A/N: 700,000 hits! Oh yeah! Also I just noticed that on the first it beat out Ponies One Half as my second most reviewed story! It's been that for a while... I should have bene paying attention... Anyways enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 93: Operation: Make Eri Smile!
Toru knew that what happened to Eri was horrible. But still she needed a cheering up when she was able to.
Even with her Work Studies, she had to figure out a way to do that.
Thanks to her (possible) distant relationship with the Apple family… and the fact they were open… they let er in on many of their recipes.
She got up early one day to bake muffins.
Izuku found before he could start breakfast baking muffins.
"Apple cinnamon/' asked Izuku.
"Of course!" said Toru.
Izuku nodded at this.
HE began to make breakfast for the rest of the dorm knowing that the muffins were just a bonus.
HE also decided to make a more savory breakfast to balance out the muffins.
"So are you going back your work studies yet?" asked Toru.
'No just a couple more days to get her to acclimate." Said Izuku.
"Oh that's good." Said Toru.
Soon enough the muffins were ready and the rest of breakfast were ready as well.
Which everyone enjoyed when they came down.
Though after breakfast Toru decided to ask Izuku something.
"Do you think I can try to get Eri to smile?" asked Toru.
"Do you think it will work?" asked Izuku.
"I don't know…" said Toru, "But I know to gentle with her… considering everything she went through."
Izuku nodded.
"It's probably a good idea to get her to trust multiple people in class." Said Izuku.
"Of course! This way you don't have to drag her to Sir Nighteye's office." Said Toru.
Izuku sighed at that. They did have multiple contingencies to make sure she wasn't kidnapped, including buying a decent disguise for her. Not to mention Izuku having Haki on while they were transporting her and getting her a tracking bracelet just in case.
Though Nezu did offer on days where he had to take Eri a car would be provided for them.
They still didn't know what Chisaki was doing to Eri but they weren't taking any chances of him getting his hands back on her.
Though he would prefer that she learned to trust his classmates so that he could have babysitters to fall back on.
He was planning on her getting to know Iida and Koda due to the fact neither of them were doing work studies.
Plus he could trust Iida to make sure she didn't get into trouble and Koda was gentle, he knew that Koda would probably call in friendly animals to help her.
But it was going to take a while for sure.
After class Izuku explained the plans for the afternoon.
"So Toru wants to hang out?" asked Eri, "Um…"
"It means spending time." Said Izuku.
Eri nodded.
"Okay! I like the things she makes." Said Eri.,
"That's good." Said Izuku.
Thankfully the first thing they did together was Eri helping her bake some cupcakes.
"What can I do to help?" asked Eri.
"You can help make the frosting!" said Toru, "It's just going to be whispered cream so it's easy to make."
"Okay!" said Eri.
"Oh you get to spend time with her!" said Mina noticing Eri making cupcakes.
"I'm sure that she'll spend time with your once she gets more used to you." Said Toru.
"I hope so…" said Mina, "Wait… where is Midori?"
Toru motioned over to Izuku was had a notebook and having a lot of thoughts go through his head.
"What is he doing?" asked Mina.
"Brainstorming ideas for what her quirk might be." said Toru with a shrug.
"Oh…" said Mina.
"He'll be fine." Said Toru.
Eri marveled as the whipping cream became whipped. And added the right amount of sugar and vanilla.
"Okay! Let put the whipped cream in the bag and ten you can get whatever is left in the bowl!" said Toru.
Eri nodded.
Toru helped Eri frost the cupcakes.
Eri looked look at the cups and sighed.
"You still can't smile…" said Toru.
"No…" said Eri.
"IT's okay!" said Toru, "I will make sure you smile! But I know not to push you too much!"
"Really why?" asked Eri.
"Long stories." Said Toru.
Eri was confused.
That was when Toru got an idea…
But she needed help.
Not to long later she called on Nejire and Tsuyu.
Because Toru wanted to give Eri a nice hair style.
"That makes sense you can't see your hair." Said Tsuyu
"Can you even style your hair?" asked Nejire.
"I do use curlers, and I brush it and other things… but that's it." Said Toru.
