Ninja's hero

Time was up.

Everyone was pulled back outside the barrier, Izuku fell to one knee, blood spurting from his mouth as the chakra cloak vanished. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve as Naruto put a hand on his shoulder. "This isn't good,"

"You think?"

"Tobirama, with all due respect," Naruto began

"That is to say, none," Katsuki supplemented,

"Shut up," The blue eyed blond finished eyeing the albino Hokage. "My brother has been forcing his body to survive a power he still can't fully access, so I really would appreciate it if you didn't open your mouth unless it was information we can use or something constructive,"

"I'm fine Naruto," The greenette stood up,

"You are not," Sakura stepped in, putting her hands on his back, "Just by looking at you I can tell your body is tearing itself apart trying to support what you're unleashing,"

"My body has served me this long, it will do as I want it to," Naruto smacked him around the head,

"Sakura, keep him out here, the rest of us are going back in," The pinketted nodded, Izuku shook his head,

"I can still," Sasuke struck the back of his knees, forcing the teen to the ground.

"You are staying here until Sakura lets you back in," The ravenette insisted, leaving Izuku no room to argue. "Katsuki, can you do?"

"I don't have the control yet, it's leave me an animalistic mess, I'd be more hinderance than assistance," The Primal user shrugged "We really need to get this figured out before they get to Jinchuuriki phase or this fucker levels up again,"

"You mean it has a third form?!" Kakashi stepped backwards.

"It has four," Izuku grunted as Sakura kept her hands on his back, "After the third form it will become the World Tree, at the very top will be a bud, most likely containing the Rinne-Sharingan the eye of the beast, ready to reflect it on the moon tonight at midnight," Putting his hands in his lap he bowed his head, "Ino, on me, if I can't fight I'll strategise," The clone disappeared in a cloud of chakra smoke while the blonde moved over to the greenette. "There is not much written about this abomination, I found recordings split between the catacombs of every hidden village, just tiny pieces left behind, as far as I can tell it is stronger, faster and larger than any other Beast, it will take nothing more than a stroke of luck to defeat it as a creature," Everyone looked back at the titan.

"And what if it were to reach tree form?" Minato asked

"We could use Sage Arts to sever the trunk and effectively destroy their plan, the issue is the Uchiha duo, they will not allow us near the tree after it has taken root,"

"Of course, Sage Arts, because we," Sasuke began,

"If Katsuki and I diffuse some of our primal chakra into you all it should give you all a pseudo-Sage mode, allowing you to put Natural energy into your jutsus," A heavy sigh, "It is of course, not perfect, but our Primal chakra is far more sychnronized with nature energy than others and since Naruto, Minato and Lord First are the only ones capable of Sage Mode at the moment, it will have to be enough,"

"That's some bullshit!" Tobirama growled, "Boy, how do you know,"

"Tobirama, we can copy kekki genkai abilities, including Wood Style, that's given us a greater connection to Nature Energy," Katsuki interrupted, "Wait, Sakura, you can do Wood Style!" Everyone paused, Sakura just stared wide-eyed over Izuku's head, "You've got dual water earth affinity, you've trained with us," How did all of them miss that?! Naruto grinned widely. "Sakura, you have a Sage Mode!" Sasuke grumbled before his eyes widened and he looked at the group,

"I'll right back!" He was gone in a flash of black.

"Alright, we're a Sannin and a Sharingan down," The blond sighed, "We'll make it work for now,"

"Of course, please regale us with how,"

"Need we remind you Second," Izuku growled "That Obito Uchiha only ended up the way he did because you slighted the Uchiha and Third did not deal with the situation you left him, causing the whole clan to become disillusioned because he hoped the problem would solve itself if he ignored it long enough," The two Hokage looked at each other, "I am not working with a fearful and an arrogant Kage, you will either listen to us or I will kill you myself, understood?" Naruto smirked as Tobirama went to open his mouth, "Understood?" He lowered his hand and nodded "Good, now, please, go assist Hashirama, I have a bad feeling about the battle being a form of distraction, assist him in finishing it quickly," The Ten Tails roared, everyone looked to it as the Second Hokage disappeared, "Now dad please put a formula marking on everyone, you're going to be our transport and escape, when I give the signal pull everyone out, keep a look out and if anyone pulls you, go, they will be needing your assistance,"

"You got it," Naruto watched his dad slowly move around, putting a hand on each person's shoulder.

