Uff…I have nothing to say on my defense, as usual. It's entirely my fault that I'm totally addicted at procrastination and that I deserve jab at my tardiness. That and that it took me more time than I thought to see where this story was going. (I wrote this on the fly, which took me so far so I started brainstorming for future plot, this and my other stories, which consumed more time than I thought).
Most of this comments have been collecting dust but, eh, better late than never:
FoxOnPie: Lesson learned.
Karlos1234ify: I imagine that insult his vow must be quite triggering but that's just me. One of them will appear…when, only future me knows.
Lightningblade49: Bakugou may look like your usual hair-for-brains but he's smart than most of Class 1-A. He has a plan. Both of them are all work and no play.
risedragon0009: Thanks. I was a little insecure about the chapter but was quickly relieved that it worked out.
WaddleDood: Thanks.
ZGMF-X13A Providence: Thanks. Well, they did accept Bakugou, who was brash and aggressive, Todoroki, who was cold and unapproachable and Mineta, who was a complete pervert so why not Izuru?
Shadow of Life: lol, I filled like 2k answering your comment. (If this is against the rules, I dunno. If it is, someone tell me.)- Too lazy to read the rules.
Again, sorry for the being late.
A new chapter? Wonderful It's not really surprising when you have plenty to talk about s well answer and fanfiction has a word limit.
If Endeavor was a good father then he would have his kids look up to him. And a son who would be inspired to be just like his father. And the public would probably like him more Ii mean just at the latest chapters where they go and take the exams to go and get a hero's licenses the whole exam is being changed to more of a team based exam because finding a hero who can be just like all might is hard because in both power and charisma he stood out so far compared to Endeavor.
R:Endeavor is just…I dunno how to call him. As you say, if he was a good person and a good father by extension, maybe Shouto wouldn't resent his fire side and would have come as stronger than before and the public would like him more. Too bad that he is an asshole and it probably doesn't help that he sometimes gets violent on his villain arrests to make people know that something is wrong with the guy.
Well don't let me ruined it for you, despite how I may sound and all continue reading and come to a conclusion of the series yourself. Perhaps you would see things differently than me. It's just that the series had potential but drop the ball in my opinion.
R:I totally share your opinion. Even if I didn't read it until the end, I could tell that the vibe wasn't the same when I started reading.
Well it turns out not everyone was force to fight robots but actually different types of tests designed for different things just look at chapter 112 and we Todoroki have to do 3k with his powers…and that's me not commenting on the other person (if you're up to date you know who I am talking about, like the guy fun character)
R:That was probably the exam for the kids with recommendations (We could see Juuzou from Class B and Inasa there). Don't worry, I'm always up to date with Boku no Hero.
SO Shinsou most likely took an exam where he could use his quirk what it was….I have no idea to be honest.
Got to be honest rarely do we see someone with the power to brainwash be a good guy the power is just too easy to become corrupted, I mean really think about it there's a reason why people who have brainwashing are bad guys now make no mistake I'm not saying that Shinsou is a bad guy but he's got to deal with a lot of prejudices and stereotypes because of the history and actions of brainwashing.
R: I get you. Shinsou isn't a bad person. Sure, he is rude but then again, we all know what is with him. As above, there were probably two types of exams, one for the normal students and the other for the students with recommendation (One day, we will know in more detail what this recommendation is about). However, a quirk like his was inefficient in that field. I, for one, think that Shinsou would be a great rescue hero if he could brainwash panicked people into going to safety and stuff but unfortunately and Aizawa remarked it on the School games, the U.A test was flawed.
Understatement of the year, it goes to show you he's a creators pet, no offense to anyone but really? When a guy like him acts like that it's…..ugh I can't think of the words to describe what I feel or the hypocrisy of his actions….or his desire to be a hero when he doesn't care about other people….I could go on but really I'm going to stop before I go off ranting.
R: Yeah and that came back to bite his ass on the License test. He has his beliefs and ideology right but his attitude doesn't help his cause. At this point, he's like a very, very soft-core version of Endeavor. He even questions himself in the latest chapters if his way to look up to All Might was wrong.
Oh yeah well he can act proper in media like when he did that apology to the press.
OH? SO you have something planned, wonderful I was wondering what he would train on, I mean when you have the school trips where they go camping to train their quirks it makes me wonder what he would train as well as how? I mean for him….god they would have to do everything imaginable and more!
Everyone makes mistakes, not a big deal man. If anyone was able to write stories without any mistakes…well they would be something else.
I know he's not but anyone else he is.
R:Is a secret (That even I don't know… but I will pull something out of my ass.)
So you plead the fifth on her quirk….okay then.
Well readers tend to do that, they just want to ask and get a confirmation for it.
Hey coming up with cool original names is hard just look at class A when they were coming up with super hero names, it wasn't perfect and those two….well it goes to show you they value the other person's ability and we don't have to worry about someone saying they are on top and the other is support or so that's an issue dual companies sometimes have.
R:Tell me about it. I had my doubts with [Loving Tracking] (Sounds a little…)
Really? Soda is going to make an appearance? Nice, though hopefully he found someone because honestly he's attempts for Sonia in cannon….were doomed to fail no matter what he did. Just got to pity the guy you know?
Glad to hear
R: Obviously, Soda will make an appearance. His Butt Monkey tendencies are funny and while Sonia did acknowledge him in Danganronpa 3, that ship already sunk from long time ago.
…..when it comes to combat I seen some of the things he does and how is quirk is "supposedly" all-round/flexible or whatever they want to call it but outside that…..no I can't really see any decency to be honest, to be a hero in his eyes is just beat up the Bad guys and that's it….nothing about inspiring hope or saving people but more like beating up people, like he did to deku when they were kids to when they were in jr. high. Being a hero in a sense is the same only you get paid as well as fame for doing so. It's honestly a wonder why he doesn't become a villain to be honest, I mean yes I'm up to date and read his reply mr hand all over me. But honesty being a villain would fall in more with his personality, ability, and his desires. Until cannon can truly show me with the chance of being a hero and clean up his act I can't really change my opinion about him. He's like Juzo only in a class of people that want to be his friend despite being a complete unchanging asshole.
