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Izuku held on to the little girl and boy in his arms, protecting them from the on slot of attacks. The girl whimpered as a bullet flew by, Kouta shrieked as it grazed Izuku.
"Nii-san, are you ok?" she sounded panicked and he didn't want that right now. It was already difficult to run with all the injuries and two children holding onto him, he didn’t want one of them panicking.
"I'm fine Eri," Izuku looked up and saw a high building "Hold on tight please." They tightened their arms around the boys neck and shoulders as he started to scale the building from the fire escape.
"Izuku," He looked down at their faces with a smile, he had a split lip with blood running down his face, but he still smiled "Are they still following us?" Before he could answer Kouta lights rushed past them followed by bullets, Izuku ducked and went back to running. Eri whimpered as Kouta hugged her closer and Izuku tightening his grip around them both.
"Everything's going to be ok, I wont let them touch either of you." He kept running, adrenaline pumping through him and numbing the pain.
"What about you? You're hurt and bleeding, if you let me i-" "No, I'm not letting you do that, don't worry ok?" He smiled at her while Kouta looked like he was going to cry along with her, it was interrupted by another bullet flying by and grazing his leg.
After running and dodging for an hour they had finally gotten some good distance, the only problem now was to find some place to hide. He kept running across roofs when he spotted an opening and looked to the two kids in his arms.
"Eri, Kouta, i need you to hold on tight, this might hurt a little." She nodded her head and gripped tighter with Kouta doing the same, even drawing a little blood but he didn't mind. He ran until he got to the edge of where it was, he looked behind them only to see the group getting closer. He looked down again and took in a deep breath. He turned his back to the ground with the two on his chest, he looked down to them before jumping off the edge, he flipped twice before landing on his back scrapping it against the cement. He grunted as he landed before scooting himself against the wall. Eri was about to say something but Izuku clamped his hand over her mouth gently as they all ran past them, Izuku waited till he heard nothing before letting her mouth go.
"Nii-san! you need help you're really hurt." She looked like she was going to cry as she held onto his shirt with Kouta looking over his injures.
"Eri, I'm fine, I'm more worried about you, are you ok? What about you Kouta, are you hurt?" She nodded her head slowly, not believing it he lifted her up and started looking her over, he noticed a few scraps. He gave her a look that made her chuckle lightly as he began to fix her up with the little first aid supplies they had. He did the same with Kouta and tried to cleaned them both of the slight blood he got on them.
As soon as he finished he stood up again shakily and picked up the two in separate arms. He began to walk out of the alley to see no one there, he walked around the city until he felt someone watching him.
"Someone's watching, if something happens run and don't stop." Both nodded their heads slowly with tears forming, they just got him back they can't lose him again.
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Aizawa just wanted to go to bed, it was already almost 5 am and he still had to teach in the morning to a bunch of stuck up students that he would probably expel since he was in the mood.
He was thinking about heading home finally when he heard gun shots, he perked up and called the police.
"This is underground hero Eraserhead, shots have been fired on XXXX street, I need back up." Luckily it wasn't long till back up arrived in the form of Midnight, Ingenium, and a few police cars.
"Eraserhead what is it?" Midnight asked already serious about the situation.
"I heard shots fire over there," He pointed to where they were already heading "It sounded like they were chasing someone and it wasn't normal gun fire, sounds like there were quirks involved."
"Are we sure it wasn’t any police?" Ingenium asked as they saw sighs of guns and scorch marks while they ran to the location.
"If it was they would have told me when I called."
They finally made it to the area seeing a group of men looking around widely before settling on the heroes.
"Do they look like cops?!" Midnight yelled as they began to take down the group with a little help from police.
"Shut up!"
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When they had finished taking down the group and tying them up Aizawa began questioning them.
"Who were you chasing?" Aizawa asked in a cold voice. One of the villains began to shack, he focused his questions on that one getting a fast reply.
"Three kids!"
"Why?" The villain tried not to answer as the others were being loaded into cop cars "Why?!" Aizawa asked again this time almost yelling.
"I don't know! All I know is that they escaped and the boss wanted them back!" Aizawa glared harsher at the man as Midnight and Ingenium finally joined.
"Do you have a way of tracking them?" The villain nodded his head and slowly pulled out a small phone looking device.
"Everyone that works for the higher ups and watched them has one, the chip is on the oldest's neck." Aizawa took the device as the police began taking the man away.
"We wanna go after them?" Midnight asked seeing the light not to far from them.
"Not everyone, if these kids just escaped and got chased they're not going to like a big group and think it's a possible threat." Aizawa explained as he began moving.
