You Can Be a Hero

<Akira >

I ran.

Ran as fast as I could to get to dad.

"KID, GET BACK HERE." I heard a policeman shout at me.

It was too late.

It was do or die now.

Alright, he's distracted. I can get a cheap shot in on him.

I quickly grabbed a stone that was on the road.

Huff!

With one deep breath I threw it at that masked weirdo.

"Oye, COME AT ME." I shout at the top of my voice.

"Hmm, what the hell does a kid like you want?" He stopped punching dad and started to slowly walk over to me.

The green like poison gas was surrounding him.

"Fight me you naked weirdo." I tell him with determination.

"What's a scrawny kid like you gonna do?" He asks with a smile.

This bastard.

But he's right, I can't do anything to him. Still I have to fight now or I'll die.

This weird feeling, I hope it helps me do something.

"I'll deal with you quickly." He says with a laugh.

Before I could even blink, he was right infront of me.

"AKIRAA!" I heard Dad's voice.

He raised his arms and got ready to punch me.

I closed my eyes bracing for my death, their was no way I would survive this.

One second passed then two, three and four.

I opened my eyes and saw something strange.

What the hell, why is he so.. slow?

His fist had came close to my face but, it was moving at an extremely slow rate. Like a snail.

I quickly moved away from the side, now I was on his right. His poisonous gas was a few inches away from me.

"Huh, how the hell did you dodge that?" He asked with confusion.

"Guess you have some party tricks after all. Well whatever, This isn't going to be hard." He tried to kick me in the gut.

However time seemed to stop again. I moved back and dodged the kick.

"What the hell? Do you have some kinda speed quirk?" He asked.

Was this a quirk?

But I don't have a quirk.

I should be quirkless, I have an extra joint and the bone in my hand is missing.

In recent years, it had been discovered that people with quirks had a new bone in their hands, this evidence was found after some guy broke his hands a couple of times and doctors got X rays of his hand.

Before I could continue thinking, Juggernaut tried to punch me again.

I dodged his attack again.

"Oye you insect, stop dodging and fight me!" He yelled.

Their is no point in attacking him. My punch would do absolutely nothing to him, all I need to do is stall him until the heroes arrive.

But this weird feeling, it feels like some sort of energy, it's like a tsunami in my body.

He continues his barrage, a kick to my leg.

I duck

An uppercut right after.

I weave to the left.

I dodge all his attacks while trying to keep my self away from the poison gad, altough I've taken a breath of it in by now.

Maybe that's why I have a weird feeling in my body.

"You damn insect, FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!" Juggernaut starts to yell in frustration.

Just a bit more time. Where the hell are the heroes and why the hell are these cops doing nothing?

The tsunami in my body starts to get stronger.

Just what the hell is going on with me.

Alright let's first deal with this feeling, if this pain doesn't stop I won't be able to focus in fighting with him.

I dodge another roundhouse kick from him and dash back.

'Let it flow!'

Huh!

Who the hell was that.

Well I have now time to think about that right now.

I jump over a low kick as he starts to get faster.

Even with time slowing down he is starting to get quicker.

His punch gets right up to my face.

I quickly get out of the way.

That voice said to let it flow.

I'm guessing by it he means this tsunami inside of me.

Alright, I'll let it flow.

<Narrator >

Akira did just as he was told, he loosened his body and tried to be as less tense as possible.

BOOOM!

A loud explosion occured from the two people fighting.

"Just what the hell is that kid thinking?" One of the officers said in worry.

Akira felt odd, he felt likr he had been reborn. The tenseness in his body was gone. Juggernaut was pushed back as he got time to think.

His felt like he could do anything right now.

'Just what the hell is happening?' He thought in confusion.

Akira's eyes felt weird. He could see energy all around himself. It like electricity.

It was rampaging everywhere, yet nothing happened when it made contact with the ground or with a person.

"I'M GETTING SICK OF THIS!" Juggernaut threw a punch at Akira's face. He sidestepped and moved backwards.

"AGHHHHHH!" Juggernaut screamed.

Akira felt weird. He felt like this energy was calling him.

So he did the only thing his brain could think of.

He proceded to grab this energy.

'Strange. It doesn't hurt.' His arm was now covered with this energy.

"Alright, let's see what this can do." Akira said with a small grin.

Juggenaut tried to grab Akira, Akira seeing his movement launched a punch of his own.

BAM!

Juggernaut flew backwards. He was stopped when he crashed into their car.

"HOLY SHIT!" Akira exclaimed in shock.

He looked at his hands in awe.

The energy that was around his arms now disappeared.

He started to grab more energy in his arm and body.

"YOU DAMN BRAAAAAT!" Juggernaut's scream terrified all the people around him.

Before Akira could even react to what was happening Juggernaut stood infront of him.

Without time to react, Juggernaut landed a clean punch on Akira, sending him flying.

"DAMN THAT FELT GOOD." He screamed.

