Scheming

My voice cracked, clearing my throat slightly, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't still nervous, 'Would he recognize my voice?' he simply continued crying into my chest as I held in my tears. After a few minutes he finally managed to calm down, and then came the questions.

"H-How? Where-? Why-?" He didn't seem to know what to ask first.

Sighing, "It's a long, rough story. Though, you three know some of it."

Remarking as they looked at each other then me in confusion.

"Well, this is the most unexpected outcome. Never thought I'd even tell anyone, at least not like this."

Taking a deep breath and looking at the three before glancing at Eraser, rubbing the back of my neck and lightly chuckling in slight awkwardness.

"I'm actually, Dabi…" Finally letting it out with a huff.

"That was, a lot harder than I thought."

Mumbling while brushing a hand through my hair as the three stared at me in shock. Though blondy wasted no time in starting his fireworks as he angrily ran at me only to be held back by Eraser.

"My bad, I guess apologizing is what I should do. Though you hurt us more than we did you."

Replying as he shouted in my face like an angry pomeranian 'This is going to be one interesting journey.'

After some explanation and questionable looks, we made our way back to the ship. Immediate questions as to who the three kids were, sighing and waving my hand as everyone got on and we set sail. Sitting down on the bench as Luffy joined me, the others waiting for answers. Grabbing Shoto's arm and pulling him to my side, looking at the others and pointing at the confused candy cane. "This is my little brother, and his friends. They also seemingly ended up here, so treat them well." Stating as they all blinked at me before shouting in shock.

""Little brother?!"" They all shouted simultaneously, cleaning my ear with my pinky while nodding.

"Yeah yeah, things just got a lot more complicated. At first I thought I ended up here by coincidence, then Eraser appeared, and now these three. It seems people from our universe have been falling here from those portals, and I sure as hell 'ain't going to sail around corralling all of them to shove them back to our universe. No doubt the heroes more than likely will." Informing as Eraser crossed his arms and pointed a glare at me.

"What do you mean by "our universe"??" Law questioned with furrowed brows and crossed arms, sighing and rubbing the back of my neck.

"Basically, we aren't from here. Call it whatever you want, but we basically fell through a portal from our universe to your guys'. So until we find the portal again, we're stuck here. Not to mention, other villains more than likely fell here as well. That includes my friends, this is such a mess." Groaning and raking a hand through my hair.

'I know I said I missed them, but did they really have to fall here as well? I already have enough to worry about with Sho and his friends, now I have to worry about them. Who knows what might happen if we found each other, I don't want to have to explain whatever this mess is.' My eyes drifted over the multiple heroes around me along with the pirates. 'Not to mention, if we happen to run into any other heroes that may have fallen here, Hawks wouldn't be too bad, spy or not. The worst possibility would be Endeavor, who knows what would happen if I was face to face with him the way I am now. No doubt he'd recognize me.'

Sighing again, seems like that's a constant action now. At this point it's started becoming the first thing I do before saying or doing anything, what am I? Eraser? Am I going to start rolling around in a sleeping bag everywhere? Lightly chuckling before standing up, grabbing Luffy and Shoto, "Anyway, I hope you don't mind them tagging along. There's not much else we can do right now, but at least you guys can try bonding a bit. Now that you've finally met." Saying to Luffy and smiling at Sho.

Slipping away to the sleeping quarters, letting them do whatever they were going to do, 'hopefully Luffy isn't too much for him. The kid can be a bit too chaotically energetic.' Sliding onto the bed with my face planted in the pillow. 'Shit, I never thought this would be the way I told Sho who I actually am. Though I don't think Greeny or Blondy totally understand the family drama yet, I'm sure Sho will explain it to them. At some point.'

