Naruto In My Hero Academia - Chapter 30

It was silent.

Sitting down next to Naruto, his nephew, and seeing the teenager still unconscious, down on a bed with an oxygen mask over his mouth, and his arm in a sling, combined with the bandages on his head… it hurt Toshinori when he saw it. All he could do was hold Naruto’s unbroken hand for support, not support for Naruto, support for himself. He had snapped when he saw Naruto being carried on a stretcher, and had gone into the USJ ready to destroy whatever villain had did this to him. Normally, all Naruto needed was Recovery Girl’s healing kiss and he would be usually completely healed.

Not this time.

Before she could even use her powers, they needed to perform actual surgery on Naruto, to remove bone fragments from his lungs, set the bones in his crushed and twisted arm back into place. They needed to check his organs to make sure nothing else was vitally wounded, and thankfully, the most vital organ that had been injured had been his lungs. The rest of his organs didn’t go undamaged though, and it was pure luck that the scan showed Naruto wouldn’t suffer from any brain damage.

“He lost control…” Shota spoke to Toshinori seriously. “… thankfully, only Thirteen and I know he lost control. When I was asked by the police, I told them Naruto’s dėsɨrė to protect his classmates gave him temporary control over his Quirk… and he passed out because of his injuries.” Shota continued with a sigh. He had told the police a pretty big lie, but considering Naruto wasn’t to blame for losing control, it wouldn’t be good to punish Naruto. His Quirk had acted on it’s own as a self-preservation mode, it had happened when Naruto had already been knocked out.

If Naruto hadn’t lost control, Nomu could have continued to rampage… and he could have killed a lot of people before Toshinori arrived to fight him, and that would have been a horrible thing to deal with.

Toshinori bowed.

“Thank you… has there been any word from Tsuyu Asui?” Toshinori tried to take his mind off of Naruto, he had to, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to face himself when he went home. All of the students were accounted for and, other than Naruto, uninjured. The only student who was missing was Tsuyu, and the only injured was Naruto. They had been looking for Tsuyu for close to 8 hours now, and there was no sign of the girl. Even those with powerful noses said her scent just vanished completely, right in the middle of the school grounds, and the other scent with her wasn’t like the scent of any of the villains who had attacked.

Shota got a text, and he stood up when he looked at his phone.

“I just got a text from Midnight. She found a trace of Asui. You stay, if villains come back, you’re the most suited to protect the school right now.” Shota wrapped his scarf around his neck and prepared to go and get his student back. He looked at the location again, before he left the room, and he saw Mina was sitting outside of the room. He didn’t say anything to her, as much as he would have liked to, but the tears in her eyes showed that she needed to speak with somebody. “… You can go in, I’m leaving now.” Shota told her as he quickly passed by.

All she did was nod and get up, heading into the room he just left.

-With Midnight-

“This is odd… the girl’s Quirk forms state that she can secrete a slime that is slightly poisonous… but what is it doing all this way from the school?” Midnight was a little confused as she worked with her fellow teacher and pro hero, Hound Dog. The one who had actually found the trail of slime, and he contacted her to make sure it was from the right student. The two of them had tracked down the traces all of the way down to a park, and considering it was so late at night now, it was doubtful that Tsuyu had been here to play around. Not a girl her age, and not at a park for little children like this. “What do you think Hound Dog?” Midnight asked as she looked at the traces on the slide, bending over and examining carefully.

She got no response as Hound Dog sniffed around, trying to find where the tracks went.

They stayed in the park.

“Odd… I can smell her scent here at the park, but I don’t smell it either entering or leaving.” Hound Dog didn’t know what to make of that. His nose had never lied to him before, but he didn’t smell anyone else coming to the park, or leaving it.

Midnight went to the bushes and looked into them for anything else.

“I sent a message to Eraserhead, he should be here soon. Lets see what else we can find in the meantime Hound Dog…” Midnight stood up and turned around. She looked to her fellow teacher, only to blink and pull out her whip when she didn’t see him standing. Her free arm went to her white bodysuit, preparing to rip it. “Hound Dog, you better not be pissing on a tree!” Midnight tried to make a dog joke to flush her ally out.

She was greeted by silence.

Something was off.

A small ball dropped out of the air, and landed on the ground in front of her. She ripped her suit, and pink gas started to fill the area, coming out of her skin. Her scent quickly surrounding her. In response to that, the small ball at her feet opened up, and all of her scent started to get suċkėd up into the ball. She ripped more of her suit off, and instantly her scent was suċkėd up into the ball again. The ball made a beeping sound, before it changed colors from pink to blue, and started to release a blue gas. She covered her mouth was quickly as she could, but her vision started to fade, before she her body gave out on the ground.

“Hound Dog, Quirk: Dog… and Midnight, Quirk: Somnambulist. Pro Heroes of quite a high standard, far exceeding the average hero for sure. Though, your original costume would make you far more suited to being in my collection.”

‘This scent… that little ball cancelled out my scent, and then released a scent that can knock me out… how…?’

Midnight passed out.

-The Next Day-

‘Where… where am I?’

Naruto’s eyes weakly opened as he winced, the morning sun shining right in them. He felt horrible, his entire body was in a ton of pain, and breathing was difficult for him. He felt like he had gone ten rounds with his uncle in his prime, and had taken a good amount of hits. What was worse, was Naruto felt an uncomfortable weight right on his stomach, which didn’t really hurt, but made it harder to breath. Trying to move his body, he found himself unable to move very much, even moving his hand was a challenge for him. All he could do was lean his head, and see that Mina was sleeping with her arms and head on his stomach, her eyes red and puffy, showing that she had been crying. On his other side, he saw his uncle sitting there, awake with a cup of coffee in his hands.

This was Recovery Girl’s emergency treatment room?

