Y/N's Pov
As the two of us started clashing our swords, I could notice just how much effort had Shitsuki poured into improving himself. It was something I hated to admit. Not only because he's my enemy, but also because he's stopping me from going to see Eri. But even I had to recognize his efforts, as this was honestly an amazing power up since the last time we met. He had even improved way more that Togaru did in that same amount of time.
Anyway, as much as I thought about this, it didn't change my current situation with Shitsuki, and while I got a bit distracted due to all of this, I wasn't taken advantage through it, so after a second to forget about all of this, I was right back into the fight.
Shitsuki then jumped quite a bit, creating a big gap between the two of us. I didn't even question what was he doing, as I just lunged right at him. This may have been a bit too reckless, but from just the past few minutes, I could already tell that the forms he did with his enlarged sword were way more dangerous than the regular ones, so by no means did I want him to have enough space to use them. "Moon Breathing – Tenth Form: Drilling Slashes, Moon Through Bamboo Leaves." I heard Shitsuki exclaim, as I wasn't able to get to him in time, and instead he managed to swing his sword right at me, but I wasn't too scared, as I actually had something prepared.
Tenth Form: Drilling Slashes, Moon Through Bamboo Leaves – The user creates a long-ranged triple-layered slash twister full of crescent moon blades with a gigantic sword.
The attack itself was pretty dangerous. It didn't have a pretty wide range, which would usually allow me to avoid it easily, but instead, it was very heavy charged, meaning that there were few to no openings infront of it, however, I could still fight my way through, or rather blow.
I instantly got out my nunchucks-like cleavers, and as I started spinning them with one hand to build momentum, I got some of the small bombs with my other hand, and threw them right at Shitsuki's attack. Some of the bombs got far enough to be cut by him, and as they blew up, Shitsuki's attack started wavering, but not enough. I was ready for that though.
The explosions made some of them come back a bit, and now that I had enough momentum with my cleavers, I spun them around at both of my sides, and as I charged right at him, I exclaimed. "Sound Breathing – Fifth Form: String Performance." Since some of the bombs were a bit too close for my liking, I first used my cleavers to move them away, as well as setting them off, interrupting Shitsuki's attack even more.
Fifth Form: String Performance - The user holds the chain of their twin swords and rotates the blades at high speed while charging forward. The spin of the blades without changing grip allows for continual slashes while still being in motion.
With that out of the way, I was able to charge head on, and while I think I did receive some light damage from the small moon blades, I still ended up with the upper hand, as I ended up right infront of Shitsuki. "First Form: Roar." I exclaimed, as I also quickly stopped the rotation on both of my cleavers, raised them up, and instantly threw an attack. I didn't have time to throw any more bombs though, but that wasn't all that bad, since this form specifically doesn't need them all that much, and instead makes good use of my pure strength.
First Form: Roar - The user lifts their twin swords above their head and slams them down with great force, causing a loud sound resembling thunder as a result.
I wasn't able to cut Shitsuki's neck with this attack, but the damage I did to his torso was more than noticeable, as I made to enormous cuts at both sides, and only made one of them follow though, creating way more damage than the other, but allowing this one to be more of an overall hinderance.
The pain must've also sent an alarm through Shitsuki's body, as he suddenly generated a whole bunch of blades, forcing me back yet again, but not as much as before, leaving me in a pretty good position to keep going.
I didn't want to rush in just yet though, so instead of jumping at Shitsuki, I prepared my Flame Breathing stance, as it was one of the ones I knew the most, and prepared for the next attack.
Shitsuki was clearly frustrated, as the injuries I made seemed to hurt quite a lot, and as he healed them, he also angrily turned to look at me. He was surely going to say something, but I already knew that it was 90% sure to be just a rant from him, so instead of listening, I went for another attack.
I first dashed just right infront of him, and while he was able to react to this, Shitsuki wasn't ready by any means, so I was able to get a hit in. "Flame Breathing – Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation." I could also notice that he was trying to cover my attack with his arm, but since I started from the side of the chopped off one, he could only use the mist he uses to regenerate.
I was wondering what would happen, and a bit to my surprise, it did pass right through it without trouble, meaning that I got a clean hit at his shoulder, but missed his neck by what seemed to be half a centimeter. Luckily though, I was able to get his other arm in the way of my sword, so once he was done with the first, he would have to deal with this one as well.
After this, I retrieved back, but just as bit, as I wanted to keep attacking. Looking at Shitsuki, he was clearly frustrated, and by the time he finished healing his chopped off arm, he had already started healing the other one, however, just like how he didn't let me copy his quirk, I wasn't going to let him heal either.
