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The next day at school Haru and Bakugo weren't as snarky to each other. They still insulted each other, enough to where their classmates didn't notice the change. The only change was that Haru went out of her way to sit with Bakugo during lunch.
After lunch was their hero class and everyone was excited as Aizawa announced that they would be doing rescue training. As soon as Aizawa announced they could wear their costumes Haru jumped up and grabbed hers, knowing that it was form fitting enough to not be a hindrance in a rescue.
The students changed and met in front of the school to load the buses. Bakugou watched at a distance as Haru talked with Ochako, his eyes lingering on her form.
'Why am I thinking of her like that? She's just an extra in my way.'
He thought, and tried to convince himself that the girl in front of him meant nothing to him, yet there he was, daydreaming about what was under Haru's costume. The sound of Ida blowing a whistle shook him out of his thoughts and back into focus.
Haru smiled and sat next to Bakugo on the bus.
"Toning it down blondie?"
Haru asked as she noticed he only had one grenade on his arm instead of his usual one on each arm. Bakugou grunted and leaned against the window.
"Shut up Extra."
Haru looked over at him at his soft tone to see he wasn't looking at her but was looking outside and had a slight blush. Haru didn't question it and leaned back in the seat as the bus started moving.
"Your quirk resembles All Mights."
Haru focused on Tsuyu and a freaking out Midoriya.
"Really?! Nah. I mean, I"
Kirishima came to Midoriya's rescue.
"Hold up, Tsuyu. All Might doesn't get hurt, though. They're already different in that way. But that sort of simple, strength enhancing quirk is awesome! You can do a lot of cool stuff with it!"
Haru shook her head and pulled out her phone to kill some time, only to have her phone taken by Bakugou, who had it for a few minutes before handing it back to her. Confused, Haru started clicking through her phone to see what he had done only to see she now had his number. With a small smile she sent him a text so he would have her number.
"You wanna talk strong and cool? That'd be Todoroki and Bakugou."
Haru looked up and smiled at the conversation.
"But. Bakugou's so unhinged. He'd never be popular."
Bakugo took the bait and shot up.
"WHAT'D YOU SAY FROG FACE?!"
Tsuyu pointed at him.
"See."
"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."
Kaminari chimed in making Bakugou even more angry.
"YEAH, OKAY, MR. VOCABULARY. HOW ABOUT I POUND YOU?!"
Haru sighed and put a hand on his arm, making him change his focus for a moment as the bus pulled to a stop outside of a massive dome building.
'This is the USJ?'
Haru grinned in excitement as her class entered the building and met Thirteen, but no All Might, much to Haru's disappointment. Haru stood in front of Bakugo and listened to Thirteen's speech, unaware that Bakugou was back to staring at her and listening as well.
"Great first off."
Aizawa trailed off as something caught his attention, turning around he spotted a porthole opening and a lot of Villains appeared through the porthole.
"Huddle up and don't move! Thirteen! Protect the students!"
Aizawa slipped on his goggles and yelled that those were Villains.
Haru rushed to the edge to see the horde of Villains with a man covered in black mist and a man with hands covering his face at the center of the chaos.
"I wonder if some dead kids will bring him here?"
Haru stepped back as Aizawa jumped to take on the Villains on his own. Haru turned and started to move with the rest of her class, but they were stopped by the mist Villain.
"I won't allow that. Greetings we are the League of Villains. Forgive our audacity but...Today, we've come here to U.A. High School this bastion of heroism...To end the life...Of All Might, The Symbol of Peace."
Haru felt fear shoot down her spine at the idea of All Mights death, suddenly the mist Villain focused on her.
"You're Ume. I've been instructed to capture you."
The Villain seemed shocked she was there, and she felt her body go cold at her old name.
'Who is this guy? How does he know THAT name?'
Bakugou rushed forward with Kirishima and attacked the Villain.
"Not if we end you first."
Haru blinked at the malice in his voice. The Villain moved and released his mist over all the students, Haru rushed forward, reaching for Bakugo but was pulled away just before their hands met. Blackness surrounded her before she landed with a thud only to hear laughing. Looking around she growled and jumped up. She was surrounded by Villains.
"Don't kill this one!"
"See the eyes? She's the one we want alive!"
Haru growled again as heat traveled down to her clenched fist before she lunged and started attacking the Villains. Within a few minutes she had knocked them all out and was looking around for her classmates. Hearing an explosion in front of her she smiled and ran towards the noise knowing it was Bakugou.
"Bakugou! Kirishima!"
Haru yelled running up to them, they both looked fine and there were plenty of knocked out Villains around them. Haru hugged Bakugou, relief flooding her that he was ok, Bakugou hugged her back for a few moments until a grinning Kirishima cleared his throat. The pair nearly jumped away from each other, Haru blushing and Bakugou glaring at Kirishima for ruining the little moment.
"Now let's hurry up and help the others! If we're here, I bet everyone else is also still in USJ! I'm worried about the guys who don't really have ways to attack! Thirteen's probably got his hands full since we rushed ahead like that. None of this would've happened if we'd let him suck in that mist man. As men, we gotta take responsibility."
Haru rolled her eyes.
"This was going to happen anyway, the villains are everywhere."
Bakugou spoke up.
"If that's what you want, then go on alone. I'm gonna beat that warp gate guy to a pulp!"
