Hey guys, I hope everyone is doing well! Here's the next chapter (totally not sneaking up here between classes), the start of the sports festival! I tried to make the events different but it came out a hot mess lol so I changed it to some minor tweakages (is that a word? I'm making it a word) instead! Without further ado, on with the show!
"Midoriya. We both seem to have element-based quirks, but just because your quirk seems to make you more versatile does not mean that you're stronger than me. From what I've seen, I'm stronger than you, but All Might seems to have his eyes on you. I will defeat you today. Consider this a declaration of war" The heterochromatic eyes stared into viridian green ones that were alight with the fire of determination.
"Todoroki-kun, I won't deny that you may be stronger than me at your full power but you aren't using it, are you? Everyone here today is going to try our hardest, and if you expect to beat me, then you need to do your best too. I accept your declaration Todoroki-kun." He watched as the red and white-haired boy turned on his heel and walked away, a frown crossing his face. He shook his head silently as Kirishima placed his hand on Izuku's shoulder, turning his head to give his friend a smile. "Class 1-A. As your class president I just want to say this before we head out, do your best!" As most of his classmates cheered alongside him, Izuku swore to do just that.
"Welcome to U.A's annual sport's festival! Representing this year's firsties is the person who took number 1 in the entrance exam, Midoriya Izuku!" Around Izuku everything went silent as he stared up at her, mouth hanging open in shock and then snapping shut as panic overtook him. No one had told him that he was supposed to give a speech! (Somewhere in the stands, All Might shrank down remembering that he had been too busy avoiding the boy to tell him that he had to make a speech). A harsh shove shook him out of his panicked state, his head whipping around to meet the glaring red eyes of Kacchan. Izuku swallowed and walked forward, taking the stage. He fiddled with his fingers as he stepped in front of the microphone, forcing himself to take a deep breath.
"H-hello all. I, um, I'm going to keep this uh brief. All of us are here at U.A for a reason, no matter what course we're in. We worked hard to get here, and today is the day to show off our hard work and dedication that got us here in the first place. Good luck to everyone today, may everyone do their best and go beyond. Plus ultra!"
The children were piled into a tunnel, cramped together like sardines as they waited for the event to start. Despite being in such proximity to each other, the tunnel was completely silent, each student absorbed in their own thoughts as they did their best to come up with a plan to win, as they tried their best to figure out a way to make themselves stand out in this competition. They were doing more than just competing, though some of them had been led to believe otherwise. They were showing themselves off, they were making it clear that they were worth pursuing now in their first year, a small taste to show what would come as they progressed through their time at U.A. Most of the students had tried to congregate to the front in order to be the first out of the tunnel, though one lone figure hung out in the back. He ignored the murmurs of the crowd as he was pointed out by Present Mic, a nonexistent breeze shuffling his broccoli green hair as he cracked his neck, preparing himself. He had already engaged the button on his soles that had caused the bottoms of his shoes to disappear, and he slid back into the stance he was going to use first, eyes narrowed in determination. All he had to do was wait-
START! And there! As ice began to erupt through the tunnel, he slammed his barefoot into the ground and sent himself shooting up straight into the air, only to be propelled forward by a gust of wind that sent him careening out of the tunnel and ruffled the hair of those he shot over. He hit the ground rolling, scrambling back up to his feet while simultaneously yanking a shard of glass out of the ground and turning it into water, wrapping it around his arm like a snake as he dashed forward. A bright grin crossed his face as he noticed that most of his classmates had avoided Todoroki's attack, his eyes unconsciously searching for his friends. He was given a pink thumbs up and a sharp-toothed grin, his head turning as a brown bob appeared in his field of vision. He nodded once and continued running, passing more and more of his classmates until giants of green appeared in his vision. Falling giants of green. He moved without hesitation, slamming his feet into the ground causing two pillars of earth to rise up and impale themselves into the giant robot directly in front of him, darting under it as its other two brethren fell. He hoped that no one had gotten injured by the other two falling, and his hopes were confirmed when a familiar shock of red hair popped out of one, and an unfamiliar sheen of silver popped out of the other. He returned his attention to the front of him just in time to throw himself out of the way of a giant fist embedding itself in the ground in front of him. A sharp thrust of his palm had him flying upwards onto the robot's arm, red shoe covered feet dashing up the edge. The moment his feet hit the robot's shoulders, he used another burst of airbending to send him to the giant's neck. He slammed his water covered arm into it, sending the water shooting into its neck joints and freezing. He didn't know if it would have an effect, but it would be enough to prevent the robot from locking in on him again. He threw himself off, twisting in midair and catching himself on his air scooter as he zoomed forward. This is what he had been training for in these last two weeks, using every trick that he remembered from both his memories and the memories that he had of Sena. Some of them weren't the most graceful, he thought as he stumbled momentarily, catching his stride again a second later but they worked. His eyes were focused on the two figures in front of him, one propelling themselves forward towards the second obstacle with explosions, the other one skating forward on ice, leaving an icy trail behind him. He would catch up. He moved swiftly towards them, legs in a lotus position and fists pressed together as he raced forward on the air scooter. He had to make All Might proud after all.
