Like A Hero
After everyone changed and met up out in the field, Aizawa-sensei began to explain why they were out there; a quirk apprehension test.
The class broke out in complaints, it was their first day back to school and they already had a surprise test! Sakura choose to not comment at all, 'As a hero you can never tell when something will go wrong, you must be ready for anything at anytime.'
One girl decided to loud and clearly make her complaints heard, "What about the entrance ceremony? The orientation?"
"If you're going to become a hero, you don't have time for such leisurely events. Yuuei's selling points are how unrestricted its school traditions are. That's also how the teachers run their classes," Aizawa-sensei turned to face the class of 21 before he went on with his lecture, "You kids have been doing this since junior high, too, right?" He raised his hand up to show the phone that had a list of the activities they were gonna do, "Physical fitness test where you weren't allowed to use your quirks. This country still uses averages taken from results from students not using their quirks. It's not rational. Well, the Ministry of Education is procrastinating."
Aizawa-sensei then turned to look at Bakugo, "Bakugo, you finished at the top in the practical exam, right? In junior high, what was your best result for the softball throw?"
"67 meters."
"Then trying doing it with your quirk."
The following events astounded Sakura, she knew applying his quirk to the softball as he threw would make it go further, but to make it go past 700 meters. Sakura sighed internally, there was no way she was going to get anywhere near that with the help of her quirk. Guess she was just gonna have to rely on her natural strengths.
Not many of the other students in her class felt the same though, they were all too happy to oblige with their homeroom teacher. Sakura would bet money that not many of them would even get past 300 meter with their quirks helping them.
"'It looks fun', huh? You have three years to become a hero. Will you have that attitude like that the whole time?" His tone of voice made everyone quiet down, "All right. Whoever comes in last place in all eight tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion."
"Huh?!"
'Tsk, if it's like that then I guess I have to try even harder than what I was planning on,' Sakura began to lightly stretch her arms, no way was she going to get expelled on the first day, bluff or not she was taking this serious.
"We're free to do what we want about the circumstances of our students. Welcome to Yuuei's hero course!"
This brought an uneasy smile to her face. She knew her strengths and weaknesses all too well. But now it seemed that she was going to need to go beyond that. Besides she just needed to not place last, it wasn't too hard was it?
The girl that stood next to Midoriya, spoke up to Aizawa-sensei, saying that it was unfair to expel someone. She wasn't wrong but as their teacher had said, Yuuei doesn't follow regular school rules. It didn't matter how much she complained to him.
"Natural disasters, big accidents, and selfish villains. Calamities whose time or place can't be predicted. Japan is covered with unfairness. Heroes are the one who reverse those situations. If you wanted to go talk to your friends at Mickey D's after school, too bad. For the next three years, Yuuei will do all it can to give you one hardship after another.
Go beyond. Plus Ultra. Overcome it with all you've got."
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Test One: 50 Meter Dash
Watching the other students run, Sakura could tell none of them were as good as the first guy, Tenya Iida. His quirk was Engine, something that definitely helped in all areas. After all he did get 3.04 seconds. No one else in the class was able to get anywhere near 3 seconds, which relieved Sakura a bit. That meant she wasn't going to fall last, especially when Midoriya had barely gotten 7 seconds.
Soon enough, it was Sakura's turn. She readied herself at the white line with nobody next to her. She had no direct competition with anyone besides the whole class, "Now or never, Sakura."
"On your mark, get set...GO!"
Off Sakura ran, she didn't use her quirk seeing as she didn't need to heal or destroy anything, yet.
"5.37!"
By the time she reached the finish line, everyone was staring. No one had even saw her use her quirk! How was she that fast without any help? But all they saw from the girl was her shaking her head.
Momo went over to her seat mate and asked her, "What's wrong Senj-san? You got a pretty good time for not using your quirk."
The pink haired girl sighed as she looked up at Momo with a half-assed smile, "I usually do better than that, tsk. Maybe it's an off day for me."
Everyone else sweatdropped at her explanation.
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Test Two: Grip Strength
Now this was something Sakura could pass, her quirk may not have helped, but her mother's demonic self did, "95 kilograms!"
Sakura smiled to herself as Momo had only gotten 45 kilograms. But her winnings were short lived as some other student had gotten 540 kilograms.
"540 kilograms? What are you a gorilla?!"
"Oh, an octopus? Octopuses are sexy."
The conversation that Sakura and Momo had overheard cause the two girls to shudder.
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Test Three: Standing Long Jump
"And this is where I start to go down hill." Sakura sighed to herself as her turn was quickly coming up. She had ended up placing somewhere in the middle, near the top.
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Test Four: Repeated Side Steps
Again, Sakura had placed somewhere in the middle, near the top. She applaud herself, at least she wasn't following behind.
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Test Five: Ball Throw
The first person up was the girl that had complained earlier, she had ended up getting infinity on her throw due to her quirk. The girl happily walked passed Sakura with a smile on her face and a quiet good luck to Sakura.
"Whenever you're ready."
Sakura nodded at Aizawa-sensei before she took one step back, brought her arm back, took a deep breath, opened her eyes and threw the ball.
"240 meters!"
With a happy smile Sakura walked back to Momo, she noticed that Midoriya was after her so she had patted the boy lightly on his shoulder, "Good luck, Midoriya."
He gave a confused look but thanked her nonetheless.
Sakura watched as he looked at the ball in deep thought, 'Could it be that he can't use his quirk? Or is it that he can but refuses to because of what happened last time?'
"He doesn't look to be doing too well does he, Yaoyorozu-san."
"Huh? Of course not, he's a Quirk-less small fry, you know."
Sakura and Momo both turned their head to look at the person who interrupted their conversation. It was Katsuki Bakugo, the one that had beaten Sakura for first place in the practical exam.
It had seemed that everyone took in interest in their conversation, cause now Iida had joined in the protect his friend, "Quirkless?! Are you not aware of what he did at the entrance exam?"
"Huh?"
Before Iida could explain what had happened to Midoriya, they were all shocked by what happened next. Midoriya had thrown the ball, only for it to reach a measly 46 meters.
'That's really weird, I swear I saw him about to use his quirk just then…'
"That's so weird I could've sworn I was about to use it just then.." Midoriya looked at his hand in confusion.
"I erased your quirk," Aizawa-sensei's bandages began to float around him along with his hair, revealing his full face and beady glowing red eyes, "That entrance exam was definitely not rational enough. Even a kid like you was accepted."
"You erased my quirk?" It took a moment but Midoriya had figured it out, "Those goggles… I see! You can erase other people's quirks with your quirk just by looking at them. The Erasure Hero: Eraser Head!"
Sakura tilted her head, "Eraser Head…? I've never heard of him before."
The short boy with an afro answered Sakura's question, "I've heard of him. He's an underground hero."
"An underground hero, huh?" Sakura turned to look back at Midoriya, "But why erase his quirk?"