The news that the avatar wished to remain anonymous until their 18th birthday was strange, normally the avatar would garner a major celebration at the announcement of their status but the new Avatar of fire was at least humble. The faculty at the Lu Ten academy however had a difficult choice to make, it'd be months before the sages could figure out who was truly the avatar and in that time if the students that had witnessed the event didn't leak the information, someone would eventually. So the cover story for the time being would have to suffice but that didn't mean that they themselves couldn't have a hand in discovering who the avatar was. Both Midoriya and Todoroki were extremely talented firebenders but the pacing of their classes is what held them back in terms of mastery in the element. The two would be pulled from Enji's traditional bending class and be put in the accelerated program with just them two in the class. The third year mastery professor would be teaching the two of them and if her son was anything to go by then the two avatar candidates had their work cut out for them.

"So, you two are being put into my mom's third year course?" Katsuki asks as the gang of firebenders waits for the morning train to take them to the academy. "I wouldn't wish being in your situation on my worst enemy then."

"Is that just because you and your mom argue a lot or is she just as stubborn as you are?" Todoroki asks, causing Bakugou to deadpan at him.

"Yes."

"Oh come on Kacchan she can't be that bad, I've known her all my life she's the nicest lady I know." Izuku's response prompts Katsuki to laugh uproariously at the statement which slightly unnerves the green haired firebender.

Katsuki stops laughing for a moment to look at Izuku's expression before responding: "Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder." Before doing so. "Dude she's the most notorious teacher at that school for making students quit due to how hard she pushes them. If you think the rumors of Mr. Aizawa from UA are bad then you're in for a rude awakening. She told me this morning before she left that she doesn't give a shit either of you could be the avatar, in fact she wants to push you two so far that one of you goes into the avatar state."

"That sounds like a recipe for disaster." Shouto responds as unenthusiastically as ever. "The last time someone tried that, Avatar Aang literally leveled an entire military base."

"Yeah, you tell my mother that if you survive that long." Katsuki replies as they board the train. "I also heard that they're flying in a master airbender and his apprentice to begin your all's training. When I asked who it was, he is a descendant of Avatar Aang named Gedun. As for the other one, I don't know his name yet."

"Well things are getting interesting around here, next month we're heading to Republic city for Yang Chen's festival." Izuku adds shortly before the train arrives. "To be honest I haven't really put that much thought into the fact that either I or Shouto could be the avatar."

"Easy for you to say, my dad has been obsessing over it and has taken to announcing it every time I walk into the house. 'Ah there's my avatar son!' he boasts. Frankly I'm pretty damn sure you're the avatar Deku."

"Oh just announce it to the whole train why don't you. Don't you morons know that once the truth comes out that you are the avatar, say goodbye to any sense of privacy that you thought you had." Katsuki growls, smacking both of them in the back of the head. "It's best that it's kept a secret for as long as possible. Especially since you two Bunsen burners are planning on being pro heroes."

"You're as pessimistic as always Katsuki. I didn't get enough attention as a child so I'd just drink it all in." Shouto announces getting Kaminari, Deku and Katsuki to give him a questioning look at the strange declaration.

"That's sad."

"I'm the youngest of 4 kids. I got everything blamed on me so I learned to roll with the punches." Shouto shrugs, plopping himself in the seat next to Katsuki and Deku. "So what are we in for with your dear old mom."

"I thought you were gonna call her a milf for a second." Kaminari says without thinking.

"You say that again and you're gonna be picking up bits of your greymatter off of every surface in this train car." Katsuki threatens, using the eye tattoo on his forehead to burn Kaminari in a spot between his eyes.

"Alright alright sorry." Kaminari apologizes, rubbing the slight burn on his forehead. "Point made."

"Her fan club pisses me off enough, I don't need you clowns fantasizing about my mother." Katsuki growls. "As for what you two have to deal with today, she didn't say what she had planned, only that it'll make boot camp look like a wet dream."

"Knowing her, that's probably word for word."

Getting to the academy, the four make their way towards their homeroom class. All the while, Izuku and Shouto are being followed by half the students at the school as word has spread like wildfire about the events of the previous Friday. Though thankfully the word hasn't escaped the halls of the school it's only a matter of time till their names leave every single mouth in the firenation and then the world aflame. Finally managing to escape the crowd, they get into their classroom before slumping into their seats. The other students, a part of Hisashi's first year class, funnel into the room business as usual. Momo herself taking her seat next to Izuku, her expression as bubbly and jovial as usual. Hisashi himself in a good mood as well as he enters the classroom, their family pet dragon coiled around his arm like a fashion accessory.

The morning classes pass as usual, the mathematics and history classes succeeding in putting Kaminari to sleep through most of them. When time comes for the class to head to their advanced firebending courses Shouto and Izuku find themselves being led to a further gymnasium a further distance from the rest of the class. The larger building is not dissimilar in size to that of a multi level storage facility. As they approach the familiar smell of ozone and sulfur fills the air clear indications of the use of both lightning and combustion bending. The large steel reinforced doors lead into the large concrete training facility. Dotting the floor are electrical coils meant to capture electricity, steel mannequins that are capable of blasting fire out at those training with them and shrapnel everywhere. In the middle of the room on a raised platform is Madam Blast, the number 5 hero Mitsuki Bakugou.

