Mini AN: shout out to Greed720 for permitting me to use elements from his The Asura fic, I'm pretty sure it's discontinued now, and it ends right before the USJ arc, but it's worth a read, now then, onto the story.
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Chapter 3: Rage!
U.A Highschool; 3 minutes before the start of class
"Class 1-A…1-A…This place is way too big" the same plain-looking curly green-haired boy that had been scolded by Iida muttered to himself as he jogged through the hallways of U.A. in search of his classroom.
"Ah, there it is," he said noticing a small marker on the side of the wall as he turned the corner to come face to face whit a gigantic door, "The door is huge! Is it for accessibility?" it made sense in theory, quirks where unpredictable, so maybe someone who's quirk made them huge all the time wasn't so farfetched the green-haired boy quickly shook off those wandering thoughts tough, as the reality f the situation began to set in.
"The elite chosen from that huge exam…" his mind instantaneously conjured up the image of Bakugo, Iida, and Naruto, "I hope I'm not in the same class as those peopl-" he thought out loud while opening the door.
"Don't put your feet on the desk!" Iida yelled at Bakugo, before turning towards where Naruto was talking whit a few of his new classmates, "and you need to use honorifics!" he said to the other blond.
"Huh?" Bakugo responded challengingly.
"Oh, for the love of kami Iida, piss off!" Naruto yelled back at the bespectacled boy before turning around to speak whit his new classmate, a girl whit long green hair that also bore an amphibian-like face.
"Don't you think that's rude to the upperclassmen and the people who made the desk?" Iida continued to lecture Bakugo, not hearing Naruto told him over the sound of Bakugos almost as equally loud and much closer voice.
"Nope." the constantly red-eyed teenager said while getting up in Iida's face "What junior high did you go to you side character?"
While this argument was going on the green-haired boy simply sweatdropped, as the top three people he didn't want to be whit were all in the same class as him.
"I attended Somei Private Academy. And as you already know my name is Iida Tenya" The young man said while introducing himself in a very stiff and formal way.
"Somei? So you're a damn elite, huh?" Bakugo asked mockingly "Looks like I'll have fun crushing you."
"Crushing?" Iida said while recoiling "That's cruel. Do you truly aim to be a hero?"
"Of course, he fucking does 'ttebayo," Naruto said, surprising both Iida and Bakugo by coming to his fellow blond's defense "that's what we all came here to do! Now stop questioning whether any more people here want to become heroes before I snap and punch in the face" he said while punching his left palm.
Then as he began turning around he noticed the same kid green-haired kid who Iida had also reprimanded during the exam "what a piece of work right, judging people based on things they say weather than actions" Naruto said whit a slightly cheeky and sympathetic smile towards the newcomer who now had all eyes on him as the rest of the class who turned to look at the door, the sudden attention causing the nervous teen to mutter something.
"You're…" Iida said while walking towards the green-haired boy, not noticing Bakugos rage-filled expression "Good morning! I am from Somei Private Academy. My name is-" the blue-haired boy began saying before being interrupted by the teen at the door.
"I heard!" he yelled out in a small panic "I'm Midoriya. Nice to meet you, Iida-kun" Midoriya said.
"Midoriya-kun, you realized there was something more to that practical exam, didn't you?" the taller teen asked "I had no idea… I misjudged you! I hate to admit it but you are better than me."
Naruto just clicked his tongue, guess he wasn't worth an apology unlike Midoriya, oh well it wasn't like he hadn't dealt whit similar situations before, he'd just ignore Iida until the glass-wearing teen stopped bothering him.
"Anyways, what was I saying beforehand Tsu?" the spiky-haired blond asked the amphibian featured girl.
"You were talking about the ramen place back home, gero" the long-haired girl said.
"Go somewhere else if you want to play at being friends" a tiered and stern voice from outside of the classroom said before Naruto could go back to ranting about his favorite food stall.
"This is the hero course," the same voice droned out as something was being unzipped "okay, it took ten seconds before you were quiet. Time is limited. You kids are not rational enough" the voice said as all eyes went to look t who was most likely going to be their teacher.
"I'm your homeroom teacher, Aizawa Shota. Nice to meet you" the teacher said, he had long wavy, and slightly disheveled black hair, tiered eyes like he'd just pulled an all-nighter, and wore a black jumpsuit whit what seem to be a grey scarf, "It's kind of sudden, but put this on and go out to the field" he finished saying while taking out a blue tracksuit that had a couple of red and white patterns on it that looked like a capital U and a capital A.
