Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
"Wow, this years 1st years really are something else. That boy Midoriya really challenged Tamanki, and the kid Bakugo even won his match with Nejire. You're Naruto Uzumaki, the boy that Midnight adopted right?"
Naruto was face to face with Mirio, the hero Lemillion and student of Sir Nighteye, and the student who was stronger than most of the Top 10 of the Heroes. It was flat out stated that this boy had the greatest chance of becoming the Number 1 hero, even more so than the Number 2 Hero Endeavor.
Naruto smiled.
"Yeah, and you're Lemillion... we've got a couple of seconds until the match starts. So, my Quirk is Toad, I can do anything a Toad can do and more thanks to a mutation my Quirk has thanks to my Mother." Naruto extended his hand towards Mirio with a grin on his face.
Mirio took his hand.
"Ah, so we're playing on a fair field then. If you'll tell me what your Quirk is, I will do the same to make sure we fight fairly. My Quirk is-"
"Permeation, the thing about popular Heroes is that their Quirks are public news. You can make parts of your body intangible. You've got a really weak Quirk, I'm impressed you've come as far as you've come with it." Naruto stated with a happy smile.
There was no tension between them.
Mirio smiled.
"Wow, most people call my Quirk unfair after knowing me. You're the first to call it-"
[START!]
Mirio had a kick from Naruto slip through the side of his head, because the instant the fight started Naruto stopped smiling and Mirio became more serious as well. The kick would have crushed a regular person's skull.
'He's attacking with an almost lethal force.' Mirio thought as he started to throw a punch at Naruto, and Naruto raised his hand to block it. The fist phased through Naruto's block, and the second he went through Naruto's guard, Naruto opened his mouth.
The second his fist would have touched Naruto, Naruto's tongue shot out of his mouth and darted like a bullet at Mirio's fist. Mirio was forced to make his fist intangible once more as it phased through Naruto's tongue and his stomach. Naruto kicked off the ground and landed a couple of feet away.
Mirio pressed his advantage to end the match as quickly as he could, and he ran at Naruto ready to use his Quirk the second that he needed to.
Naruto jumped 30 feet in the air before he could reach him, higher than Mirio could hope to jump on his own.
Mirio seemed to appear behind Naruto anyway, with his fist already a foot away from Naruto's head and quickly approaching.
Naruto was gone the next second as he went flying to the ground before Mirio's fist could touch him. Naruto's tongue was stuck to the ground, and acted like a grappling hook that allowed him to rip himself out of the air before any attack could land. With a quick twist of his neck, while Mirio was still in the air, Naruto shot his tongue once more at Mirio like a bullet.
'It will phase through him, and he will land on the ground-' Naruto thought with a sly smile on his lips.
Mirio smiled as well.
'I will phase through his tongue and land on the ground, I'll phase through and pop up-' Mirio phased through Naruto's tongue and dropped towards the ground. The second he touched the ground, his entire body phased through it with his clothes being left behind on the ground.
He appeared out of the ground in front of Naruto, looking at Naruto expecting Naruto be turned around.
Naruto was still facing him.
'-in front of me as he expects me to predict him to appear behind me.' Naruto thought as he had his fist extended through Mirio's chest. Mirio had turned his Quirk on at the last second, the very last second as a slightly surprised smile overcame his features. He looked at Naruto's challenging grin as Naruto's tongue darted back into his mouth.
A shadow was quickly approaching him from behind, and he saw a large chunk of rock had been ripped out of the ground by Naruto's tongue earlier.
'I see, he didn't predict I would appear behind him. He manipulated me so that I would assume he would predict me, and forced me to play by his rules. This guy-' Mirio started to sink through the ground again as his view of Naruto left him.
He popped up out of the ground behind Naruto, unable to change his direction to go anywhere else. He glanced and saw that Naruto had jumped up, and the rock was still flying at him. He jumped and rolled to the side, dodging the rock physically instead of using his Quirk. The rock shattered part of the arena floor, and Mirio looked and saw Naruto land on the ground with his back facing him.
The crowd was silent.
