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Mandalay's POV

I stood in the hospital hallway, I was a little nervous for some reason. After those villains attacked the training camp that boy, Midoriya, ended up getting quite hurt protecting Kouta and I so I wanted to visit him, but still…my heart was beating a mile a minute.

"Haa…Hoo…" I took a deep breath to steady myself before walking in.

The room was quiet, no one else was around. The room was the usual bright white sanitation color, the curtains were closed and the only sounds to be heard were the soft beeps and boops of various monitors.

Midoriya was asleep in bed getting much needed, and well earned, rest. His body was bruised and battered, his arms were both in casts and his chest covered in bandages.

"God…he looks awful." I gasped softly as I walked over to the bed "All this…protecting us, he really is amazing."

I sat by his bed in silence, just kinda observing him. Midoriya was in that "Adorkable" category. He had this appeal about him that just couldn't be explained he wasn't super attractive by any means but he just had this aura about him the drew you to him, he was kind and well mannered, I noticed at the camp that he was always looking out for the rest of his class, making sure they weren't overdoing it and were staying in good spirits despite the hellish training.

It felt unfair, why was such a sweet innocent kid beat up and in pain, lying unconscious in a hospital bed…it was just wrong.

And I was the adult who was supposed to be protecting those students, not only did I let Midoriya down I let all those other kids down too.

But he had protected me so valiantly, without any hesitation, these feelings I had been trying so hard to suppress he was practically dragging them to the surface whether I wanted him too or not.

"Haa…" I sighed before leaning over his bed "Feel better, MWA!'

I gave him a quick kiss on the forehead, my heart nearly burst at the thought of someone walking in and seeing me do that, part of me was worried that someone would find our I had these feelings…but part of me wanted someone to walk in, it felt so thrilling to hide like this.

I headed out into the hall and felt my phone buzz, I had an email from UA.

"Huh?" I opened the message.

"Dear Miss Sosaki,

Given the recent indecent at the Training Camp UA is looking into expanding the number of professional heroes on its teaching staff. We would like to offer you the exciting opportunity to work at the school teaching group dynamics training.

If interested please get in touch.

Principal Nezu."

"Me…a teacher?" I wondered "If I took this…I'd get to see Midoriya everyday, wait no that's bad I shouldn't be take a job based on something like that, especially when I shouldn't even be interested in the kid to begin with…still, I could use a break from pro hero work for a bit."

AN

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Sorry this chapter took so long, I was busy with exams, graduation, other stuff and just let this slip my mind.

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