14 Chapter 14: Round 1. Fight!

Giving one of my most blankest stares, I watched Todoroki give out his entire fucking life story to me. Don't get me wrong, his dad is a dick and I feel for him, but he is making me lose the chance to eat. He couldn't have done this during someone else's match?

"Todoroki. I am going to be straight with you." Todoroki looked at me seriously and nodded slowly. "Your ideology is pretty stupid and it's not only limiting yourself but disrespecting your mother." Todoroki of course took offense to that and the room started getting colder as he glared as me. "What did you just say?"

I shrugged off the biting cold and looked at him with an even fiercer glare. "You are holding yourself back and hurting everyone's pride here, who are pushing themselves to be here, while you just sit there and tell me that you won't use your full power because you resent your dad. It is also disrespecting your mom as she was the one who gave birth to you and raised you to be a man who will be a hero. How are you going to do that if you hold resentment for something that can be obviously discussed between father and son?"

I wanted to be nice and patient. I really did but something inside of me is telling me that he is an ungrateful little shit and I can't pinpoint where that feeling is coming from. "That quirk of yours is just that, yours. No one else has it except you so use it to its max potential and don't forget that, especially when you go up against me or I will put you into the stadium floor." I walked away after that, I didn't want to mess with him anymore nor did I want to lose more of my appetite.

Heading back into the cafeteria, I took one bite of my cold katsudon before the intercom called for all of us to head to the staging area. I sighed and stomped over there, not really in the mood for much.

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"Are you sure that is what Aizawa said?" Momo asked skeptically as she couldn't believe that their teacher would support this type of behavior.

"Totally. Plus I overheard Izuku saying that those cheerleaders had some nice uniforms and wondered where they came from." Kaminari smiled confidently as Momo accepted the reasoning after hearing Izuku's name included as well. 'Hook, line, and sinker.'

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"The battles are about to go underway as the teachers are drawing lots to who fights who in the one-on-one battles. Whoa! It seems that the 1-A girls are showing some enthusiasm as well. Aizawa, did you know that this was going to happen?" Present Mic looked over at his tired friend who had a very annoyed expression on his face. "No, I did not and I was not aware of any of this going to happen."

After hearing that Aizawa had no part in this, Momo looked over at Kaminari and Sero, exclaiming, "Kaminari! You liar! You just made me use my quirk and expose us all for nothing." Katsumi, Kyoka, and Momo had flushed faces. Now whether it was from anger or embarrassment, it was anyone's guess.

"This was so stupid. I can't believe we got tricked by those guys." Kyoka threw her pom-poms in annoyance as she felt inferior to her more endowed friends. Katsumi looked like she was about to murder Kaminari if it wasn't for the uniform being flammable. Hagakure was trying to draw attention to herself and being overall cheerful.

"Huh? Did I miss something? Why are you all dressed as cheerleaders?" I looked at them and couldn't help but feel my heart quicken a bit seeing the girls dressed the way they were.

"Fucking Pikachu and the Man-Spider reject just tricked us into wearing these. They even mentioned you as wanting to see us in this." Katsumi was now blushing mad as she realized that Izuku was looking over at them.

I nodded my head and glanced over at both of them as they felt a sudden chill down their spines. Before they could escape into the crowd, I held both of them by their shoulders and squeezed while giving a chilling smile.

"So you guys used my name to do this? Without even asking if I was okay with this or if the girls would be okay with dressing up? Tsk tsk Kaminari. Sero. I thought you two knew better after Mineta but I guess not."

Both guys started sweating bullets as Sero blurted out, "It was all Denki's idea! He was the one that wanted to see them in cheerleader uniforms." I nodded my head then knocked both their heads together. "There won't be a next time, remember that." I walked away while the two guys nodded their heads furiously.

Midnight looked at me and licked her lips while a small flash of lust came over her eyes before coming to her senses and coughed. "Well we just finished setting the fights up so look over at the board and prepare yourselves." Moving over so we could get a better view, the participants roamed over until they found their names.

"Shit! I am against Todoroki! This is so unfair." Sero looked over at Todoroki who just glanced at him then walked away.

"Looks like I start first. Against someone named Ibara Shiozaki." Izuku looked around until he came into eye contact with a girl with an icy expression. Her hair looked like they were made out of vines and her body looked pretty fit and athletic. She had an apathetic face that didn't give anything away. Overall, she had the ice queen type of beauty and the attitude that came with it. She walked away to mentally prepare herself for the fight on one side of the giant concrete square.

I shrugged at the frosty reception and proceeded to stretch to get the kinks out. My time in the woods changed my body more as the time under intense gravity condensed my muscles into being more compact and solid.

My frame was still wide at the shoulders but more leaned downwards as now I had a tapered waist included with the already v-shape torso I had. My height reached a solid 6'3" with a weight of 195 pounds of near sculpted muscles. I never neglected to stretch and train my agility and flexibility either as I knew that there was no point to all that power if I couldn't touch my opponent. All Might had more bulk than me though and was still undoubtedly stronger as he still had full control of his power while I was barely reaching into mine.

We both stared at each other as they introduced us, deciding to start a conversation, "Hello, I hope we both fight well in this match. May the better opponent win." I gave her a large smile and a slight bow as that caught people off guard including Shiozaki as she stared at me with slightly widened eyes. "I hope for same as well." Short and concise, exactly as how I imagined it to be but her voice did sound smooth and cool almost like a calm river flowing down its route.