"Jinchuuriki, all of you bar Naruto are to keep allowing your Beast to rest, Naruto stick with your chakra but you'll need to work with Kakashi and Katsuki, substitute seven style, Kakashi, I know they told you about it," A nod, "Now get moving, you get seriously hurt, get dad to bring you back, Sakura, make a Shadow Clone, Naruto the same," The two copies puffed into existence, "Mount Myoboku, now, get her to learn Sage Mode fast as you can, if needed make more Shadow Clones, her perfect chakra control should really bypass everything except the actual meditation stage," The two were suddenly gone in a large cloud of smoke. "Alright, this is going to be rough everyone, until Sasuke gets back we're down a man, act as if we aren't getting him back, I'll pull you all back when he returns," Everyone nodded, "Good, mobilize," Naruto moved in a yellow flash, either side of him was Kakashi and Katsuki, both in their ANBU gear, showing signs of tearing, the three drew their weapons and readied to meet the monsters before them

Sasuke had returned minutes later and took Kakashi's place in the formation, they changed style to the Blood Eyes style. Naruto launched his two tailed red cloak, since Kurama was still collecting chakra it was the best option for power to cost. The cloak gave him sharp claws and fangs, it also changed his eyes from blue to red, hence the style name. His aggressive fighting caused the Ten Tail's clones to target him as Sasuke sliced through them with his Chidori evolutions and Lightning release while Katsuki used Earth release to force the lightning along paths creating a devastating combo. Naruto swiped through clones as electricity danced through the mindless drones around him. Letting out a powerful roar he caused many of them around him to stagger. Throwing his hands forward the chakra hand opened as the fingers extended even further, impaling many of the clones and causing them to melt to the floor. Katsuki and Sasuke jumped to his side, they became insulated in a purple ribcage. "Do it," Sasuke nodded, Katsuki smirked and put his hands to the ground. 

"Explosion Release!" The ground around them suddenly began violently erupting, Katsuki stood up and slammed his foot on the ground, smaller explosions lingering around his hands, "I AIN'T SCARED OF NOTHING NO MORE!" They watched as he cackled and leapt away from the Susano'o guard, striking many clones and causing explosions from each contact. "DIIIEE!" Everyone felt Izuku sweatdrop from his position outside the arena. "Primal style, tandem explosives!" They watched him slam his palm onto a clone, causing it to stagger and flail, the body quickly bulged before it exploded. The clones it had struck flailing quickly began mimicking the first before they exploded too. Katsuki landed back in the ribcage and coughed into his hands. "Sorry about that, I might've got carried away," Explosions continued around them, "The move forces explosive chakra into the target, anything it touches recieves part of it too, the more forced into the first carries it on longer,"

"And how much did you force into the first one?"

"Enough for about five minutes," Both boys stared, "What? It's like one wave takes ten seconds, so I put enough for thirty waves,"

'Alright guys' Izuku mentally sighed 'When the explosions stop I want Sasuke to drop the ribcage, the three of you are going to make a Dust release combo, Sasuke use fire, Naruto Wind, Katsuki Earth, try and make the cube as large as possible before sending it forwards, Katsuki knows how to do it, Minato will move everyone out of the way so just make it and fire alright?' The ribcage grew a skeletal arm and held up a thumb, Izuku's presence left their mind.

"Alright, give me full Wind and Fire release guys," Both boys nodded and held out their hands, allowing the chakra to mix in between their palms. "Put them together," A whirling mass of chakra began trying to take shape. "Awesome, keep it contained," Katsuki put his hands to it and the mass quickly became a spinning cube. It had bone white borders and a blinding white orb in the center, "Naruto more wind will make it faster, Sasuke if you can add Amaterasu or Kagatsuchi?"

