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"Unbelievable…. Nakano Iki… and Izuku Midoriya…. TIEEDD!" Present Mic screams out, which makes the crowd even more hyped.
I look at Izuku. He looks at me.
'Well, this was unexpected..' I think.
A second later, Todoroki and Bakugou come running over the finish line, taking 2nd and 3rd place.
I don't really care about the others' placements, so I stop listening in for a while and enter my own mindscape for a little.
'I wonder what the second round will be… considering the first round was an individual test, I'll bet the second round is a team effort…' I think.
After all top 42 contestants are chosen, Miss Midnight goes on to chose the second round.
This time, the board reads "cavalry battle"
'Yep, just as I thought, a team battle,' I think.
"Alright, everyone! The second round is a cavalry battle, but with a twist!"
"Of course, you're allowed to use your quirks as much as you desire!"
"What's more, this will be a point based battle!"
"Starting from 42nd place, who has 5 points, the points increase by five all the way up the rankings."
"Except for first place. Nakano Iki and Izuku Midoriya tied for first, and are both worth 10 million points!" Midnight yells.
Everyone gives us the evil eye. I sweatdrop a little.
I sigh. 'You gotta be kidding… man, this is gonna be such a drag…' I think
Okay, I don't know why I bothered writing the first part of the rules since you all know them. Welp, it's there and I don't want to delete it again. Imma' skip the rest of the rules though.
"You have 15 minutes to form a team!" Midnight yells as the timer starts going down.
I start thinking hastily.
'Considering we're both worth so much it will be hard finding at least one person who wants to team up with us. Of course, I could always keep avoiding people with my speed for the entire round, but Iida probably has a chance, and that wouldn't be any fun…'
If only Uraraka was here. I'm sure she would team up with us.
'Think… think,' I'm starting to get bugged out. Most other people have already formed teams.
'Who's quirk would be the best to function alongside mine?' I look around.
'Of course, I could always take a risk and team up with someone from B class or the support course,'
'No, that wouldn't work out. Maybe I could-' suddenly I feel a hand on my shoulder. I was so lost in thought that I didn't even feel them coming.
I'm surprised as I see who it was.
"Izuku…?" I ask. He's already formed a team with Tokoyami and another girl I don't recognize.
"Please Nakano, we'll need your speed and your strong muscles if we want a chance to win," He begs.
I smile. "Sure. Are you sure it's okay though? We'll be targeted by everyone considering there's a 20 million point bounty on your head," I say.
"It doesn't matter. I'm gonna be targeted anyway, so I think it would be for the better if we got more battle strength by teaming up," He says, which makes my heart pump.
"Well, count me in," I say as we walk together to Tokoyami and the girl, whose name is apparently Mei Hatsume.
"Right. So I'm thinking, with the quirks and support items that we have it would be best if I was the front horse," I say to the group.
"Now, just hear me out, okay? Tokoyami could watch our back, and Dark shadow could watch our blind spots, "I say. They nod.
"Hatsume, your support items will come in handy for escaping and dodging. I'll do my best to help avoid and free us from any attack, but we might need a little backup. That's where your inventions come in handy," I say.
They all nod. Izuku is going to be the rider. I told him to wear the headband with the least amount of points on top and then cover it with his hair.
It's a very basic strategy, but hey. Have you ever seen it fail before?
Time is starting to run out. I feel a little awkward holding Izuku's bare feet, but I manage to shake it off.
"Well, it looks like the two first places have teamed up! This is going to be an exciting match!" Midnight yells from her podium.
Again, all attention turns to us, and I can feel everyone's eyes glaring at us from all directions.
I remain calm as we all enter the arena. "Ready!? 3, 2, 1, GOO!" Midnight yells.
All at once, people start sprinting towards us from all directions. "You ready guys!?" I yell at them. They all nod.
'Alright…'
"Hold on tight!" I yell at them. They do so, and I start sprinting around at my top speed, and dash all the way over to the other side of the arena, snatching a couple headbands on the way.
They seem surprised by the speed we just went at, but calm down after realizing that it managed to confuse everyone else.
"Izuku! Will you able to wear these!?" I ask. He nods and hastily ties them loosely around his neck.
