IZUKU SKIRT A WILD WIND
CHAPTER 20
AN: ALL RIGHT PEOPLE SO HERE IT IS FINALLY WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY
UA SPORTS FESTIVAL
THIRD PERSON POV
Ibara tried her vine wall defence yet again, however unlike her previous opponent Setsuna Tokage was able to slip through her defences much more easily. Due to her quirk allowing her to split her body apart she was able to slip her legs and arms through the tiniest of gaps. That being said, each hit did not have the full force of all of her body muscle and mass behind them. This made them all much weaker than the kicks Pony Tsunotori was capable of producing as a result easier to take and keep on fighting. Setsuna made sure to keep her Torso out of range as she needed to keep her head close to see where her arms and legs were going. Resulting in a few close calls when Ibara would throw small pieces of concrete at her head to try and knock her out.
"LOOKS LIKE SHE IS GOING WITH THE SAME STRATEGY AS HER PREVIOUS OPPONENT. BUT WILL IT WORK OUT THE SAME AS LAST TIME?" Present Mic said stating the obvious question that everyone is asking. Aizawa however looked at this disappointed to say the least, but unlike Mic kept it to himself. 'I know the saying is don't fix it if it isn't broke but going in with a strategy that just barely got her the win last time is simply foolish.' Aizawa thought shaking his head at this sight. Nezu simply wished that Vlad would stop going easy on them and teach them not to be so stiff in combat.
After about five minutes or so of the back and fourth the two had started Ibara had decided to use her earlier technique to dig underneath the arena. This prevented Setsuna from continuing her attack, though fortunately for her it also meant Ibara could not attack her. As a result she was given the chance to put herself back together, literally, and catch her breath as it was exhausting her splitting her concentration so much at once. Unfortunately for her Ibara took advantage of this momentary stop to erupt from the ground and grab her tightly. Pulling Setsuna into the ground the arena split here and there, even imploding until Setsuna was tossed out. Ibara won the match by slamming her into the ground outside the safe zone winning her the match but completely exhausting herself in the process.
"I MUST SAY THIS WAS AN INTERESTING BATTLE, THOUGH I MUST SAY THE FIGHT WITH PONY TSUNOTORI WAS A MUCH TOUGHER BATTLE FOR IBARA THAN THIS ONE." Present Mic said before Nezu began cackling at this ludicrous comment.
Noticing the other two were looking at him with worrisome faces hoping for an explanation for the seemingly random cackling. "Apologies Present Mic but I simply found your analysis of the two students so off the mark that it was simply hilarious." Nezu said as both looked at him unsure as for once even Aizawa made a mistake when analyzing a fight. "I would say both Pony Tsunotori and Setsuna Tokage were relatively equal in terms of combat difficulty. While Tsunotori was able to get large and powerful enough hits to take Shiozaki out in two to four hits she was also less able to dodge than Tokage. Tokage however while her quirk made it easier to dodge Shiozaki vines, this also however made her attacks much weaker than Tsunotori attacks despite getting multiple in much more often. As a result Ibara first opponent kept her own her toes due to fear of a quick knock out. Her second opponent kept her on her toes in a sense that she required much more focus to have a chance of catching her. So if I had to compare the two fights I would say they were basically the same fight but with one aspect much more amplified than the other. As for the two students I would say both put up good fights and knew how to properly play to their strengths optimally. I applaud both students for their efforts and hope they will continue to grow even further before the mid terms come around." Nezu explained with almost everyone watching still processing his explanation. Izuku who was with Setsuna in the infirmary turned to the girl and gave her a smile as he had agreed with Nezu.
With the field fixed and reinforced after a thirty minute break due the next two fighters were called down to the arena. One fighter got booed by the crowd despite Aizawa earlier statement while the other fighter got cheered by them, needless to say the crowd was one sided on Itsuka Kendo side. Bakugo however ignored them as he was mulling over the things All Might said to him earlier while everyone went to watch the video of him and Todoroki beating a pro hero.
