Let it burn

Meeting new people

When I wake up I yawn and sit up. I look around and I notice I'm in an unfamiliar place. I start to panic as yesterday's events flood back into my thoughts. I quickly stand up and quietly walk around looking at stuff, trying to figure out where I am. I tip toe into a kitchen and sigh. I look up at Erasure head who is looking at me intently. "Good morning." I say as I carefully walk towards Erasure. "Morning kid." He replies as he takes down another cup from a cabinet. "Would you like some coffee?" I tilt my head in confusion. "What's coffee?" Erasure gasps dramatically and quickly turns towards me. I flinch at his sudden movements and take a step backwards. He quickly stops his movements and smiles apologetically. "Sorry I was just surprised you didn't know what coffee was." He says as he turns back around and pours what I'm guessing is coffee into the cup and then hands it to me. "Here try it, you'll like it, I promise." I take the cup gently and take a sip of the hot liquid in the cup. My eyes light up at the amazing taste of coffee.

I quickly chug the rest of the coffee, ignoring the burning feeling in my throat, and then holding out my cup, hoping for more. Erasure chuckles and pours more coffee into my cup and I slowly sip it this time. He chuckles again. "Would you like some breakfast?" I slightly shrink into myself and set my now empty cup on the counter. "No thanks I'm not hungry." Erasure looks at me doubtfully. "And why's that?" I sigh and sit at the kitchen counter. "Because I only ever got a tiny dinner a day ever since I was four." Erasure gasps and quickly walks to me, wrapping me into another hug. I carefully hug back but soon the physical contact got to much. "U-um Mr. Erasure head c-can you please let m-me go?" Erasure quickly let's go. "Sorry about that. And please just call me Shouta or Aizawa." I nod my head and stand up. "Well kid I have to go to work this morning, are you ok with staying here alone or would you like to come with me?" Shouta puts his cup in the sink and starts walking towards the hallway. "W-where do you work?" Shouta stops and turns back to me. "I work at U.A. as a teacher." My eyes light up at this and I smile really big. "I want to go with you!!" Shouta chuckles and turns back around to get ready for the day. "Alright kid follow me, I should have some clothes that might fit you." I jog to catch up with Shouta and he leads me into a bedroom with no decorations. "Ok so you can wear whatever you want from the closet and we can go shopping after school for you." I know and walk into the closet, looking at all the clothes.

I found a pair of black ripped jeans, a light grey shirt with the name of a band I've never heard of on the front, and black and white converse. The pants were to big so Shouta gave me a belt to put on. After we were both ready we headed outside and thankfully we didn't get into a car, those make me sick to my stomach. "Kid how fast can you run?" I look over at Shouta and shrug. "I'd say pretty fast considering I always had to run away from the older kids when they tried to hurt or kill me." Shouta looks a little sad when I mentioned the kids but then he slightly smiles at me. "How would you like to run to U.A. and get some exercise in?" I smile because I love running. "I'd love to run Shouta!!" He smiles and then takes off running. "Try and keep up then kid!!" I start running after him, and after a minute I catch up and match his strides. He looks at me surprised, but that changes to a look a proud dad would hold when their kid did something good.

When we get to U.A. I was out of breath and i sat in front of the gates because my legs stopped working. Shouta chuckles and knelt down in front of me. "Alright get on my back, I'll carry you while you recover." I carefully climb onto Shoutas back and he stands up, heading into the gates of U.A.

As we're walking down the hall Shouta asks me a question. "Hey kid I know I know I should've asked this sooner but, what's your name?" I giggle. "Izuku, just Izuku, I despise my last name." Shouta stops in front of a door and knocks. "Well then Izuku nice to meet you." I smile and then we hear a 'come in' from the other side of the door. Shouta opens the door and walks in dodging a knife thrown at his head. I gasp and shrink down, hiding myself behind Shouta. "Nezu I'd like you to meet someone." Shouta says to whoever threw the knife. " Oh and who might that be." Shouta carefully sets me down on the ground and steps to the side. "This is Izuku, I saved him yesterday and he's now staying with me." I look up and I see a bear rat dog thing. "Well why isn't Izuku here at school?" I shrink back at the mention of school. "I'm not sending him back to that horrible place, with those horrible kids!!" Nezu nods and smiles at me. "Well it's nice to meet you Izuku, I'm Nezu, principal of U A., And I hope you enjoy your time here." I smile slightly back at Nezu and then step back behind Shouta, feeling uncomfortable with this much social interaction.

Shouta turns around to face me. "Alright let's go, you should meet the rest of the teachers before the students get here." Shouta takes my hand and we leave Nezus office. We walk down a hall until we get to a door labeled 'Teachers Lounge'. Shouta opens the door and we head inside, me behind Shouta not ready to face a whole bunch of adults. "Alright everyone I have someone you need to meet, please be quiet, he doesn't like loud noises, no quick movements, as he has PTSD, and don't touch him unless you ask first, he's not a huge fan of physical contact." Shouta then steps to the side revealing me and I hear some of the adults squeal. I flinch at the loud noise and step back behind Shouta. I carefully peak my head out and see Shouta glaring at them. I giggle at Shouta and he smiles down at me. I take a cautious step out form behind Shouta and slightly wave at all the people in the room. "H-hello everyone I'm I-Izuku and I-Im eight." I grab Shoutas hand for comfort and he slightly squeezes it in comfort. "Awwwe Sho he's so cute!!" I look up and see a woman smiling at me and slowly walking forward trying to be careful. "Hello Izuku I'm Nemuri Kageyama, also known as Pro hero Midnight, but you can call me Auntie Nem, okay?" I slightly nod my head. "Can I hug you?" I nod again and Auntie Nem pulls me into a gentle hug. I hug back but break the hug soon after, getting slightly uncomfortable. Next a man with yellowish hair steps forward and smiles at me. "Hello little listener, I'm Hizashi Yamada, also known as Pro hero Present Mic, but you can call me Uncle Zashi if you want." I nod and step a little closer to Shouta. "Can i have a hug little listener?" I shake my head rapidly and grab Shoutas hand. Shouta looks at everyone. "Izuku can't do anymore physical contact from new people right now." I look at Shouta gratefully.

After all the introductions Shouta picks me up and heads to his classroom. When we get there most of his class was already there. I hide my face in the crook of Shoutas neck and breath in his calming scent. He started class and thankfully he didn't have me talk to anybody else, I was so done with social interactions for the day.
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Time skip to after school.
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To. Be. Continued.