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Katsuki kept his eyes on Izuka as the two of them walked to U.A. After yesterday he wanted to make sure that Lucy was not in control of her. Most of the class thought that Izuka had overused her Quirk. Many correctly assumed that it was because she had managed to summon up more than four Vectors. Katsuki figured that it was something else. "Is something wrong?"
Izuka had caught out the side of her eyes Katsuki looking at her. He seemed to be looking at her as if waiting for her to do something. "Do you remember anything from yesterday?" Katsuki questioned before explaining what he meant. "In the scenario that All Might had us take part in?"
Izuka looked downwards as it was still all a blur. At best all she managed to remember was vague images. "It's all a blur." She stopped summoning up her Vectors before managing to summon up the fifth and sixth Vectors. "I do know I can summon more than four Vectors though."
Katsuki didn't know if he should be happy about this, or if he should feel annoyed. One thing was certain though. Lucy was someone that he had to keep an eye on. He still remembered her eyes staring at him. The cold emotionless orbs. 'Maybe the extras can make themselves useful and keep her out of trouble?'
The two of them stopped as they saw a crowd of reporters and news crews all hanging out in front of the gate. News had gotten out that All Might was teaching at U.A. The two knew that it was inevitable but seeing how many news crews were just standing in front of the building was unsettling. "I think I might have to use my Vectors to get us over them."
"The obsession with one individual." Lucy seemed almost disguised by this. The voice in Izuka head had been awfully quiet last night. The dual haired girl remembered the words of her dream shadow.
She was pulled out of her thoughts as several of the new crews noticed her and Katsuki. Like sharks swarming over a dead whale body, the reporter seemed to descend on them. Katsuki glared at this as he pushed several reporters out of his and Izuka's way. "Shut up you damn vultures we aren't here to answer your pointless questions!"
As he finally got them to the gates their homeroom teacher was already at the gate. Shota had a mental groan as he looked at the crowd of reporters all standing in front of the gate. There was one thing he disliked about hero work and it was the media. "I will have to ask you to leave you are disrupting the school and harassing the students."
One of the reporters looked insulted at this. She stood up to Shota just about to walk past the gate when a huge slab of metal shot up and blocked her off. "What in the world?!"
Shota rolled his eyes at this. The media never seemed to learn. He turned over to Katsuki and Izuka with a sigh. "Sorry about that we are still looking into who leaked this to the media."
On the other side of the raised gate, Tomura looked as the reporters stood outside the gate. This was exactly as he had wanted. 'With the media in place, all I need is to wait for the right time to strike.'
Izuka entered the classroom as everyone looked at her. She felt like she was being watched, almost being judged by them. Taking her seat she was immediately asked by Ochako concerning yesterday. "So what happened?" Izuka could feel the other students looking at her. "You collapsed after grabbing your head in pain."
Izuka looked around as everyone seemed to look at her. A sigh escaped her lips. She knew that this was going to be asked as soon as she walked in. "I really don't know I think when I over extorted my Quirk I ended up collapsing and I can't really remember what happened." It made as much sense to them as it did to Izuka. "Though I now can form at least two more Vectors."
The conversation was put on hold as Shota walked in. The homeroom teacher looked at his class knowing that many of them had gotten swarmed by the reporters. "I apologize for the media storm outside if they don't leave by lunch the principal will get the police to pull them off the premises." That was a relief to hear. Especially to Izuka who figured she was going to have to use her Vectors to get over them. "However, we have something important for your class today."
Everyone tensed up at this. The last time he had the class do something it resulted in a test that had them think the loser would get expelled. Though with Izuka she knew he was going to expel the loser. 'I only know that thanks to Lucy.'
Shota just looked at their tensed faces. He'll never admit it but he loved how his classes always seemed to get on their toes after the first-day exam. "You will have to pick a Class Representative and Vice-Representative."
