Chapter 25: First day

A/N: Have increased poll time till next update

"I can't believe of all the people to be our homeroom teacher, it has to be the one that was the court witness for Aldera," Denki guffawed.

"It is rather unlikely," Watanabe replied plainly. Izuku didn't say anything.

Denki sighed, "Look, I get it. You want to help Shinso, but what exactly do you think you are going to do? Walk up to him and force him to tell you? He has probably been bullied so that would just work out very badly. Almost the same principle goes for Todoroki too,"

Watanabe frowned, "I don't really like it but there really isn't much else we can do," Izuku still didn't say anything.

"The best thing we can do right now is befriending them. That should get Shinso to open up at least, not sure about Todoroki," Denki said. He noticed Izuku's silence and grabbed him by his shoulder, "Izuku. Stop overthinking it! You know exactly how important just one or two friends can be!" he said, "Do the same for them. Once they open up, then we can open up a hell-hole to devour everyone,"

"We?" Izuku talked for the first time, slightly amused.

Denki grunted, "Don't be so surprised. I was the first one Watanabe corrupted. You just had more untapped potential," he chuckled.

"Alright, pipe down!" Aizawa demanded. Everyone went quiet, "The first thing we will do is a series of tests to see how well you use your quirk. A quirk apprehension test. You will do normal activities such as 50-meter dashes and ball throws, but you can use your quirk unlike in middle school,"

The class stood silent and Aizawa continued, "Midoriya Izuku was the one who placed first on the Entrance exams this time around, so he will give you a demonstration,"

"Heh, me?" he asked in surprise.

Aizawa tossed a ball to Izuku, "Throw it. I don't care what you do as long as you are in the circle,"

Izuku sweatdropped, Aizawa was a bit too straightforward. Utilizing his current maximum capability of 2%, he threw the ball hard.

"128.4 meters," Aizawa showed on his phone, "Now everyone else. When I call your names, come up and throw the ball. You will have 3 tries,"

"Whoa, this seems interesting," Hagakure said.

Aizawa smirked, "Oh, didn't I mention? The person who ranks last will be expelled.

Silence fell over the class, "But it's our first day?" Ashido exclaimed.

"Villains won't bow down just because it's your first day. As heroes in training you need to be prepared all the time with no excuse," Aizawa said.

"Meh, it's all a ruse anyway, don't worry,"

Aizawa twitched and moved to face the voice, "What do you mean?"

"Well," Watanabe started, "You won't really expel someone,"

"And what makes you think that,"

"A quirk apprehension test is illogical as a reason to be expelled. For all you know, someone could have an intelligence quirk that won't be enough to pass this test and that would be rather discriminatory sensei,"

Immediately the class turned hostile and angry muttering started. Watanabe smirked.

"This kid... He used the quirk-discrimination article and twisted my words to gain the class's support. No wonder Nedzu was interested in him," Aizawa shuddered as he pondered over the two meeting.

"It was a ruse, good job on figuring that out. However, in the future, please keep it to yourself. The pressure on them would have forced them to perform better,"

"Or given them anxiety attacks,"

Aizawa was about to reply when he remembered Amajiki and closed his mouth.

"And Sensei, isn't it bad to not share information with our classmates? Teamwork is supposed to be the basis of the hero society," Izuku chimed in.

Aizawa sighed. And of course, there was Midoriya, equally as smart. His attitude at the court did showcase that. He just preferred to be quieter, it seemed.

"You are right, so I'll let it go. Watanabe, go next," Aizawa handed him the ball.

"Whoa, they went up against the teacher," Uraraka said.

"So manly!" Kirishima exclaimed with joy.

"What a mad banquet of darkness,"

"It's extremely unprofessional to talk back to a teacher,"

"Iida, it's alright. They did make valid points that others missed. In the future, try to see through ruses," Aizawa said gruffly.

"Well, get used to it," Denki announced as Izuku walked back. The others gave him a questioning look, "That's just the surface of what they can do,"

"192.8 meters," Aizawa announced for Watanabe's throw.

Watanabe turned back and gave a chaotic grin, sending chills down everyone's spines.

"I'm surprised Aizawa didn't expel him on the spot," Powerloader commented. All the teachers were watching Aizawa's quirk apprehension test in the staffroom, courtesy of Nedzu's CCTV cameras all over campus. The teachers had made a betting game on who Aizawa expels first.

"Nah! The kid's got potential, pointing out all those things. Shota won't expel someone like that,"

Yagi smirked slightly, Watanabe really did love to instill chaos and he had pulled Izuku into that too.

