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"H-How was the first day of school, Uzumaki-san?"

Humming, Naruto placed the cup of hot chocolate in front of Yo, before taking the empty seat in front of him. Her boss would be thrilled to know that she was taking a break like he always demanded her too and even more happy to know that she was talking to another kid. Although, her boss didn't really like Yo or really any boys that talked to her but she really wanted a person's perspective on her first day of hero school.

Yo seemed like the right person to talk to since he went to a hero school.

"If we don't consider the fact that the first thing they made us do was an evaluation of our quirks then it was fine, Yo," Naruto answered, smiling at the black-haired boy, who was now flushing red. "Does your high school also make you do these evaluations or is it just Yuuei? If they also did it then did your homeroom teacher threaten to kick you out of the course if they saw your scores were the lowest?"

Yo blinked his eyes at her question, stared at her and then at his cup of hot chocolate, which caused the blond-haired girl to tilt her head at him. Maybe she shouldn't have gone to him. For some strange reason, he acted like a weirdo when it came to her since most of her co-workers talked about how friendly he was with them. In fact, one of the newer co-workers declared that she was in love with him, which caused Hina and the other co-workers to tell her that she should give up on him.

Naruto preferred to encourage the girl because Yo was great once someone got over how weird he was.

"There was an evaluation of our quirks," Yo finally answered, running his hand through his hair. "But Ms. Fukukado never threatened to kick us out if she saw that our scores were the lowest. Did your teacher kick someone out?"

The blonde shook her head. "No, but Izuku was very close to getting kicked out and if Aizawa-sensei hadn't given him a second chance then it would have been the end of his dreams."

"I-Izuku? Who is Izuku?"

Naruto frowned when she felt a wave of jealously from Yo. Why would her customer be jealous of sweet Izuku? Didn't she mention her friend to him? She wrecked her head to see if she ever mentioned her classmate to him and frowned when she realized that she never talked about him to their regular customer. Hmm, she was too busy ranting about Bakugou that she never got around about talking about why she actually hated him.

"Izuku went to the same middle school as Bakugou and I," Naruto explained. "I wasn't really friends with him before we entered Yuuei, but everyone in our class knew about his dream of becoming a hero. Bakugou used to bully him for that which is why I call that asshole a bully. Anyways, Izuku is my friend and well he just found out that he has a quirk…"

"Wait, what do you mean he just found out that he has a quirk? How can't he not know that he has a quirk?" Yo asked.

Naruto knitted her eyebrows together. "I mean he apparently found out that he got a quirk on the day of the practical exam and what do you mean how can't he not know that he has a quirk? Isn't it normal?"

Yo looked at her for a good couple of seconds before shaking his head. "You don't really know much about quirks, do you Naruto?"

The blue-eyed girl felt a temptation to tell him that she did know a lot about quirks, but the idea of continuing to live with that lie put her off telling him. There was no point for her to tell him that she knew. Naruto just knew the basics to know that her use of chakra would be considered a quirk. She didn't really know how old people were when they got their quirks. In fact, she never really cared to ask.

The only thing she cared about was trying to figure out a way back to her world and bring Sasuke back to Konoha.

"I just know that quirks are superpowers that are caused by a mutation in the genes," Naruto finally admitted, rubbing the back of her neck.

"It is okay that you didn't realize it," Yo said, waving his hand before putting it on top of her hand. "Most people find out that they have a quirk by the time that they are four years old and once that age passed and you don't have a quirk…then you are quirkless. It is unheard of someone to learn that they have a quirk by the time that they are fifteen."

What if Izuku kept it a secret? But it would never make sense for Izuku to hide the fact that he had a quirk. Naruto wasn't smart when it came to books and all that stuff but she knew how people work. With the lifestyle she had, she had to know how people work. People kept secrets when they were afraid of getting hurt. People kept secrets if it made them different from everyone else.

Izuku had no reason to keep his quirk a secret. If anything he should have spoken about it to stop people bullying him. He should have said something so that Bakugou could stop being such an ass to him. He should have shown people that he had strength so that people stop saying those hurtful words to him. It wasn't like people would judge him. She bit her lips and stared out at the clock.

