Chapter 2
[Bakugo Hayato]
If someone would have told him that one day he would be on the good side of the laws, Gokudera would have scoffed at him, but now, as Bakugo Hayato, he was going to pass the entrance exam of the most prestigious hero school of Japan. If the baseball idiot had followed them here, he would have laughed himself to death.
"This is a competition! And I'll beat you." had declared his twin.
He may had only Bianchi and the Sasagawa as a reference of relationship between siblings, but Hayato was quite sure that his relationship with his twin wasn't typical of a siblings rivalry. Not that he really cared, one of the blessing of his new life was that his twin wasn't anything like Lambo. Not sweet like Fuuta nor obedient like Ipin, but it suited Hayato more, a more typical child would have surely ended in tears. Katsuki was highly competitive and headstrong with him Hayato didn't need to hold back to spare his feelings, the boy would have surely taken it as an insult if he did, not like he had ever held himself back for the sake of a child's feeling.
"As if, I'll take first place."
And he would, the right hand man of the future number one hero couldn't loose in front of snot nosed kids. Otherwise he wouldn't be worthy to stand by Tsuna-sama's side.
As soon as Present Mic said start, Hayato rushed past the other contestants. Fighting robots? Piece of cake, it would have been humans who would have caused him more problems, it wouldn't have been hero-like to injure them too badly, and since he didn't had access to sistema CAI and he hadn't been able to experiment with his quirk as much as he would have liked, he still struggled to control the strength of his explosion. Moreover he was acquaintance with robot more than he would have liked thanks to Spanner and Irie and their Mosca. Of course he didn't hope that the robots used by UA would be identical to the Mosca, but he had a general idea of what he should do to maximize his points.
First, heroes didn't changed from one world to another, and there was no doubt that the robots would have some sort of restriction, like stopping if it was clear that the examinee couldn't fight anymore or was in danger, or maybe a program to select which examinee to fight based on the level of injuries and their strength. The field may be vast but UA wouldn't sent their robots in the middle of nowhere, so there should be a correlation between the level of activities and the number of robot, and as there should be people monitoring them and assigning point, then they could also sent robot to specific student to study them better.
With all theses informations in mind, Hayato had a plan of actions. First he destroyed a two point robot, attracting the attention of nearby robots, then it was only a question of going somewhere a bit more isolated so no examinee would be caught in the fight and receive debris or other. Afterwards it was all pretty easy, his quirk allowed him to make object explode, he only needed to throw a bomb at a group of robot from a safe distance, or just touch them and make the part he touched explodes after going somewhere safer.
[Aizawa Shouta]
This year was going to be a long one, thought Eraserhead as he watched the entrance exam. First there was All Might's heir, then there was the number two pro hero who would indubitably pass the recommendation exam, and then there was someone who already had a police file. And something told him that they would be in 1-A, which meant his problem.
Normally only two of them would be is problem, having a police file was a sufficient reason to be denied participation to a hero school entrance exam, but the boy had the back up of the principal, the number one hero, and a police detective. After reading his files, Aizawa was forced to admit that the boy had potential, Bakugo Hayato was a certified genius, had a powerful quirk, and had legally never broken the laws. His teachers had noted each year that the boy was a loner, never reaching for his peers, uncaring, maybe even arrogant some would say. But his vigilantism tendencies suggested that he had his heart in the right place.
"Number 59 is doing great!" exclaimed Midnight with an appreciative whistle.
A zoom on the screen revealed Bakugo Hayato, his strategy was simple but efficient, and to be honest, based on his files alone, it would have been a surprise for the teen to fail the entrance exam.
"Isn't it dangerous for the other examinee?" remarked Cementos, like a prediction someone stumbled in, Bakugo may had tried to find an isolated area, but the other examinees must have been attracted by all the activities in it.
"He should be alright, Bakugo-kun had demonstrated that he could switch between powerful and large zone explosion, and weaker and more targeted zone."
"His quirk is to make object explodes, pretty useful." read appreciatively Midnight. "And he also have a twin participating too, so youthful!"
At theses words Aizawa shivered. The A class had a notorious history of gathering…colorful characters, and he had been an unfortunate victim of this during his high school days, and if Nezu didn't changed the way he assigned each students to their class, then there was a high chance that he would have to teach both twins. Powerful quirk, siblings rivalry, maybe some sort of inferiority complex due to being compared to a notorious genius, and voila the recipe for drama.