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One of U.A. Highschool's many fields; 20 minutes later
"A Quirk assessment test?!" the entire class asked their teacher at once.
"What about the entrance ceremony? The orientation?" a girl whit brown hair and rosy cheeks asked Shota.
"If you're going to become a hero, you don't have time for such leisurely events." the teacher replied "U.A.'s selling point is how unrestricted its school traditions are, that's also how the teachers run their classes" the man finished.
"Anyways, you kids have been doing these since junior highschool school right?" the pro hero asked his class as he took out his phone "Physical fitness test where you weren't allowed to use your quirks, this country is still taking averages from students not using their quirks, it's irrational," he said while scratching his head absentmindedly.
"Uzumaki, you finished at the top of the practical exam right?" the man asked receiving a nod from Naruto in response "what was your best result for the softball throw in junior high?'
"72 meters (236.22 feet) 'ttebayo" he immediately responded, much to the shock of a couple of students as that was quite high.
"Alright," Shota said while throwing Naruto a softball "try doing it whit your quirk, you can do whatever you want as long as you stay in the circle, hurry up, give it all you've got"
"Okay, you've got it Aizawa-sensei" the cheerful blonde said while taking off his shoes and socks, then, he activated his quirk, letting his appearance change as he closed his eyes just in case of a sensory overload.
"He said to go all out 'ttebayo, but should I really risk that" the blond tough to himself as he began feeling a bit of pain on the soles of his feet, "he's a pro hero, so I doubt that another accident would take place but…no it's not worth the risk, ill only go up to one tail" he then snapped his now red eyes open as a cloak of energy surrounded him, and a small growl began to escape his throat.
Whiteout a word Naruto once again sunk his sharpened teeth into one of his hands, letting the pain snap him back to normal even as blood dripped down onto the ground, oh great, he could already hear the others rumoring about what his quirk could be, he even saw a couple of people out of the corner of his eye looking repulsed by the small crimson puddle on the ground.
"Here we go dattebayo!" Naruto yelled out before stepping forward and throwing the ball whit all of his might, the small projectile soared through the air, managing to disperse a couple of clouds from the sheer speed and power of the throw before coming back down to earth and making a small crater on the ground upon impact.
"Knowing your limits first, that is the most rational way to form a foundation for a hero," the teacher said while raising his phone to let everyone see that Naruto had reached a distance of 1064 meters (3490.814 feet).
"Over 1000 meters? Seriously?" another blond teen, this one whit a black skreak going through his hair asked in disbelief.
"What's this? Looks fun!" the same pink-skinned girl Naruto was talking whit in the classroom said.
"We can use our quirks as much as we want! As expected of the hero course!" a boy whit fairly long black hair, and what looked like tape guns for shoulder said excitedly.
"It looks fun, huh?" Aizawa asked in a tone that made everyone stop talking "you have three years to become a hero, will you have an attitude like that the whole time?" after getting no response the man simply grinned somewhat maliciously "All right, whoever comes last in all eighth tests will be judged to have no potential and be punished whit expulsion" he said whit finality.
"Huh?!" the entire class said in shocked unison.
"We're allowed to do whatever we want about the circumstances of our students," the man said while looking more like a villain than an actual hero "welcome to U.A.'s hero course!"
"Last place will be expelled?" the same girl that asked about orientation questioned the teacher "but it's only the first day of school! No even if wasn't the first day of school, this is still too unfair!"
"Natural disasters, large accidents, and selfish villains," Aizawa began "calamities whose time and place can't be predicted. Japan is covered whit unfairness, heroes are the ones who reverse those situations if you wanted to go to Mickey D's after school then too bad, for the next three years U.A. will continue to give you one hardship after another. Go beyond. Plus Ultra" the teacher finished his speech by wagging a challenging finger at the class "Overcome it whit all you've got."
"Alright, demonstrations over, the real thing starts right now" Shota said as he saw his students getting fired up.
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1st test: 50-meter dash
Naruto got into a sprinting position on his side of the track, the orange cloak of energy still coating his body as he'd decided it'd be too much of a pain to constantly be activating his quirk, a girl whit short black hair and what looked like headphone jacks extending from her earlobes was getting into position next to him.
