It has been almost a week since I returned home, I must admit that it is difficult to continue my daily routine while waiting for such important news. They said that they would send a letter with the answer, although I would have preferred an email, but I suppose U.A has their own way of doing things, not that it bothers me, but nerves are killing me.

Back at school, my classmates asked a bunch of questions about the exam, what was it about, was the competition hard, how were the "villains" like and so many others. I usually don't get to be the center of attention, so I'll take advantage of the situation and enjoy my temporal popularity. But after a few days the questions started to get really annoying, it wasn't only my classmates asking at this point, but also people from other classes and underclassmen as well. I guess being popular is not so funny after all.

The wait lasted a little more than a week until one day when I got home after my club activities, I found all my family in the living room, seated on the sofa and in front of them was a table that had a letter on it. My mother, when she saw me coming in, slowly got up, took the letter and gave it to me, I could see that it was sealed with a red stamp, and it was from U.A. My heart went from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye — "Oh shit oh shit oh shit, it's here" — I could barely move my hands to receive it. I stared at the letter for a few seconds, and then I stared at my mom and the rest of my family behind her, that included my father and my 2 younger sisters. They emitted an aura of seriousness especially my father, but at the same time curiosity, impatience and concern, I am probably like them but worst.

I can't open the letter with them in front of me, it's not that I do not appreciate their concern, but if the result turns out to be a negative one, I don't them to see how I react, I don't even want to picture that in my head.

"I'll open it in my room, don't worry" — It probably didn't help to say that, they are going to worry about it anyway.

"Son, whatever the result, you know we will always support you" — said my mom. It was not very encouraging the fact U.A only accepts 1 out of every 300 applicants, I guess she is prepared for the worst.

"Thank you, mom" — I replied with a smile and immediately went up the stairs making way to my room quickly.

Okay Takumi, this is the moment of truth, this will determine the next 3 years and everything that follows.

I sat down in front of my desk and left the letter on top, I stared at it for a few seconds, until I got the courage to open it. At first glance it seemed easy to open, but it was well sealed. "Fuck it I'll just use scissors for it". I don't to accidentally tear the letter apart.

I couldn't find scissors in my room and I just couldn't get out of my room till I had that letter opened. I continued with the initial idea of using my bare hands, only this time, applying a little more force.

When trying to open it from one side, I unintentionally applied a too much force and split the letter in two, and its contents fell to the ground.

"What was that? Where did it fall?"

I knelt down, it was under my chair. I was a circular and flat object, not bigger than the palm of my hand. I picked it up and left it on top of my desk, but as soon as I did that something happened. A faint light came out of it, like some sort of flashlight. "What is this, a consolation prize?"

The small light started to grow and turned into some kind of hologram, which was as flat as a screen and from it I heard a very familiar voice "Hello there, can you hear me? Is the camera on already?"

"ALL MIGHT!?" — What is going on here? Why is All Might there? Is he talking to me? I was baffled, I didn't know how to react. In the hologram you could see All Might dressed in an elegant suit, and he seemed to be speaking to me.

"Calm down young Nakahara, there is a reason for my appearance in this recording since from now on I will be teaching in U.A I felt that it that was the right thing for me to deliver the exam results"

Wait, is All Might gonna teach in U.A? But why is he telling me this…? Wait, does this mean that I-

"It is exactly what you are thinking young Nakahara, you passed the practical exam and while I must say your written test was not the best, it was good enough to pass"

I couldn't believe it, it was just so much to take in even if that was the result I was looking for it still was a lot to take in. I stood there frozen with my mouth wide open, not sure if smiling but I was definitely happy, so happy I couldn't even express it.

"I have to admit it, your performance in the practical exam was impressive, you even wanted to stop the advance of the fourth faux villain, although without success, it is an act worthy of any hero, among the professors we didn't know exactly what motivated you to do that, you may not have realized it but there were points for saving others but not a single student was at risk when you tried to stopped it so obviously we gave you no points, but worry not, all the villains you defeated were enough to make you pass, feel proud of yourself young man"

Tears of joy started to appear coming down my cheeks.

