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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quirky Villain
-Chapter 2-
"…And that's pretty much what's going on All Might." Mirko finished explaining to the buff superhero who busted through the door, now known as All Might. Everyone else aside from Mei was gone, with said pink-haired inventor was over at another desk idly fiddling with the insides of a small handheld device, only looking away from her work to check the screen every few moments.
"Haha, well, it sounds like you guys have been having quite the fun here!" The man said boisterously with a booming laugh.
"That's an understatement if I've ever heard one," Midnight said while walking in through the broken doorway, her arms loaded up with various movie-theater style snacks such as a large bucket of popcorn and boxes of candy. "This has been the most entertaining thing to happen since the school year started."
"You seriously went and got popcorn?" Mirko asked with a quirked brow. "I thought you were joking about that. And don't you have classes to teach or something?"
"All canceled for the day," The R-rated heroine said casually while dragging a desk up to the bunny hero and getting into a comfortable spot before gently rapping her knuckles against the Viewer. "Turns out this thing shorted out the power for the whole school with that big discharge earlier."
"Wait, seriously? One little electric blast like that shorted the entirety of UA?" Mirko asked in disbelief, which only grew when both Midnight and All Might nodded. "How? This place was literally built to withstand practically every kind of quirk damage possible. You can't seriously tell me nobody considered electrical damage."
"Actually we did, but it seems a certain somebody had stolen some crucial pieces of the circuit breaker systems, and according to Power Loader they have a pretty good idea on who." As she spoke, Midnight sent a very pointed look towards Mei, who seemed to be oblivious to the attention as she kept messing with her gadget.
None of the pro-heroes were fooled though, each of them could see the sudden yet minute jerkiness in the support student's hands as they moved along with the slight twitching of her cheek and the beads of sweat that were already starting form on her brow.
"Hey! We're back!" Luckily for Mei, everyone's attention was soon diverted from her as Toru loudly announced herself as she skipped into the room, her invisible arms loaded to the brim with all sorts of unhealthy snacks ranging from chips to chocolate bars. "And we brought snacks!"
"Oh goodie, the peanut gallery is back," Mirko said with a good-natured roll of her eyes as Tsuyu with her iconic casual blank expression and a pink-haired pink-skinned girl with horns and bright yellow eyes who looked super hyped stepped inside, the latter carrying several large soda bottles. "And better yet, it seems you brought company as well."
"Ribbit, we bumped into Mina-chan while dropping Izuku-chan off in his dorm, and she decided to tag along after we told her what we'd been doing." Tsuyu said with a shrug while taking a seat next to Mei.
"Heck yeah I did!" The now named Mina said excited as she hopped around in place, so much so that one of the bottles slipped from her grasp that Tsuyu swiftly caught it with her tongue and reeled back towards herself. "There is no way I was missing out on something like this!"
"Well don't get your hopes up just yet girl, we still have to wait for this thing to finish loading, and that's if it's even still working." Midnight said while gesturing to the still buffering screen, making the pink pinkette visible deflate.
"Aw man… I hate waiting."
"How about you All Might? You gonna stick around for the show as well?" Mirko asked the Number One Hero, having accepted that this had indeed become a thing.
"I would if I could but sadly I cannot," All Might said with a shake of his head as he headed towards the doorway. "I must go inform Nezu-san that the blackout was an unintentional incident and not a villainous act like we believed. After that I have to get back on patrol, crime does not rest so neither shall I!"
And with that the buff hero was gone.
"Always the dramatic one, isn't he?" Mirko asked rhetorically with a roll of her eyes as an amused grin worked its way onto her lips.
"Indeed he is, indeed he is." Midnight said while tossing a few pieces of popcorn into her mouth.
While his flair with words and theatrics may make civilians and most low-ranking heroes swoon in awe, they'd dealt with the guy enough times to find it more comical than anything else.
"Hey! Look! I think it's coming back on!" Toru shouted out suddenly, causing both women to jerk their attention back towards the projection to see that it had indeed changed from the previous loading screen.
"I like tall women with big tits, but this is a bit much."
