Sorry for reposting, but immense grammar mistakes were really bugging me.

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"So you finally came out of your hiding place." Endeavor sneered as he stepped towards the scared waterbender. "I was curious how long it would be until you showed your face again."

Katara swallowed hard as she moved backwards from the enraged hero, his cold eyes seemingly staring through her soul. If luck was an ability, she would have most certainly had the worst of it. She hadn't seen him since that first night she arrived in Japan, and was hoping to keep it that way for as long as she could. But now… he was here right in front of her.

She took a deep breath and glared back at him. "Not like I was hiding in a hole. I had someone kind who offered me a place to stay."

"Ah yes, I heard from the chief you were going to be staying with your little hero. Young Ingenium. The hot shot rookie aid…" he sneered. "That boy always offers help to those who are lost…" he gave a snicker towards the girl in front of him. "… or have no purpose being there."

Her blood ran hot hearing those words, her fists clenching at her sides. "Tensei has helped me in ways I can never forget. I will always be in his debt."

He laughed to her reaction. "Oh? Calling him by his first name? The pet seems to have gotten attached to its master." Endeavor felt a bit of joy seeing her teeth clench in anger before he crossed his arms. "I don't know what kind of bullshit story you fed to the two of them about your situation, but I know a snake when I see one."

Katara's fists shook in anger to his accusations towards her. More importantly, the insults he made towards the people that helped her through this time made it worse. "So, what are you going to do? Take me in for more questioning?"

Her eyes noticed his fists emit a small glow, causing her to regret saying that.

"That could be arranged..." He snickered before dissipating his fire fists. "... But I'd rather not cause trouble for my prize's exam tomorrow."

Katara raised her eyebrow in confusion. "Your prize?"

"Of course, why do you think I would be here?" he nodded towards the recommendation sign near the door. "He's above you basic kids, so his test is different than yours. I made sure that I made him that way."

As he walked passed her, Katara realized what he was talking about, feeling a sickening taste rise inside of her. "Made your kid that way? Is that all that matters to you?"

He stopped walking and turned his head back to face her. "It's not like some peasant girl like you would ever understand. My ambition will drive him to be greater than any of you." His mouth curled up into a sinister grin. "Don't worry, I'm not going to even bring any of this to him. If by some miracle a rat like you makes it into UA, I'll let him simply over shine all of you would be heroes."

The young waterbender's breath came in deep inhales as she fought to control her anger. She didn't know this kid of his, but her mind immediately thought to the deranged daughter of the fire lord she had engaged multiple times with. Before she could respond, his cold voice rang through the hallways once more.

"And by the way girl, I still haven't forgotten the trouble you caused back then. Even if you claim to have changed, I'll say this; You take a step out of line again, and I'll personally be the one to put you away."

After those words, the flame hero was out of sight, leaving the angered Katara standing alone I the hallway.

In a back of the main UA building, a darkened room held many figures overlooking the dozens of screens lining the main wall. The rows of teachers eyed the many students across the monitors, eyeing the ones that really caught their attention.

"Amazing, this years students are quite remarkable…" Midnight whispered out loud, giving her lips a quick lick. "It's been a while since we had so many extraordinary kids at once."

"Agreed…" the gray Cementoss responded as he typed on the keypad to pull up the scoreboard for battle points. "Number one for sure caught my attention."

Many of the staff all started murmuring to themselves when a member from testing Group A came on screen. "This one, Katsuki Bakugo, scored seventy seven battle points alone. That's towards the school record."

"Agreed, his raw power and battle prowess are leagues above many of the others…" A small bear-mouse creature spoke, "… but he does not seem concerned about others when they needed assistance. So rescue points may be scarce for him in the judging section.''

"Scarce? Perhaps non-existent." Powerloader chuckled to himself.

"Yes, but there are two others that I really want to discuss as well." the small principle moved the keyboard and blew up the screen from testing ground B, revealing a certain green haired boy launch into the sky towards the large zero pointer. "This boy, Izuku Midoriya, while didn't receive any battle points, risked everything to save another student."

Principle Nezu smiled and scrolled forward in the video. "He was able to completely destroy a zero point battle droid. It's been years since we have seen that."

"True… but those injuries are quite severe that he sustained." the eerie voice of Ectoplasm answered.

"And yet he rushed in knowing the risk, just to save another…" A skeletal looking man with yellow hair responded, "...Only a true hero would do something like that."

Nezu gave a small smile to his skinny friend, knowing exactly who the green haired child was. He turned back to the screen and scrolled to his next student. "Now this is one I was a bit surprised on as well. In testing ground C."

