Chapter 5 - Pawn or Queen?

Izuku ran as fast as she could from the crowd until she was sure she was out of sight of the people calling after her to stop. She stepped into one of the random shops for a breather as she clutched her bag from the shop against her chest.

She sighed as she leaned against the cool wall to straighten out her mind.

She didn't regret helping that woman and could only hope that she got proper help and her leg had no complications. She knew that she regrew all the bones, nerves, and blood vessels correctly. Muscles were easy to manage and regenerate, but the woman would probably be hungry and tired for a while.

'It's good I drank the Super Gel Dero Doro Drink yesterday or else, I would have been worn out.'

After waiting for a bit, she stepped out of the shop and quickly made her way home, silently wishing for the woman to recover quickly in the care of the health professionals. When she finally made it home, Inko turned to greet her, "I'm glad you made it home safely."

She smiled, "Yeah..."

Inko stared at her for a moment, "Did something happen?"

She dug the tip of her shoe into the floor as she looked away from her.

Inko stood up, crossing her arms, "Izuku Midoriya..."

She squeaked, "There was a fight between a hero and villain near the store where I bought all my stuff and the villain took a person hostage who took a nasty fall and got their leg ripped off when the hero defeated them."

Her mom stared at her for a long moment, "...You healed her, didn't you?"

She slowly nodded, "She was crying and it was so terrible, I couldn't just leave her there. She was bleeding out and I acted because she was already going into shock and if I didn't step in, it might have been too late. I just couldn't help it."

Inko sighed and pulled her into a hug, "At least you changed your hair and eyes, but please, please, keep your head down for now. And refrain from using your current set of colors. The creep is still out there."

Izuku hugged her back, "I'll be careful okay. I promise. I'm sorry I made you worry."

She rubbed her hair, "I'm not mad about that, you did the right thing, it's just that people are mad for special quirks, especially yours. Considering you healed that woman to full health, her leg included, they will probably be on the hunt for you and God knows what some have in store with a quirk like yours."

A sigh tumbled out of lips, "I know. It will die down, soon."

"Hopefully..."

Inko settled back down on the couch as Izuku made to make them both some tea as the older woman could feel a headache coming.

As the days continued to pass, people have been going mad since the incident at Musutafu, the woman who Izuku healed was finally released from the hospital after a week. She was given a series of physical exams, but it all came out that she was perfectly healthy, if not a bit tired and recovering from the shock of what she experienced. The woman still couldn't believe she had her leg, especially since the feeling of having it ripped from her body was still so fresh in her mind.

She didn't think that she would ever forget such a horrible thing, but the girl. That girl who gave her leg back, her quirk felt so nice, all the pain she felt was gone in an instant as if she turned off a switch inside until it was flipped back on again.

Several doctors were still running tests on her old leg and it was surreal, even when she was scooped up into the arms of her husband and her children, they still couldn't believe it. Even when they saw her severed old leg and her new one, they were shocked shitless. When they were asked about the young woman who helped her, each one swore up and down that they didn't know a young woman with those features or her type of quirk. Especially in the video that was now circling the internet and social media. But if they ever got the chance to meet her again, they would be sure to thank her personally.

Izuku could only sigh from the relative safety of her own bedroom, people were going mad trying to find the girl with red hair and plum-colored eyes. It was a bit disturbing to see people going mad over her quirk over social media.

'Oh my...'

[With Harumi]

She was quickly making her way down the sidewalk, avoiding people going about their day as her hands were stuffed into her pockets to protect them from the cold air. Her headphones were resting around her neck as she was listening to Shadows by Lindsey Stirling.

Soon she reached her destination and made her way inside, stepping into line and glanced at the menu and the cashier doing their job before allowing her mind to wander for a bit. Then she was finally at the front and she ordered a hot chocolate and a sweet bun, after paying, she waited for them to call her so she looked for a good seat at the corner of the cafe that was empty.

When they finally did, she got what she paid for and made her way to her seat, sipping her drink as she scrolled through social media. Then saw a video that was racking up views in the thousands, well past a million now.

She pressed play and watched, it was shaky at the start but it was of a girl kneeling over a woman that looked to be sobbing with her face flushed, then shock was shown clear across her face as the girl kneeling beside her ripped off the sleeves of her top and healed her broken arms, then healed her entire leg.

She knew that green glow from anywhere.

'Thank God she changed her hair and eyes. Oh, Izuku...'

[The Basilisk Dojo]

Ace had just finished practicing and made to take a shower after he had done son, he made his way into his living room to find his mother, Juliette Kuyo, a tiny silver-blonde woman with English blood running through her veins, with a pair of bright purple-blue eyes with skin as light as porcelain. She was wearing a simple dark blue sundress with pockets and she was reading a book on the couch.

