Here it is another chapter of Symbol of Life by unholy-creater. I'm not getting not that much reviews so I don't know what to do. Next chapter will be uploaded after getting some satisfied reviews.
CHAPTER 9 - STLEATH MISSION
It's now the Monday morning 8 am and Izuku found himself lying on the sand after training Toru who was also lying beside him without anything wearing, the perk of being invisible.
"Oh you and your training Midori, everytime I think I'm grasping everything you just level up" Toru pouted. Yesterday Izuku was blocking her attacks but today he sometimes countered and his hits hurt like hell. She thought to ask Izuku's mom what she feed him to make that strength. While Izuku wasn't using OFA his punches were still strong, thank All Might again.
Izuku laughed but he was a bit awkward talking with a naked invisible girl in outdoors, though he knew in future he might have to work with her so he can't be flustered by her lack of clothing even though she was invisible.
"Something wrong Midori??"
Izuku looked at his left side at the source of the voice but ultimately he saw only sand but replied "You know it's a bit awkward when you're talking to someone and you can't see her and more than that the person is naked".
He almost laughed when a pink shade formed in the middle of nothing with her muttering pervert. "Bear with it Midori, I have spent many years naked in everywhere just to get used to with it since my cloths can't be turned invisible and with them on I can't have my all stealth. Though it's not like I want to run naked in public but sometimes I wish people can see me and fawn over my beauty".
Izuku didn't reply for a moment before replying "You know you're normally invisible but maybe in infrared rays or in ultraviolet rays you maybe seen. Also since your Quirk is mutant type you can make cloths with your hair to make them also invisible. You can ask Power Loader if he can make it for you".
"I didn't think like that Midori but you're not wrong" Toru beamed "I'll ask him today if that's possible or not but thank you Midori for the idea". To Izuku's embarrassment the invisible girl hugged him and his head was smashed between two fleshy globes of her chest. His whole body stiffened as his skin touched the girl's soft flesh and his little Deku wasn't helping.
"Ahh!! Hagakure!! I appreciate you're but please release me" his hands flailed but unfortunately his hands touched her butt causing her yelp and clutch Izuku's head more tightly. "Pervy Midori, you smacked my butt" though she was accusing him, her voice didn't give that idea.
Before Izuku could mutter a train of apology Toru continued "But I like it and I purposefully smashed your face where it is now. If you didn't get it then let me say it, I'm thinking I'm falling for you as you stood for me from the first day, trained me, made me smile and suggested many things to help me. No one did that much for me except my parents and don't forget how cute, handsome and manly you look. It's fine if you don't like me now but I'll show you what I can do and make you look at me in that way"
Izuku blinked in surprise at Toru's confession but before he could say anything Toru got up and ran away as fast she could as without looking back. She was too embarrassed to look back after what she blabbered out.
Meanwhile Izuku just stayed in his place still processing what happened just.
UA HIGH, CLASS 1-A -
"How are you feeling Mineta??" Tenya asked the midget as soon as he saw him since Mineta was the only one who was physically injured and didn't join at their fun trip at saturday.
The said midget gave a thumbs up to the stotic boy "I'm just doing fine to stare at the girls perky boobs and round ass". He let out a pervy grin causing Kyoka and Mina to glare at him while Tenya sighed knowing he had no way to stop the perverts ways.
The door of the class opened with a normal greeting of good morning Izuku entered with Ochako and Tsuyu who were stumbled upon his way at the station and walked with them.
"Everyone"
A new voice just spoke from behind Izuku and everyone took their seats immediately before anyone could blink.
The voice belonged to a man with his whole face bandaged and black messy hair rolling behind, Shota Aizawa.
"Good, you all took 3 seconds to react" he grunted and stood at the podium with a tired yawn, something would never change.
"Sensei!!" Tenya half yelled before standing out "It's good to see you recovered sensei".
"Are you sure that's called Recovery??" Momo thought outloud earning some chukhles from Shinso and Mina.
Aizawa grunted again "I am mostly fine thanks to Midoriya's healing or Recovery Girl was planning me to wrap me in a body bag until I get totally fit". The bandages slightly moved from Shota's lips as a small grin showed that he owed Izuku in that one.
