Class A's Top Dogs
"Todoroki….." Izuku's heart raced in his chest, an icicle inches away from piercing his face, his body was freezing and he could see his own breathe, practically hear the beating of his chest in his ear. So this was the power of the Son of Endeavor, huh? Yeah, it scared Izuku a bit. And by a bit he meant a whole lot.
Awase's face fell, "Welp neither Tetsu or Midoriya are moving onto the finals then…. Fucking shit man, this is bull!" He thanked god that Ibarra wasn't around, since her match was next she was down in the waiting rooms, she would've slapped the hell out of Awase for that one.
No one else wanted to say it out loud but many were thinking the same thing. After all, even if Izuku could break those glaciers with 100% of his power, he'd be breaking himself, and his limbs were limited.
But All Might's successor wouldn't let that stop him, "I made a promise to win, I'm going to uphold it…" Izuku simply said, closing his notebook with a huff, "I'll overcome any opponents in front of me, I have to."
"Just don't break yourself Greenie!" Setsuna smiled and Monoma chuckled at her words.
"You know he won't be able to keep that promise, right?" Monoma asked her to which Setsuna laughed.
Izuku deflated at their words, Shinso raised a brow before noticing Izuku's broken fingers. He had yet to go to Recovery Girl. Izuku shook his head and sighed, seeing Todoroki free his opponent from the glacier he was trapped in.
It was kinda of funny, the crowd chanting, "Don't worry about it!" For the poor boy. At least Kuroiro put up a fight against Yaoyorozu. And speaking of Yaoyorozu, her match was interesting because- "Ow!" Izuku winced, finally feeling his broken fingers.
His new lilac friend turned to him, "I-I was gonna tell you, but you seemed focused .." Shinso muttered. "Do you do that often..? Break them, I mean."
Before Izuku could answer, Yanagi did. "He does more than he should, which is at all." She pouted. "It is reckless and might I recommend, not beneficial for your health at all."
Izuku blushed. "I-I know! I'm trying to get it under control, but I don't know if I can… umm anyways, I have to go see Recovery Girl again…" She was going to be so angry with him. But then again, he did deserve it, if she was still young her hair would still be gray, all because of him.
Yanagi began to float up and out of her seat, "Want one of us to go with you-"
"No, no it's ok." He cut her off with a wave of his hands, before blushing and smiling. "Recovery Girl's probably going to yell at me, and I don't want anyone to hear…." Izuku rubbed the back of his neck with his not broken hand. "So I'll deal with this on my own…"
Yanagi pouted but she understood his decision, she wouldn't want anyone to know Recovery Girl yelling and calling her an idiot or buffoon, "Very well then, make haste and come back soon, Ibarra's match is commencing in a short while."
Izuku nodded and smiled, "I will, don't worry!" There was no way he was missing her match!
Izuku sighed, stepping out of Recovery Girl's office for the second time that day. Her admonishing really did get to him, he felt bad for making her work so much, but was also reminded of how little control over All Might's quirk he really had. Despite developing Full Cowling and his Burst Style, there were some points where he couldn't solve problems with it, and he'd give in and use 100%. He was weak, he knew that, and he was angry because of that.
The Successor stalked through the halls, he hadn't heard Present Mic's voice yet so he figured he still had time before Ibarra's match. They were probably still dealing with Todorki's glacier, after all. Which was crazy. Izuku gulped, feeling clammy all of a sudden. Someone with that kind of power declared war on him?! That was crazy, he felt all sweaty and hot, his nerves really were getting to him.
Oh, or maybe it was because the Number Two Hero was standing in front of him. "E-Endeavor!"
The pro, much taller than Izuku, much wider, giant, with piercing blues eyes and facial hair of fire that burned around him, had just actually been passing through the halls, maybe looking for his son, turned to Izuku. "Boy…" He spoke in a deep voice, one that sent shivers up Izuku's spine, the look made Izuku think of what Todoroki had told him about.
How could he ever look at the Number Two Hero the same way ever again?! "Y-Yessir!" Izuku quickly yelled.
Endeavor let out a sound, reminiscent of a growl, before speaking, "Your power, it reminds me of All Might's…" Izuku was sweating, and he hoped that Endeavor thought it was because of the fire. "My son's duty is to defeat him, surpass your next opponent and give my son a challenge…"
The gruff man walked past Izuku, thinking they were done. They would've been too, but words just had to come out of Izuku's mouth. "Sir, I'm not All Might…."
