Hello my dear readers once again, edits to my former chapters are on their way so look forward to that if you want to read them again! Anyways from now on I am going to start responding to the reviews I can because well, I feel like it makes it feel like I am truely reading all of your reviews my dear. I don't mind if you skip this section as I do such things myself when I read fanfiction.
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The young man sighed as he looked down at his dinner, thinking back with his performance on the exam day, sure he had done well with the support course and his Sensei was proud of him for getting into UA either way and his mother was there to support him but...But he knew he had screwed the pooch with that zero pointer and losing three-quarters of his points! Though he didn't regret the action seeing how he saved Uraraka that day but still, it sucked to think he would have certainly gotten into both courses if he hadn't taken the stupid risk. Continuing to eat his rice and fish, the young man quickly consumed the rest of his food and thanked his mother before getting up, intent on going into his room to further ideas about magnetic gloves for wall crawling before the doorbell rang and he saw a small letter slip through their slot.
Izuku's eyes dreadfully tracked the piece of parchment as it fell to the floor, the top of the envelope with UA's golden symbol plastered on the front. Confident that this was his rejection notice, Izuku slowly walked towards the letter and picked it up, the holographic device within feeling heavier than anything he had lifted before even compared to the concrete block he picked up to save his friend. Closing his eyes as hot tears started to run down his face thinking about what could have been, Izuku walked back towards his room, placing the thing on his desk and staring at the thing from his bed. Debating on whether he should just rip off the bandaid and see his failure broadcast to him right now or wait for tomorrow night when he felt a buzz from his pocket, taking out his phone there was a single new message from Bakugou.
"How the hell did you do that nerd?!" The message was short and brash like Kaachan always was but, he didn't know what he was talking about. They had already discussed how he hadn't gotten into the hero course yesterday with Kirishima and the newest addition to their little group, Uraraka. The girl had seen the boys off that night before she passed out from Recovery Girl's healing, giving the blond her number to pass onto Deku when he woke up. Thinking back to that day he sighed again.
It had been a nice and sunny Sunday afternoon, one of the few days everyone's schedules synced up enough to hang out together. Izuku walked in between Kirishima and Bakugou, his head down as he wasn't looking forward to telling his friends that he likely wouldn't be in the hero course. To their left, Bulu was discussing a few things with the newest member of their group. Hatsume had practically forced herself into their chat logs during that week wanting to chat up her partner and his friends knowing they would likely be going into the hero course as well. As they passed a small bench on their way to the arcade Izuku stopped dead in his tracks, tears welling up in his eyes as he looked up to finally speak to everyone about this.
"Hey, guys... I think I failed the hero course entrance exam... Sorry that I disappointed you guys." He tried to give his friends a weak grin as the tears fell from his eyes, the salt water dripping down his cheek before falling onto the pavement leaving a dark stain. The emotions he saw on his friends were what he expected, disappointment, pity, and rage.
"How? How the fuck do you know you failed?! How the hell could you fail after spouting so much bullshit about becoming a hero without a damn quirk Deku? Don't you dare say this is some fucking joke to play with us or I will kill you right now!" The Blond growled and approached Izuku, grasping his collar and hoisting him up with his strong arms, his eyes seething with rage.
"How the fuck are we supposed to have our match at the sports festival if you aren't in the damn course!" He spoke with a raspy, almost roar like tone before Kirishima and Bulu grasped his arms and forced him to pull away, dropping Izuku on the hard pavement. Everyone looking towards Izuku for some sort of explanation with what was going on here."
"I...I should have expected that I guess. But Bakugou I am still going to be in the support course so we can still have our match if I make it all the way to the finals. As to why...Why? Because I attacked the zero point robot, the one that would make you lose three-quarters of your points?" Izuku spoke in a soft and slightly defeated tone before lifting himself up off the ground and dusted himself off before Kirishima's eyes widened a bit.
"Oh yeah, I think I remember that you were saving the brown haired girl who had a broken leg or something right? Man, that interaction was just super manly! Watching your steel resolve to save the girl and inspiring her to make that giant robot fall backward into the city was just...An inspiration to all who saw it what being manly really means! On both of you... But yeah, you lost almost all of your points from that didn't you?" Kirishima grinned at his friend recalling his badass moment before it fell again, remembering what Present Mic had told them all the whole situation was the opposite of manly with how things turned out.
