MHA: A Cat's Way

Ch 86 Intermeowssion

"If you put yourself back here again, I'll have you forbidden from participating!"

I give Recovery Girl a lopsided grin from my bed in the infirmary. "Nyace to hear mew have faith I'll beat Midorinya."

She huffs in annoyance, slapping my leg with her cane. "Don't get smart with me, brat. The ones who lose in the semi-finals fight for third place. Maybe I was talking about that."

"Hmm~. But I lick the thought that mew have faith in me better, so let's go with that~."

She huffs again, this time putting a bit of force into her cane, making me let out a hiss of pain. "Meany-ya! Don't injure the injured, nya!"

She rolls her eyes, her cane tapping as she returns her attention to Todoroki, who hasn't regained consciousness in the ten minutes since I woke up here. "You're fine. Just backlash from your quirk -again, I might add. Why didn't you ask Aizawa to help you train that move if it hurts you so much to use it?"

"Hmm?" My ears perk up. "What do mew mean? I haven't been catable of doing that before."

"Huh?" She looks at me with a confused expression, her hand on Todoroki's forehead.

"Nya?" I tilt my head inquisitively, not sure what she's confused about.

""...""

There's silence between the two of us as we simply stare at each other. It's only broken by the door bursting open and my clanmates pouring in.

"Catia, Catia! You'll never guess what Toru did!" Minya darts around my bed while Tormew tries to clamp her hands around the pink girl's mouth.

"Stooop! It's embarrassing!"

Minya giggles as she rolls under the bed and out the other side, ignoring Recovery Girl's yelling about how the infirmary isn't a place to be playing around. "You'll never guess! She punched Shinso in- gugh!"

Her news is cut off when Recovery Girl slams her cane into her stomach, forcing her breath out of her lungs while making a weird noise. "This is not a playground! Either wait outside or behave yourself!"

"Ye-yes ma'am." Minya manages to wheeze out hunched over while Tormew slowly stands back up from where she was going to crawl under the bed to get to her. Unfortunately for Tormew, that means that she's not in a position to stop Minya from speaking. Which she does the moment she's recovered. "Toru punched Shinso in the balls!"

"Pft." Out of everything she could have said, that's something I definitely didn't expect, so I can't hold back the snicker of laughter that slips out. "Mr-mrow did that happen?" I manage to ask as I stifle my amusement.

Seeing my expectant look and the laughter in Minya's eyes, Tormew sighs before letting out a groan. "Well, the match started off the same as my last one: we wished each other luck and I stripped to my underwear."

""Exhibitionist," nya," Minya and I say at the same time. Tormew pouts, otherwise ignoring our teasing.

"So he started calling me an exhibionist, which I have practice ignoring!" She glares at the two of us and I look away, whistling innocently. Following my cue Minya does the same. Letting out a huff Tormew continues. "I ran at him so I could punch him in the face and hopefully knock him out, but I guess he got mad I didn't respond so he said something else."

"Oh? I didn't hear anything from the stands, what did he say?" Minya asks in curiosity.

Tormew sends me a look before a brief look of anger flashes across her face. "He said that Catia is crap at controlling her quirk because she's gotten hurt using it twice during the Festival! Obviously I wasn't going to let that go! No one is allowed to insult Catia like that! He needed to be punished!"