Hibiki grunts as she stood up from the park bench, supported by Tenya and Tensei-san. Akemi stood to the side, smiling a little.
Ever since Hibiki've been admitted to the hospital, Akemi, Tenya and Hiroi have been visiting every day after school. Sometimes Izuku would tag along, and Ochako-chan, too. Shinsou has been coming over but since their timing is different Akemi seldom sees him.
And surprisingly, Peppermint Swirl said he wanted to come by today.
Her phone rang, and walking away, Akemi took the call.
"Yo, Peppermint!" She grinned, they had exchanged numbers a while ago, and Akemi is enjoying spamming him with memes.
"Kimura, can you please, stop spamming me." Todoroki's deadpan voice came from the other side of the line, "what does 'bruh' even means?"
"It's a meme. Search it up." Akemi giggled, leaning against a tree.
"And, you haven't given me the address of the hospital."
Akemi blinked, and smacked herself on the head.
"Right— sorry! Hibiki's in the A block of the Eastern ward, Ueno University Private Hospital." Akemi pushed herself off the tree trunk and with a hand in her pocket she began walking away.
"Wait, Ueno Private?" His voice sounded surprised.
"Yeah, why ask?"
"My mother's—"
Akemi bumped into a taller somebody, and her phone dropped to the floor.
"Ah- I apologise—" the person spoke up just as Akemi was about to speak up, so she shook her head.
"No! No, it's my bad." She grins as the woman picks up her phone and she accepted it, "Thanks."
"No problem." The middle-aged, white-haired woman smiled at her, her face looked very familiar, but Akemi returned to her call.
"Sorry, what was that, Todoroki? I dropped my phone."
"I said, my mum's in Ueno private."
Akemi froze.
"Eh?"
"...forgive me if I'm wrong, but..." Akemi looked back towards the woman, "would you happen to be Kimura Akemi?"
"Em, yeah, and, er Peppermint?" She spoke into the phone, "I really need to stop running headfirst into you Todoroki's."
Todoroki-san chuckled, and from the other side on the phone, Akemi can hear Peppermint sigh.
"Please tell me you didn't bump into my mum."
"I absolutely did."
Shouto stood to the side as Ueno struck up an animated discussion with his mother, who giggled at a joke she made. Kimura stood next to him, arms crossed over her chest.
"Hibiki's like this." Noticing his gaze, Kimura spoke up softly, "no matter where she is, she'd have the ability to light the entire room up and fill it with chatters." She sighed and looked up at him, "it's why we became friends— she saved me with it."
Shouto huffed, a smile pulling at the corner of his mouth. "It's not only her, you do that too."
"Huh?"
"You light the room up." He pointed out, "you know what to say to make people feel better, Kimura. You're pretty talkative, but whatever you talk about it's idle and it's relaxing."
Kimura stared at him for several long moments, then her ears turned a little red and she looked away.
"...Akemi."
"Hum?" Shouto looked towards the girl, who is now staring at the floor with all her might.
"Anyone who knows about my family situation gets to call me by my first name." She huffed, "I don't like being called Kimura, it reminds me of my 'male gene doner'." She air quoted the name Shouto blinked.
Calling a girl by her first name, huh? That's... Well. He scratched his cheek, "well- I'll try."
Little did they know, Todoroki Rei, Seiba Hiroi and Ueno Hibiki are staring the pair with wide eyes.
"Oh. My. God." Hiroi whisper yelled, "this is gold!"
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