The First Generation

Failure

"H...How is he?"

Normally, hospitals weren't placed that Mina liked to be in. They always seemed to have bad memories associated with them. She couldn't think of a single moment in a hospital in which she felt any sort of scrap of even slight happiness whatsoever. They were inherently bad places – Whenever someone ended up in one, it was because something bad had happened to them.

For Mina, those times were, on the plus side, at least incredibly infrequent. She'd been spared of regular visits, only needing to arrive on rare occasions.

On the downside though, those infrequent visits were times of trauma and horror for the pink-skinned girl's life.

The time she had burned her fathers eye off with her Acid.

The time her horn was nearly sawn off.

The time Izuku's Quirk blew his arm into smithereens.

Quirkless people who worked there, they were some of the few that she actually managed to trust though. Their oaths meant that they would heal, no matter who it was that they were tasked to treat. They were usually kind people, even through she had met her share of them who did hold onto their prejudices. But it never stopped them from treating her. She was thankful for that, but that ice-cold feeling that she got when she stepped anywhere near a hospital was still there. And it was probably always going to be there, as they were associated with the memories of her own experiences.

She had the same issue with the Nurses office, even at Yuuei. Chiyo Shuzenji – The nurse in question – Was as Quirked as anyone else in the school, so while that feeling of being with a kindred spirit was there, which one couldn't get in a Quirkless hospital, she couldn't help but almost feel intimidated by the barely four-foot-tall, who knew how old woman.

It was exceedingly rare for someone as old as Chiyo to possess a Quirk of any description. The abnormalities always seemed to target people who were younger. The younger a person was, the more chance that there was of them developing a Quirk, which grew to be less and less as time went on. What the cause of this was wasn't clear at all, but it was merely a fact that came with the superpowers. Chiyo had one, and it was a healing power, which Yuuei found invaluable.

"Well, dearie, there's good news, and there's bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"

The woman was intimidating to Mina, not because she was particularly strict or harsh towards and of the students – Quite the opposite in fact. She was probably one of the more cheerful and optimistic, and she could be rather talkative when she wanted to be. Heck, this was the same woman who just seemed to hand out a handful of gummi sweets whenever she walked by students in the halls.

No, her intimidation came from the fact that this elderly woman was the one who was responsible for the health and well-being of the students. She was the one that could make them feel either much better, or far worse if she felt like it. One wrong word to her, and she could have Izuku suffer for the next fortnight if she so desired. Logic tried to tell her that she was being paranoid, but spending her entire life as a freak of nature, she'd learned to be paranoid. Paranoia was the thing that had managed to get her this far, and it was basically secondary instinct at this point.

"Um..." Mina blinked, glancing at the almost empty room that the nurse was preventing her from entering. Izuku was behind a curtain, out of sight, but only a few meters away. She could have just pushed past Chiyo, but her apprehension of the medical professional prevented her from doing as much. "I... I'll take the good news."

"The good news is, his injuries should all heal up nicely." The elder stated with a reassuring smile. "My Quirk sped up the recovery time. He should be up and about before long as if nothing ever happened to him."