On the ride to school, Mizuha couldn't help but simply gaze out the window and think about how she was supposed to 'fix' herself so that she can use her Quirk properly. Despite the music playing in her ears, she couldn't hear the lyrics since her thoughts were clouding her mind. She slowly glanced at the empty seat next to her, Byakuren was not with her today. Even if his normal routine was to arrive at school later than Mizuha, this time he actually woke up early for once but he did not go to school instead he went straight to the hospital where their siblings were put in. He wanted to tell his sister about how he got into the same school she graduated from and how he's made new friends there too.

Unlike her friend, she didn't really jump at the opportunity to visit her brother in the hospital. It made her uncomfortable. She only went whenever her mother wanted to drop by. Her mother didn't encourage her to visit after she saw how she would fidget in the corner of the room near the door like some stranger. She just felt ashamed to be there.

Once off the bus, she went started on the path to school with an apathetic face. She still tried to think about a way to prove to her teacher that she could use the full extent of her Quirk. She still had no idea how she could make herself move on and, frankly, the thought made her uneasy. If she couldn't fix her problem, then Aizawa had an expulsion card written with her name on it.

Mizuha cast her eyes down and frowned.

This wasn't how it was supposed to work out. I was supposed to just use my Quirk the way I could and become a hero. Why can't I just use the solid phase?

It's not fair.

If only he wasn't my teacher then all of this could have been kept under wraps.

When Mizuha arrived in front of the school, she paused to look up at the building. Blue. The colour that the windows reflected from the sky. She looked back in front of her and slowly walked into the school.

I'm feeling kinda blue right now.

Despite it being her first day of school yesterday, she already had the way to her classroom engraved into her mind. She didn't even pay attention the numbers of the classroom but only to what she remembered.

She let her feet guide her to her classroom as she stared at the view beyond the glass windows. Before she even knew it, she was already facing the door. She breathed in deeply and opened the door and then slipped into the the classroom without making too much noise. She saw that some of her classmates were already in the room but she paid no attention to them. She quietly closed the door behind her and walked to her desk.

She pulled back the desk chair and planted herself in her seat. Mizuha placed a hand in front of her mouth and yawned, she was starting to think it probably wasn't a good idea to over think her situation. She actually ended up sleeping at midnight which meant she only had five hours of sleep. Not that it would change anything, she was quite nocturnal, something her mother never approved of since she lacked the proper hours of sleep.

She shivered a little before leaning forward against her desk. Mizuha didn't even know what was her first class, all she knew is that she had math today. She was so glad that one of the classes before lunch was mathematics. At U.A High School, her uncle Eijin was the third years' math teacher however this year he was not only the third years' teacher but also Class 1-A's second teacher. There other one was Ectoplasm. She wasn't sure which one was going to show up though.

...

...

...

So far, no one had spoken to Mizuha except for Byakuren. He passed by her desk to greet her and to give her the normal update on their siblings.

They're still sleeping.

He spent a few minutes with his butt planted on her desk as she lazily propped herself up by leaning her cheek into her palm. Not even two seconds after he sat down, Iida came rushing towards them and start saying how he shouldn't be sitting on the desks that their seniors had gracefully studied on.

This made Byakuren smile in confusion and made Mizuha scowl in annoyance. In the end, she told Byakuren to beat it if he was only going to cause an uproar at her desk.

Thankfully no one else came to see her since she just wanted to keep her head down for a little while since she was bored. She didn't want to kill time with her phone so she chose to just do nothing and pretend like she was sleeping. She thought Kirishima would also greet her but she figured he got held back when she heard Byakuren in the back of the class saying she was sleeping.

The bell went off and math class finally began. Mizuha, now fully awake, kept her eyes on the door and waited for the teacher to enter the classroom. The door slid to the side and the educator was revealed. A man wearing sleeveless black open vest, a white shirt with beige patterns, black and white pants, black boots, black elbow pads and black gloves. He had spiky silver coloured hair and dull onyx eyes that matched her own. He was carrying a math book and he took long strides to the desk. Mizuha could hear audible mutters in the classroom as he walked inside in his own casual way. He dropped the book on top of the wooden desk and stared at all of the faces in front of him.

It was faint, but Mizuha heard it. Someone was fanboying somewhere behind her about who the teacher standing before them. She wasn't sure if she had good hearing or either he was actually pretty loud about it.

"It's the Mirror Hero! Joker!" They squealed silently. Squeal? Okay, now she really had to see how it was—

SLAM!

