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.
Current: Followers: 229, Favs: 162, Reviews: 173, Communities: 7, Views: 35297
Disclaimer: I do not own Boku no Hero Academia. Boku no Hero Academia is written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi-sensei. No profit was made in the writing of this fanfic.
Beta: Ana-DaughterofHades
Now To Answer Some Reviews:
Jarhead- Indeed, I am happy to have them finally together as well. Tsuyu is just too adorable! She's one of my favorites after all! Thank you for the review. I hope you like the chapter
AubreyKuwata- I actually really like Himiko and she doesn't remind me of Satanists at all. That's just her personality and I've seen many characters in the past like her. Okay. Good luck with starting school. Thank you for the review. I hope you like the chapter
Vedahzii- Yeah, I see Dokusei doing that. Go, Tsuyu! Save your future wifu! Thank you for the review. I hope you like the chapter
Prince- Go, Tsuyu! Save your future wifu with a kiss of awakening! Oh no~! Steal her away Himiko! Let there be a daring rescue as Tsuyu comes in on a green froggy stead! Lol! Run away! Nope, not Izuku either. It's Himiko silly head. That was pretty obvious in the last chapter. Thank you for the review. I hope you like the chapter.
n1ghtdr34m3r- That's one way of looking at that. Hisoka will sniff them all out until none is left. Thank you for the review. I hope you like the chapter.
Chapter 35
To Fail
Location: Forest, Near the Forest Lodge, Somewhere in of The Beast's Forest, Southern Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Northwest of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: August 9, 20XX
He had not known what had come over him other than red-hot anger. When he had seen the Villain attack and Shoji's injury, something had snapped, and he had been possessed. Fumikage had tried to hold back, tried to regain control - tried to remember what Hisoka and her mom had taught him to calm down - yet in his moment of foolishness (How long? Was it just a second? It had taken that long for him to snap. He couldn't remember anymore. All he could remember was the dark whispers...) it had been the light of Todoroki's and Bakugo's own Quirks that had gotten him under control.
Then the guilt had come and the shudder of the thought that if he had not regained control, unable to stop thinking about what could have happened.
The 'what if's' were the most frightening to him.
Then he had found out about Midoriya's injuries and the other Villains - "They're after Kacchan!" - before his thoughts turned to Hisoka, Tsuyu, and his other friends. He had hoped they would be okay. He hoped they had not encountered any of the Villains. Fat chance that would happen. He just wanted them to stay safe, but he would worry about that later, fret over them when he saw them, and make sure everything would be all right when all of this was over.
Yet...
Even with them all surrounding his hot-blooded classmate, it had not stopped the Villains. They had been walking for some time then, watching every shadow, listening to every sound, when they had heard voices along the path just up ahead. An insane laugh, an enraged shout, and familiar cries. Tsuyu...
Hisoka!
It was enough for them to hurry toward the uproar, everyone breaking into a dash. However, before either he or Bakugo could follow after them, he felt a shiver tinkle down his spine, causing him to hurt in his step. It had set Dark Shadow on edge as he froze and the now muted Bakugo had made it just that creepy.
His shouldered hunched and his breath caught in his throat as he felt fingertips brush past his feathers, gripping his shoulder lightly. It felt like it was on fire as he caught a white masked Villain from the corner of his eye as they leaned forward with a chuckle. He could not remember what the Villain - something about a two for one prize - had said, just the feeling of being compressed and then he all he could see was inky black darkness. He could distantly hear Bakugo's howl of rage to no avail at the fruitless situation.
He felt something surround him. It was hard to breathe...
Location: Pathway, Near the Forest Lodge, Somewhere in of The Beast's Forest, Southern Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Northwest of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: August 9, 20XX
Shoto slammed his right foot on the ground again, a thin layer of ice beginning to cover the right side of his body. A layer of ice erupted from beneath him, surging forward to where the Villain had landed. The jagged formations it had exploded under where the Villain was in the air.
"My apologies," the man mused. "All I do is deceive and run away, but that's what I'm good for! Like I'd really want to fight some hero cadets, right?" He placed a gloved hand to the side of his head, raising his voice as his spoke. "First strike team! The target has been successfully collected! This concludes our mission, as planned you have five minutes to rendezvous at the collection point!"
He had landed on a tree perch nearby, hearing the children shout at him to stop. He let out a chuckle as he sprung around on his heel, hurriedly jumping towards another treetop.
"Die."
Brown eyes widened when he felt a will to kill directed right at him and had to duck when something was aimed at his head. It had swiped down, seeing it was a knife when he had blocked it with his cane, coming face to face with wide red - Were they not brown before? Where had he seen that very shade of red before? - eyes filled with hate.
They were saying he would not get away.
How laughable.
The girl had snapped.
Yet just fascinating enough to capture his attention.
Pushing her back, he flipped in the air, dodging yet another strike aimed at his neck faster than before. He wondered what Shigaraki-kun had thought of her. Looking into this one would prove useful, he could feel it in his bones. Spinning around, whacking his cane against her to stun her momentarily, he lifted her leg and kicked her to the ground where the other children were.
