Author Note:
To those of you that favorited, reviewed and/or followed: Thank you very much!
Vedahzii: I hope you enjoy the fight!
E-kingmoney18: To be honest, All Might originally didn't have as big of a part as he is getting, but it just felt right so I'm doing it. XD
Speeddemon56: When I originally found that pic I couldn't stop laughing either! The fight between Bakugo and Izuku always felt HUGE for their character development, so I didn't think I could take that away from them. And just like you said, Himiko is the protagonist, but she isn't the center of the universe. I've already finished her fight and, to me at least, it felt very comedic. Plus Ultra!
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Warning: Swearing from Bakugo? Is this even necessary? Fanservice...?
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Chapter 10: Fated Match!
Fate (fāt): be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way.
As we began heading to the monitor room All Might slipped something into my hand. Upon opening my hand, I saw that he had given me an extra ear piece, likely so I could listen in, although I wasn't sure why. Not that I'm complaining. Favoritism at its finest! Shortly after arriving in the monitor room we could see All Might and the participating four approach the designated building for their match.
"Villain team, go in first and set up! In five minutes, the hero team will break in, and the battle will start!" He quickly bestowed instructions to the two teams, who responded affirmatively. "Yes, sir!"
"Young Aoyama, Young Bakugo, learn to think from the perspective of the villains. This is pretty close to a real battle. Go all out. Don't be afraid to get hurt. If things go too far, I will stop it." As All Might continued explaining, Yuga nodded his head in understanding while Bakugo was busy glaring a hole into Izuku's back.
They headed into the building and, while Izuku and Ochaco stayed outside, All Might quickly headed back to us in the monitor room. On the monitors, we could see Yuga and Bakugo head up the building to their faux nuclear weapon. Once they arrived, Yuga whipped out a mirror and started checking himself out while he struck different poses.
Bakugo just stood, arms crossed over his chest, looking at the door while his back was facing the weapon, before he asked a question to Yuga. "Hey! Deku has a Quirk, right?"
"You saw it for yourself, didn't you? Although it wasn't very stylish." One he had answered the question, Yuga went back to being his narcissistic self while Bakugo stewed in his rage.
You could practically see the thoughts of 'Damn nerd' running through his head while he smiled somewhat crazily at the door. Meanwhile, outside the building, Izuku and Ochaco were making their plans while they memorized the building's layout.
"It's a lot of work to memorize the building's floor plan. But All Might is just the same as when he's on TV. Unlike Aizawa-sensei, it looks like there's no punishment, so we can relax and—You're not relaxed at all!" Well, it seemed more like Ochaco was talking to herself while Izuku was having a mini freak-out due to going up against Bakugo...
"Well, it's because... we're up against Kacchan... And we shouldn't underestimate Aoyama-kun either, so I feel like I need to be on guard..."
"I see. Bakugo's the one who makes fun of you, right?"
"He's amazing. He's a piece of work, but his goal, his confidence, his physical strength, and his Quirk are way more amazing than mine. But that's why right now... I don't want... to lose..." Stating his determination, Izuku placed the faceguard section of his mask back on.
"A fated battle between men, huh?" She concluded, causing Izuku to gasp in embarrasment. "Oh, sorry, this isn't your problem, Uraraka-san."
"It is! We're a team, aren't we? Let's do our best!" Ochaco pumped her fist into the air excitedly.
As they were finishing up their conversation, All Might arrived and came up to the front, taking his place at a panel close to the monitors. He pressed his finger to a button on the panel to activate the microphone and told them to begin the match.
"Now, let's start the indoor person-to-person combat training with Team A and Team F!" He let his hand drop back to his side and, while keeping his back to us, told us to pay attention and think about the match ourselves. "Okay, everyone, you all should think as well."
He brought out a clipboard, likely for scoring, and inserted his earpiece into his left ear with his free hand. On the monitors, we could see Izuku and Ochaco climbing into the building through one of the windows on the second floor, infiltrating successfully, Ochaco verbally repeating the observation.
"We've infiltrated successfully!"
"There are a lot of blind spots, so let's be careful."