Akira's body was in pain, it was a pain so excruciating that he wanted to scream his lungs out.

<Akira >

Just what the hell is this guy?

I have to focus, if I hadn't gathered this energy in my body I would've been toast.

I started to pull this energy in my body agian, I don't care how weird I looked it to others, if i had to grab air to win then so be it.

Juggernaut tried to punch me again, but due to this energy, my reaction time increased and I jumped to the side.

Before Juggernaut could move I punched him in the side of his chest again.

BOOM!

He was send flying again. This time he was stopped by a wall.

I need to stop using all of the energy in one attack. He'll kill me if I don't manage to gather it before he gets to me.

COUGH! COUGH!

The hell?

I coughed up a little bit of blood, was this the posion gas. No, I hadn't nearly inhaled enough of the gas for it to affect me.

Then why does my body hurt?

I tried to think of a reason, could it be my quirk?

Yeah that could be it, it must be the drawback for not having enough stamina.

I wouldn't like to admit it but it was true, I was extremely weak. I hadn't worked out once in my life because I was too busy with making things.

COUGH! COUGH!

I coughed up more blood.

Shit this is getting dangerous.

Juggernaut was not infront of me anymore.

Left?

Right?

Up?

"I'M BEHIND YOU." He said with a laugh.

I felt his leg land on my back and flew towards the wall that he landed on.

FUCK!

It hurts a lot.

"AGHHHH!" I couldn't stop the scream from coming out of me.

"I have to admit kid, your punches were pretty strong, but not strong enough." His voice calmed down as he grabbed the side of his chest where I had hit.

"Now it's time to end this." He said with a smile.

Dammit! I don't have enough time to gather energy.

Is this the end?

No.

I have to live. I can't die just yet.

I tried to gather the energy but it was to late.

I closed my eyes.

I'm sorry mom.

<Narrator >

Akira closed his eyes, waiting for the punch to land.

"Tell me your name kid?" Juggernaut asked.

'Why the hell do you want to know that?' Akira thought in his mind.

"Akira Gojo." He answered.

Juggernaut took a deepbreath and tried to calm himself.

"Be proud Akira Gojo, you were strong." Juggernaut said and launched himself at him.

'What kind of corny ass line was that." Akira chuckled.

Just as Juggernaut was about to land his fist at Akira he stopped.

Akira opened his eyes. He saw something that he hadn't expected.

Infront of him Juggernaut was stanfing, his body was tied up by a scarf like material.

Beside him was a women with white hair, much like his own wearing a gas mask stood.

However one striking feature made Akira immediately realise who she was.

'That horn.. it's. It's the NO 1 HERO ERI.' His heart started to pump.

Eri was an icon to him and everyone in the world. Her quirk allowed for her to manipulate time itself.

It was too the extent that she could stop time for a few minutes.

Cough! Cough!

Eri coughed.

Sigh!

"I overdid it again. Ten minutes is way too much for me to be able to handle." She muttered to herself.

'Woahh! Did she stop time for ten minutes. That's insane.' Akira thought in shock.

'It's insane how strong she is, at such a young age as well. I think she's only Thirty Eight. Compared to all the old heads in the Top Ten, she's about Thirty years younger than them at average.' Akira thought.

Eri was a rising star from Pentagon Academy around Twenty years ago. It was a rough time back then so the age of application was only Fourteen to allow for more heroes to be trained quickly. It was a time know as the Great War.

Villains and monsters rampaged the world at that time. The entire world was in chaos.

But in less than three years of that time she was able to become a part of the top hundred heroes in the world and by the next two years she was the strongest hero in the world. She single handedly stopped the villains from becoming major threats.

Her quirk wasn't the only thing that helped her. Her physical strength was insanley strong as she could carry a few tons.

That may not seem a long for people with strength quirk, but her quirk had nothing to with that strength. Her scarf was also her greatest weapon. It allowed her to capture villains and with her strength most villains couldn't get out of it.

Altough her feats were big, such as single handedly stopping the Amercian Yakuza at just Sixteen, many still doubted her because she had never faced a single monster in her life.

"Hey kid are you okay?" She asked while looking at him.

"Ye...cough. Yeah. I'm good." Akira said coughing some blood mid-sentence.

"Doesn't seem like it." She said with a smile.

"I'll be fine. But my dad. Please look for my dad. He's really injured." Akira started to panick.

Was his dad okay? Did he get injured?

"Calm down Akira, he'll be fine." Akira told himself as he managed to muster up the strength to get up.

For some reason he couldn't seem to see the energy anymore and the feeling inside his body returned.

"Must be some kind of activation and deactivating quirk." Akira told himself.

Akira sas the police handcuff Juggernaut with quirk-cancelling handcuffs. He was quickly approched by a police officer himself.

"How are you feeling young man?" He asked while taking a puff of a cigarette.

"I could do better." He said with a slight chuckle.

"We could all do a bit better." He took another puff.

Akira recognised him as the policemen who had approched him when the police had first arrived.

