My Heroic Beast King
Chapter 10
I am glad i waited for the alert system to come back on line before releasing this.
I know some do not like that I put Naruto characters in a Naruto X My Hero Academia crossover. Usually, it is just Naruto and that is what people expect. Orochimaru being here through people off. Well, I like to reincarnate characters a bit. I did it The Other Box and those characters remembered their past lives. I plan to bring more over…but only one will remember their past life. So it will be sort of like new characters. However, they will mostly be relegated to side characters so do not worry too much as most won't appear again.
Also, you will see I messed with the Recommended Roster of Students a bit.
Anyway, enjoy.
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Naruto watched as the sun rose for dawn as he stood on the clean Dagobah Beach. All the yellows, reds, and oranges burst from the darkness and mixed with the ocean and sand creating a truly beautiful site. It was much better than what it used to be, that was for sure.
It used to be a worrisome trash heap. In order to train his new strength from One for All, he was made to clean the beach, which was not that bad. Despite always being naturally strong, thanks to Kurama's influence, he was more speed based near the end of his time in his old world. Strange how that switched up on him, but now he was both strong and speedy. In fact, he was far better in his base form than before.
Say what you will about Jiraiya's training, but it was mostly the man reteaching him the basics that should have been taught to him in the academy. With both Jiraiya's training and All Might's training combined, he was far better than before. Combine that with what Kakashi and Yamato taught about Nature Transformation and he was set to go.
All that combined with already made him a hero…or warrior at the age of 15 again, but this world operated differently. Their warriors operated on a hero-based system that could be improved and the only way to do that was play the system.
A sudden ringing from his smart phone brought him out of his thoughts as he turned off the alarm. "Time to meet the others at U.A. already?" That was fine, but he took any of Japan's mode of transports, he would just barely make it on time. He was faster. It was not like he would be caught using his quirk.
In a swirl of leaves, he disappeared from the beach.
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Naruto appeared just in time to catch an Izuku who tripped on his own feet with one hand. He wore simple clothes like an orange t shirt, a pair of blue shorts, and some black shoes. One might think he was insane for wearing so little in winter, but he had always run a little hotter than most. Not to mention he worked up a bit of sweat on his way here. "That nervous Izuku?"
"That was a good catch! I was about to use my quirk to help him out. It is bad luck to trip before a big test like this!" A brown-haired girl said cheerfully. Unlike Naruto, he was bundled up. "I am Ochaco Uraraka, by the way."
"Don't I know that." Naruto replied ruefully, remembering his first exam in the ninja academy. That had not been a good start to a really bad day. "Name's Naruto."
"I am Izuku Midoriya!" the green haired boy shot up from Naruto's grip and stood ramrod straight. Despite having spent time around girls like Himiko, Mei, Momo, Kyoka, and Melissa, the boy still had trouble talking to girls he did not know. However, he never had issues with quirks! "Wait, what quirk do you have that could have helped me?!" Izuku was also dressed differently, a green tracksuit is what he wore to the test.
"Where did that notebook come from?" Ochako asked, a bit unnerved that the notebook seemed to have materialized from thin air…with a bit of static. Was that his quirk?
"We are not sure…but it is something we have gotten used to." Naruto replied a bit tiredly, having given up on the mechanic of that just happening and wondering why.
"Alright then." The brown-haired girl replied with a bit of uncertainty before smiling at the boys. "My quirk is called Zero-Gravity, as for how it works, you will just have to find out in the practical! See you inside!" At that, she quickly rushed inside the big building.
"Heh, she really held out on you." Naruto snickered at his best friend, who just shrugged but had stars in his eyes.
"Not a big deal, but if her quirk works like I think it does, that would make her a great hero!" Izuku gushed.
"You say that a lot, but I know you believe in a lot of people, so I will let it slide." Naruto chuckled a bit.
"But I won't!" Himiko chimed in as the others walked up to them with amusement on their faces. "Oh, Izu, have you already moved on from me!? You said my quirk was wonderful as well!" Himiko wore a cute red coat as her most outstanding piece of outer wear.
"Ugh….but it is." Izuku replied nervously with a rather red face already.
"Come on, do not give the boy too many jitters. We do not want his quirk going off now." Hitoshi replied tiredly in a comfy looking purple and black coat, remembering the first time Izuku's quirk went off and then whenever he got too excited. He kept it under control since then, but still. He was too tired to deal with it.
"Aw do not worry, Hitoshi, the only guy I want to really give 'jitters' to is you!" Himiko replied with a mischievous smirk.
"Oh? Did you bring him an extra strong coffee?" Kyoka asked with a knowing smirk of her own. She also didn't bundle up, keeping to her punk rock style.
"Yup and he got me an iced coffee!" Himiko replied cheerfully. "With a little something…extra."
"I am jealous dude, how is it that it was you two that became the group's first couple?" Denki asked in a deadpanned but desperate stare. His poofy yellow coat making the look a bit more comical.
"She asked me out." Hitoshi replied as he nonchalantly took a sip of life that was coffee, savoring the taste. "You would find someone too if you did not ask out every girl that crossed your path. Comes off as desperate."
"Damn, he has you there Jamming Yay." Kyoka replied while laughing.
"Come on, I have not short circuited in a long time." Denki complained, "I even have Mei's upgraded Nanites and steel toed boots to prove I won't."
"Doesn't make it any less funny!"
While Denki and Kyoka were arguing…more like Kyoka ribbing him just for fun and Denki just having to take it, Mei smiled at them but looked nervous as they all walked through the building to the place where they had to take the written exam. Normally, she would be just as excited, if not more than most of them. But this was U.A. and her nerves were getting to her. She was so nervous that she did not even notice the cold and came in her mechanic's gear.
"Just breath in and keep it steady dear." Momo replied encouragingly, wearing a stylish red coat of her own to the event.
"Thanks, Momo." Mei replied with a smile. "I am surprised you and Tenya did not just do the recommended exams."
"It would have been easier, yes. However, after all the training we went through, I felt I would be doing myself a disservice by not trying with everyone else. I wish to prove to myself that I can fight and survive on my own." Momo replied while watching Naruto and Izuku converse with each other at the front of the group.
Mei smirked at the taller girl teasingly. "Sure, yourself is the only one you wanted to prove that to." She then patted one of two handmade guns strapped to her belt. She got them approved before hand, otherwise how would both herself and Hitoshi even compete in these exams? "I will say that you still have competition…in more than one way."
Momo eyed the girl for a moment in silence before looking back at Kyoka, who was still teasing Denki and then back at Mei with her guns. Yes, in more than one way was correct. Getting Naruto's attention was harder than it seemed for romance and she was very much a romantic at heart. Her and Kyoka were trying to get Naruto's attention, but at this point it was not as serious as it could be, what with his denseness. Plus, her and Kyoka still valued their friendship and wanted to keep that. It did bring of the memory of a news article about three heroes and them living together.
