Chapter Eighteen: The Sports Festival Part 2
'Why is there so much pressure!?' Kyouka thought as she noticed that all students surrounding her were beginning to glare at her. Aside from Izuku, who was simply glancing at her with worry. She was going to become a target.
This match was going to simulate the dog-eat-dog society of heroes they would soon become a part of. Kyouka was one of the main targets of the rest of the students and none of them would want to team up with her.
In fact, many of the students flocked both Bakugou and Todoroki, begging to be a part of their teams. Everyone was sticking to their own classes and teaming up with one another quickly.
"Izuku, please team up with me…" Jirou practically begged, gripping onto the boy's collar. She had shook the boy back and forth with tears in her eyes as she didn't want to be outcast like this and have to team with Mineta of all people.
"That was already my plan, Kyo… I think we can have a versatile quirk advantage." He stated, gripping onto the girls hands on his collar. The girl smiled brightly, causing the boy's heart to clench way too hard.
Izuku coughed up blood and was brought to his knees, somewhat resembling All Might. This girl was way too cute!
"Eh!? Izu, are you okay!?" She questioned as a certain frog girl made her way over to the two of them. The couple before her turned to face her with questioning gazes.
"I want to team up with the two of you. I have Midoriya to thank for saving us from the villains at the USJ, it'd be wrong to leave you two in the dust." Tsuyu stated, causing the two of them to smile brightly. Good they had a third member.
"Thanks Tsuyu, I really appreciate it." Izuku stated, as Kyouka clung to Izuku's arm. She was getting a bad vibe from this situation, she was grateful for Tsuyu joining their team, but somehow this was giving her a bad gut feeling.
"Hey, guys!" And there it was. Uraraka shouted over to the three of them as she ran over, waving her hand in the air to grab their attention. "Can I team up with you guys too?"
Kyouka so badly wanted to say no, but she knew she couldn't. How would they get another teammate? At least she'd be able to work with Izuku.
"Yeah, sure. We need all the help we can get." Kyouka stated, before turning to Izuku who had already begun muttering about some kind of plan. She used her jack to snap him out of it. "Mind sharing your plan with the people who can't understand your ramblings?"
"A-Ah! Sorry about that… I think I have a plan that might help us win, but it's a little crazy." He turned to the three girls, and specifically looked at Tsuyu and Uraraka as he already knew Kyouka's answer.
"Do you trust me?"
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Kyouka questioned, as the team got into position, with Uraraka in the lead. Tsuyu and Izuku stood beside the girl as she tightened the headband onto her forehead.
"Positive." Izuku said, giving all three of the girls a confident smile. "For now, this is the best way to keep our points. We don't need to steal others, we just need to survive. Stealing points comes as a luxury, as we're going to become a massive target."
Izuku had explained to them his great plan, and with his and Tsuyu's strengths at their disposal, along with Kyouka's ability to use her jacks in combat, as well as to disrupt a teams whole flow with her vibrations, this was the perfect plan. Uraraka just made everything fall together for them.
The purplette gulped in nervousness and nodded. This was their only chance, and they had to make it count. They needed this win!
Kyouka could hear a few of the other students beginning to plot to steal their headband first and make a break for it. Unluckily for them, Izuku had thought of countermeasures to all of their plans. The guy really was smart, maybe even enough to rival an intelligence quirk like Nedzu.
Present Mic's voice then went over to loudspeaker, "LET'S GET A BATTLE CRY! BLOOD BEGETS BLOOD IN THE UA GRAND MATCH!" He'd shout causing the audience to scream out in excitement. This was going to be one hyped up match!
"Kyouka! Uraraka! Tsuyu!" Izuku called out to them in the midst of the audience's uproar, causing them to have their attention grabbed by the boy. "Let's do this!"
All Might watched on as his successor formulated his plan, and got his team ready for this battle. The boy definitely had a brain along with his brawn, something All Might couldn't compete with himself. He was always a reckless powerhouse, and having such a great successor made him proud.