"Midoriya-shounen, are you prepared for the festival?" Izuku looked at his mentor, noting how tired the already haggard-looking man seemed. It was the first time that Yagi-san had approached him since they had come back from Gran Torino's place, and though part of Izuku was happy that his mentor was finally talking to him again, another part wondered what he did wrong, and another smaller part of him positively simmered with the bitterness of being abandoned without explanation. He had tried to approach his mentor so many times with ideas, only to have the man disappear at the last moment. If there was one thing All Might was, it was slippery.
"Yeah, I think so. I'm still pretty nervous though." A skeletal hand clapped itself on his blue and white covered shoulder, sunken blue eyes staring into his confused green ones. Something passed through his mentor's eyes so quickly that Izuku could barely catch it, and then a soft smile crossed the blonde man's face.
"As you already know, my time as the symbol of peace is fading. The people will need a new symbol and as my successor, I would like for that symbol to be you. Use this festival as your platform, let them know that the next generation is here to take over, let them know that you are here!" Izuku opened his mouth to say something, only to close it again as a weird noise escaped instead. Images of All Might's wound flashed through his head, memories of their discussion after the USJ about his time frame being decreased once more. His mentor was losing time at a rapid pace, and who was to know when he would finally be out of time? Let them know that you are here! He couldn't do that, he didn't think that he would make a worthy symbol-
You're going to eventually be a leader whether you like it or not, you are the Avatar.
But it didn't matter what he thought. His quivering lip stilled as he looked up at the number one hero, nodding his head in determination. As his head moved, his hair swayed to the side, showcasing a scar that started near the middle of his forehead and disappeared into his scalp. It was something that was normally covered by his hair, and it was a souvenir of his survival at the USJ.
"Alright, I'll make you proud, All Might!" He gave the man a bright smile, waving goodbye as the intercoms sounded for the students to report to their designated rooms before the event started. He allowed the door to slide shut behind him, not noticing the sad and guilty gaze on his back, nor the tired smile on his mentor's face as the man whispered to himself.
You already have, Izuku.
"So Eraserhead, what do you make of these kids this year? We have a great bunch and it seems that your students of 1-A are taking the lead!"
"Class 1-A has the advantage over some of the other classes in that they were actively engaged in a villain attack. They had to experience first hand what some pros still haven't faced, the fact that even a second's worth of hesitation can be the difference between someone's life and death. My students don't hesitate, they just leap straight into the situation while some of the other courses proceed more cautiously. Everyone is trying their best to go above and beyond in order to exhibit our core motto of Plus Ultra, and it is only Class 1-A's tragic experience that makes them stand out just a little more."
"Very enlightening Eraser, I wouldn't have even thought about that!"
"Of course you wouldn't."
"Hey! Anyway, we have our first batch of students making it to our second obstacle course! The herd has already been thinned by the first stage, let's see how many more make it across this!"
"Water is the element of change. As a waterbender, you must be able to adapt and go with the flow. Be ready to change in an instance, to meld with a lake, or split off into a different stream entirely. Water can be still and calm, but water can also rage and be a force of destruction. The same water that gives life, takes it. When channeling it, don't think of yourself as two separate entities because you aren't. You're merely a drop in the ocean."
