The first test is a 50 meters dash. Seems normal enough, but not when you're in a school full of super humans. Everyone was using their quirks to boost their speed to the finishing line. Tsuna was impressed by how amazing everyone's quirk was, even the little purple hair boy who somehow reminds him of Lambo.

If Tsuna remembered correctly, he was called Mineta-kun by his friends and his quirk is his hair. He can pull off his hair and use it to stick onto things from what Tsuna observed. He really reminded Tsuna of Lambo and it's not just the hair, it was the height and the way they are both annoying at times. Tsuna have only been here a while and he already witness the little pervert going around peeking up the girl's skirts, though he never did succeed because the girls here are not ordinary ones, or maybe they're just ready for him.

'I wonder how is Lambo doing. He was quite upset when he heard that I'll be leaving for a week. I hope he's fine now.' Tsuna absentmindedly thought as he waited for his turn. He didn't really care about the test. He was planning to run normally without using his flames to help him, not that he needs it considering the stamina training the little devil put him through every morning.

He watched on as Gokudera and Yamamoto were put side by side on two lanes as Eraserhead counted down. The two were constantly bickering—well, Gokudera was—as they ran and passed the finish line with a tie of 4.24 seconds without the use of their flames.

'Whoa! They did that using pure stamina?!' The students gasped.

"Tch. Could've been faster if you weren't distracting me." Gokudera growled at the raven-head.

"Haha~ Sorry Sorry~" Yamamoto just laughed it off.

When it was Tsuna's turn, he was paired with Midoriya who gave him an encouraging smile before bending down to get ready. They got into their running positions and waited for the countdown. As soon as Aizawa said 'Go!', they pushed off from the starting lines and dashed towards the finish, both only using their pure muscle strength and not relying on their quirks.

"Midoriya; 6.02s and Sawada; 5.53s." Aizawa announced from the stopwatch he held.

"Good work Tenth!" Gokudera came forward with a towel in hand and offered it to his boss to wipe his sweat off. Yamamoto tags along behind him, hands clasped behind his head and looking carefree as ever.

"Thanks Gokudera-kun." Tsuna took the towel gratefully. He wondered if he did okay. 6 seconds was better than what he usually got when Reborn forced him to run by threatening him with bullets.

"Wow Midoriya-chan! Your timing went up compared to last time. Kero." A girl with big, big eyes and a long tongue commented.

"Thanks Asui-san." Midoriya smiled at her.

The next few tests were just like any old school fitness test; standing long jump, sit ups, long distance run, etc.

Then they come to the ball throw and Midoriya fought a shiver.

"What's wrong?" Tsuna noticed him acting a little upset and decided to ask.

"Nothing...it's just that I'm remembering the first day I came here. I was so unsure of whether I should be here and I have no confidence in myself to even be standing here in this school. And then Aizawa-sensei made us go through the Quirk Assessment test with the threat that the person in last place will be expelled."

"Yikes..." Tsuna muttered. He couldn't imagine how bad it would be to finally get to the school you've dreamt of, only to be kicked out on the first day due to some small test.

"Yeah. I was so afraid and my head went blank. But in the end, it was only a ruse from Aizawa-sensei and no one got expelled thankfully. But I really don't want to have to go through that again." Midoriya chuckled humorlessly.

Aizawa came back with baseball in hand and explained the test.

"Ah...Take the ball and throw it. Simple right? Now get to it." He said monotonously.

"Huh?" Tsuna and his classmates were confused over the short introductions given.

Aizawa sighed and signaled a student over.
"Bakugo, show them an example."

"HUH! Why the hell is it me?" The kid with spiky, ash blonde hair and mean looking eyes shouted.

"Do it." Aizawa commanded, his tone dangerously low, telling us he's not going to repeat his instructions again.

The kid—now known as Bakugo—clicked his tongue but complied. He grabbed one of the baseballs, cocked back his arm and proceeded to throw it.

"DIE!" He yelled as he threw the ball, using his explosive quirk to further boost the ball's velocity into the air. The ball flew high and disappeared into the sky.

'Die?' Everyone thought with a sweat dropped from their foreheads.

"802.6 meters." Aizawa announced.

"Whoa! That's better than your previous score of 705.2m!" A kid with red, spiky hair slung an arm around Bakugo who immediately shrug it off while yelling at said person.

"Stop being friendly with me or I'll kill you Kirishima!" Bakugo yelled. Tsuna didn't know what to think of him. He's afraid of his explosive attitude but yet somehow, it reminds him of someone close to him.

'Hmmm...Who could it be?' Tsuna thought but was interrupted by someone else yelling beside him.

"Shut up! Don't be so friendly with me Baseball-freak! Just watch, I'll get a higher score than you!" Gokudera yelled at the smiling raven-head.

"Haha~ So it's a contest huh? Yoshi! I won't lose if its baseball~ I'm gonna give it my best too~" Yamamoto laughed.