"Hm?" Endeavor turned around to see Izuku's back, the hero in training sucked in a breath, cursing himself for opening his mouth. "Of course you're not All Might, boy." The man raised a brow at Izuku's words. "You're weak, still a child, nothing like the...Symbol of Peace...."
Izuku let out his breath and nodded, turning around to meet Endeavor's gaze. "You're right, I'm not All Might, I'm nothing like him besides our similar power. And the thing is, Todoroki-kun isn't you either, I'll fight him, I'll give him a challenge, but not because you want me to. Because I want to know Todoroki and understand him and his pain."
Endeavor narrowed his eyes at the boy. 'Pain….understand….?'
Izuku's thin mouth stretched into a wide smile, "Anyways, enjoy your day!" He turned around and jogged off, he didn't want to miss Ibarra's match after all!
The Number Two Pro watched as the small green child went off, grumbling under his breath in confusion. "What a strange child.." He said to no one before turning around and walking through the halls. "How strange indeed, but…strong."
He remembered the wind the kid had kicked up in his first match, it extinguished his flames. "But, so unknown? He's not recommendation, with that kind of power you think he would be…" Endeavor shook his head, deciding to focus on something else for now.
But, he would remember the boy's name, Izuku Midoriya. Unknown to him, the Successor of All Might.
Izuku gasped for breath, barely making it back into the stands on time as the match was about to start. He rushed down the steps before taking his seat between Shinso and Yanagi. "Did I miss anything?" He asked excitedly as he bounced in his seat.
"No, they're just about to start…" Shinso told him.
"Great!" Izuku smiled, pulling out his notebook. Leaning forward, he got ready to take any and all the notes that he could on both Ibarra and her opponent's quirk. Speaking of, the girl she was facing had pink skin and pink hair, almost as fluffy as his own, and he swore he remembered her from somewhere. Maybe the USJ?
Shinso leaned back and looked at Yanagi, who he could see because Izuku was leaning forward in anticipation,and raised a brow. "Do you know where that book came from?
"I haven't the slightest clue." She said with a small smile that was directed at Izuku.
Shinso simply nodded. "Alright." Hero course kids were weird, that was for sure.
Present Mic gripped his microphone as he grinned widely, "ALRIGHT, THE MATCH BETWEEN 1-B'S RELIGIOUS EXPERT- IBARRA SHIOZAKI- AND 1-A'S PINKY- MINA ASHIDO- BEGINS IN 3- 2- 1- STARTTT!"
The pink girl bounced on the balls of her feet, grinning widely. "Alright, let's have some fun!" She yelled and ran off, seemingly skating on the ground.
Izuku narrowed his eyes and stared at the ground she was skating on, noticing..smoke….or some sort of gas "That… doesn't make sense at all…." But he also noticed the special shoes that she was wearing. "Most definitely her quirk." He noted.
He'd have to wait and see how the fight progressed though to see more.
Ibarra closed her eyes and put her hands together, and the crowd would swear up and down that a shining light rained down on her, before her hair grew and expanded.
Mina raised a brow before a giant mass of vines shot out at her, "OH MY GOD-" The vines seemed to get even bigger as soon as she said "God." Mina quickly threw out a large goop of acid from her skin right in front of her, it tore a hole threw the vines let her get out unscathed.
Izuku's eyes narrowed, "Acid… it burnt through the vines, maybe that's how she's sliding across the floor? But they're both at different levels of acidity obviously, or else she'd be sinking into the ground…."
Shinso stared at Izuku's notes, the graphite of his pencil had already been burnt through, but he was still writing notes with it. "Jesus…..these hero course kids…"
Ibarra pouted as her vines didn't get their target, so she'd have to try something else. "Perhaps instead of all at once, we could go from different angles, all angles?" She let out a slight smile and her hair grew once more before splitting and surrounding Mina.
"W-Woah! What's going on?!" The pinkette yelled.
"And then, cage the little sheep…" All the strands of veins shot towards Mina, the pink skin girl smiled as she began rapidly spinning in place, shooting acid out all around her, turning the veins to nothing.
When the veins stopped coming, she stopped and smiled at her opponent, panting slightly for breath. "That all you got? Cause I can keep going!" She grinned, wiping a bit of sweat from her forehead.
Ibarra simply smiled, "I did say from all angles…"
Before Mina could piece together what that meant, a mass of veins erupted from under her, locking around her, before flinging her out of the stadium. "AHHH- ooh!" She yelled as she fell on the grass.
"AND WITH THAT, THE RELIGIOUS QUEEN OF 1-B IS VICTORIOUS!!" Present Mic yelled, signaling the crowd to cheer, Ibarra let a grin take place on her face. She bowed to the crowd before making her way out.
