𝙃𝙚𝙝!?

by bo_looser

Summary:

❝𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘛𝘖𝘖, 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘕𝘎 𝘓/𝘕, 𝘊𝘈𝘕 𝘉𝘌 𝘈 𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘖!❞ ❝𝘏𝘦𝘩!?❞

In which a quirkless teen doesn't mind the fact she can't be a hero, until the Number 1 Hero comes along and makes her life a mess.

 

[Fem!Reader takes the place of Midoriya]

Chapter 1: 𝙘𝙧è𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙧û𝙡é𝙚

Notes:

warnings: mentions of human trafficking and cancer

「ⁱ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵏⁱᵈ ʷʰᵒ ʷᵃˢ ˢᵗᵘᶜᵏ ⁱⁿ ʰⁱˢ ʳᵒᵒᵐ
ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢⁿ'ᵗ ᵐᵘᶜʰ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵗᵒ ˢᵃʸ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ⁱᵗ」

Something Yagi Toshinori could pride himself on was being smart.

It was easy to put on the dumb blond facade while being a hero. Villains would get overzealous, thinking he didn't understand what was going on around him, and the second they slip up, Toshinori could already have them on the ground. With reporters, they never gave him questions that required too much thinking, which allowed him to joke off the "quirk" inquiries.

Some heroes obviously knew what he was doing, and some tried imitating it, knowing how tiring the reporters got at times. Others, like a certain hobo-esque hero, disapproved of it, thinking it was unprofessional. Still, he could admit it was better than wanting to beat them up, so he kept his silence.

Acting unaware, especially in social situations as Toshinori, allowed him to learn about the civilians around him. There were all kinds of things going on, specifically in this diner he frequents.

There was an exhausted lady complaining to her best friend about her horrible mother-in-law, a judgmental woman who couldn't keep her nose in her own business, and the husband was doing nothing to stop it.

A pink haired girl with some type of goggles over her face always seemed to be tinkering with some kind of gadget, occasional sparks popping from the gadget, but she was never kicked out, mostly because there was never any damage, and she order a shit ton of coffee or energy drink slushies.

An elderly man had finally beat cancer and was thinking about going out to a bar of some sorts, something with a party atmosphere to feel good.

And there was another teen who stayed near the back with a dachshund. He spent a lot of time talking to a girl who looked to be around the same age as him and worked as a waitress.

She had h/c hair with pink tips, and e/c eyes.

Toshinori started spending more of his time at the diner, observing the girl.

While she was the youngest employee at the diner, she almost seemed to have seniority over a lot of the employees. She either earned her place in the worker hierarchy or had already been working there when the others were hired. She spent a lot of time at the diner, after school hours and most of the night. During the times she'd stay all night, she'd have a chubby raccoon with her. It spent most of its time in her bag, just sitting in there, and Toshinori caught sight of a collar with "Meeko" embedded on the silver pendant.

She was quick when it came to taking orders from customers and getting them their food. Everytime she passed by the pink haired goggle girl she always had a new drink ready for her. The two never spoke but knew what each other wanted. It made Toshinori wonder if they actually knew each other or it was just a waitress/customer relationship.

When it came to the elderly man, she always had a cup of orange juice with a healthy breakfast ready for him. When he beat cancer, she gave him a card and a cupcake with a candle on it.

She gave the married woman lavender tea the second she came in looking more exhausted each day. The day she passed out in the booth, the girl began giving her notes. After that, the lady looked like life came back to her a little more each day. She had begun meeting with attorneys, learning how to start her own finance account, how her and her husband's assets would be divided, what she was entitled to, everything.

About a month later, she stopped coming to the diner, but one day there was a gift basket with all kinds of treats inside and a beautiful mahogany jewelry box with intricate designs right beside it. Toshinori wondered if there was jewelry inside of it (There was).

The boy with the dachshund usually stayed the longest. He mostly watched the girl, and always seemed to jump at the chance to walk her home.

Toshinori was pretty sure he had a crush on the girl.

Toshinori has been looking for someone to take over his position in the hero world. He can't continue doing his job as long as he wants to. He's too injured. He pushed away too many people, and while the last time Nighteye and him spoke ended in an argument, it did not stop the Pro Hero near the top 10's from searching for an heir for the blond.

It didn't matter anyway. Toshinori found the person he wanted to inherit One for All.

The girl is already saving people, even if she didn't know it.

She'll go far.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n wasn't stupid.

No normal guy comes into the same diner every single day and orders a bunch of food only to never eat it. He always had the leftovers bagged up and the next day he'd do the same thing.

She quickly figured out he had been distributing them to the homeless.

Still, he clearly had money if he could afford to do the same thing every time. He just spent a majority of his time people watching.

She spent a lot of time at the diner, because she knew if she stayed at home longer than needed, she'd fall into a bad slump. The only reason she had gotten out of it the last time was because the huge bag of dog food for Meeko was empty and he needed more. She went out and somehow ended up with a job as a waitress.

The other employees were okay. They just did the bare minimum and then went home, but Y/n decided to start staying later. Her boss noticed but seeing as the diner seemed to look a lot more lively with the number of guests that had started coming in, he didn't complain, and even gave her a raise.

She always showed up with something she baked, and the customers made sure it was gone in 2 hours. Cakes, brownies, cupcakes, cookies, tarts, anything really. They were to die for, and her boss genuinely started thinking her quirk had something to do with baking.

After a while, the other employees, were investigated and found out to be part of a human trafficking ring. When quirks first came into play, there was an uptick in trafficking cases, with a lot of quirkless individuals going missing. It was easy to get away with because the quirkless was quickly pushed to the back, uncared for and when one was reported missing, it was always brushed off as them just being dramatic about not having a quirk and running away.

They never turned back up.

An underground hero named Eraserhead had apparently been the lead of the operation and after years, finally had the evidence to bring them down. The news media made a big deal about it for two days before completely moving onto the heroes of the spotlight.

Y/n would never forget it, because she had met a boy named Tokuda Masaki, a victim of the ring. He was quirkless, and one day walking home from school, got caught in the rain and was lured to a building to wait.

He never made it home.

He never spoke about the stuff he had seen or been subjected to, and Y/n never prodded him for it. If he wanted to talk about it, he would. He was allowed to heal at his own pace.

Instead, he spoke a lot about his father, who was apparently a reporter. He could make camera lens protrude out of his body, something that interested the girl greatly.

She had picked up photography as a hobby and potential future career at a young age, courtesy of her childhood best friend, who was now missing. Throughout the years she had collected all kinds of cameras, each in different values, and one day, Masaki brought in his father to introduce them and he gifted her an expensive camera, the latest model, as a thank you for being friends with his son.

When new employees were hired, Y/n was assigned to show them the ropes. The two waitresses had no problem learning from her, but the cook and cashier had to learn. She let them handle their own stations due to their complaints and when the usuals kicked up a fuss about the system they're used to being out of order, they quickly quieted down and let her teach them.

Y/n also paid attention to the customers that come in, everyday ones and new ones. It wasn't difficult to fall into a system with them, and she made sure they had what they needed.

The pink haired girl loved building all kinds of things. She told Y/n she was going to be famous for creating hero support items in the future. A compromise was made between them: she could work on her inventions as long as they weren't destructive to the others, and she'd be supplied with free drinks. It worked well so far and there was no reason for change.

One time an elder man came in and looked ready to give up on life. Giving him an ear to talk to, he explained how he had just come from the doctors, being told he had kidney cancer. She gave him as best encouragement as she could and sent him off with an extra slice of cake. She made sure he always had something healthy, no matter how much he complained of the taste. She listened to him talk about his back pain, let him sleep when fatigue hit him extra hard, and made sure to double his food sizes as he started losing weight.

When he came in one day, looking happier than she'd ever seen him, he was practically jumping with joy as he announced he had beaten it. He thanked her for everything she had done for him and continued coming everyday with a renewed passion for life, deciding to not waste it.

There was a woman who had been a regular, and she talked extensively about being engaged to her longtime boyfriend. When she visited after the wedding, she didn't seem very excited to talk about her special day, and when her best friend had showed up, she whispered to Y/n about how her mother-in-law had done everything to practically ruin the day.

When Y/n asked about the husband, she was told how he just told his wife to not make a scene and cause bad blood. She fought the urge to roll her eyes and scoff, just because she liked the woman enough. This lady had always been confident, and she was going to let her self esteem drop just because she loved this spineless man.

Weeks went by as the woman stopped by for coffee and eggs, looking more tired every time. Y/n decided enough was enough as the woman fell asleep in the booth one day and woke up to her phone ringing. The teen had been close enough to hear the mother-in-law on the other end chastising the woman about not doing her "wife" duties and how she had to do them instead.

That night, she spent the time she could have been sleeping on her laptop, researching all kinds of divorce attorneys for the lady. It'd be easier if the divorce was mutual, but the husband seemed like he would fight it. To make sure that didn't happen, she called Masaki's dad, asking if he could get any information about him. All she could give him was the man's name, but it was enough to dig up some information.

He's already cheated on his wife with someone he works with, and employee-employee relationships were a big no-no in the company, so with the pictures given to Y/n, she wrote down the information of an attorney and handed it to the woman the next day, along with the photos.

As the woman prepared herself to leave her husband, she began talking about her home country. How she loved it there and moved to Japan for her husband, but didn't really want to leave her own home. She decided that's where she was going when everything was over.

That's what she did.

One day, she never showed up, and the day after, nothing. There was a gift basket and jewelry box addressed to Y/n the second day, and inside was jewelry. Reading the letter left for her, the lady thanked her for what she did, writing about how she got in touch with her old friend and he offered to house her when she came back.

During the divorce process, she had taken the jewelry her ex-husband had gifted her in hopes to change her mind and placed it in the jewelry box, an heirloom of hers. She had it delivered along with the gift basket, and told her to do whatever she wishes with the jewelry, keep it or sell it for extra money. All she requested was for her to keep the box. It was old and special to her, and she knew the teen would take great care of it.

Y/n did as asked, and kept the jewelry box, selling all of the jewelry except for a fancy pearl crystal hair clip.

Days go by and everything stays the same, but one day changes it, for Y/n and Toshinori.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Everything sucks.

But doesn't it always?

Having a slime villain thing come up behind you, commenting saying what a "perfect skin suit" you would be and entering your body isn't usually on anybody's bucket list. It sure as hell wasn't on the girl's.

Y/n blacked out for the most part. She couldn't breath as the slime entered her mouth and nose and ended up passing out from lack of air, like any normal person would. The last thing she could remember was some dude talking, she wasn't sure if it was the villain or someone else.

When she came too she felt someone patting her face quickly, calling out to her. "Wake up! Hey!"

Y/n snorted and jolted up brushing the hand away, frowning at the person who saved her. Surprise surprise, it was All Might, the number 1 hero. "Oh." She wasn't big on heroes. There wasn't any reason for her to be a fan of them. She didn't hate them, or most of them. She was neutral, and planned on staying that way. The number 1 hero who Y/n was pretty sure was in his forties was not going to change anything.

He gave her a blinding smile and chuckled. "Thought we lost you there!"

Who's we?

Y/n scooted back from the man to get some space. "I'm fine." Almost as an after thought to be polite she opened her mouth again. "...Thanks."

All Might stood up. "Sorry about that back there," he apologized, "I didn't mean to get you caught up in my justice-ing. Usually I pay more attention to keeping bystanders safe, but it turns out this city's sewer system is pretty difficult to navigate!" He seemed to pose throughout his spiel, ending with some loud ass laughter.

"...Right..."

"Anyway, you were a big help, thank you!"

Y/n deadpanned at the blond in front of her. She was literally a victim. This dude needs some socializing classes, not that Y/n was any better herself but still.

"I've captured the evil-doer!" He held up the slime guy in a literal plastic bottle. Two fucking plastic bottles.

Y/n stayed silent. If all heroes were like this then society was doomed from the start. Or maybe this guy was just getting too old for this. She stood up and kept her gaze on the plastic bottles that All Might was fitting into his pockets. No way they were going to hold the thing.

"Welp, I've gotta get this guy to the police so they can take care of him." Does this guy ever not smile? "Stay out of trouble now! See you around!" He paused for a second. "I..." He trailed off, not sure how to start the conversation. When she raised an eyebrow at him, he quickly shook his head. "Nothing, have a good day!" He jumped off into the sky, not knowing he'd have to stop halfway due to the strain his body was being put under and end up losing the slime villain.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Today was just not Y/n's day.

She was just trying to deliver some baked goods when the route she was taking was blocked off by a villain. Only this time Y/n felt a pit in the bottom of her stomach, the sole reason being because it was the sludge villain that attacked her from a few hours earlier. If it was here then All Might lost him.

Y/n strained her ears and listened to the heroes up front shouting about there being a hostage in the sludge. Y/n frowned along with most of the crowd that had formed. They're pro heroes but none of them made the move to try and help the boy. Maybe they did earlier but stopped. Y/n had always thought heroes do whatever they can to help people, even if it meant putting themselves in danger.

Maybe she was wrong.

She heard the crowd question where All Might was. She thought these people depended on him too much.

Y/n glanced around and noticed a fire hydrant with a hose lying right by it. There weren't any firetrucks around so she assumed it had come from the fireman pro hero, and it looked like his hoses were attached to his body so Y/n wasn't completely sure if it broke off him or something of the sort. She stared at the fireman pro hero who was busy putting out the fires on the buildings along the street.

The girl wondered if they all went to U.A., and if they did then who the hell was teaching them hero skills, or as All Might would put it, "Justice-ing."

The sludge villain seemed to be on top of the end of the hose, and Y/n could only hope she was seeing it right. She backed away from the large group of bystanders and checked the backs of them, hoping to find some sort of wrench. There seemed to be a man with a tool box sitting by his feet, discarded in worry about the villain.

She set her deliveries on her bag and grabbed the tool box, moving back so he wouldn't see her stealing. She opened it and looked for a pipe wrench. It would be the only wrench that would most likely fit on the hydrant, even though the risk of damaging it was high, it was a risk that needed to be taken since no other hero would do it. She found one and jogged back to the hydrant, loosening the cap and setting it aside before fastening the hose on. She adjusted the wrench to grasp onto the top of the hydrants hexagon nut just enough for her to turn it as much as she could.

It hissed as the water shot into the hose, making it grow and quickly traveling to the sludge villain. He paused, seemingly confused and it took less than a minute for the water to become too much for the slime to handle and he yelled as his "body" swelled and exploded.

Y/n heard the crowd scream as she herself ducked to avoid as much of the sludge as possible, it probably wouldn't have been fun to clean out of your hair. The girl slowly stood up and noticed the villain was scattered across the whole area, including on the heroes, the boy it had taken hostage and the front part of the crowd. Murmurs arose from them as they looked around, confused. No new hero had run in, so who could it have been?

The water was still coming out of the water hose so Y/n strode away before someone connected the fact it has been her. She got a hold of her bag and deliveries, beginning to leave the scene. Before turning the corner she glanced back and met the eyes of that old man who's always sitting in the diner. He was staring at her dead in the eyes, that's when Y/n knew he'd been watching her the whole time. As the tired teen turned the corner, she huffed out a slight laugh at the fact he had looked like he caught sight of a ghost.

That was going to be a mess to deal with tomorrow.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n had just finished the deliveries when All Might popped out in front of her, smiling without a care in the world.. "I AM HERE!"

"Again?"

His laugh boomed throughout the street as he grinned at the female. It didn't last long as steam began coming from the hero's buff body. A poof later and All Might was gone, the scrawny diner man standing in place.

Y/n and the skeletal man stared at each other in silence for a long time.

"Heh!?"

The male coughed up some blood, and Y/n reached into her bag and pulled out a small pouch of tissues she carried around, tossing to the skeleton, who fumbled to catch it. "Thank you, young lady." He took one out and wiped the red liquid away. "I came here to thank you, Y/n, correct?"

Y/n just nodded. She was pretty sure this sight wasn't exactly meant for her.

"Aren't you surprised?" All Might questioned.

"Yeah, I am, I just don't really know what I'm supposed to say." What are you supposed to do when you find out the Number 1 Hero doesn't actually look like the media shows him?

The hero sighed and stepped closer to the girl "I'm counting on you to keep your mouth shut. Don't go talking about this online or telling your friends."

Y/n absentmindedly nodded. "Alright, I won't say anything, just don't start telling me your life story."

All Might ignored her and lifted the side of his shirt, exposing a horribly bruised crevice on his skin. Y/n made a face. "Pretty gross right? I got this in a big fight five years back. My respiratory system was basically destroyed, and I lost my whole stomach. All the surgeries have pretty much worn me out, and it can't be fixed." He let the shirt fall and cover the injury back up.

Y/n stayed silent. She felt sympathy for the guy. If the number 1 hero could have gotten to such a horrible state, it was only a matter of time before this hero job would kill him off.

"Right now I can only do hero work for about three hours a day. The rest of the time this is what I look like." He gestured to his worn out body.

"You've been like this for five years. How hasn't the public caught wind of this? You always seem to be in the spotlight."

"Most of the world don't know of the fight that caused this. I did everything I could to keep it under wraps." He scrunched his face up. "I'm supposed to be the guy that's always smiling right? I'm the symbol of peace, people everywhere have to think that I'm not afraid." He looked at his hands. "But honestly, I smile to hide the fear inside. It's just a brave face to put on when the pressure is high. This job isn't easy." He clenched his fist.

"Well it's not easy for you cause you look like you're on the brink of death." Y/n tightened her grip on her bag. "What're you planning on doing when you can't get out of bed one day? That'll probably be the last day you'll ever live."

All Might stared at her in surprise.

"What're you gonna do when you come across a villain you can't defeat? Look, I understand this hero thing can't be easy, but if you've known you're getting weaker, i'd suggest having an heir or training someone to take your place. That number 2 hero seems like a little too much of a douchebag to be kind to people like you are." The teen got ready to walk around him. "I'm not gonna say anything about this, simply because it's not really my business."

All Might grabbed her shoulder before she could go any further. "Please, you misunderstand. "I came here to thank you."

Y/n raised an eyebrow. "For what?"

"If you hadn't been there," he began, referring to the sludge villain she saved the boy from. "I don't know what would've happened. Nobody would have. I couldn't even do anything." He looked down in shame. "I was just a bystander like everyone else." He picked his head up. "When I saw this girl who I constantly saw save people, save someone she didn't know, it inspired me. There are stories about every hero, how they became great, most have one thing in common: their bodies moved before they had a chance to think. You acted like it was second nature to you."

Y/n took a step back. She wasn't sure if she liked where this was headed.

"YOU TOO, YOUNG L/N, CAN BE A HERO!"

"Heh!?"

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> I imagine Y/n to say "heh" similar to Technoblade, which lowkey inspired the whole fanfic

> Y/n has a pet raccoon

 

>LOVE METER<

N/A

Chapter 2: 𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚 𝙢𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙯𝙠𝙤

「ᵂᵃˢ ᴵ ᵐᵉᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ʰᵃᵖᵖʸ
ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐʸ ˡⁱᶠᵉ ʷᵃˢ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵗᵒ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉ?」

 

"I deem you worthy of my power. My quirk is yours to inherit."

"HEH!?" This time it came out louder than when it was previously said. Y/n stared at the man like he was going crazy. "What do you mean inherit? You can't inherit a quirk if it's not already in your bloodline I thought."

All Might laughed in the girl's face. At least this time his laugh was a lot tamer and didn't hurt the girl's ears. "You should see your face right now." He grinned and walked closer to the teen. "However, there are a couple of things you should know about my abilities. Journalists always guess my quirk is super strength or some kind of invulnerability. When people ask in interviews I always make a joke and dodge the question. That's because the world needs to believe their symbol of peace is just a natural born hero like any of them." He frowned. "But I'm not, there's nothing natural about my ability." All Might tilted his head back as he brought his bony arms up and spread them out. "I wasn't born with this power, it's a sacred torch that was passed onto me by someone else."

Y/n squinted her eyes. "Someone gave you this quirk?" She didn't think that could ever be possible.

"Yes, and you're next." The wind made the hero's loose shirt sway like a sheet on a clothesline as it moved just enough for the teen to get a glimpse of the scarring that looked uncannily similar to a flower. "I can give you my abilities." He finally dropped his arms. "This is just one asset of my secret abilities."

The blond held his left hand out, palm facing upwards right in font of his face. Y/n leaned back when a mysterious white glow came from it, highlighting both of their faces.

"The true name of my power," he began, "is One. For. All."

Y/n quietly repeated the name he told her.

"Yes. One person who uses the power, then hands it off to another person. It continues to grow as it's passed along. It is this cultivated power that allows me to save those in need of a hero." The shining glow died out as All Might closed his hand. "The truth behind my strength."

Y/n tilted her head to the side. "But why would you choose me of all people to give your quirk to? I'm not exactly the best at living up to things."

"Because I was on a long hunt for a worthy successor. I found someone."

Y/n was confused. "So why are you here now? What happened to this person?"

"Because it's you."

That was unexpected. Y/n's eyes widened. He wanted her to inherit his power?

"Young lady, would you like to accept my awesome power or not!?" If the hero had said that without blood spewing out of his mouth, then the female would have at least given it a second more thought.

"No."

Cue the choking. This time the blond stared like she was crazy. Him, the Number 1 Hero, was rejected? That was new. "Excuse me?"

"Earlier when I had laid into you about finding someone to take your place, that wasn't an invitation for it to be me." The teen enlightened him. "This might be hard to believe since I'm quirkless, but I don't exactly care about becoming a hero. It's not my thing. I've already decided what I want to do in the future."

At least All Might now had confirmation about her being quirkless. "I don't understand." He slumped over. "I watched you save that young man previously like it was nothing. Heroes save people."

"Just because I saved one person doesn't mean I want to be a hero."

Did this girl have any idea how weird she'd be considered for not wanting to be a hero? However, she was right, and he knew it.

The thing was, was that she clearly knew what she was doing, whether the girl was aware of it or not. Even before he had inherited the power, he remembered doing things without thinking too much of it at first, only dealing with consequences later. His thoughts were interrupted.

"Look, I won't tell anybody about this One For All," Y/n bowed to the man. "but I'm sorry, I can't...won't accept this."

Before the girl could walk past and leave, All Might dropped to his knees and bowed, placing his forehead on the ground. Desperate times call for desperate measures. "Please."

Y/n flinched back. "Oh, you're desperate-desperate." She tilted her head. "I'm sure almost every other quirkless person out there besides me would be willing to take this chance, hell, even those with quirks, don't waste it on me." The teen shifted around. "And get off the ground, it's weird."

All Might listened and got back on his shaky legs. "You don't understand. I've been observing you for a while now. True, at first I was inside the diner to pass my time, but I watch people. I watched you save those customers. You saved that woman from a horrible marriage, the old man who beat cancer, the other pink haired girl from giving up on her inventions, and that young boy with the dog."

Y/n stared at the man.

"That's what you do. You save people." He informed her gently. "I believe you can change the world Y/n."

It was silent between the two for a couple minutes, before the girl broke it.

"So...you've been observing me for this?"

"Yes." The blond nodded.

"Oh..." She trailed off, as if she suddenly had the answers to life. She looked at him, almost sheepishly. "I thought you were trying to catch a case."

Toshinori coughed violently, not expecting such words to come from her. "Excuse me?"

Y/n shrugged like it was obvious. "What would you think if you were a teenage girl and there was an old scrawny man watching you all day every day? I'm pretty sure my boss was ready to confront you."

He truly hadn't realized how creepy he had come off. He'd need to apologize for making anyone uncomfortable. "Sorry."

"It's alright, at least I know you're not a pervert...Alright. I'll do this Quirk thing, but don't expect me to be a saint. I'm doing this to fix society." Y/n felt a spark reignite inside of her. All this time, she thought she had failed Himiko. Now she had a chance to keep her promise and make things right.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

A couple days later, the mentor and apprentice were at the Dagoba Municipal Beach Park at the crack of dawn.

Y/n sighed in exasperation when the fridge she was roped to didn't move much. She winced from the pressure and the marks the rope on her shoulder would leave, making her sore.

"Hey, hey, hey!" All Might, who was in his buff form sat on top of said fridge, called out to the girl. "It's pretty comfy up on this fridge, how are you doing down there?" Y/n wasn't sure if he was trying to tease her or not but she stopped struggling to set on her knees. "People move these everyday you know? And most of them don't even have any super strength."

Y/n twisted her body to glare at the hero. "I'm pretty sure they don't have a 600 pound geezer on top of their refrigerator."

All Might looked away like he didn't have a care in the world. "Nah, I've lost weight. I'm down to 560 these days, in this form at least."

"Yeah, that's so much better." The teen sighed as she watched her raccoon, Meeko, amble by her and jump beside the bulky male. "Why am I dragging trash again?"

All Might boomed with laughter. "You are strong for someone of your age and stature, as well as quirk status, but you need to make sure you're even stronger to be able to hold my One For All."

"I fight until I drop, how much stronger do I need to be?"

"The combined physical abilities of everyone who ever used it creates a hurricane of pure force. An unprepared body can't fully inherit it. There's a big risk of your arms and legs shooting off if you tried to use it."

Y/n studied the male, unamusement clouding her face. She really needed to go in-depth on stuff before blindly agreeing. "So this is just an extreme workout."

He nodded, giving her a thumbs up. "There's another reason too. I've done a little online research yesterday, turns out this part of the beach used to be beautiful, but it's been a total mess for the last few years." He chipped part of the fridge away with his first. Meeko jumped off and ran to his owner, who stood up to show she was listening and looked around.

"I think it's cause of the ocean currents. Anything that falls in ends up here. Perfect for illegal dumping."

"Heroes these days are all about capturing thugs and flashy villains." All Might began crushing the cold storage down. "things were different before quirks. Service is what mattered. Back then heroes were those that helped the community. Even if it was kinda boring." The fridge exploded from the pressure and Y/n ducked so none of the fragments would hit her. "You'll restore the coastline for this entire section of the beach. This is the first step towards being a hero."

"Is it even possible to do this in the 10 months before the entrance exam for that hero school?"

"U.A is the hardest hero school to get into, but with me training you, I know this can be done in no time!" He spun around holding papers that appeared out of nowhere and waved them around. "I've prepared this Aim to Pass American Dream Plan! Follow this to the letter and this beach will be cleaned up just in time. I also detailed every other aspect of your life while I was at it."

Y/n took it and began looking through it. "I have a sleep schedule now?"

All Might leaned in close and whispered loudly. "If I'm going to be honest it's going to be very hard. Think you're up to it?"

"I suppose I could give it a try."

"That's the spirit!"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

The next 10 months were literal hell but Y/n pushed through.

She kept her job, but All Might heavily encouraged her to take more time off for sleeping and training.

He was right on time passing by quickly. The only problem was the sleep schedule. Every since she could remember, she's always had trouble sleeping no matter what. Melatonin did work at times, but not for long as sleep would be interrupted by nightmares of all kinds.

This a long with the training would eventually take a toll on the teen's body as she was carrying a safe running alongside her scrawny mentor who was riding a Segway.

Y/n panted as she watched her vision double and get blurrier as the distance between her and All Might grew longer. She dropped to the ground and heaved, feeling like her breakfast was ready to come back up.

All Might stopped when he heard the thump and looked back, sighing. "Hey kid, look alive. You only got three months left. Are you gonna give up after all this effort put in. You told me you'd try but we haven't even gotten to that part yet." All Might's eyes widened as the girl shakily looked up at him.

"I'm tired."

Finally, the man realized how much darker the eye bags under her eyes have gotten. He's only ever seen them this bad on the one man who doesn't seem to like him very much.

"I know I'm strong enough for this. I'm not trying to give up. I just can't sleep."

All Might almost forgot that all bodies don't function the shame. A girl with minimal sleep suddenly getting thrown into training different from what she knows would take a huge toll. He needs to find a different strategy for that. Maybe it was time to look into his old mentor's strategy. All Might buffed up and grabbed the female like a mom cat carrying her cub. "Fear not young L/n, this old man can get you back on track."

From then on All Might had periodically added in little sections of rest to make up for the sleep getting missed, and it helped Y/n a lot in the last three months.

When February 26 came and the morning of the exam, All Might showed up to the beach ready to pass down his power. Walking down the stairs to the sand part of the beach, he saw his apprentice sitting on top of garbage piled up before looking around, realizing she cleaned outside when she needed too.

He ran over and caught the teen as she tried climbing down but slipped. "Please tell me this was it."

All Might chuckled before setting Y/n down. "You did it young lady. I have to say, I'm impressed. I knew you had it in you but this is beyond." He opened his arms. "There's still a long road ahead for you to inherit my full power set, but it's starting to look like you can do it." He grinned even wider and set his hand on her upper back. "And now for your reward, L/n Y/n," The female watched as he reached up and pulled a strand of his hair out. "Someone told me this once: there's a difference of being lucky and deserving, one an accident and the other a reward, never get the two confused. Take that to heart, young one. This gift, you earned it with your own valuable efforts."

Y/n couldn't stop a smile to slowly spread on her face. It genuinely felt nice when someone cared about you. She almost thought she was going to cry.

"Eat this."

And the smile was instantly gone.

"Heh?" She couldn't even be mad, just confused.

All Might grew bashful and rubbed the back of his head. "To inherit my power you have to swallow some of my DNA, that's how it works."

"Please don't go around saying that to other people." Y/n picked it with her fingers with a lot of her hate suddenly coming back to this man. "I hope you know I hate you."

"Come on, we'll be late for the exam! EAT! EAT! EAT!"

The ride to U.A was tense. Occasionally, All Might would glance over to the girl, silently hoping she would say something. She didn't and just kept sipping her energy drink.

"Can you tell me what I exactly have to fight there?"

Toshinori jumped. She sounded almost too calm, and it scared him. "It changes every year."

"I don't believe that but okay, I'll let you keep that secret." She quietly laughed. "Can you at least tell me if they'll take rescue points."

The blond hummed in thought. "What exactly would happen if I choose not to answer?"

"I'll jump out of the car-"

"-There are." He answered quickly. These past ten months have taught him to not test whether or not Y/n would do something or not.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Due to traffic, Y/n just barely made it to U.A with All Might promising to take the girl out for some food afterwards, saying she deserves it no matter what happens. Y/n couldn't deny that the hero has grown on her, he was the only adult figure in her life at the moment. Her father was dead and her mom was always out of the house for work, Y/n couldn't even remember the last time she was home.

Y/n heard a squeak and reached her arms out to catch the girl that tripped on her feet. It was a short girl with pale skin and shoulder length auburn hair that matched her eyes. The girl looked up at Y/n and gave her a nervous smile as the e/c eyed female stood her straight. "Are you alright?"

The brown haired girl perked up when the question was asked, she must have been worried Y/n would have yelled at her. "I'm okay, thank you!" A light blush spread over her already prominent one as she rubbed the back of her neck. "It would have been extremely embarrassing to trip on exam day."

Y/n chose not to comment on the fact the girl already tripped, she just didn't hit the ground, and instead nodded.

The short girl clasped her hands together. "Isn't this all nerve wracking?" She didn't wait for an answer as she continued. "Well I guess I'll see you inside, thank you again."

Y/n gave a slight nod as she watched the girl skip away.

