Chapter 3: Sink or Swim
Summary:
Time for the first day at U.A.! Hope everything goes well... wait, why is there some hobo in a sleeping bag crawling in here?
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Izuku stared at the door to Class 1-A for a few seconds, intimidated, before Daigoro said, "It's not gonna bite you, kid, and waiting won't make it better."
I know, Izuku replied, I just hope I don't have to deal with Ka-Bakugou here. Or Iida for that matter… The bespectacled boy did apologize for his yelling, but Izuku wasn't sure if he'd do something to offend in the interim. Still, he opened the door.
He was greeted by the sight and sounds of Tenya yelling at a green-haired girl with a sharp-toothed smile, who was reclining in her seat with her feet on the desk. The seats were nearly full. Katsuki was nowhere in sight.
"Guess you got half your wish," Yoichi said sympathetically.
"-disrespectful! You should not put your feet on school property!" Tenya said, chopping his arm in emphasis.
"Hmmm… Okay!" the girl said cheerfully, and her feet - and only her feet - popped off her legs and floated to the ground. Her pose didn't change otherwise.
Tenya sputtered for a bit before finally saying, "That is NOT what I meant!"
"Oh, hey! Another green-head!" the girl turned to Izuku. Without warning, her head popped off of her body and floated over to inspect him, "Fourth one in the class. Guess we're lucky that way!"
"Ah! Midoriya-san!" Tenya turned to Izuku and bowed at a nearly ninety degree angle. "I wanted to congratulate you, and apologize once again for my shameful behavior at the exam! You have proven yourself to be the superior hero candidate, having deduced the true nature of the exam while I did not!"
"Deduced… You mean the rescue points?" Midoriya blinked, "Iida-san, I deduced nothing! I spent that week worried that I'd failed the practical! I was just saving people because I felt it was right."
Tenya rose, and said, "That only makes you MORE worthy of respect! To protect others at the expense of your own success is an admirable trait! No wonder you achieved first place!"
There was a bunch of murmuring, and now Izuku realized that there were a LOT more girls here than he was expecting. Over half of the students here, to be precise. Blushing, Izuku said, "W-well, I saw the results. You got rescue points too. In fact, you helped ME out when I tripped. I'm not used to moving at that speed, and I could have seriously hurt myself."
"Think nothing of it!" Tenya was about to continue, but was interrupted.
"Izu-kun!" Ochako said cheerfully. "It's great to finally see you in person again!"
"S-s-same here, Occhan!" Izuku stammered out with a grin, using the nickname he'd given her the day after she gave him his. He was trying not to think about how good she looked in that outfit.
"You're failing," En said smugly.
Must you? Izuku asked.
"Yes," En replied.
"Oooooh, what's this?" the girl's floating head circled around them like a vulture, grinning widely.
A girl with pink hair and skin, horns, and black sclera dashed up, practically vibrating with excitement, "So, how do you two know each other?!"
Ochako began regaling them with a brief tale of how she and Izuku met and rescued each other, complete with sound effects and dramatic reenactments of his punch. Izuku merely blushed as he received positive attention in a classroom for the first time.
That all came crashing down when he heard Hikage say, "Behind you." He turned to see a tired looking man in a yellow sleeping bag crawling into the classroom like a caterpillar.
"Hrm. Good instincts," Izuku heard the man mutter, before he said more loudly, "If you're here to socialize, you'd better leave right now."
The class turned to stare as the man calmly took a sip from a jelly drink.
"It took you lot nine seconds to calm down," the man stated in a monotone, "Quite irrational." He stood up, shedding the sleeping bag, revealing himself to be clothed in a black jumpsuit and a long scarf. "I am Shouta Aizawa, your homeroom teacher. Now," he took out a blue U.A. gym uniform, "Put these on and head outside to our athletic field."
"What about orientation?" A girl with orange hair in a long ponytail asked.
"Irrelevant ceremony. Hurry up, now," Aizawa said. The class didn't take long to head out the door.
Izuku was the first to the field, followed shortly by Tenya. They were two of only seven boys in Class 1-A. The others included a blond with a black lightning bolt in his hair, a boy with red spiky hair, one with large eyelashes and silver hair, one with the head of a black bird, and one whose head resembled a rock outcropping or a dinosaur. He'd learn names later.
