Green Innocence

10: Pounding Hearts

    Days have passed, the internships have officially ended.

    Izuku now sat at the sofa that he had to spend several nights on, as well as being literally sucker punched awake from, packing his bags. It was truly no great feat to be honest; our protagonist always kept his surroundings as tidy and clean as he could, especially if he were the guest of ones home. The only thing he was currently packing was the clothes that he had changed out of before switching to his more casual wear.

    His sighs laid heavily on his chest, he had almost put on his school uniform that morning. In case some do not remember, the green haired boy was suspended for a week straight due to his heroic, yet also seemingly foolish, action in taking blame for defeating Stain. 

   Izuku let out another huff of dissatisfaction as he wondered how worried everyone else in his class may be what with him not showing up to class. Even if one barely knew him at the time, everyone in the class knew well enough that their male green haired classmate always showed up to class earlier than anyone else, except maybe Yaoyorozu, and he showed every single day. And none of them were aloud to say anything, or at the least they didn't want to say anything.

    Ibara, Shoto, and Tenya each promised that they'd keep quiet about the whole entire thing, with the only exception being that they encountered Stain as their homeroom teachers more than likely would announce it to the class. None of them wanted him to get more undeserved hatred than he already had, if the accusations he was given got out to their classmates, who knew what'd they think of him.

     Not even Ibara held good enough faith that the likes of Kendo or Tokage would forgive him.

    Though, now that he thought on it he sorta wished they would tell the truth because of well, his own sort of morals around telling the truth. But he also wanted them to say it so that none of their classmates, or none of his friends that didn't know, would get worried about him. After all, they were simply stating that they encountered Stain. So an empty seat, missing cinnamon roll in general, plus a recent Stain attack, summed to an answer of an entire class on their seats wondering if he was alright.

    Speaking of worried souls, Inko had actually visited him while he was still in the hospital; thank his green friends lord she left a while after his mother arrived though. Anger was the least of all things she felt towards him right now, the mother knew well enough of what was going on the second her son told her what he was supposed to say. Yeah...

    Inko didn't buy a single syllable of that BS.

    If there was one thing that the green haired woman knew, it was that her son would never, ever, Ever, EVER endanger another persons life for his own ambitions. She did know that it was usually the other way around as he would usually rush in without a thought to save someone in peril, but still; she never bought into any of it.

    What she WAS feeling was a double double toil and trouble of worry, worry, worry, worry, and have I mentioned, worry? As if the sight of her son laying in a hospital bed with his arm and leg in a cast didn't upset her, it was that he was being suspended from school for a week straight after internships. The woman had full faith in her son's intellect that he'd catch up, but it still worried the mother none the less. 

     When she was told that his friends each offered to bring him copies of the school work for each subject an iron yoke had been lifted off of her chest, but it also made her gush with motherly joy that he had such great friends. Scratch that, friends in general. As if Stain himself hadn't almost killed the boy, now his mother had almost drowned AND suffocated him at the same time.

    Inko immediately started asking questions about each of the three that he spoke of, and he tried to keep it relatively descriptive, but not too descriptive as he felt t would be creepy. The shy boy spoke about Tenya, and about how he was the class president as well as a member of the Ingenium hero family. Shoto was easiest to describe to her as she instantly recognized his name, and her memory instantly sent her eyes his image; it did overjoy her that he made friends with such a 'trouble' young adult.