The rest of the gym training passed by with Aki sparred with Nejire. The girl has a surprise amount of energy to use for her Quirk, but Aki vigorous trainings with Wolf proved to Nejire that he was a formidable foe. However, Nejire's fluency in air combat was too hard for Aki as the young Shinobi had a hard time close up the gap between the two to actually deal some serious hit to her, thus resulting in his defeat.

'I really need to find a way to deal with flying type enemies….Is there like an Anti-Air Combat style?'

Currently, Aki was standing inside an abandoned building that he occasionally used to practice. After bidding farewell to his classmates and Nejire, instead of going home, he took his bokken (wooden sword) here, trying to come up with something new.

'High Monk might prove effective against enemies who jumped, not the ones maneuver around constantly. Most of it hits on the ground targets anyway. Besides, its telegraph is too easy to read for a surprise attack…..'

'Shadowrush needs a platform for me to launch myself on the air, but I'm vulnerable on the way down.'

He shook the thoughts in mind away and positioned himself to face the dummy. The only solution he can find now is trying to defend himself after jumping with Shadowrush. Pulling his sword back, Aki launched towards it with a slide, stepping on the dummy and jumped. As soon as he felt that gravity was pulling him down, he threw Firecrackers on the air, landed with one foot on the ground before spinning a Whirlwind Slash.

"Hoh, a shinobi prosthetic….this was once…..Curious device you have there…"

A low deep voice mumbled loud enough that Aki could heard it. Turning his attention to the direction of the voice at the entrance behind him, Aki saw a large old man with white beard and long, braided hair that reached until his ankles. He was wearing the same outfit Wolf-sensei always wear, only this one was green and has feather as shoulder pad. The man cold, hollow gaze sent a small shiver down Aki's spine. One look and Aki immediately understood.

This man is extremely dangerous.

The stare-off between the two broken as soon as the man let out a loud, amusing laugh that only made Aki felt more threatened as he was looking for an escape.

"A young Shinobi….at this day and age. This is quite a turn of event."

He stopped laughing, drawed his sword and pointed it at Aki.

"Who is your master, boy? Not many people know my technique well enough to pass it down to someone else, after all."

As an insticnt, Aki got into his defense stance.

"Who are you?"

"Someone you wouldn't want to fight. Now, answer my question."

The killing aura that the man produced was suffocating. He was right. Aki does not want this fight. Decided to take a risk, Aki threw Firecracker at the man and made a run to a nearby window.

His escape was a total failure. As soon as the smoke started to fade, the old man threw 5 shurikens at the same time at Aki's direction, but didn't aim at him. 5 shurikens stuck in the wall in front of him made Aki knew that this is a warning shot. The man could kill him any moment he wants.

He decided to get as much information as he could. "You said that you invented Shadowrush?"

"I invented a different technique, but Shadowrush is a simpler version of it. Whoever your master is, he learnt it from me. His name. Now."

"I haven't introduced. Mochizuki Aki."

"Stalling for information? Smart."

The man drew his oversized katana backwards.

"But it doesn't matter if you aren't getting out of here alive."

He launched towards Aki with slide. It was the same move Aki knew. Shadowrush.

At least that was what he thought.

After Aki parry the thrust, the man launched towards the sky and Aki used it as an opportunity to ran.

Deadly mistake.

The moment the young Shinobi turned his back at the old man, his fate was sealed. The Great Shinobi landed with two powerful vertical slash. So powerful that it as he landed, the air around him seemed to be exploding into a storm of feather. So powerful that it cut down the young Shinobi life.

"At least you had the honor of dying under the hands of Daishinobi Fukuro (Great Shinobi Owl)."

Owl, for once in his life, was shocked at what he saw next. The lifeless body of the boy he killed launched towards him, attempting to cut his throat. Owl barely managed to dodge it, leaving a small cut on his neck.

Aki quickly got back into fighting stance as soon as he saw his assassination attempt failed. Gasping from pain after coming back from the death, he adjusted his breathing, ready for a fight.

Until the man bursted out laughing. Not the threatening laugh he had at first. Amusing, exciting laugh, like a child who just received a new toy.

"Hahahahahaha! You took in an interesting one, Ookami (Wolf)!"

The mention of his master's name and the sudden change in Owl's demeanor confused Aki, but the boy still put up his guard.

"Lower the sword, boy. I no longer have the need to fight you. Besides, you are no match to me even with that extraordinary ability of yours."

Aki thought for a moment before he lower his katana, but still refusing to let go of the wooden sword he was holding.