"Good thing Toshinori warned us about him," Nana said, "If Aizawa's as strict and expulsion happy as he said, you'd best stay on your guard."
I wonder which Hero he is? Izuku thought. He'd need to be a pro Hero to teach at U.A. His minimalistic costume and the fact that no one else seems to recognize him either would indicate that he's an underground Hero. That would also explain his disheveled appearance and tired demeanor. There's no outwardly distinguishing mutations to identify him. That scarf seems familiar but I can't quite place it…
"Err, Midoriya-kun, you're mumbling again," Tenya interrupted him, though thankfully he didn't do so angrily like last time.
Izuku's mouth shut with an audible click of his teeth and his face grew red. More of their classmates had arrived and some were staring at him. He noticed a smile from Ochako as their eyes met, though that made his blush deepen.
Aizawa gave Izuku a look, but didn't say anything. When the last student arrived, Aizawa sighed and checked his stopwatch, "Ten minutes. In that time, hundreds of civilians may have died. We'll have to work on that. Welcome to your Quirk assessment test."
There was a brief commotion before Aizawa threw a ball towards Izuku, "Midoriya, you managed to beat the previous record on the entrance exam. How far could you throw a ball in middle school?"
"A little over forty meters," Izuku responded, trying to ignore the murmurs about him breaking the record.
"Then stand in the circle here and do so while using your Quirk."
Izuku gulped as he stood in the circle and brought up Full Cowl. He strained it to the highest percentage he could without it hurting him, and sent the ball flying. Once it landed, Aizawa's tablet let out a ping. He turned it to show a score of 538.6 meters.
"Over 500 meters?!" the boy with the lightning bolt hair exclaimed, "Nice!"
"We get to use our Quirks?! This will be fun!" the pink girl exclaimed.
Aizawa had a glint in his eye as he chuckled, "Oh, you think this is all fun and games? Well, let's make it even more fun, shall we? You'll be competing with each other in eight physical challenges to determine your potential. The one who comes in last will be judged to have none and will be expelled."
Everyone paled. Izuku felt numb as anxiety threatened to overtake him. He wasn't expecting an expulsion to happen already! He could vaguely hear Ochako claim it was unfair, and Aizawa made a speech about the world being unfair and that the job of a hero was to correct the unfairness of the world.
As the speech happened, Izuku heard the vestiges commenting.
"Not every useful Quirk would necessarily be useful on this test," Hikage grumbled
"Danger Sense and Smokescreen wouldn't have helped here," En snapped.
"Dude, Izuku, you got this, kid!" Daigoro said, and he felt a pat on his back. The vestiges had stopped calling him Nine and started calling him Izuku after he'd referred to them as family. "You have One for All, and you've got a good grasp on it."
"Some of the other students are looking bad, though," Nana said. There was a hint of expectation there. And that made Izuku snap to attention.
"W-we fought t-t-tooth and n-n-nail to get here, Aizawa-sensei," Izuku said, trying to overcome his stutter and reassure his new classmates. "N-none of us are leaving without a fight!"
Aizawa looked at Izuku, but his face was unreadable. The other students, however, started to perk up. Some of them who looked sick to their stomach now looked confident. He heard two of the boys, the ones with red and silver hair, say "So manly," in unison, giving each other a look as they did.
"Letting Izuku shine by framing it as helping others. You caught on to his thoughts well, Nana," Yoichi said proudly.
"What can I say, he's got the mom-friend instinct," Nana bragged.
"Wouldn't it be the dad-friend instinct?" Hikage questioned.
Can't we at least call it the hero-friend instinct? Izuku asked them.
If not for the threat of expulsion, Izuku would have been having a blast. Not so much the physical tests as seeing everyone else's Quirks in action! He wished he could have had his notebook out to record his thoughts on them.
He'd have to do it later that day… which soured his thoughts as he realized one of them wouldn't be returning.