He was right. And God hadn't he hoped to be wrong. Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shoto, Bakugo Katsuki and Bakugo Hayato, the name stood up in the list of his students. Another example of why life was unfair, he would have gladly swapped any of these kids for one of Vlad's. As soon as he had entered the room, Aizawa already wanted to go back to his sleeping bag.
There was no real surprise during the quirk apprehension test, those he thought would succeed, succeed, and there was no students he had thought would fail beside Midoriya, who had agreeably surprised him, more or less. Todoroki as usual only used his ice side, Yaozoru knew how to use the versatility of her quirk, Bakugo Katsuki had high potential and knew his way around his quirk and Bakugo Hayato didn't always used his quirk, but when he did, he was efficient.
The results of the test were overall good, but what he learnt about the students much less so. He had greatly underestimated the drama that this class would cause. The Bakugo twins were childhood friend with All Might's heir, which meant that they knew that Midoriya was quirkless, and there seemed to be some kind of story between them. Bakugo Katsuki was highly prideful and at the same time just as insecure, watching his childhood friend, if they could be called as such, passed from quirkless to becoming the user of one of the most powerful quirk in existence must have been shocking for him. As for Bakugo Hayato, the teen definitely knew that there was more going on, and was smart enough to not voiced it out loud, but would definitely investigate on it.
The recommended students were prideful, which he had expected, and Todoroki was stubborn in not using his fire side, which he would have to go past if he wanted to be a hero.
[Todoroki Shoto]
"Team A: Todoroki Shouto & Midoriya Izuku vs Team G Bakugo Hayato & Iida Tenya with Team A as the hero and Team G as the villain. You have fifteen minutes to prepare!" announced All Might.
Next to him, Todoroki could hear his partner furiously mutter. If it was any other team Todoroki would have surely frozen the entire building and then go to the bomb, he could never be too careful and it would be a shame not to think about their plan more thoroughly since his teammate knew one of their opponent.
"Midoriya-san, you are friend with Hayato-san right? Can you tell me more about him?"
The boy looked up startled from his thought.
"Yes, Hayato will be a though opponent, especially when he is put into the defensive. His quirk allows him to make objects explodes, it can be at contact, timed bomb, or even by thought. He is really smart and strategical, so he will trap the building with his bombs."
Todoroki didn't know much about Hayato (which the class had mutually agreed to call by his first name while the other twin remained as Bakugo) beside the fact that he had ranked first place during the entrance exam. He was smart and seemed to not be overly dependent of his quirk as he had proved himself during the quirk apprehension test, but otherwise he was an unknown to him.
"So if I froze the entire building it should render some of his trap useless then." he mused out loud. "And with the floor frozen, Iida-san will have a harder time using his quirk."
"It should, but Hayato is smart he will have predicted this." Midoriya continued to muse out loud, his classmate had seemed quite ordinary and inconspicuous compared to their more colorful classmate, but watching his mind work made Todoroki realize that Midoriya didn't only get into UA thanks to his powerful, albeit self-destructing, quirk. "At best he will only use it as extra ammunition, at worse…I think we should still froze it, otherwise it would be the same as going blind in a minefield."
"What can you say about his fighting style? The Iida family specialize in close quarter combat, and if Hayato use bomb than he should be a mid range fighter then, should we first knock him out and then go to Iida?"
"Hayato is also good at hand to hand combat so we have to be careful, but yes we should go after him first and during close quarter combat he shouldn't be able to use his bomb if he doesn't want to get in the blasting range."
"I hope you are all ready! The battle will start in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. GO!"
As they had planned, Todoroki quickly froze the entire building and they carefully walked into it, Midoriya had to walk slower because his shoes weren't adapted to walk on ice. Despite not hearing an explosion, Todoroki doubted that their opponents hadn't escape from his ice, and the most reasonable deduction would for them to attack them by surprise.
Before he could think more of it, a half frozen box exploded to his right, Todoroki automatically shielded them with his ice. Was it a timed bomb? Or did Hayato activated it. Midoriya had the same thought as him as he quickly flattened on the floor and crawled under the window while Todorki scanned the hallway.
Not a second later, another box exploded right beside them, forcing Todoroki to make a second ice wall. There was no doubt, Hayato was somewhere, watching them, and if they stayed like this they would be no better than sitting duck. The explosion were quite strong moreover shielding them narrowed their field of view. And Todoroki knew from his lessons with his father, that the smart one were the most dangerous ones, and reacting to their action rather than acting was a sure way to be killed.
