My Hero Academia: The Next Generation

Chapter 25: Heel Face Turn

I was being shaken awake, my eyes springing open as I looked around in fear. Akane was right in my face, having a blank expression as usual. But his eyes had a sense of worry behind them.

"You need to hide, Shigaraki and some of the league are coming." My eyes widened, I looked out the window to see it was almost nighttime. Akane quickly picked me up, carrying me to his bedroom and setting me on the floor. "Scoot yourself under the bed, don't get anywhere near the edges either or they will see you." I nodded frantically, he stepped out and shut his bedroom door as I heard knocking on the door to his apartment. I quickly made my way under the bed, my eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness as I stayed towards the center of the bed from underneath. I could hear muffled voices coming from outside of the room, barely able to make out what the conversation was about since I was away from the door.

~~~{Akane's POV}~~~

"So... How was the information from Nosido today." Shigaraki was seated on my couch, The plague doctor masked man, his name Hajime. And Monata were standing near the couch, Monata was looking around the apartment a bit while she stood by the couch.

"We got something good... 1-A will be heading out this week to a training exercise in a forest just outside of town."

"Really? Well, seems we may have the perfect time to strike then..." Shigaraki chuckled as he stood up, slowly walking over to the Bay Window as he held his gloved hands behind his back. "I just have one simple question..."

"And that is?" Shigaraki soon bent down, picking up a bright yellow hoodie off of the floor and turning to face me with a wide grin on his face.

"Yellow isn't your color... So whose hoodie is this? Hmm?" Shigaraki chuckled faintly as my eyes widened slightly, he snapped his fingers and made a gesture as Monata and Hajime began searching my apartment. I watched them as they did, trying to keep a level head as I quickly returned my expression back to it's normal blank one. Soon, Shigaraki wrapped his arm around my shoulders as he stood beside me, his hand holding the hoodie was now ungloved as I watched the hoodie be slowly turned to dust. "Unless you had some secret girlfriend over earlier... I think we have an unwanted guest somewhere in this apartment..." Shigaraki's demented grin hadn't left his face. He soon let go of me, leaving his one hand ungloved as he used his other hand to open doors and check in rooms. Nosido... Please be calling someone for help...

One by one, they narrowed down the search, the only room left to check was my bedroom. Shigaraki went and opened the door, slowly stepping inside. Monata passed by and opened up my closet, moving things around to search through while Hajime stood in the doorway, I had followed Shigaraki inside so I could see what was going on.

"Your out of places to be hiding in... Nosido..." He slowly knelt down, gripping the frame of the bed as he slowly ducked his head down to see under the bed. "Found you..." Nosido tried to crawl out, but his leg was grabbed. He screamed as he was being dragged out from underneath, trying his hardest to break free of Shigaraki's grasp. My eyes were wide open, a blue flame starting to engulf my hand as I quickly made a shove like motion with my hand, blasting a large burst of fire at Shigaraki. He was quick to dodge the attack, Hajime grabbing me from behind and keeping my hands restrained as Nosido was once again grabbed. "Oh! Don't tell me you care for this little brat! He betrayed us!" Nosido was roughly stood up, Shigaraki holding him by the throat with his ungloved finger, his index finger raised off of Nosido's skin. Nosido had an absolutely terrified look on his face, but in his hand. I saw he had his phone clutched tightly... I could faintly see a caller ID on the phone's screen, but couldn't tell what it said.

"Let him go, Shigaraki... He doesn't need to be killed!"

"Oh but he does, Akane! Treason is a crime punishable by death!" I glared at Shigaraki, opening my palms and blasting Hajime with a large burst of hot, blue fire. Hajime was forced to let go of me and back off so that he wasn't roasted alive, but before I could even attempt to rush forward and attack Shigaraki, he had already brought his finger down. Nosido's neck started to rapidly wither away as he screamed out in pain, he dropped his phone and clutched Shigaraki's hand, closing his eyes as he seemed like he was trying to concentrate. "You made the very wrong choice here, Akane. Now poor little Nosido will neve-" Just as he was about to finish his sentence, a large black tendril burst from Nosido's back as it slammed right into Shigaraki. Making him lose his grip as he was sent slamming into a wall. Nosido dropped to his knees, gripping his neck as his hand started to get covered in blood. He was struggling to breath, quickly I turned and blasted Hajime with more fire to keep him back as I threw a fire ball at Monata, while they were both distracted with avoiding the bright blue flames I quickly grabbed Nosido, carrying him as I sprinted out of the apartment. Hajime bursted through the bay window, dive bombing down from the sky and using his wings to hold himself in the air just before he hit me. Kicking me right in the face and making me drop Nosido. But before he could keep his attack up, He was blasted out of the air by a large explosion.

