My Hero Academia
Tales of the Foreigner
Chapter Three
Explosions and Generosity
"GET BACK HERE!" Bakugo yelled while chasing after Heather, who was frantically running down the hallway while avoiding some of the students. "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ME!"
"Leave me alone! I didn't mean to freeze you on purpose!" Heather yelled as quickly turned the corner down the hallway she was running in. "Out of my way! I'm being chased by a crazy demon from the pits of heck!" The bunny girl looked over her shoulder to see that Bakugo was getting close to her. She quickly began to look around to see if she could find something to use as means to escape the demon. Her eyes locked on to an open can of paint off to the side that she was getting close to as she quickly picked it up and hurled the content inside at Bakugo.
Bakugo took notice as he quickly covered his eyes with his arms. In doing so he would lose the ability to fight as he crashed into a nearby supply closet.
"Did that work?" She asked as she noticed Bakugo quickly lunging out of the closet covered in paint, toilet paper, and feathers. The students that saw this busted out into laughter as some began to pull out their phones to record him. The young man took notice of this as he looked over at Heather with the same expression on his face...pure utter rage. "Nope, just just made him even more angry!"
"I'm going to make you pay! You hear me!?" He yelled before rocketing himself at Heather as she quickly began to run once again.
"Think Heather, think. You can't keep running forever. And that's mainly because you're getting hungry. You need to lose him somehow, but where?" She asked before a sudden idea appeared in her head. "Wait, the girl's bathroom! If there's one place boys can't enter, it's where only girls are allowed in!"
"Stop running away you coward and face me!" Bekugo put it into high gear as he rushed past Heather and landed in the direction she was running. The bunny girl's eyes widen upon seeing this as she comes to a complete halt. "You think you can freeze me and get away with it? You're not dealing with the average hero rodent!" He said before taking a step forward as his hands started to give off small explosions as a means of both intimidation and readiness to use his quirk on her. "You're looking at the number one hero that surpasses All Might. And if you think I'm going to let a villain like you get away, you got another thing coming!"
"...Muster up all your courage Heather. You need to get to the bathroom and hideout in there until you can think of a way out." Heather said mentally as a determined expression appeared on her face. She soon takes a deep breath before taking up a fighting stance. "Boxing movies don't fail me now!"
"Oh, so you want to fight huh? Well don't expect me to go easy on you villain~!" Bakugo yelled before lunging himself at her. Heather sees this as she tries to deliver a sloppy punch to his face, only for him to push himself above the punch with his quirk, lands behind her and blasts her back with his quirk. Heather lets out scream due to the pain she felt in her back along with feeling the force behind the explosion send her flying forwards. Heather felt herself soon sliding against face first against the floor before coming to complete halt. The sounds of her whimpering and coughing could be heard as Heather gasped for air.
"Courage is gone, time to run. Nuts to fighting, gotta run away from this monster!" Heather screamed mentally as she quickly pulled herself up and staggerly ran down the hallway once more. She could hear the sounds of explosions coming from behind as she saw Bakugo trailing behind her as she looked around at her surroundings to see the girl's bathroom off to the side. Just as Bakugo was about to land in front of her once again, she quickly headed into the bathroom. Upon entering she quickly hid into one of the stalls and slammed it shut while covering her mouth due to her still whimpering from the pain she felt in her back. The moment she shut the door, Bakugo quickly entered into the girl's bathroom as he scans the area for her.
"I know you're in here rabbit! Come out now, and I won't have to blast this entire bathroom up to kingdom come!"
"Raspberries! I'm dead." She thought before looking around to see if she could find another means of escape. Though her train of thoughts were interrupted by Bakugo kicking the door down to one of the stalls, then another, and another. She knew he was making his way down to the last stall where she was hiding as she began to frantically breathe and shake in fear from this demon child. "This can't be how it ends!? I'm too young to die like this!"
"End of the line furball! Get out now or else!" Bakugo yelled as he banged on the door of the stall Heather was hiding behind. The poor girl began to hyperventilate due to the banging from the door as she tried to back away from the door. Just as she touched the wall behind her, she noticed that the places where her hands started to be covered in ice as she quickly pulled them away.
