Shoji hid him and Mizuki behind a tree as a huge Dark Shadow roared, destroying the trees in its path.
"Wh-What's going on, Shoji?!" Mizuki asked him.
"Quiet." Shoji warned, explaining, "After Mandalay's Telepath about the villain attack telling us not to engage, we went on alert immediately. Right after that, we were attacked by a villain."
As Shoji spoke, the memory of the event; blades came rushing for Tokoyami until Shoji stepped in the way, his hand getting cut off.
Shoji grabbed his arm in pain while Tokoyami shouted, "Shoji!"
The two of them got separated by the blades as Shoji continued, "I covered Tokoyami, hiding in the foliage even as my arm got cut off."
'Your arm?!' Mizuki thought, glancing down at Shoji's bleeding arm.
"Even though it's not a shallow cut, it's not like I've lost it forever. My Dupli-Arms can even duplicate my duplicated organs, and what was cut off was a duplicate." Shoji reassured.
"Dark Shadow, who had been holding back started getting out of control…" Shoji explained about Dark Shadow, who let out a screech.
"In deep darkness, he can't control it… I didn't realize his quirk was so peaky…" Mizuki observed.
"He kept trying to hold it back, but…" Shoji told Mizuki, accidentally stepping on a twig, triggering Dark Shadow to reach for them. Shoji jumped out of the way with Mizuki following behind him, adding, "It reacted to any movement or sound, turning into a monster that was just lashing out with attacks indiscriminately."
"Forget… about me… Find the others… and help them!" Tokoyami exclaimed to Shoji and Mizuki. Talking to Dark Shadow, Tokoyami shouted, "Calm down, Dark Shadow!"
"Dark Shadow's weakness is light. If we lead it to the fire or back to camp, it should calm down. Mizuki, no matter the circumstance, I don't want to become a person who leaves a suffering friend behind." Shoji explained to Mizuki.
Mizuki looked over to Tokoyami...and then she turned her attention to her brother,who wasn't that far from them, observing with narrowed eyes.
"I know you're worried about Bakugo, right? If that's the case, I'll draw Dark Shadow away and open up a path for you." Shoji explained his plan.
But before Mizuki could say anything they both heard a chuckle that came from Izuku who was in fact Hitachi.
"There's no need...I'll calm down this savaged Shadow"
As he said that, Shoji was about to stop him...but Mizuki placed a hand on the boys shoulder.
"...let him...he knows what he's doing" as Mizuki said that.
Hitachi then jumped over a tree far from Mizuki and Shoji and then whistled which got the attention of Dark Shadow and the panic look that came from Tokoyami.
"NO DON'T DO IT!!"
But Hitachi didn't listen as Dark Shadow lunged after the boy who simply smirked.
"...I guess I should try this technique"
As he said that,he grabbed Ryõba and placed the bladed near his arm as it glowed a faint blue.
The closer Dark Shadow got, the more Hitachi had to calm his breathing....and then everything was in slow motion.
"...As I cut myself...let the warmth be shown to my opponent"
And then he sliced away his arm to let his blood be leaked out to reveal a blinding light that caused Dark Shadow to scream with both Shoji and Mizuki to cover their eyes from the light.
Once the light died down, they opened their eyes and looked down to see both Hitachi and Tokoyami with the latter looking tired with Dark Shadow back to its scared form while apologizing.
Shoji and Mizuki then jumped down towards them.
"Sorry… Thanks for saving me…" Tokoyami told them through breaths.
Hitachi simply placed Ryõba back into its sheath, "No problem...but I find it interesting that you're stronger than you look"
"Tokoyami, are you all right?" Shoji asked, walking over to him with Mizuki.
Tokoyami stared down at his hand. "Sorry, Shoji… You, too, Yagi… I was too immature… I let my anger take over and released Dark Shadow…"
"I...I couldn't hold it back and ended up hurting Shoji." Tokoyami gritted his teeth.
