Betrayal.

-Twenty-one.

Throughout the entire surgery process, Katsuki and Miko paced and paced until their friends forced them to sit down. And even then, all they did was have the all famous anxiety leg thing and worry over and over.

Katsuki's friends supported him and tried their best to be there for the boy behind the curtain in the infirmary, and it was the same with Miko and the heroes, but it was practically impossible for the group as well considering they would also be affected if Kizu died. (Even if they weren't as close with the boy, they were still attached to the small boy.)

After what seemed like days, yet was only a few hours, the doctor came out almost collapsing in his step. Katsuki runs up quickly and catches him, Miko behind in an instant and everyone else trailing. Kirishima standing behind Katsuki and Aizawa behind Miko.

A silence takes over as they wait for him to start talking about Kizu's condition.

"He's alive."

Miko runs in an instant while Kirishima takes Dr. S from Katsuki quickly, him running in as well. She opens the curtain without hesitation and sees her small child resting there with a light above him, (Now off.) an iv in him, a heart monitor as well. (Which is moving at a completely normal beat.) Kizu's black hair is knotted, his shirt having bits of blood splattered on them but nothing that wouldn't happen normally. He's in perfect condition and only has a scar across his neck where the operation took place.

"Oh my baby," Miko whispers out from her dehydrated throat, voice cracking while tears fill her eyes. "You're alive..." She rushes to his bedside and reaches over to take the boy who's laying down in her arms. Honestly, she doesn't know what she'd do if Kizu had passed during the operation. Her son, the one who's kept her going throughout all her hardships; if he were to do, honestly, she probably would as well. Find some way to kill herself just to be able to hold him in her arms once more, even if they were both dead and it wasn't even a confirmed possibility.

Kizu's eyes slowly open from all the movement that Katsuki and Miko are causing, a groan from him as well. "Mama?" He asks, still confused and delirious. "I missed you..."

"I missed you too, love." She hardly communicates properly, her breathing interrupting it but the boy doesn't mind and luls into a well-deserved rest. Katsuki holds onto the boy just before he closes his eyes, his voice producing: "yaaaay... Katsukiiii..." Soft breathing immediately comes from his mouth, happily resting in his mother's arms, surrounded by his hero and mother.

"Thank you, Dr. S." Katsuki thanks the almost-passed-out doctor on both of their behalves. He nods with a thumbs up and immediately passes out in Kirishima's hold, almost bringing the boy down with him.

Standing up, Miko holds her son close and walks out of the tented area, extremely content and happy with the outcome of the operation. She's extremely glad she took the risk—that much is obvious. Katsuki is as well, even if he had no say in whether he should or not, he's glad she made the decision to go through with the procedure.

"Now that we know Kizu's safe," Katsuki starts—they need to continue the search for those bastards, "we need to look around. Whoever did this, albeit it Daiki or someone else, they need to be brought in and pay the fucking price."

"You're right. Kizu said Tide and Daiki did it though so we have our culprit–"

"He thinks they did it. We can't be sure. Although I'm sure you're right, assuming something like that was probably done by him. Considering how he had infiltrated our camp n' shit, I'd be surprised if it wasn't him." Katsuki interrupts with an eye roll. He understands why Aizawa is assuming, but completely pushing it out of the question is unprofessional.

"Now that we have a lead," he corrects himself with a slightly annoyed look at Katsuki, "we can continue on with the search. I say we go back to the house and look around there."