber-insulated gloves. My quirk is creation, and I can create anything I can think of, so long as I have enough lipids in my body, and I know the object's molecular makeup."
Izuku beamed at the girl forgetting his bashfulness at her costume," really!? That's an amazing quirk, like you said it might not even come to a fight if you create steel bars to seal each entrance. Kaminari, as I said, has an electrical quirk, and Jiro's quirk is just her headphone jacks, which I don't think can be used as a destructive force. But I don't like to just assume, so we should be ready just in case."
"Alright, then we'll begin by sealing every door with a steel bar," Yaoyorozu nodded at Izuku seeming to ready herself to begin creating, she turned slightly and unceremoniously opened her already revealing top. Steel bars fell from her chest, but Izuku was entirely too busy panicking," hmm? What's wrong Midoriya?"
"N-Nothing j-j-just keep doing w-what you're d-doing," he stuttered looking away.
She shrugged and pilled up as many bars as she could, nodding when she was finally happy with the amount," here, you take half and I'll take the other half. You cover one side and I'll cover the other. If we seal every door we can waste their time, and while I'm going I can set up boobytraps to hinder them further."
"G-Good idea, I'll get s-started."
"Where the fuck is she!" Yelled a very frantic man as another person next to him went down, a warm liquid spraying him in the face.
"I can't see a fucking thing, the little bitch broke all the lights," Himiko threw a knife from the apartment's kitchen, embedding itself in the shouter's shoulder, making him fall. A quick precise kick to the head sent him into unconsciousness.
A quirk flared up for a moment the user's fists igniting, but that only served to turn him into a target so Himiko could launch another knife into the backs of his knees. He screamed in pain as Himiko ran past him yanking the blades out.
Another thug had caught sight of her in the seconds the fire quirk was used and sent a hail of needle-like quills at her. The only thing that managed to do was help her incapacitate another thug who she used as cover from the needles.
She quickly launched two more knives at the shooter, the first one missing and only cutting his arm, and the other embedding in his arm's joint causing it to fall limply to his side.
He was quickly pounced upon, her knife cut into the other joint and she viciously slammed his head onto the ground.
For a moment the entire apartment complex was silent, save for the very injured people, and then a frantic screaming came from downstairs.
"Ooooh, all the little mice downstairs are scattering~," Himiko sang causing the few people in the apartment not unconscious, but severely wounded to shiver.
She approached the fire quirk user who was still awake and held her knife to his throat," now, I'm sure you keep your money and other valuables you bad guys get somewhere in here. So if ya don't want to get cut, tell me where."
"Fuck you," he spat.
"Mmm, no thanks. I've got a boyfriend and I bet he's ten times better than you," she smiled jamming her knife into his shoulder and twisting it," so if you don't want the other arm stabbed I'd start talking."
He hissed through his teeth," I'm gonna fucking kill your little pussy boyfriend."
Himiko's faux smile dropped as she yanked her knife out and held it down to his crotch," then how about I stab here?"
That got the man to blanch and start sweating in earnest," I-It's in the bedroom i-in the mattress!"
Himiko's predatory scowl made him tremble. She lifted her knife and brought it down savagely into the man's leg, barely missing his tender privates. Her cheerful smile returned as she left the man to bleed in pain and relief at not having his junk stabbed.
"Too small of a target anyway," Himiko shot back as she entered the bedroom and cut into the mattress.
She rummaged around in the thing for a moment before realizing there weren't individual packages in it, but it was just stuffed full of money.
"Ugh, dumb gangsters can't even put their money away neatly. She pulled out a handful and was at least a little pleased to see it was held together with money clips.
She got up and went back to the area she had incapacitated all of the men in and looked around for a bag. Thankfully she found a large duffel bag, and she disgustedly emptied it of all the drugs it held inside before returning to the bedroom and stealing all of their money.
"Ah, I love what I do," she sighed taking the now full-to-bursting bag and exited the apartment.
"Well that was easier than I expected," Izuku sighed as they unbarred their door, and made their way down to the first floor.
