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Guest: This fic very cringe don't read
This is what I don't want to see, please. If you don't like something in my fic, don't just criticise it, tell me how to make it better as well. What's more, don't discourage others from reading it before they even start it. How do you know if they'd like what you feel is 'cringe' or not? And finally, don't do this shit as a Guest so I can't PM you about it. Piss off.
Well, that's enough of that.
Harleking31: Your comment absolutely killed me. I love my boi Kakyoin, but damn lmfao.
JakeDragon13: It's my absolute pleasure. Reading that made me so proud of myself lmao
Ben Turner1: Thanks! I'll check it out.
Omnipotent X: Damn I'm sorry to hear that. But tbh, that's probably as far as stuff's gonna go in this story.
GumballDia: Always and Forever.
Draegoon: In terms of adoption, it'll be Dadzawa in this one. But Izuku will be like a really close brother, since he's pretty much Aizawa's son at this point anyway lmao.
Tomorrow's Hero: Yeah, Tomura's really getting the short short straw in life. Amnd iut'll all culminate soon, with repercussions for both sides...
Shishui34: I won't do that in this story, no. Maybe another one. Although I do think her personality matches someone more like Bakugo lmao
Spellbat: Well, you called it lmao. Although it wasn't going to be a Villain that he chops, more likely someone in the Provisional Licensing Exam.
DeadwoodT: I'll check those out, thanks.
DavenTheNomad: Exactly! Although I was thinking more Izuku's hair and his Hero uniform being green, corresponding to Kakyoin's school uniform.
Humble3dore: Yeah, due to several requests from a reader, TodoMomo is sinking. But I've not seen them review in a while, so the ship may yet be revived if they don't come back.
Stormgate: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'll probably only do one every three or four chapters, I think.
AnimeFan13579: You've...already adopted Eri? *Dies of sadness* *Realises it means she'll be happy anyway* *Gets revived with joy*
solbandgus: Yeah, that was pretty much the point of Kirishima's chat name lmao. And yeah, dadzawa already knows. Although I don't show it much in the actual story, he ad Izuku stay up playing online with each other and talking basically every day.
CrimsonStarBlade: Hahahaha, that is hilarious. But I'm not gonna have him use any particular move on Muscular in this story.
Reviewmonkey4u: Yeah, TodoMomo is very much up in the air rn. But even if it doesn't happen, it won't be Kendo. She's gonna be paired with someone else.
AedanHelan: Don't worry, Setsuna will be added, just not right yet.
Plasma Dragon 312: Yeah I'll definitely think on it, but not for a long while. This story's already sizing up to be pretty long, and I've got quite a few ideas lined up after it.
Annonymous: Good to see you! Yeah, at some point I'm going to go back and look for the errors, because I know there's a lot. Thankfully they're all minor though. Nah, the text convos were 100% original. Although, what Twitter thing are you talking about? I'd like to see it. Glad you're enjoying the story!
dragun95: Glad to see you agree with my portrayal of Izuku's character. As for Bakugo, I don't agree with that. Remember that he doesn't really have heroic aspirations like everyone, at least at that point. With him, being a Hero simply meant winning. So to him, if he joins the bad guys for a while and keeps winning, technically he's still being a Hero, in his own twisted perception of it.
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"WHAT?! CLASS A ARE HERE FOR THE SUPPLEMENTARY LESSONS TOO?! YOU TRULY ALL ARE PATHET-"
Monoma's words were cut off by the killer glares that everyone immediately sent his way. Also by the visibly clenched fist Izuku quickly raised, the deadly aura emanating from the green haired teen making the boy pale.
"Listen closely, Monoma." Izuku said quietly. "We're here to go improve on our skills and enjoy ourselves. Not to deal with your bullshit. So if I hear one more 'Class A' comment out of your mouth for the rest of the day, I'll beat your ass. Got it?"
Vlad King's eye twitched, and he went to say something, but stopped when he felt Aizawa's arm keep him back. He turned to face his colleague in surprise, noting that said man was glaring at Neito with just as much intensity as his student. "And once Izuku is done, I'll join in on the fun too. Now get your ass on your bus."
Monoma promptly pissed himself and ran straight for the Class B bus, neither passing GO nor collecting his two hundred Monopoly dollars. "Well, you guys showed him!" Setsuna laughed as she and the rest of the 1-B girls finished loading their stuff in.
Mineta immediately started drooling. "I was too worried during the exams to properly notice, but oohhh... Class B has so many hotties!"
Izuku's deadly glare immediately locked on and zoomed in to it's new target. The fist didn't even need to be raised; Mineta already knew what would come his way. "And don't make me need to have to put up with your bullshit either, Mineta. I will end you."
The purple topped boy paled, and he quickly turned to Kaminari and started up a conversation while Izuku and his group boarded the bus. Damn it, I can't let him take this trip away from me! There'll be so many opportunities to see all these girls. Nude, sleeping, ANYTHING ELSE I WANT...
Aizawa's capture scarf started to float. "I hate to say that I can tell what you're thinking, Mineta."
...Shit.
Meanwhile, Tetsutetsu was looking at Izuku's back as he got on the bus after firmly handling Mineta. He made his way over to Kirishima, exchanging a manly handshake with his friend. "So, Midoriya's kind of a big brother to you guys' class, like Big Sis Kendo is for us, huh?" He asked with a grin, the rest of Class B tuning into the conversation as well.