R:You're not the only one to realize that. Heck, even in cannon, the reporters pressed that point but more than beat up people, he wants to be a strong hero so he can face all threats…and the law says that the more people you beat the more stronger you get (Just ask Goku) but that mindset has it's drawbacks which were seen in the latest chapters. Yes, he's an asshole but strangely, the only person we have seen bully is Deku. (At least that I remember, if I'm wrong, please, anyone, feel free to correct me) Maybe there are hidden depths to his character that we don't know.
Well while UA may teach people how to be heroes they still have to give a basic education. It is a school after all.
R:Yup, because knowing Thales Theorem will help you someday when you're calculating the risk of moving triangular buildings.
Ah Present Mic never change.
R:Nope, Present Mic is here to stay (If he turns to be the traitor, I will cry.)
And Izuru is showing his ability to multi-task!
R:He is 'Izuru'. No biggie for a pseudo-robot like him.
Hey first day/week at a new school of course everyone is excited as well as pumped, especially if it's a school that raises heroes.
R: On the other hand, we all feel a little awkward our first day of highschool…
Well for any foreigner being a new country everything is a new experience. So even if she saw it in her country there's something about seeing it in the country that came from that gives it a different "feel/look/taste" to it.
And our dear Izuru is making friends! We have Sonia, Uraraka, and Iida! Three new friends in one day! Something to be happy about!
R:Not everyone can believe he has friends.
Well it would be VERY strange for Sonia to be from Japan (unless she was one of those anime characters that look like a forgeiner but was raised in Japan, that seems to be a growing trend) She still the same even in a new world…well she is a princess and royalty for a reason.
R: She's not from Japan. It will probably be a plot point later….
Even with differences from classes they became friends (you know as I was writing this I meant class A and class C but then there's the whole status class as well! Huh go me for making a double meaning!)
R: Izuru isn't really a creature to worry about those petty things. I'm sure neither is Class 1-A. If this brings troubles later, only time will tell…
Well izuru humans….tend to make things complicated though puberty has an effect as well. There is a reason socializing is a complex art.
R: Tell me about it. I went through it and now my sister is going into that stage.
Yeah a black suit is his thing…..for a guy who has it all it probably the best thing to use since he can changed what he can do. Heck All for One wears a suit as well!
I think it's safe to say that suit can handle anything throw at it.
R:I just couldn't take his suit away. He looks kickass with it. Besides, even Villains approve. Just ask All for One and Overhaul. And yeah, it kind of can. (It would be a trouble if he uses a fire-quirk and burns the suit.)
All outfits serve a purpose and time allows people to make adjustments to it. Just look at deku's outfit in the beginning in cannon and now during the hero exams!
R:Yeah and as they gain control of their quirks, they 'update' their suits to complement those skills.
Everyone's outfit grabs people attention! Both the good and the bad!
R: Tell Yaoyorozu.
Well fighting inside is a common thing not to mention it's a way to create a "base" where you try to counter against the heroes, like knights sieging a castle for example.
Ah for some odd reason I think I know who's asking what to All Might.
Um yeah fanfiction kinda makes it impossible to any cool effects on writing, also not to be rude or anything but…..who's teaming up with who? By that I mean the ones you didn't mention during the chapter
R: Fucking hell. It always happens!
Anyway uraraka paired up with mineta oh boy…while lida is with shouji huh that should be an interesting combo. Speed team ups with tentacle man, or power in this case.
R: I wonder what kind of dynamic Iida and Shouji would have in canon. One is commanding while the other is
Well good to know that Izuru is willing to work with anyone. Ah yes yaoyorozu made a motorcycle for her part…I just don't know what to say to that. Can she make a race car? Or a jet?
Sheets?
R: According to the Word of God, she has the ability to create any non-living material.
Yeah this is one of the worst team-ups, both of them have problems Bakugou for obvious reasons and todoroki well he was….indifferent to everything in a sense. Just look at the latest chapters and look at the flashback there you go.
Everybody can see it Bakugou, you were not making it hard to NOT notice you staring at someone you want to go and murder.
R: Bakugou is not exactly the most cooperative person but neither is Shouto. This pair, who was by no means weak but was uncpooperative, was doomed to fail against a pair who were both powerful and cooperative.
Ladies and Gentleman here are the "heroes" with the perfect teamwork.
Hmm well not sure if bakugou would say that, oh wait he's thinking that, okay I kind sort of buy that. Well during the sports festival we all saw he view Todoroki and his quirk as well as what he did.
Normally Todoroki would be right about them following a textbook definition but Izuru when he's different.
For some reason when Izuru threw that doll I had a strange vision playing in my head that the doll he threw looked like him just a tiny chibi version or something and Izuru threw it at Todoroki…..and I lol at the thought.
R:That…would make a funny omake. Thanks, Shadow of Life!
Hey you made a spelling mistake the part where Todoroki is talking about using his mother's power you made it into her
"To use the power her Mother passed on him to spite in that asshole's face"
Into "To use the power his mother passed on him to spite in that asshole's face"
Another one is "Is not a defect that you used your fire power" into "It's not a defect that you used your fire power,"
R: Crap. Gotta fix this…someday. Hopefully sooner than later.
Ah personal affairs…they never go away and even realizing them they don't magically disappear it takes time not to mention Todoroki has done damage as well just look at the latest chapters but there's growth in the future. Distant Future but future none the less.
R: You don't just forget the asshole that put you through lots of crap that could be defined as torture. Fortunately, Shouto is coming to terms with his power.
And bakugou….needs to have a bar of soap in his mouth because it is filthy. Bakugou charges like a beast straight into the trap.
R: I dunno, I really like his colorful language. Learnt lots of insults that I didn't know of.
And Izuru makes the digestive references…..oh boy. And he finally got a name for his "quirk" despite being more than one…and he told her….I have reservations of him telling people and all, but I'm sure you know why.
R: Ultimate just felt like a suit that suited Izuru (I suck at descriptions.)
