Thanks to everyone who is reading this, I am so glad that people find this enjoyable.
I don't really have much to say apart from thank you for all the birthday messages so, onto review answers.
thomaspheasant: Only three days later... did I do well?
pyrochominer: I was kinda hinting towards it. I personally like Bakugou as a character, but his personality does stink a bit. He won't be as bad this time around, trust me.
Drakolf: Thank you! Aww, thanks, and because of that, Bakugou will be a bit tamer too since he didn't have 'shitty Deku' around him constantly.
maxridelover: Thanks!
PointlessKnife: Thank you, I'm happy you're enjoying this.
Blaze Summers: Please tell me you're not joking... Oh, and thank you so much!
IcyHeart12: Aww, thank you, I'm happy you did.
My Soulitude: Thanks, I'm glad it was interesting.
FoxOnFire: Everyone has their own opinion, and that's great. But this could be shortened to "Premise is okay, your writing and execution is shit." I would have got it just as clearly that way, luv. Jeez... ya don't have to read it... It's not like I'm threatening you with death or nothin'.
MIKE202303: Here's more, and now I need to write chapter 4.
MellieCrescent: Aww, thank you! I do too! Inko needs to be treated better in the series than she is, and Izuku is always a cinnamon roll, what do you expect?
Advalt2003: Thanks, I don't think it's that great. I have so many flaws with this story...
sk2dydid: To what, may I ask?
All Guest: Sorry! I forget about them sometimes! The anime does too, Electoplasm didn't really appear until the exam arc so I'll try and include the two of them more in the future. All Might's reaction was funny to write too! Well, they are pros, they would probably have an outlet of childish humour to ignore the horrific events they encounter every day. I will, don't worry!
Doodlebug: Wow, you really like this that much? Well, here's chapter 3. I may dampen your expectations with this...
Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy!
It was around seven thirty in the morning when Izuku, fully kitted out in his hero costume, arrived at the front gates of U.A for his first day on the job. The past eleven months leading up to this day were spent solely on hero work, which helped to pay some of the bills and living costs at home. Not that money was Izuku's main reason to be a hero, he was just being paid for his job by the government. Rumours had spread that All Might was going to be teaching the same time that he was starting out as the Quirk counselor, but none had spread about Dekiru working at U.A meaning that he had been safe from extra questions from the media.
Time had passed quite quickly since the day that Principal Nedzu had confronted Izuku about the job, with hero life continuing as normal. Five months in, his exam results had returned showing that he had passed with above average grades. He didn't get one hundred percent in anything, but a mix of seventies and eighties for someone who was supposed to be starting High school in half a year was incredible. Izuku and Inko had celebrated that night with a meal out and a movie at home afterwards. The Pro Heroes of U.A sent their congratulations at the news as well, and Midnight turned up with a homemade cake in her arms.
Speaking of Midnight, the pro had been a commonplace visitor to the Midoriya household, practically a member of the family now due to her past with both Inko and Hisashi. 'Auntie' Kayama couldn't help herself but make a fuss over her adoptive 'nephew', and thus Izuku was the sole victim of two ladies' remarks about his adorableness. But, when it came to hero work, Midnight was solely focused on her task when she actually could roam the streets. She was even more focused than ever if Izuku managed to team up with her to take down some villains.
When the day of the U.A exams had rolled around, Nedzu had invited Izuku to spectate the event, making sure that he saw what sorts of Quirks he would have to deal with for the first years that would be entering the same time he started his job. Unsurprisingly, Katsuki Bakugou was one of the many hopefuls trying to get into the prestigious school and had been the one to gain the most villain points, ranking himself first out of all of the three hundred entrants who applied. However, he wasn't the one Izuku had eyes on. A purple haired boy seemed to have the same power as All Might, but he broke his limbs whilst saving another applicant from the zero-mark robot, gaining himself sixty rescue points. Izuku had a feeling that this boy would be the one student who would end up in his office more than most, especially if this is how he plans on using One For All.
Izuku only knew about One For All because All Might had told him personally, also asking if he couldn't tell anyone about it. The reason why was because the Pro Hero had offered the Quirk to Izuku, who rejected the offer politely because he was the Quirkless Hero and he didn't want to take a Quirk because it changed who he was and what he was fighting for. Of course, All Might, who Izuku called Toshinori-san due to the close relationship they had started to build since the day the number one hero had offered his Quirk to the younger boy, understood this but warned him that a successor would be coming to U.A next year.