In orientation in the gym, Y/n made sure to choose a seat near the back and in one of the middle seats so she wouldn't be in anybody's way when it was time to go to the arena. The spokesperson was some guy with yellow hair that was spiked up, and he spoke in a loud voice without a microphone Y/n was content with her choice of sitting in the back.

"What's up U.A candidates? Thanks for tuning into me, your school DJ. Come on and let me hear ya!"

Crickets.

"Keepin' it mellow huh? That's fine I'll skip straight to the main show. Let's talk about how the practical exams are gonna go down, okay? Are you ready!?"\

More crickets.

"Like you're application said, today you rockin' boys n' girls will be out there conducting two mock battles in suburban settings." The screen behind him showcases all the different arenas with the letters A through G. He said something about being assigned to the different arenas as Y/n checked her own card with the letter B. The man then went on to talk about how the points and scores worked as someone stood and raised his hand, interrupting the speaker.

"Excuse me, on the printout, you've listed four types of villains instead of three. With all respect, if this is an error on official U.A materials, it is shameful." He scolded. "We are exemplary students, we expect the best from Japan's most notable school. A mistake such as this won't do."

Y/n eyed him up and down. At least give the dude time to finish talking before interrupting.

The yellow haired man didn't take it offensively. "Alright, examinee number 7111 thanks for callin' in with your request." He gave a thumbs up. "The fourth villain type is worth 0 points. That guy's just an obstacle we'll be throwing in your way. There's one in every battle center, think of it an a hurdle you should try to avoid. I recommend my listeners try to ignore it and focus on the important ones!"

The boy who interrupted thanked him and bowed before taking his seat.

"That's all I got for you today, I sign off with a little present: a sample of our school motto. As general Napoleon Bonaparte was laid down: A true hero is one who overcomes life's misfortunes. Now that's a tasty soundbite. You ready to go beyond? Let's hear a plus ultra!"

Even more crickets.

"Good luck! Hope you practiced for than hitting just books!"

Y/n stood outside Battle Center B as she waited along with the group for the doors to open. She glanced around and noticed the bubble faced girl she caught earlier, as well as the boy who interrupted the speaker. This wasn't going to be fun.

"Right, let's start!" Everyone's attention was diverted to the loud voice of the presenter who was standing on a large building as the enormous doors opened. "Get moving! There are no countdowns in real battles! Run run run listeners! Your wasting airtime here!"

By the time Y/n diverted her attention away from the man, she noticed all the other contestants were past the doors. She threw her head back groaning before running after them inside. After Y/n unenthusiastically swallowing the strand of hair, All Might went on to talk about how her body would take some time to process it. He told her to be careful when using the quirk for the first time and be prepared for the harsh backlash her body would suffer. Such words did nothing to quell the uneasiness stirring inside the teen.

Right before the girl could go any further her path was interrupted by a 1-pointer smashing through a building wall. It swung one of its limbs at the female who swiftly ducked it and grabbed the skinniest part of its "arm" propelling herself up onto its backside. She reached into the pocket on her tracksuit pants and gripped her new switchblade and stabbed it into the laser eye of the robot. It spurred roughly, knocking the girl onto the ground before falling over itself. Y/n jumped up and raced further into the city, this time saving people who almost got hit by fallen debris.

Y/n's attention was taken by the auburn haired girl she helped at the entrance of the exam hall. She touched four different pointer robots, proceeding to make them gravitate. The short haired girl scrunched her face as she touched the tips of her fingers together and shouted "release." The machine promptly fell to the ground, busting from the impact. Must be some sort of gravity quirk.

A few more minutes went on before a loud rumble kicking up dust caught everyone's attention. It was a massive 0-pointer that was as tall as the building surrounding it. It knocked its arm into one of the structures and brought one of its limbs down on the road. The impact, similar to a meteor, knocked people back a good ways.

Everyone began running farther away from the robot to go find somewhere else to gain points. Y/n paused when she heard a scream from behind. Turning her head she recognized the gravity girl had her legs trapped under some leftover rubble. There was a risk of that machine potentially killing her.

Heroes don't always make it in time.

Y/n ran towards the two and clenched her muscles, feeling the power of One For All surge through her veins. She clenched her fists as the sleeves on her tracksuit ripped. Jumping, she followed a good majority of All Might's instructions for her (minus the yelling "smash" cause no way she was going to do that) and slammed her fist into the "face" of the huge robot, creating enough force to knock it back and explode in some places, while the short haired girl watched, amazed.

In the room of teachers watching everything go down, All Might smiled, proud for the young girl.

While Y/n did destroy the machine and save the other girl, now her arm and legs were broken and she had no way of landing safely. Thankfully she was still near the gravity girl when she fell, meaning she used the rest of her strength to touch Y/n's face right before she hit the ground, using her quirk to slowly set the both of them down.

Y/n groaned slightly as the sun shone brightly in her eyes, listening as the girl right beside her threw up from overusing her quirk no doubt. She chose to close her eyes as she heard the other mumble about her. The pain was excruciating, but not enough to make her pass out surprisingly.

She heard footsteps and a stick come closer to her.

"Oh my goodness, you were hurt this badly by your quirk sweetie?" It sounded like a elderly lady. Y/n kept her eyes closed, not wanting to explain why she could barely handle her quirk.

Y/n felt a light pressure on the top of her forehead. Suddenly, her three broken limbs set themselves straight and mostly stopped hurting. Now there was just a slight ache, like she finished moving boxes.

This could not become a regular thing

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.
A week later Y/n was sitting on her couch reading manga when Meeko trotted up to her, letter in mouth. Y/n frowned and grabbed it. The red seal on it had U.A engraved on it with the bottom corner reading 'U.A High School.' Meeko crawled onto the couch and placed his head on Y/n's thigh, watching her.

Y/n picked the seal off and turned the envelope upside down, catching a disk in her palm. She leaned forward and placed it on the coffee table as a hologram of All Might popped up. "Booyah, I am here, as a projection now! I know it's been a while but with great power comes a great amount of paperwork!" He coughed into his hand, luckily no blood came out. He bowed. "My apologies young lady. The truth is, I didn't come to this city just to fight villains, you're looking at the newest U.A faculty member!"

Y/n shared a look with Meeko as All Might spoke to someone off-screen.

"So, moving on. While you passed the written exam, you got 1 combat point in the practical exam. Sorry."

Y/n raised her eyebrows uninterested, she knew he had more to say.

"Fortunately, there were other factors. But before we get to that I have another surprise! Here!" He used a remote to turn on the screen next to him. "A short clip for your viewing pleasure!"

The short girl with the gravity quirk walked inside a room. "Um, do you have a sec? Sorry to interrupt."

"She showed up after the exam to talk about you young lady." All Might chimed in. "What does she have to say? You'll have to stay tuned in to find out." He pressed play again.

The girl walked up to the presenter from earlier. "Do you know that girl with the pink and h/c hair and e/c eyes, she's pretty and tall, she looks a bit intimidating. I was wondering, would it be possible to give her some of the points I earned in the exam? She would have had a better score if she hadn't stopped to help me." The brown haired female closed her eyes. "She saved me, I have to make it up to her!"

That had Y/n reeling back in surprise. Not a lot of people describe her in such a way. She had been usually called intimidating, but only Himiko called her pretty, besides her dad, but that was when she was smaller and it was only a purely platonic family way. No one had ever spoken about her in such a positive way besides All Might, but that was when he got to know the girl and her mannerisms. This girl didn't know anything about Y/n, yet she spoke so highly of her. Y/n felt her lip quivering and bit it to stop it.

All Might's voice came through again. "You have a quirk now yes, but it's your actions that inspire others. I hope you understand why I chose you from the beginning now." He let the video continue. Y/n huffed slightly to make herself relax.

The presenter spoke to the short girl. "Thanks for showing up the the station with your request," He patted her head. "But there's no reason to give her your points. The kid did well on her own."

All Might blocked the TV. "How could a hero course reject someone who is committed to saving others no matter the consequences. After all, that is what makes a hero, and that's what my alma mater is all about, training those who will risk there lives for the greater good. That's why we have rescue points!"

The hologram showed Y/n's ranking on the board along with her scoring.

NO. 4, Villain: 1, Rescue: 70.

"Yamiko Y/n: 70 rescue points! Uraraka Ochaco: 45 rescue points!" All Might turned back. "You both passed the exams." The hero extended his hand, as if waiting for Y/n to grab it. "Welcome, Y/n. You have made it. You're now part of the hero academia."

Y/n sat back, as the hologram disappeared, finally letting her tears fall. She always felt better crying when no one could see her. She hiccuped and buried her face in her hands. She couldn't remember the last time someone had praised her so much, or given any thought to her accomplishments. It felt really nice.

Y/n was too busy tiring herself out by crying to realize All Might said Yamiko instead of L/n.

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> The platonic trope between All Might and Y/n is cheerful mentor + grumpy apprentice
> Y/n chose photography as a future career path
> Originally the Raccoon's name was going to be Tommy or Joel
> Y/n is 5'8
> Y/n official last name on paper is Yamiko but she goes by L/n
> Y/n thought Uraraka was very pretty

 

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Chapter 3: 𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞 𝙛𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞

「ⁱᵗ’ˢ ʷʰᵃᵗ ⁱ ᵈᵒ
ⁱ ʷᵃⁱᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘ」

Y/n looked away from the Siberian Husky being walked by its owner from across the street, turning her attention to the woman in front of her.

She was beautiful, fair-skinned with black hair that was a half-up-half-down bun, with the excess reaching her shoulders, and a small mole below her bottom lip. She wore a dark body suit with a white cape. She had a light pink aura to her, but the teen brushed it off, thinking it had to do with her quirk.

Y/n awkwardly stirred her tea, trying to decide how to proceed. She faintly heard the sound of music playing outside of the cafe they sat at.

The lady had the courage to speak up first. "You're having trouble with One for All, is that right?"

The teen's eyes widened as she snapped her head up away from her cup. "Uhh..."

"I trained Toshinori." She clarified.

"Oh. Then yes." She winced slightly as she remembered how much pain her limbs had been in, even when Recovery Girl had healed the injuries, they still felt wobbly and numb. She had just been waiting for her legs to give out from under her. "I didn't think the effects were going to be that bad."

"Your body needs time to get used to it. Acting too reckless can get you killed."

"But not acting quick enough will also get me killed." Y/n countered. "If I don't get control over it then nothing's stopping villains from killing me. They won't care I'm not an adult."

The woman nodded, knowing it was true. "That's why as you learn, you will have help to manage the quirk. Have you filled out your paper for your costume?"

Y/n hummed slightly. "Not really. I don't know what to make my costume look like. I was just gonna leave it up to the Support Course. Mei's was accepted there and she knows my style."

"Whatever you do, just make sure to request the fabric to be durable. Quirks get stronger all the time and you want your costume to last. But what I'm talking about is bracers of some sort. Special soles that can aid kicks, gauntlets that help with punches. It won't magically help everything, but it can stabilize and help you limit yourself. It will also stop you from getting one punch in before having to bow out of fights."

The girl tried to remember the key words. She reached for her phone to put the idea in her notes app but paused when she saw the time.

72:97.

Her eyes narrowed in confusion. Looking back up at the black haired woman, the seat was empty. She was gone.

The cafe music stopped.

Looking around, everyone else had frozen in time except her.

Before she could do anything else, something grabbed the back of her shirt and tanked her back roughly.

Y/n took in a deep breath, her eyes snapping open and jolting upright.

Her coworker, Nikki, flinched back slightly. She gazed at Y/n cautiously. "Are you okay? You slept past your break time." It was rare for Y/n to brush off work purposely, so she forgot to set an alarm or had a nightmare. Either way, Nikki thought it best for the teen to have extra sleep.

The girl slowly looked around, like she wasn't sure where she was. "...I'm okay, sorry." She stood, tying her apron around her waist. Before she left the back room, she turned her attention back to the soft-spoken blonde. "Hey, you're usually pretty smart when it comes to dreams. How do you know if your dreaming?"

Nikki didn't even have to think, she already had her answer. "The main thing is you never know how dreams start, almost like you joined halfway but know what's going on. If something impossible happens then that's also a good telling."

Y/n hummed, trying to think of her conversation with that woman. All she remembered was talking with the woman, but the teen's certain she'd never see her a day in her life. She glanced at the clock on the wall, noting it had the correct time. She thanked her coworker before pulling out her notepad as she slowly walked off, writing down the words 'soles and gauntlets.' She hoped she'd remember to bring it up to somebody.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.'

In a special room, watching over the examinees, the teachers discussed what happened.

"Wow, the first place student didn't even have rescue points."

"He took down those foe villains like an ace. While most of the other examinees were running from the big obstacles, he stayed focused on letting the smaller targets get in close and then counterattacking. That kid is tough."

"On the opposite end, the fourth place student had only 1 villain point."

"Not the first U.A hopeful to take on that giant robot, but it's been a while since I've seen someone blow it away with one attack."

"But at what cost, did you see how badly she injured herself? If you ask me it's like her body isn't used to her quirk."

As the others talked, All Might couldn't help but focus on the last name that was displayed by Y/n. Yamiko?

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.'

The night after learning she was accepted into U.A, Y/n and Meeko walked down to the beach where All Might had asked to meet her. He was of course, in his small form as she approached the man.

He smiled. "Congrats on getting in." He patted her head.

"Well, you helped with a lot too."

"Speaking of which, I didn't tell anybody at U.A I was training you or anything."

Y/n raised her eyebrows.

"Really, I wasn't any of the judges or pulled any strings. I was merely observing. You earned that spot all on your own."

Y/n nodded. "Thanks for telling me, it does make me feel a bit better." She leaned down as Meeko clawed his way up onto her head. "I was surprised to learn you were going to be a teacher suddenly."

Toshinori walked a bit closer to the ocean's water. "School didn't want me telling anybody until they made an official announcement. It seemed like fortuitous timing, an easy way to find someone new for One For All."

Y/n stepped up by his side. "I wasn't expecting the quirk to shatter my bones like they did. How long is it gonna take before my body gets used to it like you?"

"You'll learn to manage it in time, as long as you keep using it." He turned his head to look down at her. "I know you may not like the feeling, but it's vital for your body to get used to it."

"Yeah." Y/n mumbled. A second passed before her eyes widened. She frowned and punched his shoulder. "You knew that was gonna happen!?"

All Might flinched back, sweat dropping. "Well, we were in a time crunch, but it turned out alright." Before he could keep getting yelled at he continued quickly. "At least now you know what you're dealing with." He bent down and picked up some gas cans. "Right now your quirk is either all or nothing. One day, you'll learn how to control your output. Then you'll be able to adjust how much power your using."

"Control's the biggest factor?"

"You're overflowing at the moment. With training your body will hold it better." He crushed the cans as he buffed up. "Then it's your to command!"

Y/n pursed her lips, nodding in understanding as a couple standing under a gazebo shouted in joy at an All Might sighting.

The blond pivoted and began running in the opposite direction. "Right! Now we run! Come young Y/n, after I have something I wish to discuss with you!"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.'

In the diner, Y/n pushed her tamagoyaki around as she debated how to tell All Might the answer he was looking for. When he said he wanted to talk about something, she wasn't expecting him to question her about her last name. She figured she owed it to him considering he trusted her with such a heavy secret.

"On documents my last name is Yamiko which is my mother's last name." The girl began. "But I usually tell people my last name is L/n. L/n is my father's last name. I got along with him a lot better."

Toshinori listened intently.

"Before I turned five my mother took me to the doctors since I hadn't gained a quirk yet, and of course I was told there wouldn't be any chance of me getting one, to let whatever hope was fading go." The teen glanced out the window, staring at the vehicles driving by. "Obviously she didn't like it, but I don't really think she liked me all that much before."

Toshinori tightened his grip on his mug. No matter what quirk status your child has, there's no excuse for neglecting your child for any reason. Especially when they're too young to know what they did wrong.

"So now she's always out of the house working. I don't know what she does for work. Honestly the last time she spent a night in the house was five years ago, so I stopped caring."

"What about your dad?" Toshinori watched a spark of life come to the girls eyes, almost unnoticeable.

"He was a pro hero in America. He was number five in the ranks. His quirk was teleportation, and he was known as Warpstride."

The male's eyes widened. "I remember him. He was a duo with Metronome, who could control time. He told reporters he was going into an early retirement, but then he was ambushed by villains...' He trailed off, everything making sense.

The life dimmed again. "Yup. So I've been stuck here for the years. That's why I was okay with not becoming a hero. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder just because I save a few people." The girl took a sip of her drink. "It doesn't matter anyway. I'm gonna stay either way." She looked into the shadowed eyes of her mentor. "I never thanked you. During the ten months you trained me it felt like you genuinely cared about me. I don't know if it's just wishful hoping or not but it felt like you and that girl from the exams really saw me even though you didn't know me."

Toshinori gave the teen a caring smile. "I do care about you. If I didn't I wouldn't have learned everything I did about you, or treated you when I could."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.'

Finally April was here and it was the first day of U.A. As Y/n put food in Meeko's bowl, she made sure to leave extra to tie him over for lunch until she got back home. Hopefully the fatass didn't consume it all in one sitting.

She slipped her blazer on but made no move to button it up. From everything she's seen, they're not too strict on the uniforms, so the teen kept her f/c boots and jewelry. Grabbing her bag, Y/n pet the top of Meeko's head and walked out of the house, locking the door behind her before beginning the short journey.

Stopping by an intersection, the teen waited for the pedestrian walking signal to appear with a small group of people, mostly adults. Y/n glanced to her right and saw a man wearing a yellow sleeping bag with his head just barely sticking out. His hair was messy and black, covering a good portion of his face, and the skin that was visible had stubble. Not to mention the dark eyebags.

Right before the crosswalk signal turned green, Y/n reached into her bag and pulled out a cherry flavored jelly packet and 1000 yen, extending her hand out to the man. He met her gaze, looking between her and her hand for a few moments before sticking his own hand out of the colorful cocoon and taking them, not saying anything. Y/n bowed her head before following the crowd across the street.

It felt like Y/n had been walking forever by the time she finally made it to U.A and found her classroom. She hadn't been expecting the door to be as big as it was. Y/n slid open the door and was immediately greeted with the male from the entrance exams yelling at someone.

"Take your feet off that desk now!" He scolded a spiky haired blond.

The male sneered. "Huh?"

"It's the first day and you're already disrespecting this academy by scuffing school property you cretin!"

Cretin? That's a new one.

"You're kidding me right? You're old school put a stick up your ass? Or were you born with it?"

Y/n silently sighed and counted her days if this was what she was gonna be stuck with for a while.

The male wearing glasses seemed to think over his next words as his speech calmed down. "Let's start over, I'm Iida Tenya from the Somei Private Academy." His hope to start again on good terms with his new classmate went down the drain and the other male opened his mouth.

"Somei huh? So you must think you're better than me. I'm gonna have fun tearing you a new one."

The blue haired male flinched back, appalled. "You would threaten me? Your own classmate? Are you sure you're in the right place?"

Before their conversation could continue, they both caught sight of the h/c and pink haired female standing in the doorway, watching them.

"It's her." The blue eyed male spoke, causing the rest of the students who were in their seats already to turn to look at the girl as well.

Y/n narrowed her eyes at the attention. She hadn't been expecting to be put in the spotlight so early.

"Good morning." The glasses guy robotically walked towards her. "My name is Iida Tenya-"

Y/n waved her hand to stop him. "Yeah, I heard you already don't worry about it. I'm L/n Y/n."

"L/n." Iida began. "You realized there was something more to the practical exam, didn't you?" He closed his eyes. "You must be very perceptive. I admit, as a student, you're far superior to me." He looked so downtrodden when he finished it surprise Y/n. She briefly wondered if he had that she wasn't good enough to be here.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a voice speaking behind. "Hey I recognize that height and hair!" Confused, Y/n turned around to see the auburn haired girl staring at her with a wide smile. "Falling girl!" Y/n snorted at the nickname, ignoring the smile threatening to tug on her lips at the nice girl. "I never got to thank you for what you did, and that punch was amazing!" She did her best to mimic it. "I'm Uraraka Ochaco!"

"It's alright." Y/n chose to not mention her learning what the short haired girl said about her, wanting to keep the secret for herself. "L/n Y/n, but you can use Y/n, I'm not big on last names."

Uraraka gave her a closed eye smile before they were interrupted.

"If you're just here to make friends, then you can pack up your stuff now."

Y/n leaned her body to the side as Uraraka slowly spun around, looking at a familiar man lying in a sleeping bag. "Son of a bitch." Y/n mumbled, realizing what she did.

"Welcome to U.A's hero course." The man unzipped his cocoon slightly to slurp at the jelly packet Y/n had gifted him earlier. The class watched in horror as the black haired adult stood up and slipped out of the fabric wrapping. "It took you all 8 seconds to shut up, that's not gonna work. Time is precious. Rational students would understand that." His eyes found Y/n's own. "Also Yamiko, just because you gave me a jelly packet and 1000 yen doesn't give you permission to curse."

Y/n bit her tongue to stop herself from making a remark back as he looked towards the rest of the class.

"Hello, I'm Aizawa Shota. Your teacher." He reached inside his sleeping bag and pulled out training uniforms. "Let's get to it, put these on and head outside."

As the adult walked away, Uraraka looked at Y/n. "You gave him two dollars?"

"I thought he was homeless." The girl shrugged, ignoring the shorter girl biting her lip to stop herself from laughing.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.'

After changing in the locker rooms, the class stood outside on a field with the teacher in front.

"What? A quirk assessment test!?" The majority of the class exclaimed.

"But orientation," Uraraka spoke in her spot next to Y/n. "We're gonna miss it."

"If you really wanna make the big leagues, you can't waste time on pointless ceremonies. Here at U.A, we're not tethered to traditions, that means I get to run my class however I see fit. You've been taking standardized tests most of your lives, but you never got to use your quirks in physical exams before. The country still tries to pretend we're all equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day the ministry of education will learn."

He looked towards the spiky hair blond that got into it with Iida. "Bakugo, you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam. What was you farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in junior high?"

"67 meters, I think."

"Right. Try doing it with your quirk." He tossed Bakugo a ball and instructed him to stand inside the white lined circle. "Anything goes just stay in the circle. Go on, you're wasting our time."

Bakugo stretched his limbs out. "Alright man, you asked for it." As he launched his dominant hand forward, a huge explosion came out, propelling the ball high into the sky. "DIE!"

"All of you need to know your maximum capabilities." Aizawa held out a digital meter that read his score. 705.2 meters. "It's the most rational way of knowing your full potential as a pro hero."

The class gasped in surprise as some began talking about how it was cool and how fun it looked.

"So this looks fun huh? You have 3 years here to become a hero. You think it's all gonna be games and playtime? Idiots." Aizawa smirked. "Today you'll compete in 8 physical tests to gauge your potential, who ever comes in last has none and will be expelled immediately."

Uraraka frowned. "You can't send one of us home! I mean we just got here. Even if it wasn't the first day, that isn't fair!"

Y/n gently nudged the short girl with her elbow. This dude was a teacher you shouldn't try to talk back to, unless you knew what you were doing.

"Oh and you think natural disasters are? Or power hungry villains? Or catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities? No. The world is full of unfairness, it's a hero's job to try and combat that unfairness. If you wanna be a pro, you're gonna have to push yourself to the brink. For the next 3 years U.A 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 tests began.

Test 1: 50-meter dash - 5.48 seconds

Test 2: Grip Strength - 260 kg

Test 3: Standing Long Jump - Landed in sandbox

Test 4: Repeated Side Steps - ???

Y/n held the softball in her hands. She figured this is where she could finally use her quirk to get a decent score around Bakugo's. Clenching her muscles, Y/n threw the ball with a good amount of force. It only went 60 meters. Y/n stood straight, confused.

"I erased your quirk." Aizawa's voice reached her ears. The girl turned to look at her teacher who's eyes were now red with his scarf and hair defying gravity. "The judges for this exam were not rational enough. Someone like you should never be allowed to enroll in this school."

Y/n ignored his first sentence and scowled at the man.

"You're not ready. You don't have control of your power. Were you planning to break your bones again? Counting on someone else to save your useless body?" He didn't wait for an answer as he wrapped his scarf around her and pulled her in close. "No matter what your intentions are, you would be nothing more than a liability in battle. You have the same reckless passion as another overzealous hero I know. One who saved a thousand people by himself and became a legend."

His eyes glanced to the side and it didn't take a genius to know who he was referring to. "You're worthless if you can only throw a single punch before breaking down. Sorry Yamiko, with your power, there's no way you can become a hero."

Y/n locked her jaw as she gripped Aizawa's scarf, glaring at him intensely, matching his harsh voice. "It's L/n, and you don't know anything about me or my quirk," her grip tightened on the fabric. "Even if I don't use my quirk, you know damn well my score is enough to pass. Give me the fucking ball, and let me throw again."

Aizawa stared at her silently before letting his scarf and hair fall. He took a step back and tossed her another ball.

This time when Y/n used her quirk she did her best to focus on sending the power to her finger only, like All Might instructed her to do.

Test 5: Ball Throw - 705.3 meters

Y/n shoved her hand with her now broken finger in her pocket so Aizawa didn't see it. Her gaze moved to her teacher who was grinning like a madman. "This kid."

Uraraka cheered. "Nice! She's finally showing us her true power!"

"Who ever's next can step up." Aizawa had the class continue.

The auburn haired female edged closer to Y/n. "Is your finger okay? It looked broken."

Y/n quickly nodded, glancing at the teacher to make sure he hadn't heard. For the 3 remaining tests, sit-ups, seated toe-touch, and the long-distance run, Y/n placed well on them, pushing past the throbbing ache in her finger.

At the end everyone gathered around to find out their scoring. "Alright time to give you your results. I've ranked you all from best to worse, you should probably have a good idea of your standing already. I'll just pull up the whole list, it's not worth going over each individual score."

16. Yamiko Y/n

17. Kaminari Denki

18. Jirou Kyoka

19. Hagakure Toru

20. Mineta Minoru

Before anyone could freak out, Aizawa turned off the hologram that was showcasing their scores. "And I was lying, no one's going home." The class stared in disbelief as he grinned maniacally. "That was just a rational deception to make sure you gave it your all in the tests."

The class yelled as a girl the same height as Y/n looked at them. "I'm surprised the rest of you didn't figure that out. I'm sorry I guess I should've said something." The class stared at her silently.

Y/n had a feeling this guy would have expelled someone if they had done any worse, but chose to ignore that. Instead she leaned a bit towards the tall girl in a ponytail. "Well, if you did they wouldn't have given it their all." She teased.

The black haired female met her look and gave a tiny smile back. "You're right." As Aizawa said something else the female introduced herself. "I'm Yaoyorozu Momo."

"L/n Y/n, just call me Y/n."

Yaoyorozu looked confused. "Then you may call me Momo, but I'm puzzled, Mr. Aizawa referred to you as Yamiko, as well as the name on the scoreboard."

Y/n winced but her attention was drawn away by Aizawa walking up to her with a note to the nurse. "L/n, take this and go have the old lady fix you up." He slinked off.

Y/n turned her attention back to Momo. "Only Yamiko on paper. Excuse me."

Y/n hadn't started at the bottom, but that was because a majority of her skill was from strength she already had before the quirk. She still had a ways to go before being able to work her way up.

Sluggishly beginning her journey back home after the nurse visit with a lollipop in her mouth, the girl was stopped by a hand on her shoulder. Turning she realized it was that Iida guy. "Oh hey."

"How's the broken finger doing?"

Y/n showed him the bandaged digit. "Recovery Girl made it mostly better." They both moved to continue the trek home. Despite how tired she was, Y/n had work still. It's not going to wait just because she had school.

"I was a bit concerned about Mr. Aizawa's approach to class," Iida started. "But I trust the school's judgement. U.A is the top program." Iida crossed his arms. "Even so, lying is downright immoral." This dude was serious about school like no other.

It was respectable.

"Hey!"

Y/n and Iida both looked back at the voice to see Uraraka running towards the 2 with Momo trailing behind.

"Wait up you two! Are you going to the station? We'll join you guys."

"Oh you're the infinity girl." Iida spoke, before nodding in greeting to Momo. "And you came in first on the board."

"I'm Uraraka Ochaco." She grinned. "this is Yaoyorozu Momo, and you're Iida Tenya right?"

The blue hair boy nodded.

"You and Yaoyorozu were both amazing in the exam. Your quirks are cool too!" She turned her attention to the tall girl in front of her. "I'm sorry if I come off as pushy, but I have a question."

"About my last name right?" Y/n guessed. She was expecting it the moment Aizawa first referred to her as Yamiko.

"Yeah." Uraraka tilted her head as Iida looked interested as well.

"It's a nice name isn't it?" She didn't wait for a nod from anyone. "Still, I prefer people to use my first name."

The 3 nodded in understanding, not pushing as Uraraka attached herself to Y/n's side as the 4 began walking down the path. "Well you can call me Ochako then! I know we'll get along great! All of us!"

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

- Y/n's family lore wasn't going to be revealed until the sports festival originally
- Aizawa gave the money from Y/n to an actual homeless man
- Meeko ate all the food in 1 sitting
- After learning about her family, Toshinori buys more materialistic things for Y/n to enjoy
- Uraraka reminds Y/n of Himiko

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka(30%) +7%
Iida(5%) +5%
Bakugo(-5%) -5%

Chapter 4: 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙡 𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙘𝙚

「ʸᵒᵘ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ⁱ’ˡˡ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵇᵒᵒᵐᵉᵈ, ʸᵒᵘ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱ’ᵐ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵃ ᵇᵒʸ」

 

The next day was when classes actually began. Thankfully, Y/n was fluent in English so the first class of the day wasn't a problem, though she could do without the teacher, who she learned was named Present Mic, yelling every sentence he spoke. Y/n thought about gassing him up so she could snatch those 2 lost dollars for a drink from a vending machine in the hall. It had her favorite drink in there.

Lunch was good too. Y/n calls Meeko a fatass but she understood where he was coming from. Food always tastes better when its actually cooked by someone, especially when it's not expensive.

In the afternoon it was time for hero basic training.

"I AM HERE! COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"

Y/n had her head on her fist as All Might slammed into the classroom. Most of the classroom gasped in surprise.

"I can't believe it's really All Might!" A blond boy with a black streak through his hair beamed.

"So he is a teacher, this year is gonna be totally awesome!"

"Hey look, is he wearing his Silver Age costume?"

Y/n watched as All Might weirdly marched to the center of the podium.

"I'm getting goosebumps, it's so retro."

The way everyone seemed to love this hero so much made Y/n wonder if she really had been missing out on a lot. She didn't actively research heroes until recently but she couldn't ignore them since the media seemed to shove them down civilian's throats. Her Godfather, Harlan, had sent a few letters since her dad passed but they stopped abruptly. He probably forgot about her or just stopped caring. Maybe this whole thing wasn't that big of a deal. Sure, everybody knew All Might from his interviews, but Y/n knew Yagi Toshinori.

All Might placed his hands on his hips, beaming at the teens. "Welcome to the most important class at U.A High! Think of it as Hero 101! Here you will learn the basics of being a pro and what it means to fight in the name of good. Now let's get into it! Today's lesson will pull no punches!" He presented a card with the word 'Battle' to the students.

