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'Ow my head…' It hurt so much… 'What the fuck happened?' The last thing I remembered was enjoying the best pizza ever and then… 'Oh yeah I was choking.' I didn't fall down though, right? 'Look around… Hospital.' Okay… Weird but maybe I passed out from oxygen loss and someone found me before I croaked and took me here?
I felt taller for some reason. I'm short for my age at five foot four but it feels like I was just a lot larger than before... I looked at my hands. 'Smaller than mine but not like a child's would be… No.' I wasn't going to jump to conclusions just yet. I wasn't that type of guy. Plus it'd be stupid and considering what happened earlier I couldn't jump to conclusions yet.
'Okay wait for someone to come in… Actually…' I looked to the left and spotted a window. 'Where even am I? I'm obviously at a hospital but... I need to be sure about this...' I climbed up to the window. 'Is that… Tokyo?' What the hell was going on? I live in America… I was enjoying a Totino's party pizza in my room just five minutes ago. I was not even in Japan. I lived across the world.
'Yeah but I live here!' I heard a voice in the back of my head…
What was that?
I shook my head. No use in worrying about that now. I was in Tokyo.With not nearly as much fat as before, in hospital, and in another location. This sounds like a fanfic I made before.' How ironic would it be if I was in a fanfic considering I wrote them myself? 'Unlikely... I'd say this is a coma but if I passed out from Oxygen loss then I'd be dead anyways. So this means I was reincarnated.' I've dreamed about this for months... It felt weird for this to be a reality.
'I'm probably not in any fictional world.' There always was that possibility. I wasn't in the Naruto world at least. I knew that much. 'Where could you be...' I took another glance out the window. 'This should be a good indicator of where I'm at. If I see nothing too crazy then that should rule out some obvious ones.' Although some worlds required that you could use the power system for you to be able to see monsters and stuff. 'Please do not be Jujutsu Kaisen. I'm not going to deal with Sukuna.'
*click*
I looked over to the door. "Now let's see how your son's doing, Ms. Kaminari," I heard a somewhat elderly voice talk as two people entered. A woman that looked like she was in her mid-twenties and a doctor who had an eagle head. The woman had my attention. "Quirk related incidents like this happen all the time with those who have electric quirks."
'Wait... Kaminari? Quirks? Don't tell me...'
'Mom!' The voice from before said. I could feel the excitement drip off of the voice. I began bouncing on where I was sitting. 'She must have been worried sick!' The woman looked both relieved and worried.
"Denki!" The woman ran up to me. "How do you feel? Are you okay? Can you still count to ten?" I was gripped in a hug and my arms hugged back... Denki Kaminari... I was Denki Kaminari. "It's okay, take your time... You did a number on yourself with your quirk Denki."
"My quirk..." I had superpowers! "Hello Mom. My head hurts but other than that I'm fine... My head feels fuzzy though..." I saw a hint of worry on the woman's face appear and I heard a whimper in my mind. 'This is a very fucked situation already.' Welp. I had to make do with what I had. 'Someone tell me Totino's still exists in this world.'
My apparent mother gripped me harder and I saw the doctor sigh and heard a mutter of "brain damage" before sitting down. "Are you sure you are okay Denki?" I nodded. "Alright... if you say so..." I saw she didn't believe me one bit which was fair. I just bodysnatched her son. I was going to ignore that fact for now.
"Alright Ms. Kaminari," The doctor coughed and got my Mother's attention. "Your son doesn't appear to show any signs of brain damage, he only seems to have a headache like our tests said he would. I would recommend you take him to a quirk counselor soon so he can make sure he doesn’t have any permanent damage to his quirk control.." Oh god... would I get Kaminari's shit control? "If you don't have any questions, all you need to do is fill out some paperwork and your son will be discharged."
'Hey!' I ignored the voice. It wasn't Kaminari. No. It was just insanity.
My new mom let me go and nodded at the doctor. "Alright doctor. I think I'll take Denki to a quirk counselor this weekend. I want to wait and see if anything is wrong with him first." She then looked at me. "C'mon Denki, let's go." She quickly signed the papers the doctor held and grabbed my hand.
I simply nodded and began following her out the door. "Okay Momma,” I let slip out... 'Something's definitely wrong.'
A smile escaped my mother.
