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Toshinori feels weird, his head aches- no his whole body is hurting. Wait what even happpened? Why is everything dark right now. No, there is some voice. He really Heard some muffled talking, who are they? There's at least two people. Ugh....His stomach, why is it hurting so much and it's numb too. He tries to move, it's hard. But the voices are getting clearer, his consciousness is coming back. He makes a second attempt to at least bring his head up but no, he tries to open his eyes it's too bright...Someone notices, at least he thinks so because right after his failing the place gets darker, someone must've closed the curtains or something.
He slowly opens his eyes, immediately closes them, than again and again. After his eyes are finally used to light, he looks at his surroundings.
Mirai is standing close to him with a worried expression. Then at the left side of the room Gran Torino is by the curtains, he must have closed them, then he looks at himself, he's hooked up to so many machines, too many for this to be not important. He tries to remember what happened it takes some time but ...Right..he remembers the fight, his lifelong nemesis, taking a massive punch to his stomach...This is what it is then. But he also remembers he did in fact crushed the mans head after that, so the unavoidable question comes to mind...
Did he die?
"Are you listening? Toshinori?" He noticed that Mirai was talking to him just now.
"Give the boy some time for gods sake, he just woke up." Gran Torino says tiredly but he couldn't even concentrate on them, he needed to ask...
"Did All For One die..?"
Please let the answer be yes, please.
"Most likely, though I can't say for sure." Gran Torino answered him rather quickly, he probably was waiting for this question to come eventually.
"...what.."
Toshinori asked as he couldn't help his confusion
Mirai started to explain, "There is no way any human- no anything can be alive after that. We just didn't burn the body but-"
"Why?" He asked with a little more aggression than intended when he started to scowl at the answer.
"We had other things to wory about." Gran Torino said firmly as he sensed the fury in his voice.
"What possibly be more important than making sure he is dead?!" He practically shouted while leaning forward.
"Keeping you alive." Toshinori suddenly fell back and stayed silent. "I don't know about you two but I won't lose anyone else because of him." Gran Torino continued
"I'm sorry." He apologized, looking down as his mothers masters precious memories came to mind.
"Don't sweat it Toshi, we all are stressed." Gran Torino reassured him "And as nighteye tried to say, you can just count him as dead."
Toshinori felt better hearing this he leaned back and sighed, "This is it then..." He felt lighter at the thought of that bastard finally being gone, unable to harm anyone else. Not being able to confirm it obviously made him feel uneasy deep down, but who can even survive their skull getting literally crushed? A little warm smile appeard on his face, a geniune smile unlike the ones he does as All Might. The other two in the room couldn't dare to break the comforting, peaceful silence.
oh-
"Wait, how long have I been out?" Toshinori asks as he remembers he is in a hospital room for a reason.
"Five days, and you will be here for a while longer until you fully heal." Recovery Girl answered from the doorway with an IV bag in her hand, she was just arrived at there. "Now dear, I need to change your IV, so" she walked near the hospital bed, reaching for the nearly empty bag and removing the tubes tip carefully. She then took the bag and insreted the new one, she took a second to watch the flow,
"Alright boy, all done! I will come to check on you every hour or so, until then focus on resting, you nearly died." her face got more serius on the last part "anyways I should her going." She said while walking to the door, "Don't force yourself or I will end your life myself." Toshinori wondered how an old sweet woman like her could look and sound so terrifying sometimes as the said lady walked out of the door.
"Well, how are you feeling?" Mirai asked to break the awkward silence.
"Not that bad," Toshinori started as he looked down on himself "I should try to walk."
"What!?"
"NO."
"I will turn back to heroics at some point, besides it's not even as bad as it looks"
"You had a hole in your body A. FUCKING. HOLE. TOSHINORI! I could see the wall behind you from here! What do you mean it's not that bad!" Mirai snapped at him with dramatic gestures as Toshinori tried to reason with him.
"Don't be dramatic I can obviously walk, just watch." He firstly got up to a sitting position witch in fact stung more than he thought it would, then he prepared himself despite the protests from the other two man in the room and hopped out from th-
"I told you, idiot." Mirai said as he caught the stumbled Toshinori
"Utter fool," added Gran Torino from his chair he didn't even bothered to leave.
"Let's start slowly, okay? Hold onto my arm for support, at least do that if you're so eager to walk." Mirai hold out his arm for him and he took it "Slowly, one step at a time"
"Stop this, I'm fine. Look, nothing a little help can't fix." He said while walking wobbly.
"Get a room you two!" Gran Torino called out while smirking. Mirai looked at him weird and Toshinori just sighed, apperantly having him as a teacher makes you automatically immune to teasings such as these.
"Oh, and I forgot to mention- WHY ARE YOU NOT IN YOUR BED! WHAT PART DID YOU NOT GET WHEN I TOLD YOU TO NOT FORCE YOURSELF!" Gran Torino was trying not to burst out laughing as the other two looked at the lady in terror
"WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE A PATIENT LIKE YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHY THESE EYEBAGS ARE HERE? BECAUSE I WAS IN SURGERY AND ER FOR HOURS TRYING TO KEEP YOU ALIVE! I SHOULD HAVE LEFT YOU TO YOUR FAITH!" Recovery Girl continued nagging every bit of life out of them for the next hour.
Sadly, this memory was one of the last happy memories Toshinori had with Mirai as they separated their agencies and conflicted hours after he woke up. Toshinori always wishes that he wasn't this stubborn and Mirai didn't needed to be in his deathbed to see him again after that day.