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Ah an important note, I could keep the name Katsuki because well, honestly it doesn't sound bad on a girl. But since that's not the case for Shoto I thought of naming her as Yukiko. You know because is Snow Child if we take the kanjis. Just thought it fitted.
Chapter 2. Fire and Ice. Melting Ice.
Katsuki Bakugou had a clear objective. Blowing that indifferent look from the girl's face. But there was another objective. One not so clear.
As she dodged the ice that was trying to capture her she looked at the stairs behind the girl she was fighting. She looked indifferently at her. And she only kept using one hand to make ice. Slowly and steadily her body seemed to be getting signs of the ice enveloping it.
If she could make use of the ice so she got slower, she could pass through and get with Deku. Iida if she remembered from what Deku mentioned had a speed quirk. Deku quirk didn't make him faster, only stronger. But there was not much use in being able to destroy a giant robot if you couldn't reach said giant robot.
"Surrender. You simply cannot hope to defeat me."
The girl threw more ice in her direction. This time she wouldn't be able to dodge.
She didn't want to dodge it.
She managed to throw one big explosion in front of her. Loud and showy. The sort of explosion that makes everyone confused when it happens.
Deku had offered her that idea one day. Most of her explosions would blow everything away. But she could manage to make a different explosion. One louder and with a bigger area of effect in exchange for losing power.
But the lost power was compensated with the ability to stun those close to the explosion.
A stun grenade.
And that would make the girl with the cold hands to stop shooting ice.
She wasn't sure what happened. One moment she was on the offensive. The next she found herself disoriented. With a scream of power, she managed to make ice come all around her. Hoping to catch the girl who had disoriented her.
But she didn't hear any response. No sign of having caught her. As her vision came back she noticed she was surrounded by ice. Her own quirk having made a wall of ice in the stairs. But no signs of the girl.
She had gone away.
Probably passed her.
It was needless to say how angry she felt at having been played.
Iida and Izuku were in a stand still. Iida was making sure Izuku didn't get forward. But he couldn't play it with risk, he had to be safe to avoid Izuku strong quirk. If he got caught by Izuku he would probably get hurt. He had seen the zero pointer get destroyed. Of course, Izuku wouldn't use the same degree of strength.
But it was better to be safe than sorry.
"One minute left!"
The voice of All Might forced Izuku to rush forward. Iida moved fast and slid in order to trip him. The tactic worked. But Izuku was hoping Iida to do jus that. As he was falling he used his quirk. Energy working its way a long his arm. He pushed himself from the floor, sending himself to the mock weapon. He felt the pain of his arm hurting to the max but not breaking. A small victory.
Iida accelerated himself to get to Deku. With a jump and the burst of speed not only did he manage to catch him and pin him to the wall. But he had essentially stopped him from getting the mock weapon.
Iida smiled to himself. He had done his job properly.
"Hero team wins!"
Iida thoughts broke away. He looked at the bomb and saw Katsuki touching the bomb with one hand and looking at Iida with a mix of pride and smugness in it.
"Well, we won, now. Mind letting Deku away from the wall?"
Iida apologized to Izuku. The latter saying there was nothing to worry about as he was doing his role.
"You are one great villain Iida!"
He offered his hand at Iida. Iida looked at said hand with a smile and accepted the handshake.
Izuku said with a smile trying to cheer the speedster. Normally one wouldn't like to be called a great villain. But Iida got the message on the words of Izuku.
"Please get out of the building in an orderly fashion, we will keep the matches going"
The three nodded. Iida noticing the count of heads spoke.
"What happened with Todoroki?"
At this Izuku looked at Katsuki.
"Kacchan? Where is she?"
Said girl shrugged.
"Who knows, I made a stun grenade and left her alone. The objective was to win. Not to knock her out, you said it yourself Deku. Follow the plan."
She said pulling him close to her and managing to make her embarrassed. Iida seeing their partnership nodded in approval.
Such a good show of teamwork. As expected of two fellow students of UA.
"I thought you wanted to send an explosion to her head Kacchan."
Said girl nodded.
"Oh and I did Izuku. A stunning explosion to her face. You should have seen her, that smug face fading to become a face of despair at knowing she lost!"
She might be exaggerating what happened, but Izuku got a general idea. Iida meanwhile was curious.
"I thought your quirk was making explosions."
She nodded at him, her smile growing wildly at the concept.
"I can make explosions, but there are many types of explosions, Deku one day thought maybe I could pull something like a stun grenade. Big, showy and loud. Of course it doesn't pack a punch like my usual explosions. But it opens up the chance for a big one!"
Izuku sighed.
"I thought of that so she could stun people instead of hurting them."
At this the girl laughed.
"If they think they can mess with me and get away freely they are wrong!"
