Chapter 16
As soon as Midnight called the start of the fight Todoroki sent a powerful Ice wave at Izuku, who quickly made seals and prepared the counterattack "Wind Style: Vacuum Bomb!" the air sphere collided with Todoroki's attack shattering it completely
Todoroki growled and sent another ice attack towards Izuku who's again shattered it with another vacuum bomb. Izuku watched Todoroki intently, thinking about what to do or say to reach the stubborn boy, for the third time since the start Todoroki Sent another ice attack towards Izuku, who decided to change the approach and evade it throwing a kunai to the side and teleporting away from the attack.
Izuku then threw a couple of shurikens towards Todoroki, who quickly erected an ice wall to deflect the attack, before the ice boy could do anything, Izuku appeared in front of the Ice wall "Rasengan" Izuku's attack easily shattered Todoroki's wall and sent bi-colored teen back a few meters
Todoroki growled again and move to attack Izuku on close quarters, using an ice ramp; he took the high ground and jumped to deliver a punch to Izuku who blocked the hit. Todoroki smirked and quickly turned Izuku into an ice pilar
"It's over Midoriya," Todoroki said looking at the frozen Izuku, who suddenly disappeared into a cloud of smoke before Todoroki could even process what just happened a punch to the face sent it reeling to the other side of the arena
"Shadow clones are really useful to deceive your opponents you know" Todoroki's cold gaze returned with vengeance and sent the biggest attack of the fight, even Izuku's smile disappeared for a moment, he quickly prepared his next counter "Earth Style: Mud wall!" the pilar of ice was deflected again, but before Izuku could move he felt his feet stuck to the ground
He looked down and saw his feet frozen to the floor "How?" Izuku thought and looked around to see that Todoroki froze the entire arena, even the grass outside the ring was frozen "He knew I could stop his attack. It was just a distraction to froze me to the ground, really clever Todoroki, but what is your next move?" he turned up and saw Todoroki atop of his wall and saw Todoroki glaring at him
"I got you," Todoroki said then sent an attack down using Izuku's wall as a conduit. Izuku's eyes widened for a second before throwing his kunai at Todoroki who barely avoid it and teleported on the air, over the glaring Todoroki, he quickly undid his wall forcing Todoroki to jump to his glacier and slide down
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" Izuku breathed a powerful gust of wind towards the ground destroying Todoroki's massive Ice pilar in a couple of seconds, meanwhile, Todoroki was crouching on the ground with his head down barely enduring the pressure of Izuku's attack
"Just how powerful is that wind?! I can't move!" Todoroki thought using all his training to not faint at the pressure, a couple of seconds later the wind stopped and Todoroki could look up just to see his massive ice pillar completely shattered around the ring "What are you?" Todoroki whispered
"Just your regular Hero in training" Izuku said smiling at Todoroki
"Why are you doing this? I was wrong and at the moment you're stronger than me why haven't you just thrown me outside the ring!"
"Well, you're not taking me seriously why should I do the same?" Todoroki's face changed from anger to surprise then to anger again
"What are you talking about? Taking you seriously, did my father send you to try and change something?!" Todoroki took off running at Izuku, sending a flurry of punches that Izuku quickly evaded not losing sight of Todoroki's left arm.
"You're getting slower Todoroki," Izuku said before delivering a kick to Todoroki's side, who barely touched Izuku's leg before being sent away from the power of the hit "But, I do have to admit that your fighting skills are on the level of some pros" Izuku destroyed the ice off his leg and jumped away from another ice attack.
The fight continued like that Todoroki and Izuku trading punches, and while Todoroki was getting more hurt, he got some good attacks on Izuku too. But instead of feeling good about it, he was getting mad the more the fight lingered. After receiving a direct vacuum bomb to the chest that almost pushed him outside the ring, he got enough
"Why are you playing with me!? Todoroki screamed in rage "Why just don't finish this and get over it?!"
"I'll ask you the same Todoroki why are you playing with me? Why aren't you coming with everything you got?"
"That's it then? You just want me to use that bastard's power?!" Izuku looked at Todoroki and remembered a conversation he had minutes earlier with a certain flame hero
Flashback
Izuku was waiting to be called for his next fight, thinking about what he should do with his bi-colored classmate when someone appeared around the corner
"Ah I finally found you," a powerful voice said
"Endeavor?" Izuku questioned
"I've been watching your performance, and I have to say your quirk is something amazing, I dig a little with Present Mic, fusing your energy with the environment to create all those kinds of attacks, if we talk about power level yours is comparable with mine or even All Might."
