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Running her hand through her hair, Naruto wondered if she was making the right decision to tell her classmate about what she could do with her quirk. It wasn't like she didn't trust Bakugou to keep his mouth shut but she had never really talked about it to anyone. How could one explain her ability to control chakra? Everything in this world used science and Naruto was terrible when it came to anything science related. Yet, there was also no other explanation for what she was about to do in these exams except to call her use of chakra a 'quirk'.

"Well? Are you going to tell me what your quirk is or not?" Bakugou demanded as the two of them made their way through the steps of the building. "We only have ten minutes to make any changes to whatever you plan for us to do."

Naruto couldn't stop herself from grimacing at the mention of the time limit All Might had given them to plan their course of action. Ten minutes was more than enough time for her to make a plan, but it was just too short of a time to convince Bakugou to follow through with it. With the knowledge that she had of him, it was going to be so difficult to make him see sense.

Out of everyone in their middle school class, Bakugou was the only one who always went against her plans.

"There is no easy way for me to explain my quirk," Naruto admitted. "I don't really understand the mechanics of it myself but basically I can use my chakra to enhance my physical abilities, make clones and well other things."

Bakugou scrunched his eyebrows together and asked. "What the hell is chakra?"

Frowning, Naruto took a seat on the floor and stared up at her scowling teammate. How could she explain chakra to him? Was there an easy way to explain it? She had never really paid attention to the explanation that Iruka-sensei used to give them, and knew only the complicated explanation that Konohamaru sprouted on her when she asked the same rhetorical question to him.

Maybe she would just go to the complicated version and hope that the asshole understood it.

"Chakra is basically the life energy that flows inside of me," Naruto began. "I don't know what you know about life energy but my life energy is a mixture of both my spiritual and physical energy. Once these energies are combined, I can create clones of myself, disguise myself and maybe even make a fire."

Well the last bit was technically a lie since Naruto never really learnt how to use the elemental chakra. Jiraya had been too busy trying to teach her the rasengan that it never came up, and Kakashi-sensei had either been so busy training Sasuke or was too busy being sent on missions that she never had the courage to ask him. At the time, she thought that there was still time for her to learn but she was wrong.

It was only a few weeks later that Sasuke betrayed them.

"You used your quirk during middle school, didn't you? You used to send your clones when you couldn't be bother to pick your ass off the bed," Bakugou observed and Naruto could only gawk at his observation. He rolled his eyes at her. "Your clones acted like complete weirdos with the way they acted with some of your friends."

The girl could only smile nervously at his words and wished not for the first time that she was back home. How could she be so silly to think that no one would notice her clone's odd behaviour? Just because no one mentioned about how sometimes she acted jumpy with her friends, didn't mean that no one noticed. If Bakugou noticed it then it meant that many people noticed when she replaced herself with her clones.

"I have…"

"No one noticed it," Bakugou interrupted, giving her a scowl. "Everyone just say that you were having one of those days or that I was just imagining things, but your clones could never fully act like you."

Naruto sighed and admitted. "They might look like me but each of my clones have a different personality from me, which is why I try to avoid putting them in school or in my workplace. If I am going to be totally honest with you, I only use my chakra if I think the situation calls for it."

"And you think our battle with that girl in the fluffy costume and Deku calls for it? I can defeat Deku without any problems!"

The blond-haired girl could only gawk at her teammate, who looked so cocky at his declaration that it was taking all of her will-power not to whack him in the head. Did he really think it was going to be that easy? Did he think he was that good? She had seen people stronger than him being defeated by someone weaker than them. She had been able to defeat Gaara, who was a thousand times stronger than Bakugou, because she took advantage of his state of mind and analysed the situation properly.

Izuku was a hundred times better than her when it came to analysing a person's moves. When Mount Lady made her debut, the green-haired boy had been able to make several observations from just one action. Now her friend had years to observe Bakugou, which meant that he had probably noticed several things when it came to him.

How the hell could he be in denial about it?

"Normally I don't give a shit about this but let us make one thing clear: you have one big problem that anyone with a brain can take advantage of," Naruto said slowly as if she was talking to a small child. "Your temper is so short that all Izuku will need to do is to make you so pissed off that you won't realize what the hell he was doing. He will play you like a puppet if you don't control yourself!"

"Then what the hell do you plan for me to do about Deku?" Bakugou demanded, glaring at her. "If you are so fucking sure that he knows a lot about me then why aren't you telling me what we are going to do about him?"

She pushed a strand of her hair behind her ear and licked her dried lips. "You are going to separate him from Ochako and you will distract him until I capture him with my clones. Now unless you have a better plan, please tell me."

Scowling, Bakugou shook his head and the blond-haired girl forced herself to relax her shoulder. There was actually more to her plan but if that asshole figured out what she wanted to do then he would be screaming at her till the end of the year. It was just a good thing that her classmate didn't have the brains to figure out that she had an ulterior motive with the plan.

