บท 11: First day of school

[Guesses: All the guesses: Yugi Muto and Atem, Yuji and Sukuna, Ichigo and White/Zangetsu, Naruto and Kurama, Moonknight, Killer bee and 8 tails, Issei and the dragon, Deku and OFA predecessors, Rimuru tempest/great sage, Raphael etc., Bruce Banner and Hulk, and Ghost Rider. (All wrong. Hint was already given. If no one gets it in the next 2 chapters, I will drop another hint somewhere.)]

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Fool's dances weren't possible anymore. The scars around his body were too unique to not think of the boy that was cut up by his father. Luckily for them, his legal guardian was also giving him a monthly allowance that was more than enough for them to sustain themselves and live a bit more luxurious.

But before all of that, Ryoto had to go to court to his father's trial. There, his father didn't even share a glance at him. 'We truly have become estranged then. Your choice, dad,' Ryoto clarified.

After they got the bandages removed and the crust on the cuts disappeared, the first thing they did was go to a bath house.

"Ohhhhhh... My body feels so much better," Zoro said as his body soaked inside the warm water.

The advantage of a bathhouse that is open 24 hours a day, you can get lucky and find a time when nobody else is there. But by some freak coincidence, a dark-green and curly-haired boy entered the bathing area.

Seeing the person he knew enter, Ryoto asked to switch with Zoro. 'You will owe me one more fucking hot spring visit,' Zoro exclaimed. Ryoto could not ignore the kid, as they immediately locked eyes.

"Ryoto?! Is that you," Izuku yelled out.

'Fuck...,' he thought. "Yes, it's me."

"Do you mind if I come in," the boy asked as he entered the warm water without waiting for Ryoto's response.

Izuku acted a bit tipsy, he clearly knew what had happened with Ryoto. He was one of the first people to hear about and see the video of his friend being carried down the stairs while bleeding to death. Izuku compared the Ryoto he knew before his "awakening" and the one after. The Ryoto in front of him had several scars all over his upper body, making him more intimidating than he was. Izuku slightly trembled, but the look of sympathy was apparent on his face.

"Deku, do not fucking look at me like that, you understand?! You Quirkless piece of shit even dared to take the exam at U.A. What was your score, 0," Ryoto asked, cursing at Deku.

"0 points, but I had 60 rescue points," Deku responded.

"You were accepted, weren't you?!"

"Y-Yes," Deku answered, fear showing on his face as the naked Ryoto stood up in all of his pride.

"The hell?!" Ryoto asked again, waving his hand to the side and activating his Quirk to create a huge gash in the water that quickly closed.

"I'm sorry for what happened to you, though. I hope you had a quick recovery," Deku said, pulling Ryoto's last straw.

Walking to Deku and crouching down to be able to speak on eye-level. "Are you aware that a Quirkless person like you has just taken the place of a person with a Quirk that can do better Hero work than you? Anyone with a Quirk could've done better than you. Be it a meter tall pervert or a person with cameras for eyes, you cannot contribute to Hero society at all. And if for some god-forsaken reason you are allowed to graduate from the Hero-course as a licensed Hero, keep in mind that a Quirkless wannabe like you will put the lives of civilians in danger. Now, don't let me see you ever again. And if I see you again, do not talk to me."

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Taking the train at a later time than usual, Ryoto risked being late. 5 minutes before classes were about to start, he arrived at the unusually big door to class 1A.

Sliding the door to the side, Ryoto entered the class, attracting all of the kids inside it onto him. What Ryoto noticed immediately, a boy yelling at a wheat-blonde-haired guy. The guy yelling was a shorter guy with black hair and black-rimmed glasses.

Bakugo was resting his feet on the table and was getting reprimanded by the black-glasses kid for doing so. Something about U.A's prestige and whatnot.

Seeing his friend enter the class, a slight smirk appeared on Bakugo's face, yet, behind the smile was a layer of regret still lingering.

"We tied for first place. We cannot on-up each other no matter what, huh," Ryoto asked Bakugo as he walked towards him with the same grin decorating his face.

'He was first place, too? Isn't he the guy that was almost killed by his father,' a select few inside the class asked themselves.

"The hell are you blabbering about? I've always been on-upping you," Bakugo said as he stood up, extending his hand for a handshake. "The scars look good on you."

Feeling ignored, the kid with the glasses chimed in to introduce himself to the guy he saw the video of.

"My name is Tenya Iida and I went to the private middle school Somei," the boy with the glasses introduced himself.

Like a fly disrupting a man working out, that's the way Iida was looked at by Ryoto. Yet, to his surprise, Ryoto introduced himself as well.

"I'm Ryoto Matsuda, and I will be the world's strongest swordsman."

Ryoto found the time to look around with more care the second time around. He noticed chicken-head from training ground Zeta, but before Zoro could take over the body and introduce himself to him, the door was opened once more.

"Deku," Ryoto and Bakugo growled out.

"I am Tenya Iida and I went to-," Iida was interrupted.

"Make friends somewhere else," a tired voice spoke out from outside of the classroom. "8 seconds for all of you to shut up."

The voice walked into the room after Deku and a girl with brown hair, brown eyes and a round face. Dressed in black cargo pants and a black sweater, the long, black-haired and tired-looking man with bags under his eyes also had a weird-looking scarf around his neck.

"I'm Shota Aizawa, your homeroom teacher. Now, wear these and come to the training grounds outside," he said and disappeared once again.

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Having explained the activities they would be doing and how the person placing last would get expelled, Aizawa, aka Eraserhead, was met with protest.

"That's not fair."

"You can't just expel someone for that reason."

"He really dared to come here, even though I told him not to," Ryoto informed Bakugo about the encounter he had with Deku in the bath house.

"I once told him the same thing. Guess what he did. He cried while saying he was going to be like All Might. We should persuade him into dropping out. Just as you said to him, he is taking a more useful person's spot here. There were some awesome Quirks at the exams that would be better if nurtured here at U.A," Bakugo replied.

"Hey, you. Red-eyes, come here and throw this ball as far away as you can using your Quirk," Aizawa said, gaining Bakugo's attention.

Standing at the throw line, Bakugo prepared himself to throw the ball as far as he could.

"DIE!" Bakugo yelled out.

"705 meters," let's start with the first course.

50 meter run: Bakugo traversed the 50 meters in 4,13 seconds, and Ryoto did so in 5, 55 seconds.

Grip strength: Ryoto's grip strength was 191 lbs, and Bakugo's was 185 lbs.

Far jump: Bakugo jumped over the measurement, and Ryoto jumped 25 feet.

Sidestep: x

Last discipline was ball throw. Until then, Deku had always finished at last place, so his failure and inevitable expulsion was observed by all of his classmates carefully.

His first throw was interrupted by Eraserhead's Quirk. They exchanged a few words which the other's did not hear.

Deku went back to the throwing line and and prepared to throw once more. This time, the ball did not land a few feet in front of him, but several hundred feet away from him. This result shocked everyone, as they did not expect his "Quirk" to be of any use at all.

"The hell was that?!"

"You are Quirkless, how did you do that?!

Ryoto and Bakugo demanded an answer from Deku.