"Get Up! It's Grinding Time! Get Up! It's Grinding Time! Get Up! It's Grinding Time! Get Up! It's Grinding Time! Get Up! It's Grinding Time!"

Jin Bubaigawara's eyes snapped open as the voice of his life coach thundered from his the phone sitting on his night stand beside his bed.

It was just a cut off audio clip he took from a video on Wetube and made it his wake up alarm for his phone. He'd made it an ingrained habit nowadays to listen to his advice.

It was thanks to that young boys videos, he'd managed to turn his life around and actually make something of himself after all.

"Ah, that feels good!" Jin groaned as he sat up in his bed and stretched out his arms, "Shit this sucks I wanna go back to bed, I'm so tired."

As always his mouth moved without his input and said something completely counterproductive to what he'd said previously.

But with practiced ease, he ignored it and shuffled over to the edge of his large and soft king sized bed and stretched out his legs. The first stretches of the morning were important for the day after all!

With that done, he jumped out of bed and dropped down onto his hands and feet and began his morning push ups. Not only would it get his muscles revving, but it also perfect for clearing his mind.

Just a simple five sets of fifty, he could do more of course, but it wasn't optimal to push himself to his limits from the get go after just waking up, this was just his starter course for the day!

Once that was done he stood up, wiping the sweat from his brow, before holding his other hand out. A clay-like substance formed from his palm and erupted into sludgy pile that then quickly rose up and formed into a perfect copy of himself.

"Can you get breakfast?" he asked his clone.

"Of course I can, you go have a shower dumbass," his clone snorted at him, "Can't show up to work smelling a bum." he added, before walking away and making his way through the apartment to the kitchen.

Jin rolled his eyes. Such an attitude he had. But, it was far better than how things were before. Where he couldn't even make copies of himself anymore because of the trauma he'd put himself through.

Entirely his own fault and something that would have no doubt crippled him for life or put him down a seriously bad path, if he hadn't come across the Wetube channel of the future top hero in training Imperial!

Nostalgia got the better of him while thinking about it and Jin made his way over to the desk where his high tech computer rig with multiple screens was set up. He booted it up, smiling as it finished in just a couple of seconds and he brought up his browser and went straight to his bookmarks and clicked on the top one.

The title of the video was simple, 'Let's Talk About Quirks - Am I Lucky?'

It was a video Imperial made early into his Wetube career when a lot of haters were lambasting him and saying he was just lucky to have such an amazing quirk and he wasn't anything special without it.

Complete and utter hogwash, Imperial was amazing!

And this video was picture proof of why and the reason specifically why Jin was his number one fan!

He watched as Imperial opened up greeting the watchers, before getting straight down to business. That was something he liked about Imperial, he was a straight to the point, honest kind of guy.

Granted he liked a lot about Imperial but he liked that one a lot!

'So, a lot of you guys think I'm really lucky to have my quirk,' Imperial mused, he was sitting atop an apartment building of some sort, holding his camera in one hand. This was before he'd gotten his awesome drone camera after all, 'And you're all correct, but not for the reasons you might think.'

Kano gave the camera grin, 'I've given you guys a basic overview of my quirk before, but not really got into the deeper parts of it, I didn't really wanna go into the weaknesses of it and all that after all,' he laughed, before shrugging, 'Well as you know it's called Power Quake, and it causes quakes anywhere I want. But, it's a bit more complicated than that. See, it's a super enhanced version of my mothers quirk, the ability to attract small things. In my case, the range is massively enhanced and at the very same time, it also pushes at the same time. Now, a lot of you are probably wondering what the big deal there is, but the fact of the matter is, my quirk targets the smallest things of all, the atoms and such that make up everything, and it reflects back on to me. This means when I use my quirk, it's pulling on the very bits that make up my body, my bones, my muscles, my organs. And when I first activated it, Power Quake almost killed me. It ripped apart my bones, my organs and my muscles and then squished them all back together. I was saved by luck because a passing hero saw it happened and we were close to U.A, where that hero rushed me to and got me healed by Recovery Girl, but even then, it was pure luck I managed to hang on long enough to get there.'