"Fight training!" Bakugo grinned.

"But one of the keys of being a hero is looking good!" The hero gestured to the wall where cases with different numbers slid out. "Get yourselves suited up, and then meet me at training ground Beta."

"Yes sir!"

Thankfully Y/n was correct when she believed Mei knew her style. It wasn't flashy but had the necessities. The upper body consisted of a black compression shirt with a f/c bomber jacket, and gauntlets that looked like fingerless gloves.

The lower body had black cargo pants. On the belt of the pants, the switchblade and pocket knife sat, with smoke bombs in an elven satchel bag on her thigh. On her combat boots there were iron soles on the bottom.

Mei left a note saying how she wasn't sure if there would be any after effects from using the gauntlets or soles.

Y/n tried (and failed) to not be worried.

She was coming up on the rear end of the group as they formed in front of All Might. Uraraka turned and smiled at the taller girl from behind her tinted visor. "Your hero suit totally fits you!" She gushed. Y/n examined her costume as they met. The color scheme really did fit Uraraka, who blushed in embarrassment. "I guess I wasn't specific enough on my registration form. This bodysuit is skin tight. Not really my style."

Y/n gave her a small smile in return. "You could ask them to modify that later if it hinders you."

"I love this school." Y/n side eyed the extremely short boy who mumbled that as he checked the two females out.

Y/n grasped the brown haired girl's wrist and pulled her closer, urging her to walk more inside the crowd, taking a place beside Momo, who gave them a polite smile.

"Now that you're ready, it's time for combat training." The hero announced

"Sir." Iida raised his hand, voice coming out slightly different from his helmet. "This is the fake city from our entrance exam. Does that mean will be conducting urban battles again?"

"Not quite, I'm going to move you 2 steps ahead. Most of the villain fights you see on the news take place outside, however, statistically speaking run-ins with the most dastardly evil-do takes place indoors." He informed the class. "Think about it. Backroom deals, home invasions, secret underground layers. Truly intelligent criminals stay hidden in the shadows. With this training exercise you'll be split into teams of good guys and bad guys and fight 2-on-2 indoor battles."

A girl in green spoke up. "Isn't this a little advanced?"

"The best training is what you get on the battlefield! But remember, you can't just punch a robot this time, you're dealing with actually people time. You're dealing with actual people now."

"Sir will you be the one deciding who wins?" Momo questioned.

"How much can we hurt the other team?" Bakugo joined in on the questioning.

Y/n silently laughed as the others contributed their own questions watching All Might get overwhelmed. She thought he looked constipated.

"I wasn't finished talking." He opened a book too small for his hands. "Listen up, the situation is this: the villains have hidden a nuclear missile somewhere in their hideout. the heroes must try to foil their plans. To do that, the guys either have to catch the evil doers or capture the weapon. Likewise the bad guys exceed if they protect their payload or capture the heroes." All Might pulled a box out of nowhere. "Time is limited and we'll choose teams by pulling lots!"

"Isn't there a better way?" Iida queried.

"In actual hero business, we won't have time to pick and choose who our partners are, especially in a life threatening emergency." Y/n supplied. "There'll be a high chance we'll be with someone we may not like."

Iida nodded in understanding. "Yes, I see. Life is a series of random events." He bowed to the hero. "Excuse my rudeness."

"No sweat, let's draw!"

Team A consisted of Uraraka and Y/n being partners.

"Wow, what are the chances!? We're a team!" Uraraka grabbed onto Y/n's shoulders.

All Might then picked from a "hero" box and a "villain" box. "I declare that the first team to fight will be..." He pulled out an A and a D. "These guys!"

Team D - Bakugo and Iida

"Team A will be the heroes, team D will be the villains."

Y/n held in a sigh. Out of all the kids in the class, Bakugo was on the bottom of who she'd want to fight, considering his quirk. She could feel his red eyes burning holes in her back, but made no move to acknowledge him. He was clearly someone who looks down on others he doesn't deem fit. He reminded her of Tsuneyuki Kazuko. Y/n was pretty sure he made it into one of the business courses of U.A if she was right.

In her opinion he had a quirk that would be helpful in the hero field but he'd ruin whatever chances he'd have because of his pathetic attitude.

"Bad guys, you can go inside and set up." All Might instructed them. "In 5 minutes, the good guys will be let loose and the battle will start." He gave the duo some more instruction before leaving to the room where the other students were waiting.

Y/n and Uraraka looked at the map of the building in front of them.

"You think they expect us to memorize this building floor plan it's so big." The gravity girl commented. "You know, All Might's just as cool in person as he is on television. I'm glad he's not threatening us with punishment like Mr. Aizawa. We can relax."

Y/n silently agreed. "Iida seems like he'd make a plan but I doubt that Bakugo guy is the type to listen to others." She began, her partner listening intently. "Bakugo might be more reckless when it comes to his quirk, and he might immediately go after us. We can't let our guard down around him. Did you hear his question earlier before we started?"

Uraraka nodded. "He asked how badly could they hurt the opponents."

"Right, so he's not going to be the one guarding the bomb. I have support gear that could help me against him, I've dealt with his type before, I know where to hit them where It hurts. Would you be okay with trying to disarm Iida?"

The short haired girl quickly agreed. "Let's win this!"

All Might's voice shone through. "All right, let's begin the indoor combat training! Team A and team D, your time starts now!"

Y/n and Uraraka climbed in an open window on the second floor, seeing empty halls.

"And just like that's we're in."

Y/n picked a hallway and began walking. "Be careful of your blindspots." She checked every corner before continuing. "If we run into Bakugo, run in the opposite direction to get to Iida, you'll have a better chance of making it." Y/n spoke lowly to the girl behind her.

Bakugo jumped out behind a wall the couple were getting close to and aimed an explosion at them. Y/n threw her weight into Uraraka's back to move her as the blast hit the wall, kicking up smoke. She quickly stood up and pulled the shorter girl with her. "Go now! So he doesn't see you." She encouraged the brown eyed female to leave, who did so reluctantly.

Bakugo waved the smoke away, glaring at the h/c haired teen. He raised his arm again, running at her. "I won't hurt you too bad that they'll have to start the fight, just close!"

Y/n raised her own arms to make it look like she was going to meet his own fist but grabbed his upper arm at the last second, kicking his knee and flipping him over her shoulder. The blond's back met the ground as he yelled in pain and shock.

Bakugo jumped and swung his leg, aiming a kick, which Y/n promptly blocked. "Ballsy move! Think you can take me alone?"

Y/n wrapped a piece of the capture tap around his ankle but had to pull away when he aimed another explosion at her. She spun and ran the hall her and Uraraka came from, turning In different directions to confuse him, which worked, as the male confusedly turned at the different halls presented to him.

"Where's that flashy power of yours now, Pinkie!" His shout echoed through the halls. "Let's see how it compares to mine."

Y/n was right when she figured Bakugo would have been to angry to deal with the "bomb." This means Uraraka will have her chance to defeat Iida on her own. This guy has some major issues though. If it was anyone different with Iida, he would have been the one to stop the females. Going 2 on 2 would give them a low chance of winning. The best way Y/n could think of was stalling just long enough in hopes that Uraraka could take down Iida. She'd have to find a way to apprehend the explosive blond.

"Stop hiding!" It sounded like his voice was getting closer. "Come out and face me you coward!"

Y/n didn't even know what his problem with her was, as far as she knew, she hadn't even looked at him. No way it was because of a stupid ball score...

Uraraka's voice came through Y/n's earpiece. "Um, Y/n?"

"Yeah? Are you alright?"

"Iida knows that I'm here, sorry. Now he's monologuing."

"What floor are you on?"

"Near the middle of the fifth floor."

Y/n stood and set her tape ready. "It's alright Ochaco, I trust you'll figure out what to do with Iida, leave Bakugo to me." Y/n would have to deal with him fast. She heard the sound of sizzling. Looking back, Bakugo was standing there menacingly.

He lifted up one of his gauntlets, which looked like grenades. "I'm all loaded up. Why aren't you using your fancy quirk? Don't tell me you're underestimating me Pinkie." He taunted. "Get over here and show me what you're really made of." He showed off his gauntlets. "I secrete nitroglycerin like sweat from my hands and make it blow up. Imagine what I could do if I had a lot of it." He pulled back the striker lever to reveal a pin. "They've been storing up my sweat for one monster blast." He began pulling the safety pin out

All Might's voice came through the intercoms. "Young Bakugo, don't do it! You'll kill her!"

"She'll be fine as long as she dodges!"

The walls and floors rupturing under too much pressure, as scorching heat resonated in the hallway, lighting so bright it felt like everything was melting as fire came rushing towards the girl who had no where to go for protection.

Buildings rumbled as it shocked the class and All Might, who grew tense in fear. "Come in! COME IN Y/N!"

Y/n groaned in pain as she laid on the ground. It was all surreal, feeling the blisters on her hands from lifting them to block her face. She was incredibly thankful she had listened to the woman and requested durable cloth. Y/n let out coughs from both the smoke inhalation as well as the burnt flesh smell that invaded her scents.

This guy was unhinged, but he wasn't trying to kill her. Bakugo was brash, yet smart. The only problem was Y/n was smarter.

The teen shakily reached up to turn on her intercom whispering to her mentor. "I'm fine." She needed Bakugo to this she actually passed out from his hit, ignoring Uraraka trying to contact her.

Relaxing her body limp, she listened as Bakugo stomped closer before picking her up by her shirt. Since it was a compression shirt, Y/n could feel the male's nails scratch along her skin but not going through the fabric. He watched himself to see if she'd react as he yelled. She didn't.

He grunted something about being weak before dropping her to the ground. The girl strained her ears as he stamped down the hall, no doubt heading to where Uraraka and Iida were.

When she could no longer make out his steps she opened her eyes and sat up. She contacted her partner. "Ochaco, what's going on."

"Y/n! I got so worried for you." She cried. "Are you okay?" The gravity girl stepped away from Iida as he was busy scolding Bakugo about the explosion. "What happened?"

"I'll explain after, but I have a different plan. Bakugo's heading up to you guys now so it'll have to be quick. I'm going to use my quirk and smash through the floors above me. I want you to use your quirk to send debris at Iida, and use the opportunity to reach for the bomb."

"I can do that! Let me know when."

Y/n stood and set her body. Now was the time to pray for Mei's inventions to not explode. Clenching her fist, feeling the power wind up. Y/n swung her hand in an uppercut motion as the blast slammed through the floors above as well as the roof. "Now Ochaco!"

Y/n heard Uraraka yelling in delight, assuming everything went right just as a loud buzzer went off, signalling time was up.

"The hero team WINS! Your indoor combat training is over." All Might announced to the teams.

Y/n panted as she plopped on the ground, exhausted. She really hoped Bakugo didn't find his way to her again because she couldn't find it in herself to deal with his tantrum. If he wants to play dirty she will too.

Footsteps came came near but instead of Bakugo it was Uraraka being held up by Iida. When they caught sight of her the brown haired girl stumbled to her friend and fell beside her, leaning her weight against the teen's good side. "We did it."

Y/n silently nodded as she glanced up at the blue haired male who watched them with worry. "We should get you two to the nurse."

Just as he said that some floating medbots approached. Iida sat Uraraka on the stretcher before aiding Y/n on as well.

"Thanks."

As the two girls passed by All Might Y/n lifted her head to glare at the blond who flinched back. His shoulders slumped when he realized he was gonna be yelled at after.

Inside Recovery Girl's office, as the lady tended to Uraraka, the other girl slipped the gauntlet that was on the hand she used her quirk with off. The second it left her skin she groaned in pain as it seemed to tighten up horribly. It feels like she broke it.

Recovery Girl did an x-ray on it and found it wasn't broken, but it put a strain on the bones and nerves in her wrist.

Uraraka went back to class after getting healed while Y/n stayed and slept for the rest of class until her mentor visited in small form, his hero suit hanging off. Y/n's arm was in a cast out of caution, she was hooked up to an IV, and there were elastic bandages over her hands.

"It's only the second day of school and she's already become a regular patient." Recovery Girl scolded the man, while Y/n watched. "Why didn't you stop her All Might?"

When All Might had first walked in, the 2 adults explained that Recovery Girl was one of the very few people who knew about One for All, as well as Y/n being the successor.

All Might coughed into his hand. "You're right Recovery Girl. I'm sorry."

"Well it's no good apologizing to me." She turned to the teen. "Her body's too exhausted from class for my quirk. I did some first aid but after the IV is finished we'll have to wait for the body to heal overnight. Even with these gauntlets, her wrist was put under tremendous pressure. If she doesn't control it, it can seriously damage her nerves in the near future with every use."

Toshinori winced at the news. When Y/n had randomly called him about soles and bracers to help her with One for All, he researched more about them and believed they sounded like good ideas. He hadn't actually thought about the downsides to it. He muttered a quiet apology to the females.

Y/n snickered as Recovery Girl brushed him off, mocking him. "Geezer." She called out, making the adults look in her direction. "I can't move right now but come here."

Albeit reluctant, he complied. Walked closer he stared down at her.

"Closer."

All Might leaned down halfway.

"Closer. I'm not gonna bite."

Heads almost touching, Y/n headbutt him sending him stumbling back.

"Wha-"

"When I agreed to this heir shit, I only expected to get attacked by villains, not my classmates!" Y/n scowled.

All Might rubbed his forehead. "Y/n, Bakugo-"

"I don't care about him!" Y/n took a deep breath, calming down. "Look, I don't know what's going on with him, but I don't care. If he's got some sort of inferiority complex that's his business but I won't let that asshole take it out on me. I will not let him think he's better than me and undo all my hard work."

To Recovery Girl, it sounded like this was just about being the successor, but All Might knew better.

Y/n leaned back against the soft sheets. "I'm going back to sleep. Don't bother me."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

The next time Y/n opened her eyes she saw Recovery Girl. "Rise and shine."

Glancing at the time Y/n noticed it was almost 4pm. Before leaving, Y/n was reminded to come back in the morning before class to finish healing. Her arm was out of the cast and in a sling now.

Opening the classroom door she was greeted by a boy with rigid bright red hair. "Hey, it's L/n!" He walked closer with others following. "Good to see you back, super." He grinned. "You seemed fired up during that match!"

A boy with black hair joined. "I can't believe you were able to outsmart Bakugo like that. That was so awesome."

"You did a great job tricking him." An all pink girl with beige horns gushed.

"You guys really turned up in the first match so none of us held back in our rounds either!"

"You were just whooo!" The pink girl jumped up and down.

The redhead gave a welcoming smile to the h/c haired girl. "I'm Kirishima Eijiro." He gestured to the black haired guy. "We've been going over training results while you were in recovery."

"Hi, I'm Sero Hanta."

A blond boy with a dreamed out look on his face began introducing himself before he was interrupted by the pink girl flailing her arms. "I'm Ashido Mina I just gotta say you were so awesome!"

A girl with green hair and big round eyes peeked out from behind Mina. "I'm Asui Tsuyu, but please, call me Tsu."

"Hey, Sato."

Y/n tried not to get overwhelmed by all the people. "Uh, hi." As the group's voices were overlapping each other while Iida was yelling at a boy with a bird head, the girl's attention was drawn to the door near the back of the class as the boy with a black stripe in his blond hair and Uraraka walked in carrying books.

"Wanna grab a bite sometime?" he asked Uraraka. "What kinda stuff do you like?"

"Anything sweet." She answered absentmindedly, before her attention was taken by her friend who was watching them. "Y/n!"

The male slumped over in defeat.

"Why didn't she heal your injuries?"

"Most of my stamina was lost during the fight so I'll have to be healed tomorrow."

After classes were over for the day, Y/n grabbed her stuff before leaving the building. The sun was starting to go down as the sky turned to a bright yellow-orange. Y/n walked in the middle of Uraraka and Iida, this time joined by Kirishima, Sero, and Mina.

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Tsuneyuki is in class 1-J (Department of management)
> His quirk is Thread Manipulation

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (38%) +8%
Iida (8%) +3%
Bakugo (0%) +5%
Momo (8%) +8%
Kirishima (6%) +6%
Sero (5%) +5%

Chapter 5: 𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣

「ᴵ ᵍᵘᵉˢˢ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵗʳᵘᵉ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ᶠⁱᵍʰᵗ ᵗᵒ ˢᵘʳᵛⁱᵛᵉ」

 

The next day on the way to school, Y/n ran into one of her classmates, Jiro Kyoka, while coming out of a market.

"L/n?"

Glancing to the left, Y/n caught sight of the dark purple haired girl. "Hey, uh, Jiro right?"

The female nodded. "Yeah." She read the market sign before glancing at the paper bag in Y/n's grasp. "Do you always shop in the mornings?"

Y/n shook her head. "Nah, I just wanted a drink and a snack, and I visit someone on occasion on the way." Y/n reached into the paper bag and pulled out 2 milks, one banana and one strawberry. She offered both for the girl to pick one. Jiro examined the 2 before choosing the strawberry flavor. "You wanna walk with me?"

"Sure." Jiro smiled. "Thanks."

"It's nothing, and you can just call me Y/n, I prefer it." She then pulled out some Onigiri, handing the other girl one while keeping the other.

"Alright." Usually Jiro would have had music playing, but decided she enjoyed Y/n's company enough to listen to the tame silence between them. After a few bites of her food, Jiro spoke up again. "So, who do you usually meet? A friend?"

"Something like that. We're almost there."

Coming upon an alley between 2 buildings that extended out to the trees, Y/n paused in her steps as she seemed to wait. Nervous, Jiro checked the time on her phone, hoping they had enough time.

"There he is." Y/n cooed.

Jiro looked up and saw a red fox trotting up to the two. The earphone girl anxiously took a step back. "Uh Y/n I don't think that's is a good idea."

She was referring to the fact Y/n was crouched down pulling out a small container of blackberries, intending to feed them to the canine.

"I promise he's friendly."

Jiro wordlessly watched as Y/n puts a hand out with 3 berries on her palm, the fox inching closer before taking them in his mouth. This continued once more before Y/n turned her head up at her classmate. "Come here."

Slowly but surely, Jiro took a step closer and took the same position as the taller girl. The fox took a cautious step back and gave a guarded stare.

"Here." Y/n placed 4 berries in Jiro's palm before grabbing her wrist, moving it closer to the red animal. The fox warily came closer and sniffed the purple haired teen's hand before deciding it was safe and eating the fruit from her.

The 2 girls continued feeding the canine until all the berries were gone and Y/n placed the now empty container in the bag to throw away later. The fox dropped his head down.

"He wants pets now. Do you wanna pet him?"

Now more calmer than when first encountering the animal, Jiro found herself nodding.

Y/n took the initiative and set her classmates palm out once more, this time facing down. "He has to be the one to come to you." Jiro had to refrain from staring at the e/c eyed female. The 2 days she's been around her, Jiro had never heard her voice sound so calm and sure.

The fox patted forward and nudged his head under the black eyed teen's awaiting hand.

"Go ahead now."

Jiro felt this was the calmest she's been ever since training for U.A. If she didn't have to spend time becoming a hero she'd ask her parents for a pet, probably not a fox, but still. This was nice, and the fox's fur was so soft. "Does he have a name?"

Y/n hummed, shrugging. "I've been trying to decide between Carl and Fundy. I like them both."

The fox pulled his head away from the earphone girl's hand and licked it before turning away and walking back to the trees. "He just leaves?"

"Yup, I always wait for him to leave first so he won't feel like I'm abandoning him." The teen checked the time. "We should leave now to make it on time." Y/n herself didn't care if she was late or not but Jiro was going to school to be a hero on her own choice, and so she wasn't gonna mess it up for her.

Nodding, Jiro stood and brushed her skirt off, heading the same way as her classmate. "Are foxes your favorite animal?" After having a moment like that, the teen felt compelled to stay in contact with the tall girl.

"I like them a lot but raccoons are my favorite. I have a pet raccoon at my house."

"A ra-raccoon?" Jiro looked at the girl like she said she liked drinking bleach. "Aren't those illegal? And feral?"

Y/n shrugged like it was no big deal. "We found him when he was a baby so he's not diseased or anything. And its pretty easy to pass him off as a weird looking dog surprisingly." Y/n swiped through her gallery before choosing a photo of Meeko's last birthday. He was wearing a pink and yellow striped party hat and was sitting in front of a giant strawberry with a singular unlit candle. "This is what he looks like, his name is Meeko."

Jiro couldn't deny the chubby raccoon was cute. "Oh he is. Could I actually have that picture, it's cute."

"Mhm, just give me your number."

The 2 girls exchanged numbers before Jiro's dinged with the promised picture.

Coming up to the school, the 2 could see a crowd of reporters swarming the front gate. One of them caught the two students coming closer and called out. "Hey! You're students aren't you!?"

This caused the rest of them to follow suit in swarming the 2 teens, shoving their microphones, cameras, and journals in their faces.

"Can you tell us what it's like to work so closely to All Might?"

"No." Y/n stated firmly. "We have to get to class." Y/n used her arm to push through the crowd who kept trying to talk, Jiro following.

"Are you one of All Might's students?"

"What's the symbol of peace like in person?"

"Ow!"

Y/n whipped her head back to see Jiro rubbing her ear to soothe it. "What happened?"

"Someone pulled on my ear jack."

Y/n frowned pulling Jiro behind her with her good arm before pulling out her switchblade, presenting it in a threatening manner to the adults, who gasped in panic and pulled back. "Let us get to class."

The 2 slowly stepped back as if they had encountered wild animals.

"We just want to know-"

"Shut!" Y/n made stabbing motions towards the guy. "Don't care. Don't wanna hear it."

Jiro made it through the gate before pulling Y/n along.

"We'll get you expelled!" Someone threatened.

"Do it!"

Jiro thanked her before walking her classmate to Recovery Girl. Before she went in, the purple haired female called out. "Y/n?"

Y/n gave Jiro her attention, hand on the door handle. "Yeah?"

Jiro fiddled with her jacks. "Um, are we friends?"

Y/n gave a soft smile, similar to the one given to the fox. "I like to think so."

Jiro smiled back, a small blush on her cheeks.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"Decent work on yesterday's combat training guys." Aizawa told the class. "I saw the video feeds and went over each of your teams results. Bakugo, you're talented, so don't sulk like a child okay?"

"Yeah, whatever." He grumbled.

"And stop trying to kill your classmates." He continued boredly, but the underlying threat was still there. Don't be reckless with human lives. "And L/n."

Y/n raised her eyebrows at him.

"You did good." Was all he said. "Let's get down to business." The black haired male went back to addressing the class. "Our first task will decide your future...You all need to pick a class representative."

Y/n rolled her eyes. This guy was dramatic.

Kirishima raised his hands. "Pick my guys! I wanna be class rep!"

"I'll take it!" Kaminari joined it.

"Yeah, you're gonna need me."

Y/n dropped her head on the table listening to the class as she listened to everyone shout how they wanted to be the representative.

"Silence everyone please!" Iida commanded. "The class representative's duty is to lead others. That's not something just anyone can do. You must first have the trust of everyone in the classroom. Therefore, the most logical way to fill this position is democratically. We will hold an election to choose our leader."

Y/n thought Iida was speaking sense. The class was reluctant about that idea before Iida added in a few more points before trying to ask Aizawa who was zipping up his sleeping bag.

"Do what you want just decide before my naps over." He fell to the floor with a thump.

"Thank you for your trust."

Y/n voted for Iida before turning in her ballot.

L/n Y/n - 3

Yaoyorozu Momo - 2

"Heh?"

Bakugo stood up, slamming his hands on the desk. "Okay, you idiots! Who voted for her!?"

"What did you honestly think anybody was gonna vote for you?" Sero mocked him.

"Someone voted for me?" Iida asked himself. He brushed the thought away. "Even though I'd only get one, this is the system I chose, and it doesn't lie."

"So you actually voted for someone else huh?" Momo questioned.

"But you knew it was best to vote for yourself right?" Sato added. "What were you trying to prove here Iida?"

Y/n boredly stood next to Momo. "Alright Class Rep is L/n, and our deputy is Yaoyorozu."

"I look forward to working with you Y/n."

"Me too." Y/n gave an awkward smile. She really wasn't sure how this was going to be.

"You know, maybe this won't be so bad." Tsuyu thought.

"Yeah, I can get behind Y/n." Kirishima agreed.

During lunch, Y/n, Uraraka, and Iida sat at a table with some other casuals.

"It's always so crowded in here." The brown haired girl looked around.

"That's because students in the support, management, and hero courses all share the same cafeteria." Iida informed her.

"I don't know if I can do this class rep thing." Y/n told her friends as she chewed her meat. "I don't see myself as qualified."

"Sure you are." Uraraka told her.

"You'll be great." Iida looked at the girl. "Your courage and quick thinking under stress will help make you a worthy leader. Not to mention the strength you demonstrated. Those are the reasons I voted for you at least."

"You voted for me?" Y/n asked him incredulously. "I voted for you."

"Didn't you wanna be rep really badly?" Ochako asked the male. "I mean you do look the part, cause of the glasses."

Y/n snicked at Uraraka's reasoning.

Iida took a sip of juice. "Wanting a job and being suited to it are quite different things observing the Iida family's hero agency has taught me that much."

"And that's why I voted for you."

"Agency?" Uraraka questioned. "What does your family do?"

Iida became nervous. "Uh, oh, it's nothing."

"You know, I've been wondering something about you," the short haired female leaned closer to her friend. "admit it Iida, your filthy rich!"

"I was afraid people would treat me differently if they knew about my family..."

Y/n and Ochaco leaned across the table to each other smushing their faces together to stare at Iida, who sighed. His friends were weird.

"You see, the Iidas have been pro heroes for generations. It runs in our blood."

"That's awesome!" Uraraka exclaimed.

Iida became more confident. "Are you two familiar with the turbo hero Ingenium?"

Y/n had no idea who that was but felt like shit if she said no. "Is that your sibling?"

"He's my elder brother." The blue haired male stated proudly.

"Your family's famous!" The short girl gushed.

"Ingenium is an unmatched commander who honors the hero code. As the second oldest Iida son, I strive to be just like him. However, I think it might be a bit soon for me to be in a real leadership role." He looked at Y/n. "You for example, you figured out what the judges were looking for in the practical exam. A rep needs that sort of insight." He gave her a smile.

Y/n and Uraraka stared at him with admiration. Y/n because of how proud he was of his family, and Ochaco because of his facial expressions. "That's the first time I've ever seen you smile Iida. You should do it more."

"What are you talking about? I smile all the time."

A loud alarm rang throughout the cafeteria, startling the students. A robotic voice came through. "Warning: Level 3 security breach. All students, please evacuate the building in an orderly fashion."

"What's a level 3 security breach?" Iida asked an upperclassman.

"It means that someone managed to get past the school's barrier. This hasn't happened in my three years here. We should get going!" He got up and ran.

Everyone was pushing and shoving each other trying to get out, Iida and Uraraka in the mob. Y/n decided to duck under the table and watch everything from below. Future pro heroes everyone.

She waited under there until she heard Iida's voice boom loudly across the lunchroom. "LISTEN UP, EVERYTHING IS OKAY!"

The students grew quiet.

"IT'S JUST THE MEDIA OUTSIDE! THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! EVERYTHING'S FINE! WE'RE U.A STUDENTS, WE NEED TO REMAIN CALM AND PROVE THAT WE'RE THE BEST OF THE BEST!"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"It's time to begin Class Rep." Momo ushered Y/n to start.

"Right, I wanted to make an announcement first. Earlier, when the media broke through the gates, all everyone did was panic and try shoving their way to the exit. Iida was someone that took charge and made everyone realize there wasn't really an emergency. He had courage and quick thinking, insight that a class rep needs." She used Iida's reasoning from earlier. "So, I recommend moving Yaoyorozu to Class Rep and Iida to Vice Rep."

Momo looked at the girl in surprise. "Shouldn't you give Iida your position?"

"Well you were voted in first, so it makes sense for you to move up. Iida will be great when it comes to managing the class, and when everyone gets closer, you'll be the one people come to for advice and help. You're intelligence combined with Iida's will take us far."

"You really think so?"

"I wouldn't say all this if I didn't mean it."

Karishma nodded. "Yeah, you know what? If Y/n vouches for Iida then I'm good. Plus he was a big help. He totally manned up and took charge, right?"

"Did you notice he looked like the dude on the emergency exit sign when he was on the wall earlier?" Kaminari laughed.

Y/n cleared her throat awkwardly. "Besides I kinda threatened the reporters this morning so I don't think I'd be a good fit."

"You did what?" Aizawa asked.

"I mean what?" She stared at him dumbly.

He decided to ignore it. "This is a waste of time. I don't care who the rep is just hurry up." He slowly stood, wiggling to the podium.

Iida stood up. "If Y/n is nominating me for this job, then I accept! I pledge to carry of my duties as Vice Class Rep to the best of my abilities."

Aizawa told the three to sit down. "Today's training will be a little different. You'll have three instructors: me, All Might, and another faculty member will be keeping tabs on you."

"Sir?" Sero raised his hand. "What kind of training is this?"

Aizawa held up a card that said "rescue." "You'll be dealing with natural disasters, shipwrecks, stuff like that."

The class excitedly talked about what they'll do today.

"Guys I'm not finished yet. What you wear in this exercise is up to you. I know you're excited about costumes, but keep in mind you haven't gotten used to them yet, and they might limit your abilities. This training's at an off campus facility, we're taking a bus to get there. That's all. Start getting ready."

Y/n waited until most of the students got their costume cases before following.

After changing she jogged to catch up with Uraraka, right when Iida blew a whistle, Momo standing beside him. "Gather around class 1-A! Using your student numbers form two neat lines so we can move onto the bus efficiently." He blew the whistle once more.

"Where the fuck did he get that whistle?"

Boarding the bus Iida slumped in defeat. "The bus' open layout ruined our boarding strategy." He whined to Momo, who gave a sympathetic smile.

Y/n pat his back as she passed, taking a seat between Tsuyu and Kirishima.

"Iida you really need to chill." Mina told him.

"If we're pointing out the obvious then there's something I want to say." Tsuyu began before looking at Y/n. "About you actually."

"What's up?"

"That power of yours, isn't it a lot like All Might's?"

Y/n couldn't help a small laugh bubbling up at the observation. "Even if it was, it wouldn't ever match up to All Might's. I mean nobody ever has the exact same quirk down to a T, I'm pretty sure even if families have the same quirk there'll always be a difference, even if it's not a big one." She spoke coolly.

"Yeah." Kirishima said. "Still, I bet it's cool to have a simple augmenting type quirk. You can do a lot of flashy stuff with it. My hardening's super strong and can destroy bad guys in a fight, but it doesn't look all that impressive."

"I think it's a nice quirk. You can do a lot of stuff with it, especially if villains underestimate you, it gives you a huge advantage. And it's very useful in close range fighting with your durability." Y/n commented. "You could probably lift building later too."

"You really think so?" Kirishima blushed. "Seems like it'd be easier to be a popular hero if I had something flashier."

"My naval laser's a combination of panache and strength." Aoyama commented. Y/n glanced behind her to try and see what the blond boy had been staring at the whole time but saw nothing.