It had not stopped her.
He had to give her credit for determination.
Hisoka would allow him to get away. She could hear the others behind her, but she didn't care; she had to catch up and save Fumi... She had to save him! She shot across the trees behind the man uncaring when her chest hurt, trying to catch up to the man moving swiftly in front of her.
Location: Clearing, Southwest of the Forest Lodge, Somewhere in of The Beast's Forest, Southern Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Northwest of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: August 9, 20XX
She had used all of her muscles, legs slowly beginning to burn, as she used all her strength to shoot at the Villain like a bullet. Arching over him finally, gravity decided to aid her by plummeting her towards the ground and she dug her foot onto the Villain's back, landing atop of him as they came crashing down onto the soil.
"THIS BRAT! I KNOW HER! WHO IS SHE?!"
"Oww..." The masked man winced from the pain, his voice muffled, "Talk about a rough landing..."
Hisoka let out a hiss, grabbing him by his coat, the other hand with a knife at his throat. "Where is he?! Where the fuck did you put-"
"Mister, dodge."
Hisoka had hardly a second to look up, reflectively leaping backward to evade a surge of dark flames that spread across the ground. She landed on her feet with a grunt, sliding a few inches back as she glanced up to get a look at her new assailant.
Three others. Shit.
One was Toga - who grinned wildly at the sight of her - as she appeared on her right with another person in a full black and red bodysuit, and finally a male with black hair that had patches of his body covered in purple burn scars.
The masked Villain materialized beside the others, letting out a weak sigh. "A warning would be really helpful before you use your Quirk, Dabi." He rubbed the back of his head.
Dabi merely shrugged his shoulders. "I know you have no problem dodging in time. More importantly, did you get Bakugo?"
"Of course." He nodded his head, gesturing toward the pocket of his coat. "I have him hidden away."
Hisoka's eyes narrowed more, eyeing each one of them when she had all their attention on her. "Give me back Fumi," she stated, voice low as her grip tightened on her only blade, the other had been lost along the way.
"Fumi?" Dabi raised an eyebrow, keeping one eye on her while the other glanced questioningly at his comrade.
"Collateral. You should have seen what his Quirk did to Moonfish, who is out of commission by the way."
Before he could say another word and Hisoka could move, there was a cry of her name, making her blink as the red was slowly receding from her eyes, making them a murky burnt brown. The rest of the group had been steadily approaching from behind, finally having caught up to her. Shoto rushed over to the girl's side, a panicked expression forming across his face.
"There's more of them here?! Damn... And it looks they still have them."
He was unable to stop her from moving forward to attack again as the others finally caught up to them.
Amongst the mayhem and disorder of the fight, Yuga Aoyama was crouched behind the nearby bushes, unable to leave and join the fight. He couldn't... He just couldn't join them... He was shaking, his mouth covered with his own hand as he watched his classmates with teary eyes hold their own against the Villains.
They were so strong... Unlike him. They were courageous to fight against them, to be able to hold their own against being that were surely superior to them, but that twinkle he had...
There was no twinkle...
Nothing but fear had taken over him.
But! He had a very good reason! It wasn't just for himself! It was for his fighting classmates and for the ones that laid beside him, passed out from the gas from before. He, of all people, was entrusted by Momo-chan to keep them safe!
What was he supposed to do?!
It must have been out of sheer luck they had yet to be discovered!
Jerking his head slowly, he had peeked through the leaves as silently as he could, watching the fight, watching as Hisoka trying to stab the man covered in burn marks yet his flames kept her away. Bright indigo eyes winded when it had dawned on him what it could mean.
But then Shoji had raised a hand high in the air, showing off the two small orbs had gained, in a victory. "Your actions just now made it clear, I don't know what your quirk is, but those things you flaunted earlier... In your right pocket... These are Tokoyami and Bakugo, right?"
Aoyama let out a sigh in solace, shoulders sagging, as he let it run through his body. He could see it in Hisoka's eyes and hear it in Midoriya's voice. He didn't need to do anything now.
And yet...
All that hope, all that relief, was gone in a snap by the Villain's announcement while a black mist appeared in front of them.
"A warp..."
Him!
"You will be scattered..."
The fog was beginning to envelop all around them! She felt Fumi's grip on her tighten, hearing a command of 'Don't let go.' from him as he gripped onto something. She could only see black as she tried to keep a hold on the other, the wind picking up around them.
"...And tortured..."
He could hear cracking and the whipping of wind. Red eyes opened as he tried to stay ahold with his Quirk digging into the stone ground.
"Fumi!" He heard, looking back to see Hisoka with a look of pure fear on her face.
A string of black smoke wrapped around her lower half, beginning to suck her in. He felt his grip on her begin to slip. He tried to keep ahold of her as she tried to keep both hands on his. Yet... It slipped; the fog moving between them separated their grip.
"NO!" He shouted, watching his precious person slip from him. Dark Shadow's grip on the ground released and he tried to get to her, their fingers centimeters from touching, yet she was pulled into the pit of black fog. "Hisoka!"