Shaking the memory away for now, her mind went to Mei and they nodded at each other. They had gained a bit of rivalry with their sharp shooting skills. If Mei wanted to be a hero, she needed a certain set of skills to go with her quirk. Then she could combine them with her inventions later. The heroes Snipe and Lady Nagant were big inspirations there. So they trained together and gained a rivalry.
"COME! WE MUST HURRY TO OUR SEATS!" Tenya shouted as he fast walked past all of them, thinking they were going to be late.
"Sir, yes sir!" Naruto replied with a mock salute…that seemed to calm Tenya down a bit.
"I was doing it again, wasn't I?" Tenya asked.
"Yeah, but in this case it is fine. Sometimes we need to rush a bit." Naruto replied good naturedly as he patted Tenya on the shoulder. "Since Tensei is not here to lighten you up, that's my job."
"Speaking of, he did wish us all good luck." Tenya replied with a genuine smile.
Naruto nodded as that and held up his phone. "Koichi, Kazuho, Chris, and Makoto all did the same from America. They believe in us as well."
"Then we got this in the bag." Kyoka replied with a smirk as they walked into their testing rooms.
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While the others were in the normal exams, Shoto was in the recommended exams. He was…uncomfortable. For two reasons. His quirk made these exams way too easy. Mostly because Naruto found a loophole in his own promise to never use father fire quirk for combat. For combat…that is what Naruto had picked at, forcing Shoto to use it for none combat related ways. For example, the exam was a race he just won with the wind guy looking at him strangely. He had coated the ground in front of him with ice and them blasted himself forward with his fire.
"That was amazing!" The windy suddenly belted out, getting right in his personal space.
"Uh…thank you?" Shoto replied, blatantly ignoring the smug look on his father face. If he was to be forced with his father's quirk, he would use it his own damn way! He would have to thank Naruto later for helping him train in that idea. "Your wind made you fast as well."
"HA! I like you man!" The taller boy roared loudly to the amusement of others, who also looked at him in sympathy. "You can call me Inasa Yoarashi! We should be friends!"
"I am Shoto Todoroki." Shoto said blandly, completely missing the flash of annoyance on Inasa's face as he looked thoughtful. He was weighing the pros and cons of being friends with someone so…loud. "Naruto did say I need to make more friends and he is usually a good judge at what pisses off my father, so it could be a good idea that I have another friend like him. I accept."
Inasa looked so thrown off by Shoto's trained of thought. Who was this Naruto character that pissed off THE Enji Todoroki? He had to meet him. Honestly, Inasa had be ready to deal with a Todoroki completely shutting him out again and him leaving right then and there. Now…he was curious and excited to have a new friend. Plus, if it made Enji Todoroki that mad, he was all for it. Fuck that guy. "Wonderful! We will get along great, I just know it!" Inasa shouted at the top of his lungs as he brought Shoto over with a massive arm around his shoulders.
Why did Shoto feel that he made a giant mistake? Oh well.
XXX (For background music, please play "What it takes" by Adelita's Way)
"AND GO!" Present Mic shouted at all the attendees to his version of the practical. "THERE ARE NO COUNTDOWNS IN REAL LIFE!"
"Dear Father, that guy is such a blow hard." Kurama grumped out in Naruto's mind as he watched Naruto waste no time in getting ahead of the others in his group.
I don't know, I like him and you are just mad because he woke you during the presentation of this exercise. Naruto replied with a snicker as he jumped above a 3 pointer with an almost casual flip and then proceeded to bury it head in the ground with a seemingly simple tap to the head with his foot before bouncing off. One for All Strength and Float were so fun to use! How is everyone else?
"Hmph, you would….we are all set up and watching with popcorn." Kurama replied as he flashed an image of all his mind residents cheering him on.
To most people, it would be concerning to have 17 people in your head and they all be on your side. He was pretty sure the people who study multi-personality disorders would be baffled and have a field day with him. Especially concerning were the 9 super chakra beasts, but he kept that all to himself…mostly. His closest friends knew his head was…for lack of a better term, crowded.
Hey, how much you want to bet that this exam has a hidden side to it? Naruto asked his eternal companion as he buried the head of another bot that was about to attack a fellow blond-haired teen with a laser in his belly that was propelling him to the bot.
"That is a sucker's bet and you know it, brat. Just getting villain points in a hero test is stupidly suspicious…but then again, your old teammates were a pair of idiotic and selfish brats during Kakashi's Bell test, that I can see other people actually understanding the concept." Kurama supplied his input from the old days.
I mean, you are not wrong. U.A. is employing that same tactic of dividing people so they can get enough points to get in. Naruto replied with a sad smirk before saving a few other people that were about to be attacked by destroying the bots coming after them.
Turns out, one of the people he saved was Hitoshi! "Got your six!" Naruto called out.
Hitoshi tsked under his breath before saluting Naruto. "Thanks man. Got a bit dicey for a minute. Did you know these guys have buttons on their back to shut them off?"
"I did not, but that makes a bit more sense now considering I did see a few people with none combat related quirks." Naruto replied thoughtfully. "Wanna team up?"
"Heh, and hear I thought they tried separating us just for that reason alone." Hitoshi snickered as he thrust his arm outward and a small dart shot out to hit a 2 pointer behind Naruto, whom he knew was behind him and let him have it for free. The result of the dart making contact with the machine was a small zap that quickly powered it down. "Still cannot believe these pack that much of a punch. Mei always surprises me. Mentioned these would be part of my costume design her and Izuku cooked up for us. But yeah, let's team up. We can cover more ground and take more out this way."
"Hmm, I wonder how the others are doing?" Naruto questioned as they moved on.
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"WOW! SO MANY GREAT QUIRKS!" Izuku shouted as if in a trance, barely registering as he plowed through a few test bots with his electrified body as he took notes. He blinked rapidly as he thought he saw an invisible person tap a button on the back of one robot to fully shut it down. "WOWSERS!"
Looking up just in time to see a three pointer about to brain him, he turned into electricity and appeared behind it to turn it off just as the invisible person did. "Great! Extra way to take these down."
BOOM!
He disappeared from that spot with a thunder step, only for that concussive force to blow apart the bot he just shut down, sending the pieces through a few bots about to hit random test takers…who had flinched from the loud sound of his quirk.
Izuku appeared next to a few one-pointers, who had cornered a small purple haired kid…with the hair being more like balls. "Need any help?" The electrified green bean asked innocently.
"Not anymore!" The small purple haired boy replied with a slightly annoyed tone and trying to be subtle about wiping away his tears. "I wanted to look cool for the ladies and lure them away…I just didn't have a plan afterwards!"
