After that All might took her away he spoke to her, alone, away from prying eye's. He needed to know. Why she had jumped in like that. She would have surely died had he not been there, but she did it anyways, and when she told him he had known. Then and there in that moment, he had truly known. He had found his successor. She had the heart of a Hero if ever he'd seen one. So that day he began her training. It was long and hard, and he was more then sure she would give up. But she never did. She took anything he threw at her and smiled as if were a present. She grit her teeth for month's and struggled her way through his training. Whatever he'd asked of her, she did it, and he was fairly sure if he'd asked her to jump off a bridge she would. As the U.A. entrance exams neared he'd felt so proud of what she'd accomplished in such a short time.
Now it was the day before the entrance exams and she was ready. Ready to accept One For All. Ready to accept his power and become who she was meant to be. He'd laughed when she looked at him in disgust as he told her to eat his hair and he could remember having that same look on his face when presented with the same opportunity so many years ago. But she accepted it and when she ate it he beamed with pride.
"Now young Midori! Listen close to what I am about to tell you! This power is too much for your body to handle still at full strength. So measure yourself, and don't push yourself. If you do it could be bad. Understood?"
She had beamed up at him with a smile he knew he would never get tired of and said with so much enthusiasm
"I promise I won't let you down All Might!"
And he knew she wouldn't.
The next day Izuko woke with so much energy she could hardly contain it. Her mother, Inko, had seen that spark in her eye's and for the first time in a long time she saw the fire in her daughters eye's that had long been extinguished. Izuko was absolutely beaming with happiness and energy and it made her Inko's heart soar.
"Now remember sweety, do your best and momma will be proud."
Izuko had smiled so brightly at her with those words and when she wrapped her arms around her mother, Inko couldn't help but return the embrace.
"Mom, I know your scared for me, but I promise. . ." She looked up at her mother her eye's bright and her smile so much brighter" . . . Everything is going to be ok. Today is the day my whole life changes for the better."
Izuko was ready. Oh so ready. Dressed in a vibrant green tracksuit and her signature red sneakers she had never felt more ready. Month's of physical training and hard work was going to pay off. And today was the day. She just knew it. Her feet flew across the pavement as she dashed through the busy streets passing other people on her way, garnering funny looks from most, and knowing smiles from others. So many knew what today was, and while some kids were calm, and other's were worried, so many more were so excited that it seemed to charge the air around them. So they knew. When she arrived at U.A she was so surpried at the sheer number of other kids already there. She made her way to hurry up the stairs when her foot slipped on one of the steps and as she saw the ground rush towards her face all she could do was stare in shock. And then nothing happened. She was . . . floating? Izuko was quickly snapped out of her stupor when a voice rang out from beside her.
"Sorry about that! I know I shouldn't use my quirk without asking but i thought falling on your first day would kinda be bad luck!"
Izuko barely had time to respond before the random girl had gently placed her back on her feet and was taking off. Izuko watched in a silent stupor before quickly snapping out of it and continuing her way to the entrance exam. After getting there instructions they were directed to there combat exam. Izuko had never seen something so huge. It was just incredible! A giant self contained cityscape ready for any manor of training exercises. She swallowed down her fear as the realization had struck her that this was it. The moment of truth. She had to succeed. She had to make All Might Proud! She had to make her mother proud! She had to show Kachaan that she could be a Hero! But she was so nervous she just wanted to cry. Looking around at the other students she didn't see a single one who appeared even remotely nervous. They all seemed so relaxed and focused. And then she potted something familiar. There in the crowd, a familiar splash of red and white hair. It was the boy who had saved her from that slime Villain. Without thinking she began heading his way. She couldn't explain it but she just had to thank him again for saviing her and giving her the chance of being here. If he hadn't arrived she would have died, wouldn't have saved Kachaan! Wouldn't have met All Might! She wouldn't be here and now without him. She just had to show him how much that meant and thank him. Her thought's were interupted as a firm hand grabbed her by the shoulder stopping her in her tracks. As she turned to see who it was panic and fear flooded her at the sight of a very tall, and very handsome boy with glasses scowling down at her!
"Just what do you think your doing! Can't you see he's focusing! He's obviously preparing for the test and doesn't need you bothering him! Or are you here to hinder his chances of success by fangirling!" She could feel Eye's all over her now as she heard the crowd behind her snicker and comment about how she was clearly dead wait.
"I-I n-no! I-I'm not trying t-to d-do anything like that! I-I j-just . . ."
Her voice was cut off however as Present Mic's voice boomed all around them telling them to get ready. He laid out the intructions for the exam one last time before finally yelling at everyone to start running. By the time he realized what he'd said and turned around everyone had already taken off and were busy taking off to destroy the fo-villains and get there scores. A splash of fear and jolt of determination collided inside of her and she nearly stumbled over her own feet as she took off after the rest in an attempt to catch up. Everywhere she looked all she could see were other kids with triumphant looks on there faces and smashed robots all around. She couldn't see a single one intact anywhere. And then she saw one, it was heading straight for a short kid with purple hair the shape of what she could only describe as a bushel of grapes. He hadn't seen it at all and was to distracted staring at another girls ass. Izuko's body kicked into overdrive without her thinking and she took off, her feet flying across the pavement as she closed the gap between her and the smaller boy and with one final lunge she closed the gap shoving him out of the way of it's mighty blow only to end up on the receiving end.
