HERE I AM, ROLLING OUT THIS CHAPTER LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!
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Sorry if this one is shorter than usual, but I needed to end it where I did, because I'm a jerk.
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The next day, Izuku was sitting in her desk spacing out as she lay her head on the top. She had spent the whole night going over what All Might had talked to her about yesterday evening, and she couldn't stop thinking about it. One day she was going to have to go up against some fearsome power... something more frightening than the Hero Killer...
"Midoriya, you look a little too spaced out..." Todorki had walked up to her desk with his hands in his pockets. She looked up at him with her eyes, and she let out a small sigh.
"Sorry, I've got a lot on my mind..." she told him as Uraraka bounded over to them with a bright smile on her face. "Ochachan, good morning..."
"wh... what happened? Are you alright?!" Uraraka exclaimed in a panic as she looked down at her. "Do I need to beat some one up?!" She looked right at Katsuki who was sitting at the desk in front of her, and glared. "Did he do something?!"
"I didn't fucking do anything, stop being so noisy!" Katsuki shouted back at Uraraka before turning his head away from them all. Todoroki raised an eyebrow at the normally loud boy, before looking back at Izuku who had a sad look on her face.
"Really, it's nothing." She finally sat up and looked at the back of Katsuki's head. They had been interacting so well these past few months, and she was enjoying it. But after their first day back from their internship he had started to treat her coldly and would snap at her more than before and was silent during their commute too and from school, or he didn't walk with her at all... She looked down at her desk top, wondering if it was something she had done, had she made him upset some how? She couldn't think of as to why...
"Okay everyone, in your seats." Aizawa had entered the room, a book in his hand. He placed it on the podium in front of the class and looked down at it. "Let's see here... Right. Summer break is fast approaching, but of course it stands to reason none of you have enough leeway to just relax."
"C-could it be..." Kaminari clenched his fists tightly.
"We'll be going to a summer break forest lodge." Aizawa said with a bored tone and the class cheered in excitement. Izuku looked up with a bright smile on her face and then to Uraraka who was grinning brightly.
"Let's give each other dares!" Ashido shouted in happiness.
"And fireworks, kero." Asui said with a grin.
"Summer break means curry...!" Iida said with a serious face on, but Izuku could read the excitement in his eyes.
"AND OUT DOOR BATHS!" Mineta shouted with vigor.
"The parameters of our activities will probably change in a natural environment," Yaoyorozu said with a thought.
"Food and bed with Deku-ch- I mean the whole class!" Uraraka shouted, standing up with her foot on her desk. "I'm so excited!"
"How ever..." Aizawa looked at everyone as they all seated themselves again and he sighed out. "Should any of you fall short of a passing grade on the end-of-term test, then you're stuck in school in remedial hell."
"LET'S DO OUR BEST EVERYONE!" Kirishima said with a loud yell to the class as they all agreed.
"What a load..." Katsuki grumbled in front of Izuku, and she looked at him, frowning.
A few weeks later, it was finally the last week of june. The class was getting anxious as they all noticed they only had one more week left till the end-of-term and those who were at the bottom of the class were starting to get stressed out about it. The only thing that really stressed Izuku out though, was how much more Katsuki was avoiding her, he had stopped walking with her to school all together, and most of their interactions were just grunts or shouts.
"I haven't studied at all..." Kaminari said with a groan as he leaned over his desk. "With the sports festival and work place experience I never stopped to study..."
"Man, the fact there's also a practical test exercise is really tough, huh?" Mineta said with a smirk from his desk.
Ashido and Kaminari both groaned and glared at him. "Isn't a guy like you supposed to be an idiot to make you more likeable?!" Kaminari demanded from Mineta.
"Mina-chan, Kaminari, Let's do our best!" Izuku spoke up as she stood near Todoroki's desk at the back with Uraraka, Iida and Yaoyorozu. Everyone was wearing the summer uniform and the feeling of a soon approaching camp was getting everyone buzzed with excitement. "I mean.. I want to go to the lodge alongside everyone... Right?" She asked, looking at the others with a big grin. She wasn't worried about the test, because she was ranked number 4 in the class with grades. Both Ashido and Kaminari held their hands up, trying to shade themselves from the glowing light Izuku was giving off.
