'You know Bakugo, I fully expected this to happen when they announced that you and Izumi would be in a team together, but still…'

The purple-haired boy's eyebrow twitched.

'What the actual fuck?'

—

Other than the constant beeping of the machines, and the soft growling that came from Bakugo, the room was actually quite quiet.

The blond-haired boy on the hospital bed stared daggers at Shinso, who in return, replied with a calm friendly, and a very annoyed expression. Scrunching up his lips, his face whipped to the side, eyes locked on the curtains stubbornly.

'Don't worry, I won't use my quirk on you. I've been warned by Aizawa-sensei to not scare your entire class with it anymore after what happened on the first day.'

'Who did you say was fucking scared?' Bakugo's anger-filled eyes turned back to Shinso, his forehead scrunched with anger. Shinso scoffed, and Bakugo's fists clenched on the blanket. 'Why are you here anyway? Shouldn't you be acting all emo in the back of the practice grounds, throwing death glares at everyone trying to even glance at you?'

'Well, isn't it just wonderful to know what Class 1-A's impressions of me are.' Shinso's eyebrow twitched faster. Looking to the right, he glanced at the blue curtains separating them from the other side of the room. 'Izumi has shown more hospitality to me than most of Class 1-A combined, the least I could do to repay her was to visit her.'

'You're about five hours early, raccoon. Deku's completely out cold.'

'Compliments of who, I wonder?' Shinso's cold gaze fell on the blond-haired boy. 'At least she gave you a few broken bones in return.'

Bakugo's teeth gritted. 'For your fucking information, it's internal bleeding, broken ribs and a dislocated arm.' His fingers slowly clenched on the blanket. 'Plus, All Might did most of the damage to both of us.' he added.

'Huh. I never knew that All Might had the power to create massive explosions that could potentially knock people out for five hours.'

The blond-haired boy's mouth opened to retaliate, then suddenly stopped. Closing his mouth, his eyes glanced over Shinso.

'…What happened to your fucking face?'

The purple-haired boy flinched. '…Oh, is it that obvious?' Shinso laughed halfheartedly. 'I got injured when I was training with Izumi.'

Bakugo's eyes darted. 'Not just that, what happened to your neck? Did you get into a fight with a fucking blueberry? It's purple and—

'You know what, Bakugo? I came here for Izumi, so I'll just visit here and leave before…' His gaze turned dark, and he turned towards the blond-haired boy. 'I didn't come here to speak with an oversized ego-inflated arrogant durian.'

'What did you just call me, you—'

The blue curtains suddenly opened halfway, revealing a young woman dressed completely from head to toe in nurse's clothing. The two boys looked to the right and flinched.

'Excuse me, I don't know if the two of you have noticed this yet,' the woman's aura prickled on their skin. 'But we have patients in the other rooms that are currently being treated with.' Her head lifted up, revealing a pair of brown, beautiful, and extremely terror-inducing eyes. 'I am not in a good mood and I would hate if I had to kick my own patients out of the medical room.' Her eyes whirred around to Shinso, who gulped in return. 'This goes the same for visitors.'

'Where's Recovery Girl?' Shinso asked cautiously. 'Isn't she supposed to be in charge of all medical issues at Yuuei?'

'Recovery Girl is currently working at the exam grounds to care for wounds.''That's where you two were supposed to be healed as well, except that you two obviously have more… life-threatening injuries.' She turned her glare towards Bakugo, who looked away in return. 'Thanks to you, I assume?'

Bakugo scoffed.

'I'm sorry, Ms…' Shinso's eyes landed on her name tag. 'Ms. Doya. I…' Shinso glanced over at Bakugo, and his hands clenched. '—We'll be sure to keep our voices down.'

'Where's All Might?'

The gazes of the two people were turned towards Bakugo, whose's red eyes were staring right at Doya.

'Where's All Might?' He repeated. 'Shouldn't he be receiving treatment for his wounds as well?'

The intense aura that Doya was releasing was instantly reeled back, and she laughed nervously.

'Tosh—I mean, All Might is…' She glanced back, to the back of the room.

The medical room at Yuuei was quite spacious, despite it being just a school. The room was separated into 3 parts by the curtains, leaving enough room in each section for four people to stand next to each other comfortably. Sunlight streamed through the window at the very far side of the room, illuminating the body of All Might, feeble and skeleton-like after the fight, lying on one of the hospital beds, completely covered from head to toe in bandages. Raising his hands to his mouth, he quickly gestured to Doya to stay quiet. The nurse turned her head back, meeting the gazes of the two boys in front of her.

'All Might—Well, you know, um—' Doya forcefully brought the corners of her lips up in a nervous smile, sweat running down her face.

In the back of the room, All Might let a snicker escape, earning him a quick death glare shot by Doya.

Yiyashi Doya was impeccable at many things, but acting wasn't one of them.

'He's…um—' Her eyes darted side to side, trying to think of a way to get out of the awkward situation. 'I'm not certain—because I'm not the person-nurse assigned to him, so I-I don't know where he'll be receiving treatment.'