"Anyways" Shota started again with a glare making the class gulp "The danger isn't gone from you". His smirk has gotten bigger as the students gulped.
'Another villain attack??' Everyone thought together.
"The UA sports festival is coming"
Shota declared making the students deadpan at him thinking that's a normal school event. Though between everyone Shoto glanced at Izuku 'Just you wait Midoriya, I don't have any option except beating you after my old man praised you'.
"But sensei" Mineta cried out "Villains already invaded in our campus once and the sports festival will be an open invitation to attack us again".
The ones who were excited for the sports festival suddenly shifted uncomfortably knowing Mineta was Right. No matter how much security the school have but they invaded once and it will be an invitation in a crowd to invade again.
"This is an actual open invitation to them to attack us. The UA will be crowded by countless pros alongside some top pros like All Might, Endeavor, Ryuku, Mirko and more top pros. If they try to do something they will be dusted in no time and besides the UA will show their strength that they aren't frightened by some villains and besides it is your opportunity to show the world what you can do"
"Yeah, after quirks appeared UA sports festival became more popular than the Olympics and the whole country watch it. Every pro hero will watch us and we might be picked by them as their sidekicks" Izuku muttered though everyone heard him.
"Midoriya is right, the pros will watch you carefully and it will be your chance to be a top hero with them leading you. Three years means three chances, if you loose it you will regret. You have three weeks to prepare yourself and don't forget many general studies students will seek for your seat here so poor performence and you will loose your place, don't forget Bakugo is there who will try harder more than anyone so be careful. That's it"
Within a moment Shota went back in his sleeping bag leaving the class in their thoughts, while some of them shivered thinking of the vicious ash-blond who might try to kill someone actually to come back in the heroic cource.
"Midoriya-chan, how are chances Bakugo will try to murder atleast one of us to get back here??" Tsuyu asked bluntly causing Mineta gulp. Though her question made almost everyone nervous.
Izuku let out a nervous chukhle "Maybe he will try to murder everyone. His battle instincts are wild and that's the only thing you can't match with Kacchan. He just want the number one spot but he doesn't care what stairs he has to climb. If someone blocks him then he will just explode them from insides without any care"
"That's not very heroic per say, to be a hero you need to help others and more than winning a fight you need to protect who needs help. This is the reason why All Might is the number one hero, not only by strength but giving first priority to protect those who need help"
Izuku heard what Tenya said and he also thought that before but Izuku knew Katsuki, if he leave his ego behind he will be one of the strongest hero without any question. Maybe in time that will change.
"Hey let's forget about that, Bakugo maybe strong but that not means we will run, we will fight, isn't it Deku-kun??" Ochako pumped her fist with a determined look one her face. She needed to prove herself, to Deku-kun and to her family.
Beside Ochako, Tsuyu gave her a glance, she was also thinking the same. The future strongest hero will need a strong heroine beside him to help him and she wanted that spot.
"Three weeks are enough to get enough strong for the festival with Midori's training. I can feel some muscles forming on me" Toru made a grinning sound and with a small thumping sound the other realized she bumped her own fists.
"Last time I saw Midoriya-chan was chasing you before he grabbed you and slammed on sand many times" Tsuyu remembered the scene from the morning and it was hilarious for her to see. Not that Tsuyu is hostile towards Toru but she was her rival and she was spending more time with Izuku than her.
A sudden pink tent formed in midair where Toru's face should be realizing Tsuyu caught her at some embarrassing moment so she countered quickly "Ah we were playing tag if the you got tagged then you will have to defend yourself from the attacker when he will try to hit you. Everytime Midori tags me, he throws me like a softball not giving me any chance to defend but when I tag him I never landed any hit on him".
Everyone laughed much to Toru's dismay while Shota was also chuckling from his sleeping bag. Someday he will watch the training by himself even he need to cut some sleep.
"But that's not it" Toru's voice was heard smug and it went directly to Ochako and Tsuyu. "Today for once I captured him and choked him to death between two softballs" she grinned and folded her hands under her chest to make them look bigger.
"Hagakure!! Don't say embarrassing things like that" Izuku half yelled with a red face making everyone realize quickly what Toru meant by two softballs.