The truth of the stun grenade. Was that Deku had thought of the move for her. So she could have more than simple explosions. He thought it would help her to have more options. What he didn't expect was the fact she would see it as a gift.
"You spend all that time thinking on me? You didn't need too… but I am glad you think of me so much!"
His intention was to help her. But it seemed it only fueled her wishes for marriage…
As they finally got out of the building they were met with their group and the face of a pissed Todoroki looking at Katsuki.
The latter simply smiling smugly at her.
"Want a rematch icicle?"
She said looking at the said girl who looked pissed.
"Kacchan… don't, you won, no need for bragging."
After saying that Izuku went forward and offered his hand to Todoroki.
"Good match, your quirk is amazing! Can you only do ice? Why is your hair of two colors, is it related to your quirk? I am sorry if Kacchan made you angry, she doesn't really mean it, she is really nice when you get the time to know her andshecanbe…"
Before he could keep rambling a small explosion took him out of his line of thought.
"Deku, rambling again, focus."
He looked at her with a nod. Thanking her for it.
"My point is… sorry if she made you angry, it was a good match."
She looked at the hand and at the boy offering it. She shook it lightly. She thought the hand was weird. It was warm.
Not the warm she got from her fire… but a different warm. One she wouldn't mind keeping close.
In fact Izuku was getting nervous at the look the girl was giving his hand as she didn't release it. He was getting nervous. Katsuki was getting pissed. She walked forward and freed the hand of Izuku away of Todoroki.
"Enough cold hands, Deku is off limits!"
She said looking angry. The rest of the class who had been looking at the whole situation were noticing that maybe Midoriya and Bakugou were closer than they thought. Todoroki thinking in a similar line spoke.
"Says who? Are you his girlfriend?"
She spoke with cold indifference. But a part of her, a part deep inside of her hoped that the girl answer would be no.
To her surprise said girl eyes opened up in surprise.
"Well, no, not yet. But Deku is mine!"
This slip of her tongue managed to make everyone stare at Deku. One boy, in particular, was about to speak up before All Might coughed loudly to gather everyone attention.
"Well, this was good! But! Can we focus on class! The next team enter the building! As prep times go we will review what went well and what went wrong!"
Everyone nodded. And listened.
By the end the analysis had been that Midoriya and Bakugou plan to stay close to help each other was good. All Might made clear to them that being bait was not a good part of the plan, risking yourself to a more dangerous quirk could be fatal. It was agreed that if Todoroki had stayed with Iida defending they would have been able to stop both of them. Iida was congratulated as he kept his role of defending the mock weapon. Bakugou got a small praise.
All Might explained to them that it had been a good move to stop fighting Todoroki to help Izuku. As if they kept fighting in separate fronts they would have lost.
The rest of the matches went well, some even had fun results, Ochako had managed a victory by making herself float away to the mock weapon while her teammate distracted them with lighting. She was worried because the said teammate was salivating a lot by the end. She later found out that his quirk had that side effect if he released too much electricity.
Katsuki had promised she would kill Mineta if he even dared to approach her as through the cameras they heard him speaking of girls in a rather crude way.
By the end All Might smiled to himself. Class had been a success, sure he forgot the urn but had avoided mayhem. And so long as no one ever found out, no one would make fun of his rookie mistake as a teacher.
As the day finished and everyone was making their way home, Ochako, Iida, Izuku, and Katsuki were chatting. Well, most of the talk was made by Ochako. Iida and Izuku nodded while Katsuki was considering if there would be problems by causing an explosion to get away from Ochako.
She knew the girl meant well. But she spoke as much as Deku did. Then she heard something directed to her.
"It was so romantic how you told Todoroki to get away of Deku!"
At this, she laughed off.
"I was going to send her to die right then and there. No one can get Deku but me."
She smiled proudly as Iida wondered in thought.
"So, are you two in a sort of compromise?"
Izuku knew that question would bring an answer he didn't want to hear.
"Of course we are! I am going to marry Deku!"
She spoke proudly getting said Deku close to her. The latter one was embarrassed.
Ochako was smiling and Iida looked surprised. He spoke his question.
"Aren't you two too young to get married?"
At this, she groaned.
"Not you too! Is enough with mother in law saying that!"
At this, both Ochako and Iida asked about this to get the answer from Izuku.
"She means my mom…"
At this both of classmates muttered a small "Oh" of understanding. Katsuki meanwhile kept speaking.
"I have been telling her to let me have Deku hand in marriage for a long time. But she doesn't budge! I don't know why! We are perfect for each other!"
During this whole exchange, she never let go of Izuku whose face had been getting redder and redder the whole time. Ochako simply smiled. It was obvious Kacchan was really in love with Deku. Even if she had her own unique way of showing it.
