Over the Top

by papireaz

When I died, I expected a few manga volumes. Maybe to learn what the One Piece is. Instead, I found myself in a world that I recognised, a story I had read and what's worse was that it was a story I had no interest in wanting to involve myself in! Then and again, the offer to become a Hero is far too tempting...

28. Issue 27

It's been over a year since the first chapter of this story came out, which is crazy to think about.

Firstly, thank you all for the support you have given! Never in a million years would I have dreamed that this story would appear on the 30th page of the most followed MHA fanfiction on this website. 30 pages in might seem weird to celebrate, but considering there are over 25k stories on this website alone for this series, I think it's rather impressive.

Especially for a story about a SI/OC.

So thank you for making this story successful in its own right!

Secondly, I have an amazing surprise at the end of the chapter which will function as the first 'omake' excluding that Christmas special which is non-canon to this story. This omake will be canon to this story, and will be mentioned for the rest pf the story (Minus a few chapters here and there.) Interested in what it is? Well, go on and find out.

Special thanks to LezarioFanfico for the idea.

And thirdly, it has come to my attention that this story hasn't been largely consistent in terms of its treatment of characters. Dealing with 1A is tough, especially since there are 19 members of the class excluding Sora. While I focus on Kaminari, Mineta, Jiro and Yaoyorozu the most, I will also be including other members in small portions of the chapter.

Partly because it's needed for the story beats yet to come. "Can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs Jack."

The song for this chapter is 'Go EXCEED!' by Tom-Hack.

You may know the song as the first opening in the best sports anime/manga of all time, Daiya no Ace or 'Ace of the Diamond'. Seriously, it turned me into a baseball fan and is the only reason Sora uses a baseball bat instead of a cricket bat, or just a staff.

ANOTHER THING!

As I write this, the final chapter of Death by tmb1112 was released. I won't go into depth as to what happened, but it does mean a lot to me that a fanfiction on this website was able to end the way the author wanted. Death was a story that inspired me to write MHA ffn, had I not read Death I never would have written Over the Top - Or if I did, it likely would have been in a different fandom.

4.4 million words... Now, I don't think that this story will ever reach 2 million words (Although I could be wrong) the fact is that I'm in it for the long haul. Still if you haven't checked out Death, then I implore you to at least try it out. You may, or may not, see the things I've picked up from Death, and the things that I've twisted.

That isn't to say that I've shamelessly ripped everything off from Death, because unlike Sora I am not creatively bankrupt. But I do think that if you enjoy this story, you'll appreciate Death and maybe you'll be able to predict future plot points...? Who knows? Well obviously I know, but that's it. Still congrats to tmb1112 for finishing Death!

Now, if only I finish that damned chapter I was writing.

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Summary:

"Zahahahaha! You can't stop me now Sora, I've gained the power of fear and three more Devil Fruits! Including All Might's Plot-Plot Fruit, there is no way you can beat me!" Zero yelled.

"That's not true!" I shouted back at the villain, smiling at him as I bit on my thumb. Hard.

"Oh? And what will you do now?"

"Gear... FIVE!"

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The classroom was silent as Iida and I walked through the massive doorframe. Naturally, I smirked and started to put my middle finger up at everyone whilst shouting that I was the best, an action that pissed Bakugo off to no end. Especially with his new 'haircut' which Kaminari and I delightfully mocked, with the both of us dragging our chairs to sit right next to the angry blonde's desk. At first, he tried to ignore us, but not even he could stand our jokes.

"Hm, something feels different about Bakugo, don't you think Kaminari?"

"I don't know Sora, to me he feels... tamed?"

Bakugo growled at that.

"Yes, tamed like a little kitten. He looks so adorable with his new hairstyle, like a cat. Honestly, I really want to pet him."

Bakugo's eyes radiated anger, more importantly his jaw clenched as if he was ready to bite any hand that came his way. Which was why it was such a surprise when Mineta jumped from behind Bakugo to slap the back of his head extremely hard and ran away laughing screaming 'I like your cut!' Naturally, Bakugo turned around in anger and nearly threw himself at Mineta to beat him up... if Kaminari did not slap the back of his head before he could do such a thing.

Stuck between choosing who to murder first, Bakugo's head shot back and forth between Mineta and Kaminari who stood at opposite ends if the classroom, both grinning at him as if they were daring him to move. The rest of the class simply laughed at our antics, or in Iida and Yaoyorozu's case stared at us disapprovingly. Which was why I started to rub my right hand carefully, ensuring that it had enough of my sweat due to the insane heatwave we were facing.

And then using the distracted Bakugo thanks to the trap Kaminari and Mineta laid for me, I took a step backward as I winded my right arm backwards, before taking two steps forwards and slapping Bakugo on the back of his head as hard as I could. He didn't even see it coming, especially as his head bobbed forwards in surprise, which was why I took this opportunity to open the window behind me and place one foot out of it, summoning my Nimbus for a quick escape.

Thwack.

"I like your new haircut," I said to him.

"I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU!" Bakugo roared at me, spit flying towards my direction as his once neat hair returned to its messy state after my slap. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY YOU SHITTY CLOUD WATCHER-,"

"See ya' later!" I waved at Bakugo, before jumping out of the window only for my Quirk to catch be right before I fell to the ground. Slowly levitating to where our classroom was, I could hear Bakugo's anger and annoyance at me, as well as everyone's protests against him following me out of the window to fight me in the air. I can't say that I was surprised that everyone didn't want him to cause even more trouble for the class, especially as below me the homeroom teacher of Class B of our year, Vlad King, berated me.

"Young man what do you think you are doing!"

Unfortunately, I cupped my ear and pretended to not hear him, shrugging my shoulders as his shouts grew louder and louder, even attracting the attention of Class B themselves who were laughing at their homeroom teacher from their window. Eventually everything calmed down, and I managed to get back into the classroom avoiding Bakugo's retaliatory hits across the face and managed to sit down next to Kaminari and Mineta who were snickering at what we managed to achieve.

That was our synergy, the strength of our bond.

The ability to piss Katsuki Bakugo off.

And yet despite all this commotion, Aizawa-sensei hadn't made his way to our class yet. I grinned at that, the man was constantly scolding me for being late, and now I finally had the chance to pay him back in full for all the detentions he had given me these past few months. For once I was on time, and he was late to the lesson which even made someone like Yaoyorozu nervous as he peeked out of the door to try and see where Aizawa-sensei was.

Which was it was a surprise when he rolled out from the cupboard from the back of the class in his yellow sleeping bag.

"Gah, a homeless person!" Mina yelled as she threw a pencil at him, bouncing of his face before she paled rather quickly once she recognised who it was. "Ai-Ai-Aizawa-,"

"Detention Ashido, lunch time today. Actually no, that goes for everyone in this class for not stopping Yamazaki's foolishness."

Everyone groaned at that.

"Fuck you Sora." Sero complained.

"Why couldn't you be normal for once Sora?!" Hagakure said.

"Haha," I laughed it off, "At least we are all in it together, am I right?"

"Shut the fuck up-,"

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Chapter

Twenty Seven

'Hey asshole, you just pushed my friend over and now his spine is broken! How much are you going to pay him for the injuries you have caused?! No, this isn't a con! You hurt my friend-,' Part 1

(The Real Folk Blues) - Part 1

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Foundational Hero studies.

While some schools had PE, where the boys played something rough and physical like rugby or football as the girls watched during their trampolining sessions. Other schools had it mixed, with everyone playing tennis or doing track and field for a term or two. U.A on the other hand made it so we had 'Foundational Hero studies' which was short for a trip to hell and back, preferably with a meeting with Satan and getting shagged by skeletons and a Cerberus.

All right, maybe that was a bit too graphic, but the fact was that these lessons took over the standard PE lesson. Most of the time it involved All Might or Aizawa-sensei teaching us something, whether it's how to approach members of the public when in costume, how we should conduct ourselves when saving someone to absolutely insane situations that will never happen in a million years, such as the moon falling to the Earth's surface and crushing us to death.

"So young heroes, what would be your strategy?" All Might asked us earnestly, trying to foster a healthy class discussion between us.

I raised up my hand silently, rolling my eyes at Kaminari throwing paper balls at Mineta's head, who was laid down on his desk and put to sleep by how boring this lesson actually was. Not that I could blame him, if I had I gun I would totally just shoot myself so I could escape the hell that was this lesson. Especially as everyone around me actually took it seriously, with Mina and Hagakure arguing over if we would be able to survive such an event.

Spoiler alert: We would die.

Like ants.

Very easily.

Eventually All Might nodded at my direction as I stood up from my seat and walked to the front of the class, the whiteboard pen given to me as he let me take the reins of the class and discuss my strategy. Everyone looked at me curiously, some like Izuku and Yaoyorozu were interested in what I could offer as a strategy, while others like Kaminari and Jiro tried to hold back their laughter as they thought that I would make a stupid remark as the class clown.

And Bakugo just glared at me, whispering 'die' under his breathe repeatedly, bobbing up and down from his seat as if he were trying to inflict a curse on me.