The tow nodded.
IT helped that the two girls also had really long hair so they would be perfect for giving Eri a nice hair style.
They decided to give her a nice braid.
"I got some ribbons!" said Toru.
Izuku meanwhile sat nearby still brainstorming the possibilities of her quirk.
"Hey!" said Ochaco snapping it out of it.
"Wait are the cupcakes ready?" asked Izuku.
HE noticed a plate near him with a couple cupcakes.
"Toru got Nejire and Tsu to help her do a hair style." Said Ochaco.
"Oh… that's nice." Said Izuku.
"It's been like an hour… maybe you should take a break." Said Ochaco.
"I don't know…" said Izuku.
"I know you want to help her find her quirk… but it's a good idea to take a break…" said Ochaco.
"I'm just worried what happens if her quirk activates." Said Izuku.
Ochaco was quiet.
"Her quirk is really powerful… and I still don't know what happened to her dad." Said Izuku.
"Yeah…" sighed Ochaco, "But over working yourself won't help…"
"I wasn't overworking myself…" said Izuku.
"You spent almost an hour on the notebook and you didn't notice." Said Ochaco.
"Oh that's normal." Said Izuku.
Ochaco wasn't sure how to react however.
"Really?" she asked.
"Yeah…" said Izuku.
"IT might be still a good idea to take a break." Said Ochaco.
"Why?" asked Izuku.
Ochaco looked at the notes.
"Three of your ideas mean the same things but worded a different way." Said Ochaco.
Izuku looked at the notes and sweat dropped.
One of them was that it turned him into a "ghost", one of them was that it turned him into a "spirit" and the third was that it turned him into a "disembodied soul."
"Yeah… maybe you're right." Said Izuku with a sweat drop.
Shortly afterwards…
Her hair was nice braided with red brow trying them.
She looked at her hair and sighed.
"You still can't smile." Said Toru.
"No…" said Eri.
"It's still okay." Said Toru.
"Oh I have an idea!" said Izuku, "Let's go walk around the forest."
"The forest?" asked Toru.
"It's still part of school grounds and I'm sure there's cute animals there." Said Toru.
"Okay!" said Eri.
Thankfully Izuku did leave then notebook behind oping taking a break will make sure he didn't repeat ideas.
Eri clearly enjoyed exploring the forest and saw many squirrels and birds.
And saw some other hero students covertly training.
With a couple considering why there was a kid.
Though a couple were third year hero how had gotten word from their classmates about how he and Mirio "kidnapped" a little girl from a villain.
Though thing did get awkward when they found a pair making out.
They stopped.
"Sorry about that…" said Toru.
"What are they doing?" asked Eri.
"We'll tell you when you're older." Said Izuku.
"Why is there a little kid?" asked one the tow making out as they stopped seeing the three.
"It's a long story…" said Izuku.
They got Eri from them hoping there won't be too many people like that in the forest.
Heroes in training were fine for to see… students making out… not so much…
However they explored they heard a buzzing sound.
"What's that?" asked Eri.
"I don't know… but it doesn't sound good." Said Izuku who was shivering a little.
They all following the buzzing and stopped when they were directly beneath it.
It was a very, very large hornets' nest. In both size of the nest and the fact it was giant hornets.
"What are those?" asked Eri.
"Really bad bugs that will hurt you if they sting you…" said Toru.
Eri got scared.
That was when the hornets noticed them.
And they were angry.
"Uh-oh." Said Toru.
Izuku was trying not to freak out, the truth was it wasn't just spiders Sanji was afraid of, so yeah… tis was effecting him big time.
Izuku grabbed Eri's arm and started to run.
Toru realized it and took out the transmitter and pressed the emergency beacon button.
"Okay… this better be an actual emergency." Said Aiko sounding very irritated.
'Hornet nest!" yelled Izuku trying not to freak out ever more.
"Shit!" said Aiko knowing which kind too, "Okay! I'll contact the teachers! Get away from those things!"
They ran away but the hornets grab chase of course.
IT was clear that both Eri and Izuku were reaching their freak out limit and Toru grabbed them to hide behind ca tree.
