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 51
To Three
Location: Class 1-A, U.A. High School, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: September 11, 20XX
"I'M SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE I CAUSED!" Midoriya-san shouted to the class, half bowing, causing Hisoka to rub her ear with how close he was to her as steam blew out of his nose like a raging bull.
"Deku, thank you for all your hard labor!" Uraraka-san said, bouncing her hands as she grinned.
"Hard labor, huh... Hey, why are you so out of breath?" Jiro-san asked, frowning.
Her question was never answered as Midoriya turned on the click of his heel, mouth opening wide, and Hisoka covered her ears just in time, as Midoriya-san shouted again, "IIDA! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY FOR DISAPPOINTING YOU!"
The Class President blinked, holding up a thumbs up as he answered, "Oh... Well, as long as you've reflected on your wrongdoings..." He frowned. "What's the matter?"
Midoriya-san pumped an arm up, voice raising, "I'm going to bridge the gap between us from the last three days!"
"Ohhh! Nice! I like that attitude!" Kirishima-san said, fist bumping the hand in the air.
Fumi sighed, shaking his head fondly. "Really...?
"You can't blame him... He missed three days and did cause Class A a lot of trouble," Tsuyu said, leaning against Hisoka's desk.
"True," Hisoka agreed, nodding, as she leaned forward on her elbows. Just as Midoriya-san was about to shout something again, she called out to him, "You can use my notes if you want, Midoriya-san.
Green, fluffy hair (Hisoka had wondered since they first met if it was really as fluffy as it looked...) sprung up as he whipped his head around, green eyes sparkling. Brown eyes blinked when the other bowed to her, a whole ninety degrees and everything, as he thanked her. "It will be an honor to borrow your notes!"
"O-Okay..." Hisoka was a little unnerved by the change in her normally calm, though easily excitable, classmate. "You can get them after class."
He nodded as Aizawa-sensei came into the classroom with the usual tired look in his eyes. "Well, now that Midoriya has returned, let's formally talk about the internships I mentioned before." He sighed before looking at the classroom door, calling out, "Come inside." The whole class turned their heads to look at the door as it slid open. "I thought we could hear firsthand from those with experience about how the internships are different from field training. They have made time in their busy schedules to come and talk to you all, so please listen carefully to what they have to say... These three third-years rank among the top of all U.A. students..."
Seriously?!
Hisoka stared in interest as she saw three people walk into the room. The first one to come in was the largest and tallest of the three. He had short blonde hair, blue oval-shaped eyes, and a big happy grin on his face. Behind him was a girl with extremely long soft baby blue hair, royal blue eyes, and pale skin. She smiled and had a skip in her step. Finally, the third one was a pale, skinny boy, shoulders hunched over as he held a nervous look on his face as black eyes darted away. His indigo hair was messy and sticking out behind him.
"They're known as... The Big Three."
"So, these guys are... I had heard there were people like them, but..." Jiro-san mumbled at the end, a thoughtful look appearing on her face.
Hisoka held a hand on her chin, frowning as the black-haired third-year glanced around the class before turning his head down to look at the floor. Why did he look so familiar?
Kaminari-san let out a cheer. "And one of them is a real beauty too! They kinda don't look the part... Don't 'cha think?"
The feeling was itching at the back of her mind.
Ashido-san squealed, "Big Three!"
Hmmm...
"Alright," Aizawa-sensei said as he looked at the three. "Could you give us a brief self-introduction then? Starting with you, Amajiki." Their sensei pointed to the nervous looking boy.
Amajiki... Amajiki-senpai. That was his name.
She raised an eyebrow when he glared at the whole class and tilted her head when it only got more intense. "It's no good, Mirio... Hadou... No matter how hard I try to think of them all as potatoes... Everything except their heads just keeps its human form... And besides their heads, I can only see them as humans! What should I do...? The words won't come out..." Thin black eyes squinted, his gaze even heavier.
She felt a headache coming on. (But it wasn't like his... Never like his... Them. Either or. Both of them... Nothing could compare to either of them.) "..."