I looked at middle-school. 'It feels weird. I've never been to an actual school before and only online ones...' One small step at a time I suppose. I was already dropped off by my mom a few minutes ago. School didn't start for a few minutes... It honestly felt weird doing this.
'Out of all the things I've dealt with so far this has to be the scariest.' I was here for a week already. And in that week I faced the troubles of an angry mama who didn't want her son hurt. I faced death as well but the former was scarier. Yet this was the thing I was most scared about.
I sighed and began walking. 'One foot in front of the other.' I reached my class. I should have about five minutes before needing to enter.
I just hoped things would go well.
''Oh merry ol' men. Let us begin this quest.' I knocked on the door. I heard a kind "Come in." Before sliding the door open. I walked in and saw a bunch of kids all doing various things. 'Oh joy....' I sat down in an empty seat at the end of the front row.
"Good that's all of you..." The teacher said, "Hello class, I am Mrs. Ishihara. I will be your homeroom teacher for the next few weeks since Mr. Murano's accident. I hope you all will have fun in class!" She smiled at us all. I smiled too... From the way she moved you could see she was genuine.
That was nice.
'I have faith in the future.'
I sat back in the chair and let a grin come onto my face. 'Maybe with three weeks I can do something...'
Then everything went black.
'It's not time yet.'
The past three weeks of my life had been boring as fuck to say the least. After a week of living my new life I was suddenly watching it. As it turns out. Kaminari was still with me. And also as it turns out, I wasn't meant to be the one in control. Which sucked because not having a body wasn't my favorite thing in the world. But we were doing good so far.
By "we" I mean me and Denki. As it turns out, I could talk to him now. Or I could since day one... Yeah he wasn't too happy with me. I remember explaining my life story to him except for the part where he's a fictional character. Yes he pitied my pathetic existence. And yes he knew I knew the future. The story there was that I got the meta knowledge stuffed into me before reincarnation.
Nonetheless, we became good friends quickly. Hard not too when you’re only able to talk to that person who has you inside their head.
We had a pretty simple relationship going on for now. I helped him, gave him advice, studied for him, and so on and he in return trained his quirk as well as his body so we could live. It wasn't much since it had been three weeks but I intended to find a way to get a body someday. It wouldn't bode well for me if he died. And with someone actually looking out for him because that quirk counselor we went to was a fraud he managed to get some control over his quirk.
No indiscriminate shocks anymore. Kaminari also had the idea of sharp shooters now. Of course we still didn't have any of the cooler stuff down yet but we had some basic stuff. I also learned how to theoretically use Electrification in case we switched again. Obviously, it wouldn't happen and I'd still need to learn how to use it practically like Kaminari now could but if something happened I'd be able to adapt.
Nothing really interesting has happened in the last three weeks either. My plans for assassinating Overhaul and AFO that I developed over the past three weeks couldn't work without a long ranged weapon and those were hard to get in Japan. Sharpshooting wouldn't be as effective as I wished it'd be. So we had to wait until UA.
'I wonder when we'll get the letter. It's been so long!' Kaminari whined mentally. He was currently pacing outside of the front door, his mother had left so we were alone. ' They're killing us with the wait time here!' I mentally sighed. It had been only a week. Which was a fairly short wait time so far. There were thousands of students who attempted to become a student at UA each year. It makes sense that it'd take so long to get a letter.
'It's only been a week, Denki.' I responded whilst pacing around in the little mental home I made for myself over the years. 'I understand you're getting antsy but we need to be patient about this. We have time before anything happens. Even if we failed by some stroke of misfortune we can still get in through general education.'
Denki sighed. 'You’re right, I know, but still! Like it'd be nice if they sent something!' I agreed with him there. An email about the delay or something to at least give us assurance would have been pleasant.
Suddenly we heard a whoosh and Denki looked to the left and a letter fell through the mail opening in the door. 'It's here!' Denki grabbed it and quickly ripped open the letter.
Then everything went black.
'What the fuck?' I directly saw the letter in Denki's hands. No screen... I felt it too. 'Denki?' I felt a tug in my mind but no words... I then looked down. "We switched, Denki.' He forgot how to do this, damnit. 'Fuck...'
That theoretical knowledge was about to come in handy.
'Okay Denki try not to freak out.' I felt a very unpleased tug in my mind. 'Try thinking about it really hard. It worked for me.' I then looked at the letter. I was touching it... 'Ignore the orgasm you're about to get from touching something for the first time in three weeks and read the damn letter.' I tried to grab the letter and instead of a letter a small metal disk was what I got.