Eri was shaking. The angry hornets were searching for them.
She held onto the tree and her horn started to spark.
"Eri!" said Izuku.
He knew she couldn't touch her after all he still didn't know what he quirk was.
However the tree she was holding onto started to get smaller…
Both Izuku and Toru watched as the tree got smaller and smaller.
Until it was just was a just sapling.
That was when a robot showed up and began to shoot at the hornets.
"Die you evil things! DIE!" yelled the robot, "No one likes you and you're not cute like bees."
Toru sweat dropped at the robot saying that.
However Izuku looked at Eri she had stopped using her quirk and she fell to the ground.
She was breathing heavily and it was clear she wasn't looking good.
"IS everything all right?" asked Hibiki who showed up with Nezu and Recovery Girl.
"No hornet stings." Said Toru.
Recovery Girl breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry the nest will be destroyed." Said Nezu.
"But…" said Izuku.
He looked at the now sapling.
"That tree look too young to be here." Said Hibiki.
"Thank you captain obvious." Said Aiko.
"I think I figured out Eri's quirk." Said Izuku.
They had brought Eri to the infirmary and called Aizawa just in case she had another flair up with her.
Though it was clear she was unconscious and had a fever.
"So what do you think her quirk is." Said Nezu.
"I think it's to turn something to a younger state." Said Izuku.
"Are you sure?" asked Aizawa.
"You didn't see the tree." Said Hibiki.
"It's now a spalling." Said Aiko.
"But wait… how would that make her dad disappear?" asked Hibiki realizing something.
"Reversed from before he was born." Said Izuku realizing it.
Everyone realized just how powerful such an ability was and how dangerous…
"There could more to her quirk…" said Nezu, "But if it's really that powerful…"
"No wonder why Chisaki would want her." Said Recovery Girl.
"For now I think we should keep quiet about her quirk." Said Nezu, "Though I will inform Sir Nighteye."
"I know." Said Izuku.
"Don't worry I will keep it a secret too." Said Toru.
Izuku would stay with Eri to see if she would wake up. While Tory would go back to the dorms to tell the class why both of them wouldn't be at the dorms for a while.
Toru go back to the dorms.
"Where's Deku and the brat?" asked Katsuki.
"Oh we a run in with hornet. Eri got scared and she used her quirk. But she has a fever now and Izuku's going to stay with her until she wakes up." Said Toru.
"Oh no…" said Ochaco.
"Wait… did you say hornets?" asked Sero.
Koda became deathly pale.
"Don't worry Nezu sent in some hornet killing robots to kill them all." Said Toru.
"Is anyone surprised Nezu has hornet killing robots?" asked Kaminari.
"It would be the best thing to kill them." Said Iida as Koda breathed a sigh of relief that they weren't there.
Though he did admit they would have been useful in emergency.
Sometime later, Eri woke up and started crying.
"Eri… it's okay…" said Izuku.
"But I used my curse…" said Eri, "Is Toru hurt?"
"No Toru's fine… you didn't make her disappear…" said Izuku.
Eri wasn't sure how to respond.
"Are you sure?" asked Eri.
"She still has her clothes." Said Izuku.
Eri nodded.
"I figure out your quirk too… don't worry…" said Izuku, "I'll make sure it will be fine…"
"How can you be sure I won't make any one else disappear." Said Eri.
"Your horn… if you get scared I'll pay attention to your horn." Said Izuku.
"Okay…" said Eri, "Do you think Toru would want to play again?"
It was clear that Eri wanted to do that again.
"As long as there's no hornets it should be fine." Said Izuku.
Eri nodded.
It was clear that Eri got closer to Toru and perhaps close enough on days where he had works studies and Toru didn't, she would baby sit Eri…
And thought she still hadn't gotten Eri to smile, Toru knew it was going to be a slow going process and hopefully she would soon.
Next Time: Izuku returns to the Nighteye Agency, as he couldn't get a babysitter, he has to be on desk duty. So that means Todoroki has to go with both Katsuki and Mirio while on patrol. Will he be able to handle it? Find out next time!