He pushed himself as far as he could go, and while he wasn't first in any of the events, he was at least on the higher end of average in all of them
His classmates, however… Tenya's leg-engines allowed him to dominate the fifty-meter dash. A girl with vines for hair was able to use them to get over seven hundred kilograms on the grip-strength test. The girl who could detach and float her body parts cleared the long jump with ease. Ochako broke the curve on the ball throw by simply touching it and sending it out of the atmosphere, earning a score of infinity.
The best one, though, clearly, was this elegant looking girl with her black hair in a ponytail, whose quirk allowed her to create seemingly anything. She cleared the dash using rocket-powered skates. She made an industrial clamp to destroy the grip tester. She created a bicycle for the distance run. She got second place in the ball toss by using a cannon, for heaven's sake!
Even the ones whose Quirks weren't suited for this test were giving it their all. The boy with the rock/dinosaur shaped head summoned a raven to carry the ball for the throw. A frail looking girl with ghostly white hair sent the ball forward with telekinesis. The invisible girl was surprisingly flexible in the seated toe-touch. One girl with a mushroom-like haircut managed to instantly grow enormous mushrooms in an attempt to bounce off of them in the side-step and sit-up tests. One quiet girl tried to use a size-altering Quirk on the grip-testing mechanism, making it larger and using the leverage of both of her arms and legs to try and improve her score.
Once they were finished, Aizawa gathered them together and displayed their scores...
1: Momo Yaoyorozu
2: Izuku Midoriya
3: Ibara Shiozaki
4: Tokage Setsuna
5: Itsuka Kendo
6: Tenya Iida
7: Fumikage Tokoyami
8: Eijiro Kirishima
9: Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
10: Mina Ashido
11: Ochako Uraraka
12: Pony Tsunotori
13: Koji Koda
14: Tsuyu Asui
15: Reiko Yanagi
16: Denki Kaminari
17: Kyoka Jiro
18: Yui Kodai
19: Toru Hagakure
20: Kinoko Komori
Izuku's pleasant shock at being ranked second was short-lived. The girl with the mushroom haircut and Quirk, Kinoko, began to cry. The orange-haired girl with the enlarged hand Quirk, Itsuka, was the first to comfort her, with others following. Izuku's shock turned to anger, and he stared Aizawa down.
"By the way, no one's being expelled," Aizawa said, casually. At the nonplussed stares of the students, he explained, "It was a logical ruse to push you to your limits."
The top scorer, Momo, looked to the rest of the class and said, "I'm surprised the rest of you didn't figure it out." At their stares, she tilted her head, "I'm sorry. Should I have said something?"
"But didn't you expel your entire class last year on the first day?!" Izuku shouted in disbelief. Upon realizing what he was blurting out, he slapped his hands over his mouth.
As the color completely drained from Momo's face, Aizawa turned to Izuku, almost creaking audibly as he did. As he stared him down, the vestiges, who had been cheering him on, became utterly silent. Aizawa's hair stood up, and his scarf began to unravel, revealing a pair of yellow slitted goggles.
"Wait, those goggles, and I can't…" Izuku realized what was happening, and his hero nerd side took over. "You erased my Quirk! You're the Erasure Hero, Eraserhead!" Izuku blurted out in awe.
"Really, Midoriya? You want to do this? Are you that much of a problem child?" Eraserhead said, utterly deadpan.
Without the vestiges, Izuku's anxiety was beginning to take over, "W-w-well, y-you d-did s-say you w-weren't going to c-coddle us. D-do you th-think we c-can't h-handle it?" He absolutely hated how he was stammering through this, but he was in too deep at this point.
Huh, having six ghosts prop him up made him begin to grow a backbone.
Eraserhead gave a mirthless smile, "Very well. As Midoriya here indicated, I have no problem expelling students who I felt had zero potential. Being a pro Hero is a dangerous job, and if you don't do everything in your power when faced with a challenge, you're putting your own life and the lives of others at risk. I refuse to let a student graduate only to find them in the obituaries a year later.
"I didn't expel anyone because all of you managed to impress me. Even those of you whose Quirks weren't suited for these tests did your best and stretched your creativity to their limits. You all went Plus Ultra. And that's why I'm letting you continue. For now."
Eraserhead's hair and scarf dropped and Izuku felt the vestiges once more. They started to frantically shout before they realized Izuku could hear them again, at which point they stayed silent. All Might's vestige gave him a reassuring pat on the back.
