BNHA: Saving Her (Ojiro Mashirao x Wolf!Reader)

Chapter 52: Sound the Alarm

This was bad.

This was really, really, really bad.

Shinsou sprinted down the street, blood running down his face from a cut above his eye that he didn't remember receiving. Flashes of you, calling out to him rang through his memory but that was all he remembered. Nothing else.

What the hell happened?!

Rounding the corner, he almost tripped but he didn't let that stop him for a second.

He ignored how the branches tore at his ankles had fallen from the trees due to the storm just an hour ago, gritting his teeth as he pushed on to his destination. Flinging his arms to bulldoze through, his mind barely registered the pain. But no matter how fast he ran, how fast he spurred himself to go, he couldn't stop replaying the events over and over again.

There was no warning.

You had left to go with Shinsou to his cousin's apartment, to move the rest of his things out of her place and into Aizawa's. It was an impromptu decision that both of you failed to tell your guardian about.

He regretted it terribly now.

His cousin was studying medicine so she was rarely at home. In all the years of Shinsou living with her, he barely ever saw her, but he never blamed her.

She was a hard worker. On top of university, she worked two other jobs and an additional work study at a hospital on campus. He certainly respected that. She was the reason why he had been able to get a job in middle school and maintain his grades at the same time.

She inspired him. And she believed in him when no one else did.

But she couldn't keep up with the rent in the place they currently were in, so she had to move to another neighborhood. Unfortunately, the new apartment would be much farther away and a bit run down, but it would work until she finished her studies.

But that also meant that she couldn't provide a place for Shinsou to live after the school year finished or on break anymore since it was hours away from Musutafu.

The dorms were good for the year, but after? He had to think fast to find another living arrangement that he could afford. And it wouldn't be easy since Aizawa expressed to him UA's strict policy that prevented students from working during the school year.

Uraraka had done it for a while, but she had been asked to leave her job to focus on her studies. UA was generous as they covered her expenses since her parents couldn't, but Shinsou highly doubted that the same generosity would be extended to him.

Hell, he had just transferred to the hero course last week!!

When his cousin had broken it to him, it had been hard news for Shinsou to take. He only had two more years until he was legally allowed to live on his own but this really threw a wrench in his plans. He didn't have any other family he was willing to live with and to be put in the foster care system this late in his life, he didn't want that.

He wanted his own independence. He wanted to be on his own. To worry about himself and only about himself.

No, that wasn't right.

As much as Shinsou didn't want to admit it, he had grown closer to you and Aizawa, even going so far as to have dinner with you two every other night after his training sessions with the underground hero.

When his cousin had called him up on the phone, her anxious voice coming through clearly as she broke him the news, he had been forlorn and defeated as he listened to her try to rationalize her decision.

"Muri, it's fine." Shinsou attempted to soothe, rubbing his temples. He didn't have the emotional capacity for this, no offense to her. It was just that people gave him headaches and when a situation didn't have an immediate or foreseeable solution, he didn't find talking about it all that helpful. "I'll figure it out."