Chapter 2: Seeker

The sun had set, and the blanket of night had emerged. In the building where Giran lives, he was smoking out his last cigar, thinking of a way on how to find his new recruit. All he had of Ryu was a blurry picture, and it was not even a good one. His back was turned to him and all that Giran could do was gape at his clothing. 'Where are you?'

The elevator had dinged and came out one of his assistants. "Sir, your guest has arrived." He said. Giran just smirked and let out a new box of cigars and lights another one. "Bring him up, Kabe." He nods and tells the people downstairs that his guest will see him now. Giran lets out smoke from his lungs and smirks.

"Sir?" Kabe asks and Giran glances at him. "What is it?"

"Why him? Why the boy? You could recruit anybody else in the world. Why Ryusake?" Giran raises his brow and lets out another puff. Kabe coughs out the smoke.

"for money." Giran simply replied in his chair.

"I don't understand." Giran smirks and stands from his chair to look at the city lights outside. "You see Kabe… People like people only for their possessions like animals do for food. I give people with powers for amounts of money, such is the law of trade." Giran explained as he puffed smoke from his cigar.

Kabe sees what he means, but he does not agree with trading with villains. In a moment, the elevator dings and Kabe backs up to the door, making himself presentable. Giran smirks upon his guest and welcomes him.

"Ahhhh… Shigaraki. Such a pleasure to have you here." With that, Shigaraki lowered his hood and sat down. "Would you like anything, sir?" Kabe asks Shigaraki for refreshments. "No thanks, servant." Shigaraki snaps and Kabe grunts at him. Giran could see that Kabe was heating up. "What can I do for you, Shigaraki."

Shigaraki lifts his feet up at the table. "Since our last mission, it left us a bit… scarred. We are down a man, and our next one requires one of… discipline." Shigaraki explains.

"Ahhh, I'm guessing you need more discreet members, no?" Giran smirks and smokes while asking.

"You always know what I need, broker. When can they be ready?" "About 3 days. You'll get what you need." With that, Shigaraki takes out a plastic bag, carrying money. He stands up, throws it onto his desk table. Giran's eyes widened as he saw 250,000-yen land on his desk.

"That's to get you going faster. You'll get the rest of your money when I get my members." With that, Shigaraki storms into the elevator, then down. Giran smirks again and motions for Kabe.

"Yes sir?" Kabe asks, stepping forward.

"How would you like to accompany the Americans tomorrow? Make sure that they do the job right." Giran asks and Kabe only nods and goes to the 2nd elevator. 'Where are you?' He holds Ryu's picture again as the night goes on.

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Down in the sewers, candles were being lit all over Ryu's hidey hole as he breathes out small white fires on them. He had no furniture, but this sufficed. The water flowing underneath the bar floor. Pipes lain on the wall, candles on the concrete floor with white flames. Ryu lays himself on the concrete as he sleeps. As he falls into sleep, he feels at peace. He's never had peace like this since…

"Mom?" "Come closer, Ryu." The hospital had better days. Ryu's mom had seen better. She was laid down on the bed with machines keeping her alive, but were unable. Ryu came closer to her mother's bedside. She smiles sadly as she sees her son in tears. "Do you know what a dragon is?" She asks. Ryu only nods. "That's what you are, Ryu. You are strong and powerful." Ryu looked at her face and lets out tears. "I'm leaving you to my old friend here. He will take care of you." She motions her finger to a pro hero, retired. He speeds behind him and grabs his shoulder. Ryu looks up at him and the pro hero looks down and pats his shoulder. "Don't worry kid." Ryu looks back at her mother.

"I have a present for you." She takes a box with a letter folded between the wrapping, and with it a note. It says 'do not open until you are 18 years old'. "That's a long time, mom." She smiles sadly and wipes her son's eyes of tears. "I don't want you to cry anymore, for I am right here, Ryu." Ryu's eyes widen as she fades away. "Mom?" The machine goes blank and the machine flatlined.

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The sun had reached midday. In a car going towards the prison of villains, Toshinori Yagi is talking to Detective Naomasa about what has been happening in talks of the League of Villains.

"So Tsukauchi, how is life at the station?"

