My whole body ached, and I felt gross from sweat. I opened my eyes to find that I was staring up at the cloudy night sky, but my hearing was slower to come back to me. I could hear muffled voices and movement around me, but nothing was in focus. My head throbbed and I tentatively reached my shaky right hand up to touch at my head. I felt a hand touch mine and push it away. My brows came together with confusion, and I reached up again to feel, but the hand took mine, holding it this time and lowering it back down gently. I didn't have the strength to fight against it even if I wanted to.

"Oi, I told you not to touch it" came a muffled growl and I tried to look back as far as I could without moving my head, but I didn't see who spoke. Kacchan leaned forward, his head hovering over mine as he frowned down at me. I smiled up at him weakly and tried to say his name, but what came out was a slur of sound that made my chest ache and was enough to make me breathless from the small effort and his frown grew deeper and he leaned back, out of my view.

I wanted him to come back, but my body felt heavy and sluggish and ached even when I didn't try to move it. My left ankle ached, my right foreleg throbbed, my left shoulder hurt, my chest burned on the right side and my head throbbed. I vaguely recalled having those injuries before, only my head and chest didn't hurt anywhere as much as they did now and that was without moving. If I dared to move I felt I might scream. But I was flooded with relief to see Kacchan was alright. It was hard to breath though. The longer I laid there the harder it felt to take in air and the more it hurt when I did even if I tried to only take small breaths at a time.

"Hey, he's awake!" I heard Kacchan call loudly from somewhere behind me and I wished I could see him. The next face I saw hovering over me was Yaoyorozu's. She looked exhausted.

"Midoriya, can you hear me?" she asked, I looked to her through heavy eyes, but I didn't feel I had it in me to nod to her. I tried to make a noise, some kind of grunt of acknowledgment, but that was enough to set my chest ablaze and I scrunched up my eyes.
"Where does it hurt?" she asked urgently.

Everywhere, I thought back. But my chest was the worst of it. I tried to open my mouth again, this time only a gurled noise escaped my lips as well as what felt like drool. I opened my eyes again and her eyes were wide as she looked down at me. I could see Kacchan looming over behind her, his own face looked…..shocked, mortified? I couldn't tell.

"Sit him up, quickly" order Yaoyorozu and Kacchan looked to her.

"You said he might have a concussion and to lay him down" he spoke back with a bite.

"And now I'm saying sit him up. Now" she said with enough urgency to spur Kacchan into action and he disappeared behind me a moment later. I felt his hand hook under my arms. My left shoulder protested the movement, but more than that I wanted to tell him no, to let me go, I knew moving would hurt too much and I'd rather stay where I was for as long as I could still breath to avoid it, but my chest was aching not only from the pain but from lack of air too. He lifted me to sit up and a gargled cry bubbled up my throat from the pain. My chin felt wet and hot from saliva. My head dropped forward, and I could see the drool fall to my lap. It was bubbly and pink.

Yaoyorozu crouched closer while Kacchan held me up and she leaned forward with a stethoscope to listen to my chest, unzipping the front of my costume so the cold metal touched my skin. She listened to my right side, then my left, which made me hiss from the touch.

"His left lung is filling with blood" she announced to no one in particular, maybe to Kacchan. I felt his grip on my arms tighten.
"Midoriya I know it will hurt, but I need you to cough for me" she told me as she pulled part of her top up to create something. I shook my head to her weakly as she turned back to face me, her newly crafted item in her hand.
"Please Midoriya. You have to cough" she pushed. This time I didn't have the energy to shake my head at her. I knew it would hurt. It would hurt more than Kacchan moving me did. I didn't want to feel it. Every part of me was already aching, already screaming at me, I didn't want to make it worse.

"The nerds not gonna cough, isn't there something else you can do?" I heard Kacchan's growling voice behind me. Usually my face would feel warm from him being so close to me, from holding me, but instead I felt cold, despite my sweating.

