Wow it's been a hot minute! Some IRL stuff came up so I haven't been able to work on this as much as I've wanted to. On that note, I'm going to partially be working on this fic during NaNoWriMo :) Off to the comments!


xenocanaansaid: I hope to read more soon!

Ohma: Aw, thank you! Sorry again for not updating sooner.


Warning: This chapter holds mentions of Character Death, children making adult decisions and child abuse.


Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia


Emi woke up three months after All Might and All for One fought, and the first thing Nana knew was that the girl didn't know she was alive. When asked about "Freefall", the girl's face had scrunched up and she shook her head. It was then that she had her memory checked, and the poor girl didn't remember much after waking up in All for One's cell with Izuku.

The woman knew it would break her if she was told what all happened (how she lost her sight, where Izuku was and that he was now deaf due to All Might fighting All for One) at once, but she also knew that the girl shouldn't, couldn't be left alone.

"Ma'am?" One of the nurses said, exiting the room and walking up to her. "It appears as if… she doesn't remember you at all. Perhaps she'll remember eventually," the nurse replied quietly. "You must understand we have to tell the police that she used her quirk to get away from a villain attack?"

"They already know. She was rescued by heroes with her brother, but she was tasked to go get the other proes waiting. The villain saw her and took a swing. That's when her quirk activated and she landed in front of me. Records had it that I suddenly disappeared a couple days from then. Look up Shimura Nana, Pro Hero: Freefall."


Tsukauchi, one of Toshinori's friends she recognized from the support class, came as soon as the hospital notified him that Emica had been found, which left the two adults awkwardly sitting in front of one another at the cafeteria, unsure of where to start.

"Emica brought you from twenty years in the past because…?"

Taking a deep breath, Nana rubbed her wrist and put a sad smile on her face. "I was supposed to die, the night she landed in front of me. She has my quirk, Float. She doesn't remember that I'm alive, however."

The man frowned, but nodded. "Why haven't you told Toshinori that you're back?"

"The girl made a deal she can't remember. If I go to Toshi, All for One will destroy Japan and she'll get made into whatever a 'nomu' is. From how she looked when he said it, it isn't something pleasant."

The detective was ashen and he rubbed his face roughly. "A nomu is, from what we can tell, a mindless creature made to destroy the top 100 Heroes. Izuku-kun said Emica-san managed to tell him that much before quirks were forced onto her. Three in total was the count."

There was a pause as she wanted to ask, but didn't know how. Instead, she just let a pained smile show. "Can her brother come and see her soon? It would do them both some good."

"I'll talk to Toshinori about bringing Izuku to the lobby then I'll bring him up so you don't have to leave her." She should leave it be, let it rest, but...

"Is… is Toshinori really adopting Izuku? Would it be better for him to take her as well?" She asked, and Tsukauchi blinked.

"As far as I know, Toshinori is more… fostering Izuku than adopting him. It would be better on them mentally to see each other, yes, but with All for One missing…" the man paused, looking around before looking her dead in the eye. "It would be best if they were in separate households. Izuku cannot lie, and he's already told Toshinori that a Midoriya was meant to be the next holder of One for All, albeit not in those words."

"And he trusted him about that, just like that?" she asked in bemusement, but the officer's eyes were still sad, still truthful.

"Emica has never once lied about the future to us," he told her. "The two were under the impression that the Midoriya had to be Quirkless, and she wasn't all that thrilled to realize it would've been her,"

"But now they both have quirks." Nana finished. "Now it's the moral game of 'which one' and no matter what, the other is going to feel that backlash of not getting picked." With that, the somber mood grew.

"We should return to her. I need to ask her questions."


As expected, the questioning went as well as Nana thought it would, as in the girl perked up when she saw the man, but only shook her head yes or no when asked a question. When she saw Tsukauchi looking at her for help, she sighed and stepped through the doorway, well aware of how the girl's jaw dropped.

"You're supposed to be fucking dead," was the first thing she said, and the woman half laughed, half sobbed in relief, putting a hand over her mouth to cover her pained smile.

"Yes, I am, but you did something and it caused you to lose your memory," Nana agreed. "Detective Tsukauchi is here to see if, subconsciously, you remember any of it."

"Where's Izuku? Where's my brother? Is he dead, did All for One kill him when he realized he couldn't kill me?"

"Izuku is fine," the man answered. "Toshinori is bringing him up to the hospital as we speak."

"All Might and Shimura-san can't meet!" The girl blurted out, panic and confusion written on her face. "I don't know why, but those two can't meet otherwise something bad is gonna happen."

"All for One would destroy Japan and have you as the leader of the Nomu army if Toshi and I met under your watch," Nana said, and she could see the exact moment the girl's face lit up.

"The dorms! UA staff goes around after a Heroics Course Training Trip gone wrong and gets parents permissions for all students to live on campus. It would be out of my hands if All Might chose to come to our place then, because it would technically be under UA's watch, not mine." The girl finished with a smug smirk that quickly disappeared. "That's assuming I even get into UA. Where's Izuku? If I can't get into UA, at least he can!"

Nana inhaled perhaps a little bit too sharply. "Emica, when All Might and All for One were fighting, their blows were… deafening. They were used to such noise, but for an eight year old, it was too much."

"He's deaf?" She asked before frowning. "That doesn't matter much, there's tons of other deaf heroes. Izuku is going to stay with me, right…?"

