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Day 13 of 21

Thursday

- POV - Deku -

I woke up very startled that I was going to be fighting the person I had an 0-2 record against. Interestingly, we both had freebies getting here. Mine being against Monoma and his being against Shiozaki.

I didn't remember much about what had happened after the fight. I remember being healed by Recovery Girl, but not much after that. Heck, I don't even remember how I got home. Was I really that exhausted? I mean, I tired out my arms during the fight, but I didn't break anything, did I?

Then again, All Might did ask who I wanted to escort me home. Was there some other injury I wasn't even aware about? Was I just extremely tired? Well, Ochaco and Iida probably did take me to my ro-

My thoughts were interrupted when I looked at the clock. It was five minutes until I had to be out of the door.

ACK! I NEED TO STOP MONOLOGUING! I packed my things and got ready in lightspeed, then quickly ran to class.

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- POV - Todoroki -

Soon after my first class, I was pulled out to go to the stadium and fight Midoriya. He seemed to be confident and hopeful of the situation, which immediately let me know that this wasn't going to be an easy fight to win.

"Hey, Midoriya. Did you get healed by Recovery Girl yesterday? I saw you being escorted home by Iida and Ochaco." He seemed a tad surprised when I said the latter part of that statement.

"Yeah. I didn't get too injured and I don't remember them saying that any of my bones were broken. I guess I was just pooped. Maybe something else made me tired; I don't know."

Hmph. I do recall Midoriya clutching his chest during that match. Perhaps he may have broken some ribs? Maybe he didn't even feel it. "I see. Are you prepared for our final match?"

He looked at me and raised his hand for a handshake which I readily accepted. "Yeah."

"Good luck."

"Good luck, Todoroki."

I went into my preparation room and started pondering out the fight.

If the battle goes anything like it did last time, I can't just allow him to break himself on my ice walls. He can control his quirk now more effectively than at the sports festival. I can't wear him down too much because I don't have a tough hitting move that comes out quick like Tetsutetsu or Bakugo.

I'm going to have to play him into a bad spot like I did with the last fight. That's just about the only way I can win. He's a close-up fighter and I'm a long-distance one. That's the primary sense of the match-up.

But then again, Midoriya showed us against Kirishima that he can play defensive if need be. I cannot physically repel large projectiles like boulders or stones with my strength. Could I use ice to push it away? Or would that break apart my ice and simply have the projectile crashing down on me?

And for all I know he could run towards me and try to take me out in one sweep. I've seen him rush like the Flash to All Might's defense when the League of Villains attacked, so I get the idea that I haven't seen Midoriya at his full strength yet. Maybe I should start out with defense if he tries a deviation from his last strategy.

"Todoroki, the finals are about to start," Present Mic told me over the intercom.

I guess I'll have to cross that bridge when I get there. Good luck, Midoriya.

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- POV - Deku -

I saw All Might before this fight. He looked rather somber and frustrated for some reason. He greeted me with a feigned "everything is okay" face, but I didn't talk to him too long because I didn't want to disturb him.

There isn't really a reason to mention that before the battle, but now I have a tremulous feeling in my stomach that something bad is about to happen. Am I just nervous for the fight?

"3..."

Well, I guess I'll have to brush it off!

"2..."

"1..."

"FIGHT!"

I lept towards Todoroki with as fast speed as I possibly could. He quickly shot up a vertical wall of ice to shield himself from any assaults I'd have on him. I expected that this would happen.

Todoroki made one crucial mistake in his panic to defend, and that was covering all of his escape options. The wall of ice was wider than the boundaries and stretched outside, so he couldn't go around it.

But if I gave him time to think, he could blow through the whole thing using his fire like how he did at the end of our match at the sports festival.

I activated my quirk throughout my arm. "Detroit..."

"SMASH!"

I hit the center of ice wall, and it broke into pieces. The wall was a very thick structure between the two of us, as Todoroki probably expected me to go all out and try to finish him as quickly as possible. However, the wall did not fall over. It simply was cracked into many pieces.

"Midoriya breaks a large wall of ice, but he didn't hit it strong enough to push it over! It remains an obstacle!"

It wasn't until I shoved it over in the center when the landfall came. Todoroki's left and right options were now available as the falling ice had fallen sideways, opening up those options.

