Chapter 4: A Little Tip
Izuku eyes was focused on the screen he was predicting who would win and how they would succeed in the exercise. This trait was not taught by Kurama but rather due to him wanting to be a hero. This did not go unnoticed by Pony when she notices the teen staring at the screen.
"Uzumaki are you okay?" Pony asked.
"Huh? Oh, right sorry just in deep thought." Izuku replied politely. "I think the villain team would win this one."
"Oh, how can you tell?" Pony asked.
"Firstly, yes both Tetsutetsu and Shoda quirks are versatile but you also need to put in the environment as a factor. Look at the building it's dark and dim no light except for the windows it's going to be hard to see."
"I'm sorry to say this but I think team A got this." Juzo said honestly. "With Shoda mine quirk and Tetsutetsu steel quirk they can take on anything."
"There is a slight chance, if they can subdue Kuroiro first. He's the one they should look out for during the exercise." Everyone looked at the teen before looking at the screen.
"So, this is the decoy." Yosetsu tapped on it noticing that it was light and moveable "Of course it's fake." Then he turned to his teammate who was leaning against the wall. Yosetsu went over to the black quirk user to form a plan to win the exercise.
"So, what's the fucking plan?" Awase asked
"Depends how good is your stealth." Shihai asked
"Good enough to hide in the dark, why?"
"We are going to set up an ambush on the second floor, we get them before they get us." Shihai explained and gain a nod from Yosetsu.
As they leave Yosetsu stopped for a moment. "Hey Kuroiro wait up." Yosetsu turned around and fused some of his materials on to the door. "In case they got pass us and head for the bomb." Kuroiro nodded to his safety precaution. The teens quickly made their way to the second floor hid near the stairwell.
"Hero team you may enter the building." All Might announced to his students.
"You don't have to tell me twice." Tetsutetsu kicked down the door and rushed inside with Nirengeki following behind. Nirengeki looked around the area with his scouter devise but didn't find anyone in particular.
"Stick to the plan we head straight to the bomb." Nirengeki reminded the steel quirk user before they continue to venture deep into the building. The teens turned to a dark corridor and made their way up the stairs on the way to the third floor they saw Shihai stand under a light alone.
"Come on let's get him!" The two quickly run down the corridor in pursuit of the Black quirk user. The black skin young man smirk before turning into a black figure and going up the ceiling. Nirengeki felt something or rather someone pulling him deep in to the dark corridors.
"Shoda!? Hey where you go!" Tetsutetsu called out to his teammate. Nirengeki was hiding behind the wall with his arms covering his mouth. The young man struggled to say something then Shihai force the teen to move around like a puppet.
"Tetsutetsu! Watch out!" The steel quirk didn't get the chance to activate his quirk before getting punched. Nirengeki then delivered an uppercut to Tetsutetsu causing him to fall on his back.
"We're in the same team what's the big idea." Tetsutetsu quickly active his quirk and sent a punch towards Nirengeki. Shihai ducked and let the punch hit Shoda's cheek.
"It's not me Kuroiro controlling my clothes!" Nirengeki kept punching Tetsutetsu who was only defending himself. Nirengeki was forced to keep punching Tetsutetsu until he was force to hug the steel quirk user. Then Shihai's head came out from the back of Nirengeki's costume.
"Awase now!" Yosetsu quickly come out form the room with a few of his metal slabs ready to be use. He quickly welds Tetsutetsu and Nirengeki together which caused them to be in an awkward position.
"This is not manly at all!" Tetsutetsu said
"How do you think I feel." Nirengeki said feeling a little uncomfortable every second, they are stuck together.
"Villain team wins! Both Teams please come to the observation room if you have any injuries please go and see Recovery Girl." All Might announced when he turned, he saw everyone in class jaw dropped except for Izuku.
"Wow your prediction was accurate." Jurota said
"What the hell! how the hell did you know that." Setsuna said in shock.
"You need to factor in your quirk how useful it can be and the environment. Like how Kendo and I force the villain team to fight in hand to hand. We knew Rin can fire his scales but if you took notice, we fought in a position that Rin can't use his range ability without the risk of hitting Togaru."
