The Escape

"talking"

'thoughts'

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"Waaaaghg!"

'Is that... a baby?'

"WAAAAAAA!"

'Ugh, someone shut it up. I'm trying to sleep... wait... sleep? Didnt I die?'

"Aaaaaahghaaaa!"

'Wait, that's ME crying!'

I felt myself being handed over to someone.

"Da--jōb-- Y--no." (Daijōbu Yuno)

'I cant hear or see clearly. Where am I?'

"Shhhh." The gentle sounding voice came back.

'Her voice... sounds nice.'

Then everything went black.

•••

Ikunori's POV

I was reborn. Those three words really did have an impact on me. I know I said my other world was boring but I didnt mean I wanted to leave. I had friends and family there.

So my first half year in this new world was spent mourning. It was wierd to the matron. A newborn baby that didnt cry. And yes you heard me correctly. Matron. Apparently my father died a month before I was born and my mother died shortly after giving birth to me. I didnt know her but from those few words I heard her say, I felt a connection. I felt safe.

From my few months in this world, I was able to gather that the matrons dont really like me. And it's not just me in general. It's all of the kids in the orphanage. They treat us all like garbage. They have the older kids take care of me and other babies and they have them do the chores while they just sit around doing nothing.

Scum, the lot of them. People like that should just rot in hell. Another problem I came across was the language. I dont know it. And thus, I dont have a single clue as to what anyone is saying. I came to the conclusion that my name is Ikunori Yuno but that's it.

Okay! These next two years is gonna be me dedicated to learning whatever the hell this language is!

•••

'I am now 3 years old. I have mastered the art of japanese, I am actually the best there is in my age group when it comes to talking. However I still suck at writing. I never knew kanji could be so hard!'

"Ikunori!"

"Coming!"

That was Kuroshi. Shes the oldest kid out of everyone in the orphange so every single one of the kids look up to her sans me. It helps that she also watches over us so we dont get in trouble with the matrons. And she takes all the punishment. And does the chores that us little ones cant do. Shes basically our gaurdian angel. I do feel bad when she takes all the blows for us and does our chores but eh. Less crap for me to do. I'm not a heartless person but I cant really bring myself to care.

'Its not like I asked her to do it.'

"Yes, Kuroshi-san?" I asked.

"Aww your so cute! I just want to pinch your cheeks!" She squealed.

I mean, I guess I looked cute for a kid. I had dark blonde fluffy hair and light green eyes that had a darker green for my pupils. But other than that I looked pretty average.

"The matron wants to see all of us. So can you get the others?"

"Okay!" I smiled innocently at her... what? If I wanted her to keep taking my punishments then I have to be on her good side. It's not like I want her to suffer. I have to do what I have to do in order to survive. And theres no way I can survive the matrons punishments. I learned that I was in the world of MHA when I was 1 when one of the matrons used their quirks. The head matron uses her quirk for punishments and Kuroshi could use hers to counter it. Thats what she told us. That's why i dont feel as bad as i probably should. What I didnt know was that Kuroshi didnt use her quirk to counter it.

We all gathered around in the biggest room in the church and waited. The matron came in, in all her ugly glory. She was wrinkly and baggy, had a nasty expression etched onto her face, and really just looked disgusting.

As she walked further into the room all of the kids got so quite you could hear a pin drop. When she got to the center of the room she stopped and turned to us as a nasty smile made it's way onto her face.

"You kids have been bad. You know what you did right?"

No one said a thing.

Until someone did.

There was sort of an unspoken rule that we all have. If anyone spoke than they would be the ones who felt her wrath. One of the new kids, a 6 year old boy, didnt know this rule.

"W-we forgot to do our chores?"

Ooh, now were all gonna get it. Not only did he speak but he also technically said that we didnt do our chores. Which is true, as Kuroshi did them all. But the matron wouldnt care. Even if she can clearly see that the whole place is clean. He screwed us all over, stupid idiot.

"Oh? You didnt do your chores either?" She said in her nasty voice.

The boy squeaked in fear as he stepped back. Kuroshi stepped foward in front of the boy and the rest of us.

"Trying to save them again? Fine. Bishops office." Kuroshi gulped as fear overtook her.

'Nasty pieces of scum shit trashy garbage.' I scowled but only in my mind. I still had a face a pure curiosity on the outside. My eyes wide, oddly resembling a cat.

I wanted to help her, I really did but... they'd kill me. Like they did to that other 8 year old boy. Before Kuroshi took the position of gaurdian angel, it was a boy.

•••

"Yu--n--."

"--u--o."

"Yuno!"

I was woken up by one of the 5 year olds.

"What?" I asked groggily.

She was about to speak until a loud banging sound was heard from downstairs. This wasnt the first time as many people have tried robbing this place before. And every single one of them succeeded.

I noticed that every kid was awake now and when they heard Kuroshi scream they ran toward the door to go save her.

'Idiots'

I was about to stop them until someone opened the door from the other side. I quickly took the 5 year old and hid under the bed.

I didnt notice before but this was the 5

year old that I liked specifically. Like a little sister.

I suppose you can say that shes actually 7 but because of her quirk 'Child' she ages differently than the rest of us. Every 3 years, she ages 1 year. A drawback from her quirk is that she'll always have the mental mind of a child. It's sad. Knowing that she'll be a child for eternity. Another drawback might be that she grows slower than others because although she's five, she doesn't look it. She's the same height as me even and I'm only 3.

I got dragged out of my thoughts when the guy that opened the door started grabbing all the children and leaving. Me and Bosu (she has no last name), the 5 year old, were hiding under the bed so we didnt get caught.

There was more screaming dowstairs and then gunshots and banging and the building was starting to shake. Someone was probably using their quirk.

At this time I realized that if I stayed here any longer, then I wasnt going to live. I needed to run away. Theres nothing here for me anyways. I took Bosu's hand and ran for the window that broke when the church started shaking and jumped out of it with Bosu.

I looked up and was blinded by flashing blue and red lights. Looks like someone called the police. Someone noticed us and started running towards us as other police men ran tothe door of the orphange. They didn't make it far though because the whole building exploded.

The man who ran towards us, a detective, used his body to shield us from the backlash as he ran away from it.

•••

Its been a couple days since then. We've been spending our days here at the police station.

We're being put in the system. Nobody from the orphange, save for Bosu and I, made it out alive. They didn't know what to do with us so detective Tsukauchi decided to put us in the foster care system.

In fact, we were just about to be picked up by the 'wonderful' people who decided to foster us. They walked into the police with smiles all over their faces. It was so fake it made me cringe.

I looked at Tsukauchi with a look of loathing and he just looked back with a sorry expression while mouthing 'I'm sorry'.

Just our luck that we got stuck with terrible foster parents. At least Bosu and I are together though.