Disclaimer: Hiroko is all I own.
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We stood there waiting for instructions, but I took this time to look over my partner. The first thing I noticed was his gauntlets, which were grenades. To be fair, I'm not sure what I was expecting. He had black leather covering his chest, with an orange "X" on the front. A green belt with more grenades, black baggy pants, and melted knee pads. Which I was honestly scared about. Behind his head, black and orange explosion imitations stuck out, implementing the black mask on his face.
Once he was done glaring at Kuku, he turned to me, noticing I was staring he growled.
"What are you looking at?" bitterness in his voice, I only shrugged and started following All Might.
"Nothing, I just thought you looked cool." I said, making sure I sounded sincere.
"What, are you smoking me, Stripes?" he said, coming up beside me, I only shook my head.
"Nope, the costume works for your quirk, I can tell you thought a lot about it, it almost looks like a Pro's," I said, turning my head to him, he looked surprised I was complimenting him. With nothing else to say, we walked in silence.
"Bad guys you can go on in and get set up. In five minutes the good guys will be let loose and the battle will start." All Might said, bringing us to a multiple storied building.
"Yes sir." three of us called out.
As Bokugo and I were walking in, our teacher called out to us.
"Young Bushida. Young Bokugo. The key to being successful in this challenge is to embody Villainy." We both turned to him, excepting the hint. "Think from the perspective of an evildoer, if things go too far, I'll step in."
That's what I'm afraid is going to happen. I looked to Bokugo, who was staring intently at my childhood friend.
"All right, so what's our strategy?" I asked when we reached the missile while Putting on my helmet.
"Hey, " he called, not facing me. "do you think Deku really has a quirk?" I breathed in deep, trying to understand all of what had happened in the last few days.
"I-I'm not sure, you and I both know he did have one when he was younger, but you of all people would know what was going on." I said truthfully, I thought he knew, maybe when I Was gone Izuku's quirk just bloomed. Maybe it was just hidden?
"You keep saying I knew Deku, how do you know?" He still wouldn't face me, which was fine, I didn't want to see that kind of anger.
"Yeah, Izuku always talked about you, about Kacchan, the boy who was going to be the greatest hero, as about the bit who beat up his biggest fan, because he didn't have a quirk."
He growled at me, turning around, small explosions running in his hands. "Don't you look down on me."
"I'm only answering your question, whatever you have with Midoriya, that's between you two." I said, no judgment in my voice. "Now come one, we have the battle to win."
He lowered his hands and relaxed his posture, but still glaring at me. For which I returned with a smile.
"You wanna talk about our strategy or are we just going in headfirst?" I asked, he sighed but looked at me.
"If I know anything about the nerd, he's going to have a plan, so the best course of action is to plan accordingly." I gawked at his statement. Not expecting him to be so forthcoming. I just thought that he was an angry guy with a powerful quirk, but there was a reason he had the greatest number of points in the Intrest Exam, and it didn't revolve around just power.
"Right, so what do we do?" I asked, letting him take control.
"I go and fight them, while you hang back and protect the missile." he answered, I gave him a disbelieving look, in which he clicked his tongue before continuing. "Deku can't control his power much, and even when he does he breaks his bones, so he'll have to wait till the very end, but at that time ill have stopped him. And the girl, I have no idea what she does."
"Gravity, she can affect the objects she touches." I inputted, he nodded seriously, and I felt goosebumps watching him put his hand to his jaw. Him not always screaming was scarily attractive.
"What's your quirk again?" he asked, I rolled my eyes till I remembered I hadn't told him.
"I can enhance things. Like make myself stronger, make others stronger. Have better eyesight, get faster, stuff like that." I said, giving him the short version.
"Then you fight her, and I'll fight him, sounds plan worthy enough?" He asked, getting riled up again, I shrugged but went along with it.
"All right, let's begin the indoor combat training!" The speakers blared. I looked to Blasty Boy, and nodded my head, he rolled his eyes but looked just as determined. " Team A and Team D your time starts now."
"Let's get one thing clear though." I said, "Don't get too caught up in beating "Deku" and loose this for us."