It was for his own good.

"What about that girl with the fluffy costume?"

Naruto pushed her tongue between her lips and looked at the large nuclear weapon. There was no telling what Ochako could do but the quirk appreciation test gave her a hint on what she could do. The fact that the ball had a score of infinity meant that Ochako had some control of gravity. The only way a ball could have a score of inifinity was for the girl to make the ball weigh less than it was and throw it, or something similar to that. This was something that she could understand from her limited knowledge of physics.

She glanced at the clock, noticing that they had only five more minutes to discuss the plan. While Naruto knew a little bit of Izuku's talents, she had no clue on where her new classmate's talent lay. Was the girl more of an analyser or was she more like a fighter? If it was the former than Naruto was a little bit concerned since she had no clue what would go through the girl's head, but if it was the latter than it was not a problem. Out of all the girls in the academy, she had been the one with the raw talent in taijutsu.

No, if she was lucky than she would never need to punch the girl.

"You have no idea on what to do with her, don't you?" Bakugou accused.

The blond-haired girl didn't answer instead she weaved her hands through the necessary steps for the shadow clone jutsu. To make sure that she didn't hurt her friend or insulted her, Naruto would need to capture her as soon as possible and without her realizing that she was outnumbered. The limitation of the quirk test meant that no one had a clue on what she could do, which meant that between the two of them that she had the advantage.

Of course, she only had the advantage if Ochako didn't have a genius level of analysis.

"All Might-sensei placed a loophole in his explanation," Naruto stated as Bakugou glanced at her clones and then at her. "No one will realize what I did until it is too late for Ochako-chan."

Bakugou raised his eyebrow at her before shaking his head and inspecting her clones. Rolling her eyes at her teammate, the blonde began to inspect the nuclear weapon, taking down every small detail from the position of the wings to the colour of it. She even noted the position of the small bumps and scratches of the fake weapon. There was no time for her to make it easy for her new classmate to figure out her plan.

It was going to be a risky plan but it would be worthwhile in the end.

"Boss, what do you want us to do? Are we playing decoy again because if we are fighting another insane guy again then you can count us out!" One of her clones yelled, earning nods of agreement from the other clones. Bakugou could only raise his eyebrow at her and the blonde scowled at him. "Wait…you are not going to make us study those textbooks again, are you?"

"You used them to study!" Bakugou said, looking at her like she was crazy to use her clones in that way.

"Don't judge me! If you have my lifestyle then you will use them for all your work!" Naruto snapped, glaring at her nervous clones. Honestly, was he really that surprise she abused them in that way? She had never been good in her studies as everyone in the Academy would point out. If she could study ten things in one hour then why not? She needed all the help that she could get because Naruto wasn't smart. She never had Shikamaru or Sakura's brain when it came to her studies and with all the work she had, she needed them to lighten up her workload.

"Are you having that time of the month?"

Naruto clenched her hands into a fist and gritted her teeth at the older boy, before glaring at her laughing clones. Why did every guy think that when a girl snapped, she was having her period? Did boys think that every reason for a girl's temper was because of her time of the month? If that was the case then Naruto would have blame Sakura's period for her terrible temper but it was never an excuse.

Once they were done with this test, she was going to give him a piece of her mind.

Rubbing his chin, All Might couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the smiling blond-haired girl displayed on the screen. Out of all the files given for him to read, Naruto Uzumaki was the one that drew his attention. It was not because of the strangeness of her quirk but the lack of information that they had on her. The details of the girl's quirk were so vague that it reminded him of the way he avoided talking about All for One. If he didn't know any better, he would say that the girl was trying to make sure no one figured out what to do.

"I think Bakugou might have a little bit of a problem because Uzumaki's quirk only seemed to enhance her natural abilities," One student commented, flickering her eyes to the smiling girl. "I don't know how they are going to do it since we don't know if their quirks are going to be enough for them to capture them."

All Might pursed his lips at the student's comment and observed Naruto, who had her confident smile plastered on her face. The smile playing on the girl's face spoke volumes about the confidence that she had of winning their battle. Perhaps, the two of them figured out a way to make their quirks work together or maybe she had something up her sleeve.

"What the hell? Why did Bakugou leave her alone? This is a team exercise!"

All Might twisted his head and stared at the red-haired student, who had his eyes fixed on the blond-haired boy, and then to the boy mentioned. Kirishima, if he remembered the boy's name correctly, was right. Until now, he had been focused on the mysterious girl that he hadn't noticed the missing teammate. Was it deliberate? Or did they plan for this? From the way the girl stood, he presumed it was the latter because no one would be so calm if they didn't want this to happen.