Every relaxed as if a weight had been lifted off their shoulders. In many ways one was. They were just doing normal high school things. As soon as this passed each of the students started to make reasons as to why they should be Class Representative. Minoru Mineta, however, managed to cut through all of this. "Mandatory short skirts less than thirty centimeters!"
The way he was looking at the girls in the class caused them and basically nearly the whole class to automatically condemn him. Mina turned to Izuka and whispered to her. "You think you can I don't know slap him with your Vectors?"
"We are not touching that thing with our Vectors." Lucy finally spoke with nothing but absolute disgusted in her voice. The thought of doing so was revolting to her other.
This was both surprising and strange to hear. She didn't expect Lucy to have issues with this. 'It's not like we can actually feel with our Vectors you know.'
Lucy didn't comment back. Yet, the refusal to even consider that was still present in her thoughts. Tenya chose to speak up to the class. "The only way to choose should be through a vote!"
Everyone looked at him. A vote was how most schools choose their Class Representative. It wasn't all that hard for them. However, for Class 1-A there was, of course, one detail that was glaring to all of them. Tyusu was the one to voice this. "But none of us save Izuka and Katsuki have known each other for more than a few days." That was the obvious problem. Not many of them had a good idea about each other. Except for Minoru who everyone was certain was an unbashful pervert and Katsuki who had a huge ego on him. "We'll just end up voting for ourselves."
Tenya had thought of that. In fact, he was hoping for such a thing. "Yes, so we know whoever gets more than one vote had managed to make an impression in such a short amount of time and deserves the spot!"
The class had to admit that was a rather sound reasoning. Tenya turned to their homeroom teacher to get his approval. "Fine, it beats the last classes idea."
Izuka stared at the results wondering how this had happened. Somehow she wondered if Lucy was to blame. In first place with four votes was Momo, while she and Tenya had both tied for second place with two. Shota just looked at the results and shrugged lazily. "Alright, your Class Representative is Momo Yaoyorozu with both Tenya Iida and Izuka Midoriya as your Vice-Representative."
"Wait, shouldn't we vote again to see who should be the Vice-Representative?" Ochako questioned knowing how such things should normally happen in this setting.
Shota simply looked with a tired expression on his face. He should as it was the proper way to go about this. However, Shota was too tired to stay up for this. "No, you will just have to settle for having two people as Vice-Representative."
Izuka guessed there was no going back from this. Still, at the very least this wasn't completely bad. She could have been voted to be the Class Representative something she really didn't want. "Why is that exactly?"
'Because I don't think I could handle the pressure of being it.' At that, she could make out the bandage covered figure of the voice in her mind. The mental projection rolled her eye at this.
"Please, you are very much a leader that you just don't know it yet." Lucy's words caused Izuka to look at her with a confused look.
The two haired girl didn't see herself as a leader. Though thinking about it she did have some of the tools of one. An analytical mind was key to thinking up strategies and many leaders tend to do so. 'Maybe I have what it takes but I don't see myself as a leader.'
Lucy just disappeared, returning to her subconscious. The voice in her head was content to see how this went. For now, at the very least, Izuka admitted to having the means to be a leader.
Toshinori let out a sigh as he sat on the teacher lounge sofa. His old sidekick was in a coma though from what the doctors have concerned he should be up within a few days. While that was a relief outside the school it seems that the media wasn't going away. It honestly seemed like they weren't going to leave until the police came and drove them away. 'At least I was able to walk past them in my real form.'
He was soon pulled from his thoughts as the door to the lounge opened up. Nezu walked into the room talking on his phone. "Yes, I understand." He turned it off with a sigh. The principal turned to Toshinori with a sigh. "The police would be running a bit late apparently a group of criminals decided to begin a shopping spree if you will."
Of all the times for something like this to happen it just had to be now. Though with the way his luck was going he supposed that was to be expected. 'Well looks like I have something to do besides teach my class '
The ghoulish looking man was about to get up before Nezu held up his hand to stop him. "No need for All Might right now the police and the other heroes can handle it." Nezu had something he had wanted to talk to Toshinori about. Something that concerned one of their freshmen. "I, however, have something I wish to discuss with you."
