Breath of a Hero

by LorenzoJ10

Izuku learns that demons once roamed the earth so he follows the foots steps of those heroes that history has forgotten so that he maybe a hero and keep the piece of the world. He will become a symbol of hope and create pillars to hold society together. He will do this by learning from the last demon on earth he will learn the ways of the Demon Slayer. (Please Comment and Review)

38. Chapter 38 Round 1 Final

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Chapter 38 Tournament Round 1 Finish

"You want to expel Bakugo?!" Izuku couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Why does that surprise you?" asked Gran Torino. "If it were up to me I would have expelled him ages ago."

Izuku made another surprised face that further confused his teachers. "That really does surprise you," said Nezu. "Why does that surprise you, you've known the boy for years, surely you must have seen something like this happening."

"Well, no not really," admitted Izuku earning a surprised look. "For our entire childhood, everyone kept talking about how amazing his quirk was and how it was going to make him a great hero."

Nezu could tell what Izuku was really saying. "And how much did they let him get away with that?"

Izuku was silent as he felt ashamed, he had to admit that Katsui got away with a lot, he only met Yushiro because he went too far, but that's not the reason Izuku wasn't saying anything, 'Part of me just wished we could go back to being friends.'

"Young Midoryia," All Might, saying his name brought him out of his thoughts.

"We are still in the middle of the sports festival," pointed out Nezu, "We will continue this after."

~o~

"FUCK," shouted Bakugo in pain. "Here up and take this damn shard of ice out of my neck."

"Stop squirming," ordered Yushiro as he jabbed a needle into Bakugo earning more cursing from the boy. "This is some anesthetic, it should kill the pain, and don't worry, Eri's here." as he gestured to the little one who was holding Bakugo's hand. "With her quirk, she'll keep you from dying."

"Then tell the brat to pick up the pace and fix me up," said Bakugo earning an angry hum from the little girl. "I got a tournament to win."

Yushiro was getting angry, "Eri's quirk isn't healing and while your wounds are bad, her's are far worse." as he pointed to the other bed where Tomo and Recovery Girl were fixing Yuki. "What the hell were you trying to do back there, kill her?"

"Hey, snow bitch started this back in middle school, not me."

"Forgive me if I somehow doubt that," he then turned to Eri. "Eri, don't use too much of your power just keep stable."

Eri nodded, remembering the conversation they had after she helped out with the game of tag, they had all agreed that Eri shouldn't blatantly heal everyone around them and just pretend her ability was some sort of body manipulation and not a powerful rewind quirk. "Okay."

"Good," before pointing to Bakugo. "You take a moment and rest, I'll be back to fix you up in a moment." as he made his way to the door before quickly opening it scaring the kids on the other side. "And the rest of you go back to your seats, some of you are having matches very soon."

"But what about Yuki," asked Risu worried for her friend. "Is she going to be

Okay?"

"Risu, stop crying," said Shika. "She's in the best care right now."

"Correct," said Daisan. "From what I saw Bakugo was hit worse than Yuki."

"That's correct Daisan, while Yuki was hit hard, she was able to put a shard of

ice into Bakugo's neck. Though none of you need to worry, they'll both be fine, hear that Izuku."

They all turned to see Izuku walking around the corner. "Hi, I was just checking up on everyone."

"Well there all fine," said Yushiro before turning around to the door. "I'll have them up in an hour. In the meantime go back to your seats."

The students watched as the doctor left. "Did he just say he would have them up in an hour?" said Ten in disbelief.

"Yeah, he did," said Izuku. "He's pretty much the number one doctor in the

world so if he says he can do it, he can do it."

"I see," said Ten before looking at Izuku, "Sooo you're Izuku Midoriya the Demon Slayer."
"Oh hi, I guess I didn't introduce myself, sorry," said Izuku scratching his cheek before looking back at the door.

"Are you worried?" asked Shika

"Sorry, it just feels like a lot of this is kind of my fault," admitted Izuku. "I should have spoken to both of them a lot sooner, maybe if I did they wouldn't have just tried to kill each other."

"Well I don't think they were trying to kill each other," said Risu, "They were just uh… being heated is all."

"The teachers will handle that part," said Daisan walking away. "Come on, we should head back, a lot of us still have matches and Kayaki already left for his match, we should cheer him on."

The others nodded, Izuku took one last look at the door before dashing back to his classmates, 'Denki's fight is next, I should go and cheer him on. I'll come back and check on the other later.'

~o~

(Kayaki Raitos Vs Denki Kaminari)

"Okay, while our medics are patching the students up, let's move on to the next

Round," Announced Present Mic. "We got another student from class C, Kayaki Raitos versus class A, Denki Kaminari. Who will win is anyone's guess in this year's UA Sports Festival."

"That will be me," said Denki confidently as he stepped onto the arena.

"Oh confident huh?" said Kayaki. "Well let's see, which is faster, your lightning or my light."