But just as suddenly, the headache was gone, and the boy did a one-eighty and put his head on the smart board behind him. "I wanna go home...!"
Wait...
The entire class gasped at his words. "Huuuh?!"
Amajiki-senpai's back brought a memory forth and it finally dawned on Hisoka. He was the one she had given some cookies too! Huh... She wondered if he had liked them...
Ojiro-san fretted, "This guy... Is at the top of U.A.'s Hero Class... Right?"
Ojiro-san's words were a low blow to Amajiki-senpai as he pressed his head harder on the board. The girl giggled, turning her head back and forth between her friend and the class. "Hey, Amajiki, listen to this! Apparently, that's called being 'chicken headed!' Hey! Even though you're a human! Weird, huh?!" Her smile brightened, jerking a thumb to the depressed boy. "This guy is Tamaki Amajiki, the chicken! I'm Nejire Hadou! We've come here because we were asked to talk to you about the internship! But first..." She looked at Shoji-san and asked, "Hey, hey, by the way! Why're you wearing a mask? Catch a cold? Or is it the latest fashion?"
He started, "Well, a long time ago I-"
"Oh, and you! You're Todoroki, right!? Right?! Why do you have a burn on your face like that?!"
Shoto was quiet. "Well, that's-"
"And you, Ashido... if those horns break, do they grow back? Can you move 'em?! Hey! What about you, Mineta? Are those things on your head your hair? How do you cut it?!" Hadou-senpai went onto the next person then the next. "Asui, are you a tree frog? You're not a toad, right? No matter who I look at, all of you have things that pique my interest! How strange!"
Kaminari-san sighed happily. "Oo~h, a natural airhead! How cute!"
"She's like a kindergartner," Ashido-san said.
Hadou-senpai bounced over to Ojiro-san, exclaiming, "Hey, hey! Can you support your whole body with your tail, Ojiro? Hey, hey! Answer me! I'm super curious!"
Hisoka jerked back when the third year slammed her hands on her desk, face inching closer to her. "Ney! Ney! I heard you can heal basically anything with your blood! Can you regenerate limbs and organs? How about healing yourself?! Do you suck blood? Does that make you a vampire?! Oh! Can I see your teeth?! Can you bring back the dead then?!"
"Ummm..." She was lost for words.
Hisoka.404 had stopped working.
Rebooting necessary.
Rebooting... Rebooting...
"I see you're all lacking any sort of rationality..." Aizawa-sensei sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, looking to the only other boy.
She would have to thank the teacher later with more cookies (he rather liked her peanut butter cookies that seemed to always go missing so mysteriously the next day, sometimes even the evening she would make them).
"Please do not worry, Eraserhead! I'm the key performer today, after all! NOW! " Mirio-senpai smiled. "The journey ahead—" he stared, leaning towards the class and held a hand up to his ear. "Come on!"
Hisoka blinked in confusion as the class sweat dropped.
What?
"That's the part where you say, 'Will be full of difficulties!'" Mirio-senpai laughed loudly as he stood up fully. "Alright! You all utterly fail at getting the point of the conversation!"
Sato-san leaned in to Hisoka. "These guys are all weirdos, huh? Considering they're the Big Three... It's kinda..."
"Gives them character?" Hisoka tried.
Sato-san shrugged. "I guess."
Fumi shook his head. "Their personalities certainly don't evoke that."
"Well, I can see on your faces that you've got no idea what's going on..." Mirio-senpai gave a dramatic sigh. "The explanation of the internships that aren't a requirement has been left to us third years who just appeared all of a sudden, I get it. Doesn't make any sense, right?" He lifted his hands up in a shrug, narrowing his eyes. "You acquired your provisional licenses. As first years... You're all really energetic, yeah? I see... Well, it seems like my intro fell flat here, so..."
"Mirio?!" Amajiki-senpai asked.
"How would you all like to team up... And fight against me?!" He threw his fist up in the air with a bright grin on his face.