"GET AWAY FROM THEM YOU BASTARRD!" I looked to see Ground Zero speeding his way through the sky by use of his explosions, behind him I could see Shoto with Red Riot. Ground Zero landed on the ground just as Monata had come down from the apartment, her arms formed into large metal blades as she took a swing at him, but was easily dodged due to her slower attacks from the blades being so heavy. Shoto stopped beside Nosido, Nosido was looking up at him weakly as I started to walk over. But quickly he threw up a wall of ice to block me.

"Stay away from him! You've hurt him enough!"

"W-What? No I was trying to he-" Before I could finish, Red Riot broke through the ice, fully hardened and tackling me down. I grunted, trying to push Red Riot off of me. But he was much stronger than I was.

"HEY! LAY OFF OF HIM! HE WAS HELPING NOSIDO TRY TO HIDE" Red Riot and Shoto both looked at Bakugou, then back to me. Nodding as Red Riot let me go and went to assist Bakugou with holding back Hajime and Monata.

"If you really wish to help, then cover me while I get Nosido back to UA to get medical help! We don't have much time!" I looked at Shoto, nodding and running over as he picked Nosido up. Holding him tightly as he activated his ice quirk, waiting for me to get on before making a large ice pathway that was essentially moving us along because of the force of the ice forming. I watched behind us to make sure no one was following while Shoto used his fire quirk at the same time, not creating fire but heating himself up to help regulate Nosido's body temperature. His t-shirt he had on underneath was stained in blood, but his neck was now covered in a layer of ice to stop the bleeding. But it wouldn't last for long. We got to UA as fast as we could, I didn't fully understand why UA and not a hospital. Shoto rushed to inside of the main building with me following behind, bursting into the medical bay which startled the nurse inside.

"S-Shoto! What's going- Oh my god!" She caught sight of Nosido, quickly standing up and gesturing to one of the beds as Shoto melted the Ice on Nosido's neck, the blood flow starting again as she quickly placed her hands on Nosido's neck, closing her eyes as her hands started to glow. Shoto turned to me, an intimidating look on his face.

"I'd like to thank you for the help... But that doesn't excuse your allegiances with the league and what you've done in the past... Be glad i'm not arresting you right now." He was about to continue talking when he turned his head to look down at Nosido, Nosido was tugging his shirt to get his attention as he bent down to listen to what he was saying. Occasionally as Nosido was speaking into his ear, Shoto would look directly at me. After a few moments he looked at Nosido and faintly nodded, standing back up and looking at me. "Akane... If you so wish... Nosido here has suggested you joining UA to redeem yourself, he claims you have the heart for it..." I was taken aback by what he was telling me, slowly I looked down at Nosido. My eyes were wide in surprise, he simply looked back at me and nodded faintly. I slowly looked back at Shoto, weighing my options before speaking.

"I would gladly redeem myself of my sins..." Shoto nodded, crossing his arms.

"I'll get things figured out, but know you will be working double compared to other students since you are starting late. It won't last the whole year though." I nodded, looking down to see Nosido's neck fully healed... Well, relatively. He now had an even worse scar than before on his neck, which made me feel guilty for having him stay at my place.

"He's going to be here for another week at least, but his leg will be healed by then... But... His voice.. Well... He won't be able to talk in a full speaking tone for most of this month, he will be much quieter or just won't be talking at all." Shoto looked to the nurse, slowly nodding and sighing.

"I'll let Bakugou know when he returns..." The nurse nodded before Shoto turned back to me. He spoke to me for a few more minutes about my housing arrangements and how I will be staying at the school dorms before sending me off to the 1-A dorms.