[CE = Child Emperor]
*Inside Child Emperor's Lab*
"So you say that you're Madara Uchiha, do you want to join the Hero Association?" CE asked as his spider-like legs went back inside his backpack and sat down in front of Madara.
"Why would i join your little organization?" Madara asked as he sipped the tea he was served by one of CE's doll-like robots. Beside Madara, one could see a big monster corpse laying down on the floor, some blood could be seen spilling out of it, indicating that it's still fresh.
"Well, you would get fame for one, money too of course oh and if you manage to get into my level, S-Class, we will grant you one request as long as it is not that absurd or crazy." CE exclaim as he describes the advantages Madara would get if he joins.
Madara was secretly cheering, everything didn't went according to his plan but it turned for the better, not the worse! Now he just need to accept, then prove his worth and he'll be in the S-Class!
Madara pretended to not be interested for a while, tilting his head down a little and entered a thinking state, though he wanted to do it just because he thought it looks cool.
"Sure, I'll join your little organization, I'm bored anyway." Before CE could answer, Madara continued "What is the extent of the request that i can make?"
CE thought for a while and answered, "I don't know, but as long as you don't ask for a city or something like that it will be granted, I asked for the land to build my lab and they gave me this, though i build the place myself."
"Anyway you could just ask that later when you prove your worth, by my estimations, you should be accepted to S-Class fairly easy as you suffered no injuries while fighting a possible demon level threat." CE continued, he then told Madara to follow him into the HA's HQ by CE's car.
"You go first, just tell me where and in 3 hours or so I'll go there, I need to settle some things first." Madara rejected his offer as he need to Inform Lily first, he knew he will need a lot of time and did not want Lily to wait for too long.
"Suit yourself, I'll go back to school first then, goto A-City and you should find the HQ there, it's pretty recognizable so you shouldn't get lost." CE then got into his car and left Madara alone with his monster copse laying beside him.
Madara covered the corpse with a layer of webbing and went Camo mode, heading home. It took him about 10 minutes to arrive back to his apartment but before he went inside, he changed back into Jack [Now, I'm changing from Madara to Jack] and went up to the roof.
Jack opened up his 'package' and before the monster corpse fall to the ground, he turned into Venom and ate it. Even when it's not that fresh, the monster meat still have a lot of flavor to it, the taste is not as good as Gale Wind or Hellfire Flame, but better than normal copses that he ate.
While he is wiping his mouth and burping, he was thinking on what to get, what to request from the HA, he wants to ask for a defensive item for Lily or a weapon may be good too as he doesn't need both of them.
An idea suddenly struck Jack's head, He didn't know if the HA will comply to his request but he wanted to ask for monster corpses, if they comply to him, he will get passive nutrients income!
Jack decided to ask if he can request for 2 things, if not he will just get Lily her item as Lily's safety and happiness is way more important to him than getting some monster corpses.
Opening the door of his apartment he could see Lily is currently doing some body workout, specifically pushups. Jack could see that she had been doing this for a long time as she is drenched in sweat.
Jack smiled at her initiative, and told her in apologetic tone, "I'm sorry Lily, today i won't be able to accompany you training, i have something else to do today."
Lily sure didn't expect that Jack wanted to leave again after he had just came back but she quickly removed her surprised expression and calmed herself down, it's just one day.
"It's okay, I'll just train here, you don't need to bring me to the abandoned factory." Lily reassured Jack as she smiled back at him. She then continued
"When will you be back?"
Jack thought for a while and didn't know the answer to that so he just said 'Probably nighttime' as he didn't want Lily to wait for him if he said 'Evening' and only came back after 12PM.
"Oh." Lily murmured in a dejected tone, which surprised Jack heavily, he did not expect this kind of reply from her. Jack just accounted it as she was lonely and got no friends and said.
"You can leave the house while I'm gone, I'll give you some money if you want to buy anything." Jack tried consoling Lily although he himself didn't know the cause of her sadness.
"Okay"
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Both of them had their lunch together as Lily is starving after doing a few sets of exercises and after they finished their lunch, Jack gave the key of their house to Lily and a lot of money, around 100.000 Yen [1000 USD], he still have a ton of money so it didn't matter if she spend all of it in one day, heck, Jack even thought that 100.000 Yen is not enough for her and almost gave Lily 500.000 Yen but she rejected saying that it is too much.
