Black and White

19.Not so Stealthy

"You sure you'll be alright doing this alone," Cat asked through the comms.

"Yeah don't worry," Izaya told her. "I've already told you. Deku has been appearing less and less, and I can use all my powers pretty freely now too. Besides, the others all have their reasons for why they can't make it. Well Sadao and Sayuri are available. But Sadao isn't really a fighter and I can heal myself. As for Sayuri... well I don't think I really need to say anything."

"Actually, Sayuri isn't available. She got roped into that last minute stuff with tengai."

"Oh I bet he's going to love that. Well, better not fuck with him when next time I see him. I can already see the stress in his eyes."

While this conversation was going on, Tengai yelled out in frustration in another part of the city at the river.. He was currently at a storage area where small cargo ships would stock up or unload. But this one was different from other areas like it, something that was currently obvious because of the several armed thugs.

He opened a portal underneath his feet, falling through and avoiding a hail of bullets. He came out next to Sayuri who was taking cover behind a pile of crates. "Dammit Sayuri, I thought you used your quirk to calm them down and make them sleepy," Tengai growled.

"Down boy. I think it's normal for these people to snap out of drowsiness when they see someone who is obviously not a part of their group, but also against them. You should already know this by now."

"And you should know to be ready for the fight. But you stood there just watching us and almost got yourself filled with lead. If I hadn't saved you then I would be returning with the dead body of one annoying piece of dead weight."

They both stood up suddenly and pulled out a gun, pointing them in the others direction before firing. Behind each of them, a thug fell to the ground, knocked out by a tranquilizer. Tengai tossed his gun to Sayuri before arming himself with brass knuckles. Meanwhile, Sayuri began climbing the crates, making her way to the top.

Tengai lunged out from around the corner and struck a man in the face, knocking him out cold. "Bitch duck," Sayuri yelled out.

Tengai, as much as he didn't want to respond to being called a bitch, ducked, avoiding a blow from a thug who had turned his hands into sludge hammers. He spun around a tried to munch him in the gut, but was blocked by one of his hands. The thug swung his free hand, but Tengai opened a portal and redirected the attack to... the man's crotch. The thug feel to his knees, his hands back to normal and clutching his now more than bruised balls, his vision going blurry. Tengai delivered a quick blow to the man's face, finishing him.

"Bitch, in front of you!"

Tengai looked up and saw a man with a scorpion tail run forward and beginning to prepare to attack with his stinger. "I see them!" He ran forward, opening a portal to redirect the tail's attack. But this thug saw what happened to the last one and jumped away, not wanting to stab himself in the crotch. But as he did, Tengai appeared from another portal behind him and knocked him out with a solid blow to the back of the head.

"Behind you!"

"I don't need the play by play," Tengai shouted as he spun around, creating a portal to redirect a hail of bullets to around the three attackers. As the smoke and dust cleared, Tengai saw that they had been knocked out by Sayuri. Looking around he saw that everyone had been taken care of and gave a small sigh of relief while rubbing the back of his neck.

"Very good job," Sayuri told him while walking up.

"Have you done this before?"

"My job or annoying the fuck out of you?"