"Midoriya you lucky son of a witch!!" Mineta cried out with blood tears spilling from his eyes. "Damn Midoriya, you exceeded my expectations" Shinso smirked patting Izuku's shoulder. Momo sluttered something with a heavy blush on her face with many of the class had same faces.
"Toru-chan!!"
"Toru-channn!!"
The said girl gulped when she saw two pairs of red eyes smiling at her, one belonged to the green haired frog girl and the other belonged to the bubbly brunette who wasn't in her usual bubbly mood which scared even Tenya who was going to say something but stopped.
The lunch hour was passed without much problems though Ochako and Tsuyu were glued to Izuku much to his embarrassment by the smug looks his classmates and some upperclassmen also gave him.
After lunch the future heroes found themselves at Ground Beta again in their hero costumes with All Might grinning at them.
"WELCOME BACK TO GROUND BETA MY DEAR STUDENTS, I HOPE EVERYONE IS FEELING WELL... HAHAHA" the number one pro hero gave everyone a thumbs up which everyone returned positively much to All Might's happiness. The pro hero could feel the usual positiveness from everyone and he was happy that everyone recovered from the villain attack.
"What are we going to do today sensei??" Izuku asked first.
"Is it going to be same as the first class??" Ochako asked with a thinking pose.
"More fighting!!" Eijiro hardened his hands and bumped them grinning.
"Or we will do something new ribbit" Tsuyu also voiced her thought.
All Might facepalmed again at their eagerness and rapid questions but he cleared his throat loudly to stop everyone before they went out of hands. "No. It will not be like previous class. At your first class you learned your capabilites of your Quirks, then in your first heroic class how to use them cautiously, next in USJ you had to go through more practical uses of your abilities. Today you will use everything, your power, intelligence, stealth and decision makings to protect this..."
All Might showed them an wooden sword though it was colored in golden. Then he explained "This is a historic sword which you have to protect from enemies which will be everyone except you. This is a game of everyone and your job is to protect this and deliver at the designated place in 20 minutes. If you want to fail someone then you can steal their sword by fighting them but in the fight if your sword had stolen or damaged then you will also disqualify. But even if you were disqualified you can still fight to disqualify others since everyone is your enemy. Also there is an another rule, since it's an individual game if you team up with others to complete the game you will be disqualified. Did everyone get it??"
After explaining everything he watched the students if they had any questions. He saw the studnets talked between themselves to get everything and in the end everyone nodded.
"Sensei where do we have to deliver it?" Momo asked. All Might grinned "You will know that in time. Pick a paper from the box and find the place, that will be your starting point and one last suggestion, don't believe anyone or anything after the mission will start. Maybe there will be things you will know right but there can be something wrong bcz you will be in enemy territory"
"Now go and pick your place" All Might pumped his fist in plus ultra sign as everyone followed to pick their places.
"Ah excuse me All Might sensei but where the swords we have to protect??" Tenya raised his hand and asked.
All Might raised his eyebrow "It's in enemy territory, find it and protect it".
The class blinked thinking who the hell designed that not knowing Nemuri just came with that idea playing a video game with Anan last saturday.
Izuku found himself at the same building where he fought with Katsuki and felt like things might go like that. Entering in the building he saw a projector with something written beside it.
"Turn the projector on when the mission will start"
He read the paper then walked around the building in hope to find something. Getting at third floor he found an open door where he saw the golden sword with Tenya's face carved on it with a projector hanging with it.
"Why is iida's face carved in it??" He found that a little bit shady remembering the sword All Might showed had nothing special on it.
"BEGINNNN"
All Might's voice boomed through the whole ground Beta as Izuku was going to punch the glass to take out the sword but he stopped when he saw some writing suddenly appeared on the glass
"Caution : don't touch the glass"
Izuku blinked 'Why this caution? Shall I touch this or first open that projector??' He thought before focusing on the life energies around the ground Beta.
'What?? Why is everything full of life energy?? I can't detect whose life energy is lingering around me. There is one, two blocks from me at Northeast and someone is coming straight this building, he is coming too straight and at a very high speed, Iida' his eyes snapped open before he ran down grabbing the projector he quickly hid.