Well it's not entirely strange for someone to have two quirks while it gets rarer for someone to have even more…like my Fukawa suggestion! So yaoyorozu should be able to come to agreement that it is possible, though hopefully she doesn't go and tell people about it.
R: Yaoyorozu is a person of science. Needs to see to believe.
It's a good thing that Izuru is NOT a villain this time, given how out of the box he thought with the sheets. And that was casual thinking, just look what the Dangan ronpa version DID in cannon. Imagine if in the Dangan ronpa he was raised with moral or to inspire hope or told to become a hero! What do you think would happen to the world?
R: Probably something like Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons when he imagines a world without lawyers.
And bakugou tries to confront Izuru but problem is izuru doesn't know who is deku so no matter how much bakugou goes and claims it won't get him anywhere. I mean if the person himself doesn't know it, it doesn't matter how much you argue or point facts they don't know it means they don't know it. Also annoying note it's not Tun Tun Tun! But Dun Dun Dun, small detail but have to say it.
R:Bakugou has the face of a thug but he's clever as hell. He has a plan. And yeah, Its annoying when it's wrong so please do tell me.
Hey we all start off as beginners no big deal and it was good easy to follow through and imagine it.
R: Thanks.
Also if you looked at the latest chapter today we have proof of the consequences of both todoroki and "gale" we can only hope bakugou failed as well. (no offense to anyone)
R:Little late but yeah, That trio failed.
And Asui showing off her frog abilities! With her camouflage! It's only a matter of time before she could poison like an African poison dart frog!
R:That or Asui's vomit blast at 100 m/mph
you know it just came to me but I have to wonder how things would go if Izuru meets...stain, would he perhaps be one of the few people who understands why stain does what he does and stain sees something in him? Heck I wonder who's the next DR person to show in the future, most likely souda or hinata but besides those two who could it be? Can we get a hint?
R: That's a secret. You get no hint. (Not that it will probably matter because the next person will show up next chapte-ops.)
Tests came out fine and I also look forward to your reviews. I will try to update more frequently.
OneMoreGuyS.I.N: Is too soon to have my little Dekuru break down :)
TheGamer24: Viendo como mi habito de subir capítulos es desatrozo, quizás debería empezar a responders reviews por PM…Descuida, este fic no es Yaoi. Quizas recupere sus recuerdos, quizás no…Pero si pasa, tendrá una heterocromia (Despues de todo, Hinata la tenia en Danganronpa 3)
Chapter 4 "Daily life at U.A"
Izuru's eyes studied Bakugou's face. After making sure that he was talking to him, his next train of thought was to analyze the question itself.
Who is this Deku he is talking about?
Why does he think I'm him?
What's his relationship with him?
Questions that were summarized in one.
Did he confuse me with someone else?'
That was the only logical reason he could think of. He doesn't recall this 'Deku' he's talking about nor has he heard about him before and because of that, there was only one answer he could deliver.
"I don't know this 'Deku' person, Bakugou-kun. You must have confused me with someone else." Izuru replied, looking back at the explosive boy with a calm yet inexpressive face.
That seemed to piss off Bakugou enough to activate his quirk. A small explosion detonated on his right hand.
"I'm gonna ask you once again…" He said with a dangerous tone. "Deku, what the fuck did you do to get a quirk?!"
Izuru limited to raise an eyebrow, a little annoyed at the insistence of his classmate. "Even if you ask one-hundred times, the answer is the same…" He shook his head with a sigh. "I am not Deku, whoever he or she is."
"Your face, your hair color and even your voice are the fucking same." He growled under his breath. "I don't know what the hell happened to you, fuckmunch, but…"
"I want answers." He demanded as he stepped forward, dead serious. "And I want them now." His red eyes were clashing with Izuru's own, defying him to refuse.
They were silent for a while, gazing at each other. Bakugou waiting for Izuru to answer and Izuru scanning his own brain in the search of an answer.
'Even though he is obviously upset…He is also oddly calm…' Izuru assessed, slightly stunned at the supposedly irate boy's behavior. Contrary to the scowls and explosive rage that he's been expressing since Izuru met him, now there was just a calm, collected expression on his face and a piercing look on his eyes glaring at Izuru.
Somehow, inside him, he felt that he wasn't looking at him but someone else.
'Face, hair color and voice…' Izuru thought on his mind. According to Bakugou, he shared these similarities with this so called 'Deku' and wasn't strange to him to think that Izuru was the same person as him.
But one truth remained in place. He wasn't this Deku he was talking about.
"I'm not 'Deku', Bakugou-kun." Izuru stoically answered. "I ask again, have you confused me with someone else?"
Bakugou's eyes widened at the swift and doubtless answer. He then narrowed his eyes at the boy and looked at him with a slight frown. "You…" Bakugou seemed to mutter under his breath, with a displeased expression.
Bakugou didn't seem quite convinced or happy to hear his answer but it was the only one he had.
"Who is this Deku?" Izuru asked the blonde. A friend? He wouldn't say…The tone which he used to pronounce the name didn't show any sort of affection. Maybe they shared another kind of relationship…
Bakugou's brows twitched at the question. He seemed unsure about answering the question but then he clicked his tongue. "None of your business…" He muttered, turning his back to him.
Without a goodbye, Bakugou walked away with his hands in his pocket and his back slouched.
Izuru stood there for a few minutes watching the retreating figure of Bakugou before eventually turning his back and heading back to his dorm.
He found slightly bizarre that things didn't escalate from a heated argument. Though the boy was still wrathful and impulsive as he was before, at the mention of Deku, he got angrier than before.
He also seemed despondent at not finding an answer or information about this Deku.
He started to watch the sight of the abandoned dorm at far away while he thought about his early encounter.
Of course, using your quirk without the authorization of a teacher would get you in trouble. Punishment variated from detention to expulsion, if the student's infringement was severe, however, he wouldn't let himself be subjected to acts of unfounded violence. It was totally in his right to fight back if such thing happened.
'Deku…' There was a strange cringe inside his brain every time he heard of thought of that word.
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Izuru opened the main door of the dorm and entered, tossing his bag on the couch and taking off his blazer.
