Filler chap.

Once Toshi finished speaking with Nezu, he decided that Ichigo had had more than just an eventful day. What with the kidnapping, being shot ect.

After smacking young Bakugo- she had earned herself some fans- in the form of several of his more shameless co-workers. All of whom would of course remain nameless, mostly because he was so terribly disappointed in the lot of them.

He knew that young Bakugo wasn't all that well liked and all because of his personality, but he was one of their precious students. They should be able to control their glee at seeing him reduced to a cowering mess at some girl's feet.

Even if he was single handedly responsible for several people's nervous breakdowns, spontaneous crying jags, and a shit load of anxiety... The boy didn't deserve to be leered at in such a manner.

He nearly shouted at Mic, Midnight, Ectoplasm, and Snipe to all move away from his charge, when he saw them all starting to crowd her, before he gave in to temptation and told her to slap them too. However doing so would have been immature of him.

And really violence was never the answer to anything. In fact he was already planning to lecture Ichigo about slapping people.

Even if one of them was an overly aggressive teenage boy that had lunged at her... Oh who the hell was he kidding? He was actually kind of proud of her for knocking the crap out of the boy. But at the same time he was just as equally appalled.

Walking over to where his charge and his shameless co-workers were, he mentally prepared himself for something ridiculous and nearly tripped over his own feet when he reached them and found Midnight attempting to smother the poor girl with her bosom.

Bristling at the fact that Ichigo looked as if she'd just lost any will to keep struggling, he reached out automatically and extracted the girl from the woman's grasp.

And was rewarded by having the teen latch onto him and and take big gulps of air a few times before finally looking up at him and saying in a slightly disturbed tone, "I saw a bright light at the end of a tunnel- and my grandmother beckoned me to cross over." She paused for a moment before then saying, "I-I don't even recall having a grandmother!"

He didn't know if Ichigo was kidding or not. But seeing one's dead unknown grandmother 'beckon'ing her to the other side, must have been weird for her.

He absently patted her on the back while she clung to his arm like it was a life line and glared at Midnight who looked thoroughly crushed to have had the girl snatched from her. "Hey!" She shouted at him. "I was cuddling here!"

"You were smothering her." Toshi growled at the woman. Ichigo let out a funny little whimper at his words and he had to pat her back a few more times.

"Was not!"

"You were so! A few more seconds of your 'cuddling' and I would have had to resuscitate her!" Toshi hissed at Nemuri. Which caused the woman to pout as he felt Ichigo pat his arm and glanced over at her as she slowly released him and then asked,

"Can I go to my room or something? I'm uncomfortable here."

"Oh, yes. Yes of course you can." He replied gently, any irritation he previously felt easily melting away in leu of letting his young charge run off since she obviously didn't seem very happy at the moment. "Do you remember where it is?"

"I'm sixteen, not six." The girl muttered. He couldn't think of anything else to say to her for the moment, so he just shooed her off with one of his hands and watched her go. After which, young Bakugo decided to head back to the dorm too.

Apparently he'd had enough abuse for the day. All Toshi could do was stare a hole at his back and hope that he didn't do anything to get slapped again.

"Feeling less afraid now?" Ichigo asked once she realized that Ka-chan was walking along behind her. Her question must have offended him. He made a 'tsk'ing sound but otherwise didn't really respond.

So she tried a different question.

"How's your face? Still sting?"

"Yes." The boy replied in an annoyed tone. "It still stings."

"Alright." She muttered as she stuffed her hands in her pant's pockets.

"Anything else?" He suddenly asked after a few heartbeats.

"Yeah."

"What?"

"Sorry I hit you so hard."

He was quiet again but she could hear him moving a tad bit faster and could even see him as he stepped up along side her left. Looking over at him, she blinked when he glowered at her a bit. His expression irked. And yet...it wasn't as bad as it had been before.

In fact, his expression looked more...inviting. Nicer even.

"Apology accepted. Don't do it again though."

"I make no promises." She said with a frown. And he snickered.