She felt her body flying through the air as pain erupted from her left side and then, crack, she slammed into a concrete wall with so much force even the other kids around were amazed her eye's were still open. All she could see was that boy scared shitless as he stared at her before she saw what looked like anger flash over his face before he began ripping little purple balls from his hair and hurling them at the robots wheel, only for them to prout back instantly. As the little purple orbs made contact they stuck and a the wheel spun they made contact with the ground and suddenly it was stuck in place as it's upper body flopped forward colliding with the ground in a loud crash. Try as it might it couldn't get free and then without so much of a warning a lazer ripped through the air and shattered it in one shot. When she looked to see where it had came from she was amazed to see a boy with blonde hair and, were those sparkles floating around him, with a belt strapped to his abdomen wink at her and thank her for the distraction before taking off.
"Shit, shit, shit . . ." Izuko muttered to herself as she pulled herself up off the ground shakily. "I need to get some points or I'm not going to pass at all!"
Without thinking her feet were carrying her again as Present Mic's voice bellowed out warning them they only had five minutes left. He pace quickened and as she rounded the next street corner once again all she could see were more destroyed robot and kids bragging about how many points they had. One of the kids, a boy with spiky red hair and teeth like a shark was laughing about how manly everyone around him was and no one had seen what she saw a half destroyed robot hurling through the air from someone elses use of an explosive quirk. It was headed right for him and once again she didn't know why, but she flew to him. Her feet carrying her to save him as if it was what they were made to do. She didn't have much time o once again with a leap of faith she tackled the young boy, who's face brimmed with surprise now, just in time for it to miss him. But land on her left leg instead pinning it to the pavement. She felt something in her ankle pop and she let out a blood curdling scream as she tried to reach back for her leg. As she did the pressure it caued only made her scream out again and her vision to blur. The boy was frozen staring down at her as she mumbled aloud to herself in agony.
"No no no no nonononononono, I need to get a point I need to."
The boy's face paled when he realized she had to have ruined her chances of gaining any points at all just to save his sorry ass from getting crushed. He grit his teeth and in an instant his skin changed to odd angles as it crackled like stone.
"Hold on I'm getting you out, just don't move!" His voice trembled but he sounded so sure of himself. Izuko looked up at him swiping away freshly minted tears from her face as she watched his fingers shred through the metal digging and clawing away at it to get her leg out. When he thought he'd clawwed enough he wrapped one of her arms over his shoulder and she grabbed him gladly. In one agonizing motion he pulled her leg the rest of the way free, the metal tearing at her pant leg from the knee down as he pulled her free. As soon as she felt her leg come free she looked up into his worried face and smiled softly saying
"Thank you but please I need to go. I have to get at least one point." She shrugged out of his grasp and he was frozen in place as he watched her limp off. Desperate for even one point. Guilt crept through him and all he could say was
"I am so not manly."
As Izuko limped through the streets she heard Present Mic once again telling everyone that they only had two minutes left. Before she could even think of how little time she had left thought a giant earth rattling crash toppled a handfull of sky scrapers just ahead f her and a cloud of dust billowed through the streets obscuring her vision. Out of the dust, kid after kid rushed out and past her all of which were screaming to run or get away. Someone slammed hard into her shoulder causing her to collapse onto her back and as she looked up she saw it. A massive towering robot. The zero point baddy they were told to avoid. She knew she needed to run but as she tried to get up her left foot gave out on her with a crack and she screamed out in pain as she collapsed to the ground. She let out a shaky breath and was prepared to try to run again when she heard it. A scream. She didn't dare look but still she had too. As she spun her head around Izuko saw none other then the girl from before who had kept her from falling trapped under rubble, that massive robobastard slowly rolling towards her. Izko's eye's went wide as she realized the girl was right in the path of those treads and if she or anybody didn't do anything she was a goner.
Izuko grit her teeth and swallowed her fear as she climbed to her feet again, the pain in her ankle doing nothing to disuade her, even as it cracked and popped in unnatural ways. Izuko took a step, and then another, and another until she was in a full on sprint the pain in her leg all but gone as she planted her feet and kicked off, her pant legs bursting and tearing from the force of it. She'd never lept this high, ever! But now she was soaring straight for the robots face and it was looking right at her as she let out another scream saying
"Stay away from her!"
Everyone who could see that massive tower of metal had there's eye's glued on her in a mixture of both shock and awe as she hurtled towards it screaming out so loud that those closer could clearly hear her. She didn't notice nor did she care, all that mattered was someone was in danger and she had to help, and as she grew near he reeled her right arm back, feeling warmth flow through it, the sleeve bursting to shreds from the shoulder down and screamed out
"SMASH!" As her fist collided with the massive robot's face it exploded inwards before suddenly erupting into bits and hurdling backwards. She grinned triumphantly until she realized she was hurdling back towards the earth and that's when she felt it. All the damage she had just done, both her legs felt like every bone in them was shattered and her arm was screaming at her to stop it from moving. She tried gripping it in her one good hand but any pressure felt like it would destroy her arm for good. She cried out in pain as her eye's watered over blurring her vision. This was it she thought. This is where I die. I' m going to die and I won't have earned even a single point. I'm so sorry All Might, Mom. I let you both down. She closed her eye's to shut out the sight of the inevitable when she suddenly felt an ice cold wind rush past her and two gentle arms snatch her out of thin air. She could feel her descent slowing and when she finally managed to pry her eye's open he was stunned. She was being held to a familiar chest by an oh so familiar face as her and her saviour slid down a slide made of Ice to the safety of the ground.
When his feet touched down he finally dared to look down at her she saw his eye's widen and his jaw slack as she looked back up at him teary eye'd blood dripping from her right arm, legs apparently shattered, and a damn smile on her face. Her eye's slowly started to shut but she fought it off as she struggled to say
"T-thank y-you again. F-for s-saving m-me . . ." With that last word she was out like a light and he was left standing there cradling her shattered and broken body to his chest, her face buried ever so in his shoulder and all he could think was 'Who in the hell is this girl?'