Izuku nodded as he flipped through his notebook for a moment and said, "Why don't you either restrain the robot with your hair balls to turn them off with the button on the back or use those same hair balls on your feet and bounce through them. Seems to me those could be good cushion for you." He paused before noticing Naruto and Hitoshi not too far away. "Oh right, they are in my section too!" With that, Izuku zipped away in a shower of sparks as he traveled along a powerline to his friends.
"He's insane…just like that speedy guy!" The purple haired teen got out with a shocked expression before he really thought about what Izuku had suggested to him and pervy grin appeared on his face. Taking one of his hair balls and squeezing it, he muttered. "Heh, more cushion for the pushin'."
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In another test area, both Mei and Momo had broken away from the other test takers, only to be accosted from all sides by way too many one-pointers and a few 3 pointers. The two stood back-to-back with Mei holding out her dual pistols and Momo with a railgun rifle she had created.
"When I woke up this morning, I expected to be challenged today. But this is a little more than I expected." Momo commented.
"Oh? Think you can handle this many?" Mei asked cheekily.
"Well, might be tough if one more shows up." Momo replied with a shrug.
"HA! Then that will be the one I take care of!" Mei replied with a gleeful grin, her nervousness from before having melted away to excitement that she will fully be able to test out her new babies.
"What? You are fighting too?" Momo challenged, getting a laugh out of the crazed pink haired girl as they proceeded mow down the opposition.
Across the way, Himiko cackled as she swung around in her kunai spear that she brought along, tapping the off buttons of robots that were threatening other test takers, taking full advantage of other people in this test.
Kyoka looked from the mayhem of Momo and Mei's battle to Himiko cackling merrily and deadpanned, "Yeah…nope!" Before going in a completely different direction from her insane friends. She would continue her sneaking around while she could. Once whatever Mei had cooking for her was done, she could really go to town on her enemies. For now she just had her Earphone Jacks, a tuning fork sword, and a small prototype speaker on her fist that was doing her wonders.
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Midnight sighed as Nezu cackled in his own seat, making her scoot away. "I feel like you had Power Loader overload those areas on purpose."
"Oh, I did!" Nezu cackled. "I have been watching them and a few others for a long time now. I know they could handle some extra challenge I give them. Speaking of, I think it is time!"
"This should be good." Power Loader replied excitedly as he pressed a big red button to release their zero pointers.
"I wonder what he'll show off." All Might said in his powered down form next to his partner, Lady Nagant, who just smirked.
While others were wondering about the powerful new batch of students this year, Shota Aizawa had been eyeing the screen with Naruto in it for a while now. "Seems he got tired of all the sneaking around as a vigilante now that Skycrawler and Pop Step are in America with Captain Celebrity. I was wondering when that Akatsuki brat would show up again."
"You say something Aizawa?" Kan asked.
"No…don't worry about it."
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When the ground shook for everyone involved in these tests, they knew something big was about to happen. Large zero pointer robots burst from the ground, inciting a panic as most of the contestants ran from the hulking metal monsters, a la the Prometheus School of Running Away.
In Momo's testing ground, she too ran at first, but heard a few stragglers struggling to get away. So, she turned and helped them before watching as Himiko swung in. "I got a crazy idea!" Himiko shouted.
"Par for the course, but go on." Momo replied with a teasing smile.
"Make it fall!" Himiko shouted just as Mei brought over a couple of stragglers. A shell shocked spiky haired kid in a bandana and a very quiet girl who looked at them like they were insane. "I use my Kunai Spear trip it up!"
"Good idea, but I did not make that to be able to withstand that much pressure." Mei pointed out.
The quiet girl raised her hand before putting a hand on Mei's gun to enlarge it before pointing at Himiko's chain expectantly. "Mn."
Mei watched as her gun became normal size with stars in her eyes. "Yes! Now it could work…but you would have to ride with Himiko!" That did make the quiet girl's face go green for a moment before nodding.
"I will create the anchor!" Momo stated before going on to do that very thing with the bandana kid looking thoughtful of this plan.
"Remember to keep your hands and legs on the ride at all times!" Himiko joked as her and the quiet girl took and running start off the rooftop of a nearby building before swinging off and around the legs of the metal behemoth. The passenger touched the chain, causing it to enlarge so much that it was comical as it wrapped around the legs of the giant.
They landed near Momo's giant stake in the ground, with said girl panting a bit too hard. She was glad she had the forethought to bring one of Naruto's food pills but that still took a lot out of her. Maybe next time she will use one of those super food pills that Fatgum was using nowadays.
As soon as the chain was hooked to the stake, the bandana kid rushed over and touched both it and the ground. "There, I welded that all together to stand a better chance."
"Thank you." An out of breath Momo replied, making him blush a little.
As soon as the giant robot tried to take another step forwards on its treads, it began to lean back and forth a bit. However, when it leaned forward too much, they noticed the problem, but before they could panic, they started to hear an odd resonance in the air.
"BOING!" Someone shouted, who appeared to have a comic book speech-bubble for a head; using the generated sound to bounce themselves and Kyoka into the air. Kyoka used the opportunity to throw her resonating tuning fork with an experimental speaker on her fist, using her heartbeat as a base and blasting that tuning fork into the chest of the giant robot.
For a moment, that seemed to do the trick…until it didn't; because the robot was starting to learn forward again. Then a random blast of sound hit the robot and it actually fell backwards and onto it back, where it stayed.
Kyoka and the speech-bubble kid still had a problem; they were falling from high up and did not have any plans to get down safely. Luckily some of the other test takers came to their rescue. A girl with an obvious frog quirk and a boy with silver angelic wings and silver, almost pale eyes.
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While one half of their group was pulling a Star Wars maneuver, the other half was dealing with the giant robot in their own way.
Naruto walked calmly toward the behemoth with a calm smile on his face as people ran the other direction in their panic. With him were Tenya, Izuku, and Hitoshi. "How do you want to do this?" Asked a resigned Tenya. He knew that Naruto would not back down from a challenge like this.
"Let me handle that. You three need to save those stragglers. It seems that this thing's entrance broke more than a few buildings, hindering more than a few people. Izuku, you get gravity girl near its feet." Naruto ordered, causing Izuku's eyes to widen as he burst forward in a shower of sparks towards the girl. What was intriguing were the floating body parts already trying to get the concrete off the girl. "Tenya, get the horned girl and the mushroom girl on the left to safety." The speedster nodded and was soon joined by a pale, white haired girl, who was psychically keeping debris from falling on them. "Hitoshi, get the fancy looking blond guy on the right. Looks like he must have hurt his leg." The purple haired boy nodded, before sprinting off in that direction and was soon joined by an orange haired, ponytailed girl who enlarged her fists to cover them as well from raining debris.