They headed further into the building, walking slowly and taking their time to check corners, with Izuku leading the way. As they got further into the building he started using hand signs instead of talking and Ochaco would look behind them while they advanced. As they approached the next corner Bakugo jumped out before they could reach it and launched a surprise attack, ripping off one of the ears on Izuku's costume. Or would it be hair? Izuku jumped to the side and tackled Ochaco to the ground just as Bakugo attacked, saving her from any damage.
"Uraraka-san, are you all right?" Izuku asked as they landed. "Yeah, thanks." Ochaco let out a sound of surprise upon seeing the damage he took before saying his name in a worried tone. "Huh, Deku-kun?
"It's just a scratch."
As the smoke rose around the explosion from Bakugo's attack, he waved his arm, clearing it, and told Izuku to come get him. "Come Deku, don't dodge."
"I figured you'd come for me first."
Around me students shouted their surprise at his strategy of attacking first, even though he was on the defending team. Many of the students around me exclaimed their shock at Bakugo's 'stategy' or that Izuku had actually evaded it.
"A surprise attack from the start?"
"Bakugo, that's cheating! A surprise attack isn't manly at all!" Eijiro complained, to which All Might explained how it was merely strategy. "A surprise attack is a strategy, too. They're in the middle of a real battle right now."
"Midori-kun avoided it!"
"There goes Bakugo!
On the monitor Bakugo started to rush at Izuku and Ochaco while letting his rage flow through him. While threatening bodily harm of course. "I won't do so much damage that this fight gets stopped, but I'm gonna get close!"
He started with a right swing at Izuku, which Izuku caught before throwing Bakugo over his shoulder onto the ground. All the while Ochaco watched and stated her amazement. Bakugo tried to use his explosions in his left hand but couldn't get enough force while Izuku yelled out in effort.
"Wow, he's like a martial arts master!" Ochaco excitedly commented.
As Bakugo hit the ground he coughed out some saliva while Izuku gasped for air before telling Bakugo his mistake. "Kacchan... You usually start with a big right swing. How much do you think I've been watching you? I wrote an analysis for all the heroes I thought were amazing in my notebook. In the notebook you blew up and threw away. My 'Deku' isn't always going to mean 'useless'! Kacchan, my 'Deku' means 'You can do it'!" Bakugo had sat up while Izuku made his speech and Ochaco let out a gasp when Izuku exclaimed the new meaning of his Deku.
Bakugo stood up completely and turned to Izuku, who brought up his guard, before releasing more explosions in his hands as he screamed at Izuku in rage. "Deku... Even though you're scared... That's what I hate about you!"
On the far left of the monitor I could see Yuga flourishing his cape and winking towards the camera while standing next to the weapon. What is he even doing...
He placed one hand next to his ear and presses a finger to his earpiece, activating his microphone. "Do you need assistance in stylishly capturing our opponents, Bakugo-san?"
"I don't need your help. Just shut up and defend the weapon. I'm really angry right now!" On the main video feed of the monitor Bakugo cut out his mic while on Yuga's he just smirked and started inspecting himself again. Around me other students expressed their frustration at being unable to hear what they're saying and voiced their questions, which All Might answers diligently. I may or may not have voiced my question on Yuga and gotten ignored.
"What was Bakugo saying? Can't tell with just the cameras in a fixed position and no sound."
"Is laserboy-san even taking this seriously...?"
"He's talking to his partner over the small wireless radio. You can bring that plus the building's floor plan, and this capture tape! Once you wrap this around your opponent, it shows that you've captured them."
"The time limit is fifteen minutes, and the heroes don't know where the nuclear weapon is located, right?"
"Yes!"
"The heroes are clearly at a disadvantage here!"
"Heroes should be able to turn the tables on whatever predicament they're in. Besides, didn't Aizawa-sensei tell you, too? You know—Here we go—Plus Ultra!"
"Plus Ultra~!" Everyone that was present shouted out the school motto with him until someone pointed out that Bakugo was starting to move.
Bakugo extended his left arm behind him, preparing to launch himself forward with an explosion, and Izuku told Ochaco to go on ahead. "Uraraka-san, go!" Bakugo launched himself forward when Izuku shouted out to her and she immediately ran off down the hallway in search of the weapon.
As Bakugo approached Izuku, he pulled back both his left arm and leg, swinging his leg at Izuku, who blocked it with his right arm.
