"Ugh," A grunt of exertion escaped the lips of Ochaco as she gripped the bedframe. "Izuku, I don't think I can do this."
"Come on Ochaco, you're almost there, just push a little harder." Izuku encouraged her.
Another grunt escaped her lips as Uraraka tried to do just that and failed. Her breath became labored as she felt all the energy she put into that push leaves her body. "I'm. Trying! Do you. Know. How hard. It is. To push one of these things out?"
Izuku started to become a little sheepish. His hand started scratching the back of his head and he lowered his gaze towards the ground. "Well no but-"
"Then shut up," Ochaco interrupted. Not trying to hear the comfort from the person who did this to her. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this!"
Izuku's sheepish look immediately disappeared and was replaced with a serious one when he heard Ochaco's accusation. "Hey, that's not fair. This was your idea, not mine. I just helped with the process." Izuku rebutted. But all he received for his answer was a death glare from Ochaco which made him keep whatever else he had to say to himself.
Ochaco, who wanted this whole thing to be done and over with, decided not to argue with Izuku anymore and put more effort into pushing. So she gripped the bedframe harder than ever and with a shout started pushing with everything she had. "Grr!" And finally succeded.
*Clatter*
The rusted kingsize bedframe that Ocahko had been pushing was finally off the beach and into the trash pile. Seeing that her work was done, Ochaco let her muscles relax and began falling backward toward the sandy beach. But before even a strand of her hair could touch the sand, Izuku was there to catch her.
"Thanks for working hard," Izuku said in a hushed tone as he picked Ochaco up in a process carry.
The young boy started moving Ocahko to a shaded part of the beach where they had set up a canopy tent with beach gear and lots of water and snacks. When they were under the cover of the tent, he set her down in one of the beach chairs before grabbing two water bottles from the cooler. One for her to drink and the other for Izuku to cool her down with.
Izuku held the bottle in front of the panting and sweating Ochaco but she didn't move to drink it. "Arms, too sore. Please hold it for me," Ochaco panted.
Izuku nodded to her to show he acknowledged her request and then used his light projection to grab the bottle he was going to use to cool her and place it on her forehead. At the same time, he uncorked the other bottle of water and held it to Ochaco's mouth for her to drink and she did. She nearly finished the first bottle in one go but stopped just short of doing it.
"Haah, I needed that. Thank Izuku." A now recovered Ochaco said. "Also, I'm never cleaning a beach by myself again."
"No problem," Izuku said as he sat down right beside her. "And I doubt you will be again. Not in the near future at least."
Izuku stared at the now completely cleaned beach. It was a way more beautiful sight than the dumpster yard it was before. "But it was worth it, wasn't it? I mean, you got to train your body up before the school year started and you did a public service. That's worth it in my book."
Ochaco, now that she wasn't dying of thirst, could also properly view the clean beach in all its glory. "Yeah. it was worth it. Just wish I didn't have to be the ONLY one to clean it." Ochaco complained.
"Think of it as punishment for tackling me at cloud level," Izuku deadpanned.
"Punishment!"Ochaco shouted while pouting in mock anger. Something Izuku found really cute. "I should be rewarded. If I didn't do that we would never have found this place."
What Uraraka said was true. During the impromptu skydiving, Uraraka used her quirk to make them float when they were about a hundred feet above the city. When Izuku was going to use his quirk to float them back down, a strong gust of wind blew both Izuku and Ochaco around for a minute or two until they landed, read crashed, on the beach in all its polluted glory.
At the time, Izuku was too busy trying to calm his heart, which felt like it was beating out of his chest, to take notice of the dirty beach. While Uraraka was laughing about the whole thing like it was a joy ride. It was only when they both went home, by cab, that they realized how dirty the beach was. When they started texting each other about hero training the next day, Uraraka proposed the idea of cleaning the beach as training for them before U.A. began.
But when they met on the beach at a later date, it was revealed to Ochaco that Izuku's muscles weren't just for show. He could easily lift the stuff on the beach that Ochaco would struggle with just to push. So since Izuku wasn't going to get anything out of the training, it was decided that he would train Ochaco while she cleaned the beach.