Once Hitoshi and Tenya helped their respective objectives and Izuku thunder stepped away with the gravity girl and another green haired girl whom the floating body parts belonged to, Naruto saw the way was clear. "I think it is time for a classic. Summoning!" He shouted, causing a large plume of smoke to appear. When the wind cleared it all away, everyone was treated to the site of a giant toad with pipe and a tanto. Only, it was different than what you would expect. It was surrounded in a black and gold light, with it being connected to a strand on Naruto's back. Naruto looked at the image of the old toad and smile wistfully. Gamabunta was not exactly a friend, but he could rely on the grumpy old toad back then. "Gotta love how Black Whip and the Animal Path combined to create energy animals…sort of. Anyway…OFF WITH ITS HEAD!" Naruto shouted, causing the construct to perform a wide sweeping horizontal slash that took the head of the robot off in one clean swipe.
As Present Mic shakily announced the end of the exams, it was clear to all that both groups made a statement that day.
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As Naruto checked the mail at Might Tower, he found two envelopes; one for him and one for Himiko. Yes…they live in Might Tower seeing as All Might lived there for so long, he made it into a suite of sorts. Sure, Kaina and Toshinori were not officially dating to the public, but everyone knew that was the case. That lead Naruto and Himiko to live there as well.
"Himiko! Results are in!" Naruto called as he walked into the lab where he had left her and Mei. Mei was currently in the process of make a device for Himiko's future suit. It was a pair of syringe style claws, connected to a series of tubes into a collection device. It was pretty neat and worked well with her quirk. That and her new favorite weapon in the Kunai Spear. She would certainly be a force to be reckoned with and a stealth expert with her shape changing quirk.
"So cool! Should we go to our rooms to see the result or stay here. OH! Sorry Mei, if you haven't seen yours yet." Himiko replied sheepishly.
"I saw mine last night and got in. No issue here." Mei replied nonchalantly as she kept on working with Himiko device.
"I don't mind looking at them with you." Naruto replied with a shrug, feeling like they both got in with ease. Himiko just nodded as they ripped open their envelopes, only for two disks to fall out. As soon as they hit the floor, they began glowing before rising up and combining. Another glow later and both Lady Nagant and All Might appeared in holographic form.
"WE ARE HERE AS A PROJECTION!" All Might stated loudly with a proud smile. "We figured you two would open these at the same time, so we recorded this way."
"It is also the reason we have not been around Might Tower for the week. We could not spoil the results for you two." Kaina replied kindly. "You may also wonder why we are in this projection at U.A. to begin with."
"We are the new U.A. faculty members!" All Might boasted. "We have been acquiring our teaching licenses throughout the year so that we don't just wing it at U.A."
"Come on, you would not have done this if I had not told you, it was a good idea." Kaina snickered, causing All Might to gain air of depression before was wiped out with another of his smile.
"TRUE, but enough about us. This is about you two!" All Might cheered. "Naruto, you gained 95 Villain Points!"
"Himiko, you gained 80 Villain Points. Normally, that would be more than enough points to get into U.A., but there was another aspect to this test. Rescue Points." Kaina stated happily, while Naruto let out a stage-whispered 'Called it!' in the background. "Sure, we fight villains all the time, but there is more to being a hero than just fighting all the time."
"Indeed! Another side is actually rescuing people and making sure they are safe. That is something your entire group understood with flying colors…and more than a bit of showboating." All Might said as he chuckled at that. "Naruto, you were awarded with 105 Rescue Points…topping my own high score of 195 back in the day! That means you got the highest score of the day and broke a record!"
"Himiko, you gained an extra 80 Rescue Points, putting you at 160 Points all together!" Kaina replied excitedly as a box of top test takers appeared before them. Naruto was, of course, number one, but there were others he was more interested in. All of his friend group was on this list and was not that something! But there were two people that caught his eye. A silver winged guy that had a name so familiar that rattled him to his core and somehow Katsuki Bakugo as the last person on the top ten. He would be keeping an eye out for the exploding brat that used to terrorize Izuku. No doubt Bakugo would be gunning for them. He would have to figure out how to deal with Bakugo later; if he was still the petulant little brat that he was before, maybe worse than himself back in the day. And with that thought Naruto looked back the leader board but before he could confirm the other person as who he thought it would be, the screen disappeared.
Both Toshinori and Kaina had proud smiles directed at him and Himiko. With arms outstretched, they both said, "Welcome to your Hero Academia!"
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"Ugh, come on Himiko. You know I am not a morning person. Why you wake me up so early just to get to school." Naruto complained as they walked through the halls of U.A. the next day.
"Because I know you. You would be late and that is not good. I have heard a few things about some teachers here. Better to be early." Himiko explained as she dragged her brother through the door of Class 1-A. Seeing their other friends there, she smirked, "Besides, Momo, Kyoka, and the others had the same idea as they are already here."
"Except, Izuku." Naruto pointed out. "His train must be running late." As Himiko searched for her own seat and started chatting up her classmates, Naruto took a cursory look at the seating chart at the teacher's desk…only to find a very looking familiar hobo in a yellow sleeping bag behind it. "Damn, they got you training us. How did you manage that?" He asked quietly.
"Better a devil you know then a devil you don't, Akatsuki. Just get to your desk and we will start when it is time. Until then, let me sleep." Shota murmured with a tired smirk as he fell back asleep.
"Sleep…right." Naruto muttered as he looked over the class list. He knew Eraserhead better than that. It was must like Kakashi and his book, always alert. Looking for the class list, he saw two more students than the usual 20 he heard was the norm. It seemed Nezu changed the game a bit. Let's see, we have Me, Himiko, Momo, Izuku, Tenya. Kyoka, Hitoshi, Shoto, Denki, and Mei, along with Mina Ashido, Eijiro Kirishima, Inasa Yoarashi, Denki Kaminari, Ochaco Uraraka, Fumikage Tokoyami, Tsuyu Asui, Toru Hagukure, Koji Koda, Mezo Shoji, Pony Tsunotori, Setsuna Tokage, and Itsuka Kendo. Not a bad line up and that Bakugo brat did not make in this class. Let's see how this goes.
Taking his seat near the window and back of the classroom, he put his head down to rest until he heard a commotion at the front of the room. Looking up, he saw Izuku arriving with the brown-haired girl from the exam, Ochaco if he remembered correctly. That meant everyone was here and the show was about to begin.
"Take your seats." Shota droned out as he stood up from his laying position…still in his yellow sleeping bag. The whole class stared at the man in shock for a moment as he just stood there, sucking on a jelly bag with blank look on his tired face. Naruto nearly burst out laughing when Shoto's new friend, Inasa asked him if he was in the right place and that the soup kitchen was the down the road. "I am your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa and it took you eight seconds too long to acclimate to my presence and shut up. Villains will not wait for you to catch up with reality."