Owl looked pleased seeing Aki slightly let go of his guard. The man sheathed his own katana, walked towards Aki and handed a black feather and a scroll.

"Consider these as an apology for my rudeness. Tell your master I said 'Hi' "

With that, he walked out of the building, leaving a confused Aki at the unexpected turn of event.

The next morning, Aki woke up on the couch of….Wolf's house? How did he get here? He remembered heading home before….everything went blur.

Seeing no one was around, Aki headed towards the living room. To his surprise, Mei and Ochako were sleeping on the couch, while Shiro and Kuro were nodding of next to them.

"Finally waken up?"

Wolf's voice startled him as he turned his gaze away from the adorable scene. The Shinobi then proceeded to wake his two wards up, unintentionally waking up the two guests as well.

The group was drowsing in their sleepiness from being suddenly waken up, but as soon as they saw Aki, their eyes were wide open.

""Aki-kun!"" ""Aki-nii!""

"M-Morning." Slightly taken aback by the sudden shouting, he greeted.

The four of them immediately jumped at the boy for group hug. It went on for a few minutes before Wolf said.

"Everyone settles. My foolish student has some explanation to do."

Being the only one who senses the anger in Wolf's voice only made Aki dreaded about what to come.

"Mind explaining why were you covered in blood and fainted in front of the apartment at 1 a.m midnight?" Ochako crossed her arms as she asked.

"Fainted?" Aki asked back

"Gravity Girl found you half-death in front of your house and called me. We brought you here." Mei answered Aki's question.

"Why were you covered in blood in the first place?" Kuro's concernedly asked.

"….After school, I went to this abandoned building downtown to practice. There I met an old man. He questioned me who my master is, I didn't answer so he killed me."

As soon as the word 'killed' got out, Shiro, who was sitting next to Aki, unconsciously held him tighter.

"Continue." Wolf demanded with a serious look.

"I resurrected and out of nowhere, the man started laughing. He said he 'doesn't need to kill me anymore' and left- Oh, he gave me these, saying these are his 'apology'"

Aki handed Wolf the Black Feather and the Old Scroll.

For the first and possibly the last time in his life, he saw his Master's eyes widen in shocked and possibly….fear? However, he quickly returned to his usual expressionless and asked.

"Do you happen to learn of the man's identity?"

"He said his name was Great Shinobi….Owl?"

The name Owl made the three residents in Wolf's household flinched while the others, including Aki, just look at them with concern. After a moment, Wolf said.

"….It's almost school time. All of you should go now. We'll have this conversation later, Aki."

"I'm having a hangover as an non-alcoholic person…"

Aki groaned as he lied face down on his desk. After Wolf sent everyone off, Aki, Mei and Ochako went to UA together. The trip on the train was awkward for Aki as Mei and Ochako kept surrounding him like bodyguards, much to his embarrassment but he was too tired to stop them, so he let them be until they reached UA.

"Tough night, Mochi-kun?"

Setsuna was sitting by her knees on the chair in front of him, grinning amusingly at him.

"Did you have a little boy's night? I hope you were thinking about me~"

"She's flirted with him already? It's 8 in the morning, for god's sake!" Awase sweatdropped at the interaction between the lizard girl and shinobi boy.

"Don't use the Lord's name in vain!" Ibara reprimanded but inside, she felt a slight tinge of jealousy but ignored it.

Not even having the energy to blush, Aki just mindlessly said with his head still on the table.

"Who wouldn't think about a cute girls like you….?"

"…."

"…."

"I think he just killed her….."

Everyone could only nodded at Monoma's word, looking at Setsuna's bright red face as she headed back to her desk, just in time for Kan to start homeroom.

"Sit down. We need to talk about what happened yesterday."

After leaving UA, Aki went straight to Wolf's house after sending Ochako a text message. Thankfully, Heroic Lessons before the Sport Festival are mainly focusing on body and Quirk training so Aki managed to barely get through the day. He was about to pass out the moment he sat down.

"The man you met yesterday, is my Father."

Screw sleep. This sounds way more interesting.

"Your…..Father? As in…"

"Foster father. He took me, along with many others a long time ago and trained us to become a Shinobi."

"I thought you said you are the last Shinobi?"

"I thought I were, but that's a matter for another time. I want to talk about what he gave you."

Wolf pushed to Black Feather and the scroll between him and Aki.

"This scroll, is one of the Mushin Combat Art, Shadowfall."

"Mushin Art? Like the Spiral Cloud Passage?"

