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Chapter 3 - Midnight boys.

As the sirens echoed out kamui stood over the downed villain bone crusher mentally reviewing his fight to determine how he could beat improve.

Internally he thought "straight up tackling the guy was risky, not for me but for the collateral damage we caused. I need to see if the I-Island delivery has arrived yet". Finishing his trail of thought he snapped towards the hum of a motor cycle arriving.

"Night life?" Questioned Kamui blinded by the head light of the bike.

"Mmm~ fraid not hot stuff" cooed a seductive voice. The ignition was lowered and the light Baha'i he's revealing a sexy milf in a akin tight body suit looking like she skipped an S&M party to be here. This was the R-18 hero Midnight.

She slowly slid one of her long legs over the seat of the bike whilst aag if to display her plump thighs. She approached Kamui allowing the clacking of her high heels on the concrete to sound out. The noise certainly beat the groaning of the downed villain.

Midnight stared Kamui down and sized him up noticing his bulk. She licked her lips and said "I'm digging the new look woods, you thinking about staying out late with the big girls."

Kamui decided to mess with her, he looked around side to side before looking back to her. "Oh I'm sorry? We're you referring to yourself as a big girl?" He then proceed to chuckle.

Midnight narrowed her eyes and questioned what was funny, so kamui responded "well I'm not sure why your trying to push the whole lascivious cougar act on me, you basically reek of virginity."

Midnight froze as veins bulged on her entire body, did this boy just call me a virgin?!?! She screamed internally in outrage. Midnight then spoke "suppose you'd know something about that woods, considering your greeted with that every morning in the mirror."

"Mirror? If your referring to those shitty live streams you post then maybe I'd have a clue. Never watched them myself." Kamui replied instantly.

Before midnight could lose it on kamui a car rolled up to the site followed by police cruisers. Out of the car emerged four dapper men who looked like they worked in a host club. They are the midnight boys, her simps/ sidekicks.

Kamui looked at midnight "I'll let you lead your simps around by the nose for abit yeah? I've got some real hero work to do, why don't you go give someone a strip tease or something. That is the tantamount of your career after all~". He said before walking towards what he assumed is the highest ranking officer.

He gives off a captain holt vibe so that must be the guy thought kamui. Meanwhile in the background midnight ground her teeth and snapped her riding crop displaying her well earned super strength. She internally screamed "a strip tease?!? I've dedicated my life to heroics you punk!! I'll bust your balls once the cops leave."

Unfortunately for her she never got the chance, night life came and picked up Kamui so they could get him checked out. Standard hero procedure to be scanned by a medic after action. Kamui himself felt more fatigue from the workout prior than the "fight".

So he went back to the agency to get some sleep. The next day kamui went down to collect a parcel delivery from a scientist who stays at I-island. He got in contact with a scientist named Pyua Isley, she is basically a poison ivy variant in Kamui's mind.

When he met her he was shocked at the resemblance to the DC character. But poison ivy wasn't Asian so he got over it. She was researching plants effected by several quirks to determine a plethora off things such as potential revival of extinct species.

One of the things that she developed was a flame retardant solution that plant based mutant quirk users could bathe in to improve their fire resistance in the field. She herself has a plant like anatomy coming with green skin and generating leaves on her person frequently.

Kamui got in contact and asked if she could give him a stronger version that could tank endeavours flames. When she asked why he replied about their being siting of a blue flame using villain on the hero net, he wanted to take precautions. She replied back with a silly quote of constant vigilance that made him crack a smile.

Now she finally sent through a batch of the stuff, opening the container he found an instruction manual detailing the process. Reading it he couldn't help but exclaim "this is a wuxia medicinal bath!!!"

With a deflated sigh he went to find a bath tub to begin applying this stuff. I won't get into specifics but basically he too a four hour slime bath. On the plus side he came out with amazing exfoliated skin. If he had any female side kicks they would be biting a handkerchief in jealousy. Shame that the solution was tied to his wooden body.

He basically sat in a tub looking like groot so his wood fully soaked in the solution. When he washed it off and suited up his grey wood momentarily shined like a glass that was freshly polished.

Night life was off duty tonight so I went out solo. Running along the rooftops off a bright city at night can be oddly cathartic, I enjoyed the feeling of sprinting and bounding from one ledge to another with the wind bristling me.

I stopped a few muggings and wedgied a guy who tried to rob a 7-11. Now I'm sitting on the roof guzzling down a cup of coffee. Could use a little hair of the dog to spicen it up.

As I was thinking that I heard a *puschft* before I got knocked back towards a vent on the roof. I looked at what hit me and found an elongated pair of fuzzy hand cuffs. A familiar pair of heels clicking the ground sounded out.

Midnight sauntered around a corner with a smoking t shirt cannon in hand. She walked up swaying her hips before showing me how high her kicks are. A heel was placed right next to my head as she leaned in to talk.

"I've been looking for you woody~ saw some footage off you uploaded online after bullying a villain~"

"Funny I saw footage of you too!" I replied nonchalantly which caused her to reply with "ohya~".

" corn hub- top ten washed up heroines" I said with a smirk under my mask. The metal vent behind me began to strain under the force of midnights heel.

Deciding to acknowledge the noise and annoy her some more "wow didn't think you were that HEAVY" I said straining the last word.

She narrowed her eyes before saying "fufufu you know little boys often tease or bulky the girl their interrelated in~"

" the words 'little boys' from your mouth makes me want to call the cops. That why you took up a teaching gig?"

She leaned in getting in my visor, seemingly peering into my soul before she smirked and stepped back removing the cuffs.