Toshinori looked at the principal with a confused expression. He thought about what he was getting at before it finally dawned on him. Nezu had been waiting to see who he was going to pick as the successor to his power. "If it's about my pick for a successor I'll be honest anyone of them would be perfect it's just…"
Nezu had a smile as it seems he was correct. Toshinori had already taken a full interest or even decided on who it would be. He had a good idea on just who it was. "I see so you have taken an interest in having Izuka Midoriya as your successor then?"
There was a pause from Toshinori. Sure he knew that Nezu was smart. His Quirk practically made him the smartest being on the planet, though some would dispute this. It was still somewhat surprising to know that he already figured he was thinking of making her his successor. "I've thought about it yes."
She had much of the qualities that he had. Except for the whole thing about her being born with a Quirk. 'Then again every other wielder of One For All had a Quirk.' Plus there was again the fact, that she was likely her successor if his sidekick's vision was anything to go by. "I actually meet Izuka on my first day coming here."
This was something that peaked Nezu's interests. For a moment a thought crossed his mind. It was a bit of a long shot but it was nest to cover all their bases. "Does that mean you had already passed One For All to her?"
"No, I have not," Toshinori answered as he got what he was implying. "I actually don't know when I will be offering her One For All I figured I wait until the right moment."
While that did sound all well and good Nezu had his own worries. All Might's use of his Quirk was not good for his health especially given how he nearly always run out his time limit. The power of One For All was just too much to handle for his current body at its full power and that was something Toshinori tired to remind himself. Yet, Nezu knew that he would either slip up or, on the nearly impossible chance of a villain attack, might use all of it on the off chance that his current level isn't enough. That would have dire ramifications if he dies due to his own power.
Still, if Toshinori was going to assist on waiting perhaps it would be best for Izuka to learn about the person behind the mask of All Might? "Maybe until then you can confront her as Toshinori and take to training her off campus as a mentor?"
The ghoulish man thought about it. It made sense though it could run into its own problems further down the line. 'Of course, Nezu probably wants me to be close in case I need to transfer One For All in an emergency.' He hoped that wouldn't come too. The knowledge that One For All could be forcibly transferred cane from one of its own wielders being given the power without knowing for three years. It took someone close to one of the welders for them to learn that they had the Quirk. 'Maybe I'll see about giving it to her after the semester exams.'
That seemed like as good a place as any. Having a full semester to work with and hone her skills as a hero before handing her One For All would make it easier. Though that did leave the question if she could physically withstand the Quirks power. Perhaps he should pay her a visit as Toshinori.
Izuka wondered how it was that her table came to be. Besides Katsuki who usually sat with her Ochako, Mina and Eijiro had also joined in. Mina's reasons were that they were horn buddies and Eijiro just seemed to follow her. Now, it seems that her table had both Momo and Tenya had joined. 'Well, on the bright side it beats sitting alone with just Kacchan.'
Izuka grew slightly annoyed at her noodles seemed to have gotten fused together. Lunch Rush the pro hero that normally served as the cafeteria's chef was absent. "Why down you cut it with your Vectors?"
Lucy's words did state the obvious. It was a huge waste of her abilities though besides getting up to get something to cut them with, or asking Momo to make one it seemed like the best opinion. Summoning up her Vector Izuka vibrated it at the higher frequencies and cut the noodles apart. Everyone stared as she retracted the invisible limb. "How did you do that?"
Right she hadn't told anyone about that. "My Vectors actually vibrate at different frequencies," She summoned up the invisible limb as it took the chopsticks from out of her hands. "I discovered it recently but I've been using mostly the medium frequency which makes them solid while a low frequency." The chopsticks fell out of its grasp and back into her real hands. "It can pass harmlessly through objects and people, while at high frequencies seems to turn it into something of a blade."
