Enter room drinking water: Finally, I can get back to writing. Who knew life would get this messed up. It's been over 2 months since i touched this, wonder how it's doing.
Checks fanfic, stares blankly, refreshes page, eyes widen
Spits out drink: WHAT THE HELL. THERE'S OVER 1000 OF YOU PEOPLE FOLLOWING THIS. AND PEOPLE ARE COMMENTING FOR MORE. I NEED TO GET ON THIS
Looks at meta-Izuku and meta-Naruto: NO TIME TO WRITE DIALOGUE FOR YOU TWO, GO GET IN TRB DANG STORY GETTING RIGHT IN THE FIGHT BARELY ANY DIALOGUE
Izuku lifts finger: Shouldn't we tell the readers wh-
Cracks whip Cyber got from somewhere: DAFUQ DID I SAY ABOUT DIALOGUE
Naruto and Izuku begin running in the story-verse: Our author is sorry for the wait and we appreciate your patience. Enjoy the fight.
(Also side note, in chapter 7 I changed some of the numbers so that the balance was better. I was but a wee lad when I wrote the early chapters, and thus had no idea how the balance should be like)
*In the stands*
Todoroki slowly made his way up towards the stands, still aching from his fight with Naruto. Kirishima was first to hear him as he was in the back of the students. '
"Oh, hey Todoroki. How ya feeling?"
Todoroki only muttered as he sat down next to the redhead, "I feel pain."
Kirishima shot him a sympathetic look, "I know ya feel. Those Midoriyas pack a wallop. When I was fighting Izuku, it almost felt like I wasn't using my quirk."
Mina shushed them with a wave of her hand, "Hey, the author said no dialogue. The fight's gonna start."
Todoroki looked at the pink skinned teen quizzically but Kirishima just put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't question it. It'll save you a lot of brain power."
*In the arena*
Naruto cracked his neck as he saw his brother on the other side of the arena, stretching his arms as he prepared for the much anticipated fight.
Izuku likewise was nervous but also raring to go for a fight he felt he's always been training towards.
Every spar the brothers had, every improvement they made controlling their respective quirks. It all had accumulated to this battle, to show their mettle to millions of viewers.
Present Mic's and Aizawa's words were little more than muffled speech as they eyed each other up and down, already scanning for weaknesses and forming strategies to counter every possible move.
The only thing that broke them out of their analysis was when they had to look towards Midnight as she began to begin the fight.
She snapped her whip as she pointed towards Naruto, "Naruto Uzumaki Midoriya, are you ready for the match," Naruto just smiled and nodded, she pointed towards Izuku, "Izuku Midoriya, are you ready," Izuku let out a somewhat nervous breath, but steeled his look and nodded as well.
Midnight raised her whip in the air, "Ok then. Our contestants are ready. Let the final match of the tournament commence in 3. 2. 1. FIGHT!"
As the words left her mouth, the brothers looked into each other's eyes one more time. A silent agreement amongst them. No holding back, this was it. All the spars they had in the past were trivial compared to this. The first true test of who's grown, a look for who is closer to achieving their dream of becoming a hero.
The red aura began enveloping Naruto, he went onto all fours as his quirk manifested the two tailed cloak behind him.
Likewise Izuku raised his fist as the power of One for All began to surround him, his veins coursing with power, 'I'm at 8% right now, doesn't hurt too bad. Don't think I can sustain a prolonged fight with anything more than this though.'
After a beat of silence after the teens powered up, they charged.
Once they met in the middle Naruto wasted no time quickly spinning to attempt and knock Izuku off his feet. The green teen saw that coming however and jumped over the tails. He wasn't ready for Naruto to quickly turn around and grab his legs while in mid-air, and throw him towards the ground.
Izuku grunted in pain, but recovered quickly enough to roll away from the incoming punch Naruto sent flying towards him. Naruto winced a little as his fist made cracks along the cement, but had to react as Izuku went on the offensive.
He began ducking and weaving as Izuku wasn't letting him breath. Naruto was really impressed with his brother, he can tell that each of those punches will pack a wallop. Which he learned the hard way as he mis-timed his duck and caught a strong left hook to the jaw.
As the blond teen staggered Izuku seized the opportunity. The freckled teen was relentless with the flurry of blows he sent to his brother. His fist little more than a blur as he got as many hits in as he could while he had the advantage.
Naruto was grunting, trying to block the blows but staggering at each hit. His brother has gotten faster apparently. The whiskered teen saw his opening, one punch being reared back a tad bit too much, and acted.
Izuku was focused on continuing his flurry, and was caught very much off guard when his brother intercepted one punch with his own. He tried to not let it faze him, but he was too late, the brothers began matching each other blow for blow, reading each other's moves in such a way that it feels as though they've choreographed and rehearsed this millions of times.
