"Go ahead, hit me with another blast." Ectoplasm requests, positioning himself into a defensive stance. Raising both his arms near the underside of his chin and standing with one foot outward while the other stayed behind.

"Alright," Kokei responds, raising his new dark blue cloth compressed arms- graciously provided by Mei Hatsume. "Push: Precision," Kokei states, sending a narrow, yet powerful and quick, gust of air directly aimed for Ectoplasm's chest. The sheer speed of the attack, and due to them being less than 5 feet apart, makes Ectoplasm unable to avoid this attack.

Upon taking the blunt of the single push, with no strength enhancers or kinetic boosters, Ectoplasm jerks a few inches back. Doing much better than the usual Push, instead of kind of pushing them some- Kokei could now really push people back. Ectoplasm nods, "great work, Kokei, your Push's ability power has increased greatly."

Kokei peers down at his covered arms, "yeah, i barely feel any pain in my arms too. I think I'll be able to do many more blasts now, not to mention they're stronger." Kokei bows for Ectoplasm, "thank you, Ectoplasm clone. You've helped me greatly these last few days."

Ectoplasm chuckles, "'Ectoplasm clone', that's funny. And you can thank me by attaining a Provisional Hero License, then I'll feel this work wasn't for nothing."

Kokei nods, "that's the hope!"

--

"And so, that's why i upgraded my costume to be like this!" Denki speaks, finishing his explanation of his new hero costume to Kokei and Mezo. They all sat in the lobby of their dorms, it was later in the day so now the moon was exposed by the sky.

"That's cool," Kokei says in a monotone voice, sounding just as uninterested as he actually was. Kokei peers over his back to see the group of girls huddled at the other end of the lobby. They spoke a very loud 'oooh!' So it made Kokei's attention wander. "Why're they so loud over there?"

Mezo shrugs, "could just be because they're girls and feel the need to be loud."

Denki shakes his head, "nah nah nah, i bet they're talking about us!"

Kokei scoffs, "i doubt it. And I don't know why you sound excited thinking if they were, they'd only talk bad about you." Denki sighs and trues to think of a rebuttal, but couldn't. "As i thought." Kokei rhetorically states, turning back over to the girls and spotting Ochaco floating up into the air. 'What the-?' Kokei wonders, until he saw where she was looking- rather- who she looked at. She looked out the window at Izuku who was practicing his kicks in the air. 'Oh.. does she.. like like Izuku? That's.. interesting.'

"Ah, i got it!" Denki finally says, "that's why i ranked higher than you in the Final Exams!"

Mezo narrows his gaze at Denki, "you did?"

Denki sighs and looks to the ground, "no.."

--

Nervousness and anxiousness ran throughout the air the moment the U.A. bus doors opened. The bright sunlight, that shined onto every bus arriving, gave everyone a sense of energy- or made some more devoid of such energy. This large gathering of schools was due to the Provincial Hero License competition occurring that day. So every student there, at National Dagobah Arena, knew that they were surrounded by their adversaries. And for some, it was more intimidating than it was for others.

Both, Class 1-A and 1-B, stood just outside their busses. Still having some students getting off the bus and causing for the others to wait. Shota turns to look at his class of students, "i want you all to know that, i believe in you all to succeed. I'd also like to shed light on the fact that if you manage to accomplish this competition, and are granted a Provisional Hero License, you'll officially become semi-heroes."

"Right on!" Eijiro excitedly states, attempting to not only hype himself up but his peers. "Let's do this! Plus Ultra! Plus Ultra!" Eijiro chants, and slowly, some of the rest of the class join in the chants.

"PLUS ULTRA, PLUS ULTRA!" A boy, approaching from a different school bus, eagerly joins in the class chant. He was a very tall and built man, dark brown hair and black eyes. He had a friendly and innocent smile on his face and wore the white collared and dark pants, along with the rest of his approaching class.

