Chapter 9
As Izuku and Todoroki walked out and onto the stage, the teens shot each other looks of determination, Midnight saw these and shivered once again for like the tenth time that day, "The fight you've all been looking forward to!" The crowd roared at the two teens. "BEGIN!" Midnight shouted once again, all this shouting wearing down her throat.
As she shouted a barrage of ice shot its way toward Izuku, quickly he moved to the left and dodged it before raising his right hand and shooting fire at the boy, Todoroki placed ice between him and Izuku, Izuku flames hitting the ice and melting it instantly, Izuku began running up to cut the distance, ice shot out at him again but he was in the middle of running toward Todoroki, he didn't have enough time to dodge, so he done the next best thing by aiming his right hand toward the ground and shot the flames that blasted him into the air, avoiding all the ice and making more progress to reach Todoroki.
Todoroki saw this and leapt back not allowing Izuku to even get remotely close to him, he covered the ground around in ice, making sure to keep Izuku away however that didn't stop Izuku for very long as he just shot fire at the ice and continued his charge.
"Todoroki! Why don't you use your fire!?" Izuku's shouted as he rushed toward him, the two-toned teen looked at him with rage now filling his eyes.
"Why the hell do you care, the old fucker put you up to that huh. How much did he offer you!" Todoroki yelled out as he shot a whole glacier at Izuku, Izuku saw this coming however and raised his right hand and shot flames into it covering where the ice was going to consume him, the arena fell silent as Izuku was devoured by the ice, a few seconds past before Izuku burst from the ice and landed a punch on Todoroki's face.
"Can't you see how hard everyone else is trying, and yet here you are only using half of your power because of a grudge!" Izuku shouted trying to get through to the teen.
"Shut UP!" with a lot of resistance.
Todoroki covered his left hand in ice and punched Izuku back knocking him farther back than when Izuku punched him, Izuku managed to land and face the teen, the two maintained eye contact for what felt like a few minutes before Izuku made the first move this time, shooting fire at the teen, Todoroki once again erected an ice wall to block the attack, the fire melted through the ice and Todoroki saw through it, Izuku was gone nowhere to be seen, Todoroki looked around for him.
But then felt an impact in his side, Izuku had punched him in the gut. 'He hid behind the ice I made earlier?' Izuku not giving his opponent a chance to recover punched him again in the face this time, blood shot out of his mouth.
Todoroki touched the ground with his foot and shot ice up that consumed Izuku in a way very similar to when he used it against Sero, Izuku was unable to move. "Izuku Midoriya is unable to co-" Midnight was once again cut off by a blast of fire raging out of the ice, without giving Todoroki any time to back away Izuku used his only free limb to hit him, Izuku headbutted the teen.
Breaking the rest of his body out of the ice Izuku deliver a punch to Todoroki's gut once again. "Goddamnit, why can't you see!" Izuku shouted as he leapt away from the teen. "It doesn't matter what the quirk does, or who it came from, what matters what you do with!"
"It's your power and your life!" Izuku shouted.
Those words resonated with the two-toned teen, they brought a warmth he hadn't felt in a long time, his mind was flooded with memories of her, that warm feeling began to expand outward until it exploded.
Everyone watching was in shock.
'Was this your plan the whole time?' Yaoyorozu thought watching the battle from up in the stands.
'Can I beat that?' Bakugo thought as worry began making its way through him.
A certain golden-haired girl watched through her TV screen, the only thing breaking her out of her concentration was a woman with green hair and green clothes walking into the room, behind her having a guy with white hair and dog ears on the top of his head and 2 wheat-skinned women one with white clothing the other with red.
"Are you watching the UA sports festival?" The green-haired woman asked to which the blonde girl nodded her head.
"Do you see anyone you like?" She continued.
The blonde-haired girl pointed toward Izuku. "Him."
"I don't get why you would sit and watch some weakling duke it out." The white-haired guy said, right after he said it the hand of one of the wheat-skinned women slapped him on the head.
"Shut up Bete." Tiona said before turning back to the blonde girl. "Good choice, Ais."
