Working hard over the two weeks, the students of U.A. rush to school the day of the Sports Festival with ambition and confidence. All were ready to face their future head-on and make an impression on the Pros. Kagome takes a deep breath as she steps out of her house. Everything over the last two weeks were not only to prove how strong she was to her peers but find her second family in the crowd. She had experimented with her quirk in the safety of her barriers and home. Kagome was already able to form a bow and arrows with her quirk, so she had to be able to make other weapons right? So far she can make a sword that took the shape of Tessaiga and Sango's Hiraikotsu. She couldn't keep them up as long as she could her bow, however.

Kagome runs to school as a way to keep up with her daily training, excited to see how much everyone has improved. After changing to their gym clothes, class 1-A sits patiently in their designated waiting area. While everyone chats about what they expected out of the festival and who they think are going to win. Todoroki, however, doesn't care to get close to any of his classmates and approaches Izuku with a serious expression.

"Midoriya," his cold voice calls.

"Todoroki, what is it?" Izuku responds as he quickly turns to him.

"Objectively speaking," Todoroki starts. "I'm stronger than you. More capable." Kagome stops her conversation midsentence, not expecting him to be that forward to another classmate. The girls talking with her turn to pay attention to what the strongest student was saying to the cinnamon roll. "All Might's got his eye on you, doesn't he." The room all but freezes at the moment, anticipating what the male would say next. "Now I'm not about to pry into why that is, but I will beat you." Kagome exhales a breath she didn't realize she was holding in, relieved that was all he had to say.

"Oh! A declaration of war from the strongest in the class?!" Kaminari pipes in, calming some of the tension in the room.

"Why pick a fight now, man?" Kirishima asks as he puts a hand on Todoroki's shoulder. "We're about to go on."

"I really don't care," he responds coldly as he shoves his hand away. "I'm not pretending to be anyone's friend here." Todoroki briefly glances at Kagome, immediately feeling guilty for saying something like that in front of her.

"I'm not sure why you felt the need to tell me you'll beat me," Izuku speaks up, bringing the attention towards him. "You're clearly stronger, and I can't measure up to most of the others here in skill…" Kagome stands up, clearly not liking how her friend was talking about himself. "But everyone, even the kids from the other classes are aiming to be number one." She stops just as she pushes her seat back, waiting to hear more. "And I'm… Well, lemme say this." Izuku's voice becomes stronger as he speaks with confidence. "I'm going for it too. With everything I've got!"

"I expect nothing less," Todoroki speaks after a moment of silence before leaving the room. A bell in the room goes off, signaling to head to the pitch to start with the opening ceremony. Kagome moves to Izuku's side, giving him a side hug as they leave the room.

"Keep that attitude and confidence up, Deku," she smiles proudly at him as he blushes under her.

"R-right!" The students of class 1-A march their way to the beginning of a long day, ready for anything that gets thrown at them.

Present Mic greets the audience, getting them pumped up for the students to come out and begins explaining what they were in for. "It's U.A.'s Sports Festival! The one time each year when our fledgling heroes compete in a ruthless grand battle!" Cheers can be heard from the stands of the excited viewers. "First up, you know how i"m talking about! The miraculous rising stars who brushed off a villain attack with their steely willpower!" The students hold their breath as they wait to be called out. "The first-years of the hero course!" Kagome smiles as they slowly exit their tunnel, her spot up front with Izuku and Ochaco made for the best view of the audience. "IT'S CLASS A!" The crowd cheers louder than before, letting Kagome take this moment of distraction to feel for any demonic auras in the stands. Found you.

The R-rated hero Midnight takes the stage in the arena, a wide smile on her face as she cracks her whips. "Now!" she says as she gets everyone's attention. "For the Athlete's Oath!" The crowd murmurs with questions as to why the R-rated hero was the first-years referee. Some of the comments making Midnight react and crack her whip again to shut them up. "Pipe down! Your student representative is from class 1-A, Kagome Higurashi!" Said girl jumps from her name being called and heads up to the stage while her classmates converse for a moment.

"I-it's Kagome?" Izuku stutters, wondering how it wasn't Katsuki.

"I think it's because she had enough rescue points to take the top stop from Bakugo," Yaoyarozu explains. "She didn't have as many villain points as he did but she had about 80 points with the help of rescue." The class nods in understanding while the explosive blonde moves away from them with a 'tch'. She had beaten him by 2 points, making her total at 79 while he was 77.

"The Athlete's Oath," Kagome begins as she looks at her peers. "I expect the best from each and every one of you." The air turns cold as she speaks with a level of seriousness that Sesshomaru would be proud of. "If you don't go beyond Plus Ultra, I won't hesitate to take you out of the competition," she glares over the heads of the students in front of her as she moves her thumb across her throat.

"Don't get cocky, class A!" someone yells.

"Overconfident jerk!"

"We'll crush you!" More and more of the students yell remarks, adrenaline coursing through them from her words. The audience loved the confidence and power she held herself with, cheering over the boos from her peers. Kagome makes her way down the stairs and to her class with a smirk clear across her face, fulling knowing how her words would affect the participants. Katsuki makes eye contact with her and holds his hand up as she walks by him with a smirk of his own. Kagome high-fives him, showing the others that they were going to stand by those words. Go beyond Plus Ultra, because no one is going to get there but you.

"Let's get the first event started!" Midnight beams. "These are the qualifiers!" she points to a screen as images on it spin like a casino slot machine. "It's in this stage that so many are sent home crying every year!" her laugh is almost sadistic at this point. "The fateful first event is an obstacle course race!" The students listen closely to the rules of the game as Midnight continues. "A race between every member of all eleven classes. The course if a four-kilometer lap around the stadium! And since our school preaches freedom in all things! Well…" she laughs more. "As long as you don't go off course, anything is fair game!" Getting the students to the starting line for the event, Midnight gives them one final order of getting to their positions. The students watch as the light dings from each color, waiting for the green light. Kagome quietly moves closer to the front as the others are focused on the light, knowing that they are all going to rush like a stampede out the gate. The light dings to green and everyone rushes out, trapping each other while Todoroki creates an ice path to freeze the ones behind him.
"So cold!"

