Izuku thought about visiting Kaminari in the infirmary.
It had been two days since Denki passed out after using his healing quirk on Izuku-despite Recovery Girl’s strict warning not to use the quirk given forcefully by All For One.
Izuku felt deeply responsible. His friend had gone to such extreme lengths for him, and the guilt weighed heavily.
He walked slowly toward the infirmary, his mind still buzzing with thoughts of his newly developed ultimate move.
He needed to practice his shooting style technique again, but first—he had to see Denki.
On the way, he ran into Uraraka Ochako and Iida Tenya, both returning from the support department.
They decided to join him in surprising Denki with a visit. Halfway there, Mineta Minoru tagged along, skeptically pointing out that they were assuming Kaminari would be awake—though the odds seemed slim to him.
Uraraka and Iida shot him a sharp look, and with such a polite precision and firmly telling him not to speak so negatively about their classmate’s condition. Mineta shrank behind Izuku’s back, chastened.
Izuku was the first to step into the infirmary and immediately noticed Recovery Girl’s absence.
“She must be attending a meeting,” Iida surmised.
Uraraka and Iida lingered awkwardly near the door, and even Mineta hesitated to approach Kaminari’s infirmary cot.
Izuku quietly with nervous steps walked up to the cot.
Denki lay sleeping peacefully, an IV drip attached to his hand. He looked pale and thin under the soft light.
The windows were open, and the curtains swayed gently with the cold breeze.
Uraraka instinctively moved to shut them, worried their friend might catch a chill while recovering.
To break up the awkward silence, Mineta asked Iida about his strategic ultimate move for the upcoming provisional license exam.
Iida lit up, launching into a detailed explanation. Izuku turned toward him, intrigued by the class president’s enthusiasm.
But after a few minutes, a rustling sound from the bed made them all go silent again.
Izuku turned back to see Kaminari stirring, waking in a panic.
Being closest, Izuku placed a gloved hand on his shoulder. Kaminari opened his mouth to speak—but froze.
Kaminari was crying.
Izuku sat down on the edge of the cot beside him, keeping calm. “Kaminari-kun, are you okay? Where does it hurt? Uraraka-san and the class president went to get Recovery Girl.”
Mineta, meanwhile, screamed, “He’s gone bonkers!”
Izuku frowned, not getting a response. Denki’s sobs grew more hysterical, his body trembling violently.
Izuku was about to get up to fetch more blankets when he heard a soft whisper.
“D-Don’t leave me.”
He stilled. Two thin arms wrapped around his neck as Denki clung to him.
Izuku felt One For All crackling silently beneath his skin, reacting to the emotional surge.
Denki sobbed into his hero costume, and instinctively, Izuku began rubbing gentle circles on his back to soothe him.
His other hand threaded through Kaminari’s blonde hair, calming him with slow, steady strokes.
After a while, Denki quieted, seemingly asleep again.
Izuku continued the comforting motions, unwilling to stop.
Soon, Recovery Girl arrived, panting, with Uraraka and Iida close behind looking both scared and breathless out of breath and with concern blooming on their features.
Recovery Girl was shocked—she hadn’t expected Kaminari to spiral into panic. She ushered the four students out of the room while some protested but one sharp look made the students leave the the room.
Alone, she sat beside the fragile unconscious boy, watching his chest rise and fall with each breath. She sighed. It was going to be a long night.
Kaminari had manifested a rare healing quirk with an unknown mechanism.
She needed to write a report on this unexpected episode and send it to Nezu by morning.
She recalled the meeting with Nezu earlier that day.
For the first time, she had seen the principal look vulnerable as she explained Kaminari Denki’s second quirk.
A flicker of sadness had passed through Nezu’s eyes. She paused mid-sentence to ask if he was okay.
Nezu let out a quiet whimper, composing himself before speaking. “The gist… No, excuse me. I need to gather my thoughts.”
Recovery Girl nodded silently.
Nezu sipped from his glass of water, No tea, water this time and composed himself and cleared his throat, and spoke again—his voice trembling slightly.
“I understand the basics of the quirk. And I’m frightened. It’s a forbidden, classified ability.”
He whimpered as he finished the sentence.
Recovery Girl leaned in, curiosity piqued. “Can you elaborate?”
Nezu met her gaze. “I met the original user once… back when I was being tortured at the facility. That person used the last dying embers of the quirk to heal me—so I could escape.”
Recovery Girl exhaled sharply, not realizing she’d been holding her breath.
“Is that person still alive?” she asked, voice tinged with doubt.
Nezu shook his head bitterly. “That person was never human to begin with. But one thing’s certain- ‘IT’ hated All For One.”
Recovery Girl was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of Denki coughing in his sleep.
She sighed again. It was going to be a long night.
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This time I will protect them I won't be a coward
FanfictionDuring the final war arc Kaminari Denki gets hit in the head and wakes up in his 14 year old body two months before his UA entrance exam and vows to protect his friends by supporting them as a side character from the side lines but he does not real...
