Soul Marked

Chapter Seven

Introducing USJ

Hi guy! So this chapter is shorter than I would have liked, but it had to end where it did. I didn't want to write the next part and then this chapter get incredibly long. It's mostly a filler, I hadn't meant for it to come out that way, but it did and I apologize for that. To make up for it there is a lot of cute moments between the characters, and you get to find out another Bonded pair! Guess who!

Please read and enjoy!

This chapter was edited by my amazing beta: Whatisthiswitchery.

Izuka dragged herself into class, after having her arm cleared by Recovery Girl, she had spent the night training. She activated her quirk in every muscle she could think of and tested how powerful she could make it before her muscles began to grow tense, and painful. She stayed at the beach until well past sundown, and on the verge of passing out from exhaustion.

She was happy with how much she had gained in the short period of time in starting school. It wasn't a huge improvement but it was there. She was getting better.

"Today we are doing another basic hero training,"Aizawa-sensei began as he stood at the front of the classroom. "Except All Might, myself and one other will be there to supervise it."

Izuka leaned back in her desk wondering what would be different this time. Aizawa-sensei had said this time, implying that it wasn't normal for All Might to have anyone helping him teach. With the only one other class, Izuka had to assume that was the case.

"What exactly are we going to be doing?" Sero asked raising his hand in the air.

"Today's exercise will be preparing you for disaster relief, all the way from fires to flood, today we are doing rescue training."

"Rescue, sounds like another rough day," Kaminari said with a nod over at Izuka, who returned it. It was actually pretty exciting to Izuka, she was looking forward to exercise. All Might would be there as well, and she always felt a need to prove to him that he had put his trust in someone who was worth it.

"This is what a hero is all about!" Kirishima hollered out. "I'm pumped!"

"I'll be right at home in a flood, Ribbit," Asui said with a nod of her head.

"I haven't finished," Aizawa said his eyes glaring down at them. "You can choose whether or not to wear your costumes, as you should know some are ill-suited for this sort of activity. Where we are going is a bit remote, so we will be taking a bus. Everyone go, get ready."

Izuka pushed herself to her feet following behind the others not wanting to rush and end up having to battle everyone to get to her costume. It had been demolished after her last battle and the next day she had gone to see the Support Department, knowing that they would be fixing it and she had a few new requests to give them.

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Izuka had pushed the door open peering inside the room warily wondering if anyone had arrived. Inside she could see who she assumed was the teacher and girl with bright pink hair, wearing a set of incredible goggles on top of her head.

Stepping fully inside she announced her presence.

"Fufufufufufu- hello!" the pink-haired girl greeted running up to come face to face with Izuka. She reeled back a step, uncomfortable with how close the other girl had gotten. "What can I do to help you?"

The girl only mimicked her movements following her step for step. Izuka began to sweat with the intensity that she was staring at her. Her yellows eyes staring intently into her own. "Well, what is it, shy girl?"

"I ,ano, I just came to give a few requirements I have for my new costume," Izuka said trying to once again side-step the pinkette.

"Your costume was the one to come in completely wrecked, right?" the teacher asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, that's mine."

"Midoriya," he said with a nod. "What can we do for you?" Izuka had quickly explained the differences she had wanted to make.

"Just leave it in my capable hands!" Mei said after having introduced herself properly. "This baby will be better than before!"

Izuka had hightailed it out of there after those departing words.

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It had fortunately finished the day before, which meant she was able to wear it today. With all the new modifications she felt like it was practical to wear for rescue training. Following after Momo and Ochaco they walked into the girls changing room and she quickly went to work on pulling it on.

The suit had changed in color, she had opted for a black, a more practical look that would blend well with her surroundings, so if she ever had to sneak she could. "She left the green from before in the outlines that ran down her sides. The black material was thin, an easily breathable fabric that wouldn't let her overheat, while in areas that were critical the suit had hardened, protecting her against slashes that could possibly be sent her way.

Her gloves that were also black were fingerless, metal plates outlining her knuckles to give an extra help when punching, but also giving support to protect her hands. The boots were the same as they came up to right below her knee, but they had made it steel-toed boots. Though it seemed that Mei had decided to add a heel to the shoes without her permission. On her face she opted to remove the full head covering mask and went with a much smaller version.

