After the students finished choosing their hero names, Midnight woke up Aizawa. He reluctantly removed his sleeping bag and stood at his desk.
"Your internships will start in a week. For this all-important decision, I'll be handing out personalized lots to those who were drafted. You May chose among those who selected you."
The teacher held up a sheet of paper with some kind of list.
"For those who were not drafted... The list I just passed out contains forty agencies from all over the country willing to accept interns. You will chose from that list. Each has a different specialty and region. Give your decision some real thought."
"I'm going for major crimes in the big city!" Kaminari began scanning his list with an excited grin.
"I'd like a place where I can deal with floods. Wonder if they've got that." Tsuyu started reading her list too, but much slower than Kaminari.
"Submit your choices by the coming weekend."
"We've only got two days to pick?!"
Aizawa handed out the remaining lists to the students and Harry began to read. He searched for only one name with his eyes and found it on page fifteen. A grin appeared on the teenager's face.
"The old bastard hasn't forgotten about me yet..."
"Hmm, who hasn't forgotten about you?" Mina Ashido appeared in front of Harry's face, but this time Potter was not surprised by her sudden appearance.
"Greatest Treasure of Martial Arts: Silver fang. He helped me gain proper control of my Quirk when I was younger."
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Twelve-year-old Harry Potter stood at the edge of the forest and controlled the shadows around him. So he stretched out his hand forward and the shadows followed his movement, smashing the tree to pieces. He looked at the result and smirked.
"Too many movements."
Suddenly a voice sounded from behind and Harry turned sharply and waved his hand wide, sending a shadow whip behind his back. But there was no one there and the child frowned.
"You have to control the shadows without even moving a finger." the voice sounded from behind again and Harry turned around, but there was no one.
"And now you didn't even try to attack. What's wrong with you kid?"
Suddenly, someone teleported in front of Harry's face and pushed him down. The child fell to the ground and was finally able to see his mysterious follower. Before him stood a rather tall old man with short gray hair and rather bushy eyebrows and a mustache. His light blue eyes seemed to look into Harry's soul.
"You have a strong Quirk, kid, but you lack control. I'll teach you."
Harry blinked a couple of times.
"Who are you?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Bang. Just Bang."
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"But my muscles still ache at the thought of his training regimen." a grimace appeared on Potter's face for a second.
"So you know him? Why didn't he give you a recommendation?" Mina asked in disbelief.
"The old man doesn't believe such a thing as a 'recommendation', he made me go along with everyone else to prove my worth."
Mina nodded in understanding and went to talk to the other classmates. Harry saw Ida leave the classroom and quickly followed him, lifting his bag off the floor. He caught up with the Vice President in the hallway.
"Hey, Ida, have a minute? I need to talk to you."
Tenya turned and adjusted his glasses.
"Of course, what can I do for you?"
Harry looked around and nodded towards the man's washroom.
"Let's go here first." he opened the door and went inside, Ida frowned a little, but followed.
"So what did you want to talk about? Is it important?"
The green-eyed teenager took a quick glance at the closed stalls and did not see any legs under the doors. Harry looked at Ida again with a serious gaze.
"You're going after him, aren't you?"
Tenya's face turned to stone.
"I am sorry, but I do not-"
"I'm not a very good person, Ida." Harry interrupted him "I believe in the 'An eye for an eye' and the law of equivalent exchange. Stain broke your brother's life, so it's only fair if you break the bastard's back."
Ida looked at his classmate in shock and couldn't believe his ears. The two teenagers just stared at each other for a few seconds, but Harry broke the silence with a tired sigh.
"I know that you will go looking for him anyway, so I won't even try to talk you out of it. But if you go hunting without knowing anything about the pray, then you will die."
Harry took a thin folder from his bag and handed it to Ida. He just stared at it with an unreadable expression.
"Take it."
The black-eyed teenager took the folder and opened it. His eyes widened when he saw its contents.
{Hero Killer: Stain. Name: Chizome Akaguro.}
"This-!"
"The places where he was last seen, his fighting style, Quirk and approximate fighting parameters. His speed can match yours and he has much more experience. He has already fought with your brother, so he knows his attacks. He knows your attacks. To hit him even once, you need a plan. I don't care what it is, a gun or just your own strength and speed. But if you try to hunt him down and die, I'll use your body as a sandbag. Got it?"
Ida just nodded curtly, not taking his eyes off the text. Harry started to leave the room, but stopped at the door when he heard the Vice President's voice.
"Where did you get all this? This information is not available on the internet."
"That's for me to know and for you to never find out. And Ida? Do not kill him. It will leave deep scars on your soul." with these words Harry left the washroom.
Ida looked at the folder in his hands and put it into his bag.
'What just happened?'
Looking around the room for the last time, he also left.
