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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quirky Villain

-Chapter 7-

"Man, that really took a one-eighty at the end there, huh?" Toru mumbled sheepishly as she, Mina, Momo, Tsuyu, and Mei huddled together in one corner of the room.

"It was one hell of a mood killer for sure." Mina said while the rest of the girls sans Mei muttered in agreement, said pinkette instead opting to nod as she put the finishing touches on her grenade-like project.

"That's an understatement, ribbit." Fiddling around with a piece of paper as she spoke, Tsuyu briefly glanced over at the other occupants in the room.

It had been about ten minutes since the Viewer had gone into buffering mode again and the once tense air had eased up a bit albeit not entirely, shown by the mild unease on Midnight's face as she tried to distract herself by petting Izuku's head. As for the broccoli-haired teen, he had seemingly managed to finally calm down a bit in the adult-themed heroine's grasp, his once full body blush had reduced to just his cheeks and he'd finally stopped stuttering out gibberish.

"I'm just saying, if you didn't spend so much time flaunting for the camera then that guy wouldn't have managed to slip away so many times."

"Oh I'm the one flaunting? Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black miss camel toe."

"Camel toe?!"

"Don't act all surprised, you can't honestly tell me you didn't notice with that one piece swimsuit you call a costume."

"It's called freedom of movement! But you would know anything about that would you miss only move in straight lines."

"Hey! Do you know how hard it is to move around in a crowded city when your six stories tall?!"

Meanwhile, Mirko and Mt Lady were discussing some old villain fights and costume design, passing ideas (read: bickering like potty mouthed brats) back and forth on what they could have done better.

"It is quite odd as well, to specifically write in their wills that Naruto would lose the orphanage if he was adopted, I can't help but wonder why his parents did that," Momo said as she rubbed her chin in thought. "Perhaps it was to encourage his adoption since many potential foster families would no doubt be uneasy at the thought of having an orphanage under their technical care, correct?"

"Nah, I'd say its more likely the other way around and they were trying to avoid someone taking him in just so they could abuse his ownership of the place for their own gain." Mei chipped in suddenly, setting the now finished grenade-like device aside as she turned to the surprised group.

"Why would you say that Mei?" Toru asked, the side of her shirt crumpling up to show that her head was tilted in confusion.

Scoffing as she fished around in her pockets for something else to tinker on, the busty pinkette made a waving motion with her free hand. "I know all about the economic game, gotta if I wanna market my babies for the world to use, and orphanages are one of the most popular places for scumbags to leech off the government for easy income and tax write offs."

"Too true Hatsume-san, too true indeed." A new voice stated, making the whole group of girls yelp in surprise before they finally noticed the three foot tall mouse… dog… bear… person thing standing right next to them with an innocent grin.

"""Principal Nezu?!""" Almost all of them exclaimed at once, with the sole exception being Mei, drawing the rest of the room's attention while the now named Nezu sipped at a cup of tea.

"Hello students, it is pleasant to see you all," The mouse man said casually, his calm attitude belied by the amused grin on his lips. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

"No sir." "Not at all." "Of course not Mr. Nezu." "A little bit, ribbit." "Who the heck are you?"

…

Everyone's gazes drifted towards Mei in disbelief as she stared at Nezu with a confused look, head tilted to the side and face scrunched up like she was really trying hard to remember who he was supposed to be.

"Ah yes, Higari-san mentioned you have some trouble remembering who people were," Ironically, the only one not affected was the principal himself as he nodded in understanding. "My name is Nezu, the principal of this academy and manages the funding for all your little… baby projects as it were."

"Oh, okay," The pinkette said with a nod of her own while sinking back into her seat as her interest disappeared, only to shoot back up excitedly when her brain fully registered what he said. "Oh! Are you here to some of my babies?! Which ones? I got so many!"

Faster than most could blink, Mei was standing right in front of Nezu with an armload of gadgets, all but dancing in place as she started excitedly showing them off for the… whatever the hell he is to see.

However, she had only gotten halfway through explaining how the first one worked, some strange wrist mounted web launcher she made after watching some old American hero movie, before the principal cut her off by loudly clearing his throat. "Another time perhaps Hatsume-san, I unfortunately do have other business that needs to be taken care of."

"Aaaah… fine, but I'm holding you on that later part." The tech genius mumbled with a pout while hobbling back to her seat as she put her inventions down on a nearby desk.

"Of course, I look forward to it."

"Okay seriously, where the hell was she keeping all of those?" Mina asked Toru quietly while gesturing to the massive pile of devices Mei had seemingly pulled out of thin air, getting the invisible girl to shrug with an unsure hum.

"I mainly came here to see what all the hub bub was about what was going on in here," Nezu stated, getting the pair's attention again. "And to inform you young ones that it's almost time for curfew."

"Wait, really?" Momo asked before everyone looked out the closest window, blinking in surprise when they saw just how dark it had gotten. "Oh my, I had no idea it had gotten so late already."

"The hours have certainly flown by," Midnight agreed while checking her phone, whistling lowly when she saw the current time. "I guess it's true, time does fly when you're having fun."

"Yeah, just been a real swell time, hasn't it?" Mirko asked sarcastically as she shifted around in her seat on the Viewer, her eyebrow twitching as the movement gave her a small shock.

"Ah yes, I heard of your little predicament, my sincerest apologies Rumi-san." The principal said with an apologetic bow which the rabbit woman waved off.

