We need to talk
"MIDORIYA WIIIIINS! SHE PASSES TO THE NEXT ROUND" Present Mic shouted as Izuku caught herself on her landing from the shockwave she created to push the orange haired girl out of the bounds and placed One For All on her back.
Izuku waved at the crowd and fist bumped her opponent. "That was a cool punch."
"Thank you and so your sword."
Kendo winked at her and the girls passed through their respective entrances. Izuku reached her seat just in time for the next match, it was Aoyama against someone from group 1B and he's giving a pretty good fight.
"Aren't you excited Izuku-chan? You're going against Todoroki in your next round!" Ochako grabbed her shoulders.
"Yeah he kinda challenged me a while ago."
"Intense." Mina whistled.
"That means he's taking you seriously." Momo commented as she nodded.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." Izuku said with flames in her eyes and turned to her right, she eyed the serious semblance of Todoroki and he made contact with her.
"Well it's my turn." Ochako stood up. "I'll do my best to win against that tribe savage."
Katsuki stood up as well and took off his cloak, he threw his cloak as Izuku extended her hand in reflex catching his cloak.
"Plus Ultra!" Izuku raised her fists to them and her friend excused herself as she blew kisses in her direction while the other clicked his tongue.
"ON OUR NEXT MATCH WE HAVE OUR FAVORITE EXPLOSIVE BOY KATSUKI BAKUGOU!" Midnight pointed him as he stood in the arena with a serious face.
"ON THE OTHER SIDE WE HAVE OUR QUEEN OF GRAVITY OCHAKO URARAKA!" Present Mic said as the two young heroes were showing their middle fingers to each other.
"START!"
Ochako attacked first running straight at him and he blasted her away, Izuku looked down at Katsuki and noticed that he was dead serious. His fighting stance was perfect, he had the offense and defense in perfect synchrony. Her brunette friend used the dust from his explosions to hide her presence and Izuku clenched the cloak when she knew what she had planned. Ochako used her hat to distract Katsuki but he quickly caught on and he blasted away the real Ochako on her back.
Something was odd in all of this, Izuku thought but then looked up in the sky and saw rocks floating in the sky as the dust got clearer. "No way." She gasped.
"Oh, it's gonna happen." Kirishima widened his eyes.
"LET'S END THIS!" Ochako shouted, she touched her staff with her hands and the object emitted a soft glow.
The big rocks started to descend at an amazing speed but Katsuki's semblance didn't changed as he raised one hand while the other embraced his wrist at the sky. The arena was lit up with an amazing explosion, the rocks got destroyed into little pebbles and Ochako got blasted away. Izuku could feel the heat from her seat as she closed her eyes from the impact and her hair ruffled. Katsuki lowered his hands as he saw Ochako, who stood up, she looked sick and exhausted.
"Ochako…" Izuku frowned as she looked her falling into the ground, she tried to get up again but failed miserably.
"AND KATSUKI BAKUGOU WIIIINS WITH A BIG BOOM BOOM PASSING TO THE NEXT ROUND!" The crowd cheered. Izuku watched worriedly as a few men took her friend to the infirmary and Katsuki took his leave. Cementos stepped into the arena and started to clean the mess for Kirishima and Tetsutetsu to start the next match.
"Ochakooooo!" Izuku yelled as she slammed open the door of the infirmary and saw her sitting on a bed with a smile on her face.
"Prince! I lost!" She scratched the back of her head as Izuku stepped into the room with a serious face, she walked slowly, she stopped in front of her friend and gave her a kind smile.
"You're crying." She said as she saw tears falling down of her friend's face without her noticing. She placed her hand behind her brunette head, she pulled her to her chest and rubbed her back. "You did awesome! He took you seriously in battle." Izuku sobbed quietly.
Dammit she wanted to be cool.
"Aaaah don't cry." Ochako cried as she hugged her back. "Would've been bad if he didn't."
"That strategy was so cool." Izuku separated from her and placed her hands on her hips. "Raise your head high and be proud my friend." She let a booming laugh.
"All Might's laugh is rubbing too much on you." Ochako teased her and Izuku turned bright red. "Thank you Izuku-chan."
