Shinso x Fem!Reader "My Own Hero"

Chapter 5

As I feel myself start to wake-up, I try to open my eyes but the light is blinding, so I quickly shut them again with a soft groan. After a moment, I slowly open my eyes again, this time giving my eyes time to adjust to the light. Once I can open my eyes all the way, I notice I'm in a nurse's office. "Probably Recovery Girl's office," I think to myself. "But why am I here?" As I look around the room and see that I'm alone, I relax a bit and try to remember what happened. With the last thing I remember being a slight dizziness I had at the end of my team fight in class, I quickly assume I must have passed out once we won. While I'm internally scolding myself, the door across the room quickly opens. I quickly look up, jerking my head in the process, which causes a pounding in my head to arise. While I grab my head in pain, the person entering asks, "Is Recovery Girl not here?" Slowly I turn my head towards them and look up. "I don't think so, but I just woke up so I don't really know what's going on right now," I reply softly as to not have the pounding in my head erupt again. In response to me, he nods his head and turns around to leave. Before he can close the door behind him, I quickly say, "What's your name? I can let her know you visited whenever she gets back." He looks over his shoulder to look me in the eye. After a long moment, one that had my heart racing faster and faster the more he looked at me, he finally says, "Shinso. I'm Hitoshi Shinso." And with that, the door closes behind him before I can even think to say anything else.

Now left alone with my thoughts, a pounding headache, and a racing heart, I can't help but think about Shinso. His voice was deep already, but I could tell it was going to get deeper by the time he became an adult. Those purple eyes of his held something that I couldn't quite read, but it drew me in so that I couldn't look away. And even though he had messy hair like he woke up that way, his deep set eye-bags show that he hasn't slept in days. Nothing about him automatically screams hot, or sexy in anyway, yet he's somehow got my heart racing and has captured my attention in ways I never thought I would ever experience with anyone. With all thoughts focused on Shinso, I'm easily startled when the door opens again. Without even realizing it, I was hoping to see Shinso again. So when it was just Recovery Girl, I was surprised at myself for being kind of disappointed.

As she enters the room, she notices I'm awake and sitting up now. "Oh good! You're awake. You gave everyone a good scare there sweetheart," she says to me in the sweetest voice as she makes her way to the side of my bed. "How are you feeling? Have you been awake long?"
"I've been awake only a few minutes," I reply. "And I'm okay, I guess. My head hurts a bit, but nothing to worry about."
"Good, I'm glad to hear it! Seeing as school just was let out a few minutes ago, you can head on home whenever you're ready. No rush, take your time." As she turns around and starts walking to her desk, she quickly adds, "Oh! And I almost forgot! There's someone waiting for you. I told him to just wait outside the office."
"Okay, thank you. And to let you know," I say to her as I slowly get up off the bed and gather my things to leave, "Someone named Hitoshi Shinso stopped by. He left right before you got here."
"He did?" With this information she thinks for a moment to herself. She startles me with a snap of her fingers as she remembers something. "That's right! Aizawa did tell me he was coming to see me today after school. I can't believe I forgot! I better go try to find him." As she quickly makes her way to the door, she yells back at me, "If you see him on your way out, please don't let him leave. Just tell him to wait for me in my office this time." She then leaves the room without waiting for a reply or even a reaction from me. With a sigh, I finish gathering my things and make my way out the door.

Just as I reach the door, I go to grab the knob to open it, but it aggressively opens up again. With a small jump and a gasp, I'm quickly met with a very pissed off looking Bakugo. "Took you long enough, dumbass! We have things to do, remember?" Without even waiting for a reply, a common theme that is quickly getting on my nerves, he turns around and walks away. With no choice but to follow, unless I want to piss him off even more, I try to catch up to him. I never do seem to catch up to him though, because he walks pretty fast, surprisingly. In little to no time at all, we arrive at the training field outside from our first day. "Listen, Bakugo-" I try to say, but am quickly cut off by him throwing his backpack on the ground and growling in anger at me.
"I don't wanna hear it! NO EXCUSES! NOW FIGHT ME!" he screams at me as he charges forward. With no time to react and still having a pounding headache, I close my eyes and turn my face away while bringing my arms up to protect my face. Before I know it, I'm knocked on the ground with a hard thud as my head smacks against the ground. Thankfully we were on a softer, grass field and not concrete! Otherwise, I know I would've been knocked out cold...again. With another growl, Bakugo pulls my hands away from my face and pins them to my side. I look up and see that he's on top of me, leaning down so that his face is inches away from my face. With no control over my reaction, I can't help but blush a bit and turn my face away from him. "FIGHT ME, GOD DAMN IT! FIGHT ME!" he continues to scream in my face. With my already pounding headache now magnified by hitting the ground and by all his yelling in my face, I can't stop the tears from falling down my face.