Bakugo's eyes narrowed. 'All Might was hurt pretty badly in the explosion, why would he be taking treatment at somewhere far away if the Yuuei Medical Room was right here?'

More sweat dripped down the side of Doya's face. 'Well…'

The sudden knocking on the door saved her.

Rattling on the doorknob grabbed everyone's attention, turning their heads towards it. With a turn and a click, the door started to open.

'Excuse me, is this the room where Izumi—' The person walking in stopped halfway, as his eyes met the people inside. Looking to the right, his eyes met Shinso's.

'What are you doing here, Half and Half?' Bakugo threw the remark over to Todoroki, who disregarded it.

The purple-haired boy instantly stood up.

'Well, it's been a lovely time talking to you two. It looks like I don't have time to meet Izumi after she's rested, so I'll be on my way now.' His eyes glared at the intruder. 'I didn't know that the announcement speakers in this room were broken.'

Todoroki glared back. 'What are you doing here?'

'What does it look like I'm doing?'

'I thought I told you to stay away from her.'

'I thought I said no.'

'I'm not here to argue with you, I—'

'You're practically asking for it.'

A cough came from behind Todoroki, making him look backward. His stare turned startled, and he stumbled forwards, the person behind him pushing open the door completely.

Behind the red and white-haired boy was Aizawa, still wearing his hero costume from the practical exam. With everyone's gaze on him, he walked in, sidestepping Todoroki, Nodding at Doya, and disregarding Bakugo on the hospital bed, he caught the gaze of the purple-haired boy. Glancing at the two of them, he sensed the level of tension in the room.

Sighing, he walked over to Shinso, looking down at the young boy.

Raising his hand, he flicked the purple-haired boy on the forehead.

'Ow! What the—' Shinso stopped halfway through his sentence, as the red glowing eyes of the teacher shoved whatever words he had to say down his throat.

'I thought that I told you to stop threatening your classmates.' said Aizawa, jaw clenching.

'So you believe everything the Canadian flag tells you?' Shinso turned his head to glare at Todoroki.

'For your information, sensei,' started Todoroki, breaking his gaze with the purple-haired boy, 'I was just preventing Shinso's quirk from starting another outbreak. Whether he likes it, his quirk has been the cause of almost all conflict in the class this past week.'

'So you idiots fought each other?' asked Bakugo. 'Is that why the raccoon's neck looks like it's been attacked by a fucking blueberry?'

They didn't reply.

The teacher turned his head to face Doya. 'I apologize for the trouble that my students have brought here today, it must've caused you quite a lot of trouble.'

'You…could say that.' Doya laughed nervously, then leaned in to whisper in his ear. 'Though I was quite surprised that most of the trouble didn't come from him…' Her eyes drifted over to Bakugo, who scoffed and looked away.

Aizawa sighed. 'They're going to have to stay here a bit longer, I'm afraid.'

'What do you mean?' cut in Shinso. 'I was just about to leave the room,' he gestured to both Todoroki and Bakugo. 'I don't think any of us want to be inside a 5-meter radius of each other.'

'As annoying as it is, I'll have to agree with Hitoshi on this.' added Todoroki.

Bakugo glanced at the teacher. 'The feeling's mutual.'

Aizawa glanced over at Doya. 'Ms. Yiyashi, could you please show them…Midoriya's condition?'

Doya's eyes widened in surprise, and her face swiftly switched from nervous to a professional strictness. 'Aizawa, you know I'm not authorized to show anybody my patient's condition, nor is her body in the condition for four people to be visiting her, even if you're close with her.' She glared at him. 'The only reason that I'm letting you and your students stay in here is that you asked to, but to see the condition of her body—'

'It's not me that asked to see her condition, I'm on orders from the police force.' Aizawa. Doya flinched. 'The investigation and interrogation isn't going very well, and the leads may be running cold, so they need her to—'

'What do they need her to do?' asked Todoroki. 'What does this have to do with us, anyway?'

The teacher looked at him, then looked at the other students, all looking back at him, perplexed.

Doya's eyes froze. One of her hands gripped Aizawa's arm tightly, and she looked up at him, her face pale. 'Aizawa…you don't mean…'

'He asked for her, Doya. She's the only remaining factor that can help us find—'

'No.'

The three students glanced nervously at her.

'No, no, no, no, no!' She thrust her hand out. 'I don't care if she's the last factor, or if the only lead that we have, you can't just send a child into there.' She gripped harder. 'This is the third time she's been in the emergency room in these two months, I don't know what kind of mental stress she's going to have when she sees him, and it could potentially bring back memories from the incident itself!'

'Doya, calm down!'

'Do you know how much her mother is going to worry again?!' She stumbled forwards, Aizawa catching her arm.

Todoroki grabbed the teacher's gaze. 'Sensei, what's the police asking Izumi to do that's making Ms. Doya react this intensely? At least tell us why we have to stay here!'

Aizawa put his hand on Doya's shoulder. 'Doya…just show them first.'

Shaking, Doya looked up at the teacher, then at the other students, all looking back at her. With one hand, she managed to grab the curtains on her right, and swung them forwards, revealing the body on the bed.

