Chapter 5 - Wake Up

"𝐘𝐮—𝐮—𝐲𝐮—𝐘𝐮𝐤𝐢!"

Yuki woke up. Stretching his arms with a big yawn, rubbing his eyes, and looking at Clematis afterward.

"What? You only let me sleep like 6 hours. I just want to sleep…" Yuki whined to Clematis.

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐬…." she mumbled her final words after realizing that it might have been 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 that Yuki had gone into a coma.

Yuki gave up—ever since he woke to find out that he was unconscious in the outside world he had panicked into thinking that he had died again but luckily, Clematis had entered his subconscious and explained what had happened.

When he was with Toya his Quirk finally appeared—and of course, some kids have trouble controlling their Quirk at first or the Quirk causes some minor injuries to them because their body couldn't handle it. Yuki just didn't expect himself to have two separate Quirks but the worst part was that both Quirks were fighting one another and his body couldn't handle it. He was confused as to why he had two Quirks.

"...𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖…𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮—𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙩…𝙄…𝙄 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚…𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙖…𝙝𝙖…" that's what Clematis told him when he first woke up in a vast darkness with no light inside of it except for the spotlight that always shone on him.

In short, Clematis had been incorrect about the body not having a Quirk and that Yuki needed to manifest a Quirk with the magic that was still inside his soul—and he did succeed in that and the magic has disappeared but what Clematis didn't know is that the body already had a Quirk. Thus, the issue that they have on their hands now.

"I can't believe you still have your job…." Yuki sighed at the darkness above him.

"𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐔𝐠𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐚! 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐨!" Clematis said with a big grin, getting behind Yuki.

"Wow…hey, why don't you tell me how many years it's been?" Yuki said as he was pushed by the floating Clematis to another space.

"𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐡, 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐡, 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐡. 𝐎𝐊! 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞!" Clematis pointed to a blueish swirling water that had appeared in front of them.

Yuki stared at the hole in concern, not knowing if Clematis was trying to kill him or if the hole looked way too suspicious for it to be an exit.

"Are you sure that's the way out?" Yuki stared up at Clematis, who only puffed her cheeks.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬?" Clematis continued annoying Yuki while the boy was just hesitating whether to jump or not.

Yuki kept on sighing as he stared at the swirling hole, catching the eye of Clematis.

Clematis flew around him and stared at him.

"𝐇𝐞𝐲…𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐞, 𝐡𝐮𝐡? 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲…𝐡𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐡𝐞~" Clematis tried to distract Yuki from his worries because she could see that Yuki was not going to jump in the hole any second.

"Please, I am tired Clematis…" Yuki didn't feel like making jokes at the moment.

"...𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐭."

Yuki looked at Clematis before he was suddenly pushed into the hole and felt his whole body touch the water. The cold water surrounded him and he tried to breathe in which only caused him to panic more before suddenly there was a little orb of light in front of him. It was weird, but for some reason, he could see underwater—though there was nothing around him except for that orb.

A few minutes passed when he finally gained the courage to touch the orb but when he did, nothing happened. He could feel an urge of wanting to open his eyes even though they were already opened. He brought his hand up to his eye and scratched it.

Then suddenly, he could her mumbles. He didn't recognize their tone of voice but he knew that whoever was talking was nearby. He then felt sleepy and closed his eyes for a bit.

"𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫…" Clematis said with a weird tone that Yuki couldn't describe but he didn't think much of it, and he couldn't see anything so he quickly forgot about what she had said as he worried about his surroundings.

Then—Finally, his eyes opened.

The first thing he could hear was a monitor that was next to his bed and the soft ticking of the clock. Moving his eyes around he saw that he was in some sort of private hospital. He tried to move his neck to see if his movements were restricted, luckily he was able to move—but the tubes all around him were bothering him.

So, he pushed himself up to sit down with his arms trembling from not being able to move for a long time. While doing so, he accidentally stepped on the clipboard on the footboard of his bed. He grabbed it and saw the date he was registered here, and saw that it had been two years.

Yuki is now 7 years old.

He heard the door open softly. Looking up, he saw an old man with a white gown smiling at him.

"Look at you. You finally decided to wake up. How does it feel? Anything giving you discomfort?" The doctor brought out a rolling chair and sat down next to his bed—and just behind him, there was a nurse with a frantic expression whispering at another nurse.

"Uh, no. Except for this tube thing in my nose." Yuki pointed to the nasogastric tube.

The doctor grabbed the clipboard from his bed and started to write down on it.

Yuki stared at him awkwardly.

"…how did you know I was waking up?" He asked the doctor.

"Oh! I didn't know when you were waking up, I just looked through the camera and saw you waking up. Also, one of the nurses was in the room when they saw your eyelids moving." The doctor pointed out to the camera that was in the corner of the ceiling and to the nurse who was still standing at the doorway.