Denki blinked, "Light?"

"Try not to get burned." As Kayaki smiled. "READY!"

"Uh, I'm ready to fight as well," said Denki slightly nervous.

"Okay then, without further ado," Midnight raised her hand. "BEGIN!"

Denki began to power up his electricity, "I'll end this in one-AHH" Denki screamed as a small laser of light hit right between his feet. "What the…"

Kayaki smiled as he extended his with his finger extended as if mimicking a finger gun. "Hate to tell yeah, I got more range than you." as his finger glowed as another laser of light shot from his finger at Denki's feet. "Time to dance."

Kayaki began to rapidly fire his laser at Denki's feet. "Oh crap, oh crap." as Denki began to dodge the lasers. 'This sucks, I can't get close enough without him hitting me with his lasers. So unfair.' Suddenly Kayaki stopped his rapid-fire lasers. "Huh?"

"Look at your feet." said the light boy.

Denki did and noticed his foot was partially on the line. "Oh crap," said Denki as he jumped away from the line, "That was close." Before he was suddenly pushed forward over the line. "Wha...HEY!"

"WINNER, by ring out, is Kayaki Raitos." announced Midnight

"Well that was a bit underwhelming compared to our last fight," said Present Mic. "Kayaki had Denki on the ropes the entire time."

The others from class A watched with varying expressions, "That dumbass," said Yae as she watched Denki walking out of the arena.

"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad," said Jiro. "Sure he didn't get any good hits in but he was getting fired at from long range."

"No, he wasn't."

"What do you mean, Yae?" asked Sero

Yae stayed silent as she looked out over the arena, Melissa followed her line of sight and noticed something as well. "Oh, I get it."

"Get what?" asked Kirishima.

"Don't worry about it too much," said Izuku as he made it back to his seat. "His next opponent is Bakugo, he won't beat him with such a simple trick."

~o~

(Itsuka Kendo Vs Mashirao Ojiro)

Above in the stands, the dragon hero Ryuku watched as the next two fighters entered the stadium, "This could be interesting."

"Why are both of them some sort of hot shots?"

Ryuku turned and looked in surprise at who she saw. "No just gut feeling, why are you here, you never show up to these things."

"Why are you here?"

"I've been asked to help out with security, you?"

"I got my reasons, though for now let's see what the fresh meat can do."

Down below both martial artists stared the other down as they faced each other in the arena as they took their combat stances, ready for action.

"Wow, you two look ready to go," said Midnight.

"There is no need for words," said Ojiro. "Not for martial artists like us, I'm ready to fight."

"I couldn't have said it better myself," said Kendo. "I am also ready."

Midnight wordlessly raised her hand. "BEGIN!"

Ojiro quickly curled his tail and used it to launch himself at Kendo, Kendo enlarge one fist to block Ojiro's kick before quickly shrinking her fist and enlarging her other fist for a punch, Ojiro used his tail to block the fist and backflipped away from Kendo, he landed and backed stepped away from Kendo as she took the chance and rushed Ojiro.

Kendo began to punch at Ojiro growing her fists at the last second for more impact, Ojiro quickly was pushed back as he dodge the massive fists. As he dodge he noticed that he was getting closer to the line, using his tail, he spun himself over Kendo attempting to hit her with a downward strike but Kendo saw this coming and sidestepped away from Ojiro's tail, before Ojiro landed Kendo, with hands like lightning reached out and grabbed his leg. 'Thanks to all those palm strike training with Ochako I have you now.'

"Shit," Muttered Ojiro as Kendo threw the boy attending to get him out of bounds. As Ojiro was thrown through the air he quickly spun himself before slamming his tail into the ground, Ojiro then skidded a little bit almost to the line before stopping.

"WHOA!" shouted Present Mic. "Now this is what I call a fight, Ojiro was able to use his tail as an anchor for one hell of a recovery." as Ojiro planted his feet on the ground. "This fight ain't over yet."

"No," said Aizawa. "This fight is just getting started."

Ojiro took a deep breath, 'Clam down, remember your training.' As he took another deep breath before coiling his tail and launched himself at Kendo spinning around rapidly as he homed in on the girl.

Kendo quickly put up her two enlarged fists as a shield but realized her mistake when she felt two feet hit her hands and not a tail. Her next mistake was looking down as Ojiro's tail came under her fists and hit her stomach, it wasn't a big hit but enough to lower fist enough for Ojrio to try a hammer strike, Kendo leaned back enough for his fist to pass by nearly hitting her face. As Kendo back-peddled Ojiro hit the ground and quickly dashed forward with an elbow strike to Kendo's abdomen. Kendo quickly blocked the elbow with a regular-sized hand. Ojiro cursed under his breath as he blocked Kendo's counter to his elbow strike. They began to trade regular blows as each of them tried to find an opening.

As this, all happened the crowd was going nuts as they watched the display of martial art skills. "This is incredible," said Present Mic. "I'm on the edge of my seat here wondering who will win."