"...Wait. If I froze him like last time. I can do it again." She thought before focusing back onto the door. "Okay, he kicked down the doors to the other stalls. So all I have to do is crawl under to the other side the moment he's about to break the door down, tackle him, and then freeze his butt again." Heather took a deep breath to calm herself...as best as she could before lowering herself down towards the floor a bit. The moment she heard his foot kick the door to the stall down, she quickly crawled into the stall next to her as Bakugo blinked in surprise.
"Hey! Where the hell did she-" Before he could finish, he felt himself being tackled to the floor along with feeling something cold on his back. "Don't even think about it furball!" He yelled before using his free hand to cause a small explosion to push her off as she was sent flying into the hallway and crashed into the wall.
"R-Raspberries, I didn't think he would still be able to move after tackling him to the ground." She thought while letting out a gasp of air which turns into a cough.
"You really think that would work on me?" Bakugo asked before making his way out of the girl's bathroom. "You may have caught me by surprise. But now that I know what you can do, I'm going to wreck your shit!" He said before cracking his knuckles, causing Heather to quickly pull herself up and bolted down the hallway with Bakugo following after her.
"I can't keep running forever. He'll eventually catch me and...oh raspberries I don't even want to know what wreck my...whatever that word means, but it sounds...dirty." She thought before noticing the two adults that she saw from before making their way down the hallway. Her eyes widen upon seeing them as she quickly makes a right turn and slides underneath a female student's legs causing her to yelp in surprise and cause Bakugo to crash into said girl. Heather heard the crash which caused her to hiss and wince from the sound of it, but nevertheless continues to run down the hallway, and soon turns another corner. She didn't notice anyone in the hallway she was looking at, she did however notice an open door off to the right of her as she quickly bolted inside and shut the door. She soon pressed her ear against the door of the room she was in as she heard a set of heavy footsteps followed by muffled talking before it quickly vanished. Once the noise was gone, she slowly popped her head and looked around for a moment before sighing and walking out into the hallway.
"Okay, I think I'm in the clear...at least for now." Heather said before wincing in pain from the bruise she felt on her stomach and back. She placed a hand on her back first as she felt something wet on it, and quickly pulled back from it as she noticed blood covering her hand. She soon looked down at her shirt to see a blood spot from where Bakugo injured her. "Yeah...going to have to stay clear of that guy. My wounds haven't healed up that much after that lady patched me up." She said before weakenly began to make her way down the hallway once more. "I really...really need food...But where am I supposed to find something to eat without stealing?"
"Why not just turn yourself in? I'm sure the school would be willing to give you something to eat." said a male student's voice coming from behind.
"Naw, if there's one thing that living on the street taught me, is that you never should-" Heather quickly stopped upon answering the voice as she felt her mind quickly slipping into a foggy haze and causing her to stop in her track. "W-What's going on? W-Why can't I move, or speak?" She thought before seeing a young man that was about her age walk in front of her and eye her up and down.
"So you're the villain that attacked the class 1A...I have to say, I'm not very impressed." Hitoshi said before walking past Heather and motions for her to follow. "Come on, let's get you to the principal's office before Bakugo finds you again." He said as Heather's body began to slowly follow after him.
"No...stop. Why can't I control my own body?" Heather thought as she tried her best to try and break free of Hitoshi's mind control quirk, but to no avail. She couldn't move her limbs, or stop herself from walking. Nothing more than a puppet following the puppertier's order. "Please, anyone. Someone, anyone, God….please…I don't know if you exist or whoever you are. Please hear my plea...help me!" Just as they were about to turn the corner, Heather felt something ram her from behind as she ended up tumbling forwards right onto her face. Hitoshi's eyes widen upon seeing that as Heather pulled herself up and gasp due to shock and from the force behind whatever it was that caused her to fall onto the floor
"Dammit, now she's not under my control." He said before looking around to see who or what it was that hit her from behind. "I might be able to get her back under my control if I can get her to talk again." Just as he turned his attention onto Heather, he noticed that she was quickly halfway down the hall as he gritted his teeth in annoyance. "Swell. This is going to be a pain to get her."
