"WHO KNOWS THE ANSWER?? EVERYONE HANDS UP AND RAISE HIGH!!!!!!!!" Present Mic screamed in the first session of the second day in school.

Yeah I know, typical morning.

Now I even miss Aizawa sensei's scolding.

At least I am able to contain the stimulation well. Nii-san, on the other hand was facing some troubles. He have had lack of sleep, seemingly, last night. He did not even wake up on time today, not to mention the faintly visible black bags under his eyes.

'I wonder why...'

"COME ON STUDENTS ANSWER THE QUESTION!!"

I raised my hand, so did Yaoyaruzu-chan.

'I wish I could take away his tiredness...'

-"YAOYAURUZU SPEAK UP!"

-It's sentence number four, the past participle is in the wrong place, sensei.

-"TRUE AS ALWAYS! GOOD JOB!!"

And she sat back down smiling.

'She is smart, and her quirk, looking back at the quirks tests, is very handy of used well. She is an amazing person.'

RIIING!!

And the bell sounded at last.

It was lunch time.

All of the students rushed to the "Lunch Rush" cafeteria to have their meals.

I took the bento box I have prepared back at home, and walked with the crowd. When I was sure nobody was noticing me anymore, not even nii-san, I rushed through the hallways to the stairs. I got up, up and up until I felt a soft breeze hit my face.

I smiled, looking around me at the empty roof.

'This is what I call a perfect spot.' I thought to myself, pleased.

I leaned my back against the wall and sighed.

'At least I don't have to fake smiles, answer questions I don't want to, or act following something I am not for anyone's sake. Here is where I can be myself...'

I opened the bento box, and the nice smell of hot cooked rice and salmon filled my nostrils.

"Ittadakkimassu." I said and started eating, small bite after small bite.

I was pleased with the result of my cooking, but thought that I can put a little bit more salt and seasoning.

I was enjoying my solitude, all perfect and in place.

"W-what?!!" a certain, small male voice stuttered.

'Is it my destiny to be interrupted?'

I looked at the voice's direction, and saw a guy with purple hair styled to the back of his head. He had sharp eyes, ears like elves, and a very shocked and awkward expression.

I stared at him for a set of time. He gloomed even more and hid his face with the wall.

'But... I did nothing...'

-"Tamaki! Tamaki wait for a second!" someone called, probably the purple head.

-"Oh no... no..." the awkward one kept muttering, as he became gloomier and gloomier with each passing second.

Suddenly, a face popped just beside him. From the wall. He had a round form, weird Tin-Tin like blue eyes and a lone blond strand of hair visible on his forehead.

'What.The.Hell...!'

"Here you are Tamaki!" the face said in relief.

"I don't want to go there... There are too many people... and now... even here..." Tamaki stated, looking at my direction, then turning right away when he caught me staring.

The face grew out of the wall to form a full body then looked to my side.

He suddenly burst a whole load of positive energy all out in two words: "Hellooo thereee!!"

I was stunned for a moment. I then said: "H-hi... um... who are you..?"

'Great way to put it, Hikoori. You just made things awkward.'

The "face in the wall", who turned out to be a tall, well built blond head burst out in laughter.

I felt the heat burst into my cheeks, probably turning them three different shades of red. I felt I wanted the earth to swallow me up. Literally.

"I am Mirio! Togata Mirio! Your senpai from the hero class, third year!" He answered enthusiastically beaming with a very bright smile.

He then continued pointing at the elf like purple headed teenager multiple times with his thumb at light speed: "Aaand this guy here is Tamaki Amajiki my dear best friend!!"

'His best friend...?'

I looked at 'Tamaki' and 'Mirio' back and forth several times.

'I mean... they are pole opposite. Totally different.'

"So, What's your name?" Mirio asked still maintaining the same bright smile.

'Oh right...'

"My-my name is Todoroki Hikoori. Nice to meet you Mirio senpai, Tamaki senpai." I introduced myself politely.

"Come on Tamaki, greet our new friend! Doesn't she seem so nice!" Mirio beamed at his best friend.

'Wait... so we became friends that fast?'

Tamaki looked at me again.

"H-hello... um... T-Todoroki-san... it's nice to meet you..." He said in a small, shy voice.

"It's nice to meet you too, Tamaki kun." I added, smiling at him.

He too smiled, faintly.

-"Now Tamaki let's go to the cafeteria!" Mirio exclaimed.

Tamaki gloomed and hid his face and the wall again.

"I can't...! There are too many people... too... many..." he was horrified of the crowd.

'And I thought I hated crowds too much'

"Come on now! You have to come along! Nejire is waiting for us and soon..." Mirio started but was interrupted by a loud, continuous chatter of one female: "Hey! Hey! Mirio I have been waiting forever down there and the seats are almost out, even the food stands are going to close soon and the lunch time almost ended! Come on come on come on!!"

'Oh my God...'

"I know Nejire but Tamaki is not comfortable about leaving..." Mirio answered, not bothered by her banging words.