"Looking away? You must be sure of yourself." As he taunted Izuku he realized that the 'capture' tape was being wrapped around his leg and he let out a small gasp.
Bakugo swungs his right fist at Izuku to get him off immediately, but Izuku abandoned capturing his leg and leaped out of the way to the right. Around me more students are exclaiming their shock of him going up against Bakugo without even using his Quirk. Though it wasn't like he even could use it without causing injury to himself. Izuku crouched at the intersection he landed at after his leap and faced towards the smoke engulfing Bakugo, waiting to see what he would do next.
As the smoke cleared Bakugo extended his arms behind him once more, but Izuku dashed down the hallway to his left, causing Bakugo to yell out and start searching for him. "Come back here, Deku!"
As Izuku sprinted down the halls, Bakugo wildly searched after him, having completely lost sight of Izuku. When he reached the T-intersection at the end of the hallway he was in, Bakugo looked both ways before dashing down the hallway to his right. He repeated this action multiple times, at separate intersections, choosing which direction he searched in at random.
Unable to find Izuku, he stopped once more at a four-way intersection before yelling out at him once again. "Hey! You tricked me, didn't you?! Was it fun tricking me all this time?! Huh?! You've got a flashy Quirk there, don't you?! Try and get me with it! 'Cause I'm better than you!"
As he ran away, listening to Bakugo's yells of anger, Izuku adopted an expression of surprise and guilt, realizing that he had to hide what truly happened from Bakugo. As Bakugo continued to search, even blowing into the doors of a few rooms, Eijiro spoke out from a few meters to my left.
"He seems real angry. It's scary!"
Meanwhile, Izuku crouched down and rested his back against the corner of an intersection, having reached a good distance from Bakugo. He seemed to be taking this chance to rest and go over his plan again mentally, though he was distracted from his thoughts by Bakugo's continued yelling out for him from across the building.
"Where are you?! You damn nerd!"
After hearing that he made a determined expression, while Bakugo continued down the halls of the building, searching for Izuku. On the monitor to the right of the main two, which were concentrated on Izuku and Bakugo, Ochaco arrived into the room with the weapon, which was being guarded by Yuga. Though I'm not sure if what he's doing could be called guarding. As she hid behind a pillar, she peeked around the corner at him, and she saw the same sight I was seeing, which was Yuga dancing himself in circles while flourishing his sparkling cape all the while humming to himself.
He immediately noticed her and flourished once more in her direction before he spoke out to her sending her a sparkling wink. "Hello, mademoiselle. If you are here for this weapon, then I am afraid I cannot let you have it. Though if you are here for me, I can wonderfully entertain you, if you would like."
He bowed towards her as he finished speaking, but she just stared at him blankly, not sure if he was serious or not. After a few seconds of keeping her face blank she seemed to have decided he was joking, letting out a laugh but quickly covering her mouth, remembering the situation she was in and letting out a gasp.
"I... can't tell if he's being plain narcissistic or acting like a narcissistic villain...! I should contact Deku-kun." She backed a few steps away from her cover and muttered to herself before placing her hand to her ear, activating her microphone, contacting Izuku. "Deku-kun!"
"Uraraka-san! How's it going?"
"So, are you here for me-
"Aoyama-kun found me. Sorry! Right now, he's...
"-or are you here for this weapon, mademoiselle?"
"Where are you?"
"The middle of the fifth floor."
"Almost directly above!" As he responded to Ochaco he looked above him, to the next floor, and stood up while preparing his 'capture' tape.
Just as he looked around the corner of the intersection he was resting against, Bakugo arrived from one of the intersections further down the hall, with his gauntlets lighting up red and making a noise, causing Izuku to look back at him and gasp.
"They're loaded."
"Kacchan."
"Why won't you use your Quirk? Are you saying you can win even if you don't use it? Are you underestimating me, Deku?"
Izuku turned to fully face Bakugo while trembling slightly and exclaiming his lack of fear. "I'm not scared of you anymore!" As he shouted that he stopped trembling, and Bakugo smirked while raising his right fist into the air.