Meanehile All Might, Shota and Nezu were observing the whole ground Beta using hidden cameras. Only Nezu's eyes were fixed at the screens which showed Izuku.
"Midoriya's Quirk's versatility is helpful and with sensing peoples life energy to locate them is very reliable but thanks to Power Loader we managed to create something which will release life energywaves to confuse him. He is still able to sense them but he can't pinpoint who is it. What will you do when one your senses will be cut off like this??" Nezu thought outloud looking at Izuku. He has high hopes with the boy, not bcz of he is OFA weilder but at his passion on heroism.
Shota grunted thinking the hybrid animal principal was favouring Izuku but he couldn't help that, the green haired boy was very smart. He was seeing the others and he saw Momo and smirked.
Momo was at another corner and hearing All Might's voice she quickly grabbed the projector and activate it.
The projector showed the map of Ground Beta and everyone's faces were marked at a point but her face was showing at two places.
"It is showing my location at two places, no. It can't be, I'm at this point then what is the other point marked for me??" She questioned herself when a statement showed up from the projector.
"You will know the item you have to find when you see the map. Don't trust anyone"
"Don't trust anyone but the source was given to me. It didn't show where I've to deliver this" she muttered and continuously watched the map and the locations, the locations didn't move an inch, why was everyone standing at a place.
'That's it' she thought and her belly glowed, a screen came out from there. She grinned and typed something before it showed a map of Ground Beta and 20 dots with names on it. "They must have created the system like that so they are hackable. I knew they can see us or atleast know our locations" she saw the dots were moving around the ground knowing everyone's location.
"I knew it" she held the screen infront of the projector and saw the locations of the locations through the projector and her screen. "The projector isn't showing our locations but something elses locations, wait, could these be the thing we need to retrieve. I've my face there and it may be.. The object I need to retrieve and the other faces mean their objects".
Momo smiled knowing she solved half of the mission mystery but now she need to retrieve the object. She looked at her scanner screen once more and found Izuku and Tenya at the same point.
Meanwhile Izuku was hiding since Tenya entered the building. The glass wearing teen carefully entered at the building Izuku was in, he already took the things which could make Tenya suspicious.
He closely watched as Tenya searched through the whole building until he entered at the room where the sword was.
Izuku heard Tenya whispering "I was right about the projector showing the locations of the object we need to retrieve. The glass is showing not to touch it if you don't know any pattern to open it". The teen swallowed hard seeing 26 alphabets at the rear of glass.
"There is an alphabet code. Neither All Might sensei nor the projector gave us any cluses" he mused and thought for some moments "Don't believe anyone except yourself", Tenya repeated outloud his thoughts before typing his first name and pressed the enter. To his relieve the glass box opened without any sound.
'Ahh!! I get it. The carved face was a indication which object is for me to retrieve' Izuku thought still looking at Tenya who activated the projector hanging with the object.
"Deliver the object to the person at Block no. 72, 5th apartment"
"Block no. 72??" Tenya asked himself and watched the map through the first projector. Izuku could see Tenya's eyes widen for some reason. "That's the place where Midoriya's object is. Does that mean I've to deliver it to Midoriya?? I don't understand it, we are supposed to be our enemies so why I've to deliver it my enemy??"
Meanwhile Izuku's eyes widen and he quickly went out from the apartment not realizing Tenya was looking back towards the entrance.
'Someone was here but he or she left without saying a word. It's fine until someone wants to fight, it might damage the object making me fail. I shall avoid fighting and reach at the location' Tenya thought to himself before strapping the object at his back and walking out carefully.
Meanwhile Shoto's starting point was the same building which was Tenya's delivary location.
After entering in the building he waited to let the test start and activating the projector he quickly realized everything but he searched the whole building since there was a mark which showed Izuku's face at the same place.
Entering at the third floor shoto found Izuku's object was there in a glass box.
"What will you do Midoriya if I do this??" Shoto muttered and slammed his right foot to create ice spears. His goal was to destroy Izuku's chance there and quickly get out before he comes.
Though the moment his Quirk touched the glass loud siren rang all over the building making his eyes widen and he quickly realized it was a bad idea.
