(Izuku POV - U.A. Training Grounds/ Temporary Monarch Headquarters)

It is still hard to believe that it has been a month since I have meet Erika.

It has been filled with so many ups and downs, not only for myself and Erika but for others as well.

Still despite all of that I can say I remember these days quite fondly despite a few events that I didn't wish to happen.

Especially what started on day 16.

It all started innocently enough, the day after I was introduced to the people working on Erika's cure. But it wasn't until that day we learned of a horrid truth.

One that inadvertently lead to her cure.

But still it all started out on that day that started of innocently enough.

(29 days ago)

I expected many things when I went back to Aldera Junior High.

Students sad to be back after three days off, Kacchan keeping his distance from me as usual for these past few months, keeping himself away from his 'friends' which he has also been doing for months, and a comment or two of being a Quirkless loser from them.

But there was one thing no one was expecting.

Our teacher openly bawling his eyes out while reading our essays.

We were all silent for about a few minutes as our teacher cried until someone one spoke.

"Deku, the fuck did you do." Bakugou said from across the classroom.

Why had he thought that I was doing this?

"Bakugou once again language, though you are not wrong." The teacher said between sobs, pulling out my essay. "Midoriya in all my years of being a teacher at this school, I have never read such a  more heartfelt Kaiju Day essay or piece of writing from one of my students in my life."

...wait what!

"Ehhhh!?" Most of the class including myself said. Bakugou just grunted in annoyance.

"As I said, Midoriya's essay is the most heartfelt one I've read in my entire teaching career and the details he wrote about the Kaiju of his choice. The passion in his writing was like I can only describe as it is like he has an deep connection with the Kaiju of his choosing. It's just too beautiful to words." The teacher said before going back into crying.

Well he isn't exactly wrong.

Still he kept on crying for 10 more minutes while the class stared at me in curiosity, wondering what I wrote that possibly broke our teacher.

"What did you write in order to make a grown man cry you extra?" Bakugou asked after getting impatient.

"Biollante, it was Biollante." I said, feeling a little guilty for using the name Erika hates.

Then again I would have to use it as no one would really get it if I describe her as Erika at first anyway, as they are mostly used to her being to refer for her as Biollante.

Thankfully after what happened with Agent Aoki yesterday, it seems like no one else at Monarch has made the same mistake. Otherwise there would be a lot more injuries at her snapping at others.

"That would do it." Bakugou said, going back to ignoring me and most of the class as well thankfully. Not really used to that kind of attention.

After our teacher recuperated the school day continued as normal, minus Kacchan getting annoyed at his 'friends' and I use the term loosely.

He rarely hung around them as I guess they ran out on him during the slime villain incident months ago and only got more and more frustrated with them especially what happened a month ago with his family.

The less said about it the better.

Anyway after school All Might picked me up a little ways from it as previously discussed with my mom in order to train.

Besides there really wasn't that much homework today and I completed it on the car ride to U.A.

Once we got there and to the training ground, I immediately heard a joyous roar behind me and found myself wrapped up in vines.

Erika reeled me in with her vines and began to nuzzle me against herself.

"It's good to see you again Erika. But can you please let go?" I asked, which she begrudgingly complied with a growl.

"Hadn't seen her like that all day. She is rather moody to most of us staffed here besides the docs working on her cure, yet when you showed up she was the happiest I've seen her all day. Then again she is still mad at me for yesterday it seems and sadly for me, I had stay all day with her so far." Agent Aoki said as he fluttered down next to Agent Gordon, the former had bandages in a few places and one of his fingers in a splint.

All caused by one Agent Dupre, someone I'm glade to not have met so far.

"Wait a second if you had trouble with Erika, why were around her today?" I asked, getting said agent to flinch as Erika let out an annoyed grunt at him.

"It's due to the effect that besides his many short comings, Agent Aoki is an idiotic salvant when it comes to machines. He built a complex locking system from scratch for Erika's temporary home in the span of two days bean sprout." Gordon grunted out, with a bit of begrudging respect.