After Jack left their house while reminding her to not neglect her exercise, Lily was thinking what Jack will be doing today.
The first thing that came to Lily's mind is that Jack will be meeting with a woman and that aches her heart so bad that she clutched it for a few moments. She thought of it more and more and found that, it probably is the reason.....
Lily tried getting the picture of Jack and a woman, walking arm in arm away but she can't. Right now she felt like trash being thrown away....
Lily can't stand it anymore and just start exercising to release her...anger?
She wasn't sure what she is currently feeling right now but she knew it was something negative, something she need to get rid of.
After a while she finally manage to calm herself down and determined to know what Jack will be doing later after he came back.
To keep herself from thinking of the image, she kept exercising until she is so tired that she fell asleep.
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Whilst Lily is still exercising, Jack is currently travelling into A-City in Madara's Venom form, He decided to tweak his Venom form a little bit while becoming Madara.
He still kept the big size of Venom but added a tint of blue to the black color and an Uchiha symbol on the back. It's not a major tweak but it's pretty fun to do.
By his estimation, he will be arriving at A-City in less than an hour with his Venom form on, the distance between Q and Q City is pretty far.
While travelling long distance, he always turned his camo mode on ( that is If he did not forgot ) to prevent trouble, especially when he's passing through cities, he didn't want to scare the civilians as he will be making his debut as a hero, anti-hero at least.
While Jack didn't regard himself as a Hero as he knew he didn't have the redeeming qualities of a it, he neither regard himself as a villain. He don't really care if some civilians died, heck if a city is destroyed he wouldn't even flinch unless the victim is Lily, then he'll care.
If Jack is in a good mood, he might go and help someone in need or attacked, of course he will kill the monsters in front of him, but not something far away from his location.
If he's in a bad mood, he might not help at all, even if someone pleaded.
And the fact that he's perfectly fine on eating humans is also something no heroes would agree on After thinking about it for a while, Jack realizes that he's more of a villain than a hero, but then again nothing will come good for him if he is a villain so he might as well pose as the good guy.
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'Finally, A-City, the city that will be destroyed completely 1 year from now, maybe less, 11 months? Probably.' Jack thought to himself as he turn back into Madara.
He looked at the clock on his phone and then realizes that he hadn't get Lily a phone of her own. 'I'll get it as a compensation later.' Thought Jack
It is currently 3.51 PM, almost 2 hours late from his promise with CE, Jack shrugged it off, what can a child do to him anyway.
He headed straight to the HA HQ and while he was walking down the streets, he could feel a lot of gazes land upon him. Jack felt like he need to change his clothes as the robe is too revealing, and after seeing his reflection, Madara with an Akatsuki robe didn't match that good.
He hated the gazes he was receiving so he changes his clothes into that of a normal one, kind of. He changed his akatsuki robe into a black suit, inside he wore a white shirt and a red tie on top of it. Jack, no Madara was actually too lazy to create new clothes so he just copied the salary man that he saw while walking and surprisingly, it fits.
Now, his appearance is that of a cool CEO of a big company, his suave face and charismatic aura makes his the center of attention, though not as much, he did not not like their gazes as most of them are from women. Some are as young as lily while some are just...old.
Jack arrived at the HQ 5 minutes later and in front of the gates, he could see a tiny octopus robot standing still. Jack walked to the robot and after detecting Madara's presence, the robot sent a signal to CE.
While thinking on how to contact CE, the door opened, revealing CE and a man standing beside him, Madara could recognize the man as he is very, very popular. Sweet Mask. He is a tall and lean-built young man with messy, shoulder-length light blue hair and yellow eyes.
Though He is considered to be very handsome by the public, Jack didn't agree with it. He wears a white jacket over his gray shirt with a green circle necklace and black trousers
'Neat, i meat a psycho just at the first day of my employment, it's going to be hard convincing him...how should i do this' Jack thought to himself, annoyed as he met someone he really doesn't want to meet
"Madara, you finally came, it's been almost hours you know!" CE exclaimed with a little bit of annoyance in his voice as he continued. "This is Sweet Mask, A-Class 1st Rank, he will be evaluating your skills to determine your rank." CE explained.
