Time flew by pretty fast for Izuku. One second he was outside of Gym Gamma with All Might, the next thing he knew, a week had flown by, and he was in his room with his U.A. letter. He stared at the envelope with a neutral stare; pondering all of the potential flaws he had made during the exam. He opened the envelope once he felt confident in his result and slid a small disc out onto his desk, which immediately activated.
"Greetings, Midoriya! I normally don't partake in the entrance letters, but because your test was special, I couldn't resist!" Nezu cheerfully announced through the hologram.
"Well, I doubt Aizawa would have done this, even if you told him too," Izuku muttered with a small grin on his face.
"I must say, you performed quite admirably during the test. We all could tell that Mister Aizawa had trained you exceptionally well in how to perform stealth operations. It is a shame many heroes with heights like yours don't bother attempting stealth tactics and instead rush in head first. Oh dear, I distracted myself yet again; apologies, Midoriya."
"Man, Nezu should know that I don't mind the odd tangent if it is informative," Izuku said as he stretched.
"Back to your performance, you passed the written exam with a solid ninety-five percent, landing you in the top ten applicants on the written. As for the practical, you passed with eighty percent. You lost a large chunk of points when you stood still and waited for a bot to find you; if that had been a real person, you would have been shot and killed right then and there, so we had to deduct points for that."
"Yeah, that definitely wasn't my brightest moment."
"As for the remaining deductions, they were all in the second stage. First off, using lethal force against the robots at the end. That was a minor deduction, as they were robots and we all knew you wouldn't be as lethal with actual humans, but it was still a flaw, and flaws must be corrected. The biggest and worst mistake you made by far was leaving All Might unattended to focus on fighting. There were far too many instances where, if the robots had a ranged option of attack, he would have suffered. I know Aizawa would have drilled that into your head, yet you still did that." Nezu critiqued, his voice giving away how disappointed he was at those mistakes.
Izuku sighed at his actions. Looking back, he knew that he probably shouldn't have left All Might sitting there, but he had made the stupid assumption that all of the robots would have been designed the same. He had gotten lucky with the fact that they were, and Nezu's point about their lack of ranged weapons saving him was also very correct.
"Now that the talk about your exam is finished, you are to move in the day before the normal move-in date. As a mini punishment for your mistakes on the exam, I will put you on dorm arrest until I deem it ok for you to meet the rest of your classmates. You are in Class A, and I expect you to be at U.A. on Friday at five P.M. Welcome to U.A.!" Nezu cheered as the hologram shut off.
"Great, I knew that Nezu wouldn't accept a small punishment on my grades to make up for that mistake. Oh well, this will allow me to avoid my classmates until they are all grouped up. I wonder if I will have any classmates that are also really tall? Questions for another day, I guess." Izuku muttered as he stood up and started working on ensuring he was ready for move-in day.
Friday had come faster than he thought and he walked into U.A. feeling happy. He was now an official student instead of a trainee student. He knew where the dorms were placed and casually made his way over to the large buildings. He sighed in relief at the sight of the large door frames of the dorm building he would be living in for the next four years, which had obviously been altered so he could comfortably get inside.
He spent a few minutes looking around the common room, learning how everything was set up and where things generally were placed. He admired the seventy-inch flat-screen television that they had set up in the common room; just seeing that object alone made him know that they went 'Plus Ultra' on the dorm luxuries too.
Feeling satisfied with his brief look through, he made his way to the stairwell, admiring everything and just enjoying the feeling of living in a five-star hotel. Before he knew it, he was in front of his own dorm room. Sighing in acceptance, he unlocked the door and walked inside, finding all of his boxes neatly placed in his room. He noticed that there was a small fridge in his room; it wasn't quite a mini fridge, but it also wasn't average-sized.
A quick peek inside the fridge revealed that all of the food that Nezu had given him to eat while on dorm arrest was sitting in pre-portioned boxes. Accepting this as the way his next day or so would go, he started working on unboxing all of his belongings and ensuring the room was as organized as his own room was back home.
The rest of Friday passed by fairly quickly, he managed to have everything set up in four hours with a small break to eat his dinner. He woke up Saturday morning not feeling fully rested, but knowing he had his own daily things to do in his room, he got up and set to accomplishing those things. By the time lunch time rolled around, he had heard lots of movement coming from the different floors and rooms around him.
He smiled briefly, knowing that he would soon be meeting his future classmates and that they could hopefully become great heroes together. Unfortunately, the buzzer that Nezu had placed on top of the fridge hadn't gone off, which meant he was still stuck in his room. Sighing in sadness, he set about eating his lunch before taking an afternoon nap, seeing as how he had nothing better to do to pass the time.
