That time when Nejire dragged Luffy and Izuku away from their dorms
"Training?" Luffy tilted his head confused, in front of him was a pleading Mirio aka 'Cartoon Face' with him is the shy Amajiki who Luffy named as 'Sharp Ears' and the curious girl Nejire, who Luffy called as 'Blue Hair', the one who dragged him and Izuku to the 3rd year dorms with her
Izuku was there too who watched the scene curiously, he didn't hear what they're saying because they told him that it was about the Training Camp and details about it are a secret and a surprise for them
"Yep! can you help us oversee Class 1-A and Class 1-B's training at the Training Camp tomorrow?" Mirio pleaded at the dumbfounded Luffy
Luffy began to think before answering "Hmmmmmmmm... Yeah, no problem!" Luffy then said with a grin after a long 'hmmm'
"Really?! you're a life-saver Luffy-kun! with you there with us I'm sure you'll be able to make them stronger by giving them advices how to fight since you're an awesome fighter! not only we, the 3rd years but also the first years can get more POWERful when you're around motivating us!" Mirio yelled out happily
Luffy too was happily grinning, he didn't understand a single thing about what Mirio said but seeing him happy makes him happy too
"Uhm, Mirio-senpai?" Izuku then called out to Mirio who stopped laughing and smiled to look at him
"Oh yeah, Midoriya-kun do you wanna go with us to visit Little Eri right now?" Mirio asked in his usual cheerful voice
Izuku's eyes went wide, his face formed a huge smile, his freckled littered face was accompanied by a blush, he didn't need to think deeply for an answer to his question as Izuku immediately answered
"Of course!" was Izuku's answer while furiously nodding, he was excited to visit their little snowball Eri again, Izuku was automatically in a good mood as he thinked about the girl
"Little Eri?" Luffy asked as he tilted his head in confusion
"Oh! Eri is a cute little girl we saved from a Villain! she had suffered from that Villain at a young age so we always did our best to make her happy!" Mirio happily introduced Eri to his new friend
"EHHHHH?! That villain must be an asshole for making that little girl suffer! where is that Villain? I'll kick their ass!" Luffy angrily yelled, he was pissed off when he discovered that a villain messed with a little girl "Why don't that Villain pick someone of their own size!"
"D-dont worry Luffy-san, that Villain is already captured and is locked in prison!" Izuku said as he and Amajiki tried to calm the angry rubber man down
"Izukun is right Luffy, Overhaul was captured when Izukun here defetead him! he must be rotting at Tartarus right now" Nejire cheerfully said, making Izuku blush
"Really? serves that jerk right for giving that little girl a hard time! Good job on beating that bastard broccoli hair!" Luffy said to Izuku as he calmed down
The Big 3 and Izuku were touched by Luffy's concern over Eri, even though they're basically strangers, Luffy is willing to fight anyone who's made a person suffer, a sign of a True Hero
Mirio was at daze when he started to recollect himself before speaking to Luffy
"Luffy-kun why don't you come with us to visit Eri right now? I'm sure she'll like you!" Mirio said as he offered Luffy to come with them
"Eh? is that okay? According to mousey I cant leave here without permysshon" Luffy said jumbling his words
"It's 'permission' Luffy-san, also don't worry, we'll get Principal Nezu's permission for you to be able to come with us" Amajiki said, he stopped being shy around Luffy when he started to befriend him, he deemed him as someone he could trust and be himself around with
"Really?! then I'll come I'll come!" Luffy was jumping happily, Luffy was excited to go out and meet the little girl that his new friends mentioned
The Big 3 with Luffy and Izuku soon arrived at the Principal's office to ask for Nezu's permission, who agreed and granted his permission for Luffy to come with them, he then reminded them to get back before curfew which they happily nodded and understood, they soon left Nezu's office
The Big 3 with Luffy and Izuku began to walk to Aizawa's house where Eri's currently staying right now, they happily talked to each other about Eri, about how cute she is and how her smile could give people diabetes, which is not an exaggeration by the way
The Big 3 along with Luffy and Izuku soon reached Aizawa's house and stood in front of the door, Mirio then knocked a couple of times, he then began to hear audible footsteps coming towards the door
"Yes, Who izzit?" The door opened and there they saw Hizashi Yamada aka Present Mic and also Aizawa's husband
"Oh! Mirio, Hado and Tamaki! and Midoriya too! did you all came here to visit Eri again?" Hizashi cheerfully asked
"Yes, sensei! I hope you don't mind" Mirio politely said to Hizashi
"Of course I don't mind! don't you know how happy the little listener is when you guys always come to visit?" Hizashi said with a grin as he gestured them to enter the house, Hizashi's eyes then landed onto Luffy
"Oh?, you're also here too... the new 3rd year transferee, Luffy right?" Hizashi asked
"Yeah! I'm Monkey D Luffy! The Man who's gonna become the Pi-" Luffy was about to say his catch-phrase when he was interrupted by a scream
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Izuku yelled loudly as he rushed up to Luffy and hurriedly covered his big mouth
