The Emerald Prince

By whimsical_girl_357

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Aizawa watched Izuku drink his black coffee, gazing absently out the window. The underground hero couldn't he... More

Author's note
Chapter 1: Out in the Cold
Chapter 2: Under the neon lights
Chapter 3: Catching Rainbows
Chapter 4: A Chance Meeting
Chapter 5: New pages
Chapter 6: Bitter revelations
Chapter 7: Under the Stars
Chapter 8: A house, a home
Chapter 9: Face like Thunder
Chapter 10: Raining on Parades
Chapter 11: Breaking the Ice
Chapter 12: Stealing Thunder
Chapter 13: New leaves
Chapter 14: Level up
Chapter 15: Gaining allies
Chapter 16: Bolt from the Blue
Chapter 18: Sparks fly
Chapter 19: Oncoming storm
Chapter 20: Dancing with devils
Chapter 21: Recovery
Chapter 22: Unseen Currents
Chapter 23: Far from the Madding Crowd
Chapter 24: Ready, Set
Chapter 25: Lady's first
Chapter 26: Call the Cavalry
Chapter 27: Heart's Resolve
Chapter 28: Open arms
Chapter 29: Playing games
Chapter 30: A Gentle soul
Chapter 31: Guilt
Chapter 32: The Big Three
Chapter 33: The Art of Winning
Chapter 34: Two Brothers
Chapter 35: The Other Side
Recap: Chapters 1 - 35
Chapter 36: Admitting defeat
Chapter 37: Competition
Chapter 38: Decisions, Decisions.
Chapter 39: Honesty is the best policy
Chapter 40: Dual wielders
Chapter 41: While the Jury's out
Chapter 42: Repercussions
Chapter 43: Tensei
Chapter 44: Hawk and Dove
Chapter 45: The Greater Good
Chapter 46: Two bunnies
Chapter 47: Testing times
Chapter 48: Apologies
Chapter 49: Dignity and Pride
Chapter 50: Playing Dirty
Chapter 51: A familiar stranger
Chapter 52: League of their own
Chapter 53: Spilling Secrets
Chapter 54: Level up II
Chapter 55: Work hard, play hard
Chaper 56: Poker faces
Chapter 57: Parental guidance
Chapter 58: Two halves
Chapter 59: Kidnappers
Chapter 60: Rescuers
Chapter 61: A Dangerous Crowd
Chapter 62: Touch
Chapter 63: Floats like a butterfly
Chapter 64: Night terrors
Chapter 65: Logical Ruse
Chapter 66: Playing Hooky
Chapter 67: Gossip girls
Chapter 68: The Protector
Chapter 69: Childhoods
Chapter 70: Romance
Chapter 71: Copy cat to Scaredy cat
Chapter 72: Revelry in the Dark
Chapter 73: Hell's Teeth
Chapter 74: Clearing the air
Chapter 75: non-Problem children
Chapter 76: Inside out
Chapter 77: All I am
Chapter 78: Big Asks
Chapter 79: Guardian Angel
Chapter 80: Never Trust
Recap: Chapters 36 - 80
Chapter 81: Home again, home again
Chapter 82: Reconnection
Chapter 83: Reunion
Chapter 84: Safe and Sound
Chapter 85: Transparent
Chapter 86: Cracking masks
Chapter 87: Transformations
Chapter 88: Fresh Starts
Chapter 89: Beautiful scars
Chapter 90: Eri
Chapter 91: Morning after
Chapter 92: Essentials
Chapter 93: Comings and goings
Chapter 94: I spy
Chapter 95: His Strays
Chapter 96: Gunpowder and Plot
Chapter 97: Thumb Trick
Author note
Chapter 98: Read the rooms
Chapter 99: Izuhunt
Chapter 100: A Hot Date
Chapter 101: Dumb blonds
Chapter 102: Tortured Mind
Chapter 103: Pancake Pals
Chapter 104: Money, Money, Money
Chapter 105: The Tiger and His Cub
Chapter 106: Sunshine and Rainbows
Chapter 107: Golden Slumber
Chapter 108: Temptress
Chapter 109: Kiri's night in
Chapter 110: Tick Tock
Chapter 111: Cures
Chapter 112: Absence
Chapter 113: Oh Brother
Chapter 114: Two Hearts
Chapter 115: Loud Cloud
Chapter 116: Darkest of Blues
Chapter 117: The Greatest Fear of All
Chapter 118: Pulling Through
Chapter 119: Aftercare
Chapter 120: Hawk 'n Love
Chapter 121: Marauders
Chapter 122: Truth
Chapter 123: Dare
Chapter 124: A Dark Turn
Chapter 125: Fortunes and Futures
Chapter 126: Best Laid Plans
Chapter 127: To the Underworld
Chapter 128: Gravity
Chapter 129: Cake Day
Chapter 130: Coasting Rollers
Chapter 131: Cloudy nights
Chapter 132: Meet the Hiniyukis
Chapter 133: I like boys
Art Competition Results!
Chapter 134: All Might, No Mind
Chapter 135: On Your Marks
Chapter 136: Getting Set
Chapter 137: Fight On
Chapter 138: Eleventh Hour
Chapter 139: Hisashi
Chapter 140: Ripples
Chapter 141: Air Bending
Chapter 142: Who wants to play?
Chapter 143: The Empress
Chapter 144: Why don't you do right?
Chapter 145: Bonds and Binds
Chapter 146: Make mine a double
Chapter 147: To the stars
Chapter 148: Over All
Chapter 149: Closure
Chapter 150: Ball Rolling
Chapter 151: Temptation
Chapter 152: Last Bows
Author Note
Epilogue

