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Chapter 17 - Chapter 16: The Stranger at Night

As I slowly wake up the blinding lights hitting my eyes looking at the celling realizing that I'm at the clinic again, hearing chatter I look to my left and see my sister and Ishida talking to each other, Ishida looking at my sister phone while they talk and as I look to my right and see the door.

I try to get up from the bed but feel someone on me and as I look and see my teammate just on me wondering why he is on top off me, I hear my sister call out, "oh your awake." as she gets off my phone Ishida looking at me wondering why he is on top off me.

As my sister just walks to me telling Inoue to wake up, and as he wakes up he starts to blush realizing that he was on off me before getting off and explain why he was on top off me.

"I had saw that you had tears in your sleep eyes when I woke up so I had decided to sleep next to you because it would help you sleep better since for some reason, my family was able to make people feel better when they are sad." as he says that, I process what he said and realized that was probably why I sleep better than other time.

As he looks away ready for me to tell him off, I just pat his head and tell him "Thank you for making me sleep better." As he is blushing from the compliment, I look back at my sister wondering why she is here now.

"I'm here to make sure you are awake so I can tell mom and dad since they both will have teacher work, and after all you did make them both worried after you got stabbed in the stomach a lot." As her eyes look at Ishida who wanted to just go back to sleep.

As he speaks up "I'm just here because I feel bad other than that, I would have left if your parents didn't force me to apologize after I had stabbed you." as that reason makes sense for his character.

As I start to get up from the bed but feel this horrible pain coming from my stomach, I lift up my apeiron from my stomach and realized that it is healed but the after pain is still there, making it hard to breath once again.

"Well you seem to better." as my sister says looking like she is ready to walk out of this room, "you going to wait for mom to pick you up or you coming with us." as she says, as Inoue gets off the bed feeling a since off calming slip away before I'm back to my regular self-wondering if I should go or not I answer.

"It's okay I will go by myself I'll sleep for a bit before I go home since I still feel tired from the battle that happened, so tell mom she can go if I'm still asleep." as my eyes start to get heavy before I go back to sleep everyone confused by my response but is okay with it, expect for Inoue who is worried but doesn't know why since he had felt something darker inside him when he was asleep.

"I will tell text mom about it ready to go Takuma." as she says ready to leave.

"Sure, I'm getting tired want to stop by to get some food since I'm hungry" as he says standing next to her ready to leave.

"You coming Inoue since it seems he will sleep for a while." as she says ready to leave his sleeping brother. "But aren't you worried about him." as he says with concerns not knowing Wheater to go with them or staying here waiting for Tario. As he looks back before deciding to go since he must take care of something, since he has stayed too long in school. "Alright, I'm coming since I have to go home now."

As he makes himself to the door worried but can't do anything since he must take care of other business. As Kirage and Ishida walk out going to find a spot to eat while Kirage texts her mom what he said.

As time pass the mom and dad visited just in case but not waking up they leave the mom tired from all the hero work and the dad getting prepared to leave to do underground hero stuff.

We see Amako Tairo wake up looking up at the celling seeing that is pitch black him looking to the right seeing nothing but the door, then looking at the left and sees it again sitting down where my sister and Ishida was. 

"Hey there howyou doing" as it waves at me smiling but in a shadowy from, "you got stabbed pretty hard I can't lie." as he stands walking towards me.

As I stare at him wondering what he's going to do to me next. "Don't worry I'm not going to hurt that bad it just seems you have gotten use to the pain which is not good because I want to see you get hurt more." as you can see a grin form in face talking to me with those dark but crazy eyes staring back at me. "So shall we fully heal that little stab spot of yours."

As he snaps his finger, suddenly feeling this pain in both my stomach and my finger remembering the exact pain but trying to endure the pain is being more and more painful it feels like metal is in those exact area.

Feeling everything being repaired back to what it was, my breathing stagnating, with my breathing getting more and more heavy as my stomach flesh starts to come together, while my arm is starting to shake from the violence experienced from also being reshape because off that knife.

As this goes on a few more minutes of my body being reshape to it being normal I look back at that thing wondering what it's going to do next. It says again "Well isn't that fun"" as smiles before snapping his finger with the pain going away, as I look confused wondering why it did that. "If you're wondering why, it stopped is simple you were fully healing so there is no point in going more if it breaks you and I want to do that myself."

As it comes more closer inches to my face seeing its eyes looking at me while it has its spiral eyes staring at me and it smiling before pulling itself back.

Before snapping again, realizing I have not spoken this entire time, "well I should get going know see you later" As it starts walking back into the shadow disappearing.

"I can feel my body" as I start to wiggle my toes realizing I could not walk or talk except feeling all the pain it gives me.

"I should head home." As I try to ignore whatever happened and try to find clothes only to see my uniform putting it on and walking out of the school making my way down the street before I hear someone call out.

"Hey kid" as I wonder what that noise was I look to my side and see an old man just looking at me not knowing what to do I prepare to run.

"Don't worry kid I won't attack you or anything I was just wondering what you're doing out so late since you seem to be getting out of school." As the old man just stands there before pulling out a lighter and cigar smoking it Infront off me before letting out a puff of smoke.

As I inhale the smoke by accident I coughed. "Can you not smoke Infront off man's it's bad for your health." As I wave off any smoke I had Infront off me.

The old man looking annoyed but understanding since I am a kid still, "oh don't worry about it" as he inhales another again before releasing the smoke away from me "just had to mess with you to ease the tension since I am a stranger." As he says that again now wondering what he wants.

"So what do you want old man?" As I'm now confused about why he bothered me in the first place. "Oh, that's simple, why are you out here so late after all it is a school night, and you seem to be at that prestigious hero school." As he looks at me ready to call the school if I'm doing anything bad. "I just got out of the clinic after the team battle."

As he looks surprised that I would tell him something like that. "Well, I guess that would make sense but why so late." As he looks away, he is not too concerned about me since he knows why now. "You ask a lot of questions but now it's time to ask mine." As he now looks at me again interested in what I'm going to ask him.

"Why are you out so late at night." As he just lets out another puff of smoke before answering. "I just like the night yes it's more dangerous but it reminds me off my youth when me and my group would go out and smoke late into the night before going home smelling like smoke but no one knowing why."

As he tells me I start to understand why he is out late my stomach growled a little embarrassed as he stops mid conversation as he just laugh before asking "do you want me to buy you some food I know a good place to eat." As he points to the food stall that is across the street tempted I told him "go inside and wait for me, I have to make a quick call"

As he walks to the food stall I call my dad and tell him "hey dad I'm awake right know and getting something to eat can you pick me up." As he says okay tired but since he is an underground hero, he decides to pick me up. "I'll be there in 30 minutes so go get something to eat." As I thank him before hanging up.

Looking at my location he starts to shadow hop over there stopping a few criminals in the way.

As we come back to him and the old man "so old man you live around here or what?" As I asked a little confused since he does not seem to be apart from here. "Oh no I used to be, but I moved from the countryside to the city for a while was getting bored and was about to move that's why I walked around before I leave." As he says that it makes sense why he was out late and not sleeping.

"Well if you want, we could hang out more before you go back home." As he looks surprised before replying. "Sure why not I have been wanting to walk around at night for a while so let's meet at night than."

As my dad comes up from behind to pick me up "oh he is here as I turned away to walk to him." seeing that I had eaten and seeing the old man face surprised that that my dad is a hero before we leave.

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