I waited for a small second, as I located the exact moment when he would be distracted the most, and once I found it, I went in. "Wind Breathing – Seventh Form: Gale, Sudden Gusts." As always, I was aiming primarily for his neck, but on the way, I also focused on both of his arms, however, this time it didn't went half as smooth as I expected it.
Just when I was about to land the first hit, he seemed to get way angrier than before, as he screamed. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" And right then, exploded with a lot of his blades, as he also exclaimed. "MOON BREATHING – EIGHT FORM: MOON-DRAGON RINGTAIL!!!" I was actually expecting him to attack without moving his blade, but instead, he did grab his sword, and with some surprising speed, made it as big as it could, and swung it right at me.
I was hoping to at least get to his neck before having to retreat, but to no avail, as his moon blades got to me before I could do anything about it. By trying to push myself more than I probably should've, quite a lot of the blades actually managed to cut me. Some even getting pretty deep into my chest, and so, I had to use all my strength to get out before getting severely injured.
Once I was safe, I took a moment to analyze my injuries, and while none of them were lethal, they were pretty deep, and some even managed to get to my lungs, hindering my ability to use breathings.
I tried to focus and see if I could seal them again, but the intensity of the flames left behind was just too much, so I assumed that I had to wait for the to wither away even if just a bit. While I worked on all of this, Shitsuki also seemed to work on repairing his body. When I turned to look back, every injury that I had delivered disappeared already, but what was still there, was his enraged look, and that fiery determination to kill me.
I once again raised my sword, and as I tried to accommodate my breathing to my injuries, Shitsuki just said. "Enough messing around. I'll kill you at once, and then, my dad will finally shut up. Once and for all." Up until now, I didn't think that the two of us would have something in common, aside from using breathing techniques of course, but if what he was saying was true, then maybe there was something else.
Anyway, I quickly shook this thought of my head, as not only did I not want to believe such a thing, but right now, there was no way I could spare the time it needed. Shitsuki then swung his blade once again, and by the look of things, I believed that he wasn't going to use his short attacks anymore, and instead just focus on the bigger ones.
"Moon Breathing – Sixteenth Form: Moonbow, Half Moon."
Sixteenth Form: Moonbow, Half Moon - Kokushibo creates a barrage of downward crescent slashes from an extremely long and wide range, resulting in a powerful six-fold slash crashing down on his opponents; the attack itself is powerful enough to create several miniature craters where the slashes have landed.
Izuku's Pov
Both me and Mirio were on our way to go see Eri, and despite how much I tried to smile for myself, as to not worry Eri at all, I seemed to be not very good at it, as Mirio took notice of it and said. "Everything will be alright, Deku. I'm sure Yu will be more than able to take care of whatever is happening right now." I was initially too surprised to say anything, as I didn't think he would be able to take notice of me, but after a quick second to catch up, I replied.
"Yeah. I know. I've been following him ever since we started in U.A back in March, but it still makes me worry. Not really about him, but rather about Eri. You've seen her, and you know just how much she needs him, and just thinking that he won't be here, or at least Kendo to ease her. I just hope he doesn't take long." Mirio nodded at this, and then, after a couple more seconds, we finally got to Eri's floor.
As we walked to her room, I used that time to let all of my insecurities flow out, and then, once we got to her door, I took one deep breath, and as we entered, I changed my groggy face for my best smile, just as Mirio did. "Hey, Eri! Looking good today?" Lightly exclaimed Mirio as we walked in, and as Eri turned to look at us, I could actually see that she was confused by our presence.
"Mr. Lemillion? Mr. Deku? What are you doing here?" She asked, while also tilting her head a bit to the side, in a pretty cute way if I may. 'I think I get why Y/N's so attached to her.' I thought to myself, and then, Mirio started explaining.
"Well, you see the thing is, as you may know, we are transferring you a new hospital today, right?" She nodded at this, and then Mirio took a deep breath, almost as if preparing himself, and he then continued with. "Well, it actually turns out that something very important happened, and Y/N had to leave to take care of it." Just mentioning that Y/N wasn't here seemed to scare Eri quite a lot, as her face of confusion warped into one of fear, and she gripped onto her plushie with a much strength as she could, so Mirio quickly finished with. "But that's okay. He will be back in a couple of minutes, and until then, we'll stay with you! What do you think?" She did seem to calm down, even if ever so slightly, but I could still easily see her worry, but I quickly thought of something that could possibly help her with that.
I once again pumped up my smile, as I did feel it dropping down a bit, and then I got closer to her, while asking. "Hey, Eri, I noticed you have a pretty cute plushie right there. Who gave it to you?" My best bet was that Y/N would've gifted it to her, and that through this, I would be able to get her to think about him, soothing everything out for her.
