A/N: Welcome back! Thank you all for reading this story and coming this far! I appreciate everyone who takes their time to read this story! In this chapter I mention that Katori is in third place at the Sports Festival. In typical brackets, the losers battle in a bottom bracket to determine the third place spot, but that never happened in the show, and Iida and Tokoyami were both crowned as third place winners. I am deviating from that and using Iida's family as a forfeit for the third place spot, so just wanted to clarify that.

This is a bit of a filler chapter, but more to come soon. Please leave a review because I'd love to hear what you are all thinking so far!

Chapter 11: Fallout

Katori's hands shake as she walks towards the player waiting area. She keeps her head down as she hears the crowds jeering at her. She quickly skirts from the crowds and makes her way towards the player waiting room.

Katori waits in the room for a moment, trying to calm herself when she hears a small knock on the door. She calls out a wavering "come in" as she attempts to wipe away the tears falling from her eyes. She turns around to see the person knocking is Todoroki.

"Are you alright?" he asks her in his signature flat tone, seeing the bloodshot in her eyes along with the smeared blood around her nose.

"Did you hear them?" she asks him, hoping that it was all in her imagination. "What they were saying about me, being a villain?" Todoroki doesn't respond and she begins crying as tears fall down her eyes without her control. "They're right. I am a villain," she tells him truthfully for the first time in so long. "I'm no hero."

"That's not true," Todoroki states strongly with a firm tone. "You're fight with Bakugo was—"

"I tried to kill him, Todoroki," she whines.

"But you stopped yourself—"

"I wanted to kill him!" she snaps at him, quickly slapping her palm over her lips with wide shocked eyes as the words spill from her lips without her permission. His eyes widen at her, unsure what to say to her as she begins shaking. She figures she cannot double back on what she's said and continues, shaking her head at the emotions that she was feeling in that moment when she was sitting on top of Bakugo. She drops her hand from her lips and repeats, "I wanted to kill him." She looks at him for a reaction and when there is none, she continues, "I was sitting on top of him with his power in my hands, and my fist held back ready to strike him in the face. In that moment, I wanted to kill him," she repeats, "does that sound like a hero to you?" she asks him so she drives her point to Todoroki that she is not a hero.

"We've all been overwhelmed in battle. What matters is that you didn't," he tells her calmly.

"Todoroki," she begins, wanting more than anything to tell someone about why she is here. She is scared and confused, and the secret of her father and her past are weighing her down and creating a person that she doesn't want to be. She has to tell someone… anyone… she can't live with this cloud looming over her any longer. "My father and I… we—"

"Where the hell is she?" she is interrupted by the distant roar of Bakugo before he bursts through the doors of the waiting room with a crashing boom. Midnight chases after the wild boy, but he grabs Katori by the collar before she can take a hold of him. "What the hell was that, Copy-Paste!" he yells furiously in her face as he shakes her. "You gave up! You walked out of bounds! You didn't stand and fight! What the hell was that?" he growls at her as he shakes her by her collar.

"Bakugo," Todoroki snaps at him in a low tone that Katori has never heard from the often stoic boy. "Let her go."

"Mind your own business, Icy-Hot! I'll get to you next!"

"Katsuki Bakugo!" Midnight snaps as she whips her flogger in the air, "release her now, you do not have her consent to hold her in that way!"

Bakugo scoffs as he shoves his grip out of her collar, their eyes never once wavering from one another. "You didn't give it your all," he says with a slight shake of his head as he turns away from her in disappointment, and leaves the room.

"Todoroki, you should prepare for your next match," Midnight tells him and he bows to the hero, giving Katori one last glance before leaving her in the room with the pro. "Are you alright?" she asks the girl as she sees the shock still lacing her eyes.

"Midnight," she begins with a soft voice. "Did you know my father, when he went to UA?"

Midnight scoffs, "Oh I am not that old," she huffs, not divulging to the girl that she actually graduated two years before her father. She looks down to see the girl does not smile at her little jest and there is still a wide-eyed shock clouding her eyes. Midnight sighs as she looks down at the girl, "I did not know your father personally, but I knew of him back then," she says to her with upturned brows.