'If I touch the glass sirens will ring, dammit, I was careless thinking only to defeat Midoriya and now this alarms made everything noisy, I need to get out' he gave the glass box another glance which is now covered by ice spikes and walls before he left. The lesson wasn't a fair fighting lesseon so he needed to do everything make everyone fall behind him.
"How can you do that to me Kaminari??" Mineta cried out seeing his object broken by Denki who ambushed Mineta as soon as he retrieved his object.
Denki grinned "No hard feelings Mineta but we got instructions to fail others so why not??". His grin stopped the moment when Mineta looked angrily at him and plucked out his sticky balls.
"Just stand still Kaminari and I'll return the favour" Mineta also knew he was not out and he could make some people join his failure so he started to throw his balls at Denki in hope to stick only one of them.
"Crap!!" Denki cursed and tried to run out from Mineta. But he wasn't luckly enough as a beam hit at his back breaking the object. "Owww!! What was that??" Denki cursed and saw Yuga at a distance, the other blond fired his navel laser to destroy Denki's object but that with a price also as he was struck by Mineta's balls.
Meanwhile not from far Kyoka was hearing that commotion with her earphone jacks with her object in her hands. It was easy for her to avoid people with her Quirk and the help she got from the projector was enough for her to understand almost everything.
'Deliver the object to your friend and I've no friend in this training ground. I got the lucky and simple riddle not to give to anyone here and no need to get in someone's way if I can just pass' she thought and hid properly until the time runs out.
In another part Fumikage groaned along with Dark shadow to find Eijiro infront of his object waiting for him.
"Why are you here Kirishima?? Shouldn't you go to get your object??" Fumikage asked with trying to find any opening to get past from him. Though Fumikage knew he could stall Eijiro with Dark Shadow's long range and waste his time if he hadn't retirve his object.
To Fumikage's surprise Eijiro smirked hardening his body "I already found my object and delivered it to whom the projector said but I stumbled across here and thought to stop. All Might said that we can fight so why don't I give a try??". The redhead quickly charged at the bird headed teen but Dark shadow quickly intervened.
"Ain't going near Fumi before ya deal with me" Dark Shadow replied Eijiro before headbutting him. The attack caused both of them stumble on their feet. Fumikage groaned "I've no choise then to fight you".
Toru silently watched Shoji who just retrieved his sword and watched the projector showing it to deliver to Mineta.
"Everyone is here in the arena enemy so why I have to give this to my enemy?? Unless this is a deception. All Might said not to believe anyone until the training ends so this is a deception afterall. I only have to protect this until I get out from the training ground" he wondered to himself not knowing Toru was listening.
Toru found herself in that apartment and watched Shoji entered not long after the exam started to retrieve his object. 'Thanks Midori for telling me how to hide myself to those who have good hearing like Jiro and Shoji' she thought and figured out everything with Shoji's thoughts.
"Hey Shoji"
Toru flinched as soon as she heard a new voice calling the dupli-arms user.
"Who...?"
Shoji was stiff as soon as he answered.
Soon it revealed Shinso wearing some kind of mask walked in the room not knowing Toru's presence. The invisible girl flinched but quickly realized she wasn't revealed so she remained quiet, she would kiss Izuku next time for drilling some senses in her.
Shinso smirked and took Shoji's object before leaving quickly. He just followed the big guy quietly and called him from distance and just like he thought the big guy panicked. Since he took a competitor out he couldn't be the last and that was his plan.
Toru sighed and activated her projector when Shinso was far enough and looked at the screen. 'Almost everyone took their objects, as soon as you take out the glass box your object's mark will disappear. Only mine, Midori, Tokoyami and Shinso remained. Only 7 minutes left so I need to get out faster' she thought and walked out not hurrying knowing her only strength was stealth and fighting was the last option.
Meanwhile Tenya cursed his luck when out of nowhere Ochako landed on him making him float with Tsuyu looking at him blankly.
"Where were you flying Uraraka??" Tenya asked defeatedly knowing even though they were friends Ochako won't let him go in an individual event.
The said brunette laughed nervously "actually Tsu-chan threw me when we were fighting and I somehow landed on you and unintentional I made you weightless but I'm not letting you go now". Then she glanced at Tsuyu who was also glancing at her.
