58) i saw life

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"I have your test results."

Izuku hums, not looking at Recovery Girl even as she speaks. He swings his feet over the edge of the bed, staring at his cat socks. He lost his shoe privileges about an hour ago, as he accidentally managed  to throw them off the roof during the storm that's still rocking the entire building and land them in a nice, large pile of mud. He had to put them in the wash, and they won't be done for a little while more at least.

He thinks it was worth it, even though it earned him a five minute long lecture from Snipe about not playing around on the roof during a storm.

It was kind of funny, Izuku contends. The only reason Snipe scolded him to begin with is because Vlad insisted someone had to, as neither Yamada, Aizawa, nor Yagi were available at the time.

"Why don't you do it then if you're so upset about it, Kan?" Kayama snorts.

"Because I would be fired if I handled it my way," Vlad King responds, glaring daggers at Izuku, who's standing awkwardly beside Ectoplasm and avoiding eye contact. In this room full of abnormally large people, he feels like an ant.

It's kind of embarrassing to sit here and listen to them discuss who's going to lecture him. Kinda weird, too. What kind of functioning team does that? Still, it's probably better than all of them deciding to yell at him at once.

Kayama laughs. "C'mon, all the boy did was accidentally drop his shoes off the side."

"He threw them two hundred yards out, actually," Ectoplasm cuts in, clearing his throat. He's still wet due to having fetched Izuku's shoes for him. "We have video footage of him using his quirk to do it. Besides, he's not allowed on the roof. No students are."

Oh, shit. He really was caught in 4K quality.

At this, Kayama turns to look at Izuku. "Geez, kiddo, only two hundred yards? That's pretty low for you. Were ya not trying your best or something?"

Izuku fidgets with the muddy shoes in his hand, ashamed. "I was distracted."

"Can we focus on the important thing here? Somebody's gotta do something about this or I'm calling Nezu!" Vlad exclaims haughtily.

Across the room, Snipe gets up from his desk and sighs. "Fine. Guess I gotta do it. You know, you really are getting to be unbearable these days, Kan. Live a little."

He takes Izuku by the shoulder and leads him out of the room. They arrive fairly quickly at the laundry area on the other side of campus, where Snipe proceeds to give a long, 'straight from the UA policy handbook' talk to Izuku that even Aizawa would've been proud of.

It's so good that it probably should be life changing! But it isn't. It only makes Izuku want to do even more bad things.

"Your blood has changed again."

Izuku blinks, realizing he's still at the nurse's office. "Blood is always changing," he says automatically.

"Not like yours," she counters, and her arms are crossed. She's studying Izuku with a glint to her eyes.

He shrugs in response. "Well, two million new red blood cells are made every single second in the body, ma'am. Weird things are bound to happen."

"You may be able to get away with lying your ass off to everyone else around you, but not with me, boy. Look at me."

Slowly, Izuku looks up. He keeps his expression smooth, and he tries to hide the way his hands are itching to scratch at his back. He's sure she notices it anyway, as she's always been keen about that sort of stuff, but she doesn't mention it this time. "Yes?"

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