DEER
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Disclaimer: Boku no Hero Academia belongs to Horikoshi Kohei
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Genre(s): Adventure/Hurt/Comfort
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Warning(s): Typo is my most loyal fan, spelling mistakes because English is not my mother language, Possibly OOC. NO BETA, so beware of grammar mistakes
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Summary: Shota thought discovering their 'Nightwalker' to be a kid was bad enough. Not to mention how the said kid is literally Quirkless, meaning the law cannot touch him.
"I don't wanna be a Hero. It's too troublesome"
And then this?
Maybe it's not too late to ask Nezu for a raise this year…
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Or, being a good citizen and stopping an illegal back-alley transaction resulted in him getting some High-Ranking Villain's attention. He didn't even raise a hand at those A-holes. Just glaring at them hard enough, they turned tail.
This second-chance of life is so not worth it. What a drag…
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Eri absentmindedly covered half of her body with the warm blanket, laying down on the comfortable bed while staring confusedly at the back of the green-haired teenager's head. They were inside a wide room right now. Covered with a cute deer at every nook and cranny; be it the poster of the animal stuck on the white wall, sticker on the furniture, or the doll sprawling around the place, from bed to floor. Midoriya Izuku—he introduced himself when they escape from her prison—was seen scurrying around the room, putting a couple of clothes and underwear inside of a big ruck…ruksak…bag and was playing around with the dolls. Well, maybe 'playing around' wasn't the right word? Eri didn't really understand. One moment Izuku was tinkering with the fluffy plushie and the next, a sharp weapon was produced from the inside of the belly. He was now squirreling the said weapon away into each part of his body. Vanishing it to who-knows-where like a magician she saw before on the television. It was amazing to see.
This room is also amazing to gaze at. So many dolls for her to hug, Izuku said she is allowed to do so. As long as she didn't rip off one of the horns. He said it'll launch the weapon inside its belly. He didn't want it to hurt her but he'll still leave some inside so she could use it to protect herself.
Eri nodded cutely, even if she didn't understand.
However, no matter how nice Izuku was, she didn't know why she was here. The white-haired child remembered that she was in the middle of trying to fall asleep (the thought of Kai hurting someone else because her power failed had kept her awake. She was trying to be a good girl. She really tried. Yet she was too scared of her Quirk to know what it was and why wasn't it working in the first place) when suddenly, the air shimmered. Eri didn't hear the door open, but someone was now standing at the edge of her bed, staring almost too intently. The girl thought it was Shin-san for a second, she recognized the black mask. Then she noticed he wasn't wearing his top hat. Showing her a green, curly hair from beneath.
Eri saw that hair before, albeit briefly.
It belongs to the boy who was strapped on the bloody table.
To the boy who was hurt because of her fault.
The child thought 'he must be mad at me. He wants to hurt me just like what Chisaki-san did to me when I'm being a bad girl.' But Izuku crouched in front of her, pulling off another mask from inside the black cloak—Hari's mask—and said, tone even, "don't be afraid. I'm here to save you."
And save her he did. Away from the clutch of the bird mask men and out of the gloomy house. They arrived at a tall building. From the plaque on the front gate, it read 'U.A hi…high school'? Izuku explained that it was different from kindergarten, a place where she got her education before Kai took her away from her daddy. This is where the older people—around Greeny's age, usually—study. With more difficult lessons and difficult multi…multiplika…counting. He lived here, apparently. And even though it looked easy for Izuku to sneak into, villains usually couldn't do the same because they didn't have the permission as he did. Meaning, Kai won't have a chance to find her if she stayed here.
Eri didn't realize she was holding her breath all this time.
Now, though. Now she could breathe easy.
The one-horned girl yawned, eyelids started to drop. It was three in the morning and the need to sleep started to assault her once more. The sound of an open window woke her up a bit, however. Causing her to tilt her head and watched blearily as Izuku went for it, not even giving her a second glance. What is he doing? Is he going to leave? But why? They just arrived here. And he said she had to stay here if she—no—they wanted to be safe from their previous captor. Eri's hand reached forward, wanting to grab onto the black hoodie with deer horns he wore and ask him that exact question. Yet it halted, hesitation instantly marred her pale complexion.
Will he…be mad at her for stopping him, though? She didn't want to be a bad girl. She didn't want to get punished. Nor she wanted others to be punished because of her.
Seemingly sensing Eri's plummeting mood, Izuku turned, cocking his head to the side. His face never shifted, orbs never wavered. That stare made her wring her fingers, plushie doll she embraced for the entirety of the past hour rested on her covered stomach. It took quite a minute. Before her mouth slowly open, halting word spilled from her ajar lips.
"May I hug you?"
Eri is a sad kid. She didn't know how to express herself. Couldn't remember how to express herself. She forgot how to smile. How to have fun. How to be a normal girl with a normal, everyday life.
But living with an evil man named Chisaki Kai, she knew one feeling. So well, she could immediately recognize it even when they covered it with an uncaring mask just like what the teen did right about now. As Izuku, after a bit of uncertainty, engulfed her in a warm hug, shoulders wracked in silent grief, she patted his back in an attempt to cheer him up. An action her daddy used to do to chase the monsters away when she got a nightmare.
Why are you sad? She wanted to say. We're out of that place. Chisaki-san won't hurt us anymore. So, why are you sad?
(When Eri woke up in the next morning, she was met with a shocked plump woman with the kind, green eyes)
(Midoriya Izuku himself was nowhere to be seen)