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THE HURRICANE
OC x Izuku Midoriya
'for those with the hunger to achieve.'
Chapter 5: The First Strike
I think my parents thought I was broken.
When I got home, I was so angry that I took off for a run, but then realized my usual running spot at the beach risked me seeing Midoriya, so I purposefully avoided it and risked running through traffic just to keep from that spot.
A spot Midoriya ruined!
I came home a few hours later drenched in sweat and starving. Mom was home, and looked mildly concerned as I inhaled my food before saying I needed to work out more. We had a home gym that I made good use of over the years, and it was the perfect spot to blast music and beat the crap out of the punching bags.
Maybe I could put a picture of Bakugo up there... Just thinking of the bastard had my insides boiling. The nerve of that guy! I belonged there as much as the rest of them. I had bested others with quirk. Me, a little quirkless girl had actually made it into the hero course. A course where quirks could make or break you, and I made it.
I kept punching that bag even though I couldn't see it through my watery eyes.
By the time it was ten Dad came home and made me stop, seeing as I was practically lying on the floor still trying to punch the bag. He reminded me I needed to study every night and also prepare for tomorrow. When he asked how my day went, I was very quiet, and he didn't prod for more information. The only thing he did do is bandage my bloody knuckles and palms for me and tell me not to lose form punching, but I didn't have it in me to say it was because I punched the wall instead at some point.
The next day of classes I didn't say a word to anyone as I walked in, not that anyone tried to speak with me. Midoriya didn't count, seeing as he was giving me kicked puppy looks as I walked straight past him in the hallway. I never even glanced his direction, and it probably hurt me more than him to be frank. Deep down, I had been really hoping to have a friend who understood what I was going through. Someone I could help and be helped by. An equal, but it was clear I wouldn't find that here.
So, I remained quiet, probably wearing a resting bitch face in the process, but that didn't matter. Everyone left me alone, even Bakugo by some grace of God decided to just ignore me outright today.
Our morning was pretty boring, but in the afternoon we were supposed to start our basic hero training.
Lunch was the only thing standing in the way of that, no complaint would be heard by me though, as I was absolutely starving already. Yukino decided to meet up with me in the lunch room then, and I inhaled both my portion and hers as we poured over the design plan I had come up with. Yukino stared for a long while, before mechanically looking up at me.
"What?" I leaned back, suspicious of the deadpanned look on her face. She held up my drawing.
"I gave you design paper."
I nodded, and she paused before raising a brow.
"Where is it?"
Ah, I forgot about that part.
"Well, you see... uh- I'm not very good at drawing things and-uh- I ended up using all of it to get it right." Yuki's eyes widened.
"I gave you twenty pages." She sounded horrified, I just shrugged it off.
"Yeah well, I tried a lot and failed, so anyway, this is all I had left. Pretty cool, huh?" I gave a lopsided grin, but she wasn't buying it as she shook the crumpled paper.
"A toddler could draw better than you! At least they wouldn't be drawing on an old napkin!" I think a blood vessel burst in her head. I nervously grinned at her, scratching the back of my head.
"Have I ever mentioned how great of a support team you are?"
Yukino looked like she lost the will to live as she wilted to the table. I caught her head before it could fall in her soup, both my hands reaching out to catch her by her forehead, but she picked herself up slowly after.
"You're going to be the death of me one day."
"Out of curiosity, how hard would it be to create something weapon like?" I asked, tapping my chopsticks on my nearly empty plate. "You've made great items to allow me to move around quickly, but now I need something to combat enemies with. Can't exactly run up to a villain and ask them to stand down."
"I thought you might want something like that," she slapped a pile of neat papers on the table in front of me with one hand. The other was carefully taking a spoonful of her soup with more elegance than expected of the grease monkey. "Here are a few design ideas I came up with to help you out." She explained, allowing me to look over them. Some were pretty interesting. A sword with shark teeth to grapple onto opponents, a shield ergonomically shaped like my arm with a sharp edge, a- wait... Was that a... shovel?
