章節 13: Chapter 13: A Slight Return To Normalcy
The sound of combat was heard throughout one of the dedicated sparing gyms of UA. Along with that were the cries of a young boy as he was fighting and failing to beat his teacher. Still, the boy did not let up and used what could be considered pure determination to stand up.
Aizawa was impressed with Izuku Midorya. True, he may not have the natural talent and power of his older brother, but he did share in his determination and his nigh single-minded pursuit of self-improvement. An admirable trait, really.
"Ok, that's enough kid. Take a break and eat something" said Aizawa
"Ok, sense" said Izuku as he flopped back down on the mat
As Aizawa watched the kid walk away from the training mat, he felt a hint of pride swell within him. That kid was truly something special. He still remembered the day that All Might and Madara came to him with the proposal to train Izuku. At first, he was reluctant to agree.
Izuku Midorya was, in his mind at least, still a young child not yet ready for such intense training.
He was just entering puberty, and while he had a good athletic base, hand to hand combat abilities and no truly bad habits making it easy to mold him into an excellent hand to hand combatant, he was still too young.
Then Madara dropped the bomb onto him. He explained the reason why he was helping his brother to go through this hell training and why Madara pushed himself so hard to gain more power.
All Might was on his last legs. Due to an injury he had sustained he was left with a perilous time limit on his power of only three hours a day and that would not last for long. Still, that only explained why Madara was pushing himself so hard. He was for all intents and purposes All Might's heir and the man had it in him to survive for maybe another year when he would be taking his UA teaching position.
After a silent argument between the two Aizawa was told a secret that many would kill to know. It was not Madara that was to inherit All Might place, but Izuku. The boy that was chosen by All Might himself as the successor to his quirk.
And wasn't that a surprise.
One For All was a fitting name. The power passed down from generation to generation through eight users to fight against the ultimate evil All For One.
Izuku Midorya was selected to be the ninth holder of this power that would grow even stronger with him then it had with All Might.
He accepted, of course. That boy needed as much training as he could get, that much was painfully obvious. Izuku was smart, of that Aizawa had no doubt. One does not simply remain stupid when they share most of their genetic makeup with a genius and even if they weren't twins, it was doubtful that Izuku would have ever remained stupid. Madara would not have allowed it.
Still, Izuku had somewhat neglected to train his body, only beginning any sort of real training at age 12 and under the constant cajoling of his brother, not that he blamed the kid too much.
Madara was one of a kind. He was one of the few people that were capable of the sheer strength of will required to withstand the kind of self-training that he had put himself through from an age as young as six.
Izuku needed to make his body stronger to house and master the power that All Might possessed and then work on increasing it for his own successor. In Aizawa's eyes, their original plan to clean the beach had some merit, but it was useless for what they truly wanted to accomplish. Oh sure, it would help build muscles, but it also came with risks when lifting heavy objects. Also, that training schedule was focused solely on muscle building and body strengthening with a spattering of spars against Madara for hand to hand combat training, something that was woefully insufficient for what they were hoping to accomplish.
Aizawa could see it from day one that Izuku would never become as physically strong as All Might. He would be able to punch with the same force, sure, but he was a speed fighter with a body better fitted for a precision martial artist than a brute of a boxer like All Might. Sheer brute force was not something that suited Izuku. It was something that Madara failed to truly see, but Aizawa couldn't blame him for that. Madara may be a highly skilled combatant, but he was still too young and inexperienced to be a teacher and thusly couldn't see that Izuku needed special mobility enhancing conditioning meant for gymnasts and acrobats, much like his own style.
It may even go so far as to require a completely different style of martial arts then what All Might uses. It was still too early to tell. Still, Madara had done more than anyone would ask of him and managed to beat into his brother the basics of Taekwondo, Krav Maga with a spattering of Kickboxing and Judo techniques to boot. Even as he was now, Aizawa was confident that Izuku could win against any first-year hero student without their quirks and even beat some with quirk usage allowed. It also helped that Izuku seemed to be close enough to his brother in intellect that he managed to devise plans and strategies in seconds. For once in his life, Aizawa was thankful that at least one of his promising students wouldn't end up a muscle-bound automaton media whore. Nobody really appreciated the strategists. This is, of course, excluding the overpowered problem child that was currently beating up villains under the supervision of Gran Torino.
I felt drained. The entire internship week had been a public relations nightmare. Sure, I participated in a lot of low-level cases and All Might gave me as much exposure as possible. Heck, even Gran Torino pitched in to help with some drug busts and gang dismantling.