"Indeed. Spiral Cloud Passage is an enhanced version of Floating Passage, similarly to Shadowfall being a stronger version of Shadowrush."

"Then why didn-"

"Why didn't I tell you about it? Because the only person who master this Combat Art is the Great Shinobi Owl. Even I could only imitate a bastard version of it."

Wolf rubbed his eyes with his right hand before continuing as he pointed at the Black Feather.

"This thing, is a Prosthetic version of my Father's Quirk. Mist Raven. Do you have the hand with you?"

Aki nodded as he pushed to prosthetic hand towards Wolf. After one short moment of adjusting, the Mist Raven is attached under the prosthetic hand as Wolf connected it to his left side and stood up.

"Attack me."

"Say what now?" Aki double-checked.

"It's better to demonstrate to you how this works. Grab the katana and attack."

"…..It's your fault if you end up injured."

Aki reluctantly picked up his katana, unsheathed it and swung it at his teacher. Just as the sword was about to come in contact with Wolf, the man disappeared from his spot, leaving behind black feathers as the sword cut through thin air. Aki didn't even have the time to get confused because Wolf slapped him in the head from behind, knocking him over.

"Too slow." Wolf said as he grabbed his student from falling over.

"What the hell was that!? You were in front of me and then 'poof' right behind me!"

"It's the Mist Raven. If the user is attacked from an assumed stance, they will disappear and move away. My Father's Quirk is the same, except it's faster and more unpredictable."

Wolf said as he disconnected the prosthetic hand, gave it back to Aki before continuing.

"Now, I heard from Emma-dono that your Sport Festival is coming. In two weeks, I'll make sure that you'll be able to perform these moves like a second nature."

"Everything? In two weeks? That's not possible."

"It will be."

Aki knew he was fucked up.

Two weeks flew by in a blink of an eye as 1-B was preparing themselves inside the waiting room minutes before the Sport Festival officially began.

"All those people, Pro Heroes out here will focus their attention on us. I-I-I-I c-can't do it!"

"Deep breathe, Kinoko-chan. Don't focus on them. You can do it!"

Itsuka said as she rubbed Kinoko's back, who was spiraling and sweating out of control.

"That's right, Kinoko! You just gotta relax. Like Mochi-kun over there."

Setsuna said as she pointed at Aki, who was hugging his wooden sword as he lying on the bench.

"Apologies, Tokage-san, but I believe Mochizuki-kun is….unconscious. He saw the audience and fainted."

Reiko said next to Aki's unconscious body.

"Man, talk about nerve-wrecking…."

Awase awkwardly laughed before Kan kicked the door opened and announced, all eyes on him.

"This is it! It's time for you maggots to go out there, and show the world that you are going to be the best! That you are not the shadow of 1-A! That you are st- why is Mochizuki-kun sleeping?"

"Correction. Unconscious."

"Why is he unc- nevermind,someone carry him out of here for the opening and wake him up after that."

"""Not it!""" """Not it!"""

"Not i- Dammit!"

Tetsutetsu drew the short straw, apparently.

"Talk about one arrogant asshole…"

Monoma clicked his tongue, glaring at a blond from 1-A. Currently, all the students were crowding behind the starting line, prepping for the Obstacle Race. Needless to say, the opening ceremony didn't go…well. Aki didn't catch wind of what happened but apparently, some guy from 1-A was the representative of the First Year, and his speech pissed everyone off. People's loud boo and shouting woke Aki up from his unconsciousness.

"Ignore it, Monoma. Let's focus on the race ahead."

Although she was a little pissed as well, Itsuka reprimanded her classmate and focused on the race ahead. As soon as the Race was announced, 1-B huddled together and came up with a plan. They decided to hang back, work together to ensure everyone made it to the finish line without revealing too much about their abilities. However, Ibara and Tetsutetsu objected, reasoning that it didn't sit right with them to do that. It was a good thing however, in Monoma's opinion, because they weren't sure their plan works, so they need at least some members of 1-B to be in the tops.

"Everyone agrees with the laying low plan? You can choose not to participate if you don't feel comfortable with it."

"Don't worry big sis! We're with you!" Setsuna replied with a wide grin as everyone nodded along.

"Thank you, guys! Let's do thi- Did you just say 'big sis'?"

"Not now, Itsuka-chan. Focus on the race."

Itsuka was about to retort, but Present Mic cut her off.

"All right, little listener! I hope you're ready because we are STARTING, IN 3,"

Something didn't feel right. Aki looked around, at every single person in the crowd.

"2,"

He saw a familiar two-color hair tied in a short ponytail.