"Sounds like a pretty crappy hero course if they reject you because of that. I mean I wouldn't want to learn how to be a hero from people that actively discourage putting yourself on the line for others. How UA is the top hero course in Japan baffles me if that is what they think." Bulu spoke out a bit while rolling her eyes, her demeanor only slightly shifting as he held back what she had overheard during dinner Thursday. Though she inwardly smiled thinking about what her friend's reaction would be later on.
"Ok you gave it up to save some bitch, some broad I know you didn't know beforehand as the only girl you talked to before that day was Bulu! Why would I expect anything else from you hero complex, self-sacrificing asshole! You better meet me in the sports festival with the best support shit in the world got it, nerd?!" Bakugou's pained rage was still clear in his eyes, it was like he felt betrayed by his friend somehow.
"Oh well, I can promise that I and Izuku will make you two the best support items we possibly can! You could also give us details on your classmates so me and my partner can make some useful things for them as well right?" Hatsume cautiously put herself in between Bakugou and Izuku, trying to diffuse the situation and not have them start a brawl in the middle of the street, people were already starting to form a bit of a crowd around them. Noticing them Bakugou let out a low, grumbling growl before stopping his struggle against his friends
"Alright then but again Deku, if this is some kind of joke I am going to kick your ass all the way into next fucking month" Izuku responded to this assertion with a tear-filled nod before he started to walk beside his friends again, wiping his eyes of the tears and trying to stop the liquid being sent down his face.
Bringing himself back to the present, Izuku looked from his text message to the letter a few times, he had already informed his friend of the failure so he couldn't be mad about that right? Finally deciding to open the damn letter, Izuku got up and approached the thing. Staring down at it nervously before grasping it in his hands and pulling it apart, making the small holotape pop out and land right in the middle of the desk taking a few moments before it flickered to life. Displaying the impressive visage of All Might standing before him.
"I am here as a projection!" All Might's proud face of his muscled form was before Izuku, his face pressed right up to the camera before backing off slightly and nodding with that eternal smile on his face before letting out a laugh.
"Young man, it has been quite some time since I have spoken to you. I am here to tell you the real reason I came into town. It was to become a teacher here at UA, and like you have spent the last year preparing yourself to be a hero I too have been training myself to be a proper instructor-" All Might look like he was about to say more before his attention was called by a crewmen, telling him to hurry up.
"Ah alright then, get right to the point yadda. Anyways, no matter how well you did on the written exam losing three-quarters of your accumulated fifty five villain points giving you a mere twelve and a half points, is not enough to put you within the top thirty-six students sadly." All Might's tone became slightly solemn then, looking to the ground before looking up at Izuku again, his eyes glowing a bit with pride and energy within his sunken eye-sockets.
"However! Take a look at this!" With that, All Might dramatically thrust a remote at the television screen behind him and turned on a pre-recorded video of Uraraka confronting Present Mic. Confusing Izuku as to what was going on.
"Um... do you know Izuku Midoriya? He was in the test, green hair, lots of freckles and kind of plain looking? Anyways during the test I...I had a bad injury and was in the path of the big negative point robot and he jumped in to save me despite the loss of points! I told him to go but he didn't and he saved my life out there! Then...Then he took me to the nurse's office and even gave me a blood transfusion on the spot when recovery girl was out of my blood type. So... So is there any way for me to give my points to him? I know I also lost most of mine but if they are able to help I want to get him in there, Izuku deserves to be in your hero program much more than I do after all..." Uraraka trailed off at the end, looking down in a sign of begging respect to the hero, who just lay one hand on her head with a kind voice followed behind.
"Sorry little listener but I can't transfer your points. Though, I have a feeling he wouldn't have needed them anyways so you keep on rocking alright?" The bombastic blond nodded at the girl with a smile on his face before the television cut off and turned back to All Might who let out a bit of a laugh, glad to see the video again before once again turning to the camera and clenching his fist.