He gave me a disgusted look, and muttered a string of curses under his breath but said nothing else before running out of the room.
If Bokugo goes straight for Izuku, then Uraraka will probably be forgotten, so she'll try and find me. And she can effect gravity, so the best thing to do would move everything in this room that can be affected by her quirk.
I had started moving things into another room using enhanced speed when a huge rock in the building told me Spiky Man found Kuku.
"I swear if you kill that boy, I'll kill you," I said to him through the earpieces All Might gave us.
"Oh shut up, he'll live." He barked back. I rolled my eyes at my partner but continued hiding all the objects. Enhancing my hearing to make sure no one was coming. When I finished removing any items, I enhanced my hearing again, and instead of finding nothing, I heard clicking. Oh, high heals, stealths greatest enemy.
I ran quickly to the room holding the missile and hid behind a pillar the sound was coming from. She walked in bending slightly, and looking for me or the weapon.
I watched her as I slowly walking around the pillar staying in hiding. when she found the missile she gasped and touched her ear.
"Deku, Bushida isn't here. I'm going after it." She said making her first steps, but before she could take another one I gripped the capture tape beside me. feeling the energy flow through me, focusing on strengthening my legs, I used the pillar to jump off. Giving me extra speed.
She turned around just in time to see me land smoothly, bringing my leg swiftly against her heal, knocking her down. While she focused on catching her breath I pinned her to the ground, my legs straddling her abdomen. Then bringing power to my arms forcing my hands down on her wrists. Keeping her fingers out of reach, knowing that touching her would result in activating her powers.
"Hey Uraraka," I smiled above her, still clinging to her hands, trying to avoid her fingertips."Sorry about this but I have to do this quickly or my partner's going to destroy the building."
I let my strength in my legs go and quickly used my quirk to strengthen my arms so I could hold down her hands with one hand. Taking the capture tape with the other hand, starting the process of wrapping her wrists.
"How did you do that, that was amazing." She said, eyes wide in wonder. I smiled as I went back to wrap her hands, but I touched one of her fingers. I waited for the effect of no gravity to take me when nothing happened.
"I, uh, took different Martial Arts in America, it really works with my quirk ya know," I answered confused on her power. She seemed to notice and wiggled her now taped finders.
"I can only affect gravity by touching something with all of my five fingers." She answered my unasked question. Ah, I see.
I sat up but used my foot below her abdomen to keep her secure, as I grabbed her legs and wrapped them together as well, indicating that she was out of the game.
I sat her up and dragged her over to a pillar, but the way her legs dragged, I started laughing.
"So sorry, I'm just, you..." I barely got out as I kept laughing at this whole process, she started giggling too until another explosion just a floor down caught our attention.
"Ah, sorry I have to go, hopefully, I won't have to hurt my partner," I said, resisting the urge to wave, remembering I was supposed to be evil. Just before I left I turned around and grabbed her earpiece. If she couldn't contact Izuku, this would be easier.
I ran downstairs listening for any more explosions, but all I could hear was McBlasty screaming about being a coward. That's all I heard until Kuku answered back. So I followed the sound of my "enemies" voice.
"Kacchan," he said, louder, I could hear it echoing the closer I got, no longer needing my quirk. "I'm not scared of you anymore."
"Since your such a stalker, you probably know how my quirk explosion works." Kacchan responded, "I secrete nitroglycerin-like sweat from my hands and make it blow up."
I'm sorry what? That's, that's kinda gross. But.. strangely cool? Could any spark to his hands' creat bombs, and if so, could I enhance his sweat enough to make his explosions even bigger. As gross as it sounds, it would be really cool to test out.
I turned my next corner and found Spiky in front of me holding out his gernade gauntlet aiming it at Izuku.
"Imagine what I could do with a lot of it." My partner said, cocking it like a gun ."That's right these gauntlets aren't just for show, they've been storing up my sweat inside for one monster blast."
I gasped in realization, but I didn't know what to do: if I moved his hand away I could either blow up the building or end up hurting Kuku anyway. I could jump in front of it, but that would go against the villain code. But this was a practice. So I decided to yell.