"You seriously think I'm going to carry a shovel around everywhere?" I deadpanned. Yukino frowned.
"I'll have you know shovels are the most ingenious weapon and defense you'll ever see. It has practically endless uses even outside of battle!" She defended, but I gave her a blank expression.
"There is no way in hell I'm carrying a shovel around unless I get to bury you with it." I said, pointing to the long stick instead. "What about this one?"
Yukino looked to the drawing, then smiled.
"I thought you'd like that one, it's a compact model. It'll fold up to a smaller stick that can fit into your palm for easy storage. At its full length it's about three and a half feet long."
"Sounds perfect, when can I get it?" I asked, noticing Uraraka, Iida, and Midoriya walk by. Midoriya paused to look at me, but I just looked away from him with a scowl. Yukino noticed, and looked in the direction I had been.
"Who is that?" She asked, rolling up her blueprint. I tried my best not to notice the crumpled paper being discreetly shuffled into the trash pile, but couldn't help myself when I yanked it out and stuffed it in my own pocket. I crossed my arms and leaned back in my seat after.
"Izuku Midoriya." I said, chancing another glare in the same direction. Midoriya had just started to leave, his eyes no long on me.
"The boy from the beach? Did... Did something happen?" Yukino treaded carefully, making me sigh.
"He's not quirkless, and he also got into the hero program." I explained, biting the inside of my mouth to stop from snapping out something else. Yukino sighed.
"Koga..." She hesitated, and I looked over to her. "You didn't beat him up... did you?" I glared at the table between us.
"No, I didn't." Even if I had wanted to, that devastated look kept playing in my mind, and I couldn't wipe it away. It looked like I had been the one to hurt him and not the other way around. I couldn't kick a puppy and that's what I kept thinking of every time he was nearby.
Yukino didn't say anything more as we both parted ways for class work. She was busy tinkering with gadgets while I was busy in my hero training for the afternoon.
I swear the world was trying to test me in every way possible in the first week of school. I must've been a demon in my past life because life was tossing everything at me this week, making me question the true value of karma and things I probably shouldn't have focused on but couldn't change.
We had basic hero training next with All Might as our teacher. As amazing as it was to be taught by the number one hero, it was also hard to deal with the loud nature he carried with him. It did get the class fired up too, which made them noisy as well as they oo-ed and ahhh-ed over the man. It was cool to see the living legend here, I would admit, but he wasn't my favorite hero by nature.
All of the girls headed into the one change room, and I shuffled over to a corner to get my clothing changed without being seen by the others. I could hear them chatting to each other, some had already made friends it seemed, and others were trying to pipe in on the conversation.
Once my suit was zipped up, I strapped the extra pieces on and went off to training ground beta. I was so thankful for the costume, and even more so that Yukino was allowed to continue making changes to said costume for me.
I was the last one to get to the grounds, which wasn't a surprise considering the other girls left in a flock. They took one look at my glare and left me be, which was a relief. As I walked up to the group, an unfortunate set of eyes zeroed in on me. Namely on my torso.
"Ah, just as I remember it!" Mineta's comment got a few people's attentions as they looked over at me. I ignored them, and stepped right by the grape as he tried to touch my leg.
"Mineta," I said calmly. The boy perked up, that is until I glared at him over my shoulder. "Touch my leg again and I'll rip your balls off, got it?"
He actually looked scared, maybe he was realizing I was serious.
"Alright everyone! We're going to kick it up a notch with this group right from the get go and give you a challenge!" All Might's booming voice got all of us listening. "We're going to do two on two battles between good guys and bad guys! The script is this: two enemies are guarding a missile. The good guys must find where it's hidden within this building and either touch it or capture the enemies before time is up! Likewise if the heroes get captured then the villains win! We'll draw lots to keep the match ups random!"
"Why random?"
"Is this a good idea?
