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Our story starts out as any other, with a boy running through a hallway, a concerned and slightly panicked expression on his face. He had unruly, green hair and wide green eyes. This boy was none other than Midoriya Izuku, Ninth Wielder of One for All and a freshman at UA University. It was his first day, and well…
“Come on, 1-A, 1-A,” said the boy, unable to find his classroom. He didn’t want to be late, but as it was the first day, he hadn’t had much time to memorize the main building’s layout just yet. Turning down another hallway, he kept searching until he had finally found it. It was a much larger door than he was used to, but he was sure it was where he was supposed to be with the large “1-A” painted onto it. ‘I wonder if it’s meant to cater to mutation quirks or those with large body proportions.’
After a small prayer in hopes that two people weren’t inside, he slid the door open…
“Remove your feet from that desk this instant!”
“Huh?! Who shoved that stick up your ass?!”
Only to be met by the two people who he just prayed to not see today.
“Perhaps we started off on the wrong foot,” said the blue haired boy who was attempting to admonish the blonde. “My name is Iida Tenya, and I am from Somei Priv-”
The blonde had interrupted, “Somei, huh? I can’t wait to tear you a new one!” The blonde boy, Bakugou Katsuki, said that with a wicked smirk on his face.
The bluenette, Iida, startled back slightly. “You would threaten me, your own classmate?! Are you sure you are in the right place?” Before he could continue his tirade against the blonde, Iida had noticed Izuku by the door.
“It’s him,” the bluenette said, slightly subdued. This brought the attention of the rest of the people in the room onto Izuku. Iida began walking to the door, reciting his introduction again before Izuku interrupted him, having already heard it before.
Still startled and unnerved by the attention suddenly shifting to him, he couldn’t speak, stuck in his thoughts until a somewhat familiar voice broke him out of it.
“Hey Green Bean, glad you kept your end of the promise.”
Izuku turned to see a girl smiling towards him. With slightly messy long, blue hair and bright blue eyes, the girl approached him. The boy was slightly confused at first at who the girl was.
‘Promise? What is she talking about? Wait, Green Bean. The only person who’s called me that was-’ “Wait, you’re that girl from the beach!” he stated, surprised.
The girl stopped before pouting slightly, her head dropping in disappointment. “‘That girl’? I guess that’s what I get for forgetting to introduce myself back then.” Before the conversation could continue any further, another familiar voice to the boy cut through the air.
“Hey, it’s you! Falling Boy!” the voice exclaimed, excitement clear in their voice.
Izuku had turned to see the nice girl he had saved during the entrance exam from the Zero-Pointer. He had wondered if the brunette got in, but it seems he wouldn’t need to search for long.
“After everything that happened, I knew you’d get in!” The belief in her voice took the boy off-guard even after seeing the clip of her wanting to give him her points. “Huh, wait, how did you know that?” she asked. Apparently the boy was muttering, as he often did.
Before any of the conversation could continue, another voice cut through yet again. “If you’re here to make friends, you can go ahead and leave.” Everyone at the doorway stopped at a man’s voice and turned to where they thought it was coming from…
Only to spot what looked like a giant yellow caterpillar. After a moment a raggedly dressed man stepped out revealing that it wasn’t a cocoon but rather a sleeping bag. “Only one of you spotted me. The rest of you took twenty seconds to quiet down. I expect you to be faster next time.
“Now then, I’m Aizawa Shouta, your homeroom teacher.” The man reached into his sleeping bag and pulled out a gym uniform. “Put these on and meet me on the field outside. You have five minutes.” After that the man left, leaving the rest of the students in silence.
That’s when the blue haired girl began to move. “C’mon, let’s get moving. It’s probably not a good idea to be late with him,” she said before leaving herself. The rest of her classmates quickly followed behind her.
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“Congrats, that was four minutes and fifty-eight seconds,” said the man drearily. “Move faster next time. The longer it takes you, the more civilians that will be put into harm's way.” Most everyone there realized that their supposed teacher was someone who refused to be pleased. The rest just didn’t care. “Now then, time to conduct a Quirk Assessment test.”
“A ‘Quirk Assessment Test’?” was the common question voiced by all of the students.
“Wait, what about orientation?!” questioned the brunette from before, obviously confused at missing the opening ceremony. “We’re going to miss it.”
The man turned and replied lazily, “Heroes can’t waste time on pointless ceremonies. Here at UA, we aren’t tethered to pointless traditions like most other schools.” Aizawa’s expression turned harsh for his next statement. “That means I get to run my class however I like.”
