Chapter 3: Room For Improvement

Author's note: Sorry for the late update, kind of hit a roadblock on both my fics, plus with the whole situation going on right now and my computer crapping out it's been an eventful few months. To be honest I'm gonna have to do a whole new storyboard for both stories...I kinda went off-script saving Eri as early as I did, so yeah...I don't know when you can expect a new chapter, but I hope you enjoy this one and look forward to the next. Thank you for your patience.

Izuku huffed for breath, lowering his projected bow, releasing the mana giving it form and letting it fade while, looking around the room, to see all the targets in the room destroyed or riddled with arrows. The young hero found his attention drawn to All Might who stood in the center of the training room, clapping his hands with a smile on his face before he was engulfed in smoke, revealing his true form as he walked towards his student.

"I have to say young Midoriya, you continue to impress!" All Might said with a grin, looking around the room, eyes roaming over the targets in the room before turning his attention back to Izuku, patting his shoulder where there was a tear in his shirt "Not only did you manage to keep up with my movements and land some hits on me, but you also managed to hit each target in their center," he said, his voice full of pride.

Izuku looked around the room, looking to the targets and back to his teacher before shaking his head with a wry smile on his face and a determined look in his eyes, "I could have done better," he said, getting a chuckle out of the number one hero.

"I have no doubt you'll continue to improve my boy," All Might said looking to his watch before nodding to himself, looking back to Izuku who looked ready to go again, giving him a shake his head, "Sorry, but I'm going to have to cut this short," he said with a small smile at the disappointed look in Izuku's eyes, patting the young man on the shoulder, "After all today is the Opening Ceremony, and I would rather not make Nezu or you mother angry by tiring you out before the exam," he said with a smile as Izuku nodded pausing looking up to a slowly paling All Might.

"What do you mean exam?" Izuku asked as All Might was looking around, fear in his eyes before he moved closer to his student voice dropping to a whisper.

"Well you see..." the number one hero paused looking around before continuing, "I decided to take you advice and do some studying to prepare myself for teaching," he patted his back pocket, before pulling out a book 'Teaching for dummies' filled to the brim with notes, looking as if it'd been looked through multiple times a day. Opening it to a page he showed it to Izuku, "As you can see it recommends getting to know you coworkers so I did some digging and found that one of my fellow teachers has a certain habit," he looked around again before continuing, "Every year that he's taught here, he has expelled a student on the day of the entrance exam...last year however he expelled the entire class,"

Izuku's eyes widened as Emiya let out a chuckle, "Wow kid, you really do have my kind of luck," he said before letting Izuku focus on All Might who was watching his student with worry. Shaking his head, Izuku looked to All Might with unrestrained curiosity.

"Can he do that?" he asked, receiving a nod from All Might as they made their way out of the gym and off of school grounds.

"UA is the top-ranked hero school," All Might said his shoulders lowering as he relaxed though his tone remained serious, "While that means UA has raised its standards due to expectations, we can't catch every bad egg," at Izuku's inquisitive look he elaborated, "You have noticed that there are some who passed with only villains points correct?" he asked getting a quick nod before continuing, "While that's not a bad thing there are some who don't embody the ideas of UA….while some teachers use the first term to determine who is not hero material, he uses the first day," All Might said, rubbing the back of his head.

"I'm guessing I'm in his class?" Izuku said, getting a small nod from his teacher, letting out a sigh he looked to the ground before he looked to All Might, with a smirk similar to his other teacher, "Then I'll have to show that I deserve to be a hero," he said as All Might nodded back with a big grin.

"I'm sure you'll blow away expectations, Young Midoryia," All Might said with a smile as they got into his car, Izuku's grey speckled eyes shining with determination.

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Izuku smiled, looking to his reflection in the mirror as he straightened the tie of his UA uniform, nodding to himself once it seemed straight.

"Well at least the school uniform is more interesting than I wore during high school," Archer said, getting a nod of agreement from Izuku. Turning to make sure he had everything he smiled softly as he saw Eri laying on his bed, coloring with a smile on her face. Walking over to see what she was coloring he let out a chuckle seeing it was a picture of apple trees, most of the apples she had colored were red while there was a green one every once in a while.

Eri hearing Izuku looked up with a smile on her face, which turned into a small frown as she saw his uniform. "You got to go back to school don't you Izu?" she asked, getting a small nod which made her huff and look away, "But, you're already a hero Izu," she said softly sitting back and pulling her knees to her chest, the red bandages on her arms that she's taken to wearing getting his attention. Izuku smiled softly patting Eri's head as he took a seat on his bed.

"I know I'm your hero Eri, but I've still got to go to school," he said softly ruffling her hair as he paused for a second before smiling, "What if I made you some candied apples for dessert tonight?" he said smirking as her eyes widened and a bit of drool fell from her lips.

"Really?!" she asked with shining eyes, her face breaking out into a smile as she pulled him into a hug.

