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Chapter 34

Sports Festival Part 2:

Swept off my Feet

Izuku's stomach grumbled as he walked through one of the empty corridors of the UA stadium that was hosting the sports festival this year. He was shocked he hadn't collapsed out of sheer hunger yet after what had happened during the first and second events of the festival. Even if he didn't have to utilize his kit during the second event, Izuku felt he may have gone a little overboard with the "massacre" of zero-pointers.

The "Robo-apocalypse" turned more into a Robo graveyard when he was finished with it.

Izuku came in first place for the obstacle course; while he couldn't really do much about the second hazard, which was a giant pitfall, he was able to create a path through the minefield that was set up by switching into his Machinist kit and just scatter shotted the hidden mines while keeping a fair distance from the explosions themselves. Doing so did cost him a little time, but Izuku was not doing this out of boredom. He was doing so to make a point.

If Nezu wanted to showcase Izuku and his "quirk", then by all means, he was going to do so, on his terms, however. Which meant he was taking away the obstacles for the other students, not that they would have needed help. Still, Izuku would rather take on these problems himself than risk his peer's health.

The second event was the "Cavalry Battle", a team-based event where the students would try and grab headbands off of their opponents, consisting of one rider and the other's as the "horse". Sure enough, Izuku was given a headband worth ten million points, and he could already feel the eyes of the forty-two students glare at him as if he was prey in a den full of predators.

A quick shift into the Dragoon kit quickly changed that, however.

As the other students began to group up into their own teams, Izuku was looking to try and get his own. Sadly, that was incredibly hard as either people didn't want a target on their back because of his highly scored headband or wished to test themselves against him.

Both reasons Izuku could live with, even if that meant that Mina, Tsuyu, and Momo would be with other teams. Kyoka sadly hadn't placed, and Izuku made a mental note for later that he and Eri should spend some time with her after the festival, considering how devastated she looked when she was placed in 44th.

Momo had apparently been recruited by Todoroki with Tenya and Kaminari. At the same time, Mina looked like she was having a miserable time after Kirishima had asked her to join up with his team, which had Bakugo as their rider. Again, Izuku felt he needed to help cheer up his "alien queen" afterward… maybe a movie night with just the two of them with those sci-fi horror movies she kept bugging the group to watch.

Tsuyu had joined up with Shoji and, of all people, Mineta. A quick glare from Izuku nearly fainted the purple ball-haired boy until Tsuyu gave Izuku a look of her own; while hard for the others to recognize, Izuku had gotten the impression of "I can handle it, but thanks, kero."

… he may have added that little croak at the end, but Izuku thought they fit Tsuyu so well and made her just that much cuter.

Thankfully, Ochako had run up to him at this point and offered to partner up with him. It was followed by Tokoyami, standing by the wall out of sight of the various groups until both Izuku and Ochako convinced him to join them. That left only one person needed to make their team, and what happened next still shakes Izuku to his core as he thought about it again.

"Muscles!" shouted the excitable Mei Hatsume as she jumped onto the back of Izuku, almost sending him to the ground had it not been for the pre-emptive calling of his name. Although he was swamped during the weeks leading up to the festival, Izuku still would come by the support studio to work on his hero outfit's magitek additions with Mei to assist him.

He had kept his word to Nezu about not teaching Mei how to make her own magitek, despite him really wishing he could, considering having her bounce off ideas and improvements to his designs would have been leagues better than having her watch him or pass him tools between the pair while they worked on their own projects.

"M-Mei?! W-what are you doing? Can you please get off?" Izuku stuttered out; his face was red from the invasion of his space by the support student maniac. Izuku was definitely doing his best to ignore her very soft and rather pronounced chest pressing into his back.

Mei snickered giddily as she let go and looked up at him with a big smile when Izuku had turned around, "I wanna join your team! You, Gravity Girl, and Birdman can help me show off my new magi-babies!"

Mei had pulled out what looked like a small rectangular box with two crystals embedded into it from her belt. Pressing the ornate objects, the box shifted into a pair of boots with intricate designs running across them. Each boot had a single crystal on them. While Ochako and Tokoyami were in awe at the sight, Izuku's face had gone pale, "M-Mei… where did you get these?"

"Get them? Muscles, I MADE them! Mei Hatsume's patented magitek hover boots!"

"W-What?! B-but I never taught you how to create your own magitek!"