"What the!? I'm missing my headband!"
"Me too!" I hear people around us yell. I smile.
The first attack managed to catch them off guard.
"What the hell?! That girl! She's so fast!" Everyone got their eyes on us again, but at least I managed to get a distraction done.
We keep dodging and running away for a while until everyone is out of breath.
"Those guys… they're unreal!" A group of students yells as we've managed to dodge every single attack coming our way.
I'm a little out of breath.
No- actually, I'm completely out of breath. I feel like I'm losing air the more breaths I take.
Okay- somethings wrong. I instantly start looking around for something, but I see nothing but people coming at us from all directions.
I try sensing out something unusual but find nothing. The air is getting tighter and my lungs are having a hard time breathing.
I feel light headed and dizzy. My vision and hearing start fading, but I'm not collapsing.
I can hear my breathing, but everything else is silent and dark. No crowd screaming from all the surroundings, no flashing images before my eyes, no nothing.
'What's happening to me? Am I having a panic attack? No, why should I?' At least I'm still able to think straight.
"Come to me..." I flinch at the sound of the voice. It sounds so familiar. Too familiar.
"Come here, come here, come here," It repeats.
'No… it can't be,'
"Come to me…. Meiha... Ryuketsu." I shiver at the sound of my name.
'It can't be…' I slowly and terrified turn around.
"Dad…?" I ask in a shivering voice. I stare overwhelmed at the figure before me.
Whatever it is, it looks exactly like my dad. And it knows my name.
"Meiha… how long are you going to continue with your foolish rebellion? You know your true nature is going to surpass your sanity eventually…" He says.
They even sound identical. I gulp. I haven't been this scared for years.
"I…" is all I can stutter.
'Damn it! Even after all this time I'm still too scared to stand up to my dad!" I think.
He slowly walks towards us.
"You have disappointed me. You know all of your friends will die someday, right? Your little facade isn't going to hold forever. Everyone will find out," He whispers in my ear, which makes me jump back out of reflex.
He smiles at me in his usual lustful way. He's leaking bloodlust, but it's fine since no one is here except me. I'm sweating so much I can't get a grip on the blade on my back.
Suddenly, I'm back in my old assassin uniform. Corpses start appearing all around us. I identify them as the people I've killed in the past.
Shakingly, I look up my dad.
He's still smiling. Suddenly, another familiar face pops up among the corpses.
I gag as I recognize the terrorized body as my mother. Suddenly, I feel an overwhelming anger boil inside of me.
I can feel my bloodred eyes glowing as I stare at my dad. Even though I'm still petrified, I want nothing more than to run up to him and chop his head off at this very moment.
"Is that really all it took to get you on the urge of snaping? Pathetic. An assassin who snaps because of emotions, what a disgrace," He says, turning all my previous feelings into fear and regret again.
"I-" I want to speak up, but I feel the words get tangled in my mouth. I'm running out of air- I can't breathe!
I start choking on myself, saliva dripping out of my mouth, I feel the world fading away. For the first time in years, I'm scared of dying.
My dad walks up to me, who is currently choking, and smiles again.
"I'll be watching you… sweetheart~" He says and disappears in a flash.
Suddenly, I can breathe again. I find myself snapping for air, the lightheaded feeling taking over me.
My entire body is shaking. My muscles are so weak that I end up collapsing on the floor in the dark space.
I take a breath. And another. And another. And another.
A loud beeping noise starts sounding in my head.
It's getting louder and louder and louder. It won't stop. IT WON'T-
"NAKANO!" Yells a voice.
Suddenly everything returns. My vision is back, I can once again hear all the screaming from the crowd.
My memories return in small bits at the time. The sports festival. Obstacle race. The second round. Team Izuku. Points. 5 minutes left.
I look up at Izuku, who looks worried.
"Are you alright!? You looked like you were about to have a panic attack. You wouldn't respond! Is everything okay!?" He asks.
To be honest, I feel horrible, but I give out a fake smile and laugh.
"Yeah! Don't worry! I just have a little stage fright, that's all!" I say.
"Well, if you say so…."
Suddenly, we're stopped by a new force. A wall of ice. And another one. And another one. And another. We're cornered.