Chapter 17: In the dark

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By whimsical_girl_357


Izuku didn't know why he was running, only that his 'instinct' was telling him to. He followed it, rounding a corridor unfamiliar to him and approaching a partly opened door.

Peering cautiously around it, he watch a pale blue haired man rifling through papers in a dingy nondescript office. He had a choice. He gritted his teeth.

"Excuse me sir, can I help you?"

The jump the man made would have caused Izuku to laugh if not for the situation. And if not for a year in a glorified brothel he would have flinched at the mess of a face that turned to regard his own.
The man clearly relaxed at the sight of a mere student, turning back to his work without even bothering to reply.

Izuku took the opportunity to examine the character that had the confidence or stupidity to let down his guard like that. He was nearly six foot, pretty tall, though almost everyone was compared to Izuku. The man was all in black clothing, and grimy black at that. Izuku could fully appreciate the sense of wearing dark clothing when you're breaking into a place, but with the man's over confidence...it suggested the guy was of an emo persuasion. Then again, how many preppy villains could there be?

Shaking himself out of that strange line of thought, Izuku realised his target was sifting through the last of the papers, and he hastily got back to the relevant information.
The man's quirk. A very dangerous quirk.
Well, to most people.

"That's quite the quirk you have." He said lightly, like he was admiring the man's coal black hoodie or commenting on the weather.
Unsurprisingly, that got his target's attention. He stopped what he was doing and turned to properly look at Izuku for the first time.
"Oh?"
Bless, he was still trying to act cool. Izuku looked him up and down slowly.
"Disintegration..." he elaborated. "You must have been discriminated against for years. Must have been awful and to have to be so careful every moment..."

Seemed he hit a sore spot, as the villain shuddered, jaw locking in anger.
"You know nothing, hero wannabe, now scram unless you want to experience it." The blue haired man spat, dismissing the greenette with a glare. Unique as this student was, he had bigger priorities.

"I don't think you could."
The voice was gentle, yet carried a confidence. Not the vain over confidence of a teen drunk on admiring words, but of someone who had fought before.
Suddenly, the student rose in significance relative to the documents, and the man turned and walked to the doorway.

Shigiraki moved his hand with slow inevitability, waiting, but instead of flinching away, the student moved his own hand so first four and then all five tips met each other. He stared at their hands in shock before raising his gaze to meet the greenette's now glowing eyes.

"What is your name." He almost demanded.
"Akagi. Yours?"
"Call me Tomura. You are a strange one. Your quirk reminds me of Eraserhead's. Please tell me you aren't his, Akagi." Asked Shigaraki, a glimmer of a threat in his words.
"No." Izuku said calmly. "Who do you represent or work for, Tomura?"
"The great League of Villains, obviously. And I'm only bothering to talk to you because I got what I came for, and can leave anytime."

"What can you tell me?" Asked the greenette, lacing admiration and curiosity in his tone.
"I'd rather ask the questions. Akagi, if you can disable quirks, how did you know mine?"
Izuku withdrew his hand and placed his index finger over his lips, gently closing the door behind him. Thundering footsteps could be heard outside, but passed them.

