AN: So I will admit I have not really been paying this chapter much attention as I was distracted by my other My Hero Academia stories, that and I feel like the last chapter was a bit lacklustre which was a shame looking back on it. That said I do still like the general idea behind this story for the most part, even if I do at time get a bit frustrated writing the story. This chapter alone I had to rewrite twice because I wasn't happy with it.

Still, here is the next chapter, I hope you all enjoy it and leave a review at the end.

If you have any questions feel free to PM me, and please do check out my other stories if you have the time.

Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia or Naruto.

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(Last Time)

Mina and Uraraka had come up with a clever strategy between the two of them, using their preparation time and the time it took the heroes to reach them to hash out a good plan, after which they had then pulled it off flawlessly.

Only for Midoriya to literally steal the show, in a display of immense power, and even more immense stupidity, or at least to some in the room. After all the guy had ended up hurting himself and endangering his team mate all so he could steal victory from the jaws of defeat.

"Ha, stupid, fucking Deku!" Bakago snorted, the usually angry boy grinning viciously to himself, even as he tried to stifle a wicked cackle at the green haired boy's actions.

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Chapter 8

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(With Naruto)

It was mid-morning and Naruto was in a hurry as he arrived at the gates of U.A. that day, half running, half walking. His alarm had gone off as usual, and as usual he had ignored it and tried to steal an extra few minutes of sleep.

Which of course, as the minutes passed, turned out to be a mistake. After all when the alarm had gone off again, he had once again snoozed his alarm again, and then had another five minute doze, and then had done it again, and again.

And now, 'surprisingly', he was running late.

Running towards the Hero Academy's large front gates, his tie hanging around his neck undone, like a scarf, and his shirt untucked, it took the messy looking blonde longer than it probably should have to realise that there was a scrum of people already at the gates.

"Looks like I'm not the only one running late." Naruto muttered to himself as he jogged to the gate. Only for him to pause when he realised that none of those people crowding to get in were wearing the grey school uniforms, or were teenagers. Instead they were smartly dressed adults, some carrying cameras and others microphones and not books. "What the hell is going on?"

Hearing his words some of the people mobbing the door turned and saw him, at once revealing themselves as reporters. A number of them noticeably waving flashing cameras around, even as several men and women rushed him with microphones in hand.

"Hey, hey you boy! What's it like to learn from the Number One Hero, All Might? What have you learned so far this year from him? How many lessons with the Number One have you had?!" The lead reporter, a nosey looking redhead, demanded, her camera man shoving through the crowd of other reporters as he did so, before shoving the camera in Naruto's face even as the woman got a little too close to him for comfort.

It Naruto all of a few moments to understand what was going on. By the sounds of it, it was now common knowledge that All Might was teaching at U.A., and as such the many different news channels and journalists that lurked in the shadows, had all descended on the school on mass. All of them probably hoping to be the first ones to get the 'scoop'.

Nasty little parasites.

"Why don't you ask him yourself? I mean look there, it's All Might!" Naruto shouted, his mouth slackening and his blue eyes going wide as he gestured behind the mass of reporters.

Almost as one all of the reporters and their cameramen turned and looked in the direction he had pointed, some of them even going so far as to scramble forwards in a half run before they seemed to realise that there was no one there.

Chuckling to himself, Naruto used the few moments of inattention and distraction his lie had created to his advantage as he slipped through the crowd and ran towards the gate. Crossing the last couple of metres in moments, even as the reporters behind him started shouting and cursing at him.

"You're late." Cementoss, the cement using Pro Hero stated bluntly as he allowed the blonde to slip passed him, even as he continued to stand sentinel; stopping any and all reporters from getting passed him.

"Sounds about right." Naruto nodded, not pausing as he ran passed the bulky grey skinned Pro Hero.

"You better hurry to class, if you run you might make it there before the bell!" Cementoss called after him, even as he burst through the front doors of the main building and full on sprinted up the staircases and to Class 1A's form room.

Crashing through the doors at the end of the corridors, Naruto was just in time to see Aizawa slowly walking towards the classroom door, a bored look on his face as he looked up and glanced over at Naruto, his dark eyes boring into the blonde.

Not pausing for a second Naruto ran, drawing on his own excitement to empower himself as he sprinted the last few metres and burst through the front door of the classroom surprising all those inside, even as Aizawa entered, probably only thirty seconds later, slowly ambling his way into the room.

Ignoring Iida's shouting and reprimanding, and Mina and Toru's giggling, Naruto literally leapt over Sero and his desk in a single empowered bound, and made it to his seat only moments before the still bored looking Aizawa came to a stop behind his desk at the front of the room.