"Can you come up with a strategy for us." Sen asked
"You and Tsunotori are going to have communication issues but you need to be-" Izuku was cut off by All Might.
"Now I have to stop you all right there." All Might said with his hand raised signalling them to stop. "Having to discuss your strategy right now will cause problems so please use the time to think of a plan then discuss it during the 10 minutes before the battle starts."
"Yes sir." Everyone complied with the Pro Hero.
"Hey All Might how come you didn't give away the villain plans to the heroes?" Izuku still felt a little sour that his plan was given away by All Might.
"Umm well… you know… anyways no planning strategies." All Might said before looking back at the monitor with a little hint of embarrassment that his student called him out.
"Now where did team A go wrong?"
"Walking in to an ambush and not prepared to face off against one another."
"Lack of information of the villains quirk."
"Environment play a part of how one can use their quirk to their advantage and disadvantage."
"Good deductions my students there are time that one must choose if you are going in loud and dumb or smart and silent. Know your enemies' abilities as well, sure there are times that Information about the person quirks is not available. Always take caution when entering the building."
"Now next up is this two." All Might pulled out the lots and reveal F and K. "Team F and K please make your way to the field."
Ibara, Jurota, Yui and Kojiro left for their designated building. Itsuka saw the young Jinchuriki seating on the on the bench, with his back resting against the wall. She took a seat next to him since standing around wasn't doing much.
"That was a good prediction who do you think would win next?" Itsuka asked curious to see who was going to be the one who wins the exercise.
"Villain teams are still going to win this one." Izuku said
"But their quirks are like super versatile." Itsuka pointed out. "And the match hasn't even started."
"Those two are like a bickering couple." Izuku said with a deadpanned look on his eyes. Everyone heard what he had said then they look at the screen and sure enough they saw the two of them fighting over strategies.
"And I saw the two of them arguing over Science and Religion. Even quirkless people stay away from that messy topic." Everyone in class sweat dropped not knowing the situation the vine quirk user and beast quirk user have with one another.
Quick flash back
Izuku had just made his way to the toilet on the first floor after lunch. He stopped when he saw Jurota and Ibara arguing nearby he didn't mean to eavesdrop in their argument over Religion and Science.
"I am telling you that god does not exist." Jurota growled
"And I am telling you that he does!"
Izuku slowly backed away and turned around "That's right kit back away slowly, you don't have to get involved in this."
"I'll just use the toilet on the second floor."
End Flashback
Itsuka patted his back understanding he made a really tough call to avoid that kind of situation. "Speaking of which how did you locate Rin and Togaru?" Itsuka asked
"I used chakra pulse and chakra sense. For chakra pulse think of it like echo location I can sent out a pulse of chakra and give me a 3D view around the area. The technique however can't be used to sense people. While Chakra sense works the other way around you can't see thing inside or outside the building but you can sense people around you."
"That's very weird and cool at the same time."
"Yeah, but it's not recommended to use both at the same time because it consumes chakra at a very rapid rate, it's also hard to focus and sometimes lead up to temporary blindness."
All Might was having a hard time trying to tell the hero team to begin the match. When all he heard was the two of them arguing. "Hello? guys? hero team?" All Might raise an eyebrow 'They are more focused in fighting one another then the villains.'All Might cleared his throat to get their attention but failed.
"HERO TEAM YOU MAY BEGIN." All Might doesn't like yelling since this was his first class but somethings needed to be done.
Caught off guard by the booming voice of All Might the two teens jump "Yes All Might!" the two quickly rushed into the building.
"What about a plan." Jurota asked
"We will think of a strategy while inside." Ibara said
Entering the second floor saw a battery-operated toy train heading towards them. Unknow to them Yui was not so far hiding behind the corridor. She connected her fingers causing the train to grow its size, the toy train was big enough to move in the corridor.
Seeing the sudden change of the train, the two teens panicked "Come on Shiozaki." Jurota quickly grabbed Ibara and threw her over his shoulders.
"What are you doing beast!" Ibara yelled in embarrassment they quickly run down the corridor. Jurota saw an opened door and quickly entered it. Then out of nowhere Kojiro came out of the corridor before spewing glue over the two of them. Outside the train shrunk back into normal.
"Villain team wins!"
