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"THERE'S TWENTY SECONDS LEFT IN THE CAVALRY BATTLE! TEAM TODOROKI HAVE THE 10 MILLION POINTS! TEAM MIDORIYA HAS ZERO POINTS! HOW'S THAT FOR A PLOT TWIST!" Present Mic shouted as everyone in the audience where on the edge of their seats.
"What will we do now Kawaki? We have enough points for third place" Shinso asked as he looked at the headbands around Setsuna's neck. "The closest teams are frozen and Setsuna is already retrieving their bands"
"We wait, this was an easy round" Kawaki explains as two floating hands full of headbands came to Team Kaminari.
"TEN SECONDS LEFT!" Mic shouted as Team Kaminari relaxed at the back of the field for the remaining seconds.
"It's been a pleasure working with you all, now we are opponents, no hard feelings" Kawaki stated as Present Mic yelled out "TIME!"
"What an exciting second round! Let's have a look at the top four!" The voice hero shouted as all people in the stadium turned their attention to the screens.
"1st Place is no surprise! Team Todoroki with over 10 Million Points!"
The crowd cheered.
"2nd Place with over 1100 Points is Team Bakugo! What a comeback they made!"
The crowd continued to cheer loudly.
"3rd Place with over 1000 points is, Team Kaminari! What! I didn't pay attention to them at all!" Mic shouted in surprise. The crowd still cheering on.
"And in 4th Place! Scraping a win is Team Midoriya! THESE FOUR TEAMS WILL GO INTO THE FINALS!"
The cough of Midnight silenced everyone. "We still have one matter to address, who will be filling the 16th spot of the festival, the one person should be selected from the fifth team, and that person should be the one who scored the most points based on their primary performance! SO Shiozaki Ibara will be taking that spot!"
The crowd cheered for the vine haired girl.
"We will be taking an hour lunch break before we resume with a warm up recreational activity!" The lead commentator announced as the students began to file out of the stadium.
Kawaki walked to his locker and looked at his phone.
[From: Camie-chan 3
Meet me at the cafeteria! I want to try lunch rush's food :P]
Kawaki chuckled before replying.
[See you soon]
He felt a hand rest on his shoulder, turning around Kawaki saw three people standing behind him. Mineta, Sero and his brother, Denki.
"It's time you explained how you know that babe" Mineta demanded in his most intimidating voice.
Kawaki sighed before stepping around the three stooges. "I'm going to get some lunch" he stated while walking away.
The three boys formed a small circle. "Something is sus with Kawaki, we need to follow him!" Mineta suggested, the two boys next to him nodding in agreement.
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[Where abouts in the cafeteria?] Kawaki texted as he felt a hand tap him on the shoulder. He turned around to see Camie there with a tray of tempura fired prawns and rice. Her tank top hugging her body, jeans doing the same, letting Kawaki see that hourglass figure she maintains.
'Holy crap, that's leathal' Kawaki thought as he examined her not knowing that Camie knew that he was staring.
"So psyched that you decided to come and have lunch with me" she said before sitting down at the closest table. "C'mon, sit" she instructed, patting the table. "I got this food for you!"
Kawaki decided to sit down at the two person table with Camie, flashing her a smile as he looked at the food. "Thank you for the food" he said grabbing chopsticks and beginning to eat.
"You did, like, okay in the first race. I don't understand why you decided to flop and like, not take first place straight away" Camie questioned as Kawaki put down the chop sticks and drank some water.
"It was to scout out the enemy, I wanted to see their quirks in action before going into the next round" he explained before reaching for the chopsticks, only to find that they were missing.
A crunch from in front of him drew his attention, he saw Camie eating one of his prawns with his chopsticks.
"Yummy!" she said with food in her mouth. She swallowed the food and placed the chopsticks back. "They looked soooo nice, I couldn't help myself"
"It's no big deal" Kawaki found himself saying. "Though next time we get food I get some of yours"
Camie giggled a little. "Next time eh?" she asked with a coy smile.
"Yeah, I wanna see what food is like around Shiketsu" Kawaki explained, grabbing his chopsticks.
Camie paused for a second. "But the area where Shiketsu is, isn't banger at all!" she wined "How about I show you one of my favs in Tokyo?"
"Sure I guess, when I have time" Kawaki responded looking at Camie once again. "Oh, you look nice, forgot to say that when I saw you"
"Awww thanks babe" she cooed. "Though you didn't need to say it, I could tell you liked what I decided to wear"
Kawaki blushed a little at the implication. "But don't feel bad about it yeah? It makes me feel totally lit when you like what I wear"
Kawaki was now confused, so like any confused person he nodded as an acknowledgment and continued to eat.
