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"Shouto! Kourin! There's trouble! Follow me! I'll show you two what it means to be a hero!" Endeavour led them in the opposite direction of their patrol as they headed towards and the pair followed him, until both their phones buzzed causing them to halt.

She furrowed her brows and looked at the location Midoriya had sent out. "It's just his location.."

"You two! Don't look at your phones, look at me! Where are you two going?!" He shouted, watching as they ran from him.

"An alleyway at 4-2-10 Ekou Street. If you finish what you're doing or find any free pros, send them there. We're leaving you to take care of the trouble. I'm sure you'll be able to resolve it quickly. My friend might be in trouble," Todoroki told him, mumbling the last part.

"You're absolutely adorable Sho.." Her lips curved up into a grin as she ran alongside him.

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Once they arrived at Midoriya's supposed location, their eyes widened at the sight before them. Quickly springing into action, Kourin and Todoroki both blasted fire at the villain, causing him to jump away. "One after another. There are a lot of people getting in my way today," he grumbled, and his eyes widened at the sight of the brunette before him. Dai and Emi's daughter.

Kourin knew the look in his eyes, it was the look people got when they recognised her. She turned her attention away from him and look over to her best friend on the floor. "Izu, you need to give more details in times like this."

"You made us late." Todoroki added, staring coldly up at the villain.

"T— Todoroki-Kun, Kou, you too?" Iida saw the pair from the corner of his eyes.

"Why are you here?" Midoriya asked, his green hues landing on the flames that came from the half and half boy's body. "And you're using your left side.."

"Why? That's our line. It took us a few seconds to figure out what you meant since you sent just your location info." Todoroki told him, the fire on his left side diminishing as he took a fighting stance. "You're not really one to send that for no reason. You meant that you were in trouble and to call for help, right?" In a second, the boy with the dual coloured hair sent out a wave of ice, lifting up the three paralysed males. Stain presumed it was and attack and jumped up to avoid it. "Don't worry. The pros will also get here in a few minutes!" He added, manipulating the ice to become a ramp for the two to slide down, whilst the brunette fired her blue flames in the villain's direction.

"I won't let you kill these guys, Hero Killer." Kourin declared, a fierce look in her eyes as her hand was engulfed in flames.

"Todoroki-Kun, Koucchan, you can't let this guy get your blood! I think he controls his opponents' actions by ingesting their blood orally. That's how he got all of us!" Midoriya warned the pair.

"He sucks blood to keep people from moving. Are you a vampire? But, it makes sense. I guess that's why he uses blades.." She rose an eyebrow, letting the blue flames cover her body. "He's not touching me." Whilst the boy beside her was trying to focus on a strategy, the villain threw a blade, aiming for his cheek but Kourin caught it and threw it back at him, narrowly missing. "Don't touch him."

Stain jumped up into the air, a crazed look on his face. "You have good friends, Ingenium!" He took a swing at the half and half boy, who easily blocked his attack but at the same time, he'd glanced up, revealing the sword he threw the same time as the blade. Using that as a distraction, he grabbed another knife from his pocket and attempted to slice his cheek but before he could, he was kicked away by the brunette. Is she just like you Elemental? Hercules? Because if she's not.. He came at them again and Todoroki stomped on the ground and a tall mound of ice formed, but the villain easily cut through it.

Kourin aimed her hands up at him, and the blue flames aimed at him sent him backwards. How does he know my parents..? When he kept coming, she clapped her hands and he was sent flying back to the wall but he got up. Again. This guy is stubborn...

"Please, stop! I've inherited my brother's name. I have to do it... that guy's mine!" Iida uttered out.

"You inherited it? That's strange." Slamming his hand to the ground, a mountain of ice formed which created yet another obstacle for the villain. "The Ingenium I saw before didn't have that look on his face though. You've got a lot going on behind the scenes in your family too, huh?"

She stiffened at the mention of family, she wasn't over her abusers as much as she thought she was. "You're not the only one with a complicated family, really now."

As if it was nothing, Stain cut through the ice and big chunks began falling to the ground. "To block your own view against an opponent faster than you.. what a foolish plan." It all happened so fast, Todoroki's words fell deaf to her ears, she saw knives being thrown and it was as if her body moved on its own, two blades pierced her forearm and another two pierced her shoulder, the shock of getting hit extinguished her flames. "You're both pretty good." He grinned maniacally as he aimed for the fallen pro hero. Just like her father.