Kendo then saw an opening as she enlarged her fist and brought it down on Orjio, who used both of his arms and tail to block the attack. "Got you," as Kendo brought up her other fist to punch Ojiro.

Ojiro saw this and dropped to the ground before sweeping his tail kicking up the loose dust on the arena field and sending a small dust ball at Kendo's face, causing both of them to put distance between the both of them. "You're good," said Ojiro. "I didn't want to use this so soon but," Ojiro took a deep breath.

Kendo cleared her eyes and watched as Ojiro began to breakdance on the ground kicking up a large amount of dust and sand began to dance around him. "What is he doing?" Kendo quickly got her answer as Ojiro's tail whipped out and a sand bullet hit her fist that she was able to bring up in time. "Sand?" this was followed by several more sand bullets shooting out each of them hitting Kendo, Kendo put her guard up but could tell that it wouldn't be enough. 'These things might not be pushing me back but they still pack a punch.' She then noticed she was now surrounded by a cloud of sand. 'Oh no!'

Ojiro then stopped and dashed at Kendo, "Sand Tornando Tail Dance!" As Ojiro began to spin rapidly hitting Kendo as well as kicking up the sand making it impossible for her to see every attack and to guard against them before Ojiro used his tail for a finisher hitting her out of the arena.

"Winner, Mashirao Ojiro," announced Midnight as the crowd roared.

"WOW, what a fight." said Present Mic. "I felt like I was watching an old martial arts film, that was great."

"I agree," said Aizawa. "This match could have gone either way, what decided it was Ojiro's unique moves."

Kendo slowly made her way back to her class. "Sorry, guys I screwed up."

"Don't worry about it," said Jack. "That just means we need to train harder and maybe figure out your unique moves."

Kendo smiled. "Thanks, Jack."

"No problem," he said Before noticing the girl next to him looking at him. "Yes, Nina."

"Nothing," said the girl. "I believe another one of your classmates is next."

"That correct, Ms. America," said Monoma. "Sen will bring glory to our class."

"Monoma!" said Jack surprised. "When did you get back up here?"

"I've been sitting right here."

Jack turned to Setsuna who shrugged. "I didn't notice him."

"Are you serious!"

"Well you were quiet for once," said Hibiki. "With your mouth shut I don't think any of us noticed you coming back."

~o~

(Hitoshi Shinso Vs Sen Kaibara)

Sen stared down Shinso, 'This is the guy who was able to knock everyone down during the obstacle course, I'm at a slight disadvantage here, I have no idea how his quirk works or what it exactly is.'

"Hey buddy, I hope you don't mind but I'd like to get this going," said Shinso who got into a fighting stance. "I'm ready to fight when you are."

Sen grinned. "I'm ready as well." as he also got into a fighting stance. 'I doubt he knows what my quirk is, I'll strike fast and end this as quickly as possible.'

"BEGIN"

Sen charged forward as he began rotating his fingers. "Drill Strike" as he closed in in Shinso. "I'll take the first strike."

"No, you won't," Shinso smiled. "Stop."

In an instant Sen felt his body freeze mid-strike, 'What?' was the only thought that crossed his mind before Shinso punched Sen right in the face. "SHIT" muttered Sen as he felt blood gush from his nose. 'Wait I can move again.'

As if reading his mind Shinso responded. "Yes you can, but not for long. Stop"

Again Sen felt robbed of his control over his body before Shinso followed up with a one-two punch combo to his stomach and head. "DAMMIT," shouted Sen as he rotated his legs trying to speed himself up at Shinso as quickly as possible. 'I got to hit him quick before he speaks.'

"Too slow, Stop!" said Shinso as he side-stepped causing Sen to fly right past Shinso falling on the ground hard. 'By forcing my quirk on some else I can't issue an order, but I can shut someone's brain off for a few seconds, which is all I need.'

Everyone watched as Sen slowly stood up, "What in the world is going on?" asked Present Mic. "It's like the kid keeps freezing."

"It's Shinso," said Aizawa. "He's using his quirk to stop Sen mid-attack, making it impossible for Sen to attack or block."

They then watched as Sen kept trying to attack but failed at Shinso kept stopping him and attacking him when he was frozen. "How is this kid in general studies?" asked Mic.

"Easy, all of our combat tests, are outdated, we still use robots for the students to fight, it's clear his quirk only works on people, not robots, he had no choice but to go into general studies," explained Aizawa. "Though with a quirk like that he could be one hell of a hero."

After hearing this many in the crowd agreed with Aizawa's assessment. Even other students in the hero course could see now that Shinso was the person to watch out for in this tournament. After a few more times of stopping Sen, Shinso was able to push him back to the edge of the arena and hit him out of bounds.

"Winner, Shinso," announced Midnight.

Sen punched the ground in frustration, "Dammit, kicked out in the first round."