The second part of the obstacle course took shape in the form of a canyon, one that was ostensibly dug by the pro hero Power Loader, the main teacher of the support course classes, but that was not all there was to it. On both sides of the canyon lay rushing waterfalls, the spray from them soaking the multiple rocks that had been presented to the students as the path for them to cross. Where did they get all that water? Izuku thought before shaking his head as his mind began to wander, he didn't have time to think about that. He could cross it using the rocks easily if they weren't wet, but that added another layer of trickery to it. He watched as a girl with pink locks shot by him using a grappling hook, watched as Kacchan propelled himself overusing his explosions, and watched Todoroki ice skate across the ropes that lay in between the rocks. There were so many options that Izuku could have used, but he decided to go out of his normal realm and step into that of a waterbender. Flow, adapt, overcome. He couldn't use the rocks, he didn't want to risk accidentally slipping and falling on the first few wet ones (something that he noticed had a lot of students hesitating and heading for the ropes), but he also didn't want to use the ropes because that's where most of the students were heading. He could propel himself overusing airbending, but he didn't want to risk accidentally knocking anyone off the rocks. It left him with only one option. Izuku backed away from the edge of the cliff, inhaling deeply as he slid into a runner's stance, propelling himself forward with a burst of air. He cleared the edge of the cliff and immediately positioned himself into a swan dive position, just like Sena had shown him when she first started teaching him. His ears popped from the sudden altitude change but he ignored it, placing his hands together in a knife position as he fell. He could hear screams coming from above and then they were gone as he made contact with the water, slicing through it. He took a moment to reorient himself, shooting through the water towards the other side like a jet, and when he felt he was nearing the cliff wall he spun his arms in a familiar motion. In a move reminiscent to when he was 8 and had discovered he was the Avatar, he shot upward on a funnel of water only this time he was missing the white glow of his eyes. As he reached his peak height the funnel of water dissipated, a quick burst of air sending him hitting the ground rolling once more. He quickly passed a lot of the competition, dodging and leaping over the crowds until he was at the edge of the third obstacle, watching Todoroki and Bakugou battle it out while setting off pink blasts that each of them quickly tried to dodge. He slammed his foot onto the ground, closing his eyes as the vibrations ran up his body telling him exactly where the mines were. This is my chance. He thought fiercely as red veins began to dance across his scratched up and soaking wet body. His curly hair rose minutely as he slid his leg back, arms and body slowly beginning to spin. This is my chance, I have to do it, I have to make my mom and All Might proud! I have to make Sena proud! His viridian eyes lit up with electricity, his body following suit. He could faintly hear exclamations of surprise around him, people wondering what he was doing, well, he would show them. Full cowling, 3%. Eastern Air Blast! He shot his arms behind him, the air he was bending compounding behind him and sending him blasting forward like a missile. It was as close to flying as he could get, and he overtook Todoroki and Kacchan in an instant, angry red eyes locking onto sparking green.
"DEKU!" Another gust of air sent Izuku blasting up into the air, causing him to lose the trajectory of his blast but protecting him from the explosion that detonated one of the mines below him. He used the cover of the pink blast to roll onto the ground, using quick bursts of air to make him fast enough to roll out of their path as he set them off (and if Gran Torino was at home smirking as he watched the brat copy one of his moves, no one would know). He scrambled to his feet, the familiar chill of Todoroki's quirk letting him know that he only had seconds to act. He slammed his foot into the ground, using his bending to set all of the mines around the three of them off at once. The blasts sent him propelling forward, yelps leaving his lip as his body scraped along the pavement of the tunnel. His legs and exposed arms were burning, and he knew he was bleeding but he ignored it, racing forward as he caught ash blonde hair out the corner of his eye. He didn't have time to form an air scooter, it would cost him a second too long, Kacchan was too close already, and from the sudden wave of ice that Izuku narrowly dodged, Todoroki wasn't too far either. Izuku ran as hard as he could, ignoring the searing heat at his back that was warring with the freezing cold, ignoring the stinging of his legs and arms, focusing entirely on the light at the end of the tunnel. He burst through it not a moment too soon, crossing the threshold only a second before Kacchan, the sound of the cheering crowd reaching his ears as his sweaty face was displayed on the jumbo screens for the crowd to see. His face flushed as he hesitantly waved towards the crowd, moving away from the entrance as other students began trickling in.
"You did good Kacchan, I was struggling to keep away from you at the end."
"Tch." The red-eyed boy glared at him, shoving his hands in his pocket, a dark smirk crossing his face. "Whatever nerd, I'll kick your ass next round. And either go to Recovery Girl or heal the damn scrapes yourself, you're bleeding everywhere!" Izuku looked down, yelping as he looked at his legs and arms. They hadn't seen that bad at the moment, but Izuku had a bad case of road rash. He bent the water from his still soaking clothes, the water wrapping around his hand like gloves. He hummed quietly to himself, not noticing the students around him watching as he healed himself just enough to get the bleeding to stop and to take the pain away. He didn't want to exhaust himself, especially considering how tired he already was from using the 3 elements during the obstacle race. He would have to stop by and see Recovery Girl anyway for one of her energy gummies.