"Yes, you did not need the girl's help in anything. As there were two ruses going on in this test! First off, was the hidden factor of points, rescue points! Ones awarded to those of great heroic spirit and acting to save others in the heat of the moment decided by a panel of judges and you got full marks on that along with the young woman for risking so much when up against losing your chance to come to this school! The second ruse, however, was a more cruel one I admit. The three-quarters loss for attacking the zero pointer was a lie! One designed to only bring out the true heroic spirit when one needed to go against it to save lives as it presents a risk that not many would be willing to take so with that in mind." All Might then pointed to the TV with his remote again, turning it on to display the top scores with Izuku's own name on the top of the board with fifty five villain points and a full sixty five rescue points. With Uraraka's name being the third down after Katsuki's own score of seventy-seven villain points and forty-two rescue points making him the second highest.
"Young man, almost a year ago now you wanted to show off your true mettle of being a hero, even without a quirk. You wanted to prove to yourself that your hard work would pay off and let you learn here after building yourself from nothing. Well, you have shown that hard work paid off nabbing you the top spot in our entrance exam. I welcome you, my boy, to come here, to your hero academy!" All Might gave him a shining smile before giving a few hand gestures towards the camera as it clicked off. Replaying that last bit for some time, Izuku's eyes tracked the hand movements of the hero before getting out a notebook and jotting down each hand gesture as a stroke of kanji and read it when done.
Getting up after reading it and grabbing his phone, Izuku shot off a quick message to Katsuki, informing him to meet up with Kirishima tomorrow at the Mos Eisley arcade before he got to his door and found a very emotional mother, her eyes spouting out tears of happiness clearly having overheard the message. Shaking his head, he leaned down and hugged his mother tightly to his chest, smiling inwardly at her warm hug, using it to convey the emotions words just couldn't give him now.
"Hey, mom? I..I gotta go inform Sensei of this right now if I can go. I will spend the night there as I should have plenty of clothes over at his home now. I think the sooner he knows the better we can start preparing things right?" He only got a tearful nod and kiss on the cheek from his mother before he was off, this time around coming towards his balcony and pole vaulted from it happily diving down towards the large oak trees within the small park he used to play in calming his mind to set up the Seikuken, soon as one of the thicker oak branches was in reach his arm shot out to let him swing from it. Shifting his momentum horizontally before letting himself fly from that point, landing in a sprint onwards towards the dojo with a smile on his face.
Izuku charged forward, leaping over fences and rivers, using his web zip now and then to get across particularly large gaps in a smooth motion as he got towards Ryozanpaku in record time, standing before the gate proudly before pushing right against the door and letting himself in, not knowing what he should expect beyond those doors. When the thing was fully open his ears were assaulted by the sound of ten different noisemakers going off with cheers.
"Congratulations Izuku! You did it!" Once he had recovered some, the young man looked around to see all the members of Ryozanpaku there, even those that were known to wander around more than stay at the dojo permanently, all with large smiles plastered on their faces there was even a deflated All Might in the crowd of martial artists. As Izuku came into the courtyard with a smile plastered on his face he looked all around it.
"W-what? Did...Did you all decide to throw this party just for me and so last minute?" He laughed a bit with tears in his eyes again, though this time they were ones of happiness that this many people came in to celebrate his biggest accomplishment.
"Of course we came to celebrate with you Izuku! We have all watched you grow into the powerful young warrior we see before us today and anyone would want to have such an achievement with friends around right?" Sanda chuckled, his large frame jiggling slightly before the large sumo wrestler of a man went forward and hugged his friend's disciple before letting him go, Izuku approaching his own sensei and bowing slightly before he stood up proudly and stiffly. Before he was addressed by the powerful man, laying a hand on his disciple's shoulder with a happy nod.
"They are right you know, today is the day we celebrate with you. Now, before the festivities really start, I do want to take you aside with Toshinori for a bit so we can have our own personal talk about your actions and what we will be focusing your training on from today on ok?" With that, Fumai turned from his friends and guided the two other men into his private conversation room. Making sure the door was shut and soundproof before releasing him tension and chuckling as his companions looked so stiff.