He woke up at 5:30 in the afternoon when he heard the buzzer going off, which snapped him awake in seconds. Knowing he was free to go downstairs, he quickly shut the buzzer off and tidied himself up. He didn't want to leave a bad impression on his classmates. He ended up spending five minutes ensuring he was ready to meet his classmates; finally, feeling happy with his appearance, he started to make his way downstairs.
Right as he was about to open the door to the common room, his head hit the doorframe.
Momo Yaoyorozu was nervous about coming to U.A.
She had always been marginally taller than her female peers; however, when puberty hit her, her genetics had started to show. By the end of her growth spurt, she towered over her classmates, which was not bad on its own. However, she quickly became an outcast, as nobody wanted anything to do with the tall heiress to the Yaoyorozu fortune.
During every political ball, she was left alone. Nobody wanted to try and court her. She was training to be a hero, so she spent a lot of her free time studying or training her body. This was both relieving and hurtful to her self esteem; it meant that she didn't have to worry about anyone making unwanted advances, but it also meant none of her crushes had any hope of succeeding, as the guys would avoid her.
Of course when she got to U.A., she was pleasantly surprised at the lack of disgust shot her way by her female classmates. She only received looks of shock and surprise, then friendliness once they got over their shock. Many of the guys were weary of her, which she was willing to accept, as none of them looked all that appealing. The only ones she had seen that were somewhat attractive were Katsuki Bakugou and Shoto Todoroki.
Bakugou may have had a pretty attractive appearance, but she was instantly turned off by his rough and terrible personality. She was shocked that someone aiming to be a hero would insult everyone immediately; swearing and calling everyone worthless extras was not appealing in the slightest, let alone some quality of a hero. Todoroki, on the other hand, was incredibly handsome, but his refusal to even chat with his fellow classmates appalled her.
She knew it is incredibly rude and unladylike to look at how attractive her classmates were, but she was honestly feeling very self conscious. She knew that if no hero student liked her, then she would likely be single for her life. Of course, she already knew that she was bisexual—she had figured that out when she had realized she had been staring at one of her female classmates similarly to how she had stared at a guy before.
Of course, she knew that she was likely to at least graduate with a potential girlfriend. So she decided to just socialize with her classmates and wait on pursuing any romantic relationships until she felt she had adjusted to living at U.A. Seeing as how this was everyone's first day together, everyone had decided to be in the common room; that way, they could all get to know one another.
One thing that disappointed her was the fact that she appeared to be the tallest student yet again; the only student close to her height was Mezo Shoji, and he was three inches shorter than her, so there was a noticeable height difference between the two of them. Koji Koda was the third tallest and he was four inches shorter than her, so she accepted that she would remain the tallest in her class.
She was standing in the kitchen, preparing tea for her classmates. While she was cooking the tea, she was talking casually with Jirou, Ashido, Shiozaki, and Kaminari. They were discussing their former lives and how annoying moving out was with their parents. She had done multiple counts of her classmates and had only counted nineteen including herself, she was curious about their last classmate, but she had her doubts.
Suddenly a loud thud sounded from the staircase. Every conversation ground to a halt as everyone turned toward the staircase, where they heard someone angrily muttering and cursing on the other side. Momo looked towards the people she was talking with and they all nodded in agreement, seeming to understand her unspoken question. She made her way cautiously towards the staircase, her new friends following a bit behind her.
All of the people in the common room follow her example, except for one cowardly student, who hid behind one of the couches. Before they could get close enough to look through the door to the staircase, the door swung open. A large man walked out, weighing likely almost four hundred pounds with his muscles and height. It was then that Momo realized she needed to look up to look this person in the eyes, and she felt ecstatic that, for once in her life, she wasn't the giant in her class.
As soon as Izuku felt the frame smack into his forehead, he got pissed.
"Ow. Damnit, Nezu! Can you please get Cementoss to actually make this door frame have enough clearance for my height like the rest of the doors? I know you ordered him to purposely make the clearance seven feet tall. I fucking do not appreciate you doing these petty tricks to me. I know you can hear me, as I doubt there is a single place in U.A. you don't have cameras in, aside from the bathrooms for legal reasons," Izuku muttered angrily to calm himself down enough to meet his classmates.
He opened the door and ducked through and immediately noticed the crowd staring at him in shock. His eyes, however, instantly locked on to the person in front of the group. She was an extremely tall woman, with black eyes that looked almost cat-like, black hair tied into a ponytail, and had a rather elegant appearance.
