Was going to hold off posting this chapter and maybe do another teacher one...then figured it was probably best to just post it to keep what's already written in order.

It started out a normal evening. School had been let out, and Ojiro was walking down the street with Kaminari and Toru, arguing over their results on the last rescue course, when he spotted a commotion down the street and paused where he stood, while Toru and Kaminari kept movimg forwards.

"Come on, I'm just saying Aizawa-sensei is always a lot harder on me than anyone else" Kaminari whines. "He knows I've got a limit before my head gets screwy."

"Then you need to power through and break that limit" Toru replies. "Plus Ultra."

"Plus Ultra isn't going to help when my IQ falls into negatives. Ojiro, help me out here."

The other teen however, doesn't reply, and the two stopped and turned back.

"Ojiro?"

The teen lifted a hand and pointed forward.

"Is that Hideki?"

Both teens blink, and turn forwards. There were two teenagers in black uniforms talking outside one of the restaurants. A tall black haired boy, and a shorter brown haired one with overly large hands. Kaminari turns in confusion.

"Who?"

Ojiro blinks and gives a sheepish smile.

"Oh, Sorry. The brown haired guy over there, we grew up in the same area. Went to the same elementary and middle school."

Kaminari glances over, taking in the two. 'Hideki' was apparently trying to plead something to the taller black haired teen.

"Well once they've finished, want to go say hi?"

Ojiro grins, and shrugs.

"Why not."

They start moving closer, and the noise soon solidifies into words, frustration evident in Hideki's voice.

'C'mon Yamamoto! Surely you can talk him into it? Even just a trial basis?"

The other teen just laughs.

"Sorry Hideki, but Tsuna really isn't into sports. I don't want to guilt him into something he doesn't want to do."

"But you know how important next weeks game is-"

"Hideki" Yamamoto interrupts, voice dropping. "No."

"What about the school's reputa-"

"Keep pushing and I'll drop the team."

The other boy clams up, and Yamamoto's eyes narrow with a dangerous glint. Ojiro fights off a shudder.

"Please, drop it."

The brown haired boy sags, and the other teen grins, the threatening aura vanishing as he gives him a short wave before walking through the door of the restaurant they'd been bickering in front of. Once alone, the brown haired teen ran a hand through his hair and sighs in frustration.

"Hideki?"

The boy turns, and his face lights up as he takes in Ojiro.

"Ojiro!" he yells. "I haven't seen you since graduation!"

His eyes flit down as he takes in their uniforms, and grins.

"Hey, you made it into UA? That's awesome."

Kaminari steps forward with an equal smile.

"No. 1 hero class students right here."

"You don't need to brag Kaminari" Ojiro warns. "But yeah, I made it in. These are my classmates, Kaminari, and Toru. Guys, this is Hideki."

Hideki nods.

"Nice to meet you. I'll have to root for you when the school festival rolls around."

His eyes flick across the road, focusing on a fast food restaurant, and he jerks a thumb in it's direction.

"Want to get something to eat and catch up? Love to hear about what UA is really like. You hear so many rumours."

A few minutes later, they were all seated in the burger joint, while Hideki spoke about his own entry to high school.

"You know, I considered trying out for UA, but to be honest, my heart wasn't in it" he said, sipping on a soda. "I really love baseball. Most kids want to play heroes, I just wanted to play the game. And my quirk is perfect for the quirk leagues. Seirin all but guaranteed me a place before my last year of middle school was a month in, so there was never much question about it."

He points a finger at Ojiro.

"This one got the same offer after he won that Karate championship, but he refused to consider it until he'd at least tried for UA."

Both Kaminari and Toru glance at the now blushing Ojiro.

"I didn't realise you'd considered that Ojiro" Toru says, and the teen just smiled and scratched the back of his head.

"Well, my quirk's not exactly flashy. A lot of people thought I'd do better in sports than hero work."

Toru makes an 'oh' in understanding.

Although you need a hero licence to use your quirk in public, it's not the only licence out there. When quirks started becoming more and more prevalent, especially ones that involved physical mutations, there was one business that demanded that they be allowed to use quirks freely. Sports.

