Chapter 41
Himiko woke up less than an hour later. Someone was calling Vesemir's phone. She wiped her eyes and checked on the injured boy. He was still sound asleep under the influence of the medication.
She smiled and grabbed the phone, thinking it was that big guy with the scars calling....Letho... yes... his name was Letho.
Half asleep, she didn't check who was calling. She simply pressed the green button. It was a video call, and the two surprised girls were on her phone.
"Hiiiiiii"
She said drowsily.
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Yui and Nejire stared at the blonde in shock.
"Hiiiiiii"
The blonde spoke first. Nejire replied after a moment.
"uuummm.....hello?"
Yui scowled at Nejire.
"What hello? Who are you and where is Vesemir?"
The blonde rubbed her eyes and yawned.
"I'm Himiko. Vesemir is in bed. Sleeping."
"And where are you?"
"Well, in bed too."
Yui and Nejire glared at her. Nejire hissed through her teeth.
"Show us Vesemir."
The blonde smiled broadly, revealing her teeth.
"Of course."
Then she turned around so that they could see... what she wanted to show them.
She was sitting on the bed, her lower body covered with a blanket. Vesemir had his back to her, his body covered in bandages. The girls immediately understood what was happening.
Nejire felt her face flush with anger and jealousy. Her blue eyes widened, and her hands gripped her phone so tightly that her knuckles turned white. Yui beside her froze, her usually calm face twisted into a grimace of disbelief and murderous intent.
It looked... intimate. Too intimate.
Nejire exclaimed, her voice trembling with anger.
"What... what are you doing in his bed?!"
Himiko blinked innocently, her yellow eyes glinting with amusement. She seemed to already know what was going on. They both had... crushes on him. Her personality wouldn't let her react any other way... than to tease the girls a little.
"Well, someone has to keep him warm. I can't let my patient freeze to death in his sleep. Oh no, no! As his personal nurse, I have to satisfy all his needs...every...thing...he...asks for."
Yui couldn't take it anymore. Her previously crumbling mask of indifference crumbled to dust.
"What needs!? All needs!? Who are you to think you can touch him!?"
Himiko's voice deepened. She blinked several times. She held her cheek with her free hand.
"Oh, you know.... First, I had to tire him out....really tire him out so he couldn't wake up.... Plus, I have to be close to provide him with a...source of...warmth."
Himiko pulled her hand back and grabbed her shirt. She pulled it back...to show the girls her breasts.
"And when he wakes up, I'll first take care of his stomach... and then a massage... soooooo... long... gentle... massage... and when he's ready... I'll fulfill his desires..."
Nejire's imagination began to run wild, telling her what Vesemir was doing with that bitch... and what... he would do in the near future. It was too provocative, too intimate. She saw scenes in her head she didn't want to see.
"You... you shameless bitch!"
Yui's eyes widened in shock. Her hands were shaking, and her face was flushed. She closed her eyes... and opened them again, a new neutral mask on her face.
"You're lying. Vesemir would never do such a thing."
Himiko giggled again. After a moment, she spoke in a low, provocative voice.
"Am I lying?"
Nejire couldn't hold it in anymore.
"SHUT UP! STOP IT! SHAMELESS BITCH!"
Himiko laughed brightly, her eyes twinkling with mischief. She leaned closer to Vesemir's head and kissed his cheek.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Nejire dropped her phone on the bed and began flying around the room. Yui picked it up. She stared at the smiling blonde.
"Himiko-san. We'll look for you, and when we find you, you'll pay for everything you've done."
Yui hung up. She watched for a good ten minutes as Nejire flew around the room, reciting every familiar image to the blonde.
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Himiko yawned for a long time. It was amusing, but she was tired.
She looked at the sleeping Vesemir. He hadn't even moved during their conversation... She snuggled into his back again, wrapping her arm around him.
Something inside her... had changed. She had two rivals... but she had the advantage.
She intended to make sure Vesemir couldn't resist her.