They were ready to interfere, but a flash of green passed their eyes before they could. Midoriya grabbed him by the collar and dragged the villain on the stone wall around them. "I can move normally for some reason now!"

"A time limit?" Todoroki said, supporting the brunette from behind. "Are you okay?"

"I've had worse," she touched one of the blades embedded into her forearms and flinched. I can deal with it.. God.. If I pull it out blood will come pouring out.. Fucking hell. I could just heal it..

"No, that kid should've been the last one he got." Native informed them, trying to move but failing to do so. "I can't move yet."

Stain elbowed the green haired boy causing him to fall and Todoroki took the opportunity to send a surge of ice in the villain's direction whilst the brunette rushed forward and grabbed Midoriya by his collar, bringing him back over beside the others.

"Are you okay, Izu?" She asked, turning back to face Stain.

"I should be asking you that!" Midoriya motioned to the blades embedded into her forearm and shoulder.

Kourin shook her head, shooting him a reassuring smile as she pulled out the blades from her forearm and shoulder and hid them in her belt. "Don't worry about me. Tell us what you know so far."

"He takes in a person's blood to keep them from moving. Since I got free first... I can think of three possible reasons. It could be less effective with more people, the amount ingested could affect how long it works, or there could be a difference in effectiveness based on a person's blood type," he said, shooting his friend a worried look.

"Blood type? Mine is B.." Native grumbled out.

"I'm type A.." Iida mumbled.

Stain's lips curved into a malicious smirk. "Blood type? That's correct."

"We can't really do anything just by knowing his quirk, though.." Kourin pointed out, healing herself.

"I wanted to hurry up and carry those two out of here, but he can react so fact, he can avoid ice and fire too. I can't leave myself that open." Todoroki said, glancing over at the brunette.

"I would tell you guys to go on.. I'm the most capable here of holding him back, but you two are stubborn and probably won't let me." Kourin concluded, watching the two boys nod in agreement. "Then, our best option is to hold on by avoiding close combat until the pros get here."

Midoriya turned to them, activating his quirk. "I'll distract him, so you two support me from behind!"

"That's a pretty big risk, but yeah. The three of us will protect them!" Todoroki declared, the green haired boy charged forward whilst he and the brunette supported him from behind, sending out waves of ice and fire. "Kou, I forgot to tell you.. I spoke to my mother. I want her to meet you."

For a second, she was distracted and for that one second, Stain stopped targeting Midoriya and aimed for her. Luckily, she was quick to act and just before his blade touched her cheek, blue flames shot out of her hands causing him to jump back. He wants me to meet his mother? Before Stain could slash the green haired boy, she shot off another flame. "Careful!" But there was already blood on his blade, and once again Midoriya was immobilised.

"Please stop.." Iida whimpered, tears welling up in his eyes. "I'm.. already.."

Todoroki gritted his teeth. "If you want us to stop, then, stand up! The only words I can say to you are, look properly at what you want to be!" He shouted, igniting his left side.

Stain was jumping from ice block to ice block, easily dodging all the attacks thrown at him. "Ice and flame. No one's ever told you?" His gaze turned to the half and half boy as he continued to dodge all the ice mounds being made. "You're too focused on your quirk. You're being careless!"

Kourin's eyes widened as her lips parted, ready to scream and immobilise the villain, but Iida got there first, kicking the sword away. "Tenya!" Using the momentum of his attack he managed to kick the villain away.

"Iida-Kun!" Midoriya shouted.

"You got free?" Todoroki asked, glancing up at the hero killer. "That quirk isn't as great as I thought."

"Todoroki, Midoriya, Kou, this has nothing to do with you three, and I apologise." He started, gritting his teeth.

A sigh escaped the brunette's lips. "You're saying this again?"

"That's why I can't allow you three to bleed more than this!"

Stain held the broken blade in his hand and his glare intensified. "It's no use trying to be reformed for appearance's sake. A person's essence does not change so easily. You will never be anything but a fake who prioritises his own selfish desires. You are a cancer to society that warps the idea of heroes," he narrowed his eyes. "Someone must set you straight."

"You're an anachronistic fundamentalist. Iida, don't listen to the logic of a murderer." Todoroki mumbled, glowering at the villain in front of them.

What the fuck does that mean... Kourin sweat dropped at all the words being used but focused on the fight at hand.

"No, he's right. I have no right to call myself a hero. Even so..." Blood began trickling down from the wound on his arm, the droplets of blood landing on the pavement. "I cannot give in. If I give in, then Ingenium will die."

