A soon as the match started, Todoroki was the first to make his move and tried to freeze Deku who retaliated by flicking his finger, breaking a gust of wind that shattered the incoming ice. This was the first time I saw him using his quirk, but to my short awe I saw the actual cost of using it, the finger was now turning a dark blue.
"What is he doing to himself." I muttered too quietly to be noticed by anybody.
'He is breaking his own body, I heard his quirk is different, but this is ridiculous.'
I could hear some voices around me talking, but I was too invested in the damage Deku was inflicting on himself, to listen to what they were saying. The fight continued the same way, Todoroki sending frost towards Deku, and him using his quirk to deflect him. He broke all his fingers from his right arm, but his face was still showing raw determination, when suddenly a bigger ice wave came too close to him, forcing him to recklessly use his left fist to counterattack, rendering him of using it anymore.
Although Todoroki stopped charging, Deku used one of his already broken fingers to attack.
He started shouting so loud, that we all heard him "Everyone's giving their best! they're doing it so they can get closer to victory! They're doing it so they can someday become number one! YOU think you can win using only half your power, but you haven't been able to put a single scratch on me yet. SO GET OVER HERE AND FIGHT ME!"
Todoroki looked at Deku, his nose wrinkling, eyes glaring, and brows knitted together, all because of what the green haired boy shouted, so he responded back. "What do you think you are doing? Did my shitty old man pay you? You are pissing me off!"
He dashed towards Deku fast, but before he could finish his first step, Deku appeared in front of him, raising his right arm, fist prepared for a punch. Todoroki tried to retaliate, but Deku was faster, punching him hard in the stomach, throwing Todoroki a few good meters behind.
'What is he thinking, he just used his already battered hand, his hand isn't blue anymore, he turned his freaking hand into a bloody lump of a limb. That's got to hurt for sure.' I thought as I analyzed his face, his eyebrows twitching as sweat drops, he grabbed his right wrist writhing in pain.
Worry must have shown cause I felt something wrapping around my arm, and I looked to see Tokoyami's shadow, gripping my wrist gently, to make me ease my tight hold on the armrest that I grasped without realizing. The tiny shadow turned to look at me and before I could say anything, Tokoyami cut shortly. "He is sure to have a plan in mind." His words eased me a little bit and I thanked him for the interruption. I turned my eyes to Todoroki's raising form as he started running again to freeze Deku, yet the green head did the weirdest thing, he put his thumb in his mouth, gripping on the cheek to flick his finger to fend off the incoming ice.
"Why are you going this far." Screamed Todoroki.
"I want to live up to his expectations! I want to become a super cool hero!" The green glob of hair responded, eyes filled with determination as for for the shaking of his posture subsided, replaced by more precision, and the moment that Todoroki hesitated, Deku punched him again.
"It's yours! It's your power!" Deku burst out. Not long after that statement, heat erupted in waves as Todoroki's left side was enveloped in flames while his right side was covered in ice. Deku was grinning at the sight in front of him.
'Did he do it purposefully to make him use his fire? What a cinnamon roll.' I thought, lips twitching in a smile, but worry overcame me, as I looked at both of them getting ready to give it their all, they started running towards each other, their bodies brimming with raw power.
'This is too much, they could really get hurt.' and in the nick of time Cementoss-Sensei intervened, but the blast still made everybody shield their eyes from the dust. I cracked my eyes open as soon as I felt the burst leaving, jumping from my seat to search where they both were, Todoroki was in the middle, but Deku was out of bounds and completely broken, before they declared the winner, I dashed to check on him, running towards the infirmary as fast as possible considering that my next fight was close.
'I need to mend his arms back. But what if, what if I use it too much and begin to lose' my thought came to a halt when I saw the robots dragging Deku in the infirmary, so I ran faster refusing to acknowledge the consequences for abusing my quirk.
"Obaa-san, please let me help." I said as I ran next to her and Deku.
He was passed out, but his right arm was completely damaged, the fingers were sticking out in weird directions. I touched his shoulder and checked on his internal injuries.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." She started.
"Oba-san, I won't use my quirk, just let me operate on him. He has broken fragments, I will stay here and help you heal." I stuttered out but was interrupted.