Izuku thought it would be easy to get Uraraka up to shape since he could heal her with his power and in a way he was right. When he healed Uraraka with Light Projection after a training session it sped up her muscle development but it didn't refill her stamina. However, the stamina drain was offset by Uraka eating easy-to-digest foods with high nutritional value.
With the help of the quick development of Uraraka's physique, stamina refills, and some hard work and dedication, Uraraka finished cleaning the beach faster than even Izuku originally thought possible and he had a super brain. The cherry on top of all of this was...
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[Quest- What's A Gym Bro For?]
Listen up, gym bro. Your friend needs a shape-up, and you're the only one she can count on. Help her out and the system will help you.
(Objective)
-Get Ochaco Atletic: [100/100%]
(Side Objective)
-Clear Takoba Municipal Beach Park of All Trash: [99.9/100%]
(Rewards)
-EXP: 100
-Ability: Reinforcement
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The system had given a Quest with a reward of lots of EXP and a new ability.
"By the way, how long are we gonna leave that metal pipe in the sand? I know you said not to touch it but shouldn't we take it out now." Ochaco asked.
"Yep, it's time to take it out," Izuku said. He then used his light projection to create a hand to grab the pipe and move it into the garbage pile. Completing the quest and earning his reward.
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[Notice]
Quest- What's a Gymbro For? Is Complete!
Awarding- 100 EXP and Ability: Reinforcement
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Izuku could feel his power growing as the familiar tingly feeling of leveling up spread throughout his body entire body. Izuku was going to check his new status but a new system notice had appeared before him.
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[Notice]
Congratulations Izuku Midoriya, you have reached level 50!
As A Result, New System Features Have Been Unlocked.
-Inventory
-Attribute Points
-Skill Point
-Skill Tree
The Next Milestone Is Level 100.
Continue To Grind Faithfully and More System Features Will Be Unlocked.
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While Izuku's face didn't show it, he was ecstatic. The system had been the same for years and he was worried that the current system was all there was to it. Seeing that there was more to unlock made Izuku more motivated to work harder.
'Status,' Izuku thought. He knew from games what attributes and skill points were and wanted to see how many he had.
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[Skill Tree]-[Status]-[Inventory]
Name: Midoriya Izuku
Titles: Diligent Son, Diligent Student, Dead Man Walking, Deku, Sis-Con, System Awakener, First Host, Favored By the System, Ladies Man, Model.
Level: 50
EXP: 5/250
Attribute Points: 58
HP: 54+
END: 57+
STR: 54+
DEX: 54+
INT: 58+
WIS: 54+
LUK: 54+
Abilities: Flash Light Hands, Identify, Light Projection, Shadow Projection, Reinforcement
Skills:
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The first two things Izuku immediately noticed were the new tabs on the status screen and his 58 attribute points.
'The number of attribute points is weird. Shouldn't I only get 1 attribute point per level?' Izuku thought. 'Oh well, just like the boss said, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Now where to distribute these points?'
"Hey Izuku," Ochaco said from his side. Izuku turned to face her and saw she was looking at him curiously. "Why were your eyes moving like you were reading something?"
Izuku felt a bit of surprise at hearing Ochaco's voice but it didn't show on his face as he mentally dismissed his status screen before answering.
"Eh um, I was just amazed at what I'm seeing."
"Hmmm, I see..." Ochaco's voice told Izuku that she didn't completely buy what he was selling since he had seen this sight a bunch of times beforehand.
Even Izuku didn't technically lie, he felt a little bad for not telling her the whole truth. But only was their relationship fairly new and therefore too early to tell if she could keep his secret, but when people inevitably found out about his system's power, knowledge of it could put her in danger.
That's right, Izuku knew the world would find out eventually that he had multiple abilities. One doesn't simply go from traumatized, weak fodder, with a barely usable quirk, to a super genius, multi-quirked, powerhouse without raising any questions.