"If you just attend classes normally then you won't get a failing grade." Todoroki said with a sigh as he looked at the overzealous group of students.
"If you like, I can assist you with classroom lectures." Yaoyorozu said with a bright smile to the others.
"I'm not either of them but I wouldn't mind boning up with a group. So how about me too?" Jirou said with a happy smile as she looked to Yaororozu. Both Sero and Oijiro pleaded with her as well.
"A-ABSOLUTELY!" Yaoyorozu said with a gasp and tears of happiness.
"Hey hey... Everyone is taking this seriously," Kirishima said to a grumpy Katsuki, "What a gap in virtue compared to you."
"I'm plenty virtuous too, fuck munch!" Katsuki snapped at him with a growl. "Why don't I tutor you till you're a puddle of blood?!"
"Gee, I'll take you up on that!" Kirishima said with a big grin as he nudged the grumpy boy.
The bell rang for lunch and the whole class set off to get their meals from the lunch room. Izuku had a bowel of katsudon in front of her, and she smiled brightly down at it as she picked up her chop sticks. She was sitting at a table with Iida, Todoroki, Asui and Uraraka, and started to dig into her food. "It's scary that we don't know what will be on the practical test, but we have a good understanding of everything else." Izuku said with a thought.
"I don't think it's anything too wild." Iida said with a nod as he ate his curry.
"We can still pull it off, the normal subjects tests, sure can..." Uraraka muttered with a nervous look on her face and Izuku looked up at her with a small smile.
"If you like, we can study together." Izuku laughed with a smile and Uraraka instantly brightened up and nodded her head.
"Sensei said that the practical would be an overall summery of the semester, but nothing else aside from that." Asui said with a croak.
"He had us face the trials of battle and rescue, and the rest was just basic training." Uraraka sad with a thought.
"Studying for the test plus keeping our physical strength in tip top condi-OOOW!" Izuku felt an elbow connect with the back of her head and everyone looked at the person who did it with a glare. Izuku looked back behind her, rubbing the back of her head.
"Hey, that was uncalled for." Todoroki said with his eyes narrowing, the others could feel a cold chill coming from him.
"Ah, my bad. Your head is so big I ended up whacking you," The familiar boy said sarcastically as he looked down at Izuku.
"Hey, you're that class B kid... Monoma!" Uraraka said with a glare.
"You encountered the Hero Killer, I heard! The ways in which you've been basking in the spotlight have multiplied since the sports festival, haven't they class A? Only the attention you're grabbing isn't out of expectation; the attention you're grabbing is in the form of trouble!" the boy said with a hateful gaze as he looked down at them with a grin. "Man, so scary! One day we might get wrapped up in the trouble you lot call from out of the wood work, and then we'll get hurt! So scary, I-"
"That's not funny, don't tease them." A familiar girl appeared from behind Monoma and thwacked him on the back of his neck to cut him off. "Sorry about that, class A. This Kid's heart is... in the wrong place." She said as she looked to Izuku with a smile. "Anyway, I heard you say earlier that you didn't know about the practical for the end-of-term exam. Actually... I've been told it'll be like the entrance exam. That is... A battle simulation against those fighting robots."
"What? For real?" Izuku asked with a bright smile. "How did you know?"
"I know an upperclassman and he told me." She said with a smile.
"Are you stupid Kendou, you just threw away our hard earned intelligence advantage..." Monoma muttered darkly. "This was our chance to come out on top over the detested class A..."
"I told you, we don't detest them, so cut that out." The girl named Kendou said with a frown, and nodded her head to Izuku. "take care you guys!" she said, before dragging Monoma off.
"Just robots?!" Ashido said with a big grin after the class had been informed of the details from Uraraka. Classes were over for the day and everyone was getting ready to head home. "That's easy! We'll be totally fine then! This way we won't have to hold back or adjust our quirks!"
Izuku smiled at them as she sat in her desk, and looked down at it again. She thought about how she was going to have to face All for One again, and clenched her fist tightly. "I need to think of everything to come as preparation for that day..." she told herself in a mutter while the class all talked about how easy it was going to be to fight robots.