The whole class asked loudly together, "HUUUUUUUUUUUUH?!"
"It would make the most sense for them to witness and feel our own 'experience' with their own bodies, wouldn't you say?! Wouldn't you say, Eraserhead?!" Mirio-senpai asked, swiping at his nose.
Aizawa-sensei waved his hand, yawning. "Do as you like."
Hisoka wondered what he was up to...
Location: Gym Gamma, Northeast Side of U.A. High School Campus, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: September 11, 20XX
Everyone had changed into their P.E. uniforms and were waiting for Mirio-senpai to finish stretching as they talked, wondering if the fight between them would be at a disadvantage and that they had the handicap against the third year. They didn't.
Maybe.
They weren't all idiots...
But Hisoka could see this.
And, to be honest, she didn't really want to fight or get gut-punched just like her classmates were right now. Especially by the man closest to becoming the number one Hero, including the Pros. She already had bad enough cramps as it was. The headaches weren't helping either.
She grimaced mentally as Fumi and Tsuyu went down. Hisoka stayed on the sidelines, on the left of Aizawa-sensei while Shoto stood to his right. "In an instant... He took down half of the class! The closest man to be number one..."
Aizawa stared at the boy and asked, "...You're not going to join in? You've got your eyes on becoming number one too, don't you?"
"I haven't obtained a Provisional license yet..."
Black eyes turned to her, narrowing. "And why aren't you going?"
"There's no way I'd be able to beat him." Also... Hisoka rubbed her stomach as she could feel a cramp slowly coming.
She hated that time of the month...
"Hmmm..."
They turned back to watch Mirio-senpai turn his eyes on her close-ranged classmates.
"I have no idea how he's doing it..." Kirishima-san grumbled with a toothy frown. "He's already so strong by being able to phase through us... but teleportation too? Isn't he basically invincible?!"
Teleportation?
It seemed like that...
However...
"No..." Midoriya-san kept his eyes on the grinning Mirio-senpai, a serious look in his eyes. "Whether he's using a phasing quirk to teleport or the other way around... Whatever it is, he'll be using a direct attack. If we aim for the moment to counterattack, we should be able to touch him..." He stepped forward as he loosened up his body. "If we don't understand how he's doing it then we've got to narrow the possibilities using what we know... so let's find out a way to beat him!"
That pumped up the others and only made the older male grin in excitement. "WELL TRY AND FIND IT!" Mirio-senpai shouted as he started running before he sunk into the ground.
"He submerged!" Uraraka shouted as she stared at the pair of pants left behind. Mirio-senpai appeared in the air behind them and went after Midoriya-san first.
"Matsushita," her sensei began. "Tell me what you see."
Hisoka let out a hum, observing as Midoriya-san pushed himself off the ground with his right arm, aiming a kick back at the other. It caught him off guard, but his hand started moving through his leg towards Midoriya-san's face.
"Wow! Sorry, but here's the knockout blow!" And with a feint attack to his green eyes, Mirio-senpai jabbed a gut-wrenching punch at his stomach, sending him to the floor. "Everyone tried to counter me like that, you know, so naturally I trained to counter them too!"
"Midoriya?!" Iida-san called out.
"Mirio-senpai is using his Quirk to his advantage, of course. He uses it to surprise his opponents," she explained. "I didn't notice it at first due to his speed and while I'm not an expert at Quirk information like Midoriya-san, there are a few things I noticed while fighting with Midoriya-san unlike before due to how fast he was going." Aizawa-sensei made a motion for her to continue. "His breathing is one thing. When you breathe, your chest moves up and down. His had stopped when he had gone under and when Midoriya-san had attacked. It can be hard to spot though if you're not paying attention. The flare in his nose is also another point. He does it when he attacks his opponent. In all... Mirio-senpai knows what to do, how to do it, and use his Quirk to its fullest potential."
It was important to note these things as every detail could be crucial in an event that something happened. Generally, if you were a healer or were treating the injured.