Seeing that he had the class' obviously weirded out attention, something he loved to do on the first day to throw them all off, he unzipped himself out of the sleeping bag. However, both he and Naruto noticed one student that looked down right terrified of him. "There are gym uniforms in your desks, find the changing rooms and meet me on the training grounds in 10 minutes." He would have to deal with that sooner rather than later.
"W-what? What about orientation?" Ochaco asked with a flustered expression.
"At UA we teachers have free reign that most do not. Orientation is a waste of time and I will use it more efficiently. Now go."
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"We are doing a quirk assessment test." Shota announced in a bored tone. "You have been taking standardized tests for most of your lives, but you never got to use your quirks in physical exams before. The country is still trying to pretend we are created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It is not rational. One day the Ministry of Education will learn." He then turned to Naruto and tossed him a baseball. "Naruto, since you managed to get the most points on the entrance exams What was your farthest throw for your middle school exams?"
"Uh…about 90 meters, I think." Naruto replied with a shrug. He saw what the Pro Hero was doing. Singling him out to set a standard for the class and to mess with him for his time as Akatsuki. As a side note, Naruto did notice that both Mei and Izuku were translating for the Pony girl. English, huh? This should be interesting.
"I am sure." Aizawa replied with a small snicker, knowing Naruto was far better than that. He also noticed the translated discussion and planned to help the girl later. "Try doing that with your Quirk now. Anything goes just stay in the circle."
"How to do this. How to do this." Naruto muttered and he tossed the ball a few times. Thanks to One for All fully integrating into his system, he had more than a few ways to go about this. All would include showing off his true form. His half fox features were real and his normal human was the illusion now. He was not worried about that since there were a number of Heteromorphic people in his class. What worried him was what the quirk evolved to. One for All was now called Ten Tails for a reason.
"Come on, you're wasting time." Aizawa complained, making a show of it.
"Flashy Asura Path it is." Naruto grinned as he let his fox features and Rinnegan out, much to the excitement of the others. "Do me a favor, everyone look at each other." When they did, he transformed his limbs onto a metal cannon of sorts. What? His mom was Lady Nagant and he was friends with gun fanatics like Mei and Momo. He could run with common a theme and pick a little of it up. "Now back to me, now look at our amused teacher, now back to me. I am a freaking cannon!"
With a rather loud boom, the cannon went off and sent the ball flying. A beep later and Aizawa showed the class that he sent the ball 800 meters.
"God damnit kid, you quirk changed yet again." Shota muttered to himself. Of course, he knew about the Asura Path, he had crashed a few of Mirko's Underground Street Fighting Rings after all. But Naruto had mostly used taser fingers with martial arts. Not freaking cannons! To say nothing about his animal summoning powers and whatever else he had. Freaking broken ass quirk that he cannot shutdown, because it was both a mutation and an emitter.
"Damn! I knew he was strong, but that is out there man." Denki laughed uncomfortably, especially as he watched Naruto's arms go back to normal. He never understood how that worked.
"I wanna go, that looks like fun!" Mina cheered excitedly, but that was the wrong this to say and Naruto inwardly groaned because he just knew Aizawa was going into hardass mode again.
"You think this is fun, huh?" Shota announced with a hint of anger in his voice, quieting the group from a moment. "For fun, whoever comes in last will be deemed to have no potential and will be expelled from this school! Show you best or get out."
"That's unfair!" Ochaco yelled in panic.
"Life is unfair!" Shota stated with a frown. "Villain Attacks and Natural Disasters are unfair. We are training to prevent that unfairness. Now take these tests seriously or get out. Understand?!"
"YES SIR!" They all shouted. Some more enthusiastically or hysterically than most.
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As the students performed their exercises the best of their ability, Shota noticed one girl still very afraid to be in his presence and not performing as well. Therefore, messing with her quirk. Between activities, he walked up next her and said in a soft, but quiet tone. "Are you ok? I noticed you seem…terrified…of me."
"I-I know who you are." The girl replied a bit jittery, but soon the words fell out of her mouth before she could stop them. Such was her panic. "Eraserhead, the man who can take quirks away. I spent so long learning to control my frankly bullshit quirk with my Grand Aunt that I am terrified you will use it on me…killing me."
Shota's eyes softened a bit when he fully looked at her. She was shaking. Yeah, he needed to nip this in the bud before this got worse. NOW. "U.A. is more prepared than you think, we have precautions for these types of situations and Recovery Girl did warn me about the potential problem, but I…tested something like this in the past with a thief named Magic Hands. Someone Recovery Girl mentioned was a far-off cousin to you. I used my quirk on him and was never close to dying. Do you want proof?"
Setsuna thought about for a moment. The thief known as Magic Hands was a disgrace to the family, but he was the one to still this fear into her with his ranting and raving about Eraserhead. Maybe it was finally time to face her fear. Slowly, she detached a pinkie and said, "Do it." Eraserhead did not say a word, he just merely looked at her with his red eyes that haunted her nightmares. What came next was unexpected. The pinkie did not fall to the ground dead and decaying, it jumped a bit before snapping back onto her hand like a rubber band. Then she felt…normal. Like she was before her quirk activated for the first time. She let out a shuddering breath, almost a full-on sob, as the fear finally left her. That asshole cousin had no power over her anymore! "Thank you." She said in a quiet but teary voice, thankful that the others in the class were too busy to notice her state.
"Happy to help. Now you have a series of tests to undergo and I expect you to do your best…or else." Shota replied as he walked away with a small smile nobody saw.
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To Naruto, these exercises for the Quirk Apprehension Test were…easy. Ok, being a former Shinobi helped in that a lot. It was a lot more entertaining to watch how others used their quirks to pull off these exercises.
For example, the 50 Meter Dash, he took only a second to get across the finish line, to the amazement of his classmate and his friends' own amusement. Aizawa squinted his eyes at him but then shook his head. Yes, he could do faster, but that would be revealing too much for now. Tenya and Izuku were the next fastest. With Izuku turning some of the sand on the ground to glass. However, he noticed that another green haired girl was having an issue. Setsuna, if he remembered correctly. She detached her feet and floated across but looked around nervously. She looked like she was going to have a panic attack if his memories of Izuku doing the same thing were anything to go by.
However, after having a subtle talk with Aizawa, it seemed that a weight was lifted off her shoulders and she performed wonderfully in the standing long jump exercise. Again, she floated across with a somewhat smug look. Not one to be outdone, Naruto performed a double jump of sorts. Doing a low powered jump, he then used Float to 'jump' again while flipping in midair, much to everyone's amusement and Aizawa looking baffled. It was always fun throwing off the people who tried to be hardasses. The next came the English speaking girl, who hung on her floating horns, Inasa used wind to propel himself forward, and Ochako nearly floated herself away.
