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"A monster! She's a monster!"
"Help us! Please!"
"Waaa! I want my mommy!"
Cries and screams of terror filled your ears as you looked around in confusion. Everyone was backing away from you out of fear. What was wrong, you thought. The boy closest to you held his shoulder in pain. His cries were the loudest. You only managed to examine him for a few seconds before you were pulled away from everyone else, back inside the school. As you got further away, you could hear adults trying to calm down the students, while one teacher rushed the young boy to an unknown location.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what happened.
You had bitten someone.
But why?
Was it because of your quirk? No one had told you that this would happen. Fear and confusion filled your little body and soon your cries were mixed in with everyone elses.
Loud music interrupted your nightmare and, while part of you was annoyed, another part was thankful to finally be torn away from the terrible memory. A small groan left your lips as you reached over, turning off the alarm and sitting up. You rubbed your eyes as you stretched out your limbs, getting out a louder groan until you felt comfortable, before sitting up in your bed. A knock was heard at your door and with a quiet and grotty "come in" from you, a woman with brown curly hair and a long maid's dress walked into the room, a soft smile spread across her features. Maybe she could tell you why your phone alarm had gone off. You never usually had to set it...unless...
"Good morning, miss! Are you excited for your big day?" the woman grinned, opening the curtains and letting the sunlight settle it's way into the room.
Unless it was something important...
...
"Oh!" You immediately perked up and a wide grin spread across your features. "It's today!" A quick hand pulled the covers away from your legs, leaving you to freely jump out of bed and share your excitement with your closest friend. She mirrored your expression, happy to see you so excited.
"Yes, miss! It's-"
"The entrance exam for U.A!"
Finally, it was the day you could leave. You could people other than the servants around the house for the first time in over a decade. No longer would you have to stare longingly at people enjoying their day outside and pray to god that you could join them.
Getting ready felt like it dragged on forever. You had drunk two cups of coffee with your breakfast (much to Hitomi's protests) and was changed into your clothes within minutes. You happily hummed to yourself and sat down on the couch, moving your legs forwards and backwards like a child. You just couldn't keep still, especially at a time like this! Your eyes were glued to the clock, and soon the time came for you to leave.
"Miss, the car is outside." Hitomi told you, standing in the door way.
You looked at the older woman and nodded, adrenaline and butterflies filling your stomach. You slowly stood up and walked to the door. You looked down at the door handle and gripped it before turning it. It wasn't locked. It was an unfamiliar feeling. You slowly opened the door and felt the fresh air hit your features. You could only stare in awe.
"...Well, go on then. Are you going to stand there all day? You'll be late for the exam."
You looked over to her, tears threatening to fall down her face. She smiled softly and gave you a hug. You happily returned it with a small sniffle.
"Good luck, miss."
You both let go of each other and you confidently nodded before you moved towards the car. The driver was already waiting there, holding the car door open. You waved at him and grinned, already happy to see an unfamiliar face.
"Hello!" you said happily. He looked a bit confused, as none of his other patrons were this cheerful this early in the morning, but he tipped his hat back in reply with a small "good morning, maam". You got into the car and it's door was closed behind you. You looked around the car and it wasn't long before it started moving.
As the car moved throughout the city, you couldn't tear you eyes away from the window. You watched as tired adults would grab their morning coffee before work, students happily talking with their friends as they headed to school and small children playing around in the street before being scolded by their mothers. This would have all just been normal to someone else, but to you it was so fascinating. It was only to be expected after being locked away for so long.
You arrived at your destination quicker than you expected. You saw some people stare in awe at such a car arriving, but you looked past them, focusing your attention on U.A High School. You didn't even realize that you had stepped out of the car until you heard it pulling away. The butterflies in your stomach started to move quicker, but you tried your best to ignore them as you now looked around at the amount of people around you. You held held your hands together and tries your best to hide the smile on your face and you quietly fangirled to yourself. Unfortunately for you, some people wouldn't fail to miss this, and would give you a strange luck before continuing on their way or going back to their conversation. So cool!, you thought, there's so many people!
