Chapter 7: Breaking Bakugo: Deku vs Kacchan II
Izuku was stressing out, she couldn't come up with anything that would help her with this situation. Katsuki was pursuing her ready to kill her and she had to separate from Uraraka, leaving teamwork against him out of the option. She crouched on the floor checking on her left to see if Katsuki was close, she was sweating from her nerves.
'He knew I was reading his moves, so he kicked me as a way to have me confused...I need to come up with a plan.' Her thoughts was interrupted when she heard a small voice in her ear.
"Deku-chan!"
Izuku gasped and hurriedly pressed on the microphone button of the communicator, "Uraraka-san! What's up?"
"Iida-kun has found me, sorry! Now he's coming close to me!"
"Ah! Where are you!?"
"I'm in the middle room on the fifth floor!"
Izuku looked up realizing she's exactly below Uraraka, she quickly got up preparing to run. "We don't have much time left, if it runs out they'll win!"
"We'll win huh..." a gruff voice quietly alerted Izuku
Izuku froze at her spot, she slowly turned around to see Katsuki standing across from her. She gasped, "Kacchan!"
"Why won't you use this new quirk Deku-chan? Can't you protect yourself from my own attacks?" He chuckled coldly at Izuku, his grenade on his right arm glowed orange for a second. "Heh, it's ready."
He took small menacing steps towards Izuku, she moved her body to be in a defensive position. "I'm not afraid anymore!" She yelled while he continued stepping close to her
"I know about your stalking and analyzing so listen to my facts. My explosions are sparked by the sweat of my palms." Katsuki lifted his arm and pointed it towards her direction, "Which is like secreting nitroglycerin that will detonates." He pulled back the levered the grenade and it revealed a safety pin holding in place.
Izuku mouth gaped realizing what he's trying to do to her. Katsuki brought his left arm to threateningly hold the safety pin, "Now, if the specs are as I asked, then I can store that nicro-sweat into this bracer and..."
"No! Young Bakugo stop this! You'll kill her!" All Might realized what Katsuki was about to do to Izuku, he desperately yelled at the microphone for him to stop. He was panicking on what's going to happen next, with Kirishima's panicked complaints, it's not helping him relax in this situation.
"IF SHE THINKS SHE CAN PROTECT HERSELF FROM ANYTHING, THEN THIS WONT KILL HER!" Katsuki yelled in a deranged tone, he pulled the safety pin and the grenade let out a huge explosion in Izuku's direction. The blast was rapidly coming close to her and she hurriedly covered her head in order not to get gravely injured on it. She screamed as the blast pushed her harshly to the ground partially hurting her.
The explosion tore her costume's right sleeve and glove, while the blast loosened her green curls from her ponytail. Everything from behind her was destroyed from Katsuki's explosion. She shuddered as she scooted back in fear towards him. Her eyes widened as she saw him getting closer to her with what seems a dark aura surrounding him in her imagination.
"Is...is this even allowed!?" Izuku whispers to herself but she stopped when she heard a cold chuckle coming from Katsuki.
"Haha...well well isn't that fascinating? You can protect yourself after all, so why can't you fight me off? Huh, come at me Deku-chan! You think you can fight so come at me with your full power!" His left grenade gauntlet glowed orange and he lifted it up towards him smiling at Izuku with a crazed grin.
Izuku slowly got up with one knee gawking towards the insane power Katsuki just showed her, 'Explosion!? This is more like Eruption! He must have requested these specs in order for his power to be long range!' She pushed her hair in the back of her ear and pressed the microphone button.
"Uraraka-san how's it going on your side!?"
"You're still ignoring me Deku-chan!? Fine then, I'll show you this again!" Katsuki pulled back the lever of the grenade again, preparing himself to do another long range explosion.
"Young Midoriya! Answer me, are you ok!?" All Might yelled at the microphone desperately searching for Izuku but he was unable to find her due to the smoke and debris being in the way from the cameras. Kirishima yelled out her name in fear on what happened to her.
"Sensei! You need to disqualify this match! This has obviously gotten too dangerous towards Midoriya, look what Bakugo is doing to her!" Kirishima desperately yelled for All Might to halt this exhibition match. Beside the entrance exams, he has never seen her this injured by another person, let alone a student. He needed to convince All Might to stop this this instant!
All Might froze at Kirishima's plead, 'She'll be furious at me if I stop this match.'
All Might shook his head at Kirishima as he gasped at him with his red eyes widening towards his teacher, "I'm sorry but no..." he pressed on his microphone, "Young Bakugo, if you do another blast like that again, I'm going to force myself to end this exercise and you will be disqualified."
Katsuki screamed in frustration hearing that he can't use his full potential anymore, "AAAHH!? FUCK IT!" He quickly ran his hands through his ash blond spikes, "Let's throw some punches!"
Izuku cautiously looked at him while listening to Uraraka's answers, "The pillar by window! Roger!" She hurriedly repeated her, she gasps as she hears Katsuki screams and flying towards her. He was propelling himself with his explosions towards her, 'Its no use I can't dodge! Guess I have to use my quirks!' She prepared to punch Katsuki and hit forward. His eyes widened seeing her attack incoming and he growled as exploded out of her punch to land behind her.