"Oh! Hello everyone! My name is Izuku Midoriya. To those curious about what my height is, I am seven feet and eight inches tall. I am terribly sorry for disturbing your activities; I hope we can get along well with each other as classmates and future pros!" Izuku said with a sheepish smile as he waved to his classmates.
The tall lady was the first to break out of her shock.
"Hello, Midoriya. My name is Momo Yaoyorozu. I was wondering where our last classmate was, as I had assumed I was the first to arrive at the dorms. Why are you so tall, if I may ask?" Momo responded politely.
"All I am willing to reveal is that it has to do with my quirk. I won't show you guys until we have our first class where we can use our quirks. Now Yaoyorozu, if you don't mind me asking in return, are you six feet and ten inches?" Izuku answered with a tilt of his head.
"I am not, seeing as how you revealed your height earlier, I see no reason to not reveal mine. I am actually a little shorter than that at six feet and eight inches; I am this tall because I must have inherited my father's height in my genetics. My father is seven feet tall, while my mother is a surprising six feet tall."
"Interesting. Well, I hope we can be friends and work on becoming the best heroes we can be together! Now, who will introduce themselves next? We can't really chat much as it would be too time consuming." Izuku said to the large crowd.
He knew it wasn't wise to continue questioning others until after everyone has properly introduced themselves. The second person to introduce himself was a man with engines in his legs, blue hair cut very short, and an all around blocky appearance.
"Hello, Midoriya, my name is Tenya Iida! I hope we can become friends and learn how to be the most efficient heroes!" Iida robotically exclaimed.
The next to introduce himself was a man with bright red spikey hair, and sharp teeth similar to that of a shark.
"Yo Midoriya, my name is Eijirou Kirishima. I hope you have a manly heart!" Kirishima exclaimed with a fist bump.
After he returned Kirishima's fist bump, a girl with long, viney hair and dark green eyes got his attention.
"Hello Midoriya, my name is Ibara Shiozaki. I will pray we will build a lasting friendship."
Next was a blond boy with a black bolt of lightning in his hair and sunglasses on his head.
"Hey! My name's Denki, Denki Kaminari. I can tell my time here will be electrifying!" Kaminari said as he pointed finger guns at me, letting sparks flow along his hands.
Another blond introduced himself. He, for some reason, wore a cape, and had dark blue eyes that were almost purple.
"Oui, Monsieur Midoriya. I can tell you will be most glamorous amongst everyone but myself. My name is Yuga Aoyama, and I am the most dazzling person here!" Aoyama said with a flourish that somehow created sparkles.
Aoyama was interrupted by an energetic girl with pale pink skin, black eyes with golden irises, and two bug antennas(?) sticking out of her curly pink hair.
"Heya Midori! I am Mina Ashido! Curl buddies!" Mina exclaimed as she jumped and ruffled Izuku's green hair.
Getting over the shock of the girl ruffling his hair, he shook his head to try to ignore how nice it had felt. He then noticed the shortest girl in the class make her way to in front of him. She had really long, dark forest green hair tied in a neat bow and two really large hands that could rival his own when transformed he estimated.
"Hello Midoriya. I am Tsuyu Asui, although I'd prefer being called Tsu."
Next to say hello was one of the last blonds in the class. He looked really plain, but his tail really made him stand out.
"Hey Midoriya. My name is Mashirao Ojiro."
He was a little put off by the bland and plain introduction, but shrugged it off. Then a voice called out from the kitchen that, when he turned to look, he saw belonged to a large man with spiky brown hair and really thick lips.
"Midoriya! Do you want some cake? My name is Rikido Sato by the way!"
"Sure! I'll take some cake, Sato!" Izuku replied back with a smile, enjoying the hospitality of his classmates.
He then saw the third-tallest student make his way to him. The man had two large web-like limbs jutting out from his sides. Each of the strands in the web-like limbs looked like another arm, and when one of the stumps transformed into a mouth and spoke, it surprised him.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Midoriya, I am Mezo Shoji."
Following behind the large man, was a dude who was probably the second shortest guy in the class. He had an ebony coloured bird-like head, and wore a deep black cloak over his clothing.
"Greetings Midoriya, I am Fumikage Tokoyami. I shall hope you haven't seen the shallow pits of despair alone."
Before anything else happened, a shadowy creature emerged from the cloak with a similar appearance to Tokoyami, only without anything properly formed below the neck. He expected it to be worse than Tokoyami's introduction.
"Quit being so edgy Fumi! Heya Midoriya! Dark Shadow here—"
"Shush, you being of eternal suffering," Tokoyami muttered as Dark Shadow was drawn back into Tokoyami's cloak.