She wouldn't let anyone steal her happiness.
She understood that happiness didn't just come... and once it did, she had to fight to keep it from being taken away.
She pulled herself up so that her head was higher than Vesemir's...
She gently snuggled closer, causing her breasts to now touch the back of Vesemir's head.
She wouldn't lose him. No way. No matter who these girls were, Himiko would do anything to not lose this happiness.
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Midnight had already checked three hospitals before receiving the news that Vesemir hadn't been captured. The footage she was watching showed Vesemir, wounded, passing through a portal with a blonde-haired girl.
She sat in the waiting room, worried about the boy. He was wounded. He'd been shot and had slashes.
She was afraid he wouldn't be able to cope. How could he possibly know how to remove the bullet from his body and bandage such a wound?
She was afraid he was bleeding out in an alleyway, and the blonde-haired girl was holding his hand... screaming for help that wasn't coming.
A nurse snapped her out of her dark thoughts.
"Midnight? We found one person named Aizawa in this hospital."
Midnight looked up... could it be...?
She stood up and walked briskly toward the young nurse.
"Please take me to him immediately!"
"Y.....Yes.....That's right."
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The nurse led her to the room for criminals. She opened the reinforced door and let the pro hero in.
Only one patient lay inside. It was indeed Aizawa... but not the one she had in mind.
"A...Aizawa?"
Eraserhead looked at her, tired. His hand was handcuffed to the bed frame.
"Midnight..."
She stepped closer and touched his hand.
"Shota... what happened?"
Aizawa sighed heavily. He was tired, bruised. Letho wasn't sparing him the pain.
"I tried to force Letho to tell me where my son was... I attacked him... and then... I woke up here... without any ID."
Midnight sat down in the chair next to her, her hands trembling. She glanced at the policeman who was watching everything through the open door.
"Please uncuff him on my responsibility. This is Eraserhead. A pro hero and a teacher at UA."
The policeman didn't object. He approached the fallen man and uncuffed him, having taken the handcuffs with him on his way out. Now that they had official confirmation from another pro hero about the arrested man's identity, he no longer needed to stay there. He went to contact his sergeant.
"Shota, why? Why didn't you return to UA and ask us for help?"
Aizawa closed his eyes, the emotional pain worse than the physical.
"I...I don't know...I was...tired...angry...and I lost my temper."
Midnight squeezed his hand tighter, her eyes full of concern and frustration. She saw how Aizawa, always composed and logical, now looked like a wreck.
"Shota...Vesemir...was shot."
Eraserhead looked at her with horror in his eyes... she'd never seen him like this before.
"What?"
"Vesemir went to fight... Edgeshot almost caught him... but the villain shot him in the chest... he escaped through the portal. We don't know... we don't know where he is or what condition he's in."
Aizawa tried to sit up, ignoring the sharp pain in his ribs, but Midnight stopped him. Tears welled in his eyes.
"My... son..."
"Shota...."
"It's my fault... instead of being his father... I was... just... a stranger."
"Shota... don't say that."
Midnight hugged Aizawa.
"We'll find him... you'll see... everything will be alright..."
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Vesemir slowly opened his eyes... it was already morning. He felt hungry... and pain. He tried to move, but something held him in place, and the back of his head rested on something... comfortable.
"Kyaaaaaa..."
He heard a voice behind him...
"Oh Vesemir... you are truly a naughty boy..."
"H...Himiko...? What...are you doing in my bed?"
The blonde snuggled closer to him. Her breasts moved a little lower, encircling his neck.
"You silly. But you only have one bed here."
"Himiko... let go..."
"But you're sooooooooo warm..."
Vesemir felt his cheeks burn despite the pain in his chest.
"Himiko... it hurts..."
Himiko immediately loosened her grip.
"I'm sorry, Vesemir... I overreacted... I didn't mean to hurt you."
