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Yu Yu Hakusho: Hiei Redraw Fanart!

This piece took me so long bc I kept stopping and redrawing it 😅 I finished it last year in my iPad. My art style is much better now that I have an actual drawing tablet, but it's still one of my favorite pieces!

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Lotta Green

Rock Lee (Naruto) is Midoriya Izuku’s (BNHA) favourite relative.  Cousin Lee is Quirkless like him!  And he’s in the Heroics Course for UA!  AND he’s helping Izuku train for the entrance exam next year so he can join him there as well!

Lee is in class 1B, and told Izuku about how the kids in class 1A were all expelled by their homeroom teacher on the very first day.  Some of them had joined the Gen Ed classes, but more just… weren’t at UA any more.  According to Cousin Lee, who had asked one of the kids who’d gone from Heroics 1A to Gen Ed 1G, they’d been expelled for ‘lacking potential’, and other kids (who hadn’t gone to Gen Ed) had been expelled for a whole lot of other reasons.

Which was scary for Izuku to think about.  He could get into his dream school, but still get kicked out on his first day!

Lee is sure that won’t happen to his adorable younger cousin - but just to make sure, Lee will help Izuku train and train and train!  They may lack quirks, but they have the power of YOUTH on their side!

Lee might miss Gai-Sensei, and everybody back in Konohagakure, but this new life isn’t so bad, and he can still follow his dream of being a shinobi who doesn’t use chakra.  Just… now he’s a hero who doesn’t have a quirk.  And soon, Izuku will join him, and they can even start a hero agency of their own!  They will be able to provide job opportunities to those who are discriminated against!  YOSH!

( @wolfsrainrules @north-peach @onceabluemoonwrites )

The first time Bakugo uses his quirk on Izuku, Lee swiftly restrains the bomb-boy and calls the four-and-a-half year old out on getting started on their villain origin story early.  Because bullying is never the act of a hero, and setting an explosion off on Izuku’s shoulder (and leaving a nasty burn) is bullying at the very least.

Bakugo denies villainous tendencies at all, that he’s going to be the next number one hero, King Explosion Murder (which Lee points out sounds like a villain name to him…) and stomps off in a huff once he’s released from Lee’s hold.  Bakugo doesn’t try to use his quirk on Lee, because Lee is bigger, older, and faster, even if he’s otherwise as much of a quirkless loser as Deku.

Izuku denies Bakugo’s villainous behaviour, even though not ten seconds before he’d been telling Bakugo that what he’d been doing was wrong, and standing between Bakugo and another kid who’d been crying because of Bakugo using his quirk on him.

Lee ignores these protestations, escorts both kids to the school nurse, reports Bakugo’s behaviour to her, and then walks his little cousin home to the apartment building they both live in - where he dobs in Bakugo’s bad behaviour to Inko as well.

Inko is not impressed with the son of her best friend, and passes this on to Mitsuki herself next time they catch up.  In the mean time, Lee shows Izuku what he’s already doing to get ready to become a hero when he grows up, and offers for Izuku to join him in that preparation.

Izuku, being a smart little bean, jumps on the offer, and counters with his very first Hero Analysis for the Future notebook.  It’s written in crayon, but Lee can see that it’s already an indication of just how smart his little cousin is and how good he’s going to be at this after a few years of keeping up this kind of habit, so agrees to trade physical training for brain training, because good heroes have to be smart as well as strong!

They’re gonna call their agency Green Beans.  Lee will be The Hard Work Hero: Ganbaru! (頑張る, lit. ‘stand firm’). Izuku will be The Can-Do Hero: Ganbare! (がんばれ, Hang in there!).

Lee, being a reincarnated Konoha ninja, also makes sure that Izuku looks up to more heroes than All Might.  Sure, taking after Gai-Senei had worked out for Lee, but All Might had… well, Lee knew a fake smile when he saw one, and what a person bottling up trauma looked like.  Gai-Sensei had been full of life and passion and the Power Of Youth and a great teacher as well.  All Might… For all his smiles, Lee thought the man looked like he was dying inside and doing his best to hide it.  That wasn’t Youthful.  It wasn’t even Hip!  A hero for his adorable cousin to look up to and try and emulate had to be at least Hip, though Youthful was the preference, naturally.

(When Lee gets to UA, he decides that Aizawa-Sensei is definitely Hip, and maybe Vlad-Sensei isn’t as Youthful as Lee would like, but he’s still glad to have once again gotten the Youthful sensei rather than the Hip one.  Izuku doesn’t care if he gets a Hip or Youthful sensei, he just wants to get into UA’s hero course with his super Cool and Youthful cousin!)

( @wolfsrainrules, @north-peach, @onceabluemoonwrites)

Izuku knows that Cousin Lee is…strange for a lot of people. Not only does he not have a quirk- but he broke every expectation of the world, his peers, his teachers, and those who told him the world was better without him in it, and he made it into UA Heroics. 

Izuki thinks he’s the coolest.

And he takes to the training his cousin offers like a fish to water. He throws himself into every tip and trick and lesson. He memorizes the way that despite appearances and expectations, Lee could would and had used every dirty trick in the book and taught it to Izuku.  He was also taught ‘honor’ and “Youthfulness” and when it was okay to use those tricks, and when it wasn’t.  But Cousin Lee made sure Izuku knew the tricks and how to counter them and expect them, how to use them to live where he might not. Cousin Lee was the one that sat him down and explained some of the….darker areas of heroics, because he wanted Izuku to know what he was agreeing to.