"That soul is beautiful." A woman with silver hair said while sitting in her seat a glass of wine in hand. "It's pure and as bright as the sun. I want it."
Izuku watched Todoroki burst into flames and only had one thought. "Beautiful."
Everyone in the stadium was in shock about what the hell was happening, even the people that came to boo at Izuku couldn't move.
"You wanted this?" Todoroki asked Izuku to which he nodded.
"Since you're going all out it's only fair that I do as well." Izuku said. 'I want to be a hero.' Izuku's right hand lit up with blue sparkles appearing all around it. The sound of the bell playing out through the whole stadium, the flames coming from Todoroki intensified as the teens stared at each other.
Izuku began charging at the teen, Todoroki shot toward Izuku fire and ice shooting out of each of his sides.
Midnight was too entranced by the teens to even think about stopping them.
Izuku raised his right as he got closer to Todoroki and Todoroki did the exact same. "FIREBOLT!" Izuku shouted while at the same time "Thank you." Todoroki said.
The white lightning began shooting around Izuku's hand as a white beam shot toward Todoroki while a heatwave shot toward Izuku, the attack collided in mid-air causing them both to explode outward sending a gust of wind at both the teens, the bright light consumed the entire arena.
As the light faded Midnight saw something she wasn't expecting. "Shoto Todoroki is out of bounds, Izuku Midoriya moves on to the next round." The entire stadium roared for both the teens, having pushed himself a little too far Izuku passed out in the arena.
As Izuku was getting picked up to be taken to the nurse's office Yaoyorozu got up from her seat and made her way out the door to head down, something which didn't go unnoticed by a certain purple-haired student.
"We're having a small break while the arena gets repaired." Midnight announced.
Yaoyorozu made her way over to the nurse's office and walked in, she got permission to be there by Recovery Girl before walking over and sitting down next to Izuku, she sat there and looked at him for a few seconds before a thought passed through her head. 'He's quite cute when he sleeps. WAIT where the hell did that come from.' She thought as a blush made it's over her face.
Izuku slowly opened his eyes and saw Yaoyorozu her face fully red, he sat up. "Morning." He said with a slight chuckle.
She turned around to face him, the red hue still covering her face, Izuku noticed it and immediately became worried about her. "Yaoyorozu you're face is red, are you okay?" Izuku asked thinking that she might be sick, the red colour intensified.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said trying to keep what little composure she had left.
An announcement caught them both off guard. "Would Hitoshi Shinso and Momo Yaoyorozu make their way to the waiting rooms." The blush disappeared from Yaoyorozu's face as she got up.
"Good luck." Izuku said with a thumbs up and a smile.
Yayorozu felt something pull on her heart, a warm feeling spread its way through her body. "Yeah." She made her way to the waiting room as Izuku made his way to the 1-A stands after asking about Todoroki.
She walked in and saw on the screen the ending to the Iida vs Shiozaki fight, 'I guess Midoriya is fighting Iida next. Wait why am I thinking about him right now, I need to focus on how I'm going to win.' Momo groaned out loud. 'From what I saw for him to use his quirk you need to listen to what he has to say, or maybe it's if you talk to him.'
"Would Momo Yaoyorozu make their way to the stage." Momo let out a deep sigh as she made her to the stage.
As she walked on stage the feeling of being watched intensified once again and her body stiffened up. "Quite the amount of people." Shinso said.
Yaoyorozu stayed silent not wanting to even give him the time of day. "BEGIN!" Yayorozu created a sword and began charging at him. "People like you are so blessed, look at your quirks all so flashy and hero-like!" Shinso shouted while taking a step back.
Yaoyorozu remained silent as she kept charging fully intent on winning this, she got a few feet away from him and was about swing her sword. "Midoriya's a fool, who pushes his opponent to get stronger?" Something about him saying that made something within her snap.
"Don't talk about him like th-" She was cut off as her entire body froze completely unable to move.
"People like you always fall for that." The world felt foggy to Yaoyorozu, no it was her mind that was foggy. "Walk off the stage for me." Yaoyorozu slowly walked past Shinso and toward the edge. 'No turn around! Listen to me! I can't lose, he believes in me!' She thought was images of Izuku passed through her head. 'I don't want to lose!"