"Good, you're all here." Aizawa said dully, his gaze lingering on Naruto for a moment, before he forged on, not saying a word about what had just happened.

Probably it was because he just couldn't be bothered with the hassle of not only telling Naruto, off, but also organising some kind of acceptable punishment. Not when he could avoid that, and just accept that, despite his theatrics, the blonde had been in his seat when he started the form period, and so was not, technically late.

"Right so to begin, I suppose I should start off by saying congratulations, most of you did a just about acceptable job on yesterday's battle training," Aizawa then continued, looking to the class at large, some of whom, Naruto included, couldn't help but blink in surprise as they heard the otherwise bored and depressed looking teacher complimenting them, sort of. "I looked over the grades and evaluations All Might gave you. It wasn't bad, there were a couple of people who need to grow up a little and mature, but for the most part you weren't terrible."

Again, the gathered students looked at one another in surprise. Since when was Shota Aizawa, the guy that often threatened to expel them, ever nice and supportive?

"That said, Midoriya, I heard you destroyed your body," Aizawa continued, his words causing the perpetually awkward green haired kid to redden and then stare down at his desk. "It's a good that you're putting in so much effort, but if you get that kind of injury in a real situation, you'll be the one who needs to be saved. Grow up, learn some self-restraint and be more careful!"

"Y-Yes sir," Midoriya mumbled, his words barely audible as the short teen sank down lower in his chair and avoid looking at anyone.

"Stupid, fucking Deku," Bakugo muttered from nearby, his voice low so the teacher couldn't here, though it was still audible to those around him.

Naruto rolled his eyes at Bakugo's word, even as he saw, Jiro, send the other blonde a look of bored resignation.

Bakugo was an arsehole, they, and most of the class already knew that. But for some reason the spikey blonde haired kid really, really hated Midoriya. His obsession, it was not only becoming a bit weird, but also a little creepy too.

Already some in the class, Mina and Toru - the main gossips, were already of the opinion that the two had been an item, or that there was some unresolved sexual tension or feelings involved there.

After all the two of them were obsessed with one another. Midoriya seemed to look up to the blonde and hang on his every word like a love sick puppy, and Bakugo just seemed overly angry and aggressive, and used any excuse he could to grab the shorter boy and shout at him. Almost like he was still in the closet and was lashing out in anger due to his confusion and his inability to properly express his feelings.

"Now, onto other homeroom business," Aizawa sighed, taking his gaze off the now mumbling green haired teen, as he instead looked to the rest of the class and sighed. "Alright, so today we have something important to get out of the way..."

The entire class all tensed up as they heard their form room teacher's words, all of them looking at one another nervously.

Aizawa was a bit of a sociopath of a homeroom teacher, not a single person in the room knew how he thought, or what he might be planning for them to do next, not even Naruto, and he could feel the dour man's emotions.

As such neither the rest of the class, or he himself knew what Aizawa was going to say; would it be another Quirk Assessment test, with the threat of expulsion hanging over them again, some of them still didn't think he had been entirely joking, or would it be worse?

"… You'll be picking a class representative." Aizawa continued, finishing his statement and catching the entire class by surprise as he did so.

"That's such a normal school thing!" Several people started muttering, in response, before after a few moments, the class fully digested what he had just said.

Moments after the class realised what he had actually said, noise exploded from every corner, with people raising their hands and shouting that they'd like to be the one picked.

Even Bakugo raised his hand, a look of fury on his face as if he was angry that the others were even daring to challenge his right to be class rep.

Of all of them, Naruto, was the only one to not immediately put his hand up and or volunteer. Instead he remained quiet, and instead looked around at all of the other shouting and screaming students, a curious look on his face as he looked from student to student, pondering as he did so just who would be the best choice for rep, and whether that person would actually get it.

In a normal high school, the position of class rep held no real purpose, other than for a student to be lumbered with some mundane tasks the form teacher didn't want to do.

For that reason, very few people ever wanted to do it. Things like class rep, and student body president, and all of that nonsense, it was more trouble than it was worth, and held very little in the way of benefits, both in the school, and even less in life outside of school.

But, in a hero course things were slightly different. Being a class rep signified that that person was the leader of the class. It showed that that person was 'respected' by their peers, was capable of leadership and responsibility. It was an attractive commendation for any wanna be hero to have on their Curriculum Vitae.

It was a position for a top hero-in-training.