Izuku remembered that, even as he worked to become a hero he- and Lee- could be proud of. He would get into UA he would become a hero and he absolutely would build an Agency with Cousin Lee that didn’t discriminate on quirks or lack of them or even what kind of hero someone wanted to be- underground, lime light, twilight, Information or rescue or anything in between. 

Green Beans would be a place that could be a home for everyone who didn’t have one. Everyone who needed a hand up, but didn’t have a cousin Lee to outshine the dark and hurtful things in the world, to tell Izuku he was perfect just the way he was, and he could do anything if he just put in the hard work. 

The next year, he goes on to prove everything he worked for and every belief he’d held to right, when he gets into UA heroics class 1A.  

( @north-peach @thefringeperson @onceabluemoonwrites  Fringe, when I tell you I SCREAMED at their hero names- I love them so much)

When Nedzu informs Aizawa that Lee’s cousin will be in his class this year, Aizawa isn’t sure if he wants to grin or groan.  Vlad had not been exactly quiet in the staff room when talking about Lee.  Lots of potential, certainly.  Aizawa just hoped the kid he was getting wouldn’t be as… much as the now-second-year.

He does understand not giving Vlad the second of the two cousins though.  He’d definitely earned his raise last year, dealing with the first one.

All Might isn’t sure about the safety of having a Quirkless kid in the Hero course, and the rest of the staff silently agree not to warn him about Midoriya Lee.  It’s the man’s own fault, whatever happens as consequence of his prejudice and ignorance.

When Aizawa takes 1A outside for the Quirk Apprehension Test and says the one to come last will be expelled, Izuku backs him up when some of the kids object.  After all, Cousin Lee had told him about what happened to last year’s 1A.  It’s why Cousin Lee is in 2A now, rather than 2B - because none of the 1A students stayed 1A students.  Because of this man.

Aizawa grins at that, and thinks there may be advantages to having Midoriya Izuku in his class, apart from that the kid genuinely has a lot of potential.

( @north-peach, @wolfsrainrules, @onceabluemoonwrites Thank you Wolfie!  I put a lot of thought into those names!  I love that you love them!  And I love your addition!!!)

Lee did his first year Hero Agency Internship with Gang Orca, and went into it with a list of questions (collaboratively compiled by himself, his cousin Izuku, and their parents) about how to establish and run an agency, as well as combating prejudice as a Pro Hero.  Gang Orca was, after all, known as the Hero Who Looked Most Like A Villain.  That had to give the man Issues.

Gang Orca is very helpful and supportive and an excellent Hero Mentor for Lee/Ganbaru, and also enjoys hearing about Lee’s adorable younger cousin Izuku.  In between lessons on how to be a good hero, Gang Orca helps Lee further flesh out his and Izuku’s plans to open the Green Bean Agency - from preliminary paperwork, to the needed economic understanding for running an Agency with Employees.  Of course, he also drives Lee into the ground physically, and the kid loves it.  (He thinks Gang Orca is so Youthful!)

Gang Orca would love to have Ganbaru back for his Hero Work Studies, and as a proper - paid - intern and later sidekick, to help Ganbaru save up the funds he’ll need to start the Green Bean Agency with his cousin.

He also offers for Izuku after his first sports festival, so the two cousins can get a proper feel for working together as heroes in the field.  And also because he’s heard so much about this kid from Lee that he’s interested.

Gang Orca loves being a Hero Mentor to Ganbaru and Ganbare, and he has no idea why the UA staff seem so exhausted at just the idea of teaching the two of them at the same time.  They’re both so genuinely happy to be doing even the most tedious parts of Hero Work, they don’t shirk, they work hard, they take constructive criticism as it is intended and let the prejudiced hate just roll off them.  They’re dreaming big, but they’re good kids with even better intentions.

Gang Orca is so proud of his mentees when they graduate from UA, and is there for both of their graduation ceremonies and part of the family photos.

Asui Tsuyu is also part of the Green Bean Hero Agency.  Froppy is everybody’s favourite Hero, and Ganbaru and Ganbare and honoured that she wanted to join them in their brand new agency - not for the rankings, but because Lee and Izuku both genuinely really like Tsuyu, and they all work well together.

She’s a hard worker.  She’s got goals and a can-do attitude.  She enjoys training together with Lee and Izuku.  They challenge her, and she challenges them, and while they all have fun together in their down-time, they all are able to set aside any off-hours things when they’re on the clock.

When Lee and Izuku talk about people being Youthful or Hip, Tsuyu actually gets it.  She gets it and she understands and it isn’t long at all before she’s using the same language.  (The first time Tsuyu calls Aizawa-sensei Hip, he despairs at the Midoriyas somehow infecting another of his class… He’s sure none of Vlad’s class had been infected with this talk of Youthfulness or being Hip.)

Also, Froppy did her internship and work studies with Selkie, who is good friends with Gang Orca (both being marine-based heroes), so when the Green Bean Agency finally officially opens and their hero mentors are there, that’s great too.

( @north-peach, @wolfsrainrules )

Also Kirishima.  Because he uses “Manly” like Lee uses “Youthful”.

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