Story number 2 of hopefully many to come, this is another one that was originally written in my Reading fic, a mha/bleach crossover with a pretty cool premise If I do say so myself. Hope you all enjoy.
Oh and once again this story follows the same rules as all my others. They're free for all to use, so long as you credit me for the original idea in an A/N at the beginning of your first chapter. Have fun with that!
"Today's the day." a voice told itself, eyelids opening slowly to reveal the emerald orbs beneath. "Today's the day that the developer becomes the player." Terrible metaphor aside today truly was an important one. It was the day of U.A's entrance exam, and the young blacksmith who just woke up was prepared to pass- No. Ace it!
*Rumble rumble "But first, breakfast!"
Several hours later.
Walking up to his dream school, which was soon to become his actual school, sent shivers down his spine. He'd been waiting almost a decade for this moment. He was so distracted in fact that he barely noticed a familiar fiery blonde that pushed him aside.
"Out of my way shitty Deku! And don't you dare fail, we'll settle things in the hero course, I don't care what kind of bullshit quirk you developed it won't make you stronger than me!" Bakugo ranted while rushing towards the entrance, leaving a shocked Izuku behind.
"Kacchan? Talk about a blast from the past, guess he hasn't changed, even after all these years.." Memories from the past buzzed through my mind, distracting me so much that I tripped on my own two feet like an idiot.
Closing my eyes Izuku waits for the impact that never came. Opening them slowly he noticed that he was now floating, and a brown haired, brown eyed girl with a bright smile was placing her hand on his back.
"Sorry about using my quirk on you without asking! But I figured you wouldn't mind me catching you." The bubbly girl chirped, clasping her hands together and releasing me from whatever her quirk was.
"T-thanks, that was almost really embarrassing. I guess I just had a lot on my mind and tripped on my own two feet." I stuttered slightly at being caught a little flat footed by the girl's positive attitude.
"That's an interesting quirk, is it some kind of levitation? You had to touch me for it to work so maybe tactile telekinesis? No wait, I was floating on my own but I could still move...Anti-gravity?" My old habit of quirk analysis made itself known, though thankfully it didn't come with my old muttering habit.
"Wow, got it right in just a few tries! Yup, my quirk is Zero Gravity, you can probably guess what that means." She showed off her palm, which I noticed had small paw-like pads on each finger. "Anyway the exams should be starting soon so we should get going, hope to see you in class bye!" She left in a bit of a hurry but I understood why, we barely had 5 minutes left to get to our exam rooms so I should probably pick up the pace too!
About an hour later. Ochako POV
I thought I was a goner, what a way to go too, death by giant robot. And it was before I even became a hero! At least that was what I thought before I saw him "Hmm, I didn't want to use this particular skill, but I guess I have no choice." The boy she met earlier, who had been rather stoic even then said as he took out his tanto. 'I didn't think they let us have weapons?' I thought, even so what was a small knife going to do against that she thought, staring at the several hundred tons of death heading right for them.
The boy from earlier pointed the blade towards the hulking machine, aiming for the center of it's head with a stance that would have looked ridiculous if not for what happened next.
"Bankai: Kamishini no Yari." In a timeframe so small it isn't even worth mentioning the monstrous robot's head above them was split in two, even the best cameras watching them would have only seen the tiniest of flashes of light before it was all over.
Seeing that his work was done Izuku turned back to the girl lying on the ground, ankle most likely broken, or at least sprained from the rubble that fell on it. "Your quirk negates gravity right?" He asked, getting a stiff nod from the shell shocked girl who still had her jaw drop from his earlier display.
"Then please try to negate the weight of that rubble, I can carry you to the infirmary after that, if that's ok with you?" His slightly awkward question broke her out of her spell as she blushed slightly and did as he asked.
Once the rubble was pushed off he immediately lifted her up into a bridal style carry and walked off to an old lady who was using a syringe as a cane for some reason. "That was rather impressive, though I'll admit I didn't see exactly what you did." She commented before looking at me.
"Oh dear, it seems you've a sprained ankle young lady, I'll fix that right up, here take some candy to help with the dizziness." She warned before planting a kiss on my leg for some reason.
