It was early morning of spring, the start of the new school year in Japan. In an apartment building, Fuka was sleeping soundly in her bed at her apartment until the sound of an alarm started on the charging phone on the bed frame shelf and the girl moaned in annoyance as she reached up to look at the time and shut off the alarm.
"Right, the first day of school." Fuka said to herself before her clear blue eyes softened. "My first day at U.A. for real."
Fuka then got up to show her pajamas, which was just a black t-shirt and gray sweatpants. Fuka's bedroom had many oriental Chinese and Japanese decorations as well as some clay figurines on the shelf and in the bookcase. Fuka walked into the bathroom to take a shower before dressing herself into the uniform she was given earlier but put on a pair of stockings instead of the knee socks that came with them. She was brushing her hair when her phone rang and she sighed in annoyance when Fuka saw who was ringing her.
"Hi, Aizawa-san." Fuka said as she had put on the speaker.
"I hear you're in a good mood." Aizawa pointed out in his scruffy and low voice.
"Was training last night and was woken up by those voices again." Fuka replied as she tied her a bead on the long bang on the left side of her head before tying her special hair pin in her long hair. "I swear if this keeps up then I'll end up like you. Anyway, what class are you teaching this year?"
"1-A. Heh, you won't get rid of me that easily, Fuka." Aizawa said amused, knowing that Fuka didn't want him as her homeroom teacher since he was responsible for training her or refining her hand to hand combat skills. It gave a real shocker to him when Fuka showed mastery in some type of martial arts which worked really well with her Quirk. "You'll be the only student in your class that won't be expelled, I know you have incredible potential but don't fail on the tests either way."
"You know me, Aizawa-san." Fuka responded, putting on a pair of red framed glasses on her nose. "I can't fail on the written tests and I don't really need to use my Quirk for the physical ones either."
"Well, it's your decision. See you at class and don't be late." Aizawa said strict and Fuka took her phone in her hand.
"I won't, I'll be there on time." Fuka responded before they stopped the call.
After eating breakfast and packing her school bag, Fuka walked out of her apartment and locked the door before walking to school. U.A. wasn't too far from her small apartment but still walking distance to it, Fuka's mind was on the dreams she had. It was always the same dream, a vision of someone fighting a man but no voices came and then someone or something was calling her name which repeated before flames were burning far too real on herself before she woke up. Fuka gripped her shoulder bag tightly as a way to focus on the road to get to her first class.
"Hatori-senpai!" Fuka stopped as she turned around to see two girls from her old school coming to her.
"Good morning." Fuka greeted her though it was just for being polite and not because she really cared about the people's grades under her.
"You got into U.A. Ah! You're so lucky!" One of the girls says in awe.
"I got a spot through recommendations. You might be able to do it if you work hard enough." Fuka replied, continuing walking towards U.A. on the same road as the many times she's been there before.
"Says the one who always got high marks on the exams." The other girl proclaimed annoyed and Fuka stopped once again.
"You didn't hear me clearly." The blue eyed girl responded and turned around with a stern expression. "You might be able to if you put your work into it like I did. Unlike many who want to go to the hero course for money or popularity, I'm doing this to repay a favor for those that have taken care of me. None of you understand anything about me so don't get into conclusions just because of my efforts. Getting through recommendations is a lot harder than the normal entrance exam."
Then Fuka continued down the road before the girls could say anything else, not wanting to start a fight with them now that she was already in somewhat bad mood since she woke up quite early because of the dreams. As she arrived and found her classroom, Fuka saw that two of the boys were starting a small fight just because the vulgar boy was having his feet on the desk. The gray haired girl just ignored the little fight and took a seat by the desk in the back by the window behind a black haired girl, who she knew from the recommendation exam.
'This class will definitely get into trouble a lot, the vulgar certainly have too much pride and think he's above all of us. He'll be a piece of work.' Fuka analysed the two boys before a green haired guy was standing by the door which got everyone's attention which started the conversation with the scholar and a very cute girl. 'So that's the rumored boy who managed to punch the zero pointer. Quite impressive.'