The screen changed to a video of Katara slashing through the many robots in the street. Her water cut them like they were nothing more than cardboard. Midnight grinned and adjusted her small mask. "Now there is one to watch. Very unique quirk she has."

Cementoss nodded in agreement as he watched her freeze a few more bots. "Ah yes. I noticed her earlier as well. She has quite a variable quirk to go between both ice and water at her choice, She is one of the more talented ones I've seen at this early of an age."

The skinny Toshinori Yagi watched in amazement to the video in front of him. Something about this girl he was seeing was different than the other students. The way she moved, the style of fighting she was using… it was second nature to her.

She was definitely no newbie when It came to using her abilities.

He then watched as she rushed headfirst to save someone else, just like his own protégé did in his own testing ground. He gave a small smile as the young girl on screen used her water to hold back the massive robot. "So young Midoriya, you aren't the only one who is willing to risk anything to save others." he whispered to himself. "This may be a very interesting group of students."

The ride on the train from the school back to the Iida household felt silent for Katara, her mind still reeling from the encounter she had with the sickening man supposedly called a hero. Everything sounded hollow, from the clicking of the wheels to the many chatting voices of the people around her. She didn't even notice the voice to her right until she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Katara, you okay?"

"Huh?" she turned in confusion to Tenya staring at her. His eyes were filled with concern. "What's wrong?"

"I've been trying to get your attention for almost a minute and you never even turned my direction." He said.

"Oh sorry…" She fake chuckled and rubbed her head. "… my head was just a little stressed after the exam. I was worried how I ended up doing."

"Well, what was your score by the end of it?"

Now she felt awkward with him asking this part, for she didn't even know. "Well… I kinda stopped keeping score by the time I was around twenty."

Tenya's eyes nearly burst through his glasses at hearing that, his arm suddenly chopping furiously. "Katara, how could you be so foolish!? Losing track of your progress is a horrendous mistake!"

"Hey, easy easy…" she frowned at him, "… I was by that only a few minutes in. I kept going after that towards the end."

He put his hand to his chin as he listened to her. "I see. Well I was able to score fifty two points myself."

Hearing that really caught Katara's attention, her head perking up more than before. "Whoa, really? That's amazing. That was for sure more than what I got."

"I am sure you did well, yourself." he gave a reassuring smile to her as the train came to their stop. They both stood up and walked off together. "I have seen your quirk in use, and if you did anything like that during the exam… then you would have done excellent."

She smiled at his compliment, rubbing her arm as they walked through the train station. "The last few minutes I was held up by that big zero point robot they had, though."

Tenya froze in place at her words. "You what!? You fought against that thing?"

She lifted her eyebrow in surprise to his reaction. "Yeah… I did. There was a girl who wasn't moving so I had to get her out of the way. And fighting is a strong word. More like…" She shrugged when she tried thinking of the right word. "… held it back."

She looked back at him expecting criticism for not running away like the teachers recommended. Instead, she was shocked to see him suddenly slap his face with both hands. "What the!? What did you do that for!?"

Tenya's hands shot forward and latched onto Katara's shoulders to her surprise as he started shaking her. "Katara, did you know there was more to this test as well!? You also battled one of those things to save someone!?"

"What- are- you- talking- about!?" Katara managed out between shakes. "I-just-helped-someone!"

He let go of her arms, forcing her to check her neck for whiplash. "What the heck was that about? What do you mean 'more'?"

Tenya took a breath and adjusted his glasses. "In my testing ground I encountered the large obstacle as well. When confronted, I turned and avoided it along with most of the other students."

Her ears perked up when he said that. "Most?"

He gave a slow nod to her. "do you remember that one boy in the conference room? The one who kept distracting us?"

"distracting?" Katara then pictured the awkward green haired boy that was behind them, his freckled face for some reason sticking in her mind. "Yeah, the one you scolded. Why?"

"He was in my group for the test, and he had zero points by the end of the exam."

"what? He didn't get any?" she frowned, feeling bad for the boy now. She saw how excited he was to be at the school, and to end up with nothing must have crushed him.

"Well that is the thing…" Tenya added, "… towards the end of the exam he rushed in to save girl who was trapped and destroyed the machine by himself but-

"Wait…" Katara cut him off as her mind started working overtime. "… you mean he destroyed the zero point one all by himself?"

"Correct… in fact he took it out with a single attack."

