Eri runs.
He legs hurts, having been pounding on the hard ground repeatedly for a long, long time. But it doesn't matter, Eri has to run.
She just don't want to hurt anymore. Is that really too much to ask? She just really, really don't want to hurt anymore.
Eri sharks as she sprints down the road, they aren't far, she knows that. They're going to find her and bring her back and hurt her and—
She looks behind her, the bird people are nowhere to be seen, but she knows they'll find her soon, like they always do. Eri trembles at the thought, and she runs.
She didn't know how long she has been running, she doesn't know. It's been too long, and the sky is now slowly turning brighter. Where is she? She don't know. The streets around her are big and empty and scary. None of the shops around are open yet, and Eri didn't know where to go. Where can she go? She's been locked up for too long. Too long, she don't remember how not to be locked up.
The floor is rough and cuts into the bottom of her little feet, they feel scratchy and it hurts, but Eri still runs.
"Hey!"
Eri's heart sinks. It's them. It's those bird people, the bad people. They're here now, and Eri needs to hide, she can't go back with them, she don't want to. She don't want to hurt people but she don't want to be hurted anymore too. Is it bad that she doesn't want to hurt anymore? Is is bad?
Eri darted into a small alley and ran out the other side, eyes widening at the sight in front of her.
There!
Trees. There are trees and bushes and trees and bushes are good. It means she can hide. Eri runs into the trees, following the smallest path she could find and ran into the trees, bringing her hands up to her ears she covered them, so she won't hear them shouting for her, so they won't hear them calling, the bird people, she don't want to hear them, they're scary and she don't want to hear them anymore. Eri closes her eyes and her entire body shakes like a leaf, even as she ran and ran and ran.
She really, really don't wan—
Suddenly, Eri wasn't running anymore. Instead, she's flying.
No, she's falling. Eri panicked, reaching out to grip something, and her little hands found something that is clothes. Not her clothes, someone else's. Eri opens her eyes and they widen.
She's just ran into someone. An older girl, a nee-san. Eri can faintly hear footsteps behind her, and her grip of the onee-san's strangely wet clothes tightened.
"Help." Eri whispers, and looked up.
The onee-san looked back down. She has the strangest black eyes, which has white rings around the little dot in the middle, her hair is also a light brown that looks a little like gray. Her face looks like hers, young, but she is very tall.
The onee-san gently gripped her arms, squeezing them lightly in a way that doesn't hurt.
"Are you hurt?" She asked, her voice is strange at first, it sounds scratchy, but then she coughed and it sounded normal again. "No, wait, that's a stupid question. Are you okay? Why are you running?"
Eri shakes her head, and doesn't answer. The footsteps and voices are getting nearer.
"Oh, there she is."
Eri flinches, and turning around, she glanced at the bird masks, terrified.
They've found her now. They're going to take her back, or else they're going to hurt this onee-san.
The Onee-san's grip tightens, and still holding her hand tightly, she stood up.
"Who're you?" Onee-san asked, her voice scary but not to her. She's aiming her scary at the bad people.
"None of your business." One of the two bird people snapped. They're tall and big, bigger than Eri and bigger than the onee-san. They're going to hurt Onee-san—
"We're her caretakers." The other bird people said, faking kindness. "Eri is such a clumsy little girl, she always trips and hurt herself. She's running away again." He laughs, "Kids these days have such a big imagination, don't they?"
Onee-san's grip tightens, it almost hurts but it doesn't.
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Onee-san said angrily, looking at the bird people angrily, "Her caretakers? Big imagination? That's bullshit." Her eyes narrows. The bird people are starting to look angry now, and Eri feels her hands shake, they're going to hurt them. Eri took a step forwards and shakily opened her mouth, to say something, anything, but Onee-san didn't let her. Instead, she tugged gently on her hand and smiled down at her. "Eri, isn't it? It's a pretty name." She kneeled down and gently took her hands. "It's okay, you don't have to go back, wherever that is."
How did she know? Eri thought as the onee-san stood up, and gently pushed her behind her.
"Oh, well." One of the Bird people shrugged, and looked around. "No witnesses... you bought this upon yourself."
Then he attacked.
Eri flinched, but the Onee-san didn't. She took a step forwards, made a twisty motion with her body, and then she's kicking hard at his neck, sending him flying into the trees.
"Wha-" The other bird people looked between the two, his voice a little funny. "You-"
"You attacked me first." She narrowed her eyes, "it's not like I'm using my quirk, so it's perfectly legal."
The bird man growled, and Eri whimpered, the man ran towards them, hand turning dark with his quirk. Eri closed her eyes, she wants to run, she really wants to run but she couldn't. So she closes her eyes and—
There was a sharp crack and a crash, then a groan from the bird man.
Eri opened her eyes.
The two bird man are in the bushes, groaning as they laid on the grass. The one Onee-san kicked in the neck is now sleeping, and the other looks very sleepy and dizzy, clenching the side of his head.
"Are you okay?" Onee-san kneeled down in front of her, "Eri, right?" She nodded, "I'm Kōki." The Onee-san said gently, "It's okay now, you can stop running."
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 25
Midoriya Izuku: 7
Ueno Hibiki: 7
Bakugou Katsuki: 5
Iida Tenya: 3
Iida Tensei: 1
Kaminari Denki: 1
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Shinsou Hitoshi: 8
Kimura Akemi: 7
Iida Tenya: 4
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Others (Please state in review!)
Ehhhhh I've been working on a new fanfic on my Ao3 account, it's a fanfic for a fanfic, and I love it.
Not much to say, really, life's boring.
Onto the comment(s)!
To darkpaladin89: I'm working on the prologue of the reboot, it's okay I think, but I'm still not very sure about it so it might take a while (Also with that new fic I don't really have a lot of time) And yeah, Kōki need hugs.
To Ree.Human: Hiya~ It's okay, I like to read fics on and off too! And writing something you annoy and working on an essay is two entirely different thing, so there's that. I don't think I can write that much if someone asked me to write about my summer.
I have a discord server where I share art for my fic and just chat, link here:
https/discord.gg/2S7Cy4R