"Don't, as much as I hate to admit it, I got myself into this situation," She grumbled with crossed arms before giving Mei the stink eye. "But that aint gonna stop me from giving you a swift kick in the ass once I'm free of this thing."

"Hey! That's not fair!" Said inventor exclaimed indignantly, not likely how she was singled out once more.

"Yeah but it'll make me feel a lot better-*Thwap*-Mu fuq?!." The trapped heroine started to say while cracking her knuckles, only to be cut off with a muffled yelp when she was struck in the face with a gooey mess of webbing.

"As you can see, my Web Launcher mark 2 baby is perfect for dealing with stupid jerks who run their mouths." Mei said with a vengeful smirk as Mirko tried to pull the sticky bindings off, a vein bulging on the rabbit woman's forehead which only grew when she heard the rest of the room's occupants sans Izuku, Nezu, and Mei herself burst into laughter.

However, their laughter was swiftly cut short once the whitette got a good grip on the artificial silk and ripped it off with a cringe inducing tearing sound, revealing the seething expression on her rapidly reddening face. "I swear, when I get out of this thing you'll find out just how lucky a rabbit's foot is after I've shoved mine so far up your ass not even All Might will be able to get it back out."

"Ooooh no, I'm so scared." Mei said dully, waving her hands lazily in faux terror.

"You will b-*Thwap*-Moff fufer!"

"Anyway, I know it's not much but I'll have some of the faculty bring some stuff over to make it a bit more comfortable in here for you Rumi-san," Nezu continued casually as the rabbit woman furiously tore the new bindings off. "And just out of curiosity, is that supposed to be happening?"

As he spoke, the man bear dog thing pointed towards the hologram as it finished loading and changed to show a paused image of a grumpy Naruto and awkwardly smiling Nemuri in a car together.

"Oh sweet, it's ready to go." Mina said excitedly, bounding to her seat in no time with Toru right behind her. However, after a few moments the pair noticed the lack of reaction from anyone else and looked around in confusion. "Hey, what's the hold up guys?"

"The principal told it's almost curfew time not even five minutes ago, ribbit," Tsuyu stated in a bland tone while pointing to said principal. "I'm pretty sure that means its time to call it a night."

"Awwwww… but we were just getting to the good stuff," Toru whined cutely before turning towards Nezu with a pleading look (according to Tsuyu vision at least). "Can we watch just one more? Please mister Nezu?"

"Yeah, pleeeeease?" Mina added as she cupped her hands together with her best pouty puppy dog eyes look, even using her quirk to make it look like she was about to cry.

Yet despite their collective power of moe, which was enough to make even Mirko's will start crumbling a bit, Nezu seemed utterly unphased as he once more enjoyed a sip of his tea with a contemplative look.

"Hmmm, alright then, just one more," He stated after a long dramatic pause, getting the pair of girls to cheer happily as he settled into his own seat. "As long as you don't mind me joining in that is. I will admit I most curious."

"Of course sir," Midnight said while everyone else got into their own spots once more, before the adult themed heroine held out her snack bucket towards her boss. "Popcorn?"

"Ah, please and thank you." The bear-dog-mouse man gratefully accepted just as Mirko broke free of her most recent bindings and reluctantly hit the start button after giving Mei a murderous glare.

"Okay, I'm going to be honest... I totally didn't know you would be losing your inheritance... or know about any of the will."

"... I just lost the orphanage, not my inheritance... my real parents-" Naruto sat in a car with Nemuri, frowning deeply, he had been silent and it had been awkward for awhile. "-wanted the person who adopted me, to not have access to the other children... to protect them." Naruto stated with venom on his tongue. Not against his parents or the children, in a super powered world, this was the best thing for the other children.

"That's Naruto, villain name Kurama, his quirk is Toad but everyone thinks it's Poison for his villain persona, and he's a weird villain who doesn't actually attack or hurt anyone, ribbit. Instead he just steals stuff to get heroes to chase after him then knocks them out with his poison, steals a part of their costume, and returns the first thing he stole," Tsuyu explained to Nezu in her usual blunt fashion, getting the white haired animal man to nod in understanding before she continued. "He's mad right now because he was going to inherit his parent's orphanage before Midnight-sensei adopted him, which means it goes to the government instead."

"Ah, that would explain your little conversation earlier, thank you Asui-san."

"You're welcome, ribbit."

His parents had died in an accident that had been caused by a villain and hero fighting, neither of them were heroes in the way that people judged others these days.

"Wrong place at the wrong time, huh? That sucks." Mina stated with a frown.

"Indeed, it is always such a shame when innocent people have to suffer for another's actions," Nezu said sadly with his head bowed slightly in respect. "Though I will commend that boy. Most would have no doubt developed a deep grudge towards villains and/or heroes after such an incident, but so far it seems that he bares neither."

"He is surprisingly mature for a thrill-seeking wisecracking teenage prankster thief," Mt Lady stated with a nod, before giggling softly when a weird image popped in her head. "Great, now I'm imagining a cheesy Saturday cartoon."

"I'd watch it, ribbit." Tsuyu admitted shamelessly while the rest of the girl's and Izuku nodded in agreement.

They were just the heroes of children with no families, which was more important in Naruto's view. His parents had no doubt, through years of raising lost children, realized that they could die and leave him an orphan just like the others. So they wrote their wills with both him and the orphanage in mind.

