Upgrades
It was a free day for everyone at the Paranormal Liberation Front mansion, free from the meetings between the highest ranking members of the organization or from any other stuff regarding their preparations for their moves against the hero society when Shigaraki comes back from this operation and everyone were making the most of it by spending their free time however they wished or however they planned to spend it either by themselves or with someone.
This was exactly what Y/N was doing right now. He was standing behind the couch in one of the rooms of the mansion, watching Chimera and Spinner play Mortal Kombat together as he watched Chimera's performance in the said fighting game against Spinner. The h/c haired boy had to admit to himself. He was suprised when Spinner told him Chimera became interested in video games after he showed him this activity as he never wrote Chimera off as person which would become interested in gaming.
He wasn't complaining about it, though. Having one more person who shared his interest in gaming around was nice and he knew Shigaraki would appreciate it as well. Having four people who are actually interested in gaming and you could play Super Smash Bros with at the same time would certainly be nice. Chimera still had a lot to learn when it came to gaming, but Y/N and Spinner were willing to lend him some advice on how to get better in this kind of stuff from their years of experience.
Chimera leaned into the coach, having just lost the match to Spinner and let out a frustated sigh, "...Dammit! Again!?"
Spinner smiled to himself, having just won his match against Chimera as he set his controller down on the couch and looked at Chimera, "Don't dwell on it much. It's never easy to win a fighting match against an experienced player."
"Yeah." Y/N nodded in agreement, patting Chimera's shoulder in an encouraging manner as he stood behind him, "You'll see. You'll get better with time and the experience you'll get. You'll see. You'll be having a fair chance against us in no time."
Chimera nodded, putting his controller down, "Here's hoping. Coming in last in all of our upcoming games isn't exactly a thought I am fond of."
Spinner shifted his gaze from Chimera to Y/N, "How about you'll try playing against him now?"
"Alright." Y/N nodded at the idea as Spinner got up from the couch. The h/c haired boy made his way to the other side of the couch and sat down where Spinner used to sit a few seconds earlier. He grabbed the controller and pulled out his phone for a second, looking at the hour, "I think I will have to leave after this game, though."
Spinner raised his brow at this, "What? Why?"
"I'm going to the pool with Origami, Toga-chan and Kataoka-kun today." Y/N explained, selecting a character for himself in the menu as Chimera stayed with his characters, having taken a liking in the character he was playing as right now.
Spinner looked at him questioningly, "Really?"
"Yeah. Originally it was supposed to be a date for me and Origami." Y/N began his explanation, "But our plans were changes when Toga-chan found out about it and wanted to hang out by the pool with both of us. You know how she is."
Spinner chuckled, "Yeah. I do."
Y/N nodded and continued, "She invited herself in and got Kataoka-kun up for this as well."
"I see." Spinner nodded in understanding as he turned away from Y/N and Chimera, getting a raised brow out of h/c haired boy, "If that's the case, then give me a second. I'll be right back."
Y/N looked at him questioningly, "Where are you going?"
"There's something I need to show you." Spinner explained, "You can tell it was a little upgrade I got with the help of Origami."
"Alright." Y/N nodded in understanding, finding himself growing interested by it as Spinner walked out of the room, leaving him alone with Chimera. Y/N shifted his gaze back to the TV and the game between him and Chimera started a second later, "Do you know what is the upgrade Shuichi-kun got?"
Chimera nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. He showed it to be yesterday when he got it with your girlfriends help."
"What is it?" Y/N wanted to know.
"He told me not to tell you as he wants to keep a secret you." Chimera replied, doing his best to focus on his game, "I can give you a hint if you want to."
Y/N nodded, his character beginning to gain the upper hand in his match with Chimera, "I'd like that."
Chimera nodded back at him, clenching his teeth slightly as his character was losing again and provided him his hint, "It's a sword. He told me...Dammit!"
Y/N smiled slightly as his character win over Chimera's character and set his controller down after it happened, "A sword and he told you what?"
Chimera sighed to himself, putting his controller down in irritation as he went back to what he was saying a second earlier, "He told me He was pretty excited when he talked about showing it to you and Shigaraki as you two realize what kind of sword it is straight away."
"Really. Alright." Y/N said in understanding and shifted his gaze from the TV screen to Chimera, "Good game."
"I suppose." Chimera shrugged and looked at him questioningly, "Hey. Can I ask you for a quick favor?"
Y/N nodded, "Sure. What is it?"
"Could you talk with Spinner about something?" Chimera voiced his favor to him, "There's one idea I've brought up to him recently and he seems reluctant about it."
Y/N nodded and asked him, "What idea this is?"
"I suggested we should use his experience as heteromorph to get more people like us on our side and he would be like the face of all of us. With him being a lieutenant in our army, he is the perfect pick for this position." Chimera explained as Y/N listened to him in interest, "When I brought this idea up to him, he seemed extremely reluctant about it and told me he's not the best pick for it."
"I see." Y/N said in understanding.
"This is why I want you to talk with him about it." Chimera told him, "You've known him for longer than I did. Maybe you will make him lean more to this idea."
"Alright. I'll try to talk with him about it." Y/N replied, "I can't promise anything, though. It's up to him and I don't want to force him into doing something he doesn't want to. Forcing people to do something they don't want to is not how we do things."
"Alright. Fair enough." Chimera nodded at him.
"I'm back." Spinner's voice rang through their ears as soon as Chimera uttered his words.
Y/N got up from the couch and turned around to look at Spinner as Spinner presented his new sword to him. The h/c haired's boy eyes widened, having just recognized where he saw this sword before and asked Spinner, "Wait a second? Isn't that...?"
Spinner nodded in confirmation with a smile on his face, showing Y/N off his new sword, "Yup. It's fusion sword from Final Fantasy. I asked Origami if she could make me this sword and she was more than happy to oblige."
Chimera raised his brow at the name, "Final Fantasy?"
"A popular video game series. I'll tell you later." Spinner explained as Chimera nodded in understanding. He shifted his attention back to Y/N and looked at him questioningly, "So. What do you think?"