Kaminari and Jiro looked very annoyed at the two of them as they had just now burst through one of the doors to get inside.
"Guys what the hell," Kaminari complained," we didn't even get into the building let alone fight!"
"Well to be fair," Jiro sighed," it's not like we had any way to get in, I mean my amps in my shoes can rupture eardrums, but they aren't powerful enough to destroy thick metal doors like this. The point was for them to protect the bomb, and they did."
"I know," Kaminari whined," but I wanted to fight."
"Did you really," Jiro asked looking at Izuku," cause you saw the fight he had with Bakugou, did you really wanna have to fight this guy?"
"W-Well not really, I don't wanna get kicked in the head like Bakugou did," he said shuddering.
"S-Sorry guys, Yaoyorozu seems to have a really good utility quirk and she's really smart, so we kinda had a huge advantage," Izuku laughed scratching the back of his head.
All Might met all of them at the exit praising the winners and encouraging the losers that they gave it their all, and that it had just been a bad matchup.
They all returned to the control room going over their success and faults in their actions, but there wasn't much to say since neither team had seen the other.
The final team battle was a bit more interesting than Izuku's and Yaoyarozu's had been. Both teams started fairly evenly, but it slowly grew one-sided.
It was Ashido and Aoyama against Koda and Sato. The fight had been fairly even, but eventually, Ashido's acid wore down Sato's durability, and Koda didn't really have too many animals in this scenario to command.
What had been interesting was the way Ashido used her acid, not only could she use it to melt, but she could also control its acidity to turn it into a jelly that she used to basically skate.
Izuku quickly filled out as many pages for each classmate and began sketching a rough outline of them and their costume.
"That's rather good," Yaoyarozu complimented him.
"T-Thanks it's kind of a hobby," he said finishing the pattern on Ashido's costume.
"If it wouldn't be too much trouble when you finish the notes you had about my quirk, could you let me read through them? I've put a lot of thought into how I use my quirk, but you can grow nearsighted if you think all of your own answers are correct too often."
"S-Sure if they'll help you, then no problem," Izuku nodded as he continued to write.
Thankfully Heroic Basic Training had been their last class for the day because Izuku was completely wiped out. He had just finished pulling off his now-tattered costume. It had taken quite the beating because of Kacchan and now he would need to send it in for the support course to repair.
His slow trudge back to the classroom had made him lag behind a good majority of the class, who had already finished changing and run back to 1-A.
When Izuku opened the large door to the classroom a flood of loud excited voices made him flinch.
"Dude! That first throw and kick you gave Bakugou was awesome," Ashido said excitedly as she got very close to him.
"Uh, t-thanks," Izuku said looking anywhere but at the girl.
"That was really manly how you stood your ground," Kirishima grinned, his sharp teeth gleaming.
"Do you dance any in your spare time," Ashido asked," cause you've got some crazy footwork!"
"U-Uh no, but I went through a lot of training with Himiko to learn how to fight with my legs," Izuku answered fidgeting under her stare.
"Oh~ and who's Himiko? A girlfriend maybe," she teased not realizing she'd hit the nail on the head, Izukj was turning bright red," whoa! Really? You have a girlfriend Midoriya?!"
A few people in the class came over to join Ashido asking about his girlfriend.
"Dude seriously, how the heck do you have a girlfriend? No offense but you're pretty plain," Kaminari said incredulously.
"W-Well I knew Himiko when we were really little and I helped her out cause her quirk is really inconvenient for her. And like ten months before the U.A. entrance exam I met her again and we started hanging out," Izuku explained looking at Kaminari and Ashido who were very interested in the topic
"You got a picture of her? I wanna see this girlfriend," Ashido grinned clearly testing to see if Izuku was just lying.
"S-Sure," Izuku pulled his phone out and scrolled through a few pictures he and Himiko had taken together.
A few were ones she'd taken when watching him train, and she'd sent to him saying he looked funny in them. A few others were pictures of Eri doing various things he'd found cute, like the one of her drawing Himiko as a vampire. He finally found the perfect one, a picture he'd taken where Eri and Himiko had fallen asleep on him while sitting on the couch.
