AN: I have created an offshoot story that compiles all of my OCs, as well as info I have revealed about them. If you check my other stories it is titled 'Himiko's Hero Academia'

That will also eventually have more worldbuilding and slice-of-life stories detailing the antics of class 1-B, before they become class 2-B, Izuku joins class 1-A and things start to explode. But nothing in there will be mandatory reading to follow along here, except checking the OC reference list to learn more about the background classmates.

RickRich809 - glad you like it. I'm of the camp 'All Might would make a pretty alright mentor, except he sucks at teaching, and Izuku just goes along with it because he sucks at being assertive.' Not that it's going to all be smooth sailing for Izuku, but I'm hoping I end up with him being more than All Might 2.0?

Lightgiver - Thanks! Apologies to all the IzuToga shippers, but I focused on Himiko's desire to be accepted by society for who she is. That ultimately led to the idea of their relationship being familial rather than romantic.

She'll still find love though, I just ask that people don't hate when it's not with Izuku or Ochako.

I was always wondering why people ignored the age difference and just stuck Himiko in class 1-A. After writing 60k words (and counting) and having to invent a class wholesale because of the absolute lack of information on second year students, I now understand why!

On the morning of the first day of the sports festival, a nervous energy filled class 1-B. A little over a week ago, Aizawa-sensei expelled his entire class due to an incident at USJ. Which meant that for the sports festival this year, there was only one Heroics class participating in the festival - theirs. A nervous energy filled the class as they stood in the waiting area, impatiently waiting for the announcement calling them into the stadium.

Once cue, they entered the stadium. Present Mic could be heard over the loudspeaker. "And now, introducing the Heroics students of the sports festival, class 1-B!" And everyone in the class could feel the attention on them.

Present Mic continued. "With only one heroics class right now, will this be their time to shine? Now introducing General Studies courses C, D, and E! As well as support courses F, G, and H!" A few students stole glances at the other classes and saw the same nervous energy coursing through them as well. For the students who had watched sports festivals in the past, the air felt different this time.

The students all met up around the stage erected on one side of the arena as Midnight ascended it. "Oooh, look at all this youthful vigor this year!" She gave a dangerous smile. "I can't wait to see how you all impress me." She pointed out into the crowd. "But first! To give the opening address, the student who scored the highest in the entrance exam from Class 1-B, Habiki Hideo!"

Hideo climbed up to the stand and looked around at the other classes. "I know this year is a little unconventional - but like Present Mic said, this is an opportunity. Since the beginning of the school year, I have learned that anyone can be a hero. It's not just about your quirk, but rather the drive and passion of the person. So for those watching in the stands - I ask that you don't discount my fellow students, just because they're not on the Hero track. And to my fellow first years - now is the time for you to shine. If you want to be a hero, now is your chance for you to stand up and let the world know!"

A loud cheer erupted among all of the first year students, the energy surrounding the general studies and support classes changed somehow after his speech. Hideo smiled and pumped his fist into the air. "Plus Ultra!"

The entire stadium responded "Plus Ultra!" and Hideo returned to his classmates, who were smiling at him and congratulating him on the speech. In truth, he only scored 4th overall in the practical exam, but with Class 1-As absence, he was the perfect student to give the speech this year.

"And now, to introduce the first event of this year." Midnight held out our microphone, and a giant wheel appeared on the screen, spinning only to stop on 'Maze race.' The image of the wheel being replaced by a giant maze.

"Outside the arena is a two kilometer long maze. Your goal as students is to navigate the maze and be the first to the end! But beware, there are a number of obstacles in the maze waiting to slow you down! The first 42 people to reach the end will be moving to the next round!"

As the classes were ushered to the entrance, Himiko felt a hand on her shoulder, and Sakura whispering in her ear. "Stay close to me when this starts." Looking at her out of the side of her eye, Himiko nodded in understanding. Shortly afterwards, the students were standing in front of 5 large gates - the first challenge of the maze.

