Chapter 27 - A Taste of Fear (1/2)

The bus.

”Not tired anymore?” Mina asked Naruto teasingly as she sat next to him. Both of them were in costume, most of the class was in their various costumes actually, except for Izuku surprisingly. Apparently, in his battle training with Bakugo, his costume had gotten heavily damaged. Naruto actually wished he had seen that fight, since it sounded like it had gotten pretty intense. Naruto was awake and alert now, something that hadn't been the case an hour ago when he had been sound asleep in class. ”Feeling better, big baby boo?” Mina teased him.

*Bonk*

Mina pouted and held her hurting cranium in pain, since Naruto had given her a swift bonk to the head for her teasing. He smiled down at her though, nodding his head as he looked at everyone, and he nodded at Momo.

”Sorry Yaororozu, Uzumaki, from now on neither of you will be placed together on teams. After going over your abilities and the results of your testing, the two of you are far too good together.”

'It doesn't matter what training we do together now, the two of us aren't going to be on a team.' Momo thought as she nodded back to Naruto. Getting ready for Rescue Training had been something that had reminded her of what Shota had told them near the beginning of class when they were boarding the bus originally. Apparently, their stats were just too good for them to be placed together for team trials. '... Honestly, that makes me want to form a Hero Team with him when we graduate, if even teachers think we are an unfair match-up.' She could imagine it in her head, kind of, how well they could team up. The results their teaming would create, and how effective they would be against villains, would just make the match up make sense.

Naruto didn't think on that though.

He didn't like this.

'... I've got a bad feeling about this training...' Naruto felt something was off about the air. Something in his head was going off, an animal instinct telling him that danger was approaching? He didn't know, but he didn't like it.

This was the first time in his life, despite the number of times he had been in danger, that he had actually felt something horrible was coming.

”What'd you say frog-face!?”

”Hey, don't insult frogs jackass! Frogs and toads are apart of the same family, and I won't have you using frog as an insult!” Naruto stood up and pointed at Bakugo with a frown. He used to have a pet toad before it died, and he just had never gotten around to getting another one. Naruto looked at Tsuyu, who seemed unphased by the comment from Bakugo in general. ”You're absolutely adorable Tsuyu.” Naruto looked at the smallest girl in class, the only one who was sitting on all fours in her seat at the moment as she got the compliment.

Toru nudged Mina.

”What, he's just telling the truth?” Mina had no issues with Naruto complimenting a cute girl when it was true, and he wasn't trying to flirt. Tsuyu didn't blush or anything, and she didn't seem offended of pleased. She just accepted the compliment with grace.

”You wanna fight fuċktard!?”

”Why bother?” Naruto seemed a little confused why Bakugo wanted to start a fight. The guy's Quirk was Explosion, he sweat an explosive liquid from his palms, and his explosions so far had been weaker than what was usually required to do any real damage to him. Naruto's fur was highly flame resistant in his stronger forms, so flames usually didn't do a ton of damage to him at their lower heats. The guy wasn't stupid, he was high up in the classroom, so there was no way that he wasn't aware of the difference in their strengths and weaknesses.

”Stop fighting.”

Bakugo was forced to sit back down when Shota turned around and glared at the two of them. Naruto shrugged and sat down too, not really angry to begin when. He just didn't like it when people were insulted because of things they couldn't help, even more if that thing made you look like a cute frog. Naruto glanced at Mina, before he thinned his lips. Suddenly, the lump in his ċhėst, and the one in his pocket, felt a whole lot heavier.

'... I hope I don't regret bringing it here to train.' Naruto thought to himself, patting his side.

-At the USJ-

”Holy crap, this is amazing!”

It was, the USJ was filled with multiple biomes that were host to different type of disaster relief situations. Visible from their current location, their was a Landslide Zone, a Flood Zone, Fire Zone, and multiple other places that would train heroes on dealing with different types of rescue scenario's. Standing in front of it all was their guess lecturer for the day, a hero wearing a fully body space suit, a very bulky one, the Space Hero Thirteen. Naruto had never actually been to this place before, so this was even a new experience for him as well.

'I hope I don't get sent to... that feeling... it's getting worse.' Naruto didn't like it. The hairs on the back of his neck were raising up, he felt a pit in his stomach, and he didn't know why he felt something really bad was coming their way.

Even against villains, his danger senses never went haywire like this, so why now?

Naruto felt his heartbeat pounding in his ears, he wasn't able to hear the teachers anymore. Something was wrong, terribly wrong, and he wished he could pinpoint it. It couldn't be Thirteen, despite the fact that his Quirk was-

”-Black Hole, it can suck up and tear apart nearly anything.”

”-and you've used it to save people all over.” Izuku commented, and suddenly, the heartbeat in Naruto's ears stopped. The world returned to him, but instead, he had a voice in his ear. Ochaco was nodding her head in obvious excitement to see Thirteen in person, the happiest smile on her face.

Run.

A voice spoke to Naruto, and he looked for the source, but nobody was saying anything to him.

”My powers could easily kill, and for some of you, that's true too. In our world full of superpowers, we regulate the uses of Quirks, and it might seem that is good enough, but one mistake, one uncontrollable Quirk, and people die.” Thirteen explained, and silence fell over the students as they listened to the morbid words. The words struck a cord with Naruto, and several others with Quirks that could easily kill, but for once Naruto didn't think about his mother.

Run, it's coming.

The voice spoke again.

'What is this voice... and this what happens when I'm about to lose control? Am I losing control of my... no, it has to be something else.' Naruto forced the thought he was losing control out of his mind.

Why wasn't anyone else noticing something was wrong?

”During Aizawa's fitness test, you learned your own hidden potential. With All Might's battle training, you learned how dangerous your Quirks are to others. This class will show you a new point of view, how you can save lifes. Because your powers aren't meant to hurt, they are meant to help people.” Thirteen gave them a short bow. ”That is all, thank you for listening.”

”He's awesome!”

It's here!

”What... what is that?” Naruto looked down towards the ground far below them, and he saw a spiralling black mist forming in front of the fountain. Naruto's statement brought attention to it, and others started to notice it to. The only person who noticed it at the same time as Naruto, was Shota himself. He saw the mist become large enough to form a portal, and people started to come out. At first, a man covered in hands came out, then it happened.

ESCAPE!

A large figure, even larger and bulkier than All Might, appeared out of the portal with other villains. he had scars on his arms, and his brain was completely exposed, with his mouth being a sharp beak with rock-jagged teeth, and a jet-black body. The voice went absolutely haywire, screaming at him to run away, the second Naruto layed eyes on that one villain.

”Those are villains!” Shota got ready for battle.

”... Everyone run! Get out of here as fast as you can, that big one is dangerous!” Naruto shouted at his fellow students.

RUN!

'I'm going to die...' Naruto transformed up to his 2-Tailed form as jumped over the edge of the platform, sailing down towards the one who was setting his instincts off. Naruto ignored literally everyone of the villains as they ran up the hill towards him. Naruto upped his size all the way up to his 4-Tail form, and curled up into a ball, rolling down the hill and running over as many villains as he could. Naruto ignored the thought that he was going to die, and charged straight towards the dangerous one. 'That thing... it's a monster... if anyone fights it... they're going to die. I need to take it down, even if it kills me.' Naruto glanced out of the side of his eye, and saw that Shota had joined in on the battle.

When he got to the bottom of the hill, Naruto saw that a large black mist had formed at the top, where he had been, but he forced himself to believe that the others were safe, if it was just a portal then they were being sent somewhere else.

”Well, looks like the first dead kid is coming to us all on his own. Maybe a dead fox will bring out the Symbol of Peace.”