Madara just nodded at his remark and asked them when he could come in, he didn't like the crowd that surrounded them as soon as Sweet mask came out....his popularity is this amazing huh.
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CE brought both Madara and Sweet Mask, who is currently staring, scratch that, evaluating me to one of the enhanced training room the HA HQ had, it's size is about 1/2 of Dr.Genus's Kabuto Containment room.
"Lets get to the point, CE said that you can take out a demon threat monster without getting any injuries, is that true?" Sweet Mask said with a hint of contempt [Sweet Mask = SM]
"Yeah" Madara answered, he didn't really care about SM's contempt as he had already formed a plan to assert his dominance and took a revenge on SM. 'How can someone be so annoying, his long hair is really annoying, i prefer his short hair.'
SM is definite annoyed at Madara's nonchalant expression and immediately want to end this meeting, if he didn't have that much power, SM won't even let Madara get a position in A-Class.
"Show us your power or at least your physical abilities, what can you possibl....ARGGGGH!" Screamed SM in anguish, he could feel something just cut off his arm...his right arm is now cleanly cut off!
SM and CE is now having a serious expression on their faces, while CE is having an expression mixed with that of wariness, SM had more of Anger than anything, how can he, a superstar and hro lost his arm just like that!
SM quickly took his detached arm and attached it back with no side effects whatsoever while CE quickly went beside him, Madara could see tons of weapons coming out from CE's backpack.
"Now, now, that's two of my abilities, super speed and body morphing." Madara said as he made speed clones of himself then turned his hands into a variety of weapons, most of them from CE's backpack.
"What the f*ck did you just say you prick!" SM hissed in anger, Madara could see that he was trying to not attack him, even if SM attacked him, Madara was sure he could dodge most of them.
"I know you can reattached your arm, don't act like a whiny kid, here you can try cutting mine, i'll just reattach it like you do." Madara sneered and taunted SM as he reached out his hand and made a cutting motion on his arm.
"What's your real purpose of coming here!" SM asked in frustration, he knew it would be hard for him to catch up to Madara much less cut off his arm, he could but with his newly reattached arm, it would be hard
"Well for one CE invited me here, the other is because i'm going to be a S-Class Hero." Madara taunted SM even more by reaching out both of his arm, twice.
"Stop it SM, you, why do you have to cut up his arm." CE suddenly interrupted our little squabble, little for me at least.
"He asks me to show my power and i did, by showing my overwhelming advantage over him, an A-Class rank 1 hero, surely lets me get into S-Class immediately right?" This time Madara had stopped taunting SM as it's getting boring, SM didn't even try to attack Madara in any way.
"How do you know i can reattach my arm!" SM asked
"I know almost everything about you S-Class heroes, you too CE, do you like big robots?" Madara sneered as he revealed CE's secret in a roundabout way
"How....how can you know that!" CE exclaimed in surprise
"Like i said, i know a lot about you S-Class heroes." Madara Lied, in actuality, he only know several secrets that the manga had let out, even in the web comic but considering that the redraw had a lot of new things, nothing can be definite for example, Orochi's very existence.
"Enough of secrets, now tell me do i get into S-Class?"
CE and SM asked for a moment of meeting with the executive members of HA and Madara nodded, they brought Madara to the waiting room and asks him to wait for about 30 minutes or so.
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*Inside HA HQ Meeting room*
The atmosphere of the room is tense, S-Class heroes are having a debate while the executives are silently listening and trying to choose which side to side on.
"He's a maniac, even if he knew i can reattach my arm, how can he just cut it off like that!" SM berated CE's opinion on making Madara a S-Class hero
"He's doing it to exert his dominance beside no one is disadvantaged if he joined us! He have a power stronger than you and you want to let him go?! What if he is recruited by a criminal organization, what will we do by then!" CE shouted inside the soundproofed room, the debate had been going on for minutes now and finally Sitch, the Minister Officer of Justice let out his opinion.
"SM, what Ce had said is very much true, if we let him go just like that, we won't just lose a potential powerhouse, we may also have gained another enemy and if he's strong enough to hurt you, unnoticed, then he should be in the middle of S-Class."
SM gritted his teeth in frustration, he himself knew the capabilities of Madara, and knew the implications that will befall the HA if they reject him, he was aware bu this pride wouldn't let it go.
