Chapter 28: Making Contact
"Good work everyone," All Might said, as the day's Foundational Hero Studies lesson had concluded. "With class over, let's head back to school to get you changed before I dismiss you." He had arrived around thirty minutes after Takezushi had warded off the villain's invasion and had thereafter taken the reigns as the headteacher for the class's excursion at the USJ.
As the class moved out of the central zone and to the exit of the USJ, All Might held Takezushi back and asked, "About the villains..."
"I know… It's a shame, but two of the leaders got away." Takezushi said, looking a bit depressed. In his heart, however, he felt a coldness spreading as he purposely lied to All Might.
"Anyway, I just want you to watch yourself as they might target you specifically for ruining their plans. If you want, you could even move back in with m..."
"There's no need for that as you should know better than most how hard it will be for anyone to bother me. I can take care of myself," Takezushi said as he started walking over to the bus. All Might didn't say anything else as his purpose in talking to Takezushi on the side was to give him that warning.
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A couple hours later, after the students returned to U.A. High, changed, and finished their day as high school students, in a hidden bar somewhere in the outskirts of the city, the two villain leaders that escaped from Takezushi's grasp could be seen. Kurogiri, the warping villain, now donned a more humanoid form with clothes covering his black and purple gaseous body to currently resemble the bar's bartender.
Seated in one of the bars' stools was the other leader who had unleashed the Nomu against Takezushi; the psycho with dismembered hands covering his limbs and face. Hatefully, this leader slammed his clenched hand onto the bar's table, cursing, "That fucking hacker… He beat us alone even when we came stacked with cheats."
"Calm down Shigaraki Tomura," Kurogiri said as he cleaned the cups of the bar. "I couldn't be helped… That monster was with them."
"You're right," Tomura said, becoming eerily calm in just a matter of seconds. "Even master failed to predict how strong that hero scum would become. Master!" Tomura yelled as he turned to face what looked to be a TV that had yet to be turned on.
"What the hell, Master? My Nomu was supposed to be strong enough to handle both the kid and All Might. He was supposed to only have super strength! Why'd he have the power of flight, illusions, flames, shadows, and even light?!"
As the TV flickered on and continued to flicker hinting towards its current condition, a screen of static noise stabilized as a deep and grim voice started speaking. "The scion of the Sakuraboshi is more ridiculous than I imagined… His Bloodline Quirk must be more ridiculous than most of his ancestors combined."
Another voice from the TV commented, "He is nothing like his mother… Hmph!" The new voice scoffed before angrily cursing, "That worthless failure is as Quirkless as they come. Her genes hold such impure and lackluster Quirk genes that even after a year of research, we can't pinpoint which of the Bloodlines she may have passed on to her child. I'm telling you, Master, we should just have her start breeding test children to expedite the process. Otherwise, we could be months or even years away from unlocking the secret within her blood."
"Now, now, doctor..." The deep voice from before playfully said, "There's no need to rush our research. Unless absolutely necessary, I'd rather just stick to simple blood testing to not risk any damage to her. It'd be a shame if she died in the middle of our research… You understand how much this project means to me, can't you?"
"O-of course master," the other voice nervously said, "You very much care for her safety… Giving yourself the responsibility of extracting her blood, putting her under hypnosis to make her think she's living a wonderful life, and taking care of all her needs yourself… In all my years working for you, I've never seen you care so much for a mere pawn."
"Yes," the deep-voiced master said, "You see, she and I shared a relationship… We may not be family, but our ties are just as close. Even if she is to be used as a pawn, I don't want her to suffer more than she has to..."
The master's words caused the other man to enter a panic. He hurriedly apologized profusely, saying, "Master, I- I didn't know! Please forgive me for insisting..." His voice cut off as the master said, "It's fine… So long as you understand."
"But master..." Tomura started after the conversation died back down, "What of her son?! That fucking cheater ruined my plans. He stopped me from doing as I please! Can't you do anything about him?"
"Tomura..." The master's words brought about a heavy mood to all that heard him, "This is something you can only resolve yourself. I can only guide you along your path and provide you with some advice… If I took care of all your problems, how would you grow?"
"Now, what I'd recommend you do after this setback is to first focus on assembling a true League of Villains; not a ragtag team of thugs. As always, I'll leave it up to your decision as you are the only one that can help yourself. But with just yourself and Kurogiri as competent villains, it'll be next to impossible to bring about the changes you've expressed to me in the past. The young Sakuraboshi may seem like just another kid, but he might just be hiding a strength just as powerful as mine..."