Izuku Midoriya sat in the back stall on the toilet, legs tucked up and his mouth covered with both hands, screaming in his own mind.
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Harry was writing his History homework, when the quiet cracking began in the terrarium. A second later, the green-eyed teenager appeared in front of the glass box.
'They weren't supposed to hatch in a few days... Well, it doesn't matter right now.'
Guy and Won sat apart from the eggs and looked with interest at the strange stones on which they had been sitting all this time. Both eggs began to hatch at the same time, so Harry opened the cage and set the broken shells aside.
From the egg that Won was sitting on, two dark green Basilisks slithered out, exactly the same color as Harry's eyes. A coal-black serpent was lying inside the second egg and looked around with interest. Harry smiled and began to speak to them in Parseltongue.
§Greetingsss little onesss. Welcome to our world.§
He reached out his hand inside the terrarium and three serpents crawled up his fingers. The newborn Basilisks were no more than seven centimeters in size and wrapped around Harry's fingers like rings. All three of them hissed something, since they were too young to speak.
§I am your creator. I hope I can give you a good life.§
The three most dangerous creatures on the planet hissed happily in response, and the smile of the owner of the three Philosopher's Stones grew even wider. The concentration of dangerous things in the room has just doubled.
Harry carefully examined the bodies of the three Basilisks and found that the black one was a male and the green twins were female. He studied the anatomy of common snakes in advance, in the hope that Basilisks are not too different from them.
'Hmm... Well, since my Hero name is Salazar and now I have three companions...'
The Speaker stroked the head of the black Basilisk with his finger.
§Your name will be Godric.§
The now named Godric nodded back and looked at the two sisters with a silent question in his eyes. Potter chuckled a little and stroked two sisters' heads.
§Your namesss will be Rowena and Helga.§
They also nodded in acceptance and Harry sat down on the bed.
"Now I need to come up with an explanation for Azumi..."
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Azumi watched Harry make breakfast with wide eyes. No, this was not unusual, he always helped the workers of the Orphanage with work. But...
"Harry...? Do you know you have snakes in your hair?" the woman asked with caution looking at the three little ones on the head of her ward.
"Hmm? Yes, I know." he replied by breaking another egg into the frying pan "Is that a problem?"
"You got yourself an animal without permission... Again... And this time there are three of them."
The teenager smiled shyly and looked at Azumi apologetically.
"I found these little ones in the woods when I was walking yesterday. Their mother was killed by some animal and they just hatched out of eggs... I couldn't leave them there. And... I found out that I can talk to them."
She blinked in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"Here, I'm going to ask one of them to wrap around my left ear."
Harry glanced at the black snake that was wrapped around his right ear and said something in a strange hissing tongue that sent shivers down Azumi's spine. The serpent listened to the teenager for a couple of seconds and slipped through his hair to his left ear. The woman looked at it with wide eyes, but quickly recovered from the shock.
"Can you understand them?"
"Yes, but these little ones are too young to speak. Maybe in a couple of days."
Harry lifted the frying pan off the stove and placed the cooked bacon and eggs on the plate. It was picked up by Izumi a second later and carried to the dining room. Azumi sighed heavily and shook her head.
"Well, as long as you keep an eye on them and don't scare the other kids, they can stay."
"Tsh! There goes my plan..." he muttered under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
Azumi looked at Harry accusingly and went off to help set the table.
The green-eyed teen finished preparing the last portion - his own - and went into the dining room too. During this time, the Basilisks changed their position again. The black one wrapped around his hairband and the two green sisters took their places on his ears.
Potter sat down across from Karin as usual and began to eat. The girl glanced quickly at him and continued to eat. But after a second, her head rose sharply to look at the serpents. She was gaping like a fish, and her eyes flashed blue, then returned to their natural gray color. Harry, who was watching her reaction from the shadow eye hidden on his neck, laughed loudly in his head.
Finally, Karin was able to calm down and now looked with interest at the new companions of her best friend.
"Karin, you need to blink." said Harry, sending another piece of bacon into his mouth.
The girl puffed out her cheeks and crossed her arms over her chest.
"You did it on purpose."
The teen looked at Karin with an innocent smile on his face.
"Did what?"
"You got yourself snakes and you didn't tell me about it!"
These words attracted the attention of other children, and now they too were looking with interest at the Basilisks in the hair of the young Hero.
"Oh, these little ones?" he pointed to the green serpent on his right ear with a fork "I only found them yesterday."
Karin narrowed her eyes.
"I'm taking Guy and Won."
"Wh-"
"This decision is final. Now they are mine."
The girl pushed her plate aside and jumped from the chair to the floor, heading towards the boy's rooms. Harry just stared at her leaving form with a confused face.
"But I liked these frogs..."