"A sad thought to have but an important possibility that should be considered." Midnight muttered with a nod, her tone somber as she remembered old friends and associates, both hero and not, who'd passed away and how it had affected their families.

"Yeah." Mirko muttered in agreement as she bowed her head in respect, similar thoughts flowing through her own head.

"Protect?" Nemuri wasn't sure what to make of that.

"I'm telling you, scumbag money leeches." Mei stated while fiddling with the cartridges of her web shooter.

Naruto didn't tell her.

The orphanage was a great place for a dangerous villain to get their hands on easy to train minions with Quirks, ones who didn't have families, and thus could be trained into super loyal lackies. People would do what they could to get their hands on the children, and the best way to do that would have been to get to Naruto, but by adopting Naruto... one loses out on gaining the orphanage. He didn't know what other reasons his parents had for this in their will, but he knew they had to have other reasons.

"Oh, or that, that would be a good reason too." The dreadlocked pinkette added with a nod, not noticing the horrified looks that appeared on almost everyone else's faces.

"Oh my god! That's so horrible!"

"Grk!"

…Well, at least she didn't until a horrified Toru latched onto her side for a comfort hug so strong the inventor swore she could feel her spine start to crack. 'Note to self… remember to invent death hug proof spine guard… if I survive this.'

"That… that is the most disgusting thing I think I've ever heard." Momo muttered with a disgusted look, the thought of innocent children being duped and brainwashed to work for villainous individuals making her want to barf.

"Absolutely despicable… but unfortunately makes a lot of sense, ribbit." Tsuyu admitted reluctantly, hating just how understandable that kind of thing was.

It was an awkward silence.

"I'm going to do my best to be the kind of mother you need." Nemuri stated to him with a small smile, slowing to a stop as the law dictated. She glanced over at him, all of his worldly possessions were just barely enough to fit into 3 boxes... and he hadn't allowed her to watch him get them all together. Even now, he was being distant about even looking in her direction, and he was staring out of the window.

'Well that part probably isn't because he's angry with me, at least not entirely.' Midnight said with a weak optimistic smile. Given that over half of his belongings were no doubt the various trophies he'd collected from various heroes, it would be a pretty bad idea to let her of all people watch as he packed them all up.

He didn't even nod or show any sign he was paying attention to her, and she wiped the smile off of her face.

She knew he was angry with her, and rightfully so.

"Understatement of the year." Mt Lady couldn't help but say, earning a baleful look from the adult-rated heroine.

"... If you're this against it, you could have-"

"This is Japan, until an orphan is a legal adult, they aren't given an option about being included in the family of another without good and valid reason. Orphans can't decide who can and cannot adopt them... otherwise orphans would only ever get adopted by people who offer them nice stuff." Naruto bit back at her harshly. He wasn't a legal adult, and he had no reasons a government official would find as good and valid for refusing to be adopted. Him not wanting to be adopted wasn't good or valid in the eyes of the court, not when Midnight was a famous pro hero with decent morals, and was as hard working as she was.

No, he had no choice, which was why he didn't have the chance to fight this, and though he could have refused to Nemuri and asked her to pick somebody else, that too was off the table if the paperwork had already been completed.

"He is correct in all accounts, for all intents and purposes you've unintentionally trapped him within the adoption Nemuri-san," Nezu stated in agreement, making the purplette slump in her seat with a depressed cloud over her head, which only grew when he added. "Perhaps you should have considered doing some research before going through with adopting him, rather than jumping right without a second thought like a child in a sweet's shop."

"I don't get it though, that's not like me at all," She muttered as she massaged the side of her head. "There's no way I would have just signed like that before talking to him first, in case he really didn't want me to adopt him."

"It does seem a bot out of character for you." Nezu agreed, knowing that despite her flirtatious and seemingly reckless attitude the Hero Art History teacher was not one to make such a serious decision haphazardly.

"W-well, we know that there are some d-differences between y-you and her, so maybe this v-version of you d-didn't consider that l-like you would have M-Midnight-sensei." Izuku offered quietly and with only a slight stutter surprisingly… before freezing when Midnight wrapped her arms around him in a hug.

"Ah thanks Izuku-kun, you're just a big ol' sweetheart." The adult-only heroine said while nuzzling the top of his head with her chin, reducing the poor green-haired teen to a blushing stuttering mess once more.

He couldn't afford to have a meltdown either, or risk accidentally revealing his secret to them in a blind rage.

What he hated even more than being adopted, was the feeling of being trapped.

'The caretaker told me you would be fine with it... though a little stubborn.' Nemuri thought with a frown, the caretaker had really pushed for her to adopt Naruto.

"Hoi? What's this?" Midnight perked right back up in interest the moment this fact reached her ears. "

She herself had originally wanted Naruto to get there, to talk with him, but because he was taking so long to arrive, the caretaker had already started and helped her finish the paperwork.

"Ah-hah! See! I told you I wouldn't have done that normally!" The purplette exclaimed in victory, unconsciously hugging a now steaming-red Izuku tightly in victory.

"But then that begs the question, why was the Caretaker trick you into doing so?" Momo wondered aloud, getting the giddy heroine to stop. "I mean, she obviously knew about the will and how Naruto would be completely opposed to adoption because of it yet specifically told you the opposite would happen so you'd agree while he couldn't stop you."