"Deku-kun!"
"Midori!" Two girls slammed into him at the same time, both of them pulling back and giving him bright grins.
"Uraraka-chan, Mina-chan. You both did really good!" Mina gave him a thumbs up, giving him a look that he knew meant she would talk to him later. She slid away from him and he watched as she pounced on Kacchan, the boy immediately pushing her off of him and turning to yell at her as she laughed at him.
"Thanks, Deku-kun, not as good as you though! You were really crazy, jumping off the waterfall like that. What if there hadn't been water at the bottom?" Izuku winced as the image of himself being flattened to a pancake appeared in his mind. He felt slightly nauseous at the thought as he let out an embarrassed laugh, scratching the back of his head.
"I h-hadn't thought a-about that?"
"HAH?!" Uraraka laughed at her weird friend, placing her hands behind her back as she gave him a grin. "Oh Deku-kun, you're so smart but so stupid. Come on, let's go meet up with Iida-kun!" She grabbed his arm, pulling him over to their engine user friend. As Izuku glanced around, he realized that out of the 42 students currently milling around, all of class 1-A made it, with Mineta coming in 42nd place. A flash of pride crossed his face, his classmates were so cool, and then he was dragged into a conversation with Iida and Uraraka about what they thought the next event was going to be. They quieted down as Midnight took the stage, the R rated heroine snapping her whip in order to gain attention as she announced the second competition of the festival, a cavalry battle. They would have to team up and have a rider and a horse, which meant a minimum of two people in a team and a maximum of four. The rider wasn't allowed to touch the ground, which would put Izuku at a disadvantage for his earthbending but he would be at a disadvantage either way because in one position he wouldn't be able to move his arms, and in the other, he wouldn't be able to move his feet. He mumbled soundlessly to himself, only to startle and look up when he felt malevolent auras erupt all around him. He inched away from them only to flinch as Midnight's whip cut through the air. She gave him a wink and continued explaining the rules, Izuku's eyes wandering over to the point board. His heart dropped out of his chest and he swore, asking the universe why it always had to be him.
10,000,000 points.
They were all going to kill him and sacrifice his body-
"So how are we doing this, Midori?" Pink filled his vision as he came out of his self-induced panic, noticing that everyone had split up at that point to join their own teams.
"M-m-mina, you r-really w-want to join?" She smiled at him brightly and nodded once.
"Yup! Eiji and I thought it wouldn't be fair for us both to join Bakugou and leave you alone, so Eiji is with Prince Explody and I'm with you! Wait, Midori don't cry so much you'll get dehydrated!" Izuku grabbed her in a fierce hug, only to spring backward with a red blush tinting his cheeks as he looked away, rubbing his cheeks roughly to get the tear stains off of them. Mina laughed at him and ruffled his hair, her eyes scanning the arena. "Don't be embarrassed Midori! Anyway, who are our other teammates going to be?" Izuku's eyes took on a calculating look as he glanced around, tapping his fingers against his pants. He had wanted Uraraka and Iida, but both of them had already paired with someone else.
"Mr.10 million points, let me and my babies join your team!" An oil covered girl thrust herself into his face, her thick pink dreadlocks swaying as she did so. She had steampunk like goggles on top of her head, and she gave him a wild grin. "I'll show the world what Hatsume Mei can do!"
"Midori, you gotta let her join. She's a fellow pinkster!" Mina was fluttering around the girl's body, looking at her hair closely without touching it. Hatsume gave her a grin before whipping towards her, eagerly talking about what babies would fit her best. Izuku watched the interaction for a moment before nodding, his thumb and index finger coming up to cup his chin.
"Alright, Hatsume you'll have to tell us what you can do. I'm going to go grab our final person and then we'll be set." The two girls didn't pay him any attention as he strode across the field, walking to the person who was standing by himself. Coming to a stop beside him, he gave the boy a small grin.
"Hey Tokoyami, hey Dark Shadow. Will you join my team?"