Confusion overcomes the group of U.A. students, and it seemed to not be abnormal for the students indebted to the boy's school. For one student, another boy from the boy's school with a annoyed look and purple hair, speaks on his classmate's actions. "You shouldn't burst into other schools rituals, it's rude."

Immediately, the original boy slams his head down to the ground and apologizes loudly. "I'M SORRY."

"That's Inasa Yoarashi of Shiketsu high," Shota informs the class. "The best hero course in western Japan."

Inasa keeps his head pressed against the cement, "I LOVE U.A., I JUST WANTED TO SAY 'PLUS ULTRA' ONCE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE."

"Inasa had the best scores out of the people admitted to U.A through recommendations." Shota continues, "though he turned down his acceptance."

Kokei eyes Inasa up and down while his classmate with the purple hair, Seiji Shishikura, tells Inasa to stand up. 'If this is true, then that means this guy's stronger than Shoto. I wonder what his quirk is..' Kokei boggles, then, he notices the other varying students from different schools that were approaching.

With the varied array of students from different students, many things occur back to back. Firstly, a green haired woman comes up form behind Shota and jokes with him, as well as flirting. With Izuku's help, Kokei identified the woman as 'Emi Fukukado, known as The Smile hero: Ms. Joke'. Emi eagerly introduces her own class, from Ketsubutsu, to Shota's class. Two students in particular go throughout every student, in Class 1-A and 1-B, and shake many individuals hands while introducing themselves.

These two people were a girl and a boy, the girl being named Tatami Nakagame and the boy called Yo Shindo. They both seemed very pleased to meet the students, Tatami having propped up blonde hair and a smile. Though, Katsuki didn't accept the student's hospitality and stated that they weren't sincere.

While this happened, Tatami ran up to Kokei and enthusiastically introduces herself. "Hello, Kokei Kyōryokuna, I saw your performance during the Sports Festival and you looked sooo cool! You were using only one hand and yet almost beat Katsuki! Could i get your autograph?"

Kokei hums, "uhhhh, yeah.. got a pen?" Quickly, Tatami reaches into her pink backpack and pulls out a pad of paper and a pen with the Ketsubutsu school logo on it. Kokei takes the pen and slowly writes in his signature: 'K. Kyōryokuna' But it had some jazz to the letters. "There," Kokei says, finishing his writing and handing the materials back to Tatami.

"Thank you!" Tatami thanks Kokei, she seemed to enthusiastic and earnest in her words and actions. And it made Kokei feel cool and special, not to mention how she inflated his ego by reminding him of his close battle with Katsuki. But, after that, Shota directs the class to enter the arena so they could be on time for the greeting and rules.

--

"Hello, people, my name is Yokumiru Mera. I work for the Hero Public Safety Commission." Yokumiru says unenthusiastically and in a monotone voice. The exam contestants were gathered within a large, rectangular room. They wore their hero costumes now so that they were prepared for the exam. Mera stood upon a teacher's pedestal to address the students. Mera yawns, "I apologize for my yawning but I'm just so tired from working all day. The commission is severely understaffed." Mera sighs, "anyways, the exam is a free for all. Heroes respond to crises extremely quickly nowadays, so, it's first come first serve. Which is why this exam is based upon speed. Meaning the first 100 students to finish the first test, out of the 1,540 of you here today, will advance."

Mera lets out a very long yawn again, "so, each of you have 6 red balls and three targets to attach to your bodies in someplace visible to others. You're tasked with hitting other students' targets. Once a student has all 3 targets hit, they're out- and whoever attached the 3rd ball claims the defeat. To advance, you must eliminate 2 students."

Then, suddenly, the large rectangular room the students gathered in begins to unfold. Revealing a much, much larger arena filled with primarily rocks and stones closest- but many other environments in the distance. "I'll be honest now.. I'm mainly tired because i stayed up all night on how I'd reveal this." Mera admits, releasing another sleepy yawn. And, just like that, the first stage of the Provisional Hero License Exam began.