"Nonsense, girl. Your match is next. Leave. Now." She spoke sharply, sensing the gravity of the situation at hand.
'I could let her handle it, but her quirk only amplifies the body's healing functions, if I leave her to handle this, his hand will still be damaged, but I, I can help her and make the healing process faster if the both of us use our skills.' I thought, not noticing that there was another spectator in the room.
"But I have to do something. I can't just leave him like this." I begged, not wishing to leave yet when he could be still healed right.
"Sakura Haruno, you have your own match to think about, I will allow you no further to come and assist me in the future if you continue to act this reckless." she cut bluntly, eyebrows furrowed together and mouth glued in a straight line.
"Then so be it." I responded fast. 'I will figure it out later, not now.' I pressed my hands on his chest, and visualized the osteoblasts and osteoclasts (the cells that form and dissolve the bone) cells, dissolving the bone fragments and mending them back together, as for the bigger bone pieces, they needed to be removed manually, so I put Deku in a deep slumber and dulled the pain receptors in his hand so that he doesn't feel too much from being cut. I opened my eyes to the burning green of my palms as I completely finished my task at hand.
I let go of him, suddenly feeling woozy. I was not prepared to face Recovery Girl, but I stated. "You will need to manually remove the big chunks from his hand, he is in a deep sleep and won't feel a thing for an hour, you got it from here. I will take my leave now." still not looking at her, I turned to the door, finally noticing that Deku's uncle was in the room with us.
I just left, saying nothing further, and as soon as the door closed, I backed to the wall and slid down, sitting on the ground, my feet in a weird position as I felt cloudiness empowering my common sense and body. A very familiar feeling washed over me, that can be compared almost to being drunk, but more raw and vulgar. My mind was pumping with too many thoughts all at once, realizing multiple things at once. 'If I had not woken up from the nap, I would've been better now, damn it.' I just sat there for a few more minutes, when I was ready, I pushed my body up, turning my eyes around me, the colors looking more alive than ever, and suddenly I heard the announcement that the next fight was about to start.
'I still have the match. Finally. Let's fight, let all this energy out. Let's mess with Iida a bit, just a tiny bit, it won't hurt.' I couldn't compress the bubbling giggle that erupted from me.
I was walking clumsily, but I was content with it as I made my way to the arena, muttering and giggling at my absurd thoughts.
With each step that I took, I felt more and more unleashed. Iida was a few meters from me, his face serious like always, when he noted my approaching form.
"Haruno, are you alright? You look... different." he voiced, waiting for my response, but I didn't want to burst out.
'I don't want them to see me like this.' I thought. 'Not now, control yourself.'
He just stood there waiting for my reply, his brows furrowed and eyes sharp behind his glasses. My eyes narrowed at him and gave him a smile, or something close to it, however, he wrinkled his eyebrows more, so I couldn't help but snicker.
"I am perfectly fine." I said in a honeyed voice and passed him by. I took my position and waited, and waited, and waited some more for the match to finally start already, I began to fidget from one leg to another and retie my hair up.
'Okie Dokie, how do we fight against speed. I should hmmm, I need to dodge as best as I can, my eyes can keep up with him, and if I enhance my muscles, maybe I could hold him off.' I looked over at Iida, who was a few meters in front of me, getting ready to start.
"READY. START!" the voice roared.
Iida bolted towards me, no, not towards me, behind me, so I changed my plan and just pulled my leg swiftly sideways, making him tumble across the floor and before I gave him a chance to get up, I jumped him, latching on and clutching his head in a firm headlock, he was struggling to toss me off of him, so I held on tight to make him faint, but he was getting up now, crawling slowly to the edge of the arena, so I took 2 seconds to concentrate completely and mess with his blood pressure nerve, when all of a sudden he broke from my headlock, hurling me the ground on my back.
'Shit that hurt. Pass out already would you? How...' and I didn't finish my thought cause he began to wobble. I jumped fast to catch him before he could fall and hurt his head. When I grasped his shoulders from behind, his weight made us collapse down on my bottom. At least he was fine.
"I really like the floor of this arena don't I." I muttered to myself, letting out a sigh.
"Iida is unable to continue. Haruno is the winner of this round." the crowd cheered.