"Would have been a day and a half of not for the broken finger, but non the less some of my finest work," Aoki said, puffing his chest and wings out in pride. "Also managed to fine tune the one pointer Nedzu had for you to train with, haven't seen one of these since graduating."

"You graduated U.A.!" I said, surprised and getting the man to nod.

"Of course, but from the support course not the hero course. Was one of the best too. Tried to look for a job back in Osaka...didn't end well, blundered into a black market deal involving Anguris scales and was drafted into Monarch after they busted it...more or less from seeing way too much." Aoki admittedly sheepishly. "Though I have to admit that I love my job."

"No matter how much he can be a headache at times." Gordon muttered. "Speaking of which Aoki, show the bean sprout the lab and be sure to take Erika with you. I'm going to catch up with Yagi here, if that is all right with you."

"I see no problem." All Might said, before turning into his buff form. "Midoryia, after greeting the doctors, come back so we can continue your training with the one pointer. This shouldn't take long, maybe 5 minutes tops."

"Should take about as long." Gordon said while cracking his knuckles.

"Wait a second you too are going to fight!?" I exclaimed, never really seeing All Might like this.

"More or less, back during my early days in the U.S. Gordon here was more or less my sparing partner off the books whenever we met most of the time. Though it has been 10 years since our last spar, what was the score last time?"  All Might asked with his signature grin.

"35-12, in your favor. Let's see if we can make it 35-13." Gordon said while cracking his neck.

"That sounds about right. Agent Aoki you might want to get Midoriya out of here." All Might said, getting Aoki to flap his wings and pick me up.

"What about Erika?" I asked as we flew away, hearing the sounds of the two clash in the distance.

Erika was still mainly ground based due to her mainly having roots for her feet...that and she is estimated to weigh 6 metric tons in her current form doesn't help as well.

"Believe me you do not want to be caught up in one of Gordon's fights, besides she will be alright." Aoki said as golden spores floated up besides us.

I looked down to see Erika let out an enraged roar at him as spores emitted off her body before she exploded into a cloud of spores that drifted along with us, a good amount of the spores clinging onto me.

It was like watch one of the archived footage of her departure into space all those centuries ago, but this time it seemed like she was more in control as they all moved in unison...minus the one's clinging to me off course.

"We still have no idea how she is able to do so, but it is going to be tricky to find a way in order to counter that if she does decide to leave like that." Aoki said as he landed in front of a five story building which was the temporary headquarters.

"I can see that, she would probably use it to sneak away to try to find me anyway." I said, seeing it as a possibility due to how close Erika was to me.

"Sadly that is a very real possibility. Thankfully the premise of you coming over and her helping you train seems to have kept her from escaping so far." Aoki said as the spores gathered around him forming an vine and smacked him into the ground. "Ow."

"Erika what was that for?" I asked her as she reformed behind me.

She just let out an annoyed grow at Aoki as he picked himself back up.

"I guess it was for snatching you up from her." Aoki said as he stretched his wings.

The glare she gave him only confirmed his answers.

"Still Erika I admit he could of given me a warning before getting me airborne, but you didn't have slam him into the ground." I admonished her, getting Erika look away from me.

"While I have to say that this is entertaining, I believe that you have someone to meet." A voice said from behind, startling me and causing me to jump back to reveal Dr. Toga.

Where'd he come from?!

Erika spat a wad of sap at him, but the hematologist simply sidestepped away from it.

"Sorry about that, but Dr. Mifune asked me to show you the lab. Agent Aoki you can leave us as I will escort these two from here." Tōga said, getting Aoki to nod. 

"Very well and besides I need to finish fine tuning the servo on the right arm. It is a bit slower then compared to everything else of the one pointer. Well then good luck." Agent Aoki said as he flew away.