"Oh, that was easy." Mei continued to smile, "I learned by reverse-engineering the "jump" boots you had been working on in the studio, then putting them back with a few touches made by me!"

Izuku kept staring at her, dumbfounded. Sure, he hadn't taught her like Nezu said, but the crazy student was apparently able to figure it all out on her own. His gaze looked down to her belt to see even more of the boxes lined with differently colored crystals just waiting to be deployed.

Hold on…

"Wait, even if you had the means to make more magitek, I never gave you any crystals to power them; where did you get them all?" Izuku asked with a raised eyebrow, knowing that any spare crystals he hadn't used were immediately put back into the "storage" aka the aetherotransformer that hung from his belt while in his Machinist kit.

"That's the funny thing! Every couple of mornings, there's a bunch of crystals laying right on my worktable!" Mei said with a smile and laugh, clearly not questioning the source of the crystals or where they were getting them from.

Izuku knew, and his eye twitched in irritation as he could hear the dean's villain-like laughter in his head.

That goddamn rat…

Suffice it to say, Izuku and his team had made it to the final event, which was a staple for the sports festival for every previous year, the one versus one battles.

They had been given an hour-long lunch to get the battle platform ready while allowing those participating to rest and recoup from the previous two events. And just as Izuku was about to have lunch, while also eating with the girls as well as Eri and his mom, Todoroki had called out to speak with him privately.

Finally stopping after five minutes of walking, Izuku sighed gently, staring at Todoroki, who turned around, "So, is there something wrong, Todoroki? Or are you going to make another declaration of war like you did before the opening ceremonies?"

The split-colored-haired boy looked upon Izuku, his face even more expressionless than Tsuyu's as he spoke, "Are you related to All Might?"

The two boys were silent as the question hung in the empty corridor they were occupying. Izuku blinked once, then twice, before tilting his head, "Am I… huh?!"

"I asked, 'Are you related to All Might'... It's why I brought you down this corridor so we could speak not only in private but also to avoid interruptions by our classmate's antics. Bakugo, especially, doesn't seem to know the word 'quiet'."

Izuku had to stop himself from chuckling at that, who knew that Todoroki could be so savage.

Always the quiet ones.

"N-No, I'm not related to All Might, Todoroki… why are you asking?" Izuku stuttered slightly, trying to hold back his laughter. At the same time, the nonplussed boy just stared at him, not knowing why Izuku was acting like this.

"Even if that is the case, you do have ties to All Might." Todoroki said with an assertive tone to his voice, making Izuku calm himself down after that accusation, "Either through him when he is around or your interactions with Mr. Yagi, as well as how often he comes to the dorms to visit your mother."

Storing that last bit into his 'confront Toshinori about later' folder within his mind, Izuku's eyes slowly frowned and squinted, the half and half student before him already figuring out that he did have ties to All Might, and with a steady voice, he spoke, "And what does this have to do with you calling me out here?"

Todoroki, still with his monotone voice, looked at Izuku, "You probably already figured this out, but you know that my father is the number two hero, Endeavour, correct?"

Izuku gently nodded, though not liking how Todoroki seemed to say the word 'father' with such venom.

"Tell me, Midoriya, have you ever heard of 'Quirk Marriages'?"

Izuku groaned as he rubbed his stomach, burping gently as he rolled his neck around. The talk with Todoroki had gone on longer than he had expected, the reveal of how the number two "bought" his wife and had basically forced her to give birth to his children in hopes that one of them would be gifted with both Endeavor's fire and his mother's ice.

Turns out that Todoroki was the fourth and successful attempt.

That aside, as well as a new distaste for Endeavor and the reason why Todoroki refused to use his fire, Izuku had to basically wolf down his lunch before the beginning of the third event. Surprisingly, none of the girls were around. When he asked Kirishima, he said that Kaminari and Mineta had spoken to them last before they disappeared.

Had he any extra time, Izuku would have hunted down the two before the announcement for the students to come back and allow the unveiling of the battle pairs.

As the students participating in the third event had made it back into the field, Izuku's eyes widened. His cheeks flushed a crimson red at the sights before him as he, as well as the rest of his classmates, found the women of class 1-A.

Turns out that Mineta and Kaminari had somehow convinced the women that, of all people, Aizawa had passed along a message to the two class perverts to let the girls know about the pre-event cheerleading competition. Suffice it to say, most of the women were embarrassed considering they were tricked into wearing cheerleading outfits, albeit they had looked very stylish.

