My Old Hero

125: She's Not Afraid

Izumi woke up a few hours later to remember that Katsuki still was on patrol, but she felt overjoyed when she saw the bouquet of flowers again. 

'I don't feel sore anymore, I did take the pain reliever Kacchan gave me. Hmph, he's so sweet.' Izumi thought. 

She thought it would be a good idea to go out and get some fresh air since she was inside all Saturday. She went back into the guest bedroom to remember that the only thing she had to wear was Katsuki's sweatshirt, and her business suit from Friday. 

'Hmm, I'll just have to go back home to change clothes before I do anything else.' Izumi thought, as she put on Katsuki's sweatshirt and her work pants and walked home.

She changed into a comfort t-shirt, some ripped jeans and her red tennis shoes. She had to pull her hair into a ponytail and wore a baseball cap and a mask to cover her face. 

After changing clothes, Izumi just wanted to take a long walk outside through the busy streets. 

'I haven't had to go through the streets like this in a long time. It doesn't help that my arm is still broken, let's just hope no one will recognize me.' she thought. 

Luckily all the worrying she had wasn't worth it, as she managed to walk through Japan without anyone noticing her. 

'I haven't done laundry at home all week, I need to take care of that first. Oh, and I need to reorganize everything at my desk at home. But I need to go to the market first and get some stuff.' Izumi thought.

She didn't buy a lot of things at the market, because of her arm, and was on her way back to her apartment. 

She stood at the crosswalk and waited just like everyone else until she turned her head. She saw a child who was holding a balloon that had accidentally let the balloon go, and the child saw it flying away and started running in that direction, right into the open road where all the cars were. 

Izumi froze, as she noticed no one else was watching the kid and there was a large truck that was about to come towards the kid.

Izumi had no choice but to activate her quirk, and ran right into the crosswalk and quickly grabbed the child out of the way as the truck was slamming on the brakes. 

Izumi landed on her right arm, but held the child close to her chest and she fell. Everyone on both sides of the crosswalk was shocked and people in their cars stopped driving just to see the situation. 

Izumi didn't feel any pain from her right, since it was fake, and tried to sit up with the child on her chest.

"Are you okay?" Izumi asked. 

The child, who was a girl around the age of 4 or 5, nodded and looked really scared. 

"That was a close call, but you should be careful and try not to let go of your balloon next time. Okay?" Izumi said with a warm smile. The little girl nodded and a young woman ran up to them. 

"Are you okay ma'am, Haru, are you okay?" the woman asked. 

"She's okay, she's not hurt. I made sure." Izumi said. 

"Thank you so much for stepping up and protecting my daughter! I am sincerely grateful!" the woman said with a bow. 

"I-It's okay, it's just natural for someone like me to help." Izumi said.

"Yes, but still, I need to repay you for saving my daughter and- ah- you're... you're Izumi Midoriya, aren't you?!?!?" the woman yelled. 

Izumi froze, as she soon realized that while she jumped into the save the little girl, her mask fell off her face, which meant her face was revealed. Because of the outburst, everyone looked directly at Izumi and started crowding around her on the street.