"Momo Yaoyorozu is out of bounds, Hitoshi Shinso moves onto the next round."
Her mind returned to normal, she looked toward Shinso. "You fell just the rest of them."
Yaoyorozu walked toward her tunnel feeling dejected by what had happened, she made her way to the girl's toilet to have some time to herself before she went to face the rest of class.
Izuku wanted to run down and help her but got stuck by an announcement telling him to make his way to the waiting room.
"BEGIN!" Midnight shouted once again.
Kendou and Bakugo both made their way toward one another, Bakugo shot toward her preparing his normal right hook, she saw this coming and expanded her fist to block it, however, Bakugo set an explosion to his left and blasted around to the right of her fist, without giving her a chance to fight back he blasted toward her body, she couldn't dodge or block so the explosion slammed right into her stomach, continuing Bakugo shot toward her and grabbed her wrist before using an explosion to make it bigger and threw her out of the arena winning him the game in only a few moves.
Izuku watched Kendou get decimated before he began making his way to the stage, as he was on his way there his phone pinged, he gave it a quick look before he had to give his phone to the holder, It was Yaoyorozu, you got this Was all it said, he gave a quick smile before walking out toward the stage to face off against Iida.
The two teens stared at each other, for a good few seconds before Midnight started the match, she began coughing violently after the shout.
Iida shot toward Izuku and aimed for his head, Izuku saw this coming and dodged down, as Iida's leg passed by his head he raised his right hand and placed it on the back of his leg. "Firebolt!" The flames shot into his engine.
Iida got carried away by the force but tried to go back for another kick but his leg puffed out smoke, 'Did he overheat my engine?' Iida thought as he looked at Izuku and saw him smiling, Izuku then began running at him fully intent on making this a close-range battle, Izuku, once he got close enough, threw a punch that connected with Iida's face which knocked his glasses off his face and shattering once they hit the ground, using the fact Iida now couldn't see properly Izuku punched him again in the chest knocking him back.
Izuku kept up his flurry of punches not giving Iida the chance to fight back, a certain ginger teen saw this and couldn't help but be reminded of her own fighting style in the first round. Izuku managed to push Iida all the way to the edge before kicking him once in the chest knocking him out of the ring. "Tenya Iida is out of bounds, Izuku Midoriya moves onto the finals." Izuku extended his hand to Iida, he didn't like him, but that was no reason not to have a show of good sportsmanship.
Izuku could feel himself getting more and more exhausted as the day went on, using his quirk so much was beginning to wear him down, which is why he decided to try and beat Iida while only using it when he needs to, but most likely this next fight is going to be the most exhausting, Izuku made his way back to the waiting room as Bakugo and Shinso made their way to the stage.
Bakugo made eye contact with the tired teen, as soon the match started Bakugo shot toward him, Shinso tried to say something but Bakugo just ignored him and sent an explosion directly at his chest blasting Shinso to the edge, but before he fell off Bakugo grabbed him, and held him suspended in the air. "You rely too much on your quirk, try working on your body before he try to enter the hero course." He said as Shinso used his quirk on him, causing Bakugo's hand to open as his brain went foggy.
"Hitoshi Shinso is out of bounds, Katsuki Bakugo moves onto the finals."
Izuku got called back to the stage for the final round of the sports festival.
On his way there he approached the exit to the tunnel and saw a few people standing there.
Welf stood with a smile on his face, "I got everyone you beat and Bakugo beat."
Izuku smiled at the red-haired teen before facing everyone they had faced, "I'm going to win this." He said.
Uraraka pumped her fist into the air, "Do you're best!"
"I swear if you lose." Kendou joked with a smile on her face.
Todoroki just looked at Izuku still confused by why he was dragged here by Welf.
Iida and Shinso were nowhere to be found.
Welf raised his thumb up at Izuku with a smile on his face.
Yaoyorozu stood there smiling, "Good luck."
He walked out with a smile on his face, he made his way to the stage, once he arrived he could feel the fire beside him raging, the shouts of cheater from the students was no longer there.
