"And we make it to the final fight, thankfully the last combat of the day, and ladies and gentlemen this has been a truly memorable day. The intensity, the brutality and thanks to two very special contestants, the love." Present Mic riled up the crowd. "Now I am pleased to announce our finalists. From class 1-B, the terror of tnt, the big bad bomb boy, the walking embodiment of anger, Bakugo KATSUKIIIIIIII!" As a mixture of boos and cheers rang around the stadium, the destructive force and brutality of his onslaught against the other students in the tournament, as he left only devastation in his wake, giving the audience mixed feelings about the student.

"And in the other, if All Might is the Symbol of Peace, then he is the Symbol of Love, sorry ladies he's spoken for, Izuku MIDORIYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" at that fighters introduction the crowd went insane, Izuku's exploits to get where he was now were unconventional, to say the least.

As Izuku took the stage, he soaked in the sights and sounds of the arena. "All Might, I think I did it, I'm showing them who I am" he thought as he heard the fans cheering his name. Izuku's eyes quickly darted up into the stands to see the face of the woman who he knew made this all possible for him. When he saw her pink eyes his mind went back to the conversation they had just prior to this fight.

"Izuku, I know this is Kaachan, but," Manami struggled to find the right words for what she wanted to say. "What I mean is, you're the nicest person I know, so kind and selfless, but please. Not this time, he's hurt you for so long, today, you deserve one chance to be selfish to do unto him as he does to others. Knock him down a few pegs."

"Manami, I couldn't just attack him for revenge, I'm trying to get over my past." Izuku responded. "If I don't do it for me, then why am I doing it?" he tried to reason an excuse to treat Katsuki like anyone else.

"We both know that can't happen, there's too much history for this to be like other fights. Ours was," Manami's face reddened, "A declaration of love, but the others, you were being a hero, you were saving Todoroki-san. And Iida was your friend, it was probably the most polite fight in all human history." she laughed as she thought back on his last fight.

"It wasn't that bad," Izuku stammered out, embarrassed at the light teasing.

"You both stopped the fight to start apologizing, because you tripped each other, on accident." Manami exploded in a fit of giggles. "It was adorably sweet how much you take other people's feelings into consideration, I love that about you, I love all of you." she finished reminding him as she stood on his lap to give him a kiss.

"But not this time, this might be your only chance to show him how much he's hurt you over the years. I'm not asking you to kill him or even break something, but, to me the only good thing he has ever done is chase you into my arms." She nuzzled her face into the crook of her boyfriend's neck. "Just consider it, I won't be mad if you do or don't. I know you, revenge and anger just aren't who you are."

Izuku was pulled from his thoughts as Midnight began to address them. "The fight will go until one of you is unconscious or has surrendered, if I think one of you has gone too far, I will end the match early." Her words aimed at Katsuki who had ended all of his matches that way.

"Surrender now Deku," Bakugo started trash talking, before the fight even began, the cameras and microphones picking up his words, "It's not like you have a chance against me, at least you showed me how worthless the rest of the 1-A class is, since not a single one put up a fight against me, so I should thank you and the loli fuck toy of yours for getting me transferred." Laughing as he mocked his former victim.

Izuku's features hardened as he heard those words. "What did you just call her?" Izuku snarled at his childhood bully.

"A loli fuck toy, but I guess that's being generous, considering she whored herself to you in the first round," Bakugo responded, watching in glee as his old punching bag got even madder. "I mean what kind of girl just lets you do that to her on national television." At this point Izuku's rage was peaking, listening to his opponent insult Manami. "Her parents must be so proud that they raised such a cheap slut."

Izuku's vision started to go red as his blood pressure rose, slowly he stopped hearing the word and only saw a target. To everyone else in the stands, they were shocked at the vitriol being spewed towards another student. Izuku was barely capable of thinking before Bakugo's next comment sent him over the edge.

"If you're the best she can hope for, then she might as well jump off a roof and save herself the embarrassment of being seen with a loser."

