(Update: Noticed some spelling and grammar mistakes that are fixed now. Also I underlined all of Nana's voice lines to make them easier to delineate from Izuku's.)

For those who've seen my other new story, 'Hitokori', this is the over fanfic I mentioned at the top of it. For those who haven't this along with 'Hitokori' will act stories I write to take a break from my main on, 'When Heroes Meet Huntsmen'. As such it will be updated fairly infrequently. Another thing before we get on to the first chapter, I said in the summary that this was inspired by 'The Smiling Hero' by AriustheAngel. (Which if you haven't checked out you should it's really good.) That means their will be similarities in the base concept of the story. Just letting you all know, outside of that base concept there will be little to no similarities between these two stories. With that out of the way, let's get on with the chapter.

Chapter 1: A Fateful Encounter

"Gotta get away, gotta get away, gotta get way." A sludge man repeated rapidly.

The man, whose quirk caused his body to be able to be made of sludge, raced through the sewers. Dammit, to think All Might of all people would be in this city. What the hell's he doing here anyways. Grrr… I don't have time to worry about that. I just need to get out and find a body I can snatch before he catches me. Above him he hears the sound of a young teenage girl causing him to stop. It sounded as though she were talking to herself. This might be a good catch. He stealthily slithered his way up through the manhole behind the girl.

The girl he found was beautiful with silky smooth black hair tied up in a small half-up-half-down bun. She wore a black jacket over a dark green top with black short shorts and black shoes. She was currently unaware that he was behind her. Damn quite the looker. If I wasn't in such a hurry I'd love to have a little fun with her. Oh well, can't be helped.

"Well, well, well, you'll make an excellent skin suit." He proclaimed grabbing the girls attention. "Come here girly!"

He lunged towards her right as she turned to see him coming. Her gray eyes widening in surprise at the villains sudden appearance. Suddenly there was a flash of light and he was blown away by an unknown wind. Before he could even think, the sludge villain was splattered across the lonely street and he lost consciousness. The light faded and the girl was left standing there with her right fist forward. She breathed heavy.

"Close one," She expressed in relief.

She looked around her.

"Ohhh… I hope no one saw that. I didn't mean to use my full power like that." She expressed nervously.

She continued to look around for any signs of people. However, all she found was an empty street.

"Looks like I'm in the clear. Now what do I do with…" She began.

"Fear not citizen for I am… here?" All Might proclaimed as he burst up from the sewers.

"A-A-A-A-A-ALL MIGHT?!" She squeaked out.

"Indeed I am. Tell me young lady what happened here? What happened to the sludge villain I was chasing? It looks as though I'd already punched him?" All Might inquired.

"O-o-o-o-oh w-well uhm… I… kind of took care of him." The girl answered nervously trying to look away.

"You did?" All Might questioned.

"Y-y-yeah me." She answered swallowing down her nerves but continued to not face the hero directly. "I-I-I used my quirk. I-I know it's against the law, b-but it was an accident I didn't mean to hit him so hard."

"I see… well… while I should reprimand you for using your quirk. Given the situation, I think I can make an exception. I did take a bit too long in catching up to him." All Might replied before giving the nervous girl a curious look.

While All Might had meet his fair share of fans nervous to meet him in person this girl seemed different. Her nervousness was not that of a fangirl not knowing what to say to the number one hero, but that of someone hoping not to be recognized. However All Might could not think of why he'd know this girl. For now, he decided to ignore it.

"Anyways I'd best get this villain bottled up and take him to the police." All Might stated as he took out two two liter bottles of soda and began to empty them.

"O-oh… I can help with that." The girl suggested.

"No need!" All Might proclaimed before dashing about the street quickly picking up all the pieces of sludge. "I've already apprehended him."

SO FAST! The girl mentally exclaimed.

"Welp I'd best be off. Gotta get this crook to the police before he wakes up." All Might stated.

"Uh… before you go…" The girl began as she rummaged through her bookbag.

She pulled out a pen and notebook.

"Can I have your autograph?" She asked.

"Ah ha ha ha of course young lady." All might answered, sticking the bottles in his pockets.

He took the pen in notebook and signed it. As he did he continued to come back to where he might have met the girl before. Having looked at her for a bit he realized that she did seem similar to someone he'd once knew. He handed the notebook back to the girl.

"Here you are young lady." All Might stated.

"Thank you sir!" The girl squealed.

"Your quite welcome." All Might replied.

Instead of leaving All Might stood there studying her intently causing the girl to grow nervous.

"Hmmm…" All Might hummed to himself.

