Rule 22: Never, ever bother Sensei in interrogation
"If all the Pro Heroes are gathered here then that must mean the main campus is safe. The villains attacked this facility but not the rest of the campus" Todoroki summarised as Toru dropped the bloody pipe to the ground where it landed with a clang.
A worried Kirishima sprinted over to Midoriya to help him in any sort of way that he could but was quickly stopped by Cementoss who told him to leave the injured to the teachers and return with his classmates back to the entrance of the facility.
I hope they'll be okay. Toru thought with a backwards glance at Midoriya who lay on the ground amongst broken limbs and a clearly exhausted All Might who was hidden beneath layers of smoke and earth. Before she turned on her heel and followed after the trio of boys as they rejoined the rest of the class outside the front of the USJ facility.
Just as the interior of the USJ facility had calmed down, the exterior was now a myriad of chaos. Sirens wailed and cops ran to and fro trying to corner off the entire property least any evidence escaped their notice.
Currently, Toru stood next to Oijiro as Detective Tsukauchi took the roll. "…16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Everyone seems to be unharmed except for that boy whose legs were all messed up" He mused double-checking the roll in his hand as the class dissolved into little groups of conversation.
"Oijiro, I heard you did really well" Toru placed a hand of the blonde's shoulder as she spoke, "I had no idea you were so strong!"
"I didn't know I was the only one of my own. I survived by using hit and run tactics" Oijiro replied bashfully "So where did you end up?"
"The landslide zone. You wouldn't believe how strong Todoroki was! He was amazing!"
"You don't say, well, I'm just glad you're okay"
"Aren't you wondering about moi? Where was my sparkling light?" Aoyama spun around to face the group to his left who ignored his usual antics.
"…Interesting, so the people you fought were also low level thugs" Commented Tokoyami.
"Yeah! They messed with the wrong kids, huh?" Kirishima punched his own hand.
"Did you miss me?" Aoyama then turned the trio on his right who ignored him as well.
"So All Might put that hole in the dome after all. Figured" Sero huffed hands on hips.
"That was some hardcore power" Said Sato.
"Yeah, it was crazy" Agreed Shoji.
"Where do you think I was?" Aoyama asked Asui, finally confronting one of his classmates so they had to answer.
"Um where, ribbit?" Asui played along.
"It's a secret!"
"Detective" Asui hopped over to Tsukauchi when he came back over, "What about Aizawa-Sensei, ribbit?"
"…The bones in his arms are splintered and he's got facial fracturing. Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any serious brain damage, but his orbital rim has been almost completely destroyed. We have no way of knowing if his eyesight will be impaired once he's healed up" Replied the doctor on the other end of Tsukauchi's phone. Apparently he had heard Asui's question when the detective had moved closer to the class.
"Well you heard the man" Tsukauchi said, ending the call.
"Ribbit" Asui choked.
"Um sir? What about 13?" Ashido came forth with Jiro and Yaoyorozu at her side.
"There's no need to worry there; despite some pretty bad lacerations to the back, 13 is gonna pull through. Good as new"
"Phew!"
"And All Might is also without serious injuries, in fact he's in the nurses' office right now. Recovery Girl's power should be all the treatment he needs"
"What about Deku?" Ochako piped up.
"What about Midoriya?" Iida translated.
"Midori-? Ah, Recovery Girl is taking care of him too. He'll be fine"
"Oh thank goodness!" Ochako breathed.
"Now, let's get you back to class"
"Okay" chorused 1-A.
Just as Toru was about to join the rest of her classmates getting back on the bus, Tsukauchi had returned and stopped her with a hand on her shoulder. "Sir?" She asked turning to face him.
"Hagakure Toru?" He questioned.
"Yessir"
"I need you to come with me" She let him lead her away from the bus' doorway so that the rest of the class could board.
"Sir?"
"I just need to ask you a few questions"
"…Okay" She spared a glance back the bus, "But can I get changed first?"
"Come on, this way" Tsukauchi led the way to the nurses' office once they were back at UA and Toru had had time to change back into her school uniform. Nervousness twirled in her gut and obsessive thoughts swirled in her mind as she followed quietly after the tall man. Am I trouble? Is this about the Nomu? Oh God! Can someone just tell me what's going on! I feel like I'm gonna explode!