"Bakugo, don't do it; you'll kill him!" I screamed, grabbing his arm to hold him back, he looked at me and shook my off.
"He'll be fine as long as he dodges." He said, wrapping his finger around the grenade's pin and pulled it.
The explosion was huge, blasting and crumbling everything in its path, tearing up the walls and the ceilings. Sending Kuku flying.
When I looked up all I could see was deep black smoke, and the dust falling from the broken hallway.
A laugh from Mr. Boom Boom sent a strange sensation down my spine. Oh my god, Hiroko, this boy tried to blow up your friend and you thought his laugh was attractive. You need to chill down with the hormones and sit in time out.
I shook the thought from my head and sprinted after Katsuki who was walking into the smoke.
"These are awesome." He said, walking toward Izuku, who thank God was okay, "The more nitro Sweat that's stored in these gauntlets the stronger the explosion.."
"That's enough, Bakugo !" I yelled at him, but he kept walking, lighting up his other gauntlet.
"Go ahead, use your stupid Quirk on me, Deku. Even if you give me everything you've got, you'll never beat me." His eyes were murderous, and I knew this time I would have to step in.
"What's the matter?" He taunted, "you look scared?" I relaxed a bit, understanding this was a normal villain's antics. "You dodged the attack so you can still fight right? Come and get me."
I stood beside Blasty ready to either take on Kuku or if things got out of hand again, Bokugo. Izuku looked down, then started talking to his earpiece, only to get radio silence. That's when I pulled out the earpiece he was trying to contact.
"Uraraka's our of the game, it's just us now," I said, smirking; trying to play the role of a villain. He looked down again before the hot head got mad again.
"Are you ignoring me again, I'll get your attention." My partner said, raising up his arm again.
"Bakugo ." All Might's voice coming from the speakers still in the building. "Use that store's update power again and I'll stop this fight. Your team will lose."
"Huh?" We both responded. I'm surprised he didn't stop the fight already.
" to deploy such a strong attack indoorsis inviting the destruction of the stronghold you should be protecting. That's a port strategy wear there your a villain or a hero." Our teacher continued on, "that would be a massive penalty loss of points," now going silent Bakugo looked ticked.
He growled before yelling out: "Fine then, we'll fight hand to hand." He pushes off the floor with his blasts, sending himself hurling toward Kuku. Who in turn readied his stance.
I knew Bakugo wouldn't just try and capture Izuku, he would keep hitting him until he was unconscious, but I wouldn't allow that. The minute Death Eyes gave him a break if use the remaining capture tape and end the fight.
Blasty; coming at Kuku, looked as if he was just going to blast him again, but the minute he saw Izuku clench his fist in retaliation, Bakugo's momentum changed. He blasted a smokescreen and used the power to send him in the air, blasting again with his other hand, then all together blasting Izuku in the back.
If I wasn't so scared for the outcome, I would have probably fangirled at how absolutely cool that looked.
"Here it comes nerd," Bakugo said, "The famous right hook you were wining about." His arm swung at impeccable speed, hitting Izuku's arm. Before grabbing it and using his explosions to propel his movements forward, and throwing Kuku on the ground.
I knew at this time I had to intervene, so before anything else could happen, I enhanced my speed, racing over to the two. Bring my right arm back, I slammed my fist into Bakugo's face, careful to not give him any serious damage. But still sending him flying with my speed and force.
When Izuku's body hit the floor, I carefully put my boot on his sternum and applying pressure, keeping him from standing up. He breathed for air under me, when I watched Bokugo stand up, looking at me with rage and confusion.
"You don't even have the tape to capture him, Spiky, so don't even," I said before he could say anything. "I know this is a bit unorthodox, but I think it's time you give up Kuku, you've been beaten."
But as I shifted my weight I felt Izuku's hand on my heel grabbing it and throwing me off balance. Then he swung his right arm, me dodging it as if an attack, but I didn't plan on him throwing it into the air, fast enough to break through the ceiling, and eventually floor after floor.
