Chapter 25: Like Father, Like Daughter.
Doctor Ling arrives a little before 6 that evening for your next treatment. Her quirk is very fascinating: she creates a powerful healing salve by absorbing water through her skin and mixing it with her blood inside her body. She then excretes the salve through the pores of her skin like sweat. Of course, since she has to use her blood to create the salve, she can't use it for very long and needs to rest for a certain amount of time before she can use her quirk again. Which is why she had to do your treatment in two parts; the first taking place when you were first brought into the hospital, unconscious and on the verge of death. However, you're conscious for the second treatment and you're amazed by her quirk.
The treatment goes well; your skin is regrown and it turns out that your fallopian tube wasn't damaged in the fight, but Doctor Ling can't do anything about your left eye since her quirk can't be applied to the eyes. She then tells you that you will be free to go at noon tomorrow.
After Doctor Ling leaves, you call Toshinori to give him an update. He promises to pick you up tomorrow and take you to see Recovery Girl. The two of you then spend the next hour talking about how Izuku's training went and what Toshinori has planned for Izuku's next phase of training.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Toshinori arrives about an hour before noon the next day with a set of clothes from your apartment. "I'm so sorry for entering your apartment when you weren't there, (Y/N), but I figured you would want some fresh clothes for today." Toshinori apologizes while sitting a bag down on your bed.
You laugh and sit up in bed, "It's fine, Toshi. That's why I gave you my extra key. Thank you." You open the bag and pull out a pair of blue, light blue, yellow, white, and pink tye-dye pants, a white t-shirt, and a pair of lacey red panties. "Dahahaha! Did you have fun going through my panty drawer?" You tease him with a wink. "I see you picked a pair that are your favorite color."
Toshinori's cheeks turn crimson in embarrassment, "I...I, uh," he covers his mouth with his hand as he starts to cough and a little bit of blood stains his hand.
You manage to stand up, "Are you okay?"
Toshinori nods and wipes his hand clean with the handkerchief from his pants pocket. "Yes, I'm fine. Do you want me to leave the room while you get dressed?"
You look at him in amusement then teasingly say, "You've already seen me naked several times so what would be the point, love?"
Toshinori's cheeks turn red again as you remove the hospital gown, exposing your body to him as you begin to get dressed. After you're dressed, the two of you leave the room and you check out of the hospital. You two take a train to U.A., Toshinori fussing over you by asking you if you're alright every few minutes. In all honesty, it's equal parts cute and frustrating to you.
You arrive at the gates of the school and Toshinori scans his badge to let you both into the school. As you walk past the gate Toshinori tells you, "Oh, by the way, Nezu has your ID badge from when you left it on the bus at the USJ. So we'll have to see him before we leave."
"No problem. I'm just glad that a villain didn't take it."
You and Toshinori walk side by side through the empty halls of U.A. in comfortable silence. You come to a stop just outside of Recovery Girl's office then you turn to look at Toshinori and ask, "Toshi, do you want to come over tonight to watch a movie? Maybe fool around a little?"
Toshinori's cheeks turn slightly pink, "You just got out of the hospital...are you sure that we should be...fooling around...so soon? What if I hurt you?"
You smile at him, "You won't. I trust you...And besides, I'm pretty much fully healed besides my eye." You get up on your tiptoes to place a quick kiss on his lips. You then fall back flat on your feet and look up at his face. You give him a mischievous smile and say, "If it will make you feel better, I can ask Recovery Girl if it's okay for us to have sex." Toshinori's blush intensifies causing you to laugh. "You are so adorable." You lean up and kiss him on the cheek before opening the door and walking inside. "Recovery Girl? I'm here for my check-up," you say loudly.
The elderly healer is sitting behind a computer facing away from the door, but she turns around in the rolling chair at the sound of your voice. She stands up from her chair then walks over to you. "It's good to see that you're up and walking around, (Y/N)." She then smacks your right shin with her needle cane.
