Power Quaking - Chapter 6.2 (Patreon)

For his first day in the hero course…

'That wasn't what I was expecting.' Kano thought as he beat a hasty retreat from the rest of the class. Singled out on the first day, used to make an example and put the pressure on his classmates.

Twice over.

That wasn't cool at all. But, about as expected from old red eye the grumpy bastard.

It was bad enough his brother knew about it, and Bakugou, he couldn't miss the shit eating grin the idiot was sporting when he heard Aizawa saying he cried himself to sleep every night.

But going by the knowing look on Ochako's face…she knew it too. The bastard, bringing up something like that in a class full of cute girls, was he trying to ruin his reputation before he even built one?

He followed around the building Aizawa disappeared around a moment ago shaking his head, and then paused as he found his first mentor looking off into the distance with an annoyed look on his face.

Well it looked like his usual grumpy tired face, but he'd known the old grouch long enough to notice the difference.

"The hell's wrong with you?" Kano asked, hands stuck in his pocket, he followed the mans gaze but all he saw was a flash of bright yellow in the distance before it was gone.

Weird.

"Just a loud buffoon," Aizawa grunted, before turning to him, "What'ya want brat? You and your class are dismissed for the day, you can head home."

"Nice to see you too sensei, I'm doing fine, thanks for asking," Kano rolled his eyes, "I wanted to ask what the hell that was about? The show pony thing is one thing, but I'm not a fan of you telling them I used to cry myself to sleep like a little girl because I was too weak to handle my own quirk and needed special attention."

"You were four, boohoo, get over it, you're not less manly because you cried from pain as a toddler brat," Aizawa huffed, "And nothing special about it, I've just found that most brats coming this school have an overinflated opinion of themselves, a lot like you actually and comparing them to a four year old and finding them wanting, tends to rile them up."

"…Tends to…?" Kano blinked, before narrowing his eyes, "How many of your damn classes have you been telling my life story too?"

"Don't be so dramatic, I never told them your life story, and I've been using it to rile up my classes for the last four years," he replied without any shame whatsoever, "Honestly, I'd think you'd be proud of it. You've got tens of dozens of hero applicants trying to live up to your little go get attitude back when you were four, aren't you amazing?"

"It might have sounded good, if you didn't sound so sarcastic." Kano replied, feeling a twitch appearing at his eye.

"Oh, you've improved your observational abilities I see, I thought you were still stuck on the path of 'punch good' and all that, you're a veritable miniature All Might in the making." Aizawa smirked at him, "So what has you following me around here, or did you just come because I talked about you as a child?"

He twitched, and the mans smirk grew. His distaste for All Might, was well apparent to the man at this point.

It was something they more or less shared, though for different reasons.

Kano sighed in annoyance, "More or less." he admitted. Though he left out the fact that he was beating a retreat from his classmates because he was embarrassed a few of them had figured it out. Hopefully none of the three that did know it was about him told anyone else.

"The logic you run on, doesn't compute with me at all Kano," the erasure hero shook his head, "When it comes to anything else, you're as illogically confident as they come, but when it's about the fact you cried because of the absurd pain you went through as a child, you get all embarrassed, even when the annoying problem girl asked about you as a kid."

Ah…yeah. He'd almost forgotten Camie had wanted to meet Aizawa and hear all about what he was like during the time he spent with him. And Aizawa being as blunt as he was, had no problem revealing any of it, and he couldn't even complain because he'd needed the mans help at the time to negotiate for his plans at Shiketsu.

The man didn't seem to get that the fact he cried his eyes out so god damn much back then, was embarrassing as a man and he didn't want his girlfriend to hear about it.

"…What if I told Miss Joke you wet yourself a bunch growing up?" Kano fired back at the man.

"What about it?" Aizawa raised an eyebrow at him, giving him a bland look, "Why the heck would I care about what that annoying woman thought of me as a child, or even now for that matter?"

