Chapter Six:

"Well, as the saying goes 'If you want something done right, then do it yourself'." Tsunadahime took a drag of her pipe and slid off her chair. "But I didn't think the girl had it in her to snap Kaiga's spine like that."

Bakugo was helpless against her evil gaze set right on him. The way she looked at him made him feel like she wasn't seeing him as a person but as a piece of meat. He had blantently refused to join them, of course, but as that woman approched them he realized that they weren't just going to let him go because he declined their proposal. They were going to feed him to the wolves instead. And Tsunadahime was the Alpha male.

"Tomura, my dear, since he refused you why don't I take him?" she placed a hand on the younger man's shoulder and peered around him at the blond tied to the chair. "I'll put his Quirk to good use."

Bakugo gulped and watched helplessly as Tsunadahime slithered over to him and leaned down over him. The eyes that watched him were a neon yellow, much different from Hebiko's golden ones, and the whites were a lime green. They were narrowed and vigious and matched the evil grin painted on her lips with blue lipstick. A perfectly manicured, neon orange nail ghosted under his chin, forcing him to look up at the face of what he hoped wasn't the devil.

"Since my last little pet ran away, I'm out of sources and I do love Quirks that secrete something deadly." Tsunadahime wiped a finger across his sweaty forehead, producing a clear slime with her finger.

She rubbed the slime between her thumb, index, and pointer finger evenly before snapping her fingers together, creating an explosion like the ones he could make with his hands.

"You must produce something flamable within your sweat glands... I could use that." she smirked and wiped her hand on the side of her labcoat. "You see my last pet had venom that made a persons Quirk destory themself. But your ability could come in handly too, I suppose."

Bakugo couldnt help but gulp. Instead of giving him over to the evil scientist, they released his restraints, an idiotic move on their part, he decided. Tsunadahime didn't seem phased by his outbursts or talk of hero's, she just stood and watched the broadcast on TV, smoking her pipe without a care in the world. Eventually, after Tomura's hand was blown off his face, she sighed and knocked out the old soot from her pipe.

"Well, this is going to get messy and I don't like to play with hero's." She stepped around the bar and over towards the sink, stripping her clothes off as she went. "So I'll take my leave then."

Standing before the sink, naked, she began to melt and ooze as she stepped into the metal basin. Turning into a puddle of goo, she slid easily down the drain, leaving behind nothing but her clothes. When the hero's searched the place later, that was all they had found of her and it didn't set anyones mind at ease.

X

"There are things you know that you have to tell us." Nezu said, folding his hands on top of a yellow folder. "Your attack in the forest was different than the others."

Hebiko kept her eyes on the wooden pattern of the table, and clenched her fists together. Sumire noticed and placed a hand over hers, giving her a small smile. Naomasa had come with some news learned from Bakugo from his kidnapping and after discussing it with Nezu and All Might, Hebiko was brought in for questioning.

"You're lucky that other men weren't sent after you and others were hurt by them or you might have been kicked out of the school." Nezu pressed, then pulling out a photo from the folder, he slid it to her. "You knew him didn't you."

Hebiko's eyes widened at the autopsy photo of Kaiga. So she had killed him. What did anything matter anymore? They'd send her away anyway for her unheroic manner of taking out Tazer anyway. Finally, she caved.

"Yes," her voice was soft and almost a whisper. "He worked for Scientifica."

Naomasa sighed and scratched his head. "When you were placed in the institution it was because of your ties to Scientifica but it was never specified what those ties were."

"I was her... guinea pig. She tested me and used me for my venom." Hebiko felt hot tears pricking her eyes. "My venom causes a person's Quirk to go heywire and become uncontrollable to the point were it kills them."

Large tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked up at the adults around her. "I never asked for this stupid Quirk! I never meant to... to kill Tazer! I... I just want to be normal..."

Naomasa mumbled to himself that Scientifica may have used that venom and altered it to be used for the enhancement drugs running in the black market. But All Might just stared at the sobbing girl. Midoriya had told him about his encounter with Hebiko on the camping trip, but now that he knew more about the snake Quirk girl, his heart kind of went out to her.

With Sumire's hand on her shoulder, Hebiko explained her years of being held in a windowless basement with nothing but a dirty matress on the floor. Never fed except for the live rats she would kill and eat. Never given clothes or affection. All she wanted was to be normal. Live a normal life. And for sixteen years one was denied to her until All Might had asked for her to be transfered into Yuuei's care.

She was assured that no charges were going to be pressed against her, but that if she did anything like that again then she might have to face going back to the insitution. Hebiko was so relieved that she burst into fresh tears.

X

After putting her new dorm room together, Hebiko couldn't help but distance herself from the rest of her class. Her talk with Nezu and the others had put her on an edge she was afraid to fall from. If the others knew what Bakugo did then they might look at her differently. Like those orderly's did when she first arrived at the institution. How they looked at her with gross expressions like she was the worst human being on earth. If her classmates, no, her friends, looked at her like they did she was sure she'd fall off that edge and into the abyss.

When everyone had rushed to compete on who had the best room, she slunk off and found her way to Bakugo's dorm room door. Behind it was silence but before it was a girl shaking with nerves. Hebiko raised her fist towards the door and inhaled a deep breath. He answered quickly after she knocked to her surprise and for a moment she thought that maybe he had been waiting for her to visit him. If he was, he didn't act like it.

"What do you want, Snake-Eyes?" he glared at her, only opening the door a crack big enough for half of him to be shown.

"I need to talk to you." she mumbled, clutching her rattle to her chest. "In private if possible."

"Fuck off, I'm busy." he growled, going to slam the door shut.

"Please, wait!" Hebiko jammed her tail in the crack of the door like she had seen people do with their feet on TV.

She let out a yelp and the door bounced back open a little, shocking Bakugo. With a heavy sigh, he grabbed her by her arm and pulled her in. Then he stuck his head out, looked both ways, made sure the coast was clear, and slammed the door shut.

Having never been in a boy's room before, Hebiko glanced around and waited to be told where to sit and when. Bakugo didn't say a work but pushed her towards his bed before sitting on his desk chair backwards. She sat and rubbed her throbbing tail with a whimper.

"So, spill. Whatcha wanna say to me?" he barked, irritated with how long it was taking her to get to the point of her visit.

"I wanted to clear something up with you." she began, cradling her rattle on her lap, unable to look him in the eye. "They said you met Scientifica?"

"Tch," he turned his head to the side like the name left a bad taste in his mouth. "Crazy bitch."

"So you know..."

He startled her by leaning over the back of the chair and glaring dead in her eyes. "If you're worried I'll go around telling everyone, get real. I'm not a fucking school girl. You're business ain't nobody's business."

Hebiko sighed in relief. She didn't think he would tell anyone. She just didn't want him to misunderstand her because deep down she had some respect for him. He was the first to take her seriously sparring after all.

"I didn't think you would tell anyone. I mostly don't want you to get the wrong idea." she held up her finger, punctuating her point. "I was her test subject, nothing more."

He raised an eyebrow. "I know. And I gotta say, you've got some fuckin' balls to still be able to smile after the shit she must have put you through."

Hebiko let her hand drop into her lap, her eyes downcast. "You have no idea."