It was already late afternoon, he should start preparing dinner. With that in mind, he headed to the open kitchen and opened the fridge.
The door was suddenly kicked open. Izuru quickly turned his head towards the entrance and saw a known bulge of muscle stand there. "IT IS I!" Said bulge of muscle greeted, with a wide smile on his face.
Izuru looked at the man while holding the fridge's door. He had his eyes snapped open and his mouth formed a thin line.
A perfect poker face.
The buff man wearing a tank top and jeans was waiting for an answer, a greeting or at least a reaction from the stoic boy.
The only thing he received was the sound of the fridge's door closing.
"…" Izuru looked at the buff man that intruded in his home with an unremarkable expression on his face.
All Might started releasing white smoke from his pores and Izuru could hear a sigh coming from the blur covered inside the mist. A few seconds later, the mist dispelled and revealed his scrawny, ill-looking form.
"You have no sense of fun." Was the only thing he said before sitting on the couch, with his hands clasped together over his thighs.
Izuru raised an eyebrow. "You have no sense of responsibility." He addressed with a halflidden look on his eyes.
"It is my essence." The man coolly replied with a shrug.
"I think you should keep those dramatical appearances for class." Izuru advised as he took two cups out of the shelf. "Overexerting that body can only lead to disaster." Izuru then tied his hair in a single tail. "What are you doing here?"
"Uh?" All Might showed a confused expression. "Am I not welcome?"
"Is not that." Izuru quickly corrected. "Don't you have more important things that being here, like being on those show-talks?"
"Not anymore." All Might negate those facts with a head shake. "I plan to center all of my time to teaching and Heroing!" He proclaimed, his right hand balled into a fist.
Izuru took the electric kettle and started filling it with water. "Do you want something?" After closing the kettle, he started boiling the water.
"Tea would be fine." All Might answered with a toothy smile. "How's school been?"
"Interesting, so far." Izuru confirmed. "The classes are mildly fun and the practical tests are entertaining." So far, at least.
"You don't sound like you're having fun, though…" All Might sweat dropped with a troubled smile. "Can you be more expressive? You are going to have trouble while looking for friends." All Might chided the boy with a knowing look in his eyes.
"I was born this way." Izuru shot back with a leveled eyebrow while brewing tea in the teapot. "And I do have people that like to talk with me." He casually replied with a straight face. At least, their body languages show so.
All Might's jaw slackened while looking at Izuru with wide eyes. Izuru looked back with his expressionless face.
"Really?"
"Aizawa asked the same question…" Izuru muttered, slightly stunned. He didn't really think that he looked that unfriendly.
"Hahaha!" All Might laughed, holding his stomach. "And here I was worried that you would alienate yourself from everyone else…" He then started coughing blood. "Ugh, my sides!"
"I don't really see benefit from that." Izuru replied stoically while serving tea and ignoring the man's pain, knowing that he was already accustomed to it. "Heroes are bound to work together. It makes sense that I try to mingle with my classmates, as they will be my future co-workers. Building relationships of trust and comradery are essential and can be assets in my future."
"So logical…" All Might praised after taking a sip from his tea. "However, when people are involved, logic only takes you so far." He admonished with a reminiscing look. "You should slacken yourself a little and express yourself a little more." He advised.
"Why are you here, All Might?" Izuru went straight to the point, sitting in front of the pro hero. "I doubt you have the time to slack with your newly employment at U.A." Izuru pointed out, taking a sip of his tea. He was also pretty sure that he was still heroing on his free time.
All Might smiled with a 'You got that wrong!' smile. "But I do." All Might replied with a cheery tone. "After all, this is a counseling visit."
"Counseling?" Izuru raised his one of his eyebrows. "Did you find my performance today at Trial of battle lacking?" He inquired with a tinge of curiosity.
"Oh, nothing like that." All Might dismissed. "If all, I would say that you did a perfect job at Trial of Battle." All Might waved off. "Not only you and Yaoyorozu were able to defeat Todoroki and Bakugou each on your own but you also established a valid strategy on the fly and successfully encouraged and directed your classmate on the right way." He listed off his observations at the young boy.
"As a leader, I don't have anything to say but praises." All Might sported a cheerful smile at him. "I questioned myself if you were holding back at Trial of battle or if you didn't want your classmates to find out about your quirk."
"As I told you, Nedzu-san or the faculty never told me to keep it a secret." Izuru explained. "Unless they ask me, I will let them draw their own conclusions. Whether they believe me or not, is not my problem." He finished.
"That's fine." All Might agrees nodding. "I thought you would want to keep it a secret."
"It's not a big secret so I don't find the need of hiding my quirk from my classmates." Izuru replied with a calculating tone. "Lying to them would only hinder my relationship with them in the near future."
"Planning ahead is good but…" All Might visage got serious. "Try to enjoy the present." He advised. "You never know what will happen in the future and you can't change what is in the past so the only thing we have is the present." He looked at the window with a small smile.
Izuru nodded but otherwise kept silent.
"Well, I think my home visit is over." He stood from the couch and transformed again, his slackened clothes adjusting to his muscly form. "IT IS TIME FOR ME TO GO!" He shouted and dashed towards the door, going out of the dorm and disappearing on the blink of an eye.
Izuru sighed and placed his teapot on the coffee table. He stood up from the couch and walked towards the windows, opening them a little further so the white smoke could clear away from the main room.
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Bakugou aimlessly walked around the neighborhood, still wearing his U.A uniform. He hasn't headed to his house yet, as he decided that he didn't need the bawling of the old hag yet for arriving late.
Especially not now as he was thinking really hard about some serious stuff.
Fucking Deku. Fucking Izuru. Fuck them both.
His early interrogation left him with more question and no answers. 'The fuck's with that?' He thought, annoyed at his failure.
Bakugou blinked. 'Not a complete failure…' Bakugou was able to assess important information about his classmate, Kamukura Izuru…
Or at least, the persona that Deku adopted. 'That guy…didn't even recognize me.' Not even the slightest reaction when they both locked eyes back at the Entrance exam and when he heard his name.