"Don't beat yourself up too hard," said Shinso as he turned and walked off of the arena. "With my quirk, I pretty much have this tournament in the bag."

~o~

(Momo Yayorozu Vs Hiryu Rin)

"Alright, folks we got a classic class A vs class B fight, with the president of class A herself Momo Yaoyorozu vs Class B's Chinese exchange student Hiryu Rin." Announced Present Mic, "I think this will be a fight to remember."

Midnight asked if they were ready and they said yes, "Well then BEGIN"

Rin quickly raised his arms as he fired several scales at Momo, who responded by diving down as she did she made a small crossbow, when she hit the ground the scales flew over her as she fired a bolt at Rin.

Rin dodged to the side, "That won't-" Rin didn't finish as the bolt exploded with a powerful yield sending Rin out of the arena hitting the ground hard.

"WINNER Momo Yaoyorozu," announced Midnight.

"Well, that was quick." said Present Mic as Aizawa nodded in agreement.

As Momo left the arena she looked up and glared at Yae who was smiling at Momo. "Oh don't worry, we'll get a rematch," said Yae. "Maybe not today but someday, magic tits, someday."

~o~

(Tenya Iida Vs Ten Metsu)

Tenya entered the arena and bowed at Ten. "Greetings I hope we have an excellent match today."

Ten just blinked, "Wow you must be pumped for this match. Though I doubt it will last long." Tenya looked up at Ten. "I'm not trying to be cocky or anything, it's just that our quirks are just too different."

"I don't know what you mean, but in any case, I will fight to make the Iida name proud."

"That won't be enough against me," said Ten before looking at Midnight. "I'm ready."

"As am I." as Tenya got ready to run.

"Looks like you two are ready to go." Midnight raised her hand. "BEGIN."

Tenya's engines roared to life as he dashed at Ten at high speeds. 'From what I can tell your quirk allows you to teleport around the field, so I have to get you first. Which is easier said ten done.' As if expecting it Ten disappeared and appeared almost right under him trying to trip him. Tenya jumped over her outstretched leg when she disappeared again, this time reappearing right above him, he was able to look up at her right as she kicked him in head. Tenya staggered before she appeared in front of him with a punch, as she punched him Tenya noticed something, for a split second between when she reappears near him she reappears where she originally was at the start of the match. 'Of course, she must have to blink back to her original place after each blink, she isn't a legitimate teleporter.' Tenya powered up his engine and started spinning.

Ten reappeared at her original place. 'Not going to work.' As she figured out what he was going to do next.

Though Tenya thought he had her confused, and quickly kicked his shoe off at Ten, who stood in place as the shoe came towards her, she smiled before blinking away grabbing Tenya and then blinking back to original with Tenya right in the path of the shoe hitting him right in the face of his shoe. "OW"

"Seriously you thought that would work," Said Ten as she looked at the boy. "I've gotten into fights before and your not the first one to think to throw something at the teleporter."

"I should have expected as much," muttered Tenya as he checked his glasses. "I underestimated you for being a general studies student."

That ticked Ten off. "I'm only in the general studies course because of that purpled-haired balled bastard in your class." Up in the stands Mineta was receiving death glares from some of his classmates as they gave him a wide berth.

"Huh? Wait, do you mean Mineta." as Tenya got an idea. 'That might work.' as He got ready to dash.

"Huh, you still want to try and fight me?" said Ten a little surprised. "I thought you would give up, but okay, I can still keep going."

Tenya then dashed at her once more and as he predicted she blinked in front of him and hit him, but that's what Tenya wanted as he grabbed her arm causing her face to be surprised in alarm. "Gotcha." as they were suddenly blinked back to her previous place.

"Smart, though you don't aren't heavy enough to keep me here," said Ten with a sly smile. "So can you hang on?" Suddenly Tenya found himself being blinked all across the arena, even being blinked high up in the air but he refused to let go. "You are a stubborn one, but I can still Rapid Blink." As she continued to blink around the field.

Tenya was feeling his body being tossed around as if he was on a roller coaster or an amusement ride that rapidly spun someone around at incredible speed. Tenya was near his limit when suddenly Ten stopped. Tenya took a moment to get his barrings but made sure he kept a hold on Ten's arm. "See I won't let go, I will win."

"Hate to tell ya buddy, but I already won." as she used her free hand and pointed down to the ground.

Tenya looked down and saw that he was indeed standing across the line as Midnight made the same announcement. "What but how your point of return was closer to the center?"

"My quirk is Target Blink," said Ten. "In a nutshell, I will always blink back to my original position unless I have a target and you gave me that idea."

"Huh?" Tenya looked down again and noticed that one of her shoes was missing from her foot and was right between them. "You took your shoe off during the rapid blinking and slowly pushed it towards the line with your foot."

"Yep, now can you let go of my arm." as she pointed out that he was still holding her arm.

Tenya then quickly released her arm. "Uh, my apologies." as he bowed. "Congrats on your victory."