The purple haired boy was the one who saved Bakugou – Izuku no longer saw the need to call him Kacchan after years of separation – from the slime monster the same day Izuku had come down with a nasty cold. He, the boy, had run in to save the day even though his Quirk wouldn't work on a bunch of living slime with no real brain. All Might saw the potential in him as the successor of One For All, and thus had been training the boy for ten months with a program made by Izuku for somebody who didn't have the natural body that Toshinori had as a teenager when he received One For All. From viewing the exam, Izuku knew his schedule hadn't been met and he berated All Might for it, like an exasperated son would to his excitable father. At least, that's what the pros of U.A's staff workforce thought. In fact, Eraserhead had even once asked if All Might had an illegitimate child, with that child being Izuku.
He immediately got a well-deserved mallet hit to his face.
Izuku walked into U.A through the gates, glad that his staff pass stopped the security system from going into lockdown the moment he went near it. Having already had the tour of the facility from Nedzu on the day of the hero course exams, he already knew where the staff room was, near the front entrance on the third floor. No one else was in yet, judging by the lack of voices and the fact his footsteps seemed to echo for miles. Climbing up three flights of stairs was nothing, neither was opening the giant sized door of the staff room but being glomped on by your self-proclaimed 'aunt' within minutes of entering the room, well that was a bit of a problem.
"Can you please let go of me, Aunt Kayama," Izuku managed to voice his thoughts in a volume no louder than a whisper. "You're crushing my lungs, I can't breathe…"
"Oh! Sorry!" She put the fifteen year old down with an apologetic smile on her face. "Geez, I dunno what just came over me…"
"I do," Present Mic grinned, winking whilst nudging Eraserhead in the shoulder. "It seems Kayama is taking her eighteen+ rating to heart with the boy Lolita… UMPH!" Two punches to the top of his head, one from Midnight and one from Dekiru, instantly shut him up.
"Can't an auntie greet her nephew in a way a mother does her son?!" Kayama growled angrily, folding her arms across her chest. "If you were in my position, you might have acted the same way. Izu-kun is like a nephew to me in all but blood so shut your yap you fucking pervert!"
"Says the eighteen+ rated hero, AHHH STOP IT MIDORIYA! PLEASE STOP HITTING MY HAIR WITH THAT METAL STICK OF YOURS!"
"Take his sunglasses," Aizawa suggested behind a small smirk, thoroughly enjoying the pain Hizashi was going through. "Then you'll really cause some damage."
"Dammit, Shouta!" Present Mic yelled from his lowly position on the floor. "Don't tell him my… GIVE ME BACK MY SUNGLASSES YOU BRAT!"
It was at that moment, Toshinori and Nedzu walked in to see most of the teachers cheering Izuku on as he ran around the staff room with Hizashi's sunglasses in his hands, the said man following in pursuit. Even Aizawa seemed to be enjoying himself, actually grinning at the spectacle he would belittle his students for doing. Of course, there had to be a reasonable explanation for this and there was. One look at the fuming Kayama told all, Hizashi had pissed her off again.
"Alright everyone, that's enough." Nedzu announced, ending the chase there much to the upset of the teachers. "Students will start arriving soon enough and we need to be ready for them. All homeroom teachers should be ready for orientation, minus Aizawa who has spoken to me already and Midoriya, I believe you should think about heading to your office, if that's okay?"
"Yes sir!" Everyone replied, with the chaos and carnage being turned back into a respectable staff office within seconds. Izuku begrudgingly handed back Present Mic's sunglasses but sent the blond man a deathly glare, warning him of what would happen if such an event ever happened again. Needless to say, he had definitely got the message.
~0~o~0~
Izuku knew that the first day would be just paperwork and no actual consultations. With orientation, students would be told about the Quirk Guidance Counselor, but would not have the time to go and visit the office to find out who was behind the doors. That gave him ample time to make notes about every class and their Quirks, as given to him via the student data sent by Nedzu to his office computer. Prioritising the first-year classes, hero classes at the top, was the best way about it, considering the hero classes would be using their Quirks more than any other class. Those in the second and third years had already learnt a lot about their Quirks and their physical limitations, the first years were starting out with that due to schools forbidding the usage of Quirks inside school grounds. Having already made all the notes he needed to on Class 1-A, Izuku decided to take a small break before moving on to 1-B. It would take him a week to get all the Quirks analysed and ready in case a student consulted him, but he really didn't think that the first week would be too strenuous.