"begin." Midnight said rather quietly as she had lost her voice from all the shouting.
Without giving Bakugo a chance to try and fight back Izuku shot his flames directly toward him. Bakugo blasted through them. "You really think a move as slow as that will beat me!" Bakugo shouted as he placed his hand on Izuku's chest and blasted him at point-blank range, Izuku however didn't just stand there and take it as he pushed his hand up and against Bakugo's face before shooting his flames right at him.
Both teens were blasted back from each other, Bakugo landed and shot back toward Izuku not wanting to give a chance to get away, Izuku saw him and moved to the right to dodge the explosive teen, taking the small chance he had Izuku punched him in the stomach, Bakugo ignored at and kicked Izuku in the face before skidding to a stop and placing his hand on Izuku's stomach and blasting him back toward the centre on the arena.
"I'll give this everything I've got to win!" Bakugo shouted as he shot into the air and began spinning.
Izuku remembered seeing something like this when they were younger, where Bakugo would start spinning and then blow him up while shouting something like Death Tornado. Meaning he was about to use an attack he's been making since they were kids, 'I want to be a hero, one that never loses!" The bright light consumed Izuku's hand, as he extended it out toward Bakugo who was about to finish his move. "FIREBOLT!/ HOWITZER IMPACT!" The two teens shouted at each other, the light and explosion devoured the entire arena. Bakugo landed and looked into the smoke. 'Sparkles can only use that light thing twice a day, meaning I win.' Bakugo thought as he watched the smoke and dust.
As he began to relax very confident in his victory, green eyes shot out of the smoke and made for a punch on Bakugo, Bakugo reacted as fast as he could and tried to punch Izuku in the face, Izuku dodged to the side and felt the wind pass by his head, before he punched Bakugo in the stomach, 'Thanks for the idea, Todoroki!" Izuku thought as he shouted. "Firebolt!" The flames covered his right hand making his punch even stronger. He let out a scream as he pushed his fist further into Bakugo's stomach, the flames shot out and shot Bakugo out of the arena and into the wall knocking him out.
"Katsuki Bakugo is out of bounds, Izuku Midoriya the winner of the first year's sports festival." Midnight said as the entire stadium began shouting and roaring for the winner.
Izuku once again having overused his quirk to the fullest passed out.
"Now onto the medals!" Midnight announced having drunk some cough syrup, Izuku stood on the top pedestal while Bakugo stood on number 2 and Shinso on number 3.
"And to hand out the medals is everyone's favourite hero All Might!" She shouted as the man himself came flying down and landed in front of all the students.
"So before I hand out any medals I just want to say a huge great job to everyone that gave this their all, any one of you could be standing up here instead of these 3. So push yourselves even farther next year!" All Might said while looking out toward the stands for the students.
He picked up the three medals and made his way over the three students. "A fantastic job to you Young Shinso, a support course student in the top 3 is unheard of and yet here you are showing that people shouldn't look down on you, if you ever decide to become a hero, you will definitely be a top pro." All Might to the tired-looking teen.
"Thank you All Might for the kinds words." Shinso said, All Might then placed the medal around his neck, before walking over to Bakugo.
"Young Bakugo you're skill and power are nothing to scoff at, next year I'm sure you can make it to the top as long as you train hard." Bakugo didn't even look toward the hero, instead, he just stood there looking toward the ground.
All Might made his way to the top spot and stood right in front of Izuku. Congrats Young Midoriya, you won this year with amazing levels of skill, power and knowledge, you should be proud, but don't let his win go to your head, there will be many more challenges in the future." Izuku looked up at him and felt a sickness rise in his stomach, he pushed it back down before smiling at the pro "Thank you." That was all he said as All Might placed the medal around his neck.
Author's note.
Hey, I made it to the end of the sports festival.
I hoped you enjoyed the arc as a whole as I know I enjoyed writing it, there is now a lot to look forward too and it all starts in the next arc.
So from here on out, I have no idea how long will be between chapters anymore as I've finally gotten back into writing TSL and with the release of RH I won't have all the time in the world to write this but I will try my best to get this done.