After making their way out of the car(Along with a final good luck and hug from Inko), Izuku and Venom walked through the corridors of Yuei, towards the room that they had been told would be class 1-A's designated classroom.
With only 36 total contestants passing, there would be two practical classes for this year's batch.
Finally after a bit of searching, they found their room.
…And Izuku stood, nervously outside, hand on the door.
-You're not seriously gonna make this a repeat of the exam day are you? Standing outside for 5 minutes shaking all the while?-
"No, I'm just… I'm kinda hoping I don't share class with Katsuki or the tall guy with glasses. Logically my chances are that I have to share class with at least 1 of them."
-Actually, both of them are inside this room.-
Damnit!
"Of course they are…" It was the worst possible combination after all.
He steeled himself, then he opened the door… To the sight of both of them arguing.
Katsuki was eating while having one of his feet slung across the desk, while the tall guy was standing over him and berating him while motioning with his hands.
"Don't put your legs on the desk! Don't you think that's disrespectful towards your classmates and Yuei's grand history?"
Katsuki Bakugou, was pretty agitated as he answered.
"No, as a matter of fact I DON'T think so, you damn extra!"
"Not to mention your necktie! It is your duty to wear one!"
"Will you shut your mouth and leave me the FUCK alone already!"
The tall boy then bent down on one knee and picked up a breadcrumb, like he was an old school detective finding a clue.
"AND to think you would drop breadcrumbs in a place like this! You should already have had breakfast before now anyway!"
"GO AWAY, FOUR-EYES!!!"
-You know, this is way more entertaining when it's against someone else.-
"WHAT GODDAMNED MIDDLE SCHOOL ARE YOU FROM ANYWAY, YOU FUCKING EXTRA!?"
Not realizing that Katsuki really didn't actually care about the answer, the boy answered.
"A private schoo-Ahem. I'm from Soumei Junior Highschool. The Name's Iida Tenya."
"Soumei…! Well, aren't you elite! Seems I got a reason to end you after all!"
The boy flinched back with an exaggerated motion, and expression of pure horror.
"A reason to END ME? What nerve! You, want to be a Hero!?"
-Holy shit, this guy's an even bigger loser than you Izuku!-
"...Thanks Venom."
-Eh, it's alright. We'll make something much better out of you soon enough.-
Izuku's words though, made both the two of them notice him, and both turned to look at him.
Katsuki's eyes burned with rage at the sight, but it was the tall boy who stepped up to him first.
"Hello, I'm Iida Tenya from Soumei-"
Izuku flinched back a bit before answering.
"Yeah… I, I overheard. Umm… I'm Midoriya, nice to meet you Iida…"
The boy suddenly got a grave expression on his face.
"Midoriya, I must hand it to you…"
He turned his head away with a dramatic flourish.
"Despite your quirk's harsh words, you divined the actual purpose of the exam, while I… I remained blind to it!"
"I… I completely misread you! I hate to admit it, but you truly were the better man!"
-Wow, he lost that stick up his ass real quick.-
Izuku couldn't do anything else than just keep his mouth shut. He hadn't realized the secondary test reason either, but it seemed a very bad idea to admit that when apparently he had won this guy's respect through it.
In the background sat Katsuki absolutely staring daggers at Izuku, but Izuku's focus instead turned backward, as a cheerful voice rang out from behind him.
"Ah, it's you! The spider guy!"
Izuku turned around, and it was the lightning girl.
"I'm glad we're in the same class together."
She reached forth her hand.
Venom, currently occupying his undershirt forced his arm upwards, to where Uraraka grabbed it. All while Izuku desperately tried to hide away his face with the other hand.
"We didn't introduce ourselves yesterday! My Name's Urara Ochako!"
"I-I-I'm Izuku… Mi-Midoriya!"
Holy crap he was actually shaking hands with a girl!
As Izuku stammered out his name, and shook her hand, to the snide remarks from Venom, the sounds of the bell rang.
"Anyway, do you think the first day is the ceremony, or is it the guidance counselor stuff today?"