"Ow!" You cry out and bend down to grab at your hurt shin and the feisty older hero smacks you on the head with her cane. Your hand flies up to your head to where her cane hit you, "What was that for?"
"For being so careless and nearly dying, you stupid girl." She starts to walk over to an empty hospital bed, "Now, come over here and sit. We'll see if there is anything that I can do for your eye." You walk over to the bed and sit down with Toshinori right beside you. "But first..." She wackes Toshinori's shin with her cane.
"Ow! What'd I do?" He asks while slightly hopping up and down holding his shin.
"You were irresponsible and put (Y/N) in that position in the first place."
Toshinori looks down in shame and you frown at Recovery Girl, "That's enough, Chiyo. Toshinori isn't to blame. It isn't his fault if he wants to help everyone who needs it... that's what makes him a true hero. Besides, if I hadn't have been there to deal with that second Nomu, things would have been much worse."
Recovery Girl nods, "I agree, but you both need to be more careful from now. Especially you, (Y/N)...you don't have a lot of limbs left to spare."
You grin mischievously, "I think I still have a little wiggle room to be careless. After all, I still have two ears, two legs, two kidneys, and two lungs."
Recovery Girl bops you over the head again, "Lay down so that I can tend to you, you silly girl." You do as she says and as soon as you're settled she starts to remove the bandage that's covering your eye. Recovery Girl puckers her lips, making smooching noises, and kisses your forehead.
You feel the power of her quirk coursing through your body and sudden exhaustion hits you causing you to yawn loudly. She then asks you to close your right eye then open your left. You do as she says and she inquires, "Can you see anything?"
"I can see light, colors, and vague blurry objects, but that's it." You turn your head to look at Toshinori and give him a huge grin. "You look even more like a sunflower now, Toshi-Kun."
Toshinori and Recovery Girl both let out short amused chuckles before Recovery Girl becomes serious again. "Well, the good news is that your eye is working...The bad news is that your sight is so bad that you are legally blind in that eye now." You frown, open your right eye, and sit up on the bed facing Recovery Girl with your legs dangling over the side. "Because your right eye is still functioning perfectly but your left isn't you have monocular vision. It's going to take some time to get adjusted and you're going to initially have trouble with depth perception...So you need to be careful while going up and down stairs until you get used to your new eyesight."
Recovery Girl then goes on to give you tips and advises you to get regular eye exams. "Oh, before I forget," you say with a wicked grin on your face, hell-bent on embarrassing your lover. "Is it safe for me and Toshi to have sex?"
Toshinori's face is crimson and he is fiddling with his fingers and looking anywhere but at you and Recovery Girl. You chuckle at how adorable he is when he's embarrassed. Recovery Girl raises her eyebrows and chuckles lightly at the number one hero. "It's fine as long as you're not too rough...So no really kinky stuff for a while." Blood bursts from Toshinori's mouth from his surprise at this sweet, grandmotherly woman mentioning kinky sex. You burst out laughing and nearly fall over backward off of the bed.
Once everyone calms down, you thank Recovery Girl for her help before leaving her office with Toshinori. As the two of you begin to make your way to Nezu's office you ask Toshinori, "Do you want to stop somewhere for lunch after we get done here?"
"Unfortunately, I can't. I have to patrol the city. But we can stop and get you some takeout if you want."
You yawn then shake your head, "I think I just want to go straight home and go to sleep."
He nods, "That's a good idea. You should rest for the next few days."
You arrive at Nezu's office and knock. He tells you to enter and you open the door and walk inside Toshinori following closely behind you. You explain what Recovery Girl just told you about your eye to the small furry mouse-bear-ferret principal over tea and biscuits. He then gives you back your badge and thanks you for protecting the students. You say goodbye to Nezu before leaving his office and exiting the school.
Toshinori walks with you to your apartment making small talk about what movie you'd like to watch tonight. The two of you finally settle on Casablanca as you reach the door of your apartment; Toshinori having to help you only once as you walked up the stairs. You unlock the door, but don't walk inside just yet. "Thanks for escorting me today, sunflower-Kun." You stand up on your toes and Toshinori bends down slightly. Your lips meet in a passionate kiss. You wrap your arm around his slender neck and deepen the kiss. After a couple of minutes, you break the kiss and say, "I love you, Toshinori."
