CH. 3 - Friends?

"Kac-chan!"

The gremlin is here. This is the correct playground then. Oh, explody and co. are here too, I guess.

"Come on Deku! Can't even catch the ball! Hahaha," said Bakugo

"Yeah! Can't even catch the ball!" said Bakugo's goon.

Bakugo picked up the ball and throw it at him. "Here, catch!" He threw it with a little bit of an explosion added in.

Izuku shielded his face with his frail arms. The ball battered his arm and he took a step back to regain balance.

"Qurikless loser!" said Bakugo followed by his goon's laughter and "loser!" shouts.

"You!" Bakugo points to one of his goons. "Bring me the ball."

The ordered goon walks to the ball on the ground that had bounced off of Izuku. He grabbed it and give it to Bakugo.

"Hehehe. Can't even catch. Loser." Bakugo was planning to throw the ball at Izuku for one last time before leaving.

Seeing as I'm the only "adult" around here, it's my job to step in. That and I don't want my mission guy to be knocked out cold and made me late going back home. A mother's worries… and anger, you know how it is.

I unknit a third of the scarf I'm wearing into a single string. A. single. string. Mind you, I just got my quirk! And my red wool scarf is a gift from grandma when I told her about my quirk. The color is red because it complements my cyan eyes and hair, at least that's what grandma had said. Thank grandma for this scarf! I would've been NAKED if I go all out. Not that I would….

I wrap the string around Bakugo. I wanted to make him like a pupa, but I lack the string length necessary.

"WHAT!?" shouts Bakugo. "WHO DID THIS."

I walk towards Izuku. "Hi! Do you want to be my friend?" I offer my hand to him.

"YOU! YOU DID THIS DIDN'T YOU?" Bakugo shouts some more. Can't he shut up for a minute? "RELEASE ME OR I'LL KILL YOU!"

I wrap my string around his mouth. All I can hear now are muffled screams. Now, his goons are the ones talking.

"Hey! Release Him!"

"Yeah!"

I let go of my control of the string. It didn't unwind tho, since I had wrapped Bakugo and put a knot. I control the other end of my scarf to unknit the rest of it and wrap his goons tight… along with their mouth and knotted it.

Izuku was frozen. He couldn't believe that someone had "beaten" Bakugo. He's more scared of the person in front of him, me. I cough to get his attention.

"U-uh. Um. F-friends?" Izuku accepted my handshake.

'Hm? Why hasn't the notification popped up?'

«Midoria Izuku's relationship has not reached friendship.»

'Ugh…!' I knew it wasn't that easy…. How do I make him my friend fast? Hm… I'll save him and explody when sludge appears. Do I need to save explody? Nope! But Izuku got eyes stuck on him. He would be more appreciative to me if I saved explody too.

Izuku and I spend the rest of the day building sandcastles. He built the base of it while I detailed it. I detailed it using my quirk, I controlled a string from my shirt's sleeve similar to the loop tool for sculpting.

"This looks better than I thought!" I said.

"E-em, yes," said Izuku.

The sunsets and sky turned orange. It's time to go home. Gosh, we were sooo awkward when we were building the sandcastles.

"It's time to go home. Bye Izuku-san," I waved my hand.

"U-uh, M-Mival-san?"

"Yes, Izuku-san?"

"A-arn't you go-gonna release them?"

"Right. My scarf. I forgot." Did they fall asleep? Seriously? I unwind the string around their body and knit it into a scarf on my neck. "You better go home too. Before they woke up." I turn and leave them.

«Mission [Befriend Midoria Izuku] is completed.»

Wutttt. I looked back at the playground. The green gremlin's gone. He must've thought about me… *cough* as a friend on his way home.

«Quirk [String Manipulation] has been turned into a skill.»

My quirk can't get copied by that egotistical copy or be deactivated by turn-off anymore! This also means I don't have to save them from sludge!

«

New mission: [Sludge Rescue], rescue Midoria Izuku and Katsuki Bakugo from Sludge Villain.

Rewards: [Auto-Protection] skill added to [Grandma's Scarf] equipment.

»

F*ck.

A/N:

Finished binging MHA season 5. Anime recommendations? (For the other worlds)