He paused then to let his words sink it, and the sheer weight of it always struck Jin. Like near all children who awakened their quirks, Imperial awakened his when he was just four years old. That meant, as a four year old, he experienced the agony of his entire body being torn apart seam by seam.

And yet, to this day, he stood tall and proud, he'd never let it keep him down!

'It didn't end there though,' Imperial continued shaking his head, 'After all, what kid has control of their quirk at that age, after just awakening it? And worse was the fact my quirk is almost always passively in effect to a small degree. So even after Recovery Girl healed me, my body began to break down over and over and over again. Even her quirk only goes so far, even if I had a regeneration quirk on top, it wouldn't have saved me in the end. Luckily for me, there's a certain awesome hero out there who has the ability to negate quirks with his own. I'm not gonna tell you guys who he is, cuz he prefers not to have eyes on him, but both him and Recovery Girl saved my life. I spent three months with them both at U.A as a toddler then, and those three months were hellish, spend training and bulking up my body constantly. And that wasn't just to handle using my quirk, that was just so I could survive the passive effect of my quirk, not even using it.'

Honestly, Jin was kind of horrified to know someone he held in such high esteem had to go through so much pain just to survive without even using his quirk as a child.

But despite the horror he felt about it, it always made his respect for Imperial soar high into the sky each time he watched this. And he watched it a lot, it was his main source of inspiration and motivation after all!

'It was a full three years before I'd trained myself up enough to be able to go home, because after those three months, it was time spent making sure I could control my quirk and not hurt anybody else,' Imperial sighed looking up to the sky, 'Three years of constant pain where I barely ever saw my mom or my brother, and the pain didn't even stop then when I got to go home, that was just the point where it was deemed I could endure.'

Imperial laughed and stood up, eyes coming back down from the sky to look at the camera and he smirked, 'So am I lucky? Yes? I'm lucky I survived it awakening, I was lucky I was near U.A. I was lucky my first mentor could keep my quirk suppressed whenever it got out from under me and I lost control, but I'm not lucky to have it just because it's power. I hate this fucking quirk,' despite the venomous words he spouted about his quirk, Imperial merely continued smirking, 'But it's my quirk and my life. Sure I could sit around and feel sorry for myself and probably end up killing myself and a lot of others while pitying myself when I eventually couldn't control it anymore. But I didn't, you know why? Because just cuz it sucked, is no excuse for me to waste my life! I might never have wanted this quirk, might hate it more than anything else, but it's mine, and I'll rule over it, not the other way around. So I throw myself into building myself up day in and day out, that's what it means to take accountability for myself and be a man!' as he finished, Kano's fist erupted with a bright blinding white light as a vibrating rippling bubble of power burst into existence around it.

He really was…so damn cool.

He remembered being struck speechless as he watched it. Remembered the shame that flowed through him when that young boy, only twelve years old at the time talked about his responsibility as a man and how wallowing in his own self pity wouldn't help him.

That time was still a bit of a blur to him, but-

He paused the video and scrolled down to the comments below the video. And there highlighted at the top, was a comment of his own, under BrosephLyfe. Of course at the time his username had been totally different and he'd changed it later, but the comment remained regardless.

It was full of quite a few misspelt words, horrible punctuation and cusses that he really shouldn't have been using when trying to talk to a young boy at the time, and he'd basically demanded what he was supposed to do about his quirk and went into detail about his problems, about how he could never be sure he was the real Jin Bubaigawara.
Imperial's response had been simple.

'Of course you're the real one. Not only you, but all of you and your clones made from your quirk were real. They're all you. If they think and feel, then that's proof enough isn't it? It seems like your clones snapped at you in the end, because you abused them, in that case think about it yourself? What would you have done if someone just forced you to do everything for them while laying on their ass?'

The response on the tip of his tongue at the time had been, 'I'd smash his fucking head in!'

