*Midoriya's P.O.V*
We made it to the school. All that's left for us to do is meet the principal. Needless to say I was nervous.
"Don't worry." All Might said.
"Oh yeah... sure, not like I'm a criminal who is going to meet the principal of the most prestigous school in the world. Why would I be nervous." I said sarcastically
"Great, glad we see eye to eye." He said with an equal amount of sarcasm.
"... I hate you." I said as he laughed.
We made it to the principal's office... and just my luck, the entire faculty is there to witness this.
"All Might, I know you mean well, but why the f**k are you bringing in a criminal into the school?" A guy in a sleeping bag asked, with venom seeping from his tone. If he didn't look so ridiculous then I would have been scared.
"I agree with Aizawa, this is a bad idea." A guy I'd recognize anywhere, Present Mic, said.
"Ahem!" Principal Nezu said which gathered everyone's attention, "All Might would you please explain the boy's story." He asked.
"I would be glad to." All Might said.
He explained who I was. From our first interaction and my good intentions, to what he said to me and how soul crushing it was, to my run in with villains, to when I got here. Once All Might finished my story, they looked at each other.
"Be as all that may, it still doesn't excuse what he's done." Midnight the R-Rated hero said.
Not that I blame them at all, if I was in their shoes, I'd give me the boot as well.
"Well, how about this?" Principal Nezu said as everyone... including me, gave him full attention, "Track his behavior, if he misbehaves... 3 times, then he's expelled." He suggested.
Now any normal student would be vocal about this, but this shows that Principal Nezu has faith in me. He believes that I can change.
"Works for me."
"I'm fine with that."
Soon all the teachers started to agree... though some of them were hesitant, namely the man in the sleeping bag and Present Mic, but they agreed eventually.
"Okay, then this meeting is adjorned. Midoriya, your room is Class 1-A." Principal Nezu said as the man in the sleeping bag choked on his water.
"Y-You can't be serious." He said.
"I'll give you a raise Aizawa." Principal Nezu bargained.
"Alright, come with me." Aizawa said. That's all it took?!
Soon we all filed out of the Principal's office, All Might gave me a thumbs up and left me with Aizawa.
"Alright, listen up." He said, "I'm your homeroom teacher, Mr Aizawa, now the Principal and All Might may have took it easy on you, but I haven't." He said, "Meaning, you're going to have to work hard to build that trust." He said.
"Understandable." I said.
"A man of few words... Alright, come with me, I'll show you to your class." Aizawa said.
We soon made it to the class, the door has 1-A on it, kinda hard to miss. Though to be completely honest... I was nervous. I am 100% certain that everyone would know who I am, a criminal who got a free pass into U-
"Are you going to get in? Or are you going to have a mental crisis on your first day." Aizawa said.
"R-Right sorry." I said as I opened the door.
The walls and the door must have been extremely thick, because once I opened it the loud noise of chatter escaped into the hallway. Once I opened the door fully though... the room was quiet. It was because they thought the teacher was back or because of me. I'm leaning towards it was because of me.
I walked into the classroom, as the look of fear was all over their face... except for one.
"Deku..." Kacchan or Bakugou said as he stood up to face me.
"Oh great... the criminal and the hothead know each other." A guy with yellow hair said. I'm not gonna lie, that comment hurt even though I expected it.
"K-Ka-." I said until he pulled me into a hug.
"I-I'm sorry..." He muttered. As the class looked about as shocked as I was.
"W-Why are you sorry?" I asked.
"Look, I said s**t to you, and it made you snap. Your mother was a wreck and I felt entirely responsible for it. So... I'm sorry." He said.
"... Don't worry about it." I said, "It's nobody's fault but my own."
"Alright, that's enough of that." Aizawa said as Kacchan and I let go, "We're doing a physical assessment, put on your gym clothes and head outside in ten minutes." Aizawa said.
Everyone walked ahead of us... well me. I may have helped Kacchan calm down, but that wasn't enough to earn their ease. What kind of fool I was thinking it would be that easy. The locker room was especially awkward, everyone except Bakugou was on the other side of me.
"So, where were you the past 10 months?" Bakugou asked putting on his gym clothes.
"Well, 9 month's ago I was arrested, you know what happened. Anyway All Might came in and pretty much bailed me out for 'rehabilitation' as he called it." I explained.
"Okay, but something didn't add up." He said as he leaned in closer, "You didn't have a Quirk, then 9 months ago, you were breathing fire. What happened?" He asked.
Quick... think of a lie, "Um, you know, late bloomer I am." I said.