As the classroom descended into chaos, Iida, not Aizawa, was the one to create order, as the tall bespectacled boy suddenly stood up and called out loudly, and stridently, to the class, "Quiet down all of you! The position of Class rep is one of great importance and responsibility. It will take more than just willingness to succeed in this task! Willingness doesn't equate directly to ability! No! This position requires the trust and support of the rest of the class! If this is to be democratic, then I put forward the motion that we choose the class rep by election!"

"You clearly just want to be class rep!" Kirishima accused loudly.

"Yeah, besides we've all only just met, we haven't known each other long enough to know who to vote for yet!" Mina shouted, out standing up behind her desk.

"Besides, everyone will just vote for themselves!" Kaminari chipped in.

"That's precisely why!" Iida shot back resolutely. "Anyone with multiple votes is best-suited for the position! Sensei, will you allow this?!"

"Wait, wait, wait!" Naruto called out, speaking over everyone else now, his naturally loud voice useful for once as he drew the rest of the class's attention to him. "That sounds stupid to me. Why don't we just say that no one is allowed to vote for themselves, and that those that do, and we'll know who if we have everyone sign their names at the bottom of their vote, will not be allowed to be rep?"

The class was silent as they heard this, some of them digesting his words and then nodding appreciatively. Others however didn't look to sure.

"Think of it this way, do we really want a selfish class rep; someone who would vote for themselves? We're supposed to be heroes right, and heroes are supposed to be humble at times." Naruto forged on, talking over Iida when the bespectacled boy looked like he was going to protest.

"Makes sense to me." Jiro shrugged, her tone dull, even if she did smile a little bit when Naruto glanced over at her, an appreciative smile on his own face at her support.

"It might even be fairer if those that are nominated for the position by their classmates don't vote, and only those that aren't running for the positon, vote, like in a real election." Momo tagged on, nodding her head resolutely, even as she sent Naruto a smile.

"Sounds like a great idea to me!" Naruto nodded, before with a grin he called out. "And to start with I nominate Momo for the positon!"

"Hey what, why didn't you nominate me!?" Mina shouted, turning to Naruto now, a betrayed look on her face.

Naruto sent her a flat look in response.

"Oh shut up." Mina muttered, looking away now her already naturally pink cheeks somehow becoming even pinker.

"Hey wait, we haven't agreed on this yet! Mr Aizawa!" Iida called out, a look of consternation on his face as most of the class seemed to agree with Momo and Naruto's suggestion.

"I don't care, as long as you do it quickly and quietly," Aizawa sighed in response, the dark haired man already getting back into his yellow sleeping bag as he spoke. "Go with Yaoyorozu's suggestion."

"Then we're agreed, you can only run if someone nominates you, and if you've been nominated then you can't vote." Jiro concluded, looking around as she did so at all of the other students, all of whom nodded, or agreed in some way, even Bakugo.

"This is bullshit, someone had better nominate me!" Bakugo shouted, slamming his fists on the desk.

"So to start with I again nominate, Momo Yaoyorozu." Naruto called out, his arms folded and a smirk on his face.

"I nominate her too." Jiro nodded, not standing up or making a scene, as she instead just sent the taller, dark haired girl a smile.

"Yeah me too!" Toru Hagakure, chipped in happily.

"Yep, same with me!" Mina grinned, her previous disappointment completely gone now.

"She would do an admirable job." Tokoyami nodded, his tone oddly formal. "I too give nominate her."

"Well I nominate Deku!" Ochako Uraraka called out.

Midoriya in response went pride red and tried to hide under his desk.

"I nominate Todoroki!" Kaminari called out.

"Yeah, I nominate him too!" Kirishima grinned. "That guy's hella manly!"

"I nominate Uzumaki!" Sero Hanta grinned.

"And I reject that nomination!" Naruto returned, a grin on his own face. "Thanks for the support, but I know I am not right for the position, it wouldn't suit me."

Thing continued in this vain for the next few minutes, until, all the nominees had been called out, the nominees being; Momo Yaoyorozu, Izuku Midoriya, and Shouta Todoroki. Much to Iida's visible disappointment, Bakugo's fury, as well as the disappointment of a few others, including Mineta. The boy in question having attempted to court favour with a short skirt policy for the girl's, not that he succeeded in doing anything, save earning himself the enmity of half of the class.

Following on from that, everyone voted, all of those who were not nominated, writing who they were voting for on a slip of paper and then handing that over to Naruto, for some reason, to read out the results.

With in the end, when the results were tallied, Momo, winning with ten votes, and Todoroki coming in second with five, and then finally Midoriya, with just two.

"Well then, looks like that is that. Momo is the class rep, and Todoroki is the vice rep, and Midoriya, I don't know, the secretary…?" Naruto called out, shrugging his shoulder as the class muttered and cheered all around him. Momo noticeably going a bit pink as the class cheered her on, and Todoroki managing the smallest of smiles.

