To say Izuku was nervous on his first day at U.A would be the understatement of the century. To be perfectly honest, a part of him still believed he was in some sort of trauma-induced hallucination, from which he would wake up any moment now, and then be forced to face the pathetic truth of never becoming a hero.
Beating that robot, even though painful, had been a truly surreal experience for someone who was once quirkless like himself, And discovering he actually passed the test for the hero course basically kept him in Cloud-9 for a few weeks straight, whenever his nervousness and (happy) tear didn't kick in of course.
The travel to the building itself seemed to be just a big blur in Izuku's mind, anything besides his mother's worries in the morning seemed very unimportant compared to actually standing at the front of the school of his dreams, he was slightly paralyzed right now
Although it certainly wouldn't calm all his nerves, the paper he was carrying definitely made everything feel more 'real', for the lack of a better word, it was his and it was proof of everything he had done so far, proof that yes he could be a hero. He probably wouldn't admit it, but he had read the simple contents of it to know the words by heart.
U.A ADMISSION
Name: Izuku Midoriya
Age: 15
Blood Type: O
Class: 1-B, Hero Department
That was he could read before getting queasy, the euphoria overtaking him. He could slowly feel his more 'existential' nervousness fading away by bits, being substituted by more 'normal' worries. Would the people in his class be scary? Would Kacchan be in his class? Would he meet that nice girl from the exams in his class? Would he even be able to stay in his class, considering his new quirk broke his bones?
Izuku had now fully entered into mumbling-mode, losing enough his spacial awareness that he wasn't able to notice a girl calmly walking up to him and putting her hand in his shoulders
"I'm terribly sorry" Said a soft, polite voice "But could you please give me some assistance?"
Immersed in his nerve-fueled questions, that was all it took to sent Izuku in a massive fit of apologies, he could only see green hair and equally green eyes before making a deep bow and starting to shout apologies
"Sorry! I'm so sorry! I must really have bothered you sorry!"
"Huh?"
The confused sound was apparently enough to snap Izuku out of his trance, so he finally looked up to see who had sneaked on him.
The first thing he noticed was the hair, it actually wasn't green like his own, it was more 'plant-like', looking like a bunch of vines strapped on her head, he immediately guessed it had something to do with her quirk,. The second thing that he noticed is that she was beautiful, a sleder body and pristine face. Everything giving her as mystery-like charm, almost making Izuku's brain short-circuit again.
Though she had a look of deep curiosity in her emerald eyes.
This finally made the young boy aware that he still had not answered her original question, that almost send his in another apology fit, but he maintained his composure.
"Sorry for apologizing so much!"
Barely.
"W-Well..." he said before she could open her mouth, likely for another 'huh?' "What do you need help with?"
"I'm new around here so I'm having trouble finding where I should go" She answered with a serious tone, if Izuku hadn't been drowning in nervousness himself he would note she was sightly embarrassed in asking for help in such simple thing.
The successor of All Might sighted in relief, that was simple, something he could help with but not lose a lot of time, he'd hate to leave someone just because he didn't have time, even if it was something silly as directions.
"I'm also new, but I hope to be of help. Where do you need to go?"
Ironically, one of the obvious answers to this question really didn't pass Midoryia's mind
"I need to find Class 1-B of the hero department, it would be a horrible shame to be late to such an incredibly important day"
The green haired boy saw his mind go blank, he was pretty sure he gaped like a fish a few times too, was this the measure for the rest of his classmates? She seemed serious, but not scary, maybe he would survive his school year if all of his class were like her
"Uhh… I-I'm also at class 1-B" he said quietly "W-We could search together. I-I mean if it doesn't annoy you, maybe you need go in alone or maybe you want to find it yourself or-or..."
