7.) Taking Care of Aizawa

Hibiki is the first one to wake up. She stretches and sits up, surprised to find Taro curled on her lap. She gives him a few pets before lifting him up and setting him back down after she moves out from under him. She walks off to the bathroom to pee before heading in to check on Aizawa.

She pokes her head in, making Daiki scurrying under the bed in surprise. "Aizawa-kun? You up?" she whispers.

She doesn't get a reply. She quietly closes the door. Getting dressed, she finds the keys for the apartment and heads to her penthouse to get herself clean.

When she returns a loud thump is heard from the bathroom.

Taro is standing outside the door who tilts his head when she walks up. "Merow?"

Hibiki knocks on the door. "Aizawa-kun? You in there? Do you need help with anything?"

"No," comes his quick reply.

"Alright, I'm gonna go make us breakfast," Hibiki tells him. "Are you sure you don't want any help?"

A loud sigh comes from the other side. "I do need help, but I'd rather try to handle this myself. This would be weird for anyone to help with."

Her face turns a little rosey. "O-oh... okay. Well, uh, I'm gonna go then," she says and shuffles off to the kitchen.

As she's making breakfast, a text ding sounds off from her phone. She reads the message from Recovery Girl, saying she's on the way. Helpful is cloned out to help with breakfast.

Aizawa finally makes his way out the bathroom and slumps into one of the chairs. "I'm in pain."

"I know, Recovery Girl is on her way over." She places a bowl in front of him. "I just made us some tamago kake gohan. Hope you're okay with that?"

"Looks good," he says, taking the bite Helpful was holding out for him. "Tastes good too."

They finish by the time Recovery Girl arrives. Helpful disappears.

RG has him rid his shirt and begins to undo the bandages to heal him. "You should be all healed up in about a week. Before I redo your bandages, you're going to need a bath. You stink," Recovery Girl tells him. She looks to Hibiki. "I assume you'll be helping him with that or should I call Hizashi?"

Hibiki blushes. "Uh..."

"I'd rather have you do it," Aizawa sighs. "Hizashi is rough with whatever he does without realizing it. I understand if you don't though. It is rather awkward to do this for someone you just met."

"I-It's fine," Hibiki mumbles. "I would do this whenever one of my brothers would get seriously injured for doing something stupid. I mean—you're obviously not my brothers! That's more appropriate as they are family!"

Her rambling is cut off by Recovery Girl's chuckles. "No wonder you're so willing to help then."

"Ah! Sorry for my rudeness, Recovery Girl."

She chuckles again. "Call me Chiyo out of work."

"Uh, C-Chiyo... have you eaten? We have some left over rice for breakfast if you'd like some."

"Thank you. Though it is way past breakfast."

Hibiki looks to the nearby clock and blinks. "Wow, 1 o'clock."

"Though I am hungry, so I'll eat while you get him smelling better."

The two women move to the kitchen to get Chiyo 'breakfast' as Aizawa shuffles off to the bathroom. After getting Chiyo a bowl of food, Hibiki heads into the bathroom. Aizawa awkwardly stands in the middle of the bathroom, looking any where but Hibiki. She grabs a small towel and wraps it around his waist.

"That way things won't be as awkward, right?" She gives him a smile. "Now time for your pants." She does it before anyone blinks and has him sit down on the bench. "Do you have a hair brush or something?"

"On the counter."

She gets all the necessary things and cleans his body. "Your hair is really nice." She gently shampoos and conditions as she brushes it. She quickly and gently gets rid of all the grime and blood and sweat then finishes off with a rinse. "You should get in the tub. The warm water should feel good. I'll go pick out some clothes, okay?" She helps him into the tub, though he didn't need it, and starts to leave.

"Noizu?"

She turns to look back at him. "Yes?"

"Thank you. I appreciate all of this. You shouldn't have to do this. Especially something like this. If I were–"

"I'm gonna stop you there. If you were gonna berate yourself, don't. You're an amazing hero. I was in awe watching you battle yesterday. No need to thank me. It's fine." She winks. "I don't mind helping a fellow hero or coworker or friend. Especiallly when they're good looking." She laughs a little. "Yeah... that might've been a little too Hizashi. Anyway, if I ever need help, I expect you to return the favor."

He releases a short chuckle. "I will. Don't think I can ever repay you for cleaning me though."

She laughs as she closes the door and heads into his room. She opens the drawer with all his sweatpants and finds pink in the sea of black. The hero pulls out the pink sweats with a laugh. "Well, I guess I gotta choose these." She gets some black boxers and a shirt and takes them into the bathroom. "Well, I found these. Thought I might never have another chance seeing you in these."

