This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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Denki's eyes go wide with fear and paranoia starts to sink into his skin.

Shirgaraki Tomura was standing there among  the sea of students, smiling like Cheshire cat at Denki and mouths at him, "Look at  you looking all pathetic standing here who could not save his own friends from dying one by one".

Denki starts to hyperventilate and he could hear the blood thrumming in ears.

Denki wills himself to move his body. But it seems like his body is paralysed by the fear that consumed him.

He knows he is hallucinating and he wants to scream and shout that he can't breathe properly, his lungs are burning and all he hears is someone from a distant calling his name softly.

Soon he is shaken from the illusion by none other than Bakugou Katsuki, who stares at him with a furrowed expression of concern and says, "Bell rang five minutes ago and everyone has gone back to their respective classes, Oi say something Sunshine?".

Denki just stares at Bakugou and opens his mouth to speak but words don't come out and his vision goes black.

Denki  faints into the caramel smelling hands of Bakugou Katsuki.

......

Denki wakes up in an empty room with  curtains drawn around his bed so he assumes he must be in the infirmary.

He tries to sit up but is stopped by a cute furry pawn placed on his thigh.

Denki slowly moves his face to the side to see Principal Nezu sitting on the  stool staring at him cutely and saying, "keeping your feelings bottled up is not a good sign, I am here for you and here-".

Principal Nezu hands a chocolate bar to Denki who takes it bewildered at the kind gesture displayed by the principal and says, "Thank you".

Denki winces at the sound of hoarseness in his voice and brings his hand to his throat. 

At the very moment, Recovery girl draws up the curtains and says, "Ah you are awake!".

And hands him a glass of water which Denki accepts the glass gratefully and starts slowly sipping water from the glass.

While both Nezu and Recovery girl stare at him in silence.

The awkward silence is broken by Principal Nezu who declares that He and Denki are friends now which surprises Denki a lot.

As Principal  Nezu was never the type of person who would become friends with anyone that easily.

Given the account of his past abuse and discrimination history. He mostly kept it to himself just like Kaminari Denki did. Both of them were quite similar in keeping their feelings repressed.

This sudden declaration of friendship comes as a big surprise to Denki and Nezu also asks  Denki to call him Nez whenever they meet and brings up his paw to do a sign of fist bump which Denki obligingly does return back the first bump.

With that Principal Nezu jumps off  the stool and tells them that he has to head to the office to attend a meeting.

Denki stares at the door through which Principal Nezu left a few minutes ago.

Principal Nezu is so hard to read.

Soon his attention is brought back to the Recovery girl who asks him how he was feeling now. And also tells him that his friend looked very worried about his health when he had bought him here earlier to the infirmary.

Denki assumes that the said friend who brought him here must be Bakugou Katsuki because he was the one who caught him from hitting his head on the ground when he had fainted.

Denki  gets out of the bed and checks his wristwatch. It is 12:15 pm which means his heroic classes must  have started 10 minutes ago and the time traveler knows that they will be taken to USJ and the league of villains will make their debut there. He can't miss out on this fight. He needed to be there in this crucial fight.

Recovery girl confirms one last time  from Denki. If he was feeling well enough to attend the heroic class otherwise he could lie here in the infirmary for sometime.

To which Denki declines with a polite smile and says he is feeling perfectly fine.

Recovery girl sighs and sees through his little lie and says, "I have informed Aizawa sensei about your condition as well. Now go away if you are feeling better. I have a lot of things to do".

She shoo's him away from the infirmary.

With the same polite smile Denki shuts the door and starts running towards his classroom to grab his hero case while biting onto the chocolate bar slab given to him earlier by principal Nezu and letting the sweetness savour in his mouth.

He had 10 minutes left to change into his hero costume before the bus left for USJ.