The next few weeks flew by for Izuku, as he balanced life with all of his preparations for finally realizing his dream of entering U.A. The first bit was his training sessions with Yaoyorozu, which after all this time was finally getting to a point where he felt like he had brought something to the table and wasn't just an awkward bundle of nerves that embarrassed her in a space that was her own.
The first session had been embarrassing to go through. The technology in the locker room made him feel backwards, even though it was a simple short term digital passcode that protected his belongings. It wasn't something you saw in many other locker rooms, most of which relied on good old built in locks or locks brought from home. Then the facility itself had so many different rooms for various activities beside the main workout room he knew he would get lost in there if Yaoyorozu wasn't there. Plus, through no fault of her own, he couldn't but get embarrassed a little bit every time he looked at her. Her athletic shorts left a lot of leg showing, and her workout top accentuated her chest.
Then, when they finally got to the training room, he ended up distracted as he saw a famous hero, Death Arms, training there out of costume. He nerded out in front of Yaoyorozu, which was a bit embarrassing after she pointed out he had literally fought with him before. She vaguely knew him in his civilian life, and didn't see why Izuku had gotten so worked up. And then, finally, when they got to the training, it was a bit of a mess. Apparently he had been doing warm-ups wrong the entire time he had been training. Well, perhaps less wrong and more not correctly. And then when combat began, he didn't go full out (because of the awkwardness of fighting a girl he thought was really pretty) and annoyed her very much. She even accused him of underestimating her and not taking her seriously. Which meant, to defend himself, he had to explain how that even including Kazuho, he was still uncomfortable around pretty girls and he did mean to take her seriously. Of course, he didn't understand why she was suddenly blushing after he commented that and forgave him until after they left the gym (which led him to sending an apology text about making her uncomfortable which she waved off.) They tried training for another hour, with somewhat better results.
He had honestly been stunned when she invited him to do a second training session, and he worked hard over getting past his limitations. It had been better, and was far less awkward for the two. The third session that he was coming back from was a breakthrough, which was a relief since he was feeling bad about not being more help to Yaoyorozu. The fourth and final session they would be doing had been this morning, and had been fun. Fighting did get the adrenaline pumping, and the two of them were able to enjoy their hand to hand combat that lacked real restrictions (since a fight against villains would rarely be proper). Even a few improper positions were able to be ignored, which would have been ridiculous to think about during their first session. Punching her breast when he had been aiming for her ribs had been bad, as was the time he had pressed his body against hers to prevent her from moving. And her grabbing his rear when she was trying to pick him up had been awkward as hell. He was very thankful that nobody he knew had been watching, or they would lord this over them for weeks. They had managed to come to the understanding that this was just practice and unless one of them took advantage of the situation, such transgressions would be forgiven.
Plus, he was able to spend some time with her outside of these sessions. They had gotten food together after the last two sessions, and had spent some time chatting whenever she was attending one of the Pop Step events he was directing. He ended up learning quite a bit about her, from her past (she had lived in 3 different countries and gone to 6 different schools in her parents quest to give her the best they could) to her dreams and eventually her quirk which amazed Izuku when he heard about it. Even with the demands of knowing the molecular composition of the objects created, it was a powerful quirk that would be a force against villains once she became a hero. He also learned of her immense appetite, a side effect of her quirk, and couldn't help but be glad she was paying for her own meals. He told her about himself, his past as a misfit hero lover who eventually found a few vigilantes that helped teach him the ropes and inspired him to take advantage of his brains and begin to tinker and build. He wasn't making anything revolutionary (and often a bit lower quality than what was theoretically on the market), but it was his work that got him there. It was less than a week until the introduction ceremony and he couldn't wait to see his new friend again. (And despite what Kazuho and Koichi said, she was just a friend. He had other things to focus on at the moment.)
On that note, his time with the duo had been definitely shortened since he no longer came with them on their vigilante activities. They had confirmed that they had multiple encounters with Eraserhead over the past few weeks, who seemed to be ensuring that Izuku had kept his word about leaving vigilantism behind. They had been going well, except for the usual issues like the rivalry of Pop Step and Mt. Lady and them having to outrun a few police officers who didn't approve of them.
