Izuku texted his father while he ran behind Shoto, keeping a hand grasped onto his outer shirt so he wouldn't lose him in the outside crowd.

"Fuyumi, I'm going to the hospital. Huh? No, it's not for me. Uncle Tensei is in trouble." Shoto dodged around stalls, following the outer walls of the stadium away from the shopping stalls. So I won't be able to meet up with you three until later. I'll be back tonight so we can have that special dinner. No, I won't be late," Shoto paused, smiling a bit at her words. "Yeah, I love you too. Bye for now."

Izuku followed after him while his phone screen lit up from a smile emoji text fro: his father. The medal around his neck thumped against his chest as they ran, "My dad says okay to the trip."

Touya was waiting for them right outside on the outskirts of the stadium away from the food stalls. He stood there with his helmet propped against his hip and his bike suited with the sidecar. When they approached, they saw two helmets waiting on the inside of the sidecar.

"Finally," Touya threw his arms over his head. "The winning ceremony went on for way longer than I remember."

"What's going on?" Shoto started to ask as they walked right up to the sidecar. Izuku dug his hands in to pick up the blue and green helmets inside. "What happened?"

"Something happened in Hosu. Tensei is in the hospital, so that's where we are going," Touya answered easily as he slid on his helmet. "Hop on after you get your helmets on."

"Which color do you want?" Izuku asked, raising the blue and green helmet in his hands. He raised one helmet in the air higher than the other and did the exact same thing to the other colored helmet.

"I'll take the blue one," Shoto mumbled as he picked up the helmet from Izuku's grasp, sliding it over his head while Izuku struggled with his.

Since Shoto put on his helmet first, he claimed the choice to sit behind his brother leaving Izuku to ride in the sidecar.

It was a long ride to the hospital, but Touya made sure it took only half the time by breaking a few traffic laws. It wasn't too long before the motorcycle screeched as he drove right into a parking spot.

All three of them took off their helmets before running to the doors of the hospital, bursting into the lobby. Time flew by as Touya walked up to the desk and entered them as visitors to see Tensei as family and friends. Touya grabbed their hands and took off down the hallway directly to Tensei's room

"Ten-chan," Izuku breathed out as the doors opened in front of him and Shoto. Tenya's mother stepped away to reveal the sight behind her.

Their childhood friend crashed into trees at full speed when he didn't know how to control his quirk enough to stop. The person who was strict in most rules unless they broke them together. The person who argued about wanting to become just like his older brother was now crying his eyes out at the injured man in the hospital sheets.

His uncle was laying down underneath a thin, white hospital bed sheet while there was machines all around him. But the most noticeable thing was the sound coming from the heartbeat machine and the fact that his eyes were open.

"Uncle Tensei," Izuku's voice broke at the end, tears gathering in his eyes at the sight. And Shoto wasn't too far behind.

The older brother figure apart from Touya and Natsuo in his life was bandaged up heavily with the thickest bandages around his arms and chest. His dark blue hair was shaved down to a point where he didn't even recognize if it was him. But those sharp blue eyes were a dead giveaway.

"Hey," Tensei's voice sounded rough like his tongue was dried out. "You guys came."

Izuku nodded softly, "Of course we did, Uncle Tensei."

"We came as soon as we heard. Touya drove us here," Shoto answered as they all walked into the room.

"Yo, I'm back," Touya daisies his hand up in a wave making Tensei smile at them. Izuku and Shoto tried to smile back before walking to the seats against the wall where Tenya was sitting. Shoto sat on Tenya's right on a chair while Izuku sat on his left on the floor just so he could hold onto his friend's other hand.

"I..." Izuku trailed off, looking at the machines surrounding him behind and to the other side of the bed. "Will you be okay?"

"I'll be fine... I'm not sure if I might be a hero after this," Tensei replied while lying down on the clinically clean hospital bed.

"No...," Tenya mumbled in his chair, his words choked up while the tears still flowed.

Tensei bit down on his lip as Touya appeared at his other side with a glass of water with a bendy straw. He leaned the glass down to his face, so Tensei could take a sip from the cold water inside. "Thank you, man."

