Inko and Sir Nighteye stared at each other while she tried to process his demand.

Meanwhile behind her, the combat maids lead by Yuri and Nabareal, got closer and were ready to protect to protect Inko incase this hero tried anything.

"Why do you want me to come with you? I haven't done anything, nor has my son" said Inko staring at him.

Narrowing his eyes a bit he responded "your needed to come with me for questioning about your son, given the USJ incident" he said.

Yuri stepped infront of Inko and stared him down "my masters mother doesn't have to come with you, she has broken no laws and you don't have a warrant with you. So in other words your illegally trespassing on my masters home".

"I'm under a investigation and I'm allowed to question possible suspects, now move or I'll have you all arrested" he said.

Before tensions could escalate even farther, Sebas walked forward "what precisely is happening?" He said with a very slight tone of annoyance in his voice.

"This man wants mistress Inko to come with him for questioning given what our master did" said Entoma.

Sebas narrowed his eyes and stared at Nighteye before he stepped forward and gently pushed Inko infront of him to protect her better. "My masters mother will go no where with you, Human. She shall stay here where it's safe and if you try this again we shall bring a wrath you can't comprehend on you".

Nighteye glared at him for a long time before relenting since he was completely outnumbered and his hero senses were telling him that this butler and the maids were very dangerous.

"Fine but don't think you can avoid it forever, you shall answer our questions in the end" he said before turning and leaving.

Watching him leave, Sebas looked at Yuri "I believe we should up the security of the manor for a while and ask our master for more guards.. he will try this again".

"I'll be sure to inform him as soon as I see him" said Yuri bowing.

"Good, now if you need me, I shall secure the grounds and make sure it's safe, also until our master comes back, two of you are to escort mistress Inko around the manor at all times" said Sebas.

With Nighteye, as he was leaving the premises and heading to his car, he couldn't help but note a couple things. The maids and that butler referred to Izuku as their master and they were willing to fight him to protect Inko. Something 90% of other butlers and maids would never do.

Another thing was that his own hero instincts told him how dangerous they were, especially the butler, he was comparable with an upper B rank or low A rank hero with his aura alone.

Taking out his phone, he started calling his subordinates and allies to set up a surveillance system on the Midoriya family, something about all of this was beyond confusing.

Xxxxx

A couple days passed since then and all the students had those days off to help with their mental states after the USJ. Some of them just used it to relax or train lightly or spend time with family and friends.

But for Izuku much to Himikos annoyance, he was training like crazy, up to the point that Tsunade would have to come and heal his damaged muscles for the amount of times he either pulled one or ripped it for how hard he was training.

But while he was training for these couple days, he was seriously lacking something important for his combat summons.

Range.

Because of that he made a new summon and Himiko wouldn't stop pouting and muttering something about more competition.

The summon was a slender and tall elf looking woman with green hair that is long in the back and short in front, with two braids at the side. She has long ears that shows she was based off elves. She wears a green sleeveless archer corset, shorts, a pair of uneven black gloves, knee high boots, and a hood. she wears an additional black sleeve over her left arm, the arm guard for her bow arm.

She was very easy to get along with but Himiko kept getting jealous since she was beautiful and Izuku accidentally gushed over her elf looking ears wiggling when he named her, Riniya.

"Hey Himiko are you ok?" Said Ochako looking at her.

"Hmph" she didn't stop pouting.. why did Izuku like her pointed ears so much.

Back with Izuku he was currently doing a new drawing for another summon that will allow him or them to fight at a distance, which was something he still desperately needed, since as of now he only had three that could.

It had a somewhat cylindrical body; its torso is covered in white flowers with either yellow or pink centers and has several arms instead of legs. It's head appears old and desiccated, with long dark wavy or curly hair and sunken cheeks, lastly it's eyes and mouth are sewn shut.

Almost completing the drawing he decided to stop for now, he then turned the page to one that was red. It was the part of the book where the Juggernaut came out of and it was still red from the dried blood in the shape of said summon. He trailed his hand over it and he can still feel the primal fear that came from him.