Izuku did his best not to stare at them, but it was very hard, especially when it came to four particular women. Mina had already written off her embarrassment and began to do actual cheers with Toru, waving the pom-Pom's about while chanting an "inspiring" cheer. Momo looked just about done with everything, considering she felt awful for having fallen for such an easy-to-spot trick; Tsuyu was beside her with Ochako trying to cheer her up. Lastly, Kyoka was staring daggers at both Kaminari and Mineta, the latter of whom looked rather terrified of the punk rocker.

Truth be told, while every one of his girlfriends looked absolutely fantastic in the outfits, Izuku had to admit that for whatever reason, be it that it was such a vast one-eighty from how she usually dressed or the way it actually showed off her curves, Kyoka looked the most stunning out of all of them.

"I-I know it's not manly to be staring at them," Kirishima said as he stood beside Izuku, noting that the red-headed boy's cheeks matched his hair color while his gaze seemed to be upon Ochako, "But, she- I m-mean they look perfect in those outfits, huh?"

"Oui, t-they all look fantastique." Yuga had stammered slightly as he was looking upon the bouncing Toru, which allowed the cloth to really show off the invisible girl's body.

A crack of a whip caught everyone's attention as Midnight stood up in the battle platform with a giant billboard behind her, her smile devilish as she gazed down at all the students before her, "Now that we have everyone here and I have all of your attention, let me explain the final event for this most glorious of sports festivals!"

As she spoke, the board behind her lit up with a bright hum sound, the screen revealing a flowchart as sixteen names were flickering on and off, changing positions as Midnight continued to smile, "With a simple push of a button, our final one on one battles will be organized by pure random chance! Will you be put against someone who is a friend? Or will you face off against your most bitter rival? WHO knows! And the wonderful thing about this is it has no outside influence to affect it! So once the names stop, the first match will begin in roughly ten minutes!"

Izuku couldn't help but feel that the part about the no outside influence was put in place regarding Nezu. While the dean would never rig the sports festival to satisfy his need to test Izuku, it was better safe than sorry. However, the pure randomness of the pairings was also something Nezu would also enjoy.

He thanked Hydaelyn that none of the other Moogles loved chaos as much as Nezu.

A cheer from the crowds brought Izuku out of his thoughts as Midnight had swayed her hips while pulling out the single button switch from between her breasts, "And now, let's see who our first two lovely combatants are going to be!"

Midnight pressed the button with a loud roar of the audience, and the chaotic mess of names stopped on screen. The first bracket showed that Izuku would be up first, and his heart sank horribly into his gut as he looked at the name of whom he was going to be facing. Turning his gaze towards his "opponent", Izuku could see their eyes give off a sense of the same sinking feeling.

"Oh! Such an interesting-looking pairing for our first match!" Midnight called out; a crack of her whip echoed in the stadium as the large jumbotron screen that hung above the field displayed the two students' pictures and their names.

Izuku Midoriya VS. Mina Ashido.

"Poor Mina… to face Izuku right off the bat," Ochako spoke sadly, a worried look on her face as she and the rest of Class 1-A had made their way to the special box seats designated for the individual classes. Sitting close by her were the other girls (back in their gym outfits), as well as Kirishima, Tokoyami, and Yuga, with Toru resting against his arm, her gloved fingers interlaced with his.

"Indeed, a poor matchup for the both of them," Momo said softly, her hand held by her chest looking on at the field.

"Why do you say that? I'm not going to lie, but with Midoribro's knowledge and all that power he has with his quirk… as much as it is crap to say about one of my best friends, Mina is kinda screwed." While he would enjoy the final event and even participate in it, Kirishima felt it was "unmanly" to talk negative things about one of his closest friends and felt horrible talking about Mina like that.

"While I wouldn't use that particular term, it is true Mina is at a certain disadvantage." Tokoyami spoke up suddenly, his bird eyes looking over to his "manly" classmate, "However, from how Yaoyorozu spoke, she is also indeed correct."

"How so, Toko-bro?"

"While Midoriya is indeed powerful, most of the abilities of his quirk or… kits… have not been fully tested out upon those of flesh and bone. So he is limited to the ones that focus more on melee combat, which Ashido will capitalize on since she mostly focuses upon ranged combat with her acid, as well as skating around him."

