MHA: The Warping Hero

2 - Growing Up

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— The Warping Hero —

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As more time passes, the people at school finally realize that me and Shinso are actually friends. Of course due to this, the whispers and the chatter grew even more now that the supposed cool kid or the school is hanging out with resident outcast.

This of course caused even more flak to be put on Shinso's name, but he proved his opinion on it by completely ignoring everything.

"I don't care what they think of me now. I'll prove them all wrong when I become a hero."

Gotta say, that kind of grit is definitely worth respect.

But even so, i'm not just standing by while all this is happening. I always make sure to get involved if the jeering gets a little too much. Wouldn't call myself his friend if I just let this all happen, would i?

With us having each other as our only friends from school, we often go to and leave school together. It helps that our houses aren't that far apart and are both only a bus stop away from the school. Our city is relatively safer than most, since it's the city that houses the most famous hero school in Japan, so even my paranoid parents are fine with letting me walk to school and home by myself.

Naturally, we visited each other's houses a lot and this resulted in us getting to know each other's family. He even declared my family's coffee shop as our 'basecamp'. I have suspicions that the only reason he did that is because the food is good and my mom always gives his first order for free.

My childhood wasn't that exciting, but it was pleasant.

I didn't even notice when we finished our examinations and realized it was time for junior high.

We both decided to enroll in the same local junior high. And since we are both planning on making it to U.A., we both started our training.

We noticed pretty early on that both our quirks don't give much in terms of offensive capabilities. So we decided on practicing martial arts by registering for the combat classes at a dojo and joined a local gym. At the very least, we'd like to know how to defend ourselves and get some good physical conditioning. Our parents readily agreed to our decision and helped us find the best dojo that's within our price range.

We attended the combat classes throughout the holiday. It started out pretty tough at first but we managed to hold out until middle school started.

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It was half a year into my first year in middle school and 7 months after starting my combat classes, did one of the instructors approach me. The dojo I joined also offers quirk training as one of the extra programs, which i immediately signed up for the moment i heard of it. Shinso opted to only stay in the martial arts classes because his quirk offers little to offensive capabilities so he'd rather put all his time in learning self-defense.

The instructor responsible for the quirk training was a former hero who retired from the line of duty after receiving an injury. He then decided to open up a dojo for people who want to learn how to defend themselves.

It was during one of the classes did I give him a suggestion.

"Knives? You want to practice blade combat with a knife?"

"Yes. Wielding short blades like knives give me more leeway in how to use my quirk. Having throwable projectiles would allow me to have better mobility."

"Hmm that could work, wait here while i get training knives from storage."

That's how my training to become a hero started. My quirk is strong, but there are limitations to it. For one thing, the tags that i place on objects aren't permanent. They disappear overtime with my current limit being only 2 hours. There's also a limit to how many tags I can place at a time. Right now, the maximum number of tags I can place is 10. I'm not too worried because the time limit and maximum number will definitely increase as I grow older. Each teleportation also takes a bit of my stamina so i can't just spam all the time.

My quirk also has a few similarities to that of my parents. For one thing, I will always remember the locations in which my markers are placed. Whether they're placed vertically on my bedroom door or on the hardcase of one of my textbooks. It's like I can sense where they are and accurately determine if that location is safe to teleport to. Another thing I realized is that the tags are not limited by distance. Which means I could travel from Japan to America in a single blink as long as the tags haven't expired and I have sufficient stamina to do so.

It didn't take long for me and Shinso to be among the top in their combat classes. We were already in the advanced class to begin with and they're well on their way to completing the course. Shinso has proven to be slightly better than i am when it comes to hand to hand combat, which can't be helped since i spend half my time fine-tuning my quirk and getting used to using it in combat.

Both of us have our own reasons to become heroes. And although those reasons may not be as noble as others, it doesn't change the fact that we're going to be the best heroes we can be.

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Hello there!

Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Just an introductory chapter with a little more detail towards Kazuya's childhood.

We're definitely getting closer to the famous U.A Examinations soon. Probably in the next chapter at the very least.

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