Hours seemingly went by and I had fallen asleep, surprise surprise, when I woke up I was being used as a pillow for the two children. Chuckling and brushing the hair from Shoto's face, frowning at the ice scar around his eye. Leaning slightly forward to kiss his head. "Sorry, I wasn't there for you…" Whispering and gritting my teeth, after calming myself down a smirk formed on my lips. Noting that my voice sounded better, carefully sitting up and lifting the two of them with me. Their heads resting on my chest peacefully asleep, standing up and carrying them with me. 'They sure are heavy, Sho used to easily fit in my arms and weigh about as much as a pillow.' Thanking my previous daily routine of lifting weights and exercising, slightly rocking the two while walking out onto the deck.

It seemed to be fairly early, but mostly everyone was already awake. Readjusting my arms and lifting the two up a bit into a better carrying position before sitting down on the bench. A few minutes passed and it wasn't hard to notice the others whispering, Eraser walked over with hands on his hips. "Seems like you're a pretty good pillow for those two." Chuckling, noting the slight raise on the side of his mouth.

"Looks like, I'm shocked neither of them have woken up yet. Especially Luffy, guess they must be pretty tired. That or I am one hell of a good pillow." Smiling while looking down at the two children asleep in my arms, "Still, they're fairly heavy." Sighing as Eraser patted my head. My brow raised, eyeing him.

"You're not too bad, kid." He smiled,

"Who're you calling kid? I'm 24 you sleep deprived raccoon." Remarking as he rolled his eyes and walked away.

"Better wake them soon, Sanji's almost done making breakfast." He waved. Sighing in content at the returned peace,

Glancing over at Blondy and Greeny who seemed to be whispering to each other about something, Greeny was the first to come over to ask his questions.

"Todoroki told us a little about, you know." He said in his natural awkwardness.

Lightly chuckling at him, it seemed to gain a bit of surprise from the other. "I figured, you three, Shoto included, must have a lot of questions…" Glancing down at Sho with a soft expression, "I don't suppose having a villainous older brother is something to be proud of, but I can't say I'd change much. A lot has happened, and there are things I wish I could take back or fix. Even so, I wouldn't trade my fate for one of theirs. Only three people in this family are allowed to be totally fucked, and it isn't going to be the three that matter most."

Pressing the lower half of my face to Shoto's head as something swirled around in my chest, my body heated up. Taking a deep breath to calm down, regaining my composure. Looking back up at Greeny who was looking at me with...confused admiration? Sadness? Fondness? I couldn't quite tell. The two started to stir in my arms, smiling and ruffling their hairs, "Looks like you two finally decided to join the fun." Stating as they both rubbed their eyes and looked up at me.

Patting their heads and chuckling "Eraser said breakfast was almost ready, it's been a bit so-"

"-Come get food!" Sanji called right on time as Luffy immediately perked up.

He quickly scrambled to his feet and rushed to the kitchen, "Pfff, hahaha. That kid, just mention food and he'll come running." It was clear to tell that I've been more...Relaxed? Comfortable? I'm being more expressive than usual, has my heart finally warmed up a bit while being around this annoyingly cute candy cane? Though it did warm up quite a bit while traveling with Luffy, ah man, I must have some sort of brother complex. Sighing and patting Shoto's head with a smile "Better get some food in you as well." Saying as he hummed and slightly nodded before standing up and dragging me with him to the kitchen.

The atmosphere was warm, it felt very familiar and relaxing. Almost like being at home, if home was a comforting thing to me. Watching Sho and Luffy somewhat get along, as Greeny and Blondy kept eyeing me like I had something on my face. Though it's more of, lack thereof. Breakfast passed fairly quickly with some laughs as Brook informed everyone that the newspaper had come, 'Is it something important?' Everyone gathered around.

""Donquixote Doflamingo withdraws from the Seven Warlords!! He's renouncing as king of dressrosa?!"" Everyone shouted simultaneously.

"He really did it!!" Usopp chimed in shock.

"K-King?! He was a king?!" Brooks' soul seemingly almost left his body.

"King?! Of the bird kingdom?!" Luffy read.

"It's much creepier when things actually proceed smoothly like this." Franky noted.