'Go onward you two! Show the world what you can do!' He thought, pleading with whatever god there is, Izuku doesn't try to break something today.
The teams surrounding Izuku and Kyouka glared at them, and Izuku matched them with his own intense gaze. They were going to come for them from the start.
"THREE!" Present Mic's voice screeched out into the crowd as all of the students began to prepare themselves. Kyouka choked down whatever nervousness she had left and readied herself.
"TWO!" Present Mic shouted once more. Tsuyu let out a ribit, and Uraraka adjusted her hold on Kyouka. She then felt a tap on her leg from Izuku. She gazed down to see him staring forward with an intense gaze. He was trying to comfort her, and in some aspects it worked.
The girl took a deep breath and looked at her opponents, as they all were glaring directly at her. She was the primary target and she had to prepare herself for the defense part of Izuku's plan. She placed a hand on Izuku's hair and ruffled it, smiling at the softness. It was time.
"ONE!" Present Mic finally shouted, all of the students preparing to run for the number one target. "START!"
All of the groups at once began to dash towards Kyouka's team, causing her to sweatdropped. Of course they all had the same idea. She looked at Izuku who whipped his head over to Uraraka who peered over her shoulder at the boy.
"URARAKA! TSUYU! NOW!" He shouted, as Uraraka made their team weightless, aside from herself. As soon as the teams reached their area, Izuku charged up One For All to five percent and, along with Tsuyu, leapt into the air. Green sparks of lightning crackled around them as they shot into the air.
The team leapt over the others, and began to descend from the air to the ground slowly as Uraraka held her hold on them. Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around Kyouka as she was going to be hit with the impact of this the most.
Izuku had practiced landing from hard falls for a while, and so his legs would be used to the impact at this point. He'd stumble, but keep his grip on the others as they landed.
Tsuyu as she was blessed with a frog quirk had legs suited for impacts such as this, she also could help Kyouka in her landing, despite the fact she was hoisted up by the others, the impact would definitely rattle her around.
"Release!" Uraraka shouted as the two of them began nearing the ground. She let the group down as Izuku held Kyouka up on his own, smirking as his plan had worked!
The team then landed, and while it was definitely a rough landing, they were still standing tall! The team then began to run off, away from the other teams as they chased after them, and began battling amongst themselves.
"Great job, guys!" Kyouka commended, smirking at her greenettes plan. Suddenly a black clawed arm swung at them, forcing the team to dodge to the left.
"What the..!?" Izuku shouted, turning around to see Shouji carrying both Mineta, and Tokoyami. He must've been using the power of the shadow caused by Shouji's arms to increase the power of Dark Shadow!
"It's Tokoyami! Run! We can't beat him as we are, he's shielded by Shouji-kun!" Tsuyu stated, causing Izuku to power up One For All once again and help his team increase their speed. The three of them carrying Kyouka ran off, as Minetas balls began to be thrown around them.
Bakugou then appeared before Shoujis team and blasted the boy's arm, causing him to stumble to the ground as him carrying his teammates left him unbalanced.
"I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT'S TAKING OUT DEKU, Y'HEAR!?" He shouted before being pulled back by Sero's tape. He had just… Helped Izuku out? No, it seems he wanted to best the boy alone. A selfish desire, but one that helped their team out of a sticky situation.
The crowd went wild at Bakugou's actions, declaring him leaving his group a penalty, however Midnight had allowed it as long as his feet didn't touch the ground.
"Of course he gets away with it…" Kyouka grumbled, before becoming witness to the blonde losing his headband to some other boy. Bakugou looked as if he snapped and his group began to chase after the boy.
"Well as long as they're out of the way we have a chance to wi-" Izuku said, before halting. The rest of his team stopped along with him as they looked forward to the team that stood before them. It was Shouto Todoroki, along with Tenya Iida, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Denki Kaminari.
