Wendel Santana: Don't worry, it won't be dropped. I've finished writing and editing it already.
phoenix: I know Bakugo would be pissy about them trying to be friends. He held a grudge for years for being offered help out of a stream. lol.
Galaxy Creator of Pisces: There is one sided romance in one of my crossovers I haven't finished editing. Hancock, of course. How could she not be infatuated with Luffy? There will be typos since I edit it myself and the story is way too long for me to edit it twice. It's so annoying because sometimes I'll find typos way later and they're so stupid and I just don't know how I missed them.
Mystery56: Thank you! Sometimes in the story I make them very happy, kind of ooc, but I do have reasons for that in this one. But I'm happy you think I'm writing them well! Deku was easiest to write because he's pretty much just the same as in cannon with no real change in his background besides being friends with Ace and Luffy.
avaxenakis: Don't worry, this story will continue! I always finish my stories before posting them, so you'll never be left hanging.
Thanks for all the reviews! Meeting class 1-A in this one and starting school! Enjoy~
"Be good, make friends!" Gunhead said as Ace and Luffy got out of the car.
"We will! Good luck today," Luffy replied. Gunhead nodded and drove off. Luffy and Ace waited for Midoriya to show up and run up the steps to them. "We're finally here, at your dream school. I can't wait to explore," Luffy said enthusiastically. "And we'll make some cool friends with awesome quirks."
They hurried inside, getting a bit lost before they found the classroom door. It was big, but Ace easily opened it. The moment they entered, Bakugo was arguing with the intense guy. Ace and Luffy chose a seat in the back while Midoriya chose one in front of them but still near the back.
"Hey, what's your quirk? I saw you running in the air and then blowing the bots up without doing anything," a guy with spiky red hair said. "My name is Kirishima."
Luffy shook his hand. "I'm Luffy, this is my twin, Ace. I can manipulate air. I made it denser so it could carry my weight. The explosions were from bursts of air," he explained. Bakugo snapped his head back and Ace told Kirishima his power. How he has a fire quirk except the flames were white. And he could turn his body into fire, too.
"You guys are pretty strong. You got the top two spots. And you're brothers, too."
Most people were already seated and talking to one another when the three showed up, and Midoriya was hitting it off well with Iida, the intense guy, and Uraraka, who he helped and then helped him. It was nice seeing Midoriya make his own friends easily. He was the one to introduce the twins to those two. "These are my two best friends. They helped teach me some martial arts."
Ace and Luffy smiled and said hi. "My name is Iida Tenya. I heard you talking with Midoriya-kun. When you said you never used your quirks because you wanted to make real friends instead of ones interested in your power. It was quite moving."
Ace and Luffy blushed but smiled. "That's so nice! I'm Uraraka Ochaco. You both seem really friendly. Wanna be friends, too?"
Ace said, "You don't need to ask to be friends. We'll be friends with anyone here if they want to." Bakugo scoffed. "And you, too, Bakugo. If you ever are more civil."
"Fuck off, I don't want to be your friend, you shit!" Ace shrugged, but it definitely didn't look good for Bakugo. A terrible first impression as he had also been arguing with Iida the moment the three sat down. Nobody spoke with Bakugo, but talked with Ace and Luffy. Midoroya was more quiet but looked happy.
These desks and chairs were really nice and comfy. Fancy and well made. The wheels didn't squeak and they could move side to side a bit. The class went silent when Ace and Luffy assumed was the sleep-deprived teacher entered. The moment he walked in, everybody went quiet.
"My name is Aizawa Shota and I'm your homeroom teacher. Nice to meet you," he said in a tired voice. A dull voice. He had long hair and what looked like a thick bandage scarf and red rimmed eyes. Ace looked at Luffy who gave a shrug. "It's kind of sudden, but put this on and and go out on the field.
They each had one sized for them in a closet in the wall that had seemed to not be there before. Iida passed them out, taking control easily. Ace and Luffy both found that they had gained some muscle over summer and the shirt was a bit snug. It fit fine, but was a bit revealing. "We're buff," Ace joked quietly.
"Can't help it, we gained more. That's what you get when you train seven days a week," Luffy replied. Midoriya looked fitter than he had been before, as well. "Midoriya, you got some gains, too." He nodded and said it was thanks to them for helping him work out.
Ace and Luffy linked pinkies for just a moment before they walked outside of the door. A kid with half of his hair white and the other half red walked up to Ace and asked him a little about his power. "So you use fire?" Ace nodded.
