A small breeze kissed my skin, making me cover my bare arm with my wrapped one. The bulk of the 1-A Yueei students stood in a small group on the training grounds waiting for our sensei's instructions.
I, myself, stood a little off from everyone else in the back where I noticed Todoroki Shoto also stood alone. I considered trying to speak with him but he seems like the type to keep to himself so I brushed off the idea.
My eyes lingered on Izuku-kun who was casually chatted with the girl from earlier and Box Boy as well. I pretended I didn't feel the twitching in my thin eyebrow.
"Alright class," the gruff voice of our homeroom, Aizawa-sensei, spoke up after groggy pulling himself to the center of the feild. "Today we will have a quirk apprehension test." He plainly spoke before yawning widely.
"AN QUIRK APPREHENSION TEST?!" The class yelled together, making me immediately cover my poor unsuspecting ears.
"So damn loud..." I mutter.
"B-b-but..." The chubby cheeked girl spoke first. "What about the ceremony? The guidance counselor meeting?" Huh, I didn't even know we had to meeting with guidance. I should pay more attention...
"If you want to be heroes, you don't have time for that." Sensei blankly stated, his back turned to us. Well, I guess that makes sense in some type of twisted way. He probably just doesn't want to listen to the boring voice of who ever would of been speaking at the opening ceremony.
With no comeback to his reply, the girl stepped back as the gruffy teacher casted us a side glance. He startes to speak but I ignored all his comments. My eyes lingered on my two best friends- Izuku-kun and Katsuki.
Sometimes I can't help but compare the two. They both are two special people in my life and I can't help but feel like I'm stuck in the middle of their bitter relationship for what ever dispute fired up between themselves long ago.
Izuku-kun is super sweet, inside and out. He's an over working guy who has struggled every day in his life. Being bullied constantly because he was labled as "quirkless". But here he is...in one of the biggest hero academy's proving everyone wrong. Speaking of that...it is kinda odd. Not that I doubt Izuku-kun and his abilities but how that girl was describing his punch earlier unsettled me. She made it sound as if his human punch was so epic. Is Izuku-kun...hiding something from me?
My eyes lingered on the green haired boy until they drifted towards the forever angry Katsuki Bakugo. Katsuki is an over confident boy with a bad attitude. His manners towards others are super sour and I wouldn't be surprised if he sucked a lemon every morning. But one thing I have to admit about Katsuki is his natural battle instincts. It's almost flawless. I've only seen him practice about three or four times since I became closer to him almost a year ago and only spared with him once for an hour before he grown angry at me for dodging all his blows. So typical.
My attention suddenly snaps to my side to see someone tapped my shoulder. "Hey Katsumi-chan!" The pointyred haired boy greeted my with a toothy smile. First name basis already?
I grinned back slightly while rubbing my bad arm with my left hand. "Hey Kirishima-kun." I greeted with an even voice.
"Hey since we are classmates, can I uh...have your number?" I stared at him for a moment before his cheeks brushed pink. "I'm not trying to hit on you or anything! I figured well since your a nice girl and thought we could be friends!" He quickly rambled.
I gave him a easy smile before resting my right arm on his shoulder gently. "Of course Kirishima-kun, I would love to be friends with you."
The pink blush wiped itself off his face before he replaced it with a toothy grin. "Alright! Here let me enter my number into your phone real quickly."
I nodded my head before handing my Iphone to the red head and let him add his information onto my phone. I turned my head to see Katsuki holding a medium sized ball in his hands. I clicked my tounge for a moment and waited for the ash blong boy to show off. I know him too well, he will gladly take this opportunity to show the rest of the class he isn't someone he should mess with. Not that it's a bad strategy but certainly won't let him make friends easily.
"DIE!" He yelled out suddenly before activating his quirk and sending the poor ball into the sky in a fiery pain. The sudden blast not only caught everyone attentions but shocked everyone because of what he exclaimed.
"Die?" Many muttered making me snort lightly, but still enough for most of the kids to hear me, including the exploding boy.
Sensei turned his phone around to show us the total amount of meters the ball went. 705.2. Wow. The rest gasped as Katsuki turned around to look at me.
"Why the hell are you laughing Katsumi?!" Katsuki yelled at me, his eyes turning fully white as he raised an angry finger at me.