"That," Momo spoke up gently, as the two boys looked to her, "And despite how much power Izuku has, given what we saw at the USJ as well as what he did to those zero-pointers during the race, Izuku will be holding himself back to not hurt Mina… As much as it pains me to even say, Izuku could literally kill any of us if he was going at his full strength."

A cold shiver slid down the spines of those who heard Momo say that, remembering the scene of Izuku utterly destroying the zero-pointers, as well as all the "lethality" classes they had been doing where they watched Izuku just obliterate the robots during those.

"... Good thing he wants to be a hero, huh?" Kirishima said with an audible gulp and a pale look on his face. While the red-headed boy would still see how well his hardened-up body could go up against Izuku's spells, after all, breaking a promise wasn't "manly", even though he was a little intimidated by his classmates' overall strength.

"OH YEAAAAA!" screamed Present Mic over the microphone with a musical fanfare occupying his voice, causing many of the students to cover their ears due to how loud it was, as well as being startled by their teacher's exuberant voice, "Let's get this show on the road! First up, we have the out-of-this-world beauty that not only could melt your heart with her looks and personality but also her quirk, Mina AASHIIIIIIDO!"

The crowd cheered and roared as Mina rushed onto the battle platform with a hop and a skip, jumping up onto its surface and waving her arms around with the biggest smile. In the fluffy pink-haired woman's mind, she was thinking of how excited her family would be to see her on TV, performing at one of the country's most significant events. As she brought her arms down, and as the fanfare quieted for a moment before picking up back in volume once again, her happy expression slowly faded as she listened to Present Mic announce her opponent.

"And from the other side, we have the guy with such a crazy quirk; he even scares me at times; it's the one and only Izuku MIIIIDORIYA!" Izuku flinched slightly before jogging up towards the platform, listening to the cheers and shouts from the audience as he leaped up onto the surface and turned his gaze towards Mina. She was staring him down with a look of determination that he had never seen on her, at least not towards his direction anyway.

"Alright, you two lovelies," Midnight said as both students looked towards her, listening to her as she held up a microphone to her lips, "Rules are simple! The first one to knock out the other or push them out of bounds is the winner and moves on to the next round; anyone can surrender if they have pushed past their limits or are unable to move! Suppose you or anyone else is getting too crazy. In that case, Cementoss or I will step in and put a stop to the fight, and you will listen to us if we tell you to stop, or I will have to... punish you later, am I clear?"

The somewhat predatory look she was giving both of her students made them quickly nod their heads as Midnight cackled in delight, "You may start when you hear the crack of the whip." and the provocative teacher turned on her heel began to saunter off towards where she would be refereeing the match.

Izuku made sure to look away before Midnight had turned and looked across the way towards Mina, who was staring hard at him with a frown, "M-Mina, is something-" "Don't you dare hold back on me, Izuku!" Mina shouted as she readied herself into a stance.

"I know you aren't going to go full throttle, considering how powerful you are with 'Manifest', but don't you dare go easy on me. I'm here to show off how awesome of a hero I can be and while I…" She paused for a moment, a dusting of purple on her pink cheeks while Izuku also blushed at the implication she was referring to; Mina shook her head and continued, "While I know how much you have analyzed me and the others, I won't make this easy for you, nor should you make it easy for any of us!"

A crack of a whip was heard, and before Izuku could even give a rebuttal, Mina shot forth and began to slide across the battle platform, tossing huge globs of acid flew towards him, making Izuku roll out of the way, only to be sideswiped by an acid-drenched punch to his side from Mina as she skated along with her acid before moving past him before he could make a returning strike, before throwing more glops of acidic goo towards him and repeating the pattern.

From up above the cheers of the audience, Present Mic was looking ecstatic, and his commentary held the same vibe, "We have 'first blood' with Ashido bum-rushing Midoriya with a bait and switch!"

"While Midoriya is one of the more intelligent students in my class, Ashido is very quick to come up with half thought up plans of attack, making her very unpredictable. She knows that if given time to strategize, Midoriya will think of a plan and end the fight, so she's making it hard for him to even do that with hit and run tactics."

"Is that why he hasn't used his quirk yet?"

"That and he hasn't fully tested out how to hold back on some of his more ranged options, and going into melee with her will just dissolve any of his equipment, and before you ask, the kit he used to destroy the zero-pointers in the first event would be an inferior choice as well, considering Ashido is quick enough to avoid his 'jumps'."

"So, stuck between acid and a hard place, huh?"