"We can see you tried your best in this admission process, I hope you put the same effort for the challenges coming ahead. Congratulations Nakahara Takumi! U.A is your next stop! "

"Yeeeeesss!" — I screamed with tears of happiness in my face. At that same time the door of my room opened, and both my mother and sisters come running at me to hug me, my mother was crying as well, the heard my yelling so must have figured out the answer by themselves. my dad kept the composure and came walking to me with a smile on his face and gave me a pat on the head — "Good job son I knew you could make it, your brother would be so proud of you". Yeah, I am sure he would be hugging me too, he is that kind of person, gets emotional way too easy, that's how I remember him at least.

The next day I was planning on telling my closest friends about the good news, hoping that it wouldn't spread through the school so quickly and avoid an uproar, unfortunately I wasn't counting with the teacher's congratulation before the start of classes, apparently the school got notified by U.A itself. Although I was not the first student of that school to get into U.A, the first one got in several years ago, only senior teachers still remember her. The level of attention got even worse than what it used to be. I will have to bear with it till the end, there is only a few months left before the school years ends. Only a few months before I start my classes in U.A.

Time passed faster than what I expected, and before I could realize it, it was already April and a few days before starting classes. If I am completely honest, I 'm about to die of excitement, if the entrance exam was in a "certain way", impressive, how will be the day to day be in U.A? Maybe I'm just overthinking it, I don't know.

But first things first, I have to finish moving, as U.A is in Tokyo, I had to leave my house and rent a place to stay while studying here. Luckily, I was able find an apartment not too far from the train station, it is also worth mentioning that it is not very spacious, but I don't need much space since I couldn't bring my room's furniture anyway. I only brought things I considered important, like my laptop, clothes and some books that help me train my quirk.

In the following days before starting classes, I ordered my apartment to my liking, and took a tour of the surroundings, I wanted to get to know the place so don't get lost in the future, the nearest convenience store is 2 blocks away. I also tried to cook for the first time, to say that it was bad would be cutting it short, not even the cooking book I brought was of any help, I need more practice at this. Even is the food turns out to be total garbage, I can't waste any of it, my monthly allowance is not that big after paying the rent.

While organizing my clothing I found my U.A uniform, I wasn't planning on trying it on yet, but why not, it's not like I have much to do anyway. I put in on, I fit me like a glove. "Hmm charming" — I said while looking myself in the mirror. I have yet to get the gym clothes, I was told they were gonna give us those at school.

My days before school started, unlike before, they felt like an eternity, so I just focused on training my quirk and finishing some books which I had brought from home. I didn't have any friends or family in Tokyo, so you could say I am completely alone. I am not complaining about being more independent but being alone is different, hopefully I'll make friends with my classmates. Maybe get a girlfriend..., no that would be a distraction, right? I never had a girlfriend before, this is something I am not familiar with, I shouldn't be thinking about this, If it happens it happens, I'll leave it there "No more thoughts about it brain, you hear me?"

Each day that goes by, makes my stress grows each time a little more, is not that I am worried about it, just too excited and is getting to a point where I can't even sleep properly. I feel like a grade schooler one day before a school trip. "I need to do something to clear my mind"

Interestingly, the apartment where I am living is not far from shopping center. It's small compared to the normal ones, and has few known shops, and a lot of local ones. I find local shops interesting, I guess taking a look won't hurt it might even distract my mind for good. Maybe I can find one of those hipster's cafés that are so popular nowadays.

I decided I'll give it a go, I dressed casually, got my cellphone and headphones and left the house. It was only 6 blocks away, not much walking to do. After arriving and having check out couple of shops, most of them being selling clothing, I saw one that caught my eye. It was some sort of music shop, though a little small compared to the other ones, its decoration gave me the idea that they specialized in rock and its subgenres. Whatever it may be, the fact that it's a music shop was enough to make me want to check it out.

As soon as I entered I confirmed my suspicions, the shop sells only rock related products, mostly albums for what I can see. There were only about 3 people, not counting the receptionist, in the shop. There were two rows of shelfs in the middle where they had the albums displayed. When checking them I realized that most of them were bands I didn't know about. "Maybe this is one of those places where they sell underground music" — I thought. It also seems that they sell instruments, they have a few guitars hanging in the walls and also behind the counter. They were also posters hanging from the ceiling and guitar picks being displayed inside the glass counter next to the receptionist. The more time I spend there, the smaller details I could see.