Naruto smiled while in the middle of the onslaught. Izuku was confused for a bit then his eyes widened. He went to move away from the tail making its way to grab him, but it was too late. He felt as the energy appendage wrapped around his leg and severely messed up his footing.
It was Naruto's turn to return the favor as he sent a mighty right hook towards his freckled brother's jaw. Izuku was sent flying towards the other side of the arena as Naruto got on all fours again, panting more than he's used to.
'Damn, Izuku's really putting my healing factor at work, I can at least rest for a few sec- WTF IS THAT' Naruto's thoughts were cut short as he had to quickly dodge from what looked like a speeding air bullet heading straight towards him.
He looked at the origin and saw his brother standing with his arm stretched out towards him, his middle finger behind his thumb getting ready to flick at him.
'Did he actually get projectiles?' Naruto thought.
His question was quickly answered when Izuku fired another bullet towards him, forcing him to side step yet again.
Izuku was mentally grinning like mad, 'I knew he thought putting space between us would give him the advantage. We both know a good hero always has a projectile or two to hold their own'
Naruto dodged another speeding projectile by crouching low, and gripped the ground hard, with a mighty push it seemed as though he disappeared. In a flash he was in front of Izuku, and swiped at his arm, causing him to release the projectile prematurely and leaving a sizable dent in the arena. Naruto made a swipe at Izuku again but the freckled teen leaned back and grabbed the attacking appendage. He turned around and attempted to flip his brother over his shoulder.
Naruto was prepared however, and while he was airborne he wrapped his tail around his brother's arm, and tugged at it. Causing the freckled teen to lose balance and fall to the ground along with his brother.
Naruto took advantage of his brother's surprise and pushed himself up. He quickly dashed towards the prone teen and sent a mighty blow towards his stomach. Izuku coughed up blood and grimaced. Naruto didn't let up, and sent another blow, this one sending spider-web like cracks on the ground.
The blond teen went to finish it off with a mighty stomp, but Izuku was ready, and with a burst of power stopped the stomp with his palm, and pushed up. This tripped up Naruto and he fell back with a loud thud.
Izuku gritted his teeth. He was up to 10% now, but his body was already strained so this much power was taking a toll on his body. He ignored the pain and went over to the prone blond and, taking a page from his book, lifted his leg up and slammed it onto his stomach.
Naruto nearly folded over from the force of the stomp, and coughed up an exuberant amount of blood. Izuku saw that he was still up and did it again, creating yet another giant crater and causing the blond even more damage.
Izuku went for one more stop, but this time it was Naruto's turn to take a page out of Izuku's book, and caught Izuku's foot this time. This caught Izuku by surprise, Naruto looked like he was losing energy.
However the green teen's eyes widened as his brother slowly stood up, three tails now behind him. When he looked into his eyes, he saw the eyes of a feral animal, his whiskers thickened and the aura around him becoming more malevolent.
Naruto pulled the foot in and sent a powerful punch into Izuku's gut, folding him over and sending him crashing to the arena floor, barely being able to right himself before getting ringed out.
Izuku instantly righted himself and gritted his teeth for what he was gonna do next. He powered up his Full Cowling to 15%, he immediately felt the immense strain his bones were under and the power expelling out of him. This was the furthest he can reasonably be without every move causing serious muscle damage. He knew he was gonna need, at the very least to subdue Naruto before he goes full feral.
Naruto was wildly panting as he stared at his opponent getting up and power up. They stared at each other, analyzing and respecting the power each other held. After that beat of nothing, they charge at each other once again.
Izuku sent a jab towards Naruto's face, but the feral teen just took the punch, barely even flinching and sent his own blow towards the green teen's cheek, but Izuku managed to brave that out as well.
It seemed as though the brothers were at a stalemate, exchanging mighty blows, and taking the mighty punches with little to no issues. Izuku wasn't liking how this fight was going nowhere, and decided drastic measures were needed. While Izuku was sending a blow towards Naruto, as he sent a huge amount of power to his pointer finger, and flicked.
That singular flick sent a mighty storm of wind centered on them, Naruto wasn't expecting this and couldn't brace himself properly, and was blown back away.
Izuku winced and shook his hand, looking at his now broken finger. He knew it was gonna hurt, but by god did that hurt.
Izuku wasn't in a position to lament his pain though, as he saw Naruto rear his arm back, and send a massive fist of his energy cloak towards him. He quickly dodged out of the way of the rapidly oncoming fist, and dived out of the way of an overhead strike from the other energy first.
It became a sort of dance almost as Naruto was sending a barrage of long-distance punches while Izuku carefully and methodically weaved through the attacks. The freckled teen finally decided he had enough of this and in a burst of speed closed in on Naruto.
Naruto saw the green blur closing in and jumped, confusing Izuku until he realized far too late as the arms that were behind rapidly returned to the blond as he clasped both hands together to create a giant fist, and send the energy extensions down in front of the quirk inheritor's path.