As Watanabe gave his chaotic smile, the teachers shuddered too. "Isn't that Nedzu's..." Nemuri said slowly but stopped as he caught sight of the principal's face. The teachers shuddered too as Nedzu also gave a chaotic smile of his own. Noticing his staff edging away in fear, Nedzu comforted them, "Don't worry, I'm not introducing myself yet. Give it a week,"

"That's not exactly an improvement..."

Aizawa hummed. This year's class really did have a lot of potential. He marked Watanabe's 50m dash speed of 4.2 seconds. He was quite surprised that his speed was only second to Iida. Aizawa still couldn't understand how Midoriya's quirk just manifested out of nowhere. He really wanted to know the answer, but he wasn't about to go and harass his student. He marked down Izuku's speed of 5.4 seconds and Denki's 5.8 seconds.

Next up was the long-distance jump, which almost everyone passed with the exception of Hagakure, Kirishima, and Tokoyami.

Unsurprisingly, Shouji beat all of his classmates in grip strength with a grip of 540 kg. He turned to see everyone else's result and was again shocked as he saw Watanabe offer an astonishing 240 kg grip. Just what the heck had All Might been teaching him. And why weren't the other two problem children on his result if All Might had taught all of them?

Finally, after the distance run, seated toe-touch, repeated side steps, and sit-ups, the class fell down, slightly exhausted. "How," Denki panted in between breaths, "did you do so well?" he asked Watanabe.

"I'm not wearing my weights today," Watanabe replied, sitting down on the ground, "300 kg worth of weights will do that you,"

Izuku grumbled, "Even your stamina is pretty good,"

"Do you think I carry the weights without wasting stamina?" Watanabe sweatdropped.

"Enough!" Aizawa yelled, "Time for results,"

Everyone stood up. Aizawa projected the hologram of results from his phone:

1. Yaoyorozu Momo

2. Todoroki Shouto

3. Bakugou Katsuki

4. Hattori Watanabe

5. Iida Tenya

6. Tokoyami Fumikage

7. Midoriya Izuku

8. Shouji Mezou

9. Ojiro Mashirao

10. Kirishima Eijirou

11. Kaminari Denki

12. Ashido Mina

13. Uraraka Ochaco

14. Koda Koji

15. Sato Rikido

16. Asui Tsuyu

17. Aoyama Yuga

18. Sero Hanta

19. Jiro Kyoko

21. Minoru Mineta

20. Hagakure Toru

22. Shinso Hitoshi

"As Watanabe pointed out, I am not going to expel Hitoshi. However, your physical stature is dismal. As a hero, even if you go underground, you need to be fit. So pick up the pace," Aizawa addressed Hitoshi, "That's all, now get back to class!"

Everyone grunted and turned to head back, Hitoshi slightly disheartened.

"How did you do so good?" Denki panted to Watanabe.

"Play as a goalkeeper dude. I have to throw the ball hella far and have insane reflexes you know? And jumping distance is sort of like diving distance,"

"Still expected Izuku to do better," Denki praised while Izuku flushed.

Watanabe smiled, "It's only because he's using only 2%. There's no way I could be better otherwise,"

Bakugou glared daggers at Izuku. He thought he had gotten in quirkless, but it seems that was not the case. No, that lightning coat was definitely because of a quirk. Did that mean he was holding back on him? But why? Why did he pretend to be quirkless then? Why did he just let himself be beaten up instead of fighting back?

He watched him interact with Watanabe, Uraraka, and Denki with a smile on his face. He knew both Kaminari and Watanabe were strong, so was the round face. He finally understood why they hung out with a loser like him, it was because he wasn't a loser. He had been holding back on him, mocking him, letting him know he wasn't worth his time. He clenched his fists in anger. Everything Orca had said was just to show why his actions were wrong, but that didn't matter anymore. Orca may have been right, but Izuku also needed to pay for ridiculing him.

"Don't you all have classes to get to?" Aizawa grunted as he entered the staff room.

"Now, now, we were just checking whether you'd expel someone already or not?" Nemuri said.

Aizawa twitched, "There's still time for that. Go check Vlad's class or something,"

"Unlike you, I let my students settle down before springing something on them," Kan replied, "It's called having a heart,"

"With all that blood to control, I'm sure you need a big one," Aizawa replied back.

"Is he trying to insult me, or compliment me?" Kan asked Hizashi who shook his head.