He chuckled at the comment, "Well good. Now we can see who's superior." He said.
I laughed as well, at least he's back to full throttle, "Yeah, we'll see." I said.
In all honesty, if you were to tell me a year ago that Bakugou would be all buddy buddy with me, then I'd look at you in disbelief. But hey, it'll make my life a bit easier knowing he won't be super agro with me, at least until we're doing something competitive.
Soon we headed back outside, what he did was a simple quirk assessment test, consisting of 8 trials consisting of; the 50-Metre dash, grip strength, the standing long jump, sustained sideways jump, the pitch, curl-ups, seated toe-reach, and a long distance run, and if you were last, then you were expelled immediately. Needless to say, I was the one Aizawa focused on. Considering I was only here on a ultimatum.
My 50-metre wasn't turning heads, it was fairly decent... if there weren't people here with quirks that improve their speed, but I wasn't last place, thank goodness. However what was odd was the grip test, when it was my turn I grabbed the grip tracker... thing and gripped as hard as I could, but that wasn't the weird part. The weird part was that my arm was glowing, like literally glowing. Was this the One for All, All Might gave me?
"5023 kgs of force." Aizawa said as I immediately released the tracker to check my arm.
There was a numbing pain... and it looked purple. what was that?!
"Midoriya, you alright?" Bakugou asked as he looked at my arm, "What the f**k happened?" He asked with concern.
"I-I don't know." I said... shoot, he's going to get suspicious.
"I thought you can only get one Quirk." All the other students said.
Quick... think of an excuse. "Wait... maybe that's why I got my Quirk so late." I said as everyone looked at me, "I was harboring two Quirks. This quirk feels like my great grandfather's Quirk." I said... great excuse genius they'll never fall for i-.
"That makes sense." A pink girl with horns said.
I can't believe they fell for it.
"Well regardless, the test is still going on, next is the standing long jump." Aizawa said as he shot me a glare before heading back outside.
It was my turn for the long jump. I can't rely on One for All... if that was even One for All. The one thing I can use is my fire and hoping it would propel me far enough to get a decent score. I got on the line and turned around.
"I'd recommend moving." I said as I took a deep breath. Here goes nothing!
I jumped in the air and exhaled as fire shot out of my mouth. I flew far over the dirt area, until I ran out of air and fell face first into the grass. After spitting out the dirt and grass from my mouth I ran back to do the sustained sideways jump... which I crashed and burned in. Then it was time for the pitch.
I, like every challenge here, was last to go. I picked up the ball on my left hand. If I used my fire Quirk I would probably disintegrate the ball, I have to use One for All here, or else I might fail, no I probably will fail, then it's game over. I gripped the ball and pulled my arm back, as I felt the surge of power flowing through my arms... then it was quickly went away.
"Stop..." Mr Aizawa said as he walked towards me. "Just what do you think you're doing?" He asked.
"I was planning on throwing the ba... wait, you're Eraserhead the Eraser Hero." I said.
"What I am is not important right now, what's important is that you're not anywhere near ready." He muttered, "You discovered this immense power 15 minutes ago, yet it destories your body like a ragdoll."
"B-But."
"Were you planning to break yourself just to survive this one test? Were you willing to break both of your arms for this one test? Just so you can get by?" He asked.
"That's not my intention!" I yelled then bandages were wrapped around my body as he brought me closer to his glaring eyes.
"Intentional or not, if you are going the way you are now. You'll be nothing more than a liability if you just destroy yourself by throwing a few measly punches, even with that second Quirk of yours." He said, "You have the drive to do whatever it takes to defeat the villain, but even with that drive, you'll just make things worse." He finished as he let me go, "I returned that Quirk of yours, now get your throw over with and end this already... I'm tired." He said as he stood back to the side.
I'll destroy my body by throwing a few measly punches... wait, that's it!
I walked over and picked up the ball. He's entirely right, if I used One for All at 100% of my power on my entire arm, I'll be out of commission, so what if I used the necessary amount? I gripped the ball with my left hand, once I pulled back for the throw I surged One for All into the tip of my pointer finger. All that's left is to unleash it at the right time.
"HAH!" I yelled as the ball went surging through the air. It hurt like a motherf**ker, but I didn't break my arm like last time. The ball landed a good ways away, and once it did I turned to Mr Aizawa, "Hey..." I said as he looked at me, "I'm not... out of commission." I said with my broken pointer finger.