"I can try," The ravenette muttered, eyes widening as he enacted his ocular jutsu. The cube rotated faster and gained black edgings.

"Alright and some more Earth to make it bigger," The cube floated forwards from their hands, growing larger and larger. "Drop the Susano'o and put everything into it on three, ready?" Two grunts of agreement, "One, two, three!" The purple bones faded and all three boys yelled together.

"Co-operation jutsu, Brothers Dust Release!" The cube expanded to massive proportions, quickly touching the ground and blaring forwards. Clones caught in it entirely were atomized, those that were partially caught lost whatever had been in the cube as black flames burned around the edgings of the wound. The jutsu completely flattened the ground it bore through, black flames licking the edges of the carving. It continued going for several metres, decimating whatever it touched and obliteraing the monsterous army they faced. Katsuki cheered and held up his arms. "We did it!" Sasuke and Naruto panted slightly and grinned to each other, softly bumping fists.

"Hell yeah we did, that's what we fucking do," Sasuke pulled out his sword, letting lightning crackled up and down it. "Katsuki, protective dome please, I'm going to unleash a jutsu Izuku helped me develop," The ravenette held up an arm as the clouds formed from the fighting collected overhead, "Kirin," Lighting screamed as it took the form of a fucking dragon, and roared, charging for the ground. A shelter of rock quickly closed them off from the world. Several screeching roars were heard as the jutsu took effect. "That gives us time to recover from the Dust release anyway," He sat down, "Holy shit that was powerful,"

"I know, and Izuku can do that shit on his own," Katsuki wiped some sweat from his brow, "How come that didn't take much chakra?"

"I guided the natural lightning, all the fighting and fire and water jutsus have made a ton of clouds, so I cleared the sky with a quick thunder storm, super light chakra costs that way," Naruto rested his hands on his knees,

"Well it's awesome," He smirked, "Man, who would've thought fighting in a war would've been so hard?"

"Least these guys don't bleed, god could you imagine the washing load?" Katsuki joked lightly. "Alright, we ready to go?" In response Sasuke stood up as Naruto straightened his back, the dome began rising as they yelled out their battle cry, joining the fray again.

Izuku pulled them all back again, still kneeling between Sakura and Ino. "Sakura, thank you for trying," The pinkette seemed to be tearing up. "Ino, I'm making another Shadow Clone," The true greenette stood up, "I'm not healing,"

"Uh, yes you,"

"No, Naruto," He cut in, "I'm not healing," Oh,

Oh

That wasn't good news, in fact that was very, very bad news. "Katsuki no matter what you are never to try and reach this stage, got it?"

"I got it,"

"Good, the Ten Tails is going to transform shortly, we must finish this now!"

"What else can we do?"

"There isn't much we can on the Ten Tails at the minute, so we need to focus on Obito and Madara," Izuku began mumbling, "Alright, Madara will want to come back to life, that means using the Rinne Rebirth jutsu, but if he does that Obito will die, that want to find away around it, if they used..." The greenette paused "Obito will become the Ten Tails Jinchuuriki, he'll use the Ten Tails chakra as a sacrifice to use the jutsu, doing so would not only bring Madara to life but also turn him into the Jinchuuriki without killing Obito,"

"So our solution is to kill the guy that phases through all of our attacks?" Sasuke grumbled, "Yeah, real great plan,"

"Did you say phase through your attacks?" Minato stiffened, "Wait, Obito was at the attack back then?"

"Yeah, we don't know what role he played but,"

"He distracted me from the fight, he let Kurama loose and fought me to stop me from helping," Their dad paused "Or at least I think it was him, none of my attacks landed so I used Flyring Raijin level two, the figure seemed intangible,"

"No, no it, it can't be that simple can it," Izuku rubbed his chin, "Did you manage to mark him?"

