The talk with her dad took a lot of of Suri. Does she still have enough in the tank to make it to the finals?

Suri's eyes were heavy and it took more force than it should have for them to open and look up from where she laid. She remembered trying to take a step down a flight of stairs and then the sensation of falling. Sure her entire body ached and felt like she was wearing a concrete blanket on top of her but her back was… surprisingly comfy.

There was a soft cushion at her back.

Definitely a bed.

The roof was… a lot closer than it should be in the arena. It was those panel things that you saw in most office and commercial buildings. Drop ceilings? Yeah, that's what they were called.

Between those, the bland white sheets and drapes that Suri was now able to briefly see, and the fluorescent lighting meant one thing; hospital. She was in the hospital or, more likely, Recovery Girl's office. She moved her head, trying to sit up and confirmed her suspicions as the tiny old woman paced in front of the door. She looked both worried and mad at the same time before turning back to Suri and flipped instantly to completely worried.

"Dear, you need to lay back down and get some rest."

She all but stormed towards Suri.

"How did I get here, the last thing I remember was trying to get down the steps to go back to our seats," Suri grunted out as, after a lot of straining effort, she finally made it up.

"Yes, and you took a tumble down that entire flight of stairs. You're lucky nothing was broken and you're just ending up with bruises. I'm afraid you still would be there if it hadn't been for your friends, Hagakure and Ashido. The Midoriya boy also checked on you before he went out for his next match."

Midoriya? His next match?

The situation clicked and Suri's eyes went wide as she started to scramble to pull the sheets off her body and look around for her uniform.

"Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck," she muttered rapidly and before she could get her feet to the floor was looking down at a very concerned Recovery Girl.

"Where do you think you're going, young lady?"

"My match," Suri replied frantically. "I'm next."

"No, there's no way you're leaving this room. You are too injured to compete, dear."

Suri grumbled and tried to push past the older woman. She made it to the ground but had a hard time standing on her own. Her arms braced herself between her bed and the bed next to hers before she forced herself upright after a lot of effort. She hissed from how much her body ached and radiated with a full body drone of soreness. Suri gave the woman a fierce look.

"I have to."

"No, as a medical professional I hav-"

Recovery Girl was cut off as the door slid open and a pair of robots carrying a stretcher came through the door. Izuku was on that stretcher. It made Suri look at him with wide eyes and shock as her golden green orbs traced over what was left of his uniform and just how swollen and disfigured he looked. He was out cold. Even then, a thought crossed her mind that had a quiet awe for how, even now, he was by far one of the cutest boys she'd seen. For a split second she thought about running her fingers through his hair. Then, as she subconsciously took a step to do just that, her body surged with a brush of pain.

"Izuku," she silently whispered. She thought about his match, hated that she had missed it, then thought about what happened if she were to win hers. She would have to face Todoroki. Could she really beat him? Honestly, she wanted to believe she could but…

Suri spotted where her uniform was. Folded neatly on top of the small bedside table with her black cami and underwear folded on the top of the small pile. She forced herself to ignore the pain and quickly ripped the medical gown off of her and grabbed at her clothes. If Izuku had woken up at that point in time, boy would he have a view. Suri probably wouldn't have minded, even if she had cared in that moment. Her hormones were on the backburner. She quickly dressed, gritting her teeth through it all as every movement she made hurt like hell.

Recovery Girl yelled at her as Suri hit the door but she ignored the older woman and forced herself forward. She closed the door behind her and began walking the halls to get to the contestant waiting rooms again. She had to hurry if she wanted to make it.

"Suri!"

There was a duet of worried shrieks and then the sounds of padding feet rushing up to her from behind. She knew the voices. On one hand she was happy to hear them, on the other, she so did not want to argue with them. She kept moving even as Mina and Tooru flanked her, taking slow steps backwards to keep pace with her as they stared into her eyes with fear.

"What are you doing?"

"You should still be in bed!"

