Motivation (Rewrite)

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Hey, kids, and welcome back to the second installment of my Motivation rewrite. This chapter is a good 1.2k words longer than the last one, so that's fun.

Haruma wasn't overly concerned at the sudden disappearance of Kimura after the sludge villain fiasco, used to the boss's kid appearing and disappearing randomly. Except said boss had just texted him, asking if he knew where his son was, and Haruma did not have an answer.

See, he was pretty darn sure that Kimura would've headed off to the agency after All Might had shown up and ended the stand-off in the blink of an eye, but if he wasn't already there, then... Well, Haruma was at a loss. That is, until he saw the discarded phone face-down on the sidewalk bearing the familiar custom case that Kimura had designed himself.

Um.

Haruma picked up the phone before it could get snatched up by a random person, cringing at the sight of the large crack spiderwebbing across the screen protector. Not ideal, but it could be replaced. In the meantime, well, Haruma had never been more grateful that Kimura had reprogrammed his phone to have different logins for different people.

The hero turned on the phone and entered the personal passcode he'd been given nearly a year prior, never actually having used it before. Sure enough, though, it worked exactly as Kimura had said it would, opening up to a screen with precisely five unnamed apps.... and a blurred picture of himself. Specifically while he was hunched in the common room of the agency with both thumbs pressed into his temples, staring in obvious distress at the screen of his laptop and the homework that was no doubt present on it.

Haruma couldn't help but snicker at the photo, opening the app he assumed to be a location tracker with an amused shake of his head. As far as he knew, Kimura had a digital watch he'd similarly messed around with that he'd linked to his phone, so in theory...

The man cheered quietly to himself at the sight of two green dots on the map that appeared, one marking where Haruma himself was standing and the other... supposedly directly to his right inside the building? That made zero sense, considering that the building directly to his right just so happened to be a bar. Kimura, meanwhile, was barely fifteen.

Haruma frowned, scanning the building from base to roof, and sent a weak shockwave through the walls with a light tap of his foot when the visual search revealed nothing. As always, finding people was so much easier when he used his Quirk, and this time was no exception. Granted, there were numerous people present on all floors of the building, but Haruma's shockwaves always seemed to... glitch when they passed through his boss's kid.

Something to do with his Quirk, no doubt. A similar thing happened with the elder Kimura, but it was barely noticeable even when Haruma had deliberately checked.

His shoulders sagged momentarily in relief at the very glitch he was so familiar with making itself known a couple seconds later, indicating that Kimura was on the roof. For some reason—Haruma was never one to judge without probable cause, especially with people as interesting as the Kimuras—but it was still so random.

He sighed as he pushed into the bar, ignoring the inevitable stares from the day-drinkers and waitstaff to head to the stairwell. Haruma was no stranger to climbing the stairs of every building he entered, and so it didn't take long for him to reach the roof access door and ease it open.

The hero was suddenly reminded of the importance of paying attention to everything his shockwaves encountered, rather than cutting them off the moment he found what he was looking for.

Specifically, because Haruma was now face-to-face with All Might.

It would've been incredible, getting to meet the hero he'd looked up to as a little kid like so many others, had it not been for one small detail.