Title: 逃げる手 - The Hand That Bleeds
Rating: T
Summary: "I don't want to be a Hero. I want to be a Healer. My Quirk is made for healing, like my mom's, not fighting so I train to fight like a Hero to be a Healer. I want to help others to the best of my abilities." Hisoka Matsushita, raised by her mother and who never knew her father, never could quite understand where the path she would eventually take would lead her to.
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Chapter 25
To Survival Practice and Strange Feelings
Location: Class 1-A, U.A. High School, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: June 2, 20XX
Tsuyu had always kept watch over the things she considered precious - from the things she loved to her family and to her friends - and always wanted to make sure that they were safe. Even if they were able to take care of themselves, she thought it was nice for someone to keep an extra eye out for her just as she did for everyone else. She considered everyone in her class under the precious category. Even if they weren't exactly friends but merely people who shared the same class, she liked to be sure that they were doing well both mentally and psychically. She watched and kept track of things, making mental notes on what to do or what to say when needed. She was good at that.
And one of them she kept an eye on was - since that first meeting it seemed, now that she thought about it - the one who had saved her from that giant robot and then again from the Villain, the one who had quickly become her best friend, and the one whose smile made her feel all warm inside. Hisoka.
When she had been in middle school, between taking care of her siblings and Hero training, which took up even more of her time, she never had been able to make any friends. It had not been until a girl had begun to stalk her. Habuko Mongoose had been her name, a girl with a snake's head, bright red fluffy hair, and a Paralyzing Quirk she had gotten stuck in a few times. She was always alone too.
They had become quick friends.
Though she had been sad that they were not able to go to the same school, she was always happy to receive her calls and texts. The picture Habuko had texted her of the girl who had such a similar hairstyle towards her snakey friend had made her so happy. Happy that she was quickly able to make friends. Happy to see her friend happy. Happy that she had made friends of her own.
Yet the feeling she had gotten when she made friends with Habuko and then with Hisoka had been different for her. While she knew her and Habuko would always be friends, she felt that something had changed with her and Hisoka - no matter how short of a time she had known her - and it felt like it had been a good change.
Yet Hisoka changed from that week of internship. Fumikage noticed (how could he not when they were always together?) and so did her more observant classmates. Not much had been said but little actions could speak many words - like Fumi staying extra close, never really straying from Hisoka's side or the minuscule motions she made when people reached out towards her or the strange, distant gaze she always seemed to have nowadays.
Like some sort of madness had gripped her heart in an everlasting hold.
Something had happened, and it had something to do with Stain and her mother. Tsuyu could guess from what little she had been told from Fumi and the context from just observing her.
She was worried.
She wished she knew more.
She understood that some secrets would stay secrets.
She hoped she could relieve that sorrow - that fright - madness from deep within - from Hisoka sometime.
She would help in any way she could.
That was a promise Tsuyu would keep, no matter what.
Black eyes turned from looking over her shoulder at the said girl her thoughts were on as she talked with her childhood friend towards the front of the class when the door suddenly slid open, revealing their homeroom teacher entering with four other foreign students. They were dressed in blue jackets with white shirts and red ties and grey pants and skirts, school uniforms.
Tsuyu tilted her head, glancing at them.
Visitors?
Well, that was new.
The teacher stood behind the podium while the guests lined up beside him. "It's a little sudden, but for our next Hero Exercise," Aizawa-sensei began briefing his class, gesturing to his side, "Four Hero-Class students from Isami High School will be joining us as special guests."
The class began to murmur excitedly, becoming giddy at the notion of sharing a class activity with a new group of students. Tsuyu sighed - she was sure she could hear Mineta audibly drooling over the female students. Kaminari had tried to ask the girls for their phone numbers but Jiro had taken care of that, sneakily plunging one of her ear jacks into his own ear. Some of her classmates laughed at the scene as the grumbling blond-haired male walked back to his seat, rubbing his ears. It was only when Aizawa-sensei growled in agitation did they immediately grow silent and sit back in their seats. He then turned to the visitors and told them to introduce themselves.
"Of course." The first to step forward was a female student with silver hair and upper half-moon glasses. She clasped her hands together, giving the class a gentle smile. "We'll be running the exercise with you today. Isami High School, Hero Class. My name is Kashiko Sekigai. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"I-I'm in the same class," the student on the far left piped up, nervously wiping the sweat from his brow. "I'm... Dadan Tadan. It's very nice to meet you..." He shuffled forward awkwardly, lowering his head in a polite bow.
