Practical Exam

The last test was the practical exam, something the first years were not so worried about after someone said that they might get robots like the ones during their entrace exam. But Y/N felt that it wouldn't be so easy. Why would they give something to the students that they already passed before?

As they arrived in the Central Plaza, her suspicions turned out to be true. All the teachers gathered along with Aizawa. Ofcourse, a practical exam wouldn't actually require all the teachers but they were here for a certain reason. And soon enough the situation was explained.

"Remember, it's possible to fail this final. If you wanna go to camp then don't make any stupid mistake," Aizawa said, "I expect many of you gathered information in order to have some idea of what you're going to face today."

Mina and Kaminari started celebrating when the principal popped out of Aizawa's binding cloth and said, "Actually this years test will be completely different for various reasons." He dropped down and said, "the tests now have a new focus. There'll be hero work ofcourse, but also teamwork and combat between actual people. You students will be working together in pairs and your opponents will one of our esteemed U.A. teachers. Isn't it fabulous?!"

"Additionally your partners and your opponents has already been chosen. They were determined in my discretion based on various factors including fighting style, grades and personal relationships," Aizawa said and started announcing the teams. Y/N didn't have much luck on her side, but this time it was worse than before.

"Mineta, Sero and Y/N are in the 9th team."

It wasn't like everyone was unaware about Y/N's hatred for Mineta, heck, even he knew how much she hated him. But the teachers probably saw this and decided to pair them up together. She was just glad that she wasn't in a situation like Bakugou because he was paired up with Midoriya and the hero they were up against was All Might. She was aware of how Midnight's quirk affected because of television and during the festival, when she made Bakugou faint.

The principal pulled handcuffs in front of them and said, "You've got 30 minutes to complete the exam. In order to win your objective is to put these handcuffs on your teacher. Or you could win if one of you manage to escape from the combat stage."

It might've been a coincidence but Y/N and Bakugou's situation was a bit similar. She looked behind at the blond, and realized that he was already looking at her with a scowl on his face. Usually, she would blush if this happened, but now her thoughts weren't exactly focused on her "love life". They have pro heroes as opponents so right now, her crush on him wasn't much of a concern. Midoriya was Bakugou's friend before and Y/N didn't know why he hates him but for the first time ever, she understood what it's like to be paired up with someone you despise.

[ TIME SKIP ]

Y/N wasn't exactly good in planning strategy but Sero approached her anyway. She didn't realize that when they were together in a team, both of the boys were actually looking at her to come up with some plan. Once again, treating her some kind of a team leader. It brought back memories of her training with All Might. After the incident, she wanted out from being in this kind of position. Because if she failed, she wouldn't be able to handle the fact that she brought down the whole team along with her.

But they were looking at her with some expectation. And none of them came up with anything so she just decided to tell them about her plan. Although she wasn't looking or talking with Mineta, she was giving both of them instructions. Her hatred shouldn't come in between. She wanted to go to this camp.

Besides, she made a promise.

The first thing she asked Sero was to keep his tapes ready to be used. It was useful in covering their nose and not let Midnight's quirk hit them. Other than her quirk, they had no idea about her offensive techniques. Y/N only hoped it would buy them some time. She told Mineta to use himself as a distraction, which he was happy about since Midnight was one beautiful lady. Y/N told him to use his quirk and make her stay stuck for a while, and Sero would use his tapes to bind her up and it would be Y/N's job to put handcuffs on her. She knew it wouldn't be so easy so she decided to use her water prison on her, if required. But that would require some source of water. If she used water from her quirk, it would take just mere minutes for her collapse. She did have another plan ready though. If nothing worked, she decided to use her speed and escape the arena.

When the match started, their team were already in a disadvantage. Their combat stage was a rocky mountain area and had no water nearby. The three of them were looking around for Midnight when suddenly they smelled a sweet fragrance. As soon as Y/N started feeling drowsy, she slid away from the area with her hands covering her nose and shouted, "Move!! She's here!!"

"My my," Midnight smiled with a sleeping Sero on her lap, "A lady? I can use my quirk to full extent now."

Y/N heard it from Midoriya before but Midnight's quirk was Somnambulist and it worked better on guys than girls. She thought it was nonsense since a smell shouldn't really make much of a difference based on gender but now in the field, it turned out to be true. She heard Mineta's cry in the distance. It pissed her off even more. As if it wasn't awful that they were paired together, now their only communication system, more specifically, Sero was asleep and Mineta was running away instead of sticking to the plan.