As they reached the station and were waiting for their respectives trains they heard a voice through the announcement system.
"We apologize, Mountain Lady had a fight with a giant villain and the lines got affected. Don't worry, they will be fixed in one hour. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause the train system will work again in one hour. We apologize for the inconveniences."
At this Katsuki groaned.
"Mountain Lady! Surely she was showing off again!"
Izuku sighed. He knew Katsuki didn't really liked Mt. Lady, mostly because she felt that in trying to show off she often failed to do her job.
"I am sure that wasn't the case… surely Kamui Woods is helping fix everything."
It was no secret Kamui Woods was a great hero. It wasn't a secret either how good he was at damage control. His quirk had a versatility that allowed him to really shine.
Iida sighed.
"Well, we have one hour before the systems get working."
Ochako didn't saw it as a bother. Instead she saw it as an opportunity to find out more about her friends.
"So Kacchan, how did you and Deku meet? You make it sound like you two have been friends since well, forever."
At this she got mixed reactions. A reaction from Izuku crossing his arms motioning for a no, and a reaction of nodding from Kacchan who smiled at the idea.
Two things got her pumped. Fighting like a hero. And Deku.
"That is a great story! You see when I barely was getting my quirk…
A small girl with blonde hair was alone in the sand box of a park. Her mother was sitting on a bench sighing looking at her small girl. She was alone. No one was approaching her. She couldn't blame them. Her girl was making explosions with her hands.
The other kids avoided her.
Maybe bringing her to the park had been a mistake.
Then a woman with green straight hair sat at her side on the bench.
"Is this place taken?"
The blond woman chuckled.
"Go ahead, is free to anyone brave enough."
The other saw the girl alone.
"Oh, she looks just like you!"
She thanked her for the compliment. It was then she took notice of a small boy walking to the sand box. He saw the girl making explosions and his face got brighter as with small steps he rushed to her.
He spoke with wonder in his voice.
"That's your quirk?!"
Said girl looked at him nodding. Her face was gloomy. After kids said that they would run away.
"That's cool!"
Said girl looked with surprise at the green haired boy.
"Can you do it again?"
She immediately nodded and made another explosion. This one slightly bigger and making the sand get over their heads. She was worried she might have hurt the boy. Instead he heard him laughing.
"That's so cool! Your quirk is great!"
They were chatting. Nothing big, who was their favorite hero, their names, and where they lived. Once finished the girl didn't look so gloomy.
At that moment the girl took the hand of the boy, happiness in her expression. Both children got in front of the bench where their mothers were sitting at seeing the exchange between their children.
The small girl brought the boy in front of her mother as if making an offering, or like a kid asking if they could keep a dog.
"Mom! I want to marry Izuku! Can I marry him?"
Said woman laughed. And the mother of the boy laughed too at the innocence.
"I guess so, why don't you promise it to Izuku?"
She nodded and looked at Izuku.
"I promise we will get married Izuku!"
The girl took the stunned boy into a hug.
From that moment their paths got linked with each other. And they wouldn't get separated no matter what…
"… Or they would get an explosion from me! Anyone who tries to take Deku away will die!"
Ochako and Iida were surprised at the story.
Katsuki had been a nice child….
Honestly with how foul mouthed she was they couldn't imagine her being all innocent and even gloomy. The explosive girl was a walking bomb. She let her emotions and thought out without a care.
But it also showed how good she was at keeping promises. Time hadn't been able to break them apart.
"That's beautiful! So you two will get married one day?"
She nodded with her smile growing wild.
"I only need the approval of his mom. Once that is out of the way we can marry right then!"
Iida was in thought looking at Izuku.
"What about Katsuki mom, does she approve of you?"
He sighed nodding.
"She said that no one is crazy enough to marry her… so she would be extremely thankful if I marry Kacchan…"
Hearing this Katsuki temper exploded again.
"That hag! I am great! Anyone would wish to marry me! Which is a shame for them because I already chose Deku."
Finishing her words she took the boy close to her again with a smile on her face. Really, Ochako and Iida didn't know whether that smile was one would call loving. It looked like the smile of someone that was about to challenge someone to a fight.
"Don't worry Deku, I am not leaving you for any other guy!"
He felt embarrassed by the closeness with her. But he had to admit, he wouldn't change his friend for anyone.
"I guess Todoroki worries you then? She was holding Izuku hand rather tightly."
Ochako words broke the smile off her face to turn it into a look of a fighter. It wasn't a big change with her really.
"That girl! The nerve, there is only one rule to follow, hands off from Izuku! Next time she tries something like that!"
She released a small explosion. Ochako and Iida wondered how used were Izuku at seeing the explosions he didn't flinch when she did them.
The answer was probably a lot.