"Uh thanks," said Ten not expecting him to give her any form of praise. "Uh you two, you figured out my quirk well, just try to think of something you can do for range or something, I guess."

Tenya stood straight up like a board and began to make chopping motions with his hand. "I will, I will take this defeat to heart to further my hero career."

Ten didn't know what to do with this. "Sure, you do that."

~o~

(Jack Myuku Vs Juzo Honenuki)

"Alright folks, we got our first Class B Vs Class B fight," announced Present Mic, "One of our four recommended students Juzo Honenuki vs the class B wild card Jack Myuku, who will win."

Jack stretched a little as he entered the arena, as he did this Juzo studied him thinking of a strategy that might work against him. 'Jack's quirk revolves around him making soot and ash around his limbs that can combust, from what I can tell by the rumors and the fact that he knows Yushiro, he also can't feel his quirk that's why the less of those rings on his arms the more powerful he gets, those are to dampen his power and that's why he currently taking them off, so he can..' Juzo blinked before doing a double-take, "You're taking them all off."

"Huh?" Jacked looked at Juzo before back to his rings that he was taking off and attaching to his belt. "Oh yeah, well I kind of want to end this quickly and exactly give you enough time to come up with a strategy sooooo….."

Juzo gulped as he turned to the judges only to get even more panicked as he saw that Midnight was stepping back and Cementos was preparing to put up a barrier. Juzo then turned back to Jack. "You know that might be too much."

"Not really, you are incredibly smart, and that quirk of yours is interesting, and I will fully admit that you are better at strategies than me. So my only real option is to end this quick," said Jack as he got into a fighting stance. "Ready."

"Okay, are you ready, Juzo?" Midnight asked behind a small blast wall.

Juzo saw the wall, "That does not make me confident, but sure, I'm ready."

"Then BEGIN!"

Juzo immediately slammed his hands into the ground trying to soften the ground enough to sink Jack. Jack on the other hand-powered up his arm as it was then covered in soot, "Let's see, I guess I should put some power into it, Ash Burst," As Jack unleashed a massive fiery punch that scorched the arena and caused it to burst into flame covering the stadium in smoke. "Oh shit, that might have been too much." As the smoke cleared Jack couldn't see Juzo at all on the now burnt battlefield. "I didn't kill, him, did I?"

Midnight stepped out from her barrier and scanned the arena. "Look!" as she pointed to a spot that began to bubble before Juzo slowly rose from the soft ground, looking like a ghost slightly shaking. "Juzo are you able to continue, or want to for that matter?"

Juzo slowly turned to the teacher. "Does it look like I can top that!" as he gestured around him. "I'm good, you win Jack."

Jack walked up to his friend. "Sorry about that, I'm still having a bit of an issue controlling everything without the rings, need some help?" as he extended his hand out for Juzo.

Juzo happily took the hand, "Thanks."

~o~

(Mei Hatsume Vs Ochako Uraraka)

"Okay now it looks like it's time for the match with the only support student Mei Hatsume," announced Present Mic. "And Class A gravity girl Ochako Uraraka."

"WAIT!" Shouted Mei.

"Uh is there something wrong little miss?"

"Where are my babies," asked Mei to Ochako. "You were supposed to come to the arena with my babies."

Ochako looked confused for a moment. "Oh you mean all those gadgets, Melissa pointed out how I didn't fill out the necessary paperwork and to be honest it feels weird using equipment that I'm unfamiliar with."

"But how am I supposed to show off my babies if there not here," said Mei. "The whole point of this tournament is to show off to investors, how am supposed to get this to work with only half of my babies are here."

"Wait you didn't come here to fight?" asked Ochako

"Of course not, I was going to show off my babies then give you the win."

"So wait in the end you were going to surrender?"

"Yes."

There was a pregnant silence in the stadium. "Well I guess if Mei is surrendering then Ochako is the winner," said Midnight.

"But we haven't fought yet," pointed out Ochako.

"Forget it," said Mei as she turned to leave. "It's all ruin now. I can't show off only half of my babies."

The whole crowd watched as Mei left the arena. "Uh Ochako is the winner," announced Midnight.

"It doesn't feel like I've won."

"Tch, seriously," everyone in class A turned to see Bakugo entering the stands. "That's a lame way to win."

"Bakugo!" Said many in the class.

Bakugo ignored most of them but focused on Izuku as he stood up and got in his way. "Move Deku."

For a moment Izuku didn't move, before stepping around Bakugo and walking past him before stopping. "We're ending this Bakugo," Bakugo turned and glared at Izuku. "We're here at UA to be heroes, either during or right after the sports festival we're ending all of it, You, me, and Yuki. None of us can move forward unless we bury this."

"Whatever, tell snow bitch to just stay out of my way," said Bakugo as he took his seat. "All you extra's are crowding me."

Izuku then wordlessly walked away as he went to go check up on Yuki, as he made his way down the hall he ran into Ochako. "Oh hey Ochako, lucky break huh?"