But the center was an ongoing avalanche. He had to choose between a few choices: Stand still and get crushed, try to go through the center and get crushed, or go through the right or left side to the rest of the arena, and risk getting hit by me.

"Todoroki and Midoriya have seemed to create a large avalanche through their discourse! This will be a huge obstacle!"

I can't cover both sides at once! Not ony that, but if I try to shove him, he could use his fire to push me away! This is bad; I have to make a hard read here!

Unless...

I ran my quirk through my arms and lifted a hulking chunk of ice. Then I turned my body to the left side, activating One for All through my legs. If this works out, this is going to be insane.

The ice blocks covered the ground, so Todoroki would have to go around one of the sides of the center to avoid the debris and over the ground to skate over the ice using his own ice to propel himself.

So I hurled the ice I was holding a more vertical angle. I then turned around and dashed to the right side, still with One for All running through my arms. And now to cover the right side.

"One for All..."

I motioned my arms as if I were going to throw out a Hadouken. Or a Kamehameha Wave. But either way, if I got the effect I wanted, this would be insane.

"Full Cowling..."

"AIR BLAST!"

I shot out my arms in a 45 degree angle upwards to cover Todoroki if he went high, and just as I had hoped, a strong gust of wind blew violently in front of me.

It picked up ice from the ground and in the air, creating a violent blizzard-like wind at any gliding Todoroki that decided to come through on this side.

I did it. I have a new signature move! This was like All Might against the Sludge Villain!

Wait... where's Todoroki!

"Midoriya hits Todoroki with a HUGE projectile to knock him out of bounds! With violent damage done to the arena, Izuku Midoriya wins the tournament!"

I looked up to see the empty audience seats littered with ice that had been brought over by the wind I had created. W-Whoops!

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- POV - Iida -

I was dumbfounded at what I had seen. The battle lasted only for a short period of time, but they managed to trash the entire arena.

It took a while for me to explain to everyone else in the class what had happened. Only Momo, Bakugo and I had understood why Midoriya threw the ice ball AND created wind on the other side of the arena.

Todoroki had dug himself into an enormous hole by building up that ice wall, and Midoriya capitalized immensely well with his option coverage. But it's difficult for me to see how the power rankings next week are going to come out.

Personally, I'd rank Midoriya, Todoroki and Bakugo in that order. But Bakugo finished lower than expected. And Midoriya is only 1-2 against Todoroki plus he also lost to Ochaco. But then Todoroki lost to Bakugo AND Midoriya.

My thoughts kept running on into the topic until I saw Midoriya running in.

"Iida! I did it!" I gave him a high-five. I probably would have hugged him out of how proud I was, but I was a bit off for a certain reason.

"Congratulations, Midoriya! You might be #1 on the next power rankings!"

"Wait, where's Uraraka?" And that's why I don't feel great.

"I... I don't know. The school always checks in with the students if they can't come to school, so I imagine that she's sick. But I haven't heard anything."

"Hmph." Midoriya frowned. "I was really hoping to see her."

I looked at Midoriya and smiled, which he immediately blushed in response to. "N-No, not like that! I... I just..." I wasn't sure if I was smiling to make fun of him or out of pride, but I was very impressed by his option coverage that match.

Midoriya and I went up to Mr. Aizawa and asked of the whereabouts of Uraraka, and he told me that she was sick. She apparently had mononucleosis.

I turned to look at Deku and he immediately smacked me. "Stop it, jerk!"

Most of the day progressed as normal after that, however. Midoriya and I had lunch together, and talked a lot about what we thought the power rankings would be.

I also had asked if he had legitimately kissed Uraraka and if that was why she was sick, to which he angrily yelled: "NO, CUT IT OUT!"

Later when I was in my math class (my last class of the day), Momo came up to me and started talking to me right before class was dismissed.

"Man, that match was exhilarating to watch, wasn't it?" she asked me.

"Yeah! I can't believe how far ahead those two are from the rest of us."

Momo looked pensively at me. "I feel that their quirks may be partially to blame, but Midoriya's reading of Todoroki and new move that he had conjured in the moment were insane."

"Absolutely. Considering Midoriya's previous pains with his quirk and Todoroki's regimented and principled schedule, it's safe to assume that both have worked hard to get where they were."

The bell rung, and we had to leave class.

"Ah, sorry Iida. I'll see you tomorrow!" Momo started to leave, but I wanted to ask her something.

