Home ii

Book Four

Volume 11

Ch. 177 Home ii

Pov. 

-Kara-

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To use your power to protect those you love. 

That is a true warrior.

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"Alright, bath time!"

"Bm-mmm." Lia grumbles

I stand just behind the door as they giggle around in their bubble bath, thinking of the words Thors said to me

What Makarov and even… Ignia… tried to teach me.

What she… begged of me.

To let go of my hatred…

Hate…

Is my very essence. 

The source of my power. Of my very being, is it not?

But clearly…

It is not all that I have.

"Oh no!" Cana shrieks after Lia began coughing

"Kya! Gross-Gross!" Cana hurries into the kitchen after Lia puked into her hand

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I almost felt that…

I can watch her forever.

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Lia giggles hysterically before they were interrupted by the phone

"It's Midnight, for you." Cana pouts

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"What?"

"Morning, stud!"

"What do you want?"

"You plan on coming into work any time soon? Or do you need more time?"

"I'll come in today, later."

"Great! Cause we actually got a big thing going on, some of your classmates will be there!"

"Yeah, whatever." I hang up

…

"Are you planning to go back to school soon?"

I shrug

"You?"

"Actually… I think I'm going to drop out…" she smiles

"There's a daycare."

"I know… but, well…" she pats Lia down "I don't want to leave her. Not for a second." She smiles warmly as Lia rolls onto her belly

"Well… we're moving into the dorms anyway. They have the tightest security there."

"Oh man." She scoops Lia up. "So much for our little house, right baby?" She frowns

"Whether or not you study is the same to me."

Cana packs all of Lia's clothes into her cards along with some of our own.

Odin grows into his giant dire wolf form

I cross my legs and sit down.

Cana tucks herself into my lap with Lia before Odin carried us to UA, barking off any media that got too close

There she was swarmed by all the girls in our class, begging to hold Lia

I leave Odin with her and carry on to the association.

There I found Midoriya, Kirishima, Sue, and Ochako. Along with three third year students

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"Eri? Yes, her arms were wrapped in bandages when we ran into them." Midoriya balls his fists

"A quirk that dismantles quirks, huh?" I look at Midoriya

A power like that can be devastating.

"A child wrapped in bandages and you decided to let her go? What kind of hero are you?" I smirk

"That's enough. The operation is tonight, so try to get along with everyone, Kara." Midnight snaps

"This is ridiculous, why not let me go ahead myself?"

"Because, if they see the number one hero barging in along with everyone else they might panic and kill the girl."

"You have to stand by and make sure things go smoothly. When the girl is safe or if anything goes wrong you'll be there."

"What? How boring." I cross my arms

"That was All Might's job, so quit complaining!" Midoriya growls

"Hmh, whatever. Don't blame me if anyone dies." I shrug

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They readied themselves for tonight

I shut my eyes and used oversight with my sharingan to watch as everyone engaged the yakuza in battle.

Many battles were closely fought.

Kirishima and that fatso barely made it out of their own.

As for Chisaki.

I turn my head

These fools out there chasing their tails while he escapes with the girl.

Except for that Mirio, he managed to get through every one of their barriers

I watched a while longer until Mirio got shot in the back, trying to save the girl.

The bullets were laced with that drug so his quirk was erased

I stand.

"Fucking trash." I stretch

"Kara! Mirio needs-."

"Yeah-yeah." I shut the other third year up

I open my arms.

"Kaioken."

Times twenty five

I blitz straight through the ground and land right in front of Mirio and the girl.

I clap my hands, blowing Chisaki into a deeper hole in the ground just as Midoriya bashed through the wall.

The force of the clap itself blew a hole through the roof and in came crashing the giant they were fighting.

"Hmh." I smile after seeing that Chisaki was pretty much dead.

"Kara, y-you saved us…" Mirio huffs

"Don't read too much into it." I settled down to Kaioken x10

The giant before me roars, but before I could annihilate it, it bursts into a bloody mist

"His quirk. He's able to disassemble and reassemble anything." Mirio pulls the girl into his chest

"Oh yeah?"

Sounds annoying.

"Please, you have to make him pay. The things… he did to her…"

I look at the girl.

She was holding onto Mirio and bawling her eyes out in silence.

The power to disassemble and reassemble something instantly.

The psychotic insanity that comes behind that…

Guess that can only mean he's fusing with that giant.

I caught his massive fist.

I blow it aside with Red before stepping in and smashing my fist into his chin

I send him flying out of the cave and 100 meters into sky

I smash my shin into his back, sending him half a mile east

I catch up instantly and slam my knee into his gut, sending him another 200 meters into the sky

He reassembles before I could knock him around again and blocks my heel with his forearm

I step aside as his huge fist flies by my chest

"How pathetic, is this it?" 

I settle to my base state

I narrowly dodge his hammering fists

I land on his thumb and raise my hand above my head

"Flame of Apollo."

