"UUUUUP NEXT! A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO BEST FRIENDS, FROM CLASS 1C, UENO HIBIKI!"
"VERSUS! THE HERO COURSE POWERHOUSE, CLASS 1A, KIMURA AKEMI!"
Her entire body felt cold. As Akemi stepped onto the top of the stairs before the cheering crowd she felt nothing.
Across the floor, looking just as lost and blank and sad as herself was Hibiki. Their eyes met and they shared a bitter smile, and that instant Akemi knew what kind of fight this will be.
This won'the a fight for victory.
They will be fighting to lose.
"Match- START!"
"I gi—" Two moths opened at the same time, and hesitated. They are both going to do the same thing. They are both aiming to lose. Akemi looked towards Hibiki, pained.
"Hibiki, please don't make me do this."
It was a plea. Hibiki looked just as pained as herself, "Akemi..." She shook her head and Akemi raised her hand, ready to fire off her quirk so she can drain her voice away. But before she could do anything Hibiki snapped her palm towards the top box, and Akemi stopped.
"Akemi, I have been stretching my quirk and now I can transfer injuries even without skin contact." She almost snapped, and Akemi recoiled because she've never heard her this angry, not since the time she told her about her abuse. "Though all injuries transferred to me will rewind to the state when they were received. Do you know what that means?"
Her heart sank.
Aizawa-sensei.
"Akemi, if you dare take one step towards the boundary I am going to take all of Aizawa-sensei's injuries." The crowd is muttering now, confused. "And I am not sure if I'd survive."
"Hibiki—"
"Hey, hey? Where's the action? Com'on, quit chatting and start fighting!"
Mic's announcement cut her short and Akemi shot Midnight a panicked look, from where she us she probably couldn't hear what they're talking about. "Hibiki if you lose, if you do that even if you didn't die he'do he'd-" her voice crack, "I- "
"Akemi you need to go on." Hibiki sniffled, hand still raised towards the top box, palm glowing slightly in a silent threat. "Both you and Kōki might be hurt if you lose but I'll only be me if I lose, so please!" She pled, "let me lose."
Shouta's eyes narrowed towards the stage, Ueno's palm is pointed towards him, glowing slightly as the two fought over something, verbally if he may add. It's odd, Kimura had always been a competitive one and now she's just... Standing there and talking to Ueno with that pained, pleading look on her face and he didn't like that, not one bit.
He frowned, If Ueno is threatening to use her quirk on the audience... but the look on her face says otherwise. He glances towards the students profiles, and his heart sank as he saw Ueno Hibiki's quirk.
'Wound Transferal. capable of transferring wounds to and from herself with skin contact. Also able to do so without physical contact, though if so the wounds will return to their original state and is only capable of transferring them to herself instead of from herself.'
Ueno Hibiki isn't threatening to hurt the crowd.
She is threatening to hurt herself.
His eyes widened, her palm is pointed towards him, she is threatening to transfer all on his wounds to herself and if his wounds were returned to their original state she'd—
Ueno Hibiki will most likely die.
"Yamada."
"Huh?"
"Stop the match." He watched as the argument between the two heated, both girls are now crying, but every time Kimura tries to grab her or even back away her palm will glow brighter and she's stop.
"Stop the match." He ordered, so that's happening. He shakes his head. Those two aren't trying to win, they are trying to lose so the other wins, and whatever'is driving them, he'd bet on his sleeping bags and morning coffees that it's nothing good.
"What? Shouta, why? They aren't even fighting!"
"They aren't trying to win they are trying to make the other win, don't you see it—"
Too late.
With a slash of her hand Kimura grabs a gun out of thin air, using her energy solidification to do so, and points it dead at her own temple. Her next words weren't heard, but after years of stealth training Shouta knew that much lip reading. With tears in her eyes and quivering lips, Kimura spoke:
"Hibiki. If you don't put down that hand, I'm going to kill myself."
Aaaannnd this is how things would've escalated if Akemi had to fight Hibiki.
I had no idea how to keep writing from here and so I restarted from the cavalry battle and discarded this idea. I love angst and all but I can't kill Hibiki or injure her right now cause she has to help Tensei, so... yeah.