Kirishima looked shocked.
"Still pulling that immature crap at a time like this? Besides normal attacks don't work on him."
Bakugou continued to glare.
"Shut up! He's how these punks are getting around. Bring him down, and they'll have nowhere to run! And it's not like I don't have a way to beat him!"
A villain the teenagers had missed ran up with a knife, only for Bakugou to grab the villain in the face and set off a small explosion knocking the villain out.
"I mean...If all they're sending against us are these idiots...we should be fine."
Haru and Kirishima looked surprised at Bakugou's reflexes.
"You sure are calm all of a sudden."
"I'm always calm you damn broom head!"
"Ah, there it is."
Haru shook her head.
"I'm outta here."
Bakugou adjusted the grenade on his right arm.
"Hold up. You gotta trust your pals! Be a man, Bakugou! You've convinced me!"
Bakugou paused and looked at Haru.
"Who's Ume?"
Kirishima turned and looked at Haru as well.
"That's right, that mist guy said they were after a Ume."
Haru sighed and looked down.
"Ume is my old name. I'm not going to explain why my name has changed and I would appreciate it if you kept this information to yourselves."
The boys looked shocked for a moment before nodding in agreement.
"Good, now let's go."
As the trio made it to the edge of the landslide they could see a giant bird-like creature slam Aizawa's head into the concrete making a hole.
"This is bad."
Haru started running with the boys behind her, praying they would make it before Aizawa was killed. All the trio could do was watch as the villain with the hands tried to grab Tsuyu that was in the water with Midoriya and Mineta, only to be stopped by Aizawa who had his head slammed back into the concrete. Midoriya tried to punch the villain only for the bird creature to block him. As the trio worked their way around the pound, All Might walked in and he wasn't smiling.
Haru felt herself smile with relief as she kept running, determined to help as much as she could.
Focusing on the uneven ground in front of them for a moment to make sure she didn't trip. When she looked back up the bird thing was in a portal, basically split in half, and was trying to bend All Might in half. Haru felt tears forming as they got closer to the battle. Seeing Midoriya rush forward seemed to spur Bakugou on more as he pushed himself faster and pushed past Midoriya and sent an explosion at the mist villain, holding him down as Kirishima attacked the villain with the multiple hands, Todoroki appeared from the opposite direction and froze the bird creature, and Haru rushed forward and helped All Might on his feet.
"They're after me papa, they know my old name."
She whispered quickly to All Might as he stood up fully, a new look of determination on his face.
Haru turned and noticed Bakugou looked ready to kill the mist villain as he held him down. The villain with the hands turned to the bird creature.
"Nomu. Take out the explosive brat. We need our escape route back."
Seeing the bird creature, now known to Haru as Nomu, break it's limbs off as it escaped Todoroki's ice only for the limbs to reform. Haru watched in horror as Nomu moved to attack Bakugou, thinking quickly, Haru concentrated and put her hands together, with as much energy as she could muster in that moment she formed an advanced flame that wouldn't burn and formed it into a whip. Acting quickly she grabbed her whip and used it to grab Bakugou and pull him back just before he would have been hit by Nomu. As soon as Bakugou landed, Haru fell to one knee, her breath labored as she tried to conserve what energy she had left.
"What the hell was...Haru what's wrong?"
Bakugou went from angry to concerned at seeing Haru's state.
"I'm fine. I'm fine."
She muttered as Bakugou turned and glared at the villains, while the villain with the hands took note of the power the girl he knew to be Ume had shown.
'Father will want to know about this.'
He thought as All Might yelled at the kids.
"Get out of here."
Without looking at the group, All Might knew Haru was in rough shape.
"Bakugou, get Haru out of here."
Bakugou nodded and quickly picked up Haru, who was on the verge of passing out, hooking his arms under her knees and around her shoulders he easily handled her weight. He watched from his spot as All Might fought Nomu, punching him so quickly the teenagers couldn't keep up. Until he finally used his quirk to punch the villain out of the building and sent him flying.
The group of teens, minus Midoriya, turned to leave.
"Let's go see if we can help the others and get Haru to safety. All Might'll take care of the big bads."
Kirishima said, noting that Haru's breathing was only getting worse and she was starting to get pale.
"Midoriya."
Todoroki noticed Midoriya wasn't walking with them, causing everyone to turn and look at him only for him to use his quirk and take off towards the fight.
"Midoriya?!"
Kirishima yelled as Midoriya reached the fight only to be stopped when the Pro's showed up. Only for the villains to warp out of the USJ before they could be apprehended.
Bakugou carried Haru to the entrance, quickly being intercepted by Present Mic who managed to take Haru away from him and carried her to an ambulance to be taken to Recovery Girl.
"I'm sure she'll be okay."
Kirishima said softly as he saw the look of concern on Bakugou's face.
"Yeah."
He muttered while watching the ambulance disappear.
After the detective left, Toshinori looked over at Haru, who was on oxygen, with all the force she had used to protect Bakugou, half of her left lung had collapsed. With Recovery Girls quirk she was healing, but the process would take a few days and even then, she would have to take it easy on her body.
"I shouldn't have told her she had that ability. She wasn't ready."
Recovery Girl smiled and looked at the teenager.
"She's stronger than you give her credit for."
I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter and I'll see you in the next one!