Mina and then Tooru cried. They were frantic.

"I'm fine," Suri replied, forcing a grin. "I'm up next. I gotta get to the tunnels so I don't get disqualified. That would be a shitty way to lose."

"You're not fine," Tooru shrieked, flailing her arms dramatically.

Wait… she was completely invisible now. Suri couldn't see the faint outline of her body.

"You're limping, Suri. And you look super out of it," Mina pressed on, trying to get her best friend to stop. "No, you're really not fine."

Suri found the door to the contestant waiting rooms where she had to go which would lead to the tunnel towards the ring. The same tunnel that she and Tooru… No! Now wasn't the time to think about that or how badly she wanted it to happen again.

"Suri, you ran out of the class seats and disappeared. We were all really worried about you so when I found you at the bottom of some stairs… What happened?" Tooru pleaded, her voice choking up with the first edge of tears.

Suri pushed open the door with her friends following behind her now and walked in on Uraraka sitting at one of the tables. She was bawling, hunched over and hyperventilating from being so consumed by emotion. Suri felt sorry for her, wanted to comfort her but she kept pressing forward past the girl.

"K-Kuroyashi?" Uraraka sniffled and quickly tried to hide the fact she had been crying by pawing at her eyes and scrubbing her nose with her forearm. Her eyes were still bloodshot and puffy. No way to hide that. She then blinked as she watched Suri walking and took note of the worry and fear in Mina's eyes and Tooru's body language. "W-what happened?"

"Please! We're worried about you, Suri," Tooru pleaded again.

Suri really wanted to take the sadness out of her voice. She wanted to hear her invisible friend happy, cheerful, breathless...

With a growl, Suri stopped and turned to face the other three girls. She looked into their eyes and calmed herself, taking a deep breath and breathing it out slowly. She forced a soft smile and looked away.

"I just… I just got dizzy after I left one of the private boxes my dad is in. Guess I just got dizzy from being up so high or I might have used too much of my Quirk in the festival and I just... plopped," Suri shrugged and turned to face the door towards the ring. She stopped at the door and hung her head, "I'm really sorry I missed your match too, Uraraka. I hope you gave him hell."

"Oh. Yeah, it's okay," she put on a fake smile of her own. "He was just a lot stronger than I was in the end. Kinda bummed my big move didn't work out. Oh well! Next time!"

Suri smirked and nodded.

"Next time."

She then thought of what her dad had said and what he had planned.

"I… hope I get to see it someday."

"Suri…"

The three girls all said her name in some form or another, all filled with some level of worry and fear over their friend. Their friend that said nothing in return and quietly disappeared behind the closed door. One of them had noticed something though, and remembered something else which made the invisible girl fill up even more with fear, worry, and sadness.

Suri on the other side of the door dragged herself slowly but surely through the tunnel towards the roar of the crowd. She heard Present Mic mention something about them waiting on her so she pushed harder, walking as fast as her body would let her. She got to the mouth of the tunnel and the crowd erupted with noise.

"BETTER LATE THAN NEVER SPORTS FANS!"

She grumbled her disappointment at the statement and trudged forward towards the center stage where her opponent was already waiting. Tsunotori gave her big blue eyes, visibly gasping as Suri finally made her appearance. There was excitement and nervousness in her eyes which quickly turned downward into worry and hesitation. Midnight did the same.

"NOW FOR OUR NEXT MATCH, WE'VE GOT UA'S AMERICAN TRANSFER STUDENTS GETTING READY TO DUKE IT OUT! FROM CLASS 1-B, WE'VE GOT THE POWERHOUSE COWGIRL, PONY TSUNOTORI!"

Tsunotori jumped at the mention of her name and nervously looked to the crowd and gave them a shy wave and smile before turning her worry-filled focus back to Suri.

"AND FROM CLASS 1-A, WE'VE GOT THE SELF PROCLAIMED BEAST QUEEN HERSELF, SURI KUROYASHI!"