But he hadn't said it aloud or replied with it. Because, he'd realised the mistake all along. It wasn't just him that was Jin.

They they exact same as him. They were all Jin.

It wasn't really anything. profound that was said to him, but it had struck him nonetheless.

And it was the turning point in his life, where he learned to take accountability for himself. Where he learned, yeah, his life fucking sucked, so what was he going to about it?

That was his starting point.

It was where he forced himself to stop being afraid of his quirk and faced it head on. Where he turned himself in for the crimes he committed and luckily got away with just doing a ton of community service because in the end he hadn't hurt anyone.

Where he learned from others, followed advice from Imperial and followed him on his life style, of bettering himself.

And after a lot of work, got a great job at a local gym just over a year and a half ago after getting permission to use his quirk as long as it was inside a certain range, like a single building.

At first, he was only hired as a simple Janitor. But, then, he became the single janitor of the entire place and was paid as much as three janitors. And then after he gave some advice to some people working out, the owner of the gym a massive fitness buff saw the effort he'd made following Kano on his own life style and he got hired as a personal trainer as well after getting some personal training himself.

And thanks to his quirk, he could help as many people at the gym as needed while keeping it clean as a whistle! And was being paid the same amount as five personal trainers.

Granted he did a lot more work than five personal trainers, but it was fine. And that was how he was currently making forty five million yen a year now, and why he now had his own three bedroom apartment, nothing like the dingy dives he was used to crawling around in before.

And it was all thanks to Imperial, his life guru!

"Thanks again!" Jin clapped his hands together and bowed his head to the image of imperial on the video on the screen of his pc, "Imperial army for life!" he chanted, before closing it down and grabbing his clothes for the day.

His Imperial Army tank top. His Imperial Army training shorts. His imperial army wrist bands and more.

He owned a lot of Imperials merch and was proud of it!

He even directed anyone who thought his snazzy Imperial Army clothing was awesome towards Imperial's merch stores online!

And with that, he headed for a shower to get cleaned and ready for the day while his clone made breakfast.

The ringing alarm from her flip phone woke Ochako at flat on six in the morning. The rosy cheeked girl awoke with a groan, her eyes feeling heavy.

Her tummy rumbled with desire for sustenance, but she ignored it. She was tempted to lay there for a bit until she fully awoke.

But a small happy sounding yip forced her to roll over in her bed and peer down. There, sitting up in a small clothing basket was her newest roommate.

Mochi.

Kano in the end had no issue with letting her name the dog after her favourite food, and had left the puppy with her last night after they'd drove down to the vet down the road with the cute little puppy.

He'd left her to it around eight pm last night and returned home. But considering they had a half day yesterday…he was there for quite a while.

It was weird having a boy in her house for so long. But at the same time, he was…kind of easy to deal with? So it hadn't really been a bother.

Though he needed to stop flashing his money or else he was going to give her a heart attack. She'd went to the bathroom to change out of her uniform, only to come back to find him telling her he'd ordered them some food from a take away place.
He'd ordered a massive pizza, alongside a kebab because of course he'd get one, and a 'munchie box' which was apparently just a massive buffet like box of different types of food from the take away place.

That boy could seriously eat.

What was with him and all the non Japanese food though?

Shaking her head, she got up out of her bed, ignoring the cold wood floor as she crouched down to pet Mochi, "Hiya boy, how are ya?" she beamed at the little puppy who in return excitedly tried to nip at her fingers.

But since she was wearing her sleeping gloves to stop her quirk from being activated during the night when she was asleep, she couldn't feel it at all.

"Nice try." she teased, wiggling her gloved finger with his tiny jaw wrapped around it.

At Kano's advice last night, she'd put a little blanket inside her washing basket and had Mochi sleep in it during the night just so he didn't go wandering around and hurt himself.

Picking the little pup up, she plopped him down on the wooden floor and let him have a wander around, watching with an amused smile as he stumbled his way around happily.