"With your stalking, you probably already know, but my Quirk, Explosion, lets me secrete nitroglycerin-like sweat from the sweat glands on the palm of my hand and make it explode. If they made this the way I asked, then these gauntlets will store the nitroglycerin inside of them, and..." As he talked about his Quirk, Bakugo aimed his right arm at Izuku and went to pull the pin from the top of his gauntlet, and All Might activated the microphone to tell him to stop.
"Young Bakugo, stop! Are you trying to kill him?!"
"If I don't hit him, he won't die!" Bakugo yelled as he fully pulled out the pin from his gauntlet, releasing the stored nitroglycerin and causing it to explode outwards from his arm, destroying the hallway.
It continued all the way until the side of the building opening a hole in it and barely hitting Izuku, launching him to the side. We could feel the explosion all the way in the monitor room and, on screen, Ochaco and Yuga struggled to keep their balance. Well... Yuga still flourished his cape while spinning around, trying to keep his balance. He didn't look like he was struggling very much as he was smirking the whole time and, it might have been my imagination but, did he wink at the camera too? Seriously, what is up with him?
Around me some of the students yelled out and gasped at the rumbling caused by the explosion while I made an obscure reference that no one but myself would understand.
"This is supposed to be a class!"
"EXUPLOOOOSION!" I thrusted out my right arm as though I were holding a staff and, after shouting out I dropped to the ground, glancing at the monitor and smirking, made a very chuuni-esque remark. "Burn to ashes within the crimson."
"Young man! Young Midoriya!"
I stood up afterwards, getting quite a few strange looks but I ignored them and went back to watching the monitors. On the main monitor, as the smoke cleared, we could see Izuku laying on the ground and gasping, with the sleeve of his right arm torn off.
"Is that... even allowed...?" As he sat back up, he let out an expression of shock before gasping as he saw Bakugo walk out of the clearing smoke, marveling to himself at the power of his explosion. "Haha! Wow... The more that's stored in these gauntlets, the stronger the blast. Come on, use your Quirk, Deku... I'll force you to surrender even if you're at full strength."
Meanwhile, on the fifth floor Yuga was still spinning around and Ochaco took the chance to rush for the weapon. Ochaco activated her Quirk on herself and jumped over him, to which he skillfully danced towards the weapon before thrusting his hips at her, activating his Quirk. He hit her straight in the center of her torso, launching her back towards her pillar and she rolled a few times, causing her helmet to fall off.
"I told you that you can't have this weapon, mademoiselle. Please do not try and take it away from me in such an unstylish way again."
Ochaco slowly got back up, though with a few scratches and bruises, before turning and facing him fully, half of her bodysuit having been destroyed completely. I heard everyone around me gasp before several of the girls went to cover the eyes of the boys closest to them. Though everyone still got a good look at Ochaco's cleavage, thankfully, none of the important parts were visible.
"HERO COURSE IS THE BEST! MORE CLEAVA-" Mineta made an exclamation before he got a tongue wrapped around his eyes cutting him off and causing a wet slapping noise. While he was being his usual perverted self, Itsuka busied herself collecting the male students in her gigantified hands.
Ochaco didn't seem to have noticed yet and so, Yuga seemed to have taken it upon himself to inform her. "Mademoiselle... It appears you are having a wardrobe malfunction. I apologize for ruining your outfit, but you still can't have this weapon." She instantly covered herself with her hands before running to hide behind the nearest pillar.
Ochaco peeked her head around the corner of the pillar, red as a tomato, and glared at him. In response he just smiled back like nothing happened before flourishing his cape again, to which she picked up her helmet from the ground next to her and threw it at him. He spun away from it while letting out an aristocratic-like laugh and winking at her when he stopped. Is he... teasing her? Eh? Was that in his character description?! I don't know!
Most of the classes attention had reverted back to the main fight as they couldn't hear the comedy that was happening and Ochaco had covered up, causing the boys to lose interest. Well, most of the boys, minus Mineta, but that's expected. As almost everyone's attention had reverted back to the main fight Itsuka released them and they all stumbled to the ground.
Luckily, not much had been missed, the two of them still having a glare-off, and Bakugo was still taunting Izuku, trying to get him to use his Quirk. "Hey, hey, what's wrong, Deku? I didn't hit you, so you can still move, can't you? Come and get me!"