"1,"

He saw her lifting her left feet up.

"GO!"

"JUMP!"

Almost everyone's feet were caught in the ice trail Shoko made. Almost everyone.

Class 1-A seems to know about their classmate attack and managed to react by jumping out of it. A handful of 1-B were caught in the ice, but the few who heard Aki managed to avoid the attack. Tetsutetsu used his Quirk to break himself out while Shiozaki lifted herself up using her vines. Aki jumped high enough to avoid it while grabbing Kinoko's shirt collar, pulling her up with him.

It wasn't over though. After Aki melted his classmates out using Flame Vent, an army of robot was standing in their way. Those who took the Hero Course Entrance Exam immediately recognized them.

"Those are the Zero-Pointer! Where did they get the budget for this!?"

Without hesitation, Shoko froze the Robots' legs, creating a path.

"Look! She made a path for us!"

Tetsutetsu shouted as he made a run for it with another red head guy.

"Wait! Tetsutetsu don't!"

His warning was too late. The Robots crumbled down, burying Tetsutetsu and someone with it. Thankfully, both of them have defensive Quirk, so they got out of there unscathed.

Ignoring the 1-A students who burst their way to the top, class 1-B ran together towards the second obstacle, The Fall. A canyon that must be trekked by walking on ropes.

Having trainings with Wolf made walking across these ropes felt like a real cake walk, so Aki helped his classmates crossed it with everyone held one another hands side by side and slowly guided them through. Sans for the two that bolted ahead, class 1-B managed to catch up with those in front.

The third obstacle was a damn military knock-off training, The Minefield.

"Aight, 1 blow and we're done. Anyone got any plan?"

Tsuburaba asked, unawarely looking towards his two class representatives.

"Honenuki-san, can you soften half of this field?" Aki asked, still staring at the minefield.

"I….could. But we still don't know how to avoid the mine."

Itsuka bumped her fist in her palm, realizing Aki's intention.

"Yanagi-chan, how many mines can you lift?"

"Judging on the size, I can disable a dozen of these."

"Splendid. Monoma, copy Yanagi's Quirk. Honenuki-kun, soften the field. Monoma and Yanagi will levitate the bomb, giving us a safe passage."

The plan was quickly put into motion and it was a huge success. After getting through half of the field, Reiko and Monoma put the mine back before Honenuki ceased his Softening.

They quickly retry it, but an explosion from behind halt them in their track.

Looking up, Aki saw a metal board flew by his head and on top of it was….Midoriya holding on it for his dear life and took the lead after getting ahead of Shoko and the blondie.

"That goddamn moron…."

He couldn't helped with the wide smile he had on his face seeing Izuku got First Place.

All according to the plan, all of class 1-B made it into the second round. As soon as the Calvary Battle and the Points were announced, Aki now felt bad that Izuku was the center of all the killing intent surrounding him. It made sense though. With 1 million points, even the one who came in 41st place could proceed to the next round. Aki was about to join Izuku's team, but after seeing Ochako and Mei approached him along with another guy, Aki ought to look for another team. Shoko and Bakugou (he learned his name from all the nearby shouting) have already formed their own team, Itsuka, Monoma and Ibara as well.

A tap on the shoulder from behind snapped Aki out of his thought. Turning around, he saw a surprising face.

"Kodai-san?"

Yui pointed at herself, Jurota and Manga, and at Aki

"You sure you want me to join?"

Yui firmly nodded.

"Thank you, Kodai-san."

Aki's team with Yui as the rider, Jurota as the front 'horse', Manga and himself as the back 'horses' braced themselves for the battle ahead. As predicted, as soon as the game started, everyone went straight for Izuku's team, with the exception of Itsuka's, Monoma's and Aki's. They instead went for other teams' headbands. Slowly increasing their points. Things only got bad for Monoma's team when Monoma provoked Bakugou. Needless to say, it did not went well. With the Prosthetic Spear, Aki lifted a few headbands while Jurota scared the shit out of some 1-A students. He passed by Nirengeki's team and lifted some of their headbands, but it worried Aki that his classmates had this…lifeless look on his face. However, Aki ignored it and switched to the Umbrella to protect his teammates as soon as a surge of lightning stroke across the field.

Sadly, as good as they did, the gap between the points was simply too huge to compete. Aki's team got 5th place, which was not enough to proceed to the next round. However,…

"I would like to withdraw from the competition."