When the pair finally reached the nurses' office, Tsukauchi knocked twice on the door before sliding it open to reveal the two patients and Recovery Girl inside. He motioned for Toru to wait outside while he headed in. Whether intentional or not, he left the door open ajar, just enough for the voices within to flow out into the hall.
"Excuse me, hi, it's been a while" Tsukauchi greeted walking in through the door.
"What the hell? I didn't know that you were investigating" All Might spat out in surprise.
"Whoa! It's okay for him to see you like this?" Midoriya panicked, bolting upright in his bed.
"Oh yeah, it's fine. This guy's alright: Tsukauchi Naomasa my best friend on the police force. He's legit, I trust him"
"Haha, that's quite the introduction" Tsukauchi huffed a laugh as he came to stop next to All Might's bedside "Sorry to cut to the chase, but we could really use any information you might have"
"Hold on! Before all that! Tell me all the students are okay and Aizawa-er, Eraserhead and 13"
"Not counting this boy, the only student injuries were a couple of scrapes and both of the teachers are in stable conditions right now. Relax"
"Phew!" Sighed Midoriya.
"That's good to hear" Added All Might.
"…If you heroes hadn't risked your lives, the students would never had made it. You three saved that entire class of kids today" Tsukauchi continued.
"You're not seeing the whole picture Tsukauchi; those students also risked their lives, they fought as hard as us"
"Thank you" Midoriya whispered.
"I don't think there's ever been a group of first years who experience a real fight kid this so early in their training. They not only survived, they learned what it means to be a Pro. Those villains made a mistake attacking them; this class is strong. They're filled with courage and drive. Mark my words, they'll become great heroes"
Tsukauchi nodded in agreement before turning back to the door where Toru still waited, "Speaking of, come in Hagakure"
"W-What?" Midoriya yelped as All Might hurriedly tried to slide down as far under the covers as he could go (though it wasn't very far) in order to hide from the girl.
Toru quietly skirted around the detective and along the back wall before coming to stand in the between the end of the two beds. She remained staring at her feet with her hands scrunching up her skirt as she bit her lip in nervousness.
"Hagakure, wait here, we're just waiting on one more" Tsukauchi ordered, "I'm gonna go see if I can find him"
"Yessir" Toru nodded as she scrunched and unscrunched her hands as they gripped onto her skirt and she shifted back and forth on her feet. You could practically feel the nerves rolling off of her in waves.
"…Hagakure?" Midoriya spoke up after a while, breaking through the silence that had blanketed the room.
"Yes?" Toru's head snapped up, her gaze landing on the two patients before her. To her left lay a heavily bandaged blonde and to her right… "Midoriya?"
"What are you doing here?" Midoriya asked.
"Um, I dunno" Toru shifted nervously as she glanced towards the door, "Detective Tsukauchi just said he needed to ask me a few questions…"
"Oh…"
"Yeah…"
Toru's eyes drifted back over to the equally nervous blonde hidden unsuccessfully hidden beneath the white bedsheets. While the man's feet hung out the end of the bed, the two antenna-like pieces of fringe poked out from the top of the bedsheet and two beady eyes followed her every move. It almost looked like…But it couldn't be, could it?
"Hey Midoriya…" Toru distractedly started as she tried to analyse the man in front of her, much to their dismay.
"Uh, y-yeah?" Midoriya stuttered, very much afraid of what she was about to ask.
"Are you a masochist?"
"W-what?" That was not what he had been expecting. Next to him, All Might stifled a laugh.
"it's just that you're always hurting yourself"
"It's not intentional! I swear!"
"I guess…Hey, what happened to All Might-Sensei?" And suddenly the stifled laughs were cut off.
"W-What do you mean? How would I know? Hehe"
"Are you kidding? He looks like someone deflated him!" Toru pointed to the blonde, now certain it was the man in question.
"T-That's not All Might! You must have him confused with someone else!"
"Does that mean he's a blow-up doll then?" Toru smirked, a tease in her tone, "Is he yours?"
"I am not!" All Might bolted upright at the insinuation and ultimately giving away his identity. Something which seemed to occur to him as he slumped over in defeat with pink-tinted cheeks.
"How did you even know, Hagakure?" Midoriya asked.
Toru giggled at Midoriya and All Might's matching looks of embarrassment before she answered. "With all due respect, I'm invisible not blind. Besides look at him! A stiff breeze could blow him over! It's actually kinda funny if you think about it!"
"Oh really?" Interjected a third voice.
