"Morning already?" I mumbled to myself.
It took me a few seconds before I realized that it was The morning, morning when I will finally begin my studies at Department of Heroes. Since the day they told me that I have a chance to be transferred from General Education to Hero course it was one day of hard work after another and it may be even harder from this point on, but today is the day that I will take my biggest step towards becoming a hero.
I didn't live too far from U.A. so I got here pretty fast. I stood in front of big three doors marked with numbers. After a whole year of using that first door, which was just opened as some boy with a bird-shaped head walked through it, I got pretty used to it. As for this year, I will be using the second door which was just approached by a black-haired boy, who might be my new classmate. I began to follow him till he turned towards class 2-B, which in fact was my new class, but not exactly my current destination, that was staffroom where I should meet up with my new homeroom teacher Kurogane Kyoya, probably so he can propriety introduce me to the class. Normally it is pretty hard to find anything in U.A. simply because of the magnitude of the building, but luckily for me, I looked around the building every time I was bored in class, so I kind of memorized approximate positions of rooms.
I didn't have to go inside because professor Kurogane was standing in front of the door talking to a teacher of Modern Literature professor Cementoss. The moment he saw me he broke the conservation and headed towards me.
"Nice to meet u again Yamamoto." Said professor Kurogane who was like every other Pro Hero teacher wearing his hero costume which wasn't anything special only thing that stood out was a few cosmetically fixed handcuffs.
Yes, I already meet up with professor Kurogane, it was in the midst of my endeavors to try to catch up at least little with my new class, specifically at my Provisional Hero License Exam.
"Hello, professor Kurogane" I replied.
"Welcome to the new school year, I will be your homeroom teacher from this point on." He started walking, probably to class so I followed him.
After few steps professor Kurogane turned his sight to me. "You look worried ….," Said professor Kurogane with a curious look. "I hope it isn't because you feel like you don't belong here because you do you worked hard for it and earned your spot in the hero course."
"But it is a whole year, I will be in a class with people who are already working hard to become a hero at hero course for a whole year?" I quickly replied.
"There is no reason to worry you were going to U.A. all that time too and written exams in General Education are even harder…" Professor Kurogane talked slowly with a calming voice. "and just the fact that u were able to be transferred and having already acclaimed Provisional hero license puts you pretty close to others from 2B. To be honest lots of them don't even have any real practical experience because they didn't run into any villains."
We walked around a corner and there I saw it again big door with 2B on it, but this time I was walking through them into my new class.
The class looked like all the others, filed with 19 students sitting behind their desks. From the looks of it my new desk was seat no. 4, in front of my new desk was sitting blond boy with whom I actually teamed up in sports festival second stage which was reassuring, but behind me was sitting an unknown person, I knew all the other students except this boy with a mixture of black and purple hair. That surprised me a bit because I thought I already met all my new classmates at the last sports festival, but I didn't have time to think about it because I was already standing in front of my new class with professor Kurogane to my right.
"Welcome class to the beginning of the second school year…" Said professor Kurogane in relaxed tone. "I am happy to see you all again. Regarding student changes, there was one repeater, but has been assigned to the A class. As for our open spot we have the honor of welcoming a student from general education who through hard work earned his spot in our class at the department of heroes." Small applause came from the class.
Professor Kurogane looked at me with encouraging face, surely for me to step up and introduced myself so I did.
"My name is Yamamoto Kaii. Nice to meet you all." And I bowed while saying that.
From silence I knew that was not all I should say, well it is not exactly the best one, but they kind of take me by surprise and didn't exactly give me time to think it through. "Search Hero: Browser"
With that being said I went to my new seat, the boy in front of my desk, his name was Ryohei if I remember correctly, done a little wave to welcome me. Ryohei had a quirk that granted him endless energy so he never got tired, which was reflected in his energetic personality. As for the others from our four-member team that we formed at the sports festival, there was that girl with shadow Kurea was her name she had seat no. 7 and a boy with portals Kokei he had seat no. 1.
As I sat down professor Kurogane began talking." First, before anyone asks yes All Might is a teacher in U.A. …" Cheering came from the students and I myself have been very happy about this news "…You as the second years will not have him regularly but you will have a battle trial class day after tomorrow."
"Regarding tomorrow I want you all to come as soon as possible and with your hero costumes on. I have arranged all-day training at the USJ so pack up some food too."
"Similar lessons like this will be held more through the year because the second semester of hero studies is putting the main focus on teamwork."