"You want our help?" Ingenium asked this time.
"Maybe, if something goes wrong we'll have to knock them out and get them help, but Tensei, go home to you brother and get some sleep." The hero nodded before leaving them.
The two soon made their way to where the tracker was, they perched on a building looking for the kids when Midnight gasped quietly.
"Aizawa," She slowly pointed to a slow moving body, once Aizawa's eyes adjusted he saw three people, one bigger than the other two and carrying them, but that's not what made her gasp. It was the fact that the taller one seemed to be dripping blood on the concrete and not breathing properly. They got closer and saw the older lean down and whisper something before tilting his head slightly and then finally speaking.
"Hiding in the shadows isn't going to work," He set the two children down and turned to face them "I can see you." As he said that they finally got a good look at him and it wasn't pretty. He had a white button up that almost looked red now, with a black vest, black gloves covering his hands, and black pants. But that wasn't what surprised them, it was all the bleeding wounds from his head to his legs and the now obvious scars littering his arms and a slash a crossed his cheek.
Once he admitted that he could see them they jumped down trying not to scare them, but failing seeing as the two kids hid behind his legs with tears in their eyes.
"We aren't going to hurt you." Midnight tried to explain showing her hands in a surrender gesture.
"That's what the last guy said, now tell me who you are." Midnight was caught a little off guard but Aizawa stepped up and noticed the boys eyes immediately fly to him while putting a hand to his side shielding the kids.
"My names Aizawa Shouta, other wise known as Eraserhead, This is Kayama Nemuri AKA Midnight. Now who are you?" The boys eyes shifted across them before quickly going to the children then back to the heroes.
"So you're all pros," Hearing that the little girl seemed to almost perk up while the boy seemed to glare a little and gripped onto the hand the older boys hand "What do you want then?"
"We heard gun fire and found a group of men," Aizawa noticed the slight flinch the older boy gave while the two others hid more "We captured them and asked who they were chasing, they told us three kids and that the oldest has a chip in his neck."
"Had, I took it out near here." He explained rubbing his neck slightly, he pulled it back down to his side showing more blood.
"That explains why it didn't show you here," The boy nodded his head, he whipped the blood onto his pants before putting it back down for the little girl to hold. "Would you mind coming with us? You need medical treatment and we can help you." At that the girl seemed excited while the little boy glared and tugged on the older ones hand.
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Izuku crouched down to be face to face with the two children and turned his back to the heroes, trusting that he would act fast enough to stop them if they tried anything.
"Nii-san we can get you help! We could be happy and ok!" Eri whispered excitedly, Izuku only smiled, he only ever did with them at this point.
"I don't think we should," He looked to Kouta while Eri looked a little betrayed "We just got you back! They want to take you again! What if you don't come back?!" Kouta was close to tears at this point.
"Kouta, what did I promise when I left?" Izuku asked resting his hands on the boys face.
"You....you promised you would be back, but you were gone for so long! I don't want to lose you again We-I-." Izuku silenced him by whipping his tears away.
"Kouta, I made it back, I always will.....but if they can help you and Eri then..." He looked to both of them, Eri nodded quickly wanting the help while Kouta did it slowly with a few more tears. He stood back up and his face went blank. hiding any emotion "Fine, but you can't separate them and they get treatment first." Midnight was about to say something but Aizawa beat her.
"Fine." The boy nodded and leaned down to pick up the two before Midnight stopped him.
"We can carry them for you, you're already injured we don't want to worsen it." The boy glared at them until the girl spoke.
"It's ok Nii-san! She can carry me right?" Midnight was a little shocked from the ‘Nii-san’ but nodded her head. He turned to the boy who shook his head no.
"You can carry her but he wants to stay with me." He picked up the little boy who clung to him like a koala bear, Midnight smiled as she picked up the little girl that smiled at her.
"Ok, we can lead you to a place called UA, it's a hero school and we have a woman named Recovery Girl there that can help." Aizawa said as he pulled out his phone to tell them they had quests.
"What's the fastest way there?" Izuku asked looking at the buildings.
"Well normally by car but we may have to go roof tops, will you be ok?" Izuku jumped at the question and nodded his head leaning down to Kouta.
"I've got you, I'm not going any where." Kouta nodded his head but didn't loosen his grip any. Aizawa and Kayama climbed their way up, Kayama looked down expecting to need to help the boy but he was already getting onto the roof with ease.
They started their way there with Izuku near Kayama in case something happened and he needed to grab onto Eri.
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While they started running Kayama began talking to the girl in her arms.
