AN: The Phantom Keeper - Thanks! At this point she is vastly different from canon!Toga, but I'm trying to make it feel like she could have still gone down that route if Izuku didn't do Izuku things.

Also, not gonna lie, now that Himiko has completed her transformation to full Midoriya I would also love to see some fanart of her.

Jowen2713 - She already had the name and tendency to be over-emotional. The idea of dyeing her hair was the (really adorable) natural final step.

RickRich809 - I absolutely could have handled the scene better if I were a better writer, but I'm not so I'm leaning heavily on the comic book 'she changed her hairstyle and spent 30 seconds on a disguise, therefore she is effectively invisible to the general public' trope.

My take on Lady N is that she was a fundamentally good person who ended up in the unfortunate situation of being groomed by the HPSC to carry out assassinations and other dirty work for them. At least until her conscience got the better of her. It will come up in more detail later, obviously, but given that Himiko's quirk is purpose-built for doing dirty work, it wouldn't take much for this Lady N to notice her during the sports festival.

Of course, she wouldn't know that Himiko has been influenced by two years of exposure to Izuku's idealistic views and has also picked up ranks in 'Shonen Protagonist.'

Izuku was filled with nervous energy as he got ready for the day. Today was his first day actually attending UA! When he made his way to the living room, Himiko burst out laughing.

"Izu, you need to learn how to tie your tie!"

Izuku looked down at his tie, mentally compared it to Himiko's, and blushed. "I-I never had to do this before!"

Inko walked over and straightened it out for him. "It's ok dear, I know you're excited about today. I'll have to show you how to do it later." Once she was done she pulled him into a hug. "My baby boy, all grown up! I'm so proud of you!"

"T-thanks mom."

Pulling away, Inko also gave Himiko a hug before the two finally departed for the train station. Continuing her tradition, once they arrived at their stop Himiko waited for Atsuko before they walked the rest of the way to campus. Once they reached the main building, Izuku broke off from the two.

"I'll see you after school Izu."

Izuku looked momentarily confused. "Wait, won't I see you at the opening ceremonies?"

Himiko merely laughed while Atsuko had a guilty look on her face as the pair walked away from him, leaving Izuku feeling confused. Shaking his head to clear it, Izuku proceeded inside UA and began to look for his homeroom, beginning to feel nervous as he began to think about who could be in it.

I hope Bakugo isn't in my homeroom. It was nice when I didn't have to worry about him.

Unfortunately, Izuku's hopes were dashed the moment he opened the door and he saw Katsuki with his feet up on a desk arguing with the tall blue-haired student from the entrance exam. Apparently the tall student didn't like Katsuki leaning his feet up on a desk, while Katsuki was already trying to establish himself as better than everyone else. Wincing at the thought of being in the same class as those two, Izuku tried to sneak into the classroom.

However, as soon as he stepped through the door the blue-haired student noticed him and rushed over. "You were the student in our group who figured out that there was more to the test! I wanted to apologize to you for misjudging you during the exam. I am Tenya Iida."

Izuku was shocked for a moment, before he recovered and rubbed the back of his head. "Y-yeah. I'm Izuku Midoriya. Nice to meet you."

"I must say I was impressed. I would love to learn how you figured it out!"

Izuku continued to laugh nervously. "I-I'm not sure I could explain it, but I can try?"

Before Iida could respond Izuku heard a familiar voice behind them. "Hey, it's you! Your name is Izuku Midoriya, right?"

Izuku turned around and saw Uraraka smiling at him. He found it infectious and smiled back. "Hi! And you're Uraraka?"

"Yep! I tried to thank you for saving me during the exam, but they said you were passed out in the Nurse's Office and wouldn't be awake for a while." She held her hands behind her back. "I am glad you made it in! I was worried about you from the way you were talking at the end of the exam."

"I need to thank you as well. F-for saving me from falling. Also for trying to talk to Present Mic like that after the exam!"

"Wait? How did you know about that?"

"U-uhm… it actually came up in my acceptance letter?" Izuku laughed nervously.

Ochako found herself blushing. "T-that was supposed to be a secret! I couldn't help it though, you were so cool!"

Izuku felt his face heating up, but was saved by a voice behind them.

"It took ten seconds for someone to notice me."

Everyone in the class paused and turned to see a scruffy-looking man laying on the ground in a yellow full-body sleeping bag.

