Contrary to what Toshi may have believed, Shouta was barely ten steps behind him until he found Ichigo. The moment that they had both found her, he had let his friend go ahead so that he could make his way up to the rooftop of a nearby building and put his visor on so that he could see what the hell was going on.

And he had seen something.

His quirk ability coupled with the use of his visor had given him a slightly infrared-esque, heat seeing ability that helped him to see a somewhat hazy large, monster-like blob going for Ichigo and Toshi after the whole car/brick thing happened.

And for a moment he had freaked.

Like really, really freaked. Partially because Toshi didn't seem to know that it was even there. His primary focus was Ichigo and the fact that she was hurt. And partially because it had actually looked as if they were going to die for a moment there.

He had started to move to jump down and go help them when Ichigo had done some...weird yoga-gymnastic-martial arts move and flipped herself over on top Toshi and attacked it. And while he had questions about the attack and how she managed it- it also dawned on him that Ichigo could obviously see, hear, and quite possibly sense the damned thing.

Very well, he might add. Which was...incredible really.

Especially since Toshi seemed to be totally oblivious to the fucking thing.

He stayed where he was until he saw it disappear into thin air after Ichigo's last attack. After which, he'd deactivated his quirk and slipped his visors down to rest around his neck, and then he'd turned and left knowing that Toshi would take care of her until he brought her back.

Besides, he'd left Hizashi sitting all alone in the apartment parking lot, still freaking out about not being able to move. So he really needed to go and check on him just in case some more of those... invisible things were hanging around.

He was waiting for them when Toshi finally made his way back to the apartment. Shouta had already spoken with the guy that owned the stupid thing- and man was he pissed- he kept going on and on about how he should kick every licensed hero out of his buildings. Because apparently to the guy, they were no better than low life scum.

Always running around and breaking other people's shit. Destroying public property and such.

And it was starting to grate on Shouta's nerves so much that he'd actually caught himself reaching for the guy's unprotected throat, several times already. The insane desire to choke him until his eyes popped out was beginning to overwhelm him just a tad.

So he was very, very happy when Toshi finally got back since it meant that he could occupy himself with taking Ichigo from him and begin to plan his move into the new house.

I mean, what had happened today- while totally unexpected- also seemed to motivate him into wanting to get the fuck away from the civilian guy getting on his last nerve.

If he didn't, he'd likely wind up beating the crap out of him just to shut him the fuck up. And honestly, Ichigo's physical presence in the immediate area reminded him of his present responsibilities towards her and her wellbeing.

And that was good. Really, really good since it probably saved the dumbass bastards miserable life.

But as it happened, the moment that he saw Toshi walk up- he shoved the idiot out of his way and practically dashed over and collected the girl from him, and then settled himself on the ground with her in his lap so that he could look her over and the guy he'd been talking to stormed up and started mouthing off to Toshi while he was still in his All Might form.

Toshi stood there all of three minutes smiling at the guy as he ranted and screamed and carried on before finally having enough of his idiocy and grabbed him by the front of the shirt, and picked him up, and looked at Shouta. His smile taking a little bit of a sharper and more sinister appearance to it.

That wasn't his 'All Might' trademark hero smile.

That was the smile he got when he was two seconds away from launching something/someone into orbit.

He usually only used that smile on specific villains whom had done really, really bad things that upset him. Honestly even Shouta was a little bit scared of him when he smiled like that because it usually meant that nothing good was going to happen.

Wrapping his arms protectively around Ichigo, he pulled her as tightly as he dared against his chest and held his breath as Toshi shook the guy in his grasp a little bit to shut him up. The guy squawked some, but inevitably shut up.

"While I am sorry that you're building was damaged. That is not Eraser Head's fault. He is a pro-hero who works best out of the public eye for a reason," Toshi said to the guy in his grasp before then asking Shouta, "And what is that reason again, Eraser Head?"

Shouta blinked at him but automatically replied anyways. Summing up his job as an underground hero as best as he could since he worked both within and outside of the law. "I do the things that other pro-hero's won't do. I make people disappear."

"Thank you," Toshi said fondly, his dark blue eyes glittered menacingly as he shifted his attention back to the guy. "That makes his work very important on many levels. This has not won him any favors or even made him any friends. In fact many who don't already know him believe him to be nothing more than a villain himself-"

Shouta didn't know why he cringed hearing that. Especially when it was nothing but the truth.

Being an underground pro-hero was exactly like that. Unlike other hero's there was no such thing as a popularity contest. You tended to get bloody because it was the job. You made rivals that were often times either utter idiots or dicks that would happily stab you in the back for money. In many cases you were considered about as unscrupulous as some of the worst villains. The fact that you did your job so that others would be protected meant little to anyone.

Shouta's job was considered the worst hero job imaginable because he did bad things to other people. He hadn't been kidding when he had said that he made people disappear.

Sure he didn't kill them unless he was either given the kill order, or he was pushed into doing so- but it didn't change the fact that he could take some 'average joe' and make him literally disappear off the face of the earth with very little effort. And when he made someone vanish, they tended to stay gone unlike a lot of Toshi's villains.

Those guys popped out of the wood works and followed the man around like puppies. It was ridiculous.

He must have zoned out around then, cause he completely missed the rest of Toshi's little speech and only really became aware of things again when the apartment's owner fell to the ground with a thud and then quickly jumped up and ran off just as fast as his stubby legs could carry him as Toshi exhaled.

"That should keep him from running his mouth again." He said as he turned and looked at Shouta again and smiled. A real smile this time as he slowly walked over to him and knelt down on the ground a few inches from him and asked, "How is she?"

Shouta blinked at him, and glanced down at Ichigo and upon noting that her face was smooshed up against his chest, slowly loosened his hold on her a little bit before replying, "I think she may need a trip to the ER to dig some of this stuff out of her. She might need something for pain and infection too."

"I figured." Toshi said as he reached out and brushed her hair aside some.

"I also need to start moving everything from the apartment to the new place as soon as I can since we can't get back in there very well."

"I can do that for you while you take her to the ER to get checked out, if you want." Toshi offered. Shouta thought for a moment before nodding his head curtly. After all, the sooner the move from the apartment got done, the more likely they were to have a place to rest once he came back.

"Yeah, okay. I'll let you handle it. Do you want me to leave the car for you to use?"

"No. I think I should be okay. My three minutes are up and I'm showing no signs of changing back yet. If I hurry, then I might be able to get everything over to you're new home before I change back. Speaking of- where is you're new home? And also, is there anything in particular that you want set up before you come back?"

"Ichigo's bedroom. If you stay in you're current form then setting it up should be easy. I can always sleep in the living room for tonight if I have too. But I was thinking that since she's a girl- she might need more space than I do. The master bedroom is nice and big. It has it's own bathroom too-"

"I get it," Toshi said with a soft chuckle. "I'll get it fixed up for you both."

"Alright. Thanks."

"Is there anything else?"

It was on the tip of Shouta's tongue to tell Toshi to be careful. Though there was a chance that the incident from earlier might have been a random thing- he didn't think it was. Whatever that thing that had gone after Ichigo, she knew what it was and was able to specifically defend against it.

And right now he was a tad bit worried about how to tell Toshi to watch himself when he couldn't see the possible enemy that may/may not be sneaking up on him. He knew that he couldn't just blurt shit out and freak him out.

That kind of carelessness caused mistakes. And such mistakes could often cause people to get hurt or worse. Inevitably though, he decided to say nothing for the moment. And just scan the area one last time before he left his friend so that he could take Ichigo to get taken care of.