Waiting Room 2 was eerily quiet. Only the sound of the clock ticking forwards could be heard over the soft noise of his own soft repetitive breathing. This was the potential match he was saving his energy for. He knew this match would be difficult, it being against another fire user. He knew that the ice would not be a problem, seeing that he could melt it very easily. But that was until he witnessed Todoroki's match against Midoryia though he didn't believe his fire would be a problem too.

But during that previous match there it stood, flames brighter and warmer then the sun, Radiating power for everyone in the stadium to feel. Sasuke knew the moment he had felt those bright flames of Todoroki's quirk that he would have a rather hard time countering it.

The hotter the flame the easier it is to control. Of course he still could control them but its wavy flickering nature made it harder to direct. He could also only adsorb his own flames therefore making it virtually impossible for him to be able to control large quantity of it.

If Todoroki decided he would use his fire side again, Sasuke had a very uncomfortable feeling he would lose. Sasuke needed that match to prove to not only himself but also the world, that he was strong. Especially strong enough to take his bastardy monster of a brother down . He could only hope that his opponents never finds out one of his quirks weaknesses.

No, he would finish the match quickly before Todoroki even got a chance to figure out his quirk even had a weakness.

With that in mind, Sasuke stood up at the boom of sounds coming from the thousands of people waiting for the final match of the Annual First Year hero sports festival.

As he reached for the door handle, it opened from the other side leaving a tall figure stood in front of him.

"Hello Uchiha"

Endeavor.

--

Shouto didn't know weather to be excited or anxious for his final match. Uchiha Sasuke was a force to recon with. Not only did he have the training and the skill with his quirk which could rival even his own torturous training but he also had the resolve to use his quirk to its fullest extent even though painful memories he must have to bare and grit though from using it, like his own flames brought him.

Shouto didn't know what had happened to Uchiha in the past but if Midoryia's words were true, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what had happened to him in the past. When Midoryia had spoken those words, he was honestly very offended.

How dare he compare his own pain to the suffering of someone else. Nothing could compare to the mental pain cause by having his own mother refuse to look him in the face for the DNA he didn't ask to have. Nothing was comparable to the suffering created from being one of the sole reasons that his mother was kept in a mental hospital. Nothing was comparable to driving their own mother towards that.

Subconsciously, he reached up towards his left eye and began feeling around the edges of the burn scar tissue.

However as he looked back over their few encounters, did he realize that Midoryia's statement was probably true. His antisocial behavior as well the physical and mental distancing, Uchiha had created. Was much worse then his own. There was also the time during the USJ attack were he had completely lost himself and had perched a Nomu several times through the chest, killing it where it stood. Yet his own fire and ice, couldn't even break the monsters skin.

He had over heard the police talking after the incident, about another man who had been in the center of the attack with the leader and the Nomu.

A man who could also create Black flames.

If Shouto wasn't the person he was today or knew what he knew, he would have personally believed there was nothing suspicious about it. But as much as he didn't like to admit it, Shouto knew he was a mad man when it came to creating theories and something about the whole situation seemed very fishy.

Shouto sighed at the sound of the crowd cheering. This was the final match, him against Uchiha Sasuke. Honestly, if Shouto had known he would have been facing Uchiha during his final match, he wouldn't have wasted so much energy during his other more petty matches. Although, there was nothing petty about his match against Midoryia.

He shouldn't have been surprised though, even from the start of the year, their classmates had always pegged him as the strongest. However he had always known Uchiha was most defiantly.

He began making his way to the stadium door.

If Shouto wanted to have any hope of defeating him, he would have to pray to kami that he discovered some-kind of unexpected weakness.

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"Welcome to the final round of the sports festival. The IcyHot son of Endeavour, Todoroki Shouto! Vs the edgy power house, Uchiha Sasuke!"

It was time for final event. Everyone in the stadium was screaming their heads of in excitement for what was laying in store, as Sasuke and Shouto made their way up onto the arena from their respective end of the stadium.

Both boys gazed calmly at each other, trying to determine each other's first moves and tactics. Both competitors, trained from young ages, were ready as they both fell into their own fighting stances.

The stadium grew quieter, as the tension grew for the final round to begin.

Suddenly they were off.