When the horn sounded to announce the start of the race, Himiko didn't charge forward like the majority of the students. Instead she locked eyes on Sakura and forced her way over to her, seeing their mutual friends all grouping up. Sakura then voiced her plan. "Sorry to hold you all back, but there's nothing in the rules against working together, so I thought it best we handled this as a team?"

"I think I speak for everyone here when I say we're in!" Emily declares, earning supportive nods from the other three. "So, Sakura, you're obviously our navigator, where do we go?"

Sakura pointed to the gates with students still frantically moving back and forth between them as they were forced to double back. "Let's go into the 4th gate, that is the only one that hasn't had students running back out."

The five continued as a group, easily settling into a familiar rhythm. Himiko and Atsuko were scouting ahead, disabling or blocking the traps they found - from nets and mines filled with glue, to the occasional robot from the entrance exam. Meanwhile Hideo and Song were periodically using their quirks to create a shortcut by blowing holes in walls that weren't trapped. And they were all guided by Sakura who is using her hearing to eliminate dead ends.

They were about halfway through when they heard the announcement. "And we have our winner! Mawata Fuwa from General Studies is the first through the maze! But the show's not over folks, everyone else is only halfway through!"

"Fuwa, wasn't she originally in class 1-A?" Atsuko asked.

"Yes, she applied to join general studies after her expulsion. It appears that the school rushed through the process to allow her and about a dozen others back in, just in time for the sports festival." Sakura replied.

Undaunted by the news, the group continued onward, finding more traps and less clues as their group pulled ahead of the other students. They finally made it to the last challenge - an open room, with the goal at the other side, and as they began carefully crossing the room, they saw another group of students - they weren't the only members of Class 1-B who decided to group up.

"Quick, we can still beat them!" They heard Yuki call out behind them as she shifted into her liquid form and began racing across the room as a living wave.

"Guess we were being too careful, go!" Hideo punched the ground and unleashed a massive shockwave forward, triggering a number of landmines and coating most of the ground in glue before he broke into a run.

Himiko found herself running alongside the rest of her friends, dodging and sliding underneath traps that were trying to catch her, meanwhile hearing the sounds of Yuki catching up. She forced herself to go faster, racing across the finish line, only stopping to turn around once she was back in the arena.

"Damn Midoriya, I didn't know you had it in you!" Yuki called out as she reformed into her human form. "Not many people can keep up with me like that."

Himiko was panting, but happy. "We had the distance advantage, if you were any closer I would have been done for!"

"True!"

The two groups of classmates and friends met back up and congratulated each other, looking at their final standings as the board updated.

1 - Mawata Fuwa - General Studies

2 - Kenji Ryo - Heroics

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5 - Himiko Midoriya - Heroics

6 - Amaya Yuki - Heroics

7 - Habiki Hideo - Heroics

8 - Atsuko Hotoko - Heroics

9 - Emily Song - Heroics

10 - Tomoe Sakura - Heroics

"Yes!" Himiko cheered. "We all made it!"

In the end, all of Class 1-B managed to make it into the top 42. Besides them, an unprecedented six students from the support studies, and 16 students from general studies also made it to the next round - although half of the general studies students were former members of class 1-A, fighting for their right to rejoin the heroics course.

After being given a short break, the students who moved onto the second round were once again gathered on the field, in front of Midnight and the podium. "Well that was an exciting race! And many of you have even learned the value of teamwork. That's great! Those skills will surely come in handy in the next round as well, where you will be teaming up for the elimination match." She gestured to the screen, which changed to a spinning roulette wheel, stopping on 'Capture the Flag.'

"You each will form teams of two to four, and will be given a flag worth a number of points based on your teammate's individual standings in the first race. You will have fifteen minutes to capture as many opposing flags and return them to your 'base' as you can. The top sixteen finalists from the teams that have scored the most points will advance to the finals!"