Koichi had been busy with his real job, and thus Izuku didn't get to spend much time with him. They had hung out once or twice independently, but most of their time was spent working on Pop Step's idol career, both behind the scenes and on stage. As for his time with Kazuho, it was quite stressful. The first matter of business was coordinating a time with DJ Hayashi to discuss the plans for a project together. Determining how large the scope of the project was, the tone of the project, and how collaborative the production process was going to be all had to be determined before they could really get anywhere. There had been a phone call, but nothing was set in stone.
The second thing was handling the issue of paying idol events he could scrape up for her to attend against her fierce independent mindset towards her career, but that was nothing new. The third was evaluating if she was going to audition for T.V. drama that was looking for 'musical talents' for an upcoming arc in their next season. That was still up in the air, but needed to be decided soon. And the fourth thing was trying to get her used to independently operating her music programs again, since they had been upgraded since he joined with the duo. He was going to school again and thus wouldn't be as free to help her with her career.
Of course, that was far from the only things on his mind. There was still the topic of his dad, which was worrisome. His dad seemed to be still reeling from his mother's rejection of the idea of a visit so he had to try and do damage control. That consisted of getting back in touch with his father who had gone silent, and convince him to not feel down about what had happened. It had taken some coaxing, but his dad seemed in a better place.
It did help that Izuku had dangled a carrot to his dad, of coming to see him during the U.A. Sports Festival, where he could spend time with his mother. He even hinted (honestly) that he might even make a trip to Kobe back with him afterwards since students were usually given one or two school days after the spectacle. It didn't feel good to manipulate his dad like that but Izuku was just trying to help. He wasn't the same kid from before his dad's time away, he knew the situation and he was going to fix it the best he could.
Honestly, with all those headaches in mind, he could always rely on texting his other new friend to make things simple. Ironically, Sero had just sent him a text.
Dude! Just met a future classmate
He raised an eyebrow. He hadn't been expecting that. Technically, he had as well but what were really the odds? That out of all the kids that tried out for the exam, only 40 passed. And out of those 40, 2 of them found 2 completely different people who also passed. Not even counting the odds that about him already knowing a different classmate. It made you question if there was something actually controlling fate.
Really? What are they like?
Pretty cool, pretty chill. Nice guy.
How did you meet him?
Randomly at an arcade. His friend was bragging to a group of girls about how he was in U.A. Heroics class. I waited until the girls left and talked to him.
Izuku had never really thought about it, but he guessed it would make sense that some people would try to use their 'cred' about getting into U.A. to their advantage. Enough heroes did the same thing (a certain benevolent Captain came to mind). At least it wasn't the guy who tried to use it but his friend.
What's his name?
Honenuki. Juzo Honenuki. Actually, we are gonna hang out tomorrow. You wanna come up to Tokyo?
Me?
Yeah dude, why not? It would be fun. We didn't get to really hang out after the exam.
That sounds fun. Sure, why not. Where should we meet?
While Sero was sending him the details about this whole shindig, Izuku contemplated what just happened. He was gonna go to Tokyo to hang out with some friends. That was… unexpected. It was weird. Nice but… weird. He had never expected getting into U.A. would lead to spending so much time with friends. Considering his childhood… it was going to take some time getting used to.
"Who is that honey?" His mom had been preparing to go to work and was standing behind the couch he was sitting on. He was never a big texter so he guessed he could understand why she was curious.
"The guy I met at the exam, Sero. I told you about him, right?"
"Of course you did. He is the boy that is going to be in class with you and Katsuki right?" She confirmed as she continued her preparations.
"He apparently met someone else who is going to be in our class, and invited me to hang out with them tomorrow near where they live in Tokyo." He pondered to himself about how that was going to be a pretty long train ride.
"Are you going?" Izuku couldn't but pause because he heard a tremble in his mom's voice.
"I mean, it isn't a problem with you, right Mom?" He hesitantly asked, finally getting up to see how his Mom was acting. His eyes widened as he saw her eyes glisten in preparation for crying. "What's wrong, Mom?" He darted around the couch to stand by her.
With no warning, tears erupted into the air from her eyes as she cried out. "My baby has such nice friends!"
Izuku understood that these were tears of joy. He just wasn't sure how to react to them. His default option was to offer a hug, which was quickly taken by his mom. He felt the front of his shirt grow very wet.
"It's just, I remember when so many people didn't give you a chance to show how wonderful you are and now you have Haimawari and Haneyama and the one friend you are training with and now this Sero and just… I'm so happy to see you with so many friends!" She explained through drenching his shirt.