"Well, if the moon came crashing down upon the Earth," I started, "I would definitely pray to whatever God exists and hope that I enter Heavan, or the equivalent, rather than go to whatever place Mineta and Bakugo are going." No one laughed, but I got a few chuckles. Tough crowd. "But for real there is a neat little strategy called 'duck and cover,' so I'd tell people to do that."

"And why would you do that?" All Might asked me with his trademark smile, offering a thumbs-up at me.

"To give people hope that they aren't going to totally be wiped off the face of the Earth in a matter of seconds. At least then people won't panic ya' know? I hate panicky people; they really piss me off. I really have to resist the urge to not make them panic even more, only for my own amusement. That being said, giving people hope is the answer to this exercise, right sensei?"

All Might nodded at that.

"Yes, even if the event is slightly unrealistic," Just a little unrealistic, don't you think? "The purpose of the exercise is to ensure that you understand that a Hero's duty is to provide hope, even in the bleakest of times. You cannot fail at this; you must reach out to those who you protect and say to them that 'I am here!' Yamazaki boy, you passed. Now, let us switch to a more common occurrence. There has been an earthquake, an eight-point-nine magnitude earthquake in Tokyo and the people of Japan are needing to be saved. How would you approach the situation Yamazaki?"

"I Dunno'." I replied honestly. "Shit, would I even want to be in Tokyo after an earthquake like that? Well, if I were stuck there, obviously I'd use my Quirk to make like some shovels and shit, even like a crane and start helping to dig people out of their ruined houses. Maybe fly around and help people from a distance? It's hard to say what I'd do cause' Tokyo is so big, like would I go around to all the different districts, or would I just stay in the one I was at. Either way it would be a shit situation, so I don't know how useful I'd really be. Maybe I'll make some jokes to deflate the tense atmosphere?"

"Minus your bad language, your answer wasn't bad," He replied, "However your solution does pose a few problems. You seem like you would be unwilling to save others in that situation, but I doubt that you really meant to come across like that. Especially after your stunt during your work experience, it really made us teachers proud of you-,"

"What stunt?" Sero asked, "Hey Sora you didn't tell us that you did something heroic? Just that you and Iida had help from Todoroki and Midoriya to fight some villain."

Mina whacked him across the head with her pencil case. "You idiot, it wasn't just some 'villain,' it was the 'Hero Killer.' Seriously, do you even pay attention or what? Anyways, what 'stunt' did you do that's impressed our teachers So-chan?"

"Don't call me So-chan!" I replied, "And nothing happened. No 'stunt' to speak of, honestly, I might have broken someone's car, but I gave Bakugo's name so-,"

"THE FUCK?!"

"-nothing of note actually happened. I mean Iida picked up a manga volume, but that really wasn't noteworthy. Oh, but my birthday did happen," I then leaned forward and tilted my head, pretending to be cute for a moment. "But none of you bought me any presents." I complained in a high-pitched cutesy voice, "How sad, how lonely, how horrific! It wasn't very kawaii for my friends to blow me off, so how about you all buy me dessert after school-,"

"Not a chance." Ojiro interrupted me.

"How about you buy me something instead?" Sero offered.

"I shall not buyeth thee a birthday presenteh." Tokoyami muttered.

"What relevance does this have to our lesson?" Yaoyorozu asked me.

I pouted at that, sighing heavily as I used the whiteboard pen to draw a sad face, writing everyone's names below it in horrific handwriting. Then after that I drew a smiley face on the other side of the board and wrote my own name very neatly. This seemed to piss off Mineta who complained about how unfair I was being, and that his name was spelt with a different kanji, so in response I threw the whiteboard pen right at his face. It was extremely satisfying as it bounced off him and hit the sniggering Kaminari in the eye.

"Double kill." I whispered, grinning at them as they put their middle fingers up at me.

"Ahem," All Might restored order in the classroom very quickly. "Yamazaki boy, have you really not told them of your stunt? Really?"

"What's he talking about Sora?" Jiro asked me, her black eyes staring into my own. Damn it did I really want to just ask her out in front of everyone, or at least hug her. Stupid hormones! Puberty really was a bitch, especially the second time round.

"Yeah So-chan! What happened?" Uraraka added, pumping her fist in the air excitedly.

"As I said, nothing happened-,"

And that was when Iida stood up, pushing his glasses back as he smirked at me. He had a sly smirk on his face as he nodded at me, as if to say that he was going to solve all my problems for me. Thank goodness for that, if they really find out that I saved a kid from a burning building I'd die of embarrassment. It was hard enough dealing with my family knowing and praising me for it, let alone my friends.

"Sora met a mature detective and spent some 'alone time' in her office. At the end of it, he managed to get her number and also made his mother convinced that they were going to get married." He then flashed me a thumbs-up as if trying to say that everything was cleared up, but the only thing I could do in response was sigh and slap my forehead hard. Oh, for fucks sake, of all the things he could have said-,

"SORA'S DATING AN OLDER WOMAN?!" Hagakure squealed loudly, holding on to Tsuyu for support as she fell out of her seat in surprise.

Kaminari, Mineta, Sero and surprisingly Ojiro glared at me hatefully, cursing my entire existence, while Midoriya and Uraraka had both turned pale. I wasn't able to see Jiro's expression as Mina suddenly jumped out of her seat and started to ask Iida questions about Nanao, which he gladly answered with a smile and a nod directed at my direction. Did he really think that he helped me in this situation? Please tell me this was just a prank or something...

"Oh? Iida what did this mysterious detective look like?"

"Well, for starters she had hair similar to Sora's, albeit a little bluer. She was also around the same height as Sora, maybe a little shorter and wore a long overcoat, she was also young. Only a few years older than us-,"

"What was her bust size?" Kaminari couldn't stop himself as he asked that burning question which he had been trying to hold in for as long as he could.

"She was very beautiful and developed. Both in the chest area and her bottom, however I myself wasn't looking at those areas," What a fucking liar, "However Sora was transfixed upon those areas as she left us. He also complimented them, and potentially took a picture-,"

"Now that's a fucking lie!" I interjected, "I would never take pictures of someone without their permission!"

"...So, you have been meeting with a hot older chick?" Mineta growled at me angrily, "And you haven't even told me, your best friend? I thought we were like brothers-,"

I rolled my eyes at him. "Please Mineta if you were my brother, I'd have killed myself a long time ago. Pipe down you little gremlin-,"

"But you didn't refute Iida's claims that you were staring at her!" Uraraka shouted at me as if she had caught me red handed. And after that statement sunk in, practically most of the female population of my class started to glower at my direction, some like Tsuyu throwing her pencil at me. Even Mineta and Kaminari joined in as they threw the sweets which I had passed to them during lesson back at me, which I gratefully took. These didn't come cheap, and if they weren't going to eat them then I might as well do so.

"To be fair she had a huge ass, like really big." I said smirking at everyone, "And she had big-," Jiro couldn't take anymore as she angrily threw her bag at my direction, yelling at me while doing so.

"OH MY GOD, SHUT UP BEFORE I SHUT YOU UP MYSELF! STOP TALKING ABOUT SOME OTHER WOMAN'S PERFECT BODY YOU PERVERT!" She shouted at me, flustered at the conversation as well as her own actions. Before I could even reply, Sero took the initiative to scoop up the sweets that Mineta had taken from my bag and thank me for the 'generous donation to the Sero foundation,' eating the packet of sweets all at once.

"Uh, no one mentioned that she had a perfect body." I replied.

"W-Well you said that she has a big chest, and to paraphrase a 'huge ass.' What's wrong with people who don't have those features?"

"Nothing. Unlike two certain cretins that will not be named, I don't discriminate. In fact, I prefer smaller-,"

"LOLICON! SORA'S A LOLICON!" Mineta yelled from the top of his lungs, pointing at me accusingly. "Keep him away from the local kindergarten, who knows what kind of damage this monster could do if left unchecked. How hilarious is it that a hero-in-training is outed to be a paedophile, imagine what would happen to his fans if he became an actual hero-," Kaminari decked him in the back of his head before he could finish his sentence.

"Well, the stunt Sora pulled did have a child involved-," All Might clarified.

"See?! He's a nonce!"

"-However not in the way you are suggesting Mineta boy. As I understand it, while being separated from Iida during the attack, Yamazaki boy ran into a burning building and saved a trapped boy, nearly dying in the process himself. In fact, Yamazaki boy is stated to have told the child to run away and leave him to die, trying to give the little boy hope that he would live. Isn't that heroic?" No All Might, it was not. Especially as everyone's faces turned from shock to sadness and then anger – All directed towards me.

"What?" I asked them, picking out my earwax and wiping it on the board. "Surprise," I said rubbing the back of my head embarrassed, "I did something cool for once, didn't I? For the record I totally didn't nearly die, and that is one hundred percent just an exaggeration or something. Seriously, at best I would... okay maybe I would have died. Fuck, I really should stop trying to sell myself short."

"Language."

