DISCLAIMER: I Do Not Own My Hero Academia.
AN: I hope you enjoy this little story that snuck into my head unexpectedly. I hope to get back to my other stories as well, but between work and my cosplay picking up, my writing has been put aside. I'll update as soon as I have the time
Aizawa looked down at the young child who was clinging to his side. She was clearly nervous about being brought into his home and meeting Hitoshi. He had told the girl about the boy he and Yamada were in the process of adopting. This seemed to put the girl in edge a bit. Knowing there was another kid her age in the house.
"He is your age. And has a mind control quirk. So be prepared." Aizawa said with a slight smirk. "He used it on Hizashi this morning and got ice cream for breakfast."
Etsu looked down at her hands. "Maybe I shouldn't meet him. What if he tries to mind control me and it triggers my quirk?"
Aizawa clinched his jaw as he started to realize how scared this child was of her own quirk. "Hizashi has already explained the situation to him. He promised not to use his quirk on you. Only if you give him permission. But if he does it, let me know, and I'll have no problem wrapping my scarf around the little minion."
Etsu covered her mouth and tried to stifle a giggle. Aizawa smirked down at the girl and lightly brought her hand away from her mouth.
"Don't hide your laughter. I enjoy hearing it." Aizawa said as he reached his hand out for the girl to take. "Let's go inside and you can meet Hitoshi for yourself."
Etsu nodded and took ahold of Aizawa's hand. He lightly squeezed it reassuringly and led the girl into his house. At once they were met with an overly excited Yamada. His blonde hair was pulled back into a ponytail and he wore a pink flowery apron.
"Calm down, Hizashi, you're going to scare her." Aizawa warned. "Where is Hitoshi?"
"In his room." Yamada said with a shrug. "Brat used his mind control on me again at the store while we were getting things for Etsu. He does have some fantastic tastes though. I hope you are a fan of baby blue. He seemed to think the color fit you."
Etsu felt very overwhelmed. She had never walked into a foster home and felt so welcomed. "I never really thought about it before. All of my clothes were always whatever other kids had left behind."
Yamada could feel tears attempting to well up in her eyes. "Have you never had anything new or just yours?"
Etsu shrugged. "I'm sure before my quirk manifested. I don't remember that family very well. They did name me, but even then I was named after a child they had lost."
Aizawa looked down at the girl in horror. How could any one treat a child in such a way. Like she had just been a replacement for their lost child. "Your file didn't have much background details in it."
"That's because I just kinda appeared on some ones doorstep. Just a few days old. No letter, no identification." Etsu said as she shrunk back a bit. Yamada and Aizawa looked at her in complete shock. That would explain why there wasn't even a birthdate in the girls file. They used the day she had entered the foster system as the date of birth on her documents.
Aizawa shared a knowing look with his husband. It was official in that moment. They would be adopting two children.
Etsu sat in her very overloaded baby blue room. Yamada hadn't been over exaggerating when he had said Hitachi had gone over board with the color. Not only was her bedding and curtains the baby blue color, but most of her clothes were too. She looked around the bedroom and smiled. It was clearly put together in a hurry, but it was all hers. For the first time in her young life, she had her very own room And every thing in it belonged to her. Aizawa and Yamada made that very clear. She wasn't a guest in their home. She was apart of their family. She wasn't sure how long it was going to last, but she was going to live it up for as long as it lasted.
There was a small knock on her door and Etsu at once stiffened. She suddenly felt like disappearing. Suddenly believing that if she opened that door, then every thing that had happened that day would turn into a nightmare. That she wasn't in a safe home. That Aizawa and Yamada weren't real.
She watched in horror as the door started to open and a boy around her age with purple hair and eyes poked his head into her room. "Hi, I'm Hitoshi Shinso. Papa Aizawa told me to leave you alone, but I couldn't wait to meet you any longer."
Etsu smiled nervously. "Um… hi."
"You're Etsu Kishi, right?" Hitoshi asked as we walked in to her room and plopped down on the bed next to her. Etsu quickly scrambled away from him. But to her surprise the boy just smiled back at her.