A guy with tail from 1-A withdrew, along with Nirengeki, leaving two slots opened. Ibara and Tetsutetsu was voted for those spots at first, but since Tetsutetsu got the worst of it from the lightning since he was in metal state and now couldn't move, Aki was voted for the spot.

"I-I mean I appreciated the opportunity, but are you guys sure? You guys need this as much as I do a-and I feel bad for taking this…."

"Don't sweat it, vice-rep! We believe that you will bring us victory!" Honenuki gave him a thumbs-up.

"Yeah! Get us that first-place medal for me!" Tetsutetsu gave him a word of encouragement with a sharp-tooth grin as he was dragged into the nurse's office.

Aki thanked the god for being blessed with wonderful classmates.

"All right! Now that that's settled, let's turn our attention to the screen for the brackets!"

All eyes in the stadium looked up to the gigantic screen.

First Bracket

First match: Midoriya Izuku Vs. Shinsou Hitomi

Second match: Todoroki Shoko Vs. Sero Hanta

Second Bracket

Third Match: Shiozaki Ibara Vs. Kaminari Denki

Fourth Match: Iida Tenya Vs. Hatsume Mei

Third Bracket:

Fifith Match: Ashido Mina Vs. Aoyama Yuuga

Sixth Match: Uraraka Ochako Vs. Bakugou Katsuki

Fourth Bracket:

Seventh Match: Tokoyami Fumikage Vs. Yaoyorozu Momo

Eight Match: Mochizuki Aki Vs. Kirishima Eijirou

"THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, will be our contestants and their respective matches in order. We will now have a 2 hours break for Lunch Break. Besides that, you can participate in activities and games conducted by our staff. Have a nice break and we'll see you in a while!"

"I'm going to beat you too, Todoroki-san!"

Izuku declared as he stared at Shoko. They were standing at an empty hallway. Shoko pulled Izuku over and talked about her vow, her home situation and her conviction, which Izuku replied. Both of them were so engrossed in the conversation that they did not notice two people eavesdropping on them.

"Stop fucking eavesdropping on people, shitty extra!"

"Shut up! They're gonna hear us! And what the fuck are you doing here, then?"

Aki and Bakugou were hiding in one corner inside. Aki lost the way finding the restroom and heard someone talking. Curiosity got the best of him as he found himself following the sound and saw Bakugou standing in one corner.

Thankfully, neither Shoko nor Izuku knew they were there and left shortly after. Confirming that they had left, Bakugou turned to ask Aki.

"You're the shitty extra that got into the Tournament Round by luck, aren't ya?"

"You're the explosion boy with rabies everyone were talking about, right?"

"I DON'T HAVE FUCKING RABIES! AND ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION!"

"Yes, I'm that guy who got in by luck. Nice to meet you too, Bakugou-san."

Bakugou clicked his tongue, scoffed, put his hands in his pockets and walked away.

"Whatever. I'm going to beat your useless, weak ass anyway."

"Oi, Ryuko! Over hear!"

A feminine, familiar smug voice caught Ryuko's attention. Turning her head at the VIP's session, she saw Rumi, or more commonly known as Miruko, in her Hero Costume waving at her.

"Rumi. Long time no see."

"Right back at ya, damn dragon. I see life as the no.9 hero has treated you well."

"Please, you're the no.5. Although you'll be under me very soon though."

"We'll see about that."

The two friends grinned at each other before bursting into soft laughter. They enjoy each other company as well as battering like two high school girls. Ryuko sat down next to Rumi, gazed softly at the performance down there mindlessly before Rumi questioned her.

"So, why are you here?"

"Unlike you, I take in sidekicks. Couldn't hurt to watch the future's heroes. Perhaps I'll send one of them my internship."

"Now that you talk about it, what's going on with the bluenette you've been talking care of? I heard from the others that she's a real deal."

"Nejire-chan? She's doing great. She actually asked me to come here with her to watch over the new batch, and she also mentioned an interesting kouhai she's been training. What about you? Why are you here?"

Rumi didn't reply. She instead just stared longingly at the cheerleader's dance below.

"…It's been 9 years, Rumi. You really think-"

"Tell that to yourself. I keep seeing you here every damn year."

" *sigh* Guess we're both idiots who can't move on from the past."

"….Guess we are."

Rumi leaned on Ryuko's shoulder. This scene itself would create a fortune for whatever tabloids got it, but they didn't care. Ryuko didn't care. Rumi needs her to be there.

As much as she needs Rumi to be there, too.

"Man, lunch was heaven." Awase rubbed his stomach as he leaned back on the chair. Sitting next to him were Kosei and Kaibara, and around the table were class 1-B.

