Chapter 97

[author- I made a quick chapter cuz I thought it's been too long. Something in here is hinted for an important event that'll happen with Madara and a certain someone. Maybe it's not so important but whatever.

Also please read author note at the end.

(1856 words without AN)]

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Before the spikes of Rockclave could reach the Uchiha, Rumi had appeared from above and easily shattered them with a kick, blasting the villain back in the process.

His huge body skid across the pavement just to crash into a broken down vehicle. Nearby, Rumi and Madara watched as parts of the villain's dark green rocks broke down, resulting in screams of pain to sound out.

"I had it handled. You know avoiding such an attack would be easy for me, Rumi." Madara stated as the woman in question stood right next to him with a smile plastered on her face.

"Of course you did. I had no doubts, but you and I both know that this villain is nothing special. Might as well defeat him early instead of wasting our time, right?" The rabbit hero replied back with her hands on her hips.

The Uchiha himself kept a straight face. He stayed silent and didn't respond back as he stared ahead and watched the smoke clear to reveal the unfortunate man.

In his head, he knew Rumi was absolutely correct. This joke of a villain never stood a chance against him, but there was still that lingering hope of receiving some sort of challenge. Sadly, that didn't happen...

Like his older lover said, there was no point in continuing this any longer, so he might as well finish this up so he could go home with her. But first...

"Rumi, do you know who this is? We already know he escaped from prison, but the real question is why he's here right now. The closest one is about half an hour away, and with his appearance, he sticks out amongst others. It shouldn't have been hard for police or other pro heroes to capture him.-"

Before the teenager could finish what he was saying, the rabbit hero interrupted him as if she realized where he was coming from. Being a pro for so long, it wasn't difficult for her to notice the obvious. Analyze the situation and come up with a logical scenario in her head. This mostly came after kicking the villain's ass, but needless to say, Rumi wasn't a stupid person.

"I don't know too much about him, but before your school year started, he was arrested for doing the same exact thing he was previously doing, which is odd.

From what you've said, this whole ordeal with 'Rockclave' was obviously a set up. Who did it? I'm not sure, but it's not our job to figure that out. We can drop him off at the police department so they can properly detain him."

Rumi said as Madara himself started to calmly walk towards the downed man. She followed closely behind, wondering what he was thinking. Like most times, she would notice that he had a certain expression on his face that was unreadable.

"What are you going to do?" She questioned, now standing in front of the groaning villain who had his back against a crushed van. She really did do a number on him with her earlier kick.

"Just something that's been on my mind. You've noticed it right? Look around, even if all the civilians in the area successfully escaped, some with injuries, there should've been at least a couple that were fatal.

This man hasn't killed anyone at all. It could be that he doesn't want to go through with it, but there shouldn't be any reason to attack here if that's the case."

Madara said to the woman beside him who agreed with everything he said. The sounds of sirens sounded out, and he guessed an ambulance and some police officers would arrive here in about 5 minutes.

The area around was quiet since he already used his clones to evacuate any other citizens, so it was easy for him to hear. That also means there won't be any footage of this confrontation today with no news reporters.

'Wait a minute...If someone is really orchestrating all of this, then that also means they would want to witness everything that's going on. I didn't sense anyone else, so that should mean.'

After finishing these thoughts with a slight chuckle and grin, Madara only turned his head a certain direction and flashed his Sharingan...

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(LOV Hideout)

The sound of the television turning off greeted Tomura's ears. His eyes wide as he unconsciously started to breathe harder than usual. If one were to look closely, they'd notice his right hand that was holding the remote shaking and twitching ever so often.

'W-what the hell was that?' The man-child wondered. There was something eerie about watching an individual and having them suddenly look you straight in the eye with a certain look that meant he knew that he was there.

The blazing red eyes just made it even more intimidating.

"What happened? What's wrong with Tomura, Kurogiri." From the other end of the laptop, All For One questioned when he heard the television going off. Although he asked this, he had a good guess on just what happened.

"Uh, he seemed to have turned it off, and he's not responding to me. Should I turn it back on?" Kurogiri replied back before receiving a sigh in return.

"Calm him down and keep it off. We've watched enough. It looks like police are arriving to the scene. Unfortunately, we didn't learn much about any knew abilities since we already know he could use that blue armor in more ways than one.