Kirishima sweatdropped. "Not really a big brother... Less of the 'encouraging you and spreading happiness around him, and more of the 'if you piss him off, get ready to defend your life'." He grinned. Then he noticed that they were all staring at him wide-eyed, and he might have spread the wrong idea. "But Midori-Bro's a great guy! You just need to dive under the surface a bit."
Satisfied that he'd upheld his bro's honour, he touched his index and middle fingers to his forehead in an informal goodbye salute and jumped on the Class A bus, chatting with Sero and Kaminari. Class B shrugged at each other and boarded their own bus as the rest of their sister class followed suit. The last student to get on was Setsuna, who grinned at the Class A bus. "You just get more and more interesting, Midoriya..."
During the hour of driving it took for them to reach their destination, Aizawa's class was calm. They all sat in silence or conversed at thirty decibels or lower, didn't move from their seats, and didn't eat anything either. On top of that, they even managed to curb their excitement until he forgot they were even there, allowing him to snuggle up in his sleeping bag and get the most calming rest of his life.
...He wished.
"YO KAMINARI, YOU GOT YOUR SPEAKER?" Kirishima yelled as soon as the engine started. Following the examples set by his favourite animals in such a situation, Aizawa instinctively hissed at the noise and curled up.
"Yessir!" Kaminari's voice called back, the sound piercing through the thick sleeping bag and into Shota's ears. This is going to be a long trip.
Although, he couldn't help let the parental side in him loose as he took advantage of their loud conversations and listened to what his kids were up to. Kirishima and Kaminari, along with Sero, were arguing about what the best music to put on would be, with Jiro interrupting at points to make fun of all of their choices.
Koda was as quiet as the mouses he could control. Aizawa gratefully resolved to go slightly easier on him during the training they'd be doing. Not that that was saying much, obviously.
Iida was having an debate at the top of the longs with Yaoyorozu, Asui and Uraraka. It sounded interesting, until Aizawa listened in.
"...if I use my Quirk frivolously, I'll just upset the economy, and that's all there is to it!" Yaoyorozu was saying determinedly as Iida backed her up, while the other two protested.
Aizawa immediately shut those voices out, growling angrily. That was one of the things that annoyed him the most. If you had a Quirk, use it. It was illogical to make an argument like that. Plus, with people like Shigaraki, Ashido, Bakugo and Thirteen walking around, who could literally destroy objects on a whim (and Shigaraki probably did, for fun), the economy would almost definitely be fine unless she was creating money or gold or something.
He listened in elsewhere. Aoyama was once again bragging about his 'sparkliness'. From the voice sending the sparse replies, it seemed like Sato was the one stuck listening to the boy this time. Aizawa silently offered his condolences, before moving on.
Mineta was muttering to himself about... Shit. I'll have to warn the Pussycats to reinforce the wall between the male and female onsens and rooms. Honestly, the second he actually succeeds in any of those endeavours, I'll expel his ass.
Ojiro and Hagakure were having a quiet conversation; the invisble girl seemed to be asking the boy to teach her some of his martial arts, since he'd already promised to mentor Iida in them. I wonder why Iida's learning Martial arts, Aizawa thought. Probably something to do with those over the top arm movements he's always doing. Well, congratulations to Hagakure for taking some training initiative, I guess.
Finally, Aizawa turned his parental senses to the Dekusquad. He could hear Tokoyami conversing with Shoji about their provisional licenses, and his eye twitched. Damn you, Crust... It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I've got to do a whole lot of paperwork, and their schedules will be turned upside down when they go back to school. If they'd just done it at the normal time, with the rest of the class, it would've been better. Ah well, I'll explain it to them when I have to.
He listened carefully, but he couldn't hear Izuku's voice anywhere near his friends. Same with Shoto. Then he got his answer when he heard Ashido and Jiro mumbling jealously to each other.
"How come Todoroki gets to sleep on his shoulder and we don't?"
"Yeah, and they're both leaning on each other! No fair, I wanna have Izu-kun sleep on me!"
Aizawa smirked. I'm pretty sure Izuku would be too embarrassed to sleep on either of your shoulders, he thought with a snicker. Not that he'd show it. Anyway, speaking of sleeping...
Satisfied that all his kids were well and taken care of, Dadzawa then slept peacefully until they reached their destination.
"Everyone of the bus! We're having a rest stop here!"
A rested Aizawa -not that you could tell, he still looked as tired as usual- directed them off the bus, before strolling off himself.
"Gotta pee, gotta pee!" Mineta muttered, hopping up and down on each leg as he clutched frantically at his crotch. Aizawa stared at him. Serves you right for what I heard you planning earlier, fool.
The rest of the class quickly grew confused, however, when they saw nothing but a widened precipice overlooking the forest.
"Wait, this isn't a rest stop?"
"Where's Class B?"
"P-Pee..."
Izuku heard a snicker, and his head snapped round to glare suspiciously at their homeroom teacher, who was muttering. "Well, to say there's no ulterior motive would be a lie. We did stop here for a reason..." The student raised an accusatory eyebrow and was about to say something when he was interrupted by a new voice.
"Heya, Eraser! It's been a while!"
The class turned to see two women in cat themed outfits.
"Rock on with these sparkling gazes!" One said.
"Stingingly cute and catlike!" The one who had first called out to their teacher continued.
"WE'RE THE WILD, WILD...PUSSYCATS!" They both finished loudly, striking elaborate poses.