Izuku, now with both hands-free, was covering his face in embarrassment with both limbs as Uraraka talked, desperately trying to say something.
She was talking about how she wondered what sort of teacher they would have when a voice came from the floor behind her.
"If you're gonna look for buddies, do it elsewhere."
Izuku, Iida, and Uraraka all turned their heads to look at the source of the voice.
The source, was yellow caterpillar with a mane of black hair and a human face.
What?
The caterpillar followed this up by putting a small juice box to his lips before continuing.
"This is the department…" Slurp. "Of heroics."
Why was this guy?
After finishing his juice box, the caterpillar jumped up, so it stood on the end of it's bottom body, before finally shedding it's skin, revealing that despite looking like he would eventually become a butterfly, the yellow "hide" was just a sleeping bag.
The actual man inside the bag was about as far from looking like either a caterpillar or a butterfly as they came. Tall, lanky, with a coal-black mane and a scraggly scruff of unkempt beard. His face was equally unkempt, with dark rings under his eyes, telling of a lack of sleep.
He was dressed in a bog-standard black shirt and equally black pants, with a bunch of what looked like a thick tape made out of cloth wrapped around his neck.
He had a somewhat unusual belt with cylinders, which reminded Izuku of the one the Batman Beyond batsuit had, but that was about as much as he stood out.
As he exited the sleeping bag, he began to walk into the room, Izuku and Uraraka backed into the room to let him enter.
"Hmmm… It took you lot 8 seconds to pipe down. Life is short Kids, you're all lacking in common sense."
His voice could basically be summed up in one word. Unenthusiastic.
"I'm your homeroom teacher, Aizawa Shouta. Pleasure meeting you."
The way he said it, he might as well have been from a dead fish, with how lifeless it was.
So this guy was their teacher Izuku mused. He could not place the name Aizawa Shouta, and he didn't really recognize his costume either. But if he was a teacher at Yuei… That meant he had to be a pro Hero right?
Aizawa rummaged through his sleeping bag and pulled out a uniform Izuku recognized as Yuei gym uniforms.
"Put on these on. Immediately. Then shove off to the P.E grounds."
Then he just turned around and walked out without another word.
Well that was… Not what he had expected.
...
After everyone had changed into their gym uniforms they all got themselves over to the P.E grounds, where Aizawa was waiting for them with the same bored, lifeless expression.
Their purpose for coming here was revealed shortly.
A quirk apprehension test.
Uraraka was the only one to actually put the question everyone had to words.
"What about the ceremony? And the guidance counselor meetings?"
Aizawa was rather blunt and unsympathetic.
"If you want to be heroes, we don't have time for frilly niceties."
"I assume you all understand this school's famous reputation freedom on campus?"
"Well, that "Freedom" goes for us senseis too."
The man walked over to some markings on the ground, picking up a baseball, or something that had the shape of a baseball at least.
"Softball pitch. Long Jump. 50 meter dash. Endurance Running. Grip Strength Test. Sustained sideways jumps. Upper body exercises. Seated toe touch."
"These are exercises you all know from middle school. Physical tests where you were barred from using your quirks."
"Japan still hasn't gotten around to standardizing those kinds of records or standardizing the average result. Well, that's a problem on the part of the MEXT, not us."
As he called Katsuki over to the circle end of the markings and told him to throw it as far as he could using his quirk, Izuku realized this was basically just his regular old training regiment, with some exercises removed or added.
With a scream of "DIIIIEEEEE!!!", Katsuki sent it flying with an enormous explosion. Izuku and Venom both winced from a short burst of pain from the sound of said massive explosion.
"Before anything else, one must know what they are capable of. This will be the basis of your "Hero Foundation"." Aizawa held up his phone showcasing that the distance Katsuki had sent flying was 705.2 Meters.
-Only 700 meters? What a weakling. If we used our web for a sling to throw it, we could send it over ten times that.-
Izuku didn't know how to use a sling, but this honestly didn't sound too bad. It really was just his regular training regiment.
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