"Who cares if it's people or robots." Katsuki stood up from his desk with his bag. Izuku looked up at him as she stood up too. "It's all the same when they're blown away, walk in the park my ass, Idiots..."
"Who're you calling an idiot...?" Kaminari asked with grumble as he looked to Katsuki.
"shut up! You don't need to bother about adjusting, idiot!" Katsuki snapped at them and turned his anger to Izuku. "Right? Deku!"
"Huh...?" Izuku stopped a few feet away from him, wondering what he was talking about.
"I see you've come to understand a little how to use a quirk... But you're really trying my fucking nerves." He growled at her, and Izuku felt her chest ache from the look he gave her.
"Why are you mad at her?!" Uraraka asked, glaring at him. "Are you mad because Deku-chan's moves are like yours?!"
"he must be..." Todoroki said with a frown as he too looked at Katsuki.
"Let me tell you right now..." Katsuki walked back to Izuku who looked up at him, trembling like she used to when he was mad at her. "I don't want the same hollow ass results as the damn sports festival... By the end of next term we'll see by our grades, who the better hero is." Katsuki glared down at her as she looked up at him, feeling tears burn in her eyes. Why was he so mad at her? Was it about her quirk?
"I'll leave you in the dust with the gap between us, and show you that you can't compete on my level." Katsuki snapped his gaze to look up at Todoroki and pointed at him. "You too, you asshole!" He shouted, before turning to leave and slamming the door shut behind him.
"That's some vintage Bakugo..." Kirishima said with a frown and nervous sweat. "How long has it been...?"
"Maybe he's just irritated...?" Tokoyami asked curiously from his desk.
"Deku-chan...?" Uraraka looked at Izuku who had her head bowed, and a few tears fell onto the floor. "Wh-what's wrong? Why are you crying?!" Uraraka put her hands on Izuku's shoulders as she sobbed loudly, before hugging her friend.
"That prick..." Todoroki said in a dark tone, and looked to the door Katsuki had slammed shut.
"Deku-chan..." Uraraka called her friends name as they sat at Izuku's kitchen table the next day, studying for their exams. Izuku had been awfully quiet all day in class and even now. "Do... Do you want to talk about it...?"
"D-Did I do something...?" Izuku asked, looking up from her books to look at her friend. "I don't understand, we were getting along so well, he even saved me... We walked too and from school every day..." Izuku felt her tears burn in her eyes again at the thought of the rejection Katsuki gave her. "I don't understand..." She sobbed out finally as tears fell onto her text book. Uraraka frowned at her and stood up from the able. "Ochachan...?"
"Let's go get some ice cream." the girl said with a warm smile and lead the way out of the apartment to the near by store. The girls picked out what they wanted, and on their way home they sat down on a bench in the park to talk. "Izuchan..." Izuku looked up at the other girl as she said her real name for once. "... Is there something you... Maybe wanna tell me...?"
Izuku sat there, starting at her ice cream for a second. There was lots of things she wanted to tell her best friend, she wanted to tell her everything about the incident with the Hero Killer... But she refrained. She felt a swelling sadness in her chest and took a bite of her ice cream.
"... He saved my life..." She said with a small sob, "We spent a whole week together, we were getting along... He never left my side when I was in the hospital..." Izuku gripped the stick of her ice cream, and a few tears fell from her eyes. "When I was sure I was about to die... actually every time I think I'm about to die... I always think of him..."
"Izuchan..." Uraraka frowned as she looked at her sad friend who was staring at the pavement.
"I don't know how many times I thought to myself, where is he...? I just want to see him one last time... I want him to hug me tightly like he did when I was hurt... I want to spend time with him... I just wanna walk to school with him again... Ochachan..." Izuku looked up at her friend with a sad hurt smile on her face and tears pouring down her cheeks. "I love him... I love Kacchan so much..."
Uraraka almost started crying in that moment as she saw how sad her friend looked. Instead, she reached out and wrapped the small girl in her arms and pulled her in for a tight hug. She squeezed the crying girl in her arms tightly. "You know... I kinda figured. You're always first to defend his attitude, and you always look to him... you even ran to him before the last match at the sports festival..."
