Life at U.A. really was all that it was cracked up to be, Tokage told herself as she made her way through the hallway en route to class. It may have only been the first week of the new school year, but it was pretty apparent as to why U.A. was considered the top hero school in Japan by so many. Classes like English, math and world history were about as easy for Tokage as they had been in middle school. Which didn't bother her one bit considering that she never had an issue maintaining anything lower than an 'A' her entire life. Her two favorite classes were heroics, for obvious reasons. And hero art history, but that was mainly because Kayama was the one teaching and it seemed like it'd be the easiest class out of all the others.

It also helped that her classmates were pretty easy to get along with. Sure there were a few over-the-top personalities, most notably a certain blonde haired weasel by the name of Neito Monoma. But overall everyone seemed to be rather enjoyable. Her circle of friends had even grown a bit since class started. Naturally, she hung out with Tetsutetsu pretty much all day. But Kendou had joined her group as well. The orange haired girl seemed like the responsible and slightly overbearing type, but she was good people. However, there was one student in particular that Tokage just couldn't get a read on.

Izuku Midoriya, for lack of a better word the guy was "odd". Not necessarily in a bad way, but the way he acted definitely raised a few curious flags in Tokage's mind.

First and foremost, the guy was rather shy. Actually, "shy" probably wasn't really a good word for it. The green haired boy was particularly standoffish, skittish and jumpy. He rarely ever said anything and never spoke to anyone unless spoken to first. He definitely didn't come off as rude in any sort of way, but it was definitely weird.

The second reason was that after the first day of class, she never saw him during lunch. Practically their entire class sat together when it came time for their afternoon break. But for some reason, Midoriya went missing until it came time for class to start again. And today was no different.

Today was a particularly bright and shiny day. The skies were clear and the temperature was just right. After a suggestion from Kendou, almost all of 1-B decided to spend their lunch outside instead of in the cafeteria with everyone else. The only people who weren't present at the moment were Midoriya and Monoma. The latter apparently had to run to the bathroom but hadn't returned for a while.

Everything was going pretty smooth, that was until the school's alarm went off. The students paused for a moment as the automated voice alerted them a level three security breach.

"What the hell does that mean?" Kamakiri looked around.

"I-I think it means that someone's managed to get passed the school barriers." Shoda said nervously.

"Oh shit, do you think some villain's got into the school?" Kaibara's comment was enough to cause the hero course hopefuls to start panicking. In the blink of an eye, the students abandoned their food and started rushing towards one of the nearby doors. As expected, the future heroes started shoving one another to get inside to safety.

"Everyone calm down!" The voice of Kendou shouted, causing everyone to stop in their tracks. The students all turned their heads towards the orange haired teen who was glaring at them in an annoyed fashion. "Panicking like a bunch of scared children is only going to make things worse!"

"She's right." Tokage added on after freeing herself from in between Kuroiro and Bondo.

"I don't know what's going on, but our best bet is just head back to the classroom and wait for Kan-sensei. No doubt everyone inside is panicking as well and adding on to it won't help the situation. Let's just head back to class in a neat and orderly fashion, please." The orange haired teen commanded.

"We need to figure out where Monoma and Midoriya are too." Tokage stated while looking around. "Does anybody have any clue where those two disapeared to?"

"I'll shoot Monoma a text." Tsuburaba said while pulling out his phone.

"Tell him to head back to the classroom. We can deal with finding Midoriya-san after we make sure that everyone is safe." Kendou ordered the 'solid air' user.

The entire class nodded before quickly making their way back to their assigned classroom. They were pretty far away from the cafeteria where most of the student body was before the alarms went off, so they managed to avoid the bulk of the panicking crowd. Within a few minutes, they were able to make it back without losing anyone along the way. And luckily, Monoma returned without any issues. After a quick headcount by Kendou and Tokage, they were only short one person.

"Damn, we're still missing Moptop." Tokage clicked her teeth.

"Does anyone happen to have Midoriya-san's number?" Kendou looked around, earning a few head shakes. As if on cue, the door opened up and the students turned their heads to see none other than their missing classmate. The boy was slightly panting which meant that he must've ran back.

"Midoriya-san!"

"Where the hell were you at?" Tokage asked him.

"I-I apologize." The boy said with a quick bow. "I didn't really know where to go so I thought coming back here was the smartest choice."

"Do you know what's going on?" Honenuki inquired.

"Some reporters got passed the front gate."