"But it's way lame if it gives you a stomach ache sweetie." Mina told him. Aoyama stared at her from the corner of his eyes.

"Well if any of our classmates have pro quirks it's Y/n, Todoroki and Bakugo." Kirishima said.

"Sure but Bakugo's always angry so he'll never be that popular." Tsuyu remarked.

Y/n laughed as Bakugo rose. "WHAT DID YOU SAY!? I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!"

"See?"

Bakugo jumped over the tiny barrier that was in front of his seat and stormed up to the partially pink haired girl. "What the fuck do you think you're laughing at Pinkie!?"

"Why does he call Y/n Pinkie when Mina's right there?"

"Mina's Raccoon Eyes."

Y/n's laughter died down as she frowned at him. "You."

Bakugo growled and rammed his forehead against her own, similar to a ram. "I dare you to say that again!"

Kaminari spoke up from his spot. "We basically just met you, so it's kinda telling we all know your personality is flaming crap mixed with garbage."

Bakugo drew away from the girl and glared at the blond with a black streak. "You'll regret the day you applied to this school you loser! I'll kill you!"

Iida did his best to do damage control but when you're going against Bakugo it's practically impossible.

"Hey, we're here. Stop messing around." Aizawa advised the class.

Inside the class was greeted by another hero.

"Hello everyone." A feminine voice came from someone inside a hero suit which sorta looked like the Michelin Man. "I've been waiting for you."

Y/n stayed near the back as everyone else seemed to freak out over the hero.

"It's Thirteen!"

"Thirteen is one of my favorite heroes!" Uraraka exclaimed.

"I can't wait to show you what's inside."

Y/n couldn't deny the inside of the huge dome looked amazing. It was filled with all kinds of areas with different elements to the earth and society.

Thirteen named a few of the biomes. "I've created this to prepare you to deal with different types of disasters. I call it: The Unforeseen Simulation Joint! But you can call it USJ!"

Aizawa walked closer to the other pro. "Hey shouldn't All Might be here already? Let me guess, he booked an interview instead."

Y/n watched as Thirteen mumbled something to the black haired adult and raised 3 fingers. The geezer must have used all 3 hours up already.

"That man is the height of irresponsibility." He glanced at the students. "Clock's ticking. We should get started."

"Excellent! Before we begin, let me just say one thing. Well, maybe two things, possibly three, four or five..." She trailed on. "Listen carefully, I'm sure you're aware that I have a powerful quirk. It's called black hole. I can use it to suck up anything and turn it into dust."

Y/n raised her eyebrows in surprise. It's definitely good she became a hero.

"However, my quirk can also be used very easily to kill. Some of you also have powers that can be dangerous. In our superhuman society, all quirks are certified and stringently registered, so we often overlook how unsafe they can actually be." She said gravely. "Please don't forget that if you lose focus or make the wrong move, your powers can be deadly, even if you're trying to do something virtuous like rescue someone. Thanks to Aizawa's fitness tests, you have a solid idea of your quirk's potential, and because of All Might's combat training you likely experienced how dangerous your powers can be when used against other people. Carry those lessons over to this class. Today, you're going to learn how to use your quirks to save people's lives. You won't be using your powers to attack enemies or each other, only to help. After all, that's what being a hero is all about: ensuring the safety of others." She bowed. "That's all I have to say. Thank you so much for listening."

"Right, now that that's over-" Aizawa began but never got to finished as the light went out and the water spewing out of a fountain stuttered.

The air began distorting and a black and purple hole appeared. Aizawa's eyes widened and he turned around. The hole grew in size before expanding length wise, a hand coming out.

"Stay together and don't move." He ordered the teens. "Thirteen, protect the students."

"What is that thing?" Kirishima questioned.

Oddly quirk shaped people poured of the portal.

"Wait is the training starting? I thought we were rescuing people." Kirishima continued, going to step forward before getting yanked back by Y/n.

"Those aren't good people." She informed him.

"What?" Uraraka looked at her scared.

Y/n watched Aizawa put on yellow goggles and put them on. "I think those are actual villains."

Class 1-A tensed up in fear at the sight of actual villains.

A deep voice came from the dark, misty portal. "The only real heroes I see are Thirteen and Eraserhead. Perplexing. According to schedule we retrieved at U.A, All Might should be here as well." 2 slim, yellow eyes appeared on the portal.

"So you scumbags used the press as a cover and sneaked onto campus." Aizawa stated.

The villains walked further into the USJ as some scrawny blue haired male covered in hands stood next to the portal guy and a weird brain creature. "Where is he? I went through the trouble of bringing so many friends who are eager to meet him. All Might, the great symbol of peace, I can't believe he's not here. Maybe if I kill a few kids he'll come out to play."

"What? Real villains? No way."

"How could so many of them get into a facility this secure?"

"Thirteen, why aren't the alarms going off?" Momo asked the pro.

"Good question. I'm not sure."

"Is the entire campus under attack?" A half white and half red haired boy questioned. "Or is this their only target? Either way if the alarm sensors aren't being triggered then one of these villains must have a quirk that's masking their presence here. They carefully chose this isolated facility as an entry point at a time when a class was being taught. They're fools for trespassing here, but they thought this out. Whatever their plan, they must have a concrete objective in mind. But what is it?"

"They might want to kill All Might." Everyone's head snapped to Y/n. "You heard that guy covered in hands didn't you? They expected All Might to be here from a schedule. And if he's the number 1 hero, villains aren't going to play nice with us." She finished gravely.

"Thirteen, get them out of here, and alert the main campus." Aizawa paused. "Actually, if they got the ability to block our sensors, then they might be jamming out regular communications too. Kaminari, try using your quirk to contact the schools."

"Yes sir."

Aizawa jumped into action, running towards the villains.

Thirteen ushered the class to the exit but the black portal appeared on the ground in front of them, and the head appeared. "There is no escape for you. It's a pleasure to meet you. We are the League of Villains. I know it's impolite, but we decided to invite ourselves into this haven of justice to say hello. And besides, isn't this a fitting place for All Might, the symbol of peace to take his last breath? I believe he was supposed to be here today and yet I see no sign of him. There must have been some sort of change of plans we could not have foreseen." He spread his "arms" out. "Well, I suppose it doesn't matter I still have a role to play."

Thirteen readied her quirk to use against him but didn't get the chance as Bakugo and Kirishima jumped at him.

"Did you think we were just gonna stand around and let you tear this place to shreds?" Kirishima asked rhetorically.

The portal guy phased through the dust left behind from the blond's explosion. "You live up to your school's reputation but you should be more careful children, otherwise someone might get hurt."

"You two get out of the way right now!" Thirteen ordered them.

"I'll scatter you across this facility to meet my comrades and your deaths!" His mist surrounded the group and lunged towards them like a predator getting it's prey.

Y/n covered her eyes as the mist gripped her body, feeling cold but hot at the same time. She felt weightless like Ochaco had used her quirk but when Y/n opened her eyes she saw she was falling fast towards open water. Luckily she taught herself how to swim and avoided a belly flop.

As the girl began swimming up a villain swam at her quickly. "Nothing personal kid, but you gotta die!"

Before the teen could react, the Tsuyu slammed into the villain, knocking him off course. "Hey Y/n!" She wrapped her tongue around Y/n's torso with Mineta in her grasp and quickly swam away. She pulled them to a boat in the shipwreck zone, carefully throwing the pink and h/c haired teen on before slamming the purple balled male on harshly.

Y/n stood up and glanced over the side, watching as the frog girl climbed up, sticking to the surface. "Thanks for that Tsu."

"It's no problem." She hurled herself over the railing. "This is turning out to be a terrible day of class."

"Yeah. They somehow got a schedule of how today was going to go. Aizawa was right about using those reporters as a distraction."

"Hey hold on a second!"

Y/n and Tsuyu glanced down at the short boy.

"It's not like these guys can really kill All Might. Once he shows up he'll pound these villains until there's nothing left."

"Think about it though. The villains spent so much time planning this attack, then they probably figured out a way to kill him. And didn't you hear what that smoke guy said? Maybe we should worry more about not getting tortured to death." Tsuyu told him.

Mineta stood there with a far out look on his face.

"Otherwise we might not live long enough to see All Might again."

Mineta began sweating.

"And even if he doesn't show up who knows if he'll make it out in one piece."

Mineta let out a cry and clung to an annoyed Y/n's leg. "The pros are gonna save us right!? Tell Leapfrog to shut up!"

"Ribbit." Tsuyu stared.

A cluster of villains appeared out of the water and headed the teens' way. Mineta screamed, clinging to the girl tighter. "Bad guys!"

Y/n groaned and roughly pushed him off. "Look, it doesn't matter why they're here to kill All Might, right now we need to focus on regrouping back to the others where Aizawa is. He's one guy, he won't be able to take them on forever. We're supposed to be heroes in training right? We use our quirks and skills to our advantage."

"These guys might be able to kill All Might and you think we can take them!?" Mineta yelled at the tall girl. "Did you hit your head when we got warped here!?"

Y/n and Tsuyu both ignored the crying boy behind them. "Dude, those villains have an advantage in the water but when that portal guy scattered us, he did it to weaken us. The thing is he didn't know out quirks." She looked at the green haired female. "If they thought that through, you'd be in a place with fire."

"Are you even listening!?"

Tsuyu nodded thoughtfully. "That's right. So they only knew what was in the USJ, not anything about us. That's what you meant when you said use our quirks to our advantage."

"Yup. In their mind, the smaller the group the easier it'll be to kill us off. That's our advantage. See how none of them are trying to get on the boat with us? That proves they're not sure if we're weak. Unfortunately, they're being smart and playing safe by staying away, but the second we're in water it's free game for them."

"Yeah, now let's talk quirks." Tsuyu started. "I'll go first if you want. Obviously I can jump high, and cling to pretty much any wall, and of course there's my tongue, I can stick it out about 20 meters. Oh yeah, and I can spit out my stomach so I can clean it, but that's not really useful. Finally I also secrete a toxic mucus, it just stings a bit. We can probably only use my jumping and my tongue here."

"That's actually really amazing. I didn't realize how much abilities an animal type quirk could have." Y/n complimented her. "I have my super strength." She gestured to her arms and boots. "If it wasn't for these I'd be a one-and-done person, so we should utilize that."

Mineta pulled a purple ball off his head, sticking it on the surface next to him. "I've got these sticky balls. The strength varies, depends on how I'm feeling they might stick to something a whole day. They grow back as fast as I can pull them off, but I'll bleed if I use too many. Oh and they don't stick to me, I just bounce right off of them."

Y/n and Tsuyu shared a look before silently staring at Mineta who watched them.

Tears came to his eyes again. "Don't look at me like that! This is why I said we should wait for the real heroes, my quirk is totally unfit for battles and work and..." he sobbed loudly.

"Can you shut up for one minute-" Y/n began but one of the villains slammed a giant water hand against the water, creating a mini tsunami that broke the boat in half as the teens wobbled.

"I'm starting to get bored!" The villain yelled. "Let's get this show on the road!"

"That's a great power, now the ship's sinking." Tsu said.

Mineta wailed and ran to the edge, throwing his purple balls into the water.

"Chill out!" Y/n grabbed the back of his cape before looking over as well, noticing none of the villains were touching them.

Mineta's back hit the wall. "We're fish food."

Tsuyu looked at him. "So Mineta, are you really sure the hero thing is right for you?"

"Shut up! It's weirder to not be scared right now! I didn't think I'd be facing death a few days after starting U.A! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M GONNA DIE WITHOUT EVER GETTING A GIRLFRIEND!"

Y/n picked him up and covered his mouth. "Shut up." She looked at Tsuyu. "Think you can get some of that toxic mucus in their eyes?"

Tsuyu nodded before doing as the girl asked. As the mucus got in 3 of the villain's eyes, they groaned in pain and Y/n took that chance to jump overboard. She clenched her forearm and focused on sending the power to her finger tips, much like the ball throw.

The force of the flick created a whirlpool in the water and propelled the teen forward. "Tsu, Mineta now!"

Tsuyu jumped with the short boy in her arms and wrapped her tongue around Y/n's middle, pulling her along as Mineta threw his balls down at the whirlpool filled with villains. They were pulled down pretty far before being propelled into the air in a big clump.

"You're pretty amazing." Tsuyu said. "Both of you."

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Jiro sends Y/n raccoon memes
> The reporters didn't try and get Y/n expelled
> Uraraka, Iida, and Jiro voted for Y/n to be class rep

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (40%) +8%
Iida (21%) +13%
Bakugo (2%) +2%
Momo (8%)
Kirishima (10%) +4%
Sero (6%) +1%
Jiro (19%) +19%
Tsuyu (10%) +10%
Kaminari (3%) +3%

Chapter 6: 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙚

「ˢʰᵉ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵒʷᵉʳ ⁱⁿ ʰᵉʳ ʰᵃⁿᵈ
ᵀᵒ ˢʰᵒᶜᵏ ʸᵒᵘ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵇᵉˡⁱᵉᵛᵉ」

 

Y/n and Tsuyu walked onto land as Tsu pulled Mineta by his yellow cape. Y/n glanced down at her gloved middle finger and thumb and flexed them. They ached a bit but it might be worse when she took them off.

"Are you okay?" Tsuyu and Mineta looked at the taller teen.

"Yeah." Y/n motioned her head to an exit. "We should take that exit, we should avoid the center plaza."

"Good idea, that way we won't run into the villains Mr. Aizawa's facing off with there."

The sound of villain's voices sounded from the plaza.

"Aizawa need backup, or he won't last much longer."

Mineta's eyes widened. "Wait don't tell me you're suggesting..."

Y/n nodded once. Her classmates stared at her bewildered.

"Are you trying to get us killed or something?"

Y/n frowned, looking at the male. "I'm not saying we jump in recklessly, but there's got to be some way to take out the outliers at least."

Mineta whined but ultimately followed the 2 girls, who peeked over a ledge. "Remember Y/n, we're just here to see how things are going, right?"

"Ribbit."

"Sure, whatever."

A good majority of the villains were scattered around as Aizawa kept moving. The hand man ran towards Aizawa who punched him in the gut but the success was short lived as the 3 teens realized that the hand on their teacher's elbow disintegrated his sleeve, before deteriorating the skin.

Y/n let out a low gasp at the sight.

Aizawa kicked him away, doing the same to a villain who tried getting behind him. The hand male went on to talk about how Aizawa's quirk wasn't suited to the current situation. The way he droned on made Y/n think he was a fan of the guy.

The giant mutation creature Y/n noticed earlier came up to Aizawa and swung a claw at him, slashing his face, knocking his goggles off. The 3 teens watched in horror as the nomu, as the blue haired male named it, continuously banged his head on the ground. The creature let out a roar, gripping Aizawa's arm and twisting it til a sickening crack was heard and the black haired man yelled in pain.

The hand guy stood across, watching. "You can erase people's powers, that's irritating, but it's nothing impressive. When faced with true devastating power you might as well be a quirkless child."

Aizawa tried using his quirk on the nomu but it slammed down on his other elbow, snapping it. The creature picked up Aizawa's head and banged it on the ground.

Mineta had tears in his eyes saying no and this time Y/n didn't blame him. She couldn't. "I can't watch this anymore. We should be getting out of here super fast shouldn't we?" He whimpered.

"Ribbit."

The portal man appeared next to the decayed quirk male. "Shigaraki Tomura."

"Kurogiri. Did you manage to kill Thirteen?"

"The rescue hero is out of commission, but there were students I was unable to dispose of and one of them got outside of the facility."

The blue haired male looked at him, scratching at his neck, thinking. The scratching progressively got harder as the scrawny male twitched and made weird noises. "Kurogiri, you fool. If you weren't our warp gate I'd tear apart every last atom in your body." The scratching stopped. "There's no way we can win if dozen's of pros show up to stop us. It's game over, back to the title screen. And I was looking forward to finishing this today, dammit." He looked at the warper. "Let's go home."

Mineta gasped. "Did I hear that right? Did he say they're going to just leave?"

"That's what it sounded like to me." Tsuyu said.

This time happy tears came to his eyes as he clung to Y/n tightly. She just sighed and pushed him away.

"I have a real bad feeling about this Y/n." Tsuyu looked at the girl.

The pink and h/c haired girl nodded. "Yeah, its weird they're leaving even if help is coming. They originally wanted to kill All Might."

"Oh, before we leave, let's make sure the symbol of peace is broken." Shigaraki turned and stared straight into Y/n's eyes. "Let's break his pride." He lunged at the two and reached both hands out towards Y/n and Tsuyu respectively. "Let's make this hurt!"

Y/n and Tsuyu froze with the knowledge they're about to die. Y/n's lip quivered. The only thing she could think about was what Shigaraki's quirk had done to her teacher's elbow. She can't die. Not now. After everything, all her hard work she was just going to be undone by some creepy guy who wanted to kill her mentor. She never got to confront her mother. She never got to tell her friends how much she enjoyed them and their company. She never got to tell All Might how happy she was he came into her life and treated her like family. She's gonna die with nothing to show for it.

Y/n felt his rough fingertips on her forehead and cheeks, waiting for the inevitable.

It never happened.

Shigaraki made a confused noise. "You really are so cool." He turned his head to Aizawa who was staring at them through his pain, quirk activated. "Erasurehead."

Unfortunately the nomu slammed down his head, breaking the spell.

While Shigaraki was distracted Y/n took the chance to aim a loaded punch at him. The force knocked back villains and threw water up as the ground shook. When the smoke cleared the nomu was right in front of her in place of Shigaraki, her first aimed at it's gut. The only problem was the punch didn't hurt the creature in any way. If this could handle her punch then All Might was screwed. That thought sent chills through the girls body.

"You're pretty strong." Shigaraki told her. "Are you one of All Might's disciples? Doesn't matter. I'm done with you now."

The nomu grabbed her arm brought his other arm down to crush her. Tsuyu reached her tongue out as Shigaraki's hands went towards her and Mineta this time.

A pair of doors got busted down, breaking the concentration.

All Might stood in all his glory. "I am here."

Everyone turned their attention to him.

"I knew something was wrong when Aizawa and Thirteen didn't answer any of my calls." All Might announced. "So I hurried over, running into young Iida on the way. He told me of the villainy at work here." He stepped closer to get a look at Aizawa and the 3 teens. "Have no fear students, because I am here."

It was weird to see All Might in buff form without a smile. Y/n honestly didn't know it was possible.

Shigaraki looked at the man. "After all this waiting, the heroic piece of trash shows up."

The hero cleared through the low ranking villains in his path as he steadily got closer to the 4 in direct trouble. He picked up Aizawa in his arms and looked over his condition. "I'm sorry Aizawa. I should have been here." He said solemnly. He turned to the teens watching him. Y/n swore his eyes glowed and the next thing she new, he flew by, with the 3 students in his arms as well.

The hand covering Shigaraki's face snapped off as All Might landed in front of him.

Mineta's eyes widened. "What the heck?"

"Everybody back to the entrance, take Aizawa with you, he doesn't have much time."

"Yes sir!"

"Ribbit."

Y/n stared at All Might.

Shigaraki started having what looked like a tantrum. "No no no, it wasn't supposed to go this way." He stumbled to the hand on the ground. "He's still strong father. Somehow he managed to hit me." He placed the object back on his face, calming down. "Of course a government hero relies on violence."

As he continued to mumble Y/n readjusted her teacher more comfortably on her back. She looked up at her mentor. "Time, All Might. that nomu creature, nothing phased it." She really hoped he understood what she was trying to say.

"Y/n," He looked back with a smile now back on his face. "I got this!"

Reluctantly, she turned away as Tsuyu and Mineta followed closely.

As All Might fought the ugly creature Mineta smiled. "Are you guys seeing this? That suplex looked like a large explosion. All Might's on a whole 'nother level!"

"And yet he still has to look at his notes when he's teaching us." Tsu commented.

Y/n tuned both of them out as she warily watched what was going on. There wasn't really anything she could do. That nomu was strong, she just had to hope All Might was stronger even though his time was used up. The girl watched as the smoke cleared up and halted at the position her mentor and the nomu was in, with that fucking portal under them.

The nomu's grip on All Might's side drew blood through his white shirt right where the injury was. The nomu and hero were sinking into the portal, intent on cutting through the blond's body.

"Shit. Asui."

The frog girl looked up. "What is it Y/n?"

"Carry Aizawa."

"Ribbit, sure, but what are you gonna do?"

Y/n ignored the question and ran towards the scene, disregarding Mineta yelling after her. She can't watch him die. Not yet. She'll do anything in her power to make sure this wasn't the end. She grabbed her switchblade and aimed it at Shigaraki. This Kurogiri guy clearly catered to Shigaraki, if she gets a hit on him, that'll have to distract him just long enough for All Might to get away. Throwing it, it made it halfway because Bakugo's bitch ass blew it up while aiming for Kurogiri.

"Get the hell out of my way Pinkie!" He grabbed Kurogiri's "neck" covering and slammed him on the ground.

Ice came and froze one side of the nomu's body through the portal to his wrist.

Glancing behind she saw Todoroki standing there. "I hate you guys." Y/n muttered low enough for no one to hear her. Of course they have to come before she has her "hero moment."

"One of your poorly trained thugs told me you're here because you think you can kill All Might." Todoroki said.

Y/n gave him a dirty look. She said that earlier.

All Might flipped out of the nomu's hold, holding his injured side.

Then Kirishima flipped in and tried getting Shigaraki who dodged. "Damn, that was gonna be cool."

The four students and All Might stood across the 3 villains.

Shigaraki turned to his ally. "Kurogiri, how could you let this brat get the best of you? You've gotten us into a real jam here."

Bakugo scoffed, his hand at the ready on the portal man's neck. "You got careless ya dumb villain. It wasn't hard to figure you out. Only certain parts of you turned into that smoking warp gate, you the mist to hide your actual body as a kind of distraction thinking that made you safe. That's why we missed." He was referring to earlier. "But if you didn't have a body you wouldn't be wearing this neck armor right? You're not immune to physical attacks that are well aimed."

Y/n resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

Bakugo made a mini explosion on the armor. "Don't move. You try anything funny and I'll blow your ass up so bad that they'll be piecing you back together for weeks."

"Very heroic douchebag." Y/n commented.

Shigaraki watched. "They escaped uninjured and captured my 2 strongest men. Kids these days really are amazing. They make the League of Villains look like amateurs. Can't have that." He looked down at the mutation. "Nomu."

The creature sunk down into the portal, to Todoroki's surprise, and came back up from the other side. It's frozen arm and leg was broken off but the leftover ice shattered and it regenerated like nothing.

All Might's eyes widened. Y/n was right about nothing phasing it. "What is that thing? I thought you said it's powers were shock absorption!?"

"I didn't say that was his only quirk, he also had super regeneration. Nomu has been modified to take you on even at 100% of your power. He's basically a highly efficient punching bag that hits back."

Y/n and Todoroki readied their stance.

"But first we need to free our method of escape. Get him nomu."

The nomu ran towards Bakugo and sent a punch, the force sending back Y/n, Kirishima, and Todoroki.

The bi-colored male groaned as his female classmate's back made contact with his stomach. He opened his eyes to see her slumped against him, not in pain because he cushioned most of it. The 2 watched as the smoke cleared, the nomu was staring right at them but there was no Bakugo in sight.

"Wha...." Y/n trailed off, Todoroki and Kirishima following her gaze seeing Bakugo near them, silently staring at where he once was. She quickly stood.

"Did you dodge him?" Todoroki questioned.

"No he didn't" Y/n interrupted. "He's not quick enough for that."

The spiky haired male frowned. "You-"

"You're not and you fucking know it." She snapped.

"Then how'd he get over here?" Kirishima asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Todoroki looked to the trail that led to All Might, who was coughing.

"These are kids and you didn't hold back?"

Shigaraki stepped forward. "I didn't have much choice. He was threatening my companion. Besides these kids are no angels." He pointed at them. "That girl over there, she tried to kill me with a maxed out punch."

Y/n ignored the eyes of the 3 closest to her, continuing to glare at the blue haired male. "Well y'know, I don't feel like I have much choice when you try disintegrating my face."

"What kind of hero does something like that?" Shigaraki taunted as if he didn't hear her. "You think you can get away with being as violent as you want if you say it's for the sake of others. Well you know what All might? That pisses me off. Why do people get to decide that some violent acts are heroic and some are villainous? Casting judgement as what's good and evil, you think you're the symbol of peace?" He scoffed. "You're just another government sponsored instrument of violence. And violence always brings more violence. I'll make sure the world understands that when you're dead."

"You're nothing but a lunatic. Criminals like you always try to make your actions sound noble, but admit it, you're only doing this because you like it. Isn't that right?"

"We've got them out numbered." Todoroki stated.

Y/n nodded. "And Bakugo found one of that Kurogiri guy's weakness."

"These dudes might act really tough but we can take 'em down now with All Might's help." Kirishima hardened his arms. "Let's do this."

All Might stopped them. "Don't attack. Get out of here." He tried ushering the students away.

Y/n scoffed. "You know you can't handle that thing on your own."

"I appreciate the help, but this is different. It's gonna be alright, just sit back and watch a pro at work." He gave the girl a discreet thumbs up, but it did nothing to calm down her nerves.

Standing across from the hero, Shigaraki spoke up. "Nomu, Kurogiri, kill him. I'll deal with the children." He ran towards the children.

All Might and the nomu lunged at each other, fists connecting, the force sending everyone back once again, but this time, the punches didn't stop, they kept coming.

The four students huddled near each other struggling to keep their balance as the fight went on. Pieces of the ground were beginning to kick up. Y/n squinted her eyes as she watched her mentor go at 100%.

With a strong punch the nomu was sent back and the hero jumped after it, continuing the onslaught of punching. Throwing the creature in the air, he followed in suit and slammed the mutation on the ground, creating a huge impact.

The four students watched in awe.

"Holy shit." Y/n spoke. "Why didn't anyone tell me how cool he was?"

The nomu bounced up from the impact and while mid air sent one last powered up strike at it's gut, sending it crashing out of the dome into the sky.

"He beat the shock absorption right out of him." Kirishima vocalized his amazement. "I've never seen that kind of brute strength."

"With power like that, he must have been punching that monster so fast it couldn't regenerate." Bakugo remarked.

Y/n smile that was directed at the hero dissipated when she saw smoke coming out from his body. Time's up.

All Might turned to the scrawny male staring at him. "You've been bested villains."

Shigaraki was shaking as Kurogiri stood behind him menacingly.

"Surrender, we all want to get this over with quickly."

"He cheated." Shigaraki mumbled, scratching at his neck. He disregarded that thought and continued. "This doesn't make sense, he's still as strong as he used to be. Unless I was lied to..."

"What's wrong?" All Might taunted him. "Not attacking me? Didn't you say you were going to 'clear this level' earlier? We'll come get me, if you dare."

Shigaraki flinched back.

"Man, this is...intense." Bakugo mumbled.

"As expected," Todoroki said. "There's no reason to fight now, he'll handle this."

"Come on Y/n, we should regroup with the other guys." Kirishima called the girl. "The last thing we want to do is get taken hostage or get in his way."

Y/n opted to not answer the red head. She couldn't leave him here. He can't beat them. She can barely see the steam, but it's there, it's the tell-tale sign that he's about to deflate. He's doing his best to hold it off in front of everyone. She could see the slight tremors in his body.

Maybe her best bet could be trying to get them from behind.

Yeah that could work.

She slowly turned and began heading after the boys to come up with a plan but before she could get very far the sound of All Might yelling out.

A searing pain hit Y/n's knee. It felt like it had been set on fire while simultaneously being stabbed. All she knew was that it hurt.

The scream she let out made the three males ahead of her whip around and see Shigaraki on top of the girl with a hand fully on her knee.

Kirishima let out a strangled gasp as he watched the fabric of her pants disintegrate, next being her skin, drawing out blood. He was the first to run towards the girl with the other two following.

Y/n had one hand on the male's shoulder while the other flailed around herself, trying to find something to hit him with.

Shigaraki moved his hand to her neck, placing four fingers on her neck. "How pitiful. All Might's doing nothing to stop me. I guess he doesn't really care for students, huh?"

Kirishima grabbed Y/n's flailing hand as Todoroki shot ice at Shigaraki, knocking him off the girl. The redhead pulled her close to him as she moved her hands to her knee.

A bullet came whizzing by the group and hit Shigaraki's shoulder, knocking him back further. The students and All might turned their heads to the entrance.

"They're here." All Might smiled, relieved.

The hero with a gun shot more bullets that seemed to have a mind of their own as they whizzed away in certain directions.

"Sorry we're a bit late, but I got the teachers here as fast as I could." The white mouse thing said, sitting on top of some big guy's shoulder.

"Your class rep has returned! I've fulfilled my duty and brought reinforcements!" Iida announced.

The lower classed villains had begun attacking them but they were taken out by the teachers in no time.

"The pros are here." Shigaraki backed up to the portal. "It's game over for real." He was clutching his shoulder. "Let's go home and try-" Another bullet was shot into his forearm and 2 went into his knees knocking him down but the warp gate covered him beginning to teleport away but struggled due to Thirteen using her quirk on them.

As they passed by Shigaraki stared at Y/n. "I am going to kill you."

Y/n glared at him harshly.

Not if she killed him first.

They teleported away.

Kirishima swallowed harshly as he watched the blood continue to seep from her injury. "Are you okay Y/n?"

"What kind of dumbass question is that Shitty Hair?" Bakugou glared at the other male. "Her knee got disintegrated!"

Kirishima winced. "Hey, it's a good question to ask!" He tried defending himself, but it came out a bit weak. "And her leg is still there, so she's not put out of hero work."

Y/n took deep breaths as she watched the red liquid, trying to calm the pounding in her head. She really wished they'd stop talking like she wasn't right there. "Are you guys just gonna stand there, or is one of you gonna hand me a bandage?" She snapped.

The spiky haired males fell silent, not having anything for injuries. Todoroki just shook his head.

"The top three heroes are guys..." She muttered to herself. "Society is doomed."

A humanoid block of cement walked up to them. "For your safety you boys should join your classmates at the front gate. Leave the injured to us so we can take care of them."

Kirishima reluctantly nodded, giving Y/n a reassuring pat on the shoulder before trailing after Bakugo and Todoroki.

The cement man made a cement wall, blocking her and All Might off from outside viewers.

All Might kneeled. "Thanks for that. You saved my butt Cementoss."

"My pleasure, I'm actually a big fan of yours."

Y/n deadpanned. Who wasn't apparently?

"We should sneak you out of here, get you both to the nurses office. Seriously All Might, that could have been really bad." Cementoss spoke as he wrapped a bandage around Y/n's knee, muttering a 'sorry' to her when she hissed.

"I had to act recklessly or else I'd be dead now. It just goes to show how strong those villains were." His eyes met Y/n's.

In an ambulance, Y/n looked up at the Number 1 Hero. "Are you alright?" She noticed how half of him had withered to his small form, so he looked really deformed.

"I am. You bought me a few vital seconds. If not for that I'd be dead now. Y/n, you've saved me once again."

Y/n pursed her lips. "Yeah, but can this not be a regular thing? I don't like it." She shook her head.