"You're dismissed for today. I recommend you keep up the pace we set here if you wish to stay. Tomorrow, the real work begins," Eraserhead said simply, "Be sure to pick up a syllabus back in the classroom. Midoriya, I would like a word before you leave."
Izuku froze, and a number of other students seemed reluctant to leave. Eraserhead sighed, "You're not in trouble. I just figured you wouldn't want to have personal information blurted out in front of the entire class."
Slowly, the rest of the class trickled away. Soon, only Izuku and Ochako were left. There was a tense moment as it became clear Ochako wasn't going to be leaving anytime soon.
"If this is about my Quirk's late appearance, I've told her about it," Izuku said.
"Fine, if you insist," Eraserhead said. "I figured that was the maximum amount of power you could use without hurting yourself."
"I'm at about five percent. I was around four and a half at the entrance exam. I've been straining it by a half-percent or so, enough to push my limits but not to the point that I'll break anything," Izuku explained.
"Good. I don't want you to think you can rest on your laurels. Making sure you could maintain control was the main thing I was looking for when observing you," Eraserhead said. "I was hoping we could schedule you for Quirk counselling since you wouldn't have had that in the past."
Izuku was stunned. He struggled with an answer.
"Izuku, I think he'll need something," Yoichi prodded.
Izuku's mind was racing, I know that I need proper counseling, but can I really trust him to do it? I mean, he's already proven that we can't take him at his word. And I mean, he's a teacher. Sure, I have a Quirk now, so maybe he won't be like how teachers usually are? But he was willing to use his Quirk on me just for asking a question. Again, nothing new, but that still means that I need to be as wary of him as I would be for any of my past teachers. Particularly since this session would be after school and away from prying eyes, so who knows what he'll be willing to do if that's the case? Still, I-
"Izu-kun?" Ochako said, interrupting his train of thought.
Izuku stopped, and deduced why she interrupted from the looks on their faces. "I said that all out loud, didn't I?"
Eraserhead looked absolutely shocked. Like he realized he accidentally ran over a kitten. He managed to say, "Tomorrow after school, conducted by the principal. I'll only be there for safety precautions. Perhaps another faculty member to ensure your comfort. Is… is that acceptable?"
Izuku nodded, not trusting his voice. Eraserhead nodded as well in acknowledgement. He looked like he wanted to say something, but couldn't find the proper words. He settled with, "Dismissed."
Izuku walked off, leaving Eraserhead behind. Ochako walked beside him. After some time, she took his hand in hers. He gave it a squeeze in thanks.
"You're a little old for hide-and-seek, Yagi," Eraserhead said while walking by. As he did, All Might in his emaciated form popped out of a bush.
"I wanted to check in on how Class 1-A was doing, Aizawa-kun," All Might said.
"And by that, you mean Midoriya," Eraserhead deadpanned.
"I will admit, after I revealed that I had trained him, I was worried that you may have… judged him based on that fact," All Might said, trying to be diplomatic.
"You thought that I'd have expelled him just because I don't like you," Eraserhead said, having the diplomacy skills of a plank of wood with a rusty nail in it.
"I felt that was possible," All Might admitted.
Eraserhead sighed, "I try to pride myself on rationality. Thus far, Midoriya's skill matches his enthusiasm. His encounter with the zero-pointer would normally be a red flag for me, but I can attribute that to the intensity of the situation and his inexperience with his Quirk. He's showing that he can handle it and that he's working hard."
There was an awkward pause. Finally, All Might said, "Are you all right?"
The pause continued, before Eraserhead said, "When we found out that Aldera Middle School had doctored their records to favor Bakugou and denigrate Midoriya, I was angry. It was the height of irrationality. Not only would any high school judge them using false information, both of their careers would be sabotaged. I know I'm not the best teacher, but I have enough pride in the profession to be angry at educators who don't have their students' best interests at heart."
Yagi looked at Eraserhead expectantly, and he looked down, "Midoriya compared me to them. As much as I want to deny it, I can't make a convincing argument to myself."
There was an awkward pause once again, before All Might said, "I want to try and help you out, but I'm not sure you'd appreciate it. Especially considering you have much more experience teaching than I do."