"So, we're teaming up, right?" Emily was in front of Himiko, a smirk on her face. "I've seen what you've done in our infiltration classes, and there's no way I'm letting someone else poach you first."

Himiko found herself smiling back. "Teaming up worked well last time, I don't see why we should break it up."

"Actually." Sakura spoke up. "My friend from the support course, and some of his classmates made it in as well." Sakura gestured to the group of support students who were waving at her. "I am going to join them for this round. After Hideo's speech, I told myself that I would support him if he made it through the first round."

"Aww, but you're also super strong for this!" Emily was visibly pouting.

Sakura smiled at that. "Exactly. You all are amazing and don't need my help."

Hideo was the next to speak up. "I think I'm going to follow Sakura's lead. I know my quirk won't absolutely destroy this challenge like Midoriya's or Sakura's will, but I think some of the general studies kids could use the experience from our heroics lessons."

"Suko, what about you?" Himiko asked.

Atsuko gave the pair a reassuring smile. "I will team up with the two of you. You'll need someone to keep the two of you from killing each other, after all." Both Emily and Himiko sputtered in indignation, earning a laugh from Atsuko. "But who should we pick for the fourth?"

"If you ladies don't mind, I think I could bring a lot to the team." They turned and saw a pink-haired girl approaching them. "My name is Mawata Fuwa, and I think we could work well together."

After the 15 minutes of pairing up and strategizing were up, the students formed 13 teams in total. They were all ushered off the field. Then parts of the arena floor opened up, and 13 small bunkers rose out of the ground, one for each team. Each bunker was a small structure consisting of 2 front rooms, and a larger back room with a flagpole to hang the flags from.

Himiko looked at her teammates as they walked out to the central bunker - since Fuwa had the highest point total, not only did they have an additional 10 million points on their score, which ensured that whomever held their flag at the end was guaranteed to be in first place, but they also were assigned the central structure. Midnight explained that this was apparently a lesson about heroics that they needed to learn - when you're at the top of the rankings, everyone will be paying attention to you.

Emily's original plan was for a more even split between offense and defense, but with Fuwa and her 10 million points, they decided that Fuwa, Atsuko, and Emily will all stay at the bunker and play defense. With Fuwa's cloud-walking, Atsuko's barriers, and Emily's light arrows, they were confident in their ability to hold their flag. Meanwhile, Himiko's job was to try and cause as much chaos as possible, a task she was perfectly happy with, since it let her show off a bit. After all, if people were busy elsewhere, that meant less pressure on her teammates.

Himiko started by cautiously weaving between buildings until she found a general studies student who was carrying a flag back to their own base. Taking a deep breath, she blanked herself out and ran out, grabbing him in an arm lock and pulling him behind a bunker, out of line of sight of his teammates. She tossed him onto the ground where he landed with a heavy thud, and she was on top of him, pinning him to the ground.

"Sorry about this, but I need a teensy bit of your blood." She bit into his arm, drawing a small stream of blood that she licked up, and in one swift motion grabbed his flag while he was instinctively recoiling at her bite. She stood up and activated her transformation, leaning close to his ear and speaking to him in his own voice. "I suggest you don't follow me."

Taking a moment to put on a slightly panicked face, Himiko jogged back to the student's teammates waving her flag. "You don't know how much trouble I had getting this!" She almost felt bad when they happily let her walk right in through the front door, expecting her to hook the flag onto their own pole. That is, until she realized that they stopped paying attention to her as soon as she was inside. They were making it too easy on her! Making a decision, she dropped her transformation before grabbing their flag and making a run for it. "Sorry about that, thanks for the flag though!"

She heard their shouts of protest and when she looked back saw that one of them was trying to chase after her, but she was too fast and quickly began gaining distance. She also seemed to confuse them by not running towards her own central base. Instead, she was making a bee-line to the bunker Sakura was in. As she approached she saw a support student wearing a motorcycle helmet similar to the one Sakura wears as part of her hero costume, levelling some sort of projectile launcher at her. "Hey hold on there! I'm here to talk to Sakura. I know she's in there and she can hear me!"

