*GENERAL POV*
Rumi Usagiyama was a simple woman with simple interests. She likes carrots and to fight, it's one of the main reasons why she became a hero actually. But with time that to became boring, she fought and beat everyone she came across. She was beginning to lose hope of finding a good fight. Until the news reported on a vigilante that had hospitalized that burning asshole Endeavour. She of course had heard the rumors about child vigilantes, but never payed it much mind until now. The more she heard of them and their brutality, the more she wanted to meet them....to fight them.
Now here she was doing some shopping with Ryuko and she comes across the infamous Ronin with...a little girl? Almost like he could feel her gaze on him Ronin turned and met her eyes. Those were the eyes of a fighter. She could feel her smile spreading across her face. A smile that she hasn't used in a very very long time. One step. And her head was removed from her shoulders.
She took one step, almost leaping back. He hadn't moved still staring her down. She was unnerved this was the first time anything like this has happened. She tensed her legs ready to leap at him. Her top half slid off her waist. Shaking her head looked back to where he was only to see him and the little girl gone.
*KEN'S POV*
Nope nope nope abso-fucking-lutely not. He had just gotten Eri to be in public spaces without having a panic attack. All that hard work was not going to be ruined by some adrenalin junky. Caring a pouting Eri out of the mall we were in I had my clones spread out to make sure I wasn't going to be ambushed. It's times like this that I curse the fact that I just didn't do anything and open like a restaurant or something. Letting out a sigh of relief when I got into the slums I wondered when I started to think the slums as a safe zone?
*GENERAL POV*
Toshinori Yagi was feeling pretty good these last couple of months. He had found a successor who while quirkless never gave up on his dream on being a hero and even trained to become a quirkless hero. When he had offered his quirk to the boy for a spit second it almost looked like he was going to say no. But he had accepted with a big grin on his face. It only took about a month of training him before he got the quirk. He had trained scince he was a child apparently. The boy could use up to 10% and was steadily building up his percentage. He could still only use it in one body part at a time but his usage would improve with time.
Rounding the corner he bumped into a figure as tall as him almost sending him to the ground if not for as strong hand grabbing him before he could fall.
Unknown:" Eh. My bad I was lost in thought."
Yagi:"No you're fine I was lost in thought as well." Looking up haunted blue met nonchalant golden. Yagi knew who this was. How could he not, he and the other vigilantes he runs around with had wreaked havoc all over Japan. The only reason he didn't assume his muscle form and knock him out is; 1. He was just now noticing the little girl all but trying to bury herself in Ronin's arms. 2. He was out of time.
Ken had noticed Yagi looking at him and Eri and spoke up.
Ken:" My name is Ken, just Ken and this is Eri she is a little shy." Adjusting Eri in his arms he tried to get her to introduce herself to no avail.
Yagi:"*Cough* *Cough*!" Coughing out some blood in surprise at the normal introduction. He was expecting a rude "Watch where you are going!" Or something like that from the ruthless Ronin. But instead he is only met with concern.
Ken:"Hey are you ok." Taking his hand he began to drag Yagi somewhere. "Come on I know someone who can help."
Flabbergasted the only thing Yagi could do is follow. The little girl named Eri would occasionally look at him with fear and apprehension. When he smiled at her he half expected her to cower in fright thanks to his appearance. Her reaction however was to give a small smile and wave back.
Ken knew that Yagi wanted to say something so he started. "You know you can ask your question I'm not gunna bite your head off."
Caught off guard yet again Yagi let out a few wet coughs before replying. "It's just that I heard that you are ruthless not only in action but words as well."
Ken:"* hmmm* Yeah I can be, but that's only when I'm working."
Yagi:" Why?"
Ken:" Why what?"
Yagi:" You're brutality, the vigilantism why all of it."
Ken didn't answer for a few seconds, and what he did say made no sense. "Ha. You know I'm a pretty selfish guy."
Yagi:" What?"
Ken:" I want more than anything to sit down and eat junk food and watch old movies and cartoons. But I also don't want to feel any guilt.
I should have died but for some reason I was given a second chance. After coming to terms with this fact I made a promise to live my life the way I wanted to."
Yagi didn't know what to think of Ken. He wasn't at all what he expected.
Ken:" One day when I was younger I saw some guys beating up a homeless guy. There were people around taking videos and talking about how someone should stop it...but no one moved. Not to stop the beating or to call the police. They just watched. I didn't have my quirk at the time but I ran in there with an old rusty pipe I found. I got beat up as well, but at least I did something. On that day I decided that if I could do something to help someone again I would no matter what. I would rather take beatings and make the world my enemy than stand to the side and live on knowing that I could have done something to stop someone from suffering."
At this point both Ken and Yagi had stopped in a relatively empty street. Gold looking strait into blue without wavering.
Ken:" I know how I handle a lot heros can be violent and cruel. Breaking bones and bringing up sore spots in their pasts. But when I'm Ronin, and they stand against me they are obstacles. I don't care how good of a person and hero they are once they become an obstacle in my way of helping someone I am willing to do just about anything, and say just about anything to get them out of my way.
If I fail to save someone I want to be able to say I did everything in my power to help them. Not because it's the right thing to do but because I know that not being able to say so will haunt me for the rest of my life....petty selfish right?"
It was it was selfish but not the most selfish reason Yagi has heard someone give when asked why they wanted to be a hero. They had continued there walk towards their unknown destination in silence.
It took only another minute before they arrived at there destination.
Ken:" Yo Senju I've got a injured guy here."