"Wait a second, how the hell are there more than one copy of the nuclear weapon?" Iida demanded, drawing every student's attention to the screen, where Naruto was still displayed. In the space of ten seconds, the girl had somehow managed to create several identical copies of the fake weapon. "Is this even allowed? I thought her quirk only allows her to enhance her speed!"

The professional hero couldn't stop himself from frowning at the student's observation. The file said that the girl was able to manipulate her life energy, which he presumed allowed the girl to enhance her natural abilities. It never crossed his mind that the girl could use her life energy to create copies. It just seemed hard for him to wrap his mind about it because how could she eject her life energy out of herself.

How much energy must she have wasted for her to make nine decoys?

"I never stated that having more than one copy of the weapon wasn't allowed," All Might informed them. "And Uzumaki picked up on that and made the smart decision of having more than one copy, which would be something a smart villain would do. Villains sometimes place fake copies in order to put the pressure on the hero, who would need to figure out which one is the right one."

"Then the heroes are at a disadvantage when they reach the room," Momo pointed out. "It would be risky to capture one of them, only for it to turn out to be a fake."

"It's going to be a battle of the minds and time then," Todoroki observed. "The only question is now how are we going to know which one is the real one?"

"We don't know," All Might admitted. "Uzumaki was able to make the copies identical to each other so only she would know which one is the real one."

Did students have this level of thinking? Or was it only the girl? All Might had never expected to see someone with that level of planning, not when kids didn't know what it means to face a challenging villain. Only a paranoid person would come up with this plan since they know that there would be so many risks with their plan. By doing what she did, Uzumaki ensured that the person with the best strategy would win.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a bomb going off.

All Might looked at the camera and was taken back when he caught sight of Bakugou hunching down, looking pissed off as he stared at Izuku. An ambush? That was a smart move, All Might thought, writing it down on his clipboard.

"That Bakugou is a cheater!" Kirishima cried. "An ambush is unmanly!"

All Might shook his head at his student. "Ambushes are a good strategy! If one opponents know where the other is then it would be a good idea to do a surprise attack, especially since the other opponent would do the same."

What were those two planning? He couldn't help but wonder as he gazed at the blond-haired girl on the screen. The way the girl had her back straightened and the serenity in her eyes told him that she was not worried one bit about the battle. Why would the girl send the boy alone? From his observation in the quirk test, there was just too much danger in sending someone like Bakugou alone so why did the girl do it? Or maybe the boy insisted. Bakugou did seem like the type of person, who would insist on attacking someone.

The only thing he could do was just observe this battle and try to see their motive.

Clenching his hands into a tight fist, Bakugou couldn't stop himself from glaring at his former childhood friend. He knew there was some truth behind Uzumaki's words about not underestimating Deku, but it was difficult. Deku was quirkless, had always flinch whenever he yelled at him but most of all Deku never fought back. Yet he couldn't deny the fact that his former friend was a hero otaku. The boy had several books dedicated to his analysis of heroes if that notebook he destroyed was true. Uzumaki had to be annoying and point out the fact that maybe his former friend had analyzed his quirk, which meant he probably figured out the weakness of his quirk and abilities.

If Bakugou didn't know that the blond-haired girl was sharp then he would discard her words and attack Deku ruthlessly, but Uzumaki would never give someone advice unless she thought it was important. He knew from the amount of times that the two of them argued that Uzumaki wouldn't be afraid to shout at him for being stupid.

The last thing he wanted was to have that girl yelling at him for something that could be avoided.

Now what did she tell him to do?

To separate Deku from that fluffy girl that was what Uzumaki wanted him to do. She wanted him to distract the boy so that she would be the one to capture him, because frankly she didn't trust him to do it. The girl never said it but Bakugou could read between the lines.

Uzumaki didn't think he could capture Deku without killing him.

"Just like I thought," Deku muttered, looking up at him. There was a trail of sweat running down his face but the confidence in his former friend's eyes told him that the boy wasn't frightened. "As long as I'm his opponent, Kacchan's priority would be to beat me up."

Most of our classmates haven't know you long enough to analyze how you work, but that isn't the case for Izuku.

Bakugou tightened his fist and stared hard at his former friend, trying to control the storm of emotions inside of him. Uzumaki was right when she said that Deku could read him. If she had never yelled at him, never called him out for it then he would never presume that the boy would know him this well. If Uzumaki hadn't told him to distract Deku then he would have straight out attack the boy. How the hell could Uzumaki notice these things? Was she right to be worried about Deku? No, she was wrong. He was still better than Deku, still better than everyone else.

Do you know what is the scariest type of opponent? The one that uses his head. Izuku is a problem because he isn't dumb.