That got Izuku to take a step back in fear. The blue haired girl stood next to him and turned to him with a calming look and a small smile on her face. While he didn’t calm down completely, he did stop panicking for the most part.
“You’ve been taking standardized tests all your lives,” Aizawa started again. “You’ve never been allowed to use your quirks in any physical exams. That’s irrational. Not allowing someone to test their limits limits their ability to grow.”
Many thought on the man’s words, seeing some sense in them.
“Highlander, you got the highest score on the Public Entrance Exams,” the man stated. “What was your farthest softball throw in high school?”
“About seventy meters,” the blue haired girl, Highlander apparently, replied. Izuku could see Bakugou snapping his head towards her, rage clear in his eyes.
Izuku thought back to the scoreboard that was shown in his acceptance letter. He was shocked to first learn that Bakugou had only gotten second place with seventy-seven villain points, only coming after someone named ‘Highlander Azura’ with forty villain points and fifty rescue points. Izuku was also surprised he had gotten fifth place with sixty rescue points and ten villain points. Apparently he had gotten some villain points when the Zero-Pointer had fallen onto some other robots that were still active.
“Do it again, but this time use your quirk,” ordered Aizawa. The man had tossed Highlander a ball before she moved towards the circle.
She stopped for a moment to think from what Izuku could observe. Then she tossed it straight up. Before anyone could question what she was doing, lightning burst from her as she dropped down and began to spin. Izuku believed he saw a move like the one she was performing in a break dancing video once. The pink-skinned girl nearby got an excited look on her face due to the display.
“Requiem…” Blue lighting began flashing around her as she began to spin faster. Izuku looked up to see the ball slowing its ascent, then began to fall as gravity took over. Looking down again, he saw her spin faster and faster with the ball coming closer and closer. Finally, she changed her position, one of her feet being planted on the ground before pivoting…
“Roundhouse!” he heard her yell as her other foot making contact with the ball, launching it into the sky with him and the rest of the class quickly losing sight of it.
A few moments later everyone could hear a beeping. Turning to Aizawa, he held up a tablet displaying a distance. “843 meters huh? I thought it would go a bit further,” Highlander said in a contemplating tone. Izuku jumped slightly and looked back to see her, not noticing her approach beforehand.
“As you can see,” said Aizawa, breaking the silence, “this is what you can really do if given the chance.”
The whole class began talking. Someone, he thinks it was the pink-skinned one from before, cheerfully yelling, “We actually get to use our quirks for this?! This is going to be fun!”
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines after that was said. Aizawa called their attention a moment later. “Fun? Heroics isn’t fun and games. How about this, whoever places last in the assessment gets expelled.”
This caused the class to uproar with confusion. Izuku stood stock still with shock, afraid of failing with a quirk he had literally no experience with. “Wait, what?! But that isn’t fair!” stated the brunette from before.
“Fair? Life isn’t fair. Disasters can happen anywhere at any time. Villains too. Is it fair that you have to be the ones to deal with them?” Asked the man. This got the class to stop. “If you want to make it in this field, you’ll have to combat that unfairness and work with what you have.” The man then gave an almost manic grin. “So if you want to make it past today, you’ll have to go plus ultra.”
Izuku gulped at that.
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First, they all started with a fifty meter dash. Izuku might not have been able to use One for All, but the training he underwent to get it did help improve upon his running speed. While his was slightly better than average at 6.85 seconds, there were a few standouts like Iida, Highlander, Bakugou, and a tall black-haired girl who pulled a bike seemingly from her stomach. Izuku had to resist the urge to pull out his notebook and start asking her about her quirk.
Next up was the grip strength test. Izuku had gotten around 77 kg. Again though, there were standouts in comparison to the rest of the class. The first two were Highlander and that black-haired girl from last time, the latter had apparently created an industrial clamp to do her test with, with the third coming from a giant of a man with a set of six arms with a sort of webbing connecting them.
The third test was the standing long jump. Most of his classmates cleared the sandbox, some even going much further than necessary, but Izuku alongside the rest of his classmates had landed in the sand box in one way or another. Highlander had approached him asking if he was okay, but he just waved off her concern. He thought he saw a disbelieving look in her eyes, but he chose to ignore it. He was far more concerned about the fact that most everyone already had at least one outstanding score.
Next was the side steps. Everyone tried different ways of getting higher scores, but most attempts ended up with a score only slightly above average. There was an exception with a diminutive boy with balls for hair that used said balls to create trampoline-like walls to bounce back and forth in rapid succession. This did not help Izuku’s anxiety.