"But damn, this turns out to be class 1-A's stage, again. Both class got attacked at the USJ, but they got all the attention 'cause they got Endeavor's son and Ingenium's brother. It's like we're just side dish." Monoma grumbled, before Itsuka chopped his neck.

"Don't be rude! We need to support Ibara-chan and Mochizuki-kun, not talking like they're already lost."

"That's right! Shiozaki is one of our best and Mochizuki- well his Quirk isn't exactly good for combat, but his ninja skill is friggin' awesome! We're going to wipe 1-A's butt!"

""""YEAH!""""

"So they just ignore us, as this point?"

"Seems like it. But we can't betray their believe in us."

Aki leaned over Ibara and whispered, who put both her hands at her chest, feeling warm about her classmates support, totally not because Aki was whispering into her ears.

"But Shiozaki is going to face that Electric guy, isn't she? He's strong. And Mochizuki is facing that guy that has the same Quirk as Tetsutetsu."

"Thank Gods they aren't in the same branch! Hate to see our two only members duking it out out there."

"Shiozaki Vs. Kaminari is going to be about 'who has a stronger Quirk'. I'm more worry about Mochizuki's match though."

"Yeah, that guy's Quirk is a counter to Mochizuki-kun fighting style, so he's in a slight disadvantage."

"Nah man, he has this in the bag!"

"Damn right my favourite Kouhai-kun has this in his bag!"

Awase spluttered all the water in his mouth out at the sudden bubbly voice from behind. Everyone turned and saw Nejire, in her gym uniform, wearing a eyes-blinding smile.

"Airhead….Hadou-senpai? What are you doing here? I thought the 3rd year Sport Fest was already done?

"You just said something very rude, but I'll forgive you because you're my favorite Kouhai! I'm here to help Ryukyu-san finds new intern!"

"Ryukyu!? As in the No.9 Hero!?"

"That's the one! She comes every year to look for potential students and recruits them. Miruko-san is here with her, but you already know she doesn't do sidekicks."

"Miruko is here as well!? Ohmygosh, I'm such a big fan!" Pony excitedly squealed like a little child.

Nejire squealed at Pony cuteness for a while before turning her attention at Aki and Ibara

"I believe in you two! So, Shiozaki-chan, is it? Why is your hair made of vines? Is it your Quirk? What does it do? How do you keep it in such fresh condition? Does the thorn hurts? What happens if you cut your hair off? Will the grown back?"

She then turned to Aki, "Kouhai-kun! Have you mastered the move? Do you have new ones? I heard that you're only allow to use practice sword. Can you still fight?"

The storm named 'Nejire and Her Questions' only stopped when Present Mic announced the start of the tournament, which was an hour later.

"Oh, before we start, would Mochizuki Aki from class 1-B report to the staff office? Principal Nezu would like to talk to you."

The mentioned of his name took his full attention away from the crazy match that just happened 3 minutes ago. Midoriya Izuku stopped himself from Shinsou Hitomi's control by breaking his goddamn finger. What was more concerning though, was the conversation they had. Yeah, his weirdly good hearing ability and curiosity had the best of him, again. Nonetheless, Aki nervously walked backstage, trying to ignore the curious look from his classmates.

Locating the staff office wasn't hard, the hard thing was preparing for the talk. Aki approached Vlad 3 days before the Sport Festival, asking for permission to use the katana and prosthetic hand as support items. He was allowed to use them for the first 2 rounds, but Principal Nezu made the decision for the final round. And it didn't help that UA's Principal was rumored to be the smartest creature in Japan, maybe the whole world.

As Aki was thinking, more like dreading, a familiar set of hair got his attention.

"Aki-kun!"

"Midoriya!"

The two walked closer to each other,

And Aki pulled an 'Itsuka' by slapping Izuku in the head.

"Ouch! Wha-What was that for!?"

"You being a finger-breaking idiot. Stop breaking it!"

"I-I had to. It was the only way to snap out of Shinsou-san's Quirk."

"Shinso- Ah, that cute, lilac-hair girl. Her Quirk is strong, that's for sure."

"Yeah! It's a shame that the entrance exam did her ba-…..did you just say cute?"

Totally unaware of the strange murderous tone in Izuku's word, Aki continued babbling.

"I-I mean…..you know my weird type. Messy, curly yet fluffy hair."

Izuku didn't reply. Instead he slapped Aki's right shoulder real hard and stormed off, leaving a confused Aki continued his walk to the staff room,

Unaware of Izuku's red face as he mumbled.