Eri first turned to look at it slowly, and as she seemed to take notice of what I said, she lowly replied. "D-Daddy gave it to me...He said that it was very important to him, b-but that I was more..." It was still a bit shocking for me to hear Eri refer to Y/N as her dad, since I had just barely heard something about it from Yaoyorozu, and that time Sir Nighteye went to interview her.
Anyway, I quickly dropped down my shock, as to not worry her, and instead I said. "That sounds very nice of him. Do you like the plushie?" Instead of a verbal reply, Eri just pressed on her plushie a bit harder, as she also weakly nodded at me, showing that despite her fear, she was surely confident that Y/N would be there to help her.
Despite everything, I could tell Eri was feeling a bit more in confidence with the two of us, though, if I was honest, I was also starting to run out of ideas, however, before anything went down, Mirio stepped up and said. "Hey, Eri, wanna see something cool?" Eri turned to look at him confused, and after she shily nodded, he continued with. "Ok. Check this out!" I was wondering what he would do, so I paid close attention as well.
First, Mirio openly showed his two hands, saying that there was nothing unusual with them. Eri nodded at this, as she surely didn't know what was he up to, but as for me, I could already tell that he was going to perform a magic trick for her.
Mirio then put together both of his hands, and as he pretended to wrap his left thumb with the right hand, I could exactly tell what was he planning. Just as I expected, Mirio then pulled apart both of his hands, and pretended to pull apart his thumb as well.
I was wondering if this trick would even work on Eri, but as I turned to look at her, I could see all the wonder in her eyes, and I instantly realized that my worries were completely unfounded. And by the way, I was actually dumbfounded by Mirio's skills. If it wasn't for the fact that I already knew how the trick, I don't think I would've been able to realize. I already knew he was pretty skilled in fighting others and working as a hero, but this seemed a little off from that, however, as I thought about it, he probably studied about magic tricks precisely for situations like this, since Mirio always wanted to make everyone smile, especially kids like Eri.
And it was quite effective this time, as Eri's face was filled with pure joy and amazement, as if all her worries went away, and instead, she just asked him to show him more things, to which Mirio happily agreed. It was actually very fun to see Mirio's performance as well, as he seemed to know quite a lot of tricks to show to Eri, though some of them were only possible due to his quirk, but that was none important right now.
After a couple more minutes, around five to ten I would say, Sir Nighteye came in through the door, and said. "Alright, paperwork is done. Eri is goo to go now." Hearing this was quite relaxing, and Eri even seemed excited, as I could hear her lightly gasp, however, Nighteye then took notice of nothing. "Where's Yu?" And that's when both me and Mirio realized that no one told him about the situation just yet.
Mirio was the first one to speak up, as he was a bit more in confidence with him, and so he said. "Yu left for Fukuoka city. According to his manager, K, there was a huge emergency that required him to be dispatched to that location. We looked at it in the news, and there seems to be some kind of guy going rampage, while also calling out for his name. It seemed serious." Sir Nighteye seemed quite displeased about this, and I could even hear him wonder why wasn't he able to foresee this, however, Mirio just went ahead and continued talking. "Sir, if I may, shouldn't we at least take Eri out of the city in the meantime? Just in case the Shie Hassaikai tries anything right now." Sir Nighteye was actually already aware of this fact, however, he couldn't agree with Mirio, as he said.
"I don't think that'll be possible." The two of us were shocked by this, but before we asked why, he was already answering. "Not only is her arrival registered for Musutafu's general hospital, meaning that we can't really drop her off anywhere else, but we also lack transportation, as Yu was in charge of that. Want it or not, until he comes back, Eri has to stay." This was a bit worrying for everyone, as we all believed that Eri just being here put her at grave risk, but at the same time, we tried to calm down, since no villain was supposed to know about any of this, and as such, there should be no reason for them to attack today.
After that, Sir Nighteye staid for a bit longer, only to discuss some more of the details with us, and then left, or he was about to, when we felt the whole building suddenly tremble. "What was that?!" Asked Sir Nighteye, as he started running down along with Mirio.
I also wanted to go investigate, just in case I would be needed, but I didn't want to leave Eri alone either. I quickly peeked out of the room, trying to see if there was anyone that could help me, and that's when I saw one of the nurses passing by. "H-Hey, Miss, could you help me for a second?" The woman seemed quite scared due to the tremble, but she still approached me and asked what was wrong. "Would you mind looking over that little girl for me? She's very important, but I've gotta see if everything's alright. I'll be back in a minute." She was quite confused, but she still nodded, and said that it was fine.
Now I had someone to look over Eri, so I wasn't as worried about leaving her. I then went back with her, and said. "Alright Eri, I'm gonna go see that everyone's alright, but I promise to be back immediately." Eri was also scared, and me leaving wasn't helping with that at all, but either way, she nodded at me, and after I said. "Alright. You're a brave girl." She held her plushie as tightly as she could.