"Let's go see the match." Izuku took her hand and they ran back to the stands.
When the two girls reached the stands they founded the two boys with hardening magic knocked out at the same time but Kirishima won because his magic did not faltered, Ochako sat beside Iida in the front row and Izuku sat with Katsuki behind them.
Izuku looked at Katsuki about to ask him something but found him frowning and tense. "Stop frowning too much or you'll get ugly." She laughed and touched his eyebrows.
"Buzz off." He growled and pushed her face away from him.
"I must take my leave." Iida stood, he saluted to his friends and took his leave.
"PLUS ULTRA!" Izuku and Ochako gave him their thumbs up with a big smile.
"HERE WE GOOOOOO! HERE IS THE SPEEDING KNIGHT IIDA TENYA!" Present Mic shouted at the crowd and Iida stepped into the arena with a smile.
"ON THE OTHER SIDE WE HAVE THE BOY HOT AND COLD! PRINCE SHOTO TODOROKI!" Midnight cheered and Todoroki stepped into the arena too.
Midnight announced the start of the match and Iida ran at an amazing speed towards the prince. The prince used his ice to follow his tracks almost freezing his legs before he jumped to kick him with a powerful swing of his leg and Todoroki created an ice wall to block it. Iida broke the ice and grabbed him by the back off his shirt to move him out of the bounds but the prince froze his legs, the ice encased him and trapped him in a matter of seconds.
"...CAN YOU MOVE IIDA?" Midnight asked the knight.
"I'm af-fraid not." Iida stuttered because of the ice.
Midnight nodded. "THE WINNER IS PRINCE TODOROKI AND PASSES TO THE SECOND ROUND!" The audience cheered.
Izuku looked down as Todoroki melted the ice around the knight and made eye contact with him, catching the challenge in his eyes which she returned.
The matches went on, Tokoyami won passing to the next round, now the only left were Izuku, Tokoyami, Todoroki and Katsuki and Kirishima. The next match of her explosive friend would decide the last four finalists.
"The fight between men will start now!" Kirishima exclaimed with excitement.
"Bring it shitty hair!" Izuku felt Katsuki standing up next to her and Kirishima as well.
Iida came back to take his seat next to Ochako, Izuku clapped his shoulders and Ochako patted his head.
"You did amazing Iida-kun, mama is proud!" Ochako placed a hand over her heart but he still looked depressed.
"YES!" Izuku gave him the thumbs up. "You held your own against him!"
"It still wasn't enough." He sighed. "I hope my brother isn't disappointed in me."
"Nonsense Iida-kun, I'm sure he's not." Izuku patted his arm.
"Thanks Midoriya! I tried to call him but I couldn't reach him...I hope he's okay."
"Odd." Ochako said as they watched how Katsuki blasted away Kirishima out of the bounds.
"NOW LET'S ENJOY OUR BREAK, GO TO EAT, GO TO THE BATHROOM! IN A FEW HOURS WE'LL COME BACK FOR THE SECOND ROUND FOR THE BIG FOUR FINALISTS!"
They ate at a restaurant not far from the arena and then walked through the busy streets with vendors of all types, people filled the streets as the sounds and scents of the food of the festival filled the air.
Izuku stopped in her tracks when she saw a little sweets stall with chocolate and cotton candy of all flavors. She watched the girl who had the same idea and they ran towards the stall.
"Girls." The boys said at the same time as they watched the girl buy things.
"I'll buy something for Iida-kun to cheer him up." Ochako laughed as she saw children ran around the sidewalk and into the street to play. The little boys surrounded the young heroes as they chased a boy with a tail and ears, the boy tackled Katsuki's legs in accident, the taller one grabbed the back of his shirt to lift him to get him over his level and a little smoke surrounded the blond.
"Brooo! Are you okay?" Kirishima asked as the smoke dissipated and when it did, his friend had dog ears and a tail. "HAHAHAHAHAHHA!"
Katsuki trembled in anger as he looked at the kid who was crying in fear and praying for any god to help him from this demon. "This better be temporary." He growled.
The kid nodded over and over. "It only lasts five minutes I swear!"