If her jaw could have touched the floor, it would have at that moment. While she was low on water, she could tell by how much resistance she felt those bots were no easy task. And to hear this seemingly timid boy had eradicated one all alone with one strike to say the least… how in the world did he end up with no points then?

Tenya sighed as he continued walking once more. "The problem about his quirk however is it seems there are harsh consequences to using it. He broke his arm and both legs after the attack."

"Wait, what!?" She shouted out in shock before looking around in embarrassment. She waved "sorry" to a passing family before looking back at him. "He broke his limbs? What kind of power was it?"

"I believe it was just strength. He jumped all the way to its head and punched it which destroyed it, but it seems as if he cannot control his ability yet."

Katara fell silent in disbelief as they continued down the road back towards the house. She couldn't believe there were powers here that worked like that; destroying your own body to the point it actually breaks. With bending there was always the risk of overexertion, but nothing to this extent. Or… could they? She had never heard of that before, but… maybe if pushed far enough, bending could be dangerous to the user.

She shook her head to clear those thoughts as they came to the steps of the large Iida household. They went through the doors and could tell that everyone else was gone at the moment. Tenya took his bag off and stretched his shoulders, releasing a satisfied moan. "Now that exam is over, I really should get back to finishing my finals paper due next week."

"Alright, I'll leave you to it then." Katara removed her shoes and started walking towards her room. "I'm gonna lay down for a bit."

"Are you not feeling well?" Tenya asked.

She gave a small nod to him. "I'm fine. I just… wanna rest my head for a little."

"Well if you need anything let me know. Rest up, Katara." Tenya finished with a wave and then headed to his own room. As he walked off, Katara sighed to herself and made her way down the hall and into Tensei's place. She went to the couch and slumped down onto the couch and groaned out loud. She once again hated not telling the truth to why she was stressed. The test itself was not the problem. It was the fact of who she ran into after.

"Why did it have to be him of all people?" She moaned as she rubbed her forehead.

That so called hero, Endeavor; how was a man like that considered the number two hero in this country? From the times she encountered him, nothing about him felt warm or comforting, and from she had seen from others, that person was nothing to what a hero should be.

Anger.

Hatred.

Desire.

Those were the only things she felt from him. Nothing like the other man she had learned of recently and seen on the tv occasionally.

"All might..." she whispered out.

The great hero that had taken this world by storm was for sure something else. It was more than is seemingly unstoppable power, for his very punches created gusts that even an awakened avatar would be jealous of. No, that isn't what caught the waterbenders attention about him. It was his charming personality, his warm demeanor, and his never ending smile were what gave that golden glow that she had grown accustomed to over the last few months. That is what made her feel good when she saw him on the news talking or in action saving someone.

That is what she saw as being a hero.

And now from what she heard from him, this Endeavor would be having a kid be in the same school as her, at the same time. Knowing how bad this flame hero was, she figured his kid was just as bad. She cringed at the thought of dealing with another Azula all over again. She tried shutting her eyes to clear her head... but that only brought back the image of that crazed girl coming for her. Blue fire, yellow eyes, and that bolt of lightning shooting directly for her heart.

Katara's fist clenched and she sat back up. Her brow was sweating again, mostly out of frustration now. "That idiot thinks I'll just be a stepping stone for his kid? That's not going to happen."

She stormed her way out of the living room back to the main household, walking through the halls towards the pool. Not even caring it was still the day, she needed to clear her head her way into the pool area, she kicked her socks off real quick and yanked her outer shirt off real fast, leaving her in pants and a tank top. She huffed out and turned towards the water. "If he thinks I'll be a stepping stone forget it." She yelled out.

Katara raised her hands and brought several pillars of water up along the edge of the pool and froze them in place. She walked passed her makeshift targets onto the surface, the surface freezing beneath her feet as more crept onto her hands. Small ice spikes formed on her finger tips while she closed her eyes and breathed. She focused her mind, imagining the enraged fire nation princess once again. Emotions of anger and fear creeping back into her heart. Something she never wanted to experience again.

Clenching her teeth, she spun around and launched her mini ice spikes into the several pillars around her, the small projectiles piercing the columns. She immediately whipped out another stream of water and sliced one of them completely in half. Not hesitating, she quickly pulled a small wave of water and threw it into another, pulling the ice off the concrete edge into the pool.

"Not this time..." she grunted as she formed a single large hook on the end of another water whip. Lashing forward, she pierced the side of the remaining column and yanked it towards her and into the water. The large splash erupted out and washed over her body, water slowly pouring down her face, but she didn't care. Her eyes were focused on what may come her way. The flame hero came into her mind again, her teeth clenching in anger.