I waved All Might off, sitting back down at my desk ignoring everyone else's stares. Did they really have such low expectations of me? Did they honestly think that I'd just let some kid to burn to death in a building? I mean sure I was selfish, but like I wasn't that bad... was I? And so, I was surprised when Kaminari started to laugh uncontrollably, patting my back as he wiped away his tears.

"Oh man I'm so glad that you lived, because if you had died, I totally would have tried dating your sister."

"Me too." Mineta added.

"Wow," I slapped the both of them, "You two are really looking forward to sleeping with the fish tonight, aren't you?"

"Ow, what a bastard. Maybe you really should have died-," Mineta couldn't finish that sentence as Jiro dragged him out of his seat and sat down next to me.

"Really?" She asked me.

"Really what? That I saved some kid? Yeah, I got his snot all over my hero costume."

"No dumbass," She frowned, "Really as in you tried to hide it from us. Did you honestly think that we would shout at you for saving someone?"

I shrugged my shoulders in response, which evidently was the incorrect answer as Yaoyorozu cleared her throat and glared at me.

"N-No." I hastily corrected. "Or uhm, yes? You can choose whichever answer makes you happy..." That only made Ojiro sigh in response, shaking his head. Practically everyone in the class were mad with me, with the exception of Bakugo who seemed to really want to kill me, Todoroki who was staring at his phone, Midoriya who was in a conversation with All Might and Iida who kept on shooting me thumbs-up. Did he not understand that he helped to make this conversation more painful? Or that he was the reason I was in this mess to begin with-,

Oh, that sly son-of-a-bitch!

He was using me as a scapegoat to try and make sure that no one looked at his actions too closely. Well played Tenya Iida. Well played. I sighed, resigning myself to my predestined fate as everyone berated me for trying to keep this a secret, praising me for being a hero, asking if the kid had a hot mother, more questions about what happened and if I was still injured from the event. I truly wanted to just shoot myself in the head.

This was why 'Foundational Hero studies' was hell.

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"So, Sora, when are you going to start revising for your exams?"

I nearly choked on my drink as I stared blankly at Yaoyorozu, who was shuffling her revision flash cards and testing herself. Exams? What exams? Kaminari dropped his chopsticks as he glared at Yaoyorozu, while Mineta groaned loudly, banging his head against the table. Did I miss the memo? Jiro sighed, tapping my shoulder lightly as she pulled out a piece of paper from her bag and handed it to me. It was a single A4 piece of paper with a few tables written on it, Jiro had taken it upon herself to highlight key dates-,

Exam timetable – Class 1A

"This is a joke, right?" I asked Jiro, my voice cracking slightly near the end.

"Nope. We have exams starting from the twenty ninth of June and running to the tenth of July."

"But it's the sixteenth of May!" I complained, "Why would they ruin my life by doing this?! I don't want this timetable; I refuse to believe that it exists!" As I said that, I ripped up the piece of paper that I was holding and threw it into the nearest bin. "Fuck these exams, I just bought a new game as well! It's reported that the story lasts for at least one hundred hours, which is awesome."

"You just..."

"What?" I asked Jiro, "Did something happen?"

"YOU JUST RIPPED UP MY EXAM TIMETABLE!" She yelled at me loudly. "Did you see how much time I spent colour coding everything?"

"Oh please, that must have taken you five minutes." I replied.

"IT TOOK ME AN HOUR!"

"To just colour some boxes in, wow. Are you slow or something?"

Jiro screeched like a banshee, before stopping herself and just ignoring me for a few minutes, grumbling something under her breathe. Okay then. I turned back to Yaoyorozu who was somehow managing to read her revision cards with ease despite her eyes being closed. I guess she really was a diligent student, and so as I turned around to try and find other members of 1A, I also realised that they were revising as well.

"What the actual fuck," I whispered angrily, grabbing Kaminari by the arm, "How come no one told me that we had exams?"

"Because dude you fell asleep during the lesson! Aizawa-sensei said that we couldn't tell you until you figured it out yourself, apparently it was some sort of lesson or something. I wasn't really paying attention."

"Of course, you were probably reading manga on your phone, weren't you? All right then, I'll allow you to revise with me, but only so you won't call me a day before the exam and ask me what will be on it!" I wagged my finger at him accusingly, "Because last time you called me a day before the sports festival panicked about what to bring for the day! I still can't believe you nearly forgot to bring a fucking water bottle. This time you won't be panicking, so you also won't be pissing me off."

Kaminari mock saluted me.

"YES SIR!"

"I'm going to kill you, slowly and painfully." I told him.

"SIR, YES SIR!"

Chopping Kaminari's neck hard, I turned back to my food and ate it silently. Beside me Mineta was still crying over the fact that we had exams. Not that I could blame him, these exams really put a line through most of my June/July plans. Mostly catching up on games, manga, anime, TV shows and movies. Well, we did have a camping trip-,

"OH, FUCK YES!" I yelled, startling Mineta and Jiro who narrowed their eyes at me and threw some food at me. "Guys, guys. Don't be sad about the exams, be happy! After it we get to go on a week camping trip – A WEEK! Think about it, a week out all alone in the woods with our class and 1B. If we get a girlfriend, what do you think is going to happen?" Kaminari and Mineta's eyes widened as they celebrated with me. Finally, we could have se-,

"And where are you going to get a girlfriend?" Jiro interrupted my lecherous thoughts. "Because I doubt anyone in our class will go out with any of you. Maybe some girl in 1B will take pity on you, but I wouldn't count on it. Especially since I'll make sure that-,"

"Why don't we apply for a motorbike license?" Kaminari suggested, "That way we can drive girls around, sure we won't have a sports motorbike. But a bike that can go twenty-five MPH at the age of sixteen is pretty cool, especially for the summer. You can already apply and take the test Sora as you are sixteen, I turn sixteen on the twenty ninth of June, so I'll be fine. What about you Mineta?"

"...I turn sixteen in October." He replied sadly, "But I can use my bicycle! Does that count?"

I shook my head slowly, clapping his back as I faked crying. Kaminari joined me in my fake acting, but we both grinned at each other as we hi-fived. Using our bikes to drive girls around the city? Hell, we could even drive them to the coast and spend a day at the beach, who could resist? No one, and that was the best part! We could drive our girlfriends literally anywhere!

"And where are you going to get the money to even buy the bikes?" Jiro asked us.

"Oh, that's simple," I replied, pointing at my phone. "My parents owe me money. A few years ago, I worked for a few year to help pay off some of their debts, it was something about a house. I don't know, either way they said that they were saving up money for me to use once I turn eighteen. I'm sure if I tell them my plans, they will agree to buying me a moped. Hopefully a top-end moped that's fast. Then I'll work and eventually upgrade it for a proper bike, or even a car if I have enough money."

She shrugged her shoulders at me, biting into her sandwich.

"Okay, just don't expect me to ride with you," She said, "I don't trust you to drive normally. Especially when you said you wanted to join a drifting circuit."

I pouted at that.

"It was one time! And they are super cool! When I get a car, I'll definitely try and drift."

"Isn't that illegal?" Kaminari asked me.

"Yep!" I nodded, "Which is why it's totally awesome! Driving at midnight, fighting for your life with only your skills to protect you from crashing. Doesn't that just get your blood pumping? Plus, heroes don't actually know much about the drifting rings, purely because it requires skill to get much information on it in the first place. And most heroes don't have enough time in the day to train and get better. So, if I become a famous driver and a hero, it means I have more contacts to try and capture villains with. But mostly because I think street racing is fun."

"And dangerous." Jiro added. "I know you are an idiot, but this is easily one of the worst ideas you have ever had. I have half a mind to go and tell Aizawa what you are planning on doing in the future."

"Bah, we both know that you won't tell him. Especially since I'll be playing your favourite songs in the background when I drive. Or if you ever make a song, I will play it on full volume every time I drive." I told her.

"Did you think that would convince me not to tell on you?" She asked me, but everyone could see that she was smiling at my suggestion. Which meant that she agreed with what I was doing, she just didn't want to admit it publicly. That was the fourth unwritten rule of the Jiro body-language code, a topic I had a PHD in. Or something higher than a PHD, like... I don't know, a Doctorate?

I shrugged my shoulders at her, stealing some of her sauce as I dipped my chicken in her ketchup and ate it. Yaoyorozu rolled her eyes at me, before scolding Mineta for using his phone when we weren't allowed to use our devices during the school day without a teacher's permission. Naturally, this led to an argument between the two, with Mineta unwilling to hand over his phone to Yaoyorozu, who was demanding him to hand over his phone with the threat of detention if he didn't.

"Blah, blah, blah. Can you two stop arguing?" I said to them. "I'm thinking of what car to buy in the future, A Mazda RX-700 or a GTR would be awesome. But they are pretty expensive, and common for street racing so maybe not."

"Huh? What's a GTR?" Kaminari asked confused, "Is that a type of car?"

I nodded at him. "Yeah, it's pretty famous. I'm surprised that you don't know what a GTR is. It's one of my favourite cars of all time. Hey Jiro, do you remember when I took a picture of a GTR parked in front of my home a few months ago and sent it to everyone?"