"Idiot pervert…..!"

"Ah, Mochizuki-kun! I've been expecting you! Come, sit. Would you like some tea?"

"N-No, thanks, sir. I-I assume this is about my support item request?"

"No reason to be nervous. But indeed, you're correct! And my decision is that I allow it…."

"G-Great!"

"…under limitations, of course!"

Nezu pushed a piece of paper towards Aki, which he picked up.

"You are allow to use your Prosthetic Hand in your matches, but limit to three different tools per match. You are to inform Midnight the three tools you'll be using before the match started. Take note that you are disqualified immediately if you use a tool that wasn't what you told Midnight, or when you use more than three. Other than that, go beyond, Plus Ultra."

Aki read through the paper as he listened to Nezu. The form was a letter stated that Aki is allowed to use support items under Nezu's approval.

"…I guess that's fair. But why three, sir? I mean I appreciated it, but why not two, or one? Why three, specifically?"

"Why is that, I wonder?"

Nezu maniacally cackled as he turned on the TV inside his room. The live footage showed Shoko froze her opponent, Sero, along with half of the stadium.

"Because these are the types of power you are going against with just your swordmenship. I want all my students to at least have a fair game to prove themselves."

He turned off the TV, tone became less amused.

"I'd reckon your opponent, Kirishima-kun, would prove to be a difficulty to you if you only go out there with just your bokken."

Now, his tone became more serious, although there still a slight sense of amusement in it.

"Besides, some unique individuals would love to see Wolf's pupil performance."

"How did you-!?"

"That'll be all, Mochizuki-kun. Good luck for your matches!"

"Mochi-kun! You're back! Just in time for Ibara's match."

Setsuna turned around and waved at her classmates, who surprisingly waved back without much stuttering, although he seemed a little absent-minded.

"Damn, you're not stuttering. Are you okay? Need me to cheer you up? I know some gooood method to cheer a depressed boy up~"

Aki's face went bright red was the confirmation Setsuna needed as she pointed at the seat next to her, which Aki reluctantly sat down.

"Gotcha. Seriously though, you good? Did Principal Nezu chew you up?"

"No, nothing like that. It just….he is just as scary as the rumors."

"You sure you don't need my cheer-up?"

"N-No, but thanks, Tokage-san."

"Ya know, you don't need to be so formal. Just call me Setsuna!"

"…Tokage-chan?"

"Still a little stiff, but baby-step, I guess. Oh, the match is starting!" Setsuna grin proudly as she turned her attention back to the match.

Everyone didn't know whether to decide the match was impressive or…a little disappointing. Kaminari released a burst of electricity, which Ibara easily blocked using her Vines before she gently threw a dumb-face Kaminari out of the ring.

"That was…fast. Although, Ibara-chan's quick shielding was impressive though."

"Yeah, I bet she'll have a tons of offer after this match alone."

The next matches showed that none of these people are to be taken lightly, sans for the Iida Vs. Hatsume match, which Aki couldn't help but burried his face inside his palm witnessing his childhood friend's antic. She abandoned her match, so Iida Tenya wins, despite the glasses boy complain

Ashido was more agile and better at using her Quirk, thus none of Aoyama's light beam managed to scratch her before he dropped down from overusing his Quirk, Ashido Mina wins.

Bakugou Vs. Uraraka though, was a sight of itself. Despite the disapproval of the surrounding Pro Heroes before Aizawa-sensei shut them up, Uraraka's tenancity was something else. She endured Bakugou's Explosion while creating a meteor shower. Even though her plan didn't work out in the end, it was impressive that she pushed the tournament's favourite to his edge. Bakugou Katsuki wins.

Tokoyami Vs. Yaoyorozu ended quickly. Tokoyami's Quirk, Dark Shadow, constantly attacked Momo, leaving her zero chance to strike back until she was pushed out of the ring. Tokoyami Fumikage wins. Aki felt bad for 1-A's vice-rep though. It was kind of a bad matchup for her, but he got to focus on his match.

Walking to the waiting room, he took in a deep breathe to calm himself down and tried to come up with a strategy. Obviously, straight up brawling with Kirishima would be bad since the guy has a Hardening Quirk. Monoma said that it was strong enough to block Bakugou's explosion, so his sword wouldn't do much. What to do…?

A familiar face caught his attention.

"Uraraka-sa- Whoa!? Your eyes!"

Said girl turned her head at the mention of her name before she rubbed her eyes and grimly smiled.

"Ah, this…. I may have gotten a little emotional after losing…."

