MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

Compress: This is the second Shadows chapter titled 'deception'.

Jana: I know but Clouds occasionally forgets okay?

Nejire ran as fast as she could down the street, pushing her way past civilians as she led a group of heroes toward Yuyu's last known location. Why had her comms cut off in the middle of a sentence like that? And to make it worse, all they'd gotten was radio silence since. Nejire was doing her best not to pull a Tamaki and expect the worst, but that was getting harder and harder the longer they didn't hear anything. She shook away the negative thoughts and tried to force herself to focus on the present moment. She couldn't save anyone if she was paralyzed with worry.

Jana: Seriously it's just a game why are you all overreacting like this?

Tamaki: It doesn't feel like a game.

Jana: If you say so.

A piercing scream echoed throughout the streets and Nejire almost tripped. She exchanged a wide-eyed glance with her team and pushed herself to run a little faster. That couldn't be Yuyu's scream. It just couldn't be! She was okay. She had to be!

Sero: Huh now that I think about it Midoriya does kind of scream like a girl.

Midoriya(red): No I don't...

It didn't take long for them to track down the source of the scream. Nejire was the first to turn the corner and she immediately skidded to a stop. The street was in complete chaos. The remnants of a car accident blocked the street and there was red paint everywhere, but what immediately stood out to her was Yuyu. She was standing off to one side of the street and had a large splatter of red paint across her chest, but otherwise looked fine.

Nejire almost cried in relief as she ran up to her friend, "Yuyu! You're okay!" Slowly, Yuyu turned to look at her, a haunted look in her eyes that stopped Nejire in her tracks. "You... you are okay, aren't you?"

Dabi: No, she's dead.

Tears glistened in Yuyu's eyes and Nejire's stomach dropped. She heard a choked sob behind her and whipped around to see a boy a few years younger than she was, tears streaming down his face as he stared at Yuyu, "She... she sacrificed herself for me."

(everyone shot a double take)

Joke: ...Well that explains the chapter title.

Aizawa: The problem child's going to lie his whole way out of this mess.

Nejire: I'm going to fall for it aren't I?

"W-what?" Nejire glanced between Yuyu and the boy, the panic from earlier returning with full force. "What do you mean?"

"I..." The boy sniffed, tears coming harder as he relived what had obviously been a traumatic experience. "I was just...but then the villains saw me and... and they had all these guns and..."

He broke down into incomprehensible sobs and Nejire jumped forward to put her arms around him, countless lessons on comforting civilians coming to the forefront as she rubbed the boy's back, "It's okay. Take your time. Just breathe, okay?"

Mirio: Yup you've fallen for it.

The boy nodded and took a shaky breath, "They were going to..." He shuddered. "They were going to shoot me. I, I couldn't run, it was... but then that hero, she..." he looked up at Nejire, eyes glistening with tears, "I owe her my life."

The dots connected and Nejire froze. The red paint all over Yuyu's chest, the fact that she hadn't said a single word since the heroes had arrived, and now this boy's firsthand account of what had happened before the heroes arrived, it all pointed to the last thing Nejire wanted to believe.