The Hero's Stand

28: Morioh First Impressions

"Isn't Morioh just a small town in Japan? There aren't any heroes or villains there." I said

"Not in the way you know them. It's been a while since I've been there but I'm still in contact. I just hope they haven't rounded up all the rouge stand users around the place."

"There's other stand users?" Asked Ochaco

"Yes. Quite a lot actually thanks to a certain few arrows. Not that long ago, maybe a few months ago, I sent an accomplice of mine into Italy to investigate someone I thought would be dangerous. That's the same reason I took interest in you two."

"You saw us as threats?" I asked

"Anyone powerful is a threat if left alone. These things are always worth investigating."

I stayed quiet after that. Right up until we got to Ochaco's house. Her parents took far less convincing, they just wanted their daughter to be happy and safe. And with a man like Jotaro around safe was a given.

The next day at school it was the last day for the choices of internships to be made so many people were talking about their thoughts on the event. There was also gossip going around about the recent actions of some guy called 'Stain' who was going around killing heroes in the area around Hosu city.

Me and Ochaco weren't worried though. Jotaro was taking us to Morioh to meet some people he knew. I was excited to meet them. You had to be either very strong or very respectable to get the attention of Jotaro.

The end of the day had never come slower for me. I was so excited to get started with the internship that I was aware of the passing of each second. When it came I dashed out of the classroom and dragged Ochaco to the roof.

"What are we doing here Izuku?" She asked

"Taking a shortcut." I said "That's your house there isn't it?"

"Yeah but-"

"Star Platinum!"

I scooped her up and took a running start.

"The World!"

Time stopped in sync with my feet leaving the ground. We soared over 3/4 of the distance to her house in the 10 seconds and landed just as time resumed.

Ochaco had screamed all the way there but I was having fun. We ran to her house and grabbed her suitcase. I used Star Platinum to carry it all the way to my house where we met Mr Jotaro standing with my luggage.

He loaded into a private helicopter he had hired from something called the 'Speedwagon Foundation' that his 'old man' had left him majority ownership of.

We were in shock that he would spend so much money on us that we didn't get on at first.

"Well? Come on. There's people expecting us in Morioh."

We climbed on and the helicopter got us there in merely an hour. I tried asking Mr Jotaro on the way who we'd be seeing when we arrived but he just dismissed me with a 'you'll see'.

We touched down on the Morioh grand hotel roof and stepped out. Mr Jotaro led us down to a set of two rooms. He opened one of them and led us in.

It was bigger than both mine and Ochaco's houses combined, a massive open room with a window overlooking the whole town and a door leading to what I assumed was a bathroom. Mr Jotaro nudged us in.

"You should probably get used to it. You two are staying in here for most of the week."

"R-really?"

There had to be some sort of mistake. Mr Jotaro would have to be a billionaire or something to afford this. I turned around to ask him and found he was already gone and in his own room directly opposite.