Unflappable as ever, huh?

"Speaking of annoying women though," his mentor continued, a frown appearing on his face, "I've been patient enough about it, and even got you special permission to record your entrance exam. How about you tell me why you came here instead of Shiketsu after all the work I went to help you with your odd little plans for attending there and what the tension is about between you and your brother."

'He already noticed huh? Was he watching the class when I first came in?' Kano wondered, he hadn't noticed at all. Then again, his mentor had always been a stealthy old bastard, "His quirk came in a few months ago, you probably already saw what it can do at the entrance exam."

"Mmm, power type, absurdly powerful, a lot like yours. Seems to be able to regulate its power, but the maximum it hurts him just like yours did. In fact, it might even more powerful than yours from what I saw, if that thing activated when he was a child like yours he probably would have killed himself," Aizawa mused aloud, before nodding, "So you're here to what, keep an eye on him? I assume it was asked of you by your mother, though the question remains, why did he not just go to Shiketsu?"

Kano clicked his tongue in annoyance, "Because he's obsessed with All Might, he's the ultimate freaking fanboy of that twit," he replied, "No matter what my mom said to him, he was adamant about coming here because All Might came here and probably because he found out somehow he was gonna be teaching here. He wouldn't see reason, and my mom was terrified for him, so she begged me to come here and look after him, and since I chose my brother over her, Camie broke up with me."

"Completely illogical, from all the three of them, the annoying problem girl for obvious reasons, your mother knows I teach here, and your brother…" Aizawa's brows furrowed and he frowned in thought, before shaking his head, "I suppose that explains why you're here then, the question is what are you going to do about it?"

"As far as Izuku goes, nothing. The ball is in his court, if he wants to make amends, he better man up for once and apologize straight to my face," Kano shrugged, "Other than that, my plans haven't changed much. I'm going to get stronger, get more fans, get more popular and become the best hero I can be and live my life."

"It's illogical and immature to let it fester, if he's too scared to apologize to you first, and you know it, you should just get it over with yourself and set things straight, letting it fester will only make it worse in the end," Aizawa sighed, rolling his eyes, "But I know you well enough to know that you are very illogical at the best of times and always let your feelings rule you."

"Not all the time," Kano shrugged, "And yet you love me anyway sensei, why else would you constantly brag about me, your first student to all the rest?"

If he was going to use his embarrassing cry baby stories, no reason why he couldn't either, right?

"Like root canal," Aizawa responded drily, "Now, if there's nothing else brat, I've got stuff to do, so off you go and head home."

"Yeah, yeah," Kano snorted, rolling his eyes, "See ya tomorrow I guess." he bid his mentor goodbye and returned back the way he came.

He didn't see his mentor narrow his eyes, "…What is that illogical girl playing at?" he wondered quietly as he stared at his first student and what many would call his protege's back.

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After his talk with his mentor, Kano made his way back into the main school building following the path of his classmates and soon arrived at the boys changing room assigned to Class 1A.

He barely stepped into the classroom before-

"King!" a boy in the middle of buttoning up his shirt, with wild red hair grinned at him showing off twin rows of sharp shark like teeth, "Where'd ya go man? You disappeared after the assessment!"

Ah right, two of the Imperial Army were in his class. This guy, Kirishima and the tiny guy with ball like hair.

RedRiot and GrapeGod he was sure, two of the most active in his chats.

"Yo," Kano tossed him a wave and walked over to the locker where he stashed his stuff and began pulling off the U.A gym uniform he was wearing, "I had to talk to Aizawa-sensei about something."

"Ah, gotcha!" Kirishima clapped his hands together, then pumped his fist, "Man King, I gotta say, I've seen what you can do before but never in person. You're scores were crazy manly!"

"As expected of the man who could nab a babe like Camie," GrapeGod or rather Mineta nodded sagely, as if it all made sense just because of his ex-girlfriend, "He's truly a man worth following the path of, I wouldn't have these guns without him!" the little guy was clad in only a pair of boxers and flexed his tiny arms and stomach, showing off a faint definition.

