The U.A. Sports Festival

The media was as good as expected. The U.A. students weren't able to leave properly as journalists swarmed around, trying to get any of them to interview but the police force interrupted and made sure they got out of their sight.

Y/N went back home almost with a heavy heart - not only because of the recent hectic event but also because of a realization - she had a crush on Bakugou. Her parents arrived home earlier that day after hearing the news and surprisingly, she got a call from her brother as well. He was mostly occupied and had a busy schedule.

The news displayed a picture of her along with her friends. "Oh my god, we didn't expect you to be on the news so fast. I'm already getting calls from relatives and colleagues!" Her mother exclaimed as they watched the television during dinner time. Y/N gave them a half-hearted smile and went to bed quickly that day.

She knew what the cost of liking Bakugou is going to be like. He, for one, will avoid her at all cost and even the little amount of friendship they had will go down the drain. Being the loud-mouthed person he is, he's probably gonna blurt it out while insulting her and every single person will know about it.

But that was gonna happen only if he came to know about it.

[ TIME SKIP ]

The next day Y/N skipped her practice and went to school directly. The classroom was noisier than usual...or maybe Y/N was just quieter than usual.

"Hey Y/N," Midoriya called her from behind, "You are...okay right?"

She sighed and turned around, "Oh yeah, I'm great. I'm just kind of...moody today."

"Honestly, I was surprised that the media didn't immediately talk about you, knowing your family background." He said.

"Very few people know about me studying in here and those who wanted to release it as a hot topic were taken care of by the PR Team." she said, as she was closely observed by Kyoka. Y/N looked at her while she wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"You guys!" Toru exclaimed, "Did you watch the news last night? It was so cool that we got a few seconds of screen time. Though I bet nobody noticed me hanging out in the background."

"Probably not." Shoji said. He didn't want to be mean but sometimes he can be really dense. Ojiro tried to fix his friend's mistake and said, "It was difficult to stand out when you're just gloves."

Kaminari leaned back and added, "We're totally big deals. Those news channels love us, we are basically celebrities."

Kyoka on the other hand, rolled her eyes and said, "Get over yourselves. The hero course that pumps up pros was attacked and that's what they cared about."

"Who knows what would've happened to us if the teachers hadn't shown up." Sero said.

Mineta immediately panicked and shouted, "Why did you say that?! I'm gonna pee myself just by thinking about it!"

"OH SHUT UP! GROW A PAIR LOSER!!!" Bakugou yelled. His eyes fixed on Y/N a moment later. He wasn't sure about it but it felt like Y/N was...avoiding looking at him. He obviously noticed it when she kept looking at him for the past few days, so it wasn't a surprise how he noticed this too.

"Well why do I even care." Bakugou thought and looked forward, grumpily.

Aizawa entered the class some time later making the whole class gasp, "Mr. Aizawa what are you doing here?!"

Iida stood up and said, "Mr. Aizawa I'm glad you're okay!"

"My well being is irrelevant. What's more important is that your fight isn't over yet. The U.A. sports festival is about to start." Mr. Aizawa said and then proceeded to talk about it.

The U.A. Sports Festival is the most watched sporting event. Students from each grade and every course compete among each other in their respective age groups. The event begins with preliminary elimination rounds, those who pass moving up to compete in the main event. Each stage has a teacher as a chief referee, with the usually overseeing the senior stage.

Once the event concludes, Pro Heroes from any agency can nominate the students that earned their attention, as an expression of interest in their future potential. However, these nominations can be dropped by the time the student reaches graduation, should the Hero lose interest in them.

[ TIME SKIP ]

As the classes came to an end and they were getting ready to leave, something unexpected happened.

Outside Class 1-A, students from other classes were blocking the way of exit.

"Um..why the heck are you all here?" Ochaco finally broke the silence.

"Do you students have some sort of business with our class?" Iida asked.

"Why are you blocking our doorway? I won't let you hold us hostage!" Mineta said.

While some students were confused and a bit scared, Bakugou was, as usual, a smartass about it. "They're scouting out the competition idiots. We're the class that survived a real villain attack. They wanted to see with their own eyes." He walked towards the exit in front of the students and said, "Atleast now you know what a future pro looks like. Now move it, extras."