The third student with pale blue hair had his hands shoved deep in his pockets, his expression locked in a deep scowl. "I'm Fujimi," he grumbled, averting the class' gaze.
Tsuyu was strongly reminded of a certain explosive boy from the look on the boy's face. The look the two were giving each other wasn't helping much either.
"We're supposed to have one more," Aizawa-sensei prodded, turning his head as the class looked with him to the fourth student that had been nervously hiding behind Sekigai's back. They pried themselves away from her, revealing a female student with a serpent-like head and a huge set of hair.
Hisoka had blinked in surprise when Tsuyu had shot up suddenly from her desk, the sound of her chair scraping across the floor. The two girls merely stared at each other, their eyes widening in surprise. Before she realized it, Tsuyu had run towards the tall girl, wrapping each other in a tight hug.
The Isami student let out a squeal of delight, "Tsuyu-chan!"
"Habuko-chan!"
Was this the one Tsuyu had talked about? She surely looked like the picture the frog girl had shown her before - when Hisoka had asked what the text was about one lunch. Hisoka frowned at the hug and the small pang she gained in her chest from watching the scene.
Why had she felt that and just what had it meant?
Location: Girl's Changing Room, U.A. High School, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: June 2, 20XX
"I knew it! So, you guys knew each other since middle school!" Uraraka-san enthused, grinning as she put on her cuff before looking over at Tsuyu and Mangoose-san. Hisoka glanced over at the two holding hands as she slipped the bandages around her arms.
"Yes, we were very good friends," Tsuyu responded in a cheery voice. "Almost inseparable back then!"
"It's nice that you were able to meet up by chance like this!"
"Ney ney, Habuko-chan! There's someone I want you to meet!" She led the girl over - she wore a blue bodysuit with features that resembled a snake and high heels that only added to her height.
So tall...
Hisoka had to look up to meet her eyes, blinking when a long and thin pink tongue stuck out and a soft hiss was heard.
"Hisoka this is Habuko-chan," Tsuyu said, eyes shining. "Habuko-chan, this is Hisoka, the one I told you about!"
Hisoka stood, greeting Mangoose-san. "Hello." She tilted her head when the other said nothing only to blink owlishly when she was hugged out of nowhere.
"You were right, Tsuyu-chan! She's so cute!" Mangoose-san squealed, holding her close.
Brown eyes looked over at the said girl, not sure what to do except to awkwardly pat the red-haired girl's back. She was answered with a smile so Hisoka just let the Isami High School student continue hugging her. Hisoka liked that smile. She hoped she could see it more.
"Can I call you Hisoka-chan?" Hisoka nodded slowly when asked. "Then you can call me Habuko-chan!"
Hisoka mumbled, "Habuko-chan..."
"Now we're friends," Mang... Habuko-chan exclaimed, eyes crinkling as she grinned, revealing bits of some rather sharp-looking fangs among human-like teeth. It reminded her a lot of Fumi's.
"Un."
Yaoyorozu-san shot a wayward glance over towards the other Isami student, Sekigai-san. "So, you're the class president back at your school, Sekigai-san?"
She nodded slowly, a slight crease forming in her brow. "That's right. But, it's a pretty stressful job..." She let out a nervous chuckle. "...because of a certain problem child..."
Yaoyorozu-san slumped her shoulders. "Ah... if that's the case, then we've also got the same issue here..."
"HUH?! WHY DON'T YOU SAY THAT AGAIN, YOU ISAMISHIT?!"
"I DON'T LIKE YOU, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING!"
"THE HELL WAS THAT?! YOU WANNA FIGHT?!"
The girls inside the locker room exchanged looks, letting out a collective sigh as the cries traversed across the walls.
Hisoka watched the two friends talk with one another animatedly as they rejoined the males, and everyone gathered on the bus - Hisoka chose to sit with Fumi, taking the window seat as they talked with one another quietly.
Location: Front Gate, Outskirts of Ground Omega, North Side of U.A. High School Campus, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: June 2, 20XX
"Alright, is everyone here?" Aizawa-sensei shot a quick glance over to the group of students before him, all gathered outside at Ground Omega - a vast and very dense forest. "I'm assuming you all are, so let's get this started. I will observe today's Hero Exercise along with one other person. Although, I'm pretty sure you already know who it is..."
"I HAAAAVE..." Hisoka had to cover her eyes with her hand to shade them from the sudden intense bright sunlight as a figure was hurtling through the air at a tremendous speed. "Like a special guest - ARRIVED!" The body plummeted towards the ground, making a forceful landing, and leaving a cloud of dust in its wake.
