It was done.

The test was over.

"Do you need to go to the recovery girl?" asked Aizawa.

The last few tests were painful for Izuku, really painful, but he pushed through.

In the sit-ups, he topped, beating Kaminari, Ichigo, and Bakugo. Meanwhile, the boy with the half red half white hair just stared at them, coming at fifth place.

In seated toe touch, Izuku finished fifth, the first being Ojiro who got support from his tail.

And finally, in the long-distance run, Izuku was third, defeating Bakugo and Tokoyami who were ahead of him in the race.

"No, I've almost healed," said Izuku putting up his finger. It was then he noticed the glare he got from the two colored hair boy.

'I guess he's not happy with the results. Well, he'll get his chance to shine. He is definitely not the last,' thought Izuku as he focused on the result.

"Here are the results. I am too lazy to announce it," said Aizawa in a sleepy tone, getting back to how he was before he took a look at Izuku's notebook.

1. Izuku Midoriya
2. Katsuki Bakugo
3. Ichigo Yaoyorozu
4. Momo Yaoyorozu
5. Denki Kaminari
6. Shoto Todoroki
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9. Ochako Uraraka
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20 Toru Hagakure

Toru Hagakure, the invisible girl was close to tears when Aizawa said, "No one is getting expelled."

"Huh?"

"It was a logical ruse!" he said with a maniacal grin.

"It should have been obvious if you thought it carefully," said Momo, looking confused.

"So that means you didn't expel a whole class last year?" asked Izuku with a smirk as others looked at him in horror.

"... You know too much," said Aizawa as he matched his smirk with his own.

At that moment everyone else in the class felt an overwhelming pressure as if two extremely powerful people were clashing. No... it wasn't power. It was the experience of a pro and the skill of a prodigy competing to overshadow one another.

"Yes, I did expel last year's class..." said Aizawa with a close-eyed smile.

"And you didn't this year. Do I take it as you actually see potential in everyone here?" asked Izuku with a grin.

"Yes..." Aizawa started with a smirk as his hair started levitating.

"... But that only means that I'll be much stricter, much more brutal with you all. Be ready," he said with a different type of smirk, one that signified recognition yet was threatening.

"I'm ready," said Izuku as his cursed energy flared covering him in a green and red aura.

"This year is going to be... not as boring as others," said Aizawa as he turned and started to walk away.

As Aizawa passed the bushes All Might got out to greet him.

"So I see Aizawa, you didn't expel them," he said with his signature grin.

"Yes, I didn't. Though I didn't expect you to be here and watch the class. Playing favorites from the start?" asked Aizawa with a sharp glare.

"No... I know someone who's with them. Someone I've placed my bet upon. I'll do my duty as a teacher as neutrally as I can, but I also want them to groom as the best heroes ever. I've... got this feeling telling me that things are going to get difficult from here on, and we'll need the best heroes," said All Might as he deflated to his normal form.

"Heh. Just don't make that kid into a buffoon like you. He's got a great brain and a strong will," said Aizawa with a smirk.

"Ye- wait how do you know?"

"It's easy to figure out, since you said you placed your bet upon that kid. I don't think anyone who meets Midoriya wouldn't place their bet on him. He's made me believe in him. Kinda difficult, don't you think?" asked Aizawa.

"Right... care for a cup of tea if you're free? I know we don't see eye to eye, but I figured..."

"If you've got coffee, we can talk. Maybe I'd teach you stuff or two about being a teacher."

"Right. I've got coffee."

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Izuku was tired, since he had worked harder than almost everyone else for the test. He was walking towards his home when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Ah, Iida kun, Yaoyorozu kun," he greeted both the people.

"Hey Midoriya, and please, call me Ichigo, or you'd confuse me and my sis," said Ichigo as Izuku nodded.

"Yeah. Oh, I forgot to ask, what's your quirk? I couldn't figure it out during the test," said Izuku as Ichigo nodded.

"Well, it's Reptilia. It allows me to morph my body into parts of reptiles. Kinda hard to train," said Ichigo.

"Wait, you can make chains of body parts like Shoji kun right? Like from hands more hands of other reptiles instead of fingers?"

"That's... disturbing to imagine but it's possible," said Ichigo thoughtfully as they were joined by Uraraka.

"Midoriya kun," she asked gaining Izuku's undivided attention.

"Yes, Uraraka san?"

"Why did Bakugo kun call you Deku?" asked Ochako cutely.

"Oh, that's something he used to call me as an insult. I guess it just stuck," said Izuku.

"Oh, I think it's cute. Plus it sounds like the Kanji word for 'you can do it'."

"YOU C-CAN TOTALLY CALL ME THAT!" Izuku aid hiding his face in his hand.

"What? Didn't you say that it was an insult?" asked Ichigo and Iida.

"C-Copernicus revolution," he stuttered.

"Cope- what?"

"Copernican revolution. It was the shift of belief from the Geocentric model of the universe to the Heliocentric model in the 16th century. Basically, the beliefs went from Earth being the center to the sun being the center," said Bakugo as he walked next to them and Kaminari slung his arm around Izuku's neck.

'... I want to do that,' thought Ochako as she softly glared at Kaminari who noticed it.

"No homo," he whispered to her, who blushed.

"What?" she whispered back.

"I won't steal him from you," he said in a teasing tone and then went back to the conversation, leaving Ochako flustered.

They did not notice that Izuku had heard the conversation.

'Things... things are different from back in the middle school. I've got actual friends, I am in my dream school, pursuing my dream career. I'll work hard to keep this.'

"DEKU TEME! I WILL WIN NEXT TIME!"

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It was the next day and Izuku was enjoying his classes pretty much. Right now he was waiting for the hero training class to begin, when he heard faint footsteps.

"I am... COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" yelled All Might as he burst in.

"ALL MIGHT!" 

"SO HE'S REALLY A TEACHER!" 

"THAT'S SO MANLY!"

"That's not how a normal person enters," muttered Izuku with a small chuckle as he smiled.

"I teach Basic Hero Training. It is a subject in which you learn the basics of hero work," said All Might as others nodded.

"Alright, so today in Hero Training, we'll do..."

"COMBAT TRAINING!"

Everyone got tense, barring a few fight crazy people like Bakugo, Ichigo, and the bicolored hair guy who was later introduced as Shoto Todoroki.

"But before that, we need something very important for hero training."

"AND THAT IS THE HERO COSTUME! So put these on and meet me in the ground BETA!"

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