"Uraraka-san, what's the situation?" Ignoring Bakugo's taunts, Izuku started whispering to Ochaco, who quickly responded. "Deku-kun!"
"Keh! Ignoring me again?" Bakugo grimaced. "I can't believe him!"
"Sensei, you should stop them! That Bakugo's really crazy! He's gonna kill him!" Eijiro anxiously suggested for All Might to end the fight, seeing how dangerous it seemed to be getting, to which he refused. "No..."
Knowing how important the fight was to Izuku, and as Bakugo seemed to be keeping his sanity, for the moment, All Might let the fight continue with a stern warning. "Young Bakugo, the next time you use that, I'll stop the fight, and your team will lose."
"Huh?"
"To attack on such a large scale inside is inviting the destruction of the stronghold you should be protecting. That is a foolish plan for both heroes and villains! You will lose a lot of points for it!" All Might admonished, making Bakugo let out a scream in response.
"Go to the pillar by the windows! Over and out!" Izuku instructed to Ochaco through his ear piece, finishing off their planning. Crap. I missed them planning while I got distracted. Oopsies.
"Fine, then! Let's fight it out with our fists!"
While Bakugo launched himself at Izuku on the main screen, Ochaco ran along the outside edges of the room containing the weapon, reaching the windows at the same side of the building as the weapon, although still at the opposite end of the room.
As Bakugo was flying towards him, Izuku took a stance and swung his right arm at Bakugo, who changed his momentum midair with a small explosion, sending smoke into Izuku's face. Bakugo flew over Izuku's head with the explosion he let out of his right hand and stopped his momentum with another explosion from his right, all the while releasing another explosion from his left straight into Izuku's back.
Most of the class gasped at Bakugo's movements while one of the girls let out a scream and Eijiro spoke out in surprise. "What was that just now?"
"He doesn't look like the type to think, but he's more subtle than I expected." Todoroki observed.
"You got it, popsicle stand! Even though he's just a ball of rage." He ignored me calling him popsicle stand. I guess Todoroki is the kind of person that doesn't care about too much, isn't he? For now, at least.
"What do you mean?" Eijiro asked, turning towards Todoroki.
"He changed his course in a blast that doubled as a smoke screen and then did it again immediately." He calmly explained.
"Getting in a clean hit while fighting against inertia requires fine lateral adjustments to the power of the explosions." Momo interjected, explaining the need for fine adjustments for such a move.
"He's too talented... Too talented... Ugh..." Someone sighed out in a defeated tone.
Back on the monitor, Izuku fell forward with his back smoking, but kept standing as Bakugo continued his taunts. "Look, here I come! It's your favorite right swing!"
Izuku let out a scream as he was hit in the back once more, and Bakugo grabbed Izuku's right arm before using his left hand to gain spinning momentum with explosions. "Deku!" He yelled out as he tossed Izuku violently into the ground, causing him to gasp out in pain once more. "You are... below me!" Bakugo finished.
All around me the other students began complaining about the match not ending, not that I didn't get it, I was worried too. But I knew how important this match is to Izuku, and in the end, it was All Might's decision on whether he would end it or not.
"This is a lynching! He can capture him for this exercise by just wrapping the tape around him!"
"Those are not the actions of a hero."
"I thought Midoriya was pretty amazing, too, but in terms of combat power, Bakugo is definitely a ball of natural instincts."
Next to me All Might was gripping the microphone as tightly as he could without breaking it, showing me that he was just as worried as I was. On the screen Izuku started enacting his plan, moving into position, though most of the students thought that he was just running away.
"He's running away?"
"That's not something a man should do, but he has no choice."
"Ehhh~? Is that really the case, Sword-kun?" I responded to Eijiro.
Just as he arrived next to the windows, turning to face Bakugo, he recognized and acknowledged that something didn't seem quite right. "Eh? You're right... something is strange... Why...?"
"Ahaha~! You'll see in a moment, this is where it gets good!" I replied, grinning to myself all the while.
"Why won't you use your Quirk? Are you underestimating me?!" Bakugo stomped towards Izuku while complaining about not being taken seriously, and Izuku lowered his head as he replied. "No..."
"You've been like this ever since we were kids... Have you been underestimating me like that since then, you bastard?!"