He confronted him in a secluded place, both of them alone to check if it wasn't some kind of charade that he played in front of people but no, not even alone he showed his true colors.
Because he had none.
A fact was established: The Fuckmunch didn't even remember him.
Amnesia? It was the most plausible theory.
But how? When? And most importantly of all: How in the hell did he acquire a quirk?!
A person who didn't manifest a quirk after the age of five was deemed quirkless. It was how nature dictated it.
Then, is it possible that he gained a quirk through unnatural means? In the first place, is it even possible to gain a quirk through artificial, man-made ways?
Bakugou clicked his tongue.
Fuck. Too much to think. He turned towards a Convenience store and headed inside. After a few minutes, we could see him with a bag hanging from his right hand.
His scowl deepened as he somehow found himself in front of his house. He was about to open the front door when he seemed to stare at the neighbor's door.
He walked towards said door and knocked the door three times. A rattling could be heard from the inside and a few seconds later, the door opened.
"Yes, who is it?" A slim woman who had short hair with a ponytail on the left stood in front of him. She was wearing a long-sleeve black sweater over a white and a medium-sized white skirt.
And of course
"Oh, is Bakugou-san." Midoriya Inko smiled at the scowling teen. "Good afternoon!"
After Deku's disappearance, she didn't really took good care of herself and slimmed down several pounds. Bakugou didn't know the whole story but it took some convincing from his dad and the old hag to get her back to normal…
If you could call this normal, of course. No one could fully recover from losing a child or at least is what he thinks. After all, he doesn't have any children to share the sentiment.
And of course, the Old hag roped him into helping the poor woman. However, he came to not dislike his forced role as the helper of this woman.
It also helped that her food was delicious. Just for the food…
"Hey." Bakugou gruffly greeted, extending his hand where the plastic bag hanged. "I brought you soy sauce and some bread."
'Don't even think of complaining, I'm cheap as hell and this is all that I can afford.' Bakugou glared at the woman with this thought inside his mind but she didn't seem to mind at all as she accepted the bag with a small smile plastered on her face.
"Thank you, is so sweet of you to take the trouble."
Bakugou just leveled a stoic expression at her. "Yeah…Well then, bye." Bakugou was about to turn up when he felt his sleeve being tugged. He looked over his shoulder to send a crude glare at the older woman.
However, in the year that he has been the errand boy for her, it seemed that she built a resistance against his 'Die' glares. "You started U.A this week, didn't you?" She inquired with a sweat drop trailing down her forehead.
"…Yeah?" Bakugou raised an eyebrow with an annoyed expression on his face. 'What does have to do with anything?'
"W…Would you like to eat dinner with me?"
…What. Bakugou seemed to blink, re-running the question inside his head. "What?" He asked out loud, in hopes that it really wasn't what he was thinking about.
"It's just to talk!" Well, it seemed that the woman seemed to know what the implications of her question. "I'm curious about how U.A is!" Inko seemed to reinforce, waving his hand in denial.
Why the fuck would she be interested in hero-?
Deku.
Bakugou's eye seemed to twitch. Of course.
No, he wouldn't deal with this. He didn't want to deal with this.
He wasn't appropriate to deal with this and because of that, he needed to go back to his house.
The yelling of the old hag didn't seem so horrible right now.
"I have something to-" Bakugou tried to excuse himself but he was promptly cut off by the green-haired woman.
"Oh come on, I will tell you mom where you were so no biggie!" Inko smiled as she got a hold of the boy's arm.
'O-Oi! Let go, bitch!' Bakugou mentally protested but was nonetheless dragged inside the house by the older woman.
Fuck.
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At the next day, Homeroom was in session inside Classroom 1-A.
"Hope you're all rested from yesterday's trial of battle." Aizawa said, eyeing the papers on his hands. "Good work all of you, I saw the videotapes." He placed the papers on his desk. "I took the liberty of looking at your marks in the evaluation."
Aizawa then looked at Bakugou. "Bakugou." At his name being called, Bakugou looked at Aizawa. "You're a talented individual, stop acting like a 7-year-old kid. You're wasting your own talent." He reproached the boy, who looked down, with a hardened expression.
"I know…" Bakugou muttered with a click of his tongue.
"Todoroki." The bi-color haired boy looked at Aizawa. "You lost control of your quirk in the trial of battle." Aizawa said with a calculating expression on his face. "I can tell it wasn't because of the lack of training but something else." Todoroki looked away. "Try to work on that."
'As if it was that easy…' Todoroki dryly thought, looking away from the teacher.
"Now, let's go on with homeroom notices." Aizawa then scratched his head. "I'm sorry to have to spring this on you all but…" He trailed off, glaring at them with a severe expression that made the students worry.
'Another pop test?!' Some of them thought, remembering the threat of expulsion in the last one.
"You have to elect a class president." He simply announced, making the students yell in response.
"OH, RIGHT THIS IS A SCHOOL!" Some of them forgot that while this was an elite center for the formation of future heroes, it was still a school by normal standards.
Stuff like this was just natural.
"I wanna do it." Jirou simply said while raising her hand in the air.
"Oh, I wanna be class president!" Kirishima shouted with enthusiasm. "Pick me!"
"Oh, you mean that position exists for me?" Aoyama arrogantly declared with his smile.
"That's like a leader position! I'll do it!" Ashido declared with a smile.
Izuru looked that even Bakugou was rumbling with the rest of the class, raising his hand and air being exhaled from his nostrils.
While in Heroics, the position of Class President could be seen as leader position that would help build one's hero foundation faster, it's not really all that different from a representative position.
The one designated would represent the class on class meetings or the teachers and would be burdened by menial tasks as organizing school events and such.
But it wouldn't be politically correct to dim their enthusiasm.
"Be quiet!" Iida shouted, making everyone look at him with bewildered expressions. "This is a task laden with responsibility where you must carry and pull everyone's weight." He explained. "Just because you'd like to doesn't mean you can!" He addressed everyone with a serious face.
"It is a holy office that requires the great esteem and trust of those around you…" He continued with a stern look. "The only true worthy leader from a democratic choice reflecting the will of people!"
