Chapter 24: Beginning of the Canon and The Changes

Hey!

How you doin'?

I know, I've been very late with this update. But things are quite tough right now. I ruined a whole year of my college and it was final year at that. Can you believe that? I need to repeat the whole year now, making the 4 year course turn into a five year one with displaying one year as a gap.

This just feels like some reality check telling me of how stupid I actually am. The reason I have to go through all this has to be the dumbest mistake that a student would ever make in his entire lifetime.

So, the pressure is all time high.

All I want to say is, updates may be difficult in future, but the fiction is going to continue regardless. I ain't giving up on it. I hate half ass-ing things.

Enjoy the chapter!

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[ Haruki POV ]

I was sitting in the living room, watching anime with Eri. Aunty Hana was talking with Mom in the kitchen while they both were making dinner.

It was already evening. Being a five year old, Eri was already sleepy. Even so, she was pushing herself to stay awake. Ell on the other hand was already asleep on her fluffy hair. She loves sleeping. According to her it's her way of training.

'Anime sure is addicting.' I thought while smiling and looking at Eri.

"Eri? Are you feeling sleepy?" I asked her in a soft voice.

"No..." She said while fighting hard to keep her eyes open. That made me chuckle a little.

Seeing this, I wanted to carry her in my arms and pat her to sleep, she's just freaking adorable! But she hasn't had dinner yet, so can't do that right now.

"Hey Mom! How long till dinner is prepared? Eri is already falling asleep!" I shouted from where I was sitting.

"Just 10 more minutes!" Before Mom could answer Aunty Hana said.

Hearing that I turned off the TV, took Eri and put her on my shoulders and started taking her outside just to keep her awake for a little bit.

"We'll be back in five minutes!" I said to them and walked towards the door.

"But he didn't win yet! I want to see it!" Eri tried to protest by pulling on my hair. Even though she was doing that as a form of protest, she was still being considerate and wasn't pulling it hard. She was just grabbing them.

"But I wanted to play with Eri... You see, brother has learnt a new trick! I wanted to show it to Eri and we can watch this episode later too."

"Hmph!" Was all the response I got from her. She must be pouting, but I couldn't see it.

She wasn't convinced by those words, ofcourse. So I had to throw in the bigger chips.

"It's a trick to make candy apples." I said in whispering voice.

"Really?!" she said enthusiastically.

'Yep! That worked.' I thought and smiled.

"Ofcourse it's true! When have I ever lied to my cute little unicorn?" I said while tickling her.

In short, these days I was being complacent. Lazy and enjoying my life. Doing all the things that would relax me. Because I knew from the information Itachi was sending, re-absorbing those memories are gonna be affecting me in a real bad way.

This put a deadline to all this spy-game. I can't let my clone be there in the dark side of the world for longer when it is possible for it to form its own conclusions and opinions about things similar to what I myself would've formed. That will turn me into someone with bipolar personality when I re-absorb the wood clone.

'I just hope I can finish setting up that compound seal necessary. It just makes me want to finish it all right now. But I'm not doing anything unless I'm sure of having atleast 5 ways to finish off the enemies and atleast 7 ways to get out of there if all those 5 ways fail..... Figuratively.

Maybe I'm being too cautious, but this is necessary considering how much of a green-horn I am when it comes to spying. I have a nagging feeling that someone among them must have had some suspicion about my behaviour.'

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After dinner.

Eri was already asleep in her mother's arms, who was taking her to the guest room.

Mom was washing dishes while I was helping her.

I was thinking about what to do in order to get the mess with MLA cleaned up already. It was taking longer than I expected it to.

"Is something bothering you? Haru-chan? Sometimes I feel like you don't trust me enough to share your feelings."

Mom said to me with concern in her voice. It felt like it was guilt tripping, but I can't blame her for that. I never truly answered her properly when it came to such questions.

In my defense, I don't think she needs to know that her son is preparing to get into a fist fight with a deadly criminal syndicate. I can only imagine how her reaction to that would be.

"What? Oh! I was thinking about The Entrance Exams. Just a little more than 9 months are left. I feel a little worried. I don't want to leave any chances of failure."

I feigned ignorance to that 'trust' part and tried to change the topics. I had a little worried expression on my face because when I said the last sentence, I was thinking about my little espionage. And it helped with the act.

"Don't worry about it sweetie. You're going to be the best one of all! I know you will!" She said trying to cheer me up.

Ofcourse she doesn't have a very clear idea of how strong I am, otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have seen her twitching her left eye. That's what she does apparently when she finds something annoying or stupid.

"Thanks Mom." I said. I didn't know what else I could do there other than just smile and say that.

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In Haruki's Room,

I was sorting out the information of all the people that will need to be dealt with. The ones that are going to need to be prepared against.

[Name] : Tomoyasu Chikazoku

[Rank] : Leader

[Code Name] : Skeptic

[Quirk] : Anthromorph

[Quirk Description] : Allows the user to make lookalike puppets of any person out of any and only human sized object. He can control them remotely. He used it quite a few times in order to get his personal labour work done.

[Personality] : Arrogant. Frustratingly Annoying to have as a boss. Annoying enemy to have. He also has one of the most annoying trait that you wouldn't want in your enemy, he uses information of his opponent to its fullest.