"Fine, Do whatever you want! Out him into S-Class then, might as well let him take blast's seat!" SM yelled, clearly giving up, he stood up and left the HA HQ meeting room, kicking the giant door open.
"Sigh....We'll be putting Madara into S-Class rank 17, does anyone have any objections?" Sitch asked as he looked around and seeing no one disapproving, he dismissed the meeting.
"CE, lets go meet your friend." Sitch asked as he sigh again, the stronger the hero, the harder is it to control them.
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"Oh finally back, it had only been 15 minutes or so." Madara who is still playing with his phone said. "So, how did it go."
"Congratulations, you're now a S-Class Hero Rank 17, for you first payment, we will grant you 1 request." Sitch went near Madara and shook his hand
Madara shook his hand back and asks "Can i have 2 requests?"
Sitch looked troubled at Madara's question but didn't straight out reject him. "Can you please state your offers?"
"It's actually pretty easy, for one, i want you to give me the corpses of the monsters that you got, preferably demon level or higher, you don't need to give it to me daily, i just want it whenever you can get one, don't ask why." Madara said nonchalantly and after a few seconds, he continued
"For the second one, i want you to make a defensive item, i want you to make it so that it'll be able to hold an attack from dragon-level threat monster, preferable in the form of necklace or bracelet."
Sitch hearing the first request got weirded out but still nods in acceptance but when he heard the second request, he squinted his eyes.
"Why do you need the defensive item?" CE asks suddenly
"You don't need to know, just tell me, can you or can you not do it?"
Sitch and CE looked at each other and discussed something at the corner of the room, Madara sat back down as he only need to hear the result.
5 minutes later, they finally reached an agreement.
"We will agree to your first request and bring you the corpses in a while but for the second request CE will discuss it with you. I'll take my leave, i need to prepare the corpses." Sitch bid his goodbye, leaving Madara and Child Emperor alone
After sitch had left the room child emperor turned towards Madara and said
"I'll be making the defensive item you want but i can't make it right away as i have my own projects, i will need about 2 months to do so and the item will only be effective against physical attacks, if you meet with a psychic like Tatsumaki, it will be useless."
"It's okay, I'll wait, also can you make is so that if something happens to the wearer, it will contact my phone."
"Sure"
"Also, make if in the form of a beautiful necklace, add a diamond on it if you can as i will be giving it to a girl, i'll give you the money."
"That's a lot of request you know, whatever I'll figure it out later do you need anything else?" CE let out a sigh as he heard my final request, i laughed and let him go.
After CE left, Madara still waited in the waiting room, waiting for Sitch to come and give him the corpse, While waiting he kept playing with his phone, there isn't really anything to do at the waiting room so Madara gets bored fast.
'What to do after this....probably kill some monsters and rank up a little, in less than a year, the main timeline will start, by then i want to be at least as strong as Boros, if i can't at least stronger than Groribas, Geryuganshoop and Melzargard altogether.'
'The gravity chamber i'll be using in 3 months will absolutely be helpful for me to increase my power, Lily too. Maybe it's time for me to really go for her, in 2 months i would be giving her a diamond necklace so we should be together first or it would weird her out.'
'Hmm...how to get her to be my girlfriend, she might get weirded out if i openly approach her, I'm 25+ while she's 13 this year, come to think of it, i didn't know when her birthday is. I might have to do some research.'
'Since she has registered as a hero, the HA should have her data, i should ask Sitch to get it for me, I'll just tell him that she's my niece.'
30 Minutes have passed and Sitch finally came back, He asked Madara to follow him. On the way, Madara asks Sitch for Lily's information with the reason being that Lily is his niece and wanted to protect her, half truth is better than all lies right.
Sitch didn't really want to give him the information but what can he really do with it, if Sitch didn't give Madara the information, Madara might form a kind of resentment to him so he gave it away through his phone.
While walking, Madara checked through the information Sitch gave him, [IDK if Lily (probs hero name) is her real name but i'll regard it as Lily].