If more than a few people were allowed to use support gear for these tests, they would be getting higher scores. To that end, Himiko, Hitoshi, and Mei were a bit bummed that their quirks were not great for physical exercises. Does not mean that did not try their hardest to get a good score. In fact, they performed better than in middle school!
In the grip strength test, Mei may or may not have messed with the machine thanks to her technical knowledge of gadgets and the like, much to Aizawa's chargin…because it broke soon after and he had to get more. A few other stand outs were him breaking his own device, Mezo getting a super high score thanks to his multi armed quirk, Momo creating a vice to get the max score, Eijiro turning his fist into a rock at the last second to get a damn good score, Itsuka's big fist making this way to easy, and Kyoka surprised quite a few people. Girl never showed off her strength, but she had power. That was for certain. It was so impressive he gave her a high five.
Only Izuku really did well with the repeated side step exercise. Why? When you can partially turn yourself into energy, it goes a long way to building up force.
Again, with the ball throw, he dominated using a bit of One for All's strength, which made his glow golden for a bit before launching the ball and sent it into space…much like Ochako did, giving them both an infinity score. However, both Momo and Inasa took that as a challenge. Momo wanted to create a normal ship cannon to launch the ball, but ended up creating a small railgun to blast the ball and creating a sonic boom. Inasa…well he kept the ball going with growing excitement that it almost reached the next city.
The other three tests were rather boring in comparison but he was pretty sure that Toru cheated on the sit ups by taking off her shirt and just counting. It was funny and clever at the same time. Aizawa did not seem to have an issue with it. A lot of them were physically fit, even Hitoshi and Fumikage!
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"Alright, time to give your results." Shota droned out tiredly. He just watched them and he was tired. It was unfair. Not that he ever had that much energy to begin with, it felt like he ran on five percent energy all the time. Ah the perks of being a teacher and a low energy introvert. "I have ranked you all from best to worst. You should probably have a good idea your standing already."
That was putting it mildly. From what he remembered of Naruto, he had a part of the class as friend and there was no way that group lacked with him around. The holographic chart proved that with Naruto being number one, followed closely by Momo and Shoto. Yup…most of his friends got either top-score or middle-score, making the class clearly divided. To Shota, it was pretty amusing to watch their reactions, especially the invisible girl, Toru, freaking out that she was about to go home.
"Aaand I was lying. No one is going home." Shota stated plainly amidst the rising panic, only for exasperation to fill the air. He saw no actual reason to expel anyone form this class. Last year was truly a bad year. The egos they had, good grief; he had to knock them down before letting them try again. This class mostly took this seriously. Mostly. There were a few that saw this as fun…and maybe that was a good thought process to have. It meant that they would be more focused. They would still hate him for the hell training he would put through though. Giving them his creepiest smile just to mess with them. "That was just a rational deception to make sure you gave it your all in the tests."
Shota was pretty sure he heard Naruto grumbling about rational deception and someone name Kakashi's 'looking underneath the underneath' being the same thing. Wow, whoever this Kakashi was, he already like them.
"That is it, we are done for the day. Go pick up your syllabuses in the classroom and go home." Shota stated before trudging away, intent on finding a good spot in the teacher's lounge to take a nap before he patrolled tonight. "Oh…right. Mei. No doubt you've seen the door at the back on the classroom. That is to your workshop. Nezu mentioned you and him had an agreement or whatever. Familiarize yourself with it because that is where you will work on whatever Power Loader wants to teach you for the Support Classes you signed up for."
She was gone before he could finish.
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"Hey, before we all leave, why don't we all get to know each other a bit." Naruto suddenly said before anyone could leave and go home. "Mr. Aizawa may be a bit of a hardass with his training, but I think us having a bit of a support system will make this training a bit more bearable. What do you all think?"
"You know, that sounds like a wonderful idea. Building a support system is great for future team ups." The orange haired girl replied happily. "I will go first. I am Itsuka Kendo. I am fairly good with my style of martial arts and my quirk is Big Hangs…which is self-explanatory since you all saw them." At this point, she had a bit of an embarrassed blush on her face. "I know it is not girly, but I love motorcycles. Even building them."
"Nothing wrong with that. Mei over there loves getting messy when she builds all sorts of gadgets. Speak of, Mei, try not to blow anything up in there." Naruto called to his mechanic friend.
"I am getting better, but I make no promises!" Mei said as she came out of the room to join the others.
"That's all I ask." Naruto replied with a carefree smile as he once again let his ring eyed fox form out. "You all can call me Naruto Uzumaki-Tsustumi. My Quirk is called Ten Tails…It is a strange mix of all of my family's abilities. And after all these years, I still love pranks."
"You don't say?" Setsuna replied with a mischievous grin of her own as she started walking over to him. "I am Setsuna Tokage. My Quirk is called Lizard Tail Splitter." Her razer sharp grin shown brightly as she shook his hand. "And hot stuff, it was as if we were picked from the same tree." And with that, her head detached, rolled down her arm, and into Naruto hands.
While most of the class started to freaking out that she might be dead, Naruto raised an eyebrow at the grinning head in his hands. "Let me see." Naruto began he began to inspect the grinning head before holding her head high with one hand and held his arm over his own forehead in fake anguish. "Alas, poor Setsuna! I knew her, Izuku, a lass of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
The panic ended right there as the class looked at them bug eyed as both Naruto and Setsuna burst out laughing. It was even funnier to Naruto that her laughing head was now floating in the air back towards her body. "Damn, you barely flinched! I like you already!" Setsuna roared out happily, yet she noticed that two girls were giving her the stink eye that she was a bit too familiar to the Naruto. It made her grin mischievously but she kept it to herself for now.
"Holy whoa! That is a super versatile quirk!" Izuku shouted as the room lights flickered as he sparked to life between the two with notebook in hand and a sharp snap of electricity. Blinking, he looked sheepish as he put it away. "Sorry, got too excited. My name is Izuku Midoriya. My quirk is Thunder Step. It lets me turn into electricity, control it and electromagnetic waves, and short-range teleportation. I am still learning about it. Also, I am so enthusiastic about quicks I love to analyze them. Along with Mei's help, we were able to help Denki over there from short circuiting his brain."
"Holy shit, he can do that?!" Inasa shouted before grinning widely. "You are amazing! I am Inasa Yoarashi! My quirk is Whirlwind! I am super enthusiastic about life! HA HA HA!
"Ah and much like your quirk, a free spirit I bet." Naruto quipped.
"You bet!"
