It's almost 10 pm and she shouldn't be here. She really, really shouldn't be here.
Hibiki took a deep breath and looked up at the building. She heard what happened from her mum, she can't take a slashed spine. She'll die and then she'll be no use to anyone. She can't die yet. Too many people to help, too many others who needs her help. But Tensei-san has helped her so much. So so much and Tenya loves his brother so deeply, and she had to do something.
So squaring her shoulders, Hibiki walked into the building.
"Oh, Hibiki-chan!" The receptionist looked up, smiling, "Why are you here?"
"Oh, Yamamoto-san! I'm here for the library." She grinned, she's not as good at directing answers as Akemi, but damn that girl gave her some good tips. "I need to do some research, ya know. For, yeah." She laughed awkwardly, and the woman nodded.
"Your internship, right?" Hibiki nervously laughed, and the receptionist nodded. "You're always welcome here, Hibiki-chan! How long are you gonna stay?"
"Maybe the entire week." She answered, and Yamamoto-san gave her a surprised look. "I want to spend some time with mum too, to convince her to start my internship earlier."
"Oh, of course!" She smiled brightly, "you have your own room in the worker's dorms, right?"
"Yeah." She answered, "I'll head up now!" Hibiki waved goodbye and got in the elevator. A few nurses recognised her and greeted her, Hibiki returned them with smiles and grins and quickly made her way to the library.
The Ueno University Private Hospital is enormous. Located in Hosu, close enough to the city centre to be convenient and far enough to provide a quiet and pleasant environment for its patients. With its dorms for interns, students and workers, research buildings, more than several medical buildings, hanging gardens on the roof and a large park in the middle, all connected by a network of bridges and elevators. With top of the line doctors, specialists, and professors, and granted permission for quirk usage in research, surgery, and studies.
Hibiki didn't waste time. She rushed down the hallway, made her way to the hero's ward and searched through the corridors for Tensei-san's room.
"... But mother—"
Hibiki stopped.
Found them. She darted behind one of the vending machines, as she listened to Tenya argue against his mother, who wanted him to rest in the visitor's dorms. (Yeah they've got rooms for family members of comatose patients or those in surgery. It's not very big though.) Hibiki stood in silence as Tenya eventually lost the argument, and his mother took him away with her.
Hibiki peeked around the corner. There's a nurse at the door— Nomura-san, she knows him. So even as he spotted her approaching, he nodded and gave her a knowing smile.
"I'll let this slide." He said to her, before she entered, "He just got out from surgery. He's stable now but..." He sighed.
Hibiki nodded, and opened the door.
After the sports festival, Hibiki had ran here in her haste, but didn't think about what to do next. So she went home, then Hiroi came by with her phone and she got an idea.
With that, she packed her bags, all her medical notes, and the notes on her quirk that Izu-chan gave her, then headed back the hospital.
She wants to help. But today, unlike with Akemi's hand, which is something small enough she could handle, and the day at the Sky Egg, which was an emergency, today, she has time.
Hibiki was in the room in an instant, closing it quietly behind her. Haya-san, Tenya's dad, is sleeping in the chair, and Tensei-san...
Oh God.
Hibiki wanted to cry. She wanted to break down and cry at the sight of one of her oldest friend's brother. But she has a mission.
Grabbing the clipboard from the end of the bed, she snapped a picture for each and every page, every last detail, every surgery done, every damage and their current situation. She doesn't have time to read here. Holding back her tears Hibiki slipped back out the room and runner at her eyes, smiled sadly towards Nomura-san, and left.
She headed up for her room, near her mother's, in the dorms right away. Her laptop is there, and so putting down her stuff she grabbed the notes, the computer, and a pencil case, then went back down to the library.
"Alright. Let's see." Scrunching her face up at the tiny English in the pictures, Hibiki thanked Akemi for her hellish English training and began to read.
Slashed spine, nerves damages, and a whole list of other injuries. Hibiki winced at the information and booted up the laptop before she began typing.
