His massive nosebleed that took an hour to stop when the day ended made Toru fret over him the entire time, despite him assuring her with sign language when he wasn't trying to hold a tissue to his nose that the bleeding was because of the overuse of his quirk and he wasn't actually in any pain. He'd probably have a headache in the morning though.
They actually had to make dinner this time, which Bakugo very quickly jumped in to take over because apparently everyone else was completely useless. Except for Toru who was allowed to stay if she did the cutting, and Mashirao, who was allowed to stir. Hitoshi wasn't sure if that was allowing or forcing, but who was he to decide.
Momo wandered back from her training late, finding dinner about halfway done.
"Wow I'm hungry enough to eat a raw boar," Momo said in an uncharacteristic complaint as she leaned against a pillar near Hitoshi.
Hitoshi noted, with much amusement, that Bakugo had moved the raw meat a good foot farther away from Momo than it had been before as she spoke.
"On the plus side," she added, apparently not noticing Bakugo's preventative measures against her eating the raw meat he was probably going to use later. "The bruising is disappearing. Except my arms have more hairline fractures so I'll be slightly limited on further training."
That was inconvenient. How had it happened anyway? He signed that to her.
She shrugged. "I guess it's a side effect of that specific bit of my quirk. It's stupid but oh well. I guess the bruising may be the quirk forcing it to stay bruised because of the power being stored up."
She looked tired, or maybe angry, although probably not at Hitoshi. Her shoulders were slumped and she was staring blankly at her hands.
"But it's fine," she added, pulling on her sleeves to cover her hands. "It's fine."
Hitoshi doubted that, but he wasn't sure what to do, so he just patted her back awkwardly. She smiled at him, then turned back to watching Bakugo, who was very aggressively chopping vegetables.
"It's fine," she murmured, probably to herself.
Despite actually going to camp, those who hadn't passed in some way were staying behind on some sort of activity with class B. Hitoshi marked himself down as glad he passed, and moved on.
Until they were told what the activity was. They'd enter the area in pairs and class B would attempt to scare them along their way. Hitoshi had the sudden impression he was not going to like this very much. Not much at all.
Momo was set to go in with Hitoshi, as the sixth pair of students to enter the forest.
Dark smoke started rising from the forest, and Momo glanced at the heroes standing nearby. They looked alarmed, which meant this couldn't be planned.
"Momo," Izuku said urgently, drawing her attention. "Can you give me one of those quirk messing crystals? I know where Kota is and need to make sure he's safe. And some knives maybe?"
Momo, who'd been somewhat working on trying to incorporate the crystals into other creations, concentrated for a moment, then handed him two knives, both from a sturdy knife template she'd memorized some time ago. One with a red hot crystal blade and the other with the quirk messing crystal as the handle. She gave them both to Izuku. "Be careful with the red blade or it will kill you."
"I remember what it does," Izuku replied dryly, holding them carefully. "Thanks."
He turned and ran, and Momo returned her attention to the forest. They had to head in.
"Hitoshi, let's go in," Momo urged, pulling up her shirt and creating a stack of gas masks. She placed one on her face, then handed one to Hitoshi. "Just in case."
He nodded, attaching it firmly.
Momo ran into the forest, handing the stack to him and creating another one as she ran. To be safe they'd hand them out to anyone. It'd keep anyone from dying of smoke inhalation from the fire. Just in case.
They came across a few people, passing out the gas masks as they went, and found a reddish fog. Maybe the gas masks would be good for more then one reason.
Momo pulled another few from her stomach, running into the fog after a moment more of hesitation.
She came across Kendo and Tetsutetsu quickly, carrying someone else between them. She handed them each a mask, smiling encouragingly even behind the mask. "Get back to the building, the teachers are there!" She shouted, hopefully enough to be heard over everything. "They'll protect you!"
"There's more student in the forest and it'll go faster if we help," Kendo shouted back. "I'm the class president I can't leave my classmates to die!"
Hitoshi found the villain while Momo was talking to the others. Some weird guy in a weirder gas mask. Hitoshi hoped his quirk worked through the mask. He borrowed Ojiro's voice patterns for it. He didn't recognize the villain but he didn't trust them enough to try and use his own voice. It was easier with someone else's voice patterns. He felt safer.
"Why're you out here?"
He didn't spring his quirk immedietly after the villain answered, curious as to the answer.
"We're looking for Bakugo Katsuki and Shinso Hitoshi," the villain answered, presumably grinning. It sounded like he was. Hitoshi sprang his quirk, capturing the villain.
Momo'd lost Hitoshi. She had to find him. He could manage on his own probably, but she didn't want to take any chances. She'd like to find Toru and Mashirao too, but they would've stuck together, and she needed to find Hitoshi so no one was on their own. And hopefully find more students while she was at it.
She did find Hitoshi, but not in time.
(A/N) Yes I'm evil, yes the shifting perspectives was intended to throw you off a bit, not sure I managed to pull it off? Oh well. See you in a week and a half! I'll even give you the date. September 21st. Mark it.