"Well… that's certainly one way to start." Tsuyu stated blankly while the rest of the group either laughed or nodded in agreement as the scene appeared showing Naruto grinning up at a literal giant blonde woman in a white and purple spandex outfit with horns.
Naruto grinned under his mask, a sword strapped to his back, the goal of his weekly theft one would say. He had spent the last 3 months doing a different theft every week, making sure to appear commit his crime where a different hero was close enough to appear.
"Really? A freaking time skip?" Mirko muttered as a small display appeared at the bottom of the screen explaining the amount of time that had passed. "What the hell is this all about pinkie?"
"Hey! What did I do?" Mina demanded indignantly… before blinking when she realized the bunny woman was looking at Mei not her. "Oh, you mean her, my bad."
"Oh that, my baby is pre-programed to skip over general day to day stuff and focus on just interesting events that happen," Mei explained with a proud grin as she pocketed the thing she was working on and pulled out a different gadget to fiddle with. "I figured that could cause some confusion though, so I added the explanation box function to fill in the gaps just in case."
"Makes sense, all the juicy stuff and none of the boring filler, great thinking Mei." Toru said while patting the pink-haired inventor's back.
"But I hate time-skips…" Mirko grumbled under her breath.
Sometimes, he would come across some of them that nearly captured him, but other times he would actually defeat the hero and take something from them, leaving behind what he had stolen so that he could keep the trophy he wanted.
He didn't want anything he stole.
What he wanted, was trophies from heroes, because it was one thing to steal, but to steal something from a hero and leave behind the object they chased him for? Now that was something else, he would be noticed for that for sure.
"He's not wrong, that would definitely get some attention," Midnight agreed with the text box. A villain who actually sought out heroes and stole personal items from them would certainly make one hell of a impression, especially since he was actually getting a way with it each time apparently. "Must be one slippery son of a bitch if he's gotten away with it for a whole three months though."
"Well it won't be for much longer, I bet you my other just hasn't had another chance at him yet." Mirko said with a confident smirk…
Week 1: Mirko's Gloves
Week 2: Bubble Girl's Face Mask
Week 3: Fourth Kind's Rings
Week 4: Gunhead's Vest
Week 5: Mirko's Thigh High Socks
Week 6: Ms. Joke's Bandana
Week 7: Snipe's Cloak
Week 8: Ingenium's Helmet
Week 9: Sir Nighteye's Glasses
Week 10: Mirko's Neck Warmer
Week 11: Mirko's Hip Guards
Week 12 - ?
…Until the list of every item Naruto had taken so far appeared on screen, making the bunny hero's jaw drop in disbelief.
*Snort* "You were saying?" Midnight asked with a Cheshire grin, her shoulders shaking and a few snorts slipping out as she spoke from the barely repressed urge to burst out laughing.
"I… he… but that… how?"
"I don't really know who this one is." Naruto realized that week 12 into his trophy collection, he didn't really know who the giant woman chasing him was.
"Ha! Oh that's gotta sting for Yu!" Midnight punned with a victorious grin. Yu Takeyama, otherwise known as Mt Lady, was a very vain hero who absolutely adored the spotlight, so to have a high-tier 'villain' like Naruto not even know who she is would be sucker punch straight to her pride.
He also realized that he had been viciously chased down by Mirko more than the other heroes.
"You know, it sounds like somebody is a little obsessed," Mina said with a teasing grin as she wiggled her brows suggestively. "Is there a little something personal I'm missing here?"
"No, nothing at-"
"He beat her the first time by duping her and stealing a kiss." Toru said with a giddy giggle, cutting Mirko's attempted denial short.
"Oh-ho, did he now? I want details~."
"Later, I don't wanna miss anything."
He would have taken her gloves multiple times, but she just kept wearing the same type of gloves each time, since heroes all had multiple copies of their same suits. He ended up taking something different from her each time, and all that was left was her leotard.
"Bwahaha! Oh man, you better hope that your other wins the next time or it sounds like somebody is gonna end up redefining the meaning of public exposure!" Midnight finally couldn't help it anymore and burst into uncontrollable laughter while Mirko scowled with a light blush on her cheeks.