Up in the stand, Izuku smiled. Ibarra's quirk was very versatile but that match up seemed like one that she couldn't win. Yet, she found a way to win anyways. He looked at the big screen in the stadium, seeing the next match up.
"Hatsume-san versus Iida-kun…"
Class B all sweat dropped as the match between the two ended. "She…turned it into a giant commercial…" Kendo sighed and grabbed her head, pulling out a couple hairs. "How did she even do that?"
"No idea, kinda cool though, she just hijacked the Sports Festival." Setsuna smiled. "I mean really, how many people could say that they'd done that?"
"Not many I suppose…." Monoma mumbled.
"Damn right, not many!" She laughed and patted his head, just making him grumble.
Shinso just shook his head, it wasn't just Hero Course students that were weird, he added Support Course to that list too.
Awase finally woke up, he had begun taking a nap because the match had become, in his own words, boring as fuck, "Guh, is it finally over?"
"Yeah…."
"Finally, damn that match was boring as fuck!" He yelled.
Izuku nodded along with his class, taking a couple of notes about Iida's quirk. "I wonder what he uses as fuel though….?" He wondered aloud.
But, besides that, it was time for the next match.
"M-Midoriya." At the call, Izuku turned to the top of the stairs, seeing Kuroiro. The boy looked... nervous, his face confronted in such a way that discomfort was apparent, obviously so. The boy stumbled down the stairs before standing in front of Izuku. "D-Do you think Bakugo would go all out on a girl?"
"Oh most definitely." He answered without missing a beat.
Apparently that wasn't the right answer, because Izuku was being shook by his shoulder. "He's gonna kill her!"
Izuku yelped before grabbing Kuroiro's hands. "K-Kuroiro-kun, who are you talking about?" Who was Bakugo going to kill?
The boy calmed down enough before opening his mouth, "Komori."
The entire class watched, all silent, as their favorite mushroom loving brunette came out into the arena. "FROM CLASS B- WE HAVE THE GIRL THAT'S EVERYTHING MUSHROOM, IT'S KINOKO KOMORI!!" Present Mic yelled, doing nothing to relieve the stress that Class B was feeling.
"AND FROM THEIR SISTER CLASS- WE'VE GOT THE KING OF EXPLOSIONS HIMSELF, KATSUKI BAKUGO!" From the tunnel strutted out the King of Douchebagery himself, Katsuki Bakugo. He smiled, basking in the praise, the glory, and cracked his neck. He was going to have so much fun. It was apparent by the smug smile on his face.
Izuku didn't like the look that the blonde held, and neither did Komori as she gulped. Bakugo was, to put it simply, terrifying. She still remembered the day she first became friends with Izuku, the day of the Cafeteria Incident.
She felt so useless then, she hadn't been able to protect Izuku at all. A fist clenched and scrunched her gym pants as she held onto it. 'I….don't want that….I want to protect my friends….' Even with her thoughts, she was still scared, terrified even, to fight Bakugo. But she was already here, she couldn't turn back now-
"YOU CAN DO THIS KOMORI!" A mass of voices yelled from behind her, she turned to see all of Class B leaning on the railings.
"Give em hell, Shroomy!" Setsuna cheered.
"YOU CAN DO THIS KOMORI!" Tetsu screamed, for some reason with his quirk activated .
"Just take it slow!" Kendo said, trying to give the girl motivation and advice. "Don't get caught up in your own head!"
"Don't give up, Komori-san!" Izuku added in.
It was Kuroiro's turn and the two friends locked eyes, despite the boy's emotionless face, she could see his nervousness, his shoulders were hunched, and he looked like he was stuffing himself in a box "We- I-I believe in you!" Kuroiro yelled with all his might.
Komori didn't know what to say, but eventually she smiled and gave her friends a thumbs up. "Thanks!" She turned back to Bakugo, a little bit more courage in her heart.
Midnight let out a small smile, remembering herself forming some of the deepest bonds she still had, in highschool. She hoped that the group of Class B students would stick together for as long as her, Shouta, and Hisashi. "Alright! The seventh match of the first round between Kinoko Komori and Bakugo Katsuki will now commence!" She cracked her whip at the same time Mic yelled. "STARTT!!!"
"Explosive speed turbo!" Bakugo yelled as he shot off towards Komori.
The mushroom girl yelped as she quickly activated her quirk, hoping that it was humid enough around her, "Spore Field!" She yelled, mushrooms coming into being with a pop noise all over the field.