He rolls his eyes. "Hizashi got them for me as a gag gift, but I actually wear them more than I'd like to admit. Don't tell him I told you that though."

"My lips are sealed." She sets the clothes on the counter with a smile and heads out to check on Chiyo. "Good?"

"Very good," Chiyo nods, handing the bowl off to Hibiki who rinses it off in the sink. "I'm glad you decided to help Aizawa. He already doesn't take the best care of himself and with his injuries he would've ended up worse."

Hibiki places the dish in the sink and sits at the table with Chiyo. "Well, I feel partially responsible for how injured he got. With as many clones as I can clone, I should've cloned more then maybe he wouldn't of gotten hurt at all. I should've taken it more seriously."

Chiyo takes Hibiki's hands in her own, looking at her intensely. "I know he doesn't blame you, and you shouldn't blame yourself either. You both did your job. You protected your students and kept them from any injuries. Now, go get that man from the bath and make sure he's not falling asleep in there."

The number 6 hero smiles. "Thanks, Chiyo." She gets up and knocks on the door to the bathroom. "Coming in." She gets him dried off then sits him down on the stool again to blow dry and brush his hair.

He sighs in content as she brushes his hair. "You're really good at this."

"My older brother has hair much longer than your own, so I'm used to brushing long hair. Of course his hair isn't curly, so I'm glad that I'm not hurting you."

"No, I'm starting to relax so much I'm gonna fall asleep," he admits.

"Well, you can rest after you get wrapped back up," Hibiki says. "Do you mind if I braid your hair?"

"...Go ahead."

She grins and begins to give him a French braid. "Don't doze off now."

"Trying."

After finishing his hair, she helps dress him and takes him out to his couch for Chiyo to heal and wrap. Once he's all wrapped up, Hibiki takes him back to rest in his room and sees Chiyo out.

"He needs rest more than anyone but get him out of the house for dinner," Chiyo says. "He does need to stretch. We do have school tomorrow. Make sure you change his bandages before school." She hands her a bottle of pain killers. "Give him two of these every four hours unless he's sleeping."

"I will," the echoed girl nods. "Thank you, Chiyo."

"Oh, and you should definitely make him some lunch. He needs to eat more to keep up the muscle."

"So lots of protein tomorrow, got it."

Chiyo smiles. "I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Good day," Hibiki says, closing the door behind her. She clones out Helpful to keep an eye on Aizawa and decides to head out and do some patrolling.

Her suit washes over her body and she clones out her usual pairs to head to different areas to patrol. Echo decides to just walk down the street to make appearances. She signs autographs and takes pictures with any fans. She gets occasional questions, but this one really threw her off.

"Are you dating Present Mic?"

Hibiki blinks, though they can't see, as she stares at them. "Why would you think that?"

"Well, there's tons of pictures of you out with him all over," the girl says, fiddling with her phone. "Reports say you were grocery shopping together for dinner." She turns her phone to Echo to see the photographic evidence.

Echo looks at the photos then pulls them up in her mask to look through. "Well, to answer your question, no. Present Mic and I are just friends and coworkers. We were out getting food for another of our coworkers. He got injured and needs help with daily tasks. I'm currently not dating anyone if that's what you want to know."

"Really?"

"Really really. I wouldn't lie. I promise when I do get a boyfriend I'll let you all know. Have a good day!"

After some time, dinner time rolls around and Hibiki returns to Aizawa's place, leaving her clones to continue and patrol.

She heads back to Aizawa's room and gently wakes him up.

"Little longer..." he groans.

"It's time for dinner."

"Not hungry..."

"That's too bad, you're getting up," Hibiki says, pulling him by his ankles.

Aizawa groans in annoyance as he can't move his arms to grab the rail like he usually does when Hizashi does the same thing.

She lifts him to stand on his feet. He teeters back and forth and about slams forward to the floor if she didn't catch him.

"Let mee sleep..."

"No, Chiyo said we should go out for dinner. You need to stretch a bit." She moves around the room, getting him into some normal sweats before pulling them out the house to a restaurant down the street. Before leaving, she obviously returned her hero suit to the bracelets.

"Where are we going?"

"Your favorite."

"My favorite?"

"The sandwich shop I always get on patrol."

"Patrol," he huffs.

"Don't worry I got all my usual clones going around."

He grunts. "I don't like this."

"I know," Hibiki sighs. "I once was on bed rest for two weeks. I was so restless, but you have Recovery Girl at your side, so you'll be healed quick."

"Yeah..."

Dinner goes by quickly and they return to Aizawa's place. He immediately passes out when he hits his bed.

Hibiki chuckles, tucking him in properly. "Goodnight, Aizawa." She heads off to the kitchen to make them lunch for tomorrow.

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