"That is unacceptable if you want to be a hero." He stood up and unzipped himself from his sleeping bag. As he stepped out Izuku recognized him as Eraserhead, and he felt a lump forming in his throat. Himiko had already warned him about how strict he was.

"In an emergency, a few seconds like that could mean the difference between life and death. Consider this your first lesson." He walked behind his desk, sleeping bag still in hand, and pulled out a box from behind the desk. "Here are your gym uniforms. You are going to put them on and follow me."

"B-but what about the opening ceremony!" Ochako protested.

Aizawa merely looked at her. "A pointless waste of time. Teachers here have a lot of leeway in how we run our classes, and so today we're going to do something more productive and test your quirks out."

Aizawa passed out the gym uniforms and led the students to the locker rooms where they all changed, before reconvening outside at the training field.

"Bakugo, you had the top score in the practical portion of the entrance exam, come here." Aizawa was standing next to a circle painted on the ground.

When Bakugo had entered the circle, Aizawa casually tossed him a ball. "We are going to go through the standard eight physical assessment tests today. They are the same ones you did in middle school. What was your furthest throw in the ball toss?"

"About 65 meters."

"In middle school they still don't allow the use of quirks, thanks to outdated quirk laws forbidding their general use. But now that you're training to be pro heroes, you operate under different rules. Try throwing the ball with your quirk."

Bakugo got a satisfied look on his face. "Finally!" He prepared a wind up and when he threw the ball he powered it with an explosion "DIE!"

The class watched as the ball got launched, before turning back to Aizawa who was holding a monitoring device. He turned the device around, revealing the results to the class. 705 meters

"This sounds fun!"

"Yeah, a chance to really go all out!"

Aizawa turned to glare at the class and Izuku felt himself visibly wince. "You think this is just going to be fun and games? Well then, let's start the next lesson. This is supposed to test your potential. The person coming in last place clearly has none, and will be expelled."

The class collectively gasped. "Wait, you can't do that!" Ochako began to protest. "That's not fair!"

"You want fair? You're in the wrong business. Let this be your second lesson - society isn't fair. It's your job as heroes to fight against this unfairness."

"Can he really expel someone?" A pink girl asked.

Aizawa looked directly at Izuku. "Tell them, Midoriya."

Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat as he saw all of his classmates turn to look at him. He hated being singled out like this. "Aizawa-sensei expelled his entire class last year over a training incident."

"What?!" A tall girl with a long ponytail exclaimed. "I thought he was bluffing?"

Izuku was about to explain about how half the class was able to re-enroll later, but Aizawa seemed to have other ideas. "I expect you all to take this seriously. Your quirks give you each a unique advantage, it is up to you to figure out how to use them during these assessment tests."

Looking down at his hand, Izuku suddenly realized what Emily meant. It would have been bad if I couldn't control One For All. It's still not instinctive, but I will be ok for these tests.

As the students grouped up around the ball toss, Ochako once again turned to him. "How did you know what Aizawa did last year?"

Izuku laughed nervously. "I um, have an older sister who goes here. It was kind of a big deal when Aizawa expelled his entire class last year."

"Oh man, I can imagine!" Ochako shuddered. "Hopefully nothing like that happens to us!"

Izuku looked at their teacher. "He wants us to give it our all. His students last year weren't taking things seriously."

That seemed to give Ochako pause. She looked like she was about to say something but then Aizawa called his name. "Good luck!" She called, giving him a thumb's up.

Izuku felt Aizawa glaring at him as he caught the ball. Looking down at his hand he began concentrating, feeling the energy of One For All dancing along his skin as he pushed five percent of its power into his arm. He pulled back into a wind up, and threw the ball.

Only to see it land a disappointingly short distance away. Izuku looked at the ball, and then his arm in confusion, only to feel Aizawa's presence behind him. He quickly spun around to face his teacher.

"In case you are wondering, I erased your quirk when I saw you using it." Looking up, Izuku saw Aizawa's eyes were wide open, red veins visible in them. "Nezu warned me, and I saw the footage from your entrance exam. Are you planning on breaking yourself again with your quirk?"

"N-No sir!" Izuku held up his hand and pushed some energy into it. "I actually have been practicing a lot with it!"

Aizawa seemed to brighten at that as he released his quirk. "Good. I was warned that you may try something foolish, and I won't stand for that. What would happen if you broke your arm but didn't finish a villain off?"

Izuku swallowed the lump in his throat, but refused to break eye contact. "I know I am not as powerful as my classmates yet, but I am not going to break my arm for some fitness test."