I didn't pay attention to the hologram. Other than the words you passed and 1-A.
'Fuck.' I heard in my mind. 'Why now?' Denki sounded very not happy. 'I forgot how bad this feels!' He whined. 'At least the couch is comfy. '
‘You're welcome by the way.’
'What are we gonna do?'
‘I don’t know…’
I then looked at my hands and let lightning course through them. 'Valve close.' The lightning stopped and I grinned. 'I'm worthy!' Still hadn't forgotten the valve explanation Denki gave me. Now I just needed to control it and hopefully be the one to perfect the Chidori.
I pocketed the metal disk for now and sighed. I put on my shoes(Oh god was that a marvelous feeling) and opened the door. 'Simple, I'm going to get acquainted with our body again and try to learn how to not shock anyone unless I want them to be shocked. And then we go to UA and hopefully, another switchback happens. I'm also gonna enjoy having a sense of touch and taste for a bit. You fine with that, Denki?'
'Yeah...' I heard the very sad whimper of Denki. 'This sucks.'
"Indeed, my friend. Now know my pain for the last three weeks and let’s just hope I can get a body of my own.'
I looked at the trees and at the food I had with me. 'Exercising earlier felt fucking orgasmic.' I also felt a bit tired. Luckily Denki's body was used to the abu- I mean exercise I forced him to do so the strain was minimal for me once I took over. 'Denki, once again thank you for doing all the physical stuff. Truly, thank you.' My lazy ass would just need to keep this up... Oh, joy.
'Fuck off... I wanna get you your own body as soon as possible so this won't happen again,' Denki replied instantly. 'I have no idea how you did this for three weeks, Kukui.' I grinned at the mention of my new name... Kukui. A name only Denki knew. The name of all my Naruto fic protagonists.
'Patience and the ability to sleep a lot, my friend.' I looked at the food I had on a picnic blanket and back at a tree. 'Which should I do first? Quirk training, or eating all this wonderful food?' Denki didn't reply. He must be sleeping already. 'Well then. How about the food is a reward for a job well done?' I nodded to myself, Training, and then opened the valve. I felt Electrification flow through my hands... I wouldn't let it flow through my body.
I had an idea of how to theoretically do a sharpshooter attack without shark shooting gear. Denki had tried and failed but I was more acquainted with the concept and the energy of Electrification. I could do this. 'First the wider, less destructive version Denki accidentally did last week.'
'Focus...' I closed my eyes and imagined the lightning in my hands. 'Coil the lightning and build pressure.' I took a deep breath and aimed my hands at the tree. 'Release.' I forced the lightning out of my hands and a blast of lightning came out of them. A big one. It destroyed the tree. I took a deep breath. And then another. 'Okay, that took a lot out of me.' I let out another smaller one on the remains of the tree. It didn't do nearly as much damage as its predecessor did. 'Still not as precise as sharpshooting would be but I've got it down.' It was the first thing I wanted to do. Close combat was out of the question for now anyways.
'Time for a sharpshooter.' I followed the same steps as before for the wider blast. 'Coil it into the pointer finger...' I felt all the electrical energy I just built up enter the finger. 'Pull it back. Shape it.' I felt the lightning encompass the entirety of my finger and I shaped it into an arrowesque shape… 'Release!' The lightning came out! And then it went to the ground... 'Well, fuck...'
Okay, this would be hard. 'Maybe I should try to make something else instead later?' An arrow would be a good starting point. 'Like Sukuna's fire arrow but with lightning!'
I sighed. "That was bound to go wrong. Trying something else would be the height of stupidity.." Welp... 'That was draining.' I could probably use more but I still wasn't used to this yet. I could still open and close the valve easily since that was pretty much the easiest thing ever but shaping it was actually very hard. It required a lot of knowledge on how the quirk’s energy operated.
Electrification's lightning wasn't true lightning inside the body. The body, even with mutations to help it, would have a tough time containing it even just a little. So Electrification's lightning was pretty much just potential energy that had a lightning affinity. It felt like lightning due to the affinity which is why molding it into lightning was so easy. At least that was my running theory. It likely wasn't entirely true because if it was that means I basically had chakra. Well me and Kaminari did. And we could probably use it for another affinity’s attacks.
