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Time to see how Izuku is faring at UA…

Shinsou Hitoshi had graduated UA with Class 3-A 9 years ago. He had been teaching at UA (after Nedzu had blackmailed him) for 6 of those years.

Today was the first day of school. Shinsou was back to teaching the first-years (my headcanon is that the homeroom teachers teach the same class all three years). Ugh, the first day was always the worst.

Shinsou entered the classroom and waited for the students to notice him - almost 4 minutes. Yikes.

Shinsou sighed and stood at the front of the class. "Welcome to the Heroics Department of UA, this is going to be difficult, yadda yadda yadda. You all came here to be heros, so start acting like it." He caught sight of a head of green hair. "Aizawa, what are you wearing?"

"Hm?" Izuku looked confused. He glanced at his uniform, then looked back up at Shinsou questioningly. "What do you mean?"

"..." Shinsou looked pointedly at the capture weapon Izuku had around his neck.

"Oh." Izuku blushed. "Oh, okay."

"And fix your tie."

"Yes, nii-san."

Whispers filled the classroom. Shinsou frowned, banging a fist on the podium. The class immediately shut up.

"Now." Shinsou sighed. "Get changed into your PE uniform and meet me outside in 10 minutes.

"Hey, teach!" One of the other students stood up sharply, her hand in the air urgently. "What about opening ceremonies?"

"UA has a freestyle way of teaching. The teachers can do almost anything they want. Also, we don't have the time for an orientation if you want to be good heroes. Now go, you have only 8 minutes now. Better hurry if you want to make it."

Izuku immediately stood and tore out of the classroom. "Follow me!" he shouted at his classmates. "I know where the lockers are!"

The girl who stood up earlier looked frustrated. "Everyone line up in organized lines!" she shouted futility. The rest of the class was already chasing after Izuku. The girl groaned, then followed.

Izuku was, no surprise, the first boy done changing. He exited the changing room to see the girl from earlier was also done changing; she was just exiting the girls' locker room.

Immediately, she confronted him. "Why would you do something so unorganized?! We're at UA, we need to act like we should for attending such a prestigious school! You're dragging down everyone's reputations!"

She's like Tenya-kun, Izuku thought. "We were on a time limit…? And I knew where the lockers were already."

The girl was quiet for a second. "I see," she said finally. Suddenly, she bowed. "You have seen the true nature of this situation! Hero work is always chaotic! It would be good to get used to it early! Rest assured, I will figure it out before you nest time!"

What. "Um, okay… what's your name?"

"Higuchi Azumi! My quirk is called Safe Space! And you?"

"Aizawa Izuku. What does your quirk do?"

"I can create impenetrable force fields of various sizes!" she boasted.

"That's amazing!" Izuku's eyes sparkled. He pulled a notebook out of nowhere, already scribbling away. "Can you make more than one at once? Can you move them? How far away can you make them? Is there any negative drawbacks? Any positive ones? Can you-"

Higuchi blinked at him slowly. "Um, I have not tried making more than three at a time! And I can move them around mentally!"

"So cool!"

The rest of their classmates had joined them in the hall. Someone coughed. "Um, we only have one minute left."

"Hey extras! Line up in an orderly manner, chop chop!" Higuchi called, hands on her hips. Everyone groaned and squashed together in a line - though, it was not quite single-file.

Finally, they were all gathered in front of Shinsou-sensei.

"Alright." Shinsou adjusted his papers. "So, I assume all of you have done physical tests at your middle schools, yes?"

There was a murmur of assent.

"Good. Aizawa, come here."

"Yes, nii-san!" Izuku said cheerily. He walked into the circle. Shinsou handed him a ball.

"What was your high-score in the ball-throw?"

"63 meters." Not the farthest. Izuku always had trouble gaining muscles.

"Alright. I want you to use your quirk to get the ball as far as you can." Shinsou stepped back.

Izuku frowned at the ball. He'd done this before, by borrowing Kacchan's quirk. However, he did not know his classmates' quirks, other than Higuchi's. He could smell the others' quirks - there were several quite powerful ones. Those were tempting, but Izuku didn't know what they did or if they would even help him.

He'd make due with Higuchi's.

Izuku subtly made a grabbing motion at Higuchi, borrowing her quirk. A warm, sugary taste flooded his mouth. He formed a force field around the ball and tried to mentally push it away from him. He was luck this quirk was easy to handle. It would be embarrassing if he had struggled.

The ball drifted quite far before the force field flickered out. Izuku wondered if it was the distance or a time limit that made it go away.

Shinsou looked at his measuring device. 207.8 meters. Not bad. He showed the class.

"WHOA!"

Higuchi was gaping at the display. What were the odds that two people had the same quirk? She growled. She would prove herself better!

"The hero course seems pretty fun!" One student said.

"Fun?" Shinsou hummed. "It can be, I suppose. But in the real world, there is no time for 'fun'. As such, whoever scores the lowest will be expelled. Is this understood?"

"Yes sir!"

"Aizawa, give Higuchi-san her quirk back now."

"Yes, nii-san!"

Higuchi frowned. Give… back…?

Izuku walked back to join the class. He stopped next to Higuchi, tapping her shoulder and making a gagging sound. Higuchi suddenly felt whole again. She hadn't even realized she had been missing something.

"Sorry about borrowing your quirk without asking." Izuku said, watching the next classmate step up and chuck the ball. "But I didn't know anyone else's quirk so I didn't know what would help me best."

"You… stole my quirk?"

"Borrowed." Izuku's eyes flashed. "I would never keep someone's quirk for myself. It doesn't belong to me, and tasting all that sugar all the time would kill me."

"What."

"Side-effect of my quirk." Izuku waved it off. "When I borrow someone's quirk, it's like I'm eating really sugary caramel or something. It was tasty when I was younger, but now it just makes me feel sick."

"Well then." Higuchi suddenly looked very mad. "Next time ask permission, idiot!"

"Okay, okay!" Izuku shrunk, holding his hands up defensively. "Sorry!"

"Aizawa, Higuchi."

"Yes, sensei?" They both asked. Shinsou quickly brainwashed both of them.

"Be quiet and wait your turn." Shinsou commanded. The two loud students obediently sat down, gazing into nothing.

The physical tests wrapped up quickly. Izuku and Higuchi came back to themselves when it was their turns. Izuku was frustrated with Shinsou, but Shinsou just put him back under again. Shinsou would never understand why Izuku wouldn't learn to not talk to him.

Izuku finished in fourth place, and Higuchi ended up in twelfth. The last place person, a girl who's quirk made them super seductive, was expelled. Higuchi wondered why the girl's quirk didn't work on Shinsou, but Izuku knew it was because Shinsou was quite happy with his husband, Kaminari. He was more inclined to wonder how she had even got into UA in the first place.

Hhhhhhhhh this is so bad. I'm sorry.

Anyway, Higuchi. Strange one, she is. I decided to combine Iida and Bakugou's personalities. Does it work? Idk. Izuku is also out of character. Sorry.

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