Sure enough, the student stopped pointing the launcher at her and ushered her inside, where Sakura was standing in the front room. "I assume you have a good reason to be here, Midoriya?"

"I come with a peace offering!" Himiko offers her the two flags. "If you avoid going after our flag, these are yours!"

"And what is stopping us from just taking them from you and then going for your flag?" The support student behind her asked.

Himiko just rolled her eyes. "Please, you wouldn't be able to stop us from taking all of your flags."

"I am afraid she is right." Sakura said. "Their team would have no problem overpowering us and reclaiming their flag, as well as all of ours."

The student crossed his arms. "They're your friends Tomoe, if you think this truce is the way to go, we can avoid the middle."

"It's a deal, then." Sakura smiled as Himiko handed over the two flags. "Good luck keeping your own flag."

"I'll see you all in the next round!" Himiko called out as she left.

Having secured one temporary alliance, Himiko spent the rest of the time sowing confusion among the other teams. She was happily bouncing around, using her agility and stealth to ambush unaware students and gather a few drops of their blood, and then once she had a few potential transformations built up inside of her she just had fun. She would grab flags from people thinking she was their ally, casually dropped flags to get people fighting over them, and even in a few cases handed flags over to Sakura and Hideo's teammates. It had the desired effect - by the end she had people actively focused on her, and not on her teammates who were comfortably holding down their base.

This continued until the 15 minutes were up. At the end Himiko was tired, but happy as she returned to her base in the middle. She had done her job masterfully - by the end half the teams had turned against each other, and her own team only had to deal with the odd person trying to assault their base and capture their flag.

"Ok, remind me never to get on your bad side." Fuwa sad as Himiko walked into the bunker with a huge smile on her face. "I have never seen one person cause so much chaos before."

Himiko just leaned against a wall. "Thanks!"

"No, I should be thanking you all." Fuwa said as she looked at their 10 million point flag standing untouched. "The three of you gave me the chance that I wanted. I screwed up badly and got expelled for it. I may not deserve a second chance, but I want one anyway."

"If you get back in, you'd better be the best hero you can possibly be, otherwise Midoriya and I will come after you." Emily stated, and Himiko nodded in agreement.

Concern briefly crossed Fuwa's face. "I will keep that in mind."

The team left their temporary base and returned to the rally area where the other teams were also assembling. When they arrived Fuwa broke off to return to the other general studies students while the remaining three met up with their classmates to see how they did. They didn't get long to talk, however, before Midnight returned to the stage. "The points have been tallied and we have our top teams!" Midnight announces, stepping to the side to reveal the scoreboard.

1 - Team Fuwa - 10,000,535 points

2 - Team Ryo - 1,165 points

3 - Team Sakura - 955 points

4 - Team Hideo - 685 points

"The top four teams each had 4 students, so all of the students on these teams will be advancing to the final round!"

Everyone had a moment to cheer and congratulate each other, before Midnight called for silence so she could continue. "And now, it is time to reveal the final game of the festival." With a flourish of her microphone, the screen once again shifted to the wheel, which was rapidly spinning, stopping on 'Sword Fighting' before the image changed to an image of two stick figures swinging katanas at each other.

"Students will be given a reinforced foam Katana to duel with, and the first person to connect 3 times will be declared the winner. Alternatively, you can force your opponent to concede."

"That actually makes sense, given the make-up of the finalists." Sakura noted. "With the number of general studies students here, it would be best to pick something to handicap our class compared to some activity that was more hand to hand combat oriented."

"Yeah, and it forces us to get creative with our quirks!" Emily interjected. "Hideo and I can't just blow people out of the ring, so we will have to show our ability to think on our feet. I like it!"