"But still Aizawa-Kun, don't you think you are being a bit hypocritical?"

"Huh? What do you mean All Might?"

Toshinori grimaced, "Let me put it this way. You hate it when Nedzu springs us a test on you or the staff as a whole, right?"

Aizawa nodded, "It's annoying. Just be straightforward,"

"Yet you do the same thing on your students. You just call it a logical ruse,"

Aizawa's lip twitched while Hizashi and Ectoplasm chuckled, "That's different. It is required to measure my students' capabilities, to measure their potential,"

"Is it though?" Yagi grinned slightly, "Compared to Nedzu's intelligence, we might as well be ants to him. Considering his past, maybe these tests he springs on us are his way of measuring our potential and trust." Yagi finished.

Aizawa looked to retort but shut his mouth, "It did make sense..." He didn't like this smart personality of All Might. He thought that All Might was just a blubbering idiot, yet he was already proving to have more common sense than Hizashi. "Whatever," Aizawa surrendered and sat down with his coffee.

All Might grinned, it felt really good to pester someone like that. No wonder Watanabe and Nedzu loved it! Wait, was he agreeing with those two's chaos? Maybe he should take a break from both of them. He looked at his timetable and sighed, "Not that I can. I have to take 1-A's hero class today."

"The classes were great!" Izuku exclaimed, "All the teachers are so cool!"

Watanabe silently agreed. "Yo Shoto! Come and sit with us!" Denki called to where he, Izuku, Watanabe, and Uraraka were sitting.

Shoto numbly nodded and sat down between Uraraka and Denki and started to eat slowly and quietly.

Denki gave a shaky laugh, "I get that you are hungry and all but friends generally talk over eating,"

"Friends?"

"Yeah! I mean... we are friends, right?"

Shoto's face scrunched up for a moment before it cleared and he nodded, "What would you like to talk about?"

"Er, we just go off into random topics, there's no fixed topic. Why don't you choose?"

Shoto nodded and went back to eating. Kaminari slouched and both he and Watanabe shared a look. Shoto was proving to have zero social skills. He thought Izuku had poor social skills due to Aldera but Shoto's social skills were entirely non-existent.

"Er, let me introduce you to my best friends! This is Midoriya Izuku and Hattori Watanabe,"

"Best friends?" Shoto asked slowly.

"Yeah!"

"So what are we?"

"We are friends too!"

"But not best friends?"

"I mean we just met today and-" Denki stopped short as his face puffed up. Both Izuku and Watanabe kicked him under the table in order to stop himself from making a deeper hole, "It's not that, Todoroki-" Izuku started.

"Shoto,"

"Sorry?"

"Todoroki's my old man," Shoto said with darkened eyes, "I'm Shoto,"

"Yes..." Izuku lost all confidence and looked towards Watanabe for help. Watanabe sighed slowly, what the heck was he supposed to do? If Denki couldn't get him to open up, there was no way in hell he could. Granted he could make friends but Izuku and Kaminari were the only ones he entirely trusted, "Ummm," he froze.

Fortunately, Uraraka came to the rescue, "What's your favorite food?"

"Cold Soba,"

"Cold?" Uraraka repeated.

"Cold," Shoto replied and went back to eating causing Uraraka to fail as well.

"You are the one who insulted my old man. Were the sprinklers on purpose?"

"Huh?" Watanabe asked a bit taken aback at the direct question, "I mean yeah, it was,"

"So Natsuo was right," he muttered, "Autograph please," he half-demanded in monotonously, paper and pen magically appearing,"

"S-sure,"

"Yo Hitoshi wanna join us!?" Denki called excitedly to the boy sitting alone at a table. Shinsou seemed to regard the offer for a moment but then scowled and turned away, "Right, this is getting nowhere," Kaminari whispered to his friends. Watanabe nodded before his face cleared as he got an idea. Kaminari and Izuku understandably moved away, "Yo Shoto!" he exclaimed pulling out a binder from his bag, "This is an entire binder containing plans me and Izuku made on how to take down Endeavour!" he passed it to the boy, "Enjoy!"

Shoto gave him an incredulous look but opened it. His face slowly contorted into a smile as he flipped the pages. Uraraka decided to peek too.

"I can't believe you bought that!" Izuku said lowly to his cousin.

"Relax, you made me bring all of your analysis notebooks to develop once you saw the teachers!"

"Wait that's why your bag is so much heavier!" Denki said.

Watanabe solemnly nodded, "Izuku's been using me like a pack animal," he sniffed dramatically.

