It Struck A Heart String With Many (BNHA x OC)

Chapter 13

"Hello?" she whispered again, thinking she heard voices. The voices became progressively louder and more familiar the closer she got. She wanted to relax at this, but the iron tang of blood biting on her tongue wouldn't let her.

"Blood on the counter~" One of her snakes reported after taking a look over the room.

She heard the door on the other side of the room open, filling the room with even more voices; both familiar and not. The unfamiliar ones putting her more on edge. "Oh god!" #13's voice broke through her internal turmoil.

Ishi's head tilted, her up eyes watering and slightly bloodshot beneath her bandages. She was sweating uncontrollably; with blood leaking from the crescent moon shaped cuts in her forearms, where her nails had gouged through the skin. Ishi was shaking and her snakes were in attack mode. Curled into herself, she looked like the victim of a violent crime.

Though #13 had lived in the building for nearly as long as Ishi herself, they had never quite figured out how to respond to her outbursts of panic or her reactions to any number of other triggering situations. However even if they don't know how to handle the situation themselves they know a couple people nearby who do.

When #13 stopped in the door, everyone on the other side ceased their conversations. "Is it a villain?" one of the new voices asked, causing all of the heroes on the other side of the door to instinctively move into a combative stance.

"No, no it's not. I just, uh... I need a bit of Nemuri and Aizawa's help over here for a couple minutes... yeah that sounds good, and uhh, everyone else should just keep talking. There is just a bit of a situation here that needs their attention," #13 though for a moment, "Actually Chiyo should come too, I think her expertise might be needed as well..."

The aforementioned heroes were confused, but stood up from their seats and followed #13 towards the kitchen anyway. All Might, ever the curious hero who had to know everything that was going on, followed as well. Being of no further help due to lack of expertise, #13 pointed through the door at Ishi who stood, still as the dead, in the middle of the kitchen. Since she had halted her movement, bloody tears had begun slipping out from under the bandages, staining them in the process.

"Oh no," Nemuri breathed, rushing through the door toward Ishi, then holding back the second Hebi lurched forward to bite her. "What?" she whispered under her breath, confused. This type of reaction was rare; what could have happened for Ishi to be this far out of touch? The girl's breathing seemed erratic and she was swaying as though she could collapse at any moment.

"What's going on?" Mt. Lady asked from the other side of the door. Aizawa quickly shut her up, allowing Nemuri to attempt to talk down the nest of snakes that were on violently on edge.

Chiyo took in the girl's state from further back, her eyes quickly scanning over Ishi's erratic breathing combined with the red tears and bleeding arms, trying her best to come up with a theory on what was wrong. "Did anyone tell Ishi that the security team was coming over tonight?" she asked the group of heroes. She waited a moment, hearing a chorus of "No." and "I didn't." coming from various heroes, as well as a couple members of the security team asking "Who's Ishi?". That answered one question, but even if Ishi was scared, she shouldn't be breathing that hard. What would have caused her to be that scared?

Looking around the room and observing the snakes for a few minutes, Chiyo was able to realize that Ishi had been frightened by the blood on the counter from when Mic had tried to make dinner, but ended up cutting himself and letting Lunch Rush take over. "Tell her that the blood isn't from an attack but just Mic cutting his finger" she suggested to Nemuri and Aizawa, who was inching closer. The only question left was why she was breathing so hard and looked as though she was going to pass out. "Lunch Rush," she called.