Sir Nighteye... was a work in progress. It really pissed me off when he dismissed my brother as being someone unworthy of One For All and I took a great deal of pleasure in reminding him that it wasn't his decision to whom One For All goes. He left quickly after that. Thankfully Gran Torino seemed a tad bit more understanding and I actually get along pretty well with the old man, though for some reason All Might has this overly frightened look when he saw us grinning at each other after a good spar.
Gran Torino is exactly the kind of teacher I need to further my skill in using Chakra. Heck I even stopped wind style training and focused entirely on what the old man had to offer. Don't get me wrong, All Might is a great teacher, but I don't need someone to teach me how to bring out the full power of my ability, I need someone to teach me how to refine its use into a sharp point. After all what use is a fireball to take down a villain if you end up blowing up half the building you are in. I even managed to develop a few jutsu that should help later down the line.
Coming back to school after that was something.
Before we left, I had an argument with All Might about telling Aizawa-sensei about One For All. All Might was, of course, reluctant but the thing is we can't afford to second guess our allies like this. The UA staff is among the most trustworthy people I know of. I know this because I had background checks done on all of them before I even applied for the entrance exam.
They don't know this, of course.
What? It's not paranoia if they're truly out to get you.
Still, if all goes well, I should be able to graduate at the end of the year and that will put Aizawa-sensei in the perfect position to be the homeroom teacher of my brother's year. Honestly after spending so much time with the man I can say that he's one of the few people I would trust my brother's safety to. He needs to be aware of the dangers that Izuku will attract, even more so now that both he and my mom are in special protective programs. Somehow mom has seen fit to rope All Might into having dinner at our house every night.
I like this new change. The house seems livelier and Toshinori-sensei seems to smile, truly smile more often nowadays.
Even I've become livelier.
Previously didn't spend that much time with my family. With Izuku, sure, I spent a lot of time with him, but I distanced myself from my mom a lot.
Maybe it's some residual resentment from when I was little, or maybe she was just being overbearing and I couldn't handle it, but since I came back from the internship I've spent more time with my entire family than ever before.
Still, I had to prepare myself for the first batch of exams. They will be relatively easy since my previous high school diploma waved away a good chunk of the tests I would have been required to take.
Here's the thing with hero schools. In many regards they function as privatized military academies. Places like Shiketsu take it a step further than most, but all schools receive subsidies from the government based on the number of heroes they produce and their success rates.
Looking at it like this it is easy to see why UA has reigned as the undisputed king for hero schools.
All Might and Endeavour these are the top two heroes and they're UA alumni as well as many top 100 heroes. After all, the Hero Commission itself originally started life as a military organization.
My situation in this entire system is special. The Hero Commission is painfully aware that All Might isn't as invincible as the media portrays him to be and when they heard about me, my close relationship with All Might and my level of power, they were somewhat relieved and instantly jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon to help solidify my claim as successor to the symbol of peace. They were helped in this by us not denying the rumors about me being All Might's successor.
They somehow managed to hype me up as an alternative for All Might so when he moves out of the public eye and I step up to the plate the citizens will understand that All Might wants to retire and I would be there to act as their support once he does. His teaching career at UA would serve as a transition period and a way for All Might to have a hand in personally training Izuku during his schooling years.
Still, it's tiring. I must be out and about almost constantly patrolling the streets, usually as a tag along for All Might, so in that regard it's as if my internship never truly ended. It's not like it's that much of a big deal. I managed to increase my chakra reserves a bit and make my Shadow Clones more durable so if need be, I can simply send a shadow clone as All Might's tag along. It's not like these low-level criminals that we're constantly busting can pose a threat to it.
After coming back from my internship, I spoke with Nezu to see if I could be allowed to take part in the support course classes. This is mostly so that I can get a license to build my own support items. I mean, honestly besides a marginal increase in computing power, material sciences, robotics and energy generation this world isn't that much more advanced than my previous one.
Oh, sure their genetics research is miles ahead of where it was 200 years ago and the same is true for their medical technology, but besides that not much else has changed. There should have been space colonies at the very least, if not true interstellar travel.
I have begun designing a new suit of armor made from state-of-the-art carbon reinforced titanium
alloys and I've begun testing the chakra
conductivity of different materials in the hopes of finding the correct alloy to make a sword out of. I wish to try making a sword out of them since the Gunbai is a tad too big for what I need it. After all, few situations require me to even use jutsu since it's simply easier and more efficient to knock out my opponents by only looking at them. The
Gunbai will remain in my vault until I need to really
blow something up.