While I was inspecting one of the shelfs, one of the customers in the store who just bought something passed behind me, going to the exit I suppose, I realized that she was a girl when I entered the store, but apart from that I didn't pay much attention to her, but It was at that time when she passed behind that I saw her face and remember to have seen it before. I turned slowly and so did she. We stayed like 5 seconds stupefied watching each face.

It was getting awkward, so I broke the silence "I think I have seen you before…" then I remembered — "Yes, you were the girl that stole one of the robots from me during the practical exam"

"Ohh Well that explains why your face seemed familiar, sorry about that" — she apologized in a carefree tone

"Don't mind it, you were right after all…" — After saying that I ran out of things to say, not wanting to make it weird and tried to continue the conversation with whatever came to mind.

"So… How was your exam" — Soon after asking that I realized my mistake —"Shit I shouldn't have asked that, the chances of getting into U.A are very fucking low, now I've done it, she is gonna get sad and think I am making fun of her, fuck my life"

The question caught her off guard, but she answered right away — "Oh yeah about that… well I got in" — said with a faint smile.

"Wait really? Wow congratulations, then I guess… I'll be seeing you there then hehe"

"Oh! So you got in too? And here I was starting to think you failed"

"Wait why did you think that"

"Well the chances of getting into U.A are really low you should know that, so I was just assuming the most probable outcome"

"Well, I can't blame you for that, I though the same after all… Oh yeah, my name is Nakahara Takumi, nice to meet you" — this is probably the best moment for introductions.

"Kyoka Jirou, same here, nice to meet you" — after saying that she glanced her watch "Look at the time it's 6 already, I am sorry Nakahara, but I have things to do, I'll be seeing you at school" — having said that, she went straight for the shop's door — "See you tomorrow" — She waved her hand at me and left

"Yeah, I'll be seeing later" — I answered back., she probably didn't hear me.

That conversation came out of the blue, but at least I won't be going to school without "knowing" someone. Well since am here I decided to buy an album that I liked based on the cover since I knew absolutely nothing about the band. After that, I decided to tour the area a bit more before returning home.

On my way home, as I had nothing to distract my mind with, I started thinking about random things. Among my various thoughts that girl, came up. If I'm completely honest, she was pretty, more than the average girl but extremely pretty just slightly above average, although I don't think she is my type, I barely know her, so I can't really tell, but she seemed to be a cool person to hang out with, she is going to U.A after all. People aiming to be heroes should have a friendly personality, that just makes sense, since we're going to be in contact with citizens most of the time, keeping an approachable attitude is important. Anyway, it's good to have at least one acquaintance before starting classes, even if I only know her name, it's better than nothing.

After arriving to my apartment, I threw the bag I had with the few things I bought in my room. They were, apart from the album, a book I found interesting and a pair of shoes for running because the ones I have are too worn out.

I turn on my laptop to catch up on the latest news and chat with my middle school friends, the usual. I would prefer to go to sleep, I want it to be tomorrow already, sadly I can't sleep unless I'm tired, that and it's only 7 pm, nobody goes to sleep so early. I stayed there only for a few minutes because I almost forgot I had to make dinner for myself, my growling stomach reminded me that.

A horrible dinner and 4 hours of procrastination later I could feel the fatigue in my eyes. I promised myself to stop wasting my time on the laptop once the classes started and technically they have not yet started, this is an exception anyway, it is totally justified. I brushed my teeth, put on my pajamas and before turning off the lights, I checked that I had everything ready for tomorrow. Now it only remains to get some good hours of sleep. I went to sleep, wishing the next day to arrive in the blink of an eye.

The alarm rang early in the morning with the same tone I use to have when I was in middle school. I didn't think it twice, I got out of bed, washed my face and went for some breakfast.

I decided to stick to a simple breakfast this morning, I don't want to get creative and have a stomachache in school, at least not the first day.

My whole routine took me more or less 45 minutes, after that I was already out and on my way to the station. On the way there I wondered if I would meet Kyoka there, she might live nearby since I saw her yesterday on the nearby shopping center, even so there are a lot of people taking the subway, so I might not even see her. I'll see her at school anyway.

The trip was short, between 15 to 20 minutes till nearest station to the school. It still was a few blocks away and on top of a hill, it will get annoying to do the same routine every morning for the next 3 years, hopefully I'll get used to it.