Suri stepped to the center of the ring with Tsunotori standing a yard or so away from her. The horse girl looked at Suri and then to Midnight. The R Rated hero was quickly taking a couple steps to her and looked hard into Suri's golden green eyes. Midnight visibly didn't like what she saw in them.

"Kuroyashi, you don't look well. Recovery Girl already radioed in that you had prematurely left her care. Is that true?"

"I was just a little dizzy and I'm a little sore from my Quirk. It's no big deal," she gave Midnight a full weighted gaze. "I'll be fine."

She heard Present Mic in the background talking to Aizawa away from the microphones, they too saw that she wasn't at one hundred percent either. It only made Suri furrow her brow to a scowl as she turned her attention towards Tsunotori.

"K-Kuroyashi, really," Pony whined and looked scared. Not for herself but for the clearly injured Suri in front of her. "I don't wanna win like this either but you can barely walk and stand up. I-"

"Honey, I appreciate that you're worried about me but," she lowered into her pouncing position, "don't you dare hold back. Got it?"

"R-Right! If you're sure..."

Suri nodded and closed her eyes. It was then she realized a new problem that she should have been noticing the entire time. Atiena, her beast, was… gone. She swallowed the fear that had instantly tried to swell and forced herself to look forward.

"Let the match begin!" Midnight called out, letting her flogger go skyward.

Suri growled and rushed forward on human legs, at human speed. The pain that filled her entire body surged and throbbed harshly. It made her stumble. She forced harder again and the sound of blood rushing filled her ears. Her head became heavy again in an instant and her eyes felt as heavy as bricks. She stumbled again and she watched the ground coming for her again. Darkness swelled and filled her vision and in that second she felt nothing.

Absolute nothingness.

Suri knew she had collapsed. Blacked out in front of millions of people, in front of her friends, in front of the people that were worried for her and that she'd pushed away. Stupid. So fucking stupid but… she had no choice but to try right? Either way, what's done was done. She had made for one last push, gambled on her health, and came up short. That was it. Sports festival? Over. Her time at UA? Over. Her friends? Gone. Her beast? She was gone too.

It was all over with.

And just like that, she was alone.

Again.

She felt herself drifting through darkness, weightless and empty, completely and utterly lost to herself and everyone around her. The presence that had always inhabited a part of her heart and soul was gone. The spot that Tooru, Mina, Izuku, all of her friends had started to fill was gone. There was nothing left.

She questioned everything again as the pressure of loneliness swallowed her whole again.

What happened?

Where did she go wrong?

Her eyes fluttered open and she saw Mathias' face. It was like it had been all those months ago on that night. Then she looked around and saw where she was.

Oh… Yeah.

The night everything went wrong.

"Mathias, I have a bad feeling about this," Suri was pacing, arms crossed tightly under her breasts, as her bare feet padded against the earth and brush beneath them. Her heart was racing and something just didn't feel right. She felt an overwhelming sense of dread. Not because she didn't trust Mathias in a fight, hell he was second only to dad and was one of the most powerful werewolves she had ever met or known.

"Suri," her oldest brother said in his wonderfully sweet tone. "Come on, look at me."

He gave her a huge smile as his large hands came down on her shoulders, stopping her and turning him to face him. He was taller by nearly a foot, an inch or two taller than their dad, and just as muscular and broad. He was a warm mountain of confidence and love and was the rock that kept the Aspen Throne Clan standing steady and firm while their dad was busy with his pro hero work. He was the clan's Ulfric and de facto leader of every werewolf in the state of Utah as well as a respected leader among the other wereanimals and vampires in the state, and surrounding rocky mountain region. Most importantly he was her Ulfric. Her Wolf King. He was the one she turned to whenever she needed help, advice, or needed someone to talk to.

He was the best big brother in the world.

"This is just like every other time he's challenged me for Ulfric."

Suri whined and looked up into her oldest brother's eyes.

