Izuku's home - at least she thought it was his home - was nice. The design was actually something she would have expected in Vale but with bits of Mistral mixed into it. There was an open living room that joined with a dining room, a small under kept yard, a kitchen, and an upstairs that had two bedrooms. There was also a mess just about everywhere she looked. The dining room table had what looked to be blue print paper tossed about right beside take-out containers and a few mechanical looking bits lying around. It almost felt like she had walked into Ruby repairing her weapon.

After a full day of running around, fighting, and then just walking for what felt like forever, Pyrrha was so grateful to actually be sitting down on a couch for once. And her shoes were off. Why did she wear the heels again? Izuku got her a pair of sneakers that were comfortable. Were they even called sneakers?

Izuku sat next to her, a generous amount of space between them as he messed with a keyboard, the large screen across from them showing a bunch of symbols she didn't recognize. He was muttering to himself, and so far only ramen had been a word they both shared. But it was a good sign. And there was so much stuff that was culturally the same between the two of them.

Like the pen and notebook he had given her. She had a pen and notebook back home! A home she wouldn't ever be able to see again. But even if she couldn't, she was alive now. So all she could do was try her best in this new world. And maybe after she learned the language then she could ask if there was a way to travel back.

A map appeared on the screen, a very detailed one showing a bunch of land masses that looked nothing like her home did. She couldn't even imagine where Remnant might even be able to fit on that map. Nothing felt big enough, and nothing felt small enough. There weren't even similar shapes.

So she wasn't in the future then. This was just another world.

"Uchi?" Izuku asked, spreading his arms wide and indicating towards his home in general. Oh! Uchi must mean home! That was another word! How many was she up to now? Izuku pointed towards the map. "Doko Pyrrha's home?"

Oh! If she had to guess doko must mean where! He wanted to know where she lived! He was trying to help her get back! Pyrrha shook her head and opened her notebook, spotting Izuku as he groaned and began to mumble to himself, a concerned look coming over his face.

She started to draw a map of Remnant, it wasn't perfect by any means just the general shape of her home. Once she finished Mistral she saw Izuku looking over her shoulder head tilted to the side. In the rough spot of where Mistral was she drew an x. "Mistral."

"Mistral?" Izuku repeated.

She nodded and then drew another x where Argus was, circling this one and drawing a simple stick figure for her and her mother. "Argus. Home."

Izuku grabbed the keyboard again and started typing again. The screen changed to a bunch of links that he clicked on. Video game demons showed up and then Izuku shook his head and typed something else in. This one showed a map, but not one she was familiar with. Izuku likewise looked unsatisfied with the maps.

She started to draw again, this time focusing on Vale, and leaving most of the other regions off her map. There was a good chance that even doing this wasn't relevant, but it might help something. Once she finished drawing the map she circled Vale. "Vale. Hmm. Sorry how do I say friends? Or school or. Oh! Sorry! I umm, I- you can't understand me very well can you?"

Izuku stood and moved towards the screen bringing up the map again by touching it. It was like a scroll! That was neat. He then zoomed in on the map focusing on a long thin island off the coast of a larger continent and bordering a vast ocean. He pointed towards the island and looked at her. "Japan."

"Japan." She repeated back to him. That was another word! And now she knew the name of the place she was staying at. Well kind of. How big was Japan though?

Izuku zoomed in more and went towards a bay near the middle of the biggest island, the map shifted into a higher quality one revealing a sprawling mass of grey in the middle of some green area. He circled towards the entire area, even some of the area across the bay and then said, "Tokyo."

That was the name of the city she was in? But it was huge! It looked a lot bigger when she was falling. A lot bigger. Then Izuku started to zoom in on the map again. He zoomed in. And In. And In. Until she could make out the tiled roof of Izuku's home. "Home."

"Tokyo is huge." She muttered to herself and stared at her map. Now she had no doubt that all of Remnant could fit inside of Tokyo. How were there so many people and so few grimm? Was it because of how many Huntsmen there were? Or maybe there were just less of them here. Or maybe they weren't grimm, and Izuku's word for them - Nomu - just wasn't related.

Why couldn't she have been reborn here knowing the language? Still, this was better than being reborn as a child. Reliving her awkward preteens and possibly pooping her own pants was not something she really wanted to go through. Besides, she liked who she was now. And she didn't want to risk her red hair.

Izuku sat down next to her. Right next to her, actually, and began to write in her notebook. It started with a single line with a symbol under it. Then two lines closer together and a symbol underneath it. And another, and another, each time he said their name. Numbers he was teaching her numbers! That was a good place to start right?

Once she had the numbers down she drew the symbol for one and eight and drew an arrow to herself. Hopefully Izuku would understand she was trying to show how old she was. She pointed at him and tilted her head to the side smiling at him. His eyes went wide for a moment and a bit of red graced his cheeks.

Well, he wasn't as dense as Jaune was.

Pyrrha bit her lip, and watched as Izuku wrote the number for two and zero.

Did her friends make it out okay? Did they all die because she couldn't save them? Knowing that they were still okay would make her feel a lot better. But knowing that they weren't and not being able to go help them might make things worse.