"That definitely seems a bit fishy to me." "It is quite odd, ribbit." Mirko and Tsuyu said at the same time, while Mina, Mt Lady, and Toru nodded in agreement.

"Maybe she is hoping for a raise since the government will no doubt appoint her as the head caretaker," Nezu suggested with a shrug as he sipped his tea. "Or perhaps she honestly felt the young man needed and deserved an actually family for himself. Until all the facts are in we may never know which, if either, is true."

She didn't tell Naruto this though.

She knew Naruto didn't want to hear her excuses, he was too angry to listen to her, so she would let him stay angry at him until he had bonded to her a little. Then she would make sure that he got the full story, though she wondered why he was late to the meeting in the first place. If he had arrived on time, then he might have been able to talk with her. She pulled into her apartment's driveway, getting to her assigned parking spot.

"Do you need a hand getting your stuff inside-" Nemuri turned to look at Naruto when she parked, but already saw him outside of the car, getting all of his things without even looking at her. She sighed to herself, seeing that this was going to be a journey in, in of itself since he didn't seem to want to give her a chance. '... I do understand why he is like this though... I just hope he's willing to listen to my side of the story when he gets a little older.' Nemuri smiled sadly into her reflection in the car mirror.

"Uhhh… is that really a good idea?" Toru asked with a raised hand. "I mean, I don't really know anything about psychology but won't putting it off just let his anger fester up or something like that?"

"There is a chance yes," Nezu answered this time while making a s-so motion with one hand. "But with the state of mind he is in, blinded by his anger towards her, all her other's explanation would likely do right now is make him even angrier or think she's just making excuses."

"Oooh, but if she waits a bit he might calm down enough so he won't be so biased when she explains it." The invisible girl said as she let her hand drop back to her side, getting a thumbs-up from the adult-rated heroine and principal.

"Exactly."

She followed after him, her longer legs letting her take the lead as they walked up the stairs to her apartment.

Naruto's eye twitched.

"... Nine..."

'I guess he doesn't like that number. Wonder why?' Mirko thought upon seeing the very brief flash of annoyance on the whiskered blonde's face upon seeing the number nine on the door.

"Yep, good old B9... second floor, ninth room. Been here since I graduated from U.A. myself, and set up my agency here." Nemuri stated with a wide smile, she had fond memories in this apartment. "I cleaned up the guest room, so make yourself at home, this is your home now after all. I've got to go speak with the apartment landlord, and let him know about you living here. My rent is going to go up over this."

"…She does realize that sounded like she was trying to guilt trip him, right?" Mina whispered to Tsuyu, Momo, and Toru, the latter two shrugging unsurely.

*Smack*

"I think she figured it out, ribbit." Tsuyu stated bluntly after the 'real' Midnight facepalmed.

Nemuri waved at him as she started to walk back down the stairs. "Oh! I saw you were using a flip phone the other day, so I got you a new phone, and added it to my phone plan." Nemuri stated as she saw him take his old phone from his pocket and look down at it.

Right... his phone was going to be taken off the orphanage data plan, since he was no longer going to be living there, so he needed a new phone and a new number.

Naruto walked into the clean apartment, the only thing dirty about the place was Nemuri's Midnight costume was laying on the couch, and she had her old costume hanging on the wall before she had been forced to change it.

"That was your old costume? I've seen minikinis with more coverage than that thing," Mina said with wide eyes as Midnight's original costume was revealed. "And here I thought Momo's outfit was revealing."

"Indeed." Said rich girl agreed with an equally shocked look.

"Yeah, I had some fun times in those threads," Midnight said with a nostalgic sigh as she rested her chin on Izuku's head once again. "It was such a shame when I had to retire it, but it was for the best."

"I can imagine, the Hero Public Safety Commission must've been in a frenzy about that outfit, huh?" Toru asked since she had gotten more than a few complaint notices at the start when she first requested her costume or lack thereof. Speaking of which, the invisible girl reflexively covered herself as recent discoveries flashed through her mind. 'That reminds me, I need to request some additions… immediately.'

"Oh like you wouldn't believe, but believe it or not that's half the reason of why I changed costumes." The adult-only heroine stated, earning curious looks all around.

"What w-was the other h-half then?" Izuku asked curiously, his inner super hero fanboy managing to beat down his crippling shyness for the moment.

"Honestly, because I kept getting sick," Midnight said, a grimace crossing her face when she remembered the not so fun days of her early Pro Hero career, before grabbing at the fabric of her current costume. "All the exposed skin was good for using my quirk but not so good for if it rained, snowed, got really breezy, etcetera etcetera, so I settled for this stuff. Easy to tear off when I need but also acts as a great insulator."

"Oh… yeah that makes sense."

"For a wimp." Mirko added with a roll of her eyes, earning a dry look from the purplette.

"You have no room to talk, your quirk gives you a natural resistance to cold."

Naruto passed by the table, and saw that his new phone was there, it wasn't the newest model, nor was it a used one either, it was a decent phone that was leagues better than his own. It had a sticky note on top of it though, so he looked at it.

Welcome to the Family (plan)!

"Hah, nice," Midnight said with a giggle before frowning when she noticed Toru, Mina, and Momo held up scorecards reading 7, 4, and 5 respectively. "Hey, that was a good one."