Senju:" You are supposed to be watching Eri. Were you fighting while she was with you!!!???"
A young man dressed in a dirty white claok and mask with a green cross going down the middle of his face and going across his eyes. He also had a tattoo of a caduceus surrounded by sakura leaves on both of his hands. He was pointing an accusing finger at Ken fury lacing his voice.
Ken:" No! Of coarse not. He just coughed up blood after we met."
Yagi:" It's actually an old Injury. I've had it looked at by the best. While I appreciate the effort I don't want somebody I don't know looking at it in an alley"
Senju:" Shush you sit down and show me the Injury. And you we will talk about this later Ken."
If Yagi didn't know any better then he would have thought Recovery Girl was in front of him. Almost Instinctively he lifted his shirt and say down on the curb.
Senju knew who this was and what was wrong with him, and he was going to help him. " Yeah this is pretty bad stomach gone and damaged respiratory system. It might take a while but I can fix it."
Yagi:" *Cough* *Cough* wha but how!?"
Senju: "Be quite I'm going to get started it should take about thirty minutes. You will feel a burning pain in your stomach and when you breath."
For thirty minutes Yagi sat there staring in shock at the young medic as he worked. He would have protested if it weren't for every time he went to spoke brown eyes met his silencing him almost instantly. The pain while bothersome was nothing he hadn't experienced before.
Senju:" Eat lightly, nothing spicy or overly greasy, and you will have to use a inhaler to help with you breathing until you're lungs get used to the new stress."
Inhaling deeply Yagi coughed yet again but this time no blood came out. Before he could thank him he was bonked hard on his head.
Senju:" Oi. Didn't I tell ya to take it easy!!??"
Yagi:" Ow! Sorry I just...had to see."
Making several disgruntled sounds Senju packed up and began to leave with Ken and Eri who had fallen asleep. When they reached the end of the alley Ken turned back and said "See ya around Allmight." Before rounding the corner and disappearing.
Yagi had searched for several hours for the trio but to no avail. He eventually went to Recovery Girl to see what Senju did to him
Hawkeye lept from rooftop to rooftop stopping on occasion to listen to different animals and there reports. He stopped on a dime as two blades passed by where he would have been. One where his leg would have been, and the other would have pierced into his side not ment to hit anything vital but to injur and slow down. Extending his staff Hawkeye intercepted a seraded katana that tried to pierced into his right leg. Fire ignited on the end of the staff pointed towards the ground. He pushed the attacker back while simultaneously swinging at him in an upward ark missing by a hair's length. The attacker and Hawkeye both stared at each other silently, looking for weaknesses for cracks in the others defense...for fear.
His opponent spoke with an intensity mached by few. "Why do you fight?" His blade glinted as he struck aiming for his neck. Not waiting for a response as he attacked. Hawkeye spun his staff both sides ignited with fire as he effortlessly slapped the attack to the side and nearly slashing the attacker across the chest.
Hawkeye:" Does it matter? I am here, does the why really matter?"
Attacker:" Yes! The world is filled with these fakes and if you are like them then I will stain my hands with your blood for a betterment of society!"
Hawkeye:" I'm not a hero, or a villain. I'm just a guy going through life trying to right by himself and others. If you are here to try and stop me Stain then I will put you down here and now." Heros have tried to stop him and so have villains. All failed. He wasn't going to be stopped by some phyco with a hard on for Allmight.
Stains face split with a wicked grin as he let out a low chuckle. "The only one who can stop me, the only one who is allowed to kill me is Allmight!" Pointing his place at me he declared "You and the brotherhood have been causing mayhem everywhere you go. You harm anyone and anything in your way. You take the money and valuables of whatever criminals you take down. I wasn't sure if there was a reason or if you just as fake as the rest...now I know and I will kill you and the rest!!!"
Stain threw two knives one at his throat and the other at his groin. Dogging the knife aimed at his groin and catching the one aimed at his throat he thrust the spear towards Stains chest while blocking his sword with the caught blade. Spinning to the side Stain tried to get out of the way of the spear, but ended up getting caught in his side. Hawkeye tried to expand the blade while it was in Stain hoping to either hit something vital or cause enough damage to stop him from continuing to fight. Stain however was able to quickly remove the blade from his side and strike while close at his head. Leaning back Hawkeye dodged the blade then rocketed his head forward hitting Stain's chin and staggering him. Stabbing the staff firmly into the ground he grabbed Stain by his arm and yanked him into his stationary spear. On the ground a half unconscious Stain doggedly tried to get to his sword that had flew out of his hand when he was ramed into the spear.
Hawkeye looked at the man trying to crawl to his sword. He didn't know what to do. This man fought for what he believed in. Even when he knew he would have to face the world. They were similar in that regard...and very different in others. He only lived for his cause, he lived and breathed it. While Ken cause was only a piece of him. A piece he wouldn't compromise with or dilute...but only a piece.
Letting out a sigh Ken cut Stains tendons and knocked him out. Using his warp gate sword he made a portal into a cell at the police station and chucked Stain in. Ken wondered if he only stuck to protecting the homeless like he had started out doing if he would be as well known. Most think his cause is to get rid of drugs and stop human trafficking, but truthfully they were byproducts of protecting the homeless. He had drove them out of the slums and followed after them because he had the power to do so.
Letting out another sigh he decided to call it a night. He had gathered enough info for at least four raids tomorrow. One for Ronin and three for Beast. Looking at the rising sun he decided to go home and start cooking breakfast and mabey watch some Scooby-Doo with Eri.