"I know, and we never back down and don't bitch out. I know. And I know he challenges you a lot and you two have a lot of history but," she clenched her fists. "Mathias, he threatened us. All of us. And not just guy talk either. I can deal with the usual leches and pervs, you know that. You and my mom are the reason I swear and say shit worse than most anyone. You know it doesn't bother me that much. This time though… he was serious about what he said. And dad didn't take me seriously either."

"Suri," he gave her a firm look. "I'm not saying I don't believe you. Honestly, that kinda shit is just going to make me hit him harder. I'm going to put him in his place for saying he'd rape my little sister and our moms. Trust me. He's not getting away with that shit. I'm going to remind him who his king is."

"I just," she growled out in frustration. "Let me challenge him instead. Let me at him or at least let me help you."

"No."

"Mathias, I-"

"No, Suri. He's made a challenge for Ulfric, I'm honor bound to accept that. And we," he looked her dead in the eye, "are bound by our ancestors to honor the law of the pack. I cannot let you help me, and you can't jump in like I know you want to. Don't tell me you don't, cause I can see it in your eyes. They're wilder than usual tonight."

Suri pouted and looked away. He knew her too well.

"Just promise me, Wild Eyes, you won't do anything I would do," he gave her a smirk. "Or you would do. We can't afford to look weak in front of the pack. And I promise, when I kick his ass tonight, I'll remind him that no one ever talks to my baby sister like that. Just promise me, you'll let me give him that message."

"Fine," Suri sighed, hanging her head and trying to swallow back that feeling in her gut, forcing it away. "I promise."

Suri blinked and she was in the forest clearing again. Empty and alone and surrounded by thick pitch black darkness. She was sitting on the edge of the massive stone at the head of the clearing and shivered from how cold it felt in here. It had usually been so warm.

Was that because of Atiena's presence?

Speaking of the massive beast…

Suri looked around again.

"I broke my promise to Mathias and turned everyone against me," she sighed and looked up towards the fake full moon her mind created for this place. "Then, of course, like the little piece of shit I am, I ran. Gee, who would've guessed I wouldn't face my own issues? But hey, Grandma's was fun. Sort of. Still can't believe I got into UA but maybe I could've gotten in all along if I had just stayed fucking still that night. Why couldn't I listen? Why did I jump in, even after I promised? Guess it's fitting that I lose you too, huh?"

Silence.

Suri choked a laugh and looked around again before her eyes started growing heavy. Her cheeks began to burn and soon enough, tears were pouring.

"Atiena!"

She screamed it. Hoarse and pained as she called out around the lump swelling in her throat that made it so hard to talk and breathe.

"Atiena!"

She screamed again. This one was more strained as she collapsed into herself and fell to the ground on her hands and knees. She clawed her fingers into the dirt and began to bawl, letting her tears soak into the dirt below her.

"Ati-" she choked and couldn't finish her words.

She cried and bawled for what seemed like an hour into the cold empty night. She was heaving and beginning to hyperventilate when the air in the clearing started to warm around her. Then she felt fingers. Soft delicate touches of fingertips along the backs of her palms before they spread over and cupped her hands in theirs. Suri slowly raised her head and looked forward and was met with a pair of piercing eyes. They were entirely black except for the irises. The irises were as bright as small suns, glowing with chartreuse fire. Green gold that matched her own. In fact, they belonged to a woman, human looking, though not just human, they belonged to Suri. It was Suri, except not. She was older. Perfect and absolutely beautiful. Her complexion was slightly darker than Suri's and her hair, while shaved on the sides like Suri had hers, was a beautiful curtain of long braided dreadlocks that were easily hip length. Their bodies were almost identical, which was easy to tell because the woman was nude, maybe a few inches taller and slightly wider hips.

To Suri, she imagined one of two things, this is what she would look like with a few more years tacked on, or what an older sister would look like if she had had one. The woman gave a soft smile to Suri and then leaned in and laid her full, warm lips against the girl's forehead.