Nobody thought much of it now because he was only using his light projection and showing very little of his physical capabilities to make people think that his Flashlight Hands had developed into a strong quirk. But eventually, when his stats increase enough to match powerful super strength/ speed quirks, and the number of abilities he has increased, no one is going to think his quirk just got strong. After all, there was no such thing as a quirk with infinite potential. Even with the most rigorous of training, a quirk will eventually reach its limit.
"Hey," Ochaco once again snapped Izuku out of his thoughts. "Can you do the healing thing now, please? My everything is super sore and you said we would get to hang out instead of training today."
"Oh, my bad. Here you go." Golden light encompassed izuku's palms as he grabbed both Ochaco's hands and let the healing energy flow from her arms into the rest of her body.
"Ahh, I'm so glad we're friends," Ohako said in bliss. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling of her soreness giving way to strength.
"Oh," Izuku said in mock sadness. "Is that all I am to you Ochaco, a convenient friend with a healing quirk? You wound me."
"Hey!" Ochaco's eyes immediately shot back open and made direct eye contact with Izuku to correct his misconception of her. "You know that's not..."
But when Ochaco saw a grin plastered on Izuku's face, she immediately ceased her would-be clarification. He was messing with her. This could only mean one of three things to Ochaco. One Izuku was comfortable enough with her to tease her. Two, he was still a teeny tiny bit mad about the skydive tackle, or three, both. To the Uraraka the answer was one.
"Jeez Izuku," she pouted. "You shouldn't say stuff like that."
"Hahaha, just like how you shouldn't tackle someone from over 6,000 feet right?" Izuku replied innocently with an eye smile.
"Hahaha, since you keep bringing it up, maybe we should do it again," Ochaco offered in an innocent but threatening tone of voice.
"Hmmm, no I think I'm fine," He declined.
Izuku didn't take what she had said seriously until his body instinctively rolled away from Ochaco's beach chair. He became very glad he did because when he looked at the spot he had rolled away from, there was lots of floating sand and an Ochaco with a mad gleam in her eye. The girl was wiggling all ten of her fingers in a way that looked not too dissimilar to how centipedes walked. No words needed to be said for Izuku to know what his next move should be.
'Joestar Secret Tecnique: ＮＩＧＥＲＵＮＤＡＹＯ! Wait, what's a Joestar? Forget it, and just run Izuku.'
As expected, Ochaco immediately pursued the fleeing Izuku. When her arms reached out to try and make him float, he moved just a little bit faster so she would miss him. While Izuku could, in all honesty, dust her in a race, he didn't. If he ran away too fast she would give up the chase and wait for him to return to their stuff. To make sure Ochaco was tired enough to give up, he was going to stay just out of her reach until she couldn't run anymore. Which shouldn't be very long since she was still tired from cleaning the beach. She just didn't feel it right now because of his healing.
Five minutes later Ochaco fell face-first into the sand from exhaustion. Izuku didn't catch her this time because he didn't see when she was falling. When he picked her up princess-style to carry her back to the tent, they had a long hard laugh about their antics. At the tent, Izuku healed Ochaco again and this time had her eat something to recover her stamina. When the recovery process was done, they slipped into beach wear and had fun on the now-cleaned Takoba Municipal Beach Park.
| Weeks Later |
"Izuku did you pack your tissues," Inko Midoriya asked her son.
"Yes Mom," Izuku responded to his mother. Right now he was dressed in his U.A. uniform getting ready for his first day at school.
"What about your hanky? You can't leave without it, dear."
"I have that too Mom. Crap! Look at the time, I'm gonna be late and I have to meet Ochaco!"
"Izuku."
"Yes, Mom!"
"Your sister would be proud of you."
At those words, Izuku began to tear up a bit. Not because of sadness or any other negative emotions but because he knew his mom was right. His sis always believed in his dream and never doubted he would become a hero. If she was here right now, she would no doubt be showing him with praises and congratulations.
"Thanks, mom, see ya later." With that Izuku was through the door and off to school.
A phone call and a bus ride later Izuku and Ochaco were at the halfway point to U.A together.
"Good Morning Izuku, you ready for the first day!" Ochaco asked her friend while pumping her fist in the air.