“It’s okay… you can go back to sleep. You did it, you saved your classmates… but next time… can you save them without worrying me so much?” Toshinori wasn’t going to yell or scream, or even trying to tell Naruto not to save people. He would be a hypocrite if he told Naruto to stop risking his life for others. He tried to smile down at Naruto, and Naruto tried to remember what had happened.

Nomu, that thing that he fought, all he remembered was getting smashed into a crater, then everything went black.

Naruto nodded a little.

“Uuuuuh… morning Yagi-san… Naruto! You’re awake! Thank god, Recovery Girl said it would be days before you would wake up!” Mina screamed when she saw his open eyes. She jumped onto him, and wrapped her arms around his neck as weakly as she could. Tears of joy were streaming down her face. She rubbed her cheek against the side of his head, and Naruto gasped and winced in pain.

Recovery Girl took her cane, and smacked Mina on the buŧŧ as she walked in.

“Down!”

“Sorry!” Mina apologized as quickly as she could, holding her hurting bum with both hands. The elderly woman stood up on a chair, and looked at Naruto’s condition with a critical eye. “Is he going to be okay?” Mina asked quietly, like she was trying to keep her words a secret. Getting a good look at Naruto again, she could see that Naruto wasn’t in great condition.

Recovery Girl nodded.

“How stubborn you are never ceased to amaze me. I’m amazed you were able to survive with those injuries, and kept fighting despite of them. Now, you wake up days before you were scheduled to. You must have questions.” Recovery Girl removed his breathing mask, and allowed Naruto to take a breath of fresh air. She kept it close by just in case Naruto wasn’t ready to have it taken off just yet.

Naruto’s mouth moved, but he didn’t have the strength to speak.

Mina, and his uncle, looked like they wanted to cry when they saw him so weak. Gathering up as much strength as he could, and going beyond that, Naruto managed to sit up with a weak grunt. Toshinori helped him with a hand on his back, and Mina placed a hand on his ċhėst.

“What… Where is… where is it?”

“Where is… he’s unconscious again.” Mina didn’t know what to make of that question. She saw that Naruto was already asleep again, having used up all of the strength he had regained. She was pushed out of her chair, and Toshinori took, as the healing hero started to make them leave. “Can’t I stay with him longer!?”

“I’m his uncle!”

“I’m going to start another healing for Naruto, and he’s going to need more rest. With any luck, he should be able to move around again by tomorrow. Until then, you two are making him push himself too far to make you happy, out!” Recovery Girl lectured both of them as they were forcefully pushed out of the room. The door was closed, and locked, behind them. Mina and Toshinori didn’t know how to react right away to that, but Toshinori let loose a sigh of relief.

Naruto was going to be okay… physically speaking.

Toshinori and Mina looked at each other, before they nodded. If anything, the fact Naruto was being so stubborn meant that he was going to be okay, and they just needed to give him time to rest.

“You head to class, I know you’ll be late, but you might want to head to the locker room and use their showers.” Toshinori told her with a smile. She had been in her hero costume since yesterday, and had worked up a sweat when the villains had appeared. She deserved a nice hot shower before going to class, but she had been so worried about Naruto making it, she had stayed by his side all night. He didn’t want to say it out loud, but the girl was really good for his nephew. She had been nothing but loyal to him when he was in great need, even if he wasn’t awake to realize it.

She nodded her head, and stared to walk off just as Toshinori’s phone started to ring.

Strange, he didn’t recognize this number.

-Mt. Lady Office-

“As you can see, we’re still in the red with that last stunt… it might really be best if we move out of the city.”

“Nooooo, I want to make it big, and to do that I have to be in the city.” Mt. Lady complained as she listened to one of her very few workers explain to her how bad their financial situation was at the moment. With her Gigantification Quirk, even she knew she was best suited out of the city. That being said, she still set up her office in the city so that she could bask in the praise and glory that came with being a big city hero.

There was a beep.

“Mt. Lady, there is a investor here to see you, do you want me to send him in?”

“Yes!” Mt. Lady shouted into the mic, eyes dazzling. She had the brightest smile on her face, because in all of her short time as a pro hero, she had yet to have any investors come and visit her. The closest thing to that was when she had put out her line of hair-care products to make extra money, and she met up with stores to decide which places could carry it and produce it. “See, we’re not bad off, investors means money! Now, scoot, out, I want to see at the desk and look official.” Mt. Lady started to rush the man out of his desk.

If she was sitting behind a desk, she would look a lot more business worthy, she was happy she was wearing her costume right now, it would send off the best impression!

Her adviser exited the room, at the exact same time as a man in a black suit, with slicked back black hair and black sunglasses came in. He had a completely neutral expression and face, everything about the man was very neutral actually. He had a briefcase though, and he sat down across from her.

“Mt. Lady, it’s a pŀėȧsurė to meet you.”

“Always a pŀėȧsurė meeting an investor, so, are you the one investing or do you have a boss… and let me just say, I am open to negotiations.” Mt. Lady acted as cool as she could. She could negotiate how much money she could accept, and if she was going to have to undergo small style changes, or start mentioning certain businesses and items for sale.

She dropped her guard, and made herself look as naive and innocent to the business world as possible. She leaned forward and pressed her brėȧsts together using her arms.

He didn’t even glance at her brėȧsts sadly.

“I come as a representative. My boss is quite the fan of heroes, and you’re rising popularity has attracted his attention, as well as your powerful Quirk. There will be no need for negotiations. If you will be willing to meet my Boss, he has prepared-” The Investor spoke to her, and opened up his briefcase. Mt. Lady saw the money in the case, and suddenly became very lightheaded. “1,000,000,000 Yen in cash, with an additional 1,000,000,000 Yen if he believes you have potential.” The Investor spoke calmly, and clearly.