He gives you a bright smile and his eyes seem to glow brighter. "I love you too, (Y/N)." He pulls you up against his body then captures your lips again. Your lips move in sync with his for a few moments before he pulls away and presses his forehead against yours. "I'm so glad that you're okay...At the USJ, I was so scared that I had lost you. I thought...I thought that I had failed to protect you just like I failed to protect my mentor Nana years ago..."
You move back slightly to look up at his face. You see a couple of tears slide down his face and reach up to wipe them away. "Hey, I don't want to hear you say anything like again. You are not a failure Toshinori Yagi. It wasn't your fault that I was injured and, even though I don't know what may have happened, I'm sure that whatever happened to your mentor wasn't your fault either. Don't let your mind get caught up in the 'what if this had happened' moments and just live in the present. I'm alive, Toshi, and that's all that matters."
Toshinori laughs a little, "Nana would have adored you."
You smile, "What did I just say, huh?" You smack his arm playfully causing him to laugh harder.
Suddenly, Toshinori's phone goes off and he pulls it out of his pocket. "Damn, I'm going to be late. I've got to go, but I'll see you tonight," he gives you a quick kiss on the lips.
"See you tonight, sunflower-Kun." Toshinori walks away and you open the door and enter your apartment. You slip off your shoes, lock the door, then make your way to your bedroom. You lay down on your bed and almost instantly fall asleep.
-*-*A FEW HOURS LATER*-*-*
"Rise and shine, princess!" A male voice shouts and a second later you're sent bouncing into the air when another larger and heavier body lands on your bed.
"Eek!" You shriek in surprise and your eyes snap open. Your body gently lands back on to your queen-sized bed and you immediately turn your head to look at whoever woke you up with your good eye. "Daddy!" You throw yourself on top of him and give him as tight of a bear hug that you can with only one arm.
He hugs you back just as tight, "Hi, baby girl. How are you doing?"
The two of you release each other and sit up. "I'm doing okay, daddy." He all of a sudden hits you hard on top of the head, "Ow!"
"That's for being a reckless idiot and scaring me!" He yells then kisses you on the forehead, "And that's for surviving. When my glass shattered I was so scared that you were dead (Y/N)."
You rub the top of your head and wince slightly in pain, "I'm guessing Dracule filled you in on what happened and about my injuries."
"He did. What did the doctors say about your eye?"
"Recovery Girl said my left eye still works, but not very well. I have monocular vision now and will have trouble with depth perception."
Shanks reaches out and touches the small scar over your eye left by the amount of pressure the Nomu used. "When you were about 8 years old you told me that you wanted to be just like me when you grew up." He laughs, "Dahahaha! I didn't think you meant it literally!" You laugh as well; your laughter a feminine version of your father's. After you both stop laughing, your father jumps up from your bed in excitement, a huge grin on his face. "This calls for a celebration! You're alive and well so let's go out and drink to celebrate your victory!"
You laugh, "I would love to daddy, but I already made plans with Toshinori. He's coming over in about..." You look over at the digital alarm clock on the nightstand beside your bed, "an hour and a half to watch a movie."
Your dad gives you a bored look, "That sounds a little dull. Come on, princess, we need to go out and party! I'm only going to be in town for a little while...You've got to show me the best bars in town before I leave. Toshinori can even join us if he wants...This will be an excellent way for him and me to get to know each other."
You rub the back of your head, "I don't know daddy. Toshinori doesn't drink, he might not be comfortable going with us."
Shanks pouts before an idea crosses his mind and his big goofy smile returns. "We could go to a karaoke bar! That way we can all have fun together, even if Toshinori doesn't want to join us in drinking!"
You ask, "Is Benn here?"