The fifth test up was the ball toss. Highlander was exempt due to her doing it at the start, but that still left everyone else. Iida had taken a page from Highlander’s book and kicked it, getting the ball over two hundred meters. The black-haired girl from before pulled out a CANNON to everyone’s surprise. Well, it was a mortar to be specific, but the point still stands. He could faintly hear someone saying “bitches love cannons” regardless of semantics.
After a little more time and prep work on the girl’s part, the cannon was fired. The noise seemed to bother this one purple-haired girl who seemed to have headphone cords coming out of her ears. Izuku resisted the urge to pull out his notebook again. Everyone had such interesting quirks. He could ask tomorrow… ‘if I can survive that long,’ he thought darkly.
The nice girl had apparently gotten an infinity due to it leaving the atmosphere. Izuku really wanted to know how she did that. There were several other notable scores, but faster than he liked, Izuku was up.
‘Either he’ll get another average score, or he’ll break his arm to actually get something good. Either way, he’s not staying,’ thought the man.
Seeing no other choice, Izuku had charged up One for All in his arm and prepared to throw. As he did however, he felt the power suddenly and forcibly leave him. The sensation tripped him up, causing him to mess up his throw and only getting around twenty meters or so.
Before the boy could question what had happened, he was suddenly wrapped up in some cloth and forcefully turned towards the adult, the man’s eyes glowing red.
“You were just about to break your arm, weren’t you?” Aizawa asked rhetorically. “If you were just planning to break yourself over and over in the field, you’ll get yourself killed.” Izuku could feel the cloth around him slacken and see it return to the man. “Just get it over with. We still have to finish this test.”
Izuku had stood there for a moment, still scared from what Aizawa had said and done. He was thinking on the problem at hand. If he used his quirk, he’d be out of the last few tests. On the other hand, if he didn’t use it, he would definitely come in last place. He’d have to do something to limit the damage.
‘Wait, if I channel it into my arm, then that will get hurt, but if I just use something smaller…’ With the bare bones of a plan forming in his mind, the greenette moved, channeling his quirk into only a single finger. Throwing it caused a ‘BOOM’ created by the air pressure alone. Most everyone was blown back by the force. The counter on Aizawa’s pad stopped at 734 meters.
After the smoke cleared, there Izuku was standing in the middle of the circle with a purple, and broken, finger clenched in a fist looking at Aizawa with determination. “I used my quirk, but I’m still standing.”
The silence that played out after that was interrupted a few moments later when another explosion came from the other students.
“DEKUUUU! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET A QUIRK?!?!” Bakugou was rocketing towards Izuku, fury in the boy's eyes as he rocketed full force at the boy. He would cause a lot of damage… had a strand of familiar cloth not come from the side and restrain the enraged blonde. “What the hell?! What the hell is this thing made of?! Why can’t I use my quirk?!”
“I canceled it out obviously,” Aizawa droned out. Looking over, the students could see the man’s eyes glowing red.
Hearing the man’s statement however, Izuku had an epiphany concerning the man’s heroic identity. “Wait a second, you’re Erasurehead!” exclaimed the boy.
“Quit using your quirk, you’re giving me dry-eye,” ordered the man. After a few moments, the man addressed the still squirming Bakugou. “Stop or I’ll expel you. We still have to finish the tests.” Bakugou decided to stop for the time being after that statement. He wasn’t willing to take any chances with the man for a moment.
Izuku began walking over to the rest of the students after that exchange. His eyes were drawn to Highlander however when he saw a look of rage on her face pointed at Bakugou.
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After that, nothing worthy of note happened during the last few tests, though Izuku’s finger still hurt. Most received the same scores in the seated toe touch and sit up portions, but there were a few exceptions like the previous tests. The final test, the long distance run, went until Aizawa had cut it off, stating that they shouldn’t keep wasting time on it when the results were clear.
That’s when he presented the scores.
1st: Yaoyorozu Momo
2nd: Highlander Azura
3rd: Todoroki Shouto
4th: Bakugou Katsuki
5th: Iida Tenya
6th: Tokoyami Fumikage
7th: Shouji Mezou
8th: Kirishima Eijiro
9th: Ashido Mina
10th Uraraka Ochako
11th: Kouda Kouji
12th: Satou Rikidou
13th: Asui Tsuyu
14th: Aoyama Yuuga
15th: Sero Hanta
16th: Kaminari Denki
17th: Jirou Kyouka
18th: Hagakure Tooru
19th: Mineta Minoru
20th: Midoriya Izuku
Seeing the placement he had, Izuku almost went catatonic. His journey ending almost as quickly as it had started. The thought crossed his mind that All Might might take back his quirk when he heard about Izuku’s expulsion.