It seemed that, from a quick analysis of the shadow's words, Tokoyami was merely acting all dark and brooding. Shaking his head at their antics, Izuku noticed one of his classmates holding up a sign with a name on it and a request to not be rude to him. The man had an extremely rocky head and looked incredibly anxious, which he could understand.
"Hello to you too, Koda. I promise I will not be rude to anyone unless they are rude to me too!" Izuku responded with a bright smile to ease Koda's nerves.
Suddenly he felt something grab his arm, he spun his attention towards the thing responsible, only to see a pair of floating clothes, and by the outline the clothes created, they belonged to a female.
"Heya Midoriya! I hope we can get along nicely this year! Just try not to forget that my name is Toru Hagakure!"
Much to his relief, Hagakure released his arm and joined the others by the television. He was snapped out of his internal thoughts by someone coughing to get his attention. Looking at the person, he noticed she had short purple hair that framed her face, and her hair had faint soundwaves. Her most distinctive trait was the earjacks that she was twirling around her finger. It was adorable.
"Yo Midoriya. My name is Kyoka Jirou. I am curious as to why you said the principal was doing petty tricks to you?"
Hearing Kyoka mention his little outburst to everyone caused him to start mentally panicking. He decided to try and put it off in hopes that they forget about it.
"I might tell you guys after I show off my quirk; until then, that will be my own personal secret, and I hope you will respect that," Izuku replied, and to his relief, everyone went back to doing their own thing, minus two others.
He was left staring at two boys, one had some really weird looking elbows that looked like some action figure, while the other was a really small boy with tiny purple orbs on his head. The small boy looked afraid of him, which made him mentally sigh in disappointment, as he had seen him doing stuff really inappropriate for a hero.
"I think I shall wrap up this meet and greet swiftly! My name is Hanta Sero, and this short dude is Minoru Mineta! I hope you aren't rude like the two guys who aren't here right now," Sero said as he flexed his tape arms.
Understanding their names, Izuku bent down and stared at Mineta, deciding it was best to cut the act before he did something that will ruin his life.
"Mineta, I have noticed you were doing something really unheroic earlier. If you wish to remain on good terms with me, you will stop your perversion before it ruins all of your hopes and dreams of being a pro."
Hearing Izuku mention Mineta's peeping, Mineta felt he had done nothing wrong, so Mineta decided to play innocent.
"I have no idea what you are saying. I have done nothing unheroic." Mineta calmly replied.
"Really? Name any really famous pro hero who takes advantage of their height to sneak peeks at a female's assets?" Izuku had unintentionally drawn the attention of the class towards his interrogation.
"That's easy! Midnight does!" Mineta claimed with calmness.
"Really? I think you are not understanding an act versus a personality. Midnight's actions are purely to take advantage of villains with similar thoughts to your own. I have met her outside of her hero persona, and she is actually not at all like her hero persona. Besides, you are only doing it for your own gain, not to gain an advantage over a villain." Izuku tore down that option.
"Fine, Captain Celebrity." Mineta replied.
"Ah yes, the hero who has had many scandals surrounding him. Definitely a role model. Listen up, Mineta. If you really want to be a hero, you'll have to control your own lust, because there are definitely villains who will take advantage of that lust. If you fail to control your own lust for the opposite gender, then I am sorry, but you will fail to achieve popularity and you will likely die. I normally don't like breaking people's ideology, but that part of you needs to go if you wish to have any chance at being a pro," Izuku said as he kneeled down to stare Mineta down.
Mineta couldn't believe what was happening; usually people only verbally berated him without using threats and intimidation against him. He was frozen in place, he couldn't properly understand why he was frozen in place, but he just couldn't stop thinking about Izuku's words. If this person who is basically a stranger gave him a serious warning like that without mentioning the girls, means that perhaps for his own safety he should try.
'Why would I even want to be a hero if it isn't to get my own harem?' Mineta questioned his own dreams and goals in life.
Meanwhile, Izuku turned and saw everyone gathered around in a circle and then he noticed there were only eighteen chairs there.
"Why are there only eighteen chairs? This is a class of twenty, is it not?" Izuku worriedly questioned.
"Oh! Two of our classmates are either antisocial or extremely aggressive, and we didn't want to get either of them down here for this," Mina replied with a frown as she thought back to being called Racoon eyes.
Izuku started to panic internally, and against his better judgement, he poked further.
"What were their names, by chance?" Izuku questioned as he sat down in his chair.
"Shoto Todoroki was the antisocial one; he literally ignored every single one of us," Iida replied with a frown, disappointed with those two's actions.
"And the other extremely aggressive dude was Katsuki Bakugou." Kirishima said with a smile.
Once Izuku heard that name, his plans of enjoyment were blasted to pieces.