Leaving her like this was very hard, but I wanted to at least know that everything was alright down, so I turned around, and quickly went for the stairs. As I got to them, I used my Full-Cowl at 8%, as it allowed me to simply jump on the walls, instead of going step by step, and allowing me to get down pretty quickly.
Once I got to the floor level, I quickly met with Sir Nighteye, Mirio, and K, as well as some other heroes, discussing this situation. "Sir, what's going on?" I asked, and after Nighteye turned to look at me, he replied.
"I'm not sure yet, but we believe we are under attack." I was wondering how he knew that, instead of suspecting this to be an earthquake or something, but that's when I realized something.
As I turned to look around, I could see multiple parts of the building moving and twisting around, in ways they would never do naturally. "Oh, no. ERI!" I exclaimed, as I had just realized my mistake, but right when I got to the stairs to get back up, a wall suddenly blocked them, and I couldn't stop myself in time, nor apply enough strength to break it, so I just crashed face first into it.
I fell back down, with some damage as well, and while some of my classmates came to see if I was alright, Mirio just said. "I'll go ahead and take care of her." And after taking out his helmet, Mirio jumped right at the ceiling, and with help of his quirk, he propelled right through it.
It still took me a bit to recover from the impact, so Uraraka asked me. "Deku, are you alright?" I just rubbed the back of my head a bit more, since it hurt pretty bad from the fall, and as I got up, I replied.
"Yeah. I can go on." Everyone looked happy about this, so Sir Nighteye quickly got up front and said.
"Alright then. Get prepared because we have to get going." I nodded at this, and then stood right infront of the wall in the stairs. Just in case it was stronger than I expected, I prepared my attack at 10%. "Shoot Style: St. Louis Smash!" And with a light jumped, I stroked the wall, destroying it entirely and letting us pass, however, at that same moment, as I turned back to look at everyone, I could see multiple holes forming in the floor, and everyone falling through one of them.
I wanted to go help them out, but right when I was going to do so, I realized that I too was falling through one of them. I wanted to get out quickly with a quick to the wall as I fell, but whenever I felt like I had a stable footing to throw a kick from, the wall would start molding all around me, messing me up completely.
I didn't even understand what was happening right now and the only thing I could do was keep falling until I hit something.
After a couple more seconds, I finally got out of the tunnel and fell onto what seemed to be some kind of dark room. After I got up from a bad fall, for the second time in about a minute, I started looking around to see if there was anyone else with me, and that's when I noticed someone a bit into the distance.
I squinted my eyes to see who it was, and to my fortune, it turned out that it was someone reliable. "Sir Nighteye!" I called out for him, and as he took notice of my presence, I started getting closer to him, while also asking. "What should be do now, Sir? We don't who or where is the enemy." Right after I asked this, Sir Nighteye almost instantly replied.
"It surely is the Shie Hassaikai. They must've discovered our plans somehow and came to take Eri now that Y/N's busy somewhere else. This plan is too organized to have been performed by regular thugs." I nodded in agreement, and paid even more attention to what he was going to say next. "We have to be certain of our situation first, but I think it would be more worthwhile to see if we have any more allies down here, before looking for possible enemies." I agreed with him on that, and I was even about to go investigate myself, however, just before I went ahead, we both heard.
"That won't be necessary." It was quite a scary voice as well, so both me and Sir Nighteye turned to look, and luckily for us, it was just K. "I already went ahead and did a quick scout. We are alone here." I was bummed about this, since I hoped we could get some more help, like maybe Kirishima or Uraraka, but at the same time this meant that there were no threats either, which was a relief.
I was about to ask if he saw a way out we could use, but before I got to do so, K used his hand to tell me to keep quiet, and after a second, we could hear some kind of weird shifting sound, followed by a very goofy laugh, as well as a gun clicking.
"Correction. We are not alone."
Chapter End
U.A Side Stories
Eri doesn't know Deku or Lemillion nearly as much as Yu, since of course none of them spent as much time with her as he did, however, she still has a couple memories of them being there when she was saved. Despite this, she was still very nervous about being alone with them, but after Deku's questions and Lemillion's magic tricks, she was comfortable enough to wait for Yu.
Hello guys! I'm finally releasing this new chapter for you, and I would say that it's my first official Shie Hassaikai chapter. I've gotta say, I'm quite excited, and nervous about this arc since it's easily the one with the most changes compared to the original version.
Also, since this will be my most original arc, as I said, I would really appreciate your feedback on this one, as I want to do it as best as I can for you all.
Anyway, your quirk suggestions are also welcomed down below, as well as any other comment you may have for me. I really enjoy reading them all.
I'll be seeing you in two weeks with a brand-new chapter, PLUS ULTRA!!!