Katsuki was ready when the bullhorn blasted, but what he wasn't prepared for was Izuku colliding with him a fraction of a second later. Katsuki grinned maliciously as he was prepared for a close quarter, no holds barred brawl, to test his quirk against someone he considered beneath him. But Izuku wasn't even using his quirk, he was just layering full bodied punch after devastating punch right into his tormentor's face.

"She's not a whore, she's not a slut, and don't you ever tell her to kill herself, don't you ever talk to her, don't even look at her, don't think about her, never, you are the cruelest, meanest, nastiest person I have ever met and I can't believe I looked up to you!" With the only sounds in the stadium being Izuku's rant and the sickening sound of fist colliding with a bloodied face as the crowd has went silent once the fight began. "If I ever find out you tried to do anything to hurt her, I will hunt you down, I will break you, I'll kill you!" Izuku screamed into Bakugo's disoriented face.

Katsuki now aware of what a beatdown he is receiving tried to bring his arms up to retaliate, but that just gave Izuku the chance to grab them and pin them above his body. With his fist occupied, Izuku changed from punching Katsuki to headbutting him. With a sickening crunch, Izuku shattered the cartilage in the explosive boy's nose. "You were my bully. For years I suffered because I thought I wasn't good enough for you, for anyone. I had nightmares for years about you, and sometimes I still do, but no more. I'm not afraid of you anymore Kacchan, I pity you, I pity what you will become, because deep inside I know you can do it, you can become a hero if you pulled your head out of your own ass and tried." Katsuki's blood ran like a river from every orifice in his head; the nose, mouth, eyes, and ears.

"I have friends, family and people I love." Izuku continued ranting even though Bakugo was swimming in his own head. "I have a woman I have dreams about, that one day she will be my wife, and not. a. single. one. involves. you." proudly punctuating each blow before landing one last devastating headbutt, sending Katsuki off into unconsciousness.

The entire crowd sat silently as the normally heroic lover stood, his fists dripping with the blood of his opponent, as even more was centered on his forehead while it trickled down his face, passed his tear-soaked eyes. Izuku looked up at the quiet crowd before silently walking back to the waiting room, ignoring Ms. Midnight declare what the outcome of the match was, he didn't care anymore. Not with how sick he felt right now.

"I have to go," Manami said to her classmates in the booth, "He needs me." She finished before she running full tilt to intercept her boyfriend before he could get too far. She found Izuku covered in Katsuki's blood, sobbing in the hallway just outside the stage. In an instant she pulled him into a gentle embrace and rests his head against her chest, "shhh, it's okay, it's okay," she cooed as she stroked his head. "You won, you beat him."

"But I just, I was so angry." His voice cracking as he tightly held Manami to his body, with her as his only lifeline to sanity at the moment.

"I know, I know you were, we all could see it," Manami whispered into his ear softly. "No one's mad at you, I'm not mad at you."

"But I wasn't, I just." He stuttered as he tried to find someway this was his fault, his naturally timid nature fighting everything to come forth in this stressful moment.

"You let it out, all those years of bottling it up and it all came out at once." Manami reasoned as she began rubbing circles in his back, "You needed that, just like you need this, like you need me. Focus on me, it's just us, no one else." She instructed him as Izuku's eyes fluttered close and he rested on his girlfriend.

Izuku woke up later on a couch in one of the waiting rooms, with his head in his love's lap. She was twirling a strand of his hair in her fingers. "Hey," he said as he looked up at the ceiling.

"Hey yourself, you feel better?" she responded as she gently hummed a tune.

"Ye-yeah, loads. Have they announced the winners yet?" he asked, not getting up from his resting position. Izuku found it was really comfortable.

"Not yet, Ms. Midnight came by five minutes ago while you were still out and said she'd give us some more time, Bakugo still isn't out of the infirmary yet from what she told me." Manami's volume low and in the dimmed lights, Izuku felt very calm and relaxed.

"Do I really have to go back out there though," Izuku asked.