Mt. Lady felt like she was going to have a heart attack when she saw the amount of money, and heard that it was only half of what she could be getting out of this. That was enough to take her out of the red completely, and put her far into the green.

“Deal!” Mt. Lady was drooling so much that when she shouted that, she accidentally spewed all over the Investor’s face.

He paid it no mind.

“Very well, shall we?” The Investor stood up and reached into his pocket, putting out a small coin. He tossed it on the ground, and it opened up to create a portal above the coin.

“Well, lets not keep your boss waiting then!” Mt. Lady walked briskly towards the portal, her greediest smile possible on her face. She slapped her cheeks as she walked through the portal, and though it was strange that portals existed, it just might be because of a Quirk she didn’t know about. She put on a pleasant smile, before she blinked.

She was looking at Eraserhead, Midnight, and Hound Dog, three pro heroes from U.A., and they were standing across from her with blank looks on their faces.

She noticed she was standing in the middle of a… what looked like a cathedral, with a painted ceiling. Lined on the walls were large pods, with hero’s names below each pod. In the middle of the room, behind the heroes, was a large pillar that went up into a hole in the massive ceiling. Heck, the walls were also lined with windows, revealing… nothing but white outside of the windows.

Odd.

“Holy crap, that’s your original costume!” Mt. Lady looked shocked when she saw Midnight wearing her original, even MORE super revealing costume that lacked the bodysuit underneath it. One slip, and her brėȧsts would become super exposed. This type of suit had been banned, thanks in part to Midnight herself.

She blinked when the Investor walked up behind the heroes.

“Mt. Lady, I’m pleased you could join us.” The Investor pulled out a phone, and a voice came out of it.

She thought she was meeting the guy in person?

“Wow, this is a pretty nice place you have… if you weren’t investing in me, I would say this was a competent villain hide out.” Mt. Lady joked, seriously, as she glanced at the expressionless heroes.

…

“Add her to the collection.”

“Damnit!” Mt. Lady looked at saw the ceiling was tall enough to use her Quirk. Grinning, she was shocked when instantly, her Quirk was erased and she was unable to use it. She covered her mouth when pink gas filled the area from Midnight, and even though it was better against men, Mt. Lady covered her mouth and nose, preparing to fight them off without her Quirk if needed.’They’re under some kind of mind-”

Hound Dog slammed a fist into her stomach, knocking arms away from her mouth as she gasped, breathing it a large amount of scent. She suddenly felt woozy, but maintained consciousness for a bit longer. One of the pods in the room opened up, before she was captured by Eraserhead’s scarf, and thrown into the pod.

“Erasing Quirks, a fast and powerful dog, and portable knock out gas. I knew adding you three to my collection first would be a boon. Now, return to your pods, I want to keep you preserved.”

The Pro Heroes all obeyed the commands as more pods in the room, with their names, opened up. Just as Mt. Lady’s pod closed, and her body was placed in statis.

-With Class 1-A-

“Man, Aizawa-sensei is sure late.” Ochaco spoke with a wide smile. This was giving her the chance to finish up the homework she forgot to do with all the excitement from yesterday. She had a wide smile on her face, because she was almost done and the teacher was 15 minutes late for class.

Several other students were just hanging around, talking with each other in small groups, while Tenya and Izuku were with her.

“It’s inappropriate for a teacher.” Tenya spoke with a frown, adjusting his glasses just to show his annoyance.

Izuku waved his hands.

“He must just be exhausted from yesterday.” Izuku mentioned as the doors opened up, and Mina tried to silently enter. “He’s not here.” Izuku told her with a good morning wave.

Mina sighed in relief.

“Mina! How’s Naruto doing!?” Kirishima screamed as he ran towards her. She yelped when he grabbed onto her and started to try and physically shake the answers out of her body. She was soon crowded by other students that were curious about the answer, and trying to get it from her.

“Speaking of late…” Momo whispered with a furrowed brow.

Where was Tsuyu?

“He’s going to be okay, he just needs some more healing, and some rest.” Mina saw everyone who was friends with Naruto at this point sigh in relief. Kirishima even rubbed the joyful tears out of his eyes, hiccuping in a dramatic way at the safety of his friend.

She was rubbed by Kirishima and Toru, both of whom seemed to be balling, glad at the news.

“Shut up! That bastard is too strong, he beat a guy made to kill All Might, as if he would die that easily.” Bakugo snapped at them for their crying. He had the most unpleasant look they had ever seen on his face, as if it had physically hurt him to say those words out loud. Yet, even he had to give credit where it was due, because otherwise he wouldn’t be able to challenge himself and push his own limits further. ‘Fucking bastard… hiding so much power… I’ll beat him, I’ll beat all of them.’ Bakugo thought with a clenched fist.

Mina hugged Toru and Kirishima, before she quickly let go of them.

‘An enemy made to defeat All Might…’ Izuku thought about that for a moment, before he blinked.

That seemed impossible to him, he would have to ask Naruto about that when he saw him next, and get his opinion.

“Okay class, everyone to your seats.”

Everyone was surprised when a different teacher came into the room, Cementoss, their Modern Literature Teacher, came into the room instead of Shota. It was odd for them to see the man outside of his own class actually.

“Sir, where is Aizawa-sensei?” Kyoka asked with a raised hand, the first among them who was willing to voice her thoughts on it.

Cementoss looked at her.

“He’s resting right now, but he’ll be back as soon as he’s ready to teach again. Don’t worry, we’re sure he’s in no danger.” Cementoss then proceeded to start giving out the lessons.

-With Ryuko-

“Seriously? Can’t I enjoy my day off without some villains deciding to attack me?” Ryuko wasn’t exactly dressed for a fight, wearing a swimsuit for starters since she was at the beach. She just wanted to relax, and suddenly she was met with several masked men surrounding her. All of them with slicked back hair, black suits, and briefcases. They had white masks covering their faces, and were standing politely… with guns pointed at her.

