A/N: I want to thank everyone that reviewed the last chapter as well as everyone that added this story to their favorites and follows.

Those bastards are going to pay for hurting Aizawa-sensei.

They are going to die for putting my classmates through hell.

Naruto growled and snarled as the Nomu pushed itself up, its body slightly trembling from the impact. The scratches, which formed from hitting the hard rocks, seemed to be fading away quickly. She gripped the ground, eyes stilting as Aizawa groaned, head barely looking up. She lunged forward, wrapping her arms around the monster's large arm and smashed him down the ground.

The ground cracked, shattering like tiny pieces of a puzzle as the boss gulped. His whole body trembled as his eyes fixated on the red cloak of energy surrounding Naruto. He gulped, shivering as red, monsterous, eyes turned towards him.

Just like a panther, Naruto lunged at the shivering villain. Her fingers stretched out to scratch him, only for the Nomu to slam her against the wall. Naruto spat out blood, head spinning around like she was in a roller coaster, as the huge villain yanked her leg. The rusty taste of the blood almost snapped the girl out of her rage-fulled mindset.

He smashed her to the either sides of him like she weighed nothing, like she was a swatter for him to swat flies. Her head pounded and blood seeped out her forehead, dribbling down to the side of her head. Naruto growled, placing her slender arms around the hand and yanked herself out of the monster's grip. She slammed her head against the Nomu, lips curled into a snarl. The monster screamed out, hands curled into a fist before punching her in the stomach.

All the air in her lungs was knocked out as more blood spitted out of her mouth, decorating the ground again. Pain erupted from her stomach, almost making her want to grip out and scream out of pain. But the broken form of her teacher, the fear leaking out of her fellow students and her own rage brought her the strength to stand up.

"Uzumaki!"

"Uzumaki! Run! Don't keep doing this! Help is on the way!"

Naruto rubbed her bloodied lips, body shaking as her teacher forced himself up. Blood still flowed down his face but not as heavily as before, but several scratches decorated his face.

"You don't need to continue fighting." Her teacher coughed and gasped. "If you continue like this then you will die! Just run!"

Did it matter if she dies? Her parents died before she could even remember them. The only grandfather-figure she had, was murdered by his student, by the man who stole her brother-figure from her. Nothing really connected her to the world, so who cared? The least Naruto could do was protect him, protect her classmates. They had been too good to her.

The monster pierced his arm against her stomach, blood soaking its arm as Naruto spurted out more blood from her mouth. He twisted her body around, crashing her down to the ground and pushed her to look to the side. Midoriya, Mineta and Asui stared at her with fear and tears flowing down their eyes. Or rather more like, Asui and Mineta while Midoriya fixated his eyes to her wounds.

Blood dribbled down the sides of her face, decorating Naruto like one of those murdered victims found in a haunted house. The bruises decorating her body faded as if it was a gust of wind. If it weren't for the blood coming out of the girl's body, no one would think that Naruto was being mauled.

The villain yanked his hand out of her stomach as the blue-haired villain smirked, looking at the wound like a birthday present that came early. Naruto grabbed the arm, curled her hands into a fist and smashed it against his stomach. Air pushed against her hair as the monster soared away from her.

The glass windows of USJ shattered as the monster flew out of the arena, fading away like a falling star as its wails echoed throughout the whole building.

Her legs trembled, blood stained her orange kimono dress as Naruto strided to the blue-haired man. The part of her stomach, where there should be flesh seemed to be torn apart like pieces of paper, and the world around Naruto seemed to be in a constant state of spinning around.

"W-What the hell are you?" The villain screamed, pushing himself back. "How can you still walk!"

The red chakra that had been cloaking Naruto diminished as the girl dragged her legs towards him. Her right hand wrapped around her stomach, drenched from her wounds as her red eyes reverted back to its original bright blue eyes.

"Because you fucking threatened to kill my comrades and teacher," she steadied her shaking body and mustered all of her anger into one single glare. Blue eyes darted to her teacher and then to her wide-eyed classmates. "You think I will let a little wound like this stop me from protecting them? You think you can terrify me or use a monster to hurt me? I fought monsters stronger than one you sent and bastard, I survived."