"Come on Tamaki just this time! Come on you can do it I am sure you will find your guts just search deep down in your core and hang on to that flame you have so that you can accomplish your goal!" Nejire tried to cheer him on.

'I know I am going to regret this but... I think it is better to help him out. I know how annoying crowds can be.'

-"Um... he can sit here... if he wants to. You all can..." I suggested.

The three heads shifted in my direction. The boys smiled, but Nejire was surprised.

"Hey! Hey! Mirio! Is that the friend that got you said had an interesting performance yesterday? The one with the amazing ice quirk that nailed all the quirk gym tests like if they were nothing?? The one with the innovative and creative ways of using her quirk?? Is she going to become your girlfriend or something like that?" she asked poking Mirio continuously, eyes wide with curiosity.

'Girl- what...?'

I was speechless. She just said I will be his girlfriend, and I have just met him.

'Besides she said he was watching us too!

How did we not notice him?!

Oh... he must have been doing that penetrating into the wall trick...

Makes sense...

But still!'

"Of course not Nejire! She is just a nice friend that offered us company! Do you want that Tamaki?" answered Mirio.

I sighed in relief. In my mind that is.

'At least he does not have weird ideas...'

Tamaki smiled and nodded. He sent me a thankful look. I nodded at him smiling as well.

"So now we have two silent communicators! Right! Right Mirio!!" Nejire exclaimed again, her tall bluish grey hair swayed in the process.

-"Yup! Seems like it!" He answered.

Tamaki just nodded bashfully.

'To put them on an energy scale, Nejire comes first, then Mirio and last Tamaki.'

The three sat beside me, as Nejire took out three bento boxes. Turns out she bought them before coming up here because she knew Tamaki would have a hard time going to the cafeteria.

"We used to come here if the quiet spot in the school yard was taken. This is why when Tamaki saw you here, he became nervous." Mirio explained. "But he is getting along with you well, since he is not hiding right now. This is the first time he does after just a first meeting." He was gone further.

I could see the blush on the elf boy's cheeks.

"Well, it is the first time for me as well. I don't usually call people friends after our first meeting, but... but I fell like I can call you that." I said.

"I feel like we are going to get along so well." is what I wanted to say, but, save that for later.

I finished my food and got up to excuse myself.

"Nice to meet you Tamaki-san, Mirio-san, Nejire-chan." I bowed my head.

"Nice to meet you too!" the three of them said in chorus, but in different tones nonetheless.

I smiled and got down the stairs.

'Senpais, huh...'

"where were you?" the blunt voice of my twin questioned me.

I was just sitting on my desk, but his banged at me in the same moment question froze me.

"I... I got to the roof." I answered, continuing my sitting motion, not even looking at his face.

"And why didn't you come with me to the cafeteria?" He pushed further.

"I had a bento." I answered simply, lifting the bento up, not bothering to look at his direction.

He shifted in his seat.

'Sorry nii-san... sorry...'

"I aaaaaaaaam..." A certain heroic voice started his catch phrase, pumping all the students in class up, and dropping our awkward situation on spot.

Everyone turned to the door, and saw All Might in his silver age costume, continuing with his signature All-Mighty smile: "...Here getting through the door like a normal person!!"

Everyone got so excited, some commented on All Might's presence, others on his costume, and such.

Nii-san was on fire, too; quiet fire that is. He muttered an 'it's All Might himself' while observing the hero with stars in his eyes.

All Might, the hero foundations teacher, explained that today's class is about...

-"The trials of battle!!!" He shouted radiating enthusiasm all around, a small card with the word "BATTLE".

I could see Bakugou's creepy smile even when his back was facing me.

"And to go with your first battle, we have prepared the gear we have asked you to send request for, so that it matches your quirks!" Sensei continued his explaining.

"Our gear!! Awesome!!!" the majority of class screamed with pure excitement.

'Our costumes...!'

"Get changed and we'll be ready to go! Everyone gather at the grounds beta!" Sensei explained further, then said dramatically holding a fist in front of his face as a symbol of power and encouragement: "And don't forget! From here on out, you're officially heroes!!"

The class screamed "yeah!!" in different tones, but nonetheless all of them were were ready to take down the world itself.

Even I said yeah along with others, a "yeah" that I am pretty sure that I'm the only one who heard it.

That does not change the fact that the blood in my body quickened it's pace. The adrenaline rushing throughout my body did it's job well.

I got to the costumes stand and grabbed mine with the number 14. I smiled to myself as I rushed to the girl's restrooms.

In grounds beta:

I got there on time with almost everybody.

All of my classmates had fabulous costumes and looked amazing in them.

"Todoroki-san! Your costume looks great!" Yaoyaruzou exclaimed in awe.

I turned to the left to face her. She had a very revealing red swimming suit like top, while the bottom was covered with what I assumed was a large yellow belt containing chemistry books.

"Yours too...!" I told her back, smiling.

'But it's too revealing...' But I kept this remark to myself. I am not the one to tell her what to wear, especially if that is the aspect of her quirk, after all, she requested it like that to be compatible with it.

Mine, on the other hand, was totally different.