"Of course,"

"Then you can Raijin to him before he can react," The greenette nodded, "It's the only plan we have, quickly before he absorbs the Ten Tails," Minato nodded and disappeared. Naruto yelped as Izuku grabbed him, Sasuke and Sakura, warping to their dad seconds behind him. They saw crimson arcing the air, a kunai in his hand that had sliced up Obito's chest, a killing blow. Delivered before Obito could process it was coming. The body slumped to the floor as Minato moved aside. 

"I am sorry it had to end this way Obito," They saw the mouth move into a smirk,

"Who said, it was, over?" Izuku whirled around and threw a kunai with seemingly all of his power as it became a small flash and disappeared. The Ten Tails screamed and began moving, getting drawn into Obito's chest. The tails immediately began retracting as it slowly shrunk down. Naruto grit as the five of them were forced to jump away, only for the wind to begin pulling them in.

"Everyone, make a chain!" Izuku grabbed hold of Sasuke, who reached over and held Naruto, who grabbed Sakura, who then stretched to grip Minato's haori. The five were back with the group outside the barrier. "Phew, I was expecting an explosion," He wiped the sweat from his forehead, no-one else shared his sentiment however. At least Naruto didn't. They saw a white orb floating silently for a mere moment before it cracked. A completely different figure stared at them as it emerged. The Jinchuuriki had white skin and even whiter hair, along the top of his back was five spikes, the tips alight with red flames. His right arm and part of his torso were covered in scale link pieces, his black baggy pants had appeared to survive the transformation but were still damaged from the five spikes protruding from his lower back. The five red flames extened into hands, grabbing hold of the crimson walls that had made the arena. They all watched as he pulled the walls inwards and quickly forced the jutsu to buckle. He was before the group in moments, everyone getting on the offensive to fight him. "No attacking, we need to play defense for now," Izuku clarified, "We have no idea what he's capable of anymore," Several different ninja made Shadow Clones to fight him, all of which were cut down in a moment, "Split!" The groups suddenly all disappeared into different areas. Naruto was holding Ino and Sakura while Sasuke, Itachi and Kakashi grabbed either him, or one of the girls. They watched the reanimated Hokage and Grampa Third face him. Tobirama was cut in half in moments.

"Saru, Hashi, get clear!" Paper was taken from his own reanimated body and thrown into the air. "Tandem explosive tags!" The explosions began going off continuously "That's hwo you do it brat! Concentrated and focused!" They watched as Grampa Third landed away from the Jinchuuriki, bringing a seal up to his mouth. In his free arm a massive shuriken appeared." The smoke from the explosions cleared away, showing Obito unharmed. Gramp Third threw the giant shuriken.

"Shuriken Shadow Clones!" More gigantic shuriken whirled along the first. Two orbs hovering above the back of Obito's hands moved through his palms, Kami was that gonna give Naruto a few bad dreams, and made a spear and shield each. The Jinchuuriki raced towards the Shuriken, breaking them apart on contact as the spear extended towards Grampa Third, who barely avoided it, getting a nasty slice on his ribs. As the distance shrank, the black shield disappeared back to the orb and they watched as he grabbed his face, still flying backwards. Barely even a flash before the black orb moved through his hand again and would've destroyed Grampa Third's entire body. Instead, right below the black bar, was a crouching Izuku.

"You suck," There was such contempt and sincerity in the two words that the Jinchuuriki paused, allowing the greenette to deliver a powerful uppercut. "Like genuinely," Naruto appeared to help with the combo, it appeared Taijutsu was still heavily effective against the man turned god. Their dad appeared with Guy and Lee, who were quick to succeed them, "You are so full of shit," The body was knocked back quite a distance before crashing down on the floor. Suddenly the body began bulging out at the gut grossly. Was the goal of this encounter to make Naruto sick? Because it was working obscenely well. More of the body began bulging as screams of pain quickly turned into garble. "The Ten Tails hasn't completely synchronized with him just yet," Izuku bent low, "Dad and I will make an opening, we need to take him down," As the duo moved forward the ground below began cracking.