The both girls found they needed to deliver their objects to eachothers but they realized quickly that was deception but they attacked eachother as soon as they saw themselves. Tsuyu managed to land the first hit on Ochako when she landed on Tenya.
"It seems I made a wrong decision to fight you Ochako-chan"
"Yes, same goes for me. We are ruining our chances to win. I was lucky I guess not to get in someone like Todoroki's way or it would be the end" Ochako finished and took some steps back and then quickly ran away. She mentally cursed herself for doubting her decision. 'I doubted my decision about the deception and stumbled across Tsu-chan and we attacked eachothers for being enemies in this battleground and in the brink of failure' she groaned but sighed quickly seeing Tsuyu wasn't chasing her.
"Oh!! come on" both Ojiro and Rikido groaned as they found themselves trapped in a pillar of ice. Both teens found their objects and encountered eachothers but they chose not to fight and ran away. Though luck wasn't at their side when from nowhere an avalanche rushed on them.
Before the boys could do anything the ice trapped them and then between them Shoto slid across them riding on his ice without exchanging any words.
"Only 3 minutes left" Izuku let out a long breath standing at the roof of his initial building. He returned to the building's roof after getting out giving Tenya the thought that he left.
From then Izuku just sat on the roof only sensing everyone and since Tenya was near him, he registered Tenya's life energy quickly even though something was jamming his sensing abilities. Since he knew Tenya was going to the place where he would go he just waited for right time.
He waited and he finally sensed someone just blocked Tenya and he drew a mental map to his object, and since everything was overwhelming with life energy, it was easy for him to draw an imaginary path.
He stood up 'Gearshift, One for All 15%'. Instead charging OFA at his hands he charged them at his legs and he vanished from his spot.
Next Izuku was seen at another building's roof some blocks away. He used gearshift to increase his speed and OFA to jump further. He repeated the combination until he reached at the building, upon reaching the room he found the glassbox was frozen in ice.
'So it was Todoroki's starting place, ofc he will try to prevent anyone to overrun him, just like Kacchan, except Kacchan will seriously hurt them but Todoroki won't do that' he sighed and looked at the projector once more to see only he was the one who was left to collect his object. He was a bit troubled when he saw his the object's location was glowing red but it turned off after sometime and now he knows because Shoto tampered with the glass box so the siren rang out.
Izuku touched the ice with his left hand melting it quickly with glass box and retracted the object and ran out. He didn't need to know what the projector said, he figured it out already. Izuku just needed to get out from there and he did.
Izuku came out from Ground Beta without being noticed before a minute. He saw Momo, Shoto, Toru, Shinso, Ochako, Tsuyu and Koda there with their objects secured.
"Looks like we passed Deku-kun" Ochako chirpped happily swinging her sword with Tsuyu croaked in response.
"It was so scary, Shinso came out of nowhere and brainwashed Shoji just infront of his eyes" Toru mused earning a small chorus of laughter from everyone except Shinso who blinked in surprise. "What?? You were there Hagakure?? I didn't even realize you were there, even though you are invisible but we can still hear footsteps or breathing and some panicking movement but there was none" Shinso was impressed since his whole motto was to surprise others with sudden appearance but he failed at Toru but succeeded on Shoji.
Everyone believed Toru gave Shinso a smug smile before answering "I am not only training to be stronger but also stealthier and you don't know how much Midori scares me every morning to train me not to panic. But thanks to Shoji I got enough information I needed and it was the perfect stealth mission for me so how can I fail?".
Izuku gave Toru a smile while the others couldn't help but impressed at Izuku's teachings. 'Midoriya is teaching Hagakure more than UA' Momo thought with an amused smile 'If Midoriya uses that brain and become UA's heroic classes teacher then the crime rates will drop more. But how does he think that pretty fast?' Momo could never get thar answer.
"TIMES UP"
"EVERYONE COME OUT FROM GROUND BETA"
All Might's voice boomed through the entire area finally ending the training.
Soon class 1-A gathered with some defeated faces like Minta, Denki, Ojiro and Rikido or some relieved faces like Kyoka, Mina, Eijiro and Tenya. Also there was Fumikage who had his object but je didn't look pleased and Yuga was as usual sparkling. While Shoji and Hanta acting neutral.
