Chapter 6 : A Rivalry Unparalleled

"I'm Izuku Midoriya!" : Speeches

'It's Izuku!'/ "It's Izuku!": Thoughts/Flashbacks

"..." : Timeskips

"Full Counter!" : Special/Ultimate Moves/Specified Words

"ALL MIGHT!" : All Might (Buff Form)/ Izuku (Demon Form)/Yelling

Outdated A/N!

Hey y'all! I'm alive! XD So sorry about the long wait (and by long I MEAN REALLY long!) For that, apologies are in order. Due to so many requirements and the package that comes with being a student and whatnot, add in to the fact that I'm Grade 10 as well, I can say that's, although stressful (slightly), it's a valid excuse. Also, let's also account to having a full 2 week review for the exams (I know, it's kind of weird but with all the cancellation of classes and all, they had to let us review it over the vacation (Sembreak as we call it), meaning, no free time to write the story. Let's also include CAT, and that's very…VERY tiring (some people will agree), so yeah XD

Next on the list is something that made me cry (exaggerated but you get the picture), the file got erased, I mean the entire chapter of Chapter 6 was fully erased! What's even worse is that, there was no backup, that was erased as well (it pissed me off to no end because I was 19k words IN! AGHHHHHHH).

Anyways, besides from that, some days where I did have free time, it was the worse kinds, why? Because of two words, writer's block. I actually was trying to wrap my brain on some at least glimpses of the lost chapter, and I don't remember the exact words, but I guess they were close to it? I'm not sure, but hopefully you guys enjoy it regardless! Again, I'm truly sorry for the long wait that would've been thought as an announced hiatus! (And besides, why would I not announce a hiatus? And double with the fact that won't happen anytime soon!).

So moving on to other matters, I thank you for the reviews! They absolutely were all positive! I'm just thankful you guys take some time just to read my story, as I really put my ideas and effort into this, it really puts a smile on my face whenever people either appreciate a certain passion I have as a writer, and I'm just beginning! On another note, I also apologize in advance for grammatical errors if I miss any, I really reread the chapter three times to make sure I don't miss anything, so it could possibly be small details, so I'll try my best!

Actual A/N!

HEY Y'ALL! I HAVE RISEN FROM THE DEAD XD! Ok so, again apologies are to be made. I am honestly and truly sorry for not updating for a very long time (said time being 6 months or more) and do I have a reason? No, reasons? Pretty much.

I had a pretty busy school year (3rd semester I think is what they call it in other countries? I'm not too sure but we call it third quarter), and I just finished the 3rd semester exams from last week! (Febuary 26-28), so I had to review a lot. I tell you, Grade 10 has actually been very excruciatingly stressful for me (not that I mind, higher grades mean a better future), but constant updates would be lacking, and this is a severe disadvantage.

I also have been pretty busy preparing for competitions (not really going to dive too deep into that, but this took up most of my time during January and early Febuary), had a major problem (it's personal and I can't explain it since I promised I wouldn't disclose information) and etc.

I really don't want to keep y'all waiting, so to make up for all the time I have missed with a new chapter, consider this a mega chapter (per se), because it has reached over 45k words, a new record if I do say so myself (this is for me just so you know xD), so you'll have a blast reading this (I hope)!

Let's just say I missed doing this, writing is often my passion and hobby so it was really nice and relaxing to get back and just write my heart out, enjoyed seeing how I can make this story's characters act, a few gags and all, but otherwise really have been enthusiastic, so I hope you all enjoy my effort put into this.

When can you expect a new chapter? Depends, but I can say, probably a little ways later, it's hard to estimate, but it isn't going to be for a while, I'm not planning to make this a hiatus unless absolutely necessary, so no need to worry!

Now, I am again truly sorry, and I'll try to make it up to all of you guys again with another chapter, it is the USJ arc in the next chapter after this one, so stay tuned!

Alright so, now that we got everything out of the way, let's start the chapter you've all been waiting for! Without further ado…Chapter 6 : A Rivalry Unparalleled, has commenced! Enjoy the story! Peace out! XD

I do not own My Hero Academia or the Seven Deadly Sins! All characters go to their respective owners and any sort of change in personality or introduction of any OCs is my responsibility!

A rival

A white, bright light engulfs the gray beach slowly, a quiet atmosphere joins in, followed by the sounds of waves reverberating the peaceful, virgin night. A morning breeze hugs the soft sand, small pebbles, dirt and shells make way from its descent, until rising up again, carrying with it smaller particles at its leave. The sky singing a soft melody, the tiny specks of light waver ever so slightly, the telltale signs of that familiar twinkle. The big, bright sphere lays still in the starry sky, surrounded by its orchestra of silent stars, shining the spotlight all over the Dagobah beach, the waves and stars clashing their songs, the silent and serene, the rhythm and the melody, the picture perfect scene of a storybook setting, one might say, the perfect start of a day, all beings sleep as the natural phenomenon occurs, unaware of the divine beauty this beach has bestowed, untouched by man…

"…Delaware Smash!"

…Followed by a sudden rush of wind and a loud sonic boom, a violent release of a beam was seen from a distance, concentrated air pressure reaching the horizon, separating the ocean surface as it passes by. Seconds later, a loud boom was heard, you could see a makeshift geyser rise up from a distance, before settling back down wildly, then a shockwave rushes towards the shoreline, pushing back all in its way, it could've woken up anyone within its vicinity.

A sigh was heard after the occurring chaos, showing the source to be a familiar mop of greenish-black hair that waved in a graceful manner as the residue wind caresses it gently. Ending on his emerald-colored eyes, filled with a spark of determination and slight contemplation, seeing him with a finger to his chin in analysis, it's not hard to understand why.

'That's a lot of firepower and knockback. Despite being able to withstand it, the backlash of the attack can affect the area I'm surrounding…' True to his word, he looked down to see a slightly small, but noticeable crater around his figure, guiding his eyes to an extended pathway leading towards the ocean line just a few inches away from him.

'Hmm...if I try and compress my magic to a certain extent, maybe I can reduce backlashes upon release?' He contemplated carefully as he closed his eyes, till he decided to act on his thoughts and brought his right palm up, bending his middle finger and stationed it with his thumb. Almost immediately, energy started to gather around his finger, he slightly bent it back a little more before exhaling calmly.

"21% Full Cowl : Triple-Jet Delaware Smash!" The boy opened his eyes abruptly and let go, the effect was instantaneous. A transparent beam of highly compressed wind, about the width of half an average person's arm shot forward with great speed in a sound similar to a high-powered jet, dividing the already cratered trail of sand ahead of him even more and travelling over the ocean till the horizon. In a span of a few moments, a loud explosion echoed from the distance, where another huge geyser, this time bigger than the last, joined it shortly after, followed by an even more evident shockwave, but Izuku didn't even flinch, his green hair flowing in a disheveled grace.

"So that's what happens." He just blinked at the devastation in that one move, it wasn't a joke either. He barely registered the extra large (but only slightly) wave that washed over his now soaked feet, bringing another finger to his chin.

'I'll have to be careful where I fire that as well. At least the backlash was resolved, so much of that power can immediately disable, no, maim someone, unless they have a durable enough quirk that gives them a resistant perk, or a highly protective defense ability….' The hero-in-training, Izuku Midoriya, who was awake, early in the morning, at 2 AM, mumbled his thoughts on his devastating force of his previous attack.

'I'll note it down later.' Izuku said with another sigh, before deliberately flopping down flat on his back with no sign of a grunt, his eyes closing and hands to the back of his head. He breathed in calmly, savoring the provided morning breeze that passed through his body, getting the right spots cooled down, and exhaled in satisfaction. He pondered on what happened at his first day of being a student in the prestigious school of U.A.

U.A, it was everything he expected it to be and much more, fairly certain with himself that he wasn't disappointed in the least. Although, his homeroom teacher, Shouta Aizawa, leaves a lot to offer, the guy looked like he hadn't slept in, well, months, and that's questioning, to say the least. It would be an interesting year to see what exactly the baggy-eyed veteran underground hero had in store for them.

Of course, he didn't have Aizawa on his mind only, there were his classmates after all to think about, 13 to be exact, said classmates being Kirishima, Ashido, Tsuyu, Sato, Sero, Kaminari, Jiro, Koda, Shoji, Hagakure, Tokoyami, of course, Iida, and last ('But definitely not the least.' Izuku thought absentmindedly), Ochako.

All of them had their quirks and their "quirks", Izuku chuckled at that, they were all unique and of their own person, in a way, their quirks represented a physical aspect of their personality, if not, an idea of what it could be.

Kirishima was a friendly and social guy, always positive, strong, charismatic, an ideal guy who can make just about anyone comfortable. His tough and easygoing attitude is something that complements his quirk's attributes. The hardening of his skin to a solid material, or is it stronger version of the human body's skin? Izuku couldn't tell exactly, but it was a welcoming idea, definitely worth noting down in his book.

Ashido, as a whole, was pretty…quirky (no pun intended). Her bubbly personality, although a bit on the much side, isn't unbearable, seems to fit who she is apparently. Her quirk also tells her personality pretty clearly, to a certain extent, she has the ability to secrete acid from and part of her body (she was the one who told him this during one of her lively conversations that he was involved in yesterday), says a lot as well about her physique, flexible and jumpy. She also mentioned something about changing the viscosity and intensity of her quirk? That's convenient, it could be useful for rescue missions and disabling villains to avoid direct confrontation.

Tsuyu is an interesting one (she insisted on calling her that), her quirk caused a mutation to make her look like a frog, should be obvious though, Izuku mused. Her quirk allows her to gain all aspects of a frog's actions, from sticking to walls, to using her lengthy tongue as a projectile, high leap advantage and…well, basically anything a frog can do. He guessed her personality is also a side effect of her quirk, she's mostly just straight to the point, her poker face makes it hard to see what she feels most of the time. Although on the plus side, she is a kind person, easy to approach and always open, can be beneficial for cooperative collaborations with her peers in the future.

Sato, asides from his quirk and his overall attitude, he'd say the guy has a thing for cooking, specifically baking, which would make sense considering his quirk's needs and all. He was also quite curious of his quirk, a buffer that gets his strength based on how much sugar he consumes, which if he thought about it carefully, the weakness Sato mentioned made sense, sugar crash. Izuku could say he's an interesting guy, no doubt going to be a great ally in future missions, and a sparring partner, but highly unlikely…

'Considering Kacchan's already placed his dominance in that category…and that no one can take my hits as proficient as he can.' Izuku mumbled with amusement, but an obvious, visible sweat drop near his forehead. Moving on…

Sero had an interesting quirk as well. Based of notes that Izuku wrote down, the guy has the ability to shoot tape out of his elbows, which have gaping rectangular-shaped holes on them. In retrospect, the plain-faced fellow classmate had satisfactory skill and precision when using his quirk to maneuver around, which can be quite useful when doing recon missions, anti-debris usage (considering the tape is quite durable), and long distance fights.

Kaminari is a wild card, his slight arrogance and confidence of his quirk's capabilities can prove to be detrimental for his morals and those he works with, but can be easily repaired with a little reality check. From what he was told, his quirk's electricity, although highly potent with its overall voltage, is an area-covering quirk, meaning no control over who he fires it at, and that can cause problems with cooperative matchups later on. Some mentionable facts is his equally, easygoing attitude and social skills, to which can help for when he teams up.

Jiro has an interesting quirk as well. Earphone Jack (that was the name she mentioned), her quirk, gave traits of her earlobes being elongated to just above her shoulder level, each tips in the form of earphone-like jacks ('Oh, so that's why.' Izuku mused). He was able to deduce they had a sort of sound-based mechanism, maybe projecting high-pitched sound waves were one of them? He would never know truly unless she explains.

Koda, from what Izuku deduced, is a quiet guy. Don't get him wrong, there's nothing wrong with that! He seems like a good person, but is likely more into not talking regularly. To Izuku, this can cause conflict between his peers when working together, and no hero works alone, but it can be easily fixed once he overcomes his confidence issues.

'Assuming he has any, but not out of the realm of possibility.' Izuku thought.

Shoji was a man of a few words…ok, maybe not, but damn it if Izuku wasn't slightly intimidated ('Only slightly! Nothing is more intimidating and scarier than Meliodas…' Izuku shivered in reminiscence) of the mask-covered, six-armed giant. His quirk was still somewhat pending in Izuku's mind, it could be his mutation of extra appendages in the form of six arms that were webbed together (maybe?) On either side, so not much is known yet about him.

Hagakure is a bubbly and enthusiastic girl (it's practically contagious). Her quirk, which if it isn't obvious, Izuku didn't know what is, could well be invisibility. Why invisibility? Well, she isn't practically invincible, since she can still get hurt from external objects and the like, so don't get the two mixed up. The only mystery Izuku couldn't solve was what she looked like, and frankly, he might never know.

Tokoyami is certainly an edge lord, well, if the dark and ominous aura surrounding him from before was any indication. His quirk, Izuku wasn't sure yet what exactly it was, but all he was able to gather was the protruding sentient shadow extending out of his stomach area, that would most likely be his quirk, but what was with the bird head mutation? Izuku sweat dropped at the memory (although he never intended to offend him), some quirks are unique, and you can't stop or change that.

Iida…there's no need to explain now, is there? But Ochako…

Izuku sighed in content, as he opened his eyes, just thinking of the chestnut-haired girl brought a smile to his face. His face blushed as he remembered the very…intimate position that they were in the day before, how soft she felt, how nice her hair smelled, how beautiful her eyes sparkled-

'H-HEY BRAIN?! CALM DOWN! W-WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!' Izuku couldn't stop the atomic blush that followed after that, and shook his head wildly to rid himself of those embarrassing thoughts. He continued to stare at the stars just painted onto the night sky, trying to recede his gradually growing blush, but instead, found himself smiling again. In all honesty, Ochako was a good friend, and practically his second best friend if he was told who she was to him, the way they both just seemed to click was surreal, like he couldn't believe how true it was. If ever he would admit it out loud, she just always made his heart beat faster, his mind would almost shut down just by being in an embarrassing position with her, even if it was just a hug (it's a miracle that he was still conscious when they were). He couldn't wait to see her again.

Before he could think any further into his own little world, Izuku heard a beeping sound, along with a vibration coming from his right pocket. He pulled out the source and checked his phone, which was alarming after finishing its timer.

"3:26? I could've sworn it was 2:47 earlier..." Izuku mumbled out loud, proceeding to lunge himself off the sand with his arms, successfully landing on his feet. He looked out to the ocean waves, as they long since calmed down into a slow dance, it was strangely…entrancing. He closed his eyes and breathed in the peaceful aroma that was the Dagobah beach, and sighed before looking up to the cascade of scattered lights in the sky, he smiled.

And instantly disappeared, leaving behind a swirl of wind in his departure, the only evidence he was ever there was the footprints that marked the gray sand.

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We find Izuku appearing in front of the Midoriya household, he sighed audibly, opening the door as he did so (yet quietly as not to wake the residents in the house, placing his shoes to the side). He walked to the living room and found Inko, who fell asleep on the couch with a book of sorts placed on her lap. He chuckled slightly yet with a soft smile on his face, and came over to carry the slim, yet tall green-haired woman (you read right!) in his arms. He carried her over to her room and gently laid her down on her soft bed (which was actually a light shade of green, and white pillows as well). He looked at her with a smile only a son would give to his mother and kissed her forehead.

"Sleep well, Mom…"Izuku whispered before he stood up. However, Inko spouted out some inaudible words that made Izuku instinctively tense up and freeze, thinking that if he stayed completely still, it would not wake up the other greenette in the room. Thankfully, she just turned to the side to get comfortable, making Izuku sigh in relief before draping the blanket over her (which was a peach-colored cloth) and walking out her bedroom's door. He looked back with a soft smile at seeing her peaceful face and gently closed the door.

It was another 10-12 minutes before Izuku came out of the shower, his hair slightly drenched, with a few lingering droplets that just begged to surrender to the Earth's natural force. His eyes were slightly glowing from reflecting the only open light coming from their bathroom when he walked outside, said light ending abruptly with an audible click of the switch.

He walked into his and Eri's room, fully clothed with the towel laying lazily on either side of his shoulders, he sighed in content and relief as well with the fresh coolness he could feel throughout his body, speaking of Eri…

He chuckled lightly as he saw one of Eri's adorable positions when sleeping. With a thumb on her mouth, her other arm laid over her head, feet spread out slightly and the blanket of apples (officially dubbed by Eri) half-covering her small frame from toe to lower right side. She was snoring quietly with a peaceful expression similar to Inko's earlier, her horn shining a natural reflection of light from the moon, all in all, Eri was sleeping like a normal girl. Izuku smiled affectionately as he put the towel down, taking a seat down on the bed, stroking the silver-haired girl's locks in a soft manner, making said girl hum in obvious content and he smiled a little more than usual, Eri was also one of those special people that could put a smile to his face no matter what mood he was in. He stopped when he heard a groan and found himself staring at half-lidded red orbs upon his own emerald ones.

"Papa…?" Eri asked with a sleepy look on her face, understandable. Izuku smiled at her softly and continued to stroke her hair, kissing her forehead as she hummed in satisfaction.

"Hey Eri, I just came home." The green-haired hero-in-training said in a soft tone that was somehow hypnotic to Eri's ears, she almost fell asleep instantly, yet her curiosity got the better of her in this.

"Welcome home, Papa. How was your…training…?" Eri asked drowsily and with a side-yawn, her arm started to find her personal oversized teddy bear and hugged Izuku once she felt a solid figure, her head and body around Izuku's chest. Izuku chuckled softly, pulling Eri closer as he stroked her hair, making her hum in delight.

"It went very well, I'll tell you more about it tomorrow breakfast ok? I know you're still sleepy." Izuku didn't hesitate to spread the word and yawned afterwards, half genuine and half exaggerated, it did the desired effect though, if Eri's own cute yawn was anything to go by, he felt her nod in agreement before drifting off to the plain of dreams.

"Goodnight, Papa…I love you." Eri then fell into a lull sleep, her breathing steadied, her body locked in position but not with tension. Izuku chuckled again in amusement and affection before he kissed her forehead one more time.

"I love you too. Goodnight Eri." Izuku didn't stop himself from closing his eyes after smiling softly at the now asleep bronze-horned girl, before falling into Dream's hold.

Only then was it truly a quiet morning.

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Many people would announce that the morning is a wonderful time, while it may be true, none are too thankful for it when they are still half-sleepy.

The morning light rose from the horizon, showering the Midoriya household with its rays of sunshine. The sunlight found its way past the curtains that blocked its path, filling Izuku and Eri's room with a hue of golden colorations that only the morning would bring, although when it reached a certain silver-haired bundle of joy's face, that was another story.

Eri, who was sleeping soundly and with a constant quiet snore, was attacked by a stray ray that struck her closed eyelids, she didn't like that though and tried to find some shelter within her blanket, well, that caused Izuku to have none, although he didn't seem to mind the sudden loss of cloth. With a dome of her own hair's color wrapped around her, surely she wouldn't be brought down havoc from what was possibly her nemesis in the morning now, right?

Wrong, a thousand apples wrong.

Somehow, she managed to leave an opening just big enough for the light to enter her humble haven, and she scowled in an adorable manner, the only thing audible from her was a groan of discomfort and obvious dismay.

She somehow woke up Izuku, who felt all the movements that the bed carried over from the other side of where he was, and because Eri was still cramped up into his chest, trying to get some kind of barrier from her (now?) arch nemesis that was the sun. He yawned a little and found what seemed to be a cute sight (which it was), Eri's head, if he guessed right, formed a bump over the blanket, along with a few that could only be her legs and others. He chuckled lightly before kissing the top of the biggest bump and removing the blanket of her head, eliciting a slight yelp and hiss from the girl who didn't expect it, and from the now exposed sun rays that reached her face.

Doesn't mean she'll stop a groan from her quickly growing annoyance to this ball of gas.

"Good morning Eri. Sleep well?" Izuku asked with a hidden mirth and a ghost of a grin on his face, having an inkling of what the answer would be.

"Papaaa…you're already so big, why can't you cover the sun?" Eri groaned again, making Izuku chuckle quietly, kissing her forehead again, hearing a "hmm" sound from her, she relaxed again.

"I'm sorry Eri, I'll try to do better next time." Izuku said with a smile of both amusement and affection, Eri shook her head no and formed a bright sleepy smile.

"No, Papa's ok. Just make sure you do, and good morning as well." Eri said in a slightly drowsy tone, but was half-awake already. Izuku replied in kind with another kiss and constant stroke of her hair, Eri absolutely loved Izuku's ministrations, and didn't want him to stop it since it was practically soothing. He chuckled in reply.

"I'll keep that in mind." With another yawn, he stroked the sliver valley of hair one last time before he stood up, stretching his arms up until he hears pops of satisfaction, Eri still on the bed, but with an adorable pout on her face from Izuku stopping his petting on her. He had other plans though, but chose to tell after making their bed, Eri joined in almost instantly when they did.

"Why don't we get going to the kitchen? Tell me what you want and that's the first thing we'll get." Izuku said with a knowing smile after his nod of satisfaction at the clean bed, lifting Eri up, which she giggled and brightly smiled at in return.

"I want apples!" Ah, there's the inevitable answer. Izuku smiled again before lifting her further into the air and promptly put her on his shoulders, making her ride them, which she enjoyed by the sounds of her laughter and enjoyment despite this morning's…battle of sleep.

"Then it's apples you get! To the table!" Izuku made his voice slightly deeper to get that tone of a brave knight, Eri laughed along as he ran down the hallway, leaving their bedroom and bed neatly made.

As their laughter of joy filled their household, a certain other greenette heard their antics and she giggled in obvious amusement.

"Those two…" She smiled in an soft way, shaking her head sideways as she set onto the table a basket of those delectable red apples.

One thing Eri never says no to was eating apples.

And it didn't hurt that they were also healthy fruits!

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After a longer-than-usual breakfast, courtesy of Izuku explaining to Eri animatedly on how his training went, a good morning kiss for the father-daughter duo from Inko, and Eri's appetite for the red fruit (now that I think about it, this is a normal Midoriya day), Izuku was seen in not his sleep wear, but on his school attire, red sneakers proudly shown to all and a smile that could only make Eri feel safe and secure.

"Well, I'm off!" Izuku bent down like a routine and Eri pecked his cheek, along with a hug, like it was second nature.

"Come home soon Papa, and enjoy being a hero in school!" Eri smiled at Izuku, making him do so in return before poking her in the nose, making her giggle as he kissed her forehead for the last time that morning.

"I will. I love you Eri." Izuku said with a grin and Eri hugged him one more time.

"I love you too." Although saying it a lot, they'll never get tired of doing it. And most can tell both would agree with that statement. Eri looked at him with a smile that seemed to make Izuku almost want to cover his eyes at how bright it was, he looked to his mom, who had a similar smile with obvious signs of pride and happiness in general, he kissed her in the cheek as well and hugged her too.

"Be safe Izuku, make sure you have everything." Inko said with a motherly smile, making him nod with one as well in reply and opened the door (which he had his left palm on) to run down the stairs, both residents in the Midoriya household wishing him safe and a goodbye. Izuku smiled as he heard it and closed his eyes, before disappearing in a burst of speed that made him blink out of existence, along with a swirl of wind, awaiting what the day would bring him at his day in U.A.

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"I want some shit to happen today!"

"Doesn't that always amount to bite me back when I don't want it to?"

It was around 7:48 am at a certain road, where a certain trio was walking down on the path to their school. Izuku, Ochako and Katsuki were all heading towards their destination side by side, engaged in a conversation that seemed to be Katsuki wanting some action.

"Damn right it does! You're just some sort of magnet that gets you into fucking hilarious situations, and it always never seems to get boring when you're involved!" Katsuki deviously laughed out after that statement, making Izuku sweatdrop at him.

"I'm suddenly questioning if you became my friend just for that." Izuku never confirmed it was true since all Katsuki did was laugh maniacally, and even that did not ease Izuku any less, nor did it register to him if Katsuki ever heard his question at all.

"He's always going to be like this, isn't he?" It wasn't a question, Ochako practically stated, but told Izuku with a slight drop of sweat dripping down the side of her head as well. Ochako knew what she signed up for with being Izuku's friend, Katsuki was a very intimidating guy, but the fact he was this…open with his own emotions just made all thoughts of him being like that get squashed for even thinking that. She saw Izuku shrug with indifference.

"I've seen worse sides of him, it's not like anything significant is going to happen today." Izuku could feel the regret his whole body warned him about, telling him he shouldn't have said that, but passed it off as some cold breeze travelling their direction, oh, and Katsuki was still cackling like a madman.

They could properly then see the letter H-like structure that was U.A from a distance, Izuku still felt awed by its sheer magnitude and size up close, he wasn't a fanboy for nothing after all, and what better way to drool and daydream about being a hero than using the best school possible?

The trio made it in while small talking (Katsuki long since ended his charade of laughter) and promptly smash-slid the door open in a not-so-gentle slide moments after they entered the school, with mostly everyone inside the homeroom visibly flinching in surprise (sans Todoroki, Tokoyami and Shoji).

"Morning extras~!" Katsuki yelled in an obvious fake tone of happiness, if one knew him as well as Izuku. Said emerald-haired boy facepalmed at the sheer antics Bakugo had, while Ochako joined him, only with a sweatdrop.

"Like I said, I've seen worse." Ochako could only nod dumbly at that, Izuku sending everyone an apologetic look as soon as he came up on everyone's vision.

"Bakugo! You must not leisurely treat school property with such freedom! It is highly inappropriate for us freshman!" Ah, Iida, always the diligent one (from what Izuku could observe), reprimanded Katsuki (for the door) in a loud tone with a hand chop, Katsuki's eyebrow twitching in response.

"Ha?! You say something, Elite Swot?!" Katsuki all but glared with intensified orbs, Iida recoiling a bit at the vulgar nickname before his features became easily irritated.

"You dare insult your peers?!"

"And you fucking dare insult my genius?!"

"Your language is highly inappropriate!"

"You wanna fucking die?!"

'What have I gotten myself into?' Ochako's sweatdrop intensified equally at the childish banter the two were playing at. Izuku sighed in exasperation and took his seat, Ochako sat on hers just behind him, equally feeling the same sigh coming. As if reading along the context of Ochako's thoughts…

'This…is going to take a while.' Izuku then tuned out the argument between Iida and Katsuki and brought out a book out of his bag, reading its contents.

"You seem to not tell Bakugo off." Izuku sighed again and found Hiro standing to his right with his head tilted a little to the side.

"Even if I did, do you think he'd stop?" Izuku suddenly looked a lot more older than he should.

"Well, will you just leave him…them alone Deku?" Ochako asked with a hesitant tone, casting a short glance at the two still fighting in front of Izuku's desk. Izuku followed her own gaze before shrugging.

"It'll pass, eventually." Was his short description of an answer, Ochako stared for a while before slightly giggling at the nonsense of it all, Hiro still having that confused expression on his face and the inaudible complaining of another glasses-wearing elite and a ready-to-explode blonde.

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"I don't need to further say anything else, do I?"

"No Aizawa-sensei!" A quick reply followed after, the baggy-eyed teacher that needed much more sleep than the average person should get nodded lazily before dismissing himself from the classroom. The rest of Class 1-A doing their own routine afterwards while waiting for the next teacher.

The morning went as normal as a school day could get from there. English, History lessons, and etc., were the subjects as how the schedule portrayed. During those classes of course, nothing very major happened asides from the occasional daily yells of a certain loud-quirked individual Pro Hero, and…you-know-who's sensual acts in the art that is teaching.

And just like that, lunch came faster than it should've been. Izuku, Ochako, Katsuki, Hiro, and Iida all in a line respectively, waiting to get their delicacies inside right away, understandable after being stuck in the classroom for more than 3-4 hours.

"I didn't know that UA could be such a...normal school. Not that it's a bad thing!" Ochako positively said before panicking right away, Izuku smiling at her with an amused expression.

"I can agree, but I wouldn't have it any other way. UA still has much to offer after all." He said as he asked for a few well-picked orders, before promptly gushing and asking questions to the Pro Hero of cooking, Lunch Rush. Ochako giggled at Izuku, Hiro looked on with interest, while Katsuki just basically ignored it, Iida nodding his head at what Izuku mentioned as if the conversation was still going.

"Indeed, such is expected of the prestigious school U.A!" Iida proudly stated as the group looked at him with amusement, Katsuki just scoffing before getting his order and walking to his chosen table. Izuku and the others followed soon after (Ochako breaking Izuku out of his "fanboy mode", she giggled at the thought, oh! And Lunch Rush said goodbye just now, with an aura of pride at the praise from the green-haired hero-lover, along with some embarrassment).

The whole minutes were spent just going over what they learned and guessing what was the next class going to be, Hiro occasionally putting in his two cents in the discussion, Katsuki just grunting in agreement with Izuku's claims, how supportive of him.

"Whoever our next teacher's going to be, I hope it's going to be as interesting as the others!" Ochako said with another of her contagious smiles.

"Whatever the case, it's still going to be a Pro Hero." Izuku replied in kind with an equally excited tone.

"Yeah, definitely not going to be fucking All Might…" Katsuki murmured under his breath that no one heard him, Izuku only looked to his direction because he thought he said something (that and they were practically seated next to each other, Ochako to Izuku's right though).