He was about to close the book when his eyes caught onto the ring the Nazguels gave him which is supposed to help him while they finish healing,

It apparently gave him better access to their own powers, as he thought of this, he turned the pages to the Nazguel and froze at what he saw.

Their forms were slowly changing and instead of them all having nothing but cloaks, it looked as if armor war morphining onto them, covering their bodies.

Izuku couldn't help but wonder what was going on, maybe the summons can change their appearance to suit them better.

Before he could continue thinking about this or get back to drawing, the class door opened up and a bandaged Aizawa walked in, he wasn't in a full body cast, thanks to Tsunade and Recovery Girl. But he still had to wear bandages to male sure his remaining wounds heal or until Tsunade comes back from the hospital.

"Mr Aizawa are you feeling ok? You should be resting *kero*" said Tsu in concern of her teacher.

"My health is irrelevant to you all, your only concerns should be family, school and friends" said Aizawa before taking a deep breath for the next part. "Im sure you've all been informed that Mineta isn't with us anymore, given he died back in the USJ".

The class had a mixture of emotions for how to feel on that, but the most shocking thing was that Tsu let out a small scoff.

She could still remember how he pushed her off the sides to save himself and not even she could forgive him for that.

"Also Koda has left us and gone to a different school since according to him and his parents, he can't handle the stresses of being a hero" said Aizawa. "Also Asui I shall talk to you after class".

Now actually made some of them sad since the quiet teen was nice, once you got him talking.

"Because of this and the fact the sports festival is coming soon, we had to perform some quick tests on other students to find new ones to replace them" said Aizawa making some nod in understanding. Meanwhile Kirishimas eyes were wide realizing who was gonna be joining them. "We have two new students, you may come in now".

The door opened and a relatively tall young man with messy, indigo-colored hair that flares out in large tufts around his head. His eyes are purple with white pupils and are thin and somewhat triangular, pointing downward, with no visible eyelashes, above half lidded eyes, said eyes has large dark eye bags underneath them.

Next one to enter is a beautiful woman with curves in all the right places, along with a large chest and had red hair that went down to her shoulders, before they became slightly spikes at the ends. She had a pair of large red eyes and her smile showed shark like teeth, plus she wore a longer skirt that ended just above her knees.

"Introduce yourselves" said Aizawa.

"Hitoshi Shinso" said the one with lilac hair.

"Rikina Kirishima" said the red head with a large smile.

"Rikina!" Said Ejiro happily at seeing his sister here "why didn't you tell me you actually made it into the hero course?".

"Hehehe cause I wanted to surprise ya bro" she said with a grin almost identical to his.

"I didn't know Kirishima has a sister" said Ochako.

"He didn't mention her since he was sad that she didn't make it into the hero course and didn't want people to mock her for that" said Mina.

That made some sad, they shouldn't mock someone just because someone didn't make it to the hero course.

"Hey Izuku is it just me.. or does Hitoshi look like Aizawas son?" Whispered Himiko to him.

Now that she mentioned it... everyone could see it, he did look like his son.

"Ok, now both of you tell us your quirks and go sit in either of the two available seats" said Aizawa.

"Well my quirk is basically the same as my brothers, but instead the parts of my body that harden become like crystals instead of rock, because of that I can't harden myself as much as my brother, but I do have more flexibility thanks to that" said Rikina.

"My quirk is called..... brainwash" said Shinso.

Some of the class looked nervous, while Izuku gained stars in his eyes and began scribbling down notes and theories in his quirk notebook and how either of their quirks can be used in the field and strategies.

"Alright, now before I leave and bring Asui with me for a moment, I have something else to tell all of you which I was meant to tell you during the USJ" said Aizawa as gestured for Rikina and Shinso to sit.

After they sat, he took a deep breath and began.

"Now as all of you know, we have a number system for our heroes to show who's the most popular or in my opinion, how it should be, who's the strongest and most heroic being ranked from best to worst. But we actually have a different system which is even more important but no one talks about since according to the media, it's not as interesting. This is the ranking system that goes from E rank heroes all the way to S rank heroes and then above them is National level heroes that are so strong, they can take on an entire country. The best example of this is the current 3 National rank heroes in the world. First is All Might for obvious reasons and the fact he's also the number one hero in the world, next comes Stars and Stripes who's second and then the last National Rank hero is Thomas Andre" said Aizawa. "This system was designed to help the public and hero association along with government, categorize heroes into large groups to make management even easier".