"Good morning, Ochaco" Izuku greeted back. "I'm ready, just a bit nervous."
"Yeah, I know what you mean." Uraraka agreed with a nod. "I could hardly sleep just thinking about today."
The two continued the talk while walking up a block to the next bus that would drop by U.A. when they noticed people eyeing them as they walked toward or by them. At first, they didn't think much of it, they were wearing the prestigious and well-known uniforms of THE U.A. But then they saw a not-so-subtle teen around their age pointing at them while whispering to his friends. Ochaco couldn't make out what they were saying but Izuku, with his system-enhanced hearing, could.
"Hey isn't that them?" The teen whispered.
"Yeah, I think it is," his friend whispered back.
Izuku was trying to hear more of what they were saying so he could figure out how a group of teens he had never met before recognized him and Ochaco. However, Izuku couldn't solve the mystery since they moved out of his hearing range seconds later. The bus they were supposed to get on was there as well.
As they waited for the bus to move, they realized that a few people on the bus also recognized them, much to Izuku's and Ochaco's surprise.
"Omg, it's them!" A girl excitedly squealed on the bus while looking directly at them. She probably would have started pointing if her friend hadn't shut her up and dragged her down to a seat.
At this point, both U.A. students were very certain that their current popularity had nothing to do with their uniforms. Which made both teens start panicking a little on the inside but for different reasons.
In Ochaco's head, 'Did I get Doxxed? I knew those "Unbelievable Tricks to Make a Man Yours" ads were clickbait but I still went on them. Now everyone knows who I am!'
In Izuku's head, 'Are we getting recognized because I flew us into the sky near the mall? No, I made sure there weren't any cameras or people watching when I did that. This must be the work of an enemy quirk! What? Where are these stupid lines coming from?!'
As if the universe deigned them worthy of an answer to their question, a small child who was sucking his thump on his mother's lap, looked right at them, pointed, and asked out loud to his mother at a volume way higher than necessary. "Mommy, aren't those the people who were on the billboard outside?"
"Stop that Sunitchi, it's rude to point at people," his mother chastised.
Right after hearing his words both Ochaco and Izuku went outside the bus and started looking for some billboards on rooftops. Lo and behold, on the billboard in front of them, was a designer brand ad with both Izuku and Ochaco dressed posing on a rooftop.
Izuku sighed and facepalmed. He knew he should have seen this coming from the moment he signed those papers for his photos to be used and was given all that money but he didn't. He expected those photos to be used in a small-time magazine or something. Not have them plastered on a billboard.
"At least this will help with my hero publicity," Izuku said out loud to himself. Quickly coming to terms with... whatever this situation was.
Ochaco was feeling both ecstatic and relieved. Ecstatic at now being popular and relieved that she wasn't doxxed. She couldn't believe she was on the front of a billboard right now. "Izuku do yo-. Wait, the bus?!"
"Stand clear of the closing doors." The bus driver' said before closing said doors and driving off. Leaving the two students without a ride to school.
But not without a way.
| Stella P.O.V |
𝐊𝐀𝐊𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐓! 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡!
"GG Easy." I gloated to... Myself.
"That's not fair Stella! You didn't tell me the controls before starting." Izuki, my younger and otherworldly self complained.
"Get good scrub," was my only reply. Which I instantly regret because Izuki starts bawling her eyes out and throwing a tantrum like the kid she is. I wish all she did was cry, but she's me. So instead of crying on my carpeted floor and flailing, she starts throwing haymakers at me.
"Waah, Stella is soo mean!"
*Crash*
A sidekick I dodge knocks over a shelf.
*Boom*
A punch I redirect turns my desk into splinters and so on until there is hardly anything in the room to break anymore. I let all this happen because I can fix everything in this room with a blink. What I can't do with a blink is make Izuki feel less lonely being here. So I delegated myself to the asshole but caring older sibling duty until I figure out a good time to revive her.
Man if any of the celestials told me I would be sistering myself over a hundred years ago I would have laughed in their face, but here I am! Speaking of those assholes, where are they? They should know by now that daddy dearest screwed up my reincarnation.