"I guess it won't be that easy then." Izuku said, glaring at the boy at the top of their team. Tsuyu let out a nervous ribbit, and pleaded to some god that they wouldn't get hurt too bad.
"We're coming for you too, Midoriya. Jirou." Todoroki stated, as his entire team held an intense gaze towards Kyouka's. Soon Mineta's team had caught up with them as well, meaning that they had two teams against them.
Todoroki instructed Kaminari to zap everyone in their vicinity, and by some sheer amount of luck Kyouka's team was left unharmed. They had less than six minutes left, there was no point in wasting time.
"Guys, it's time for the next part of the plan!" Izuku instructed, as he prepared himself for another big leap. Todoroki fired off a trail of ice shards heading straight towards their team. "NOW!"
Tsuyu and Izuku leaped once more into the air, though with a different goal in mind. This wasn't to make their team fly past the others, for Izuku had a different plan in mind.
"That same trick won't work twice!" Todoroki shouted, shooting ice shards at their landing point. Unluckily for him, that was exactly what Izuku had expected.
"Tsuyu!" The boy called, causing the girl to shoot her tongue out at Todoroki, successfully yanking his headband off of his head. The dual-haired boy paled, and looked at his surroundings. They couldn't catch them as they were, and they needed points and fast.
"Kyouka!" Izuku then shouted as the girl extended her jacks towards the ice as they began to near the ground. She shattered the ice at their landing spot, as they had only two minutes left. They had gotten another team's points and held onto their own!
"Great job once again, you guys! We've got this in the bag-" He shouted before seeing an angry pomeranian shooting towards Kyouka.
Izuku instinctively activated One For All to eight percent, and positioned himself in front of the boy and swatted his palm away before he could activate the explosion in front of the girl's face. Bakugou's hand began to ache, and Izuku was pulled back by Tsuyu's tongue.
The two childhood friends locked eyes in that moment and the world seemed to move in slow motion. The two of them glared at one another with hate that could rival any villains. How dare he try that on Kyouka. He would not let her experience the same pain that he had for years. Not now, and definitely not in the near future.
Bakugou was pulled back by tape, he was lucky enough to have a weaker team's headband if anything. Finally the team had landed on the ground, with the same shaky landing as before. They were surrounded as Todoroki, Bakugou, and Minetas teams all surrounded him.
Todoroki had taken a team from class 1-B's headband and Bakugou had stolen his back from the blonde bastard who took his, he also got a nice treat as he stole their headband along with his own.
All the teams around them rushed them once more, Todoroki had even unconsciously activated his fire quirk, and Izuku prepared One For All to stop him, but before they could reach them the buzzer went off. The cavalry battle was over. Kyouka and her team had won and made it to the final event!
"TIMES UP!" Present Mic declared. All the students had stopped moving, causing Bakugou to be dropped by his team and fall face first into the ground. "Let's see who the top four teams are right now!"
"In first place, Team Jirou!" Present Mic declared, causing the team to jump with joy at their victory. Kyouka couldn't contain herself and crushed Izuku with a hug, which he was quick to reciprocate.
Uraraka began to feel a bit… Off at the two of her friends' closeness. She brushed it off as nothing and continued to celebrate with her friends. Surely it was nothing, right?
"In second place, Team Todoroki!" The man then stated, as Todoroki looked down in both anger and frustration. How dare Midoriya make a fool of him like this. He will pay.
"In third, Team Bakugou!" Bakugou began to scream in frustration as he sat on the ground. This had to be some kind of sick joke, wasn't it!? That half n half basted, and fucking Deku!? Above him!?
"And finally, Team Shinsou in fourth!" Present Mic declared, as that lilac-haired boy who declared war against 1-A stood before them, smiling devilishly. Izuku noticed that both Aoyama and Ojirou stood behind him looking quite confused at their victory. That was definitely odd.
"We did it, Izu! We did it!" Kyouka shouted as she hugged the boy tightly, Izuku smiled but blushed as they were probably about to be on national TV.