Before he could spiral too deeply, the almost-hobo spoke. “By the way, the expulsion was only a logical deception to push you to do harder on the test.” Hearing this revelation, Izuku almost fainted. He thinks he could hear the black-haired girl comment how obvious that was off to the side, but he wasn’t paying too much attention for obvious reasons.
“You’re lying.” An almost cold voice cut through the myriad of other voices causing everyone to turn who had said it. It was Highlander. The blue-haired girl had a look of quiet, barely-disguised rage on her face directed at Aizawa. Aizawa, on the other hand, looked completely unconcerned.
“Oh, and what makes you say that?” the man asked lazily.
“The fact that you expelled your entire class last year on the first day speaks volumes in my opinion.” This piece of information caused many people to go pale, especially the black-haired girl that had commented beforehand. “From what I’ve heard, you would expel anyone you deemed a liability without a second’s hesitation.” Some people had paled further at that. “Also,” the girl continued, “those scores have clearly been tampered with.”
“That’s quite a claim, Highlander,” stated the man. “Care to share why you’d think that?”
Nodding, Highlander began. “Simple, you’re using a metric you didn’t tell us about. That, or you simply arranged the placements as you saw fit.”
“I don’t have to divulge how I calculate the scores,” the man argued in a bored yet harsh tone.
“Midoriya could have easily made it up to at least the 15th spot if all you were doing was taking the scores. Hell, Bakugou should be 6th at the highest, yet he’s 4th? He only received notable scores during the ball throw, 50 meter dash, and the jump. Even then, some people here scored much higher than him in several events, yet those people are much further down the list.” Bakugou looked enraged at the claim. However, the expressions on several of their classmates' faces turned contemplative, obviously to consider the same facts and questions Highlander proposed.
“I told you, I don’t have to reveal how I calculated the scores.” The man, despite his cold and calm expression, was slightly on edge after being called out. If this got back to the Rat, then he wouldn’t be able to move as freely as he had been allowed to.
Highlander either didn’t notice or care and continued. “Then I’d like to talk to the Dean.” This statement startled more than a few people there, none of them expecting the Dean to be dragged into something on their first day. “You have not only deliberately lied to us, but you’re withholding critical information. Doing that in the field could get people killed. If how you scored us makes sense, then I’ll drop the issue entirely. Otherwise…” She let the threat hang there and let everyone else present fill in the blanks.
Highlander and Aizawa had a stare off for the next few moments, waiting for whoever would break first. After a few tense moments, the man relented. The list projected had changed. “Get your syllabi from your desks before you leave. All of your stuff should be at your dorm. Class dismissed,” the man said gruffly before he turned around to leave.
The new list had some similarities, but also several key differences.
1st: Yaoyorozu Momo
2nd: Highlander Azura
3th: Iida Tenya
4th: Todoroki Shouto
5th: Tokoyami Fumikage
6th: Shouji Mezou
7th: Bakugou Katsuki
8th: Kirishima Eijiro
9th: Ashido Mina
10th Uraraka Ochako
11th: Satou Rikidou
12th: Asui Tsuyu
13th: Midoriya Izuku
14th: Kouda Kouji
15th: Aoyama Yuuga
16th: Sero Hanta
17th: Kaminari Denki
18th: Jirou Kyouka
19th: Hagakure Tooru
20th: Mineta Minoru
Knowing that no one would be expelled just then lessened the impact greatly, but to see just Izuku shoot up to 13th from 20th was a little shocking to some. Bakugou was enraged even more by seeing himself being dropped down three more places. He turned towards Highlander, but she didn’t react at all, enraging the boy even more.
Izuku though, he was at a loss for words. This pretty girl he didn’t even really know risked herself to call out the man on how he was treating Izuku. Several things didn’t make sense to him in that moment, so he decided to do what he usually did and shelved them for later.
That’s when Highlander clapped her hands a few times to call everyone’s attention to herself again. “Sorry about making it so intense there for a bit. Now, I don’t know about you guys, but I’d rather get started on getting my room set up before it gets too late.”
Iida decided to take this moment to take charge. “Highlander is correct. We should not linger here for longer than we have to. There are many things we have to do as students of this fine institution before the day ends.”
One by one, everyone nodded their heads and began the trek back to the main building.