Eraserhead closed his eyes and shook his head despairingly. "Anyway, these are the Heroes who'll be helping us out this time, the Pussycats."
Shoto deadpanned at the two ladies. "Izuku, analysis."
Izuku shrugged. "They're a Hero team with four members. That's Mandalay and Pixie Bob, and Ragdoll and Tiger are probably with Class B or something." He said, recalling the information from Hero Analysis for the Future #6. "They're a veteran team that specialises in mountain rescue operations, if I remember correctly. They've been working for about twelve years now-"
Suddenly, the cat Hero in blue -Pixie Bob- was in front of him, her paw about to hit his face. "WE'RE EIGHTEEN AT HEART!" She yelled, her paw shooting forwards.
Izuku stared at her, eyebrow raised, and nonchalantly phased right through the blow. Since he'd only showed that once in the Sports Festival, and it had never been explained, neither of the Pussycats were expecting it, knowing that he didn't have a Quirk. Pixie Bob recoiled in shock and stumbled backwards to be caught by Mandalay, both of them staring wide-eyed at Izuku, who blandly continued. "As I was saying, they've been in operation for around twelve years, and are a well trusted Hero team by both the public and other Pros."
Still wide-eyed, but beginning to shake it off as she remembered watching the Sports Festival and him doing something similar that had just been brushed under the carpet, Mandalay turned to look out over the forest, gesturing with a bright white paw. "This whole area here is our territory. Your lodgings are over there, at the foot of that mountain."
"So f-far...!" Mineta mumbled, still gripping his crotch desperately as he tried to hold it in.
"Hold on, why'd we stop halfway then?" Uraraka said with a confused expression, subconsciously putting her hands in their 'release' position in her nervousness and tapping them together, constantly floating herself a few inches then bringing herself down again.
"Uh oh..." Sato mumbled.
"Let's...get back to the bus...okay? Hurry..." Sero muttered, turning and starting to creep back.
"Yeah, ha ha..." Kaminari said, doing likewise.
Mandalay's voice suddenly turned menacing. "It's currently half past nine in the morning." She said, her tone filling the class with foreboding. "I'm thinking...around noon at the earliest."
"Aw, crud..." Kirishima muttered. "You gotta be kidding me..."
"Run!" Toru squealed, her clothes suddenly turning and making a break for it. Kirishima and Ojiro quickly followed her, and the class rampage began. Apart from Izuku, who calmly started stretching, preparing for the exercise. Following his example, Shoji, Tokoyami and Shoto did the same, with Jiro and Mina following suit. The rest of the class didn't share their bravery, however, and sprinted along, the bus getting ever nearer. Sero, the first one to start running, had his fingertip stretching for the edge of the bus door, when-
"Kitties who don't make it there by twelve-thirty won't get any lunch."
And Eraser, once proclaimed a King of Vindictive Sass by Present Mic, lived up to his title and just smirked. "Sorry, kids. Despite what you may have thought, the training..."
Pixie Bob slammed her paws down on the ground, and they started glowing blue. Suddenly, a massive avalanche of dirt washed thirteen students of the edge of the cliff.
"...Has already begun." He finished, reveling in the students despairing wails. Maybe you'll learn your lesson and be quiet on the bus home. He snickered. "Yes, I am pretty despicable."
Mandalay leaned over the fence and yelled down at the dazed students. "This is our private territory, so feel free to use your Quirks as you wish! You have three hours to reach the base on foot! Good luck! We hope you make it through the Beast's Forest!"
"Um, question?"
Eraserhead, Pixie Bob and Mandalay turned around to see Izuku, Tokoyami, Shoto and Shoji looking at them in confusion. Shoji had a hand raised, showing that he had been the one to speak. "Why are we still here?"
Aizawa blinked. Why ARE you still here? "Good question."
Mandalay laughed. "That's because you're going to fight Tiger!"
"..."
"..."
"...Why?"
"He'll explain once we get back to camp. Can you take it from here, Pixie?" Mandalay replied, waving them back to the bus.
"Sure thing!" Her teammate replied. "Ohh, my fur's standing on end!"
"Come on, Kota." Mandalay said, and the four boys realised that there had been a kid there the whole time. The kid, however, didn't seem to be in the best of moods.
"Tch. Ridiculous." He said, before climbing back into the car the Pussycats had taken to get there.
As they peacefully climbed back onto the bus their classmates had tried so desperately to board, all of them wondered what kind of bone the kid could possibly have to pick with them after knowing them for approximately two minutes.
"We hope you make it through the beast's forest!"
As Mandalay's final statement came floating down to meet their ears, Class 1-A looked at each other in despair. "Now we gotta trek all this way..." Sero groaned.
"Where's Izu-kun?" Mina asked in surprise. "And Tokoyami, Todoroki and Shoji too!"
Toru groaned. "Not only did we get dumped down here, we're missing Todoroki and Midoriya? They're the two that could make this trip so much easier!"
"Wait, the 'Beast's Forest'?" Ojiro sweatdropped, patting her shoulder in consolation. "What's that supposed to mean, anyway?"
"Sounds like something straight outta Dragon Quest..." Kaminari grumbled. "At least aren't there aren't any actual beasts."
The trickling sound that they heard as fear loosened Mineta's hold on his bladder immediately proved him wrong.
"DAMN IT KAMINARI! AN ACTUAL BEAST?" Sero yelled.