"Uraraka, go on without—"

The moment Deku began to speak, Bakugou rushed towards him. Jumping high, he twisted his leg and tried to kick the green-haired boy on the head, only to find that Deku wrapped his leg with tape. The blond-haired boy narrowed his eyes and felt his throat rumble at the shaky smile on his former childhood friend's lips. Was the bastard cocky? Did he really think that he know him all that well? Was he that predictable when he fought? No. He was supposed to be the best of the best. He was supposed to be a lot better than Deku.

'It is fucking annoying that you think having a great quirk will get you far."

Why the hell did he keep remembering her words? Why couldn't he ignore it like everyone else? Bakugou asked himself, glaring at Deku. Why couldn't he pretend to not hear her words? Why did her words always seem to get to him? She wasn't anything special. She was just the annoying kid that pretended to be happy so why did her words hit him? It wasn't like he cared about what Uzumaki thought of him. Unlike most boys in their class, he never cared to have that girl's fawning over him.

He mentally shook his head and reminded himself that this wasn't the time to be thinking of that girl. It was time for him to get himself out of this stupid mess and separate the two of them. Flickering his eyes at their surroundings, he came to one conclusion on how to get himself out of the tape. Swinging his fist, Bakugou felt his lips twitched when the younger teen let go of the tape and rolled over.

Right now, he needed to think of a way to capture Deku.

Knowing this, Bakugou didn't say a word when the younger boy run away from him. If he wanted to prove Uzumaki wrong then he needed to think of a way to capture Deku without using his teammate. He needed to make sure that Deku never think of helping his own teammate. He wanted this plan to go without a hitch and prove that girl wrong when she said that his childhood friend knows him.

"You tricked me didn't you?" Bakugou snarled as he tried to think of a plan to counteract Izuku. "Were you having a laugh all this time? Well Deku? Your quirk is actually damn flashy, ain it? Why don't you use it?"

A thought suddenly occurred to him when he asked the last question. Why didn't Deku use his quirk? If he had super strength then shouldn't it be easy for him to use it? Something wasn't adding up. They have known each other for years, had been friends until Deku proved to be quirkless so why hadn't he shown it to him? If Deku's quirk was superstrength then wouldn't he have shown signs of it when they were kids? There had been times when Bakugou couldn't control his quirk; days where he destroyed his toys.

It wasn't until he was six that those incidents stopped.

Wait a second, could Izuku control it?

Memories of Aizawa's test came through his mind and Bakugou realized dimly just how messed up Deku's finger was when he repeated his test for the second time. Wouldn't it be Deku overdoing his limit? The more he thought about it with a clear head, the more things were not making sense. If Deku had a quirk since he was young then wouldn't he have learnt to control it by now? But if it came to him only recently then it makes sense for him not to be able to control it.

So if he forced Deku to use that quirk then it would be easy to capture him wouldn't it?

He probably wouldn't have think of this if Uzumaki hadn't pointed it out to him.

Shit, he was going to owe the blond for this wasn't he? He grimaced. Did he even have enough money to pay for her ramen? No, he probably didn't but he did owe her one.

Closing her eyes, Naruto could hear the soft footsteps that definitely belong to Ochako. She allowed her lips to twitch upwards when she heard the girl's attempts of making her footsteps quiet. What was her new friend's plan? Was the girl going to ambush her? Was she going to distract her in order to capture the weapon? She smiled when she heard Ochako's sharp intake of breath from the right side.

Smiling widely, the blonde opened her eyes and said. "Since you are here by yourself, I presumed Izuku is too busy trying to prove himself to Bakugou that he hadn't considered just running away and helping you capture me."

Ochako blinked her eyes at the observation and the blonde curled her lips into a frown. Sometimes it was frightening how similar her relationship with Sasuke was with Izuku and Bakugou. She had known from the way that Izuku defended Bakugou and the hero worship in his eyes that the boy would be reckless enough to challenge him. It was something she used to do to get Sasuke to acknowledge the fact that she was a rival to him. She used to fight her best friend because she wanted him to see that she wasn't like the other kids.

Although Naruto didn't know what Izuku wanted from Bakugou.

"H-How is there more than one weapon? I thought your quirk allowed you to enhance your abilities," Ochako stuttered, staring at the weapons surrounding them. "Is this even allowed?"

"Well he never stated that it wasn't okay for us to make more copies of the weapon," Naruto pointed out, wrapping her arms over her head. "If there is one thing I'm good at, it is looking for loopholes."

She might be a failure when it came to being a shinobi but Naruto knew loopholes. When she first became friends with Hinata and learnt of her struggles with her father, she began to learn about the security of the clan. She would memorize the guard's schedule and the layout of the house until she found a flaw in the system. Once she figured it out, Naruto would prank them. When accused, she would say with a smile that she thought the Hyuga clan had a superior security system and that she had never been inside the compound.

Only Hinata knew different.