"That's not it... You're... You're an amazing person, so that's why I want to beat you! I want to win and surpass you, you idiot!" Izuku raised his head as tears started to leak out and he clenched his fists while he shared his determination.
"Don't look at me like that! You damn nerd!" Bakugo clenches his fists as he replied and they both rushed towards one another at the same time, swinging their right fists. Bakugo released explosions from his hand while Izuku charged up One For All in his and yelled out the start of his technique.
"Detroit..."
"I said, this looks bad! Sensei!" Eijiro called out.
"Both of you, sto-" All Might quickly brought the microphone to his mouth, attempting to end the match, but quickly cut himself off as Izuku called out to Ochaco.
"Let's go, Uraraka-san!"
I glanced over to the left-most monitor to see that she and Yuga were still having a stare-off but she was gripping a pillar by the windows, hiding her chest against it, ready to enact their plan. She replied to Izuku with a yell and Yuga just smirked while standing there next to the weapon, as though he had been expecting it all along. "Okay!"
I quickly turned back to the main monitor and saw Izuku change his swing to an uppercut while bringing his left arm up to guard against Bakugo's attack. He swung his arm up while yelling out and taking Bakugo's attack head on.
"… Smash!"
Izuku's attack destroyed the building from the inside out, making a vertical hole all the way up through the roof of the building. On the fifth floor Ochaco held onto her pillar while Yuga stayed standing next to the weapon before she swung it like a baseball bat, hitting all the rubble that was suspended in the air from Izuku's blast.
"Sorry, Aoyama-kun! Improvised special move—Comet Home Run!"
"Very nice, mademoiselle." As the rubble flew at Yuga and the weapon, he complimented her while dodging it all, moving away from the weapon. Though from those movements... I think he could have dodged or countered without leaving the weapon open. Nah, I'm probably just imagining things, it's that narcissist after all.
After swinging, Ochaco dropped the pillar before using her Quirk on herself once more, jumping at the weapon and grabbing onto it, exclaiming her team's victory. "Retrieved!"
"Ah, she got the weapon." Yuga had stayed off to the side after dodging and he activated his microphone while nonchalantly commenting that the weapon had been taken.
On the second floor, Bakugo was trembling in anger and stared up into the sky after Izuku's attack, before he verbally let out his shock. "That's what... From the start, you were... You are underestimating me, aren't you?!"
"I wasn't... going to use it... Because I can't use it... Because my body can't handle the impact... Aizawa-sensei said so, too... But... this was all... I could think of..."
Izuku let down his arm as the timer ran out for the battle and Bakugo stared at him in shock, whether due to his own loss or the extent of Izuku's injuries though, I'm not really sure. Everyone in the monitor room stared at the screen, just as shocked, if not more so than Bakugo was, without making a single noise until All Might exclaimed the hero team's victory as Izuku fell to the ground.
"Hero... Hero team... wins~!" As the victory was announced Bakugo stood, unmoving, and just stared out into space with an expression of complete bafflement plastered onto his face.
On the fifth floor Ochaco slid down the weapon while looking exhausted and Yuga walked up to her, offering his hand. "You did well in this battle, mademoiselle, though not the most stylish."
She didn't respond and instead rolled over onto all fours, placing a hand over her mouth so she didn't throw up, causing Yuga to back away from her. The students around me stopped keeping their silence, letting out gasps and noises of confusion while a few started talking amongst themselves.
"What the heck? The losers are practically uninjured, and the winners are on the ground..."
"They lost the battle, but won the war, huh?"
"This is training, though."
While the students around me continued to converse, All Might had called in the stretcher robots and headed out to the building they had conducted the battle in himself. When he arrived, he loaded Izuku onto the robots and they left, taking him to the nurse's office, while Bakugo was still standing there. He was holding his right arm in front of himself, which was shaking, the shock of losing still evident on his face.
As he started to hyperventilate All Might walked over, placing a hand on Bakugo's shoulder and telling him to return. "Come back, Young Bakugo. It's time to review the results. Whether you win or lose, looking back and learning from your experiences is a part of life."
After the teams and All Might, minus Izuku of course, returned we moved on to reviewing it. All Might was about to announce the MVP who I wasn't sure about, since Tenya wasn't there this time. Speaking of, where is he...? Just as I had thought about him, he entered into the room, walking over to stand between myself and Itsuka. She had been strangely quiet the whole match, aside from controlling the boys during the wardrobe mishap, even though she had been standing next to me.
