Case File #2: Hagakure Toru

"Dear diary, I think my nurse/assistant is talking to himself again."

"I didn't know the winter is coming."

Izuku looked up from the gigantic medical book that Chiyo forced him to squeeze the contents into his head. Over at the desk, Chiyo set the phone down with another tired look.

"1-A." She explained without a retort at the joke. "Tosh- The Hero Foundation's teacher thought it would be great to conduct Quirk Combat on their first week at school. All without safety guidelines nor precautions!"

"That's... dangerous." Izuku set the book down and went over to help his mentor with preparing medical supplies. "Shouldn't this be their first time using their Quirk against another human being?"

"Yes!" Chiyo confirmed. "And yet that blond oaf thought it would be nice to pitch those teenagers against one another! I swear, if not for that stupid Quirk of his, I would already have beaten him to death with this cane!"

Ignoring the blond and mysterious Quirk part, Izuku chuckled awkwardly as he received the frost-burn treatments. "I don't think doctors are supposed to kill people, Recovery Girl."

"You took that oath last week, not me." Chiyo casually remarked. "Why do you think I always have a cane with me?"

"... Because you're going to crumble without it?"

"Hah! Youngsters these days, underestimating their elders!" Chiyo laughed. "I'll have you know I used to bench press All Might when I was young!"

"Was it after you took your dinosaur out for a walk, grandm-" Izuku got cut off with a bottle of medicine threw at his face.

"Don't use the G word with me, young man. I am the Youthful Heroine." She commanded, before kissing Izuku on the nose to heal him.

"My bad." Izuku rubbed his once injured nose. "Back to the main topic. Why are we prepping frost-burn medical supplies?"

"One of the students decided to freeze an entire building in one-shot to win the exercise." Chiyo explained. "Two students were caught in the glacier. One just needs a blanket to cool down. The other one, however, wasn't wearing any sort of clothes so the caught the worst of it."

"I see." Izuku nodded as he looked at the tablet displaying a building engulfed in ice. Suddenly, Chiyo's words hit him harder than any punches he ever received. "What do you mean by 'wasn't wearing any sort of clothes'?"

Chiyo then handed him a table containing Hagakure Toru's file and watched his reaction. Just as she and Nezu expected, Izuku wore the most flabbergasted expression ever as he read through the information.

"Oh, hey, Hagakure-san!" Izuku waved towards the empty chair in the corner as he entered.

Surprised by her name being called out of the blue, Toru turned towards the door and found the school's her favorite nurse strolled inside, looking as tired as ever. However, before she could voice her concern, another beat her to it.

"Nurse!" An energetic, cheerful voice spoke up loudly. "Why do you look like you haven't sleep for three days straight?"

"I sleep just fine, Hatsume-san." Izuku answered as he rubbed his panda-looking eyes. "I just came back from a mission with Chiyo-sensei. Some villains just don't get that people rest during weekends."

"Shouldn't you be resting, then?" Mei looked at him with concern. At the side, quietly, Toru got closer to Izuku and inspected his eyepatches. He looked like he could barely keep his eyes open.

"I am about to." Izuku nodded. "Are you joining me in bed?"

Mei and Toru's brains shut down right there.

Not noticing the two girls in front of him froze up, Izuku casually continued. "Remember? Power Loader-sensei asked me to make sure you get enough sleep."

He gently grabbed Mei's hand, who did not react even the slightest, and set the screwdriver she was holding down on a nearby table. "The infirmary is empty right now, so we got our own beds. We could probably get a few hours of sleep in before we have to vacate the room."

Before Izuku left with a still frozen up Mei, he looked over at Toru. "Do you want to come to, Hagakure-san?"

"I- uh- I sleep fine not. You go on with or without me, please." Toru managed to stutter out weird sentences due to her brain not recovering from the previous shock.

"I see." He smiled gently. "Nice braids, by the way. They suit you a lot."

"Wha- How did you know I braided my hair?" Toru asked with a tinge of disbelief in her voice as she unconsciously caressed her braids with a reddened face that she hoped he couldn't tell.

"A hunch you just confirmed for me." Izuku chuckled as he left the room without looking back. "You've been playing with them the moment I got in the room. I just wasn't sure if those were braids or ponytail. Like last time."

"Fr-r-r-r-rost bur-r-r-rn su-u-u-u-ucks!"

Toru's teeth clattered together as Izuku and Chiyo treated her injuries. Izuku focused on wrapping Toru's injuries up while Chiyo carefully kissed her on the right cheek to heal the injuries.

After she made sure there was nothing left for her to do and Izuku could take care of the rest, Chiyo turned towards Izuku.

"I'm going to make sure that blond oaf doesn't send any more students my way. Look over the office for a minute for me, dearie."

"Aight, Aight, RG~."

Satisfied with her student's answer, Chiyo left the room. Toru sat in an awkward silence as she watched the nurse sort out the supplies while whistling a familiar tune that she couldn't place for the life of her.

"Hey, Nurse-san!" Toru finally spoke up, gaining Izuku's attention. "I don't believe I caught your name earlier?"

"It's Midoriya Izuku. 1-C, General Education Department." He introduced himself, not breaking eye contact with her, which was the weirdest thing, in her opinion. "You are Hagakure Toru, correct?"

"Y- Yeah!" Shaking herself off the weird eye contact thing, Toru looked away. "So, you're a nurse? At this age? You've done this before?"

