Chapter 5: Almost died again!
I woke up the next morning, well-rested and relaxed but then the memories of the previous night came surging in. With how the Tanuki man paralyzed me with just his bloodlust alone and how Ectoplasm defeated him so easily. I guess last night was a reminder that I'm still not ready to fight actual villains, as they are a lot different than your average petty thief or gangster.
Well now that I know what a real villain is like, I can prepare better and I should slowly become more resistant to bloodlust and killing intent. So after contemplating what I could do in the future I got out of bed and took a shower then got dressed and walked downstairs. When I got downstairs I smelled the familiar scent of Miso soup and tamagoyaki with some Kobachi. "Good morning Gosai, How are you feeling?" Mom said while setting the table while dad was already sitting down on the tatami floor. "I'm fine Mom, just a little bit shaken up from last night."
Dad exhaled. "Gosai, what happened yesterday was dangerous. You shouldn't have been out there so late at night."
"I know but it wasn't my fault there was a psycho chasing people through the forest, and I wanted to help out anyway," I said while sitting down next to Dad. "It doesn't matter if it was your fault or not, you should have just called the police instead of stepping in yourself." Mom finished setting the table and sat down with Dad and me. "Itadakimasu," We all said before starting to eat. "Im sorry, It's just I thought I was ready to take down a villain, with all the martial arts and quirk training I've been doing. I understand you're mad at me."
Mom sight before speaking, "Gosai, we're not mad at you for wanting to help. We're mad because you're not ready to be in situations like that. You're only eleven, you could have died."
"I understand, next time I'll be more careful,l," I said after taking a bite of Kobachi. "Well there won't be a next time until you are a hero, ok Gosai?"
"Yeah, got it dad"
-1 Hour later-
I met up with Ryuko on the way to school after leaving my house and saying goodbye to my parents. "Gosai I heard what happened from my parents, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine don't worry about it. It all turned out well, and the villain got arrested while the other person only fainted with no injuries." I said in response. After this, we just talked while walking toward the school. Once we got there and went to class, people flooded around my desk, asking whether I was ok or not and what hero saved me.
After getting through the school day I told Ryuko that I didn't want to fight today. So I went back to the forest, and I saw scorch marks on the ground at the entrance from the Tanuki man's flaming sword. Today I'll work on my observation haki by sensing animals, and when I can fully sense them with ease I'll go into the city and turn it on. I could maybe figure out if I could distinguish people from one another without looking. Eventually, It should be at the level where I could use my haki consistently during fights and patrolling.
I put on a blindfold and turned on my observation haki, gaining that purple view of the world around me but still blurry, but I could sense animals scurrying around on the ground. As I walked through the trail in the forest, I used my haki to move out of the way of low-hanging branches and rocks on the ground. And I ran into the same cat that I saw when I first started training my observation haki.
I decided to follow it, but as soon as I came close to it, it heard me and it bolted. he quickly ran down the trail and out of the forest and out of my range. I chased after the cat at full speed, fully relying on my haki to navigate the forest. I followed it for 5 minutes straight, it went from one end of the forest to the other and eventually made it out and continued down the road. After a sharp corner, I was finally starting to get tired and I stopped to regain my breath as I turned off my observation haki.
I gave up chasing the cat and I decided to walk back home, but I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and almost walked into a tree. Someone caught me by the back of my shirt and stopped me before I hit the tree. "You should pay attention to your surroundings more Mr.Shiramochi." Said a familiar voice. I turned around and saw that it was Ectoplasm who stopped me. "Oh hello Ectoplasm, yeah I usually never run into things like this, but what are you doing here?"
"Well I'm patrolling of course, what kind of hero would I be if I wasn't," Ectoplasm said while chuckling, "But what are you doing out here so late again Shiramochi?"
" I was just going home from training" Ectoplasm looked at me and asked," Why?, are you planning to become a hero?" I nodded and said that me and my friend have been training since we got our quirks to become heroes. But after I explained this a loud explosion rocked a house across from us, setting it on fire. Ectoplasm rushed toward the house and shouted, "Stay there and call the police!"
"Got it!" I pulled out my phone and dialed the police, my heart pounding as I watched Ectoplasm spit out five clones, each one rushing toward the burning house. I watched one clone rush into the house but it got blasted out by a wave of flames. A Mexican-looking man who was at least 6'7 and with brown eyes walked out in a matching pair of dark blue shirt and shorts, with bright orange flames on his feet and hands like gloves and boots. " Hey hero, get outta here it ain't your business." the man said.
"Sorry but meddling in other people's business is part of our job, and Im going to have to lock you up," replied Ectoplasm as two of his clones rushed at the man with a pincer attack. One of the clones led with a high kick to the chest while the other went for a quick jab at his chest, but the man smirked and blurred out of the way. He sent a wave of fire at the other clones not fighting, distracting them, then turned around and snapped his leg toward the two attackers at an incomprehensible speed. Flames sliced through the air in an impressive show of control, cutting through both heads of the clones.
"Is that all you can do hero?", the villain mocked, laughing, but the remaining Ectoplasm clones spit out 4 each, making it a ten-on-one. Ectoplasm said nothing and all of his clones rushed in, each one attacking a different place on the villain's body. The villain blasted flames from his feet and flew into the air, and the condensed flames around his fists and punched forward multiple times, each punch sending out columns of flames toward the clone's location. They tried to dodge but couldn't get away in time which resulted in them getting melted down. However, another clone appeared behind the man kicking his head, not unlike what Ectoplasm did with the Tanuki villain.