"….I know it wouldn't matter much, but you did well. I mean, anyone else would have lose."

"…."

"I'm serious! I mean you're a nightmare to us close-range fighters. You could defeated any of us simply by touching."

"…."

"I mean All Might would have a hard time fighting you. You are a-"

Aki ranting was cut off as Ochako ran over, hug him with all her remaining strength while burying her face into his chest. Usually, the boy would turn into a blushing mess and most probably fainted. But this time, he just stay quiet as he felt the wetness on his chest.

"You're suck at comforting others, you know." Ochako said, slightly broken in her sentence.

Aki didn't know what else to do, so he just put his middle finger on her back with his left hand while his right hand patted her head.

"…I meant it when I said you did well, though."

"I know, but it's just so…..frustrating!"

"Then just cry your eyes out, Ochako-san."

They stayed in that position until Aki's name was called.

"You boys clear about the rules?"

Kirishima and Aki didn't break their eyes away from each other as they nodded.

"Then let us…..BEGIN!"

As soon as Midnight whipped her whiplash, Kirishima lunged towards Aki with a left-hardening hook. Aki jumped and dodged, head-kick Kirishima as he landed and follow up with two vertical kick which the redhead blocked.

"A FIST-TO-FIST FIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! WHO WOULD WIN?! CLASS 1-A'S SHIELD? OR CLASS 1-B'S SWORD? WHAT DO YOU THINK, ERASERHEAD?"

"That you're too loud. The winner is the one who could find the other's mistake and use it."

The two fighters distanced themselves again and watched each other's movement, waiting for the other to strike. Except for the head-kick, which only barely landed, Aki knew he didn't do much damage to Kirishima. His posture was still strong and firm.

Kirishima quickly got impatience and attacked again with a straight kick. Aki saw an opportunity and moved up, stepped on Kirishima's leg, pinched it on the ground and elbowed him in the face. It was backfired though, Kirishima turned the Hardening to his face and blocked it, causing more damage to Aki than himself. Using the opening, Kirishima pushed Aki away with a punch to the chest that Aki blocked it with his left hand.

'Nothing works. He switched his Harden to other places as soon as I aimed for I-'

Hold up.

He could only Harden one spot!

He's still fast though. He switched his Hardening from his leg to his face in an instant.

But knowing his weakness was enough for Aki. He positioned his right foot in front, drawing his left foot and his sword back into a sheathed-ready stance. He slightly bent down, put his left hand on the cover while his right hand holding the sword's handle. His gaze still trained on Kirishima as he stood still in his ready stance.

Kirishima was slightly taken aback by his opponent. For a moment, Kirishima planned to go on a defensive state, but the manliness in him was stronger. Bracing himself, Kirishima ran towards Aki.

His mistake.

As soon as Kirishima was 3 steps away from Aki, the young Shinobi took two fast step forward and perform a 2 cross-slash, Ashina Cross. And it worked. The attack was too fast that Kirishima didn't even manage to blink or get into defense state when he was hit. Only when he felt the pain, he quickly jumped back.

Not letting his opponent up, Aki kept pushing forward with Ashina Cross while all Kirishima could do was used his hands to cover his face and block as he was gradually pushed out of the ring. Kirishima noticed this though. As soon as he was approaching the line, Kirishima took a chance. He rolled over to the left and dodged the assault.

His mistake again.

Aki, of course,was waiting for this chance. As soon as Kirishima telegraphed into a rolling motion, Aki switched to the Firecracker and threw it right at where Kirishima landed and switch stance. His right foot stepped back as he pointed his sword at Kirishima while drawing it back in the same direction.

The sudden loud noise and explosion stun-lock Kirishima. He broke his defense state and froze for one second, which was his end. As soon as his defense was let down, Aki slide-stabbed forward at the Hardening user chest , step on it and launched himself to the air. Before he landed, he swung his sword from the left, charging the next vertical slash. The second slash landed on Kirishima and knocked him out instantly as Aki landed. It was the same move that killed Aki.

Shadowfall.

Midnight, after confirming Kirishima's unconscious state, announced that Aki moved on to the next round. Class 1-B and the crowd went wild.

A/N: Eiiiiii, long time no see! I'm back! Along with the Sport Festival.

I hope the action scene satisfy yall 'cause as I already said, I'm suck at describing action scene. Need help on improving though.

Anyway, next chapter will be Aki Vs. Tokoyami, and then Bakugou.

Oh, and if anyone thought the Miruko and Ryukyu scene was random and unnecessary, rest assure because it ain't. I wrote it for a reason..