He was going with the extras as he usually calls everyone else when suddenly All Might pulled him aside and away from everyone else. Normally the explosive young man would have threatened to kick their ass right then and there, but he was certainly not expecting All Might to pull him aside for a private talk. "Young Bakugo, there is some advice I would like to give you for the next round but first answer me this. What kind of hero do you wish to be?" All Might asked him as he found it odd when Izuku told him how they both admired him growing up yet Bakugo ended up how he did.
Bakugo grinned as he for once would gladly answer such a question as his idol wanted to give him advice before some of the most important fights of his hero career. "EASY! I want to be respected like you as everyone praises me for my strength like they do for you!" Bakugo said confidently grinning before All Might shook his head.
"Young Bakugo I will be blunt with you… at this rate you will end up like Endeavour at forever number two." All Might said regrettably seeing how he inspired a future Endeavour.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WILL ALWAYS BE AT NUMBER TWO!?" Bakugo exclaimed as he asked him confused about where this was coming from.
"The reason I am the number one hero despite Endeavour taking down more villains than me and going on more raids and missions is the most important role of a hero. I give people hope and make them feel safe with my very presence, I save their hearts as well as their lives. I hope by the end of this sports festival you will come to understand what I mean." All Might said walking away making sure he conserved his time in case of an emergency.
Back at the fight both fighters giving firm yet silent nods to Midnight as they stared one another down, the fight was declared to begin. Before Bakugo could open up with an explosion Kendo ran forward to his momentary surprise before he unleashed his explosion. Jumping up over the explosion and rolling forward as she landed to not get stopped by him. She knew that if she had stopped for even a second that would give Bakugo the opening he needed to blast her right back to her end of the arena. "I will not let someone who does not respect Midoriya get any chance at fighting him!" Kendo exclaimed getting in close to attack with just a few more steps.
Bakugo simply grunted blasting the ground underneath him to get above to deliver a a downward haymaker punch. "I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THAT COMING FROM SOME RANDOM HYPOCRITE LIKE YOU!" Bakugo screamed in retort as she blocked his punch using the back of her enlarged left hand. He then narrowly dodged an upward jab from her flattened right hand as it enlarged by twisting his body expertly out of the way by using his momentum. Not one to waist an opportunity he launched an explosion at her back, this made it so even if she dodged he could use the blast to make some distance between him and her. Unfortunately for him she ducked dodging it before pivoting on her right foot to face him forward again.
"I AM A HYPOCRITE! YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS TRYING TO BE A HERO BY THREATENING TO BLOW UP ANYONE WHO TALKS BACK TO YOU!" Kendo getting caught up in his yelling began yelling back at him. When Tetsutetsu saw him threatening that general ed student who challenged the 1-A after the announcement of the sports festival he told his class what he saw. This made Kendo angry as it also affected her class image to the rest of the student body when he did this. Rushing in she would skid to the side to dodge the first explosion before zig zagging left and right as she ran forward.
Bakugo deciding it would be easier to hit her when she got in arms range waited for her to do so, keeping her fist enlarging quirk in mind. "WELL, UNLIKE YOU I DON'T NEED TO GET EVERYONE TO LIKE ME TO FEEL LIKE I'M ACTUALLY WORTH SOMETHING 'BIG SIS'!" He shouted back at her bringing his hands together to form a flash bang like attack to disorient her momentarily. It was during this moment he punched her in the stomach and then uppercutted her back across the arena with an explosion boosted uppercut.
Kendo was beginning to break, not physically but mentally as Bakugo was unknowingly was playing mind games with her when he said that. Kendo who was beginning to lose focus tried again to run and weave through his attacks only missing a step every few times. This resulted in thirteen times Bakugo had repelled her before she got close enough to hit him, with the gap widening between them each time. Eventually she snapped and said something she ended up regretting saying almost immediately. "YOU SAY THAT BUT COMPARED TO SOMEONE LIKE MIDORIYA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WORTHLESS!" Kendo screamed at him with the entire stadium going silent as she said this. Then she could have sworn Bakugo whispered "I know that…" as confusing as it was for her. "Did you just say-" She was cut off as he yelled it this time for everyone to hear him.