"Alright, so, most of the other schools will be in their respective groups. So we should all stay together too!" Izuku figures, yet, Katsuki immediately charges off from Class 1-A and Eijiro stumbles after the angered boy.

"I'm gonna get going too," Shoto states, while walking away. "It's nothing personal- just hard to use my quirk in a large group."

Izuku gasps, "b-but we're at a disadvantage! Everyone already knows our quirks, we're predictable!" And, soon after Izuku speaks, a rush of students from Ketsubutsu high, lead by Yo Shindo, charge at Class 1-A from over the large brown rocks. In a haze, all the students propel their balls at the students. Though, it didn't even get near the students due to Izuku lunging into the air and kicking away the barrage of balls. "We've gotta fight back!"

Kokei sighs, "can't say I didn't expect us to be targeted." Kokei grabs one of his red balls, holding it close near him while he charged to the right of his class- getting distance from his classmates. Surprisingly to Kokei, many of the Ketsubutsu students near in on Kokei. Kokei aims his right hand at one of the approaching students, a blue skinned boy named Shikkui. "Push: Precision!"

The ball furiously homes in on one of Shikkui's targets, though, the ground suddenly begins vibrating and shaking. Causing for the ball to become off-put and inadvertently allows for Shikkui to dodge. "That was unlucky," Kokei inspects the battlefield to see who it was that caused the abrupt earthquake. Though, before he could, another red ball is thrown toward Kokei and homed in on his left forearm- where one of his targets resided.

Kokei swings his arm away from the ball, but the ball suddenly changes directions midair and rushes back toward Kokei's target. In a last effort, Kokei floats up into the air and gains altitude above the ball. This was finally enough to make the ball stop charging and lower to the ground. 'There's too much tension here,' Kokei contemplates, peering over at the further areas of the fighting area. Specifically: a city-like structure off in the distance. "Looks like a place to start."

"It's been a few minutes now, and still no one has passed the first test." Mera announces over the intercoms, echoing throughout every one of the zones. Kokei cautiously made his way to the road in the city replica. This was where the bulk of action was transpiring, at least around 100 students all fighting amongst each other in the streets. Luckily, they hadn't noticed Kokei yet.

"Snipe 2, get qualified. Sounds simple enough." Kokei aims his left hand at the nearest person- a nearby woman in a fight with 2 others. Kokei used his right hand to place a red ball into his left for ammunition. Then, he stated his attack. "Push: Precision!"

Kokei's red ball quickly hurls through the air and tumbles into the action- until suddenly, a strong air yanks the ball out from its trajectory. Making Kokei's ball change directions from forward, to soaring upwards toward the roof of a nearby building. But it wasn't just Kokei's ball, all the other students' red balls float up into the air and conjure in a giant swarm of air; a whirlwind.

The source of this congregation was the person standing atop the building where all the balls gathered: Inasa. Inasa raises both his hands up to the sky then, quickly and without falter, he lowers his arms and his head. Causing for the giant meteor of red dodgeballs to plummet down onto the very same students whom once owned them.

Kokei quickly lunges under a nearby car for cover, narrowly avoiding the fire squad from Inasa alone. But Kokei wasn't lucky enough to be untouched, just before he could take cover, one of the balls had slammed into one of his targets on his left shoulder blade.

Dust overcame the streets fluttered with students, an excessive amount of the color red inhabited the street now. Due to both the students' targets getting hit and all the balls that littered the cement. Kokei breathed in a random sequence while his heart beat hard. "Inasa Yoarashi, not only is he the first to pass, but he eliminated 120 students while doing so!" Mera excitedly announces, "now that woke me up some."

"W-what the hell was that!?" Kokei questions frantically, "that guy's a maniac! His quirk.. it overpowered Air Cannon." Kokei looks down at his left hand in shame and confusion. "His winds, they're stronger than mine." Kokei slowly shuffled out from under the car, bearing whiteness to the mass elimination that he narrowly avoided being involved in. Kokei peers up at the building rooftop, where Inasa still stood to behold his work. Kokei felt a drop of sweat creasing down his forehead. "Just who is this guy..?"