"Todoroki-kun! He is in this building! Freeze all windows!"
He had overlooked this possibly. All Might hadn't restricted the exercise to the building, and only the bomb had to stay in it. In the back of his mind Todoroki remembered that Hayato's heroes outfit had googles, and it wouldn't be unusual for it to have thermal vision, zoom etc etc. He quickly froze again the building, this time making sure that there was a thick layer of ice on the windows.
"Let's hurry. Iida-kun must be alone with the bomb."
The building was oddly silent beside the sound of their step on the ice, they had dashed without meeting anyone, only encountering exploding doors. Finally at the fourth floor they encounter Iida, standing alone without the bomb.
"You are finally here heroes! But this is the end for you!" he declared channeling his inner villain.
Iida dashed at them, and Todoroki tried to use his quirk to froze him, but he dodged and threw a cylindrical object. A flash bomb he realized, his eyes automatically shutting, he felt Iida dashed past him and heard Midoriya's shout of surprise, Iida must have taken the boy away with him. Todoroki didn't even thought for one minute that his teammate could beat Iida in a one on one fight. Iida had prior training with his quirk and a family with similar quirk to help him, whereas Midoriya could barely use his quirk and when he did he would broke his bones and be useless afterwards. Iida only needed to make Midoriya uses his quirk, preferably his legs, and then he would hardly be a threat for anyone.
His musing were cut short when the ground crumbled underneath him, hot air brushing his skin, and suddenly he was falling, far longer than he should have if only one floor had been destroyed. He could hardly see thanks to the flash bomb but he just needed to create something big enough to stop his fall. He grunted on the impact but at least now the effect of the flash bomb had faded away and he could now see clearly.
"Just in time."
Todoroki look down and was greeted with the bored face of Bakugo Hayato. The boy lazily threw a stick at the ice he was perched on, and Todoroki didn't need to be a genius to know what would happen. And so he threw himself off it and created a slope to his adversary. It was truly annoying how fast Hayato could destroy his ice, even reducing it thickness made it difficult to keep his balance on the slope. Worse, Hayato had definitely planned everything from the beginning as there the room was booby trapped with all his contact bomb and other, which would automatically activate in contact of his ice.
If they kept going like this, the fight wouldn't go far, fighting in this minefield would only result in his lose be it because he had failed to dodge an explosion or because the time had run out. It would be best to retreat and create a barrier thick enough to keep Hayato busy until he found the bomb. Also he should quickly find his teammate and hope that he hadn't been defeated yet, with his quirk he could quickly jam Iida's engine and if thing come to worse, and Hayato had slipped through his barrier, keep him busy until Midoriya found the bomb.
"You should know better than let your mind wander during a fight."
"Don't you worry about me." he retorted as he threw a wave of ice on the boy, it activated some bombs in his way forcing Todoroki to shield himself, but at least it pinned Hayato on the wall. Todoroki then create a platform with his ice to use the hole he had fell through to climb the floor, he didn't think to capture Hayato as it would mean melting the ice that kept him trapped and allow him to throw his damn bomb. Beneath him he heard an explosion indicating that Hayato had freed himself form his ice, not that he expected the boy to be trapped long, and he jumped out of the platform before his opponent had the chance to blow it off. He then dashed out of the room, only one floor left unexplored, he tried to communicate with Midoriya, but the connection was dead, the boy must have been defeated by Iida who he would surely met. A one on one fight he could win as Hayato was three floor below with no mean to climb up quickly enough to stop him.
"I didn't think you would have survived this long hero! Unfortunately your teammate have been vanquished." greeted Iida with a sheepish Midoriya tied up on a column.
But there was no bomb in sight, and it was the last room. Realization hit him, the bomb had been moved during his fight with Hayato, the fake bomb was not really heavy, and one person could move it, and because it was a fake, there was no need to be careful with it and Iida could have just as well threw it in the staircase and let it roll down.
The exercise would end in five minutes, and he had used his ice more than he had expected, his limbs felt heavier and heavier and his regulator had been broken by Hayato during their fight. He had to be careful not to overuse his quirk or he would pass away before the end of the fight. Iida rushed at him, a kick aimed at his head, he half succeeded in dodging it, and his head was ringing from the hit, but at least he succeeded in jamming Iida's right leg. In the back of his mind he registered footsteps, he had to hurry. Iida wasn't used to fight with only one leg, and it was his downfall. As soon as the tape was secured on Iida's wrists, a chair exploded, sending pieces of wood at him. He had been too slow.