Scanning the contents of the newspaper with a hand on my chin, 'I don't personally know this guy, and I don't fully understand the situation. But something definitely feels off about this, I don't know what it is though. It feels...Almost like something Shigaraki might scheme, like fake news. I don't suppose that's a common thing in this universe, considering everyone gets their information by newspaper, and not electronics that can share random mixed true and false news.' Glancing at Eraser with furrowed brows, he seemed to be thinking along the same lines because he nodded and returned his attention to the newspaper in thought.

The others had seemingly moved on and started talking about something else in the newspaper before focusing on the plan ahead. Sighing and leaning back on my hands with a groan, everyone looked over at me with confused expressions.

"What's up Dabi?" Usopp questioned. Rubbing the back of my head, opening one of my eyes.

"I don't like it…" Responding,

"Huh? Like what?" They were still confused.

"All of this, it doesn't seem right. Not to ruin your guys' parade or anything, but trust me. If me, a villain, says there's some kind of scheme going on here. There's definitely some sort of scheme." Informing them of my thoughts,

"But-!" Usopp started only for Eraser to interrupt.

"No, he's right. I'm unsure of the way information here is chosen to be released, but it's quite common in our world for people to spread fake news. And everything about this situation screams that there's something more sinister behind the scenes." He said as the others looked at each other.

"That could be possible, are you sure there's something going on Mr. Aizawa?" Deku questioned, to which Eraser nodded.

"That's not completely possible though, the only ones who have the power to do that are…" Law seemed to stop to think, furrowed brows twitching as if contemplating the possibility of something.

"Either way, take it from us. I know first hand how scheming works and what people may try to pull, same goes for Eraser. For one, if this guy is anything like I think he is, he would never trade what he has now without some plan on how to get it back while also getting what he needs." Glancing over at Caesar who simply laughed, glaring at him in return as a slight smirk formed on my lips. Lifting my hand slightly, my flames danced on the tips of my finger as his face paled, his laugh getting caught in his throat. Sighing and extinguishing my flames before looking back at the others.

"Alright, I'll trust your guys' judgment. We'll set up precaution measurements, but we still have to go. Since there's no way to check if the information is true without exposing that we know his plans." Law replied. Both me and Eraser nodded in agreement with the decision,

Law talked a bit more with Luffy and Eraser before going to call the Doflo guy, Shoto sat down next to me. Patting his head while remarking, "You leave my side when we reach the island and I'm going to put a leash on you, no way am I letting you run off to get hurt on my watch." He raised an eyebrow at me.

"You say that like you wouldn't hurt me yourself." He tilted his head slightly to the side. Chuckling at the fair accusation,

"Fair enough, it's not like staying by my side will kill you though. A big brother has to look out for his younger brother, doesn't he?" Smiling as he turned his head away, cheeks brushed light pink in embarrassment.

"You and Natsuo are the same." He said softly before smirking "He's still taller though." he jabbed. Gasping, putting a hand over my heart before falling backwards exasperatedly.

Sitting up and mockingly pouting at him, "How could you! That's a low blow Sho! I can't believe this, my own brother!"

"Pffff- hahaha!"

He burst out laughing as a smile naturally formed on my lips, bending over laughing as well. My arm wrapped over his shoulders, pulling him into me, "You little rascal." Nooging him as he laughed. 'I guess he's grown up quite a bit, I'm glad that he made some friends.' Glancing over at Blondy and Greeny who were looking over with surprised expressions. Ruffling his hair once before letting him go, "You have some good friends." Stating as he turned his head before looking over at the two.

"Yeah, I guess I do." He smiled softly.

Remarking the light dust of pink on his cheeks, following his gaze, chuckling as realization struck. Nudging him slightly "Bold choice, I'll be rooting for you." Smirking as his brows furrowed, he looked at me in confusion for a few seconds before his face flared up in embarrassment.

"I- w-what? N-No- that's not- I-." He stuttered. Shaking my head with a laugh,

"Yeah sure, whatever you say Sho." Ruffling his hair and smiling.