Y/N smiled, "I think it's great."
"I knew you'd like this." Spinner smiled back, "I'm looking forward to using it in the future."
Y/N nodded, "I'm sure you do."
"Y/N~!" Toga's voice's crying out for Y/N rang through their ears as Y/N and Spinner turned around to the source of it and saw Toga standing in the doorway to the room. She smiled at him, holding a bag where her swimsuit must have been in her right hand, "Are you going to the pool or not? It's almost time."
Y/N nodded at her, "Yeah. I'm coming. I was just about to finish here."
Toga nodded back at him, "Alright. I'll wait here, then!"
Y/N started to make his way towards her and stopped next to Spinner for a minute, "One more thing before I'll leave. Chimera told me about the idea he brought up to you about you becoming a face of your fellow heteromorphs."
Spinner tensed up slightly at the mention of this, "I-I see. What about it?"
"I want to tell you to choose what you want. Don't force yourself into something you don't want to." Y/N told him, "I just want you to know. No matter what you choose, you can always count on my and the rest's support."
Spinner nodded at him, "I-I see. Thanks."
"No problem." Y/N smiled at him as he pushed himself back into walk, "I'll talk to you later."
"Yeah." Spinner once again nodded at him as Y/N walked past him and joined Toga in the doorway to the room. Exchanging glances with each other, both of them started to make their way towards the swimming pool as Spinner silently watched them walk out of his view, finding himself once again thinking about the heteromorph idea Chimera brought up to him.
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Y/N and Mustard stood close to the swimming pool in the mansion, both of them wearing their swimsuits as they waited for Origami and Toga to walk out of their changing room and join them by the pool. Y/N and Toga arrived at the swimming pool several minutes later where Origami and Mustard were already waiting for them and split up to go into different changing rooms to change into the swimming suits they had bought for today back when Toga first brought up this idea to them. Their swimsuits weren't anything remarkable. Y/N wore a pair of simple black swimming shorts on himself and Mustard wore a pair of simple dark brown swimming
"Guys~!" Toga called out for them as Y/N and Mustard shifted their gaze to see and saw Toga walking towards them in her swimsuit. She wore a two piece bikini which was colored in her most beloved red color. Her buns were undone as well, allowing her long blonde hair to go freely behind her back. Mustard's eyes slightly widened at the view of Toga in this, feeling his face growing red as Y/N looked around Toga to see if Origami was to be seen around her, "Sorry to keep you waiting~. Me and Origami-chan wanted to be sure we were prepared."
"I-I see." Mustard replied, doing his best to hide his blushing face from Toga which he was failing at as Y/N continued to look for Origami.
"What's wrong, Hiroto-kun?" Toga asked with a teasing smirk growing on her face, "Do you like how I look like right now~?"
Mustard immediately denied this, "N-No!"
"Toga-chan." Y/N came in Mustard's rescue to stop him from further embarassment as Toga looked at him with a questioning look on her face, 'Where's Origami?"
"What do you mean, Y/N? She was right behind me." Toga replied, looking confused by Y/N's question as she looked over her shoulder and smiled as she saw Origami hiding herself behind her out of Y/N and Mustard's view, "Origami-chan. What are you doing?"
"Himiko-chan. It's too revealing. I'll go change into something else." Origami told Toga in an embarassed manner, hiding behind her best friend to prevent Y/N and Mustard, especially the former, from seeing her in the swimsuit she had on herself now.
"Come on, Origami-chan~." Toga shrugged Origami's concerns off as she grabbed her by her good hand and pushed her into Y/N and Mustard's view, "It's not too revealing. It's a swimsuit! It's what it supposed to do! You look really cute!"
Origami found herself in Y/N and Mustard's view a second later as she was pushed into it by Toga. Y/N's felt himself growing flustered with a blush growing on his face as soon as he laid his eyes on his girlfriend and saw the swimsuit she had on herself right now. Words couldn't describe what he felt after seeing her in it. She looked so beautiful right now. She wore a dark blue two piece bikini and the way how it revealed her certain assets to him like her abs only made him blush more. The way how her biking top hugged her large chest didn't make it any easier to him.
"I-I still think it's too revealing..." The dark green haired girl said, feeling embarassed about the others seeing her in something this revealing as she looked at Y/N and saw him in his swimsuit and his built. Finding herself growing more flustered after seeing this, she looked away from him to hide her blushing face.
Toga wrapped her arm around Origami, "Don't feel so embarassed about it, Origami-chan! You look cute in it." She set her eyes on Y/N, "Don't you think so, Y/N~?"
"Y-Yes." Y/N nodded, both him and Mustard still blushing for different reasons as Origami looked up at him, "Y-You look very cute in it, Origami."
His girlfriend felt her blush grow at this, "T-Thank you..."
"Now~. With this matter settled, how about we go into the water?" Toga smiled at the scene and pulled her hand away from Origami. Despite her having to convince Origami for a while to put this on instead of a plain one piece swimsuit, she knew all the time that she spent making it was worth it. She finally what was Origami's cup size after all this time as well and it made it worth to her as well.
"Yes. Can we put this crap behind us?" Mustard agreed with Toga as he shifted his gaze away from Toga and how she looked like right now.
Toga stepped closer to him with her signature teasing smirk on her face, "What's wrong, Hiroto-kun? Don't tell me I make you blush~?"
"No." Mustard continued to deny this, dipping his feet into the water as he began to climb into the pool. "I thought we are supposed to hang out in the pool here and not talk about crap like this next to it."
Toga giggled, following his example and climbing herself into the pool, "Sure. Whatever you say~."
Y/N and Origami watched them climb into the pool and glanced at each other, both of them still slightly blushing from everything. Exchanging glances with each other, both of them silently came to the mutual agreement on following Mustard and Toga into the pool. They clenched their teeth slightly upon finding themselves in the water, feeling the coldness of it as they waited for their bodies to get used to the temperature of the water and
Origami smiled at Y/N a second after finding herself in the water, finding herself recalling something she did with Y/N back when she first met him, "This brings back memories."