The life of a hero was a difficult one.

Thankfully, her swimsuits were made of the same material as her clothes, so she could transform without worrying about destroying them. Going up to her dragon form, she looked down at the men and gave them a glare.

Guns wouldn’t hurt her in this form.

“She’s using her Quirk, open fire, go for her wings first like the Boss said.” The men opened their briefcases and pulled out ammo for their guns. Switching to the prefered ammo, Ryuko swiped at one of them. The one she swiped at shot her elbow, and a small blue ball impacted her scales, exploding and covering her elbow in a thick case of extremely cold ice.

The men started to fire at her wings, weighing them down heavily with thick ice that started to form on her. They iced down her legs to the ground, freezing her in place. She wasn’t even given a fair chance to struggle before her neck was completely cover in ice.

The cold quickly started to sap her strength, as her eyes started to close. She transformed back into human form, and slipped out of the ice, hitting the ground as a shivering mess. The men fired at her again, and froze the lower half of her body. Two men changed ammo, while she laid on the ground helplessly. She was shot in the neck by two small darts.

She was out cold moments later.

“Pro Hero, Ryukyu captured. Transporting to base.” The man’s cold, neutral voice spoke as they captured the woman.

-With Endeavor-

“Oh, so you bastards think you’ll be able to fight ME!?”

Endeavor shouted as he summoned forth flames, and threw them at one of the men. He was surprised when the man’s suit wasn’t even burned as he walked through the flames, a light green force field flickered around the man, all of the men around. They walked and formed a circle around Endeavor, as quickly as they could, before they opened up their briefcases and dropped thick metal plates on the ground.

Endeavor had just been in his office, when these men had broke in and interrupted him. When he told them to leave or be fried, they simply told him his resistance was useless.

“We know all about your Hellflame… and without oxygen, flames can not live. Without heat, they have trouble starting.” The seeming leader spoke, they all looked the same.

“I… I…” Endeavor suddenly found he couldn’t breath. All of the air in the room was quickly suċkėd into the plates. He formed a quick flame, but the room’s heat was drained as well. Without heat or oxygen, his flames quickly died into nothing. He ran at one of the men, hoping to beat him and break his machine.

He hit a barrier preventing him from going a step further, as all of the men drew closer to him.

“You’re popularity, status as a hero, and strength are all remarkable. The Master wishes to add you to his collection.” The Leading Suit spoke as Endeavor was shot with darts, his strength even more quickly fading away as he was grabbed.

‘… They… created a plan unique… to capture me… they analyzed my fighting style and my Quirk… who are these… bast…’ With those as his last weak thoughts, Endeavor passed out. The men grabbed him, and packed away their capture tools.

“Endeavor, captured.”

-With Gang Orca-

“We don’t wish for violence, a peaceful surrender is the best course of action.”

Underwater.

Gang Orca was underwater, looking all around him as men in black suits surrounded him, surprisingly agile underwater like him. They were holding briefcases, that they were opening to reveal strangely shaped guns.

“A hero never surrenders-”

That the the go for them to attack, and Gang Orca felt like his head was splitting open the second they pointed their weapons at him. He writhed and shouted in pain as extremely powerful sonic waves ȧssaulted his head harder than he had ever experience before. He couldn’t see straight as they attacked, all of his senses went haywire, before his eyes rolled up into the back of his head.

Two of the men swam over to him.

His eyes rolled back to where they were suppose to be, and he punched at the men. He was then ȧssaulted by more sonic waves, only this time, the men near him switched their ammo and shot capturing ropes at him. His legs and arms were tied up, and he was forced to bȧrė the mind-rending pain. He struggled for several minutes, but even he needed air.

He passed out, and a man placed an oxygen mask on his face, before injecting him with a knock out drug.

“Gang Orca, captured.”

-In the Mountains-

“Don’t worry, the Wild Wild Pussycats are here to save you! We’ll get you out of there in a jiffy!”

The team of 4 heroes all went towards the collapsed cave. They had been called and sent to rescue several people who had called for him with a cave in, and being a mountain rescue team, they had been the first team that been chosen for this job.

Tiger started to use his body to grab tree trunks and move them out of the way.

“Pixie-Bob reporting for duty, lets clear away this earth!” Pixie-Bob shouted as she placed her hands on the ground, and the collapsed cave started to fix itself, boulders crawling out of the cave and into the open. It moved slowly so that no more cave in’s would happen.

‘Don’t worry, we’ll save you soon.’ Mandalay thought as she sent out thought waves into the cave.

She would reassure the victims until they were saved.

They were a well oiled team, and Ragdoll looked around everywhere excitedly, but she was blinking in confusion.

‘Weird, I don’t see anyone in the cave… no living or dead people anyway.’ Ragdoll didn’t know what to make of that. With her Quirk, she could see 100 people at a time, even if she didn’t have her eyes on them directly. Yet, she couldn’t see any people in that cave.

Tiger started to squeeze through the cave in, before he was gone from their view.

‘Okay, be careful in there Tiger. Pixie-Bob, try and build up support structures, make them a good exit.’ Mandalay gave out instructions to her teammates. As the leader of the team, she had to make sure everything was good to go.

Ragdoll furrowed her brow.

She still couldn’t see any people.

“I found them!” Tiger’s voice was heard loud and clear, which only caused Ragdoll to furrow her brow even more in confusion.

People her Quirk couldn’t see?

“Perfect, and Pixie-Bob is nearly done making an exit, are they injured at all?” Mandalay called out her question. Seeing that there was enough space for her to go in as well, she traveled into the cave after Tiger. “I’m coming in!” Mandalay vanished into the cave after.