"You know what you did was extremely stupid right? Because of you we couldn't properly attack the villain without thinking of a civillain casualty that could occure and unluckily all of us have quirks that cause alot of damage to people around us. " He said with annoyance and grabbed another cigarette out.

"I know. I know but my legs just moved on their own. I mean I couldn't just watch my dad get killed." Akira answered quickly.

"You have a good heart kid and with that strength of yours, you can become one hell of a hero." The man said calming down.

Akira's heart skipped a beat.

"You mean it?" Akira asked in a low voice.

"Hmm?" The cop asked

"Can I.. can I actually be a hero?" He asked.

"Of coure you can. Like I said with the strength and speed you showed, you can become a great hero." The man said with a grunt.

"Thank You." Akira said with genuine happiness.

"Don't get to happy yet, you're still nowhere near being a hero with how reckless you are. Here take this, it's my card call me if you ever find yourself in a situation like this.. and i have a feeling you will find yourself in them a lot." He grumbled.

Akira quickly grabbed the card and read the cop's name. "John Anthony Felix." Akira read his name.

"I'll make sure to call you."

"Anyway you should get going to you dad, he looks like he got pretty hurt." John said.

Akira felt a pain in his heart as he quickly ran towards his dad.

However his worries went away as he saw him standing up with the help of a few medics that had arrived.

"You know it's surprising how you managed to get in such a situation again Oda. Two times he broke out and twice he found you two. Luckily the first time you saved you son and now the opposite." Eri talked with his Dad.

"I couldn't believe it either." Oda said with a chuckle.

"Uhh do you know eachother." Akira came and asked.

"Oh Akira! you're alright." Oda quickly got out of the medics arms and hugged his son.

"Yeah. About my question?" Akira stated.

"Well we don't really know eachother, but around Fifteen Years ago when you were about Two, Juggernaut had held you hostage, Miss Eri was the one who came and save us." Oda quickly told his son with a chuckle.

"I really didn't do much, I was pretty nervous since it was my first fight after becoming the number one hero. If it hadn't been for you, your son wouldn't be here." Eri told Oda.

"No need to be so humble" Oda told her with chuckle.

"I'm just telling the truth." Eri said with a smile.

Just then the three were approched by a policemen.

"Sir we would like to hear you report about the incident." The policemen told Oda.

"Alright, I'm coming. " Oda said with a chuckle.

'Weird, dad seems awfully used to this. Oh well whatever.' Akira quickly shook the thoughts away.

"Say young men, I heard that you ran in to protect you dad."

"Uhh yeah, it was like my legs moved on their own." Akira told her.

"Hmmn. That's Intreasting?" She said with a small smile.

"Uhmm, may I ask what exactly is intreasting?" Akira asked.

"Oh nothing, it's just that I knew someone who did the same thing for his friend." Eri told him.

"Oh! May I ask how he is? I mean to rush in to fight a battle with a villain is dangerous." Akira asked.

"You say that but you did the same thing." Eri laughed.

Akira felt a blush grow on his cheek due to the embarrassment.

"He.. was killed in action." Eri said with sadness in his voice.

"Oh.... I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked." Akira apologised.

"It's fine, you didn't know." Eri told him.

"Uhmm, may I ask a question?" Akira asked.

"Sure kid." Eri replied getting out of her sadness.

"Do you think I can become a hero?" Akira asked.

"You won't be a hero-." Akira felt his heart skip a beat.

'I guess dad was right.' He thought in pain.

"You'll be a great hero." Eri finished with a smile.

Akira felt wind breeze past him.

A smile was etched on his face.

"Thank You."

"Any way I'll be going now, after all their are always more people that need help." Eri turned around getting ready to leave.

"I have great expectations for you kid. Don't let me down." She said before dissapearing from Akira's sight.

"To think the number One hero thinks I can be a hero, and she has expectaions for me. This is like a dream come true." Akira smile was etched across his face.

"Son let's get going." Akira turned around to see his dad's normal stern face.

"Uhh, but the police took our car as evidence." Akira said with a bead of sweat.

The stern face of his father turned into one of shock.

"My Caaaaar!" He cried.

"Ahem!" He quickly got a control of his emotions.

His stern face turned into one a soft one.

"I'm sorry son." Akira heard words that he didn't expect to hear.

"Why?" He couldn't help but ask.

"I'm your father, yet I couldn't belive in you, If you want to be a support hero, be a support hero. I am not someone that should cage you." Oda told his son with a smile.

Akira's stared at the ground.

"Dad... do you think I can be a hero..not a support hero, like an actual hero?" Akira asked.

"With the thing that I saw today son... You Can Be a Hero."

Akira felt tears build up in his eyes. The words that he dreamed to hear for ovrr two years now, his father had finally said.

"Say how about we get ice cream, I need something sweet before I face your Mom's wrath." Oda chuckled.

"Yeah... I would like ice cream." A smile came on his face. As the two went to get Icecream.

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