"Good. It sounds like you may have some promise after all."

Aizawa turned around, before turning his head to look at Izuku out of the corner of his eye. "One more thing. I already know All Might is fond of you, but that won't stop me from expelling you if you are out of line."

Izuku merely nodded in response as Aizawa returned to his previous position. "I'll give you one more try, this time I won't erase your quirk."

Picking up another ball, Izuku once again focused on channeling One For All into his hand before throwing it.

And at the moment of release, he felt soreness and stiffness in his arm. He quickly pulled it to his chest and began feeling it with his other arm. Crap! Aizawa's words got to me, I put too much energy in. Ok, nothing feels broken, and I didn't feel the pain that came along with fractures. I think I avoided eight percent at least! Izuku could feel Aizawa glaring at him, so he held up his arm, fighting through the soreness and flexing all of his fingers to prove his point. "I didn't break anything!"

Aizawa didn't say anything, but held up his device.

659 meters

Sighing in relief, Izuku began to walk back to continue his conversation with Ochako. Only to see Katsuki storming towards him. Fortunately, Katsuki only made it part way there before he was suddenly wrapped up in Aizawa's capture weapon.

"What the hell is this for?" Katsuki yelled at the teacher.

"Why are you attacking your fellow students?" Aizawa asked pointedly, before releasing Katsuki from the capture weapon. "Don't do that again. Or need I remind you that I can expel you at any time?"

Growling, Katsuki stomped back off, standing away from the rest of the students.

"What was that about?" Ochako asked when Izuku returned to the rest of the students.

"We um, went to middle school together, and he doesn't really like me." Izuku admitted.

"That really sucks. Maybe he'll calm down this year?"

"I hope so." Izuku stopped looking at Katsuki and returned his attention to his right arm, massaging it with his left to work the stiffness out.

"Are you ok?"

"Y-yeah! I just overdid it a little bit back there and my arm is sore as a result."

"That sucks! I guess with how strong you are there's going to be some drawbacks?"

Izuku merely laughed. "Y-yeah! I can usually control it, though." He frowned as he looked at his arm.

After the first test, the somber tone that had surrounded the students began to lift, and a few students began cheering for their classmates during the 50-meter dash. With those students suffering nothing more than a glare from Aizawa, a few more began cheering for the grip strength test, and by the end, almost everyone was encouraging each other, praising them as they figured out creative ways to use their quirks to pass each exam.

Everyone except Katsuki, who merely stood off to the side when it was not his turn and alternated between glaring at Izuku and ignoring everyone as if they were beneath him.

Finally, they finished the exams and gathered around Aizawa as his device began tabulating data. While Izuku wasn't personally worried, he still glanced around at his classmates, seeing the fear and worry on several of their faces. This isn't right. He was imagining himself in last place - if he never encountered All Might, if he managed to make it in despite being quirkless, only to have his chance ripped away on the first day of school.

It's a hero's job to fight against unfairness. Aizawa had told them, but what if he never had the chance to be a hero to begin with?

With the press of a button, Aizawa displayed the scores

1st place - Momo Yaoyorozu

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4th place - Izuku Midoriya

5th place - Tenya Iida

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11th place - Ochako Uraraka

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20th place - Minoru Mineta

Izuku clenched his fist as he looked at the short boy who came in last place and saw he was already crying. He took a step forward and opened his mouth to speak, but Aizawa spoke first.

"By the way, nobody is getting expelled."

"What?!" The class collectively asked.

"It was a logical ruse." Aizawa gave them all a satisfied smile. "I needed to make sure that you all were taking this seriously."

"Why would he call Midoriya out like that at the beginning then?" The tall girl - Momo Yaoyorozu - asked.

"It's because he wanted us to believe the threat was real." Izuku said, looking at the ground. "By having me confirm that he's willing to expel students, nobody would think that he was bluffing, and everyone would be forced to take this seriously."

"I'm glad to see that you figured it out, Midoriya."

Izuku looked at Aizawa. "I-I don't appreciate you using me like that!"

Aizawa merely looked at Izuku for a few moments, while the class watched. "Then next time remember my previous lesson."

Izuku put his thumb on his lip as he considered his words, before nodding to Aizawa, satisfied with the answer. "I will!"

"Now return to the classroom. Syllabi for your classes will be on your desks, and there are still presentations from our school counselors as well as the head of our support department before you are dismissed for the day."