He gave a pained laugh, slumping over. "I don't know if I can promise that." His eyes traveled to her knee, staring at it in remorse. "I'm sorry I couldn't do anything about that."

She slightly shrugged. "It's really not your fault. I should be paying attention to my surroundings, especially around villains." She tried flexing her leg but groaned in pain and set it back in its place. Blood began to seep through the bandages.

Toshinori handed her some more. This was the 3rd time the bandages had to be changed. He was worried about the amount of blood she was losing.

He doesn't think he'll be able to forget how she screamed either.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

In the nurse's office Y/n sat in the bed next to All Might who was bandaged up lying down, his feet sticking over the railings.

Her arm still felt like it was broken, and while it hadn't been put in a sling again, she kept it strictly on her stomach and avoided moving it. Her knee had been healed but the scarring it left looked ugly in Y/n's opinion. There was pain when walking on it, and Recovery Girl said she might get phantom pains, as well as limp at times.

Recovery Girl sighed. "Well I guess I won't scold you for her being back here since it wasn't your fault."

"I can't be sure yet, but I think I shortened my time limit again with that fight." The male rasped. "I hope I can still hold the form for an hour."

"You prolonged everything too much huh?" The teen asked, already knowing the answer.

Her mentor sat up. "There's no use worrying, these things happen."

The door to the office opened and a pretty man wearing a tan trench coat and hat walked in. "Excuse me," He took his hat off and smiled. "Hey All Might, been awhile."

"What the hell!?" He spit blood over the blanket. "I didn't know that you were investigating!"

"He knows too?"

The skeletal man nodded. "Yeah, he's trustworthy."

"Tell everybody at this point." The girl mumbled.

"Tsukauchi Naomasa, my best friend on the police force. He's legit."

The man chuckled. "That's quite an introduction. Sorry to cut to the chase but we could really use any information you might have."

"Hold on before all that, tell me all the students are okay? And Aizawa, Eraserhead, and Thirteen."

Y/n listened intently for the answer, hoping they were.

"Not counting this girl the only student injuries were scrapes." He smiled at the female.

"Why is everybody acting like I broke my neck?"

"And both of the teachers are in stable condition right now, relax."

Y/n's shoulders untensed and All Might softly smiled. "That's good to hear."

"If you heroes hadn't risked your lives the students would never have made it. You three saved an entire class of kids today." The detective praised.

"You're not seeing the whole picture Tsukauchi. Those students also risked their lives. They fought as hard as us. I don't think there's been a group of first years who experienced a fight like this so early in their training. They not only survived, they learned what it means to be a pro. Those villains made a mistake attacking them. This class is strong. They're filled with courage and drive."

The other 3 in the room with him listened to his mini speech intently.

"Mark my words, they'll become great heroes."

Nearing the night, Y/n finally decided to leave and let All Might sleep, bidding goodnight to the 2 elders and leaving the building. Outside she was tackled in a hug by Uraraka, happy to know her best friend was okay.

Hearing a sound of pain leaving the girl's lips, the shorter teen lurched back, scared she touched an injury. "Sorry!"

"It's just my knee." Y/n informed her, guiding them to the train station, trying to hide her limp.

"Kirishima said that man, Shigaraki, touched your knee. He said your skin disintegrated." Uraraka's eyes traveled to her wrapped up knee.

"...Yeah...Recovery Girl said I'll be limping for a while, but it was lucky his quirk didn't reach the bone, or I wouldn't be walking right now." Y/n let Uraraka grab her good arm to help guide her. "But everything else is fine."

As Uraraka dived deep into a one-sided conversation about how worried she was, Y/n's thoughts began drifting towards other matters.

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Sports festival is going to bring a big plot twist, some heavy family lore, and the beginning of awaiting love interests

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (48%) +8%
Iida (30%) +9%
Bakugo (4%) +2%
Momo (15%) +6%
Kirishima (16%) +6%
Sero (7%) +1%
Jiro (20%) +1%
Tsuyu (28%) +18%
Kaminari (4%) +3%
Todoroki (1%) +1%

Chapter 7: 𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙠 𝙥𝙞𝙚

「ˢʰᵉ ᵗᵒᵒᵏ ᵐʸ ᶠⁱⁿᵍᵉʳˢ ᵗᵒ ʰᵉʳ ᵐᵒᵘᵗʰ
ᵗʰᵉ ᵏⁱⁿᵈ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵏᵉˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᵖʳᵒᵘᵈ」

 

"My life's never gonna be the same, is it?" F/n rhetorically asked.

Harlan watched his best friend pace around the room. "Relax, maybe it won't be that bad."

​​​​​"Not bad!?" F/n spun around to glare at the other male. "Harlan, do you not understand how serious this is for me? I specifically told Hikaru when we first entered this relationship that I didn't want a kid. And now she's pregnant!"

Harlan pursed his lips at his friend's snappy attitude. As much as it bothered him when people spoke to him like that, he did think F/n feelings were valid. "I know it's serious alright? But I don't think it's the end of your world. You not wanting kids isn't what's bothering you. What is it?"

F/n dropped himself down on the seat by his best friend. "I can't be a parent! I can barely take care of myself!"

Harlan frowned. "You act like Hikaru wanted to get pregnant."

F/n shrugged again. He was lost. "Harley, a child." He reiterated like it couldn't be said enough.

"...You can sign over your rights." Harlan immediately regretted the words the second they came out of his mouth, but with the way F/n looked so hopeful, he couldn't bring himself to advise him not to.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

F/n couldn't help the small gasp that came from his mouth as he held a baby girl steady in his arms. He cooed and reached a finger out to her. "...Harley...she's so tiny."

Harlan leaned over his best friend's shoulder with a warm smile. He knew it. "Well yeah, babies are usually pretty small."

"Did Hikaru name her yet?"

"Nah," Harlan sat next to the h/c haired male. "She's passed out right now, but a nurse told me she offered for you to name the kid." He watched his friend smile at the baby, he wasn't sure he was heard. "It's too bad." Harlan abruptly stood and pulled the baby girl out of F/n arms.

"What the hell!?" F/n snapped as he stood as well. He flinched back when he heard the baby stir from his outburst.

"What?" Harlan gave him a weird look. "You're signing over parental rights, remember. Personally, I don't think you should name the kid. Stay here, I'm gonna go drop him off at the nursery."

F/n stopped his friend. "Her. Not him." He swallowed tensely and looked at the baby. "...I think I want to keep my rights."

Harlan didn't look surprised one bit. "What changed your mind? Just holding a newborn baby for 5 minutes. Sorry to spoil the fun, but they don't stay quiet like this." He tried not to jerk the baby around. "You're just experiencing baby fever, it'll go away in a month."

"But what if it doesn't? Harley, I don't want to regret my decision."

"So, what do you want?"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n was in that stage of childhood where everything needed to be asked about. Thankfully, her dad and godfather didn't see them as dumb questions, and often gave fulfilling answers.

"How did you name me?"

F/n glanced away from his paperwork to see his daughter sitting by the windows of his office, watching the people below. They had no idea there was a child watching their every move from the second floor of the hero agency. "My mother's name was Y/n. She was quirkless too."

That caught Y/n's attention. She moved from her spot and got closer to the desk. "Really?"

He nodded. "My father's quirk was teleportation. They were second generation quirk users if I'm right, so quirks were pretty much still coming in. I'm third generation, you're fourth. It's not unusual for people to not have quirks, but-"

"-It's society;" Harlan barged into the office. He jumped over to the couch near the windows and put his legs up on the coffee table. "Society will never be accepting of those different."

"Harlan." F/n hissed. He loved his best friend but hated it when he would only tell Y/n about the negatives. He wasn't wrong about any of them, but still.

Harlan waved him off. "Yeah, yeah, I know. Don't be depressing around the kid." Harlan grinned at the girl and waved her over, tossing her a book, chuckled as she fumbled to not drop it.

"Old music stars." She read the title, flipping to the table of contents. "Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley...what's this for?"

Harlan took his feet off the table and laid down fully. "If you can't have a quirk, you have talents that lie elsewhere. That's what I'm here for. I'm gonna teach you about music first."

Y/n glanced down at the picture of one of the musical artists. Harlan was a handful for her.

She never minded though.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n felt like she was dreaming. She held the black umbrella over her head, much like the others gathered in the cemetery. She blocked out most of the heroes who were up at the podium talking about how much of a great hero he was. She only found enough energy to listen to Harlan when it was his turn.

He drew in a shaky breath. "The last time F/n and me spoke, we had a fight."

Y/n's eyes widened slightly. They never fought.

"It was my fault...even if it wasn't I couldn't find it in myself to ever be mad at him. F/n was my first friend, my only friend growing up. He's always had an impact on my life. No matter what I did or what choice I made he was always there. I never would have thought twice about becoming a hero if it wasn't for him. He saved me, in every way that a person can be saved."

He paused for a few seconds, trying to keep his voice steady. "He has a daughter, something not many know, due to him wanting to keep her safe."

He focused his eyes on Y/n. It felt like he was speaking to her only. "A bit after she was born, he told me how he had nightmares of him not being able to keep her safe. I always did my best to reassure him it would stop after she got her quirk." He paused, unsure.

Y/n slowly nodded.

"She never got one. That never once stopped him from loving her. I would argue it made him love her even more, reminding him of his mother. He wanted to make it so she would never have to worry about someone trying to attack her for her quirk status. He almost had a law passed for it, but it was shot down." He gave a deprecating laugh. "He's a good person, a good father, a good hero, something that's harder to find nowadays. I know that she'll carry on his memory, with whatever she does." Harlan gave her a watery smile. He bowed his head to the small crowd and walked down.

He stepped beside Y/n and pulled him close to his side.

After the funeral, Harlan stole her away from her mother and took her to a small diner. The rain had begun coming down harder not too long after.

Y/n watched him stir some sugar into his coffee. "Harley?"

"Yeah Kid?"

"How come dad never found someone else to love?"

Harlan paused in his stirring. He quickly brought the cup up to his mouth and sipped it, ignoring the scorching heat going down his throat. "He was scared."

"What?" Y/n frowned. "Who's scared of love?"

"Everyone's scared of love kid, you learn that in your 20s."

"Dumb." Y/n deadpanned.

"You're dumb." Harlan shot back. "If you're in love, then you're happy. Happiness is a trap, it can't last forever. Let's say you meet the love of your life, it's still gonna end. Whether by the slow pole of a disease, or the shock of loose footing on a hiking trail, whether the old stranger in a bar who says the things that needed to be said on that night, or the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they're incompatible."

He gave her a twisted smile. "You don't think Hikaru was always like that, did you?" He watched Y/n slowly come to a realization and slump back against the booth seating.

Harlan thanked the waitress when she refilled his cup before leaving. "The point is, happiness always ends." He stirred in some more sugar. "Best case scenario is that you die at the same time." He slammed the coffee again.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n liked cats.

All the ones she had come across in her life had been kind enough to her, save for a few scratches, but that was just from being startled. Y/n never once took it personally.

She still remembers the pretty blond girl whose eyes reminded Y/n of a cat. She remembered watching her as she walked by her desk, practically every day. Y/n got along enough with the people in her class, but never went out of her way to hang out with them outside of school unless there was a school project. She spent most of her time at home or outside working on the garden she started out of boredom.

"Excuse me?" A quiet voice came from her left.

Y/n glanced over and realized it was the blond girl. "Hmm?"

"I'm Toga Himiko." She smiled and scooted closer, showing off her fangs. "I just wanted to tell you how amazing you looked yesterday." At Y/n confused look she tried clearing it up. "With the cats in the alley. I saw you." Her grin stretched wider.

Y/n paused. This girl walks the same way she does? Why hasn't she noticed? "Oh, uh, you can come with me I guess, since I'm going again today?" She couldn't help but turn it into a question. Was she blind to not notice her?

Toga perked up. "Really? Thank you N/n!" She skipped off without wanting anything else.

The black haired girl slumped against her desk as the teacher came in. Her questions didn't stop gnawing at her during the whole class period. She spent the rest of her school day on autopilot.

After school, Y/n halfheartedly waved to some of her classmates as they passed her to go home. She glanced behind her when she saw Toga bounding up to her side.

"I was worried you'd leave without me."

The black haired girl shrugged slightly. "I'm not someone who really goes back on their words. Are you ready?"

Toga nodded as they left the school. Y/n realized Toga seemed to take a lot of pleasure just from watching the world pass by her, maybe that's why she jumped at the chance to see the cats too.

The cats were in an alley between some apartments as the two came near. Y/n slowed Toga down before she could scare off the animals. She went ahead first and crouched by the "shelter" she made for them (a crate with blankets). She brought out some cat food for them and placed it in their bowls, the second they started chowing down, she gestured for the blond to come closer.

Toga set herself on her knees beside the other girl and watched them with fascination. She never really paid much attention to animals unless they were bleeding. These were cared for animals. They looked content. Toga thought it was nice.

That day, Y/n and Himiko found homes for the 4 cats, and Y/n walked Toga home.

The next day, Toga informed Y/n that a group of cats was called a clowder.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"You're not quirkless?" Y/n sat up from her spot on the blanket and looked down at Himiko. "You lied to me."

Toga jumped up. "That's different!" She quickly grabbed Y/n's arm so she couldn't leave. "Please, you have to believe me! I didn't want you to leave me if you knew what it was."

Y/n took a deep breath to calm herself. "Fine. What's your quirk?" She heard Toga sniff.

"If I consume someone's blood, I can transform myself to look exactly like them."

"Why would that make me leave?" She looked at the blond confused.

"I...I like blood...I like the taste..." Toga grew quiet.

That made a lot more sense to Y/n. She couldn't be mad. If their friends at school knew...it'd be a mess. "Have you ever..."

"When I was 6, to this boy, he was bullying me. I got angry...I was expelled. My parents were so angry." Himiko began hiccuping as she began crying.

Y/n silently panicked but brought Toga into her arms to calm her down. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. I didn't mean to get mad either." She rubbed her hands up and down the blond's back to soothe her. "I'm not leaving. It doesn't change anything." She felt Toga grip onto her tighter.

"Promise?"

"I promise Himiko. You'll always be my favorite."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"Photography!" Toga blurted out, spinning around to face Y/n.

"Heh?"

"You can do photography! You know, take pictures! You'd be awesome at it!"

Y/n hummed and took a sip of her drink. "I don't really know, I never thought about it."

That was apparently what Toga wanted to hear, seeing as she dragged Y/n straight to the library and found a book on photography, slamming it down in front of Y/n, getting harshly shushed by the librarian.

Y/n gave her a look. "You thought this out."

Himiko shrugged with a grin. "I had to. Look." She flipped it open.

Photography, method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw"), was first used in the 1830s.

The black haired girl glanced at her friend, who kept the same grin on her face, gesturing for her to read more. It delved deep into the history and evolution of photography. It was a lot so Y/n skimmed through most of it.

"So?"

Y/n lightly scoffed. "I can't immediately be interested in something right off the bat."

Toga moved to stand behind her and leaned against her. "I can make you eat your words."

"Yeah? Try it.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n woke to someone frantically pounding on her front door. She fell asleep on the couch watching a series of movies about a wizard boy. She barely made it to the fourth movie when she dozed off. The credits for it were rolling when she woke.

Y/n stumbled up from the couch and pushed the curtain back slightly to see who it was. Whoever it was was too close to the door for her to see.

"N/n!"

The black haired girl quickly perked up when she heard the voice sound through the loud rain. She quickly unlocked the door and a dripping wet Toga barreled past her. "Himi, what's wrong? Are you alright? Did your parents do something!?"

Toga spun around with a lump in her arms. "I'm fine, but I need your help. I found him alone in the rain. Please!"

Y/n leaned over her and the lump and pulled back the sweater Himiko wrapped around whatever it was. She jumped back at what she saw. "What the hell!? That's a raccoon! Get that thing out!" She quickly stepped to the back of the couch as the blond helplessly followed her.

"Wait, Y/n please!"

"No those things are feral!" Y/n ran to the kitchen.

"I don't want him to die!" Toga wailed. "I don't want to hurt him!"

Y/n paused. "I...Himi..."

"Please." This time when Toga moved closer, Y/n didn't step away. "Help."

Y/n stared between the blond and the shaking baby raccoon.

Maybe the quicker she helped the animal the quicker it can get the hell out of her house.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"N/n?" Toga down the halls, looking for Y/n. She asked some classmates and the answer was either "I don't know" or "I saw her go somewhere with Tsuneyuki."

That did nothing but worry her more. Those two hated each other. Y/n would never go somewhere with Tsuneyuki willingly.

All she knows is she hated not knowing where the girl was.

She hated what she came across even more.

Y/n was slumped against one of the bathroom stalls as she looked about ready to pass out.

"Y/n!" Toga dropped by her side, doing her best to ignore the open cuts from her wounds. "No no no no what happened?"

She groaned as she tried adjusting herself. "Tsun...Tsuneyuki..." She took a deep breath. "...and some others, I don't...fucker pulled a knife on me." She whispered and clenched her jaw as tight as she could. "I didn't want anyone to see..."

"So you dragged yourself into the bathroom?" Toga continuously moved her hands around Y/n, but didn't dare touch her. "Y/n, what do I do? I don't wanna hurt you." She whispered.

Y/n could feel her vision getting more blurry but tried to fight it. She was worried about Himiko. "Shit."

Toga licked her lips. She shook as she took a deep breath, trying to keep her urges at bay, but it felt like every breath she took made it harder. What does she do? She didn't want to hurt Y/n. She thought she was doing a good job at keeping her wants at bay around Y/n, but that was only because Y/n had never had blood coming straight out of her like she was at this moment.

She wasn't getting better.

She only thought she was.

She can't control her urges.

Y/n would understand that right?

She could explain once Y/n woke up.

Y/n wouldn't be mad.

Right?

Right?

Right?

Toga never got an answer for that. She was pulled from her bliss as another girl screamed at the sight before running off to get a teacher. She had to run.

She had to.

"She had a straw in Y/n's wound...and was...it was like she was in a trance, like...She...she had such a repulsive look on her face...She was always hanging off Y/n's arm...it makes me sick, to wonder if she had this planned all along..."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n slid open the classroom door to see everyone's heads snap over to her.

"Y/n!"

She lurched back as a majority of the girls ran towards her, telling her their worries after what Kirishima told them. "I'm fine. I'm alive."

"How's your knee, ribbit?" Tsuyu asked, eyes trained on the bandage.

"It's still healing, and I'll be able to keep studying here."

Iida ran in. "Attention! Homeroom class is about to begin! Everyone stop talking and take your seats!"

Y/n walked to the back of the class and sat in her seat between Todoroki and Momo as the front door slid open and there Aizawa stood, covered head to toe in bandages. "Morning class."

Y/n snickered as the class shouted worries at him.

He walked to the podium slowly like a zombie. "My well being is irrelevant. What's more important is your fight isn't over yet."

"Our fight?"

"Not more bad guys!"

"The U.A sports festival is about to start." The teacher announced.

The worry swiftly shifted to excitement. "Let's go kick some ass!"

Kirishima's face was pushed away by Kaminari. "Wait a minute."

"Is it really a good idea to hold the sports festival so soon after the villains snuck inside?"

"They could attack once we're all in the same place."

Aizawa heaved out a sigh. "Apparently the administration thinks this is a good way to show that the threat has been handled and the school is safer than ever."

Y/n stared blankly. The main guy that caused all this got away and they think the threat was handled?

"Plus they're beefing up security compared to past years. This event is a huge opportunity for all students at U.A, it's not something we can cancel because of a few villains." Honestly they could they just don't want to.

Mineta raised his hand. "Uh I'm sorry but why not? It's just a sports festival."

Ojiro spoke up from his place at the front. "Mineta don't you know how important this competition is?"

"Of course I do, I just don't wanna get murdered."

"Our sports festival is one of the most watched events in the entire world. In the past everyone still obsessed over the Olympic games, but then quirks started appearing. Now the Olympics have been drastically reduced in terms of skills and viewership. For anyone who cares about competition, there's only one tournament that matters: the U.A sports festival."

Y/n never bothered to watch the sports festival when it aired on television. Y/n held a lot more care for the Olympics Aizawa mentioned earlier. It had always been so interesting to her, a time before quirks, people pushed their body to the max to prove what they could do. Something they've been training for their whole lives, now reduced to practically nothing, only really enjoyed by really old timers. Y/n had a set of videos from the past 10 Olympics, and watched them whenever the time they used to take place was.

Some of the class talked about getting scouted and how it'll be amazing.

"It's true that joining a famous hero agency can garner you greater experience and popularity, that's why the festival matters. If you wanna go pro one day then this event could open a path for you. One chance a year, three chances in a lifetime, no aspiring hero can afford to miss this festival. That means means you better not slack off on your training."

"Yes sir!"

"Class is dismissed."

After modern literature, it was lunchtime.

"That villain stuff sucked, sure, but I'm pumped for these games!" Kirishima cheered.

"We put on a good show, and we're basically on the road to being pros!"

Y/n sat on the desk next to Iida. "Confession? I've never seen the sports festival."

Iida stared at her incredulously. "How could you not?" He stood and spread his arms out. "We enrolled in the school with the sole aim to become heroes! It's practically a must to watch!"

Y/n bit her tongue.

"Naturally I think we should all get fired up." He did some dance moves.

Tsuyu looked over. "Wow Iida, those are some interesting moves, ribbit."

Iida pointed his friend. "You have to be excited too, right Y/n?"

"Uhhhhh..." Y/n tilted her head. "A chance to fight people without consequences? You know what, hell yeah." She was gonna have to binge on these sports festival videos tonight, maybe she should invite her 2 best friends.

"That's the spirit..." Iida sweat dropped.

"Y/n. Iida." Said teens turned to Uraraka who was staring at them with a dark look on her face. "Let's do our best in the sports festival."

"Are you okay Ochaco?"

Mina peeked behind the tall girl. "Yeah what's up? You and Y/n are the most laid back girls ever."

Uraraka put her fist up. "Everyone, I'm gonna do my best!" Iida, Mina, and Tsuyu gave her a cheer. She turned to her classmates on the other side. "I said I'm gonna do my best!" These guys gave her weaker cheers.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

The 3 friends were in the hallway heading to the cafeteria.

Y/n glanced at the brown haired girl. "Ochaco?"

"What's up?"

"What made you decide you wanted to be a hero?"

Uraraka became bashful. "Oh, well, because..."

"Money?" Y/n was honestly surprised. That wasn't something she'd expect from the calm girl. "You wanna be rich?"

"If we're cutting to the chase, then yeah." She rubbed the back of her head. "I'm sorry if that sounds greedy, Iida has such an admirable motivation. And you..." Uraraka trailed off when she realized she didn't know why Y/n wanted to become a hero. "Anyway I hope you two don't think less of me now."

"Not at all!" Iida squashed her concerns. "You're goal is to support your well being which is a perfectly admirable ambition to have."

Y/n nodded in agreement. "Mhm, it's just kinds surprising."

The short female sighed. "Well you see, my family owns a construction company, but we haven't gotten any work lately so we're flat broke. This isn't something I usually tell other people but..."

Iida put a hand under his chin. "Construction? If you got listened you could use your quirk to bring cost down a lot, and they could sell their heavy lifting equipment, you could float everything." He thought.

"I know right!? I've been telling dad that ever since I was a kid but...." She told them was her dad had told her when she was a toddler. "I'm gonna become a pro. I'll sign with a good agency and make plenty of money, then I'll be able to let my parents have an easy life." She looked so determined it moved the two standing across her.

Iida clapped his hands above his head. "That's beautiful! So noble! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!" As Iida continued, Uraraka nervously watched the girl in front of her.

"I think that makes you more admirable."

That caught the 2 off guard. "Huh?"

"You're doing this for your parents, and you made it into one of the hardest schools to ever get into. You probably didn't get any hardcore training like Iida and me. Everything you did on your own with just your parent's support right?"

She nodded.

"It's your drive that got you here, and if it stays it'll be your drive that keeps you here. That's something to be proud of." Y/n told her friend.

Ochaco smiled at the girl with happy tears in her eyes. "Thank you!"

Iida peered at the taller female. "What about you Y/n?"

"What about me?"

"What's your reason for wanting to become a hero?"

Y/n paused. "Well...I don't really know if it'll be considered noble..."

Booming laughter cut her off as the trio looked to see All Might. "Young Y/n, IS HERE!"

"Uh, hey, what's up?"

"Lunch!" He brought a little bento box that was wrapped in cloth that was sky blue with bunny heads on it. "Wanna eat with me?"

"That's adorable!" Uraraka cried.

"What do you say!?"

Y/n took a glance at Iida who gave an encouraging nod. "Alright." She turned her body walking backwards. "I see you guys later." This guy really knew how to make it obvious.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"50 minutes!? Are you serious?"

All Might added hot water to the green tea. "Yeah, that's how long I can use my powers now. I overdid it too many times. That nomu was a real tough customer. It took a lot out of me, at this point I can barely look like All Might for an hour and a half."

Y/n stayed silent.

"Here, have some tea." He placed a cup in front of her.

"Thanks."

"I brought you here to talk about the festival. Are you going to keep using the iron soles and gauntlets?"

Y/n stared at him, confused. "Can I? I thought we have to wear the gym uniforms only."

"That's usually the case, however there are exceptions if it has to do with your quirk. If there is support gear that aids your quirk, especially if It stops your quirk from harming you." He slid a paper in front of her. "I took the liberty of already grabbing you a form."

As the girl looked it over, Toshinori stood and strode to the window, staring out.

"To be frank, I don't have much time left as the symbol of peace. Soon I'll have to put that title to bed. Some villains out there are starting to notice that. Someone has to step up and keep the people safe." He turned to the girl. "I gave you my power for one reason: cause you will be the hero who takes my place. This sports festival, it's something that the pros, no, the entire country will be watching very closely. I want you to think of this sports festival as your debut. You are the fledgling symbol of peace. The next All Might. L/n Y/n, I want you to introduce yourself to the world and proudly say "I am here!""

Y/n stared at the adult.

"Do you know how the sports festival is set up?"

The silence that followed told All Might everything he needed to know.

"Students are separated by class year, and then the support, business, general studies, and hero courses all fight against each other in a bunch of preliminary trials. Whoever makes it through the initial games face off in the finals. It's basically a free for all til the very end."

"And I take as many chances as I can to get noticed?" The girl clarified.

"Exactly. Some heroes always aim for the top while others happily settle. The difference in those two mindsets has a big impact on how far you go in the real world. I want you to aim for the top Y/n. Don't settle." He advised. "I understand I'm projecting a bit of myself on you, however I hope in the future you'll gain the emotions to encourage yourself more."

"I know...This is how I can begin to change society, right."

Toshinori nodded. "Fight hard."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

At the end of class, 1-A was blocked from leaving was a crowd of students from other classes.

"Why the heck are you all here!?" Uraraka looked at them along with the others.

"Do you students have some sort of business with our class?" Iida asked beside Y/n.

Mineta ran up by her "Why are you blocking our doorway? I won't let you hold us hostage!" The girl pushed his head down.

"They're scouting out the competition idiots." Bakugou passed them. "We're the class the survived a real villain attack, they want to see us with their own eyes." He stopped right in front of the crowd. "At least now you know what a future pro looks like. Now move it extras."

Y/n facepalmed.

"You can't just go around calling people extras because you don't know who they are!" Iida scolded him.

"So this is class 1-A." A voice called out. A messy purple haired boy pushed his way through the crowd to look at the class. "I heard you guys were impressive, but you just sound like an ass. Is everyone in the hero course delusional or just you?"

Bakugou sneered.

"How sad to come here and find a bunch of ego maniacs. I wanted to be in the hero course, but like many others here I was forced to choose a different track, such as life."

Y/n watched the stare down between the guy and Bakugo. Him not ending up in the hero course wasn't their faults, at the end of the day it would fall on the faculty who put them in general studies and the others.

"I didn't cut it the first time around, but I have another chance. If any of us do well in the sports festival the teachers can decide to transfer us to the hero course. They'll have to transfer people out to make room."

The class flinched back at what he meant by that.

"Scouting the competition. Maybe some of my peers are, but I'm here to let you know that if you don't bring your very best I'll steal your spot right out from under you. Consider this a declaration of war."

The tense atmosphere was broken by some silver haired guy. "Hey! I'm from class 1-b next door to you! We heard you fought some villains and I came to see if that was true! You're just a bunch of brats who they're better than us!"

Y/n rolled her eyes. If everyone was gonna be like this she should just act like Bakugo cause this is a fucking waste of time.

Bakugo continued moving.

"Don't you ignore me!"

"Hey where are you going? You got us into this mess?" Kirishima called after the blond. "It's your fault they're all hating on us Bakugo!"

"No it's not." Y/n snapped, getting everyone's attention. Never in her life did she think she'd be defending Bakugo. It gave her the creeps. "We almost died and you wanna stand there and call us brats? For what? Defending ourselves?"

The silver haired guy looked a little awkward at getting called out but kept the frown on his face.

"What do you want us to do next time we get attacked? Lay down and let them kill us?" You wanna be a hero but you have no sympathy for victims, I don't think you'll make it very far."

The male stopped frowning, looking away in shame.

"These people don't matter." Bakugo told him, getting the attention off of Y/n. "The only thing that's important is that I beat them." He walked away

Y/n decided to take her leave as well. Making it to the doorway she stopped next to the purple haired male. "If you're gonna talk all that shit, you better be standing on that podium at the end of the festival." She lowly told him, before continuing.

His eyes followed her as she strolled away, quickly joined by a shorter brown haired girl and a tall blue haired male.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

On the day of the festival, since it would be an all day thing, she decided to bring along Meeko. All Might already said he'd be happy to watch the ring tailed animal. Y/n packed him a food box and took some extra pocket money even though All Might was most likely already going to give her some.

Making sure the raccoon was sitting securely in her bag, Y/n slung the strap over her shoulder and left as Meeko's head peeked out, people watching.

She was one of the first people to get there so she let All Might know and he came to pick up the animal. "Don't feed these to him all at once." She gave him the food box.

The blond chuckled. "I'll try." He was a sucker for Meeko and they both knew it. "Good luck today."

After he left, the others piled in and did their best to relax before it was time. Y/n switched out her normal boots for the ones with the iron soles and slipped on the gauntlets as the others chatted around her.

"I wonder what they have in store for us in the first round."

"No matter what they've prepared we must persevere." The bird head, who Y/n learned was Tokoyami Fumikage, answered Sato. Was everybody in this school so dramatic?

Iida opened the door. "Everyone, get your game faces on! We're entering the arena soon!"

Y/n went back to listening to Ochaco who was talking about the stalls she saw at the entrance as Todoroki walked up to her. "L/n."

Everyone turned their attention to the two.

"Hmm?"

"From an objective standpoint, I think it's very clear that I'm stronger than you."

The girl raised her eyebrows, waiting to see if he had anything more to say.

"However, you've got All Might in your corner helping you out. I'm not here to pry about what's going on between you two. But know that I will beat you."

Kirishima stood up from his seat and walked over to the duo, putting a hand on Todoroki's shoulder. "Hey what's the big deal, why are you picking a fight all of the sudden? And right before we get started."

The bi-colored male shrugged him off. "We're not here to be each other's friends. Don't forget this isn't a team effort." He began walking away.