"Yeah, I remember those days." Hitoshi said and patting the bed next to him. "If Papa Aizawa trusts you not to hurt any one, then I do to. And if it makes you feel better, he is always in ear shot and very fast. See watch this!"
Hitoshi cleared his throat and took a deep breath. "Papa Aizawa!"
In seconds Aizawa was rushing into Etsu's room. He looked down at the laughing Hitoshi and set a stern glare on the boy. He was about to scold him when he heard a light giggle come from the girl. He glanced her way and had a very hard time keeping a stern look as he say the carefree look on the girls face.
"See, I told you." Hitoshi said with a smirk and patted the bed again. Etsu hesitated for only a split second before she walked over and sat down next to the boy. Aizawa leaned up against the door frame and smiled at the two children. He was still upset that Hitoshi had cried wolf, but he understood why he had done it. He was showing Etsu that she was safe. That even if her quirk got activated, Aizawa was never far away.
"Is everything alright?" Yamada asked as he exited the bathroom. A pair of sweats hanging low on his hips and a towel around his shoulders. His wet blonde hair leaving droplets of water on his bare chest. Aizawa raised an eyebrow at the man as he looked him up and down, then held a finger to his lips.
"Come see for yourself." Aizawa said as he lightly took his husband's hand and brought him closer, so he could see the scene going on in Etsu's room.
"They seem to be hitting it off well." Yamada said as he placed his arms around Aizawa's shoulders.
"He made her giggle." Aizawa said with a smile. "You know what this means right?"
Yamada placed a quick kiss on Aizawa's cheek. "I knew what it meant, the moment you went down that alley to find her."
Yamada stepped away from his husband and started to walk away, but not before he looked over his shoulder and send a wink the other man's way. Aizawa raised and eyebrow again. He turned to look at the children one last time before he quietly snuck off after Yamada.
Etsu held her hands to her side as she crouched in a corner. She had been living with Yamada and Aizawa for a year and a half and she had made progress in controlling her quirk. But at the moment Hitoshi had some how triggered her quirk. The worst part being that Aizawa was at work. Mic would be home at any moment, but Aizawa was still going to be gone for a couple days. She wasn't sure how she was going to be able to last two days with out accidentally touching something.
"Etsu… I'm… I'm really sorry." Hitoshi said as he sat out of reach of his sister.
"Maybe you shouldn't sit so close." Etsu said with a slight sob. Hitoshi shook his head.
"You wont hurt me." Hitoshi said with a slight smile. He had seen the girl break down many times as her quirk took over. Aizawa had always been there to put a stop to her quirk. Her break downs usually only lasted a few minutes with Aizawa around. But with him gone, her break down had been going for the past thirty minutes.
"Should I call Dad?" Hitoshi asked and the girl looked up at him with frightened eyes.
"No! I promised him that I'd be fine!" Etsu demanded.
Hitoshi nodded then sighed heavily. "Dad Hizashi will be here soon. You wanna try the breathing again?"
Etsu turned on the purple haired boy and glared at him. "No Hitachi! I don't want to try the breathing! I want you to get away from me! Can't you see you are just making things worse!"
Hitoshi looked at the girl in complete shock. "I…"
"I don't want to hear you apologize!" Etsu demanded as she got to her feet and let her hands fall into tight fists at her side. The boy quickly flinched away from her. He had never seen her get that upset before. "Now get away from me!"
"Etsu!" Yamada scolded as he walked into the house to see Hitoshi on the ground and Etsu standing over him.
Etsu ignored Yamada and took a step towards Hitachi. "You just wont stop bugging me! Now will you get away from me!"
Yamada grabbed the girl around the middle as she took another step towards Hitachi. Etsu helped and in her surprise went to push his arm away from her. Yamada at once yelped and pulled away.
"Dad!" Hitoshi exclaimed and rushed to Yamada's side. "Are you ok? She didn't mean too!"