Ace said, "It's not normal fire, it's white. I don't know why." Luffy snickered. Ace shot him a look. Ace was bugged about his flames because they were hard to see in the daytime. They were hot enough to turn sand to glass, but it wasn't very exciting if they couldn't be seen.
A girl with black hair with a very excited pony tail it seemed, walked to Luffy and asked, "Is it that you can create things from your body or does the air already be ready for you to work with?" She sounded really proper.
Luffy replied, "It only works if I'm touching it. Nobody else can feel it being solid, so it only works for me. It doesn't come out of my body, it just hardens when I want it to. But the blasts and gusts of wind come through the air and out my hands. Like a vacuum of the air behind me being sucked into my palms and rushing in the direction I point it."
"That's very interesting. My name is Yaoyorozu Momo. You can call me Momo."
"I'm Luffy," he said with a smile. She asked if that was his surname. "It's my name. Me and Ace discarded our last name and don't use it anymore." She looked interested but didn't dig. The walk wasn't too long and when they got onto the field, Luffy and Ace were excited with how damn big it was.
When they stopped at a baseball field, they were in a crowd, and Aizawa told them they'd be taking a quirk assessment test, which surprised everybody. Ace and Luffy were surprised as well, since they had the entrance practical exam that showed their quirks. Was that not good enough? Aizawa seemed really strict and boring to both teens. He droned on about how the school is known for not being like other schools, organized differently. He also said heroes couldn't have leisurely activities like that exam was.
Ace and Luffy discretely looked to the side at Midoriya, who was sweating. He hadn't learned much control over his quirk, even if he was in better shape. But, nervousness can make all that progress disappear in an instant.
When the teacher was talking about junior high, how they did a physical assessments, they were told they should be used to it by now. Ace and Luffy exchanged awkward looks. They'd only been in one year of school. They didn't know what was routine. Everything was for the first time. They felt a bit out of place, but thankful they'd had that one year buffer to get them at least a little used to school life.
This place didn't seem like it would be the same, though.
Apparently there were physical assessment tests in junior high every year. They took it once, when they weren't that strong and hadn't used their quirks. Which was what they were going to use now. Most were undaunted, while Midoriya was shaking in nerves. Luffy took his hand and gave him an encouraging smile. "Don't worry," he said simply. He didn't assure him that things would go fine, since he didn't know if that was true.
Still, the brothers didn't really know what he was talking about with the education system. But he said it was pretty much stupid to not be able to use your quirks in physical assessment. The twins didn't think that was a problem. Then he turned to Luffy. "Luffy, you finished at the top of the practical exam right?" Luffy nodded, feeling animosity coming from Bakugo at hearing that.
"In junior high, what was your best result for the softball throw?" Luffy had to think for a moment. He didn't remember, and looked to Ace, who shrugged helplessly. He truthfully said he didn't remember, but knew it wasn't past 70 meters. "Good enough." Luffy sighed, glad he didn't cause a problem. Ace touched his hand with his pinky as reassurance.
It felt like they were starting all over again, knowing nothing. Still, thank god they'd had at least one year of normal education. Now, they both felt even prouder that they'd rushed to get to school on time and not halfway through the semester. "Try doing it with your quirk," the teacher said.
Luffy nodded and walked forward, taking the softball. "You can do whatever you want as long as you stay in the circle." Luffy nodded. He didn't mind what was thought of him here, but he was going to use his power to the fullest when asked to do so. He gathered air in his palm, a draft already moving forward and snapped his hand forward, the gust of strong wind going with it.
It was still in the air and nobody could see it. The burst of air stopped finally. The measurement of how far it went was 1,600 meters. Basically a mile. Ace clapped when no one else did. Luffy gave him a smile. The others looked amazed but not surprised based on where he had finished in the practical exam, first place. "Know your maximum first, that the most foundational rule heroes should know. Ace is next."
Luffy gave him a high five while they switched positions. Midoriya was looking terrified. Luffy pat his back. "Just do your best no matter what happens, you're here," he said quietly.
Ace went to throw his ball but the thing melted in his hand. "Oh. crap," he said, holding up the melted metal. It didn't burn him, the class laughed. Not in a mean way, and Ace rubbed his head awkwardly. Luffy snickered.