The US, Russia and China had been by far the loudest defenders. They were quick to argue that banning somebody with four arms instead of two, or someone that could jump significantly higher than the norm would be a violation of human rights. If quirks are here to stay, why can't sporting teams take advantage? Is it really any different from signing on players with natural talent?

It took forever to hammer out the logistics, but eventually, Quirk-Leagues became a thing. While Hero schools trained students in how to become heroes who could use their quirks in public, Sport Schools emerged to train students in how to use their quirk on the field. The rules on quirk use were thorough and detailed, dependent on the quirk in question, and the sport being played.

For a lot of would-be heroes who don't make it into the highly selective hero courses, sports is often their go-to fallback. She herself had been scouted by a few teams who could see the value of having an invisible player, but they'd all been refused once she'd been certain of her UA acceptance.

"Well, the sporting world's loss is our gain" Kaminari offers, and Ojiro grins, only to glance out the window, and jerk a hand at the street outside at the sushi restaurant opposite.

"So, what was that all about? You sounded frustrated."

Hideki sighs and glances out the window with an almost wistful expression.

"Do you remember in middle school, there was that kid who had some kind of super accuracy quirk? And everyone tried to get him onto the baseball or archery teams, but instead stuck it out in the chess club?"

Ojiro frowns. "Yeah. Everyone thought he was crazy, he was practically made for sports, but he wasn't interested."

Hideki laughs. "Well, my class at Seirin has the sequel. Sawada Tsunayoshi, who has one of the coolest quirks I've ever seen, but has made it his goal in life to get through school without ever using it."

"Well isn't that to be respected?" Toru asks. "After all, the public isn't meant to use their quirks so casually."

"But he won't even use it in quirk approved gym classes unless the teachers flat out order him to!" Hideki whines. "We didn't even know everything he could do until Ottowa-Sensei ordered him not to hold back last week!"

"Wow" Kaminari laughs. "Who doesn't take any chance they can to use their quirk? I mean, half the point of going to a sports school is how flexible the no-quirk rules can be."

"Maybe he's embarrassed by it?" Toru offers. "Or he can't control it very well?"

"Are you kidding?" Hideki scoffs. "If anything he should be in school with you! His quirk's crazy powerful, and he definitely knows how to use it. Our gym teacher nearly tore out his hair when he realised he had no intention of joining the quirk teams."

He slumps in his seat. "The guy I was talking to, that's Yamamoto Takeshi. He's on the non-quirk team, but honestly, he plays on the quirk team a lot to make up numbers in practice because he's just that good, and he's one of Tsuna's best friends. I thought maybe I could talk him into convincing Tsuna, but I got nowhere."

"Is his quirk really that useful?" Ojiro asks, and Hideki throws his head in his hands.

"Well, until recently we didn't realise he wasn't using the whole thing. It's got a weird name and nobody was really sure what it did – to be honest I just thought it was some kind of super accurate intuition thing, he's really good at predicting people's moves. At first teachers thought he'd be good as a manager or a strategist or something, but then Ottowa-Sensei got his hands on everyone's quirk registration and let us have a no holds barred game for fun, and turns out, he can fly!"

Everyone's jaws dropped.

"Fly?" Kaminari squeaks.

"That's a pretty rare quirk" Ojiro says, eyes wide. "Is he affecting gravity or-"

Hideki shakes his head. "I don't know how to explain it, but he was way out in the field, and Touga – he's got this wind quirk – sends the ball flying into the sky. Everyone was positive it was going to be a home run, and then the next thing we know, Tsuna's got this weird...fire-thing glowing on his head and his hands and he's shooting up in the air! Catches the ball about twenty metres up, and he keeps doing it! The other team couldn't get a single hit out that he didn't catch.

"Oh, so it's not a flight quirk but a fire quirk" Toru offers, fist thumping into her other hand in understanding. "He used the propulsion of the flames?"

"That's what we thought, but get this. His glove, and the ball? They weren't even singed. After he caught it? He used the same propulsion trick to send it flying towards Yamamoto at speed, who, don't ask me how, catches it. Ball wasn't even warm. Whatever it is, it looks like fire, but it's not."

Ojiro's eyes widen in understanding. "Which means it's not limited by the rules for elemental quirks."