"It's kind of sudden, but put this on and go out onto the field." Aizawa said while taking out the gym uniform from his sleeping bag, Fuka had completely ignored his introduction since she already knew what he was talking about, there was no point in listening.
After everyone changed into the gym uniform, the whole class gathered at the field where Aizawa said what they were going to do.
"A Quirk assessment test?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock over what their homeroom teacher had said.
"This is what you meant this morning." Fuka groaned annoyed.
"What about the opening ceremony or our guidance sessions?!" Asked the short girl with bob cut hair who had talked with the green haired boy earlier.
"If you're going to become a hero, you don't have time for such leisurely events." Aizawa explained to them with his back turned to everyone before turning to face them. "U.A.'s selling point is how unrestricted its school traditions are. That's also how the teachers run their classes." Aizawa looked specifically to Fuka, who knew exactly what he meant. "You kids have been doing these since junior high, too, right?" Eraser Head then showed a phone-like monitor of the different tests. "Physical fitness tests where you weren't allowed to use your Quirks. The country still uses averages taken from results from students not using their Quirks. It's not rational. Well, the Ministry of Education is procrastinating." Aizawa then looked at the vulgar boy. "Bakugo, you finished at the top of the practical exam, right? In junior high, what was your best result for the softball throw?"
"67 meters." Bakugo replied.
"Then, try doing it with your quirk." Aizawa instructed, giving Bakugo a ball and he walked over to the circle. "You can do whatever you want as long as you stay in the circle. Hurry up. Give it all you've got."
Bakugo stretched his arms momentarily before making a sudden precise movement, focusing all his power into his throwing arm and screamed with a murderous intent as he threw the ball into the sky, "DIE!"
'He's a psychopath! Does he really have what it takes to be in this class with that kind of personality!' Fuka exclaimed in her head, not believing what she just saw and heard. The ball flew high into the air with a series of explosions that shortly followed and as the ball landed, Aizawa looked at the device.
"Know your maximum first." He showed the device, Bakugo got 705.2 meters which shocked many. "That is the most rational way to form the foundation of a hero."
"705 meters? Seriously?" A dark blonde haired boy with a black lightning bolt in his hair said in disbelief.
"What's this? It looks fun!" A pink skinned girl said excited.
"We can use our Quirks as much as we want! As expected from the hero course!" A black haired boy with strange elbows said excited as well but only Fuka knew about the truth.
"'It looks fun', huh?" Aizawa repeated low which caught everyone's attention. "You have three years to become a hero. Will you have an attitude like that the whole time?" Aizawa then grinned. "All right. Whoever comes in last place in all eight tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion." Everyone except Fuka and another girl didn't react shocked at the statement. "We're free to do what we want about the circumstances of our students. Welcome to U.A.'s hero course!"
"Last place will be expelled?" Asked the girl with the bob haircut. "But it's the first day of school! No, even if it wasn't the first day of school, this is too unfair!"
"Natural disasters, big accidents, and selfish villains." Aizawa listed. "Calamites whose time or place can't be predicted. Japan is covered with unfairness. Heroes are the ones who reverse those situations. If you wanted to go talk with your friends at Mickey D's after school, too bad. For the next three years, U.A. will do all it can to give you one hardship after another."
"Go beyond. Plus Ultra." Aizawa and Fuka said at the same time, it was the school's motto that has to be remembered.
"Overcome it with all you've got." Aizawa challenged them, surprising the students a bit. "All right, demonstrations' over. The real thing starts now."
Everyone got to the first test which was a 50-meter dash, Fuka was observing her classmates together with Aizawa. A few of them got pretty fast times, especially the scholar looking guy, maybe because his Quirk was engines in his legs. Pretty soon, it was Fuka's turn but she had to run together with Bakugo and the green haired boy since their class was of an uneven number.
"On your mark…" The robot said as the three prepared themselves. "Get set…"
'That will connect to the creativity needed for you to survive.' Aizawa said in his head as the three ran when the gunshot was heard. 'Fuka has always been training her body in order to use the strength in it instead of her Quirk in case if she can't use it fully, they'll realize it when we get to the softball throw.'