Koda immediately rushed towards the hulking creature, arms outstretched to placate it. "Calm yourself, creature, please back down!" He said, as his classmates yelled his name in relief.
Koda was promptly ignored.
Kirishima grimaced, his pointy teeth forming a nervous grin. "This is where the fun begins..."
The creature roared at them, and the class all shrank back. "The hell? Koda's Quirk didn't work on it?" Jiro shouted. She stretched her jacks out, plugging them into the creature's leg and firing a blast of sound through it to try and make the muscles spasm.
Instead of seeing twitching muscles, however, the class were surprised to see the leg break into clumps of dirt, the monster tilting and crashing onto one of it's hands instead. They all stared at it apprehensively, nobody taking the lead. After a few minutes, four people leapt forwards.
Out of the students there, Asui was the only one who had gained proper battle experience at her internships. Using that experience, she quickly got over her shock and used her strong legs to propel her at the enemy in front of her without hesitation.
Kyoka and Mina had spent so much time around Izuku that his calmness and determination during any situation had rubbed off on them. Working together against Present Mic had been of no little use, too. The two girls stepped forward at the same time as Tsu, Jiro sending out sound blasts and Mina flinging acid.
And the only other student to step forwards had been none other than Eijiro Kirishima. He hadn't gotten any fighting experience at his internship, having done community service with Tetsutetsu and Fourth Kind the whole time. But no matter what, to hang back and leave his classmates to take the initiative?
That would simply be unmanly.
Normally, Izuku would be the impromptu leader of the class, the redhead thought. And Iida looks just as shocked as everyone else. In that case, we need a leader! And I know I'm nowhere near perfect, but if nobody else can, I'll step up!
Before even Asui had made a move, Kirishima was already sprinting towards the hulking creature. Hardening both of his arms, he leapt forwards. "ORA ORA ORA! ORA!" He yelled, punching at the beast's undamaged leg until it crumbled beneath his onslaught. The monster fell onto it's hips, supporting itself with it's left hand while the right arm crashed down to pulverise the redhead.
It never got there, however, as Tsu shot in and redirected it into a tree with a powerful kick. As it tried to remove it's hand from the tree, Mina's acid splashed down on its shoulder. She'd used her most powerful solution, and it quickly melted through the joint, leaving the monster with only the left arm that was supporting it's weight.
The beast never got the chance to retaliate, as Kyoka's jacks pierced into the head it couldn't protect anymore. One full power blast later, and the beast was done for.
"YES!" Eijiro yelled happily, flexing a bicep. "COME ON, GUYS! SURE, OUR POWERHOUSES MIGHT NOT BE HERE, BUT WE CAN'T LET THE NAME OF CLASS 1-A DOWN! LET'S GO!"
The rest of the class cheered, and fully motivated, they charged forwards, towards their newest challenges.
Meanwhile, Izuku and his friends were having a standoff against Tiger. Aizawa and Mandalay stood to the side, watching interestedly. Ragdoll had gone inside to start preparing food for the students.
"So, why exactly do you want to participate in this duel of darkness with us?" Tokoyami asked warily.
Tiger smiled. "I think that the fame you have gotten so early may have gone to your heads!" Tiger said. "And since you're here for training, I'm here to remind you of how far you still have to go! Now, one at a time! You first!"
As he spoke, he pointed at Shoji, who shrugged and stepped forwards. Aizawa walked to stand beside Izuku, and whispered in his ear. "Don't do anything to affect the battle, even if it's at super speed. You make any team unstoppable, but I want to see how he fares on his own."
Midoriya rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I got it. I wasn't gonna do shit anyways. By the way, did you bring your console?" He whispered back.
"Yeah." Dadzawa grinned. "You can come round to wherever I'll be staying after everyone's in bed."
They both chuckled, before stopping to pay attention as Shoji and Tiger took careful steps towards each other. Shoji threw a simple jab, and Tiger simply weaved to the side to avoid it, before throwing a few exploratory punches of his own.
Shoto's eyes suddenly narrowed. Did his neck just...stretch? And his arm, too.
Fumikage and Dark Shadow had evidently noticed as well. "Oi, Izuku? What's his Quirk?"
Izuku cast back through his memory. He'd memorized all the information in his thousands of notebooks, so it was only a matter of time before he remembered. "Pliabody. It allows him to stretch and flatten his own body at will."
"Hmm." Tokoyami looked on solemnly as Shoji threw successive punches, walking forwards, but Tiger simply dodged them all, his body contorting into all sorts of shapes.
Meanwhile, Shoji was grimacing under his mask. This guy is a handful, he thought as the Pro Hero easily stretched his body around the six fists, slipping through to counterattack.
But Mezo's training hadn't been for nothing. His already quick reflexes, aided further by the eye he'd brought out from an arm and kept close to his face, allowed him to easily create another fist and block Tiger's blows. What he wasn't expecting, though, was the pure force behind the strikes.
The Pro Hero, with creativity born of experience, had stretched his arms and hands just before the strikes connected, giving them more speed and power. His muscle bound six foot three frame didn't help matters for Shoji either. Mezo stood at a good six foot already, but the simple truth was that Tiger could store up more power in his bigger body. He was faster, too.
Shoji went skidding back a few feet, and looked at his arms. The forearm that had blocked the blows was heavily bruised already, and had a few cuts from the claws on the Pro's paws. If I had my support items that Hatsume made, this would be a lot easier, he thought with a wince.