Pixie-Bob sent Ragdoll a thumbs up.

“We’re nyanderfull.” Pixie-Bob made a joke, and Ragdoll nodded with a wide smile. Pixie-Bob finished clearing out the cave in, and with sunlight, thye looked in and saw that there was nobody there.

Not even Mandalay or Tiger were there.

…

“I don’t see any people.” Ragdoll stated, before a coin dropped on the ground in front of them. A portal opened up, and a small horde of men in suits came out of the portal before it closed, and the coin destroyed itself. “… I still don’t see them with my Quirk.” Ragdoll pointed out with more confusion.

Pixie-Bob jumped next to her.

“Get ready to call for help, we don’t know what their Quirks are!” Pixie-Bob was pretty sure she had a good idea what happened to their teammates. She prepared to use her Quirk, and the earth under them stirred to her call. The man all opened up their briefcases, before they pulled out rods and stabbed them into the ground. Pressing a buŧŧon on top of each rod, her control over the earth around her was instantly ruined.

Electricity ran through the ground, and as she gained control over it, the electricity ruined her control.

They had negated her Quirk!

“We need to get out of here, and warn-” Ragdoll started, but didn’t get far into her statement.

The men shot them with tranq-darts, with the two women going down. The men surrounded them and tied them up, getting them ready for transport.

“Wild, Wild, Pussycats have been captured.”

-After School, Class 1-A-

“Man, those villains must have taken a lot out of the teachers. Aizawa-sensei and Midnight were both missing today. I hope Tsuyu is feeling well.” Sato commented as he sat down with Sero. School had just ended, and everyone was getting ready to go home.

Ojiro nodded.

“It’s certainly odd, but with the villain attack yesterday, things must be pretty hectic for them.” Ojiro commented in a normal way. He tried to be understanding of the teacher’s situation. They were all lucky they didn’t end up like Naruto, or worse, dead with the villain attack. It was hard to imagine what it was like for the teachers to have to balance pro hero work, with teaching right now, not to mention they could have been injured as well.

It was a lot to take in.

“So, Jiro, want to get a latte or something? My treat.” Denki offered Kyoka with a grin on his face. She looked at him with a raised eyebrow, not seeing why he was offering this to her.

She shook her head.

“I just want to go home and relax, I’m still a little shaken from yesterday.” Kyoka denied him swiftly. She wanted that latte, but she wanted to spend time with her family winding down as well.

He pouted and nodded.

Why did that never work?

“Mina, want to hang out with me?” Toru asked with a upbeat jump.

Mina waved her off with a smile.

“I’m going to go home and change clothes, then I’m coming back here to visit Naruto. I want to be there for him when he’s recovering. So see you guys later.” Mina used that as her time to leave, finishing packing up all of her stuff. Sue her, she wanted to be there for her injured boyfriend, instead of just hanging out. As much as she wanted to spend time with Toru, some things had to come first.

Tenya stood in front of Izuku.

“Midoriya, if it wouldn’t be too much trouble, I wish to ask for your ȧssistance with something.”

Most of the class was doing whatever they could to try and not thing about what happened yesterday, though some of them didn’t seem the least bit affected either. Strangely enough, Todoroki was actually smiling a little, which never happened in class.

‘I feel like something good happened…’ Todoroki thought to himself with a smile.

He didn’t know what happened, but something good happened.

“Mina, can I visit Naruto with you? I have something I need to ask him about.” Momo asked Mina with a concerned expression.

Something weird about yesterday, a question she really wanted to ask Naruto, and she was sure that Naruto wouldn’t answer it if he was able to walk away from her. Now was her only chance to ask the question.

“Sorry Iida, but I actually wanted to speak with Naruto about something too. Ashido, Yaororozu, can I join you two?” Izuku kindly denied Tenya, and he walked over to the two girls. Mina didn’t really have a problem with it, and Momo wasn’t in a position to judge him for asking, seeing as she asked the question to.

Surely, Naruto would be willing to answer their questions.

-With Naruto-

‘Gotta get stronger…’ Naruto grit his teeth in pain as he did push ups with a single finger, his broken arm still in a sling. After his healing, which he didn’t know how many times she had to heal him while he was out, he had been able to move his body once more. ‘I’m not going to lose like that again…’ Naruto honestly didn’t remember anything but his own defeat.

Defeat.

Not being beaten while training with Ryuko or his uncle, no, a real defeat against a villain. It wasn’t a non-serious issue, he had actually lost a fight. A fight with the lives of others on the line, and it was just amazing that nobody else had gotten hurt.

“Child, you’re trying my patience… I leave for 5 minutes, and I come back to see you exerting yourself.” Recovery Girl stated as she lectured Naruto the second she came back into her office. She knew this much was going to happen as soon as Naruto could move his body.

Naruto moved too much.

“Gah!” Naruto let out a pained shout, and he fell to the ground.

“You’re body is still incredibly injured right now… just because you can move, doesn’t mean you should. As soon as you recovery more stamina, I’m going to heal you again. Get in that bed, and stay there until I tell you to.” Recovery Girl told him as she sat a bowl of ramen at the table next to his bed. It was a food that was great for restoring stamina, a food Naruto loved, so she would give him this. The quicker his stamina was restored, the quicker he could be healed to a better condition.

She frowned to herself as she looked at her computer, and saw she was getting a flood of emails again.

Naruto stared down into the ramen’s broth, seeing his own reflection.

‘… I can’t hear that voice anymore either… and I feel like I’m forgetting something… damn… these drugs are making it hard to think…’ Naruto rubbed the side of his head. He was on so many painkillers, and he could STILL feel pain, that it was extremely hard for him to form most complex thoughts.

He felt like he was forgetting something important though.

“Bastard.”

