"Key word: 'Useless'" Bnha Au

Familiar... part 11

It was already dark out when Izuku finally got home to Eri after running like a mad man when he realized she was home alone. 'Mother, I'm sorry you got caught in a villain attack but leaving poor Eri alone? Everyone's trying to give me a heart attack!' Izuku cried internally.

He slammed open the door and was greeted with the sight of Eri sitting peacefully on the sofa, watching TV. "Oh thank goodness." Izuku sighed, "Hello Eri! Sorry, mom's not here, something bad happened." Eri panicked at his words, "Bad? Where?" She asked, looking around nervously. Izuku sat down on the sofa with her and tried to calm her down, "Don't worry the bads not here. But... The bad is with my mom right now." Eri's eyes widened and Izuku quickly added, "But don't worry! It's a temporary bad but she'll have to stay in the hospital for some time." "She'll be better?" Eri whispered with tears in her eyes. Izuku smiled and whispered back, "Yes, she's strong. She can make it through anything! She's a hero, maybe not to the world, but to me she is." Eri nodded, wiping her tears away, "My hero too!" They both pulled each other into a warm embrace.

Izuku turned off the TV and smiled as Eri yawned, "Let's get some sleep, yeah? I can take you to visit mom after school tomorrow!" "mn, mn!" Eri nodded excitedly. Izuku picked Eri up and went back into his room where the pillow fort still was. He tucked Eri in the blankets and was about to leave when he heard a sleepy voice say, "Zu?" Izuku chuckled, "Yes, Eri?" "You... You're my hero too." Izuku smiled, tears forming, as he watched Eri drift off into sleep. 'Yeah, I am a hero. Even without a quirk, I can still be anyone's hero.' He thought as he walked off. Looking back at the pillow fort as he was about to close his door, he whisper, "You're my hero too."

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Izuku- no, Akan? No. Deku??? Ran out of the house in his Vigilante uniform. Not to do Vigilan- Well, not INTENDING to do Vigilante things, you can never really guess what's about to happen, but to do Deku things. Outside. In the open. In his Akan form. "Wow, this is almost as stupid as when I chose 'Deku' as my fake name" He laughed,

"As stupid as what?" Akan? Deku? Oh my god, he's having an identity crisis. Froze as he heard an all so familiar voice. 'WHY DON'T MY HEADPHONES WORK WHEN I NEED THEM?' He screamed in his head. He turned around, similar to a broken robot."What? I seriously didn't hear you." Eraserhead replied with a quirked brow. "You know what? You kids are weird these days, I don't want to know." As Izuku heard those words he felt like someone just saved him from a moving truck.

Akan started laughing, "Awe, why not? I'd love to talk about how I pulled a stupid move on a video game but ended up beating those assholes anyway!" "NOPE! Absolutely not. Also, mind your language. I know how you kids are, if I let you get one word out about your video game you'll be talking about it for 3 hours." Eraserhead exclaimed.

"Why do you always say 'You kids' are you like, ancient or something?"
"Sometimes I feel like I am. Everyone is going to make me die early."
"You look like you had grey hairs by the age of 15."
"Ouch."

Eraserhead suddenly straightened his back, "Anyways..." It was silent for a moment. Akan was utterly lost before he heard a cough and whisper. "User9986757." Everything went still for a moment.

"What?" Akan replied, "Is that like your username in a game or something? Why would you choose only numbers for a user? Luh-ame." "Damn it! I really thought it was..." Eraserhead sighed, "Whatever. What are you doing out here?" "Mr. Eraserhead, sir. I am a vigilante." Izuku rolled his eyes before rocking back and forth on his feet, "Weeelllllll, I do need to find a specific villain. If you're willing to help, wink wink" Izuku shot Eraser some finger guns. Eraserhead rolled his eyes. "I'll buy you coffee," Izuku said.

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"Hello there! What would you like to order?" A man with waist-length hair greeted them. "Wait, let me guess? Black coffee with too much caffeine to be considered legal? Also, would you like the Unicorn drink again for the little one? It's off the menu but I don't mind making it for you." The two villain fighters blinked at each other in confusion. "Oh! Sorry for not explaining myself. I'm the same barista as before, I simply have a gender-changing quirk and currently prefer the male one as of now." Linh chuckled. "Oh, sorry about that. Yes on the coffee but no on the Unicorn drink. She's currently sleeping right now!" Izuku responded. "All good, All good! Feel free to come anytime with her, yeah! She's really adorable." Linh exclaimed, "You know... I used to have a little sister, similar to her. She recently passed due to my carelessness. Please, give her a happy life. I know I'm just a stranger but give her all the love and attention you can. Before it's too late."

Linh turned his back as he went to make the coffee, missing Izuku's sad expression, "Poor dude, He looks around, what? 17? He lost his sister and has to work graveyard shifts alone? Geez." "Yeah, too bad he's a suspect for one of the villains." Eraserhead casually says. Izuku whipped his head towards him, shocked. "Oh. Don't worry. I personally don't believe any of that bull crap but, it IS one of the reasons I asked you to buy me coffee." Eraser motioned him to come over.

Once Izuku sat down Eraserhead started, "You know... You're familiar with Deku right?" Izuku felt chills running up his spine,
"Yeah?"
"Well... Oh, what the heck I'll just say it. I think we may have leads on who he is."
"Uh-huh? Hey- wait! Your not gunna expose him, are you? I'll have you know he's a good friend of mine. Well- I consider him a friend at least, so-"
"Geez kid, Don't worry. I'm not gonna expose him or whatever. I'll have you know I think he's a good kid. But. The reason I don't want him to get caught is not because of police and legal issues. It's because of the U.A. principal."
"The mouse-rat thing?"
"... Yeah... The mouse-rat thing. He's caught interest in
Deku as he was stupid enough to put his code name on a test site from U.A."

Izuku felt his world collapse. 'Oh. Em. Gee. Why am I this stupid? First associating myself with the word 'useless' and now the principal knows. If kacchan were to call me deku I would be so exposed.' Eraser continued, "So basically, what I'm saying is, If you are him or know him personally, that is either your warning or his. If you seriously aren't him then please warn him." Izuku nodded feeling his heart sink deeper, 'I am so fucked.' "Will can do, Mr. Sir! I'll literally just text him right now."

As Izuku texted on his phone he was aware of Eraserhead observing his phone. He also wasn't aware he brought out his personal phone. He also, ALSO wasn't aware of Eraserhead saying in his mind, "Ok so either he's really up to the charade of 'I'm not Deku' or he's seriously not Deku.' Eraser internally sighed, ' Two steps forward, 100 steps back.'

"Your orders are ready!" Linh exclaimed, "Sorry it took so long, one of the machines wasn't cooperating." "That's alright, thank you." Eraser replied as he took the coffee. He looked over to Akan who currently was pulling puppy eyes on him. "Fine. You can follow me around as I watch for villains." Akan pumped his fist and brightly smiled behind his mask. 'What a familiar smile.' Eraserhead thought as he left the coffee shop with a hyper illegal child behind him. 'Maybe this kid has an insomnia quirk or something. Does he never get tired?'