Case file #5: Kurose Anan
"Dear Diary, they said the TON 618 is the heaviest black hole with the densest singularity discovered till date. Why do I have a nagging feeling that my assistant just topped that discovery?"
After All Might's arrival, Izuku moved Aizawa towards the entrance, where he found several students there circling around an injured Thirteen. After ensuring Aizawa's injuries won't get any worse, Izuku left him to 1-A's vice president who just arrived and focused on treating Thirteen. Izuku immediately removed the gloves of Thirteen's suit and grabbed her completely black hand.
Izuku could feel his nose start to bleed, along with Ochako telling him something but the headache and the exhaustion blur out everything else. Izuku's sole focus was on patching up the disintegrated wounds of his teacher. Gradually, his vision started to get blurry as his eyes started to blink more and more. Izuku bit down on his tongue to keep himself from falling unconscious, utilizing the pain and the taste of blood in his mouth to keep his brain from falling asleep.
Five minutes felt like an eternity. He hasn't overworked his Quirk like this since the Entrance Exam and even then, he stopped at nose bleeding. But he can still feel the pain. That means he could still endure it.
Even when the sound of glasses' shattering, door being kicked down following by gunshot, Izuku did not stop.
Only when an unfamiliar, sweet, calming scent entered his nose that everything went black.
"Recovery Girl..."
Ochako pleaded. Chiyo's eyes followed the sight of Izuku, Aizawa and Anan being put into an ambulance.
"It's not life-threatening." Chiyo answered. "Aizawa's elbow stopped decaying before the nerves were affected. Kurose might need some extra treatment with her back being torn opened like that, but thankfully the bleeding was stopped. As for Midoriya, overworking his Quirk caused an overload on his brain. An MRI scan is needed but he was still conscious until Midnight knocked him out so it's safe to assume that he'll recover soon enough."
Tsuyu's tightened fist loosened a little at the good news, although the guilt was still apparent on her face. Toru and Kouji went over to check up on the frog girl.
"Can we visit him?" Ochako asked.
"I don't think it's a good idea, dearie." Chiyo assured her. "But I'm sure he'll be up and running by next week. He's a tenacious brat, after all."
"Now onto different matters." Nezu set down the papers and looked around the room. "I read a paper that said checking up of the staff's life outside of work would improve productivity. Last weekend, I sent my rat friends on a mission to spy on Tartarus. Yagi-kun, now you do it."
"Spying on Tartarus?!" Blood came out of Toshinori's mouth.
"No, sharing." Nezu clarified. "Your celebrity status would make you a terrible spy."
"Uh... Okay..." Looking past a secret he shouldn't be hearing, Toshinori tried to remember what he did last weekend. "With my partially healed stomach, I figured now would be a good opportunity for me to go and try out all the cuisines I've been missing out on for the past five years."
"A wise choice." Nezu nodded. "What about you, Kan-kun?"
"I took my dog to his monthly spa. Inui came with us." Sekijiro shrugged as Ryo sneered to himself.
"What about you, Yamada-kun and Aizawa-kun?"
"Sleep, patrol, sleep, marking papers." Shota answered unamusingly. "The usual stuff."
"My radio shows!" Hizashi excitedly yelled. "A lot of requests for love advice from the students have been pouring in!"
"And you, Shuzenji-san?"
"Just hanging out with my sister and her family." Chiyo replied. "My fashion-disaster of a grandniece needed help picking out an outfit."
"Oooh~, I smell a love story in the air~!" Nemuri grinned. "Was it a date? With my student?"
"Yes." Everyone quietly agreed to ignore the sound of glass cracking coming from their youngest co-worker. "But your knuckled head probably thought it was only a friendly invitation, anyway."
"Really?" Toshinori raised an eyebrow. "Young Midoriya showed me a picture of them with matching sweaters. It was horrifying."
"Wow, All Might." Ken (Cementoss) chuckled. "Didn't expect you to roast the kids like that!"
"Oh, right, sorry." Toshinori scratched his head embarrassingly. "The children looked cute together-"
Everyone stopped for a second at the noise of glass cracking getting louder.
"- but the sweaters they picked out were horrifying." Toshinori continued, sweat dripping down his face. "I do not understand who in their right mind would sell them."
"... Couldn't be that bad, right?" Majima asked.
"I've looked straight into the eyes of the Boogeyman, Majima." Toshinori rubbed his face with his palm. "But those sweaters... they scare me... But at least they look cute together."
"Toshinori, I am trying so hard to not be in a black hole's singularity."
Toshinori and the rest of the staff followed Chiyo's glance towards Anan. Although her face couldn't be seen through the helmet, black mist could be seen emitting through the spacesuit.
Before Toshinori could rectify the situation, the staff turned their attention to the door being slid opened.
"Drinks are here."