Everyone in the room visibly flinched, with even Bakugo closing his eyes tightly.

Izumi looked…dead.

Patterns of burns covered almost everywhere visible on her skin, creating star-shaped scars that blended in with the scars that were already there. Her skin was pink, feverish with heat. Patches of her skin were completely covered in soot, staining it a coal-black. A clean turquoise-colored hospital gown covered the rest of her body, creating a clear contrast between her injuries. Her right hand was wrapped in a cast, sitting neatly over her stomach.

On the side, a heart monitor announced her irregular heartbeat in a series of beeps. In fact, if there wasn't a heart monitor on the side, she could've very well been mistaken as a corpse.

Almost simultaneously, Todoroki and Shinso slowly turned their heads towards Bakugo.

Todoroki looked like he was about to kill someone. 'You know Bakugo, I was just expecting her to have a few broken bones and scars. But this…is much much beyond my expectations, even for you.'

'Congratulations you blond-haired prick,' Shinso cracked his knuckles. 'You should be proud that the first thing that Todoroki and I work together on is beating your stupid ass.'

'Are you two idiots?!" shouted Bakugo. 'Izumi came up with the plan. she made me trigger the explosion that hurt her. All of the other injuries were caused by All Might!'

'She could've died!'

'Anyone could've died when you're fighting against the fucking No.1 hero! At least she was unconscious when it happened!'

Todoroki reached in and grabbed Bakugo's collar, 'How would you know!?' He shook him.

'We don't know.' cut in Aizawa, temporally pausing the fight between the boys. 'We'll have to wait until she wakes to confirm all of the injuries that she has,' he glanced at Doya. 'then…'

'I won't allow it, Aizawa.'

Shinso glanced at Doya, his angry expression slowly fading. 'Aizawa-sensei, we've pretty much been beating around the bush this entire time. What is Ms. Doya so against?'

The teacher pressed his lips together.

'The police force…want her to interrogate a suspect at the police station.'

'So?' asked Bakugo.

'It's the same person that changed her into a girl.'

Their eyes widened.

'Wait, wait, wait.' Shinso put his hands to his head, his forehead scrunching up in concentration. Taking a deep breath, he started to gesture with his hands. 'The person that hurt Izumi three weeks ago, the one that caused the crossroads incident, the one that had the unusual quirk, the police want her to interrogate that person?'

'…Yes.'

'…Why?'

'Why would the police ever ask Izumi to do that?!' Todoroki pushed Bakugo back onto the bed.

'Ow, I hit my head, Half and Half! Do you want to die?'

Todoroki looked at the blond-haired boy with disdain. 'I couldn't care less about you right now. Why don't you start caring about the person that carried you in the exam?'

Bakugo sat up, rubbing his head. 'What does the villain have to do with her anyway? The villain defeated Deku, he got turned into a girl, big fucking deal. Why do we need to know this?'

Aizawa sighed. 'This piece of news was disclosed to the media, but it should be fine to tell all of you. The quirk that Midoriya was hit with… it wasn't a gender-changing quirk, so we don't know the cause of the sudden change in her gender.'

'It could've been the shock, it could've been a sudden mutation due to the shock.' Doya leaned against the wall, head in her hands. 'Worst case scenario, it's something caused by the suspect's quirk.'

Shinso took another deep breath. 'Ok. I agree with Ms. Doya now. Why… are we sending Izumi, someone who barely turned 16 over to interrogate this suspect? This person is probably dangerous—'

'He has at least 4 confirmed kills, we know nothing about his background, nor his quirk.' added Doya.

Staring at Aizawa, the purple-haired gestured at the nurse. 'Why is this even being considered a good idea?'

Todoroki groaned. 'I'm probably agreeing with Hitoshi on more things in this hour than I'll ever in my life.'

'There's just no logic in this. Why would the police need Izumi to talk to the suspect?'

'Firstly, for some unknown reason, the suspect asked to talk to Midoriya, in exchange for information on the gender reversal.' Aizawa stared at the ground. 'You know how much she suffered because of the changes.'

'That's true.' The two boys looked over at Bakugo. 'This entire exam, if it wasn't for her abnormal quirk, it could've been over much faster and cleaner.'

Todoroki glanced over at the girl. 'So her injuries… if it wasn't for her sudden change in her quirk…'

Aizawa sat down in the chair.

'I want to send her to interrogate the suspect as much as Doya, but we don't have a choice.' said the teacher. 'We don't have enough authority in this situation to influence the choice of the police, even as the positions of a teacher and a nurse. The choice itself lies in whether Izumi agrees to this or not.'

The teacher looked straight into the eyes of all three boys, one by one.

'Do you think that Izumi would really say no in this situation, where she could potentially find the cause to her gender change?'

The room was silent.

'So, why are we fucking here?'

Aizawa stood up. 'I was going to give this task to Iida and Uraraka, but they're working on the exams, so I'll have to give this task to you three.'

He took a deep breath.

'If Izumi does agree to the offer to interrogate the suspect, can I trust you three… to go with her?'