All might x Reader x Various ~Be My Hero~ (4)

Chapter 4

-Fire and Ice-

(Your PoV)
As I slowly began to wake up from my sleep I noticed voices around me. I opened my eyes and found myself faced with white curtains around me as well as the sound of a heart monitor with my arm hooked onto an IV. I sat up and found I was wearing a hospital uniform, I heard a conversation to my left behind the curtain so I laid back down and waited for whoever was talking to stop.

I looked to my numb hands and found that they were wrapped up in bandages. I felt exhausted and I almost fell asleep again when the one and only medical hero walked through the curtain to me. I looked at her and saw she hand a frown etched into her features, "You poor kid, always seeming to get into trouble huh?" She said walking up to me delicately grabbing my hands and using her power to help me heal. 

I gave her a weak laugh as my head began to lull to one side, "Well it seems as if trouble is my mistress…" I spoke softly, my voice was like nails on chalk board and felt just like that. My joints popped and creaked as I sat up, the old lady in front of me tried to push me back down and was successful considering my incredible weakness, "I… need water…" I huffed. She gave me another pained smile and turned around to get me just that. She opened the curtains around me revealing that All Might and Deku were also in the room.

Both of them looked worse for wear, All Mights eyes immediately landed on me and I could tell he was pained by something, "Im so sorr-""Save it… we are all alive right?" I cut him off with a question and hoped to god everyone was alright. Deku looked over at me with sad eyes despite his injuries I was some how worse then him. All Might gave a small smirk, "You're the worst out of the students and if you can still snap at me like that I think we are all alright." He said.

I smiled as I laid back down, "thats good, real good…" again I drifted off.

When I woke up I found myself still in the hospital wing, recovery girl informed me that school was cancelled for the day and I had the choice to go to school the next day but for the day I would have to stay in the hospital wing for physical therapy. Most the day consisted of various creams for my hands and hooking them up to rubber strips to help me regain my grip strength which was almost all gone. I also learned that I had a long scar on my cheek from hitting the ground but luckily recovery girl had a scar cream that would allow my cheek to heal without the scar but for now I would have to live with the long red wound.

My recovery went along fine but again I had to stay in the hospital wing for the night for my broken arm which only had another day to heal. Luckily All Might dropped off my school uniform and supplies for me while I was asleep. Aizawa, i learned, was bed ridden in the corner of the room and was bandaged from head to toe.

The next day came all to slowly and I was anxious to see someone other then recovery girl and the mummy. Embarrassingly though recovery girl had to help me get dress for my aching muscles and difficulty to articulate my fingers, "Thank you…" I spoke softly not trying to hurt my voice. Recovery girl gave me a smile and I shuffled out of the room towards class. When I made it to class I was bombarded with the students sending praises towards me as well as worried calls from Uraraka.

"Honestly (name) you're so reckless…" I was surprised by the voice of Todoroki as I was sitting down next to Shouji. I turned around along with the rest of the class that has for once fell silent just to look at the mute kid who never stuck up conversation. His face was serious and gave off the same blank stare but none the less I smile, "Ill be more careful." I spoke softly, if everyone weren't silent no one would have been able to hear me.

I could feel that someone was about to comment on that until I heard the shouts of Iida, "Everyone quite down! and get to your sea…" He was shut up by the sheer stillness of the classroom, all of us were in our seats and we all were quiet. He grumbled taking his own seat, "I wonder who is going to take over class today…" Spoke Uraraka.

I nodded as the classroom door slid open to reveal an overly bandaged Aizawa. I wanted to say something but my throat began to hurt again, I was told apparently I was used as a bargaining item at one point so I was picked up by the throat.

"What are you doing here!" someone shouted, "We are preparing for, the Sports festival…" He said dramatically earning a few gasps and yells about how normal that would be. I knew all about the sports festival, a replacement for the once famous olympics… well the olympics still occurred but they had strict bans on quirks… anyways I looked on in amazement dreaming of what we would be doing for the sports festival.

