After the Sports festival everyone was sent home to have a few days to recover before coming back to school. Sasuke sat in his living room in front of his Chabudai. The air in the room was cold and chilly as always is, as he stared dully at the medal in his hands. He had fought so hard to earn his place and yet he felt like it still wasn't enough. He lowered the medal down the table in front of him before he slowly made his way towards his room, brainstorming about what his plans for the future were. He begrudgingly knew that even after proving himself to everyone, he was still not strong enough to take on his brother.

Honestly though, deep down he knew he would never be fully ready to take on his brother.

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It was a another day at school and Sasuke was making his way towards his class. On the way to school many different people had come up and spoken to him, congratulating him on the tournament. Each comment made him more bitter and spiteful, he knew they were only being kind but it didn't stop what he was feeling. He was thought they were tormenting him. After a long and aggravating jouney, Sasuke had finally made it to school.

Once he stepped into the classroom he was greeted with classmates chattering about their journeys to school, which had all seemed to be similar to his. He scoffed at them as he made his way towards his seat, as he sat down he put he put his bag down next to him.

All his classmates talked happily around him, as if they hadn't a care in their world. Did they not know what the world was really like?

Sasuke took quite deep breath, he couldn't afford to be thinking in such a mind set, not when there was so much he need to concentrate on.

Thankfully, sooner rather than later Aizawa sensei walked through the door.

"It's good to see you're all here, I hope you all used your extra day off to recover from the sports festival."

A hum of agreement washed over the class, as they began chattering once again. Forcing Aizawa to use his quirk to help them all quiet down.

However Sasuke looked down at his hands, almost in shame, as he thought back to his weekend. During that time he had made himself close to collapsing from over working his body with training.

"As you know, heroes from around the world had watched you compete. But that was not the only thing they were doing."

Aizawa pressed a button an a remote, bringing up a list of people on the board.

Shouto Todoroki had the highest number. Next to his name was Bakugo, Iida and Tokoyami. Sasukes eyes trailed down the list to find his just underneath with only 215 requests.

He stared at the number in disgust and shame, he had won the sports festival. He had come out on top in a attempt to prove himself to the world. But no, people were still comparing him to that bastard.

It seemed his classmates had noticed too as they began to voice their opinions.

"Huh? How weird, why did Uchiha-San get less than Todoroki? He won the festival!" Questioned Mina, who was oblivious to what was going on around her. Aizawa who noticed Sasuke in the corner decided to take the attention away from the student.

"Each of these people on the board have been requested by heros for internships. However, even if you didnt get any requests all of you will be getting an internship with heroes who signed up for having students."

He pulled out a pile of paper and began to hand them out.

"I recommend you all to choose carefully of who you would like to intern with. I know third years who still regret who they choose to intern with. With that said, its time for your next challenge."

Class 1-A tensed up at what their sensei had in store for them.

"It time you choose your hero names."

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The class had all been given time to come up with hero names. Aizawa wasnt great at this sort of thing, so he had asked for the help of Midnight to help him with this section. He watched as they went around the class from his sleeping bag, listening to what hero names they chose.

At the end of the time assigned to thinking of names, he was mildly surprised to find out half of his students had actually come up with decent names. Course there were a few which have to be worked on, namely lord explosion murder as well as Todoroki's, Iida and Uchihas very unoriginal first names, but luckily they still had time to find out what name they wanted. At the end of the lesson Aizawa called for Uchiha to stay for a minute.

"Uchiha, I just wanted to tell you that you shouldn't be worried about what other people or heroes thinks about you. You are your own person and I know you can become a great hero, ok?"

Sasuke looked at Aizawa aloof but you could see his eyes widen slightly, before returning to their seemingly natural uncaring state.

"huh? I know that" Sasuke replied swiftly before leaving Aizawa alone in their classroom.

He sighed at the sight of his retreating students back. His student needed to overcome his own troubles if he was ever to become a hero.

He just hoped the boy would come to his senses before it was too late.

--

After his short conversation with his sensei, classes had continued on as normal with hero studies at the end of the day as normal. When the school day ended he swiftly gathered up his stuff before leaving the building.

"Sasuke-san! Sasuke-san!"

Sasuke turned around to see Midoryia running after him before slowing besides him, they both lived in the same area but this is a bit unusual.

"Midoryia?"

"Hello!" Midoryia began, with his cheery smile "I was wondering who you were planning on interning with? I didn't get any personal requests to begin with, but All might came and told me at lunch that someone had asked for me last minute!"

'All Might..' Sasuke questioned internally before replying.

"I haven't had a chance to look through my list. But if a certain hero keep their end of the bargain,I know who im going to."

"You made a deal with a hero? Who?"

Sasuke remained quite after that with Midoryia following suite as they continued their way home. As they separated,

Midoryia was left to watch his back as he strode away. He hadn't meant to make Midoryia feel awkward by ignoring him but what he does shouldn't concern other people.

--

Once he was home, he sat down and brought out the list of hero agencies he was given, going straight to the E section and searching for Endeavors name. If anyone would be able to help him with fire, it would be him.

After a few pages of turning he finally came across what he was looking for.

Endeavors agency.

Going there would be a great opportunity to improve his flame control of lower temperature flames. He picked up the form he was given and wrote down the Agency he wanted before putting the piece of paper back in his bag before going out to train in his back yard.

He had a lot of anger to work off.

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The day after Sasuke gave his form, Todoroki had come up to him asking whether fathers words were true.

He didn't really seem surprised when Sasuke had confirmed his question before saying that they would be travelling to the agency together, when they went to their internships.

Finally the day had arrived,Sasuke and Shouto stood side-by-side waiting for the train to arrive. Silently enjoying each other's company, to the best of their abilities. They were halfway towards the city where Endeavors agency was built when Shouto finally broke the silence.

"Did you and my father make a deal at the sports festival or something? My father never takes on interns and he's only taking me on because he wants to train my fire side, so he can make me become the number-one hero. " Shouto asked.

"Yes I did. " Sasuke replied, his tone was unsure. "That doesn't make what I said at the festival any less true. if it wasn't for the fact I knew Endeavor could help me increase my control, I wouldn't have agreed to his idea. "

" I see."

The duo went quiet for a moment, until Shouto asked Sasuke another question.

" That man, at the USJ. He is your brother, isn't he?"

Sasuke remained quiet to his question but the clenching of his fist didn't go unnoticed by the fire and ice user.

" You know, Uchiha. Whatever your plan is against your brother, I would be willing to help you. It would only be fair since you helped me overcome my hatred along with Midoriya. If your brot-"

"I dont want to talk about that bastard. He is no brother of mine."

Shouto blinked at the Uchiha's harsh tone, he had obviously hit a nerve but he didn't know how Uchiha would react to being apologized to, so he decided to remain silent.

They sat the last leg of the train journey in silence watching people load on and off of the train until they reach the end of the line where Endeavors agency was at.

Once they were off the train they started walking towards Endeavours agency, Shouto took the lead as he knew the direction. Once they reached the agency Sasuke looked up at the tall, intimidating, shining glass building in front of him.

The building looked very expensive and high-tech from the outside. Honestly why was he surprised that the number to hero in Japan had such an expensive well built agency.

Sasuke offhandedly wondered if all mights agency was just as glamorous.

They walked into the building and Shouto went straight up towards the receptionist who pointed them to some seats to the side of the room stating that Endeavor would be with them shortly. The pair remained in silence as they sat next to each other once again while waiting for Endeavor to come through the door.

After a long five minutes of waiting, the flame hero Endeavor walked through the door towards them.

"Welcome to my hero agency, now follow me and we will start with some training to see where you are both are."