Chapter 6: Free Day

The fighting was over and the ones who could not escape were taken in by the police.

That left the student to group up while someone in a coat did a head count.

"18... 19... 20... Not including the one with broken bones..." All the unharmed students looked at the detective that was facing them while he counted them down. "Everyone is pretty much unharmed."

Some of the students started talking to each other while other ones worried about the one who wasn't there.

"Ojiro-kun, you were fired up, huh?" Hagakure said, patting blond on the shoulder.

"It wasn't much. Where were you, by the way?"

"I was in the landslide zone! I was amazed by how strong Todoroki-kun was!"

Todoroki gave a small and quiet apology for not knowing she was there to begin with, thereby having a chance to freeze her as well.

He then turned attention to the small noise he heard from a small distance away from everyone. The noise had come from their classmate who had appeared there before he had made it onto the scene with Bakugou and Kirishima.

He could see that the weirdo with a silver chain coming from his shoulder was in pain from the expression on his face to the fact he was holding his arm tightly. In his grip was a broken silver chain.

Deciding to use this chance, he walked over quietly.

"You were hurt, right? Why didn't you go see Recovery Girl too?"

Indō looked at him while biting his lip.

It took a few seconds before he let out a sigh through his nose and opened his mouth.

"Because there isn't really a reason. They got one hit on me and Silver Chains protected me well enough... I'm only feeling some pain, nothing else."

"Why are you holding your arm like that?"

"One of Silver Chains was broken. There isn't a way to fix them, so I have to cut them off and let them regrow."

"Didn't you say that taking one of them off was like an amputation without the aesthetics? You're missing three of them. I'm sure that kind of pain warrants a trip to Recovery Girl."

"Like I said, it's fine. Besides, even if you were to say that you're telling me this because we're classmate, that doesn't seem like the kind of person you are. Simply put; what do you want?"

"-"

Before the dual-color haired boy could answer, Asui had asked about their teachers, getting everyone's attention.

They were all told that the two had sustained a good amount of injuries, but would be better later on. Uraraka and Iida had asked about the other student afterwards and were told that he would also be fine after seeing Recovery Girl, relieving them all of worry.

While the students were letting out sighs of relief the detective spoke with the principle and the villains that were still there and beaten were taken away. After everything was said and done, they all boarded the bus and headed back to U.A. There was chatting involving the students near the front of the bus while the ones in the back stayed quiet.

It was a relief to know that they had been able to hold off against the villains that had attacked long enough for the pros to show up.

It also brought about worries when they thought about how those villains even managed to get in.

Overall it was an experience that would definitely spread like wildfire and gather the attentions if others.

For now it was enough to know that they were not directly in harms way anymore.

The pain was excruciating and seemed almost never ending.

Blood was coming out from his right shoulder.

He was sure that he would have passed out from the pain by now if he wasn't holding a silver chain tightly.

It was hard to remember how things had ended up like this, but he was sure that it had something to do with the idiots who had come up to him with a metal rod and a hammer.

Apparently his new brother had made some enemies at school that ended up targeting him.

Now that he thought about it, the place he was in seemed rather familiar. All the lights were turned off, but he could see some things here and there. Those things being equipment.

He felt around and followed the silver chain in his hand to end up seeing a metal rod in the ground with the end of his silver chain stuck because of the rod.

That was why he was in so much pain.

He had to get rid of that chain.

"All I have to do now is-"

Indō slowly opened his eyes to the dull throbbing of his waist and left shoulder.

That was when he remembered that he no longer had silver chains coming out of the holes that were there.

While still laying on his bed, he looked at his shoulder, then had the two holes on his hips. It looked rather disgusting when he looked at them for too long.

We have the day off today. No reason to deal with this pain. Let's just go back to sleep.

As that peaceful though crossed his mind, something slammed open loudly as a voice called out in a chipper tone.

"O stupid little brother! I have come to get you ready for your day off! It's gonna be a really special one that will make you a better person, and get you some points with other people so that you don't end up being a hero people can't rely on!"

The loudness of the voice would have woken anyone up, so it was a good thing that Indō was the only other person in the house right now.

Knowing that there was no way of going back to sleep, Indō slowly got up from his bed before putting his hand on his brother's face and pushing him out of the room.

"Let me get changed. Speak while I do so."