Finally when lunch came I was about to go with Deku when I was grabbed by the arm by someone else I turned around to come face to face with the one, the only! Todoroki… I looked at him as he gave me his usual blank stare, "Whats up?" I questioned quietly, "Want to get lunch together?" he questioned with an almost monotone voice. I smiled happy that he was finally trying to talk with us.

I nodded walking along side him to the lunch room. He stayed quiet during the entire trip to the lunch room but I understood he wasn't really a social person. When we made it to the lunch room I stood in line with him and looked at the menu, "To be honest I never had any of the lunch rooms food…" I spoke more to myself. We ordered our food and sat at our own table eating our food. I was about to say something when he spoke, "Do you think we could be allies for the sports festival? If there were team sports or stuff…" he spoke eating his food slowly.

Then it clicked, he was afraid of not having any allies during the competition and being left behind defeated. I nodded my head, "Yeah, if you could help me out with my training… recovery girl told me to make a full recovery to my original strength I should be training every day." I said, hopeful that he would agree. He seemed to be in thought for a second then nodded, "So where do you want to train?" He questioned then shook his head, "actually it would be best if you just train at my place…" he said obviously not all to happy about his own place.

I smiled and dug into my food finishing it off quickly, "Well then it is decided!" I spoke happily and held out my hand for a handshake, "thanks partner!" my throat ached but my voice was much better then earlier in the day. He shook my hand quickly and I could feel the cold from his hands seep into my own damaged one but as soon as the hand shake began it ended, "Tomorrow we begin training right after school." He said right as the bell for english rang. We walked to the next class together and did our own things.

After school when I made it to All Mights place I entered to find him with a mass of cup noodles around him. I glared at him as I pulled a handful of water out from the air and dumped it on him, "Im gone for one day and you go and do this?" I spoke softly making my anger all the more menacing. He coward away from me and immediately threw out all the cup noodle, "There its gone!" He said running into his office to avoid my anger. I gave off a sigh and made it to the kitchen, "It feels like an eternity since Ive been in this place…" I said softly as I gathered up ingredients for dinner making a simple chicken soup.

When I was finished I placed it in front of Toshi in his office, "Eat up." I said as he looked up at me with a slight smile, "Thanks." I smiled and as i walked out of the office I said, "Oh and after school tomorrow I will be accompanying Todoroki to his place to train." I shut the door behind me before he said anything. I jumped into my couch bed and fell asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow.

When I woke up the next morning I stretched out and looked around and found that Toshi was already gone. I happily made myself breakfast and a bento for lunch. I sang a little toon and found my voice was back, I danced around and got my school uniform on but not before staring at some of the bruises that littered my body.

I ran to class and sat in for my classes but I was half toned out the whole time thinking about Todoroki's place. It would obviously have a large space but I was still quite curious. Class passed by quickly and when lunch came I sat with Deku, iida, and Uraraka. I tried to usher Todoroki but he just glanced at me waved and walked away. A start!

After school I caught up with Todoroki and walked beside him with my bag in hand, inside was a blue tank top and a pair of grey form fitted mid thigh shorts. I also brought a pair of black sneakers but I wanted to train without shoes. Todoroki gave me a side glance and a sigh, "We will be using the training facility at my place and I believe my dad is out all day but if he happens to come inside we have to leave." He said. I gasped, "You have your own training facility." I whisper shouted. He nodded, "I usually just train outside but I have a feeling you would need to train with equipment." 

We quickly made our way to his place and I noticed how it looked like a traditional japanese home but we skipped past the buildings and made our way to a training facility. I noticed around the windows and doors scorch marks were etched into everything but I ignored it and entered after Todoroki, "You can change in here, no one enters here except my father and me." he spoke. I nodded as he exited to get his own training outfit. I walked off to the side and quickly changed into my outfit, after that I began to wander around and look at the room. 