"Kacchan, I am sure she is not like that…"
Katsuki looked at Izuku. Her eyes looking for something deep within him. And she found it as she pointed her finger at him. Accusing him.
"You… you found her pretty don't you!?"
At this Izuku face became red. He was a dead man walking. And he knew it.
"Is the hair isn't?! I knew I should have let mine longer! That's why you like Mountain Lady isn't? !"
Ochako found this scene adorable, Katsuki didn't strike her as someone who worried about her looks, but it seemed that she took Deku opinion highly. Iida wondered that maybe the words of Katsuki mom were true. No one but Deku seemed to be able to manage the girl temper and all her attitudes.
"Is not like that Kacchan! You are also pretty!"
At this the girl stopped, for a moment Izuku thought she had relaxed at being called pretty. He didn't mention it much, but Katsuki was a pretty girl. But things weren't so easy she and pointed at him again. This time with a mix of anger in her eyes.
"You said also! So you do find her pretty!"
As Izuku tried to calm her down, Iida and Ochako smiled at the pair, it was obvious they did were good friends, maybe the best of friends. Meanwhile an observer who was waiting for her own train passed a hand through her hair. Asking herself a question.
Did he find her hair pretty?
As Izuku and Katsuki lived close to each other they were on the same train making their way home. They had sent a message to their families explaining about the train delay. During the ride Katsuki would look at Izuku and pass a hand through her hair.
Once they were out of the train Izuku spoke.
"I don't mind your hair not being long… it suits you Kacchan."
Said girl only smiled as she offered him a pat on the back.
"Of course it suits me! It's me we are talking about, everything suits me!"
Said girl wouldn't admit it. Not openly.
But those words meant a lot to her. Just as much as the fact that in the train station he had called her pretty.
Sure, he had said also. But small victories.
What's the worst that could happen? Would the girl try a move on Deku?
As if!
Needless to say, Katsuki was rather pissed at lunch the next day. Todoroki had come to sit with them on the table in the cafeteria of the school.
"What are you doing?"
She spoke while keeping her anger in check. It was too early on the day to get so angry.
"I am sitting. I think that's obvious."
At this, a tick mark was forming in the head of Katsuki. Izuku was surprised she hadn't released an explosion at the obvious sarcasm in the voice of the girl with the ice quirk.
"You know damn well what I mean! Why are you sitting beside Izuku! Answer cold hands"
Katsuki would always sit at the left from Izuku. Always. So, finding that as Izuku sat in his usual spot to her right, that someone had disrespected the rules of keeping their hands off from Deku, she was angry.
"I like this spot, is not occupied either."
Todoroki had taken to sit to the right of Izuku. Essentially the inheritor of the All Might quirk was trapped between two girls who didn't plan on moving.
"And could you stop calling me cold hands? Only my right side makes ice. I have a name. Is Yukiko Todoroki. You can either call me Yukiko or Todoroki, whatever is easier for you."
She was elegantly eating as Katsuki anger was spiking. But before it could blow up Izuku spoke.
"You said your right side makes ice… so what does your left side does?"
At this the girl tensed. She didn't like saying it. She didn't even like accepting it existed… she looked at the boy whose eyes were full of wonder. She couldn't avoid answering him.
"I can release fire from my left side… my quirk is called Fire and Ice."
Izuku eyes opened up as he smiled.
"That's incredible! There's so much you can do!"
Izuku eyes lighted up at this, Katsuki groaned. She knew that now she wouldn't be able to make the girl go away. Not without Deku insisting for her to stay. He had found and interesting quirk, and he was all about analyzing them… a notable ability that she respected. But she hated that this meant she now would be unable to make the girl go away.
Said girl looked at her food finding it more interesting.
"Is not that great… is a bad quirk…"
At this Izuku eyes were in surprise before he looked confident. Katsuki sighed. She knew Deku.
She already saw it coming to the words he would speak…
"That's your quirk?! That's so cool"
"But it is your quirk! Every quirk is awesome!"
Maybe not the exact same words as for her quirk. But she knew he would say something like that.
Yukiko saw into the eyes of Izuku who had clearly spoken those words.
He had said her quirk was awesome. And that it was her quirk. Not her father quirk…
She found herself smiling. A small smile. She wasn't used to the feeling of smiling like that… but she didn't mind it.
When Katsuki saw that smile she only found one word to describe the current situation. She knew pretty well those eyes, those were the eyes she herself had when thinking of Deku. And she ended up loudly speaking the words in her mind.
"Hell no!"
CUT! Send to edition and rest everyone.
Fun chapter to write if you ask me, as said before not exactly looking to retell the manga, after all a fanfiction works that way. Is a sandbox! Now, thanks everyone for your reviews, questions and favs and follows. I do try my best in answering all of you, but do feel free to send me a PM anytime. I always do my best in answering them back!
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