"No problem," Touya whispered back to him, stepping back as Tensei looked at his brother.

"Tenya. Tenya, look at me please," Tensei ordered softly to his crying brother. Tenya slowly raised his tinted red eyes to look at his older brother. Tensei tries to smile at him brightly, "I might not be a hero after this. But I do want my name to live on." Tensei took a breath in, coughing a bit to clear his throat. "I want you to take my hero name as your own."

"No, I won't," Tenya disagreed, letting go of both of his friends' hands to put his hands on the edge of the bed. "You'll get better and you can take it back. There's no need for me to take it."

Tensei tilted his head a bit to look at Izuku, "Izuku, make sure my brother takes on the Ingenium name for me."

Izuku's lips tightened into a thin line while Tenya stepped back from the bed. He grabbed Tenya's hand along with Shoto as their friend's grip tightened. He intertwined their fingers together as Tenya's hands trembled. "No, I can't do that!" Tenya cried out. "You're Ingenium!"

"From these injuries,...I probably can't be the hero I was before," Tensei reasoned as his eyes floated up the muted gray of the ceiling with the dimmed lights staring back at him.

Izuku remained quiet while a silent stream of tears started to flood his vision. He held onto Tenya's hand as Touya looked away from Tensei.

Tenya's mother hummed, "I'm just glad that Fukuyama boy was able to get there in time."

"My brother was there?" Shoto asked. He turned his head towards Tenya's mom as he clenched onto Tenya's hand who paused at hearing the name. Shoto turned back to his own brother who was nodding at her words slowly. Touya's arms were crossed, but he could see the clench of his brother's finger into their own arms.

"He didn't tell you?" Tenya's mother sniffled. "Your brother fought against Stain by himself to protect Tensei and stop him from causing any more harm. Without him, Tensei might have..." She choked up with tears, clutching her tissue close to her eyes underneath her glasses.

Tenya's tears continued to flow even harsher, the under-bags of his eyes were red from his constant rubbing under his eyes. Shoto bit down on his lip as he drew Tenya closer into him to hold onto him as he broke down

Several minutes passed until Tenya's crying had calmed down again with the help of Shoto holding onto him and Izuku handing him tissue by tissue.

"Hey, I'll be okay, Tenya. I don't know what I'm going to do when I get out..." Tensei spoke up which made Tenya glance up from Shoto's stronghold. "But when I do, I'm still going to be the same thing as I was before."

"A hero?" Tenya asked.

"Your brother," Tensei coughed, letting a soft grin form on his face despite the bandages and visible bruises. "And your biggest supporter."

Tensei continued, "Even if I continue being a hero in some way, I do want you to take my name so it could be a legacy. I want you to take on my name in the future no matter when it might be because I want you to have it."

Tenya sniffled, "When the time comes when I'm ready, I'll take on your hero's name and continue to make you proud."

"I'm already proud of you just like mom," Tensei smiled at him. Tenya sniffed back as one tear fell down his face, but a small smile grew on his face from his brothers reassuring words. Their mother silently cried, but still nodded her head at the words shared.

*

In the last hour of guest hours, the room opened to a nurse guiding in Yamada, Aizawa, and Kayama.

"Hey guys," Tensei called out from his bed, yawning. "How are ya?"

Hizashi sighed, "Don't ask that when you're the one in the bed, man."

"Are you tired?" Aizawa asked, walking up beside Hizashi to stand on the side of Tensei's bed.

Touya piped up from behind them, "He just woke up from a nap."

"How have you three been?" Tensei questioned. "Did the cleanup after the festival take long?"

"Yeah, a bit," Hizashi smiled at his friend, leaning on the mattress of the hospital bed. "That's why we didn't come earlier."

"Recovery Girl should come in here a little later tonight to make sure everything is running smoothly," Kayama said, taking a place by the foot of his bed. "Nedzu called her in for this."

"Well, that's good," Touya commented. They all glance towards him to see him nod towards the It she side of Tensei's bed. All three of them turned back to see what he was gesturing to.