"Below us!" They were all launched away as the Jinchuuriki's top half exploded from the floor. "He's burrowing under ground, it's just his bottom half that's here!" Naruto wished he could fall quicker as Obito's body snaked towards him, stretching out grossly. As the hand made to grab him, a purple Susano'o hand intercepted, letting him hit the ground.

"Shit!" He looked up to see Izuku and Minato getting kicked away as well. The group reunited at Obito's head, he made pained noises as his bulging nightmarish arm stretched out to them. The group ready to teleport until the arm appeared to move by itself and the shot that was fired missed. The explosion happened far behind them, causing a blinding light, white noise and a powerful gust. "There's no control over it, his consciousness is barely clinging to the power of the Ten Tails!"

"We need to finish this in one go," Minato threw a dozen kunai around the area as Obito continued his tortured screams. "I'll give you an opening," Several of the kunai exploded with the tags attached to them. Naruto put his hand on his dad's shoulder before he could run forward.

"Something isn't right," They waited for the smoke to clear. As it did it revealed an upright and normally proportioned Obito. The scales were less prominent on his right side, the spikes on his lower back had enlarged to form the tails of a haori, while the ones on his top half had shifted, positined around his neck and shoulders to form the collar of a haori. Along his upper ribs, just below his collar was a line of six magatama. On his forehead were two horns, the right larger than the left. In one of his hands was a black shakujo, reminiscent of the weapon of the Sage of Six Paths, behind his back sat a ring of the black orbs that were previously behind his hand. His eyes glared menacingly as the two parties stared at each other. Izuku moved first, charging at blinding speed to try and strike the man. The staff was lifted and blocked the attack with ease, it was quickly swung around and sent him crashing to the side. Naruto growled as he stepped forwards, Kurama over loaded him with chakra, his golden cloak returning. Izuku appeared on one knee between him and Sasuke. 

"Alright, well, fuck it," The Jinchuuriki were on the line with them. The greenette stood up slowly, "Naruto, I want you to know, no matter what happens next, I am proud to call myself your brother," Green chakra burned around him, they could see him tense from the strain. The eleven bodies faced Obito. "Now, let's break this motherfucker,"

He faced Obito in a vast expanse. It looked as if they were stood amongst galaxies, quietly facing each other. In the real world, the nine Jinchuuriki were stood in Sasuke's Susano'o, playing a tug of war with the chakra that had spilled from Obito after the purple blade imbued with Beast chakra had pierced not only his shield but the copy of the Sword of Nunoboko as well. The wound in his side had caused bright green chakra beast faces to emerge and the tug of war began. Izuku had,

"I thought you said you'd never let your loved ones die," Naruto began snarling. The greenette was currently under the care of Sakura and Tsunade, the later Katsuki had ran to fetch as soon as Izuku had collapsed,

"You once said the same thing," He looked into the mismatched eyes, frowning. "You preach of saving this world from darkness, yet you yourself are the cause for it, you lost Rin, so did Kakashi, I never knew my parents either, then again I guess I have you to thank for that," Obito made no visible reaction. "Kakashi once told me that you wanted to be Hokage, you wanted to be acknowledged by the village, just like I did,"

"What I am doing surpasses the duty of a Ho-," Obtio waved a hand,

"'There are no shortcuts to becoming Hokage' Grampa Third taught me that one a very long time ago, just after I almost lost him actually, if it hadn't been for Izuku," Naruto didn't blink as he began looking eye-to-eye with Obito, "In fact, if it weren't for him, my other Jinchuuriki would be dead, Itachi and Shisui would be dead, Orochimaru would never have gotten free from Danzo, Jiraiya would be dead, my mother and father would both still be dead, Sasuke would've been consumed with hatred about now, my family would still be just me," The Ten Tails Jinchuuriki blinked at him, "If it weren't for Izuku I wouldn't be half the man I am today," He pointed a finger at the now unsure man, "My brother told me once 'you can never take a shortcut to success, your goal is a path you set yourself on and if you decide to take a shortcut then you were never strong enough to start the path,"

"I am -,"

"You are Obito Uchiha, the boy who wanted to become Hokage, you are not Tobi or Madara that is hellbent on controlling the world, you never were, you were a boy hypnotised by the words of a madman," Obito now looked upset, "You were losing control earlier, what happened there huh? How did you gain back your control?"