"Yeah." Y/N smiled back at her, having recalled this as well. It was really hard to believe how far he and Origami had come together since then in both their relationship and who they were as people.
"...Shit. This water is so cold." Mustard said, shivering slightly from the water as he waited for his body to get used to
Toga looked at him questioningly, "Still feeling cold?"
"What do you think?" Mustard rolled his eyes at her obvious question, "What about you? You're not feeling cold?"
"Nope." Toga shook her head, "The water is perfectly fine for me."
Mustard raised his brow at this, "How? You entered the water after me? How am I still cold and youi're not."
Toga shrugged her shoulders, feeling an idea pop into her mind a second later. It was enough to make her smirk again, "If you're having a problem with it, I have a perfect method how to make you feel less cold."
Mustard continued to look at her with a raised brow, "What? What is this special method of yours?"
Toga wasted no time and splashed some water towards him, "This."
Mustard's eyes widened as he felt the cold water hit him, "W-What the hell? What the hell are you doing?
"Helping you with your cold problem!" Toga explained with a massive smirk on her face, splashing some more water towards Mustard.
Mustard remained speechless for a few seconds, then he made it clear that he will going to take revenge on Toga by starting to splash water in her direction. Toga immediately reacted to his assault and started to splash more water in his direction in a wild manner, getting herself completely wet in the process, but she didn't care about it as she continued go along with it for the fun of it, throwing more and more water in Mustard's way and making sure there was no end to it.
Y/N and Origami exchanged glances with each other as they watched the splash battle between Mustard and Toga and nodded at each other, deciding to make their move in the battle of splashes and splashed some water towards both Toga and Mustard. Toga and Mustard looked at Y/N and Origami as soon as the water hit them and glanced at each other, exchanging nods with each other as they found themselves united against the common threat of Y/N and Origami.
The splash battle continued between the four youngest members of the League of Villains for the next few moments as Y/N, Origami, Mustard and Toga became more soaked with each passing second and each splash from their opponent. Despite feeling themselves becoming more soaked, all four of them couldn't deny they were having fun right now to themselves. Even if Mustard will probably write it off a an annoying activity he just went along with after they will done with it.
All four of them were done splashing each other about a minute later, both of them completely wet from the water and Origami and Toga could already tell it will take them a while to dry their hair when they will leave the pool later. Y/N, Toga, Origami and Mustard looked between each other, eyeing each other in the states they were left in because of their splash battle and let out a couple of deep breath to catch their breath before commenting on what just happened between them.
Origami smiled slightly, her bikini and hair completely soaked, 'W-Well. It was fun."
"Yeah. It was." Y/N agreed with his girlfriend, smilling as well as he had fun during the splash battle. It was one hell of a way of starting theit hangout at the pool, right?
Mustard rolled his eyes, acting as if he didn't had fun during it as he put on an angry, "Glad you enjoyed yourself. I can't say the same myself, though. Now I'm completely wet. At least I'm not cold anymore."
"You don't seem angry." Toga pointed out with a smile on her face.
Mustard noticed that his attempt to show that he was angry had failed and allowed himself to smile slightly, knowing there was no reason in hiding it if the others already saw him through it, "Fine! It was fun. Just a little bit, though."
"See!" Toga giggled at him admitting he had fun, "You can really be tsundere, Hiroto-kun."
Mustard's smile faded away from his face and was replaced with with an annoyed look on his face, "You once again with this crap? I'm not a tsundere."
Toga nodded, giggling once again, "Yes. You are~."
"No! I'm not!" Mustard denied, making Toga let out one more giggle. Wanting to change the subject of the conversation, he looked around everyone around him and asked them, "What do we do now?"
Origami looked at him with a thoughtful look on her face when she voiced her suggestion, "How about a race from one part of the pool to another?"
Y/N looked at her questioningly, "Just like when we hung out for the first time?"
"Yeah." Origami nodded in confirmation, blushing slightly.
"Alright." Y/N smiled, "Sounds good to me. Let's do it."
"How about it will be between the two of us?" Origami asked him, smilling back at him liking her suggestion as she turned away from him and shifted her gaze between Toga and Mustard questioningly, "If you two are okay with it."
Mustard shrugged, "I'm good."
"Go ahead, you lovebirds~." Toga nodded.
Y/N and Origami exchanged glances with each other, finding themselves blushing at the way Toga referred them. Not wasting any time, both of them made their way to the closer end of the pool and looked at each other once more before preparing themselves for the race. After getting themselves into the proper stance, Origami counted from three to one and both she and Y/N jumped into action as soon as she reached zero, both of them wanting to do their best and win the race they were having right now.
Origami swam as fast as she could to get to the other side of the pool first, she had already finished half of the race and is getting closer and closer to the other side. Her face showed that she was quite focused on the race, she was determined to win this race against Y/N. All of the efforts she put into this race paid off as she came out victorious in the end. When Y/N had finished his part of the race, she was already waiting for him there with a satisfied smile on her face, gladdened to see herself win.
She smiled at Y/N as soon as saw him lay his eyes on her, "I-I won!"
"Yeah." Y/N smiled back at her, "Glad to see the lack of swimming you put yourself through for the last few months didn't lower your skills in any way."
Origami rubbed the back of her head with a slightly uncertain look on her face, "You really think so? I think I was a bit slower than I was when we had our first race all this time ago."
Y/N nodded in confirmation, "Even if you think so, I still think you did great."
"Thanks." Origami smiled at him gratefully as she shifted her gaze from him to Toga and Mustard and saw both of them watching her and Y/N from the distance. She called out for them a second later, "Now! How about you two have a race with each other?"
Toga and Mustard shared glances with each other as soon as Origami voiced her idea to them, both of them growing slightly uncertain about it as neither of them would call themselves experienced in swimming. Nevertheless both of them went along with Origami's idea after a moment. If Y/N agreed to have a race with Origami, despite him not being much of a swimmer, then they could have a race with each other, right? Especially since the odds would be more fair in their race because of them having a similiar level of experience.