Akemi might suck at most scientific subjects— like biology and chemistry (she's good at physics but that's only because of her quirk. And that's only the theory part. She sucks at the calculation), but she is fantastic at research and document managing. She is so good at this that she is partially the goddess of it.
There's a reason her stories are so good that they went viral, and Akemi had nearly kicked down the door to her classroom to drag her out and whisper to her that 'New Moon' got the feature offer. Her Instagram followers spiked to over 100k with both her writing and art blog going so well. Not to mention those animations she has been posting. Akemi is a genius at anything artistic, and it's not only that.
She is very good at managing timelines, conflicts and plotlines. Her notes are often so complicated that it made her head spin— though that might just be the English. But the plotting of her stories are truly a masterpiece. They weave together into a frigging WEB for god's sake! And that happens because of her ability to manage her research notes.
And for the last three years of her life, these skills have been drilled into her head by this goddess herself, so Hibiki is no slouch at research. She flipped through the webpages and the countless books in the library, using the system the hospital installed to its full potential and over the span of the next few days, put together a large file of methods to help Tensei-san effectively.
And she found it.
It's nearing 3 am. School will start in several hours and Hibiki has no doupt she will miss it. She kept her head low and ducked through corridors and hallways to Tensei-san's room, and after a while, successfully arrived at his room.
The room is empty. Tenya had gone home for school and his parents are in the dorms. So she'll be able to work— a different nurse is at the door right now but her shift is almost up and she's new. So it wasn't long before the woman left her post, and Hibiki sneaked in.
Tensei-san laid motionless on the hospital bed. He woke up yesterday, and from what she've heard the news breaks tomorrow. She walked to his side, the clipboard at the end of his bed in hand as she read through the pages and prepared herself.
This is going to be tough. She winced, and reached out.
If Hibiki, her cousin— who has super regeneration, and Akemi worked together, there won't be an injury in the world they can't heal. Hibiki will transfer the injuries, one by one, to her cousin Kotarō, and Akemi can recharge their stamina with her quirk. They used to joke about this, but right now Kotarō is on a study trip in Germany. So she'll have to do this.
She felt with the smaller injuries first. Her healing speed has doubled since last year. She spent more time with her mum, and with how her mum's quirk works by the time she is eighteen, her healing would have evolved to super regeneration. She isn't anywhere close to that yet but with the speed right now, it's enough. One by one the injuries were transferred to her, dealt with quickly and soon Hibiki went on with the larger ones.
She wobbled a little when she took the bone fractures, but they were quickly healed and done with.
The cut on his back was mostly sealed by now, but Hibiki knew she couldn't take that one. So reaching into her bag, she pulled out the plastic box.
A white mouse. She had stole this little guy from the lab. Hibiki really hates doing this, but she has to. Picking up the small sleeping mammal in her palm she touched Tensei-san's hand, and felt the injury pass through her, and onto the little creature.
It squeaked and twitched a little and fell limp, but it'll live. It was only the cut which was transferred, and the injuries transferred by her will change according to the receiver's size and species, and to a mouse, this injury will be simply a deeper cut, but not a slash.
She closed the box, and took a deep breath.
Time for the spine. She closed her eyes, broken nerves are already tricky themselves. And she can't transfer the injury to anything else.
She took a deep breath, a little tired from all the injuries she just received, but despite that, Hibiki sat down on the plastic chair, and reached out.
She've done countless research on this. She grabbed his hand, and fiver by fiber, she focused on the unmended bones— luckily the doctors decided to not use any attachments in this surgury— and bit by bit, she transferred the injury.
She healed the bones around the nerves first, and that alone is tiring her out. She need to work fast, she can feel her bones slowly mending and the doctor will be here for a check up soon, and there's no time.
As soon as the felt her bines steady themselves, she grabbed his hand again.
"...Hibiki-chan?"
Her blue eyes snapped open, and met Tensei-san's red ones. They were wide with shock and disbelief at first, then the door opened behind her.
She didn't think.
And with a blinding glow, her quirk activated for one last time. There was a panicked yell and the sound of the clipboard in her hand falling, then her world went black.
Hibiki, please live.Wait till Akemi hears about it.
