Eijiro crouched down and wiped his face with shaking hands, wincing when his hand ran over the still healing cut above his eye. He was scared and he was lost. He didn't even know how he'd gotten lost, only that one minute ago he'd been with his dad and that the next, he was stumbling around the woods.
"Izukkun!" A loud, booming voice startled him and he lost his balance, falling flat on his face. Some loud thrashing got closer and closer to him and he stumbled back towards a bush. "Izukkun, I swear to-!" A blond haired kid appeared in front of him, anger scrawled all over their face. "Who are you?"
"E-Eijiro..." He sputtered nervously, not wanting to risk getting the kid any angrier.
"You shouldn't give your name out to strangers, idiot!" Ejiro flinched, not used to hearing anyone talk to him like that. "What the hell is wrong with you? You act like I'm going to hit you or something." Ejiro's eyes widened.
"You said a curse word..."
"So? I talk like this all this damn time!" Suddenly, they- he, Eijiro decided, seemed to take notice of his tears. "Are you okay?" He asked, voice suddenly soft and caring, very different from the way he was acting just then.
"I lost my dad..." He admitted, looking down.
"Oh, well I'm gonna help you find him." The blonde grabbed Eijiro's wrist and easily hauled him up.
"Huh?"
"I just said I'm going to help you find your dad." He said quickly, cocking his head to the side.
"I know! But why? I don't even know your name."
"It's Katsuki! And that's what a hero does, right?"
"I thought you said not to give names to strangers..." Eijiro said, not paying attention to the rest of what he'd said.
"I know what I said!" Katsuki seemed to bristle and flush. "But we're not strangers 'cause I already knew your name."
"If you say so, Katsuki."
"Kacchan!" A freckled boy with messy green hair burst out of the bushes, scaring Eijiro back into a ball as he reflexively activated his Quirk. "Look what I-" The boy stopped mid-sentence and Eijiro looked up, curious. His red eyes meet the boy's wide, bright green eyes. "Wow!"
"Wh-what?" Eijiro quickly gave his clothes a glance, wondering why this new boy seemed so fascinated with him all of a sudden.
"You have such a cool quirk!" The boy threw himself closer to Eijiro and started spouting about how "cool" and "useful" his quirk was and he saw Katsuki face palm out of the corner of his eye and shake his head, muttering something that sounded like he wasn't supposed to repeat it.
I love my ball of sunshine Eijiro! He'll be a constant for the next couple of chapters!
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