Chapter 4: The Beginning Of A Hero's Journey
It was a sunny spring morning in Japan, ten years after our hero met his father for the first time. The sky of Musutafu was accompanied by a few fluffy clouds, decorating it with their white bodies, while the wind scattered the cherry blossoms across the city, just like it did in the time of every spring. Most of the people were already on their way to their workplaces. Meanwhile, the students of the city were heading towards their schools due to the fact that it was the beginning of a new school year. Our protagonist was not different, not even in the slightest.
Izuku Midoriya, who was now a fourteen years old teenager, was running on the sidewalk of one of the streets excitedly while a much larger Shadow, around his master's height, attempted to follow him by flying. Izuku was wearing a black-colored school uniform, a yellow backpack on his back, and red shoes. However, his excitement was not because of the new school year. It was due to another phenomenon. The phenomena he was a fan of since he was little.
As he ran on the street, he reached a pedestrian crossing which was controlled by a traffic light that changed its light into a red color, signaling and causing Izuku and Shadow to stop in front of the pedestrian crossing next to three other people. As they waited for the traffic light to show its green-colored light, Izuku enthusiastically lifted his legs one after another and Shadow got next to his master. Shortly after, the red color of the lamp disappeared and it shifted to its green color, allowing the citizens to cross the road. At the moment they saw this, Izuku immediately jolted forward, crossing the road as fast as he could while Shadow tried to keep up with him.
He just ran and ran, until at a point of his journey, he looked up to check if he was in the right direction. When he saw that he was indeed in the right direction, he continued his way forward while Shadow tried to keep up with his master. As he was on his way to the location, a loud roar was heard in the air, assuring the both of them with the fact that they were close to their point of interest. Not long after the roar, Izuku and Shadow finally got to their destination, which was not other than the Tatooin Station. As they arrived at the station, they instantly got the sight of a crowd standing in front of the station and staring at the reason why Izuku wanted to come to this location in the first place.
At the rails of the station, a giant man was rampaging, not allowing anyone to approach the station. He was six or seven meters and had a strange, animal-like head, reddish-brown beard, and long brownish hair, with his attire only consisting of a black torn jacket and blue jeans. As he continued to wreak havoc, Izuku and Shadow observed the large man with astonishment, with the former forming a big, excited smile in the process.
"That's a huge villain!" Izuku remarked hectically as Shadow nodded in agreement, sharing his master's opinion. After Izuku said this, the giant man let out a roar once again and swung his left, causing a metal structure to break apart and begin to fall down towards the crowd. The people in the crowd started to scream in fear and fright, when a tall, strong, muscular man with short, spiky, white hair, small black eyes, and a square jaw, ran in the direction of the falling metal structure. He was wearing a large headband on his forehead with a yellow and black-striped caution pattern, matching his thick wrist-guards and his belt around his wrist, which possessed a square buckle with a triangular decoration sat in its center. He also had what seemed to be a cyan-colored cardigan, that exposed his lower torso and the center of his pectorals, held onto his chest on each side by small metal nuts. His pants were dark blue with a white stripe down each side and were slightly baggy on him, and his shoes were plain back with a simple design.
The man ran under the metal structure and as he got to his position, he clenched his hands into fists and touched them to each other, then raised his arms towards the sky, attempting to catch the falling structure. At the moment he lifted his arms, the structure fell into his hands and miraculously, he was capable of keeping it in place, preventing it from falling on the crowd. As he caught the metal structure, a small gust of wind was released, causing the front row of the crowd to close their eyes for a short amount of time. After they opened their visionary organs, they watched in awe as their savior held the structure in place.
"It's Death Arms!" a man stated in a traditional suit announced in amazement, "He carries out justice through his great physical strength, The Punching Hero!" the same man announced in wonderment. Just as he said this, a barricade rail made out of water, with the rail possessing X-shaped warning symbols, appeared in front of the crowd, not letting them take another step forward.
"Everyone, this is dangerous. Stay back, stay back!" another hero alarmed, getting the attention of the crowd. His costume was rather unique, to be precise. He was dressed like a firefighter and acquired a long yellow jacket with high-visibility lines running down the center, along his sleeve cuffs, hem, and high collar, as well as a red fireman hat. A thin cannon was strapped to his left shoulder which was attached to the red water tank he wore on his back. He also possessed a white mask with a single orange bead embedded into the center, which was possibly his eye. He had taps for hands with circular wrist guards just behind their openings, red valves over the top, a pair of similar knee pads on his legs, and yellow sneakers on his feet.