"You busy right now woods?" "Nah was finishing up anyway why?"

She then punched her thumb and index together and titled it towards her mouth. Ah the universe sign for get hammered, almost as memorable as the shaking fist or the middle finger. "You know a spot?"

"Honey you don't get a name like midnight without knowing every decent bar in the city."

"First preaching about little boys now your alcoholism, my my I guess you really are washed up."

"Fufufu you know you remind me of an old Kouhai of mine. She goes by miss joke now, was always making fun of her crush only to realised he wouldn't budge so she straight up started asking for marriage."

"Hey hey, you can come onto me when we get some good stuff into us first." I joked, incase some of you haven't realised this new friendship is based upon taking the piss out of each other.

We hopped from rooftop to rooftop before arriving at the midnight palace. She walked into her agency to get changed whilst I just morphed out of my wooden form. Keeping the stretchy workout like top on underneath I slipped on a shirt and a pair of jeans to cover it up.

Always bring a to go bag on a patrol and keep it stashed away somewhere. It worked for Spider-Man in the games so i started leaving bags of supplies inside trees that I planted in parks and rough top gardens.

Midnight or Nemuri as she asked me to call her emerged in a black turtle neck sweater and jeggings that really highlighted her assets. She stretched an arm forward for me to take so like the gentleman I am i obliged.

We took a ten minute walk towards a bar called the hung up cowl. It's kinda like a cop bar but for heroes. Drinks are stronger and cheaper, hero commission sponsored as heroes need to frequently destress. Life threatening jobs typically come with perks and in this world heroes get plenty of discounts.

Nemuri escorted me to her booth that she normally drinks at when she finishes a rough shift. A waitress came to take our order so I turned and asked "you want some prosecco or shampers (slang for champagne)?"

She scoffed "only desperate bitches and little girls drink that stuff. I prefer the finer things~ sweetheart bring us some bourbon" she saucily spoke to the waitress earning a blush from the girl. She looked at me so I just winked which made her scurry away.

Nemuri learned forward "now that I get a good look at you shinji i can see your quite the looker~ why hide under the helmet"

I leaned in following her example "a helmet helps when your tackles by rabid women".

She just chuckled and began making small talk with me. Stuff like hobbies and personal history. We then talked about previous partners, she laughed when I said just some school flings while she began listing off different types. Yeah she is a pansexual though in this society it's hardly surprising.

When the bourbon came we smacked our lips together. We we're presented with a bottle of Eagle rare, I liked it because of the gingery taste. When I asked Nemuri for her preferences she said "wild turkey without question."

I raised an eyebrow and said "you too?" To which she smiled "bird of a feather flock together".

"You sure you meant the word 'flock'" which made her take another sip. She made her lips pucker on the glass as if to prove my point. "I got hooked on it when I mentored under his purple highness, he had a taste for the finer things in life, you?"

"It was a drink of a manga character I loved when i was younger. Once I hit 21 I bought myself a bottle and was hooked. Gotta love that cinnamon spicy taste."

"Mmhmm" she bummed in agreement was we continued chatting. Hours flew by as we continued to just talk, make a connection. We eventually ordered a bottle of the stuff and polished it off alongside a few others.

We were struggling to contain some tipsy giggles. Both of us have a high tolerance it seems, a bodily emission quirk like hers typically means she drinks a lot of fluids. Wood is often used with strong alcohols so there is a mild connection there.

Just some of the nonsense we spoke about, finally we decided to stop. She looked at me and asked "wanna head to my place". I looked at her with a little lust hazing over "you got anyone at home Nemuri?"

"Nah no family anymore and I'm too old to have a roommate. How about you?"

" just started my agency a year ago so finances were tight. Just been living in a room in my agency till now cause I've been saving."

She widened her eyes "a top 40 who doesn't splurge money."

"Hey I gotta save up, never know when I meet the right gal I wanna move in with."

She snorted before reaching for her purse but I stopped her "Nah I'll pay, call it me paying for being a dick". "Mmm~ dick huh?" "At least wait till we leave".

I went to the till to pay and saw the same waitress who was looking at us with a blush. We were both throwing innuendoes left and right throughout the night so a normal conservative japanese person would have passed out from shame.

I just chuckled before sliding my card and heading towards my date. Taking her by the arm like i did when I entered we made our way towards her home. Her tipsy directions almost got us hit by a truck.

Spotted some heroes chasing a villain on a joyride coming towards us. We smirked,. Midnight blew a kiss spewing a pink gaseous cloud toward a wall. I flicked my wrist launching a sharpener stick at one of the wheels of the car.

I burst a turd causing the car to veer and hit the wall that midnight blew a kiss at. The villain got out of the car to attack only to fall on his face because of the quirk. We laughed and continued on our way, some heroes wanted to reprimand us until their seniors stopped them and promptly identified Nemuri.

The real smart ones found out that I was Kamui Woods but didn't say anything. That's mainly because they were processing seeing my face, only people who studied or taught me at UA had seen my face out of costume.

After a few minutes of walking we sobered up as we reached her apartments door. She fumbled to get her key but was taking a while. So I just poked the lock with my finger and shifted my finger to fill it. A turn of the wrist opened the door for us.

Nemuri turned towards me and stroked my left shoulder downwards while whispering "you bad boy~ I'll have to punish you".

I turned to her and looked in her sky blue eyes that shines in the darkness. My hand grasped her impressively long dark purple hair. I pulled her towards me and started a make out session all whilst she guided me into her home. She kicked the door shut letting the door slam echo out into the night.