Comfort

The first match was between Midoriya and Shinsou. As much as Y/N wanted to root for both of them, a part of her wanted Midoriya to win.

As she arrived on the stands to sit down for the match, Kyoka nudged her and said, "Sit over with hot-head. I've got information that he was staring at you when you wore that cheerleading costume."

Y/N elbowed her back blushing and said, "Gosh shut up. I apologized, by the way."

"Yeah I know, I heard. The General Classes were very loud about it. Besides, now that they know that you're Haruto's sister, they'll talk more about it." Kyoka said, "And not gonna lie, it was so weird to see Bakugou actually pay attention to a girl. Phew!"

"Please tell me that they aren't spreading around some bullshit like I have a crush on Shinsou or something." Y/N frowned.

"Well, they ARE saying that you are being too buddy-buddy with him. Besides, talking to a boy privately without having his friends around does sound like a confession time to me."

"....You know what? They can say and assume whatever they want. Meanwhile.." Y/N looked at Bakugou sitting down far away from the rest, "I'm gonna go bless my heart."

"Damn, you're suddenly so good with words. Most of the time you're cussing."

"Yeah Bakugou kinda rubbed off on me." Y/N looked at Kyoka's smirking face and sighed, "Oh please don't jesu-"

"That's what she said." Kyoka pushed her best friend to her seat and sat on the left with Momo and the others.

Y/N was contemplating if it would be weird or too obvious if she sat with him. But, she decided to do it anyway.

"What the fuck?" She heard his grumpy voice. "What the fuck are you doing over here?"

"Uhh..I'm here to watch my friends fight while I observe his childhood friend's reaction." Y/N said, a little smile hanging on her face.

"I am anything but his friend." Bakugou said in a low voice, "You're just here to piss me off! Why don't you go and watch them with your other best friend!!"

"Sheesh you're so loud." Y/N said, her lips forming a pout with a blush on her face. She felt afraid to look at the reactions of her classmates since she was always on her toes about her little crush on him. And when she looked beside her, everyone WAS infact looking at them.

"Don't mind him." Kirishima chuckled, "He's just angry about me teasing him about y-"

"SHUT UP!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Bakugou shouted.

"Shush!" Y/N said hearing Present Mic announce the start of the match.

It didn't go as expected. Once Midoriya was under Shinsou's quirk, she was sure that Midoriya was going to lose. But surprisingly he didn't and his fingers moved which made him get out of the trance he was in. Which according to Y/N, was almost next to impossible. Because when someone has brainwashing as a quirk, it means that the person literally has control over the psychological part of someone's brain. She deduced that the only way that he managed to come out of his control was because of the power that All Might passed on.

Y/N suddenly felt more anxious about her match. She covered her face with her hands and bent down. It was clear that these fights were going to be hard and it didn't help her at all that she had no idea about her opponent other than the fact that she was definitely good if she came 4th in the first round. "How come Bakugou is never..." she tilted her head to look at him.

"What."

Y/N chuckled and looked up to find Shinsou shouting at Midoriya while he pushes him back. "I'm nervous. I have no idea what's coming and it..it frightens me." She said.

"...You're afraid of that little frail girl?" Bakugou asked, keeping up his douchey image.

"She's not frail. Never judge a book by its cover." Y/N said, "Besides she came 4th."

"Yeah I know. I learned about it from watching that damn nerd." Bakugou grumbled, "....You're not that different from me. Why are you out of all the people so eager about position?"

Y/N faced Bakugou as she realized the way she has been acting this whole festival. He was actually right about it. She did change in front of the cameras and people. What was she trying to prove? She sure as hell didn't care about the public. Then?

"How are you gonna defeat me if you're scared of her, grandma?" Bakugou said smirking, interrupting her thoughts "You afraid of me too?"

Y/N's face flushed as she averted her eyes with an amused smile on her face, once again avoiding to look at him. "Thank you, Bakugou."