"On your marks…" a small robot called out making Naruto get into an even lower position almost as if he was an animal "Get set…" the robot continued before not a moment later a gunshot that was meant to be their starting signal sounded out.
Naruto dashed forwards like an orange blur, his claws giving him some extra traction as he ran like a wild carnivore chasing its prey "3.49 seconds" the small robot called out as the blond crossed the finish line, then a couple of seconds later "8.03 seconds" it stated once the girl on the other track finished.
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2nd test: Grip strength
Naruto took a deep breath, focusing on shifting the power his quirk provided to his right arm, it wasn't something he usually did as it weakened his defenses and left him open to attack, and he hadn't done it before on either of the tests since that would have hurt his performance "a good throw starts at the arm, but a great one starts at the feet" he remembered TenTen telling him once.
He was snapped out of his memories as the mere air molecules were starting to bother his hyper-sensitive skin, and the fact that someone was yelling about gorillas only made things worse as he could feel his ears straining, he had to get this over whit quickly.
After a sudden pull, and a beep that marked his score marked he returned the displaced energy to be all over his body once again before looking over at his grip strength machine "490 kilograms 'ttebayo, that's way better than last time!" he said excitedly.
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Test 3: standing long jump
Naruto bent down, using the tail that was part of his cloak as a sort of spring, contracting the energy to bound him forwards at an astounding speed until he landed barely past the sand pit "10 meeters" the small robot called out his distance.
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Test 4: Repeated side-steps
Naruto siphoned away some power from his arms, not all of it as he'd still need a barrier against the wind, and then channeled said power to the lower parts of his body before beginning the side steps, after a minute, the small robot called out his score of 68.5.
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Test 5: Ball throw
Since he'd already done this exercise, Naruto was just intrigued by watching what everyone else did, so far only two people had beaten his throw: the girl whit the rosy cheeks that seemed to know Midoriya got infinity thanks to her quirk, and a girl whit a spiky black ponytail as well as a curvati-, "no bad brain, stop ogling at her" Naruto muttered as he pinched himself, remembering how cool the cannon shot looked instead.
"It doesn't look for Midoriya-kun if he continues like this." he heard Iida say.
"Huh? Of course not. He's a quirkless small fry, you know." Bakugo said as if was the most obvious thing in the world.
"And?" Naruto asked back "what's wrong whit being quirkless? I have a friend who's quirkless and could beat the both of us up blindfolded even if we used our quirks 'ttebayo!"
Bakugo laughed "that's a good one," he said while whipping a tear of mirth away "maybe you'd be able to give Deku a winning chance for once," he said mockingly "you're weak enough to get beat by someone who's quirkless afterall"
Naruto ground his teeth, the aura around him growing larger as the other red-eyed blonde continued to insult both him and Rock Lee "why you" he said whit frustration before digging his nails into his palms and calming himself down, it wasn't a good idea to keep getting wrecked up, not while his quirk was active.
"Say Bakugo, you ever destroyed a tree before?" Naruto asked the explosive teen.
"Huh? The fuck is up whit that random ass question you weak bastard?" the boy responded, surprised to see Naruto smiling instead of being angry like he would have expected.
"Is that so, remind me to show you a video after class then" Naruto said whit finality before walking away to calm his emotions.
"That's an awfully large amount of bloodlust Naruto-chan" his friend told him.
"I know Tsu I'm working on it" he said before closing his eyes to calm himself down, completely missing the sight of Midoriya throwing the ball farther than Bakugo did, but smiling ass he could just hear that jerk getting all worked up.
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Test 6: sit-ups
Naruto was for once having a hard doing sit-ups, it's not that the exercise itself was hard, it was just that doing it while trying your best to not openly stare at the beautiful girl in front of you that was a problem, seriously man, she was prettier than Sakura-chan!, thankfully he had his cloak to make it so they couldn't touch directly, he did not need to know what that felt like…even if kind of wanted to.
"Good work Uzumaki-san," Yaoyarozu said while taking her hands off his cloak "you did 52 sit-ups in one minute, an admirable number"
"Hehe, thanks," Naruto said whit a sheepish smile while scratching the back of his head "oh, and you can call me Naruto, by the way, I'm not big on formalities 'ttebayo"
"Very well then Naruto-san," she said whit a smile, "now then, please make sure to count correctly, I'll be under your care" the prim girl said whit a small bow, before getting in position for her sit-ups.