Quickly, he let out a large explosion on to Izuku's back destroying her utilities and more of her costume. She screamed in pain and twitched while taking a couple steps forwards.
"Now here's comes your favorite right swing!" With all his strength he swung his right arm to hit his grenade spec towards her bare arm. Izuku shrieked, but she screamed louder when Katsuki grabbed her injured arm and propelled himself around to throw her body to the ground. "Understand that you!" He stepped on top of her chest, "Are. Not! Above me!" Using his foot, he squeezed down hard on her chest while she screamed even louder than before.
Katsuki suddenly stopped and let go of her. Izuku couldn't see anything well, she was seeing a blurred Katsuki in front of her. Suddenly he kicked her over and landed on her stomach, "Deku-chan, get up and fight me!" She got up on her knees with her hair all over her face as she panted from pain and exhaustion.
Katsuki growled at her pathetic figure, "Why can't you use your fucking quirk already!? Why do you always look down on me!? Ever since we were kids, you always look at me like I'm some weakling in need...you think I'm weak you sick fuck!?"
Izuku gritted her teeth in fury and frustration towards her childhood friend, "Why can't you understand that you're so amazing that I just want to beat you!?"
She got up on her feet slowly ignoring her pain and yelled at his face, "I want to win and surpass you! How can you not get that you idiot!" Izuku looks at him with the anger on her face without any single sign of fear
Katsuki lividly trembled from her questions, "Change that expression on your face you fucking nerd!" Both started to run towards each other preparing their own attack, explosives started to crackle on Katsuki's hand while Izuku's veins in her arm started to glow red.
"Detroit..." Izuku ignored All Might's partial announcement of the match being forced to end, luckily she left her microphone button on in accordance of her plan. "URARAKA! I'M HERE!" With her left arm, she covered her face and swung her right arm towards the ceiling.
"SMASH!"
The ceiling and above was instantly destroyed. Katsuki stood shocked from the amount of damage Izuku has done instantly. "You're telling me that you were actually...looking down at me...!" He suddenly was having a hard time breathing from the amount of shock he was feeling at the moment.
Smoke was covered around her while she was breathing hardly, "I did not want to use this because my body can't take strain from this quirk. You destroyed my military ration pill so I couldn't heal myself without being out of commission. Aizawa-sensei told me about my strain but..." the smoke became unclear and Katsuki saw her bruised and burnt purple arm frozen in place from where she protected herself from his explosion.
"This was the only thing I could think off...!"
Katsuki froze when he heard Ochako from his receiver that she has retrieved the nuclear indicating that Izuku won. All Might announced to both teams reminding him that she has won against him. Izuku's will gave in and fell unconscious, collapsing to the floor with her emerald eyes widened from the amount of pain she was experiencing.
His red eyes widened while he heard All Might's announcement repeatedly in his head. 'She read me all along...this means although I tried my hardest...I lost to her...' Katsuki's breath began to quicken as he felt anxiety in his chest but he snapped out of it when All Might's hand clasped on his shoulder.
"Lets go back Young Bakugo, it's time for your critique."
He began to calm himself, he was breathing normally again and saw Izuku getting carried away by two robots to the nurse's office. Katsuki was quiet for the remaining class time, he couldn't concentrate on the lecture of each student's critiques. It's his first loss from Izuku, the girl who he always protected, who was always under him or behind him. She stood up for herself and she successfully won. Katsuki looked down at the ground darkly grinding his teeth.
"We only had a few days of school and this is her third time here! Why didn't you stop them , All Might!?"
All Might bowed his head his head apologetically at Recovery Girl, "I apologize—"
"Don't apologize to me!" Recovery Girl swung her seat towards All Might, facing him angrily. "Yesterday she was suffering from exhaustion from her quirk's draw back, I had to administer her with emergency first aid and hooked her up to an IV fluid. And for now there's no other option but to wait until her stamina is back to normal for her to heal herself."
Recovery Girl huffed at him with fury, "She's your student for goodness sake, don't indulge her too much."
All Might sweat dropped at her, "I don't really have anything else to say but I'm sorry, I wanted to understand her feelings and...hesitated from forfeiting the match..." He said
She turned around to face away from All Might, "If you understand her feelings then..you need to learn how to be a proper guide to her, more than ever!" All Might didn't answer her, instead just worriedly looked at Izuku's unconscious form and her bandaged arms.
Few hours later...
School is over for the day but Izuku woke up in time to go back to her home room to gather notes and missed work. 'I'm so going to get bounded by Aizawa-sensei again.' She nonchalantly opened her classroom door with her left arm.
"Midoriya, you're awake! Good job out there!" Her eyes widened from the sudden compliment and saw it was from her friend Kirishima. "I was so worried about you but I see that you're fine now! You was sure having a heated battle man even though I couldn't hear your conversation!"
"Huh!?" Izuku sweat dropped when out of no where she was ambushed by her acquaintances. A pink skinned girl with a lighter pink hair with horns bounced towards her in excitement, "You dodged like a champ!"