"What's your name honey?" She asked looking down slightly, the girl thought about it for a second before answering.
"Nii-san doesn't like us talking to other people but.... he says to trust heroes, so my name's Eri." She said with a smile. Kayama was a little surprised, the boy didn't seem older than 13-14 but he seemed smart for someone his age, then again with the scars, wounds, and men they captured she could guess he had to grow up fast.
"Your Nii-san sounds smart, can you tell me his name?" The girl stopped smiling and looked down sadly.
"He doesn't let us tell people his name, but he always says to call him Phoenix, they call him that too." Kayama nodded her head.
"Then who's the other boy?" The girl perked up again.
"He's my brother too! I'm allowed to tell you his name! His name is Kouta!" Kayama asked her a few more questions as they went, like what her favorite color was, if she liked animals, what she liked to do, and the normal but her answers didn't help Kayama feel any better. For color she said green and black because it reminded her of her brothers, but for animals she explained that she hadn't seen many but that 'Phoenix' had told her about something called a koi and had somehow shown her an image of it and she liked it, and for things she liked to do it was 'watch Nii-san and Kouta try and create things' which didn't make sense but she figured it was their quirks.
When they finally made it to the school, Aizawa entered the code that let the other three in with out setting off the alarms. He saw the oldest freeze for a moment and stare at the figures in front of them, when he saw Detective Tsukauchi he sighed not surprised that Nedzu had called the man.
Though he seemed to not mind Recovery Girl.
"You always bring the trouble makers don't you Shouta?" Recovery Girl teased as she got closer. Kayama had handed Eri back to the boy, who seemed to calm down now that he had both of them. "My my deary, you're hurt aren't you?" She asked getting closer to the three, the boy looked down at the woman and nodded.
"Help these two first." Was all he said meeting eyes with the woman.
"I can do that no problem, follow me." The boy followed with out protest as Recovery Girl lead them into the school.
"Do we know who they are?" Tsukauchi asked the two heroes.
"The little girls name is Eri, the little boys is Kouta, but she wouldn't tell me the older one's name only that 'they' called him Phoenix." Kayama answered.
"How'd you figure that out?" Aizawa asked with a lifted eyebrow.
"Eri told me while we came over here, she looked like she wanted to say his name but she didn't, they're also apparently brothers and sister."
"They don't look alike." Tsukauchi commented.
"You would be correct, they likely adopted each other from wherever they came from." Nedzu explained as they started making their way into the school as well.
When they made it back into the infirmary they saw Eri and Kouta both sitting on the bed in a few bandages with some gummies while 'Phoenix' stood in a corner watching them before his eyes shifted back to the heroes.
"Eri and Kouta will be all better, just a few scratches and bruises," She turned to 'Phoenix' getting his attention by pointing at him with her cane "But you young man, you need medical treatment now, so sit down." He looked to the others first before walking over and sitting down on one of the beds, the two others almost immediately going over to him and sitting beside him. Recovery Girl sighed as she looked at them.
"I'm sorry sweeties but i need room to work on him," The two looked at her, Eri looked worried while Kouta glared "Why don't you go with them while I help him ok?" Kouta glared harder while Eri seemed ok to move. 'Phoenix smiled a little and tapped them both on the shoulder.
'It's ok, I'll be fine, go with them for a few and if anything happens scream and I'll get you out.' He signed, the group was a little surprised to see the boy use sign and for the other two to understand him. They nodded their heads and jumped down walking up to the heroes.
"How about we get you some food ok?" Midnight asked leaning down to be at their eye level. The two looked back to 'Phoenix' who nodded his head.
"Ok!" Soon it was only Recovery Girl and 'Phoenix' in the room, Recovery Girl turned back to the boy.
"Can you tell me of any injures you might have?" She could already see the blood, but the boy seemed smart enough to know of more.
"Sprained ankle, bullet straight through the shoulder, head wound, bruised ribs maybe broken, and bullet grazes, possible quirk injures." Recovery Girl nodded her head writing down the information.
"I see, can you take your shirt off for me?" The boy seemed a little hesitant but slowly took off the vest and button up, he seemed to be in pain taking it off but continued, Recovery Girl was shocked by what she saw and a little horrified. The boy seemed to have lost a lot of blood and looked pale, but what shocked her was the scatter of scars all over his chest and uncovered arms and what really did it was the glowing veins on his chest. She quickly went back to her job and started cleaning the wounds, trying to finish as fast as possible so the boy would be comfortable.