"Which is why this must be settled by a vote!"
"He is sure being lofty, ain't he?! What's with that proposal!?" Everyone shouted at Iida, who was raising his hand high in the air, trembling while suppressing the urge to shout and proclaim himself as the class president like the other students.
"It's still too early to have developed any trust in each other." Asui reasoned, raising an objection.
"And everyone will just vote for themselves." Kirishima added.
"And that's precisely why the person who does manage to earn multiple votes will be truly appropriate person for the job, no?!" Iida retorted, not giving up.
As the students bickered about the election, Izuru stared at them. 'So first impressions, huh?' Izuru thought absentmindedly. 'This means the impression of the trial of battle will heavily influence the votes.'
It was the only time the students could get a peek of one's skill and potential, not taking in account the Entrance Exam.
"Is that all right, sensei?!" Iida asked Aizawa, who turned at him with a half-lidden look.
"As long as you all decide by the deadline, anything's fine." Aizawa replied in a lackluster manner as he prepared to nap inside his sleeping bag.
With his permission, everyone tore a piece of paper from their notebooks and started deliberating.
Some people wrote without hesitation while others seemed to think really hard about who should be president.
Izuru was playing with his pen, thinking about who to vote. He wasn't going to vote for himself as he didn't see any point in being the Class president. He idly flipped his pen between his fingers as he reminisced every single detail of the battles that occurred at Trial of Battle.
'Who should I vote?' He eyed at Iida. 'Iida is a reasonable choice. He is diligent and intelligent but he is also too straightforward and has a habit of jumping into conclusions rather a little too quick.' Izuru assessed, tapping the pen against the table.
He remembered the brief time that he talked with him in the Entrance exam and the subsequent meeting in the classroom.
He then glanced at Yaoyorozu. 'Yaoyorozu is also a good choice. She has analytical skills and is able to be both serious and blunt in hopes to improve her classmates.' 'She also made a good impression in the others with her analyses in Trial of battle.'
He also thought of voting for Bakugou or Todoroki. 'Both of them are quick on their feet and able to strategize in dire situations. Bakugou is loud and brash but able to bark orders and Todoroki is quiet and collected with a strong presence…'
After 3 brief minutes of deliberation, he decided to vote for Yaoyorozu.
While both she and Iida seemed to have experience at this kind of jobs, Yaoyorozu looked more down to earth and understanding than his more serious friend.
He folded the paper and quietly waited for the others to write down their vote. After a few other minutes, the names of every integrant in Class 1-A were written on the board by Kirishima.
After counting the votes, Kirishima nodded, with an expression of 'called it' and addressed the audience. "Ladies and Gentlemen. We have counted the votes and the winner is…Kamukura!" Kirishima shouted.
Kamakura blinked as he eyed the board. He noticed that Yaoyorozu was the runner-up and thus, the new vice-president of class 1-A.
Well, this…wasn't surprising as one would think.
If one analyzed his performance at Trial of Battle, one wouldn't be able to find any major flaws or any mistakes at all. It also helped that he and Yaoyorozu defeated the strongest students, one of them with a recommendation.
Izuru glanced around and immediately knew who the ones who voted for him were.
Iida, who was looking a little down, was too noble and diligent to vote for himself so he either must have voted for another person.
Uraraka, who was whistling innocently while Bakugou promised pain to whoever voted for him smiled when their looks crossed.
Yaoyorozu, who was his partner at the trial of battle, was motioning him to come to the front.
Aizawa wouldn't hear a refusal from him so he didn't have any other choice other than head to the front and assume the consequences.
"So…is President Kamukura and Vice-President Yaoyorozu." Aizawa, who woke up from his micro-nap, muttered with an understanding tone.
"Damn, Kamukura totally rocked the Trial of battle!"
"And Yaoyorozu was really cool during the training Analysis!"
Izuru saw from the corner of his eyes how Yayorozu tried to stay strong at the sudden shower of praise. She had the stereotypes of being a rich lady but she isn't accustomed to praising or attention?
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Class period ended and all students were arriving at the cafeteria to re-energize their selves with food and beverages.
"And that's how Izuru-san became the new Class president!" Uraraka told the commensals in the table as she ate the rice in her hands. "This rice is Yummy!" Uraraka moaned.
These guys were also here.
"I see, I see…" Sonia nodded with hand on her chin. "I was also made President by my class." Sonia said, with a troubled smile. "I just wish they hadn't based on looks."
"You'll be fine." Izuru said as he put a piece of food on his mouth. "Visual charisma is also one of the reasons why politicians are so popular." He tried to put Sonia at easy at his own way.
"But I only see old men as politicians." Uraraka mumbled with puffed cheeks filled with rice, much to Sonia's horror.
"It's a job where one can gather experience." Iida added with a straight-laced expression. "There's no worry in failing but if you do, you learn from those failures and move on."
"What Iida-san says!" Uraraka chirped. "Is not like you're the president of Japan or a princess in a faraway place!"
Sonia looked away with a wry smile. "C-Certainly not!" She laughed awkwardly while sweat dropping.
"Though is a shame…" Uraraka eyed the bespectacled boy sitting beside her with a small tinge of pity. "Didn't you want to be class president?"
"Like I said, mere volition has nothing to do with one's actual ability." Iida reiterated with an exasperated sigh. "Kamukura has proven to be a better choice than me so I voted for him."
"Iida-san, you're so proper!" Sonia complimented, making the teen look away.
"Yeah, you're going on about honor and stuff!" Uraraka beamed at Iida. "I might be wrong but…are you from an uppercrust family?!"
"UpperCrust?!" Sonia and Iida repeated, a little abashed by the choice of words.
'Uraraka sure is blunt.' Kamukura mentally remarked, eyeing the fluffy girl with a calculating look.
"I-I don't like it when it's brought attention to...but if I must talk about such things, then yes. I'm from a family that has been in heroics for generations." Iida admitted a little stiff. "I'm currently the second son."
"EEEEHHH-?!" Uraraka shouted, obviously surprised.