Well, Katsuki felt as if the air shifted in his favor. It was weird because he lifted an eyebrow in response, looking around in delusion before staring contemplatively at his long-since-empty bowl.

'The actual fuc-?'

"…"

"…"

"…"

"I AM HERE…!"

'Ok seriously, what the actual fuc-?'

"-COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"

'LET ME FINISH MY DAMN SENTENCES AL-!'

"-ALL MIGHT!" Most of the entire room exclaimed in excitement, Katsuki resigning to his fate of not finishing his thoughts, by facepalming loudly and hitting his forehead on the desk, hands covered in little spunks of smoke, and internally yelling.

The rest of the students of 1-A probably didn't see this or chose to ignore it over chattering about All Might, the All Might, as a working teacher in U.A, comments on his Silver Age costume and a lot of fanboying and fangirling around those conversations, with All Might promptly striding his way (call it striding but he was practically marching to the front teacher's desk in large gestures).

A certain familiar green-haired Sin had an unreadable expression on his face.

"Welcome to the most important class at U.A! This will be counted as Heroing 101! And in here is where you will learn what it means to be a Pro! To fight for the name of good!" All Might's deep bellowed voice echoed throughout the classroom, giving almost everyone instant goosebumps, this was definitely better than hearing his voice on TV. Most of the class were staring in awe and appreciation, it attracted those around him to listen.

"NOW ENOUGH BEING SAID AND LET'S GET THIS ON WITH, SHALL WE?! INTRODUCING TODAY'S LESSON…BATTLE TRAINING!" The No. 1 Hero said with that permanent smile etched on his face. Katsuki, who was sulking in his own demise, instantly brought his head up, Ochako would've thought he actually snap his neck, Katsuki's grin turning into a full-on murderous smirk.

"FUCK YEAH!" Ahh, back to good ol' Katsuki, although Izuku chose to be silent the entire time. Ochako instantly noticed Izuku's less-than-normal of an enthusiastic reaction, well, there wasn't even any.

'Deku? I could've sworn he would've started fanboying right about now…' Her features took on a worried expression as she stared at Izuku's head, hoping he would look back at her so she could see his eyes and know what was going on with him. It looked like he wouldn't be facing her anytime soon so she opted to call out to him, but before her mouth even uttered his name, All Might interrupted her.

"BUT DON'T YOU FORGET, ONE OF THE KEYS TO BEING A HERO IS…LOOKING GOOD!" All Might exclaimed as he widely gestured a pointed hand, which had a remote placed on it, and instantly pressed it. Just then, several tiles on the walls started to gauge out of their respective holes, with glowing green numbers starting from the smallest number on the top to the biggest one on the bottom, four on each individual row.

"These were designed for each and every one of you based on your quirk registration forms, and requests you each sent in before the first semester started!" With a classic All Might grin, he flashed those white pearl teeth of his as collective gasps and cheering filled Class 1-A's homeroom.

"Alright!" A certain red-haired Kirishima said.

"It's actually our costumes!" One excited pink-skinned Ashido said with an excitable grin.

"FUCK YEAH!" He already mentioned that but…we'll let him be, just with a more manic-than-normal smirk (as normal as Katsuki's maniacal grins could get).

Despite the internal contemplation in Izuku's mind, he allowed himself to smile a little at the announcement.

'Costumes…' Such is the privilege that comes with the package deal of being a hero, looking the part of course. Yet, although knowing that…Izuku closed his eyes and sighed.

"Deku…?" That snapped him out of his trance and looked back to see Ochako looking at him with a worried look, he stared at her brown eyes that always caused him to not look away and gave her a warm smile.

"I'm fine Uraraka, just had some thoughts on my mind earlier." She kept her gaze on him a second longer before she smiled back, though it was an unsure one.

"Alright, if you say so." Izuku nodded and turned around again, Ochako almost audibly sighing at the obvious dodge Izuku did, but she knew that he would tell her when he was comfortable enough to do so, and that made her let it slide for now. Her train of thought stopped when she felt a hand on hers and she almost yelped in surprise, even if it did, the class's enthusiasm completely dwarfed her voice, but the blush that followed when she saw Izuku smile at her again, with his right hand around hers, making her heart leap to the side of her throat, which formed a lump that she would gladly get rid of at this very moment.

"Thanks for your concern, Uraraka. I'll be ok, promise." Izuku said that with as much truth as he could give her, barely registering that he closed his fingers and tightened them for extra reassurance. Ochako stared at him with that same blush-filled face before she smiled back at him and closed her own fingers (four of them of course) with the same amount of pressure. She nodded slowly at him.

"I know, I trust you." That wasn't meant to be said out loud! Ochako didn't know why she said what she did, but that wasn't what was in her mind to say - her mouth just had to open itself! - and internally panicked when she saw Izuku's eyes widen.

'W-Why did you go on and say that?! O-Ochako! Get a g-grip!' Let's add a deeper shade of red to her face with that thought.

Izuku expected her to agree and let it go for a while, but what she said was definitely not in the lines of what he thought. Of course, that just made his face get almost equally as red as hers, but still ended up squeezing her hand to reassure her, giving her a wobbly smile as well.

Ochako flinched in surprise and understandably looked to both their intertwined hands, it was a miracle how the world seemed to stop at that very moment. She then looked up and locked eyes with Izuku, a funny smile on his face, which made her let out a giggle and gave him one as well, another wobbly smile.

"Me too Uraraka. If I get on terms with it, you'll be the first to know." A skip of her heartbeat followed after his reply, she felt a certain familiar fluttering feeling in her stomach at the way he said it with a smile and unconsciously clenched her palm in response. She did not trust her voice at the moment and proceeded to nod at him with an even larger smile, blush never leaving her face.

"Thank you, Deku." Yet she said that anyways, her reply was another squeeze of affirmation and he separated their fingers. Already, she missed the feeling of his rough, yet equally gentle hands and somehow did a combination of a frown and a smile, in a way of not looking too weird.

Izuku's head was facing back at her, but his face held an atomic blush that would've passed of as him almost fainting.

'W-W-WHY DID I H-HOLD HER H-H-HAND?! A-AGAIN?!' He tried so hard to push down the heat in his cheeks and started to breath in slowly, looking around for anything, anything to distract himself from his current thoughts. Thankfully, in the form of an explosive blonde, help came right away.

"Deku." Izuku switched gazes to lock with Katsuki's and saw his shit-eating grin and instantly knew it was related to what All Might mentioned.

"Don't tell me you mean…" Izuku slowly asked in suspense. His only answer being Katsuki's growing grin.

"Exactly what I mean. Ready to fucking die?" Katsuki asked in a singsong voice, although to others that are not Izuku, it sounded like Katsuki was creeping up on someone from behind…which isn't far from the truth now that he thought about it. Izuku chose to sigh before sending an excited grin.

"Now? Can't it wait until we are at the battlefield Kacchan?" Izuku raised an eyebrow in question, Katsuki's smirk widening even further.

"Fine, just giving you a heads up. You'll need the damn sympathy, Deku." Katsuki gave him one last murderous (although all in good faith) smile before facing the board. Izuku sighed again, shaking his head in amusement. It was going to get interesting no matter what day it was, wasn't it?

"NOW PUT THEM ON AND GET SUITED UP! THEN MEET ME AT TRAINING GROUND BETA!" Oh yeah, All Might.

"YES ALL MIGHT!" Majority of the class said with gusto, then proceeding to get their costumes and try them on as fast as possible, each one then left the room to head to the dressing rooms in excited steps, All Might following them, though he ran faster than everyone else, leaving a dust trail behind. Katsuki was all too eager to grab his, putting the suitcase over his shoulder and wait by the door, Hiro got his off the wall and walked out of the room, not without a wave of "see you there" of course, Iida also getting his and promptly bowed to them in dismissal of himself and ran robotically towards Hiro's direction, Ochako grabbed hers and walked out to Katsuki's place by the entrance door, to which he was leaning on the wall beside it, though, Ochako instantly noticed someone missing by her side.

"Deku? Are you coming?" She asked with a confused expression on her face, Izuku broke out of another trance as they found him staring at his costume case and he laughed nervously.

"O-Oh right! You guys go on ahead, just going to check if my costume's complete or not." He chuckled again, Ochako's features quickly turning to worry while Katsuki opened an eye to look at Izuku, then pushed himself off the wall and walked towards where Hiro and Iida headed.

"Just hurry and get your ass off there. I am not tolerating you delaying our fight any fucking further, I'm too damn excited for absolutely nothing to happen." They both heard his voice down the hall as his footsteps carried on till they quietly descended back into silence. Ochako stared at Izuku, who looked at her with a nod and smile.

"I'll be fine, Uraraka. Go on ahead, I'll be right behind you, ok?" He said with a reassuring smile. She hesitated leaving him before eventually agreeing with a nod and smile.

"Okay, see you later then, Deku." He nodded in reply before she left the room, not before casting another back glance at Izuku, who was already back to staring at his costume suitcase and then she slid the door closed, leaving Izuku all alone in the room, hearing Ochako's footsteps echoing until they disappeared from his ears, and sighed once again.

'Sorry Uraraka…you'll have to wait a while. As much as I want to, it'll take time for me before I talk about this to you.' Izuku looked to the case with a blank stare, before sighing a little then smiling excitedly and opening it slowly, with a couple button presses and the lid popped open, seeing a flash of white as he did.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"They say the "clothes make the pros", and right now…YOU ALL ARE LIVING PROOF OF THAT STATEMENT!"

The location they were at looked similar to the large cities back during the Entrance Examinations, with all the big buildings and the gigantic walls surrounding it. All Might stood in the middle of the road, just right in front of the entrance of the training ground, footsteps then reached his ears as silhouettes were seen inside the tunnel. As the lights caught some of their costume's individual designs, All Might's grin grew bigger.

"LISTEN WELL AND TAKE THIS TO HEART! FROM NOW ON, ALL OF YOU…" He kept the suspense as more of the class started to be barely seen under the shade of the tunnel, their costumes almost shining by the light that showered upon all of them, Katsuki's grenadier bracers, Ochako's belt and the side of her pink visor helmet, Iida's rocket-inspired design structure, and Hiro's…glasses?

"…ARE OFFICIALLY HEROES-IN-TRAINING!" With that, all of Class 1-A's costumes surrendered to the light, all bare to see and stood in all their unique glory.

Each one of their own quirk's flaws, their costumes made up for it with support, that was the usual concept for having costumes in the first place. Although, some only wear them it for the aesthetic purpose of "looking good", but that isn't the wisest way to go about it of course.

Suits, in general, were definitely a must-have for many heroes. By support, I mean actual support in your quirk's capabilities, to give you a sort of edge in a fight that needs quick work of, especially when that situation has your quirk's worst weaknesses. The registration forms came with this request for what design you wanted for your costume's layout, specific measurements, visual representation via drawing, and et cetera.

"Uraraka!" Ochako looked to who called out to her and saw Iida, well, at first it was difficult to notice it was him, until she saw the near robotic movements he made to walk to her, and that basically made her knew right away.

"Yes Iida?" Ochako asked in a cool tone, although her mind was somewhat elsewhere.

"Where is Midoriya? Should've he have been with you and Bakugo earlier?" Iida asked in genuine confusion, Ochako's eyes fell towards the floor, then they darted to the tunnel, all with a worried stare.

"Indeed, I too am wondering where Midoriya is. He should be done putting on his costume right about now." Hiro added into the conversation, Iida nodding with him in agreement. Ochako stared a little more before sighing.

"He said he would be right behind us, so we should wait." She said with a determined gaze to somehow reassure the others, when deep down, she was clearly worried for what was distracting the green-haired boy so much lately. It seemed to work as Iida nodded, although with a noticeable frown.

"Strange. Midoriya wouldn't be late for something like this. Especially since it is still within class hours, and that is highly intolerable to a fellow U.A student!" Iida wondered for a bit, before going full on lecture mode with a flip of a switch. Ochako sweatdropped in expected reply.

*With Izuku*

The sound of cloth shuffling was heard as Izuku put his right arm into a white long sleeve, with the other arm going on the opposite sleeve. He sighed as he fixed a green collar that revolved around the white long-sleeved uniform jacket, a series of green and red ropes (green on the right, red on the left) that tied the torso area together in crosses, under those cross-tied ropes (in 3 consecutive rows) was a darkish-green undershirt that looked almost black in shade from afar.

Along the sleeves, carefully applying them, from the edge of his fingers, over his entire right forearm and to almost half of his upper arm was a silver arm brace, a similar one on the left as well, and on each shoulder was the Dragon's Sin symbol colored green, similar to his permanent mark on his right shoulder (although it was red), just where the other symbol laid.

The clothes that took over his legs was a dark green, specifically Sacramento green pants that reached until above ankle level, over that however, were black knee pads that extended until his feet, with iron soles attached to each individual foot.

Another noticeable feature to this costume of his was the metal respirator that rested upon his neck and wrapped around it, its shape was of a diamond, just like the symmetrical diamond-shaped freckles on his face, and has eight holes (for the air to come in and escape) that sat in rows opposite to its other significant side-row. Izuku fixed its position till he was satisfied where it was.

Another distinctive addition was for slight aesthetic purpose (it was suggested by Eri, the little beauty), which was a sort of scarf that was connected to his respirator, about the length of his entire arm and a half. The color was also green, an Artichoke green to be exact, it resembled a greenish-silver, which was Izuku's idea to have something to remind him of Eri during any situation, and to somehow connect her to helping someone in need, like she was there, she of course, instantly loved the idea.

But probably the most noticeable feature was what was behind his back. Izuku flexed his back as he adjusted his arm braces to fit until they did, another Dragon's Sin symbol patched onto it, this time bigger that the others, taking almost the entire part of his back, only it was a yellow color (Izuku's tribute to Meliodas), and lastly, two gray and metallic circular dics that laid behind his back, one just behind his left shoulder blade and the other a little above his right hip.

Why were there two discs that seemed out of place?

Izuku sighed once more as he looked at a nearby mirror, he long since left the classroom after taking a look at his now-owned costume, the inspiration came from Meliodas' own white Boar Hat jacket, which he said he wore back in the day of serving the Boar Hat when almost all the Sins were gathered during that time. He smiled to himself as he recalled the events that lead to this idea of a suit.

{Flashback}

"Ni~shi~shi, a costume you say?"

We find Izuku laying down on the white flower-filled infinite plain that was Lostvayne, Meliodas right beside him with his hands to the back of his head, currently with a grin on his face.

"Yeah, I forgot to add into it along with the registration form. So as you can see, I'm confused on what suit I should go for." Izuku closed his eyes with a sigh, Meliodas staring into the strange sky for a bit before smirking.

"Well you're in luck, little Iku. It just so happens that you have an expert costume maker right here! Ni~shi~shi." Somehow, that smirk made a chill run down Izuku's spine, but he ignored it in favor of this opportunity.

"What did you have in mind Meliodas?" Izuku asked with a curious expression. Meliodas grinned mysteriously before hoisting himself up using his arms, feet first on the ground as he did, Izuku lunging forward to sit and looked at Meliodas quizzically.

Meliodas simply gazed at Izuku before snapping his fingers, and white petals around them started to head and revolve around Meliodas, spinning around him and creating a mini twister, wind hitting Izuku's eyes forced him to close them in retaliation. As he opened them again, blinking a few times, he found the petals subside and slowly fall down, which was interesting cause of the unbelievable gravitational pull in Lostvayne, seemed to not affect the petals and flowers around them.

When he laid eyes on Meliodas, his attire was completely different. He was now sporting a white jacket with green ropes in three consecutive crosses that held up his upper torso, a darkish-green undershirt was seen at the hole. His sleeves had each a shape of a skull, yellow in color, just without the teeth and eyes, instead replaced with a small green pig (maybe?) inside it, on each opposing side. He was wearing green shorts that reached up to half his calves, the jacket was split in half slightly from the thigh side, making room for Meliodas to put his pockets in probably. And finally, his black boots with white features, and the Boar Hat's logo displayed proudly at his back.

"Woah…" Honestly, the attire fit well with Meliodas. It wasn't too overly complicated that it wasn't pleasing to the eyes, the green and yellow highlights accentuated with the design of his white jacket, and the shoes didn't stand out so much that overall, Meliodas looked good.

"Pretty neat huh? This is another form of my uniform back in the day when I decided to change up after we saved Liones. It was a bit too formal for my taste, but hey! It was comfortable so I wasn't complaining." Izuku sweatdropped at the very casual reply that followed Meliodas' explanation, accompanied with a playful grin of course.

"So this was your costume?" Izuku asked in curiosity, Meliodas nodding in reply as he gave a playful spin on one sole, and put both his hands into the green shorts' pockets..

"Back in the day! If you want you can take inspiration from this." Izuku widened his eyes at Meliodas, who just continued grinning at him.

"A-Are you sure? I mean, not that I don't appreciate it or anything, but aren't I stealing your work then?" Izuku asked uncertainly with that offer, to which Meliodas smirked at.

"Ni~shi~shi, don't need to be so shy little Iku. Think of it as a sort of gift for passing your exams, then you can feel less guilty!" Meliodas casually said with a bright grin that made Izuku smile in return because of its contagiousness and the gratitude he felt.

"T-Thank you Meliodas! You won't regret this!" Izuku said with a excited, determined and grateful expression, Meliodas' eyes playfully glinting in amusement.

"No problem Izuku. Now go ahead and make your hero costume!" Meliodas said with a smile, and Izuku nodded with an equally bright smile.

"Right!" Izuku said with a vigorous nod, until he noticed something on Meliodas' back.

"Hey Meliodas, what exactly is that on your back?" Meliodas looked at Izuku confused for a bit before looking behind him and saw what he meant, which made him smile and brightened up his features.

"Oh yeah! This is…"

{End Flashback}

Izuku smiled as he took a trip down memory lane. He walked to the doorway, not before grabbing something with his left palm from the side that was obviously longer that his hand. He twisted it and flipped it around experimentally, with an expert's motion, before grinning as he threw it behind his back, said grin growing wider as he promptly heard a satisfying thud and two consecutive series of clicks.

"Everything's working properly. Man, U.A is such a great school…thank you Support Course." Izuku gave one more satisfied smile, packing up the suitcase and leaving it in his locker before closing it, then he disappeared in a swirl of wind.

He reappeared in the middle of the tunnel to the designated training ground, a soft wind flew around him before dissipating, his scarf flowing in the air before descending slowly. He took a deep breath as he stared at the light down to the end of the tunnel, raising his right palm to grab his mask, grinning in excitement until he put it on, covering his lower face features (namely his mouth until nose level), his eyes glowing an emerald under the darkness.

'Looks like it's time. This is my costume! Thanks to you both, Meliodas, Eri, and Mom!' With that thought, he raised a foot forward, and brought it down, the sound echoing till the end of the tunnel.

*Back to the others*

"Well, Midoriya seems to be taking his time." Hiro explained his observations, and an obvious tone of curiosity etched into it. Ochako ignored it and patiently waited for him. Katsuki just minded his own business but seemed to also wonder where the damn guy went, Iida long since ended his detailed speech of responsibility. Ochako was about to sigh again till she heard two things. One was-

"Hmm, we seem to have one still missing." All Might's voice reached her ears and she tensed up. She was about to reply until the second came.

"I'm here, All Might." An echo was heard, bringing everyone's attention towards the tunnel exit. A figure was seen walking down towards the light, which first shone on his right foot being exposed to the bright sun. His left arm soon followed, showing his arm brace, then the rest of his body until his face was on full display, showing his hero costume to everyone, proud and thankful, hair flowing through a passing wind, along with his scarf.

The group had their different reactions.

Ochako's froze with her jaw fully dropped, Katsuki raised an eyebrow apparently, but his eyes held a glint of approval, Iida was impressed with his choice of attire, Hiro nodded at Izuku with respect, who nodded back at him. Everyone else from the class either appreciated his costume or told it was cool and such, while some chose to stay quiet about it (Todoroki being one of them).

'O-Oh my…gosh.' This was the main part of one Ochako Uraraka's current thoughts. She could practically see how cool Izuku definitely looked, the costume looked amazing! It wasn't too overly complicated and it matched his hair and eyes. She found her eyes travelling him up and down, appreciating everything. She made a very noteworthy blush at catching herself staring and immediately covered her face with her palms, pinky fingers suspended in air, of course, she left one eye exposed.

Izuku saw his friends' hero suits and thought they looked very good, Katsuki's almost military-looking costume with the grenade-like bracers around his forearm and a menace-looking eye mask that had two explosive designs from the sides of his head, Iida's thrusters protruding out of holes on located on his costume's calves. Hiro's costume looked almost simple, and Izuku had a hard time figuring what connected it to Hiro's quirk (let it be known that Izuku was an all-time quirk fan as well).

The first was Hiro's upper body suit, consisting of a coat that separated throughout his midsection, and reached down to his mid-thigh. It's color theme was of a hibiscus violet shade, with borderline red features down to the edge of the coat. Although if you didn't count the white-colored shirt, he would've been exposed from chest to stomach.

His lower body consisted of a dark color, specifically a charcoal gray, and some distinguished shoes that were purely white with some black streaks as shoelaces. The sleeves of his coat consisted of multiple small marks and symbols, there were a few honorable mentions, some stars, squares, and circles, although if one looked closely, they'll clearly be seen. Each of them were connected by consecutive lines going down from shoulder to wrist, ending at his sleeves' end, which had a sort of star-like edge pattern going around his hand.

'Quite formal, it looks like there's almost nothing that can aid him with protection, but that could just be deception at its finest…' Izuku mumbled his thoughts a little before he laid his eyes upon…

'U-U-URARAKA?!' Izuku made the, by far, best impression of an apple as he took in Ochako's suit, which was noticeably skintight.

Ochako snapped out of her daze when she saw Izuku make slight eye contact with her, despite her helmet's visor making it slightly hard to see her face, also blushed as soon as she saw Izuku stare at her. She however, didn't notice the atomic blush he was sporting, she wasn't faring any better though.

"H-Hey Deku!" Ochako would've slapped herself right then and there. What was that?! Izuku finally shows up and she immediately starts the conversation with a stutter?! Regardless of her self-inflicted admonishment, she found her voice again, seeing as he got Izuku's attention at her calling earlier.

"That's an amazing costume! It's very simplistic at first glance but pretty well-versed to the eyes!" She gave a nod with fists clenched together side by side, making her reaction look…cute to Izuku, who was still blushing profusely.

"T-Thanks Uraraka. You look great as well! I like the space-like style you were going for! You look almost like an astronaut!" Izuku still had the impression of an apple, yet he energetically talked with her like nothing was happening, which is far from the truth.

"You think so? That's exactly what I was going for! Although, I should've been more specific about what I wanted for mine, it's too skintight for my liking…hehehe." She bashfully rubbed the back of her hair, which closely resembled Izuku's mannerism.

"It looks great on you though, you look beautiful…" Izuku thought that was said all in his head, except when he mumbled that below a whisper, unluckily (or luckily?) for him, Ochako heard it loud and clear, and atomically blushed up a storm, you could see steam come out of her ears.

'H-He thinks I'm…I-I'm…?' Ochako couldn't help but avert her eyes away from wherever his was, twirling a strand of her chestnut hair, then putting it behind her ear unconsciously, but she felt her practically larger-than-normal smile on her face, she just didn't know why, but welcomed it all the same.

"Thank you Deku…" Ochako whispered loud enough for Izuku to catch it, and he widened his eyes at her, but before he could say anything, she grabbed his hand with hers, carefully as to not activate her quirk, and pulled him to the group, that same smile plastered on her face, her permanent blush on both her cheeks much more defined than usual, and Izuku's red face never fading.

"About time you both stopped flirting, we fucking had enough of that out of the school." Katsuki, of course, first to the point since Izuku's arrival, making them both blush yet again (how many times was that now?).

"W-WE WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING LIKE THAT!" Izuku and Ochako exclaimed in unison, in a way as to not attract any attention towards them though, somehow. Katsuki grinned maniacally in victory, he would never, ever, stop teasing these two because they always gave him a damn good chance to do so.

"Keep telling yourselves that." That's all Katsuki said before they could both retaliate, because he tuned them out afterwards. Iida started reprimanding Katsuki, which prompted a tick mark to appear on the side of his head in swift annoyance.

Izuku and Ochako never noticed they haven't let go of their intertwined fingers the entire time.

All Might's face remained with that bright smile of his, yet he couldn't shake of the feeling of guilt ever since he saw the green-haired boy at the homeroom earlier. Right now, he looked like he was enjoying himself, but if anyone would notice the tone of voice that echoed the tunnel at his arrival towards his hero name, indifference, sadness mixed with other emotions that even All Might was afraid to say or assume. This, however, didn't let him stop what his job currently is at this very moment, so he pushed all those thoughts to the back of his mind.

'I'll have a word with him later.' With a face of conviction, yet it looked as if nothing has changed with that smile of his, he nodded his head at all his students, somehow getting all their attention.

"NOW THEN, YOU ZYGOTES! SHALL WE GET STARTED?!" He smiled an even brighter smile at everyone, who all looked at All Might with determination etched on their faces.

"YES ALL MIGHT!" This only caused All Might's grin to widen even further.

"I SEE THAT YOU'RE ALL READY, IT'S TIME FOR THE LONG AWAITED COMBAT TRAINING!" All Might announced without missing a beat, making almost everyone tense up to listen what comes up next, this didn't stop a certain calf-thruster hero-in-training to raise his hand right away.

"Sir! This is the mock city from back during the Entrance Examinations, does this mean we will be initiating urban battles again?" Iida said with a little bit of gusto, yet had a tone of urgency in it

"NOT EXACTLY! YOU SEE, I'LL BE MOVING YOU ALL UP A NOTCH!" All Might raised one finger pointing to the sky, everyone listening closely in curiosity.

"MOST VILLAIN FIGHTS YOU SEE ON THE NEWS TAKE PLACE OUTSIDE! HOWEVER, STATISTICS SHOW THAT RUNNING INTO THE MOST DANGEROUS VILLAINS HAPPEN INDOORS!" All of them took a moment to think about what he just mentioned, Izuku narrowed his eyes in thought with a finger to his chin, Katsuki just looked as if he wasn't listening, when in fact, he was clearly thinking of that statement himself, Ochako and Hiro had similar reactions like thinking deeply, well, that was Hiro but you get the point.

"THINK CAREFULLY! BACKROOM NEGOTIATIONS, HOME INVASIONS, HIDDEN UNDERGROUND BASES…TRULY, THE MOST INTELLIGENT OF VILLAINS FIND SANTUARY IN THE DARKNESS AND THE SHADOWS…" All Might's face had gotten serious and all the students adopted grim expressions, Izuku's and Katsuki's eyes narrowing dangerously at the thought.

"THAT IS WHY, FOR THIS EXERCISE, YOU WILL ALL BE SPLIT INTO TWO OPPOSING TEAMS, HEROES AND VILLAINS! FIGHTING TWO-ON-TWO INDOOR BATTLES!" With that finished, another student of U.A, a familiar frog-like faced hero-in-training spoke up.

"Isn't this a little advanced, All Might?" She said with a slight head tilt to the right.

"THE BEST TRAINING COMES FROM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE! AND WHERE BETTER TO GET SOME THAN THE BATTLEFIELD?!" All Might announced with a never-ending smile, getting nods of agreement from some of the class.

"HOWEVER! DO TAKE IN MIND THAT YOU CAN'T JUST THROW PUNCHES ON ROBOTS THIS TIME! NOW YOU'LL BE DEALING WITH ACTUAL PEOPLE!" All Might gave his piece, and was about to mention more when suddenly…

"All Might, will you be the person deciding who wins?" The black-haired ponytail hero-in-training said with a contemplative face, and her costume was slightly revealing.

"How far can we hurt the other team?" Need I say more of who this is? Except he had a more-than-normal crazed grin etched on his face.

"Do we need to worry about the people who lose getting expelled like yesterday?" Ochako said with a slightly worried tone in her voice. Being Izuku of course (who hasn't even noticed that they've been holding hands for the past lecture), he tightened his grip on her hand to ease her worries, doing the desired effect of making her relax and she clenched her palm in gratitude, with a smile.

"Will you be splitting us up based on chance or comparative and complementary skill?" Iida, always the diligent one.

"Isn't this cape fabulous?" Another distinguished, but sparkling blonde said with a smooth tone and slight accent, holding his equally sparkling purple cape.

"I WASN'T FINISHED TALKING…! AND I'LL ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS!" All Might gained a slight tick mark and his whole body was shaking with his fist in front of him. He then brought out what seemed to be a fold of paper from his pocket, wherever it is anyways.

"LISTEN UP!" And promptly opened it with two fingers on each side, easily almost dwarfing the paper itself, showing some small texts and letters.

'A…script?' Izuku sweatdropped momentarily at the display, but allowed All Might to continue the lesson and, from what Izuku could tell, the instructions.