"Yeah," said Ochako giving her best smile. "But I kind of feel bad, I was ready to go at it you know, and now I feel like I just got lucky, did you come to meet me to check up on me?"

"Oh I was just heading over to check up on Yuki," said Izuku. "I realize now I got to fix this before it gets even more out of hand than it already has."

"Oh okay, good luck," said Ochako as Izuku began to walk past her she reached out and grabbed his sleeve. "Um Izuku, I uh um…"

"Yes, Ochako?"

"I uh, I want to get stronger, I doubt I can win this tournament but I want to get better, to be the best hero I can, so can….can you train with me?" Asked Ochako with her head down to hide her red face.

"Oh sure, I'd be happy to help you out." said Izuku, "Let's schedule sometime after the sports festival."

"Great," said Ochako as she returned to the stands with a red face.

~o~

(Mina Ashido Vs. Daisan Miru)

Mina skipped into the arena. "Let's do this," as she laughed.

"Well it looks like someone's pumped," said Present Mic before looking at her opponent that simply adjusted his glasses as he entered the arena. "And it looks like her opponent is keeping his cool, will he be another surprise general studies student, I can't wait to find out."

Mina continued to stretch as she watched Daisan, 'I have no idea what this guy's quirk is, but several other students from general studies have gotten far as hell in this tournament,' she mentally screamed. 'Crap I'm not good at the whole strategy bit, but I'm good on my feet, I'll work with that.' As filled herself with confidants. "Ready."

Daisan sighed as he looked at Mina. "I am also ready."

"BEGIN!"

Mina waited for a moment to see if Daisan would do anything but to her surprise he didn't do anything, he just stood there lax. Mina then decided to take the first move as she used her acid to slide over to Daisan before shooting out a wide burst of acid at Daisan. To her surprise, Daisan moved surprisingly quickly to move and dodge the acid. "Okay, then let's try this." as she started to throw several balls of acid at the boy, who was able to dodge with ease. "Hold still."

"If I did that then you would hit me," said Daisan who kept dodging but realized quickly he wouldn't be able to win if he just kept dodging. He then ran at Mina and tried and fumbled to attack Mina who side-stepped causing Daisan to trip up and fall.

"Gotchu now." as Mina threw acid at Daisan's back, but to her surprise, he was able to dodge it perfectly. "What no way, his back was turned." Mina replayed his movements in her head. Mina then put her hand behind her back. "How many fingers am I holding up?" Daisan faced her with a neutral look. "Well, you going to answer?"

Daisan sighed, "Three, now four, one, two." Mina's eyes widened as before smiling as she figured his quirk out. "Yes, my quirk allows me to see all around at once." Mina made a surprise Pikachu face. "No I'm not reading your mind but your expressions do make you easy to read."

Daisan Miru Quirk: Ghost Camera: It gives him the ability to look in a third-person point of view, see farther and see better than others, even allowing him to hear things close to his ghost camera.

"It might not be much of a combat quirk but does help when I need another angel to work with," said Daisan.

"I see," said Mina as she thought it over. "So you kind of don't have any solid way to beat me do you?"

Daisan pushed his glasses up before slowly dropping into a fighting stance. "If you think for a second that means I'll surrender then you're wrong."

"Planning to go down fighting, huh, I can respect that." said Mina, before she began to make more acid, "So in the meantime show me what you got." As began to make a shower of acid around the arena.

Daisan used his extra vision to see a path through the acid as he raced through the acid towards Mina. She saw him closing in before she stopped the acid and decided to go physical as she threw a straight punch which is what he was hoping for, as he caught her and quickly rotated his body, 'Yushiro sensei was right, I made the mistake of not training my body enough in the past but I've made progress in the past month, it might not be much but I'll show them even I can do something.' he thought as he quickly placed Mina into an over the shoulder Judo throw.

As Mina was thrown over the boy she couldn't help but smile. "Not bad." as she was about to be pulled to the ground she used her acid to slip around and grab him, she then landed on her feet using the momentum to push him down to the ground, thought just as she expected he almost recovered to his feet before Mina focused the acid in her feet. "Acid Boost" Mina focused all her acid into her heels pushing both of them forward before Mina let Daisan go as he fell and slid on the acid from the rain pushing him out of bounds and onto the ground below.

"WINNER MINA ASHIDO" announced Midnight earning a roar from the crowd.

Daisan slowly stood up and dusted himself off before reaching down and grabbing his glasses, which got knocked off. He looked at his glasses, before cleaning them. "Put your hand down," without looking back he could see Mina holding her hand out. "I'm not good enough to stand next to you."

Mina jumped down to him. "Ah don't day anything that dark," as she grabbed his hand and raised it causing the crowd to cheer. "Come on enjoy the moment."

Daisan gave a small smile. "I will, but not now," as he took his hand away from her. "I will when I become good enough to fight like a hero." As he turned and began to leave the arena.