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Several minutes later, Izuku was walking by himself to the dorms after getting his finger healed. Today had been a rollercoaster for him. First was arriving at the UA to attend, then was the threat of expulsion, then everything that happened during the test and Aizawa’s confrontation with him, and all of it being topped off with everything that happened at the scoreboard, which was a rollercoaster in and of itself. His thoughts were interrupted when two people walked up behind him.
“I must say, I knew UA was unorthodox as an institution, however I wasn’t expecting that display from before.” He recognized Iida’s voice coming from his right. The person to his left didn’t take long to respond.
“Sure, UA may allow more freedom, but I’m thinking that freedom has gone to some of the teachers’ heads.” The other voice belonged to Highlander. Izuku was still very confused with the girl’s actions throughout the day.
“Hey!” yelled a voice behind him. All of them turned around to see the brunette from before running towards them from the main building.
“Oh, it’s the infinity girl,” stated Iida as she had caught up with them.
“Oh, my name’s Uraraka Ochako,” said the now-name Uraraka as she introduced herself. “And you guys must be IIda Tenya, Midoriya Deku and- wait, I don’t think I ever caught your name,” wondered the brunette.
“Deku?” Izuku asked, startled.
“My name is Highlander Azura, and that is Midoriya Izuku, not Deku.” Highlander seemed to have a tint of annoyance in her voice, though the exact reason eluded Izuku.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Uraraka said, quickly apologizing. “I just heard the blonde guy call you ‘Deku’ and thought that was your name.”
Shaking his head to refocus, the boy responded. “Oh, ‘Deku’ is something Kacchan calls me to make fun of me.”
“Oh, really? I thought he meant ‘Dekiru’, you know, ‘you can do it’.”
“Going by the tone of voice and his clear hostility, he probably meant ‘Deku’ as in ‘useless’,” Highlander interrupted quickly.
“‘Useless’? Why would anyone give someone else such an insulting nickname?” replied Iida, clearly confused and exasperated.
“One of life’s greatest mysteries,” Highlander replied distantly.
“Oh, Sorry. I didn’t know that’s what it meant. I’ll call you ‘Dekiru’ instead then. It could make a great Hero name.”
Izuku’s face exploded into a blush. “O-okay! You c-can call m-me Dekiru,” Izuku stammered.
“Yeah, that fits much better in my opinion,” Highlander said, nodding.
“Hey, wait,” interrupted Uraraka. “From everything I’ve seen today, it seems like you two know each other. What’s the story behind that?”
“While I wouldn’t have put it so crassly, I must admit that I am curious too,” Iida assented as he adjusted his glasses, curious at Highlander’s mannerism that spoke of familiarity between the two.
After a moment, Highlander spoke up again. “Oh, that? You mind if I tell them?” she had asked. When Izuku shook his head after a moment, she continued. “A couple of months back I was curious about a rumor about someone cleaning up Dagobah beach.”
“The dumpster beach?” Iida interrupted.
“The dumpster beach no more thanks to our Green Bean here!” she replied, patting Izuku on the back.
Uraraka got excited again at this. “Whoa, really?! That’s so cool! I’ve seen some of the pictures taken there. It looks so beautiful.”
Izuku flushed again under the praise. “I-it was n-nothing! I-I just used i-it f-for some training, that’s all!”
“I see, not only were you training yourself, but you were also giving back to the community at the same time. Such an act is the epitome of a heroic spirit. Not only that, but you also figured out the secret behind the rescue points. Truly a magnificent display.”
“S-secret?” Izuku asked, still heavily flustered. “I-I just saw s-someone who needed help, a-and my body moved on it’s own.”
“That only makes your action more magnificent! You acted without a desire for a reward. No, more accurately, you thought the act of saving someone was a reward itself! I cannot think of anyone more suited to be a Hero!” Iida’s passion rang through his words. Izuku didn’t know if he could be any more flustered.
“Oh, right,” said Highlander, breaking through Iida’s speech, “I had heard about someone taking out a Zero-Pointer only to end up getting hurt badly. I honestly shouldn’t be surprised it was you.
“Now, we got side-tracked, but you guys asked how we knew each other.” At this Uraraka and Iida both nodded. “Well, as I was saying, I was curious about the rumors and decided to investigate one day…”
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Dagobah Municipal Park Beach
7 months ago
Izuku had the day off of school today, so he decided to get in some extra hours of cleaning at Dagobah. All Might wasn’t watching him that day due to some business he had to take care of. He had been vigilant in Izuku’s first few months, but as time went on, he and All Might agreed that he didn’t need 24/7 supervision. So there Izuku was, moving trash to the dumpster to be picked up later. That’s all that would have happened too, had someone not caught his attention.
