Chapter 2 : Newcomer's Arrival : Part 2…
Morning came, today was the day where I'd be moving into the school, today was the day where I'd meet other spectacular students with amazing quirks, today is the day where I would enroll into U.A Academy, home to Heroes in training. Luckily, the school staff was kind enough to have a moving company move my stuff to my dorm room yesterday so I'm only expecting to unpack.
Once I got properly dressed for the day, ate breakfast, and said my farewells to Jayden, Mom and I got in the car and drove off to the school. During the majority of the ride, we remained silent while the other cars in the metallic herd honked their horns and rode to their destinations. It was only until it was just our car on the road that one of us decided to speak.
"Is there something bothering you, Kamren?"
"Huh?" I raise a eyebrow at her question, I guess she heard me talking to myself last night about the sports festival, note to self : Never talk to yourself, even if no one is around. "You overheard me last night, didn't you?"
"Jayden was walking to the bathroom and I suppose he heard you saying stuff about that sports festival, he asked me to talk to you about it because he felt concerned for your well being. He also told me that you cried a bit, too." She explains.
"Heh heh heh, Jayden's so protective of me, isn't he?" I chuckle in amusement. She joins me in the laughter, lifting the mood temporarily before getting back on track.
"I'm just worried about the school you're going to. From what I heard from the news, that school has been a target for a "League of Villains", as they put it"
As soon as she said the name of that group, my eyes widened open and my tongue felt like hiding inside my throat. The League of Villains is a, for lack of a better term, league of horrendous criminals who seek to change the world in their image, and it seems they succeeded in one task...taking out the symbol of peace, and if what my mom is saying is true...then I have to keep my guard up and stay observant.
"Yes, I understand your concerns and your frustration, but don't worry, I'll be fine."
"You better be, young man! Or I won't hesitate to take you out of the school and send us straight back to the U.S." She ferociously warned
"Right, I won't let you down!"
Minutes later, The quietness began to seep in again and before we knew it, we were outside the perimeters of U.A Academy, the school for upcoming heroes and heroines in training, the two blue tall buildings representing the many heroes that passed and their high pride.
"Well...This is the place, I'm gonna be stuck here for the next couple of years."
I turn to Mom and she had tears running down her face, but they weren't tears of sadness nor loss, but tears of being a proud parent to a hero who will strive at nothing to be the best he is of what he's capable of. I go to hug her since this will the last time we talk face to face for some time. After a while, we let each other go and she began to speak again
"Call me every other week so the three of us can have something to do, and bring a friend along too if you'd like...I want to meet as many people from your school as possible."
"I will Mom, you both take care now, you hear."
We both smiled at each other and she walked back to the car and drove off.
"I love you baby!" She yelled out the car window as she rode into the sunset.
I waved in response and from that point on, I was all down to me and my next move as the newest member of UA Academy
I headed inside the main facility and went to the office to find my schedule, once I made it there, I was met by an old woman with a medical needle as a cuetip in her hair, her size was surprisingly short as she'd be as high as the top of a regular school chair.
"Why hello dearie, how may I help you today?" The short woman asked
"Well, you see...I'm new here and I was wondering if I could receive my schedule, do you think you could find that for me please?"
"Lemme see, what's your name kid?"
"Kamren, Kamren Campbell."
"Ahh yes, you're that newbie everyone's been talking about, I think I have your file somewhere around here.."
Newbie? Jeez that was kinda embarrassing, and I've been spread around already before I even got here? Must be famous then.
"There we go, Kamren Campbell, you're with Class 1A and when you go to the dormitories, the building will have your class's name on it. My name is Recovery Girl and I'm the school nurse, so if you have any injuries that need to be fixed, come down to my office and I'll heal you the best I can." She introduced
"Thank you, Recovery Girl. I'll keep in check." I thanked as I walked out of the office and headed out to find my classroom.
On the way there, I was stared down at by the other students in the hallways, some looked with faces of curiosity and some looked with faces of concern, but most of them just murmured to themselves
"Hey, it's that new guy everybody's talking about." One guy spoke.
"You serious? He looks like any other quirkless kid." Another commented.
"They say he's going to Class 1A." A girl joined in.
"1A huh? Well he better watch himself, or he'll won't make it through the rest of the year." A fourth replied.
I turn to face the commentators, their faces stood up and looked at me.
"You got something to say? Then say it to my face." I directed them
"Sorry! We're just worried for you is all." The girl replied with a concerned grin on her face.
"Why should any of you be worried? And why are you bad mouthing my classmates?"
"You're joking right? Haven't you seen the sports festival or the USJ incident?" Said the first.