'What dizzines- Oh there it is!' Her quirk fixed my ankle in seconds while leaving me feeling hungry and nauseous. A dangerous combination. 'Hrk, that's an amazing quirk but the side-effects are killing me!'
"Are you ok?" The bo- You know what I'm just going to ask his name now. "Y-yeah, thanks for the save back there. My name's Uraraka Ochako by the way, it's nice to meet you again mister.." I let the unasked question hang.
"Midoriya Izuku, a pleasure. And don't worry about it, you helped me out earlier after all. Besides, what kind of a hero would I be if I just left you there? Anyway, I'd love to stick around and chat but I'm meeting someone in less than an hour and should probably leave ahead of time. Hope I see you in class during the spring!" He said before jogging off.
'What an interesting guy. I could have sworn that I heard that name before though..' It was on the tip of her tongue, and she was sure that she'd remember hours later after not thinking about it for a while.
An hour later, a nearby gyoza restaurant.
"Well you've certainly had a busy day. And with any luck you'll even have a friend waiting for you when school finally starts." Inko spoke up, happy that her son did so well in the exams and even managed to make a possible friend so quickly.
"Do you really think so? I don't think I was that memorable, and it's still a few weeks until classes start, she'll probably forget all about me by that time." I mean sure I destroyed that big robot, but this was U.A they were talking about, stuff like that was probably common as dirt.
The Midoriya matriarch gave her son a deadpan stare. "Izuku-kun, I may not be too knowledgeable about hero stuff but I'll tell you this much. Any girl that goes through all that will think about the boy who saved her at least a little afterwards.. Especially if he's as handsome as my little man!" She exclaimed, pinching my cheeks while calling me 'her little hero'
*Sigh, never change mom, never change.
First day of school, Ochako POV
Opening the door to my new classroom I expected a few things. A room full of talented people that I somehow qualified to be among them. A chaotic classroom full of interesting people with varied personalities. Both. Or maybe even a chance to talk to Midoriya Izuku again, a name that still tickled her brain but she had no idea why. 'Seriously have I met him before? Is he famous or something?' I thought to myself before coming face to face with all three of the things I mentioned before.
"Come on Kacchan, no need to make enemies so soon after getting accepted. Besides, the teacher will probably be here soon so it would be wise to get ready." Midoriya said playfully to who she assumed was the blonde with his feet on the table. Said boy took exception to this.
"The fuck did you just say Deku! You've grown some balls since the last time I saw you, wanna come over here and tell me that to my face?!" He raged, though to everyone's surprise the greenette just chuckled at the volatile blonde's antics.
"You really haven't changed at all, Kacchan. And I sure hope so, after all I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I still had the confidence issues from when I was 5." He said good naturedly, taking the blonde by surprise. I decided that this was the best time to re-introduce myself but our teacher interrupted us before I could.
"If you came here to socialize then you can just leave. This is the hero course, so you better start acting like it is. Now take these uniforms, get changed and head for the courtyard, today will be a trial by fire." What I could only assume was our teacher said lazily but with a hint of menace in his voice. Nobody wanted to keep a man like that waiting so we all went out in a hurry.
Minutes later, 3rd person POV
"Midoriya, you scored the highest on the entrance exam so you'll be my example. Use your quirk to launch this ball as far as possible, anything goes so long as you stay within the circle." Aizawa drawled, Izuku's name getting attention the moment it was said.
"Wait! Midoriya?! That super famous blacksmith that makes weapons for all the top heroes! That Midoriya?!" The master of all things trending, Kaminari shouted out in disbelief as the greenette made his way to the circle, slightly blushing at the outburst.
"You can interrogate him later, Midoriya, don't get distracted." The student nodded and powered up his quirk. A blue light, similar to lightning flashed and a high quality blade appeared in his hands from seemingly nothing.
It looked like a normal katana. The cross-guard was a rectangle decorated with a pattern of vertical lines, with the long sides pinched in towards the middle. The overall appearance is similar to a squared-off hourglass. Though just like all his other blades, this one was far from normal.
