Equinox

Sprawled out across her bed with her bass in her lap, Kyouka plucked away at it numbly, trying to stave away her worries. It had been nearly three weeks since her entrance exam for UA, with still no word from the school about her acceptance or, the main cause for her worries, her rejection. Thinking back on the exam, she couldn't help but feel as though her performance during it was... Subpar, to say the least.

"Kyouka, dear! You have some mail here for you! I think it might be your letter from UA!" That certainly caught her attention. Kyouka was quick to react, moving her bass to the bed beside her before bounding out of her room and darting downstairs. Her mother sat at the coffee table in the living room, a large, white envelope in hand.

Waving the envelope with a gentle, teasing smile on her face, Mika patted the spot on the couch next to her. "How about we open it together, hm dear? What do you say?" With a quick nod, Kyouka swiped the parcel from her mother's grasp, tearing it open. In her haste, however, she was unaware of its contents; the small, round device contained within bounced harmlessly into her lap. Pausing a beat, Kyouka reached down and placed the device onto the table, where it began to play its message.

Immediately upon starting up, All Might's muscular body came into view, a yellow business suit clad appearing to be at risk of bursting from his body's volume.

"Young Miss Jirou! Greetings! It is I, All Might! I have for you, here in my hand, your results of your entrance exam to the prestigious UA Hero School!"

Producing a slip of paper in his left hand, Hologram-All Might continued. "On your written exam, you achieved score of thirty-five! A solid overall score! Well Done!" A bright smile and an enthusiastic thumbs up later, he read on. "On your practical exam, however, you received only thirty-two villain points! Under normal circumstances, this would imply that you would have failed your entrance exam."

Kyouka's heart dropped into her stomach as smile quickly faded. She faintly heard her mother's gasp from beside her as the holo-message continued, where clips of her entrance exam had begun to play in a small screen near All Might's head; this made Kyouka tilt her head in confusion.

"HOWEVER! Your circumstances, dear Miss Jirou, were FAR from normal! Due to your quick thinking fervently heroic actions which assisted in the rescuing of two of your fellow classmates, the board has decided to award you with rescue points! For your quick response and freeing of one Ochako Uraraka and your assisted saving of one Izuku Midoriya, you have been awarded forty-five rescue points! Thus, your total points score is now brought up to seventy-seven points! Second place! CONGRATULATIONS! You've passed! Welcome, young Miss Jirou, to UA! Your Hero Academia!"

Kyouka's jaw dropped as she went wide-eyed.

'Second place?! What?!'

As her mind reeled at the shock of her placement, All Might had threw his arms up in a congratulatory manner before holding up a large hand, pointing up with a single finger.

"But! I'm sure you're wondering! What became of those two students you assisted during your exam?"

'Well yeah, that's a given... They've been on my mind since the exam, too...'

Kyouka couldn't help but feel a bit offended that the number one hero thought she wouldn't think pf the others in the exam.

"Well, you should be excited to know that both of them passed as well!" A small screen appeared next to All Might, showing a clip of Ochako, the brunette Kyouka remembered from the exam, approaching UA's officials after the exam And offering to give 'the plain-looking, green-haired boy some of her points. She couldn't help but chuckle at the fact that she never did manage to get the girl's name. "Thanks to her assistance in saving a fellow student, as well as offering up assistance to a student in need afterwards, Ochako Uraraka, twenty-eight villain points, forty rescue points! Sixth place!"

Suddenly the screen next to All Might switched, now showing a very familiar 'plain-looking green-haired boy' charging headlong at the zero-pointer.

'That guy?!'

"Due to his selfless -albeit reckless- wholehearted rush to save fellow students from a nearly immovable obstacle, Izuku Midoriya, zero villain points, sixty rescue points! Seventh place!"

Now, All Might's image was replaced with that of a scoreboard, showing the top ten scorers on the practica portion of the exam. She gotten second place alright, but when she looked closer she couldn't believe her eyes. She actually had tied with the number one placed student, who had gotten 77 points just in villain points.

'That Bakugou kid must be crazy strong...'

"Once again, young Miss Jirou, I must say: Welcome to Your Hero Academia, and we look forward to seeing you at UA in the coming month!"

With that, the message terminated, and an awestruck silence filled the living room.

"I made it! Booyah! Whoohoo!"

Bounding up from the couch, Kyouka whooped and fist pumped the air as she danced around in celebration.

"Great job, Kyo. I knew you could do it."

At the sound of her father's voice, she turned to see him leaning over the kitchen counter; she ran over to him, tackling her typically-jovial father as he rounded the corner to the living room. Starting a bit, her father slowly wrapped his arms around his overly-excited daughter, patting her back.

"You did good, Kyo." As she released him, though, Kyouka felt a heavy fabric fall on her shoulders. Looking down, she saw her dad had set a leather jacket on her shoulders. When she looked to him, confused, he smiled and spoke again, "Knock 'em dead, my little Muse."

With a wide grin and shining eyes, Kyouka gave a sharp nod.

"Uh huh!"