'-is just as amazing as before.' Naruto thought as he flexed his fingers.
They had opposite fighting styles down to their very core.
Naruto manipulated his opponents into acting ways he wanted them to act. Naruto looked at his opponents, learned how they fought, and then used that knowledge to trick his opponents into fighting a certain way against him. He was a mental predator who preyed on the mental weaknesses of his opponents, and used his own unpredictability against his opponents to make them put more thought into their own actions.
Mirio didn't manipulate at all, he reacted and predicted what his opponents would do. Then he would make a thought out plan on how to deal with his predictions, using his Quirk to make surprise attacks and his superior physical strength to take down most enemies with the first blow.
Naruto's advanced spatial awareness meant that Mirio's surprise attacks were useless.
Mirio's Permeation meant that Naruto's attacks weren't going to hit normally.
"You're amazing." Naruto and Mirio stated as they looked at each other with visible respect in their eyes.
Blue eyes looked into blue eyes.
-In the Audience-
"Wo-woah... that was a Pro level battle, back in my day there weren't any pros that could keep up with those two." Nana couldn't stop but marvel in shock when she saw just how strong the two teenagers were. Quirks had evolved over the years that she was gone, growing stronger and stronger, but the skill these two were displaying was on a level that she had a hard time comprehending.
Orochimaru was skilled, but only because he had access to the fighting styles of all the heroes and villains he had absorbed into himself. That had been the most skilled villain from before even her generation.
'So this is Lemillion... Nighteye's student... he's incredibly strong.' Toshinori thought to himself as he observed the battle.
Still, his opponent was no less amazing.
[What did we just watch! In less than a minute, these two students have shown off some serious skill. Now it looks like they have taken a moment to think up their plans!] Present Mic's voice shouted through the arena.
-On the Stage-
"You are a General studies student right?" Mirio asked with some confusion. "Last round, you won your match by simply stealing your headband back from the other students at the last second." Mirio stated, since he had seen that event happen on a playback of it. His opponent had done nothing last event.
Naruto smiled.
"I just didn't want to waste my stamina or show off my skills. Also, put some pants on dude, your cock is hanging out." Naruto pointed out to Mirio, the man covering his dick with one of his hands to make sure it wasn't visible to everyone. He had been very thoughtful about that, but Mirio just rubbed the back of his head awkwardly.
Naruto shrugged.
"Sorry, it happens... how did you figure out where I was going to pop up?"
"You can go through things, but you were still affected by gravity. It made me think that when you go underground, and go tangible again, the way your body is positioned affects where you come back up. So you plan out your body's position as you go underground, and with very little ways to maneuver underground, I can guess within a 2 meter range where you will come up." Naruto stated as he crouched down and touched all of his fingers to the ground. He and Mirio were sizing each other up.
1 hit.
"I might be intangible, but to me, you seem like the untouchable one so far. You've already stopped 15 of my attacks." Mirio stated as he took up a fighting stance again, shoulders tensed up as he was forced to admit.
Naruto grinned.
"You didn't throw that many attacks."
"That's right, you stopped me before I could try. Some Toads have an extremely strong poison, and I noticed that some parts of your body had a little poison on them. Whenever I was in a position to attack you, I noticed attacking you would have meant getting poisoned. You stopped me from throwing a punch before I could attack at all... I count that." Mirio stated, and Naruto's tongue dropped out of his mouth a little and touched against the ground.
"Then you better dodge this. Toad Explosion Parade!"
Naruto took a massive breath and his entire body buffed up in less than a second. His body buffing up ripped most of his clothes to shreds, and the poison coating his body went flying off of him in all directions. Mirio phased through the ground right as the poison was about to touch him, and he popped up out of the ground as Naruto's body debuffed itself back to normal size.
Naruto coated his skin with poison again.
Before Mirio could attack, Naruto buffed himself up and shot more poison out. Mirio jumped backwards and went intangible as the poison went through him, and when he landed he rushed towards Naruto. Only for Naruto to do it again before Mirio could catch his breath or make any sort of advancement towards Naruto.