"The rescue specialist, Backdraft, is here, too!" another man declared as some people began to exult Backdraft. As these events occurred, our sweet broccoli head tried to find a part where he could get a closer look at the action. That place was quickly found by Shadow, who guided his master to go past two adult men who were exchanging their views about the current situation.
"But man, turning into a giant monster's an amazing Quirk." the man remarked, then turned his to his left side, looking at the man at the left, "What did he do?" he wondered.
"He stole someone's bag and went out of control when he got cornered." another man with blond hair explained.
"A Quirk like that, and he's a bag snatcher?" the man questioned as our nice broccoli walked past him, following his shadowy friend in the process. As they went forward and Izuku kept his excited smile, a man near our hero grabbed his own phone and dialed the phone number of his boss into it.
"I'm sorry, the train's..." he began with a nervous tone, "Yes, I don't know what time I will make it into work..." he explained as our young Overlord and his shadow got nearer and nearer to the front row of the crowd. Just as the man told his explanation to his boss through the phone, a muscular male figure leaped over the crowd, causing a group of girls to scream in excitement.
"You can do it, Kamui!" they cheered to the hero they referred to as Kamui, hence his full hero name was Kamui Woods. His appearance was a little bit strange, but it was usual to look like that in the world of Quirks. He possessed skin that looked like the surface of a tree and a wooden mask on his face, covering his puffy red leaf-like hair and every part of his face, except his eyes. His hero attire also consisted of a dark blue bodysuit that included a wooden belt, which had a bundle of roses hung from the left side, wooden knee pads, and wooden shoes.
After landing safely from his leap, Kamui ran forward, and jumped up to the nearest traffic light, then, with another leap, he rose into the air and jumped at the edge of the rails, dodging the attack of the villain by jumping into the air. While he stayed in the air, the giant villain turned his head and looked at him with frustration and nervousness.
"Stay away from me!" the villain shouted aggressively. As this event unfolded, Izuku and Shadow finally got in front of the station, stopping between two men, with one having a normal body plan and a nice, casual suit, and the other possessing the same height as Izuku, a white shirt, blue jeans, and three-star like hunches on his bald head. They watched as the young teenager and his shadowy companion intruded between them and look at the conflict with a bright smile.
"Who's fighting?" Izuku inquired cheerfully as he and Shadow observed the fight between hero and villain.
Speaking of which, the villain stretched out his right hand to catch Kamui, which was unsuccessful, thanks to Kamui evading the attack by swinging backwards with the help of his left arm which was extended like a branch and was wrapped around another metal structure. As he swung and got higher in the air, he unwrapped his left arm and retreated it back into its original, anatomically accurate form, and looked at the villain seriously.
"Kamui Woods!" Izuku announced with admiration in his voice, "Despite his young age, he's very talented and a rising star!" he stated in a mixture of excitement and fanboying, which didn't go unnoticed by the man on his right side.
"You were the one asking, but you gave a perfect commentary, kid." the man remarked, getting the attention of both Izuku and Shadow, "You're a fanboy, aren't you?" he wondered, turning his towards Izuku and pointing his right index finger at our protagonist.
"Uh, well..." Izuku started, but couldn't say anything, just looked away and adopted a shy smile on his face, while Shadow crossed his arms and rolled his non-existent irises in a playful manner.
Meanwhile, Kamui Woods rushed in the direction of the villain, jumping away from the strike of the villain's right hand. After his dodge, he jumped up to his arm and began to run up on his arm, jumping up and extending his right arm into a long branch in an attempt to reach the villain's face. The villain blocked his attack by lifting his left hand in front of his face, causing Kamui Woods to wrap his arm around only the villain's wrist. The villain swayed his hand in order to get the hero off of his body, when Kamui released his grip on the villain's wrist, spun in the air elegantly, and landed on a railway carriage safe and sound, facing the villain from a distance.
"Illegal use of powers during the rush hour and robbery resulting in bodily injury." he listed, "You are the incarnation of evil." he declared, then raised his right arm and turned it in the direction of the villain, and elongated and outstretched his arm, morphing it into multiple long branches. Seeing this, Izuku got more excited, knowing what was going to happen.
"Oh, here it comes!" he announced as he pointed at Kamui Woods.
"Show us something flashy, Tree-Man!" the man on the right side of Izuku exclaimed.
"Pre-emptive-" Izuku started.
"-Binding-" Kamui Woods continued.