"Do I look like him," she asks with a shaking whine as her throat closes in and her conflicted eyes look up at the hero.

She looks down at her, seeing that with her snow-white hair, so much of her father is in her that it is unnerving. She sighs, and takes her by the shoulders, looking into her eyes with strength. "Don't worry about what those people were saying. You fought your hardest out there. They cannot take that from you," she says with a warm smile. "I also came here to tell you that Iida had a family emergency and was forced to forfeit the bottom bracket fight, so you will assume the third-place spot," she says as if the information should be well received by the girl, but she instead returns with a simple nod.

Midnight nods back, knowing that the girl needs her space and heads out of the room to prepare for the next battle. Katori figures that she should be there to see the last battle as Todoroki was there for hers, and gathers the strength to leave the waiting room to join her other teammates.

She walks the halls towards their designated seating area with her head down and frosted white hair in front of her face. She thinks about her father and how he will undoubtedly be disappointed with her for her performance today with Bakugo. She should have listened to her father. She was reaching for the top, and now she is being targeted.

She bumps into a hard body and she looks up, mumbling an apology when she notices the body that she runs into is that of Endeavor's. She swallows hard as she looks up at the intimidating flame hero, while he looks down at her with slightly widened eyes, seeing her father clearly in her this close.

"Sorry," she says adverting her eyes from his as she moves to walk past him.

"Satsuma?" he calls out to her and she turns towards him as his eyes are crazily fixated on her, reminded of his past with her father. She wonders if he thinks about the last time that he saw her father, since he beat him so badly that Endeavor was sent to the hospital. "You have a very interesting Quirk," he tells her as he reads her expressions, finding pieces of her mother in her as well. "You could have easily bested that boy, but you stopped," he says with a slight dissatisfaction in his tone.

"You never want to be at the top, otherwise you'll always be targeted," she tells him, not having patience for his games. Endeavor gasps, hearing those words before but unsure how she could know them. She walks away from him, and he watches her with narrowed eyes as she returns to her classmates.

She sits in her seat next to Kirishima, slumping into her chair with her arms crossed over her chest and her head down as her white hair obscures her vision. Her lilac eyes fixate on the arena below her, but she does not take in any of the fight as she is still in shock from her actions of her own battle.

"Hey, you did an amazing job out there," Kirishima tells her with a strong encouragement.

She does not respond to him and Kaminari speaks up, "Bet Bakugo wasn't too happy about you walking out."

"I don't blame you," Sero says, "The fight was intense, I don't think I could have continued anymore either." Sero says, completely missing the true reason she walked out of bounds.

"Bakugo is such a lucky guy having Satsuma straddle him like that," Mineta groans hungrily as Tsu smacks him in the back of the head with her tongue.

"You did an amazing job out there, Satsuma," Yaoyorozu says with a smile on her face. "You represented the girls of Class 1A out there with that battle."

She begins crying, as tears fall down her cheeks at their encouraging words. Kirishima is quick to grab her, placing his arm around her shoulders and pulling her into a tight hug. "Thanks, guys," she whimpers quietly as Kirishima rubs her back comfortingly.

Her eyes watch the match between Bakugo and Todoroki. She is in awe at how he could go and fight Todoroki with as much passion and fire inside him after the match that they just had. She notices that Todoroki is still not using his left side with Bakugo and she presses her brows together in confusion. She wonders why he is holding back since he released that side of him with Midoriya.

She watches as he lowers his hand and her heart skips when Midoriya jumps out of his seat, "Come on, Todoroki!" he cries out to his classmate, "Do your best!"

Katori watches as Todoroki uses his fire to regulate his temperature. She smiles at him, feeling warmth lifting in her chest as he begins feeling comfortable using his full power. She watches as Bakugo begins spinning wildly towards Todoroki as he maxes up for an attack, but her eyes widen when she notices that Todoroki lowers his left side, and extinguishes his flames right before Bakugo releases his finishing move.