She looked up at him in the archway and smiled, "Hello, little Ace."

He huffed at her with a smile, he knew he would never shake off that nickname she gave him ever since he could remember. He would always be her little Ace, no matter how old he got or how he towered over her along with his father.

Walking over to her, leaning down so she could kiss his cheek and hug him. After she released him, he took a spot beside her as she made to finish her book as Ace made to look through his phone.

As they basked in the silence for a moment, she quipped, "What is your father doing now?"

"He should be wrapping up his last class soon and then he'll come by for a snack before going back to clean up."

"Well, if I miss him, please tell him, his snack is on the countertop."

"Will do."

As he scrolled through social media, he saw that he got a notification and clicked on it. It was a video that was shared by one of his classmates that is the practical information broker of the entire school.

He frowned and observed the video that was quickly picking up traction and he saw her, making him stiffen.

His mother saw him stiffen and scooched closer to him and asked, "Are you okay, Ace?"

He didn't speak for a moment as she looked at his phone screen and saw the video.

"Did you see something that scared you?"

"It's nothing."

She frowned, making him reassure her, "It's not. It's really nothing, I promise."

She decided to let it go, for now, he would tell her later.

He stood up and made his way to the privacy of his bedroom as he turned on his computer and saw the video again to confirm his thoughts and sighed, it was her. Different hair and eye color, but it was her.

'Izu, the hell were you thinking?'

[With Kiddo]

She yawned as she made herself comfortable on the couch in her pajamas as she scrolled through her social media as she fiddled with the remote flicking through her playlist. Then she after finding the song she wanted, she allowed it to play through the house.

Then she went through Youtube to find a video that was taken recently but was collecting views like hotcakes.

She let it play and saw all the comments under it.

No way this is real?

This is staged!

I was there, she came out of the crowd while people were trying to pull her back!

She's so fucking hot! I bet she's busty!

Who is she?

That's so cool! Her quirk must be healing?

The woman's leg got ripped off! You can see the tendons and everything! Nasty...

The villain's so fucking scary!

Who is this girl?

Is she a hero in training?

No, she must be a new vigilante that cropped up somewhere.

She could be a new villain that decided to show a bit of mercy on the woman.

Multiple debates were quickly swallowing the comment section and Kiddo could only look at the video in shock and the clear image of her friend waving and giving a nervous grin to the unknown cameraman.

"Oh, shit..."

[Yakiniku Dining]

Lucy was eating her fill in a booth, her phone at her side as she savored the flavors on the plate before her.

'This is a good place for Kiddo and Ace, they'll love the food here.'

When a waiter came over to check on her, she asked, "Can I get more eggrolls?"

"I think you mean the lumpia?"

"Yes. I keep forgetting the name, sorry."

"Don't worry. they will be out soon. They are making a fresh batch right now."

"Sweet. Can I get a refill, as well?"

"Of course. A cream soda, right?"

"Yes, thank you."

As he made to fulfill her request, she continued to eat only for her ears to pick up a conversation about a girl with a healing quirk.

'Hmm, strange.'

[With Hitoshi]

He yawned as he stuffed his hands into his pockets as he made his way into a store as he needed to buy a new pair of earbuds since his last ones just broke the other day. When he picked out a pair of purple ones and entered the line to pay.

As he waited he heard a pair of guys converse behind him, "Have you seen it, dude?"

"Seen what?"

"The video about the chick with the healing quirk!"

"Oh yeah, I saw it. Some people say it's fake."

"Well, I believe it."

"You'd believe anything as long as there's a girl involved."

"Well, she's cute tho."

"Is she?"

"A red-head."

"Nice."

"Yeah, I'm just wondering who she is. Her quirk was amazing. People are going nuts trying to find out who this girl is."

"Really?"

"Yep, she healed the woman who got injured by a villain with a green glow as if it was nothing. The woman got her leg ripped off and then next she's standing up with her new leg as if she hadn't gotten hurt in the first place."

Hitoshi tried not to stiffen as he heard those words, 'Green glow?'

When it was his turn to pay, he did and left as he pulled out his phone, staring at the picture he took with her grinning next to him as a wallpaper.

'It's you, isn't it?'

[With Envdeavor]

He had just finished the patrol of his sector, he made his way back to his agency to find his sidekicks working and doing their jobs before he overheard one of them, a new recruit he noted talking about something he saw.

He made himself look busy as he listened to the new recruit talk about a girl with an OP healing quirk that was able to heal a victim of a villain attack. The woman's arms and legs were broken along with her an entire leg that was ripped off when Snarlin' Leo put the villain down.

Then the girl strolled out of the crowd and heals all of her injuries as if they were nothing.

Endeavor frowned and made his way to his office, telling his secretary that he is not to be disturbed for the next hour.