Though they weren't that big, and many of them didn't have any special properties because she made them so quickly. She only saw the scowling face of 1-A's rabbit dog before she ducked.
However, it did nothing to protect her as Bakugo flew by her, grabbed her by the back of her shirt, did a flip mid air, before finally slamming her down onto the ground. She gasped before she felt a weight pressing into her stomach, not letting her stand up. Komori presumed it was the boy's boot.
With a wince, she opened her eyes, everything was a little blurry but she could see one thing very, very clearly. His maniacal smile, it looked crazy, it was terrifying. And his eyes, the crimson bore into her. He looked so...happy, and that terrified her. She was scared, but she needed to stand up for herself here, and take Bakugo out of the tournament. For her friend, Midoriya!
"Got anything to say, shortie?!" He yelled.
She simply smiled, "Shroom!"
"Huh? The fuck does that-*POP*" He didn't finish his sentence as a mushroom popped onto his face. Pop, pop, pop, over and over. Double, to triple, to a dozen. Mushrooms began to cover Bakugo's body and he stumbled back, ripping them off in anger. "THE HELL?!"
Komori propped herself up on her forearms, smiling a bit. Maybe she actually did have a chance to win this. She stood up on shaky legs. "I…have to beat you, for Midoriya!"
That was the wrong thing to say, because Bakugo stopped trying to tear off the mushrooms and just glared at her, even as his vision started to get a little blocked from the mushrooms.
"…god…..Damned…..DEKU!!!" Two arms were thrusted forward and more pops were heard, but it wasn't coming from Komori's mushrooms this time. Small sparks of light and heat came from Bakugo's hand before they expanded into something greater
BOOM!!
A giant explosion came straight from his hands and he grimaced at the pain in his forearms and shoulders. The smoke cleared, and embedded in the wall of the stadium, was Komori.
Bakugo huffed, before breaking out into a smile. "HAHA! I WIN!" He yelled, feeling so….fulfilled. And Deku was nex…..ne….. "The…. hell…?" Bakugo muttered before he face planted, falling into slumber due to the gas wafting around the stadium, courtesy of Midnight.
They were all silent, no one knew exactly what to say. They didn't think that Bakugo would go so far, to do something quite so rough with someone that was so small and looked so frail.
"KOMORI!" They all heard the yell, from two voices, but they all were still fixated on what their classmate had done.
None of them saw the green haired boy jumped down to help his friend, or the group of students run across above them to head down to the tunnels. They were solely focused on what Bakugo did.
He gulped before speaking, "I….didn't think Bakugo would go so far…ya know?" Kaminari muttered, kinda numb, a little dull. Not as cheerful as usual.
"Y-Yeah….it was really scary!" Toru shook her arms wildly around, really the only person that seemed to have energy right now, but they all knew that she did it because she couldn't be seen.
Iida pushed up his glasses and they shined a bit, "I must admit, I'm unpleasantly surprised by this as well…." It was…horrifying to say the least.
Ochako shook with a little fear as she stared at the girl, seeming a doppelgänger of herself, in the stadium. Her savior from the entrance exam was helping pull her out of the rubble, picking her up like a bride, which would've been cute had she not been passed out, before running off, presumably taking her to the infirmary. "W-Why would Bakugo do that?!" She suddenly yelled,
"Because he's insane and an asshole? I mean you saw what he did the first week in the cafeteria, right?" Jiro asked with a scoff.
Kirishima winced, obviously he wanted to think that Bakugo was a cool guy but after everything that happened, he was starting to doubt that. Heavily. Just.. after everything, the incident in the cafeteria, the guy's overall just rudeness (even though Kirishima thought it was manly, everyone else didn't) and then what just happened.
It was cool not to hold back against an opponent, even if they were a girl, but…there was no holding back and then going too far. Bakugo did the latter.
"I'm going to go down and make sure that she's alright, I'll be back." Momo stated, using her elegant voice that made everyone else just feel dumber by hearing it. She left the seating area, and left many of her classmates to think.
And so far no one had voiced their thoughts.
They were all just quiet, mulling over things in their head.
"Bakugo's an asshole…." Ojiro muttered, a fist clenched. No one could do anything but nod along. "He's so prideful, but he has no honor…"
"I hate to agree, but I think Ojiro's right…" Mina sighed. She, like Kirishima, thought there was a little bit of good in him. But, there didn't seem to be any.
"G-Guys, come on! Just…give 'em a chance! It's not manly to not give the guy a chance!" Kirishima, against his better judgement, decided to intervene.