Shouto begun by releasing a colossal iceberg directly towards Sasuke, who was quick enough to dodge to the side before releasing his own wave of black flames , rapidly melting the ice. Shouto was quick to react and shot another stream of ice, but smaller, iceberg towards Sasuke. However he had already launched himself up in between the icebergs before making a mad dash straight towards him.

Shouto frantically made a wall of ice in front of him to protect himself from an oncoming Sasuke. Seeming the wall burst out of the ground between them, Sasuke quickly moved to the side to avoid getting hit. before quickly retreating back as the ice berg pushed its way forward. Blocking him of from Shoutos view.

Shouto was fast, with his quirk. that much was clear. He needed to devise a plan to get in and up close with Shouto faster. The walls of ice were pushing him back and cornering him. His flames, however strong they were couldn't melt the ice faster then it was being created. He could probably over power the icebergs all together but he didn't want to cremate anyone. No that wouldn't be a good idea.

Quickly coming to a decision Sasuke held his palms out and shoved all the objects that were incoming away. Clearing the view of a shocked Todoroki in front of him. He shivered, first came to notice when the dusty ice flakes cleared from the air around them. Cold air was coming out of his mouth seemingly suggesting his refusal to use his fire side once again.

In Sasuke opinion, Todoroki was insulting. Deliberately making ones self weaker out of spite, a fire quirk no less, it really embarrassed and angered Sasuke. Not for his own sake but for his opponents sake too. Really, did Todoroki honestly believe he could become the number one hero while limiting his quirk? How Pathetic.

Sasuke thought back to his conversation with Endeavor before his match had started.

'Endeavor stood before him, flames flying freely around his shoulders and head.

"You're Uchiha Sasuke? Correct?"

Sasuke stayed quiet, but continued to stare up at the intimidating number 2 hero who was trying to look as threatening as possible.

" You know, Uchiha? I find that your quirk intriguing. Black flames? Very unusual. I don't believe I've seen anything like it, well-" Endeavors expression changed from curiosity to suspicion "-unless you count the one time."

"What do you want?" Sasuke grounded out, anger seeping slightly into his tone but not enough to be noticeable to a normal person. Endeavor however, did.

"I have a proposition." Endeavor announced." Your quirk has a lot of potential and i want to see how strong it can become. You've already proved your worth against that boy with the anger issues, and so i want to see how strong you can become. Force Shouto to use his flames and in return will personally send a request for you to come to my Agency for your upcoming Field Training."

Sasuke looked intensely up at Endeavor before agreeing and walking past. "Fine, you got a deal."

Endeavor looked smugly down at the boy and was about to walk away himself when he overheard Sasuke say something.

"You know, you must have done something terrible for Todoroki to refuse to use his flames. Especially when i still use mine considering what happened."

Endeavor was about to retort when he continued.

"Just a thought" Sasuke stated before makidng his way around the corner to his entrance of the stadium grounds to begin his match.'

Emotional Manipulation was a weakness in everyone.

"You disgust me! Refusing to use your fire because daddy hurt your feelings. Its pathetic Todoroki!"

Shouto's shock quickly turned to anger.

"You know nothing about me Uchiha, how dare you say that to me!" Shouto retorted, shaking in anger while creating another wave of ice to the side of Sasuke blocking him off from the right.

"I dont care! About you, your past or feelings, since all i see in front of me is someone who's too afraid to face the truth. A child! Someone too immature to realize that life isn't fair and there is nothing that can be done about it."

Sasukes manipulating words were starting to ignite real anger in them.

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!" Shouto Shouted back full of red hot fury. He was no longer filtering his words though his head. "My father drove my mother to insanity. He made her HATE ME. She poured boiling, hot water on my face. I think i know how unfair the world is!"

Sasuke was quickly loosing his cool.

"Unfair? UNFAIR? My father is DEAD. My Mother is DEAD. Killed by the same wretched fire, my hands are cursed with. I think i know what unfair is!"

Sasuke sent out an unstable wave of darkness towards Shouto's left while simultaneously running towards his right side. Shouto sent out another rapid burst of ice but in his moment of lack of concentration his ice missed blocking of his right ice side from Sasuke, making him unable to react quick enough to move back to allow his right side to attack again. Giving Sasuke the opening to punch Shouto in the face forcing him back.