Toru's starting to understand why Hideki's so upset. Elemental quirks are some of the most dangerous – just look at what Todoroki can do with his ice with little effort, or Kaminari, brain-frying aside – and as such, how and when they can be used in sports is highly controlled and regulated. So much so that it's rarely worth playing. If Sawada's quirk only looks like fire...

"Exactly!" Hideki answers. "And once you add that with the intuition? He could be unstoppable on the field! It's a crazy useful multi-quirk! He can figure out what people are going to do before they do, he can fly, and, he can throw with insane length and speed. When he uses it, it is literally impossible to score against him, because he knows where you're going to aim. He throws faster than most people can follow, and there's no height or distance he can't reach. It's the kind of quirk you dream of getting when you're a kid. Honestly, I don't know why he didn't try out for the hero exams."

"Wait, he's got a quirk like that, and didn't even apply for a Hero Course?" Ojiro asks, and Hideki shakes his head.

"He almost looked confused when people asked. Like what he can do isn't supposed to be amazing or something. Although all his friends are kind of like that. They've all got these powerful quirks but, it's like they've never considered using them before. Hell, Yamamoto could have applied for the quirk-team – his quirk can slow people down or something – but he didn't even consider it. Chrome has some kind of construction quirk but is as oblivious as Tsuna when you ask about Hero courses."

Kaminari whistles.

"Then there's Gokudera, some kind of genius punk who I swear is midway through his villain origin story" Hideki says with a shudder. "Seriously, he's scarier than his quirk, and his quirk is freakin' disintegration. At least Kyoko is sweet; she's actually quirkless, but nobody messes with her without facing the wrath of that group. I think they're all friends with her older brother or something, probably promised to look out for her."

His cheeks tinge pink and his eyes glance to the side.

"To be honest, I think she's quirkless because if she had one, she'd take over the world. Half the school's in love with her. She's really cute."

Ojiro chokes back a laugh and Kaminari snickers while Toru rolls her eyes, and they all sit back as the frustration clears for amusement.

"I like your friend Ojiro, we'll have to watch a game or two if we get the chance."

Ojiro smiles, waving goodbye as Hideki vanished down the street.

"Thanks Toru. Maybe we can talk the rest of the class into coming too. Hideki would probably get a kick out of it."

"Maybe by then he'll have talked that weird classmate of his into playing for the team too" Kaminari adds, pushing off the wall he'd been leaning on. "It's kind of crazy though. Who gets a quirk like that and doesn't go for a hero school?"

Ojiro frowns as they start walking.

"Honestly, that's not the craziest part."

Toru looks at him.

"What do you mean?"

Ojiro shrugs.

"The question I'd like to ask is, how does someone develop a quirk like that and not get pressured by society to at least try the exam?"

Kaminari stilled, and cocked his head.

"...Huh. That's a good point. The second my quirk showed up I was being told to try for a hero course by every adult and teacher that saw it. Quirk counsellors were putting my name down on waiting lists."

Toru nodded. "You're right. We even had scouts looking for recommendations. They would have snapped a quirk like that up all the way back in kindergarten."

Ojiro shrugs. "There's probably a simple explanation. Like he's from a small town or he's got family influence. But it does seem odd."

"Eh, it's an odd world" Kaminari offers. "If we ever see him in person, you can ask. But I wouldn't worry about it – what are the odds we'll ever meet?"

The tailed boy laughs.

"Good point. I'm just overthinking things. Race you to the station?"

"Oh you're on!"

Toru squawks as the two rush past, accidentally knocking into a short, brown haired boy to the side.

"Hiiieee!"

"Oh for – Sorry! – wait for me!"

She chases after them, leaving the teen behind. By the time they've reached the station, he – and their earlier conversation – has left their minds entirely.

I openly admit I'm adding my own world building here. I haven't read enough of BNHA to know if this is a reasonable addition or if it genuinely exists, but quite frankly, the first thing I thought when I read that you needed a license to use your quirk was 'there is NO way sports leagues didn't contest that.'

Seriously, long before anyone became worried about heroes, I assure you that sporting leagues were defending their right to use people with multiple limbs, stretch or jump in sports. And given that the UA school festival is apparently more popular than the Olympics in this world, it's clear people like watching people use quirks. As anyone who has watched any Sports anime EVER, will admit. Sport licences are a thing in the BNHA world, and if they're not, they should be.