Something wasn't adding up.

"I have to go back to work but thanks for clearing that up for me, Yo," Naruto said, flickering her eyes to the clock. She smiled at the older teen and looked at the hot chocolate on the table. "The next drink is on me."

"I-If you really want to thank me then have lunch with me," Yo said, smiling widely at her.

"Lunch?"

Yo blinked and blinked his eyes, opened his mouth to say something before closing it again. Naruto could only tilt her head as the teen continued to make those motions. She furrowed her eyebrows when the older boy started to flush red. He was weird. He had been able to answer her question without being a weirdo, but the moment he asked her to have lunch with him then he becomes a weirdo.

Boys were weird.

"N-Not as a date but as a friend? I mean you don't have to do it but I-I would like to have lunch with you…as a friend of course." He stammered.

A friend?

"Okay but I'm picking where we're eating."

It wouldn't hurt her to get to know him.

The next day

"Why the hell are you following me, Whiskers?"

Naruto could only glance at the furious blond-haired boy in front of her and the bus stop. Had she gone to the wrong bus stop? The bus number seemed to be the same one that she always take. She leaned against her foot and stared at the scowling boy in front of her. Had the two of them taken the same bus and never realized it? Because it was starting to look that way. The bus stop was after all near her apartment, which made it very convenient for her since she had the luxury of sleeping in a little bit more.

"We go to the same high school, Bakugou and we live in the same area so we are bound to use the same bus stop," Naruto retorted, giving him a smile. "It isn't my fault that your memory is as bad as a chimpanzee."

"My memory doesn't suck!" Bakugou snapped, stuffing his right hand into his pocket before glaring at the bus stop in front of them. Naruto could only roll her eyes at him. His memory didn't suck? Who was he trying to deny? He never called anyone by their first name and gave everyone an insulting nickname because he couldn't remember it. Honestly, the two of them had been in the same class for the past four years now and not once had she ever heard him call her by her first name and rarely did he use her last name.

Honestly, it was a miracle he knew her last name was Uzumaki.

"Do you have any idea if we are going to do any hero training today? Because yesterday was boring," Naruto asked, pushing her hands into her skirt. Bakugou just stared at her like she was a weirdo for talking to him. She could only give him a smile before looking at both ends of the street to find where their bus was. Why couldn't she keep her mouth shut? She wasn't even friends with this asshole.

"No clue, Whiskers," Bakugou answered. "But we are in the Yuuei's hero department and we better get some fucking lesson."

The blonde stared at the older boy, who always scowled at her. Even though it had been three years since she met Bakugou, she still wasn't used to the fact that there was a person who could both scowl and scream. Sasuke was always so moody, scowling but never making a comment. Sakura never scowled at her when she was screaming, if anything she was always trying her hardest not to do that.

If Naruto had to guess why, it was probably so that Sasuke never think that she was ugly.

"How can you yell while making that face?" Bakugou blinked his eyes and the blonde tilted her head. "People usually become moody when they scowl but you never act that way. In fact, have you ever smile before? I don't think I have ever seen you smile."

She leaned forward and stared closely at the boy, who blinked and blinked his eyes at her. The questions were sudden but when Naruto really thought about it, she really had never seen Bakugou smile. She heard him laugh but never really make a smile. Of course she had seen him make those threatening smiles but those never counted. Anyone could make those smiles but a smile out of joy? She had never seen it.

It was weird too since he had everything that Naruto wished she had. Bakugou had parents that seemed to adore him if the clothes he wore were of any indication. There were some girls in their year who had crushes on him but were just too terrified to tell him. The teachers didn't like him but there was no denying that they respected him for his brains. Even Izuku worship him…so why was Bakugou never really happy?

It wasn't like he had to deal with his best friend breaking his heart or anything like that.

"First off, who the fuck have you been hanging with for them to act like a weirdo? Who the hell only becomes moody when they scowl? What are they a weirdo?" Bakugou snapped and the blond-haired girl blinked her eyes at him. "Second off, why the hell do you give a shit about my smile! It ain't your damn business."