"Let the kid go man or he'll pee on his pants." Sero clapped his back and Katsuki growled, like a dog.
The girls finished their sweets shopping and came back to the guys, Izuku had in one hand chili covered apple and the other caramel apple, she approached Katsuki not noticing his slight change yet.
"Kacchan I bought you this, it has chili!" Izuku beamed happily and handed him the apple, she took a bite to her apple and looked at him as he took the apple.
The others were holding back their laughter as they saw how Katsuki's tail moved side to side uncontrollably and his ears halted.
"So obvious." Mina whispered to the girls.
"Kacchan." Izuku turned dead serious. "What's wrong?" She eyed him up and down and she could swear she saw a...tail, she looked at his red face, his tail and back at his face. "So…" The others stopped breathing as she started to mutter to herself. "SO CUTE! LET ME TOUCH IT! NO, I HAVE TO TOUCH IT!" She jumped at his tail to grab it but he grabbed his tail to stop it from moving and from her.
"Fuck off Deku!"
The rest laughed so hard as they saw how Izuku was trying to touch his dog ears instead and the blond was trying to push her away in embarrassment. After some minutes another smoke surrounded him again making the tail and ears to disappear.
"Aaaaw lame." Izuku clicked her tongue in disappointment.
Izuku turned a corner and encountered King Endeavor, she quickly turned her face to the other side to evade his attention.
"Hey girl." The man stood tall behind her and Izuku stopped in her tracks to turn around as she pointed at herself. "Yes you! You have a strong magic sword but Shoto will win anyways." He smirked and Izuku could swear that his flames were a little more hot than before.
She ruffled her hair and gave him a bored expression. "Look flame man."
"King Endeavor."
"Whatever." She waved her hand. "It's because my magic it's similar to All Might's isn't?" She asked the king and he gave her a dark glare. "A good opportunity for Todoroki-kun to face a similar power." She mocked him as she levitated herself to get on his eye level and he widened his eyes a little. "Let me tell you old man... I am not All Might." She shrugged.
"That's obvious, of course you're not-" He scoffed.
"Exactly." She interrupted him and gave him a cold gaze. "And Todoroki-kun is not YOU!" She turned on her heels and before she could disappear from his sight she looked at him over her shoulder, he was fuming in anger.
She stood at her entrance for what felt like hours, she took out One For All and rolled her shoulders, she took deep breath to calm down herself.
"Deku." A familiar voice behind her made her flinch and she looked him over her shoulder. "Better see you at the next round."
"You bet." Izuku smirked and waved at him as she took off to the arena.
"WE'RE BACK FOR OUR ROUND OF THE BIG FOUR!" Present Mic shouted and the crowd cheered loudly. "HERE WE HAVE ON ENTRANCE ONE OUR FAVORITE SWORDSWOMAN OF THE FESTIVAL! WHO TAUGHT US NOT TO MESS WITH HER! IZUKU MIDORIYA!"
Izuku stepped into the arena, she looked up and saw All Might's skeletal figure giving her a proud smile, she lifted a fist and gave herself little taps over her heart with her free hand.
"ONE THE SECOND ENTRANCE HERE WE GOOOO! ICE PRINCE SHOTO TODOROKI! PREPARE YOUR COATS CAUSE THIS IS ABOUT TO GET COLD!"
"Your father is a douche." She pointed at Endeavor with her thumb who was fuming in anger and took a fighting stance.
"Agreed." Todoroki nodded and crunched his knees.
"START!"
In a matter of seconds, Todoroki touched the floor sending an ice avalanche towards her and she destroyed the ice with a combination of a powerful swing of her sword with her mind so she wouldn't hurt herself with her sword. He threw another blast and Izuku gripped the handle of the sword, she swung her sword at full power but at the last moment she transferred all that power into one finger so the rest of her hand would be okay.
"Shit...!" Izuku flinched at her broken finger and Todoroki swung his ice again, she jumped from it and levitated to fall back down to break the ice with her other hand using energy sending him backwards. Her legs almost flanked but used her sword to stand back up and saw how Todoroki melted the ice wall he used to protect himself.