Y/n narrowed her eyes. "You're only stronger than me in terms of pure power."

That stopped the male. He turned his head in her direction.

"In other areas I guarantee I'm better at them. You say we're not here to make friends. You go through 3 years like that you're not gonna have any allies in an emergency. I don't know what made you think you can go through life without taking help from anyone, cause you can't no matter how hard you try. You don't know how to work with people, you clearly rely on your quirk too much, you can't communicate with people. You are stronger than me on certain aspects, but that doesn't mean you're better than me." Y/n walked past him to catch up to Iida. "There's no doubt you'll be standing on the podium, but you're not gonna feel like you won, are you?"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"LET ME HERE YOU SCREAM AS OUR STUDENTS MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE STAGE!"

Class 1-A was the first class walking out onto the field.

"THIS FIRST GROUP ARE NO STRANGERS TO THE SPOTLIGHT! YOU KNOW THEM FOR WITHSTANDING THE VILLAIN ATTACK! THE DAZZLING STUDENTS OF HERO CLASS 1-A!"

"I hope we're still able to perform our best with all these eyes on us." Iida commented. "I suppose it's just another aspect of being a hero that we'll just have to get used to."

"The next group not nearly getting as much screen time, but still chalked up full of talent welcome hero course class 1-B!" The blond's voice was more bearable now as he continued on. "Next up, general studies classes C, D, and E! Support classes F, G, and H! And finally business classes I, J, and K!"

That caught Y/n's attention as she looked over to the business courses and caught sight of someone familiar. Tsuneyuki Kazuko was staring straight at her with a hatred Y/n hasn't even seen Bakugo give her. She simply smirked cruelly at the brunet and turned her attention to Midnight on a stage.

"Now the introductory speech!"

Y/n blushed as she leaned over to Kirishima and Kaminari. "Is that appropriate? Don't kids watch this shit?"

Kirishima tried calming the redness in his face and he tried to be respectful. "Yeah, someone should talk to her about that."

"That costume should come with a warning." Kaminari's face was the same as the others.

"Silence everyone!" The dark haired female swung her whip to garner attention. "And for the student pledge, we have Bakugo Katsuki!"

"We're fucked."

Bakugo coolly walked up the stage. "I just wanna say," everyone held their breaths in anticipation. "I'm gonna win."

Class 1-a freaked out while the other class booed him, upset. iida began waving his arms. "Why would you say something so disrespectful! You're representing us all!"

"Not my fault the rest of you are just stepping stones to my victory." Bakugo gave the other teens a thumbs down. The blond walked down the stage purposefully bumping shoulders with Y/n as he walked past.

FIRST GAME:

"Without further ado, it's time for us to get started!" Midnight announced. "This is where you'll begin feeling the pain! The first fateful game of the festival!" The screen behind her spun similar to a slot machine.

Obstacle Race.

"All of the classes will participate in a treacherous contest. The track is 4 kilometers (a bit longer than 2 miles) outside of the stadium. I don't wanna restrain anyone, at least in this game." She licked her lips.

Y/n shared a look with Tokoyami.

"As long as you don't leave the course you're free to do whatever your heart desires!" The audience cheered. "Now, take your place contestants."

Y/n stood a bit closer to the back, since everyone would no doubt crowd the hall trying to get ahead. Anything goes, so that is something the teen will have to use to her advantage, she can't risk using her quirk yet.

The last green light went off signaling the start. "Begin!"

Y/n was right when she figured everyone would crowd, that's what they did. Ice came through everyone's legs and shot out the end of the hall as Torodoki ran out and froze the ground. Since she was at the back, the ground wasn't frozen. Thankfully her boots had abrasive soles so moving on ice shouldn't be too hard.

Mineta jumped past her using his quirk which actually wasn't a bad idea, until he aimed for the bi-colored male ahead and got hit by a robot. Y/n's jaw dropped as she tried not to laugh at his misfortune but caught sight of the red lens on a robot. It was the robots from the entrance exams, specifically the 0-pointers.

Todoroki froze them like it was nothing and continued on his way.

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Y/n likes reading
> Uraraka and Iida accepted her sleepover invitation to watch the past festivals
> Y/n is secretly saving money to buy Uraraka a new phone
> Before the sports festival there was going to be a bit where Y/n ends up meeting Bakugo's parents and catching a glimpse of Izuku
> It's implied that there were some romantic feelings between F/n and Harlan but at the end of the day it's the reader's decision on how they viewed them
> I like to think the way Hikaru used to act was similar to Y/n when she's around her friends
> Toga's favorite color is pink hair
> It's going to be a while before the cause of Harlan and F/n's fight is revealed, but it'll be good
> Y/n's classmates never told her what Toga did, and she doesn't watch a lot of news
> Y/n didn't want Meeko at all, but he slowly grew on her, now they're inseparable

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (58%) +10%
Iida (40%) +10%
Bakugo (4%)
Momo (16%) +1%
Kirishima (19%) +3%
Sero (7%)
Jiro (21%) +1%
Tsuyu (29%) +1%
Kaminari (4%)
Todoroki (0%) -1%
Shinso (-3%) -3%

Chapter 8: 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙣

「ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ ᶠⁱⁿᵃˡˡʸ ˢᵉᵉ ʸᵒᵘ'ʳᵉ ᵃˢ ᶠᵘᶜᵏᵉᵈ ᵘᵖ ᵃˢ ᵐᵉ
ˢᵒ ʰᵒʷ ᵈᵒ ʷᵉ ʷⁱⁿ?」

 

After getting past the robots and the tightropes with a bit of struggle, Y/n reached the last obstacle. A Minefield. Present Mic's voice spoke up. "By the way, those landmines were designed for the game, so they might be loud and flashy, but not all that powerful."

At least Y/n didn't have to worry about getting a limb take off or anything. She had a piece of one of the robots in her hold and began digging up the landmines closest to her as people ran past and got propelled in the air from stepping on one. She bundled them up as much as she could without setting them off and took a few steps back to gain a running start.

She threw her body on the shard of metal and held on tight as the loud explosion sent her forward flying through the air.

"Whatever the case, class 1-A's Yamiko Y/n is suddenly close to first place! Strike that THE LEAD IS HERS!"

While she did get over the 2 males taking the lead she was coming close to the ground where there were still mines and Y/n wasn't so sure she'd get launched forward again.

"Pinkie! What the hell do you think you're doing huh!?" Bakugo used his quirk to make his way near the girl, Todoroki following right behind.

Y/n twisted herself to do a makeshift somersault for some extra force and gave herself time for the 2 to reach just one step behind her. She leaned forward and stepped on one shoulder each and swung the shard down, creating another explosion that flung her ahead, this time past the minefield.

The teen hit the ground and quickly got up to continue running.

"I don't believe it! She cleared that minefield in an instant!"

Y/n didn't look back since she knew Todoroki and Bakugo were right there. In the hall the female pushed her legs to go even faster as she came out the other side, blinded by the sun.

"The first to make it back to the stadium is the first place winner, Yamiko Y/n!"

Confetti rained down as the huge crowd cheered loudly. Y/n's chest heaved up and down from her heavy breathing. Looking around, she saw her coworkers in the stands, holding up a banner with her name on it as they cheered loudly for her.

When they found out she made it into U.A, they made it into a little party, and combined their money to buy tickets for the Sports Festival.

She waved at them before searching for her mentor, meeting his shadowed eyes and smiling at her with pride, mirroring her own expression.

All Might glanced down at the business students talking about his apprentice.

"This is interesting."

"I think it's obvious Yamiko's stock is about to go up."

"Not so fast, she's still an unknown since we have no idea what her quirk is. Imagine for a second that an agency was to take her on, how would they market someone who doesn't show off their quirk."

"They definitely have their work cut out."

"Even though she's attractive she'll still have to showcase her skills and any artistic ways to perform under pressure."

"The contestants are pouring in one by one! Let's give an applause to all our competitors while we prepare our results!"

Y/n just stood around waiting before Uraraka's voice called out to her.

"Y/n! That was amazing!" The short female ran up to her friend. "I can't believe you got first place."

Y/n got a quick look at Iida who was mumbling about something a few feet away. "Thanks, you must have done pretty well too." Everything was just a gamble and Y/n got lucky.

Midnight called attention to her. "The first game for the first years is finally over and what a game it was. Now let's take a look at the standing shall we?"

1 - Yamiko Y/n
2 - Todoroki Shoto
3 - Bakugo Katsuki
4 - Shiozaki Ibara
5 - Honenuki Juzo
6 - Iida Tenya
7 - Tokoyami Fumikage
8 - Kirishima Eijiro
9 - Sero Hanta
10 - Tetsutestu Tetsutetsu
11 - Ojiro Mashirao
12 - Awase Yosetsu
13 - Asui Tsuyu
14 - Shoji Mezo
15 - Sato Rikido
16 - Uraraka Ochaco
17 - Yaoyorozu Momo
18 - Mineta Minoru
19 - Ashido Mina
20 - Koda Koji
21 - Jiro Kyoka
22 - Kaibara Sen
23 - Tsuburaba Kosei
24 - Kaminari Denki
25 - Bondo Kojiro
26 - Yanagi Reiko
27 - Shinso Hitoshi
28 - Tsuneyuki Kazuko

The list just went on but it Aoyama was in 42nd place.

"Only the top 42 will advance to the next round." The R-rated hero mentioned. "But don't be too let down if you didn't make the cut. We've prepared other opportunities for you to shine." She licked her lips. "But now the real fun is about to begin. The chance to fully move yourselves into the limelight. Give it your best!"

The screen began spinning again and stopped on the next course.

Calvary Battle.

"Allow me to explain. Participants will form teams of 2 to 4 people as they see fit. In theory it's basically the same as a regular playground game, but there is one difference. Each player has been assigned a point value based on the results from the obstacle course."

Some of Y/m's classmates began piecing the rest of it together. Midnight did not like that.

"How about you shut up and let me explain it!?"

Mina and Uraraka flinched back.

"Now then, the point assignments go up by increments of 5, starting from the bottom. For example, 42nd place is worth 5 points, and 41st is worth 10. The value assigned to the first place contestant is 10 MILLION!"

Y/n felt like dropping dead at the news as she felt everyone's eyes on her like a piece of meat. She was gonna die here. It's official. "Fear is the greatest motivator." She mumbled.

"That's right, this is a chance for those at the bottom to overthrow the top! These are the rules that you'll abide by. The game itself will last 15 minutes. Individual point values will be added together to reach your team total. Everyone will know how much you're worth thanks to your headbands. Swipe as many headbands as you can to raise your team score. Stolen headbands must be worn from the neck up. The more you steal the harder it'll be to manage them. And another thing, even if your headband gets stolen or your team falls down, you can keep playing until time's up! This is going to be rough, you can use your quirks as much as you like but there are still rules. Make a team fall on purpose and I'll slap you with a red card. You'll be disqualified."

The screen showed a timer with 15 minutes.

"You've got 15 minutes to make your team I recommend you get started!"

Y/n didn't bother to move from her place, since a good majority are gonna avoid being on her team to not be targeted. She didn't blame them. She didn't want to be herself now.

"Y/n, let's team up!"

Y/n turned to the brown haired female who was staring at her with a smile. "Are you sure? Everyone's gonna rush me right away for my headband and I don't know if you wanna get caught up in that."

She nodded. "Yeah, I figured we could keep running away from them, but knowing you, you have a plan figured out already don't you?"

"Just the first part."

"Besides, we're best friends, and no matter what I'm gonna stick by you!"

Y/n gave the short haired girl a soft smile. "Alright."

Ochaco glanced behind her. "There's Iida! We can get him." As she started heading his way, she was stopped by Y/n. "Huh?"

"If we branch out to others then it might work a bit better in our favor. Besides," the h/c haired girl looked behind her to see Todoroki glaring at her. "I think he's deny us anyway."

Before the shorter girl could say anything a low whirring came close to the duo and giggling filled Y/n's ears.

Mei slowly hovered into her eyesight with a mischievous grin. "I was hoping you'd save me a spot." She practically launched herself in Y/n's arms with how excited she was. "We're teaming up!"

"Hello Mei, I'm doing good, thanks for asking."

Uraraka perked up. "Oh! You're that weirdo from the obstacle course." She looked at her friend. "You know her?"

"She's a regular at the diner I work at."

"You work?"

Mei didn't look at the brown haired girl and kept her gaze on Y/n. "I'd like to use your fame to my personal advantage."

"Not the weirdest thing you've said."

"If I team up with you then I'll be in the spotlight, the team that everyone is keeping their eyes on!" She moved even closer as the two leaned back. "That means my super cute little babies will inevitably be seen by the big company CEOs who are tuning in to the sports festival! With that line of reasoning this is the best way for me and my gadgets to get recruited."

"Could you slow down a minute?" Ochaco interrupted. "Did you bring babies here? I mean-"

Mei ignored her, still zoning in on Y/n. She opened a chest with some extra gadgets, laughing maniacally. "I've brought a ton of babies with me so I'm sure you'll find something you'll like floating around my arsenal, well, beside what you've already got on." She walked around the tall girl, admiring her work. "It's already great you've got my support items for your quirk! This battle is extra!"

Y/n looked over the gadgets.

"Oh this one caught your eye?" Mei held it up. "I've based this one on a certain hero's backpack. Of course I added my own twist."

Y/n didn't answer, she didn't know what hero the girl was talking about. "Heh?"

"It's based off Airjet: The Buster Hero, duh!"

Y/n took a quick glance at Uraraka who was frowning, probably from being ignored by Mei. Looking back at the pink haired girl she decided to finally talk. "Mei...I don't plan on being in the spotlight the whole game."

The aura around Mei dropped. "What?"

"That's where the first part of my plan comes in: getting away."

The short girl shrugged like there was nothing wrong. "But you do plan on advancing don't you?"

"Well yeah-"

"Then you can use me! I don't care what the plan is as long as I get noticed." She stated like it was a fact. "Come on Y/n, you know me!"

"I do." Y/n nodded and glanced around. The 3 of them would be fine by itself but It'd probably be better to have someone else. She looked around before finding the person she wanted. "Wait here." She told the 2 girls before moving to the person.

Placing a hand on his shoulder, the girl came face to face with Tokoyami.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

The buzzer went off meaning time was up.

"It's time to get this party started!"

Y/n fastened her headbands on, making sure the 10 million was at the very top. "Remember the plan?"

Resounding 'yes's' from the other 3, 4 if Dark Shadow is counted, which she was. They had originally been surprised when Y/n told them to let the 10 million headband get taken. She explained that if it gets stolen early on, people are going to be less likely to pay attention to them, and they can spend the 15 minutes taking others, and near the end they can go for it if they want. The others knew the risk of that plan, because they could end up not getting enough points to advance, but they were all determined.

Dark Shadow let out a yell.

Y/n looked down at Uraraka. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Mei?"

She giggled.

"Tokoyami?"

"Yes."

"3! 2! 1! BEGIN!"

All the teams ran in Y/n's direction.

"L/n?" Tokoyami looked at her, waiting for her to give him directions.

"Run forward. Present Mic or Midnight will announce when someone has it."

The 3 on the ground followed her instructions running towards the other teams.

"What are they doing!?" one of Tetsutetsu's teammates questioned.

"I don't know but that headband is ours!" The silver haired male shouted, reaching his hand forward. He was surprised to see Y/n nudge her head in his direction as he ripped the top piece of cloth off her head but he wasn't going to question it, not realizing the girl swiped on of his own head bands.

"Ochaco, Mei, put your heads down!" The 2 girls did as they were instructed and Y/n pushed the button that connected to the jetpack Mei gave her. It rocketed the group into the air above the others and passed them.

"TEAM TETSUTETSU HAS THE 10 MILLION POINT HEADBAND!" Mic's voice boomed.

Y/n's group watched as almost every group had switched their focus to his team, going for the headband.

"I get it now." Tokoyami spoke up. "Now we take the chances to get as many as we can while attention's off us for a while, right?"

"Exactly. Dark Shawdow, Hagakure right there." Y/n pointed to the invisible girl whose headbands were obvious. Dark Shawdow swooped in and grabbed one, zooming back to the team and dropping it in Y/n's awaiting palm. From Tetsutetsu's team they got a 195 pointer, and from Hagakure, a 110, giving them a total of 630.

"We're landing." Uraraka announced to the others as she used her quirk to lower the quartet.

Mei looked up at Y/n. "So what do you think of my babies? Aren't the just precious? Cuteness can be manufactured you know?"

"I asked you to make my support items for a reason Mei. Your babies are excellent."

"Thanks!" The pink haired girl blushed as Uraraka grumbled under her breath.

Picking headbands left and right as the 10 million one bounced back and forth between other teams, they nabbed another 4. 165, 25, 50, and 85. That left the team with a total of 955. "Do you guys want to aim for the 10 million headband in a few minutes?"

The other 3 quickly agreed, wanting to solidify their place for sure. Dark shadow moved foward a bit. "They have the 10 million headband." He gestured to Testsutestu's team.

"Let's go."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"TIME'S UP!"

Y/n broke her gaze on Todoroki to see Bakugo abruptly fall face first on the ground.

"And with that the second round is officially over!"

Y/n was set down by her teammates and Uraraka and Mei cheered. Todoroki jumped off his own teammates, frowning at the ground.

"Now let's take a look at who our top four teams are! In first place, team Yamiko! They took the headband right under everyone's noses! In second place, team Todoroki! In third place, team Bakugo! In fourth place it's team Tetsute- wait, it's team Shinso! When did they come back from the dead? Looks like Yamiko really did crush some dreams!"

Y/n turned and glared up at the announcer booth where Mic was. Mei walked up to the girl and spun her, beginning to take the jetpack off.

"Y/n." Tokoyami called the girl, pointing towards Dark Shadow who had the 10 million pointer in their mouth. "You're the one who created an opening for Dark Shadow to grab the headband, and had our placement set in stone." The shadow bird gave her a thumbs up.

Y/n gave a small smile as she pet the top of Dark Shadow's head, who let out a low purr and snuggled up to her side. "Anything for my favorite bird." She looked up at Tokoyami who smiled in return. "I'm talking about Dark Shadow by the way."

The bird headed male turned around as she laughed. As Present Mic announced a break and some festivities to happen, the teen rubbed the burn mark on her wrist.

"Yamiko." Y/n turned around to see the bi-color haired male glancing at her wrist before looking her in her eyes. "I want to talk to you." He didn't wait for an answer and began walking off.

Y/n frowned at the last name usage but followed, wondering why he suddenly switched to her mother's last name after using L/n earlier.

He led her to an empty hallway.

"What is it?" Y/n questioned the male. Uraraka had told her about seeing the food stands and Y/n wanted to try them all. She wanted to treat her shorter friend to food and trinkets, and also introduce the others to Meeko.

Todoroki stared at her silently for a few minutes, probably trying to intimidate her. "I was overwhelmed, and it made me break the promise I made to myself a long time ago."

Y/n glanced to the side. Was he about to trauma dump on her?

Todoroki stared at her left hand. "Iida and Kaminari, Yaoyorozu and Tokoyami, Uraraka, none of them felt it." He was referring to the fact that when Y/n and Todoroki both reached for the 10 million headband on Tetsutetsu. "In that moment, I was the only one who could sense your true power. It reminded me of something."

Y/n clenched her hands in her pockets. He wasn't trauma dumping but wherever he was going with this might be worse.

"Experiencing All Might's power, I'm saying the power coming from you felt the same as All Might's."

Maybe she should punch him to get his mind off this thought.

"L/n, tell me...Are you really All Might's secret love child or something?"

Y/n stared at him incredulously. "Heh?"

"Well are you?"

"No, I'm not..." Y/n thought for a second. "...The only reason I know him is because my dad's his assistant. In fact you've probably seen him around, he kinda looks like he could be related to All Might if you think about it I guess. He's tall and blond, honestly he sorta looks like a skeleton. He just prefers to stay out of the spotlight, just making interviews and schedules for him." Y/n waited with baited breath as the male seemed to mull it over.

"I think I have, but that wording from the first sentence means you do have a connection with him that you're not supposed to talk about."

Y/n looked at the ceiling.

"My father is the hero Endeavor, you've probably heard of him, which means you're aware he's the number 2 hero. If you're connected to the number 1 hero All Might in some way that would mean that I have even more reason to beat you."

Y/n sighed. She just wanted some food man.

"My old man is ambitious, he aims for the top. He used his power to make a name for himself as a hero, but he was never able to best All Might, so the symbol of peace is his proof as failure. He's still at it though, trying to take down All Might, one way or another." He looked back at the girl. "Have you ever heard of quirks marriages?"

Oh shit this was a trauma dumping session. Y/n hesitantly nodded. She had read about it in one of the books she had bought a bit ago. They had been strongly looked down upon when quirks had first started popping out as well as a rule saying it was illegal, but as villains and heroes came to light, the law had been repealed, much to the chagrin of elders.

"My father not only had a rich history of accomplishments, but plenty of money to throw at his problems. He bought my mother's relatives to get ahold of her quirk, and now he's raising me to usurp All Might. It's so annoying, I refuse to be a tool for that scumbag. In every memory of my mother, I only see her crying." He raised a hand to the scar on his face. "I remember she called my left side unbearable, before she poured boiling water on my face." his voice cracked a bit at the end.

Y/n's eyes widened as she glanced around uncomfortably. This dude needed a hug and some therapy. A lot of therapy.

"The reason I picked a fight with you was to show my old man what I was capable of doing, without having to rely on his damned fire quirk. You see, I'm going to show him that I reject his power and I can take first place without using it."

The 2 had no idea that Bakugo was listening behind the corner with wide eyes.

Todoroki gave her one final look before leaving the hall. "You're obviously connected to All Might, even if only because of your father. But no matter how fiercely you come at me in the future I will defeat you using only my right side. I can assure you of that."

Y/n stayed quiet, letting him walk away with the last word this time. She wasn't bothered too much by it, her fight was with someone completely different.

"Y/n!"

Said girl looked to the side, seeing all the girls come up to her. "Yeah?"

"Put this on!" Mina shoved a cheer uniform in the girl's hands.

"What? Why?" She stared at them, seeing they were in matching ones.

"Kaminari told us all the other girls were having a cheer battle, so we should obviously join, it'll be fun!" The pink girl cheered. "And so we don't get in trouble with Mr. Aizawa."

The tall teen heaved out a sigh. "Alright, I guess."

Y/n stood besides Uraraka and Momo, unamused with a few other girls. "I hate it here."

"Looks like class 1-A is going full fan service!" Mic yelled.

Mineta and Kaminari gave each other thumbs up, setting Momo off. "What? You tricked us!? You're gonna regret this!" She fell to her knees. "Why is it that I always end up falling for that stupid perverts schemes?"

Y/n patted her head as Uraraka patted her back.

"I even used my quirk to make these outfits."

Jiro blushed in embarrassment and threw her pompoms on the ground. "Ugh! I hate those guys!"

Hagakure jumped around. "Well we do have a little time before the finals start and I kinda like these uniforms so how about we just roll with it!"

"Are you crazy!?"

Y/n gave Momo a hand up as Present Mic talked about the final "game" and the match ups for battle.

Ojiro raised his hand. "Um, excuse me. Sorry, but I'm withdrawing."

The students gasped.

"But this is a rare chance for you to get scouted." Iida said.

"It just wouldn't be right. I barely remember anything from the Calvary battle until the very end of it. I think it was that guy's quirk." He motioned over to that purple haired male who declared war on 1-A. "I know this is a great opportunity, I wish I could take advantage of it, but my conscience won't let me. Everyone gave their all in round 2, but I was just someone's puppet. No way, I don't want to advance if I don't even know how I got here. It wouldn't be fair."

Some of the girls tried to dissuade him but the tailed male didn't budge on his decision, talking about his pride. Ojiro covered his face. "Also why are all the girls dressed like cheerleaders?"

Someone from class 1-B withdrew for the same reason.

Midnight stared at the teens. "This sort of talk is incredibly naive my boys, that turns me on!"

Y/n reeled back and shared a look with Tokoyami again.

The R-rated heroine let the 2 withdraw. In the end Tetsutetsu and Shiozaki were taking the place of the other 2. The students walked to the board that showcased who would be against who. Y/n was the first match, and just her luck, it was against that messy purple haired guy. If she wins against him she'll be against Todoroki or Sero.

She looked at the other names and paused when she saw Kaminari was paired with Tsuneyuki

The former was screwed.

The purple haired male walked up next to her, giving her a once over, seeing the cheer uniform. "That is you right? Yamiko Y/n?"

Y/n stared back.

"A pleasure, so you excited?"

Y/n slightly shook her head and frowned, confused as to why he was asking her these questions. "Wha-"

Her words were muffled by Ojiro's tail, while he glared at Shinso. "Not so fast."

Shinso just grinned and walked away.

Ojiro moved his tail away and Y/n turned to him. "What's up with that?"

"You can't say a word to him." He led her to her waiting room as the others competed in the games, focused on relaxing, or working on a plan.

"So he has a mind control quirk? Is there any way to avoid that?"

Ojiro nodded. "Yes, by not giving him a chance to use it. He didn't get into my head until I answered a question he asked me before the second round. I think that's the secret behind his power."

"So just ignore him no matter how much he'll try to provoke me."

Her classmate nodded, standing up from the chair he was sitting on. "That's all, I know it's not much though."

"No that's actually extremely helpful. It saves a lot of headache. Thanks Ojiro."

"No problem Y/n. Win for you and me."

Y/n stood in an entrance hall, waiting for her name to be called. She quickly changed back into the gym uniform when Ojiro left.

"Hey."

Y/n turned to see All Might walking up to her with Meeko in his bony arms.

"Sorry I couldn't see you earlier. You did great. You harnessed One for All?" He smiled at her.

"I don't know." Y/n grabbed Meeko from his and ran her fingers through his fur. "I've trained with it but it's too inconsistent. When I don't use the support gear, sometimes my whole arm would break, or just my fingers, and sometimes nothing breaks. Nothing broke in the Calvary battle earlier, since I had the gauntlets, but I haven't taken them off so I don't know how bad it'll hurt. It's frustrating."

All Might mulled over her words. "If we're talking about how much you'd be able to wield at this point, I'd say about 5 percent or so."

Y/n sighed at how little it seemed. "I'll keep working on it, but I don't think I'll need it in this battle, maybe the next one though. I've been studying some heroes fight moves just in case."

"Listen, if you're ever worried or nervous about a fight, you can deal with it by smiling!" Some smoke seeped through as the blond turned buff again. "You've made it this far kid, even if you're worried you must stand tall! Don't forget that I'm counting on you and cheering you on!"

Y/n nodded and thanked him. Maybe she should add some sort of mask to her costume that represents a smile. She handed Meeko back to her mentor as he whined from being separated from his owner. He hasn't really enjoyed being away from her so much.

"Let's welcome our first fighter!" Present Mic began. "From the hero course, it's YAMIKO Y/N! vs SHINSO HITOSHI who really hasn't done anything to stand out yet! The rules are simple. Immobilize your opponent or force them out of the ring!"

The loud hero kept talking as Y/n and Shinso walked forward until they were a few feet from each other.

"So you can just give up huh?" Shinso sneered.

Y/n raised her eyebrow at him.

"In a way this is a test on how strong your spirit is. If you know what you want your future to hold for you, you can't worry about what other people think. That monkey was going on about his pride earlier."

Y/n set her jaw at the insult of her classmate.

"BEGIN!"

"But I just think he's an idiot, throwing away his shot like that." Shinso frowned at the fact his opponent wasn't reacting to any of his jabs. "That idiot probably told you about my quirk huh? You know you're lucky to have been so blessed Yamiko Y/n." He hated how the girl didn't even say anything, just kept staring at him with her e/c eyes. "Come on say something!"

Y/n slowly started walking towards him.

"You know I heard that angry blond bitch about your powers."

He must have been talking about Bakugo.

"I didn't know you had so much power in your fingers, you don't seem like you use it often. I'm kinda jealous of you." The male grinned. "Thanks to the way my quirk works I've always been at a big disadvantage, but someone as blessed as you wouldn't understand that!"

Y/n glared at Shinso. This dude was a fucking quirkist. He's got no idea what he's talking about. Talking all this shit about being blessed and how she wouldn't understand. She understands. She's understood since she was 4 years old. The world stopped turning for her once she found out she was quirkless, it only started turning again because of someone special to her. She grew to be content with her life, even if others would have seen it as almost nothing. She fought back as much as she could just so she wouldn't be another quirkless statistic nobody would have cared about.

This guy wants to complain about how he's been at a disadvantage but doesn't work to find a way around it. He doesn't look like he has so much muscle, so he obviously depends on his quirk too much.

You can't be a hero if a stupid quirk is all you depend on.

"You're lucky enough to have a heroic quirk!" Shinso yelled at the girl who started running at him. "It'll be so easy for you to reach your goal!"

Y/n punched Shinso in the nose, not hard enough to break it but hard enough so it'll hurt. She watched his eyes water from the unexpected impact and took that chance to roughly shove him as hard as she could.

The male stumbled backwards but tried to keep his balance, causing him to continuously step backwards trying to get friction on the ground to stop him from sliding, it didn't help when he felt a strong force on his left cheek. He saw how close he was getting to the white line and reached out pulling Y/n's hair, listening to her yelp and dragging her head to the side, her body following. The purple haired male took the chance and pushed her shoulders, doing the same thing she did to him.

Y/n felt him grab the front of her uniform and dug her nails into his arm, sweeping his legs out from under him and turning her body, flipping him over her shoulder out of bounds. She made sure to throw him down hard too.

Midnight raised her arm up. "Shinso is out of bounds, Yamiko advances to the next match." The crowd exploded into cheers for the girl.

Shinso groaned as he picked his head up and looked at the girl who was standing over him, glaring. He watched as her chest moved up and down from breathing heavily. He hated it. He looked away from her as the throbbing in his cheek and nose became more apparent and a warm liquid dripped from it.

Y/n went up to her class in the stands where they were waiting and most congratulated her on the win. She quietly thanked them before taking a seat next to Uraraka and Iida, watching the other battles. The battles after hers had been Todoroki and Sero. Todoroki won.

Kaminari vs Tsuneyuki.

Y/n was right.

Tsuneyuki's quirk allows him to create and manipulate threads. He took great pleasure in making quirkless kids look like fools while he attached the threads to their skin and made them look like puppets.

He's used it on her before, so she knows first hand how uncomfortable it is, especially the marks they left after. She started carrying the pocket knife around to cut them off when he tried catching her off guard.

Tsuneyuki quickly grabbed a hold of the electric male with his quirk before the latter could even charge himself up and swung him out of bounds.

"Guess he was right." Y/n looked up to see a blond with a deranged look on his face. "That match was over in just 2 seconds. Hey wasn't class 1-A supposed to be so much better than us?" He laughed until his classmate chopped him on the neck and peeked over as well.

"Sorry about him." The redhead dragged him back to the seats.

"Who's that crackpot?" Y/n asked her class.

"I think his name's Monoma."

"Douchebag name." Y/n turned back as Iida and Mei were meeting on the battlegrounds. "Oh." She hadn't even realized he got left.