She gave a low bow, "Yes, sir."

He nodded at her agreement and made his way inside, sat in his seat and booted up his computer. Finding the video wasn't hard considering that it was popular and the incident was recent, apparently happening in Musutafu. There is no information about the girl yet, but people have been searching for any hint of her.

When he started the video, it was shaky but he knew what he saw and the girl healing the woman and the complete regeneration of the woman's leg and the restoration of the woman's arms that were once broken.

He stared at the video, focusing on the girl who looked to be around his youngest son's age and thought that having her in his family would raise his name to new heights. After saving the video, he made plans to find her and arrange a quirk marriage proposal with his son, a powerful healing quirk with his son's quirk would be amazing.

'She will be perfect.'

[Todoroki Household]

Shoto was taking a break from working out, Enji would know if he skipped out on doing his routine and would work him over with his quirk for weeks if he did slack off. As if being in the same area of the man wasn't mind-numbing and rage-inducing enough. Spending any time with the man who destroyed his family all for the sake of taking All Might's number one spot. And since he couldn't do it himself, he created his siblings and himself to do it for him.

Only God knew how much pain his mother had to go through dealing with the brute only to finally stop with him. It only added a layer of patheticness to the man's already miserable, overbearing personality. Even if he was a somewhat good hero who did his job, he was more a villain than the pro hero the public proclaimed him to be.

After he took a shower and had a towel resting on his head to dry his hair, he took a seat on the couch in his living room before he sneezed.

His sister came over with a napkin, "Are you coming down with something?"

He shook his head, "No. I shouldn't be, I'm fine."

"Alright, but we are having soba noddles. He'll probably be out late with hero work, so let's just enjoy the day."

He gave her a small half-smile, "Yeah."

[With All Might]

The blond man just entered an alley to get away from the public's eye as he had just run out of time after he had just apprehended a villain. Soon enough, he was in his skinny form, he could feel the wound on his side ache as he needed to take shallow breaths so his bloody cough wouldn't trigger and startle the people surrounding him.

Nothing was more annoying, despite their good intentions of a worried mother or a medical professional trying to take him to the hospital or diagnose him wherever he went. He let out a sigh as he made to go into a store to buy something to eat and find a place to relax for a moment.

When he got a bag of meat buns, he made to savor it slowly and entered a cafe to relax, as the light buzz of low conversations coaxed him into a slight trance of hovering between the state of conscious and unconscious.

Then he overheard something, causing him to blink as he fully entered the realm of conscience. The conversation spoke of a teenager regrowing a woman's leg after it got torn off by a villain.

The thought intrigued him, despite it seeming unnatural even in today's standards.

'Someone with a powerful healing quirk? Could the teenager have a quirk like that of Recovery Girl's own?'

He pulled out his phone and made to contact Recovery Girl about the rumor about a teenager with a healing quirk that supposedly healed a woman who lost her leg.

He didn't expect to see an entire essay about the situation and how she was trying to find them, but no one knows who they are. All she knows is that the girl looks to be in her early teen years and with such a quirk, it would only get better and refined in time. She hoped to find her soon and would keep him posted and told him to come in for a check-up soon.

[Ragyo's Office]

Nui was leaning over his father's shoulder as they watched the video that was causing a lot of squabbling among the people. Ragyo was leaning back in his chair, his marron-colored eyes boring into the screen as he burned the video into his mind. Once the video finished, he rewound the video until it showed a clear picture of Izuku, helping the woman stand on her newly-formed leg.

"That's her?"

Nui smiled, "It has to be, but she looks nothing like she does in the video. She has freckles on both cheeks with emerald green hair and matching eyes. Not red hair with plum eyes."

"Hmph. She possibly had to find measures to change her appearance to go outside, you must have scared her when you confronted her the other day."

He pouted, "But she has a lot of potential and power in that quirk of hers. To be able to regrow someone's leg and possibly other injuries like that could be a boost for us."

"Yes. It could be. But for now, let us wait and continue to observe."

He got up and made his way out of his office, leaving Nui to do what he wanted.

He made his way into his lab to find his group of scientists hard at work and in a liquid-filled container placed in the middle of the room was a figure clad in white, restrained and on their knees.

[Think of Aizen in his 'chrysalis' state with the Hogyoku]

'Soon...Very soon.'

In a low-light bar, a young man with a severed hand resting on his face was staring intently at the video that had caused a riot through the internet. He scratched at his neck, leave a slight cut from his nails.

A man surrounded by shadows continued to polish bar glasses without a word continued to watch him.

[Elsewhere]

A man was wearing a dark suit was staring at a large screen that illuminated the room, the man was staying in. He was sitting in a comfortable chair with several pieces of medical equipment that were stationed behind him.