“What?” Naruto asked when he heard somebody walk up next to him. He was surprised when he saw Bakugo, but he didn’t make anything of it. He saw Bakugo glaring, normal, and he saw the boy look like he had swallowed a lemon… also normal for him.

He was a generally unpleasant person to be around, but it was surprising that the boy who seemed to hate him, was visiting him.

“Tell me something…”

-A Hidden Location-

“Ah… look at this collection… I have Midnight in her debut costume. Eraserhead, a hero who stays out of the spotlight. Then there is Hound Dog, a popular hero with animal Quirk users. Endeavor, the Number 2 Hero… and Ryukyu, the Number 9… not to downplay Gang Orca, or the Wild, Wild, Pussycats… and I have the complete collection for them.”

All these powerful Quirks, added to his collection, and to be used as he saw fit. He had spent such a long time building up his massive fortune, using his own Quirk to allow him to control others. With it, he was able to subdue a young man with a Quirk that gave him near-unrivaled intelligence. He had then spent years, quietly observing the Pro Heroes with interesting or powerful Quirks, taking apart their battle styles, and trying to locate any weaknesses in their Quirks.

“Do you see Tsuyu… I can change the world, change it how I see fit. I don’t want to have to hurt you… with the Hoshi no Tama that I got from you, I’ve been able to do great things. When the boy’s mother died, I had thought I would never lay my hands on one of these… but alas, I couldn’t have been more plelased when my sensors picked up one moving around… in the open so freely.” The man draped by shadows, wearing a cloak over his body so that Tsuyu didn’t see his face, spoke as he held the white ball in his hand.

Tsuyu was free from his control, but her hands were tied behind her back, and she was being dragged around on a leash like an animal.

“What use is that to you, it belongs to Naruto.”

“All will be revealed in time, until then, be a good pet and just follow your master around like an obedient creature.” The man yanked on her leash and pulled her behind him, as she was forced to gaze at the growing collection of heroes the man was amassing.

Tsuyu made sure to memorize everything she saw.

The interior of this place was massive, and it was filled with such high tech machines that she didn’t know where to begin. She had also seen the man’s robot army, the men in the suits, coming and going through those portal coins. They would leave to capture a hero, after getting suited up with the appropriate gear for their target, before they could leave. The heroes were almost always brought in with little to no injury, which was terrifying to the girl.

This man wasn’t a villain.

He was a super-villain.

“Why keep me around?” Tsuyu asked, and the man glanced back at her.

“When my final machine is ready, I’ll use this Hoshi no Tama to cleanse this world, and then I’ll use my collection to create the perfect world. If I want to enjoy the perfect world, I’ll need a lowly creature like you, to remind me how far I’ve come. Since you practically handed world domination to me on a silver platter, you will be the lowly creature I keep as a pet.” The man coldly spoke to her, all of the niceties before were gone as he looked down at her. Despite what was thought, he had no interest in her body. She wasn’t going to be used as a breeding tool for his new world, and she wasn’t going to be abused either.

She would just exist to remind him just how he had succeeded in creating the perfect world.

A portal opened up.

Two more portals opened up.

“Ah, Best Jeanist, Ms. Joke, and Mirko… what amazing additions, please, quickly place them in stasis. Good work.” The man was excited to see two more of the Top 10 had been so quickly captured, while another excellent pro hero had been brought along with them. His plans were going as smoothly as possible, and none of the heroes had caught onto his plans just yet.

Even if they did, it was impossible for them to track him down, he was using portals to make sure nobody could find the location of his base.

Then again, his base was always moving, so not that they would ever find it, until it was too late.

“My friends will stop you, even if the pros can’t.” Tsuyu tried to sound calm, but it was hard.

Seeing so many captured pros was horrifying.

“Why should I worry about some worthless, no-name students? I’ve created plans on how to capture every pro hero that is worth anything, some children are nothing to me.” The man dragged her along with him as they went back to his throne, and as she was forced to sit on the ground, he took the throne. A platform started to raise his throne up high into the air, taking them to the control deck.

Tsuyu looked out into the blue sky.

This wasn’t good.

-Later-

“Reports say that several pro heroes, including those of the Top 10, are currently missing, and unable to be reached. If you have any information on the whereabouts of these heroes, please contact the police with haste.”

Nezu turned off the TV, with all of the teachers on his pro hero teaching side, in his office with him. All of them had watched the news report, report the missing heroes. All of the heroes had vanished without a trace, which was odd on it’s own, and none of them were answering their phones, or responding to texts. It had become practically impossible to track them down, and the fact that their teaching staff was included in the missing heroes was frightening for them.

It started when Shota went to check up on a lead for the missing Tsuyu, and it continued to spiral from there.

“What do you mean we can’t help look for them!?” Vlad shouted as he slammed his fist into the table.

They were being told NOT to do anything!?

“Until we know more about this, we need to tread with caution. Every hero that went missing has gone missing without so much as a trace… for heroes like Midnight and Eraserhead it makes sense… but even Mirko and Endeavor were caught without signs of a fight… we’re dealing with something we haven’t dealt with before.” Nezu placed his paws up to calm down the unruly teacher. As it stood, everyone was on edge.

Midnight, Hound Dog, and Eraserhead weren’t the only ones who had gone missing, even from their teaching staff.

Ectoplasm, who had heard the report earlier than others, had gone to investigate, and he had already turned up missing as well. They were done by almost half of their pro heroes in their teaching staff.

“If I go, I can make quick work of this.” Toshinori explained, but Nezu glanced at him.

“If they took Endeavor down without a fight, it makes sense they also know your weaknesses as well, and have created plans against you. If we lose you, we lose hope as well. This isn’t the time to go rushing, we need a plan of action. As it stands, I doubt the villain has murdered them.” Nezu tried to explain, but the teachers didn’t like it.

