A/N: This chapter is a few days late, so thanks for your patience! My current place of work has been changing policy left and right that has been targeting me (among a few others) specifically, so I've been spending a lot of time putting in applications and interviewing this week. I got an offer for the first place I interviewed with and accepted the job, and now I'm going to be working night shift at a hospital! I'm very excited!
OCs in this chapter:
Wakakuro Seibo – Quirk: Empathy – Former foster care caseworker of Hitoshi, Isozan, and Uretori
Tohiro – Quirk: Blood Diagnostics – Patient on Unit Echo, current foster child of the Hamabi family (Hitoshi's foster family before he was adopted by Aizawa and Yamada)
Hamabi Hanisu – Quirk not revealed, Hitoshi's former foster mother, current foster mother of Tohiro
Hamabi Genori – Quirk not revealed, Hitoshi's former foster father, current foster father of Tohiro
Omoto Isozan – Quirk: Full Throttle
Omoto Uretori (aka Phantasm) – Quirk: Hallucinogenic Gas
"I'll go first," Toga suggested nonchalantly, noting the subtle panic crossing Tohiro's face when the topic of using her blood-based quirk was mentioned.
The evaluation at Fields must not have gone well, Hitoshi thought, catching Neito's eye as he shared the same notion.
Denki slammed his hands on the table as he stood up, raising his hand erratically in the air like a small child in primary school who knew he had the answer for sure this time. "Me! Me! I volunteer as tribute! Oh, please, Toga! Please! Can I?"
Toga made a big show of looking around at the pointed lack of other volunteers, not that any one else would turn her down if asked, but that no one else would swoop in to take the job that Denki so obviously desired so strongly. She tapped her chin as if in deep contemplation as Denki jumped in place, still waving his hand in the air to be a more visible option to her.
"Denki?" she asked sweetly.
"Yes?! Yes?!" he practically wailed, buzzing with anticipation.
"Would you be so kind as to be the test subject?" she asked.
"I thought you'd never ask!" he sobbed dramatically as he deflated, the pent up energy leaving him as he slunk into the seat next to her, offering her his arm without hesitation, ignoring the giggles and chuckles from the amused audience in the room.
Hitoshi and Neito kept an eye on Tohiro throughout the process, knowing that it meant a lot to her that someone would allow such a thing just for demonstration purposes or just for fun, really. But to volunteer for the pleasure of undergoing a blood quirk?
Maybe there would have been an ulterior motive if it had been Hitoshi or Neito; they had been the ones who knew she had been at Fields and that it was for a quirk evaluation. But it was Denki. And it wasn't like it was out of character for him to be so flagrant and dramatic about something so small that he decided he wanted.
What Denki wants, Denki gets, of course.
And Denki wanted there to be two Denkis. Maybe he was spoiled by all of the Denki clones running around the League base while making his TikToks, but no matter the reason, soon enough, there was one less Toga and one more Denki at the table.
No one freaked out about the blood draw. No one got pale or excused themselves for the blood ingestion, even, and that would have been excusable, right? It's not an easy thing to witness.
But these were heroes and villains and her foster parents, not the kids or teachers from school or the evaluators at the hospital. This was nothing that none of them haven't seen before, especially with Toga among their ranks.
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