With the door closed, the room was only lit by Izuku's glowing eyes. Izuku looked under his lashes deliberately and minutely adjusted his stance and body language from relaxed confident, to sexy confident. Combined with the distraction of the footsteps outside, the taller male completely forgot his question.

"You wouldn't be interested in a visit to the dark side would you, little hero?"

Izuku chuckled, Shigiraki noted it was a pretty sound, the teen sounded much like a voice actor from one of his games, and looked like a model.
...A model he could touch with all five fingers.

He pushed Izuku against the door and bent low.
"You really are confident, to laugh at an offer like that, when pressed like this. I'm in complete control, and a villain; perhaps I'll just take you with me."

"You wouldn't, and your eyes tell me converting me isn't your priority right now. Besides I dislike designating people as heroes or villains, good or evil."

Shigiraki stared into those glowing eyes.
"What the hell are you."
"An unknown entity." Replied the greenette with that bizarre confidence that didn't befit a sixteen year old. And without another word he raised a hand and pulled Shigiraki down.

Shigiraki was surprised as soft lips pressed against his cracked ones. But this was his first kiss and with a beauty at that, so he kissed back willingly enough, only for Izuku to pull away grinning and slip around the door.

"I'm betting I'll be seeing you soon in an official capacity, won't I, Tomura?"

The blue haired male nodded dumbly, dazed and with that the door closed.

Shigiraki was very confused. Very very confused. He took a moment, but the noise of a approaching teachers outside was enough.

"Kurogiri!"

———

Izuku darted from the corridor, hearing people he dived into a girls' bathroom, thankfully empty. And tried to let his heart slow down.

"How the fuck did I get away with that?" He asked weakly to his pale reflection, staring at the text before his eyes as his legs finally gave out from nerves and he collapsed onto the tiled and thankfully clean floor.

Decay
Take Copy Leave

He hesitated. The quirk was dangerous, but belonged to a villain...there was no moral issue with taking it. But.
If that guy had any links to his original father...the fake name wouldn't delay them at all, and if they worked out the link to kissing...too risky. He selected copy and left to find Aizawa.

He shivered as he thought over the quirk. That man must have suffered a great deal, and inspite of the realism he had acquired in spades, he wished that Tomura could be rescued in some way. That kiss...he'd reciprocated it. And it could be used as both carrot or a stick.

He found Aizawa with the rest of the faculty, examining the barrier. The look on his face was enough to draw his father away from the worried mass.

———

The Erasure Hero didn't know what to think.

As a teacher he should punish him for his recklessness.

As a hero he should praise Izuku for the invaluable information he obtained, and the quirk.

As a father he should be telling his son off for taking risks?
Not sounding the alarm?
Kissing strange and dangerous men?

In the end, he went for a bizarre combination of the three.
"That was amazingly executed and incredibly reckless, now go wash your face and tell no one abo- no one except Bakugou of what just happened."

Izuku nodded, smiling apologetically before disappearing off to the nearest bathroom.

Aizawa sighed, rubbing his temples and tried to process just how much Izuku had managed to extract from the man in one conversation.

"He said his name was Tomura without hesitation, so I think it is likely a name he regularly uses if not his own. He said he came from the league of villains. He has a method of escaping anywhere in an instant and considering his own quirk, it is clearly someone else's, and no one else was there so the person doesn't have to be in the vicinity to activate it.

When I said I'd see him soon, he nodded on reflex, meaning his group will probably be attacking UA students at some point in the near future, the documentation he was rifling through was about trips so that supports that case.

The reason he is a villain is likely due to how others treated him due to his quirk, I'll bet it caused him some tragedies too. He is not good at reading people or used to interacting with people, every lie I spoke, however unconvincing, he took as truth and he had answers coaxed out of him easily.

He is childish and probably impulsive, and though I don't know how relevant it is...that was 100% his first kiss. I know it is silly, but I think he could be saved if you catch him, or alternatively knowing what I did could be used to throw him off his game in a fight."

He had a truly formidable son.

———

Name: Decay
Ability: Able to disintegrate whatever the user touches with all five fingers excepting the user.
Side effects: Trauma. Lots and lots of trauma.
Drawbacks: Causes dry skin and can't be deactivated.

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