"Isn't this a little advanced for us?"
The questions poured out, and honestly, I zoned out for most of it until the box came in front of me. Lot D, and it looked like my partner had already picked his lot.
Katsuki Bakugo.
"Aw fuck." I muttered under my breath. The sentiment seemed to be mutual as Bakugo glared back at me. Once the lots were drawn, we then drew to see who would be a hero and who would be a villain.
"Alright! First match up will be Lot A as the good guys and Lot D as the bad guys!" All Might called. I paused, then looked to see who was Lot A. Midoriya stared back at me, looking utterly terrified as Uraraka stared on in confusion.
Well, this would be chaotic at best.
Midoriya stared at the map with blank eyes. He knew the floor plan now, but was having a hard time focusing on the task at hand.
"You okay?" Uraraka asked him, breaking him from his daze. "You look really nervous."
Midoriya remembered the look Arakawa gave him before. She had ignored him each time he tried to get her attention, tried to apologize, and now she was on a team with Bakugo. He was pretty sure neither would hold back against him. What scared him the most was the shift from bright warm eyes he'd seen to cold and distant in the span of a single day from Arakawa.
"I'm fine, it's just... Kacchan's strength is... Well... a bit much... And Arakawa must be good if she got in without a quirk, right?" He ducked his head a bit more, remembering the determination in her eyes as she yelled at Bakugo.
"You knew them both before this, right? You even called Arakawa by a nickname too... Koga right?" Uraraka tried to remember the first time she met the girl. She sure had changed a lot in the course of one day. She looked so much nastier now, and it reminded her of Bakugo a lot.
"I only met Arakawa briefly, and... I sort of let her believe I didn't have a quirk." He confessed. It wasn't a lie, he was quirkless when he met her, but he was also just starting his training to get a chance to use One for All. He wasn't entirely sure of himself at that point if he would get it.
"Why did you do that?" Uraraka asked, not understanding the reasoning.
Midoriya remembered that big smile at the beach when she asked if he was quirkless. There was so much hope and happiness then, and it surprised him. There was someone like him, someone without a quirk, who wanted to become a hero too. He hoped beyond anything he would see her again, but training took priority and All Might was there each time. He had been sworn to secrecy so he couldn't tell Arakawa why he wasn't training with her or there when she was.
"Because she looked so happy." He admitted, thinking that chance encounter would be their last. But she was always just missing him. Sometimes he arrived just as she was finishing up, and he would hide because he didn't know what to say to a girl like her. It made him nervous and terrified and so so happy to even think about talking to a girl. It was just too many emotions, so he hid, and each time he regretted not talking to her. She came less and less as her training ground was soon cleared to the point that it couldn't be used for anything. But he wouldn't forget the time he found a message scrawled in the sand.
'You're doing great! Keep going!'
He had thought maybe it was All Might, since he didn't see him every day, but there was a delicate sized foot print purposefully placed next to it, almost like a signature. Arakawa had left it there for him. She remembered him, and it made him even more frustrated at his cowardliness. So, when he saw her again in class that day, he was so happy, and terrified.
And he realized after the quirk testing that he really should've told her he wasn't quirkless.
"Deku, I don't know Arakawa very well, but I mean even I can tell she doesn't take it lightly when people lie to her," Uraraka looked at the building where said girl was. "If anything, I wonder if she thought you were mocking her. I mean with how she reacted yesterday, she seemed really upset about it."
"You're all the same. You pretend to like me and then you show your real colors..."
Uraraka was right, he knew that much. He glanced at his mouth guard and took a deep breath.
"Not only that, we'll have Kacchan to face now." Midoriya was more scared of Bakugo's fists than anything else to be honest. He'd do his best not to show it though. Uraraka grinned.
"Well, we will have to do our best, right?" She kept up a smile, and Midoriya gave her a shaky one back before putting on his mouth guard and taking a serious stance.