Naruto could only stare blankly at the older boy as she processed his words. Sakura would have tried to beat the living daylights out of Bakugou if she knew that he insulted her crush. In fact, many of Sasuke's fangirls would have done that to him. No one was allowed to insult him in their eyes, not even his best friend. She used to make some silly comment about how ugly he looked when he scowled and all of the girls tackled her for that.

'You're just jealous that people actually liked him.'

That had been Ami's words.

Taking a deep breath, the blonde pushed the memory back in her mind and answered. "Because I honestly can't remember if there was a time since we met that I have seen you smile, which is weird because people like you and Izuku should have no problem smiling."

Bakugou stared at her for a good couple of seconds before rolling his eyes at her. "You think everyone can smile like you? Some people just don't like to smile for no fucking reason. Seriously, why the hell do you smile all the time?"

'You think I give a shit that you are crying, Monster?'

In that moment, Naruto couldn't see Bakugou or the bus stop. In that moment, she was seeing her three-year-old self crying her heart out because one of the kids bullied her. Her younger self was running into the orphanage, hoping that the matron would make the pain go away like she did for the other kids. She thought the matron would care if she cried. Instead the matron only said those words before slapping her in the face. No one would care if the monster cried, the Matron had told her.

She had taken those words to heart and forced herself to smile, even when she felt like crying because no one would care that she was suffering. Not the Hokage, not Iruka-sensei and certainly not her own teammates. There was no one who cared about the fact that she needed comfort too.

In this world, she had no one to go for comfort.

"Because smiling seems a lot easier than scowling and yelling to people that I want them dead," Naruto said, forcing herself to drop her smile. "If I were to act like you then people would think that I am a bully or the very least that I'm a bitch, because that is what people presumed with guys with your behaviour. It is why everyone in our year thought you had issues and why I think you are a bully."

"Like you are the one to talk about issues," Bakugou muttered under his breath.

The blonde chose to ignore that comment. "You aren't denying the fact that you are a bully."

"I never bullied you," He said, rolling his eyes at her. "Besides why the hell do you care? Until last year, you never talked shit about what I did with Deku."

Naruto flinched at the reminder. "I had my own shit to deal with because unlike you, Izuku and most people in our middle school, I have to do the work around the apartment, pay the rent and have exams to study for. I only started caring when I remembered that there are people who were living in situations that were worse then mine.I started to care about Izuku when I realized just how much he reminded me of my best-friend"

"A weakling."

Slap.

Bakugou glared at her as he touched the red handprint on his face but if he thought that she was going to apologize for it then he had another thing coming. Naruto could never forgive someone who insulted her best friend. Hinata was shy, nervous but she had never been weak. No matter what people thought about her best friend, Naruto always thought that the girl was one of the strongest people that she knew.

She was also one of the kindest people that Naruto knew. She was someone that always knew how to cheer her up. She was the friend that never complained about eating ramen with her. She was the friend who defended her when everyone thought she was going to be a terrible shinobi.

Naruto wished that Hinata hadn't been wrong about her.

"Why the hell did you slap me?" Bakugou finally said, still touching his red cheeks.

"Hinata-chan is a lot stronger than you," Naruto snapped, clenching her hands into a fist. "You don't even know who she is and you already declare her as someone weak. You know what else? That is for calling the one person who still give a shit about you weak. Izuku is stronger than you give him credit. Sure he only just gotten his quirk but he has a brain. Even the most useless quirk can become strong if someone knows how to use their head to make it seem strong! Don't think because you have an awesome quirk that you will always be able to beat Izuku!"

The blond-haired boy grunted at her words. "Deku is quirkless!"

"You saw how far he threw that ball right? You saw how wrecked his fingers became from throwing it? And you did hear Aizawa-sensei saying that he erased his quirk or have you been too busy thinking about yourself to pay attention?"

Bakugou narrowed his eyes. "You think that low of me? I heard him alright but it makes no fucking sense for him to have a quirk at his age. He shouldn't have a quirk, not when it makes no sense."

Naruto thinned her lips at his words before flickering her eyes to the streets. If she hadn't talked to Yo about Izuku then she would have argued with him about it, but Bakugou wasn't the first person to say this. How did Izuku get a quirk? She wanted to believe that maybe he hadn't realized it but it made no sense for him to only show it during the exam. There could be a chance that he was like her but that was impossible.