Yuki was getting thirsty so he for a cup of water—which a nurse already had in hand after they heard that Yuki had woken up. He tried to take a sip of water but needed assistance as his hands were trembling a lot.

"What caused me to go into a coma, sir?" Yuki looked over to the doctor after placing the cup down. He already knew that answer but it was better to have a proper explanation and act like he didn't know.

The doctor adjusted his glasses. He was surprised at how well the boy was taking on the news that he was in a coma and how well he spoke for a young kid.

"To put it simply, your Quirk was too much to handle. Which if you don't know is ice, a snow-related quirk. The Quirk was freezing you to death, hell, you were also freezing others to death. After your father had brought you to the hospital he was suddenly down with a cold. And that's why you have your separate hallway because even being in separate rooms with other patients in the hallways would make them shiver. Though this past week it hasn't been any issue…" the doctor explained to him, not telling him about his other Quirk.

𝘏𝘮𝘮? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘬?

Yuki stared at the doctor for another second, waiting for him to continue with his response—but that was it. He never told him about his other Quirk or didn't seem like he was going to.

Though he was nice enough to turn on the TV for him and bring out books that were his favorites since childhood, also the food in the hospital tasted better than he ever thought it would. He was also informed by one of the nurses that his dad was on his way to the hospital.

Hearing this made Yuki anxious for some reason.

𝘈𝘢𝘢𝘩…𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘴𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴?

"Try to relax." The doctor told him, this time there were nurses in the room.

"Ye…yes. Thank you.." Yuki bowed awkwardly.

"It's easy to tell your mood with the way you change the temperature."

Yuki looked at him in confusion.

"What?"

"As I said earlier, you can control the air or temperature to make it cold. While doing some tests I found out that your mood affects those factors and also that you kind of are 'Winter' itself. If that makes any sense. Anyways, you'll be getting two shots today."

"Umm…is something like this going to happen again?" Yuki asked the doctor.

"Changing the air?" the doctor looked up at him.

"No, I mean if I will collapse again…are you sure that…my Quirk was the one that affected it or…" Yuki was trying to get the doctor to tell him about his other Quirk but he just stared at him and told him that it is most likely that there will be further accidents in the future. The doctor also told him that he would have regular checkups and medication for his Quirk.

After a few more hours of watching TV and eating the food that a nice nurse had given to him, a loud slam was heard in the room.

Scaring Yuki and making him drop his tofu onto the bed. Yuki tried to grab the tofu and quickly eat it before someone saw that he had eaten it from the bed.

"Yuki!…"

Looking up he saw Endeavor staring at him with a sad and defeated face. It seemed like he rushed as fast as he could to the hospital but he looked tired as well.

"Don't worry, Mr. Todoroki, he will be able to go after three days, just as I promised." The doctor gave him a pat on the back before walking out of the room with the nurses. Leaving them alone.

"Thank you…" Endeavor bowed before turning around.

They both stared at each other.

It seemed like they were waiting for the other one to start talking.

Yuki put his spoon on the side and stared at his bowl. Then all of the sudden he felt something wet dripping down his face. He wiped it off but another one would fall. That's when he noticed that he was crying.

Endeavor came to his side and started to comfort him, though he would do it awkwardly—as he had never done it before.

Yuki didn't know why he was crying, he didn't exactly miss Endeavor or was scared of what had happened to him. He was crying because he felt… relieved. He was relieved at the fact that there was someone who would take care of him and that he wasn't left to die.

"...you're going to be released in 3 days. So don't exhaust yourself, alright?" Endeavor's hands did not know where to go, he would put them behind his back then pat his head and then just put them on Yuki's shoulder.

"Okay…" Yuki tried to inch a little bit away from Endeavor but only because he couldn't handle the awkwardness anymore. Though Endeavor seems to have a different plan.

He stayed the whole day with Yuki and would bring him snacks that every child would want but every time he would ask him about the family's welldoing he would pretend to think and then say "They're doing just fine."

𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴…𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬.

Endeavor seemed to be staring off into space and pursuing his lips, thinking about something while shifting his eyes between the bed and Yuki.

"Yuki." Endeavor called out to him.

"Yes?" Yuki said as he opened up another snack.

"...you, you have a—never mind, just don't choke on the food." Endeavor patted his hand again.

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Coming back home felt incredibly suffocating. The atmosphere inside the house looked depressive and gloomy, it seemed like his room was the only one with colors in it.

Fuyumi seemed more serious than she used to be, Natsuo would just play around, Shoto was training but would be stubborn about using his left arm though Endeavor would always force him to it, and Toya was nowhere to be found. Endeavor was barely around as he was always busy, so the only people who were inside the house were the kids, nanny, and teachers, who would come in for 5 hours and then leave. The children didn't talk to each other that much, especially Shoto, but sometimes he would catch Shoto watching him while he was reading.

Right after getting released Yuki, for some reason, was more fond of books and would always read one in one day and then start another one the next day. Reading, taking notes, and then reading again—he liked books before the coma accident but he was more obsessed with them now.