"I didn't plan to lose today. We'll give it all we got." Midoriya looked back to Uraraka to see she felt the same as she also stood tall. They both took a single step before hearing All Might's voice booming through a loudspeaker.
"Alright! We'll start our first round of matches! Begin!"
I didn't get much say as to where the missile would be since Bakugo declared it would be on the fifth floor, in fact I didn't get to say much at all to the jack ass because he was storming off.
"Bakugo, we need a plan-" I don't know why I even tried, Bakugo cut me off by blowing a blast right by me, rage evident on his face. His strike was meant to scare me, but all it really did was make me sigh as he glared at me.
"You shut your damn mouth you useless quirkless wannabe! Just guard the weapon and I'll go defeat the others." He stormed off before I even got a chance to retort, and instead left me biting my cheek.
I wanted to clock him so bad...
Focus Koga! You need to be prepared because that idiot will let them slip around him. And when he does, you have to prepare a strategy.
I rested against the wall by the missile, trying to relax as I continued to think up a solo plan.
He'd probably cut them off-
An explosion went off just then, signifying the accuracy of the statement.
Which meant Midoriya will fight Bakugo while Uraraka will try and sneak up here and touch the missile. If they were split up, I just had to wait for Uraraka to get here, and tie her up. Then a two vs one battle would be a lot simpler. Even if Midoriya somehow defeats Bakugo I just needed to wrap capture tape around him, and I was the fastest between the four of us.
Small upsets were going off constantly in the floors below, and I began to wonder if the building would give up on us before we won the damn match. I touched my earpiece as I stabilized myself.
"Bakugo! If you destroy the building we lose!" He didn't answer me, but another blast went off. I growled and yelled. "Dammit Bakugo knock it off!"
He finally answered.
"Shut up you dumbass! Guard the weapon and stay out of my way!"
Taking a deep breath, I figured that I really was alone in this. I looked to my left and right wrists where both my grapples sat. If things didn't improve, I would have to intervene.
Considering what I knew from the other day's testing, Uraraka has a zero-gravity quirk, and Midoriya had some sort of super strength. It wrecked his body though, and so that meant he had severe limitations on what he could do. Which probably meant that he would probably try and distract Bakugo as Uraraka came up here, and meet up with her afterwards.
I hid away from the weapon by using my grapple on the roof and waited quietly. Sure enough, Uraraka came sneaking up the stairs. I had half expected her to use her quirk to come from outside, something not expected by others, but this made it a lot easier.
"Deku, the weapon isn't guarded! Make sure you watch yourself! I'm going in!" She called down to her teammate using the earpiece. As she took a few steps she was right below me, and I released my grapple just in time to land on her back. She squeaked loudly as I landed on her when she fell to the ground.
"Got you." I said, going to wrap capture tape around her wrist. She quickly touched my foot, and I was lifted into the air. So I was right, her quirk was gravity control of some sort. It didn't matter, as she rushed to touch the weapon I used my grapple to catch her back and yanked myself to her. She released the quirk in an attempt to throw me off, but my reflexes were too quick as I landed on my feet and yanked her back to me hard. This time, when she came at me, I took off my scarf with my free right hand and twirled it around her as she closed in. Her arms got trapped against her sides as I then slammed her into the ground beneath me and quickly pulled the capture tape out and tied it around her exposed leg.
Uraraka looked shocked as I stood in front of her.
"Caught."
The ground shook heavily, windows shattered from the shift in pressure of the building.
"You gotta be kidding me!" I nearly fell over from the rattling, but attempted to try my earpiece. "Bakugo!"
There was no answer, so I raced to the window closest to me. It had shattered and allowed me to look out the side. A huge plume of smoke was coming from the third floor, two floors below me. It wasn'[t far enough to put too much pressure on my limbs...
I backed up a couple steps.
"Hey wait! You can untie me! I'm out of the game!" Uraraka called.
I jumped out of the open window and took a swan dive.