It was getting too loud and I wanted to leave badly, so I took Iida's glasses and put them on my head and started shaking him.
"Iida, wake up. Heeeey." he was still unconscious.
"I guess a little bit more wouldn't kill me." I sarcastically said.
So I used my quirk to give him a wake-up call. He jerked up, like waking up from a bad dream, and looked alarmed around when I felt him pulling himself up.
"Don't." I simply said as I pulled him back down. When he realized what was happening, he froze, eyebrows raised and staring, although I don't know if he could see without his glasses on.
"Don't get up so fast, you will get dizzy and fall again. Here." I took off the glasses from the top of my head and gave them to him, he slowly put them on and started speaking.
"I guess I lost."
"You guessed right. You can get up now, but slowly." I said in a harsh yet soft voice...
He got up and began to dust off the dirt. "You really took me by surprise, Haruno, I didn't expect you to pull such a dirty move and make me trip, even less to wrestle with me ."
I just chuckled slowly at him and left for the waiting room, avoiding any of my classmates, not feeling up for chatting. I needed a major nap.
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A loud buzzing near my nested head rang out. It was the alarm that I set. I raised my head, vision covered in pink, I felt the table with my hand for my phone to stop the noise.
After closing it, I stretched my arms and legs.
'That was a really good nap, I feel so much better now.' I let out a content sigh.
'Now let's see if I made it on time for my match against Todoroki. And what I should do to stand a chance against him.' I thought as I sat up to get ready to leave, but not before leaving my phone in my locker. I was tying my hair up when I thought.
'Hmm... now that he uses both ice and fire unless I get him to stay still for a bit and make contact, I'll be toast.' I was lost in my thoughts, walking through the halls when I heard someone shouting my name.
"Sakura. Hey, wait up." a breathy high pitched voice exclaimed from behind. I turned and I saw Uraraka and Deku rushing towards me. When they got close enough, Deku's eyebrows furrowed, eyes darting all around my face in concern. Uraraka was bent against the wall to regain her breath.
"Are you okay? Uraraka has been searching for you for a while. She busted in the infirmary to look and I decided to join her." he voiced.
"Oh, I'm fine, really. I took a nap after my match. But how about you? Lend me your hand a bit." I replied to him curiously. He raised his brows and took a small step back, cheeks turning a shade pinker. I just stared at him, holding back a tiny smirk.
"Ummmm...okay, sure." he answered stuttering a bit. I turned my head towards Uraraka, who now regained her composure, still red in the cheeks, but her breathing calmed.
"Uraraka, I'm sorry that I worried you." I sent an apologetic smile towards her as I took Deku's hand to check.
"I was worried when I didn't see you for a while. Glad you are okay, though I think it's my fault that you were tired." she finished in a low tone, scratching the back of her head.
I looked quizzically and reassured her.
"Nah, I am usually a sleepyhead." I exaggerated a tad for her and returned my attention to Deku. His hand almost looked completely healed except for some thin scars.
"How do you feel now. Drowsy? any side effects?" I hummed in my inspection. 'Recovery Girl took out all the bone fragments that remained.' I thought as I let go of his hand gently.
He shook his head and replied. "I am fine now. Thank you for healing my hand. I am sorry if I was a bother, you didn't have to, especially when your match was next and..." I held my hand up stopping his rambling and sternly said.
"Oh, you should be sorry, you butchered your own hand. What a completely sane person does that. Are you a masochist?" I finished squinting my eyes at him.
"Whhhhaa, no no no . " he gasped shaking his head ferociously, I let out a sigh for the nth time this day and thought 'What a cinnamon roll.' I thought, puffing out a chuckle with Uraraka from his abashed reaction.
"Let's go, your match is going to start soon." Uraraka said.
I just nodded in response, walking and chatting with them, they told me that Tokoyami and Bakugo won their rounds, before separating.
'What to do, what to do.' I thought when I was by myself. 'What strategy should I use.'
I was near the arena and nothing was good enough, 'I can dodge if he attacks me long distance, but that won't help me at all, I will end up getting cornered and tired, and at a big disadvantage, if I get too close he will freeze me and I will be out immediately. The fire, even if I will get burnt, I will not be incapacitated, like with ice, so I need to focus left side, and totally avoid his right hand, and how will I do that, I don't know.'