"You called," she whispered softly in a low, husky tone that Suri instantly recognized.

"Y-you're… how?" she sniffled and swallowed down her fear and sadness as best as she could and leaned back to stare at the woman.

"That," she sighed, leaning back and looking at herself, "is something I have wondered as well. The last I remember is father yelling at us, his energy, and then… nothing."

"His energy?" Suri questioned. "Like, I know I felt it. Dad's energy has always been like that where it just weighs you down and it's hard to breathe. Not like Grandma's, her energy…"

"Feels more like home," Atiena finished.

"That's the Wave of Dominance isn't it? What dad hit us with," Suri asked, looking into Atiena's eyes with curiosity.

"Mmm," she nodded back. "It was."

Then Suri had a thought.

"Is that… what we hit everyone with back when the villains broke into UA and we were stuck in the hallway?" Suri hoped and prayed that she hadn't hit her friends with something that. The look in Atiena's eyes was not comforting.

"I believe so, yes. The way his energy hit us felt like the way that we lashed out that day."

"Shit," Suri groaned sadly. "We hurt those around us, didn't we?"

"Yes," Atiena answered back in a regretful tone.

Suri sighed and lowered her head. She felt remorseful as she thought about those they had unintentionally hurt. Especially those who were closest to them. Especially… Tooru. She thought about how much that had to have hurt her invisible friend and then thought about how, even after, Tooru still stuck by her the best she could. Sure there was the week of distance she had put between her and Suri. The more Suri thought about why she would have stayed away, the more she felt like Tooru was just trying to come to terms with herself. Her thoughts of Tooru made her smile and lift her head a little only to be met with another quite distracting sight.

"So umm, Atiena," Suri felt her cheeks burning as she looked away. "Is this…"

Suri motioned wantonly towards the naked woman.

"Is this what… future us… will look like?"

Atiena blinked and looked at Suri, confused for a moment, and then looked down at herself. Her mouth made an 'oh' shape as she inspected herself more and then looked back up towards Suri. She leaned back on her haunches and held her arms out to present herself on full display.

"I believe that this would be my human form if I were to be my own being. But, yes, I believe you should expect to," she gestured, searching for the words,"fill out, as you would say, to this."

Suri gave her beast another once over and mouthed a wow.

"I'm gonna have to make notes on future updates to our hero costume then cause… damn."

Atiena blinked and then grinned wide, baring fangs. She moved her arms down to clasp her hands onto her wonderfully thick thighs, which made her arms push her breasts up and together tight. She was putting herself on display even more, all to tease her human side.

"Oh? You enjoy the view?"

Suri rolled her eyes and shook her head with a laugh.

"C'mon, you and I share a mind, body, and soul. You know damn well what we like."

"Suri!"

A sudden voice from the nothingness startled both Suri and Atiena and their eyes began darting through the darkness and the forest clearing. They both rapidly searched for where the voice came from before they both looked skyward hearing it again.

"Suri!"

Atiena closed her eyes and tilted her head like she could hear something that no one else could. Suri stared at her in confusion and then back towards the sky. She recognized the voice that was calling to her. That sweet, wonderful voice that she had hoped she'd never hear full of worry again not too long ago.

"It's Tooru but she's not inside here, right?"

"Mmm," Atiena shook her head softly, letting her long braids wave gently. "No, but she is near us. I believe I can scent her. She is outside, where our body lies."

The beast, in woman form, stood onto her feet and held a hand out to Suri. The younger girl took it and was pulled upwards onto her feet in front of the woman who then brought her arms up to cup Suri's head. She held the girl gently and lowered herself just enough to press her forehead to Suri's own as the human girl slipped her arms around the back of Atiena's neck. They embraced softly, holding foreheads together and touching noses before they both began to take long, deep breaths.

"You must wake, Suri," Atiena let out a soft, warm purr. "Go to our Tooru."