There were sand bags, weights, a small track, a fighting ring, and various work out items… even yoga matts that seemed to be slightly burnt on their edges. It became quite evident who ever used this facility had a fire quirk but oddly enough the air in the room had quite the amount of moisture… probably for Todoroki's quirk…

I pulled out a yoga mat and began some stretches to prepare my muscles. I noticed that I still had some bruises on my body but they were a yellowish green now. I smiled and continued stretching waiting for Todoroki to arrive which he soon did. He did some quick stretches and we began a simple work out, weight lifting, running, and then floor work outs. I was slightly sad he didnt have a pool...

As we continued working out he started up a simple conversation, "You dont seem too worse for wear." He said and I shrugged, "Im just a surprised as you, I guess recovery girls powers are just that amazing… I mean look at my hands! Just the other day they were torn to shreds and now there is just little ring scars around my fingers!" I said excitedly showing off my healed hands.

After our set he ushered me over to the fighting ring, "We are not going to actually fight, we will just practice our quirks." He said after noticing my worried looks. I gave a sigh, "Yeah I'm not all for dying just yet." I said softly following after him.

He stood in front of my looking in thought, "Could you summon up some water?" He questioned me. I nodded and pulled some of the water from the air and created some of my own. I waited for further instruction, "Can you make it into ice?" He questioned I nodded and made a shard of my glass like water. He walked in front of me, "Can I hold onto it?" He questioned and I nodded handing it over continuing to maintain the form. He started to walk back as far as he could and I tried to maintain it but once he made it to a certain distance it dissipated. He smiled, "that is actually quite useful. Try making it into a weapon." I nodded and made a claymore.

This time he took it from my hand and swung it around in front of him, "This is very useful much more precise…" He mumbled to himself. I let the weapon dissipate, "What do you mean?" I questioned he turned back towards me, "My ice is a bit unpredictable, sometimes crystals are formed that I dont want formed so I can't make and objects but yours… its very precise. And you can also make it float correct?" He questioned me and I nodded. This gave him a smirk, "It means if there are times we have to run or make it to a high height you could just fly us over it." I nodded and an idea hit me, "And your quirk reaches out far so we can be a far distance while attacking if something like that is required! Wow you think ahead quite far." I said. He nodded with a smile, "Now lets train some attacks."

He gave me some pointers on my attacks like how to make my water bullets much faster and even how to maintain the small tornado block around me. He also helped me create an "ice" barrier around me that would still allow me to breath much like his own ice barrier. I practiced more with fighting with ice weapons leading me to create an arm blade which was and extension of my arm. As I shadow fought I heard a door creak open and a voice, "What are you doing in here?" The ice blades immediately dissipated and I turned around frightened by the harsh voice.

Todoroki glared down the man who stood there, it was a tall muscular man with red spiky hair and slight stubble. It took me a second this was his father, I shivered at the huge man whose glare shifted from his own sons to me. I shivered slightly, "Who is this? One of your weak classmates?" I felt insulted but Todoroki just gently grabbed my arm with his cold hand and began to guide me out of the room without saying a word to his father. As we passed him I looked into his eyes feeling the the sheer coldness of his gaze.

After we got out of the building Todoroki escorted me to the house. I noticed how dark it was finally and worried a bit about worrying Toshinori, "You should probably just stay the night (name). A lot of villains creep around this place at night, they dont dare come inside the place though." He said opening the door for me. I stepped in and took off my shoes, "Alright I just have to call someone. Do you have a cell?" I questioned him and he pulled one out of his pocket handing it over. I quickly dialed Toshinori's number, it rung twice then picked up, "Hello?" I heard his voice, "Hey its me (name) its gotten too dark and dangerous out so ill just stay at Todoroki's place tonight…" I said then I heard a grunt on the other line, "Then what will I eat-""There is soup in the fridge and you better not eat any cup noodle, bye~" I said hanging up handing the phone back to him.

Todoroki took me farther into the house into a dining room that had a very roomy table seat, "Hey sis, I have a guest." The person I guessed to be his sister looked up at me and then gave a sideways smile, "Hey 'guest' of Shouto" He grumbled at her words and I just smiled to her, "I hope you can make it through dinner." She said turning around to the kitchen, "OH! Can I help! I love cooking!" I said following after her. She laughed, "Sure, I could always use some help." I smiled following after her.