The class watched as he accepted all kinds of gadgets from the pink haired girl.

"Uh oh." Y/n and Ochaco shared a look. The match began and while Iida tried going after Mei, she only dodged him and talked about her gadgets and what they'll do. The two girls covered their faces in second hand embarrassment as Iida was made a tool of. Everything went on for another 10 minutes before Mei finally finished and willingly stepped out of bounds.

Y/n stood up from her seat and left after giving her brown haired friend a pat on the head. She walked through the low lit halls with no big objective in mind, she just didn't feel like watching the matches. Shinso's words from earlier still bothered her for some reason, and she wasn't sure why.

Y/n decided to head to the nurses office since there wasn't much else to do. There was no telling how long Tokoymai and Momo's fight was going to be nor Kirishima and Tetsutetsu's. After their fights it was Uraraka and Bakugo. Y/n didn't want to go visit any of the stalls if her friends weren't with her so it'd be best to wait.

If she was lucky All Might would be in there with Meeko and she could talk to them or take a nap.

Walking into the homely room, Y/n caught Shinso fiddling with an ice pack as he winced as the harsh coldness made contact with his face. Y/n watched him until he noticed her presence, slightly tensing up.

Looking away from him, the girl walked over to one of Recovery Girl's drawers and grabbed some of her old lady strawberry candy.

"She let's you do that?"

"I'm a regular here." Y/n turned and stared directly into her eyes as she popped a piece in. "My quirk has a really bad drawback and I can break my limbs if it wasn't for these." She gestured to the gauntlets and boots.

Shinso flinched at that.

"I'm lucky my arms and legs have shot off, cause then I'd be dead." She continued flatly.

The purple haired male glanced away from here. He had no way of telling if she was exaggerating or not. "Oh..." He watched as the girl started walking away. "And you still wanna be a hero?" He didn't intend on brainwashing her, he was genuinely curious.

Y/n clenched her jaw turning to glare at him. "You wanna know what I think? I think you're a fucking dickhead. You don't know shit about me or anyone in my damn class. I'm sorry that the people you've met have been dicks to you about your quirk, I really am, but that gives you no right to talk shit about other who have "heroic" quirks. If you wanna be a hero, then work towards it, you can't rely on your quirk the whole time, cause villains will catch on to it." She stalked closer to him. "What gave you the right to tell me I'm blessed, I didn't even know I had a quirk til way later so everyone thought I was a quirkless freak, but I got stronger, what did you do? You just complained. You're lucky I didn't break your fucking nose out there, hell you're lucky if I don't break it right now!"

Shinso was leaning back, looking at the girl with wide eyes, hoping she didn't break his nose right now. He liked his nose.

Y/n waited for a few seconds, taking in his appearance before leaning away from him, snatching the ice pack out of his palm. "Idiot." She grabbed a thin towel and wrapped the light blue pack in it before grabbing the male's chin, tilting his head up slightly and placing it on his cheek. "You're gonna burn yourself."

Shinso winced but quickly relaxed as it felt much better than when he had done it. "Burn?"

"Ice burn. Frostbite." She clarified. "Placing an ice pack directly on your skin like that can damage skin tissue, then you'll be in worse pain."

The purple haired male swallowed, looking away from the h/c haired female. "...Thanks...do you think I can be a hero?" His voice came out quieter.

"Well yeah, I mean look at Eraser Head. He's practically quirkless against those with mutant quirks, but he utilizes his fighting style and that weird scarf he's got. And look at the picture as a whole, imagine All Might doing to heroes what he does to villains." She watched as a shudder passed through Shinso's body at the thought. "Exactly. The number 2 hero, fire. Who's the number 3 hero?"

"You don't know?"

"I don't really pay attention to heroes, I didn't know any except All Might before coming here." She shrugged.

"It's Hawks, he's got red wings."

"Okay, then he could drop people from extremely high heights." Y/n offered. "Do you understand where I'm getting at? There's hardly a quirk that can't be used for bad, it's all just how someone uses it."

Shinso thought about it as the girl sat next to him on the bed. "So how can my quirk be useful if villains catch on?"

"Besides your technique on aggravating people, I'd say something like a voice changer. If villains think they're talking to an ally or some other hero, they'd be more likely to answer. The best thing I can advise you is to talk to Aizawa, maybe he can teach you how to use his scarf."

The calm air between the 2 was interrupted as Recovery Girl hobbled in followed by those robotic stretchers carrying Kirishima and Tetsutetsu. "Oh! I wasn't aware I had patients." She gave Y/n a look, pointing to an empty area in the corner, the stretchers setting the 2 boys there.

Y/n stood. "What happened to them?"

"There was a draw in the battle. Teachers are working on a way to break the tie. Now what brings you both here." She raised her eyebrows at the teens.

"He needs you to heal his cheek and nose."

"No I don't." Shinso abruptly stood up and moved the ice pack away from his face.

"Yes he does." Y/n side eyed him. "You would've given yourself frostbite had I not shown up, take the help." She lightly pushed him to the lady.

"They don't hurt or anything." He continued to deny as Y/n rolled her eyes behind him. He looked down as Recovery Girl gave him some gumdrops.

"Now out, both of you, these boys need rest."

The two left and shared a look. "Imagine punching babies with their quirks."

"I get the picture." Shinso started walking down the halls to see who the next fight was. "Who do you have to fight against next?"

"Todoroki." Y/n sighed. "I'm fucked."

"Just do to him what you did to me."

"If it was that easy. He relies on his quirk too much too but he's mastered it well, so I'm gonna struggle hard from it."

The talk between the two continued until they reached the end of the hall, watching the battle between Uraraka and Bakugo. "That's your girlfriend right?"

"Heh?"

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

After the match Y/n bid goodbye to the messy haired boy and left for the waiting room for her match. On the way she crossed paths with Bakugo.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

Y/n rolled her eyes. "I'm up next dumbass." She moved past the blond to continue on her way.

"You came up with that stupid plan didn't you?"

Confused, the girl stopped and looked back.

"That stupid, desperate plan of hers, I wouldn't be surprised if it came from you-"

"It didn't. I left before she told me what she was worried about, so I didn't know what her strategy was. If that battle was harder than you thought it would be that's not mine or her problem. That's on you."

Bakugo growled as his classmate turned away and left.

Y/n opened the door to the waiting room and smiled. "Hey champ."

Uraraka picked her head up and blushed. "I'm not a champ."

"I think you did pretty well, especially against him. You sure as hell got a lot of heroes to notice you, and that plan was all yours. Be proud of yourself. I know your parents are."

"You really think so?"

"Why wouldn't I? You fought as hard as you could and showed people what your quirk could do. This is only the beginning, imagine what you'll be able to do in the next few months if you keep working."

Uraraka preened at the words and felt a warm fuzzy feeling spread through her body as Y/n placed a hand on her head. "Thank you Y/n. Are you ready for this match?"

Y/n shrugged. "Eh, I'm pretty sure Todoroki's gonna be the one advancing."

"Don't say that! You just need to think of a plan."

"Yeah I did, it's duck and cover. I'm gonna see if I can get him to use his left side."

Uraraka stared at her in surprise. "Do you think you can do it?"

"I'll have to do an inspiring talk and I'm not sure if I'm good at those."

The duo heard loud yelling from Present Mic at the battleground.

"Already?" Y/n began heading to the door.

The brown haired girl quickly stood up. "You're amazing at inspiring talks, whether you think so or not. Just tell him what's on your mind. That's what you did with me." She ran and hugged the taller girl. "No matter what you're gonna do great out there! I'll be watching!"

Y/n grinned, returning the hug. "Thanks."

As she left, Uraraka pulled out her phone and called her dad back. "Hi dad, I'm sorry I didn't pick up earlier. I was talking to my...friend."

"It's the guy who won his last fight by a landslide and literally left half the audience frozen! The hero course's TODOROKI SHOTO!" Present Mic shouted. "And the girl who still has yet to use her quirk in action but knows her physical strength! Also from the hero course YAMIKO Y/N!"

The two stood across from each other.

"Both of the heroes in training have been front liners in the sports festivals, but which one of these rivals will advance to the next round!? Prepare for YAMIKO VS TODOROKI!"

Y/n and Todoroki got into a ready stance.

"BEGIN!"

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Y/n didn't tell All Might that Todoroki now thinks his small version is her dad
> The teachers were wondering why All Might brought a raccoon with him into the stands
> Uraraka wasn't sure why she was upset about Mei being so close to Y/n
> Tsuneyuki was looking for Y/n after the Calvary battle
> The heroes were surprised to see Y/n let the headband taken so easily, but were even more surprised when they took it back under everyone's radar, even while having so many points already
> Uraraka now has a crush on Y/n
> Shinso apologized for thinking Y/n and Uraraka were a couple
> Uraraka told her dad about Y/n

 

[LOVE METER]

Uraraka (88%) + 30% {Crush Unlocked}
Iida (49%) +9%
Bakugo (14%) +10%
Momo (19%) +3%
Kirishima (29%) +10%
Sero (17%) +10%
Jiro (32%) +11%
Tsuyu (39%) +10%
Kaminari (20%) +16%
Todoroki (2%) +3%
Shinso (8%) +11%
Tokoyami (29%) +29%

Chapter 9: 𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙠𝙚

「ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢ ᵈᵉˢⁱʳᵉ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢ ᵍᵒⁿⁿᵃ ᵇᵉ ᵃ ᶠˡᵃᵐᵉ
ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢ ᵃ ᶠˡᵃᵐᵉ, ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒⁿᵉ'ˢ ᵇᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵇᵘʳⁿᵉᵈ」

 

"BEGIN!"

Todoroki immediately shot ice towards Y/n who shattered it with her power, sending it back at the male who blocked it as cold wind and some shards went into the crowd.

Y/n had to move now. She charged in his direction and the male shot another pillar of ice. This time the girl dodged at the last second and continued on her way. She did make it to him but Todoroki jumped on new ice and ran away from her.

Turning to look down at her, he continuously shot more ice as the girl either shattered it or dodged it. He paused for a moment as his right arm began to shake. "I'm sorry about this, but thanks for drawing it out." He looked up into the stands. "Look at him. he's furious I'm not using his power. I don't have to rely on my damn fire quirk." He looked at her hands. "You rely on those support items, so I can keep going until you break them, right?"

Y/n stumbled as she kept herself from stepping over the white line.

"Let's end this!"

The ice that blasted towards her was bigger than the ones before. Everyone watched in anticipation as Y/n smashed through this with her whole arm this time. The force of this sent the bi-colored male back and almost out of the ring if he hadn't stopped himself with his ice.

As the next ice shard comes close, Y/n jumped and swung her leg downwards, smashing the ice into pieces.

"Why are you still going?" Todoroki questioned, trying to calm the tremors through his body.

Y/n watched his body tremble and the ice that formed on his skin. He has to be overusing his quirk. That's gonna kill him in the future if he never uses his fire. "You think you're gonna get far with only your ice? You're gonna die doing that."

Todoroki watched her with wide eyes.

"I'm weaker than you in certain terms, but I'm still in the damn ring. If you wanna win against me then use your full potential!"

The male frowned. "L/n, what are you trying to do here? You want my fire? What did my monster of a dad bribe you or something? Now I'm mad!" He ran towards her but he was slower than when the match had first started, and he didn't seem like he intended to use his ice right now. He wanted a physical fight.

Todoroki aimed a punch at Y/n, but she pulled his wrist towards her and kicked him back with force, sending him far back. The crowd cheered from the sudden physical force used but the duo had blocked them as well as Mic out, only focusing on each other.

The two toned male went back to shooting ice, but they were much slower so Y/n didn't have to use her quirk, she could simply dodge and then land physical hits on Todoroki, slowing him down further. She could've gotten him out by now, but whenever Todoroki came close to falling out of the ring, he was pulled back and thrown across to the other side by Y/n. It confused him.

"Why are you keeping me in? You have the chance to let me fail so why aren't you?"

"You must be just as big an idiot as the other people in this school," the girl began. "I don't know the brunt of what you've been through but stop screwing around like you don't wanna be here! I don't give a shit if you wanna reject your father that's your own business, but you're gonna be useless to the hero world if you don't use your full potential!"

Todoroki looked like he was experiencing some flashbacks as he struggled to stay on his feet. "I refuse to use my left side-"

"Don't you fucking get it! You not using your left side just because it's fire gives your father control over you! It's never gonna be your father's if you don't let it! It's your quirk not his!"

Y/n watched as Todoroki came to the revelation and fire started lighting up on his left side, shooting out and warming Y/n. She grinned and laughed, her adrenaline coming back full force, readying her own power.

"YEAH BABY, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! LET'S GOOOOOOO!"

The two ignored Todoroki's father yelling and Present Mic, running towards each other and meeting in the middle, breaking through the cement walls Cementoss created.

When the smoke cleared everyone saw Todoroki sitting just outside the ring with a partly torn uniform, Y/n standing at the edge as well but still inside.

"Yamiko wins!" Midnight announced. "She advances to the third round!"

The crowd cheered as Todoroki kept staring at the girl.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

In the nurses office Y/n sat in the bed with Meeko laying on her thigh, whining sadly. Y/n didn't dare take off the boots and gauntlets because she was still in the fights, but knew she'd have hell to pay after.

Recovery Girl and Toshinori stood on the sides of the bed.

"You're incredibly lucky your support gear is able to withstand your quirk." The old lady sighed, looking to the blond male. "And you, you're lucky she didn't go too far to make you proud. Who knows what would've happened. You're going too far, you hear? You and the girl. Don't praise her for what she's done today."

All Might sighed as he was scolding, spitting out blood as 4 kids stormed in.

"Y/N!"

"Scared the crap outta me." He mumbled.

Uraraka went up to her side. "Are you okay?" She caught sight of tiny All Might. "It's nice to meet you sir."

"Yeah." He sweat dropped, nodding at her politely.

Recovery Girl was reluctant to let the girl go but eventually relented, instructing the teen to eat something for energy. Y/n bid the two adults goodbye, with Toshinori patting her head, and left with her classmates with her raccoon and bag.

"Did they begin the next match yet?"

"The stage was far too damaged, they're taking a quick break to repair it now." Iida informed her.

"That match was the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life Y/n." Mineta told her while shaking. "What pro wants a sidekick who hurts themselves?"

Y/n leaned down towards him. "What pro wants a sidekick who cries in the face of danger?"

Tsuyu snickered as Meeko hissed at the boy, who jumped back in fear.

"Is that a raccoon!? Is it feral?"

"No he's not." Y/n yawned, holding him out to her friends. "He's friendly, I promise."

They seemed reluctant to reach a hand out after seeing what he did to Mineta.

"Uh Y/n, where did you get him?" Uraraka looked at the girl.

"Found him when he was a baby a few years ago, he's been with me ever since. His name's Meeko." Y/n let him crawl back up on her head. "I know how to prove he's safe. Let's go back to the stands." This was her chance to introduce Jiro to Meeko. Maybe Koda would get along with him as well.

The five headed that way before a deep voice called out to her. The group looked back and saw Endeavor standing there.

"Please no." She mumbled.

"I was looking for you. May I talk with you for a few moments? Alone?"

Y/n glanced back at her friends who were slowly inching away. "Stay." She whispered to them. They all gave her awkward smiled before running off. Y/n pursed her lips at her amazing friends who she would kill for.

Sighing, she glanced back at the Number 2 Hero. "Yes?"

He eyed Meeko and Y/n grabbed him, setting him beside her feet. He stepped closer. "I watched your fight against the brainwashing guy, as well as my son, Shoto. Your power is pretty impressive, destroying Shoto's ice with just your fingers, your power reminds me of All Might."

The girl tilted her head. "Does it? I always thought our powers were too different from each other. If that's all, I have some stuff to do." Y/n nodded her head and walked past him. She decided to get food before meeting up with them to get some more energy. Recovery girl hadn't healed her bruises and cuts. She paused when the adult started speaking again.

"It's Shoto's duty to surpass All Might as the Number 1 Hero, and if he fails, there might be another way."

Y/n turned around to see Endeavor holding a wad of cash out in front of him. "Wha...."

"30,000 yen." He gestured to the money. "I want you to enter an arranged marriage with my son. With a power like yours combined with his, there's no telling what your children could achieve in the future."

Y/n stared at the flaming male incredulously. He was trying to get her in an arranged marriage with his son just to be better than All Might. Why is everyone so obsessed with her mentor?

"Well?"

"Are...are you mentally ill?"

"Excuse me?" Endeavor stared at her in surprise.

"What gives you the right to try and buy me for your son? Better yet where do you get off trying to pawn your son off in a marriage he most likely won't want? Me getting Todoroki to use his fire quirk sure as hell wasn't for you, that was for me so he could beat me at his best."

"I-"

"I have no intention of marrying your son, if I ever did it wouldn't be for your own insecurities. Also this might be surprising to someone like you, but someone needs to tell you, just because you bring your child into this world doesn't mean you have control over their life. Now excuse me." Y/n turned and continued on her way, pausing for a brief second before heading back to the male. She snatched the cash from his grasp. "And I'm taking this as payment for wasting my time!" She stormed off, Meeko hissing at the man and running after the girl.

Endeavor silently watched the teen stomp away before facing his son who was walking up with a deep frown on his face.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n paused in her steps at the sight in the hall.

Tsuneyuki was standing over a messy green haired boy on the ground, threads embedded in the boy's arms. The green haired male had a face of pain as his arms jerked around against his will.

"Still being pathetic, huh?" Y/n's voice broke the other two out of their bubble.

Tsuneyuki's head snapped over to the girls and narrowed. He pulled away from the other boy, ignoring the grunt of pain when the threads left his skin. Walking over to Y/n, he roughly grabbed her shoulder.

Y/n bit her tongue as sharp pricks prodded through her shirt into her skin. Whenever he used his quirk on her, it felt like needles would just anchor themselves inside. It didn't help when he yanked on them.

"You better win against that bird freak." He grumbled lowly. "I want to fight against you out there. I wanna see who's better." He pulled his hand away, turning and stalking off, completely ignoring the other male.

Y/n waited until he turned the corner to walk over the the green haired male, holding out a hand for him.

He apprehensively stared at it before grabbing it, letting out a yelp when she yanked him up. "Uh..."

"Can you fight?" Y/n interrupted him.

"N-No...I'm quirkless." He clenched his eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable.

"That's not what I asked. I asked if you can fight?" Y/n raised an eyebrow. "What's your name?"

"Midoriya Izuku." He tried giving her a sweet smile, but it looked more like a grimace.

"Y/n, this is Meeko." Y/n brought the animal back into her arms.

Meeko studied Midoriya who looked more nervous than before. He sniffed and moved his head closer, sticking his little arms out.

"Uh, does he want something?"

Y/n furrowed her brows. "Did you recently have food or anything? That might be it."

The freckled boy perked up and reached into his pocket, pulling out a half eaten chocolate bar. "Oh!" He unwrapped it and held it out to the raccoon. "Here."

"NO!" Y/n slapped his hand harshly, knocking the sweet on the floor.

"Ow!" Midoriya rubbed his hand in pain. He watched as Meeko's hands started reaching towards the fallen sugar treat and screamed. Midoriya flinched back as the sound invaded his ears roughly.

Y/n held her animal out, away from her own ears. "Stop screaming fatass I kept you alive!"

The two waited until his screams gradually died out to whimpers.

Y/n rolled her eyes. "Be quiet, you're gonna live," She glanced to Midoriya, who was still holding his hand. "Sorry about slapping your hand like that. Chocolate can be toxic to raccoons, like dogs."

"I'm sorry!" He frantically waved his hands horrified that he might have looked like he was trying to kill the animal.

"Calm down it's alright, I shouldn't have hit you." She rummaged through her bag and pulled out the container of fruits for Meeko but found it empty. She sighed through her nose. That old geezer fed him everything at once. She made a mental note to get after him later since he promised to take her home. "Come on, I need food."

She didn't wait for an answer and began heading down the hall that should lead them to the concession stands.

"Oh! Okay." The male quickly fell in beside her. "You can just call me Izuku. If you want to that is."

Y/n glanced at him and realized he had a light blush on his face the entire time. She asked herself if he's ever had a full on conversation with a girl before. "What course are you in?"

Midoriya jumped, as if he hadn't been expecting that kind of question. "S-support course." He mumbled.

"Hatsune Mei made my support items."

"I know her, we're in the same class." Izuku whispered.

Y/n squinted at the teen. He didn't look like he was very confident with the way her carried himself, and his eyes constantly wandered everywhere. "I don't care if your quirkless, by the way."

Midoriya tensed up. "It's not that. It's...well...I'm not sure I'm happy in the course."

"Why?"

"I..." He paused. Even though Y/n seemed a bit closed off, she was the nicest person to talk to him besides his mother. "What do you mean why!? I can't do anything without a quirk! I always wanted to be a hero but I had to settle for the support course! What good am I there?" He dragged his arm across his watering eyes. he was seriously crying in front of someone he just met.

Y/n paused at those words. Midoriya was quirkless, just like she had been. There was a big difference between him and her. He spoke like he'd suffered more than someone with no quirk should. He saw himself as weak and incapable, settling and giving up. Y/n always fought back against those that talked down to her and trained herself to be better after she lost her childhood friend.

"The support course does amazing things, and you don't need a quirk for that."

Midoriya sniffled and frowned. "Like what?"

"They make gadgets and tools to help heroes in their battles. Things to protect them or others, things to make their quirks even better and help them defeat villains. Heroes rely on people from the support course just as much as civilians rely on heroes. I mean if you wanna get technical you could be considered a hero for the hero."

Izuku looked at her through his wet eyelashes. "You really think so?"

Y/n rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it. And just because you don't have a quirk doesn't mean you can't be strong. You can take fighting lessons and make your muscles stronger. If you think about it, everyone was quirkless at one point...I got my own quirk right before the entrance exam here, that's why I don't have full control over it."

Midoriya stared at her in amazement.

She paused in her steps, looking at the boy fully. "Look, we go to a school were heroes are our teachers. One of them can teach you how to fight, or learn by yourself, even if you have to watch videos about it. Just learn to defend yourself."

"Okay...I think I can do that."

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Uraraka, Iida, and Tsuyu were wondering who the skeletal man was
>Shoto heard the conversation between his father and Y/n
> Midoriya got the idea to apply for the support course from seeing the mysterious take down of the sludge villain on TV
> Midoriya was originally going to take Mei's place in the Calvary battle

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (93%) +5% {Crush}
Iida (54%) +5%
Bakugo (15%) +1%
Momo (21%) +2%
Kirishima (32%) +3%
Sero (20%) +3%
Jiro (36%) +4%
Tsuyu (45%) +6%
Kaminari (23%) +3%
Todoroki (10%) +8%
Shinso (10%) +2%
Tokoyami (31%) +2%
Midoriya (27%) +27%

Chapter 10: 𝙡𝙤𝙠𝙪𝙢

「ⁱ'ᵈ ᵈᵒ ᵃⁿʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ²⁰ ᵇᵘᶜᵏˢ ᵗᵒ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ⁱⁿ ᶜᵒⁿᵗʳᵒˡ
'ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ˡᵉᵐᵒⁿ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵇⁱᵗᵗᵉʳ 'ᵗⁱˡ ʸᵒᵘ ˢʷᵉᵉᵗᵉⁿ ᵘᵖ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵒᵘˡ」

 

"START!"

Y/n knew she had to make the first move against Tokoyami. Dark Shadow could immediately take her out if the entity had the chance.

Her best bet would be erratic enough to where her movements couldn't be predicted. Her only other one-up she had on the male was his quirk was a little weaker during the day.

The girl lunged towards Tokoyami, dodging Dark Shadow at the last second. She activated her quirk as she jumped, swinging her right leg in a roundhouse motion.

The force would have knocked him out of bounds if Dark Shadow hadn't covered him from the blast.

Tokoyami dodged the punch aimed at his gut and grabbed Y/n's wrist, tugging it towards himself as he jerked his knee up.

Y/n grunted as pain spread throughout her stomach. When he let her go, dropping her, she swept her legs under his own, knocking him off balance.

Dark Shadow jumped out and grabbed the girl between their dark hands, bringing her up into the air. As she flailed, the entity started carrying her to to the outside of the ring.

Y/n panicked and wiggled her left arm around, getting it free and flicking a blast at the ground, kicking up chucks of the earth. As Dark Shadow lifted a claw to shield herself from the debris, the teen slammed her right elbow back repeatedly as hard as she could into the creature. When she was dropped, she looked down to make sure she was still in bounds and dodged the shadow coming her way again.

Dark Shadow aimed a punch at Y/n, who countered with a punch of her own.

It felt like all she could do was punch Dark Shadow who punched back, the entity trying to get her out of the ring while she tried to get to Tokoyami.

It would have been futile if Dark Shadow's sluggishness went unnoticed. Her movements slowed down, it gave Y/n enough time to make a move.

The second Dark Shadow pulled back, the girl jumped and swung her leg downwards, sending more debris towards the male.

Tokoyami coughed and tried swatting the dust away from his face when he felt hands on his waist. Before he could blink, he heard Midnight's voice travel through the air.

"Tokoyami is out of bounds!"

The sounds of the cheering crowd filled Y/n's ears as she held out a hand to the male on the ground, helping him up when he grabbed it.

Tokoyami bowed his head to the girl, receiving one in return. As the two walked through the hall to their class, since neither was hurt bad, just exhausted, the male glanced at Y/n. "I wish you luck against Bakugo."

Y/n blinked. She was about to reply about how the blond would not be the one advancing, but stopped herself at the last second. "Yeah..."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Bakugo glared at the two finalists in the ring: Y/n and Tsuneyuki. He had no idea the two knew each other until after the latter had thrown him out of the ring.

What pissed Bakugo off the most was that the other male couldn't care less about getting first place in the competition, he just kept mentioning putting Y/n in her place.

He wasn't even in the hero course.

Bakugo was mad Y/n knew exactly what kind of person he was going against, and the second he lost, he stormed to the waiting room where the girl was to yell at her about not telling him anything.

Her response was simple.

"My hate for Tsuneyuki is on a different level than my indifference for you."

He quickly backed off when she mentioned what the business course male did to Izuku. Even if they didn't talk anymore, Midoriya didn't need to be harassed while at U.A.

Now, the blond was watching Y/n and Tsuneyuki stand across from each other with weapons. He'd take this to his grave but he hoped the girl beat that asshole into the ground.

"And here we are at our final round everyone!" Present Mic bounced in his seat as he stared at the two competitors. "Class 1-A's very own Yamiko Y/n, the girl who surprisingly came in first in all events!"

Y/n's eyebrows furrowed as she glanced up at the announcer's box. She doesn't know how she made it in the first place either but there was no need to act so surprised.

"VS the Business Course's Tsuneyuki Kazuko, history is being made at this Sports Festival with him, he's single -handedly launching the course into the spotlight alongside the heroes!" Mic waited until the cheers died down enough for him to continue speaking. "This last round will be fought with weapons, requested by both sides of course! LET'S GOOO!"

The second Midnight gave the green light to start the fight, both teens made the first move by lunging at each other.

Y/n ducked to avoid the sword aimed at her neck as she spun and kicked Tsuneyuki in the gut, knocking him back and swinging her axe (that Momo made).

Tsueyuki brought up his shield as he heard the sound of the blade hit the wood. He quickly brought his sword down again, knowing the girl would dodge. He was right, and when she backed off, the axe was still embedded in the shield.

The girl narrowed her eyes. She kicked the blade upwards and swept his legs out from under him, catching the sword as it came back down. She swung it at Tsuneyuki, who rolled out of the way, grabbing the stray axe.

With his free hand, he activated his quirk, sending threads at the pink haired teen. He maneuvered them to go through her sports shirt and yanked it closer to him. As he watched Y/n stumble, he took the chance and threw her into the air before pulling her back down at quick as he could, weapon at the ready.

Y/n grabbed the thread, ignoring how they cut into the gloves and pulled on them as well, slamming her legs into the male hard as they hit the ground.

"It looks like there's a fire there within both of them for each other that wasn't there with their previous opponents!" Mic commented.

"We don't know their history with each other. They could have possibly had a rivalry if they went to the same school previously." Aizawa muttered into the microphone.

"Or they could both just want first place that badly!" The blond countered, ignoring the heavy sigh that came out of his best friend. "Admit it, Shouta, you're rooting for your favorite student."

"I'm not rooting for anyone."

"You didn't deny she was your favorite!"

Aizawa wondered if he could get Nezu to bury him alive.

Y/n grabbed the axe from the dark haired male and swung it down, hitting his shield again.

Tsuneyuki bucked her off and scrambled for his sword.

Y/n swung the axe over and over as her quirk pulsed through her arms. The pain she was gonna feel after this was well worth it.

The male grunted with each hit as he could feel the shield slowly weakening. He dug his heels into the ground as he got closer to the white line. He took the risk of getting his hand chopped off as he grabbed the girl's wrist, setting off his quirk. Seeing her wince, he kicked the knee Shigaraki had previously injured and created distance from her as she knelt in pain.

Y/n winced as her knee throbbed. She shakily stood and grabbed her axe.

Tsuneyuki aimed the threads at the axe and pulled it away from the other teen.

As he was occupied with it, Y/n aimed a loaded kick into his gut again. She caught her axe and swung it at Tsuneyuki's neck, stopping just short.

They were both panting as they glared at each other.

"TSUNEYUKI IS OUT OF BOUNDS!"

Tsuneyuki's head snapped down and saw his hands outside of the white line. He scrambled up, ignoring the deafening cheers from the audience. His eye twitched as he watched Midnight pat Y/n's head and tell her 'good job'. He waited until she turned her back to him and was halfway to the hall before running after her.

"Y/N!"

The girl's head snapped up to see Midoriya looking at her alarmed while frantically pointing behind her. When she followed his finger she saw Tsuneyuki swinging the sword at her. She ducked and kicked it out of his hand just as Midnight ran over, using her quirk on him, knocking him out.

"Don't worry." Midnight looked at her. "Attacking a student like that is instant disqualification." She turned her head to the announcer booth and signaled something as Present Mic divulged the new information to the crowd.

Y/n quickly left, but not before grabbing the sword as well.

How charming.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Y/n was in first place.

Bakugo in second place.

Tokoyami and Todoroki in third.

They had moved up after Tsuneyuki's disqualification.

Y/n wished she could see the look on his face.

"Now let's break out the hardware. Of course there's only one person worthy of distributing the awards!" Midnight began.

All Might flipped into the stadium. "Citizens, I am here-"

"All Might, the number 1 hero!" Midnight interrupted.

Y/n snickered at the scene, breaking the silence.

"Ruined that, didn't I?" Midnight sheepishly clashed her hands together. "So now that you're here All Might, why don't you start the presentation?" She handed off some medals to him.

He chuckled. "Young Tokoyami, congratulations. You showed great strength out there." He spoke some more words as he gave the bird male a hug, moving onto the next person. "Young Todoroki, congratulations, it was inspiring watching you accept your fire."

"Y/n opened my eyes during our match. I think I now understand why you're so interested in her. She has a...charm that draws people to her...I want to be the kind of hero you are, but my path isn't as clear as I thought it was. I have a lot to think about. And I still need to settle things with someone very soon."