"Lacquered Chain Prison!" they said in unison, then Kamui Woods unleashed his well-known ultimate move, shooting his wooden tendrils towards the villain, who tried to protect his face by attempting to cover it with his left arm. But just as he did this, something unexpected happened that no one saw coming.
"Canyon Cannon!" an enormous woman shouted as she flew towards the villain and landed a powerful kick on his jaw, almost knocking him out and making him fall off the rails. She was a young woman who acquired purple eyes with white pupils and elegantly long eyelashes. She had prolonged, voluminous, creamy blonde hair reaching down to her waist with two shorter strands curled to frame her face, parted slightly to her right.
Her hero attire was composed of a purple and pale tan-colored skintight bodysuit, which was accented with orange stripes. The suit seemed to have a pair of purple gloves with orange accents on the edge of the cuff. The design was similar to her "boots" which were cut off at the thigh in a deep v-shape. The suit also possessed three peculiar orange diamond-shaped dots on the purple top that were located under her chest, and she also wore a purple domino mask with horn-like protrusions on the sides.
Everyone in the scene, including the heroes, looked at the new arrival dumbfoundedly, as she touched with her large feet, making the ground rumble as she did so. The moment she landed and straightened her posture, tons of photographers and journalists surrounded her and made as many photos as they could, recording the possible new hero.
"Today is the day of my debut!" she declared in her normal tone as she inspected the villain if he was okay, "My name is Mt. Lady. A pleasure to make your ass-quaintance." she joked as she introduced herself as Mt. Lady, winked with his left eye, and showed off his bouncy lower part to the crowd, making some of the men blush a little bit while our broccoli head got his backpack off of his back and began to search for his notebook in it.
He had been searching for it for several minutes unavailingly, when, to help his master, Shadow put his pitch-black right hand into the bag and after a few seconds, he got the notebook out of the backpack and with his eyes forming a happy expression on his face, Shadow handed it over to Izuku, who scratched the back of his head sheepishly with his left hand and accepted the notebook from his shadowy friend. After he obtained the notebook, he took a pen into his left hand, zipped his yellow backpack, put it back on his back, and began to write his notes about the new hero he just saw while Shadow observed him as he wrote Mt. Lady's description.
Speaking of which, as our dear half-demon half-human protagonist listed and wrote his notes, the now shrunken Mt. Lady handed the villain over to the authorities and answered the several questions of the reporters, shamelessly taking the credit away from Kamui Woods in the process. After this was done, the crowd slowly started to scatter, leaving just a few people there, including Izuku and Shadow, with the former still writing his notes.
"Gigantification, huh?" he wondered as he continued to record his notes, "She looks like she'll be popular, and it's an amazing Quirk, but thinking about the damage to the city that'll go hand in hand with that, its use might be limited? No, but whether or not she can control the size..." Izuku muttered as he analysed Mt. Lady's future career, while Shadow watched him write all of this down.
"Hey wait, you're taking notes? You wanna be a hero?" the same man from before queried, placing his right thumb and his right index finger under his chin, "That's great! You can do it!" he stated, making a thumbs up with his right hand and causing Izuku and Shadow to look at him, with the former morphing a large smile as he heard this.
"Yes! I'll do my best!" Izuku beamed, keeping his large smile from before and showing off his mouth full of white, pointy, sharp teeth while Shadow witnessed this with a soft and happy expression on his face. He felt glad for his master never giving up his dreams. Not to mention that he was nice to everyone, both human and demon. It was truly an honor for him to serve Izuku.
As he thought of this, he looked at the street clock nearby in order to check the current time. When he observed it, he widened his jungle green eyes in shock and rapidly tapped his master's right shoulder to gain his attention, which was fortunately successful. Izuku turned his head in the direction of his shadowy companion and looked at him confusedly.
"What is it, Shadow?" Izuku asked with confusion in his voice. In response, Shadow lifted his pitch-black right hand and pointed at the street clock, making it Izuku to witness the clock as well. When he looked at it, he lowered his ears a little bit and realise something in shock: It was ten minutes before the bell would ring in the school he learned in. He couldn't be late on the first day of school. And the school was still far away. But if he ran, he could get there just in time. So, with this, he decided to put his notebook and pen back into his backpack and zipped it, which stopped midway due to the zipper getting stuck.
"Tirer! I'm going to get late!" he noted as he nervously tried to zipp his backpack fully. Seeing his master struggle, Shadow levitated to the backpack, and with a swift and precise move, he zipped the backpack, closing it completely, "Merci, Shadow!" Izuku thanked Shadow, who nodded in understanding. Then, Izuku placed his backpack on his back and began to rush towards his school, not forgetting the man who praised him.
