Chapter 25 - I am all right (2/2)

”Naruto! You're okay!”

'This is super unpleasant!' Naruto was crushed when Toshinori, All Might form, wrapped his arms around Naruto and squeezed him. The massive man was crying tears of relief that his only family was okay. Naruto winced when he felt something crack, even with healing his body was still weakened by his experience until he had time to really recover. He just took the pain, and gave Toshinori a pat on the back. ”Stop crying you big baby, I'm fine.” Naruto pushed his uncle off, but the worried look didn't end when his body was examined. ”I'm fine now...”

Toshinori took his true form, and rubbed his eyes.

He had been so worried.

”When you didn't come home last night, I thought you just pushed yourself too hard, and passed out in the woods. When you didn't come to school the next day, I was so worried about you... and when they carried you in half-dead...” Toshinori couldn't help but remember Minato. Now though, he was also imagining his own master Nana also bruised and beaten. Everyone he loved who was related to Naruto passed by in his mind, and it was just horrible for him. ”I'm... you're okay?” Toshinori asked Naruto again, not finishing what he was going to say.

Naruto put on a bright smile.

”Don't worry about me, I'm here, so everything is all right.” Naruto spoke genuinely.

Toshinori smiled too, before he frowned.

”... I'm moving you into the U.A. dorms tomorrow... I'm not suppose to tell you, but news about you getting kidnapped traveled. Other parents are freaking out about their children... so we're going to be moving students from the Hero Courses into dorms to try and help ease parents.” Toshinori told Naruto anyway. Somehow, the news had leaked that a U.A. student had gotten kidnapped and tortured, the exact details of the leak were unknown... but it was ȧssumed that somebody in the police department that Ryuko talked to, spoke with a news reporter. Parents were freaking out, and their trust in U.A. had dropped a little, so they were trying to win back the trust of the parents.

No doubt teachers were going to be asking parents for permission to allow their children to move into the dorms on the next day off from school, and since Naruto's uncle was his legal guardian, there was no need to worry about getting permission.

”I'll start packing then.” Naruto didn't mind moving into the school for now.

”You're okay?”

”I'm all right... being a hero is dangerous, this is just part of the job.” Naruto told his uncle with a thumbs up, going into his room as he tried to calm his uncle again. When he closed the door behind him, Naruto let loose a small sigh.

He was okay, physically, but this event had forced him to think about things he didn't like.

Instead of starting packing like he said, Naruto went towards his closet. Opening it, Naruto leaned down and looked at a small safe on the floor. Entering in the code, Naruto opened it and revealed a small box. Naruto took the box and took out his phone, before he wrote out a text... and he deleted it. Naruto looked at the box in his hands again, before he opened it up. It was a small white ball, small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. It had a faint glow to it, and it gently hummed in his hand. Naruto hadn't had it in his hands in years, not since he had first developed his Quirk. He had always kept it safe and quiet in his personal safe. His uncle had told him what it was when he first developed his Quirk, and that if it was ever destroyed he would die with it. Yet, it was also the key to unlocking the secret abilities of his own Quirk, the double edged sword of his Quirk.

Telling Himiko about what happened to his parents... it reminded him about his own.

Getting his phone again, he rewrote the text he wanted to send to Mina earlier, and tried it again. Not finding the right way to word it though, Naruto deleted it and wrote it again... and again... and again... and again. No matter how many times he rewrote it, he just couldn't find the right words he wanted to use. In the end, Naruto just sighed to himself and reboxed his Hoshi no Tama back in it's box, and put it into his safe again.

He had packing to do.