"Yes, I also remember when you tried to lie and say it was yours."

"It could have been..." I whispered, holding back my tears.

"If you stole it sure. But do you think that you would have gotten far with it?"

She was right. Even if I had stolen that GTR I would have been caught pretty easily. Still, a man can dream. The Mazda RX-700 just came out a year ago, and while it was pretty expensive, it wasn't anything too crazy. If I worked two jobs and saved up my money, I'd be able to afford it by financing it. But until then I had a moped, if I managed to get my license for it, which wasn't too bad. Especially when I grinned at Kaminari who matched my own grin.

"We are definitely going to race each other."

"Fuck yeah!" Kaminari yelled, "I'm so going to beat you! You are going to eat my dust for dinner when we race!"

Jiro snorted at the two of us, trying her hardest not to laugh as she pulled up her phone (Despite Yaoyorozu's warning) and showed us the date on the Calander. "So, you are telling me that the two of you are going to study for our exams and for your own optional motorbike license? Don't make me laugh." She said with a smirk, "You two dumbasses are going to burn yourself out before exams even roll around."

"I'll be fine," I replied, "I'm smarter than you after all. Tell me who got higher grades than you in every subject barring science in middle school?" I asked her, tapping my right ear as she failed to give me an answer.

"You beat my maths score once. All the other times we drew."

"English, history, politics, literature, computing. Tell me what you got in those subjects that could beat my perfect, or near perfect scores?"

"Okay fine," Jiro conceded, "You'll be fine, but it's the idiot that I'm worried about. You might be the 'genius' of the perverted trio, but-,"

"Wait," Kaminari interjected, "You're smart?"

"Did you think I was dumb?" I asked him.

"..."

I punched Kaminari in the shoulder.

"Hey, what was that for?"

"You thought I was stupid!" I replied, "I'm a genius. That hurt my feelings."

"No 'genius' would admit that they are a genius." Kaminari retorted, "Just look at Yaoyorozu. She's smart and she doesn't gloat about it like you do. Therefore, by my logic you can't be that smart, so you should pipe down."

"I'll shove my hand down your throat and make you choke on your own vomit." I threatened him, shoving him slightly.

"Kinky, I bet that you'd like that."

"Yeah. I like doing that to your Mum."

Kaminari grinned at that as he stuck his tongue out at me. "I'm adopted dumbass, or did you forget it?" He told me, "Because I couldn't give a shit if you did that to my Mum. But I'd totally do that to your sister."

I punched him on the shoulder again, this time much harder.

---

"Bakazaki! Hold up." Setsuna Tokage called, waving at me as I left the school premises. She had her sleeves rolled up, and her blazer stuffed messily into her bag. Her shirt was half untucked, and her tie messily done which overall resulted in an odd look for the girl. Either way, I could see her black bra which totally was a plus for me, albeit since it was Tokage's bra it brought the novelty of the moment down to the deep depths of hell.

"What do you want?" I asked her while yawning, "We have exams in like three weeks. Wait no, two weeks actually. I've been busy lately revising, so if you are here to piss me off, then you can go fuck yourself."

"Rude." She huffed out, "But expected from a brute like yourself. Anyways, we need to talk."

"About?"

"Fuck you mean 'about?'" She screamed, drawing the attention of passing students. "Have you forgotten the promise we made? You said that once I turned sixteen, we would try it up the bum-," I covered her mouth with my hand, groaning as I prayed to God that a truck would come around the corner and kill me. I really didn't want to deal with this today. I was so tired after spending so much time revising these past few nights.

Kaminari and Mineta couldn't just read a textbook and understand how to solve the problem, so I had to create a video call with them and solve the problems for them, before making up my own questions for them to solve. That along with studying for my motorbike license meant that I had much less free time than I expected this month. Luckily the topics that our exams were going to cover were pretty easy, which meant I only had to really focus on science so I could at least pass.

"Speak, this time don't say anything stupid." I glared at Tokage, who nodded at me.

"Alright, alright. We need to talk about the actual promise we made. It's been a month, have you seriously not made any progress? I heard you fought the League of Villains during your trip."

"Didn't I tell you about what happened?"

"If you did, would I be standing here asking you about it?"

Fair point.

"Well, this is going to take a while to discuss, so where do you want to go?"

"Hm..." Tokage stroked her chin, leaning on the school gate. "How about a café?"

"Sure." I replied. "You're paying though."

"How cruel, making the girl pay on our first date? I swear, if I told my friends about how you are treating me, they would call you abusive and tell me to dump you." She complained, hugging herself as she pretended to cry. "I can't believe I'm being abused by my own boyfriend, how pitiful. I thought I was a big girl, but it turned out that I was being groomed the entire time. Groomed by a midget, I think this calls for me to jump of a bridge."

"I don't think you should be making jokes about that..." Other students were beginning to look at me funnily, I didn't want them to get the wrong impression of me. Especially since Tokage was the one making up lies in this situation, which could easily spell me disaster if left unchecked.

"Oh, whatever am I going to do, someone please save me from my abusive partner!" She yelled loudly, covering her forehead with her left hand. "Tell, me Kami, what have I done to deserve this life. I'd take anyone," She then stared seductively at a student passing by, "Do you want to be my hero? I'd do anything for you if you save me, please!" She then batted her eyelashes to convince the student to 'try and save her.'

The ugly bastard then sneered at my direction.

"Hey man, what are you doing to your girlfriend?" He shouted at me, throwing his bag on the floor as he raised his fists up to try and fight me. "A real man would never hit a woman-," Before he could finish his sentence, I used my Quirk to make a bat and swung it hard, hitting his stomach as he doubled over in pain and retched loudly. EVen during middle-school I hated these white knights, these pricks that are so lonely that they get manipulated so easily.

"A real man would never hit a woman?" I repeated amused, "Please give me a break. My hands yearn for equality, they hit woman and men without any discrimination. These hands have also been further inside a woman then you will ever be," Well that was a lie, "So go run away you pathetic little idiot. Don't listen to a word this witch has to say, she isn't even my girlfriend. If you still want to fight, I'll beat you so hard you will be eating your food through a fucking straw."

Luckily, the boy was smart enough to realise that I was a 'Hero student,' and that Tokage was giggling at his stupidity before it hit him that he was in the wrong. Standing up, and brushing the dirt off his trousers, he bowed his head to me and apologised for his rudeness, before thanking me for knocking some sense into him and ran as fast as he could away from Tokage. Not that I could blame him, I wanted to run away from her as well.

"Did you like my performance?" She asked me with a grin.

Damn, I really didn't want to deal with her today. She wasn't just a bitch, she was *the bitch. She was a homewrecker, freak of nature and manipulator all-in-one. She was like every negative trait you could find in a girl amplified by about one-million and then given to the Korean mafia to 'toughen up.' The scary part was that she somehow had me wrapped under her little finger, especially as she hugged my left arm fiercely, placing it right next to her soft breasts.

"So master," She looked up at me with a cute expression on her face, "Can you pay for me? I'm very poor, I spend all my money on buying sanitary products, so I won't be able to pay for food. I'm a very bad girlfriend aren't I. Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?" She 'cried,' fake tears rolling down her cheeks as she used my sleeve to wipe her tears away. Her performance was riveting in the sense that it made me want to believe her, but I knew the ugly truth.

This side of Setsuna Tokage would never exist because she was a devil underneath her exterior.

Still, the current cute side of her endeared to that side of me that wasn't able to resist this type of interactions between a boy and girl. Because despite reading battle Shonen manga for most of my life, I was also the same person to steal Miwa's Shojo romance manga and read them until four AM, crying as the main couple get together. It was sad that this was likely the closest I was going to get to imitating those couples, and it was with Tokage no less!

That really pissed me off!

It wasn't even with Jiro-,

Oh, what would Jiro think if she saw me right now? I scoured the crowd in front of us, trying to see if Jiro was in it, but luckily, I was in the clear. I sighed in relief as I walked with Tokage to a café that was close enough to the train station, but also hidden enough that Jiro wouldn't see us and get suspicious. Because if there was one thing Tokage enjoyed, it was embarrassing me to try and make my life hell. Still, I wasn't going to deny that Tokage didn't have nice breasts.

They were bigger than I initially thought.

"So, uhm, what do you want to order?" I asked her.

"Please, I don't want your shitty money." She replied, shoving me away from her as she walked into the café all alone. Wow, and there goes the lovely Tokage that I now missed immensely. Please... come back. "Anyways, did you like my acting?" She asked me, tapping away at her phone as she messaged some random person. Damn, to her I wasn't even worthy enough to warrant her full attention, even if we were discussing important topics.

"Your acting was so good I nearly bought that you weren't a total bitch," I replied, "Maybe if you acted like a normal human, you would be liked Tokage. Maybe you would actually get a boyfriend, and not whatever you and I have."

"Oh please, your line about your hand 'going further inside a woman' was total bullshit, and you know it! The furthest your hand has been in a woman is when you sexually assault them, which by the way is totally what happened a few minutes ago. Don't think that I didn't see you shifting your arm so you could touch more of my perky tits." I cringed at that. Tokage really had a way with words, which wasn't a good thing.

