Thinking that the practical exam would be easy was my first mistake.

From what Midoriya had said, I thought we'd just be fighting robots, just like the entrance exam. I assumed I wouldn't have too much difficulty so I spent most of my time studying for the written tests. Not that studying didn't pay off. I knew the content on the exams, so I was pretty sure I'd done well.

My second mistake was relaxing before the practicals.

On the day of our physical test, I wasn't mentally prepared for such a surprise.

We'd all gotten in our hero costumes and were waiting by the viewing room.

Aizawa was waiting for us. Then, the principal - who for some reason was hiding in our teachers scarf - jumped out in front of us, giving me, and some of my classmates, one hell of a scare.

The princable, Nezu, started to explain the exam. As I took in the words he was saying, anxiety steadily rose inside me.

We wouldn't be fighting robots. We'd be fighting the teachers.

I barely registered my classmates' sounds of surprise. My breath was speeding up and vision began to tunnel. I was crashing. Then,

Someone roughly bumped into my arm, almost making me fall forward, bringing me out of my head.

The culprit, my Hero, turned out to be Bakugou who was now standing beside me, not saying a word and purposely looking away from me.

I blushed a little and smiled. Standing on my tippy toes, I whispered into his ear,

"Thank you."

He flinched as my breath tickled his ear, turning his head to glare at me, but I was already focused back on our teacher, hoping I hadn't missed anything too important.

"The teams have already been decided, and you can't change them so don't bother asking." He said, taking out a little remote, a screen appeared, a list of names on it.

"Here are the pairs along with what teacher you are up against."

I scanned the list for my name, hoping I had a good partner, and saw it along side Jirou. I sighed in relief. I got along pretty well with Jirou, though I wasn't sure how well our quirks would go together. I then looked at who we'd be fighting and felt my relief disappear. Of all the teachers at U.A, this one was by far my least favorite.

We'd be fighting Present Mic.

Of all the possible opponents we'd gotten him.

Now see, I didn't really have anything against the guy. He was a great hero and a nice guy, but his quirk, his quirk I just couldn't handle. He was just so loud. I always dreaded his lessons because without fail, I'd always have a wicked headache afterwards.

With Present Mics Quirk we wouldn't be able to get close to him without our eardrums exploding. If he stood near the exit, which he'd probably do, we wouldn't even be able to get out.

Everyone began to break up into their pairs to head to their arenas. I locked eyes with Jirou and headed over to her, wishing Bakugou good luck as I left. He'd need it, not only was he paired up with Midoriya, he was up against All Might.

Jirou was, interesting. She was nice, funny two. Always teasing Kaminari. But for whatever reason I felt like I knew her. I don't know why, but she just seemed familiar. But this wasn't the time to try and figure that out.

Present Mic hurded us up and onto the bus that would take us to where we'd be fighting. It wasn't a long ride, maybe 10 minutes at most. When we arrived we saw that the arena we'd be in was a forest.

We got off the bus and Present Mic explained that there were two ways to pass the exam. One was to handcuff him. We each got one of them. The second way, and most likely the one we would choose, was to simply get out of the arena.

We entered near the back of the arena, we had 5 minutes before Present Mic entered the forest. We need to come up with a plan, quickly.

"You have any ideas?" The girl asked once we were inside.

"Maybe if we were able to lure him away from the gate, since that's probably where he'll be, one of us might be able to get out. Maybe." I said, biting my thumbnail.

"That might work, I mean, it's not likely we'll be able to get close enough to handcuff him." Jirou said, twirling her earlobe around her finger.

"I think you should do the luring Misaki. You're able to do long range, that and my quirk won't have much of an effect anyways." She suggested. I nodded in agreement.

"But there's still the matter of actually luring him away….." I said, triling off.

I looked around me, for anything that might help us. Then, it hit me. I turned to the girl beside me and said,

"I'm going to start a forest fire."

Jirou whipped her head around to look at me, her confusion apparent on her face.

"What do you mean your starting a forest fire!?" She exclaimed.

"A fire's a pretty good distraction, don't you think?" I smirked.

I watched as she realized what I was saying.

"Misaki, that's brilliant!"

I blushed slightly at the praise and told Jirou to start heading towards the entrance. I headed in the opposite direction.

We knew our time was up once we heard Present Mic's screeching.

The moment that ear splitting noise appeared, I removed a lighter from my pocket and made the little flame appear. Then I brought it to my hair, which exploded in flames. I snapped the lighter shut and shot my hair out towards the surrounding trees and bushes, lighting them on fire.

I kept this up as I walked around aimlessly and eventually I heard Present Mic's 'Yeahhh' turn into something else.

"Oh my God! Fire!"

I smirked, so far so good. I turned and began to run, I needed to get as much distance from Present Mic as was possible.

I didn't get very far. I'd only been running for a few minutes when I'd suddenly felt my ears ring like they'd never before.

I crumpled to the ground and my vision began to blur. I covered my ears with my hands, a poor attempt to lock out the noise.

And then,

Nothing.