Naruto had never counted whit so much focus in his life.
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Test 7: Seated toe-touch
Unfortunately for Naruto, and fortunately for everyone else, his quirk didn't enhance the blond's flexibility, unfortunately for them, Naruto's wor-out routine was also meant to improve his flexibility, otherwise he wouldn't be able to pull off the crazy mid-air flips he sometimes used to slash someone in an area they weren't protecting.
"-3 centimeters," Yaoyarozu said after measuring his score "you are quite flexible Naruto-san, does it have to do something whit your quirk?" she asked as she noticed that it was still active.
"Nope! Just good old training 'ttebayo!" he said while smacking his flexing arm, something he immediately regretted as soon as he felt a massive amount of pain course through his body, "ow" he said in mild pain, making Yaoyorozu laugh a bit, man she had a nice laugh.
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Test 8: Long-distance run
The last two hours under the sweltering sunn were hell for almost everyone except Naruto, sure Iida might have beat him in speed, and technically had run 3 more miles than him, but looking over at the bespectacled teen and seeing him sweating buckets as the engines on his legs overheated Naruto felt pretty damn good, he could have kept his six-minute per mile pace for at least another hour, he did it every day when he got back home, afterall stamina was the name of his game.
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10 minutes after the end of the 8th test
"Okay, I'll quickly tell you the results," Aizawa said once all of his students had finally gathered around "the total is simply the marks you got from each test" after saying that he clicked a button and made a hologram of the class totals appear.
#1: Yaoyorozu Momo
#2: Uzumaki Naruto
#3: Todoroki Shoto
#4: Bakugo Katsuki
#5: Tenya Iida
#6: Fumikage Tokoyami
#7: Shoji Menzo
#8: Ojiro Mashirao
#9: Kirishima Eijiro
#10: Ahido Mina
#11: Uraraka Ohchako
#12: Koda Koji
#13: Asui Tsuyu
#14: Aoyama Yuga
#15: Sero Hanta
#16: Kaminari Denki
#17: Jiro Kyoka
#18: Hagakure Toru
#19: Mineta Minoru
#20: Midoriya Izuku
"By the way, I was lying about the expulsion," Sota said casually while turning off the hologram "it was a natural deception to draw out the upper limits of your quirks" the man finished whit a creepy smile.
"What?!" most of the class yelled out, whit Midoriya, Uraraka, and Iida being the loudest ones.
"Of course that was a lie," Yaoyarozu said "it should have been obvious if you just thought it through"
"I didn't notice…" Naruto said, unknowingly voicing the opinions of three of his other classmates, and making Yaoyarozu sigh in disbelief.
"That was a little nerve-wracking huh?" the kid whit tape gun elbows asked a redhead, relief present in his voice.
The other teen simply closed his fist in a manly demeanor "I'll take up the challenge any time!" he said confidently.
"Yeah!" Naruto said while punching the palm of his hand "same here dattebayo! This was good training for my quirk"
"Anyways, we're done here," Aizawa said while starting to walk away "there are handouts whit the curriculum and other things in the classroom so look them over when you get back"
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U.A. Highschool, class 1-A; the next day
"I am…coming through the door like a normal person!" All Might said as he slammed the door open.
The excitement of the class was practically tangible, whit a couple of them muttering out things like "It's all Might!" or "Wow, he really is going to teach us" among other things as the man walked up to the podium.
"I teach Hero Basic Training," he said, whit his literally trademarked smile not faltering for a second "it is a subject where you train in different ways of being a hero, you'll be taking the most units of this subject!" he said while preparing to pose "Let's get right into it! This is what we'll do today, battle training!" he said posing whit a flashcard that had the word battle in bold letters on it.
Naruto grinned widely as he heard that, he wanted to see how everyone else used their quirks while fighting afterall.
"And to go whit that, are these!' All Might said while pressing a button, making several panels in the walls come out "Costumes based on your quirk registration and requests you sent in before school started"
All of the students roared whit excitement at the news.
"After you change, gather in Ground Beta!" All Might commanded receiving a round of "yes sir!"'s for his troubles.
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Ground Beta; a few minutes later
It was about ten minutes later that the students arrived at the place their combat training would be taking place. Waiting for them, just at the entrance to one of the replica city districts that the entrance exam took place in, was All Might. A wide smile on his face as he watched the heroes in training arriving en masse, all of them now wearing the costumes they had designed.