"Two heads would certainly search better than one, if it's no bother"
After muttering a 'not at all', he and the vine-haired girl walked around still a bit aimlessly in an uncomfortable silence, that told a lot about how little they knew of each other. Thar was when Izuku realized fatal mistake. He had not asked for her name
'I would probably learn it later anyway' The boy mused. But at the same time it would be really awkward to refer to her as 'hey' or 'girl', and being friendly was important, right?
But what if already knew his and expected him to know it? And what if he had failed some sort of super secret test of character and she already hated him? What if she was just that cold and really didn't care?
Swallowing his questions, he decided to ask "Hey, I-I know it's kind of weird now but what's you name?"
The girl mused for a minute, looking slightly disappointed in herself before answering.
"I deeply apologize for not saying something earlier" The girl bowed as she said "I'm Ibara Shiozaki. May you give your own name?"
"O-oh! I'm Midoriya Izuku. I really hope we get along" he said earnestly
"Likewise" Said the girl with a small smile and also a bit more of warmth in her voice
'Yeah' Izuku thought 'Definitely not scary'
The next few minutes passed quickly as they made their way to the class, making small talk, mostly focusing on the 'newness' of the place and the possible oddities of his classmates (Izuku was pretty sure he saw a U.A uniform walking around on it's own, and decided that there was no such thing as too outrageous)
Shiozaki was proven right, because not to long after joining they managed to find their way, and now stood at the front of the door, Izuku far too nervous to make the first step had to wait until the girl opened the door for him to enter.
After steeling himself, he stepped in to see… what was definitely not his full class.
Eleven people already seemed to have gathered there, with no sign of their teacher. The first people to be seen were two girls talking in the front, one of them had a ponytail of orange hair combined with blueish eyes, she also seemed to be leading a conversation with a tall girl with medium length straight black hair and common black eyes, she nodded at infrequent intervals but opened her mouth little.
More at the back Midoriya noticed a group of three, a short girl with a bob cut that went slightly pass her shoulder, while her bangs covered most of her face, it was clear that she was incredibly nervous, so much that both a bandana guy with spiked up hair and another girl with dark green hair and sharp teeth were attempting to comfort her with jokes and smiles, tough the boy looked like he wasn't really into it. Obviously it was not very effective, but the intention was the most important part of it, right?
At the other seats in the back Izuku saw a group of people who seemed really into their reading material. A boy who was… a speech balloon? As insane as it sounded, his head was merely a blank speech balloon, although he was far away he could see small letters forming and disappearing in the middle of his 'face'. 'Is this how he communicates?' the green haired boy asked himself. 'Well I'll learn later anyway, it would be rude to just ask'. Ignoring that matter, he seemed pretty engrossed in a manga, Midoriya was pretty sure he knew it, but decided to ask later.
At his side a much larger teenager sat reading a book that so thick Izuku was sure he would not understand half of it. What was surprising about him was his appearance, he was in one word, big, he was tall and muscular, with small fangs plus lot of hair(maybe fur?), but also had square glasses, and generally seemed very intent in his reading material, definitely not someone who Midoriya would judge a 'heavy reader', but he guessed appearances could be deceiving.
The boy with glasses was so big he initially missed the small boy that sat behind him, though in Midoriya's defense he was certainly the kind of people who looked like he wanted to disappear, small and pretty chubby, the blue short hair was his most distinguishing feature, and it appeared that with the arrival of more people in the class, he looked even more ready to sink in his chair, using the large guy in front of him as a cover
"Hey! More people" he was snapped of his analysis as the orange-haired girl finally seemed to have take note of their entrance and apparently decided to go and greet "Hi. I'm Itsuka Kendou, nice to meet you"
She certainly shined with energy.
"Oh. I'm Ibara Shiozaki, and this right here is Izuku Midoriya, I imagine we're both delighted to make your acquittance" Ibara said with her own brand of politeness
"Yeah" and so the only thing Izuku was left to do was agree in an enthusiastic manner "I hope we get along, Kendou-san"
"Aww, thanks! Now for the rest of the class, look, that girl that I was with, name's Yui Kodai, say hi Kodai."