That's right, the USJ, a secure location of the school was attacked earlier this year because of the League of Villains, and Class 1A was at the main center of it all, both of the teachers of the class sustained minor injuries and All Might had to step in to keep everything under control. The Villains lost but that was their beginning of popularity till when All Might lost his title as the number one hero. As for the sports festival, I've seen enough of it already.
"Yes, I am fully aware of both situations that occurred, and you shouldn't shame the class for both of them, let alone one."
I walked away from the group before anyone else would notice, leaving them with that statement. I wanted to say more but that would have to wait till another day came, I don't want to start any trouble with anyone on my first day. After getting used to how the classes were organized, I finally found the class I was looking for. The door of the classroom was massively huge, are giants supposed to be in here or something? Because if not, looks like they're really compensating for something.
"Welp...here goes nothing." I gulped.
I opened the the door and stood in front of me was a man with bands around his neck, his eyes appear tired, clothes all black and hair looking like he just woke up from bed.
"There you are, I was starting to wonder if you were going to skip class on the first day." He turned to me, getting the rest of the class's attention.
"Oh no sir, I don't plan on skipping any of my lessons, forgive me for my late presence, the school is hard to navigate." I responded to the teacher.
"That's fine, just be earlier to class next time. My name is Shota Aizawa, and I'll be your homeroom teacher for the rest of the year. If you don't mind, take a seat next to Yaoyorozu, she's freely provided a desk for you so be sure to thank her." He pointed to a girl who was in the last row of students, more specifically, the far right from where I was standing
I walked to the back of the class and took my seat, I took a notebook and a pencil from my backpack and set them up on the desk. I then turned to this "Yaoyorozu", Her hair was black with bangs to the right that is tied back in a large, spiky ponytail, it suited her quite well honestly. If I also remember, she was also in the festival, but she lost to Fumikage Tokoyami while trying to defend herself
"Thank you, madam. I'm grateful for your service." I thanked Yaoyorozu.
She was going to say something else, but Aizawa cut her off before she could respond to me.
"Now class, I was going to plan some hero training for us today, but since our new student is here, I think I'll be nice this once and give you all time to get to know him for today. I'll be in the teacher's lounge if anything comes up, I trust you all to behave yourselves when I'm out, especially you Mineta." He declares to us, he then leaves the room to leave us to our own desires.
"Wait, why was I singled out?" A short boy, about the size of Recovery Girl, with purple, ball-shaped hair exclaimed, I presumed that this was that "Mineta" kid Aizawa mentioned. The rest of the class glared at him in the face as if they knew he was guilty for a murder.
"Don't act like you don't know what he's talking about!" Yelled a boy who stood and chopped his arms up and down repeatedly in Mineta's direction. He also had glasses like me as well as a hairstyle similar to my own.
"Hold up, I'm sorry, what are you all talking about? What's wrong with him?" I piped in, curious as to why Mineta was targeted.
The kid who stood up looked towards me and walked over to my desk. "My name is Tenya Iida and I'm the class representative! And to answer your question, Minoru Mineta is unfortunately our class pervert!" He introduced himself
"Oh you don't say, I should've guessed since he's flashing his balls." I joked around. Seems like I made quite the introduction as some of the students laughed at my joke.
"Oh come on! Even the new guy swings at me, can't I ever get a break?!" Complained Mineta.
One by one, my newly acquainted classmates started to walk up to my table, one being a green haired boy who looked rather familiar among some of the others.
"Hey there, nice to meet you, I'm…"
"Izuku Midoriya, I presume?" I cut him off.
"That's right! But how did you know my name?" He asked
"I watched your fights at the Sports Festival very recently, and I must say, I'm impressed by your powers." I complimented.
Just as I finished talking, Izuku started to murmur to himself...and it kinda freaked me out a bit, but I guess I should expect that if some random person I didn't know knew my name.
"Deku, stop talking to yourself! You're scaring him!" Said a girl with shoulder-length brown hair and big round brown eyes. She sported 2 long locks of hair beside her face and a short bob at the back. I could fully recognize that face, she had two little pink spots on her cheeks, one on each side, and there was one girl I was aware of that had that type of description.
"Wait! Aren't you Ochaco Uraraka?" I asked her. She jumped at my question, probably due to the same reason I knew Izuku.
"Yeah, I'm guessing you saw my fight too?"
"Pretty much, how are you holding up by the way? I heard you were in a somewhat bad condition."
"Oh yeah, Recovery Girl managed to heal my injuries enough for me to walk so that's good."
"Well that's good. Anyways, I'm Kamren, Kamren Campbell, and it's a pleasure to meet you all." I smiled.