Mizuha jumped in her seat and stared at the teacher with disbelief. The hell was that for? Apparently, the man slammed his hand on the desk as a type of 'icebreaker'.

"Alright Class 1-A, I will be one of your math teachers for this year. My name is Kishokei Eijin. Pleasure to meet you all." He said before glazing over to the math book and opening it.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too sensei!" A familiar voice boomed in the back.

Eijin glanced up with a what-the-heck expression. Mizuha covered her mouth by pretending she was brushing her nose with the back of her index finger. She was chuckling at the sight of her uncle's face. He shook his head and went back to searching for his page.

"Alright, turn to page twenty-five of your math books. Bring out a notebook because you'll all be taking notes starting today. I'm sure most of you are more interested in doing hero work instead of doing things like studying math. However, don't forget you are still high school students that still need to study things like any other high school student. And as long as you are in my classes, you won't have time to think that you can take it easy. So-"

Mizuha rolled her eyes and pulled her attention away from her uncle and went straight for the books. The quicker she finishes the work the more time she'll have to do nothing when it was actually time to do the work when he finished explaining.

She smirked at what the page presented her with. Quadratic formula. Looks like I'll be taking it easy for this chapter.

As her uncle kept going on about math, she ignored him and went ahead to complete the work on page twenty-five.

Once the bell that indicated the start of lunch went off, Mizuha stretched in her seat like a cat. She leaned back in her seat and had both arms in the air before going limp against her desk. She scratched the itchy part of her head before reaching down to grab her bag.

Mizuha was now back to thinking about how she was supposed to fix herself so she could use her Quirk properly. However, the more she thought about it there was only one answer that came to her.

Go see him.

She really wasn't fond of the idea but she knew she had to start somewhere.

Mizuha grabbed her bag and went down to the bathroom to go and do her business. She preferred racing to the bathroom rather than taking her sweet time. It was for the sake of not waiting in a giant line. It was so irritating for her ever since she found out that, most of the time, some girls stayed in there to do something that didn't involve peeing or taking a crap.

She once remembered a girl who went into a stall only to come out three minutes later. Honestly, what the heck was that girl doing in there? She didn't even hear that girl flush the toilet!

Mizuha also found it gross how girls would come out of the stalls and check themselves in the mirror, touching their face and all that, without even washing their hands. They would just leave the bathroom, leaving Mizuha to wonder how sanitary they were on a scale of ten.

When she left the bathroom and took out her phone from her pocket, she messaged Byakuren about his whereabouts. He replied to her by saying he was sitting at the same table from yesterday. She bit her lips and put her phone back in her pocket. Mizuha was betting her left eye that Kirishima was sitting there too.

She couldn't help but notice that Byakuren had clicked with Kirishima. Well not just him but some other of their classmates as well.

Yesterday, whenever it was the recreation, Byakuren would take that chance to start talking with their classmates. That was because he was way more sociable than her. He didn't make new friends in school like he did in elementary school. Strangely, he couldn't find many people who had things in common with him.

Now, it was different. It was not just her, but many other students shared more things in common with him now.

The sense of abandonment was crawling behind her back like a weird itch. The girl had no idea why though. It's not like he cut ties with her. If she had to take a guess, then it had to be the fact that she was a little protective over someone she had known for years that caused this feeling inside of her.

When she entered the cafeteria she went straight for the table he was occupying. This time, it was only Kirishima sitting at the table with him. They appeared to be chatting about something until Byakuren noticed her approaching the table. He pointed his finger in her direction and then Kirishima turned around to see her.

Her red haired classmate waved at her, "Hyoumei!"

Mizuha held in the urge to frown and simply nodded her head to acknowledge him. When she arrived, she casually pulled out the chair next to the toothy male and sat next to him in front of Byakuren. She never sat next to Byakuren unless it was the only available seat, it was the same thing for him.

When she was silently taking out her lunch, she discreetly peeked to the side to check if Kirishima was watching her but thankfully he wasn't and was just munching away on his food. She let out a small breath of relief.

Byakuren swallowed his food and reached for his juice box, "Mizuha, help me with math." He ordered before drinking from his box.

The only reply he got was Mizuha ripping off one end of the plastic around her straw and blowing into the straw to make the plastic fly into his face. He blinked several times and then watched her nonchalantly poke a hole into her juice box. He pouted.

Kirishima made a confused sound, "We literally just started learning a new chapter, how is it hard right now?"

The white haired student gave him a small eyed smile as the person in front of him glared daggers at him, "Mizuha happens to be a math wiz."