Tsuna shook his head at the two. Their eternal one-sided rivalry will never end, not when Gokudera's so stubborn and Yamamoto so clueless. But that's fine too. That's just how they are and Tsuna wouldn't want it any other way despite wishing countless times for them to lessen their bickering streak every once in a while.

When it was Gokudera and Yamamoto's turn, they both did it without using their flames.

Gokudera did however, used his dynamites to blast the baseball further up to the skies when he threw it whereas Yamamoto used raw arm strength honed from his years of baseball training to throw the ball. The ball flew and disappeared over the horizon, making the audience in awe. No one even questioned why Gokudera was holding dynamites in his pockets because in this school, even that is considered 'normal'.

"838.1 meters for Gokudera and 847.6 meters for Yamamoto." Aizawa held up the measuring device for them to see.

"Whoa! That's higher than Bakugo's score!" Kirishima exclaimed.

"Shut up Kirishima!" Bakugo yelled. Tsuna noticed that he looks pissed as hell. Like a bomb ready to explode. From his side, there was also someone yelling.

"Looks like Yamamoto-kun beat you." Yukari giggled at the fuming silver-head.

"Shut up Shimizu!" Gokudera yelled.

"Maa Maa~ it's just a game. Let's all have fun!" Yamamoto tried to defuse the tension but only infuriated the bomber even more.

Tsuna sighed at his right-hand man who he observed was kind of frighteningly all too similar with a certain hot-head. He took a peek at Bakugo but then noticed that someone else is also looking at him.

Midoriya stared at him with a sad smile. "Kacchan..." he murmured softly but Tsuna heard it. 'Kacchan? Isn't that the person who gave Midoriya-kun the nickname 'Deku'? That's him? But why does Midoriya still call him 'Kacchan' so affectionately?'

"Sawada. You're up." Aizawa called the boy.

Tsuna slowly walked up to the center, tensing slightly when he noticed that all eyes are on him. They are all waiting to see what kind of quirk he has but Tsuna wasn't sure he wanted to show them just yet. 'Is it even okay to? I don't want to put them in any danger with the Vindice...'

Tsuna decided to withhold his flames for a while longer till he has the chance to talk to Reborn about this. 'For now, I'll depend on my own strength. I'm sure I've improved through the constant torture training from Reborn and Hibari-senpai.'

Cocking back his arm, he tries to mimic what Yamamoto did and he threw the ball as hard as he could.

"56 meters."

'Eh...' Tsuna blinked. The others were stunned too. They were all anticipating something great from the new students—well, Gokudera and Yamamoto already met their expectations—but they were not expecting this.

The first to react was none other than Bakugo.

"BUAHAHAHAHAHA! That was pathetic!" He laughed and pointed. Unsurprisingly, Osamu joined in as well.

"HUH! What did you say about our boss?!" Gokudera yelled in anger and was about to charge up to him if not for Yamamoto who held him back. Tsuna quickly sent a grateful look to his Rain guardian for holding the raging Storm back. He didn't want to cause any trouble here if he could help it.

"S-Stop it Kacchan...Everybody has different strengths..." Midoriya said, but his tone was soft and he sounded nervous.

"Shut the hell up Deku! You don't tell me what to do!" He yelled back, making Midoriya shrink back.

"Heh heh...Looks like ball throwing is not my thing." Tsuna chuckled sheepishly while scratching his cheeks.

"It's okay Tsuna-kun! You did great on the other tests though!" Uraraka tried to cheer him up.

"That's right. Some people are just bad at throwing balls." Iida tried to join in, but what he just said made it awkward and all of them could only chuckle humorlessly while sweat dropped from their foreheads.

After the test, Aizawa announced the results. The top was won by Bakugo, followed by Todoroki, Yamamoto and then Gokudera. Tsuna got an average score which puts him in the middle and Midoriya above him. Kyoko was having so much fun with the test and with her new friends; the bubbly and upbeat invisible girl—Hagakure Toru, quiet but kind—Jiro Kyoka and also the frog-like Asui Tsuyu, that she didn't care about the score. Her best friend; Hana just plainly doesn't care about anything. Unsurprisingly, Osamu got dead last due to his unfit body.

Tsuna and Midoriya looked at one another and gave one another a grin.

"Great job on your first test. When I did my first Quirk Assessment test, I got dead last on it. I'm glad I've improved. I don't know what I'll do if I got last again. Haha..." Midoriya gave a strained smile.

"Thanks. I got a better score than I thought, even after failing that ball-throw." Tsuna replied.

"I'm surprised that your friends got such a high score. They almost tied with Kacchan and Todoroki-kun."

"Kacchan?"

"Oh. It's Katsuki Bakugo, thus Kacchan. I've been friends with him since young so that name kinda stuck with me till now." He smiled sheepishly.

'Even though he treats you badly?' Tsuna wanted to ask but feels it's not in his place to, not when he's an outsider. He decided it's best to change the topic.