After being called, Yui merely gave a nod and a smile, looking content with her friend doing the introductions.
"Moving on, the girl who's sulking at the corner is Kinoko Komori, the boy and the girl are Yotetsu Awase and Setsuna Tokage respectively."
Izuku merely gave Komori a sympathetic smile, understanding her nervousness, and she, in a moment of solidarity of the anxious and socially awkward, understood it and even calmed down a little. The other two not so much, simply thinking he was being friendly, gave him a nod (from Awase) and a grin (from Tokage).
"And what's more, for those guys in the back, the otaku is Manga Fukidashi, the Nerd is Jurota Shishida, and the guy trying to disappear is Nirengeki Shoda"
Although Shoda gave a nervous laugh that Midoriya could understand all too well, the other two proved unflappable in their reading, not even looking up at the mention of their names.
"And for those guys there got there before me, so I got awkward and didn't ask" She rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly
"No that was already great, big thanks Kendou-san" He said honestly.
"Wow, I can already tell you're going to be a bundle of sunshine and rainbows aren't you" Kendou laughed as Izuku blushed crimson.
Ibara was okay with letting the conversation end here, and Itsuka went back to talk a little more with Yui. The vine-haired girl, decide to sit up close to the window, Izuku following her simply because of the lack of a better idea.
Closer to the window he could see, more to the front a boy attempted to do small talk to the other two. Although he seemed generally unremarkable (not like he could talk about unremarkable), with a brown spiky hair, medium build and common friendliness, his eyes really caught attention, being weirdly oval-shaped eyes, he made a pout before turning to the front and seemingly giving up on 'small talk'.
The boy wasn't sure if he would even have attempted small talk, considering the two were obviously people he wouldn't want to bother, the first was basically as tall as the glasses boy from before, though his 'face' certainly looked even more unique, it looked like the mix of a glue dispenser and a lappet on top, seven holes were adorning it, and from one of them a weird gray substance dripped, what could be seen of his skin was soft yellow.
Sitting at his side was a boy that probably could be in someone's nightmare, he was pale and slender with mid-length white hair, the most prominent feature his face completely lacking any lips, his teeth sitting weirdly, giving a very skeleton-like look, really someone that he would not like to meet him in a dark alley
When Ibara sat on the front chair, Izuku sat behind her, which also happened to be in front of the brown haired guy.
"Hey dude, who are you?" he asked lazily.
"I'm Izuku Midoriya" he extended his hand to him in a friendly gesture.
The other boy quickly took Midoriya's hand with what was now a smile "Finally a dude who's willing to talk normally here, I'm Kosei Tsuburaba, nice to meet ya'"
Midoriya then decided to attempt to get the names of the other two guys at the back, but before any noise could get out of him Kosei interrupted him.
"If you're gonna try and make friends with them, don't even try, since I came here I barely managed to get out their names" The brown haired boy complained "If you want to know, the big guy is Kojiro Bondo and the skeleton is Juzo Honenuki."
Even while being told not to, Deku still decided to wave at them in a friendly way, "They are still my classmates so I gotta be nice." Both of them actually looked slightly surprised at his attempt before doing a small nod.
Before he and Tsuburaba could even begin a real conversation, another pair entered the classroom.
"Damn, I thought those guys behind us were edgy, but that's a whole other level" commented Kosei, looking at the newcomers, even in all his niceness, Izuku couldn't help but agree.
They were both very 'eye-catching', and Midoriya's eyes first fell in the dark boy, with his skin literally as black as the midnight and his hair as white as a ghost, creating an unsettling contrast, combining this with the fact that was quite tall, he exuded a heavy presence, and certainly looked as if he was annoyed at being observed.
The other guy looked more laid back in his eyes, but his very green mohawk made him look very much like a delinquent, and his face was curious to say the least, a weird facial structure and two mandible-like blades on his head (Izuku wasn't sure if they were coming of his mouth or not, but really didn't want to get close enough to discover).
