A long time since this got an update.

Ok so for those who want to see more on what happens right after 'The Dark Knight of Chiba', please head on over the story written by BlackPsych, 'The Dark Knight of Chiba: Knightfall'.

'The Adventure Continues' will tend to have more DC comics elements with Huntsman/Hachiman inserted into the mix.

This chapter is based off the comic series 'Heroes in Crisis'. In that storyline, there is a virtual therapy facility called 'The Sanctuary'. A place where heroes can talk about their problems. Now it's Hachiman's turn.

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Heroes In Crisis: Huntsman's Confession

The Sanctuary, a barn house located in the States and…practically in the middle of nowhere. What's inside that barn house façade is the real deal though.

I sat down in a lazy way. The plaque right behind me shaped like a shield and an 'S' representing Sanctuary. And I stared at the lens of the AI program, the Sanctuary, created by Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.

An AI program designed to be a virtual therapist for every hero and every reformed villain. It was for anyone living this kind of life. For those who had seen more than enough. In a world where people sees heroes as unbreakable beings, the Sanctuary was meant to let these heroes 'break down'.

Everyone in the Justice League, the Teen Titans, everyone I know of was urged to have their own therapy session with the Sanctuary, however long it took for them. Be it a few days or even months.

And now it was my turn, as the Huntsm-…as Hikigaya Hachiman.

I was pressured by Batman to have my turn in this place. But all I did was stare straight ahead at the AI program, I did not take off my mask or my hood.

As much as it may seem ideal to have my therapy session with this thing, I clenched my fists and said one thing to it before walking away.

"This does not help me."

Long after I was back in Chiba, in familiar territory. The sun was setting as I gazed the coast. I did not even know how long it has been since I have last stepped foot in this place, in my high school. Sobu High.

No one knows that I'm here. I was not in my outfit, instead I wore a red shirt and black jeans with white sneakers. I was only Hikigaya Hachiman for this evening. And for a little experiment, I had my hair highlighted in dark red. Have to say, I kind of like it.

I sat on the water tower and my mind went back to the Sanctuary, it does not help me. I know that some of the other heroes needed that virtual therapist in the Sanctuary, but like I said before it does not help me.

I know some people truly need Sanctuary, like Dr Light, Zatanna, Detective Chimp and Cyborg.

And I know some people will just rudely dismiss Sanctuary's uses. Like Guy Gardner the other Green Lantern, Dinah Lance the Black Canary, and probably Damian Wayne too.

The way I see it, Sanctuary was just some other way to scream into a pillow. But screaming into a pillow does not equal to an answer for the things that I question. If I were to 'let it out', I'm just going to do it in my head. For all I know, some omnipresence out there somewhere could be reading everything about me like a damn light novel, huh. And at this point I'm too tired to be worried about that.

However, the only things I want to talk about and question are the other heroes. I hold no illusions to what some of them see me. Some nobody punk kid from Japan.

Here's what I see with them all, what I see in every single individual in this giant circle. They're all…like a book. Everyone is like a book that has contents to be read, the contents could range from a simple story to a massive one. Sometimes the contents could be just utter nonsense.

It's probably childish to say this, but I developed this ability to read people from my upsetting school life.

I've always been the one who just observes with those heroes and my close people. I've been reading an entire library with them all so to say. 'Reading' them is the only thing I could do.

Let's start the 'Bat-family.' I don't think that they think I'm a part of them, mainly because I'm so far away and that's fine. Maybe it's for the better. They've got issues of their own, I've made my observations and my conclusions.

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, even Damian Wayne. They're having the problem of not knowing what they are towards each other, and being constantly overshadowed by Bruce. Grayson is the one that feels the need to be guiding all of them, Todd struggles to adapt to the rules they follow, and Drake always bites his lip and follows. For Damian, he hides his issues with his arrogance, he simply needs a very big lesson in empathy.

I suspect they all have a common antagonist though, and that's me. But that's their feelings to rectify, because they think I got out of Batman's shadow. I never was in his shadow to begin with.

Barbara Gordon and Stephanie Brown, Batgirl and Spoiler. Bruce had told me what their problem is, they still treat the whole hero thing as a thrill ride. And he's right, those two are just in it as a game. Sometimes I doubt they respect the abyss people like me have in our hearts. It annoys me plenty of times.

There's Duke, Signal. I'm just waiting for his own crisis in who he is to the 'Bat family'. I sense a conflict with them coming soon.

For Cassandra Cain, her admiration for the Bat symbol is nice and all, but I suspect it may be unhealthy in the future. Batwoman, Kane, think she's different and better from them all because of military background, it's not going to work. And Huntress, Helen, she thinks her history puts her on a separate wavelength.

There should not be a competition on who had the worse background, I of all people should know. It does not help or change anything.

And Selina Kyle? Catwoman? I don't care what Bruce, Alfred, or anyone else say about her. Here's what I conclude, if Bruce Wayne was not a billionaire Selina Kyle would not even give him a second glance.

The other members in the Teen Titans? Well…to me it's like the Service Club, but a whole lot bigger.

Helping others while showing them how to help themselves. Teaching them how to fish instead of bringing the fish to them. That was Yukinoshita Yukino's mission when she created the club. Hiratsuka Shizuka's vision was to turn Yukinoshita, Yuigahama and I into better people while we were in that club. But that did not go according to plan.

Nevertheless, Yukinoshita's mission and Hiratsuka's vision had a spiritual successor in a way, the Teen Titans. However, more often than not, the Teen Titans turns into a volatile chemical reaction. Because of course youths, and I already know the 'truth' about youth.

And then we come to the Justice League. Every superpower comes with a burden. Even heroes as big as Superman and Wonder Woman have baggage that I can detect. All coming down to what they are on this Earth.

Superman has to juggle Kal El and Clark Kent. J'onn, Martian Manhunter could hear the screams in everyone's mind. Maybe he's reading my mind right now. Wonder Woman's constantly torn between the views of her Amazon people, and the reality of the world.

The Green Lanterns, Hal, John, Kyle, Guy and Jessica. They will always get judged as lesser beings by the other members of the Lantern Corp, there's no escaping that. And all they will have is 'I'm only human.'

The Flash, all the power of speed. But I know the dreaded thought he harbours, he's not fast enough for every single thing.

Shazam? A child trying to solve the problems of the world, which says it all doesn't it? But then again, this is not an isolated case.

I could say more about the others, but here's the main thing about why I'm saying all this in my head. Because I'm just some nobody punk kid from Japan, compared to the metahumans, aliens and gods among us.

The times I fight alongside them, of course I'll help however I can. But despite all the hero groups around the globe, I have my own world here in Chiba. A world I can come back to. Perhaps this is what helped me in the years.

I have been running through all these thoughts in my head, all it did was just giving my brain a tiring jog, just jogging round and round with nothing solved. I've said it before about the Sanctuary therapy, I'll say it again. This does not help me.

Although…maybe…for all we know someone has been reading this…reading my book. And if that were true, well at least someone knows.

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