Two weeks later, things with Kiba had progressed somewhat smoothly, if slower than they would like.
And finally, after countless hours pouring over notes, making new machines and devices, and seemingly endless surgery, Kiba was now in a state where she could stay conscious, and receive visitors.
"How are you feeling?" Izuku asked his daughter as he sat by her bedside.
"I'm ok Daddy," Kiba said. In truth, her body felt super hard to move with, and she still got headaches from time to time, but compared to before she was amazing right now, and she didn't want to worry Izuku. "Hug?"
Izuku smiled. "Of course."
He immediately leaned in and embraced his daughter. And Kiba leaned into his embrace. Unfortunately, she couldn't hug him back, because even in this SEVERLY weaken state, she could still easily hurt Izuku.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through all that. I can't believe how negligent I was." Izuku apologized. "I honestly don't deserve you."
"Don't say that Daddy!" Kiba said with a pout. She honestly didn't even remember how she got taken, or even what led up to it, but she was sure it wasn't his fault. "I'm the one who doesn't deserve you!"
"Oh, Kiba," Izuku said as he hugged her tighter. "Once you get better, let's go out. Just you and me. We can go anywhere you want."
"Can we take the others?" Kiba asked.
Izuku smiled. "Of course, we can. I'm sure they'd be delighted."
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"Kiba!" Fuku sobbed into Kiba's chest while hugging her tightly. "I WASH SHO SCARED!"
"There there Fuku," Kiba assured her, with a sad smile on her face. "Let it all out."
"Promise me you'll never get captured again!" Fuku yelled through her tears. "Promise me!"
"I mean, it's not like I wanted to get captured." Kiba chuckled, but once she saw Fuku's teary-eyed pout, she caved. "Alright, I promise. But first, you have to give yourself a head pat since I can't right now."
"Huh!? Y-You can't be serious!" Fuku pouted.
"I'm super serious," Kiba said with as much of a serious look as she could muster. Which wasn't very effective considering that she didn't have full control over her facial muscles, so it was half-baked at most.
But Fuku fell all the same.
"Fine." Fuku sighed, before bringing her hand to her head, and awkwardly patting it. "There, are you happy?"
"Of course." Kiba giggled. "Thank you. My dearest little sister."
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"Hey, Kiba," Le said as he walked into Kiba's room, for his visit. "Good to see that you're getting better."
"Oh uh….hey….you…" Kiba said awkwardly in response, trying to remember who this was.
Le's eyes widened. "Wait a minute! Do you not rember me!?"
"Sorry, a lot of my memories are missing." Kiba apologized, blushing with embarrassment. "I don't seem to have any memory of you."
Le looked a little offended for a second, before just sighing. "Well, it's not like we knew each other very long. Just have to make sure you remember this time around. Name's Leden. But call me Le. We fought together on Monstra…which is why I need to apologize for letting you get kidnapped."
"I doubt you, LET me get kidnapped," Kiba told him. "But if you really want to make it up to me…could you tell me what happened before I got kidnapped?"
"...I guess," Le said, not looking all too eager. "Some big-shot villains attacked us, and we had to fight a really strong guy. Like, super strong our attacks were doing almost nothing to him. But you were pretty much the only person who could hold him back. Thanks to you we managed to hold him off long enough for Aka to take control of another villain, distract him, and let me teleport them a couple hundred feet into the air. So yeah we kicked ass. But then another villain came in, sucker beamed you when were weakened, and started kicking our assess. And in the struggle, another villain snuck in and took you."
"I see." Kiba took a second to take all that in. "A shame that I let my guard down, but at the very least I thought valiantly until the end! And no one else got hurt."
"You seem to be taking this all pretty well," Le noted, a bit weirded out by how…not upset she seemed by this all.
"Well, I can't remember most of the terrible things that I'm told happened to me." Kiba pointed out, cringing a bit. "Although I still remember some horrible…horrible pain. But most of it's just a blank for me. I'm just glad no one else got hurt. And now that you tell me that I actually helped out a whole lot, I'm feeling even better!"
Le just looked at her, with a bewildered expression, taking a few minutes to try and process what Kiba said before shaking his head clear and shrugging it off. "Well, as long you're happy. When you get better, let's have another fight. I've been practicing, and I heard you have new powers. So let's see who's improved the most."
