The U.A. Sports festival

I frown slightly at this, "Hey, Itsuka. Do you guys have wind quirk user in your class?"

She looks at me with a confused face, "Wind? I don't know anyone like that."

On the outside, the frown disappeared, but on the inside, I was completely confused, 'What? Why didn't he get in? Was he an idiot or a prick? Nah, from the way he held himself, he was a reasonably intelligent person, and he definitely acted like a good guy.'

I ask my second question, "Who are your recommended students?"

She points to the skeleton boy with one hand and a green-haired girl who looks like Asui but with sharper eyes, "Those two. Juzo Honenuki, and Setsuna Tokage."

'Hmm… I'll figure this out later, for now…'

The others of Class B notice my entrance, and both Honenuki's and Tokage's eyes widen when they see me, and they yell out at the same time, "It's you!"

But what they said after varied very differently.

Honenuki yelled out, "The guy that finished first on the written test!"

But Tokage said, "The hot guy!"

I sigh and look down, 'That's what they remember me for?'

At that moment, I see something flicker, and a face raises out my shadow, "Oh, how did you know I was there?"

I smile at his face like it's a normal occurrence and lie through my teeth, "I noticed something flicker."

A completely black-skinned boy with wild white hair crawls out of my shadow and stands up and sighs, "Is that so? I guess I need to move quicker."

'Shit I didn't even see him. How did he get in my shadow?'

He offers his hand, "My name is Shihai Kuroiro. My quirk is Black. I can merge and travel between anything black or dark enough."

I look down at the table next to me, which was casting a shadow into my own, 'I see. No wonder I didn't see him. What a terrifying ability. Imagine him in the night. He'd be pretty much undefeatable.'

I take his hand, "Nice to meet you, I'm Shiro Hirota, 1-A's Class Rep. My quirk is Bungee Gum. Bungee Gum has the properties of both rubber and gum."

I watch him for any reactions to my class, and his eye twitches slightly, but other than that, his smile remains, "Bungee Gum, eh? Sounds interesting. Wanna show us?"

I smile, "Yeah sure."

I created a wad of Bungee Gum and put it on his black forehead, "Try to take it off."

He grabs it with one hand, and attempts to rip off the wad of Bungee Gum, but can't. He then grabs it with both hands, but the result is the same. This attracts the interest of the others who all come over to watch Kuroiro struggle. After a few minutes of pulling he gives up, panting.

Kuroiro wipes some sweat off the side of his face, "Phew, that is hard. It just won't come off."

During his time of struggle, the loudmouth boy from earlier had walked in and was also watching with interest, "Hehe, you're just not manly enough, Shihai. Let me show you how a real man does it."

'He reminds me of someone.'

The boy grabs the wad and starts to pull, but just like his friend he failed. Eventually, I stepped in and told him to stop because if he pulled too hard, the skin would rip off with it.

There was a look of panic in his eyes and he immediately stopped, 'He reminds me of Kirishima.'

I reduce the stickiness and take off the wad of Bungee Gum before making it disappear.

The loud mouth boy grins at me, "Sup, my name is Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu."

"What?"

He frowns slightly, "Didn't you hear the first time, my name is Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu. Nice to meet you."

I shake my head, "Sup, I'm Shiro Hirota."

Tetsutetsu looks at me curiously, "So? Why are you here?"

I smile casually at him, "I told Itsuka outside, but I'm here to establish a friendly relationship between our classes. It'll be good in the future, in case we ever have joint training or have to cooperate."

TetsuTetsu grins and pulls me in for a hug, "Man, that is so manly. You are a real man, you know!"

I look at his classmates for help but they all shrug their shoulders and laugh a little, 'Tch, bastards.'

After that, Itsuka introduces me to the other members of Class B. Honenuki greeted me with a grin, and Tokage attempted to hit on me. A few of them were willing to share their quirks but most kept theirs to themselves.

I mentally took notes of each one and filed it away, 'What an interesting array of quirks. They don't have as many wide and powerful ranged quirks as we do, but each of them is dangerous in their own right.

It's a shame that not all of them shared their quirks, but I had expected this. It will take time, and within a week, I should be able to get all of them. They'll probably notice by then but oh well. The results justify the means.'

I stayed for another twenty minutes and played cards, and got more familiar with each member.

"Sorry but, I gotta go now."

I dodge a flying arm as the rest of Tokages body quickly follows her, "C'mon, Hirota! Hang out with me more."

Setsuna Tokage, quirk Lizard Tail Splitter. Her Quirk allows her to split her body and body parts up and control them at will.

I throw a wad of Bungee Gum at one of her body parts, but she dodges it and forms up her body behind me and puts her arm around me, "C'mon, won't you stay a little longer."

Kuro laughs, 'Come on, Shiro. Let me play with her! She looks fun.'