"First of all it is kinda creepy that you went around asking about my quirk, I need to have a serious talk with Present Mic" meanwhile the teacher felt a shiver down his spine in the commentator booth "Second, I guess I have to say thank you?" Endeavor just huffed
"Shoto has to surpass All Might. The fight against you would be a good learning experience for him, so don't hold back, don't disgrace yourself or him by doing that" Izuku quirked an eyebrow "That's all that I needed to say, I'm sorry to interrupt you before your match" with that Endeavor started walking away
"I am not All Might or God's forbid you… and Todoroki isn't you either. If he reaches number one it will be with his strength not because is some weird duty you put on him" Izuku said turning back and walking towards the arena leaving behind Endeavor who was looking at him with his eyes narrowed
Flashback ends
"Todoroki think about this, what would happen when your ice side isn't enough to save someone? When your ice can't save innocents or fellow heroes what would happen then?"
"I will keep training with my power and make it enough!" Todoroki growled before sending another ice wave at Izuku who sidestepped it with ease
"I'll tell you what happens then Todoroki, people die. In just a blink people lives are lost because someone decided to not give his everything, someone whose job is to precisely that"
"I refuse, I'll be the number one without his power, and neither you nor he will stop me!"
"That's where you're mistaken Todoroki, you want to be the number one hero go for it, I believe YOUR power is enough to do that" Todoroki's eyes widened "But that's the thing Todoroki, you need YOUR power to do it. Do you know what do I see when I look at you? Todoroki Shoto bright hero in training, not Endeavor, when I analyzed your quirk? I wrote Half hot and half cold not hell flame" Todoroki's eyes widened a bit more
"You're your own person Todoroki" The ice user stood there frozen in place, a lost memory appeared suddenly on his mind
"Do you want to be a hero? You can be one… You don't have to be a prisoner of your blood, it's okay for you to be what you want to be"
A massive pillar of fire appeared from the left side of Todoroki whose eyes were widened in shock, everyone in the stands watched the display of power amazed. Izuku smiled at the sight
"Helping your enemy, not taking your chance to beat me when you could, who is the one playing around? I'm going to be a hero!"Todoroki said grinning, Izuku's smile widened. Endeavor shouted something about finally accepting him and making his dream come true that both teens decided to ignore
"Why are you laughing you had me on the ropes there… now it's time for me to turn this battle around!" Todoroki created a massive attack of ice that Izuku jumped to avoid, then a wave of heat started to rise from Todoroki's left side when suddenly the heat disappeared in an instant.
Todoroki's eyes almost bulged out of his sockets and he barely maintained consciousness. He slowly turned to his right and saw Izuku smiling at him his fist still deep into his stomach "How?" he barely whispered
"Ah I put my seal on your uniform when I kicked you earlier" Izuku smiled scratching his head "Honestly I hate to do it like this, but if I did differently we would have caused a lot of collateral damage" Izuku grinned a bit and saw Todoroki starting to lose consciousness "This is your story Todoroki, I'm excited to see how it will go from here"
"Todoroki is unconscious! The winner of the first semifinal is Midoriya Izuku!" a second later the crowd roared in excitement. Izuku held Todoroki until the medical bots appeared to put him on a stretcher
He turned at the crowd smiling and his eyes met Endeavor's, Izuku couldn't help but smirk at the palpable rage of the number 2 hero
Izuku walked to the stands with the rest of his classmates, when suddenly he was received by a powerful pink blur slamming on him
"Ugh!"