"So are you going to let me go to school?" he asked, feeling her nod against his shoulder as she hugged him tighter before pulling back, eyes still shining with excitement at the promise of candied apples as she went back to coloring. Smiling at his little sister Izuku rechecked his room before nodding to himself, patting Eri's head again before stepping out of his room. Making his way to the front door of his apartment he saw All Might in his Toshiro Yagi form trying desperately to reject his mom's offer of a prepared lunch.

"I couldn't possibly impose," the number one hero said wilting under his mother's stare, Izuku smiled as he stood unnoticed behind the scared looking All Might, "I'm sure it's delicious, but.." he stopped talking as Inko grabbed his hand and made him hold the boxed lunch.

"You've really helped Izuku," she said her smile brightening, "I can't ever remember him looking so happy and I cannot thank you and All Might enough," she said to the number one, before taking notice of Izuku moving past the frozen All Might as she pulled Izuku into a hug eyes full of love and pride as she fixed his tie.

"You have everything Izuku?" she asked, getting a small nod, "Make sure to do you best okay.." she paused before pulling him into another hug whispering into his ear voice full of nothing but love, "You become the best hero you can be okay?" she said Izuku's eyes widening slightly before he nodded, hugging his mom back.

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"You know I have to say that I'm further impressed," Emiya stated as they stood outside the classroom 1-A. "Your friend continues to surprise me with her inability to keep track of time," Izuku chuckled defeatedly as she checked his phone for the time again before sliding it back into his pocket.

"...Mina has many talents," he said dejectedly, before returning to look at his phone, looking up current hero news. Izuku paused his browsing as he saw an article talking about All Might. He winced as he saw them talking about the decrease in the amount of time he was in the public eye.

"Well he was quite the showboat," Emiya said as Izuku read the article, " I would be surprised if no one noticed," Izuku nodded agreeing with Emiya before someone tapped his shoulder pulling him from his reading and making him jump.

"Really Izu, playing on your phone right outside of class," Mina said with a smirk as Uraraka waved unenthusiastically behind her, tiredly rubbing her eye.

Giving his pink friend a look he slid his phone into his pocket. "What did you do to Uraraka?" He asked.

"I didn't do anything…." Mina said, her eyes darting back and forth as she let out a nervous chuckle.

Turning to his other friend she let out a yawn before speaking, "She said since my apartment is closer to UA than her house she wanted to walk to school with me…..so she stayed the night and made me watch horror movies all night with her," Uraraka finished her explanation with another yawn as Mina continued to chuckle nervously rubbing the back of her head.

"Sorry," Mina said to the sleepy girl who merely nodded before letting loose another yawn.

Reaching into his backpack Izuku handed Uraraka a thermos full of coffee, " This should wake you up," giving Izuku a small smile, she focused her attention on the thermos, making her way into the classroom leaving Izuku and Mina in the hall.

"Didn't you get my text?" Izuku asked, having texted Mina the information they'd learned about the teacher.

"In my defense you didn't text it till around six," she said weakly pausing as they heard some shouting from the classroom before focusing back on Izuku who looked to the classroom with a look of defeat. "You okay Izu?" She asked, getting a slow nod as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Just realizing that I do have E ranked luck," he said before they were interrupted by a cough.

Looking towards the sound they found themselves facing what looked to be a giant caterpillar. They watched, eyes wide as it wiggled on the floor sliding the door open silently and somehow gesturing them to follow them in. Following it into the room they saw Uraraka still drinking from the thermos, and watched as it crawled to the front of the room before it stood up, revealing it to be someone in a sleeping bag. A tired voice came from the now human-shaped sleeping bag.

"Everyone, be quiet and sit down," the man said, the classroom became silent, Mina and Izuku moved to their desk sitting down as the man's eyes tracked them before returning to look at the class as a whole.

"It took you too long to listen...if you want to have any hope at being a hero you better be ready to listen when I tell you to do something." The man paused, reaching a hand out of the sleeping bag and into one of the drawers of the teacher's desk pulling out a bottle of juice which the man drunk before continuing, " I am Shota Aizawa…..now get dressed in the gym uniforms that are inside the desks and meet me out on field one," he said before heading out ignoring the classes many questions.

"I might enjoy this class," Emiya said, getting a sigh from Izuku.

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"Does anybody want to guess why I gathered you here?" Aizawa asked, looking at the students now dressed in UA gym uniforms.

A girl with black eyes and bangs covering the right side of her face raised her hand. Aizawa paused looking at a tablet he pulled from his sleeping bag. "Momo Yaoyorozu," he said, glancing at her before gesturing for her to answer.

"Some sort of exam?" She asked, getting a nod from the man.

"UA is the top hero school, and as such it is my job to make sure you are worthy of becoming heroes," his eyes scanned over the class, "or if your wasting the school's time and should be replaced with someone more deserving," he smiled wide, eyes wide open, " the student with the lowest score on this test will be expelled….though if you think you can float by, just doing the bare minimum then I will expel you without hesitation," the class became deadly silent. Looking down at the tablet in his hand he nodded, pulling a tennis ball from his pocket, "Izuku Midoriya, " he gestured to the green-haired archer to stand next to him in the center of a circle on the field, handing Izuku the tennis ball.