There was something majestic to the way the cavalry battle came to an end. Izuku and his team had managed to say in the air for the majority of the event due to both his air bending and the jetpack that Hatsume had. Izuku had bent more air than he had been used to, moving his arms in a constant motion to keep his team aloft. Multiple times Present Mic had commented on it, once even calling the tactic cowardly but Aizawa-sensei had quickly corrected that by telling the loud-mouthed man that what they were doing was strategic. Which Izuku wholeheartedly thought it was. They wouldn't have lasted on the ground long, especially with most teams gunning for the 10 million points on his head, though he should have expected what would finally send his team plummeting to the ground.
"DEKU!" Izuku jerked his head back on instinct, his eyes widening with fright as Katsuki was suddenly above him. He wouldn't have time to react, to busy keeping his team in the air. If he stopped bending now they would go plummeting, and he wasn't sure that he trusted himself enough to be able to catch them, but Kacchan made that decision for them by blowing up Hatsume's jetpack, adding that much more strain to Izuku. Katsuki's red eyes narrowed in determination, blasting himself back to his team as Dark Shadow struck out, aiming to land a hit on the explosion user, only to find its attacks dodged.
"10 million, let us drop! I have another baby to stop our fall!" Izuku looked at the goggled cover face and nodded, his arms coming to an abrupt halt as he allowed the air he was bending around them to scatter. A loud shriek from Mina echoed in his ears and he aimed his palms towards the ground, preparing to let out another gust of air only for a giant net-no not net, parachute, to explode out of the jetpack and float them down to safety. "I always have a backup plan! Never know when a baby is going to go haywire!"
"Hatsume, you're crazy." Mina was breathless as she spoke, twisting around to grin at the other pink haired girl. Hatsume gave her a crooked smirk and a thumbs-up as Mina turned back around toward the front. Izuku's eyes scanned around the area, noting the people who were closest to them, only for his vision to abruptly be obscured by a wave of ice erupting between his team and the rest of the competition.
"WHAT'S THIS? TODOROKI CORNERS MIDORIYA! WITH 2 MINUTES LEFT ON THE CLOCK, WILL TEAM MIDORIYA BE FROZEN OUT OF THE COMPETITION?" Present Mic's voice boomed over the intercoms, the audience leaning in out of anticipation. Izuku made eye contact with each of his team members, and then met Todoroki's eyes. The two had a silent battle before the air between them turned frigid and more ice exploded towards them. Team Midoriya moved immediately, acid pooling from Mina's feet as she skated to the side, tilting the team towards the left. Hatsume pulled out a tiny ball and squeezed it once before tossing it at Todoroki's team, Yaoyorozu immediately creating a shield to cover them with. The ball exploded, sending smoke up into the air which Izuku immediately bent in order to give them a more effective smokescreen. He glared at the ice, wishing that he could use his legs as that was the best way for him to waterbend, but he would give it his all anyway. Dark Shadow struck forward, slamming into a piece of ice hard enough to crack it, Izuku immediately focusing on it and yanking it towards him, turning it to water as he did so. Their plan was working smoothly, a little too smoothly.
"I think we need a plan for if we go against Kacchan or Todoroki, they're both definitely going to confront us at some point. Hatsume, what type of um, b-babies do you have on you?"
"All sorts of babies, Mr. 10 million, but we can only bring two types during this portion of the festival, which sucks! But I have my jetpack baby and my tiny ball baby!"
"Tiny ball?"
"It's a smokescreen! I got it from watching one of those old Ninja movies, you squeeze it and toss it and smoke comes out! I'm making an explosive tiny ball baby but Power Loader-sensei said that if I used it in the festival he'd take away my shop privileges which would mean no more babies! But on the bright side, I have like 10 of them because he only said two types not two items"
"What a mad banquet of darkness this is. You're an interesting one aren't you?"
"And so are you, bird boy! Ooo the babies I could make for you-"
"Well Midori, you already know what Tokoyami and I can do, so what's the plan?"
"For Kacchan we'd have to get his hands wet, but I've used that on him before so it isn't going to work again, so we need to avoid him at all costs. For Todoroki's team, we need to be wary of Kaminari-kun. Yaoyorozu will probably create some kind of insulation blanket and so Kaminari-kun will probably try to electrocute everyone, but he'll short out if he uses too much. I don't know what Iida-kun has learned in these past two weeks, but he's fast so we have to avoid that...and we need to stay to Todoroki's left. It's an open side for him so we'll be safe from his quirk on that side. Hatsume-san, this is where you'll come in.