The announcement introduced us, the start edging closer and I still haven't reached a conclusion.
'Damn it, I will improvise, and see where it goes from there.'
"Get ready, Start." the voice boomed yet again.
Todoroki sent an ice wave towards me to freeze me in place, so I propelled myself from the ground and landed on his ice, I needed to get closer to him, but at the same time I needed to stay away from him.
I was dashing towards him as fast as I could, preparing my body to get burned by both hot an cold.
With his gaze fixed on my every move, he was preparing to freeze me again and said.
"This will be over soon." in a monotone voice, this time sending a bigger wave than before, but just in the nick of time I slipped away, yet not without damage, as my lower left arm was in a case of ice, the coldness making my muscles there go completely numb.
I hissed from the coldness, turning my head in his direction eyes narrowing at him, who responded the same. With my lower arm limp, weighing me down, I continued my sprint to him as he raised his right hand yet again, I realized not once did he use his left side to attack. 'Why isn't he? Is it just a trick to make me lower my guard? or he is avoiding using it again.' I shook my head and concentrated on a strategy to counterattack his quirk.
When I was one arm's length from him, he raised his arm to blow ice towards me, when I crouched down, sweeping my feet as I felt coldness above me, I threw him off balance and as soon as he fell, I rushed to punch him, but my movement came to a halt for my legs were frozen to the ground in a half-raised pose.
'I'm too close, come on do something.' I thought as I started struggling, but felt no bulging, my legs started burning from the ice, so I did the next best thing. He was close enough, even closer thanks to his cockiness as he got up in front of me, I latched on the hem of his uniform and pulled him to me, the widening of his eyes didn't go unnoticed as I hit his nose with my forehead with enough force to knock out a normal person.
Yes, a normal person, but was Todoroki a normal person. No. I gritted my teeth in frustration my head throbbing, for Todoroki was getting up again, with a bleeding nose though, at that, I couldn't help but smirk a bit.
"Haruno is incapacitated and no longer able to fight. Todoroki Shoto is the winner."
I tried to struggle again out from the ice when Todoroki got in front of me, holding his bloody nose in a thin layer of ice with his right hand and raised the other hand towards me, I felt the ice's grip loosening until I was completely free. I felt frustrated, but I didn't want to be a baby and hold grudges, however, the broken nose will stay for now.
"Hard to crack aren't you?" I smugly said.
He just grunted and turned around.
"You are no fun at all." I shouted as I skipped next to him, he kept ignoring me so I silently followed him, trying to bug him off, don't know why though.
As we walked, Bakugo was marching from the opposite side, towards the arena. When he saw us, he glared and grimaced at Todoroki, starting in a rough and confident voice.
"See you in the next match."
I turned to Todoroki to see him mimic the same body language and puffed out an annoyed sigh. I looked at Bakugo and waved at him, making him turn his gaze towards me. I smirked at him holding a thumbs up and mouthing "Good luck." as we passed him by.
The next match passed by fairly fast, considering that Tokoyami was at a great disadvantage against Bakugo's quirk, no surprise there.
Deku, who was sitting to my right, started saying softly.
"I wonder how their match will turn out."
"My money is on Bakugo if Todoroki doesn't use his power to it's fullest. That and Bakugo is amazing in combat, not to mention the temper that makes him unpredictable at times."
"What makes you think he won't use his fire?" Uraraka interjected, from my left.
"It's just a guess based on the fact that he never used it against me." I replied.
"You might be right, but Todoroki is smart and he could take Bakugo by surprise..." he began mumbling way too fast and hushed for me and Uraraka to keep up, as he took out his notebook and began writing strategies.
I shared a glance with Uraraka, both of us having one raised eyebrow and snickered at him. I looked over to read what he was writing and was awed at how much detail he was putting on every single thing that he analyzed.
"Do you have for everyone in our class?" I asked, edging closer to see better.
"Umm, yeah, and every hero I have encountered thus far." he nodded, eyes wide and smiling prideful.
"So you have one on me too, can I see it?" I requested timidly.
"Uh, sure, you are... here." he flipped the pages to my observations.
