My Hero: Impulse

Chapter 2: Acted On An Impulse

The mist that surrounded Dabi and Giran disappeared, revealing that they were now in Giran's office.

"What the hell was that?," Dabi questioned.

"An employee of one of my business partners," Giran revealed. "He owed me a favor so I asked him for his services."

Giran sat down at his desk and light a cigarette before gesturing Dabi to come over and sit down on the chair across from him, which Dabi did.

"I've got to admit kid, you did a great job," Giran confessed.

"So, can you give me some jobs to do now?," Dabi asked, ignoring Giran's compliment.

"Heh, you're strictly business, huh? I can respect that," Giran chuckled. "Come back here tomorrow and I'll have a job for you to do as well as pay for the job that you did today."

Giran held his hand out to Dabi which Dabi reluctantly took and shook.

"Let this be the start of a great business relationship."

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Denki didn't really remember much about what had happened; all he could remember was that he saw a building lit on fire with blue flames and then everything that happened after that was very fuzzy. So it came as a great surprise to him when he woke up in a hospital bed with a very skinny blonde man wearing a baggy white t-shirt and green pants sitting right next to him.

"Oh! You finally woke up!," the bony blonde man sighed in relief.

"Where am I?," Denki questioned groggily.

"You're in Musutafu General Hospital," the blonde man revealed.

"What happened? How did I get here?," Denki asked, a little more awake than he was before.

"You don't remember?," the blonde man asked.

Denki shook his head in response.

"Well, you ran into a burning building and saved a child and passed out after getting out of the building due to inhaling too much smoke."

Denki's eyes widened in shock, "I actually did that?!"

"You did," the blonde man confirmed. "The child's grandmother was really grateful to you as well; she said she owed you her life for saving her grandson."

The mention of the elderly woman and her grandson triggered Denki's memories. He remembered hearing the elderly woman cry out for help and running into the burning building without a single thought. He ran up to the third floor and narrowly escaped the flames touching his skin and found the old lady's grandson standing in the middle of the hallway with his soccer ball in his hand, crying. The kid revealed to Denki that he let go of his grandmother's hand because he dropped his soccer ball. Denki scooped up the kid in his arms and ran down the stairs until he reached the first floor; once he made it outside and set the kid down, his vision turned black.

"Oh, yeah, I remember now," Denki recalled.

"What you did was very brave young man," the blonde man complimented with a smile. "May I ask you something, young man?"

"Sure," Denki agreed.

"Why did you run into that building?"

Denki thought long and hard about the lanky man's question but no matter how hard he thought about it, he kept drawing blanks.

"I don't know," Denki revealed. "I heard the old lady crying while yelling for help and before I knew it, I ran into the building."

"Almost like your body moved on its own?," the blonde man asked with a knowing look on his face.