"I won't sit by and let his words hold me back."

The next week seemed to go by in an instant, every day her studying and training seeming to pass in a blur. The thought of having to wait so long to get the results were becoming more stressful than the exam itself at this point. Even as she sat and ate dinner with Tensei, her mind kept playing different scenarios inside her head every day to what the school was going to say.

She glanced over at her host and watched as he was focused reading over documents from his office, not noticing her gaze. She never told him about running into Endeavor at the school, figuring the less drama for Tensei the easier it would be. She sighed as she reached down and took another bite of her rice and swallowed.

"Stuff on your mind?"

Katara choked for a moment from the sudden question, coughing a few times before she looked at Tensei, his eyes still glued onto his paper. "You *cough*could tell?"

"You've been especially quiet the last few days, and you keep staring over towards me as we are eating." He said as he took a sip of his soda.

She frowned and drank some water herself. "Was it that obvious?"

"Well I wouldn't be a hero if I didn't notice." he gave her a small smirk, then his face softened. "What's been bothering you?"

She took a breath and set her drink back down. "It's just waiting for the results. I didn't know it was going to take this long."

He gave a chuckle hearing that. "I know it's annoying. Trust me, I had to wait close to this long as well. With so many applicants, they have a lot of kids to get through and score. It will be here soon."

"I know. It's just…" Katara huffed out and leaned onto the table. "What if for some reason I don't get accepted? What would I do then if I can't help people?"

"Katara, just because you don't get into the hero course here doesn't mean its the end. There are many kinds of other courses to be enrolled in, and if you prove yourself enough, you can still be transferred to the hero course."

Her eyes lit up a little hearing that, seemingly taking some of the weight off her chest. "Really? Well if that is the case then-

"IT'S HERE!"

Both of them jumped in shock as the door to the main house burst open. Tensei flipped around as his eyes shot open. "Mom!? What was that about!?"

Madoka was shaking with excitement as she bolted into the room passed her son and right up to Katara. "It's here, it's here it's here!" she kept yelling at the top of her lungs.

"What's going on!?" katara yelped in confusion. "What's here!?"

A few moments later, the Iida father Toki came in huffing and puffing. "Honey, I told you that you can't just barge in like that!" he wheezed out from chasing her.

"I'm sorry I just…" Madoka squealed in excitement as she whipped up the letter she was holding in the air. "But this was just dropped off! It's your results for UA!"

Katara's heart skipped a beat as her eyes fell onto the parchment in front of her, especially since she was literally just talking about this a few moments earlier. Her hands slowly reached up and grabbed the sealed letter from the bouncing mother.

Madoka wiggled back and forth as she watched the young girl eyed the letter. "Well, come on! Let's see what they said! Open it!"

Toki put a hand on his wife's shoulder and stopped her hopping. "Honey come on. We agreed to let Tenya open his in private. It's only fair to let her do the same."

Tensei's mother pouted and began sulking. "Come on! I wanna know what they both got. Why wait?"

"Mom…" Tensei groaned. "… this is special for her. Let her do this on her own."

"Hmm…. Fine." Madoka moaned out and crossed her arms. "But promise you will let us know what they say."

Katara didn't say anything, just giving a small nod as she slowly got up from her chair and walked off towards her room, shutting the door behind her. Her eyes never left the paper she held, fingers reaching for the seams before she stopped, hands for some reason unable to tear it open. She set it down in front of her and moved back, her behind finding the soft end of the mattress and sitting back.

She sat on the edge of her bed for what felt like ten minutes as she stared at the letter sitting on the dresser. While she was somewhat excited to find out the news of what the school said to her, she now felt the slight hint of nervousness creeping into her. What if she didn't score enough, or did something wrong that she wasn't supposed to do? But… was sitting her waiting to see what they said going to make it any different?

Grunting to herself, she stomped over to the letter and shredded at the top of the parchment. She reached in to grab the letter to read the results… but was caught off guard when she found a small gray disk instead.

"Huh? What's this?" she held up the item to her face, trying to figure out what it was. "Is this like another test? We open it up and try to- wah!"

She yelped out when the top of the flat portion began glowing, causing her to drop it back down. It landed flat and suddenly a small screen illuminated in the air.

"Booyah! I am here as a projection!"

Katara stepped back in shock when the booming voice of the number one hero came through the device, and the all so famous smile beaming down towards her. "A-All Might!? What is this!?" her shaky legs shuffled her back and guided her to sit down on the bed. "Why would he be on this?"