"I KNOW THAT I AM WEAKER THAN HIM! I'VE KNOWN IT SINCE WE WERE LITTLE KIDS!" Bakugo shouted at her making her confused but he did not notice and continued on. "EVEN BEFORE THE DAMN NERD GOT THEIR QUIRK, I FELT I WAS WEAKER THAN THEM! FOR THEM HELPING PEOPLE WAS AS NATURAL AS BREATHING BUT FOR ME… THE ONLY THING I HAD GOING FOR ME WAS MY INSTINCTS FOR FIGHTING! YET NO MATTER HOW STRONG I GOT IT FELT LIKE THE GAP BETWEEN US IN TERMS OF HERO POTENTIAL WAS ONLY WIDENING? IT INFURIATED ME AND DROVE ME TO DO AND SAY THINGS THAT NOW, I WISH I COULD UNDO THAT I COULD TAKE BACK BUT KNOW I NEVER CAN! EVEN SO NOT ONCE UNLIKE ALL OF YOU DID I EVER LOOK DOWN ON HIM! AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED HE IS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE BETWEEN ME AND BECOMING THE NEXT NUMBER ONE HERO! THAT IS WHY ON THIS STAGE IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD… I WILL SURPASS HIM!" He said jamming his hands into the holes beneath him letting off a pair of explosions. This reacted to his other not ignited sweat all across the field resulting in Itsuka and quite literally the entire first few surface feet of the arena and onto the grass surrounding it.
Everyone was silenced as they were not expecting this, that was until Izuku ran out to the field to help Kendo who was under a pile of rubble. The reason he was here as fast as he was, is because as soon as Bakugo started his speech Izuku had noticed it. Before when they were constantly moving around he could not see it properly. But now that they had stopped he noticed the all too familiar nitroglycerin sweat all over the arena floor. This was when he realized the disaster that was going to happen with absolute certainty in mere minutes. Rushing out right away despite Recovery Girl telling him to stay here and Grand Torino having one of his 'fishy cake moments' and no All Might around to tell him to stop either.
When Izuku finally picked her out of the rubble with Cementoss and Midnight help as Bakugo was in a wobbly daze from his last unintentionally devastating spread attack. The sight of her when he got her out was not something he was prepared to handle yet as she was skewered by several chunks of concrete. However the moment they tried to move her to the stretcher Kendo coughed up a large amount of blood and fell forward. This caused Izuku to stumble with his footing, causing her to land on top of him with them unintentionally kissing. Green energy from when he activated One For All began flowing from him to her, what happened next surprised everyone watching. The chunks of concrete shot out of her back and into either the wall or fell safely to the ground all be it narrowly avoiding the two teachers heads. Where there were holes in her, they filled up as organs, nerves, and other tissue were regenerating in less than ten seconds. The main reason this shocked everyone was that Recovery Girl with the strongest healing quirk except for self healing quirks was no where near this strong. Which in terms of one quirk she would be at about even with Izuku, however due to One For All boosting the strength of his quirk it was now capable of doing things she never could. The downside to this speedy recovery however was a fairly simple one, it used up Izuku energy not his target resulting in him passing out from lack of energy.
After a fair bit of clean up and Nezu making sure both Bakugo who was overwhelmed by his accidental attack, Kendo who received the attack, and Midoriya who healed her Nezu got things back on track. Recovery Girl had sent Suwappingu with Midnights replacement microphone as her previous one was destroyed during the last fight. With a rush at that as she wanted to focus on Izuku now that Kendo and Bakugo were in for sure in the clear. When she got to the stage however she tripped not realizing she had switched the microphone on when she fell. "Oh come on, I know her grandchild just passed out, but there was no need to glare at me like that when I asked her if it was better for someone else to bring it." Suwappingu said realizing she heard her voice all around her to figure out that she broke her promise just now from a while back.