The red haired student's eyebrows rose up, "Really?"

Byakuren shrugged with a grin, "I don't know. She's good at math because she already learned the material until second year. She's actually been spending the past five years yawning in every math class and acing every exam."

Kirishima almost choked on his food, "Ehhh, that's kinda cheating isn't it?"

Byakuren laughed heartily, "That's what I said!"

Mizuha felt her ears turn red from the conversation. What on earth was Byakuren thinking revealing information about her just like that? She was trying to keep a low profile so other people wouldn't try befriending her. She wasn't comfortable with the attention he was directing at her.

Kirishima turned in his seat to face her just as she was about to put a piece of her waffle in her mouth. He placed his hands in front of him in a praying manner, "Hyoumei, if I ever have trouble in math, can I please come to you for help?" He begged with his eyes shut tightly.

The girl twitched in annoyance, this was exactly what she trying to avoid.

Mizuha scratched her cheek with her index finger, "Um..." She started. How was she supposed to answer? She didn't know how to answer negatively without being rude.

No, I don't want to. Out of the question.

No. Sounds too rude for someone I barely know...

Hell no. HELL NO.

"Um... we'll see?" She tried with an unsure look. She observed as his red eyes shot open and a grin widened on his face.

Kirishima was absolutely pleased with her answer since she didn't exactly shoot him down. Byakuren was enjoying the show in front of him. Mizuha was trying not to internally cry.

"Today's activity is this!" All Might pulled out a card that had the word BATTLE written on top. "Battle Training!"

After lunch, they had Foundational Hero Studies. It was the class that educates the students on how to act like a hero based on different situations. Apparently, All Might was the teacher for that class. He quickly informed them that their costumes that they submitted in drawing form will be their equipment for Foundational Hero Studies. He pressed a button on a remote and the suitcases that kept every student's costume was revealed. All Might told Class 1-A to change into their costumes and to head to ground Beta.

Mizuha swiftly grabbed the box with her number and name on it. As usual, she grabbed her padlock and speed walked towards the changing rooms. When she arrived, she placed the white suitcase on the floor.

She breathed in deeply, I hope they didn't screw up my freaking costume. My drawings were not bad, they were very detailed. If they screwed this up, I'm freezing the whole company.

When she opened her suitcase, she reached for the top parts of her costume and examined it. She had kind of designed it to look like her uncle and a bit like some character from a game, she couldn't help it the designs looked cool.

It didn't look exactly the same though. Her costume mostly had the colours black, white and a bit of a blue and purple. She quickly put on her costume and went towards the mirrors to see how she looked like.

She was wearing a black jacket with sleeves that stopped below her elbows. The end of the jacket covered her rear, making it a little long. She kept it unzipped.

It made her realize that she'd have to ask for something warmer for the winter weather.

Underneath, she wore a black and white shirt with a dark blue pattern. She was wearing dark blue pants and flat black and white buckled boots with red soles. On her right hand she wore a black fingerless glovelet and on her left she wore a black fingerless glove. They were both in form of combat gloves and they each had a metal plate on the back side just below her knuckles.

It doesn't look bad. It's not too tight nor too loose. She looked at the backside of her gloves and knocked her knuckles on top. These perfect to smack someone in the face. She thought with an evil grin as she pretended to hit someone with her fists.

Mizuha locked her locker with her padlock before jogging over to the doors. As she reached for it, the door opened from the other side. Mizuha's eyes widened and she quickly backed away from the door before she got hit in the face. It was a close one.

The person on the other side gasped in surprise.

"AH! Hyoumei! Sorry!" Uraraka quickly apologized.

Mizuha shrugged and shook her head, "It's alright." She said before moving aside to let her and the rest of the girls enter the changing rooms. The girls were quick to notice her costume and compliment her. But Mizuha just gently brushed them off by saying it was no big deal. Luckily, the moment they all had their backs turned, she slipped out of the changing room and bolted to ground Beta. There was no way she was staying in the girls' changing room.

On the way there, she met up with Byakuren. At the sight of her, he started laughing excitedly, "WOW! Yo, we look so cool!" He said with a grin.

Byakuren's costume consisted of a black and dark purple vest that was accompanied by a long white coat that extended down to his knees. He wore a grey belt to keep his black pants in place. He wore black shin-high boots with red soles. He also wore black gloves that revealed the skin of knuckles.

Mizuha huffed, "Oh please, you only look cool because I made those drawings for you!"