It covered her eyes wrapping around them and causing the green color to pop out. Her belt changed from the red to that green color, fitting perfectly on her hips. Her hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, a ribbon in her hair that All Might had given her, causing the same affect that his hair did, the bangs falling over one of her eyes.

Izuka walked out of the changing room, Ochaco following closely behind her. "Your new costume is so cute!" she cooed out as they moved to outside where the bus was.

"It just looks a little different," she said with a shy smile.

"The black looks so much better on you!" Ochaco said with a smile. The girl's voice carried over to the rest of the class causing Kamanari broke from Bakugo and Kirishima to go stand next to the two girls.

"I agree with Uraraka," he said with a smirk on his face. Izuka rolled her eyes and playfully pushed at him.

"Shut up, Denki," she said as he caught his balance and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

"Now, come on, no need for violence," he said causing Ochaco to giggle. Kirishima having overheard the conversation came over to lightly bump shoulders with Kaminari.

"Do I hear flirting coming from over here," he said playfully causing Ochaco to giggle some more and Izuka to grow red and indignant.

"Kirishima!" she hollered as she spluttered about, unhooking Denki's arm from around her shoulders, as her arms waved about. "Ano, I, t-that isn't true! Don't say things like that!" Her face was growing redder with embarrassment as people began to notice her hollering and turned to see what was going on.

"Midoriya, could you please calm down," Iida said from the front of the group causing her face to turn even redder if that was possible. "And everyone, please line up by your I.D Numbers and enter the bus."

Bakugo stared over where Izuka was now slapping at Denki and Kirishima's arms, causing Bakugo to tightened his hands into fists. He had heard the whole thing and felt annoyance at the red-head, daring to say that those two were flirting. The arm around Izuka had begun to piss him off but he kept it to himself.

He was supposed to be not caring, getting angry at something like that was the opposite of what he had planned.

Lining up with the rest of the class he fumed silently to himself, all the while he was hyper aware of the curly haired girl behind him.

Upon entering the bus all of Iida's preparations hadn't mattered as the bus was completely different from what he had planned. Everyone quickly began to snag seats with their friends. Izuka was crammed between Denki and Todoroki. Opposite of her was Kirishima and Ochaco, Ashido sitting next to Kirishima. Iida on the other side of Ochaco, his head buried in his hands. Bakugo and moved to sit in the first seat he saw, by the window, a girl he thought was called Momo coming to sit next to him, as all the other seats filled.

He ignored her only recognizing her as someone Koneko spoke with, the only thing keeping him from snapping at her. He noticed her eyes kept darting over to the half-and-half guy that was sitting next to Midoriya.

Huffing he directed his attention at the window watching as the bus began to move.

Conversations had erupted around them, Izuka had to hold in a laugh as Kirishima had begun to flirt with Ashido, causing the other pink girl to blush a deep purple that did well with her skin tone. She was stammering replies back but obviously happy with the way things were going.

"Oi!" Denki said. "Eijiro, who's the one flirting now?" The comment caused the red-head to blush as heavily as Ashido. Izuka let out a laugh as she shook her head. Her gaze fell on Kacchan, the other boy giving no mind to any of his classmates. A warmth spread throughout her chest, but a coldness was creeping in when she remembered that he wasn't speaking to her.

"Midoriya," came a voice from across from her, ripping her attention away from the blonde.

"Oh!" Izuka said startled as she turned her attention to the frog like girl. "Yes, Asui?"

"I generally say what's on my mind, and please call me Tsuyu," she said.

"What's up?" Izuka asked wondering what the girl was trying to say. She had hardly spoken to her in the past.

"You're quick resembles All Mights."

Izuka's blood ran cold, her mouth falling open into an 'O'. Sweat began to build at her brow as she began to fret that the girl noticed too much. Did she know? How could she? The worry continued to build as her fear kept her from speaking. Her mouth trying to form words.

Bakugo glanced up upon hearing what the frog girl had said, his eyes narrowing. He had pretended to not believe Koneko when she had told him her quirk was passed down, but after what he heard All Might talking about with Recovery Girl he knew how true that Frog's statement was. Too close to the truth.