"Ochachan.." Izuku sobbed and looked up at her friend as she let her go.
"I'm glad you talked to me about this." Ochachan said with a smile to her. "I'm always here for you if you want to talk, you don't have to hold these feelings in... I'm sure what ever stick crawled up his butt will come back out soon, so don't give up. We have a whole summer ahead of us, and maybe you might even get a date... But just remember." Uraraka pulled out her hanky and dabbed at her friend's eyes. "You can always marry me if things don't work out."
"Ochachan...!" Izuku let out a little laugh, and hugged her friend once more. "Thank you so much... I'm so glad I finally have a friend like you..."
"I will always be your friend," Uraraka said with a smile, "You'll have a tough time getting rid of me!"
The next week classes started as usual, and Izuku kept her distance from her childhood friend. She felt better after telling Uraraka her feelings for him, and was content with just accepting his challenge to her for the tests. The week was spent writing many tests, day after day...
Until the day of the practical exam.
"The test exercise will begin shortly." Aizawa was standing in front of the class, along with most of the teachers for the heroics dept. The whole class was geared up in their hero costumes, and Izuku clenched her fists as she prepared herself mentally.
"Obviously, you can fail this test too," Aizawa said with a sigh."So if you want to head to the forest lodge, then we'd better not see any pitiful blunders from you."
"Wh-why so many teachers?" Hagakure asked while her glove waved around in the hair.
"I've no doubt you all learned what information you could have for the test before hand, so I think you already hold a vague notion of what you are to do. " Aizawa looked over at Ashido and Kaminari who were cheering happily about the robots from the entrance exam.
"Sorry, but I'm afraid not!" A large rodent spoke as it popped out of Aizawa's scarves. Izuku's eyes widened as she noticed it was the Principal, Nedzu. "Due to various reasons, we're changing the contents of the test, starting today!"
"What do you mean...?" Yaoyorozu asked curiously from behind Izuku.
"Well... Fears of a surge in villainy, really. Heading off this surge at the pass would be most ideal, as we theorize that society will see a drastic increase in battles against villains. Battle Trials against robots don't hew close enough to fights with an actual villain. "The principal smiled at the class and continued. "We only ever used robots as a method to circumvent complaints against 'risking people harm during a highschool entrance exam.' So from now on, we'll focus our tests more on person-on-person battle activities to create a teaching environment closer to that of a real battle."
Izuku was starting to feel a little nervous as she looked at the beady eyes of their principal. She had a bad feeling he was going to say something that would really surprise the whole class.
"So, boys and girls... For today's exam we will have you form pairs, to engage in combat with one of these here educators!" The principal gestured to the row of pro hero techers behind him, and Izuku felt herself pale and sweat nervously.
"With our sensei's?" Todoroki asked with narrowed eyes as he looked at their teachers.
"Now, who all of you are paired with and which teacher you will be fighting, have already been decided!" The principal beamed at the class which Izuku was slowly figuring out meant trouble for them all. "The way you tent to move, your grades and your degree of familiarity... We personally judged how you'll be pairing up based on all sorts of things, and we'll list the match ups now!"
"Ahem..." Aizawa looked up at the class, "First off, Todoroki's with Yaororozu as a team, you two will be facing me." He said with a grin to the two of them, before moving down the list. "Midoriya," Izuku stiffened as Aizawa called her name and she nodded her head. "You're with Bkugo as a team."
"Huh...?" Izuku felt her nervous sweat get worse, and she looked over at Katsuki who looked just as stunned by that statement. Izuku's eyes then flicked to look at Uraraka who had a worried look on her face. She turned to look away from the both, and clenched her fists tightly. Her chest was aching with pain at this sudden match up with him... Right when they were getting along so horribly...
"As for who you'll be battling... Your opponent will be.." Aizawa was cut as some one interrupted.
"I'M HERE, TO OBLIGE!" All Might shouted with a grin as he stepped from behind the teachers and looked down at both Izuku and Katsuki. "NOW, CO-OPERATE AND COME AT ME TO WIN, WONDER DUO!"
Izuku sweated nervously and looked over at Katsuki who was also looking a bit thrown off.