"That was another power just now…" Todoroki could see his breath now because of his ice, Izuku noticed that the frosting of his magic was reaching his face by now. "Sorry about this." He looked at Endeavor. "I have to thank you, I don't know what you told him...He's pissed."
"Where are you looking? Hey your eyes on me man!"She asked quietly, she pointed two fingers at his eyes then at her and he returned his attention to her. "You're shivering, our powers are just physical abilities so there must be a limit! What about your fire side?!" He looked at her shocked and she swung her sword hard against him, he created a wall to protect him but her power was more chaotic this time. She clenched the handle as she saw him almost touching the line. "Why don't you balance it with your left side to fight the freezing of your body?!" She cursed as she looked down at her scattered hand and he stood up.
"What…?" He stuttered and she lunged at him again, she levitated herself at him at an amazing speed, she got on his face and grabbed the front of his shirt. "...Why going so far?!"
She kicked his chest sending him against his own ice wall breaking it and almost touching the boundaries, she swung her sword at him but he rolled to the side and freezed her feet. She broke the ice with her mind with ease. "Trying to win with only the half of your potential makes me mad." She growled with fire on her eyes. "COME AT ME WITH ALL YOU HAVE!"
"Midoriya, what are you planning...With everything I have?! Did my shitty old man paid you or something?" He lunged at her and created a sword made of ice, she swung her sword to clash it with his. The power of both of them blasted them away and they lunged at each other again, the last swing of her scattered his sword. He kicked the ground and ran at her but she noticed that his movements were too slow because his ice side.
"Too slow!" She crunched down quickly and punched him with her free hand sending him backwards with a strong shockwave. They kept like that for a while, his ice was getting slower and her hand that holds One For All was getting a really bad shape.
"Everyone is giving their all to be heroes! How can you be a hero if you don't give your full potential?!" She cried angry tears as he clenched his fists. "I won't let you give me such a half-assed battle! STOP PLAYING AROUND IDIOT! IT'S YOUR POWER NOT HIS DAMMIT!"
Todoroki's eyes widened in shock as his left arm caught a big flame that got extended to his face and part of his body. She took a step back as a strong wave of heat invaded the arena, she brought her arm to her face to block the brightness of his flames and she gave him a big grin.
"He used his fire side, young Midoriya...Are you trying to save young Todoroki?" All Might's thoughts rang as he saw the big flames surrounding the prince.
"Helping your opponent...really, who's playing now?" Todoroki gave her a pained smile. "I want to be a hero too." he said as the freezing of his body got melted away.
"SHOTOOOO!" Endeavor's voice rang loudly all over the arena."Have you finally accepted yourself?! That's it! Good!" He said as he walked down the stairs and reached the end of the stands. "It all starts from here for you!" Izuku watched Todoroki's face, she saw a tear falling down his face and glared darkly at the king. "With my blood, you'll surpass me...YOU WILL FULFILL MY DESIRE!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Izuku and Todoroki yelled at Endeavor making the crowd to laugh at the fuming king.
"How can you smile with an arm like like that...?" Todoroki asked her with concern as he looked down her arm. "I'm down for another round but you…?"
Izuku rolled her shoulders and cracked her neck as she changed her sword to her left hand. "That's such a bad idea, I'm in...I have to practice my left swings." She smirked at him and he gave her a soft laugh as they took their fighting stands.
Thank you, Midoriya.
They kicked off the ground at each other and gave their all, the combination of both powers created such an intense shockwave that Cementos had to intervene, he had to create five immense walls to lower the impact.
"ARE THEY OKAY!? WHO WON?!" Present Mic shouted leaning at the end of his stand.
"Todoroki-kun?" Izuku grunted as she was looking up at the dissipating clouds."You good?"
"I'll live." He grunted in response from the other side and she snorted back.
Midnight stepped into the arena as the smoked dissipated, she saw Izuku out of the bounds and Todoroki just barely an inch away from the bounds. "Todoroki wins." The crowd cheered loudly.
"Ahhh! That was a good fight Todoroki-kun." She said still on the ground, Todoroki stood up and walked in her direction. He extended on arm towards her and helped her on her feet, he looked behind her and she turned to find One For All laying a feet away. She made a swift movement with her head and her sword levitated to sheathing it on her back. "Shit!" She cursed at her broken hand, she clutched her right arm in pain.