"Look up for one second" Camie asked, Kawai complied, looking up with a prawn sticking out of his closed mouth.
Snap.
Camie had just taken a photo of him.
Kawaki sighed before eating the rest of his prawn.
"You look, totes, cute right here" she said, showing him the photo.
"Thank you" Kawaki replied with a smile.
Snap.
Kawaki didn't even realize that the phone had been turned around and used to take a photo of his smiling face.
Camie giggled before she turned around and tapped the person sitting behind her on the shoulder.
The guy turned around to reveal his unique pair of blue eyes.
Kawaki looked up and saw the All-Might-esk blonde hair and those blue eyes before choking on a bit of his food lightly. 'No way is that Mirio' he thought as Camie asked the man to take a photo of them.
"Sure thing! Always happy to help!" the blonde man said with a smile.
Camie jumped out of her seat and walked over to Kawaki, sitting on his lap.
"Oi what do you think you're doing?" Kawaki whispered into Camie's ear.
"Posing for our photo of course" she said, forming two peace signs with her hands.
Kawaki regained his composure and formed a peace sign with his right hand before turning it around to show the back of his hand and fingers to the camera.
Snap.
"You guys look Awesome!" the blonde shouted and jumped a little, allowing Kawaki to see his U.A uniform just a little bit. 'So he is Mirio' Kawaki concluded as Camie hopped off his lap and collected her phone.
"You're like, super good at taking photos" Camie praised. "You should defs become a photographer"
The man chuckled. "Unfortunately I won't become one"
"Hmmm, why not?" Camie asked, putting a finger to her cheek.
"Because I am a Hero in training!"
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Mineta Minoru, Kaminari Denki and Sero Hanta looked at their fellow hero in training with jealousy.
"How come he gets a total babe to sit on his lap while we just get nothing" Minoru seethed as the other two nodded.
"I didn't even know Kawaki interacted with girls, never mind had lunch with them" Denki admitted, scratching the back of his head. "I'm going to stop spying on him" he said before getting up and walking away.
"Looks like it's just me and you Sero" Mineta stated, to show his support, Sero hummed in agreement
They watched as Kawaki turned his head to them before showing them the middle finger
"We're busted! Lets scram!" Mineta ordered as the pair ran away.
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Kawaki looked at the tournament bracket and smirked.
[Midoriya v Shinso
Todoroki v Sero
Kaminari. D v Kaminari. K
Hatsume v Ida
Ashido v Tokage
Tokoyami v Yaoyorozu
Kirishima v Shiozaki
Bakugo vs Uraraka.]
He turned to his right and saw Midoriya, he leant to his ear and whispered some advice "Don't talk to Shinso, it will be your demise"
Kawaki then turned around and saw his brother looking at him with a smirk.
"You may have the more powerful quirk on paper, but I am going to show you that I'm the better Kaminari!" Denki said with a challenging tone.
Kawaki's grin grew larger. "Come at me with all you've got!" he yelled back as he held out a fist for his brother to bump.
Denki and Kawaki bumped fists before walking their separate ways.
"What a display of youth!" Midnight shouted over the cheers of the crowd.
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Kawaki walked towards the entry gate, his fight with his brother was next. So far the last two fights had gone exactly as Kawaki remembered, only that Izuku used his full cowling to knock Shinso out after he conquered his brainwashing.
He watched as Todoroki walked into the tunnel he was in.
"You look sad" Kawaki stated to an ignoring Todoroki.
"When we fight, I'll save you" Kawaki stated "Though you have to get past Midoriya first"
Todoroki looked at Kawaki.
"I'll make you accept your left side, you have to realise that it's your quirk not his" Kawaki explained before walking out of the tunnel.
"Now for the battle of the brothers! Coming out first, he can fly, he can run fast and he scored first in the hero entrance exam, it's the younger brother Kaminari Kawaki!" Present Mic announced as Kawaki reached the concrete stairs that allowed entry to the fighting area.
"Following is the Electric Older Brother, he's smaller but his quirk makes up for his height difference, he placed third in the entrance exam is Kaminari Denki!" Mic announced as the two brothers stepped into the area of fighting.
"You placed third?" Kawaki asked, 'I though Kirishima placed third'.
"Yeah, I kept it a secret, like I have with my other abilities! You have only seen what I wanted you to see, today I beat you with unseen skills!" He shouted, pointing as his little brother.
Kawaki took off his cape and placed it outside the area.