And finally, the last of her classmates were down. Midoriya-san lifted his head to look up at the naked Mirio-senpai, who Hisoka glanced away as she felt her cheeks heat up, as he poised proudly from his victory over them all. It was a K.O. None were even able to land a hit.
Hisoka was impressed.
He must have put in a lot of work to become that strong.
She never noticed the impressed grin or the frown from the other third years as Hisoka moved over to help some of her classmates up, checking them over and asking if they were okay. When everyone was up, holding their guts as they tried to writhe in the pain, Mirio-senpai asked with a bright grin, which served to annoy her class, "Was my Quirk strong?"
"TOO STRONG!" Sero shouted in anger, pointing at him. "It's unfair! How are we supposed to feel?!"
"Not only phasing but teleportation, too?! Are you one of those hybrids like Todoroki?!" Ashido-san asked with a frustrated wave of her arms.
"OH OH! I know about his quirk!" Hadou-senpai waved her arm around and beamed at them all. "Let me tell them! Let me tell them! Perm-"
"Hadou, right now is Mirio's time," Amajiki-senpai said with a sigh to the girl, who sulked, his back turned towards the class.
"Haha, I've only got one Quirk! It's called Permeation!" Mirio-senpai grinned at the whole class. "Those movements you guys are calling teleportation, just as you thought it's merely an application of my Quirk!"
"... But how are you able to pop up like teleporting...?" Midoriya-san asked, eyes sparkling at new knowledge of a new Quirk. He would make a new page in that Quirk journal of his, Hisoka was sure of that.
"If I activate my Quirk throughout my body, it is capable of passing through anything! That includes the ground too!" Mirio-senpai tapped his right foot against the ground.
"So, you're basically falling then," Hisoka summarized, arms crossed over Tsuyu's shoulders and upper chest. She was being used as a leaning post for some of her classmates who had yet to recover. Tsuyu was in front, leaning back against her chest. Fumi was on her right and Hagakure-san was on her left. Behind her, Kirishima-san decided to use her as well.
Why her?
Well...
"Correct," he said brightly. "I fall into the ground, and if I release my Quirk while falling, something mysterious happens! It's as if the mass can't overlap on top of each other, so I get catapulted out! In other words, I get shot out of the ground in an instant, that's the phenomenon behind my teleportation! By adjusting the direction and my pose, I can control the angle and target where I'm shot out of!"
"Sounds like a video game glitch..." Ashido-san grumbled.
"WHAAAHAHA! What a way to put it!" Miro-senpai laughed loudly.
Tsuyu hummed. "Not just being able to avoid any attack, but to also move where ever you want in an instant... That's a really strong Quirk."
"Not at all." He was met with shocked silence. "It's strong because I made it strong. When I activate my Quirk, no oxygen can come into my lungs. Even if I were to inhale it, it passes right through me. My eardrums do not vibrate, my retinas catch no light..." He stared into Hisoka's eyes, giving her a knowing look.
Huh, he must have heard her earlier. But still...
How frightening...
Well, all Quirks had their drawbacks.
"Everything passes through me. I become unable to feel anything. But because I still have mass, the only thing I feel is the sensation of falling. Are you starting to understand now...?" He gazed along the classmates. "Let's say I want to pass through a wall. I activate my Quirk in my body except for one foot. Then I release it in the other foot to make contact with the ground before activating it in the last foot to pass through. Even simple things like that require a set of operations."
"If it were us, we'd probably mess it up if we were in a rush..." Kaminari-san said with a frown. "On top of that, if you can't feel anything anymore you might not be able to move..."