At the end, it all comes down to defense to counter those attacks. The progress today in achieving useful information was small, but we still got something.

We aren't desperate so actions against Madara will be next to none for a while.

Go and fix Tomura, I'll call again later."

Afterwards he had hung up, leaving a pissed off blue haired young man and Kurogiri alone in the room. Tomura had heard everything. It wasn't like he broke down from just a glare alone, but it definitely startled him. So much that he unconsciously turned off the TV.

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(Back with Madara and Rumi)

Madara shook his head a little after looking at the cameras that over looked the city and turned back to the villain in front of him. He had a good guess on who did this all today. It was pretty obvious. Unless there was some new figure in the scheme of things, it would seem like All For One was getting desperate with him.

'No matter. We'll fight one day All For One. Sit comfortably for now and enjoy your time while it last.' Madara thought to himself, with the sound of the villain's yelling breaking him out of his thoughts.

"Please! Forgive me, please! I didn't do anything wrong! Don't send me back!" Rockclave screamed.

"This is strange..." Madara said to Rumi who was looking at the man weirdly, but seconds later she had realized just what was happening.

"I've seen this before. Villains who's actions are very questionable. Some do evil but are probably a good person and not even realize it themselves. It doesn't make much sense right? But I think the issue with Rockclave is that a part of himself realizes what he's doing is wrong.

He knows that causing needless destruction is a bad idea, but he does it anyways. The fortunate thing is that he doesn't kill, but he still injures. That's what I noticed with his fight against you and the lack of dead bodies.

He didn't go for fatal blows, but ones that would cause you to be unable to fight. Well of course he wouldn't have been able to land a hit, but you get what I'm saying, right?"

"I perfectly understand." Madara said, having guessed that something in the man's head was wrong. Did he feel pity? Sort of, but in the end he didn't care as much.

Even then, there was nothing more unfortunate than your own mind betraying you. That's what Madara kind of thought was happening with the man.

"Unless..." he said out loud, getting Rumi's attention.

"Hey, you know you'll be sent to a more secured cell or worse prison after this whole incident, right?" Madara questioned, getting a frightened look from the man. After all, he knew what worse prison meant and it would most likely be torture at that point.

"No! Please you have to help me! You have my word, I won't do it again!" The man replied back, getting a weird look out of Madara.

"Have your word? Anyone who trusts such a thing is a fool. Your words are nowhere near enough for me to have trust in you." Hearing the sounds of sirens drawing closer, Madara thought he should wrap this up.

"Be grateful that you didn't cause any needless deaths here or else you would've experienced something worse." Kicking him in the head, Rockclave's body immediately went limp, signifying that he was now unconscious.

"Madara, what were you thinking earlier? Looked like you planned to do something but changed your mind." Rumi asked him as she watched him yawn.

"Well, you mentioned something wrong with him, but I had thought maybe I could fix it...Similar to Muscular. I haven't told you this but I affected his head. Gave him certain thoughts that would make him want to end his life, but he wouldn't be able to do it. With a man like him, it was the perfect punishment, but your earlier words made me think, could I fix this man?"

He decided to tell her this because he had already informed her of the type of person he is.

Of course it was an odd thought, but Sharingan abilities were frightening. No, anything that affected ones mind was downright powerful. Rearranging it how he saw fit. What if he could change this man's way of thinking?

For example, say someone was traumatized from an event and they'd never be the same. Couldn't he...help them? No, maybe it wouldn't be his choice to do that, but who knows. He shouldn't be thinking of these things right now anyways. Nothing has happened to make this sort of decision so why was he thinking too much of it?

"You did what? Madara, that's wrong..." Rumi said, thinking of his earlier words of what he did to Muscular. Of course this won't change her opinions on her lover, but even if she accepted how he is and what he would potentially do in the future, it would still take some time in getting used to.

"It may be wrong from your standards, but in my eyes it's right. No need to think too much about it. I would never do it to someone who didn't at least deserve it." Madara responded back.

It was then that the police had arrived. Multiple running over to the two with heavy handcuffs to arrest the villain.

Rumi grabbed Madara's hand and said "Let's go. Our job here is done. We don't have to always go with them."

With a nod back, he instantly picked her up and rushed towards the Yaoyorozu mansion.