If I could use earth or wind that'd be spectacular for defense. Yoarashi Inasa was OP as fuck from what I remember and Pixie-Bob is pretty strong as well with her Earth Flow. But Fire and Water would be good too. This would also open up the possibility of making Elemental Kekkei Genkai which would be fucking awesome.
'Denki, if you can hear me, we're so going to try that one day.'
I sighed as I heard nothing back. Yep, he was asleep. I wonder if this is how Denki felt whenever I slept at two PM... It kinda felt lonely. We had never really made any friends. Denki was just the class clown. So we kinda only had each other... 'It kinda hurts, not gonna lie.' Yeah we needed friends... 'Maybe at UA, we can befriend someone.'
There was always Mineta and the Bakusquad... Denki would get along with them but I don't know if I could stand Bakugo. Mineta I could tolerate but Bakugo was just an asshole. I was gonna punch him if I could. Everyone else in the Bakusquad was cool though. Especially Denki. Although I was biased since I knew the guy personally now.
I sighed.
I then looked at the food I had. 'Welp. Time to eat.'
It was time for UA.
It had been three more weeks. It was now April. Me and Denki still haven't switched back and Denki was depressed over it. Our running theory was that we had a random amount of time in each rotation. Hopefully, we could learn how to switch at will. We'd then switch as needed and agreed upon until we both were separated. If not then we'd just roll with the punches.
Still... It was fucking nerve-wracking being in front of a school again. The last time I was in a school myself was when I switched with Denki. I was nervous. I knew it. Denki knew it. Our mother knew it. She still didn't know that me and Denki were two people though... Maybe one day we'd tell her.
But that didn't matter now.
'We've gotta go. We can't be late for our first day, Kukui!' Denki yelled. Oh, fuck, I lost track of time again. I began walking through the doors of UA. I never expected to be the one doing this. To be honest, I never expected to walk again. Nor did I expect Denki to be the one on the short end of the stick. 'Speed up, you're too slow!'
'Okay, okay!'
I began running. If someone reprimanded me then fine. But that'd only make me late. It'd also mean I could blame them and hope Aizawa wouldn't expel me. 'Still wonder how that man has a teaching license...' I continued to run. 'Oh, hey, the ground looks like it's getting closer.' I braced for impact.
Impact never came.
I felt someone grab the back of my shirt and stop me from falling. I turned around and saw a girl. 'A pretty girl.' Was that me or Denki? I recognized her as Yui Kodai. 'Say something idiot!' "I um... thank you!" I rubbed the back of my head. 'Recover. Don't make yourself look like an idiot. Don't fail at your first social interaction with someone in person other than Denki or family in literally years. Including my past life of course. Otherwise it'd be just three weeks. "It wouldn't have been good luck to fall on the first day. You really saved me!"
"You’re welcome," Kodai said. I could barely hear her. "Do you know where class 1-B is?" I grinned. I did. Denki was celebrating. We had never actually talked to a girl before! And I was counting my past life as well into this!
"Yeah." I pointed to where I just came from. "Go down that hall and to the left and you should find Class 1-B. By any chance, do you know where Class 1-A is?" I'd really like to get there before being late. But it might happen. It'd suck but it is what it is. As long as I'm not too late I should be fine.
"Class 1-A is just down the hall where I came from. Thank you for the directions..." She looked puzzled for a second and I took the hint.
"Denki Kaminari!" I said with probably a little too much excitement. I then felt heat creep up onto my face. Fuck. 'Oh well, it was bound to happen eventually.' I chuckled. "Sorry. Just haven't talked to anyone in a while. Thank you for the directions."
'Okay, good job dude, you recovered!' Denki mentally cheered.
Kodai let out a small chuckle. "You’re welcome, Kaminari. Thank you for the directions. I hope to see you soon." Kodai then walked away to class 1-B.
'Nailed it.' Denki provided and I didn't know what he was talking about. Well, I didn't make myself out to be an idiot in front of a girl! Today was a massive win!
I then walked to class 1-A with a spring in my stride.
UA was already going spectacularly! I had a feeling that it'd go even better from here!
I soon reached the door and opened it. "Sorry for being late I got lo-" I scanned the class and saw everyone. They looked very different... In the seat I remembered being Todoroki's I someone new…
A person from a different class…
"What the fu-"