The race ultimately ended with Mustard winning over Toga. Toga was disappointed by it and acted all pouty after coming in second after Mustard, but everyone could tell she was having fun. The group of four spent the next two hours at the pool, hanging out with each other and doing various activities you'd see people usually do at the pool. Despite all of them slowly finding themselves more exhausted with each passing second and each activity they did together, none of them complained about the time they spent at the pool as all of them had fun together.
The group was now playing Chicken Fight game. The idea came from Toga and everyone, with Mustard being slightly reluctant about it, agreed to give this game a try. They decided the theme of this round to be "Boys vs Girls.". Mustard was carrying Y/N on his shoulders and Toga was carrying Origami on her shoulders, allowing the two people on their shoulders to the rest of the job. What they failed to notice at first, however, was the way how Y/N and Origami looked at each other shortly after they positioned themselves on their shoulders.
After nothing happened for the next several minutes as either Y/N or Origami made any moves against each other, Mustard and Toga grew themselves growing curious why they weren't attacking each other like they should have in this game. In Mustard's case, some irritation came with it as well. They got their answer a second later as they looked up and saw Y/N and Origami not fighting each other and doing some other activity. The said activity was kissing. Both of them must have forgotten Mustard and Toga were underneath them when they glanced at each other and it resulted in what they were doing right now.
"Get a room you two!" Mustard shouted to them, slightly embarassed and annoyed by the fact that these two were kissing above him and Toga right now. He raised his brow a second later, having no heard Toga make a comment about it and it weirded him out slightly as he knew it was something she would definitely make a comment on.
He shifted his attention to Toga and saw her looking at him with a sweet smile on her face and a a blush on her face. Toga continued to blush, beginning to lean closer to Mustard with her smile still evident on her face as Mustard gulped nervously at how close his friend was getting to him. The brown haired boy froze where he stood as he slowly found himself in some sort of trance. For a split second, he thought he and Toga were the only ones in the pool right now, making everything else around him turn white as Toga continues to lean closer and closer to him, being only inches away from him at this point.
He broke himself out of his trance a moment later, realizing what is about to happen. He shook his head with a flustered look on his face as he jumped backwards to get away from Toga, resulting in Y/N falling off of his shoulders into the water, "Ah hell no!"
Origami looked down at Mustard with a concerned look on her face, her concern masking the embarassment she would normally feel after realizing she kissed Y/N in front of other people, "Is something Kataoka-kun?"
"I can't tell." Mustard shook his head, burying his face in his hands to how just how red his face was, "I just felt like I was about to cross a line that must never be crossed!"
"Is it because of me?" Toga asked, her sweet smile slowly fading away from her face and her blush being slowly replaced with an almost disappointed look after what just happened.
"Stop!" Mustard shouted with a flustered look on his face, shaking his head as Y/N emerged from the water, letting out a deep breath to catch his breath.
Origami shifted her concern to Y/N, "Are you alright, Y/N?"
"Yeah." Y/N nodded in confirmation, having regained his breath a bit, "I just wasn't expecting something like this to happen..."
"Maybe if you two weren't sucking faces and were actually playing the game, this wouldn't have happen." Mustard pointed out, pointing between Origami and Y/N as Origami and Y/N began to blush in embarassment, having just recalled they had forgotten themselves and kissed with Mustard and Toga around.
Origami looked at Mustard with an apologetic look on her face, "S-Sorry..."
"Y-Yeah. We had forgotten ourselves here..." Y/N added, looking just as apologetic as Origami.
Mustard crossed his arms, "Just don't pull off stunt like this again."
"Don't listen to him, you two." Toga said, trying to make Y/N and Origami less embarassed about it, "Personally I thought you were adorable~."
Mustard rolled his eyes, "Of course you did..."
"I thought the same." All four of them shifted their attention to the source of the voice and saw Ayaka and Minene watching them from the edge of the pool. The two women were watching them with smirks on their faces. Minene had a slight blush on her face as she had eyes set on Y/N, bitting her lip slightly as she saw him just in his swimsuit.
Y/N looked suprised by their presence, "Kasumi-chan? Okumura-san?"
"For how long you two were watching us?"
"We just came here. We came here just in time to watch an interesting show, though." Ayaka explained with a slight smirk on her face as Y/N and Origami blushed in embarassment again, realizing more people saw what just happened between them. Mustard blushed in embarassment as well, realizing Ayaka and Minene must have seen what happened with him as well.
"What are you two doing here?" Mustard asked them a second later, feeling his blush of embarassment slowly fading away.
"Lieutenant Skeptic called for me and told me I need to bring you to him as the upgrade you asked him to do on your mask is done." Minene explained, her eyes still set on Y/N as she continued to eye him in interest with a blush on her face, "The same goes for the new model of Lieutenant Weaponsmith's arm she had asked him to prepare for her."
Y/N nodded in understanding, "I see."
Origami looked suprised by her arm being already done, "W-What? It's already done?"
"Yup." Ayaka nodded in confirmation, "This is why I am here. I'm supposed to overlook when you will try it out to make sure everything will be fine from medical's point of view."
"Alright." Origami said in understanding and shifted her gaze to Y/N, "I think we should go."
Y/N nodded in agreement, "Yeah. I was about to say the same thing."
Toga pouted in disappointment, "Aww. Does it mean the pool fun is over?"
"It would end soon, anyway." Mustard shrugged, pointing towards the window and seeing the sun slowly going down, "It will start getting dark soon."
Toga looked in the direction he had pointed towards with her pout still evident on her face. Even though she wished the fun lasted longer, she knew Mustard was right, "Right."
Origami smiled at Toga, "Don't worry, Himiko-chan. We can do it again soon."
Toga's expression lit up at this, "Really?"
Origami nodded in confirmation, "Yeah."
"I wouldn't mind it." Y/N agreed, "It was fun."
"For the most part." Mustard muttered under his breath.
Toga smiled widely at this, "Okay~. Can't wait for the next time, then!"
