Pro Hero Animia

Chapter 53

"Iruka?" It was Shota at her door peering in. "What are you doing still up? It's like 2 a.m."

"Oh is it actually?" She yawned out pretty drained. "Sorry I was studying and didn't notice the time."

"Your exam is tomorrow- well later today. You should've been asleep hours ago."

"I know that but I can't afford to fail this test. I don't wanna be left behind." Her voice getting quieter with each word, sleep bound to encase her in darkness.

"Kiddo I know you're worried but staying up won't do you any good if you accidentally sleep during your exam or even get too tired for practicals. So go to bed ok?" Iruka gave a weak nod before shuffling over to her bed, Shota following behind to tuck her in.

"Night Dad~" She whispered before drifting off to immediate slumber.

"Night kiddo." He kissed her forehead and went to his own room to crash on the bed.

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"Hey, Whiskers did you eat at all?" Katsuki questioned as he tied her hair into neat braids.

"I- uh. No." Katsuki let out a frustrated sigh and handed a granola bar to both Izuku and Iruka.

"Wha- why-" Izuku spluttered.

"Cause God knows neither of you fucking eats breakfast before an exam."

"I- I'm not like that anymore Kacchan!" Izuku whined but it landed on deaf ears as Katsuki ignored him in favour of finishing Iruka's braids. He gave in and just ate the damn granola bar.

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"I never want to see an examination paper for the rest of my life." Iruka groaned.

"I don't think that's possible Iruka. I mean we only just finished our first final exams." Momo pointed out and Iruka merely slammed her head onto the table.

"Look at least we finally finished our written tests!" Tooru spun in front of her happily.

Iruka hummed as she fiddled with her pen. 3 days of the written examination was enough for Iruka to go mentally insane. She was a little glad she only had practicals left.

Everyone was instructed to change into their hero costumes before meeting up at the practical exam area. There was a spur of conversations guessing what they would be doing. Though Mina was pretty adamant at it being robots they were fighting.

When they all arrived everyone seemed to notice how all their teachers were there. Iruka felt a little excited.

"Now all of you probably have speculated what you might be doing for your practicals," Shota stated.

"Ya, we're fighting robots!" Denki yelled out pretty pumped himself.

Shota reminded them that they could potentially fail this test. How depressing. Once Shota was done explaining how important it was to pass this test Kyoka voiced out her classes curiosity asking why all their teachers were there in the first place.

Before Shota could answer Principal Nezu hopped out of his scarf to tell the class how the exam was going to be completely different that year. Mina and Denki looked mortified.

The main focus this year was teamwork and combat against actual people. Which meant their class would be put into pairs and were to face the teachers as though they were villains. Iruka was practically vibrating where she stood. Heh, I haven't been up against the UA staff in so longggg maybe I'll be able to see how far I've come by doing this. This is going to be a very sweet piece of cake. Iruka thought, bouncing on the balls of her heels.