Breath of a Hero Chapter 52

Chapter 52 Manor Brawl

Katsuki quickly dashed out of his house with his mother yelling at him, “Wait Katsuki you dumb brat, we should call the police.”

“It might be too late by then and I owe that damn sound bitch a good explosion to the face.” said Katsuki as he kept running down the street as he looked at his phone. ‘According to Momo’s notebook, her house is outside of town a little bit, it will take me roughly ten minutes at max speed to fly over there, but All Might would be quicker, including Izuku.’ he thought before quickly dialing a phone number on his phone, “Come on nerd you better pick up.”

~o~

Izuku was sweating in his seat, he had stared down several villains with no issues at all, he was confident in his abilities to face almost every opponent, but this to him was far worse as the four girls in the room looked at him. “I’m sorry but, could you repeat it just one more time?” asked Izuku.

Yae sighed, “We’re not going to beat around the bush here Izuku, we all want to date you, so we are.”

“That’s a little too simple, Yae.” said Yuki before turning back to Izuku, “I mean it’s true we all like you and we want a chance to be with you…if you want.”

“Of course I do!” said Izuku but it didn’t sound so convincing.

“You don’t sound convinced.” pointed Ochako.

Izuku scratched his head as he took a deep breath before calming down and choosing his words. “Look the truth is, I know you guys all like me and I like all of you, but I’ve never dated anybody before, I never had anyone like me before, I didn’t have a quirk, everyone bullied me, and I know i’ve changed, but part of me still sees myself as that weak little kid that everyone stepped on. What kind of person would ever want to be with that guy.”

His words struck all of their hearts, “Izuku…” said Yuki quietly as she remembered what happened to Izuku.

Melissa put a hand on Izuku’s and gave him a big smile, “I can understand that one, I was nothing more than a smart girl on I Island, sure no one there truly bullied me but I could tell a lot of them looked down one because I was labeled as quirkless, I know that feeling. Several of the other kids didn’t want to be my friend or wanted to speak with me because of it, it drove me to my work in science and technology. I was so alone before I met you Izuku, you’ve helped me meet so many people and got me trained up to be a proper hero. I’m no longer that lonely little girl anymore and you aren’t that little kid any more. You’re not alone. You have us.”

Izuku looked at Melissa and her eyes of pure sincerity before looking around the room and seeing the others giving the same look. WIthout a doubt Izuku could feel a warm feeling from his heart, it was a new feeling but he knew what it was, love. “I love you all.”

Izuku was then suddenly hugged from all sides by the girls. “We love you too.”

Suddenly Izuku jolted slightly as he felt his phone vibrating in his pocket. “My phone!”

“That ruined the mood.” commented Yae.

“It’s probably my mom, I was suppose to come right back,” said Izuku as he answered the phone without looking at the caller ID, “Hey-”
 “IZUKU!” Roared Katsuki’s voice.

Izuku was so shocked by this he dropped his phone only for Ochako to catch it, “Katsuki!” said Izuku as he got back his phone.

“Grab All Might and meet me at Momo’s!” ordered Katsuki.

“What?”

“Hibiki’s there!” That was all Katsuki needed to say before Izuku’s blood ran cold.

Melissa, who was close enough to hear Katsuki’s yelling clearly, eye’s went wide, “I’m sorry did he just say that Hibiki was at Yaoyorozu’s house?”

“Magic tits is in trouble!” yelled Yae, “What are we waiting for, let’s go.”

Yuki and Ochako looked nervous but Izuku nodded in agreement with Yae, “Right, Katsuki, I’ll get All Might and be right over.”

“Just send you the address, move it nerd.” said Katsuki before hanging up.

 Izuku checked his phone before memorizing the address, “Okay, I know we all were in the middle of something but I have to go.”

“I’m coming with you.” stated Yae clearly leaving no room for arguing.

“I’m coming too.” said Melissa, “I’m not sitting on the sidelines this time while you and Katsuki do something stupid.”

Ochako nodded as well, “Our friend and classmate are in trouble, so I want to help.”

“I might not have known her for long but she is my classmate now,” said Yuki before admitting, “I may not have as much experience or any gear on hand but I still want to do what I can.”

“Don’t worry I may have some things you might be able to use,” said Melissa.

“What are we waiting for,” said Yae halfway to the door. “Let’s grab the big guy and go!” 