“Heyyyyy!” yelled a voice. In his surprise, Izuku dropped the piece of trash he was carrying, luckily not on his foot. He quickly swept his gaze, looking for whoever called to him.
That’s when he saw a pretty black-haired girl wearing tight-fitting jeans and a light jacket on the other side of the railing. She seemed to be waving him over to talk to her. With no small amount of hesitation, he began walking over to see what the girl wanted.
“Y-yes?” he stammered, nervous about talking to a pretty girl. “C-can I h-help y-you?”
“Not really,” she answered. “I just wanted to know if you were the ‘Green Ghost’ that’s been rumored to be cleaning the beach.”
Still nervous at the situation, he had decided to answer. “I-I don’t k-know about any ‘G-Green Ghost’, b-but I am cleaning t-this b-beach for t-training.”
“Training huh?” she asked rhetorically, though Izuku could hear a bit of amusement and amazement in her voice. “Cleaning up a whole beach on your own just for training. That’s some serious dedication. You planning on going through the hero track?”
“Y-yeah, I am. It’s b-been my dream for-forever now. W-What about y-you?” Izuku replied, cursing how he couldn’t get his stuttering under control.
She began looking towards the ocean observable through the area he had cleaned up already. “Heroics might have not always been my dream, but yeah, I’m doing that too.” She looked back at him, “I’m guessing you’re going to UA?”
“Yeah. I w-wanna learn from the best of the best.” He started rubbing his neck and laughed nervously. “Ev-everyone does though I g-guess.”
“You got me there.” She stopped for a moment before nodding to herself, seemingly coming to a decision. “Alright, what’s your name?”
“W-what? O-oh, my n-name is Mizuku Idoriya- wait, I mean Midoriya Izuku!” Izuku became flustered at his misstep.
The girl began giggling however. “Midoriya Izuku, huh? I’m gonna call you ‘Green Bean’!”
“‘Green Bean’?!” he asked quickly.
“Well, you have green hair and eyes, and ‘green’ is in your name. As for the ‘bean’ part, well you’re as cute as a bean, obviously,” the smile on her face bright and genuine.
This caused Izuku’s face to explode red. A girl had just called him ‘cute’!? He had no idea how to reply. The girl’s face turned serious, breaking him out of his thoughts.
“Anyways Green Bean, let’s make a promise,” she stated. “When the two of us meet in UA, let’s be rivals.”
“Rivals?” he asked.
“Yep!” she perked up again. “You’re a nice, earnest, and hardworking person. The perfect kind of person to be my rival.” Izuku was still confused and flustered, not expecting her to compliment him so much.
Before he could voice any reply though, he could hear a phone begin to ring. The girl reacted, pulling out her phone, then immediately answering after seeing the caller ID. “Hey mom. Yeah. Shoot, sorry, I’ll get right on that. Right. See you.” Putting her phone away, she turned to him, “Sorry, I have to go,” she said apologetically. “My mom needs me to run an errand right now and be back in time for dinner. I’ll see you at UA!” she yelled as she turned and ran down the street.
Izuku, in his shock, couldn’t get her attention before she left. There were so many things he was questioning about the whole conversation, but one detail stood out. ‘When’, not ‘if’, but ‘when’ they both got to UA. She said it with such certainty that he hadn’t really took note of it until just then.
Invigorated by her belief in him, he got back to work. Izuku was determined to show her that her faith in him wasn’t wasted. He’d see her again, the girl named…
“Oh crap! I never asked her name!” he screamed towards the ocean.
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Present
The retelling was accurate to Izuku’s memory. The event had stuck with him all this time. He had tried to memorize all the details of her that he could remember, wanting to find her again. It was part of the reason he hadn’t recognized her at first. The blue hair did look better on her in his opinion.
“A promise during a first meeting? That seems a little rushed to me,” stated Iida.
“Eh, maybe,” she admitted, “but it just felt right at the time. Part of my philosophy is to take the chances that you have when they appear. You never know if you might ever have them again.”
Uraraka took this moment to present her own opinion. “That’s so cool! A promise to become each other’s fated rival!” she exclaimed, pumping her fists. “I wish I could’ve done something like that.”
The conversation would have continued had they not reached the dorm building for class 1-A. All of them entered the main floor, and after deciding to talk again later, split up to find their rooms. Today might have been confusing to Izuku, but he was hopeful at what was to come.