*Bzzzzt*

"And seriously, where the hell is that coming from?!" The purplette demanded as the classic sound of a fail buzzer rang out, once again missing the cheeky grin on Mei's lips somehow as the pinkette innocently tinkered with a device.

"It was a bit obvious if you ask me." Nezu chipped in while holding up a sign of his own, which read 3.

"Oh come on, not you too sir."

"... Heroes and their jokes..." Naruto grunted as he put the phone in his pocket reluctantly, since he didn't have a choice in the matter but to accept it. His own phone was going to be useless soon enough. He saw Midnight's room, and he saw an open room that he could see was recently cleaned, so his room. He ignored everything else and walked into the room, and set his boxes down.

There was a dresser, a closet, a bed way nicer than his one at the orphanage, and he had a portable heater next to the bed... a heater that looked brand new.

"Yep, since it's still pretty cold, and I keep the apartment on the cool side, I figured you would be more comfortable if your room was warmer. This was made for people with Quirks that don't deal well with the cold, you can leave it on, and it won't cause any fires either... figured you might want it."

Naruto wasn't surprised when Nemuri walked up behind him and stated that, twisting the knob on the heater and turning it on. A gentle, warm breeze started to flow out of it into the room, and Naruto noticed that there were several other things in the room that seemed to be new as well.

'... She won't buy me off.' Naruto turned his head away from Nemuri with a glaring glance into her direction.

'I'm not trying too.' Midnight thought with a sigh, knowing her other self was in for a very long and arduous uphill battle it would seem.

"Yeah, I looked up the Toad Quirk, so I tried to make this room comfortable for you. Got a humidifier to keep the room nice too, and I got permission to paint the room... you seemed like a vibrant guy." Nemuri commented as she gestured to the room. She didn't want to sound Quirkist, judging him based on his Quirk, but with his black pants and orange hoodie, she guessed that he liked colors that were related to toads.

Green, brown, orange, red, and black.

Orange, red, and black... and Toad... that sounded familiar to her for some reason, but she couldn't pinpoint the reason why a toad with those colors sounded familiar to her.

"Those are the colors Kurama always uses for his costume, ribbit."

…

*Smack* The sound of flash striking flesh rang out as Midnight facepalmed again, groaning in annoyance as she saw her other literally surrounded by hints at Naruto's real identity and missing every, single, one.

'The room is the same colors as my Kurama outfit... orange, black, and red...' Naruto noticed the colors, but he could also tell that she didn't do that on purpose. Those colors were his Kurama colors, but they were also the colors of some of the more popular Toad breeds as well. It was why he chose the colors he chose, though nobody needed to know that. He liked the colors, and they were something that worked with his Quirk. "... You're not going to try and force me to be a hero..." Naruto turned and glanced at her, looking her dead in the eye.

"A hero unknowingly trying to force one of the most elusive villains ever to be a hero, now that would be a sight to see." Mt Lady said with a snort.

Nodding in agreement, a soft chuckle escaped Nezu's lips as he sipped his tea. "It would be most humorous indeed."

She shifted a little, but she wasn't uncomfortable.

"Not if you don't want to, but I do want you to go to a good high school... I'll be a teacher at U.A., and it is more than just a Hero School, there are also General studies... I am sorry you lost your orphanage... but maybe this is your chance to... make your own." Nemuri wanted to support his dreams if she could. His dream might have been crushed by her, but maybe she could help repair some of the damage that she had done. She could help him start a new orphanage.

"You, the eighteen plus adult only rated hero, helping start up and run an orphanage? Yeeeaaaah no," Mina stated while this time holding up an sign with a bold red X with Momo and Toru doing the same a moment later, each one punctuated by a buzzer sound. "You'd be shut down by overzealous nags in two… three days tops."

"Don't be so dramatic," Said adult only heroine said with a roll of her eyes. "Besides, most people probably wouldn't even know of my involvement, it's not like I would slap my name all over it."

"I've got to unpack."

"Okay... I'm going to make dinner... if you need help, let me know." Nemuri stated as she left the room, closing the door behind her.

-Later that Night-

"I'm going to make dinner if you need help let me know... bitch." Naruto whispered with a deep frown under his mask.

"Okay yeah, waiting to talk it out was definitely a good idea." Toru mumbled upon hearing Naruto bitterly cussing Midnight out.

He wasn't going around town as Kurama tonight to commit any crimes or anything, he just wanted to get out of the apartment with Midnight. He jumped from building top to building top, hopping quickly and without even a single keeping his eyes completely open.

He was in costume, he might as well commit a crime and collect a trophy from whatever hero was around.

"Aha! Not even a week, and I get a chance to have another go at you then!"

Naruto dodged Mirko out of pure instinct alone, back flipping and landed on top of the next building.

"That didn't take very long, you didn't even give him a chance to commit a crime first," Momo said while glancing at Mirko, only to blink when she noticed the annoyed yet bored look on the rabbit heroine's face. "Uh, Mirko-san, is something wrong?"

Crossing her arms, the whitette cracked her neck while gesturing to the screen with her chin. "You'll see."

She followed after him, and he raised his arms up, sitting down on the edge of the building.

"I haven't done anything yet! I promise, next week, I'll steal from some museum in this area, I'm just really angry and need to clear my head a bit." Naruto told Mirko as she landed next to him, clicking her teeth and sitting down.