"Well then would you mind following me around the building Midoriya. Working on a side door big enough to let Erika into." Tōga said as he guided myself and Erika towards this supposed door. With Erika growling at him.

"So Dr. Tōga-" "Yujiro, please call me Yujiro. You are not an affiliate of Monarch, so you don't have to address me so formally. So at the very least call me Dr. Yujiro if you wish to be respectful." He said, cutting me off.

"Alright then Dr. Yujiro-" "Do I creep you out a bit?" He asked, once again blindsiding me. "Does my very presence creep you out? Be honest with me."

How am I supposed to answer that kind of question!

"If it is yes don't worry about it, I have that kind of effect on people." Yujiro said dismissively with a wave of his hands, getting me to release a sigh of relief. "Anyway what were you going to ask?"

"I was going to ask about you being the hematologist of Monarch. I figured that you would possibly work with Kaiju blood, so I was just wondering what that was like?" I asked, getting Dr. Yujiro to chuckle.

"First time someone straight up asked me that one in a while, it's kind of refreshing. Anyway it is mostly boring work to be honest well recently. I study any Kaiju blood we have and mainly categorized their properties and figure out how there cells works. Pardon my for this, but there hasn't been any fresh blood so to speak in this field in a while, about 3 years in fact. Sure there might be a new discovery every now and then, but it is mainly dull. But due to Erika's arrival it is a practical goldmine of information and with a constant fresh supply of blood the possibilities are endless. I can almost taste the possibilities." Yujiro said, actually salivating at the mouth.

Me and and Erika gave him an glanced, not sure what to make of his expression.

A minute later he composed himself and wiped the drool away as we turned the corner and saw an Erika sized opening in the wall.

"Sorry about that, I tend to salivate at the thought of blood. Doesn't help that my Quirk makes me kind of like a vampire." Yujiro said.

"You mean sucking blood, I imagine that would help a hematologist in your work." I said, getting him to nod.

"It is, whenever I work on humans that is. I am not only the head hematologist in Monarch for working with Kaiju blood, but human blood whenever it is needed. We have a good medical staff as accidents are common in your line of work. Anyway my Quirk is a bit more to that as I am can store blood within my canine's and disperse it for later. Have to spend a fortune on dental supplies though." Yujiro sighed out.

I can imagine, there was already enough blood related diseases already, but actively storing blood in one's mouth was all kinds of unsanitary. And just the cost of constantly cleaning and maintaining it must be a small fortune.

"You have no idea and you can cease your muttering Midoriya, we are here." Yujiro said as we saw an opening in the side of the building big enough for Erika to fit through, with what appeared to be a few agents working on the doorway.

A quick roar from here sent them pushing back, weapons trained on her incase she tried anything.

Erika just grunted as Yujiro waved at them to stand down.

"Don't mind them, never seen an awake Kaiju before." Yujiro said as he lead us into the lab, a spacious two story room that looked like it took about probably half of the time building.

Agents where setting up lab equipment on the main floor and on the balconies, some already working on them, and a few emptying sacks of foils and fertilizer onto the current floor we were standing on.

One Erika was finding herself conflicted with.

On one hand she seems content with the choice of soil and fertilizer.

On the other hand she seemed, almost disgusted with herself.

It seemed like now with the promise for a cure in the first time in about 300 years, she can look forward to being more human. But in her current state she is what can barely be considered human. Her body a mixture of Kaiju and plant with the mind and soul of a human trapped inside.

So she is probably sick and tired of being stuck in that body for now and being bound by her physical form and wants to be back to being as human as possible.

Without even thinking about it longer I walked up to her and hugged her...which was a bit difficult with her body shape. Breaking Erika out of her mood.

"Just bare with it for a bit longer Erika. Soon you will become a human again, so please bare with it for a little bit longer okay?" I said, before I felt a few of her vines wrap around me and pull me up.

Erika let out a sullen roar before nuzzling herself against me, giving me her answer.

