1v1 Battles

"What do you want Shoto?" Aiden asked leaning against the wall.

"Shoto?"

"Its weird for me to call you by your last name." He shrugged. "But I'm sure you didn't call me here to talk about that so..."

"The obstacle race and the cavalry battle. You've beaten me twice now." He tightened his fist. "I won't allow you to beat me any more."

Seeing the determined look in his eyes, Aiden could do nothing but sigh.

"Why is winning so important to you? I'd get it if you wanted to do it to become the best, but you don't strike me as that kind of guy. So what's the big deal?"

Hearing Aiden's words, Shoto trembled slightly before looking at him straight in the eye.

"My father Endeavor, the number two hero... Back in his youth he made a name for himself by firing off on all cylinders. He quickly rose through the ranks and stepped over the position of other heroes of his time. He rose so fast that he eventually reached the rank of the number two hero. But that wasn't enough for him! He wanted more, he wanted to be recognized as the strongest! But with a legend like All Might sitting firmly at the top, he had stood no chance to get there with his own power." The anger in Shoto's voice was starting to come out. "So he devised a plan. Since he couldn't become number one with his own power, he wanted to reach it in another way."

Patiently listening to Shoto's story, Aiden started to deduce where this conversation was going. Taking a look at the right side of his face, he stared at the white hair and gray eye before saying. "Quirk marriage."

"Yeah." Shoto said through grit teeth. "As a rising hero, it was quite easy for my father to gain the blessing of my mother's family. For the sake of becoming number one he took possession of her and by extension her quirk. All in the hopes of raising a hero to surpass All Might." Shoto's voice started to shake as he continued.

"In my memories, my mother was always crying... She once told me that the left side of my face was ugly, then she poured boiling water onto it."

Aiden stood there quietly not showing any reaction to his story or the revelation of his scar.

"Why are you telling me all of this? You could have just said you wanted to challenge yourself and left it at that. I wouldn't have pushed you to share and you wouldn't have to recall those memories. So why tell me something so personal?"

"I want you to understand why I'll never use my left side. Why I'll never become a pawn in my father's game. I'll beat you and everyone else in this festival and become number one with only my right side. I'll show that shitty old man of mine that I don't need his power to surpass All Might. I'll become number one without using the quirk he passed on to me. This is my ultimate disavowal of him."

"I see." Aiden nodded before walking away. "I won't tell you how to live your life Shoto, but if I face you in the competition then I'll beat you regardless if you use your right side or not. So don't come crying to me when you lose." Disappearing around the corner, he made his way towards the cafeteria and caught a conversation between Denki and Momo about Aizawa asking the girls to wear cheer leading uniforms.

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After a short intermission, the remaining classes that were still in the competition flooded out onto the courtyard while Present Mic introduced the last part of the festival.

"Before we get started with the final event, there's good news for those of you who dropped out of the preliminaries! As you know, this is a sports festival. It'd be weird if only a couple people were able to compete while the others got to sit back and relax! Therefore we've come up with a couple of recreational activities for you!" Walking onto the field were a couple of cheerleaders that no one from UA recognized.

"Just look at how fired up the cheerleaders we hired from America are- Huh?! What's that?"

"What the hell are they doing?" Aizawa's tired voice sounded out.

Walking out from the tunnel, the dark faces of the girls in class 1-A appeared. Dressed in identical cheer leading uniforms as the girls from America, the girls stood at the side holding yellow pompoms while Denki had a lecherous grin on his face.

All the boys in the first year couldn't help but take a closer look at the uniforms and the girls in them.

"I can die in peace..."

Even Todoroki wasn't immune as he also stared at the girls for a longer than normal time.

'Not bad.' Aiden nodded thinking about how he could use it to brag to Rumi later on.

"All right folks! From the passing teams, we have arranged a tournament for yall to compete in! That's right! We're ending this festival with one on one battles!"