Kokei hadn't much time to contemplate this, though, since he soon remembered that this occurrence hadn't changed his objective. Kokei sprints through the sea of eliminated students to reach people who still were involved in the competition. The sea of students ran further than Kokei originally anticipated, having to run for 3 minutes on end until he had gotten to a sub-street in the city. All the while he ran, Mera periodically stated more and more people who've qualified.

Once he got to this area, there was nothing but a couple alleyways and replica cars. Kokei slowed his run to a walk, observing his surroundings with intensive focus. Using a close eye, Kokei noticed a single black bird soaring the air of the street; a crow. Kokei peers about himself cautiously, he had a suspicion as to who was near. He'd just have to find them, though, Kokei knew his omniscient onlooker excelled in stealth.

"You're looking in the wrong direction." A familiar voice tells Kokei, making Kokei turn around to reveal the speaker. He wore some loose fit black joggers and a loose breathable workout shirt. He had two thick white bracelets around his wrists, with a black line outlining them. There was a fairly dim light blue light radiating from that outlining black line.

Kokei knew exactly who he was as soon as he laid eyes on him. "Hey, Kro."

Kro waved at Kokei, "hello. What're you doing out here by your lonesome? It's dangerous to go alone."

Kokei eyes Kro up and down, "i could say the same to you."

Kro chuckles, then looks about himself. "Huh, i do suppose I'm also alone."

Kokei grins, "perfect." Kokei aimed both his palms at the easiest target to hit: the target on the right side of Kro's hip. Kokei loads up his hands with one of his other 5 balls and prepares for takeoff. "Push: Precision!" As Kokei speaks, the gust of precise air carries the ball toward its intended target.

Though, to no surprise, in the split second the ball was in the air, Kro disappears and reappears in another location a few feet away from the approaching ball. "I'm curious, did you really expect that to work?"

Kokei scoffs, "nope." Kokei begins while he loads up another ball to shoot. "I just want to tire you out, since you have to speedily run each time to avoid my attacks."

Kro nods, "i suppose that does make some sense."

Kokei aims his hands at Kro's new position, already being loaded up with a ball to shoot, and speaks. "Push: Precision!" The quick firing air tumbles toward Kro, carrying the red ball along with it. And, once again, Kro reappears in a new location to avoid the attack. "It's working.." Kokei smirks, intending to move his hands back down to grab another red ball- though, his arms don't move. Kokei gasps, he wasn't paralyzed in fear.. so why couldn't he move? "What the..?"

Kro blinks a couple times, surprised. "Wow, I'm surprised you didn't notice my crows landing gently on your shoulders. Maybe they were just too graceful for you to comprehend."

Kokei uses his Peripheral vision to look at his left and right shoulders. Just as Kro said, there stood one black crow on each of Kokei's shoulders. 'His crows can paralyze people? That's new.' Kokei sighs in defeat, "well, looks like you win."

Kro hums, "mmhmmm." Kro walks toward Kokei's frozen body, both of his arms forever extended. "I thought you'd be more mad about losing."

Kokei shakes his head, "nah see i would be.. if I didn't know there were multicolored ninjas in the alleyways that were waiting for us to finish fighting."

Kro tilts his head curiously, "really?" Then, he turns to look behind him. Only to see 6 different colored ninjas- from Seijin high- all quickly sprinting in from one of the farthest alleyways on the street. "Oh damn."

Kokei chuckles, he had noticed them out of the corner of his eyes when he looked at the crows resting on his shoulders. "Looks like we'll both be failing. Unless.. you get your crows offa me."

Kro peers at Kokei, "you say that like I can't take them on my own."

"But, if you leave me here motionless, one of them can come in and claim your kill. Then your work would be for nothing." Kokei says in attempts to convince the crow-like boy.

