Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
The race had started.
The Sports Festival was just that, a sports festival where students could show off their Quirks and the young heroes to really show what they were made of. So the race course was going to have a few good tricks to it that most courses wouldn't ever dream of having. It was a course worthy of getting Japan pumped up to see it, and this year, they had gone all out on the first event and made the very first part of the race interesting for all involved.
Of course, there were clear leaders in the race.
-With Midnight-
"Yes... he's doing great... I didn't realize he was so athletic before. Do me proud, do me good and proud." Midnight whispered as she watched the giant television screen. She saw Naruto using his strong legs to jump over the starting crowd and take first place. He kept hopping as a couple of students ran behind him and kept a firm distance between them that didn't shrink much.
"In first place so far, is our own Midnight's very own son, Uzumaki Naruto! Lets see what the Adult only hero was able to teach her child, and if he can keep his lead with Endeavor's son hot on his cold tracks!"
"Hell yeah he can do it." Midnight, realizing the secret was out, openly cheered for Naruto now as she raised her whip up. "... Wait... that's unfair!" Midnight realized that somebody was using their Quirk to create a massively unfair advantage.
Todoroki had frozen the ground and a lot of students weren't able to continue running, but it was allowed by the rules to interfere with other students.
-With Naruto-
'This is a bit easy... I guess I don't have to worry so much about challenging myself. After over a year of running from heroes all the time, I've gotten faster.' Naruto thought as he barely had to push himself to stay ahead of the pack. He was only using 60% of his full speed, a great chunk of speed, but by all means he wasn't pushing himself to really try. While heroes like Mirko were still faster than he was, it was his skill with the speed he did have that always allowed him to escape them. Well, after over 12 months of constantly running and getting good training against heroes, this wasn't hard for him.
A robot army.
The first challenge for students were to face off and run passed a large scale robot army, with some massive, building sized, robots standing and moving towards them. Naruto's eyes widened for a moment.
He grinned.
He didn't hesitate.
-Away from UA-
"Well damn, this is pretty fun to watch... and damn does this kid have some serious talent." Mirko stated as she watched a TV, stopping by a store that had a TV playing in the window on the channel with UA's sports festival. Other heroes had stopped nearby as well, and many civilians were watching as the cameras stuck on the first place person.
Well, it was Midnight's son.
"Wow, usually it's a brat from the hero course who sticks in first place. It's never ever been a kid from the General course though."
"His moves... I feel like I've seen them before." Mirko said to herself as she rubbed her head in self-anger at not being able to recognize where she knew those moves from. She saw Naruto flip over a robot, doing a flip, while grabbing the robot's head and pulling it off. When a robot tried to attack him, he moved like a fluid fighter and evaded anything that got too close to him.
When a robot fired a claw at him from behind, Naruto seemed to notice the attack coming at him from behind his very head.
"Oh, the kid is... HE DODGED THAT!?"
The heroes were impressed when Naruto's feet touched a robot for a brief second, before he did a backflip while still going forward. He dodged the claw as it travelled underneath his flipping body, a grin firmly rooted to his face as he grabbed the moving claw and let it carry him at a greater speed for several meters.
"Well, that kid has fine reflexes, even most pro heroes can't dodge attacks like that with no warning. It was like he sensed the attack was coming before it touched him."
"Just like Kurama." Mirko realized where she had seen similar moves to this. Like Kurama, this kid was moving without needing to see the attacks. He dodged them by experience and with the ease of a pro hero, he dodged them in a similar way to how Kurama dodged her when she attacked him from his blind spots. Like Kurama, this Naruto kid seemed to have no blind spots in his defense as he dodged every single robot.
The students who didn't stop running got through the small robots, and were face to face with the giant robots.
Endeavor's son froze a gaint robot without an issue, robots like that weren't a challenge for most pro heroes to take care of since Gigantification-type Quirks were so common these days. It was par for the course, but she was surprised when the general studies student did something different.
-With Midnight-
"Woah... woah I didn't know he could do that." Midnight whispered when she saw Naruto, on the screen land a jump on top of the large robot's head as another one made to attack him. Naruto jumped off of it just in time as the robot's head was punched, and it went flying while Naruto puffed himself up and slowed his descent to the ground.
She hadn't expected him to actually defeat one of the giant robots, she figured the small ones yeah, but not one of the big ones.
"GO NII-CHAN!"
"Now, Naruto and Shoto are the only contestants... and Momo creates a cannon to shoot down the last giant robot, and create a pathway for the other students to run! It seems these three students stand out far above the rest so far!"
-With Momo-
'Naruto, I'll defeat you. The world might not know who you are, but beating you here will prove to myself that I have the potential to be better than the number 1 villain.' Momo thought as she smiled at the remains of the giant robot that had taken a cannon blast to the head, and fallen on top of all of the other robots underneath it.
She stood among the only 3 students in the race to take down one of the giant robots with ease, Todoroki freezing one, Naruto manipulating one robot to defeat another, and she herself shot one to pieces. That put her on par with Naruto and Todoroki when it came to at least this feat of skill and strength.
"RAH!"
She was instantly surpassed as Bakugo fired off explosions from his hands and shot forward like a bullet, sick and tired of not being in first place that his anger exploded. She frowned deeply when she realized that the gap between her and her fellow students was still just as wide as it had been before.
"You think some General studies nobody is going to get first place, like HELL! DIE BASTARD!"
'D-die?' Was the common thought among everyone when Bakugo screamed as he moved forward like a jet.
Of course, Bakugo didn't seem to plan on directly attacking Naruto or Todoroki, but he shot towards them as they got to the second part of the racing course. Powered by explosions, he was able to catch up to Naruto just as they reached a massive crater in the ground that had pillars of earth sticking up.