"Ready?" Midnight asked as both brothers nodded. "Fight!"
Kawaki started to be surrounded by blue lightning. Denki with yellow lightning.
"You would think that Kawaki would have this easy on paper" Eraser said, moving closer to his microphone. "But out of all the people that have fought him, Denki is the one who has the most experience and knowledge when fighting him"
"Witness my speed… Flash Step!" Denki shouted as electricity erupted from his legs before Denki vanished, in a flash.
Kawaki's eyes widened as he saw Denki appear next to him with a fist ready to strike.
'He's faster than me!' Kawaki thought as the fist made contact with his jaw, staggering, Kawaki stumbled back towards the end of the area.
Not giving Kawaki an inch of space to move, Denki continued his assault.
'The hits aren't powerful, but his speed, it's almost as fast as that Nomu' Kawaki thought as he used his quirk to fly up.
"Running away?" Denki teased as he got into a jumping position.
Kawaki's eyed widened at the implications that that pose held.
Denki jumped up with a trail of electricity following him and grabbed onto Kawaki's shoes.
'He just jumped up 5 metres like it was nothing' Kawaki analized as his brother was trying to use his legs as a swing to build momentum, like an acrobat would do on poles stuck onto the wall.
Kawaki stopped flying as the two started to fall down. He formed a small ball of electricity in his right palm and fired it at Denki, who smirked in response discharging electricity around his entire body.
The discharge deflected the bolt of lightning, but gave Kawaki some more power.
'I thought he needed his hands to stop attacks like that' Kawaki thought before forming a fist and bending down to deliver a punch to the head of his brother.
Denki let go before the punch could connect.
Kawaki re-activated his flight and flew up 10 metres in the air.
"WHAT A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS! DENKI HAS KAWAKI ON THE ROPES! AND WHAT WAS THAT LIGHTNING FAST SPEED?" Mic shouted as loud as he could out of sheer excitement.
"Denki is probably the best person in 1A suited to take down Kawaki, as his skills have developed in response to their sparring together" Eraser stated using his logical voice to explain how Denki was forcing Kawaki into a metaphorical corner.
"He's not wrong you know" Denki shouted. "I developed Flash Step and Flash Jump to counter your flight and strength"
Kawaki smirked. "That's good, but there must be a limit to how high you can jump right? Or how many times you can use Flash Step? I mean if you could use it all the time without restraint, I would be out"
'Thinking about it there was a five second interval between the step and jump, he didn't use anything quirk related for those five seconds, maybe that's because of my quirk or because he can't' Kawaki thought as he floated down. 'Let's test it' he thought while secretly gathering electricity in his palm.
Kawaki touched down in the middle of area, to be met with a Flash Stepping Denki's fist to the face.
The taller brother turned his palm to his opponent and discharged his gathering of lightning as soon as he felt Denki's fist hit his jaw.
Kawaki watched as the small bolt of electricity made contact with his brother's knee and pushed it back slightly.
"I found your weakness" Kawaki stated as the started to gather more electricity in his palm. "There's a time limit!" Kawaki shouted before flying up into the sky and channelling as much energy as he could into both hands.
Denki jumped up using flash jump as a current of lightning came towards him. 'It doesn't matter that I have a time limit, because I'm fast enough to reach you and ready enough to deflect your attacks' Denki thought as he speared though the lightning attack.
He squinted his eyes as he came out of the attack unharmed, but his eyes widened as he saw a fist coming straight to his head. 'Crap' was the last thing Denki thought as the punch came to his head.
"WOAH! WHAT A REVERSAL!" The voice hero screamed as the crowd went wild. From their perspective, as Kawaki launched that massive lightning attack, using his hands to guide it down to Denki. Instead of stopping the momentum in his hands like he normally does, Kawaki followed through with his right hand and formed a fist with it to act as a counter attack.
Kawaki watched his brother's eyes roll and his speed stop. He moved further down and caught his brother, stopping him from falling, before landing onto the ground.
The crowd cheered as Kawaki laid Denki down on the ground.
"Winner by KO is Kaminari Kawaki!" Midnight called as the flames surrounding the fighting area flared.
"What a contest! It just shows you listeners! You only need to turn the tide once to win the war!" Mic screamed as the KO replay was shown on the screen.
"He used the Lightning attack as a diversion to draw Denki's attention and used his speed against him, a logical decision" Aizawa analysed causing Present Mic to hum in agreement.
Kawaki looked at his brother, his eyes opening.
"You did good Denki" he said before standing up properly "Next time, don't fall for a trap" Kawaki suggested with a kind smile before walking away.
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