Izuku then leaned to Luffy's ear "Luffy-san! didn't you promised me and Law-san that you'll keep being a pirate a secret to other people?!" Izuku frantically whispered as he removed his scar littered hands to Luffy's mouth, The Big 3 and Hizashi could only stare at them dumbfoundedly
"Oh, my bad my bad!" Luffy sheepishly said as he began to laugh, Izuku just sighed before turning to the other people in the room
"I don't know what your about to say earlier but its nice to meet you new listener!" Hizashi happily said to Luffy
"Hii-chan? where are you?" they heard a child's voice, the voice seemingly looking for something or someone
"Heyyyyy! Eri we're here to visit!" Mirio yelled out, they then began hearing hurried little footsteps and saw a little girl came out from a room
The child had a bluish white-hair which was tied into a two pigtails, wide and round innocent looking ruby eyes and a small horn that was protruding from her forehead, she wore a cute dress shirt and held an All Might stuffed toy, This is Eri, the girl that they saved from suffering and swore to protect forever
"Lemillion! Deku! Tamaki-san! Nejire-san!" Eri happily cried out as she ran towards the 4 and tackled them into a hug
The 5 of them staggered and fell to the ground while laughing merrily
"Hey there Eri did you miss us?" Izuku asked as he patted the girl's head
"Uhn!" Eri just nodded with a smile, glad that she's with the people that gave her happiness
Eri then turned to Hizashi while pouting
"Hii-chan why didn't you tell me that they're going to visit?" Eri cutely pouted which gripped the hearts of the people who saw it aka all of them
"Sorry, Eri-chan It was supposed to be a surprise!" Hizashi said which made the little girl's pout into a smile, Eri then saw one more person with them that she didn't recognize and she began to hide behind Mirio, Eri is still not comfortable with strangers after all
"Umh.. uhm... Lemillion w-who is he?" Eri asked as her finger shakily pointed at Luffy while still hiding behind Mirio
Mirio just smiled and looked at the Eri and met her eyes, "Eri, this onii-san here is Luffy, don't worry he won't hurt you, he said he wanted to be your friend too that's why we bought him along with us" Mirio reassuringly said while patting Eri's head trying to calm the little girl down
Eri nodded as she tried to look at the man, Eri and the man's eyes met, the man was looking at her with a blank face, he then grinned widely as he took a sit in front of them
"Hey there little girl! I'm Luffy and I wanna be your friend! what's your name?" Luffy asked even though he already knew, he wanted the little girl in front of him to introduce herself to him
"E-Eri..." Eri whimpered and slowly showed herself to Luffy who only smiled widely
"Eri huh? that's a cute name you got! how about it Eri do you wanna be my friend? If you do then I'll tell you all about my pirate adventures!" Luffy cheerfully said to the girl, Izuku felt his heart drop as he heard Luffy say the 'P word', Izuku tried to rush towards Luffy again only to be interrupted by Eri
"I'll be your friend I'll be your friend! Luffy-san tell me stories about your adventures!" Eri said her curious eyes were wide, and her small lips formed a wide smile as she was excited to hear about Luffy's Pirate Adventures! the little girl then ran towards the sitting Luffy who only smiled at her and started telling her about his adventures
Luffy told her about the time where he and his friends went to Sky Island and kicked a false god's ass and saved the people living there! Luffy also told her about the time where he and his friends went to an Island full of dinosaurs where there's two giants fighting for decades only for him to befriend the both of them and stopping their decade-spanning fight and Luffy telling her how the two giants helped him and his friends leave the island by beating a giant goldfish who eats pirate ships! Luffy told her many other stories about his Adventures
Eri was happily listening to Luffy's stories with a wide smile on her face while sitting on Luffy's lap and wearing his Straw hat that Luffy placed on her head
The Big 3 along with Izuku and Hizashi was surprised about how fast Eri opened up to Luffy, they've just met earlier and they're already friends, The Big 3 along with Izuku also listened at Luffy's nonsensical stories, Izuku however felt like the stories that Luffy were telling them are true, since he's a pirate, Adventures are their best friends
The Big 3, Izuku and Hizashi's hearts warmed at the scene in front of them as they saw the two having fun with each other's company, they're also proud of the child for opening up to Luffy, a person whom she just met! she becoming more and more open about herself and to others and she's becoming more cheerful and happy everyday! that's what made them happy the most
Her happiness was also their happiness
They soon left the two alone, Hizashi offered them to have dinner here and they agreed, The Big 3 and Izuku then went out to buy sweets for them and Eri to eat
As Luffy patiently told her his Great Pirate Adventures, he noticed that the little girl had fallen a sleep on her lap, Luffy smiled and laid her on the couch and put a blanket on her, she was still holding on to his straw hat so Luffy didn't try to get it because he might wake the little girl up
Luffy stood up and stretched his body around before noticing that The Big 3 and Hizashi was not around, Luffy then went out of the room to try to look for them