While he was in a coma he learned, from Clematis, that his 'original' power was related to magic and with that magic, he was able to analyze and consume more knowledge than he could. When he manifested his magic to a Quirk some of its characteristics stuck with him.

Right now he didn't have a goal on what he wanted to do in this world and Clematis had warned him that he would most likely spend his time living here. For as long as he lives. So, he was going to take the chance of being something successful in this life, and of course that comes with education—the easiest option that came to his mind.

𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳? 𝘋𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺?

Yuki would do all-nighters just for the sake of studying but that routine was stopped by one of the nannies who caught him taking notes with a desk lamp at 3 am. Taking him to that hospital and finding out that he was low on iron.

Endeavor scolded him and told him to take some sort of activity that he could do outside the house. But Yuki didn't have any idea what to do.

He couldn't watch Shoto anymore because Endeavor didn't allow it and he didn't have any friends.

So he would spend his days reading in the house library—sometimes being taken out of the room forcibly when it got too late—and then sneaking to Shoto's room.

Shoto was the only kid who was the same age as him and he also didn't have anything else to do after his training and studying. Yuki would just lie on his bed and talk to Shoto.

"Hey, how was training?"

"Did you fail the test?"

"Can we go outside?"

"Shoto, what's your favorite animal"

"Shoto, look there's a bunny outside!"

"Shoto, let's play a game."

"Can you be quiet?" Shoto finally responded to him one day and Yukio could not have been more delighted.

"Can we go play outside?" Yukio asked Shoto.

Yukio kicked his feet into Shoto's pillow while Shoto stared at him in annoyance.

"...Sure…"

Yukio jumped off the bed and grabbed Shoto's hand. Dragging him out of the room and taking him out to the backyard. Ready to have this kid play badminton with him because he didn't have any other games in mind. Yuki grabbed both of the racks and gave one to Todoroki, carrying a birdie in his other hand.

"You know how to play right?" Yuki asked Shoto while swinging the racket in the air.

Shoto just stared at him unamused.

"No, but I know how it works." Todoroki looked at the racket in his hand, then looked at Yuki who just kept swinging the racket.

"Okay! I'll throw it now!" Yuki threw the birdie into the air, hitting it with the racket and passing it to Shoto. Shoto successfully caught the birdie and threw it back to Yuki, who was getting ready to hit it back but instead the birdie hit that side of the racket, falling onto the grass.

They both stared at the birdie on the ground.

…

"You have two points!" Yuki told Shoto.

"So every fall is two points"

"Yeah!" Yuki grabbed the birdie and threw it to Shoto. "Now it's your turn to hit it first."

Todoroki got into position to throw the birdie. Throwing the birdie into the air and swinging his racket. Now, Yuki had to hit it back. But instead, he hit the air. The birdie bounced on top of his head and landed on the ground. Yuki stared at the birdie that fell and looked up at Shoto.

"Sorry, I'm not that good." Yuki gave Todoroki an awkward smile.

"I know." Todoroki reaffirmed him.

It was hard being friends with Todoroki but it was harder having him think of him as a brother.

At this point, Yuki had decided to follow the world's original plot because he didn't know much about this world's story from his past life but he also wanted to have a good life, though the family was making it hard for him to live an enjoyable life.

So he decided to take the same lessons as Todoroki at the same time; he had to persuade Endeavor on allowing him to take lessons with Shoto and in the end, he was able to persuade the busy man. He would also follow Todoroki around, sometimes he would talk to him and at other times he would try not to bother him. Having their nanny teach them how to bake cookies together, learning how to ride a bicycle with him, forcing him to play out sometimes, and Endeavor started to have them train together a bit. That was when they got the closest.

Luckily, Yuki didn't have to train with Endeavor and the man got Yuki another trainer that specialized in beginners.

Yuki didn't have any experience with fighting or using his quirk, so it was very hard for him in the beginning. Todoroki could see this and he would give him some tips which helped him. But one day an accident happened where the trainer was being a little too hard on Yuki, kicking him down, shouting at him, and having him stand up again when it was apparent that he was at his limit. Todoroki screamed at the trainer but was ignored. Yuki tried his best and was able to stand up but before he could look up, the trainer's foot was already one inch away from his face. They were kicking him straight in the face.

𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘦…

This was when they were 10 years old and Yuki had to go to therapy because the event had damaged him psychologically—even when something would be near his face he would always flinch, but fortunately, he was always to overcome that fear in 5 months. Though he had shied away from talking to trainers, then that shyness went to the nannies, then to the kids around the block, and to anyone who was a stranger to him.

Then they found out that the trainer who had hit Yuki hated the family for personal reasons.

Todoroki was also affected by this event and would always watch how trainers would treat him; if he didn't like how a trainer interacted with Yuki he would always force himself to talk to Endeavor and ask him to fire them.

This was the point where he refused to use his left side.