Fun fact: Did you know that the kanji i used for Ketsuburo (or Chifuro) [血風呂] literally means Blood bath?

Shizuki (or Shigatsu) [四月] means April

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Ochako is nervous. Extremely so.

Her hands held the paper she was given during the Sports Festival.

It was a private invitation to Cerberus' server.

How does Midoriya get it? Does he have permision to give her this?

Hitoshi leaned in to look at the familiar sticky notes his unofficial siblings have.

"Cerberus?" Ochako jumped, putting the paper away. Hitoshi chuckled.

"Relax, i've been there." He took out his phone to show the chat room he was in.

"Oh..."

"It's ok, all of them are nice people, though one is a tsundere."

Ochako felt relief. "I'm allowed, right?"

"As long as you keep the page private, you're good." He smiled, standing up and making his way to Eijirou and Mina.

Ochako gulped and took out her phone.

*G'byeGravs has followed you*

*G'byeGravs has joined the server Welcome to Hell*

G'byeGravs: hi?

Cats4Lief: oh hey! You're fast

RockCrocs: Uraraka! Hitoshi just told us about it! This is great!

Aliensss: another girl! Yay!

Cinders: welcome to hell, i hope you have a good time

Lichtenberg: Hello!

Ochako chuckled. Shinsou is right.

But that made her wonder...

G'byeGravs: wait, you guys know me irl?

RockCrocs: yep!

RockCrocs: i'm Kirishima!

Aliensss: Ashido here!

Cats4Lief: if you can't tell by my username, i'm Shinsou.

Cinders: i only know you vaguely from the festival

Cinders: i'm Kamado Takeo

Lichtenberg: guess

G'byeGravs: isn't Lichtenberg a type of lightning scar?

G'byeGravs: it's Kaminari, right?

Lichtenberg: yep!

RockCrocs: Bro! Did you get struck by lightning?!

*Lichtenberg - Offline*

RockCrocs: bro was i too pushy?!

RockCrocs: i'm sorry!!

*RockCrocs - Offline*

Aliensss: well... That did not go as well as we planned for Uraraka's first day here...

Cats4Lief: we don't have a plan

Aliensss: i'll go look for Denki to make sure he's alright

Cats4Lief: i'm going with you.

*Cats4Lief - Offline*

*Aliensss - Offline*

Cinders: i hope he's ok

Cinders: well, congrats on meeting Cerberus, Uraraka-san

*Cinders - Offline*

G'byeGravs: meeting Cerberus?

G'byeGravs: but Midoriya-kun gave it to me

She won't get an answer yet, it seems.

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Shizuki stared at the full moon.

"Y'know, it's rude to sneak up on others."

"How did you know i was here."

The redhead turned around, facing the newcomer.

"It's for me to know, and for you to find out, Principal Nedzu."

Nedzu's eyes glinted.

"Then, you don't mind if i ask why your body reeks of blood, do you?"

The man froze.

"... So i do stink of blood."

"Huh?" Nedzu was confused. He had not been expecting this answer.

"Nevermind, what are you doing here, Rat Satan?"

The glee returned to Nedzu's voice.

"Simple, i want to recruit you as UA's teacher!"

Silence.

More silence.

Even more silence.

A crow cawwing.

"... Excuse me what the fuck?"

Shizuki was dumbstruck. Flabbergasted.

Nedzu only grinned.

A moment of panic later, the redhead finally took a breather and replied.

"Why."

Nedzu took a sip out of his tea flask.

"Real life experience training for the students." Shizuki scrunched up his face.

"Ain't those heroes enough?"

"Not enough to show the students the true horrors of the world, Red Reaper-san. Or should i say, the Harvester? The Scarecrow? Or is it-"

Shizuki's eye twitched.

"I don't care if you know my face, the answer is still 'no'." And with that, he jumped away.

Nedzu only grinned.

"I hope you reconsider, Ketsuburō Shizuki-san."

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Shizuki sighed in annoyance as he evaded another underground hero.

'Fucking UA's principal.'

He whipped out his phone, and contacted one of Cerberus' private chatrooms.

Mink: no patrolling tonight

Owl: why is that?

Bat: Zuki-san's scary when he's not crazy

Mink: underground heroes

Mink: from Rat Satan

Mink: lots of em

Fox: roger that

Shizuki sighed.

"Why is it that the scarecrow attracts crows?.."

The redhead stayed for a while, waiting for the blood sources to go away, before slipping out of the alley.

"Been a while since i've been on the run. Don't miss those old days, that's for sure."

'When i still thought i have Haemokinesis.'

The man climbed onto a rooftop and dissapeared into the city.

A stray thought crossed his mind.

'How many years has it been since i last saw you?'

What does that mean?...

Saw who?...

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Izuku yawned as he finished his homework.

Shizuki said no patrolling tonight, so it was boring.

"I wanna do something." Himiko said from her upside down at the wall.

"Let's go out normally then. We're technically not patrolling as Cerberus anyway." Dabi suggested.

"Good idea, let me grab a hoodie." Izuku snatched a white long-sleeved shirt that said 'hoodie'. Himiko and Dabi shook their heads in exasperation.

"Only you, bro. Only you."

"Be careful, you three!" Inko called once they reached the door.

"Yes, mom!"

"We will!"

Their peaceful walks started normally.

Until they saw an underground hero zoom by.

"Is that the Shadow Binding Hero: Kagemane?"

"Zuki-san was serious, huh."

"Not gonna lie, Nedzu really puts him on edge. No explaination as to why."

Izuku shrugged, and the three fell back into their peaceful night walk.

There wasn't much to do today.

"Ah! It's you, the Midoriya kid in GenEd!"

The trio turned to the voice. And the younger duo recognized him.

"You're the Copycat, aren't you?" Izuku hummed. "Monoma Neito, class 1-B."

The blonde puffed his chest in pride.

"Yeah, and we're way better than 1-A!"

Izuku shrugged.

"Sure. Convince yourself all you want."

"Huh?" Monoma was confused. What is this guy saying?

"You might be better in terms of power, intelligence, or teamwork wise. But do you realize what you lack?"

"What we lack?"

"Experience." Dabi supplied. "You can only get when you have gone through it."

"You have not experienced what 1-A have. You have not seen what they have gone through." What Hitoshi told them about the USJ, and what Monoma had said, boiled their blood.

"You thinking that way, how you belittle those who you don't know just because of their ranks, how you still think power comes from the quirk itself, makes me think you are a child, an arrogant child who still plays heroes and villains and thinks the world is black and white." Himiko growled, shocking the copycat.

"What do you know about pain?" He bit back. "What do you know about the feeling of being nothing because everyone thinks your quirkless?! What do you know about being told you are a villain by the ones who were once your friends?! What do you know about having a freak mutation quirk that's useless on it's own?!"

The last two hit a nerve.

The trio went dead silence, and Monoma took a step back when they looked at him and said in sync, with eyes so sharp they could cut metal.

"Apparently, more than you."

The blonde was left alone when the trio spun around and walked away.

'I'm such an idiot.' Neito sighed to himself.

'Why is it my arrogance seems to get in the way of everything?'

He messed up.

They were right.

He is quick to judge people from a single glance.

But her statement...

Why does it hit him so hard?

"You sound like an arrogant kid who still plays Heroes and Villains and thinks the world is black and white, Neito. This might be bad, but you have yet to experience true pain. Before that, though, i hope you grow up first!"

Neito only remembered those words, and that bright fangy grin.

Who is that?...

Despite the question, a strange question crossed his mind.

'How many years has it been since you dissapeared?..'

Who dissapeared?