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The group made it to the lunch room where they grabbed some pre-made lunches and sat down to eat. Eri and Kouta seemed to investigate their food before deciding to was safe to eat.
"Did someone put something in your food before?" The Detective asked, the two seemed caught off guard as they were about to eat but answered anyway.
"They would put things in Nii-san's food that made him feel bad." Kouta answered while Eri looked sadly at the food.
"It would make his chest and back glow before he would struggle to breathe," Eri took a deep breath "He would be weak and then they would take him away for a while." The adults were shocked, it sounded like they used quirk suppressants that had a horrible back lash.
"Do you know what they would do to him when he left?" The Detective didn't like to pry but he needed to before they went back to the other for more questions.
"No," Kouta answered this time a little angry "But when he did come back he always looked awful and wouldn't talk for a while, then he would just burst." Tsukauchi was about to ask what that met before Nedzu stopped him.
"Let's have them eat so they may see Phoenix again." The two children looked to him finally noticing he was there, Kouta looked at him with confusion while Eri gasped in surprise.
"Are you a mouse?!" She asked excitedly.
"Am I a mouse? Am I a bear? I am the principal!" Eri giggled and clapped her hands while Kouta continued to eye him suspiciously. After that they all began eating their food, though the adults began to panic when both children started crying.
"Are you ok?" Aizawa asked softly to the surprise of the others. They both nodded before scarfing their food down quickly.
"It's really good!"
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Recovery Girl finished wrapping his head wound when she stepped back looking at her work, his entire chest, arms, and legs were covered in bandages and had been cleaned. He didn't make a noise the entire time unless she asked a question, though she didn't get much from him other than he had a very high pain tolerance and knew a lot about medical training.
"Ok, I've treated what I can without my quirk but I need to use it to make it heal quicker ok? Do you know what my quirk is?" The boy nodded his head.
"Recovery Girl, speeds up the persons normal healing process by kissing them on their body and using their energy to heal them, the person looses energy and can possibly slip into a comma if to much energy is used." She nodded her head a little surprised, it sounded like he had done research on her.
"Correct, would you like to wait for your siblings to come back or now?" Phoenix thought about it for a minute before answering.
"Now would be best, but can I have my shirt back?" She shook her head no but walked over grabbing an extra shirt for him to use, he thanked her putting it on along with the extra pants.
"Ok, I'm going to use my quirk, you might be out for a few hours." He nodded his head as she kissed him allowing him to fall asleep on the bed.
It wasn't long until the others walked back in, when Kouta and Eri saw him asleep they panicked a little and jumped into the bed with Eri checking his breathing and Kouta checking his pulse. Once they were sure he was ok they nodded their heads and leaned against his side with one of his arms draped across their laps.
"He should wake up in a couple of hours, one or two if we're lucky." Aizawa dragged a chair near the bed so he could watch the kids and make sure they were ok.
"Is he ok?" Midnight asked looking to the three.
"Well....he's no longer as bad as he was when he came in but he's far from ok, he had many injures as is but he was covered in scars, signs of malnourished and dehydration, as well as what looked like quirk suppressants with a terrible back lash, due to his quirk possible." As Recovery Girl explained Tsukauchi took notes to put in the case file.
"Eri, Kouta," The two looked to the principal who was smiling "Can you tell us your quirks?" the two couldn't have been a little more than four, but with the situation it was likely their quirks were forced out.
"Oh mine is called rewind! Nii-san named it when it first appeared! He said it allows me to bring someone body back to a pre-previous? previous state!" Eri explained excitedly with conformation from Kouta as she did.
"I can create and manipulate water, I got mine recently so he hasn't named it yet, he doesn't know about it though since he wasn't around when it happened." Kouta explained while Eri smiled sadly at him.
"That is quiet impressive! You both have very strong quirks for someone your age! Do you know what Phoenix's quirk is?" The two looked a little scared to answer.
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Izuku hadn't actually fallen asleep all that much, he had mostly been relaxed to the point it seemed he was asleep. He was glad that Eri and Kouta had remembered to always make sure he was alive if they found him laying down with his eyes closed.
When they had started asking questions about the two's quirk he was surprised to hear that Kouta had a quirk and was sad that he hadn't been there to see it or help him name it but he knew he would some how make up for it.
Then he heard them ask about his quirk or quirks he knew the two wouldn't answer unless given permission from him, he heated up his arm letting them both know he was awake and that it was ok to answer.
"He has two, he is a lot better at explaining how they work though." Eri explained leaning into Izuku's side.
"One is he can control and create fire." Eri perked up as Kouta spoke.