Y/N and Origami wasted no time and started to make their way towards towards Ayaka and Minene and Mustard and Toga followed them. After getting themselves out of the water, Y/N and Origami told Ayaka and Minene to give them several minutes as they want to get themselves dried up and put their clothes on themselves. Ayaka and Minene nodded in understanding, the latter looking slightly disappointing about Y/N not going with them like this and Y/N, Origami, Mustard and Toga went to the changing rooms, ending their pool fun for the day.
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After drying themselves and putting on their clothes, Y/N and Origami walked out the changing rooms in their usual clothes and were greeted by the view of Minene and Ayaka waiting for them. Upon making sure they had everything they needed, the group of four wasted no time and started to make their way towards Skeptic's work room where Y/N would get his upgraded mask and Origami would get her new upgraded prosthetic arm. The saying both of them were looking forward to it was quite the understatement as both of them wanted to try out their newest upgrades and see how they worked.
The walk towards their destination went in silence for the most part. As they continued to make their way towards their destination, Y/N glanced into one of the rooms he and the rest had just walked by and saw Magne training her new improved Quirk with Mummy watching over here and having a rather friendly conversation with her as Magne was smilling at him. Y/N smiled slightly at the view after walking past the room, glad to see Magne and Mummy getting along and working well with each other.
He pushed himself out of his thoughts regarding Magne and Mummy and and set his eyes on Ayaka, "Okumura-san."
Ayaka looked over her shoulder at him questioningly, "Yeah?"
"I never got a chance to ask you this in private." Y/N replied. Despite interacting with Ayaka a few times since she agreed to join the Paranormal Liberation Front, they never got a chance to talk with each other in private, "How you have been doing for last few weeks?"
Ayaka looked slightly suprised by a question like this for a second. She provided him her answer a second later, "I don't think you need to ask me such obvious question but if you want to know, then alright. I've been doing pretty well. Things can get a bit tiring, considering the position I was put in in the medical part of the this army but it's nothing I can't handle. I was ready for this right when I accepted your offer. Living in this mansion is a good payment as well. It's not everyday you switch from living in some criminal hideouts to a literal mansion."
"Alright. I'm glad to hear you've been doing well." Y/N smiled, "What about your story? Have you talked with Skeptic and Curious about it after we brought our idea up to you?"
Ayaka nodded in confirmation, beginning to form a smile on her face when she added, "I already took care of both my video confession and written interview."
Y/N looked at her with a pleasantly suprised look on his face, "Really?"
Ayaka once again nodded in confirmation, "Yup. I did. I was more than eager to do it as soon as you filled me in this idea. I now wish I'll be there when Hayakawa will see this video and will see the truth about him exposed. I can already tell his face will be a sight to see."
"I'm sure it will." Y/N nodded. Ayaka wasn't the only one who had a wish like this. He wished he was there to see Bakugo and Tomohito's faces when they will see his video as well.
"Now that you brought this up." Ayaka said, having something she was wanting to say Y/N for a while, "I want to say thank you."
Y/N raised his brow, "You want to thank me? For what?"
Ayaka smiled at him gratefully, "For giving me an opportunity to share my story with the world. If it wasn't for you, then I wouldn't be given this opportunity and people would never hear my story and my truth would never become known."
Y/N smiled back at her, "You don't need to thank me. It was nothing. When it comes to making sure our stories will be heard, I meant all of us. Including you."
"It does not make me any less grateful." Ayaka told him as leaned closer to him and kissed him on the cheek, making him blush in suprise of her action. She turned towards Origami a second later and saw Origami looking at her with her eyes narrowed in a jealous manner. Minene looked jealous of it as well. The punk woman ignored her, though and focused on Origami, "What's wrong? Is someone jealous~? Perharps I should make it even?"
"W-What?" Origami asked, looking more taken aback than jealous right now as Ayaka shifted her attention from Y/N to her and planted a small kiss on her cheek as well.
Ayaka shifted her gaze between both of them in their flustered states and chuckled, "Aw. You two really are the cutest."
"W-Why would you..." Origami began to stutter out her reply to what just happen.
Ayaka allowed herself to chuckle once again, "Alright. I may have gone a bit too far here. I just wanted to show you my appreciation of giving me an opportunity to share my story with the world."
"I-I see." Y/N nodded in understanding, remaining flustered about it, "Can you please don't do it again?"
"Noted." Ayaka nodded at them with a smile on her face as she shifted her gaze between Y/N and Origami for one more time, "Neverthless. I'm happy both of you got together. I was kind of rooting for you two ever since I saw how you to act around each other when I took a look at Origami's wound. I was kind of suprised you two weren't a thing back then to be honest."
"Thanks." Y/N smiled at her and Origami smiled slightly as well, both of them feeling the embarassment and the awkwardness of what just happened slowly fading away. Ayaka turned away from Y/N and Origami a second later, shifting her attention back to her way to Skeptic's work room as she didn't have anything else she had to say to Y/N and Origami. At least for now.
Y/N, Origami, Ayaka and Minene wasted no time and proceeded to make their way towards Skeptic's work room and the group of four reached their destination shortly after. The four of them walked into the room and looked around themselves. Origami saw nothing had changed in this room from when she was there for the first time with the rest of the League shortly after their fight with the Liberation Army back in Deika City. There was only a few minor almost not noticeable changes.
Skeptic turned around in his seat, turning his attention from the many monitors and set his on the group of four, "There you are. You took your time."
Ayaka shrugged, "It took us a moment to find and even after we found them, they had to dry themselves
"Yeah. I figured it out after I saw them hanging by the pool on the cameras." Skeptic nodded as he got up from his seat, "L/N..."
"Y/N." Y/N told him.
Skeptic raised his brow at him, "What?"
"Just call me Y/N. We're working together. Aren't we?" Y/N explained him, giving him the same explanation he gave to everyone whenever he brought this up to them.
"Fine. Y/N ." Skeptic went along with it, feeling slightly weird on his tongue when he referred to Y/N by his first name. He motioned Y/N to follow him, "We'll check your mask first. Since it will take less time and we'll get this over with quicker."