"Oh don't feel bad Mirko-san, this Naruto guy doesn't seem like the guy to do something like that," Toru said comfortingly while patting the woman's shoulder, which seemed to work as the woman's flustered appearance went back to normal. "Besides, it wouldn't be that bad if he did, I go out naked all the time when I do hero work and it doesn't bother me at all."
…Nevermind.
"You're invisible Toru-chan, Mirko-sempai isn't." Tsuyu stated bluntly, causing the invisible girl to pause before plopping into her seat.
"Oh… right, forgot about that." While they couldn't see it, everyone could hear the sheepishness in Toru's voice as her sleeve moved in a way that suggested she was scratching the back of her head.
A giant hand slapped the ground, and he rolled out of the way of it just in time, rolling onto his back, with his hands behind his head.
Massive, 2062 cm tall, with super thick and shiny blond hair with purple eyes... but with white pupils. A figure many women would kill for, but a skin tight body suit that was about the same color as her skin over most of it, but purple with orange (he loved that) outlines around the edges. She had on a purple eye mask with horns connected to it, not much he could take from her.
"Take the suit… take the suit… take the suit…" Midnight chanted lowly with a malicious grin, earning more than a few shocked and/or surprised looks.
"Are you seriously trying to edge a villain, fake or not, into stealing Mt Lady's clothing Midnight-sensei?" Tsuyu asked in her iconic blank tone, though those who knew her could hear the disbelief edged in her voice.
Suddenly losing the smirk on her face, Midnight gave the frog-like girl a bland 'you're joking right' look before gesturing towards herself, more specifically at her current outfit. "18+ only hero remember? Making crude inappropriate jokes is kinda part of my shtick if you haven't noticed."
…
"Fair enough, ribbit."
And with that, everyone turned their attention back towards the screen and thus missed as the Cheshire grin on Midnight's lips returned two-fold. 'Nobody calls me old and gets away with it, nobody.'
She was careful to not destroy the concrete completely, but she still ended up doing damages to it.
"You're the annoying kid who has been in the news the last few months."
"Mt. Lady! Just realized who you were... wow, you're hand is moving down towards me really-"
"Gotcha!" Mt. Lady slapped her hand down against the ground where he was, silencing him.
"Uh, didn't you guys say this guy was a super badass who couldn't even get hit?" Mina asked Toru and Tsuyu, disappointment clear on her face at the anti-climactic scene.
"Oh please, she hasn't caught him yet," Mirko stated before either of the girls could respond, making the whole trio turn their attention towards her. "That boy was able to avoid my other's attacks with only a bit of effort, so there is no way that he wasn't able to slip away from such a straightforward move like that."
The only way she could see him getting caught from that was if he somehow forgot what dodging was, which was utterly stupid to even consider. I mean come on, who forgets how to dodge?
-Meanwhile TFS verse-
*Achoo* A young boy with spiky black hair wearing a tattered orange gi and a sword strapped to his back sneezed out of the blue while he was eating a bowl of berries. Looking around in confusion for a few seconds, he eventually shrugged it off and kept eating…
*GZZZZZT* "LKJHGKJH!" …Before randomly getting zapped by a blast of electricity.
Oddly enough too, a green slug man stood off in the distance screaming "DOOOOOOOOOOOODGE!" at the top of his lungs.
-And back-
She used only enough force to gently push him into the ground, not even enough to crack the concrete. She grinned and waved her other hand to the news media when she saw all of her fans were taking pictures of her. "... Guess he wasn't ready to make my ass-quaintance." Mt. Lady used one of her signature phrases and lifted her other hand up off of the ground, giving the photographers a wiggle of her hips.
...
The villain wasn't below her hand.
"Told you." Mirko said with a smirk.
"-fast, gotta left a guy finish what he was saying there honey." Naruto said from her wrist that she had lifted up. He had dodged her slap, and had stuck himself to her wrist, winking at her as he hopped off of her wrist when she slapped it.
"Very clever ribbit, he pretended to get hit so he could get in close without her noticing and then make her own quirk would work against her as her large size makes it difficult to maneuver without tipping herself over or causing collateral damage." Tsuyu said, tapping her lip with her hand as she spoke.