"So who's Todoroki?"

"Ah. That'll be him over there." Midoriya pointed. Tsuna turned to look at a blank-looking boy standing next to Bakugo. Except that Bakugo was shouting while the boy stared back calmly.

He was gorgeous. Something that Tsuna has never since before in a human. His short hair was split in two colors; red on the left and snow white hair on the right. His eyes too, are special. Heterochromic eyes with his left eye turquoise and his right eye grey. His heterochromia reminds Tsuna of Mukuro, who obtained his right eye through painful, inhumane experiments. He wondered if this boy here had to undergo any painful moments to get to where he is today. Judging from the burn scar over his left eye, Tsuna was quite sure he did. That burn scar was old, maybe from childhood and that scar seems to be inflicted by another. Such a waste to scar such a beautiful face.

"That's Todoroki Shoto. He got in through school recommendations and is one of the class best students. His grades are good and he already has full control of his quirk." Midoriya explained.

"Wow." Tsuna murmured. He didn't know what else to say. He wondered what kind of quirk he has but didn't want to pry.

"Alright class. After lunch is Hero training. All Might wants you to meet him at Field Gamma later. Please show the new students the way." Aizawa announced and trudge away, all the while muttering what a drag this was.

The students returned to their classroom to change and get their belongings before heading to the cafeteria. Tsuna was walking at the back when he felt a familiar presence heading towards him. He quickly ducked and narrowly escaped a kick to the head as Reborn flew by.

"Reborn! Where have you been?!" Tsuna exclaimed.

"About. Why? Do you miss me?" Reborn sneered, enjoying the look of annoyance on his student's face.

"Could you tell me the real reason as to why I'm here?" Tsuna asked, exasperated.

"Why, to learn how to be a hero of course!" Reborn made a mocking shock expression.

"You and I both know that's not what you intended. You're planning something."

"Who? Me?" Reborn pouted innocently, though Tsuna saw mischief in his beady eyes.

"Acting like a baby won't help you." Tsuna sighed. 'I knew it won't be easy to get him to spill but this is annoying!'

"I just thought like all of your classmates, you'd want a chance to meet real life heroes. Aren't you happy?"

"Not really..." Tsuna have never been interested in heroes. Maybe once, when he was young and naïve, but now….

He once liked to imagine his own father was a hero, that's why he was always away because he's busy saving lives and helping the poor. But as he grew up, he realized that his father was not coming back. He still sends letters and call every now and then, but he never did return. Tsuna's little heart was crushed as reality rained down onto him, telling him that his father was not the hero he imagined, but just a irresponsible man who left his wife and kid alone for years. (He only learned later that he did it for a just reason but still it isn't easy to let go of the anger in him.)

His faith in heroes is further diminished when he started going to school and the bullying started. His clumsy and weak attitude made others target him. He was called 'dame-Tsuna' and the name stuck with him till now.

And certainly, there were no heroes to help him when he was tortured by the sadistic Hitman and had to go through all those painful trails to get to where he is today. Not that he minded, he didn't regret having to go through all that pain and hardships because he knew it was necessary in order to get stronger for his friends. But the point is, he didn't believe in heroes who'll swoop-in-to-save-the-day kind.

However, the people he met today may change his mind. Seeing these kids here all aspiring to be heroes one day, made him smile.

'Ah, compared to me who never wanted to be a mafia boss, these guys here get to work hard towards their goals. How lucky of them.' Tsuna can't help but feel a little envious of them. He never had a goal to work towards to. He spent his days drifting through and then fate decided to throw him a sadistic baby in his face.

How lucky for him...

"By the way Tsuna..." Reborn's voice interrupted his train of thought. He turned to face him. "I heard about the Quirk Assessment Test. You're allowed to use your flames y'know."

"But what about the Vindice—"

"In the middle of these supernatural freaks, the Vindice won't notice a thing. Here, your flames are even considered normal, so feel free to show off."

'Supernatural freaks?' Tsuna didn't like how Reborn describe his new classmates that he came to know.

"Cause I can't have a student of mine get such a low score on a test now, can't I?" He smirked and pulled out a gun, aiming it at Tsuna.

Through reflex, Tsuna immediately put both his arms up in surrender and backed away.

"Eeeiiiieeee! Don't shoot! Not here!" He yelped. He definitely does not want to show the U.A students how he's like in Dying Will mode. He would die of embarrassment.

"Then you better get the top of the class on the next assignment. I heard you'll be doing some hero training next. You better take it seriously, like your life depends on it." Reborn smirked, knowing his threat worked.

"Urgh..." Tsuna could only groan in response as he slowly and reluctantly dragged his legs back to class.

A/N:

Annnnd another chapter done! Thanks so much for everyone who reviewed last chapter. I'm encouraged by your kind words and it just made writing more fun to do! As always, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if possible, tell me what you think of it! I love hearing from you readers out there! Thanks!

~Purplepulu