"Mhmm… I think I've heard enough," Takezushi said, as he made his presence known to all those in attendance.
As Tomura and Kurogiri turned away from the TV and to the end of the bartending table, they found a Takezushi sitting lazily with his head being held up by his hand which had been resting on the table. Disturbed, Kurogiri questioned, "You… How did you..."
"Does it matter?" Takezushi said as he fixed his posture to sit right up. "Could you imagine my shock when I came over here to investigate if you guys might have had any connections to the fabled All for One, and I hit the jackpot right away?" He joked.
"That's your master, isn't it? The man who keeps carelessly tossing around my real surname." Takezushi's eyes sharpened as he looked over at the TV. He had to divert his attention, as Tomura had taken advantage of the moment he left his line of sight to try to land a sneak attack; his decisiveness and quiet movements even earned an approving look from Takezushi.
However, even when Takezushi managed to block his sneak attack, he felt his skin begin to disintegrate the moment all five of Tomura's fingers made contact with his forearm. "How troublesome, " Takezushi muttered as his other hand caught the arm Tomura used to make contact and squeezed hard enough to both break his arm and loosen his grip to the point where the disintegrating effort wore off.
With a light flick of the wrist, Tomura was thrown across the bar and after a second of exposure to his newly unlocked Yin-Yang Release, the damage done to Takezushi's arm vanished without a trace of ever existing, to begin with. "Now that's just rude," Takezushi commented as he shook his head while looking over at Tomura's direction.
"Anyway," he continued addressing All for One, "Congratulations Mr. Legendary Villain, I won't completely annihilate you when I find your whereabouts~" This as his direct response after hearing for himself that the conditions his mother had been in all this time weren't as horrid as he imagined.
"Ho? I guess I should be happy then?" All for One said with a chuckle.
"Che! You'll know when we next meet," Takezushi muttered as two loud thuds accompanied his concluding words.
"What was that noise?" All for One asked. His voice now becoming dozens if not hundreds of times darker than before.
"Huh? Oh, you must mean the sound of the hand-obsessed psycho and his gaseous friend crashing onto the floor. You didn't think I'd leave here without turning these two in the police did you?" Takezushi sarcastically said as he went over to pick up their bodies.
"Listen here, kid… Don't push your fucking luck, ok?" All for One said with the conviction of a seasoned gangster.
"Hah? What was that? The fuck will you do about it?" Takezushi taunted as he shook his head.
Even darker than before, All for One said, "You little..." Suddenly he started laughing the matter off, bringing about an ominous undertone which caused Takezushi to ask, "What's so funny?" He didn't have a good feeling about where this might be heading.
"You're still a naive little kid. Don't you know what position you're in? Don't you… care about what happens to your mother?" All for One eerily said.
"If anything were to happen to her… Don't even make may say what I'll do to you..." Takezushi's killing intent could be felt through his tone, even after it crossed through the whatever line connected the bar to All for One.
"Relax," All for One started, "Nothing will happen to her as long as you back off. I'm personally too busy to bother with you at the moment. So for now, just stay away from Tomura and his group and nothing bad will come upon your mother. We'll respect our boundaries and each get what we want, no?"
'This worthless fuck!' Takezushi internally cursed, "Alright. Just understand that my seals and methods aren't as easy to mess with as they were a year ago. I've both memorized the spatial coordinates of this location and both these guys have indestructible seals woven both in their hearts and brains. Don't fuck with me, and I'll let these idiots play the part of villains until the pro heroes find you..."
"Ah yes, those nifty teleportation seals sure were troublesome to erase. It even took the help of my own Rewriting Quirk to safely erase the seal you put on your mom's hand. Putting seals in their vital organs sure is putting me in a rough spot..." All for One admitted.
"Whatever..." Takezushi then vanished out of the room. Upon returning to his Kamui Dimension to begin training, a truly psychotic smile appeared on his face, "What good luck…" He then resumed his Sage Mode training which only progressed faster as all his Basic Nature Transformations had been mastered. Now the matter of rescuing his mother would boil down to which technique was mastered first: his Sage Mode or Grand Pulse Jutsu.
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Vermillion_Yormsky
Vermillion_Yormsky Could you imagine my shock? She isn't being raped and experimented on like some sort of guinea pig and is instead living in ignorant, yet evident, bliss? Had to put in a scare before revealing it just to taunt those who like to assume. But hey, it was worth it for the meme, wasn't it? Now the question is whether he'll manage to perfect the tracking method to find her before the sports festival, workplace internship, spring final exams, or summer training camp~
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