"Now you make me sound like a pervert."

"That's because you are. I mean think about it, you are some poor soul that died and got reincarnated in another world, and now you are seemingly dating teens. That's slightly paedophilic when you think about it, but who's counting the number of crimes you are committing."

"You apparently." I bitterly replied.

"Well now that's out of the way, spill. Did you meet with Zero?"

I nodded at her as I explained what happened during the 'Long Night in Hosu' incident, which was what the news called it. From Zero's appearance, to what he said, and how he helped prepare me for Stain. I then described to her in explicit detail what happened with Stain, and what happened afterward when Yozora, the Ninth showed up. To say that she was surprised would be like saying that water was wet.

"Really?" She asked me, "Was he hot at least?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

She twirled her hair around in her hair, sighing as she stretched her legs out from under the table, muttering something about boys not getting it. What did Yozora's attractiveness have to do with our conversation?

"Sora, if a villain is hot, it means that they are right." She explained as if it was common sense, "That's the first rule of anime. So, tell me, was he hot or not hot? This is very important, depending on how you answer it could make me cheat on you with him."

"Your joking, right?"

She rolled her eyes at me.

"Of course I'm joking you imbecile, I'm not some harlot that would spread their legs open for any hot villain. If I did, you would not be a virgin for once - but look at how that's turned-out dumbass."

"I'm not a villain!" I snapped at her.

"Sure you aren't," She sarcastically replied, "You might not be a villain, but in my eyes, you are an antagonist. You just think that you are the protagonist, probably some form of delusion you have had since the eighth grade. Deep down you want to believe that Zero is a good person, don't you? That he's going to be your rival, but after you beat him, he will join you as a friend. But this is real life, this isn't an anime. You say that you don't treat this world like an anime, but to me that seems like a lie. Because all you have done is try to be a protagonist, all you have done is mess things up more than they should be. Just like an antagonist."

I clapped at her thesis, rolling my eyes at her.

"Well done, I'm so glad that you have analysed my character in such depth, really, I should award you with top marks for such an interesting and thorough analysis of my actions, but I can't help but feel like you are missing one crucial aspect of my character," I responded sardonically, "But the fact is that I have saved people. I have helped members of my class become stronger, become better than they once were. No amount of your petty analysis can account for the good that I've done."

She smirked at me, repressing a snort as she poured some salt into my tea.

"Maybe so, but don't you think an antagonistic force can result in positive change?" She asked me.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well," She started, "You may have helped people that you care about, but you have only helped them for the now. There is no guarantee that Iida doesn't snap in the future and kills Stain the next time they meet. Shinso might have learned that you worked hard, but does that mean that he will work just as hard? And Todoroki, he might be using his fire right now, but what if he stops using his fire in the future? You haven't changed them, not really, all you have done is used a bastardised version of the events that played out in canon, only without the fairness and sincerity of Deku."

"How am I not sincere?" I asked her.

She paused, drinking her hot chocolate before staring me directly in the eye. She hummed slightly as she reached out to stroke my cheek, tilting her head as she studied me in great depth. She then sat back down on her seat and finished her drink, ordering another before she spoke to me again, this time being serious.

"To be frank Sora, you feel disingenuous most of the time. I mean it inn the sense that what you are saying makes sense, and you do believe it, but it still comes across as you being fake," She explained, "Now this is only my observations from afar, and I could be wrong, but there is a clear difference between you and Deku. Izuku Midoriya is the protagonist, he struggles, and he wins. He has a heart of gold, in contrast we have you. You, a dark horse, I don't need to explain why I would struggle to follow any advice you give, not with you nearly losing control over your sanity every so often, and your suicidal tendencies. Your 'good guy' advice seems solid, and it is, but it comes from you."

I said nothing in response, merely nodding to what she had to say.

"Sora, the advice you give is positive, it's practical and it makes sense. It helps them, but the problem is that you aren't as effective giving the advice as Deku is, you aren't as sincere as him because you haven't struggled like he has. You have had a Quirk for your whole life, you were a bully and hurt people deliberately, and you try to grow past it, trying to be better. You are the opposite of Deku, and more like Bakugo in a way. And so, the effectiveness of your advice reflects that, you weren't discriminated against because of your Quirk or lack thereof, you aren't close to Iida to try and truly change him, and you didn't listen to what Todoroki tried to say." She said.

"All you have done is try to be like Izuku Midoriya without understanding why Izuku Midoriya is liked, why he is a good hero, why he was able to help them in the first place. Why he was able to touch the souls of everyone else, in a way that you never will. Because you aren't Izuku Midoriya, and the fact that you have tried to become like him has led to you realising how much of a mistake you have made, am I right?" I nodded at that, clenching the stirring stick in anger.

"As I thought," She scoffed, "You really underestimated the number of changes you would make by simply trying to live your life. And now Deku is different, isn't he? Now you are going to try and help him, but you don't know how? You will never be able to help him because Sora, your nature isn't to help people, it's to kill them. Irrespective of your thoughts on the matter, for as long as you reject that other side of you, it will always result in you coming across as fake, at least in my eyes. Maybe 1A can look past that, and if they can then that's great. But that threat of them not understanding, of them reverting back to how they once were will always loom over your head Sora."

I sighed in response, moaning slightly as I tapped my foot impatiently on the ground. Did I really have to listen to that drivel for a few minutes? Gosh, did she just love the sound of her own voice? There was no way that any of them would turn their backs on what they had learned. Iida promised that he would become better, much like myself. Shinso learned just like I did the value of trying your hardest without giving up, a lesson I learnt through my favourite sport football. And I made sure that Todoroki learnt that doing things half-way was a bad idea, just like how I did.

I did help them, no matter what Tokage said.

"Well, that was illuminating," I sarcastically replied, "But now that your speech is over, shall I tell you about the tenth?" Her eyes widened at that, and for the first time ever I actually surprised Setsuna Tokage. I made sure to take a picture of her expression so that I could savour this moment for the rest of my life, the one time I shocked Tokage. After explaining to her about what Nanao and I talked about, as well as our deal Tokage looked readily more impressed with me.

"Well consider me surprised, your useless ass actually did something useful for once," She whistled, "Having a contact with the police is big, plus with her help our investigation will go smoother. Hell, maybe we can even nip the mystery in the bud before we graduate from U.A."

"Our?"

"Yes our," She reiterated, "It's our fight. I promised that I'd help you, because while you may be disingenuous, you have a special quality within you, something I like to call guts. You won't shy away from what is needed, and you won't take anything less than a carefree tomorrow for those you care about. That takes guts, and it does reassure me that you could pull it off, plus I'd feel bad if I didn't help you somewhat. I mean at this point with Zero and Yozora, I can't just live out a normal, stress-free life. And if I have to back one horse, it'll be with my friends."

"Did you just call me your friend?"

She snorted at me, shaking her head as she wagged her finger around to tell me that she did not mean it in that way.

"Fuck no. You and I as friends?" She laughed at the mere notion of us being friends, "Sora please don't make me call you Bakazaki forever. Use your head, you and I are like water and oil. Imagine if we were lovers, that would totally result in a domestic abuse case. I would be hitting you every day for just pissing me off, which reminds me of what I heard today in class. I heard from Monoma that you were planning to get a motorbike license, is that true?"

I nodded at her proudly. Yeah, I was going to get a-,

"Oh god help us all," She interrupted my thoughts with a prayer of her own. "You really are going to run me over, aren't you? Listen, I'm sorry for being mean to you, just don't run me over, or bring that death-trap anywhere near me. Okay?"

"What, are you afraid of a moped?" I asked her smirking.

"Very. I don't trust you to be on one without hitting a bystander, so I'd rather not be involved in an accident."

"Why does everyone say that?" I whispered to myself. Surely I wasn't that bad, I mean I was a safe driver in all the racing games I played. Even when racing in a super-car I still managed to finish the race in first without any scratched on the car with traffic enabled at the hardest difficulty, which was hard, yet I still managed to pull it off.

"I need to meet this Nanao," Tokage told me, "We need to all meet up and discuss our plans for the future. Especially if this Yozora is as bad as she claims, we need to create fail safes to deal with him. Damn, and here I was hoping that we only had to deal with one psychopath. This is spiralling out of control, to the point where I want to slit my wrists in response. Oh well, if it ever gets too much, I'll just leave U.A."

"Really? You'll leave U.A? What about the memories you have made with everyone, or about how hard your life will be if you just leave." She shrugged her shoulders in response, pouring more sugar in her new hot chocolate that had just been brought to our table.

"I'm a coward Sora Yamazaki, you'd do best to remember that. I'm helping you because that's the only way I can currently make it out alive from this mess, but if there is an option for me to take that will result in my survival without getting dragged into your war, then I'll gladly take that option. Even if it means leaving U.A behind." She explained, which made me smile a bit. For once, I actually agreed with her.

