Chapter 23 - Love-Hate (1/2)

Something was off.

Shota looked at his classroom, and right away, something was extremely off about it. He glanced around, before he noticed that several of his students... were not in their seats. Actually, it wasn't just that they were in their seats, it seemed they were gone altogether. He saw that Mina, Kirishima, Shoji, Toru, and Naruto were all not in their seats, which was odd that so many students were absent at the same time. Even worse considering that some of them were friends, and this would mean they were skipping school to hang out.

'If there reasons aren't good for this, I'll expel all of them.' Shota would tell All Might about this, but he wasn't going to go out of his way to track down a classroom of skipping teenagers.

They better be able to explain this.

-With Naruto-

”You're a monster... you didn't even break that kit-kat... you just took a bite out of the whole damn bar.” Naruto moved his head around so that she wouldn't feed him her second-hand chocolate. She was in his clothes again, laying down next to him, and trying to feed him. Of course, he would rather starve than get an indirect or direct kiss from this psychotic bitch. She had a knife in her other hand, drawing crude lines down his arms, leaving thin cuts that just bȧrėly bled. She was sure enjoying herself, and she rolled on top of him and smiled.

When he got out of here, he was going to beat the shit out of this girl.

”Oh, don't be that way... you have to eat to keep your strength up. If I want to suck your blood, you need to not die, so you got to keep that strengthy strength up.” Himiko tried to sound cute.

She was cute, but Naruto wasn't going to think it after what she did to him.

He jerked his forehead forward, and smashed his head into her nose. She yelped in pain and rolled off of the bed with a hard thump, slamming into the dresser on the way down. Naruto smirked at his small victory, he wasn't going to make it easy for her to have her fun with him. He frowned though when she hung over the side of the bed with a bleeding nose, and a wide smile. She was ŀɨċkɨnġ her own blood as it went over her lips, having actually enjoyed his violence against her. She enjoyed pain, she enjoyed pŀėȧsurė, she enjoyed hurting and being hurt. He didn't know how to handle her, other than beat her within an inch of her life and leave her to rot in prison. Honestly, that was his only answer for dealing with her.

-With the Naruto Rescue Squad (Hours Later)-

”This is the scene of the crime yesterday...” Kirishima whispered as they looked around the busy streets, that were busy once more. There was a construction crew that was filling in the holes blasted in the road from the villain fight. There were brown spots on the side of the building, spots that were dried up blood. Kirishima was worried for his friend, but he had to admire how far Naruto went to save lives. He had taken a super powerful explosion and contained it with his own body, which was the height of manly.

This was their only place where they could start looking for Naruto, the place where he was last seen.

”He's gotta be hurt really bad...” Mina slapped her cheeks as hard as she could to try and stay calm. Her pink cheeks turning bright red from her abusing them, but she was able to try and stay calm because of it.

Toru was looking in the trashcans in the alley for any clue.

”Shoji, can you make dog noses with your Quirk, and sniff Naruto out?” Kirishima asked his classmate.

Shoji shook his head.

”I'm limited to making copies of my own body parts. While I can make multiple eyes and ears to give myself better range, I can't modify the nose I would make to make it smell better than my own.” Shoji explained his Quirk, even making an eye come from one of his arms.

”If Naruto was here, he could become a fox and track-” Toru stopped when she realized that if 'Naruto' was with them, they wouldn't be doing this in the first place. Mina looked upset at the reminder, but she got her phone out and called Naruto's phone.

Toru reached into the trash and pulled out Naruto's phone, and she answered the call.

”So... we can't track him by phone signal.” Shoji whispered as he started to follow the trail of blood. He took the lead, with Kirishima following behind him closely. He had both of his arms raised up, ready to fight if the girl appeared. ”We should have contacted a hero.” Shoji pointed out with his mask shifting and showing he might be frowning underneath.

Mina shook her head, and so did Toru.

”Where were you two when Naruto got kidnapped?” Kirishima didn't want to come off as accusing, but it needed to be asked.

They were here when it went down.

”I was helping get people out of the area. When the fight ended, I was a few blocks away... I didn't know Naruto had been hurt until I saw the news. I thought he had just escaped so that he wasn't seen by the news.” Toru spoke the absolute truth. Naruto had cemented himself as a hero in the eyes of much of the classroom, so it was easy to see him as somebody who was invincible.

That seemed to be further from the truth.

Mina just gripped Naruto's phone in her hands.

'... I should have helped him... It's Momo's fau...' Mina stopped herself.

No, it wasn't her fault. She chose to go along with what the group wanted to do, and help evacuate people. She could have went against the group, and helped Naruto fight. Then he might not have gotten so hurt in the first place. If she had thrown some acid at the villain, and hurt him, then maybe Naruto wouldn't have had to protect everyone from the big explosion.

It was her fault for not following her instincts, not Momo's fault, the girl had just been doing what a hero would have done, and helped evacuate those who were in need of help.

”... It's okay, we'll find him.” Kirishima held back a little and put a hand on her shoulder. They continued following the blood trail as far as it was going to go, but the further they went, the less Naruto had been bleeding. His wounds having stopped bleeding as time went on. Kirishima pushed his fingers against his cheeks, and pushed his lips into a smile. ”Come on, do what Naruto would do right now, and try and smile. Naruto told me that a hero smiles to protect people's hearts, and he told me your smile is his favorite.” Kirishima tried to get her to smile again.

She never knew Naruto liked her smile so much. Naruto must talk about her behind her back with Kirishima, and from the looks of it, he said good things about her.

”I'll show him my brightest smile to!” Toru shouted.

...

”You do that... Shoji, the blood stops here.” Kirishima commented when they were all forced to stop.

They didn't have a trail to follow.

”Lets split up... Kirishima, you go with Toru, and I'll go with Mina. If we find Naruto, we don't do anything until all of us are together. That girl wasn't very big, and her Quirk wasn't strength related... so she couldn't have carried Naruto super far.” Shoji tried to think about everything that he had seen so far.

They needed more of a plan than that though.

”Wish there was a pro that we could turn to without getting in trouble.” Kirishima whispered as he teamed up with Toru.

Mina blinked and looked at the phone in her hand.