Ah...
"A-All Might!" Fujimi-san cried out, the excitment clear in his voice.
Sekigai-san attempted to conceal her gasp. "In the flesh..."
"Such power!"
"I'm so jealous of U.A!"
Hisoka couldn't help but beam inwardly as the four Isami students reveling in awe at the Hero before them. It was the same everywhere. He was the Number One Hero, after all.
All Might's voice boomed, "About today's training exercise, we're going to have you all go through some Survival Training!" Seeing the confusion of some of the students' faces, All Might cleared his throat, clicking a small device in his hand to bring up a holographic projection. "Let me explain! With four students on each team and six teams overall, you will begin at the predetermined positions that we have chosen! And there is but one objective... to survive! To run or to fight, anything goes. Victory will go to the last surviving team!"
"Also," Aizawa added, holding up a roll of white tape. "This should be a familiar item - Capture Tape. If you run into another team and manage to bind your opponents with this Capture Tape that we will be providing you with, you can make them combat ineffective. Depending on what strategy you use, this may be to your advantage."
"Now, pay attention! Let us announce the teams!"
Tsuyu was on Team A while Fumi had been placed on Team D. Brown orbs flickered over towards her side, the tailed blonde flashing her cheerful grin. Hisoka was actually happy with her team - Team C with Todoroki-san, Hagakure-san, and Ojiro-san. She glanced as Fumi moved away from her, their eyes connecting before he shifted towards Iida-san while she moved to Todoroki-san's side.
"Hello," Hisoka greeted him. "I'll be in your care."
Todoroki-san nodded, "Likewise."
The invisible girl waved at the two of them from the distance, eagerly bounding over to her side. "Oh my god! Hiso-chan I'm so happy to be on a team with you! This is the first time ever!" Hagakure-san exclaimed, shoes jumping up and down excitedly as blue gloves waved back and forth.
"I have to agree, your Quirk is rather perfect for survival situations," Ojiro-san agreed, following her.
"Un..." She shrugged her shoulders.
"With the four of us working together, I am sure we have a good chance of winning this," Todoroki-san stated, observing each of them.
Hisoka was sure too. They did have a good formation covering many cases with each of their Quirks. That as if they used them to their advantage.
"All teams move to your starting areas," the Pro Hero commanded, scratching the scar on his cheek.
Location: Ground Omega, North Side of U.A. High School Campus, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: June 2, 20XX
"Aizawa-sensei said that we'd have about five minutes or so to prep before we can start moving, right?" Hagakure-san asked, crouching down in the secluded area of the forest they'd been assigned. "What do you think we should do?"
"Maybe waiting it out would be best," Ojiro-san proposed. "We could see if the other teams make a move before doing anything else."
"That would be best," Todoroki-san agreed. "We don't have the people who can spot the other teams easily. There's a good chance we would be spotted by another team and most likely will have to fight them. Even if we're lucky enough and are able to form a temporary alliance, we would have to reveal our location."
"True," Hisoka said, a thoughtful look on her face, "we might not survive if we have multiple teams attacking us."
Hagakure-san sighed, "Then what should we do?"
"We survive," Hisoka answered. "We shouldn't move recklessly. We keep an eye and ear out to our surroundings and keep on our toes. Use everything in our environment to our advantage such as using the foliage as a cover or keeping to the trees and having a bird-eye's view. Besides, sensei's most likely trying to test our self-control and patience."
"Really?"
Hisoka nodded when suddenly they heard explosions nearby.
"But not everyone's like that, it seems," Todoroki-san mumbled, looking to their left; to that, they could all agree as they all had one person in mind. They stayed put until they had heard more explosions near them that were too close for comfort. Exchanging glances, they nodded before standing and made their way away from the noises.
"Ah..." Hisoka perked up when she distinctly heard a familiar screech. Poor Kuro... She'd make some treats later tonight for him.
"What is it?" Ojiro-san questioned, running on her right with Todoroki-san and Hagakure-san behind them.
"Nothing," she said before she stopped, looking upward eyes widening. "Guys! Move it!"
Hagakure-san's gloves flared around. "Eh?! Why?!"
"Missiles," Todoroki noted calmly, looking up at the sky where a multitude of objects appeared to be hurtling through the air.
They ran faster, moving to a safe location when they heard the impact of the missiles; the ringing from the explosions caused them to stop and cover their ears.
"That was so loud!" Hagakure-san whined, rubbing her ears.