When Iruka-sensei said that she wasn't allowed to talk in class, Naruto would send notes to her skipping buddies. It used to drive her former teacher mad because she would always point out that he never told her that she wasn't allowed to send notes. He would sigh, pinch his nose and then correct himself by saying that she wasn't allowed to talk and send notes to her friends.

Naruto shook her head and glanced at the decoys before looking back at Ochako, who was bitting her lips as she stared at the weapons surrounding them. No doubt the girl knew it would be risky to touch one of her fake weapons since it could cost them the whole thing.

"You know it will be very risky for you to take one of these nuclear weapons," Naruto informed her, tilting her head. "I made nine decoys and each one of them looks identical to the real one, so you can't really tell which one is which. If you had any thoughts of attacking me with any objects then I should inform you that I didn't take any chances…so I had Bakugou destroy everything and wipe it off the floor."

She could see the panic in her friend's eyes and the blond-haired girl almost felt sorry for her friend. It was clear that her new friend didn't really have many tricks up her sleeve, which was usually fine but Naruto had the advantage. She was a prankster and any good prankster knew how boring it could be if you used the same joke. A variety was needed and the same goes for heroism and being a ninja. It was why most ninjas knew so many jutsu because just relying on one of them could make it easy for your enemy to predict you.

It was why Kakashi-sensei was so cool.

"Deku!" Ochako cried, looking frantically at the scene around them. "I got discovered by Naruto! Sorry!"

Oh she was now calling Izuku?

The blonde grinned and snapped her fingers. Grinning wildly, Naruto watched as the weapons disappeared in a puff of smoke and replaced with her clones. Ochako screeched and stared at her in confusion but her clones just smiled before tackling the girl.

"I thought your quirk just enhance your abilities," Ochako cried, struggling against her clones' hold.

Naruto raised her eyebrow. "Why the hell would you think I can just do that? My quirk allows me to manipulate chakra which means that I can do just about everything; making myself faster and stronger is just one tiny bit."

"What is chakra?" Ochako asked as her clones tied her up with the capture tape that All Might had given them to use.

"Life energy," Naruto answered.

With those words, Naruto took the communicator from Ochako's ears. If she was going to play the villain then Naruto was going to do her role well. What kind of villain would she be if she didn't take away Ochako's headphone? A terrible villain that was what. She grinned at Ochako before placing the headphone on her ear.

"Oi, Izuku you better hurry up," Naruto said through Ochako's headpiece, smiling widely at the pale-faced girl. "Y'know it wasn't very smart of you to let Ochako come here by herself but knowing you, you probably thought that a fist fight with me would be dangerous but don't think just because I'm not as smart as you that I don't know how to plan. Just because we're learning to be heroes doesn't mean I can't act like a villain, doesn't mean I can't be unpredictable. In this situation, you only have five minutes to come here and save her ass before I make her pay for trying to ruin my nefarious plans."

"Naruto-san!"

"Naruto-san? We're enemies, Midoriya," Naruto said, grinning. "Until the trial ends, you've to call me Uzumaki."

"N...Uzumaki-san!"

They got a lot of work to do, Naruto thought, turning off the transmission and staring at the furious eyes of her friend. Had she been harsh in tying her up? Then again, weren't villains supposed to be harsh? There was no such thing as a good villain as her experience taught her. Gazo murdered Inari's father. Itachi murder his whole family in front of Sasuke, who was just eight years old.

Yet as Naruto watched Ochako tried to get rid of the tape, she recalled just how terrible she could be. Didn't she also try to tie up Sasuke because she wanted to know why Sakura hated her? How could she think she could be a villain when she did such terrible things too? But then again, she did know Sasuke would get out. He was the one who taught her how to get herself out of the ropes when they were younger.

"When I get the time, I will teach you an easy way to escape from the ropes," Naruto said, taking a seat on the ground. "And I'm sorry for tying you up like that but I don't like to lose and I don't want to take any chances that you might interfere with Bakugou and Izuku's fight."

"You are not going to help, Bakugou?" Naruto nodded her head and the brown-haired girl frowned. "Why not? If you don't like losing then why aren't you going to help him?"

The blond-haired girl looked down at her hands and then to her confused classmate. "You probably never wanted someone's acknowledgment the way Izuku wants Bakugou, but I did. I know how frustrating it can be when the person you look up to, thinks that you are weak. I know how fucking painful it can be when they underestimate how good you can be. I also know how it can destroy a friendship. Bakugou and Izuku might not be friends anymore but I won't let them end up having the relationship I had."

She never wanted anyone to experience what she had experienced.