They didn’t have to like it, what he said made sense.

Toshinori cupped his hands together, and frowned to himself. The only teachers they had left were Power Loader, Snipe, Cementoss, Vlad, and himself. Thirteen was out on an ȧssignment elsewhere, and the others higher up weren’t fit for battle. As it stood, they wouldn’t be able to protect the students.

“Are the students in any danger?” Vlad calmed down a little and asked.

He had been wondering about it to.

“This entity seems to be targeting only pro heroes who hold a reputation, are well known, or have a strong Quirk… the students status as students seem to protect them from this… but I wonder if Tsuyu Asui going missing has any relation to this.” Nezu remained upbeat as he analyzed all of the data they had so far. He didn’t stay upbeat though, and frowned. “So many heroes have been captured in such a short time, and we have no information other than guesses… if we make any unwise moves, it could spell the end for us.” Nezu didn’t like saying it, but it was rather simple.

They were fighting an uphill battle right now.

They all went silent as they digested those words.

This wasn’t good.

-With Gran Torino-

The elderly man stood with an unimpressed look on his face when a group of men surrounded him in his own apartment. He glanced around at them all, before he smirked and prepared for a fight.

“My Boss wishes for you to come peacefully.”

“Peacefully is for villains and the dead, I’ll go down with a fight.” Gran Torino moved too quickly for any of them to see and kicked one of them in the head. Knocking him into a wall, before he moved around and kicked too more. As he was kicking them around, five more of them placed small square devices with holes in them around the room.

He kicked down three more of them in under a second, half of the villains knocked out with ease.

He went for several more, but his Quirk stopped working, and he could feel his airs popping.

‘… The room’s air pressure… it’s too low for me to use my Quirk… so they came prepared… and they aren’t human.’ Gran Torino saw the men standing up, the skin on their faces having peeled off to reveal robot faces underneath. They replaced their masks and covered their robot features, before the got guns out and aimed at him.

They didn’t look like normal guns.

It seemed these people were very prepared to fight him.

“You’re a relic of a golden age of heroes, our boss will value you greatly. You will be unharmed if you surrender peacefully.”

Gran Torino raised his hands up in surrender.

“Very well, but I’m hungry, I want something to eat before I go. Wait for just a second.” Gran Torino’s mind thought quickly as he was allowed to walk over to his fridge and microwave. Placing frozen food in the microwave, he accidentally spilled the ketchup. “Ah dangit… I can’t leave this place a mess, or I’ll never be able to surrender peacefully.” Gran Torino was allowed to clean up the spilled ketchup, just as the microwave went off.

Smiling to himself, he placed his ketchup stained fingers in the microwave, and after a few moments, he pulled out his food.

He was allowed a few minutes to eat, before they opened up a portal, expecting him to walk in.

“Gran Torino, captured.”

‘Secret message, sent… you better be as good at tracking people down as your grandmother was Naruto.’ Gran Torino thought as he finished secretely typing a small messaging on the phone, hidden inside of his glove. Sending what he hoped was a decent text to Naruto, he willingly walked through the portal.

He couldn’t win this fight without his Quirk, so he would entrust it to somebody he believed in… somebody with a Quirk that was nearly impossible to plan against.

The unpredictable idiot.

-With Naruto-

“… What the hell is this?” Naruto looked at the text he had gotten from Gran Torino, with a confused expression. He was still sitting in his bed, but he had been given his phone by Mina, as she, Momo, and Izuku all stood around him.

Nrrd jelp.

“What the hell?” Mina looked at his phone.

“So you’re okay?” Momo asked him, glancing at Mina and Izuku, unsure if she could ask her question with the others around him. She saw Naruto nod, and she sighed in relief. “You seem to be recovering well.” Momo looked at him, and though his arm was in a sling, he was doing much better than she pictured him.

Mina nodded.

She was happy that Naruto was already able to move this much again, getting multiple healings from Recovery Girl was having amazing results. Recovery Girl walked back into her office, and though she was a little surprised to see the other students, she made no comment on it.

“Thanks for healing Naruto Recovery Girl!” Mina thanked the elderly woman.

Recovery Girl wasn’t paying attention to her.

“Well, I can walk again, so I’m going to go and find my thing.” Naruto said in the most confusing way he could have. Since he was sure the only ones in the room who knew what a Hoshi no Tama were, were him and Mina, it would be smart not to make that super public knowledge. Recovery Girl didn’t even pay Naruto any attention when he got up and started to walk out of the room.

Naruto locked eyes with Izuku.

“Your thing?” Mina asked with a tiltled head.

“A thing? I can make a thing.” Momo then proceeded to make a small doll. She was sure that she could make a copy of whatever Naruto was missing. Mina grabbed Naruto and pushed him back into the bed, before she proceeded to jump up and sit down on his stomach.

He wasn’t moving.

“I’m not letting you leave until you’re all healed. With your luck, the second you leave here, a super villain will start raining fire from the sky from a flying fortress.” Mina said the most strange thing she could think of. With Naruto’s luck the last week, it made sense for something even more weird to happen. “Then, you’ll be right back here. So my buŧŧ is staying right here, and your buŧŧ is staying right there.” Mina made herself comfortable on Naruto, until he got the hint and stayed in the bed.

She was sure that this would keep Naruto in bed.

‘He’s going to-‘ Izuku knew Naruto a little, and knew this wouldn’t keep him in the bed.

Naruto laid back and grabbed Mina, pulling her into the bed with him.

“… I need my Hoshi no Tama… it’s on the move…I can feel it.”

Naruto whispered gently into her ear so neither Momo or Izuku could hear them. Mina’s eyes widened when she realized that Tsuyu was the last person to have it, and right now, Naruto’s life was still in danger if anything happened to that little ball. Not to mention, if they found it, they could find Tsuyu as well.