Izuku felt his tears well up. It was great wasn't it? He was so used to only considering Kacchan as his friend, which wasn't saying much. But now he had everything going his way, and the friends to be with him while he got there. It was really great, wasn't it. He began patting his Mom's back. "Yeah, I know. I'm happy too." One or two tears dropped from his eyes, but nothing like his mother's. Eventually, she stopped crying and realized that she needed to get back to getting ready for her job. Not long after, she left Izuku alone to his thoughts. After changing his shirt, he began to tinker with his gear.
He was at his computer, and had five different tabs open on things that could help him try and make the adjustments he wanted to make. Sometimes, he wish he had an intelligence quirk that made doing stuff like this simpler, but it felt more rewarding that he had to work it out himself. His current project involved full arm bracers that could be worn underneath a normal long sleeve shirt. The trick was balancing comfort, strength, and overall protectiveness of the material. His current method was taking notes from medieval Western armor, mainly chainmail. Ideally it could be put on like a crop top and could even be extended to under a jumpsuit. He was dealing with the issues of weight and mobility in the traditional design, along with making it not-obvious it is being worn. His current method was a looser chainmail-like mesh made of a ballistic fiber like Kevlar that would be built into a comfortable undershirt. Right now he only had a small amount of material to try and create it with, so he was creating a wristband prototype that could be used to justify his investor giving him the funds to build a full product.
Again, this wasn't something wholly new. There were a few designs very similar on the market to what he was doing, but nothing that was designed for beneath clothing. One of the tabs open was an in depth review of one of those designs from a Brazilian superhero agency in fact. But this was his project, and he would do everything he could to make it the best product he could. He stayed late up into the night, meticulously weaving the fibers together to get the density he was aiming for.
Because of his late night, he was fairly tired getting on the train to Tokyo the next morning. They had agreed to meet before lunch, so Izuku had gotten a light breakfast and was nursing an energy drink he had purchased as he traveled to Tokyo. He didn't usually get to head to the big city, it had been years since he hand gone with his Mom, so even his exhaustion couldn't fully mute his hype.
Besides the obvious excitement of meeting with his friend and his future classmate (and hopefully friend), he would be able to see some heroes he had only seen in the news or in videos. While major heroes often bounced between big cities, smaller heroes often focused in on the city they were based from. One time, when they were texting, Izuku had mentioned Mt. Lady and Sero didn't have a clue about who she was. And Sero mentioned to him a hero named Stoneskin that Izuku hadn't been aware of, even though he'd been around for years! But he knew of other Tokyo based heroes like Missy D. Monkey or Cold Static that he just wanted to see in action.
Of course, since it was a long train ride, other thoughts came to mind. More depressing thoughts. Like how many people would remember these amazing heroes in the future. Superstars like All Might and Endeavor would have the names enshrined in history, but would people even know there was a hero named Stoneskin, or a giantess named Mt. Lady. Would people remember all the good they would do. Would they remember someone like him? He didn't do it for the fame, but he wanted to make a difference. He wanted to save people with a smile. Would he be doing that if they didn't remember him?
Izuku took a sip of his energy drink and shook the negative thoughts out of his head. His doubt had been his friend for far too long, it was time to focus on some other friends. Izuku killed time by looking into hero news on his phone, taking extra time to remember the name and faces of each obscure hero he saw. By the time the station Sero recommended he get of on came up, he had finished his energy drink and was as awake as he was going to be. As he left the train station, fiddling with his phone's map app to determine how to get to the agreed upon meeting spot, he was surprised to hear his name being called.
"Yo, Midoriya, glad to see you could make it!"
He turned to the voice and saw Sero standing there in casual garb, leaning against a lamppost with a grin on his face.
Izuku walked over smiling at him. "Hey Sero! Glad to see you are doing good. I didn't know you were gonna come to the station to meet me."
Sero got off the lamppost and shrugged. "I was in the area when you texted you were almost here. I figured I might as well. Wanna get going? I mentioned you to Honenuki and he seems interested in meeting you as well."