Katsuki seemed to stare at his friend. A brief feeling of fear went over him. If Izuka's Vectors could be used like a blade then did that mean Lucy could have cut him apart. His face hardened at this thought. 'The eyes of a killer.'
"That's an amazing discovery though it sounds rather deadly if one thinks about it." Tenya was quick to notice the implications of being able to phase her Vectors through walls and people. Just before they continue the sound of an alarm caught everyone's attention. The students all seemed to be making a break for the exit. "Excuse me," Tenya stopped one of the third years. "What's going on?"
Their upperclassmen turned to them with a confused look. "That's the level three warning alarm it means some had broken into U.A. grounds."
Pretty soon everyone in the sudden panic started to crowd the exit way. Izuka's group were practically being smashed against the mob of people as they pushed towards the exit. In this Izuka soon found herself pushed up against the window. "Remind me this is a hero school correct?"
Izuka looked out the window and noticed that it was just the media standing on the grounds. How they managed to get over U.A.'s wall was a mystery. What wasn't a mystery was the fact that they were the likely reason for the alarm going off. 'It's just the media.'
She turned around noticing how her friends had all been separated by the crowd and how a fight seemed to be breaking out among some of the students in their mad dash to the exit. With no other choice, Izuka summoned up her Vectors and planted two of them in the ground. Now overhead she closed eyes and yelled. "STOP!"
The crowd calmed down as they stared at Izuka. One of the students even commented on the fact she was seemly floating in the air. "Is she flying?"
Izuka had a small blush of embarrassment before pointing outside. "I-its just the media."
The students who could looked out and saw the news crews being confronted by the teachers as the police finally choose that time to come up and take them away. Everyone was so focused on them that they missed a purple mist closing up at the far end of the courtyard.
Izuka stood out amongst the beach. To her surprise, the remaining junk seemed to be gone. Was it volunteers? Maybe after reports of the beach not being practically a junkyard finally making the local government do something about the mess? Whatever the case it seems her usual spot to train was no more. "Until people start using it as a trash dump after everything you did like the ungrateful bastards they are."
Izuka really wished that Lucy didn't ruin this moment with her cynicism. It was always like her to turn something great like this and ruin it. 'Can you just shut up.'
A voice called out from behind the two colored haired girl. "I take it you were the one who did most of this work?" Turning around she was greeted by what looking like a walking skeleton with skin.
Even Lucy seemed to question if the man in front of them was alive. After all with the way he looked she actually wondered if he was a zombie. "How has he not died at this point?"
Toshinori wasn't all that surprised that he would meet here at this beach. He was surprised that they were meeting now of all times. He looked over and saw that the beach had been cleared. Perhaps his trip to the city council as All Might did the trick to get them to clean up the beaches. "Is something matter?"
"No, no sorry, I zoned out for a moment." Izuka had a blush of embarrassment. She had been staring and Lucy's comment didn't help matters either. "Yes, though I think I wasn't the only one." Given when she last was here there was still trash after all. "Why are you asking?"
Toshinori thought about how to approach this. On one hand, if he seemed like a total stranger Izuka could be suspicious. Though saying he was All Might was out of the question. Luckily for him, he had the perfect cover story. "I'm All Might secretary Toshinori Yagi." He held out his hand for a greeting. "All Might told me about each student of his, you're Izuka Midoriya correct?"
Izuka was taken back. This was All Might's secretary? "He's lying out the skin of his teeth." Lucy appeared out the corner of her eye from the depths of her mind. "He does look familiar though."
Izuka was now more confused by this. Lucy for all she was to Izuka was good at telling when someone was lying. The other part of her warning was what caught her off guard. This guy was familiar to Lucy and as such familiar to Izuka. Looking at him she tried to put it together but she just couldn't find a match. 'Wait a minute.'
It was a long shot but like Lucy had said, no one knew a thing about his Quirk. Everyone assumes its an emitter type in some form. What if it was instead a transformation type? "You're All Might aren't you?"