"Roar, Tenken." Izuku called out the blades' release phrase, doing so created a giant, ghostly image of the sword and the limb that wielded it. With this ghostly limb he balanced the ball on it and swung the blade with all his strength.
Aizawa checked his measuring device after the ball was sent flying and pointed it at the rest of the class. Who were each in various states of excited, curious, or in one person's case, completely furious at what they just saw.
"600 meters. This is a score worthy of a hero, though I know for a fact that you could do better Midoriya. Explain." Aizawa ordered, Izuku answered without much pause.
"Anything stronger would have taken too much stamina. This is only the first test so I'd rather not use it all up at the start." He explained, the logical answer getting a nod from his teacher. "Logical and acceptable, just make sure to show me at least one example of what you did to that zero pointer, otherwise we can't get an accurate score now can we?"
He requested but everyone could tell it was an order. the tests went on, students excited, and later grimmly determined to do their best. Aizawa's intensity got many to snap down on their enthusiasm for now, something told them they'd regret it if they didn't.
For the 50 meter dash things stayed mostly by the numbers with the only really impressive score being Iida's. That was until Izuku had his turn. This time, the blade he created was anything but standard. A huge Khyber blade, or more commonly known as a butcher's knife, larger than his own body appeared in his right hand. It didn't last for long though.
Izuku pointed his unreasonably large weapon forward and activated spoke out. "This one in particular takes comparatively small levels of stamina. Bankai! Tenza Zangetsu!" With a blast of wind and a surge of strange pressure that everyone felt the blade changed dramatically. The huge blade being replaced by a relatively small, black Daito blade.
Before anyone could ask him what happened Aizawa gave the signal and both students rocketed towards the other end of the field. Bakugo was as fast as always, but Izuku was something else. To anyone watching he basically disappeared and reappeared at the end of the line, earning him a score of 0.00 since the camera couldn't quite keep up.
'H-holy shit!' was the common thought amongst the students, none of them have ever seen something that fast, hell most of them thought that Izuku straight up teleported rather than using regular movement.
The exception being Bakugo of course, who had the word 'murder' going through his head on repeat for the rest of the tests.
"That release phrase. That wasn't in your file, is it a new development?" Aizawa questioned, I suppose it made sense that he'd read my file along with most others.
"An awakening. Or at least that's what the quirk doctors called it. It happened about a year ago, they said it was because of how often I use my quirk, the passive part of it of course." I explain to which he nods, the others were confused of course but decided to hold their questions until later.
After the students managed to compose themselves the grip strength test came next. This time however Izuku had no real way to improve his own score so he took his 60kg score with grace. When he was questioned on his relatively high score he answered. "A blacksmith needs a strong grip to work his craft." Fair enough.
For the long jump Izuku thought about it for a moment, his mind cycling through several blades that might help him with this. 'I could use Zangetsu to give me a boost, but that would take too much energy, plus I already used it. Minazuki then?..No that would just freak everyone out.. In that case,'
With his mind made up he created yet another sword, this time it was an ordinary katana. It had a red hilt and a square tsuba, but like most of his weapons this initial appearance didn't last long. "Bring them to the twilight. Mirokumaru." The blade transformed into a khakkhara of all things, though it had a pointed tip for stabbing.
Small tornadoes formed under Izuku's feet as he maneuvered his weapon, moving him across the sandbox without touching the ground. The versatility of his quirk quickly gathering attention from the other students, though none asked him about it since they were under the watchful eyes and ears of Aizawa.
With the side-stepping event Izuku once again had nothing to really help him with it so he just did it normally, scoring at the middle of the pack with his relatively dexterous body. He skipped the ball throwing test for obvious reasons which left the long distance run, the seated toe touch, and sit ups.
The long distance run was simple enough, his stamina was something to be proud of from his long years at making blades in scorching hot temperatures earning him the bronze medal behind Iida and Momo.
His flexibility was nothing to scoff at either so he came in 5th place with the seated toe touch, only beaten by the more flexible girls and Aoyama who was surprisingly limber. Finally came the situps, by this point most people were tired and couldn't really give it their best but thanks to his pacing Izuku managed to make it into the top 3 once again. Only beaten by Momo and Todoroki who had plenty of stamina to spare.