Etsu backed away from Yamada. Tears started to swell up in her eyes and she quickly raced from the house. She ignored Yamada and Hitoshi calling after her. She had hurt Yamada. It had been her biggest fear. To hurt some one she had grown to care about. They wouldn't allow her back into the house after that. Not only had she hurt Yamada, but she could have hurt Hitoshi. If Yamada hadn't have stopped her. She might have accidentally touched him.
Etsu ran. Just like the day All Might had found her, she ran till her body wouldn't allow herself to move any more. There in the middle of an unknown park, Etsu collapsed.
Aizawa ran a hand over his face and tried not to throw the coffee cup in his hands. Yamada had called him to explain what had happened after he and Hitoshi had gone out looking for her. Yamada had reached out to their fellow heroes to keep an eye out for the girl. Even the police were notified to search for her. By the time Aizawa got home, the city was in a a full blown man hunt for the girl.
"I shouldn't have left." Aizawa said while he and Yamada sat in their kitchen late that night. "Is your arm ok?"
Yamada lifted up his bandaged arm for Aizawa to see. It didn't do much damage. "Her quirk only works as long as she is still in contact. The moment she let go, her quirk stopped melting. It only took of a few layers of skin."
"I should have taken her with me." Aizawa said and Yamada placed a hand on his shoulder.
"She has been doing so well with controlling her quirk. You cant blame yourself for this. I'm already blaming myself and I'm sure Hitoshi is blaming himself as well." Yamada said as he hugged his husband. "We just have to find her."
"She probably thinks we would kick her out after this." Aizawa said with a heavy sigh.
"You can't!" Hitoshi exclaimed as he came rushing into the kitchen. His eyes were a bit red from crying. "You can't kick her out! It's my fault! I set her quirk off! You told me not to use mind control on her. I didn't think it would be a big deal! We were racing to get the last cookie. I mind controlled her to stop just enough to get passed her. But when I let her go, her quirk was triggered! It's not her fault! Its mine!"
"Oh Hitoshi." Yamada said as he brought the boy into a comforting hug. Aizawa patted the boys head and looked out the window.
"You didn't do anything wrong. I know she gave you permission to use your quirk on her." Aizawa said then looked down at the boy. "But I think she meant for you to use it to stop her quirk. It's biggest trigger is a high amount of anxiety or stress. Something you can stop just by telling her mind to forget her worry. That's why she was alright with me being gone for so long. My guess is that when she came too and felt her quirk, she thought your quirk didn't work and she panicked. It's not your fault Hitoshi. Its mine for not explaining things better to her. Instead I just take care of everything."
Aizawa got to his feet and grabbed his scarf. "I'm going to go look for her again. I'll be home later."
"Dad!" Hitoshi called as Aizawa reached the door. He paused to look back at his son. "Bring her home ok."
Aizawa simply nodded and walked out into the night. He wasn't sure where the girl had gone, but he'd be damned if he gave up looking for her.
It had been a year since Etsu had run away from Aizawa and Yamada's house. She had heard that they were still looking for her. But she couldn't go back. They would probably punish her for what she did. But lucky for her, she had been found that night. Not by a hero. Not by a villain, but by a runaway like herself. He had taken her in. Making sure that she was safe. Finding gloves from the underground market that was able to with stand her quirk. Something Aizawa had never offered to find for her.
"I'm going out." The boy said as he ran his hand through his messy black hair. "Keep your nose down. There are more heroes in the area lately."
Etsu just smiled and curled up on the couch with her latest book. "Yeah yeah, I get it. Stay put and I wont be found. After a year, I think I've gotten the hint."
The boy just scoffed. "I'll remember that when I have to come to your rescue again."
The boy walked out at Etsu groaned. She knew what was going to happen. The boy would bring back a safe and Etsu would use her quirk to break the lock. It's how he supported them. At first she had refused to help him, not liking the slow spiral into becoming a villain the boy was taking. But he never did anything more than small crimes. And never committing crime unless they were in need of money. So Etsu slowly broke down and helped.