No one had chakra like she did and that was something she realized when she woke up in her hospital bed.

Shaking her head at her thought, Naruto stared at Bakugou and frowned when she saw the flicker of anger and betrayal in his eyes. She could understand why he was angry since he spent the whole time thinking that Izuku didn't have a quirk, only for it to be true but betrayal? Why would he feel betrayed? It wasn't like it was her friend's duty to tell him about his quirk but Naruto would be angry if her friend lied to her.

In some twisted way, Bakugou still thought of Izuku as a friend.

"You know if there was one person that Izuku wouldn't hide his quirk from, it would be you," Naruto said, keeping her eyes fixed on Bakugou. "I don't understand why you treat him like crap but luckily for you, Izuku still cares about you. He still worships the ground you walk on and that is why he won't ever hide his quirk from you. In the end, he stills see you as his best friend."

"Deku and me haven't been friends for a long time."

That might be true but a bond could never be forgotten. No matter how much harm a person had done to you, it would be hard to break the bond and to forget how much they mean to you. She would know that because she still saw Sasuke as one of her best friends. He might have tried to kill her but she still loved him. She still wanted to tackle him to the ground and tell him about her day. She still wanted to grab him by the arm and take him to her favorite ramen stand.

Just because Sasuke nearly killed her, it didn't mean that she still didn't long to hear his voice. It didn't mean that she forgot how he helped her pass her history test or how he hadn't complained about her hugging him. She could never forget about the hours that they spent trying to determine who her parents were. He had been the one that tried to push her to be friends with Hinata.

He was an ass but Sasuke had been her ass.

"You know no one would judge you if you still consider Izuku your friend," Naruto said. "Because you know that Izuku would always be there for you, even when you act like a complete asshole to him. You know that he would do anything to save you and I think you realized that, but I don't think you realize how much you take him for granted."

"Deku didn't save me from the sludge," Bakugou snapped as the two of them entered the bus and took their seats. "I was thinking of ways to kill that sludge villain!"

Naruto sighed at her classmate's words before looking out at the window, where they passed several shops and restaurant. She felt her heart clenched when she spotted a shop that looked like the one that Sasuke loved to visit. Well, that shop used to be his favorite until the girls began visiting it, to see him. It annoyed him to the point that he stopped visiting.

She hated the girls in their class for doing that to him and she hated Sasuke even more for refusing her offer of distracting his fangirls, just so he could see it.

'I don't need your help.'

That had been Sasuke's cruel words to her.

"No one thinks any less of you because Izuku tried to save you," Naruto whispered, smiling at him. "Because friends save each other even if they know that person can take care of themselves. My best friend never wanted me to help him to deal with his problems but I always tried to help him, which is something he never accepted. He thinks because I had the worse grades in school that I couldn't possibly help him…he think it would make him weak. He thought I might have been looking down on him but when really I didn't want him to hurt. I always saw him as someone strong and the same goes for Izuku. You and my best friend need to realize that it isn't wrong to accept help."

How many times had she wanted him to just break down? How many times had she been forced to see the emptiness in Sasuke's eyes? He thought that just because he was an Uchiha that he shouldn't show emotions, but Naruto hated it. She hated how his eyes never held the same warmth again. She hated how as each day passed that her friend was closing himself off.

She hated the fact that she couldn't reach to him on time.

"I love this school! I can have ramen for every meal again!" Naruto declared as she stared at the steaming hot ramen that the cooking hero Lunch Rush made for her. Izuku laughed and shook his head while Iida and Ochako stared at her in confusion, causing the blonde to flush red in embarrassment. She forgot that these people didn't know about her obsession with ramen like everyone else did.

Izuku laughed. "I forgot how obsessed you are when it comes to ramen."

The blond-haired girl laughed nervously at his words before breaking the chopsticks open. Obsess wasn't the right word to use when it came to ramen if you asked Naruto. It wasn't like she couldn't live without it but ramen brought back memories for her. Teuchi had given her food when he saw that she had been starving in the street. He had been the first adult that didn't turn his back on her.

He was the one who taught her how to cook and let her have the food for free when she didn't have any money on her.