Mina smiled. "I think you just might get there sooner rather than later."

"Daisan gave it the best he's got," said Shinso. "He'll do way better next time."

Kayaki nodded. "Yep," he turned to his classmates. "What do yo-" He stopped as he saw someone.

"Kayaki?" As Yuki noticed him looking behind them and turned to see Izuku standing in the back.

"He did pretty good, a vision quirk can come in real handy in the field," said Izuku as he walked down the steps to Yuki. "Hey, you mind if we talk for a moment?"

Yuki instantly felt someone push her out of her seat towards Izuku, she turned around to see Ten giving her thumbs up. "Sure we can talk for a moment."

~o~

(Tesutesu Tesutesu Vs Melissa Sheild)

Melissa steadied her breathing, "Okay time to do this," as she entered the arena as she did she didn't see her opponent. "Huh, where is he-"

"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH" roared Tesutesu as he rushed out of the tunnel and jumped onto the arena. "LET'S GOOOO!"

Melissa froze at the sight of Tesutesu's brashness. "Uhhh...hi."

"SUP," yelled Tesutesu. "Let's have a good fight."

Midnight snapped out of her daze, "Uh are you two ready."

Melissa got serious. "Yes, Ma'am."

"Oh YEAH!" said Tesutesu.

"Then let the fourteenth match BEGIN!"

Tesutesu did the obvious thing activated his quirk covering himself in his iron metal. "REAL STEEL COMING AT'CHA!" Melissa quickly somersaulted over Tesutesu, whiled hitting him in the head. "Ow, hold still" as he charged again, only for Melissa to jump over him again and hit him again, "Ah, hey hold still."

Tesutesu just charged at her again, 'He can't seriously think just charging over and over again will work, does he?' Thought Melissa before Tesutesu kept charging over and over again each time with Melissa easily dodging and counter-attack, after a while Melissa's small attacks were slowly causing cracks in Tesutesu's armor.

"Ah, my metal! How are you doing that?" asked a bewildered Tesutesu.

"Seriously you just keep charging at me over and over again, it's not a very good idea," said Melissa.

Tesutesu gave Melissa a blank stare that screamed he didn't understand before a light bulb blinked over his head. "I know I'll just grab you." As he charged yet again this time intending to grab Melissa and push her out of bounds.

Melissa focused for a second, pumping blood to her heart, "That's an even dumber idea," said Melissa as she quickly grabbed one of Tesutesu's arms and quickly threw him into the air and out of bounds.

"WINNER MELISSA SHIELD!" announced Midnight.

"NOOOOO!" shouted Tesutesu, "Getting thrown out of bounds is so unmanly." He said before turning to Melissa, "We didn't even trade blows."

"I don't know what you were expecting but I don't fight like that," said Melissa wondering how he thought this fight would go. "Not everyone charges in blindly, expecting a no holds bard fistfight."

"They should," Shot back Tesutesu, "That would be so manly."

Melissa and Midnight looked at each other for a moment before shrugging.

~o~

(Shoto Todoroki Vs Yugi Aoyama)

"BEGIN" Shoto Todorki froze the arena along with Aoyama in an instant, leaving the light boy immobile. "Uh, Aoyama can you still fight?" Aoyama slowly shook his head no. "Then the winner is Shoto Todoroki."

This time the crowd didn't cheer for the winner instead they all yelled to Aoyama he did his best.

"Well that's a bit unfortunate for Aoyama," said Izuku as he returned to his classmates. "But Shoto is just too much for him."

"Izuku," said Melissa. "So how did your conversation with Yuki go?"

"Not bad, it was brief but we agreed to have a talk with Bakugo after the sports festival."

"Fuck that." interrupted Bakugo. "That sounds like a huge waste of time."

"It's going to happen Bakugo whether you like it or not," said Izuku. "I doubt the teachers will let things stay as they are and I'm pretty sure they would be more than willing to help out in this situation."

Bakugo simply looked down to the arena to watch the last fight. "Whatever."

~o~

(Ibara Shiozaki Vs Shika Jika)

"Alright folks, it's time for the last fight of round 1 of the tournament," announced Midnight. "So let's give them a big round of applause."

The crowd cheered as the last two entered the arena while Present Mic gave them some flare. "We have the thorn princess of class B vs the surprising deer warrior of class C, I got a feeling this time, we are in for one hell of a fight."

Ibara hummed for a moment. "I don't think I like the title of thorn princess, though I guess it does fit my quirk though."

"Don't worry about it," Ibara turned to Shika who was stretching her arms. "Very soon, you'll have something else to worry about."

It was then that Ibara noticed just how much fire was in her eyes, "I don't think such anger is needed in this fight, I have nothing against you."

"It's not all anger and none of it at you directly," said Shika as she zeroed in on Ibara. "You have no idea what it's like for someone like me or those of us who have worked our asses off only to fail, today I won't fail."