~o~

Katsuki was now rushing on foot as fast as he could down the streets up the nearby hill, ‘Izuku better move his ass before that bitch gets away.’ Katsuki’s mind flashed to the bones on the seafloor. ‘That bitch won’t hesitate to kill and she’s nothing but trouble.’ Katsuki then made it to the top of the hill and could tell from the view that he had a clear shot across town, “This is going to be flashy but that might be a good thing and get us back up quicker.” Katsuki then pointed both palms behind him as they started to glow, “Time to fly!” With a massive explosion that rattled the nearby neighborhood, Katsuki launched himself through the air, flying like a missile towards the Yaoyorozu estate. ‘I’m coming.’ Katsuki then made a second blast this time of air to send him through the air faster, “TIME TO KICK SOME ASS!”

~o~

Hibiki was standing over Momo as she continued to produce various blades for her. While this was happening Hibiki was glancing at her video feed on her phone. It was showing the interview of Yushiro that was currently going live at the moment. “So if I am hearing you correctly, is that you wish to speak with these revived people?” Asked Chitose

“Indeed I do,” Said Yushiro, “While I understand that the League of Villains has indeed broken the rules of life and death, I wish to speak with those who have been revived as to come to some sort of compromise. As I mentioned earlier, life was very different in the years prior and so far other than the recent incident with Kokushibo, none of them have truly broken any major law that is beyond forgiveness. I know not everyone will agree with me on this one, but I believe criminals like these should be given a helping hand, chances are that the only reason they are even working for such villains is because the League revived them. I hope to end this as peacefully as possible and to show these people that times have changed and they no longer need to be bound by the chains of the past.”

Momo got done finishing her latest creation before looking up at Hibiki and noticing that she was angry, her face was glaring at the phone so hard, for a moment Momo thought she was trying to kill someone through the feed. Hibiki’s eyes shot to Momo, “You done with the next one?”

Momo nodded and looked towards her lap, “It’s done just like you asked.”

Hibiki took the item and nodded, “Good.” Hibiki then swiftly grabbed a donut and shoved it in Momo’s face, “I need two more and make it quick, you are running out of time.”

~o~

“Heads, up Flag Man we got asses to kick,” shouted Yae as she entered the Midoriya apartment.

Izuku came in right behind her and noticed that the only one there was Eri sitting on the couch with a juice box in her hand, “Eri, do you know where All Might is?”

Eri pointed to the kitchen, “He and Ms. Midoriya went into the kitchen.”

“Thanks Eri.” said Izuku before heading to the kitchen.

Eri then turned to Melissa, “What’s going on?”

Melissa gave her a little wave, “Oh it’s nothing, we just need to get my uncle for a moment is all. We’ll be right back though.” As Melissa headed towards the kitchen as well but stopped when she noticed Izuku frozen at the entrance, “Izuku…what’s-” Melissa then went wide eyed and froze.

“Guys what’s the hold-” Yae froze as she saw the scene but continued, “-up?”

Ochako looked and was instantly shocked as he jaw fell. Yuki looked inside and couldn't believe what she was seeing. All Might, the number 1 hero in the country, was kissing Izuku’s mom. “Izuku, is your mom dating All Might?”

Eri walked in and saw the adults kissing and then saw the teenagers shocked not understanding what was going on, “Hey, what’s going on? Can I get another juice box?” she asked the adults, getting their attention but the two adults immediately became dear in headlights as they saw the teenagers and froze staring back at them. The room was silent as the two groups continued to stare at each other so Eri decided to go to the fridge, “I’m going to be taking another juice box.” Eri then walked over to the fridge and grabbed another juice box before tossing her empty one in the trash and leaving the room, returning to the couch.

As Eri passed Izuku he regained his senses, “Mom?”

“Izuku,” squeaked out Inko before noticing the others, “Girls.”

Both Yae and Ochako raised a hand and waved, “Hi, Mrs. Midoriya.”

All Might cleared his throat, “Melissa.”

“Uncle All Might.” said Melissa dryly,  “What is going on?”

All Might scratched his head, “Uh well, me and Inko are dating.”

Izuku 's eyes began to twitch with a mixture of emotions, “But dad?”

Inko quickly spoke, “We got a divorce.”

“When?”

“Technically two months ago.”

“Two months!?”

“I was going to say something….but….” Inko was so put on the spot she didn’t know what to say.

All Might wrapped an arm around Inko, “Hey it’s not all bad…” Said All Might as he tried to think of something to say, “Look on the bright side, Melissa, Izuku, your friend might become your family someday, you two might become cousins.”

Clearly from the sight of Melissa’s face that was the wrong thing to say, “No…” Said Melissa quietly before raising her voice, “No no no NO! JUST NO!” as her face turned a beat red.