"THE SITUATION IS THIS! THE VILLAINS HAVE HIDDEN A NUCLEAR MISSILE SOMEWHERE IN THEIR HIDEOUT! THE HEROES MUST FIND A WAY TO FOIL THEIR PLANS! TO DO SO, THE HEROES MUST EITHER DO THE FOLLOWING, CATCH THE EVILDOERS, OR RETRIEVE AND RECOVER THE WEAPON! LIKEWISE, THE VILLAINS SUCCEED IF THEY PROTECT THEIR PAYLOAD OR CAPTURE THE HEROES!" All Might explained without pause, although with a script, it isn't that hard to see why. Izuku saw the scenario in his head clearly and nodded in confirmation to himself that he understood everything All Might had said.

'It's similar to a classic action movie setup, now that I think about it.' Izuku mumbled his brain out, making Ochako giggle at the familiar scene, Katsuki just chose to ignore it in choice of listening further even if it didn't look so, while Hiro easily caught on to Izuku's words but chose not to say anything.

"KEEP IN MIND THAT TIME'S LIMITED, AND WE'LL ROUND UP THE TEAMS BY DRAWING LOTS!" All Might said with excitement as he suddenly was holding a box that had the glaring words of "LOTS" all in boldface pasted onto the front of it, and it was painted a orange-yellow color.

"Isn't there a better solution?" Iida asked to make sure he didn't just hear what he just heard, Izuku obviously saw a chance to explain and easily took it, and he was the closest to Iida since he was at his left, Ochako was standing to his left, Katsuki on her left, and Hiro beside Katsuki. So it didn't hurt to help a friend in need.

"Think about it, Pro Heroes occasionally have to team up with heroes from different agencies on the spot, depending on who's actually available and what the situation is to send the best possible backup for the Pro in need. So, generally speaking, they want to show that same scenario here!" Izuku spoke with enthusiasm and a smile to Iida, who nodded in thought of how logical Izuku's words were, Ochako nodded in agreement of that statement, Katsuki just huffed with an eye roll. He already knew that beforehand, after many of Izuku's conversations and discussions of anything hero related, it wasn't hard to discern where Izuku got his knowledge, yet he acknowledged it all the same.

"I see! Life is filled with a random series of events." Iida said with a nod and clearly convincing himself of his words and promptly bowed robotically, Izuku looked at him with a raised eyebrow in amusement.

"Excuse my interruption, All Might!" Iida said with a firm tone of respect, All Might nodded to him in dismissal.

"NO PROBLEM! NOW THEN…" All Might faced back, showing his own towards everyone as he brought a fist up in the air with a hint of exaggeration, but made everyone tense up all the same.

"LET'S DRAW!" He gave a shout of encouragement and equal enthusiasm, making mostly everyone cheer right back at him.

As everyone lined up for drawing their letters, Izuku was deep in thought as he waited his turn.

'I made a detailed analysis on mostly everyone in our class, each of their personalities, how I think they'll work in the field, their quirks and how they might use it, and how they think, but that's just speculation at this point…' Izuku continued to mumble as Ochako, who was behind him, waited her turn patiently (they never realized they were holding hands, and had long since let go without a second thought as to why).

Izuku saw the lot box in front of him, he raised an arm forward to take a lot, glancing at it for a second before showing it to All Might, who saw the letter and wrote it down on his notepad. Izuku turned and changed direction almost in a errand-like manner as he continued to mumble, carefully weighing out his options at the new information collected.

'So I got an A, who will be my partner? I would prefer those I know, but then again, this is also supposed to teach us how we work with other heroes who you aren't often associated with…' Izuku would've pressed on with his self-discussion but All Might spoke up before he could utter another word.

"ALRIGHT! I WILL NOW ANNOUNCE THE TEAMS THAT HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED BY DRAWING LOTS! MAY YOU WORK FINE TOGETHER!" All Might exclaimed to everyone, who were now in rapt attention as to who their partners would be.

"THE FOLLOWING TEAMS ARE…!"

1. Team A : Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka

2. Team B : Shoto Todoroki and Kyoka Jiro

3. Team C : Tenya Iida and Momo Yaoyorozu

4. Team D : Katsuki Bakugo and Hiro Kanata

5. Team E : Mina Ashido and Yuga Aoyama

6. Team F : Rikido Sato and Koji Koda

7. Team G : Mezo Shoji and Denki Kaminari

8. Team H : Tsuyu Asui and Fumikage Tokoyami

9. Team I : Mashirao Ojiro and Toru Hagakure

10. Team J : Eijiro Kirishima and Hanta Sero

"…AND FINISHED!" All Might announced as said, the students started to walk to their respective pairings, of course, Ochako had an ecstatic expression on her face, she was Izuku's partner! At first, she was slightly worried her partner would be an unfamiliar face (secretly she wished it was Izuku, but would never admit it, even to herself), and steeled herself for whoever she would be paired with, but as soon as she saw her name beside Izuku's, well, the rest is history. Izuku had similar thoughts, but the most determined one was projected by a huge smile on Izuku's face, they both made eye contact as Ochako was running towards Izuku, and suddenly hugged him.

"Wow! We're both a team! What are the chances?!" Although she never registered she hugged Izuku out of nowhere, neither did Izuku, who hugged back equally excited, his brain already racking for plans and strategies.

'Alright! Uraraka's in my team! I would've been fine with anyone else but this is ten times better!' Izuku happily thought with a smile as he separated their hug, Ochako then started to brainstorm with Izuku, him doing the planning more than Ochako though.

Katsuki, who as soon as he saw the pair-ups, immediately widened his grin at the sight of Izuku's name beside Ochako's.

'Ok, I was already damn excited at not being in Izuku's team, not that being in his team would already make us too fucking overpowered or anything, but he's with Round Face? I'm never letting them live this down.' Katsuki then punched his left fist to his right palm, eliciting a low-powered explosion from it, and grinned maniacally.

'Time to get this shit started!' Katsuki looked to his right and saw Hiro standing there with a smile on his face.

"Oh, Four Eyes." Katsuki finally thought of a name for Hiro, who looked quizzically at him, confusion written all over his face. Katsuki saw this and waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Don't worry, just get used to it." Hiro looked at him, even more confused until he nodded his head with resignation at the current point of their conversation.

"So, are you ready for this, Bakugo?" Hiro asked with a head tilt as Katsuki faced him with one of his infamous murder smiles, that didn't seem to phase Hiro though.

"Are you fucking joking? Of course I am! There is no way in hell I wouldn't be, the real question is, are you prepared? 'Cause I'm not dragging your ass all the way throughout this "exercise"." Katsuki scowled before he glared at Hiro, as if challenging him to even drag him down. If there was one thing Katsuki hated, it's people who limit him in battle, especially in battle. Hiro understood somewhat along the lines of the explosive blonde's words and smiled with a nod.

"I will not disappoint you Bakugo, I don't plan to." That seemed like it was enough to Katsuki and he huffed in agreement.

"Better fucking not, I'm not an easy person to impress." Katsuki said with a vile smile that looked as if he was actually going to kill someone, Hiro basically ignored it as this was his teammate, and because he knew who he was beforehand, he is somewhat immune to his "threats". So he settled with a nod and smile at Katsuki, who just scoffed back in reply.

"So Deku, who do you think will be our "enemies"?" She air-quoted enemies as a joke, making Izuku chuckle all the same.

"It all depends on random selection, but if I know anything, then I would like to fight Kacchan's team last." Izuku said to her with a thoughtful look, Ochako looked at him with confusion.

"Why's that? I thought you would want to fight with Bakugo?" Ochako asked with curiosity, didn't Izuku and Katsuki practically make a promise for a fight? Or was Izuku just being careful?

"It's not that. It's just, out of all the pairings here, Kacchan's team is the most unpredictable." Izuku asked with a serious look, making Ochako's expression turn serious as well, in her own way.

"How so?" Ochako again asked with confusion, Izuku put two fingers up for her to see.

"There are two factors that I can think of, and why it's better to fight them last. The first is the most urgent one, Kanata." Ochako widened her eyes, she honestly forgot he was in the same team as Katsuki.

"Kanata is the only one from our class whose quirk I don't have any information on, he is literally the unpredictable factor of the team, and only Kacchan would know if he decides to tell him." Izuku put his middle finger down, as if jotting them down according to an imaginary list. Ochako nodded her head in agreement.

"So if we don't know Kanata's quirk, we'll have a hard time forming up a plan?" Ochako asked with a quizzical expression and a finger to her chin, she saw Izuku nod his head with confirmation and Ochako saw the logic in Izuku's explanation.

"Since we both know, or I know better, that Kacchan is a battle fanatic, and is, in every sense of the word, a battle maniac, he will come for the fight right away, but that can work two ways." Izuku then put his middle finger up again.

"One, if it calls for it, Kacchan will be in charge of guarding the bomb. At first glance, it isn't a good idea, but if one knows him like I do, Kacchan will be one of the hardest obstacles to overcome if he plays defense." Ochako nodded, silently telling Izuku she was listening as he looked at her to see if she understood everything so far.

"The last is the most likely, offensive play. Kacchan will definitely pick that once I get into the picture, since I'm the "bulk" of this team from what I got, he will intercept to bring "equality" between our lineups. If he succeeds to subdue me, they'll both target you, but you won't have to worry about that since I won't let both of them get to you on my watch." Ochako at first widened her eyes at the thought of both Katsuki and Hiro coming at her, but then calmed down and blushed as Izuku said he'll keep Katsuki busy just to make sure she won't have a hard time.

"Now, I got off-track, but the last factor is that you will be fighting with Kanata no matter which scenario." Ochako flinched at that but he reached out and grasped her hand in his, making her yelp.

"Understand Uraraka that I'm not trying to scare you, but it's what I believe to be the outcome of being paired up as their opponents. So when the time comes for you to initiate the battle with him, I trust whatever judgement you make, ok?" Izuku stared at her intensely that it surprised her greatly. Earlier, they were just saying to each other that they did trust each other, but for Izuku to say it this time, and placing a great deal of it on her decisions, shows how much he does, making her blush at him beautifully.

"O-Ok, I'll also trust your word for it, Deku." This time, she meant it, all the more sure of herself.

Izuku looked at her before tightening his hold on her hand, making her do the same before they both looked down to see their intertwined hands, making both of them blush harder (Ochako of course) and let go as soon as they both made eye contact, looking anywhere but each other.

"S-S-So, are you ready?" She heard Izuku's voice and she breathed in a little to stop the heat coming to her face and looked at Izuku with a smile and nod, although her face was still red.

"Y-Yeah, as ready as I'll ever be." Izuku nodded at her with a soft smile and nervously looked at her eyes again, making her stare at him with brown, chestnut orbs of beauty with his gaze of emerald lights, both their hearts increased their sets of drums and they almost slowly entered a trance, almost.

"I DECLARE THAT THE FIRST TEAMS WHO'LL FIGHT WILL BE…THESE TWO!" All Might interrupted their moment with his hands inside two boxes, one white with black intricate texts of "Hero", where his left hand was in and one black box with white intricate texts of "Villain", to his right of where his right hand is. But as he raised them to show the balls with letters on them to the entire class, is when Izuku's eyes widened as soon as he saw their team's letter.

Team A and Team D.

Izuku's breath hitched in his throat as he felt it come out, in very obvious surprise.

'Ok, I knew that we would fight at some point, but not this early into the session!' Izuku almost facepalmed at the audacity of the situation, not that he was complaining, but he would've preferred the fight with Katsuki as a final fight.

Katsuki, however…

"FUCK YEAH!" He brought one palm up and released multiple explosions of excitement, with that crazed smile on his face, he glared at Izuku as soon as they made eye contact and Izuku could practically see the borderline murdering intent in his eyes, but Izuku knew better that it was just Katsuki's glint of happiness, joy.

"So then Deku, looks like the world really wants this fight, doesn't it?" Izuku rolled his eyes at that but smiled all the same in playfulness.

"Don't stroke your ego too much Kacchan, it's already as big enough as it is." Katsuki's smile had gotten way wider than before, he then brought a fist up in front of Izuku, who grinned in knowing of what he had to do. He raised one equally as high and they both promptly fistbumped, signifying the start of their long-awaited "debut" spar, as Katsuki kept calling it.

"Don't put your damn head high then, you won't win easily, I won't fucking allow it." Katsuki smirked before All Might tuned in, making them both drop their fists in unison.

"TEAM A WILL BE THE HEROES, AND TEAM D WILL BE THE VILLAINS!" Katsuki narrowed his eyes slightly at that before he smirked once more.

"Then it won't be hard to act like one." Izuku glared at him with intent to admonish the explosive blonde, who was clearly putting himself down once again.

"Kacchan…you're not a villain." Izuku said dangerously, Katsuki scoffed before he turned around, although there was a smile on his face.

"You already tell me that too fucking much…" He whispered low enough for only Izuku to hear, and Izuku sighed but smiled.

"And I'll always be here to tell you again and again." Katsuki heard that and grinned maniacally once more.

"Hope it doesn't get annoying then." He then started walking away, with Hiro in tow after All Might mentioned that those who will watch can head to the monitor room, making everyone reply in kind with agreement. Ochako looked at Izuku with a little bit of worry before he reassured her with that smile that always made her heart want to melt, and would always make her ease steady.

'So it starts now, huh?' Izuku thought to himself with a blank line that was his mouth, before it turned into a smile and he walked to the direction of where Katsuki and Hiro went, Ochako following by his side.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"VILLAINS, YOU CAN GO ON IN AND SETUP. IN FIVE MINUTES, THE TIMER WILL START, THE HEROES WILL BE LET LOOSE AND THE BATTLE WILL START!"

"Yes, All Might!"

We find the four friends in two opposing teams with All Might, in front of a chosen building, which was about five floors high, not counting the roof, and the door open ajar for the "villain" team to enter. Before they did though, they were given some last word advice from All Might.

"Young Bakugo, Young Kanata! The key to being successful in this challenge, is to embody villainy. Think in the perspective of a villain's mindset." All Might told them with a seriousness only seen in the Number 1 Hero when in work or fighting against a particular villain. Hiro nodded his head with a "Right" while Katsuki waved his hand in some kind of dismissal.

"NOW! IF THINGS GET TOO FAR, THAT'S WHEN I'LL STEP IN!" All Might then flashed a blinding smile afterwards, making sure the two got everything and understood the rules, which they did, he ran back to where the other students were, leaving a pile of smoke at his leave once again. Katsuki and Hiro made eye contact with Izuku and Ochako, who both nodded back to them with mutual agreement, them doing the same in return before they lost sight of them as they entered the building.

*With Team D*

Both Katsuki and Hiro finally arrived at where the bomb was located, standing in the middle of the room, which had no windows and a set of pillars around the place, keeping the top floor from falling over their heads. Katsuki looked around the dimly-lit area, he thought it was too dark for his own liking and raised his palm, summoning forth an explosion that echoed through the near empty building's hallways, lighting up the room for a small moment before residing back to the darkness once again, although that was all Katsuki needed to scope the room's area.

'Good, there are no windows in this room. This will avoid fucking sneak attacks behind us, and I hate to have blind spots in any given shit situation.' Katsuki thought as he analyzed the room once again. Hiro chose that moment to speak up.

"You noticed there are no windows here, correct?"

"Damn right I did, I'm not a fucking cataract victim." Katsuki scoffed before he pointed to the weapon in the middle.

"Can you fight without vision?" Hiro took a moment to think about that before he nodded, confirming his question.

"It's not perfect, but I trained at some points in my life to fight blindfolded." Katsuki just reclined his head in thought before he spun around and faced the doorway, indicating he was preparing to leave.

"Better than nothing I guess. You guard the weapon, I'll deal with Deku. Most likely Round Face will come to you, so you get the easy kill. I've already waited long enough for this battle, can I go now?" Hiro widened his eyes before looking at Katsuki's back. From what Hiro had heard, Katsuki never really complemented others without them proving themselves as worthy to fight him (Izuku mentioned this to him), but right now, Katsuki wasn't really complementing, so why did he talk, no, sound nice? And that sentence didn't so much as utter a curse word, maybe it was one of those rare moments of Katsuki that Izuku talked about occasionally? Or is he just being professional? He doesn't seem like it though, so Hiro chose to smile at him, even if he couldn't see it, because he knew what Katsuki was trying to say, in his own way.

"Can I count on you?"

"Yeah, you can." Katsuki just scoffed as he heard the reply and proceeded to stride towards the impending battle up ahead, that crazed grin never leaving his face, Hiro's determined expression coming along with it.

'It's about fucking time.'

*With Team A*

"Do they really expect us to memorize this building's floor plan? It's so big!"

Meanwhile, the heroes were outside currently analyzing the layout of the building's floor plan. Leaning against a fence just in front of said building. Izuku chuckled in reply.

"Memorized." Was the simple reply that made Ochako's eyes almost pop out of their sockets comically.

"Already?! I just finished the third floor!" Ochako exclaimed as Izuku rubbed his hair with a sheepish expression.

"Well…I've always been told by Kacchan that I have a major photographic memory." Ochako kept up that bewildered expression up as she gaped like a fish out of water.

"That's amazing! That's why your drawings look almost realistic!" Izuku almost fell unbalanced as he looked up to her with an embarrassed look, clearly showing his easily-flustered face.

"I-It's just something that I developed with my hobby." Ochako was probably hallucinating at that moment, because she could've sworn that Izuku right now looked…adorable.

Ochako shook her head wildly to rid it away, Izuku never noticing due to his efforts of rushing the heat on his face down, in a vain effort that made him look cute-Yup! She was definitely hallucinating.

Ignore the bright blush on her features that spoke a contrast at this moment, thank you very much.

"S-So, what do you suggest we do?" Choosing to wisely change the subject (her mind automatically figured so), she found herself staring at Izuku, who had a familiar posture of curving his right index finger just above his chin in thought, she could see the gears turning in his head for a cascade of plans.

"Well, from what I discussed earlier, forget I said anything about fighting them last, I didn't know that this was a one-time matchup earlier. You will most likely face Kanata for the rest of the duration regarding this training round, so this is what I would say we could do." Izuku nodded his head to confirm his thoughts, turning his head towards Ochako, who was listening attentively, knowing this, he opened his mouth and laid out the strategy.

"So that's why. You want us to recover the weapon foremost?" Ochako stared at Izuku inquisitively, opting to understand Izuku's point of view.

"It's the safest tactic we've got. Due to Kanata being the unknown factor in all of this, it will be hard to capture him when we have absolutely no information on him, and that's going to be hard to discern unless he shows some sort of glimpse to give me or you an idea of what his quirk could be." Izuku then gazed at Ochako, seeing if she was getting it so far, to his delight, she was.

"But, why can't you just, you know, flash towards the weapon as soon as the match starts?" It was a fair point, it seemed like this would be something Izuku could simply complete in an instant, and he would barely break a sweat, but all she received was a shake of his head.

"Then that would be destroying the entire purpose of this. This is giving us experience to how we can approach actual people with our quirks, this includes stealth, coordination and patience, especially under pressure. If I simply just end this as quickly as it starts, then I deny that privilege to not only you, but Kacchan and Kanata as well, myself included." Ochako could see his point, and ultimately nodded at that logic.

'Besides, Kacchan would kill me on the spot if I decide and do just that. It's not fair to you three.' He sweatdropped at the amount of curses he would get just because of that, especially when it's Katsuki we're talking about.

The guy swears like a sailor!

"That makes sense. Alright! I understand clearly!" Izuku chuckled at her enthusiasm, Ochako never failed to find positivity in every given situation so far.

"Good, then all we have to worry about is executing the plan itself." With that, the duo nodded to each other, determined to see the end of their strategy and brought their eyes to the building in front of them.

"How will we get in?" Ochako asked with curiosity, but looking at Izuku's smile, she knew he already thought of that himself.

"Simple, through there." He pointed to an empty window that Ochako's eyes followed, and immediately understood.

"Sneaking in, huh?" Ochako smiled knowingly as Izuku chuckled a little.

"It should be fairly easy. With those springs on your boots, it wouldn't be hard for you to use your quirk and float towards it. It's actually quite ingenious, Uraraka." Ochako snapped her head towards Izuku in surprise, eyes widened. She honestly didn't expect Izuku to notice the small details of her costume, and was quite flattered at the praise and compliment, so she smiled with her heart swelling, Izuku really noticed everything about her suit, that made her smile even wider in joy, but not knowing the reason why she felt extra special inside.

"Deku…" She softly said, her eyes shining with a beaming glow that Izuku caught and stared at in a mesmerized fashion, getting lost in her brown orbs immediately. Ochako found herself also staring but chose not to look away, seeing Izuku just look at her like that made her…happy.

As expected though, just before they could enter a trance, a bellowing voice echoed throughout the mock city, effectively snapping them out of it.

"ALRIGHT! WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY, LET'S BEGIN THE INDOOR BATTLE TRAINING!" Izuku and Ochako looked up to the building, both with slightly surprised expressions on their faces. The two heroes-in-training turned their heads to one another and nodded with determined smiles, before switching to serious looks, knowing the fight that was now happening.

"TEAM A AND TEAM D! I OFFICIALLY COMMENCE THIS MATCH! TIMER STARTS…NOW!" As soon as that was announced, Izuku instantly flashed to the open window in no time at all. Ochako ran a little after him and then bending her legs afterwards, getting a first feel of the built-up stress in her heel-connected springs as Izuku mentioned, before she was launched up to where said green-haired boy was, putting two of her sets of fingers together, that familiar pink glow in between her pads as she promptly floated towards Izuku, signifying her quirk's activation.

He then caught her in his arms as soon as she was in reach, Ochako deactivated her quirk with a whisper of "Release!" and Izuku set her down. He started to observe the hardly-lit hallways, the only source of light coming from where they entered. With apprehension building up in his body, his steps mimicked the feeling as he slowly walked to a chosen direction, Ochako shortly following behind him with equal cautiousness.

"Deku, the building's floor plan has a steady foundation with good support beams. Still, be careful with using your quirk." Ochako murmured with a stern, yet gentle voice. She forgot to give her thoughts on this earlier when they were slightly distracted by planning out the strategy, given the opportunity, she didn't hesitate to voice her thoughts.

"I forgot your parents own a construction company. I'll keep it in mind, Uraraka." He looked over his right shoulder with a thankful and understanding smile, she did so as well with a nod, proud that she was able to give her points, and appreciated Izuku remembering that little detail from their previous conversations. The memory brought a slightly wider smile before her expression morphed back to all seriousness.

Izuku turned his head back to the situation at hand, his eyes darting to any corridor he laid eyes upon, the gray metal-reinforced walls towering over their figures as he leaned upon one to peak at another empty hallway, knowing it was clear, he gave the go-signal with a hand sign as Ochako nodded in understanding.

'There's a lot of blind spots. Unless we start a battle in one of the rooms that have open space, I'll have to minimize the damage done to the building…' Izuku thought as he kept an eye out for any sign of the other team, Ochako watching their six occasionally behind Izuku.

'I took notes on indoor battling a few weeks ago, along with tight spaces as well, this should help me out here.' Izuku internally psyched himself up for the inevitable meeting with Katsuki, unconsciously tightening his fists with trepidation, and slight excitement.

Although their stealthy approach was the best way to go, someone had other plans that sabotaged the scheme's point.

As the two heroes find themselves in a hallway that had another one extending out perpendicular to the wall Izuku and Ochako had beside them on their left, they both heard a booming sound, making Ochako flinch in surprise of the sudden noise, and Izuku audibly sigh.

Before Katsuki suddenly appeared airborne on Izuku's right and incited an explosion towards the two with a manic grin on his face, and yelled a battle cry. The explosion made the entire section of their current location shake languidly, black smoke generating from Katsuki's attack.

As the smoke started to clear, his grin turned into a full-on smirk. Izuku came into his vision with his arm raised up, blocking and taking the brunt of the impact himself, his emerald eyes narrowed in challenge and in concentration.

Izuku shoved Katsuki's palm away, with enough force to make him flip in midair. Katsuki used two consecutive explosions to right himself up and slid across the floor with a resounding screech, his eyes overshadowed but his smirk free for all to see.

"You couldn't keep the brakes on, Kacchan?" Izuku rhetorically said with a knowing smile, but it had the desired effect.

"You should already know that's not how I fucking work, Deku." Katsuki raised his head with that infinitely excited, yet crazed grin on his face. Izuku just sighed before grinning in kind.

"Well, it was worth a shot." Izuku shrugged indifferently but kept that serious glint in his eyes as he and Katsuki stared down for a long-since awaited moment.

"Uraraka, you ok?" Izuku said without looking back, catching her attention at his tone of concern as she looked at their exchange with worry, but had her focus set for anything.

"Yeah, I'm alright, thanks Deku." Hearing her reply, he looked back and nodded, giving his silent and non-verbal acknowledgement and signifying the start of their detailed plan. She understood immediately and nodded back before running off in a different direction, away from the fight that was about to commence, not before she took a glance at Izuku once more, then facing away to do her part, as Izuku stalled.

Katsuki didn't look to her departure but noticed it anyways. He kept his gaze entirely centered to Izuku, who maintained his stance without fail. They both knew what the other was thinking.

"So, this is it, huh?" Izuku said as if he was reminiscing briefly with his eyes closed, making Katsuki smirk with remembrance.

"I believe it was 34 wins and 12 losses for me." Katsuki made a explosion, most likely getting a point across and for instances, solidifying the fact. Izuku chuckled good-naturedly and with a hint of disbelief.

"Are you kidding? Wasn't it 32 losses and 15 wins for you?" Izuku opened one eye and smirked as well, causing Katsuki to laugh maniacally for anyone who didn't know him better.

"You're fucking delusional. I'm tired of waiting, time to settle the 35th win, my win." Katsuki said in a tone of finality, Izuku shrugged again before he bent down slightly, body tensing up.

"Whatever you say, Kacchan. Just don't give me a hard time, alright?" Izuku exhaled once more before he looked at the blonde explosive with a smile, making Katsuki widen his own.

*In the Monitor Room*

The rest of Class 1-A were shown to be watching through five different camera angles in front of them, surrounding both the inner and outer layouts of the building. Everyone saw the unexpected attack of Katsuki as smoke began to cover the cameras themselves.

"That Bakugo! Sneaks attacks aren't very manly, you know!" Kirishima, the red-headed hero-in-training, wearing a costume that consisted of dark red tire-like shoulder pads that covered his armpits, a headgear that resembled a wrestler, only the two red horns protruding out of his forehead made it seemingly unnoticeable.

"It's a feasible choice of action. He's acting out the part of being a true villain!" All Might commented in to Kirishima's dilemma of sorts, until mostly everyone widened their eyes as the smoke cleared, showing Izuku intercepted quickly to his attack with his arm, noticeably not moving out of his position.

"It didn't work! Midori blocked it!" Ashido said with an excited grin as she saw Izuku protect both himself and Ochako in the process, her mask making her look like a familiar masked animal.

"It's just getting started, isn't it?" Kaminari, the blonde hero-in-training with black streaks across his hair said, questioning himself, but prompted others to look at the screen, not knowing what comes next, but were eager to see.

*With Izuku and Katsuki*

"Dream on, Deku. You know that's bullshit." With that, like an invisible cue, Katsuki raised his right arm behind him and launched a powerful explosion that forced him to head to Izuku's place immediately, close to his left side. He launched a palm forward, the familiar spark of light came too life.

"Because I won't make it any less difficult!" Katsuki declared with a slight snarl as he produced a point-blank explosion directed towards Izuku's face, forcing Izuku to fly to his right, but quickly recovered in midair, then instantly disappeared.

Katsuki, alarmed, started to propel back towards his previous spot with another explosion, knowing that Izuku could appear anywhere at any time. So when he felt five literal painful blows to his stomach, he cursed in dismay.

And flew into the wall next to him, creating a human-sized crater in the process, and gasped in pain.

"5% Full Cowl : Reinforced Smash x5!" Izuku had a fist extended towards Katsuki's direction, he felt five jabs in one second that made Katsuki cry in pain, but it wasn't finished. He then grabbed his arm swiftly and threw him down the corridor, Katsuki, who ignored the pain in his gut, flipped again in midair and launched another loud explosion to balance his trajectory and landed with a stomp, almost sliding through the floor once again.

However, as Katsuki ceased his descent, he suddenly performed a well-practiced backflip, his Instincts telling him that he was about to get in a world of pain right after. Yielding true results, Izuku had almost kicked his stomach, his armored soles flying close to Katsuki's head, his hair fluttered by the residue wind generated from Izuku's kick.

Katsuki then raised his palm behind him, releasing another explosion that rocketed him to Izuku, fist extended. Izuku, seeing this, simply bent back sideways to avoid it, but Katsuki was a one step ahead. Another explosion released from the fist he extended as he turned his wrist suddenly, backhanding Izuku with his right grenadier gauntlet that made him launch towards a nearby wall from the force created.

"Don't faint yet, Deku!" Katsuki grinned as he brought his left palm forward, releasing yet another explosion towards the wall, making the hallway shake in resistance as a result. Izuku gritted his teeth in slight pain, but was tolerable enough that he smiled regardless, and disappeared, the smoke being in his advantage.

The military-looking explosive blonde kept his eyes peeled for any sort of movement from the rising dust, blocking his vision of the broccoli-colored hero. Katsuki then sensed an attack from behind him and raised his forearm, the grenadier bracer guarding his face against a well-placed kick from Izuku, who had a smile on his face.

"Glad to see your instincts are working properly." He said with such a nonchalant tone it sounded as if he wasn't putting much effort, Katsuki smirked widely.