"The other option is to cut into him to drain the blood, but I don't want to do that if I can avoid it," she explained as she took the breathing mask she produced and slipped it over my throbbing, starting to grow light headed head.
"It will leave him open to infection" she finished as she attached the tubing of the mask to a canister she had produced and unscrewed the valve on it slightly for me to breath, but my breathing was so strained and shallow that I wasn't really getting anything at all.

"Midoriya," she spoke to me firmly and my heavy eyes lifted to hers. Her face was serious and stern, "I need you to cough. This gas will help with the pain, but you need to clear your lung first to be able to take it in properly. If you don't you'll compromise your other lung too" I realized she was telling me that breathing would get even harder. I didn't see how that could be possible. Dark spots were starting to dance across my vision. My head must have dropped a little because I heard her call out to me again.

"You need to stay awake," she called, "you need to cough" she urged, and I felt Kacchan shift behind me, removing one of his arms from me and letting my body rest against his.

"Take the mask off" he ordered and Yaoyorozu complied.

Kacchan's gloved hand came around to the front of my face. Sparks popped in his palm as he emitted smoke and despite my small shallow breaths I felt the smoke touch the back of my throat and I coughed. Blood came up my throat and splattered onto his glove. I was worried I had made him angry when he did it again and I coughed again, harder and more blood came up. It was painful, the most painful thing I had ever felt. The deep intake of air, the force of the cough, how it made my body move against my will, the shuddering breaths in between, it all hurt so much that I felt my cheeks wet with tears and I gritted my teeth, trying to bite back my cries.

My whole body was shaking from the pain and effort, and I was rewarded by Yaoyorozu slipping the mask back over my mouth and nose. It was a bit easier to breath now, but it still hurt, but with each breath of the gas she fed me, the pain felt a little less intense. After about thirty second of it, she pulled the mask off me again and Kacchan made me cough more. It still hurt and my body still shuddered from it, but it was less agonizing than before. She slipped the mask back on and they repeated it another two times before she finally left the mask on and listened to my chest again. The touch still hurt, but it was bearable now thanks to the gas. She produced another canister from her chest and switched it out with the pain relief one.

"This one is just oxygen," she explained as she connected it to me, "you'll have to keep him sitting up. One of his ribs must have pierced his lung. I can't stop the bleeding here myself so sitting him up will hopefully slow it and make it easier for him to breath." I realized she was talking to Kacchan who I was still leaning against, which suited me fine. I was finding it hard to focus on her words. I wanted to sleep.

"What about his head?" grumbled Kacchan as he slipped his bloodied glove off, his arm still wrapped around to be in front of me. It was soaked with my blood that still dripped from my chin from under the mask.

"We can't know the degree of damage there until he's in a hospital. Right now keeping his lung clear takes priority" Yaoyorozu replied as she stood. She looked as exhausted as I felt. I heard someone else calling to her not far away.
"Do you know his blood type?" she asked.

"O" replied Kacchan behind me without having to stop and think.

"And you?" she asked.

"A" he replied, she looked disappointed.

"Next person who comes along, ask them to find one of our classmates who had the same blood type as Midoriya and then send them to me. He's going to need it. If he starts to struggle to breath again, give him the pain killer and make him cough it up as best as you can again. It will buy us time until he can get to a hospital" with that she rushed off to her next patient calling for her.

"Oi, I'm not your damn nurse" I heard Kacchan's voice boom behind me followed by a deep growl of annoyance that I could more feel than hear.

My head was swimming and felt light and I was struggling to keep my eyes open. With the pain gone it was the perfect time to rest and my head fell forward, my eyes already closed. I felt Kacchan's now bare hand catch my face and gently pulled it back his way.

"You damn nerd, you'll hurt your neck sleeping like that" he grumbled to me, and I moaned a reply, so he knew I had heard him and hopefully knew I appreciated him too.

"Tch" he replied and moved to rearrange himself behind me. He turned his back to me, letting mine rest against his and he leaned forward enough for my head to rest gently against him without falling forward again. It wasn't very comfortable, but I dozed off regardless.