"It's been okay. Nothing big yet, except some gangsters getting beat up by some vigilante out there. We've taken them in for questioning and seems like that they had connections to Overhaul���s goons so we might catch them and add them to the cells." The detective elaborates.

All Might ponders and stays silent, thinking about Overhaul and his relationship to the League of Villains. "Anyways, just telling you that things are going swell here. You don't need to worry."

"Alright. I've got business to attend to. Thanks, Tsukuachi." With that, he ended the call.

Toshinori looks outside the window as the car passes by buildings and fields. He thinks about what Gran Torino found in the forest. What he found in the forest, a giant… thing. I don't know what it is. I'm calling it a Titan for now. He could not believe what he heard but was heading to the prison to ask what it was.

He arrives at the prison and is welcomed by guards. He walks through the halls of eyes, passes through Stain, and stops in front of the vault doors holding the kingpin in. "You only have 10 minutes there, All Might." The guard says and with that, the doors open and lead to the rival of Toshinori. All for One breathes in a Darth Vader style.

Toshinori sits down and faces toward All for one, and grabs the phone to talk, and All for One does the same. "All for One… You've been well." Toshinori tries to sympathize and All for One scoffs.

"Well it's good to see an old rival." All for One smiles and Toshinori shivers. "What do you have for me today, All Might?"

All for One asks and Toshinori takes out files concerning about pro heroes that have gone missing. "What can you tell me about the Speedster Hero, Satoshi Sokudo, alias, "Runner"?" Toshinori becomes tense and All for One ponders.

"Hmmm seems like a quirk I would like to gain one day."

"Which you won't. Now tell me what I need to know." He snaps and whips at the jailed man and he just scoffs. "I know nothing of this man, only from his name. His Quirk I am guessing has something to do with Speed?"

He gets it right and All Might could only furrow. "3 weeks ago, there had been rumors of a man being able to run faster than the speed of light. Faster than me." All Might takes pictures of the speedster running through a traffic cam. Only his afterimage came into frame. He shows it to All for One and he gapes at it.

"Magnificent. How come this man hasn't been a top pro hero yet?" All Might takes out a file and reads a report made by Detective Tsukuachi.

"This is coming from a report from a friend at the Police Station. "Sokudo has been seen running into a warehouse, with reports of gangsters working for an unnamed villain named The Broker. Their intent was unknown."" All for One smirks and lays back on his chair.

'I see. How you got your fortune. How you were made to be… all because you made your way by hiring ordinary people to the cause.' All for One smirks as All Might explained the reason why this man went missing.

""The Runner went to the police squad, made them wait for anyone who tries to escape, and goes in without backup. After 5 minutes, the building explodes. Police breaks in, making a search for any hostages or any signs of the gangsters, but found nothing. The gangsters had vanished, and the retired pro hero was nowhere to be seen." You know how he went missing?" All Might asks the detainee and shakes his head.

"No I do not. Though this "Broker" might be connected to the rumors you hear of this speedster roaming around." All Might ponders on his chair and starts to see a connection between them. "You might be right."

Then suddenly, the alarm starts blaring and the doors started opening. "All Might, time to go." All might gathers the files and pictures and takes his leave of the old man, back to bars. "I'll be seeing you again when I see you." Toshinori pulls out and the doors close, leaving All for One to his thoughts. 'Hmmm… One day… one day.'

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"Alright, I've got business to attend to. Thanks, Tsukuachi." Then All might ended the call. "Hmm… busy bee, that man." The detective says to himself. They have been friends for a long time now, ever since he started crime-fighting. They would consider themselves as best friends at this point. The detective then turned off his cellphone and went off to work.

Meanwhile, Kirishima along with Slim-gum and Sun-eater, are talking about whether they should be finding out the reason behind the gangster's injuries the other day. "I don't think that this would be worth our time, Kirishima." Slim-gum turns down their request and Kirisihima only whines. "Why not? This could lead us to another recruit! And summer's about to end! You need more sidekicks, Toyomitsu." Kirishima said, and Slim-gum ponders upon his words. Tamaki turns to Slim-gum and looks at him.

