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Are you... okay?" Koda asked softly, as Shinsou stared at his homework, tapping his pen against the table. Uraraka was lounging in one of the chairs in the study room on the second floor, texting Hado, hoping she might have more information on Midoriya, as Iida tried to help Todoroki with his English homework. As the 1-A dorms had thirty two rooms, and only twenty one of them were occupied with students, they had converted several of the empty rooms on the female side of the dorms for other uses. There was a generic study room on each floor, and on the third floor, there was a mini library, though it was mostly used as a room for Yaoyorozu and Iida to store some of their books. One of the rooms was also converted into a walk-in closet for the girls, where some of them stored their outfits, though for obvious reasons, they kept it locked, and the key was kept in Yaoyorozu's possession. "I..." Shinsou sighed, leaning back so that he was lying on the ground, staring up at the ceiling, "I don't know. Izuku's already done so much for me... and with everything happening, I just feel like I can't make it up to him." Todoroki raised his eyebrow, "What do you mean?" "Oh yeah... you did mention that Izuku saved you six years ago." Uraraka sat up, putting her phone in her pocket. Shinsou sat up, resting his head against his elbows, "You remember... that my quirk was considered as villainous... right?" Todoroki nodded, "I remember that guy who harassed you during the Sports Festival..." "And... one of those villains... during that attack in the USJ..." Koda softy added in. Shinsou sighed, "Yeah... well... my parents... kind of hated me for it. My birth parents, anyways... not the ones I have now." "Oh..." Iida nodded, already having an idea of what had happened since he knew Aizawa and Yamada, and Uraraka pieced together some of the information, "Before we went to Kamino... you mentioned abuse... did they... well... do that?" Shinsou nodded slowly, "Yeah... well... there was once I just... ran away, and accidentally ran into some criminals. But this guy in a black hoodie just... jumped in and chased the villains away." "Izuku?" Todoroki asked, and Shinsou nodded, "Yeah, but I didn't know it was him at that time. He kind of just... asked what I was doing in the middle of night, and I don't know... I just told him. Everything. He told me to go back, and he'd get some help." "Well, I'm pretty sure he did get help." Uraraka asked, "So... which hero did he call?" "Aizawa-sensei." Todoroki's eyes widened, "No way." "Isn't Aizawa-sensei some underground hero, though?" Iida asked; he did know roughly what had happened, but he wasn't too sure about the details, "How did Izuku get into contact with him?" "Well... Izuku was a vigilante... right? Maybe he ran into him at some point?" Koda suggested. Shinsou shrugged, "I'm also not too sure, but from what I know, he ran into Mic-sensei and got him to pass along a message." Iida nodded, "Well... I can understand that you feel indebted to him." "Yeah... but... that was the only time I saw him actually smile." Shinsou replied, and Uraraka widened her eyes, "He smiled? He always looks so... troubled... though... I know people can change a lot in six years... but that big of a difference?" Shinsou let out a sad smile at the memory, "Exactly. Back then, he had such a bright smile. I just... want to see him smile again." "Well, we got this little peppermint to smile." Uraraka pointed at Todoroki, and the dual hair coloured boy mock glared at her, "I am not a peppermint. But... I agree that Izuku has never really seemed happy." "He seems to trust us, maybe once he's out of the hospital, we can all go out for a group outing." Iida added. "On another note..." Todoroki asked, "Aizawa-sensei is your dad, huh?" "Well... yeah? Why?" Shinsou asked, as Todoroki smirked, "I knew it. Secret love child, confirmed." "Wait, what?!" Shinsou bolted up, "Shoto, what the hell!?" Todoroki just took out his phone, "Long hair, eyebags, capture weapon, I knew it. You're his secret love child!" "I'm adopted!" Shinsou whined, but Todoroki just replied, "Same thing." Uraraka and Koda just laughed as Iida tried to stop Todoroki and Shinsou from arguing, Nezu sat outside the operating theatre, trying to do some work while he waited, but he just couldn't get his mind off his injured kid. It had been three days after Midoriya had rescued Eri, and despite everything the doctors had done, they had no choice but to wait for other doctors with better, more suitable quirks to arrive. Waiting just felt like an eternity, but luckily, by some miracle, Midoriya managed to last long enough for the external help to arrive. The doors finally opened, and several doctors, including Shuzenji, walked out, and the Youthful Heroine was talking to other doctors as they continued on their way. One of the other doctors walked up to Nezu, and the small mammal practically leaped off his seat, as Reiko and Ryuto, who were curled up on the seat next to Nezu's, perked up, as the doctor spoke up, "Nezu, right? You're registered here as Midoriya Izuku's guardian?" Nezu nodded, and the doctor murmured, "Over the course of the past few days... we almost lost him a few times, but... I... still don't know how he managed to last this long, but with the help of the other doctors... he's out of the danger zone. His injuries were pretty severe... and according to his hospital records, this is the third time so far that he's received injuries that... You know what I'm talking about. It's a miracle that he's still alive, and... well... we don't know how stable he would be emotionally or mentally." Nezu nodded, as the doctor continued, "I'm sure you're aware of the two injuries he received on his torso... we managed to patch them up, but when he wakes up, we'll have to keep him on an IV drip, at the very least, until his internal organs have recovered sufficiently before letting him on a liquid diet. That covers the injury on his abdomen, but the one on his chest is more severe. We had to heal his lung and some of his ribs, and he was really lucky that he wasn't hit in the heart. That part of the body is delicate, and while the intercostal muscles heal, even after we discharge him back to under Recovery Girl's care, he might occasionally feel some pain in the chest area if he gets too emotional or stressed. He also shouldn't do any intense exercise until Recovery Girl says so." "Noted." Nezu nodded, and the doctor finished up, "Lastly... while it's not as vital as the other two injuries... his right shoulder joint, as well as some of the bones around that area, were completely shattered. We pieced the bones back together, as well as done reconstructive surgery on the muscles in that area. He won't be able to use his right arm for at least a month, taking Recovery Girl's quirk into account. I'm just... worried... he's accumulating too many serious injuries in a short amount of time... if he breaks something again... we won't be able to fix it. There's only that much we can do." "I understand." Nezu looked away, as the doctor said, "I'll bring you to his room. I've heard about the feline and the avian... and while we don't usually allow animals inside, I think we should make an exception." It took a few minutes for the doctor to lead Nezu to Midoriya's hospital room, and the small mammal gently pushed open the door, noticing Midoriya lying on the bed, completely still, a blanket draped over his thin frame. His left eye, along with his right arm and his chest was covered by bandages, though Nezu was pretty sure that the rest of Midoriya's body was covered in bandages under the blanket. An IV was connected to his hand, and a heart rate monitor was beeping every now and then, and Nezu moved to stand by the bed, as Reiko and Ryuto hopped onto the bed to settle down beside their human. "I'm not sure when he'll wake up, but it'll probably take a day or two." The doctor said, before he exited the room. Nezu reached out, gently brushing his paw through Midoriya's fluffy green curls, before he sat down into one of the chairs by the bed, watching as Midoriya's chest rose and fell as he breathed. He was going to have to have a talk with his kid about self preservation, but for now, he could relax, knowing that he was alive.