It was at this time that Heather wasn't paying much attention to her surroundings, the students that were trying to get her attention, or the teachers trying to stop her as she easily evaded them by jumping out of windows and using her light weight to escape onto different floors of the school. All that was going through her mind was finding a safe place. Someplace that she wouldn't feel like someone's chasing her, trying to blow her up, or worse. She soon found a safe place to be as she was outside in the school's garden area. Mainly she was hiding in a bush that was near the corner wall of the school.
"T-Thank you god." Heather said as she lets out a breath of air before curling up a bit. "I think I might've used up all my pleas for the rest of my life….wait...that guy that ordered me to follow him against my will...he spoke english...oh raspberries I could've just...no I-I couldn't." Heather's body began to shake in fear from what she experienced. "Whatever his quirk was. He was able to control me...j-just like he did." She said as she felt tears forming around her eyes and began to hyperventilate. "Oh raspberries...that boy...is he related to-" Before she could cause herself to pass out due to thinking that boy is related to her kidnapper, felt something move in her giant cotton ball of a tail as she looked behind herself. Upon doing that, she blinks upon seeing a...rather small person with his purple hair that resembles grapes sticking out from it. "Wait...was it?" Heather reaches into her tail to pull the boy out as he lets out a gasp of air.
"Finally, fresh air! I thought I was going to die the moment I got thrown across the-" Mineta paused upon realising where he was as he looked at Heather in surprise. "Hey, you're the girl that saved three of my classmates."
"...Wait...you speak….e-english." Heather asked as the small boy nodded. "I...I'm not dreaming...am I? Please tell me that I'm not d-dreaming?"
"No, you're awake. Then again I wouldn't mind dreaming of a hotty like you in my dreams." He said grinning before hearing Heather's stomach growl, which caused her to blush in embarrassment. "Seems like you're hungry?"
"Y-Yeah...I didn't eat anything since I found myself here...I can't really eat anything here?"
"Huh? Why not? Is it because you can't eat normal foods or something?"
"Mama and Papa told me not to steal food from anyone or anywhere. And if I did do that, that would make me a villain." She said before hearing her stomach growl again. "And I don't want to be a villain." Mineta found it weird that she would think that way. Especially if he was in her shoes, he would without a doubt steal food so he could survive and would end up paying it back. But he simply shrugs it off before focusing on the bunny girl's problem.
"Hold on, I might be able to help you with that." Mineta said before looking around for a moment before reaching into Heather's tail. After a few seconds of searching, he grins and pulls out a bento box. "I had some leftover lunch that I was planning on eating later, but I'm sure you need it more than I do." Upon presenting her the box, he slowly opens it as it would three perfectly sushi rolls that were the length of her middle finger and an omelet with rice under it. It was perfectly made, untouched, and was still warm. "Don't worry, I didn't eat or touch it. So you can have it."
Heather's mouth began to water upon seeing it. She lets out a loud gulping sound before quickly taking the food from Mineta and begins to devour it quickly starting with the sushi rolls first, then to the omelet rice. She let out moans of pleasure as her tastebuds were dancing in joy from tasting something that didn't taste like crap, rancid, or was covered in maggots. This was the first time in her entire life that she tasted something good. Her eating pace began to slow down more and more with each bite she took from out of the food before it caused her to stop.
"H-Hey, are you okay?" He asked as he noticed tears rolling down her face as she looked over at him and gulped. "Oh man, did I screw up or something? I am so sorry-" Before he could finish, he felt himself being pulled into a hug along with hearing Heather burst into tears and cried out loud. It was the first time in many years that she felt the need to cry like this. Any other time she did something like this when she was locked away in the kidnapper's basement, it would be met with severe punishment. Here, within this bush. Isolated from parts of the school and the world, she could let out all of her pain and sorrow she was holding inside herself for years in the comfort of a boy who has given her something that no one other than her parents gave her. Kindness and Generosity.