Toshinori just stood there his eyes widened in complete shock. No words escaped his mouth as he just stared on unsure as to what to say. 'How did she figure it out?' She was great at analyzation if her notebook was anything to go by. It stands to reason that given enough time she might be able to put it together but figuring it out after seeing him like this just once? Toshinori stopped as he realized he had waited for way too long and his expression had just kind of made it slip. 'Damn it!'
Izuka's eyes widened in complete shock. She couldn't believe it. This guy was actually All Might! The Symbol of Peace was actually a skeleton looking man. "Oh, my god…" There was nothing more for her to say as she just stared at her idol's true form.
Toshinori let out a sigh. There was no going back on this now. "Yes, I am All Might." He held up his hand. "Don't go posting this on any online forums alright this is all supposed to be a secret alright." Izuka gave a nod as she ignored Lucy mentally telling her that she told her so. Toshinori held up his shirt showing her his chest. The whole left side of his chest looked scared and partly caved in. "Gruesome isn't it?"
"Eh, I've seen worse." That caused Izuka to question how she had seen worse than that. In the end to choose not to question it.
Toshinori put his shirt back down as he let out a coughed. Izuka could see a few drops of blood in his hand. "Five years ago I fought someone, it was off records but this guy he managed to do that before I finally managed to stop him." Toshinori wiped the blood off his shirt. "Lost half my respiratory system and my stomach after all the surgeries I can only hold my muscle form for three hours at best."
Izuka stared at him unsure about what to say. Hearing that All Might had been crippled like this. Izuka thought back to her first meeting with him feeling bad that she wasted his time. "W-why are you telling me this?"
"Well, besides the fact you managed to figure out my identity?" Toshinori looked at the setting sun. A fitting metaphor if there ever was one. His time as a hero was effectively limited. Both by the injury and by One For All. Recovery Girl didn't think he could keep going for no more than five years at his current rate before his body starts slowing down regardless. "I came to U.A. because my time is limited I'll be retiring in a few years and as soon as I do the Symbol of Peace would be lost."
The thought of All Might retiring was saddening for her. However, the effects of his retiring were apparent to anyone. Crime would naturally shot up in response. "That makes sense."
Toshinori placed a hand on her shoulder. "I came to U.A. to see if I could find someone among the next generations of heroes in order to train to take my place for when that day comes." Toshinori gave her a smile as he paused. "I believe I am looking at that person right now."
Izuka was at a complete loss for words. All Might thought she had what it takes to become his successor. Even Lucy was given pause at this. The twin haired girl felt unworthy of this. "W-why me?" Sure she did have a versatile Quirk and wanted to be a hero like him, one that smiled and inspired others but compared to other students she wasn't all that special. "I m-mean aren't there better choices?"
Toshinori shook his head. "Being the Symbol of Peace is more than just about powers or stopping crimes, the Symbol of Peace has to be able to do what's right to give people hope and inspire others," Toshinori recalled how he had made so many speeches in living up to that ideal. "When you told me about your reasons for becoming a hero it intrigued me and watching how you ran and faced the Zero-Pointer to save someone you barely knew, and then this," He motioned to the beach in front of them. "All this has made it clear that you have the heart of someone deserving of my title when I step down."
So many emotions were going through her mind at this. All Might was so convinced that she had what it took to become his successor. That she was the next Symbol of Peace. A light wind blow between the two of them as Toshinori's hair flowed in the breeze. "Izuka Midoriya I wish to take you on as my pupil and hopefully mentor you into becoming the next Symbol of Peace I ask you, do you accept?"
Faced with everything tears started to fully out of Izuka's eyes. Faced with her idols words there was only one thing she could say. "Yes!"
Next up is the USJ arc. You're all waiting for this. After which we'll finally learn what Lucy even is. So yeah people the reveal coming soon. The poll for the pairing will also come up so be sure to take a look and vote, I would also be accepting votes via reviews and PMs The poll would last for a whole week so you better be ready.
I'll cya all later. Remember go beyond Plus Ultra!