While he did that, she went and poured herself a glass of water. She'd make some coffee to wake herself up, but she didn't drink coffee. Coffee was way too expensive for her to just casually have for drinking!

After downing the glass of water, she went and brushed her teeth and washed her face in the bathroom before going on to fix her bed and get ready for the day.

She quickly tried running a brush through her messy bed hair, but it didn't really do much. Her hair had always been weird and there wasn't much she could do about it. She'd been pretty self conscious about it growing up actually, it wasn't like the luscious bouncy long hair other girls tended to have, but just a weirdly messy and misshapen bob with odd bangs that hung to her chin!

'Oh well.' she shrugged. She might have been able to do something about it if she went to a salon or something or had some really expensive hair care products, but she'd never waste money on something so silly.

"Now, what to do about you little man?" Ochako mused, turning her attention to Mochi who was currently in the process of gnawing at one of the toys Kano bought him yesterday, a long knotted rope thing.

Should she feed him?

'No wait.' she paused and shook her head. Didn't Kano tell her feeding a dog then walking them could give them bloat or something like that, which could get really bad if not paid attention to?

Alright, walk first then!

Luckily for Ochako, by the vets estimation Mochi was estimated to be between two and three months old and already had some basic house training. Enough to know at least that doing the toilet in the house, was bad and only to do it if he couldn't hold it, and that was what the mats bought and laid down by Kano as well had been for.

But Mochi such a smart boy and hadn't done it in the house at all, and waited until she took him a little walk in his cute little harness and retractable leash around the block.

He was such a cute curious little guy as well! Stopping to sniff at everything they passed by from a lamppost to a stone to a bit of grass! 'He's so adorable!' Ochako squealed internally as she led him back up to her apartment.

Once back inside she took his harness and leash off, before beginning to set out his breakfast. Multiple bowls, four for food and one for water.

They weren't sure what food he would prefer so Kano being Kano…had bought a lot. As in, three different types of dog food, in five different flavours. In Jelly, in gravy and in loaf.

And that wasn't counting the dry food, or the bunch of different treats Kano had gotten the little puppy.

As she set the literal five bowls down for the little puppy, she couldn't help but shake her head at the ludicrousness of it all. 'This puppy is gonna be eating better than me!' she pouted inwardly.

Man being a dog sure was easy!

Well as long as you had a doting owner like Kano at least. "I pity the girl that marries that guy." she laughed to herself, especially if they had a daughter in the future.

The first boy that showed any interest in her, was going to get threatened with having an earthquake shoved down his throat.

Well she supposed there was a lot worse things to have in a guy than him being incredibly doting despite being an overly muscular macho man behemoth.

"Right!" Ochako shook her head and put that out of mind for the moment and bounced to her feet as Mochi began sniffing around the food, "Time to get some morning exercises in!" she cheered pumping her fist into the air.

Nothing intensive, just some basic stretches to get nice and limber for later! She didn't want to get her uniform all sweaty after all!

Washing clothes cost money after all!

Luckily she hadn't put her leggings on yet though!

She definitely would be though. Especially since she knew that pervert Mineta was going to be around, she wasn't going to give that little weirdo even the slightest chance of perving on her, even if he was far more likely to try and perv on some of the other girls in her class, like that Yaoyorozu girl or the pink skinned girl, Mina, they were way prettier than her after all.
She probably didn't have to worry too much after Kano had threatening to smoosh him with his quirk, but one couldn't be too careful around creepy little perverts like that.

And so while Mochi was testing out the food she'd put down for him, Ochako got down to some basic exercises, stretching out her legs and arms and such before doing some calf raises and squats and then through a few other calisthenics.

Nothing too extensive and not even that many of them, because she wasn't sure how intense today was going to be at U.A and as such couldn't afford to tire herself out, but it got the blood pumping a bit.

She usually went out jogging in the mornings as well, had made it an ingrained habit while getting ready for the U.A entrance exam, but yeah she didn't want to tire herself out at all, she needed to apply herself at one hundred twenty percent during her classes!