"Once again you surprise me Midoriya." Dr. Mafune said as he walked up to us, with a bunch of files in hand. "Maybe sooner then what we first thought even."

"Really now, when did why come to that conclusion?" Yujiro asked as Mifune handed him the files and Erika placed me down.

"Just about an hour ago on your way here." Mafune said. "Though it has more to deal with the ingredients for the solution."

"With the ingredients being either more easily of difficult to acquire after the centuries since Dr. Shiragami's dearth along with the fact you said his notes were almost completed." I said, getting Dr. Mafune to nod.

"You hit it on the head Midoriya. It took Dr. Shiragami to the end of his life to perfect the cure and many years of trial and error to developer into what we have currently in his notes. Honestly minus the final step this would have taken us a few years to complete with all our resources to get up to the point he did in his notes from scratch." Dr. Mafune said, getting me to nod.

I knew that Dr. Shiragamai was regarded as one of the best geneticists of all time, minus the infamy of what happened to Erika. This only solidified the claim.

"Though you are a bit more off on your estimate Mifune, it would have taken us perhaps a decade to fine tune the solution if he didn't place the exact measurements for each components including the final one. Tell me Midoryia, do you know what a  deoxyribonuclease is?" Yujiro asked me while placing the files on a nearby desk.

"I believe I heard about it in science class, deoxyribonuclease or DNase is an enzyme that cleave the hydrolytic cleavage of phosphodiester linkages along the DNA chain basically degrading DNA." I said, saying what I could remember reading in the science text book.

Erika wrapped me within a vine and let out a small joyous roar while the doctors smiled.

I guess I answered correctly from the knowing smiles they had, and Erika too as well.

Well the best she could with teeth like thorns anyway.

I really should have figured that she would know it as well. When she was human she was a geneticist and her father's assistant as well. Still how much of that knowledge that she retain as well. Dying and being brought back as a rose bush and then into a Kaiju can not  be good for one's mental health.

Erika let out a sorrowful roar at that and found myself wrapped up in more vines.

"I mumbled again, didn't I?" I asked as Erika pulled me towards her and she looked saddened. "I'm sorry about saying that Erika, I didn't really mean to say it like that. But I am worried about you and I just wish to help see you become human and to be able to help you out anyway I can."

For a moment there was total silence, before Erika let out another roar and tears streamed from her eyes before Dr. Yujiro and Dr. Mafune started to laugh.

What did I do?!

"Midoriya you might be smart for your age knowledge wise, but not social wise." Mafune said, trying to stifle his laughter and failing.

If she wasn't crying out of sadness, then she was crying out of happiness.

"It's alright Erika I'm here for you, but can you please let me go. I think that you are starting to crack my ribs." I said, my eyes tearing up from  happiness or the pain I don't know.

With a reluctant roar Erika let me go, allowing me to fill my lungs up with air.

Although it wasn't long before Erika strung a vine around my shoulders, it's venus flytrap like mouth nuzzling against me.

"Well that was hilarious and heartwarming, I believe there is still a bit more to cover. Dr. Tōga if you may." Mafune said, getting the hematologist to nod.

"No problem. Basically this solution if more or less a form of advanced deoxyribonuclease that once completed will in a sense break down a majority of plant and Gojira components from her DNA chain. It is impossible to fully get rid of them, but the amount cleaved off of her DNA chains should revert her to a human form. One that would fit in with our society today. However this process will be extremely painful for her once the solution is completed as this will effectively be breaking down Erika on a cellular level and could last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks on estimate." Yujiro said, getting Erika to growl at this.

I guess that a transformation like that on the molecular level would affect one pretty badly. 

It's actually pretty horrifying to think about actually!

But from the look of things, Erika was willing to take it if it meant regaining her humanity.

And I would be with her every step of the way.

"If that is all, then when do you believe that you can complete the cure until the final step?" I asked them.