"Only four minutes left. You'll need at least two to get to the bomb, and you won't be able to defeat me in two minutes." greeted Hayato behind him.
Unsurprisingly his prediction came true, Todoroki didn't had enough stamina to sent a big attack, and all his attacks were stopped short before they could reach his adversary thanks to his bomb which he threw with pinpoint accuracy.
"Simulation over! Villain team wins!"
[Yagi Toshinori]
It wasn't a secret among the staff that All Might was particularly interested in Bakugo Hayato. And who could blame him? The boy had distinguished himself from the start and seemed to have made it into a sport.
Watching him fight, it wasn't hard to see that the boy had experienced at fighting, far more than that what could be explained by his casual vigilantism. Hayato had the possibility to become an amazing hero, he had the battle power along as a mind rivaling Nezu, a truly frightening boy.
While the hero team were planning together, the spectators had seen through the screens how Hayato had booby trapped some rooms along as the corridors. The hero team had been truly unlucky to face Hayato when he had the time to properly appropriate the field to himself. And now that the fight had started, it wasn't hard to see that Hayato had planned it all from the start.
Young Hayato had first attacked the heroes while watching them on another building, and watching from the outside All Might could clearly see that Hayato was guiding the hero team through a certain path. All Might wasn't the only one who noticed the subterfuge, Yaozoru too had realized Hayato's plan.
"The hero team are dancing in Hayato-kun's hand."
"What do you mean? They froze all windows so that Hayato can't aim at them." asked Ashido.
"The villain team only had fifteen minutes to prepare themselves, Hayato couldn't possibly trap every single room of every floor. The hero team may have escaped the first attack and prevent Hayato from seeing them, but they took the only staircase he trapped. In the hero team only Todoroki can shield them from the explosions, which force him to use his quirk and thus he will get colder faster."
As if to confirm her words, they watched through the screens Todoroki and Midoriya go through explosion after explosion. Hayato's plan was simple but efficient, people wouldn't generally go to the path where there was an explosion, they would take the opposite way, and because Todoroki used his ice to shield them, it also blocked their way, narrowing the number of paths they could take as humans in danger would take the shorter paths.
"It is scary how the heroes are totally getting played without even knowing it." mused out loud Kaminari.
Whereas the heroes were dashing across the building, Hayato followed them behind, placing bombs on the floor of different room which were on top of each other. The reason was quickly revealed when Iida confronted the hero team, separating them after blinding them with a flash bomb given before the start of the exercise, whereas Hayato activated the bomb, making Todoroki fall to him.
The fight was a bad match up for Todoroki. The boy had already started to become numb and more rigid because he had been forced to use his quirk a lot since the start of the exam, and now he had to fight someone who could stop his attack before they reached him. Todoroki's biggest weakness was that he used his quirk in a too straightforward way, his basic attack were linear and predictable for someone used to fighting, especially now that they had become slower. His second weakness was that the ice needed to be in contact with him, it always started from his body and if cut in the middle he couldn't control the end that was not linked to him. For a mid to long distance fighter like Hayato, it was easy to stop his attack by just activating bomb he had placed beforehand.
"Midoriya have been captured!"
On another screen people could see Iida moving the fake bomb to the first floor, Uraraka giggled when she saw Iida seriously carrying the papier mache bomb while passing by the fight, before dashing back to the room he had left Midoriya.
Until the end of the fight Hayato had everyone dancing in the palm of his hands. An overwhelming victory, and a harsh lessons to everyone especially Young Todoroki and Young Midoriya.
It wasn't hard to see why Bakugo Hayato was in the radar of so many persons: his, Nezu, Aizawa, and even Sora who hadn't even met the boy.
[Midoriya Izuku]
He still had a long way before mastering One for All, while fighting Iida he had failed to properly restrain his power and had broken his arm, again, allowing Iida to capture him with the tape. As soon as the battle trial was over, he was sent to the infirmary with Hayato who had been volunteered and also had some minor frostbite because of his fight with Todoroki-kun. They walked in a awkward silence, more in Midoriya's part than Hayato's.
"Congrats on your win!" did he sounded too awkward? Or fake because he was on the losing side?
"Hn, it was fucking easy."