Byakuren pouted, "Well you were the one who insisted on drawing my costume..."

She narrowed her eyes at him and then rolled her eyes. "Yeah because watching you draw the same line over and over again got me so irritated. You seriously have zero art talent."

The white haired student shrugged, "Art isn't my forte." He agreed. "By the way, you are wearing so much black." He added.

Mizuha frowned, "I'd rather wear black than wear something that makes me a walking target. You're wearing white! You just scream," She put on a dumb expression and held her arms out stupidly, "Hit me!" She said in a funny voice before going back to her mocking expression.

Byakuren stared at her with an unamused expression, "Very funny."

Mizuha stuck her tongue out with a grin before walking off. Byakuren dragged himself to her side and walked with her. She let a small smile appear on her lips as she stuffed her hands in the pockets of her jacket, enjoying their brief time together.

"Hey, after school, I wanna buy gummy bears." She said with a small bounce in her step.

Byakuren looked at her with a disapproving look, "I don't think you should be eating too many sweets. Your mom doesn't like it."

Mizuha frowned. It's not like she really had an immense sweet tooth.

"Alright, then.. I'll buy an iced cappuccino!" She decided instead, she was sure she had enough money for that. Next to her, Byakuren perked up and walked in front of her with a grin. She narrowed her eyes at him as she already guessed what he wanted.

"I'm so tempted to say no..." Mizuha said slowly.

Byakuren held his hands together in a begging manner, "I'll pay you back!" Byakuren yelped and jumped away from her punch.

"You always say that! You owe me at least thirty-five dollars in total!" She screeched while trying to reach for his hair.

Kirishima let out a sound that expressed his amazement towards Byakuren's costume. The white haired student was going around flaunting his costume in front his friends, pretending that his coat was some sort of cape every time he quickly spun.

Whenever someone would compliment his costumes' design, she would place herself behind that person and directly stare at Byakuren. She would give him a hard stare which he ignored and said he really did do a good job on his costume. Mizuha wanted to kick him.

When everyone arrived, All Might called them over to him so he could begin explaining the exercise of the day. They were going to be doing indoor villain situations. The cleverest villains hid in the shadows, meaning inside places. They would be split up into teams where they would fight each other two-on-two with the exception of one battle that will be three-on-three. One team would be the Villain Team and their job was to protect a nuclear weapon from the Hero Team until time runs out. The Hero Team had to either dispose of the weapon or capture the villains to win the battle.

All Might pulled out a box and told everyone to line up so they can pick their teams. Naturally, Mizuha followed Byakuren into the line. When it was finally his turn to pick his team, Mizuha was peeking behind his shoulder to see what he was going to pull out. The white haired student pulled out his hand from the box and pulled out a piece of paper with the letter 'I' written on top.

He spun around his heel with a grin and walked out of the line to find his teammates. Mizuha did the same, she let her fingers dance around inside the box and pulled out a slip. When she did, she walked out of the line and read her slip.

Team B... who are my teammates?

Mizuha glanced around, there was already students paired with each other. She frowned, she quickly walked over to Byakuren and pulled on his arm.

He looked at her, "What?"

She held up her slip, "Team B."

He shrugged off her arm with a weird look, "I don't know. I'm Team I. Go ask around."

Mizuha clicked her tongue in annoyance, Useless.

"Um," Ojiro said, "Hyoumei. I think Team B is over there." He said while pointing to her left. Mizuha's head turned in the direction of where he was pointing.

"You're with Shoji and Todoroki." He informed her. She already knew some of names of her classmates by the time they had Foundational Hero Studies.

She blinked.

... So dual-man and multi-man... Got it.

Mizuha thanked him and joined up with her teammates. When they noticed her, she merely held up her slip without a word. She decided to just stand next to Todoroki while waiting for the rest of her classmates to get into their own teams. No one in her team had spoken a word and she didn't want to anyway. All they really said was their names to sort of greet each other.

Shōji Mezō. He was a tall giant that was probably at least twenty centimeters taller than Mizuha. He had white hair that swooped down and covered the right side of his face. He was wearing a light blue mask that covered everything below his eyes. The only facial characteristic trait you could see was his left eye. If it wasn't obvious enough, he had six arms.

Todoroki Shōto, the student with the short dual coloured hair. His hair was evenly split where the right side was white and the left side was red. His eyes were also two different colours, grey for his right and turquoise for his left... a clear case of heterochromia. However, the feature that Mizuha noticed the most was the large scar on the left side of his face. She was wondering how he could have possibly gotten a scar like that during his childhood. It definitely wasn't the type of scar you get after you trip and fall. She wondered if he had some type of accident.