Hisoka scowled at the slight pitched noise ringing in her eardrum. The Isami Students were making their move, she was sure of it. It was moments later when an unfamiliar, rose-colored smoke traveled across the ground.
"What is that?!"
"I don't know but we should get away and head to high ground."
Better to be safe than sorry.
They looked at one another and made their way to the cliff where they had come across Midoriya-san and his team on a higher cliff. She was happy to see that each of them was fine.
"Todoroki," Midoriya-san exclaimed, running.
"Midoriya," the said boy greeted. "Now isn't the time to fight!"
"Yeah!"
"Do you know what that gas is?"
"It's probably the Quirk of one of the Isami students. I don't know what it does but-" He stopped, something catching his eye in the forest's line below.
"What's wrong, Deku?" Uraraka-san asked, her and the others stopping to see what he was looking at. Hisoka and her team made it to their side to see what everyone was looking at.
"Someone's coming."
"Did they run from the gas too?" Tsuyu wondered, staring with wide eyes, side glancing at Hisoka. She offered a small smile and Hisoka gave one in return.
Uraraka-san called out, waving her arm, "Over here!"
They waited. And then, they saw it.
The silhouettes slowly pulled out from the canopy blanket of the forest. One by one, they steadily emerged. Among the figures of their classmates and the Isami students, they saw such a vile sight they might never be able to erase from their memory. With skin as white as a sheet and sunken-in cheeks, she saw her classmates - Oh god, Fumi! - wobbling stupidly across the terrain. Their mouths hung fully open and expression so lifeless as they collided dully with one another. They appeared to be blissfully unaware of their surroundings as their movements were like a robot, so sluggish and broken.
She frowned, muttering under her breath, "What... what the actual fuck?!"
"Z-ZOMBIES?!"
"Habuko-chan..." Tsuyu gripped her hand tightly, saddened at the sight.
"Everyone..."
"It's because of that gas! They've been zombified completely!" They watched the zombified teens use their Quirks sluggishly, shifting around as they went 'Ahhh!' with wide mouths and made funny movements - like Iida-san running literally head first into a tree.
A loud voice suddenly crackled behind them. Among all the chaos, no one had taken notice that Fujimi-san had worked his way up onto the plateau. Fujimi had a triumphant grin plastered on his face. "What do you think of my Quirk, huh? It seems like U.A isn't-AH! OHHO MAH GAAWD!"
"Ah..."
Heh...
Hisoka watched in delight as the boy's celebratory speech was cut short as he was bitten forceful on the neck by a particular blonde.
"K-Kac-chan!" Izuku spluttered, sweat dropping. "He's still fighting even as a zombie..."
Well, he was a zombie too. Looked like its user was also affected by his own Quirk. It was like one of those movies. If you get bit, you get turned into one, too! It had not been long before the remainder of the pale, lifeless bodies had begun to trickle up the hill, effectively cornering everyone on top of the plateau.
Tsuyu gave Hisoka a reassuring squeeze, unknowingly pulling the girl closer than before.
Todoroki-san stood between them and the group on incoming zombies. "If the Quirk user himself is down, then it doesn't really seem like we have a way of reversing this. Then, if that's the case, I'll have to take care of this...!" Slamming his right foot down on the ground, releasing a thick coat of ice towards the zombies, encasing them in cool, jagged ice crystals and effectively freezing them in place.
Then they broke out.
Well, shit.
And Fumi bit Hagakure-san too... Both she and Ojiro were turned into zombies, lifeless bodies staggering slowly towards them. So, they ran, rushing down the declining slope of the hill, everyone following behind him.
Then Tsuyu tripped - "Tsuyu!" "Go on without me!" - and some touching scene happened with... Habuko-chan but that only made her a target and got bitten from behind, effectively ruining the moment.
Hisoka took out her blade, shifting her body into an attack pose as she told them to go just as a booming laugh was heard. Yet when something came crashing down, a skinny, weak-looking guy spitting blood waved at them. "I have arrived!"
The girls screeched, grabbing Midoriya-san as they ran away with Todoroki-san, just as she was grabbed from behind, and someone bit her arm.
"Ah..."
Hisoka waited.
Yet nothing happened.
A few other zombies tried to bite her, yet the same results happened, so they decided to move on. Hisoka frowned, rubbing her upper arm. What the hell just happened?
Why had she not turned?
Eyes narrowing, she decided as she grabbed the back of Fumi's outfit before he could leave and turned him around, gripping the front of his cloak tightly. She gave him a dark look, hissing, "You think you can leave after biting me... Well, think again birdbrain!"