All Might was slightly taken aback by the outburst, “Uh Melissa, is everything alright?”

Yuki then dashed between the two, “Hey, look I know this might seem rude and I completely understand that you guys have things to talk about but-”

“BUT MAGIC TITS IS IN TROUBLE!” blurted out Yae.

“What?” Blinked All Might as he quickly went into hero mode. “What’s going on?”

Inko blinked for a moment as she connected the dots. “Is something wrong with your classmate?”

Izuku shook his head as he remembered the situation at hand, “Yes, she is and we need to go now.”

“Alright, we’ll talk about this later then,” she then turned to her boyfriend, “Go, but be careful, both of you.”

“Of course Inko, we’ll be right back.” said All Might. As he began walking to the door, “Come Izuku, let’s us be off.”

“We’re coming too,” stated Melissa and as All Might was about to protest, she repeated herself in a serious tone that left no room for debate, “We are coming too!”

All Might looked down at his niece as she quickly walked ahead before leaning down, “What’s with her?”

“Your big mouth.” said Yae simply.

“She’s not wrong.” said Yuki.

“Come on, we should hurry,” said Ochako, “I’m worried about Momo.”

~o~

Hibiki swung her new blade around in the air, testing it, “Not bad, the design and weight is right and I can’t detect any flaws.” She then spun the blade in her hand as she turned to Momo who was still tied to the chair, “It looks like you’ve learned your lesson from before, good because if you’d given me crap again I would have had to kill a few more people, now then how about you three?”

Above watching the hostages were her three cousins, Rift, Jam and Woodwind who all took turns focusing on the hostages and examining their new equipment, “Not bad,” said Jam as he looked at the new blades on his guitar, “But, I’m not entirely sure that girl didn’t leave any surprises for us.”

Momo snapped her head to the ninja, “I made them perfectly as you asked, I swear. I didn’t do anything funny at all.”

The air around Momo began to vibrate as several blades circled around her head, “Good, because if we find out you’ve screwed over our equipment, we would have to kill you.” said Rift, “We know where you live.”

“Relax, Rift.” said Woodwind as he walked towards Hibiki and Momo, “Anything else we might need?”

Hibiki thought for a moment, “We already have everything on the list, but extras couldn’t hurt, the only problem is, I don’t know how much time we have left before-”

KABOOOOM!!!

Everyone looked up to see Katsuki coming from the new hole in the ceiling. “HEY BITCH, I’M BACK!!!”

Momo looked up at her savior with tears in her eyes, “Katsuki!’

“That.” finished Hibiki before sighing as Katsuki landed on the floor across the room. “I knew you would show up, Bakugo.”

“Oh yeah, figured a deep sea plunge at the bottom of the ocean wasn’t enough to kill me.” Katsuki quickly eyed the situation, seeing the hostages tied together in the back of the room and then he saw Momo in the center of the room tied to a chair, he noticed that right next to her was a table of fatty foods right next to her and several boxes at her feet. He then looked at Momo and saw the state she was in, she was shirtless with only a sports bra covering her chest. Katsuki then saw the look on Momo’s face and could see that her face was covered in crumbs from various foods. ‘They were using her to make stuff for them.’ He then noticed Momo’s eyes pleading for help. “I’m going to kick your ass.”

Hibiki laughed, “Oh Katsuki, that’s not going to happen, but I will admit I am surprised that you escaped my watery death trap, no one has ever escaped that one before. No the reason I knew you would be coming is because of that ridiculous phone call, I wasn’t expecting you of all people to call Momo, but the moment she called you her boyfriend I knew something was up, there’s now way a loud jackass like you would ever get a girl like Momo.”

“Doesn’t fucking matter,” said Bakugo as his palms cracked a few sparks, “Cause right now I’m about to kick your ass back to UA, you owe everyone an apology for the bullshit you’ve put us through.”

“Oh I will apologize, right after I kill the League of Villains.” stated Hibiki was completely serious.

Katsuki was caught off guard by the statement. “What?” Katsuki was thrown off by her answer, ‘She wants to kill the League of Villains? Why the hell would she want to do that?’

“Enough talk, JAM!”

“ROCK N ROLL!” Jam then strung his guitar causing a wave of sound to blast Katsuki back. Katsuki rolled backwards before jumping in the air using his explosions to maneuver in the air. “Whoa, nice moves but that won’t save you.” Jam then began to play several cords on his guitar causing sound blasts like a machine gun to fly towards Katsuki.