I feel so sick. The head is throbbing, my body temperature is shooting through the roof, and I can feel my stomach is cramping together. My vision is getting blurry again, but it's different this time.
'I just have to survive 4 more minutes,' I think to myself, as I swallow the throw-up that made its way up my throat.
Todoroki stopped us.
"Sorry. But I'm gonna take those 20 million points now," he says.
I don't know why, but I'm getting a strange feeling from his eyes. They're filled with hatred, but they're not directed towards anyone here.
Based on the three consisting people on Todoroki's team, I have a solid strategy of how to avoid them until the end.
We stay in his blind spot so that he won't be able to shoot ice at us without hitting Iida, and Kaminari or Momo won't be able to do anything without hurting the other team either.
After we continue this strategy for a while, Todoroki starts picking up on what we're doing.
I can feel every second that passes. I'm not sweating like a maniac anymore, but the whole world is spinning, and I feel nauseous.
Every time we dodge, leap to the side or jump up into the air, I can feel all the acid in my stomach getting thrown around. If it continues like this for much longer, things are gonna end badly for me.
'2 minutes left….' Is all I can think. I can see the pressure getting to the other team. And to my own of course.
"Everyone. Hold on tight. I'm going to use a special move," I hear Iida comment from the other side.
I want to warn Izuku, but my reaction time has been slowed down drastically by all the nausea, and Iida quickly dashes over at us, while Todoroki snatches the headband.
'Damn it!' I think. Well, I technically don't know which headbands he snatched yet, so we could still be at the top.
Izuku hastily checks what he has left.
"Damn it! He got both 10 million pointers!" I yell dizzy. There's only about 10 seconds left.
'Well crap, this might just make me hurl later, but oh well,'
"Everyone! Hold on to me tight!" I yell. They do so.
For the first time, I hide everyone who's touching me's presences', and I with my super speed get behind him.
I feel acid coming up my throat and into my mouth.
Todoroki notices though and puts up his hand in defense.
I can see Izuku active his quirk in his right arm. '5 seconds left!' It's all on Izuku now.
He manages to use his quirk to get Todoroki's arm out the way and succeeds to snatch a headband in the last second.
The horn sounds, concluding the match.
We desperately look at the headband Izuku managed to snatch. 615 points.
Not enough to take the top spot, but enough to land us on 4th place, and therefore qualify for the final round.
Izuku cries out in excitement. I'm so happy that I almost forgot about everything earlier. I'm reminded though, as a headache starts torturing my brain, and I feel the strong taste of acid in my spit.
I quickly run off.
I don't manage to make it to the bathroom, and end up throwing up in a nearby bush. Luckily, no one is around.
After finishing round one, I stand there panting for a while. I feel more coming this way, but I don't really care.
I've never been sick once in my life before. I'm pretty sure my immortality quirk boosted my immune system to the point where no unwanted bacteria was even allowed to enter my body.
I know I'm feeling like this because of something else.
Just as I predicted earlier, more puke makes its way out. It continues for a while, and eventually just turns to saliva.
I feel much better now. I leave the area and continue spitting for a while, trying to get the acidic taste out my mouth.
Students start streaming out of the main arena. I give out a sigh in relief.
No one saw me.
And now that I feel better, I'll be able to take the final round seriously. I smile.
I decide to go off to find a vending machine, and hopefully find a drink to wash away the nasty taste.
Thoughts about what happened earlier keep coming to mind.
'What the hell was my dad doing there? He's supposed to be dead, just like mom and everyone else I've killed in the past,' I think.
So far, I've found nothing. Not a single vending machine or drink stand in sight.
I sigh and decide to head off to the bathroom and just drink out of the sink. On the way though… I find something very interesting.
'Todoroki? But what's he doing talking with Izuku…?' I think. I hide my presence and hide behind a corner.
"That's not it at all is interesting wording. It suggests there really is something between you and All Might you shouldn't talk about," He states, which startles Izuku.
My eyes widen. Suddenly, this conversation has greatly caught my attention.
"My father… is the second-ranked hero, Endeavor," Todoroki says. I flinch.
'Of course! That's why he seemed too familiar!' I want to slap myself on the forehead if it wasn't for the fact that I would be discovered by doing so.