On the left page, I saw my hero costume, the black mesh and sports bra under a red vest that had enough pockets to store bandages and pills, the black shorts that ended above my knees and belt that stored poison and antidotes. It was a fairly modest costume, but he took notes of everything.
On the right side, he wrote "Quirk-cell manipulation (healing/injuring)
She is capable to heal most of the injuries, not sure on the life-threatening ones.
She seems to need time to use her quirk based on the gravity of the injury she wants to heal or inflict. She also possesses a vast medical knowledge.
There are no limits to her quirk that I have observed yet."
I hummed pleased at his astute observations, he got the most of it correctly.
Just one thing was wrong.
"Wow, this is really in depth, you only wrote only one thing wrong." I told him.
Uraraka shot her eyebrows up and Deku searched confused where the mistake could have been.
"I will only tell the two of you for now. I trust you." I finished in a clear whisper. Suddenly the both of them straightened up, faces serious waiting for me to continue, itching closer to hear.
"I can't actually use my quirk that often, it drains me of energy, so my body compensates it by having adrenaline bursts to increase energy and endorphins to fight the pain and fatigue. Instinct takes over, common sense and logic get suppressed." I rambled, trying to make them understand, but the furrowed brows, and the slight tilt of the head, more noticeable on Uraraka though, made me realise they might not understand the full process.
"Okay, so when I overuse it, I go cuckoo and uncontrollable meaning I need a nap badly." I tried to stop a grimace at my choice of wording.
"Aaa, now I understand." Uraraka burst out.
"Shhhh, not so loud." I slightly scolded her.
"Sorry." she replied in a whisper, her hands linked together in front of her in a shy manner.
"That's why your movement in your match against Iida was more erratic." Deku whispered, resting his chin on his palm, eyes moving like searching for something. "After you healed me ." he stated his conclusion, his eyes turning towards my green ones, his pose shifting in an ashamed and apologetic manner.
"Yes." I answered bluntly. "Today was just a small taste, but if it gets worse than this, I want the two of you to stop me, either by knocking me out or tying me, either way is fine by me." I finished in an indifferent tone.
"Is it that bad?" Uraraka pried.
"Depends. For what you consider "bad", maybe so, for my definition of "bad", not really. I just tend to get the people nearest to me in danger when it comes to physical and mental health." I hushed out.
"Oh. Then we will try our best to keep our eyes on you?" she replied unsure of herself. Deku just nodded tensely on the other side. The moment was supposed to be serious, but due to the timing and placing, from all the noise around us, the moment ended up being more weird than serious.
"I actually expected you to tell us that you ended up killing someone." Uraraka becoming blunter by every second spent together.
"What makes you think I didn't." I questioned her confidence in what she said.
She just froze in place, paling fast as shock filled her face. Deku just made a face that called out my bullshit.
"Youuu...you," Uraraka began in a shaky voice.
"I didn't kill anybody." I told her. Deku shook his head, and slightly rolled his eyes at my antics as he turned back to write in his notebook. Uraraka began breathing again normally and I continued.
"Not fully conscious at least. Okay, okay I'm just kidding." I held up my arms at her, as she was about to turn pale again. "You are more gullible than Deku, Uraraka." I giggled at her as she covered her face from embarrassment .
"We reach the finale at least! The top student among Yuuei's freshman class will be decided right here! Our final match Todoroki vs. Bakugo!" Present Mic shouted through the speakers, his voice ringing through the whole stadium.
Todoroki and Bakugo were walking to each other on the arena. The wind was blowing through Todoroki's hair, ruffling his white and red locks, a cold serious glare fixed on Bakugo. Whereas the latter looking completely off his meds, the creepies grin was plastered on his face, glaring holes at Todoroki.
I would be lying if I said that I didn't feel a shiver crawling on my back when I saw Bakugo's expression.
'Oh my god, he looks scary as hell.' I thought, hugging myself.
"Are you all ready? START." the speakers boomed and instantly most of the arena was covered in ice followed by an explosion. As the steam cleared out, we saw Bakugo crawling out from the ice.
Just as Todoroki was about to make his move, Bakugo dodged, flying above Todoroki, catching him by the hair and shirt in mid-air.