"That's it…." Tetsutetsu deadpanned, along with a few other students. Although they were glad that it was anything too serious, a few of them were more than a bit miffed that they had to cut their lunch short for something so minor.

About thirty minutes after making it back to class, Kan finally showed up to see if his students were okay.

"I'd like to commend you all for your quick thinking and making it back here safely. It was a madhouse down there, especially in the cafeteria. But you all managed to keep your cool and avoid any incidents." The white haired man smiled towards his students. "But because of this unforeseen interruption, the principal informed me that we're going to adjust our schedule today. We were going to introduce you to rescue training this afternoon along with 1-A. But we'll have to save that for another day."

"So what are we going to be doing instead, sir?" Kendou raised her hand.

"A couple of things, really?" The man held up two fingers. "First things first, you all need to pick a class rep and vice-rep. Second, were gonna head down to the P.E. Grounds and all of you will do some impromptu quirk training along with myself and Midnight."

Nearly everyone's ears perked up after hearing that.

"You all can spend the next thirty minutes deciding on who the class reps will be. I need to go prepare for training." Kan told them before exiting the room.

The moment the door closed behind him, the class practically erupted with students stating their case as to why they should be class reps. Although there were a few more boisterous students like Monoma and Tetsutetsu, a few others decided to just keep their mouths shut. Namely Midoriya, Kodai, Yanagi and Bondo.

Tokage herself didn't feel strongly about it one way or the other. Even though being the class rep would look good to hero agencies in the future, it seemed like more trouble than what it was worth.

"Let's just put it to a vote." Honenuki suggested

"I agree." Shishida followed up.

"I mean...that's a good idea, but wouldn't everyone just vote for themselves?" Shoda said curiously.

"It just means that whoever does get picked is the right choice. Plus, "heroic integrity" and all that." Tokage shot back, hoping to get this over with as soon as possible.

With a few agreeing nods, the students of 1-B all pulled out a sheet of paper and wrote down the name of who they thought the honor should go to. After about five minutes, the votes were passed up to the front of the class and tallied up for everyone to see.

Votes:

Kendou - 6

Tokage - 4

Monoma - 2

Honenuki - 2

Shishida - 1

Kamakiri - 1

Awase - 1

Kaibara - 1

Fukidashi - 1

Kuroiro - 1

"Wow...I really don't know what to say." Kendou lightly chuckled while rubbing the back of her head.

"Seriously." Tokage agreed after recounting the votes just to make sure that her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. The green haired girl didn't even vote for herself, so the fact that she got four votes was definitely a surprise. It was safe to assume that Tetsutetsu was one of them, but the other three were a complete mystery to her.

"Well, you two did take charge and made sure that everyone got back to class safely."

"Honenuki-san's right." Shishida stated. "If it was not for the two of you, we might've gotten caught up in the debacle with the rest of the students."

"Yeah, Kendou. You kind of reminded me of my older sister with how you were barking out orders." Awase joked.

After a brief congratulations to the new class-rep and vice-rep, Kan returned and instructed the students to get changed into their gym uniforms and head down to the P.E. Grounds.

Once everyone made their way down to the field, the students wasted no time in getting right into their training. The majority of everyone was spread out across the area participating in various activities. Kan and Kayama were supervising their efforts and making sure that everyone was staying safe. But that didn't stop the R-Rated heroine from taking the time to chat with her favorite student.

"How are you doing over here, Setsuna?" The black haired woman asked.

"Aunt Nemur-er, Midnight-sensei!" The girl corrected herself. "I'm fine, I just needed to take a quick break is all." She said after reattaching her left arm back to her body. Her stamina was still her biggest issue when it came to her quirk.

"Good to hear." Kayama smiled. "How have things been going for you so far? I know we haven't had a chance to really chat since the school year started. Have the others been treating you well?"

"Yeah, everyone's been pretty chill except for a few people." Tokage said while pointing over to certain blonde haired kid. "And Tetsutetsu's here so it isn't too bad."

"Glad to hear it."

All of a sudden, the pro heroine leaned in a bit further and adopted a devious grin on her face. "So...I noticed you stealing glances at that Midoriya boy during my class the other day. Has my sweet little niece already picked out her boytoy for the year? Oh my, I can't wait to tell your father about this~!"

Tokage couldn't help but smirk at the woman's attempt to get her flustered. That kind of teasing may have worked on her when she was little, but it had been a long time since she let something like that get to her. "I mean, he's definitely cute. And from what I've seen he cuts quite the figure. But he isn't very social."