"Wait one moment," Momo said and created a new ball out of her arm with ceramic fiber paper wrapped around it. "Try this one," she said helpfully and handed Ace the ball. It didn't melt and he threw it hard. The flames didn't really make it move further, but his throw threw it a good 160 meters. Better than average. Ace walked back to Luffy.
Ace and Luffy frowned in disappointment when their teacher shot down the happy and excited attitude of the class at the moment, looking forward to using their quirks for the test. Except for Midoriya, who was biting his lip in worry.
The class attitude dropped significantly. Aizawa was making it sound like being a hero was joyless and only the job. Gunhead had friends and were on friendly terms while on the job. It wasn't lifeless. If it was, would anyone actually want to be a hero? If it was completely devoid of anything happy.
Suddenly, Ace and Luffy were worried about the look the teacher suddenly doned. "All right, whoever comes in last place for all 8 tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion." The class gasped.
Luffy did, too, until Ace told him it was bullshit. There was no way they'd go through the trouble of the test and then decide a student wasn't good enough by being out of shape and would be kicked out. He said this all very quietly. Luffy bonked one hand in his other, realizing that was the only logical option here.
But most of the class didn't think that, and were freaking out. Midoriya mostly. Ace put his hand on his shoulder. "You won't be expelled. There's no way he'd be able to expel anyone on a whim because they didn't pass his test. Just stay calm and do your best." He said it very quietly so the guy didn't hear.
He had not given off a good impression on either brother. Well, they were in the same class, so they'd suffer together. They linked pinkies, nobody able to see it. Maybe people would think it's weird to hold hands in high school, who knew. They did it because it made them feel secure, knowing they were together and couldn't be separated.
"We're free to do what we want with the circumstances of our students," he said with a scary grin. Ace and Luffy shared a look of confusion, not knowing what to make of him. "Welcome to the U.A. hero course."
Ace and Luffy tried to do everything they could to calm the rising panic in Midoriya's expression. He would fail if he couldn't keep focused and only relied on his fear. He could be a real pessimist. They had thought that part had faded away, but the insecurities came back. Poor guy. So they stopped trying. It wasn't going to work, the only thing he could do was his best.
Uraraka was protesting this, saying it wasn't fair with many students nodding along. Aizawa's answer was pretty much "life isn't fair, especially as a hero, deal with it".
The first exercise was a 50 meter dash. Easy enough, everyone did it their own way. Ace turned into fire and was there in 2 seconds, the fastest so far, even more than the guy who's quirk was literally running fast. Bakugo used his explosions as propellants to get across without even touching the ground.
Luffy's turn came and he quickly climbed the invisible stairs and slid down a super steep slide. 5 seconds. He high fived Ace, who laughed at Luffy's stupid use of his power. "It was fun," he said in a hush so the teacher didn't hear him. They walked to the crowd of students who'd already done it.
"Wow, Ace-kun, you are incredibly fast when you are made of fire," Iida said. He sounded strict but seemed nice enough. Intense was still the best word to describe the way he talked. Ace thanked him and said it was hard to maintain for more than ten seconds. But it was more than enough to get from point A to point B quickly.
Uraraka thought Luffy's way of getting across was funny, and Luffy grinned, agreeing. "But it got me there faster than running, so it worked," he said cheerily. Once Midoriya had passed, running normally, Ace and Luffy walked to him. "Only seven left. We all just do our best," Luffy said with a grin and a rough pat on the back. He wasn't having it, it was like talking to a scared and trembling wall.
The next thing was grip strength. Ace and Luffy knew they'd do well on this without their quirks, which would be useless. They'd been trained by the best. They both ended up squeezing so hard they broke. "Ace, Luffy, stop breaking things," Aizawa said.
"We're doing it as hard as we can, it couldn't handle it," Ace replied calmly. Iida and Kirishima came over and looked at the busted equipment.
"Heh, you guys are pretty strong without your quirks aren't you?" he asked in interest.
Luffy said that they trained a lot with martial arts and endurance training for a while. And they said they spar until they hurt. "What do you mean?" Iida asked. Luffy lifted up his shirt to show bruises on his stomach. "You do that to one another?" he asked in shock.
Ace asked, "Why is everyone so surprised? If you spar for real, you're gonna get hurt, right? What's the point of fighting if your heart isn't in it? Besides, we give permission." Kirishima shouted that that was "so manly!"
Bakugo told them to shut the fuck up. "He doesn't like us," Luffy said simply.