"Yeah! It's really pretty to! He can change the colors!" Kouta smiled at her before continuing.
"The other one he just calls Survive, he says it lets him take care of us better but he uses a lot of words we don't quiet get yet."
"Can you say some of the words?" Aizawa asked, he was a teacher after all.
"Um one of them was infrared," "Insomnia." "and pack bonding." Eri explained with the help of Kouta.
"Well infrared let's people see heat signatures, insomnia doesn't let people sleep well, and pack bonding is when someone forms a relationship with something like family." Aizawa explained, making sure to get nods from the two confirming that they understood.
"Can you explain it better now?" Midnight asked.
"Maybe, it let's him see in the dark, heat signatures, he doesn't sleep much to make sure we're ok when we sleep, it makes him be able to last longer in most places and sit-situations." Kouta explained while Eri nodded her head along.
"It sounds like Phoenix cares about you to a lot." Nedzu added with the two agreeing.
"He's really nice! He always makes sure we get what ever we need!" Eri praised, Izuku shifted is arm slightly in the form of a hug to both of them. The two leaned into his side more, Aizawa noticed it and had a slight smile on his face as he watched.
Izuku finally took the chance and sat up letting them know he was awake, the two perked back up seeing him awake.
"You should have been asleep for at least another hour." Recovery Girl said walking over and giving him gummies. He looked at them for a moment before eating them with a nod from the two next to him.
"Survive." Was all he said, letting them know it was because of his quirk.
"I see, so you we awake the entire time?" Nedzu asked a little impressed, Izuku nodded his head sitting up more and getting comfortable.
"How are you feeling?" Recovery Girl asked looking him over a little to make sure he wasn't bleeding.
"Fine." He looked to Kouta and Eri and lifted his hands 'Are you both ok?'
"Yep! They gave us food and asked questions!" Eri cheered as she moved to sit in his lap. He looked over to the boy and signed again.
'I'm sorry I wasn't there to help with your quirk.' Kouta glared at him but sat next to him.
"I don't care." Izuku smiled and ruffled his hair before going blank and looking to the heroes and Detective.
"Do you have any-" "We understand sign if it's easier." Aizawa interrupted, Izuku stared at him for a minute before nodding his head and signing.
'Ok, do you have any other questions that I can answer?'
"Yes, can you tell us your name?" Izuku stared at the detective trying to think if he should tell the man their names.
"Midoriya Izuku, Kouta Izumi, and Eri." He spoke since it was easier to answer rather than finger spelling.
"Can you explain your quirks in more detail?" He nodded his head lifting one hand up for them to see, the teachers noticing the cuts and scars on his palm, he then lit it on fire before moving his other hand making it turn into what looked like a koi on fire. Eri smiled at it as it 'swam' around her and Kouta.
'I can create and manipulate fire, pyrokinesis, but it works more like a phoenix, I have wings that I can make appear all I have to do is form them in fire then they appear, they are pretty much invisible and nonexistent otherwise.'
"That sounds interesting Midoriya, would you mind showing us?" Nedzu asked a little curious about the sight.
'I would have to do it with more room, it scares them sometimes.'
"Ok, what about Survive?"
'It allows me night vision, infrared, higher senses, more agility, better reflexes, higher stamina, I need less sleep, and my eyes change color depending what I use. If I use infrared my eyes turn red, if I use night vision they stay green but they tend to glow.'
"I see, do you know how old you are?" Izuku stared at the Detective again and narrowed his eyes before going blank again.
'No I think I am 13 though.' Aizawa wasn't surprised that he didn't know his age, if anything they learned was true then the two kids had been there for maybe two years and he was likely way longer.
"Ok, thank you so much, we'll do some research and tell you what we find Nedzu, have a nice day." Tsukauchi stood up and left, Izuku watching him as he did.
"Well it has likely been a long night for you three! why don't you all get some sleep and we'll leave Aizawa with you in case you need anything!" Nedzu said getting up along with the others and leaving Aizawa with the kids.
Eri and Kouta both got comfortable on Izuku, who just smiled down at them while they drifted off to sleep. He was used to them falling asleep on him since he had a high body temperature. He looked to Aizawa who sat in the chair near the bed, almost like he was waiting for an attack. Aizawa looked back at him.
"Do you think you could sleep?" Izuku was caught a little off guard, making his eyes widen but he nodded, he could always sleep, he just needed to make sure that they were ok first. "Ok, then get some sleep, I'll make sure that they’re ok, so sleep." Izuku stared at him before nodding his head and laying down getting more comfortable, he wasn't used to a bed, and letting the two lay on his chest.