"Explosive speed!" Bakugou exclaimed as he used his explosions to get faster and right by Fuka, getting 4.13 seconds. Fuka came to the end with 5.58 and the green haired 7.02.
"Could have been better but it is the best I can do for now." Fuka mumbled to herself before her gaze turned to the last of the three to see that he was really terrified of something and Fuka walked over to him to hit him lightly on his shoulder. "Hey. Don't easily trust everything Aizawa-san says, he's quite the trickster."
"A-All right." The boy answered as he looked at her surprised before seeing the hair pin. 'Why does she have such a pretty accessory on something like this?'
The next three tests went well for many as they were grip strength, standing long jump and repeated side steps. The tests really showed everyone's strengths and weaknesses. The softball throw came next and when it was the cheerful girl's turn, the ball flew up into the sky, disappearing and Aizawa showed an infinity symbol on the monitor which shocked everyone except the teacher himself. Soon enough it was the green haired boy's turn and showed unsureness.
"Are you sure he'll do it?" Fuka asked Aizawa as the other students were far away to hear their conversation. "You've been keeping an eye on him since we started."
"His body is not used to his Quirk, we'll see if I can talk some sense to him before he ends up destroying his body." Aizawa said loud enough for the girl to hear. "Midoriya has to prove his determination by finding a smarter way to control it or else he'll have to give up his dream."
"Midoriya's conviction, huh." Fuka replied interested. Midoriya finally started to throw the ball as vines of energy covered his arm but they quickly disappeared. A result of Aizawa using his Quirk, his eyes were a bright red color and both his hair and the scarf levitated in the air. The ball landed at a mere 46 meters and Midoriya was confused and shocked at the same time.
"I erased your Quirk." Aizawa answered. "That entrance exam was definitely not rational enough. Even a kid like you was accepted."
"Erased my Quirk?" Midoriya repeated before he noticed the goggles that had been hidden under the scarf. "Those goggles… I see! You're the Erasure Hero: Eraser Head!"
"Eraser? I don't know him." The dark blonde boy asked.
"I think I've heard of him. He's an underground hero." The frog girl said.
"He avoids the public because he hates the media, hence why he is mostly unknown and why he's in the underground." Fuka explained as she watched Aizawa talk with Midoriya and tied him with his scarf before blinking and letting Midoriya go. "He's a hero who doesn't care about popularity."
"I've returned your Quirk." Eraser Head said. "You have two turns for the ball throw. Hurry up and get it over with." Aizawa walked back to his spot to monitor him. Everyone waited for Midoriya to do something before he threw the ball, the energy didn't show like it did before but now the ball flung into the air almost the same way Bakugo did under his turn. However, Midoriya's finger was swollen and red for some reason. Aizawa saw the number was 705,3 meters. 'It wasn't a throw that relied on power. He just concentrated all the power into his fingertip?'
"Sensei-!" Midoriya said in massive pain. "I can still move!"
"This kid…" Aizawa said, impressed.
"Looks like he managed to impress Aizawa-san." Fuka mumbled to herself before she saw Bakugo's face that showed mostly shock and confusion, looking dumbfounded before explusions came out of his hands and he charged forward to Midoriya.
"Hey! Tell me what's going on, Deku, you bastard!" Bakugo yelled really angry and Midoriya was really terrified over what was going to happen to him.
"Aizawa-san!" Fuka warned their teacher, who threw his scarf at the ill tempered boy while activating his Quirk just in case.
"What the-? These cloths are hard…!" Bakugo groaned as he couldn't really move.
"They're weapons for capture made of carbon fiber woven together with metal wire made of a special alloy. Jeez..." Aizawa said he was more annoyed than Bakugou's outrage. "Don't keep making me use my Quirk over and over. I have dry eye."
'Great power comes with a great cost.' Fuka said in her head, a faint smile on her face as Aizawa lets Bakugo go. Midoriya quickly came to the others and by Bakugou while Fuka turned to the cheerful girl. "You're Midoriya's friend, right, can you bring him to me by that bag over there?"
