Chapter 7: Maybe... Stay a Little Longer?
I warned you guys that updates were going to slow down. Especially since I'm trying to tweak and work on other stories as well.
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When Izuku opened his, he could see that he wasn't outside like before, it looked like he was in a room from an inn. The next thing that he notice was the wet cloth on his forehead and was stripped to his undershorts but was tucked into the covers of the mat that he was laid out on. He felt too weak to do any more than sit up, let alone to walk out to see what's going on. His throat was too hoarse to say anything louder than a whisper, let alone to call for anyone. When he looked around the room more closely, he saw that someone was sitting in the closest corner.
He had to stretch his neck to really see who it was and instantly turned beet red. It was Ochako. She was sitting against the wall, peacefully asleep with a cloth her hand. But more importantly, he could barely recall what happened.
'Why is she asleep in here with me? While I'm shirtless. Again. The last thing that I remember, we were being threatened. And now I...'
As he leaned against the wall his mat was next to and hazily thinking of what was going on, Ochako started to shift until he finally woke up. She stretched out her back when she remembered wet cloth in her hand and that she need to give Izuku was fresh one. She turned to look at Izuku and saw him conscious again.
"Izuku, you're awake!" She glanced as his chest. "But you should really stay laying down. You really gave everyone a scare." She said getting him to lay down again.
"Ochako" He mumbled before going into a coughing fit. "How did... what happened?"
"You were able to convince the village that you're the avatar, but doing it used whatever energy you had let after nearly drowning." She explained changing the towel on his head. "Then recently you started getting a fever. Apparently, I didn't bend all of the water that went into your lungs. Sorry."
Izuku waved off her apology. "Where is everyone?"
"Well, Todoroki went to check out the town and Tenya said that he and wanted to have a word with those female warriors that jumped us earlier."
"Okay." he croaked before his eyes drooped and fell asleep again.
'Looks like we're going to be here a little longer.' Ochako giggled at Izuku fighting sleep but went to give the doctor an update.
On the outskirts of the village, Tenya was making his way to the dojo that the chief told him the warriors from earlier send most of their time. When he was in town with Todoroki, he would occasionally see a warrior on patrol or aiding the villagers.
But entering the dojo, he could see how they were able to jump them. The room was packed with girls practicing their martial art forms, with ferocity that have gave him fathom pains from the day before.
"Hello!" Tenya gave a stiff wave that interrupts their session. "I was told um... I could find the female warriors here?"
"The Kyoshi Warriors." a redhead warrior stepped up and corrected/explained to Tenya.
"Right" Tenya sweatdropped from the awkward tension. "Well, I was wondering if I could spar with you. I- I mean if anyone wanted to."
"Sure, I'll spar with you." The redhead said taking a fighting stance.
Tenya instinctively to a stance as well and when she gave a nod, he went to sweep her legs. She jumped and let him slide into the training pads stacked behind her. When he climbed out the pile of padding, he tried to go for a high kick. But she ducked and grabbed his leg and used his momentum to judo flip him flat on his back.
"Ha... nice deflecting" Tenya said a little dazed.
"You're not half bad yourself. You've got good strength, but your form is a bit stiff. If you stick around, we can probably help you with that."
"I'd um... like that..." He cleared his throat as he sat back up. "I'm sorry that I didn't properly introduce myself. I'm Tenya. Tenya Iida."
"Itsuka. Itsuka Kendo" She offered him a hand up.
As everyone was off doing their own thing, Todoroki has been spending his time wondering around town. However, he couldn't fully enjoy himself since every other person was staring at his scar or asking questions about Izuku that he never considered asking about.
Wanting some time alone, he found himself at a waterfall not far from the village. To practice some waterbending. Since he had to conceal his waterbending, he had to rely on firebending to get the upper-hand and defend himself from people like Katsuki. Now that he can't firebend, he'll have to try waterbending with what firebending techniques that he knew for years.
As he breathed in deeply, he started to try to rise the water in front of him to make a tower of water. However instead of a steadily rising bundle of water, it streamed over his head in an uncontrollable arch. In a panic, he instinctively tried to disperse it, but it instead froze the water into a pillar of ice that arched like an umbrella.
His posture slouched until he slumped into a sitting position as he tried to calm down his breathing.
'Looks like all I can do his splash and freeze stuff.' he thought as he gave a little self-deprecating chuckle.
"Wow." a little girl that seemed to come out of nowhere awed.
Todoroki almost jump a little and hair stood up like a cat for a second from how spooked he was.
"Where- How- Who are you?"
"Coco." she stated bluntly as if that answered everything.
He looked were the girl might have come from to see a fewer other wonder-filled eyes hidden but emerging from nearby bushes to get a better look. They all seemed to be about half his age, but their feet were so silent that he barely notice them.
"You came with the Avatar, right?" the same girl stepped up next to him.
"Yeah, sorry about all that." He motioned to the ice pillar. "You all could have gotten hurt. I guess I need to practice making sure that doesn't happen."
"I like it." the girl said with her friends humming in agreement. "Can we see you do it again?"
He looked away from her only to be met with a few other hopeful eyes. "Maybe tomorrow."
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