Etsu stepped out onto the balcony and looked out into the night. It was surprisingly quiet for that time of night. There was something oddly comforting about the quiet night. She was about to turn and go back inside when something wrapped tightly around her. Etsu tensed when she looked down and saw what was wrapped around her.
"Etsu?" A deep concerned voice said from above her. Etsu looked up and felt the tears well up in her eyes when she saw Aizawa. "Do you realize how worried we have been about you?"
Etsu let out a small sob. "You aren't mad at me?"
Aizawa at once released her from his scarf and walked down to her. He pulled the girl into his arms and hushed her. "We could never be mad at you for an accident. If anything we blame ourselves for not doing more to help you control it."
"Why are you still looking for me Aizawa?" Etsu sobbed again.
Aizawa hugged the girl tighter to him. "Because you become my daughter that day in that alleyway, and even if adoption paper work hasn't been finalized yet, you are still our daughter. And Hitoshi's sister. We arent going to give up on you. Let's go home Etsu."
Etsu looked over her shoulder at the small apartment she had been staying in. She wondered if she should leave him a note. But if she did that Aizawa would know that she didn't live alone. And she didn't want the boy to be caught. Even though she was sure Aizawa had been watching the apartment for a while to make sure she was there. There was even a good chance that he had seen her break into a few safes. But he never mentioned it. Instead he placed her on his back and rushed home."
Aizawa winked at Etsu as he snuck her into the house. They had both agreed that it would be best to wait till morning to tell the others that Aizawa had found her. And they weren't going to give up the chance to have a bit of fun with it. So Etsu went to her room. Surprised that everything had been left just like she hadn't been gone for a year. The only thing that was different was a slight indent on her bed. Like some one had just been sitting there. Etsu just smiled and cuddled up into her nice warm bed.
The next morning Aizawa was up early making breakfast for every one. Yamada smiled at his husband and hugged him from behind. "Have you even slept?"
"A couple hours." Aizawa replied as he handed his husband a cup of coffee. "I don't think I'll go out tonight."
Yamada froze mid sip and slowly brought the cup down. "Shota…"
"It's not because he gave up." Etsu said coming into the kitchen and rubbing at her eyes tiredly. Yamada turned on his heels and dropped his coffee at the sight of her.
"Etsu!" Yamada cried as he wrapped his arms around the girl. "Do you know how worried I have been about you! I should ground you for a week for scaring us like this! But I wont because your back!"
He hugged the girl tightly to him and Aizawa smirked. "Let her breath Hizashi."
"NO! I AM NOT GOING TO LET HER GO Because I'll believe it is a dream." Yamada said as he used his quirk, but Aizawa quickly put a stop to it.
"Hitoshi is still asleep. Don't wake him quite yet." Aizawa warned. Etsu got a mischievous look in her eye and wiggled her way out of Yamada's hold and raced for Hitoshi's room. Aizawa and Yamada exchanged knowing looks and slowly followed. They weren't going to miss their children's reunion for anything. They stood in the door way as they watched Etsu sneak up to Hitoshi's bed. She smiled down at the sleeping boy then flung herself on top of him. Hitoshi woke with a yelp and sat up quickly. He looked up at the girl sitting on top of him and had to blink a few times. He still hadn't fully recovered when Etsu flung herself at him and wrapped her arms around him.
"I came back, and you are sleeping the day away! I'm a bit offended!" Etsu teased and Hitoshi finally registered what was going on. He wrapped his sister into a tight hug and tried his best not to start crying.
"You're home! You are actually home!" Hitoshi exclaimed and Etsu giggled. "I knew dad would find you!"
Etsu looked up at Aizawa and smiled. "Yeah, I'm glad to have such a stubborn Father."
Yamada gasped and placed a hand over his mouth as the tears started to well up again. He knew the words had affected Aizawa as well by the way he had slightly tensed next to him. But Aizawa wasn't good with emotions, so Yamada just took his hand and gave it a slight squeeze. Aizawa squeezed his hand back and kissed Yamada's cheek.
"I'll finish up breakfast." Aizawa said as he turned away. The moment he was out of everyone's sight, he smiled.