"Howitzer Impact!" he cries out as a deafening explosion, followed by a shockwave shakes the entire arena. Katori's heart sinks as she tries to look beyond the wreckage to see the outcome of the match, knowing now fair well what it's like being on the receiving end of that attack.

Her fists tighten in her lap as she leans forward to get a better view of the aftermath as the dust settles. Her heart sinks when she sees Todoroki passed out and sprawled in a pile of ice just out of bounds from the arena. She watches with saddened eyes as Bakugo runs towards the boy, grabbing him by the collar and yelling at him to get up and fight back. She can hear the anguish now in his voice over the anger that he had with her as another classmate fails to bring their all for him.

Midnight approaches the scene, knocking the tenacious boy out and announcing him as the winner. As the crowd erupts in cheers and shouts at Bakugo winning the match, she cannot help but look onto the two boys that are unconscious, feeling a sense of misunderstanding at how this could feel like a triumphant win with both boys lying on the ground.

After their fight, Katori is escorted by the staff for the awards ceremony and she cannot help but sheepishly grab at her hair that still remains white as snow. She feels uncomfortable being photographed and videotaped with her hair white and looking like her father after all the nasty words she heard on her way out of her fight with Bakugo.

She holds onto her arm tightly as she is placed on the third-place podium as they place the winners on their respective stands. Katori glances over at Todoroki who stands just slightly above her atop the second-place podium. His eyes do not reach hers, as he seems just as disappointed with the outcome as she does. She can see that using his fire has really caused a break in his character and seems to be really eating away at him.

Katori swallows hard when she sees Bakugo being wheeled in with a mussel on his face and his hands bound on a cement block to keep him from using his power. When he sees the two of them, he begins thrashing and fighting against his restraints as if to attempt to release himself and have the proper battle between the two of them that he was promised.

Katori's purple eyes meet his raging red eyes as her jaw tenses tightly at the sight of him. Her eyes fall, unable to reach his disappointed gaze. Once the three of them are in position, they are lifted up to the surface where the crowds erupt in thunderous cheers at the three of them.

Katori wonders what the three of them must look like. She and Todoroki have their heads down hung in shame, not from losing the battle, but from losing control of themselves, while Bakugo thrashes wildly against his restraints with the desire to fight the two that sit at his sides. None of them holds the face of champions.

All Might appears from above to present them with their medals. He grabs onto the copper third place medal and approaches the snow-haired girl. "Young Satsuma," he begins, feeling a tightening in his throat as he looks onto her white hair and calls her by her father's surname. "You performed well out there," he tells her as he places the medal around her neck, and she wonders if his words are sincere. He moves forward, awkwardly hugging her as her arms remain at her side and she is stunned by the gesture. "You have a lot to learn to control your Quirk," he begins quietly in words that are only meant for her, "And we will do everything in our power to ensure we help you," he tells her as he pulls away from her. She looks up at him with shocked eyes as he smiles at her and gives her a thumbs up. She swallows hard, feeling a wave of confusing emotions at his comforting words towards her, feeling unsure as she questions his actions.

All Might moves on to Todoroki and Katori can't help but be lost in her thoughts of him. How can he pull her into a hug and give her such false words of inspiration when he was the direct catalyst to her mother's suicide? It is because he arrested her and separated her from her child and lover that she felt she had no other choice but to take her life. They were going to demand her to testify against her husband and force his location out of her. She had no other choice, and it was all because of All Might that her family was torn into pieces. How dare he pull her into a hug and say those words to her after everything he has done to her family?

After the games, Katori does her best to leave without the notice of Bakugo or Todoroki or the rest of her class. She is unable to meet with her father at their hideout, and the sinking feeling of dread crushes her with how she performed today. She needs him to tell her that everything will be alight and that she is doing a great job, but without her father's words of encouragement, she just feels like she is plummeting deeper into a hole that she will not be able to dig herself out of.