"Uhm… All Might sir… is everything alright?" She asked.

"Huh what… oh… yes, sorry young lady you just seem similar to someone I knew back in my youth." All Might replied.

"O-o-o-o-o-oh… well uhm… I don't know. I-i-i-i-it's certainly possible." She replied.

"Hmmm… tell me young lady. What is your name?" He asked.

"Oh… i-i-i-i-it's… Nana… Midoriya." She answered.

"I see…" All Might replied. "It's strange you look like my late master. You even share here given name."

"Oh y-y-y-you don't say… t-t-t-talk about weird coincidences." Nana answered.

"I guess so… welp I should get going. Best get this villain to the police." All Might stated. "Take care young lady."

With a might leap All Might left the scene. After he had flown a little ways, Nana breathed out a sigh of relief.

"I best getting going myself. I don't want to miss the train." She stated before running off.

Later, on a train…

Nana sat down and relaxed. She had her hood up on her jacket. There were few people on the train.'Good job talking with Toshi back there. Played it real smooth.' A voice in her head spoke. Oh come on what was I supposed to say? Hey All Might you know your dead master Nana Shimura? Well guess what, she's in my head now and I now have her body. 'I know Izuku, I know. Still your reaction during the whole exchange was hysterical. You went from total fangirl to oh god please don't recognize me. Not that he would.' The girl's eye twitch in annoyance. That reminds me your reaction during the whole thing didn't help Nana. 'What, did you expect me to not be happy to see my favorite little pupil after so long. He's grown so much too. I hardly recognized him till you said his hero name back when I saw his poster in your room.' Still can't believe I somehow gained the soul of All Might's master. Nana sighed as she looked out the window.

The sun was starting to get low. I should get there a bit before sundown. Hopefully we can find something this time. It's not much of a lead but it's better than nothing. 'Just remember no quirk use, don't want to ruin your hero career with a record of vigilantism and illegal quirk usage. Also don't need you getting in trouble with your mom.' I know, I know, you say that every time we do this. 'That's cause it's important. I don't want you to forget it.' Nana sighed. Suddenly she felt a chill run down her spin. She looks behind her. Her eyes scanned the train car but found only other occupants minding their own business. She slowly turned and resumed looking out the window. However the unnerving feeling never left her, even when she left the train.

She made her way down the street. She periodically used her phone's screen as a mirror to see if anyone was trailing her. Everytime she did she couldn't pick out anyone that might be a suspect. Pushing passed this, she made her way to an abandoned warehouse. The sun had just begun to set when she arrived. She looked around to make sure the coast was clear before zipping up her jacket and sneaking in.

The inside of the building showed that it had been abandoned for years. Cobwebs strung up in every corner, broken crates and rusted machinery littered the place.

"Certainly looks like no one's been here for years." Nana muttered to herself as she took out a flashlight and turned it on. "Let's see if that's still the case."

Nana made her way around the whole facility. She searched carefully for signs of recent activity. Despite her best efforts, she found nothing.

"Another dead end, dammit." She muttered.

'Language young lady.' Nana rolled her eyes. Right as she was about to leave she heard something fall. She stopped and looked around her. She pointed her flashlight about the place to try and see who or what was there. Despite seeing nothing, the sense that she was being watched never left her. Her breaths became heavy as the silence became deafening. She heard something faint behind her. Her breathing hitched. Immediately she shifted to her left as a wind blade sliced past her, cutting her right shoulder. She dropped her flashlight.

"GAHH!" She cried out in pain and clutched her shoulder.

She turned around to look where the blade came from. Her flashlight rolled around and it's light settled on a man with long silver hair. He wore a black vest opened down the middle, bridged by an 'x' crossed white strings. He also wore a pair of black pants and silver boots. He slowly walked towards her.

"So it was a little flower that's been nipping at our heels. I was more so expecting a rat." The man stated.

Nana's gaze went stone cold giving no signs of emotion. Her eyes carefully moved between her attacker and her flashlight.

"My you seem to quite adept. You already know that if you leave anything of yours around we'd find it and be able to track you with it. I wonder why?" The man observed.

Nana didn't answer. Her eyes remained fixed on the silver-haired man.

"But where are my manners. While I can't give you my name, something to call me is required. For now I'll just be Ventum Gladio." The man introduced himself. "And what, prey tell, are you called.

Nana didn't answer. Ventum's eyes narrowed.

"It's rude to not ANSWER!" He shouted as he sent a wind blade forward.

