"Oh, you're a girl."
Rei says as I give her the last of my muddy wet clothes. I stood there naked in front of her, my cheeks red as an apple. I wasn't a fan of being naked, even though I came from the village that basically lived off the land. I never got naked, even for baths! My mother would always make comments about how I stayed in my underwear when she bathed me. Lecturing me on how weird I was. But she never understood, nor could I explain to her why I dislike getting naked...my scares...
"Yes," I spoke. The woman nods her head at me. She gathers the discarded clothes on the ground, then walks over to a bin that contained many other clothes.
Where she had taken me was interesting. It was a very large room made from the ice that surrounded the village. Only it did not have a flame inside…but felt warm. The crystals reach to the sky practically, with a large flame hanging over our heads. Below it was a large hole full of steaming warm water that was producing a lot of smoke. Where I came from, we would bath by the river bank not too far from the village. We would even wash out clothes in the water as we wiped ourselves clean. I wonder what has become of it?
The tall woman dumbs my clothes into the bin. She would then turn around to me before stripping off her dress. I watch the long clothing slide down her body, to reveal a white leotard like under clothes. Such strange underwear, I have never seen a one wearing a breast cover that attached to one's underwear.
"Come!" She informs me. Reaching out to me, I wasted not a second to take her hand. She leads me into the water. And let me just say, that water was extremely hot! It was so hot that I jumped onto her chest and held her close. Trying my best to avoid contact with the water. I even had the heed of my foot pressing against her back for leverage away from the water. All she did was chuckle at my actions.
"Your such a scaredy cat." She spoke before dipping our bodies into the water. Emmedtailly, I let go to try to swim out of the water. It felt weird to me at the time! Brisering hot liquids flowing on my skin, I was not prepared!
"Calm down!" The woman spoke before grabbing my arm. Holding me in the water, I would soon feel another splash of water on my head. Then, a scruffy brush against my head. Ugh, it was an unsettling feeling! But, I didn't mind if I guest.
"There, nothing to fear. Just a woman cleaning the dirt, ash, and blood off your skin." She tells me as she continues to scrub the dirt off my body. "And once we are done here, I am going to find you a nice pretty dress to wear."
"I don't like dresses," I told her. To this day as I tell you my story, I do not like dresses! They always felt wrong to me, to have some sort of cover but not protection around your underwear wasn't right to me. I mean, sure I would wear a dress for a special accusation. But to wear one every day like many females around would do, I would not. My mother thought of it as a problem, heck! She would even get embarrassed buying me pants instead of dresses when we went to market. But she still respected my choice and bought me pants to wear.
"Oh, well…I think I have something for you to wear then." Rei tells me before beginning her scrubbing on my arms. "You look around the same age as my youngest. He has many clothes he does not wear, you can take his discarded robes."
"Thank you," I spoke.
Seconds later, I would soon meet her youngest. Along with a couple of other new faces that would be around me for a long time.
"CANNONBALL!"
A voice shouted. The two of us looked over our shoulder to see a bright yellow light flash before our eye. The light would then fall into the water with a huge splash that would attack Rie and me in the process. Wetting Rei's hair, she growled a bit before standing up from her sitting position. Looking down at the light ball, a sudden flash of red would appear before revealing a small blonde boy with messy yellow locks.
"Denki, what have I said about jumping into the water like that!?" Rei growled at the child. Making the small boy look down in shame at his actions.
"I am sorry Mistress…I didn't mean too." The boy spoke. Soon, many bodies jumped into the water, ignoring the icy stare of the woman as the child begin to swim around her in the hot water. All naked with smiles on their faces and giggles escaping their lips.
Rei sighs at the children's behavior. She places a hand over her head as her other hand fixes the bottom part of her underwear. As she does this, I slowly begin to make my way towards the edge of the large bathing pool, I didn't want to interact with other people, let alone kids. Plus, I was naked, they weren't!
"Butt! And it has freckles on it!" A voice shouted. Oh no, someone saw my butt! This day could not get worse…oh but it did! Because soon laughter and splashes in my directions came after me. I felt so wrong with myself that I sank into the water in shame. As my face submerges, I could still hear the laughter going on.
This was my life, some sort of a laughing joke in a foreign area after surviving a massacre of my home. Good grief, I was not lucky.
"Enough!" A voice shouted from above the water in which I tried to hide beneath. The next thing I saw a streak of blue and white reaching down to grab me. Lifting me above the water by one of my hand, I quickly cover my…area as the large man holds me up.
"To laugh at a child after suffering from a horrible event is cruel. And for that, you all should be ashamed of yourselves!" The man says it was All Might.
"I see you are being cleaned up. Rei, please bring the child to my office as soon as your bath is done. We have many things to discuss." The large man says before dropping me back into the water. As the warm water hits my face, I could hear Rei walking towards me. Grabbing my arm, she pulls me out of the water before grabbing that brush she had earlier. Continuing the work she started earlier.