Ibara gulped, visibly put off by the girl's sheer determination. "We will see, God is on my side and I am his faithful follower."

Midnight looked between them, "Well looks like I don't need to ask if your ready, then let's get right to it," as she raised her hand before bringing it down, "Begin!"

Shika then bolted forward at incredible speed, surprising Ibara and the crowd. Ibara quickly turned around sending her vine hair into the ground, before they shot up in front of Shika as a barrier of vines, for a moment several people thought Shika would run headfirst into the vines but she then showed her graceful acrobatic skill by somersaulting over the vines. Ibara noticed this and grew more vines to block her but Shika dodged and maneuvered through the thick vines, without losing any speed. 'How is she doing this, there's no way someone can just maneuver with such speed without any practice, is this her quick, or did she train for something like this.'

'Compared to my old training, this is nothing,' Thought Shika as she remembered her and her friends making an obstacle course with swinging rocks and racks that would pop out of the ground. 'This won't stop me.'

Shika then got real close to Ibara, to close for the vine girls comfort. She knew she had to stop her so she quickly made her vines make a half dome around her when Shika got within range, as Ibara expected Shika jumped over the dome with no issues while she was in the air Ibara shot vines upward at Shika, one of the vines were able to successfully wrapped around Shika's right arm. "I have you now."

Shika looked at the vine holding her arm as she remembered the entrance exam to UA, the exam had just started and she found and destroyed her first three-pointer, she had jumped off the machine not noticing due to the smoke from the robot that the ground was covered in tiny purple balls, she soon found herself trapped and stuck to the ground before seeing a small purple bastard hop on the balls away to a new location, she screamed and yelled for him to come back for someone to free her, she was stuck there until the end of the exam, failing the exam. "NO!" she yelled as she grabbed the vine with her free hand and began to pull with all her strength. "NOT AGAIN!"

Ibara saw this and sent more vines to capture Shika, "I can't allow you to do that, this match is-" Ibara stopped as she felt something splash against her face, "Huh?" Ibara froze as she saw Shika pull her arm so hard to free herself from the vine that she was ripping her own skin off her arm, with one mighty roar Shika freed her arm, which was now covered in several bloody cuts. Shika ignored the pain as she then used the vines as a springboard shooting herself down at the shocked Ibara, kicking the girl hard in the chest.

Ibara felt something crunch inside her as she flew back from the kick, Ibara hit the ground and rolled a bit before stopping, Ibara opened one to see Shika was coming at her, Ibara quickly put up a shield of vines to stop the girl. For split second, Ibara thought that Shika would go around but she was wrong as an arm shot through the vines grabbing Ibara's neck. 'She used her speed to push her arm through the vines, is she crazy, her arm is all cut up now, what kind of maniac-' Ibara's brain froze as she looked up and saw through the vines Shika's eyes, they bore directly to Ibara's core, filled with the will to win no matter what, Ibara knew from that look that she couldn't match the deer girl's will. Ibara couldn't tell what was more suffocating, Shika's stare or her hand that was holding her neck. "I surrender." squeaked Ibara, Shika loosened her grip clearly indicating for the girl to speak louder. "I SURRENDER!"

"The Winner is Shika of class C!" Midnight made the announcement, before putting the mic down. "Now then miss Jika can you please release miss Shiozaki."

Ibara removed her vines as Shika let go of Ibara before breathing a sigh of relief, she turned to walk back to her classmates but stopped as she heard footsteps following her. Shika turned to see Ibara looking at her. "Sorry about going a little too ruff there, you should get your ribs checked."

Ibara put her hand on her ribs still feeling pain from Shika's kick, "I understand that one, and you two should also get those arms looked at," as Ibara pointed out Shika's bloody arms. "But I did not want to talk to you about an apology, I wanted to ask why are you so determined to win, what drives you?"

"Aside from the fact I got robbed of my chance to be in the hero course thanks to that purple bastard up there," Shika pointed up in the stands by Mineta who squirmed under her gaze. "Can you imagine what it is like for someone like me?"

"Pardon?"

"I have a quirk that gives me the ability to do whatever a deer does, an animal that to this day is hunted for sport around the world when I tell people I want to be a hero, they laugh, they say that animal that runs can't do anything heroic and for a while, I thought the same thing until a few years ago I saw the bunny hero, Mirko on TV, if she can do it then so can I, I'll show them all that this deer can be a hero as well."

Up in the stands, the dragon hero Ryuku was watching the tournament. "Wow, you seem excited, find something interesting?"

"Yeah, I might have to join in this year for a few interns, some of these brats actually look like fun," said the rabbit hero, Mirko.

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AN: Hello everyone happy new year and let's hope this year is a good one, work has been exhausting but I am working on some good stories so look forward to it and as for Bakugo, just keep reading and you'll find out. Also how are you liking the fights for the tournament, they good, bad which fight do you want to see, put it in the comments, until the next time.

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