"Huh, you make a compelling argument.. but my answer is no." Kro responds, turning to the approaching ninjas and getting into a type of fighting stance. The ninjas' colors were one red, two yellow, one blue, one green and one black. As the group neared, the one in red reaches into his pocket and pulls out a collection of nails and bolts. Throwing the small items at Kro but, as soon as they got up into the air, they easily became 10x their size.

Kro quickly disappears out of the direction of the oncoming giant bolts that, now, headed directly for Kokei. Kokei smiled as the bolts and screws towered above him and threatened on coming down. This was because the giant items casted a giant shadow over Kokei, allowing for him to morph with the shadows and cause for the crows on his body to flutter away. Once the crows were gone, Kokei disconnected with the darkness and briskly sprinted away from the falling bolts.

Kokei breathes in and out to calm himself, but soon after, another ninja approaches from the side of the debris. They were the one in black, aiming a red ball at Kokei and using a pulse of water in attempts of hitting one of his targets. Kokei aims his right hand at the nearing ball being carried by water, "Push: Precision!" Kokei shouts, his air colliding with the ball and pushing against its force. Their forces were equal, so the ball simply fell to the ground.

Kokei had no time to make a counterattack, though, since the student in blue was behind Kokei. She launches an attack of mud toward the back of Kokei's head. Kokei ducks down, avoiding the mud and allowing for it to shoot at the student in black.

Suddenly, the other 4 ninjas vault over the giant bolts and screws to recollect with the rest of their crew. Along with their gathering, Kro walks around the side of the giant bolt Kokei stood next to. "You're not paralyzed anymore, good for you." Kro congratulates Kokei, "by the way, the two in yellow can expand their muscles. The red one can increase the size of objects and the green one, I don't know about him yet."

Kokei huffs, getting into a fighting stance, "thanks for the info."

Kro peers at Kokei, expectantly. "And? You gonna tell me about the ones in black and blue?"

Kokei shakes his head, "you can find that out yourself."

Kro hums, "hm, I suppose it's natural for you to be irritated with me. Fair enough." As Kro speaks, the dim light blue light from his bracelets shine brighter. Forming into a holographic type of light blue shield that attached to his forearms. "Good luck," Kro taunts as he charges into battle, running toward the one in red who stood next to the 2 in yellow.

Kokei scoffs, "screw that guy." Kokei runs into battle next to Kro, Kokei ran faster than Kro so he reached his group of 3 quicker. The people in blue and black shoot their individual liquids at Kokei, mud and water. Kokei aimed his left palm at their streams, "Push!" Kokei adds 2 strength enhancers and 1 kinetic booster as to overpower their combined attacks. Pushing back their attacks away from Kokei and back towards them. The boy in green flanks Kokei, running up to him and attempting to press a red ball against one of Kokei's unprotected targets. Kokei hadn't noticed them, so, they were able to connect with Kokei's target on his right arm.

Kokei heard loud clangs of metal from the other half of the street where Kro fought, the person in red was creating large bolts for the people in yellow to pick up and throw at Kro. Though, Kro always was in another location by the time they threw their bolts and screws. And, when Kro didn't reappear somewhere else, he used that light blue holographic shield to take the blunt of the attack.

Kokei and Kro stayed on the evasive, while Kokei was much more aggressive in fighting than Kro was. After a while, the two groups of ninjas regrouped once again as to combine forces and overcome the two students. And when this happened, Kokei and Kro gathered together as well. Standing side to side and, without needing to talk to one another, knowing what to do when the ninjas attacked.

Kokei and Kro charged in while red threw giant items at them, the two people in yellow picking up the other giant screws and bolts to throw as well. Kokei kept them protected, using strength enhanced 'Destroy's to redirect the bolts midair.

Occasionally, they'd throw more than 1-2 at a time and Kokei wouldn't be able to divert them all. As to which, Kro redirected them himself. Kro'd run toward the giant bolts and, in the next second, the bolt would be soaring toward a nearby building rather than at Kokei and Kro. Each time Kro did this, Kokei felt glad that Kro was currently on his side rather than opposing him. Kokei had no idea what Kro was doing but, with Kro's help, the two make it up to the group of 6.

