Chapter 5: “Lemillion”

3 years time skip

Mc pov:

Its been 3 years since I gained conciseness and an year since I got my last gift that was my rubber body. I learnt soo many new things and I can finally understand and speak Japanese, i make a lot of linguistic mistakes but that's ignored or corrected by my parents and teachers due to my young age, but I have undoubtedly grown dumber due to processing all of Luffy's dumbass activities in my memory.

Speaking of parents my mother now named Hiyori Togata married the coworker, who we were living with, around an year ago and now he is my step father which makes Mirio my step brother, Who I am currently with as we are trying to find a birthday gift for my mother at some budget mall near our parents' 9-5.

Mirio pulled my stretchy hand excessively and asked, "Yo Grim, have you decided on what we wanna get your mother, father only gave us 4000 yen so I think a perfume or some of her favourite snacks will be good". Yes seriously, that was what my emo 17 year old mother named me but I don't really hate her for it but it does remind me of my poor gaming skills struggling against a boss of a popular video game I was stuck on for a complete month. But I do think Grim Togata is a better name than Monkey D Luffy in real life i guess..

"No, I'll add all my savings and father's money and let's get her a necklace, 7500 yen should be enough for a good necklace here", I declared as I wanted her to be truly happy as her previous birthdays have been ruined by some random circumstances like my early quirk awakening at her 21st birthday or me falling face first while trying to jump from kitchen fridge to a couch the previous year.

"Sure, whatever you say lil' bro….hahaha"he replies trying to provoke me for no reason. I've been trying not to show my annoyance of that phrase as I knew it would give him more ammunition but hearing that phrase from someone younger than me does feel infuriating. We look around and finally find something of worth and get it for 9000 yen cuz Mirio helped fund the gift if I call him Big Bro for a full year which I begrudgingly accepted.

After that all got settled we went back to our parents work building to wait till their shift was over to go home. We waited in a visiter room and my brother pulled out his phone to watch some All Might compilations. Which reminds me, I awakened my quirk pretty early at the age of 3 and a half which got categorised as a mutant type quirk due to my inability to turn into a non elastic human.

According to the internet there are already heroes with similar quirk to mine like Mr Fantastic in USA who is basically a weaker version from fantastic 4 and Elastigirl in Canada who has a weaker version of my quirk and both of them are transformation type quirks.

As for me after I got my quirk I had to relearn how to do everything but thanks to my incredible instincts and life-return I quickly learnt how to do basic moves and now I can pretty much replicate gum gum pistol and bazooka without socking myself in the face 80% of the time, I also didn't have the sea weakness of devil fruits as I expected. My refined instincts also feel really good right now but i don't have any way to improve them as my brother's punches don't threaten my rubber body when I'm his training dummy. Life return is too strong, I'm not even close lot child Oden strong but i have incredible stamina for an almost 5 year due to me testing life but i cant use hardening yet.

"Hey Grim what do you think about lemillion?", I heard Mirio ask. I was confused and asked, "What?" . "A hero name , Lemillion for the millions of people I will save ...".

I reply,"It sounds good , why are you thinking of a hero name now, you are still like a decade away from getting into a hero school if you pass the exams that is.".

"It's 8 years not 10 lil bro, I'm thinking about my dream I'm already taking steps towards it , I will definitely become a hero.", he says without any shade of doubt as he reminded me of myself and my own hero complex which is even more satisfied by being a real professional hero than being a doctor.

I just came up with a witty reply but my parents came back and interrupted me and we went back to our home while discussing our visit to the mall and sorts.

'Mirio has a very powerful quirk I think, he will probably become a good hero but i cant let him be better than me, my pride wont allow it, i wont lose to this dumbass kid' I thought as we neared our home.

After heading home we prepared for mother's birthday and celebrated it later at midnight with a semi burnt cake my brother, me, my brother and father baked for her.

""Happy birthday Mom"

"Happy birthday Hiyori"

She looked very happy and thankful which made me in turn happy too ,she was a very kind, caring and airheaded person who got the short end of the stick in life due to her naivety and I will make sure nothing like that happens again to this amazing woman especially after knowing that she chose to keep me even though her parents told her they would disown her if she did so.

Later we gave her our gifts and she was very happy of the pendent me and Mirio gave her and started tearing up due to happiness after seeing our mini family portrait roughly fitted inside and hugged us.