He gave me a smile... I never thought I'd see the day. I also didn't expect the day to arrive so soon. But that smile quickly faded away as we had to deal with the 3 remaining challenges, and with my hurt arm and finger, doing those were completely painful and difficult. I collapsed on the ground tired out of my everything. But I still needed to be given the scores, whomever was last gets sent home. Okay okay... calm down, I did well in the grip test, the standing long jump, and the ball throw... horribly on everything else.
"Here are the scores, It should give you a good understanding on where you are." Mr Aizawa said as he flashed the scores to us.
Where am I? Where am I?!
'13 Izuku Midoriya'
"I DID IT I'M ALIVE!" I yelled... receiving glares from the 8 students below me, but I could care less! I'm not expe-
"And I was lying, no one's going home." Mr Aizawa said.
...
...
"Wait what?!" I yelled.
"That was just a rational deception to make you try your hardest." He said with the biggest s**t eating grin I've ever seen him sport.
"You gotta be kidding me..." I said collapsing on the ground, "I busted my a** for nothing!"
"I'm surprised the rest of you didn't figure that out. I'm sorry I guess I probably should have said something." This one girl with a black pony tail said.
"... I hate you." I muttered as I stood up with my broken arm and finger.
"That's it we're done for the day, don't forget to pick up the syllabus and read it over." Mr Aizawa said before giving me a pass, "Oh and Midoriya, go see Recovery Girl about your arm and finger. That's it goodbye." He said walking away.
I sighed as fire reached the floor. This class is going to be the death of me.
"Hey, do you know where Recovery Girl is?" A girl with rosy cheeks and brown hair asked.
"No, but if you can point me in the general direction..."
"Great I'll take you there." She said as she walked ahead of me.
...Did she hit her head or something? Well, I might as well humor her.
We were a heading over to the Nurse's Office. Then she decided to spark a conversation.
"So... you're a criminal?" She asked.
"You really need to learn tact. But yes, I WAS a criminal." I said as she tilted her head in confusion, "An extremely long story short. I was Quirkless for most of my life... at least up until 10 month's ago. A pro hero broke it to me that I couldn't be a pro hero, crushing my dreams and spirit. In frustration I cried and screamed at a building. Then as I was screaming fire erupted out of my mouth igniting a whole building on fire, but luckily no one died." I said as she sighed in relief, "Anyway, at that point I lost all faith in heroism, especially when a guy with a sweater told me this speech about how heroes are nothing but two faced jerks who wanted nothing but fame and fortune. I was so clouded by anger and frustration at that pro hero and I agreed and joined the League of Villains."
"W-What?!" She asked in shock.
"Well I lasted a whole week. My mother called me when I appeared on the news. She was ushered into a mental hospital after the sheer shock of me, her 'Little Izuku'" I said with air quotes, "Was shown burning down a building full of people. Over the phone she was talking to me saying how sorry she was for me ending up this way. She took all of the blame for the s**t I did. Which caused me to snap once again." I said, "Anyway that rampage was what got the police to arrest me. While I was being interrogated for info on the League of Villains, All Might came in. Talked to me and gave me an ultimatum, which is coming to this school for rehab." I explained.
She just stared at me with wide eyes, "I-I thought you killed a person or something..." She muttered, "S-Sorry tact."
"That's fine... I thought I did too. That thought horrified me. Once I was told that no one died from both of my emotional rampages, I was extremely relieved. The last thing I want my mother to think about was that her son was a murderer. She's barely handling her son being an ex-arsonist." I said as we reached the nurses office, "Anyway thanks for leading me here." I said as I left her outside to head back to class.
"Oh, who are you you- No wait I know who you are." Recovery Girl said, "You're that criminal who All Might happened to like."
...She's quiet the snarky one.
"I see you used One for All, was it your first time?" She asked.
"Yes... the arm was completely accidental, I didn't even think that One for All would eve- Wait how do you know of it?!" I asked with utter shock.
"Oh calm down, I'm one of few people who even know about it. Principal Nezu knows about it as well." She explained.
"...Okay." Was all I had to say.
"Anyway, you seemed to be grasping it quickly young man." She said as she kissed my forehead.
"Ahh! Why... man I'm tired..." I said as I was a tad bit wobbly.
"My Quirk speed up the recovery time, but it takes a lot out of you." She said as she gave me a tablet, "With this it'll help you regain your lost stamina... but use it too much and it might kill you." She explained.
"... Oh good!" I muttered as I swallowed the tablet, at least I'm wide awake now.
"Anyway, head back to class, it's the middle of Present Mic's class, go on shoo shoo!" She said as I was practically shoved out of class.