"I'm frozen!"
"That bastard!" Kagome laughs at the unlucky ones, being able to jump up just in time and using it to skate on and get just behind the ice boy himself.

"Too easy, Todoroki," she calls from his left as the others from their class jump over the other students, always ready for the unexpected.

"I ain't letting you get ahead that easy, half 'n' half!" Katsuki snaps loudly as they all catch up to them.

"I knew our class would be fine," Todoroki says as he glances at Kagome, a small smile playing on his lips. Kagome goes to say something only to be cut off by someone getting hit to the side by one of the faux villains from the entrance exam.

"Multiple targets acquired!" one of the machines hums. Kagome wastes no time and pulls her hands to form a bow and shoots it down with an explosion. The zero pointers from the exam tower over the students as one falls dead from Kagome's attack.

"Every obstacle course needs obstacles! Starting with the first barrier," Present Mic explains over the announcer. "Robo Inferno!" Kagome runs past the others as they hesitate as the sight of the zero pointers again.

"These are what why used for the exam?" Todoroki asks while taking a moment to freeze a few of them to get by. Kagome looks back for a moment, seeing the robots in unstable positions and shakes her head.

"We can get through that gap!" one student shouts hopefully.

"Bad idea, I froze them in unstable positions," he responds as he quickly runs through. "So they'd fall." The two that Todoroki froze fall next to the fallen one from Kagome, creating a full block in the road for the others.

"1-A's Higurashi and Todoroki working together to sabotage the others in just two moves!" Mic screams. The others work harder to get past the giant robots, Katsuki throwing himself up with the help of his explosions. "Down low didn't work for 1-A's Bakugo, so he took the high road! Clever kid!" Sero and Tokoyami follow the male close behind, commenting that he avoided a fight. Each student that was able to take a robot down was a member from class 1-A, all having forgot how to hesitate when it matters. Each grew from the USJ attack, learning to expect the unexpected and react without second-guessing. As the students slowly get past the first barrier, the ones in front come to the next obstacle. "So the first barrier was a piece of cake?! How about the second?!" Mic yells with more excitement. "Fall and you're out!" The students take a moment to look at the paths before some start moving forward. "This is The Fall!"

Kagome winks over at Todoroki, knowing he couldn't use the same trick or he would be helping the others. Forming Hiraikotsu, she adds a rope to it to hold onto as she gets ready to throw it. "Hiraikotsu!" she yells as she lets it fly across the field, pulling herself along with the rope and jumping onto the light weapon itself. Clearing the field like nothing, she jumps off the weapon as it disappears and keeps running.

"Class A's Higurashi takes a leap of faith with what looks to be a boomerang! Surprising even her classmates with this new weapon!" Mic continues to commentate. Todoroki moves across the field with precise movements and Katsuki hot on his heels. He's all fired up now… must be a slow starter.

The crowd makes their own comments about the action playing out in front of them. Most knowing exactly who Todoroki was but couldn't stop questioning how he was behind an unknown girl. The Number Two Hero's son was in second but was right behind Kagome. The Minefield was next, making Kagome pause in her path and wait for the introduction of the area. "And our leader has reached the final barrier. That is to say, this Minefield! It's a deadly Afghan carpet! Keep both eyes open, you just need a quick glance to reveal the mines' locations!" Kagome nods and proceeds, putting a barrier around her. Her exhaustion starts to catch up to her, however, making the barrier shimmer weakly as she runs and carefully avoids the mines. The last trick she had pulled with Hiraikotsu took almost too much out of her for her to finish, giving Todoroki and Katsuki the break they have been waiting for from her. They both pull past her, not looking back as they viciously compete for first place. Kagome manages to keep pace with them, not letting any others pass her and hitting them with her barrier if they got to close. "And class A's Midoriya rides the wave in hot pursuit… or something!"

A loud explosion catches her off guard and makes her look for the source. A smile graces her lips as she sees Izuku soaring over everyone with a metal sheet from one of the robots from the first obstacle. "Hell yeah!" she screams, knowing he can hear her. She uses the last of her energy to make it out with fourth place. "I knew you could do it!" she tackles Izuku as soon as she gets close to him. Making sure to heal what little she could as she made contact.

"K-kagome!" he stutters as he gets a boost of energy from her. His face reddens as he tries to hide his face from her.

"You used a ton of mines and shot yourself forward, didn't you?" she asks just as Mic confirms his success over the speakers. Kagome then ruffles his hair. "That's my best friend!" The second and third place winners pant harshly from sprinting the last little bit. Midnight then goes to announce who had made it to the next event. The first 42 to make it were able to move forward.

"And now the main selection really begins! The press corp's going to be jumping out of their seats, so give it all you've got!" The screen buzzes again to pick the next event while Midnight teases the kids with the suspense. "Cavalry battle!"

"So we're teaming up, but how exactly?' Tsuyu questions before Midnight explains the rules of the games.

"Each of you has been assigned a point value based on your ranking in the last event! Your individual point values start at five, at the bottom!" Kagome looks at Izuku with worry. "So the student who took 42nd place is worth fice points, 41st is worth ten, get it?" Midnight takes a moment to look over the students before looking right at Izuku. "But, our first place participant is worth… ten million points!" All the students look at the poor male, some ready to get in the lead and others wanting to just take him out. "The higher-ranked students are the ones to aim for. This survival game is a chance for a comeback. It's anyone's game!"