"Eep! Karasuma-Sensei!" Toru squeaked when she recognised the voice. Her eyes blew wide and all teasing left her tone as she spun on her heel to face the familiar brunette accompanying Tsukauchi in the doorway. "I-I didn't know you were in town" Her voice seemed high-pitched even to her own ears and she winced at the obvious tone.
"I wasn't" Karasuma stated with arms crossed.
"Oh" Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! I'm in so much trouble!
"Sit"
"Yessir" Toru immediately plopped herself down on the end of Midoriya's bed with her skirt once again clutched in her fists and her head bowed as she tried to contain her panic.
"Right, now that we're all here let's get started" Tsukauchi stated, "Karasuma?"
"Right" Karasuma nodded, pulling out a clipboard with a series of papers that he held out to Toru, "Hagakure, you need to fill these out as much as you can. Don't skip anything"
"Yessir" Toru carefully took the papers from him with slightly shaky hands before she set to work.
"Hold on, whose he?" All Might interjected eyeing the brunette before him when he noticed the sudden change in his student.
"Ah right, this is Karasuma Tadaomi, he's one of the government agents that worked on the Kunugigaoka Junior High case last year" Tsukauchi introduced with a smile.
"Kunugigaoka huh? That's the one in Tokyo right? The one that shut down?"
"Yes, that's right" Nodded Karasuma.
"But what's that got to do with Hagakure?" Midoriya questioned.
"I was a student there" Toru replied absentmindedly as she finished the forms before flipping the page and beginning her assessment of the Nomu and its possible relation to Koro-Sensei, Shiro and his other experiments.
"Oh…hey wait! That's the brain guy, the uh…Nomu!" Midoriya looked over her shoulder at the page in her hands.
"Uh huh" She paused in her writings as a thought popped into mind. "Ah Sensei?"
"Yes?" Karasuma looked over.
"Do you know…if the other Nomu was still there?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well…when I pierced its heart, I used a burning metal pipe instead of any Anti-Sensei weapons. So if I'm right, then it's probably still alive. I mean with its regenerative capabilities it has to be"
"…And you're certain about this?" Tsukauchi interjected as Toru handed back the filled-in forms.
"I can honestly say is that the similarities between them were terrifying. I mean with the regenerative abilities and the speed amongst other things. And granted, it wasn't as fast as Koro-Sensei, but still…"
"Thanks, we'll look into that" Tsukauchi dug around in the pocket of his overcoat as he searched for something hidden within. "…Another thing, this was found with one of the captured thugs" Out of his pocket he pulled out the object in question and showed it to her "…Do you know anything about it?"
"My ID! You found it!" Toru cheered in relief as Tsukauchi handed it to her.
"Can you tell me how one of the villains was able to get a hold of your ID?"
"Uh…" Toru felt very sheepish.
"You're not in trouble, we just need to know" All Might added.
"Uh…a couple of us jumped the wall this morning so we didn't have to force our way through the mob of media at the gates" Toru explained, "I guess I must've dropped it then… I only found out it was missing during lunch"
"Is that it? Are you sure?" Tsukauchi repeated.
"Uh huh" Toru nodded as Karasuma looked over her information.
"You said here, you were in the bathroom long enough for the alarm to go off?" He questioned.
"Uh huh"
"And what were you doing in there that took so long?" He raised an eyebrow in her direction.
"Ah-hm…girl things" She mumbled, her cheeks tinging pink in embarrassment as she ducked her head, unable to meet the eye of any of the males in the room.
"That still doesn't explain why you were in there for so long"
"…"
"Hagakure…!"
"Fine! I got my period! Happy?" Toru snapped, glaring up at the pink-tinged cheeks of the men in front of her.
"R-Right"
"Your period?" Midoriya piped up confused, "Why would you have a period during lunch? Isn't that a mandatory break?"
"Seriously?" Toru looked over at the genuine confusion written across Midoriya's face, "You really don't know?"
"What?"
"Oh sweetie" Toru practically cooed as Recovery Girl grinned to herself in the corner and every other male in the room suddenly turned either very quiet or very flustered. How is bleeding for a week more uncomfortable than possibly working alongside villains? Ones that destroyed a top-notch facility and gravely injured two of our Senseis? Tch, men.
We had no way of knowing, but the League of Villains attack on the USJ was just the beginning. A bigger incident was on the horizon. We were just happy to be alive; to have shown that we had the potential to be real heroes, but the worst was yet to come…