I ignore the both of them and use our close contact to trap Tokage's arm against the wall.

She grins at this and disconnects her arm, "You'll have to do better than that!"

She activates her quirk to break up her arm and reconnect it, but nothing happens. A look of surprise appears on her face and she looks at her arm, which is completely covered in Bungee Gum.

Tokage attempts to pull off the Bungee Gum, but just like her classmates before her, she fails as well.

I grin at her as she struggles to take it off, "Well, I enjoyed our time together, Class B. Next time, I might bring more people. It'll be fun."

Itsuka waves goodbye and I excuse myself, leaving Tokage to pull the Bungee Gum off by herself. When I get back, the crowd in front of our class had already disappeared.

Momo sees me enter and walks over, "So? How did your "research" go?"

I give her a small smile as I walk over to my desk and pick up my bag, "It went well, I learned plenty of things from our neighbors. C'mon, let's go home, we have some training to do."

She nods and picks up her things and we head outside as we begin our journey home.

Over the next two weeks, I continued improving my relationship with Class B as well as introducing the members of Class A to them. Kirishima and Tetsutetsu understood each other's manly nonsense perfectly and Momo got along well with Kendo. There was a slight rivalry, but other than Monoma, my class got along with everyone. As I had expected, by the end of the week, I had a grasp on all of Class B's quirks, with a few of the specifics on a handful.

Not everyone visited as Bakugo, Tokoyami, and Todoroki usually replied with, "I need to train."

Momo and I sparred daily in order to prepare for the upcoming tournament, and while the fighting skills may not be helpful against people like Todoroki, it will certainly help against most of the things that U.A. will throw our way.

I asked Aizawa about a wind kid that was in the recommendation exam.

*Flashback*

Aizawa's eyes widened, "Oh, that kid. I think his name was, Inasa Yoarashi."

I raise an eyebrow, "You know him?"

Aizawa nods, "Oh yeah. Normally there are two recommended students per year, but this year we had a bunch of talents so we had decided on three. But then, suddenly, Inasa declined our offer and went somewhere else."

"Inasa Yoarashi, huh?"

*Flashback end*

I tried to figure out what Shinso's quirk was from other people but no one was willing to tell me, 'Well, whatever. I will have plenty of opportunities to see him use it at the Sports Festival. What I do know is that he can somehow command his targets to do his bidding and there must be some kind of condition. Maybe, eye contact.'

My classmates were also all training hard to work on their quirks and personal skills as well. For two weeks, we focused on self-improvement and working on our quirks until the festival finally came.

"Wow, that's a lot of stalls."

At the entrance of the school building, there were signs, each pointing to a different grade level stage.

Momo and I were walking towards the first year's stage, a large circular stadium, and surrounding it was a large array of small booths and stalls. Candied apples, roasted squid, takoyaki, fishing games, and the like.

I buy a plate of takoyaki and offer some to Momo who declines, "Your loss."

I snack on my takoyaki while reminiscing on the past, 'I wonder how my family is…?'

Because of my formerly young age as well as extreme workload, I never had the time to find a lover. But I loved both my mother and father dearly. In my childhood, they took me to the festivals where we enjoyed the street food that was offered by similar stalls.

I look over to a stall with a bunch of kids squatting around a pool, 'Ah, they must be doing that!'

I walk over and sit next to them and look into the small pool. As I had guessed, they were playing a goldfish scooping game.

I look at the sign next to the pool, "Goldfish Scooping! 200 yen! No using Quirks!"

Grinning, I pay the man running the stand and grab a paper net and sit down next to the children, "Hey, you guys have any luck?"

The children look at me with varying expressions, happiness, sadness, and who the hell are you.

I roll up my sleeves, 'I may be a little rusty, but let's see if I still got it.'

Immediately, I get to work, scooping up small fish into a plastic bowl. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, the number kept on rising. The number of fish in the pool kept on getting smaller, as I started filling up multiple bowls. The owner was looking at me in a panic, praying that my net would break and that I would stop, but his prayers weren't working. The number rose to thirty and almost hit 40 before my net broke.

I stand up and scratch the back of my head, "Only thirty-seven? I really am getting rusty. My personal best is more than double that."

I give the fish to the children who happily accept it and walk towards Momo who was waiting for me after she noticed my disappearance, "Well that was nice of you."

I shrug my shoulders, "I didn't wanna keep them."

She smirks, "I didn't know you were so good at that."

Eating another Takoyaki, I shrug my shoulders again, "What can I say? I'm a natural."

She rolls her eyes and starts walking towards the stadium, "C'mon, let's go."

I chuckle and follow her, "Sure."

We see another sign that says, "Participant waiting rooms"

"Looks like we go this way."