"Hold on guys let me use the glue remover." Kojiro spew an adhesive that removed the glue form his classmates.
"Thank you, Bondo-san." Jurota replied wiping away the glue on his face. Jurota put down Ibara but then just then Kojiro nose bleed and fainted.
"Bondo are you okay?" Kojiro only pointed at Ibara which the beast quirk user turns to see Ibara's costume was now transparent for everyone to see. Ibara screamed and quickly covered herself while Shishida joined Kojiro on the floor.
"Oh, no." Itsuka gotten up from her seat wanting to help Ibara. Just then Izuku handed a neatly folded blanket to her. She turns to see a blushing Izuku who had his eyes closed with one hand.
"Ta-Take it to Shiozaki." Izuku looked like a tomato wearing a mask.
"Thanks, Uzumaki!" Itsuka took the blanket and quickly rushed out of the observation room.
"So, what have we learned boys and girls." All Might asked
"Focus at the task at hand." The class said in sync.
"Good now on to the next team!" All Might announced with an energetic enthusiasm tone. "Hero team go hit the showers." After the team was announced Team H and I had left the observation room. Most of the team were somewhat shocked at the many times that Izuku had gotten the prediction were right.
"So Tsunotori is next." Izuku said
"Yeah, who do you think would win this time?" Hiryu asked "So far your predictions are right."
"This one is a tough one." Izuku said looking at the screen "It's going to depend on who is the most creative but there would be the small problem since Tsunotori can't speak Japanese well. So, communication is going to be a problem."
Pony and Sen entered the building so far, they had not met up with the opposing team. When they got to the room with the bomb Sen stopped pony before she could open the door. "Wait Tsunotori I got an idea." They walk over to a wall and Sen used his quirk "We will go through here." Pony merely nodded before Sen start drilling a hole. He took a peek and saw that Juzo and Reiko was waiting for them.
Juzo notice the wall cracking before a hole was made, a horn flew towards Reiko. "Yanagi watch out." Reiko quickly hid behind a pillar before it could hit her. The poltergeist quirk user quickly activates her quirk and send a few small items towards the Hero team who dodge it. The hero team dashed towards the bomb but Reiko levitated the bomb into the air due to how light it was.
"Damn it." Sen said
"Not so fast." Juzo used his quirk causing the floor to be soft. The hero team tries to get our but to no avail.
"What the hell!" Pony cursed in English as the two of them sink to the ground "Kaibara hold on to my horn."
"What?" Sen asked prompting Pony to grab hands and forced him to hold onto it.
"Hold on tight." Sen was sent flying towards the bomb shocking everyone. Reiko used quickly sent her trinkets flying again but most of them missed as the hons and Sen dodges the objects. Juzo quickly went for Pony but she fired another pair of horns at him to stop him in his tracks. Juzo quickly dives into the soft ground to evade the horns. The gyrate saw that he was closing to his target quickly let go of the horns and landed on the bomb.
"Hero team wins!"
"Great!" Sen said "Now can someone get me down."
All Might then pulled out two balls with the letter B and J which some of them chuckled "Now for the final teams B versus J." All Might announced Kosei and the other Quirkist laughed at the two letters.
Ibara had returned after a quick shower and changed to her gym clothes "Thank you, for the blanket Uzumaki." Ibara said politely.
"Oh, it's no problem." Izuku replied "But you should go and talk to the support course to change the material for your costume and prevent something like this from happening again."
"I will certainly do so after class." Ibara replied "You seem a little distracted."
"I'm just curious on Fukidashi's quirk." Izuku said before looking at the screen. "It's like his quirk allows him to bend reality a little by using words. If my theory is right, he and Komori can be a very good combo."
The sound of water dripping and flowing water could be heard in the corridor. Then what shock all the students and All Might is when they saw Mushrooms starts growing not only inside of the building but outside as well. Kinoko was walking down the corridor as mushrooms grew with rapid pace.
"I hope you Heroes are ready ne." Komori said as if her personality switch from shy to idol in a snap of a finger. The Hero team saw mushrooms start growing on the wall. Soon they mushrooms start growing on Kosei's arm.
"Hey look I have a mushroom growing on my hands." Kosei said looking without a care in the world.
"Hey what's going on." Setsuna was feeling dizzy she struggled to look straight.