Everyone was shocked into silence when they heard this, but due to the kiss activating the healing they had their suspicions. But after that momentary shock from conformation wore off everyone became loud shouting among themselves. That is till Nezu played the sound bit of Present Mic eating a ghost pepper for the first to make them all cover their ears in pain. However just before he could respond to everyones outburst, someone else stood up to correct everyone at the same time as Midnight. "Izuku is technically her great grandchild./!" Inko exclaimed it in ire while her little sister said it calmly.
Just as everyone began yelling and preventing any further explanations again due to why both these women talked when the real Present Mic yelled them into submission. "NOW THAT EVERYONE HAS QUITED DOWN MIDNIGHT AND MRS. MIDORIYA CAN FINALLY EXPLAIN!" He yelled as the two women waited for a moment of solid silence to signal everyone was ready to listen.
With a sight and much to her displeasure Inko cleared her throat and explained things before they got out of hand. "First off Recovery Girl is my grandmother, but since my parents died at a young age Izuku had never met his grandparents." She said as there was a mix of pity and uncomfortableness in the eyes around her that she could see. "As for little Nemmy… How long did you plan on hiding the fact that you are his aunt from your own nephew?" She asked her little sister who simply snickered, not seductively but in a genuine childish way that a child does when you ask them if they were the one that pulled a prank on you. Nemmy was Inko nickname for her baby sister for which there was a considerable age gap between them.
"Now, now big sis you sound if I did something naughty. But for your information I was gonna tell him after the sports festival or after you and grandma were done arguing, which ever came first." Midnight said waving her index finger at her sister. This shocked everyone and none knew how to respond to this new information except for one person in the stadium right now.
"YOU MADE A DEAL WITH ME TO TAKE MINE AND YOUR NEPHEW VIRGINITY AT THE SAME TIME!" Kodai in an unusually emotional outburst responded making many in the audience look at Midnight with disgust once it sunk in what the student said.
"Of course not! My plan was to protect him from you by making that deal so I would be there when you tried to force yourself onto him. I was gonna put you to sleep at the love hotel while tying you down to the bed after striping you naked. Then send him home via Present Mic driving him back after I made a sudden call to him, and then once you woke up… ask if you wanted to go a few rounds with just me instead." Midnight said all this as though it made sense to a normal person… which her whole family at this point was not.
"Midnight… did you really have to strip her naked in your plan?" Aizawa asked her getting a migraine from all this unholy chaos that was anything Midnight was involved in ninety-nine percent of the time.
"Well, I had to do something to leave the sting of defeat in her if she refused my offer of officially turning her into a women." Midnight said shrugging with Nezu cackling in the background for all to hear.
"Well, if I am going to have a talk with our grandmother after three decades then you better be there as well." Inko said as Midnight raised her hands in defeat and simply laughed before handing the microphone to Vlad to take over the referring for her in case she had to put everyone to sleep. This however was interrupted by Shoto Todoroki standing up to direct a question to his teacher rather than Izuku mother. "So that would mean that All Might is your brother in-law?" He asked her causing another momentary silence before all hell broke lose again among the audience. Due to this Inko needed All Might to literally jump into the stands to make the crowd around her pulling on her asking their questions to part way so he could pick her up and rush to the infirmary before it got any worse.
Once he got there Izuku was still unconscious as Inko turned to All Might to ask him something Ignoring Recovery Girl who tried to greet her in the process. Due to her son always analyzing quirks and drawing her to hero fights on the way home from anything she has learned quite a bit about quirk analysis. So after him carrying her she could tell that Izuku quirk sudden change matched his quirk perfectly. "So why does my son suddenly have your quirk?" Inko asked him making everyone go silent as they had no idea how she knew. Still All Might responded as best as he could after regaining his composure, and his response was…
AN: FOOLS YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE LONG AWAITED EXPLANATION BUT IT IT WAS IN FACT… A CLIFFHANGER! But Jojo references aside for a moment, foror those who wanted to get to this long awaited scene of the dreaded explanation of One For All as well as the reunion of Inko and Recovery Girl well I decided to make you wait a little longer. What can I say, just like Midnight I like to tease people everyone now and again. See you all next week with the rest of this and possibly the last of the sports festival.