You started walking up to the school in front of you, but would get stopped but a large warm body in front of you. You both let out a small 'oof' and the male turned around in surprise.
"Whoops, sorry!"
"I'm so sorry!"
You both quickly spoke over each other before he let out a small nervous laugh, showing his sharp teeth to you, and rubbing the back of his neck. "Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have been standing in the way. It's just...it's so much bigger in person, isn't it?" he said, referring to the building before you both. You quickly nodded in agreement.
"It really is! So much bigger than the pictures I've seen, but I guess that would make sense in a way. It holds so many students that it would have to be big, in a way! Does that make sense? Oh! And...um..." It was at this point that you were realizing that you were starting to ramble. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to go on so much. I guess I'm just a bit excited."
"Oh no, no, it's fine! It helped me a bit, actually. I'm feeling pretty nervous, and that helped a bit! So thanks!" he replied with a grin before holding his hand out. "The name's Eijirou Kirishima. And you are?"
You smiled and shook his hand a little bit too enthusiastically. "My name is (Y/N) (L/N)! It's really nice to meet you, Kirishima!"
You both continued to speak for a while before it was time to head inside, Kirishima leaving you with a wave and a "good luck". You smiled brightly to yourself as you went to find a seat. 'I spoke to someone! I spoke to someone that didn't work for me! That was so cool! And he was so nice! Is everyone usually this nice nowadays?' Your thoughts raced at a hundred miles per hour as you sat down. You now started examining the many seats around you as they started to fill up with people, the reality of so many people being here now coming down on you. It was definitely more people than the ones standing outside.
Doubts started to cross your mind as the seats started to become more occupied. 'What if I can't do this? What if I have to go back home and never leave this time? What if...
What if everyone is scared of me forever?'
You shook your head and lightly slapped your cheeks, quietly telling yourself to snap out of it. You couldn't back out now and there was no point in getting cold feet. All you could do was pray that you did well.
A girl with dark hair sat down next to you, nervously playing with her ear. You glanced over at her and was surprised to see what looked like earphone jacks attached to her ears. You must have been staring for too long because she gave you a strange look.
"Why are you staring at me?" she whispered. You blinked a few times before apologising for the third time that day.
"I'm sorry, it's just...your ears, is that part of your quirk?"
"Um, yeah...why?"
"That's so cool!" You said a little bit too loudly. You blushed a bit when you got a few glares before quieting down a bit. "What does your quirk do?"
The girl's cheeks went a bit red out of embarrassment, but she opened her mouth to speak anyway.
"It-" Before she could speak, she was interrupted by the sound of some lights on the stage turning on and music playing. A man with long blonde hair and sunglasses appeared on the stage and started speaking.
'Sunglasses inside? I didn't know that was a thing.' you thought.
At the request of a "hey" from the man, you opened your mouth to follow the request, but quickly stopped yourself when no one else did the same. Whew, close one.
The man started to explain the events of the next few hours and you listened with eager interest. Soon, you were all sent to your battle centers.
"Oh! Excuse me!" You managed to call out to the short haired girl before she left.
"What is it?"
"Um...l-let's both do our best!" You said with a smile. She gave you a small smile back and nodded.
"Yeah, let's." she replied before walking away. You get out a small breath of air. 'Two conversations in one day! So cool!'
You arrived at the battle center with lots of other people and stretched out your muscles. The butterflies started to scream more and more and you tried your best to block them out and continue on your small exercises. 'This should be fine. I know what to go for and what to avoid. I just need to get as many points as possible and move onto the written exam.' However, thinking of the written exam only made you more worried. You weren't too sure how confident you were, despite all your training and studying.