She looked to her other classmates, wishing she could switch with even Sero at that moment who was partnered up with Mineta. Anything had to be better than this while her and Katsuki were at odds with each other... Or at least he was upset at her about something...
"Good luck, Deku-chan!" Uraraka walked up to her, and grabbed her by her hands. "I'm cheering for you! You can do this, just stay focused on All Might!"
"Thanks..." Izuku said to her friend with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks before she got on the bus. She looked to the back to see Katsuki sitting as far away from the front as possible. She sighed a bit as she sat near the front, and put her hands on her knee's. She clenched her fists tightly as she concentrated on the ground in front of her.
"Uhm... Wanna play Word-chain or something...?" All Might asked, looking back to the students on the bus. Izuku looked up at him, and felt herself frown before looking away quickly. She didn't want All Might to take pity on her just because she was upset about boy trouble... She needed to concentrate at the task at hand... She needed to pass this test, no matter how much pain her heart was in.
"All right," All Might led them off the bus, and they stood in front of a large cityscape battle ground. Izuku looked up at it nervously, and bit lip. "This will be the stage we fight on."
"Uhm..." Izuku looked to All Might nervously. "By fight... You don't mean you want us to beat you... do you, All Might...?" She was getting really nervous now, there was no way that even with One for All she could ever win against her hero. "I mean... There's just no way..."
"Why so hasty, Miss Pessimist! I'll explain!" All Might grinned at her and held a finger up. "The time limit is 30 min, your win condition is either to get these handcuffs on me," He held up the cuff to show them, "Or for either of you to escape from the stage through the gate!"
"So... Win by fighting... or by running away..." Izuku spoke through her clenched teeth, and gripped her fists as she thought back to their battle with the Hero Killer.
"THAT'S RIGHT!" All Might boomed with laughter. "THIS WILL BE A TEST OF YOUR JUDGEMENT! However, you might thinking with this setup, isn't running the only real option?" He held up a weighted bracer in his hand now. "Well we commissioned the department of support and had them make us this! SUPER COMPRESSOR WEIGHTS! I'm strapping on weights equal to around half of my body weight, 'Handicaps' they call 'em. It's an old classic but It'll make it harder for us to move and shave our strength."
"Is all that just to let us consider fighting?" Katsuki growled out in anger, "You're fucking looking down on me."
"HAHAHA, I WONDER!" All Might smiled at them in a scary way and Izuku felt her blood chill.
They took their starting positions at the entrance while All Might went ahead to take his. Izuku was fidgeting with her fingers, unsure what to do... She needed to work with Katsuki to get through this, and she was sure he was going to go right for battle, but this was All Might... FREAKING ALL MIGHT! THE NUMBER ONE HERO! The starting horn went off, and Katsuki walked in with out a care in the world. Izuku looked at him worriedly and quickly ran after him.
"DON'T FOLLOW ME!" He shouted over her shoulder at her over his shoulder and Izuku froze a bit. "I'm going to fucking knock his brains out!"
"K-Kacchan, we shouldn't... We need to avoid a battle at any cost...!" Izuku panicked as she ran to catch up with him.
"I'll lead him around by the nose until the final moments, then I'll smash him when he's tired!" Katsuki looked down at her, glaring darkly. "I'll take him down! ME!"
"Uuu..." Izuku looked up at the look he was giving her, before he continued on walking forwards. He was being the Katsuki he used to be before they started getting along. She was glaringly aware she wasn't as strong as him, that she didn't have that drive to defeat some one like he did... But she had to stop him from going toe-to-toe with All might. "J-Just who do you think he is...?!" She shouted, running after him to catch up again. "No matter the number of Handicaps... The idea that you can beat him is just... URGH!"
Katsuki brougght his right arm back and smacked the hand she reached out to grab him by the shoulder with, and glared at her with rage. She felt tears burn in her eyes as he looked at her like that, reminded of the times from Junior highschool... "NOT. ANOTHER. GOD. DAMN. WORD. Just cause you're doing halfway decent, don't you dare say another word or else I'll get pissed!" He growled at her in anger as she held her hand in her other.
