Away

Twenty-One

"You keep getting paler and paler Azula." Shinso says in the middle of me writing an explanation on how I got to the answer I got on my math review "We should really check on your leg."

I let out a huff "Probably should." Guess it's a good thing that I generally carry gauze and ace bandages in my school bag ever since the USJ.

I grab the said items out of my bag, before pulling down my left sock "Fucking shit." I mumble, the previously white wrap is now a lovely shade of crimson. "What the hell happened?" Shinso asks.

"Not allowed to say precisely but let's just say it was an interesting night." I tell him before asking if he got any Hydrogen Peroxide and cotton pads. "Uh yeah, give me a sec." he gets up and leaves the room. I take a black T-shirt out of my bag too, putting it, still folded, just under the wound and slightly tucked under my heel. On second thought, it'd probably be easier to be on the ground. So I scoot off the edge of the bed and in front of it, my leg and spare shirt adjusted for when I inevitably take off the wrap. My left leg bent upwards and my right parallel to the floor bent so that my foot is under my ass.

"Got them." Shinso walks back in with the requested items along with a gallon storage bag.

"Thank you, just set them down next to me." I tell him "Um just to warn you, it'll probably look hella a lot more horrific than pictures on the internet. If you look away I won't judge."

"It can't be that bad."

I exhaled from my nose, I did warn him, before slowly unwrapping the blood soaked bandage, placing it on the t-shirt. I glance over at Shinso "Ready for the reveal?" I ask him before removing the way more soaked gauze with my right hand. Seriously? they only used some butterfly bandage to close it? I mean the cut itself isn't that big and they could've sutured it inside if it was a concerning depth but still. Knaf! ahm "You good?" I ask, using my unbloody hand to see if I put that folder they gave me on care in it.

"Uh yeah." Shinso replies, looking away and covering his mouth with the side of his closed fist "Just wasn't expecting it to look like that."

"I did warn ya." There it is! I glance through it, and it looks like they did, so I'm not too worried, worst comes to worst I can try to convince Dabi to castrate it closed.

I pour some of the Hydrogen Peroxide onto a cotton pad before dabbing it onto the open wound with my right hand, wincing from the pain a little. "Well this is lovely." I sigh, it doesn't seem like the bleeding is going to slow anytime soon and I don't have anything to better close it temporarily. I put some ointment on it anyway before covering it in a thin layer of ice for now. "It's safe to look." I tell Shinso, leaning back for a sec. "Jesus Christ." Shinso remarks before sitting down beside me "Better hope you don't lose any more blood."

"Yeah." I smile a little before sitting up to wrap it in the new bandage and pulling my sock back up. I put the bloody shit into the baggy before putting the T-shirt back into my backpack, in a different pocket from the rest of my shit after wiping my hand off on it.

"One thing for sure," Shinso remarks, "there is no way you are walking home tonight. Especially with how pale you are."

"Probably." I lean back into the side of the bed.

"Oh Xiao-san," Gesuyarō-san pops her head in "just wondering if you would like to stay for dinner?"

"Actually, I'm wondering if it would be okay if I stay the night too?" I ask her "Wouldn't be too smart to travel alone at night ya know."

"Of course!" she smiles "I'll have Hitoshi set up a bed for you up here." before leaving. There is a couple minutes of silence before Shinso huffs "Well since you got the okay, there's a couple things I ought to warn you about, knowing how you get."

Sorry for it being kinda short compare to the past few chapters, hope I can get it longer (ᵔᴥᵔ)