"I should've been able to dodge the first one, damn it." Izuku pushed himself away from Katsuki and promptly flipped in air before landing safely, his hand extended forward in a familiar position that made Katsuki's eyes widen in alarm, and from Izuku's smile….

"7% Full Cowl : Delaware Smash!" Izuku flicked his middle finger forward as a literal force of wind expelled from his appendages, heading towards Katsuki in a rapid pace. With no time to lose, Katsuki launched himself upwards, feeling the wind pass by his feet, successfully dodging it by a hair. He then saw Izuku jump towards him.

"Smoke Grenade!" Katsuki propelled himself sideways with two explosions to spiral around rapidly, then he released low powered explosions consecutively that it generated deep black smoke which covered his entire figure. Izuku widened his eyes at the new technique, but nonetheless spun himself around in midair through the human-created smoke, preparing a hard kick.

And found himself hitting nothing as he passed through the black cloud.

'W-What?!' He widened his eyes proportionally, wondering when Katsuki disappeared, that was a slight mistake on his part. Katsuki made his presence known by delivering another pain-filled platter in the form of an explosion to the wide-open back of Izuku, making him rocket towards the floor, and bounced off it.

Katsuki launched himself towards him quickly, giving him no time to breathe as the blonde then grabbed his arm forcefully and propelled him towards the hallway with an explosion, chasing after him briskly.

Izuku found his senses back after each hit and twisted just in time before Katsuki punched forward, said explosive blonde's eyes widening when his attack missed, Izuku then disappeared instantly.

Katsuki then righted himself up again, finding his annoyance reaching slightly uncomfortable levels of shit, finding where the green-haired nerd went once more. His answer came straight away and he coughed out some blood in response.

"6% Full Cowl…" Izuku appeared again with his foot right on his stomach, and stationed it as Katsuki felt his foot grow stronger all of a sudden, from the tenseness that Izuku gave, and Katsuki realized what that meant.

'Shit. This will fucking hur-'

"...Binary Kick!" Katsuki felt two trucks hit him from the same spot, if that made any sense, and he instantly rocketed towards the floor with a smoke-filled crater, and a grunt of pain. Izuku took the opening and bent his right middle finger down, holding it with his thumb and exhaled loudly.

'Remember what Uraraka said…' Izuku let loose his finger and a vortex of wind, spread out, shot towards Katsuki instantly, creating a shockwave that shook the corridor they were occupying, Izuku's eyes narrowed in concentration the entire time.

*In the Monitor Room*

"W-Woah…" A certain pink-haired female voiced almost everyone's thoughts. They witnessed every single interaction the two opposing rivals made with utmost attention, jaws dropped at how absurd the explosive blonde was able to literally tank every single advancement Izuku made, and how incredibly fast said boy was.

"You said it girl…" A slightly purple-haired female spoke up, Kyoka, the earphone jack quirk individual was seen behind the crowd, but also had her eyes widened in disbelief.

"Midoriya's fast, kero." It wasn't a understatement, but it felt like a fact to one Tsuyu Asui, who said it with a blank stare.

'Amazing. Despite the damage done, Young Bakugo's holding out quite well. Young Midoriya's hits don't look so soft either, and that speed…' All Might thought with admiration and shivered a little, both of the heroes-in-training were pretty good offensive types, and it doesn't look as if they're taking this battle lightly.

"I take back my words. Now that's manly!" Kirishima, despite everyone's current incredulity, enthusiastically was pumped up, now he wanted to see what came next!

Luckily, his wish wasn't far off.

*With Izuku and Katsuki*

Izuku felt the wall on his soles and shot away from the damage done, watching Katsuki carefully for any sign of action he would do as he anchored his feet to the cement-covered floor. He then tensed up again when he saw Katsuki getting up slowly, hands down and attempting to stand up straight, with a joy-filled laugh that would've passed off as craziness, Katsuki then spat out some blood gathered in his lips.

"So Deku, is that warmup satisfactory? Or do we need more "push-ups" before I fucking kill you?" Without that smile leaving Katsuki's face, he glared at Izuku as if those attacks never did anything to him, that was exaggeration at its finest. Izuku shook his head amusedly before smiling back.

"Heh, no need Kacchan, I mean…" Izuku's eyes then started glowing a green hue as wind started to swirl around him, his hair danced within a silent song. Katsuki's eyes gained a dangerous glint to them, but Izuku knew it was excitement.

"We're both just getting started, aren't we?" Katsuki's giant smirk was all he needed for confirmation, Izuku then closed his eyes before his face morphed into one of soberness.

"8% Full Cowling." Izuku uttered, the winds around him intensified, his scarf floating gracefully behind him as he raised a hand (almost making Katsuki tense up for preparation) to position his respirator over his mouth, making the intimidation factor all the more stronger, but it never fazed Katsuki.

Izuku sighed through his mask, muffling his breathing when it reached Katsuki's ears, before Izuku glared and disappeared suddenly, Katsuki immediately brought both arms and crossed them, grunting in pain as suddenly Izuku appeared with his leg in between Katsuki's bracers, hearing them groan with a metallic sound that battled Izuku's iron boots, he could literally feel the momentary vibration that followed right after.

This didn't stop Katsuki from being knocked back from the impact, he gritted his teeth as he felt the force and chose to stay airborne until he propelled himself back further with an explosion, barely avoiding Izuku's fist from hitting his face.

Katsuki expected he would hit another wall behind him, so he repositioned himself to look the opposite direction and let loose another explosion as he slowed down his rush, slowly falling back to the ground. He slid across, his face inches away from the wall, before he suddenly jerked his head sideways as Izuku appeared with his arm outstretched forward, hitting the wall and forming a crater from where his fist landed.

Katsuki immediately began to twist to the right as he rushed his hand forward, his palm landing on Izuku's body before letting loose another explosion, making Izuku fly in the air this time, Katsuki then stood his ground as he saw Izuku impact the ground harshly.

"You know Deku, these gauntlets aren't for just the eyes." Katsuki stated as he brought his arm up to emphasize his point, the dark green-shaded device gleamed in the provided lights of the hallway. Izuku slowly stood up as he made eye contact with Katsuki and raised an eyebrow, Izuku being blasted across the hall all but forgotten.

"I know it isn't. You aren't the type for showy stuff like that." Izuku said with a little confusion written on his face, making Katsuki grin madly.

"I'm surprised, aren't you supposed to be the smartest from us both?" Izuku only had gotten more confused as a result, wondering where he was headed with this. Katsuki then extended his right arm forward, said gauntlet targeting Izuku's figure as said boy tensed in expectation of another attack from him.

Katsuki then raised his other hand, using his index finger, he suddenly pushed down onto one of the many rectangular-shaped platform-like designs on his bracers, which turned out to be buttons if the way his finger sunk down slightly was any indication. Along with that, the lines around each button suddenly glowed a dark orange hue, signifying some kind of signal, the sound that echoed the hallway as he did somewhat proved so. Suddenly, a metal ring came out at one point in front of Katsuki's palm, connected was a small and slightly thin metal rod that kept it linked to the bracer.

"After all, you're the one who came up with the mechanic for these badass support items." The smirk never left Katsuki's face.

Izuku understood immediately as soon as he widened his eyes exponentially, his mouth suddenly formed a smile of excitement.

"You submitted your form with that?!" He yelled as he started to revert back to his "nerd mode" momentarily as Katsuki called it. Izuku's eyes sparkled with childlike glee.

"It was too good to pass off as just an idea, but remember who I'm pointing it at." With a manic grin he started to ignite a point in his palm, the light revolved around the center of the metal ring, Izuku, who finally got the clue, narrowed his eyes in preparation, because based on the design he suggested when they were younger, that ring could mean anything.

When Izuku and Katsuki were 7 years old, they both discussed on what their hero costumes would be and how cool they should look (Izuku's was in the form of a familiar smiling hero, which Katsuki rolled his eyes at). In the process, Katsuki showed his costume's basic layout (they were kids so their sketches weren't perfect) to Izuku, then that's when the mumble hurricane that was Izuku started to brainstorm every single idea he could produce out of his mind, overwhelming Katsuki a little but not too much that he couldn't handle it. There were some scrapped ideas, while there were some that Katsuki kept in his design, which brings us to now.

"AP Shot!" Katsuki yelled as he launched a beam of condensed explosions that shot straight towards Izuku at an alarming rate. Izuku widened his eyes at the unpredictability that his suggestion gave and disappeared to dodge it, the blast denting the wall further down the corridor. The button immediately shot up back in place, the metal ring retracting back into the bracer, Katsuki raised an arm back and shot himself forward to Izuku's last position and swung his other hand down, generating another explosion that shook the hall, denting the floor as a result.

Izuku reappeared by his side with a glare, fist poised to strike by Katsuki's right side.

"8% Full Cowl : Cast-Iron Smash!" He brought the fist forward at a swift motion, but found Katsuki on said arm with a single handstand, releasing an explosion on it that made Izuku fall forward, then Katsuki brought his other arm down towards his back, Izuku glanced back slightly only to-

"DIE!" He yelled as another explosion shook the floor they were in, generating a large smoke cloud that obscured everything, even the hidden cameras.

*With Ochako*

It was almost half a minute when Ochako felt the signs of Izuku and Katsuki beginning their fight after she left, her eyes set on finding any clue of where the weapon could be located, and yet, her worry increased for Izuku as she felt more shaking from below every now and then, but she knew that he could take care of himself.

She didn't trust him for nothing after all.

She made another turn while traversing the walls, her breath slightly labored from the momentary speed run she had just done earlier. She just recently made it to the third floor a few stairs back, at this point, she was trying to see if she could find the weapon in any open room she passed by, but even that was leading her nowhere.

'I'm wasting time, I need to find it now! Deku's counting on me, and I won't let him down!' Ochako gave off a serious expression as she made another turn to the left, barely hearing, yet still feeling the explosions underneath her, but her mind had one goal.

Standing in a dark and shadowed room was the atomic weapon that she had searched for, somehow being shown despite the darkness surrounding it. She crouched down and started to sneak in, passing by the doorway and behind a nearby pillar.

'Did they black the lights out earlier?' Ochako wondered as she surveyed the ceiling for any sort of reference to her question, but found no evidence of residual breaking, or glass fragments on the floor either. She tiptoed to another pillar in front of hers with utmost secrecy and carefulness her entire being could expel at the moment. She brought a hand up and pressed a communication device placed in her ear.

"Deku, I found the room. Third floor, two rows straight from the second floor west side staircase, then take a right, find a four-way corridor, and then take a left. It's a dimly-lit room with no windows." She whispered as she kept her eyes peeled for any sort of movement in the darkness, she had a feeling in the back of her mind that she wasn't alone in this room.

When he didn't respond back as quickly, she immediately started to worry, but sighed in relief quietly as she heard his voice in her ear through the small device.

"Got it. It'll take time before I finish up here Uraraka. Stay safe." With a audio click, she smiled a little, knowing Izuku was fine put her beating heart at ease and relief took over her body.

"I could hear your footsteps, Uraraka. It isn't that hard to listen to." She yelped a little at the unexpected extra voice in the room as she found, for some mysterious reason, Hiro, who was in between her and the weapon, and he wasn't there before, she was definitely sure about that.

With a sigh, she slowly walked out of her hiding spot with caution, seeing Hiro's blank and barely noticeable smile after she was able to get her eyes used to the lightless room.

"How long?" She just asked as Hiro gave her a nod, although if one would look closely, his body was tensed up in case she tried anything.

"Exactly 12 seconds before you came into this room. I heard it echoing across the halls a while ago." She got slightly flustered with embarrassment. Of course, her steps made sounds when she was running, she just didn't pay as much attention to her feet until she came in the room.

"Whoops." Hiro chuckled at that before his face contorted into a somehow innocent, yet piercing gaze, eyes boring into Ochako, making her tense up unconsciously.

"I suppose you have realized that I won't let you get this device so easily, Uraraka." Hiro's tone changed as well, what was once a voice of reason became a voice of unnerving chills, reminding Ochako that he was currently a mock villain.

"I know, but that won't stop me from seeing this exercise through." Ochako's gaze hardened equally, easily noticeable determination sparked from her eyes. Hiro chuckled a little, before his expression - Ochako could somewhat see clearly - was etched with a little disappointment.

"I was hoping to keep this hidden for a little while longer, but I only delayed the inevitable it seems." He sighed as he took off his glasses, producing a cloth from his pocket and began wiping the lenses before putting the accessory back in between his eyes, his eyes closed the entire time. Ochako remained confused to his words.

"Like Ji always says, "You can avoid something that chases after you, but you don't escape it. Learn to face it now than live a haunt forever.", I have a feeling he knew of this battle beforehand." Hiro hid a smile of amusement at those words, but it always stayed with him, Ji's words always did. Ochako looked confused from before, but she understood the gist of what this Ji had taught to him.

With a steeled expression, she scrunched a little and spread her arms slightly, hands prepared to touch and activate anything with her quirk, making her seem like a prowling animal standing on two legs. Hiro looked up for a while and closed his eyes, feeling a slight breeze fill the room, ruffling his sepia yellow hair softly, Ochako's bangs floated a little in response before reverting back to their previous position.

Hiro then raised his right arm forward, towards Ochako's direction, making her tense up more. He then exhaled a breath as suddenly, the room was flashed by a sudden light that blinded Ochako, covering her eyes and almost hissing in pain at the unexpected invasion to her eyesight. The light fell back and she found her sight back again, brown orbs adjusting back to see in the dark again, but didn't need to as she widened her eyes in alarm at the sight in front of her.

'Well, this is sort of amusing.' Hiro decided with a chuckle, seeing the gawking expression that Ochako had made.

"So Uraraka, user of the Zero Gravity quirk. Shall we begin?"

Ochako only gulped nervously in response.

*With Izuku and Katsuki*

The attack left Katsuki grinning like a madman.

When his explosion hit, he felt something that immediately set his desire to win stronger than before. The smoke started to clear as he saw a light reflect from within the cloud, and widened his eyes slightly as this was not what he originally expected.

Izuku blocked the attack, most definitely, but what Katsuki hit was something entirely different. Izuku was holding in between him and the explosive blonde a green sheath that looked almost like a oversized fang, just about the right size and height for Lostvayne to rest upon. The design was simply the color green, but the golden dragon that spread across it (the head of the dragon being just near the hole where the blade would enter, down to its tail that trailed down to the tip, which Izuku was holding with his left hand) was the most defining feature.

Izuku then thrust his arm forward, causing Katsuki to fly away from the sheer shove Izuku gave him. He flipped in midair once again before slowing down his descent and landing on the floor. He glared at Izuku, who looked to him with eyes narrowed, his mask covering the blank line that was his mouth, and the green sheath held firmly against his side, also known to both him and Meliodas as…

'…Lostvayne's scabbard.' Izuku also finished Meliodas' words from his earlier flashback, remembering how exactly he wanted to imitate the sheath, because it would be easier to hold Lostvayne than to make it reappear in midair every now and then, plus, it looked awesome!

"How did I not notice that shit beforehand?" Katsuki asked genuinely, but Izuku just shrugged.

"You should've paid more attention then, Kacchan." The emerald-stained greenette smirked at Katsuki, although he couldn't see it, responded with an eye twitch.

"Don't fucking act like a smartass right now, Deku." Katsuki's palms started to emit smoke in annoyance, honestly hobby if you knew him for a long time, making Izuku grin under the mask.

"I never act like one, because I am one. You said so yourself." Katsuki's eyes started to twitch irregularly, this was stroking his nerves a little.

"I'm finding it fucking irritating that you're doing this on purpose." Izuku just chuckled wholeheartedly at the gag, finding riling Katsuki to forbidden levels extremely amusing.

"Okay, you're dead." Katsuki said with finality and immediately launched himself at Izuku with gusto, who pulled back a fist ready to knock the blonde over. Katsuki then let loose another explosion vertically that propelled him upwards in a front flip, over Izuku's head. Izuku followed his form, and widened his eyes at Katsuki's hand faced towards him, a finger from his other hand pressing a different button on his right gauntlet, glowing orange in response for a moment, and this time, five different metal rings flipped out of the heavy sweat storage, them having multiple holes around each circle.

"AP Gatling Barrage!" Instantly, his palm glowed brightly on five different points, before a multitude of tiny explosive blasts launched out of his hand, all hitting Izuku who was unprepared for the unexpected attack, making the entire corridor shake in anguish.

Katsuki's breath was labored, his arms shaking a little, smoke emanating from his hands as the button shot back up in place, all rings took refuge back in his bracer. He launched himself away from the smoke cloud to give him and Izuku some space.

'Shit! That fucking hurt as all hell!' Katsuki watched as a bead of sweat trickled down his face from the side of his right eye, his arms surrendered to gravity as they lay lazily in air, his hands clenched slightly to ease the pain. His eyes then found their way looking towards his work, body still tense enough that he can protect himself at a moment's notice.

Meanwhile, in the smoke cloud itself, Izuku's left arm was raised up, showing he unconsciously protected himself at the last second, Lostvayne's scabbard blocking almost every blast that came Izuku's way, although some got through. Izuku sighed as he took a look around himself, seeing slight singed marks on the white cloth around his torso, he wasn't affected that badly, but still felt the pain.

Then, he heard a soft whisper coming from his right ear.

"Deku, I found the room. Third floor, two rows straight from the second floor west side staircase, then take a right, find a four-way corridor, and then take a left. It's a dimly-lit room with no windows." Izuku sighed again, this time in relief at knowing she was okay, smiling in happiness. However, the situation wasn't quite over on his side yet, he still had a job to do as well, and raised his right index finger, tapping the audio device.

"Got it. It'll take time before I finish up here Uraraka. Stay safe." Izuku said before he let go and put down his hand, standing up straight as he narrowed his eyes at another explosion he heard from his left side, looming to that direction, he guessed Katsuki was pulling back for a second.

'Like I'm going to let that happen.' Izuku then turned his body and raised his right arm upward, perpendicular from his shoulder, middle finger bent once again as it was stationed in place from his thumb.

'And if this hallway is the right one, then…' Izuku's eyes glowed green for a second before he let loose his finger, and flicked.

Katsuki's red orbs widened as he saw a familiar blast of wind shoot out from the smoke, instantly dispersing said cloud in a circle as Izuku was seen, his eyes overshadowed by his hair as the wind hit Katsuki before he could launch another explosion to dodge, his hand choosing that exact moment to constrict painfully, and flinched unwillingly, closing his eyes to stop the rush of wind from entering his eyesight.

With the literal vortex of air, he was thrown off airborne with it, expecting to collide with a wall from his back, only to feel nothing. He had a slight confused look and chose to glance back, only to widen his eyes again at seeing himself heading towards a large open window.

"FUCK!" With a huge explosion coming from his left palm, he shot towards the right from the sheer knockback it caused, and used his other palm to right himself again in the air, making him land a little bit lopsidedly, but otherwise not worse for wear. He then heard the wind expel out of the window, before it dispelled widely once it reached outside.

He heard resounding steel steps coming from the doorway, his eyes finding a glimpse of Izuku's form walking towards him, his sheath held in his hand firmly, Izuku's scarf flowing from the residual air, his respirator covering his mouth and nose as he saw a small glow of two emerald orbs come from Izuku.

'This next room is a open spaced area.' Izuku thought as he stared down Katsuki, who started to smirk once again.

"Damn, you really couldn't give me a second to breathe, Deku?" Katsuki laughed again in a sort of deranged glee, as Izuku raised an eyebrow.

"And you don't?" Izuku muffled out as he gripped the green scabbard's tip tightly, Katsuki chuckled as he clenched his hands into a fist, small strips of smoke started to flow out of it.

"So, Deku…" Katsuki's eyes combusted out sparks of determination and enjoyment, Izuku's orbs glowed with anticipation and equal resoluteness.

"Finally giving in, Kacchan?" Izuku asked amusedly, but Katsuki smirked.

"Nah, I'd rather get a feel for this new battlefield. I can finally fucking move freely." His smirk turned manic as he now opened his hands, explosions sparked from his palms.

"True. At least I get more opportunities to knock you around and then some, I guess." Izuku chuckled and narrowed his eyes at the blonde in challenge, Katsuki found the glint in his eyes and accepted it.

"Don't say some random shit. You'll be the one who'll flop around this place nonstop." Katsuki rhetorically said with a grin, Izuku did so in response.

"Alright, don't say I didn't warn you." With that, he promptly disappeared in a swirl of wind. Katsuki spun around instantly with two blasts of explosions in reaction to it.

"Multi-Flash Grenade!" As the name suggests, he released blinding lights from his palms in different intervals on both his hands consecutively, the room lighting up in brightness that Izuku, as soon as he appeared, had to guard his eyes from it.

'If there's one thing every victim will do…' Katsuki then sped up towards Izuku, who still had his eyes closed in dismay, and let loose an explosion to his chest that it caused the green-haired hero-in-training to rocket towards one of the walls in that room.

'Is that they fucking protect their eyes automatically!' Katsuki raised his right arm upward, and brought it down, shooting him off towards the air, swiftly heading to Izuku's newly made crater.

"That was a cheap move, Kacchan."

Katsuki widened his eyes and immediately turned around where he heard Izuku's voice, only to get kicked in the stomach by Izuku, who had a smile on his face. Katsuki was forcefully launched away from Izuku, who instantly disappeared and reappeared in the direction of Katsuki heading towards him and pulled back a fist.

"9% Full Cowl…" Katsuki felt himself in a whole new world of pain, literally. Izuku flashed all over the place, kicking, punching and blasting Katsuki everywhere in a blur, each hit being the strength equivalent to a oversized brick, and even that's a rough estimate. The blonde coughed out blood as he kept receiving hits in different directions, Izuku propelling him all over the place, vertically, horizontally, diagonally, all in such a inhuman speed level that not even the cameras could keep up, let alone see them.

Katsuki's torment seemingly ended as he finally reappeared, gasping in pain and agony, suspended in midair, in the middle of the room.

That being said, seemingly.

Izuku appeared again on top of him, his feet planted onto the ceiling as he stared at the blonde explosive's form from his position, his legs tensed in anticipation to launch further at Katsuki.

"…Blistering Rapid-Fire Blows!" With a shockwave and leaving a crater in his descent, Izuku rocketed towards Katsuki and struck him solid to his stomach, said blonde spitting out bile mixed with blood and anguish.

However, Katsuki, despite all the pain and misery his body had gained, grabbed the right sleeve of Izuku with a glare, which the greenette stared at with a cognizant gaze, and with an astounding display of calisthenics, Katsuki maneuvered his way to end up on top of Izuku, proceeding to knee kick his back harshly, making Izuku wince in pain before he raised an arm above and released an explosion so big that it shook the room they were in, and launched both of them towards the ground, a huge smoke cloud was produced right after.

Katsuki, with a battle cry and his muscles aching in complaint, then launched himself right above Izuku after crushing him within his recent attack, and positioning his left arm towards the ground, right index finger on a pin connected to the gauntlet.

"Fatal Detonation!" With a complete 90° pull, the little hole just over the rim of the bracer's outer ring glowed a menacing charged glow, before a blast of red, orange and yellow shot out of it and, like a flamethrower (only this one was very much so more explosive), trailed towards Izuku's prone form, who was trying to crouch up before a massive smoke explosion shook the room's walls with groaning shivers of cement, a smoke cloud of black and white filled the extra space.

*The Monitor Room*

"YOUNG MIDORIYA! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" All Might, whose face had adopted an apprehensive and dreadful face. That attack looked like it had enough power to kill someone! It didn't take a genius to know that All Might was beyond worried, a finger threatening to crush the communication device placed on his left ear, trying to get at least a response from the broccoli-haired hero-in-training.

"What the heck?! Is he nuts?!" Kaminari had his eyes wide open in disbelief, well, everyone had similar faces, a black-haired ponytailed girl had a hand to their mouth in horror, while some stared at the screen in worry for their fellow classmate, so the blonde voiced everyone's thoughts, almost.

One heterogeneous-colored haired male had his eyes narrowed the entire battle, his eyes followed each of the duo's moves and actions the entire time. Both of them were good fighters, one hit from either of them seemed like it wasn't anything to both of them, their eyes had determination fired up inside of them.

'I have to keep an eye on them.' He saw them as potential opponents, people he knew would become trouble when trifled with, a cold gaze bore onto the monitor showing the room the two longtime rivals were fighting in.

"YOUNG BAKUGO, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?! AN ATTACK THAT LARGE OF A SCALE CAN EASILY TAKE SOMEONE'S LIFE!" All Might stared at the unmoving form of said blonde, who had just propelled himself away from the damage done and glared at the cloud of the artificially made ash cloud. Katsuki heard All Might shout into his ear, getting annoyed pretty quickly, he pressed a finger to the device as soon as he landed.

"That won't kill Deku so easily, you have no idea how much that nerd can take on a daily basis. My explosions are no exception." Katsuki said, his eyes never leaving the smoke as All Might heard Katsuki's voice.

"THAT STILL DOESN'T EXCUSE-!"

"Besides, the amount of sweat I stored in these gauntlets weren't very much, despite how soaked to shit my palms are right now. If I were to estimate, my left bracer was only 35% filled." That kind of silenced All Might from his ranting, and opted to listen to the blonde, but his eyes were still glued to the smoke.

"I made sure to store enough that it doesn't cause the floor to collapse on our asses, yet would still be painful enough that it would definitely leave a mark, it fucking should. I'm not so dumb to use reckless abandon to win, that's not how I function."

'I find that hard to believe, Young Bakugo.' All Might sweatdropped at such a casual reply, but his mind and guts were telling him that the blonde was sure of his words, yet he wasn't sugarcoating anything important or vital.

"A-All Might, is he alright?" Tsuyu asked with a finger to her chin, yet if she was worried, her worry was masked quite well.

"Indeed, Young Bakugo said he knew what he was doing." All Might said, a little relief filled his body but still worried for the greenette.

"But didn't you-?!" Ojiro, another blonde with the tail quirk had begun; before getting interrupted.

"He has said that the amount of power you saw in the feed wasn't as devastating as it looked. Young Bakugo had given his word that he had made sure that the blast wasn't strong enough to make the room's floor yield, but still able to subdue Young Midoriya." His words all struck a cord in the other students, they didn't strike the explosive swear machine to be so…careful.

"That's awfully…conservative of him." Yaoyorozu didn't quite know the right word to say at that moment, but it seemed like a valid term. No one chose to voice their thoughts, but all eyes were in rapt attention to the screen.

'Young Midoriya…' Concern filled the No. 1 Hero as he gripped the small finger-sized device in his hand, or mic if we look at it accurately, tightly.

*With Katsuki*

Katsuki put his finger down after his reply to All Might. His body was on fire at the moment, literally, the fight he and Izuku had gone for so long, there were only 2 minutes left on the clock (specifically 2:16 if you look at the given timer on a separate screen in the monitor room), and his body had almost given out at some points, yet the blonde continued to persevere and see the end of their fight.

His face morphed into a smirk as he saw a silhouette walking towards him from the smoke, his scabbard being seen as a shadow from anyone's point of view. As the dust accumulated cleared a little, Izuku's face was seen, his emerald eyes narrowed in a serious demeanor, his hair waving in the wind he was producing.

His clothes were shown as well, and it was seen that almost the entire left side of his torso was burnt off, showing the fruits of his training and the "torture" Meliodas had gratefully given him, basically, he was not lacking in the buff department (not like a bodybuilder's, but Izuku didn't look like he was). The only thing that survived was the left brace he was using to hold Lostvayne's sheath, but even that had some burnt marks on it.

"Knew you wouldn't die from that, Deku." Katsuki started to laugh maniacally, sending shivers down the other students that saw him from the screens, Izuku snorted.

"You really held back that much?" Regardless of how he currently looked, it seemed as if that didn't even affect Izuku, who had an amused expression on his face, Katsuki scoffed.

"Bullshit, I just didn't want this place decimated because of me." Izuku started to chuckle as he saw Katsuki turn his head away in embarrassment, that still looked weird to him though.

"So Kacchan, I still got a few stuff left to do, want to finish this?" His only reply was a massive grin.

"You took the words out of my mouth. Are you ready to actually die, Deku?" Katsuki, in spite of all the pain his body had racked up, he bent down and set forth multiple explosions from his hands in excitement.

"Nope, that would be letting you win." Izuku took a step forward and an even more powerful vortex of air surrounded his figure, his clothes being rippled momentarily, hair dancing in response to it, his eyes had a bright green hue on them.

Only…Katsuki immediately noticed the lack of his mask. Actually, he could easily see Izuku's smile now that he realized.

'What the fu-?'

Katsuki's eyes widened in alarm as he saw in the corner of his vision a greenish-silver tint, setting his eyes upon it, he saw that exact respirator Izuku had earlier, falling in midair to the floor, the scarf connected to it. It set him on edge to how he hadn't noticed it much quicker than before, until instantly, he found himself staring at the disheveled bush of green that was Izuku, who had the mask back on his mouth, left arm raised back behind his neck, poised to strike with eyes narrowed.

'SHIT!'

Katsuki raised both arms in a cross, a clash of metal was heard as he took a peak at the annoying scabbard Izuku had just slammed onto Katsuki's gauntlets, his forearms screeching in pain from the force, evident by the wince he had just produced and was promptly shot towards another wall.