"I... I'm just telling you, so we can pass the test, Kacchan! So listen!" She shouted back at him, and she clenched her fists. "Why... Why are you being like this again...? What did I do? Why do you hate me so much?!" She felt her tears fall from her cheeks as she yelled at him.
"WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?!" He yelled back at her, "AND I TOLD YOU, I DON'T NEED ANY HELP FROM YOU TO PASS!"
"WOULD YOU JUST STOP YELING AT ME!" She shouted back at him, "WHY CAN'T YOU TALK TO ME LIKE A NORMAL PERSON?! I'LL LISTEN TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, SO JUST TALK TO ME!" She was crying now, and saw the stunned look on his face for a brief second before there was a loud boom and a wind worthy of a hurricane came at them full force. Izuku brought her arms up to keep the dust out of her eyes as she braced herself, and felt a hand reach out to grab her shoulder and steady her. When the gust settled down, she looked up at Katsuk who was looking forward at a large figure who stepped through the dust. She felt her heart clench tightly in her chest.
"Collateral damage to the city? Who cares?" She felt chills now as All Might spoke to them. "If you're thinking of this as just a test, then you're in for a world of pain. I am a Villain, oh heroes. Come at me and put your whole hearts into it!"
"This pressure..." Izuku choked out as she sat All Might crouch down. She looked to Katsuki in a panic. "This is bad! We cant fight him head on, lets run!" she shouted at him.
"Don't order me around." He growled out as he pushed her back by the shoulder he had a grip on, and she stumbled back from him. He brought both his hands up as All Might came at them from the dust. "STUN GRENADE!" He shouted as he blasted his quirk full force into the mans face.
"KACCHAN!" She shouted back at him, her eyes wide. All Might had used his arms to block the blast, and reached a hand out to grab Katsuki by the face. She felt her whole being burn, and she activated One for All, and it filled her whole body, she went to attack, but saw that Katsuki was blasting All Might's stomach with multiple bursts of his quirk, before being thrown onto the ground like a doll. She clenched her fists as she looked down at him, gasping for breath, before her eyes flicked back up to look at All Might.
"Is that all you've got? A feeble flurry like that barely hurt." All Might stood tall and looked to her, making her hair stand on end. "You'll join him soon, Midoriya my girl. You going to abandon the team and run?"
"Never..." She said, narrowing her eyes at her hero a she circled around him to get on the side of the road Katsuki was on, before using One for All to jump back out of his grasp, never taking her eyes off of him.
:Not a good idea...!" All Might called out, before she heard the boom behind her, and she looked back to see Katsuki behind her in the air.
"IDIOT! MOVE!" He shouted at her, before they crashed into each other. They both landed on the ground, and Izuku groaned as Katsuki pushed himself up. She felt something push down on her breast, and her face caught fire as she saw it was his hand.
"K-Kacchan.." She stuttered out before he looked down at her with a growl, He noticed where his hand was at that moment, and quickly retracted it before kicking off the ground to run back at All Might. Izuku sat up, and looked at his back, then at All Might who all of a sudden looked very... angry...
"Making a move on a girl in the middle of a test?" The Hero asked with a grin that was anything but a happy one. "Brave."
"SHUT UP!" Katsuki shouted at All Might, and Izuku wanted nothing but to disappear in that moment.
"K-Kacchan, there's no way we can win by just hitting him up front!" She shouted at Katsuki, trying to get off the topic of what just happened.
"YOU SHUT UP TOO!" He glared back at her darkly as she got up to stop him. "I'll Win, because that's what a hero does!"
"Then that's all the more reason this battle is..." Izuku reached out to grab his arm and gripped it tightly.
"LET GO OF ME!" Katsuki snapped at her and yanked his arm out of her grip. "DON'T COME NEAR ME RIGHT NOW!"
"Kacchan..." Izuku looked at him with pleading eyes, she just wanted to stop him from getting hurt needlessly... She wanted him to trust her...