Once everyone was teamed up, All Might announced the first battle teams. Team A vs Team B, Uraraka and Midoriya were the Hero Team while Bakugo and Iida were the villains.

"The villain team goes in first!" Their teacher said before turning around, "The timer starts in five minutes when the hero team sneaks in! The rest of us will be watching from the monitor room!" He said before walking off to the said room, everyone except the four students followed their educator. As Mizuha glanced back towards the two teams, she noticed that Bakugo was glaring at Midoriya.

Geez, what did you do Midoriya? This guy always looks like he wants to tear you apart

Mizuha ended up being impressed with the first battle. Despite Bakugo going around attacking Midoriya like a feral animal, he still knew how to fight. His instinct was his own strategy. As for Midoriya, she liked the way he persevered against Bakugo until the very end. He had left Uraraka with the task of finding the weapon while he kept the dangerous opponent busy. A pretty good strategy considering how Bakugo was the one hunting. Midoriya and Bakugo were aiming a punch at each other that was enhanced with their own Quirks. But instead off attacking his opponent, he aimed for the floor above them to allow Uraraka to reach the weapon. His last move got him severely injured since he blocked Bakugo with his free arm. In the end, Midoriya was sent to the nurse's office while the others were called back to discuss about their battle.

As Yaoyorozu explained the reason why Iida was the real MVP of the battle, Mizuha couldn't help but feel sour. It was obvious that the taller girl was smart and that didn't please her at all. She was so used to being the top student in her classes that the mere thought of being matched or even surpassed was something difficult for her to accept. She knew that she was attending a very good school most likely meant very good students would attend too.

Mizuha narrowed her eyes at Yaoyorozu, She and Todoroki are part of the four recommended students... Damn it. Man, I hate my middle school.

"Alright! Let's move on! For the next battle, Team I will be the villain team while Team B will be the hero team!"

The moment All Might said those words, Byakuren and Mizuha looked at each other. In that instant, Mizuha's face slowly hardened and she was glaring at the white haired student next to her. He merely stared at her with half-lidded eyes and a cunning smile.

There it was, a glimpse of that hidden personality.

Both teams went the Building B where the next battle was going to be held, after all they couldn't use the one that was practically destroyed from the inside. Like the first battle, Mizuha and her team had to wait five minutes before they could begin. During those five minutes was a complete silence between her and her teammates. She seriously thought they would discuss about what they should do but apparently not. Again, it's not like she going to initiate some type of communication.

All Might's voice rang, "Now! Let's start the second indoor person-to-person combat training match!"

Immediately, Shouji walked into the building and then stopped. Mizuha raised an eyebrow as she continued walking in with Todoroki behind her. The moment Shoji's limbs transformed into an ear, Mizuha's eyes widened in surprise and she nearly bolted behind Todoroki. She was absolutely glad she didn't though since all her classmates including the teacher were watching her!

She and Todoroki stopped advancing and waited for Shoji to provide them with information. She watched as a few of the limbs turned into mouths. Freaking mouths. What the heck.

"Two are in the hall on the north side of the fourth floor. The other is somewhere on the same floor... they're barefoot." It said.

Then as if the mouths had a mind if its own, one of them 'looked' at the other mouth and guessed that Hagakure was probably on her way to ambush them. Todoroki then began to move again, walking past both his teammates while telling them to go outside since it was going to be dangerous.

"I'm sure our opponents intend to fight a defensive battle..." The dual coloured haired student said while lifting up his right hand. Mizuha's eyes widened once she was frost swirl around his hand. Her classmate approached a wall to merely place his palm on the surface and then whole building was getting completely frozen, "... but that doesn't matter to me."

Mizuha stared in disbelief as ice was now the only thing that was beginning to surround her. Todoroki warned them to leave since it would be a dangerous for them. Shoji quickly left the building as the ice continued its task.

She was actually going to turn around and leave until she remembered that a certain someone was quite familiar with ice. He definitely wouldn't get caught by the ice if her protected himself with a wind barrier. Without a word, Mizuha sighed and ventured forth while completely ignoring his warning. She was no stranger to walking on ice.

"Hey, I said it was dangerous."

Mizuha stopped walking a few meters ahead of him and looked back over his shoulder. "I'm not deaf. Ice won't change anything." she simply said before walking off to the stairs and jumping up. Then a wave of ice appeared beneath her feet and led her up the stairs, giving Todoroki the message she verbally didn't wanted to waste her breath on. She was kind of enough to shatter the rest of the ice to let him climb up the stairs.

