The Heart of a Hero [BNHA]

Chapter Sixteen: Recovery

Nikita woke with a start to find herself lying in a hospital bed. There were three other hospital beds in the room aside from hers. Her golden eyes fell on her classmates Tenya Iida the class rep and Izuku Midoriya sitting up in the beds across from her. Both of Tenya's arms were heavily bandaged and in slings and she could see bandages poking out from the v-neck of his hospital gown. Midoriya had bandages on his left leg and right arm. They stared at her in awe as she struggled to sit up.

A strong hand caught her by the shoulder halting her attempt at escape and she looked up to find a pair of mismatched eyes staring down at her. "Sho-chan!" She cried and attempted once more, to no avail, to get up so she could hug him. Her gaze fell on a thin layer of bandages covering his left forearm.

"You're really injured, Niko. Don't move around so much." He sighed as he sat on the edge of her bed so she wouldn't be tempted to scurry off.

"You're hurt, Sho-chan!" She sounded worried as tears welled in her golden eyes.

"Nothing serious." He reassured her with a smile.

"What happened, how come you all are injured?" She sniffled.

"Us? You nearly died." Tenya pointed matter of factly.

"Yeah, what happened to you, Nikita?" Midoriya asked her worried.

Nikita suddenly blanched as she remembered the events of the night before, "Ugh!" She buried her face behind her hands.

"What is it? Are you okay?" Shoto panicked thinking something was severely wrong with the cat like girl.

"This means I owe that jerk a thank you." Nikita growled.

"My dad?" Shoto chuckled.

"Yes!" She whined, "Stupid flameface. Why the hell did he save me? He doesn't even like me." Nikita suddenly realized the boys were trying to distract her from her questions and shot them all a glare, "Hey! Don't avoid my question like that, what happened to you guys?"

The door to their hospital room swung open and the short elderly hero in the white and gold suit with the gold cape and a local hero Nikita didn't recognize wearing a pale blue suit with what looked like a fin atop his helmet stepped into the room.

"Oh, the injured youngins are awake." The old man noted with a smile.

"Gran Torino!" Midoriya cheered with a bright smile.

"And Manual, too." Tenya lowered his head looking guilty.

"Idiot!" Gran Torina, the elderly man, snapped at Midoriya, "I could yell at you for hours right now." He grumbled as he stalked toward Midoriya's hospital bed.

Midoriya flinched, "Yeah. I'm sorry."

"But, before I do, you've got a visitor." Gran Torino looked to the door. Nikita and the others turned to see who had stopped by. A tall giant of a man with the face of a bloodhound dressed in a nice suit ducked into their room. "This is Hosu's Chief of Police Kenji Tsuragame."

Shoto and Tenya got to their feet to show respect. Nikita found herself being held firmly in place as Shoto's hand gripped her shoulder. Midoriya attempted to inch out of bed but was stopped by the dog man.

"No, please stay seated-woof."

Woof? Did he just woof? Nikita couldn't help but giggle.