Unfortunately for Shoji, Tiger wasn't acting like an anime antagonist character. Giving him no time to assess the damage, Tiger dashed forwards and punched the boy in the face, before contorting his body around him and tightening like a boa constrictor. Hearing the boy's cry of shock, he smiled in triumph. "Do you yield?"
Normally when faced with that question, your opponent would either say 'yes...', or something like 'never!'. So when Shoji spoke, Tiger's face immediately grew nonplussed. The answer definitely wasn't any of the words he expected it to be.
"OCTOBLOW!"
Octoblow?
Suddenly, arms were raining down on him from everywhere. With all of his limbs focused on restraining Mezo, he couldn't block any of them, and the blows smashed into him until he was forced to let go, springing back. Unfortunately for Shoji, though, the boy hadn't realised that during the restraining movement, Tiger's foot had gotten behind his head. So when the Pro leapt away, he let his leg extend, then snap back like a rubber band. All the force went right into the back of the boy's head, and he went down, immediately unconscious.
Aizawa blinked. "That's a bit far. These are my students, remember?"
Tiger nodded. "Think of it as a compliment. I didn't see any way to quickly end the battle without knocking him out. Now, who's next?" He grinned as Izuku picked his friend up and sat him against a wall.
Shoto stepped forwards. "Don't blame me when you lose." He said simply, causing Tiger to laugh.
"Let's go, then! Show me what you've got!"
Momo blasted yet another monster in the face with her portable cannon. "We're going to be overwhelmed at this rate!" She called to Tsu, who was guarding her back.
"Kero! We need someone with a wide attack to give us some rest!" The frog girl replied, tired herself. "Kyoka and Mina are fighting four on their own, and Todoroki is nowhere to be found. Maybe Ser- KERO!"
She yelled the last ribbit as she tackled Yaoyorozu aside. A glacier shot past them, extending until it was the length of a skyscraper lying on the ground, and the height of one, too.
All of Class A looked at each other and breathed thankful sighs of relief as they caught their breaths.
"I wonder what TodoBroki's doing, though." Kirishima said thoughtfully, leaning on a tree as he regained his breath.
Sero shrugged. "Whatever it is, he must be fighting really hard."
Shoto calmly looked at the beginning of the glacier, where only Tiger's head poked out. "Do you yield?"
"...Yes." The Pro sighed. Shoto quickly used a concentrated stream of fire to slowly melt away the glacier and warm Tiger up, before stepping back to stand with Izuku and a now awake Shoji, a small smile on his face.
Aizawa sighed, rolling his eyes. "You can't just use that move all the time." He muttered under his breath, causing Mandalay to giggle once she figured out what he said.
A few minutes later, it was Tokoyami's turn. Despite, Dark Shadow being far stronger than Tiger, it didn't matter when he was unable to land a hit. Even when they used their pincer attack, it only worked against them.
Tiger stood between them, and as soon as Dark Shadow's claws came crashing through towards him, he stretched round into a perfect bridge.
Tokoyami's eyes suddenly widened as he realised what was happening a moment before it hit. "Wait, Dark Sha-!"
It was too late. The hand took him out, sending him flying, and Dark Shadow along with him by extension (literally). He struggled to get back up, and shook his head. "I yield." The battle had taken about seven minutes, a little shorter than Shoji's but still an achievement against a fully fledged Pro Hero.
"Good!" Tiger hummed. "And now, for the toughest opponent!"
Izuku stepped forward. "Yeah, yeah, let's hurry this up so we can go unpack." He snickered, making the rest of the Dekusquad and Aizawa roll their eyes, and Mandalay and Tiger blink in surprise at his confidence.
He seemed very powerful at the Sports Festival, sure, but surely he can't take on a Pro Hero so easily, right? Was the thought that ran through Mandalay's mind. Aizawa smirked.
"For his final exam, he took on all of the U.A. staff, including All Might, and some other Pros too." The teacher said, lazily fingering with the end of his capture scarf. "He came out completely unscathed."
Tiger's eyes widened. "Now hold on a second-"
"Hey, are we gonna start already?" Izuku snickered. "You were the one who challenged me, after all."
Tiger shook his head, and rushed at him, punching left and right, and adding a few kicks into the mix. But Izuku simply disappeared right before each blow connected, appearing right next to where he was so that they brushed safely by him.
The Pro Hero grimaced at the challenge before him, and decided to up it a notch. Keeping up his punches and kicks, he started contorting his body in all sorts of ways, making it impossible for the watching students to predict where he would attack next.
Obviously, though, that wasn't a problem for Izuku. He started moving so fast between two positions that he was able to make it look like there was another one of him. By moving slightly in one position, then zooming to the other and moving, and repeating over and over again, he could essentially do things in two places at once.
"I don't have a name for this move yet, but it's pretty cool, don't ya think?" He grinned, both versions of him talking at the same time and creating a weird voice overlapping effect. "Anyway, which 'me' are you gonna attack first?"
Tiger stared blankly at his adversary- no, adversaries. Then he turned to Aizawa with a complaining look on his face, gesturing with both arms at the clones, who were now playing rock, paper, scissors with each other to make fun of him. "...This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!"
The hobo-like teacher simply grinned. "Izuku, just finish it already."
Tiger looked affronted. His plan to humble the four students enough to be trained well had gone kinda wrong, hadn't it? But there was still no reason to give up. I can't believe this kid is actually Quirkless. "I won't be defeated!" He huffed proudly, turning to face his assailant and raising his paws.
