Chapter 2:

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"M-Mr. Midoriya? Are you awake?" I turned to the doctor and flinched, 'was he going to hurt me' I thought, he slowly approached me and I got more and more nervous, when he touched my hand, I looked at the doctor, and he spoke to me in a calming manner, " this is the hospital, none of us here are going to hurt you", after hearing him speak, I began to calm down. He explained to me that I had been found in the street and brought here by a patrolling hero, that I had woken up a little more than 9 times as fast as I was supposed to. When he left I was told by a nurse that my father had come to visit me I visibly shuddered, and asked them not to let him in, they saw me flinch at the mention of his presence, and started to get worried. " Midoriya, we noticed that you had several scars on your arms, is he the one who...?", all I could manage was a nod.

Narrator POV
It was at this point that everything clicked for the doctors and nurses, where Izuku had gotten his scars, why he seemed so scared of the male doctors, and why he had asked them not to let his foster father in. They all began to get to work, and told the father that Izuku hadn't woken up yet, and told him it would probably be several months until he was awake. This sent the man off in a huff, while one of the nurses called the police to come down and get a statement for child abuse from one of their patients. They had called down one of the detective He started to ask Izuku about his arms, at first he flinched away from the man, he then asked "will my foster father be told about this meating?", when the detective said no, the boy seemed to relax considerably, proceeding to explain his situation to the detective and hero, his mother had died when he was 3, she had been shot by a robber while they were at the mall, his father was already gone by that point so he was put into child care. His new foster father came to get him within about a week of him being put into child care. After being taken to the mans home, he had been told that he was a worthless shit without a quirk, and had been beaten within an inch of his life for the first month of his foster, after which Chad had lightened his punishments considerably, only to continue with them when Midoriya had regained his strength. After about 4 years of this punishment, he started getting bullied at school too( though he gave no specific names). He had been underfed for so long that he was basically all skin and bones. After giving his statement to the police, they thanked him, turned away, and started to think about every way possible to get justice for this kid.
After about an hour, a nurse walked in and said,"Mr. Midoriya? We have to change your bandages now, if you would sit up please" the nurse audibly gulped and came to sit next to me, after unwrapping the left side of my face(which had, up to this point, been entirely covered in bandages) and started to gag, she looked at me horrified, and started to back up and ran out of the room, ' what the hell is so wrong with my face that she had to run out of the room gagging?'. The doctor came in and told me that the nurse had thrown up after seeing my face, when he looked at me, he said it was warranted, according to the doctor, most of the flesh on the left side of my face had been charred and burnt off, though it seemed to be cauterized.

Later in the week, I had been informed of the arrest of my foster father under charges of child abuse, and I was to stay in the hospital until further notice. I was also given a mask to wear, nothing fancy, just a plain wooden mask with a sliding portion to the bottom, which could be locked(ingenuity!), presumably for when I ate. Along with this, I was given some paint to decorate the mask as I wished. I settled on a design that simple design that represented flames. I was also told that a different nurse would be taking care of my bandages from now on, because the last one refused to set foot in the room again.

After having my nurse switched for the 7th time, I was actually allowed to leave the hospital, I had to come back of course, but they let me go outside. I had been walking down the road for maybe 20 minutes before I heard a scream coming from the alley to my right. Without thinking I started to sprint down the alley and came across the scene of a girl being harassed by 3 grown guys, one with a knife, one with fire in his hand, and one with some big ass ears(what is with that). After coming across the scene, I waited for a couple of seconds, before I heard the guy with a knife(just a literal knife, no quirk) say "come on little girl, let's just have a little bit of fun, we promise to take good care of yah'", she only shook her head and tried to back further into the wall. "Hey asshole!" I shouted,'what am I doing? I'm going to get myself killed!' I thought hurriedly,    " she obviously doesn't want anything to do with you, just leave the poor girl alone!", I started walking towards them, out of instinct alone. One of them, the guy with the ears, walks up and tried to punch me, I dodge and trip him onto the floor, he hits his head on the floor and knocks himself out. "The hell?" Was all that came from the guy with the knife, and both him and the guy with the fire come at me together. " we'll destroy you little boy!", " I'll burn you to a crisp!". Both of them start at me and begin to run, I walk towards them and position myself directly between them, the knife guy takes a swing, but I dodge and grab his wrist, and guided into the other guy, who was then stabbed in the arm, he yelped and managed to throw a bit of fire at me, I shouted as I felt my flesh burn, and both of the thugs fall into a wall . He goes down fast, and I make my way over to the girl, she had blue hair, and seems to be around my age. " are you okay?" I questioned, she looked me over and replied "yes, but are you sure you shouldn't be asking yourself that?", I looked confused, so she pointed to my side, and all I saw was blood, lots of it, apparently that knife guy had managed to get a pretty deep cut in without me noticing, after seeing it, I quickly became dizzy, so I leaned against a wall, "call the police" I told her, not wanting her to somehow get herself into more trouble, After maybe 10 minutes the police arrived, and I was losing consciousness, the police saw me, asked the girl who I was, and she told them I was the one who saved her, they gave a me a concerned look.

Narrator POV
A hero could be seen sprinting down the street in the direction of the incident, when she saw the state that Midoriya was in, she told the police which hospital to send Izuku to, and told them to hurry. The hero had gone over to the girl and asked her what her name was, she responded in a worried tone, "Nejire Hado. Hey, is that kid going to to be okay? He looked pretty hurt.", all the hero could manage was a small nod.

A/N
This part was a bit separated, as the first half of it was originally part of part 1, and the second half was written afterwards. Sorry for the inconvenience. 1385 words.

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