"Good," I replied, "I'd want you to take that option anyways, after all despite all your mean words and actions, you do care for me. So, I'd want you to be able to have a carefree tomorrow, even if it means you have to live without the people you care about the most – At least you will be alive instead of potentially dying in the war I've started. Maybe you could even bring a few people like Jiro and Kaminari with you, Mineta too if you can. Actually, take as many from 1A as you can, as well as everyone in 1B. I wouldn't want any of you to be hurt because of my actions against Zero and Yozora."

And for the second time in the day, I managed to surprise Setsuna Tokage yet again. The mask of indifference was wiped away from her face as she stared at me sadly, both in understanding what I was saying and understanding in what would happen to me. I'd fight against them all alone, with no one around me if that were the only option, I had to ensure that everyone would live.

"Wouldn't... wouldn't you get lonely? Fighting all alone." She asked me, for once her voice felt emotive, she said those words with such sadness that it surprised me. She looked down at her cup of hot chocolate and refused to meet my eyes, twirling the spoon in her cup around.

"No," I replied, "I'd be alone yes, but I wouldn't get lonely. Because I'd have everyone with me in my memories, and in my heart. Because even if you aren't fighting with me physically, I know that everyone will always be behind me, making sure that I won't die. So even if I do end up fighting them, and any other bastard that comes my away all alone, I know that I'll win. I know that I'll come back to everyone and the good times we had will resume, so you can be a coward all you want Setsuna, because I have your back just as you have mine."

"...Thanks." She eventually said.

"No problem-,"

"Thanks for giving me new material to laugh at, seriously you really are a riot Bakazaki. A real comedian, have you ever considered becoming one? I think a career change would suit you." She laughed out, wiping away her tears. Heh, even though she may never admit it, we both knew as to why she was crying, and it wasn't because of my jokes. I could see it in her eyes, despite how hard she tried to deny it.

Relief.

Relief and happiness.

---

I yawned as Aizawa-sensei drilled explained to me what training I had to do. After my warm-up on the treadmill, using a steep incline thanks to Manual, Aizawa-sensei got to work with making me practice katas with my bokuto. I was untrained in the way of the sword, and as such one day I would get my ass handed to me when I wouldn't be able to hit a skilled opponent. So here I was, practicing swinging my sword correctly like a kendo student.

At least I wasn't like the poor bastard behind me.

Hitoshi Shinso was panting heavily on the ground only after five minutes on the treadmill at max settings, something which slightly amused me as I waved at him. See Aizawa had given him one chance to prove himself, and so far, this was his start. The only problem was that he couldn't even do one press-up properly without collapsing to the ground with a heavy thud, and a bunch of curses aimed at Aizawa-sensei.

That being said, after doing my exercises and helping Shinso complete his own, eventually Aizawa-sensei brought out a whiteboard and sat us down on the ground. Twirling the pen around on his hand, he studied the both of us as I gave Shinso tips on what to do if his muscles were still sore after a day or two, which he gladly wrote down on his phone. I couldn't tell if Aizawa-sensei was happy at what I was doing, or if he was disappointed.

"Well now that is out of the way, let us run through some combat simulations." Aizawa explained as he drew a miniature version of Shinso and me on the whiteboard. Opposite us where generic looking villains, some had scars across their face while others just had permanent frowns on their face. All in all, it was pretty poor penmanship, and while I didn't laugh like Shinso, I did feel a sort of kinship with my homeroom teacher.

Just like him, I couldn't draw for shit.

"Shinso, say you are forced to apprehend a villain and you don't know their Quirk. How would you approach them, I want you to tell me the step-by-step process of how you would deal with them." Aizawa asked the boy next to me, who basically shat his pants as he stared at the board desperately trying to produce an answer.

"Uh, well, I'd use my Quirk to shut them down." He replied unsure of his answer.

"And what if they don't reply? Your Quirk would be rendered useless, and so you would end up in a brawl with a villain – One with a Quirk you know nothing about. So, you get in a brawl with them, what points do you target first?"

"The pressure points."

"And where are they located on the body?" Aizawa asked, raising his eyebrows in amusement as Shinso stuttered out multiple different answers which I knew were wrong. Even if I was not good at biology, even I knew that the eye socket wasn't a pressure point. "Shinso, if this was a real fight you would have died," Aizawa-sensei didn't hold back, something which made me nervous too, "Not only would the civilians in the surrounding area be in danger, but you would have died achieving nothing."

"Well- I-, I'm not a hero student." Shinso tried to defend himself, "How am I supposed to-,"

"I wasn't questioning your skills as a hero; I was questioning your skills as a critical thinker. I was testing your mind, and the strategies you could develop on the spot. That being said, if your Quirk was used in the situation, you would have won. But don't rely only on that, a pro like Endeavour and many others don't just rely on one trick Shinso. The next time I ask you this question I expect you to have come up with three different solutions to the problem." Aizawa then turned to me as he waited for my answer to the question.

"I don't suppose you will accept my answer of beating the shit out of them?" Aizawa shook his head, while beside me Shinso giggled at my answer, before coughing to try and hide his amusement when our teacher glared at him. "Well then, my answer is that I'd force the villain to use their Quirk." I told Aizawa and Shinso, the latter's eyes widening at my answer.

"Explain."

"Well, if I don't know their Quirk, it's a gamble to try and fight them head-on without any information. So, I'd use my Quirk to send projectiles to them, I'd basically fight them at a distance until I have enough information to face them properly." I developed my answer, "Of course I'm assuming that our fight is taking place all alone. If I had other people with me, I'd time my attacks to come before or after theirs, thus forcing the villain to use their Quirk. And then after that I'd be able to attack them properly with everyone else."

"And if you have to protect injured civilians behind you?" Aizawa asked, "Let's say you are trapped in an alleyway with two injured women behind you. One is severely wounded, while the other is so terrified that they can't move their body to call for help. You are all alone in the alley, and you are facing a villain with a mysterious Quirk, how would you approach this?"

Hm.

I stroked my chin in thought, how would I approach that?

"I'd fight them directly." I eventually answered. "I wouldn't have enough time to try and bait them into using their Quirk, and since one person is severely wounded like you said, I'd need to rush them into hospital as soon as I could before they died. So, I'd fight the villain head-on and finish the fight quickly."

"And if you can't win?"

"I'd make sure to win."

"Even if you die?"

"I've made a promise to myself that I won't die." I told him.

"You think a promise is going to save your life? Do you want me to count the amount of people that have said the exact same words that you have Yamazaki, because I could," Aizawa replied, "Your promise is meaningless to a villain, meaningless to everyone other than yourself. So, I'll ask you this question once more, you are fighting an opponent you can't beat. You are all alone with no backup, and you need to take someone to the hospital before they die. What do you do?"

"I-, I-," Shit, what was I supposed to do?! That was a lose-lose situation, was I just expected to roll over and die? To prioritise my own life over theirs, to let the civilians die and let the villain get away. Was that the answer to this problem? To lose? No. My fists tightened as I stared at the floor, desperately trying to think of a solution to the problem. But nothing was coming to me, no matter what I'd lose this battle, especially as Aizawa kept on adding different parameters to try and counter any points I made.

Was defeat really the only option?

"Let go of your pride for one moment," Aizawa told me, "What do you do when you have an injured person that is in desperate need of medical attention?" He asked me.

"I'll take them to the hospital." I replied.

"Precisely," He nodded at my answer, "In that situation you let the villain escape. You can use your Quirk to grab the two civilians and fly them away, because they are what takes priority. Their lives over beating the villain, that's what a hero should prioritise. The answer you were looking for is to run away from the villain, that's the only way you'll 'win.' Your pride could be your downfall, I've seen it happen before Yamazaki. And that's one of the solutions I want you to bear in mind Shinso, if you face an opponent, you can't beat then do not engage. Stall for back up if you want, run away if needed, but do not die full of regrets, do not die because of your pride."

As always, Aizawa-sensei had a different motive from what he originally said it was. He wasn't testing our strategies; he was testing our pride. And I failed, because of course I did, as always, I failed to look underneath the underneath as a different sensei once said. I grinned at him as he made us get back to work, five hundred swings for me and lifting weights for Shinso. As expected from our teacher straight from hell.

He really wanted to kill us before we even reached eighteen.

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"You can't do that." I warned Uraraka as she tried to shake the vending machine open. We had a "study period" which was code for do whatever the fuck you want. Some people like Kaminari and Mineta went straight to sleep, while Jiro went straight to the music room to practise some "notes" or something like that. Yaouorozu looked at us disapprovingly, but since she had to tutor Mina and Hagakure to ensure that they didn't fail our upcoming exams. This meant that I was all alone, and so I did what I usually did when I bunked lessons, and that was walk around the school.

U.A was big, even after being here for nearly two months there were still floors that I hadn't even reached. Not because they were hidden away, but because there was so much to explore in just the ground floors. But my favourite part of the building was easily the roof, which had an access point right next to a vending machine. Where I found Uraraka shaking the machine down angrily, yelling about her "one hundred Yen" that was stolen from her. It was sorta funny as I leaned against the wall and watched her fight a vending machine like her life was on the line.