Himiko was silent as her friends talked. She knew this wasn't ideal for showing off her quirk - but she wanted to try! She just had to figure out how.

"And here are the brackets for the final round!" Midnight raised her microphone and struck a pose, and the screen once again changed, to show the brackets.

Himiko saw her first round opponent, and her throat went dry. This was the worst possible outcome for her.

Himiko Midoriya vs Atsuko Hotoko

"Suko, can we talk?"

Atsuko stood up in surprise. "Himi, shouldn't you be in your own locker room getting ready?"

"Yeah, about that." Himiko bit her lower lip. "I have a favor to ask for our match?"

"If you want me to throw the match, there's no chance." She crossed her arms and gave Himiko a confident grin.

"No! Nothing like that. It's just - we both know this format is going to heavily favor you." Himiko sighed. "I promise to give it my all, but I'm also being realistic in my chances here. We've both practiced together enough to know each other's fighting styles, and the format with our quirks in play just tilts that in your favor. But the real problem I'm having is that even if I somehow manage to win, I just can't see any way to show off my quirk - against you or any of the opponents."

"So before I kick your ass you want me to give you a chance to drink my blood so you can transform?"

"Yep!"

"My, how bold of you." Atsuko giggled as Himiko blushed. The room fell into a heavy silence as she thought it over. "How about this, right when the match starts I let you drink some blood so you can transform. We can even make a show of it. But then after that, we reset positions and begin the fight proper? No dirty tricks while I leave myself open."

Himiko jumped up in the air and cheered. "Deal! You're the best Suko!"

Atsuko's confident grin was replaced by her more gentle smile. "What are friends for?"

"Begin!" They heard Midnight's call to begin the fight, but instead of the two fighting, the crowd was confused when Himiko and Atsuko both placed their weapons on the ground and calmly walked towards the center of the ring, facing each other.

"Are you ready to do this Suko?"

"Yep." Atsuko offered out her hand, which Himiko gently took into her own, and with great care leaned down and bit into her palm. She could hear the crowd gasp as she felt the blood pool in her mouth. Don't listen to them. This is why you are doing this, so that the next little kid doesn't have to go through what you did.

She let go of Atsuko's hand and closed her mouth, swallowing Atsuko's blood and activating her quirk as she felt the warm slime wrap around her, transforming her to match her friend. She could hear Present Mic in the background saying something, but all she could do was focus on Atsuko at that moment, afraid to look anywhere else and see what the reaction was. Atsuko walked over and hugged a shaking Himiko, before raising Himiko's arm in the air and gesturing, as if she was presenting her. "Think that was good enough?"

Himiko flashed her a quick smile. "Yeah, that should do it. Thank you for letting me do that."

"Anytime Himi."

The two walked back to their original positions and retrieved their weapons, before bowing to each other. Himiko let her transformation drop away as she slid into a fighting stance, waiting for Atsuko to do the same, and then she charged.

She tried to feint high and switch to a low strike, but Atsuko was intimately familiar with her fighting style, and had created a barrier that she felt her katana connect with, bouncing off slightly. She barely had time to recover and raise her katana into a defensive posture before Atsuko swung in, their blades bouncing off of each other.

"A feint, really? If that's your opener you're in trouble Himi."

Himiko grinned back. "I'm just warming up." She then swung in with a series of trusts, realizing too late that Atsuko took her left hand off of her hilt until she felt her katana strike another barrier, causing Himiko to lose her balance, the momentary slip up being all her friend needed and Himiko felt the katana connect with her side.

"First point goes to Hotoko!" She heard Present Mic loudly scream over the speaker system and Himiko hopped back to give herself space.

"Are you ready to give up yet?"

"No chance!" Himiko called before she charged again. Ok, normal strategies don't work, time to be a little reckless. She saw Atsuko's sword rise up and could see the barrier forming in front of her, but at the last second she hopped to her left, swinging her sword wildly to her right as she passed, hoping it would connect.

