The Lost Gods - middle name AU

Chapter 10

Black filled my conscious vision, the world behind my eyelids. Letting out a small breath, I analysed the world beyond my still closed eyes. I could feel bandages pulled tight against my skin, a soft bed beneath my still body. I could feel bandages against my face, flashes of the fight returning to me as I focused on the injury that became a result of the attack.
I realised I had gotten a large cut across my nose, remembering the blood that had dribbled into my mouth. It was going to scar, I knew that.
I couldn't feel my injuries, but I knew they would have me on a ton of meds so I put away the numbness. I could feel that I had bandages covering majority of my body, the bandages only getting thicker as I recognised a cast over the left arm that I had broken. The bandages on my face covered the entire left side as well as over my nose. This was going to be unconventional.

I decided that I should finally open my eyes.

As my heavy eyelids fluttered open, I had to squint as light filtered through, pupils contracting. That was when I noticed other presences in the room.
To my left, looking through the slit in the bandages, I could recognise Shinso only from his violet hair. I couldn't move my neck or head. From the other corner of my eye, I could see our teacher, Aizawa, the mummy version.

I wasn't too different from Aizawa's mummified form. One exception was that bandages only covered one half of my face. Aizawa has casts on both of his arms and I could faintly recognise a cast on Shinso's leg.

I grimaced softly, realising I couldn't protect my friend, even if I took most of the hits. I was reckless and it got all of us seriously injured.

"Finally awake problem child?" Came the gravelly voice of my mentor. I winced.

"Y-yeah..."

"That was a stupid stunt you pulled..."

I wilted under his words.

"But you protected the class and no one died, so that's something. Shinso tells me the villain seemed to approve of your goal? What was that about?"

"I... I'm not sure..."
After the small spark at the approval in his words, I began to ponder what Shinso had told him.
Soon enough my spiel of my goal as a hero came back to me.

"Oh... did he tell you what Shigaraki said?"

"Something along the lines that the villain asked him to protect you because he wants you to achieve your dream, said he wasn't going to kill you because he liked you."

Wow... that's... I've been acknowledged by a villain, one that wanted to kill All Might.

"I... he said something that made me angry so I told him my dream as a hero, to prove that names don't define the person as well as our goal with Project Utopia."

"I think you have a possible clan mate."

"Wow..."

"You're going to do a lot of people a lot of good, including people who have become villains."

"Yeah..."

We sat in a comfortable, contemplative silence, but it was soon broken by a soft groan. Shinso was waking up. From what Aizawa has said, Shinso had woken up previously.

It was only now that I noticed that no voices were crowding my mind. Why?... I wasn't wearing a soul catcher, there was no skin for it to touch...
I...
Were the voices related to my mental state? I know they went away with positive emotions. I was less positive, more neutral, at peace.

I...

Someone was supporting me, someone had left me alive so I could continue my dream. A villain was rooting for me.