The entire building shook with great power and wind. When it finally died down I realized what he did as I heard the cracking of an unstable missile begin to topple over and land, with a terrifying clank, near us. He reached out and touched it, still on the floor with a broken arm.
"YOU BOTH ARE IDIOTS," I screamed before jumping to the 5th floor, where we had held the missile. The jump took more effort, and I realized now I was definitely running low on energy. But I was too worried about Uraraka to pay attention to that. The fight was over anyway.
"What was that?" Uraraka asked, slightly scared, I sighed in relief, she was fine. I was terrified the battle would cost a life, and I realized Kuku was just as reckless as My idiotic partner.
"It was Kuku, he swung a powerful fist and broke the ceiling, causing the missile to come down, you saw that right?" She nodded her head, answering my question, I sighed while I untied her binding. "Boys are just so annoying aren't they?"
She giggled and nodded her head. "Oh wait, who won?"
"Team A, you guys," I said, grimacing slightly, I had wanted to win. But I shook off the feeling and smiled, "Even if Izuku did something stupid, it still worked."
"Your eyes are super pretty when they're purple like that." She said, as I picked her up and jumped again, landing in between Izuku, who had gotten up but looked pretty woozy, and Bokugo who was staring at him shocked.
"You did it." All might said, "The hero team, Wins!!" Just as he said that Kuku fell, unconscious. I set down Ochako-San and rushed over to him, feeling slightly guilty for letting Blasty go so far with him.
A team of robots came, and I put Kuku on the Stretcher, watching the medical team take him away. I turned to see Bakugo shaking in his boots with anger.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT I COULD HAVE BEATEN HIM." He yelled at me. Pointing to his busted lip I must have gave him from earlier.
"BECAUSE YOU DID BEAT HIM, YOU TOOK HIM DOWN, YOU BLASTED HIM. YOU SQUASHED THE BUG. IF YOU DID ANYTHING MORE I WAS SCARED YOU WERE GOING TO KILL HIM." I screamed back at him. Letting my emotions roar. "JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE JELOUS, DOSNT MEAN YOU GET TO HURT PEOPLE,"
"WHO SAID I WAS JEALOUS?" Lights flickered again from his hands, shooting a blast off near my head, but I didn't back down.
"YOU HATE THAT BOY BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE A GREAT HERO, CONTROL OVER HIS QUIRK OR NOT." I said, watching ha he swung this time with his left hand. I swiftly stepped back, and took his exploding hand and pulled it behind his back. Then before he could react . I pulled out his leg, and slammed my hand against his neck, pining him with his chest against the floor, my knee on his back.
"Now before you do anything let me tell you, i have enhanced your quirk, strong enough to break your body like Izuku, so I suggest you listen to me." I said it so convincingly, even though I was lying through my teeth, that he stopped the raging explosion his hands where ready to make. But swore under his breath nonetheless. "Bakugo, I'll say this once, you have an amazing power and an amazing skill, but your pride will be your greatest downfall. Trust me, I know from experience."
"And to be clear, I'm not looking down on you, I'm actually excited to see what a great hero you'll be." He only growled at that. And I was about to get off of him, letting go of his arm, he did a one handed push-up and rolled me off of him.
I sat there for a second wondering what just happened when I started laughing. He looked at me disgusted again. "I hate to admit how awesome that was." My voice sounding completely different than the serious tone I had just seconds ago.
"Bakugo, Bushida, if you're done with, whatever you two were doing, we are going to review your work." I stoped laughing at the sound of the Pro Hero's voice, and blushed embarrassingly, thinking about what that move looked like to someone else.
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"Well despite the results, the MVP of this excursive is Young Bushida." All Might said, wait what? Didn't I punch my partner in the face to keep him from beating on the good guys.
"Shouldn't it be one of the winners instead?" The girl from earlier with green hair said. I nodded in agreement, I doubt I should have won MVP.
"Mm, Valid question. Why didn't I choose one of those two?" All Might proclaimed. "Who has a guess?"
"Sir," a girl spoke up, "I can tell you why. Bokugo's judgment was clouded by a persanol grudge against Midoriya. And as you pointed out earlier, launching a full scale attack indoors was a foolish move, which explains why Midoriya wasn't chosen either. Uraraka: was captured therefore making her loose, but Bushida, even though punching her partner, did have the overall achievement of capturing another opponent."