"For the time being..." Izuku looked towards where All Might was standing earlier as he spoke, and saw he wasn't there any more. "A PRESENT FOR THE GIRL WHO WOULD RUN!" All Might shouted, and Izuku felt all the air in her lungs leave her as she was slammed into the ground. She saw Katsuki's panicked eyes as she went down, and she coughed as she tried to get up, but she couldn't... There was a guardrail pinning her down on the pavement. She groaned in pain as she looked up to see All Might use all his force to punch Katsuki in the stomach as his attention was distracted.
"KACCHAN!" She cried out, trying to get up as he was knocked back. She felt tears of anger burn in her eyes as she struggled against the metal.
"I understand..." All Might was walking towards the boy who was emptying his stomach onto the pavement. "It's because of her sudden growth, isn't it? She suddenly went from being a frail girl, into a strong woman. She has also made a lot of progress with her quirk training..." All Might looked down at him with eyes that understood. "but you know... If you compare someone who was at level 1, to someone like yourself who is at level 50, then the pace at which they grow can't be totally even, now can it...?" All Might let out a sigh. "In this case, it's not exactly just the quirk thing though, is it...? What you're doing is such a waste, Even as she grows, you can grow as well."
"Shut your fucking mouth..." Katsuki growled as he pushed himself up, and glared back at All Might, wiping his mouth. "I would rather die... The fact that she can control her quirk like this now... It means she's getting closer to being a hero..." Katsuki's fists clenched tightly as he spoke in a low voice, "It'd be better to lose all together... If I can't do this myself..."
"Is that so...?" All Might said with a grin, and lifted his hand. "Well, I regret this a little then... But if it'll knock some sense into you..."
"Fuck you, old man..." Katsuki glared up at all Might, before a fist connected with the side of his face and sent him flying.
"DON'T SAY YOU'D RATHER LOSE!" Izuku was crying as she slid to a stop, her whole body glowing golden. "YOU OF ALL PEOPLE... DON'T SAY THAT!" She glanced at All Might, who looked a bit stunned by what happened, before she ran at Katsuki, and grabbed him by the back of his costume, before using One for All to leap off into the alley's of the buildings that surrounded them and out of sight. She couldn't believe what she had just heard...
"LET ME GO!" Katsuki shouted up at her, but he wasn't abe to struggle.
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Izuku shouted as she focused on where she was going. "I'm going to make you talk later, but for now... I can't think of a way to beat All Might... And I can't think of anything to escape either...!"
"THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU RUNNING?!" Katsuki looked up at her as she carried him off like he was the one needing saving.
"BECAUSE!" She looked down at him, "Because you should try using me before you give up! Don't ever say you'd rather lose... You're..." She looked away from him, "You're the kid who never gives up on winning anything..." She gripped him by the back of his shirt, before she felt his arm grab her wrist. She stopped running, and he stood up on his feet, before looking down at her. "Kacchan...?"
"I'm sorry... We'll talk later..." He apologized for what Izuku felt was the first time ever as he looked at her with pained ruby red eyes. "... We don't have a lot of time right now... But I'm done giving up." He lifted his hand to touch her cheek as he stared into her eyes so deeply. She felt nervous as she looked back into his serious red eyes, and looked down, blushing a bright red. Her eyes landed on his bracer, seeing the sweat on his arm...
"I'VE GOT IT!" She shouted, startling him into letting go of her cheek. "I'VE GOT A PLAN!" She looked up at him, beaming brightly, before she paled as she saw the angry and irritated look on his face.
Izuku his at the corner of a building as they made their way back to the main street. She could hear All Might's footsteps as he ran this way. She felt nervous as her stomach turned inside of her. Katsuki had accepted her help... he thought it was good... She blushed a bright red as she remembered the look in his eyes just now.
"WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING?!" She heard the bang from Katsuki's quirk, and she knew it was time... She looked down at the bracer on her right arm, and clenched her fist tightly as she charged One for All in her limbs.
"An attack from behind, eh...?" Almight turned to look at Katsuki, and she heard a second bang from the street, before he screamed for her. "IZUUUUU!"
She had to be quick, she thought to herself as she kicked off the ground and out into the street. She looked up at All Might's back with eyes focused on one thing, passing this test.
"FIRE!" Katsuki shouted at her, and she hardened her gaze as she pointed the bracer at All Might's back, and pulled the pin.