"Have a nice day, sir!" Izuku exclaimed as he got a larger and larger distance from the man and waved to the man, while Shadow flew after him.
"You too, kid!" the man shouted back as the young Overlord and his shadowy helper got more and more further away. And thus, after getting out of the sight of the man, Izuku continued to jolt towards the direction of the school as fast as he could, while Shadow attempted to keep up with him, just like he did when they went to the station.
After a seven-minute long journey and with tired huffing, Izuku finally reached his school, Aldera Junior High. With Shadow by his right side, he ran straight through the open gates of the school and entered the building, switched his red shoes to white ones, and rushed to his classroom, stopping in front of its door. When he arrived, he grabbed the door and slid it to the side, opening it in the process. As he unlocked it, Shadow vanished from sight, turning himself back to his shadow form. Although he always favoured being presented next to his master, he only came out of his hideout when he and Izuku were alone, or when he needed to protect or help his master, or when Izuku asked him to show himself. Aside from those three exceptions, Shadow usually stayed hidden due to one reason: He was really shy, especially around new people, just like his master.
Izuku looked inside and saw that most of his classmates were already inside, chatting with each other. He sighed and quietly walked to his desk, pulled the chair out, and sat on it, taking the backpack off of his back, unzipping it, pulling out his notebook, and going on with the continuation of his notes in it.
At last, after a few minutes, the bell finally rang, signaling the students to sit on their chairs and become quiet. Shortly after, their homeroom teacher stepped inside the classroom, obtaining a bunch of papers in his hands. He closed the door and walked to his desk, while the students observed him, with the exceptions of our green Cambion and another teenager, who had spiky sandy blond hair, red eyes, and rested his legs on his desk, sporting white shoes and the same black uniform Izuku had. After he got to his desk, the teacher placed the papers on the desk and looked at his class in a serious manner.
"Since you're all third years, it's time for you to think seriously about your future." the teacher started, witnessing his class's attention on him, "I'll pass out handouts for your future plans now, but..." continued as Izuku looked up from his note a little bit and took a quick glance at his homeroom teacher, who went on with his speech, "...you're all..." he continued, grabbing the pile of papers with his left hand while most of the students began to activate their Quirks. Then, the teacher made a smile on his face, turned around, and flung the papers into the air, "...pretty much planning to go into the hero course, right?" he questioned as the papers he threw into the air scattered everywhere.
"Yes!" the class cheered, showing off their Quirks.
"Yes, you all have wonderful Quirks!" the teacher remarked, "But using your powers at school is against the rules!" he pointed out, while Izuku flattened his ears a little bit and raised his right hand a tiny bit, joining into the celebration on his way. However, this lightened atmosphere in the classroom fastly changed by a certain individual. He had
"Teach!" he started, "Don't lump us all in the same group. I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects." he commented arrogantly, looking at his teacher and earning some frustrated looks from his classmates.
"That was rude, Bakugo!" The class shouted angrily at their classmate who they referred to as Bakugo, who simply didn't care about their angry remarks.
"You all should shut up like the extras you are!" Bakugo said rudely, not even affected by his classmates.
"Oh, if I remember correctly, you want to go to U.A. High, right, Bakugo?" the teacher wondered as he checked this information on his black tablet, while Bakugo formed a cocky smile on his face. All of the students in the room were absolutely shocked by hearing this statement, knowing well how hard it was to get into U.A., while Izuku lowered his ears even more and rested his head on the surface of his desk, covering it with his hands in worriness and nervosity.
"U.A.? That national school?!" a student quizzed in shock.
"It was in the top zero point two percent this year, you know!" another student declared in pure shock.
"Their acceptance rate is really low, too!" a third student pointed out in utter shock.
"That's exactly why you guys are just extras!" Bakugo announced, then jumped out of his seat and landed on the top of his desk, "I aced the mock test! I'm the only one who could possibly get into U.A! I'll definitely surpass All Might and become the top hero!" he stated confidently but self-conceitedly at the same time, "My name'll be inscribed on the list of top earners!" he declared with arrogant confidence.
"Oh yeah, Midoriya wanted to go to U.A. as well, right?" the teacher questioned, interrupting Bakugo's speech and startling Izuku by mentioning his name. As the teacher let out his statement, every other student began to whisper among themselves about this. The reason was quite simple. In their class, Izuku and Bakugo were the most well-known due to their Quirks. Of course, Bakugo was really famous in the class thanks to his amazing Explosion Quirk.