"Waah!" Izumi bawled while smashing her fist into my wall.
For now, I should deal with her and focus on that topic later. The quickest way I know to get her to calm down is to let her watch Izuku. "Hey Izuki, if you calm down we can see what Izuku is doing."
Izuki stops rampaging and sniffles a little bit before answering. "Really?"
"Yeah really"
"Ok, let's watch it now please." In an instant, all signs of sadness and crying disappeared from Izuki's face as if they were never there. She sat down on the floor waiting for me to clean the mess she had made so we could invade Izuku's privacy for entertainment.
I couldn't help but sigh at Izuki. I'm a bit too bratty for my liking but whatever. In an instant, everything in the room was back to the way it was before Izuki's rampage. However, instead of keeping the desk, swivel chairs, and monitors, I replaced them with bean bags, a snack fridge, and an LED 4K UHD Smart TV.
After Izuki and I got comfortable in the bean bags, I turned the TV on, grabbed a few snacks, and watched as Izuku and Ochaco flew to school together on a light disk over the city rooftops. I didn't plan on peeking in on him today since I was going to put my back into making a bunch of quests and carefully selecting rewards for said quests instead of gaming, watching anime, and doing the equivalent of stalking my brother. But hey, when you're trying to stop your younger self from an anime dimension from developing crippling depression, plans change.
On the screen, Izuku and Ochaco get close to the school and decide to run the rest of the way there. When they reached the school they stopped running and started speed walking to class 1-A.
"Waoh! So this is U.A., the school is way bigger than Aldera," Izuki who was in the bean bag next to me said with what was almost reverence.
"Yup and your big bro got in," I said to her.
"First of all, he's my little bro. I was born a minute before him. Second, was there ever any doubt? My bro is awesome." Izuki pushed out her chest and started doing a perfect noblewoman laugh. "o~hohoho"
I roll my eyes at her but I'm not disagreeing. My brother is indeed awesome and a protagonist to boot. Back on the screen, Ochaco and Izuku finally find 1-A but it seems they were late. Aizawa, the living manifestation of "I don't get paid enough for this shit" is already in the class and he doesn't look happy about their tardiness.
"Good, you two are finally here. We were just about to go to the field." Aizawa in his usual tired voice says. "I'm your homeroom teacher, Aizawa Shota. Take these and meet me on the P.E grounds." Aizawa shoves a gym uniform in both their hands and leaves the classroom.
Not want my younger self to see a bunch of dudes changing. I switch the camera from third person to free roam and move it to the field ahead of the class. In the meantime, look at Izuki to see her reaction to Aizawa and confusion was all I saw on her face.
"Is the hobo man really a teacher," Izumi asked innocently.
If I was drinking something, I would have done a spit-take because of how innocent she sounded saying something so insulting. Somehow, her having a teenager's body made it even funnier. "Hahaha, yes Izuki he is."
"Really? Ok then." Izuki then went to grab a snack from the fridge to eat while waiting.
Seeing her not make any attempt to at least look sorry made me laugh even more. It was only when all the students of 1-A made it onto the field did I stop.
"Alright class, I'm going to do a quirk assessment test," Aizawa said casually as if they weren't supposed to be somewhere else right now.
"A quirk assessment test!?" Nearly all the class shouted in unison.
"But what about orientation? We're gonna miss it." Ochaco asked.
Aizawa sighed. "Listen kids, If you really wanna make the big leagues, you can't waste time on pointless ceremonies. Besides, the freedom U.A. is known for also applies to teachers, so I can run my class any way I see fit and right now I see it fit to punish both you and your late partner. If either of you scores below the top ten then you are expelled effectively immediately."
"What!" Izuki shouted in outrage.
"Don't worry, he's just bluffing." I knew Aizawa has expelled people before but I also knew he's never expelled them permanently. The whole class he supposedly expelled before the current 1-A was all brought back in later but under a different homeroom teacher.
"But that's not fair! Isn't that too harsh for only being late by a minute?" Ochaco pleaded.