Alongside the armor itself I'm going to begin my work in reproducing crystal-based computing. I know what you're thinking, crystal is to fragile to use in an armor, but that all depends on the type of crystal used. For most photonic computers it's best to use some sort of silicon based crystal, but I managed to change that so that except for the actual nano-circuit lines imbedded in the crystal the rest can be any material you want such as synthetic sapphires or diamonds. Add to that the lightweight nature of such computers and you can easily have a computer powerful enough to hack UA in the palm of your hand.
Enough of that. I need to go back to training. I've got wind style down and I can go on to do lightning style. Lightning style chakra armor, here I come.
The final exams were easy enough. After all I had one written test and a practical battle against a teacher. For some reason none of the teaches were keen on going up against me so in the end they settled for sending All Might against me. My goal was to either capture him or escape through a gate at the other end of the training ground.
Right now, I was standing in front of the entrance to training ground B along with Aizawa.
"Well, I'm ready" I said
"Go on and do your best, even if I know that I'll regret it" said Aizawa
I smiled and gave him a thumbs up while he looked at me as if I'd killed all his hopes and dreams. You know, his usual expression.
I walked into the training ground as the horn sounded the start of the match. I didn't rush forward and instead I used my Sharingan to check my surroundings. It wasn't long before I noticed a wall of air coming towards me.
Shit, Earth style: earth wall. The wall of earth came up quickly enough to save me from the air blast, but it was soon smashed to bits and I was sent flying back
"Well, well, hero. Here to defeat me, are you? I hope you can put up a better fight than this" said
All Might
I must admit that guy can pull off the villain role quite well.
grinned as wiped spit from my face, my Sharingan shining an unholy red light as I let loose my first dose of killing intent.
"Oh, you're on" I said
I charged chakra though my body as I lunged at him, cracking the ground beneath my feet. All Might replied in kind, aiming his punch to my torso this time. I dogged it and let the rasengan that I'd secretly charged before striking his arm, redirecting the blow to a nearby building and obliterating it. I'm not yet strong enough to go up against All Might in a straight up taijutsu fight.
Thankfully I have other skills that I can use to deal with him.
I flash stepped in front of him and before he could blink, I locked my eyes with him.
Sharingan genjutsu: Paralysis
I jumped back
"Give up. You know that you can't escape my genjutsu" I said
"Ha, that's what you think, young Madara, but you're not the first one I've faced with the ability of illusions" said All Might as he launched himself at me again.
I was stunned and only barely managed to flash step away. That's unexpected, but somewhat predictable. Still to escape a genjutsu of the Sharingan with such ease is mildly disturbing. But then again all I had to base the effectiveness of my techniques so far have been low level thugs and even against my previous spar with All Might I had not used genjutsu. Well, shit it seems like this will turn out to be a ninjutsu battle after all.
I body flickered out of the way of another attack and I began waving hand seals.
"Water style: Water Ball" I called out
I spat out five decent sized balls of water that in the end only served to damage the surrounding buildings. All Might was charging up for another attack
Ok, then let's try something else.
Two hand seals and a great fireball was sent down range and exploded into a ball of fire. All Might dodged, of course but it bought me enough time to work through the next set of had seal
Wind style: Air Bullet
The attack hit All Might in full while he was in the air sending him crashing through a building. He came to a stop as I finished my next set of hand seals
Earth style: Mobile Earth
The ground on which the building sat suddenly rose like a door from the ground and flipped the entire building into another. That sparked a domino effect that destroyed a good portion of the training ground.
All was quiet for a few moments
"I won?" I asked out loud
Just then, All Might burst forth from the building with a nasty expression on his face
Shit
I quickly replaced myself with some rubble as I begun spewing fire and wind style attacks at All Might. The guy dodged them, but he came out looking more ruffled than usual. I was so focused on Yand seals and molding chakra that I failed to notice that All Might was working his way towards me.
He managed to punch me in the gut so hard that I went flying through a building. Thankfully I was able to reinforce myself with chakra before he hit me, otherwise I would be in a world of hurt more than lam now.
"Impressive, young Madara. You have truly grown since the last time we fought. Unfortunately for you, this is the end" said All Might
Dam it, I can barely move. I don't have the time needed to launch large scale attacks and the only think that would work on him right now is lightning style, which I don't have mastered. I looked up and saw a skyscraper balancing precariously, no doubt damaged by my previous barrage.
Wind style: Wind Slash
I sent a blade of wind to its base that will hopefully allow it to collapse.
It did collapse and straight on All Might at that. I picked that time to withdraw.
