Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 141 - More dead

Uraraka yawned, swinging her feet over the side of the bed, putting on her slippers, and blearily walked down the stairs, and headed to the kitchen. She didn't know what time it was, but she was thirsty and she wanted some water.

Noticing that the lights in the common room were still brightly lit, she paused, and tried to rub the sleep out of her eyes. She had been one of the last ones to leave the common room and retire to her room, and she had been relatively sure that Tokoyami had switched the lights off after he was done watching some conspiracy theory documentary with Todoroki.

She quietly crept into the room, and noticed a familiar mop of green hair by the table. She walked over, and Midoriya looked up, some books in his hand that had some graphs that she didn't understand, and there was a cup of coffee sitting on the table as he sat in the bean bag. Reiko and Ryuto were curled up on his lap, already fast asleep, and it seemed like Shirou was using his shoulder as a pillow as the lavender haired boy's cat slept.

Uraraka was actually surprised to see that Midoriya was up. The boy had holed himself up in his room for the entire day, and didn't even leave when they called him from dinner.

"Can't sleep?" She asked, as Midoriya muttered, "Just... staying up. I want to be here when he comes back."

Uraraka's face fell, and she squatted down, "Izuku... I don't think he'll be back so soon. It's like... three in the morning. Earliest he would come back is later today."

"Still... maybe he'll come back soon." Midoriya murmured, lowering his head, almost guiltily, and a small, sad smile crept onto the brunette's face.

Uraraka wasn't about to leave her friend alone, and she stood up, "I'm going to grab some water."

Midoriya nodded, and turned his attention back to his book, and Uraraka stood up, making her way towards the kitchen to pour herself a glass of water.

She grabbed her cup, and settled down on the couch, relatively close enough to Midoriya, before she flicked the television on and lowered the volume so that she didn't disturb anyone else, especially not Midoriya.

There was some animated cartoon playing on television, and she had no idea what was going on since animated shows didn't exactly put detail onto the way mouths moved while talking, and there were no subtitles, but she wasn't about to be fiddling with the settings and maybe messing something up.

She leaned back, taking a sip of water, and watched as two teenagers seemed to be fighting some monsters, and Midoriya raised his head slowly.

"... Not... sleeping...?"

"Nah. Can't sleep anyways." Uraraka replied, "I'll just stay here for a while."

Midoriya mutely nodded, and went back to his book, and Uraraka drifted her gaze to Midoriya, then back to the television.

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"Can he have visitors?" Aizawa asked the receptionist, as he stood in the hospital's main lobby. He had to go back to UA to prepare for his nightly shift of Hero work, but Yamada wanted to stay overnight in Shinsou's hospital room to look over their kid.

They did want to figure out if they could bring guests, though.

The receptionist shook his head, "Sir, we do not allow guests for a reason. Many of them have quirks that could negatively affect our delicate equipment, and the various types of quirks make it very hard to differentiate between safe quirks and quirks that might mess something up. To keep patients safe, and the risks as low as possible, we do not allow guests, only family. And even then, we do checks on the parents to ensure their quirks are safe."