As I'm preparing for him to yell at me some more or even hit me, I suddenly feel his weight being lifted off of me. I don't move at first in utter shock, but quickly try to sit up and brush away the tears. "What's your problem?!" I hear Bakugo yell. As I open my eyes, still trying to brush away the tears, I can't seen anything but blurry colors. So I frantically wipe away my tears so I can see what's going on right in front of me. "What are you doing to her? You've made her cry," speaks a newly familiar voice. Now able to see, I look up and see Shinso glaring at Bakugo. He's only a bit taller than Bakugo, so he has to look down just a bit because they are so close their noses could be touching. Bakugo gets visibly more angry, opening his mouth to yell again, but all that comes out is, "Wha-" before he goes quiet and his body relaxes. "Now get your things and go home," Shinso says to him. Much to my surprise, Bakugo doesn't say a word, doesn't even make a sound, as he calmly walks over to his backpack, picks it up, and heads away from us.

In complete shock, I can only stare at Shinso in awe. Unfortunately, it seems that he's taken my reaction the wrong way because he looks me in the eye and starts to wake away as he says, "Yeah, I know. A mind controlling quirk. Perfect for a villain. I've heard it all before, so just save your breath." As I quickly stand up, I call out to him to wait. He stops in his tracks and slowly turns to face me, and I run up to him. Without even thinking I quickly wrap my arms around him, giving him a hug. I must have surprised him because his body quickly gets tense and he becomes as still as a statue. Not seeming to care about his reaction, I can't pull away. I only seem to be able to bury face in his chest and start to cry again. In between my tears, I manage to say to him, "Thank you. Thank you much Shinso. You saved me." I pull away a bit to wipe my tears away as I look up into his eyes. "You're not a villain. If anything, you're a true hero. I can't thank you enough." Completely shocked and frozen in place, Shinso only looks down at me, unable to hide (or not bothering to hide) the surprise look in his eyes.

After a moment of us just staring into each other's eyes in complete silence, I manage to look away. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have just hugged you like that. It's just that I was so scared...." I say as I let my thoughts and voice trail off. As another moment passes without him saying or doing anything, I become very embarrassed, something that's not all that normal for me. So with being unsure of what to do, I nervously fix my skirt. This causes me to quickly realize that my secret, the belt, has been showing. In a panic, I quickly try to hide it and look to see if he saw it. As I look up, he's looking me in the eye, but quickly looks away with a very faint blush appearing on his cheeks. This causes me to blush a bit, too. Before this could get any more awkward, I quickly thank him again as I hurry away, careful not to run and look like a total fool.

In no time I make it back home, slamming the door behind me as I lean up against it completely aware that I'm an embarrassed mess. In hopes to forget about today and put the past behind me, I head to the bathroom to take a quick shower and then change into my PJs before I make something to eat. Once I'm done and head into the kitchen, I hear my phone go off. Too nervous to check it, I just ignore it instead by setting tomorrow's alarm and plugging it in to charge over night. As my phone goes off again, my nerves take over, destroying any appetite I might have had. With a frustrated sign, I turn the volume on my phone off, except for the volume to my alarm, and head off to bed early. Hopefully Bakugo won't bring up what happened today when I see him tomorrow. But more importantly, what am I going to do about Shinso? Is there anything to even do? Do I really need to even do anything? With questions racing around in my mind, I never notice when I fall asleep.