"They say the clothes make the hero, ladies, and gentlemen! Remember this! From now on, you're all heroes!" all Might announced loudly as he saw the students approaching.
In response to that, the students continued their approach, checking out both their costumes and the ones the others were wearing as they approached. All of them understanding what All Might had meant as they truly did feel more heroic now they were wearing costumes.
"Wow! You all look so cool!" All Might shouted enthusiastically as they came to a halt in front of him, giving them all a big thumbs up as he did so.
Naruto looked around as he heard that, eyeing the costumes of those around him, noticing as he did so that Yaoyarozu was wearing a red and black dress whit various quick-release zippers on multiple parts of her body for quick access to any area that she'd need to create something from, apart from that she also had what seemed to be a digital watch of sorts.
Naruto himself wore an orange long-sleeved jacket whit a pair of black stripes at both the bottom of it and along the end of the sleeves, a pair of black pants that were tucked into some special open-toe sandals that were super comfortable, a pair of orange-tinted goggles rested on his forehead, while a pair of headphones rested around his neck, lastly, a pair of black fingerless gloves adorned his hands, on the back of each of the gloves was one of his parent's hero logo, a red swirl for his mother and a drawing that could resemble a vajra for his father.
"Now then, shall we begin you zygotes?" All Might asked the class, already knowing what the answer would be.
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AN: Muahahaha, I've left you all on a cliffhanger! But in all seriousness, I hope yall enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I did writing it, now then, onto some "announcements", and then on to some questions.
#1: yes, I have changed Momo's costume because my god the og one is so dumb, look, I'm the type of guy that can excuse fan service so long as it's: legal (the character who is being used for fan service is canonically 18+ [no, dragon lolis don't count]), not detrimental to the plot (looking at you HOD), and doesn't have a stupid in-universe reason for it (example; character A breathes trough their skin), Momo breaks all of these rules, so I'm changing it, many thanks to Lavander Towne for designing this, please go check out her youtube channel she does a lot of cool art.
#2: Naruto's hero costume is basically a hodgepodge of his Hokage outfit, Obitos goggles, and a pair of new support items that will be useful for him: #1 goggles: they're used to limit the amount of light that can enter Narutos eyes, preventing visual sensory overload when he accidentally pumps too much power into himself, apart from that the space where your nose is supposed to be can be tightened up in order to prevent sensory overload from smells, it also means that Naruto can only breathe through his mouth while they are on if anyone else where to wear them they'd basically be fighting blind, and whit shortness of breath, #2 headphones: these powerful noise isolating headphones prevent sensory overload from hearing, so Naruto probably won't need to worry about his eardrums popping unless he fights someone whit sound based attacks if anyone else wears them then they'd practically be fighting while deaf, #3: sandals and gloves: these both share the same purpose, preventing sensory overload from touch on his most used combat tools (the claws), theyre also made in such way that they wont be ripped apart when Naruto uses his quirk (the sandal being open toed means he can have his toenail claws, and the same goes for the gloves), now i will be letting you guys know that his outfit isint completed yet and it will evolve as Naruto finds new uses for his quirk, and stops restraining how much power he uses out of fear of causing another accident.
Now then, for the reviews.
Emnash:
#1; don't worry about it, I promised myself that'd id only work on 4 fics at a time specifically so I wouldn't drop any midway through, now there might be sometimes where I don't post for a while, that either means I'm focusing aa bit more on one of my other fics, or that I'm currently busy and wont update for a couple of weeks, no matter what tough, I will finish at least these 4 I'm currently working on.
#2: thank you so much for your criticism, I had it in mind when writing out this chapter and tried spacing things out a bit more, let me know if it's a better experience, ok?
Gr4:
#1 you are correct, it's not a harem, I will never write a harem story unless it's satire, I don't like reading them, and I like writing them even less, this goes for all of my fics.
#2: you are indeed correct, Izuku did rank 7th in cannon, but I thought it'd be funny to make Kirishima 7th, and Tetsutetsu 8th to show how even before they met Kirishima was already just barely beating the tin man, plus it's not like Izuku really losses anything by it, he's still in the top 10 afterall
Soooooo yeah, that's about it, see yall in the next one.
PS: As always thank you all so much for your continued support, please leave a review, any and all criticism is accepted (so long as it is constructive criticism, please don't just insult my existence) and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have during the AN of the next chapter