The Lord Of The Forest | Nature Deku Au

Recovery | Chapter 21

"Speaking" 'Thinking'

Izuku was moved into the bed inside his house. The makeshift tourniquet was taken off after the sap took effect and stopped his bleeding. At this point, there were animals surrounding him in worry as he still hadn't woken up yet. The mouse-like creature had been restrained after trying to do something to Izuku. He was placed in a chair inside the room and was allowed to be around Izuku, but he couldn't touch him. They didn't even bother gagging him or anything since none of them could understand him.

The rat-like man looked on as the boy laid in the bed unconscious. More and more animals piled into the room as time went on. "あの子には病院が必要だ！このままでは死んでしまう！" (That boy needs a hospital! He's going to die at this rate!) The mouse shouted out. Each of the animals ignored him in favor of staring at the unconscious boy. The rat-like creature could only struggle against the binds, for some reason they were much stronger than normal string should be.

Some of the animals took turns placing a single finger/paw onto his forehead. Something must of been on it, because it left a red residue behind. He looked around and noticed a couple bowls sitting around, one was full of different colored powders. He looked over towards the animals in confusion. Was it some kind of ritual? (A mixture of ground flower/plants petals that were wet down with heated water from the pond to create a form of dye/paint.)

After some time, the animals all piled into the bed. The mouse wasn't untied, but he was brought over to the bed along with all the others. It was a large bed after all. In normal cases, each of them always piled on top of each other and onto the bed in a form of a group huddle. Even the wolves strutted into the room after a while and climbed into the little huddle and quickly fell asleep. 

The mouse however, had a hard time closing his eyes. He was surrounded by highly dangerous animals, the monkeys were one thing, but bears and wolves acted oddly friendly, there was a fox that found it's way in as well. Not long after that, tiny rodents climbed under each of them as well. More and more animals continued to join them one after the other. He couldn't see the little tiger that they'd brought along though. They probably kept him somewhere else in worry that he'd cause trouble.

Somehow or another, he ended up falling asleep though. He didn't know if it was because of all the running he'd done to get away from other dangerous animals, or if it was from mental strain of the entire day. Being restrained however, was still an annoying thing to deal with.

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Nezu woke up with a start as movement could be felt. A low groan could be heard as animals escaped from the pile of fur and heavy bodies. He opened his eyes and noticed that the boy had moved around a bit. his arm didn't look all that bad though. To his surprise, it looked like the wound was already starting to heal as well. He's pretty sure that a wound like that should take quite some time to heal for a normal human being, yet here this kid was, healing within a couple of hours. The wound was still fairly open, but the sap that had been placed over it seemed to be doing it's job in keeping the wound shut. He huffed as he looked around. He noticed something strange, there were carvings on the walls, really good ones at that. What caught his eye though, were images of other humans.

One was a tiny boy and there were a few others. A woman and a male in the same carving seemed to look similar to him. It must of been his parents. Izuku opened his eyes slowly and noticed that the creature they'd saved was tied up and sitting next to him. Izuku moved slowly to not startle the thing and extended a claw to the white thread that kept him tied up. The thread broke apart instantly and freed him. The mouse-like creature didn't even seem to notice that he'd been freed, too busy looking at the carvings on the wall. Carved circular rocks sat on the walls of the little home he'd built. Multiple of what little memories he had of his mother and father and a few of his neighbors. There was a boy as well..., he couldn't quite remember much of him anymore though...

One of the monkeys walked into the building and spoke that strange language again. He of course, couldn't understand it, but he knew that the boy next to him probably could.

"Teach him to speak like one of ours, it'll be difficult for him here if he doesn't learn." Izuku spoke. The mouse-like creature seemed startled that he was awake. Izuku went to stand and stretch, but the mouse held his arm and kept him laying down. Izuku glanced at the creature and placed a hand on the mouse's head. It seemed to flinch as it noticed his claws.

The monkey nodded and grabbed hold of the mouse, swiftly taking it out of the room. Izuku watched as they left. He stood up and went to change his robes. The sleeve of this one was torn and would need to be fixed. Luckily he made quite a few, he'd even made one's bigger than him since he knew he was still growing. He made his way out of the building and sighed as the air hit his skin. It stung a bit, but it didn't hurt all that bad since the sap covered most of his wound.

The animals all howled and celebrated as Izuku once again survived a big injury. He hadn't even noticed the large amount of thumbprints/pawprints that sat on his forehead. They'd started doing this after the bear incident when he was sick. After that, they'd done it to every animal that'd been heavily injured. If they passed on, then there'd be a celebration for gaining their name, if they lived, then they'd celebrate their strength to continue on.

Izuku grabbed his pan flute and played a little tune for them, each of the monkeys joined in and quickly began celebrating around multiple different fires. He smiled and looked around. He hadn't expected to get an injury this time, it just proves that he's still not strong enough to live here properly. He'd have to be more careful in case another strong animal like that appeared. That just reminded him that they'd brought home a little cub. He wasn't quite sure what that animals was, but he knew that it'd grow to become incredibly strong like it's mother.

He huffed and stretched out his muscles once more. Finally, he went to go look around. There's a statue in need of building after all. Even though he still didn't know what it was called, he knew that it was a dangerous foe that he should be proud for defeating. Speaking of, he looked around for the corpse of the beast. It sat on a large stone at the first pond down below. No doubt they didn't want the thing on the same level as him while he was recovering. It was another strange thing that they'd picked up. Some kind of little legend they'd started believing in. 

One of theirs had been attacked and since the corpse of the enemy rested on the same level as it, they'd ended up dying. He wasn't quite sure why they believed that, but it didn't really matter much, if that's what they wanted to do and believe in, then he wasn't about to take it away from them.

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(This chapter reveals Izuku's incredible regeneration abilities, which reveals the fact that he has the regeneration abilities of an Axolotl. An aquodic salamander with incredible regeneration abilities that can regenerate just about any part of it's body.)

(By the by, not sure if it was last chap. or before, bears are actually considered stronger than tigers because of their size, weight, and apparently strength. The bear also has a stronger bite force in comparison to a tiger. According to a certain website that I used, whereas a grizzly bear has a bite force of 1200Ib. A tiger has a bite force of about 1050Ib.)