"Ramen brings back memories and it is also the food of the gods," Naruto said, smiling widely at him. He blinked his eyes and the blonde shrugged her shoulders before looking around the canteen. The number of people in this canteen had to be more than the number of people in Konoha. She could barely see any of her classmates. In fact, she barely caught sight of Bakugou sitting with some of their classmates.

She frowned when she saw that all of their classmates were talking while Bakugou was just scowling and not saying a word. Why couldn't he try to be social? Naruto asked herself as she slurped on her noodles. Was it really that hard not to insult someone? Sasuke only started to insult people when he lost his family. In fact, her best friend used to be close with some of the clan kids but death changed him.

Why did she even care about Bakugou? He treated everyone like crap with his insults. He was rude and thought that she was weak. It shouldn't matter to her that he couldn't talk to other kids. It wasn't like they opened to each other. He wasn't her best friend and it was clear to her that he didn't want to reveal his thoughts to her. She should just push him in the back of her mind but…it was hard.

It was hard because Bakugou always rubbed her the wrong way.

"Uzumaki-san…"

"Naruto," Iida blinked his eyes and the blond-haired girl looked at her soda. "I don't like being called Uzumaki-san since it sounds so formal and I'm not that formal…but if it bothers you then call me Naruto-san."

"Naruto-san," Iida pushed his glasses up and continued. "What is your quirk exactly? You said that you used it during the 50m test but what was the difference?"

The blond-haired girl took a bite of her ramen before staring out at the window, where the other kids were laughing and joking around. How could she tell them about her chakra? It wasn't that she didn't trust them but her own knowledge on chakra was weak. All those years she spent skipping class or being sent detention meant that she didn't really understand what her chakra was or the potential that it could do.

If it hadn't been for that asshole of a teacher then there was no doubt in her mind that she would have never passed.

"I can use my chakra to do a lot of things," Naruto explained. "So I can use my chakra to enhance my speed and my punches as well as other things, but I rarely found a reason to use it. I barely used it during the exam since it was just so easy for me to do."

"But how did you defeat the robots if you didn't use your quirk that much?" Izuku asked her.

"Because I can already cause damage to a building if I don't control my punches," she admitted, looking down at her nearly empty bowl of ramen. It used to be something that she used to boast about in school because if she couldn't be good when it comes to books or ninjutsu then she was great when it came to taijutsu. Yet her natural strength had caused the other girls to call her a man because a girl shouldn't be that strong.

It was also the reason that most of her friends were boys, because they saw her just one of the guys.

"But you don't look that muscular," Ochaco said, looking at her body with confusion. "I thought if you are naturally strong then you should be a little bit bulky but you are not bulky at all. In fact, it just looks like that you are really fit and toned which makes me so jealous since I tried to lose a few pounds, but I can't do it."

Naruto blinked her eyes and tried to process what her classmate just said. Bulky? But wasn't she a little bit bulky? Almost all her female classmates in Konoha made it seem like she was. They called her a man even though she developed earlier than them. Some of them told her that even though she had long hair that it didn't change the fact that she was a boy in a girl's body. They even told her that she was too muscular for a girl.

Ochaco must be wrong.

"Naruto-san, are you okay?"

"I-I'm fine," Naruto answered, forcing herself to smile at Iida. "I'm just wondering what is our next lesson."

The three teens frowned at her but didn't say that they didn't believe her lie. It was good because she wasn't ready to talk about her feelings. She needed to change the topic to something more exciting because Naruto wanted to pretend that her childhood didn't suck. For just that day, she wanted to be like the other kids and not let the past hold her.

She just wanted to pretend that she was still that strong girl.

"We are having Foundational Hero Studies with All Might!" Izuku declared, smiling so widely at her that the blonde wondered if there was a quirk that was based on cuteness. Seriously, this boy was just too cute to be normal.

"Wait a second, who's All Might?"

Her friends blinked their eyes and stared at her like she was insane to ask that question. She just stared blankly at them and furrowed her eyebrows as Izuku and the others slapped their foreheads at her. Was it a big deal she didn't know who that person was? Okay, she knew he was a superhero but that was it. Why should she care who he was? She had other things to worry about then following some superhero in those blogs that Izuku liked to read.