As Luffy was walking around the house, he soon started to smell something delicious and began to drool, he followed the scent and found himself in the kitchen where he saw Aizawa and Hizashi cooking food
"FOOD!" Luffy yelled out startling the two
"Geez kid calm down will ya? since you and the little listener were having a good time earlier, we decided to leave the two of you alone and went to cook for dinner while The Big 3 and Midoriya went out to buy sweets!" Hizashi calmly told Luffy who's grin's only got wider
"YES MORE FOOD!" Luffy happily yelled as he sat at the chair, waiting for food
"He's so loud..." Aizawa irritatedly thought before he sighed and looked at Luffy seriously
"So? where's Eri?" Aizawa said his Dadzawa-senses tingling
"Oh, she fell a sleep in the middle of me telling her my Pirate Stories!" Luffy nonchalantly said
"Pirate Stories? what do you mean?" Aizawa said raising a brow
"Oh! tha-" Luffy was about to say something when he heard a loud yell
"WE'RE BACK! HERE ARE THE SWEETS AND DESSERTS!" Mirio said as he, Nejire, Tamaki and Izuku carried a bunch of sweets and desserts along with a Candy Apple which a certain cute little girl would love
"HELL YEAH SWEETS!" Luffy yelled out excitedly while banging his hand at the table
"Shut up or no food for you!" Aizawa tiredly said to Luffy who then quickly shut his mouth
The food was ready and now served at the table, the desserts and sweets were at the fridge ready to be eaten after the meal, as they were preparing to eat, Amajiki noticed that Eri wasn't around
"Hey guys where's Eri?" Amajiki said gathering the all the peoples attention to him which made him a little nervous
"Oh, she's at the same room sleeping right now, should I wake her up now?" Izuku asked
"Yeah, I'm sorry but Midoriya-kun could you wake the little princess up with Nejire?" Mirio asked while he busily set up dinner plates and utensils at the table
"Okay, Mirio-senpai!" Izuku and Nejire then began walking towards the room where Eri was resting
"Eri-chan seems to like Luffy! don't you agree Izukun?" Nejire said to Izuku cheerfully
"Yes! Luffy-san is a genuinely good person after all! that's why I was sure that Eri will like him!" Izuku replied to her, Nejire just smiled and they soon reached Eri to wake her up
"Hey, snowball wake up it's time to eat" Izuku whispered at Eri's ears
Eri eyes soon began to twitch as she slowly rose up to the couch, she groggily opened her eyes and saw Izuku and Nejire
"Oh, Deku-san, Nejire-san, Good morning" Eri said quietly said while rubbing her eyes
Nejire chuckled "Eri-chan, its night time now you know? let's go down and eat dinner! we got some Apple Candy for you too!" Nejire said to Eri who began to drool when she mentioned Apple Candy
The three soon went downstairs to meet the guys, The guys soon saw them and smiled happily
Eri walked towards Luffy while holding his Straw hat
"Uhm.. Luffy-san..." Eri quietly called out to him, Luffy looked at her with a smile
"What is it Eri?" Luffy quietly said to her
"Y-your hat..." Eri held her hand and gave his straw hat back to him, Luffy then reached for his straw hat with a blank expression, checking and looking at it before talking
"Thanks for taking care of my treasure Eri" Luffy simply said with a smile while patting her head, Eri smiled widely at him while nodding as they all began to eat
The dinner was like a warzone as Luffy was trying to steal food from the plate of others while they guarded their own food while hissing at him, Eri was laughing happily at them, They heard Eri's laugh and smiled before laughing with her, the dinner was chaotic yet heartwarming
After eating, Eri played with them many different games and Luffy sucked a lot on all of them as Eri was laughing at him because she beat him while Luffy got comically depressed, Mirio Nejire and even Izuku snickered at him while Tamaki was comforting a dejected Luffy, Eri was happy being with them, she wished these times last forever...
It was time for The Big 3, Izuku and Luffy to leave, as Aizawa and Hizashi along with Eri went outside to say good bye to them
Eri walked in front of them fidgeting before speaking
"W-will you come back to visit again?" Eri shyly asked while looking up at them
The Big 3, Izuku and Luffy could only look at each other and smiled
"Ya got it!" they all said, Eri looked at them with teary eyes and tackled them again, they staggered and fell and laughed happily like the last time
Eri then stood up and faced them again "S-see you again" Eri said with a wide smile
The Big 3, Izuku and Luffy nodded and smiled back at her before they started to walk away while Eri watched their retreating forms until they're out of sight
Hizashi then went inside and told them he'll make them some hot chocolate
Aizawa then walked to Eri and held her hand before talking
"So Eri? did you like him?" Aizawa asked as he held Eri's hand gently and patted the her head, Eri looked up to him with her beautiful ruby colored gleaming eyes, her lips formed a small precious smile
"Uhn, he was very funny and kind to me... I really like him" Eri shyly answered as she hugged her foster father tightly
"I see..." Aizawa only said with a smile before hugging his foster daughter back, Aizawa carried Eri and went inside the house to drink some hot chocolate
Eri has something to look forward to as she'll always wait for them to visit her again