"Me too. Let's get going." Izuku honestly replied. With that the two of them began chatting as they went through the streets of Tokyo to meet up with Honenuki at the designated spot. Their talks mainly focused on Izuku discussing his attempts of armoring himself and Sero expressing interest in such an item. He ended up pointing out even something as simple as those prototype wristbands or forearm sleeves could be useful enough for individuals to use. Sero also couldn't help but point out if he had been unlucky enough to miss out on the heroics course, he probably could have thrived in the support course. Izuku nodded and agreed with him, but privately knew that would not be the case. After everything he had been through, it would have felt wrong to settle like that. There was no reason to tell that to anyone though, since it didn't matter.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at the spot, the arcade where Sero and Honenuki had originally met. Izuku began looking around at the people outside of the building, curious as to which one was his future classmate, when he saw somebody start waving. Sero spoke up when that happened. "There he is. Let's go Midoriya."
Nodding in understanding, he followed Sero to the fellow teen while analyzing him. The most obvious thing about him was how his quirk had definitely affected his appearance. His skin was an odd tone of tan and his hair was an abnormal beige. The biggest uniqueness, however, was his face. His nose was flatter than normal and lacked a strong protrusion from his face. More obviously, he lacked lips and it seemed his teeth seemed to be on his skin and instead of his mouth. When he opened his mouth to speak, it seemed to confirm this as it appeared he had no teeth in it.
"Sero, good to see you again. And I assume this is the friend you told me about?" He acknowledged Izuku with a hand gesture towards him.
Izuku stepped up and held a hand out towards him. "Hey, Sero told me good things about you too. My name is Izuku Midoriya. It's good to meet you."
He looked to his hand, smiled, and shook it before looking Izuku in the eyes. "Same here. My name is Juzo Honenuki."
Sero put a hand on both of their shoulders. "Well guys, good to see you don't hate each other on first sight. We have a good hour or so before lunch, so let's go have some fun!" He nodded towards the arcade.
"Fine with me." Izuku didn't go to arcades often, so he was interested in visiting a Tokyo one.
"Yees. Tell me, Midoriya, do you like fighting games?" Honenuki asked as the three teenagers began to walk into the arcade together.
As it happened, Midoriya did enjoy fighting games. He was rather good at them. Good enough to demolish Sero every time they matched up. However, he was not quite as good as Honenuki. While he didn't get shut out, it had been made clear which of them was the superior. But it wasn't just fighting games they played, as they bounced between a few shooters and novelty games. They even had a try at the novelty pachinko machines, which ironically was where Izuku cleaned up the best. The machines gave random capsules, and in one of his victories Izuku received a miniature All Might keychain based off of his Silver Age costume. Izuku instantly attached it to his keychain and was still beaming as they left and made their way to the lunch destination, an odd place that tried to localize American cuisine. It helped make Izuku more daring, as he was trying the miso burger curry after all.
"I can't believe you are still smiling about getting that keychain." Honenuki mentioned as he got back from the drink bar, seeing the smile on Izuku's face. They had been getting along pretty well, and had gotten to known each other some. Nothing too specific, just generalities about their past and such like how Izuku worked for an idol or Honenuki was related to the hero Snatch (by way of his father being cousins with him).
"I am kind of a collector of a lot of All Might memorabilia. I didn't have anything like this, and not too much with his Silver Age costume, so I'm kind of excited about it. Sorry if it is kinda weird." Izuku apologized.
"Come on dude, it isn't that weird. You told me about how All Might was like your idol and inspiration. My sister is big into Arachne. She had her autograph and everything! If she thought she could be a hero, I bet she would say Arachne was her inspiration." Sero pointed out, with Izuku only vaguely aware of who he was talking about since she was a Tokyo-centric hero with a spider based quirk. He appreciated his friend not teasing him about it.
"Yeah, I bet you are real excited about All Might teaching at U.A. this year, huh?" Honenuki asked. "I was really shocked when I got my letter and he told me I had passed the exam!"
Sero nodded firmly in agreement. "I know right? It is so cool that the number one hero is going to be teaching us."
"Huh?"
Both of his lunch companions looked to see the completely befuddled face of Izuku looking back at them.
"What's wrong?" Honenuki asked.
"Did we say something weird?" Sero piped in.
"Did you just…" Izuku was honestly lost. "Did you just say All Might is going to be our teacher?"
Sero nodded. "Yeah. He said that when he told us we had been accepted into the hero course. That's what you got, right Honenuki?"