"How come this isn't more common knowledge? It seems so smart and just as easy as the regular ranking system we are used to" said Momo.

"According to the Media and schools, it's not deemed important and you spending 10 years learning about the rise of quirks is more important, even though the entire subject can be learned in 2 years" said Aizawa with annoyance clear in his voice.

Everyone nodded at that and they all honestly wished they used this ranking system as well, it'd make things so much more efficient instead of having to remember each heros individual number rank, especially considering the thousands of heroes Japan and the world have.

"I have one last thing to talk to all of you about, the sports festival is coming up and all of you will be allowed to participate in it and this is your chance to get scouted out my lots of heroes and if you don't participate in it, you may loose your spot in this class.. but besides that, from now till then, you will all have 2 whole weeks to train as you see fit, but no support weapons unless it's vital to your quirk" said Aizawa. "You will all have to attend classes on Monday and Tuesday for important school subjects, the rest of the week, you have to train and your allowed to use school training equipment as long as you inform the staff".

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"Ok now that I've said that, Asui come with me" said Aizawa.

She went and stood up, but then Izuku raised his hand.

"Midoriya?" Said Aizawa with a raised eyebrow.

"Can I come too... I need to talk to you about something important" he said.

"..very well".

Izuku followed both Aizawa and Tsu out the room and he didn't notice the looks of worry on Himiko, Ochako, Mina, Toru and even Momos faces.

Once in the hall and a little ways away from the class, Aizawa turned to look at Izuku and ask what it was, but was slightly shocked when he saw him bowing his head to him.

"I'm sorry Aizawa sensei... it's because of me that you were so badly injured and you even lost your eye.." he said remembering how Kon told him why. "If I was stronger then none of that would've happened... and my quirk wouldn't have gotten out of control.

"It wasn't your fault Midoriya, your quirk holds mysteries that we still don't understand and your still trying to control and master it, not everything will go perfectly because of that. For the eye.. just use this as a reminder that you need to get stronger and don't continue to bottle things up".

Izuku flinched at that last one.

"Your human, bottling up your emotions will only make things worse, do you understand?" Said Aizawa.

"Yes sensei".

"Good, now head back to class since I have to talk to Asui".

Bowing one last time, Izuku left and headed back to class.

Walking back Into class, he immediately saw Himiko waving him over and he let a small smile cross his face as he walked towards her.

Getting to his seat, he saw Himiko scoot her chair next to his and hugged him "what were you and Aizawa sensei talking about?".

"I was just apologizing for what happened in the USJ and that I will get stronger to prevent that from happening" said Izuku.

"It wasn't your fault, it was those villains that forced your quirk to act like that" she said hoping to cheer him up.

"Thank you.. but it was my fault overall, and I have to get much stronger" said Izuku as he pulled out his sketchbook and began drawing.

Sighing sadly, she hugged him tighter one last time before she let him go reluctantly since she knew when he's like this, nothing she says will stop him.

Opening it, he went to a blank page and began drawing a man with long black stringy hair tied into two high ponytails that jut upward and outward. He then drew small dark purple eyes with slightly thin eyebrows and a blood mark that extends from both sides of his face across the bridge of his nose.

After he finished that one thanks to him being able to speed draw now, he added some new details on another summon he was working on, this one looked like a octopus, but had a rag on its head. After adding a couple things to that one he went and added some other details to others, but didn't commit to any of them yet.

The last one he was adding some small details to was taking the form of some kind of beast that had spikes on its back, but like the others, it still didn't have a full form.

Sighing he closed the book and was gonna talk to Himiko, when Kirishima walked up to him with his sister and the other new student.

"Rikina this is Izuku, one of the coolest guys here and is super strong" said Kirishima with a large smile.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, like my brother just said, I'm Rikina and I hope me and you can get along" she said with a smile showing her shark like teeth.