Once they had made it, the two split off again to fight their respective halves. Kokei targeted the girl in Blue first, focusing on using his red balls to hit her targets first. Once he had two targets down, he redirected on another person in the 3 person crew he battled. And eventually, Kokei was able to fully eliminate the girl in blue. Which only made it easier to fight the ones in black and green.

Kokei prioritized the one wearing black first, by using 'Push: Precision' and evading their water Kokei was able to accomplish the task. And once he did, Kokei was qualified. And when Kokei finally eliminated two of his 3 opponents, Mera speaks over the intercom. "The 12th and 13th people have just qualified, Kro and Kokei Kyōryokuna."

Kokei gasps, turning around to look at Kro. And there he stood, Kro had eliminated one of the people in yellow and the person in red. The other person in yellow was lucky and had all but 1 of his targets hit. "He said Kro first, that means he qualified quicker than me.." Kokei whispers, observing the nonchalant Kro and his crows fluttering around his head. "Who are you really, Kro?"

--

The anteroom was rather uneventful, a handful of students, from different schools, reside in it as they wait for the others to qualify. Due to Kokei having no one to talk to, Kokei begrudgingly hung out with Kro until more 1-A students qualified. Time flew by at the pace of a snail, at least that's how it felt for Kokei. Until, eventually, a particular group of 6 students enter the waiting room.

Almost immediately, Kokei's head turned and a smile appeared across his face when he saw who just arrived. "Izuku!" Kokei says with excitement, then, he noticed the others arriving with Izuku. Hanta, Denki, Eijiro, Ochaco and Katsuki all came in with Izuku. "Finally, with this many people this test should end soon."

Izuku groans as he walks in, "uhh yeah."

"Are you okay, Izuku?" Kokei asks with a worried tone in his voice.

"Yeah, yeah i just need to go and.. get something to drink."

"There's a drinking fountain at the end of the room." Kokei points it out while the bulk of people, who entered with Izuku, go toward the other 11 people in class 1-A.

"Okay thanks, Kokei." Izuku slowly walks away, leaving only 2 people left: Kokei and Ochaco.

Kokei looks down at his feet, his head was getting plagued with a flurry of ideas. "Congrats on qualifying, Ochaco."

Ochaco smiles, "thank you, Kokei. Though, didn't you complete the test super early?"

Kokei shrugs, "i had some help." Kokei breathes in and out heavily, he couldn't deny this feeling in his chest when he came near Ochaco. "Ochaco, could we go somewhere more private?"

Ochaco looks up at Kokei curiously, but then nods her head. "Alright."

The two students stood along a alternate corridor, beside the entrance to the anteroom. It was a fairly dim lit hallway, and it was where Kokei and Ochaco went to talk. "I wanna begin by saying, I'm sorry." Kokei begins, catching Ochaco by surprise. "I'm sorry for the way i acted towards you after my mom's death. It was rude of me."

Ochaco shakes her head, "I've already forgiven you. I know how hard that must've been for you, so, it's okay." The two of them stood a few feet apart, on either sides of the fairly wide white-walled corridor.

"That's good to hear." Kokei sighs and stands up straight, his heart was beating fast and his mind felt corrupted. "I brought you here because, there's something i wanna ask you.. you don't have to answer if you don't want to!" Ochaco tilts her head slightly while she looked up at Kokei. "It's just been bothering me for a while now.. do you- do you like Izuku?"

Within seconds, Ochaco's face overcomes the bright color red. Ochaco looks to the ground and shakes her head while she had her hands against her cheeks. "That's such an embarrassing question!"

Kokei nods his head with a disappointed sigh. "Then you must actually have feelings for him, I was right."

Ochaco slowly stops her embarrassed state and peers at Kokei, innocently. "Why do you ask? And why do you sound sad?"