The finishing scores were as follows:
1. Momo Yaoyorozu
2. Midoriya Izuku
3. Todoroki Shoto
4. Bakugo Katsuki
5. Tenya
Etc.
Once everyone reached the locker rooms away, now free of Aizawa's influence the boys began their 'interrogation' as their teacher said. Izuku took it rather well all things considered, expecting a few questions after his demonstration.
"Hey Midoriya-san, what's with your quirk anyway? Is it that you can create magic swords? Or do you have multiple?" Kirishima asked good naturedly, the rest of the class paused what they were doing, equally interested about the greenette's answer.
"The first. Sort of, it's a bit complicated. You see, what happens is I get dreams relating to swords, from these dreams I get instructions on how to use my quirk to create blades with various abilities, each sealed away by two command phrases." He began his explanation, glossing over the intricacies behind shikai and bankai. They didn't ask for a lecture after all.
"However I have to physically forge the blades myself in order for them to work. From there I'm able to create copies of any blade I've ever forged, albeit they are weaker than the original. Is that a good enough explanation?" He asked a little nervously. His quirk was pretty complicated, in fact he had to skip several parts of it to fit it into a single paragraph.
"Wow! That's so manly dude! It must be great to have such a flashy and convenient quirk like that!" Though his words might have been taken out of context, his tone made it obvious that he meant it in good nature.
"It is versatile yes, but not as convenient as you might think." Izuku corrected. "My blades are unique, each and every one of them. Because of this each blade requires me to train in its use, otherwise they'd do more harm than good. Imagine if someone got their hands on Mirokumaru with no training whatsoever." The thought of a random idiot getting their hands on a tornado generator made the students pale in unison.. Yeah nobody wanted to imagine that fiasco.
"It's still really cool! If anything it's even manlier that you have to dedicate yourself so much to master all of those powers!" Kirishima spun the weakness into a positive light. Izuku had to admit, it put a smile on his face.
"Is that why you only ever sell your weapons to top heroes? They're too dangerous for normal people to handle? And what's an awakening anyway?" Kaminari asked from the back of the class, Izuku took a moment to answer, it was a complicated issue.
"That's one of the reasons, though even then I doubt that he'd give his stronger swords out, even to someone like the number 2 hero. Right? And an awakening is a type of quirk evolution, it's pretty rare so it would make sense that none of you have heard of it." Todoroki answered, surprising everyone since he's been completely quiet this whole time.
"I suppose that's one reason. The others are that I have a limited supply of weapons. As of now I've only made about 60 blades in total, so only 60 heroes could purchase them. Of those 60 blades I've sold 30. And no I can't sell the copies that my quirk makes, when they leave a certain radius around me the blades crumble into dust." He answered in detail not confirming or denying the fact that he kept most of his stronger blades to himself.
Girl's locker room
"Sooo. Anyone else curious about a certain greenette with a ridiculously cool quirk?" Toru questioned the other girls who paused what they were doing. Mina and Ochako in particular were in agreement if their furiously nodding heads were anything to go by.
"I guess you would be, he tends to leave that impression on people." Momo spoke up, surprising everyone. Noticing this she decided to elaborate. "My parents were some of the heroes that bought his blades, he sells them to certain pro heroes for quite the high amount, but as far as I know they're always worth it." She explained, and then proceeded to recount what she remembered about his quirk, though she had no idea about what a bankai was other than it being an awakening which she proceeded to explain what it was.
"Yaoyorozu-san's big brain aside I think we should get down to business...Who's the hottest boy in class?" Mina began the soon to be heated debate with a smirk, little did the girls know that the same type of conversation was taken place on the other side, started by a certain grape.
Just high school stuff really. Little did they know that they'd grow to miss such simple everyday things in the coming months, but that's just the blessing/curse of those with power. They rarely live a boring life.
And here we are, another fairly large first chapter which I feel is kinda impossible not to do when making this type of fic. Hope you all enjoy it, it will probably be a while before I can update this again so see ya then!