"While Benn is my best friend and keeps me out of trouble...usually...he didn't come with me this time. After the omen I received about your death, I sort of rushed off and left Benn in charge of things while I'm gone. He and a few of the others should be coming to Japan for the Sports Festival though."
You laugh at his comment, "I've always felt sorry for Benn because he has the impossible task of keeping you out of trouble."
Your father laughs loudly, "From what I know and what I've heard, you're giving me quite the run for my money in the troublemaking department, princess." You and your father both laugh joyously. "Give Toshinori a call and see if he's willing to come along with us tonight. If not, I'll leave you two to your little date tonight and, hopefully, you'll start on giving me some grandchildren." Your father teases you causing you to blush slightly.
"Daaadddyyy," you whine and he ruffles your hair before leaving your bedroom to go search for a bottle of saké in the kitchen.
You pick up your phone from the nightstand and call Toshinori. He picks up after two rings, "Hello my dear. How are you? I'm just now heading home from Might Tower. Do you need me to bring you anything?"
"Yes, I need those fine buns of steel of yours." You can hear him coughing in surprise and chuckle. "No, but seriously, Toshi, there's been a change of plans for tonight. My dad just arrived in Japan and he wants to go to a karaoke bar tonight to celebrate. You're invited to come with us if you want, my dad insists on it. We can have a movie night tomorrow instead."
There's a moment of silence on the other end of the line before Toshinori answers, "Yes, I'll go with you tonight since there's something that I want to talk to your father about and I think this will be a good time to ask."
A large smile appears on your face, "Great! I'll see you at nine then! Oh, by the way, what do you need to talk to my dad about?"
"U-uh, u-um...I...I..." Toshinori stutters sounding like he's trying to come up with an excuse on the spot. "I just wanted to ask him if he will help me with Midoriya's training while he's here in Japan."
"Didn't you already ask him that? Well, I'm sure he'll be happy to help, but, I have to warn you that his training methods can be...intense."
"I'll keep that in mind and I'll see you at nine."
"Yep! Bye, Toshi, I'll see you soon!"
"Goodbye, my dear."
You end the call, put the phone down on the bed then shout, "Daddy! Toshi's gonna join us tonight! I'm going to start getting ready!"
"Okay! Don't worry about me, I found the alcohol!" You chuckle at your alcohol loving dad while walking towards your bathroom to take a shower.
*-*-*9 P.M.*-*-*
Toshinori is standing in front of your apartment door with a bouquet of forget-me-nots and white roses. He decided to wear a pair of black slacks and a dark red dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He nervously shifts his weight from one foot to the other before taking a deep breath to try and calm the metaphorical butterflies that are fluttering around in his abdomen. He swallows and his Adam's apple bobs up and down. He raises his right hand then knocks on the door, holding the flowers in front of him and suddenly finding his shoes very fascinating.
The door opens and a cheerful male voice jokingly says, "I'm flattered lad, but you're not my type.
I enjoy the company of women." Toshinori is taken by surprise at the sound of a man's voice and his eyes dart up from his shoes to look at the man standing in your doorway. The first thing that catches Toshinori's attention is the man's bright scarlet hair. The man has warm chocolate-colored eyes with three vertical scars over his left eye and a huge grin on his face that Toshinori has seen so many times on your own. He's also missing his left arm just like you. He's wearing a white button-up shirt that's only halfway buttoned and the left sleeve is rolled up and pinned closed. He is wearing funky brown capris with green vines and weird, spikey yellow flowers and a pair of black sandals. "Dahahaha! You should see the look on your face!" The man laughs which instantly reminds Toshinori of your laugh. "You must be Toshinori! Come on in lad!" The man opens the door all the way and steps aside to let the taller blonde in. Toshinori walks inside then turns back around to face the red-headed man. "Wow, (Y/N) told me that you were tall, but I wasn't expecting you to be over 7 feet."
Toshinori smiles, "Hello, you're (Y/N)'s father Shanks, right?" Toshinori shifts uneasily on his feet when he notices that your father is at least 5 years younger than him. He holds out his right hand for Shanks to shake, "I'm Toshinori Yagi...Uh, but you already knew that."