"So, if you're connected to the number 1 hero, All Might, that gives me all the more reason to beat you," he says.
"That old man aims for the top. He used his power to become a well-known hero, but he was never able to surpass All Might,"
"He's still at it though, trying to beat All Might, even to this day," Todoroki says.
"I-I don't get it. What are you trying to tell me here?" Izuku stutters nervously.
"Have you ever heard of… quirk marriages?"
My eyes widen again.
'Yes, I've heard of it before. It's a marriage specially set up to combine two people's quirk and make an even more powerful child'
'But aren't those supposed to be illegal?' I ask.
"My dad doesn't only have a successful history, he also has plenty of money to throw at his problems,"
"He bought my mother's' relatives to get his hands on her quirk,"
"And now he's raising me to surpass and replace All Might in his place,"
Izuku's eyes widen.
"I hate it so damn much. I refuse to be that scumbags tool,"
There's a couple seconds of silence…
"In every memory of my mother… I only see her crying,"
"I remember she called my left side identical to my fathers. It was unbearable,"
"She poured boiling water over my face while saying I looked to much like my old man,"
"The reason I picked a fight with you was to prove myself. I can win this without using my damn fire quirk,"
"You see… I'm going to show him that I reject his power, and I can take 1st place without using his quirk," Todoroki says as a dark shadow falls over his eyes.
'So that's your reason, huh?' I think. I don't need to hear any more. I stand up and leave silently.
I walk alone around the halls for a while. Once again, I'm reminded of my past life.
'Damn it, damn it, damn it! Why does that keep bothering me so much!? I left that side behind so long ago! So why is it still…?'
I sense something… odd.
'What is this?' It feels so familiar, yet… dark.
'Is it the league of Villains? No… I would recognize it if that was the case… unless it's a villain from the league I haven't seen yet!'
Suddenly, I start running around. The building is empty, considering everyone is out in the arena.
I check one room, nothing. Another room, nothing.
I run around the entire campus until the only place to search is the teachers' area. I sweatdrop.
It's almost time for the final round. I won't have time to search if I'm out fighting.
Sneakily I run around the teachers' area. Luckily, it seems no one is around right now.
'Who is it!?' I can still feel the weird presence I felt earlier, but I still don't know who it is, or where they are!
Which is strange, because dark presences are usually the easiest to follow, considering they stick out like a sore thumb.
I start running quicker. Whoever this is is either an extremely good hider or is someone toying with me.
I bite my lip just thinking about it.
'Think idiot, think! What would you do if-' I'm stopped as I feel a hand on my shoulder.
Panicky, I turn around and jump away in reflex. As I see who it is, I calm down at first.
"M-Mr. All Might?" I ask. Then I remember that I'm not supposed to be behind here.
"Young Nakano! What gives me the honor of finding you here?" He asks.
He doesn't sound mad in the least. I stand up again from the position I landed in before.
"Well… I.." This is one of the first times I've actually had a hard time coming up with an excuse.
He walks up to me.
"Would you mind telling me what startled you so badly before? I'm not Aizawa, you can calm down," he says.
I sigh out. 'Might as well just tell him…'
"Well… the truth is… I sensed something strange from within the building… something with a very dark aura," I say.
All Might waits a couple seconds before answering. "Are you certain?" He asks. I nod.
"It wasn't anyone I recognized. If that were the case I would be able to tell right away," I say.
"Hmmm. Well, I would hate to think a villain infiltrated our security," All Might says.
"I was looking for who, or whatever it was that I sensed. I'm sorry, I should've told somebody instead of just running off on my own," I say bowing slightly.
"No need to apologize! You have told me now, and as a thank you for that, I will let you slide out of here without letting anyone know. Sounds good?" He asks.
I nod and head for the exit.
I hear the crowd cheering again, followed by Midnight's voice.
"Alright, everyone! It's time for the final round of the sports festival!" I hear her say.
'Great. This is what I've been waiting for,' I think as I smile.
So. How do you like the story so far? I'm telling you, I have one heck of an adventure planned for this fic, so stick around if you do like it!
Net up: Final rounds! 1 on 1 battles!