Eventually I felt pity for the girl as I walked up to the vending machine and kicked the glass, but it didn't end up breaking it clean. Instead there was a small crack, like small enough where you would have to squint your eyes or else you would have missed it.

"Tch, I kicked with my weaker foot." I said, tapping at my right foot. "If I hit it with my left it would have been broken by now."

Uraraka giggled at my actions, rolling her eyes as she raised her hands in the air, allowing me to kick the vending machine once more, this time using my left. Naturally, the glass broke completely, which meant that I could reach inside and take a couple bottles of water for free.

"Won't you get caught?" She asked me curiously as she scooped up a few bottles of juice herself.

"Eh," I shrugged my shoulders in response, "Probably not. There are no cameras on this floor, plus I've never seen a teacher come to this spot near the roof. Pretty sure it's supposed to be restricted for us first years, so the third years will probably get blamed."

Uraraka nodded in understanding, looking at me curiously as if she was waiting for me to do something.

"Aren't you going to pay?" She asked me.

"No, why would I? It's just water."

"But you didn't pay for it."

"It's not for me," I replied, "I got it for Kaminari and Mineta when they wake up. They've been working hard these past two weeks, and while I usually go to bed at two AM, I appreciate their dedication to revising for our exams. They were complaining about being thirsty, so here I am giving them water. Oh wait, it's your first summer in a city, isn't it?"

She nodded at that, "Yep. Everyone always said that the heat was unbearable in the cities, but I guess I didn't understand what they meant until now."

"Yeah it's rough. Make sure to always keep your air conditioner on or else you'll die of a heat stroke or something, it happened to my neighbour once. Old bastard wanted to save some money so he turned off his air conditioning for a month, and now look at him. Please don't follow in the same footsteps as my old neighbour." I joked, reminiscing about that old grandpa.

He gave me a packet of sweets once, he wasn't too bad I suppose.

"I'll try not to," Uraraka giggled, "But it is hard living in the city. Everything is so expensive, not to mention the cost for travel. Even with the stipend U.A gives me, I still feel like it isn't enough at times."

"Stipend?" I asked her, confused. I wasn't aware that U.A gave money to its students, becuase if they did then I deserved two months of pay - Actually I wasn't settling for anything less than three! One extra month for all the hassle in the first place!

"Well it's only given to students who don't live in Musutafu. It covers our rent, the cost of basic necessities and some luxury goods." She explained, "Since I live alone in the city I get the full package. You live in Musutafu, right?"

"Mmh, with my parents and my sister. I guess it must be hard for you to live away from your family, if you ever need anything just give me a call. If it's some money you need, a hot meal, or your laundry done I'm the guy."

"You mean your family?"

"Same thing," I replied, "But my offer still stands. You are only fifteen after all, I couldn't imagine living in a new city at this age. It takes true strength to actually go through with it and succeed, which makes you a hero of budgeting Uraraka. Uravity? More like the Penny Pincher Hero."

She lightly tapped my arm in response, a small smile forming on her face as she did so.

"You're mean."

"But loveable."

"Debatable."

I crossed my hand over my chest and pretended that I was wounded, leaning against the wall and breathing heavily for dramatic effect.

"You wound me Uraraka, how will I ever recover?!" I yelled out in fake pain, causing her to giggle at my antics. She had a cute smile, one of those smiles that would make you instantly want to reach out to them and hug them tightly, protecting them from the harsh world. I guess that's the role Uraraka played in our class, the extremely innocent and wholesome younger sister.

"You know Sora, you aren't so bad when Kaminari and Mineta aren't with you." She told me, "It's like you are a different person when you are with them. It's not bad, but I much prefer you when you are relaxed and not throwing insults at each other every time you open your mouth. I get that it's banter, but I just wish that the three of you could get along better."

"That is how we get along," I explained to her, "Kaminari, Mineta and I are pretty similar in nature. We insult each other because it's the only way to give each other criticisms, and also to show our love for each other if that makes sense. Yeah, I don't get our friendship either, but I do know that it's beautiful. Sorry if it scares you, at this point I'm just used to it."

"Haha, it's no problem. Everyone in the class can see how close you three are, especially since you have been going to sleep later to help them prepare for the exams, haven't you?"

My eyes widened at that as I looked at her grinning in my direction. Now how they hell did she know that? I made sure not to tell anyone that I had been going to bed at around four in the morning, partly because I knew the reaction that I'd get. Was it healthy? No, but it was helping Kaminari and Mineta to get better grades. The mock paper I forced them to sit had them score fourty's across the board for maths, which was a passing grade at least.

But I was hopeful that I'd be able to get both of them to at least score fifty percent or more in maths and literature, especially since they were my strongest subjects. For history and other essay based subjects, I already knew what the questions were going to be beforehand by just looking at our specification and what we had learnt, which meant it was easy to see where the questions would fall upon.

"You have heavier bags under your eyes than usual." She told me, "Most of the time we know that it's from you doing something stupid, like playing games all night or watching an anime. But you are trying to hide it this time, which made it obvious in the end." Huh, I didn't expect her to be this observant. Not that I thought she was dumb, because she wasn't, but I didn't exactly expect Uraraka to guess my 'secret.'

"Well I'm not denying it, but even if I were doing that, is there a problem?" I yawned, sure my sleeping pattern was more fucked than usual, but I was sleeping during the day so it evened out. I'm sure that by the time exams roll about I'll be fine, so I could handle this for another week or two… or three. It wasn't that big of a deal.

"Well Sora, I'm sure that Kaminari and Mineta wouldn't like it if they found out about what you were doing."

"So then they won't find out," I replied, "Or are you going to tell them?"

She shook her head at me, opening the juice bottle that she paid for to drink from it. Damn, she looked good even while drinking juice? Midoriya was one lucky man.

"Can I create a nickname for you?" She randomly asked me, catching me off guard as I stared at her confused as to why that was a question in the first place. After Mina's 'So-chan,' I never wanted to touch nicknames ever again. Gosh, I get nightmares from just thinking about people calling me by that cursed name.

"How about Gin?" She asked me," Because your hair is like silver in a way. Well it's blue, but it's also silver which is-,"

"A weird colour, I know. It's a pain to live with, so don't ever dye your beautiful brown hair. Oh you don't know how many I'd kill to just have a normal hair colour." I told her.

"But then you wouldn't be Sora!" She exclaimed, "Your hair colour is just as important as your personality! Without it you would cease to exist, you would just go boom!"

"I would go boom?" I scoffed at that. "Are you trying to say that if my hair colour changes that I'd be blown up? Holy shit that's dark." She shook her head at me, biting her lip nervously as she used her hands to emphasise her point and clarify it for me.

"No as in your hair colour, while odd, is a part of your image. Even if you dislike your hair colour, it just adds to your charm. Removing it would be like removing the main actor from a TV show for a season, it would just feel odd." She explained, this time making much more sense. I mean, she did have a point, my hair was what people recognised me by.

"Anyways Sora, you are like the older brother of our class. Just changing your hair colour would make you seem serious, especially since you always have a frown on your face for the whole day, it would make more people afraid of you. But with your hair colour as is, you seem more approachable and more like the carefree older brother of the group that says he doesn't care, but he does."

Gee, that sounds oddly specific. There was no way that Uraraka just thought of that right now, I refused to believe that she just thought of this right now. There must have been a conversation in the class about me, which both made me happy and sad at the same time. I bet they didn't discuss the most important topics like if I would be a good boyfriend, or how hot I was.

"I guess you're right," I replied, "But you know you would be a good match with Midoriya. With the way you are describing my role in our classroom, you'd think that you studied me like Midoriya studies All Might." Uraraka blushed at that, stammering out a resounding 'Deku and me?' as her red cheeks became even redder.

"Deku and I are just friends, that's all."

"Sure, I totally believe you."

"O-okay, and what about you and Jiro?! I've seen the way you have looked at her!"

"And I don't deny it." I replied.

"You-, wait what?"

"I said that I admit it. I do look at Jiro often, more than I probably should. "

"So then why don't you ask her out!" She yelled at me, "You and Jiro are practically already dating! And you two would be so cute as an actual couple. More than Midoriya and I ever could be."

"Aha, so you admit that you want to date Midoriya!" I teased her, causing her blush to return full force.

"Ah-, I didn't say that."

"Yes you did."

"No I didn't. You are just being mean again Sora." She said, folding her arms and looking away frim me. "But you really should ask Jiro out, are you afraid of rejection? Because I'm pretty sure that she likes you back, or at least may like you."

"It's not that I'm afraid," I told her, throwing one of the water bottles in the air as I caught it right before it could fall on the floor. "It's that I'm not in the right frame of mind for a relationship right now. I'd end up hurting her by accident, and then I'd only blame myself. So even if she finds someone else to treat her nicely, I'll still be happy that she's happy, even if it's not with me."

Uraraka pouted at that, poking my ribs hard, resulting in me nearly tripping on the floor in surprise.

"You really are dense!" She said, "Mina was right, you really are stupid."

"Ouch."

"Do you really think that you'll hurt Jiro? If you like her then you should go for her, and I'm sure that Mina would agree with me! Hagakure would squeal with delight over tbe first class relationship, and I'm sure that Aoyama will write a love poem in French for you two."