I brushed off my humor before casting my friend a playful, closed-eye smile. "Nothing Ka-tsu-ki-kuuun~" I purred at the boy, making some type of anger bubble up in him.
"Shut the fuck up!"
"Here you go Katsumi-chan! I put in my address as well, just in case." Kirishima-kun finally spoke up before handing me back my phone. I didn't say anything as I glanced at the contact photo he put on there. A selfie with his pearly white smile and me staring at Katsuki in the background, completely unaware he was taking a photo.
I shut off my phone before grinning at the red head. "I'll make sure I'll text you later, kay?"
He nodded his head before giving me a thumbs up. "Yeah! I'll make sure to answer!
"Oi!" A fist forcefully smashed into the center of my head, making me immediately cover the now hurting spot.
"Ow!" I whinced. I turned around to see Katsuki looked down at me with a fire in eyes. What the hell is his problem? "What was that for?!"
"Totally not cool dude. Hitting a girl is not manly." Kirishima-kun stated with a disappointed look.
"Oh shut it you two!" Katsuki groaned. "We gotta start these damn trails and I'm not waiting for your slow ass."
I rolled my eyes before giving Kirishima-kun a small wave. "I'll talk to you later." I turned my head around to see that Katsuki was shooting me a dirty look. I didn't wait for Kirishima-kun to answer before waddling my way to the angry teen.
"About damn fucking time." He growled at me before he grabbed my good elbow and started to drag me towards the group of students who stood idly by as Aizawa-sensei started to call out two names at a time.
"What are we doing?" I whispered to Katsuki.
He gritted his teeth before glaring at me. "Pay god damn attention, then you'll know what we are doing."
Not expecting the cold should from the boy (or the exploding shoulder) I pouted at him. "I just wanted to make a friend."
"You already have a friend god damn it. You don't need more than that." He grumbled while crossing his arms.
I turned to him with an awed look. "You think we are friends?!"
"DON'T SEEM SO DAMN SURPRISED DIPSHIT!"
"Bakugo Katsuki and Midoryia Izuku." Aizawa-sensei suddenly stated before moving onto another pair of names.
Forgetting my astonishment about our spoken friendship, Katsuki turned to our teacher with a scrowl. "You're pairing me up with that quirkless asshole?!"
Aizawa-sensei didn't even seem like he heard what Katsuki said making the boy even angrier. I patted the boys shoulder with a smile. "Izuku-kun isn't that bad, Katsuki. Give him a chance."
"Shut the fuck up, side character." Katsuki muttered before brushing off my hand and walking away into the crowd.
"Aw I thought we where friends!" I called out to the boy who only flipped me the finger in response.
I chuckled half heartly as his actions caused half of our classmates to give us side ways glances. If he was just a tad bit nicer...
"Kaminari Denki and MatsumotoKatsumi. Alright, I finished listing off you lot. Let's start off with the first two."
I'm pretty sure that our sensei doesn't want to be here at all.
I stood alone watching my classmates one by one easily ace the 50- meter dash with the enhancement of their quirks. Not much of them caught my attention besides for Box Boy, Cheeky girl, Izuku-kun, and Katsuki. The majority of the class outcomes for the test came to a blur to me.
Box boy has a quirk known as "Engine". With super speed he cleared the course in 3.04 seconds. Even though I don't like him as of right now, that is some hell of a time. And he cleared it so fast too, I couldn't help but whistle.
Cheeky girl's quirk is "Zero Gravity", which allowed her to lighten up the weight of her clothes. Even though her finish time was 7.15 seconds, it wasn't an outstanding time as the others.
Next was Izuku-kun and Katsuki, who both raced at the same time. Izuku-kun, since he had no quirk, was literally blown away when Katsuki suddenly lit his palms and flew across the track within 4.13 seconds. Izuku-kun, on the other hand, finished at 7.02 seconds.
I remained quiet as Izuku-kun crossed the line with a sour look on his face. He looked depressed but still somewhat determined. I don't understand how Izuku-kun thinks he can handle this...he has no quirk, afterall.
Now don't get me wrong or anything...I believe in Izuku-kun and his smart thinking...but attending Yueei High might of not been the right choice for my quirkless friend.
My number was quickly called after the two's race making me snap out of my thoughts, once again. "Number 20! Please come up to the starting line!" A robotic voice called out to me.
I blinked once before forcing my body to move towards the white line. #19, Kaminari Denki, who was grinning at me started to open hid mouth to speak. "Lost in space, huh?"