"Yep, just goes to show that how true the old saying 'bigger isn't always better' is." Midnight stated, which would have made her sound quite wise and knowledgeable… if she hadn't been holding her phone out as the wicked grin on her face grew wider.
"What are you doing Midnight-sensei?" Mina asked with a quirked brow.
Not even bothering to look at the acid user, the adult themed hero waved off the girl's question. "Oh nothing you need to worry about Pinky, just focus on the show."
Landing on her shoulder, he jumped off instantly when her other hand went to slap it. "Woah now, I don't hit women, I think you should extend the same rule to me right? Guess not then." Naruto landed on the side of her hip, and jumped off onto her knee when she grit her teeth and punched her hip.
"Speaking of hitting people," Mei started as she stared at the screen with a tilted head. "Am I the only one who's noticed that he's never actually attacked anyone yet?"
"What are you talking about? Of course he's attacked people. I mean look at him!" Mirko said while gesturing back at the screen.
"Actually Mei-chan is right ribbit," Tsuyu said in the inventor's defense. "Aside from using his poison to temporarily incapacitate all Naruto has done is antagonize verbally and dodge, never once trying to actually attack or retaliate."
"Oh really, then what about when he…" Mirko started to say, only to trail off when she realized that she actually couldn't think of a moment where the whiskered blonde had thrown a punch, or a kick, or anything like that.
"Maybe he's a pacifist?" Toru suggested with a shrug.
"A pacific villain? That would certainly be a first in my books." Midnight said while rubbing her chin in thought. It was a rather absurd notion in itself, being as villains were ones to cause mayhem and violence whereas a pacifist was one to argue against such notions, they were literal polar opposites.
He was being really annoying, so she jerked her knee and tried to throw him off, but he stayed latched onto her.
"Get off of me!" Mt. Lady danced in one spot from the effort of attempting to throw him off. She reached down to grab onto him, but he crawled around her leg so that he was on the back of her thigh. Her hands darted after him. "Hey!" Mt. Lady shouted and gave herself a harsh spank when he crawled onto her ass, and he jumped onto her bicep, before he jumped up so that he landed smack dab in the middle of her face, he landed on her face before her ass was done jiggling.
"Be honest, who else is thinking 'Why you hitting yourself? Why you hitting yourself?' right now?" Mina asked before giggling as Tsuyu, Mei, and Toru raised their hands and Mirko nodded.
"I was actually thinking that somebody may need to lay off the chips a bit because DAMN, look at that ass jiggle," Midnight said with a smirk as she gestured to Mt Lady's rear just as it stopped shaking from the self spanking. "That thing was like a plate of Jell-O, am I wrong?"
Nobody answered, they all agreed, but nobody dared say so aloud.
"Who is just the cutest pro hero..." Naruto reached down, and pat her nose a few times. "You are... you are." Naruto continued to baby talk her, she was a rookie hero, so that was going to anger her for sure.
…
*Snort* *Snicker*
"Hahahahahaha!"
This time everyone aside from Tsuyu burst into laughter, while said frog girl simply let out a soft croaking giggle as she tapped her lip more.
"I can't believe he did that!" Mei giggled out as she and Mina leaned against each-other for support.
"God damn! Hahahaha! That boy! Hahaha! Balls of steel right there!" Mirko said between fits of giggles, tears forming from her eyes from how hard she was laughing.
"This could not get any funnier!" Midnight yelled out, struggling to keep her phone up as she clutched her stomach with her free hand after shakily putting her popcorn down.
Feeling something jet at him from behind, he stopped sticking to her.
Mt. Lady punched herself in the face with all of her power, knocking herself off of her own two feet.
"BWAHAHAHA! I was wrong! I was so wrong!" The woman howled out, that being the last straw as she let her phone fall to the floor with a clatter as she doubled over.
Being the only one not completely taken over by hysterics, Tsuyu was able to see that the phone had been put on camera mode and was recording the whole event before the adult themed hero managed to calm down enough to scoop the device back up.
After a full minute of more laughter, during which Mei revealed a second button she… forgot, yeah let's go with forgot, to mention earlier that paused the projection, everyone was able to get their humor back under control and resume watching.