Rubbing his chin, Bakugou stared up at the ceiling as he tried to think of a plan to deal with Deku. What was Deku's weak points? If he made him use that quirk then would he be able to survive it? From what he remembered from yesterday, the guy's fingers were messed up from just using it. What should he do to draw it out? couple of months ago, he could easily frightened Deku but Deku wasn't the same person anymore. He had noticed the small changes in the boy but he thought it was due to Uzumaki's presence that he changed. Until Uzumaki befriended Izuku, the boy had never had any guts to stand up against him.

What the hell did Uzumaki do to change him?

Fighting him head on wouldn't be a problem, Bakugou thought, clenching his hands into a fist. No, the problem was the fact he didn't know how much of his weak points were spotted by the boy. Not once in his life, he had ever considered Deku a problem. He had always been useless, the least special person, because he lacked a quirk.

Maybe, he could use the bracers to hit the boy...that would avoid fighting close range with the boy.

"If you use that quirk of yours without any plans then the whole building can collapse."

Uzumaki was annoying! Bakugou thought, growling as he clenched his hands into a fist. She hadn't pointed that out to him then he would probably use his bracer to unleash a huge explosion but, Uzumaki had a point. He wasn't going to prove Uzumaki right about him. She acted like she knew him but the girl didn't know him. She might have guts and maybe even his respect, she didn't know him.

He really had to use his head didn't he?

What could he use? A surprise attack? No, Izuku might expect it but it might be the only way to win. He licked his lips and looked up at the ceiling. What was he going to do? Attacking Izuku head on must be the only way to win.

~X~

"I thought Uzumaki's quirk just allowed her to enhance her abilities," One of the students said, staring at the camera which showed Naruto talking to Ochako. All Might frowned at those words. That was what he presumed too but from the way she used her clones, it seemed like that wasn't what her quirk allowed her to do. After all Aizawa mentioned that the girl's quirk didn't cancel when he activated it, which meant that her quirk wasn't what everyone thought it was.

He rubbed his chin as he remembered the battle he watched during the entrance exam. Uzumaki had used her fist to defeat the robots and nothing else. If she could used clones then why hadn't she used them? What was different now? He stared at the girl, wondering perhaps that the information the girl gave them was false. He grimaced. If Naruto lied to them about this then what else could the girl have lied about? He stared at the camera with Bakugou, who had slammed his fist against Izuku's face but only for the boy to block it.

There was something that wasn't right, All Might thought, staring at his strangest student. Looking at the girl carefully, he noticed pain and loneliness as well as so many other emotions. The girl may be fifteen but the fact she was in pain was worrying. He remembered being fifteen, being naive and the good old days. This young girl had the eyes of someone who held the weight of the world on her shoulder.

The girl had the eyes of someone who went through so much suffering and All Might wondered what the girl had went through. He glanced at his students, noting the fact that most of them didn't have the same kind of eyes like Naruto. Perhaps, the only one with eyes that held similar emotions was perhaps young Shouto but, the boy's pain paled in comparison to the girl.

"Why is Uzumaki so calm?" One of the students asked. "Why isn't she going to help Bakugou deal with Izuku? Why is she just chatting with Ochako?"

"She trusts Bakugou," All Might answered, staring at his students. "If there is one thing teammates must have, it is trust."

Everyone blinked their eyes and gaped at him. "Uzumaki trust Bakugou? They're always fighting and insulting each other? How could they learn to trust each other with that kind of relationship?"

"They came from the same Middle School didn't they?" Shouto pointed out, staring at Naruto. "They might fight and argue but they still know each other. Uzumaki probably knows that Bakugou can take care of himself which is why she isn't attempting to help him."

"Isn't that arrogant of her?"

Or maybe wise of her, All Might thought, staring at the furious eyes of Bakugou as he aimed a fake punch on Izuku, causing a fake explosion. Bakugou maneuvered himself to be behind Izuku before kicking him in the back. He barely know the child but All Might could tell that there was issues to be resolved between the two boys. Naruto must know those two needed to get it out of the system hence why she hadn't decided to help out Bakugou.

"He deliberately misled his opponent and used his explosion ability to redirect his midair trajectory to his advantage," Shouto said as Bakugou kicked Izuku in the back. "Looking at him, you wouldn't think he was the clever type and the same could be said for Uzumaki. Bakugou showed subtle motor skills while Uzumaki made a plan that took into account of her opponent ambushing her."

Momo nodded. "We all initially presumed that Uzumaki's quirk would be the one at a disadvantage as she made us believe that her quirk only allows her to enhance her abilities, however she hid the true extent of her abilities. The information she showed during the quirk test was misleading as we presumed she did her absolute best in the test; we never considered it could go beyond what she showed. It isn't something a hero would do."

"But what is her quirk exactly? How can she use it to disguise her clones?"

Denki asked, furrowing his eyebrows at the clones who had smiles on their face.

Momo frowned. "Perhaps her quirk is a strange combination of her parents."