Eraserhead shrugged, "It couldn't hurt."
"Well, I made a mistake when instructing young Midoriya on how to use his Quirk. I later learned that he only did so well because he frantically contacted some distant relatives with similar Quirks for advice between the written and practical exams," All Might was thankful Izuku had told him that excuse. "So, upon hearing that, I've been throwing myself much harder into teaching. I've been reading more books about education, and I contacted my old teacher and asked for help. If what Midoriya said truly bothers you, try and fix it."
Eraserhead chewed that over, before he nodded to All Might and walked away.
He sighed, "Guess I have to go Plus Ultra myself…"
Izuku made it to the classroom last, and was surprised to find everyone still there. Once he entered, all of his classmates looked at him expectantly.
"Eh?" Izuku asked, worried he'd offended them somehow.
"Bro, are you okay?" the redheaded boy, Eijiro, asked.
"Aizawa-sensei got really intense back there," Itsuka said, frowning. "We were worried."
"Plus, Miss Infinity here wasn't talking," the green-haired girl with the body-splitting Quirk, Setsuna, added, grinning and using her detached, floating hands to point at Ochako.
"I'm not going to break his trust," Ochako pouted.
"Thanks, Occhan," Izuku beamed. "Aizawa-sensei wanted to schedule me for Quirk counseling. Which is good. I need it."
A shock brewed. Momo, who'd already had her notions toppled once today, was struggling with it happening again, "But you got second place on the assessment, and you broke All Might's record on the entrance exam! Surely you don't need Quirk counseling at this age!"
Izuku sighed, "I never had it before. My Quirk was dormant most of my life. I thought I was Quirkless until about a year ago. It wouldn't activate until my body was strong enough to handle its power, and I was only able to access it right before the written exam."
It was deathly silent as everyone processed this. Jaws dropped.
"You went to the entrance exam and you only had your quirk for a couple of hours?!" Mina, the pink girl with horns, exclaimed in shock.
"Metal," exclaimed Kyoka, a girl with elongated earlobes ending in auxiliary jacks, throwing up goat horns with her right hand.
Tenya hung his head, "If you were that inexperienced, of course you would be nervous. Now that I know this, my behavior towards you transcends rudeness into borderline bullying. Given that you were considered Quirkless, the argument could be made that I was committing a hate crime…" Tenya was utterly despondent.
"Wait, so that thing with the zero-pointer? Where you broke your arms?!" Toru, the invisible girl, exclaimed, waving her arms for emphasis, "How did that happen?!"
"Well, I can only use a very small percentage of my current power," Izuku scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "When I saw Occhan under that concrete with the zero-pointer about to crush her, I… went overboard. Put my full strength into jumping towards it and punching it. Broke my legs and arm though. I would have gotten even more injured, or possibly died if she hadn't managed to float up and cancel my gravity."
Eijiro and the silver-haired boy, Tetsutetsu began to shed tears. "That was the manliest thing I've ever heard," they exclaimed in unison.
"Wait a minute, ribbit," croaked out Tsuyu, a girl with frog-like features. "What percent have you been using?"
Izuku paused before admitting, "During the exam, around four percent. I've worked my way up to using five percent today."
If the room was quiet before, it was deadly silent now.
The girl with vines for hair, Ibara, made the Sign of the Cross as this sank in.
"Holy shiitake," Kinoko exclaimed.
Yui, the girl with the size-shifting Quirk, nodded, "Mm." she hummed worriedly.
Koji, the boy with the oddly-shaped head, made a squeaking sound, the first one he made that day besides using his Quirk to talk to animals.
The horned girl with horse-like features, Pony, looked confused, "I not say early, but I am American. Dad Japanese, but not speak language much home. I only getting every maybe three words. Anyone able help?"
At which point, Momo began to translate, as did Izuku. He couldn't call himself a true All Might fan if he couldn't listen to the man's old interviews in the original English. When they finished, Pony's eyes bugged out.
"[What in the goddamn-?!]" Pony swore in English, "[I've never heard of ANYTHING like that before! What're you made of?!]"
"Anxiety and hero trivia, mostly," Daigoro joked.
