Chapter 21
You'd think the office day would go by quick but it didn't. She felt it drag out. They had NOTHING to do. They didn't have any reports and were so on top of their shit so they didn't have to do anything for tonight.
When she was on her way to work with Izuku he wouldn't tell her his alias. He said that she'd have to figure out which hero he was.
He did tell her about the reason he was in the office was because he got in trouble and this was All Mights punishment. After the event tonight he'll be going back to field work.
Now at the end of day when she watched Izuku pack his office stuff she could help but feel upset.
"I'm not going to see you anymore." She told him.
He had also seemed surprised by her statement. But he couldn't deny it either because he wasn't going to need to be in as early as her. He was also going to always technically be on call. His patrol shifts were going to be coming back.
Izuku wasn't going to see her much anymore.
"We will make it work. Plus I have a desk you can come visit me at upstairs."
"You have your very own desk?"
"Yep."
"What's the nameplate say?"
Midoriya snickered. "I see what you did. Not telling you. You'll find out my name in a few hours. Gunna make you work for it."
Rin had so many thing to say to that but stuck with one. "Okay."
A sad smile fell on Izuku's face. Although they'd already talked it over he missed her flirty comebacks. It was part of her charm.
At the end of the day Rin was getting her backpack for the event and was ready to head out when she stopped.
She turned to see All Might.
"Rin! I'd like it if we drove together to the event. We should talk."
She nods and agrees.
While in the car they didn't seem to have a lot to say.
"Did you have something you wanted to talk with me about?" Rin turned to her boss in question.
"Yes. I wanted to ask if you talked to Midoriya."
She felt her heartbeat quicken and her smile drop. The texts from last night and the goodbyes from in the office flooded back.
"Okay. I also wanted to say sorry for misunderstanding what you told me in your office. I talked to Izuku and get it now."
"Oh. Alright then. Nevermind."
A little dumb struck, "What?"
He turned to her, "That's what I wanted to talk about. But seems you guys already took care of it yourselves."
The drive to the hospital was short. Rin had to be at the event early to help the parents of the 4 children with any staff or itinerary information. She had translated it on paper but she thought it would be nice to do it by word of mouth.
She had received a file for each child about a week prior. They were all English speaking.
Names: Thomas 5 Breathes Fireworks, Henry 5 Phoenix, Katie 12 Honesty/Mind Reading, and Leo 7 Speed.
Rin couldn't help but feel sympathetic for the kids. For every quirk they had they were in the hospital in some way to prevent them from using it.
Thomas could make Fireworks but his body reject them causing both internal bleeding. Henry's abilities are a set back because of bad breeding. That's what the paperwork said. She'd already informed All Might that they should reword the documents. His mother had the head of an eagle and his father was a fire user.
Henry had received both quirks AND he had leukemia. The paperwork says that he had to consistently change bandages and get feather treatments. The fire would trigger and burn/damage his feathers and his healing factor was lost with the low blood count from the leukemia.
Katie's quirk was Honesty/Mind Reading. She was in the psychiatric portion of the hospital more often than most. The honesty and mind reading was apartment since the age of 2 and has greatly affected her mental health.
Leo's quirk was speed but after a car accident he was paralyzed from the waist down. He'd never be able to run again.
She was at the hospital an hour before the event happened. She was in a room with the children and their parents explaining the next three hours.
"The first hour of the event will be introductions, photographs, autographs and just over all the heroes going around and meeting everyone. During the second hour of the event we will be having 3 activities that both the heroes and children will be participating in. The activities will include a craft, a building activity and a wheelchair race. If you don't already have a wheelchair there will be one provided for you. Our last hour of the evening will be a social hour with a dinner served buffet style. With your favorite heroes serving you your favorite foods."
She looked at the people in front of her.
"Are there any questions?"
The one named Katie raised her hand. "Yes?"
"Will I be meeting Eraserhead? I want to have my quirk turned off during this."
Rin had to admit she felt guilty for not knowing any of the heroes or their quirks. She looked at her clipboard full of information. She had a sheet full of hero names and looked at it. There was indeed an Eraserhead on the paper.
Before answering the girl she responded with a Thank You. I guess that's to happens if you could read someone's mind.
"Would anyone else like to know if their requested hero is coming?"
"I was to meet Jet Black Hero and see his feather."
"Ground Zero with his power to blow things up."