A muffled laugh could be heard coming from the other side of the door.

"Alright, alright."

Being a plain person who likes simplistic things, all of Indō's clothes were plain colors with nothing but a single color on them.

"Since it's your day off, I decided to take the liberty of messaging your friends."

Indō decided to go with a muscle shirt and a gray hoodie with black pants. This gave room for his silver chains to come out without ripping his clothes.

"I told them that you wanted to be better friends with them all so that you could all work well together."

Phone, wallet, and earphones were all accounted for.

"Only some of them were fine with going. Others just didn't seem to care."

A good amount if messages were on his phone.

"That explosive guy really goes all out in his language, doesn't he?"

With everything ready to leave the house, Indō opened his door before punching Gō arm as hard as he could.

He watched as his brother held his arm from the punch and walked passed the older boy with a sigh.

"Fine. But don't think I'm letting this slide."

Gō could only grin from his spot. He had planned on going as well, but decided against it since he felt that his brother needed to spend time with his classmates without having to deal with the more friendly one of the two.

That was fine.

The first to agree seemed to be Uraraka.

Of course we can hang out!

Next was from Iida. Only a few seconds later.

I would be happy to take this invitation! Thank you very much!

Then were were ones like Midoriya, Kaminari, and Kirishima.

Overall it seemed like most of the class were doing other things while a few of them actually decided to go. It was rather hard to say if he was happy about that or not.

Deciding that he might as well go along with it all, he made his way to the place they agreed to meet up at. Well, it was more like the spot his brother had said they should meet up at.

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When he got there he saw everyone who said they could make it. The group consisted of Midoriya, Uraraka, Iida, Ashido, Kirishima, and Hagakure.

He was rather glad that it was such a small group, compared to their whole class. This meant that they could just talk amongst themselves and not talk to him. Well, that was his wish at least.

No way that would actually happen.

"Ginsa! Over here!"

Seeing the redhead waving at him made him feel like there really was no escape at this point.

The others turned to him once they noticed at and both Ashido and Hagakure started waving as well.

He quickened his pace so that he could get them to stop waving. It worked well enough since the three stopped waving and went to smiling. Well, Kirishima and Ashido did at least.

"Sorry, everyone. The one you had all been messaging was my brother. Although, I will stay and...hang out."

"It's fine. I'm pretty sure we all knew it wasn't you who was messaging us. You don't usually talk to us in such a casual way."

Indō could only let a small hum, not really knowing how to respond to that.

Seeing him get a bit awkward, Uraraka spoke up to get their attention.

"So where should we go?"

As if asked that question directly, a rather loud growl was heard. They all turned to see the weirdo with a silver chain coming out of his shoulder looking away.

"Could we get something to eat first...? I need something to fix a certain problem..."

They all agreed and started making their way over to get some food.

They started chatting with each other about one thing or another while Indō slowed his pace a bit so that he was behind them all. It worked well enough since the others were talking. The only thing that stop it from working all the way was the fact that someone had noticed something about him.

Rather, they noticed that it was much more quiet around him than usual.

Midoriya started walking next to him, looking forward as he spoke.

"Ginsa-kun, are you alright?"

"No offense... Should you be out and about? You took the most damage."

"I don't think that's completely true. You are missing three of your chains, aren't you? You had said that they hurt when they come off. Are you still in pain?"

The answer was obvious.

His hips and shoulder still hurt a lot. It had been going from real pain to phantom pains. Sometimes it was a bit hard to tell if it really hurt or if he was just imagining it.

But that wasn't the real issue with all of this.

"Do you miss them? Your chains, I mean."

"That is hard to answer. I may be a plain speaking person, but I can't speak plainly about that."

He took a glance to the side to see the green-haired boy looking up at him.

Thinking that was a way of saying to continue, he did.

"Those chains are gone. They can't come back no matter what. That being said, three new chains will start to grow in their place."

"Does it take a long time?"

"It takes my energy to grow them. So, it all depends on how much energy I have. That being said, I end up eating like a pig so I can have enough energy. Thankfully that kind of thing burns it all right away. I won't get fat."

He looked over once more to see Midoriya nodding his head.

He really looked like he was laying attention and was actually interested in what was being said.

Indō couldn't help the happiness of having someone actually listen to his explaination. It seemed like the class did have some people like that. Yaoyorozu was the same way.