"Life isn't fair," Aizawa said casually. "Natural disasters, power-hungry villains, catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities. Life is full of unfairness. It's a hero's job to try to combat that unfairness. If you wanna be a pro, you're gonna have to push yourself to the brink. For the next three years, UA will throw one terrible hardship after another at you. So, go beyond. Plus Ultra‐style. Show me it's no mistake that you're here." The shit-eating grin Aizawa gave them after his little speech wasn't very encouraging but it did solidify his threat in the mind of 1-A.
Most of 1-A looked at them with pity except for the stoic few like Todoroki and Tsuyu. Lida looked like he didn't approve of what was basically Aizawa hazing Ochaco and Izuku but he didn't say anything. Ochaco looked more worried than I remember the anime showing her. Izuku calmed her nerves a bit placing his hand on her shoulder as a supportive gesture.
From what I could tell, my brother wasn't actually worried about placing in the top ten. And he really shouldn't be. Between his system-enhanced body and his abilities, there was no way he wouldn't place top 3 in the test.
"Moving on, Bakugo, you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam. What was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in Junior High?
"Sixty‐seven meters, I think," Bakugo said stoically. None of the usual anger and fire I knew him to have was there.
I saw Izuki wilt a little in her seat when she saw him and I knew why. While he was a pretty big asshole when we met him, some playground fighting turned him into a great friend. He was still an arrogant prick, but he was a nice arrogant prick. Seeing him so stoic now throws me off and it's probably the same or worse for her.
"Try doing it with your Quirk. Anything goes, just stay in the circle, and most importantly, don't hold back." Aizawa instructed.
Katsuki grabs the ball from the teacher wordlessly, stands in the circle, and, with both hands, blasts the ball with a huge explosion. I wouldn't be surprised if he destroyed the thing with that blast instead of sending it flying.
"Knowing your maximum first is the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a hero." Aizawa then showed Katsuki's score which was a whopping 1600 meters. For a few seconds, he searched the student's faces to see if anybody was going to take this test as a game. But the class was more docile in their reaction than their canon counterparts now that they knew what kind of man their teacher was.
After his inspection of the class was done, Aizawa started the actual test. Which was the same as cannon but with two major differences. The first difference was that Izuku and Katsuki were dominating! Both were doing at the very least twice as good as their canon counterparts.
Izuku cleared the 50-meter dash in 2 seconds and Katsuki did it in 2.5. In grip strength, Izuku's was a little over a thousand kilograms and that was while holding back. Katsuki surpassed Izuku's score by using a small rapid burst of his explosions. The amount of control that he has with his quirk was shocking to me. He's definitely stronger than he should be at this point but I don't know by how much.
Izuku and Katsuki both cleared the sandbox without a problem. Izuku with his light disk and Katsuki with his usual explosion. During the Repeated side steps test, Izuku couldn't use his light projection on this one so he used his natural speed. He held back a bit though because displaying superhuman speed when your quirk was viewed as a hard light one would raise suspicion. So he only did moderately well. Katsuki's repeated side step score was second only to Mineta. Using the fine control he developed with his quirk, he created small well-timed explosions to push himself from side to side pretty fast with what looked like minimum effort. They did about the same in the seated toe touch and situps. The long-distance run was won by Lida. In the beginning, both of them had the advantage, but once Lida built up speed, Izuku and Katsuki were passed by easily.
The second difference I noticed was that Ochaco was also doing better here than her canon counterpart. Physically at least, tests that could be done well with her quirk gave the same results they did in canon. Like the pitch test. Speaking of the pitch test It's almost Izuku's turn.
I wanted to give him a quest to place first in the quirk assessment test for a new power or EXP but... I kinda want him to consolidate and master his current powers first. He's got the hang of light projection, I would even say he's mastered it to an extent. However, he hasn't trained his Shadow Projection since the apartment incident, he doesn't know how to properly use the Reinforcement power he earned, and he doesn't even know how to hold back his current physical strength properly. So in the end I decided not to give him one. But now I'm getting second thoughts since I don't necessarily have to give him something that powers him up. As a matter of fact, I can give him a limiter and I know just the thing for this too.