"He isn't as cool as Deku though. He has so much strength!"
The children all spoke at once and Rin was happy to hear their excitement. She was also excited to be in a room full of heroes. Looking over them list she saw Jet Black Hero, Ground Zero and Deku.
Again before she could respond Katie did it before her, "They're all going to be here! Come on you guys let's put on our costumes." She started to push Leo's wheelchair out of the room and the others ran after her.
Rin turned to the parents. "They all seem really close."
The parents of Thomas spoke up. His mother. "I'm sure it was easy for them to bond because of the language barrier. Katie knows the most Japanese though due to being here the longest."
Katie's father chuckled, "She acts like the big sister."
"Hello Everyone!" All Might came into the room with his signature smile. Always the Symbol of Peace.
"Rin, you wanna go put on your costume?" He turned to me.
"Oh Yeah. I'm going to go do that." She turned to the parents, "I'm going to put on my Ground Zero costume now. I will be back soon."
She left to find the nurses locker room and change. The costume change was easy since she had already done it once. This time she put the 1# Fan button on the upper arm of her right glove sleeve.
She put her phone in her pants and headed out. Making sure not to forget her clipboard. It was kinda a big part of her job today.
When she started her way back into the children's wing she noticed how heroes started to show up.
Hiding her excitement was extremely difficult. Then she recognized someone.
"Hey, Red Riot!" She called speeding up to walk next to him.
He turned his head and his toothy grin spread wide.
"I'm absolutely positive that you're not Ground Zero." His eyes gazed over the curves her costume hugged.
She giggled, "Nope, I'll give you a hint on who I am." Rin tapped on his belt. "But first you'll have to stamp me with your giant R."
"You're Midoriya's friend!" Red Riot loud whispered.
"Yep. It's not fair though. He knows what I look like but I don't know his alias."
They started to walk together down the hall.
"He never told you who he was?" Eijiro was finding this amusing. He was positive that this was the friend that slapped Izuku the other day.
"No! Ugh, that asshole wanted to figure it out tonight." She huffed and stomped.
"With that attitude you're more like Ground Zero."
She laughed and was thrown for a curve when someone jumped between them. Having their arms around Red Riot and my shoulders.
"It's been soo long dudes!"
Rin made eye contact with the blonde and he took a moment to register it. "Dudette? You are most definitely not the Ground Zero I know. Unless I've been missing a lot of extra parts in the locker room all these years."
"I guess I should introduce myself properly. My names Rin and I'm the translator for the event. Specifically for the children and their parents."
"And the Ground Zero costume?" Red Riot asked.
"Oh, well I wanted to be child appropriate so Midnight was out. So the perfect combo of sexy and comfortable was this." As she said the last words with moved her hands down her side curves.
They made it into the childrens ward and saw other heroes. "I'm going to go meet up with my children now. It was nice meeting you again Red Riot aaand…" She didn't know the other guys name.
"Chargebolt. But you know if we meet up later you can call me whatever you want."
Rin chuckled. He was a flirt. Her type of person. "You'll have to get in line. Red Riot here is still supposed to ram me with his R but I guess if you guys don't mind sharing maybe we could work something out." She winked and left them to it.
When she made it to the room with her students she was happy to see 2 heroes in there talking with them.
"Sorry I got back late. Sorry I'm late." The two heroes turned to her. One hero had the head of a crow with a black cape and the other wore a green costume with the hood down but the face mask on cover half his face.
"My name is Rin and I will be translating for the evening." She bowed to the heroes and then as she walked closer she looked at her clipboards, "May I ask your hero names?"
The crow spoke first, "Jet Black Hero." She checked the name off and turned to the other guy. She was closer now and saw his freckles.
He looked her square in the eyes and stood up. "Deku. My name is probably near the bottom. I almost forgot myself when coordinating." She watched him point to his name and and then pull down his mask.
She couldn't help but stare. His costume was form fitting and shaped his body.
'No way.'
He smirked up at her catching her looking at his ass, "Your costume looks better in person, Rin."
With that she knew it was her friend.
"Eww, Would you two stop thinking of each others asses." Katie called out and Rin couldn't hide the blush on her face.
"What did she say?" Midoriya asked her.
Rin looked from Jet Black to Katie and back to her friend. "She said to stop thinking about each other asses."
Now it was Izuku's turn to blush while he heard his old classmate snickering behind him.