“I totally forgot, we had that date thing planned, ahahaha!” Mina laughed nervously as she jumped up off of Naruto.

Naruto nodded.

“Yeah, so we better go… and get ready. We’ll see you guys later. Izuku, I don’t know what you need to ask me, but if you have questions, try and answer them yourself.” Naruto told his classmate, and he wasn’t the only one that took the answer, Momo nodded her head, since she had a question to. She would go and think about it herself now.

Izuku just nodded with a downtrodden look, and though Naruto wanted to help, Izuku had to learn to help himself improve too.

You could be trained by a hundred skilled trainers, but if you weren’t able to improve yourself, then you were placing limits on your growth from the beginning.

“What was that about?” Mina asked Naruto as they walked by.

Naruto would tell her later.

‘It’s on the move… that thing is too much trouble. The second I get that thing back, I’m going to lock it up again.’ Naruto frowned as he thought on it. It was his key to unlocking the secret powers of his Quirk, but at the same time, it was his biggest weakness. He had never intended for Tsuyu to get her hands on it, he would have prefered if Mina or Kirishima were holding onto it for him while he was knocked out. Actually, he would have much prefered his uncle over everyone else.

Sadly, only a few people knew what it was, so he doubted that Shota knew how dangerous it was to leave with Tsuyu.

He couldn’t afford to leave his weakness exposed, even if it meant he was sacrificing a large amount of his potential.

“Lets hurry and find that, and find Tsuyu with it.” Mina didn’t like how much danger her friends were in.

They weren’t in a good position.

-Secret Base-

“Almost complete… soon, my precious army will finish constructing my cleansing machine.”

The man looked up at an incomplete machine with a smile. He had locked Tsuyu up in her cage, since this part of the base wasn’t something she could see. He could just imagine placing the Hoshi no Tama into the machine, and finally powering it. He had already created his 15 core controllers for the machine, and he had them strategically scattered across his base. The machine was 55% complete, and he had begun constructing the second the location of a Hoshi no Tama was located and seen moving around.

He had almost lost hope that he would never be able to go through with his plan, but everything was falling into place.

After waiting for years, the wait was almost impossible to take. Not only would he have to wait for his machine to finish, but he needed to wait for the Hoshi no Tama to finish charging up the machine. He could have done this all years ago, but it had become impossible to use Kushina’s Hoshi no Tama, or even her mother’s Hoshi no Tama before her. Both of those had been shattered long ago, and even if he put them back together, it wouldn’t restore their power.

“Boss, the machine’s completion will be ready in an estimated 31 hours.”

“Very well… and the charging time?” The man asked his robot.

“15 minutes.”

“Then that is how long this world has, before the cleansing will start. Be sure to collect all of the heroes that are on my list before then. My new world will only accept the best, and the genetics of heroes can’t get any better. I want a diverse gene pool at my disposal for cloning.” The man gave his orders. He wanted all of those pods filled, and he wanted to begin the process of creating the next, perfect, generation of humanity. Using his hero collection as a genetic base for his experiments.

The world had less than two days before he started to purge it.

“Understood.”

The man smiled.

“I have a-”

-With Naruto-

“-bad feeling about this. First Tsuyu went missing, and now everyone seems worried about something… and Ryuko won’t answer her phone… neither will Rumi… and she never rejects my calls.” Naruto said as he tried to call anyone he could. Something was weird, civilians seemed like they were in a state of unrest at the moment, and nobody was willing to say why.

Did something happen while he was out cold, something that freaked everyone out so much that people were getting off of the streets as quickly as possible.

Why were people so freaked out?

“Who is Rumi?” Mina asked as she pinched his cheek. “Also, where are we going?” Mina questioned further.

“Seeing Super Gramps, his text message is weird… I should check up on him. Considering how people are acting, and the weird feeling I have… something bad is going on. This is like the feeling I got yesterday…” Naruto mentioned with a frown. It was like the feeling, but there was no voice in his head this time. The feeling of imminent danger was bad enough.

Mina was silent at the reminder of yesterday.

“Think… think a big villain is going to show up again?” She wasn’t sure she could handle that right now.

They got to a small house, and Naruto walked inside using his copy of the key. Frowning when he right away saw signs of a fight, Naruto looked around.

“Super Gramps, you here!… I smell… burnt ketchup… The microwave.” Naruto walked over towards the microwave and looked at the ketchup stain on the ground in front of it. The smell wouldn’t be burnt though if it was just a stain on the ground. He opened the microwave, and he didn’t see any ketchup there either.

Mina looked into it, and because she was shorter than Naruto, she was able to see the top of the microwave.

“Ah, a message… what does I’ve been taken mean?” Mina asked, and she spoke the ‘I’ve been taken’ in English, a language she wasn’t super familiar with.

A language Naruto was familiar with.

“I’m calling my uncle.” Naruto stated with a frown.

-With Toshinori-

“All Might… captured.”

Toshinori laid on the ground, clutching his side as his body was covered from neck to foot in a highly dense material that was so heavy, even he had trouble moving in it. The material kept growing tighter and tighter around him, and when he tried to use his strength to get out, all it did was loosen up and jump off of his body, before it would get right back on it.

His phone started to go off, and one of the men destroyed it the second he noticed it, they surrounded him and placed him inside of a mobile pod.

“Not yet I’m not!” Going into his muscle form again, having been forced out of it, he broke free for a second. He managed to break out of the pod, and though he was free, it didn’t last long.

His Quirk was erased.

A portal opened up, and Eraserhead came through with an emotionless face. His Quirk active, and forcing Toshinori to stop using his own Quirk. Before he could escape, he was shot with the capturing gel that got him before, and a second pod was placed around him.

“All Might, captured again.”

The Number 1 Hero… was captured.