A miniature sun, the size of a basketball forms in the palm of my hand

It compresses

I toss the star into his chest

The explosion blows his giant limbs away and sends him crashing into an apartment complex

I landed in front of him as he disassembled the rubble on top of himself.

"Tell me, what exactly did you do to that girl?" I smile

"Y-you bastard!" He lunges at me

I catch his fist 

"Hmh." He smirks

But instead of 'disassembling' me his upper torso explodes.

A moment later I reassembled his body. 

"Ghk." He chokes and trembles 

"Oh yeah" a wicked smile stretches across my face

I dismantled his body a second time before reverting it back

"Gha!" He gasps

I crush him into a meatball before warping him back.

I raise my hands and twist every one of his limbs out of place

"Gh!" His eyes widen after his arm tears through his back and out his mouth

I crush him back into a meatball and snap him back to normal just as the police arrived. 

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They took him into custody as I filled my report with Midnight back at UA

"Bye!" Cana waves as we head to our dorm room

"Alright-Alright-Alright!" She hurries over to the oven

"Mmm, so good!" She dances around with the lasagna "Kya! So hot!"

I joined her in the kitchen.

I take the tray and flip it onto the paper she laid on the counter

"Hmh-Hmm." She smiles, after meeting my gaze

She races to get the table ready before serving me up a huge portion.

I was ready to dig in when she put her hands together for a silent prayer.

She gives me a little smile before chowing down into her plate

"Did you hear what happened to Mirio?" Cana breaks the silence

"Mhmm." I hum

"So sad. He worked so hard to get where he was."

"Real pity." I grumble sarcastically. 

Cana stops for a moment before continuing.

"Do you think maybe you can… help him?"

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"Why would I do that?"

"Because…" she shrugs

"I couldn't care less whatever comes of him."

"But can you? I mean is it something you can do?"

…

"Sure. But will I? No."

"B-But why not?"

"Cause I don't feel like it."

"Like what? Helping him?"

"Yeah, Cana. I don't feel like helping him."

"That's-."

Aizawa knocking at our door cuts her off

"Hmm? Who can it be?" Cana pats her mouth

I open the door. He was with Midnight and that girl they saved from the Yakuza

"Aizawa…" I look at the girl he was with

"Eri, this is Kara."

"What do you want?"

"The Associacion wants us to hand her over to them."

"Why don't you?"

"There's no telling what they'll do to her." Midnight plants her fist on her hips

"I offered to watch over her, seeing that I can deactivate her quirk if she ever loses control." Aizawa pats her head

"But they insist it's far too dangerous."

"What does any of this have to do with me, huh?" I asked as Cana squeezed through the door and my hip

"We'd be glad to look after her." She smiles

"What?"

"You're the only one besides myself that can deactivate quirks. Plus, you're the number one hero that defeated All Might." Aizawa says

"Yeah, that title pretty much grants you immunity from the association." Midnight winks

"This is ridiculous. Just cause I've had one kid, doesn't mean I'm running a daycare."

"Kara…" Cana puts her foot down

"What?" I glare right back her after hearing her stern tone

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"If they leave her to the agency there's no telling what kind of cruel experiments they'll run on her.

It'd be like leaving her to the Yakuza all over again." She crosses her arms, her eyes piercing through my soul

She finally concedes, looking away and crouching down, inviting the child into her arms

"It's okay, darling. You'll be safe with us." She smiles warmly, the child looking up at me for permission

"Tch." I cross my arms, only after deactivating her quirk before heading back inside

"Bye, you guys." Cana waves at Aizawa and sticks her tongue out at Midnight before joining me back at the table

"Would you like some Lasagna, Eri?"

"Mmm." She nods

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After we finished up Cana put some cartoons on the tv for Eri to watch with Lia.

I joined Cana on the couch.

She tosses her arms around my neck and sits on my thigh.

"What's on your mind?" She pecks my bottom lip

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I don't know what you expect from me.

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I shrug.

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"Mirio needs your help, Kara."

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"And why exactly should I help him?"

What do I have to gain?

"What exactly do you have to lose?" She furrowed her eyebrows

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I was at a loss of words, wondering if she happened to read my mind just then…

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"My Pride?" I shrug

"Your… Pride?"

"I don't know if you've noticed, but it's not something I enjoy doing."

"It… irks me."

I feel genuine disgust at the thought of his face lighting up with joy due to something I've done. 

Helping him…

It's beneath me. Contradictory to my very being.

"I'll tell you why you're going to help him." She smiles

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"You're going to help him for the same reasons you came to my rescue all those times, the same reason you saved Lia.

And the same reason you spared All Might." She tilts her head

"And why is that?"

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"Cause that's who you are. Deep down, beneath all that hate, pride, and contempt… you can be gentle, loving, and caring."

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-to be continued