Her body and costume started to shrink down in size as she was sent flying, knocked out cold by her own immense strength. Her eyes were already rolled back up into her head, and by the time she hit the ground, she was already mostly down to her real size. Once she was on the ground, she continued to shrink until she was back to a normal 162 cm. She groaned, quickly started to regain consciousness, hitting the ground waking her back up.
"Uuuuuh... that was humiliating." Mt. Lady started to get back up, and when she sat back up, Naruto was there. He stuck his fingers right into her mouth, surprising her, but she felt her pulse slow down as the poison took effect quickly.
"You know, take out the poisoning part and that would be one kinky scene." Midnight said with a sultry lick of her lips at the sight of Naruto crouching over Mt Lady's prone form with his fingers in her mouth.
"No kidding." Mina agreed with the 18+ only hero, a light blush on her and Tsuyu's faces from the provocative position. Mei seemed to not care anymore as she went back to tinkering and Toru was invisible so we can only imagine her reaction.
Dropping back down onto her back, Naruto looked at her.
...
"... Just gonna... take this." Naruto grabbed her mask and removed it from her head.
'Dammit.' Midnight thought with a pout.
Grabbing onto her, he stood up before the press got to their location.
"What... are you doing..." It was hard to breath for Mt. Lady, but Naruto jumped with her in his arms, and dropped her off at the top of the nearest building, away from the press.
"Ah, that was nice of him, I can only imagine how humiliating it would've been for Mt Lady if he'd left her down there with those guys." Toru said, her clothes shaking briefly to show the shiver that ran down her back at the thought.
"Ugh, I don't even want to think about that." Mina added with a shiver of her own. The press was bad enough as is, but to be completely helpless as they swarmed you from all sides, now that was nightmare material alright.
Naruto took his stolen sword, a historical one he took from a museum, and he looked down off the top of the building and saw the press was quickly gathering.
Naruto took a deep breath, before he raised the sheathed sword up over his head.
"And here comes the obligatory gloating." Midnight said with a faux sigh of exasperation, a small grin on her lips as she idly tossed a few bits of popcorn into her mouth.
"I, Kurama has escaped from the hero once again! I've taken my trophy, so I leave this item behind for the heroes to return to the museum!" Naruto called out as he tossed the sword behind him, right on Mt. Lady, since the press couldn't see her right now. Naruto turned around and looked down at the unmasked woman. "Don't worry Mt. Lady, I'm only gave you enough poison to down you for 5 minutes or so... just enough time for me to make my escape." Naruto walked backwards, before he did a back flip off the other side of the building.
"Mt Lady should count her lucky stars that this Naruto fella seems like a pretty nice guy for a villain," Tsuyu stated. "Anyone else would have been using a lethal dose each time, ribbit."
…
"Wow, way to kill the mood there Tsu-chan." Mina muttered as everyone almost instantly lost all trace of humor once the frog girl's statement registered in their minds. The most effected was Mirko, who had paled dramatically upon realizing just how damn lucky her other self had been considering she'd been poisoned at least four times already, meaning four separate times she could have been killed off just like that.
"…Sorry."
"Don't be, you had a valid point Asui-san," Midnight said calmly while reaching over and giving the greenette a pat on the shoulder. "You should all take what you just saw and remember it well since it does bring up something that many people tend to forget about. Most villains will fight dirty, especially when it seems like they're about to lose, and poison is only one of those tactics."
Week 12: Mt. Lady's Mask
Getting out of his costume, Naruto packed it all away in the front pocket of his hoodie, and dehooded himself as he made his way out of the back of the alley. Blending in with the crowd by the time his eyes had turned from toad eyes to blue ones.
"Huh, looks like you were right about the faux feature thing Midnight-sensei, though not in the way you were talking about." Toru said upon seeing the boy's eyes change.
"Yeah, I'd never have thought he and Kurama were the same person if I hadn't seen it for myself." Mei agreed since Naruto's outfit both hid any identifiable features, aside from his eyes, and made him appear a bit older then he was at first glance.
He couldn't hide the giddy grin from his lips though, he was just so happy that he could add another trophy to his collection. His fame as a villain was growing, Mirko was really helping him become famous by going after him with such a fury.