A black suit covering the whole body, made by fire and ice/water proof material. It has Nano particles merged with the fabrics, programmed to help regulate my body temperature: heating on my left and cooling on my right. On my hands was attatched a fire igniter and an ice producer in the form of arm guards. Just in case I overused my quirks and became unable to trigger them without help.

I asked for a belt too. It was light blue, and contained a mini first aid kit.

In the middle of the belt, the letter T was present, but in a special way. It's head is whole, but the leg splits to two, forming a diamond like shape.

It wasn't a shallow symbol. It represented my bond with Shoto. While the T can stand for "Todoroki", it can be also standing for "twins". The diamond is a symbol of how valuable and strong our bond. Diamond is the hardest thing on earth yet discovered, and the most expensive one.

I had also requested special black high boots that had winter piercings. Those can get into and out of the boot's bottom. When "out", they help me have a steadier walk on ice. When "in" they help me slide on it since the bottom of the boot is made especially to have the least friction to give maximum manoeuvrability.

Now my curiosity tickled me.

I glanced at Shoto.

I wished I did not.

He had frozen his whole left side.

'This is... this is too far...!

I know he loathes his left side, but this is just too much!'

I wanted to say something, but All Might sensei began his speech again, interrupting me. Again.

"Let's see what you are made of you embryos! It's time for the trial battle!!"

"Wow Deku! Cool costume! It looks pretty practical." Infinity girl commented from right next to Shoto.

I glanced at them, and chuckled at the Midoriya's reaction.

His eyes were buzzing out, his body shaking and was covering his mouth.

'Sometimes I wonder if he ever saw a girl before...'

I looked away, redirecting my focus on sensei.

But something itched my ears.

The voice of certain grape kid.

"The hero course is the best." He commented.

All I did was to get closer to him.

He sensed my aura.

He freaked out.

He got away with his life.

"Better not comment about such things again." I said, fuming.

Midoriya became scared. He must have noted not to piss me off because I can be a pain in the butt when I do get pissed off.

"Sensei! Reasoning from the performance ground, we'll be doing the trial in the entrance exam style and fight against robots?" A kid in white armor like costume that screamed: racer with it's engine like parts on the legs and the overall look.

This was Iida for sure.

All Might explained (with the help of a cheat paper) the nature of this test.

First it is an indoor battle. He said that the reason for this is that most capable villains perform their crimes indoors, lurking in the shadows.

Second it is a two against two team battle.

"What about the foundational training?" the frog like girl asked, tilting her head to the side.

"This is foundational training!!" Sensei answered her, gripping his fist passionately in front of his face. "Although this time, you won't be destroying any robots!" He continued.

instead of quieting down, my classmates shove more questions in his face.

"So how do we determine who wins and loses?" The smart one was from Yaoyaruzu.

"Can we just blow them up..." The cruel more like statement than question was from none other than Bakugou.

"Is there a threat of expulsion like in aizawa sensei's class...?" The worried one from Uraraka.

"If we are separating into different groups what would be the best way to do so?" The practical was Iida's.

"Don't I look killer with this cape...?" And... this one was from sparkle-sparkle boy. It explains why it is so off topic.

"Hnnnnn-- I can't hear you if you speak all at once!" All Might complained with the 'God please help me' expression.

Not that I blame him.

He answered us all by describing the trial. We had to be split in two 'two man' cells. One represents villains and the other heroes. The heroes have to find a (fake) nuclear weapon the villains hid and are guarding in the apartment. To win, heroes have to secure the weapon or catch the villains before the time is up.

For the villains to win, they have to either stall until time is up or catch the heroes.

And the teams will be formed depending on lottery.

Iida thought that this is not practical, but Midoriya explained that most heroes team ups are forged most of the time with heroes that are not so familiar with each other.

And so the lottery was drawn.

Team after team after team, my name was not present. In the end, I was left alone.

"Since Hikoori shonen was left out alone, I am going to draw random names again to be put on her team, and the same goes for the team against her. Their sides should be decided by lottery like all other teams." All Might decided, and did as he said.

My teammate was a girl with neck length navy blue hair, earphones plugs like ears and funky looking costume with the name Kyouka Jirou.

We were the hero team.

The ones against us were an octopus like guys that pared up with my twin Shoto called Mezo Shoji. His teammate was none other than Yaoyarouzu-san.

'I have to study my teammate and my opponents. Yaoyarouzu-san is going to be a tough costumer, but I do not know much about the others.

I will do what I am best at: observing.

Now the first team should be...'

First up was the Midoriya vs Bakugou team.

Both were stunned at first. Both went full serious mode as well.

'This... this is not going to end well...'

Hello everyone!The battle trials are here! (All Might catch phrase spotted.)I am so sorry for the slightly late update!I have a lot of things to do lately, it's making me busy.But I will keep updating the story, do not worry! And I will try best to always be on time too!Hope you enjoyed!Tell me your favourite part in this chapter.The next chapter is going to -hopefully- be a good one with more epic scenes than usual.Wish me luck!Regards.Author-chan.