Time Stamp: Shoto x Reader

Enter Kai

Todoroki looked around the room everyone was gathered in. There was one person missing. "Say, has anyone checked on (Y/n)? Is she still sleeping?" He asked, turning to the girls. Tsu nodded with a finger to her chin. She seemed... a little down when he thought about it. "Did... something happen?"

The girls all got quiet for a second. "Todoroki, Midoriya... can we talk to the both of you in private?" Orakao asked, looking between the pair. With a nod, the two followed the others out into the halls. Taking a deep breath, she spoke. "She was taken back to the infirmary as soon as we got back. We weren't able to tell if it was quirk exhaustion... or something else."

Midoriya and Todoroki glanced to one another. "What do you mean... something else. She was just tired right? From using her new ability, right?"

Tsu shook her head. "When she was laying on my lap on the way back, I noticed it. At first I didn't think anything of it, but the more I thought about it, the weirder it seemed. She had an injection site, right about... here." She pointed to a spot where her neck met her shoulders before continuing. "Her breathing was starting to get heavy, and she seemed warm. I wasn't sure what else to do, so I asked Orakao for some help."

There was silence in the air as they thought about what that could possibly mean. "So... somehow, someone from her old team probably managed to inject her with something, and we don't know what it could have been? Not only that, but since the first round she was fighting it off?"

Tsu shook her head. "Probably, even before that. From what we heard... it had been in her system for longer than the test took. Meaning, someone didn't want her to pass... they wanted her to fail." With those words, their conversation came to an end as one of the other students wanted to know what was going on.

((Y/n) POV)

I woke up with a strange feeling... almost as if the air around me felt dirty or ashen. "My... mask... where did I put my mask last night?" Sitting up in the bed, I looked around the room I was in. It was an infirmary. "Oh, right... I'm not home anymore..." I started to wonder, what would Kai think of me now.

Was I going to be sick in his eyes? Was I part of the plague that he spoke about ridding people of? Where did he draw the line? Getting out of the bed, I tossed on my uniform before leaving a note for Recovery Girl. I needed to get back to the dorm... the mask that they made for my suit would have to do.

Somehow... everything around me just seemed fuzzy and disorienting. Not only that, but my body felt like it was on fire. Come to think about it... when was the last time I ate something? Two days before the test? Maybe? "I can't remember..." I muttered, as my hand found a place on my forehead.

Before I knew what I was doing, I was walking out of the UA gates. The school behind me, I just walked into the town. Almost like I was searching for something, whatever it was... made it hard to remember why I was here in the first place. I needed to find someplace with a mask... or a place that created masks. In doing so... I ended up wandering around for about three days before finding the place I was looking for.

The mask I ordered looked like a plague doctor mask that covered the entirety of my face. I also needed new bandages to cover my arms and shoulders from sight. By the fourth day, I found myself back where Shigaraki's new base was located. "You brought a crazy big fish, huh, Twice?" That voice... it sounded like Shigaraki.

The second voice I recognized immediately. "Big fish? That's ironic... League of Villains. Though one person seems to be missing. Tell me... where is (Y/n), Shigaraki?"

All I could do was stagger closer to the door, my fingers clutching my chest as I continued to walk closer to the building. "What? Is that guy someone famous?" Magnetic man... I remember him as well.