Nana rolled out of the way, picking up her flashlight as she did. She tried to sprint away only for a wind blade to cut her path off. Another came flying at her forcing her to roll out of the way. Ventum sent blade after blade towards Nana who could do little but dodge his relentless assault. Despite her best efforts, she was still getting slight cuts, though nothing too deep. This guy's not giving me time to think please tell me you've got something Nana. 'I'm working on it. just keep dodging and don't use your quirk.' Don't have to tell me twice! Nana mentally exclaimed has she bent back under another blade. She continued back into a handstand and sprung over another blade. She spun around in the air dodging several more blades before landing.

"Grrr… stand still and die you rude girl!" Ventum shouted.

"The hell's rude about that?!" Nana questioned.

She dodged another blade. 'I've got a good read on his quirk now. His blades are deadly but their range is fairly short. I'd say about ten meters. Also he has to swing out his arms and possibly his legs to generate them. He can only throw so many out at once, try and use that to get some distance before making a break for it.' Got it. Nana jumped back way from another blade. As dodged blade after blade as she slowly made her way back. Ventum smirked.

"So you've figured out my quirks limitations. I'm impressed." He praised.

He began to walk forward.

"But can you get away before I take your pretty little head." He declared.

He ramped up the speed at which he threw out blades. Nana continued to dodge to the best of her abilities but was still getting cuts all over her. He's keeping me just in range. The fact that he doesn't know my quirk is the only reason he isn't out right sprinting at me. And I can't use my quirk or he'd find out about it. Then I'd have to take him down and hope no one is watching from afar. Come on, I need something to slow down this assault. Her eyes darted around for anything she could use. Her back hit a beam behind her she looked up and saw she was by a large set of storage units. There were crates still on it. That's it. She rolled out of the way causing the blade to cut the support beam. She went upright into a sprint being careful to keep near the base of the storage units. While confused, by the girl's sudden change it plans, Ventum kept his mind working on what her strategy could be as he gave chase.

Nana continued to dodge blade after blade making sure that they cut the support beams to weaken the structure. Each time they did she'd punch them quickly without Ventum noticing. After she felt enough were cut, she spun behind the last one and ducked under the incoming blade. Quickly She stood up and kicked the beam out of place. The sounds of bolts popping out of place reverberated through the whole building causing Ventum to stop. Nana smirked. Slowly the structured leaned forward causing the creates to slide. This intern accelerated the process of it's collapse. Ventum's eyes widened as the structure along with everything on it began to fall towards him.

"Oh… son of a bitch." He muttered.

"Catch ya later silver boy." Nana stated with a goodbye salute.

She ran towards the exit.

"Why you…" He started.

Before he could finish containers began to fall towards him. He quickly backed up. As he did he sent wind blade after wind blade cutting up the containers before they could fall on him. With her attacker sufficiently distracted, Nana made her escape.

Bursting out of the building, Nana bolted down an alleyway instead of into the street to trick Ventum by going a way he wouldn't expect. Running as fast as her legs would take her, she made her way through the back alleys. Eventually she came to a stop feeling she was sufficiently far away. She threw off her hood and leaned against a wall breathing heavy.

"That was too close." She muttered to herself.

'Yeah, no kidding. I don't think he knows about me though so we're in the clear.' Yeah but now we have another problem. 'What's that?' How do I explain THIS to my mom. She exclaimed mentally as she gestured to her cut up body. 'Oh… right… can't help you with that Izuku, that's on you.' Gee… thanks. Nana sighed. She placed her flashlight back in her bookbag before she made her way out of the alleyway.

"GAHH!" She heard someone shout.

Immediately Nana stop and her eyes shot to where the voice came from. She slowly made her way towards it. She peeked around the corner. Her eyes widened and she stifled a gasp. She saw a group of three, whom she presumed, villains. They all had strange masks on that seem similar to rorschach ink blots. One was a well built man with a fairly large blade. The other was very skinny and bald. The third villain was a large buff man with four arms. Around them were several brutalised corpses. She couldn't make out many defining characteristics of the corpses other then they had what appeared to be plague masks one villain pulled his blade out his latest victim. She could see the man and had brown hair. What she saw next caused her breath to hitch.

A little girl, no older than six, was on the ground trembling before the villains. She had bluish-white hair, and red eyes with a horn on the right side of her forehead. She was in a tattered dress with bandaged up arms and legs. Blood from their most recent victim was splattered across her.

"What should we do with her?" The villain with the sword questioned.

"What do you mean we kill her. Can't have any witnesses." The bald villain stated.