"Hmmm…" Slim-gum takes out a report about a missing-persons case. "You two are to find this person, and hand him over to the police for questioning." He places the files on his desk and the two pro heroes walk toward to grab the files. "Satoshi Sokudo? Who is this guy?" Kirishima asks and Tamaki gapes at his costume and sees it as something familiar. "Is this the Speedster Hero? Runner?" Slim-gum nods and lets out the info about Sokudo.

"4 years ago, police filed a report of him going missing after a gang shootout. Sokudo went missing and there have been rumors of a speedster going around. To clarify, your jobs for now are to help the police detective with this case. This might go down deeper than what we know." The pro hero says and the two can only go along with this. "What about our new recruit?" "Don't worry about that. I'll be taking that. But for now, help Detective Tsukauchi on this case." Without question, the younger two took on the case. "Right then. I take my leave of you two." Slim-gum leaves the room, closing the door.

The two cannot argue right now. They had a job to do. "Well, it's something. Grab your costume. I'll call Detective Tsukauchi on this." Tamaki hands the files over to Kirishima and leaves the room. Kirishima looks back at the pictures of the speedster taken 3 weeks ago. Then, he shifts to a certain file. He sees a picture of an unnamed boy, with grey-scaled skin, and daggers for teeth. 'Now who are you?' He thinks to himself.

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The day had become sunset, and Ryu had left his hidey-hole and walks down the storm sewer, walking straight down the dark. He follows the water flowing down the path. He turns right, then left. Then he smells something. He sniffs out the smell and smells something fresh. 'Fresh air.' He goes closer to it, and sees light. He goes closer to it, and he hears out for anyone passing by. He crouches down behind the wall and peeks out, and sees the columns of a bridge. He suspects that there is no one under the bridge and he walks forward.

He gets into the sun's rays, and is blinded by it. It had been a long day since he dipped himself out into the sun. "Warm" he speaks. He really had to start talking again. He looks around the terrain, and sees a car burnt to a crisp. It must've burned weeks ago, from his judgment. He walks into the trench/moat (IDK what that place under the bridge is. I'll call it a moat for now.) and onto the column and starts climbing. He sees that the bridge looks abandoned, and once he climbs on, he sees nothing but trees and train tracks heading to the city. He looked to his lefts and rights and saw no one, and smelled no one near. This will become his home.

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In th Hosu district, people are going by on the sidewalks and streets as the two young pro heroes are jogging down the street, doing their daily patrol on their way to the police station in Hosu, where Tsukauchi said to meet him. They jogged around through Orudera and passing through crowds smiling on them. Kirishima smiles and waves as they jogged toward the station. 'Man, This side of being a hero feels so good.' Kirishima thinks to himself and looks forward to see Tamaki ahead of him. 'You ain't getting ahead of me, Tamaki.' Kirishima picks up the pace and catches up with Tamaki. "Calm down, Kirishima. This isn't a race." Tamaki scolds a bit and Kirishima slows down. "So I saw a kid in Soduko's file earlier." "A kid? Soduko's son?" "The kid was an orphan. I think … *pant* he might have taken him in when he was a child."

"Let's walk. We're nearly there anyway." They stopped and started to pant. A tear of sweat dropped from Kirishima's brow and onto the concrete. " So what's this kid got to do with him?"Tamaki asks and they start walking. "His name is Ryusake Tahashi. He went to Salty Banks Middle School and one day, went missing." "Did he have a Quirk?" Kirishima tries to remember what it was. "Mmmm Oh. His Quirk is Mutant. He has claws on his hands. In his picture, he had lizard-like qualities and had scales for skin. I forgot what his other quirk was." Kirishima explains and the two started grinding and turning their gears. "You think that they've become villains?" Kirishima's eyes widen at the possibility. "They might. If I see them, I'm gonna take them down." Kirishima boasts while drawing attention from people. "Cool it hotshot. Now, let's get to the station. We're late for the meeting with the detective." Tamaki explains and they pick up the pace toward the station.

The time was 2:30 and the detective was sitting in the visitor area, waiting in front of the station's sliding doors, wondering if they went on ahead. He taps his feet impatiently, like a rabbit. He looks at his wristwatch and sees that 2 minutes passed by. Eventually, he saw the two pro-heroes coming up. He stands up and the sliding doors open. 'Hello detective. Sorry we're late." "Yeah, we had to make our daily patrol on the way here." Tamaki greets and Kirishima reasons. "Hey, it's all right. Ready to meet your partner?" They went along with the detective and got briefed with the information that they got from All Might.

