The U.A Diary
Chapter 1: The first day
I'm not much of a journal keeper, never had much time to do so, but I thought I should keep a journal since I start U.A this school year. So here I am, I should probably introduce myself, in case people find this once I'm long gone. My name is Sakura Aizawa, I am the second born child to the wealthy Aizawa family, I have an older brother who became my guardian after our recent loss. Recently, my parents died and we had a funeral a few days ago. My brother isn't home much, in fact, I only see him in the evening for dinner, or well, his breakfast. He is a Pro-Hero, just like our father was. Our mom had a few odd jobs here and there: hairdresser, cashier, even helped out in a flower shop. She was very kind and gentle, and always had the best advice. My brother and father are quite similar when it comes to personality, however he has our mom's quirk, while I'm more like our mom but have dad's quirk. Anyway, enough about my family and me, let's talk about U.A. U.A is the top hero school in all of Japan, but they don't just train future heroes, no they also have a support lab, management and also general studies. If you ever want to get an agency up and running, you should make friends in every course of U.A. I got accepted into U.A into the hero course, which has been a dream since I was like 5 and started watching All Might on TV. Of course, being born into a family where your father is a hero, you have to become one as well, so it was a natural progression for me to apply to U.A, that I actually got in was a huge surprise, since the Entrance exam was pretty hard. Not only did we have to form a team with a person you have never met and know nothing about, but you had to fight villains together. It was pretty hard since I ended up with a total creep who really likes to play the macho and always had me 'avoid danger' because I'm a girl. Not only did I have to save his ass, but also two more teams because of his macho shit. I did pass with glory and now I'm a student n the hero course. My brother was so proud and we immediately sat down and made a list of things I'll need (other than a pencil case and a bag of course). I was so excited when I got the confirmation that I indeed was accepted into U.A. It was the happiest day of my life walking there in that uniform, finally being able to become what I always wanted to be: a hero. Little did I know that this initial happiness would turn into sadness and insecurities.
When I entered the school, I was amazed. There were so many people with so many different quirks, and all looked unique, like when you enter a hub world of a MMORPG. It was so diverse it felt like a totally different world. So of course my class would be just as delightfully colorful, right? I was right on the colorful part, but not so much on the delightful part. As soon as I walked into the door and sat down at one of the tables, someone approached me, I think he felt like he was the absolute shit or whatever. Well, he approached me and introduced himself as Bryan Jaguchi, the absolute best guy to ever life and apparently he has sought me out to be his girlfriend. Why exactly, I have no idea and I told him no, so he just left and walked to a white haired girl. He seemed really annoyed at me, but I ignored it and just looked around the room more. There were so many people, and all looked so different from what I knew as a child, we had a few mutation quirks it seemed, one of those, my brother would've liked. She was a cat, like with the ears and the tail and all that. We even had a dear, a dragon and a demon. It was wonderful. As the bell rang everyone walked to their seats, well, the white haired girl that was talking to Bryan a few minutes earlier came to me and said that I was in her seat. I replied that if it were she should've been here earlier, but as soon as the teacher walked in she started throwing a tantrum, at age 15 mind you, how mean I was or stealing her seat. Of course the teacher were on her side and I had to move to the back of the class, which wasn't as bad as I thought. It was actually quite nice. Our Teacher introduced himself as Eco Yukkuri, the slow motion hero: Frame. He wasn't very well known but still a force to be reckoned with. Because it was the first day at U.A we should take it easy and just introduce ourselves. I was never good with that kind of stuff, and because I'm a nervous wreck I got a figure out of my bag and held onto it. We had to stand up, say our name and quirk. It was pretty interesting to know who was who, also our motivation to be a hero. Of course most were simple things like: "I want to help people, because I want to be like my parents", stuff like that, but than came Karuma Koun, that white haired girl that threw a tantrum because I 'stole her seat and was mean'. Well, her reason was very simple and straightforward.
"I want to be All Might's wife one day, that's why I want to be a hero.", she said, in a tone of voice that made me physically sick and made me irrationally angry. Of course I jumped up, bowed to my teacher for being rude to interrupt and just told her that a selfish reason is not a good basis to be a hero. Karuma just laughed, then she saw the figure I was holding and she became angry at me.
"And you think you have a better chance with him than I do? Please you are just here out of sheer luck, you little pest!", she practically spat those words at me. I was taken aback. I said no such thing, but maybe because I held my father's gift in my hands she thought I would be a love rival for her. Well, I was raised well so I just keep my mouth shut and sit down again until it is my turn to introduce myself. Everyone was looking at me after that as Karuma said "Thought so" threw her nose up and sat down also. Great I had at least two enemies in this class. Well the introduction went on as normal and then it was my turn and everyone stared at me, again. I don't know what I did with my hands, but I knew I kept holding that figure, like I was a scared little kid. So I intrduced myself: Sakura Aizawa, daughter of a recently deceased hero, all that. I guess my name was so funny that Bryan chimed in: "Dumbzawa is more fitting". So That|s gonna be my nickname now: Dumbzawa. Of course the people laughed, except one. She was a green haired soft spoken girl. She actually looked like she pitied me, felt sorry for me. I Just sighed before declaring: "I want to be a hero to help people, to make them feel safe with a smile on my face, like All Might does!"
I clutched that figure to my chest. Everyone looked at me in silence so I just sat down again, not really paying attention to the rest of the introductions or the rest of the day.
Lunchtime rolled around and I just stayed behind in the classroom eating my Bento, when Mr. Yukkuri came to me. We talked a bit, he told me I shouldn't let myself get bullied and that he knows how hard all of this must be with my parents recent departure. I just shrugged and told him that I|m here to become a hero, no matter what. I owed my parents that I ould become a hero.
The rest of the day was rather boring, nothing really interesting. Mr. Yukkuri gave us the syllabus for the trimester and then we could go home. As I packed my things, Karuma snatched my figure I held the whole time and tossed it through the classroom, all while I was trying to get it back.
"Stop that Karuma, this is a limited Edition All Might Bronze age Figure. My dad gave it to me! Give it back!", I practically pleaded but to no avail, she kept tossing it around until it fell to the ground and an arm fell off. Karuma just shrugged with a simple "Oops" and left. I just picked it up and repaired it, crying, because it was the last gift my dad got me. As I was done packing my things and started heading home, I was stopped by that soft spoken green haired girl that felt sorry for me earlier. She said her name was Hana and that her parents own a flower shop downtown. I knew that flower shop, my mom loved to shop their, and we even got the flowers for the funeral there. She invited me to come over anytime I might need a friend, so I accepted with a smile.
So that was my first day at U.A. After my interaction with Hana, there is not much to tell here, other than we had Katsudon for dinner that day.