"Yes, I've noticed." Kayama backed off a bit. "If I remember, he was the boy that Vlad had to fight Shouta on getting in his class."

"Who?"

"Eraserhead, the homeroom teacher for 1-A. From what I heard, Shouta was going to put him in his class. But Vlad made a fuss about him trying to take the top three applicants for himself. He put on quite the display during the exam."

"Seriously?" Tokage turned her head over to steal a glance at Midoriya. The boy was currently by himself at the far end of the field while floating a few softballs in the air.

"Yes, he probably would've placed first if he didn't use up so much of his time helping out other applicants."

"Wow."

"Wow, indeed. Anyways, I'll let you get back to it."

"See you in a bit." Tokage gave a quick wave to the woman before turning her attention back to Midoriya.

'I should try to talk to him after class is over.'

While Tokage and Kayama were wrapping up with their conversation, Midoriya was hard at work trying to find a way around his own shortcomings. For the last thirty minutes he had been doing his best to manipulate multiple objects at once. But he ended up hitting a wall. Although the boy could lift a pretty decent amount of weight, his biggest problem came with trying to apply his quirk to more than one thing at a time. Recently he had been able to increase this limit to six objects that were within his weight range, but that was it.

"Midoriya-san." A voice whispered from just behind him, causing the 'telekinesis' user to jump. He turned around and was met with the stoic gaze of Reiko Yanagi. He hadn't talked to the gray haired girl much since class started. If he was being honest, her almost lifeless gaze unnerved him quite a bit.

"Y-Yanagi-san?" The boy said after recomposing himself.

"Kan-sensei said that the two of us should train together since we have similar quirks."

"Oh, I guess that makes sense."

"Yes." The girl nodded. "What are you working on now?"

"O-oh u-uh, well...I'm working on the amount of objects that I can control at once." The boy pointed over to the pile of softballs in front of him. "You can join me if you like."

"That's fine." Yanagi agreed before turning her focus to the pile of balls. Midoriya watched as the girl extended her arms out and used her quirk to lift twelve of the softballs into the air almost effortlessly.

'She can manipulate that many at once?!' The boy gawked at the display before turning to her.

"Yanagi-san, you're amazing! I can barely control six of them and here you are manipulating twice that amount. Your quirk is awesome!" He practically cheered, which threw the girl off. So far in class she had never seen him speak with this much emotion before.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"But you're so much more powerful than me. I would think that you'd be able to manipulate more objects than I could based on how much weight you said that you can lift."

Midoriya took a second to rub the back of his head in embarrassment. "Y-yeah well, it's one of those things that I'm just not very good at. At least not yet."

"And you can fly as well."

"I wouldn't really call it flying. It's pretty much just me using my quirk on my body. Honestly, it's pretty hard to control and makes me lightheaded if I do it for too long."

"Hmm." The gray haired teen's face shifted into pensive expression. Actually, her face barely moved at all except for a slight furrow of the eyebrow.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm not able to use my quirk on myself but you are. I guess our abilities are just different by nature."

"I guess so."

"Indeed. We should probably stop goofing off before one of the teacher's notice." The girl suggest before turning her attention back to the balls that were still floating in the air.

During their entire conversation, Midoirya hadn't even realized that she was still controlling the softballs. He doubted that he could do something like that. Splitting his focus to that level was beyond his current ability. It became evident to the green haired boy that Reiko Yanagi was someone that he could learn a lot from.

Things went on rather normally for the next twenty minutes or so. That is until a shirtless man with what looked like a yellow excavator claw on his head came sprinting down to the P.E. Grounds. "Kan, Kayama!"

"Maijima? What's up?" The R-Rated heroine asked her coworker.

"Why haven't you two been answering your damn phones?!"

"Mine is charging back in the classroom." Kan stated.

"Mine is in the teacher's lounge." Kayama followed.

"What the he- never mind. Come with me, right now!" The support course teacher demanded while waving them on.

"What's go-"

"I'll explain on the way, just get your asses in gear!"

Both teachers shared a quick glance before complying and taking their leave. Naturally everyone was confused, but based on the sense of urgency in Maijima's voice, it had to have been a serious matter.

"Kendou, keep everyone here until I get back."

"Y-yes, sensei." The new class representative nodded.