A tall boy with thick lips stood next to the pink girl. "Although it was the first match, it was very intense, it fired us up!"
Kirishima softly gave Izuku a side hug while he saw her feeling overwhelmed from the compliments, she turned completely red from everything that's happening. "There, there Midoriya no need to feel shy," he handed her a few sheets of paper, "We were finishing up a few sheets of paper that are reviews, why don't you guys properly introduce yourselves to her!" He turned towards his friends smiling at them.
The pinkette shook her closed fists in excitement, "Hi! I'm Ashido Mina, you really did dodged him well!"
A girl with extremely long dark green hair that's tied in the bottom of it, she resembles a little like a frog, walked to the crowd and introduced herself to Izuku. "I'm Asui Tsuyu, but call me Tsuyu ok? Ribbit..."
The boy with thick lips pointed at himself, "Heya! Sato Rikido here!"
"Wahh..." Izuku felt swamped from everyone suddenly introducing themselves to her and from all the compliments she was receiving. This was more overwhelming than the first day of school to her. She snapped out her stupor when she felt Kirishima squeeze her shoulder softly, giving her a toothy grin. She smiled back at him and introduced herself to the students, "I'm Midoriya Izuku, it's nice to meet you!" She slightly bowed to the crowd.
Izuku got up and noticed Uraraka coming in the class carrying a few books with a worried expression on her face. It seems that there's a boy trying to ask her out but when she looked up and saw Izuku, she ignored him and ran over to her.
"Deku-chan your wounds, you can't heal them!?" Uraraka grabbed her own arm sympathizing towards her friend.
Izuku smiled warmly at her, " Don't worry this is only because of my physical strength being sapped, but Uraraka...where's..Kacchan?" She looked around the room searching for the ash blond boy.
"He left when class was dismissed...I don't think you should meet him Deku-chan." The class stood around Izuku trying to convince her not to catch up to Katsuki but Izuku firmly refused after she heard that he left being silent the whole entire day. She knew something was wrong with him and she had to confront him.
Izuku ran out the school and saw Katsuki slowly walking out of the campus. She stood several meters away from him and yelled out his name, "Kacchan!"
He jumped and turned around to face her, he noticed Izuku squirming nervously at her spot. She looked at him with a firm look, "I...I need to tell you something."
Izuku breathes in and exhale out to began her explanation, "I obtained this new quirk from someone else. No matter what I can't tell you who was it from but I swear this is true even if this sounds like something out of a comic book." Katsuki started blankly at her with his mouth opened gawking at her.
"In addition, I still fully can't use it the way it's supposed to be used. It's a borrowed power that I haven't made it my own yet. That's why I tried to win without using it, yet in the end I couldn't beat you and I had to use it! I'm still no where strong enough...and so..." Izuku looked up straight at his while he was growling quietly in anger.
"One day I'll properly make it my own power and then I'll surpass you with it!" Her eyes widened when she saw Katsuki looking at her with a deadpan expression. 'I only wanted to tell him that I wasn't lying or using him, why did I tell him everything all of the sudden..?' She jumped when Katsuki growled loudly at her
" What the hell...you beat me and now you're making up a story...for pity!? I couldn't accept you as my rival...but you beat me! You were always in the bottom, I HAD TO PROTECT YOU!" Katsuki balled his fist as tears began to well up in his eyes. He clenched his eyes and faces the ground, " I accept you as my rival Deku-chan...no just Deku now, you're not the same as before. Just remember this...and listen well! From here and out!" He looked at her with his tears, "I'm going to be number one!" He turned around to leave and started to walk away while brushing his eyes with his sleeves.
With her free arm she reached out to him, "Kacchan wait!"
He stopped walking, "Deku...don't you ever get the idea of ever beating me again!" He yelled without turning around to her
Suddenly Izuku felt wind pick and someone running with full speed towards him, she saw that it was All Might. "BA-KU-GO! WAIT!" He clasped his hand to his shoulders, "I'll tell you this once Young Bakugo, self continence is indeed a very vital thing for yourself! You should know that you have talent befitting a pro! From here and out climb up higher— "
"Let go of me All Might, I can't walk." Katsuki said quietly cleaning up his face. "I didn't tell you this before so allow me to put this in your head. I'm going to surpass you, to reign over you as the top hero!" He glared at All Might and then at looked at Izuku for a few seconds before walking away.
All Might sweat dropped at his determination, "Teaching...is sure hard" All Might looked at Izuku to see her watching Katsuki's back. "Let's go home, Young Izu." he softly grabbed her shoulder as she nodded at him.
A few days later...
Newspapers were being spread around town including the news of All Might being appointed to be one of UA's teacher. A man with a body of a black smoke wearing a typical bartenders outfit picked one up before quickly leaving to his place.
He entered inside in his bar for him to see a scrawny boy sitting with hands all over his body. The black smoke man entered behind his bar and put the newspaper in the counter so the boy could read it, he took a cup and began to clean it. "Have you seen this? He's become a teacher now..."
The boy did not move a spot not bothering to read the newspaper, "Hey...what do you think would happen if the 'Symbol of Peace' would get snuffed by the villains...?"
To be continued...