"Not quite." The nurse's smile somehow got softer and kinder than it already was. "Most of my first-aid knowledge came from books and community courses. I did help whoever needed their injuries tend to, but none was this official."

"Must be nice." Toru giggled. "Here I am, failing my first Heroic Lesson."

"I wouldn't say it's your fault." Izuku hummed non-committedly as he checked over the labels of some medicines. "You shouldn't even be put in that situation in the first place. It's only your first lesson, after all. And, whoever made that thing you called a Hero Costume should be put on the gallows."

"It's- It's not that terrible!" Toru stuttered at the casual remarks. "My Quirk is Invisibility. There's not much they can do about my... situation."

"Nuh-uh!"

With a smooth, swift motion, Izuku pulled out a notebook from... somewhere and turned towards the destined page. He revealed the page's content to Toru.

"Ok, first of all, calling your Quirk [Invisibility] is just stupid. How do you think your Quirk works?"

Decided to blow pass the rude remarks, Toru answered. "My body naturally refracts light. That's why I can't be seen."

"Oversimplified." Izuku clicked his tongue. "How do you think light works on our eyes?"

"I... don't?"

"Light needs to hit our eyes so that we can see. If light just went through your eyes, what do you think would happen?"

"... I would be blind...!" Toru realized. "But- But maybe my Quirk has some ways to work around that concept? Quirks are bullshit, after all!"

"Quirks are bullshit. That's without a doubt." Izuku nodded. "But even they obey the law of physics. Sometimes they may work around it, even mess with it. But they do not disregard the natural law of physics. Take my Quirk, for example. I channel my own vitality and transfer it to other people through direct contact, but I can't do it on myself."

Not even pretending to understand the science that came out of Izuku's mouth, Toru asked, anxiously at the implications of Izuku's word. "Then- Then how does my Quirk related to any of this?"

"My theory is you aren't completely invisible." Izuku proudly announced his theory, missing Toru's hitched breath. "Your pupils must be visible in the smallest, thinnest way possible to allow you to see. It's invisible to the human's eyes, but it's there. It's visible. That's how you can see. If you can figure out how it works, you may be able to switch between invisibility and visibility with a simple flick of a finger. How does that relate to your Hero Costume, you may ask? Well, a skintight suit tailored with your specific DNA can turn invisible and visible with you, so you won't have to walk around in your baby's uniform anymore. Well, it's not technically a baby's uniform because of the gloves and boots, but it's preposterous, nonetheless. No one should walk around like that even if they can't be se-"

"I can... become visible?"

With one simple sentence, Toru made Izuku stop in the middle of his ranting. Not understanding the heavy implications behind those words, Izuku answered.

"Theoretically speaking, at least. It's just a theory. A Quirk theory." He smirked to himself, proud at the joke.

All of a sudden, Toru's silence turned into sobs, and Izuku's brain stopped operating. Although overwhelmed by the sudden show of emotion, Izuku gently grabbed Toru's hand and spoke in the softest tone he could.

"I don't want to give you any false hope, Hagakure-san." Toru sobbed more at Izuku's words. "But as long as it is still a possibility, Recovery Girl and I will work to the graves to make sure you can reach your full potential."

She looked up. In front her was still the same set of viridian eyes. But the tiredness it had was completely replaced by determination and assurance. Not once did they break away from her own.

For the first time ever in her life, Toru could feel someone looking at her.

"Where are those notebooks coming from, by the way?" Setsuna asked, eyes still staring at Izuku's back in disbelief.

"What notebooks?" Izuku replied cluelessly as he continued his writing.

"That!" Setsuna pointed at the notebook Izuku was holding in his hand. In return, Izuku looked at where Setsuna was pointed at and looked back at her with worry.

"You sure Tetsutetsu-san's punch didn't leave a concussion?"

Setsuna turned towards her great aunt as a last resort, trying to understand the sheer madness that was happening. Much to her disappointment, her aunt just gave her a cup of tea.

"Something aren't for us mortals to know, Setsuna." Chiyo casually said as she sipped her tea. "Learn to live with it. Your live will be much easier."

Setsuna gulped down the cup of tea like it was a bottle of liquor.

"I'll talk with Shuzenji-sensei about your Hero Costume." Izuku assured Toru. "The person who went through with the gloves and boots is already dead. To her, at least. I took an oath, sadly."

Giggling at the joke, Toru mindlessly tugged her invisible hair behind her ears. "Thank you, Midoriya-kun. Honestly. You don't know how much you've helped me."

"It's in the job description." Izuku smiled at her words. "I'll be here if you need help with your Quirk."

"Can I come visit for... you know... lunch and stuff? Time to time?" Toru asked meekly, not daring to meet Izuku's eyes this time.

"Just don't come wearing this again. You don't know how hard it is for me to keep my thoughts at bay."

Before Toru could burst into flame from embarrassment, Izuku continued. "No feelings could describe how angry I am at... this. Gloves and boots...? It's an insult to the Support Industry! Nothing boils my blood more than this."

"R- Right." Toru whistled. "I'm angry, too. Nothing but anger! Definitely only anger!"

A/N: What notebooks? Y'all being crazy.

Also, bro casually brought out the big gun with that bedding offer. Bet Recovery Girl will have a stroke coming, finding two (three?) teenagers sleeping together on separate beds in her infirmary.

Lord knows who next cause I surely don't.