Aizawa turned towards his co-host, sighing in annoyance as Mic snickered to himself. As his tired eyes looked back down to the fight, he could see that Midoriya was beginning to dodge both the flung acid towards him and weave around Ashido's incoming punches, "There is also the problem with Ashido's plan, she doesn't think ahead if the tactic she uses begin's to fail or her opponent starts to out-think her… hmm?"

Mic looked over to Aizawa when his co-host hummed suddenly; placing his hand over his microphone, he leaned over, "Something wrong, bud?"

"... better pull out those sunglasses that I got for us when I went to discipline Kaminari and Mineta…." Aizawa said with a cryptic tone of voice, fishing out his glasses from under his cloak as Present Mic did the same, once he noticed that not only Class 1-A had their own pairs of sunglasses, but also members of Class 1-B did as well.

Back on the field, Izuku was panting slightly as Mina was coming towards him once again. While he felt happy that she was using a tactic he made in his notebooks, he lamented that she seemed to have forgotten the follow-up to those plans if it started to fail. This allowed Izuku to focus on her now, as the tugging sensation of his blessing caused him to begin to hyper analyze his girlfriend but also his surroundings.

The crowd was deafening once the fight had begun, cheering for both Mina and himself; from the corner of his eyes, he could see children in the stands shouting loudly in joy, watching the fight between the two hero students. His emerald eyes soon shifted towards Mina, whose expression had morphed into one of pure joy and excitement despite having a serious look and tone of voice when the battle had begun. The way she skated around the platform was almost like a ballerina, as well as a few other forms of dances that she weaved into some kind of chaotic mixture of her movements.

Admittedly, Izuku had always been entranced by Mina's dancing abilities. Watching her breakdance when they hung out before UA always seemed to perk up his mood. The energy she put into every movement while she danced and the utter joy anyone who watched her would feel from her performance.

The crowds seemed to enjoy it too, albeit it wasn't Mina's usual breakdancing moves. Still, from the entertainment she was providing as she danced around Izuku and forcing him to re-evaluate his strategy.

As he took a quick glance around him and saw only the crowd's delighted smiles with their cheers, Mina continued her "dance" with gusto. And that's when It finally clicked.

They were not only "performing" for the different hero agencies that were watching them as potential recruits, but the public masses so they would become recognizable when the students were out in public doing their internships. Helping make the students more approachable to the common man should they need a hero to help them.

Izuku slowly rose from his spot, standing tall and proud as Mina came barreling towards him with a big smile before sliding to a halt as she saw the utter joyful look on his face. With the warmth of his blessing flowing through his body, and the three words of Hydaelyn echoing in his head, Izuku raised his hand out to Mina, "Let's give them a great performance, Mina! Come, dance with me!"

And a bright light soon filled the stadium, causing not only the crowds to gasp out from the sudden offending and surprisingly light, but also caused the viewers in their homes to cover their eyes.

As quickly as the light appeared, it soon disappeared, revealing to everyone across Japan and the stadium the fantastical outfit that one of the students was now wearing. Mina slowly gasped as she realized what had happened, remembering that Izuku had told her and Kyoka once that he was very close to unlocking the kits that were tied to them specifically but were missing one or two critical things.

Mina then realized what it must have been for Izuku to "unlock" the kit; they were in a stadium, and the crowd watched their fight. As her gaze returned to her boyfriend/opponent, the pink-skinned girl now got a perfect look at what she helped cause.

And god damn, was she happy about it.

Standing before her was Izuku, his hair the same fluffiness as it always was, but around his head was a metallic-looking headband, with ornate silver decorations placed on the front and over his nose. Along the sides were beaded strings with what looked like bird feathers hanging off at the ends with a similar strand at the back, but with what looked like a fluffy tail off of something Mina couldn't put her finger on. The rest of Izuku's outfit was something else entirely.

A small black vest was all Izuku wore on his upper body, the many chains, beads, and other ornate decorations littered across his body in such beautiful weaves and silver designs along with the cloth. Perfectly capturing his rather muscular and lithe body. Along his arms and legs were what looked like thick or pseudo-leather-looking shoes and gloves. Though the "gloves" would reach his upper arm, it had "ended" at silver rings placed on Izuku's middle fingers. Both were covered in the imagery of music and dancing with silver decorations and beads. At the same time, the boy's pants were clingy tightly to his legs, colored pure white to offset all of the dark colors on his person.