"7% Full Cowl : Delaware Smash!" Releasing another vortex of powerful air from his middle finger consecutively after his last attack, it shot towards Katsuki and propelled him even faster upon contact, said blonde grunted in pain before flesh hit cement, colliding with the wall.

'Kacchan…you were always so amazing.' Izuku thought as he gripped Lostvayne's sheath tightly, hunched forward a little with his arm bent in a horizontal position, before his arm went into a blur as multiple arcs of wind shot towards Katsuki at such an inhuman speed, it hit immediately into the crater Katsuki was in, causing smoke to gather around it, all of it happening so fast in mere seconds.

'You've always been the one person I strived to surpass, because you were so strong.' The emerald-painted greenette then vanished, reappearing above the smoke cloud with a leg extended above him, ready to dive down.

Izuku caught a flash of him and Katsuki as kids, with smiles on their faces as Izuku chased Katsuki around the woods, trying to catch him as he maneuvered out of bushes. He smiled at the thought before his eyes took on a determined gaze.

'But now that I have my own power, I can finally stand in the same place as you!'

"6% Full Cowl : Double Reinforced Axe Shot!" Izuku surrendered to gravity as he fell and twisted in irregular patterns of cycles before bringing his leg down. Katsuki then blasted off towards the descending foot and let loose an explosion powerful enough to deflect it, forcefully flipping Izuku off balance as Katsuki took the chance and grabbed Izuku's costume from the back using his left hand, and pulled him into a point-blank explosion set beforehand on his right, launching Izuku almost perpendicular from the ceiling to the floor.

'Deku…you were always such a pain in my ass.' Kacchan's eyes narrowed as he launched himself at Izuku, instantly jabbing him at the side, making Izuku grunt in pain before he threw him in the opposite direction, chasing after him with another explosion.

'Always so fucking determined to never give up, it was intoxicating.' Katsuki propelled himself right above Izuku and tried to slam him down with another explosion, but found Izuku easily kick him in the stomach before he could do so, his eyes winced in pain as he gagged out blood.

'But that's exactly what made you such a one-in-a-million kind of hero, a true hero.' Katsuki glared at Izuku as he retaliated with a kick to the back of Izuku's head, and let loose an explosion from his left hand as he rammed his head to Izuku's.

'It's because of that trait, no, those traits that I couldn't match you with.' Izuku recoiled in shock and pain before Katsuki grabbed him by the collar and threw him down towards the ground, before launching himself right below Izuku, who widened his eyes at the action.

'That's what made you such a shitty pain.' Katsuki saw a glimpse of him and Izuku, sitting on a branch of a tree in the woods they used to play in a lot, Izuku trembling in a little fear from heights as Katsuki mocked him halfheartedly, with a joyful and childlike laugh.

'Because I couldn't keep up with you.' Katsuki pressed another button from his right gauntlet, a metal ring flipped out to the middle of his palm, as lights began to charge upon it, and instantly shot of a beam of explosions that launched Izuku towards the ceiling, said greenette gasped in pain as it hit his chest.

'And now…you're fucking matching me in combat, and that's what made my blood boil.' Katsuki, with a manic grin, propelled himself again towards Izuku, appearing by his left side as he tried to launch another explosion at point-blank, but got promptly slammed into the back by Izuku, who vanished behind Katsuki.

'I used to have doubts that I couldn't reach my dream, before meeting Meliodas, before meeting All Might.' Izuku grabbed Katsuki from the back just before he was launched and threw him to the other side of the room, Katsuki creating a crater in the wall again as he gagged in pain.

'Yet you were always the first to help me out, to lend me support in your own way.' Izuku internally chuckled before he disappeared, kneeing Katsuki in the stomach again, causing the crater he was in to increase its radius as Katsuki coughed out blood.

'It was so fucking annoying to hear you say "I'm not a villain" over and over again, but I never got tired of it.' Katsuki glared at Izuku, ignoring the searing aching his head was yelling at, as he let loose another powerful explosion to his face, making Izuku recoil in unexpectedness.

'Thanks, you nerd. I'll never say it out loud, my explosions will speak for me.' Katsuki snorted internally as he placed his palm on Izuku and released a large explosion, shooting Izuku almost all the way from the other side of the room.

"THIS ENDS NOW!" With a manic grin, Katsuki then launched himself forward with another power-filled explosion that shook the room, his hands glowing orange as smoke slowly generated from his right hand, heat started to gather in it as Katsuki's grin turned a full-on smirk, his black menacing eye mask flapping violently in the wind.

Izuku, who had his eyes closed from the last explosion, suddenly opened them and launched himself at Katsuki, seemingly kicking the air to propel himself at him, his right hand clenched into a fist as wind gathered around it and left a contrail from his hand to his elbow, Izuku's eyes glowed.

"RIGHT!"

Accelerating towards each other, they hardened their eyes in defiance to yield against one another.

'Kacchan…' Izuku tightened his fist, further summoning wind from it in response.

'Deku…' Katsuki's right palm glowed and heated up, smoke rising from it at a faster rate than before.

Both of the childhood best friends knew that this was the final clash, they steeled themselves knowing this, and put up faces of such strong determination that nobody would be able to stop them.

"9% Full Cowl…" Izuku's orbs narrowed, drawing closer towards the blonde, and locked with Katsuki's blood-colored eyes, which were sparkled in a thirst for murder, all in good faith.

"Hellacious..." Katsuki's smirk turned crazed as his hand burned a bright orange, Izuku's fist covered in swirling wind as Katsuki was almost a few inches away.

As their eyes stared into each others, with smiles on their faces. They shouted out their hearts through their attacks with finality and satisfaction for a well-deserved fight.

{Flashback}

"Kacchan…do you think I can ever become a hero?"

We find two boys sitting peacefully in a green hill with two lone trees protruding out like two antennas of an old-style television set. Lying still on the soft and luscious bed of grass, a six-year old Katsuki stared slack-jawed at a six-year old Izuku, eyes wide in disbelief, which quickly evolved to a childish rage.

"Deku! What the hell are you talking about!" Izuku flinched at the tone of Katsuki, his eyes dropped low and a sad aura surrounded his figure.

"I-I-It's just…how can I be a hero without a quirk? So many people tease me and think I can't do it, and it's starting to make me feel like it's never going to-" Before Izuku could mumble out of habit, he felt Katsuki jab his right shoulder, causing Izuku to cry in pain and surprise.

"You are the last person I want to damn hear that from." Izuku closed his right eye as he rubbed his shoulder, until he caught Katsuki's piercing gaze, and could see the annoyance dancing in his eyes.

"Listen and listen hard, Deku, because I won't repeat myself." Izuku only nodded wildly at that, making Katsuki huff.

"You. Can. Become. A. Hero. It's that simple." Izuku this time stared at Katsuki, astonished.

"H-How is t-that-?" Another jab made him yelp, making him rub his shoulder and his aching hand.

"Amongst all those extras, you are the only one who has the heart of a true natural-born hero." Izuku's heart felt a shockwave, he would never get tired of hearing Katsuki say that, but it doesn't mean he won't get quickly embarrassed, evident by Izuku's face.

"Your drive to help others is limitless, that you can't help but even save a freaking kitten from being run over by a car."

"Kacchan! T-That's-"

"I won't stand by and see yourself break down in front of me, I've already seen Auntie Inko do enough of that for you." Katsuki snorted a bit before Izuku looked at him with an unsure gaze.

"K-Kacchan…"

"I'm just messing with you, but what I'm trying to say is…" Katsuki took a deep breath and looked towards the sky, Izuku following his gaze as they both stare at a passing cloud. Katsuki raised his right arm and opened his hand, a spark of light generated from it, making Izuku glance at it.

"At least you have something that doesn't make you branded as a villain, between both of us, you're the lucky-"

"KACCHAN!"

This time, Katsuki flinched in shock as he found Izuku's determined eyes stare at him in annoyance and…anger? Wow, he wasn't even sure Izuku was capable of making such a-

"You are not a villain and will never be one! I will not let other people throw those words around like it's not a big deal! You're the coolest person to me and I know you better than anyone!" Katsuki's eyes widened at Izuku, whose gaze never faltered. A few seconds passed between them, silent and unmoving, until Katsuki started to chuckle, then turned to full-on laughing at the absurdity of their argument.

"What's so-?" Izuku stared at Katsuki like he was nuts, before he saw the blonde kid smile, genuinely.

"I can't believe what we're doing. You're telling me I'm not a villain, and me telling you that you can be a hero. Damn it, I'm supposed to be telling you off." Izuku thought about that, he blinked once, then twice, before giggling himself, he actually found it quite funny, but gave a sad smile in response.

"I guess we both put ourselves down way too much…" Katsuki didn't say anything after that, neither did Izuku. Both of them continued to stare at the sky, enjoying the cool breeze they felt and the hill they were on, until Izuku spoke up.

"Hey…Kacchan?" Izuku heard a hum of acknowledgement from Katsuki, and sighed.

"Thank you…" Katsuki snapped his head back at Izuku in surprise, only to see Izuku's glassy eyes, making Katsuki's gaze soften, him closing them after with a smile.

"No, thanks for keeping me in check, Deku." Izuku's tears started to fall as he nodded once, but had a smile on his face, a complete contrast to his early feelings from before.

"I'm glad to have a friend like you…" Katsuki snapped his eyes open and gaped at Izuku, seeing the greenette's eyes closed yet saw his smile.

"I guess, I see you as a brother that cares for me. I mean, we're still best friends and all, but this just means much…more, you know?" Izuku opened his eyes to see Katsuki's wide open mouth, making Izuku look confused.

"Something wron-?"

And immediately found Katsuki hugging him tightly, making Izuku's eyes open up in shock and disbelief.

"Yeah…I know." Katsuki whispered ever so softly, that Izuku almost didn't hear it, but smiled nonetheless and hugged him back. Katsuki then realized he was actually hugging someone, and instantly, like the flip of a switch, shoved himself away and faced in the opposite direction, making Izuku look at him quizzically.

"You saw nothing, Deku…Nothing!" Katsuki yelled with a slightly flustered look that made Izuku stare at him in disbelief, before he began to laugh hysterically, making Katsuki no less more embarrassed.

"Y-You shut up." Izuku's laughs only increased, until he felt another punch, this time harder, coming from Katsuki, making him utter an "Oww.." in response.

"R-Right, sorry." Izuku heard a grunt from Katsuki as he tenderly rubbed his shoulder again, until he saw Katsuki stand up, the previous moment forgotten as he flashed a sinister smile at Izuku, making him shiver.

"Alright! Deku, let's make an oath." Katsuki gave another smirk at Izuku's confused face.

"Oath?" Izuku asked curiously as Katsuki nodded.

"Yeah, that no matter what happens, you and I will become the greatest heroes of all time!" Izuku stared at Katsuki's excited and…slightly murderous smile, but he saw the sincerity in it, even the tone had it, making the soon-to-be-Hero smile in return.

"O-Ok! It's a promise!" Katsuki's smirk only widened as he lifted a fist towards Izuku, the greenette knowing exactly what he wanted, stood up slowly, before he brought his own fist forward, fistbumping and solidifying their oath.

Both the childhood friends smiled at each other, one with a smirk and one with a determined grin.

Their fists never falling to their sides.

'We swear on it!'

{End Flashback}

'I'LL SHOW YOU HOW FAR I'VE COME!'

"...SEVERE SMASH!/EXPLOSION!"

Izuku's fist connected with Katsuki's left cheek, Katsuki's palm struck Izuku's face, and a large actual explosion and shockwave generated, forcing the two rivals to fly towards opposite sides of the rooms, painfully colliding with the walls as their craters created clouds of smoke, the entire room shook from the sheer force.

*Earlier with Ochako and Hiro*

Ochako's nervousness was slightly justified, because in front of her was just pure disbelief, her face reflected such emotion. Behind Hiro, who had one hand raised (she took note that it was glowing azure), were numerous glowing blades made of light, each of them were colored the same as his hand and were transparent in appearance, the outlines of the blade were glowing a white glow, easily all of them were lighting up the once darkened room.

"Celestial Haven."

"W-What are-?" Without warning, several of them shot towards her swiftly. She widened her eyes momentarily, before dodging the two transparent blades as soon as they almost hit her, somersaulting on the floor as she did. Ochako put her hands on her legs, activating her quirk as she felt her lower body lose its weight, and ran to one side of the room, barely evading the other floating swords from nicking her.

'You could've at least given me a heads up!' Ochako thought frantically. Her eyes locked onto Hiro's figure as she increased her pace with a determined look etched around her features. She thanked whoever made her suit greatly, her pink visor helmet had a night vision option (her gratitude increased as she found out how and that she could adjust it) installed into it, further helping her maneuver around the semi-dark room.

"My apologies Uraraka, but if I do recall, I'm currently guarding a precious payload." Hiro chuckled with his hands under his side pockets, Ochako's eyes widen exponentially at Hiro somehow replying to her thoughts, that's not really true though.

"So no hard feelings alright? I can't let Bakugo down." Hiro said before he brought out his right hand and thrust it forward, five other swords materialized behind him from thin air and all shot towards the zero gravity quirk user.

She was able to roll forward and barely dodge four of those swords, her eyes in concentration as she panted a little from the effort. She tried to stand up, but found her body incapable of moving, making her panic inside.

'W-What's happening?! I c-can't move my-!' She tried everything, moving her legs, fingers, and head, but was met with no reply whatsoever, in fact, she fell limp on her stomach.

It only lasted a few seconds before her body reflexively forced her to roll backwards, just managing to almost get hit from three swords suddenly protruding previously where she was. She immediately stood up and ran around Hiro and the weapon in circles.

'Was that his quirk?! I couldn't even move my own body! Does he have two quirks?!' Ochako dodged another blade by a hair, her orbs paid attention to every single sword in her vision, there were four more floating patiently behind the sepia yellow-haired individual.

"Looks like my quirk has grazed you." Ochako snapped her attention shortly to meet Hiro's lenses, which were surprisingly glinting in the darkness, well, not really considering the light his blades were giving, making him look more intimidating.

So she was right, his quirk somehow allowed him to halt a person's movement, and it wasn't hard to put two and two together to find that it extends out towards those blades of his, or is it already part of Hiro's quirk? He did say his quirk had caught her.

"It's not two quirks, is it?" Ochako asked rhetorically, slowing down her run as her eyes narrowed at Hiro, who sighed but had a noticeable smile on his face.

"Very perceptive, Uraraka. Yes, I can say it isn't the result of another, it's all from my only quirk." Hiro stated with amusement, before he looked down, glasses shining dangerously, and raised his right hand, making Ochako's attention dart back towards the blades floating in midair, which started to spin around his back, stationary to their positions as more appeared and followed their lead.

"However, I won't idly chat with you, Hero." His voiced was laced with steel, smile all but gone as he swiftly flicked his hand forward and all the transparent azure blades shot forth, Ochako crouched evenly, her eyes back into soberness as she found herself running again, keeping an eye on the incoming attacks.

Said eyes eventually found multiple obstacles to the sides, leaning on the support pillars of the room were a bunch of small debris, some leftover slivers from broken crates, old and used up tires for some reason, and some barrels.

Something clicked in the mind of Ochako and she quickly leaned down to dodge yet another blade, that went up to three since two more came from the same direction. Ochako reached her arm out, hands open as she felt the familiar feeling of her pads touching something, then activated her quirk, making some debris float up. She did so to several more, but the blades fully went through them without finding resistance, she saw this.

'His quirk's also intangible?! That makes this idea useless then! Wait…' Ochako rolled again, evading two spinning blades as she took a glance at Hiro, who had his arm outstretched as multiple blades started materializing out of thin air at a rapid pace.

Her eyes fell onto the floating blades, she suddenly perked up, eyes wide, an idea came to life in her mind.

She smiled.

'Not entirely!' The heroine-in-training completely changed course of her idea, also making her turn back and head towards the still-floating items, while also dodging a bunch of blades, she was amazed at herself on how she was able to keep up with not getting hit by these annoying glowing swords.

She slid to stop herself just in front of one of the tires, glaring at the hole in the middle, directed towards Hiro.

'Hope this works!' Like it was planned, she found Hiro perpendicular to the bomb, his face towards hers, body following suite, making his back face against the other side of the room.

Away from the weapon.

She then lunged forward, pushing the tire and launching it towards Hiro, doing so with the other floating debris and so on. Hiro's eyes widened in surprise slightly, seeing the incoming objects poised to hit him, he narrowed his eyes.

"Release!" Feeling the effects of her quirk cancelling out on something she had touched beforehand, including her legs, with her hands together, as the objects zoomed towards Hiro, were starting to noticeably descend because of gravity.

Just as the objects were about to hit Hiro, closing his eyes with a breath, he started to dodge them. His movements started to increase as he bent back and forth, ducking and spinning to avoid each of the rocketing debris coming at him, as if they were minor obstacles with seemingly no effort on his part.

A couple of echoing thuds resounded across the room, seeing each item dent the walls heavily, craters the sizes of the objects themselves as Hiro opened his arise pink eyes, only to widen them as he saw Ochako literally in front of him, hand outstretched and ready to activate her quirk upon him, making him dodge her fingers almost a little too late.

Ochako however, expected that to be the reaction.

What Hiro failed to notice was a rope she was holding in her other hand. She gripped it tighter as she found Hiro right where she wanted him, and pulled. Hiro felt a force slam into his back, hearing a thud as he grit his teeth in pain. Opening one eye he saw Ochako with her eyes determined and her ten finger pads were placed together while still holding on to the extended rope.

"Neither will I, Kanata." Ochako's gaze was set in stone, her hair floating a bit with her body's last movement.

'So she took advantage of my lack of sight a little while back. She was able to use another obstacle as a makeshift weapon, and from what it felt like, that was one of the laid out tires around the room. She used her quirk to make it weightless while tying it to a left out rope, clever.' Hiro thought as he winced in pain from the unexpected heavy impact of the tire, forgetting she released her quirk at the right moment.

Ochako wasted no time and shot towards the weapon, seeing as Hiro was at a considerable distance from her and reached out for it to claim the weapon.

'Almost there…!' She resolved herself for the victory of their team, but wasn't prepared for what came next. Her eyes were shortly blinded by a bright light, now registering the sound of energy powering up in a high-pitched tone, making her look around the fake bomb to see multiple blades sprout out of thin air, making a revolving shield outward of the weapon, protecting it.

Her body backpedaled as she tried to stop herself from getting hit by the transparent swords, but due to the momentum she gathered from running straight towards the weapon, she ended up sliding on the floor. Seeing the blades edging closer to her, she did her best to change direction to the right, but unfortunately, while successfully dodging most of them, she got hit by three close enough to reach her, feeling a ghost-like feeling pass through her left shoulder, arm and hip, making her shiver uncomfortably.

She immediately lost all feeling of her body right after, and slowed down on the floor, unable to move anything, and she laid paralyzed.

'No! I got hit!' She tried to look back, her eyes edge upwards but couldn't see the weapon. Her ears, however, took notice of the sigh coming from behind her.

"I must commend your cleverness on catching me off guard, it doesn't happen very often mind you. I'll have to wrap up things here however, before my partner finishes yours off." Hiro raised his hand, left hand now out of his pocket from the surprise attack earlier, and more blades materialized behind him.

"So goodbye, Hero." Hiro imitated a deep villain's voice while suppressing a chuckle internally, it had the desired effect though, making Ochako's eyes widen in fear from being unable to move or do anything, causing her to further hear Hiro's footsteps slowly etch towards her, taking something out of his pocket, revealing a white roll of tape, which she finally saw.

'The capture tape!' She became aware that she was now completely vulnerable to Hiro's advances, easily being able to capture her. Her eyes drooped down in disappointment with herself for not expecting Hiro's quirk to also appear away from him.

'I'm sorry, Deku...' She closed her eyes as she heard the steps drawing closer to her, resigning to her loss…

"I trust whatever judgement you make, ok?"

Her eyes shot open as she heard Izuku's voice resonate within her head, replaying the scene of Izuku placing his trust on her, her actions, and decisions, with a hand grasped around hers. She suddenly felt a new source of determination light up inside of her, making her smile despite the situation.

'Even without you here, you still somehow inspire me to keep going…' She tried fighting back and moving any of her appendages, but found nothing, she couldn't even feel her own resistance other than the feeling of trying to do so, making her sigh in slight frustration, yet, her eyes changed.

'I won't give up…not when he put his trust on me!' She looked up and met Hiro's pink eyes, with the blades right behind him, also concentrated on her, like they were sentient.

Halfway across the room, with Ochako just in front of him, he slowly bent down to tie her arms and seal her capture in the test. He took note of the practically strong-willed fire within Ochako's eyes as he stared down at her, noting down the oozing determination that her chestnut orbs were giving out, showing defiance to not give in, void of all fear.

'Even when she knows she has lost, she still tries to fight and not give in…' Hiro smiled internally as he found a new respect towards the zero gravity quirk user, his eyes also showing his own goals to complete this test. Ochako saw it and acknowledged but her eyes never wavered. Hiro bent down, a hand just over her right shoulder to pull and tie her up-

"YOUNG BAKUGO HAS BEEN CAPTURED AND SECURED! ONE AND A HALF MINUTES REMAINING!"

All Might's voice boomed throughout the building from the hidden speakers just beside the hidden cameras. Hiro's eyes widened as he heard the message, Ochako's had also done the same thing, making her body relax in relief, Izuku had done it! He was able to subdue Katsuki! Further assuring her worry that the green-haired boy was alright.

Hiro's mind was racked up, Katsuki had lost? So Izuku had been able to stop and win against him, and now he was captured? What makes it worse is that he was now alone if so, making Hiro tense up. He stared down at Ochako - who had momentarily forgot that she was in a dire situation right now due to the announcement - making her do the same, only, she looked up.

'Then I better even out the field.' With a resolute face, he tried to reach out for Ochako, who still had a determined gaze, knowing that she was about to be captured, yet placing all her trust that Izuku can finish this for them.

Well, tried is the keyword.

Hiro's figure froze for a moment, fingers inches away from grabbing Ochako. As if possessed, he raised his left hand and arm, immediately outstretched it behind him, making all the azure, transparent, and hovering swords accelerate to where his hand was directed towards, all of them making swooshing sharp and high-pitched sounds like a whistle as they did.

It may have seemed random, but when Hiro suddenly bent backwards at an almost perfect 90 angle, some kind of object sailed right over him and imbedded itself into the wall with a metal clang mixed with rubble being pierced.

Hiro came back up and looked down, just to find Ochako's figure gone, making him open his eyes in alarm and shock. He turned around just in time to see someone right in front of the entrance on the opposite side of the room, holding said chestnut-haired girl in his arms, and his emerald eyes glaring with firmness, making Hiro tense up in response with narrowed eyes.

Ochako felt a familiar sensation happen to her, it was actually something she had grown accustomed to over the weeks and had gotten used to. Knowing what it was, she shot her eyes open (she had them closed when Hiro launched his attack earlier) and found her gaze centered upon emerald hair with features of black outlines, all disheveled and roughed out along the edges, dancing along the wind. Her eyes then landed upon his own, instantly recognizing who she was looking at, and currently holding her protectively.

"You alright, Uraraka?"

Ochako's face instantly lit up with happiness and relief.

"Deku!"

Izuku Midoriya had joined their fight.

*Earlier with Izuku and Katsuki*

The smoke obscured the room, dust accumulating from the last attack. Izuku and Katsuki's craters of human-sized proportion dented the very walls they have both crashed into, the room was covered into multiple other holes and craters, slightly risen portions of the floor were spiked outward off the ground, the whole room had evidence of a wild-driven storm.

Two separate figures fell out of the craters, Katsuki falling onto the floor with a painful thud, along with a grunt. Izuku did the same, only he had stood up faster than Katsuki had. The blonde's body was wracked with pain, his arms were yelling at him to stop moving, his palms, although were sweating, had ached violently – he could barely get a feeling out of them – in protest. His eye mask had long since flew away at some point, cheek bruised to an extent from the last attack, body tensed up in agony.

He looked up to see Izuku, who was panting a little. Katsuki, despite the spastic arguments with his body, he – in a vain attempt – tried to crouch up and meet the greenette's gaze, bloodshot-red eyes sparked with deranged determination and willpower. He made a large stomp with a half-yell, panting hard with sweat coming down from his sand-colored hair, continuing to stare at Izuku with defiance and…satisfaction?

Izuku was also meeting his gaze, eyes filled with determination as well as firmness, sending the silent message to Katsuki that he wasn't done yet. Neither did Katsuki's red orbs waver in the slightest, but as he stepped forward quickly, with one small explosion summoned forth from his right palm, Izuku tensed, yet not for long, with Katsuki's body falling forward, flat on his face with another thud, flesh meeting cement, a wave of dust spread forth from the impact. Izuku's face froze for a bit, but found out what had happened.

Katsuki Bakugo had fallen unconscious.

Izuku stared with concentration, attention solely focused onto Katsuki's figure on the floor, body ready in case Katsuki was attempting to pull a feint. Assessing that he wouldn't be getting up anymore, he sighed in relief, and walked towards him. Izuku's body was in pain as well, due to exposure of his torso's left side, Katsuki's explosion was more pain-filled than it normally was. It wasn't by a distinctively high margin, yet it was still noticeable.

As Izuku's eyes fell onto the blonde's backside, he smiled slightly. That was one of the best fights they had ever had, he could easily tell Katsuki was holding back to a certain degree, considering he was concerned about the building's integrity.

'It's nice to see you still keep a watchful eye on your own attacks.' With a smile, he got something out of the left pocket of his suit's pants (after flipping the green scabbard in his hands and throwing it behind his back, the sheath magnetically attaching itself onto the two gray discs from earlier with double metallic clicks), revealing the capture tape he had.

"Guess I win this battle, Kacchan." Izuku then lifted both of Katsuki's arm to his back, then tying the roll of tape around his wrists, then his arms, until it was fully tight and secure.

"YOUNG BAKUGO HAS BEEN CAPTURED AND SECURED! ONE AND A HALF MINUTES REMAINING!"

Izuku sighed in relief once again, lifting Katsuki by the shoulder and placed him carefully to lean on the wall closest to both of them. Izuku then stood up, looking to the ceiling a little as he glanced back at Katsuki.

'I still can't believe you've gone on this far, you really are something else, Kacchan.' Izuku smiled with that thought, before he looked on with a determined gaze.

"So…third floor, huh? Hang on Uraraka, I'm on my way." Izuku said with a steel look on his eyes, determined to help Uraraka if she needs it. As wind gathered around him, his scarf floating with it, hair ruffling up and down, he looked towards the unconscious explosive blonde one last time, before vanishing, leaving the ruined room in his wake.

Izuku traversed around the halls, running while finding which room Uraraka had found and is in currently. Everything within his perception was blurred as he zoomed through each hallway of the third floor, after he had just recently reached a staircase to said floor. His eyes found a room just up ahead, knowing this to be the last possible room he could go to, he dashed forth.

When he reappeared in front of the doorway, he found a room that was slightly lit up, no sources of lights other than the glowing transparent and floating blades of energy he saw in front of him…wait what?

He centered his eyes on each sword, marveling at their beauty and design, the unnatural light they were giving off, a gentle azure hue. He immediately put his sight upon Hiro and widened them further when he saw him drawing closer to Ochako, with his right hand outstretched towards her.

Izuku didn't know why, but his entire body was instantly tense, eyes hardened, and an overwhelming urge of protectiveness surged his whole being as time slowed for him. As he saw Ochako down there, completely paralyzed yet her eyes stared up with no signs of backing down, his emerald orbs glowed slightly, and his mind was invaded with a blank filling, only the words that echoed in his mind were clear.

"Protect her."

Izuku's thoughts turned towards the incoming barrage of blades, his eyes glowed fiercely as he ran towards them and vanished, reappearing behind all of them, not looking the least bit fazed.

The green-haired Sin then pulled his left arm back, hand open as the green scabbard started to shake slightly before magnetically forcing itself into his left hand, grasping it. With no time at all, his hand blurred as he threw the sheath with a strong force, the oversized fang of a blade's resting place spinning in a rapid cycle as it flew across the room.

Izuku saw the sepia yellow-haired boy bend back flexibly to dodge Lostvayne's scabbard, but his eyes were set on one chestnut-haired girl. He disappeared shortly after hearing the sheath pierce the wall harshly, giving him the signal to vanish in a swirl of wind as he picked up Ochako in a bridal carry gently, reappearing again in the other side of the room, just in front of the exit.

His eyes narrowed dangerously at the other person just across the room from him, who faced back to find Ochako missing from her last position, only to find her secured safely in his arms with open eyes of shock and surprise.

Through the corner of his vision, he saw Ochako open her eyes, finding them quickly turn to the same amount of shock directed towards him, he sighed in relief internally but kept his eyes towards Hiro.

"You alright, Uraraka?"

"Deku!" Hearing that name, he smiled slightly and faced towards her, seeing the solace-filled smile she was giving him, he felt better knowing she was safe, but didn't know why and passed it off as his will to protect people, finding them safe as a relief to him, yeah, that's it.

"I'm ok now, thanks again." Ochako answered his question with a bigger smile, making his smile turn whole.

"Good, then let's finish this together. Can you move?" He immediately asked, making Ochako try to move any part of her body, but to no avail.