…

"Awwww, talk about anti-climatic." Mina said with a pout, crushing her empty can of soda and tossing into the trash, having been looking forward to another cool action filled chase.

"But it makes sense, Mirko would never accept an easy win, especially not against someone she has such a personal vendetta against, ribbit." Tsuyu stated while passing the pink pinkette another soda with her tongue.

"That doesn't make it any less of a letdown though."

"True."

She had recovered from his poison hours ago, and she had wanted to stretch her legs again, and imagine her luck when she ran into her favorite villain to chase as well. If he wasn't doing any crimes, at the moment, then chasing him would be less fun. Also, if he was just out to clear his head because of emotional reasons, beating him would feel... way less satisfying.

"Beating you up won't be fun if you're not doing anything to deserve it." Mirko just sat down next to him, and watched the city down below the buildings, keeping an eye out for crime. She knew as a hero, she was sitting next to a villain... but this was a little different. This villain was special, and she wanted to beat him at his best, on the top of his game, not when he was conflicted about something. Also, since he returned all of his stolen goods... it was kind of... weird to attack him for a theft that he made amends for.

He was a one of a kind villain.

He was a quirky villain.

"Agreed." "That's for sure." "Understatement." "Ha, I called it." "Got that right." "He is rather odd for a villain." It was hard to tell who said what exactly as almost everyone in the room spoke at once, their voices jumbling together into a chaotic symphony of responses.

"It's cold outside tonight."

"Hmph, like a little cold would bother me." Mirko muttered with a huff, as if offended at the idea she'd be affected by something as silly as cold.

"Meh, with my Quirk, it doesn't bother me... and with muscles like these-" Mirko flexed her arm and gave her bicep a kiss. "-the cold is just a thing of the past. Anyway, wanna talk about whatever it is that is putting you down?" Mirko asked him with a wide grin. She had to admit that she was curious about what had him.

"Not really."

"Okay then." If he didn't want to talk about it, then she wouldn't even try and force it out of him either. He would speak his mind when he wanted to, not before that point. Sometimes people didn't want to talk their issues out. "We're both adults here, personal issues aside... wanna start dating after I take you down and all of that stuff?" Mirko asked with a giant grin on her face.

"PFFFFT! WHAT!?" Mina, who had just been taking a sip of her drink, ended up spraying it all over in a spit-take of epic proportions the instant those words reached her ears, her eyes sparkling in excitement. "Can it be?!"

"Why yes it is~! Mirama is getting ready to set sail~!" Toru exclaimed as she bounced in place, clapping her hands together loudly.

"Ooooh my…" Momo muttered with bright blush on her cheeks before falling over in a dead faint, almost hitting the floor before a deadpanning Tsuyu caught her at the last second, the jolt waking the rich girl right back up.

"Seriously? That made you faint, ribbit?"

"..Sorry."

She hadn't been the only one either as Izuku passed out in Midnight's grasp, steam rising form his ears and swirls in his eyes as he mumbled incomprehensively.

"Soo… trying to date a villain huh?" Mt lady asked her fellow Pro Hero with a coy smirk. "Anything you want to tell us Mirko?"

"Go fuck yourself," Mirko grunted out in annoyance, her cheeks ablaze for what had to be the thousandth time that day. "What me or my other does with our love life is none of your business."

"I'd beg to differ," Giggling mischievously while she ran her fingers though Izuku's fluffy hair, Midnight couldn't help the smirk that spread across her lips as she through in her two cents. "And by the way, I call dibs as a bridesmaid."

"Oooh me too! Me too!"

"Ditto!"

Mirko let loose a long suffering groan as Mina and Toru jumped in on the teasing train, latching onto either side of her with playful grins. 'Why me?'

Meanwhile, an amused Nezu simply sat in his seat silently, content with watching this all go down.

She thought about it, and she had fun chasing him.

She could tell, that when she caught him, it wouldn't be enough. This was a villain that she wanted to beat up and capture more than just his body, possibly his heart. She was 25 years old, and she was getting to the point where she needed to take a boyfriend at the very least. She didn't want to be like the Wild Wild Pussycats or Midnight, and not take a boyfriend until she got much older. She had fun when chasing this villain, and other than being a villain, he was a good person.

"Hey!" And just like that, Midnight lost all humor as she glared at the now smirking rabbit heroine. "I'm not that old!"

"Adults..." Naruto looked at her, ignoring the dating thing for now. "How old are you?" Naruto asked her, and she puffed out her chest in pride.

"A young 25... I turn 26 soon though, what are you 21... 22?"

"I'm 15... also, don't tell anyone I'm 15-"

"Ahahahahaha! Oh my god, that is priceless!" Mirko just laughed when she quickly realized that this super skilled villain that was evading every hero that faced him, was young enough to be starting his first year of high school soon. All of the top heroes, including herself, should be ashamed that they had been taken down by a 15-year-old.

"That would be a pretty big hit to everyone's rep once that gets out, I can already see the headline. 'Renown Villain actually Teen Punk, Heroes Competence in Question'." As she spoke, Mina held her hands out towards Mirko like she was framing a shot, complete with eye squint.

"You forgot the 'further details at eleven' before cutting to a totally irrelevant advertisement part, ribbit." Tsuyu said plainly, making the acidic teen nod with a giggle.

"Guess I got to wait a few months to be a romantic interest then huh?" Mirko hummed out loud when she stopped laughing, realizing there was about a 10 year gap between them.