"Even still we're villains not monsters. We can't just go and kill a little girl." The four armed villain stated. "Besides this girl seemed important to them perhaps she could be of use to us."

"All the more reason to kill her. She could be used against us in the future if we aren't careful." The bald villain pointed out.

"How about we just capture her and let Destro decide what to do with her." The sword villain suggested.

"Fine, fine… we'll let the boss decide." The bald villain relented.

DESTRO! Nana mentally exclaimed. 'I should have known he'd come back as well. Izuku you have to do something.' I know, I know… but what? Unless I use my quirk I can't do anything to them. The one villain with the sword stepped towards the little girl. The girl was too scared to move or even make a sound. The villain reach out towards her. The girl's eyes shut tight. Screw it! She flung her hood back up. She channeled her power throughout her being.

She shot out towards the villain. Before he could react, her knee had already slammed into his face. Grabbing onto his shoulders he flipped herself over him. Mid-flip she grabbed onto his clothing. Upon landing she used her momentum to flip him over her and slammed him onto the ground. The other two villains tried to ready themselves for an attack. However, Nana was already on the bald villain and incapcitated him with a punch to the gut and a chop to the neck.

The four armed villain tried to make a grab at her. However she flipped back up, over, and behind him. He spun around only to be met with a fist being slammed into his gut. Nana delivered punch after punch to villain giving him no time to act before clocking him in the jaw knocking him out cold. She breathed to calm herself as she powered down. She made her way to the girl who hadn't move during the whole ordeal. As she did the sword wielding villain groan as he tried to get up. With a quick kick to the jaw he was out cold again.

Nana walked up and bent down to the little girls level. The girl trembled in fear of the woman before her. Nana slowly removed her hood. She gave the girl a kind, comforting, almost motherly smile.

"Hey…" She gently called as she reached out towards the girl.

Said girl recoiled back in fear.

"Hey it's okay… I'm here now, it's safe." Nana kindly spoke.

Nana's hand gentle ran across the girls cheek. The little girl flinched back slightly before leaning in to Nana's hand. Tears began to well up in the girls eyes. Taking her jacket she gentle wiped away the blood from her face.

"There you are little one." She stated.

Slowly Nana pulled her into a gentle hug. The girl offered no resistance as she was embraced by Nana. The girl continued to cry clutching onto Nana's jacket.

"There, there, cry it all out." She gently stated while rubbing the back of the girl's head.

"Hey I hear something over here!" Someone shouted.

The girl gasped. Quickly, Nana picked her up and ran out of the alleyway.

"Hey these guys are all down!" Someone else shouted.

"They took out what's left of the precepts who could have done this!" Another person shouted.

"I don't care who it was, find them!" the first person shouted.

Nana quickly got out onto the streets and tried to lose herself in the crowd. She slowed down into a brisk walk as she made her way through the crowd. Okay first get to the police. Oh… mom's gonna kill me. 'Well at least you can explain away the cuts.' Yeah, speaking of which I should come up with a story. 'Just remember to not lie.' I know, I know, now…

"Excuse me young lady." Some spoke behind her while placing a hand on her shoulder.

"EEP!" She exclaimed as she turned around.

Before her was a skeleton of a man with blond hair like a lion's mane holding his hands up defensively. He wore a loose fitting t-shirt and green khaki pants. Why does he look familiar? 'He kind of reminds me of Toshi when he was younger, weird.'

"Sorry to startle you but you were all cut up and with a bandaged child. I thought you might need some help." The man stated.

"Oh… thanks I could use some. I need to get this girl to the police station. I don't know the whole story but she was about to get abducted." Nana explained.

"I see and what about you young lady?" The man asked.

"Oh… I ah… got a little tooooo… reckless in trying to save her. Oh… I should have thought of a better plan." Nana answer.

"Right well we can save the chit-chat for later for now come, let's get to the police station. My friend in the force should still be there. He can help you." He stated.

"That'd be good. I'm Nana Midoriya by the way." She replied.

"Nice to meet you Young Midoriya and what's your name little one?" The man asked.

The girl didn't answer but look to Nana as if she was asking if it was okay to answer.

"It's okay, I think we can trust him. I'd like to hear your name as well since I never had the chance to ask." Nana stated.

The girl nodded.

"It's Eri," She answered softly.

"Oh… that's such a pretty name." Nana complimented.

Eri blushed lightly.

"Indeed but where are my manners. I'm Toshinori Yagi." The man introduced himself.

"I'm sorry WHAT?!" Nana exclaimed.

And that brings chapter one to a close. Leave a review and let me know what you think of this story. Till next time.