Being the shy person I am, I didn't say anything to the blond spiky haired boy but instead took off my shoes before the bot could announce us to go. Feeling an awkward tension settle between the two of us, I squatted down into a running position and waited for the bot.
"And go!" I took off without a mintues notice. Pushing my upper body higher into the air, I let wind release from the pores of my feet to get a boost into the air.
"3.56 seconds!" The bot called out a moment before my feet reached land once more.
Much better than my middle school score, which I think is 4.32 seconds.
"Wow, good job Katsumi-chan!" I heard Kirishima-kun call out to me a moment later. I turned and smiled at the red head.
"Ah thank you."
"5.21 seconds!" I heard the bot yell out once more after Kaminari passed the line. He turn towards me with a wary smile as he put his hands on his knees.
"Good...job...!"
I nodded my head in his direction before quickly looking away.
"You're kinda shy, huh?" Kirishima-kun spoke next to me as we both stood next to each other in the next test: the grip strength.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Only to those I don't know."
He nodded his head in understanding. "Wanna see my quirk?!" He suddenly spoke out as he raised his hand holding the measure.
I nodded my head, wanting to see what he was so eager about. "It's not much...but..." Suddenly his hand turned into a rough looking shape as he gripped the machine with as much force as he could give it.
My eyes lit up at seeing his quirk's display. "Wow Kirishima-kun!" I shouted looking at his high score. "That's pretty cool!"
"Eh you think so?" He grinned sheepishly before converting his hand back to normal. "It's not really flashy though..."
I shook my head before smiling. "Your quirk doesn't need to be flashy to be strong."
Staring at me for a few moments Kirishima-kun blushed a tiny bit. "Ah yeah, I guess you're right..."
I nudged the boy's shoulder with mine before chuckling. "Of course I'm right."
He chuckled along with me until I decided it was my time to do my grip test. Since my quirk can't do much in this type of test, I used my regular strength.
"Wow Katsumi-chan! You got a 90!" Kirishima-kun exclaimed as the little digits appeared on the screen. "I didn't even see you use your quirk!"
"That's because I didn't." I plainly answer before putting the machine down on the floor.
"That was...pure strength?"
I nodded my head.
"Are you a monster?"
The next couple of trails went by in a breeze. But during each and everyone I noticed Izuku-kun struggling. Kirishima-kun explained to me that Aizawa-sensei had ordered the person in the last rank to be expelled after I told him I wasn't paying attention. I couldn't help but worry for my green haired friend, and I noticed that he became slowly more desperate to get a good or more like an outstanding score in one of these trails but things are not working out in his favor.
The next trail was the pitch. I was the first to go so it was a breeze, literally.
"Wow! Look at that ball wiz by!" Some girl commented with an amazed look. I used my wind quirk to send the ball flying through the air, creating air ripples in the sky and a loud high pitch sound to scream throughout the area.
Aizawa-sensei watched the ball for a moment before turning around his phone. "1,503 meters?!" The class sung together, Katsuki some how being the loudest.
I sheepishly smiled before walking back towards the crowd. "Sorry, I felt like showing off."
"That was over kill!"
Students and students went on to pitch the ball after that. I earned myself a heated glare from the ash blong boy for a while until the very last name was called.
"Midoryia Izuku, step up." My eyes immediately snapped towards said boy who swallowed nervously before stepping up to the pitching spot.
"Midoryia isn't doing well, is he?" Block boy commented dryly while crossing his arms. Not that he ment it in a rude way, I still couldn't help but give him a small glare.
"Of course, he has no quirk." Katsuki growled next to him. I was behind both boys but I leaned my upper body against Katsuki's back while my arms hanged loosly over his shoulders. Surprisingly, he didn't shrug me off.
"Huh?" Box boy and Cheeky girl both turned to give Katsuki a bewilderment look. "What do you mean?! Didn't you see what he did at the entrance exam?!"
"Huuuh?!" Katsuki yelled while I gave Box boy a confused look. I did remember Cheeky girl mentioning something about his punch...
"46 meters."
My head peaked up over Katsuki's shoulder to see the most devastated look I've ever seen in my life. I never ever seen that much devastation in my life before, it almost broke my heart.
"I erased your quirk." My head snapped over to Aizawa-sensei's direction as he released the odd looking bandages around his neck, letting them wiggle around dangerously. His black, greasy hair started to lift up from his shoulders giving a almost evil look to himself.