Izuku nudged her shoulder slightly, it was good that his face was so easy to read other wise she might never know what he was thinking. He was concerned. He was already worried enough about her. She shouldn't concern him any further.

She placed her pen to the paper and taped it smiling up at him.

He showed her a few symbols, basic ones and how to say them, she marked down the noises for reference for later.

"Py" he made a symbol that almost looked like one of the then another. "Ra."

"Pyrrha!" She tapped on the symbols with her own pen and circled them. She could spell her name now! Somehow the symbols that made up her name looked beautiful to her. Maybe because it was her name, or because there was an elegance to Izuku's language that just made her want to smile.

She started to copy down the symbols, memorizing them as best she could. She was a long way off from reading but hopefully she'd be able to actually talk with Izuku soon.

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It was strange watching Pyrrha's face shift from lighting up like a child looking at Christmas lights for the first time to seeing her look so glum. What was she thinking about? Her past? Her friends? Her family? It was frustrating to think that her home wasn't anywhere. He couldn't think of any place that looked like her map on the globe.

Nor did any of the cities match up. Mistral was French as far as he could tell, but there was no city or even a place that matched up with Pyrrha's map. And Argus was uh, some old video game world? And Greek. Same with Pyrrha's name, but nothing about Pyrrha's map screamed Greece, none of the islands in the area even looked similar. Still he at least hit the name on the head with her Spartan name.

She must have been a student as well, she took better notes than Momo did, so meticulous, neat, and useful. At least he thought so, he couldn't understand half of what she wrote, but she did.

Pyrrha stood suddenly and walked out his front door, he followed her but she shut the door on his face. Then rang his doorbell.

Confused, he opened it. "Hello?"

Pyrrha waved at him smiling ear to ear, her green eyes all but dancing with amusement. "Hallo, me name are Pyrrha."

Oh! That was close! That's what she was doing. Man, she was smart.

Izuku smiled and nodded. "Hello, my name is Pyrrha."

Her face twisted for a moment and she coughed, both hands folded in front of her for a moment. A quick breath and she tried again. "Hallo, my name is Pyrrha."

"Good enough." Izuku muttered and gestured for her to come back inside. Really her accent was actually a bit on the cute side. But that could just be because Pyrrha herself was rather cute with how much energy she was putting into this. Or Pyrrha was just cute. Really it could be just any one of those factors.

He needed to calm down, he was supposed to be helping Pyrrha, not trying to flirt with her. Not that he knew how to flirt, let alone how to flirt with someone that didn't speak his language.

They sat back down on the couch and worked their way through a few more words, trying to piece together sentences along the way, it really felt like by the end of the week she might be able to hold a conversation.

"Alright, for this one its-" He stopped when he felt something hit his shoulder. It wasn't Pyrrha's hand, rather it was her head. She had fallen asleep on him. Physically on him. Her head was on his shoulder! Holy crap what did he do? What did he do? What on earth did it even mean? Did she trust him that much?

No, that wasn't it, she was just that tired. She did have a long day, and who knew when the last time she slept was. But maybe he should take a few minutes to let her get settled in - and not so that he could relish in the feeling - before he put her to bed. It was a lot cuter than when Mei did the same thing.

Mostly because Mei snored and her passing out like this meant that she hadn't slept in a while. Pyrrha seemed to be the responsible type that would actually sleep on time.

After a minute Izuku carefully moved her head down onto the couch while he stood, making certain that her head was on one of the pillows. Her green eyes fluttered open for just a minute. "Good night Pyrrha."

"Good night." She mumbled back to him, eyes closing.

He turned the lights off and tossed a blanket over her and headed up to his room. For tonight the couch would have to do, even if Pyrrha's leg did stick over the edge ever so slightly. They'd figure out a better spot for her to sleep tomorrow.

Izuku checked his phone before he went to bed and saw a dozen missed calls from Goro, his contact in the police. That wasn't good. Redialing the number, Izuku swallowed. It wasn't that Goro was scary, okay, he was, mostly because he was a year older than Izuku and was already one of the top officers in japan. Apparently having a quirk that made it so he didn't need to sleep allowed him to climb ranks faster than most.

"Hello, Goro? Sorry for not-"

"Who the fuck is Spartan?"

Shit!

"Look, Goro it's not what it seems. She's uhh."

"She's not registered in the Japanese database, Deku, you're a good hero, but don't go skipping out on the rules. We need her to register." Goro growled from the other side of the phone, the sound of his keyboard clacking away.

"Oh is that all?"

"No that's not all."

Crap.

"Deku, explain yourself, now."

Izuku sighed and explained the situation as best he could. "But, please Goro, please don't get her in any trouble, she's a good person, she's just lost, and I'm helping her to learn the language."

"If it was anybody else I would have told them to go fuck themselves. But for you, go fuck yourself Deku." Goro's typing grew louder. "Asking me to stick my neck out while you harbor an illegal alien that doesn't even have a place of origin? That's just asking for trouble. You're lucky I'm not going to arrest you and her. If she causes any trouble it's on you."

The phone went silent.

"Well, that went better than expected." Izuku laughed and fell face first into his bed.

AN: HELP I MADE PYRRHA TO CUTE AND NOW I'M ADDICTED TO HER! Also enjoy the back to back chapter, just really needed to write more of this.