"Midori, you did it!" exclaimed Mina lifting Izuku off the ground "it was a lot less flashy than I expected but you did it!" Izuku chuckled and felt a hand grabbing his shoulder
"As manly as ever Midoribro, you never cease to amaze me!" Kirishima said grinning
"I'm just glad I could help out Todoroki" Izuku saw Uraraka a few steps behind them smiling fondly at him
"You did amazing Izuku," she said softly
"Thanks, Ochako" both students stood there smiling softly for a second until a croaky voice interrupted the moment
"So you use your given names now kero," Tsuyu said tilting her head a little, both teens blushed at that comment
"Well you see Tsuyu things happened and well we just kinda… started …to…" Izuku eyes widened and quickly slapped Kirishima on the chest, the redhead looked at Izuku who pointed at Tsuyu's head Kirishima turned to see Tsuyu, and his body instantly hardened
"What are you doing with that on your head Tsuyu?" Kirishima screamed pointing at the small purple frog on Tsuyu's head
"Oh you mean this little guy?" she pointed at the small frog "It came with this" she took a scroll from her pants "It's for you Midoriya chan" Tsuyu tilted her head again confused by the reactions of her friends. With a shaky hand, Izuku took the scroll, a kunai ready on his other hand
"Well I have the message, you can go now," Izuku said but the small frog croaked and shook its head "What do you mean no!" Izuku almost shouted, he quickly opened the scroll, "You asked permission to stay here?!" The small frog nodded "No, no, no it's not happening you can't I forbid it!" The small frog pointed to the scroll, Izuku kept reading "My mom said yes?!" The small frog nodded proudly, Izuku kept reading then smirked. "Aha! It says here that you aren't allowed to shoot water to me or Kirishima!" The small frog shrugged and accommodated itself on Tsuyu's head
"Gamabu has its orders Kirishima, it won't attack us… but keep your eyes open" Both teens glared at the small frog that was comfortable on Tsuyu's head. Izuku sighed and looked around "Where is Iida?"
"He had a family emergency and left to take a phone call after your battle ended," Ochako said frowning a little
"Did he tell what happened?" Izuku asked and everyone shook their heads
"Let's just hope is nothing too serious" Present Mic announced the next battle and everyone sit down with their thoughts away from the battle in front of them
Izuku was walking towards the ring trying to focus on his next battle against Bakugo. The explosive blonde managed to win against Tokoyami after understanding the weakness of Dark Shadow.
Izuku reached the ring for the fourth and last time that day, he looked around smiling at the sight of the expectation on the people's faces. A growl and a shout made him focus on his opponent
"What are you looking at Deku?! Don't get too full of yourself only because you beat that half and half bastard" Izuku turned to see Bakugo being his usual angry self and shook his head deciding to ignore him "Don't ignore me, shitty nerd!"
"It seems that the last fight is already on fire! Ladies and Gentlemen this is the last battle of the first-year sports festival!" Present Mic shouted "On one side we have the blonde bomber with iron vocal cords! Seriously someone has to check if he has a secret screaming quirk because all that shouting isn't normal or safe for anyone's throat! Bakugo Katsuki!"
"You don't have ground to talk about that Mic" Eraserhead deadpanned
"I don't know what you're talking about! And on the other side, the Green battle machine! The guy whose quirk is as weird and unpredictable as his hair, the green flash of UA Midoriya Izuku!"
"This is it Deku, this is the moment I remember you where your place is, below me!" Bakugo growled, Izuku just shook his head and waited for Midnight to start the fight
"Are both combatants ready?!" Both Nodded "Start!"
Bakugo instantly took off running at Izuku with his hands crackling with explosions. Izuku quickly pulled a scroll from his back pouch and threw it in the air
"As if I would let you do that!" Bakugo blasted the scroll before Izuku could summon all the kunai from it, then he instantly used an explosion to barely avoid a kunai that Izuku threw at him, not noticing the shuriken falling from the sky to collide with the kunai and redirect it towards Bakugo's leg.
Bakugo growled when the kunai grazed his leg, his eyes widened when he saw Izuku at his side and before he could use an explosion, Izuku attacked him with a barrage of punches that he could barely block. He shot to the sky when he had enough space and aimed a powerful explosion at Izuku
"Water release: Rampaging water!" Izuku spat a powerful stream of water that engulfed Bakugo's explosion. Bakugo growled and used his explosions to dive towards Izuku
"Air release: Vacuum bomb" Bakugo avoided the attack and from the corner of his eye he noticed a kunai inside the air sphere, he quickly rotated and aimed an explosion towards the sphere when he felt a burn on his side
"Storm Release: Laser Circus!" Izuku shot several beams at Bakugo who tried to use his dexterity and mastery with his explosions to avoid most of the attacks, but there were so many that after a few good shots he dropped to the floor gasping
"Lava release: Ash stone sealing" before Izuku's binding technique could reach Bakugo, the exploded himself to the side and stood up breathing heavily
"I won't let you catch me again Deku" Bakugo growled and Izuku smiled before reappearing besides Bakugo who instantly threw an explosion to his right, Izuku was blown away and disappeared again reappearing where he was, smoking and with widened eyes, "You thought I didn't notice the shit you put on me Deku?!" Bakugo ripped the part of his blazer that had Izuku's mark
"You think you're so sneaky but I've been putting attention to your movements and every time you teleported this shit was there" Bakugo showed him the ripped cloth "Hope, that's so you"
"Your instincts and analytical skills are amazing Bakugo," Izuku said with a big smile "if you change your attitude I'm pretty sure you could give Todoroki a run for his money on being the number one hero" That irked Bakugo who roared in rage
"That shitty half and half don't have a chance, and neither do you bastard I'm going to be the number one above everyone!" Bakugo jumped again in the air and started spinning in the air creating a tornado using his explosions "Prepare yourself bastard this is my super move! HOWITZER IMPACT!"