I can't win like this and my only other safe option is to evacuate. That might be the best option of the bunch. I can send a shadow clone to the exit and have it make preparations for a replacement with the main body.
But I have another option. This one though, comes with greater risks. The strategy is untested but if it proved to be effective, I could bring down All Might. Just the thought of that makes me giddy.
First, I create a shadow clone and send it on its way. Then I use a special technique I began developing to channel pure yang chakra through my body. It helped speed up healing, but it wasn't true medical ninjutsu yet.
I had only 7 minutes left so I needed to be quick. I found All Might in the middle of the ruined street I recently fled. He was close enough to the exit that should I try to run, he could intercept me.
I body flickered behind him.
"Hello there" I said
All Might turned to me surprised, only to be punched in the face with a stone encased chakra enhanced fist that sent him flying though a building.
Ah, l've waited for so long to use that line. Now let's see if I can achieve the 'high ground'.
I began waving hand seals as All Might burst forth from the building and launched himself at me with air pressure.
"Ha! You can't defeat me, hero!" bellowed All Might
"Yeah, right. Keep dreaming old man, I was just getting started. Fire Style: Great Fire Destruction!" I yelled
The massive cone of fire spread ahead of me. The fire was so hot that it began melting the buildings and turning the ground into a lava field. All Might managed to escape, but not before he forced me to move by chucking debris at me. I can't see him, so that means that he retreated. I look at my watch and see that I have 5 more minutes. More than enough time.
Meanwhile All Might was seriously reconsidering his choice in life that led him to this fight. 'Shit, that kid has really gotten stronger. I would really hate to have to fight him at his prime'
I used my sensory ability to find All Might and flash stepped in front of him
"You're not getting away that easily" I said, and I punched him
For a fraction of a second our eyes crossed, and I smirked. Got you.
I ducked under his return punch and dogged a kick, or eyes crossing again for barely a second. All Might tried to kick me again but missed. I grabbed his leg and used it as leverage to slam my knee into his chin, making him stumble back.
All Might looked at me with disbelieving eyes and I just grinned. He had no idea what was going on.
What I did was relatively simple. It's a new taijutsu style that l've begun developing. Since I only recently had the opportunity to use my Sharingan in battle I've been tweaking my Strong Fist style to better work with the Sharingan's predictive abilities. In this case I took this a step further and I've begun actively using the Sharingan's visual genjutsu abilities to cast subtle genjutsu on my opponent. It's not enough to be noticeable to anyone but another high-level chakra user. In the case of those without chakra, or any experience with illusion abilities, nothing would seem weird.
After all, all my genjutsu does is alter the perception of the world slightly. It just so happens that slight difference is all it takes for my opponent to make mistakes. And mistakes against a chakra user means defeat.
I pushed on, coating my fist with earth nature chakra to make it harder. I ducked under his punch and retaliated with a punch to his gut that made him spit out blood. I then swept his legs and jumped on him as he fell. I mentally sent the command to my clone to activate the juts and the ground beneath us turned to mud just enough for All Might to sink a bit and become immobile.
All Might gasped and looked at me with wide eyes.
I grinned
"Night, night! Sharingan Genjutsu: Sleep" I said
My tomoe spun as they waved the genjutsu. I could feel All Might resisting, but I kept our eyes locked and I poured more chakra into the technique until he finally fell asleep and returned to his normal emaciated state.
The horn sounded
"Winner, Madara Midorya" the voice announced.
I took All Might out of the ground and hauled him on my shoulder in a fireman carry.
Fighting All Might is really draining, but I'm not that big of an asshole to leave him out there
After the fight, and after All Might woke up, I had a meeting with Aizawa and Nezu to review my battle with All Might.
"So, how did I do?" I ask
"You passed, overpowered problem child" said Aizawa in his usual bored monotone voice
"Ha, I haven't lost a fight like that since I was training with Gran Torino, oh god..." said All Might as he began shivering and looking around the
room
Somehow, I could swear that I heard an echoey call from Gran Torino to All Might
"Ok, then am I good to go?" I asked
"Yes, you'll be allowed to take the provisional license exam in September. Until that time, we have allowed you to use the school grounds as training sites" said Nezu
"Thank you very much, principal Nezu" I said giving a bow
This was huge since I won't have to drain my savings account to buy a large piece of land in the mountains so that I can train jutsu and lightning release. Well anyways, I'm off to bed. I may not look like it, but my chakra is almost empty, though that is to be expected after one has fought All Might. I really need to up my chakra capacity to allow for longer duration engagements.
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