Everyone remained silent until All Might came to them with his usual grin. "Everyone did their best in the training but I must say only 5 students passed and they are Momo Yaoyorozu, Hitoshi Shinso, Koji Koda, Toru Hagakure and Izuku Midoriya"
Silence filled among the students and Shoto and Kyoka looked more surprised than others.
"But sensei I delivered the object in time so how did not I pass??" Eijiro asked. Kyoka snorted "You never use your brain don't you?? The other delivery projector was a deception, sensei already said that believe nothing, even the instructions but I kept my object with me so why didn't I pass??"
Both Eijiro and Tenta paled knowing they followed the instructions without questioning about anything. Izuku coughed getting everyones attention before speaking "We were in enemy territory and we had a fixed time to complete the mission. We had to come out from enemy territory in time to secure the victory. You won't know anything except for a fixed what will happen there or they might know that you took something from after the time limit".
All Might nodded "What Young Midoriya said is true but there are more than that, it was a intelligence gathering and stealth mission. I thought you are all intelligent enough to realize that. Though I told you to disqualify others if you want to but I also said don't even believe me blindly. You revealed yourselves to enemies to take them down which is not acceptable in stealth missions. Some of you tried to run away but some of you stood in light just to fight. What I meant fight was to sneak attack and not to get others attention. Only Young Shinso followed that rule. Young Hagakure used her Quirk intelligently to remain stealthy and calm in the most dire situations, same goes for Young Koda who gathered informations and executed his mission perfectly. Young Midoriya waited until the very end to execute his plan in the last minute to avoid running into anyone. And I'm impressed that Young Yaoyorozu quickly realized the mission"
The said teens blushed for getting praise from the number one hero while others hung their head for not using their brains more but between them Shoto glared at the five students who bested him in intelligence and cursed himself for falling for that trick. He cursed Endeavor for thinking like to trip others to get ahead of them.
'I was so fixed on defeating Midoriya and others and I didn't think properly, I am ashamed of myself for that' he clenched his fists and glared at Izuku with side eyes 'Next time I'll not think to defeat anyone but to win for myself'.
"And now among others only Young Jiro was so close to win but now you know how to operate in enemy territory" seeing Kyoka nodded the pro hero turned to Ochako and Tsuyu, the both girls saw a slight dissapointment in All Might's eyes. "And Young Uraraka and Young Asui, I'm dissapointed at your judgements, both of you understood the meaning of this training and yet you two confronted eachothers doubting your decisions which led you to failure. Both of you are smart but I want to know what caused you to go in a fight?"
"I'm sorry All Might sensei but I let my personal feelings come in there which made me think irrationally" Ochako murmured in embarrassment.
"Same here All Might sensei, I let myself think to defeat the enemies infront of me even after realizing the real meaning of this training" Tsuyu also croaked in low voice knowing her decision was wrong.
While the class pondered what made Tsuyu and Ochako to attack eachothers when they were good friends from the first day but All Might quickly realized along with Mina.
'Personal feeling meant their attraction over Young Midoriya, while I support to have those feelings but I can't let those feelings hinder their growth or wisdom' the pro hero thought and with a smile he put his hands on their shoulders.
"Listen Young Uraraka and Young Asui, it's fine to have those feelings but don't let them hinder judgements. You can persue those feelings but don't forget about your dreams and goals, they are the most important things and with in time those feelings will turn into a bond"
The two girls nodded with determination which made All Might happy. He hoped those two will work properly in future.
"Alright everyone this is for today's class. Everyone learn with the mistakes you did and one last advice, don't talk to yourselves or others could listen you. Many students understood the real meaning by hearing your loud thoughts. PLUS ULTRA"
No one replied to All Might as he left, they face palmed and cursed themselves to stop thier mouths think outloud. While Izuku, Toru and Kyoka whistled innocently knowing they got the informations by listening others.
"It ended finally" Toru chided happily before turning to Izuku, she jumped on him hugging his head between her chest again "Thanks for your training Midori or I could have failed just for panicking".