She heads to the UA campus where she has been staying when she cannot stay with her father. There is an older common area that she noticed was never used near the first year's wing of the campus. At night, there seems to be no one around, and Katori has been able to sleep on the couches without anyone's notice. It seems that the teaches have been so focused with worrying if she were a villain or not, that they never bothered to question where the 'orphan' was staying during her admission at UA. It doesn't really bother Katori, the more they worry about her being a villain, the less they worry about where she sleeps at night, and she is able to make the couch her own.

She lies down on the couch and is quick to fall asleep, allowing the hardships of the day to wash over her drained body and pull her into sleep, where she is accompanied by a dreamless sleep.

After the weekend spent at the empty UA campus, Katori wakes up before anyone can notice her in the common area. She showers in the lady's locker room, and prepares for the day. Once she is finished getting dressed in her school outfit, she heads for her class.

Today in the hero course, everyone discusses their newfound fame since competing in the sports festival. They erupt with excited voices talking about the various bystanders that called out to them and recognized them on the streets. Katori's eyes land on Bakugo. She has not seen him since she swiftly left the podiums they were standing on and he refuses to look at her. His head is slumped in the palm of his hand as he is indifferent to the conversations that boom around him, despite coming in first place in the festival. Todoroki doesn't seem much interested in the conversation as well, so she keeps her eyes off of both boys.

Aizawa tells the students that they will be picking their hero names for today's class and Katori's heart races, never once thinking about what her hero name would be, since she never wanted to be a hero. He informs them that despite typically being chosen their third year for an internship, the administration has decided to extend the offers to first year's so heroes can invest in their future potential.

Her heart begins racing as she thinks about who could have scouted her during the sports festival. Despite having a rocky ended, she still performed top of her class, and she is eager to see the results of the invitations extended to them regarding their internships.

"Now, here are the totals for those of you who got offers," Aizawa says with his signature indifference as he reaches back with a clicker and displays a projection of the students' offers.

Katori glances up with baited breath at the numbers before them:

Todoroki - 4123

Bakugo - 3556

Tokoyami - 360

Iida – 301

Kirishima – 272

Yaoyorozu – 108

Kaminari – 68

Uraraka - 20

Sero – 14

Katori rereads through the numbers once more, trying to find her name. She can see there is a huge gap between Bakugo and Todoroki with the rest of the team, and maybe her name was somewhere there, filling in the gap?

"In past years it's been more spread out, but there's a pretty big gap this time," Aizawa explains to them.

"Todoroki got the most over Bakugo?" Jiro asks, wondering why that's so.

"Yeah, it's the opposite of what they placed in the festival," Kirishima notes.

"They probably weren't excited about working with the guy that had to be chained up at the end," Sero adds.

"If I scared a pro, they're just weak!" Bakugo growls at him.

"You must be really proud, Todoroki," Yaoyorozu says in a soft voice to the two-toned boy.

"These offers are because of my father," he says in a flat tone with a hint of disdain in his voice.

"What about Katori?" Kirishima asks, but her head is already down, understanding why no offer was extended now. "She placed in third and everyone got offers over her."

Katori looks over at the crimson boy stares at her. "No one wants to intern the daughter of a villain who almost killed two of her opponents," she says with a frown on her face. She should have figured this would have happened, but a part of her thought someone would look past the one-on-one battles and recruit her for her previous performance.

Bakugo glances over at her, seeing her shoulder tucked in and sad about the outcome. He rolls his eyes at all the stupid pros that do that see the potential that he sees in her and he figures that she is better off not wasting her time with them.

"Despite these results, you will all be interning with pros. Even those who didn't get offers, got it," Aizawa says sternly as his eyes land on Katori. "You already got to experiencing combat with real villains during the attack at the USJ facility, but it will still be helpful to see a pro at work. Up close and personal, in the field, first hand." He begins discussing their transition into the topic of the day, regarding their hero names. "These hero names most likely will be temporary, but take them seriously or—"

"You'll have hell to pay later!" Midnight announces as she bursts through the doors. "What you pick today could be your codename for life, you better be careful or you'll be stuck with something utterly indecent."