"Heh, I'll go next since you pointed me out, Izuku." Denki replied with a chuckled at the taller teen's overabundance of enthusiasm. "Call me Denki Kaminari." He then bowed to Pony flirtatiously while creating a nanite directed electric shield on his arm. "I would gladly protect you with my Electrification quirk."
The blond American girl just looked at him blankly before pulling a book of her own of Japanese to English translations that everyone had been seeing her use all day when not speaking with Izuku or Mei. It took a few minutes for her to figure out what he said to her and by then, Denki's confidence had run out with Kyoka not so silently chuckling at him. "I can take care of self, playboy Denki!"
At that, Kyoka lost control and fell on the floor laughing while the others did chuckle a bit. "What a strike out, Jamming Yay!" Denki just groaned as he walked away to sulk for a few minutes.
Seeing her broken Japanese, Izuku zipped over to Pony and asked her a question in English, "Would you like a tutor in English? Mei and I can help you!"
"That would be great, actually!"
Mei, understanding the conversation, but chose not to speaking in English said, "Or we could do what I did? It would save her weeks of learning another language."
"Mei, no." Naruto chuckled nervously. "Just because you convinced some back ally doctor to help install a device connected to your brain to help with quick learning, because you were inspired the Cyberpunk Genre, does not mean you should do it to others. Recovery Girl will kill us all if you attempted that again."
"Spoilsport." Mei grumbled with a faint smile of her lips. They would never let her live that down. That statement still baffled the half that did not know her. Seeing she had their attention, she shrugged and introduced herself next, "You all can call me Mei Hatsume, inventor extraordinaire! My quirk is called Zoom, it helps with seeing the small parts of my inventions and my sharp shooting skills. I want to be a hero who builds her own support items and own her own support company…with a friend overseas! I wish to build upon Power Loader's way of doing things and be better!"
"That is such a great way to make money and support yourselves." Replied an awed Ochaco before she smiled at the rest of the room. "I am Ochaco Uraraka and my quirk is Zero Gravity. And yes, I want to be a hero for a money…but not for myself. I want to help my parents live comfortably despite their failing construction business."
"What manner of ill fortune has befallen them?" Asked a bird head boy. "One would think that the devastation of the land from titans of Darkness and Light would make finding business easy."
"Wait what?" Ochaco asked with a completely lost expression on her face.
"I believe what he is trying to convey is that hero battles are quite destructive and construction companies have plenty of work." Momo replied helpfully. "I am Momo Yaoyorozu by the way and my quirk is Creation. I wish to help the world not by heading a support company as someone with no skills in that area, but as a hero who helps everyone."
"Oh um…my family lives in the country and that is where our business is." Ochaco replied nervously now.
"I see." Momo stated before a genuine smile crossed her lips. "If they are willing to travel a bit, my family is in need of a construction crew for a few buildings my parents are trying to make. Our usual choices are going through a rough patch right now. We can talk about it on our way home."
"Even in time of Darkness, Light prevails." He bird headed boy replied once more. "You may address me as Fumikage Tokoyami. My quirk is called Dark Shadow and we are looking for a way to serve the Light despite being steeped in Darkness."
Naruto chuckled as his new classmate's way of saying things, even as Dark Shadow came out of his back like a guardian. "Nothing wrong with darkness." He began, catching the bird boy's attention. "I find darkness comforting and a great way to lull one to sleep. It is not darkness we have to fear, but what uses it to hide in that we need to be careful. Like Villains' Hearts' who know evil….and Ghosts!"
"Why Spirits?" Dark Shadow asked incredulously for everyone. However, the fact that there was a sentient Shadow Quirk with them, it intrigued Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts.
"Because you can't punch those away." Naruto replied plainly, making everyone fall on their asses at the ludicrousness of it all.
"And on that ridiculous note." Giggled Himiko next to an equally humored Kyoka. "I am Himiko Tsutsumi, Naruto's sister! My quirk is called Transform. Since the way my quirk works is so different, I wish to expand the public's perception that Blood Quirks are not evil alongside Heroes like Vlad King. Yes, I am kind of a vampire."
"My name is Tsuyu Asui, but please call me Tsu." The frog girl introduced herself. "I usually speak my mind and am blunt about it so please do not take this the wrong way, but it seems that this class is full of people with weird quirks. My own being an example since I am a Heteromorph. My quirk is call Frog and I wish to be a rescue hero for not only people like me, but everyone."
"You are not wrong." A voice stated tiredly on the back wall. "But that is why I feel will get along, since we all know the pain of being singled out. I am Hitoshi Shinso and my quirk is called Brainwash. I wish to be a voice for all those with perceived villainous quirks."
"That is so manly!" The spiky red-haired boy shouted in awe. "How does that work though?"
Hitoshi shrugged. "I say something and when you reply, I have control over whatever you do. Izuku mentioned it would be great for diffusing hostage situations and other types of rescue work."
"So manly and awesome…but not flashy like me." The boy stated with a sad smile. "I am Eijiro Kirishima and my quirk is called Hardening. It is nothing flashy like big name heroes who have amazing quirks, but I want to use it to show I am manly like my hero, Crimson Riot."
"So cool!" Izuku squealed, "But you can be a bigtime flashy hero if you wanted. Just look at Crust!" Eijiro blinked before opening his mouth in shock and smacking his head, muttering about having forgotten Crust was nearly a top ten hero…or hell, that guy might already be in the top ten. He had not checked the hero listings in a while.
"I guess I will go next." Kyoka replied with a smirk. "I am Kyoka Jiro. My quirk is Earphone Jacks. I want to be a hero in two ways. My mom mentioned that musicians are heroes in their own ways, creating music to make people feel better. I wanna be a hero and make our band famous!"
"WAIT! You are in a band? With who?!" The pink skinned girl asked excitedly.
"With Naruto, Momo, and Denki." Kyoka offered with a smile. "If I can make this band as famous or better than my parents' Deep Dope band, than I will be happy."
"I knew you last name was familiar! Oh! I am Mina Ashido, by the way." Mina replied excited. "I often use their music and others to break the ice between bullies and their bullied back in school. That got me thinking I could be a hero too if I could help them get along. Oh, my quirk is acid, by the way!"
"I shall go next! I am called Tenya Iida." Said boy was already doing his robotic arm chops as he thought about what he should be as a hero. "With Quirk labeled, Engine, I wish to up hold the Iida name and continue my family's legacy!"
"Admirable. Called me Mezo Shoji." The six-armed teen stated with a nod, but his voice did not come out of his masked mouth. No, it came out of another mouth on one of his arms. "I am in the same boat as Tsu, I wish to alleviate the fears surrounding Heteromorphic Quirks by being the best hero I can be with my Dupli Arms quirk."