"…Just as much as pervert in person huh?" Kano snorted, a bit amused in spite of himself, and pulled his top off.

And Mineta slumped almost immediately, "Damn you, you sexy bastard," the tiny boy glared enviously at his abs, "You trying to flex on me?"

"Not really," Kano shrugged, before smirking, "If I was, it would have looked something like this." he curled one hand into a fist and raised it up to head level, and then brought the other one up above his head, two fingers pointing to the sky and tensed.

"Gah!" Mineta flinched away as if physically struck and tears budded in his eyes, "God damn you, you freaking chad."

He was completely overreacting, but it was amusing. So Kano being Kano, flexed his chest muscles, making his right pec rise, before lowering it and doing it with the left, then repeating it at a rapid speed.

"Noooo!" Mineta dropped to his knees, "I give up, stop flexing on me, I'll die at this rate King!"

"Grape, you're such a weirdo sometimes," Kirishima snorted, before looking Kano up and down with a grin, "Gotta say though King, those are some super manly ass muscles, you gotta take me on your work outs and show me your diet sometime, I seriously wanna bulk up!"

"Hey, question," a slim guy with dark blonde hair, Kaminari if Kano remember right spoke up, "I thought his name was Kano? Well Midoriya, but we have two, are you guys related? You look kinda alike. But yeah, anyway what's with the King thing?"

Kano's eyes flickered over to his brother who was on the opposite side of the changing room, beside the tall broad glasses wearing guy, Iida and his brother froze.

"I confess, I'm a bit curious about that myself," Iida nodded, chopping his arm through the air weirdly over and over, "Midoriya did call refer to you as brother earlier, and this King business is odd."

"Put a sock in it glasses," Bakugou scoffed, slamming his locker door shut in annoyance as he finished up putting his school uniform back on, "They're twins you retards, how about you actually look at their damn face, it's not had to see, the bitchy vibrator is just bigger cuz he's been a muscle head all his life, and that stupid king bullshit is cuz he has a retarded Wetube account and his loser followers call themselves the Imperial Army."

"What atrocious language!" Iida gasped, staring at him wide eyed.

"He, we ain't losers! You're just jealous cuz King slapped your ass and put you in second place!" Mineta stuck his tongue out at Bakugou mockingly.

Bakugou's head whipped over and he glared murderously at the little grape headed boy, "The fuck was that you little bitch?" he snarled, small explosions crackling in his palms.

"Eeep!" Mineta darted behind Kano's leg and hid behind him.

"Pussy," Bakugou scoffed, then glared at Kano, "So, you didn't answer my question earlier vibrator dick, where the hell is fat lips, that bitch was practically riding you wherever you went and you were all about Shitsetsu unlike shitty third place Deku over there." he jabbed his thumb at Izuku who flinched.

Izuku opened his mouth to speak, but Kano beat him to it, "Shove it up your ass dipshit."

"She broke up with your loser ass huh?" a shit eating grin spread across Bakugou's face, "And going by your little attitude with shitty Deku, it's got something to do with him. What, did she cheat on you with him? You a little cuck now vibrator dick?"

"Kaachan, it was my fault but it wasn't anything like t-" Izuku sputtered and tried to refute him.

Too bad for him, Kano.

Was absolutely livid.

"The fuck did you just call me you useless little walking talking inferiority complex?" Kano snarled, fists clenched and vibrating white bubble of lift shimmering into existing with a buzzing rage, "You still crying bullshit because you're a weak piece of trash? How about I put you in your place properly today and smash your damn bitch face in?" he began walking forward, the air around him rippling and cracking.

"Let's see you try!" Bakugou snarled back, palms flaring out and filling with crackling light.