The thought that this would actually be fun crossed his mind.

Then a certain someone patted his back without him being ready, making him have to catch himself before falling.

"So, Ginsa, I gotta know. What is with-"

"If this is about my costume again, so help me-"

"C'mon~! The more you dodge the question, the more we're gonna ask! Wouldn't it be fine to just tell us?"

Iida quickly got between the two so that a fight wouldn't start.

"Kirishima-kun, if he doesn't want to say anything than what us the point in trying to force him!? It is completely up to him if he want to say or not!"

"Sorry..."

Kirishima looked over at the weirdo with a silver chain coming from his shoulder. He raised an eyebrow when he saw that Indō was staring directly at Iida.

The others watched as the chain user stared strongly at the glasses-wearing boy with his eyebrows pushed together.

Walking forward, Indō grabbed both of Iida's wrists and held them to the ground.

"Crazy Calves... Say something. Anything."

Being confused as to what was going on, Iida started questioning his classmate.

"What is going on!? Is there a reason why you are holding my arms down!? And what exactly do you want me to-"

Indō let out a sigh.

"Alright. That's enough."

He let go of Iida's wrists and turned away.

He could see the others looking at him with questioning expressions knew he should explain himself.

"I just wanted to see if you could speak without moving your arms around. Sorry if that seemed rude or awkward..."

There was a small amount of silence.

Indō started wondering if he should not have done anything to begin with.

"Pff!"

He looked over to see the girls laughing while Kirishima was snickering. Midoriya looked amused. Iida looked at him with a bit of shock, and a bit red, but said nothing.

"Ya know, that's actually something else I've been curious about! At least you tested that out for us! Nice job, Ginsa!"

Shaking himself a bit, Iida cleared his throught as he fixed his glasses.

"If it makes you feel any better... You really are strong. It took a good amount to keep you from moving your arms."

"Thank you...?"

The others just continued to laugh.

It was actually really nice to have a moment like this.

Kinsaku Gō let out a small sigh as he sat on the sofa in the living room.

He had wanted to go with his brother so that he could have something to do for the day, but here he was sitting around and watch television.

"Hm?"

Something had caught his attention as he was channel hopping. It was the news.

He would not normally care about this kind of thing unless it was really important. The thing was that the thing they were walking about had him a bit worried.

He seems to be a low-ranking villain... That chase is the area where In and his friends are at... Well, I guess I do have something to do today.

He quickly stood up and headed for the door.

There was no way he wasn't going to go check on his little brother.

It was his job as a brother.

Thirty minutes had gone by before everyone questioned just how much this guy could eat.

Indō had been piling food after food into his mouth while the others finished up their food. They had thought that he was done by his fifth plate, but they had been very wrong.

Now, he wasn't being a pig about eating and made sure that it didn't look disgusting to anyone. Even so, the amount of food he was eating was astonishing.

"Hey... Are you sure you'll be fine? Won't your stomach hurt?"

Indō finished the food in his mouth and wiped anything around his face away before answering.

"Like I had said before, eating helps me to grow back my chains. It's weird, but that's how it works. Actually..."

Moving his clothes out of the way to get a good look at his shoulder, he could see that the hole that was left there was throbbing a bit. It still hurt, but it also felt different than before.

He looked around and started to feel sorry for the others as it dawned upon him that this was not really much fun for anyone.

Letting out a sigh, he pushed the plate away and stood up.

"Alright. I'm just about full. Let me go pay, then we can go somewhere else."

"Eh!? You don't have to pay for all of us!"

"It's fine. I ate the most and kept you guys here. I could at least do this much."

"You didn't keep us here. We stayed because we wanted too!"

Even with the smile he was getting from Ashido, Indō still made his way over to pay for all of the food.

Iida was quick to get up and announce that he would help in paying for the food.

This led to the others doing the same. Everyone started bringing out their wallets while trying to get to Indō. It was a bit chaotic since they all did this at the same time.

Seeing this happen, the weirdo with a silver chain coming out if his shoulder let out a sigh. He really didn't expect something like this to happen.

"Alright... Why don't we just pay for the food we ate? That way we just paid for ourselves. Fair?"

Everyone nodded their heads, content with the better option.

Indō shook his head, a small smile on his face.