"I,"

"You reminded yourself of who you are didn't you? That you aren't some lone hero of this story, despite Madara telling you otherwise,"

I have,"

"Look at how we got here Obito, look at the people you killed, that were killed because of your influence, the people in Kirigakure, the Uchiha clan, the people that the Akatsuki killed, the ROOT members you sent on suicide missions, Nagato, Konan and Yahiko, anyone of them could've be Rin to somebody,"

"I am creating a world where those people will still be,"

"They would still be alive if you hadn't fallen to hatred!" Naruto yelled over him, "You claim to be ending this cycle of hatred, you claim that this will ultimately bring about peace, but you are just another cog in the machine! The peace you create will be an illusion, your shortcut is full of the corpses of your friends and you step over them without a thought! Is that really something Obito Uchiha will do to achieve his goal? Is it?" The man stepped backwards "To be a Hokage is to walk a hard arduous path, but it is to make sure there is a path for the others to tread carefully! Yet here you are, claiming your shortcut is the true pathway, but all I can see is a path littered with corpses you not only stepped over, but corpses you put there," He took a deep breath, "Rin, she was someone you cared about wasn't she? Kakashi told me how you were always trying to impress her and be close to her, he told me how caring and selfless she was, how determined and unyeilding she could be, tell me, would she be proud of what you are now? Is this what she would've wanted you to do?"

"You don't,"

"I know plenty!" His argument surprised Obito, "I know of loss, of pain, because I have had to leave people I grew close to, I have had to be ready to get news someone I care about has died, my brother, my best friend, has just died trying to protect me and the ones he loved! I know that if I were to allow myself to fall into the rage and kill you, Izuku would never forgive me, even though I want to, I won't because Izuku wouldn't want,"

"But he is dead!" Obito argued "And I-,"

"Not yet!" Naruto jabbed a thumb over his heart, "Not until I forget who he was to me, to this world and its people, until Uzumaki Izuku's name is uttered no more, he is not dead yet! So look at yourself Obito Uchiha, look at all you have wrought and tell me beyond clarity and assurance, beyond any and every doubt you could ever have, tell me what you are doing is right!" Silence, he stared with anger towards the pale man, who looked down at his hands,

"I, I," Fearful eyes looked at Naruto, "I know now, what I must do," The galaxy background faded as they returned to the real world. The green heads of the Tailed Beasts broke free from the green trails which retracted back to Obito's body. His wound now gone, he lowered to the floor. He held no weapons, no sign of attack as he calmly walked along the ground. Tsunade and Sakura looked at him while their hands glowed green on Izuku's body. Naruto charged over and started the wall protecting their green haired ally. "Please, there is not much time,"

"Time for what? For you to finish the job now?" Minato growled,

"No sensei, I, there's not much I can do to persuade you but Naruto has shown me, I have wandered very far off of my path, it is time for me to get back on it," He bowed his head, "Before Madara notices, I wish to use my power to heal Izuku, to give him back what he gave up fighting me," Gently a path was opened up, Tsunade and Sakura hovered around the body. Obito knelt by his barely moving chest, the eyes looked him up and down before there was a remorseful smile. "Come Izuku, it is not time for you to be a cadaver yet," His hands weaved together, "Rinne Rebirth Jutsu!" As the white left the man's body a trunk burst from the ground and attached to his chest.

"I'll be taking that!" Madara's deep voice laughed from his battle with Tobirama and Hashirama. Obito's form visibly reverbed from the jutsu, his body quickly fading to its original form, his hair however remained pure white, albeit with a few bits of dust now in place. He fell beside Izuku his visage now tired, Naruto felt himself pale in horror as he spoke the same words Izuku had.