...Only to find that Izuku wasn't there anymore.
Then he heard Izuku's voice, now back to normal, right behind him. "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu..."
Aizawa's eyes widened. "Wait, no, Problem Child, don't-"
"...A Thousand Years of Death!"
When Pixie Bob arrived two hours later after making the maximum amount of beasts she could, Tiger was still huddled on the ground, contemplating his life.
Kirishima staggered through the forest, Class A running behind him. "WE'RE ALMOST THERE! DON'T GIVE UP!" He yelled, raising a hardened fist in the air as he pointed to a beast that was swinging from the branches. "That should be the last one!"
His class mumbled their assent behind him. Sero shot some tape -the very last of it, he realised, by how it was cut off before enough shot out- at the thing, barely immobilising it between two branches. It started struggling, and Eijiro grimaced. "Tsu! Iida!" He yelled, bracing himself. Yaoyorozu didn't have enough left to create another cannon, so this would have to do. Hopefully they'd know what he meant.
"Kero!" Tsu croaked tiredly, grabbing his leg with her tongue. She spun him round and round, and at the last moment, she swung him upwards. Kirishima went ramrod straight and hardened his entire body with the last of the stamina he had left.
Iida then fired his engines and punted Kirishima like a ball, making him go even faster and sending him right at the beast. Like a bullet, the hardened boy shot straight through the beast's chest, before falling and crashing into the bushes. Mina helped pull him to his feet, and together, the class staggered out of the trees.
Needless to say, in Aizawa's eyes -well anyone's eyes, but most especially Aizawa's critical ones- they looked rather the worse for wear compared to how they had been when they entered. Still, it was better than he'd expected.
Kirishima, thanks to hardening, had escaped any major scrapes, but his shirt was torn, and his muscles were visibly cramping as he limped out of the forest. Although, judging by his position at the front and the yell Shota had heard, he seemed to have taken the lead for the class. Good, well done. Izuku made the right choice with regards to One for All, it seems.
Ashido and Jiro limped out, supporting each other. Both were covered in bruises, and Ashido's skin was a little redder due to the sheer amount of concentrated acids she'd used. Jiro's jack wires were all jagged as they cramped and spasmed, and one was bleeding from the tip.
Asui, hopped forwards on both legs and one hand, holding the other arm painfully against her side. Her tongue hung out limply; even she didn't know how she'd summoned the strength to throw Kirishima.
Sero, his tape reserves exhausted, heavily staggered out, his hands hanging limply by his sides as he massaged his round elbows against his sides.
Mineta's scalp bled profusely as he rolled onto the ground, a blissful look of unconsciousness that was quickly wiped off as Aizawa's glare brought him back to reality.
Kaminari's face looked as dumb as it could possibly get. "Wheyy..."
It wasn't possible to see Hagakure's injuries at a glance, but by the amount of dirt and scrapes on her clothes, it was clear she'd worked just as hard as everyone else.
Iida stumbled forwards, his engines stalling every few seconds and making him stumble. Leaning on him, a dirty Ochaco had her hand clamped tiredly over her mouth, looking like she was going to throw up for the fifty third time. (Yes, of course she had counted. It gave her something else to focus on, rather than the constant rainbows.)
Koda didn't look so bad, but he was holding his throat and sweating. Aizawa assumed the mostly unused voice had gone hoarse from overuse after barely being used at all for years.
Sato was bruised and bleeding all over the place. That made sense, Shota thought idly. The boy probably hadn't seen a need to keep any sugar on him, so he had been essentially fighting Quirkless. Fortunately for him, he was buff even without his Quirk.
Aoyama was walking hobbled over, clutching his stomach desperately. He looked to be in the same sort of situation as Ochaco, who had given in and was now creatively designing her fifty fourth rainbow of the day. Aizawa's parental instincts flared at the situation his student was in, but savage thoughts immediately cut that down to size.
I'd say it serves you right for releasing all those blinding sparkles in class. Do you even know how hard it is to sleep after seeing those?
Yaoyorozu walked out of the forest slowly beside him, looking noticeably skinnier and fatigued as she stopped next to Jiro.
Finally, bringing up the rearguard, Ojiro looked bruised and battered from all the close range fighting as he limped forwards, using his tail as a crutch to support himself on.
"I think... I'm gonna die..." Sato groaned. "I need...food."
"It'll only take three hours my ass..." Sero said, trying to massage feeling back into his elbows.
"Sorry!" Mandalay said cheerfully, with absolutely no hint of remorse anywhere in her voice. "That's how quick we would've done it!"
"They're flaunting the power gap in our faces..." Kirishima groaned, looking so burned out he was visibly turning white.
"Well, you did do a little better than expected." Pixie Bob admitted with a carefree laugh.
Ragdoll leaned over to whisper to Mandalay. "Hey, don't you think it's a little weird that Ryu hasn't tried to snatch up any of those students? She's been going on and on about the whole spinster thing lately..."
Mandalay giggled before replying. "Nope, she's already got her eyes on the Dekusquad."
Overhearing the whispered conversation, Aizawa's eyes slid over to Pixie Bob. Sure enough, she was hiding behind a paw and throwing a Nya~ or two at Shoto. The teacher smirked. You're flirting with the wrong guy there. He'd be oblivious to it even if you shoved him into a wall and made out with him for an hour.