He wasn't use to this kind of thing, so the fact it could be easily mended like this was a relief.

"-"

He heard a small clanging sound.

He turned to his right shoulder to see his single silver chain peaking out from his clothes.

Hearing the sound of his silver chain was nice, and also a reminder of the fact that three new ones will grow back.

"Oh! That's where it was!"

He looked forward when he heard Hagakure's voice. He couldn't actually see her, but her clothes gave it away.

He listen to her continue as he paid for the food he ate.

"I was wondering where your other chain was. So it was just hiding in your clothes!"

"Silver Chains gets like this when I have to take one or more off. It's like it doesn't want to do much when there aren't four of them."

"Ooohhhh~~ So it gets lonely!"

"I guess...? I never really thought about it like that. I figured that they were more bored than anything."

The silver chains were just an extension of his body, so he had never given any thought as to what they felt.

When he thought about it even further, the silver chains did seem different than say Tokoyami's Dark Shadow. They felt like they moved on their own, but he could also feel like they moved as if he moved his arms.

This was an interesting thing for him.

Were the silver chains really alive?

He had always assumed that they moved by their own means, but was that really true?

"-sa-kun!"

Could it be that he was just moving them without really knowing?

"Ginsa-kun!"

A loud voice and a hand were what brought him back to reality.

He looked forward to see Uraraka looking up at him.

He looked down at her with a dull expression.

"What?"

"We were talking about naming your chains when they come in! Would that be okay?"

What did I just miss?

That was most certainly not something he thought she would say.

"You guys want to name my Silver Chains? Why?"

Kirishima was the to answer for them.

"Because, they're like kids, right? You have to name them! Also, calling them Silver Chains could get confusing if you're just talking to one of them, right? Having names helps everyone!"

It really didn't matter to him. He would still end up calling them all Silver Chains, meaning that this was a bit pointless.

Even so, if they wanted to just give his chains names them who was he to stop them?

He gave a nod to them.

"What should we name them?"

"It should be something cool and manly!"

"We should consider their owner as well!"

They continued this discussion as they walked. It wasn't too crowded around the area they were in, so that made things better for them.

It felt nice to have these people, who were all classmates, talking and laughing like nothing. Having moments like these felt odd for someone like him, but it also got him feeling like he was making friends.

Hopefully his brother would stop hassling him about that now.

"Let's just go simple! The left hip with be Spade. The right hip will be Diamond. The left shoulder with be Heart. The right shoulder will be Clubs. Is that fine?"

Felling that he didn't have much of a say in the matter, Indō just shrugged his shoulders. It really didn't matter since they were still "Silver Chains" to him.

The others seemed fine with this as well, so he figured that they would be calling his chains those names from now on. It would be a bit weird, but he wouldn't say anything against it.

This isn't so bad. Although that's probably because I'm with the better people of the class. It would definetly be a different story if it was that pervert or literal walking bomb.

The others had turned the conversation to something else altogether. It wasn't that he minded at all, so he just went with silently walking with them all.

Although it would pain him to do it later, he knew that he had to thank his brother for sending the message to his classmates.

He had been keeping to himself since the first day of school, so he had never thought of hanging out with his classmates. He had spoken to some of them here and there, while others just started talking to him, but this was different. Now he was feeling like he was actually getting along with others.

It may be childish, but he was certainly happy about this.

"Hey, don't move. Make it look like you're looking at this shop and listen."

Hearing a voice right next to his ear, Indō turned his eyes to look into the nearby alleyway.

A man was standing there, hand out as if ready to fire something from it.

He knew that he was being spiken too since there was no one else in the alley.

"Hey, Ginsa, what's up? Why did you stop?"

Doing as he was told, he turned pointed to the shop next to him before turning and looking through the glass. He saw it was an electronic store but kept an eye on the guy.

He really felt no fear after what had just happened to their class.

This guy was nothing compared to that monster who had been known as Nomu.

"Oh! You wanna go in? What's in there? You need a computer, or something?"

"Not really. I just wanted to see what new things are out. My brother might be interested in some of these things."

It wasn't really a lie. His brother most likely did want something new that he really didn't need. This was just a simple way of speaking plainly and truthfully.

The other started walking towards him.

He saw the man get frustrated and took that as a chance to slowly move his silver chain through his sleeve.