"Alright." Y/N nodded as he pushed himself into walk and followed Skeptic to one crate in the room.
Skeptic looked over his shoulder at Ayaka, "When we will get this done, could you prepare Jakuzure for her arm testing by taking off the arm she is using right now."
"Okay." Ayaka said in understanding of her request as she looked at Origami. They nodded at each other and walked over to the closest place where Origami could sit on when Ayaka will deattach her prosthetic arm from the rest of her body. Minene considered followed them to it but ultimately decided to go after Y/N and Skeptic, wondering what was the upgrade Y/N asked Skeptic to do to his mask.
Skeptic reached into the crate in front of him and pulled out Y/N's mask from it. He turned around to face Y/N and held the mask out to him, "Come on. Take it. If you want to see how it works, press the button our engineers put on the back of it."
"Alright." Y/N nodded as he took his mask from Skeptic and covered his face with it. He began to play around with the back of it a second later, trying to locate the button Skeptic told him about.
Minene stopped close to Y/N and Skeptic a second later, "Y/N?"
"What is it?" Y/N asked as he found the button he was looking for and pressed it.
Minene looked at him with a curious look on her face, "What is the upgrade with your mask?"
"Infrared Vision." Y/N explained, activating this new ability of his mask and saw everything around him through it, "I asked Skeptic over here if he could add this ability to my mask as it would make it easier for me to spot people in the dark and it would help me when we will make our move and will have to fight heroes either during the night and in the dark places."
Minene smiled at him, "I see...!"
"How does it work?" Skeptic cut into their conversation, "Does it need any upgrades or is something not working about it? I need to know."
Y/N looked around himself and blinked a few times underneath his mask, "No. Everything works well."
Skeptic nodded in a satisfied manner, "Great. At this project will be scratched off my list. Make sure all the efforts and resources we put into making this upgrade won't go to waste."
Y/N took off his mask, showing Skeptic the grateful smile he had on his face right now and attached it to his vest, "I won't. Thank you so much for making this upgrade."
"...Whatever." Skeptic shrugged it off as he shifted his attention to Origami and Ayaka and Origami sitting on an empty crate with her prosthetic arm taken off, "I'll go take care of Jakuzure's new arm now."
Y/N nodded in understanding as Skeptic walked off to take care of Origami. After seeing him approach Origami and Ayaka, he turned away from them and shifted his attention to Skeptic's laptop. Wanting to kill the time before Origami's new arm will be put on her, the h/c haired boy stepped closer to the laptop. Minene quietly followed him to the laptop and stopped next to him, both her and Y/N seeing what was on the desktop right now and what was Skeptic looking at it, before moving his attention away from it.
He saw two folders opened. The folder on the right consisted of the video confession taken by the League and the folder on the left consisted of the interviews taken by Kizuki. Y/N nodded himself. He really had to talk with Kizuki about taking his own interview with her. He shifted his gaze between the foldiers, seeing who had their videos and interviews taken. When it came to the idea, there was him, Twice, Ayaka, Slice, Toga and Origami. For the interviews, there was Magne, Origami, Slice, Twice, Ayaka, Chimera, Mummy and Spinner. He knew it still wasn't everyone but he wasn't going to hurry everyone up as they still had a lot of time to get this done.
Minene chuckled, "I see your plan is going in full motion."
"Looks like it." Y/N nodded in a satisfied manner, glad to see everyone were slowly getting their parts of this plan done.
"I'm really looking for when we will make our move." Minene told him, "Seeing your new improved Meta Ability in action after all the training you're putting yourself through will surely be a sight to see."
Y/N chuckled, "You really think so?"
"Yup." Minene confirmed, "Seeing it in action when we train together already makes me excited. The thought of seeing it in battle after you will master it is enough to make me blush~."
"I-I see..." Y/N nodded, beginning to blush slightly at the tone Minene used when she uttered those words.
"I really mean it." Minene added as he grabbed his hand and put it on her heart. Y/N's blush grew wider, feeling his hand placed on Minene's large chest as Minene's smile grew wider at his reaction, pressing his hand a bit further into her chest. Even if she promised Toga not to get in between Y/N and Origami's relationship, it didn't mean she couldn't stop herself from expressing her belief in him, "I can feel it right here in my heart. Can you feel it as well~?"
"Y-Yeah...?" Y/N replied, slowly pulling his hand away from Minene's chest as he wanted this situation to end.
Minene smiled at him sweetly, "I'm glad."
"... It's on. Now test it out." Skeptic's voice brought them towards Origami, Skeptic and Ayaka. They shifted their attention in the direction of it and saw Origami's new arm was just attached to her body. Origami didn't had her eyes set on her arm and instead had them set on Minene. Her eyes were narrowed at the purple haired woman, "...Jakuzure? Do you hear me or not? Test your new arm out."
"Alright. Sorry. I just lost myself in my thoughts." Origami told him, pushing herself out of the state she was in a second earlier. She shifted her attention to her new arm and began to test it out by wiggling her fingers at first.
Y/N looked at her questioningly, "How does it feel, Origami?"
"Pretty good." Origami looked at him and smiled, putting her thoughts away from Minene for a second, "It feels like as if I didn't just change arms. As weird as it sounds."
Y/N nodded and asked her the next question, "What can you do with it?"
Origami's hand transformed into a pistol a second later as she decided to let the actions do the work at first, "I can do two new things with it. One of them is changing the hand part of it into a pistol. After I got my bolt thrower, I didn't want to completely get rid of my pistol after all the time Kataoka-kun gave me to train me and this idea popped into my mind."
"Alright." Y/N said in understanding as Origami's hand transformed itself back into a normal hand. He couldn't help but notice the similiarities between this ability of Origami's new arm and Asano's Quirk. He looked at her questioningly a second later, "What about the other ability. What is it?"
"I call it Overture." Origami began her explanation as Y/N listened to her in interest, "It allows me to send an electric blast towards my opponent."
Y/N's eyes slightly widened, "Wow? Really?"
