Unexptected

Slowly waking up, I felt Luffy's arms wrapped around me and his head on my chest, chuckling as I pet his head. Brushing the hair from his face as I looked down at his calm expression, sighing deeply as I slightly shook him. "C'mon you monkey, time to get up." Saying in a hushed tone as he stirred awake, "Sanji is probably already done making breakfast as you sleep."

Persuading him as his eyes shot open and he hurriedly unwrapped his arms and crawled over me, my eyes widened as the hammock spun around causing me to fall onto the floor. Groaning "I should remember not to do that next time." Pushing myself up and following Luffy out of the room, making my way onto the grassy deck only to immediately stop.

My eyes slightly widened as a smirk formed on my lips, "Well well well, what do we have here. Hero." Eraserhead turned his head towards me as he stared me down, his eyes scanned the bandages covering my arms and so forth.

"Dabi. How did you end up here? Is this some sort of secret place you put kidnapped people in?" Waving my hand and scoffing at the idea of the League having some warehouse full of people, as if the others would kidnap or even keep whoever is unlucky enough.

"Like I would know, I thought Kurogiri appeared in front of me so I walked through the portal and I ended up here." Crossing my arms as I leaned against the wall. "I didn't think anyone else would fall in here, but it looks like you're the first." Continuing as he studied his surroundings.

"Then who are these people? And why are their Quirks so strange?"

A simple shrugged reply. "Pirates, apparently, and they have "Devil fruit" powers instead of our Quirks. That's about all I know so far, I did, after all, just end up here a few weeks ago." Explaining as he looked around with furrowed brows.

"Umm, we're standing right here you know." Nami informed us as we both looked at her.

"Yeah yeah, we're trying to figure out our current situations." Waving her off and looking back at Eraser.

"What are "Quirks"? And who's Burigiri? Do you two know each other?" Luffy bounced beside me, sighing.

"Quirks are the abilities that I and Eraser possess, Kurogiri is a friend of mine, and yes, we do." He inspected Eraser's cloth and eye mask.

"Is it like a rare devil fruit? A quirk?" Shaking my head.

"Where we come from, people are born with quirks. Unlike here where you have to obtain a fruit and eat it to get its power." They all looked at me with interest.

"Wait so that means everyone has a power where you guys come from?!?" Nami gaped as I rubbed my temples.

"Not everyone, there is a ten percent population of quirkless, but you are mostly correct." They pondered on the new information.

"Alright! We're going to your guys' home!" Luffy decided as he stretched and grabbed onto the lion's mane, he pulled himself up onto it as he pointed out to the sea. "Let's go!" Everyone stared at him.

"Luffy, we don't even know how to get to their home." Nami sighed.

"Well, not entirely. I think I know a way." Glancing at Eraser. "I'm sure you can figure it out, Mr. Hero." Smirking as he nodded slightly.

"We need to find the portal again."

"Bingo, now the only question is, how?" Sighing "Looks like we'll be staying a while more, try to get comfy." Waving before going back inside to the sleeping quarters. 'I'll have to keep my eye out, he might try to capture me while we enter the portal. It wouldn't be good if that happened.' Smirking as I climbed into the hammock, 'It'll be tricky, besides. I kind of like these guys, I don't really want to cause them much trouble.' Chuckling "I'm turning soft." Groaning and turning onto my side, sleep came relatively easily.

After a while I finally decided to get up, leaving Eraser alone with them for too long might cause some sort of trouble. Either way he'll probably be exhausted by all the questions and pestering, entering the kitchen to no surprise, everyone was sitting and eating. Glancing at Eraser while joining him, placing myself on the seat between him and Chopper, who was enjoying some cotton candy. Grabbing a few onigiri while sharing some eye contact with Eraser. "So, how's home?" Starting up a simple conversation, as if we were old friends meeting again for the first time in years. He glared at me, unsurprisingly.

"uneventful." He replied, humming and taking a bite of the rice, I broke eye contact and kept my eyes low.

"Has Shigaraki done anything?" It was a simple question, but it carried more meaning than it probably should have.

"No, thankfully. I think because he's looking for you, but I don't know if comradery is part of a villain's nature." He spat, the que for me to act jokingly and half-heartedly, exasperationaly offended.