"I'll be up in a minute," No-one dared speak as the laughter of a maniac penatrated the still air. Gazing at the bodies Naruto fell to his knees while Katsuki uttered the words everyone was thinking.

"Did, did we just lose?"

Closing her door behind her, Nozomi heard the automatic locks click into place. Paranoia was unfortunately part of her life now she was principal of UA, even worse she was used to it from, no, not thinking of those days, they are far and long gone behind her. The final lock clicked and she walked into the small room. An agrophobic at heart she had a relatively small apartment, a single room acted as both dining and living area, a small corner of the room seperated by a counter to the main room acted as the kitchen. The front door had two walls that kept next door out and her kitchen a closed area. Off of the main room was her bedroom, which was slightly smaller due to the en suite that sat next to it. Letting out a small sigh it was much too late to turn on any mainlights and relax, she would need to cook dinner,

click

"Nozomi," There was a figure sat in her armchair, on the small coffee table sat a prepared meal, it appeared to be, "Katsudon, with some salmon mixed in, no poison however, I am not here for anything unreasonable,"

"How did you get in?" She sat down and began sniffing the food, true to their word, she couldn't trace anything poisonous.

"With a trade secret," A subtle nod, "For now you may call me Kage, I am leaving soon, I have already erased any trace of me," She smirked, they could get rid of the, "Including people's memories, then will recall anything about me as an abstract dream not a single detail will make sense," That wasn't likely, even memory erasing quirks wore off. "It is not a quirk, nor a technique as you know them," 

"Another trade secret?"

"You learn fast chimera," Another nod, she was still greatly uneasy, "But it appears you also forget quickly too,"

"I have never,"

"You have forgotten your roots, you allow your trauma to rule you," The figure stood up, it was distinctly male and very tall, Nozomi looked up to their shadow covered face, "Perhaps a quick trip down memory lane would work," She froze, her body stiff, but her mind far, far gone. Gone back to those days, years ago. The whitewashed room, the medical tools, the pain. Oh dear god, the pain. But as soon as it was there it had vanished, she was sat back at her coffee table, Kage sitting opposite her, "Tell me, why did you try and turn Shoto Todoroki away?"

"Are you,"

"I do not work with Endeavor, but I keep tabs on the boys of heroes, even if they aren't supposed to be known, like Tenya of the Iida clan, his mothers don't talk about him much, if ever, an associate of mine tries but they refuse his existence at every turn," Nozomi paused, that, that couldn't be, "But as you can tell, I'm very good at getting into places people don't want me getting into," A slip of paper was slid over to her, sure enough it was a birth certificate for Tenya Iida born the twin brother to Tenshi Iida, "they have to sign these document in order for the government to keep track of him, see the public doesn't know but the higher ups? Nothing exists without them knowing, except of course," The shadows retracted from his face, showing a young man smiling smugly at her, "Me," Kage's face quickly dropped, "Now, as I said, why did you turn away Shoto Todoroki?"

"Because he is a male, if UA were to support him, I would,"

"You would what?"

"Being principal is a very precarious position," The crimson eyes narrowed at her,

"The last person that said that to me failed to prevent a genocide under their very nose by a lunatic they refused to stop over sentimentality," His voice was a low growl, "The world is quite a mess right now, I am going to start to clean it up, since no-one else is human enough to, I don't expect you to help, but I expect you to stay out of my way,"

"You think you intimidate me?" A shallow laugh before Nozomi felt overwhelming pressure, the floor cracked below the table as she resisted the urge to be sick.

"I know it," Kage growled as the pressure vanished, "Perhaps a little taste of everything I have gone through will assist," She looked at the eyes again and suddenly she was in the dark, two figures appeared over her and the cowering individual next to her. Small explosions began branding her skin around her stomach as small items were launched at her, breaking skin, bones and muscle before it was gone and they were locked away again without a word. Then she had several wounds over her body facing a new figure, one that had bandages over one arm and one eye. She protected her eyes as the figure lunged for them. A horde was chasing her and yet another unrecognizable humanoid down streets and alleys. It all hurt and Nozomi wanted it to just stop. "Has that been enlightening?" His gutteral noise brought her from the machinations of whatever he had done to her.