Just as she was finishing up, there was a knock at her door, making Ochako blink, "Eh?" she cocked her head to the side in confusion.

That couldn't be Kano already…surely not? It was only seven thirty in the morning!

But as he seemed to have a habit of doing, Kano defied her expectations…and it was him.

"…Why are you here so early?" she asked when she opened the door and found him standing on the other side already dressed in his U.A uniform, blazer and all, though like yesterday he'd foregone the tie and left his top couple of buttons undone, "And what the heck is that?"

The class number one had a box that looked like a pizza box almost held in one hand above his shoulder, "It's breakfast, what else Mochi Girl?" he grinned at her boyishly, "It's a fry up, I know this place not far from here, some guy who used to live in Scotland in his youth and came back to open a restaurant here, he makes British food, real good stuff, really filling!"
"…What is with you and the non Japanese food?" she snorted, "Are you some kind of foreigner food otaku or something?"

He gaped at her, "Me…an otaku?" he repeated slowly, "Do…I look like an otaku?" he asked her disbelievingly, and lifted his other arm to curl his bicep.

"Having big muscles doesn't at all disqualify you from being an otaku Kano-kun, that's just a good disguise," Ochako rolled her eyes, "Besides, you forget that I follow your Wetube account now and I saw a ton of videos of you playing video games and a lot of them were foreign too."

"I like video games, and Japanese games suck for the most!" he pouted at her, "Foreign stuff just tends to be more dense in calories and I need a lot more than usual because of my body and stuff."

"If you say so," Ochako shrugged, it did smell good she had to admit. But, she frowned, "You're not trying to butter me up or something are you?"

She felt kind of sleazy asking such a thing when he really had been nothing but nice to her. But, between him flirting with her the first time they met, calling her cute, flashing his money and the like and well the comments Mineta made, it could make a girl wonder.

She might have been poor, but she wasn't some charity case. If nothing else, she had pride in that and would draw the law in the sand early and make it known she wasn't some shallow girl that would do anything for money.

"What are you talking about?" Kano's face screwed up in confusion, giving her an odd look, "Butter you up for what? If it's about Mochi, this isn't a bribe to take care of him or anything, I just figured you might have found yourself a little busier than usual with him around and not gotten to have breakfast yet so I figured I'd bring it in with me and we can both eat at the same time."

He then raised an eyebrow at her, "…Unless you want me to bribe you to take care of him?" he asked, still looking utterly confused.

She felt her cheeks heat up, "No, no no! Nothing like that!" she quickly sputtered out, waving her arms quickly to keep his attention off of her face, "It just felt a bit weird cuz you were flashing about a lot of money with buying stuff for mochi and then that big food delivery last night and now this."

"Oh…" Kano blinked, before shrugging, "Nah nah, nothing like that. I just wanted to make sure Mochi would have everything he needs and make taking care of him easier for you since he'd be staying with you and I couldn't be around constantly. And I like I said, I eat a lot and I wasn't exactly gonna order a ton of food for myself and get none for you, that's just rude and being a greedy dick."

She felt so embarrassed right now. He was just a good natured idiot, at least to anyone who wasn't named Bakugou.

"Right…cool…cool…" Ochako replied, before coughing, "Right anyway, come on in and see Mochi!" she hurriedly waved him inside and changed the topic.

God she was such an idiot sometimes.

And here we are back with chapter 8.

And with this chapter, beyond Ochako's next morning adjusting to her new...roommate and guest who has practically invited himself over whenever he pleased, we also get to see a little about more about who's lives have been effected by Kano's presence in this world. This chapter in particular showing of the man, the myth, the legend, the only one anybody sane gives a shit about in the League of whiny scrubs, Twice! And he's doing pretty damn well for himself if I do say so myself yabba dabba doo! Beyond that, as always if you wanna read ahead and catch advance chapters a while before they go up here, feel free to hit up my Pa-atreon, yippers.

Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.