Was this guy really a big deal?

Only time would tell, Naruto thought as she mindlessly nodded her head at the descriptions that Izuku and the others were telling her, because a person could be a good hero and be a terrible teacher. Kakashi-sensei and Ero-sensei were prime examples of that. Though for Izuku's sake, she hoped that whoever this superhero was that he was a good teacher.

Kami knew that she didn't want to see her friend die before his first job.

"I can't believe it!" Mina whispered to her as their teacher walked through the door and made his way towards the front of the class. "All Might is really going to be teaching us!"

Naruto blinked and smiled widely at the pink-skinned girl, who clapped her hands and stared wide-eyed at their sensei. Was she the only one who didn't understand the big deal? She would ask Mina about what the big deal was but she didn't want her classmate to look at her like she was a weirdo. She was already the weirdo for being able to get into the school without a quirk but she didn't want to be an even bigger weirdo for not knowing who he was.

She tilted her head and stared at their sensei, pursing her lips at the sight of the bulky muscles that he had. With muscles like those, Naruto had no doubt that he had super strength because one had to have a lot of strength with those huge muscles. Still, he looked kind of unreal if you asked her. Rubbing the back of her neck, Naruto watched as the man waited for everyone to calm down.

"Foundational Hero Studies!" All Might yelled, twisting his body around as he pulled something out of his cape. "For this class, we'll be building up your hero foundations through various trials."

Why did she have a bad feeling about this? Naruto thought as everyone perked up at hearing All Might's words.

"Let's jump right in with this!" All Might said, revealing a card that said 'battle'.

For some stupid reason, Naruto felt her surroundings disappear when their teacher revealed that card to them. Instead of hearing his voice and seeing the whiteboard, she was standing on the First Hokage's head and staring at Sasuke's lifeless eyes. Even now, she could recall the way that she charged at him, hurling her fists and kicks at him. She yelled at him to come back home, only to realize that there was one way for her to bring him home.

She never wanted to fight Sasuke in that way. She just wanted to knock some sense into him but their tempers escalated and without even thinking Naruto had tried to use the rasengan on him. It had been so stupid of her to do that but he reminded her that she never had parents. He had to remind her that she didn't know what it was like to be loved. He had been right when he said that she could never understand his pain.

Because what would an orphan like her understand about losing a family? Her parents probably abandoned her the moment she became a jinchuuriki. No matter how much she thought of Sasuke as family, it wasn't the same for him. The bond she thought that they had meant nothing to him.

She meant nothing to him.

"…And to go with your first battle is the gear you have requested for to match your quirks," All Might declared, snapping Naruto from her train of thought. The blue-eyed girl blinked her eyes and tilted her head when she caught sight of the lockers around them. When did they put lockers? It hadn't been there this morning or even the day before. Maybe she hadn't noticed it because she didn't really care about their classroom.

"Our battle gear!" Mina yelled and Naruto winced at the loudness of her table mate's voice.

"Awesome!"

It would be good to wear her favorite clothes again, she thought to herself as she made her way to her locker. Ever since the battle with Sasuke, she hadn't been able to find any clothes that reminded her of her old ones. The fabric that they had in this world was either too thick to her liking or weren't in the colors that she liked. Even if they were in orange, the clothes didn't feel all that comfortable for her.

If her battle gear was made exactly the way she wanted then Naruto would demand the school let her bring it back home, because she just wanted a reminder of the home that she lost.

Bakugou always knew from the moment that he met Uzumaki Naruto that she was different from all the other kids in their year. He didn't make these claims because she didn't fawn over him since he honestly didn't give a crap if she made those eyes like everyone else did. He never thought that she was different because she talked back to him. No, his mother acted similar to Uzumaki so it wasn't a big deal. What made her different from everyone was the fakeness in her smiles.

Every time Uzumaki made that stupid smile, her eyes didn't make the same glow as the other kids. For some reason Whisker's eyes were dim as if she didn't know what it was like to be really happy. It was ironic that she asked him if he ever smiled because the girl didn't really smile.

Honestly Bakugou couldn't give a shit about why that was.