"He dodged the attack from the left and grabbed Todoroki! He's good..." Deku shouted in disbelief.
Meanwhile, Bakugo threw Todoroki with an explosion screaming "Don't look down on me you little maggot!"
'Todoroki is surely in for a surprise if he doesn't step up.'
Todoroki was flying closer to the border of the arena and created a wall of ice to prevent him from falling out, however, Bakugo launched directly at him prepared with a punch, when Todoroki caught his arm, but instead of using his fire to counterattack, he sent him flying back.
"How long are you gonna keep fooling around?! I'll kill you!" Bakugo said in a gruff tone.
"What I want is an overwhelming victory! There's no meaning to beating a half-assed guy who won't use his full power! How can I prove myself if I defeat you so easily! Don't stand in front of me if you don't have the will to fight anymore! WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE, YOU BASTARD!" Bokugo hollered at Todoroki as he launched at him, more agile and faster than before, yet the look on Todoroki's face at that moment, so lost and unsure, made my heart go to him, but not too much cause I was startled to death by Deku's screaming encouragement, I moved my hand against my throbbing heart to calm it down as I slightly glared at Deku, but went unnoticed and turned back to the match at hand when I noticed that the encouragement moved something in Todoroki, for he looked more confident, arching his body forward to attack.
The climax of the fight was nearing fast, I couldn't stay still in my chair, watching Bakugo pulling a tornado blast, when he hit the target the explosion was blinding, I was too late to shield my eyes from it and I had to wait a few more seconds for my vision to come back to normal, but nothing prepared me for the sight that followed. Bakugo was completely on the ground looking at a huge trail of ice showing Todoroki at the end of it, out of bounds.
Fear gripped me when I saw an angry Bakugo matching to an unconscious Todoroki and gripping his uniform for an attack and screaming.
"Are you kidding with me!" his face was flushed, veins visibly throbbing and his teeth baring at his target.
"Shit, somebody stop him already." I shouted alarmed at the supervisors, gripping the armrest with force, fearing for both of them, when Midnight used her quirk to make Bakugo fall asleep.
"Language." a distant male voice roared back at me. I squinted my eyes in the direction the voice came from, but couldn't see who said it, I just shook my head exasperated.
'What the fuck are your priorities.' I hollered inside.
"Student Todoroki was off the arena! Therefore Bakugo wins!" the black-haired proctor announced. "And now the tournament comes to an end! The winner on this year's class 1 sports festival is class A's BAKUGO!"
I sighed in relief and leaned completely on the chair, feeling a headache forming.
Not long after that, we were assembled for the award ceremony. I made my way to the podium, worryingly eyeing a heavily tied Bakugo that was lashing furiously towards Todoroki. I could hear all of our classmates commenting about his behaviour, so I decided on the last second, to jump on the first place block, hearing hushed gasps, even Tokoyami expressed his surprise.
I neared Bakugo, who now eyeballed me, I started taking off his mouth cover and said.
"Bakugo, I know that right now you are annoyed at the situation at hand, but right now you need to keep your cool, considering that we are broadcasted on TV this will definitely bite you in the ass later, wouldn't you agree?" I calmly talked with him, succeeding in removing the thing from his face carefully.
His eyebrows were lowered and eyes squinting at me ferociously, he was about to burst out at me, but I cut in.
"I will release you only after I will use my quirk to calm you down, trust me on this one, please." I pleaded at him, I knew people were watching the interaction closely, I could hear them saying "What's she doing.", "Is she stupid or..."
"Hell no, Pinky. I don't fucking care what others think of me. I never intended to win this way," he didn't finish because I pinched his nose.
"What the fu..."
"I knew you would act like a child." I scolded lightly as I concentrated to make his body produce Gaba chemicals yet again.
"Says the one pinching me. What the hell are you doing now." he started struggling when he saw the green tint around his nose, slowing down more and more, with a displeased face he stopped throwing a tantrum, so I let him go slowly and I turned to Midnight.
"He can be released from the handcuffs now." My tone serious with a poker face, but eyes squinting slightly and nodding at her, hoping she understood my intentions. She looked at me for a couple of seconds there was a heavy silence, at last, threw me the keys and she officially opened the ceremony, introducing us.
