The young boy who was known as Kota, who was seen sitting down over a cliffside, watching the night sky as his stomach rumbled.
"You're hungry, aren't you? You can eat this curry." Mizuki called, walking to where he sat, carrying a plate of curry.
'...that's weird...I thought for sure Itadori-San went to this direction'
She thought as she looked at Kota.
"You…! How'd you find this place?" Kota shouted angrily at Mizuki.
"Oh, sorry. I followed your footsteps… I thought maybe you'd want something to eat…" Mizuki confessed.
"I'm fine. I don't need any. I told you, didn't I? I don't intend to hang out with you. Get out of my secret hideout!" Kota scuffed.
Mizuki simply looked around the place, muttering, "A secret hideout, huh?"
"Getting all into trying to improve your quirks. It's gross. You want to show off your power that badly?" Kota spat.
Mizuki only looked down at the ground. "Your parents… Could they be Water Hose? With the water quirks?"
Kota gasped before demanding, "Did Mandalay tell you?!"
"Oh, no, um, uh…" Mizuki uttered, before saying, "Sorry!"
"Shut up." Kota looked away from Mizuki, explaining, "Everyone's crazy… Calling each other stupid names like 'hero' and 'villain' and killing each other… Talking about quirks and stuff… It's because they're all showing off that it ended up like that… Stupid…"
'It's not just heroes… Kota hates quirks… and the superhuman society itself…' Mizuki thought.
"What is it? If there's nothing else, then go away!" Kota glared at Mizuki who simply sighed.
"...ya know...you're not the only one who lost someone dear to them"
Mizuki said with a sad look on her face as Kota glared at the girl but she didn't care, "...I lost my brother...a few months ago...and I could still see the blood on my hands as he was in my arms"
She said with Kota's eyes widened at that.
"And you know what...I also found out that he was quirkless...the fact that I barely knew him...and couldn't help but feel like he went through many hardships just because of something that's hereditary and I couldn't help but think that he admired heroes and wanted to become one...I saw how he fought...how he helped...even without a quirk...I saw that my brother would've put his life on the line just so no one would go through the pain he went through"
Mizuki said not knowing that someone was listening in with a smirk on their face.
"I don't know if this'll apply to everyone, but if you reject it that much, then it'll just make it more painful for you. So" Mizuki's continued.
"Just shut up! Get out of here!" Kota yelled.
Mizuki had to take a deep breath, "Fine...I'll leave...but you better at least eat the curry"
Mizuki said as placed down the plate and turning to walk away. Kota looked down at the plate Mizuki placed down.
"Shut up… All of you…" Kota muttered, clenching his fist.
Around the cliffside, a dent was made in the rock, a dark spot around it.
"Wow not bad for someone who despises quirks"
Kota's eyes widen as he saw that it was Yuji Itadori, who simply was smiling at the boy.
"What do you want?" Kota demanded with a glare with Yuji giving the boy a glare of his own.
"Well for one thing....eat your curry, so that you won't start whining" Yuji told the boy with his arms crossed around his chest.
"...why should I listen to you?"
"..."
Yuji didn't say anything...except he simply walked towards the boy only for said boy to scream at him to stop...but Yuji didn't listen which causes him to step back as something invisible almost hit him where a small like crater was formed.
Kota's eyes widen in fear...but Yuji just smirked.
"Well...guess I was right...I'll leave you alone so you can eat in peace...your parents seem to still have that protective side of them"
That's all Yuji said as he left, leaving Kota to simply face forward with a sad look on his face.
Meanwhile we see Toga fixed a mask over her mouth and nose.
"I mean, I don't like this. It's not cute." Toga complained.
"This was orchestrated by the designer behind the scenes, right? Appearances don't matter as long as it makes sense." a kid in a gas mask explained.
"I'm not talking about that. I just don't want to wear this." Toga whined, waving her arms around.
"Hi! Sorry for the wait." someone wearing sunglasses apologized, carrying a thick pole.
"Work… work…" someone with black clothes covering everything but his mouth uttered while a lizard guy smoothed out his hair.
"That makes seven." Dabi grinned.
"I don't care, just let me at 'em. I'm getting too pumped up." the man with the black blothing and white mask groaned.
"Shut up, you crazy bastards. Not yet…" Dabi hushed them, explaining, "We'll move when all ten of us are here. Gathering a bunch of punks who are just strong will only increase the risk. It's better to have a small group of experienced elites."