"Toshinori has a guilt complex," Tsukauchi reminded her, making her pull a face and nod. "When you went missing and Izuku was revealed to have gone deaf during the fight, he blamed himself and decided to Foster your brother. They know you're alive, but Emica, Emili, because of how sensitive your deal is…"

"We can't live together." The girls voice was broken. "W-we'll still see each other, right?"

"Of course," Nana answered. "We'll just have to ensure Izuku or All Might don't find out who I really am until whenever the dorms are implemented." The detective phone went off and he looked at it before letting a small grin come to his face.

"Izuku and Toshinori are downstairs. How much can I get away with telling him, you think?" He asked, and the girl shrugged.

"The nurses keep saying Shimura-san is my grandmother, and I don't really know much about Inko's and Hisashi's parents. 'Sides, All Might has kinda already unofficially adopted both us, and she's his mother."

"I never adopted him," Nana protested, making the girl snort.

"You and Gran Torino were the only ones who gave a shit about him growing up. I'm pretty sure that just automatically makes you his mother by the time you gave him One for All."

"I can see how this temporary no filter is going to be an issue," Tsukauchi chuckled. "I'll be back with your brother." Nana said nothing, instead pulling the hood over her head and gently grabbing the girl's hand.

"It's going to be ok Emica," she murmured. "And thank you." the girl said nothing, instead choosing to pull her hand away and pressed her head against the mountain of pillows the staff had gotten for her.

After a few minutes, the door opened and the woman saw a green blur before a boy was on the bed as well, hugging his sister tightly, and as she took in his appearance, she knew there was no denying that they were related.

"Emi, thank god you're safe. Sir Nighteye sent you ahead and then he covered me when the building fell and All Might had to dig us out and you weren't there but he had sent you ahead but Shouta-nii-chan and Hizashi-nii-chan hadn't met with you and we lo-looked everywhere…" he ended his ramble with a sob, making the girl let out a murmur and slowly raise her arms up to wrap around him.

"I'm fine Izuku." As she talked, Nana noted how she was spelling out I'M FINE on the boys back. The detective came in a minute later, followed by a scruffy looking man and a Hero she came to know as Present Mic.

"Problem Child," the scruffy man said, marching forward to stand on the girl's other side.

"Shouta, can I feel your capture weapon?" The girl asked, removing her right arm to reach out. Shouta? Must be the Shouta-nii-chan Izuku was referring to, which meant he was a Hero as well. The man sighed, but handed the girl part of his scarf, which, upon closer look, Nana could see the weights and magnets that made it a capture weapon.

"How are you Emi?" Present Mic asked. "The doctors say you might be able to see with some therapy."

"Does it really matter? I'll never be a Hero, I've never been Hero material." The two adults looked stunned while Nana and Tsukauchi shared a saddened look.

"Her memory issues have caused her to say the first thing she thinks," Nana explained. "She won't be able to lie and if she's talking, she'll say anything that comes to mind until her brain has fully healed."

"You're the 'good samaritan' who found Emica then?" Shouta asked, and she saw the man's eyes glow red and hair lift up.

"It's more like she found me. Tsukauchi?" She turned to the detective for help.

"Does Izuku have his hearing aides in?" At their headshakes, he continued. "Emica traveled to the past and rescued Shimura Nana, All Might's mentor. The Quirk that caused her to fall back through time was originally Shimura-sans's, so when it got taken, the girl made a deal and escaped back to the present with Shimura-san in tow. We've decided that, since she doesn't remember making the deal but she does, that Shimura Nana, now Miki Akiara, should gain custody of Midoriya Emica."

"But not Izuku?" Hizashi asked.

"They'll see one another still, but so long as All for One is at large, it's easier if they're separated. We have a plan for when we can reveal to To- to All Might that I'm alive," Nana answered, sending the two twins a pained look. "For now, let's just focus on making sure these two are as safe as they can be."


Emi wanted to curse as her foot caught on a cart wheel yet again and sent her crashing down to the floor, the IVs in her arm tugging a little as she pushed herself up onto her knees. "Damnit," she muttered, covering her still bandaged eyes with her hands. "You're so fucking useless"

"I don't think you're all that useless."

The eight year old yelped and fell back, causing her IVs to tugg a bit more. "Who's there?!"

"Oh, sorry! I'm Mirio, Togata Mirio! I'm a patient here too." For a split second, she swore she could see them shaking hands, but when she shook her head, she saw nothing but darkness of the bandages.

"It's nice to meet you Toogata-san." she greeted. "I'm Miki Emiko." She offered her hand and grinned a bit when he took it. "Why are you a patient here?"

"My quirk is a bit difficult to control and yesterday I got stuck in a basement wall because of it." He answered, making her grimace. Right, he couldn't breathe while he was like that, which meant…

"What is your quirk anyways? It sounds painful if it's causing you to be here of all places." She tilted her head, doing her best not to think about how she already knew his quirk issue before they even met.

"Oh, I call it Permeation! It lets me become intangible, but when I go through things, I can't breathe, see or hear. Yesterday really scared all of us when I took a wrong step and went through the house." Emi let a sympathetic smile show. "What's your Quirk?"

"I actually have two, though one is a minor Quirk. Energy Transference is my main one," she said. "Depending on how much energy I have, I can see into the future and even fly using my own quirk! It has a lot of draw backs though. I can have partial memory loss and some days I'm so lethargic I can barely move. I overclocked it a few months back and it made my brain and eyes swell up so that's why I'm here."

"Ah geez, that sounds awful!" Toogata said. "I know you'll get better though!"

"How?" she snorted before she could stop herself.

"Because I'll be cheering for you every step of the way Emiko-chan!"