Kendo quickly got up and introduce herself to them, probably to give the same explanation that she gave Midoriya and Ibara, but that conversation managed to look even more one-sided, with simple nods from Mohawk guy and grunts from the dark guy, who looked really disgruntled.
"Okay" That was all he said to the orange-haired girl before finding a seat to himself.
"Oh… I didn't even get his name" Mumbled Kendo
"Don't worry, that's probably the best you're going to get out of him, I've been with him for like half an hour and what he said can be counted in one hand" The guy with blade-teeth said to a disheartened Kendo "I'm Togaru Kamakiri by the way, he's Shihai Kuroiro" he finished while taking a seat close to Shihai.
The class barely had time to quiet down before the next entrance of another guy, and compared to the one who had just entered before he was certainly underwhelming, with normal height and average black hair, the most prominent feature was the hair, black and braided in a ponytail, though there definitely was something about his features that Izuku couldn't quite put together.
"Oh, it seems that I'm not that late, thank god" He then sighed in relief.
"Don't worry, the teacher's not here, so you are still early" Kendo, who had again gotten up to greet a classmate, decided to comfort him
"Thanks I guess, I'm Hiryu Rin by the way, what's you name?"
The girl looked ready to question him, but decided that was here nor the time nor the place, and merely gave him a standard course over the people who were already here.
With that done he merely sat down in a random seat, and seemed to be mentally preparing himself from what would come.
From that point on it seemed nobody even had the time to calm themselves before someone was at the door, one more girl from the looks of it, with a short silver hair that covered one of her water blue eyes, what was most notable about her was the way she walked, with her elbows upward plus the incredibly blank and confused look on her face, she almost looked like she was a zombie out of a horror story.
Them when Kendo approached her, he had the second hand embarrassment of witnessing the most one sided conversation of the whole day, with the white haired girl being able to look everywhere but at the person she was 'talking' to, and Kendo trying, but failing, to pretend that the other girl's confused noises were actually part of a conversation.
"So what''s your name?" The orange-haired girl asked, seeming ready to end the 'conversation' as quickly as possible.
Apparently that was also something the other girl wanted, because without giving any answer, she simply went and sat at the chair behind Kendo's own.
"So you're not the friendly type, okay..." Kendo said more to herself than to anyone else.
After that, an awkward silence put itself on the class, and Izuku really wanted someone to enter that door or just say something, maybe even something stupid.
His hopes were realized faster than he'd ever expect.
"Reiko Yanagi" Stated blankly the white-haired girl.
"What?" That was the only thing Kendo could muster for an answer.
"My name, you asked, didn't you?" She asked, confused at the other girl's confusion.
"Oh… Oh yeah I did"
"Good, I'd hate to say something at an awkward time" Now looking pretty satisfied in herself, Reiko now looked at the window intently, as if it had offended her personally. Kendo merely looked
confused.
And before everyone could put behind what just happened one more person entered the class, a blond boy, with short hair and blue eyes had just waltzed into the classroom as if he owned it, his eyes shining with an arrogance, that slightly reminded Izuku of Katsuki, he then opened a deranged smile and declared the entire to the entire word to hear:
"Oh, It seems that the last one is always truly the most important isn't, so now be happy that I, Momota Neito, am here so that I can show you what being a strong hero is actually about! And..."
"Actually, you're not the last, there's still two people to come" Yui calmly interrupted.
"Wait a minute, if 'knew' you entered last, does this mean that you have been waiting around close to the door, until you were the last?" Questioned Tokage "Cause that's a little…"
"Hilarious. Hilarious is the word you're looking for." Offered Honezuki
"I was gonna say weird and desperate, but I guess that fits."