This actually caused a portion of the arena to jut upwards as he launched Izuku upwards. The feral teen ran up the rocky incline he created and made to punch Izuku back to the ground, but was not at all prepared for the green teen to be aiming his arm at him, and release an air bullet that launched him at great speeds into the wall of rock he made, actually sending him through the rock onto the other side of the arena.
Izuku landed and winced again, looking at the second finger he broke doing the powered up version of his projectile. He steeled himself yet again when he saw his brother slowly make his way towards him through the hole he made. He was hoping that the bullet would've either ringed him out or knocked him out, but that was wishful thinking.
Izuku looked and saw that one of his brother's arms seemed to have a wilder aura than the others, he was charging up a final attack. Izuku powered the rest of his body back down to 0%, but began pouring energy into his right arm.
They both began walking towards each other, but then broke out into a sprint as they reared back their fist.
The audience were at the edge of their seat as the brothers closed in on one another. Barely able to breath at the sheer amount of power in the attacks they can see the brother's holding.
The brothers finally closed in on each other and sent their attacks at one another.
The explosion they created on the arena made Bakugo envious at the sheer size and destructive power of it. Midnight was actually blown off her podium by the high speed winds created, the audience were too blown away (pun not intended) to care about their concessions being blown away yet again.
The smoke cleared, and the audience saw Naruto, on one edge of the arena prone. On the other edge of the arena was Izuku, also prone. Midnight saw this and wearily lifted her riding crop, "As both contestants are knocked out. We'll call it a dr-"
"NO!"
Midnight was taken aback as both brothers screamed as they weakly got to their knees. Naruto was panting heavily and winced as he did so, definitely has a broken rib. He looked as mentally exhausted as he was physically exhausted.
Izuku was also wincing with every move he made, his right arm hanging limply to his side. His arm was entirely purple, scars adorning his hand and forearm.
They both looked at Midnight, "This fight isn't ending in a draw," Naruto said.
Izuku nodded, "Yeah, this is going to end now."
Midnight looked concerned she looked towards Cementoss who only shrugged. She was confused on what to do before she got a buzz on her communicator. She listened and heard Principal Nezu on the other side, "Hey Midnight, the contestants were clearly both incapacitated, why isn't the fight over yet?"
"I was about to call a draw, but then they stopped me, saying they didn't want a draw."
There was a beat of silence, before he answered, "Well, if that's what they want. I would prefer the finale end with a decisive winner anyhow."
Midnight just stared at her communicator and shrugged, "Ok, THE FIGHT ISN'T OVER EVERYBODY. THESE TENACIOUS TEENS ARE GONNA KEEP GOING!"
The audience were in an uproar, expecting the fight to be over, but more than happy to see more of it.
The cheer fell on deaf ears to the brothers though. They just slowly made their way towards each other, fatigue clearly affecting them greatly. The audience's cheers began to fade as they realized the tempo was noticeably slower.
When they made their way to each other Izuku sent a punch, much slower than any other one he's sent. Naruto didn't have the energy to dodge and took it on the cheek and stumbled, but stayed up.
From his hunched position Naruto sent a massive right hook towards his brother knocking him to the ground. He went over to him and continued his barrage, but was stopped when Izuku lifted up his foot and kicked the blond teen's stomach causing him to fall.
Nauruto was panting as Izuku slowly got up and straddled Naruto to begin punching him. It seemed to take all his energy to raise his left arm, before he sent it towards his brother's nose, seeing blood leak out of it.
He made to punch again, but Naruto managed to gather enough energy to move his head to the left, and Izuku instead punched the hard cement. The blond took this opportunity to get one more rush of energy, and headbutt Izuku off of him. Izuku saw his vision get blurry as he fell on the ground and Naruto tiredly stood above him. The last thing he saw was his brother's foot lift up, before stomping on his stomach, knocking what air was left in him.
Naruto looked towards Midnight as she raised her riding crop, "The winner by knockout, NARUTO UZUMAKI MIDORIYA."
Naruto smiled a tired triumphant smile. He tried to lift his arm up, but was unable to do so. He reveled in the victory for one more second, before his knees buckled and he passed out next to his brother.
There, finally. It has been done. If the people want I can make like a 23.5 chapter that would just be from the perspective of the students and mom watching the battle. I hope the wait was worth it. Life has been hard so it's difficult not only finding time to write, but also finding motivation to do so. But here I am you beautiful bastards. I've spent way too long with this fight, and I hope you guys enjoy it. I was contemplating having it be a draw, but decided against it for reasons later down the line. I don't have much else to say besides I'm super sorry for the four month wait, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your patience and continuous support of this fic. I still can't believe how much traction my first fic has gotten. Anyways, not much else to say besides to like if you did, follow if you want to find out what happens next, and comment to tell me what you think. Constructive criticism is appreciated and even flames are allowed cause who am I to stop you. I'll see you beautiful people, next time.