We cooked up some fish, rice, pork cutlet bowls (such a sexy food*) I personally cooked up those pork cutlets… we also made some chocolate pudding and corn bread. I helped set the table and place out the food onto the different places. After I set the table and sat in my own guest spot Shouto sat next to me as his two brothers walked in and began eating not caring if their own father or sister were in the room. I noticed Shouto also began to eat and soon after his sister came in and ate her own food. I hesitantly began to eat at the silent table, the food tasted good but a good meal consisted of conversation and story telling, this was just eating.

Both his brothers finished quickly and left to their own things and his sister smiled sadly at me, "Yeah, this is a divided house…" She said absentmindedly. I frowned slightly, "yeah…" I turned towards Shouto and smiled, "So can we do this again?" I questioned. He laughed slightly surprising his sister, "Sure, if you're willing to possibly go through something like this again." I smiled widely, "Yeah after all you do seem to at least have an awesome sister." I looked over to her and she smiled, "Shouto I'm so happy you have a friend." She said picking up her finished plate of food as well as her brothers and walked out leaving the two of us alone.

We ate slowly enjoying the food and for a second it felt like and actual meal, "Hey (name)-" he was cut off by loud foot steps making their way to the table. In walked Shouto's father, he glared but stayed silent then glared at the food and began eating while glaring at each bite of food, I began to think that in fact that was just his actual face naturally...

Shouto began eating his food quicker and I followed suit, again this was no longer a meal… more like choking our food down to get away from his father. Shouto quickly finished his food and left the room trying to tug me along but I wasn't finished with my food and I almost choked. He left for the kitchen not wanting to stay in the room another second. I quickly finished the pudding and placed everything into the bowl as i noticed his father glaring at me. I got up and began to leave the room when I heard, "You better not hinder his strength." I heard him say forcefully. I ran out of the room before he could say anything else.

I noticed as soon as I got into the kitchen that todoroki's sister was eaves dropping. She smiled, "He like you!" She said happily. I paled, 'if that is what he says when he likes someone I do not want to be on his bad side.' She drug me along to a spare room that had my bag in it, "You can sleep here if you need anything Shouto's room is right next to you." I nodded and she left. I laid down onto the futon and drifted off to sleep.

When I opened my eyes I came face to face with glowing red eyes and a flash of silvery grey hair and the disembodied hand on his face lead me to realize that it was that man from the other day. I wanted to cry to scream but one of the disembodied hands clutched my face keeping my silent. I struggled to breath as the scene around me changed and I was stood up as the man ran at me from down an alley way. I turned around and tried to run but I was stopped by the large walled body of the dark muscle brain bird. Its teeth leaked red blood as it reached toward me. I turned around to run from it but instead I fell forward into a dark pit. I tried sitting up but cold dark goop began to pull me downwards. I was drowned by the dark goop and when I opened my eyes I again was face to face with the red eyes of the man, "Just have to ruin his reputation…" his hand reached for my face.

I shrieked and bolted up out of the bed and tried to run forward only to run into the wall. I slid down to the floor with tears streaking down my face as my door slammed open, "(Name)!" It was Shouto. I only broke down more as I ran towards him and embraced him. He was surprised by my sudden move and slid down to the floor with me as I cried silently but violently. He rubbed my back with a warm hand as my sobs began to disappear, "Are you okay?" He questioned worriedly. I sniffed and nodded, "Thank you… thank you so much. I just need to go outside… I can't… I can't go back to sleep if that thing is going to be waiting for me…" I stood from his embrace and began to stumble towards the door.

Shouto followed after me in the dark as I went out and sat on his wooden porch. I noticed how the night was close to silent, I couldn't even here the traffic outside. I smiled looking up at the twinkling stars as hope filled me up. Shouto ams up behind me and draped a blanket over me, "Be safe…" He said walking back inside to go to bed. I sighed and huddled into the blanket, I stared absentmindedly up to the starts as I laid down with the blanket draped over me. Although I was outside and more out in the open somehow it made me feel safe and this time I slipped into a dreamless peaceful sleep.