It had been, from the beginning to the end, everything was going according to his plans. Midoriya had felt something off during the fight, how weird it was that they encountered so many bombs when Hayato shouldn't have had the time to put bombs everywhere. But he didn't had the time to properly think, always under the fire of the explosions. He had felt like a burden for Todoroki-kun who had been forced to use his quirk to protect them, there was a big difference between them, not only in their mastery of their quirk, but also how he had lost his composure during the fight.
"Stop your muttering, we are here."
"I watched the fight Octopus head! Midoriya! You should extremely join my boxing club as soon as I create one!" welcomed a white haired man who was definitely not Recovery Girl.
A cane hit the back of his head.
"Ryohei, let the poor boy alone, you are here to be my assistant, not to enroll students in your nonexistent boxing club." admonished Recovery Girl.
Midoriya was quickly healed by Recovery Girl, the bright side of his short fight has been that he didn't had the occasion to worsen his injuries. Hayato had been taken aside by the boisterous man.
"What the fuck are you doing here turf head! You should be by Tsuna-sama's side." he heard Hayato screams.
"I have to do an internship here to obtain my license."
Midoriya didn't know that Hayato knew the stranger, and rather well judging by their familiarity and nicknames. The news must have surprised Hayato as he chocked when he heard it, staring incredulously at the man.
"Since when do you have a brain? Do they give the license to anyone these days?"
You are all healed up boy. But be careful, you could have needed surgery." interrupted Recovery Girl.
He quickly thanked Recovery Girl, but all his attention was on the odd duo in front of him. Hayato's eyes met his, and he visibly shut off, he turned back at the man and told him something that he couldn't hear, before leaving.
Izuku quickly followed suit after nodding goodbye at the man, who answered with a bright and oddly knowing smile.
[Bakugo Hayato]
"You have a twin! This is so EXTREME! I miss Kyoko." shouted loudly Sasagawa with all his usual lacks of subtlety.
"He is alright." Hayato shrugged, he could have gotten a lot worse. "How is Tsuna-sama?"
"He is doing pretty great! Life as a hero suit him."
Hayato didn't find it hard to believe, Tsuna-sama always hated being a mafioso, and as they grew up, Tsuna hated it even more, revolutionizing the mafia was a long path, which never seemed to end, obstacles after obstacles getting in their way.
"You could go see him you know! I am extremely surprised you didn't rushed to see him as soon as he debuted!"
"I am not worthy! I will only go see Tsuna-sama after becoming strong enough to be able to pretend to be his right hand man!"
"Tako head, you should stop making your life extremely harder like this! Tsuna doesn't care about thing like this. You are both making it harder than it should." Sasagawa said, sighing for the first time. "Tsuna knew that you would surely go to UA, he has a message for you."
The tone was oddly somber, and for once the man didn't smile.
"Live this life like you want Hayato." he reported. "Don't become a hero because I am one, and don't follow me because of our past lives."
Sasagawa passed his hand through his hair, looking older than he did one second ago.
"Tsuna doesn't want for us to be trapped by our past lives, he was pretty stubborn about this when we first met. But I extremely got past his barriers!"
"I am not." And he didn't followed Tsuna-sama because he was trapped, because of blind faith. He had been born in the Mafia, and he had been expected to die in it, he had never considered meeting Tsuna-sama as a curse, it had been the best thing to have ever happened to him. "But I'll respect Tsuna-sama's wishes, I'll prove him that this life, and just like my first life, I followed him because of my own free will!"
"That the way to think." exclaimed Sasagawa. "Here is my number and Tsuna's if you need it." he gave the paper. "I'll extremely enjoy you calling me sensei!"
AN: Thanks for everyone who liked this story and reviewed! Constructivism critics are more than welcomed as well as people who point me the typos! Also, fight scene are so hard to write! I didn't wanted to make Gokudera too overpowered, but he is a grownup mafioso fighting against highschooler, with a quirk who didn't had the inconveniance of normal bomb, so yeah...Todoroki got smashed...
minri98: Yup, Hayato replaced Mineta, bc let's be honest, he is pretty useless, so no harm done. I put him into 1-A bc it was here that there was the actions.
Creus : I wanted to write Yaozoru, but unfortunately it didn't fit in this chapter, so maybe the next one!
FloatingAsh : It will be a long time before Hayato meets Tsuna (at least in my plans, but it can change...) I suck at writing feelings, be it love or angst, but I kind of wants to make it angsty, so yeah...