She always had some form of luck by her side, but no one needed to know that.

All humor faded from her smile. "And now you are next!"

She dropped her hand from her wound, chanelled her chakra into her legs and arms before lunging for the blue-haired man. Black mist erupted around the head villain, hiding away from her view as the misty man, from earlier, appeared. A portal materialized from behind them as the mist man grabbed his boss, pushing him into the portal before disappearing himself.

Good, she doesn't need to buff anymore.

Blackness clouded her vision as Naruto crashed on the ground. Screams could be heard as a pair of arms grabbed her. Pain surrounded her whole body, a reminder that even if she used the Kyuubi's energy that she was never going to become immune to pain.

It wouldn't be wrong for her to close her eyes, right?

Her classmates were safe and so was Aizawa. It would be perfectly reasonable for her to close her eyes just for a short time. She just needed to close her eyes for just ten minutes.

Just ten minutes.

What the hell was Uzumaki thinking? Shouto grabbed hold of Uzumaki's collapsed body as Midoriya, Mineta and Asui rushed towards them. She continued to fight even though there was a huge gashing wound surrounding her stomach. Did she have a death wish? He grinded his teeth together, breathing in and out to calm his emotions.

The other students dashed towards the center, half of them splitting to crowd around Aizawa and the other half charging straight towards him and Uzumaki. They hovered around with some of the students squirmed, eyes looking everywhere but the wound on Uzumaki's stomach. Shouto stared at the wounds, skimming past the minor wounds that seemed to be healing quickly and just focused on her stomach and face.

"Uzumaki!"

"Has she been fighting like this the whole time? How could she move with those wounds?"

"She has got a hole in her stomach!"

Blood coated Uzumakai's sunkissed hair, bruises decorated her face and despite the wounds his friend looked relaxed, like all of her stress was gone. He sighed, closing his eyes and darted his eyes to his various classmates. Bakugou balled his hands, jaw clenched while Kirishima rubbed his teary eyes. Ashido covered her mouth as Yaoyorozu's lips wobbled.

"I AM HERE!"

All Might crashed through the windows, eyes blazing with fury and the fury faded at the sight of the crowded students. He rushed towards them, horror shone through his eyes as the students parted into two lines. The hero loomed over Todoroki, eyes growing larger and larger as his blue turned icy cold.

"What happened to Young Uzumaki?" Their teacher whipped his head around, looking at the various unconscious villains scattered around the center.

Midoriya balled his hands into a fist. "Uzumaki became furious when she saw Aizawa-senei got injured. She went on a rampage and—"

"—Charged right in to destroy the villains that put Aizawa-sensei in this condition," Shouto straightened his back and kept his tone calm. "She sent the large villain flying out of the window, but the bastard tore through her stomach."

Even though Uzumaki had been hurt, she still smiled like there was nothing wrong with the world. How could she smile? Shouto steadied his arms, eyes focused on the whisker marks and the small smile playing on his friend's face. He brought her closer to his right side, decreasing his body temperature slightly. The girl shivered but the bleeding seemed to be slowing down, no longer like a stream but more like molten lava.

He flickered his eyes to the shattered glass window, hands trembling as his mismatch eyes focused on the bleeding wound around Uzumaki's stomach. They needed to get her to the hospital. How could she think fighting in her condition was a good idea? He took a deep breath, hand covering her stomach as Midoriya continued to explain what happened to All Might.

Shouto looked up, mismatch eyes growing wide at the sight of the growing rage pouring out of All Might's eyes. The hero clenched and unclenched his hands, eyes flickering to Aizawa's body. Their teacher must have collapsed during the attack since he wasn't by their sides, scolding Uzumaki for her reckless behavior.

Why would she do this to herself?

'When a person has someone that they truly want to protect then they can become strong.'