Origami nodded in confirmation with a smile on her face, "Yeah."
"Make sure to use it when you will really need to." Skeptic told Origami, "The air battery we put in it has slow recovery. If would use them in the situation where I wouldn't see any other option if I were you."
"Alright." Origami said in understanding, making a mental note out of it.
"How about we go test it out somewhere?" Y/N suggested as Origami nodded in agreement, having been planning to do the same.
Skeptic crossed his arms, "It would be for the best. At least I will know if we have to make any fixes or upgrades to this arm. Which is something I would prefer as I want to focus on the other things."
Origami nodded in understanding and glanced back at Y/N, "Okay. Let's go to my training grounds, then."
Y/N silently nodded in agreement to this. Upon seeing this nod from him, Origami turned away from him and pushed herself into walk towards the exit from Skeptic's work room. Y/N, Ayaka and Minene followed her, all of them wanting to see her new arm in action. Just as he was about to exit the work room with the others, Y/N looked over his shoulder and saw Skeptic sitting back down on his seat in front of his monitors. It when when he got the need of asking him about something he asked him to do shortly after his fight with Geten.
He stopped in his tracks a second later and told Origami, Minene and Ayaka, "Can you go without me for a moment? I'll join you in Origami's training grounds in a moment."
Ayaka looked over her shoulder at him questioningly, "What? Why?"
"Did something happened?" Origami wanted to know.
"Nothing. I just need to ask Skeptic about something. Don't worry. It's nothing severe." Y/N explained as Origami nodded in understanding. He turned away from them and walked back into Skeptic's work room as Origami, Minene and Ayaka continued to make their way towards Origami's training grounds.
Origami shifted her gaze to Minene a second later, "Minene."
Minene looked at her questioningly, "Yes?"
Origami narrowed her eyes at Minene, finding the feelings of jealousy, "I saw you what did back there with Y/N. Don't do it again."
Minene looked slightly taken by suprise by it, finding it to be something different from the girl she usually saw in Origami and nodded at her a second later, "I-I'll do my best!"
While this happened between Origami and Minene, Y/N made his way to Skeptic and looked at the monitors in front of him. He looked around all the monitors, allowing himself to take a look at them before he will bring something up to Skeptic. He stopped looking around them after a few seconds because one of the monitors caught his attention. The monitor showed Hawks and Twice in one of the rooms of the mansions and from the looks of it, it seemed like they were having one of their meetups.
"I see they're having one of their talks right now." Y/N noticed, stopping behind Skeptic to look at all of his many monitors.
"Yes." Skeptic nodded in understanding, watching the conversation between Twice and Hawks right now as Y/N remained behind him, allowing himself to watch the conversation between them as well.
Hawks took notice of something laying close to Twice and pointed towards it with a questioning look on his face, "What is it?"
"Oh, this?" Twice looked towards the item Hawks had just pointed towards and picked it up, revealing to be a copy of the picture Tengai had taken off the months a few months back, "It's just a copy of Toga-chan's picture! Tengai-kun took the original out of all of us some time ago. Look at it. Don't we all look nice in it?"
Hawks stared at the picture for a second and gave Twice a small smile, "Yeah. You do look nice in it. All of you."
"Cool. I knew you'd like it!" Twice said happily, smilling underneath his mask, "Even Shigaraki liked this picture!"
Hawks raised his brow, "He did?"
"Yup!" Twice nodded in confirmation, "Honestly I lost the count of how many times I asked myself what did I do to find leaders like him and Y/N! They would jump into fire for all of us without hesitation!"
"What's up with him? Did he do anything suspicious?" Y/N asked after a moment of watching Hawks and Twice, narrowing his eyes at the former upon laying his eyes on him. As much he felt suspicious of Hawks, he knew he couldn't do anything until Hawks will prove to him his suspicious about him were correct.
Skeptic shook his head, "No. I'm keeping my eyes on him for every moment he is in the mansion and he didn't do anything to make us take care of him."
"Alright." Y/N nodded in understanding, "Keep keeping an eye on him and don't forget to let me know if he does anything suspicious."
Skeptic nodded back at him, "I will. I wasn't planning on taking my eyes off of him anytime soon."
"Remember what I told you." Y/N thought to himself, keeping his eyes narrowed at Hawks, "You make one wrong move and you're done for."
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All Might walked through the hallways of U.A, having just returned to the school from visit in Tartatus where he had his conversation with All For One regarding Y/N. He thought about his conversation with All For One over and over again after leaving Tartatus as he found himself going back with his thoughts to the things All For One told him during their their unpleasant. Or at least this conversation was unpleasant to All Might. He could tell All For One enjoyed every second of their conversation.
The former number one hero couldn't tell which part of this conversation he was coming back the most to. Everything All For One told him was making him feel so conflicted on the inside. No matter if it was what he told about him Y/N not agreed to be saved and leave his current life behind or everything he told him about young Bakugo. All of it was making him feel conflicted on the inside and he found himself struggling to gather his thoughts on those matters because of it.
However, nothing was making him more conflicted than what All For One told him at the end of their conversation. He told him about everything being his fault. He told him his Era of Peace just made everything worse for people like Y/N instead of making everything better for them. Could this be true? Could his work of a hero and him wanting to be a symbol for everyone is what caused the League to be created and now everything in Japan being the way it is?
As much as he wanted to write off those words of All For One as his usual way of trying to mess with him, he couldn't help but feel like everything he told him was true. If his ignorance of the harm people were going through right under his nose because of his Era of Peace was the reason Y/N and many other villains, including the League were created, then he was really at blame for all of this. He clenched his hand upon getting this thought, feeling the feeling of guilt slowly rising up in his chest.
"...You're back." A familiar male voice pushed himself out of his thoughts as he turned in the direction of it and saw Gran Torino and Aizawa walking towards him from the other side of the hallway.
Gran Torino looked at him questioningly, "How was your talk with All For One in Tartatus?"
All Might looked slightly suprised by both of them knowing where he was, having not told them about this, "How do you know I went to Tartatus to visit All For One?"