We both walk into the locker room designated for Class 1-A and see a handful of people, "I guess we're early."

Iida has a minor look of annoyance, "Jesus, everyone else should be here already. Being thirty minutes early is being on time!"

I chuckle and offer him some Takoyaki, "Calm down now Iida. Accumulated stress is bad for performance."

His eyes widen behind his glasses as he realizes his "mistake" and immediately begins meditating to relieve his "stress."

Kuro chuckles at this and mutters, 'Idiot.'

I take my shirt off and start changing into the U.A. gym uniform, 'Oy, Kuro. You better not take over. This is gonna be pretty important for our future.'

He chuckles, 'Yeah, yeah.'

I shake my head and finish off the Takoyaki. Over the minutes, more of my classmates start appearing and I close my eyes as I focus on the upcoming festival.

Mina complains as she stretches out her arms, "Aww, I wish we could wear our hero costumes."

Ojiro who was standing nearby replies, "Yeah, I agree. But to keep it fair, we can't."

I laugh to myself, "You guys don't even have any support gear. You would just look flashier."

Mina throws me a dirty look, "Boo!"

Sato rubs his hands together nervously, "I wonder what the first round is gonna be."

Tokoyami nods slightly, "no matter what it is, we have no choice but to deal with it."

I stand up from my chair after looking at the clock, "Guys, we have to go soon, so get ready!"

"Yes!"

Izuku up from behind me with a nervous look, "Uhmm, Shiro?"

I turn and look at him, "Yeah?"

He puts his hands together, "How do you stay so calm?"

I think about it for a second, before replying, "Don't think about the others, just think about yourself and you'll be fine."

I see Todoroki walk over and I turn to look at him, "You want some advice to?"

Todoroki glares at me for a second, "Looking at things, I'm objectively stronger than you."

My smile fades as my expression turns serious, "Give a monkey a tank, and he's still a monkey."

His gare intensifies, "I'm going to beat you."

The class looks at this in interest and Kaminari grins, "Oya Oya, is this a declaration of war between the best of the class?"

Kirishima walks over and tries to defuse the tension, "Oy, oy, oy, why'd you pick a fight all of a sudden? Not now, we are about to start."

Todoroki ignores him, "We aren't here to make friends. So what does it matter?"

I look at Todoroki for a while and my smile returns as I turn to the rest of the class, "C'mon guys, let's head outside!"

*General POV*

"HEY!!!"

A voice rings out in the first year's stadium as Present Mic announces the start of the Sports Festival.

"PAY ATTENTION AUDIENCE!!! SWARM, MASS MEDIA!!! This year's high school rodeo of adolescence that you all love, the U.A. Sports Festival is about to begin!!! Everybody!!! Are you ready!!!"

The crowd cheers loudly and Present Mic continues, "It's time for the first years to enter the stage!!! THE U.A. SPORTS FESTIVAL!!! A huge battle where fledgling heroes sharpen their swords once a year!!!"

Doors on the edge of the arena start opening up and students start walking through.

"Anyways, these are the guys, right!?!?!? The miraculous new stars who overcame enemy attacks with their hearts of steel!!!"

The cheers from the crowds intensify, "From the Hero Course, CLASS 1-A!!!!"

Present Mic continues to announce the classes, "They haven't been getting as much airtime, but this class is also full of talent! Hero Course, Class 1-B!!! Next up, General Studies, Class C, D, and E!!!"

The camera's focus on different people all showing different expressions, confidence, nervousness, and fear.

"Support Courses, Classes F, G, and H are here as well!!! And last but not least, the Business Courses, I, J, and K!!! All of U.A's first years are here now!!!"

The students assemble in front of the small stage erected in the stadium, and Midnight walks on, brandishing her whip, "It's time for the player pledge!"

There are many reactions from the crowd, particularly, the males, "Oh, this year's chief umpire for the first years is R-rated hero, Midnight!"

Kirishima's face as well as many others, redden out of embarrassment, "What is Midnight, sensei wearing?"

Kaminari gulps, "That's the R-rated hero for you."

Midnight quickly quotes down the students, with a wave of her whip, "Quiet, Everyone! Representing the students is Shiro Hirota from Class 1-A!"

Shiro rolls his neck and starts walking towards the stage. His classmates look at him slightly and quickly realize that it makes sense. Shiro was a good leader, intelligent, able to remain calm, and capable as well.

Shiro stumbles slightly on the stairs but quickly recovers, "Oopsie."

Momo's eyes widen but she doesn't do anything since Shiro is already on the stage, rolling his left wrist.

AN: Damn, to authors that write long chapters and write multiple a day, I am amazed. This shit is tiring. Anyways, here is the second chapter today.

I had a really good speech from Kuro, but I've decided to save it for later. It'll be more impactful then.

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