So I know I said I was updating the other story, and I did start. However, midway through I took a break and the desire to continue this one got strong so I continued. I'm glad you guys are liking how Izuku's progressing and how his character has changed throughout the years. This chapter will start U.A and hopefully you guys like the interactions. Not much action in this one as opposed to the last one but hopefully still enjoyable. Anyways let's get on to the chapter.
A couple of days later we find Izuku lounging at home watching something on tv. It was a documentary on how quirks came to be and how All Might changed the game. Well, watching was kind of stretching it. He was half paying attention as sometime during the documentary his mind had begun to remember another dream sequence. This was of a young Katakuri. A few years younger than he is currently perhaps. It took place right after Brulee was injured by those bullies her brother had beaten up.
In this dream young Katakuri had gotten his hands on a giant trident. He'd robbed it from a man who was foolishly trying to rob him. In no time at all he was able to incorporate the trident with his mochi.
"Would it be possible for me to replicate it and use it like a support item?" Izuku wondered rubbing his chin. Some heroes used guns and managed to get away with it. What would be the harm? He thought before he remembered a dream from a few years ago.
Katakuri had managed to actually hit Luffy with it on the mans side and took out a nice chunk. He winced as he imagined the pain both men must have felt taking a hit from it. "I'll probably get heavily fined or it'll get banned outright if I use it like him. If I take a chunk out of someone there's a chance they'd revoke my hero license as well." He thought.
That lead to another thought. How did the man manage to keep the trident in his body. If he remembered correctly he would summon it from his arm when he needed it, but it was almost as big as he was tall. How exactly did that work? His thoughts were interrupted as his mom walked in, taking heavy breaths as she held her hand out.
"It's here." She managed. In her hand was a white envelope with the U.A logo on the front. She handed him the letter with shaky arms and waited for him to open it. Not seeing any point in dragging it out he ripped it open and watched as a small cylinder fell out and hit the ground. Picking it up he placed it on the dining table and pressed the only button on it.
A bright light comes from the disk hitting the nearest wall projecting the image of a room. Izuku raises an eyebrow wondering what this was before the image moves down to show a small rodent in a suit.
"Hello young Midoriya. As you may or may not know my name is Nezu. I'm the principal of U.A high." He introduced himself to the camera. Of course Izuku already knew who he was. Growing up he'd taken the time to look into U.A closely.
"First let me congratulate you on your stellar performance. You managed to score sixty six villain points." Izuku nodded in satisfaction. He knew he had counted correctly.
"However that wasn't all there was to the exam." Nezu continued "There was one other parameter of the entrance exam. The rescue portion. An important quality any hero should have is the willingness to save those in need. Take a look." The image on the wall changed to multiple times throughout the exam that he'd moved some participants out of harms way.
"Apart from the villain points you managed to score thirty four rescue points giving you a grand total of one hundred. Taking all of this into consideration you've been placed in class 1-A. Congratulations and welcome to your hero academia." Nezu finished before the light died down.
The video stopped and he was immediately hugged by his mother who was crying tears of joy while saying how proud of him she was. He looked up with a smile. "I made it." He didn't doubt his ability but having it confirmed just made it feel real.
The next few days consisted of him going to the down stairs gym to work on his muscle. While having mochi helped out tremendously he knew he needed more raw power. On the bench press he was currently doing 155lb. He would do ten reps per set and four sets. Considering he weighed 125 lbs he was doing good. Over the past few months he'd steadily been increasing the weight.
He didn't want to become as big as, say, All Might but wanted enough muscle to use the more powerful mochi techniques effectively.
The month passed by in a flash. In that time he'd spent most of his time working out his muscle and his cardio by going on morning runs and taking the correct protein. He was glad to see that his work was paying off. He was proud to see that he had good abs and decent sized muscle. He was lean, his body was perfect for fast movement and strong hits. The perfect balance.
His goal was to stay lean as he'd noticed during training that his movement and attacks were faster. Not only that though.
He brought his arm up to face level and made a fist. On command his Busoshoku haki materialized from his fist to his elbow. He had noticed that it wasn't just black but also had a dark blue tint to it as well. After the first time against the robot during the entrance exam he'd been able to finally use busoshoku. Since then he'd no longer needed to change the solidity of the mochi as the haki would harden it much better than he could.
Unfortunately for all the progress he'd made he still couldn't see far into the future on command like he could with his new haki. It irked him to no end but he knew he'd just have to keep training at it. After all his armament didn't come in quickly and only happened when he wasn't thinking about it.
All of his thoughts came to a halt as he turned his head to check his clock. It was about eleven pm. Tomorrow was his first day at U.A and he didn't want to show up with bags under his eyes. Shutting all thoughts out of his mind he closed his eyes and he was asleep shortly afterward.
