My Hero Academia: Vow Beneath Frigid Loneliness

Chapter.2: Your Name Is...

As it turned out, Eri's parents had died in the disaster zone, and with no one coming forward to take responsibility for her, my father decided to take temporary responsibility for her until we found her a home.
Meaning the only name we had for her for quite some time was just: Eri.
No last name or alternative, and we went on our way, except this time we stayed in an apartment complex for the time, so that if anyone did come forward for Eri, we wouldn't be too far.

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As the next couple years went by, my father took on a new job to pay the bills, while he consistently looked for any sign of Eri's original family, but with no luck.
This left me to look after her on my own, until around the time of my sixteenth birthday, when my father fell ill.
I just didn't know what to do when the doctor told us that there was only a slight chance he'd make it!
And as I looked at my father sleeping on the settee one night, with fear and concern written all over my face, I felt Eri's hand grasp mine, as I looked down at the five year old girl sleeping, I instantly thought to myself: "no matter what happens next, I vow to always be here for you".

***

A year on, my father had passed away, I was seventeen and Eri's seventh birthday was coming up.
I had taken a part-time job and as I walked back home, I noticed an odd looking man sitting on a bench, with medium length blueish-grey hair and red eyes.
As I walked back up the apartment complex's steps, I stopped by my neighbors apartment to pick up Eri, as they were watching her while I was at work.
Mrs.Uraraka let me in as usual, and offered me tea as usual, which I then led to the usual: "thank you, but I'm just here to pick up Eri."

You see, after my father died, Mr and Mrs.Uraraka were the ones to take pity on me and Eri, helping us get by, they helped me get my part-time job, and helped look after Eri while I was at work.
However, whenever we talked they always managed to somehow fit in that they had a daughter around my age.
I never really met her until one day when I was thirteen, about to turn fourteen, as I came around their apartment to pick Eri up, and to my surprise a girl about my age, with auburn brown eyes and auburn brown hair that had two distinct curls on each side near the front, and pink blushes on both her cheeks.
And by how unsurprised she was to see me, it was an easy submission that her mother had asked her to answer the door.

Somehow that day Mrs.Uraraka had gotten me to agree to sit and have tea with them, even to the point where Uraraka's father had come home.
Of course, that was partly my fault too, as I was curious about why they wanted to find out why Mr and Mrs.Uraraka kept hinting that they wanted to meet their daughter, who's first name was Ochaco as it turned out, I also found out that she had a Zero Gravity Quirk.
The bit about her Quirk though gave me a bit of a cathartic feeling, considering how my deceased mother had a Quirk that let her: Float Small Objects Towards Her.

That's when the conversation turned to me, when Ochaco commented that I'm "a wonderful big brother to my sister".
I immediately corrected her, but she still said that even if I was a surrogate brother, it still means something that I'm still looking after despite the lack of blood relations.
That's when Ochaco came out and asked me the question that I'd forgotten for a time was the cruel unforgiving reality: "So Midoriya, what kind of Quirk do you have?"
It hit me like a ton of bricks, usually I was more reserved, more ready for that inevitable question, Mr and Mrs.Uraraka obviously hadn't gotten round to letting her know yet.

Ochaco obviously was so relaxed she just let it slip out without thinking, her face beamed with slight embarrassment.
I noticed Eri had stopped by the doorway on her way back from the bathroom room.
And me?
Well I simply answered in the most calm and emotionless way: "I don't have one, I'm Quirkless."
Before drinking the rest, standing up, bowing and thanking them all for having me and Eri, and then having me and Eri leave.
Of course telling Ochaco that it's alright, that she doesn't need to apologise in the happiest and nicest way I could to hide my emotions, when she stood up and began stammering.

As we were leaving though, I felt Eri clench my hand, she may have only been four at the time, but she's pretty intelligent when it comes to me and my emotions, which is the one thing Mr and Mrs.Uraraka have yet to understand.
After that incident, I never really saw Ochaco for quite some time, last I heard she was studying at U.A. High School, the number one school in the country for training young people to become Pro Heroes.
After I picked up Eri, an idea popped into my head, something I could probably do for Eri once I turn eighteen.

On the walk back Eri asked me an unsettling question when considering the idea I just had: "Why does Mrs.'Ru-rah-rah-kar'(Uraraka) call you 'Me-door-rey-yar'(Midoriya)?"
I simply smiled at her attempts to try saying the harder names, and replied with: "Well because, that's my last name, basically my family name."
Eri looked slightly puzzled for a moment, before answering: "So, are we not family?"
I immediately shot back concerned, saying that we were.
She was still confused, so I explained how her parents lost their lives in a tragic disaster, and how I got her out of there as a baby.

She then began to cry silently, saying how she has got no family left.
I then corrected her, saying that: "even if we're not connected by blood, and even if we were both born to different parents, We Are Family."
That's when I told her my idea, and that seemed to cheer her up enough to give me a hug, and, although I wouldn't be able to make it official till I turned eighteen, her name would be: Eri Midoriya.