Life After Death

chapter 5

Several months have passed since Izuku broke up with Camie with his life turning for the better. He started hanging out more with Nejire and Ochako to which they felt a little more special to him. His training also took a big turn upwards since he wasn’t so caught up with worrying about meeting his ex again. Today was the final day of training with Izuku prepared for the first test given to him.

“Alright, lets see if you can manage what we’ve been working on?” Ryukyu motioned Izuku to try and siphon the life energy out of a tree beside her with Izuku ready to achieve his goal today. “I’d like to see you succeed, but don’t go over your limit and hurt yourself.”

Izuku placed his hand on the tree to siphon all the life energy out of it to rot the tree into nothing. “How do you feel?”

“Nnngh! Like I’m about ready to burst at the seams if I’m not careful.” Ryukyu tossed Izuku an acorn for him to start the next step. Izuku placed the small seed down before sending everything he just absorbed into it to watch it grow into an adult tree. When it was done, the small eggcorn looked exactly like the tree that had just rotted away with Ryukyu smiling at Izuku.

“Nicely done. I didn’t expect you to be able to do it perfectly, but you exceeded my expectations. Congratulations Midoriya.” Ryukyu smiled at Izuku while he started panting for air. “It may be difficult now, but the more you can hold in a single moment will prolong the amount of time you can hold a smaller amount. It’s not that easy of a trick to master, but you are excelling at using it faster than many. Though this does not mean you should shirk your training with this. You have gotten back up to speed with many who will in return try to surpass you. But you do deserve a pat on the back for coming as far as you have in the amount of time given.”

Izuku smiled while bowing at Ryukyu. “Thank you mam. I could only get this far with your proper guidance. I owe you so much.”

“You don’t owe me anything. You obtained this through your own hard work, so this is all because of what you put in. Now, take the rest of the day off and rest up for tomorrow. You and Uraraka have your work cut out for you.” Izuku nodded before running back to his house. As he left, Ryukyu looked at the trees Izuku had drained over the time he’s been training to notice the first one done. The small sprout budding up reminded her of how Izuku’s life had grown into a happy one. “Good luck tomorrow Midoriya and Uraraka, Nejire will be supporting you both along with myself.”

The next day

Izuku stood in front of UA’s campus with a little bit of confidence of what he had achieved and that he’s now able to possibly enter into his dream school. ‘This is it Izuku. 10 months of brutal training, years of trouble, and a failed death leading up to this point. Wait, why did I want to add the I almost died part?’ Izuku brushed this off before taking a step in. This however was met with him tripping and almost went flat on the concrete.

When he stopped however, he found himself floating. “You ok Izuku?” He looked behind him to see Ochako, Nejire, and Ryukyu smiling at him.

“Yeah, sorry if I caused you any problems.” Izuku smiled at them while Ochako put him right side up again.

“Don’t worry about it. Release.” Ochako put Izuku’s gravity back on with him standing up again. “We should get going, don’t want to be late for the exam.”

Izuku nodded with the two of them going inside. While they did, Nejire and Ryukyu went to the monitor room to watch their performance. When they entered, they were greeted by the staff along with a skeleton looking man who only the teachers knew was All Might. Beside him was an ash blond teen Nejire learned of by what Izuku said.

“Why hello Ryukyu and Miss Hado, it’s nice to see you two again.” A strange rodent looking thing known as Nezu says this with a warm smile.

“Hello Nezu. I apologize for us coming in unannounced like this, but we just wished to see two people we trained perform today if that is possible.” Nezu agreed with Ryukyu’s demand with him asking who they were. When the dragon hero said Izuku’s name, the ash blond smirked at this.