The other teen nodded. "Yeah, All Might telling us he would be teaching there and that I passed. Did you get something different, Midoriya."
Absently, he nodded. "Yeah. The principal, Nedzu. He told me… I passed."
The two of them looked at each other and back towards Izuku. "I guess, since you were taking the exam a second time and all, the principal wanted to give you the news?" Honenuki had been let on about Izuku's predicament and had thought it was intriguing but didn't comment further.
"Yeah. I guess." Izuku wasn't using much emotion in his voice. The two boys watched in sick fascination as Izuku began to twitch and tremble. "All Might… All Might is gonna be my sensei." They watched as a grin came across his face. A normal one at first, but it kept getting wider and wider until it became painful to look at. Just as they were about to say something, Izuku slumped over in his booth.
Izuku regained consciousness feeling incredibly embarrassed by his actions. He had passed out from the excitement of the news. It made him look like such a dork. He was still slumped over in his booth seat, so hesitantly he sat up and looked around. To his extreme thankfulness, he was not the center of attention. It seemed like people had ignored him fainting, which was a good sign. His food was here which told him he had probably been out for a good ten to fifteen minutes, which was embarrassing. As for the two people he was with, they looked relieved that he was up. Their food hadn't been eaten from, so he guessed that was a good sign. He also noticed that they were both wearing a guilty look on their faces. And in Sero's hand…
"Is that my phone?" He asked, trying to still gather his bearings.
They looked at the other, down to the phone, and away in obvious embarrassment. Sero reached across the table to hand the phone back to him. Izuku grabbed it, still very confused.
"So, what just happened?" He was going to be accusing of them...yet. They seemed like good guys. There had to be a reasonable explanation for this? They didn't just take his phone to look through it when he passed out, did they?
Honenuki spoke. "Uh, we only took it cause, we wanted to make sure you didn't have like, a medical condition or something. So we might have... called your mom." He admitted.
Izuku unlocked his phone, regretting he had chosen ease over security for it, and tried to verify their story. And, clear as day, was a text from his mother asking him to call her once he 'woke up' to tell her he was okay. He was happy there was a reasonable explanation. But it didn't explain why they looked like someone had caught them doing something bad. Until he saw he had a text message from Kazuho.
What's wrong, Greenhorn? Too good to talk to us?
He looked into his past text messages with her and saw she had texted him a few minutes before.
Lookie here! Met with your girlfriend! ( )
You didn't tell me you were getting physical with her!
Attached to the first text was a selfie of Kazuho in normal garb and Yaoyorozu who seemed to be out for a jog. He looked back up at the duo with him as they failed to meet his eye.
"I'm guessing you guys saw the texts from Kazuho?" He asked them.
Sero nodded first. "Yeah, that's your boss right? I didn't mean to look into your personal stuff. It just popped up."
Honenuki chipped in. "Yeah, that is your personal business, right? What you do with your girlfriend is your business." As suddenly Izuku understood why they felt so embarrassed and was temporarily too stunned to react.
"Yeah, but like, good on you? I mean, your girlfriend is super pretty. You are really lucky dude." Sero added in.
He turned bright red and hid his face behind his hands. It took a minute, but he found the nerve to explain. "It isn't like that. Yaoyorozu is a friend. She, actually, she is going to be at U.A. too, in our class. We only met cause, well, she is a fan of Kazuho's and she ran into us on the street. We were just training, that is what getting physical meant." There was some stuttering in there, but eventually everything was explained by the embarrassed teen.
His two companions looked at each other before Sero spoke up. "So your boss is teasing you or something?" Izuku nodded behind his hands. Sero didn't say anything, and Izuku didn't look to see his reaction, but it felt like he had come to an understanding.
"You said she was going to U.A.?" Honenuki wanted clarified. Izuku nodded again, finally pulling his hands away from his face. The tan teen looked like he was trying to remember something for a few moments before it came to him. "I saw her during recommendations! I bet she was one of the ones that got in on them!" He deduced.
Izuku nodded. "Uh, yeah. Wait, you said you saw her during recommendations? So did you get in on recommendations as well?" He inquired.
Sero looked interested as well. "Really dude? You must be some kind of genius if you did." sero complimented him.