"A trade in points! Midoriya's wild gamble managed to get her past Hotoko's barriers, but Hotoko was fast enough to land a blow as well! The score is now 2 to 1!"

Himiko didn't stop and kept moving, only turning around when she had gained some space.

"Good one Himi! But not good enough!" She was openly smiling, confident in her advantage.

If I can just distract her for one second. Atsuko charged in and Himiko now found herself on the defensive, parrying Atsuko's rapid thrusts. At least she can't use her barriers when attacking. Himiko was at a standstill until Atsuko made the mistake of switching back to swings, at which point Himiko countered with a firm swing of her own, hitting her opponents weapon with more force than Atsuko was expecting.

Now! While Atsuko was distracted trying to regain her grip Himiko made several quick hops around her to get behind her, and attempted to use her blanking technique. Letting her instincts guide her, she swung her sword, connecting a second time, landing a blow on her opponent's shoulder.

"Midoriya manages to tie it up folks! It is now a match point for both of our contestants!"

The two girls both hopped back to give each other space.

"I thought I wasn't good enough?" It was Himiko's turn to throw out the taunts.

"You're getting better!"

Atsuko and Himiko began circling each other, each looking for an opening. Atsuko was now more wary and Himiko could see her rapidly generating small barriers off of her hands as they moved, their telltale shimmer quickly appearing and disappearing as they moved.

Atsuko stopped and got into a ready stance, and Himiko, not seeing the effects of her opponent's quirk, decided to gamble on what worked before, charging in. She was getting ready to dodge to the side again, but suddenly her foot caught on the corner of something. When she looked down she saw the shimmer of Atsuko's barriers, right above the floor of the arena. She turned just in time to see Atsuko look guilty as her katana came down and touched Himiko's back, scoring the final point.

"Hotoko wins! What an intense match!"

"Owww." Himiko landed on her face, her training momentarily forgotten. When she pushed herself up she saw Atsuko looking guilty as she offered her hand.

"Sorry Himi, I know that was dirty."

"It worked though." Himiko grabbed her friend's hand and used the leverage to pull herself up.

"What an incredible display of sportsmanship from our competitors, let's hear it for them!"

Midnight came out to raise Atsuko's hand, the crowd cheering for her while Himiko walked off the field.

As Himiko returned to the bleachers she saw Sakura turning and waving to get her attention. "Midoriya, you did great!"

She looked up and smiled. "Yeah? How are people taking it?" This is the part that worried her, how people were going to respond.

"Really well!" Her friend said, and held her hand out. Himiko walked down to her seat and took Sakura's hand, letting Sakura use her quirk on her.

"You know, a quirk like that would be super useful for information gathering. Nobody would suspect a thing!"

"It's a shame that her method for transformation causes such a visceral reaction, she could be a top ranking hero if it wasn't for the popularity contest aspect."

"I would love to have her as a sidekick at my agency. There's so many applications for a shapeshifting quirk."

"You're right, I feel bad now for my snap judgment when I saw her just bite into her opponent at first."

"I almost wish she didn't have to debut herself on national television like that. Hopefully too many villains don't become paranoid once they learn there's someone with a shapeshifting quirk at UA."

Himiko felt tears running down her cheeks and a smile creep across her face as she let go of Sakura's hand, her hearing returning to normal. "See? For the underground heroes, the match afterwards didn't matter as much as your stunt right at the beginning."

"That's great!" Newfound determination found its way to her face. "And Izu is right, I will just have to show everyone else that blood based quirk isn't bad!"

After a few minutes Atsuko sat down next to her with a grin on her face. "Better luck next year Himi."

Himiko rolled her eyes. "Three weeks in and Hideo's already rubbing off on you. If we weren't in an open arena like that I would have kicked your ass and we both know it."

Atsuko gave her best Aizawa impersonation in her response. "A hero must be prepared to fight in any situation, if you don't like it you can always leave."