Iida just pushed up his glasses, and turned to see where Midoriya had jumped from the stands to the field, "I will get you to accept my apology Midoriya, even after all I did. After letting Bakugo torment you, and chastising you for it…"
"Hey Iida, did you say something man?"
"Ah- no Sato-kun, just thinking is all…"
Izuku gasped for air, closing the door to the infirmary and collapsing against the wall. "God……oh….my god….." He gripped his head, he felt sweaty, nervous, anxious, he should've done something to help her fight him. Give her a strategy or something, anything.
She was thrown into the lion's den…and they just watched…
"I should've stepped in…" He did before, at Aldera, it was the reason for some of his beatings sometimes. It wasn't bad, he had gotten used to it. So why didn't he? "I should've done something…"
He clenched a fist, Komori was so small, she looked so scared when she walked in, seeing her get launched into the wall of the stadium. It was horrible. Izuku frowned. "What do I do….?"
"Wish to speak of your problems?"
He didn't jump at her voice this time, he simply looked up and saw Reiko floating right in front of his face. Doing her little head tilt she did whenever she was curious. Izuku smiled a bit. "Yes please…"
Yanagi floated down before sitting next to him, wrapping an arm around him and burying his head on her shoulder. "It wasn't your fault, you had nothing to do with it at all. There's nothing you could've done, even Ms. Kayama didn't do anything, and her job is to intervene." She said, her voice soothing Izuku just a little bit.
Izuku nodded, that…that did make sense…but..
"And no buts, if a pro hero couldn't have done anything to prevent the travesties that occurred, then what could you have?" Izuku pouted, she was right, he knew she was right.
"I…couldn't have done anything…" He admitted, to which Reiko simply nodded. They sat there, in quiet, for a bit, before Reiko cleared her throat. "Well, I must be off now, as my match was to follow Komori's, they gave us some time due to the circumstances but it's best not to make the people wait anymore."
She floated up, the pink glow illuminating the area, and turned to Izuku. "If you need a shoulder, then just ask, Midoriya."
A minuscule smile broke out onto his face. "Thanks…Reiko…."
She perked up, before stiffly nodding, "You are welcome, now cheer me on."
"I will!" He said with a faint smile, the small grin made Reiko's confidence soar, combined with the fact that he used her first name, though probably by accident.
The two contestants of the final match of the first round made their way to the arena, Kaminari of Class 1-A feeling light as can be, cheerful and a little excited, why you ask? Because he was getting to fight a girl! "Maybe I can ask for her number after I beat her? Take her on a date maybe to say sorry for beating her in the festival? Yeah, that's so on!"
Yanagi was having different thoughts, solely focused on Izuku and how he would be doing. The boy had seemed better, but still distant, not completely there, she hoped that there was a way she could help him.
And she still couldn't ignore the light feeling in her chest when he said her name.
"NOW, THE MATCH BETWEEN DENKI KAMINARI OF CLASS 1-A AND REIKO YANAGI OF CLASS 1-B WILL NOW-"
CRACK
"COMMENCE!" Midnight yelled, the sound of her whip ringing throughout the stadium as both contestants still simply stood on either side of the arena.
The blonde did some arm stretches with a smile on his face, trying to think of something smooth to say before words clicked in his head "I hate to waste a pretty girl's time, so… this'll be over in a second!" He smiled, before thrusting his arms up, the crackling of electricity behind heard all around.
"Indiscriminate Shock: 1.3 Million Vo-WO-WOAH!" He stumbled on his words as he felt himself get pushed by an invisible force, his control slipping, before electricity ran all around him.
Stupefying himself, he couldn't protest to Yanagi simply pushing him out of the ring even further.
The ghost enthusiast hummed, "It truly was a good match, you didn't waste my time at all…"
Tetsu smiled, watching one of his new buddies win and get to the next round of the festival was awesome, all of their hard work was paying off! His smile stuck onto his face until he looked at the scoreboard.
His tin head brain had totally forgot how a bracket system worked, so the person he'd be fighting next would be.
"Midoriya….."
END
All right, well this took a minute, there is a reason and that's family issues that I won't get into here because it doesn't really concern you guys. I've been trying to right stuff and I have gotten some things done every here and there but never full chapters
I finally got this done at least, and I'm sorry it took so long.
Izuku and Reiko are getting closer but oh dang, bros gotta fight bros.
I hope you're happy to see that in like……two months. Again I'm sorry and I'll try to speed it up but to be honest, I'm still not fully into it yet, I still feel very drained so if the next chapter takes a while, I'm sorry.