The class started panicking hearing him as Iida yelled, "You can't just call people extras just because you don't know who they are."

Y/N on the other hand, just started accepting the fact that she had a crush on Bakugou, and was finally able to look at him - not directly at his eyes though. She hated to admit it but even his stupid arrogance was getting a bit likable to her. "Atleast he's honest and not pretentious about the competition." She thought.

"I heard you guys were impressive, but you just sound like an ass. Is everyone in the hero course delusional or just you?" A guy in purple hair walked through the crowd and came in front of Bakugou. And going by the 'grunt' that Bakugou released immediately, he was definitely pissed.

"It's sad to come here and find a bunch of ego maniacs. I wanted to be in a hero course, but like many others here I was forced to choose a different track," the guy paused for a moment and then continued, "such as life. I didn't cut it the first time, but I have another chance. If any of us do well in the sports festival then teachers can decide to transfer us to the hero course. And they've to transfer people out to make room. Scouting the competition? Maybe some of my peers are but I'm here to let you know that if you don't bring your very best, I'll steal your spot right from under you. Consider this a declaration of war."

"Well thanks for the motivation I guess." Y/N scoffed.

"Shut up!" A guy from the back started yelling and then called out Bakugou, "Hey you! I am from Class 1-B next door to you! We heard that you fought some villains and I came to see if that was true! But you're just a bunch of brats who thinks that they're better than us!" Bakugou ignored him and started walking out. Clearly, it felt like everyone hated Class 1-A.

"Dude where are you going?! You gotta say something! It's your fault that they're hating on us Bakugou!" Kirishima tried to stop him.

"These people don't matter. The only thing that matters is that I beat them." Bakugou replied and exited from the chaos.

While everyone was talking about how he was right and manly, Y/N's ears slowly turned red hearing him. It felt like she was blushing way often now that she knew about her feelings. "Ugh why is he suddenly so..."

charming.

[ TIME SKIP ]

After a while everyone started leaving. Y/N thought it would be best if she left after a while. She won't be able to handle talking to Bakugou all of a sudden without her face changing colours.

On her way to home though, she saw the purple haired guy near the gates of school. She wasn't a person who liked to talk much and especially to unknown guys who declared war, but at this moment, she felt like she should - ofcourse she had a selfish reason behind it. She didn't want everyone to hate their class, and if talking to him made any difference, she was ready to do it. "Um, hey."

He turned back, facing her and replied, "Yes?"

"My name is Y/N, from..Class 1-A?" She cautiously started talking.

Alarmed, he furrowed his eyebrows and asked, "What do you need?"

"N-nothing..just. Please don't judge every one of us because of one person who was being arrogant. Um..to be fair, atleast he wasn't being fake?"

"Feels like you are though."

It irked Y/N a bit but she decided to talk things through calmly instead, "No, just...it felt like you were accusing us for being in the hero course because you weren't."

Okay, that wasn't a good way to calm things down.

"Uh I mean-"

"Many of us are in another course because you guys. It's not just me." He turned to walk away.

"I-I know. But to be honest we worked hard. So atleast in my case, I am not sorry about it. Wait! is that itachi on your homescree...uh what's your name again?"

".....I am not telling you my name."

"Okay...it's alright. I wish you the very best! Work hard...I guess? And...try not to hate us. Atleast, after the hero course we can hang out maybe? I see you like anime! We..we can bond over that!" Y/N said and then muttered the next words, "No one wants to watch anime with me. Apparently, it's childish."

"...are you asking me out or something."

Y/N's face flushed in embarrassment as she shook her head and said, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I-I didn't mean it as a date! A-as friends! Just friends!"

".....leave me alone."

"Oh okay. Uh, bye! Best of luck!" She said and left, trying her best not to feel awkward.

The purple haired guy watched her walk away. An emotion surfaced that he didn't feel for a long time. Maybe because he was also an arrogant person and he wasn't aware about it until Y/N unknowingly made him realize it .

Although, the embarrassment he felt wasn't the one that was demeaning his quirk in any way. Now that was a first for him. He couldn't remember the last time he felt something else to be embarrassed about other than his quirk.

"Guess I got a bit too cocky huh."