They formed up in the room and saw the pro hero that they accompanied during Chisaki Kai's arrest some time ago, The Lock Down Hero, "Rock Lock". "Hey there. How you two been?" Ken Takagi greets the two younger heroes and shakes hands with them. He always had the scowl of distaste, with leaving his wife again for missions. "Hey Rock. Did you encounter this speedster?" Tamaki asks and, "Only by name. I only heard about this guy last week." Ken says. "Well, pleasure to be working with you again, Mr.Lock Rock." Kirishima says and they begin with the meeting.

The three heroes sat down on chairs with a table in front and a screen to display the locations where they will be investigating. "Alright. Our speedster's name is unknown, though there have been suspicions that he is Satoshi Sokudo, The Speedster hero. 4 years ago, there was a police report showing that he went in a building with hostages. After what seemed to be mere minutes, the building exploded and the hostages were loose. Police went in but they didn't see any yakuza or the speedster. He vanished." They listened and gaped at the screen as Tsukuachi explained. "Our mission is to find this man and where he went. He might have gone underground and may be connected to The League of Villains."

The three only gaped at the detective shining light to the situation. None raised hands, and the three of them understood. Tsukuachi closes the screens and points at Rock Lock. "You and me are going to go to Sokudo's address and gather what we can from there." Tsukuachi points at Rock Lock and they leave the station, going towards the burnt house of Satoshi Sokudo.

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As 13 year old Ryu watched the footage of heroes like All Might, Sokudo cooks food for his adopted son. "Alright, Ryu. Sandwiches are almost done." Sokudo was making him and himself some ham sandwiches. Ryu loved those, especially with meat in them. He takes out a tray and presents it on the table for them to eat. They started to dig in, and Ryu eats like an actual animal. He chomps off a chunk of it and was basically done with it. Sokudo became impressed with this and kept on eating.

Then, a news interrupted the broadcast of heroes with an announcement. The two gaped at the screen, worried and shocked. "Breaking news, in the Hosu District, a gang called the Veins have invaded a local warehouse. They are armed and very dangerous. The gang have 12 confirmed hostages, and police have set up a perimeter around the warehouse.

Pro heroes have been notified, but have not yet responded. The k…" Ryu scowls and wanted to come with Sokudo. When he looks to his side, Sokudo sped off and put his suit on. Ryu sees his white suit scowling at him. (his suit looks like Godspeed's but the yellow is replaced by black. He has white vambraces and black gloves with some of it spewing out to the vambraces then to the elbows making small edge tips. His torso's color is more white than black with it making white armor and under it black. He has a belt that can carry small items like shurikens in a fight. His legs are mostly made out of steel, with white coloring and black on the boots)

Ryu takes a step backward in fear, but remains strong. Sokudo takes off his helmet and shows his face, filled with worry. "Are you gonna be ok, Ryu?" He asks and Sokudo is treated with only a nod from Ryu. He looks down and furrows a bit. Sokudo leant down and pats him on the head. "Hey. I won't be gone. Just away." Ryu growls quietly, but enough for Sokudo to hear.

He takes a yellow diamond attached to a chain. "I want you to have this, Ryu. It came from a nice friend that I met in my travels." Sokudo says this as he puts it on Ryu and he gapes at it. Ryu just frowns upon it and Sokudo sees this and tries to lighten him up. Sokudo puts his hand on his head and Ryu looks up to meet his eyes. "Always fight for what you believe in, Ryu."

Ryu's eyes sparkle as Sokudo sped off to fight the bad guys, and Ryu just waited for his return. Watching the news, he held up in anticipation. He sees his stepfather's black and white trails form and go into the warehouse. He waited for minutes and saw an explosion go off.

He gasps and leans forward. He started to let out tears as he watched. The police went in and found nothing. He looked down and started to fall into thoughts. 'He's not there… Maybe he's sped off somewhere and had to regroup. Yeah.' He looks up, dragged a chair in front of the door and waited for him.