"A-ahh it's fine.. Fine. You didn't forget the.. The lessons" Izuku blushed as his squirmed to get out from the embarrassment while others looked at them with amusement.
Between them Mineta cried out while Denki laughed "Atleast one of the boys got a pair of boobs, OWW!!". He was jabbed in ears by Kyoka as soon as those words left from his mouth with Kyoka glaring him "Don't open your perverted mouth".
Between the commotion Tsuyu and Ochako stood in back looking at themselves.
"I'm sorry Ochako-chan for acting like that ribbit" Tsuyu apologized with a low tone so no one except Ochako could hear her.
Ochako nodded her head "I should also apologize for that. In truth I was jealous that Toru-chan having Deku-kun's attention and you were trying to your best to get his attention where I couldn't do anything". She watched Izuku praised Toru for her performence while she lost her chance.
"Same goes for me ribbit but I can't let it go like that. Even in the same situation Toru-chan didn't forget about her specialities and true goals. I'll show everyone my capabilites next time in plus ultra style"
Ochako nodded at Tsuyu's conviction knowing she will show her capabilites also, for her dreams. She still has a duty to her parents and while achieving that she will also get what she desires.
Meanwhile unknown to them only Momo heard the conversation between Ochako and Momo, while many of the class didn't understand why they acted like that, Momo realized it quickly. She sighed internally for not doing anything foolish but she needed to try more if she wanted the attention. Momo blushed thinking from where would that come for?
That same night Shoto found himself infront of the piercing gaze of Endeavor. The teen didn't need any time to realize why his 'father' was giving him that look, he got the results of that day's heroic class and about his failure.
"Shoto, I thought you were a smart child so tell me what foolishness you did at today's heroic classes??" Endeavor asked surprising with his calmness. While Shoto and Natsuo didn't care Fuyumi noticed that and she saw the dissapointed look at her father's eyes. It wasn't the dissapointment of a failure but something and Fuyumi thought that could start a new relation if Shoto behaved better.
Shoto meanwhile shot a glare to Enji "Yes, I didn't use this brain you installed in me or maybe it didn't work because you installed it in me. Maybe I got this from you, about make others fail so you don't have to think about winning".
Enji's eyes widen, he was thinking from where that came. The number two pro hero knew his children didn't like him because he was harsh on his quest to get a perfect heir who will surpass All Might. He taught them how to become strong but he never taught them to make others fail unnecessarily. He taught him to be a greater hero than him.
Enji sighed "You're wrong Shoto". His low and calm voice was surprising since Enji was known as a yelling person. "I always taught you to be stronger and a greater hero than me but I never taught you that what you are thinking. I dreamed to be the number one pro since I saw All Might almost three decades ago. I trained and climbed up to this place and I did the same for you, I made you stronger so you can climb up faster in the ranks and then once surpass me before surpassing All Might. I know you don't like my teachings but I never taught you or I'll never teach you make others cast down. I taught you to protect others and that's what I want you to do. I'm your parent Shoto and all I want is to surpass me and everyone before me to make me happy by doing what I couldn't do".
Shoto was shocked at Enji's words, he never heard those kind of words from his father but he said caring words just like a normal father should but unfortunately he never knew what a normal father would do.
And that made him angry...
"You're saying this kind of things now after killing our older brother Toya. You are the one who hurt mother and I aged to see you so isn't it normal to act like what he used to see his parents"
Shoto shot up from his seat furiously, Natsuo shot daggers to Shoto instead of Enji this time. 'So he has infected you to Shoto, ofcourse you're his favourite so it was a matter of time when you will also be infected by him' Natsuo thought angrily.
Enji didn't show any expression but he stayed calm "You are saying this with your perspective but you don't know what I felt that time, both of times. I'm not saying I was right everytime and I made mistakes but now you're too angry to listen what I felt".
That was a shocker, Enji Todoroki, Endeavor, the most prideful number two hero who never admitted defeat just said that he was wrong. What in the world waa going on?? All three children of Todoroki family thought simultaneously.
Fuyumi opened her mouth to help Enji that time, it was the best chance to get their family in shape and together. But before she could say anything Enji spoke again "You are having problems with Izuku Midoriya so first I need to tell you who is Izuku Midoriya"
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