But for Izuku, the situation was totally different. He was well-known for how strange his Quirk was. He had the ability to summon tentacles and had a shadow bodyguard. Two completely distinct abilities, but somehow, they were connected. Not to mention that, according to the rumors in the class, his Quirk didn't even match his mother's Quirk and he never knew who his father was, which, in secret that no one knew, was not true. And due to this, they thought that maybe Izuku's dad was maybe a villain, which, truth be told, was true in a way. If only they knew the truth. So, with this information, they tried to avoid him as much as they could.
By the annoying whispers of his classmates and by getting knowledge of that shitty Deku's future plan, Bakugo became more and more agitated, until he didn't take it anymore. He had to let off some steam. And what better way to do it than by releasing it on the shitty brat he always hated.
In his frustration, he landed his right hand on Izuku's desk and created an explosion, almost breaking the desk in half and causing Izuku to fly out of his seat, touching the floor near the end of the classroom and hitting his butt painfully.
"Hey, Deku!" Bakugo shouted angrily as Izuku proceeded to endure the pain from the fall and looked at his 'best friend' with a frightened expression, "Without a good Quirk, you wouldn't be good even as a sidekick! Why do you think they'll care about you when I'm here for them?" he challenged aggressively as smoke escaped from his palm that he made the explosion with.
"No, wait, Kacchan! It's not like I'm trying to compete with you or anything!" Izuku clarified as he crawled backwards in fear, hitting the board at the end of the room with his head in the process, "Believe me!" he assured, then began his explanation, "It's just, it's been my dream since I was little. And well..." our protagonist answered, looking around nervously for a little bit, focused his attention back to his former friend, "I won't know unless I try..." Izuku added, increasing Bakugo's anger even more.
"Waddaya mean, unless you try?" Bakugo questioned furiously as smoke erupted from both of his palms, "Are you taking the test for fun?!" Bakugo quizzed filled with anger as he loomed over Izuku, who looked at the floor with a defeated look, "What the hell you can do? You have a shitty Quirk!" he remarked, hurting Izuku with his words even more. For Izuku, this was ordinary. It was usual for him to experience the bullying of Bakugo and his gang even after he had got his Quirk. It was integrated into his everyday life. He couldn't escape it. It didn't matter he had a Quirk, Bakugo still bullied him since he was four years old.
Seeing Izuku doing this and not saying anything to him and ignoring him, Bakugo became more frustrated than ever and decided to continue to mock Izuku, "Hey, you don't hear what I'm fucking saying?! Your ears are crappy too?!" Bakugo inquired, getting one step closer to our protagonist and stretching out his left hand towards him.
This was the moment when Shadow had enough. He protected his master a million times from this asshole of a friend, and he will do it this time as well. After all, it was his duty, his life mission, to protect and help his master no matter what. So, with this, he stepped out of his shadow form in a millisecond and performed a tight grip on Bakugo's left arm with his pitch-black right hand, revealing his protective form to Bakugo and staring into the explosive boy's eyes with his red eyes.
"Let me go, you shadowy freak!" Bakugo demanded as he tried to free his arm, but, unfortunately for him, to no avail. Shadow raised his right hand full of long, sharp talons and was about to strike down, but luckily, this act was interrupted by their homeroom teacher.
"Alright, that's enough, you two." the teacher said, stopping Shadow with his words and making all three of them look at him, "Bakugo, Midoriya, go back to your seats." the teacher ordered, making Shadow release his grip from Bakugo's arm and turn back to his original form. After his arm was free, Bakugo observed Izuku and Shadow one last time, with the former looking at him with frightened eyes, fully lowered ears and tail, and the latter witnessing him with an angry expression on his face, judging by the shape of his jungle-green eyes. With this observation done, Bakugo grumbled something under his nose that no one could understand, walked back to his desk, and sat down on his chair.
After Bakugo sat down, with a worried face, Shadow set his eyes upon his master and extended his left hand, offering him his help to stand up. Izuku accepted his help and grabbed his shadowy friend's hand with his right hand, stood up as Shadow pulled him up from the floor, and approached his desk quietly while Shadow set up his chair, allowing his master to sit down comfortably, which was exactly the thing Izuku did. Then, Izuku pulled himself and the chair closer to the desk and turned his attention to his teacher, while Shadow floated to him and observed his master the scene from behind the back of Izuku.
