A few months had passed, Jiro and Yuji had become best friends in elementary school and they were always together.
Jiro's expressions when they are together remind him of Megumi. Her bored look, which is almost similar to Megumi's when he tries to look cool by making a poker face. Still, Jiro can sometimes be more expressive than Megumi.
At school, Yuji became quite popular as he was called the strongest student in his school because he managed to defeat all the students who challenged him to a fight, at first he didn't care about them, but because they attacked first, Yuji replied to discourage them. He even beat up junior high school students because they wanted to get back at him for beating up their younger brother.
At school, Yuji is respected by many students because he always helps and protects students who are being bullied.
Because of this, he secretly had a group of followers at school, and they even tried to stalk Yuji. But Yuji always found them easily when they tried to stalk him.
He always shooed them all away, sometimes trying to threaten them as if he wanted to beat them up because they made Yuji feel a little disturbed.
Whenever Yuji comes home, when Hanako picks him up, she always tries to tease Yuji because he had a first boyfriend in elementary school and it was a girl. Yuji always told his mother that he and Jiro were just "FRIENDS".
Although actually, after being friends with Yuji for more than a few months, Jiro considers Yuji more than that, but he doesn't express it because before, Yuji had received love letters from female students who were in the same class as him and other classes, and of course Yuji rejected them. Jiro was afraid that if she confessed her feelings to Yuji, he would probably reject her and it could ruin their friendship.
Hanako's job as a doctor often meant that she would get home late at night or sometimes not at all, so she would sometimes leave Yuji some food or pocket money when she didn't have time to cook.
Hanako hadn't cooked for a long time because since she divorced her husband, she ate more instant food than home-cooked meals.
When she tried to cook again, the food she cooked was quite messy at first, but with Yuji's help, the food they cooked together became more edible. Since Hanako already has a child, even though Yuji is not her own biological child, Hanako always wants to make sure that Yuji gets enough nutrition instead of just eating instant food.
Before Yuji came into her life, Hanako was depressed because she lost the only child she was carrying to miscarriage due to an incident caused by the villain.
From that incident, Hanako was injured so badly that the fetus she was carrying miscarried, and she suffered several injuries to her body, making her unable to have children again. Unable to have another child, her husband had an affair with another woman and left her.
In Hanako's eyes, Yuji is a child who is different from most children of his age, his attitude is too mature for his age, so Hanako does not mind taking care of Yuji even as a single mother. Although his attitude is quite mature, Yuji still has a childish nature at times.
Yuji was more than just a child to Hanako; he was one of the lights that led her out of the darkness.
When Hanako is not at home, Yuji sometimes goes out for a walk or plays at Jiro's house.
At Jiro's house, Yuji sometimes plays console games or musical instruments with Jiro.
When Yuji doesn't go to Jiro's house to play, Yuji sometimes goes sightseeing in Tokyo, especially in the Naruhata area.
Whenever Yuji goes to Tokyo, he always wears a hoodie and a mask. That's because he wants to avoid the police every time he tries to run at high speed from Shizuoka to Tokyo.
He has been caught at least 2 times by a police officer because of his unreasonable running speed, so the police always thought he was breaking the rules and using his quirk. Even though it was just Yuji's physical strength and Yuji did not use any curse energy or curse techniques, luckily Yuji was still given a chance and only received a warning letter.
A little strange, but in a society where almost everyone has superpowers, they are not allowed to use their own powers.
Yuji also doesn't want to take the train to Tokyo because the tickets are so overpriced, thousands of yen! It would be cheaper for him to walk to Tokyo and save a lot of pocket money.
Yuji goes to Naruhata once every week or two, in Naruhata there's a shop he always wants to visit a few times a month, which is the Trifting shop that sells second-hand manga and some street food stalls.
All of the items sold at the Trifting shop are pretty complete and cheaper than buying directly from regular stores, from electronic devices, cooking utensils, anime merchandise, even manga series that have ended and are no longer on sale can be found here.
Because of the many cheap manga sold here, Yuji often goes back and forth to this store every time he goes to Tokyo.
Every time Yuji went to Naruhata, he met 3 strange people, the three of them were very noticeable people because of their strange actions.
The first weirdo is a girl with pink hair, she is a weird girl who often holds "concerts" in the street area of Naruhata, she wears tight costumes that are... quite vulgar.
She was often called Pop Step by the locals, an underground idol or freelance idol (she claimed herself). She always uses her quirk by jumping on lampposts and giving illegal concerts.
The second was a man wearing an All Might hoodie and a cloth mask covering his face. He is a person who always helps people in trouble around Naruhata, although the help he gives is often trivial, such as helping people find an address or returning dropped items.
People call him Gentleman, The Hauler? The Cruller... Uhhhh, never mind, the name doesn't really matter, just that he's a man who has a quirk that can make him glide across the ground as if he were gliding across a slippery floor.
Then the last one was an old man who had a stocky body, wore a bandanna to cover his face, and used a brass knuckle as his main weapon.
The three of them are people who use their "quirk" illegally, or are called vigilantes.
Then came his first encounter with Yuji. In the afternoon, Yuji was walking through a deserted alley after buying some manga at the Trifting shop, intending to go home soon.
But suddenly, an old man appeared from the top of the building.
"Hey you!"
The old man shouted at Yuji, and Yuji, seeing that, stopped for a moment and turned to face him. Then the old man jumped in front of Yuji, but instead got stuck and fell into the trash can.
The old man called himself Knuckleduster, a "Street Janitor"?
Of all the weird people, this old man is really a much weirder person...
When they first met, he had asked Yuji if he had ever taken any strange drugs that made his tongue change color.
When Yuji heard that, he was irritated, and he knew that his face had scars and he looked like a delinquent, but he wasn't a drug addict!