"Out of the question," he rushed forwards, but the brunette had stepped forward and blasted him with her blue flames. How peculiar. Emi your flames were green..

"Idiot! The hero killer is after me and that kid in white armour, right? Don't fight back. It'd be better if you ran away!" Native shouted.

Todoroki furrowed his brows as he watched Kourin blast him with her flames before deciding to join in. "It doesn't look like he'll give us an opening to do that. Something clearly changed just now. He's flustered." And he continued to fire surges of ice at the villain who kept on dodging.

Once he figured out that his engines weren't working, Iida's attention flashed to the brunette who was thinking and analysing the situation. "Kou, can you regulate temperature?"

She nodded, "do you have a plan?"

"Freeze my legs! Without plugging up the exhausts!" He said.

"Oka—"

"You're in the way!" Stain shouted, aiming the blade for the brunette. She was prepared to take a hit, but what she didn't expect was Iida to jump in front of her and to take the hit, the blade landed in the centre of his upper arms. Within a matter of seconds, another blade was thrown, pinning him to the ground.

"Tenya! I could've t—"

"Just do it! Hurry!" She didn't even have to look into his eyes to feel the desperation in his voice, she could hear it. Once she froze his legs, without covering the exhausts, she carefully removed the blade from his arm. When she did so, she whispered, "I trust you," to him. "Thank you." Iida shot off with the green haired boy beside him.

Probably sensing another attack was imminent, another knife was thrown, at Todoroki, but again, the knife never landed on him. It pierced through the brunette's right hand. "Kou! Are you—"

"I'm fine." Seeing the look on their faces, those determined looks, made her smile. And when they both landed a hit, her smile widened, but that didn't mean she missed the pained look on the green haired boy's face nor the throbbing on her hand. "Sho, it's our turn!"

Stain's eyes snapped open and he grabbed his sword midair, taking a swing at Iida, cutting off a bit of his hair. "I will defeat you! This time, you, as a criminal and I as a hero!" He shouted, delivering one final bone crushing kick before the pair blasted him with fire.

Kourin saw the two falling and used the wind to cushion their fall whilst at the same time, she caught the villain with ice. "He's knocked out, right?"

"He should be... I mean.." Midoriya propped himself up. "After all that, he should be knocked out."

"I'd say keep your guard up until he's in custody," she mumbled, pursuing her lips. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't curious about how and why he knew her parents. It seemed that no one wanted to talk about them. But she wanted, no, needed to know about them.

Todoroki noticed the distant look in her eyes and placed a hand on her uninjured shoulder. "Let's restrain him and get out to the street. You can make something to restrain him, right?"

Kourin shoved her hand in her pocket and pulled out a small flower she'd taken from the park yesterday. "It's harder to create vines when there's hardly any nature.." She told them, bringing down the villain with her quirk. "He knew my parents, I know from the way he looked at me." Furrowing their brows, they watched as the brunette took the weapons from Stain and threw them aside. She placed the flower on his body and when she waved her hand over it, it turned into vines that constricted the villain.

"Koucchan.. How do you know?" Midoriya asked, his green hues never leaving her figure.

"I see the way people look at me once they realise I'm the daughter of two pros. I look like my mother mostly, but, I have both their eyes," she stood up and turned to face them. "Let's get out on the street. Native, can you move alright?"

Daughter of Elemental and Hercules.. He nodded in response and threw her a smile, lifting the green haired boy onto his back. "Your parents, they were my heroes. I think they would've been proud.. Sorry, even though I'm a pro, I was just in the way."

"No, I don't think you could've done anything one on one with the hero killer's quirk. He's too strong.." Midoriya mumbled.

"Fighting four on one with the guy making mistakes himself, we still barely won. He was probably flustered and forgot about Midoriya's recovery time." Todoroki said, dragging Stain behind him.

Kourin trailed behind them, her eyes on the unconscious villains body. "I could've taken him. But, not without risking you guys," she uttered out, furrowing her brows.

"Now, let's quickly get him to the polic—"

"Wha? Why are you here?" A small old man in a yellow and white hero costume from across the street caught their attention. "I thought I told you to stay seated on the bullet train!" He scolded, kicking the green haired boy in the face.

"Who's that?" Todoroki asked, raising an eyebrow.

"The hero I'm interning with, Gran Torino. But why?" Midoriya furrowed his brows.

"I was told to come here all of a sudden. Well, I don't really know what's going on, but, I'm glad you're okay." When the injured boy apologised, the pro hero merely sighed. "Emi.." His eyes widened at the brunette, though he quickly realised it wasn't her when she looked up. "Kourin, right? I trained your parents."