"We can leave that for later. That's what you would say, right?" Shoji told Tokoyami, making him look up to see Mizuki smiling at him. Tokoyami stared at the two before nodding.
"Alright then!"
The heads from Hitachi who simply smiled, "Let's go look for the firecracker classmate of yours"
"Yeah...and thanks Itadori for helping Tokoyami" Shoji said with Hitachi nodding his head while on the inside he was confused on the part why the two boys didn't question him about his hair color...until he realised something.
'Is this similar to when no one can't differentiate between the two of you?'
[That would be the case...since I had the color pink for a hair color...wait a minute...I washed out the hair dye so they would've seen my natural hair color]
'...about that...I kind of placed the pink color hair dye back when I took control'
Both Hitachi and Izuku sweatdrop at the King of Curses while the latter's eyes twitched.
[Sukuna what the fuck!?]
Hitachi had to cut off the conversation so that he can focus on the trio infront of him.
"Alright then let's go" Mizuki said while walking near Hitachi as the fori then started to run to where they will likely find Bakugo and also Todoroki.
While they were running, Hitachi could feel his time was almost up with that he looked over to Mizuki and using his hand movement to get her attention which got her to look over to him.
"I need you to get ready incase we have to fight another villian...so I need you to use Ryõba"
This got Mizuki to look over to the katana and then back to her brother, "Are you sure you don't want to keep using it...I mean you did had to fight the villian from before...and I may not see any injuries...but I have the feeling you're tired"
This got Hitachi to chuckle which made Mizuki to see warmth around the boy.
"Don't worry about me...I want you to be safe...and that includes everyone else"
Mizuki could only sigh but nods her head as Hitachi sent the katana her way with her grabbing it and placing the strap around her waist.
'Ryõba...even though you can't hear me...I need you to be there for my borther' She thought....not knowing that Ryõba was moving slightly and had a faint glow.
'...Be there...for...master'
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"Fuck! I can't get near him, damn it!" Bakugo cursed as Todoroki sent up a wall of ice, blocking him, Bakugo and Tsuburaba from Moonfish, shouting, "The only thing I can do is blast him with everything I've got…"
"You can't!" Todoroki shouted.
"If the trees burn, just cover them with ice right away!" Bakugo explained.
"The blast will impair my vision, too! What'll happen if I can't stop all of it? Our opponent has the advantage in both numbers of moves and distance!" Todoroki explained making Bakugo grit his teeth in response.
While the two argued, Moonfish was busy shooting out his blades at the ice until a loud boom sound caught their attention.
"There! I can see ice! They're in the middle of a fight!" Mizuki's faint voice was heard.
"Huh?" Moonfish turned to the sound as it got closer to them. Izuku and Mizuki were seen running at great speed while causing the ground to break with Shoji and Tokoyami not that far from the two.
"Bakugo! Todoroki! Get out of the way Now!" Shoji shouted.
"Flesh…" Moonfish shot a blade at Mizuki but then Izuku used his legs to kick away and break the blades into pieces while lunging after Moonfish.
"Do not hurt her!" He yelled out as he pushed Moonfish away.
"Katsuki!" Mizuki yelled out with Bakugo widened his eyes while Todoroki muttered, "Shoji, Yagi, Tokoyami? And…Itadori?!"
Hitachi kicked Moonfish towards the ice breaking it in the process.
"Nooooo No! I can't allow it… I'm the only one who's allowed to look at a cross-section of those kids…" Moonfish uttered, picking himself up with his blades before yelling, "Don't steal from me…!"
Moonfish shot out blades at Hitachi...who simply smirked as the blades were cut into pieces by none other than Mizuki who used Ryõba with a glare that formed on her face.