The man turned around just in time and crossed his arms for a block, but the kick sent him flying into the grass sending dirt and roots flying up. He got back up blood dripping from his head, and said, "Oho that was some kick, you know what? I'll let you know the name of your killer today. Alejandro Cruz, the one who killed 15 pro heroes, and went head to head with Mexico's number 4 hero Relámpago".
"It doesn't matter who you are the only thing that matters is your defeat!" Ectoplasm shouted back but Cruz yelled again, "Then let's dance!" He instantly rushed forward running, the the road breaking from the flames on his feet. Ectoplasm made clones that rushed in to attack in perfect sync like ninjas, Cruz made flaming whips from his hands and spun like a Beyblade exploding clones everywhere. He then shot out a laser-like flame toward Ectoplasm, slicing off his legs and instantly cauterizing the wound afterward.
"Ectoplasm!" I yelled, the rest of the clones melted into a smudge after the injury but Cruz turned to me. "A kid? What the hell are you doing here? Oh well, might as well get rid of you too" A familiar bloodlust came from Cruz, it seemed he was focusing it on Ectoplasm the whole fight and ignored me the whole time. He then rushed at me and time slowed down as my vision turned purple-tinted. 'Come on Gosai move!' I inwardly shouted at myself, and it surprisingly got me to make a move.
I shouted "Gatoringu Mochi!", as mochi tendrils with hardened tips sprouted from my back and shot forward like bullets, but Cruz swung his whips with perfect control, matching every punch with a strike and occasional fire shot through at me. But I quickly backed up and retracted the punches, and putting my hand on the ground raised a wall of hardened mochi to block the fire. My haki gave me a slight burning sensation all over my body and in response I made a mochi wave carrying me to the side.
And sure enough, a giant flame pillar melted the mochi-like it was paper and scorched the ground where I was standing. I used Yanagi mochi and raised my leg like I was doing an axe kick and turned it into mochi that split into 8 long legs. I extended them and slammed them down toward Cruz but he blurred yet again and dodged it easily. "Hey, kid you're not so bad at fighting, almost on the level of some of the heroes I killed. And what are you like eleven? twelve? That impres-"
Right when Cruz said that an Ectoplasm clone swept his leg and jumped and spun its other leg down toward Cruz's head, but Cruz rolled out of the way dodging it and sent a wave of fire that obliterated the clone. "I will never let a simple flesh wound keep me out of action Villain!" shouted ectoplasm who was leaning against some rubble. "Huh!?, How are you even awake pest?!" Ectoplasm then spat out dozens of clones that started merging while some split off to occupy Cruz.
"Ultimate move: Giant Bite Detention"
A giant Ectoplasm head formed from the many clones and lunged toward Cruz with its mouth wide open. "Now it's finally starting to get fun here!" The temperature around me then increased massively, and Cruz's flames started to melt the asphalt of the road. He sent a massive fist of fire toward the giant Ectoplasm which made flinch back screeching.
While Ectoplasm and Cruz were occupied, I was on the ground wheezing for breath, my whole body was extremely exhausted from only 1 minute of fighting. I sat there for a few seconds thinking about whether to re-enter the fight or not, but I saw a glint out of the corner of my eye. My hands turned jet black, "Is this armament haki? Yes! Finally, my power should increase immensely now!" I almost started to cry from relief, and I focused on my arm, getting used to the feeling. But as I was illuminated with happiness, another explosion almost made my body go flying if not for digging my hands into the ground.
A flaming police car was on my left, It seemed while I was looking at my new power the police arrived. "Hey someone get this kid out of here!" a policeman shouted as another ran up to me. But I dodged his hands and ran towards the fight between Ectoplasm and Cruz, zigzagging through the hastily parked police cars while dodging and weaving grabbing hands. I finally got through them all and came to a stop watching a few clones getting destroyed by flames and the giant one getting punched in the face by fire.
"Zō mochi gatoringu!" More mochi sprouted from my back and formed into gigantic tendrils, each matching the size of a small car. Cruz heard me and turned his head, only to be met by dozens of massive mochi tendrils flying toward his face. He quickly made a tornado of flames, burning of the mochi. But while he did that the giant Ectoplasm clone slammed its head into the ground disrupting Cruz's balance.
With that attack, I covered the ground in mochi, then made a mochi club out of my arm the size of a small RV and covered it in my newly gained armament haki.
"Mochi Tsukami Sumasshu!"
While Cruz was regaining his balance I swung the club arm at him with full force which hit him and he got stuck to it with the momentum. I spun the club around my head rapidly and bent my legs, using mochi pillars to send myself in the air. I threw the club up, reaching around the height of a 4-story building, I kept it there for a few seconds and then slammed my arm down, bringing the club and Cruz down with it.
"BOOOOOOOM!!"
The ground exploded again with debris flying everywhere and police officers taking cover behind their cars with the real body of Ectoplasm in hand. I fell and landed on the mochi I spread on the floor before, and the purple tint of observation and the jet-black armament haki disappeared before I blacked out.