"Do you assumed I only put one mark on you?" hearing Izuku's voice behind him, made Bakugo's blood run cold, making him falter just before he could finish his attack
"Rasengan!" Izuku's attack connected with Bakugo's back.
After Bakugo created the giant smoke tornado everyone expected a big explosion, but it didn't come, so everyone was there watching the smoke dissipate slowly, waiting to know what happened to the fighters.
After a few tense moments, the smoke finally dissipated and everyone was stunned at the sight. Bakugo was trapped in molten rock and Izuku was standing beside him
"Bakugo Katsuki is trapped and unconscious the winner of the first year sports festival is Midoriya Izuku!" the deafening cheer from the audience was music to Izuku
"And there you have it ladies and gentlemen with a landslide victory, the winner of the three events and champion of this year MIDORIYA IZUKU!" Present Mic shouted
After a few moments, Izuku walked towards Bakugo who was regaining his conscious
"I'm… not… done…yet" Bakugo managed to say
"It's over Bakugo, you shouldn't move that last technique is one of my strongest ones and you need to see recovery girl," Izuku said while releasing his sealing technique
"I can't… lose to… a shitty Deku… I can't lose… to a pebble on my path" Izuku stopped to look at Bakugo who was stubbornly trying to get up. Izuku almost got angry at that but he remembered his last talk with Fukusa sensei on Mt. Myōbokuzan
Flashback
"Aizawa sensei said something about needing to control my temper, but I rarely get angry! There are just some specific situations… and people that make me angry" Izuku was laying on the floor looking at the sky, his toad sensei laughed at that
"You're still angry at the boy who used to bully you huh," Fukusa said with a smirk
"I'm not… well maybe a little, it's just that he hadn't changed at all! He is the same prick he was when I left and that reminds me of the two years of suffering he put me through!" Izuku said not managing to hide the anger in his voice. Fukusa looked at his pupil and sighed
"Izuku I was hoping that you noticed it by yourself but even with your talent and great intellect you still have a lot to grow up, Izuku, this anger is putting a dent on your progress" Izuku sit up in a second
"What?!"
"Izuku when you started this path this anger towards him and how people treated you fueled your determination, but at this point that resentment and anger is only holding you back" Izuku was about to protest but Fukusa raised a paw "Izuku I'm not saying that you can't keep moving forward like that, in the past, there were a lot of ninjas that grew stronger from the hate and anger… but you're not like them, your ideals and your drives conflict a lot with that, your heart and mind are not aligned"
"I can't just forget about what happened!"
"Then don't do it… just forgive and kept moving forward" Izuku pouted a little and Fukusa laughed "Besides the only reason you found Minato's old books was because that kid was following you"
"I was running from being beaten!"
"Meh details" Izuku glared at his sensei but didn't say anything, he had a lot to think at the moment
Flashback ends
Izuku kneeled beside Bakugo who was struggling to keep himself awake, Izuku put a hand on his shoulder and smiled
"Don't… touch me shitty Deku" Bakugo said with a growl
"I forgive you Bakugo" Bakugo's eyes widened "I know you don't need nor want my forgiveness, but I forgive you, whatever happened when we were young… I forgive you" Bakugo stood there with his eyes widened meanwhile Izuku patted his shoulder and walked away, feeling like he just dropped a massive weight from his shoulders.
