His Hero | Tododeku

Chapter Forty Four

Midoriya's POV:

We ended up talking for hours together. I was so glad I could visit with Shoto and I didn't want to leave his side. I could feel my eyes beginning to droop, but I didn't want to leave him. My head was resting on his bed, my left arm tucked under my chin to prop it up a little. Shoto had moved his bed down a little and was stroking my hair with his warm left hand. We were quiet now, enjoying the silence. 

I could hear the quiet beep of his heart monitor. The sound was consistent, beeping at the same speed. It was calm. I could barely hear Shoto's wheezy breaths over the beeping. My eyes felt heavy and were tempted to close. The relaxing feeling of Shoto stroking my hair didn't help keep me awake. What did wake me up, however, was the sudden sound of the door opening. It obviously spooked Shoto too, because his heart monitor started beeping more frequently. As soon as I sat up, Shoto's hand fell to his side. We both looked to the door to see his flaming father.

"I didn't know you had a visitor, Shoto. Isn't it getting late?" His father asked as he walked in. I looked over at the clock to realize it was 8:30pm. I then remembered Shoto telling me about his father's threats and about his brother having to leave their family.

"Oh, wow, yeah, it is getting late. I should probably go then." I said quickly before standing up, my right arm resting at my chest in the sling. My eyes wandered over to Shoto, glancing at his lips for a moment. I could feel Endeavor's sharp glare piercing into me, so I didn't dare to get any closer to him. "I'll uh, see you later Todoroki~kun."

"Yeah, see you later." Shoto responded. I quickly excused myself and headed for the door. Before I was able to leave, Endeavor spoke.

"I'm sorry my son's weakness caused you to injure yourself. I'll see that it never happens again." His words were colder than Shoto's ice. It froze everything in my body as I desperately wanted to ask "what does that mean?" 

As much as I wanted to question him and scream at him, I just stood there silently, words evaporating on my tongue. "Goodnight." I said as I left the room, concern and anger bubbling in my throat. I heard the door close behind me and I looked up at the doctors and nurses walking down the halls. I headed towards the entrance of the hospital, my eyes searching my surroundings. As soon as I got to the entrance, I saw the cloudless night sky stare down at me. I let out a long breath as the night air greeted me. 

Todoroki's POV:

As soon as Izuku left, worry began to fill my head. I noticed that my heartbeat still hadn't calmed down, the beeping of the monitor still quick. The previous feeling of tranquility I had when Izuku was here was now gone.

"What do you want?" I asked Endeavor, not bothering to hide the ice in my tone.

"That's no way to talk to your father, now is it? I took time out of my busy schedule to check up on you. I didn't have to, you know." 

I wish you hadn't. My mind wanted to speak those words, but I kept my mouth shut. I knew my life would be hell again as soon as I left this hospital bed.  Instead, I just watched as he walked closer to the bed. I pulled my arms onto my lap, my injured ribs preventing me from crossing them at my chest. He stopped at my bedside, standing beside the chair Izuku was previously sitting in.

"You're coming home tomorrow. You don't need to waste any more time in this hospital bed. You're getting weaker as you just lay here and you've already proven how weak you are by letting yourself be captured by villains. So enjoy resting here for your last night. I'll be back tomorrow at 6am." That was the last thing he said before leaving my room. I sighed as soon as he left, my heartbeat slowing down as soon as he left. I laid my head into my pillow and completely lowered the bed, dimming the lights as I tried to go to sleep.

Kirishima's POV:

I could hear the laughter of the dark haired villain, his laugh merciless. I could feel his blue flames against the back of my neck, burning some of my hair. My hair was starting to fall out of its gel hold and back into its normal style. I could smell my flesh and hair burning, the smell making my stomach turn. 

"Too bad no one cares enough to rescue you. Not even your precious Bakugo cares enough to save you. You're not worth it." He said, his voice chilling. I couldn't contain my scream as the blue flames filled my vision.

I heard myself scream as I sat up, my eyes shooting open. Warm tears rolled down my cheeks as I pulled my knees up to my chest. I felt warm hands on my arms, the touch causing me to jump.

"Shh, Kiri, I'm here. You're safe." Katsuki said as he pulled me into him. He hugged me and rubbed my back, whispering calming words. I could hear myself sobbing, the tears drenching Katsuki's shirt. My face was buried into his shoulder, my body trembling. I couldn't stop the tears from pouring out of my eyes nor the trembling of my body. I sobbed for what felt like hours, the terror and guilt heavy on my body. The villains words echoed in my head as I sobbed.

You're not worth rescuing.

Hey my little kittens! I literally wrote all but 100 words of this chapter in one sitting, which is now XD. Wow, I'm kinda impressed. But, alas, I'm ruining my sleep schedule. It's like, 3am again. I have to stop staying up this late XD. 

But uh, yeah. What do you think of all of the POV changes in this chapter? Great, right? I literally almost typed "write" instead of "right." That's when you know it's either my brain's desperate attempt at a pun or it's bed time. It's probably both. I'm really tired. 

What I didn't quite realize about quarantining is that my mental health could decide to jump off of a cliff. I don't know why I thought that quarantining would suddenly fix my mental health. It did the opposite today, haha. It's been a rough day, but keeping busy helped a lot. I'm going to have some good days and I'm going to have some bad days. And that's okay. That's called being human. I think we all have to remember that. That it's okay to have days where you're just crying or can't function like you normally do.

But I want to focus on happy things now. My writer's block seems to be gone, yay ^^. Other good things have come out of the quarantine too. My room has literally never been as clean as it is now, except for when we were moving into the house. I also have a new character I could costest. And I wrote this chapter in like, 8 days. These are all good things that have happened for me, but what about you guys? What's something good that's come out of this quarantine?

Anyways, I think I've said all I have to say. I've said a lot actually XD. Whoops. But uh, yeah. Thanks for reading this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it and will come back for chapter 45! Wow, this story is long XD. I'll see you in the next one! Bye bye for now, my little kittens~.

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