She stood up, getting ready for her turn as her classmates wished her luck. Todoroki was next and she had a match after him. While she sat in the waiting room, trying her best not to think about him, the said boy was also sitting with his mind occupied with Y/N. Both of them did something that the other didn't expect - at all.

"Bakugou was trying to comfort me." Y/N thought, getting up and doing some warm ups, but now with a slightly less nervous state.

On the other hand, Bakugou's head was filled with what that 'stupid grandma' just said. Not just what she said but the way she said it. It was unusual. She spoke to him with the softest voice that he has ever heard, something that Y/N never did before.

[ TIME SKIP ]

Y/N walked in the arena as Present Mic gave their introduction.

"Even beautiful flowers have thorns. It's the assassin from class 1-B, Ibara Shiozaki vs. the so-fish-ticated girl that the media can't stop talking about from class 1-A, Y/N Y/L/N!!"

While Shiozaki was busy correcting Present Mic for calling her assassin, Y/N looked at the stands her friends were sitting in one more time. She looked at their enthusiastic and comforting faces, took a deep breath and turned to face her opponent. The cameras were all busy clicking pictures the whole festival - but none of the pictures before looked this fervent.

"So anyway, BEGIN!!!" Present Mic announced.

Y/N didn't immediately advance at her, waiting to make her move. But soon she was sure, this girl wasn't going to give her the comfort of letting her know what she was capable of doing. She decided to start with a major attack but only for a few minutes because it can catch her opponent off-guard and she might act hastily, giving off her abilities. She blasted off a huge gush of water towards Shiozaki but all of a sudden huge amount of vines emerged from the ground and shielded her.

Y/N knew exactly the kind of attack she needed to use against her - to cut off Shiozaki's shield. But suddenly she was bind with vines and pulled off the ground. She knew she had to act quickly and didn't have time to think. So she used her sharp blade attack to cut off the vines, although it did affect her and she had some cuts here and there, she was still standing strong. Shiozaki sensed the approaching attack in some way and looked behind to see Y/N, who was using her quirk to run towards her faster.

Shiozaki used her vines to get to her feet to stumble and make her fall, but Y/N didn't want to take any risk and blasted water to reach to her faster, also releasing sharp water blades at her again. One thing she understood is that sunlight and water was a benefit to her opponent, ofcourse. So only sharp water blades was the quick option that she had at advantage. The others will take too much time and if Shiozaki managed to get a hold of her again, she won't hesitate to carry her out of the bounds and that too in mere seconds.

As soon as Y/N was close to her, Shiozaki face displayed signs of panic while she used her vines to cover herself from her attack while having multiple harsh blows coming at her opponent. Y/N dodged them and cut off her cover. But when she was about to get a hold of Shiozaki, the whole ground in the arena shook, and all of a sudden vines from all the directions were coming to her.

"No, no no no. I won't be able to cut off all of them once." Y/N thought looking around.

"You forgot that water is an advantage to me." Shiozaki said with her usual angelic voice, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to use violence."

Y/N had no idea how it happened, but when she felt the vines on her skin, she did something out of instinct.

Without having any idea, she used her quirk to create a water tornado in the arena.

And it was over in a few seconds.

"And the winner is Y/N Y/L/N! She advances to the next round!!" Midnight announced as the whole stadium was filled with cheers.

Y/N opened her eyes, huffing and looking around while her whole body felt like was being weighed down. The ground was full with water everywhere, vines tore apart in most parts. Cameramen away from the stands while some were shaking their cameras in panic, clearly the water got to them, and the entire first row sitting with wet clothes and astonished faces. And then, Shiozaki lying far away near the walls.

Her legs felt heavy as she dropped down on the ground, breathing uneven while she tried to calm her nerves.

Not knowing someone's else extent of power was a bit nerve-racking ofcourse. But not knowing your own was something that she wasn't ready to face. It was petrifying.

And the fact that, unknowingly, she would've killed Shiozaki.