Izuku tried and failed to control his smile while standing on the first-place podium, a frozen Bakugo was on his right, the explosive blonde wasn't looking up from the floor. To his left sharing the third place where Todoroki and Tokoyami, Tokoyami trying to hide a smirk and Todoroki looked as if a massive weight was dropped from his shoulders
Izuku's smile finally faltered remembering what Iida told him about his brother being attacked by a villain "Ingenium is an amazing pro… the villain must be a monster if he beat him… Iida didn't have a lot of info so we can only hope that it wasn't anything that serious" Izuku was brought out from his thoughts by Midnight
"It's time to hand out the medals!" Midnight shouted, "Of course, the medal will be given by the man!" A powerful laugh echoed through the stadium "Our Hero All Might!" "I'M HERE TO DELIVER THE MEDALS!" a silence dominated the stadium for a moment "I'm sorry I talked over you" Midnight apologized
All Might took the medals from Midnight and approached Todoroki and Tokoyami
"Congratulations Young Tokoyami, you did amazingly well, but you can just rely on your quirk to fight against all the different types of villains that are around, train your strength and you'll be an unstoppable force" Tokoyami nodded and looked at his medal, All Might then turned to Todoroki who was deep in thought
"Young Todoroki, I'm sure you had a reason for not using our right side earlier and I won't pry, but I'm proud that you managed to decide at the end" Todoroki smiled
"My fight with Midoriya helped me think some things, and the first one is that I want to be a hero like me… and maybe in some parts as you, but I still have to sort out some things before I can be the hero Midoriya thinks I can be" Todoroki smiled softly
"I'm excited to see how your story will turn out from here" Todoroki instantly narrowed his eyes
"That's similar to what Midoriya said to me… at first I thought you trained him personally… but now I see that your relationship is deeper… love child maybe?" All Might used all his strength to not cough blood and Izuku squeaked a high-pitched "What!?" Todoroki looked at them quickly "I have to deeper this investigation" All Might decided to ignore him and move on
"Young Bakugo" All Might looked at the still frozen teen "I know that you have a hard time processing defeat" Bakugo flinched "but this is the best time to start again, there is nothing but moving forward from here, don't let this misstep put you down, use it to better yourself even more" Bakugo looked up at All Might who had his arms extended with the medal, he quickly looked at Izuku through the corner of his eyes then nodded and took the medal from All Might who nodded too and moved towards Izuku
"Young Midoriya, this is the outcome of all the years you passed training and bettering yourself… I'm proud of calling you my student and I'm eager to see how far you will go from here, you have the heart of a hero and that young Midoriya… That is what this world needs at the moment" All Might hugged Izuku and then turned around before starting his speech
"Anyone in this school could be in those podiums, never stop fighting, bettering yourselves and you'll reach farther every time, this generation of heroes is blooming amazingly, I just have one thing left to say, so please say it with me!" The public was already standing "THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!"
"PLUS ULTRA!" The silence was deafening for a second before everyone started to boo All Might
"WAIT I JUST THOUGHT THEY MADE A GOOD JOB!" Izuku couldn't help but smile at his idol
Somewhere in the city of Hosu, the hero killer was watching intently at the TV, normally he would be culling the fake heroes, but knowing that All Might was teaching the new generation was something worth watching, after all, he would be seeking those who wasted All Might teachings and turn into fakes
But apparently, this batch of young ones have some good potential, but one particularly grabbed the hero killer's attention, the now dubbed the Green flash. Stain finally moved from his spot after watching the full event without a flinch of his body
"Smart, powerful, even if he won every event he made sure to help everyone he could, also All Might's eyes are on him so he must be a REAL hero… and he is a master of ninjutsu… a shinobi" Stain's wicked smile appeared "I can't wait for our paths to cross Green Flash… maybe you'll be worth it to kill me someday… but today it's time to continue my hunt, after all, a shinobi must always complete his mission" Stain stood up and took his sword, his already red cold eyes turned yellow with snake-like irises and blackened sclera
A/N
I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THE SPORTS FESTIVAL AAH! Sorry for the delay… life is a bitch… like the biggest bitch ever, but we have to move on so here I am trying to write again! I have to say sorry for my bad Grammar I'm trying to get better but… honestly I don't have either the time or the money to get some classes or to buy good software, I use Grammarly! But I refuse to pay the premium features and all… mostly because I can't but you get it, so yeah sorry.
Back to the story, I'm finally done with this arc and I can finally change a lot of things! I plan to have a chill chapter next then into the fray again! I don't know maybe the next one will be a big ass chapter who knows it all depends on life and inspiration. Love to everyone and my best regards!