What was most interesting was the belt and sash adorned with it. Long and silk-like, they were also littered with various silver decorations near the bottom to give the broad strands of cloth some weight. Upon his belt, however, were two ornately designed chakrams, looking both beautiful and deadly at the same time, and that's when a loud whistle from the side of the battle platform broke Mina's literal drooling over Izuku's new look, "Midoriya! Those weapons at your side, are they needed for your quirk? And are they blunt?" Midnight had called out as she strode over to the boy, who looked at her with a bright smile.

"Ah, my apologies, Miss Midnight!" Izuku said as he quickly made his way over to her, plucking off one of the chakrams and handing it to her, "Yes, they are essential for my kit! It's called 'Dancer' and they are needed to perform my various steps and moves. Currently, they are blunted, however..." He plucked the other one from his belt, and the new chakram suddenly split, causing it to break apart at the blunt edge, showing off the relatively sharp edge to its new form, unlike the closed one currently in Midnight's hand. The oddest was the symbolic rose-like flower that projected itself in the middle when it broke apart, with what looked like tiny little sparkles of light falling from the center of the projection.

"Can you use them while it's closed?"

"Yep! And no worries about them sliding apart to their sharpened edge either! The crystals on the chakrams need only be filled with aether to separate, but I can still throw them around without the need of aether!" Izuku had answered with a bright, almost bubbly smile on his lips.

Midnight looked over the weapon in her hand, testing it to make sure Izuku's claims were correct about them not being able to slip open to their sharpened edges. Once she had tried a few times to cause the split and failed, she handed the weapon back to Izuku and ran back towards the side of the platform, reaching for her mic and raising her hand, "The weapons are blunt and a part of Izuku's quirk, they are deemed safe for combat if you allow it, Miss Ashido!"

Mina blinked, turning her head to Izuku, who had returned to his spot, holding the two metallic discs in his hands as he began to bounce slightly on the balls of his feet. She knew she could trust Izuku's judgment and control with his magic stuff, so she looked to Midnight and gave her a big thumbs up, "Even if he has the moves now, I'm still going to trounce him."

Midnight cackled loudly and cracked her whip, signaling the start of the match again. Mina had blasted forward again, lobbing more of her acid towards Izuku, who quickly dodged to the side with what Mina could only think of as a "blast of color" before Izuku flung the chakrams at her. Barely escaping the things, Mina was shocked to see them return to Izuku's hands before relaunching them at her, this time finding their mark as one hit her stomach.

Grunting in pain and gasping for air from the strike, Mina huffed before skating back towards her target, dodging and weaving through the flying metal discs before trying to kick Izuku when she was close enough,

Once again, and with a muttered phrase of "En Avant" that Mina could hear, Izuku had zoomed himself out of her proximity and followed up with more tosses of the chakrams towards her.

If the crowds were loud before, they were getting even more rambunctious with the fight before them. From the seats of Class 1-A, everyone was stunned as they watched their two classmates "duke" it out.

"Um…" Koda spoke up softly, thankful to get someone's attention finally when he tapped Momo's shoulder from behind. As the heiress slowly took her attention away from the fight to look at the often mute boy, Koda began to use sign language to her, for which Momo nodded with a smile, "That's exactly right, Koda. It does look like a dance."

"What do you mean, Kero?" Tsuyu spoke up from beside Momo, who turned her head towards the frog-like girl, staring at Momo with her usual emotionless eyes.

"Watch their movement's carefully," Momo pointed towards the fight, "while it looks like random moves and dodges, in reality, one could say that they are both "combat dancing", their moves are telegraphed easily, but it allows the other to follow up and add to their movements."

"So, they are basically playing right now instead of actually fighting? Kero."

"Not in a sense you're thinking; judging from their smiles, they are clearly both enjoying this, but Mina isn't giving Izuku one inch, while he too is doing that exact same thing. They are fighting one another but also dancing together."

Tsuyu looked down to the fight as Momo had finished her explanation, letting out another croak from her throat; she spoke plainly once again, "... she's totally going to bug him for dancing lessons, and how to use those weapons he is tossing at her, isn't she?"

"Oh, with that, I have no doubt, and probably pester me to make her an outfit similar to his garb." Momo giggled gently while Tsuyu nodded before she blinked.

"Uh oh, looks like Mina isn't doing so hot, kero."