"Wow." Sonia mumbled, a little surprised. "So Heroics runs deeply in your blood."
Izuru stopped eating, that small piece of information cementing his suspicion. "You're Ingenium's little brother." Kamukura said with his usual face.
Iida seemed a little dumbstruck at first but he quickly recomposed himself. "Y-Yes but how did you know that?"
"You and Tensei-san have the same surname and look alike." Kamukura pointed out with his finger. Iida fixed his glasses with a small blush on his face.
"I-Do we really look alike?" He cleared his throat to hide his stutter. While he looked embarrassed, his eyes were desiring for some sort of approval that he indeed looked like Tensei.
"Tensei…?" Uraraka inquired, tilting her head to the side. "Who is he?" The name sounded familiar but she struggled to remember from where.
"My big brother." Iida replied, now unabashed and with a prideful tone. "He is a beloved hero pro hero who prizes the rules and guides people." He spoke about his brother. "And I aspire to be a hero like him someday!" He proclaimed with a confident look on his face.
The three of them looked at the bespectacled boy with mixed reactions.
But everyone could agree on one thing:
"I think that's the first time you smiled like that!" Uraraka grinned.
"T-That's not true!" Iida stuttered, with a small blush. "I smile a lot!" He protested, moving his arms at a quick pace.
"No, you don't." Sonia added, with a teasing smile.
Iida flustered at the sudden attack made by the girls, started to deny their accusations as Izuru watches the exchange.
'Family…' Izuru stared at the blushing boy with puzzlement.
However, all of a sudden, a loud ringing resounded in the Cafeteria.
Izuru recognized that ringing as the alarm siren that was integrated into U.A security system. Izuru saw from the corner of his eyes how Uraraka almost choked on her rice while both Sonia and Iida stiffened with a bewildered look on their eyes.
"Security level 3 has been breached." A robotic voice quickly warned. "Students, please promptly evacuate."
All the kids started rushing towards the door while the four stood there, three of them dumbfounded while the other was analyzing the situation.
"What's security level 3?!" Iida inquired with an apprehensive look as his hands turned into blurs.
Izuru briefly wondered if Iida had some kind of nervous tick but quickly brushed it off. This was neither time nor place to wonder about those things. "It means that someone has infiltrated the school grounds." Izuru answered Iida's question as he glanced at the oncoming human train.
The swarm of people quickly swallowed the quartet, the four of them feeling the pressure of being crushed and showing different levels of discomfort.
"Help me!" Sonia agonized as her hand was furthering away from the group.
"Sonia-cha-Ow!" Uraraka was pushed away by a frenzied student, crashing into another student. "Wah-Sorry, Izuru-san!"
"No problem." Izuru replied in a lackluster manner as he was elbowed by another rabid student.
"As expected of the pinnacle of education!" Iida praised from afar. "Their crisis response was swift!"
'Perhaps a little too swift.' Izuru thought as he and Uraraka found themselves glued together by the crowd, much to the girl's visible discomfort. "I'm sorry."
"N-No, it's fine, rather than that, what are we gonna do?!" Uraraka's embarrassment quickly turned into panic. "Where's Iida-san and Sonia-chan?!"
The pair was eventually pushed to the windows, Uraraka's face rubbing against the cold glass while Izuru had his back turned to it. Izuru looked over his shoulder to see another swarm of people with cameras and mics and a very annoyed Mic and Aizawa dealing with them.
"Those are…" Izuru mumbled with narrowed eyes.
"The press?!" Uraraka exclaimed with shock.
'I see…'
"To all U.A students, abort evacuation."The students' frowned at the voice inside their minds. "There's no immediate danger. If you please look through the windows, you will learn the true identity of the intruder."
The students did as they were told and witnessed the news media invasion. Though not immediately, everyone started to calm down and stared at the scene with a mix of shock, relieve, anger and disconcert.
After a few minutes, everything was back to normal, barring the mess that the students left of course.
"Look, it's them!" Uraraka pointed at the disheveled forms of Sonia and Iida, who were approaching them.
Iida, whose uniform has been completely messed by the ruckus, had a hard expression on his face while Sonia, whose hair was messed up, had an angry pout with small tears in her eyes.
"I didn't know we had a teacher with a Telepathy quirk…" Iida tiredly remarked while fixing his tie. "I should go thank him personally for stopping this madness."
"My hair…" Sonia whined under her breath, as her shoulder was patted by a sympathetic Uraraka.
Eventually, the cops arrived and arrested the trespassing reporters, chastising them because of their greed.
"I must file a complaint to the headmaster. U.A also needs to do simulacrums so this doesn't repeat again!" Iida, after fixing his uniform, claimed while moving his arms at a quick pace. Izuru mentally agreed with him.
If Nedzu wanted to secure the students' wellbeing in case of a disaster like this, he should instruct them about how to behave under stressful situations…
"Want me to go with you?" Izuru asked the bespectacled teen.
"Go?" Iida tilted his head, puzzled. "Why should you accompany me to write a formal complaint?"
Oh, so he didn't want to say it to his face. "My mistake."
"Well…" Sonia was about to ask something before the ring chimed in, indicating that the next class was about to start. "Oh, my…" She suspired with a downtrodden expression.
"Seems that the chaos was longer than I thought." Izuru commented as he looked at the clock. "It's almost time for class."
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At the next day, it was homeroom period and more important, the moment where both Izuru and Yaoyorozu would assume their duties as President and Vice-president respectively.
'I wonder how the speech will be.' Iida theorized inside his mind, watching the long haired teen standing in front of the podium, with the vice president standing beside him. 'Considering Izuru-kun's serious nature…'
'…' Bakugou and Todoroki stared at him with different degrees of interest.
'Yaomomo's Yamomos are as big as always.' Mineta over-analyzed with a serious expression.
As Izuru breathed in, everyone took attention.
"I'm gonna skip the initiation ceremony and everything that's related to it, seeing as we weren't even there to begin with." Izuru plainly stated, with a raised hand.