"How hurtful, really. I may be a villain but I'm not heartless. Except towards crazy, she's pretty heartless herself, though I can never tell if it's heartlessness or just her overbearing love for blood." Pondering my last words intensively, before returning to the masked conversational questioning. "How're your students by the way? Blondy finally lose that overbearing ego of his?" His glare sharpening at my words..

"How my students are doing is none of your business." He said as I put my hands up in defense.

"Okay, jeez. Can't a guy know anything? Or is knowing things illegal now?" Replying as his glare lightened up, only slightly.

"Only for a villain." Humming as I picked some rice from my teeth,

"How very plus ultra of you, Eraser." Mimicking All Might, pose and all, before falling over laughing, he didn't look very amused but I sure was.

"Hey Dabi, what's this whole 'hero' and 'villain' thing about?" Nami questioned,

"Ah, almost forgot. Well, basically in our world we have Heroes, who are like your Marine, except they all have powers. And Villains are like...Like the seven warlords, kind of, there's not really a great representation for villains in your world. And then Vigilantes, they're like bounty hunters and pirates mixed."

Taking a bite of some teriyaki I stole from Luffy's over piled plate as they shared looks with each other,

"So, you're a villain and Eraser is a hero?" Usopp questioned as both mine and Eraser's heads nodded in reply.

"Doesn't that make you, enemies?" Nami questioned, both of us nodding again.

"Why'd you think he's being overbearingly cautious? Probably thinks I'll attack at any moment or something." Looking over at him, "I'm not a wild animal, and as much as I would love scorching you a little, I'd much rather work together to find a way back home. As much as It annoys both of us, just think of it as a temporary ceasefire until we get back." Offering the compromise, he thought for a moment, making sure to give me a suspicious look before sighing.

"Fine, but you make any attempt at attacking and I'll retaliate." Nodding to each other,

"Fair enough, just don't tempt me." Chuckling as I finished my plate before joining Luffy and the others for a game of cards.

A few days passed and Eraser was still being cautious of me, though I think he lightened up a bit after he noticed Luffy's clinginess and my surprising softness. Much as I tried to hide it, I'll always still act like an older brother. Tossing the ball over to Luffy as he caught it and tossed it to Usopp, we passed it in a circle as the ball slowly sped up. Smirking, I hit it as hard as possible, Luffy quickly inflated as it bounced at high velocities towards Usopp. Who quickly ducked as it bounced back towards Luffy, still inflated, it bounced towards me. My eyes widened as my body instinctively fell to the floor, it flew past me and somewhere into the ocean to be lost forever. Standing back up and glancing back at where the ball flew off to, I looked back at Luffy and rubbed the back of my neck.

"Wasn't me." Shrugging, he deflated and laughed, Usopp was a bit exasperated as he made sure his head was still attached to his body. Chuckling as I ruffled Luffy's hair before entering the kitchen, grabbing some water before stepping back out onto the grass. I handed the other glass to Luffy as we sat down and played some games, I couldn't help but notice Eraser's eyes on me the whole time. No wonder he's so tired all the time, if I was serious and on guard every second of every day I would be too. At the rate he's going, I wouldn't be surprised if he turned gray before forty. After beating everyone for the fifth time, I decided to stop and chat with Eraser.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you're just some unfortunate civilian." He said, drawing a chuckle from me.

"What? Am I expected to have no feelings just because I'm a villain?" raising a brow as he glanced over at me before looking towards Luffy and the others.

"No, but I figured with how many people you've turned to ash. You wouldn't have much remorse, let alone be this soft towards someone." Snorting, he looked at me in confusion,

"Sure, but it's different. The people I turn to ash were nothing but trash waiting to die, why else would they try to join the league? Recognition, mostly. I do have remorse, just not for people trying to join some cause they don't actually care about." Replying as I watched Luffy stare at his cards as if he was trying to look through them, while Usopp peaked from the side to check what cards he had.

Returning my gaze to Eraser, I watched as he raised his eyebrow before lowering it and sighing, "The students are doing fine, better without the league attacking them." He said as my brows furrowed, Looking at him in thought.

'Tricky bastard,' Lightly chuckling as my head tilted to look up at the night sky. "Did blondy finally lose that temper of his?" Making small talk to work my way up to the actual question prodding my mind,

"Working on it, but you don't really care about Bakugo do you." He said, humming in acknowledgement at his words.