Katsuki could feel the air pressure as the sound rushed past him, ‘Shit they have enough force to do some serious damage, each blast has the same force as a star baseball player throwing a fastball on steroids, one wrong move and I could go down.’ Katsuki then blasted himself towards the wall and began running on the wall, “Eat this, AP SHOT.” said Katsuki as he used his attack to not only keep him on the wall but to target each of the four ninja’s forcing them to dodge out of the way.

As the ninja’s dodge out of the way from the attacks, Rifts noticed that one of the shots missed on purpose, “SHIT!” Rift quickly threw some throwing knives but it was too late.

The knives hit their target but instead of striking flesh, they struck the metal Shield that Momo had made. Momo quickly stood up from the broken chair and used her quirk to create a machine gun. “YOU BASTARDS!” she yelled as she let loose a torrent of bullets at the ninjas.

All of the ninjas quickly moved away from the storm of bullets, “Whoa, little lady is that anyway for a hero to act?” asked Woodwind as he quickly dived around some furniture. Momo paused her spray of lead, “You all broke into my house, threatened my family, killed the security staff, and maimed several others. I’m not going to hold back against any of you.” Momo then summoned two mechanical crossbows from her stomach.

Hibiki peeked from behind the pillar she was hiding behind only to see the crossbow bolt sail pass her face, as it did she saw the explosive device on the head of the bolt. An explosion erupted around Hibiki, for a moment the action stopped before Hibiki jumped out of the cloud of smoke with a few singed marks, “My word, where has this Momo been, I didn’t know you had it in you.” Hibiki then quickly raised her sword and sliced one of Bakugo’s AP Shots into two causing them to collide with the wall behind her.

“Dammit, I’m getting real annoyed with people being able to do that.” commented Katsuki as he readed another blast.

“Then be less predictable,” said Hibiki before switching back to Momo and deflecting one of her bolts away, “Okay screw this, kill the hostages.”

“Don’t you dare.” Yelled Momo as she switched her targets to the other ninjas and began firing at them, but Jam simply played his guitar using a sound blast to push the bolts away.

“Sorry, kid, but you're outgunned.” said Rift as he used his quirk to send several knives towards the tied up hostages.

“NOOOO!!!” yelled Momo as she saw the knives fly through the air towards her family, the workers, the maids, the butlers, her parents. The world around her went silent, she didn’t hear any of Katsuki’s explosions or any sound from the ninjas, or the sound of the ceiling getting new holes. Though what caught her attention was a snowball flying towards her family. “Huh?” The snowball quickly expanded into a giant snowball intercepting all of the knives.

Momo tried to look and see where the snowball came from only to be knocked off her feet by the sudden crash from part of the ceiling falling to the ground. Momo looked up as the dust cleared to see what had just happened, “Have no fear,” Said All Might as he stood tall on the rumble with Izuku next to him, “FOR WE ARE HERE!”

“Shit.” said Hibiki under her breath.

“Nice shot Yuki.” complemented Yae as she trained her gun on Woodwind, “And hello doll face, good to see you again.”

“Oh great this bitch again.” mumbled Woodwind as he saw Yae once more.

Yuki hopped off of All Might’s back. “I can’t believe I made that shot,” said Yuki as she shrunk the giant snowball down revealing the untouched hostages, “I don’t think I would have been able to make it so quickly without this cooling jacket, thanks Melissa.”

“It’s an old prototype to help regulate my body heat incase I pumped my heart too much,” said Melissa landing next to All Might, “See told you she could help.”

“HIBIKI!’ yelled Izuku as he saw the girl, “What are you doing?”

Katsuki decided to answer that one, “She busted in here and forced Momo to make weapons for her.” Katsuki readed his hands as he knew this fight wasn’t over. “Also you’re fucking late!”

“Sorry.” commented Izuku.

“Hibiki,” spoke All Might, “I don’t know what this is about but you are a student at UA, what on earth would possess you to go down this path.”

Hibiki was silent for a moment while she just looked at All Might like he was an idiot. She pointed her blade at All Might, “You’re kidding right?”

“Don’t move.” Shouted Ochako, they all had to look upward to see Ochako floating in the air along with several chunks of the ceiling floating over the ninja's heads. “You move and I will drop these on you.”

“Clever girl,” said Rift as he looked up at the large chunk of roof, “She floated those above our heads while we we’re focusing on All Might.”

“Oh so that's why he asked Hibiki such a dumb question.” said Jam, “He was trying to distract us.

