MHA: The Warping Hero

2 - Growing Up

School infinitely became more bearable now since I befriended Shinso. It's been a week since our meeting on the rooftop and we've been hanging out with each other ever since. It helps since he's a lot more mature than the rest of the kids at our school.

However, it was 2 days into our friendship when I realized just why exactly Shinso acts so differently than a regular elementary school kid.

We were walking down the corridor when the whispers started.

"It's him.."

"What's he doing with Kazuya, did he use his quirk on him?"

"He's scary."

"Villain..."

I got confused the first time I heard them. What the hell were they talking about? What villain?

It was when I looked at Shinso's direction that I realized they were talking about him. He was trying his best to ignore the whispers but it was obvious that they were getting to him by the way he clenched his fists.

"I'm sure you wanna know what that was all about." Shinso said to me with a shaky smile the moment we reached the rooftop. "I won't lie and say I'm not curious. Did you do something to those kids? Why did they call you a villain?"

"It's because of my quirk." Shinso replied with a sigh. "My quirk is Brainwash. It allows me to take control of a person as long as they answer my question. With an ability like that, when people found out they immediately got scared because of its villainous nature."

"Brainwash? That's actually pretty impressive."

It was obvious that my response threw him quite a loop. He was staring at me wide eyed like he just heard something unbelievable.

"W-What?"

I chuckled at his reaction. "Like i said, it's pretty impressive. Imagine the things you could do with that as a hero. You could stop villains in their tracks with just words. You'll be invaluable in hostage situations. Not to mention with no fights, you also prevent any form of property damage happening to the environment. There's so many things you could do with it to help people."

"You really think i could be a hero?" Shinso asks with nervousness. It's clear that this is the first time he's actually heard other people acknowledge him. It's pretty crazy what words from other children could do to a person.

"Yep. I wanna be a hero too. It's always been my dream to be one. I wanna be a person other people could rely on. A person that my parents can be proud of."

Shinso looked at me with wide eyes. My declaration igniting something within him. "Me too. I wanna be a hero to prove that a quirk doesn't define a person. That even a person with a villainous quirk like mine could use it to help people."

I gained a wide smile after hearing him. I extended my hand to him, "Well then Shinso, let's do our best to be heroes together." Shinso with a wide smirk immediately took my hand with a clap.

"So, what's your quirk?" Shinso asked me after we took out our respective lunches. "I call it Teleportation Tags. I can place these tags or markers on things that I touch. These tags allow me to teleport to wherever they're located."

"A teleportation quirk? Isn't that like, super rare?" Shinso asked with a raised eyebrow. "Kinda yeah. Teleportation or warping quirks are very rare to come by. I only got mine because it was an offshoot of my moms." I replied with a shrug.

We continued talking until the bell rang. I don't know if it was my imagination, but Shinso seemed a lot more talkative after the whole 'I wanna be hero" thing. Looks like it was something he kept in his chest for a long time, and is finally glad he could get it out.