"Now, right now we are not allowing Izuku to accept One for All from Toshinori alright? Though I have a question for you, Toshi do you still believe that Izuku is your best candidate for the power after being able to think on it for these past few months?"
"Yes of course, as I took instruction from my fellow teachers I was constantly thinking about if I should offer my power to someone else, there were people in the school that urged me to do so but I held out hope for Izuku to prove the best. His actions during the entrance exam only reaffirmed my hopes for him and I will give him my quirk when he is willing and ready to accept it."
"Cool, now Toshi I am sure that Izuku does not want to receive your power for a while now right? That and you still have not shown that you are a good enough teacher to me to pass on such enormous power but we still plan to get you there by the sports festival. Besides, that is there anything you would suggest Izuku train in before the power is given?" Fumai's eyes jumped amusedly between the two in front of him, his disciple was silent doing his usual act of observing and thinking before speaking which was a good thing he supposed. Toshinori, on the other hand, was thinking about what to say before nodding suddenly.
"Image training, that is the only thing I can recommend you do without giving the power over as it is really for me at least, based on a feeling. But if you can do image training of what you want it to be like and imagine will feel like then you should be able to use the power easier I think... That's what my teacher told me anyway when it was transferred to me."
"Thank you for your input All Might, I will try my best to do that best I can. Also, Sensei, do you mind if I make a sort of...Odd request for how my training will go from now on? I know it might be hard for us to do after all." Izuku's cautious voice caught his teacher's attention, who was currently reaching for something under one of the tatami mats, dropping the flooring Fumai gave his full attention to them once again.
"Of course, what is it you want to focus on that might be so strange? I assure you it is nothing I haven't trained in before so it won't hurt to ask."
"Aerial combat and maneuvers. It...Its something I have wanted to try more of ever since our summer training Sensei, I adored the feeling of flying through the trees with so much control over myself and, and when I did that web zip kick into a combination attack everything flowed so naturally so I kind of want to start making my combat more acrobatic and well we haven't trained much in that." Izuku blushed a bit at that, not believing he was saying this out loud again but it was true, that high flying tree fight with him comboing from flying kicks into more blows in the air was one of the best experiences in his life and he wanted to replicate it as much as he could.
"Wanting to start refining your own style with a bit of high flying action huh? That sounds perfectly reasonable my dear student, I know of a few styles in kung fu that can help with that combined with a lot of combat training for you to get the movements right and I think we can have something great on our hands here my boy! We shall focus on that from now on! Either way, time for the other purpose of coming here."
Reaching down into the tatami mats again, Fumai pulled out two bottles and three cups, one bottle a pure white with some faded kanji on it and the other a purple with grapes on the front logo. Izuku raised an eyebrow at that, he knew that All Might likely couldn't drink the sake and he was underage, so why bring out the sake at all?
"Izuku, I want you to have your first drink with me! Today you cross a threshold into a world that I myself know will be a dangerous one and with a path full of turmoil and I want to savor this transition from a teenager into manhood with you, however minor it may seem to you." Popping the cork off his sake, Fumai poured two cups of the wine and handed it off to his student who accepted graciously.
"T-thank you I guess Sensei. I will be sure to remember this and everything you have done for me." With that, Izuku and his sensei took their sake in unison the young man cringing from the bitter taste of alcohol in his mouth, deciding he would rather avoid it from now on if he could. Hearing a second pop, Izuku looked over to Fumai again who poured out three cups of grape juice for them.
"Now this one, Toshi I want you to join in as a toast to the future. A toast to goals being completed and a toast for friends and battles yet to come, knowing we all can gather here with friends and find a safe place no matter how far we roam. That is the way of Ryozanpaku, giving a home to all its friends and allies no matter where they go, a resting place for the restless and den of sleeping dragons." With that toast ended, Izuku nodded with All Might and everyone took their drink of the fruit juice, making Izuku shake his head slightly from how different it was to what he had always drank before.
"Sorry about the surprise my boy, this was very slightly fermented. Having the maximum amount of alcohol that Toshi can take in his current state, while it isn't much I think the symbolism is still there. Now my friends, let's go out and join the party!" He chuckled some before everyone sat up, Fumai putting his drinks away again before opening the doors and letting them all free to do as they wished.