Once they got close enough to him, the man looked ready to go into action.

So Indō did the same.

"Silver Chain!"

Moving on command, the silver chain sprang out from his sleep and grabbed the guy's arm.

At the same time, the man fired a ball of fire out of his hand.

He was quick enough to move to the side, but still got scorched on his arm.

Using the man's surprise again against him, the silver chain extended out from Indō's shoulder and started wrapping around the man. It made sure to keep the man's hands facing away from its owner before tying them behind the man's back.

The others were quickly at Indō's side as he held his arm.

"Damn. Guess I'm really not one for speed."

"Ginsa-kun, are you alright!? Who is this guy?"

He looked over at the others and shook his head.

"No clue. Probably just some thug, or something. A pretty bad one at that. He gave away what kind of Quirk he has right away."

Looking down at the man, Indō let out a small sigh before tightening the man's restraints. There was no way for him to get out if the silver chain with the way he was tired up right now. That brought relief to them.

Looking around, he could see that the other people out and about were starting to look in their direction.

Not liking the looks, Indō walked into the alley with the others following.

Gō let out a sigh as he walked around the area.

He had been looking for his brother and his friends but had yet to find them. He had sent message after message to Indō but no response was given.

He did start to worry after what had happened at USJ, although he kept that a secret so Indō wouldn't say anything.

"Nii-san...? What are you doing over here? Weren't you gonna stay at the house all day?"

He looked forward to see his brother facing him with his friends.

This brought his worries down a great amount. It did go up a bit when he noticed his brother holding something to his arm.

Without a moment of delay, he ran forward at top speed.

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Indō took a step to the side as his brother ran towards him like a lunatic. This resulted in his brother running right into Midoriya and Kirishima. The girls had managed to get out if the way in time and Iida was already out of the way.

Shaking his head, he just looked down at the three on the floor.

"This is your brother?"

Hearing the glasses-president next to him, he nodded his head.

Before any words could come out of his mouth his brother had jumpped up and moved his hand out of the way. He saw the burn that was there and got a serious look on his face.

Indō was quick to ease his worries so that nothing else would happen.

"It's fine. Just a small burn."

"Tell me what happened."

"I don't feel like explaining it."

"O stupid little brother, that's a good one. I know how much you live explaining things."

Indō reeled his head back before slamming it onto his brother's a loud sound was heard as the older of the two fell to the ground.

He clicked his tongue and put his hand back user his arm.

"For everyone who is Floppy, this is my older brother. Kinsaku Gō."

Gō was quick to jump up once more.

This time to turned it the others and started introductions with them all.

As this was going on, Midoriya made his way over to Iida and Indō.

"Your brother is still...energetic."

"Hm. If that's how you want to put it." He glanced over at Iida before speaking again. "You have an older brother too, right? I'm sure he's more calm than this guy. That must be nice."

"Even if that is true, you should still treat your own brother with respect!"

Indō moved a bit to the side when he saw the arms start to wave around with every word coming from Iida's mouth.

"I do have respect for him. He's annoying, but he's also a great older brother. You just saw what happened. He treats me well, even though I'm not his blood brother."

"What!? But you two look so similar!"

"I know. Even so, I was adopted into his family. He treated me like his brother from the very start, so I never really felt like it wasn't my family. He can get irritating most of the time, but I love having him as a brother. There's also the fact he had set this day up. Something I'm actually glad about..."

Looking over he saw both Iida and Midoriya smiling at him.

He slowly crossed his arms over each other, still holding his burned arm, and turned his head more towards the ground.

He was quick to add something else into the conversation.

"Hey, from one little brother to another, could you not tell him I said any of that?"

"Of course! As you said, from one younger brother to another!"

Glad about the answer, he turned to Midoriya.

"I'm not a brother, but I won't say anything either."

If this was all said and done earlier in the day then he would not have told them that at all. He felt that because they and a day like this that he could trust them to keep their lips sealed on this matter.

He looked over at his brother with a fond expression.

"Anyone mind if I stay with you guys!? I mean, I'm here already!"

His face went straight to an irritated one with just that being said.

This felt extremely rushed. It most likely was.

Anyways. Sorry about it being rushed, and for my awkward writing. Also for last chapter and the fighting.

Even so, I hope you all enjoyed.