"Wait a minute," I said. "Would you want to continue talking about this at some other point? Maybe this weekend?" She looked at me strangely, almost as if I had asked her an embarrassing question.

"That sounds great! I'll check and see if I have anything that needs to be done, but I don't know if I'll be available."

"Great!"

"I'm not doing anything this afternoon, however. You want to hang out right now?"

"I've actually got a thing I'm doing with Midoriya." I winked, and she immediately caught my drift and giggled to herself.

"Have those two finally hit it off yet?"

The teacher snapped at us and so we eventually scrammed, while I met up with Midoriya. Knowing that she was sick, we hung out for a bit. I helped him with his math, and then we went out.

We decided to go to a store and pick up flowers and chocolates for Uraraka. I had managed to convince him to actually ask her out on a real date, rather than just a "hang out" kind of thing.

Eventually, we were finished and we headed for Uraraka's dorm room to hopefully ask if she would be up for it once she got better.

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- POV - Deku -

I nervously walked the way to Ochaco's room. Already shaking in my boots, I stopped in my tracks before Iida continued walking and pushed me forwards as if he was walking a lazy dog who suddenly decided to lay down.

"Gah! Why did I agree to do this!"

"Trust me. You'll be fine."

"What business do you have here, Young Midoriya?"

I looked up to see All Might in front of Uraraka's door. My face immediately brightened, and I instantly hid the flowers behind my back rapidly.

Him again?! Why now?!

"A-All Might! Hi! Wha... What's up?"

"Do you need to talk to Uraraka about something important?"

I passed the flowers from behind me into Iida's hands. "No, no, no! W-Where would you get an idea like that?"

Iida put the flowers back in my hands. "Actually, he does." Ack! "Is something the matter, All Might?"

"I expected that Midoriya would come here at some point. Honestly, I knew something fishy was going on between those two."

My face was now at the temperature of the sun's core. "WHAT?!"

~ Later in All Might's Office ~

"So, I see some intimacy has been going on between you two recently?"

"W-What?! No, no! Ochaco and I are just friends! She helps me with math and stuff. Nothing more, I swear!"

Iida, seeing as how I was as see-through as a clean glass pane, interrupted. "All Might, why did you call us into your office?"

He sat down with a frown on his face. Clearly something bad had happened.

I shot up immediately, thinking about probably the worst possible scenario. "Did the League of Villains kidnap her? What's going on?"

"Luckily, that's not the case. But unluckily, that's close." I choked when I heard that.

"So you're saying that Uraraka... has been kidnapped?!" exclaimed Iida.

"Y... Yes. It was by a group of quirkless men, who were able to overpower her last night."

And... I couldn't help her because I was so tired out... dammit! I don't even remember this happening. It could've been right in front of my eyes! How can I look at her agai-

"Quirkless? So that means the school should be able to track them down!" said Iida optimistically.

"Yes. That's why we haven't said anything about it yet aside from trying not to cause a panic. U. A. is already facing many problems maintaining the trust of people, so we can't allow any more harm to our reputation."

I was a bit frustrated that he wasn't meandering as much on the topic of Uraraka, but it was a bunch of quirkless men, so I didn't stress it too much.

"All Might, how do you know that they were quirkless?" I asked.

"Well, Mr. Aizawa confronted them last night and tried to disable their quirks, but nothing happened. We got camera footage, but all that was left recorded was the men leaving after threatening the to kill Uraraka."

I was growing angrier by the second. Ochaco... I'll find you soon...

"So... you didn't get any camera footage of the kidnapping?" asked Iida.

"No. We're still looking into that."

I looked up at the ceiling, trying to control myself. "How did those... quirkless asshats get into this school in the middle of the afternoon with nobody noticing?"

"We have no idea. They don't have any combat based abilities, but they still managed to get into here."

"That might be it," noted Iida. "Maybe they had no combat abilities, which is why they'd need weapons. But one of them may have the ability to disable electricity, or turn off electronic devices. That could explain the funky behavior of the video cameras."

All Might's eyes lit up when Iida said that. "Did something get you about that?" I asked.

"There is one villain I know of with that power."

"Good," I said. "Start getting a lead on him so we can kick his butt."

"One question," said Iida. "Why did you tell us about this? If we know, why doesn't the student body know?"

All Might sighed. "Because you two know her well... and this part you can't tell anyone."

"What?"

"The school doesn't know either."