Both Bakugo and Todoroki were surpised at how well Mizuku dealt with the blades that came from Moonfish with the villian himself gaping like a fish, " Don't beg. Small fry! "
Mizuki said as Hitachi rushed towards Moonfish and punched him through the trees not stopping until he raised his leg up with a glow in his eyes, "Get wrecked"
Saying this while slamming his leg on the top of Moonfish's head, rendering him unconscious while hitting the ground hard.
Hitachi...suddenly flet repulsed when he look over to Moonfish...and he saw two capsules that Muscular had before.
"The Bastard fucking gave this villian more of the modified capsules"
'...Hitachi...if I see that bastard...I'll Cleave the son of a Bitch!!'
"Yeah..I'll make sure you have the chance to end the bastard"
Hitachi said while sighing since his time was finally up.
'Well it was fun while it lasted...hope to see you guys again' Hitachi thought as the markings around him disappeared with his eyes being more round.
"...See ya later...Hitachi" the person who was in control was Izuku, who placed his hand where his heart was, "I'll see you again" He said while turning his attention towards the others while placing the two capsules in his pockets.
"It's a good thing the villian didn't take one of the capsules otherwise it would've been a hassle" Izuku said.
'That just means we gotta up that torture of yours...and also you make it sound like Hitachi will come back to us permanently'
'And what if I want him to come back? I mean...you would have someone to talk to besides me' Izuku mentally told Ryomen, who was contemplating on what he just heard that came from the mouth of Izuku.
'...why must you make me think about something that will pique my mind'
'Because you need it'
Izuku finished his inner conversation with Sukuna as he reached to where the others are with Mizuki tossing back Ryõba to him.
"Thanks for lending me your weapon, Itadori, it helped a lot" Mizuki said with a smile with Izuku smiling back.
"You're Welcome"
"Oh, right! We confirmed that one of the villains' targets is Katsuki." Yagi explained.
"Bakugo? Are they trying to kill him? Why?" Tokoyami asked.
"I don't know. Anyway, I think the camp is the safest place since there are two pros, Vlad King and Aizawa Sensei, there." Mizuki answered.
"I see. So now our mission is to escort Bakugo there, huh?" Tokoyami nodded.
"But at the clearing, the Pussycats are still fighting. Going back on the path would bring us to the attention of the villains, and we'd lose time. We should cut straight across." Mizuki explained her plan.
"We don't know how many villains there are. We might come across one suddenly." Todoroki reminded Mizuki.
"Well if that's the case then we can use Shoji's search ability. And we your freezing ability, Todoroki and if Tokoyami's okay with it, an invincible Dark Shadow with built-in controls…" Izuku added with Mizuki nodding at what Izuku said.
Meanwhile Katsuki had a confused look on his face at he was hearing from the group.
Todoroki hoisted Tsuburaba back onto his back while Mizuki encouraged, "Honestly, with this group, we could probably even go up against All Might."
When Izuku heard that...he turned his head a bit.
'...Don't tell me you hate the guy?'
'...Honestly...I'm kind of glad he wasn't in my life' Izuku said.
"Don't protect me, you scum!" Bakugo yelled at them.
Izuku looked at him with Mizuki just sighing at the boys antics.
"Let's go!" Shoji thold them, beginning to walk while the rest followed.
"Don't ignore me!" Bakugo yelled as he walked with them.
"Make sure you keep up." Todoroki ignored his yelling.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Bakugo yelled again.
"Can you not yell every 5 seconds?" Izuku asked.
"Shut up Peach Hair! Just because you took down that villian doesn't mean you're stronger than me!" Katsuki yelled out with Izuku giving the boy a blank look.
"So...the fact that I took down the villian which you had difficulty to begin with makes me not that stronger than you?....Bitch are you High?" As Izuku said that...their was silence until Tokoyami, Shoji and Mizuki tried not to laugh while Todoroki was busy observing Izuku...more specifically the Katana he had in his person with Katsuki clenching his teeth that was forming sparks.
'Get everyone back safely. If we do that, then we win…' Mizuku thought as she narrowed her eyes.