"Did greeny finally get the hang of his power? Or is he still breaking bones?" Continuing on with the obviously disinterested questions, perhaps he'll think I'm mostly trying to pass time. Hah! I wish, but he isn't Twice.

"He's still learning, but he could probably take you on without breaking anything." He said, glaring at him, moreover, his insinuation. A forced chuckle following as it drifted away in the air.

Taking some time to contemplate if I should ask about Shoto or not, I know what Eraser is trying to do. Get me to reveal something about one of the students, in this case, that student being Shoto. But then if I don't ask, it would also be suspicious, though most of the other students I could care less about. "Has candy cane gotten stronger? It was kind of disappointing last time we fought." I said the nickname to seem less suspicious, though it didn't seem to work. His brows furrowed,

"If you're asking whether or not Shoto could beat you, the answer is yes." He replied, a hum leaving my throat.

'He figured out something, oh well. Not much I can do about it, he probably would've figured something out no matter what I said or did. But at least I know Shoto is alright.' Standing up, I glanced back at Eraser "Well, nice talk. Better get comfy now, else you won't get a chance much later. Things get pretty crazy once in a while, gotta save energy." Winking at him as I made my way over to Luffy, sitting down next to him as I looked around to see who was winning. Which to my surprise, was Luffy.

He didn't seem to really know what he was doing though, chuckling, I leaned over to him. Pointing to a card in his hand as he looked at me before smiling and playing the card, Usopp groaned as he drew five cards. Whispering a few tips and things into Luffy's ear as I sat back and watched him play, and boy was it entertaining. He basically slaughtered them all, I rolled on the ground laughing at Usopp who somehow had over a hundred cards.

I truly did not know how he managed it, the game only has a hundred cards. After laughing a bit we had dinner and I messed with Usopp more about how he got a hundred cards in a game that only has a hundred cards, wiping the nonexistent tear from my eye as I glanced at Eraser. He seemed, conflicted. Maybe because of the previous image he had of me, though I doubt it'll change much. Finishing eating, I headed to bed, Eraser seemed wary but he knows I have little to do. Let alone go out and harm someone, there is nothing around but water and fish after all.

Another week passed and there had been little more information on the portal, honestly I was just waiting for another hero, villain, or civilian to fall here. That would be a real party, though two heroes versus one me. Eraserhead would already be a handful, but if All might or Endeavor showed up, I'd be screwed. Not to mention my current predicament, I wouldn't be able to go all out without risking losing my arms forever. And that would be worse than a few rules and restrictions, I don't trust Eraser. But he also doesn't trust me, and to be honest he shouldn't be worried about me attacking him. Because if anything, he'd win either way. With his quirk and my current state, forget it, I'd be down in seconds.

Though if Shigaraki, Mr compress, or Kurogiri showed up. Then Eraser wouldn't be too much of a hassle, but I'd rather keep this peace. No trouble means relaxing and relaxing means no pain, and anything that doesn't make me feel pain is something I cherish. Though pain can be a nice wake up to the real world after days of relaxing like this, I'm being sarcastic if you can't tell. Pain is pretty much all I feel, painkillers, antibiotics, and cigarettes make up my body. It's certainly not a life one would want to live, but it's the trash bucket the world tossed and there's not much I would change. 'Specially if it meant making one of my siblings deal with it. Sure, I'm a villain, but that doesn't mean I'm not a big brother too. I'd say natural instinct, but it's more than that. Dad may be a steaming pile of garbage, but my siblings mean everything to me.

Even... Mom, she didn't deserve everything Dad put her through. She didn't deserve to go through that torment because of me, none of my siblings deserved what Dad made them go through. I should've stopped him years ago, but I was too weak I felt too helpless in front of him. I should've finished it in that house, I should've I should've I should've I should've I should've-

"Dabi!"

Shooting up from my sleep, I frantically looked around and panted heavily.

"Hey hey, it's okay." I looked at Eraser and Luffy as my brows furrowed when I realized Eraser's quirk was active. Glancing towards Zoro and Sanji who were standing by the ashes of something, I looked down at my hands before sighing.

"Did I burn the hammocks?" It was more of a statement, I already knew the answer without needing to ask the question, but the words left my mouth before any second thought. Eraser seemed to know this, but nodded anyway.