Kosei then took notice of the g cup breast that Setsuna suddenly has. "Oh, wow Tokage you have some big milkers." Kosei said before succumbing to the hallucinating mushroom then hitting the floor.
"Got to… get the… bomb." Setsuna did her best to stave off the effects of the mushroom but soon joined the solid breath quirk user.
"Wow." Yosetsu asked a little shock.
"Well, some mushrooms can make people high or some mushroom can be dangerous when inhaling their spores." Hiryu stated.
"Hiryu-shounen is right there are plenty of mushrooms that are used in medicine and there are some that are used as drugs but remember kid don't do drugs especially trigger." All Might said.
"All right good job boys and girls, today was a huge success." All Might said in a very bolstering tone that. "Even though some of you had failed today's lesson do not let this go to your head. Sure, there are time that you fail but take this as a learning experience and learn from your mistakes. Now for the final lesson for the day how to do a dramatic exit!" All Might dashed only for everyone to sweat drop.
"If this is how low human society has come to in modern lessons. Then I vote we wipe out all the idiots in the world starting with him." Kurama said after seeing the display of stupid the teacher/pro hero displayed.
Meanwhile All Might reached the west entrance. He had steam coming out of him he started coughing out blood on to his hand. Then he puffed in to smoke turning into a skinny man with messy spike hair, with two long bangs of hair. The once skin tight suite had become too baggy for the once buff man.
"Oh man I barely made it before I run out of time." The man said. "The students can't find out about my condition."
"Toshinori are you okay?" asked the concerned principle as he walked up to All Might.
"I didn't know that classes can take that long."
"Well in any case let's get you back to the lounge to rest before one of the students finds out."
After school Itsuka had decided to stay back due to entering UA and the distance going back and forth from home. Her schedule was a little hectic to the point even it messed up her Martial arts schedule. She walked down corridor that leads to the many indoor training ground. She saw that most of it was occupied by the seniors but one was being filled up by robotic body parts. She took a peek and saw her classmate slicing up robots with his sword.
She watched as he easily cut through the robot with ease like a hot knife through butter. After taking out the last of the robots the young man went over control station. Taking the chance, she decided to see if he was willing to share a training ground.
Hearing buzz Izuku turned to the door and gestured her to come in. "Hey Kendo what brings you here?" Izuku greeted when the young lady entering the room.
"I was looking around hoping to get a room to train in but they're all booked, I can see you're busy..." Itsuka turned to the pile dismembered robots.
"These robots are hardly a challenge they have a few settings that we are not allowed to use. Why don't you give it a go?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, go ahead I'll take control of the robots unless you want to spar with me one on one."
"Let me know what are the four-point robots."
"Oh, they are flying robots." Izuku tap on an icon summoning a robot with two propellors hovering towards them. "I was hoping for Zero-point robots but we are not allowed access until second semester."
"Well, that's disappointing I wanted to at least try to take one out."
Izuku just shrugged "Wait till the next semester that way you are already strong enough to take one out."
"I guess you're right, baggers can't be choosers." Itsuka replied before looking at the flying robot. "Let's start out with something easy."
"Alright then I'll put in a mix mode." Izuku pushed tap on a few of the setting. The damaged robots were cleared out and a new set of robots came out consisting of Four one-pointers and two four-pointers.
"Begin!"
One robot charged at her and attempted to strike at the large fist user. Izuku watched by the side lines with a mechanical pencil and book that he brought out of nowhere. Itsuka enlarges her hand and deliver a karate chop dismantling the robotic arm. She quickly went for the head and ripped it off. Itsuka took a robot and tossed it over on to another robot causing them to explode.
She enlarges her hands to its limits and swatted the last flying robot. The last Four-point robot was grabbed by both large fist before getting ripped apart 'Large fist is very versatile.' Izuku examined Itsuka while she panted a little 'With enlarge hands it increases her strength but it also decreases some of her speed.'
"Training complete!"
"Give me the next group." Itsuka huffed out with adrenaline still pumping.
"Alright." Izuku said then a bunch of cleaning robots came out and clean the area before another group of robots came out. Izuku continued to examine her fighting skills and couldn't help but to notice that her fighting style seemed somewhat familiar as if he had seen it somewhere before.