In the blink of an eye, all three faculty members had vanished behind one of the nearby buildings. A slew of murmurs and whispers began amongst the students before Kendou got everyone to calm down and get back to their training. Something about that entire exchange definitely seemed fishy. But whatever it was, the teachers probably had it handled.

Presented with an opportunity to goof off for a bit and get some rest, Tokage made her approach over to Midoriya. They hadn't really had a chance to talk so far today, and now was as good a time as ever.

"So Moptop, where were you during lunch?" The green haired girl inquired with a curious grin.

"I'm sorry?"

"Pretty much the entire class was eating lunch together except for you. In fact, the last time I even saw you in the cafeteria was during the first day of class. So what, do you have some secret hiding spot or something?"

"N-no i-it's nothing like that." He told her. "I'm…just not really good with crowds."

"Oh, that's understandable." She nodded. "Still, where do you go? You don't have to tell me, I'm just curious."

"Oh, well…I-"

Midoriya's response was cut off when Tetsutetsu decided to join their group. "So, where do you think Kan-sensei and Kayama-sensei ran off to?"

"Who knows? But that other guy sounded like it was urgent."

"Who was that anyway?" Yanagi inquired.

"That was Powerloader." Midoriya answered the grey haired girl without a second thought, earning a few confused looks from all of them. "H-he's an excavation hero. Most of his work is done underground and away from cities."

"Well that explains why we didn't recognize him."

"Yeah, he must be pretty low key. But if he's a teacher here then he's gotta be strong."

"I have a question as well." Yanagi said while looking to Tokage. "Is Midnight-sensei really your aunt?"

"We're not blood related, but her and my dad have been friends for a long time. So she's pretty much family." The girl smiled proudly.

"That's so cool!" Midoriya blurted out. The boy showing a level of emotion that neither of his classmates were used to seeing.

"Right!" Tokage smirked back. "Y'know Moptop, if you ever want an autograph all you have to do is come over to my place. We have our family dinners every Friday." The girl's comment making him blush.

This caused Tetsutetsu to start laughing. "You should be proud man, it took damn near a whole year for her to invite me over to her house."

"Well Moptop's a lot easier on the eyes than you, so he's the exception."

Midoriya's previous blush now intensified to a point where his head looked suspiciously like a ripened tomato. All Tokage could do was laugh at how simple it was to get the boy to lose his nerve. It was easy to see that he was going to be her new favorite target.

"That does bring up a good point though." The 'lizard tail splitter' user continued after wiping her tears. "We should all hang out sometime."

"Hey yeah, that's a good idea!" Tetsutetsu quickly agreed. "How about his weekend? We can invite Kendou too."

"Sounds good to me. What about you two?" The girl looked to the telekinetic users.

"I have plans this weekend. But I appreciate the offer." Yanagi told them. Tokage's eyes shifted over to Midoriya who for some reason had an uncomfortable look on his face.

"S-sorry, I don't think I can. But t-thank you for the invite." The green haired boy said in an apologetic tone.

"Eh, no harm done. Maybe some other time."

With the conversation pretty much over, the students returned to their training and continued with that for the rest of the afternoon. Kan ended up making it back to the classroom in time to dismiss everyone for the day. But everyone couldn't help but notice that he had a few dirt patches on his costume that weren't there prior to his departure. Whatever caused him and Kayama to suddenly skip out on class must've been pretty important.

"So how was school today?" Inko asked her son while the two of them were in the middle of their family dinner.

"It was good. I got to see more of my classmate's quirks in action."

"Well I'm glad to hear it." She smiled. "So...have you made any new friends yet?"

Midoriya paused mid-bite before swallowing. "No."

That one word response was enough to make the woman frown at her only son. She knew it was a sore topic for him, but a part of her still had hope that he would become more social. "Y'know Izuku, things aren't like that old school of yours. From what you've told me, your classmates seem pretty nice. You should try and mingle with them a bit more."

"The only reason they're even nice to me is because I have a quirk." Was his short reply. There was a notable bit of edge to his voice that the woman wasn't really used to hearing from him.

"Izuku, I thin-"

"Breaking News!" The television reporter suddenly announced, drawing both of the greenette's attention. "This afternoon, U.A. High School was subject to a large scale villain attack that occurred on campus during a routine training session turned disaster. There has been no word yet from the police or the school on whether or not there were any casualties. But the one thing we do now is that All Might arrived in time before the situation could get any worse."

'What the hell?'