Wow, I kinda forgot that they saw everything.
"he, yes, we'll Young Bushida shouldn't have punched her partner, buy otherwise yes you nailed it, good job." All Might said, somewhat astonished. Giving her a thumbs up. "Now then, time to move on to the next match, think about everything we saw and discussed, as you tackle this training for yourself."
We where escorted back to a room with 4 screens, broadcasting what the people where doing. It was Team B against Team I. Before anything could truly happen though, a boy with an Ice costume froze the entire building.
The room was freezing, all of us were shivering. And even though I was pretty tired, I boosted my cold adaption. Which would normally would take weeks, took mere seconds. The room became less cold by the second, but was still outside my regular body temperature, eh only so much you can do. At least I wasn't shivering anymore.
On and on went different groups, I observed them, trying to remember faces and quirks. All together, the Ice hero, was the fastest one.
"That's a wrap. You all did great, no major injuries except for Midoriya." All might said, after concluding our training for the day. "You should be proud, excellent first day of training. All around."
"It's nice to hear some encouraging words after our home room teacher." Said a girl with a frog like quirk, dang I need to learn her name. "Mr. Aizawa, is kind of a buzz kill."
All of our class shook our heads. Agreeing to her statement.
"Well I'm glad I can be of service, now I must go check on Young Midoriya." He said, "Now watch how a Hero excites, like he has somewhere to be." Before jetting off toward the exit.
I turned to Bakugo, who was looking down, eyes dark. I sighed and realized it would be best to stay away from him, until tomorrow anyway.
When we changed and finally got back to the uniform, many of us just went over training strategies, but I needed a nap. With the training I did my energy had really been used up. The big downside to my quirk, made me pretty low on energy for a bit. That's why I tried to keep sugary or energy drinks with me, but I forgot to pack them, so my best option was too sleep.
When I woke up, Kuku had just walked in the door. I stretched slightly watching how he entreated with the others. Many liked him and thought he did well. I got up and was about to agree when a yelling Iida caught my attention.
"Tokoyami, Stop using that desk as a chair." Oi, Iida, too loud. "Get off of it this instance."
"Dude, you need to chili. Said A girl with cords coming from her ears?
"You're caring a lot of tension." The boy next to her commented as well. I really need to learn some names.
"I cannot condone actions that disrespect these desks, not when great men and women, our upperclassmen have used them." Iida replies back.
"Iida, sweetie. Please stop yelling." I said, putting a hand to me head.
"Did you just call me sweetie?" He asked, looking at me like I was crazy. I hesitated before realizing I had. Then started laughing.
"Sorry, old habit I picked up from my friend, sometimes I don't even realize it." The laughing had woken me up more and I stretched again, "oh, I'm Hiroko Bushida by the way, but please call me Hiroko."
I extended my hand out to the tail boy, and he shook it. "Oijiro," he said.
"Kyoka Jiro." The girl beside him said, grabbing her ear-extensions and hitting them together.
"And I'm Fumikage Tokoyami, and this." He said, pointing to a black bird, handing in the sky. "Is dark shadow."
"Nice to meet you all." I said, before I noticed a boy with yellow spiked down hair, and Uraraka coming in through the door, carrying a large amount of books.
She went over to Kuku, soon realizing that he was okay, completely ignoring the boy she was talking to. Ahhh, so my ship has been keeping post huh? Except, before celebrating, Izuku looked up to Bokublast's empty seat, and ran out of the room.
I sighed knowing Kuku would go after his childhood friend again. I didn't follow after though, no matter how worried I was of the hot-head's reaction would be. I knew if anyone was going to change the life and attitude of Katsuki Bokugo, it would be Izuku Midoriya. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I know for a fact, those two, despite their differences, would change each other, maybe even the world.
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Lol, I thought I was getting real deep for such a light-hearted character. But this is My Hero Academia, they always have that really deep stuff, and everyone ends up crying. It's so funny. Ok, peace.