"So he's actually using your drive to catch him to his own benefit by making him even more well known," Midnight said with an impressed nod while Mirko scowled. "If you gotta give him one thing, the kid's got a real knack for duping people into doing exactly what he wants without them realizing it, huh Mirko?"
All the adult themed hero got in response from the bunny woman was a bunch of low mostly inaudible muttered about blonde idiots, payback… and something about a bed?
He wondered what hero he would take on next week.
"Did you see that, Kurama escaped again... for a villain who keeps getting away with his crimes... it's weird that he keeps returning everything he steals."
Naruto grinned when he heard two men on their way to work, speak about what he had just done. His fame as Kurama was on the rise, and he was just as famous as he was infamous, because he never actually kept anything he stole from the places he robbed, people were left feeling conflicted about him. He took clothes from heroes, but he never took the devices they used to assist in their Quirks, and he never caused permanent damage to them. He took clothes that they easily replaced, and it left a lot of people wondering about what his motives were.
"I'm not really sure he should even be labeled as a villain to be honest," Mina said, earning a few odds looks. "What, like they said, he never actually steals anything since he gives it back and all he really seems to care about is besting heroes and collecting harmless trophies. He seems more like a prankster if you ask me."
"She has a point." Mei stated with a shrug.
"Well, prankster or not, he's still intentionally and knowingly breaking the law, and such is a villain," Midnight said in a matter-of-fact tone. "He's just rather… unusual, nah doesn't sound right… abnormal, ugh no…hmmm…"
"Quirky?" Toru suggested.
"Eh," Thinking it over for a few moments, the purplette shrugged. "Yeah, that works."
"Wonder what he took from Mt. Lady... she just wears that body suit... you think she's... you know."
'Naked? Naw, I wouldn't do that if I wasn't sure she would have a way to get back home without being seen.' Naruto wouldn't do that to somebody, his goal wasn't to ruin heroes lives. He wasn't going to do that, give them a little humiliation maybe, but to do something like ruining their reputation was just... not fun.
"So he would take it but only if she wouldn't be publicly exposed because of it, I never thought it possible but I do believe we've finally found the big foot of men." Midnight said in an overdramatic tone.
"What, a guy who actually understands women?" Mina asked jokingly, getting a round of giggles.
"Good one but nope," The adult-themed hero said with a good-natured eyeroll. "What we have here is a very rare case of… an honorable pervert."
*Dun dun dun*
"…Okay, where the hell did that come from?" Midnight asked, looking around for the source of the dramatic music that had randomly played out along, most of the others joining her. The only one who didn't was Mei who, unnoticed to the pro-heroes or other students, giggled softly under her breath while slipping a small remote back into her pocket.
After about five minutes of not finding anything, the group eventually gave up and returned their attention back to the projection, the joke Midnight had been telling forgotten.
He liked the attention, and he liked being chased by heroes.
"I'm more interested in why he keeps giving the stuff he takes back."
'... Who wants some ancient stuff, or some weird gadgets I don't know how to use? Nah, I just want my little trophies... I'm gonna hang this one up right next to Mirko's hip guards.' Naruto thought, grinning even wider as he signaled to a cab. He was going to get a ride back to his apartment, since he was a pretty far distance away from where he lived. He had to travel outside of his home town to make this one happen.
Naruto looked outside of the cab, glancing around, he saw Kamui Woods rushing onto the scene that he had left behind him. Naruto wondered when Mirko was going to rush to the scene, only to not find him there.
She was pretty serious about catching him.
"I can see what he means." Tsuyu said while glancing back at Mirko, who was now pouting with her arms crossed because the screen changed back to a loading screen, her foot rapidly tapping impatiently against the ground.
"Yeah, she looks like she really wants to give that Naruto guy a thrashing," Mina said before turning towards the frog girl and Toru with waggling brows. "So, what's the full story between those two?"
Meanwhile, unnoticed by anyone but Mei, Midnight was back on her phone, her devious grin returned as she typed away. Curiosity getting the better of her, the pinkette inventor peered over the woman's shoulder just in time to see her send somebody an email before turning the device off.
-End Chapter-