Kokei closes his eyes and breathes in and out, it was time. "It's because.. I like you." Ochaco stares at Kokei with her mouth agape, completely surprised. "And if you really feel strongly for him then, that's fine. But.." Kokei stares into Ochaco's eyes, taking a step closer towards her. "But maybe.. you feel the same?"

"And then i electrocuted him and saved Katsuki and Eijiro." Denki explains to his peers, "imagine what would've happened if I wasn't there."

"Wow, that's pretty cool." Hanta admits, "but you only could do that since the opportunity was right." Hanta's comment immediately sparked a small argument between Denki and him.

Izuku approaches his class, seeing two of his classmates arguing already. "Not wasting anytime, huh?"

Momo shakes her head, "doesn't look like it."

Izuku hums, "huh.. where's Kokei?"

"Oh, i saw him go down the hallway with Ochaco." Denki responds to Izuku while Hanta side eyed him. "Could be spicy."

Izuku shrugs, "i doubt it. I'm gonna go check on them, though, they've been gone for a while."

"Are you sure you wanna do that?" Eijiro questions, "you could be walk into something private."

"True.." Izuku contemplates, "hmm, I think I'll check anyway. Make sure they're fine."

"But maybe.. you feel the same?" Kokei questions, "Ochaco.. say something."

Ochaco blinks a few times and her cheeks become red once again. "I don't know what to say.. this is really surprising.."

"Just tell me, Ochaco, you don't need to say yes or no just- tell me if i should leave or not." Kokei tells her, "i don't wanna make you feel uncomfortable. So, if i am, tell me."

Ochaco keeps her eye contact with the ground so, to get her attention again, Kokei reaches both his hands out to lightly grab Ochaco's arms. Ochaco tenses up initially, but then calms down and allows for Kokei's hands to hold her arms. "You.. don't have to leave- but.. i.. i really uhm.." Ochaco pauses for a moment, having to find the right words to say. "I.. don't know if i like you in..."

The rest of Ochaco's words combined together in Kokei's ears, then its noise drowned out and the only words left within his head was 'failure' on repeat. Kokei stood motionless, he felt as though a bullet was just shot through the back of his head. And this feeling was just the result of rejection, he wasn't a newcomer to such feelings due to him having felt it many times in his life before. And yet, since Kokei hadn't heard her tell him she didn't like him back, Kokei still was optimistic.

However, Kokei's optimism and hope disbursed within a thousand shards within seconds. This was due to the figure of someone out of the corner of Kokei's eyes. This person was Izuku. He stood at the end of the hallway and seemed to be just arriving and getting ready to call out to the two.

'No, not Izuku! He's gonna ruin everything, this is my only chance at having any type of relationship with Ochaco and he wants to ruin it! I deserve my chance with her, this is my chance, my opportunity. And I'll seize it.' Kokei thought and, with this in his mind, Kokei devises his strategy.

Quickly, Kokei places both his hands on Ochaco's shoulders. This made Ochaco tense up and freeze, and allowed for Kokei to lean down toward her lips. And then, in the next second, Kokei's lips were pressed upon Ochaco's.

As Kokei kissed Ochaco, he had a certain thought at the back of his mind: Kokei felt guilt. He felt bad since he knew Izuku has feelings for Ochaco, due to Izuku's answer during the Forest walkthrough. Even so, Kokei kept his lips planted onto Ochaco's. And he enjoyed every second of the infinite passionate moment.

While the two were occupied with each other's lips, the green haired boy onlooked the two. Izuku watched with a mix of shock, sadness and anger. His closest friend, and the girl whom he felt for were kissing in front of him. Izuku's arms tense up and his hands ball into fists. "Kokei.. why would you..?"

Authors note: Ooooh boy, this part was a doozie. As you could see, so much happened in this one. Both Inasa and Kro demonstrated their abilities, impressing the likes of Kokei, respectively. And, with Kokei's advances on Ochaco seen by Izuku, you can only wonder now this action will effect their relationship. I hope you enjoyed this part, as I enjoyed writing it, and I'll talk to you all later.