Even if they weren't speaking he still felt the need to speak up on behalf of his Bonded One.

"I-I, eto, n-no," Izuka said stammering her way through her denial.

"Shut up, Frog girl," Bakugo said capturing everyone's surprised attention. "All Might doesn't get hurt like shitty, Koneko." Izuka let out a sigh of relief, hating how he went at it, but grateful all the same. Her eyes snapped back to his face, their eyes meeting briefly before he looked away, breaking the contact. Her heart was thudding loudly in her chest, her hand coming up to lay over it gently, trying to get it to slow down.

"It's awesome though!" Kirishima said. "That type of Simple Strength- Enhancing quirk can do a lot of cool stuff. Not like my hardening. I'm good in a fight but it's pretty boring." He began to cause his arm to go hard, showing off his quirk, trying to prove that it was boring to look at.

"No, it's great!" Izuka said leaning forward toward Kirishima as she marveled at his arm. "Your quirk is more than enough to go pro!"

"Yeah, but you can't forget that to become heroes you also have to worry about popular appeal!" Ashido announced excitedly.

"My naval laser is both strong and cool, perfect for a pro," Aoyama said with a sparkle in his eye. Izuka raised an eyebrow up at him but didn't comment.

"As long as you don't blow up your own stomach," Ashido said causing his happy expression to darken.

"Yeah," Kirishima said. "Gotta be careful, Aoyama." Ashido smiled at him causing the boy to blush but happy at the attention he was receiving.

"If we're talking about cool, that would be Todoroki and Bakugo," said Jiro, a girl with plug-like earlobes.

Neither boy said anything, continuing to ignore everything around them.

"Bakugo is pretty unhinged," Asui said speaking up once more. "He'd never be popular."

"Asui, please, that's not nice," Izuka said with a shake of her head as she watched Bakugo push himself forward to lean over the bar that separated the back seats from the front side seats.

"What'd you say, Frog-face!?" he yelled out, his temper getting the best of him. Asui gave him a quick glance before pointing at him.

"See," she said with raised eyebrows.

"We've only barely started socializing and already you've made it abundantly clear to us the unpleasantness of your steamed turd of a personality," Denki said with a smirk at Bakugo as he gave a small wag of his finger in his direction.

"Yeah, okay, Mr. Vocabulary," Bakugo said leaning even more over the bar now that his anger was rising. "How about I pound you?!"

"Denki!" Izuka said grabbing at the blonde that was in dangerous reach of Kacchan. "Don't be saying things like that to Kacchan." Denki only laughed as he moved back away from the other boys swiping hands.

"Koneko, quit pulling him away!" Bakugo yelled. "He's a dead man!"

Momo shook her head as she sat back in her seat, leaning away from Bakugo trying not to accidentally get hit by one of his flailing arms. Todoroki eyed the girl sitting next to the pissed blonde, his calm eyes watching as she avoided getting hit.

"Bakugo, you should calm down before someone gets hurt," he said sternly, his eyes landing on the boy.

"Please, everyone calm down," Aizawa-sensei said. "We're here." Bakugo sighed and growled under his breath but did as his sensei asked. Aizawa began to instruct everyone to leave their seats and file off the bus. Bakugo pushed himself up and cut in front of the dark pony tailed girl so that he could be right behind Izuka.

Izuka stiffened at feeling his presence right behind her, the mark on her wrist heating with a comforting warmth. He pushed her forward lightly as she had failed to move with the rest of their class in front of her. Clearing her head, she darted forward putting space between them.

Upon entering USJ she completely forgot about Kacchan being right behind her as she was completely amazed with the view around her.

"Every disaster and accident that can be imagined is right here in this building," came a voice startling everyone. "I built this facility myself and I call it, The "Unforeseen Simulation Joint"!"

Izuka instantly reached out blindly, grabbing at an arm as she began to jump up and down in excitement, fangirling over the Space Hero, Thirteen. The arm happened to be Bakugo's and even though his eyes narrowed he didn't do anything other than pry his arm away from her hands. Then took a step back away from her, having her so close made it hard to keep to his plan, staying away from her.