In the facility building, Aizawa and Vlad talked to each other in a room while Dabi continued.
"First, we make them realize…"
In the girls room, all of them were asleep, cards spread on the floor.
"...that their peace is resting in our hands."
In the boys room, every guy was asleep...except for Yuji who was busy standing ontop of one of the tall trees with a serious look on his face.
'Something's gonna happen....I can feel it'
'...Yeah...Me too....I'll kill the bastard!!...I will end that fucking bastard!'
What both Sukuna and Izuku didn't know...was that for some reason...the lines that describe that Sukuna was in control....was completely different.
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Koda screamed at the top of a hill while Sato, Kaminari, Sero, and Ashido, stood somewhere nearby, dozing off.
"Hey, extra lessons group, don't stop." Aizawa ordered, pulling up Kirishima with his scarf.
"Got it!" Kirishima mustered.
"Sorry, I'm kind of sleepy…" Ashido said hazily as if her body was close to hitting the ground but she was lucky to land in the arms of an unexpected Yuji Itadori.
Yuji was confused until Ashido looked into the boys eyes with a dreamy look on her face.
But it ended quickly as Aizawa snatched the girl with his scarf as she whined.
"I didn't think yesterday's extra lesson… would go until 2 a.m." Sero groaned.
"And we started at 7 a.m…." Sato added sleepily.
"I told you it'd be tough." Aizawa sighed as he continued, "Not only do you need to work on your quirks. Above all, you need to work on the weaknesses that were exposed during the final exams! Think carefully about why you're more tired than your classmates before you move.
"Y-Yes, sir…"
Turning around to see Uraraka and Aoyama, Aizawa said, "Uraraka! Aoyama! You two should, too. You didn't fail, but you were close. If 30 points was passing, you were at about 35."
"Ah, we barely made it…" Uraraka jumped.
"How unexpected." Aoyama sighed from coming out of the bathroom.
"You need to understand what you're doing, you should always be aware of where you came from. That's what it means to improve. Always keep in mind why you're sweating, and why you keep getting nagged." Aizawa explained.
'Where I came from…' Bakugo gritted his teeth as he stared at his reflection in the water.
'Where I came from…' Todoroki widened his eyes.
'Where I came from…!' Mizuki gasped. Walking over to Aizawa, Midoriya observed, "That reminds me, Aizawa Sensei, it's already the third day…"
"What did I just say? Don't just walk over here like that." Aizawa told her.
"Is All Might… I mean, are the other teachers coming?" Mizuku asked with Yuji hearing this at a distance.
"Like I said before the training camp, in order to keep the villains from finding out where we were, we kept the number of people to the absolute minimum." Aizawa explained.
'I don't know why...but it's better to have more hands on deck incase of something going down south'
'...do you think it's better if I take over?'
'...I'll tell you when'
That's all he said to Sukuna as he focused on what the WWP group were saying.
"And especially since we believe All Might is one of the villains' targets, we can't have him here. For better or for worse, that's what happens, since he stands out so much… Hmph." Aizawa sighed, walking away.
'Seems like there's a lot more of the 'for worse' part…' Mizuki thought as she watched Aizawa.
"Alright everyone, tonight… we'll have a test of courage with the classes pitted against each other! After training hard, you can play hard! The carrot on the stick!" Pixie-Bob announced.
"Oh, I forgot." Kendo muttered.
"I hate scary things…" Jiro sighed.
"Revelry in the dark…" Tokoyami whispered.
"They're letting us do the typical training camp stuff, too, huh?" someone from Class 1-B commented while Monoma chuckled next to him.
"I like the part where were 'pitted against each other'..." Monoma sighed.
"Alright then you guys better not slack off and continue on your training right now!" Pixie-Bob encouraged them to do their best.
"Yessir!"
"Where I came from… Dad…" Mizuki muttered.
While feeling conflicted, 'I still can't forgive him....but he's the only family I have...'
"Hey. Where's your 'Plus Ultra'?" Tiger narrowed his eyes at Mizuki.
"Right!" Mizuki exclaimed as she got back to focus with Yuji not too far from her with a look of concentration.
It was bit later on was where we see both classes preparing their meals.
"Bakugo, you're really good at using a knife! It's unexpected…" Uraraka commented as Bakugo cutted up salmon.