"You all finished then," Aizawa said, standing up out of his sleeping bag. "Alright fine, your rep is Yaoyorozu, and the vice rep is Todoroki. Now all of you shut up, the rest of class is study hall." He then continued, even as he curled back up and went to sleep on his desk as if it was the most normal thing in the world. His rather blunt wording and odd actions leaving a wave of confusion in his wake.

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(Sometime Later)

Later on that day after the morning lessons had finished, Naruto, along with the rest of his class filed into the school's cafeteria. With the blonde grabbing a tray and helping himself to an excessive amount of food. After which, after a cursory scan of the large busy hall, he grabbed a free table for himself, and those who were eating with him.

The six of them dominating the small table as; Naruto, Mina, Jiro, Tokoyami, Momo, Sero, Toru and Kaminari all sat down together and started eating and chatting, the rest of their classmates spreading out into their own groups and cliques and filling up other tables. With the school's cafeteria rapidly filling up as the students from the other courses, general education and support, all started filtering into the room too.

"So class rep, eh," Mina grinned, starting off the conversation as her gold and black eyes focused in on, Momo, the taller, well-developed girl going a little pink at the attention that was suddenly on her, even as the rest of the students at the table looked at her.

"Yes, well, honestly, I didn't think so many people would vote for me." Momo replied modestly, a genuine smile on her pink face as she looked around at the rest of the table, most of whom had voted for her. "I hope I don't let anyone down. I mean I will definitely do the best I can, and prove to everyone that they weren't wrong in support me!"

"You'll do fine!" Naruto waved her off, a grin on his face as he started getting stuck into his meal. "You already proved yourself smart and competent during the Quirk Assessment Test and Battle Training. Besides you were the best choice for the job, as like, Mina, said before, we don't really know each other that well yet, but still, out of all of us you made the best first impression."

Momo's cheeks went a darker red at his support, even as the rest of the table weighed in with their own enthusiastic support and cajoling.

"Well you scored top in the Quirk Assessment Test, Naruto, and you performed admirably in the Battle Training too." Momo replied, her face still a little red as her dark eyes locked onto the blonde. "I'm sure if you tried you could have become the class rep as well, and you would've have done a good job at it too."

"Yeah man, that reminds me. Why did you reject my nomination before?" Sero chipped in. The tape using teen looking curious, as opposed to annoyed as he looked questioningly at Naruto.

Around the table the rest of the teens looked over at the blonde curiously too.

"Well I'll admit I was tempted," Naruto nodded, a slight smile ghosting across his face. "But if I was picked it would have only been for the same reason, Todoroki, was picked, because I have a flashy and powerful Quirk. I didn't want to be picked for that reason. Nor do I really think I am up to being a class rep and having the work and responsibility that go with it, along with my school work, or at least not yet. Next year though, next year I may go for it!"

"Looks like you may have competition next year, Momo." Jiro smiled, looking sideways at the taller girl as she did so.

"As is proper," Momo nodded. "The positon would not be worth anything if it was just given away freely and not offered to the best candidate."

"Yeah, well I'll be going for it too!" Mina chipped in gleefully, one her fingers pointing accusingly, first at Momo, and then at Naruto. "So watch out!"

"Oh I'm quaking in my boots…" Naruto shot back dryly, a slight smile on his face.

Mina grinned as she heard that, however, before she could respond she and the rest of those in the cafeteria were cut off by a loud blaring alarm that suddenly started going off filling the very air with a shrill, ear-splitting ringing.

"SECURITY LEVEL 3 HAS BEEN BREACHED. PLEASE EVACUATE IN A CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION."

In response, most of the students in the hall; general education, support, and hero course students, began to stand up as panic began to spread like wild fire. With some of them immediately standing fleeing the cafeteria; dashing for the exit. With the sheer number of students heading for the doors and the corridor outside creating a large scrum in the doorway.

"Hey, what's going on?" Kaminari called out, the other blonde looking around nervously as even the older students were panicking. "What does the alarm mean?"

"Hey you," Naruto called out, grabbing a fleeing older student by the back of his collar and dragging him back with his natural strength. He didn't dare to use his Quirk, not when he was surrounded by hundreds of scared and panicking students. To do so when he was not in a combat situation would be incredibly unproductive. That said he was still able to sense the emotions of those around him, including the emotions of the older boy that was currently in his grasp. "What's going on?!"