His office used to be an old classroom that was never used for some odd reason, refurnished and refurbished to look presentable. His desk, along with a computer and the usual desk stationary was close to where the blackboard once was, right in the centre with two chairs either side for one to one confrontations. A set of cupboards lined the left side of the wall to the door, containing files and information about every class, or it would do when he was done with his analysing. On the right, a mini kitchen with storage for cups, mugs, dried food and other bits was fitted into the corner of the room, with everything plus the kitchen sink included. The middle left over space was decorated with a rug and bean bags, just in case a student was too nervous with sitting behind a desk for a consultation. All in all, it was a really good space.
Heading over to the kitchen to make himself a glass of water, Izuku stopped when he heard a knocking at the door. He frowned, knowing that the first year classes would be in orientation and the other years would be doing a day's worth of homeroom. Abandoning his quest for water, he went over to the door and opened it, shocked to find Aizawa standing there.
"Have you analysed my homeroom's Quirks yet?" He asked, getting straight to the point.
"Just finished, actually," Izuku replied, realising his eyebrow was still raised. "Why do you ask?"
"I'm skipping orientation to test their Quirks out, I want you to be there for hands on experience for what you're getting yourself into," The older Pro Hero almost smiled for a moment there before quickly returning to his usual emotionless face. "Plus, I really don't want to deal with these brats by myself. They've already bugged me this morning as it is." Nodding, Izuku left the office and shut the door behind him, flipping the sign around telling people not to enter. But, something was still bugging him about Eraserhead's words.
"Wait, haven't you only had them for five minutes?"
"Exactly, and they've already bugged me with their attitudes." Seeing that Aizawa was completely serious about it, Izuku couldn't help but grin.
"May God have mercy on them." The other hero shook his head at that statement.
"May God have mercy on me."
~0~o~0~
The twenty odd students of Class 1-A were already out on the field when Izuku and Aizawa arrived, standing clustered together in their gym uniforms. At first, no one had noticed the shorter hero by their homeroom teacher's side, but once the heroes had finished walking, they had.
"Oh my god!" A pink skinned girl – Mina Ashido if Izuku remembered correctly from his earlier analysis of the class – was bouncing where she stood, eyes sparkling. "No way, is that who I think it is?!"
"You've got to be kidding me!" A male named Eijiro Kirishima's eyes widened about ten times their normal size. "I knew All Might was going to be teaching here but I had no idea…"
"It can't be," Momo Yaoyorozu – one of the two students in the class who got in based on recommendations – gasped slightly in shock, shaking her head. "It can't, can it?"
"All of you be quiet," Aizawa's eyes lit up and his hair flew up with an unknown force, which caused the students to shut up. "I think a few of you have realised who this is beside me. This, for those of you who don't know, is the Pro Hero Dekiru, U.A's official Quirk Guidance Counselor. I have asked him to join me with this test to help him with assessing your Quirks in the future."
"Thank you for having me." Izuku bowed respectfully, but kept his eyes on the class. Slowly, more and more students were realising who he was, the number eleven hero based on popularity, he hadn't risen nor lowered since a year ago but he really didn't mind.
"What the fuck?!" A familiar yet aggressive voice cut out above the murmurs, turning everyone's attention to a particular Katsuki Bakugou. "Why the FUCK is a Quirkless loser assessing OUR Quirks?! He doesn't even fucking have one!" Izuku smirked under his mask, time to show mouthy little Kacchan what he had been up to for the past five years.
"You know, Bakugou," he said loudly with confidence, something he could only do now with the strength of a Pro Hero. "You need to learn some respect!" With that, he sent a staff crashing into the explosion Quirk user's knee before throwing him over his shoulder, onto the ground, with the ever-popular Judo throw. Before the student could get up Izuku placed a boot on his back with the staff pinning his dominant arm down. "Unlike you who has had the leisure of growing up with a flashy and powerful Quirk, I worked my way up to where I am now with blood, sweat and tears and I mean that literally. Now, if anyone else wants to argue whether or not I deserve my position, speak up now." Unsurprisingly, no one said a word. Izuku slowly returned to his place beside Aizawa, who was smirking behind his scarf.
"Alright then, with the entertainment over," There was a couple of chuckles from some of the braver students as Bakugou growled at them, brushing off the dust from his uniform. "Now comes the real task. This is a Quirk Apprehension Test, meaning you are allowed to use your Quirks throughout. There will be eight activities such as a standing long jump, standing ball throw, long distance run, 50 metre sprint etcetera."
"That sounds like fun!" Ochako Uraraka grinned to the purple haired boy, Hitoshi Shinsou, standing beside her who don't seem to agree with her.
"Oh, and one more thing," All eyes landed on Aizawa. "The person in last place will be expelled."
"WHAT?!"