He watched the video the good doctor sent him about an interesting quirk, he would like to have. Then he saw that the girl healed the woman's broken arms and ripped-off leg as if they were mere bruises. Then he paused the video on the section of the video where they showed the full image of the girl. He enhanced the image, focusing on the girl's face.

The man stared at the image for a long time as it stirred something inside of him that he long since buried after he left her.

'It couldn't be you, could it?'

[Midoriya Residense]

She changed her looks once again and Inko just fiddled with her hair as she wanted her to stay home, but both of them knew that she had enough time at home. Izuku felt as if she was going to spend any more time at home, she was going to go crazy.

Soon enough, Monozaki texted her, saying that he was outside her door, making Inko check before she opened it to greet him.

He greeted them and told Inko she would be back before sunset.

She held him to that she gave her daughter a hug as she watched them leave and told them to be careful.

Izuku nodded as she closed the door behind her as the pair walked to the clinic.

As they walked, Kuran looked at her, "You've been doing okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. I guess you've heard or seen what has been going on?"

"That people have been going crazy over your quirk, even though they don't know it's you? Yeah, we all know."

"I'm sorry."

"I know, Izuku. It's just the crazy guy is still out there we don't want anything to happen to you. I'm just glad you changed your look and hid your freckles to prevent people from recognizing you. But someone will connect the dots and I'm pretty sure your friends already have."

"Yeah..."

He ruffled her hair, making her look at her, "You did the right thing, though."

"Thank you, sir. I know I was out of line, I couldn't just leave her there to bleed out like that."

He nodded, "I know. You want to help others. That's a good trait to have and with your quirk, you may feel it's your responsibility to do exactly that, but you need to realize Izuku that you cannot save everyone. There will be few that will slip through your fingers and it will hurt, but you need to remember that you are a human. You make mistakes and we all have the time when we go on past this life. If you get hung up on those you cannot save, it will crush you."

She sucked on her lower lip before nodded, "Yes, sir. I understand."

He smiled at her, "Come on. Ray and Eliza have missed you."

She smiled and continued to walk side by side with him and soon they were at the clinic. Eliza wrapped her up in a hug, while Ray made to make light conversation as she made her way back to her desk.

The shift started off as peaceful as it should, helping out with multiple patients until she had to go back before the sunset with Eliza who was walking her back. Keeping an eye out until they finally arrived and she told her to just be safe and to have a good evening to both her and Inko before she left.

After eating dinner with her mom, she checked her phone to see that she had gotten text messages.

Hitoshi - Hey, was that you...in the video? You know, healing the woman who got her leg torn off? Well, there's a high chance it is you, but anything to say?

Ace - You really are troublesome, you know that? Did you help that woman?

Lucy - Yeah, hey. Did you see that video?

Kiddo - You healed the lady didn't ya? And I thought I was the one that was supposed to get into trouble.

Harumi - You are going to give me gray hair here. That was you in the video, wasn't it?

She answered them all the same way, saying that yes, she was the girl in the video and no she didn't mean to do it, but she couldn't just leave the woman to bleed out while she could help her. And that she would explain when they all met up again.

They more or less accepted her answer as she wanted to turn in early. When she put her phone to charge as she made to get changed and ready for bed. After she snuggled under her blankets she knew the next semester was coming up soon, but she hoped it was peaceful.

Ending the chapter! Merry Christmas everyone! I hope all of you have a great holiday celebrating it as you want. Take care, please! Sorry for the short chapter, but this is getting back into the semester and I have something planned later maybe one or two chapters after this one if they work out well. This is just the reaction of a new healing quirk surfacing, powerful quirks would easily catch public attention. Such is the case with Hawks, not spoiling if you haven't gotten that far, yet.

Also to celebrate the holidays, I recommend this song: You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Lindsey Stirling ft. Sabrina Carpenter. A revamp of a timeless classic, that's what this song is, with someone who could be Jessica Rabbit in real life, not taking into count that she has blonde hair.

Thank you for all of your reviews!

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Midnight Angels Say GoodNight - When she goes over her calorie intake to the point that it will take a toll on her body, her quirk can cause her body to overheat from burning through her energy and calorie reserves. So yeah, she can get quirk exhaustion along with being overheated but the Super Gel Dero Doro drink cancels out most of her quirk exhaustion but not the overheating due to the stress of her quirk taking a toll. She needs to build up her stamina and endurance for that. And so am I, trust me.

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zolmos - I don't really know what to make of that, to be honest.

Guest#1 - Sorry but no. They aren't the same.

Perseus12 - Izuku hasn't met All Might yet, but she will for the first time soon enough. But not now. And Katsuki will have to deal with the actions he had made and Izuku growing into her own person. Anyways, people are going to be looking for the person with the OP healing quirk so now is the reaction to that. Thanks for the review!

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