Ha, that sounded like our class alright.

"Can't forget Bakugo trying to one up me by asking out one of you girls to try and say that he got a better girlfriend than me. Oh and Mineta and Kaminari's jealous looks, actually most boys in our class would start to hate me slowly."

"Exactly! What's wrong with that?"

"Fine then, how about this Uraraka," I pointed my index finger at her, "When you ask Midoriya out, that's when I'll ask Jiro out."

"That's stupid, that will never happen. Like ever. Deku is just a friend, that's all." I grinned at her confidence in the statement, but even I could see it in her eyes. The start of something more thsn just a 'friendship,' and I'm sire that the other girls in our class had picked up on it as well. Uraraka could lie to herself, but she was a pretty piss poor liar in general which made it that much more funnier.

Despite all this, I couldn't help but laugh. Laugh at the fact that even if I wanted to build a carefree tomorrow, I had to get through the present first. But a carefree present didn't sound as cool as a carefree tomorrow, so there was that to take into account. Well not like it matters anyway, especially since we walked back to our classroom for the end of our study period.

No matter how many times she denies it, it was obvious to see how it would end up in the long run.

Izuku Midoriya, you lucky son of a bitch.

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Hahaha. It was a funny chapter to write, I'll tell you that much.

Now onto the special omake I was talking about (No questions/responses for this chapter)

Now, this is a character sheet regarding Sora through the eyes of our favourite U.A teacher, Shota Aizawa. Expect something, or don't expect anything at all? This has helped increase my word count of this chapter by quite a bit, so either way I'm happy.

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Sora Yamazaki - 'The Fourteenth'

Nimbus (Active) - Allows the user to generate, control and shape cloud constructs, these clouds can be hardened so the user can float on them, or create items that can be used. Nimbus is made from the user's energy, the more the user creates the constructs, the more it drains their energy.

Techniques:

Travelling Cloud (The user can sit on a construct and fly around in the sky.)

Baseball Bat (The user forms a baseball bat that can be used to hit others with. The user mostly uses this bat for comedic circumstances, or to pretend that they are a delinquent.)

Rasengan (Creates a small sphere construct that can spin extremely fast, at best being able to completely drill into a human.)

Chidori (Creates a construct that 'sharpens' itself every second, a bit like peeling off a string but at super high speeds which result in it continuously being sharp. Can also pierce a human.)

Reinforce (Flow clouds throughout the body to increase durability of the body, acting like lightweight armour.)

Choke (Wraps the construct around someone's neck and choke them to death. Could be useful in sex the user laments, however its use in that area is undocumented.)

Bankai (Summons white clouds and mixes them with the constructs, usually at a 7:3 ratio where most of the construct is being used due to its ease of control compared to a normal cloud. It improves the user's strength, speed and dexterity immensely and forms an armour around the user, a bit like a knight. It takes a lot of time to build the amount of constructs necessary for this form.)

Bankai 'revised breakthrough' (Uses the constructs and stretches them around the user's body on the inside, increasing their blood flow. Increases speed and strength, as well as possibly the ability to think critically. Taxes the body, and the mind immensely and can lead to death if the user is not careful. Compared to Gear 2 from One Piece the user claims, however 'Gear 2' and 'One Piece' seems to be stories that the user has made up.)

Sword (Creates a sword construct.)

Shield (Creates a construct that shields the user, usually in the shape of a sphere that they hide in.)

Block-the-way (Wraps a construct around someone to stop them from moving.)

Enhance (Wrap clouds around the body and control it to enhance speed, and dexterity, like a puppet master commanding their puppets to move. It doesn't really speed the user up, rather forces their body to move faster than normal, whilst also allowing the user to be more flexible compared to before. Can damage the body if used incorrectly.)

Quirk 2.

Gamble (Active) - When active the user gains a power boost, however the boost comes at a cost of an equally dangerous downside, something must be paid for the power boost. These boosts can be activated in various ways, such as enhancing the temperature of Nimbus, to be able to make boiling flames from anger, maybe even make ice if in a different state of mind. It is a Gamble, and therefore different situations can call for different results. Afterwards there's a set period of time in which the user can't be affected by your Quirk, and anyone else's Quirk used on you. Potentially sentient, or even under the influence of something else?

Techniques:

Temperature Control - Allows the user to raise your temperature completely at the cost of burning the user's own body. Usually used to break the user's arm in order to set their Nimbus on fire. Flames can go up to pure white. These flaming Clouds occur when there is an increase of the the temperature of the Nimbus Clouds to extreme heights, creating flames of varying heats depending on the amount sacrificed.

Quirk 3.

Healing (Passive) - Allows the user's body to heal much faster than a regular human's, while also dulling the pain.

Quirk 4.

Unknown (Passive) - Not much is known about this Quirk other than the fact that it is always active. Perhaps it has already been used, or perhaps it is waiting for a future time to present itself.

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And there it is!

All of Sora's abilities, as well as hints to what the fourth Quirk may be? Anyways, thanks to LezarioFanfico for this wonderful idea. I'll start to do one for all the 'reincarnates' so to speak, but some might not have a lot of information available on them. Of course the various different character sheets will be written from different perspectives, with various little jokes spread out between that do make them canon to this story. Now there won't be plot points or anything, rather just small references to events and running jokes.

They will be updated regularly, so there is that. Ideally by the end of the series, I'd like to have complete character sheets on every reincarnate discussing their abilities, beliefs and their respective character arcs. Which will all be available at the end of the final chapter of this story... whenever it comes out. Ha, you thought I would divulge Zero's identity now?!

Nope!

Zero's identity is the most important secret of this story. Shit, if I reveal that now pretty much all the readers will leave. Seriously. Like you would all just find my address and burn me to death for writing out such a horrible, misleading character. Like I feel sorry for you all in advance, truly. The amount of pain I will be inflicting to you all in the future...

Well it's been a blast this past year writing this story, so let's aim for another successful year, shall we? After all, the mysteries have not been solved yet! And of course we have so many question marks, like why were people reincarnated? What do they each want to do? Why does Sora have multiple Quirks? Why did his mother leave him? Who killed Tokage's mother? Why did Yozora kill the 11th? What is Nanao's breast size? So many questions that don't even involve Zero, but of course my favourite question of them all is who will become Mineta's girlfriend?

I know, you may be wondering 'Who gives a shit about that?'

Well I do. I've planned nearly 300k words just to be dedicated on an arc that's centred around who Mineta's girlfriend is. Part 2 and Part 3? Mysteries? Nope. After this chapter I'm rushing straight to the end, everyone comes together to try and find out who Mineta's girlfriend is and it ends up having an Evangelion-esque ending.

Joking, I'm only joking.

Well I do have a comedy arc centred around that premise, but it won't happen for a while. Still, I really love writing these sections. I can just ramble about anything and artificially increase my word count. Isn't that great? Well, maybe not for you, but for me it allows me to say "Oh yeah, I'm the author of a FFN that's over 300k words!"

Like, it's such a flex (Even if most of it is written by a gorilla on meth.)

That being said, it's been a year since I started this story. I was naïve thinking I could write this all out without making a few changes, because the story I had in mind a year ago is different compared to now. Multiple reincarnates? I had the idea of Sora and Zero planned from the start yes, but adding Tokage, Yozora and now Nanao all came to me when I thought to add some more.

I won't lie, the whole 'mystery' side of things came to me only after I revealed Zero's presence. I realised that I enjoyed writing a good mystery and decided to expand on it, instead of just saying that it was pure chance that Sora and Zero were reincarnated. Sora's mother and father originally weren't supposed to matter, but I thought 'Hey isn't Shirakumo Oboro still alive as Kurogiri? Yeah, what if he's a father to someone?' and then, 'Hm, his mother abandoned him. Oh, she abandoned him! That can be a plot point in the future!'

Now yes, Sora x Miwa was a cursed ship that I tried to push at the start. Then I realised... it wouldn't make sense. Pretty sure the first intermission chapter still references his feelings (Which is outdated since I changed that chapter...) and now you new readers may be confused by what that meant. Essentially take Jiro's confession scene, and put that in much earlier and very rushed.

Sora x Miwa will NEVER exist ever again, and I refuse to accept that it ever existed (Even if I tried to write it.) Now that doesn't mean that Sora x Jiro will happen either. And some sicko's (Although they aren't wrong) have declared that Tokage is the best girl, and are hoping for a Sora x Tokage pairing. Some wish for a harem - WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE!

My thoughts on the matter are complex.

Really, the only pairing that I'll push for is Sora x his game disks.

"Yeah you dirty bitch, I bet you like it when I shove my dick through your hole-,"

Next time on Over the Top:

"I thought you said that tests are easy!"

"Yeah well that was before we were told that we would be fighting a fucking teacher imbecile!"

"That's not really fair..."

"Nothing in life is fair, Ezio."

"Who's Ezio?"

"You don't know who Ezio is?"

"No."

"Ezio these balls bitch."

"I really hate you."