Using the smokescreen was a tricky thing as it both concealed his teams' vision and Todoroki's team, but Izuku would have to trust in his teammates. He wrapped the water around his left arm, using a modified version of the octopus attack, sending his arm forward at the same time that Tokoyami called for Dark Shadow and sent him forth. They were nearly there, they would make it-
"Recipro burst!" A jet of blue flames cut through the smoke and Izuku felt something grab his head roughly, yanking him back hard enough to jerk his neck. HE let out a hiss of pain, eyes watering as the smoke cleared, Todoroki's team standing behind them.
Holding the 10 million point headband. Izuku watched in horror as his team dropped down to 325 points, falling out of the top 4 rankings needed to move on. An icy cold feeling snuck in his chest as his hair shadowed his eyes. He had failed his team, and now they would all be disqualified, they only had 55 seconds left-
"What's the plan, Midori?" Mina's voice broke him out of his thoughts, his confused eyes glancing down at the acid user as she stared forward, the corrosive liquid pooling between her feet. "Don't count us out yet, just tell us what to do and we'll do it!" Glancing at his 3 teammates, Izuku felt his eyes water as he set his lips in a determined line. They had one shot at this.
"Dark Shadow, you and I will go for the headbands. It doesn't matter what ones we grab, we just need enough to get into the finals. Mina, keep us to Todoroki's left, Hatsume, throw your other tiny ball baby at Yaoyorozu so that she can't see what we're doing to keep her from creating something. Kaminari-kun doesn't have much juice left in him, we need to go!"
"Yessir!" His teammates echoed back to him. He put his non-water covered arm behind him and let out a large burst of air, sending them sliding forward using Mina's acid. Izuku didn't know why Iida wasn't moving, but maybe the attack had stalled his engine. He remembered Iida telling him once that if he put all his speed into one burst attack, his engines froze up for a little while. It was a bad thing to use against his friend, but Izuku needed to make it to the finals. He had to make sure his teammates had the chance to show themselves to the world, and he needed to make sure he had the chance to make All Might proud.
"Hatsume!" He yelled, eyes narrowing as he leaned forward, abruptly cutting off the flow of air around him.
"Got it!" The support course student moved without hesitation, removing another one of her tiny ball babies, squeezing it, and throwing it directly towards Yaoyorozu. It exploded, sending another plume of smoke into the air directly in front of the heiress that had her coughing as she struggled not to inhale it. Izuku would apologize to her later, his lips thinning as he heard the timer countdown, followed by an explosion from above just as Izuku sent out his water whip.
"DEKU!" A well-placed explosion had Izuku's water whip evaporating as Katsuki dove at him from the air, making Deku swear before green crackling over Izuku's body as he moved, throwing himself out of his teammates grasp and propelling himself with the air toward Todoroki, eyes alight with primal fury. The boy's two-toned eyes widened, a wisp of flame flickering over his left arm-
"TIME!"
Izuku hit the ground, tears immediately pooling in his eyes as he could hear Katsuki landing and cursing beside him. He pushed himself to his feet, turning towards his teammates only to be met by a soft smile from Mina and a thumbs up from Dark Shadow, a white headband in the bird's grasp.
"In first place we have…" Midnight's voice boomed from the stadium, the woman dragging on a dramatic silence as the board rearranged itself. "TEAM MIDORIYA!" The crowd went crazy, but Izuku tuned them all out as he stared at his teammates, unconsciously bringing his fists up to rub at his still teary eyes. He trudged forward silently, wrapping his arms around Dark Shadow and patting the creature's head, not noticing the look of surprise that both Dark Shadow and Tokoyami gave him.
"Dark Shadow, I will buy you anything you want to eat. Wait, do you eat? That was so insensitive of me! But still, do you? If you do that would be-" Izuku lost his train of thought, going on another mumble spree that only stopped when Mina tugged on a piece of his hair.
"We did it Midori! Group hug!" She dragged all of them into a hug, squeezing them as tight as her arms were allowed before releasing them. "Also, Hatsume! You need to come get ramen with us sometime, that goes for you too, Tokoyami!" She put her hands on her hip and then gave them a peace sign, grabbing Midoriya by the arm. "Come on Midori, let's go tease Bakugou and see if he'll explode."
"M-m-mina! I don't think that's a g-good idea!" Izuku tried to protest as the girl dragged him away anyway, only to be stopped by Todoroki blocking their path, his eyes only on the green-haired boy in front of him.
"Midoriya. We need to talk. Privately."