Himiko laughed at that and punched her friend's shoulder.

"Seriously though, did our little show work out for you?"

"Yeah, it did." Himiko smiled as she pointed to where the underground heroes were still talking and occasionally pointing in their direction. "It seems that some people actually were impressed by what I can do."

For the early rounds, the matches were an even mix of quick and flashy, and more traditional 'quirkless' rounds where the students couldn't really leverage their quirks to an advantage.

Emily came out strong, a clear favorite of the crowd with her boisterous nature and her flashy quirk - using her light spheres to daze her opponents and knock away their weapons. Meanwhile Hideo's quirk made it painful for anyone who tried to knock his sword aside as it refused to budge.

Unfortunately for Sakura she faced Mawata Fuwa in the first round - Fuwa was able to fill part of the space with fog, which made it difficult for people to watch - but the results were undeniable when she managed to rapidly score two points against Sakura. Sakura's heightened senses made the third point difficult for Fuwa to obtain the final point, as she figured out how to track her when she reformed after her teleport, but Sakura's reaction times couldn't keep up.

In the second round Hideo knocked Atsuko out - they were both playing a game of defense, and unfortunately his abilities to just completely nullify her sword swings won out against her barriers. Meanwhile Emily knocked out a general studies student who was not one of the original members of class 1-A, and Fuwa knocked out the last remaining support student in the bracket.

In the third round, Emily was forced to fight dirty against Hideo, using her light to blind and distract him so that she could weave in and use her speed advantage to ultimately win. Meanwhile Fuwa faced off against another member of class 1-B - Kenji Ryo, who used the endurance provided by his super regeneration to just outlast his opponents so far, but Fuwa's minor teleportation proved to be too much for him in the end.

Then it came down to Emily versus Fuwa in the finals. Everyone in class 1-B was cheering their classmate on. Emily had a good idea of how Fuwa's quirk worked, and as soon as the match started, when Fuwa tried to breath a heavy fog into the arena, Emily released two waves of searing light to cut the fog into ribbons - severely limiting Fuwa's ability to maneuver. Fuwa attempted to refill the arena with fog, but every attempt was met with more waves of light, forcing it to dissipate. With Fuwa denied her maneuverability advantage, Emily was able to press the offensive and score the necessary points, securing her victory in the sports festival.

A pencil was scratching answers onto a piece of paper as Izuku was trying to do his homework as quickly as he could. Today was the first day of UA's sports festival! It was a time-honored tradition in the Midoriya household that he would come home from school, sit down with his mom and they would watch the recordings together. Last year they added Himiko to the tradition, although she was unsure about the whole thing at the time, but she was unsure about everything back then.

This year was completely different - Himiko was actually in it! He knew he was going to pay for it later by pushing his exercise routine off to later in the evening, but he didn't care. He had to see the recording as soon as possible, as soon as she got home! And so with a fervent energy he was racing through his homework, trying to get as much done as he could.

"Mom, Izu, I'm home!" He heard Himiko call out from the entrance of their apartment.

"Hi Himi, how did today go?"

"No spoilers!" Izuku shouted before his sister could respond. She knew what happened, obviously, but he didn't! And he wasn't about to let her ruin his fun by giving everything away.

"I'm happy with how things turned out." Himiko poked her head into Izuku's room, a huge smile on her face. "Get out here so we can watch it! Or I'm going to start talking!"

Izuku just glared at his sister, but quickly broke into a smile of his own as he set aside his homework, trading his school books for his UA hero notebook, and the three of them settled onto the couch. Inko pulled up the recording and got a box of tissues ready as they began to watch the day's events.

AN: The logistics of the sports festival being held in a single day makes no sense to me, so I am treating it as a big 3-day event, with each day allowing a different year to show off.

And a surprise cameo! With only one canon Year 2 student in MHA, of course she needs to show up. I realized about an hour after I came up with her quirk I made her a weaker Kurogiri, but eh, I still went with it.