As Izuku was packing up, Iida came up to him. "Midoriya, would you mind if I walked to the train station with you?"

"Sure!" Izuku smiled as he closed his bag.

"Something has been bothering me - what did Aizawa mean when he told you to remember his previous lesson? You seemed happy with his answer, but I still haven't figured it out."

"Remember the hidden score of the entrance exam?"

"Of course!"

"It was a warning that this is not the only time we are going to have hidden elements in our scores. He will be testing us - like today where he was threatening to expel a student - to gauge our reactions. On one hand, there is the natural reaction we would have as students. However, there are times he will be looking for the response he would expect from a hero."

"I see! At the entrance exam, I was worried about my own safety. After all, if I was injured by the giant robot, I would not be able to earn any more points. However you acted as a hero would, and rushed back to save Uraraka."

"Yes, Exactly!" Izuku smiled and nodded. "Aizawa was saying we will be facing more scenarios like that."

"I will admit, this wasn't what I was expecting from school."

Izuku threw his bag over his shoulder and began to walk to the door. "Well, this school produces some of the country's top heroes for a reason, right?"

"Hmm. You do raise a good point. Perhaps there is something to these non-traditional teaching methods after all!"

The two changed their shoes at their lockers and then left the building. As they made their way down the stairs, Izuku slowed down as he began looking around for his sister. It seemed like all of the other students had already left for the day, and Himiko didn't wait for him.

"Hey guys, wait up!" They heard a familiar voice and turned around to see Ochako racing to catch up. "You're going to the train station too right?"

"Yep!"

"Same here! Can I join you guys?"

"Sure!"

"It would be our pleasure Uraraka." Tenya turned to Izuku. "You seemed like you were looking for someone, is there anyone else we should be waiting for?"

Izuku looked at Tenya. "I was actually wondering if my sister was going to wait for me." He looked at the mostly empty pathway. "I guess the quirk assessment ran long enough that she left with her friends already."

"Oh, right, you did mention you have a sister who also attends UA."

"Yeah, she just started her second year here."

"I can't wait to meet her!"

"Wait, did your sister tell you about the entrance exam?" A switch seems to have been flipped as Iida stopped in his tracks and gave Izuku a hard stare.

Izuku laughed nervously. "Actually no! She was warned there would be consequences if she revealed anything about the entrance exam to me."

The answer seemed to satisfy Iida as he slammed his fist into his palm. "Of course! It was foolish of me to suspect anything less from such a prestigious institution!" He smiled at Izuku. "In that case, I will be interested in meeting her as well. I imagine she will have valuable insight for us first years!"

Izuku could only laugh nervously. "Y-yeah. I'm sure you will meet her tomorrow after school, if we walk together again?"

"Sounds great!"

"I do not mind at all."

As they were walking and talking, Izuku felt himself smiling as a strange warmth blossomed in his chest - for the first time he was making friends on his own, instead of simply tagging along with Himiko's friends.

When Izuku finally got home, he called out from the entryway. "Hey, I'm ho-ack!"

Himiko had tackled him and wrapped him in a tight embrace. "Yay! Izu survived his first day!"

"H-hi Himi. You knew I was going to have Aizawa as my homeroom teacher, didn't you?"

"Kan-sensei may have let slip that you weren't going to be in his homeroom." Himiko admitted as she let go of her brother, giving him an innocent look. "And it wouldn't have been fair of me to warn you!"

"I think I managed to impress him, at least? Or at least kept him from expelling me." He laughed nervously as he pushed himself off the floor.

"Aizawa is super scary, but deep down he cares. At least that's what Fuwa keeps telling Emily."

Inko finally came to meet Izuku at the entrance as well. "How are your classmates this year?"

"Unfortunately I'm in the same class as Bakugo after all. At least our classmates this year seem like they won't let him get away with his usual nonsense." Izuku frowned, but then his face brightened. "Oh! But I met a couple nice people today! I think we're friends now?"

"Yay! Izu made friends!" Himiko cheered, before giving Izuku the predatory look that always scares him. "I can't wait to meet them tomorrow."

AN: And thus, Izuku survives the first day of school without incident. I'm sure the rest of the week will go just as smoothly for him.

70k words and roughly 20 chapters, and we finally kick off the school year with everyone at UA! Not going to lie, I had expected to get here sooner, but I appreciate all of the love up to this point, considering how heavily this work has focused on original ideas so far. There's still going to be plenty of that, but now we get the rest of 1-A involved on top of all the Class 2 OCs.