He soon fell into his own pit of fog.
"...And slain..."
"Fumi!" She had called out before she fell, her arm stretched out, as she was wrapped up in the cold darkness.
She couldn't see, couldn't feel...
Then, she fell.
How dare he get in her way... She wanted someone to bleed!
"It's been five minutes! Time to go, Dabi!" The magician laughed as other Villains began to take their leave, each of them disappearing into the converted darkness of the smaller warp gates as a larger one appeared behind Dabi and his companion.
"But our objective..." Dabi sighed.
"Aaah... That was... They just seemed so happy, especially the girl." He pointed at her now, and she looked at him in anger. "Chasing after me, I wanted to give them a present... It's a bad habit." Mr. Compress laughed, removing his mask dramatically as if he was on stage. "You see, one of the fundamentals of magic is that you flaunt things... Only when you have other things to hide." The man stuck out his tongue to show two marbles in his mouth.
"No..."
Aoyama wanted to do something though! He clenched his fist. He could make a change! He could shine and twinkle! But he had to do something now! He had the element of surprise on his side and he could use it to his advantage and save the day!
He could shine!
"Well then, until next time," Mr. Compress smirked.
But just as he had positioned himself, lifting his arms behind his head, as he was about the charge up his Quirk, Aoyama froze at the menacing and ominous tone. His body quivered and his stomach felt ill as reality kicked in. No... He couldn't do it... He bowed his head in defeat as his cowardice hung over his shoulders.
Dabi gazed down at the bruised and angered baby Heroes. "Confirmed. Release it."
"Haha... Ahh... I am just so glad my show had gone as planned. Until next time I suppose..." The masked Villain snapped his fingers before they were pulled into the black shadowy portal, releasing the two trapped boys from this compressed prisons. They were unable to get away as hands kept them in place, wrapped about their necks from behind, showing just what their status was.
"Bakugo!"
"Tokoyami!"
"KACCHAN!" Midoriya-san cried out and made one last-ditch jump at the two.
Bakugo-san looked down with a pained expression, but his words rang clear, "Stay back, Deku." His wide eyes watched his childhood friend fall before him before his vision grew dark.
"FUMI!"
Fumi could see Hisoka reaching for him, making her way towards him with an outstretched hand. He mumbled her name weakly, unable to summon Dark Shadow, as he tried with all his might to stretch his hand out in the last attempt to reach her. It was so close... He could feel her fingertips brush against his, just like when they had been separated at the USJ incident, but it wasn't enough.
It was too late.
Her devastated face was the last thing his red eyes saw and the screaming of his name was the last thing he heard before the darkness enveloped him.
"I'm... sorry."
"NOOOOOOOOO!" She cried out as she had begun to fall, landing painfully and hearing a cracking noise as the warp disappeared.
He was gone... He was gone... Gone...
The warp was gone...
The Villains were gone...
Fumi...
Red...
Fumi was gone...
Gone...
"I..." Her eyes burned as she stared at the spot where his eyes were a second ago. He was right there... She just needed to reach out and grab him... She had to pull him back...
But he was gone. Gone...
Why?
Something wasn't right...
Where was Fumi?
Red...
She could feel someone shaking her, lifting her slowly, and she let out a cry of pain when they did. It hurt...
So much...
She felt her eyes burn more, unknown to the tears falling from them, as she tried to reach out to where Fumi had been. He was right there!
GONE! GONE! Gonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegonegone-
Someone was holding her back! She couldn't move... She screamed and cried in pain and anger, trying to escape from their hold, trying to ignore everything else.
HE WAS RIGHT THERE!
She heard a scream. Who?
No...
She felt something block her view. If she could make them move... Something else was in her way, grabbing her hands. No! Let her go! Fumi was gone! She had... She had to... Her vision began to fade as she felt limp in their hold, her mind exhausted as it went blank.
Defeat...
What was it she had to do again?
It was utter...
And complete...
Red...
Defeat...
Just a sea of Red...
UPDATE NOTE: The kidnapping of Fumikage was inspired by Heroes in the Dark by Iffondrel. However, there was a problem and I had used and copied some of their own fanfic without permission. I have rewritten the parts as of now. They were civil with it and said to give credit, which I should have done from the start but never did, and so I am now.
Author's Note: And... We'll just end it there! ^^ Don't you all love me? Welp, you'll be getting the next chapter in two weeks. The next Arc will be packed with action (as you all know what will happen in that Arc~) and then there's also the moving into the dorms too! That's going to be something. I wonder how Hisoka would set up her room... What do you think?
Sorry if this seemed late. I don't know why but it just seems that way. Eh. All way. This weekend was a bit hectic with moving furniture and boxes around the house as we're getting a few things that had been my dead grandma's that we're either keeping or selling. So now we'll be going through everything and slowly but surely have the house back. I also hope a lot of the stuff will be sold at the garage sale I am sure we'll be having soon enough.
Anywho, I'm going to go and get some rest. See you all in two weeks!