Shaking his head, he stared at his fellow blonde and scowled at the girl's choice of clothing. Was this girl sane? What the hell was she thinking when she chose to design her clothes like that? He would admit that the orange kimono shirt and the dark blue shorts suited her but how was it going to help her in battle? It seemed so impractical when it came to fights. Did she really want to become a hero? Or was she doing this to spite his words about her not being able to become a hero?

What the hell was the girl's quirk that it allowed her to just ask for some clothes?

"I'm liking everyone's style," All Might said, snapping him out of his thoughts.

Bakugou scowled and twisted his head around to look at the older male. It didn't matter how terrible Uzumaki's outfit was, what mattered was the fact that he needed to prove himself to everyone here. It would be easy for him to prove himself, he thought, clenching his hand into a fist and grinning wildly at the thought of proving himself to everyone in the class.

"Sensei!" Bakugou blinked his eyes and stared at his classmates, who raised his hand for everyone to see. "Regarding the performance ground we will be using, is it the mock city from the entrance exam?"

Was it? Bakugou wondered, staring at All Might, who gave them a smile as he declared to them that it would be an indoor battle. Great, he thought, flexing his hand as he stared out at the buildings in front of them. This could potentially be his advantage but only if he could blow his opponents away. If he wasn't allowed to do that then it would be a problem for him, a small problem but it was still a problem.

Clenching his fist, Bakugou looked at his potential opponents. He didn't really know what their quirks were but there was one person he knew for certain would pose a problem for him. Despite what Uzumaki thought, he had paid attention during their test yesterday and he had noticed that she came first for almost all of the tests. Most of them had been her natural talent she claimed and if Uzumaki was anyone else, he would call them a liar but he did know his classmate would never lie about it.

Uzumaki spent three years hiding her quirk from everyone so another day would make no difference for her. If she had used her quirk during the race then there was no telling what she could do if she had used her quirk for the other tests.

Without using her quirk, she was already better than them.

"For this training, we'll have some 'villains' guard nuclear weapon they intend on deploying!' All Might said, snapping him from his train of thought. "The heroes must stop them and their nefarious scheme before it's too late. If the heroes capture the villains or reach the nuclear core before the time runs out, they win. If the villains manage keep the core the whole time or capture the heroes, they win."

Bakugou smirked at this but his smirk faded when he caught sight of Uzumaki tilting her head at their sensei. What the hell was she thinking? Was she already planning something?

"So how are our teammates going to be chosen, All Might-Sensei?" Uzumaki asked, staring curiously at their sensei.

All Might smiled. "Your teammates are chosen by lottery!"

Uzumaki nodded her head and smiled widely at their sensei but Bakugou knew from the amount of times he seen the girl that she wasn't happy about this. Knowing Uzumaki, she would probably want to work with Deku instead of anyone in this class,

"Seriously? I thought it would be something even cooler!" Uzumaki said, shaking her head.

Deku shook his head at Uzumaki. "Well Pros are often forced to make impromptu team-up with other heroes they might not know very well, so this is probably testing that."

"True," Uzumaki agreed, grinning. "I don't really care as long as we can work well together."

That smile again, Bakugou thought, staring at the blond-haired girl. He shook his head and grabbed the slip of paper. Glancing down at the slip of paper, he saw that he was on team D. Licking his dried lips, he looked around to find his partner and was taken back when he saw Uzumaki walking towards him with a smile on her face.

"Hey Bakugou, what letter do you have?"

"D."

"Guess that means we're in the same team," Uzumaki declared, smiling at him.

He scowled and was taken back when the girl stared at him for a good couple seconds before giving him a smile. If he had been anyone else, Bakugou would presume that she was happy to be paired with him but he knew her. He knew from the moment that he bullied Deku that the girl disliked him. The chances of her liking him was zero. The only question was why was she smiling at him? Why couldn't she just show that she didn't want to be paired with him? Okay, the grimace on her face was now a lot better than that smile.

It just made more sense.