"Hey, where were you, Iida-chan?" I asked.
"I was in the washroom, Yagi-san. Could you tell me what happened in the match?"
"Ah, sure, Izuku-chan won. We can go over more details after the post-match review?"
"That would be best, thank you, Yagi-san." He slightly bowed his head to me in thanks.
I looked over to Itsuka and she was still being quiet but she was holding a finger to her lips, with an inquisitive expression on her face. Should I ask...? Before I got the chance to decide though, All Might decided to announce the MVP, likely because Tenya had returned.
"Alright everyone! For this combat training match, the MVP was Young Aoyama!" Hearing All Mights exclamation everyone let out a gasp, because it wasn't one of the winners and they likely had similar thoughts to mine, of him not taking it seriously.
"It's not either of the winners, Ochaco-chan or Midoriya-chan?" Tsuyu questioned.
"Hmm, well... Why is that? Does anyone know?" He asked in response while raising his left arm and I repeated the action, interrupting Momo's chance at beginning her lecture of an answer.
"Yes! Sensei! It's because, while he didn't seem very villainous, Aoyama-san acted as what he believed was villainous, which followed the training's context!"
"That is correct! While Young Aoyama wasn't particularly villainous, there are in fact villains that have acted like such in the past. Villains who believe themselves to be aristocratic such as the 'Blood Count', act in a manner that isn't necessarily villainous, but their violent actions are! Does anyone else have anything to add?"
Momo jumped at the chance and began her lecture. "Yes, All Might-sensei. From watching the match, it appears Bakugo acted on his own because of an obviously personal grudge. And as All Might-sensei said earlier, it is foolish to launch a large-scale attack indoors. In the same way, taking into consideration the damage he received, Midoriya-san's plan was also rash. As for Uraraka-san... She let her guard down mid-battle, and her final attack was far too reckless. If she treated the papier-mâché as a real weapon, she would not have been able to do something so dangerous. The hero team only won because they took advantage of the fact that this was training. They were practically breaking the rules."
And she went and started her lecture anyways... Though she didn't mention Yuga at all. I suppose she thought he was MVP by default because the others all disqualified themselves. A few feet away I could see All Might shaking, likely because she had practically stolen the lesson from him.
He raised his right hand with his pointer finger held out and stated that she was correct while giving her a thumb up. "W-well, young Aoyama also has parts of him that could be more serious, but well, that was correct!"
"We should always start with the basics to develop depth of learning. We must strive to devote ourselves wholeheartedly. Otherwise, we cannot become top heroes."
Um. Okay? No offense, but did anyone even ask? You're stealing All Might's spotlight here you know! While she was talking All Might had pulled the hero and villain boxes out from somewhere and was ready to start the next match. Where the hell was he even keeping those?
"All right everyone, let's change locations and start the second match. Tackle this training after thinking about what we just talked about."
"Yes, sir!"
"Match two! It will take place at Battle Building B with Team C as the heroes, and Team E as the villains!"
Ohh! Itsuka's on team E isn't she? I turned to face her but she was still staring at the monitor in the same pose as earlier.
I took a few steps towards her and laid my hand on her shoulder before asking if she was fine. "You've been really quiet ever since combat training started, Suka-chan. Are you all right?"
"Ah. Yes, I was just lost in my thoughts."
"Well, you're up! Good luck in your match, Suka-chan!"
She didn't seem like there was anything bothering her, but I can't help but be worried...
Author Note:
I was very tempted to make a KONOSUBA! Reference when he spoke about Explosion, but I decided not to. In fact, I still want to do it. Ehehe. I went back and did it. Teheporo.
I keep writing fanservice bits and I don't know why! I'm just sitting here, writing normally, and all of a sudden there's groping or wardrobe malfunctions, etc. What is going on...
Uhm... I kind of forgot about Tenya... Let's just pretend he was in the bathroom this whole chapter! Ah. Itsuka too.
I'm having a lot of trouble with the 5th match. ;-; I know what I want to happen, but I just can't get it quite right.
Updated 10/18/2018