"At last I want to remind of this year's sports festival. I only hope u were not and will not be slacking off on your preparations so u can show yourself in the best light in front of the Pro heroes!... That is all class dismissed." Professor Kurogane finished his speech while he was already exiting the class.
"Looks like we have some natural talent over here, skipping a whole year and beginning his hero studies at the second year or are you here just to fill out the empty spot?... I wonder which one it is." A boy with white hair and with a coolly shaped black skin instead of eyebrows talked as he was coming towards my desk.
"Junji, I hope you aren't trying to pick on somebody who it actually made into the finals of last sports festival." Said Ryohei as he was standing up and walking towards the exit.
So Junji was his name. I do remember him from the second stage, but I have no idea what his quirk is.
Junji turned towards Ryohei with probably angry face expression it was kind of hard to tell. So I used the initiative and began walking towards exit so before he turned back I wasn't there anymore. I took the fastest route outside of the main building so I didn't have to face anyone like that. I got to the entrance and turned right.
"Wait up!" Somebody shouted behind me and to my surprise, it was Ryohei again followed by a boy with messy indigo hair that was actually sitting to my left on seat no. 9.
"So you are going this way too, you must live somewhere close by right?" Asked Ryohei when he caught up to me.
"Yea, I live pretty close."
"Well that is nice, up until now it was just me and… Oh, you don't know each other."
"Name is Okamoto Roku, nice to meet you." Said the boy and put his hand towards me. I shook his hand and as I let go an can flew into his hand and he took a sip. That is right he had it before.
Ryohei probably saw my confused face so he explained: "That is his quirk, he likes to say that he bends metal to his will."
They started to walk on my initial path so I followed." So have u find a way to you use your quirk for combat since you are at hero course? Don't get me wrong seeing through stuff is a good rescue quirk, but that is not exactly the main hero job.
"Well, my quirk is not defined as seeing thought stuff it is more like a booster of my senses and nervous system."
"So reflexes too right?"
"Yea you could say it like that."
"Well, that could be useful in a fight…"
"So you can see through clothes too right?" Roku joined the conversation.
"Of course he can you pervert." Answered Ryohei instead of me.
"Good for him." Mumbled Roku and took another sip.
I got used to that question, it is usually the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about my quirk.
"So what is USJ like." I asked.
"Oh that is right you didn't get to see it yet. Well as the name implies Unforeseen Simulation Joint it is Dome-shaped building emulating a particular environmental factor. There are Ruins, Landslide, Mountain, Conflagration and Flood zones."
"You forgot about Downpour zone." Added Roku.
"That is right Downpour zone. It covers every basic disaster situation locations, you are going to love it. Can u even name a better place for your quirk?"
"You are right it is quite useful."
"Quite? You literally see everything around u and can react accordingly all I can do is running around aimlessly and lift heavy stuff."
"Well, you don't exactly have a super strength so you are no good even at that." Added Roku and took another sip.
Ryohei turned towards Roku probably offended by that comment. "Oh really? Tell me how useful is your quirk somewhere like in forest or in mountains?"
Ryohei turned back to me. "So is there anything else u want to ask?"
"Well, one more thing has been bothering me. Who is the guy sitting behind me no. 5 seat? I seem to recall all the other faces from the sports festival except his."
"Yea Torio was sick so he couldn't participate at sports festival. It was quite sad that he couldn't show his overpowered quirk…" So Torio is his name. "He could have ended at internships with someone like Endeavor and people would at least have some reason to come watch our stage this year, but no he had to be sick and we have to have final battle with foam swords what an unentertaining show we did."
"Speaking of Endeavor I heard his son is the first-year student." Added Roku and took another sip.
"Wait you are kidding right?" Ryohei face was something between surprised and angry.
"Nope, I guess we lost our chance for a breakthrough." Roku said as he sent his empty can flying towards trash bin above which he squeezed it and dropped it.
"This is as far as I go, see ya tomorrow." Roku said and turned left.
"See ya." I said simultaneously with Ryohei.
"You seem like good friends, why didn't u teamed up with him at the sports festival?"
"Well, I didn't really know him that well then and he is always with Kenji creating gadgets and stuff honestly they bought should have gone to the Department of Support."
"I see, well I am going to the right so see ya tomorrow."
"See ya."
When I came home there was a briefcase waiting for me with my costume. It was another thing that I wasn't given time to think about. So I just requested a black and white costume with light but tough material on my forearms and communication device. When I put it on I was pretty satisfied with the design too. That happiness faded away the next day when I saw all the costumes of my classmates. All the little gadgets and design choices were a clear indication of the gap between us.