The old man didn't believe him at first and tried to force Yuji to open his mouth.
Yuji tried to fight the old man, but Knuckleduster was strong.
Yuji held back his strength so he wouldn't accidentally kill Knuckleduster, but the old man didn't fall down.
Yuji threw many punches and kicks at Knuckleduster, but he remained standing. Even when Yuji tried to use Cursed Energy on his attack, Knuckleduster didn't fall down. It is estimated that Knuckleduster's strength and intelligence are roughly equivalent to a level 2 or semi 1 jujutsu sorcerer.
During his fight with Knuckleduster, Yuji was surprised to find out that this old man didn't have a "Quirk."
Even though he doesn't have a Quirk, Knuckleduster is also a very cunning person. He is very good at using several gadgets, such as tasers, grappling hooks, and brass knuckles, as his main weapons. In the battle, he even trapped Yuji and held him for a few seconds.
Yuji planned to use all his strength to end this, but that was stopped when The Hauler stopped the fight between the two of them and made Yuji undo his intention.
"Master! Stop that, he's just an elementary school kid!" The hauler called Knuckleduster "Master."
"Master?" thought Yuji, confused by the hauler's sudden arrival.
'The Hauler... What exactly is your relationship with this old man.'
The Hauler tried to stop Knuckleduster's hand, but he was hit by Knuckleduster's fist and thrown against the wall.
"Hey, Koichi, what are you doing?"
Koichi or The Hauler just held his head as he felt the pain from Knuckleduster's fist.
"Master... He's actually just an elementary school kid from Shizuoka."
"How does this guy know that I'm from Shizuoka?"Yuji got ready to attack.
"I always meet him at the Trifting shop, He really has nothing to do with them." Koichi then walked up to Yuji and asked him.
"A-ano... I'm sorry, Fushiguro-kun, Master is sometimes too quick to judge but he's actually a good person." The Hauler lowered his mask. Yuji apparently recognized who this person was, this man's name was Koichi Haimawari, a convenience store cashier.
"Koichi-san... You're..." Yuji lowered his guard a little."You're The Hauler?"
"Akhh!!! Hauler again! It's the Crawler! CRAWLER!" Koichi was annoyed and covered his ears.
A short flashback to when Yuji first met The Hauler or Koichi Haimawari when they were both at the Trifting shop that Yuji often visited. At that time, Yuji was looking for manga in the store and he asked Koichi, who happened to be in the store, to look for All Might Hoodie merchandise.
From then on, Yuji used the name of his friend from the past, Megumi Fushiguro, as a cover name whenever he went to Tokyo alone.
Because Yuji didn't want the police to find out that he was in trouble again, he decided to use an alias so the police wouldn't know it was him.
"Koichi-san, thank you for stopping that old man." Yuji thanked Koichi and then drew a floating ball of his own blood and absorbed it into his body.
"Ah! Yes... No problem." Koichi still had a dull expression on his face because Yuji called him "The Hauler".
'Sigh... Finally, I won't have to deal with that crazy old man anymore!' Yuji was very grateful and whispered to himself.
'I almost beat him to a pulp, but... If I do that, the police will track me down later if I get into trouble again.'
'I better hurry up and get out of here.' Yuji tried to pick up his bag and some manga that scattered on the floor that he had just bought.
"Ah yes, Fushiguro-kun, I... Sorry about that." Koichi looked at some manga scattered near the trash can.
"Don't worry, I'll replace them with new ones..." With slightly shaking hands, he reached for his wallet that was in his pants pocket.
"No need, only the cover is dirty. At least the contents won't get dirty as well." Yuji quoted his manga with a slightly annoyed expression.
"A-ah yes... How about this, next time I'll treat you to a takoyaki stall."
"Fine, do whatever you want."
'ughh... I just bought this and it's already dirty!' Yuji picked up some manga that fell near the trash can.
Meanwhile, Koichi complained to Knuckleduster about being so careless today, but Knuckleduster ignored Koichi's complaints and focused on looking at the boy wearing the hoodie (Yuji).
"That kid..." Knuckleduster said as he looked at Yuji picking up the manga that had fallen out of his bag.
In his battle with Yuji, Knuckleduster saw the look in Yuji's eyes while he was fighting, the look in his eyes was not that of an ordinary child, but the look of a KILLER.
Looking at the scar that Yuji had, it was hard for Knuckleduster to be absolutely sure that this kid had KILLED someone.
"Oi, boy! From now on, you'll be my disciple."
Hearing these words from Knuckleduster, Yuji and Koichi were surprised.
"Huh?" Yuji was confused by the meaning of Knuckleduster's words.
"Ehhhh!!! Master, seriously! You shouldn't take minors as students, you know!" Koichi tried to pull Knuckleduster out, but Knuckleduster didn't move an inch.
Yuji is surprised by Knuckleduster statement, because he was the one who wanted to beat him up, but suddenly he want made him his student... Yuji kind felt a bit de javu with what was happening to him.
"You want to know my answer to that, old man?" A red spheres appeared in front of Yuji, and from it, a knife-like object formed.
Yuji was still a little annoyed that Knuckleduster made his manga fall to the ground and some were already dirty with the smell of garbage.
"Here's my answer!" Yuji threw a blood knife [Blood Edge] at Knuckleduster that Strengthened with cursed energy so the knife can travel at high speed.
Yuji threw the knife at Knuckleduster until it scratched his hand, and it broke line of four trash can behind them, making a hole all of it.
Knuckleduster, seeing this, just grinned at Yuji's answer.
*to be continued*
author note: so... i was thinking about Yuji have One for all and replace Deku, so what do u guys think?
should Yuji take one for all and replace Deku place or not?