He shrugged. "I mean, technically I was offered it. Like, how it worked was like 8 or 9 of us had the opportunity and they gave it to 4 of us. I wasn't a part of the initial 4, but apparently one of them decided to go to a different school so I was the next one offered. But I had already decided to take the entrance exam and prove my worth, so the next person got it. I think it was some guy who had a quirk that let him merge with anything black but I'm not certain."
Izuku and Sero both thought the information was interesting but it didn't make a major difference. Izuku decided to quickly call his mom and explain the situation to her, which she was relieved to hear it was about good news and not something bad. He followed it up with a text to Kazuho telling her he was busy and to try harassing him later. He ignored her follow up texts and began eating his meal which was still warm enough. Honenuki and Sero had begun eating while he had been doing damage control.
The conversation delved into talks about their respective performances in the entrance exam and how they succeeded. Honenuki's quirk was absurdly powerful and let him go through the robots like butter. He had ended up tied for 4th with 65 points in all, with 55 villain points and 10 rescue points. Apparently, he had the second most villain points overall, only behind someone who had 77 villain points. While Izuku knew whom that was, Sero could guess.
"I bet that was Bakugou-sir." He winced when he realized what he had done on instinct and how lame it sounded.
"Bakugou...sir?" Honenuki was obviously a bit confused.
Izuku explained. "Yeah, he is talking about my childhood friend who took the exam. He is really powerful and I know already that is him since he had 77 points. His mom told my mom."
"Yeah, Midoriya calls him Kacchan but if you try to do that I'm pretty sure he would end you if he could." Sero added on.
Honenuki could only nod. "Good to know. Do you know what class he is going to be in?"
Sero shook his head, but Izuku nodded. "Yeah, he is going to be in our class." He ignored the soft whelp of 'oh no' from Sero and continued. "Thinking about it, we already know a fourth of the class. Us three, Yaoyorozu and Kacchan. That sounds pretty good." He felt the look by Sero and knew why he did it, so he was compelled to explain. "While Kacchan isn't the easiest person to get along with, he is reliable and won't screw things up for others." Sero didn't look like he believed him, and Honenuki wasn't sure what to say.
They finished up their lunch and continued their day on the town, which was a pretty fun experience for the trio. The highlight was of course the incident where a villain tried to rob a nearby store. All three of the boys had to stop each other from getting involved, especially when a hero came onto the scene. To Izuku's delight, it was one of the heroes he had been hoping to see, Missy D. Monkey. She was a hero who based her name and costume on a classic pirate manga since she shared her quirk powers with the manga's protagonist. She punched and stomped her opponent into opposition, and gained cheers by the crowd. She didn't stay around to get autographs, leaving with the police to write up the paperwork, but she did leave an impression on the trio of future U.A. students. A reminder of what they were going to become, starting in a few short days.
With the day finished, Izuku got Honenuki's contact number and left to go back home. Going through his phone, he couldn't help but notice how much his contact list was filling up with friends. Things had changed a lot.
The new few days were a blur. Suddenly it was the morning of orientation and for the first time in a year, Izuku was wearing a proper school uniform. This time, he wasn't surprised in the least that his mother was seeing him off. It was a big day, and even if she was tired there was no way she would miss this for the world.
"Have you got your pocket tissues?" She asked as he was making sure his shoes were tied tight.
"Of course." He told her.
"And your handkerchief?" She followed up. "You have your handkerchief right?"
Izuku took a glance at his phone and grimaced at the time. He would have to hustle to catch the train so he wouldn't be late. "Of course." He double checked his pockets and made sure everything was there. He went to leave for the door but his mother's voice stopped.
"Izuku?"
He couldn't help but grimace, he didn't have the time for his mother's worrying about him. "Yeah?"
He stopped when he saw her face. She was wearing a smile but had tears threatening to burst. "You look great. The uniform suits you."
His eyes began to tear up, but he didn't want to go to school with it being obvious he was crying. "See you later." He smiled back at his mom and rushed out the door, drying the corner of his eyes with his sleeves.
It was the first time he had to properly catch the train to U.A., not having the benefit of Kazuho's and her driving, but he made it with good time. Especially since he got lost. He ran into a second year who was kind enough to point him in the right direction, so he rushed to his classroom without attracting the attention of any rules sticklers. He did not want to be late and raise the ire of Aizawa on his first day. As he ran into the classroom, he realized that while he was the last to arrive, he was still on time. But more importantly, an interesting dilemma was occuring in front of him.