The brown haired, bland looking older boy's eyes widened at Naruto's approach, but his confusion and nervousness didn't stop him from responding. "Someone's invaded the school! This hasn't happened in years! We all need to evacuate now, it could be villains!"

"Fuck," Naruto muttered, releasing the other teen and letting him run off, even as he turned to the others in his group.

"Don't panic, we don't know what exactly is happening yet!" Momo cut in, her expression nervous, even though her voice was firm.

Naruto nodded curtly at that, even as he, and the rest of his group got caught up in the mass of students that were being forced out of the room.

Grunting as his face was slammed against the window, he widened his eyes as saw a gaping hole in the large wall that surrounded U.A. and a swarm of reporters scrambling through it, even as a number of teachers began to arrive on the scene.

"Dammit." Naruto grunted, forcing himself off of the wall and over to the others, all of whom, like him, were being jostled and shoved about by the crowd. "It's not villains, it's just the reporters from before!"

"Reporters?!" Mina shouted.

"For fuck's sake, this is all because of the press!" Jiro grumbled. "Bloody parasites."

"Momo can you make one of those loudspeakers? We need to get everyone to calm down!" Naruto muttered to Momo, even as he was suddenly shoved close to her by the jostling of the crowd, the two of them literally face to face now, mere inches apart, as more than three hundred students tried to shove and force themselves down the corridor and through the two metre wide doorway at the other end.

"I-I can do, can you make me some room?" Momo replied, her face going a little pink at his proximity, but her mind staying on the matter at hand.

Looking around, Naruto, could only think of one thing to do.

"Climb up on my shoulders." He said, beginning to kneel down now, and lower himself so she could climb on.

"What?" Momo gasped out, her face going very red now as she both saw and felt his actions.

"You need to make yourself seen and heard, and with the amount of people around us I can't create enough space without potentially hurting people, this is the only way I can think of." Naruto shot back impatiently.

"O-Ok fine, but don't l-look up!" Momo choked out, her face redder than ever as Naruto shifted lower, and she used his bent knee as a platform to climb up and onto his broad shoulders, a megaphone already forming in her cupped hands as she stood on his broad shoulders, with him standing up and bracing her ankles with his hands for extra support.

"Woah, Momo!" Mina cried, looking up as Momo now stood six foot higher than most of the other students around them.

"Everyone, calm down! It's just the press!" Momo shouted into her megaphone, her boosted voice sounding out over the sound of the panicking students. "Everyone! The breach was caused by the press only, and not villains! It is nothing worth panicking over!"

Almost at once the crowd of milling students began to calm down, the sound of shouting decreasing as, Momo, once again repeated her message and called for calm, her elevated positon, loud voice, and calming words, easing the tension and unease in the packed corridor, even as the alarm was suddenly switched off.

"And there I was hoping for a relaxing lunch," Naruto muttered to Jiro, as he continued to allow Momo to stand on his shoulders and shout out to the crowd of calming and slowly dispersing students.

"Eyes closed, Naruto." Jiro shot back, her eyes narrowed as she saw him looking over at her.

"What, it's not like I am looking up Momo's skirt," Naruto grumbled, his words still audible, both to those around him, including the heartbroken Mineta a couple of feet away, and to Momo herself, who in return went a brighter red than before, even as she continued to talk down the crowd.

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AN: So what did you all think? Admittedly it was a bit of a shorter chapter than usual, but still long enough, on top of which it was necessary I think for interaction and character development purposes. After all a story can't just be continuous fighting and action, that gets very boring, very fast and is not generally conducive to good storytelling, or at least mediocre storytelling.

That said, next chapter we get back to the action, with the U.S.J. Arc coming next, with the arc naturally changing due to the presence of Naruto, and the changes he has already brought about.

On another note though, I have been musing about a time related Quirk for reasons, and have come up with two ideas, I would be interested in some feedback if you're up for it:

Quirk 1:The user can stop time for everyone, save for them self, for five seconds. When time is stopped the user can interact with everything in the frozen world, even moving bullets and manipulating the bodies of those stuck. It has a recharge of five minutes. In my opinion it is a powerful Quirk, but balanced in its weakness. The time limit of five seconds wouldn't allow the user to do that much, but it would give them an advantage. On top of which with the recharge time it would not be possible to spam it.

Quirk 2: This Quirk is also related to time, and allows the user to stop time as long as the user can hold their breath (got the idea from Mirio in canon). Whilst time is stopped however the user cannot physical interact with anyone or anything as they are literally frozen, however they can freely move about themselves.

As I said these are just musings for an idea I have in my head at the moment. So would love to hear your thoughts, or if not then thanks for reading and please do stay tuned for more.

Greed720.