I turned my eyes meanwhile towards Kirishima, and slyly smiled at him, motioning at him to come to help me with the restrainings. In a grin he leapt next to me and we began taking them off. I let my eyes wander at Todoroki who was watching us, with an expressionless face, and when I caught his eyes directly, I sticked out my tongue at him, which made him wrinkle his eyebrows at me and turned to look away.
"Glad we have somebody capable to calm him down." Kirishima commented in an amused tone.
"By force." I huffed out, making him chuckle.
"That's Bakugo all right." he said as we finished releasing the firecracker.
"Thanks."
"No problem, Saku." he grinned showing his sharp teeth while doing a thumbs up and jumping down to the others, I as well went back next to Tokoyami, who shook his head in disbelief and huffed out a sigh.
"Oh don't be like that Tokoyami. I only did what was right." I whispered in his direction.
"So it seems." he replied in a gruff voice when suddenly All Might jumped in front of the podium making me jump back a bit.
'Why am I so jumpy today?!' I thought exasperated as All Might started with Tokoyami first, giving him the medal and encouraging words that I couldn't help but hear a bit of it.
All Might turned then to me to hang the medal around my neck.
"Haruno, you really overpassed what everybody thinks of you, congratulations for getting this far, such dedication and loyalty." paused and swiftly embraced me, his body fully enveloping my small one.
'I bet I am invisible right now.' I sassed in my mind.
"Even though your methods are a bit unusual, I admire the fact that you look out for your friends and classmates. As for Recovery Girl, I know she will change her mind about today."
"How did you know?" I asked astonished.
"She keeps you in a quite high regard and doesn't shy away to mention it to us, teachers, even though you disobeyed her, she knows your heart is in the right place." his words warmed me up, usually Recovery Girl doesn't like to boost people's ego, and there were times when I questioned if I really was doing a good job, but All Might made me respect and appreciate Recovery Girl much more with this knowledge.
"Thank you." I grinned warmly as he let go of the embrace and patted my shoulder.
The rest of the ceremony passed quite fast, and I couldn't wait to finish already and go home for the day.
As All Might gave his ending speech, I looked at everybody that participated in the tournament, my eyes stopping at the other pink haired girl, Hatsume I believe was her name, how weird her hair was.
'It's like tube form, maybe dreadlocks, or close to it, gahh what is the logic of that hair, looks very awesome though, but weird at the same time.' I was thinking when people started slowly dispersing, indicating the end of the ceremony. I turned to my right to look at Bakugo that was burning holes with his glare in the medal that he was clenching in his hand, and all of a sudden there was a burning smell.
The gold started bending from the pressure and heat, he stopped and looked at me annoyed, then he turned and walked away, I didn't think too much of it, he usually does this, being that grumpy all the time couldn't be healthy.
I on my way home, walking on the sidewalk of a quiet neighbourhood when abruptly I was attacked ferociously, my legs couldn't keep up to what was happening, but it's not like I wanted to either when the cutest creature possible was battling you. It was a tiny snow-white kitten, with brown spots of dirt around, two completely different coloured eyes glancing at me, one blue and the other brown. I crouched down, as the kitten backed away hissing at me.
"Hey kitten, don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you." I said in a soothing voice, that calmed the tiny creature enough to approach my extended palm and sniff it, then started mewing at me, licking its mouth in hunger.
"Are you by yourself?" I asked scratching under its ear. "Like you could understand me."
I gently picked it up. "Hey there, cutie." The kitten looked with its gorgeous eyes at me and mewed again, purring softly.
"Ohhh, you are so adorable. Let's see if I have something to feed you back home." I gently spoke while holding my backpack in one hand and with the other the small feline that attacked me, making our way ensure that it gets food in its belly for the day.
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Hey, it has been quite some time since I posted something, I am terribly sorry. I am very curious to see your reviews about this chapter, I am trying to get better at writing so any constructing feedback is more than welcome. Also I wanted to ask you suggestions for Sakura's hero name and kitten.
I also made a drawing of Sakura if you want to check it out lidiutza72/art/Sakura-x-Bnha-780563087
I hope you are enjoying the story so far ^.^