Cloak

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"You're the idiot!" I yell and sit upright suddenly. My vision goes black from the sudden movement, and when it clears I look around. I'm in the nurse's office and Recovery Girl is staring at me with her mouth agape. I cover my mouth with a hand and apologize over and over again. "I'm so sorry, I just had a weird dream."

"Moving on from that." She waves her hand in the air in a dismissive way. "Your injuries are healed, though they were only minor. You seemed to have passed out from exhaustion, did you use your Quirk too much?"

"Yeah I guess," I say quickly. "Never mind me though, is the girl okay?" I question.

"She'll be fine, you don't need to worry. Now you should head home, and get a good night's rest." She dismisses me.

I stand up next to the bed on stable legs, grab my bag from the floor, and walk to the door. I pause, then turn back to Recovery Girl. "Um, before I passed out someone caught me. Did you see who it was?" I ask her.

"No, you were lying on the ground with the girl you were carrying."

"Oh, okay." I'm still curious about who caught me. Not because I really want to thank them, but because I'm annoyed they called me an idiot for passing out, as if that's a dumb thing to do.

I exit the school and start my walk home. My house isn't very close, but it's easier to avoid people by taking back alleyways and such. It's always possible someone will recognize me from crimes I've committed in the past.

I open my bag to make sure everything is still in there. I always keep my black cloak with me in case I need to conceal my identity. It's the same cloak I used as a villain, so I should probably get a new one, even if it's a very generic cloak. Nowadays I use it for other reasons.

As I'm zipping my bag back up, I hear a bloodcurdling scream. I instinctively cover my ears, then look around for the source. It sounded like it came from just on the other side of this house. I activate a flight Quirk as I pull the cloak over me. My mom shouldn't mind if I'm a little late, I pull the hood over my head and jump up into the air, flying to the other side of the house.

I land and switch my Quirk to my favorite offensive Quirk. It's a Quirk that can create any blades from the palm of my hands.

I create a sword in my right hand and a short, jagged blade in my left. I stand in a fighting stance, taking in my surroundings. A villain stands across from me, holding an elementary school boy by the neck in his left hand. The boy is missing his right arm, and blood is gushing out of the would. The villain takes the boy's arm, and to my horror, starts to eat it. I immediately recognize the Quirk. Cannibalism, a Quirk where if the user eats a part of a human that exact body part will grow on their body in a random place.

The villain in front of me is part of the torture branch in my dad's corporation. I know him, but I can't show my face. In the most masculine voice I can muster, I growl at the villain, "let the boy go." I can regenerate the boy's arm after freeing him from this villain.

The villain turns to me, a murderous look in his eyes. He drops the boy onto the ground and starts towards me. "You'll be my next meal." He licks his lips.

"Pervert," I mutter, and lunge at him. Instead of attacking me, he dodges my attack and pulls my hood down.

"Thought I recognized that voice, (l/n)." He smirks and steps back from me. "Pretending to be a hero? Or... are you betraying us?"

Great, he knows now. But he's just a villain, I can just kill him. He deserves it anyway. I pull my hood back up, not saying a word to him. I lunge forward again and slice off one of his many arms, leaping back just as the boy screams again. This time in fright though, as he watches the arm fall to the ground. Shit. I can't let the boy see me kill someone. I'll have to restrain him for now. I switch my Quirk to Paralysis, a Quirk I mapped from the hero kill Stain. He doesn't like my dad's corporation, but I have worked with him on multiple occasions. I lick the blood off of my sword staring the villain dead in the eye. He's paralyzed now.

I walk over to the boy and heal him arm. "Hurry home," I tell him. "But don't be scared of the big world, because heroes are always here for you." I smile at him, even though he can't see my full face he smiles back and even hugs me. I hug the little boy back, tears forming in my eyes. Being a hero can be scary and painful, but it sure is rewarding.

The boy scampers off down the street, and I turn back to the villain. "Yeah, I betrayed all of you, you evil scum. But you're not supposed to know so..." I flip the jagged blade in my left hand, smirking at him. I can see the terror in his eyes. Even though I didn't work in the torture department, he's probably heard stories about my torture methods. "No need to worry, I'll make your death swift. I have somewhere to be, so consider yourself lucky," I snarl and penetrate his heart with the blade.

I watch the life drain from his eyes, repeating over and over to myself, he deserved it. He deserved it. It's been a while since my last kill. I grab the lifeless body and heave it over to a dumpster, throwing it inside. I can't turn his body to dust because my father's Quirk doesn't work on organisms. I duck into an alley after disposing of the body and take off the cloak, shoving it in a bag. Technically I'm not supposed to be doing hero work since I'm not a hero, not to mention murder is a crime.

I hope the boy didn't see my face when the villain pulled my hood down. He must be scarred for life after having his arm cut off and eaten right in front of him. I'm glad I made him smile, even if it was just once.

I continue to my house and arrive without any more villain encounters. It's only a matter of days until I get my acceptance letter, if I even get it. Passing out while helping someone might knock down my grade a bit. Well, I'll have to wait and see then. Hopefully I get in.

Author's Note: That chapter was mainly to show that just because you want to be a hero doesn't mean you're not a villain anymore. Moving on from that, I wonder if you'll get in to U.A.? Find out in the next chapter!

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