It seemed like everything was going my way, I made a good impression with my classmates, I got around the school pretty good, and I even managed to see my Mom cry tears of joy. It was all going perfectly...that was until "He" ruined the mood for me
"Shut it extra! The last thing I need another pest in the way of becoming number one!" Yelled a blonde, spiky-haired classmate who I also knew due to the Sports Festival, after all...he was the one that won it after all.
"Oh look, it's the mutt from the festival." I insulted Katsuki Bakugo. He didn't take that kindly as he walked up to my desk with an angered face and death on his eyes. The others had their jaws dropped as it seemed like no one ever insulted Katsuki in that manner before.
"What the hell did you just say to me?!" He raged.
"You heard what I said, Bakugo. I must admit, you've been spread around my previous school like wildfire when you first won a month ago."
"I don't care how 'well' my damn name's spread, don't fuckin' talk to me," The blondie warned.
Now that I've gotten his attention, I think it's only appropriate if I faced him about what happened at the festival. I'm not going to waste such an opportunity like this, not here, not now.
"I saw how you treated Uraraka in the sports festival, Bakugo, and quite frankly...I don't stand by your type of heroism." Ochaco stood there, eyes wide open at my sentence
"Who?" he scoffed. "Round face? Who cares, I beat her ass."
This guy...he clearly shows no remorse for what happened, well...here goes nothing.
"I care. I care especially because you're supposed to be a hero, right? I don't care how you feel towards others, you should not leave those types of marks both physically and mentally, and I'm not saying that just because she is a girl, but because no one deserves that much punishment."
The atmosphere of the classroom dropped, and the students had looks on their faces that said "Someone has to stop this before it gets any worse."
Katsuki scoffed. "I don't give a damn about your philosophies, okay? I do what the hell I want, her feelings don't mean shit to me. So you can turn the hell around, or I'll blast your damn face off." In the palms of his hands, sparks started to emit and I had to think of something fast, the last thing I need is a destroyed classroom with double a dozen students injured all because of a verbal fight.
"Now don't get too cocky, you use your quirk in this room and Aizawa will put you in detention for about a week at the minimum for property damage, and I'm sure you don't want that, do you?"
He started to back off and retreated back to his desk, putting his headphones in and spent the rest of class resting his head. Izuku and Ochaco had faces of surprise and shock written all over them as well as the others, I on the other hand just sighed in relief that nothing too horrible happened
"Jeez, I don't think I've seen Kacchan back off anyone like that before." commented Izuku.
"Huh?" I was caught off guard by the name he used for Katsuki. "Why'd you call him Kacchan, Midoriya?"
"We grew up together and we used to call each other names, he'd call me Deku and I'd call him Kacchan."
"But isn't 'Deku' a word associated with something negative? If so, why let Uraraka call you that?"
"Oh! Well...she said it sounded kinda cute and that it gave off a good vibe..." He spoke quietly
"Cute?" I looked over at Ochaco and she blushed. "Care to explain?"
"Don't blame me! It does sound cute!" She exclaimed.
I started chuckling at her reaction. "Its fine, I was just curious, honestly!"
Ochaco started to calm down a bit and her blushing minimized to just the pink dots on her face, speaking of the color pink, another girl joined our conversation along with two boys, one with red,spiky hair and the other with yellow hair with a lightning bolt on it. The girl had pink skin and hair to match, she also had two horns on her hair, and if I'm gonna admit, I was digging her style.
"Hi! My name's Mina Ashido and these guys are Denki Kaminari and Eijiro Kirishima." said the pink skinned girl.
"Sup! How you fitting in?" asked the red haired boy, he was Eijiro Kirishima.
"Rather well surprisingly, but I can't say the same for Bakugo unfortunately."
"Oh don't mind him, he's usually grumpy like that." replied the yellow haired boy, he was Denki Kaminari.
"Yeah, 'Grumpy' is the last term I'd associate with temper tantrum over there."
"Anyway...we were wondering if you wanted to hang out after school later, it'll be fun!" offered Mina.
"I would, but I gotta unpack my stuff back at the dorms, and that'll take the rest of the day." I kindly declined.
"Then we'll help you unload! It'll be our thanks to you for not letting Bakugo wreck the class."
I pondered at the thought for a bit, I could use the help and it would strengthen my bonds with everyone else. "Oh hell, you got me, meet me at my room if anyone else wants to help me out, the more the merrier."
"I shall accept your request! A perfect team building exercise as well as well balanced fitness!" said Tenya. You know… for someone representing the class, he sure plays his role.
"I'll help too!" joined Izuku.
"Count me in!" pitched Ochaco.
I smiled in delight, "Thanks guys! I won't forget this!"