'Name is Lily i know that, age 12?! oh her birthday is 15th of May and right now is 25th of Fevruary so i still have around 2 months, the necklace could just be her birthday gift, so i need to make her mine in the span of 2 months, I'm not too sure about that.' Jack contemplated
"Here are all the corpses we have left, there's only 4 Demon and 1 dragon threat level monster corpses here, initially we wanted to do some experiments on it but since you request for it, we can only give it to you." Sitch said in a regretful tone to which Madara did not care at all
"Can you leave me alone?" Madara asked Sitch, he seemed confused but still leave the room
Madara looked around the room and found no cameras but just to be safe, he made a giant dome to cover him and the corpses, since all of them are pretty big, the dome he made almost covered the
entire room
Inside the dome, Madara turn into Venom and ate all the corpses in glee, each bite he took taste even better than before, even if the meat isn't fresh, the taste is superb!
He ate all 4 of the demon level corpses in 10 minutes and left the dragon level corpses for last. The corpses is around 7m long and many, many limbs. It is a big bear with 6 arms and 2 legs, well it's not that important as in the next 7 minutes, nothing is left, not even it's bone.
Done with the greatest meal he had ever had, Madara removed the dome and came out of the room. Sitch took a peek into the room and saw nothing, he looked at Madara, back at the room, Madara, room, Madara, room, and finally, Madara.
"Don't ask, I'll be back in a month to get the corpses, bye." Madara then head towards the exit, leaving a dazed Sitch, behind him a woman in her 20s, wearing a suit and white shirt underneath showed a recording to him.
"Sir, please see this."
Inside the tablet, Sitch could see Madara looking around the room, he knew he was looking for cameras but what he sees next surprises him greatly.
A giant dome suddenly appeared out of nowhere, engulfing everything inside the room except the secret cameras. The woman skipped the recording into the last part when the dome had collapse.
"What kind of power is that, what did he do to the corpses....don't tell me he ate them, no, no sane human would eat a monster...."
While Sitch still have some unanswered questions, Madara, now Jack in his normal t-shirt and short pants is heading straight home, it had just been 2 hours or so that he left his house, he never thought it would just take this little amount of time.
Jack remembered that he has to buy Lily a phone but the problem is that he doesn't have any money right now. He can't really come back to his home, if he did, Lily will probably know his surprise for her, though there is only a small chance of that happening, he didn't want to take any chances.
For now, Jack decided to get back to Q-City first and then borrow some money from the civilians.
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'Hah...didn't expect i need to solve my problem by steali....borrowing other people's money, well I've given them an IOU so, it counts i guess.' Jack, after many rounds of 'borrowing' money he finally gets enough to buy Lily a pear phone, the same just like him but the color would be rose-gold.
Even when Jack borrowed other people's money, he didn't completely lied, he only take around 70-90% of the money they have on them and return the 10-30% and after he had given Lily the surprise, he will return their money with an interest of 100%.
While Jack didn't realize it, it's ironic that a human, part human at least, who eats other humans like a snack is placing that much importance for money...
After he bought his gift, he checked and it is now 7 AM, the perfect time to have dinner. Jack went back home and want to have dinner with Lily.
"Lily, I'm home." Jack exclaim as he went inside his apartment. After a few seconds, he still didn't hear any response from Lily so he checked the rooms.
Sure enough like Jack had expected, he found Lily sleeping in her newly bought tanktop. Jack saw her sleeping face and went up to her.
'She sure is hardworking, how did she fall asleep while sweating so much? Hmm? Don't tell me she didn't go out, she still have so much money left.' Jack saw a stack of money near the bed, from the 100.000 Yen he gave her, she had only used 500, which should be for dinner.
Jack hoped that Lily would go out and have fun but when he think about it more, what could she do alone.
Jack gave her forehead a kiss and left the room to take out some dinner as Lily will probably too tired to leave the house. He left the gift he got for her with a note that says 'Thanks for your hardwork' if she woke up before Jack came back home.
Picking up around 300.000 Yen , he left his home and returned the money he borrowed to the respective owners, he had written down all of their addresses so returning their money is as easy as stealing them.
After 30 minutes of hard work, he finally payed off all his debt and is now buying dinner for both him and Lily, he choose to just buy a bento, since he didn't really know what Lily liked, he bought the most popular salmon.
The day had been an eventful one for him, he got into the S-Class, get a chance to cut off sweet mask's arms, eat delicious monsters, stealing money, and the most important one, Seeing Lily in her tanktop.