Blood and Air [Bakugo X OC]

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I woke up the next morning, tired and confused. I didn't cry again, no matter what I did. I was so confused on how, of all people, Bakugo made me cry. And I still don't know why. All I knew it was because I felt... touched. 

Was it because of the worry in his eyes? Nope. Well, I don't think so. Then, is it because of how he scolded me? Shouldn't be. I get scolded a lot, so... then is it because he told me not to sacrifice myself?

I felt my heart constrict at that. Guess I found the answer. 

If anything, work with me, not sacrifice yourself. 

That was the first time, since the death of my mother, that I have been told not to sacrifice myself. Always, always, I've been told that if an opponent is too strong for me, just keep fighting and get better. Never rely on someone, never ask for help, don't trust in others when you are in a fight. If you get injured, just get better. 

Shoto would always be mad at me for getting major injuries, for keep on fighting. But then he'd praise me for fighting by myself. Of all people to tell me not to sacrifice myself, Bakugo was the last one I'd expect to say it.

I was in the bathroom attached to my hospital room, standing with my back turned from the mirror. I was scared to look in the mirror. The nurses came in and cut my bandages off, wanting me to shower and rewrap them around my torso where I got bruising. The bruising from the broken ribs, the broken back, the punch that connected with me. Oh, and my Quirk that caused the blood to rush and probably caused even more bruising when I deactivated it. 

Never deactivate your Quirk in a battle, Mira. Thanks, Mr. Enji.

I took in a deep breath and moved slowly to turn to look at the mirror, the bruises still causing a lot of pain. And I groaned at how bad it looked. I may be looking like a stone cold bitch, but what I saw in the mirror was absolutely terrible. I don't know how I wasn't in any more pain than I was.

Under my breast was a bluish red swelling and bruising with splotches of yellow lining the edge of the bruises. I fractured ribs there. My breasts were normal, still, looking out of place with the rest of my upper torso. 

The bluish swelling darkened into a purple, practically as black as the night sky, around the sides of my ribs. There were hints of lighter purple and red popping out, but my ribs from where the major breaks happened and from where I actually got hit by the nomu was black with bruises. 

I hesitantly brought a hand up to touch my rib side, as light as I could. I winced and brought my hand away, pain flaring at the graze of my finger. Just great. 

I turned to try to look over my shoulder at my back, my ribs that were mending groaning in pain. My back was just as bad as the side of my ribs, a purplish black with hints of red. It looked terrible. It was al my upper back, where I slammed into the wall and where I broke my spine. 

I groaned in disgust and pain and turned on the shower, cold. I was told only cold showers until the swelling got better. Because of my Quirk having blood rush around my bones, deactivating it, then reactivating it, the bruising was caused by so much of my blood swelling around the bones. Now, I needed cold treatment. 

I steeled myself as I stepped under the cold water, gasping in mental shock and pain as the water poured icily over my hair, my back and chest. 

I hate cold showers.

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I tried my best not to react when the nurses re-bandaged me. Because of the way I was injured, I was unable to wear a bra. That didn't affect me much, since because I didn't always have wear a bra due to the natural shape of my breasts, but it was uncomfortable having them wrapped with bandages too.