Sure enough, Todoroki was leaning over to Midoriya. "Izuku, why does Pixie Bob keep meowing at me? Is she trying to become an actual cat?"
Izuku just snickered and patted his friend's head patronisingly as he went on his phone and joined Edinamabasi's discord server. (And you should too. Invite link and more on that is in the Author's Note, or if that doesn't work, my profile.)
Unfortunately for them, however, their exchange got them noticed by their weary classmates. All traces of fatigue vanished for a moment as soon as fifteen members of Class A saw the other four -plus Dark Shadow- chilling out playing UNO.
"UNO!" Dark Shadow yelled triumphantly, then realised the situation. "Uh...my bad?"
"HOW DID-!"
Thankfully, every single member of Class A was restrained at once by Aizawa's capture scarf before the Dekusquad was sentenced to death by torture. Although Izuku knew that no amount of capture scarf could stop the wrath that Kyoka's jacks would visit upon him the moment she got the chance.
Izuku stood up and stretched, and at that very moment, the kid they'd seen walked back out of the house, stopping a few feet away from him. "Yo, who's kid is that?" Izuku asked, pointing with his thumb.
Mandalay turned, and her face brightened at the sight of Kota. "Oh! This is my nephew, Kota. Kota! Come over and say hello. You'll be spending the next week with these guys, after all."
Izuku looked at the boy. Despite having gotten better at social interactions, he still wasn't someone who would go out of their way to meet new people. However, Kota marched right up to him, making it so that ignoring the little boy would be rude at this point. "What's up? I'm Izuku Midoriya."
The boy didn't even acknowledge the greeting, and pulled his fist back. Hoo, boy. I guess he didn't see me fight Tiger earlier, Izuku thought. Oh, well.
As the fist swung forwards -right towards his crown jewels, too- Izuku deflected the blow, making Kota stumble to the side a little as his fist passed within inches of the older boy's scrotum.
"Tch." Kota spat, spinning around and walking off rudely as Mandalay stared in utter shock. "I can't abide jerks who want to be Heroes."
"Abide?" Shoji muttered. "Just how old is this kid?"
"Hey!" Dark Shadow called, getting the boy to turn around. "You were a dick when you tried to punch Izuku's dick just there, y'know."
"And? What of it?" Kota asked irritably.
"Look at you! You've become the very thing you swore to destroy!" Dark Shadow cackled, and suddenly even Aizawa couldn't take it, snorting a laugh out under his scarf. Then he shook his head when he noticed his kids staring at him in surprise.
"Enough of that. Go get your stuff from the bus and drop it off, then come eat dinner in the mess hall. After that, you'll bathe and then it's bedtime. The bedtime where you sleep, Mineta, not spy on girls. Anyway, the real training starts tomorrow. Hop to it."
After eating a hearty dinner prepared by the Pussycats, the boys were relaxing in the onsen, chatting quietly. "Hey, where do you think Class B are?" Kaminari asked curiously, sinking relaxedly into the water as everyone eyed him suspiciously for signs of loose electricity bolts.
Shoji made a mouth on one of his arms. "I heard them coming in as we finished up from dinner. They must have just taken longer to get here." He said quietly.
A scheming voice made them all turn to look at the foot of the wall. "Damn, that means seven less targets. But no matter. There is still plenty of bounty for me to collect on the other side of this wall, ku ku ku..."
Ojiro's head tilted suspiciously. "What're you mumbling to yourself about over there, Mineta?"
Mineta just smirked and pressed his ear to the wall.
"Ahh... I've never felt this good..." Toru's moan of approval floated to his ears. "Can you believe there're hot springs here? This place is totally the best."
"Oh, yeah." The purple pervert groaned, a dreamy look on his face. "They're really there... It's a really a mistake for them not to stagger girls' and boys' bathing times, don't you guys think? An accident... Yes, we might just have ourselves a little accident here..."
Suddenly, every boy in the class was staring directly at him, with expressions ranging from disbelief to anger. "YOU MUST STOP THAT AT ONCE, MINETA! YOUR ACTIONS ARE DEMEANING BOTH YOURSELF AND OUR FEMALE COUNTERPARTS!" Iida yelled, his hands chopping wildly on an omnidirectional axis.
But Mineta didn't care. "You need to relax..." He sighed happily. Suddenly, he was halfway up the wall, using his Quirk to scramble up like a lizard. "WE'RE HERE TO OVERCOME THE WALLS BEFORE US! PLUS ULTRA!"
"DON'T DEFILE OUR SCHOOL MOTTO LIKE THAT! GET DOWN IMMEDIATELY!" Iida roared, but his warning went unheeded.
"OH, I DON'T THINK SO! I-"
"Mineta."
Everything went silent as all the boys looked at Izuku, who had just stood up from the water and fastened his towel around his waist, glaring up at the boy who had chosen to try and peep on his girls. Even Minoru himself froze and looked slowly back around at the green haired boy.
"Y-Yes?"
"I'm going to give you one chance before I beat your ass. Get. The. Fuck. Down." Izuku was glaring with the same intensity that he had done back at the mall, when he'd unknowingly scared off Shigaraki. And Mineta was almost about to shit himself because of it. But...
"Oh~! The hot water feels so good on my skin..." Momo's voice floated over, the girls somehow not having heard the ruckus on the boy's side.
But the image that produced in Mineta's voice was enough to make him go truly Plus Ultra. Somehow managing to ignore Izuku's glare, he started drooling profusely as he zoomed up the rest of the wall. "A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR SALVATION!"