"He's so great!" Ochaco said jumping beside Izuka. "He does is best work in rescue scenarios!"

The two teachers went off to a corner by themselves, having a quiet conversation as the students looked around. None of them able to wait to get started. They began to walk back to the small crowd of kids where Thirteen gained their attention.

"Before we are to begin, I have two points, well three, well I have a lot of points," he said holding up several fingers. "I'm sure most of you are aware that my quirk is called: Black Hole. It sucks in and tears apart anything."

"Of course, you've used it to save people in all sorts of disasters," Izuka said her excitement only growing.

"You are correct," Thirteen said giving a nod toward Izuka. "However, there is an important thing to remember. My quirk can easily kill, and some of those among your group can probably relate. In our society the use of one's quirks are heavily restricted and monitored. It seems like a stable system. Just never forget that it only takes one wrong move with an uncontrollable quirk for people to die."

Izuka stared up at him in amazement. Her eyes glowing as she listened to his speech with happiness.

"During your physical fitness test with Aizawa, you learned your own hidden potential, with All Mights battle training you learned the danger that your quirks can pose to others. This class you will be learning something new, you will learn how to utilize your quirks to save lives. Your powers are not meant to inflict harm, I hope you leave here today with the understanding that you're meant to help people."

As Thirteen finished his speech and people began to clap, Izuku's eyes widened as a black portal began to appear behind Thirteen, in front of the fountain that was in the middle of the USJ.

A hand began to appear from the middle of it, as the portal grew in size. Izuka could feel the unease settle in her stomach, not sure if this was part of the training or not, but her instincts were telling her that it was not.

A head began to follow the hand, causing Izuka to clearly see that the man who was emerging from the dark hole, had a hand secured to his face. His messy blue hair following over the fingers and revealing one red eye that shown from the portal. Her blood ran cold, her body stiffening as her feet scrambled back only to knock into Bakugo who didn't say anything, only gripped her arm with his hand to steady her.

"Is this part of the training?" someone asked their voice sounding shaky.

"Huddle up and don't move!" Aizawa yelled his eyes darting to his students who were all confused and worried, slowly doing as what was told to them. No one seemed sure of what was going on. The grip that Bakugo had on her arm tightened as he tugged on it, bringing her closer to himself, and farther away from all the Villains that were now pulling themselves from the dark mass. "Thirteen! Protect the students!"

"What the hell?" asked Kirishima. "Are those more battle robots? Like during the entrance exam?" As the words left his mouth he knew that it wasn't, his body moving closer to where Ashido was. He wanted to be close to her, in case things got out of hand.

"Nobody move," Aizawa said as he pulled on his goggles, his voice stern and full of authority. "Those are villains!"

"Thirteen.. And Eraser Head, is it?" the Black vortex looking guy said. "All Might is supposed to be here, I gained that information the other day."

"Of course," Eraser Head said. "It would have been scum like you who did that." A new voice spoke out, it was cold and gritty. The sound sent a wave of unease through Izuka's spine causing the feeling of being doused in cold water, making her flinch violently, Kacchans hand falling away with the motion so his hand didn't bruise her.

"Where is he?" The voice demanded, sounding desperate and raspy as he drew his head back. "We've come all this way, brought so many playmates, All Might.. the Symbol of Peace.. Is he here?" Izuka's eyed the hands that covered his body, the eerie feeling overwhelming. "I wonder if some dead kids will bring him here?" Her body began to shake, her eyes drifting over the scared and shocked faces of her classmates, her knees felt like they would give way at any moment.

It was a lesson, showing class-1A what pros were up against...

A hand settled on Izuka's shoulder, her Mark warming against her skin, the feeling grounding her.

What they faced in the field..

Her hands tightened at her side, her eyes wide.

Is Evil Unleashed.

Oh snap!

Isn't Ashido and Kirishima just the cutest!

Next chapter is going to be pretty intense as we get into the battle with the villains. I will be changing some of it up, so look out for parts of the event that isn't the same, and we get to see the story divert more toward Izuka's personal story, and not Izukus'.

Review! I love reading them!