"Mandalay told us and Mirio confirmed it." Aizawa replied as All Might nodded in understanding.
Gran Torino's questioning look remained on his face, "Now could you tell you why you went to talk with him again?"
All Might shifted his gaze between both of them and provided them his explanation a second later, "I wanted to talk with him about L/N. With more people becoming open to young Midoriya's idea of saving him after what happened with Eri, I felt like I finally had to come to him with him again. Maybe he would tell me something about L/N."
"And what happened?" Aizawa wanted to know, "Did he tell you anything?"
All Might shook his head, "No. He told me the stuff you'd expect from him. He told me there's no sense in trying to save Y/N."
Aizawa nodded in understanding, "I see."
Gran Torino shifted his gaze between them, "
All Might sighed, "Sensei..."
"Toshinori. You know what I think about the idea of saving him." Gran Torino told him, cutting him off, "The situation between young Midoriya and L/N reminds me of the situation between you and Shigaraki. Even if he was his friend in the past, he's forgetting he's a criminal and is willingly doing all the terrible things the League is doing. You saw yourself the way he looked at both of us in Camino Ward. It was expression of someone who is not going to leave current life behind."
All Might nodded in confirmation, "I know what I saw in his expression back in Camino Ward. It does not mean I'm going to give up completely on him. Not after what he did to save Eri from Overhaul and everything young Midoriya told me about him about their friendship. There's a good person underneath the villain that is the Mask and perharps we'll be able to reach this good person if we'll be given a chance to talk with him."
Gran Torino sighed, "You seem certain about what you're saying."
"It's because I am, sensei." All Might told him.
Gran Torino shifted his gaze to Aizawa, "I assume you're certain about this as well?"
"I'm willing to give it a try." Aizawa gave him his answer.
Gran Torino sighed, "I see. I was hoping you'd see more sense in this situation."
"I promised Eri to give this a chance and I'm not going to back out on my word. Even now, she sometimes stares at the doors and hopes she'll see him walk through them." Aizawa told him. After letting out a quick sigh, he went further into what he had to say right now, "The promise I made to her isn't the only reason why I'm willing to give this a try."
Gran Torino narrowed his eyes slightly at him, feeling like he had already knew the answer to this, "It isn't?"
"As you already know, I had a friend in the past. He was important to me." Aizawa began his explanation, looking saddened by the mention of his friend as Gran Torino looked at him with a sympathetic look on his face, knowing what he was talking about, "Whenever I see young Midoriya talking about L/N, I find himself thinking back back about him and me. I just both myself and my friend in Midoriya and L/N and I just don't want things to end between them as badly as they did between me and my friend."
Gran Torino looked at him with a look of understanding, "I see. If that's case, then I doubt anything I will will make either of you change your mind on this matter."
All Might looked at him with a slightly suprised look on his face, "You're not going to say anything more about this?"
"I know sometimes talking you out of something is impossible. Even if it is something I heavily disagree with. The same goes for young Midoriya." Gran Torino told him., "However, there's something young Midoriya does not seem to consider about his idea to save L/N. He does not seem to consider the fact that he may refuse to listen to him."
All Might and Aizawa remained silent after Gran Torino's words as they knew there wasn't a good retort to them. As the three of them continued their conversation with each other, they were unaware they were being eavesdropped by someone. Two students stood behind the corner, having stopped in their tracks after hearing the conversation the three adults were having right now a few moments earlier.
The two students eavesdropping on them right now came from Class 1-B. Those students were Kendo Itsuka and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu. Upon overhearing what the three adult heroes were talking about, both of them found themselves thinking back about their encounter with one of the members of the League of Villains back when they attacked the summer camp and what she told them when they were convinced they had her captured and she won't get away.
"You want to know why? I'm here for the Mask! I'm here for the only one person who reached his hand out to me when nobody else would! The only one person who took pity on me when everyone else just ignored me and what was she doing to me! I'm here to help him create a better society where people won't be turning blind eye to things like this!"
Both of them exchanged glances with each other and nodded, knowing it was time to finally talk with Izuku about it...
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Getting closer and closer...
A good portion of this chapter was written to kill the wait for the AOT finale. Now that it came out, I have one thing to say. Thank you everyone involved in it for giving us this amazing journey.
We got a new Helluva Boss episode and I absolutely loved it. Fizz was great as always. The scene with the deaf kid was so sweet and it made me smile so much. The moments between Fizz and Asmodeus were great as well. These two are seriously becoming my favourite couple in the show. His interactions with Blitzo were nice as well. Glad to see more scenes of them on the friendly terms. The songs in this episode were great as well. The 'Fuck you' song (Never thought I will say something like this, lol) easily became my favourite song in the show.
Saw the MW3 campaign (because there's no way I'll be buying an overpriced DLC as a full priced game) and as someone who liked MW and MW2 reboot campaigns and someone who loves MW franchise as a whole, I can see easily say that I didn't like it. I don't think I need to say much about it as I think everyone already say why it's so bad. Don't even get me started on the disrespect my boi Soap suffered with his death. It honestly felt like it was just played for shock value.
I finished Spider-Man 2 and wow. Wow. Wow. WOW! I honestly can't describe how much I loved this game. Everything about it was great. From Peter and Harry's friendship themes to the stuff with Kraven and finally the stuff with Venom. Speaking of which. Venom's potrayal in this game was amazing. He was way more terrifying than in the movies. My inner 8 year old was going crazy in the section where we played as Venom from the start where we fought Norman's guard to the end when we fought Kraven. I'm actually surprised they showed this level of gore on a spideman game, but I'm not complaining about it and I'm all here for it. It was actually nice to see some of villain characters deciding to reform themselves as well, shows that there's more to them then being bad guys.
Asano's info card:
Kyochiro Asano
Quirk: Pistols hands
He can change his hands into pistols whenever he desires to.
Affiliation: Paranormal Liberation Front
Birthday: 28th February
Height: 182 cm
Blood Type: B
Likes: Reading, sweet food
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