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Warmth. It was so warm surrounding me. I fluttered my eyes open, my goggles were on. I was bundled up in my room, with two chairs pulled up. I could feel the heater by my bed. It was lovely. It was nice to wake up from that shut down.
I yawned and stretched, I was in new clothes. Brand new sweats with fleece inlay. I wrapped myself in a hug with a giggle.
I rolled out of bed and pulled one of the many blankets off and had it draped around my shoulders. My toes covered in socks wiggled against the floor and I knew this was Tsu's doing. Part of the frog meant being aware of cold. It makes you sluggish.
But the chairs pulled up to monitor, that was Hanta. I quickly swung open my door and snuck down my hallway. Tsu had fully taken over my loveseat, while Hanta was playing games on the new Nintendo console. He was so frustrated watching Tsu beat him at Mario kart. She was a monster as Yoshi.
"Hey guys! Wanna have a movie party tomorrow night?" I went behind the peninsula of my kitchen and swung my pantry door open, grabbing insta ramen. Both of them instantly shot up.
"YOU!" Hanta was pissed. He got off the floor and was standing behind me. I was filling up my insta ramen with water as I nervously chuckled.
"Sero! Nice to see ya bud!" I lightly whacked his arm as I plug the noodles in the microwave. I gave a nervous laugh as we made eye contact, "You seem to have gotten buff, are those new elbows?" He was absolutely fuming... "So on a scale of 1 to 10-"
"27. IM 27! HOW COULD YOU NOT WEAR WARMER CLOTHES!" Hanta began his rant about self care and to invest in a new winter uniform with thermal pads, or something and I just kept a nervous smile on my face until the microwave went off.
"S-So, uh we having a group slumber party or nah?" Tsu began laughing as she looked at the two of us.
I pulled out my noodles and slipped past Sero and he groaned slamming his head on the counter. "Why are you both like this?"
"We like to have fun, Ribbit. Let's invite people over." Tsu pulled out her phone and Hanta huffed before leaving the kitchen and flopping onto my sectional.
"You guys suck. What about me? Always hanging out with the girls and I'm left lonely." He wallowed in his self pity and chuckled at us. He wanted to invite the guys over too. I grimaced, I had been doing better... proof of Deku I suppose.
I bite my lip and looked at Tsu. Her eyes went wide as I nodded my head, "Three. Three guys can come." Everyone seemed a bit quiet.
Hanta looked worried. He tilted his head to me, "H-Hey, look no need to pressure yourself-"
"Hmm. I'll make final decisions on who can come, but yeah... three guys should be fine." I nodded my head, "They can sleep over too if they want."
Tsu looked at me and rubbed my shoulders, "Wait to go, ribbit. Very proud of you but 100 percent sure?"
I looked around the room. Why wouldn't I be? I had Tsu, Hanta, and the girls! Everything would be fine. I gave firm head nod and they shared a conversation with their eyes. I began munching on my noodles.
Tsu looked at Hanta, "So who should we invite?" Hanta immediately knew, "Denki. He's nice and would be very understanding if we throw him on the balcony to sleep, or out of the apartment entirely." "Denki, and maybe Kirishima? Or would he be too much with Denki?"
I piped in when I heard Kirishima, "Oh I know him, he's nice."
The both nodded their heads. "Well we don't want to invite Denki and not invite Kirishima. And if we do Bakugo would know but he wouldn't want to come if we invite him, but if he didn't get invited he would be pissy since we invited the others. He would need a talking to prior." Hanta was very quick to analyze the relationship dynamics.
I flipped out my phone. While they talked it out
IZUKU MIDORYIA
- 8 unread messages...
-Hey just checking in on you.
Heard about what happened.
-Those kids are still around
because of you.
-You pulled through right?
-I know that you get cold easy.
You were shivering on the
beach the other day.
-If you need Hatsume would
take a look at your suit I'm
sure. She really likes you. You
manage to come in conversation
a lot.
-Look I know she said that you
thought I hate you, but that is the
farthest from the truth. I wish I
could tell you in person, but I
think you are incredibly strong.
-Maybe that sounds weird.
-Let me know if you're okay? I
know you might not consider me a
friend, but I do consider you mine.
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That was two days ago. He hasn't sent anything in two days? I quickly flipped on the news. Something wasn't right.
"Wait! Our match-"
Izuku's face was on the screen, he looked beat up and angry. It struck fear into my core. He has never looked aggressive...
"Number one Pro Hero, Deku, has been officially threatened by a new group of villains. Saying they are responsible for many heroes recent deaths due to the temperature drops." It began showing large scale snow banks and storms that had ravaged areas of city and countryside alike. One happened to be the mountain road that I worked on, the one that put me into hibernation. "The villain behind such massive snow storms is none other than Frozo. The Pro hero has been laying low since the incident which showed excessive force." It showed him swing his leg around as he fought against the villains.
These people were 8 to one with him, how did they expect him to handle it? Let him get seriously wounded?
"The villains have been hospitalized and are undergoing surgery. Pro Hero Deku has been cleared of all charges against him since the violence occurred after the injury of 186 civilians, injury of 12 heroes, death of 22 civilians, a-and death of... 47 heroes..."
Everyone went silent.
I looked and him on the screen. It didn't look like him at all. He looked menacing. He looked a bit shaken up too. He was injured and bleeding, in need of assistance, and nobody was there. People just watching from the sidelines as he did everything by himself.
"Woah." Hanta was horrified as he sat with his jaw hanging. "Ribbit." Tsu seemed also concerned for him. "F-Forty s-seven?" I took a deep breath. I could have been number 48. Squeezed the phone in my hand.
IZUKU MIDORYIA
Midoryia? Are you alright?
I am fine, please if you have the
chance come by my apartment.
Nobody will know. I figured since
you hadn't messaged against after
type might have your phone off. It's
fine. Just let me know when you
are ready. You did a good think
Izuku. Thank you, for protecting
people like me.
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I took a deep breath and watched the tv flicker. It was showing heroes who had died and people, remembering the lives of those who died. It was terrible, my friends, some I hadn't seen in awhile. Some of them had gotten married. Some of them had kids. Some of them were still young. None of them made it back home after patrol.
I covered my mouth as the gut wrenching feeling took hold. It just reminded me of mom, and that stupid ringtone, and that stupid train. I curled into myself and took a deep breath as I moved to the fetal position. Tsu had curled up along side me and was saddened. One of the people must had been at her agency, Hanta put his hand on my knee as he watched. He mumbled his prayers as fast as he could.
I think the joyous atmosphere was lost. How could anyone want to hang out and watch movies without crying, these were our coworkers. And yeah, I woke up... but others didn't.
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so I Uh... might have posted this late...
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HEHE.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN "HEHE"?!"