"Usually I don't give a shit about your personality but since we are partners, I must make it an exception," Uzumaki began as All Might place ten cards into two boxes. He raised his eyebrow at the blonde and scowled when he saw that she was blanking out. The blue-eyed girl shook her head and stared at him with so much seriousness that he wondered if this really was his usual fake classmate. "Your temper is going to be a huge problem since you always use your quirk when you become angry, and I don't want you to cause an explosion which will destroy the weapon."

"It won't be a problem if I just blow away our opponent," Bakugou retorted.

Honestly, did she really think he was stupid?

"Please tell me that you aren't seriously going to do that!" He raised an eyebrow and the blonde groaned. "Asshole, do you not realise that you can also potentially blow me away too? We are going to be indoors! Do you not realize that if you don't control yourself then the whole building is going to collapse on us!"

"What? Do you think I will actually cause a building to collapse?" The blue-eyed girl nodded her head and he couldn't help but growl at her. "I am not stupid! Next thing I know, you don't want me to hurt our opponents!"

"Now you are calling me stupid," Uzumaki said dryly, folding her arms against her chest. "I don't want you to send them to the infirmary because one of them insulted you. What I want you to do is actually control your fucking temper so that you don't screw this trial up because between the two of us, you are going to be the one that fucks everything up."

"Uzumaki…"

The blonde held her hand up. "Look there is one person that I know will definitely be a problem for us and that is Izuku. Most of our classmates haven't known you long enough to analysis how you work but that isn't the case for Izuku. While he doesn't know what I can do, he knows what he has to do to beat you."

"Deku isn't a problem!"

"Not a problem? What the hell is your problem when it comes to Izuku! Is your pride so big that you can't think properly?" Uzumaki snarled, jabbing her fingers against his chest. "Izuku has the habit of analyzing people's quirks and wondering how it can be used to make them a good hero. The fact that the two of you have known each other for a long time means that the notes that he has on you would be greater than any of the heroes he saw, since he used to look up to an asshole like you. Do you know what is the scariest type of opponent? The one that uses his head. Izuku is a problem because he isn't dumb. If you are not careful, he would be able to use your weak points against us."

He wanted to argue with her but the seriousness and worry in her eyes made him realized that Uzumaki wasn't actually supporting Izuku. She was actually worried about this, about how they would win this trial because she thought he couldn't control himself. He clenched his hands into a fist but opened his fist as he realized that the girl was shaking her head at him.

"Bakugou, do you trust me or not?"

Did he trust this girl? He wondered, staring into the blue-eyes of his teammate. He couldn't trust her because she was a mystery, because she was someone that had too many secrets that it was scary. Yet despite thinking this, Bakugou had to admit that the girl was the honest and brave person that he could meet. She was the only girl who didn't try to hide from him, the only girl that he could honestly say that he respected.

It still didn't mean that he trusted her.

"No."

"If you've said yes then I will call you insane," Uzumaki admitted, staring at their sensei. "For this trial, I will need you to trust me when it comes to protecting the weapon or getting that weapon. I might not be as smart as Izuku or you, but my quirk is perfect for a scenario like this."

"Uzumaki…"

"I will tell you about my quirk when we get to the site," the blonde said, rubbing the back of her neck. "I don't want anyone to know the true extent of my quirk until we do this trial because unlike a certain somebody I know, I like to use the element of surprise."

He scowled at her jab.

"Uzumaki…"

"If you follow my plan then I can guarantee you that we will be able to defeat anyone," Uzumaki declared, flickering her eyes to their classmates, who were getting to know their partners. "I just need you to see me as your equal, Explosive Head, because for this trial I want you to know that I'm not useless. I need you to understand that just because I don't go boasting about my quirk that I'm not someone you can dismiss. For this trial, I want you to see me as your rock."

See her as an equal? She wanted him to trust her? Did she think he was like Deku? He couldn't trust her to do the job properly. Yet if her quirk was as great as she made it to be then it wouldn't hurt for him to see what she could do. It would give him an idea on how to defeat her if they were ever forced to fight, he told himself as All Might declared that Uzumaki and him were going to be the villains while Deku and the girl with fluffy costume were going to be the heroes. Why would she trust him with a secret? He licked his dried lips and stared at Uzumaki, who just twisted her body around and gave him a smile.

Just this once, he would make an exception.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think.