Suri nodded and focused. Put all of her thoughts into waking up and coming out of her dream world. She hesitated only briefly to ask her beast side something.

"You'll still be here right?" Suri had a hint of pleading in her voice.

"We cannot exist one without the other. I will always be here, my dear."

"I feel stupid," she chuckled softly in response. "For feeling alone all those times."

"Nah, not stupid," Atiena smiled. "Young and naive. I believe that is what happens between us and our human sides for every lycanthrope. Not that that's a bad thing but, for now, there is someone who is alone. Let us show her that is not the truth."

Suri grinned and nodded, closing her eyes and feeling a weight in her head begin to throb. It felt like her brain was pushing on her skull, not in pain, but just pressure. That pressure built until her eyes grew heavy, so heavy that they did begin to hurt. The pain flooded her until her mind and eyes filled with white. The white was blinding and soon her eyes began to sting and her ears pounded and rang with the sound of her heart thudding inside them. She could hear her blood flowing like an ocean inside her ears and, between that and the blinding white in her eyes, it crescendoed.

The crescendo of sound, pain, and blindness built like a dam. It built until everything was so loud and her body was so achy until finally… nothing. Her eyes opened and the blinding light and the ear filling noise was just gone. Gone as her eyes opened and she was met with an all familiar sight of the ceiling that happened to belong to Recovery Girl's office. Her eyes began to trace over the texture of the ceiling panels and she fought the urge to start counting the holes like they were stars.

She heard the faint sounds of shouting towards one of the corners of the room. If they were in the room, they were doing that whisper shouting where you want to yell at the person but don't want to disturb people still in the room. In this case; sleeping patients. She recognized the voices of three people; the old warmth of her grandma, the small boom of All Might, and then the thick growl of her father. She took a deep breath and let it out in a long, slow release. She did not want to be here right now. Then her nose flared, taking in the lovely, sweet scent of cherries and cream candies. She knew that scent and it made her lips curl into a small smile as she turned her head to her left and found a shadowy mass next to her laying against the bed. Her fingers then registered the feel of smaller ones entangled in them and the feel of a palm rest over the top of her left hand. She gently squeezed, encasing them in hers and felt the person they belong to flinch in surprise.

The shadowy figure raised their head and Suri could see beads of tears still resting on their cheeks. The mass then lunged forward and wrapped Suri up, laying their arms over her body and nestling their head into the cross of her right shoulder. The fingers had left Suri's left hand and now cradled the back of Suri's neck. Suri simply smiled and brought her right hand to cup the back of Tooru's head and tangle her fingers into the invisible girl's hair. All the while her left was trapped under the press of the girl's stomach, which wasn't bad per say, but it wanted to wrap around the girl's hips.

"Morning beautiful," Suri whispered with a smile.

Tooru grumbled, one Suri recognized as a pout, as she raised up and then the beast girl watched the nearly invisible movement of… something. That something soon registered to Suri as she felt a hard, forceful flick of a fingernail against her forehead. The pain was sharp, instant, and fleeting but made the beast girl flinch all the same. Her eyes opened to the sight of a tear rolling down the invisible girl's cheek.

"Don't. Don't you dare," she growled at Suri.

Suri in response let the smile die and be replaced by a look of regret and a million apologies. Then her head turned to the opposite side of the room in the far corner where one of the privacy sheets had been pulled. Though, in the setting sun light, it only helped to silhouette the figures behind the sheet in dark shadows. Wait, setting sun? How long had she been out? She closed her eyes and focused on what was being said and frowned at the conversation.

"... funny, Nezu never thought to mention this to her teachers. That includes myself, Demitrius."

"And neither you or Moan had told me your intentions here."

"My apologies, mother. We weren't trying to lie to you in any way and I ultimately made the decision involving our daughter"

"Demitri, dear, you can't do this to her. Do you not see what she's made for herself here?"