The next morning, he swats off his sleepiness and looks to see if he came home. He looked around the house, even in his room. He didn't see him. He went out to see if he was around the premises. He stopped in the shed and collected his options. With nothing but the will, he opened the knob to the creaky shed and saw only gardening equipment.

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Ryu gathers some logs, sticks and stones to get a fire going under the bridge. He places the stones in a circle, placed the logs with their bark facing each other, and the sticks below. Using his Quirk, he breathes fire at the logs and sticks and had successfully made a fire. He sat down on the dirt and looked at the night sky. 'I could get used to this.' He thought to himself. He takes out the yellow diamond ring from his (missing) stepfather. He peers at it with the white fire as light to see it intricately. "Hmmm" He wondered some more and got curious about where it came from.

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In the streets of New York, Police cars can be heard blaring through the nighttime streets and criminals can be heard shouting in the getaway van with all the money. One of them is shooting at the cops behind them. "Aim at the wheels, you shit! We can't afford to lose this money." The driver said, stomping on the gas to speed up. Behind them were 3 police cars, with a superhero inside.

"Send police cars to 20th and 23rd. We're gonna corner them at the station." One of the police said while driving. The criminals were snickering and laughing at the police at this point. They started going toward Times Square. The criminal with the gun shot at the wheels and the police car started skidding around and crashing into the other police cars.

"Yes! We're homefree!" The criminals started to cheer, and a heroine starts to rocket out of the alleys and into the streets with a black and yellow motorcycle. The criminals start to see her from the rear and start shooting. (Her costume consists of a yellow jacket with white elements, and it trailed down to behind her legs like an Assassins cloak in Assassins creed. This is an original character by my sister. I'm helping her out with her fanfic and she is helping me out with this. Comments?)

The bullets start going near her and she speeds up. "Shoot her, Shitsteak!" One of the criminals shouted at the shooter and he screams out shooting at her. Her yellow diamonds start to float above her blonde head, forming a crown around it.

She grabs three yellow diamonds from her crown and throws two yellow diamonds at the two criminals at the back of the van, with the money. She hits one at the gun to disarm and the other at the shoulder. "Gahhh!" They cried and whined. The disabled criminal lays down on the floor, and she is nearing the van. She makes the two diamonds float from their marks and into her palms to put them onto her head.

"Would you two get a move-on and kill the diamond bitch?!!" The driver shouted at the back. The criminal takes out his handgun and aims at the chaser. He shoots out bullets at the driver. One bullet goes for her head, but didn't come, thanks to a speedster. "What the--?!" he says but is interrupted by a punch from a man showing white blur with black trails around the edges. The diamond-haired chaser just scowls at her partner. "showoff." She drives and pulls left to aid her partner.

"Boys! The hell are you…" The driver looked back at the back and see only the disabled and the unconscious lackeys along with the money. He hears knocking from outside the car window. He looks outside and sees the Speedster Hero nonchalantly speeding through car lanes. Sokudo speeds ahead of the van as the driver watches.

Sokudo sets up road spikes and plastic dividers along the street to stop the getaway van. The van skids along the street and goes into an alley. "Hah!" The criminal scoffs and sppeds further into the alley. The driver stops and crashes into a dead-end. He struggles to move out and does. He runs out to the left alley but was stopped by police cruisers led by the diamond girl, Alice Smith. "Freeze!" Hearing that, he runs back to the van and back to the way he came in.

Sokudo speeds in and grabs him and throws him to the police behind him. He screams in the air before hitting the ground. The police huddled around him with cuffs ready. The criminal looks up, knowing defeat is upon him.

He puts his head back to the ground and the officers grab him up and put the criminals into a secure van headed to prison. "Another day, another arrest." "There aren't any guys with powers nowadays. I think I'm starting to be bored." The two cops laugh it off while the commissioner closed the door and sent the van off to the prisons.

The commissioner takes out a cigarette and smokes on off. He looks for the two heroes that helped them catch the robbers. He finds them at a van with the money headed back to bank that the criminals stole it from. "Well, you two sure made our lives easy. Can't thank you enough. Who are you?" The commissioner asks and Sokudo and Alice just look at each other with smirks.

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