When I get to the school's entrance I get the not-so-shocking surprise that I am slightly early, there were only a few students around.

"Well in this letter it says that I was assigned to class A-1" — That is easier said than done, this place is huge, where do I even start? There must be a map here somewhere.

I know that the school has 10 classes per year, although only 2 of them are from the department of heroes. That would explain of why this school is so big. Since I don't have a map at hand I decided to ask for directions instead of risking myself to get lost somewhere around the campus. I saw a student who seem to be an upperclassman, so I decided to ask him.

"Excuse me" — I said slightly nervous to the boy who had a bright orange hair. I wonder what department he is part of.

He didn't take long to look my way — "Yes?"

"Sorry to bother, but do you know where the classrooms of the department of heroes are located?" – asked trying to look as serious as possible, I believe that will give a good first impression.

"Ahh you must be freshman, I remember I was kinda lost here in my first day, that sure brings back some memories " — he said letting go a small laugh at the end. —"It's common to see at least one or two students lost in the first day, well back to you question, the hero department classrooms are in the west side of the main building second floor, you should not have problems finding them once you are there, both 1-A and 1-B are close.

"Thanks for the help, ermm..."

" Name is Minoru Shinohara" — he responded —"I will be watching your progress, you first years from the hero department are always fun to watch, your quirks are always a challenge to deal with " - he said as he was turned around and walked away.

"Well, there sure are very "interesting" people in this school, and what did he meant by our quirks being a challenge, is he some kind of tutor?" — And I forgot to tell him my name, he didn't even wait for me to tell him. I could chase him down and tell him? Maybe no, that would look so awkward, next time I see him I'll introduce myself properly.

Well, better keep going I'll be early but I still prefer to be there rather than hanging around the school, all do that later.

I followed the instructions he gave me, I went to the second floor and turned left, at first, I thought I fucked up somewhere because I stumbled with the Class 1-E, but I kept going till I got to Class 1-A. They really thought about everything when building this place, the door for the class is huge, not sure if it's only a cosmetic thing or there are students this tall. I guess they have had all kinds of students. I took a deep breath and opened the door. — "Here we go"

I was among the first to arrive, not counting me there were only 5 people in there. Among them I could differentiate a glasses guy, who was slightly familiar, I'm sure I've seen him somewhere but before I could recall it he stood up and approached rather quickly.

"Ah another classmate has arrived! Let me introduce myself, I am from Somei Academy, my name is Iida Tenya, It-s nice to meet another classmate "- he said as if he had memorized it, I was not prepared for such a sudden introduction.

"N-Nice to meet you too Iida, I'm Nakahara Takumi" — I answered back — "It's good to see I am no the only one who arrived this early "

"Well I though it was the right thing to do and give a good impression of myself with my classmates, you did too, right?"

"S-Sure" — not really, I only was too excited about it. "I'll go take a seat if you don't mind" — he just nodded to my answer.

I went to my desk, it was almost in the middle of the class. Normally the homeroom teacher is the one the decides that but, in this case, it didn't seem to work like that.

I took the freedom of inspecting the few students in the classroom, for starters Kyoka was not here, maybe she got assigned to 1-B or she hasn't arrived yet. Not counting Iida, there were 4 of them, one of them was a plain looking guy with blonde hair, had a giant tail and was sitting on one of the front desks, there was another guy who was sitting quietly and bird-shaped head which was probably related to his quirk, behind him there was a boy who had half his hair white and the other half dark red and finally a beautiful girl with a tall curvaceous figure with her hair tied into a spiky ponytail.

While waiting for everyone to arrive I started reading the book I bought in the shopping centre which I hadn't read at all. While I was reading the rest of the students started to show up, I took my eyes from the book every so often to see their faces, I greeted those who sat next to me, nothing but a short greeting, I will get to know them better later on. I continued reading until I felt someone standing next to me.

"It seems we are in the same class too, what a coincidence" — said a familiar voice

"Hey Kyoka, nice to see you again, finally a familiar face" — even if I don't know more than her name

"Well it's not like we actually know each other anyway, but I understand what you mean, did you get here early?" — She asked

"Yeah, I've been here for a while now, I was just too excited, so I ended up doing everything ahead of time, not a common thing for me to do"

"The kind of thing a middle school student would do before a school trip" — she said before letting go a small giggle

That comment got me a little embarrassed — "Yeah I know, I thought the same thing"

"Don't sweat it, I'm sure everyone it's excited for this first of school in way one or another"

After hearing that, I asked with a raised eyebrow "Even you?" — "Yes, even me, but in more… "mature" way" — she answered with a smug face.