We heard the "hajime!" and both of us sprang into action as I limited myself to only my physical abilities as I wanted the heroes to see what the other was made of. Shiozaki's hair lifted up and moved in a serpentine pattern towards me. 'Huh. Her hair is her quirk. From the looks of it, it seems to be strong jungle vines that move based on her will and mental strength. Impressive for both combat and support. I wonder how much she can lift with that and can her hair get stronger if it absorbs water.?' Izuku was dodging each vine in a side step motion while swaying his body and head in circular motions while watching her face scrunch up in both frustration and concentration.

"Cute." This threw off Shiozaki and Izuku immediately shut his mouth as he couldn't believe he said that out loud.

The kuudere girl just increased the speed of the vines while I slowly reached towards her with small in-steps since if I took a large step then the vines could catch my foot and I would be done for. I got to her just as a vine grabbed my ankle, but that did not matter as I sent an air palm strike into her midsection that sent her flying out of bounds. I would have gone flying with her as well if I did not stick my fingers into the concrete as a foothold. Midnight and some people who have heightened hearing did cringe a bit as they heard the crunch of my bones while they scraped into the concrete.

"Shiozaki is out of bounds. Match goes to Midoriya." Midnight declared while the stands cheered and the pros praised both of us for the good fight.

I balanced on the balls of my feet as I stuck out my hand for her to grasp. "That was a good match. You nearly had me there if I did not pay attention." I gave her another smile while she could only stared at before grabbing my hand as I pulled her up to her feet.

"Thanks, but I know you were holding back on me. That was so the heroes could notice me right?" When I nodded, she gave me a smile as well which I couldn't help but comment. "You have a nice smile. Why do you hide it behind that cold facade?" I tilted my head like I always do when I'm confused.

She paused to look at me before giggling and smiling again, "Maybe it was because none could have made me smile as much as you do. I also have a question of my own. Why do I feel and smell nature coming off of you?"

I scratched the back of my head in embarrassment as we were walking down the tunnel in the stadium. "I kinda been training in the wilderness my entire life. To me, it feels like another home for me." She nodded in understanding as she feels the same whenever near a forest or fresh body of water. "We should hang out sometime. Get to talk about nature and things like that." I nodded and gave her my phone number and email before waving goodbye.

Like always, the oblivious Izuku never noticed the small blush on Shiozaki's cheeks when they separated.

As I was walking up to my seat, I heard Midnight's voice, "Sero is unable to continue to battle. Todoroki is the winner." Hearing another chorus of cheering and people saying that he 'tried his best' made me feel sort of bad for him only to guffaw at the giant iceberg shrinking. 'Sero had to deal with that. Damn, Todoroki was not showing any mercy.'

Taking a seat between Katsumi and Momo, I was watching Tenya fighting the class rep of 1-B, Itsuka Kendo, who was a ginger headed girl that, based on her stance, took wushu kung fu and karate. She enlarged her fists which increased the damage her fists do while Tenya used his momentum from his speed and threw multiple kicks her way.

Neither was backing down from the head on battle as Tenya had the speed advantage hands down while Kendo had the strength to knock him out of the ring if he wasn't careful. Just as Izuku thought that, Tenya pulled off a special move that accelerated his speed to levels that the normal eye was barely able track. Using this he managed to pull off the win with a spinning heel kick into her shoulder that sent her out of bounds.

After them, Shoji and Tokoyami duked it out with dark shadow proving to hold Shoji back from getting anywhere close to him. Tokoyami burnt Shoji out and earned himself the win while Katsumi gave me a kiss on the cheek then left to go fight her opponent.

I got surprised at seeing another fellow green head along with Shiozaki and me, Setsuna Tokage split her body into multiple pieces which all tried to converge on Katsumi. Katsumi wasn't able to truly damage her as every time an explosion hit a limb, it would just back up while another will try to blind side her. Katsumi was able to get by due to her having amazing combat awareness and instincts as she tried reaching closer to Tokage's main body and do serious damage to her.

I saw that Katsumi was getting more frustrated until she just said fuck it and put both hands together with the palms facing Tokage and let out a large concentrated explosion that blasted Tokage into the wall and earning Katsumi the match.

Each match was being recorded in my notebooks as I was planning strategies and ways they could improve further. Momo gave me a kiss on my other cheek before leaving for her match.

Watching Momo gave me so many ideas as she fought Hagakure and sent a glitter bomb that made her body's silhouette visible and after that she was easy to take down. Now Kyoka and Tsuyu had difficult matches as they fought Kirishima and Kaminari respectively. Kirishima's hardening quirk was able to take the damage dealt by Kyoka's sound waves but the more he was hit, the more unfocused and unbalanced he became until he got into his striking range and stumbled out of bounds due to tripping on his own two feet.

A stretcher took him to recovery girl so she could heal his bleeding ear drums. Tsuyu was at a bigger disadvantage as she was a close combat fighter against someone who, if touched, will electrify her. It was even worse as her body held more water than the average person so it made her a better conductor so once Kaminari managed to grab her tongue that she swung near him to get close, she was done for.

And like that, the first round ended with Todoroki, Tenya, Tokoyami, Katsumi, Momo, Kyoka, Kaminari, and me all heading into the next round of fighting. Ever closer to reaching first place.