Hizashi awed at the sight of the three friends all clumped together on the chairs, dead  asleep while laying on each other. Kayama is laughing behind her hand, trying to mute herself so the three wouldn't wake up.

"They fell asleep after Tensei," Tenya's mother whispered. "They've been asleep ever since. I'm afraid to wake them up so soon, but I do think that they will have some neck pain if I don't from those positions."

"Touya, did you hear about the other news?" Aizawa asked, upturning his attention to the young adult leaning against the wall behind them.

"If you are talking about what I think you are, then yes. I heard about the whole commission deal with bringing back someone with 'firepower'" Touya scoffed. He shook his head while his face twisted into a deep frown. "It's pretty obvious who they want to bring back."

"I went further down the rabbit hole. It says they are talking about it, but it hasn't been confirmed as of yet." Aizawa replied calmly. "And then Nedzu went deeper and went directly to the prison that he is in."

"And?" Touya asked, raising an eyebrow at their words.

Kayama spoke up, "And apparently, the commission has been meeting with him during visitor hours. But apparently they are always upset about something."

"What does that mean?" Tenya's mother asked.

"If he really wanted to get back out, why would he agree to them on the first meeting? If they even talked about it during their first meeting," Hizashi continued with a confused expression. But still, wouldn't he jump at the chance to get out of there?"

"Wait, what's happening?" Tensei questioned from his bed.

"The Commission is trying to get Endeavor out of prison because of the threat from the League of Villains because of their inhuman monsters," Aizawa relayed the information in a civil manner. He paused when he noticed Shoto shift in his sleep a little, shifting his head deeper into Tenya's neck. "But from our evidence, it looks like he is not cooperating with them."

"Wow. I didn't wouldn't expect someone like him to turn that down," Tensei whistled before coughing at the strain in his throat to do that.

"What?" Touya asked, stepping away from the wall to pace. "Did he just give up in jail?"

"It's more likely he doesn't want to go up against Nedzu again," Kayama grinned, making Hizashi laugh at the reminder.

"As long as I don't get to see that bastard anywhere, I'll be just fine," Touya responded back.

The sounds of yawning drew their attention back to the young teenagers huddled together. All of them turned to see Shoto starting to wake up slowly, drawing his hand back from Izuku's side which made Izuku wake up right away. Tenya's face twisted like he noticed how his body was surrounded by warmth. So while Tenya blinked open his eyes, the other two were already awake.

"Haa," Izuku breathed a sigh of relief. "What are we talking about?"

"Does it have something to do with sweets? I want sweets."

"Nope, no sweets for you," Touya shook his head, walking over to his younger brother. He shook Shoto's shoulder to try and make him wake up faster. "Both of us have to get to the family dinner."

Shoto's eye's widened. He straightened up in his seat before standing up from his seat, "Oh right. We need to make sure we aren't late."

Aizawa walked up beside Touya to reach out to Izuku. Izuku looked up to see Aizawa pulled his hand to get him to stand. "And I need to take you back to Nedzu. He said he had something special planned tonight to celebrate your win."

"Alright," Izuku relented. He paused for a moment before turning to Tenya with a soft smile. He gave his friend one last hug while Tenya held him tight. Shoto joined in on the last embrace with a soft look in his eyes.

"We got your back, Ten-Chan," Izuku muttered.

Shoto jutted in by whispering, "And don't forget it."

Tenya hummed instead of responding back to them, hugging them back tightly. He only slowly let go when he heard a soft cough from Kayama.

"We'll see you tomorrow," Izuku said, rubbing his hand on Tenya's shoulder. He slowly walked backwards with Aizawa following after him.

Tenya remained quiet as Shoto and Touya followed after Aizawa and Izuku. He still didn't say a word as his mother sat beside him and Kayama came to stand by his side, only smiling at them gratefully for the company.

"Bye, Uncle Tensei!" Izuku and Shoto shouted back in unison while Aizawa and Touya guided the two out of the room. Tensei smiled and waved from his bed along with Tenya and their mother. Kayama and Hizashi smiled back at the two before the door shut close behind them.