Her heterochromatic hues landed on his small figure. "My parents? How d—"

"It's around here!" A group of voices and footsteps, caused the brunette to close her mouth. But now, it had her thinking. Who else knew her parents?

"Endeavour told us there was a request for help here, but.. children?"

"Those injures look serious! I'll call an ambulance right away!"

The masked hero wearing a suit finally noticed the unconscious villain by Todoroki's legs. "H— hey, this is.."

And the woman beside him let out a startled gasp. "Don't tell me... it's the hero killer?" She was taught to respect her elders, so, instead of a witty and sarcastic reply, she remained quiet.

"Call the police too!"

They were checked for wounds and it seemed the only one who'd managed to escape all injuries, maybe a few scratches, was Todoroki. Midoriya had hurt his arm and his ankle was probably broken. Iida had it the worst, with stab wounds on his shoulder, hand and his upper arm. And though Kourin healed herself, the blade was still on her hand, she'd completely forgotten.

"You three... you were injured because of me." Iida bowed. "I am truly sorry. I couldn't... see anything... through my anger." Tears began welling up in his eyes, he was on the verge of crying.

Kourin wrapped an arm around his waist, pulling him in for a hug, but she left the green haired boy to do the talking. "I'm sorry. Even though you were feeling so cornered, I didn't notice at all. Even though we're friends.." A tear rolled down his cheek as he buried his face into the crook of her neck.

"I should've noticed. I'm sorry," she said, rubbing his back comfortingly.

"Pull yourself together. You're the class rep, right?" Todoroki remarked and he watched as they stayed still for a few more minutes before she pulled away.

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"Get down!" Gran Torino shouted as a flying Nomu came, sweeping in.

Kourin's eyes widened as she saw that it was heading for Midoriya and just like she did with Todoroki, her body moved on its own as she pushed the green haired boy to the ground. "Izu—" And she was snatched up into its claws.

"There's blood!" A pro hero shouted as a drop of blood fell on her cheek. "Did he escape here after being beaten?"

I will save your legacy. Stain licked the blood off of the pro's cheek and the flying Nomu began loosing altitude. "The society overgrown with fake heroes," he growled out and ran towards the brunette, breaking out of vines that were wrapped around him. "And criminals who wave their power around idly.." He lunged up into the air and stabbed the monster in the head, causing the creature to crash down to the ground. "Should all be purged." A snarl escaped his lips, twisting the knife imbedded in its skull before he pulled it out. "This is all.. to create a more just society."

"Hey, hey, hey! What the hell?!" Shigaraki looked through the binoculars, his eyes widened in frustration. "Why'd that Nomu have to go and get killed?! Why is that kid here? Why is she here? There's so much I want to say that I can't keep up! This is a mess!"

Everyone stood in fearful anticipation, waiting for the hero killer's next move. Their eyes all on the brunette, inching away from the villain.

"Why're you all standing around in a group?" Endeavour's voice bellowed out, echoing through the streets. "The villain should've escaped this way.." His turquoise hues landed on the villain, who held the brunette by her leg, but he didn't focus on that, but rather the wanted villain killing heroes. "Don't tell me that man is...?" He got ready to attack, but the old pro stopped him.

"Endeavour.." He growled out, gritting his teeth. His eyes met hers for a moment before he stood up. "You fake.." Stain looked towards them, his red hues fixated on the flaming hero, nothing but hate and resentment could be seen in his eyes. "I must make things right... someone must be dyed in blood... I must take back what it means to be a hero! Come! Try and get me, you fakes!" With every step he took, the malevolent aura grew strong and the brunette could see the people in front of her were shaking.

He's so fucking out of it. Kourin inched away from the villain, somewhat scared. But he saved me..

"There used to be three worthy heroes, but now... the only one I'll let kill me is the true hero left alive... All Might!" He announced with a manic look on his face, his pupils so small you could hardly see it. Everyone, even Endeavour was frozen. The sound of Stain's blade hitting the ground managed to snap them out of it. He was unconscious in such a state. Despite being the most injured, he was the last one fighting.

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▬▬▬▬▬ 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄

i try to avoid using numbers cus liek
ion like it, okay? aesthetic purposes.
kourin protecting her babies. okay to
my fellow filos out there kou is like
natataranta? get me? like she's good
but when she protecting her babies
she gets a lil overwhelmed. damn,
stain makes sense thhhoooooooo0
his methods just aren't right.