Midnight was still emitting her fragrance and Y/N had no choice but to keep her hands on her nose. Her teacher was walking slowly towards Mineta, who seemed to be hiding behind rocks. Y/N quietly slid closer to he, finding a proper distance to put handcuffs on her.

All of a sudden Mineta rushed towards Midnight, his face covered with Sero's tapes, and throwing his sticky balls from his head towards her. But that wasn't exactly enough. She used her whip to get a grip on Mineta, releasing more of her fragrance. And Y/N knew she had to do something to stop her from getting him.

She used her quirk and was about to smack her away. But she couldn't do it. Midnight decided to focus on Y/N now and got her whip around her leg. Mineta stopped for a moment and looked back at her. She looked back at him and yelled, "Well, what are you staring for?! Go for it you dumbass! RUN!!"

"You should be wise enough to focus on yourself sweetie," Midnight said and pulled Y/N closer to herself. Y/N couldn't hold on her breath much longer. She can see Mineta in the distance, standing in a dilemma, thinking whether to leave his teammate alone.

Well, she didn't exactly think her third plan would actually be required in the field but she did it. It took a lot of practice during the whole week, and it drained her energy but she was ready. Y/N released her hands and put up in the air, while she sucked in air from her mouth. Before Midnight could realize, Y/N used her quirk to release water from her hands and mouth. She controlled the movements of the water and in a few minutes, both of them were inside her water prison. When Midnight trashed around and tried to get out, she decided to speed up and rotate the water at a faster pace. Ofcourse, it was draining her too, and she wasn't able to breathe properly. She quickly took out handcuffs from her pockets and put them on to Midnight's foot, which was really close to her face.

In a few seconds, she released her quirks and slammed down on the ground.

Before passing out, she heard the announcement about her team passing the exams.

[ TIME SKIP ]

She was in the infirmary and heard some voices around her.

"You went easy on the girl."

"She caught me off-guard."

"But you realized it pretty soon, didn't you?"

"Hey, I just wanted to know what she was going to do about it. Men don't interest me in combat as much as women do."

"Can you stop with that sadistic face you creep."

"Both of you, get out. The infirmary is not for gossip." Y/N recognized it as the Recovery Girl's voice. She heard the retreating footsteps and the door closing.

[ TIME SKIP ]

She woke up pretty soon though, and went in the control room to watch the current match. And she realized that a good thing and a bad thing happened. One, she wasn't that late cause Bakugou and Midoriya's match was going on. Two, Bakugou was on the ground and All Might had his fist on his face, but Bakugou was still holding onto it and fighting back.

Midoriya escaped with Bakugou in the last second. But both of them were badly beat up and had to be taken into the infirmary quickly. No one was allowed in, except for All Might for some time. Although Recovery Girl opened the infirmary after 15 minutes. She knew their friends will be there to know about their condition.

Y/N was in the waiting room when everyone visited. She was deciding whether to go or not. Bakugou was unconscious when Midoriya escaped with him, and she knew he would be pissed off about that. And her being present in there might just rile him up even more.

"Hey," Kyoka said, "I don't know why you're overthinking but I think you should visit them if it worries you so much. Besides, he's in no condition to be mad at you."

Y/N looked at her best friend. Even though they barely had time to catch up, their bond grew stronger and Kyoka sensed her discomfort. She knew Y/N always went to check up on Midoriya and Bakugou. It would just require for someone to tell her that it was okay to visit them.

Y/N smiled and walked towards the infirmary. She slowly opened the door and peeked inside. Recovery Girl wasn't there yet. She was probably in the control room again, or staff room giving a lecture to All Might. She walked in and looked at Midoriya's sleeping face. Y/N had a smile on her face. She never imagined that Midoriya would oneday be such a fine hero. He came a long way.

She was a bit afraid to look at the blond on the next bed. Not because she was scared that he was going to get mad, but the fact that she would no longer be able to handle her expressions in front of him.

Y/N looked at him nevertheless and walked towards his bed. For a moment she didn't say anything and stared at his face. She brushed some of his hair off his forehead and smiled.

"I just wish it wasn't so complicated. I don't know what to do with this..." she muttered and slowly leaned down planting a kiss on his forehead. "I wish I was as oblivious as you are," Y/N sighed and walked out of the room. The infirmary remained quiet after the door closed.

Bakugou wasn't so oblivious though. Well, not anymore.

He was awake.