'I feel like I've seen these move before…'
"I sense that she has some Biju chakra in her."
"Really? Which one?"
"It's-" They were interrupted by the sound of the completion siren.
"Training Complete."
"That was fast." Izuku said out loud.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Itsuka smirked before wiping off the sweat on her forehead.
"Before you start try timing your punches and enlarging your fist when you are about to strike." Itsuka raised an eyebrow before seeing a single one-point robot coming out.
She looked at her hand before nodding Izuku then push the button for the robot to attack the ginger. Itsuka stood her ground as the robot made its move, when the robot got closer Itsuka threw her punch and activated her quirk sending the robot flying into the wall.
"I didn't even think of this." Itsuka said as she looked at her hands with astonishment.
"Now try this have you watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?"
"Only one of the best anime ever."
"Good have you seen the episode where Josuke and Crazy Diamond learns to shoot those steel marbles?"
"Yeah." Itsuka then realised what he was saying. "Wait you don't mean…"
"Here practice with these then you can head to the support course." Izuku handed her a small sack of steel marbles that appeared in a puff of smoke. "The balls maybe small but it will help you get a better understanding of your skills." Itsuka took a marble while Izuku tapped something on the screen and a robot with a target came out.
"Try it."
Itsuka looked at the target before taking aim she took a deep breath before shooting at the target. She fired and missed the target she tried again this time hitting the 10-point marker. Feeling a little confident she took another metal ball then shoot it at the target. Izuku watch as she scored 150 points.
"Nice shot." Izuku said while nodding in approval "But you need to work on your aim."
"Now I just need to get bigger one." Itsuka said only to realise that the bag was empty. "Sorry."
"It's alright." Izuku said he created clones for each steel ball. The clones quickly threw the balls at Izuku who used the bag to catch it while catching a few with his hand. "Why don't you go to the support course after training."
"Sure but…" Izuku tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "I feel like metal balls can be a little lethal."
"Well practicing is always the answer so that muscle memory can help you remember how much force you need to use but…" Izuku rubbed his chin in a thinking manner. "Figuring out the size of the projectile and materials for said projectile also need to be accounted for."
"What about Rubber balls?"
"That can work but you still need to work on your aim and the force. Once you learn and master both this factors it can be a powerful move." Izuku tap on an icon and eight drones with targets came out and position themself in a random position. Itsuka watch as he leaped into the air while doing a summersault, he brought out ten kunai and threw it at the target two ricochet off from one another causing two extra kunai to share a target. Izuku landed on his feet gracefully and Itsuka watch as his scored 1000 points.
"Okay that was really awesome." Itsuka said with an astonished look on her face.
"Awesome it maybe, but I still have to make sure I don't hit anything vital."
Itsuka nodded in understanding "That's understandable the news will just end up scrutinizing you." They heard a beeping sound causing Izuku to take out his phone and see the time.
"Sorry I need to go I promise my boss to get in a little early today."
"Sure thing." Itsuka nodded she watch him gather the kunai and was about to leave until she spoke up "Say Uzumaki let's practice again tomorrow."
"Sure." Izuku said before leaving.
Izuku was in his apartment finishing off his homework for the day. He won't tell anyone or at least he tries not telling to a certain fox but today's match with Kamakiri did affect him. He opened his desk drawer and pulled out a small box. Opening the box, he took out a small picture. The picture was a sign that says Tarisu Orphanage next to it was a woman and seventeen children. Some of the children had a mutation quirk that made them look like villains, while some looked normal. Izuku had a girl next to him with her hand looped around his neck.
Izuku removed his mask revealing his face he has four dots on both his cheek that if connected look like a diamond on his cheek, tears started forming on his eyes as wave of sadness kicks in. He brushed his thumb across the picture.
"I miss you guys." The young man said in a barely audible whisper.
Izuku closed his eyes remembering the darkest moment of his past. He remembers the heat of the flames and smoke-filled air as the orphanage burns down. His hands and clothes were covered in blood the cries for help could be heard. Rain started pouring down while the building continues to burn.
"ALL MIGHT PLEASE SAVE THEM!" a five-year-old Izuku yelled at the same time as thunder crackled.