Naruto's body kept exploding in size and decreasing, poison constantly scattering in the air around him as Mirio was forced to constantly go intangible across his entire body in order to dodge it.
'I can't breath... he figured out one of the weaknesses of my Quirk. He's giving me a choice, either stay tangible long enough to breath, or dodge his omni-direction poison. I can either breath and get hit, or pass out from lack of oxygen.' Mirio thought with a twinkle in his eye. Naruto had figured out that if everything passed through his body, that meant he was unable to breath as well. When he used his Quirk over his entire body, it meant him being unable to take in anymore oxygen, and all the oxygen in his body left his lungs as well.
His body could only go so long with no oxygen, and no time to process what little oxygen it was getting.
"Will you pass out first, or will I run out of poison? Lets see how long we can last." Naruto stated as Mirio's cheeks started to turn pale as he touched the ground, only to jump into the air and turn intangible as the second sprinkle of poison approached him. 'It's only my weakest poison, but as long as he thinks it's strong poison he'll keep dodging it.' Naruto thought with a grin as he took his next breath.
Mirio was already starting to feel the effects of the strategy, and he looked around for anything he could take cover behind.
His eyes widened when he saw his only chance.
He repositioned his body and phased through the ground right before the next way of poison could hit him.
Mirio reappeared behind the rock that Naruto had thrown into the stage earlier, large enough for him to hide away from the poison and take the breath that his body so desperately needed.
*Crunch*
Mirio took a hit to the chin the second he opened his mouth to take a breath, and Naruto's tongue shot out of the ground and slammed into his chin with enough force to smash Mirio's skull into the rock he was hiding behind. With a loud crunch, the rock cracked under the force of the hit, and Mirio collapsed on the ground.
Naruto shrank his body down and stood up, his tongue coming out of the hole in the ground it had made.
"Earlier, I threw that rock with my tongue knowing it had zero chance of hitting you. You see, the weakness behind Toad Explosion Parade is that the poison I use for it is so weak it would only sting a little. I figured out the weakness of your Quirk the second you used it to phase through the ground." Naruto stated as he started to walk towards Mirio.
Mirio couldn't move.
He physically couldn't move his body, and his head felt like it was spinning as he was finally starting to get his breath back.
'... He...'
"You're super smart and strong, but you're human and you need to breath. You dodged and dodged my attacks, all while trying to think of a way to get a way to breath. As your body got weaker due to lack of oxygen, and it got harder to think for you, you saw the rock on the field as the best way for you to catch your breath. I threw that rock, knowing eventually you would hide behind it to breath... so while you were dodging, my tongue was underground digging a hole to attack you with the second you took that breath." Naruto stated as he leaned down and looked at Mirio in the eyes.
Mirio's eyes were glazed and unfocused, his body still suffering from a severe lack of oxygen, but it was quickly recovering as he was able to breath normally again.
"You..."
"... So while your body was oxygen deprived and weak, I knew there would be a split second where you're guard would be completely down. The very second you took the breath that would keep you alive, you would be completely defenseless to my attack. You're super durable, so this rock served as a good way to make sure I hit you hard enough. You won't be able to move for awhile, I shook your brain." Naruto stated as he knocked his fist up against the rock, and a grin overcame his face as he extended his hand down towards Mirio's forehead.
He bumped his fist up against it.
"You're so cool dude... this was my loss. I can accept that I lost to somebody like you, and next time... I'll be the one to land the winning hit." Mirio grinned as he regained his ability to speak.
Mirio, who could phase through all Naruto's attacks.
Naruto, who could dodge all Mirio's attacks.
Mirio predicted his opponents.
Naruto manipulated his opponents.
Their fighting styles were both similar and completely opposite.
"Heh." Naruto laughed a little.
"Hahaha." Mirio laughed as well, and the two of them ignored the crowd going wild after it had been silent for so long.
...
"By the way, since we're both naked right now... I would prefer to keep this conversation kind of short so I can go get dressed. I kind of made my clothes explode off my body to beat you."
Right.
They were both naked.
On national TV.
Chapter End!
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