"What do you mean, unexpected? How can you be bad at using a knife!" Bakugo yelled at her.
"There he is. We haven't seen the capable version of him in a while." Kaminari commented.
"Everyone's so energetic…" Kirishima sighed.
Yuji just laughed while helping out with starting the fire.
"You were talking about All Might or something? You asked Aizawa Sensei about him, didn't you?" Todoroki asked Mizuki about needing something from All Might.
"Yeah… um… I did, about Kota…" Mizuki admitted.
"Kota? Who's that?" Todoroki questioned.
"Huh? That kid… You know, Mandalay's cousin's, um…" Mizuki said while looking around, adding, "Huh? He's gone again."
'Maybe he's at his hideout… He really hates being around us, huh?' Mizuki thought as ahe put some logs under a stove, explaining, "That kid hates heroes-I mean, he hates the whole quirk-based superhuman society in general, and I couldn't say anything to help him. I was just wondering what All Might would've said to him…"
"Does it really matter?" Todoroki questioned.
"It does!" Mizuki muttered.
"To have some stranger trying to reason with you would just be annoying, right? What's important is what actions he took or is taking. If the words are going to move someone by themselves, they have to be pretty powerful. I think words have to be accompanied by action…" Todoroki explained to Mizuki.
'It was because it was none other than my own flesh and blood...someone who doesn't have any power....and yet you were at the scene that I was able to act. My child, you can become a hero.'
"That's right. It's just as you say… I'm just a stranger. How can I say anything to him?" Mizuki smiled softly.
"I don't know what you want to do with him, but I don't think you should keep poking your nose in a delicate situation. You have no qualms about breaking through that kind of stuff, even though you don't seem like the type." Todoroki explained.
"Sorry about that…" Mizuki said nervously.
With Todoroki said not to worry about it....while staring at the girl.
Meanwhile Yuji saw the scene...and he felt his eyes narrowed a bit, 'I don't like that'
'Oh? What's this? Is your over protective mode activated because your lil sis is talking to one of her classmates? Ohhhhhhhhhh you might just be a bother in law for the walking peppermint!!'
He felt a bit irked as he try not to place a image in his head about what Sukuna just said and went back to helping out.
"Alright everyone let us make the best stew and potato stew!" Iida vowed, piling potatoes.
Night time came, the classes standing in the forest as Pixie-Bob announced, "Now, we've filled our bellies and washed the dishes! Next…"
"...it's time for the test of courage!" Ashido cheered.
"We're gonna test it!" Kirishima, Sero, Kaminari and Sato cheered.
"Before that, it pains me to say this, but the extra lessons group will be having class with me now." Aizawa explained.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Ashido gasped in horror.
"Sorry. Your training during the day wasn't good enough, so I have to use this time." Aizawa said as he dragged the five away.
"Give us a break! Let us be tested!" the five protested as they got dragged away from the others while Pixie-Bob explained how Class 1-B will try and scare Class 1-A first.
"Revelry in the dark…" Tokoyami muttered.
'He said it again.' Uraraka thought.
"Let's see how scary you are with your quirks." Pixie-Bob continued.
"The class that makes the most people piss their pants with creativity and imagination wins!" Tiger added.
"They're trying to make us refine our ideas by making us compete with each other, giving us more options for our quirks in the process! As expected of U.A.!" Iida exclaimed.
"Now, you'll draw lots to determine your partners!" Pixie-Bob announced, holding slips of paper.
"If we're two to a team… Huh? Since there are twenty with five at extra lessons…" Mizuki muttered, holding a slip of paper.
'1st Team: Tokoyami and Shoji'
'2nd Team: Bakugo and Todoroki'
'3rd Team: Jiro and Hagakure'
'4th Team: Yaoyorozu and Aoyama'
'5th Team: Uraraka and Asui'
'6th Team: Ojiro and Mineta'
'7th Team: Iida and Koda'
'8th Team: Yagi'
"So if five are doing extra lessons…" Mizuki muttered again, going through the teams, realizing, 'There's an extra person! There's an extra person! And it's me…'
"We drew lots… Someone had to have this fate…" Ojiro tried to comfort Mizuki before someone grabbed his shoulder.
Ojiro turned around, seeing Bakugo glare at him.
"Hey, Tail! Switch with me!" Bakugo demanded, pointing behind him at Todoroki.
