From the Shadows || Katsuki Bakugou x OC

Chapter Seventy-seven

"Keiko. Keiko, wake up."

"Ugh." I slowly opened my eyes, "Dad?"

"Yeah, it's dad." He smiled at me. "The doctor just came by and asked me to wake you up and give you some pain relievers."

I sat up and looked at the window. "It's still dark. What time is it?"

"About two in the morning." He handed me the pills and a small cup of water. "Your teacher said you fell asleep in the ambulance, then were half awake while the doctors in the ER checked to see the damage."

I took the pills then set the cup down. "Huh, I had to have been half sleep because I definitely don't remember that. I don't really remember much from the ride here either." I laughed solemnly, then noticed my fingers were taped together. "Did I do something to my hand?"

"Just a dislocated pinky finger. That's mainly what the meds are for. Other than that you're just bruised with a few shallow cuts. They just bandaged you up and sent you to a room."

"How's Shoto?"

"No worse than you. He pulled a muscle in his calf but it's not severe." He took the plastic cup I set down and threw it out. "Your mom's with him. Himiko, Fuyumi, and Natsuo are home right now, so don't worry about them. You need to sleep. I'll fill you in on everyone else when you wake up, okay?"

"Okay... good night."

"Night kiddo. Sleep well."

"Thanks." I laid back down and fell back asleep fairly quickly. I partially woke up a couple times. I can hear my dad muttering about something. I think I heard something about Kiri. Maybe mom's voice at some point. I think Mr. Aizawa showed up too. I can't tell. It doesn't matter. I'm exhausted. I just want to sleep and stay asleep.

For the most part I did. Being partially awake at points was the most that happened. I finally woke up for real to see the sun creeping through the blinds.

"Oh good, you're awake."

"Morning dad." I located a clock in the room. It's just before nine.

"Morning, kiddo." He sighed. "So you know how Izuku was gonna help with questioning Hisashi?" I nodded. "Well... the police came by at about seven."

"And?"

"They want you to come in to help too. Or more like... Hisashi refuses to answer some questions without you present."

"What? Why would he want that?"

"It's probably because... because Mari, your mom, was in the LOV, and it seems he is too."

"He's in the LOV? Then wouldn't mom have..." I reach to hold my ring. "No. Where is it?" I frantically scanned the room.

"Keiko. It's okay, I have your ring. I'll give it back to you when we leave for the police station."

"Yeah... right. So is that all they know?"

He slouched back into his chair, "No clue. They refused to tell me more than that."

"Oh." I stared down at my taped hand. "That's right. You were gonna tell me how everyone is."

"That's true, I did promise you that." He folded his hands. "Well, I already told you about Shoto and Himiko. Uraraka dislocated her right shoulder and broke her collar bone, and Katsuki's forearms have third-degree burns, along with a bit of a first degree burn on his cheek. But the doctors are gonna be able to fix them up fairly quickly." He counted on his fingers. "I believe they said it'll take them two weeks to get Uraraka fully patched up, and Katsuki four weeks. He'll still have some scarring, of course, but he'll be fine."

"That's good to hear. I still can't believe anybody with a quirk as strong as Recovery Girl's hasn't been found yet."

"Yeah. Injury's at your school have gotten riskier since she died."

"Yeah... anyway... How's Kiri doing?"

"Uh- Kirishima. Right. He-" My dad shifted around in his chair. He pulled at the collar of his shirt slightly, "You see, Kirishima- Your friend, you already know he's your friend what am I saying?"

"Dad..." My eyes widened and welled up with tears, "He's... he's not dead, right?"

A.N.- Ha you guys are gonna hate me for ending the chapter there.

Suffer.