"Two weeks tops, maybe a bit shorter when the rest of the ingredients and staff move in here over the next few days. The lab will be prepped for the beginning steps of synthesizing the solution in about an hour." Dr. Mafune said. "After that it will all be up to finding the final part of the solution. Which we don't know how long it will be until we can find the final piece."

"Then I suggest you two start looking doc, we only have 2 months until we need to move off campus for U.A.'s entrance exam. Which I believe is more then enough time." Gordon said, walking in through the side door with covered in bruises, clothes torn in a few places, and a little blood dried blood at the corner of his mouth.

He looked perfectly fine, which surprised me as a slightly winded All Might walked behind him with a bruise or two on him.

How could he not look exhausted after sparring with All Might and in his current condition?

"It probably is, but still are you alright Agent Gordon?" Yujiro asked the man.

"I'm fine, but green bean here needs to get to his training. Erika you can go with him as you wish." Gordon said before he pulled out, was that a cigar?

I thought that they stopped making those.

"That was a good match, my loss I will admit. That brings us up to 36-12 now." Gordon said as he pulled out a lighter and lit his cigar. "So we try again in a few months like in the good old days."

"That's right, like the good old days." All Might panted from the doorway.

"Sounds good to me." Gordon said as he took a puff of his cigar. "Anyway what did I tell you green bean, you have training to do. So move on out." He finished sternly.

"O-of course sir." I stuttered out before waving goodbye to the doctors, which they returned and running out the front door. With Erika accompanying me in the form of her spores.

"Slow down Midoriya." All Might said as he followed after me, before returning to his skinnier form coughing up blood. "Your going the wrong direction, we are training over that way." He said, pointing to a small cluster of buildings to our right.

"My bad." I said as I broke to a stop, Erika's spores clinging onto me.

"It's alright, Gordon tends to have that affect on people. Still this training will be the same as the day we found Erika, though Aoki has supposedly programmed them to a more manageable level. So are you ready for this Midoriya?" He asked.

"I am." I said, getting him to grin.

"Good, now lets go." All Might said before we walked over to the buildings.

(A little bit later)

It has been over an hour and a half since I have started training and I am sore and once again bruised.

All Might was right, Aoki has programmed too of these one pointers to act on a more manageable level for me but the task at hand was still pretty difficult.

Instead of shutting down just one of them, now I have to shut down both of them. With their eye's flashing green after I've hit the switch located on their chest.

But that doesn't stop them from still attacking me as I had to work to disable the both of them in order to stop their attack.

I managed to disable one of them about 15 minutes ago. So I have to shut the other one down.

But that wasn't the worst part. No the worst part was-

"Dodge!" All Might called out as Erika shot out two more wads of sap from her vines, barely missing me as I ducked under the punch of a one pointer.

No, the worst part was that All Might was continuing the dodge training with Erika randomly shooting out wads of sap every now and then.

Making it difficult for me to dodge and attack at the robots at the same time.

But this time it helped as on of the sap blasts had hit the one I deactivated into its visor and caused it to strike around randomly and slammed its fist into the other robot.

I saw my chance and rushed to that robot, but it noticed me and rushed towards me.

Not giving up, I ran toward it as fast as my legs could take me and cocked back my fist. When it was right on top of me I punched it square in the chest and hitting the switch.

It's visor turned green, before both of them flashed black.

Finally it was over-

"Dodge!"

"You have got to be kidding me!" I shouted as I barely dodged three wads of sap.

"I am not and now you are done. That is what for nearly saying your were done. If there is one thing I have learned in my long career is that you never tempt Murphy's law." All Might said sagely to me.

Guess I was saying my thoughts out loud, well I guess that's what I get I suppose.

"I'll try not to do it again." I said as All Might walked up to me and clapped a hand on my shoulder.

"That you do Midoriya, better to learn it here then out there where it could cost you way more then a simple bruise. Anyway let's get you checked out and I'll bring the truck around for about a hour of removing trash off of Dagobah Beach then I take you home for the day." All Might said, getting me to nod.