“All of you stop this right now,” ordered All Might, “Don’t make this any more difficult than it has to be.”

“No,” Hibiki then gave a small whistle causing the shadows around her to expand.

“No you don’t.” Yelled Katsuki as he fired a blast. Ochako followed his lead and dropped the rubble and Izuku dashed forward at Hibiki.

Hibiki cut the blast again before using her blade to block Izuku’s blade, but before the rubble could fall on them a large paw shot out of the shadow hit the boulder away revealing a massive bear. The bear gave a massive roar, “Everyone meet, Mr. Kuma. Mr. Kuma, meet your prey.”

Izuku quickly dodged out of the way as the bear tried to slam his massive paw onto Izuku, then with speed that was far greater than one would expect of a bear its size rushed at Izuku, “IT’S FAST!”

All Might quickly intercepted the bear and tried to push it back only to find that he couldn’t push the bear back, “And he’s strong.”

“I got this, I’ve hunted bears in Russia and the US.” said Yae as she fired three shots, each one harmlessly bouncing off of the bear's head. “WHAT THE HELL?”

“Mr. Kuma is a quirked Bear, he isn’t going down like your regular old villain.” said Hibiki with a smile.

Rift quickly jumped in front of Hibiki and threw several knives at Bakugo’s blasts. “Hibiki, we need to go.”

Hibiki nodded, “Right, let’s go.” Hibiki then quickly jumped up to the wall and then jumped towards the hole in the ceiling along with her cousins.

“YOU AIN’T GOING NOWHERE!” yelled Katsuki as he launched up towards the fleeing ninjas. He held his glowing hands up, “EAT MY BIG BANG-” Katsuki was cut off as a Capybara hit him in his side, ‘A giant Rodent!?’

“I got them.” yelled Ochako as she tried to maneuver towards the ninjas only for something to grab onto her back and pull her away, she turned to see a raven pulling her away, “Hey let go of me.”

“She’s getting away.” Yelled Momo in rage.

“NO she’s not!” Said Izuku, “All Might, can you handle the bear?”

Before All Might could respond, the Capybara flew across the room hitting the bear, knocking it down. “I’m coming to,” yelled Katsuki, “I owe the bitch and I’m not going to be distracted by a bunch of stupid animals.” Then without saying another word, fired himself up to the roof.

“You better kick her ass, Katsuki.” Yelled Momo in justifiable anger.

“Uncle All Might,” said Melissa, “Go help them they got caught off guard last time by her, I don’t want that to happen again, they need you more.”

“Yeah don’t worry flag man, me and Melissa can handle a bear.” said Yae.

“I told you not to call me that.” said All Might as he jumped up after his two students.

Yae stared down the bear, “Ready, Melissa.”

“Ready Yae.” said Melissa as she saw the bear slowly stand up on it’s hind legs to it’s full height. “Yuki-”

“I’ll help Momo, get the hostages out of here.” said Yuki as she rushed over to Momo’s family and began using her quirk to freeze and break the chains.

Momo saw Yuki helping her family but looked up at the hole. “You better not be thinking about chasing after them,” Yelled Yae without taking her eyes off the bear, “Help your family Magic Tits.”

Momo got annoyed by the name but she had to agree with Yae, “Fine, but the second my family is in the clear, I’m coming back to help.”

“There won’t be anything for her to help with.” said Melissa as she extended her arm outward as a massive thumping sound began to be heard.

Yae quickly figured out where it was coming from. “Your heart.”

“Let’s end this quick, Yae.” said Melissa as the bear roared and charged at them.

~o~

Up on the roof Hibiki and her cousins were running to the other side of the mansion to make their escape via the woods when Hibiki stopped and turned around. “Shit, we’re not going to make it.” As they looked up to see Katsuki above them, “Take cover.”

All of them dove for cover as Katsuki rained down several AP Shots at them covering them in a barrage of explosions covering them in a cloud of smoke. “Katsuki!” yelled Izuku as he caught up.

“Relax,” said Katsuki as he landed, “That wasn’t even full power, that was just to get them to stay in one place.”

“And it worked,” came a voice as the smoke cleared revealing Hibiki and her cousins standing tall, “Don’t get it wrong though that’s not a good thing.”

“You think we're scared of a four on two battle,” said Katsuki.

Hibiki shook her head, “No, nothing like that,” she then saw All Might right behind them, “I get to show the number 1 hero and the explosive idiot, what a real Demon Slayer can do.” Hibiki locked eyes with Izuku. “Come and fight me, I’ll show you a real Demon Slayer, you fake.”