"No, Kanata's quirk still has its effect on me." She would've shook her head as well if she could, but opted to speak instead, at least her mouth could still move, now that she thought about it.

"His quirk? Those flying blades from before can paralyze you?" Izuku drew his gaze away from her and towards Hiro, who was rising a little from bending down and with a glowing hand raised, and multiple swords materializing behind him once again.

"Yeah. From what I saw, he can manipulate them to launch towards us like a projectile, and can summon them at will in numerous amounts. It's slightly annoying that they can appear anywhere else and not just behind him." Ochako answered as Izuku's eyes narrowed further, tightening his grip on her (she never realized because of their situation).

'If so, then he probably has a limit to how far they can summon. It's not crazy to think that there is also a limited amount he can produce each time.' He thought quickly as he moved his eyes to the weapon, which was still being surrounded by several swords that kept spinning around it.

'Not only that, but he's got the weapon fully protected as well. Going too close to it can wound me easily, considering those blades look like they are made up of some kind of energy, it wouldn't take a genius to know they would hurt.' Izuku then locked eyes with Hiro, whose glasses were gleaming with an intimidating glare, making the greenette's eyes shine with an emerald hue in response. Before he could speak, Hiro beat him to it.

"So you managed to subdue my colleague, Midoriya. Quite exemplary, it speaks volumes of your skill and overall prowess, however…because it's down to just you two and me alone, I'll have to up the stakes a bit…" Hiro's hand glowed more intense as more blades started to materialize behind him, the transparent floating swords beginning to spin like a drill.

"…and match the unevenness of our numbers."

Hiro immediately flicked his hand forward, making all of the blades zoom away from him, his hair and suit flowing shortly before descending back into its stationary form. The room was showered in flashes of azure light, high-pitched shrieks of whistle-like sounds, piercing through the wind, all of them accelerating towards Izuku and Ochako at an alarming rate.

Said heroes-in-training widened their eyes in unison, Ochako tensing up on reflex (tried to) and Izuku tightening his hold on her a little bit further in response. Just before any of the blades could reach them, Izuku disappeared, all of them striking the empty position they once were in.

Izuku reappeared with Ochako still in his arms, who was quite limp, making Izuku hold her securely as to not make her fall. Hiro started walking towards the weapon as he summoned more of the transparent blades and launched all of them towards their current location, Izuku again vanishing in response, reappearing again leaning back behind a pillar, looking back to see if-

"Deku no! His quirk is also intangible!" Izuku's eyes shot open before he vanished again, just in time before multiple swords phased through the rectangular support beam of cement.

'Intangible?! So any type of shield or barrier is also useless against Kanata's quirk?! But that narrows down my suspicion on these blades capability of harming me or Ochako, seeing she's been hit, and that there are no visible wounds I see on her, unless it's internal…no, she doesn't seem to be in pain other than her resistance to the quirk.' Izuku sighed internally in relief as he reappeared sliding a little to the side, purposely there to grab the scabbard still imbedded on the wall and placed it on his back as he glared at Hiro, who had finally reached just in front of the mock bomb.

'Still, that means his quirk's such a dangerous defense breaker! We can't rely on places to hide either, considering we have such limited time on the clock, Uraraka and I can't regroup!' Izuku's mind was conflicted, Hiro had them both in a bind where Izuku can't just smash through, and they had only a few seconds left!

'He's stalling. Kanata's quirk works both ways, long-range and close-range. It seems like he can't touch his own blades, does that mean he's susceptible to his own quirk's effects? No…we can't rely on that knowledge, what if it doesn't work? We lack information.' Izuku disappeared as Hiro materialized a cascade of blades from where they were standing, the blades protruding violently off the ground. Izuku reappeared in the air, just above the weapon.

'Just like Uraraka said, they can appear anywhere he wants. Since he was able to reach us from there, that means his range can spread across the room. What's more is that we're at a disadvantage, I'm currently carrying Ochako, who's immobilized so I have to keep her safe, we don't even know how long the effects are, and it could last this entire test.' Ochako saw Izuku's face contorted in conflict, she saw how hard he was trying to think of a plan for both of them to get out of this and felt useless in this scenario, it made her frustrated.

'Deku's trying so hard…I can't just let him do all the work while I'm laying here as a burden!' Ochako glanced at her fingers, seeing them almost close to his chest, three fingers currently on it while two were not quite properly faced, her face switched to a determined one.

She tried to move them, at least to position it properly until all five of her fingers could touch Izuku's chest and make him float. Izuku saw her expression despite his thoughts.

"Uraraka?" Ochako's gaze never left her hands.

"If I can…at least…ease the burden you hold…then I'll gladly…do so!" She struggled to move her immobile fingers as hard as she could, visible sweat started to emerge from the sides of her head from the effort alone, making Izuku raise his hands and grasp her limp ones, making her finally look up to see him smiling.

"You're not and will never be a burden to me, Uraraka." Ochako felt the effects of her quirk activating, but ignored it in favor of putting her attention on Izuku's words…and the obvious blush on her face.

"So thanks, this will help a lot!" Izuku felt his body feel lighter, getting a second feel on Ochako's quirk releasing gravity's hold on his body. He immediately disappeared again to dodge another set of swords that appeared around them earlier.

"I've took my time to analyze how fast you can move, Midoriya." Izuku reappeared hearing that reply, and looked towards Hiro, whose hand was raised once again, more blades appearing out of thin air around him.

"Many people would believe you seemingly teleport from one place to another, I would know since I did. However, because of your multiple dodges just now, I finally figured out it was just how quick you can move around that it's simply a blur to the naked eye." Izuku slightly widened his eyes in alarm, Hiro was trying to analyze him the entire time he was moving?!

"So…with knowing that information, I can easily exploit that to my advantage." Hiro raised his hand further, glowing more intensely than before as numerous blades appeared all around the room, surrounding them all in menacing quantities, making both Izuku and Ochako look around them with wide open eyes.

"By limiting the amount of area in this already small spaced room, I can easily incapacitate you by restricting your movement with numbers alone." Suddenly, all the blades started to slash and slice in midair, accelerating further until they almost resembled spinning jigsaws, Hiro then summoned more behind him as he used his other hand to lift his glasses a little.

"You have lost, Heroes." Hiro said ominously, although inwardly chuckling at the tone he used. Ochako had her eyes widened even further from the plan Hiro had used just to make sure they wouldn't be able to move ahead and win this test, while Izuku had his hair overshadowing his eyes. Hiro then raised his hand forward, ready to flick it.

"Celestial Haven." Hiro said with a certain calm in his voice, all the blades behind him poised to strike started to spin rapidly, making him seem all the more intimidating.

"Any last words?" Hiro asked with finality. Ochako looked up to see Izuku's eyes covered, an unreadable expression on his face, then she saw him smile.

"A Hero…" Wind started to swirl around both of them, Ochako covering her eyes as her chestnut-colored hair danced around with it, floating and flowing gracefully along with Izuku's emerald hair.

"A Hero…never falters, even when faced with adversities, no matter how high the obstacle…" Izuku's eyes glowed intensely like the aura around Hiro's right hand, making him look fierce.

"No matter how hard the challenge!" Izuku shouted firmly as he lifted his head up, a face filled with determination and a smile hiding no fear on his face, making Hiro recoil in shock at the intensity, yet he smiled in response.

"I see. Then both of you shall meet your end." Hiro's eyes returned to their gleam as he flicked his hand forward, making all the blades zoom towards the greenette and brunette with a high-pitched and whistle-like sound. The dark-lit room suddenly turned bright as the blades all focused into one point, making a bigger transparent blade form from the fusion, spinning much more rapidly, glowing more fearsome than before.

As it closed in, Ochako's expression changed again as she opened her eyes. Hearing Izuku's words sparked a fire in her once again, that fire of determination she had grown accustomed to these past few days, causing her to smile at Izuku's resolute smile towards their impending "doom", making her stare at the large attack with the same expression.

However…

"Not quite, Kanata."

Hiro widened his eyes at the reply.

Ochako snapped her own orbs back at Izuku in confusion.

They both saw the grin on his face.

"Full Counter."

A huge echo of clashing steel reverberated across the room, Izuku had his left arm holding Ochako tightly to his chest, Lostvayne grasped firmly on his right hand, his right arm recently swung across his midsection, now perpendicular to his shoulder, Hiro's attack halted instantly in midair, the front part of it bent back harshly in an arc, said arise pink-eyed boy's orbs widened further.

Then the floating blade made a deafening sound that zoomed back towards Hiro at an even faster rate, glowing way more intensely and its form now a large mass of energy resembling a oversized spire, air gathered at its tip from the speed alone, making Hiro backtrack in shock.

Then the attack passed through him.

Hiro slightly recoiled from the force of the attack, taking a few steps back as he steadied his ground. Izuku's grip on Lostvayne tightened as he stared down Hiro's frozen posture.

'Since you said that your quirk can incapacitate me, with the features of phasing through anything, specifically solid structures and in theory possibly other constructs, then I don't need to worry much about the building collapsing because of us, keeping its integrity intact.' Ochako was staring at Izuku, mouth agape, then looking to Hiro, who was currently frozen.

'D-Deku used it! Of course! He said Full Counter even reflects the effects of quirks back at their user at thrice the power, not just the amount of power!' Ochako continued to stare in awe at Izuku, who was firmly holding her in place with just one arm…honestly, that's impressive.

Suddenly, both Izuku and Ochako faced back to Hiro, and heard him laughing a little, making them look to see his right hand move towards his eyes, wiping a bead of sweat off his hair, he looked completely fine!

"Nice attempt. You see, my quirk's effects don't work on me. Ever since it manifested, I've had a natural resistance towards it, so I've grown used to the effects after years of training. I must admit though, it was a smart move." Hiro used the same hand to take off his glasses and wipe them with a cloth using the other. Izuku and Ochako stared wide eyed at him.

"Still…your efforts will be-!" He didn't get to finish as Izuku reappeared in front of him, right hand clenched to a fist with wind gathering around it in the form of contrails. Hiro was left in shock as he felt a hard impact on his stomach.

"5% Full Cowl : Reinforced Smash x5!" Hiro spat out bile from the force as he was rocketed towards an already existing crater produced by the fully countered attack from earlier, making it bigger from his own body impacting it painfully.

"Sorry Kanata, but we're finishing this. Go Uraraka!" He heard Izuku yell out as he looked up, seeing Ochako float towards the bomb at a quick pace. Hiro's quirk was still on, the defense of transparent blades spun around wildly from Hiro's command as he raised a hand forward, only for it to be gripped on tightly, making him wince in pain, seeing Izuku holding his wrist with narrowed emerald eyes.

"You lost, Villains." Hiro looked at Izuku before staring at Ochako, who went through some of the blades, feeling the uncomfortable chill of something unnatural go through her, yet her arms were spread wide (courtesy of Izuku as he threw her towards the bomb with her quirk activated on herself), ignoring it.

"Weapon retrieved!" Ochako shouted out with glee and relief as she hugged the bomb, with a smile on her face, Izuku stared at her with a smile, and Hiro sighed in defeat, clearly accepting his loss.

"THE BOMB…HAS BEEN SAFELY SECURED BY THE HEROES! HERO TEAM…WINS!"

All Might's voice bellowed throughout the building, Ochako cheering in response, Izuku's smile widened, and Hiro allowed one from himself to form. Izuku let go of Hiro's wrist, said boy winced again but with relief, that was a strong grip. He caressed his hand gently as his eyes laid on an outstretched hand, and one greenette's smile.

"You gave us one amazing fight, both you and Kacchan." Hiro stared at the hand for a while as he listened, remembering the fight between him and Ochako, before him and Izuku, making him smile again, this time grabbing and accepting the hand, Izuku pulled him up in response.

"All the same to you both as well, Midoriya. I neglected the fact that you had that ability within your current arsenal, I should've recalled." Izuku chuckled as they both shook their hands.

"Heh, well, it is a powerful ability so I tend to use it only when necessary." Izuku sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, making Hiro chuckle in amusement.

"W-Woah!" Izuku and Hiro both faced up to the source of that voice and saw Ochako floating above them, spinning around in a slow reverse somersault, looking down on both of them with a slightly complicated expression.

"A l-little help…?" This only made Izuku chuckle and smile at her, Hiro's amusement grew.

"Hold on Uraraka." Izuku jumped up and caught her in his arms, using his weight to bring them both down back on the floor as Ochako slightly yelped in a bit of surprise, before relaxing in his arms. Izuku gently held her hand to touch her other, which was coincidentally in the right position and brought all her pads together.

"R-Release…" She immediately felt relief pass through her body as she found her weight returned to her, Izuku's weight also back to his body, making him move back a bit to get used to being dragged down by gravity again for a moment.

"We won Deku!" Ochako gasped as she just remembered they had won the fight, and started to cheer again, making Izuku smile in realization as well, despite her immobility at the moment.

"Yeah! We did!" Ochako would've hugged Izuku if she could, but she felt a blush come up at just the thought alone, and the fact that's the first thing that came into her mind. They heard a sigh coming from the sepia yellow-haired hero-in-training.

"Your hits are painful, you know that?" Hiro rhetorically asked as Izuku sweatdropped a little.

"Hehe, sorry…" Hiro just chuckled wholeheartedly while shaking his head, making Ochako giggle at how true the statement was, after all, she did see how powerful Izuku's attacks can get, how he saved her from the zero pointer was proof of that.

"You both won fair and square, thank you for giving me the opportunity to fight against you two." Hiro bowed in good faith, making Izuku and Ochako smile in appreciation.

"Hey, no need to thank us. You guys did a pretty great job as well!" Ochako's beaming smile was contagious, Izuku blushed because of it, and the fact his mind registered he was still holding her, in his arms…cue in one atomic blush.

"Y-Y-Yeah, you and Kacchan did a great job making this hard for us. You made me realize just how important it is for me to watch out for my allies as I fight another person at the same time." Izuku stuttered at first, before finding his voice and contemplatively talked about the test and what he learned. Hiro smiled as he waved his hand in the air, making all the blades dissipate as he did so.

"I think we should get going, All Might's waiting for us and I don't think we need an announcement to tell us that." Izuku and Ochako looked at each other before turning back to Hiro and nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, I've still got a certain explosive blonde to bring to the infirmary." Izuku said, making Hiro blurt out an "Oh.", Ochako also remembering Katsuki being captured earlier, which kind of reminds her…

"Oh yeah, Kanata. Can you cancel out this paralysis effect off me now? I want to actually feel my hands again." Ochako asked as she once again attempted to move a part of her body, instantly finding she couldn't.

"Ah, about that. You see…one minor detail about my quirk is that…I can't cancel out its effects. Which means you'll have to stay like that for approximately a minute and forty-three seconds. Not a lot of time so it will suffice, you'll just have to bear Midoriya holding you in the meantime." Izuku and Ochako had comical expressions on their faces, blushes evident on their faces, Ochako's cheeks were much more defined.

"Eh?" Izuku squeaked out with his eyes wide open, pupils shrunken down to an extent, Hiro nervously scratched the side of his head.

"EHHHHHHHH?!"

Well, we all know whose feminine voice that belonged to.

"…"

"…"

"…"

We find Izuku, Ochako and Hiro walking down the corridors (not counting Ochako, who was currently in a bridal carry), chatting animatedly to pass the time as Izuku lead them to the room where Katsuki was currently unconscious in. They head down the stairs, making Ochako and Hiro immediately widen their eyes at the battlefield they were witnessing.

Most of the hallway was littered with some craters, residual smoke and dust still flew in the air (despite how much time had passed), some parts of the floor had slight cracks, while some had craters just inches deep.

"You and Bakugo went all out, huh?" Hiro asked with a head tilt, Ochako still looking around in slight awe, while Izuku continued walking down the path.

"No, we were both severely holding back." Hiro and Ochako snapped their attention towards Izuku, whose face was currently serious, convincing both of them that he wasn't joking. This…this ruined hallway was the result of them holding back?!

'Well, now that I think about it, I shouldn't even be surprised that much. Deku did say Katsuki could easily defeat the zero pointer during my…umm, eavesdropping session to their call the day Deku and I met.' Ochako tore her attention away from Izuku and towards the damage done to this corridor, she could see that despite how much afflicted damage was made, the craters weren't exactly to deep to cause a collapse, that counted the floor, making her impressed on how careful both of them were. She quietly sighed.

'Deku really is amazing…' She took a glance at Izuku, who was still holding her as they continued to walk, his eyes focused and full of life that she was instantly mesmerized by how green they appeared to be, how she wanted to be the one centered upon that gaze…she finally caught up with where her thoughts were going and blushed madly at it and her staring at Izuku, suddenly finding a certain crater very interesting.

The trio finally arrived at the room Izuku and Katsuki were fighting in earlier and…this looked more like a battlefield than the last corridor. There were bigger craters, larger cracks on the floor, black singe marks plastered on the walls, smoke and dust trying to escape from the open windows. Ochako and Hiro looked at all of it with another series of disbelieving eyes.

"With what I'm seeing, I find it quite far-fetched to say you've both been holding back, Midoriya." Hiro said, making Izuku chuckle awkwardly in reply.

"M-Maybe we both took it up a notch somewhere during the clash…" The green-haired Sin heard a giggle coming from below him, his heart fluttered in response.

"Then I finally done it…fucking, I feel like shit."

Izuku, Ochako and Hiro widened their eyes at the voice, turning to it, they find Katsuki leaning on the wall with a shit-eating grin pasted on his face, along with a concerning bruise on his cheek and one eye open.

"Kacchan!" Izuku called out, making Katsuki smirk a little.

"Don't you start worrying about my ass right now, I just need a damn bed." Katsuki said with a little struggle in his voice, trying to ignore the amount of pain in his body. Izuku asked Hiro to hold Ochako for a bit (Ochako had frowned in confusion on why she felt a little disappointed), before vanishing to find him supporting Katsuki with his left arm around Izuku's neck.

"Can you move?" Izuku asked with concern laced in his voice, making Katsuki scoff.

"Does it fucking look like I can?" Izuku winced at seeing Katsuki's body shake in agony, his legs were at least working, but besides from the many bruises on his body, add the fact he was hunching over a little, Izuku felt bad right away, but it was immediately taken away from Katsuki's words.

"If you start crying like a bitch I swear…this was just a more intense version of our daily spars, no need for you to flood the damn place and ruin it more than it needs to be." Izuku allowed a smile to form as he slowly walked towards Ochako and Hiro, being careful to make Katsuki walk forward slowly.

"Glad to see you're still alright, Kacchan." Katsuki grunted a little from the aching side of his hip, before attempting a grin.

"And why wouldn't I be? I can take your fucking hits any time of the day."

"You know I wouldn't attack you unnecessarily."

"Have you forgotten that my fucking instincts can easily take care of that?"

"Nope, today's battle speaks the truth for me."

"Damn straight it does."

Izuku and Katsuki were both smiling as they bantered against each other, Ochako smiled at their friendship, while Hiro just did so in kind.

As they all exited the building, Izuku inhaled the fresh air in relief, Ochako started to feel the backlash of her quirk, realizing just how much she had done using it, Hiro was supporting Katsuki this time, and All Might was accessing all their status.

"All Might." Izuku's voice rang out, making the bulky and large man face towards the greenette holding Ochako in his arms, said brunette's face was currently a shade of green.

"Do you need anything, Young Midoriya?" The larger blonde said with a shining smile, and a little concern directed towards the expression of Ochako.

"Yeah, I need to take Uraraka and Kacchan to the infirmary. Their conditions aren't critical, but they're not in the best state to move properly. May I do so?" Izuku asked as he looked down to Ochako, seeing her face contorted into a little disgust, he guessed she was close to vomiting at the moment, then directed his attention towards the other blonde's figure, who was currently being bombarded with a couple of questions by Hiro, the explosive blonde had a twitching eyebrow.

"Yes, of course." The greenette nodded back slightly before walking towards Katsuki and Hiro, who both looked to him in confusion. Izuku informed them a bit as they understood as Hiro helped Katsuki hang on to Izuku's neck. After confirming they were good to go, he nodded to Hiro in gratitude, him doing so in response.

"Expect us back around the mid-battles, but that depends on Uraraka's condition, and if Recovery Girl's quirk heals Kacchan with no issues. See you soon Kanata." Izuku said, All Might and Hiro nodding to him in understanding, before he, Katsuki and Ochako promptly disappeared out of sight.

"So Young Kanata, shall we head back? We still have to evaluate some last pointers before we move on to the next teams." Hiro looked up to meet the No. 1 Pro Hero's gaze before nodding in agreement.

"Right." With that, they both walked off towards the location of the monitor room.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"BLEEEGGHHHHH…..!"

Ochako was seen with her head in a bucket (Kanata's quirk had worn off a moment ago), rainbow sparkles were seen coming out of the edges as she vomited (Izuku had arrived with both of them, filling in Recovery Girl on what had happened to both of them, which she replied with bopping Izuku's head with her walking stick at his actions towards Katsuki, not that it affected him but still winced in pain). Katsuki was on a separate bed just beside Ochako's, his body was now ok, a bandage on his bruised cheek, the other bruises on his body gone, gauntlets off to free his forearms from their weight, and his eyes closed.

"You weren't fucking kidding when you said Elder Nurse's quirk heals quickly, Deku." Katsuki said, rewarding him with a harder-than-normal bop on his head, making him scream profanities, earning another bop.

"I'll have you sent to the principal's office if you continue to call me that, and no shouting in the infirmary!" She slammed her walking stick on the blonde's explosive-looking hair, making him grow a tick mark.

"WHO'S YELLING?! YOU DID SO YOURSELF YOU ELDER-" Another bop.

"Shut that mouth of yours this instant!" Katsuki huffed in annoyance, a death glare directed towards Recovery Girl, who bopped him once again, making him scream.

"THAT FUCKING HURTS YOU-" Bop.

"Do not complete that sentence! Who in the world raised you?!"

"THE OLD HAG, THAT'S WHO!"

Izuku tuned them out with a sigh as he facepalmed, hearing Ochako still expelling her breakfast out, Izuku patted her back to help her out, and she slightly looked up with a disgusted and grateful expression.

"I sometimes hate this…" She said as she shivered at the aftertaste in her mouth, face contorted with a sour frown, making Izuku sympathize with her since he has vomited on multiple occasions, courtesy of Meliodas spars.

"I can relate, at least you don't forcefully vomit because someone punched your stomach several times." Izuku chuckled before he shivered as well, this time in slight fear as the memories invaded into his mind, unconsciously rubbing a spot on his stomach. Ochako looked at him with some of her hair falling to her side, feeling (and hoping) that was the last round as she put the bucket down.

I am not describing what the contents in it looked like, other than rainbows, that's all you need to know.

"And you have?" She asked with a half-curious, half-exhausted expression on her face, Izuku nodded with a solemn smile of fear.

"Believe me, it would be best if you don't know." Izuku shivered once again, remembering a certain…spar with Meliodas that made him incapable of moving for three hours, much to said short blonde's snickering of amusement, he could hear them haunting his mind, and shook his head right away.

"Alright." Ochako nodded, before she looked up again and found their faces close to each other, staring into Izuku's emerald eyes as her brown ones started to draw near towards them, face flushed with a certain fruit's color. Izuku was faring no better, yet he made no move to face away, too distracted by her own eyes.

They only broke the trance and yelped at the same time when their noses hit each other.

They both had atomic blushes on their faces at the close proximity and looked away, Ochako brushing a strand of her hair behind her ear and played with it while Izuku gripped the sheets of the bed and shook his head to try and get rid of the growing heat on his face.

In the process, their hands brushed against each other, Ochako's left and Izuku's right.

They both blushed again as they retracted both their hands as if shocked with electricity, hearts pounding in their chests, begging to be released, and a bunch of butterflies fluttering inside their stomachs.

"For fuck's sake, get a room you lovebirds." They heard Katsuki's voice, prompting them both to snap their heads towards him, faces filled to the brim with red, and smoke coming out of their ears. They saw Recovery Girl bop Katsuki on the head again.

"Language." Said woman scolded lightly, Katsuki…well.

"JUST STOP YOU ANNOYING ASS CHIBI-MFHHHH!" Katsuki would've completed that sentence, if a cloth out of nowhere tied around his mouth, effectively shutting him up to silence.

"I can hear you from down the hallway." Izuku and Ochako faced towards the newcomer and saw Aizawa with his scarf extended out, hands gripped on it and eyes bored yet lazy. Recovery Girl sighed in relief.

"Thank you, Aizawa dear. The boy was getting on my nerves." The backbone of U.A said while rubbing her head in annoyance, Aizawa just walked in, waving the gratitude off, keeping his hands on his scarf as it waggled forcefully due to Katsuki's struggles, all for naught though.

"Just two days in and I already have a problem child on my hands. I don't get paid enough for this job..." He said that last part quietly, Izuku and Ochako had comical expressions on their faces, faces a little red now since time has passed.

"S-Sorry about Kacchan, Aizawa-sensei. He can be a bit of a pain but he'll behave when he needs to be." Izuku said sheepishly, making Ochako giggle a little while Recovery Girl smiled slightly, her hands busy on the desk she was currently working on.

"Shouldn't you both be in class right now?" Immediately, the greenette and brunette felt a shiver go down their spine at the dangerous tone in their teacher's voice, slowly looking up to stare at his red eyes, his black hair rising up, meaning his quirk was activated, for additional intimidation factor.

"Y-Yes sensei!" Izuku and Ochako yelled in fear as the greenette unconsciously held on to Ochako's hand and vanished away, leaving Katsuki who was still trying to scream into the cloth. He heard a chuckle coming from the friendly nurse.

"May I ask why you were passing by?" She looked at Aizawa amusingly, who just yawned a little and stared at her with a bored gaze.

"My sleeping bag's back in the homeroom, this was just on the way and I happened to hear Bakugo swearing three corridors away from here." He tightened his grip at the reply of Katsuki's family name, making said blonde recoil to the front, making Recovery Girl chuckle.

"Easy now, I just healed his injuries. No need to open unnecessary wounds, that isn't rational." She smiled knowingly, Aizawa sighing in exasperation as he let the binds go off the blonde and retract back around his neck, while for Katsuki, who immediately tried to bring air back into his system as soon as it did.

"Don't even think about saying another word. I don't need another Mic in my life…" He glared menacingly at Katsuki, who flinched at the gaze and feeling his quirk disabled. After Aizawa deemed Katsuki would be quiet, he returned his quirk and walked out of the infirmary, he didn't need this type of trouble early into the afternoon, besides, he had a certain yellow sleeping bag waiting for him.

Just as expected, Katsuki was quiet as he laid down on the provided beds in the infirmary, he closed his eyes in annoyance at feeling pain all over his body, it was phantom though so it's not as shit-feeling as it was before. Just before he could drift off, he heard Recovery Girl's voice.

"Take a good rest for now, so that later I can tend you your other injuries after you recovered some stamina. I'll be right here if you need anything." Katsuki opened an eye, seeing the pink-suit support-type Pro Hero working quietly on the laptop sitting on the desk, he just scoffed in response as he closed it, choosing to lay down and finally rest.

A few seconds passed by before the comfortable silence broke.

"Is having to ask if I can go to the restroom one of them?" Recovery Girl only smiled, there were no swear words there.

"Three curtains down to where you are, sonny. It's not hard to miss." Katsuki grunted as he leaned forward and off the bed.

"Thanks…"

"…"

"…"

"…"

The entire class was still back at the monitor room, everyone's eyes glued to the screen as they find Tokoyami release dark claw-like arms from within his cloak, with Tsuyu right beside him, sticking close to the wall. Silently, Izuku and Ochako appeared from behind the other occupied students in a swirl of wind, said two breathing in relief from escaping Aizawa's scolding. All Might looked behind him and saw both of them back, nodding to himself before reverting his attention back towards the screen.

"T-That was close…" Izuku said with a sigh, clothes still disheveled, not that it matters since he was exposed from the left side. Ochako giggled in response.

"You tell me. Aizawa-sensei's scary." She heard Izuku chuckle at that, making her smile despite her slightly aching head.

"So, now that all of that's over with, I wanted to say thanks." Ochako looked at him in confusion, his smile never leaving his face, making Ochako's stomach churn.

"For what?" Izuku looked down for a bit, a slight blush on his face as he struggled within himself. He sighed a little before looking straight in Ochako's eyes, causing the chestnut-haired girl to blush at the intensity.

"Without you, that battle would've ended differently." Ochako's eyes widened.

"W-What? Deku, that was all you! I should be the one saying that!" She whispered loudly as to not distract the class and draw their attention towards their conversation, she only received a shake of the head.

"Not true. I would have not known to hold back on my power significantly if you didn't tell me about caring for the building's integrity." Ochako's heart skipped a beat.

"B-But I didn't even do that much…."

"Uraraka." Her eyes met Izuku's, there was such a strong fire in them that she hadn't seen since the Entrance Exam, since he saved her. Izuku put his hand on hers, making her almost yelp, heart skips yet again as she blushes intensely.

"Don't you ever say that about yourself, you've done all you can and quite frankly, if Kanata's quirk wasn't a paralyzing-type, then you would've helped me out, I know it, besides, you made it easier to move around using your quirk on me!" Her eyes dropped as she fiddled with her index finger pads.

