Chapter 112. Hospital
We stayed like that in the mostly empty hallway for a while. She finally stepped away from our hug and had a happy smile. She giggled. “Thank you Denki! I love you!” I smiled and nodded at her. “Thank you. For believing in me.” I petted her unkempt hair. I don’t know why, but the messiness of her hair was starting to seem alluring to me. She did a double take at me, before smiling wider than before. She then hugged me and grabbed my arm before we continued on to Kyoka’s room. Making it to the door she was resting behind, I took a deep breath to calm myself down.
I opened the door, and walked in. Everyone from class was already there. They all looked at the door to see who was coming in. I gave them all a warm smile. “Sorry I’m late. I had a meeting with the teachers.” Everyone was happy to see me, but they were immediately confused at the girl that was latched onto my side. Shoto had an idea of what was happening, but Tsuyu seemed the most confused. I prayed inwardly that Toga would let me do all of the talking. “Everyone, this is Toga. She will be joining us in school, along with one other if I’m correct.”
Toga spoke up with a gleeful smile. “Hi everyone!” She waved and then attached herself back to me. Much to the displeasure of Momo and Mina. Just then Tsuyu spoke up. “Wasn’t she the one that attacked us in the forest? I wanted to ask when I saw you with her earlier, but I never had the chance.” The others were getting on edge at Toga after hearing that bit of information. I was about to talk, but Toga spoke over me. “Well I was, sorry about that.” She said, doing a cutesy apologizing pose. “I was, but now that I’ve started dating Denki I-” I then cut her off while holding my head in my hand.
“We aren’t dating yet Toga.” Hearing that she got really excited and tackled me with a tight hug. “You said ‘yet’!! That’s already a step up!” I frowned while blushing and looked away from the gazes of the other classmates. Toga, seeing everyone being silent, wanted to cement her position. “I have found love so I don’t need to be with the league of villains anymore. Denki has shown me a much better, and easier way to love my way. He made me fall in love with him in that forest! Now I’m making him fall in love with me! I’m gonna be starting classes with you, so please treat me well!” Everyone was flabbergasted, well, except Momo, Mina, Hagakure, and Shoto. Who already saw this earlier.
Shoto was the first to talk. “Wait, she really is going to be joining us as heroes?” The others got to that part and were looking at me with intrigue. Except for Mineta who was bleeding tears at this development. “The principal has discussed with me about her joining our classes, as well as living in our dorms with supervision. I don’t know if she will be taking hero courses, or not.” Everyone was still stunned but Deku spoke up next. “We’ll be having dorms? And she’ll be living with all of us? Is that dangerous?” I nodded at his good question, but Toga spoke up again.
“Oh you don’t have to worry about me! I already made a promise to Denki to only try to stab him!” Hearing this everyone looked at me like I was as insane as her. I sighed at the looks I was garnering. “Yes, we did make that promise. She has a habit of doing that to people she likes, so I told her to only try and attack me. Besides that, she will hopefully calm down more as she lives with us.” Just as I finished my statement I felt a chill down my spine and caught a hand holding a scalpel trying to stab my side.
I took it out of Toga’s hand and put it down on the table. “Toga, when did you even snatch this? And you are supposed to be trying not to scare your new classmates.” I sighed while she was giggling. Everyone else was just too stunned to really process what was happening. Toga spoke up while just giving others sidelong glances. “I’m just being me. If they can’t handle that, then I don’t want to be close with them. All I need is you right?” She giggled at what she was saying, and grabbed onto my arm again. I looked at the others and they were still just as stunned as before, maybe even more. Mineta was having flashbacks of his hero internship, so he was more scared of Toga, then attracted.
“I said that you only… You know what I’ll give you that one.” I said while sighing again. I walked over to the bedside of Kyoka. Everyone close moved out of the way to stay further away from Toga, who was still holding on to my arm. Momo and Mina were closer, but only to the other side of Toga. I placed my hand on Kyoka’s head and closed my eyes. I felt her electrical impulses as best I could. It was moving around, but the place that seemed to be the most active was the part responsible for dreaming. Seeing this gave me a smile. The others were wondering what I was doing, and I was so happy I said what was happening while almost giggling.
“She’s dreaming. That mostly happens during r.e.m. sleep. She is close to waking up!” I had a large smile of her being ok. I started laughing from happiness of her being ok soon. The others from the class were confused how I knew that, but were happy that she was getting better nonetheless. Deku spoke up. “How do you know she’s dreaming?” I spoke without caring of revealing more of my quirk. “I felt her electric impulses in her mind.” Everyone froze for a second and stared at me. I laughed a little and calmed them down.
“Calm down, I didn’t put in any electricity. I can just feel where it naturally flows. The part of her brain that is using the most of her electricity is the hippocampus. The part responsible for dreaming.” Everyone was starting to relax a little bit, before Deku asked another question. “How do you know so much about the brain?” I looked at him, as he was looking at me seriously, and full of determination. “I studied it.” I tried to side-step the question, but Deku wouldn’t let me. “Why did you study it? I know you don’t do anything without the express purpose of thinking it may be useful. Are you thinking of becoming a brain surgeon?”
I glanced at everyone who was starting to get interested as well. I sighed and looked at Momo and Mina who were just nodding. “I use some of my electricity to speed up my brain. I researched as much as I could to try and do it as safely as possible.”
Everyone looked at me in shock at what I was doing to myself. Deku seemed to be really mad instead. ‘I guess he already had the idea in mind, and wanted me to just admit it.’ He was really mad about this though. “What would make you think you could ever do that safely! If you put in too much power you could fry yourself! Wait! Is that what happened at the final exam?” I shook my head fervently. “Well not exactly. I just went into ‘Overdrive’ while using it. Normally I just use it by itself, or with just ‘2nd Gear’ on minimum, but that time I mostly overheated from the combination of them both.”
That didn’t seem to help as Deku kept yelling at me. “You took that horrible idea, and went a step further with it!? Do you not realize how close you were to dying from that!? What else have you been keeping from us!? That arm was bandaged for a week before I found out your horrible decision of… Wait if you did that to your arm, couldn’t the same thing happen to your brain!? Forget overheating! You’ll die from bleeding in your brain!” Everyone was looking at me fearful of what I was doing.
Momo and Mina were mad, just getting reminded of what I was doing. They had both tried not to think of it, but the idea of me doing that to myself and losing me had them both on edge. Toga who was listening in was staring at me intently, and was not pleased at all. “Deku, calm down. I know my body, and the amount of power I am using will not make me change. I’m essentially just warming up the track for my thoughts to go faster. I’m using around the same voltage my neurons can use anyway.” He didn’t buy it and continued to press on.
“No! You said you were only in that state of 3rd gear for about a minute! Your head was much hotter than just using your ‘Overdrive’ by itself. What you are doing to your brain is heating you up severely!” I thought for a second, and he did have a point. I did have a hard time regulating different voltages at the same time. ‘Is it possible that I could have been accidentally putting in extra charge in my head? It’s either that, or the longer I hold the ‘bullet time’ the hotter I get.’ “I don’t think…” I couldn’t say anything against it. The more I thought, the more dangerous I took the idea for granted.
“Is this why you're so secretive? You don’t want us to know how dangerous the things you do are? Because you know that we would disapprove? What else have you been hiding!?” I tried to change the topic of the conversation. “I really think we should be celebrating the recovr-” I was cut off by Deku. “Don’t you dare try and change the conversation now! I know you must be hiding something else, now privacy is one thing, but you doing things like this and hiding it from us is another! What else have you been hiding!?” I looked at him in shock, he was never this mad in the show that I remember.