"U-um it's nice t-to meet you as well" he said getting better at controlling his stutter. "So um.. your quirk is different from Kirishimas?".

"Yes and no, his is harder and can take more damage, while mine is more flexible, so we have the same quirk but it behaves differently" said Rikina who then saw him scribbling down notes in a notebook. "What are you doing?".

"Writting down your quirk and how you can improve it or use it differently" he said, not stopping for a second.

"Can I see?" She asked curiously.

Stopping his writing he nervously handed her it and she began to read It with her eyes getting wider by the second. "Holy crap.. wait can I?".

She then activated her quirk on her right arm and solely focused on that one part and she saw it. It hardened to the same level as her brothers, but unlike his, she can move her wrist or fingers much easier and it didn't make as much noise, but she noted that it strained her muscles more like trying to hold a heavy weight.

"This.. this is amazing!" She said excitedly at the simple fact that he just helped her quirk by just hearing about it and made it even better.

Meanwhile with Shinso he heard all of this and looked at Izuku with a bit of curiosity and silently wondered if he could help him with his quirk. After he chewed on the idea for a minute, he stood up and walked over towards him to ask him if he could.

"So your saying if I work hard enough then it's possible for both of us to harden our entire bodies protecting them from almost anything?" Said Kirishima.

"I mean.. it's just a theory but if what you said is that, you have to tense your muscles to first activate it then maybe?" Said Izuku.

Both Kirishima and Rikina looked at each other with excitement at the prospect of that since they could both only cover parts of their bodies like arms or face and upper body, but have to then sacrifice other areas.

"Your name is.. Midoriya correct?" Said a new voice making Izuku turn and look at Shinso.

"Yes?".

"Hitoshi Shinso and I was wondering if you could give me some ideas for my quirk" he said.

"Oh sure, I just need to know how your quirk works then I can help" he said excitedly.

Meanwhile, watching all of this was Himiko, whose honey yellow cat like eyes was watching all this to make sure they didn't try anything or hurt Izuku. While she was watching she was stroaking Night Caller and talking to the other girls.

"You ok Himiko?" Said Ochako noticing that the entire time she's had her eyes on Izuku.

"Yeah.. just making sure they don't try anything" said Himiko.

"You really do care about him, don't ya" said Kyoka looking at her.

"Well I do love him so yes I do" said Himiko.

Ochako, Mina and Toru all pouted in jealousy then they all did remember something, Himiko makes Izuku bentos and then ideas began to swim in their heads.

"So I should get support equipment to help me in fights and learn how to fight?" Said Shinso with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, you should get something to change your voice and speaker farther like Present Mic has" said Izuku.

Shinso nodded his head made a mental note of all of that.

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Izuku and Himiko walked out of school and said goodbye to everyone as they were walking towards a ice cream shop nearby where Izuku told Sebas to pick him up in a hour at.

The walk would only take them about 30 minutes as long as traffic didn't get bad, which it thankfully didn't.

As they were walking Izuku was asking some questions about how she likes her new friends which she did say were much nicer to her and they felt like genuine friends unlike her old school.

But after 10 minutes of walking Izuku felt his book shake for a moment which confused him, so he looked at Nightcaller who mentally told Izuku to ask the Nazguel.

Nodding his head, he asked them "what's going on?".

"Forgive us master but the Juggernaut wants out.. it's telling us that it smells something familiar from the USJ and it senses lots of fear eminetting from said person and it wants to investigate it to redeem itself from what it did" said the leader.

That immediately set alarms off in Izukus head, the Juggernaut was extremely powerful and it took Makima to control said summon to prevent anything from happening.

"... will it do what it did in the USJ".

"No master, it promises it won't, it simply wants to make up for it's mistake by capturing this villain since it smells it" said the Nazguel.

Taking a deep breath he looked over at Himiko who looked at him with concern "the Juggernaut smells something and wants to come out to make up for it's mistake in the USJ".

"Are you sure we can trust it to do that if you bring it out?" Asked Himiko nervously.

"It says it wants to make up for it's mistake... and I always believe in second chances, plus I'll bring out others to restrain it just in case" said Izuku.