Sweat began to trickle down zombie Fumi's brow, pitiful moans escaping from his beak.
When the stranger had moved to get away, zombies moved pass him - one of them patting his shoulder, making him mope - when he caught red eyes glaring at him. He froze on the spot, sweating up a storm. The red slowly receded back to brown yet they stayed on him.
Blond hair... The same suit as All Might... Hisoka blinked, frowning a bit as a fuzzed memory from the Sports Festival was brought forward. He was the same blond when they had burst into the infirmary that one time. It suddenly clicked.
Huh.
Whatever.
She turned her attention when Fumi struggled in her grip to get away. Glaring, she cut her finger and shoved a bloody finger in his mouth. Within a few moments, the whiteness and sickly-look he had were reversed to a dazed Fumi staring at her with wide eyes. Well then, it looked like she was able to do more than she thought. That was good. (She would have to look more into this...)
"Hi-Hisoka...?" Fumi mumbled, blinking slowly when he frowned. Hisoka released him with a scowl.
"You're an idiot."
"Eh?"
"You bit me."
Red eyes stared at her in shock. "What?!"
"You were turned into a zombie."
"Seriously?!"
"Yup."
"I don't remember anything after inhaling that pink gas..."
"Idiot."
"Sorry..."
"It's fine. Just don't do it again," she said with a bright smile. Fumi looked away, turning to hide his paling face.
Location: Front Entrance of U.A. High School, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: June 2, 20XX
It had turned out that her Quirk had been more useful than she had thought previously, negating the effects of Fujimi-san's own Quirk. She and Fumi had come upon the rest of their class when said students had been launched into the air from some last-ditch plan Midoriya-san and Todoroki-san made up in an attempt to save themselves (just when the class had even turned back to normal too). They had been relatively thankful when Hisoka had moved to heal them. Coming upon the Isami High School students she had started with Habuko-chan upon Tsuyu's request. They had been surprised with it - Sekigai-san had asked her a few questions about it after her amusing reaction of a finger being forced into her mouth. They had also made her not heal Fujimi-san when it was his turn. She just shrugged and moved on even when he protested.
She had been surprised when she had found herself awoken - when they had gotten back to the main building - to resting her head on Tsuyu's shoulder. She had thought she had sat with Fumi... Remembering it made her cheeks heat up and her heart beat faster.
Now, she watched as her classmates said their goodbyes with the Isami students - they would have been worse off if she had not been there. She could see it now - bandaged all up like mummies. Heh. She turned, only to frown a bit, upon seeing Tsuyu and Habuko-chan clasping each other's hands.
Tsuyu smiled. "Habuko-chan, I'm so glad I got to meet you again!"
"Me too, Tsuyu-chan!" Habuko-chan returned one back.
"We got turned into zombies..."
"And got hurt..."
"But it was really fun!"
"I'm so happy we could be together." They embraced each other, making Hisoka's frown deepen.
Why?
This made no sense. What was happening to her?
"Habuko-chan, let's both work hard and become great Pro Heroes!"
"Yes, absolutely!"
She shook her head; blinking when she was suddenly pulled into a hug by Habuko who muttered in her ear, "Thank you for watching out for Tsuyu-chan, Hisoka-chan! You don't how happy I am to see her so happy and for you to be her friend. I hope we can be good friends too!" She pulled back with a grin - and exchanged numbers with her - and after another hug with Tsuyu she moved to follow her classmates, waving at them.
She called out, "Bye!"
"Bye, Habuko-chan!" Tsuyu shouted back, waving at her.
Hisoka waved as well, tilting her head in confusion when she heard the snake-headed girl shout, "Good luck you two!"
Huh?
She looked at Tsuyu for an explanation who could only offer a shrug. Both pairs of eyes turned back to the group as the orange across the sky meshed with reds and yellows as the sun set over the horizon.
Author's Note: Lookie! Lookie everyone! We've finally hit over 100 in everything (except words and chapters but that'll happen one day!) and it makes me so happy that the chapter is extra long thing time! Really, it really really does! I am always happy to see this achievement happen - now I am aiming for 250 in each category!
I've got some two pieces of news! First: My summer term will start on Monday. Excited for that because I am taking General Psychology and Art History 1 - which both are online so no going anywhere this summer! Yaaaa! Second: By next weekend I will be in Washington DC for a full week so there might or might not be new chapters those weekends. ^^ I really don't know. It depends on what is happening over there. So just keep an eye out for everything but I should definitely have a chapter on the weekend May 26/27. Wish me luck everyone!
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