"I gathered that from class," Momo said. Ace thanked her for making a new ball. Midoriya finally did his, and then he hid it. So it must not have been very good. What was he doing? They trained him hard! He should be doing better than this. Ace said, "It's because he's nervous. You tend to forget things when you're uncomfortable."
Luffy nodded, knowing he was right but hating seeing their friend like this.
The standing long jump had Ace fly across it as fire, leaving a trail of glass in the sand. "Holy shit, that's so hot! It turned the sand to glass!" Kaminari said. "Are you safe to be around?"
Ace nodded and lit his brother on fire. They started screaming before Luffy said he felt fine, not a single burn. They all took a relieved breath. Luffy just jumped onto a slightly steep ramp and made it the way across. Midoriya made it actually pretty well by himself. But Ace and Luffy felt themselves regretting showing him their quirks. And how good they were at them. It made them feel guilty that they made their friend feel so weak.
The repeated side steps seemed to be difficult for everybody. No one's power was good for it besides the small one, Mineta, who bounced against two things of stick bouncy purple balls. Luffy tried to use walls to hit himself back and forth with, but it failed. He just laughed at the failure. This was fun! And no matter what Aizawa said or did, Ace and Luffy would stay cheerful.
Next was the ball throw. Ace and Luffy had already done that, Ace's first attempt in a small puddle on the dirt ground. Luffy's was lost. When Uraraka did hers, since she used gravity, it floated away for forever, leaving an infinity sign on the tracker. "Wow! That was so awesome!" Luffy said enthusiastically. She said his was cool, too. Bakugo's explosion went pretty far. Further than Ace's but not as far as Luffy's. He glared at them.
Jiro asked why he hated them so much. "Because we were nice to him. And when he tried to attack us with his quirk, Ace slammed him onto the ground without using his. Since then he's hated us. And when we got accepted here, he got even angrier. I don't think we could ever be friends," Luffy explained.
Midoriya stepped up and Luffy said, "You can do it," firmly. Ace nodded in agreement, arms crossed. He looked down at the ball, clearly having an internal meltdown. It was sad and hard to watch.
Iida said that this didn't look good for Midoriya. "Don't worry, he can do it," Luffy said leisurely. Bakugo argued that of course he couldn't, he was quirkless. Iida was surprised, pointing out he'd used a quirk for the entrance exam. Bakugo didn't know this apparently.
Luffy and Ace weren't paying attention to them, but their friend. The moment he started to throw, Ace and Luffy's heads snapped in Aizawa's direction as they sensed him using his quirk against Midoriya, making his ball land only a few feet away. "Why'd he do that?" Luffy asked quietly. "Does he want him to fail?"
Ace shook his head. "He was going to go hard and hurt himself again," Ace whispered in response. Aizawa's eyes flicked to them for a second before they returned to Midoriya.
"I erased your quirk," Aizawa said, his hair sort of floating up along with his bandage-scarf. "The entrance exam was definitely not rational enough." Ace started biting his thumb nail, Luffy wrapping pinkies and Ace relaxed a bit more. "Even a kid like you was accepted."
Luffy grew angry, something he rarely felt anymore, but was able to hold back and not defend his friend. He was already feeling terrible, why did their teacher want to rub salt in their wound? "You erased my quirk?" Midoriya asked in confusion, and then recognized the guy as Eraser Head. The crowd of students said they hadn't heard of him before Ace and Luffy turned around when they sensed someone watching. They locked eyes with him, seeing it was All Might. He was watching the students. But why was he hiding? The two gave each other shrugs before turning back to watching Midoriya having a crisis as Eraser Head pointed out that his quirk was uncontrollable and he'd end up being a burden to everyone by not being able to move after a single attack.
Ace and Luffy were now very worried, clenching their fists and biting their lips. They wanted to help him, but they couldn't. He seemed to have given up before he was suddenly reinvigorated. Ace and Luffy watched with groans as he used his super strength that they hadn't seen yet only on his finger, shooting it far, far away, 705 meters.
Luffy and Ace clapped and cheered lightly. He turned to Aizawa. "Sensei, I can still move," he said firmly with a pained smile. Yay! He did well for at least one of them! Ace and Luffy were proud. He'd done better than Ace had for his second try. Both of them hurried Midoriya and congratulated him, asking if his finger was okay. He said it hurt but it was fine for now.
"Your power is crazy powerful. You almost used all of it on your arm," Ace commented. "That's why Aizawa erased your quirk. Probably to protect you."
