The next morning..

"Tencchan, I made your favorite meal!"

"Tencchan, look at this nice onesie I got you!"

"Tencchan, I made All might sign up to be your piggyback ride for a month!"

Nope! That last one is the hardest to do.. she scratched out the ideas. Every time she stared at the paper in front of her with the title:

Make up with Tencchan :)

She felt angrier at that smiley face. She could feel it mocking her. Why had she written it there anyways? She ruffled her hair frustrated. How the heck do you make up with kids?

She tapped her chin in thought. Maybe she should take him to Tokyo disney land again. she sighed shaking her head. This was her official first fight with Tenko. And she was officially feeling horrible.

Last night, after the talk with All migh-- Toshinori, she had passed by Tenko's room only to find him curled on himself and acting asleep. She had closed the door sighing and went to her room with thoughts about Tenko, Her quirk, and All might's words.

"I have a friend. He's been wanting to be my sidekick for a good while and he's currently working with me. Maybe he can train you. What do you think Shane-san?"

She shook her head before closing her journal and going to Tenko's room. She stood behind the door, her hand raised the door to knock. She hesitated for a second.. and then decided to go to work and handle this later.

Today was already full enough. Especially with meeting Sir Nighteye! That thought made excitement go through her.

Sir Nighteye huh.. She jumped excited a huge grin on her lips. "So cool!!" With all the stuff that's been going on, she hadn't seen anybody from the storyline except All might and Tenko. But this will be so cool. I'm looking forward to it already! I'm sure it will go great!

She got dressed up and went out humming happily.

***

It was very awkward. Or is that just me?

One hour after she had finished work, she found herself standing in front of All might and Sir Nighteye.

"This is Shane Keira?"

"At your service!" she blurted out laughing nervously at the unimpressed look from Sir Nighteye and the bewildered smile of All Might. Let me just shut up..

Nighteye came closer circling around her, and she felt like her entire soul was being rated on a 1 to 10 scale. "So.. Shane-san, is it? or should I call you by your first name like Americans?"

"You can call me whatever you like." Oh God.. Both of them gaped at her. If she could gape at herself, she would too. The constipated look that she sported was a close one though. 

"Ahaha, It's a joke!" She laughed nervously before clearing her throat.  "You can um.. call me Keira or Shane-san.. whichever is more comfortable." she smiled.

Another unimpressed look.

"No sense of humor" he muttered still peering at her with the same look.

"Now now Nighteye. Like I told you, Keira is--"

"Keira?" All might flinched at the accusing tone while Keira curiously looked between them. "You call her by her first name All might?" 

The silence that followed was so heavy and Keira felt she was in a drama tv show where she was the character standing between the main character and his love interest. Ooh what will happen if I call him Toshinori?

She blinked a few times for effect, "Is it a problem To--" 

 "Okay! I'll leave you guys to bond. I am.. going to work!" He cut her off, giving her a pissed off version of his signature smile as she smiled innocently, before he was gone in a blink. How the heck does he do all these expressions with the same smile?!

That's the number one hero for you... She snickered quietly, ..can't handle awkwardness apparently.

Her attention went back to the man who seemed to be scrutinizing her. "So.." she drawled already wishing a thousand times for All might to come back and literally texas smash her out of this lovely encounter. She raised her hand, quirk already starting.

".. All might-shaped cookies?"

***

"So Shane-san, All might told me that you would like to train with your quirk." He sat on the sofa munching on the cookie. She sat down in front of him, "he also wants me to look into your future."

"Oh we canceled the last one!" She waved smiling. "Since it's really doing nothing except guaranteeing a certain future. We wouldn't be able to change it.."

He raised an eyebrow.

I'll just shut up now.. I remember Sir Nighteye was like this but.. another awkward wide smile ..can't he just be a bit more friendly?

He was looking at her like a pest. She probably wasn't the most trustworthy person but still. She wondered how much All might told him.

"Well just to be clear." He set down his binder and took another cookie, "I have no intention of trusting you without proof. I don't care what All might said. The fact is, you are a very suspicious individual who brought a child to the number one hero and you know everything about him. It's not far fetched to say you might be even working with All for One."

She opened her mouth. Then closed it. Opened it. Then closed it again. "For not trusting me, you sure are eating a lot of my cookies!" She said as he took a third one, an irritated smile came on her face, "Also, am I supposed to care?"