"You're the one who insisted because you felt too light without your weights!"

Watanabe shrugged and stood up to keep his plate.

"Speaking of," Denki said to Izuku now that Watanabe wasn't there, "Who do you think is going to get their bones broken by Watanabe first?" The two had decided they would hold a bet on who would get their arm broken first. The winner would get a year's worth of pocket money.

"Mineta," Izuku said plainly.

"Drat. I had him too," Denki said.

"Fine, let's bet on how many bones!" Izuku's eyes glistened.

Denki almost choked at Izuku's behavior but nodded, "Alright then, I say... 2 broken bones!"

"I feel like 3,"

"What if neither one of us are right. Say he breaks 4,"

"Then let's bet on which bone he breaks," Izuku said.

"Ok," Denki agreed.

"Arms!"

"Hands!"

"Shoulders!"

"Collarbone!"

The two stopped and looked at each other.

"Ribs!"

"Legs! Wait ribs?" Denki asked.

Izuku nodded, "Think about it! It's the closest to the arms,"

"Wouldn't that be the skull?"

"Well yeah, but there's a higher chance of him punting Mineta headfirst into something,"

"Nah, I think he'll just stamp the little guy's feet,"

Izuku shrugged, "Let's wait and watch,"

Uraraka stared at the two of them slightly disturbed. Thankfully she hadn't heard their conversation, however, the plans for Endeavour were... horrifying to say the least.

Meanwhile, Watanabe stood up and discarded his plastic plate before heading to Lunch Rush. He took the obligatory apple from him with a smile.

"Oh look, it's one of Class 1-A. Just look at the way he's walking, all high and mighty,"

Watanabe twitched and turned around to come face to face with a blonde boy with a villainous sneer on his face, "Who the heck are you?"

The boy sneered, "Of course, 1-A's members can't be bothered with such inferior faces," he mocked.

"It's... the first day," Watanabe deadpanned.

"Well, you remember this face and name!"

"I don't know your name!"

"Hmph! I am Monoma Neito, of class 1-B. I shall make sure to overcome the tyrannical rule of class 1-A!"

Watanabe stared at him with wide eyes. What in hell was wrong with this guy. He slowly chuckled and replied with a sneer of his own, "Well maybe if you tried harder, you could have joined 1-A,"

"Trying harder has nothing to do with it! 1-A simply believes it to be stronger. 1-B is truly the strongest!"

"Like hell!"

Smack

Both of the arguing idiots fell to the grounds.

"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!?" Kendo and Kaminari yelled at their respective classmates.

"I am sorry for my friend," Both of them bowed to each other simultaneously. Once they stood up straight, they looked at each other with puzzlement.

"Looks like you have one too," Kendo commented.

Denki sighed, "Yeah, you sort of have to get used to smacking them around when you've been friends with them for years,"

"I've been with this one for like a day," Kendo pointed at Monoma, "How on earth are you still sane?"

Kaminari shrugged and dragged Watanabe by his jacket to the table while Kendo did the same for Monoma. A cackle echoed through the now silent cafeteria. Lunch Rush had a camera in his hand as he snapped blackmail material. Considering the stuff he had heard about them, he needed them.

"Maybe I should change my bet to Monoma," Izuku pondered.

"Wanna?"

"No way in hell!"

"I am here!" All Might shouted as he entered through the door leading to class 1-A.

"Whoa, cool," several members of the class stared in awe. All Might grinned, "Well then, get ready in your costumes and then follow me to the training grounds for your first hero class!"

The students obliged.

Watanabe opened his case, "Whoa! I can't believe they actually gave me everything I asked for," he checked his equipment. The armor was a really good brand of titanium alloy too,"

"I thought you wanted guns too?" Izuku asked making Iida's eyes narrow.

"Bah, that was pushing it too much anyway. I got an apology note explaining why they didn't give me a gun at this moment anyway," he replied.

Once they had all finished, they exited the dressing room. They all took one look at Watanabe's costume, "How exactly did you get all that?" Momo asked.

"UA didn't have a price cap. I plan on exploiting the hell out of every loophole I ever encounter. Loopholes are never illegal, they are just... there. Plus you have to admit my costume's pretty cool,"

The others sighed as they agreed silently.

A/N: LightAssassin and Whyallmaindumb on ao3 made me fanart for Watanabe! I can't showcase it on FFN but I did put up the images as cover for this fic if you want to see. Hope you liked the chapter.