Izuku smiled, and replied, "Anxiety and hero trivia, mostly." in slow Japanese to try and accommodate her. Pony snorted in laughter along with several others, so it got through.
Thanks, Daigoro-ji-san, Izuku thought warmly. The fifth user whooped in victory.
"Such a vast and mysterious power," Reiko, the gray-haired girl who looked vaguely ghostlike, intoned with a wispy voice.
"From the darkness of a life without a Quirk, he wields an overwhelming light," the bird-headed boy, Fumikage, said with as much gravitas as he could muster.
The two of them stared at each other, as if trying to size up exactly how goth the other was.
Setsuna decided to interrupt, "Well, I know Hobo-sensei was badmouthing it earlier, but why don't we all go grab something to eat and get to know each other? We're gonna be here for three years, assuming we keep the bum happy, so we might as well learn who we'll be working with!"
Mina and Toru gave out a cheer and most of the class seemed to agree. Izuku was about to leave out of habit when Eijiro and Tetsutetsu roped him in, saying that they wanted to hear his workout routine, and he realized they were all expecting him to attend. They wanted him to attend.
"I-I'll join in!" Izuku said happily, hoping he wasn't crying. "Um," he pulled out his notebook, "Would anyone mind if I asked about your Quirks? Analyzing them has been a hobby of mine for the longest time…"
"Sure thing, Mido-bro!" Eijiro said with a smile, "Ask away!"
Izuku began to have a field day asking questions as they made their way out of U.A. Sure there were hiccups, but even with all of that, this was the best time he'd ever had at school!
U.A. fucking sucked.
Every moment of Katsuki's life was done in preparation for this moment, and now that he was here, it felt like the mountain he was trying to climb was a pile of rotten trash.
First, there was the entrance exam. At first, he thought he had claimed the total victory he crafted in his backstory, but at the last second, he saw that he got second place. That would be terrible on its own, but the fact that it was fucking DEKU of all people who claimed first, who somehow managed to break All Might's record, made it so much worse. Forget a silver medal, coming in second to Deku was like getting a medal made of dogshit.
(What the fuck even were rescue points?! That crap didn't matter, they were there to kill the shitty villains. Why bother with the extras he was there to beat? Why put any emphasis on that irrelevant shit?!)
Then he went back to Aldera, seething. He was supposed to be the conquering hero and Deku ruined it! He was about to put the worthless loser in his place when all of a sudden he pulled a Quirk out of his ass!
(That didn't happen. He was Quirkless, he was worthless, he was always supposed to be worthless. No one got a Quirk that late. What the fuck was going on?!)
And right then, the fucking teacher lost his balls and told Katsuki to stop! Why? It was just Deku! And then one of those faceless dipshits in class recorded the whole thing and, in a display of their stunning intellect, uploaded the video.
Somehow, that made everything worse! The goddamn rat put him on probation! Told Katsuki that if he stepped one foot out of line, they'd knock him to the curb! What the fuck?! They should be thrilled that Katsuki chose to attend their school! All this over Deku?! It wasn't like it was someone who mattered !
(Of course, the worst part was that it turned out Aldera had fucked with his and Deku's records! Like he needed help to beat Deku! He was glad the rat was turning some investigators on the school. Katsuki would happily give the Desutaru Agency anything they'd need to take down the fuckers who didn't think he could win on his own!)
And now, the first day of class was over. He was supposed to stride in like the badass he was and everyone would acknowledge him as the king he was. But that didn't happen.
Some grape-headed midget was crying worse than Deku ever did because there weren't any girls in the class. Who gave a shit about that? They were trying to be heroes, you shouldn't be chasing skirts at all!
Some dead-eyed guy with two-toned hair and a burn scar dismissed him entirely. Most of the extras followed suit. Even the ones with inferior Quirks like Bigfoot or Tape Dispenser or Monkey Tail were rolling their eyes when he declared he'd be the number one hero!
The bug-headed prick apparently didn't get the memo and he told Katsuki that the first chance he got, he'd beat Katsuki in a fight. Katsuki would have laughed if it didn't piss him off so fucking much!