The second part of the race, cross the crater by going from pillar to pillar, but either using your Quirk or using the ropes attached to the pillars.
Naruto jumped into the crater and grabbed a rope as Bakugo started to fly himself over the pillars, since now Bakugo was his biggest competitor for the race, Naruto just grinned as he kicked the ground and shattered it enough to release the rope that was stuck in it. He kicked a second time and shot himself down into the crater.
-With the Audience-
"NII-CHAN!"
The orphanage children who had gotten tickets from Midnight were all screaming support towards Naruto, though he couldn't hear them. On the large TV screen, Naruto vanished as he disappeared in the darkness of the crater.
"Naruto..." Midnight didn't know what to make of the move.
"It seems the previous first place Naruto has jumped down into the... and what an amazing move!"
On the TV screen, Naruto was shot out of the darkness like a cannon as he used the rope as a giant swing. He went flying through the air faster than Bakugo could keep up, crossing the entire crater in mere moments as he did flips and tricks for the cameras watching him. Other students were only starting to get to the crater, while Naruto, Bakugo, and Todoroki had all finished crossing it and were already running towards the next event.
"Damn, now that kid is good. How isn't he in the hero course?"
"I know, he's got a real flare for being on camera. He's playing it up naturally, showing off his Quirk, and even putting the students who trained for this to shame."
Midnight could hear the heroes in the crowd talking to each other as her son gained the attention of everyone watching. Nobody was ever expecting a general studies student to put hero students to shame, even she didn't expect Naruto take the lead like this. It was really amazing, and made her really appreciate the training they did together. Naruto was putting what she taught him to use, and she loved to see him succeed.
'You go to the very top.' Midnight thought proudly.
-Heroes Watching on Patrol-
"Which hero student is that?"
"That's Midnight's boy, Naruto... he's in the general studies. I'm really interested in this, looks like the kid had some serious potential. He moves just like Kurama does." Mirko explained to her fellow hero as she watched the TV with more interest than before. She should know what Kurama moved like, she fought him more than any other hero alive. His movements were something that she understood with her body and eyes, and these movements were so fluid that they just screamed a similarity to Kurama. "This just shows that more people have the same skill level as that guy... that's pretty scary to think so many little bastards like that exist huh." Mirko gave a excited grin at the very thought of it.
So many people with that level of skill and potential were constantly being groomed, and as Quirks evolved and got stronger, villains and heroes of each generation would get stronger and stronger. Older heroes were always being left in the dust by newer generations of heroes, and the same could be said for villains.
"Really, I don't see it... this student seems really serious, but Kurama is just some prankster. They don't have the same aura to me."
'... Blond hair... and blue eyes... those are similar traits to Kurama, that he had under his hood. I have blurry memories of those.' Mirko narrowed her eyes when she watched the TV screen.
-With Naruto-
Danger.
Naruto flipped through the air as he came across a sign that warned for a mine field. Naruto looked at the ground carefully, before he decided that he wouldn't be able to tell where the mines were so easily. They were non-lethal mines, but all the same they were meant to slow down the person who was in first place.
Naruto closed his eyes and ran blindly.
He heard an explosion behind him as Todoroki blew up one of the mines by running too close to him, and Naruto jumped to his left and landed on his hands. Hopping forward he flipped and the second he landed he continued his momentum and flipped again forward even faster. He heard more explosions behind him, but he trusted his sensed to tell him where he needed to go. He allowed his sixth sense to be his guide as he did nothing but hops and flips across the race grounds.
'The damn gap is getting even...' Bakugo didn't even get to finish his thought before he stepped on a landmine and blew it up, stopping him in his tracks for a moment. He glared as the distance between himself and first place only got wider.
*BOOM*
"Midoriya too?" Todoroki questioned when Deku went flying off of a shield that had been strapped with landmines, getting ahead of him and Bakugo. He glanced behind himself as he ran, and saw many other students starting to catch up.
The siren went off.
"Naruto Uzumaki has taken first place, and second by 6 seconds is Izuku Midoriya! After them, we have Shoto Todoroki and Katsuki Bakugo!"
"DAMNIT! Damnit all, FOURTH place, behind a general studies NOBODY and DEKU!?" Bakugo was already screaming death as he punched the ground. He didn't care if it was in front of the cameras, but after he talked a big game about coming in first, coming in fourth was the absolute worst for him. That wasn't even a silver or a bronze metal, he was in a loser spot now.
Naruto was basking in the crowd's attention as they cheered for the first place winner for the race.
"Wow Naruto, that was amazing, I didn't realize the Toad quirk could get this great. You've really improved since you fought Ashido." Izuku walked towards Naruto with a wide smile on his face. Just happy to say hi to Naruto, though he was annoyed he himself didn't get first place. He extended a hand towards Naruto.
Naruto didn't see a reason not to shake it.
"Well, I couldn't let Mina beat me again." Naruto still felt annoyed that for his cover, that he needed to be knocked out by Mina. That stain on his pride still stood pretty strong, and he hoped he could get a chance to get a little bit of revenge against the girl. "You did pretty good, you came in second out of nowhere." Naruto complimented the surprise second place the teenager had gotten.
He had expected Todoroki or Bakugo, who had stayed behind him for most of the race, and stayed pretty close behind him comparison to how most pro heroes chased him. Both Bakugo and Todoroki were on par with quite a few pro heroes at even this moment in time, but sadly, he was in a league above the average pro hero.
Naruto glanced at Midnight, and she sent him a thumbs up.
He nodded back to her.
He got first place in the first event.
Chapter End!
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