I had to time it, but I tossed my grapple to get a proper swing out of it and into the hole Bakugo created. I swung in and found both boys about to lock in a strike. With my momentum I released the grapple and crashed feet first into Midoriya's back. The shocked of the movement made his knees buckle as he face planted on the spot.
Normally I would've stopped there, but Bakugo's attack was still in motion and he didn't look like he had any intention of stopping. He would mow me down just to get through to Mirodiya, so I continued on with my momentum and aimed to kick Bakugo's legs out. His reaction time was too fast though, as he jumped over top of me and Midoriya. He landed on the other side of the still fallen boy and spun around to glare.
"What the Hell's your problem you quirkless idiot?!" He yelled as he looked at me. I didn't answer and instead ran around Midoriya to get to Bakugo. He was surprised I was attacking, but I activated my second grapple and fought with Bakugo. He feigned a punch, using his quirk to send a low level blast to my face, but I didn't fall for it as he flipped over top of me and tried to attack me on landing. I was faster though, and had backed away from the strike which wasted his smokescreen. As he went to land on his left leg, I got lower and swung my leg out to take it out. He made to land on his right leg, but I attached my grapple to his ankle then and activated it.
By the time Bakugo realized what was happening the grapple had shot out the hole in the wall and to a street lamp before aggressively yanking him outside. Without any support thanks to both legs being swiped away, his head hit the ground suddenly as he was yanked out at 50km.
Midoriya got back up to face me. He was shaking, but still had the will to fight in his eyes. I narrowed my own at him, then made to sprint through the short distance. I faked going left, but he didn't fall for it, so I actually went left the second time. He prepared himself, aiming to punch at me. His clothing had ripped as he pulled his arm back, energy seemed to be teeming through his arm as he aimed at me. I skidded to a near halt in front of him as his punch extended, but before he could properly hit me, I dodged towards his chest, putting a hand on his shoulder as I flipped over top of him and land heavily on his shoulders, and he crashed into the ground. I wrapped the capture tape around his exposed wrist then and waited.
"Time! And the Villains win!"
All Might's voice boomed loudly around us, so I got off of Midoriya's shoulders and released him.
It was only then that I noticed the line of a second strike on the building. This one lining up perfectly with where Midoriya had punched. I had been so focused on the task that I didn't realize the strike I had narrowly avoided.
"ARAKAWA YOU BITCH!" Bakugo screamed as he came flying back into the building. I didn't react as he glared at me, readying his weapon. I narrowed my eyes as he screamed and aimed to punch me.
"Bakugo! That's enough! You have already won!"
It looked like the boy wanted to murder me, but he did back down. I glanced to Midoriya, and noticed he took his time getting up. He looked over to me, and I stared at him for a moment. He looked pretty bruised and beaten, and part of me felt both bothered by that appearance, and also wondering why he never used his quirk at all. My mind raced back to the broken finger he had the day before. Maybe he broke too many bones.
He looked mildly hopeful when I didn't immediately turn away, but I caught myself and scowled before turning on my heel and walking away.
Hand to hand combat had always been my specialty. I didn't fall for tricks often and was always balanced and prepared. While the others may have had great quirks, I had trained to take them on in close quarters. In an actual fight Bakugo would probably incinerate me, but this wasn't a usual fight and I also got the jump on him. He didn't even see it all coming.
My own teammate had to be taken down. Though in real life, if he had threatened the hideout for the mission, I probably would've been forced to kill him as a real villain.
Back in the surveillance room there was quite a bit of murmuring going on. All four of us arrived together, although Bakugo walked ahead with me in second and the other two walking side by side.
"I can't believe Arakawa would attack her own teammate." Kaminari, the gossiping blond from the other day, whispered to Kirishima, the other gossiper. I didn't look at them though, and instead remained quiet as All Might looked to us.
"I would have to agree, what was your reasoning, young Arakawa?" He asked in his booming voice. I looked up at him without changing my expression.