And don't get cocky about doing this thing on your own.

When she walked up the stairs after shattering her ice, Todoroki climbed up a few steps away from her. He had frozen Hagakure in her tracks so there was no need to worry about getting ambushed. Ojiro was probably sharing the same fate as well.

"Don't come in when we find the door."

Todoroki looked at her, "Pardon?"

She didn't bother repeating what she said, instead she continued but she spoke a little louder. "Let me go inside first. The other guy is most likely guarding the weapon by himself now. His Quirk can rip solid things apart into smaller fragments. That means your ice didn't even reach him."

He narrowed his eyes at her, "What makes you so confident?"

Mizuha scratched her arm to distract the chill she felt running down her back. "I know him." she simply said letting out a puff of white. "So, I'll deal with him."

Mizuha hoped that he didn't think she was implying that he was weak. No, far from it. She was just stating what she knew from experience. Plus, she had nothing to gain from calling him weak.

"There is so much time to spare. However, we shouldn't be taking advantage of the fact that this is merely a simulation of an indoor battle. Time is crucial." He finally said after a moment of silence.

Mizuha silently sighed in relief. He understood what she meant, that was a relief. They both walked up to the third floor effortlessly despite how icy the steps were.

"Alright, deal with him the way you see fit. I'll back you up if necessary." Todoroki said, agreeing with her plan.

As they continued all the way to the fourth floor, Mizuha kept thinking about the possible moves Byakuren might have planned. He was the genius tactician out of the two of them, she would naturally pick up some of his ways of thinking too.

The floor is icy. He might might have adapted a bit to walking on ice from our training. Then, he'll be running straight at me or he might put up a wall of wind... No, it might damage the building and weapon, too dangerous. If not, then he's probably hovering over the ice with a small tornado beneath his feet to keep him afloat. If he's afloat, he's mostly likely to attack with his leg since he'll be at a higher level, throwing a punch might take him too long to get back into his stance... Which one...

Mizuha didn't look at her teammate as she held up a hand for him to stop.

Mizuha was the first to go in when they arrived. Byakuren was literally waiting for her to enter the room. He was standing on the ice. Ojiro, fortunately, was unable to move from his spot and could not interfere unless she got close to him, he might whack her with his tail.

As one of the moves she predicted, Byakuren zoomed in front of her and aimed his right leg to left side of her neck. A pretty risky move to do while standing on ice. He's just lucky he had wind supporting his body. It was a like a crutch for him.

Mizuha glared darkly at him and immediately raised her left arm to block his leg. She slammed the back side of her other hand with the metal plate on his shin. She saw him visibly wince at the impact so she used that opportunity to raise her foot and kick him backwards into his stomach.

Byakuren gasped for air as he rolled back.

I need to get close!

A baseball bat made of ice formed in her hands and then she swung down. The boy yelped and rolled away.

"Whoa!" Byakuren moved away when she swung again. He sweat dropped at the sadistic grin on her face, clearly enjoying their little game.

In the midst of his roll, he shot an arc of wind to break the ice-bat. But she predicted that and trapped him under a sheet of ice that began to seal him to the floor while he was on his stomach. He groaned and quickly shattered it tried to kick her away to send her flying away from him with his Quirk. She was way too close to him.

She predicted his move and rolled over to the right side. Byakuren hastily gathered himself up to his feet but Mizuha didn't give him the chance to attack again. This time, she tackled him from the back to push him down onto the floor. Before landing, she prepared both her hands to freeze him to the floor. Upon landing, she began freezing him by placing her hands on his shoulders.

Byakuren released a whirlwind from both of his palms that were parallel to his body and facing upwards, directed towards Mizuha. However, Mizuha released him and dodged by a strand of hair. She quickly got up and then slammed her foot down on his back. Her foot spread ice down onto his back and it traveled rapidly all over his body until he was completely encased, she even covered his head to be extra careful. He wouldn't be able to use his Quirk in a vacuum.

She breathed out and her breath appeared white thanks to the chilly air.

She stood up straight and noticed she did everything right in front of Ojiro's feet, he looked shocked at how she easily dealt with his teammate, it happened so fast. Todoroki walked towards the weapon at his own pace. Even as Todoroki walked towards the weapon, the student with the tail still held up his fists despite having his feet frozen.