"Use your left side Todoroki. I'm not here to play childish games. I'm here to prove my self to something much bigger than this. If i can use my fire. Then you have no excuse." Sasuke announced before moving back to retrieve the flames he had sent out earlier before they burned anything they shouldn't before he continues talking while walking back towards Shouto.

"Its a pity really, after seeing your match with Midoryia I was looking forward for this match." Sasuke announced while walking over towards Shouto who was still in shock on the floor. Sasuke reached forwards to grab Shouto's shoulder to chuck him out the arena.

"Its a shame, you STILL can't get over the past and even after everything Midoryia must have said to y-"

Flames.

Hardly noticeable at first when Sasuke first began speaking but as soon as he had gotten in close Shouto had pushed his flames out towards Sasuke making him flinch back out of the way, with a new 1st degree burn on the front of his face.

Sasuke flinched his hand up towards his face and hissed in pain before smirking devilishly towards Shouto. Finally the bastard was getting it.

And Holy shit, that was a lot of beautiful mesmerizing fire. It radiated with a power, warm and comfort. An unnatural excitement and happiness swirled around inside it. Sasuke wouldn't be able to hold that much fire, coming off of Shouto, for long. Sasuke retreated back to his side of the Arena, swirling his own fire around his body in a protective manner, as the ice around them began to melt away leaving the floor covered in puddles which too soon evaporated.

This was no longer a battle of the strongest minds and stamina but a battle of heat and fire.

Shouto, who had less training with his fire, sent out his own wave of burning flames towards Sasuke first at a surprising speed. Sasuke however was quick to react and mixed the dark flames around him into the flames which were rapidly flying towards him in an attempt at controlling them better, surrounding Sasuke in a ring of black and red flames. Every so often a red flame would flare out in the wrong direction and his sasuke in stead of staying mixed in with his own making his cringe and pull back from the small burns which were starting to collect around his skin and uniform.

Sasuke watched as Shoutos eyes opened slightly in realization of what his weakness was.

His own weakness was himself.

Shouto began to push his flames to the absolute limit of what they would be, fill the arena in a bright glow which could be seen from out side the stadium. All the spectators watching in astonishment as the Fire grew and grew until the flaming inferno was hot and and bright enough to be felt all the was from the commentator box.

"IT SEEMS THIS MATCH IS GONNA HAVE A FIERY END AS TODOROKI AND UCHIHA FORCE THEIR FLAMES TO THEIR UPMOST LIMITS. DON'T BLINK EVEN FOR A SECOND OR YOU COULD MISS THE ENDING OF THIS FANTASTIC MATCH!" Present Mic screamed through the sound system, making is all ready loud voice heard all through out the stadium.

Forcing all of Sasukes flames to get thinner and thinner around him in a hopes to make him loose. Sasuke in realization of what was happening came to a final conclusion. The would be no way for him to win unscathed. He would have to take out all of his flames from the raging fire around him, while loosing the little control he had over them. Then all he had to do was hope he was close enough already to Shouto to push out all of the flames away from his body while simultaneously pushing his opponent out of bounds.

Preparing to use is quirk to its max, Sasuke began to retract all of the Flames he had already put out making Shoutos flames become more and more wild, lashing out at him from every angle as they began to fall to the floor. Shouto, seeing sasuke beginning to retract his flames began to reduce his own, assuming sasuke was starting to loose control of his quirk. Unfortunately he realized to late that had been a mistake, Sasuke looked up straight into Shoutos eyes making the latter shiver at the coldness directed towards him before an almost smirk appeared on his face.

For the second time that day sasuke, who was panting and worn out from over exerting the use of his fire control, used one of his quirks techniques against Shouto.

"Compact Push!"" He uttered under his exhausted breath as the sound of the ground underneath him began to dented at the force of his quirk as he pushed everything around him away, creating a small force ring around him which rapidly pushed everything away in a semi loud band. Making all the remaining flames around put out instantly. As the dust which had been picked up, from the small crater around him settles he looked around and saw Shouto laying out side of the boundary's, slumped up against the edge of the stadium wall.

As black dots appeared around the outside of his eye sight sasuke barely overheard Midnight's announcement.

"Uchiha Sasuke wins!"

The crowd all stood up and roared in celebration at the winner of the First years sports festival.

Sasuke proceeded to collapse to the floor.

Then his vision went black.