Getting closer to the bombastic blonde, the two take stock of her hero costume. While her hair was the same style as always, she had a headband across her own red eye tattoo. Wearing a pair of leather thigh high boots, a pair of black and maroon accented booty shorts with wide red and gold Faulds protecting her hips. Her midsection is left bare revealing her toned abs and hourglass like waistline. The top she's sporting has the firenation emblem creating a boob window on the already under-boob cut crop top she sports. Over her shoulders sits a micro jacket that covers her arms down to her biceps, lastly a jeweled red necklace sat around her neck topped off with an evil grin promptly framing her lips.

"Hello boys." She greets them as they walk up to the pro hero. "A little birdie tells me that one of you is supposed to be the avatar right? Well it's my job to beat it out of you." Neither Deku or Shouto react to her saying this leaving her perplexed with their response. "What, just because I helped raise the two of you rug rats doesn't mean I'm gonna make this easy on you."

"I believe the proper response would be to say good morning to your instructor." The voice of a well aged older gentleman adds as he approaches the three. "I am Grand Master Gedun of the western air temple. It's a pleasure to meet you young potential avatars." the old bearded monk greets. His wrinkled bald head framed with a light blue air bender's arrow. A pair of small glasses sit at the bridge of his nose, his cheeks a slight rosy color and raised due to the smile he's giving the two young men. His jaw and mouth are framed by a long wispy gray beard that reaches down to his chest. "I am to be your air bending instructor, the fire sage masters had invited me to the academy in order to discover who is the true avatar as one of you will be capable of bending air and the other will not. You will be joining me after today's lesson with Master Bakugou however I will be watching to gauge your skills in fire bending and how it may translate to airbending."

"Good to meet you master Gedun. I'm Izuku Midoriya." Izuku greets turning to the aged master with a slight bow.

"I'm Shouto but you probably guessed that already." Shouto adds before also bowing to the airbending master. "To be fair, I'm pretty sure the whole two avatar thing was a misunderstanding in the first place."

"My son had mentioned that he saw Izuku take a step towards that statue before it combusted before you had moved Shouto. However we still need to prove definitively that either you or Izuku is the avatar. Once we find this out then one of you will return to your normal classes while the other will train one on one with me and with Grand Master Gedun and his apprentice."

"Alright, works for me. What's on the agenda today then?" Shouto asks prompting Mitsuki to grin evilly. She points to the headband covering her red eye before burning it away revealing the prominent red tattoo on her forehead.

"Airbenders are known for their agility and Avatars tend to show traits from their past lives so..." The look of realization soon appears on both Deku's and Shouto's faces as she inhales sharply, flexing her abs and lunging forwards at the two. A beam of white hot energy escapes the eye on her forehead before impacting the ground setting off a massive explosion as the two try to scamper away. "Agility Training!"

Grand Master Gedun was almost caught in the blast, however the old master easily jumped away. Gracefully floating to an observation platform a few dozen meters away before having a seat. From within his cloak he produces a pomegranate before cutting it in half with a quick flick of the wrist allowing him access to the seeds within. Meanwhile the gymnasium is being rocked by massive explosion after massive explosion as Mitsuki chases Izuku and Shouto around the gym. Both of whom are trying and failing to stay out of the blast range of the combustion bender. However the thing that really gets them scared is when Mitsuki lands on top of a large pillar after using flame assisted flight. She points two fingers out to the side before beginning to scoop them in front of her causing lightning to crackle into existence. With a grin as wide as ever she points two bolts of lightning at her students.

Halfway across campus.

"You guys feel that?" Kaminari asks as he, Setsuna, Momo and Katsuki are taking a break from that morning's exercises. "It felt like a slight tremor, are we getting an earthquake?" He asks with a bit of concern in his voice.

"Nope." Katsuki says before taking a bite out of his sandwich. "That was just my mom, she probably started training with peppermint butler and Deku." He responds before they hear the boom of thunder. "I also didn't tell them that she is the only combustion bender in the firenation who can also bend lightning."

"She can bend lightning? What color is it?" Momo asks, gesturing to Kaminari. "His is gold and Midoriya's is a whitish blue."

"Red." Katsuki responds before another thundercrack is heard. "They probably figured out how to redirect it towards her but that won't help much. Her most recent hero patrol, she caught several different bolts of lightning from a half dozen firebenders and electro quirk users before returning them. She is an expert in lightning redirection and has created a new type of firebending."

"What would that be?" Setsuna asks using her own firebending to cook a shish kebab that she packed for lunch.

"It's a technique similar to how master waterbenders can pull the water from the air but instead of water she uses heat. She calls it psychic firebending but it's basically heat bending and it takes months to work and years to master. It's another firebending form derived from waterbending much like lightning redirection was." Kaminari whistles in amazement at what Katsuki had detailed.

"You know how to do this?" He asks.

"Fuck no, it requires even more control and stillness of mind than Lightning bending and the last time I tried that it broke my arm." Katsuki replies before taking another overly aggressive bite from his sandwich.

"Poor Deku." Momo says feeling the ground tremor again. "I hope your mother doesn't force him or Shouto into the avatar state. The school probably won't be standing after that."

"You said it ponytail."