Next few chapters may be shorter just mainly because their revolving around backstories for the Sin's. I may do a little of what's happening in Japan at the moment in some to add some length, but I'm not sure on that yet. Anyway, here's the next chapter.
Ochako POV:
As I walked into the pitch black training area, I found myself separated from the others. I looked around and found myself by my lonesome with no indication where I was. "Great, now I'm in the dark and alone. At least it's one straight path." I continued walking for what felt like hours until I saw some light. "Finally, something other than crappy darkness and the sound of my own footsteps." I head to the light to see a marking carved on the wall. "A fox. So I'm guessing I'm in the right place." I turned around to see the path I walked was now a bright forest. I look around and see no sign of where I was before. "Ok, I know I would've noticed a forest coming in." "It's meant to tell you what's inside your head girl."
I look over and see a guy with silver hair and a scar on his neck that looked similar to Ban the fox sin. "Guess your the new Fox sin huh?" I stare at him emotionless and nod. "Seems you and me need to talk. But I'd rather do it with a drink." He pulls out a barrel and puts some beer into a cup he had. "Mind pouring me one?" He looks over at me a bit surprised. "Aren't you a little young to be drinking this stuff?" "Aren't you in a little bit of a hypocritical standpoint to be saying that?" "...Point taken." He hands me the drink as we both chug it and give a satisfying smile after. "That hits a spot." "I know right? Names Ban by the way." "Ochako." We sit on a log for a while until I question about the trial thing. "So what is this test supposed to be?" "You and me are gonna see what your purpose for having the Fox sin was." He pours us another drink and starts to talk about what he meant.
"People sin in the world all the time. Whether it's out of simplicity or something sophisticated, people naturally sin. But a real sin, a genuine one is something hard to have. It has to be something that eats you from the inside out and leaves you hollow inside. One that no amount of repenting can fill the hole it leaves. That is what we're trying to find out with you." 'A genuine sin that makes me hollow.' I think about it until the area turns white and flashes into a small house. "What's going on?" "We're reliving your past to see where your sin started." I look around and stand up when I realize where I am. "This is my old home with my parents."
"Mommy! Daddy! Welcome home!" I look over and see a 4 year old me run up and go through me. "Wait, what just-" "Relax, were only seeing your past. What we do or get in front of here will have zero effect of what happened in the past. Think of us like ghosts that they can't see or hear." I take a seat and look at the image of my parents hugging me and smiling. "How was your day sweetie?" "It was great. I got to learn a lot in school and made another new friend." "You did. Well good for you Ochako." I see them smile at me and start to feel a tear down my eye.
"What's wrong?" "Nothing, just a nice memory." I wipe the tear and look at the scene play out. "They look pretty tired." "My parents struggled with our construction company. They worked a lot and tried to hide their tiredness the best they could around me. But I could tell they were exhausted. Because of that, I kept myself as clean and tried to make as little messes or cause as little trouble as I could. I even made a stupid promise to them that I would take them on a nice vacation when I was a pro hero." I started to laugh at my stupid younger self but secretly long for those days.
"So you want to be a hero to help your parents?" I shake my head no and corrected Ban. "I 'wanted' to be a hero." "What changed it?" The room changed to a day I hated with all my heart. "Do you really have to go? You promised that you were able to be at parents day today." My younger self started stomping on the ground in frustration at them breaking their promise not to work today. "It's ok sweetie. It's only for a little bit we have to go to work." Dad knelled down and patted my head. "Well be there. I promise you that." He holds out his pinky to make a pinky promise with me. "That was the last time I ever saw my parents alive again."
The scene changed to my preschool and me waiting for my parents to show for parents day. "The whole day I waited for them. No matter what it was, I always looked back at the parents and saw nobody there for me. I kept looking at my pinky all day thinking dad would never break this promise. The day ended with them never showing though. I left for home angry and mad at them for breaking their promise. I wanted to yell at them for not making it for the one time I was greedy and made them promise me. But they never came back that night." "When did you find out they died?" Ban asks this while drinking his beer. "*sigh* The next morning."
I saw me waking up in my bed and going into the kitchen to see it the same way I left it. I heard a knock on the door and went to see who it was. Once I looked into the little peep hole in the door and saw it was police I opened it. "Excuse me, but are you by any chance Ochako Uraraka?" I nod at them worried what they'll say. "We need you to come with us. There was an accident." The scene changed to the station where the cops had me identify the bloodied remains of what was once my parents. The only thing in my mind at that point was one thought. 'I shouldn't have forced them to come.'
"How did they die?" "A villain was being chased and found it's way into the construction site. He destroyed the area and made the heroes in pursuit stop the debris. Only they weren't fast enough to stop it all. My parents were overseeing something at the time and had no idea until it was to late to do a thing. They died on impact when an iron beam crushed them." I held back tears knowing they couldn't have known this would happen to make a change. I watched as I cried for them to come back on their gravestone and promised to never be selfish again. I knew it was pointless, but I wanted to pretend it might work.
"What happened to you after they died?" "I was put into foster care and adopted by a woman. I was still upset, but things were looking up." I watched as the woman took my hand and smiled at me. "At least, that's what I thought." The scene changed to a beaten up home with me crying from being beaten blue. "A few months in, I found out the woman had a horrible drinking problem. It was so bad that she lost her job because of it. When that happened, she would come home completely drunk and take her anger out on me. By the time a year came around, I had enough and ran away to live on the streets."