The subject of the conversation, Midoriya Izuku, casually walked in a with stroller. He approached Nezu and then Chiyo, refilling their teacups. For Majima, he handed him a can of energy drink. For Ectoplasm, Hizashi and Nemuri, he poured them a cup of warm rose water. Toshinori gratefully accepted a glass of cool water from him. Aizawa, Kan, Snipe and Inui nodded their thanks as Izuku poured them a cup of coffee each. As they received their drinks, the rest of U.A's staff watched with interest as Izuku approached Anan.
"Kurose-sensei. You're looking happy today." Izuku smiled as he gently handed her a non-alcoholic cocktail.
"Just happy to see you, Midoriya-kun." Somehow with her mask already off, Anan smiled as she accepted the cup from Izuku. "This cocktail is amazing!"
"I'm glad to hear that." Izuku nodded as he started to turn towards the door. "If you want more, you can always find me at the dorm. I'll even give you a little extra service ."
Before Izuku closed the door, he asked. "While we're on that topic, the teacher's bar really needs some touch-up. I can make better drinks with the tool I have at the dorms."
Watching the nurse left, everyone quietly watched as Anan sipped her cocktail with a goofy smile and a bright red face.
"What's the verdict, your honor?" Ectoplasm turned to Nezu.
"Oh, she's definitely in love." Nezu cackled. "That means 1 week of overtime, Aizawa."
Aizawa responded by drinking his coffee like a tequila shot.
After passing out from her fight against Kurogiri, Anan woke up in a hospital bed, feeling strangely energetic. After informing the nurses and doing a few check-ups with the doctor, Anan finally heard what happened from a detective. All about what happened to the students until reinforcement had arrived.
Including why her supposedly fatal injuries only felt itchy now.
Immediately after the detective had left, Anan came straight to Izuku's room. Sliding the door opened, she found Chiyo sitting next to him, reading through some papers. U.A's medical staff looked up from their conversation at the unexpected visitor.
"Hey, you're finally awake." Izuku said with a joking smile, almost earning himself a cane if he hadn't been in bandages. "How are you feeling, Kurose-sensei?"
Before Anan could come up with an answer, Chiyo grabbed her cane.
"I need to go talk to All Might." Chiyo told them before she left the room. "Be back in 10, dearies."
"Minutes or hours?" Izuku asked.
"I'm going to let you figure that out yourself."
She closed the door as she left. Anan then approached the chair next to Izuku's bed and sat down, looking all over the nurse.
"I heard about what you did, Midoriya-kun." Anan whispered in an apologetic tone. "I'm so sor-"
"A-a-a-a-a-a." Before Anan could finish her apologize, Izuku put a finger in front of her lips, stopping her. "Aizawa-sensei, Nemuri-sensei, Nezu-sensei, All Might-sensei and now you. I'm tired of people apologizing to me today."
"But-"
"I don't want to hear it." Izuku turned his hand into an 'X'. "From now on, I will only accept apologies in the form of 'Thank you', thank you very much. See, it's easy."
"I really thi-"
"Nope. Not listening." Izuku turned away.
Seeing that there wasn't an option, Anan sighed. "Thank you, Midoriya-kun. For keeping the students safe and saving me."
Izuku then turned around and smiled brightly at Anan. "You're welcome, Kurose-sensei."
As Izuku said that, Anan could feel him staring straight into her eyes. The cheerfulness she saw on her face was now replaced completely with attentiveness. His viridian eyes stared straight into hers. Izuku slowly leaned in as more seconds went by, completely ignorant of Anan's red face and the fact that their nose was almost touching. Even though she was experiencing the most embarrassment she ever felt in her entire life, something about Izuku's eyes entrapped her, keeping her still, not daring to move a single muscle.
Only when Anan was positive that she was leaking her Quirk on accident that Izuku finally broke back into a smile as he sat back down on his bed. Not noticing Anan's hasten breathing, Izuku giggled.
"Your eyes are really pretty." He continued despite black matter was now leaking out of Anan's mouth as her iris were spinning around at the sudden compliment. "You never took your helmet off in front of cameras. I didn't expect such beautiful eyes. It's like looking at a black hole. Simply majestic."
When Chiyo finally came back to Izuku's room, she couldn't help but wondered what happened in those short minutes she was out that turned Anan's face as red as the sun, all while her student was passionately talking about the beauty of the black hole.
"Zuku-san!"
Izuku slowly opened his eyes and immediately got tackled by a small figure. Izuku chuckled, feeling her little horn poked at his abdomen.
"Eri-chan, you shouldn't tackle headfirst like that." Izuku picked the little girl up and raised her to his eye level. "You're going to hurt your head one day."
"... Do you not like it?" Eri meekly asked.
"I love it." Izuku smiled as he set Eri down and patted her head gently. "I'm just worried about you getting hurt. I'm going to be sad if you're hurt. Can you be careful next time? For me?"
Eri showed Izuku a blinding smile as she nodded. Glad that his word got through, Izuku's teasingly, but gently, pinched Eri's cheek. The little girl smiled brighter at the gesture.
If anyone caught Aizawa snapping picture, they can't prove it.