Trusting Izuku she nodded but got ready to pull him back and protect him just in case, while Nightcaller immediately went into his coat form and drapped over his body ready to pull him away as well.

"Makima?" Said Izuku within his mind.

After a moment of silence he heard a response "Yes master?" She asked gently.

"I need you out here for help along with 3 Nazguel just in case" he said.

"I see, I shall come out immediately then" she said with a tiny smile in slight excitement at the thought of seeing the outside world with her own eyes instead of through Izukus or his memories.

He quickly entered the alley and held out the book and glowed for a moment before she appeared infront of him along with three of the Nazguel that all had sections of armor on them, with two of them copying the leader by having metal masks.

After seeing his summons, he reluctantly opened the page to the one where the Juggernaut is and it glowed blood red for a brief moment before a figure shot out of the book.

Everyone looked at the Juggernaut sitting on the wall, but we're shocked by one detail.

It was small, no bigger than maybe a dog.

But that didn't stop the sense of fear it was emitting, which was taking all of Izukus self control to not succumb to like he did in the USJ.

Himiko almost instantly froze from the summons sheer presence and almost instantly stood behind Izuku hoping that he'd protect her from it.

The Juggernaut looked at Izuku with its beady red eyes and climbed down the wall before walking towards Izuku while the other summons watched it with calculating eyes making sure it didn't do anything to him. But instead it just stopped before him and bowed it's head showing that it was sorry for what it did.

Staring at the summon for a moment, Izuku slowly bent down and placed his hand on its head "you said you wanted to redeem yourself, so show me what it is you wanted to show me".

It instantly stood back up and shot off heading down the alley with the others following it cautiously, the Nazguels were infront of Izuku and Himiko, with Makima next to Izuku, ready to restrain the summon at a moments notice.

They continued to walk down the alley when they passed a side alley and before anyone could react they heard the sounds of feet hitting the ground and a small body bumped into Izukus leg.

Izuku looked down and a small a little girl, no older than maybe 6 years old and she had dirty white hair and was wearing rags for clothes and her body was covered in bandages, she also wore a ratty hat that covered her head down to her ears. He then noticed a small bump under her hat on her forehead, that looked like a horn.

"H-hey are you ok?" He asked gently while kneeling down to her level.

Instead of answering, she just held him tighter and couldn't stop shaking in fear.

"What's your name?" He said hoping to get a response.

"E-eri..." she whispered so quietly that he barely heard it.

"Well that's a lovely name.. tell me why are you here? Where's your family?" He said calmly.

She tightened her grip on him instead of answering and tears began to well up in her eyes as voices entered her mind from what Overhaul told her.

"You killed your father and your mother abandoned you; you little monster. Now be a good test subject and let me continue to experiment on you and quit your screaming or I'll kill you again".

Eri began to shake as tears ran down her cheeks and before she knew it, she felt something she's never felt once in her life for as long as she could remember.

Izuku hugged her.

"Shhh it's ok, I'm here and your safe" he said gently.

The tears began to well up faster before she openly began sobbing while holding him, she didn't know why she felt like... it was ok to cry. She's always been punished for it and yet here she was doing it as this person she's never met held her. Not only that but... it felt warm and she felt... safe.

"Himiko let's go to UA.. Recovery Girl or Tsunade need to see her... she's nothing but skin and bone" he said as he gently picked Eri up as she continued to cry into his shirt and Nightcaller still in his coat form wrapped itself around Izuku helping hold her.

"Right let's go" she said leading the way as the Juggernaut and Nazguel left, but Makima stayed out just in case Izuku would need help.

As they all left, they never noticed a shadowy figure walk put of the alley and had a bird mask on.

"Let's hope you find a good home now Eri... you didn't deserve what Overhaul was doing to you" said Rappa quietly as a small smile appeared on his face before he left heading back to the base.

He'd been following Eri for well over a hour now and thankfully no one from the Yakuza came to help him since they all believed he'd capture her.

"Probably gonna get killed for this but... it will he worth it, if it means she can have a happy life" he said accepting his fate.

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Chapter 12. Helping Eri and Training. Is available on Patreon along with art for the chapter.