"Good." the teacher noted, "Now, with that out of the way, let's start our first lesson, shall we?" he stated, then began to teach the class about something that most of the students didn't like at all. And thus, the rest of the day flew away in an instant, like a butterfly in the sky or a leaf scattered in the air. During most of the classes, Izuku tried to concentrate as much as he could, but he was so excited about the analysis of the latest action of the heroes that he almost couldn't focus his mind on the lessons. He just had to wait patiently.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, a horrible event occurred. The fearful scream of a woman filled the air as a villain ran out of a shop and rushed past her, almost hitting her in the process. The villain had a dark green-colored liquid-like body, similar to a slime or sludge of sorts, with a pair of eyes that had yellowish sclera and red irises, a mouth full of teeth, and some cash that he had just stolen moments ago. He was tall, but not too tall. The only clothes the villain possessed blackish, greyish jeans and a black belt around his waist.
"Thief! Someone!" the shop owner exclaimed in the direction of the villain as the woman who screamed fell on his butt and activated his barrier-like Quirk around her body in order to protect herself.
"Catch me if you can!" the villain stated as he ran across the street, earning a lot of attention from the citizens.
"Huh? There's no hero around." a man said as he watched the Sludge villain run away.
"Normally someone would come right away." a second man remarked as a very skinny man with blond hair, two distinct tufts hanging downwards from his hair, and blue eyes stepped out of a shop, holding a plastic bag in his left hand with two plastic bottles in it, filled with some kind of energy drink called Torrent. His clothing consisted of a white shirt, green jeans, a black belt with a symbol on it around his waist, and black shoes, with all of his clothes seeming to be one or two sizes bigger than the ones he should have worn.
"This guy's taking advantage of the chaos from this morning." a third man noted as the skinny observed the fleeing villain, "There are tons of people who don't know what to do with their Quirks. There's no end to them." he finished while the skinny man surprisingly grew in size and became very muscular, with his posture now matching the size of his attire.
"There is an end." the man answered with a deep voice and his signature smile, getting the attention of the people in front of him, who immediately got excited by his presence, "Why?" the man questioned as the villain looked behind by hearing his voice and widened his eyes in shock and fear when he saw he was indeed the hero who all of the villains in Japan feared the most: He was All Might, "Because I am here!" All Might announced, then in a swift move, left the area and began to chase the Sludge Villain.
As the day was getting into the afternoon and classes were ending for the day, all of the students began to leave one of the buildings of the education system, talking to each other and planning their after-school activities, just like normal junior high students would do. Our young Overlord was no exception, although what he planned as his free-time activity was much less social.
As his classmates started to leave, Izuku took his phone out of his right pocket and opened the news on it, while Shadow observed him closely from behind.
"The incident this morning is all over the headlines!" Izuku noted as he scrolled down on his phone, "I have to hurry up and go home so I can write everything down in my notebook." Izuku said to himself as he put his phone back into its original location, with Shadow nodding in agreement, sharing his master's idea. Then, our protagonist grabbed his notebook in order to place it back inside his yellow backpack that he put on his desk earlier, but just as he wanted to be done with this act of his, Bakugo pulled his notebook out of his right hand with his left hand and looked at Izuku with his usual grumpy expression.
"I'm not done with you yet, Deku." Bakugo declared as he observed the both of them, with Izuku performing a worried and panicked face, and with Shadow forming a frustrated expression.
"Katsuki, what's that?" a student with brown hair queried while he and another student with black hair next to him approached Bakugo who, without saying anything, just moved his left hand backwards a little bit, showing the title of the notebook which said 'Hero Analysis for the Future'. As the two students read the title, they instantly began to laugh at how silly it was, embarrassing Izuku and making Shadow agitated even more.
"I-It's fine, isn't it? Please give it back!" Izuku stuttered nervously. In response, Bakugo touched the notebook with both of his hands and created a little explosion, damaging the book badly and freaking out both our young Overlord and his shadowy friend, with the latter even grabbing his head in shock. But it didn't stop there. Bakugo took this even further and tossed the notebook out of the window that was behind him like it was nothing, stressing out both Izuku and Shadow even more.
"Most top first-string heroes have stories about them from their school days." Bakugo started, looking at them unfeelingly as Izuku trembled in fear, lowered his ears and tail, and Shadow observed Bakugo more furiously than ever, "I want the shine of being able to be called the only student to make it into U.A. from this mediocre city junior high." he stated, "I mean, I'm a perfectionist." the explosive teenager remarked self-confidently.
'And a cocky person." the black-haired kid thought in his head.