"Here you go," Izuku absently said passing his phone to Ashido.
A sly grin fell from her face when she saw the picture," dude! Your girlfriend is super cute! But who's the little girl with her?"
"Oh, that's Eri. It's a little complicated All M- I mean, a hero, helped me save her from some people, and she's been living with us."
"Aw, you look like a family," Ashido cooed, not realizing how close she'd come to hitting the nail right on the head because of Himiko's hijinks.
"Dude that is so unfair," Kaminari groaned.
Izuku laughed continuing to talk with his classmates. It was weird being able to talk with other students like it was normal, while Bakugou had been the one to leave after class and go home.
Izuku had thought about following after him and talking, but he knew the boy would rather be taken hostage by another sludge villain than talk to Izuku after he had technically lost to him.
The urge to talk to him wasn't in any sense about Izuku feeling bad, but that he didn't want to be as uncaring as Kacchan himself had been about Izuku's emotions. He'd never forgive Kacchan for the way he'd treated him, that was certain, but he was also a different person from Kacchan and he couldn't ignore someone if they were clearly upset.
But then again, when was Kacchan not upset? He almost always yelled like he was annoyed, and when he wasn't yelling out of annoyance it was to threaten someone.
'He can take care of himself,' Izuku thought watching Kacchan stomp through the U.A. gates with hunched shoulders,' I'm going to go home to see Eri and Himiko.'
"And we just sat in the building until the time ran out," Izuku laughed to Himiko and his mom as he finished telling them about the basic training he'd gone through today.
His mom had been very worried when she heard he had to fight Kacchan, but it went away when she heard how it had gone. He'd been hurt, but at least it wasn't too bad and he had even won.
Himiko on the other hand was very angry," let me beat him up, Izu! Just a little bit, I'll only break like one of his arms!"
"I don't think that's a good idea," Izuku laughed nervously," you'd probably get arrested."
She mumbled at that but continued to eat while holding Izuku's hand. It had been frustrating not being able to spend time with Himiko because of school, he still enjoyed going to U.A. but he liked time with his girlfriend a bit more.
"Hey, Izu! Do you wanna come over to my apartment this weekend," she asked surprising him.
"R-Really? Is that fine? Your parents won't mind?"
"I don't live with my parents silly," she laughed.
Izuku had to register that for a moment, his face slowly growing redder by the second," y-you m-mean i-it would j-just be you a-and me?"
"Yep! We can stay here and keep Eri company until about the evening, then we can go out and have some fun. And end the night at my place with some movies!"
That… sounded pretty innocent to Izuku. He was sure his girlfriend had some… other activities in mind for the day, but they hadn't done anything like that since the day they had saved Eri. And if he was being honest Izuku could rarely get what had happened in the movie theatre out of his head when his mind wandered.
He thought about her giving him complete control over their kiss, the soft gasps as he bit into her shoulder, and the way she had shuddered against him as she climaxed.
"Izuku? Honey are you okay," his mom asked very worriedly," you've got a funny grin on your face."
"Ah, yeah I-I'm fine," Izuku panicked fanning his face with his hands," i-is it alright with you if I s-spend time with H-Himiko, mom?"
"You're a high schooler now honey, I trust you'll be safe, but just in case you should buy protection. You're getting to that age and Himiko is a very pretty girl. We might have Eri but I don't want any proper grandchildren until you're both old enough," his mom smiled at them both evilly and sweetly.
Both Himiko and Izuku's faces were bright red.
"R-Right," Izuku nodded turning his gaze to his plate.
"We'll be careful," Himiko mumbled pushing her food around.
Eri looked between the pair confused at their bashfulness.
A/N: Okay so I don't do to many author notes in this website, most of those are on my uploads for Archive of our Own. But I felt like I should do one for here, if you've noticed the quality of the last two chapters is a little weak it's because I don't particularly like the Team Battle arc in My Hero Academia, so it was really tedious to write through. But now that it's over the next chapter will hopefully be a lot better for everyone including me! I hope you enjoy!!!!!