"You can move if you want, but the skin on your feet will come off, so you won't be able to fight your best." He said and walked past Ojiro.

Todoroki placed his left hand on the weapon and All Might announced Team B as the winner.

Mizuha removed her foot from Byakuren's back and then slammed her foot on it, cracking it. She reached down and plucked out a small piece of ice and then backed away cautiously. The next second, a burst of wind shattered away the ice from the small point and grew larger until most of his body was freed. Byakuren shook the ice pieces out of his hair. He shot her a grouchy look for her victory.

She stared at him apathetically.

Todoroki started melting the ice around them.

The only reason she was able to counter his attack was because she was familiar with him. Plus, Todoroki's Quirk was able to reduce her chances of failing by stopping Byakuren's other teammates. It wouldn't matter if she was stronger than Byakuren. In a fight, Byakuren liked playing smart. His judgement, analysis, strategy were his key to victory. He was also fairly good at hand-to-hand combat. This aspect only made him more difficult to beat. However, not everyone is invincible.

Mizuha scrunched up her nose at the heat. Already fed up with the heat in the room, she decided to leave before anyone else.

Todoroki is a freaking walking thermostat.

"Did you see the look on Hyoumei's face?" Kaminari lightly jabbed Kirishima with his elbow as the projection showed the the back view of Todoroki and Mizuha leaving the building.

Kirishima looked at him with confusion, "See what?"

Kaminari was taken aback, "She looked like she wanted to crush Kyouran!" he glanced back at Bakugo and then back at Kirshima. He put a hand between them, "She looked like a mini Bakugo for a split second... minus the scary smile." He whispered.

"She's pretty fierce." Kirishima grinned.

As both teams returned, everyone noticed how Byakuren was limping his way back. Mizuha felt just a little guilty about hurting him and she apologized once. All Might had to call in another pair of bots to deliver another injured student to Recovery Girl. Apparently, she hit his shin so hard that he really needed proper medical care. While she did feel a little bad about hurting him, she couldn't help but feel proud. The gloves she asked for were definitely going to help her defend herself in the future. Mizuha then spent the rest of her time watching the remaining battles and was feeling a tad bit sleepy throughout the rest of class. The lack of sleep and lack of energy was getting to hear.

When everyone did their own battles, All Might praised them for their first battle training.

"Change out of those costumes and head back to the classroom!" All Might said before leaving them in a hurry... in such a hurry that he left a gust of wind behind. Everyone but Mizuha was amazed.

Mizuha squinted her eyes and walked forward, as much as she liked All Might she wasn't about to stay behind and talk about him like the others. She just wanted to sit down in the classroom and rest a little bit.

She yawned a couple of times on the way to the changing rooms.

Byakuren returned to class a few minutes after their next class began. Mizuha almost laughed out loud during the time he took when he went to go to his seat. First, he put on an angelic apologetic smile on his face and bowed down. He apologized to the teacher for disrupting the lesson. After the teacher told him to get his seat, Byakuren did a close eyed smile and nodded.

This made Mizuha chuckle into her palm. Second, when he walked to his seat there were a couple of whispers directed to him. They were asking him if he was okay despite getting healed. He answered with "Thank you for worrying about me, but I'm fine! Please don't worry about me."

This made Mizuha jolt in her seat as she suppressed a surge of laughter. She knew he meant Thank you for worrying about me, but can you all just stop gawking at me like as if I was a newborn fawn that didn't know how to walk?

After school, everyone was chatting together. Mizuha glanced behind her shoulder and noticed that everyone was already talking to each other. Their first battle training gave them an excuse to socialize with each other. Todoroki was not one of them, by the time it was 3 o'clock he was already on his way to the door.

Byakuren was one of them. She watched as he demonstrate that his leg was fine, he was stomping on the floor and tapping his shin.

She couldn't help but feel a twinge in her heart at the sight. There it is... that annoying feeling again. The silver haired girl looked back in front of her and sighed as she looked under her desk to pulled out her bag. She zipped it open and began putting her things inside.

"Bakugo! Where are you going?" Kirishima asked.

Mizuha looked up and searched for Kirishima and Bakugo. She spotted the ash blonde haired student and spiky red haired student. The latter was standing in front of Bakugo who was already set on leaving the classroom and heading home. The others tried to convince him on staying a little longer until Midoriya returned. However, he didn't listen and merely walked around Kirishima to reach the door. Without a word, he opened the door, walked out and closed it behind him.