"Yeah she's got a good point," Aizawa begins, "Midnight is going to have final approval over your names. It's not my forte," he says grabbing his sleeping bag and making himself comfortable in the corner of the room as Midnight passes out the whiteboards that they are to write their hero names on.

Kirishima hands her the whiteboard and she looks down at it with a frown on her face. How could she not have gotten a single offer? Sure, her actions at the USJ were harsh, but she still fought hard, and she still has a powerful Quirk. If anything, she can be an asset to anyone who is willing to help her work with her Quirk. She has a rare power, thanks to her parents' merger, but she is still someone that can be worked with and guided into a solid hero. She wonders how much of this is her father, knowing that someone like Bakugo went just as overboard as she did, but still managed to get thousands of offers. Was it really that she was her father's daughter? Was that truly the reason that no hero wanted to work with her? How could that be heroic of them for turning her down because it looks bad on them to intern a villain's daughter?

"The name you give yourself is important," Aizawa begins with some parting words. "It helps reinforce your image and shows what kind of hero you wanna be in the future. A codename tells people exactly what you represent. Take All Might for example," he says leaving them to their decisions.

Katori frowns as she grabs the marker in her hand, scratching the name that fits the image that has been placed on her perfectly. After a few moments of deliberating, Midnight asks who is ready to present their names, and Katori's heart races, not fully aware they were going to present them in front of the entire class.

She glances over at Mr. Aizawa, wondering how he and the rest of the class will take her name.

Aoyama is the first to present with the name 'I cannot stop twinkling'. Katori frowns at that name, thinking that could never work, but after dropping the 'I cannot' and turning it to 'can't' Midnight signs off on the stupid hero name. Katori figures she will sign off on anything and figures her name will be fine. But when she is quick to knock Mina's down for being 'Alien Queen', she is unsure how the pro will react to anything anymore.

The students begin running up at their chance to share their hero names. Katori smiles when Kirishima chooses 'Red Riot', seeing the name to fit him well, while also learning that Crimson Riot was one of his favorite heroes growing up.

"If you are bearing the name of someone you admire, you have that much more to live up to," Midnight warns the boy and he takes on the challenge.

Katori swallows hard, looking at the name she has chosen for herself, questioning herself all over again, but shaking her head of the doubt, knowing that this is what everyone expects of her.

"I love the name," she whispers to Kirishima when he returns to his desk with a comforting hand firmly on his shoulder, and he smiles back at her with a thumbs up.

After a group of students show off their creative names, Todoroki stands at the podium and shows the board that reads back his name. "Shouto," he says with no inflection in his voice.

"Just your name? Is that it?" Midnight questions.

"Uh huh," he grunts as he looks down with no happiness or excitement in his eyes. She can see that he doesn't seem very uplifted after the games, similarly to her. When in her own mind, Katori forgets that Todoroki seems to go through the same feelings that she is of late. They both live in their public's view of their father's, and picking this hero name is just as irritating to her as it seems to be to him.

Midnight somehow allows this and they continue with the rest of the class. She glances over at the two-toned boy and smiles at him. "I like Shouto," she tells him with a soft smile and he looks at her. "It suits you," she blushes at him and he sends her soft smile as he quickly turns away.

After a few more classmates, Katori watches as Bakugo takes the podium, her eyes widen on what stares back at her. "King Explosion Murder," he says with gritted teeth.

"I'm going to say that one's a little too violent," Midnight determines.

"Huh, whaddaya mean?" he growls at her.

"Why don't you be Explosion Boy?" Kirishima calls out from the crowd.

"You shut up, Weird Hair!" he returns to the boy as he begins arguing with the pro and why 'murder' should be in his name while she skirts him back to his desk to try again.

Iida decides to use his name as well as Todoroki and all that's left is Midoriya, herself, and Bakugo. She glances over at the other two boys, noticing that Bakugo still scratches wildly at his board, while Midoriya looks down at his, still contemplating his name and making no moves towards the podium. She sighs, realizing that she will have to do this at some point, so she might as well get it over with.