"Simple, he was going to blow the entire building down. If that had been an actual battle with a real missile, we would've lost the moment he started blowing holes in the walls. We didn't stand a chance with that temper, so I made sure I could take down both enemies before he could do that."
"But still," Yaoyorozu started. "Why toss him out the building? Shouldn't you have both taken on Midoriya together?"
"When I came in Bakugo and Midoriya were about to strike one another. In a real match I would've just landed on Midoriya and called it quits, but Bakugo hadn't stopped his strike until I started to swing into him. It was a self-defense move. The rest was karma."
I expected some sort of remark, but Bakugo was just silently seething next to me during the discussion.
"Then I suppose the MVP of this round would have to be Midoriya!" All Might declared. Everyone seemed rather surprised by this.
"Shouldn't it be Bakugo or Arakawa for winning?" Asui asked. Yaoyorozu spoke up then.
"No, the one who did the best was in fact Midoriya. He held off Bakugo without using a quirk, and although he was captured it was a two versus one battle at that point. Bakugo stormed off the entire round, and almost destroyed the strong hold he was supposed to be protecting. Uraraka lost focus on contact and gave away her position, allowing Arakawa to capture her when she did so. And Arakawa, although she captured both heroes, was the one to attack her own teammate." Everyone stared at Yaoyorozu, but I looked off to the side at Bakugo who was still quietly seething.
"Very good Yaoyorozu! Now, onto the other teams!" All Might declared. While they picked those, I stepped closer to Bakugo.
"Hey," I called, gaining his attention. He looked at me out of the corner of his eye. "Maybe next time actually do some work. Don't leave a quirkless loser like myself to do everything."
His body tensed even more. I wanted him to hit me, because then I wouldn't have to hold back on him, but when he looked up at me, I saw more than just frustration in his eyes. He was beyond fury and rage. I'm not sure he even heard me that time.
I walked past him and joined the others to view the battles. Gaining information on everyone else's quirks would be helpful in learning how to fight against each of them. Not all were as straight forward as Bakugo's.
The next match was a quick one, with Todoroki silent icy dude along with Shoji the silent giant against Hakagure the invisible girl and Ojiro with the long tail. Todoroki froze the entire building so badly that we could even feel the icy effects in the surveillance room. Not only that, he thawed the entire building as well.
I knew immediately what upgrade I wanted next on my suit. Extreme jealously had me sulking a bit when I watched the ease of the victory.
The rest of the battles went on to show some pretty interesting types of quirks, and I got to know each one's strengths and weaknesses as I went along. I remained at the back of the group for most of it, leaning against the wall and watching.
When we were done, I began to leave, but Uraraka called out to me.
"Um, Arakawa?" I turned to her, not saying anything. She scratched the back of her head then. "I just wanted to say, you did a really great job! You looked super cool, even though I was the one that lost I still wanted to say something."
I stared at her, and she got a bit more nervous, but before I could walk away Kirishima marched up to us too.
"Hey yeah! That was super cool. You outmaneuvered Bakugo like he was nothing! Oh, Midoriya you were super cool too!" Kirishima patted the green haired boy on the back as he tried to sneak past us. Ashido pushed up to us too.
"Yeah! I wanted to say you guys were so intense that none of us wanted to hold back!" She said, grinning at me. I remained neutral while they started to yammer, Midoriya caught in their grip too as they talked about the fights. Then they started to talk about their quirks, and how everyone did a good job using theirs and how they couldn't wait to improve them.
"You don't belong here."
I looked to the ground, then back up again. Nobody really noticed it but I managed to slip passed them all, unnoticed until I was already out of reach.
"Hey wait! Arakawa! Where're you going?" Kirishima called, but I just ignored him.
There was no way I was falling for this again.