"U-Uh, K-Kyo… Th-The cameras…" He stuttered out as a few of the cameramen began to turn their cameras to the two of them. Kyouka's face blew up in an eruption of red as she released the boy. Millions of onlookers just saw them hugging like that.
"THESE FOUR TEAMS WILL PROCEED TO THE FINAL EVENT!"
It was now the student's one hour lunch break, and instead of being with Kyouka, here stood Izuku alone. Todoroki stood a few feet in front of him, with a glare that pierced through the boy. Though Izuku wasn't going to back down as he simply gave the boy before him an annoyed gaze.
"So you wanted to talk?" He questioned, urging the boy to hurry up and get this over with, "About what?"
"You overwhelmed me, Midoriya. So much so that I broke my own pledge." He stated, pulling his hands out of his pockets. He looked down at his left hand, the side that held his father's quirk. "Iida, Kaminari, Yaoyorozu, Tsuyu, Uraraka, and Jirou. None of them felt it. In that last instant when we rushed you, I was the only one that felt that pressure."
Todoroki began to remember the fight with All Might against the Nomu. "I experienced All Might's true power up close, remember?"
Izuku froze as his heart began to beat out of his chest. Did he figure out the connection between him and All Might? He needed to think of an explanation or defense, and fast.
"So… What are you trying to say?" He questioned, allowing the boy to continue what he wanted to say. If he said one thing wrong Todoroki could very well find out about One For All and they couldn't have that happen.
"I felt the same pressure coming from you." Todoroki stated, looking back up at the boy. "So are you All Might's illegitimate child or something?"
Izuku's eye's bulged out of his head, and he had to hold back a laugh. Did this guy seriously think he was related to All Might? Have you seen their hair!?
"No, I'm not related to All Might. As much as I hate to say it, my dad's name is Hisashi Midoriya. He's got black curly hair similar to mine." He responded, pointing to his mess of green hair. Todoroki gazed at him as if his denial was suspicious.
"It doesn't matter. You know, my father is Endeavor. The number two hero, so if you're somehow related to All Might, then… That's all the more reason for me to crush you."
Izuku gave the dual-haired boy a close eyed smile and began to walk off, "Well good luck to you too then. Oh, and Todoroki?"
The boy hummed in response and turned to see Izuku glaring at him intensely. That pressure from before had returned.
"Be careful."
Izuku had wandered his way back into the field after finishing his lunch. He seemingly had missed Kyouka because she was nowhere to be found. Matter of fact none of the girls of 1-A could be found, where were they?
As the boy made his way onto the field he found his answer. All of the girls were on the field dressed up in the cheer squad uniforms. Izuku caught eye's with Kyouka who looked away blushing, and it took all of Izuku's willpower to hold back the massive nosebleed that was going to come from this.
The boy ran over to Kyouka and pulled her aside, he took off his gym uniform's jacket and handed it to her. "P-P-Please c-cover up. Who e-even..?"
"Mineta, and Kaminari…" She said, handing the boy his jacket back. "I'm gonna go change. Please hurt them for me."
Izuku nodded and cracked his knuckles, as the girls sped off into the changing rooms. He might have to incapacitate two idiots.
"Kaminari, Mineta!" He shouted out, beckoning both boys towards him. Mineta tried to run, but Izuku had dashed in front of him with One For All. At least he could hurt Mineta since he wasn't participating in the 1-on-1 fights.
"You're done for, grape-boy."
And that's chapter eighteen!
Izuku and Kyouka proceed in the cavalry battle with a team you wouldn't expect! I had the idea to switch up the teams so that Izuku could work with Kyouka, and I think it came out quite well!
Izuku also gets to see Kyouka in a cheerleader outfit! Although, he might have to fight the two class perverts for it.
Next up is the 1-on-1 tournament, which means Izuku against Shinsou! I hope you all are prepared for it! But who might Jirou be paired up against?
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, and I'll see you for the next one!
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