The scene went to a cold alley with me shivering and wrapping arms around myself to keep warm. "I hated my life more and more by the passing day. I wanted it all to go back to when my parents were alive." I watched as I rummaged through trash just to get something to eat and keep warm with to survive. "On the streets, I learned two important things. One was that nobody cares for you when you when your on the street." I watch as I ask a bunch of people for food or just some change for them to just ignore me or push me away to fall on the ground. "The second is that the only person you can look out for is yourself."
I watched as an old man I thought I could trust at that time beat me and took every scrap of food and clothing to stay warm when I was being nice and when he said he just wanted to talk. "The days got worse after I learned this. I went hungry so often that I started to go insane from it. Finally, my hunger overpowered my sense of rightness." I watched as I walked by a vender with loaded potatoes for sale. I hid in a corner and started to talk to myself. "Those potatoes look really good. No Ochako. That's stealing and it's wrong. Your better than that. *growl* Nnnngh, maybe just one won't hurt. I mean he has a bunch. What's a single potato going to do?"
The younger me stayed out of sight and waited for the best moment to grab one. Once I grabbed it, the man noticed and shouted at me. "Hey kid, give that back!?" I ran as fast as I could to keep the potato with the vender following me and cornering me in an alley. I tripped and dropped the potato before he started to kick me. "This is what you get for stealing!" He kept kicking me until I finally laid motionless. He left with me barely conscious and spat on me in anger. I reached for the potato on the ground and held it up while smiling. "A little dirty, but I don't have to go hungry now."
"After that day, I started to get faster and smarter at grabbing and going. Some times I'd escape when finding a hiding hole. Others I was beaten brutally for my acts." "Seems your life sucked as bad as mine did growing up." "Yeah, but I at least had a happy ending at one point." The scene changed to me running with a few meat buns and a very angry vender behind me. That day was one where I could've gotten really hurt if I didn't have a hiding hole ready in advance. Once I came out, I was met by a green haired boy who gave me water and an offer. He held out Courechouse and told me that he wanted me to join him. I didn't know why, but I accepted it. "If I can eat and have a full belly, then I'm in."
"You agreed to be with him for food!? Hahahaha! You must've been starving to agree to a complete stranger to join something with no absolute idea what it was." I glare at Ban until he finally shuts up. The scene went to me eating Inko's horrible food and barely holding it down. "This food tastes like crap." "How rude to say. I know my cooking isn't the greatest, but that still gives no right for a little girl to say that." I continued to eat the food until it was all gone and drank what they gave me.
Once I was done, I felt tired and was nodding off. "Did you eat enough sweetie?" I looked at Inko and said in exhaustion. "Your cooking's crap lady. Your son also has crappy taste in people to pick someone like me off the streets." "I'll take that as a yes. Also if your tired, then sleep. There's no harm in doing that." "I can't...that's when I get beaten up...and robbed of my...things." Inko looked at me with concern. "Is that what happened to you on the streets?" I nod before answering. "And my...foster home." She walked over and hugged me with tears in her eyes. "I promise that that won't happen here. You can live here and be free from worry, that's a promise."
I looked up at her and for a second saw my mother. I raised my pinky and showed it to her. "Pinky...promise?" She locks her pinky with mine and promises. "Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." I smile and fade into sleep. "Woa, she really looked at you like her own." "Yeah, she did." The scenes started flashing moments of Inko and Izuku interacting with me while adding some of the other Sin's in. For the first time in a while, I looked and was happy with what I had. I was looked at as someone no different than anyone else. I was treated equally and could rely on people. Eventually, I looked at the Sin's and the Midoriya's as my own family that I would do anything for.
The area went black with Ban turning to me. "So what do you think your reason for greed is?" I think back on my life. "I was greedy one day as a child and held guilt it was my fault my parents died. I wanted what I had again and found it in a drunk that beat me. I wanted to trust people and keep my sense of what is right and wrong to only be left with hunger, bruises, and the coldness of the night. Every time I wanted to be greedy and keep something, someone suffered with it usually being me. But the friends and family I made in the Sin's are the one thing I never want to let go of. I want to drink with everyone, laugh, get into fights over stupid stuff, and live in that Inn for as long as I can. I don't care if that's my greed talking, I want that to stay no matter what. I want it and will do anything to keep that."
Ban only smiles at me before getting up. "Congratulations Ochako, you found your sin." My tattoo started to glow and burn me. Once it did, I felt a surge of power flow into me like never before. "Now that you've awakened your sin, you can tap into power you never could before. Now go and meet back with those you want to keep in your life. Make sure you keep that promise you made to yourself and never break it. That is the only way you can keep going." Ban disappears to leave me in a shaded room with light twinkling out of a walkway. 'I'll keep what I have. This I swear as the Fox sin of Greed Ochako Uraraka.' I walk out prepared to take on whatever was next in my life with all my might.
Power level 3,980-7,960
And that finishes this chapter. As I said before, the next few for this will be notably shorter in comparison to the others. The main point with Ochako's sin is that her uncontrollable greed for her parents attention for one day made her feel this guilt and wanted to return to the days she will never get back. When she finally found her place in the Seven Heroic Sin's, she subconsciously made a vow to never let go of this family again. Her greed caused her to lose her family, and her greed will be why she will push on. Hope you enjoyed this and make sure to check out my home page to see some of my other works. Thanks for reading.