As Le left, Kiba thought about that offer and looked down at her hands "I'm not sure that's a good idea."
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"Darn, it!" Kioku cried as she took her hands off Kiba's head. "It's not working!"
Kiba frowned. "I thought so."
"I've never seen anything like this before," Kioku explained. "It's like trying to put together a broken pot. But some pieces are so broken you can't touch them without breaking them more, and some pieces are just missing altogether."
"Understandable as that was, I'd appreciate it if you didn't compare my mind to a broken pot," Kiba asked her. "But thank you for trying. And don't look so upset. It ruins your cute little face."
"Hmph." Kioku pouted. "I'm not cute."
Kiba giggled. "Now now now, no lying to the queen."
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Eri pouted, as she took her hands off Kiba, with a very upset expression. "So my quirk really doesn't work on you anymore."
"It's rather ironic how I called myself a vampire queen, and now I really am undead." Kiba chuckled. "That sick doctor had an interesting sense of humor at least."
"Another evil doctor," Eri said under her breath, shuddering a bit. "They're always the worst."
"Agreed. Between him and that Overhaul guy, I wonder whose worse." Kiba wondered.
"I don't really want to think about it," Eri said.
"Right. Sorry, that was foolish of me." Kiba said, before giving Eri a big smile. "I should be thanking you first of all! Without you, I'd still be that monster."
"I didn't really do anything," Eri said. "They're just using my power with those fractals, they're not even taking blood from me anymore."
"It's still pretty enviable. Not many people can bless the world just by existing." Kiba half teased with a smile. "You really are a gift from the heavens my dear sister."
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"Hey there Lady K! Glad to see you're not a monster!" Sori said as she walked into the room.
"You were the cat girl that saved me right?" Kiba asked as she looked at Sori with vague familiarity. "And the same one that broke into our forest and caused all that panic."
"Aww man, is that the only memory you have of me?" Sori said, slouching as she made a disheartened expression. "That blows."
"Unfortunately, only my more important memories are able to be recovered. So if we didn't have a very intimate moment together, I'll remember you less." Kiba explained. "My apologies."
"Nah that's my fault. Guess that means I just have to make some better memories with ya Lady K!" Sori said, getting back into her usual high spirits. "How about we go hunting after this!"
Kiba actually laughed. "Well, you certainly seem like an amusing person…Although I don't think I should go hunting. I'm not sure the forest could handle it."
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There had been a bit of wait after Sori. But Kiba knew she wasn't done with her visitors yet.
Pretty much everyone in the Foundation had paid her a visit. All of them except for one, technically two people that she knew HAD to come.
KRRRRRRRRRR.
The door opened up, and Fu came in. "Hey."
"Don't hey me! Why are you so late!?" Kiba asked, crossing her arms and pouting at her oldest companion.
"Sorry, I wanted to go last because I knew we'd be here for a while." Fu lied.
"I suppose that makes sense." Kiba accepted. "Now come here, I wish to embrace you."
"Seems like your vocab hasn't suffered," Fu noted, as he came over to Kiba, crawling onto her bed, and hugging her.
Then Kiba hugged him back, breaking his ribs and spine, and causing Fu's blood and internal organs to come spilling out of his mouth.
Welcome back, sis. Fu thought.
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"Hello, my loyal minions!" Kiba said to the camera, doing the best pose she could in her bed.
LADY KIBA!
SHE'S BACK!
OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED!?
"I'm sure you must have all missed me dearly! And I am proud of your patience and honored by your concern!" Kiba said dramatically. "I unfortunately came down with a unknown illness, that rendered me unable to make videos for quite some time. But now I've recovered enough to make this announcement!"
Unknown illness? Can't Midoriya tech cure anything? Or use that one girl's quirk.
Poor lady Kiba.
You should have told us Lady Kiba we'd have sent you get-well gifts!
Yeah, why didn't anyone know about this?
Jeeze some of you guys are so invasiuve, she and her family have the right to privacy you know.
"Unfortunately, I'm not at 100% yet," Kiba said with a sigh. "So I won't be able to produce normal videos for a while longer. But I trust all of you to remain patient until I recover. I know it will be hard, but I assure you will be rewarded! And feel free to watch my siblings in the meantime. Like Nise."
"Hey." Nise timidly from behind the camera.
"With that said, I bid you all farewell for now!