"Oh yeah, I saw him rehearsing the whole thing in the hallway in the way to here" Revealed Reiko "He looked so determined, I didn't have heart to tell him that I was there"
After the class descended into general chaos and laughter, the boy that caused all that, Monoma, had started to sulk in a chair, Izuku stood his ground and thought the guy was pretty similar to Kacchan, just… less effective and with less explosions if things didn't go his way, 'So points for Monoma I guess' He thought.
In the aftermath of the scene Kendo had taken to 'comforting' Monoma, about his failure, even trying to convince him to do it again, but any second attempt was interrupted by the door slamming open, and in an instant Izuku was sure he would not have missed the guy even if he was at thirty yards away, his silvered hair and incredibly thick eyelashes, that truly went around his eyes, and his smile showed the entirety of his razor-sharp teeth, everything made it hard not to look at him, adding to his boisterous energy and force that anyone with eyes could notice.
"Hey dudes! I'm Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and I want us all to become kick-ass heroes!" He it simply as if it was the greatest and simplest truth in the world, already having full confidence in his classmates despite not even properly meeting them. Even Kendo seemed stunned at his confidence.
"Now that's how you do a memorable introduction, take notes Monoma." The words appeared on Manga's face, as it seemed that the last introductions were able to get him out of hid reading.
Tetsutetsu then sat down at the sound of Kendo's introductions.
"Man that guy sure is full of confidence." Kosei commented form behind "What do you think, Midoriya?"
"Well, we are all here to be heroes right? So I guess it's fine to be boisterous since that's what a lot of heroes do"
"Well when you say it like that I guess it's okay"
At this moment the person who, much to Monoma's dismay, was actually the last one entered, she was a small girl with a long wavy blond hair, and blue eyes that adorned her round face, but that was not even close to being her most distinguishing feature, that prize certainly went either to the horns that rested atop of her head or her weirdly jointed legs, which made her look very much like a mythological satyr.
"I'm so Sorry! I got lost and couldn't ask for help because I was so nervous and late an-and..." The girl said everything in a broken english that nobody in the class could even begin to understand.
"Hey!" Kendo called "You can calm down, because I'm not understanding anything, so count to three and take a deep breath"
The girl did just that, now looking much less frantic, and began speaking Japanese "Sorry I got so flustered, I got lost and every time I get flustered I start to speak english so asking for help was kinda hard, but I found my way. I'm Pony Tsunotori in case you were wondering, big big thanks for calming me up" Everything that came from Pony's mouth appeared to up the sugar in the blood of everyone in the room, her innocent smile lighting up the room.
"Well I think I just fell in love" commented Kosei from behind, before laughing.
"She just looks really eager, I think that's fine." said Izuku.
"Kendo was right, you're really a bundle of sunshine."
Izuku looked embarrassed as he watched the girl sat in the last seat avaliable.
Wait. "The last seat?" he asked himself, it was then that it hit him, Bakugo would not be in his class, even if he was aware of the… complexity of their relationship, they had been together since Izuku could think for himself, and now they were in separate classes? Something that would take Izuku a little time to get used to.
In the time they had left, the class started to talk amongst themselves, with even the more standoffish personalities accepting the burden of 'making small talk'. Izuku actually found himself getting involved in a conversation about savings with Shiozaki and Kosei.
'Yeah.' Izuku thought 'Definitely not scary.'
It was then that one more person entered, a bulky man, with spiky gray hair and short stature, and even with his mouth closed in a scowl the lower canines of his mouth were still visible, he looked at everyone, letting his eyes linger for a bit, as if trying to ascertain their abilities in one glance (and as a Pro hero, Izuku didn't doubt he was capable of doing so). When finished, he glanced down as if dissapointed.
"So you are this year's wannabe heroes huh?" He said loudly, the strength of his voice piercing Mirdoriya's ears "Well the listen closely, I'm Sekijiro Kan, the Blood hero: Vlach King. I'm really not putting faith in this class, so please surprise me."
'Nope, I was right in the beginning, definitly scary' Izuku thought.