Vesemir slowly sat down on the bed and looked at the table. There were various small packages and a piece of paper... it contained instructions. He tried to get to his feet... tried, that's the right word... After a moment, Himiko got out of bed and walked over to the table. She grabbed the medication and the paper, and knelt down on one knee in front of Vesemir, reading it.
"Hmmm... Here's the schedule from the doctor who was here."
She said this with a serious expression. When she finished reading, her seriousness vanished. She smiled warmly.
"Nurse Himiko, on duty! Now, be a good patient and say aaaaaaaa..."
Himiko prepared a dose of medication for him to swallow. Vesemir hesitated... he looked into the girl's eyes... after a moment, she puffed out her cheeks in mock anger.
"Vesemir-kun... don't you trust me?"
The young witcher remembered how she had rushed to his aid... she could have been shot too. He sighed heavily and opened his mouth. Himiko poured the medicine into his mouth.
"You're such a good patient! Now go back to bed. I'll make you something to eat in a moment."
"But..."
"Oh no! Vesemir, you were SHOT. It says here that you are to REST for a few days. I just don't know why it's a few days and not a few weeks."
"Hmmmm... the potions I drank, or Letho pumped into me, drastically speed up the healing of wounds."
"Potions?"
"Yes. Just don't drink them. They're dangerous to other people. You could even die."
Himiko tilted her head to the side, her yellow eyes widening in surprise.
"Dangerous? To me? Why?"
Vesemir sighed, leaning against the wall of the bed. The pain in his chest throbbed, but it was much better than yesterday.
"I am... a Witcher... in truth, I am not... fully human. My... grandmother performed a certain ritual that allowed me to gain certain abilities... I may not be a 100% Witcher like my grandfather... but... I am... a mutant."
Himiko approached him calmly, knelt down to be lower, and placed her hands on his cheeks. She gently lifted his head to look into his eyes.
"I'm different too... I... I like blood... my quirk is based on it... but also... I think I'm addicted to it..."
Vesemir nodded slowly.
"I understand... my uncle has... a similar quirk... also connected to blood... but he tries not to drink it... blood affects him like... wine... alcohol."
Himiko blinked. His words made her feel less lonely, less... strange. Somewhere in the world, there was a man whose quirk was very similar to hers...
"Really?"
"Himiko, I promise you I haven't lied to you... I'm a knight... and I must act honorably... because if I break my word once... how will people ever trust me?"
Vesemir watched as tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. He didn't know what he was doing... he simply... reached for her cheeks... placed his hands on them... and wiped her tears with his thumbs.
"Hey... don't cry... everything will be alright..."
"Why... why are you so kind to me?"
Vesemir smiled exactly as Dandelion had taught him... with only half his mouth.
"Well... there are many reasons. A beautiful lady took care of me... She saved my life... she cares about my health and even wants to make me breakfast... why shouldn't I return kindness with kindness?"
Himiko smiled, though her cheeks were flushed.
"Kyaaaa! Vesemir-kuuuuun, you can't say things like that..."
Vesemir felt his heart beat a little faster, but he hoped he didn't show it. He didn't understand why... but the words came to him on their own... and he spoke them without thinking.
"Himiko... you're truly beautiful when you blush, especially when I'm the reason."
Himiko held her breath for a moment, her cheeks burning even more intensely. She stepped back slightly, placed her hands on her cheeks, and began shaking her head left and right with her eyes closed.
"KYAAA! Vesemir-kuuuuuun! You rogue!"
"Hmmmm... I'm just describing what I see."
Himiko looked at Vesemir through narrowed eyes. Her heart was beating wildly. For the first time in her life, someone was looking at her not like a monster... but like a girl... a beautiful girl.
"Vesemir-kun, please... stop... or I'll lose control."
Vesemir raised an eyebrow, his half-smile remaining.
"KYA!"
Himiko turned her head. After a moment, she stood up and went to the kitchenette.
"I'll make breakfast right away!"
"Hmmmm...thank you, Himiko."
"Ya...Yamete kudasai...you rogue..."
End of Chapter 41