That one's going to be easy. He's not the only one with number advantage. Wood clones got it covered for me.

My advantages would be, As long as I'm fast enough to finish off his puppets before he makes more of them, he's dead meat. Plus, he doesn't know anything other than what I let them see.

Next is,

[Name] : Koku Hanabata

[Rank] : Leader

[Code Name] : Trumpet

[Quirk] : Incite

[Quirk Description] : Allows the user to enhance the physical and mental state of those who consider him a worthy leader, so long as they hear his voice. Enhancing physical and mental state of someone takes its toll on the recipients' body. He uses it to 'charm' the public during his speeches. That's one of the reasons he was able to become a politician and have huge influence.

[Personality] : Calm and level headed. Another annoying trait to have in your enemy. Master in manipulating others through his words.

This one is 'useful tool' kind of person. But he's more easy to take out. He has too many openings. Political image being one of them.

On the field, he uses humans as meat shield. Too bad for him that I can make them fall asleep in an instant. Enhanced mental state may be a little troublesome in doing so, but it's certainly possible.

Then there is,

[Name] : Chitose Kizuki

[Rank] : Executive Director of Shoowaysha Publishing Company (One of the Leaders)

[Code Name] : Curious

[Quirk] : Landmine

[Quirk Description] : Emitter type. Allows user to make anything they've touched into a landmine at will. The explosion is comparable weak but enough numbers of it can be a problem.

[Personality] : Immensely curious about anything that has journalistic value. Battles with her are like having conversation and a very annoying one. Her personality is sort of hypocrite. She wants to claim the hearts of people with her stories and journalism, but at the same time she is callous enough to not care about soldiers that work under her. She can use them as human bombs and still not feel any remorse for it. She is too curious for her own good though. Quite literally. Sometimes it seems as if her curiosity is more of a priority than survival.

This one won't be much of a trouble to deal with. I doubt any of her subordinates can be fast enough to stop me from reaching her.

There were even more things to sort out here. The compound seal will be finished within next few days. Which means I'm going to be busy. A lot.

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Ther following day.

I was wandering around the city because I was bored and wanted to find something interesting.

If I were to say anything about my luck, including the fact that I got a chance to be reincarnated with such op abilities, it would be that I am THE luckiest person ever. I wanted to find someone interesting and here it is!

There was a crowd gathered looking into some alley. There seems to be some sounds of explosion and it smells like something is burning.

'Is that a battle between hero and villain?!' I thought excitedly.

I went up the building to get a proper view of the said battle. Boy was I disappointed.

It was the same blondie I tortured mentally. His name is Batsuki or something.

Anyways, despite the potential of his quirk, his show of using it right now is quite pathetic. His quirk is the most easiest for me to imitate. So I know there are so many ways to use it in such a situation.

The situation being that he's taken as a hostage by some green sludge villain. None of the heroes here have a quirk that fits the situation.

'I seriously need to get the government to work on their HPSC policies. Such situations can be partially solved even with fire fighter with no actual quirks at work. They can atleast deal with the flame from spreading.' I was quite serious about this.

'Should I intervene? Right. As if that's even a question. I'm not revealing myself that easily. Taking that risk once is enough.'

With that thought, I used [Henge no Jutsu] (Transformation Technique) and changed my appearance.

I used [Shift] to appear on the roof just above the alley where the crime was ongoing.

I really don't want to save this bastard. But that is besides the point here. I won't be deserving of the title that my father held if I were to let that cloud my judgement.

I made a water ball of the size of around 1 meter in diameter. With which I used wind chakra to increase the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide and Nitrogen into the water ball. That will create a fog wall to avoid me from being seen by others.

When I was about to throw it down to douze the flames, I saw Izuku being Izuku. Some things just can't be changed. He was trying to dig out the sludge from Batsuki. That name just sounds too weird. Who would named their own kid like that? Eh. Their kid, their choice.

I threw down the water ball and as I expected, it created huge fog veil.

Just before that, I also saw that Almight was rushing towards them, I went into my own speed mode. Things became real slow after that. Not as slow as if they're stopped, but still slow.

Next I rushed into the fog using my Sensory technique to pinpoint the location of the Sludge. As soon as I reached there, I put the [Quirk Suppression Seal] on the Sludge. Next I held the greenete and the blonde by their arms and pulled them away from there. Blonde came out easily because of the sludge losing its ability to hold on to him.

I threw them both towards the direction I sensed All-Might rushing in from.

As I was done here, I instantly used [Shift] and left the scene.

I appeared in my room.

"That was a nice way to get myself some real hero job experience!" I said to myself excitedly when I stretched my body.

According to my notes, this seems to be the first event of canon.

So it seems that the plot has started huh? Do I need to change anything here?

I don't think so.

There isn't much that I disliked here other than Izuku's naïvety. But that naïvety got balanced after seeing the similarities of his ideals with dad's. So, it's all good.

Besides I have some more important things to look into.

I focused on a black strangely shaped object on my desk. Apparently, it's a head of some unknown creature that I fought a few days before. Finding it was really a push of luck. Good or Bad, I don't know.

But if I am not thinking wrong, this changes a lot of things.