"ENOUGH!" Iida chopped his hand forward in front of Bakugou and blocked him off, "This is a school for heroes, not for petty little grudges, both of you give it a rest! I don't know what is going on between you, and do not have the full context to weigh in on matters as serious as these, but do not think for a moment I will allow you two to fight it out like hooligans here!"

"He's right king!" Kirishima grabbed Kano around one shoulder while Izuku grabbed him by the other, "What he said was complete bullshit and we know that, totally unmanly don't get yourself into trouble."

"Y-yeah, Ka-nii you already gave up enough, you don't need to lose more over a silly fight!" Izuku pleaded with him.

For a split moment, while he was glaring into Bakugou's furious red eyes, the urge was there to toss them off of him and just go paste the little bastard. It was a long time coming after all, he'd always let the bastard off easy after kicking his ass before.

Then he took a deep breath, and he let it go.

He winced as he dispersed the quake bubbles around his palms and stepped back, "Fine, fine." he relented.

There was an audible sigh of relief from many of the other boys in the room as Bakugou clicked his tongue and stormed out.

"…Holy shat that was tense." Kaminari gave a shaky laugh.

"Darkness almost consumed us whole," the bird headed boy, Tokoyami murmured, "A bloodbath for the ages indeed."

Huh.

Kano shook his head and wiggled out of Kirishima and Izuku's arms, "…Sorry about that, I lost my temper there for a minute." he apologized with a sigh.

"I'll say!" Mineta nodded his head vigorously, "King you're fucking terrifying! I almost pissed and shit myself, at the same time!"

"The heck was that about?" the tall and muscular big lipped guy, Sato ran a hand through his spiky hair, sweat trailing down his chin, "Was it me or did that Bakugou guy have a serious chip on his shoulder and was looking to start a fight there?"

Kano just shrugged, he didn't feel like going into Bakugou's list of many many issues, it would just make him even angrier so he got back to changing into his uniform.

"Ah…Kaachan and Ka-nii have never got along," Izuku replied with a sheepish laugh, rubbing the back of his head, "Kaachan has wanted to be the number one hero for as long as I can remember and is super proud of his abilities, but because Ka-nii has always been stronger than him….well they kinda always get into fights, mostly started by Kaachan."

…And he conveniently left out that he didn't give a crap about Bakugou's ambition, and they only came to blows initially that first time because the bastard always bullied Izuku.

'Idiot.' Kano rolled his eyes.

"So you two are brothers huh?" Kaminari laughed, changing the subject, "Super powered brothers getting the top spot and the third spot in the class, a family of monsters huh?"

"No no!…I still have a long way to go," Izuku frantically waved his hands, an embarrassed flush appearing on his cheeks, "I'm nowhere near as strong as Ka-nii, I wouldn't last a minute against him in a fight."

"Not even a minute?!" Iida sputtered, "But, with that, what did you call it, full cowling 5%? You're almost as fast as me and when you used your full strength, which admittedly hurt you quite badly, you destroyed hat massive zero pointer with one blow!"

"Damn, no kiddin? That's manly as hell!" Kirishima pumped his fist into the air with a grin, "Just like Kano then? Brothers for sure! I mean, get this Iida, King absolutely demolished one with ease, as if it were just one of those one pointers, it's crazy how strong he is!"

Kano only listened to the conversation with a half ear as he got continued changing and before long, everyone had pretty much filed out of the room, Izuku giving him a long look before he left with the glasses wearing Iida.

Though Mineta and Kirishima stuck around until he was finished changing, "So King, how bout' since we're classmates we exchange numbers?" Kirishima grinned at him as he hoisted his bag onto his shoulder.

"Oooh ooh! Me to!" Mineta eagerly nodded, "We should hit up an arcade on the weekend and hang out and pick up chicks!"

"Sure." Kano shrugged, ignoring that last part.

He was in for a surprise though when they stepped out of the changing room and found Ochako leaning on the wall opposite the changing room, clad in her school uniform waiting.