She stands up and heads towards the front as Kirishima calls out encouraging words to her. She swallows hard as she holds the board in her shaking arms. Placing it firmly on the podium and looking at the words that stare back at her. After a moment of reconsidering her decision, she decides this is the name that the pros think when they see her.

She turns the board around and everyone goes silent. She keeps her eyes fixated on the podium as she is unable to look any of her classmates in the eyes once she shows them her name. Bakugo looks up from his frantic scratching to notice the name and sneers at it, while Aizawa wakes himself to meet her with hard-pressed eyes.

Katori finally swallows the lump in her throat and looks up from the podium out to the sea of widened confused glares. "Replica," she finally croaks out as the class begins to whisper to themselves.

"Satsuma," Midnight begins hesitantly, "A name similar to that of a known villain could give off the wrong impression of your image," she warns the girl.

"At the sports festival, everyone saw my father in me when I fought. I figured this would be fitting," she says, taking the board in her hands and moving towards her desk, keeping her head down from her classmates' states.

Her eyes finally lift to see Aizawa staring at her with a hard unreadable gaze. She is unsure if he is angry with her, or feels sorry for her and she pulls her eyes from him, unable to look at him in this moment.

After Midoriya chooses Deku and Bakugo is still ultimately undecided per Midnight's judgement, they are dismissed to discuss their internships. Aizawa passes out the papers in which they will provide their top three choices. Despite not being extended an offer, Katori and the others are still to choose their top three choices who will return with acceptances or denials.

Katori looks at her paper and writes down the three agencies that she wants to work for. Aside from her number one pick, she chooses less desirable agencies with the hope that someone will accept her, with her number one pick being an agency that she knows will deny her: the Endeavor Hero Agency.

They turn in their papers and Katori spends the rest of her day unable to focus on her schooling as she thinks about her father and wanting to see him so much. She wonders who he trained under, and if he was desired in school more so than her.

At the end of the day, she makes her way towards the main courtyard when Aizawa finds her and calls out to her. "Katori, a moment?" he asks her and her heart skips as she approaches the man. His face is unreadable and flat, which makes approaching him that much more unnerving. "A pro hero has extended an offer to you, so you won't have to worry about hearing back from the three you reached out to."

She freezes at this, not fully expecting someone to extend an offer to her after everything. "Who?" she asks him.

"First, I want to know, how long have you been sleeping in the first year's common room?"

She swallows hard as she tries to formulate a response, "Umm, I don't know what you're talking about," she says in an unconvincing tone.

"Starting off our relationship with lies is not the best way to gain trust," he says in a flat tone and she begins to internally panic, wondering if he knows just how many lies she's been telling him.

She places her head down, "Since I've been accepted into UA," she tells him. "I've been pretending to leave campus, only to return when no one is looking. But ever since the USJ attack and security's been tighter, I've just stayed on campus."

"Do you have anywhere to stay?" he asks her and she isn't sure if she is reading him correctly, but a part of his tone sounds concerned.

She thinks about the home she grew up in, knowing that she can never tell Aizawa that she grew up in a large extravagant home that her father bought will all the money he gained from his time as a high-ranking Yakusa. Her life growing up was lavished with wealth, but since their decision to have her infiltrate UA with All Might's announcement of teaching there, Katori needs to fake the poor orphan upbringing.

"No, Sir," she tells him with a breaking tone. Aizawa sighs and nods once at this. "So, who extended me the offer?" she asks him, seeing him lost in thought.

"Eraserhead," he tells her and she looks into his eyes with confusion lacing her gaze.

"The three I picked rejected me," she says sadly, knowing that even the low-level agencies that would kill for a UA student still managed to reject her. She takes in a deep breath and shakes her head of the self-loathing she is feeling. "Who needs 'em, right? When you've got a pro like Eraserhead recruiting you," she smiles up at him with a pressed smile so she doesn't cry.

He smiles down at her and she feels a warmth heating up her chest. "It's going to be the hardest internship you've ever experienced," he tells her in a foreboding tone.

"I wouldn't expect anything less," she says looking up at him with grateful eyes.