The days following the entrance exam saw Izuku in good spirits. Every inch of his body held that enthusiasm as he made his way to UA. The people of Asakusa could feel his energy in the swiftness that he dispatched villains. His biggest goal now was to continue training his control in order to continue to improve.
Returning home early one afternoon Izuku checked the clock. It was a bit before his mom would get home, so he decided to take a quick shower and have a relaxing afternoon. He thought back to everything that had taken him to this point. The quirk he once thought was the biggest hinderance had finally become his strongest ally. As he undid the bandages on his arm and back, he looked over the aftereffects of his quirk.
On his back was a deep red mark that resembled a lion with a scar over one eye. On his right arm was another deep red mark that resembled a dragon. They had formed a bit after he started training, but the marks had to be covered due to the misconceptions they brought forward. After all UA would never let someone who looked like a delinquent even walk through their gates. Reminiscing on all the hours of training Izuku cleaned up before reapplying his bandages and getting a drink from the fridge. Suddenly his mother burst into the house holding a very thick letter.
"I-Izuku" his mother huffed "its from UA" Those words alone shook Izuku from his stupor. He grabbed his mother with a flaming arm and dragged her straight to the living room couch and tore open his letter. Which turned out to instead be a disk which immediately started playing when it hit the table.
"Greetings, Young Midoriya" Izuku and his mother both stared at the letter mouths agape. All Might himself was doing his letter. He and his mother were so shocked that they did not notice anything that he said until nearly the end when he announced that he had somehow placed first in the exam due to rescue points.
'Interesting' Izuku thought 'so that was how they planned to help those with non-offensive quirks' As Izuku took in that he somehow managed to place first, he checked some of the other names that he saw in the top five and found one that he recognized. One Katsuki Bakugo who had managed his top five spot without a single rescue point. Izuku remembered him, his old best friend "Kacchan" as he called him. His name had been so hard to pronounce at the time. He wondered if he would even remember him. At some point his mother had lost contact with the Bakugo family as well and that was the end of that. He hoped in his time at UA they could reconnect even if they hadn't made the same class. Which reminded him "WHICH FUCKIN' CLASS AM I EVEN IN!?"
His mother had been so excited by the news she let the cursing slide just this once and went to the store to get the ingredients for his favorite food, Katsudon. Though his diet had changed and he himself had changed a lot over the years, his favorite food remained the same year in and year out. While she was gone Izuku himself began getting some of his things together. The moving process wouldn't start itself and he couldn't wait to move into the UA dorms.
The week before he left it felt like all of Asakusa had come to visit him and celebrate some. They all had some kind of gift or something to bring to Izuku and his mother. There was very little that he could do but accept it. It was weird to think since he had spent so much of his time there, but the next chapter in his life was about to start and UA University was his next stop.
Thanks to everyone's hard work they had even set up and were getting new pro hero offices in Asakusa. It wouldn't be any hugely named heroes, but they could probably take care of themselves and the small-time villains who would pop up every now and again. And at worst Izuku could probably come deal with any bigger threats on the weekend. It would be another excuse to come see his mother without saying he missed her.
And finally, the big day arrived. He got dressed that day and loaded his things up into the car that Benimaru had. He and Maki were both actually going to UA, but she was more interested in the management aspect of heroics. The ride over was quiet. They loaded all of their luggage onto the train and soon he and Maki were in their train car. As the train started to move, he looked out the window to see his mother running along the train. He poked his head out the window to see what was wrong.
"IZUKU, YOU'RE SO COOL" and that was all the motivation the tears needed to come out. As the steam came off his eyes, he let a big smile take over his features as he waved to his mom. His next stop was UA where he would make his mom proud.
The management dorms were at a different part of campus so Izuku and Maki separated once they were on campus. They arrived in the early afternoon so there were tons of students on campus. Unfortunately, due to it being a heroics school it took a lot of special time and permissions to get parents on campus so most of the moving was done by the upper-class students who had earlier move in days. Izuku got his bags to his dorm easily enough as he didn't have many things that he wanted to bring with him: a few heroics posters, an old laptop, some toiletries, and clothes. These items would make the basis of his UA career.
As he walked in, Izuku noticed some of his classmates talking excitedly. There was a pink skinned girl with horns talking excitedly with a girl with what looked like long ears. A boy with bicolored hair was going up the stairs and gave him a nod. Another boy with balls on his head was mumbling about… something.
Izuku smiled and went to take his things to his room. He would unpack and come and meet the class later hopefully when there were more people there. Arriving in his room, he noted that it was a standard dorm room. They provided him a bed, a desk, and a dresser. The bathrooms were a community bathroom for both genders on the first floor. He excitedly unpacked all his things. Classes started tomorrow so he had time to meet some of his classmates, shower, and train a little before bed. Don't want to make a bad impression on his first day.
Coming back downstairs he found a few more of his classmates excitedly talking. There was a red-head talking with the pink girl, and a girl who looked frog-like had joined them. In the corner, he saw a boy with what looked like a bird-head. As he was looking around at some of the group, a voice sounded from behind him.
"Ah, it's you! You're the one who destroyed the zero pointer right!" It was the girl who could control gravity. "I just wanted to make sure I thanked you properly for your help at the exam. By the time I woke up, they told me you were long gone." It took Izuku a moment to remember what she wanted to thank him for, but it clicked eventually.
"Oh, it was nothing, anyone else would have done the same thing" Izuku and the girl talked for a bit and he finally found out that her name was Uraraka Ochaco. He thanked her again before heading out to get a bit of training in that day. Considering he didn't know much about the campus; he did his training near the dorms and didn't add his quirk. Merely working through some of the forms and feeling the energy move freely through his body. He practiced for a few hours since it had been a while since his training had been completely quirkless. He couldn't let himself be caught off guard in the heroic's world after all. Izuku trained until it was dark and when he returned only a few people were still in the common room.
Izuku snuck to the fridge and grabbed a drink and a snack and headed up to his room to grab clothes and a towel for a shower. After his shower he headed straight back to his room and set an alarm for early that morning. Tomorrow his first day at UA began. He was all fired up.