Familiar Faces Around Me! 3/3

I woke up in a white room lying on something soft but uncomfortable at the same time. There was something connected to my mouth. I jolted up heavily panting through my mouth. My torso was covered completely in gauze so was my arms from shoulder to the tip of my fingers. My face felt like it was too. I snatched off the mask covering my mouth but as I was moving I felt a sudden pain in my arms and chest.

" Ow!,"I yelped.

" You're up," Hijiri said.

I saw him sitting in a chair beside my hospital bed. His left arm was in a sling.

" Sato...," I muttered his last name. " Wh-what happened to me...wait, where's my brother. Hiroshi."

" Your parents are just fine," Hijri told me. " Your injuries were worse than your brothers but he's shown no sign of waking up."

" How long have I been here?!," I exclaimed.

" You've been in a coma for two weeks."

Without thinking I jumped out of the hospital bed even if I was weak and my body ached, I ran out of the room.

" You're not supposed to be moving!," Hijiri yelled. He tried pulling me by the back of my shirt but it didn't. " Do you want to die?!"

I looked in every room I passed but I saw nothing. Then I saw in the glass of a different room, my brother. His legs were in thick cast and had the same thing I had on my mouth before I woke up. I put my arms and head against the glass. Me and my brother always had this link with each other. Right now I felt that link starting to fade. I heard Hijiri fall onto his knees. He was bowing on the floor.

" Damn...i'm so sorry...i'm sorry. What you said two weeks ago." His voice cracked. " Everything, the names, the judging, the mental abuse I was giving you. Please forgive me. You're an amazing friend and I had no right to treat you like shit. You don't have to accept my apology. I just want you to know that I care about you Daiki and I won't let anyone choose the way I treat you."

I felt a tingly feeling go through my body. My throat started to lump up and my eyes started to water. I fell to my knees, hugged Hijiri, and started sobbing.

[Three Days Later]

I sat staring outside of my hospital room window. I heard the door open but I ignored it simply because I knew who it was.

" Did you know?," I asked without making eye contact. " I'm the child of a power hungry mad man."

" I did," the man who I thought was my father replied.

" He's an evil man...if I knew about this any sooner I would've ended up just like him." A single tear fell down my right eye. " Can you just explain to me, please? Tell me, why can't I just be normal like everyone else?"

I heard my dad walk up to me and put a hand on my shoulder. More tears fell but it was only my right eye. I saw a glimpse of my reflection. My appearance had changed...my right eye was black with just a red iris and my left eye was still blue. The blue in my hair had gotten darker.

" There's no such thing as normal," my dad said. " Weird is normal and normal is weird. It's logic that makes sense. " You don't need to have the same blood to be family. You are my son and it's going to stay that way for the rest of your life...I'll talk to you later, I have to be somewhere."

He removed his hand from my shoulder and stepped out. Then I heard more footsteps walk in. I turned to see who it was...it was my whole class. They might've expected me to smile. I did, for the first time in almost three weeks I smiled at their appearance. I stood with whatever strength I hea and walked up to them until I was two feet away. Nori stepped up. I expected a rib breaking hug from her but no, I got something even worse.

"Nori...," I whispered her name.

Before I knew it I had taken a slap to the left side of my face.

Nori gripped my head. " You idiot!," she scolded.

She went on rambling of how stupid I was and how everybody thought I was going to die. I was forced to make eye contact with her but an angry Nori was something everybody feared.

" You really did scare us, man," Yuu sighed. " When you were talking about your feelings we really saw a different side of you. You said we don't understand you. Well, you're wrong! No we may not have understood before...but that's because you didn't say anything! When you said " Strike me down" that scared me. I can't risk one of my best buddies having a death wish."

I gripped the right side of my forehead.

" I don't know what's going on with me," I muttered. " Everytime I start getting in my feelings. I don't feel aware of the things i'm saying."

" Can I ask you something," Yuu questioned. " Are...Are you faking a smile. What you explained about Sato and the boy you called Sora it sounded as if your life was and is hard. Everyday you showed up with a glowing smile. Then one day all these negative things came out of your mouth. So that lets me know that this smile you show up with everyday hides your broken heart. But I want you to push all that negative energy aside. You have people in this who care about you. So you don't have to look at your past anymore, nore the future, just live in this moment right now. If you need to just let everything out right now. Say everything you hate about the people in your life. Just let it all out." He stepped up closer to me. " I don't care what you say just don't hold it in anymore."

I stared at him...I felt my brain just let go of me.

" Sometimes Yuu...you can really act like an idiot," I said. " You're a HUGE idiot, the biggest IDIOT I know. I SWEAR I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I'M SORRY!"

My head started to hurt and I then started to laugh. Laughing usually helped me relieve my stress...but this time it didn't feel normal for me.

[ Two Weeks Later]

I was released from the hospital today and was sent straight to UA. Before I left the hospital I was given the sword Ryu had used. I found out why he carried it around. He can transfer the power of his quirk into an object or another living thing. I still had so much to learn about this quirk being that I can probably only use it at its full potential or a really small amount. I was told Tadashi and Watanabe had both gone missing and I still had no news on my brother waking up from his coma.

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Sup, the name'sTadashi Todoroki. Next time the main focus is going to be on the class 1-D homeroom teacher himself. You'll all get a little peak at his origin. Wait...and he actually had friends?! Apparently "i'm '' still missing so Mr. Miyoga and some other heroes are going to be figuring out that case! Stay tuned if you want to check out the next chapter, AKA Minato Miyoga: Origin story!