Izuku's eyes narrowed, and he tensed his legs to jump, preparing to smash Mineta's face into the wall, then down back into the ground. Suddenly, though, Shoji created a line of arms to stop him. When Izuku looked at him questioningly, Shoji gestured to an ear he'd created on another arm. I heard something, you don't have to worry.
Meanwhile, Mineta had almost reached the top. "It'll all be worth it for this!"
BAM.
A wild Kota has appeared!
The five year old glared down at the suddenly nervous boy before him. "Hmph. Seriously, you're learning to be a Hero? Try becoming a decent human being first."
And with that, he backhanded the disheartened pervert, sending him falling, screaming. "YOU LITTLE BRAAAT!" Unfortunately for both him and Iida, he landed with his ass straight in Tenya's face.
Izuku smirked at Mineta's comeuppance. "Decent kid." Then he realised just who was on the other side of the wall, and what she'd do. "Wait, Ashi-chan, don't-" He muttered, -unknowingly mimicking his father figure earlier- but it was too late.
"Mineta's really the worst, huh? Thanks, Kota~!" Mina yelled, and Izuku watched as Kota turned, froze, and then fainted over the edge of the wall. Shaking his head, Izuku leapt at super speed, catching Kota and appearing on the wall where he'd been standing.
And despite everything, he fell for the same trap.
"It's Izu-kun! Hey, you naughty boy~!" Mina called.
"Huh?" Izuku turned to look. Then his eyes widened. The other girls were all submerged up to their necks, but Mina was sitting on the rocks, her body free for him to see. Then, as he looked, she waved enthusiastically with a teasing grin on her face, causing her boobs to sway a little.
Midoriya instantly snapped his head to look back at the boys' side, his face wide eyed as he tried not to get a nosebleed. Mineta's dirty mind instantly guessed what had happened, and he started to furiously cuss his classmate out, struggling against the headlock Ojiro's tail had put him in.
Izuku, quite ready to join Kota in the realm of sleepy night-night at this point, just shook his head and jumped down with Kota in his arms, jogging off to find the boy's aunt.
But of course, the pervy luck that all harem protagonists gain from visiting hot springs refused to leave him alone. He bumped into Ragdoll, who had just been heading to her room to sleep. And seeing as her sleepwear consisted of just a crop top and some booty shorts, Izuku had to do the fastest look-away in the West before he got caught lacking. "Ah, sorry." He coughed as he disappeared.
However, after seeing water dripping down the chiseled abs of the towel clad boy, Ragdoll did not fall asleep, for a long time, starting to fall to prey to the same thing Midnight and Mirko had.
And as soon as their conversation about Kota had finished with Izuku, Mandalay and Pixie Bob found themselves in very similar situations.
As the boys of Class A lay on their futons, drifting off to sleep one by one, Izuku suddenly heard someone scraping on the wall separating their room from the girls', followed by some quiet mumbling.
"If I can just get through... Imagine the photos I could get..."
"Mineta." Izuku said coldly for the second time that evening. "You know, I still haven't forgiven you for what happened at the onsen."
Suddenly, Kirishima -who had been about to stop the boy from the unmanly act as well- along with Sero and Kaminari, the only others still awake, were all trying to hold in their laughter at the fearful silence emanating from Mineta's pores.
Listen, I can explain-"
"Za...Warudo."
Five seconds later, Izuku showed up at Aizawa's room, ready to pull an all-nighter playing games. After all, who needs sleep?
"Izuku, there you are. What took you so long?" Shota said as he looked at the boy who had appeared lying relaxedly on his bed.
Izuku smirked as he thought of Mineta's situation; wrapped in his tied up sleeping bag and hung from a tree. "Ah, nothing."
Aizawa's eyes narrowed, knowing Izuku all too well. "It was Mineta, wasn't it? Wanna tell me about it?" He said, knowing that Midoriya probably went too far, and Mineta was probably in some inescapable situation that the teacher would have to get him out of.
Izuku knew that Aizawa would just get Mineta down, so he just smirked quietly and made yet another reference.
"No, I don't think I will."
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PLEASE REVIEW!
Sorry about the break, guys. I started reading JJBA: Stone Ocean. Then I read Karakai Jouzo no Takagi-san, both of them. Then I started reading Yancha Gal no Anjou-san. And after that, I started JJBA: Steel Ball Run. And halfway through that -which was on Tuesday I think- my brain was just like, Yo, stop getting addicted to random manga. When was the last time you wrote something, dumbass?
*Checks *
*Updated: July 3*
*Spits out drink violently*
Yeah, so I'll try not to do that again. In any case, how did you guys like the chapter? Not a lot happened with regards to the canon timeline, but in this chapter, I just wanted to make a few things clear:
1) Kirishima's mentality is progressing faster than in canon, due to the absence of Bakugo, and the rest of the class needing a leader since the Dekusquad will often be doing their own thing.
2) With the Dekusquad's fights against Tiger, I just wanted to show how they match up to experienced Pro Heroes at the moment. I know the Exams kinda showed that, but there, they had their equipment, and the Heroes were handicapped. So as you can see, Tokoyami and Shoji are capable of holding their own for a while, and Izuku ez claps as always. Shoto is difficult, because of his glacier attack. It can take out most Pros easily, imo. So I'm going to find a way to make him realise he has to work on fine control. He does that anyway in canon, but it's not rly shown what pushes him to do that.
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