Hero License Exam

Their school was five minutes away from the dorm. After getting used to the environment, the students were taken to a new facility named Training Dining Land or TDL. The teachers assisted them to nurture their ultimate moves. It got out of their head because of all the chaos but their main focus was to obtain provisional hero licenses. In order to get one, they needed to pass the test and only fifty percent students passed the test required for a permit each year.

Other than that, Ochaco revealed her little crush on Midoriya to the other girls. Well, not exactly in a direct way but she did give a little hint. Things has been quite awkward between Bakugou and Y/N though. She now felt a bit uncomfortable to talk about herself to him even though he had the same attitude as before. She tried her best to feel comfortable enough to talk about it but it just felt forced. In real, she felt really embarrassed and tried to pass it off as a joke.

Gradually, the day of the exams drew in. The students were standing outside National Dagoba Arena.

"Ugh...I'm getting kinda nervous," Kyoka said.

"Man, it was a bit less scary to compete with the U.A. students. But all these new faces are just...," Y/N muttered to her.

When the students were a bit motivated and about to cheer 'plus ultra', a guy from another school joined the cheer as well. Turned out, it was the famous school on the other side of Japan in the west - Shiketsu High School.

"Hey cutie," Y/N heard a familiar voice. She snapped her head towards the direction and smiled.

"Oikawa!" She slapped her hand on his back, "I forgot you were participating."

"You're gonna remember after I beat your ass."

"Aww how nostalgic. You're all actions and no brain. I hope you get out of your delusion soon."

"Anyways," he walked forward to join his classmates entering the building, "Don't feel too upset for not passing boo."

"Haha yeah fuck you too," Y/N laughed and turned around. Her classmates were staring at her.

"Do you guys know each other?" Kaminari asked.

"Oh yeah, we were training in the same agency," she replied.

"....and you made an enemy in there?"

"Not exactly," she thought about it. No matter how good friends they were, when it came to competing, they were always at each others throats.

"You're screwed," Bakugou muttered.

"Huh?" she turned to face him, confusion laced in his voice.

"That's two people who you should look out for."

She just stared at him, still blank about who he was talking about.

"I'm not going easy on you."

Y/N chuckled, "Yeah, haven't heard that one before." She nudged him and said, "Come on. Just admit it, we are good friends now aren't we?"

Bakugou stared at her face for sometime and whispered, "We are not." She didn't want to put much thought into his words cause he usually said this when he felt down or embarrassed. But for him though, it meant something else. Something he didn't have the time to think about at the moment.

An enthusiastic voice broke their conversation. Ms. Joke, a hero with outburst as quirk approached Aizawa with marriage proposal, laughing shortly afterwards. She introduced the class she came with - second years of Ketsubutsu Academy.

"Hey I'm Shindo," one of the students with black hair came towards them and clasped Midoriya's hands, "Sounds like U.A. had a lot of trouble this year. Must have been tough for you."

"But even so, you're all still aiming to become pro heroes despite those hardships," he said holding Kaminari's hands.

"It's wonderful!" he told next holding Kyoka's hands and finally held Y/N's hands with a shimmering demeanor, "Heart full of fortitude! I believe that's what every hero in this world needs to have."

He looked at Bakugou and said, "And Bakugou! It must've been pretty hard for you with the whole kidnapping incident. You've an especially strong will, don't you? Today I'm gonna do my best to learn from you. I really hope you don't mind."

Bakugou observed the boy's hands slip from Y/N's and coming towards himself. He slapped his hand away and said, "Stop pretending. What you say doesn't match the look in your eyes."

"Hey, get your costume and head to orientation. There's no time to waste," Aizawa said as the students started walking in behind their teacher.

Bakugou looked at Y/N's extended hand the raven-haired boy held earlier. He pulled her and walked forward, releasing her hand shortly after.

Y/N's face reddened even with the little touch. It was not a big deal when she was the one, cause she usually joked most of the time.

But Bakugou?

Him initiating the touch knowing her feelings made her heart beat faster. Expecting a bit more.

[ TIME SKIP ]

Inside the Provisional Hero Licensing Exam Hall, a large rectangular room, there were students from several schools in Japan, and naturally the crowd was thick. Only the first 100 students out of the 1540 gathered to take the exam who complete the first test will move onto the next one. Each student would get six red balls and three targets to attach to their body where they are visible to others. The students must hit other students' targets - once a student has all of their targets hit, they are out, and whoever attached the third ball claims the defeat. Participants need to eliminate two students to move on to the next phase of the exam.

The rectangular room unfolded and revealed the large arena with varying environments.

"Everyone stay close together! We'll fight them together as a group!" Midoriya said as soon as the test exam.

Bakugou followed by Kirishima left as soon as the test started ignoring Midoriya, and so did Todoroki as it was hard to fight with a large group around him. The thing is, that applied to Y/N as well. She stayed though as during her training, she practiced using her quirk in small groups, even though it had little effect on them.

But with Shindo's one attack, they got split up.

Y/N looked around, thinking of searching for the rest of her classmates. She dodged and managed to get out as much as she could, but none of them were at close proximity and injured enough for her to use her balls and hit the target.

"I've seen you on tv," one guy popped out of nowhere behind some rubbles along with his friend and threw a ball at her. She quickly dodged it and sent one water slash where he was standing, throwing him off. A smile appeared on her face as she walked cautiously towards them. Taking out her ball, she quietly hit the targets of one of them, eliminating him from the exam. As she was about to go the next guy, she heard footsteps behind her. It was faint and that meant this student was being cautious and probably could attack her anytime now. She raised her hand quietly in front of her, ready to use her quirk on him. She turned around quickly and was about to attack him when-

beep.

A shiver went down her spine as she noticed the hand holding the red ball on one target on her shoulder, it went down quickly ready to hit another target on her stomach when she finally used her quirk on him. But he was also quick to dodge her attack.

"Come on, you know we all have seen your moves," the guy said, "especially me."

"Oh yeah I know," she said sending two more water slashes at him, which he also managed to dodge, "I didn't know you finally got better at your sneak attack."

He smirked, as she noticed his hands sparkling with electricity, a part of his hero outfit.

"Well, this is gonna be a pain in the ass now," Y/N chuckled, "for you, Oikawa."