Dodging another flurry of throw chakrams, Mina was panting heavily as she somehow ended up in the corner of the battle platform with Izuku not too far in front of her and looking a little winded. But that smile he had been wearing since shifting into his new kit was still plastered on his face, "Looks like our dance has to come to an end sadly; I take it you enjoyed our fun?"

"Y-Yea, best dance ever…." Mina panted out gently, her legs wobbling, and she could feel her bare feet on the concrete pulse in pain from not only quirk overuse but also from what tiny remnants of her shoes remained. Her arms were shaking, and she kept panting, but a clearing of a throat caught both Mina's and Izuku's attention from the corner.

Cementoss looked up at the pink woman, whose outfit had looked like it had seen better days considering how her sleeves and pant legs were burned away due to her acid, "Miss Ashido, are you able to continue?"

Mina looked back to Izuku, whose smile had faded, and the look of worry and concern adorned his face, still clutching the chakrams but clearly looking like he didn't wish to fight. Mina looked back to the cement-like teacher, smiling gently, "I-I think that's all I got for now, Mr. Cementoss, I concede."

The teacher nodded and raised his hand up to Midnight, who called out that Mina had surrendered and the winner was Izuku. Sighing in relief, Mina was about to fall onto her butt to get off of her feet. As she fell, she could feel the pressure of wind kick up and a small flash of light out of the corner of her vision before she felt the somewhat tight grip of Izuku's strong hands at her back and under her knees.

She looked towards the green-haired boy to see him having returned to his "regular" look, lifting her up into a princess carry as Izuku gave Mina a gentle smile before looking to Cementoss, "I'll carry her to the medical area, sir."

The stone-like teacher nodded, and Izuku began to lightly jog towards the tunnel that would allow him to take Mina to Krile. Izuku was blushing somewhat, as was Mina from all the catcalls and whistles of the crowd before they disappeared into the darkness of the tunnels, away from the limelight for now and able to speak to one another in private. Mina looked to Izuku with a big smile, "You didn't have to carry me, you know? The recovery robots would have come and gotten me?"

"And deny me the chance of sweeping my Alien Queen off of her feet? I think not." Izuku said with a big grin, causing Mina to really blush.

Said "alien queen" gave off a playful huff, putting on a fake pout while wrapping her arms around his neck, "I liked it better when I would fluster you into a blushy mess; you getting confidence is giving you too much power!"

"You still do most days, but I have been learning from you how to tease and flirt… and I can see the appeal." Izuku chuckled gently while Mina lightly slapped his chest before giggling as well.

Just as they were getting to the corner where Izuku would find the medical room, he had stopped dead in his tracks, causing Mina to stop her giggling and turn her head up to Izuku, "Hey Izu, why did we-mmph!"

Mina's words died in the throat as she felt the warm and soft lips of Izuku against her own, the echoes of the roaring audience and the bombastic announcement of Present Mic the only sounds that she could hear as just as she was about to close her eyes and enjoy the kiss, they shot open when she felt the prodding of a tongue press against her lips, asking for entrance.

Parting her lips, Mina could feel Izuku's tongue slowly push into her mouth, lightly coaxing her own to meet his between their lips. Gradually, she accepted the request, and both young adults could feel their tongues slowly massage and rub against one another, moving about like they were dancing a slow waltz as Mina held onto Izuku tighter, closing her eyes as she began to enjoy the kiss even more so than before.

A few moments had passed, and their lips had separated, leaving their tongues out and both lightly gasping for air. Izuku's emerald eyes looked deeply into Mina's golden orbs as he panted gently, "You... did amazing, Mina, you even helped lift a weight off of my body that's been there for so long, and I promise that once the internships are done, I'm going to set some time for us where I can start to teach you the movements I did today, as well as build you some custom chakrams."

Mina looked flabbergasted at Izuku, her cheeks still in a heavy purple coloration from the kiss, but also this new promise. Her reply was to kiss him deeply once again, this time with more fervor. She gently bit his bottom lip after breaking apart the kiss a few moments later, "I'll hold you to that, lover boy… Now let's get to the medical room so I can rest up, and you can go and win this entire thing."

Izuku blushed once again and smiled gently, leaning his head down to give her one last peck on her lips before he continued his journey towards the medical room.

Mina snuggled herself more into Izuku's body, holding him a little tighter around his neck but smiling brightly. After all, it wasn't every day that an Alien Queen got carried in such a matter by her King.