"That makes sense." Shoto replied with a nod of respect of his own as he stood up from his desk. "You may call me Shoto Todoroki. I have a dual quirk of Ice and Fire, but I will not use fire for combat. I will become a better hero than my father my own way. Not the way he intended just to be better than All Might. There are not many who can be better than All Might in terms of power and my father is certainly not one of them and the sooner my father realizes that the better. At best, I will surpass him and he will be the eternal number 3. In my shadow."
"Damn, man woke up and chose violence!" Inasa roared with laughter…mostly at their mutual hate for Enji. In his laughing state, he patted Shoto's shoulder fondly, inadvertently forcing him back in his seat with a grunt. Naruto just patted Shoto on the back, signifying that he would always have Shoto's back against Enji if it ever came down to it. Something the dual quirked boy was eternally grateful for, but it seemed that had the intense wind user on his side as well.
"If you do not mind, I would like to go next." Said…some floating clothes. "I am Toru Hagukure! My quirk is called Invisible and I hope to be a hero one day. Though I might have to be Underground, I would be great for all the sneaking around they usually have to do."
"Are…are you sure you are invisible?" Izuku asked as he had a look of intense thought on his face. "I ask because you can still see, right?"
"I mean, yeah, I can see. Why?" Toru asked, baffled by the question. She was also a bit unnerved that he was looking directly at her. As in eye to eye. No one managed that before.
"In most cases of invisibility, light is reflected away from the target. However, our eyes need that light to be able to see…anything. Also, it is hard, but I can see two black pinpoints where your eyes should be and they move alongside your clothes. So I don't think you are fully invisible as you were told or that is not your quirk."
"Oh my god…you are right." Toru replied in awe, wondering how in the hell she was not blind if her quirk really was in invisibility. "I-it has to be some form of light refraction…right?"
"Possibly." Izuku replied with a shrug. "If you want, I could help analyze your quirk some more later. I know that a lot of early-stage Quirk Councilors are…wrong. Denki being a big of example of that. If Mei and I had not fixed his issues, he could have had a brain aneurysm at some point and went brain dead…or just died."
"Grim." Denki replied quietly with a shiver.
"I am…going to take you up on that offer. It is eating at me what my quirk can actually be now." Toru replied, making others in the room think hard on if they wanted to have their quirks analyzed or not. For now, they would wait and see how Izuku did with Toru to see if it was worth it.
For a moment, all was silent until Naruto saw another large boy with a mountain shaped head waving his hands. Wait, that was not quite right. He was signing with his hands. "Hitoshi, do you still know JSL?"
"Yeah, I am guessing you want to know what the silent gentle giant is saying?" Hitoshi asked, mush to the shock of the class, making them feel bad that were ignoring the big teen. However, the kid just looked relieved. "He says his name is Koji Koda and that his quirk is Anivoice, which mean he can talk to animals Dr Dolittle style. He is in the same boat as Heteromorphic people and wants to do the same as Shoji and Tsu, but want to help animals as well. Damn, kid, good for you."
The only person who had not introduced herself was the American girl, who looked a bit overwhelmed with all the reading she was doing in between talking to with Izuku and Mei. "Ah, my turn…me think." She said sheepishly. "My name Pony Tsunotori. I come from United States. Please excuse me as I am still learning Japanese." The more she spoke, the more confident she felt about speaking their language. "Heard U.A was one of the best Hero Schools here. My Aunt, Cow Lady, inspired me to be hero. Quirk is Horns!"
"Yeah, I am going to Cyberpunk on her." Mei said in what she thought was a quiet voice.
"Don't you dare!" Naruto stated hurriedly before he changed the subject a bit and starting talking about the fact there were already great groups.
He was a strange social butterfly; in the fact he got the class together early as friends. Leaning against the outside wall of the classroom, Shota shook his head as he walked off to the teacher's longue to get some rest because he could not use his classroom. He never understood how extroverts like Naruto got be so loud and get along with everyone.
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Shota practically fell into his seat in the teacher's longue, ready for rest. He was at the cusp of sleep when Midnight walked him and startled him back to full alertness. "Once again, the man who does not take his class to orientation! So, who got cut this year?"
"None. Plus, Naruto and Momo saw through my logical ruse." Shota groaned as he sat back up.
"It must be nice…working with Naruto again." Nemuri replied with a fond smile. After Captain Celebrity offered Koichi a gig at his American Hero Agency and then Kazuho joined him to be a Pop Star hero, that left Naruto with just Iwao, who was mostly helping his recovering daughter. Akatsuki may or may not have joined Eraserhead on a few Underground missions. Kid was good, too good at them that Shota had a lot of expectations when he started teaching. Expectations that were not always met."
"You could say that." Shota had a small smile hidden under his scarf. "At least I know he will keep them together and safe when the time comes. Brat's got enough skill, but…"
"You are still worried." Nemuri stated sadly. "You wanted to expel at least one to show how serious you were. You did not want to a repeat. It was not your fault though."
Shota looked away in shame. "I was still their teacher who thought they could handle a simple internship. I was wrong."
"They were a reckless showboat too. Hey, you having expel all of last year's class, proved that you cared about them; it woke them up and now look at them." Nemuri reminded him kindly, but she could still see the pain in Shota's eyes from losing that one student to a vicious villain attack that could have been prevented. "And you still blame yourself, I get it. Mistakes on the job can be fatal…we have known that for quite some time. But it seems you trust Naruto and this class already, if you actually have not expelled anyone."
"We will see."
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Orochimaru chuckled as he observed his brother's latest creation. The Hulking Nomu that was to be able to be on par with All Might. "Master…please do not tell me you actually believe this thing can actually win against All Might?"
"If it does, then my rival is just sad. Gets a lung punctured, and now he cannot fight someone that is his equal? Bah!" All for One groaned. "He may be an idiot in public, but is a shrewd fighter. Had me on the ropes a few times, I will admit. No, this is all for Tomura."
"I still say you could have chosen better, but I understand why you did." Kyudai replied as he washed his hands of biomatter. "A visage that you both love and hate at the same time. The visage of you brother, could be a descent, if we bothered to check."
"But the real reason, is because he is Nana's Grandson, now is poetry right there!" Orochimaru laughed cruelly.
"Indeed, there is, but if I want to mold Tomura into being the perfect vessel, then he will have to learn to pick himself up from the hands of defeat. Those video games of his are not cutting it anymore. He had gotten too good, now it Is time for the real deal. Heh"
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And there we go. End of another log chapter. Can you all guess who it was that was on the Top Ten Score Board? Hint: it is not Sasuke!
As for the Recommended Students, they are Shoto and Inasa for 1-A. I will keep it a secret who the other one for 1-B is. Also, Setsuna is not a recommended student here, having undergone the normal test like Momo to see if she could challenge herself.
Magic Hand was a thief type and basically had a form of Mage hand from Dungeons and Dragons.
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