AN: Be patient about Kacchan. Not yet. NOOoooot yeeeeeet. Waaaait for iiiiit.


45. Shinsou Hitoshi

Izuku was told to stay in the infirmary until he was in a good enough condition to even go home. He can't leave the infirmary without permission, even to classes. His mother has come by a lot of times, and students come in and out all the time.

And today's story is about one particular boy that walked into the infirmary.

Izuku was studying. It was self-study for 1-H, so Nagomi had dropped off his notes for Izuku to study with. Izuku's sitting up on the bed, was going through the notes and trying to understand the content, writing notes into his own study notebook. It was strange how easy to understand Nagomi's notes were, despite the boy claiming to not understand a thing he's written down.

Actually, Recovery Girl had left the room telling Izuku to get as much rest as he could, but Izuku really couldn't afford to miss another day's worth of lessons... and so, since Recovery Girl wasn't around he's sneaking in some studying.

The door of the infirmary opened. Izuku looked up to see a boy- his age- with spiky blue...indigo? Purple? hair, bags lining the bottoms of his eyes. The boy glanced at Izuku for a moment, looking around the infirmary.

"Recovery Girl?" he asked.

"Hu- Oh," Izuku realized the boy was talking to him, "She went somewhere."

The boy sighed and walked in himself, heading for the shelves. He picked up a sticky note by the side and wrote something on before reaching for the glass doors on the cabinets.

"Uh-" Izuku spoke up, "I'm Midoriya Izuku." he decided to say, "You are?"

Impulse. Izuku was just really bored. He's been alone for hours already. Everyone was busy with classes and well, he wanted some human contact now and then. It was really saddening to not have talked to another human for seven hours.

The boy looked at Izuku suspiciously before responding. "I'm Shinsou. Shinsou Hitoshi." he said. There was another moment of hesitation before he asked, "Are you the kid that's been living in the infirmary?"

(x)

No one's ever brought up a conversation towards Shinsou so readily. They were all wary of his quirk. His dangerous, villainous quirk that wards people away in a stereotypical view of him. If anyone he didn't really know talked to him, they either had an ulterior motive or just didn't know about him.

He had asked a question, to see which one this boy was.

"Living-?" Izuku chuckled, "I think so." he said.

The latter, Shinsou realized. This boy doesn't know about my quirk. But Shinsou did not activate either. He's heard this boy that's been recuperating in the infirmary was extremely fragile and should be treated with care- which means, he shouldn't use his quirk unnecessarily on the boy.

(Not like Shinsou could. This headache was killing him.)

"Shinsou-kun, are you sick or something? What are you doing here?" Izuku spoke up, his head tilted to the side in curiosity.

Shinsou seemed hesitant. He's really not used to socializing. Still, he forced himself to answer. "Headache." he said, "lack of sleep."

Izuku chuckles. "With those eyebags, I guess I expected as much." he said. "Hey, Shinsou-kun, which department are you from?"

Shinsou wanted to leave, but for some reason he just didn't. The boy was like a child, beaming brightly and excitedly, eager for the conversation. Shinsou suddenly leaving him would disappoint the boy.

"General Education."

"Cool, I'm from Support!" Izuku smiled.

"...Cool?" Shinsou couldn't help but ask, "it's just general education."

"It's cool because it's general education!" Izuku said, "I mean, you guys are one step away from Hero! It's basically the same thing!"

Shinsou was just taken aback. What?

"I can't become a hero because of my health." Izuku said, "So even if I join Gen. Ed, I'd pull everyone back like I'm already doing for the Support Course. I mean, I can barely catch up on studying! Recovery Girl keeps telling me to go back to sleep but-"

Shinsou froze. This guy- He's just like me? It was a first. Much more, this boy was cheerful and happy despite everything, unlike the moody and grump Shinsou. They were polar opposites.

And out of nowhere, Izuku coughed. This alerted Shinsou, who looked towards the boy. The boy, noticing the stare, brought a smile onto his face. Shinsou frowned as he spotted the multiple notebooks on Izuku's lap.

"To be reviewing notes while hospitalized." Shinsou sighed, "You sure like studying, don't you?"

"Hm? Yeah! I have to catch up on my-" Izuku abruptly froze in the midst of speech, his hand stopping in the middle of reaching for his notebook.

"Just be good and go back to sleep."