Mizuki felt a bit downed but felt someone touched hed shoulder and tinted around to be faced with Yuji Itadori, "You seriously forgot about me? I'm a bit hurt" he said while placing his hand to his chest.
That got Mizuki to chuckle at that, "Well I almost forgot we have an Extra person here....but I'm glad you're stuck with me"
"Well I'm glad to be at your service" Yuji said with a smile on his face.
"Aoyama… Please switch with me!" Mineta pleaded with him while Aoyama shook his head.
"Hey, I said switch with me!" Bakugo shouted at Ojiro.
"What'd you call me?" Ojiro asked Bakugo.
'12 minutes later'
Screams went out all over the forest.
"Okay, the fifth team! Ribbit-kitty, Uraraka-kitty, go!" Pixie-Bob announced.
"There are so many screams…" Uraraka shivered next to Asui.
"Kyoka and Toru, huh?" Asui questioned. Holding her hand out, Asui suggested, "Let's hold hands. It's fine, I'm not scared. Let's go."
Uraraka took the offer, and held her hand.
A girl with black hair stood in the forest as someone laughed. Kendo and her classmate popped out from a bush.
"Kodai, you scared everyone so far!" the classmate chuckled to the black-haired girl.
"You're really pulling yourself out there, Yui!" Kendo held a thumbs up to Kodai.
"Yeah." Kodai nodded.
"Bakugo and Todoroki were so funny!" the other guy laughed again.
Going back a few minutes, Bakugo and Todoroki walked to where the three were. As they continued, Kodai's head stuck up from the ground, making Bakugo and Todoroki go, "Oh."
"What was that 'Oh'?" the guy laughed, the words, 'Juzo Honenuki- Quirk: Softening' appearing.
"Hey, doesn't it smell a little like something's burning?" Kendo questioned as faint purple gas started appearing where they were.
"Huh? Now that you mention it, it suddenly got smoky… Did Bakugo and Todoroki get so scared they fired off their quirks…?" Honenuki started before fainting.
"Honenuki?!" Kendo exclaimed as he fell to the ground. Gasping, Kendo expanded her hand to cover Kodai, exclaiming, "Yui! Don't breathe in!"
Looking around, Kendo thought to herself, 'This smoke… It's poisonous!'
Pixie-Bob sniffed the air, muttering, "What's this burnt smell…?"
"That's…" Mizuku whispered while Yuji's eyes narrowed.
"Black smoke…" Mineta noticed as smoke rose from a part of the forest.
"Is something burning?" Iida asked.
"Could there be a fire on the mountain?!" Ojiro widened his eyes before showing Dabi creating blue fire from his hands.
"Now… it begins…" Dabi grinned.
A pink aura surrounded Pixie-Bob as she started moving away from the others, exclaiming, "Wh-What is this?!"
"Pixie-Bob!" Mandalay called.
A gas mask villain surrounded themselves with purple gas, Dabi continuing, "Take them down."
Asui and Uraraka walked through the woods, Toga watching nearby.
"The false brilliance of the title of 'hero'..."
The black clothed villain walked sluggish through the forest.
"We, the Vanguard Action Squad of the League of Villains, will condemn them."
Pixie-Bob laid unconscious with the thick pole on her head.
"Those pet cats are in the way." a villain sighed.
Mineta backed up slowly, uttering, "Wh-Why…? I thought they made doubly sure… Why are there villains here?!"
"Pixie-Bob!" Mizuki exclaimed, running towards her before Tiger stopped him.
"Oh, no!" Mandalay whispered beside Tiger. Mizuki looked at the others before gasping.
"Kota!" Mizuki exclaimed.
Yuji meanwhile backed away from the group while grabbing something from his pocket.
"Well guess I can finally get rid of this hair color"
Yuji said while changing out of his clothes.
'Awww but I liked that color....but all jokes aside...are you sure it's better to reveal yourself now?'
'I'm only here to watch out for my lil sis....and to find the bastard that somehow has your cursed energy'
Izuku said to Sukuna as he washed away the color Dye in his hair.
"Ryõba"
The Katana heard its name being called and was seen floating near its owner who grabbed it.
"Alright...time to see what's going on"
Izuku said as he placed his hoodie over his head and jump high in the air.
Meahwile we see Kota, who was overlooking the scene at his hideout not noticing a black figure moving from the shadows toward him.