"Whatever the case is, Uzumaki isn't someone we should underestimate is she?" Denki asked, staring at the girl. "Her quirk might be kinky but it is quite dangerous."

It's dangerous because she knows how to use it to her advantage, All Might thought, staring at the smiling girl. How many fifteen-year-olds would have thought of this? The girl had misled her classmates, allowing her to make them seem like fools. It was wrong and not very hero-like but in this situation, it was a smart move to be done.

You could never know all your villains quirk.

Bakugou punched Izuku on the back, watching as the boy flew against the walls. It was killing him not to use his bracers but they were in a building. He knew the sweat he produced would be enough to destroy the building, which would be good to beat Izuku but bad because it would cause harm to Uzumaki. The annoying girl would snarl and tell him he was an idiot to let his temper control him.

He fingered the tape that Uzumaki handed him before they entered the building. She had just handed him the tape without any words, just telling him that it would be useful to have in the battle. In this situation, Bakugou knew the only way to win was just to capture Izuku. If they weren't in a building, he would fucking hurt the boy for what he did.

With that thought, he swung his right fist at him and growled when the young boy grabbed hold of his arm. He swung his left fist. Izuku ducked the attack, letting go of his hand. Bakugou snarled and grabbed Izuku's right arm. Hovering, Bakugou shifted the boy's weight and slammed against the floor. He felt his temper bubbled as he stared at the motionless body of Izuku.

He wanted to yell at him, to tell him to use his quirk but Bakugou knew from looking back that something wasn't right about Izuku's quirk. Still, he wanted to punch the boy for looking down at him.

"Oi Bakugou, what are you doing? I thought our agreement was that I will capture him," Uzumaki asked through the headpiece. "I already captured Ochako and I think you guys fought long enough."

"I'm teaching Deku a lesson," Bakugou snarled, glaring at the running boy. He stomped closer to the boy, who was now running away from him.

"Teach him a lesson? Bakugou! Don't let your damn personal pride come between you and the damn trial!" Uzumaki snarled and Bakugou would bet his pocket money that the girl was scowling through the headphone. "Why the hell do you want to do it now? Can't you just wait till after school and confront him? That way I could stop you from doing something stupid!"

"Shut up Uzumaki, this is between Deku and me!" He yelled, staring at the frightened boy. "I hadn't used the bracers because of your stupid words! Now let me deal with my beef with him! The little shit had been looking down on me for a long time! The fact he got a quirk isn't right!"

Uzumaki growled. "Your beef? You treat him like shit because he doesn't think you're the strongest person in the world? The fact he treated you like a normal human being? The fact that he wants to become better than you! Asshole, let me tell you what is beef. Beef is when you are best friends for nine fucking years and he decides to murder you. Beef is when he tells you that the bond you have means nothing to him. Beef is when he tells you that he doesn't give a shit about how you feel! That is beef!"

"Uzumaki, don't speak about something you don't understand!"

"You're right, I don't understand about your shitty feelings," Uzumaki growled. "But what I do understand is the fact that you need to grow up and start seeing the real world. Your quirk might be amazing but you aren't the most special person! If you think about it, Deku is! He was quirkless which means that he was rare, do you know what you do with something rare, with someone who has no power to protect themselves? You protect it with your damn life."

"Whiskers…"

"Fine this isn't my business but Bakugou, remember this...that pride of yours would be the death of you!"

With those words, Uzumaki cut off the transmission. Bakugou stared at Deku, who stared at him thoughtfully. Why the hell was he looking so thoughtful? Why the hell did he look like he knew something he didn't know about? Bakugou shook his head and growled at the boy before running towards the boy. Without a second thought, he tried to swing his left fist against Deku's head, just as Deku swung his fist up.

Deku blocked his attack and yelled out, "Smash!"

The boy slumped down to the ground and Bakugou felt the ground trembled. He blinked his eyes and looked up at the ceiling, noticing that it was starting to crumbled. What the hell was Deku thinking? Bakugou thought, staring at the boy, whose arm was now broken.

Wasn't he thinking of the damage it could have done to the others?

"Why? Why the hell did you do that?" Bakugou snarled, glaring at the boy.

Izuku struggled to stand up and stared at him with determined eyes. "This was the only way I could think of to help Ochako out of Naruto's ropes."

He used his attack to create a diversion, Bakugou thought, staring numbly at the black-haired boy.

"It probably would have worked if I hadn't gotten Ochako and the weapon out of the way," Uzumaki said through the microphone, snapping him out of his thoughts. Bakugou blinked his eyes. "I didn't expect Izuku to do that but it was damn reckless of him! I mean come on, we got a nuclear weapon here! What the hell would have happened if the thing went off!"

"Whiskers, it's not real!"

"So? I'm pretending it's real."