"I know, mother. And I'm not saying she can't come back. Those friendships will still be there. But you know I have to do this by pack law. Your pard will not back you on harboring her here, I've heard some of the things they've said about her."

"And the pack hasn't? Again, funny that the pack has been far more accepting of me than your own flesh and blood."

"You seem to forget who you are, Toshinori, my friend."

"As do you, Demitius, my friend. I understand the reasons it needs to be done but I'm in agreeance that this was an act of self defense. She shouldn't be punished like this. It's not fair to her to be taken away like this."

"Are you really going?" Tooru whispered softly in a pitious tone.

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Suri whispered back in a soft growl. She began pushing upwards to sit up and Tooru backed enough to let her. Her left hand, now freed from under Tooru, came up to cup the other girl's forehead and press herself tightly in a makeshift hug.

"It's not fair, Toshi, to be thousands of miles away and watch the news reports of Alpha's only daughter injured in a villain attack on UA. It's not fair to have reporters question her state and health when she's too far away for me to know. Do you know how hard it was to come up with lies to the press about her?"

"And I'm sorry for that," Suri spoke loudly, glaring towards the three shapes. "I… should have called. I'm sorry for avoiding you and mom the way I have been."

The curtain opened slowly to reveal the three figures, all with mixed faces of worry, regret, remorse, and understanding.

"But," Suri took a deep breath, "that was no excuse to use your Wave of Dominance on me and Atiena, twice."

"Twice?!" Both All Might and Grandma Kuroyashi raised their voices in shock and then looked to her dad with horror.

"Dammit, Demitrius, what the hell? You only do that on villains you deem as high risk!"

"What were you thinking? Son, you know what that can do to us."

Grandma Kuroyashi emphasized the us for good reason.

"Yeah, he did a hell of a number on me and probably worse to her," she gave him a cold smirk and pointed to her heart. Her dad stood frozen, something of a look that said he was taking time to register something. Something important.

"Atiena," he half laughed. "I haven't heard that name in so long."

Everyone turned to stare at the man. He simply ignored the looks and stared at his daughter for a long, hard moment. He finally relented, letting out a deep sigh and closing his eyes.

"It's a story for another day but, gods, now everything makes so much more sense."

There was a long moment of silence. Suri took a long look at this new expression on her dad's face and let her eyes narrow as another resolve came over her.

"I'm not leaving, UA, dad. I'm sorry that I'm not coming back with you but I told you before, I'm making something here. I belong here. And my friends need me here, not thousands of miles away. And when you do go back, take a message to those in the pack that want to try for me in a couple years. Bring their A game because my pack, we are not to be taken lightly."

Almost as if on cue, the door to the nurse's office slid open, and nearly half of Class 1-A poured in and surrounded Suri's bed. They all shared worried expressions that faded to soft looks of relief and joy as they saw her up and talking as if nothing had happened. Suri didn't even care that she was still embracing Tooru, that was until Mina squeezed both of them tight, muttering how worried she was. With her two best friends sandwiched against her, her dad's expression softened even further.

Her eyes then met Izuku's as he looked between her, his mentor, and Suri's family members. He looked a question at her and she nodded, mouthing, I'm okay, to her greenette friend. She then saw Kirishima who had one of those fanboy looks on his face like Izuku usually did around pro heroes. Apparently, he was a fan. Though that didn't surprise her with his obsession with manliness when the most masculine hero of America was standing in front of him.

Turning back to her classmates she found one there that was a bit of a surprise to see, mostly because she wasn't a member of 1-A. And the worry on her face was more than deserved when the last she had seen Suri was falling flat on her face in the arena. Suri flashed Tsunotori a smile and that seemed to make the girl let out a bated breath and she smiled in return.

"Guess introductions are in order," Suri smirked, looking from her friends back to the three in the corner. "This is my Grandma Kuroyashi, formerly known as Whiplash. And next to her is Demitrius Okwondu, better known as Alpha. My dad."