He paused and she saw his eyes narrow a bit.  She stuck a polite smile and painted it to perfection. No jerk was gonna question her intentions when all she did was just say the truth.

"Look Sir Nighteye, was it?" She smirked inwardly, "I don't care what you think honestly.  All I want is help with my quirk to better control it. You weren't even my first choice for training. But we're both here now so! If you want proof I'm not a bad person, come get it. I'm not stopping you. I have nothing to hide."

"Not to waste anymore time.." she leaned back crossing her legs with a raised eyebrow, ".. are you gonna help me or not?" Jerk!

Eyes narrowed a fraction at her.

"Fine."

"Okay then!" The man almost jumped at her sudden mood change,  

"I'm looking forward to it!" She grinned tense atmosphere gone, excitement shooting through her. "Soo, what are we gonna start with? Are we gonna do physical exercises?" She jumped up the sofa punching the air a few times, "quirk training??" She popped up some rubber ducks, "hero patrolling?!" At this rate, she was almost flying with excitement forgetting the man sitting in front of her who was currently massaging his forehead from the headache he was getting. "Or maybe—"

A hand landed on her head and she flinched at the dark aura coming from the man who materialized in front of her literally with the most condescending glare she'd ever seen.

"Um.. Nighteye..sir?"

Needless to say, she learned Sir Nighteye was a very peculiar man who didn't like chatterboxes. Like me.. she thought gloomily. They spent two hours, him asking her questions about her quirk and making her demonstrate her quirk more through creating All might merchandise.

Isn't that copyrighting though? she had thought when he showed her a limited edition All might tapestry that just came out and asked her to recreate it for training purposes. And when she asked him why all the training was her creating All might merchandise, he answered with a straight face that it was a coincidence and she should focus more on getting the wrinkles and shadows on All might's face correctly because apparently,

".. the cheekbone shadows should be 0.3 inches less.." he had said after getting a ruler out of nowhere!

***
After a while, Nighteye had went home after telling her they will meet up again and train more on the aspect of glitching.

Keira went to Tenko's room and took a deep breath.

knock knock!

"Tencchan, it's me. Can I come in?" There was no response. She fidgeted before lowering her hand with a sigh.

"I.. won't enter if.. you don't want me to, but.." She looked down, "I just want you to know that.. I.. made you a new onesie! And um.. I.. I also.."

what am I saying? We scratched these suggestions out, stop trying to bribe the kid!

She shook her head, "..I'm sorry Tencchan. I didn't mean to push you.. just know that.." she took a deep breath, ".. when you're ready, I'll be there. You don't have to be alone Tencchan.. I'll be.. by your side." She rubbed her arm before sighing and turning to leave.

He's probably still upset..

"Why are you helping me?" 

She froze not turning. 

His voice was small but very calm. "I'm.. My quirk is horrible. I'm a.. villain."

"I don't want to use my quirk ever again! I'm a villain! I.." tears went out of his eyes as he scratched his face. "I.. killed them all! All of them."

"Don't say that Tenko! How many times do I have to tell you this is not true?!" She had yelled losing her temper and feeling angry at how he's viewing himself.

She took a deep breath before turning. "I'm sorry for shouting yesterday." She started before taking a step closer and then sitting on the ground in front of him.

His head was lowered, hands clenched, "If you're really a villain, would we live with the number one hero?" She laughed dryly before looking at him sadly. "Makes his job easier to catch you.."

They stayed silent for a moment.

"When I first saw you.. I was also far away from home. I didn't want to be but that's what happened. My family.. friends.. everybody I knew was so far away.. "

She reached out to his clenched hand and gently held it. "I didn't know it until recently but.. I was lonely and lost." He looked up, his eyes filled with so much pain and tears.

"I just thought," she stared at his eyes and could almost see the same dirty hungry kid on the street, "I can't for the life of me ignore this kid. And so we got ice cream and lived together." Tears went down his face, "and then I got to know you and suddenly" her voice got thick with emotions, her lips curving into an emotional smile,

"you became a part of my home that I never knew I needed."

She took his other hand and looked at him so earnestly, "You're not a villain. You never were. You're just a kid whose lost.. and that's fine." she mustered up her best smile and her deepest voice,

"Because I am here!"

It cracked halfway but the kid stared at her his lips trembling before he ran towards her hugging her.

Tenko broke down. He cried and sobbed and let it all out. She held him just as tightly as he apologized over and over. They were both crying by the end of it not knowing the events that would change everything for both of them.. permanently.