"Right!" Mirio-senpai grinned. "I fell behind, before I knew it every last thing had fallen away, even my clothes! And with this Quirk, if you wanna keep movin' up, that's the last thing you can afford to let happen! That's why you need prediction! It's the way to be faster than your surroundings! It's the most critical skill of all and the thing that makes those predictions possible is experience!" He poked his forehead. "It took a bit of time, but that's why I wanted to play this game with you all! Instead of words, I wanted to show you with my 'experience.'" He made a sweeping gesture as he stretched out his arms. "In these internships, we are no longer treated like 'guests,' but rather we act as sidekicks for the Pros! And that is a very terrifying thing. There have been instances where people have died! Nonetheless, no matter how scary or difficult the thought may be, all of it is an invaluable experience that you can't get in school!" He made a fist, giving them a determined look. "With the experience I gained from my internship, I was able to transform my powers! For that reason, scary or not, this is an opportunity you cannot miss out on!"
The class clapped.
"He even sounds like a Pro," Ojiro-san complimented.
Kaminari-san sighed. "It's true... we were pretty much treated like guests during our field training..."
"They avoided making us do anything dangerous, too." Jiro-san rubbed the back of her head in thought.
Yeah... Dangerous...
Aizawa-sensei clapped his hands. "Alright, everyone it's time to start heading back."
Location: Common Room, First Floor of Heights Alliance, South Side of U.A. High School Campus, Northern Musutafu, South of Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Date: September 11, 20XX
The Common Room had basically become their place to gather and talk or hang out most evenings if they hadn't in one of their rooms. Gathered in the group was Uraraka-san and Ashido-san who shared the couch, Momo was in her regular place on the space seat as Tsuyu and herself took up the love seat. The others were doing their own thing while Bakugo-san was exploding over gathering everyone's trash.
"What do you guys think about these internships?" Uraraka-san asked, sipping a glass of lemon juice. "Us first years are supposed to be observing and learning still."
Ashido-san giggled. "It's kinda romantic that senpai rose from the top all the way from the bottom. And his body isn't too shabby either..." She grinned to herself. "Man... Those abs...
"In any case," Momo took her hair out of its ponytail, currently ignoring the pink girl. "We do have the green light from Aizawa-sensei."
"Yup! I can't wait!"
"I hope it'll be easy to get an internship," Tsuyu wondered aloud, taking a sip with one hand as the other pet Hisoka's hair as she laid her head on Tsuyu's lap, her legs handing over the edge.
Hisoka was tapping away at her phone, scrolling through random things on the internet with her thumb. "You can always ask the Hero you had before or maybe not do it right now," she added her two sense. Her scrolling stopped when it came upon an article... about the Hero Killer... She turned off her phone with a click and sat it against her chest before wrapping her arms around her waist. "It's not that we're in any hurry right now. Sometimes it's best to take things slow before going all out."
"True."
Uraraka tapped her chin. "Maybe I should do one then... I wonder if Gunhead has any openings..."
"While all these internships are fun and everything, to be honest, I'd rather develop my Quirk further and train more before going out into the field," Ashido piped in, leaning back against the cushion.
"There are pros and cons to everything," Tsuyu said, letting out a small 'ribbit' noise.
Hisoka nodded.
Hmmm...
Maybe she could intern under a Hero with a healing-based Quirk...
Author's Note: And we're back baby! A good way to start the newest Arc if I say so myself! But wait there will be more to come, and I will say things will be… interesting and if you all know me by now you should know what I mean by 'interesting.' If not, well… I'm sure you'll find out about it eventually. Anyway, what did you all think? Were you surprised that Hisoka didn't fight? ^^ Who do you think she'll intern under? If any at all… Haha.
Well, I'll see you guys later but first a few announcements.
College has also started up again now and there's a lot of work this time around! Yaaaaa… So that's nice. Let's see if I'll crash and burn or rise above this time around. It's the last term for my A.S. before I go and start on my A.A. ^^ I've also resigned my online persona (if any of you were wondering what happened to the picture change). Go check her out on my DA page.
Also, I am not sure if any of you (well, I am sure some of you've seen it...) have seen it yet but the first chapter of Wilted Lilac is out. Go check it out, leave a review there, and tell me what you think of it. This will be updated bi-weekly just like Wilted Lilac will be as well.
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That's basically it. So, thank you and have a good night!
Zane out!