Aizawa asked, "You're very observant." Ace nodded, saying they'd always been like that. Luffy nodded as well. "C'mon, let's go and wait for the next exercise." The teacher let the subject drop, and Luffy turned around to see a shocked Bakugo. That's right, he didn't know yet. Well, he learned there was nothing they could do to change or ignore that. It would probably cause trouble later.
But then he ran at Midoriya angrily. Ace stepped in and redirected his arm gracefully so it was pointing downward and exploding against the ground. It didn't hurt him, but it stopped him from getting to Midoriya. Everyone stayed quiet at that, and Ace and Luffy walked back to the crowd, calling Midoriya to come with them.
He inched away from Bakugo and ran back to his friends. "You know martial arts for real?" Ace and Luffy nodded. "That's really cool. Except for the crazy part where you hurt each other." Luffy simply said no pain, no gain.
"I thought that was just a saying…" Ashido said. Ace and Luffy shook their heads. Uraraka asked how Midoriya's finger was. He said it wasn't too bad but did hurt.
Bakugo looked seriously furious, probably because Midoroya suddenly had a quirk and was no longer useless in his eyes. He had a chance at his dream, and Bakugo didn't want that. He wanted to be better than everyone else. But now that the twins were better than him, he at least wanted to be better than the kid he'd bullied for years.
The rest of the tests were simple and uninteresting, but they did well.
"Okay, I'll tell you the scores now. The total is simply the marks you got from each test. It's a waste of time to say it, so I'll show you." The score had Todoroki, then Luffy, then Ace, then Bakugo. Again, he was behind the two. They didn't care enough to look at his reaction. They just stared at the screen and saw Midoriya was last. But they knew he wouldn't be expelled. "By the way, I was lying about the expulsion."
Most of the class were shocked. There were only a handful who didn't look surprised, including the twins. Apparently it was a deception to see them use their quirks as best as they could. And it was successful, everyone did their best.
The rest of the classes were interesting but not the most fun. Didn't really do much that day. But they seemed to have made friends, as they already had a group walking out of school together. Hopefully Midoriya would recognize soon that the people here seemed mature enough to not make fun of his quirk.
He was asked about his finger and told them about Recovery Girl's quirk. The group were fascinated, Iida especially. He really was intense, even when he was seeming to talk normally. He was most interested in Midoriya thanks to what he saw in his practical exam, when he saved Uraraka when he didn't need to, risking getting zero points in the process.
But the brothers were worried about his health with such a self-destructive quirk. And they weren't like that, so they didn't know how to train him. Gunhead might be able to, but Midoriya might end up destroying the house and that would be terrible.
"Midoriya, you shouldn't get so worked up about stuff like that. Your nerves got in the way of your fitness. You would have been able to do more of the stuff we helped you with if you weren't so nervous," Ace said, though not in a mean way. The green haired looked down and said he'd try not to get worked up. "And maybe someone here could help train you! In private. Maybe All Might, he has super strength, too. Maybe he could tutor you."
Their ride pulled up, and they said goodbye to their best friend and the small group they'd already accumulated. When they got inside the car, Gunhead asked how it went excitedly. Apparently he took an hour off to pick them up and then go back to his duty.
The twins told him about their day, and he was listening so close and making comments and they were sure he was smiling the whole time. They ordered pizza that night while Gunhead was away, and did their homework before fighting again. They made sure to avoid the face as best as possible and didn't go too rough since they might be doing some strenuous things the next day and didn't want any risk that they'd be sore.
"I'm so happy," Luffy whispered when they were going to bed. Ace agreed, saying that school would be fun here, no matter how grumpy Aizawa was. Nobody could make them hate any aspect of life. Even the unpleasant stuff wouldn't bring them down. Perhaps they would be upset about their friend's quirk, but they'd try to move past that and just encourage him.
He was determined when he was more confident, so they'd help him become more confident. Neither wanted their friend to be sad or feel worthless like he used to. He had a quirk now, so he had to make the best of it. There were no switching quirks, and it was abnormal he'd gotten one this late in the first place.
They thought it was funny when he was so flustered when Uraraka started talking with him, and of course she would if he saved her. He wasn't used to talking to girls, even nice ones. Well, he'd get better here no doubt. So far the class seemed nice besides Bakugo. That they would all get along better than their class in junior high. It would be nice to be friends or at least on friendly terms with everybody.