That wasn't small.

"What?" Naruto was just confused by Mirko.

"In this prefecture, just because the age of consent is 13 is a good portion of Japan, some places argue the corruption of minors and raise local age of consent to about 16... the only exception to this law is when the two people are in a "sincere romantic relationship"..." Mirko quoted the law with quotation marks and everything. Yeah, he had a good body, and was fun for her.

"And you were saying I shouldn't be allowed around teens, little miss Shotacon." Midnight said, smiling smugly at Mirko as the rabbit heroine's face turned pure red.

"The fuck you call me?!" Mirko roared while throwing her soda at the purplette, who simply leaned her head back just enough for it to miss. "At least I thought he was older than he was at first, what's your excuse?!"

"I'm not the one trying to date a guy almost half my age, or memorized how to avoid trouble for doing so," The adult-rated heroine retorted without losing a beat, before her grin grew as a thought hit her. "And that is no way to be talking to your future mother-in-law, musume."

"What are you…" The rabbit heroine started to ask, only to trail off once she remembered what exactly had happened in the last few 'episodes'. Not even a moment later, she facepalmed so hard there was a literal concussive blast from the force of the impact. "Oh son of a bitch."

Not to mention she already considered him to be somebody that she could pursue, so she didn't mind if he was a bit younger than she was or a villain. "Anyway, heroes live in the danger zone, can't let something like age mess with my standards... anyway, it wasn't like I was ever going to go public with the relationship... bad publicity to date a villain." Mirko shrugged her shoulders.

"Actually, considering how much you've been hounding him down, your quirk's appeal, along with his naturally charismatic personality, lack of true villainous intent, and his popularity with the current generation then statistically speaking admitting that you two were dating would more likely make you even more popular," Mei explained as she finished fiddling with yet another gadget, looking up just in time to see everyone but Nezu looking at her like she'd groan a second head. "What? Am I wrong?"

"No, it's just… why do you know all that? You don't seem like the type to care about someone's popularity." Momo said, speaking aloud what her and the others were thinking.

"For marketing duh," Reaching down the front of her outfit as she spoke, right between her breasts to be exact, Mei fished around for a few moments before pulling out a folded up piece of paper and quickly unraveling it to show a large and complicated looking diagram that included everything from hero popularity ratings to most support tech usage to even current net worth. "If I want my babies to be known by the world then I have to know where, when, how, and who to show them off too to get the best results."

"Well dang, someone's done their homework." Mina muttered with a low whistle as she tried, and failed spectacularly, to make a lick of sense of the intertwining web of math and information.

"It is quite impressive indeed," Nezu said approvingly, even he having to take a moment to break down the entire thing mentally before Mei returned it to the safety of her cleavage. "I'm pleased to see that you've taken your future into account so seriously Mei-san, I look forward to seeing how you'll turn out."

Smiling brightly, the pinkette offered a playful salute in response. "I promise you won't be disappointed!"

She had to admit, this was a little bit of a surprise, but if anything, it gave her something to really look forward to. He was still going to grow, mature, get stronger, meaning that he would become even more of a challenge for her to catch in the future.

"Really got a one track mind there, don't you?" Mt lady asked rhetorically with a dull look, which only grew when she saw Mirko grinning while cracking her knuckles.

...

"Are you stupid?"

"No, but I am attracted to your balls..."

"PFFFFT! Hahaha!" "Hahaha!" "Hehehehe!" "Oh my!"

"Straight to the point huh, not gonna even take him out to dinner first?" Midnight asked teasingly as she nudged a once again madly blushing Mirko's side.

Mirko realized what that sounded like. "-and by that I mean, I'm attracted to your guts. You're my type of guy... but don't worry about me going boy crazy like a certain Wild Wild Pussycat. I'm just a girl who knows what she wants, and doesn't see the point of pussyfooting around." Mirko got up and stretched herself out.

She couldn't stay seated for long, she just had too much energy she needed to get out of her body, part of why she was perfect to be a hero. She could pursue villains until they were out of energy, and them beat them up.

"I know a better use for-*Crunch*-Gah! Motherfucker!" The adult-rated heroine howled in pain as she was cut off mid-entendre by a fist straight to the face, her voice coming out in a weirdly high-pitched tone as blood poured out her nostrils. "You broke my nose!"

"Maybe that'll teach you to shut the hell up next time," Mirko retorted with a satisfied grin on her lips as Midnight glared at her. However, instead of retaliating further, the purplette simple slunk further into her seat, quietly grumbling under her breath while accepting some medical supplies like pain killers and a bag of ice from Momo. "Yeah, that's what I thought."

"10 years-"

Mirko flicked his forehead.

"Kurama, you figure out the personal shit in your life first, get that settled, and then respond to my confession. Just like I don't want to capture you when you're not at your best, I don't want a boyfriend who made a decision when he wasn't in his right mind. Accept or reject me, do it when your head is on straight. Because, if you date me, then there is no going back from it." Mirko looked into his blue eyes, before she blinked when she noticed that his eyes were blue, instead of the yellow that they usually were. Also, he lacked the orange rings around his eyes, his eyes no longer looked like a toads eyes.

She didn't comment on it though, and just filed it away in her head for later.

She wasn't going to try and figure out his secret identity until she was chasing him down for real, this soft moment between them wasn't the right time or place to chase his ass down and beat him up.