"You are already acquaintance with me and our Vice-President, Yaoyorozu-san so self-introduction aren't also necessary." He continued. "This is only our first week at U.A. so no major developments have happened…taking out the disaster of yesterday. Now I will leave you with the vice president of class 1-A, Yaoyorozu-san."
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"Uh…" Izuru stepped away from the podium and let Yaoyorozu, who hesitantly stood there, do her speech.
In truth, Yaoyorozu spend all the night writing a speech about the importance of being a hero and their duties as defenders of peace as she theorized that Izuru's act would be hard to follow but her belief was promptly broken by the sudden familiarity of the elected president, who was reading what it seemed a pocket version of a book with the title 'What's political correctness?'.
Why?
"Well…" Yaoyorozu cleared her throat to get rid of any awkward feelings inside her and properly addressed the class with her usual business demeanor.
She spoke her speech. Everyone's eyes widened with a glint of respect. Even Bakugou was glaring with begrudging respect. Izuru was quietly hearing her speech, as others, with a studious gaze on his eyes.
Short story, Yaoyorozu's speech was both firm and inspiring. "And with that, I hope we all get along and share this arduous task that is being a hero. Thank you very much."
"Woooo!" Kaminari whoo'ed, with his thumbs up.
"That was so…" Hagakure wiped a tear from her eyes.
"Wow, that puts things in perspective…" Kirishima and Kaminari mumbled in unison.
"A realist viewpoint…" Tokoyami nodded.
Even Izuru was nodding in agreement with his unexpressive expression of always while taking notes. 'Why is he taking notes?' Yaoyorozu seemed to ponder about his classmate's weirdness.
'So that's how you address a crowd.' Izuru took record of Yaoyorozu's social display for future references.
"And with that…we conclude this meeting." Yaoyorozu finished, stepping off the podium.
A silence rained upon the classroom, where everyone looked at each other with small sweat drops until someone finally broke the silence.
"It hasn't even been 10 minutes…" Kaminari said, looking at his smartphone's clock.
"Damn…" Kirishima muttered, impressed. "Must be the quickest speech ever."
"No time for niceties." Hagakure commented, her uniform flailing in the air.
"Better without all that fucking talk." Bakugou muttered, slightly relieved.
"Thank you for your support, Bakugou-san." Izuru said politely. Bakugou just clicked his tongue in response. "Well, for now, other than that, we don't have nothing to talk about, other than that."
"Right…" Yaoyorozu said with a wry smile. "We just started the year, there isn't really much going on."
"Well, without the speeches and all that thingy about rules, this sure was short." Kaminari remarked, with a troubled smile.
"Well so…we are free to do whatever we want?" Mina asked with an eager look.
Izuru shrugged his shoulders. 'Why not?'
"Yay! Free time!" Kirishima exclaimed with his arms raised over his head.
And with that, Class 1-A broke from their seats and chatted among themselves, much to Iida's chagrin.
The shortest Home Economics class of all the freshman year took place on 1-A. Aizawa was sleeping comfily on his sleeping bag, unaware of it.
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While classes went normally inside the building, outside was a different matter.
Nedzu was standing in front of the now destroyed U.A barrier along the other teachers.
The security door that kept not only reporters but all the bad elements out of his school was now reduced to dust.
The door that he especially made to conserve the safety of his students and colleagues.
Destroyed.
Ravaged.
"There's no way that an ordinary reporter could have done this." Nedzu mumbled in a low tone. No one would be crazy enough to do this just for a front page news. "The cameras inside the school throw something?" Nedzu turned to his colleagues, in search of any information that could help clarify what happened here.
"Nothing." Sniper shook his head, his tone showing disappointment. "There's nothing suspicious that shows in the security cameras."
"We also didn't found anyone suspicious inside the academy." Midnight added, with her arms crossed.
"Could it be a shapeshifting quirk or an invisibility quirk?" Blood questioned, with a pondering look. "It would go unnoticed inside all that ball of mass that was the reporters." Nedzu nodded in agreement. "Maybe they're still inside?"
It was a good theory.
But as a puzzle that slowly pierced together, Nedzu raised his head and stared at the remains of the door. "No, there aren't any intruders inside the school." Nedzu affirmed, his tail moving right and left.
"Are you sure?" Recovery girl asked with a frown.
Nedzu nodded. "This was an announcement. A declaration of war." Nedzu explained with a somber look. "Call it whatever you want it but it was no more than a shout: 'We're here'."
"We?" Snipe muttered, a little shocked. "…Villains?"
'Villains' per se didn't quite exist anymore, according to the media. Only troublemakers, sleazy bags that want easy money and teens with attitude problems.
Nothing that a pro hero couldn't handle.
However, they knew better. The incident from a year ago was proof that evil was still present and it seemed that they were ready to show themselves, which was bad news.
They felt comfortable enough to go against the hero society so brazenly like this, which means that they have the confidence and the means on their hands to compete against the Heroes.
Nedzu's train of thought then headed to another topic.
Will they try to retrieve him?
It was plausible. All the time and resources they spent on creating Izuru and the abilities so they just lost interest in him? No way.
How could they not want to have him on their side? Is not like they have any other means to replicate their creation.
Matsuda was an insane and amoral individual but he and his quirk were one of his kind and they must be aware of this.
They can't find another Matsuda in the whole world to create another Izuru.
However, Nedzu didn't have a way of being certain of those facts. It's been a year since the discovery of Izuru and the gruesome human experimentation that took place in that underground lab and yet they have been unable to find anything about who is the mastermind behind those experiments.
Nothing. Not even the slightest piece of information that could lead to their location and subsequent arrest.
Until now, of course, if his suspicions are right.
They were prepared to go out of their hole to announce their presence to them, they would kick their asses into the slammer and throw the key into a trashcan so they can never see the outside world again.
They were Heroes and Heroes always won.
He won't let that stereotype crumble.
"At least now I have a valid reason to increase the budget of the security system." Nedzu chirped with his usual smile back on his mouth. "Come on, people, we have work to do!"
There we go. Izuru is class president but even in the manga, I haven't see Iida doing anything noteworthy as class president (other than making lines and establishing order.) Hope the chapter was of your liking.
Max signs off.