Chapter 2: Friend!

{Ryō Kurokiba; Age: 11}

"I'm Kaina Tsutsumi. Nice to meet you." A young girl with two-tone hair which is blue with pink highlights and purple eyes said out loud while standing in front of Ryō, who was leisurely walking towards his home.

Ryō looked at her from head to toe, not minding her outgoing personality, and said "I know, the new transfer student in my class."

Seeing the lukewarm response of Ryō, Kaina said "I came here so that I could join U.A."

"Did I ask?" Ryō asked back.

"No you didn't. But seeing you get annoyed is fun." Kaina said in a funny tone.

Ryō looked at her thinking 'This girl got some screw loose, I should keep my distance.'

"You know, when I was speaking with our classmates they said that you are a social butterfly. But that's not what I'm seeing now. Is there any secret?" She said to him, with the last part almost in a whisper.

"No." And he just gave a single word reply.

Hearing that, Kaina was slumped as she didn't know what to do.

Suddenly he said "I'm Ryō Kurokiba."

"Yes! And I'm Kaina, you can call me Kaina." Kaina said, regaining her lost enthusiasm.

Ryō asked her, "So why are you annoying me?."

"I wanted to know about you, as you're the only one I don't know anything about other than what our classmates said." Kaina said.

"If they told you everything about me then you should know enough to understand that I don't like anyone trying to intrude into my lonesome time." Ryō told Kaina, as some sort of warning.

"I know! I just wanted to introduce myself to you as soon as the class ended, but you left swiftly." Kaina said.

"Now that is out of the way, please leave me alone." Ryō told her.

"Okay, I understand Kurokiba. Goodbye." Saying that

After Kaina left him, Ryō released a sigh of relief as the annoyance had left him alone.

When he reached home, his mother who was waiting for him asked "Did you have fun at school?"

"Yeah, it was fun. There was a transfer student who joined us today." Ryō replied.

"Oh really. What's the student's name then?" Hiyori asked him.

"Kaina Tsutsumi. That's all I know." He replied while taking off his shoes.

"A girl huh?" Hiyori said.

"You're talking like I haven't spoken a word to the girls in my class." Ryō said with a sigh and went towards his room, and he was closely followed by his mother who ruffled his orange hair and said "That I true. Anyway, go to the dojo, dad is waiting for you."

"I'll be there in a minute." Ryō said that as Hiyori walked past his room and went towards the kitchen.

Closing the door of his room, he changed his uniform and donned the Keikogi.

Even though he had decided not to be a hero, he didn't stop practicing martial arts as it gave him a peace of mind and total control over his body that allows him to exert the required strength and speed as he desires.

'I do have enhanced strength and it has only increased after growing up like the doctor said. I had the power of an adult man when I was four. Now, seven years have passed and I'm eleven years old, and my strength has increased exponentially. I can even lift a car single handedly. So my question to you is, should I be a hero and risk getting my parents hurt, or should I be a vigilante who won't be caught in the act.' Ryō thought all of that while looking in the mirror.

Sighing, he looked to his left and a clone appeared on his left side. The clone also looked at him and said "If we can change our face or body structure, basically shape shift into something else, we can do vigilantism. Before they get us all we have to do is dissipate ourselves, they will think that we have some kind of teleportation quirk that will throw them off our tail."

Ryō looked at his clone and said "We will look into it when we are adults. Right now, we have lessons from dad."

"Is it Judo and Jujitsu again?" The clone asked.

"Nope, dad said that we have mastered those martial arts, so now that grappling is out of the way he will be teaching us Taekwondo for kicking." Ryō said as both of them went out of their room and walked towards the dojo.

Getting inside, he saw that the dojo was empty with his father sitting at the dojo master seating area.

With a smile both Ryō and his clone made a beeline towards Yato.

Yato, who had been meditating, opened his eyes, as he heard the footsteps. When he saw that it's his son, he got up from his sitting position and said "Well. As I have said before, you have mastered grappling. Next phase is kicking, for that we will be learning Taekwondo and kickboxing."

Both Ryō and clone nodded as they know that it will always be in pairs so that they could learn as fast as possible. But before they began, Ryō asked his father "Dad, if I can make more clones will you teach us more?"

Yato eyed his son, and thought 'The doctor said that Ryō can only make one clone of himself. So does that mean that doctor was wrong about my son's quirk?'

"Yes, I will teach you if there are more of you. But there aren't any more of you, are there?" Yato spoke to Ryō.

Ryō shrugged his shoulders and started to split into two more DittoRyō.

"" We can be four now dad! "" All four Ryō said in unison.

Yato was pleasantly surprised and thought to himself 'So my son can clone himself multiple times as he ages. Does that mean he will be able to make a lot of clones of himself in the near future.'

Ryō on the other hand also thought 'I got these two when I was five years old, and after every birthday I was able to create more clones. The number of clones was increasing by the power of two, so now I can make two hundred and fifty five clones of myself. But if I say that to mom and dad, they will freak out, so let's keep it this way.'

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The next day, Ryō was on his way towards his school thinking about what he should do when the classes are over.

As he was thinking that, he did notice that a person was sneaking upon him thanks to his enhanced senses.

So he turned towards the person who was about to jumpscare him and asked "How are you today Kaina?"

"Awwww Damn. I wanted to see your scared face." Kaina said with a disappointed face.

Ryō chuckled at her antics and said "Well, I won't get scared anyway, so don't try it."

"It's alright, I'll do something else then." Kaina said.

Then they walked side by side to their school. Before reaching the school gate, Ryō aske Kaina "Hey, I've been meaning to ask."

"What is it?" Kaina asked by tilting her head.

"Why did you transfer to our school when it's nearing the end of the school year?" Ryō asked.

"Well! I want to become a hero! And for that I need to join the U.A." Kaina replied with a smile on her face.

"You could have joined the U.A. wherever you are in Japan right? Anyway, let's get along well." Ryō said.

"Yes! Let's be friends Ryō." Kaina said to Ryō with a big smile.

And that smile was contagious as Ryō also smiled and said "Sure, let's be friends."