"That sounds like a plan." I said, getting him to nod.

"Good, we just need to bring Erika back to the base and then we could head off. It would be dark by the time we make it to the beach, back to U.A., and to your apartment Midoriya." Al Might sighed out, getting Erika to roar at that.

"I'll be back tomorrow Erika, I promise." I said truthfully as All Might had been began to schedule when to visit her whenever I'm training at U.A. or not.

Manly because he said that I was the one she was closest to right now...that and the one most likely to keep her under control if she decides to rampage.

Considering how she had once again wrapped me up with a vine is proof that both statements were true.

Before me or All Might could do anything to stop her, we heard something thud to the ground and an audible click as well.

Turning towards the source I saw the one pointer had fallen over and had gotten back up, with a rock lodged into its switch.

The robot picked itself up and it's visor flashed red, resetting itself.

And if this one resettled itself then the other one would-

I didn't get a chance to think about it any longer as said robot rushed from my left side and punched me straight in my ribs.

"Midoryia!" All Might shouted as he changed into his buff form, ready to destroy the robots.

Only for Erika to let out a monstrous roar and wrapped me up in her vines. She pulled me closer to her and then enacted her vengeance.

In the span of a few seconds she reduced the first robot into scraps with her vines. Ripping it into pieces, impaling it with her spear like vines, smashing it, and blasting it to kingdom come with her vines.

It was downright merciful compared to what she did to the robot that hit me.

For that one, she tore off its arms and wheel and started the beat on it with it's own limbs, adding the occasional stabbing with her vines. She carried that on for a straight minute before tossing the limbs away and brought the robot to her face.

For a moment she glared out it and I noticed something within her eyes.

Those weren't the eyes of the Erika I have known, no those were the eyes of a ferocious beast.

And it was aiming all of its anger on that robot in particular.

She let out a blood chilling roar  at the robot before letting lose the full might of her sap spray at it, burning the robot.

She did this for a few more seconds before dropping the robot down and ripping it's head off for good measure.

She let out a small roar for victory, before her eyes shifted back to normal.

Erika looked confused for a moment before noticing me and started to nuzzle herself against me once again.

Leaving me to wonder what was that about with her eyes.

And of course giving me the full scope of her protectiveness for me, which was worrisome for me. If anyone tried to bully me with her around, I am afraid they might lose there limbs or much worse.

"Well that was unnecessary brutal." All Might said with a wince. "At least we know now how far Erika is willing to go in order to protect you and that concerns me."

"I know." I said with a wince, clutching my rib. I think that punch must've cracked or bruised it.

Upon seeing this Erika stopped her nuzzling and began to move back towards Monarch's base.

"Appearntly Erika has the right idea Midoriya, let us head back to base so you can get checked out and we warn them about this. Better for Monarch to know what happens if you get harmed and she goes on a rampage." All Might said walking to us.

"Sounds good to me." I groaned out, thinking only of the pain I am in and Erika's eyes.

There was something disturbing about those eyes, but I can't tell just what it was.

Only that I know that it would spell nothing but trouble if I ever saw it again.

(Present Day)

After that incident I was found to have a bruised rib and one grumbling Recovery Girl later I was better and continued with the planned training for the day.

After that for most of the days the routine consisted daily of me training at Dagobah Beach or at U.A., school, and meeting or hanging out with Erika.

But occasionally I would think about those eyes and the unease they brought me. I had a theory about them and I prayed that it was wrong.

But 16 days ago, I learned the hard way that I was right.

(To Be continued...)

(Chapter 4 end)

Hey guys Mukuro7 here and I hoped that you  enjoyed this chapter.

I know I promised more for this chapter, but this got a bit longer then I expected, so I hope this suffices and I will have what I promised next time.

Anyway two more harem members then I will cut this short as I have somewhere to be.

They are Yui Kodai and Ibara Shiozaki.

Anyway hoped you enjoyed this chapter and until next time, ciao!