"Cheap drugs will,"

"Make no mistake Nozomi, those visions were not drugs, they were memories that have constructed me into who I am," A kunai was pointed at her "Prey I do not fall into the hatred your treatment of Shoto and other males seeking help has instilled in me,"

"And why is that?"

"Because if I do, I will set this world on fire and use it to light my fucking cigarette as I sit back and watch you all burn to Hell," She blinked and he was gone, a few leaves gently falling into a pile on the chair he had been sat in. Nozomi looked at her Katsudon, suddenly losing her appetite as she hurried into her room and started her personal computer.

She had some mistakes to rectify.

"Why?" She was getting too old for this shit, they discussed this before he'd left.

"I unstand you're upset Yumiko-sempai," Izuku tried to mediate, "But I,"

"Izuku you can't just send peopel to me, they'll discover the portal if things get too odd,"

"It's just three girls, three vastly different and unrelated girls, no-one's going to think anything except they all want to be heroes, come on, please?"

"You've already bloody sent them here, what else am I meant to do?!"

"Thank you Sempai!" His eyes shone,

"I hate you,"

"No you don't," He cackled, she frowned at him. He was right, obviously, but she didn't have to affirm it. "Thank you though," His demeanour suddenly changed, "For doing this, I'd do it myself but, well,"

"The war, I know, Mifune-sensei told me about how you nearly tored down the walls with your yelling, how your brother put the Raikage flat on his ass,"

"Yeah, that," Izuku rubbed the back of his head, "It's, it's not going well, we managed to revive mom but, well, dad's chakra signature was far to weak to use and we could've really used him in the fight, it doesn't matter though, I'll figure out a way around it,"

"How long do I have until the first one arrives?"

"Well, I told the first at Christmas, and the second on New Years, I still have yet to give the third her weapon, so she will be late, perhaps the end of this month?"

"This mo-, are you kidding my kohai?!" She exclaimed to him, "Honestly, you, oh my Kami," She rubbed her temples, "Alright, fine, no, it's cool, I'll train you damn lady-friends, maybe if one impresses me I'll sign her up for the recommendation exam," He chuckled softly, "Maybe, I should go now Yumiko-sempai, they other will notice I am gone if I stay longer, thank you for the help,"

"it is fine Kohai, you just take care now alright?"

"You got it sempai," His mask was pulled on as he left through the open window, the sun was soflty climbing up the sky. She looked out at the city for several minutes before leaving her office.

"Miss Yumiko, there's a visitor for you," An assistant bowed to her, "She wishes to speak with you immediately," Nodding the woman carefully walked to the entrance, where a nervous ginger was waiting, a small bag in her hands.

"Ah, Yumiko-san!"

"Just Yumiko to you child, I am too old for formalities, what is it you come calling for?"

"Oh, that's, um, may I speak with you, privately?" Leading her into a small room from the entrance, she locked the door behind them and turned back to the teen. "Um, my, my name is Itsuka Kendo, I'm, well Midorikage sent me, he told me to say that he's selected me as one of the few?" Yumiko sighed heavily,

"Alright, we'll begin with a diet plan, then we'll move onto actual training, I take it you are fighting unarmed?" A swift nod before one of Itsuka's hands reached into the bag,

"Uh, he, he gave me this," She pulled out a, sweet Kami, did he give her an ANBU mask? "Told me it would protect me from most attacks?"

"Yes, it will," A slow nod, "It's a replica of his, except this one isn't decorated, so anything you saw him take, it will take," A stern look, "Now I expect you to give this a hundred and ten percent, alright?" The young girl nodded quickly, "Good, come back when you can and we shall organize a training schedule," Itsuka beamed and bowed, giving many thanks before a quick goodbye and running out of the door. Yumiko looekd at the door as it shut.

'Fucking damn it Izuku, what did you get me into?'