... Bakugo Katsuki. He's the guy that ranked first too. From what I can tell... he seems to be a little depressed right now. So he's one of those guys with big egos, huh? But he's plenty strong... I'm sure he knows that... so why is he so bummed out about the results of his battle? Does he have something against Midoriya? He often calls him 'Deku'. Wait that's not even his name is it? His name is Midoriya Izuku. So, why call him Deku?

They probably knew each other.

Mizuha pulled out her phone and checked the time. It was already 3:10. She slowly looked up from her phone and glanced back at Byakuren, he was still busy talking with his new friends. He probably wanted to wait for Midoriya to return from the nurse's office so that he could introduce himself.

The silver haired girl clenched her fist tightly. I really don't want to go...

She quickly stood up from her desk and pushed her chair back. She slung on her back pack and proceeded towards the door.

Byakuren, who had a perfect view of the class from his spot, noticed Mizuha leaving without saying a word as well. He quickly excused himself from his little group and went over to her.

"Mizuha!" He called.

Once she heard her name, she stopped in her tracks and looked at him with a confused face. "What?"

He pouted, "Where are you going?" He asked while leaning back against a desk with his hands in his pockets. "Can you wait a bit? We'll go home soon."

"... I'm going to..." She started but trailed off while looking at the floor. Mizuha lowered her head a little to the point where her eyes were curtained by her silver bangs. Byakuren quirked up an eyebrow and leaned forward to try and see her face. He hummed for her to continue.

She glanced at him under her bangs, "I'm going to the hospital." she said softly while rubbing her nose with her forefinger.

Byakuren's eyes widened and his mouth dropped a little, but then he slowly nodded and straightened himself. Mizuha lifted up her head to look at him properly, "I'm... gonna go see him, so... you can stay if you want."

The white haired student breathed in deeply before placing his hands on her shoulders, "Alright. This seems important for you right now, so I won't go with you. You'll need to do this thing alone."

She nodded.

"Just message me if something's up, alright?"

She nodded again.

Byakuren smirked, "And don't go home too late."

Mizuha rolled her eyes, "Gee, okay mom."

He laughed lightly before releasing her shoulders. She scowled at him and turned around to reach for the door.

"Aww! You guys are so cute together!" Ashido's voice squealed from afar.

Byakuren and Mizuha looked at the owner of the voice. She was skipping towards them excitedly, following her closely behind was Kirishima, Asui, Mineta and Sero. Mizuha cursed inside of her head as they all approached them.

"Kyouran, Hyoumei I didn't know you were dating." Ashido said excitedly.

"How long have you guys been together?" Sero asked.

"... um they aren't really-" Kirishima tried saying but was cut off by Ashido, "Hyoumei you're so lucky! You got such a good looking boyfriend!"

Mizuha almost laughed at that one, Good looking? All I see is an annoying spiky marshmallow!

"Kyouran, what base are you at?!" Mineta nearly screamed with his eyes wide.

Mizuha's right eye twitched, BASE? I'LL SEND YOU FLYING YOU TWERP! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT HEAD OF YOURS?!

Byakuren laughed and quickly told them to settle down. Mizuha groaned in annoyance before once again turning around to reach for the door.

However, she felt him wrap his arm around her mid section and she was pulled towards his side. She gaped at him as he did a close eyed smile, she looked down and saw his right arm around her right side. Oh, how she wished she could burn it off.

He put his hand under his chin thoughtfully, "Are we dating?"

"Are you?" Asui tilted her head with a finger on her chin.

Suddenly, she felt him move closer to her face until the sides of their cheeks were practically touching.

"How's this for an answer?" He asked with a mischievous tone.

Mizuha lost all patience with the guy locking her in a weird embrace. Before anyone could say anything, she immediately slammed her left arm into his stomach. Byakuren released her as he felt the air get knocked out of him, he stumbled backwards and supported himself with the edge of the teacher's desk.

Mizuha stared at him with an apathetic face, "How's that for answer?" was all she said before leaving the classroom. She really didn't want to waste any time with his stupid antics.

When she closed the classroom door, she could Byakuren's words, "I was only kidding! Violent Ice Queen!" He wailed accompanied by some groaning.

She huffed in annoyance as she walked off.

Honestly, what kind of sick twisted pleasure does he get from creating unnecessary attention like that?! He's never done this before! He normally brushes off the dating questions with a quip or something like that! God what is this guy planning?!

She all but ran down the hall to avoid anyone else. She raced past Todoroki down the stairs and growled in annoyance when she threw the front doors open.

STUPID SPIKY MARSHMALLOW!