Aiko took a deep breath.

Then another. She was standing at the gates of UA along side hundreds of other kids. Her arms displayed a large amount of kid-like bracelets as usual. Some people at first glance might assume it's just a weird fashion statement, in reality the beaded bracelets covered up the straight almost uniform scars on her wrists.

She fiddled with the bracelets that once belonged to her sister and stumbled When something or someone shoved her out of their way.

"Damn extras."
A tall boy with ash blonde hair grumbled as he walked confidently without looking back.

Aiko shrunk down, trying to make herself seem as small as possible. She looked around while carefully taking one small step at a time. Everyone around her seemed do exited and confident. She felt like all their eyes are on her, watching her every move.

'I have to at least try my best, it's the least I could do for Tora'

Her steps slowly but surely started to build confidence.
'Yeah! And I'll make it too! I'll make the hero course. Tora wouldn't have been afriad in the slightest! Well maybe, but she wouldn't have shown it.'

Tora Always had the confidence that Aiko so greatly lacked, or maybe she was just good at faking it either way Aiko always envied that about her sister. Even though Tora was quirkless she knew she could become a hero if she tried hard enough. And she probably could have too.

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Aiko walked into a large room, her confidence was boosted after taking the written exam.
'If anything I can make it to general studies with that right?'

She sat next to some boy with green hair who looked almost as nervous as Aiko felt.
"WELCOME TO TODAY'S LIVE PERFORMANCE!!"

Present Mic annoced drawing everyone's attention to the front of the room. The green haired boy stirred to talk frantically about Mic and his radio show. He continued to explain that we would be fighting robots.
'At least I won't have to hurt anyone.'

The green haired boy began to mummer some surprisingly useful commentary that Aiko didn't really mind. But the blonde boy on his other side sure seems annoyed. Aiko scanned the audience looking for Shinso. He was a few rows down to her right sitting next to a boy with a bird head and a familiar girl with blue hair.

A very loud tall boy started to talk about the robots and then he fussed at the green haired boy beside Aiko. She shrunk down in her chair as everyone's eyes turned to her row.
And she stayed that way until the end of the 'live preformence' Before heading towards section D.

Aiko recagnized the blonde boy from earlier as he stretched preparing for the fight ahead of them.

Aiko gulped as the count down started and bolted the second it was over.
'the sooner I go the faster I can collect points.'

She stood in the middle and waited until she was surrounded by 3 robots 2 of which were 3 pointers. The girl opened her arms wide and closed her eyes. Wind blew through her fluffy brown hair, it got so strong that no other students could get close. Recently she'd been practicing her quirk in the woods behind her house. Sure she accidentally caused it to rain for two weeks without end and destroyed most of the trees but she still got some practice in.

She made absolutely certain that there was no one close enough to get hurt then clapped her hands together summoning a lightning bolt from the sky. The first one struck the closest robot to her, she stretched her arm up to the sky then another bolt struck her. Light filled her once brown eyes and power rampaged through her veins. She could feel so much energy surging through her body giving her the ultimate energy boost. She opened her eyes already knowing white lightning was crackling over and under her tan skin. the energy in her body could kill your average person but it did nothing but give her a huge energy boost.

She jumped up and attacked the closest robots to myself disabling it with a single kick the jumped ontop of another pushing as much energy as she needed to shortcircuit the robot, causing it to distroy itself from inside out.

Aiko summoned wind and started a tornado around several robots ripping them apart. She dropped to the ground panting the second 10min were up.

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A familiar blonde boy ran around the same city as Aiko, destroying robots with ease.
He stopped abruptly when some sort of tornado blocked his path. He stood there for a second and noticed how the wind seemed to be pushing him and other students away while at the same time pulling in all the close robots.

'What fucking extra is trying to take all my points?'

He thought, the mere idea of someone getting more points than him made him even more determined to be number one. But a strong flash of lighting accompanied by a loud boom of thunder pushed him to the ground.

He struggled to look into the tornado through the white dots dancing in his vision but managed to see a girl standing with a single arm outsreched to the sky. He looked up and saw the storm was actually circling around her.
Then she got struck.

He shielded his eyes from the blinding light. When he finally opened them again he saw her body was rippling with white energy. Her eyes were glowing as she stood there for a moment getting used to the new power and turned to kick a robot.

He shook his head.

'i don't have time for extras.'
He thought in frustration, Even though it all happened within seconds. He blasted so many robots straight to hell that he lost count. He ran towards his next victim, a large three pointer but someone shoved him aside.

"WHAT THE HELL!?!"
Bakugou growled prepared to destroy the student that pushed him away.

A loud boom cut through his thoughts and drew his attention to the robot he was merely feet away from. He saw the same electric girl was standing in the rubble before she jumped up and over a building.

"Sorry bro! But she clearly didn't see you so-"

The blonde looked over at the innocent teenager that knocked him away from the fake villain.
"THAT ROBOT WAS ALL MINE ASSHOLE!!!! IT'S YOUR FAULT SHE GOT IT!!"

The black haired male put his arms up defensively.
"Woah sorry! But she was headed straight towards it too! She probably would have acsadently blown you to pieces!"

"Hey! My name's Ejiro Kirishima! What's yours?!"
The sharp toothed boy asked following him with a smile as he stalked away.

'Tch this dude's still following me?'

"Bakugou. Now fuck off I need to make up for the points YOU made me lose."

The bracelets:

I want you all to know I am not by any means trying to glorify self harm or depression.
It's a serious problem that a lot of real people struggle with.
That I'm trying to bring to light.

If any of you are struggling with depression or thoughts of self harm or suicide please reach out to someone,

You are loved
You are needed
And you are beautiful

No matter your situation just know it will get better!

If you don't have anyone to talk to my DMS are open

(I'm awkward and an idiot but I'll try my best to help)

Remember to drink lots of water and that you are loved even if you don't feel it rn

(Though self harm was only mentioned in passing in this chapter I may bring it up again in the following chapters)

If anything in this chapter
or any other chapters after this
is offensive to people struggling with issues mentioned please let me know so I can fix it.

Thanks💖