From the Shadows || Katsuki Bakugou x OC

Chapter Six

It's been a week since the exams, and I had been checking the mail every day, anxious to know if I had gotten in or not.

    I was on my beating up my punching bag outback while listening to an audiobook of Ready Player One, which is currently my favorite book. I'm about twenty minutes into my workout when my dad slams open the sliding glass door that leads to the backyard.

    "Dad! You're going to break the door!" I shouted at him, pausing my book so that he could tell me what he was all riled up about,

    "Your letter! Keiko, it's here!" He traveled over to me in a split second through the shadows. "Quick! Open it! I want to see how well my girl did!"

    "Okay calm down dad, I will. But you're acting like a three-year-old right now."

    "So, I'm a grown man, I can do what I want."

    I rolled my eyes at him, smiling while doing so. "Yeah whatever." I opened up the envelope and pulled out a small disc that projected a screen from it. I set it on top of the table outside and sat down in a chair. My dad following and sat down in the other chair.

    "I am here! As a projector!" All Might was on the screen, it made sense since he graduated from U.A., but I'm sure it was tiring to repeat almost the same thing for every student. "The truth is, fighting crime isn't the only reason I came into this city, you're looking at the newest member of U.A.!"

    My dad grabbed my arm and started shaking it, "You're going to be trained by the number one hero!"

    "Calm down and shut up, I can't hear what he's saying." I playfully smacked his hand away from me.

    "You have succeeded in passing the written test, and got forty-six villain points in the entrance exam." He gave his classic smile, "There were other factors taken into consideration, to see, the practical exam was not graded on combat alone!" He stopped for a dramatic pause, "We have rescue points! A panel of judges watched the battles, and they award points for heroic acts."

    He paused again as a score chart showed up behind him, "Keiko Todomura, twenty-eight rescue points! You passed the exam, landing yourself a spot in second place!" He cleared his throat and continued. "Of course, you were tied with another student for second place, but it's still an amazing feat!"

    I looked at the board behind him, to see if Izuku made it to the leader board. "Dad look! Izuku made it in too! He got seventh place!"

    He messed up my hair and stated, "I can't believe it... you won't be a loner for high school!" He pinched my cheek and started laughing.

    "Yeah yeah, very funny dad. But I did make a friend in the battleground." I scanned the leader board again, trying to see if she was on there, but she wasn't. I hope she makes it in.

    "Well, they better get in because based on the look on your face they're not on there."

    "Well I'll have Izuku, and Katsuki from the looks of it, not like he's friendly anyway."

    "You call Izuku and tell him that he and his mom better be ready to go in thirty minutes!" He shouted while heading inside, "I don't care that boy is on a diet, I'm taking us out for ice cream!" My dad can be so persistent.

    I grabbed my phone and selected Izuku's number, within a few seconds he answered. "Keiko! You got in second place!"

    "And you got in seventh, I told you you'd be fine! Does your mom know?"

    "Yeah, I just told her, she's crying from being so proud of me." He chuckled with a grainy laugh, since the microphone on his phone was slightly busted.

    "Well, my dad says that you guys have to be ready in half an hour because he's taking us out for ice cream."

    "But I'm on a-"

    "A diet, I know, but you know he won't take no for an answer." I paused while lifting the punching bag off it's hanger. "Besides, you haven't had any form of desert since your run in with that sludge villain, live a little!"

    "Alright, I'll let my mom know, just give me a second." In that time I put the punching bag and the hanger back into the shed, and its a good thing too, since it's supposed to rain later tonight.

    "She said make it twenty minutes, but I'm not surprised."

    "Alrighty then, see you soon Mr. Seventh-Place." I hung up and went to my room to change out of my gym clothes. I ended up wearing one of my older t-shirts, that way I didn't get any ice cream on anything liked. It's kinda big on me, but its comfy, so who cares.

    Before I left my room, I stared at the chain necklace that has my moms ring on it. I hadn't worn it in a few years. But I still loved her, even if she did leave us to live in France. I decided to wear it, maybe this year I'll be a new me, more friends, less anti-social, and embracing the fact that she left, and leaving the pain behind.

    This year, I'll try to focus on the good, and forget the bad.