The next morning Izuku woke up feeling energized. It was the first step on his way to becoming the number one hero. After his usual morning prayer to Brulee he had a quick breakfast. He changed into the grey and green uniform he'd received a week ago. For all the rules UA had on their dress code he was glad they allowed any kind of footwear so long as they were sneakers.
He wore his favorite pair. They were a gift his dad had sent him from America a few months ago. They were high top red black and white with most if it being red. The tongue was white with a red tab on it with white lettering. Finishing it off was a black check mark like logo on both sides. His dad had said they were expensive but didn't say how much. He didn't care though.
"Don't you look handsome in your little uniform." His mom gushed over him, taking pictures on her phone. He smiled, partially embarrassed before turning to the clock.
"Thank mom but I have to go. I'll be home later bye." He told her as he headed out. About half an hour later, thanks to some small delays due to a small time villain attack an hour earlier he was finally standing in front of the gate of, arguably the best hero school in the country.
"This is where it starts" He thought before entering. He walked through the hallways muttering '1-A' as he looked from side to side looking for his classroom. Finally he found what he was looking for. A very large door with a huge 1 painted on the front.
He reached for the knob but stopped as some loud voices were heard from the other side.
"Get your feet off the desk. It's disrespectful to those who once sat in these seats before us!" He heard someone shout. He held back a sigh and closed his eyes knowing exactly who the man was reprimanding. The other person yelled back that he couldn't wait to crush him since he came from an elite school.
Only Bakugo could cause him to get a headache simply from speaking. Sure enough when he opened the door he saw a young man with glasses, who he briefly recalled was in his area during the entrance exam, chastising Bakugo. Trying to at least, the sandy blond was no longer paying attention to him as his eyes locked with him.
"Oi! Deku! You actually made it in here?!" He asked/yelled. He was angry, to no ones surprise.
Izuku just stared back at him with no expression on his face and walked passed the two to a seat in the middle of the classroom. As he put his back pack on the desk he heard someone call out to him.
"Midoriya-kun" Looking up he saw the brown haired girl he'd saved from tripping waving at him with a smile at him from a chair near the front. "I knew we'd both make it." She told him happily.
"Uraraka" He nodded politely "I'm glad you made it." Soon more people began to trickle in one at a time. He paid attention to them as they'd be his classmates for the next year. Some notable ones were a young man in the same uniform as him with red spiky hair who seemed to be hype to be there.
Another was a man with blond hair with a part of it being black on his left side. He gave him a 'cool guy' feeling but he could tell was forced. He'd have to see what he was really like before forming an opinion on him. Following him was a shorter girl with short dark blue, almost purple hair. What stood out to him was he earlobes. They were headphone jacks. He had to stop his mind from beginning to think of possibilities with such a quirk.
Another girl followed. A short hunched over girl with frog like attributes. Namely her tongue and slightly larger hands folded in front of her as she walked. She made eye contact with him and nodded in greeting. He returned the gesture before looking at the others.
The one who followed was strange. He had two toned hair. Half being white with a part of it being red, naturally his eyes drifted to the scar on the left side of his face which seemed to be burned. He also noticed that eye was blue as opposed to his other. This one he could tell was strong. Not stronger than him but still impressive.
The last person who entered the room managed to make his eyes wander a little bit. She wore the standard girls uniform and had her hair done in a somewhat spiked ponytail with a bang across the left part of her face. In his opinion she filled her uniform out nicely. His eyes widened slightly when he realized what he was doing and averted his eyes before he was caught.
"Nice to know my hormones are working well" He thought sarcastically. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. He didn't have much time resting his eyes however.
"Is this seat taken?" He heard from next to him. It was the ponytail girl.
"No go ahead." He told her. She nodded and put her stuff down before sitting down and turning to him.
"My name is Yaoyorozu Momo. Nice to meet you" She introduced herself.
"Likewise. Midoriya Izuku."
"I'll remember that. If you don't mind me asking, what's your quirk?" She asked curiously as she didn't see any mutations on his person.
"Mochi." She blinked. Mochi? She was going to ask exactly what it did but stopped when the class heard someone cough from the front of the room.
"It took you all of eight seconds to quiet down." A bored scruffy looking man said from the front of the class. "Not bad but we're going to have to work on it." He added. Taking in his appearance Izuku recognized him as the underground hero Eraserhead. As his name suggests he has the ability to temporarily erase someones quirks.
"Can his power affect me?" He thought to himself "It'll be problematic if my devil fruit is unaffected. It could lead to questions" He toned the man out for the next few minutes, his mind going over different ways to get around the erasing issue.
When he came back around he caught the last bit his new sensei was saying. "…to do that we're going to have a quirk apprehension test. Everyone change into your PE uniforms and meet on the field in ten minutes." He ordered.
A few minutes later out in the field everyone was in their uniform waiting for the test to begin. Their instructor walked up to them and began going on about the exam when he was cut off by a pink girl with horns. She asked about the seemingly mandatory orientation for new students being held at the same time.