"Look hornface, you don't tell me shit."
"Mr. Delinquent Boy, please don't be a butt head and get your feet off the desk. I want to sit there please."
Of course Kacchan was half of the equation. Of course he was. The other half was a girl with an accent to her Japanese that hinted she was foreign. She had horns on her head and long blonde hair and looked very irritated. It was only fitting Kacchan showed everyone his bluntness from Day One.
"I ain't a delinquent. There is one other seat, go there!"
"But no lip boy is scary!"
He looked to other empty desk and saw it was flanked by his three friends. Yaoyorozu, looking offended by the activities of his childhood friend, was behind the empty desk. To the left of it was Honenuki, who was only slightly offended by the comment of the girl. And in front of him was Sero, who noticed Izuku entering the room and give him a wave. He nodded in acknowledgement before turning his attention back to the arguing duo.
"Yeah, well little girly, I'm scarier if you don't listen to me!"
The girl stared him down. "You remind me of chihuahua. All bark, no bite." This got a snicker from a few classmates and forced Bakugou to grind his teeth. Izuku checked the clock and knew Aizawa was due any minute. Sighing, he knew he had to get involved.
"Kacchan, please let her sit there. Or would you rather have me sitting there in front of you?"
The boy finally noticed his presence and grimaced.
"Fucking Deku, you got in this class too?"
Ignoring the insult, Izuku decided to follow up. "Yes I did Kacchan. And I know you don't want me sitting next to you, so please let the girl in her seat. The teacher will be here shortly, and I don't think it would be smart to make him angry."
Yaoyorozu decided to say something from his seat. "I agree with Midoriya. Bakugou, please let our classmate sit down." Izuku could not help but feel so thankful that he had told his friend about him and how he should not call him Kacchan like he did.
Seeing it was a losing battle, Bakugou relented and took his feet off the chair. He did not look pleased doing so. Izuku decided it was time to take his seat and moved towards the other open chair when the girl turned to him with a smile.
"Thank you, fucking Deku!"
Bakugou snickered, and a few other people were amused by the obviously foreign girl say things she didn't fully comprehend yet. Izuku did his best to ignore the absurdity and nodded in acknowledgement. As they both sat down, only a few seconds passed as the door shot open. A man in a sleeping bag suddenly hopped into frame and looked over the whole class. He then sucked some sort of fruit pouch he was hiding in his sleeping bag. Only one person knew what was going on, and he couldn't help but not be surprised. He had heard stories from Midnight after all.
"It's good to see you are all ready for action. Maybe you do have potential. Get up, get into your gym uniforms, and meet me outside."
And with that short introductions, he glided out of the room. Almost everyone had a confused look on their faces. Finally, a boy with blonde hair and a black thunderbolt turned to everyone in class. "Is that the teacher?"
An invisible girl spoke up. "I don't think so."
Izuku sighed and got up. "No, this is our teacher. He is being entirely serious."
A few people were confused with how confidently he said that. "And you know that how?"
Izuku was already leaving the room. "You don't want to leave him waiting. He expelled his entire class last year." He wasn't sure if he should have told them that information, but he figured it was fair to give them fair warning. It was mainly for his friends, but everybody deserved the chance. He left the room and was incredibly thankful that he had run into the locker rooms on the way there.
His friends were the first to leave, understanding that Midoriya was not kidding. Bakugou, well aware of how serious his childhood friend was, followed them out the door. And everyone else, in an absolute panic, rushed to follow them.
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So, I finally did it. I finally wrote this new chapter. I have been trying for months, and I finally did it. I just had to abandoned all my work that kept giving me writer's block. It took me a while to figure out where I wanted to end this chapter. But all's well that ends well!
Side note, there is two changes in the story from canon I want to address (one of which is a change I am adjusting.)
The first is about Honenuki being a recommendation student. I wanted to keep his character, but had to figure out a way to balance it with everything else. So I came up with what I did, and I hope people enjoy it.
The second is I am changing one of the people I taking out of Class 1-A. Also for balancing purposes I am now keeping Ojiro in class 1-A. Iida, however, is leaving to class 1-B. I think not having Iida and having Ojiro could create more interesting and unique opportunities for this story in the future.
I hope you enjoy this update, and I'm pretty sure I can promise the next update will be sooner than five months.