"Heheheheh"
"Stella, you laugh like a perverted old man."
"What did you say you brat!"
| Third Person P.O.V |
"Izuku Midoriya, take a ball and step into the circle," Aizawa instructed.
Izuku followed instructions and stepped into the circle. So far he was doing good, great even. He knew for a fact that he was going to be top ten, but he was nervous. Not because of Aizawa or the test, but because Katsuki had been staring at him for the entire test. His stare wasn't malicious or good, which oddly enough, made Izuku even more nervous since he couldn't tell what was going on in the blonde bomber's head. He wondered if Katsuki still hated him.
"We don't have all day Midoriya, hurry up and throw the ball," Aizawa said lazily. Snapping Izuku out of his thoughts on Katsuki and on how to get the ball as far as possible.
Ochaco saw that Izuku was taking longer than he normally would with the test and thought he was nervous about it. So she decided to cheer him on, in front of everybody.
"You can do it Izuku, hit it with everything you got!" Ochacos rooting caught Izuku's ears and definitely encouraged him. But at the cost of turning him into a human tomato from embarrassment.
Her cheering also caught the attention of all her classmates and the special attention of a pink-skinned and an invisible girl.
A blonde boy with a backlighting bolt in his hair stared at Ochaco for a few seconds in confusion before his face became one of recognition. "Hey, aren't you..."
*Ping!*
The question he was going to ask was momentarily forgotten when a sound of a high-pitched noise nearly deafened him. The sound left everyone wincing and the source of it was none other than Izuku. In the pitching circle, he stood tall, arms still outstretched with a baseball bat made of light.
Aizawa, despite the ringing in his ear, still managed to remain composed enough to record and share Izuku's score. "1,200 meters. Good job Midoriya."
"Thank you sensei." Izuku moved out of the circle to fall in line with the rest of his class but was surprised when Katsuki of all people met him halfway.
At first, neither said anything to the other, both were just staring at the other stoically. Then for the first time in years, Katsuki said something to him.
"You've gotten strong, Izuku," Bakugo stated tonelessly
Izuku just nodded at him, not sure what to even say to the childhood friend who he was sure hated him still.
"Good," Then without another word, Bakugo walks back to the rest of the class and Izuku follows him.
"All right class, that's the end of the test, here are the results" Aizawa took out a hand-sized hologram projector and displayed the grades.
1.Katsuki Bakugo - 6. Fumikage Tokoyami
2. Izuku Midoriya - 7. Mezo Shoji
3. Momo Yaoyorozu - 8. Mashirao Ojiro
4.Shoto Todoroki - 9. Eijiro Kirishima
5.Tenya Ida - 10. Ochaco Uraraka
"Midoriya, Uraraka." Both students looked at him a little nervous. They had placed top ten as he demanded of them but the slight fear of expulsion was still there. "I wasn't actually going to expel you if didn't place in the top ten, I just said that to teach you a lesson about being late."
" Whaaat!" Ochako and a few of the other students in class shouted at their teacher.
"C'mon guys use your brains. Of course, he was bluffing." A pony-tailed buxom sated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Anyways, good work everyone. Pick up a syllabus in the classroom and read it over before tomorrow morning. Dismissed." Aizawa walked away from the teens leaving them to their devices so he could go take a nap.
When the overly tired teacher was out of sight, Izuku and Ocahko released a breath they didn't know they were holding. They were happy they had made it through their first day of school, but it was a bit mentally taxing. Especially for Ochaco who was scared of being expelled the entire time. Izuku was mentally taxed from having Katsuki stare him down the entire time.
However, despite how taxing today was and how cruel their teacher is, neither could say they didn't enjoy their first day at UA High School.
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A/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter. This took a lot out of me and I have a bloody essay to write after this. Also, if something isn't explained, like what izuku and Ochaco did with all the trash they cleaned from the beach or why Izuku hit the ball over a thousand meters when he was trying to hide his strength. Please don't fret, I will most likely explain it later in the same chapter or in a future one.
Plz, point out any mistakes you see in the writing. I double-checked before publishing but there could still be a mistake or two that hides from my sight.