Izuku was surprised to find out that U.A allowed their teachers full control over their classes. Thus Aizawa decided they'd skip the orientation and begin their work right away. "Our class is going to miss it. The hero course doesn't have time for frivolous activities. Knowing your limits is important, you have to know where you stand to improve." He explained and looked at all of them, making sure he had their attention.
"You'll be tested the same way you were back in middle school, the only difference is this time you'll be using your quirks." He finished.
"Ohhh this sounds like fun" The pink girl, Mina as he'd heard her be called yelled out. That turned out to be the wrong thing to say as their teacher narrowed his eyes.
"Fun? Then how about this, whoever comes in last place will be getting expelled from the hero course and moved into general studies. Being a hero isn't about fun, it's serious work." He said before turning his eyes to Izuku who was doubtful of the mans words.
"Midoriya." He called out to him. "You scored the highest in the entrance exam. You'll be going first." He pointed at a circle drawn on the ground before handing him a small ball. "Throw this ball as hard as you can with your quirk. You can do anything so long as you remain in the circle."
"How should I do it?" Izuku thought to himself as he gripped the ball. He looked out into the distance and nodded to himself. He extended his hand with the ball and gripped it well. Everyone watched as his forearm turned a pasty white color before it began expanding. It continued to do so and turned a bright red color. A loud boom was heard as the arm suddenly exploded and his hand along with the ball was launched into the air. Similar to last time it caught on fire as it went.
He watched as it got smaller and smaller before turning back to Aizawa. He noticed everyone's eyes glued to his right arm, now missing half of it before mochi formed another arm, matched his skin tone, and solidified. He flexed his hand slightly getting used to the feeling of the arm, ignoring the creeped out stares of some of his classmates.
Aizawa didn't look bothered, seeing as he'd seen it before and held up the device for all to see. 1610m it read.
"OI! Deku! How the hell did you get a quirk?!" Bakugo asked angrily as he stepped forward. He was stopped as the scarf their sensei wore wrapped around him instantly. Bakugo snarled but stopped resisting and was let go with a warning to control himself.
The rest of the students followed after him and some did better than others. Bakugo used his explosion to score 705.2m. Uraraka managed to score infinity as she removed the gravity from the ball and let it go up into the sky, never to come back down. Yaoyorozu had an interesting quirk. She could create anything from her body and used that to make a cannon to shoot the ball.
Seeing that gave him an idea for the future.
The exams proceeded with the fifty meter dash being the next exam. The boy with the glasses, Iida, won that one since his quirk was pretty much built for speed. He himself finished with a time of 4 seconds flat. Only 1.03 seconds behind Iida.
Next was a test of grip where his fellow classmate Mezu Shoji, who had multiple arms crushed it with a result of 540kg. Izuku coated his hand in Busoshoku haki and managed a respectable 250kg.
In the standing long jump he simply stretched his leg completely across the sand pit instead of jumping. Bakugo used his explosions to propel himself forward while some like Aoyama used his naval laser to get himself to the other side. In the repeated side to side steps he did well but not as well as the shortest kid in their class. Mineta who had the ability to pop the balls on his head and stick them to things used them to bounce himself rapidly from side to side.
Finally after the last student finished the results were up. Izuku managed to place first followed by Momo, Todoroki, and Bakugo.
"For the next three years you'll be pushed to the absolute limit and I'll expect you to live up to the expectations. Go beyond. Plus Ultra. Also I was lying about the last place being expelled." Aizawa told them. Mineta let out a sigh of relief knowing he wouldn't be dropped from the program.
"Of course he was lying." Izuku heard Momo say from his side. Though she said it low enough to where she believed no one would hear.
"So you knew it too?" Izuku said as they walked back to their respective locker rooms to change. The two spoke all the way back to their locker rooms. Izuku never noticed the eyes of his teacher looking at him as he retreated.
At the end of the day when all of the students had left the school only two people remained in class 1-A.
"So what did you think Aizawa?" Asked Nezu
"They have potential but there is one problem. Midoriya Izuku." The scruffy man replied. "Something is off about him, I tried erasing my quirk on him today during a quirk exam but it had no effect"
"Hmm that is peculiar. Perhaps we'll have to speak with him soon. I'll make a call to a friend of mine at the quirk registry office and we'll go from there." Nezu said before the two left the room.
Alright so I'll end it there. Not gonna lie after this latest episode I briefly entertained the idea of adding camie to the pairing but she's kinda an air head so I'm not sure. I figured it'll only be worth the trouble if you guys were feeling it. Also I hope you guys are ready for the next chapter as Inasa Yoarashi will be making an appearance. I have plans for him as he's one of my favorites.
Anyways as always if you have anything you'd like to see feel free to leave it in a review or PM me. Later.