Our afternoon classes were uneventful, and mostly about basic work we needed to know pertaining to being a hero. At the end of the day we were all going home, when Bakugo marched up to me and grabbed my shoulder before pushing me into the wall. I waited for him to do something, but that must've been the opposite of what he wanted since he growled and punched the wall next to my head. I still didn't move, but he eventually stepped away and glared before heading off. Midoriya raced after him, and I dusted myself off and began to head home.
Outside, Bakugo was stomping away from a sad looking Midoriya. The smaller boy then turned around and stared at me. He looked surprised to see me there, but as he opened his mouth to speak, I simply walked past him.
He didn't say anything though, and as I walked further away; I lowered my head. So... That was it then? Maybe it was for the best after all. I didn't need to be making friends anyways. What I needed was to be focused on my goals.
"I didn't lie to you!"
I stopped when Midoriya's words reached me. While I didn't turn around, I did wait to hear more.
"At the beach, I meant what I said! All of it!" He shouted across the distance while I idled on the spot.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I muttered, then turned to look at him. He looked nervous again, but then hardened himself, which was a surprise.
"I meant what I said when I told you I was quirkless. I wasn't lying to you, I swear." He walked closer while I did my best not to say anything too nasty. I scratched the side of my head, suspicious of what he was trying to get at. I remembered the path of that attack he had aimed at me; it would've struck me clean out of the building. Yet... It almost felt like he hadn't been trying to aim for me. It didn't actually get close to striking me.
"What kind of bull-"
"I know it doesn't make sense, but- but I was quirkless. And... You'll just have to trust me on that!" Midoriya insisted. I narrowed my eyes then, not believing him for a second.
"Trust you?" I felt cold saying it, but I looked him straight in the eye then and tried to find a tell. Midoriya's eyes were extremely expressive, and I expected to see something in them that gave away what he was thinking. I saw nothing though, and for some reason that unnerved me more as I turned around again.
I wanted to trust you, but...
"You don't belong here."
I just can't.
Hey y'all!
Sorry it's been a hot minute, but MHA is an ongoing series right now, so it's hard to actually plan a full plot line out when you can't predict how things end, so please bare with me on this one. I am probably going to be so sporadic, at least for the first little while. I think once the manga gets close to finishing it'll be significantly easier to finish up. Until then, please bare with me while I attempt to make a decent storyline. A lot of things have already changed and I'm doing my best to alter them properly. Koga has changed so much too, it's amazing what letting a story sit for a while can do for you!
Honestly, I had this chapter in my mind for so long, but I hummed and hawed about writing it since Koga is the quirkless girl, however to me it makes sense that she'd be in the lead right now since she has had the most training. Don't worry, power levels will change with time. I have a lot of ideas for Koga, don't you worry! Though the intro to the story may need to be changed a bit...
Review Responses:
JuggernautJJ: I have to agree, she and Midoriya have excellent chemistry, which is why things will be a bit different from here on out. In my original notes she was kinda paired with Todoroki or Shinso, but I've since changed my mind and think she suits Midoriya best. This will mean I have to change some things in the story line already, but that's fine. I love slow burn or casual romances, and Midoriya will definitely be a challenge to write a romance for, but expect to get hit in the feels!
ocomhdhain1: I mean, I'm gunna be honest, I think Mineta is just the artist's way of being creepy without making the other guys seem creepy, but at the same time I don't hate the character tooooooo much. Just enough that makes me want to low key hate on him sometimes. But I'm also not going to write an ooc scene just to hate on him. That's so much work. I may add in references to anime and marvel. As you'll find out, Koga is an absolute geek for that kind of stuff, but I don't like to reference actual names to things. Like Koga refers to Iron Man a few chapters back, and Pokemon, but otherwise doesn't make any specific references.
YaoiLuvinKitsune: Koga and Midoriya are gunna have a bit of a funny start, but I swear this is somethign that will make their relationship stronger. I actually really like their dynamic and hope other people like it too! Koga is a pretty straight forward character that does not take well to lies, which becomes a big plot point later on, but anyway...
Thank you all for your reviews. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Cheers!
Iland Girl