Mistakes Were Made

Yoshito POV

It was... strange, the best word I could find for this situation, I suppose, standing here, among heroes.

I knew that people saw me as one, although more as a faceless mask in a crowd of more masks then a spandex clad hero, but I didn't feel like one. I didn't feel like much of anything when I was in the vault of All for One.

But now? Now I started to feel like I was something, and while that something may not be a hero, I felt like a person again.

I talked, I played games, I ate and I worked out, like a normal human should, things I never could when locked in that cage.

I had friends again, something that felt like eons ago.

Her name was Akira, someone I met on the quirked forces. She had been in a bad place, with her friends pressuring her to enter All for One's little alliance, Balance, as he called it, and when she said no to entering their "alliance", they responded with violence.

Not at the meet and greet mind you, we, the quirked forces, had recieved a call about threats from Balance, and we luckily got her to the hospital in time.

Her sister wasn't as lucky.

It seems like All for One had chosen to adopt an "either with us or against us" mindset since the last time I saw him.

She has a quite impressive quirk aswell, which had been been given the name Boost, that allowed her to boost the effect of any action she took.

At first I thought it could be used to mimick super strenght, but since it also boost the recoil it would lead to broken bones and mangeld muscles.

Her sister supposedly had a quirk that had been given the name enhance, and despite the name it didn't actually enhance one's physical body, but led to one being able to fight with almost superhuman strenght, the limit of the human body in fact, or grant this strenght to someone else.

She was a kind girl and we had really hit it off, and she, unlike many of my other colleagues she didn't seem to care much about my who my brother was.

And, of course, it was at this point the politicians we were assigned to protect, however much their belifs disgusted me, and allowed All for One to prey on those that had been harmed by them, we couldn't be the judge, jury and executioner ourselves, were attacked.

Power corrupts, and many with quirks had already fallen to the allure of this power, like these men and women had.

"Shigaraki! Assist Eito, I'll bring the targets to safety!"

My job was not to bring the politicians, no, it was to ensure these criminals were caught.

The first one to be taken down, a rather short man, with what was most likely some sort of enhancer quirk, as he was strong enough to punch a hole in a wall and there was no visible mutation that was pointing towards a transformation quirk.

It had to be a quite strong quirk.

It didn't save him from an One for All enhanced punch to the skull.

The other one though, his quirk did save him from an a little tap on the head.

Some sorts of spikes were growing out of his body, and while I could most likely deal with him I will not risk injuries but leave him to someone else, I think Eito can handle him.

And that is when I saw someone, a man, wearing in a gasmask with red lenses and a suit like All for One, fitting him far worse then the real deal wore it.

He gave me the same feeling I got from All for One, the same maniac energy, and the same self confidence, but also that feeling, slowing swallowing me.

It was nothing compared to what All for One made me feel like, so it was less then irrelevant in this fight.

My rush towards him was countered with a stream of fire, keeping me away from him, as you should in a fight with someone that had a quirk that enhance their body if you had an emitter quirk.

I would not save him today, but none the less, it delayed me.

Every little attempt to get close to him was rewarded with a stream of fire, but also with some signs of exhastion, getting closer to him, far closer, the fifth time compared to the first.

And there was his weakness.

Either it was overheating, or it was simply that using his quirk drained him of stamina quickly, but it didn't matter to me, because now I knew it was over oh so soon.

Then I saw his head turn, just a little, and look at the people in the audience, and a small bit of that tiredness seemed to disappear.

So, I ran, and when he threw another line of fire at me, instead of retreating, I jumped.

It was reckless, yes, but this man needed to be taken down now, before he choose to start targeting bystanders in an attempt to make me shield them.

I still reached his side before he was able to throw any more fire at me, and I took my shot at him.

I didn't let the fire he had licking his body hinder me.

It burned me, it stung, but I didn't let it hinder me.

The villain was stopped.

"You don't have to be scared anymore!"

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Months had passed, and there was no All for One to save Endo Hiroki from a cell, and the world seemed to, for the first time in years, start to recover from what All for One had done to it.

For the first time in years, the power of All for One was waning.

His grip on the world, his exploitation of the weak and those in need, was lessening, or at the very least not growing worse.

So, Japan would create heroes, and I would be among them.

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Kuro POV

These heroes, as they seemed to be dubbed, very being "unveiled" today, and I can't say I was looking forward too it.

Why people would sign up to be hunted by me I would never know, but human stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

"And last but not least! One for All!"

That name snapped me out of my thoughts, and I saw the face of someone I thought was lost to me.

My brother, but also the one that would try to bring me down. Someone that is trying to bring me down, and would one day, in a way succed, if what I saw was true.

Maybe it was just madness, a fever dream, there were so few memories from there, so much fog obscuring them. But I could not risk it. I could not risk everything I had built.

My mutter broke through the silence in the living room, in an apartment meant for two, but only one had stayed here.

Only one would ever stay here.

"Looks like I will have to do the deed myself, after all."