"Oh, you're done!" That girl exclaim... wait?
"Did you wait for me?" I asked.
"Of course, you were wounded, I had to make sure you're okay." She said with a smile.
"O-Okay." I said as I felt my face heat up... damn it I thought I buried that habit!
*Uraraka's P.O.V*
His face was turning a tad bit red... maybe it's an aftermath of Recovery Girl's treatment? Oh well, at least he's fine. Now we just gotta head to Present Mic's class. The class went silent once we entered, though it reconvened once we took out seats... though I could swear I saw Present Mic glare at Midoriya.
Anyway classes went by and it's now lunch time. I was offered a seat with the rest of Class 1-A... though someone was missing. "Where's Midoriya?" I asked.
"Why do you want him here?" Yaoyorozu asked.
"Don't be like that." I said as I looked around, there he is, "HEY MIDORIYA!" I yelled as he looked at me, "WANT TO SIT WITH US?!" I asked.
He hesitated but slowly walked over. I scooted in ward to give him space for him to sit.
"H-Hello..." He said but no one responded.
"Man... why did we get stuck with the loud angry guy and the criminal...?" Kaminari muttered.
I was totally about to throw one of my chopsticks at him... until Midoriya stopped me.
"While I won't refute the fact that I WAS a criminal before coming here, I will say this. What I've done is completely different from what I'm doing, and what I plan to do. If you want to distract yourselves by calling me a criminal that's all fine and dandy, but that won't stop me from achieving my goal of graduating and becoming a hero I was told I couldn't be. So if you have any intention of becoming a pro, I suggest you stop focusing on others and look at yourself." I said.
"Yeah! Well what would yo-"
"YOUNG MIDORIYA!" A loud booming voice yelled, "IS HERE!" He yelled pointing at Midoriya.
"What is it All Might?" He asked.
"I've come to extend my full congratulations." He said, "You're first day of rehabilitation has went on without any snags. You will make a fine hero at this rate." He said then running away.
"Is that proof enough?" Bakugou asked as he went back to eating his food.
"W-Well..."
"Alright... that's enough." I said garnering looks from everyone, "I couldn't care less if he was a criminal or not, because he's here for the same reason as all of us. To become a pro hero. He may have hit snags along the way but is here now, and is here. So if you want to keep pointing it out and distract yourself, then by all means, but I'm going to work hard and graduate just like he will." I said as I went back to my rice.
The whole table was silent by my outburst... until.
"Hey Midoriya, can you pass the soy sauce?" Kirishima asked.
"Huh? Oh sure... here." He said sliding the bottle across the table.
"Look, I don't know all the details. But you being here, to change yourself... is the manliest thing I've ever heard. You got my vote." He said as he drenced his whole bowl of rice with soy sauce.
While the others were on the fence about him, at least some of them are warming up slowly. Soon classes were over for the day and we headed for home.
"Hey Uraraka, you're train is this way?" He asked.
"Yeah, wanna walk with me?" I asked.
"Yeah." He said until someone sped up to us.
"Excuse me!" He yelled standing in front of us.
"Oh it's you, Tenya Iida." I said.
"Yes, and I must first take a moment of your time... to apologize." He said bowing.
"H-huh?" Midoriya asked.
"I must apologize for treating you like a natural born criminal. When you're here to not be one. It was ignorant for me to think this way. So please accept my apology!" He shouted.
"I-It's fine, everyone thinks I'm a criminal." He said scratching the back of his head.
"No it is not!" He exclaimed, "I should not have degraded the name of a fellow classmate, especially one that has more motivation to work harder."
"O-Okay, if I accept your apology will you stop bowing, people are watching." Midoriya said.
"Yeah, Iida, you're embarrassing him." I said with a smirk. I found it kinda funny that he's getting all flustered especially since he was as cool as a cucumber a few hours ago.
"U-Uraraka!" He yelled as I laughed.
"Anyway Iida, we're heading to the station want to come with?" I asked.
He straightened himself up, "Yes, I would be glad to." He said as he stood next to Midoriya. I could tell from a glance that he was thankful that incident of awkwardness was over. Though in all honesty, I like it when he shows emotion. It helps people remember that he's just a teenager who lost the grasp on his emotions.
"Hey Uraraka, are you okay? You're spacing out." Midoriya said as I shot out of my thoughts.
"O-Oh, I'm fine. Oh hey we're here." I said looking at the station.
"Yeah, see you all tomorrow." Midoriya said as he boarded his train.
Yeah... see you tomorrow
End of Chapter