"Aww, that's so sweet of you~! Taking it easy on him and being all understanding while he's emotionally vulnerable! And then saying you'll wait for him, so romantic!" Toru squealed happily, gushing over the touching scene as she hugged the rabbit woman's arm.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever floats your boat." Mirko said with a shrug, rolling her eyes as the invisible girl kept rambling about how cute it was. 'Teenagers.'

"You're really that confident?" Naruto asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm a tan skinned, white haired, bunny girl with a bombshell body, an awesome personality-"

"-and don't forget how humble you are, you are just so humble. If you had a middle name, it would be humble." Naruto told her, since she was bragging about herself a lot there.

"Meh, humbleness is for those goodie-goodie trophy for everyone squares," Mirko said with a scoff. "If I wanna speak my mind then I'm going to."

She shrugged her shoulders and leaned back a little, so that she was about to fall off of the building.

She would be fine.

"Hey, people should speak their minds, being humble is just a person deciding to downplay their own good traits... anyway, there is a crime going on a few blocks away, see you later Kurama." Mirko saluted at him and fell off the side of the building, kicking off and chasing after a moving car that was causing chaos in the roads, and Naruto could hear gunfire.

...

Well, Mirko took his mind off of his anger for the moment.

Looking on the bright side.

"My oh my, I can see why you all were so eager to watch more of this, it was quite enrapturing if I do say so myself." Nezu stated as the projection shifted back to the buffering screen.

"I know right, what with the drama, the action, and the romance," Mina said with a wide grin, adding the last part in a joking seductive tone that made herself and the other girls aside from Mei burst into giggles. "It's like the greatest reality show ever, and we're the stars of it. Oh, I wonder if I'll show up in it eventually."

"Indeed, and I'm quite interested in seeing more, sadly however that will have to wait till tomorrow," The principal of UA stated while hopping down from his seat, earning a chorus of groans and grumbles from his students, particularly from a certain pink and invisible duo. "Ah ah ah, none of that now. It's time for all of you to be headed off to bed, you promised."

"Fine…"

Pouting in defeat, both Mina reluctantly stood up and made her way towards the door, making a show of dragging her feet along as she went. Toru and Mom were right behind her, the two chatting about possible costume designs and how cute they thought Mirko and Naruto would be as a couple.

However, just as they passed through the door, Mina popped her head back. "We'll be back in the morning, you better not watch any more without us! I don't want to miss a single bit!" She said while fixing Mirko with an accusatory glare to which the rabbit woman rolled her eyes.

"I'll be taking that."

"Hey!" Meanwhile, Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around a still unconscious Izuku and wrenched him free of Midnight's grasp, dragging the boy over to her side and gently smacking his cheek.

"Huh!? What!? Where!?" The broccoli haired teen yelped out with a start, before freezing with a bright blush when Tsuyu grabbed his hand and started dragging him along. "W-what are y-y-you-"

"Shows over, we're calling it a night, ribbit." The frog girl said bluntly without stopping, getting Izuku to calm down just a tiny bit as they left.

"Later," Was all Mei said as she took her leave as well, only to stop right at the door with a look of realization. "Oh right, I almost forgot."

Digging into her pockets, the inventive pinkette pulled out a small remote-like device with a solitary green button and pressed it.

[Hibernation mode enabled, activating safety padding] Mei's voice rang out in a metallic tone from the Viewer before several panels opened up all over the chair much to Mirko's alarm.

"Hoi! What the heck is this thing-*Pomf* *Thunk* *Zzzzt*-Ouch!" She started to ask, only to be cut off when several squishy pink foam pads burst from each opening, engulfing the device while bouncing the rabbit woman around with several painful zaps, her hair poofing back out into a static afro.

"There, now my baby won't be hurt." Mei said as she actually left this time, completely oblivious to the groans of pain and grumbled plans of vengeance from the poor heroine still trapped by her invention.

"I honestly can't tell if that was intentional or not." Mt Lady muttered with a quirked brow, before shrugging it off as she left as well, needing to get back on patrol.

Nezu was the next to leave, the dog-bear-mouse going on his way with a nice and casual. "See you all in the morning."

This left just Midnight and Mirko left in the room, the former still working on her broken nose with a grimace while the latter smoothed her hair back down.

"Stupid kid, when I get my hands on her I'm gonna…" The whitette grumbled under her breath as she got the last few locks of hair back down before sinking into her seat with a sigh. "At least she made this thing more comfortable, my ass was starting to kill me."

"Boo hoo, you poor thing, you must have been so miserable," Midnight said sarcastically while shoving a pair of tissue plugs into her nostrils. "Not like I'm the one with a broken nose or something."

"Oh don't be such a wimp, I didn't even hit you that hard."

"You. Broke. My. Nose."

"Like I said, barely touched you," Mirko stated with a smug smirk, making the adult rated heroine scowl as she stood up. "Now how about you quit bitching and get go-" Midnight suddenly grabbed the front of the rabbit woman's outfit and pulled it out just far enough to dump the contents of her icepack into. "AH! COLD!"

Giggling as the whitette thrashed in her bindings trying to get the ice out, which wasn't easy considering she was wearing a super durable skin-tight one piece outfit, the adult rated heroine quickly made her way to the door with a skip in her step. "Have an ice night… musume~."

-End Chapter-