~0~o~0~
It turned out that Shinsou was the one who fell into last place, and it was understandable really. Outside of One For All, he had a Brainwashing Quirk which meant nothing in a physical test. The only really good score he obtained was from the standing ball throw, where he managed to use only one finger to propel the ball to over 700 metres, but he came last in everything else. Even Minoru Mineta beat him in nineteenth place, and that kid's Quirk wasn't as great as the Brainwashing one Shinsou had, let alone One For All. Half way though the tests, Izuku noticed that a powered up Toshinori had been spying on Shinsou to see his progress, but waved at the teenaged Pro Hero when their eyes had met, some things never changed.
"Oh, and by the way, I was kidding," Aizawa announced once the results had been shown. "No one's getting expelled. It was just there to push you to your limits to prove yourself. Go back to the homeroom and pick up a curriculum booklet from the front desk, class dismissed." He turned his heals and left, ending up in a confrontation with Toshinori as Izuku and the class were left out on the field. Yaoyorozu seemed to know that no one was going to be booted out, except she was wrong. Aizawa was known for expelling students, especially last year when he booted out a whole class.
Shaking his head, Izuku went to head to his office so he could get a few more classes done before the end of the day when a hand grabbed his arm.
"Excuse me, urr, Mister Dekiru?" A gym uniform, probably belonging to the invisible student Toruu Hagakure, was standing in behind him, along with the rest of the class. "What did Aizawa-sensei mean by you being a Quirk Guidance Counselor?"
"Exactly that," Izuku replied, ignoring the blank stares being given to him. "Since I'm Quirkless, I need to be able to analyse an opponent's or ally's Quirk in a matter of seconds and figure out all the ways that Quirk can be used so I can counteract it without putting myself or another person in danger." He rubbed the back of his hood and smiled. "I've been doing it for so long now, it's practically second nature to me. The principal saw how this could be useful to students in many courses, not just the hero course, and asked me to take it up as a living here. I'm not going to be on school grounds every day due to the fact I'm still a Pro Hero but, if you need to see me about your Quirk then you could make an appointment via the school's email system."
"Incredible," Tenya Iida, who bared a striking resemblance to his older brother Tensei Iida – who Izuku had worked with once before – muttered in a thoughtful pose. "Of course, I should expect nothing less from the first Quirkless Pro Hero in Japan."
"Right, right, now off you go!" Izuku jokingly shooed the students away. "You've practically been given a half day here, make the most of it! You won't get this chance ever again!" As the students began to leave, he decided to call out once more. "Not you, Shinsou. I'd like a word, if that's okay?" With a note to give to Recovery Girl in his hands, Shinsou gave Izuku a raised eyebrow, but told Uraraka that he'd see her later. Once everyone had left the outside area, they began to talk.
"What did you want to talk about, sir?" Shinsou inquired, only to hear a chuckle from the shorter pro next to him.
"Please, just call me by my hero name, sir just sounds too old for me," Izuku chuckled more as the purple haired student bowed in response. "I saw your performance out there, and I'd like to say…"
"It was rubbish?" The student interrupted only to be glared back into silence.
"No, it was pretty good for someone who doesn't have a grasp on One For All and has an emitter Quirk like Brainwashing," Izuku ignored the horrified gasp coming from Shinsou's mouth. "Look, All Might has asked me to spend a session on you once a month, so we're going to be getting to know each other a lot over your time here at U.A and yes, All Might told me about One For All because you were starting this year. Who do you think structured the plan All Might gave you? He couldn't understand how the power would come unnaturally to you as it would if anyone else with a lean body would do. Went ahead and used a tweaked version of his own plan with my suggestions, the idiot."
"So, you…"
"Yes, I'll be helping you as much as you're going to be seeing Recovery Girl for your injuries," Izuku unfolded his arms and lowered his gaze. "Listen, Shinsou, you seem to be a respectable guy who was told his Quirk was worth nothing in the world of heroes. All Might gave you a chance to prove them wrong, just like someone gave me a chance to prove that a hero can be Quirkless if they push themselves to the limit. Soon enough, you'll be able to use some of One For All's power without breaking your body, but you can only reach that stage with training, got that?"
"Yes, Dekiru!" A soft smile formed on Shinsou's face, which in return made Izuku grin back, even though the former couldn't see it through his mouth guard.
"Good, now head off to Recovery Girl and get your finger fixed! I wouldn't want to keep anyone in that much pain, be off with you!" He watched as the purple haired student left sniggering, smiling until the boy disappeared from his line of vision. "You picked a good one, Toshinori. You really did, he deserves it more than I ever would have."