She had no idea why the top hero in all of Japan was on a video sent from the school talking to her now.

"Ahh hahaha! Yes you may be shocked as to what I am doing here, right? Well you may be shocked to realize that I am not here to just say hi. You are looking at the newest UA faculty member!"

Her eyes nearly bugged out of her head when she heard those words. She had heard that UA had some of the most elite teachers out of all the schools. But now, the best hero the world had ever seen was going to be one of the ones teaching her how to be a hero. It was almost too good to be true for her to believe.

"So, young Katara…"

"What!?" Katara yelped when she heard her name, "He's talking directly to me!?" She didn't realize the entrance letters were going to be so personalized.

"You were able to pass the written exam, although you did miss a few things here and there."

She frowned when she heard that. "Great, guess it wasn't so easy. Maybe I do need to study more."

"But not to worry!" His eccentric voice seemingly responded to her. "The practical portion is what mattered most for the hero course, and you did excellent." He moved and a large chart popped on screen. "Your villain points tally was an impressive forty-four!"

"forty!?" Katara sat up straight in surprise when she heard that. She had been curious the whole time what her score was, but to hear it actually amazed her. She then noticed on the list of names, hers was in sixth. She then saw two familiar names above hers. "Tokoyami and Iida…"

She chuckled to herself, seeing Tenya above her, feeling a drive to do better next time. "Can't make it too boring."

"But we aren't stopping there. There is more to this than just battling villains."

Katara tilted her head in confusion to what he meant, but then watched as part of the screen changed to her during the test. "That was… they recorded this?"

The video showed her taking out the robots above the red headed girl she came across, and then to when she pulled the scared blonde girl away from the large zero pointer.

"You weren't just satisfied with getting a good score. You reacted on instinct and helped those who needed it. That is the true essence of a hero!"

Katara suddenly felt a strange sensation in her chest, thinking back to the very words that Tensei told her the first night she arrived here. And now she was hearing the same thing from the top hero.

"Not only that, but your actions inspired others to react as well!" Two familiar faces popped on the screen next to hers.

"Ashido and Tokoyami?" Katara said out loud as video of them aiding her against the large bot started playing.

"And that is where rescue points come in!" the chart behind him changed, revealing a new set of points as well. "Kairi Katara. fifty five rescue points!"

Katara's heart rate jumped through the roof at the sight of the new score next to her name. Along with the other points and the new ones she had just received, now her new total was…

"Ni- ninety nine?" Her mouth barely uttered out in disbelief.

"Mina Ashido, twenty five rescue points. And to Fumikage Tokoyami, forty rescue points!" All might smiled even larger as the new scores updated behind him.

Katara's eyes drifted from the hero to the numbers on the screen, and what she saw took all the strength from her legs away. Her body slid down the end of the bed and her bottom ended on the floor. She barely breathed in disbelief as the order of names shifted to the new scores, and where hers ended up took every fiber in her body not to feint in disbelief.

She was in first place.

"You've all passed the exam!" All Might exclaimed as his fist opened up to the camera, seemingly offering it to the stunned waterbender. "Congratulations, Katara. You have made it. You are part of the hero academia!"

Katara sat in silence and utter shock to the news she had just received, but after a few moments a large smile crept across her face. She eventually stood back up and couldn't help but clench her fists and throw them up.

"Yes! I did it! I did it!" She cheered happily as the small disc shut off, leaving her alone once more. It didn't matter now, though, for she now knew she was one step closer to being able to help others.

Across the household, Tenya sat in his room and had also finished watching his hologram projector as well. He sat in silence not just to the shock from being accepted into the greatest school in Japan, for that would have been enough. He however took notice of the scoreboard that revealed his placement along with the other top ten students. And a familiar name was sitting at the top in first place.

He couldn't help but feel happy, and yet… a slight pain in his chest at being so outclassed. He knew katara was good, but to nearly double his score, that was an entirely different story. He couldn't help but chuckle out loud.

"So, it seems you are joining me as well at UA. You really are amazing, Katara. Now let's see who becomes a hero first."

Author notes: We have made it! we are passed the entrance exams and have reached UA school timeline. And Tenya seems a bit jealous, would you say? Hmm interesting...

Now there will have to be a character in 1-A who gets removed for Katara's spot, and that will be Rikido Sato. Sorry Sugarman, but you have always been pretty pointless to me. And you have a quirk i think is lame. Yes, even Mineta i think has more purpose than Sato.

So be ready next week. UA school year starts!