Aizawa-sensei was always trying to help Uzumaki out and it would be fair to think Uzumaki grew to care for their teacher. Shouto took several deep breaths, nodding while Asui knelt down, her hand placed on top of his shoulder. He blinked as blank eyes took in the huge wound on Uzumaki's wound, her lips pressed into one thin line.

"We need to make a stretcher and it won't be helpful for her if you still hug her like that, Todoroki." Shouto blinked and knitted his eyebrows at the sight of his arms cradling his friend. Asui regarded him, eyes flickering between him and Uzumaki like understanding why he seemed intent to cradle her. He didn't even know why his body did that.

He just know he didn't want her to crash down on the ground.

"Could you make two stretchers, Todoroki? We need one for Aizawa-sensei." Asui flickered her eyes to the wound on Uzumaki's stomach, bobbing her head like she realized something important. "And some ice too? Her bleeding might be slowing down because of your left side but we can't take any risks when we put her on the stretcher."

Shouto nodded, unwrapping his arms from the shorter girl and entrusted his unconscious friend to his classmate. The frog-like girl offered the tiniest glimpse of a smile before cradling the girl against her chest as if knowing just how much his friend needed gentleness.

He reached out his right hand, freezing the moisture around the air till a stretcher was formed. He swirled the water above his hand, freezing it till balls of ice formed before handing it to Asui. The girl pressed it against the wound before handing Uzumaki back to him.

She is kind of light. Shouto wrapped one arm around Uzumaki's head and the other around her legs, before putting her on the stretcher like how his mother used to put him in bed. No experience was needed to know that you don't suddenly drop an injured person onto a stretcher.

"I will help make it lighter," Uraraka declared. Shouto nodded, dropping his head down as his classmate carried the other end of the stretcher. The girl trembled, clearing her throat as tears leaked out of her eyes. "She is going to be fine, Todoroki."

'You wanna piss off your Dad? Well, I know what to do."

Blue eyes twinkled with mischief and Shouto gulped down the lump formed around his throat. He didn't know who Uraraka was trying to reassure: him? Or herself? Because how could Uzumaki be fine with the amount of damage that she took? The bleeding might have slowed down but it didn't mean she wasn't out of critical condition yet. He inhaled as bile rose up his throat.

"I can be unpredictable!"

Bright blue flashed with annoyance as pink lips curled into a pout. It was a far cry from the bleeding girl sleeping on the stretcher. Shouto clenched his jaw and forced his head to bob, mismatch eyes focused on the entrance as their classmates parted away from them. Uzumaki had to live. He tightened his grip on the handle. His friend needed to get better because it was unforgivable for her to do this.

'Todoroki and I are only friends."

Teasing, mischievous eyes flashed before his eyes as he twisted his head to see his bleeding friend. Shouto shivered, throat tightening as Uraraka's brown eyes pierced through him as understanding flashed through her eyes. Uzumaki had to be fine because if anything happened to her, then it would be his fault.

Shouto exhaled, his breaths becoming shorter and quicker as they got closer to the entrance. Several heroes ran passed them, slowing down at the sight of the injured girl on the stretcher. A few of them were saying things, but it seemed muffled. Or maybe he was drowning their words out like he did with his father. Shouto wasn't certain.

He was only certain of one thing and that was the fact that this all happened, because he got close to her. His mother always got hurt because she interfered with his training and the next person closest to him, got injured. Shouto had to have a curse on himself for every person close to him, getting hurt like this.

No, maybe everything would have been different if he just reached there on time, just a few more minutes earlier and didn't try to search for her through some of the zones. He gritted his teeth. This was his fault for not grabbing her hand before darkness surrounded them.

If he just grabbed her hand and made sure to stick by her side, then maybe this could have been prevented.

His friend wouldn't be near death's doors if he had just been quicker to catch her hands, because at least he would have been by her side. Shouto tightened his grip on the handle, shoulders slightly trembling as they walked passed the USJ main entrance and into the light.

He couldn't lose his first friend.

A/N: What do you think of the relationship of Naruto and Todoroki in this story? Is the pace better? Or do you think that I should slow it down.