"It defies reason. How someone like you made it into this academy."
Not only was that so rude but also offending. I felt like blowing him off his feet and make him fall flat on his face.
"Eraserhead!" Izuku-kun suddenly yelled out. It took me about five seconds to realize that was our sensei's hero name.
"Huh, never heard of it."
"Get the fuck off of me." Katsuki muttered. There was no force to his comment so I figured he was just saying it to be an ass.
I didn't respond to him but continued to watch the scene fold out between my friend and our sensei. "From what I observed you cannot rein in your quirks full power. Meaning you can't use is efficiently at all. Do you believe someone will save you after you crippled yourself again?"
I watched silently as Izuku-kun flibbled around for some type of response only making Aizawa-sensei angrier. Using his medical like bandages, Aizawa-sensei brought Izuku-kun closer to his face but by doing so I could no longer hear their conversation.
Aizawa-sensei blabbled on for a few more mintues before setting down Izuku-kun and saying somthing that twisted Izuku-kun's whole face into what I can describe is anger.
Sensei's hair slowly float back down onto his shoulders as he stepped away from Izuku-kun. Turning away from our sensei, I watched as Izuku-kun thought over whatever Aizawa-sensei said to him. He looked up with a blazed eyes and got into a pitching stance.
With one leg raised behind him, Izuku-kun threw his whole body fowards with his right hand holding the ball out. But just as he was about to pitch it, I took notice of the bright light that lit on his index finger.
My mouth fell open as the ball went twirling into the air with a powerful gust, much like mine when I pitch the ball. Everyone was shocked, even Katsuki. His expression matched mine as well since we knew something no one else knew. Midoryia Izuku is qurikless. Or should I say was.
How the hell did this happen? I knew this boy for eleven years and not once did I see any type of sign the boy might have a quirk. The yelling of Izuku-kun's accomplishment wasn't able to shake me out of my surprised state or his meter reveal. It was only when Katsuki had lundged himself at the boy and I found myself falling fowards towards the ground.
"Woah!" Two arms wrapped around my stomach before my face could totally collide into the dirt.
I looked up to see that Box Boy surprisingly caught me. He and along with Cheeky girl looked down at me in concern. "Are you alright?!" The two of them yelled with worried looks.
I nodded my head while glancing at Katsuki who was tied up in Aizawa-sensei wraps. "Yeah thanks..."
Box Boy nodded his head before lifting me up and setting me on my feet. Katsuki was now unwrapped and walking towards my way in a very angry manner. "Damn that shitrag..." was all I heard before he stopped and turned in front of me while grumbling.
I can't be angry at Katsuki for being so surprised, it caught me off guard as well. I've known Izuku-kun for so many years that I feel really hurt that he didn't tell me about his quirk appearing out of the blue. All the times I stood up against bullies for him...all the times I encouraged him that he could be a hero...and I find out he has a quirk after eleven years?
My brown orbs flicker to his form with a hurt look.
I thought we were friends...
The rest of the trails went by easily and the eight trails came to a close. The whole 1-A body waited in a big group waiting for Aizawa-sensei to show us the final results.
"The total is simply the aggregate sum of each of your scores. If I recited all of your scores it would take a million years so I'll disclose them all at once."
I silently looked at a depressed Izuku-kun from the corner of my eye. He was standing next to Cheeky girl and Box boy, who I was standing to unintentionally. Izuku-kun stared intentlly at the teacher waiting for our results to be released. I wonder if he had this quirk all this time, which could only be possible. Has Izuku-kun been lying to me this whole time? The hurt settled in my chest and rised to my throat, I forced myseld to look away from my "best friend" just as the score board appeared.
My name was under Katsuki's, marking me in 4th place. Box boy was under me. As my eyes trailed over the list, I noticed Todoroki Shoto was 2nd and the other blond boy, Kaminari Denki, placed in 17th. Kirishima-kun placed 9th. As my eyes scanned the full board looking for one more familiar name, I just realized my friends worst nightmare become a reality. There at 21st place was my best friends name.
Midoryia Izuku.
Hey guys! This is like my first auhors note in this story, lol. I wanted to apologize for the late update but I've gone back to school recently and everything has been crazy. I hope you all understand but I will try to update as frequently as I can. Sorry for the inconvenience!