You were quickly snapped out of your worrying trace when you suddenly heard a loud "start!". You looked around in surprise, seeing your expression mirrored on everyone elses face's. "They're are no countdowns in fights! Go, go, go!" At his words, you released your kagune and used them to push yourself off the ground and barreling into the arena. You landed on the ground and started to looked around for targets.
"TARGET ACQUIRED."
You spun around and saw a one point robot and smiled brightly. You pushed yourself off the ground once again, heading towards the robot and forming the tentacles on your back into a sharp word, stabbing the robot in the eye. It quickly dimmed out and you stood on it as it fell to the ground. A rush of adrenaline and confidence ran through you as you heard a few more 'target acquired's around you. You took them all down and quickly managed to rack up a few points. Scrap surrounded you and you smiled gleefully before running off to find more robots.
But you didn't find a lot more after that.
You bit your lip in worry as you ran around, but it was becoming difficult to find more robots. You managed to take a few more down after your first encounter, but now you were starting to see a lot of scrap. You soon heard loud footsteps and you looked around in confusion, seeing a few people running the opposite direction with fear ridden expressions. You looked over and saw a large robot coming around the corner, a large 0 painted on it's shoulder. You took a step back out of fear. If you thought the others were big, this one was big.
You were about to turn around and make a tactical retreat when you heard coughing coming from near the robot. It was the girl from earlier. Some rubble was on her and she wouldn't be able to escape in time to run away from it. You glanced back up at the giant before throwing yourself over to the girl. She didn't notice the foot of the robot closing in on her until she removed the rubble. She closed her eyes and waiting for impact.
But it never came.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw you hovering above her, your kagune barely holding up the foot above her. Tears of fear and pain were in your eyes and threatening to roll down your cheeks as you opened them slightly, revealing your red irises surrounded by a black sclera. "Hu...rry..." You choked out. She didn't hesitate to scurry to her feet and look at you in fear.
"W-Wait! What about you?!"
"I'll...ngh!" The robot applied pressure to your rinkaku, feeling skin start to burst open. "...Be fine!" The girl looked you up and down before grabbing your hand and pulling you out from under the giant foot. It slammed down hard, catching the end of your kagune and releasing a hiss of pain from your lips, but you didn't have time to nuture it as the girl was pulling you into the alleyway, trying to get you both away from the robot as fast as she could.
"We need to hurry before that thing catches us!" she yelled. Tears continued to leave your eyes but you understood. You grabbed onto her and planned to have your kagune take you both forward but, you only get out a cry of pain instead. It looks like you hadn't regenerated yet. "What's wrong?! Are you hurt?" You didn't have the time to answer as you heard the noises of building being destroyed behind you. It was too late to run now. You both looked over and saw that the robots was very close to you both. All you could both do was close your eyes and wait for impact.
"Time's up!"
The robot stopped dead in it's tracks before crouching over and powering down. Both you and the girl looked over in confusion. "Time's..."
"Up...?"
You both looked at each other and grinned.
"We did it!"
"We made it!"
After getting fixed up by Recovery Girl and taking the test, all you want to do was sleep. You barely replied to Hitomi as she greeted you back home. After seeing the state of you, she could only nod in understanding and lead you to bed. "I'll make sure something is prepared for you to eat when you wake up, miss." she said quietly. As your head hit the pillow, you managed to glance outside before smiling to yourself.
"I got to go outside today."
Even if you didn't get into U.A., you would forever treasure the experience.
A week couldn't come by fast enough. You were always the first person awake to grab the mail but every day you woke up not finding the one letter you wanted. You almost thought you were dreaming when you saw the letter finally appear in your hands. You dropped everything else on the ground and sprinted to your room, scaring a poor maid on the way. You slammed your door shut and opened it's contents.
On the other side of the door, Hitomi was waiting on the other side of the door with a worried expression. She bit her lip as she eagerly awaited to hear a response from you. A cheer, a cry, a yell, anything at all. She almost had a heart attack when you threw open the door, tears streaming down your face. She was about to console you until you spoke.
"I got in!"