"Still…the fact is that you were the one who did all of the work, I was even a liability." Ochako's grip tightened, slight tears trying to escape her eyes, frustration building up inside her.

"I'm not as talented as you, Bakugo, or even Kanata. All your quirks are amazing compared to mine…I feel so useless, because I was even trying, hoping that you would come to help me out, and that's what differentiates you three from me, it's that I needed help!" Ochako bit her lip as her tears started to fall one by one, gripping her suit with the other hand. She tensed up when she felt a hand brush her tears away, looking up to find Izuku's orbs replaced with such concern that it made her feel warm inside.

"Uraraka, remember what I told you before? That you weren't a burden to me? Nor will you ever be?" Ochako sniffed a little as she nodded, blushing a little as she remembered how gentle his voice sounded that time.

"It's ok to ask help every now and then, Heroes can't work alone, there will be a time where they will feel as if they can't do something by themselves. Even I need help time to time." Ochako looked at Izuku, hands still linked, eyes a little wide in shock.

"Y-You do?" She received a nod in response. Izuku hated seeing her like this, he liked her smile, it somehow made his day despite how gloomy he was, she always seemed to know what to do to make his mood better again. Now? Seeing her so sad, berating herself? It made him feel the need to make her smile, and return the favor. Izuku looked down to his vacant hand, forming it into a fist.

"Yeah. Ever since my power came to be, I needed guidance, someone to guide me down the right path. How strong I am is the result of years in training, to control it because…it could easily hurt someone." Ochako's eyes opened further, hand reflexively tightening as she found Izuku's sober face concerning.

"Thankfully, someone came to my rescue. My mentor…he helped me in so many ways that even today I still can't believe. He brought me out of my confusion, my darkest hour, my state…it was all thanks to him that I'm who I am today." Izuku slowly formed a smile at remembering the golden-haired joker, with that All Might-surpassing smile on his face, Ochako smiled at seeing him happy, but his emphasis on the word state made her uneasy and worried, still, she knew Izuku would tell her at some point if she asked, and when he was ready to do so. Izuku closed his eyes, clenching his fist harder as he looked resolutely to Ochako.

"You don't have to feel ashamed of asking for help, it's just in our nature as a human being. There are times we can't solve things with our will alone, sometimes, you need the support of other people's own wills to form something great. Right now though, you did great today, and I will not stop until I convince you otherwise, and see that beautiful smile of yours again." Izuku's smile was almost blinding, Ochako's eyes filled again with silent tears…of happiness, heart beating fast and immediately hugged Izuku with all her might.

"T-Thank you Deku…I needed that." Izuku reciprocated it with a gentle embrace, making Ochako feel warm again.

"You are an amazing person Uraraka, you always will be in my eyes. If it helps, your quirk is terrifyingly powerful, the ability to send people out into space isn't one I'd laugh about." Ochako tightened her hug with a slight giggle, her tears continue to fall.

"N-Not funny." She smiled despite her comment, wiping her tears as Izuku laughed a little.

"It wasn't meant to be a joke, but didn't I hear you laugh?" She giggled again, this time along with a slight punch to Izuku's back, making him grunt a little.

"Alright, alright. You win." She didn't know why, but she could feel his smile. She bent back to stare at the emerald-colored hero-in-training, who also met her gaze. They both smiled at each other, comfortable with themselves, however, Izuku didn't know what possessed him to do what he did next, but he was finding a stray set of hair on Ochako's face distracting, so he lifted a finger and brushed it to the back of her ear, making her breath hitch suddenly.

'D-Deku?!' Her face blasted into tomato heaven as her heart rate increased even further, mouth slightly agape at Izuku's boldness, not that she didn't mind it.

'H-H-HUH?! W-WHAT THE HECK HAND! A-A-ARE YOU INSANE?!' Izuku wasn't doing a good job keeping how red his face was, nor how much his heart stopped at the moment.

"S-S-SORRY URARAKA! I-I-I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT M-M-MY ACTIONS…um…I-I…m-m-mean…u-uhh." Izuku went to a full-on rambling session, hands shuffling in blurs sideways as he panicked, Ochako still paralyzed, this time not from a certain sepia yellow-haired boy's quirk, eyes wide and in shock, her right hand on the lingering feeling of where Izuku's hand touched her cheek.

"I-I-It's ok D-Deku, I d-don't really mind…" She said that last part quietly, but Izuku somehow tuned out everything just to hear that one line, making the top of his head explode as his blush neared and resembled borderline perfectly ripe apples.

He didn't dare open his mouth to say anything, not trusting his own mouth and opting to look away instead, just to find Tsuyu kick Kirishima in the chest with a well-timed bounce of the wall, although he seemed fine considering his quirk's nature. Tokoyami and Sero were locked in a battle, with the latter doing his best to keep the shadow sentient-manipulator at bay.

Momentarily distracted, Ochako took her time to calm down the ever-growing blush off her face, looking to the side as she twiddled her fingers in circles, mind in a dilemma.

'W-Why did Deku do that?! Was there something on my face?! D-Does it look fine now?! Wait a minute… W-W-WHY DO I SUDDENLY FEEL DISAPPOINTED?!' The top of Ochako's head was steaming, her heart rate increased further as she started to fan herself rapidly.

Just then, her mind abruptly shut down as she remembered something…crucial.

'D-D-Did Deku call m-m-my smile b-b-b-b…?' Her eyes wide, face now a full-on tomato was again…no wait, her entire skin was red head to toe.

"…I will not stop until I convince you otherwise, and see that beautiful smile of yours again."

Her heart skipped, that was not her imagination.

It was a memory, an echo ingrained into her mind.

Instantly, she found her hands going up to her face, all of her ten pads touching on her features as she activated her quirk out of habit, floating up in a spiral whilst confused.

"Uraraka?!" His voice rang out, Izuku had been mumbling up a storm while trying to distract himself by analyzing his classmates' quirks further, but saw a faint glow of pink edge to the corner of his vision, and found Ochako floating up towards the ceiling.

'W-W-What is this feeling?!' She felt a hand grab her boot to keep her from floating to the ceiling, but paid no attention to it as to press towards more important matters, and ease her rapidly pumping heart.

Izuku pulled her down gently, making sure not to accidentally force her to the ground using his strength. His brain on overdrive as he caught Ochako in his arms.

"THE VILLAINS HAVE BEEN SECURED, AND THE BOMB HAS BEEN QUICKLY DISPATCHED! HERO TEAM…WINS!"

Both of their minds were swirling in confusion and distress, unable to hear that announcement clearly.

A certain arise pink-eyed boy looked at their whole exchange with a head tilt, clearly trying to figure out what was going on with his friends.

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"…"

"…"

It was about twenty-eight minutes in. Four team matchups had already passed (including Team A and Team D's fight) and completed their battles. Izuku (who had already rid off his own blush, along with Ochako, who had a longer time doing so) had been taking air notes on the different quirks of his classmates, their uses, their fighting styles, and how they utilized said styles to compliment their quirks.

The battles had toned down since Izuku and Ochako's battle with Katsuki and Hiro's battle, well, understandable considering how intense the two rivals' fight had been, and that's including Ochako's fight against Hiro, who all of their classmates saw how Hiro's quirk was undeniably versatile and threatening, and how easily he was giving the Hero side a hard time, while Ochako was faring and matching against him by her surprising agile dodges and graceful evasive maneuvers.

The previous battle between Team H (Tokoyami and Tsuyu) and Team J (Kirishima and Sero) was quite impressive. Tokoyami and Sero were matching against each other in a test of skillful evasion and brute force, Sero being nimble about his movements and quirk, surrounding the entire room with tape as a trap to delay the Hero's side's ability to move around properly, while attacking them all the same. Tokoyami put a stop to this however, using his quirk (based on Izuku's analysis from earlier this morning), a sentient dark shadow in the shape of a bird or crow, cutting through Sero's tape with more-than-normal effort but successful ease.

Tsuyu and Kirishima's battle was more of a strength and agility type of test, coupled with endurance from both sides. Kirishima had been literally a tank using his quirk, hardening his skin while trying to bulldoze Tsuyu, but she proved to be more vigilant, being quite forceful and quick with her movement around the room, making use of her hopping ability provided by her frog quirk to bounce and gain momentum, strengthening her kicks and attacks in response, yet Kirishima shrugged them off as minor attacks.

Like All Might announced earlier, despite their amazing efforts, the Hero's side emerged victorious.

The rest of the battles went swimmingly well, all things considered. The Team C (Iida and Yaoyorozu) and Team G (Shoji and Kaminari) battle was a little reserved. It was really a battle of time, considering Team C were playing defense. Yaoyorozu barricaded their room's only entrance, while Iida was in front of the bomb, ready to protect it along with said girl, whose quirk fascinated Izuku by how she created a metallic pole out of some kind of material. The barricade only lasted three hits before Shoji barged in all the way and suddenly moving out of the room, as Kaminari came in grinning with his quirk activated on his right hand, releasing a surge of electricity all around the room.

Luckily, Yaoyorozu's quick-witted mind allowed her to immediately create a ceramic cloth that covered her front side, while telling Iida to retreat behind a pillar, the speed-type hero doing so swiftly.

Kaminari was easily dispatched of due to the backlash of his quirk.

Shoji was much harder to fend off, his natural strength keeping a fair game towards them. Iida played a big factor in this game, leaving Yaoyorozu to protect the weapon as the blue-haired "villain" shot off and fought Shoji, it was a full-on fight between pure speed and strength, Iida overwhelming Shoji with his quirk's advantage while Shoji remained a tank that could pack a punch.

Apparently, the Villain side had a plan prepared beforehand, because Iida moved out of the way just in time for Shoji to be hit by a cannon Yaoyorozu made during the fray, causing the large mask wearing hero-in-training to succumb into unconsciousness.

Securing victory for the Villain's side.

The last battle before Team B (Todoroki and Jiro) and Team I (Ojiro and Hagakure)'s fight was Team E (Ashido and Aoyoma) vs Team F (Sato and Koda), which was fairly matched against each other. Ashido was the only one left in the fight during the midpoint, since Aoyama was swiftly taken care of by Sato's sugar rush, not before slightly injuring Sato's right shoulder with a beam of light rocketed out of Aoyoma, who dramatically fell down and fainted…umm.

Moving on, despite how hard Ashido tried to stop the strength-based quirk user that was Sato (although she was easily able to even the odds out by knocking out Koda with her flexibility and a hard punch to the head, sadly Koda wasn't quite the fighter), she couldn't handle any more hits (five hits in total) before she fell down. Coincidentally, Sato had gotten a sugar crash as soon as she fell, but the time ran out before Ashido could do anything else.

The win was given to the Villain's side once again.

The most noteworthy fight however (excluding Team A and D's battle), was Team B (Todoroki and Jiro) and Team I (Ojiro and Hagakure). If you want to know efficiency at its finest…well.

"W-What in the world…"

Sero projected all the occupants in the room's thoughts, some with their jaws laying on the floor, while the more reserved ones opted to widen their eyes instead, oh, and everyone was shivering except for our resident green-haired cinnamon roll.

The reactions were justified. Todoroki had barely moved one limb and activated his quirk, freezing the entire building center they were currently battling in instantly after Jiro used her own quirk stabbed into the wall to probably tell him where the other team was located. In less than half a minute, he quickly slid through the fight easily, no casualties from his own team, immobilizing the Villain side completely, them having no way of retaliating as the bi-colored hair individual secured the bomb.

'A quirk based on cryokinesis? From what I can see, it's pretty powerful to freeze an entire building solid, and Todoroki doesn't look at least one bit drained from releasing that much ice, what's the drawback?' Izuku mumbled from the side, his brain storing information in a invisible storage somewhere around his head, making possible theoretical analysis with the practical potential of a quirk like that. Ochako glanced at Izuku with a knowing smile (it was shaky though, understandable considering the sudden temperature drop), slightly giggling afterwards at the face he made, waking him up from his session from her hand grasping his.

But that wasn't enough to stop him from going into another session as Todoroki suddenly had steam vaporing out of his left palm, the bomb's frozen state immediately melted as well as the entire building itself, making everyone's eyes widen this time.

'He can project heat as well?! Wait, his left side is completely incased in ice, is it detrimental to his condition? So both his quirks compliment each other, balancing out one another's drawbacks? That seems most likely, if his right side can release ice, then it's possible he can get frostbite from using too much, but his second quirk through his left side saves him from that weakness…' Izuku entered another round with resolved vigor, finger to his chin as he continued to mumble incoherently, Ochako shook her head in amusement and let him be, while Hiro kept prodding Izuku's head, not really doing much as to snap him out of it, yet his face had such a fascinated look on it, for some reason.

After the teams came back (the other team still shivering from lingering effects), All Might evaluated everyone's performance.

"WELL! COLOR ME IMPRESSED, YOU ALL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB! THE FACT THAT YOU ALL TOOK SPECIAL ATTENTION TOWARDS YOUR BATTLE CENTER'S INTEGRITY SHOWS YOU'VE GOT GREAT POTENTIAL TO BECOME FULL FLEDGED HEROES!" Many people beamed from his praise, the quiet ones chose to silently acknowledge, while Izuku stayed silent uncharacteristically, Ochako noticing this with worry.

"BUT REMEMBER…YOU ARE ALL STILL QUITE YOUNG! EACH OF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, AND YOU HAVE SEEN HOW MUCH IT TAKES LIGHT IN THIS TRAINING CLASS! SO FROM HERE ON OUT, YOU ALL WILL HAVE TO TREAD FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE AND HUMILITY! BOTH MIND AND QUIRK!" Everyone had their rapt attention towards the No. 1 Pro Hero, his smile wide with proud hooded eyes.

"I TRUST YOU ALL KNOW HOW TO GET BACK TO YOUR HOMEROOM, SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO…" All Might bent down, form ready to launch a marathon, making everyone stare at him.

"WATCH HOW A PRO EXITS!"

And promptly dashed down through the tunnel with blazing speed, eliciting most of the class to comment on how amazing he was at teaching, while some admired his charisma. Izuku stared down at the tunnel, his eyes lingering towards All Might's last position for quite a while as the rest of the class started to walk back to the room.

"Deku?"

The greenette snapped out of his stupor as he locked on with the eyes of one concerned and worried Ochako, who wasn't smiling at the moment, making him frown unconsciously, before smiling a little.

"S-Sorry, spaced out a little." Ochako looked at him a little longer before she nodded and gestured Hiro to come closer to them, making him slightly confused.

"Something you need, Uraraka?" Ochako nodded with a slight smile.

"Yeah, Deku's going to flash us back to where Bakugo is." She said with a mischievous grin on her face, making Hiro and Izuku stare at her in confusion.

"He was?" A head tilt.

"H-How did you-?"

"You would make sure he was alright first, since I've come to know these past weeks as just who you are. You care too much about someone else's health than your own, Deku." Ochako beamed with an enthusiastic smile, making Izuku's eyes widen.

'S-She really thinks that?' Izuku never really would've guessed that he and Ochako would become such fast best friends in a span of a few weeks of meeting each other, yet the evidence was here, that she noticed small details that even he didn't know beforehand about himself, and just knowing that makes him…happy, joyful, and thankful.

Izuku only gave a broad smile in response, making Ochako's face turn red.

"I guess you're right, Uraraka." He held her hand right away, making her blush harder, he then reached out and laid a palm on Hiro's shoulder, opting said person to look at it.

"Hang on." Were the two words he had said before all three of them vanished.

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"…"

"…"

'Damn it…'

Heavy breathing was heard as a high-tech sensor door closes shut. The No. 1 Pro Hero was in front of it, currently trying to get as much oxygen in as possible. It didn't take long before a large puff of smoke surrounded his figure, his breathing still raspy and sharp as it cleared away, revealing Toshinori Yagi to the world, sunken eyes and his blond locks drooping below to his forehead and his hair now looking like it's messed up by reaching outward on all sides, smile now slightly crooked into a frown.

'I was cutting it close back there…almost reverted in front…of the entire class.' His breathing slowed down considerably as he put a hand to his mouth, coughing roughly as blood spat onto his knuckles, he stared at it.

'Putting matters aside, I wasn't able to speak to Young Midoriya…he deserves to know, everything I've said from before, I deeply regret.' He looked up, his hooded eyes catching nothing but determination, his hero suit now two times bigger than his deflated skeletal mess, shuffled with his movements.

'Crap…my limit's dropping fast, I can't maintain my form as much as before.' He started to walk towards the path to the infirmary, his eyes dropped to his hand, and clenched it.

'And I have yet to find a worthy successor…' His face passed off a distant look in his eyes, reflecting deep concentration.

"Patience, Toshinori…just hold on to it." He clenched it harder.

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"…"

"…"

"He has been quite disciplined, looks like Aizawa had picked a interesting bunch this year."

"I'll blow up your curtains if you don't keep quiet."

Izuku, Ochako and Hiro were seen standing in front of Katsuki's bed, the former three already out of their hero suits and in regular uniform. Currently, the explosion quirk user had his head leaned onto the pillow of the only used bed in the entire room, his eyes closed but seemed content. Izuku had been explaining to Katsuki on the different quirks of their classmates with enthusiasm, he seemed bored but was actually disguised as interest, Ochako had a funny expression on her face as she saw Recovery Girl take that jab as nothing, when she was clearly take aback earlier as prior to when they first came here, while Hiro looked to be interested in the data on the Youthful Heroine's laptop.

"How are you both suddenly ok now?" She looked to the smaller yet older heroine with a confused expression, but she only received a wizened smile.

"It's much better than his threats on my precious face, besides, he pays for damaging school property if he isn't playing around." Ochako heard a scoff from Katsuki, the brunette's mouth shaped in an "O", finally understanding…maybe.

"So, can you move properly Kacchan?" Izuku looked at him with a smile, Katsuki grinned.

"I only took a short ass nap, that isn't enough to recover much of my stamina for Heroine Nurse here to heal me." A turn of Recovery Girl's rotating chair reached their ears, her smile in amusement just plastered onto it.

"O~ho~ho? So you were listening to my lectures. Looks like you have a bright future ahead of you." She added a sarcastic, yet honest tone somewhere in the middle, making Katsuki's eyebrow twitch in annoyance at not hearing the hint of the latter, grin suddenly turned to a frown.

"I'm a damn intellectual, I'm not stupid."

"Then you might as well start acting like one, because I'm seeing nothing but a brat that has a way with words."

"Tch. Maybe you're just blind to see it."

'HOW IS KACCHAN NOT SWEARING LIKE NORMAL RIGHT NOW?!' Izuku was beyond confused at the exchange done. It seemed like Katsuki and Recovery Girl have a…mutual understanding? The green-haired hero-in-training couldn't wrap his head around how rare it was for Katsuki to just act, like Katsuki, especially around other people.

Maybe Recovery Girl had earned his consent somehow, considering his nickname for her was…less insulting.

"Behave yourself. Anyways, he should be ready to go once I run a few more evaluations. You both should get back to your class, I assure you the boy is fine, not counting how broken as his head is." Katsuki grumbled something about nurses having too much freedom with their patients, hypocrisy and some other pointless comments at that sentence, Ochako looking not one bit less confused than normal from the exchange while Izuku stared incredulously at the blonde for his lack of enthusiasm with his vocabulary, special vocabulary.

The emerald-coated hero sighed audibly.

"I was kind of hoping I could stay until he got all better, but…you're the professional here." He heard a chuckle coming from the heroine.

"Believe me, I get that every time." Recovery Girl chuckled again, not after Katsuki scoffed.

"Not from me." She only smiled amusingly at that before facing the two heroes-in-training.

"Now run along you two lovebirds, this sack for swears will be in my care for the rest of the day." Izuku and Ochako instantly turned red in embarrassment, smoke coming out of their heads and eyes wide.

"H-H-H-HUH?!" The duo immediately yelled with flustered faces, impersonating apples that were recently ignited.

Katsuki only laughed maniacally.

"Now that is something we can both agree on." The elderly hero only chuckled amusingly, ignoring the dilemma of the two practically stark blushing heroes-in-training, who were trying to deny such a claim.

"O-O-OK ENOUGH! URARAKA, KANATA AND I WILL HEAD OUT NOW, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Izuku yelled in full-on embarrassment, his blush reaching atomic levels of heat as he grabbed Ochako's hand out of habit, the shoulder of the book-reading arise pink-eyed boy with his other unoccupied had, and before said girl and said boy could put in their two cents (Hiro was quietly observing the room the entire time they were here), they all promptly disappeared.

Our resident explosive blonde was still going at it as he laughed at both of their expressions just before the three left, while Recovery Girl bopped him in the head again.

"Who said you could make noise?" The elderly heroine scolded lightly, her wizened face's wrinkles being more defined with her frown as Katauki scoffed at her.

"Tch, you don't have to tell me twice." The heroine took a little more time to stare at him, eyes squinted in suspicion. When she confirmed that he wouldn't provoke another argument, she walked back to her chair, walking stick supporting her all the way.

"As long as you understand sonny. Now, you should be all good to go once I make final checkups and make sure you have enough stamina before I give you a full recovery heal. Should you choose to go home afterwards is your decision, but if you want to rest right after, nobody's stopping you." Katsuki didn't reply back to that, but he accepted it nonetheless, only a curt nod was all she got.

"Then I'll choose the former, it's better if I leave this place as much as possible." Katsuki grunted out, making Recovery Girl sigh, yet she had a stern look on her face.

"Then make sure you avoid going here next time! I swear, you young ones these days have no care for you own health." Katsuki rolled his eyes at that, but had closed his eyes right after.

"We're training to be heroes, I'm pretty sure it comes with the package. Damn Deku told me enough to know he would get himself hurt just to make sure someone else is safe." Katsuki had a slight smile remembering that, the heroine spun her chair a little to study the blonde's face, it was calm. She smiled in response.

"Well, if that's the case, then you children must realize to carry more responsibility towards your actions. You can't save anyone else if you can't save yourself first." Katsuki took a moment to digest that, as annoying as she can be, her age does not lie, her advice makes sense, and it's a wise saying.

"Yeah…" Nothing more was said as the blonde proceeded to rest a while, the only senior in the room typing away on her laptop, a view of Katsuki's vitals on it, with a few open windows showing Katsuki's skeletal structure.

It wasn't long until the sandy blond-haired boy fell comfortably to sleep, surprising considering how awake he seemed to be a while back.

A few seconds of silence passed the infirmary's walls, the only sounds being swift typing of keys.

"You can stop hiding behind the door, All Might. His breathing has stabilized." A spit take of shock rang from the other side of the room, Recovery Girl's eyes never leaving the screen as the metal door automatically opened to show the No. 1 Pro Hero in his true form, a fist surrounding his mouth as he roughly coughed into it.

"You could do well not to scare me like that." He coughed a few more times as he walked inside the room, Recovery Girl's eyes rolled…well, there was no telling if she did so since her eyes seemed infinitely squinted.

"Well, how else were you supposed to know when to come in?" The hunched blonde sighed a little as he took a seat down on a free chair, the now oversized hero suit too large for Toshinori's thin figure to fit into as the clothes sagged down, his sunken eyes focused onto the other sleeping blonde on the classic green bed.

"How is he?" The elderly heroine sighed, spinning on her chair to face and look at Katsuki.

"He should be alright once he wakes up, then I can finally recover the rest of his injuries. That Midoriya boy sure did a good number on him." Her eyes lingered a little more on the explosive blonde before she turned her attention back to the laptop screen, typing away once again. The Symbol of Peace took in another breath, the intake of air being slightly ragged as he unconsciously clutched a certain spot on his midsection.

"Good, I just came here to check up on him." He heard a snort coming from Recovery Girl, and turned his head towards her, to see she had a amused expression on her face.

"Seems like you are taking this job seriously, I'm genuinely surprised." All Might did the impression of a classic deadpan, his sunken eyes almost uniform as his eyebrows stayed stationary to their spots, bent slightly.

"No comment." The senior chuckled wholeheartedly, making Toshinori's crooked smile turn up as he chuckled in as well.

"How are you holding up?" The stout but strong woman asked with concern, yet her tone was laced with a stern sound, making the No. 1 Pro Hero flinch in slight fear.

"I may or may not have almost shown my true form to Class 1-A…heh, guess I was clutching it a while ago, just a little too close for my liking." Toshinori chuckled nervously, the pink and white nurse's head gaining a tick mark as puffs of smoke began to exit out of her ears in frustration.

"Toshinori Yagi, that level of stubbornness in you knows no bounds." She sighed exasperatedly as she heard a sheepish chuckle coming from the Pro Hero.

"No need to remind me." She sighed again, before her eyebrow raised in suspicion, making Toshinori look at her with a confused expression.

"What?" She kept her gaze at him, the older blonde in the room's eyes never left hers.

"So…about that conversation we have had before you came to your class, did you find one?" The Symbol of Peace understood immediately, his sunken eyes took on a more serious look, facing off to the side.

"No, no one has given me that spark I need to confirm. I tried to scout out Class 1-A, anyone who peaked my interest, who had that sense of justice many fail to find in others, but…I probably am far too distracted lately to find one." The skeletal man said with a more-than-normal deep voice, his eyes often lost into a memory. The small heroine took a moment to stare into Toshinori's eyes, trying to find any sort of conflict in them, and to her profound surprise, a swirl of mixed emotions were stuck into them. She sighed again, finding that she's been doing so a lot these days.

"What's on your mind? I can see your internal struggle, you can't hide something obvious from me, All Might." Said man sighed in slight frustration, she had caught on well, her experience with other patients showed itself to him, and it wasn't like he was hiding it. He took a deep breath, suddenly he looked more sober than normal, his blue eyes staring in such low depth towards Recovery Girl that she was actually taken aback by how serious they were.

"Recovery Girl, tell me…how do you apologize to someone that whenever you see them, no matter how much courage you build up, it only causes you to freeze up, and painful guilt gathers in your very being?"

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The three friends reappeared in front of their homeroom, two of which were blushing madly and not making eye contact with each other, Hiro staring at them with interest and curiosity.

There were no words exchanged for a bit, not until Hiro decided to speak up though.

"So…was what Recovery Girl said back there true? Are you both actually lov-?"

"K-K-KANATA!" The duo shouted at him with deep blushes stuck on their faces, smoke coming out of their bodies as Hiro stared at them a little.

'Huh…they didn't deny it.' He responded with a head tilt in confusion, glasses falling down slightly with the movement. Just before any more could be said, the tall door adorned with the large number one and letter A pasted onto it slid open, revealing Kirishima, who stared at the three for a few seconds, before putting up a smile.

"Hey guys! It's Midoriya, Uraraka and Kanata!" Immediately, a bunch of their classmates came shuffling in, Ashido, Kaminari, Sato, Sero, Tsuyu, Hagakure and Aoyama to be exact, the latter's desk just right near the door. The two previously blushing best friends (who had toned down the heat on their faces a little bit), were instantly overwhelmed with their comments.

"Wow! You guys were so amazing back there!" A certain pink-haired girl enthusiastically chatted as she took on a very big smile. Some of the people joining the group nodded in agreement.

"Right?! I mean, if you guys haven't been so serious, I would've not followed after! It was incredibly manly!" Kirishima yelled with a sharp-toothed smile as he clenched a fist in front of them, his quirk activating along his arms.

"You guys were so great! Midoriya! You and Bakugo were absolutely insane! None of you backed down from any kind of attack thrown at you! Uraraka and Kanata were also so awesome!" Hagakure cheered as her clothes (which looked as if they were just floating) bounced around in excitement.

Izuku, who wasn't used to such praise, was blushing out of embarrassment, trying to keep himself together, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"T-Thank you. I-I wasn't expecting you all to be so…energetic about this." Izuku said, Ochako had also been slightly embarrassed, still having a little doubt in the back of her mind, however, Izuku looked to her with a confident smile that clearly stated everything she needed to reassure herself.

"I told you so."

She only responded with a blinding smile.

"Uraraka! You were the best! I can't believe how long you fought against Kanata! I mean, didn't you see how absurd that quirk of his was?! You were dodging so gracefully, it looked amazing!" Ashido had pulled the girl in by her arm, Ochako slightly yelped, not expecting such rapid movement, but she still smiled.

"Midoriya! Man, you got to tell me how you are able to take Bakugo's hits like that!" The red-headed hero-in-training said avidly, making Izuku chuckle nervously, overwhelmed by the boys suddenly swarming him and Kanata, Kirishima's arm around his neck.

"W-W-Well, I guess I just had gotten a bit too used to his explosions over the years." Izuku said as he backpedaled a little when Kaminari, Sato, and Sero came up in front of him.

"Hey Kanata! What kind of crazy quirk is that?! Your fight with Uraraka got me so pumped up as well!" Kaminari said, Hiro looking surprised for a second, before smiling as well.

"You could say that. Glad I inspired you to do strive better." The sepia yellow-haired boy said as he started to talk with the yellow-haired individual.

'Huh…maybe I never noticed before, but I have a feeling this year won't be so bad.' Izuku allowed a genuine smile to form on his face, animatedly striking up a conversation with the other boys. At some points, he looked to the other residents in their homeroom, Iida admonishing Tokoyami to not sit on his desk, while Jiro told the blue-haired boy to chill out, Ojiro also telling him he was tense, making Iida shake more with slight annoyance, Shoji looking at the exchange from the side to find what the noise was all about, Todoroki had his eyes closed, probably sleeping, Yaoyorozu behind Iida's own desk reading a book, ignoring the noise.