Bakugou rubbed his temple and wondered perhaps for the first time in his life, why the hell Deku put up with her.

"It's a tie!" All Might declared as the timer went off.

Why the hell did they have to tie with Deku?

"The best person in this match was young Naruto," All Might declared to their class. Naruto blinked her eyes at this declaration before grinning widely at their sensei while everyone else just frowned. The blonde couldn't blame them. She was kind of surprised that All Might decided that she was the best person in this match since her team didn't win. They might have lost if she hadn't felt the shaking from the ground and decided to move Ochako out of the way.

"Why? She kept her quirk's abilities a secret?"

"I don't like showing off what I can do," Naruto informed her classmates. Taking a deep breath, she forced back the memory that threatened to consume her. This wasn't the time for her to remember what she used to be like. "The more I keep my abilities a secret, the easier it was for me to make sure that people underestimate me. If I was flashy then all of you would have thought a thousand ways to counteract my quirk and I didn't want that."

It wasn't just that but Naruto didn't want to be the girl that she used to be. She didn't want to show people what she got, only for it to blow up in her face. She used to show off her abilities to get attention but Naruto didn't want people's attention. She didn't want to be reminded of how stupid she used to be. She didn't want to think about how reckless she was or that she used to gloat about her clones to Sasuke, who used to envy her for her use of jutsu.

Unlike Sasuke and the other kids in the village, Naruto had so much chakra that she could use the shadow clone jutsu without any problem.

"Does anyone know why I chose young Naruto as the best person in this match?"

"Yes All-Might-sensei," Momo said, drawing Naruto's attention to the tall girl. "It's because Uzumaki was very well-adapted to the situation. While Bakugou had tried to avoid causing an explosion, the boy had taken his issues and prolonged the fight which resulted in Midoriya using his attack against them. Midoriya also used his personal issues with Bakugou and caused half the building to collapse, making it an idiotic move. Urakaka underestimated Uzumaki and hadn't considered the chance that Uzumaki had a few tricks up her sleeves. However, the idea to ambush Uzumaki was good but it lacked good planning. Uzumaki, on the other hand, avoided a direct battle and used her clones to ambush Urakaka, effectively capturing the hero while avoiding damaging to the weapon. If this was not enough, she made several copies of the weapon, making it very difficult for Urakaka to know which weapon was the real one, thus making it a battle of wits. However, Uzumaki isn't perfect as she allowed Bakugou free-reined to deal with Izuku."

"This was only a tie because of the time limit, if they had been given enough time then the villains would have won."

Naruto whistled. "I had a reason to allow Bakugou to deal with Izuku."

"There's a reason why you didn't do what you said you would do?" Bakugou demanded. "You lied to me!"

Everyone stared at her and raised their eyebrows but Naruto just shook her head at them. "Would you have listened to me if I didn't say those words to you? Bakugou, you are an asshole that needs to face the fact that you aren't the best person here. Also you made it clear just now that you weren't going to let me capture him even if I hadn't lied to you. Even if I hadn't I told you to distract Izuku and separate him from Ochako then you would have chased him. I told you to distract him since the two of you have issues that need to be solved. I needed you to face the fact that you were wrong about Izuku and give the acknowledgment that Izuku wants. If I came in to stop the fight then it would never be solved, because the two of you are idiots when it comes to talking about your problems."

"Who are you calling an idiot?" Bakugou hissed while everyone shook their heads at them.

"Didn't I tell you that Izuku knows you? I told you not to let your guard down but in the last minute you decided to let it down," Naruto said, crossing her arms against her chest. "If I hadn't felt the ground trembled and made my clones get Ochako and the weapon out of the way, we could have gotten hurt."

Bakugou grimaced at the reminder. "Yeah right! You didn't make a plan when it came to Deku!"

"If I made a plan would you have followed it!"

"Yes, I would have Uzumaki!"

"You never listened to me!"

"I listened plenty of times!"

"You never listened unless it involves you!"

"Well this time it involved me!"

"You and Izuku had your shit to deal with, you think it would be dealt with if I interfered!" She snapped. "If anything, it would make things worse because I'm the one who resolved it and not you two. This is between you and him, not between the three of us."

"If you had given a plan then we would have won!"

"...They argue like an old-married couple," Denki commented.

"Shut up, sparky!" Bakugou snarled, causing the boy to gulped.

Naruto glared at the boy before staring at Bakugou, who stared right back at her before glaring at the window. She sighed. Once the school day was over, she would talk to the boy about his issues. If there was one thing she didn't want to happen, it was for him to do things he would regret.

She couldn't save Sasuke but Naruto could make sure Bakugou doesn't end up becoming the very thing he was trained to capture.

Though, Naruto doubt that Bakugou would become a villain because unlike Sasuke, Naruto knew that becoming a villain would never ever help him to achieve his goals.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think