Worst of all was this utterly smug blonde bitch boy who tried to make some waste-of-time talk about showing that their class was better than the other one. Which, of course it was, this class had him, and the other one had Deku, so obviously this one was better. But he was obviously trying to bring Katsuki down to his level, so Katsuki told him to shove it. At which point, the jackass started laughing like Katsuki was the deluded one!
If there was one consolation, it was that for once in his life, he didn't have to put up with Deku.
(Of course, if Deku were here, then at least someone would know how great he was and tell these extras that he was going to be number one. And if he got angry he'd always be able to scare the worthless runt and feel better...)
( WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT COME FROM ?!)
Orientation sucked, obviously. Always did, but that was par for the course in a new school. At least the teachers were heroes, so unlike the teachers he had before, they actually mattered. Though, as the rat droned on and on, Katsuki could swear that this skeleton-looking fucker was staring daggers at him like Katsuki'd shat on his sushi.
He noticed the other hero class wasn't there. On the way back, the smug boy asked why, and Dracula-sensei said the other teacher always skipped it in favor of testing his students' Quirks! And Deku got the kind of luck to get into that class while he was stuck here?! What a ripoff!
Of course, Dracula decided to do something similar. They went to a field and did the standard physical tests they always did, but this time they were allowed to use their Quirks. Katsuki kicked ass, because of course he did! His Quirk was the strongest! He'd show them all that he was number one!
And then he got third place.
Scarface, who got in on recommendations so he didn't even take the same entrance exam as Katsuki so who knows how strong he was, got first. And the smug bastard turned out to be able to copy Quirks, so he just took the right person's Quirk for each test, so he took second!
Katsuki wasn't sure which made him angrier, when the copycat used Explosion to do one of the tests, or when he ignored it in favor of another.
Worst of all, Dracula showed them their exact scores. The fourth and fifth place people, Bugface and the quicksand guy with no lips respectively, weren't that far behind him. Nor were most of the others.
At the end of the day, when they were leaving class, he went over to 1-A's classroom. Everything up to then was wrong, so at least he could put the fear of God in Deku and something would go the way it was supposed to, right?
Of course, Class 1-A had left already. Skipping orientation meant they had a shorter day.
Grape Nuts had followed him and started crying blood because he missed his opportunity to perve on the girls. The idiot seemed to think Katsuki had gone there for the same reason.
Katsuki debated whether or not the expulsion was worth exploding the midget into giblets.
Izuku Midoriya's Hero Analysis of the Past, volume 1
Seventh User - Nana Shimura
Hero Name: Nimbus
Was never highly ranked. Cared more about helping people.
Worked with a partner, named Gran Torino
Gran Torino was All Might's homeroom teacher when he went to U.A.!
Haven't been able to find any other info on him
Quirk: Float
Before gaining One for All, she could only levitate.
Moving up or down was easy and quick.
It took a lot of effort to move horizontally in midair, and was never quick.
One for All powered it up so she could fly at high speeds.
Top speeds comparable to running speed with One for All active
Wait, they said I'll get their Quirks when I acclimate to One for All.
I'm going to be able to fly!!!!
Wait, if I get access to Float before I can use 100% of One for All, would my top speeds be based on how much of One for All I can channel? Quirks are physical abilities, but Float doesn't have any dedicated body parts. Could I potentially channel 100% of Float even if I can't fully use it otherwise?
Nana says we can test this when it comes up. Carefully. High speed midair collisions can end rather poorly.
Tall and muscular. Very pretty.
She wears her hair like my mom does, and looks a lot like Mom did when she was younger.
We aren't actually related at all.
I checked our family registry.
Yes, I was disappointed.
Had a husband and a son
Her husband was killed by a villain who she was hunting down.
She had to give up her son to protect him from that villain
I volunteered to look him up. She said not to bother
She sounded sad, though, so I'm still going to do it.
Kind and supportive
Received One for All from En.
En was killed in battle and he gave it to Nana as he was dying.
That was apparently how most of the users received it.
Gave One for All to All Might.
She was the first one to deliberately find and train a successor to use One for All
Chose Toshinori because she wanted him to fulfill his dream of being a Hero, despite being Quirkless.
Said that she kinda wanted to punch All Might when he told me I couldn't be a Hero without a Quirk.
Not too badly, though
Didn't have too much time with him before she died