All Might nodded and wrapped the boy in his arms like Tokoyami. "Trust yourself, I'm sure things will work out."

As the hero pulled away, Todoroki stopped him before he left. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Of course young Todoroki."

"Did you choose to mentor Y/n because of your assistant?"

All Might struggled to hold him a cough as those words invaded his ears. "Excuse me?"

"Y/n's father." Todoroki thought he clarified. "Your assistant, the reason you and Y/n already know each other." He tilted his head.

"Right, truth be told...I saw some of myself in her, even if she doesn't see it herself. She'll make a remarkable hero, don't you agree?" Getting a nod in return the hero moved to the number 2 spot. "And now young Bakugo!" He ignored the scowl on the spiky haired blond's face. "It's unfortunate you couldn't keep your word, but think of this as a starting point to your improvement."

Bakugo muttered something unintelligible under his breath, but still accepted the medal being slipped over his head.

All Might's grin grew a little wider as he stood in front of Y/n in the number 1 spot.

"Don't look like you expected this. This was a surprise to both of us." Y/n bluntly interrupted whatever he was about to say.

He chuckled, placing the golden medal around her neck. "But something to be proud of, yes?" Receiving a nod, he turned towards the audience. "Here we are! The winners of this year's sports festival! But listen closely. Any of these first years could have ended up standing on these podiums. Think about what you've done today. You've challenged each other, learned, and climbed even closer to your goals of being pros. I think the next generation of heroes is proving to be our most promising one yet! So I have one more thing to say! I want to hear everyone yell it with me!"

All Might shouted "GOOD WORK!" as the crowd yelled "PLUS ULTRA!"

Silence.

Y/n broke it. "Boo, All Might, Boo!" She coughed into her hand, snickering as the crowd joined in.

When a photographer came to take a picture of the winners, the girl looked down at her medal in thought. She loved the Olympics so why not? When she grinned, she brought the medal up to her mouth and bit it.

The first to notice her actions was Todoroki. He watched her actions, confused for a few seconds before slowly mimicking her actions.

Tokoyami noticed what the boy next to him was doing and followed suit, Bakugo also doing the same after making a snide comment about it.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"Excuse me, miss?"

Y/n and Todoroki looked over to see a little girl around 11. She had pitch black hair tied in a braid that reached her mid back and black eyes.

"Me?" Y/n pointed to herself.

The girl nodded. "Can you help me find my mom? I got lost."

Y/n shrugged and slung her bag over her shoulder, Meeko sitting inside. "Sure kid."

The girl grabbed her hand and pulled her along into a crowd, the male following out of curiosity. "I thought you were really amazing in the festival! It was awesome when you got first place! I wish I had a quirk like yours."

"What's your quirk?"

"Shadow generation. I can make shadows and it gets rid of light in an area. I like it but it would be even more awesome if it was like hers." She latched herself back to Y/n's side. "When you become a hero I'm gonna be your number 1 fan!"

Y/n gave an awkward laugh. "Sure kid, whatever you want."

"I also think you're amazing because we have the same last name!"

Y/n stopped in her tracks. "What do you mean?"

"Yamiko! I'm Yamiko Jitsuko!"

Y/n pulled her hand away from the girl, shaking her head.

"Are you alright?" Todoroki put a hand on her shoulder.

"What's your mother's name?"

Before Jitsuko could answer, as a woman ran to the group of teens with the child. "Jitsuko! I was looking for you! I told you not to run off!"

Y/n's face turned to borderline disgust as she backed up, bumping into Todoroki, who kept her upright. "What's wrong?"

"Sorry mom! But look, she helped me! Look! I was telling you how cool she was!" The child grinned and pointed at the female.

The woman looked up and her eyes widened. "Y/n."

Y/n clenched her jaw as she stared at the woman who looked like an older version of her. "What?"

The woman, Hikaru, flinched like she wasn't expecting that reaction. Y/n wasn't sure why, the lady practically abandoned her since she was 5 years old. And now she finds out Jitsuko was her little sister. She had to be 10 or 11, so that explains why Hikaru was gone a lot more often.

Y/n didn't have a quirk so her mother probably went out and had a child who would.

"I-I just...you were amazing in the sports festival. I'm proud of you."

Y/n rolled her eyes. "You don't get to come here and say that to my face."

"Mom, you know her?" Jitsuko looked between the two.

Y/n didn't want to stick around to find out what her stupid excuse would be so she shoved past the woman and continued her way to the diner.

"That was your mom?" She heard Todoroki's voice from beside her. He was quick to catch up with her.

"Ten fucking years since she practically abandoned me and I was doing fine. All that progress down the goddamn drain from her, with a replacement child." Y/n snapped, but more to herself than the dual quirk teen. "Sorry you had to see that."

"Well you know how bad my father was."

"But Hikaru was nowhere close to him..." Y/n had a mental back and forth conversation with herself for a minute before telling them the same story she had told her All might, only this time she had to leave out the fact her father was dead since Todoroki think's Toshinori is her dad she improvised, saying he had just won custody over her and moved to America, before meeting All Might and becoming his assistant.

"I decided I wasn't gonna let anybody talk down to me anymore. That's why I said what I said to you, and that's why I'm especially snarky with Bakugo. I'm not gonna let that asshole think he's better than me."

"That's why you seemed more interested in the fight with Tsuneyuki." Todoroki realized, getting a nod.

"I went to junior high with him, and I had the chance to put him in his place, so, I took it."

As Todoroki was deep in thought about her words, he watched the girl call out to a messy green haired boy. He watched her hand him the sword Tsuneyuki had been using in the final match against her. He watched the boy tear up but quickly brush them away, bowing and promising to get stronger.

Did Y/n save him?

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> It's implied that Y/n is a carbon copy of her mother, so to separate herself, Y/n changed her hair color and wears color changing eye contacts
> Jitsuko is wondering why Y/n wasn't happy to learn they were sisters
> Hikaru's quirk is shadow manipulation
> If Y/n had a quirk, it would be shadow teleportation, a combination of her mother and father's
> Todoroki is wondering what Toshinori saw in Y/n's mother to be able to date her
> Midoriya freaked out when he learned Y/n's "dad" is All might's assistant
> Y/n gave Midoriya Tsuneyuki's sword, telling him to train with it
> The fight scene between Y/n and Tsuneyuki was based on the Technoblade vs Dream Animation by SAD-ist

 

>LOVE METER<

 

Uraraka (94%) +1% {Crush}
Iida (54%)
Bakugo (19%) +3%
Momo (25%) +4%
Kirishima (33%) +1%
Sero (21%) +1%
Jiro (37%) +1%
Tsuyu (46%) +1%
Kaminari (24%) +1%
Todoroki (24%) +14%
Shinso (10%)
Tokoyami (37%) +6%
Midoriya (49%) +22%

Chapter 11: 𝙧𝙖𝙗 𝙘𝙖𝙠𝙚

「ⁱ'ᵐ ᶜᵒˡᵒʳ⁻ᶜᵒᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵐʸ ᵐᵒᵒᵈˢ, ʸᵒᵘ'ʳᵉ ʸᵉˡˡᵒʷ, ⁱ'ᵐ ⁿᵃᵗᵘʳᵃˡ ᵇˡᵘᵉ
ˡᵉᵗ'ˢ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵗᵒᵍᵉᵗʰᵉʳ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵇᵉ ᵍʳᵉᵉⁿ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵐʸ ⁱⁿˢⁱᵈᵉˢ」

 

Y/n was on the train 2 days after the sports festival looking online for an automatic pet feeder for Meeko. If that doesn't work then she could probably talk to Aizawa about letting her bring him to school. It should be allowed since the principal is a talking bear rat chimera.

"Hey you, excuse me."

Y/n ignored the whisper, thinking it wasn't for her.

"You're Yamiko from class 1-A."

Eyes turned to Y/n immediately.

"Great job in the sports festival. I was rooting for you."

Y/n gave the people an awkward smile as they all praised her. It was so weird to be praised by people just because of one day. These people believed in her ability to be a hero. They believed in her more than she did in herself.

One of the adults on the train handed her a carton of chocolate milk and told her to have a good day as she got off the train. Y/n slipped the cold drink as she walked to school with her f/c umbrella.

"Good morning Y/n!"

Y/n furrowed her brows and faced Iida, who was wearing a yellow poncho while running to her.

"Why on earth are you walking so slowly? We're gonna be late!"

Y/n groaned but jogged after him. "There's five minutes until the first bell."

"U.A students should always arrive ten minutes early!" He zoomed off as Y/n slowed to a stop before quickly following.

Inside the warm building, Y/n shook the rainwater off her umbrella as she observed Iida put his rain boots in his locker. "Iida?"

"If it's about my brother don't be concerned." He faced her and flashed her a smile. "I'm sorry I made you worry, everything will be fine."

The girl stayed silent as she watched him walk off. Something about that last sentence and the way he said it bothered her. Nothing's fine after your hero family member has an accident. She would know.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Aizawa slid open the door. "Morning."

"Good morning Mr. Aizawa."

Tsuyu stared at him. "Ribbit. Mr. Aizawa you don't have bandages anymore. That's good news."

"The old lady went a little over bored in her treatment. Anyway, we have a big class today. Hero informatics..."

Y/n glanced around at her classmates as they all seemed to panic.

"You need code names. Time to pick your hero identities."

The class cheered. "This is gonna be totally awesome!"

Aizawa activated his quirk, immediately silencing the class and settling them back in their seats. "This is related to the pro hero draft picks mentioned the last time we had class together. Normally students don't have to worry about the drafts yet, not until their second or third year actually, but your class is different. In fact, by extending offers to first years like you, pros are essentially investing in your potential. Any of their offers can be rescinded if their interest in you dies down before graduation."

Y/n bit back a snort. That's depressing.

Hagakure leaned forward. "So what you're saying is we've still got to prove ourselves after we get recruited?"

"Correct. Now, here are the totals for those of you that got offers." He turned on the screen.

Class A Number of Offers

Yamiko - 4364

Todoroki - 4123

Bakugou - 3556

Tokoyami - 360

Iida - 327

"Despite these results, you'll all be interning with pros got it? Even those of you who didn't get any offers. These hero names will likely be temporary, but take them seriously or else-"

Midnight appeared. "-else there'll be hell to pay later!" Her heels made a distinct sound as she sauntered in. "Your hero name today could be your name for life. You better be careful or else you'll be stuck with something utterly indecent."

"Yeah, she's got a good point. Midnight is gonna have final approval over your names. It's not my forte."

Y/n snickered. "We know 'Eraserhead.'" She ignored Aizawa's stare as he slipped his sleeping bag on. Aizawa standing next to Midnight looked like the the school longer and the popular girl.

"The name you give yourself is important. It helps reinforce your image and shows what kind of hero you wanna be in the future. A code name tells people exactly what you represent. Take All Might for example."

Y/n took the last whiteboard from Koda in front of her, staring down at it. She hadn't ever bothered to think about a potential hero name. It'd be better to wait for the others to go first.

"Now students, who among you is ready to share?"

Aoyama took the stage first because of course he would. "Hold your breath. The shining hero: I can not stop twinkling!"

"Come on!"

Midnight took the board. "It'll be better this way, take out the 'I' and shorten the 'cannot' to 'can't.'"

"It's stunning mademoiselle."

"She like it!?"

"Also you're not really French are you? That's just an act!" Sato accused him.

Mina skipped onto the stage, presenting her name. "My code name: Alien Queen!"

"Hold on! Like that horrible monster with the acidic blood!? I don't think so."

Mina slumped her way to her seat as Y/n watched with wide eyes. Alien Queen was fucking awesome.

Tsuyu went up. "I've had this name in mind since grade school. Raining Season Hero: Froppy."

"That's delightful! It makes you sound approachable. What a great example of a name everyone will love!"

There hero names went on.

"Sturdy Hero: Red Riot"

"Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack"

"Tentacle Hero: Tentacole"

"Taping Hero: Cellophane"

"Martial Arts Hero: Tailman"

"Sweets Hero: Sugarman"

"Pinky!"

Y/n wondered if Bakugo was going to start getting her and Mina confused.

"Stun Gun Hero: Chargebolt"

"Stealth Hero: Invisible Girl"

"Everything Hero: Creati"

"Shoto"

"Jet-black Hero: Tsukuyomi"

"Fresh-picked Hero: Grape Juice"

"Petting Hero: Anima"

"King Explosion Murder"

Y/n laughed as Midnight denied him. "Be Boom Boom Boy!"

"What did you say Pinkie!?"

"Uravity"

"All we have left is Bakugo, Iida, oh yeah and Yamiko."

"Tenya"

Bakugo walked back up to the front with a new name. "Lord Explosion Murder!"

"Save me Lord Explosion Murder!" Y/n shouted as the class laughed.

"Yamiko, you're the last one." Midnight informed her.

Y/n stood up and walked to the front, the entire class' eyes on her. "Um..." She stared at the name on the whiteboard, suddenly hesitant. She had written down the name of an old legend she had been obsessed with, but almost immediately felt like it wasn't appropriate with how the story goes.

"One second." She erased the name with her arm and pulled out the marker, rewriting a name. She turned it and propped it on the podium. "Valiant."

Midnight leaned a bit closer, curious as to what she had originally written. "Interesting. Are you paying homage to someone like Kirishima? Or is it your own creation?"

"It means showing courage or determination...I figured it'd be the best choice...since that's what heroes need to have." Y/n looked up at the teacher, who gave her a sweet smile.

"It's perfect!"

After taking the paper with her offers on it, Aizawa and Midnight left, dismissing class. Y/n glanced at the names and made a face of surprise when she saw Endeavor's name there. She figured he'd want nothing to do with her after she told him off and practically robbed him. Maybe she should show Midoriya the list of names and get his input on who she should go with.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"Do you wanna walk home together?" Uraraka bounded up to Y/n who nodded, tossing her bag over her shoulder. "Iida, come with u-" She cut herself off when she realized Iida was missing.

"Maybe he already chose who he wants to intern with and left to turn it in." Y/n slid the door open and was jumpscared by All Might.

"I am here in a weird position!"

"You definitely are. Did you need something?"

"Come with me for a sec!"

Y/n nodded and asked her friend to wait for her, following the hero.

"I'll get straight to the point. Another offer from a hero came in who wants to take you on?"

She raised an eyebrow. He pulled her away from her friend just to tell her that? "Who?"

"His name is Gran Torino. He taught at this school back in my day, but only for one year. In fact the man was my homeroom teacher. He knows about One for All as well. Essentially I believe that's the reason he asked for you."

"Oh great another old geezer." Y/n rolled her eyes. "I have to go with him right? Just throw away this list?" She waved her paper around. "Also how does he know about the power?"

"He was the sworn friend of my predecessor. he retired a long time ago so I forget to count him among the people who know." He started shaking. "This is because I wrote about you in the letter I sent him, forgetting he watched the festival and thinks my teaching is inadequate."

"To be fair he probably didn't have to read any notes."

All Might didn't seem to hear as he kept going. "If he went so far as to use his hero name when making the offer-" his words became jumbled. "-it's scary! Too scary! Damn it leg stop shaking." He slapped his thigh. "Anyway, it is my duty to train you, but since you got an offer you should work with him this week if that's what your heart says." He tried handing her a folded slip of paper. "Anyway, h-h-here's the-the-the address.

Y/n chuckled. "No way you're scared of an old geezer. Aizawa doesn't scare me, I think I'll be fine." She watched as her mentor continued to shake. She was against this but seeing how scared All Might seemed to be this Gran Torino has to be fucking awesome. She grabbed the paper. "Is that all?"

All Might calm down mostly, facing the girl in a much calmer state. "I was also curious about your hero name?" He grinned like a teenage girl engaging in gossip.

"Oh it's just Valiant." Y/n absentmindedly read the address, only looking up at the silence that stretched over, seeing the blond with a funny look on his face. "What's wrong?"

"Valiant?"

"Mhm."

"That...that was going to be my original hero name..." All Might waited for her reaction.

"You're shitting me."

"I promise you I'm not Y/n."

The two stared at each other in silence.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

Usually when it's midnight at the diner, there's almost nobody, save for an underground hero, vigilante, or even a runaway.

Right now, the only people working in the diner were Y/n and the cook, Murasame. When Aoto goes home before the others, he makes sure Y/n has the keys to close up if need be.

There were three customers in the diner currently. Mei, who was sitting at the counter across from Y/n, drawing plans for an upgraded version of the axe Y/n kept from the Sports Festival, and two guys in a booth a few feet away.

One guy looked scrawny but muscular at the same time, with black spiky hair and purple, wrinkly skin on patches of his skin, most notably on his jawline and arms. They also looked held together by staples.

The second guy had a lizard-like appearance with messy purple hair and red eyes. The two of them looked up at Y/n as she walked closer to them with her notepad out.

"What can I get you guys?"

They didn't answer right away, staring at her in slight surprise.

Y/n raised an eyebrow at them. "To eat?" She tried helping them along. She had no reason to comment on their appearance, as the world has all kinds of weird looking people, so they're not at the bottom of the barrel. Far from it.

She was pretty sure she saw a guy with a hotdog head once.

The black haired man cleared his throat, his scratchy voice reaching the teen's ears. "Soba. Cold."

"Ramen." The other replied.

Y/n nodded, heading back to her original spot as she jotted the names down, slipping the paper to Murasame through the window.

Spinner hummed lowly, gazing at the burnt male across from him. "That's her?"

"in the flesh."

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

"Everyone has their costumes right?" Aizawa questioned his class. "Remember, you don't have permission to wear them out in public yet, and don't lose them or anything."

"Gotcha!"

"Speak properly, 'yes sir' Ashido."

Mina slumped. "Yes sir."

"Make sure you mind your manners with the other heroes during your internships."

Y/n side eyed Bakugo who growled lowly at her, nudging her away to avoid the raccoon that was staring at him.

"Now get to it."

The class broke off in different directions. "Iida." Y/n called out.

The blue haired male paused, facing the girl.

"Don't do anything stupid."

Iida gazed at her for a few minutes, before nodding. "I won't."

Spoiler Alert: Iida does something stupid

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Y/n is excited to meet Gran Torino
> For her 2 backup agencies, Y/n put Endeavor and the Pussycats Agency after talking to Midoriya
> All Might is banned from taking care of Meeko for a week so Y/n is bringing him with her
> Spinner and Dabi are slowly becoming regulars at the diner to get information on Y/n

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (95%) +1% {Crush}
Iida (56%) +2%
Bakugo (19%)
Momo (22%) +3%
Kirishima (33%)
Sero (21%)
Jiro (37%)
Tsuyu (46%)
Kaminari (24%)
Todoroki (29%) +5%
Shinso (10%)
Tokoyami (37%)
Midoriya (53%) +4%

Chapter 12: 𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙮𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧

「ᴵ'ᵈ ˢʷⁱᵗᶜʰ ⁱᵗ ᵘᵖ ᵇᵘᵗ ⁱ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉ
ᴼⁿˡʸ ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵉⁿᵗ ⁱᶠ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍˢ ˢᵗᵃʸ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵃᵐᵉ」

 

"Whoopsie. I was carrying a nice big plate of sausages covered in ketchup when I accidentally tripped and fell down. Clumsy me." A short, old man brushed his clothes off like it was nothing.

Y/n was honestly surprised he hadn't broken a bone considering his age. If All Might was old, this guy had to be ancient. She kinda froze when she opened the door and saw him lying face first on the ground with red splatters coming out. What are you even supposed to do when you think someone's dead?

Great first impression. 10/10 would recommend.

The little man trembled as he looked up at her. "Who did you say you were?"

"Uh, L/n Y/n."

"And who's the dog?"

Y/n stifled a laugh. "Meeko."

He nodded. Not even a second went by when, "What's your name girl?"

Y/n tilted her head at the man but repeated it a bit louder. She wondered if All Might would tremble like Gran Torino when he gets even older. She hoped he did so she could make fun of him.

The male fell on his butt but didn't flinch. "I could really use some food."

This dude fell and he wants food? Maybe he's secretly related to Y/n.

"Nana?"

"Um, no, sorry. Do you want me to make you some or order it?"

The geezer didn't answer and instead began rummaging through her suitcase with her costume. "Why don't you fire off a One for All smash at me?"

"Heh?"

"I wanna know how far you've come to handle it in terms of power." He felt the fabric of her suit. "This is a pretty good costume. Now where's that attack?"

"Uhh..."

Torino looked at her. "Hey what are you doing here?"

Y/n pursed her lips. This dude is trying play the senile act with her. Those trembles are fake. "I'm not that stupid, stop acting like that, it's already more than enough when All Might does that."

Torino stood. "It's time for you to show me what you can do, ya noobie."

Y/n furrowed her eyebrows as she recalled All Might saying that word during the mock battles.

"I watched the U.A sports festival. You were smart and did good, but aren't using your power like you should be. Toshinori isn't training you well. He might be the symbol of peace and the number 1 hero, but All Might's a total novice when it comes to teaching. I can only imagine what a blunder he is in the classroom."

Y/n made a noise of agreement.

"I can't stand to watch you be scared to use your quirk, so I suppose I'll have to teach you. Now hurry and get your costume on."

Pulling on her clothes, Y/n hesitantly looked back at the old man.

"Show me your smash." The elder commanded. Without waiting he began shooting himself from wall to wall, puffs of air coming from the bottom of his boots. Meeko chittered and ran under a table.

Y/n did her best to time it before swinging around and punching her loaded fist.

Torino dodged it with no problem. "Nice try, but you're a little stiff, and there's discord within your mind." He tackled her with a hand on her face.

"Goddamnit."

"Listen, the way you used One for All in the Calvary battle and the tournament showed that you're adjusting to the quirk. You understand it's fundamentals but your hesitations are shackles on you."

"Shackles?"

He got off her. "It's true that you need to get stronger, and quickly, time waits for no one. Real villains don't care if you've reached your full potential yet, and you clearly think you won't be able to handle One for All." He walked to the doors. "Think about that while I go get some grub, clean this place up." He hobbled away. "Let's go dog." Meeko hissed but ultimately followed.

Y/n fell back against the floor as she listened to the tapping of his cane fade away. What he just said was basically the conversation she had with that woman in her dreams.

Y/n swept up the leftover rubble into a trash bag and double bagged it. She dropped it in the corner, unplugging the destroyed microwave and tossing it on top. She sat down and thought about what Torino had said earlier.

He caught onto the fact Y/n was hesitant about using her quirk. It was easy to come up with an excuse for it, simply saying she was just worried about her bones, but Torino looked like he would know better.

Her hesitation was the shackle.

She thought about how to not be stiff. Y/n glanced at her phone contacts and saw Midoriya's name. He had said something about quirks technically being extensions of someone's body. Kind of like Ojiro or Shoji, but other quirks like hers aren't physical. Maybe if she thought about One for All as being part of her body it'll help a lot.

Later that night Y/n looked away from her low-lit computer screen as she heard Torino snores sound like "i'm snoring." She shared a look with Meeko as he laid his head on his tiny hands, snorting. Earlier she had got on call with Midoriya as the geezer passed out after eating and asked him if he knew anything about Gran Torino. All she had gotten was empty searches, but Izuku soothed her nerves a bit by telling her any heroes from when quirks first started popping up, weren't relatively known. That definitely solidified it for Y/n: Torino was a major geezer.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

The next morning Meeko led Torino down the stairs and came face to face with Y/n. "Good morning. What's wrong? You look beat." He referred to the dark eyebags on the girl.

"I was up pretty late training. It took a while to get what I wanted done."

"It's your first time trying so that's expected. That is how training works, off course I suppose All Might can't wrap his mind around that. He was pretty much able to use One for All right off the bat so I taught him in a very different manner." He trudged past her. "You have the body you just don't have the fight."

Y/n chose to ignore the last sentence and focus on the one before. "What was it like training him?"

"Hmm? It was all combat training for him. Your main focus is power training. The training was difficult but I couldn't hold back on him. He was entrusted to me by an old friend who had just passed away."

"A black haired woman, right? I'm pretty sure I saw her in my dreams. She's the reason I have the gauntlets and soles."

Torino looked at her in shock when the door bell rang, someone announcing they had a package.

"I'll get that for you."

As the teen walked off, Torino frowned to himself.

The two humans and animal opened the package to see a brand new microwave. "Oh."

The elder chuckled. "For some reason mine broke yesterday, so I ordered a new one."

Y/n deadpanned at the guy as he ran his hands on the machine.

"So what do you think, how about we eat some of that frozen food I bought? It'll be good."

"You bought actual food? Or dessert?"

"What can I say? I like the finer things in life." He marched away.

Y/n ended up cooking the treats as Torino sat at the table like a happy child. She took the hot plate from the beeping microwave and set it in front of the elder, watching as he happily took a bite from it.

"You did good with this. Last time I had Toshinori do this, he stuck a big plate in there so it only cooked one side."

Y/n snickered as she cut a strawberry, giving it to an awaiting pair of thief hands. "He's..." She trailed off as she thought about that. "Son of a bitch..."

One side gets all the heat, so it'll never come out the way you want it to. But giving it heat on both sides makes it perfect.

"My quirk's been so inconsistent because I'm only focusing on one part. Focusing power on my whole body no matter what, breaks down those odds even more." She clenched her fists as she felt her quirk come active throughout her whole body. It worked and f/c lightning appeared around her being as her eyes glowed.

Torino grinned and tossed his cane away. "Tell me, can you move in this state?"

"I. Don't. Know."

"Wanna try?"

"Obviously."

Torino walked around the girl. "That's it, keep One for All flowing throughout your entire body. If you can move around while maintaining this, then you'll be on a completely different level then you were on the sports festival."

Y/n slightly grunted as she kept her body in the same position, too scared to move and lose it

"So kid, think you can handle it?" Not waiting for an answer, he pulled out a timer. "We'll begin with 3 minutes." He began stretching.

"For what?"

"That's the amount of time you'll have to try and hit me with a smash." He began shooting off the walls all over the place again.

Y/n turned her head and was met with a kick to the face from Torino and stumbled to the side, trying to keep her balance, the lightning disappearing.

"If you can't hold your own against an old man, how can you expect to save people?" He slammed into her upper back, taking off. "Someone praised by the symbol of peace himself should be able to complete this challenge easily."

Y/n ducked as much as she could to avoid the elder but it didn't seem to work, as he got a few more hits on her back. They didn't hurt, they were just too fast for her to activate One for All. The thing was his movements were repetitive, like earlier.

Y/n watched him shoot in front of her once, then twice, then-

"Hey!" Torino shouted in surprise as he was kicked into the wall. "I told you to use your powe-" He paused, when he opened his eyes he saw Y/n's body powered back up. "So you were just trying keep me off you for a minute, now that was a good idea."

Y/n jumped in the air and tried hitting him, but he dodged and cans on the shelf behind him got knocked over.

"Almost!" He grinned moving behind her and lunging towards her with his arms outstretched but the girl back flipped over him. She aimed a kick at his back but he evaded it, grabbing ankle and slamming her into the wall.

Y/n coughed from the impact and slid down.

"Time's up."

Y/n panted, rubbing her shoulder. "It feels like advanced multitasking."

"Nice work." Torino complemented her. "You attacked me while I had my guard down, but that's not strategy, that's planning. You need to let go of planning a bit and focus on your strategy, or analysis. If that's too difficult, I'd suggest talking to your principal about getting a sidekick."

"Sidekick? I don't understand."

"Instead of a hero sidekick who fights by your side while on the job, I'm talking about someone behind the scenes, who can give you the information you need. Do you know someone like that?"

Y/n mind immediately went to a certain green haired male. "I mean yeah, but-"

"Can you trust him? He might have to know about One for All."

Y/n paused. She hadn't known Midoriya that long, but he clearly gave her tips for fighting villains, and told her to call him if she needed information about heroes. He even offered his notebooks for her to look over. "I believe so."

"It's just a thought to keep in mind. Moving on from that, you've already grown from yesterday, since you used One for All this way." He wiped some blood from his cheek that got cut. "Alright no time to rest, let's keep training."

Y/n stood up. "Alright. What are we doing now?"

"We haven't had breakfast yet, and your dog's been pawing at the fridge this whole time." He was. "There's some chicken in the fridge, give that to him, stop giving him so much fruit. And heat up those pastry's again!" He smiled, skipping before he saw the fish shaped treats on the ground.

Screams filled the house as Y/n ran out the door, leaving to get more.

.・。.・゜✭・❤・✫・゜・。.

After a few more rounds of fighting, Torino stopped training and instructed Y/n to put on her hero costume to go out and fight some villains.

"This is still training, if you continue to fight against me you'll be in trouble when you come across someone the complete opposite. Let's go dog."

"You mean someone who's not an old geezer?" That earned her a cane to the knee.

"The key is to get you experience with different types of villains and situations, this is an internship after all." He put his hand up calling a cab. "And it won't do us any good hanging around here." They got in. "Because of the small population in this area the crime rate is pretty low, that's why there are so many hero agencies in urban areas, there's a lot more crime there. The higher the population density, the more trouble you'll find. In Shibuya we'll have plenty of small fights to break up, I guarantee."

"Does that mean we're taking the bullet train?"

"Yup."

Y/n realized they would pass Hosu city, the place Iida was interning. She really hoped Iida would listen to her, but he was probably too far stuck inside his grief. Y/n couldn't blame him, she shut herself away from school for a few months after finding out her dad died and he wasn't ever coming back. He promised her he would too.

Y/n ran her fingers through Meeko's fur as he purred in his sleep. "Are you alright with staying up so late? I thought old people need their sleep?"

"That's why I picked it, there will be scare missions then so it'll be much more fun."

The girl checked her messages to Iida, ignoring Torino saying that her generation was on their phones too much, and saw he left her on read when she told him she'd be passing by. This dude never let a message be left on read, even if it was an emoji he's be right there replying with his own or telling her a facts about one, like "Birthday cake and pizza slices are the most-used food emoji year-round" or "The musical notes emoji is the most popular emoji in Brazil and Argentina."

"Hey did you see that!?" Someone yelled. "A building exploded!"

"Where?"

The speaker overhead came to life. "Passengers, please hold on to your seats."

The train came to a screeching halt throwing everyone forward as something slammed through the side of the train. Meeko screamed as Y/n held him close, her and Torino looking over their seats to see a white haired guy get grabbed by the face and slammed down by a weirdly shaped hand.

Passengers screamed in fright as the other hand pulled back the metal and Y/n's heart stopped. That brain that was showcasing. That was a nomu again.

"I want you to stay back you hear me!?" Torino shouted as he took off. He slammed into the nomu, smashing him out of the other side of the train, crashing into a building.

Y/n stiffly leaned back in her seat. "No problem..." She did her best to avoid the smoke coming from a fire in the distance.

Notes:

[TRIVIA]

> Torino refers to Meeko as a dog because he knows raccoons aren't legal
> Y/n thinks Torino is awesome
> Meeko acts like a service animal around Torino

 

>LOVE METER<

Uraraka (95%) {Crush}
Iida (56%)
Bakugo (18%)
Momo (22%)
Kirishima (33%)
Sero (21%)
Jiro (37%)
Tsuyu (46%)
Kaminari (24%)
Todoroki (29%)
Shinso (21%)
Tokoyami (32%)
Midoriya (56%)