"Are you okay Midoriya?"
"I broke my arm." She laughed in pain. "Hey, Todoroki-kun." He looked in confussion as she clutched his front shirt to get him on her eye level.
"Don't tell anyone that I slipped with the ice out of the bounds at the last minute." She growled over his face, he couldn't keep his serious face any longer and laughed hard while bringing his hands up in surrender.
"You...you have my word."
"OOOOH DO WE SEE LOVE BLOOMING FROM THIS FIGHT?!" Present Mice asked and the crowd cheered making the two to separate from each other awkwardly.
Izuku flinched when she met a familiar crimson angry eyes. "I'll get my hand treated." She squeaks before everything became black.
Izuku grunted in pain as she woke up in the infirmary with All Might at her side in his skeletal form. "We really need to stop seeing each other like this Midoriya." Recovery girl scolded the girl as she poured some potions over her broken arms. "The broken bones get longer to heal." She eyed her arm. "This is going to leave a scar." She said as she wrapped Izuku's arm with bandages.
"Thanks." She smiled but grunted again as Recovery Girl kissed her cheek, she sat slowly with the help of her mentor. "I...I'm sorry All Might!" She sobbed.
"Young Izuku, It's alright." He gave her a thumbs up but the tears rolling down his cheeks said otherwise.
"WAH STOP CRYING!" Izuku choked.
"YOU STOP CRYING! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU, YOU GAVE YOUR ALL!"
"THANK YOU!"
Recovery Girl chuckled as the pair hugged each other in a sea of tears. "Sorry to break the bonding moment." She pated their shoulders. "The final match is about to start and you need to be there." She said to All Might and he took his leave.
"I was out that long…?" Izuku asked, she missed Kacchan's fight against Tokoyami.
"IZUKU-CHAN!" Her friends stumbled into the infirmary with tears over their eyes.
"How are you feeling?!" That was Ochako's voice.
"I've been better."
"They're preparing the arena." Ochako hugged her shoulders with one arm. "And Iida-kun had to leave early, he had a call from his family." She gave her a crooked smile and Izuku frowned having a bad feeling.
"It's Kacchan-kun's turn against Todoroki." Mina smiled kindly at her. "He looked pissed, we had to make All Might too kick him out of here for him to leave your side." She whispered the last part to her and with that Izuku jumped from the bed. She levitated a little inches from the ground because she didn't had the strength yet and she floated past the door frame. "ENTRANCE TWO!" Mina shouted.
"THANKS MINA LOVE YOU!" Izuku's voice rang in the hallways, she ran hoping to reach him in time before the announcement of the final match. "K-Kacchan, Aaaaah." She touched the floor with her feet as she panted with her hands over her knees and saw his head snap at her worriedly. "Urgh cardio." She groaned, he walked towards her with a serious face and pulled her against him. "I-I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the finals…" She was looking at the floor and he put a finger under her chin and raised her head so her eyes could meet his. "Say something, you're too quiet I knew it you're mad." She was getting nervous.
"Let me see." He said in a low tone that made her face bright red as he raised her bandaged hand and intertwined their fingers before he kissed her fingers softly. She widened her eyes as he kissed them again while making eye contact with her, anger filling his eyes. "I'm going to be the number one!" He growled and pressed his forehead against her making her gasp. "You better watch me and only me while I beat that bastard's ass out!"
She smiled warmly at him as she squeezed their joined hands, she stood on her tiptoes and kissed softly his right cheek. "I will and always will, Katsuki." She whispered into his ears and nuzzled her cheek against his, she tore herself from him to direct her eyes back to his but inhaled sharply when she saw him blushing with his eyes wide open.
Ups.
"HERE WE ARE ON THE FINAL ROUND! YOU GUYS READYYYYYY?!" Present Mic shouted.
Izuku chuckled. "Snap out of it! You have a match to win!" She twirlled him around and gave him a soft push towards the entrance. He started to walk away from her but stopped at the last second to look at her from over his shoulder.
"You and I will talk later." He said and walked away.
Of course we do.