I was about to reply with an awesome comeback, but I got interrupted by Iida raising his voice to guy who had his foot on top of the desk, and it didn't stop there, the guy was getting cocky and answered back, things seemed to be heating up until some green haired guy opened the door and Iida rushed to introduce himself, again.

"Wow, some people are starting off with the wrong foot, Kyoka don't you-" I turned my head to realize that Kyoka had already gone to take a seat and was talking to the good looking girl I saw earlier.

I tried to focus back into the book I was reading till I hear a voice that came from the front of the classroom.

"It took eight seconds for you to quiet down. Time is a precious resource. You lot aren't very rational, are you?" — said a tall, slender guy with messy black hair and half-opened eyes.

"Who is this guy, is he our- "

"I am your homeroom teacher, Aizawa Shota. Please to meet you" — "Shit, he really is our homeroom teacher" and I wasn't the only one surprised, half the class was in the same boat as me on that one.

"Now, change into your gym clothes and head out to the field, I've got something for you" — said as he handed out our gym clothes.

After changing in to our gym clothes we went to the training field, behind the main building. When we got there Aizawa told us what this was about, a quirk assessment test.

"U.A is known for it's freestyle educational system. That applies to teachers as well" he said

"In middle school you did a wide variety of physical tests, your standard no-quirks-allowed gym tests" — Yeah, I remember those, my scores on those weren't high, barely above average, I had a hard time taking it seriously.

Aizawa continued talking — "This country still insists on prohibiting quirks when calculating the averages of those records. It's nor rational"

He called one of the students — "Bakugou, how far could you throw in middle school?"

"Sixty-seven meters" —answered the spiky-haired boy. I think he was the guy Iida was discussing with, I'm not sure since I wasn't paying much attention.

"Great, now try it with your quirk" — said Aizawa while giving him a softball ball "Do whatever you need to, just don't leave the circle"

One of the students mentioned that he placed first in the U.A practical exam, maybe that's why Aizawa choose him first — "What kinda of quirk does he has?"

After positioning himself, Bakugou threw the ball along with a very peculiar battle cry - "Die!"

He literally threw the ball with a blast and making the dust rise from the ground. My eyes kept following the ball till it hit the ground — "That's some incredible firepower" — my impression only grew when Aizawa showed us in some sort of device how far the ball went, 705.2 meters

Now everyone was impressed, not only by the distance the ball traveled, but also because we are getting permission to use our quirks in physical tests where we were not allowed to use them before.

"What's this? It looks fun" said pink-skinned girl

"We can use our quirks as much as we like! As expected from the hero course!" said one guy

"It's look fun, huh?" said Aizawa while we were celebrating "You have three years to become heroes, will you have that attitude the whole time?" — A creepy smile appeared on his face "All right then, whoever places last in all eight tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion"

"Huh!" exclaimed almost the whole class in surprise.

Our smiles disappeared from our faces. Some seemed to be terrified and others were asking aloud if it was true but seeing how serious he looked and the way he announced it, I doubted it was a lie. Still, I'm not worried about a test like this, since my quirk is perfect for this kind of situation, having said that, I wasn't expecting such a thing on the first day of school. "That's U.A for you, always going over the top"

"We are free to do what we want about the circumstances of our students." Said while moving aside the hair that was covering his face, showing us a smile from ear to ear "Welcome to U.A's hero course!"

Well I gotta admit, this took longer than what I expected. Translating the whole chapter and also changing some things on the way, seemed easier said than done. I wasn't planning in making the chapter this big, but it just happened. So yeah this is pretty much what I came up with, Takumi passing the test was a given, but I also wanted some character interaction so I did the shopping center thing plus introducing a secondary OC which will have a more relevant role further in the story. Coming up with dialogues with the original characters was harder than what I expected, I had to rewrite a lot of those.
Anyway I don't know for sure how long it will take for me to have the next chapter ready, It won't be more than 2 weeks since I already have the chapter figured out, I only need to write it down.

Thanks for your support guys. Plus Ultra!