"You almost burned the entire room, and Luffy. He would've gotten injured if I hadn't activated my quirk in time." My stomach churned at the thought, burying my face in my hands as I tried to calm myself down.

'It's fine, he's fine, everything's fine.' Removing my hands from my face as I stood up, "Ugh, thanks…" muttering before rushing out of the room, stopping outside in front of the door for a few passing seconds before bolting to the bathroom.

Slamming the door closed as I slid down it, pulling at my hair as my breathing sped up. My heart was jumping out of my chest and I couldn't get enough air, 'Damn, panic attack. Shh, it's fine, everything's fine. C'mon, calm down, I-I have to, calm down.' Choked and breathless sobs slipped past my lips as I struggled to calm myself down,

"Dabi." Luffy's voice sounded far in my ears, but the knocks sounded overbearingly loud. Trying to calm down to respond, but I couldn't, I couldn't, I can't-

"Dabi, it's okay, breathe. You're okay, I'm okay." He comforted me as I tried to take a deep breath, it was shaky but better than no breath at all. Releasing a breath, doing these actions on repeat a few times, once finally calmed down I stood up and slowly opened the door.

"Hey, I'm fine." I had tried to say it confidently, but I sounded more unsure and pained than anything.

He wrapped his hands around me and hugged close to my chest; my body stiffened a bit at the contact but relaxed after another deep breath. Wrapping my hands around him slowly as I remembered what Eraser said 'he would have been injured if I hadn't activated my quirk in time.' Biting the inside of my lip, I sighed and rested my head against his, a light chuckle leaving me, giving a slight sense of relief. "Thought I was the one supposed to comfort you, I almost scorched you." Muttering as he pulled away a bit,

"It wasn't your fault, you had a nightmare." He said as my lips tugged up in a soft smile,

"It's still my fault, it's my quirk. Even if some nightmares just, set it off…" admitting as he nodded,

"Sanji made breakfast." He smiled causing me to chuckle,

"Alright, let's go you monkey. I doubt you can wait much longer." He chuckled and grabbed my hand, pulling me with him.

There was a certain spark, and the world seemed a bit brighter. 'This kid is going to be the death of me.' Chuckling as I actually, genuinely, smiled. Maybe this isn't so bad, no League, no heroes, no villains, no dad. Gripping his hand while happily following along, 'This kid is certainly something, Sho would like him, considering he's friends with greeny.' Leading me into the kitchen, we sat down and he wasted no time in grabbing a bunch of pancakes and bacon.

Listening to the others talk as I ate some bacon and eggs as well, Eraser seemed conflicted as he looked at me from the side. 'I almost forgot, he must know I had a panic attack. He deals with teenage heroes after all, not to mention the unusual amount of villain attacks they've seen. I'm surprised they don't have a school therapist, 'specially for blondy and Sho.'

'Well, again. Not a lot I can do about it, let him figure out his opinion of me himself. That's what everyone does anyway, make assumptions and opinions of others. Though I can't say much, I do the same. At least with handsy and crazy, assumptions never came with the others, 'specially Twice. Mostly just opinions, like or dislike. And notes on their weaknesses and quirks, y'know. Casual things.'

After breakfast was a daily checkup with Chopper and the day continued fairly normally, at least considering my usual days of waking up from nightmares and panic attacks, which continued with a League lecture and crazy being, well, crazy… And not much else besides ashing a few people, Eraser continued to give me side glances all day. Which is understandable, considering what happened this morning. But that didn't make me feel any less uncomfortable, is he trying to make me have a panic attack or something?

Look, I'm all for attention, 'specially from a hero, more attention means more people and ways to show how much of a dirtbag the old man is. But now, on this ship in a different universe, neither are really options. Besides, the attention and looks I'm getting from Eraser are more that of a concerned parent, rather than a scheming hero. It's giving me the chills, I don't need double daddy issues either.

In the end I retreated into the freshly furnished sleeping quarters, no eyes, quiet, (Besides the loud bangs and yelling seeping in through the wooden walls.) At least the bit of noise keeps me from thinking too much...Climbing into the bed as I stared at the wall for a bit, I kept dozing off, my eyelids were heavy and I eventually drifted off hoping for no nightmares.