Manami shook her head, "If you don't want to, we can run away together." After suggesting that plan she blushed and began looking to the horizon, "Oh we can go to a foreign country, buy a farm and forget about all this hero business, just you, me and our children." She said, imagining a possible future.

"That sounds nice, but I don't know the first thing about farming, and I know you don't want to leave our friends behind like that." He replied, countering that plan with the most basic of knowledge of his girlfriend.

"Oh well, I guess you're right, sorry little Izekial and Mary, seems Daddy isn't for that life."

Izuku laughed at his girlfriend's strangeness. "Why the American names?" He inquired.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, we become Amish farmers." She answered with a kiss on Izuku's forehead, that she had cleaned while he was asleep, along with his hands. Recovery Girl had come down while he rested to assess him and bandage him up.

"Ha, now I know you don't want to do that, you know the Amish don't use computers, so you'd have to give up all those videos you watch on your phone." He lightly teased.

Manami gasped as she hadn't thought about that. "Well, maybe I could be an Amish who also uses the internet?"

Izuku shook his head, "Think that's against the rules."

"Then we'll just stick with this until something better comes along." Manami carefully pulled herself from under him and crawled onto his torso, resting her head on Izuku's chest.

"I think I used up all my better when I met you," he smiled as he wrapped his arms around her, perfectly content to just lay together.

"That's romantic, someone's fishing for a happy morning," she yawned as the stress of the day started to catch up to her as she got comfortable, with Izuku copying her moments later.

"What do you think our parents are doing right now?" Izuku wondered aloud as he stroked her back.

"Planning the wedding, what else?" Manami quietly responds. Both teens looked up as they hear a knock on the door. "Come in," Manami called out to the door.

Carefully the door opened and Midnight stuck her head in the room. Seeing that Izuku was awake she was now able to inform him about what was happening. "We're starting the award ceremony, then you can all go home and get some well-deserved rest."

Both lovers separate and quietly walk back towards the stage, Manami hung back at the entrance instead of heading up to the rest of her class "You earned this love." She told Izuku to ensure he knew that this was his accomplishment.

Slowly as Izuku started down the hall, he looked to Ms. Midnight. "So, how did I do?"

Ms. Midnight gestured to the crowd. "Take a look for yourself." she told him as once he stepped out into the light, the entire arena erupted into applause for Izuku. "You made it kid."

Izuku traced his line of sight to the third place, where Tokoyami was stoically standing, then his eyes flickered to movement and he nearly doubled over in laughter at the person in second place. Bakugo had been chained to a concrete post while he snarled and swore at everyone and everything. "That's uh."

Ms. Midnight shook her head, "Nope, get up there, sooner you do, the sooner we can pretend parts of today were nothing but drunken hallucinations." Izuku started to take a step forward when Midnight held him back. "Oh before you go, if you two lovers ever want to spice things up, I'm always available." She offered as she carressed his cheek.

"Uh, um, good uh, thing to uh know," Izuku stuttered as he half sprinted up to the first-place pedestal, to avoid the situation he was in. "So um, good job everyone." he nervously said to the other two, unsure of what to do at the moment.

"Yes, your fights were inspiring, my friend." Tokoyami stated solemnly as he had rather enjoyed watching Midoriya's battles more than others, which might have something to do with seeing Bakugo get destroyed by Midoriya.

Izuku pivoted to look at Katuski who was seemingly trying to explode him with sheer anger. "Fuck off," Katsuki spat in his direction.

As All Might passed out the medal to the winners, he leaned in to give Izuku a strong hug. "Meet me at our usual place, I'll text you a time," he whispered into his protege's ear. Slowly Izuku nodded as the first place medal was placed on his shoulders.

Izuku was barely conscious as the 1-A class rode the buses back to the school. Manami had settled into his lap and the two had been left alone by the rest of their classmates in the back.

"Ai-Chan," Izuku quietly whispered.

"Yes Midori-Ai," Manami mumbled back.

"I love you."

"I love you too."