Izuku found his eyes stop on Ochako, who was chatting happily with Ashido and Hagakure. He smiled as seeing her happy, just being herself, just being Ochako. He didn't know what was happening to him, the ardent beating of his heart when he sees her smile, the fluttering in his stomach as he hears her laugh, it just didn't make sense to him, and yet, he never found it one bit annoying to deal with.

In fact, he welcomed it wholeheartedly.

When he saw her look this way, he turned to the side a little to late as Ochako found him staring at her, making her blush a little from his gaze, and honestly found it cute that he was trying to escape how he stared at her, making her feel giddy inside.

Similarly, the chestnut-haired girl didn't quite know what was happening, her stomach churning whenever Izuku chuckled, her heart rate increasing, the telltale signs of a familiar heat coming into her head whenever they hold hands, it was intoxicating, and she found that she didn't mind anything at all.

Fairly certain with it, she never once complained about Izuku's actions when involving her.

She looked away when she made eye contact with Izuku, both blushing up quite fiercely, wondering how they weren't called out yet despite their exchange. Yet, the storm of emotions within their minds and hearts beat as one, confusion being the only dominant though.

'W-Why do I feel this way?'

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After saying their goodbyes, they had left the school campus. We find the complete set of a certain group, Izuku, Ochako, Katsuki and Hiro were all back together again. Katsuki had been released out of his so-called prison, letting out a flurry of swear words in one sitting once they exited the grounds of U.A, making Izuku and Ochako sweatdrop in response, while Hiro stayed fascinated from the amount of words Katsuki had at his disposal.

"FUCKING FINALLY! IT FEELS GOOD TO BE FREE!" Katsuki stretched out his arms, bag around his shoulder as he yawned a little from the stamina drain of Recovery Girl's quirk. Izuku sighed yet again.

"Kacchan, you've been at it for 20 minutes." The green-haired boy said as he rubbed his forehead, feeling yet another sigh come out for the nth time this week.

"Can't a man have his celebration in damn peace?" Katsuki asked with an annoyed expression, the short amount of sleep getting to him a little.

"Bakugo, several people have stared at us as they've passed by for the past half hour."

"Does it look like I would give a shit?! And who asked you, Round Face?!"

This had been going for a while as they were walking along the path to the station. While it was true that Izuku could've just flashed towards his and Katsuki's households, he hadn't seen Ochako's and Hiro's yet, the latter of which the greenette had absolutely no idea where considering he hadn't asked.

"Well, Midoriya and Uraraka have a point, the amount of noise you've accumulated within the timeframe has been quite plentiful." Hiro said as he raised a finger up, as if stating an answer to a difficult question.

"On second thought, I'm naming you Annoying Encyclopedia from now on." Katsuki gained a tick mark on the side of his head, small strips of smoke escaping his clenched fist in annoyance, before adopting a thinking pose.

"No…too long. Four Eyes is easier, it will stay that way unless I think of something fucking different." Hiro tilted his head in genuine confusion again, wasn't his surname Kanata? Izuku sent an apologetic look towards the glasses-wearing boy.

"Sorry Kanata, it's better than "extra" though, so you're on his good side." Izuku flashed a smile as Katsuki quickly turned around to face Izuku, his eyes gained a dangerous glint.

"What the hell's that supposed to mean, Deku?" He threateningly said, palm raised to elicit an explosion from it, not fazing Izuku in the slightest, except an eyebrow raised.

"Exactly what it does, or do you need me to explain thoroughly?" Izuku grinned as Katsuki snorted, but quickly put on an intimidating stare.

"Be a smart ass all you want, let's see what else you have to say with a burnt face." Katsuki smirked, summoning another explosion to emphasis his point.

"You know, you can't use your quirk in public, Kacchan." Izuku threw back a reply with a knowing grin, his eyes shining a little.

"Is that a challenge? Because I still have enough energy for another fight." Katsuki had a crazed glint in his eyes, making Izuku sigh, yet he had an eager smile on his face.

"If you think you can, then bring it." Izuku blinked before his eyes took on a serious spark, smile still there as both teens kept their gazes upon each other, as if daring one of them to look away.

"Alright boys, break it up. We still have homes to get back to." Ochako had an amused expression on her features, seeing the lightning zapping between the two rivals' orbs as they continued to stare each other down intensely, a breeze passing by, ruffling all their uniforms and hair.

"Right, sorry for the distraction here." Izuku chuckled as he gestured towards the explosive blonde with a thumb, Katsuki snorting a little, but brought with it a hard jab to Izuku's shoulder, making said greenette laugh out loud, Ochako rolling her eyes playfully at their antics, yet still giggled all the same, Hiro looking at the two longtime friends with a smile and shook his head.

"Oh right! Kanata, I've been meaning to ask, but what exactly is your quirk?" Izuku snapped his fingers as he quickly recalled a reoccurring thought. He had been meaning to ask this ever since the combat training ended, but with all the follow up events that had happened, his thoughts were understandably occupied at the time.

Ochako and Katsuki turned their heads towards the sepia yellow-haired teen, attention now fully directed towards him.

Hiro sighed, but looked amused.

"I suppose I can tell you three since you are my friends, and friends tell each other things right?" That question made Izuku gain a surprised look, he stared at Hiro for a bit before he smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, they do." Katsuki scoffed, but didn't object. Ochako face turned contagiously happy as she pumped a fist up.

"Yup! Deku's right, we won't tell anyone else! It's like a secret between friends!" They then turned their heads towards Katsuki, the blonde trying not to make eye contact with any of them, swiftly giving them the hint he didn't want to answer that, but their eyes lingered onto his form, making him more annoyed.

"The fuck you all staring at?! I'm not good with sappy shit like this! In the end, it's Four Eyes' last say in this!" A classic Katsuki Bakugo reply, yet his words did have a point. Hiro understood the gist of it and was internally glad he was able to find such good friends.

'Maybe this time…it will be different.' He smiled with satisfaction, actually happy inside.

"Then, you all deserve to know." He raised his right hand, which glowed an azure light as he did, bright and slightly alluring as Izuku and Ochako stared at it in awe, Katsuki's eyes widened when he saw five glowing, transparent blades of the same color filled light, sounds of energy powering up echoed across the conveniently empty walkway.

"I introduce you to my quirk, Ethereal. It allows me to manipulate a type of energy that I can shape into any figure, structure, etc., that my mind can make up using imagination as a basis. Each of the forms of energy I make will all have the same appearance, a transparent-like look that isn't for show, since the energy I emit is easily intangible." He demonstrated moving all of the blades around his body, protecting him as he waved his hand around in fluid motions, the three other teens' gazes glued onto each floating blade as they spun around Hiro in a cycle.

"The effects of my quirk allow it to work as a paralysis-type quirk, depending on how deep in goes in - in easier cases to understand – "wounds" that are created from the energy determine the amount of time a person falls under the influence of my quirk." He dismissed the blades as they sparked out of existence in a shower of bright azure particles, Ochako staring at the beauty of the quirk while Izuku started to mutter up a storm, his book out for analysis, while Katsuki still stared in disbelief.

"So to keep it simple, I'll gauge out some of the timeframes for you. A small cut induces about exactly 1-10 seconds, a slice goes about 15-20 seconds, a wound is about half a minute, a gash is a full minute, while a full stab can vary from 1-5 minutes." The rest of the teens gaped in shock at the way his quirk works, Hiro opening a palm and emitting a flowing energy coming out of it in soft strips that gently lash out at different angles, Izuku and Ochako stared at it in awe, Katsuki was still under the impression of a well-looking fish out of water.

'So my analysis was spot on? Thanks to Uraraka, I was able to find out most of what his quirk could do. Although there were some parts I missed, it's still an amazing quirk!' Izuku muttered away, Ochako looking at the greenette with a smile, already expected that the green-haired teen would do this. Hiro gave a head tilt to the actions of Izuku, just before his eyes gained a somber tone into them.

"However, this quirk does have a drawback. In regards to time, the longer I release the energy, because I am considered the source, if I let out too much, or keep the energy going, I start to lose my five senses, and I will slowly fall into unconsciousness." Izuku snapped his head up, his eyes laced with concern.

"Then during the combat battle training, our matchup, were you-?"

"Your worry is promptly misplaced, Midoriya. I have trained my body to handle the bad effects of my quirk, remember what I've said? I have built up a large amount of resistance towards its backlash over years of training, so I can safely say that test wasn't as taxing as Ji's fights." Hiro chuckled, Izuku's demeanor changing back, smiling as well.

"I'm glad to see you're fine then." Hiro had never wiped the smile on his face, which had only widened ever so slightly, it was quite unnoticeable.

"Wow Kanata, I knew your quirk was strong, but to think this was what it actually is…I can't believe it was close to what I expected." Hiro's eyes widened at the brunette's words.

"You expected what my quirk could've been?" Hiro felt a hand grasp his left shoulder, and saw Izuku place his right hand on it, a grin on his face.

"You weren't the only one analyzing during the test, Kanata. Let's just say it was us being curious." Hiro blinked once, his stupor being broken by a laugh coming from him.

"I suppose so." Izuku said nothing else, Ochako nodded in agreement, giggling a few times for good measure, and Katsuki…

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK FOUR EYES! HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING YOUR DAMN QUIRK FROM ME?!" All of them laughed at that response, it was really good 'ol Katsuki Bakugo.

"No, you just never asked?" Hiro responded with his head tilted in confusion, making the sandy-blonde teen explode with rage, Izuku and Ochako never stopped their laughter.

Definitely, a good second day for their first semester in U. A.

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"Papa!"

The sounds of an adorable little girl echoed the Midoriya Household. After saying their respective goodbyes to Hiro, who had left for home. Eri had been waiting all day for Izuku, Ochako and unexpectedly Katsuki to come home. Currently, the green-haired teen had a broad smile on his face, hugging the white-haired girl tightly.

"Hey Eri! I missed you so much. How was your day?" Eri gave him a bright smile, something Izuku loved to see on her face every single day, he promised to keep it that way for the rest of his life after all.

"Great! I've been helping Grandma Inko out with the house! She said I was very good and gave me an apple!" Izuku laughed happily as he hugged the sweet girl in his arms.

"Really now? That's great! Now, I think there's some people that want to see if you're doing alright as well." Eri's eyes widened, but her mouth quickly bent upwards at seeing a familiar bob cut of chestnut features enter her vision, along with the owner who had an even wider smile it was practically contagious, Eri's ruby orbs sparkled with delight.

"Chako!" She hugged Izuku once more before immediately launching herself at the brunette, who yelped slightly before she laughed as well, spinning Eri in a circle in her arms, said little girl giggling in glee.

"Hi Eri! I missed you too!" She slowed down her movement, carrying the little girl tightly as Eri smiled innocently.

"Will you stay again like yesterday?" Her eyes stared at her with a doe-like expression, making Ochako and Izuku's hearts clench at the sight that could only be adorableness.

'How can I say no to a face like that?!'

"Yup! I'll be with you guys for a while. I don't have to be home urgently anyways, so I can definitely spend time with you!" She got a bright smile in return.

"Yay! Chako's staying Papa!" The bronze-horned little lady squealed as she hugged Ochako tighter, making Ochako giggle as she slowly took off her shoes, careful not to activate her quirk on them. Izuku smiled softly in response, his emerald eyes also danced with excitement.

"You know, there's still one more person you're missing."

Eri gasped as loud as she could, climbing up on Ochako's knee and tiptoeing, looking over her shoulder to see our resident explosive blonde smirk amusingly, his blood red eyes…wait, did they look kind?!

"UNCLE KATSU?!" Without warning, she got off Ochako and a white zooming bullet slammed into Katsuki's own arms, him laughing as he hugged the silver-haired girl in kind.

"Woah now, you'll break this back of mine if you keep that up, Eri." Katsuki grinned madly as she saw the adorable pout Eri gave him.

"Uncle Katsu, there is no way anything can break you." She received a roaring cackle of madness as she was hoisted up onto his right shoulder, the girl yelping in glee as he did so.

"Exactly! Well, looks like the little squirt's smarter than you, Deku." He gave Izuku a smirk, Izuku rolling his eyes playfully.

"Don't push your luck, she's always been quite smart." Izuku gave a small glare, making Katsuki laugh before he shut the door gently with his leg, right hand supporting Eri's back.

"Anyways, make yourselves at home. I'll be cooking supper for us this time." Just like Eri, Ochako gasped with her fingers put together, pinkies suspended in air, and an unbelieving smile on her face.

"You're cooking?!" Izuku gave her a brave grin, the three of them walking down the hallway to the living room as Katsuki was occupied with Eri, telling him all about her day.

"Go ahead and settle on the couch, give me 30 minutes to set up the food." Izuku said, making Ochako squeal herself, and shot towards the sofa of the Midoriya Household, Katsuki plopping down on it and put Eri down as well. The greenette walked to the kitchen, seeing his mother there, he smiled and hugged her using one arm, the other grabbing an apron for the side of the fridge.

"Hey Izuku, welcome home." The smaller and leaner green-haired woman said with a smile, eyes focused on the vegetables she was chopping, Izuku tied the apron around his waist as he got a pot from the side.

"So, what are we making today?" Inko smiled knowingly as she faced towards her son, spinning the cutting knife around her hand expertly, a smug expression on her face.

"What do you think about katsudon?" Seeing the gigawatt smile on Izuku's face just made her day ten times better, the animated conversations passing between the three other occupants on the couch filling the very apartment with life.

"Do you even have to ask, Mom?" Knowing from her challenging smile, he knew this was going to be a good cooking spree.

"Prepare the bowls, my dear Izuku. You will beg for my amazing cooking."

Izuku's smile broadened, already certain with himself that whenever he was in the kitchen with Inko, the mother-and-son duo were unstoppable. He grabbed a ladle hanging from the stand in front of him, brandishing it with an professional's hand similar to how he does with Lostvayne.

"I'm not backing down, Mom."

Inko smiled back in response, although the fiery fire burning within her similarly jade-colored eyes spoke all her intentions.

Ochako, Katsuki and Eri heard the war cries coming from the kitchen, insane chopping sounds reverberated across the living room, two of the latter sweatdropping while Eri munched on an apple, not minding it one bit.

Wait, when did she get the apple?

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The meal was an instant success, and Izuku had never been so proud of himself. Ochako was practically in heaven, she knew Inko's cooking was amazing, but when Izuku's dish was presented to her, an innocent-looking katsudon, well, let's just say looks can be deceiving. Once she had taken a sip of the soup, her taste buds exploded like Katsuki's explosions and melted into ecstasy, she instantly loved the meal, her words couldn't even describe how she was feeling at the moment.

Eri of course had already gotten a taste of what her Papa's cooking could do to you, especially when it was his favorite type of food to eat as much as an apple is hers. Yet, she still hummed in appreciation at the meal, her eyes sparkled with happiness.

Katsuki had snorted in amusement. He had already tried beforehand Izuku's cooking before, and let's just say it could rival Inko's heavenly feasts, but he still took note that both of them had nothing on his old hag's, no matter how much he tried to deny it.

"Deku, this ish soooo good~" She had a spoon in her mouth as she moaned in delight, her stomach satisfied to the brim, taste buds showered with nothing but a angel's touch. Eri was already down for dessert, an apple she had rewind twice already, and was taking a bite out of it, also shivering in bliss, but she just couldn't compare it to the best version of it that was candy apples.

As the saying goes, "time flies when you're having fun", indeed, it rang true. Katsuki had been called by Mitsuki to come home this instant. Through a rare moment of self-restraint, the explosive blonde took his swearing down a notch, his eyebrow twitching at putting down the amount of cussing he did to the bare minimum as Eri was currently in the room with them, Izuku and Ochako trying not to laugh out loud, although that wasn't even considered a struggle, making his eyebrow twitch erratically.

After the excruciatingly painful conversation (Katsuki looked like he was constipated, it was hilarious and made Izuku and Ochako immediately gauge their hearts out with laughter), Katsuki had exited the Midoriya Household, saying his goodbyes to the silver-haired horned girl, who had slight tears in her eyes.

"Do you have to go so soon, Uncle Katsu?" Katsuki grunted a bit, hand on her hair, rubbing it carefully.

"Yeah, sorry I couldn't spoil you as much today. I'll make up for it next time." She sniffled a little, the blonde sighed this time and kneeled to her level, Izuku was listening from the kitchen as he washed the dishes, Ochako cleaning the table with a clean rag while Inko had gone to her bedroom (Izuku suggested she'd go to sleep, and offered to take care of the evening chores, much to her reluctance on the matter). Katsuki wiped off a tear on her cheek, making Eri look up to him, seeing a gentle grin on his face.

"Listen up little squirt, I'll give you this. How 'bout I stop by again tomorrow, and this time I'll stay even longer, what do you think?" Eri sniffed again, wiping her eyes with her right arm, before she smiled a little and nodded slowly.

"P-Promise?" Katsuki shook his head, Eri really did remind him of Izuku once in a while, if the similarities of the two were any indication. Katsuki patted her head and rubbed it, making Eri close her eyes with a pout.

"You really are becoming like your father, don't you ever change, Eri." She slowly nodded, saddened that her uncle would be going back home.

"You didn't answer me, Uncle Katsu…" She only received another pat, and a little chuckle.

"Because I know you're smart enough to know what I would definitely say." Katsuki gave a smile, Eri's small frame shook a little before lunging towards the blonde with arms open, him closing his eyes and wrapping her around in a hug. Izuku looked at the exchange with a smile, Eri had also gotten quite attached towards Katsuki, after all, he was the third person she was able to get comfortable with besides him and Inko (before Eri even met Ochako). The way Katsuki doted her was almost unbelievable, that he almost seemed to change into an entirely different person. Maybe…Izuku's threats on Katsuki worked for the better, surprisingly. Ochako also looked at the exchange with a smile as well, maybe Katsuki did have his good sides…once in a while that is.

"O-Ok…" Katsuki tightened the hug one last time for that day, before he separated the hug, looking into Eri's eyes to see them glistening with tears, but they were no longer reflecting sadness, but a determined tone took over them.

'She's becoming more like Deku everyday.' He chuckled internally, before raising a finger and tapping her horn affectionately, making her yelp at the unexpectedness.

"See you tomorrow, Eri." He stood up and walked to the front door, shoes on and hands in his pockets, bag around his left shoulder and his right hand on the knob. He looked back to see Eri touching her horn, rubbing its tip with a small smile, Izuku by her side as he stroked her hair, making her look up towards the greenette.

"Hey Eri? Go ahead and get ready for bed, I'll see Kacchan off, alright?" Eri stared at Izuku, his emerald eyes softened with care and gentleness, easing away her doubts as she nodded and faced back towards Katsuki, waving her hand goodbye.

"Goodnight Uncle Katsu..." Katsuki gave a smile and nodded to her, before he opened the door and exited the apartment. Eri took a moment before she walked back to the living room, seeing Ochako there give her a kind smile, Eri gave one back.

Izuku looked to both of them with one of his own, Eri had led the brunette towards the restroom to ask Ochako if she can watch her brush her teeth, he sighed, it was just Eri being her cute self as always. He took his steps towards the door, putting on slippers as he put a hand on the door knob and turned it to see Katsuki leaning on the balcony, back facing towards Izuku, a gentle wind passing by that ruffled their clothes and hair alike.

"Took you long enough, otherwise I would've left your ass here." Katsuki's tone held a smirk, making Izuku chuckle as he treaded to the blonde's side, an eyebrow raised as they both looked to the evening sky.

"It was only a few seconds Kacchan. Besides, what kind of friend would I be if I left you all alone out here." Izuku grinned amusingly, Katsuki snorted.

"Say what you will, you're the one who'll cry like a bitch." Katsuki laughed as Izuku chuckled, shaking his head, glad to seeing Katsuki back to normal. A comfortable silence loomed over them, the wind caressing their hair, the explosion quirk user's eyes closed shut while Izuku stared at the sunset from the horizon.

"Looks like you've won this round again, Deku." Izuku turned his head to his direction, Katsuki's eyes stayed closed.

"What do you mean 'looks like'? I clearly won today." Katsuki smirked.

"Bullshit, if I recall, I let you win."

"Since when do you let anyone win against you?" Izuku's rhetorical question made Katsuki's smirk turn manic.

"Damn straight, but today's an exception. Although, considering I made you use 9% on me during that fight, the victory is mine to take." Izuku's eyes shot open as he stared at Katsuki, who had a smile on his face, proud and resolute.

"I'll make sure that even you, will admit that I'm stronger than you, or that I'm your equal, because I'm your damn rival, Deku."

Izuku only faced down and smiled equally, reminiscing the words he gave just before the Entrance Exams.

'I guess…you're reaching even your own dreams, right Kacchan?'

"When you put it that way, I did use that much on you. Well, I stand corrected then." Katsuki's smile turned to a smirk, a faint explosion smoked from his palm.

"Fuck yeah, I didn't tell you to make this easy for me." The blood red-eyed blonde grinned, Izuku smiled.

"And I never said I would." Another silence passed over them, a gentle current of wind touching their faces. Katsuki raised his left arm without removing his eyes from the sky, Izuku had raised his right arm in parallel sequence with the blonde, their hands formed into fists, and bumped them together.

Katsuki gave a smirk, a storm of purposeful flames reflecting off his eyes, glancing to the side.

Izuku smiled widely, determination burning about in his orbs as he did the same.

"I'll see you at the top, Kacchan?"

"Dream on, Deku."

Izuku and Katsuki brought their hands down, smiling and smirking at the near future of their lives as Heroes-in-Training respectively. Powered by resolve and a resolute spirit, both of them made a silent agreement, a test of who will be the best has finally been centered and solidified. Izuku nodded to Katsuki, the blonde nodding back as the green-haired Sin put a hand on his shoulder, and they both instantly disappeared.

One thing they both knew, they'll always have each other's backs, no matter what comes at them.

"…"

"…"

"…"

A gale of wind stroked the infinite valley of white flora, each petal dancing in each soft touch as the strips of air passed by, a complex array of colors painted across the sky, waving slowly in a mesmerizing way. Two strips of blond hair struck towards the sky, twitching slightly in a subtle manner as wind also caressed it, showing a familiar All-Might smile-surpassing Sin's face, green eyes staring over a hill.

However, that statement contradicted the serious expression laced across his face.

'Everything's in place, so there shouldn't be any problems happening just yet.' Meliodas' gaze stared upon the limitless horizon that was Lostvayne, attire suddenly changed into a different style of clothing. A clean white button-front shirt covered up with a black sleeveless vest, on top of a loosely worn red tie, and a simple pair of black boots, socks not included. The vest's opposite ends flew gracefully in the wind, messy blond hair dancing equally with grace.

'Then again, I don't expect to hide it for long.'

Meliodas shut his eyelids, sighing a little before he turned back, his eyes fell onto a contrast in the white plains. A humongous black sphere – if one would estimate, it was a city-wide sized object of mass - laid suspended in midair, arcs of five circular rings, each one adorned with different colors, each one getting larger and longer from the nearest ring to the sphere's center, up until the furthest from it. His once joyful eyes shadowed with a certain edge to them, showing the secret calamity hidden inside.

'Judging from the ripples on its surface, he is slowly getting accustomed to the kind of power he holds.'

The blond sighed again, feeling a trepidation of a chill engulf his entire being, yet he never once flinched. He raised his left palm in front of his face, clenching it into a fist, his left hand shaking in response. He took in a breath before he thrust it forward, small white particles began to form around the center of his hand before a circle filled with sophisticated formations and symbols appeared, then as quick as it came, it disappeared again.

He looked up at the gigantic black mass to find it shimmer rapidly, lashes of magic began to forcefully strike the air around it as a massive shockwave shook the lands of Lostvayne, waving the flora around him wildly, but he stood his ground, unaffected as he never took his eyes off the sphere.

Then, he snapped his fingers.

A blizzard of petals begun to circle around Meliodas, his hair overshadowing his eyes as the petals surrounded him in a large cyclone of white, sounds of a dangerous storm reverberated across the valley as the petals soon started to glow.

Meliodas suddenly opened his eyes, hand outstretched as the twister around him spiraled towards the black sphere at an alarming rate, the white multitude of petals covering the entire mass, Meliodas spun his hand to a fist, clenched tightly.

Instantly, the petals dispersed in a shower of blades, the enormous concentration of magic nowhere to be seen.

The blonde brought his left arm down to his side, smirking with satisfaction and eyes back to a color of mischievousness.

"Ni~shi~shi, that should keep things calm for now." He stretched his arms upwards, hearing audible pops around his back, making him smile in relief. Meliodas then took on a sober look, sighing once again just as he raised his head, seeing the sky strewn with different colors, bringing with it a sense of an unique beauty.

"Izuku, from here on out, it only gets harder. But…I believe you'll find a way to conquer every challenge thrown at you." Meliodas closed his eyes, a smile going across his face, his figure emitting a sense of peace. He then shot them open, said smile broadened.

"After all, I didn't choose you for nothing!"

AGHHHHHHHHH! OK 48K WORDS, YEAHHHHHHHHHH!

Seriously, this is the biggest milestone I could've ever achieve and check out of my bucket list. I mean, going beyond 40k words is…um, how do I say this, unimaginable xD. I'm fairly certain this entire chapter is already the biggest one in the fanfic I've created (if it isn't obvious, I don't know what is. Basically, I wanted to make up for 5 freaking months of being offline, mainly due to education (I'll delve deeper into it since I don't think the A/N up there in the intro was clear enough, so allow me to enlighten you with such)) ok first of all, I AM DEEPLY SORRY!))

So, on to the first matter, it's close to graduation! OMG YESSS! And I have done quite well in my exams, high scores and whatnot, so I can say my reviewing and studying for multiple late hours worked perfectly. If I do say so myself, this entire 3rd semester has been a wild ride!

And by wild ride, I mean a really long ride. If I do recall (and this works for all other levels in the high school department), the 3rd quarter is the hardest quarter out of all the other four, and it really was! Ok let's pitch in a few, debates (those were a nightmare), essays (tons of them, so my 3 month writer's block – and I am not kidding, that actually happened, I think my brain shut down xD – which made me lose my crap because I kept on correcting so much from this chapter alone (you will not believe how much scrapped up drafts were made and thrown into the deleted section)), and painfully, poem writing, but that speaks for itself. Anyways, I hope this chapter satisfied your needs, because I really am not quite sure if I did well this time, but I tried my best ok?!

Second matter, a family problem. This one's personal so I won't explain much other than the disappointment I've had that took my inspiration out for a little while before 2020 started, btw HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR! (if that makes any sense), so that explains why I didn't publish Chapter 6 last year.

Third matter concerns the absolute heck of a month that was January. Which I would like to say, it wasn't a great new year start, why? Let's me explain how halfway into completing the official Chapter 6 draft, it got deleted, even I don't know why! The chapter just decided to pack its things and storm off into who knows where, I couldn't even find the file when I checked my SD Card and everything! So it got lost and I only had a month left before my self-proclaimed deadline to post a chapter (ok, by self-proclaimed, I mean only to myself, I never said it to you guys because I was preoccupied with myself).

Fourth matter? They moved the freaking exams to February! Apparently, there were lots of cancellation of classes during last year, that the 3rd semester was delayed significantly (by a devastating margin, mind you) that they decided to extend our review week (the week before we take the exams) to our Christmas and New Year break, so it wasn't even counted as a break (it was a weird semester).

Good news? I finally finished them, and my brain wanted to rest, so I let it rest. Now, I only had 15 days to finish Chapter 6 in one fell swoop, and wouldn't you know it? In 2 weeks, I completed the chapter itself! Now at first, fun fact is that I was planning to place Shigaraki's moment of revealing himself, but ultimately decided against it, since we all know how it happened (to those reading this fanfic) in the Manga and Anime alike. There was also a scene between Hiro and Ji, just to see how they actually interact between each other, that also got scrapped, and decided to place it in the next chapter.

Ok, so Chapter 7's release date. Hmmmmmmmm, honestly speaking, because of 4th semester (and it's bullcrap since it's only for 3 weeks, so they increased the total score points of the quizzes, AGHHHHHHHHHHH!), it will be a close call. Best case scenario is that the next chapter would be out in late March (around March 24-29 at most), worse case scenario? The remaining weeks of my days at school before summer vacation will be the time it is released, and that's actually quite bad. But either way, just be prepared and expect it by then!

Welp, besides from all that, I bow in my deepest apologetic expression. I am truly and humbly sorry that I delayed the chapter so much, and trust me when I say I don't like it when I can't post a new chapter. I hope you can forgive me for the multiple delays I have made without prior knowledge sent to you guys, and I'll try my best to make the next chapter as swiftly and efficiently as I can possibly do!

So, everything is hopefully good, and I sincerely hope you guys will enjoy this chapter, because to be fair, I'm not sure if it's done properly, but I made sure to put all my effort into this, every word, every scene, and every sentence. Now though? I finally get to write the USJ chapter! I'm going to really do my best to release the next chapter as early as I possibly can! So stay tuned, I'LL SEE YOU ALL IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! Peace out! XD

Next Chapter : *Coming Soon*

Chapter 7 : The USJ Invasion