"Yeah, of course!" The girl responded as Fuka hurried to her bag and got the supplies she needed as well as a water bottle of the two she had in her bag in case something like this would happen as she had painkillers in the bag.
"Looks like I was unconsciously well prepared today." Fuka commented herself as Midoriya and the girl came over to her.
"Y-You…" Midoriya stammered nervously as Fuka took his hand quickly and started to wrap the bandages around his finger.
"This'll give some support to your finger. It's a makeshift cast until you get to the nurse's office." Fuka explained as she finished the cast and handed Midoriya the pills. "Take one of these, it'll take away some of the pain. You can use my extra water bottle to take it."
"Fuka, your turn." Aizawa interrupted them.
"Yes, Aizawa-san!" The blue eyed girl responded before walking to the circle. "Good luck with the other tests."
"T-Thanks!" Midoriya stammered before slowly lowering his voice as he stared at Fuka amazed over her kindness.
"She seems like a cool girl, right?" The girl asked excitedly and Midoriya just nodded.
Aizawa gave her the ball and Fuka prepared herself to throw it. Fuka concentrated throwing the ball as hard as she could which flew into the air at high speed over the field which impressed the whole class of 1-A, the ball landed and Aizawa grinned.
"I think you just beat your record." Eraser Head pointed out as he showed the monitor to the class that showed 856,3 meters.
"Over 800 meters!" The whole class exclaimed in absolute shock.
"Damn! That's expected from someone that came in through recommendations." One of the boys pointed out while Midoriya just stared, impressed over Fuka.
The rest of the day was the last three tests before announcing the results and Fuka was listed in second while Midoriya came in last place, it was a good thing that he impressed Aizawa. Otherwise, he would have been expelled and put on Aizawa's record of expelling students. Fuka was on her way home after changing back to her uniform and was looking at her phone while walking to look up some music to listen to on her way back home.
"So, 'Sen'nen no Hane' finally came out." Fuka mumbled to herself. "Looks like I'll skip training for today since we have Foundational Hero Studies tomorrow, Aizawa-san did say they hold mostly combat and physical training to fight villains and understand someone's strengths and weakness'."
"H-Hey!" Fuka stopped at the voice and turned around to see Midoriya, the cheerful girl and the scholar coming to her.
"Midoriya-san, you got your finger healed by Recovery Girl?" Fuka asked as she saw his finger wrapped in bandages instead of her makeshift cast.
"Y-Yeah, and t-thanks to y-you I-I was able to continue w-w-with the tests." Midoriya stammered as a thanks and Fuka smiled a small smile.
"You don't have to thank me, I'm just used to having medical supplies in my bag." The clear blue eyed girl explained.
"I'm Uraraka Ochaco." The infinity girl introduced herself and the scholar. "This is Iida-kun."
"It's an honor to meet such a promising student." Iida greeted her.
"Hatori Fuka." Fuka introduced herself. "If you don't have more to say then I'll go."
"Wait." Midoriya said, getting her attention. "What's your Quirk? The strength you used on the throw was really powerful."
"To be fair, I didn't use my Quirk back there." Fuka pointed out, shocking the three.
"But that scale of power was like Bakugo and Deku's throws were." Uraraka said, shocked.
"My Quirk is battle oriented so I don't use it or use it at full power unless I really need to." Fuka explained while looking away. "I train a lot to use my body strength rather than my Quirk for reasons."
"Wow! That's really cool, I wanna see your Quirk in action someday." Midoriya said excitedly and Fuka felt some sort of nostalgia in those words.
"Maybe, someday." Fuka answered.
The four new found friends walked home together as they chatted but Fuka couldn't figure out why she got nostalgia from those words, the only explanation was that someone in her past said the same thing to her somewhere in the sea of lost memories inside of her head. Aizawa, Midnight and Recovery Girl were glad that Fuka had finally made some friends which will prove important in the future of her becoming a hero, maybe even find a way to recover her old memories.