Shanks laughs and grabs Toshinori's hand, "Relax, Toshinori, there's no need to feel nervous around me. I'm pretty laid-back and easy-going." Shanks releases Toshinori's hand after shaking it and motions for him to lead the way to the living room. "(Y/N) is still getting ready, but she should be done soon." Shanks chuckles, "She must really like you. Normally, she doesn't take this long to get ready just to go to a bar." He looks at the flowers in Toshinori's left hand, "And judging by your choice of flowers, I'd say you feel the same way."
They enter the living room and Shanks sits down on the couch while Toshinori sits on your gray Laz-E-Boy recliner. Toshinori says, "So there seems to be some truth behind that old saying 'like father, like daughter'. You and your daughter are a lot alike."
Shanks nods and chuckles, "I hear that quite a bit. When she was growing up it was just her and me, so it's not too surprising that she adopted some of my mannerisms. What do you do for a living, Toshinori?"
Toshinori rubs the back of his head nervously, "I, uh, work at Might Tower."
Shanks frowns and Toshinori is sure that the younger man knows that he's trying to dodge the question. But before Shanks can say anything about it you walk into the living room. Toshinori's head turns towards you and his cerulean eyes glow brighter when he sees you. You're wearing a low v-cut, black blouse that fits you perfectly; showing off your carves and a good amount of cleavage; with the left arm rolled up and pinned closed. You're also wearing a pair of tan pants with different colored roses printed on them. You've put on a small amount of makeup and fixed your (h/l) (h/c) in your favorite way. You look over at Toshinori and your face lights up with joy. Shanks notices and his bright, cheerful smile returns. "Hi, Toshi-Kun."
Toshinori is immediately on his feet and he walks over to you. "Hello, (Y/N). You look lovely tonight," he holds up the bouquet. "These are for you, my dear."
You give him a loving smile, "Thank you, Toshi. They're beautiful."
"N-not as beautiful as you," Toshinori says a bit awkwardly and with a light blush across his cheeks.
Your smile widens and you stand on your toes to kiss him on one of his boney cheeks. "Forget-me-nots for true love and white roses for innocence or devotion." You then catch a glimpse of your dad who is grinning from ear to ear and practically bouncing up and down on the couch. You raise an eyebrow at him and ask, "What's got you so excited, daddy?"
"The obvious chemistry between the two of you! By the way...I want fifteen grandchildren!" Shanks excitedly exclaims.
Toshinori begins coughing in surprise, but quickly takes a handkerchief out from his pants pocket and covers his mouth. You scuff, "You better have some other kids that I don't know about old man, cause you're not getting that many grandchildren from me." Toshinori manages to stop coughing and wipes the blood from his lips. He tries to discretely put the handkerchief back in his pocket, but Shanks sees the blood covering the simple white cloth. "Let me put these flowers in some water then we can go." You tell the two men then disappear into the kitchen.
Shanks stands up and walks towards the taller man. "Are you alright, Toshinori?" Shanks asked worried, the carefree grin now gone from his face. "I saw the blood..."
Toshinori's eyes widen, "I'm fine...It's the result of an injury that I received several years ago."
Shanks hums and runs his hand over his chin, a habit of his when he's deep in thought. You return from the kitchen and happily ask, "Are you two ready to go?"
Shanks' grin returns, "Of course! Bring on the booze and the wonderful, beautiful women!"
You laugh a little, "Two of your favorite things in the world: alcohol and women."
"Of course! Alcohol makes life a tad more interesting and nothing in the world can beat the wonderful allure of an enchanting woman."
You snort in amusement, "You find ALL women enchanting, daddy."
"That's because they are! No matter their height, shape, weight, or hair all women are truly beautiful! Now, let's go already!"
You giggle and look at Toshinori, "I hope that you're ready for tonight because daddy and I can both be a handful when we're drunk...But when we get drunk together we're a little bit of chaos in human form."
Toshinori chuckles, "I'm sure that I can handle any trouble that you two can get into."