"Tell me Midoriya what was your furthest throw during standardized testing?" Aizawa asked.

"65 meters," Izuku said, getting a nod from Aizawa.

"Good, now I want you to use your quirk," Aizawa took a step back, "you cannot leave the circle,"

Izuku closed his eyes, activating his circuits and letting his mana reinforce his body to the limit, his circuits visible under his skin as he continued to use more and more mana. Then he focused on reinforcing the ball, making it as strong as he could before reaching back then throwing the ball with enough force to make it nothing but a speck in just a few seconds.

"632 me-" Aizawa started to say only to pause as Izuku formed a bow and aimed, forming a red arrow as he drew the bowstring back, his mana visible as he overloaded it with mana. Then he fired and within seconds the field a few meters down was engulfed in an explosion as Aizawa turned his attention back to the tablet, a small smirk on his face, "789 meters," he turned the tablet to show the rest of the class.

"Deku!" Izuku's focus shifted to an angry Bakugo who charged at him, explosions going off in his hands. However, his charge at Izuku ended when Aizawa stepped forward, and he found himself bound, staring at his hands with wide eyes. Izuku's eyes widened in recognition.

"You're Eraserhead!" He said excitedly wincing as the man's glare moved to him for a second before returning to the angry blond.

"Katsuki Bakugo, I don't care about your past, or that you have a strong quirk," his eyes narrowed, " if you think I'd sit back and let you interrupt my class then you're free to leave," the bindings fell away from Bakugo who seemed to relax as little explosions came from his palm. Aizawa's attention turned to the rest of the class, "That goes for all of you, I expect you to act as aspiring heroes would or you can leave," he gave them one last glare before stepping back and calling up the next person.

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Izuku fell to the ground gasping for breath, his body spent after being pushed to the limit.

"You know you could have taken it easy and still gotten at least in the middle of the scoreboard," Emiya said as Izuku looked up to see himself in fourth place behind Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, and Iida.

"..." Izuku remained silent as he watched Aizawa wrap up a crying student named Mineta, the word harem being used more than once.

"It seems you lot aren't hopeless after all," he looked to Mineta currently wrapped in his bindings before looking to the class, " I expect you to continue to push yourselves….it will only get tougher from here….you can expect a new member of your class tomorrow, " he started to drag the one expelled student towards the main office building, pausing, "I expect to find you changed back into your uniforms and waiting quietly for me in the homeroom...we have an orientation to get through,"

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"They're so pretty," Izuku smiled at Eri's words as he finished with candied apples, looking at the other snacks he'd made, balancing the tray with apples as he picked up the plate with the others. Making his way out of the small kitchen he found himself being watched by his four guests as he set the plates down, handing a candied apple to a happy Eri.

"You are a man of many talents aren't you Midoriya?" Iida asked as he picked up some green tea cookies to eat with his tea, while Mina picked a candied apple up, and Uraraka and Yaoyorozu ate some daifuku.

"If Izu didn't want to be a hero, I could easily see him being a chief," Mina said as she took a bite of her apple, Eri having taken a seat next to Mina munched on her apple with a wide smile, pieces of candy and apple going unnoticed on her cheeks.

"I'm kinda glad he's not a chief….I'd eat his food every day," Uraraka said, picking up another daifuku. Mina looked at Uraraka with a smirk.

"So what you're saying is Izu would be the perfect wife," she gestured to the apron Izuku was wearing, "I mean come on he pulls off the apron," Mina said to nods from everyone, as Izuku sighed, taking a drink of his tea as he ate some of his cookies looking to the duo that had joined their trio.

"So I know that I invited Iida, but how'd you get invited, Yaoyorozu?" He asked, getting a nervous chuckle from her.

"Well I was going to head home and study, but Ash-"

"Mina." Yaoyorozu paused at Mina's interruption.

"...Mina said pulling a bike from my stomach made me….' badass' and she said we should hangout...then she dragged me here," she said with a mirthless chuckle. Izuku looked at Mina with an unimpressed look as she laughed weakly and rubbed the back of her head.

"Um….sorry?" Mina said as Izuku palmed his face and Uraraka patted Yaoyorozu's arm, giving her a sympathetic look.

"She grows on you….eventually," Uraraka said to her before the room became silent with the occasional happy sigh from Eri who finished her apple leaning tiredly against Mina.

The silence was broken by the sound of the door opening, Inko dressed in a black dress followed by All Might in his Toshiro Yagi form in a suit, the teens went unnoticed by the pair, their attention only on each other. Inko laughed at something All Might said her body moving closer to the number one hero.

"Wow Ms. Midoriya I didn't know you had a boyfriend," Mina said with a wide grin on her face, the two adults jumping as they turned to face their audience.

"Uh…." Inko stared eyes wide at the five children, while All Might looking everywhere but at Izuku.

"...Damn it, Mina, " Uraraka said quietly before grabbing another daifuku.