16 Chapter 16: Losing Oneself to Emotions

Stepping up to the arena, neither of us spoke a word, just waiting and watching the other for any weaknesses.

"Here we are folks! The final match, the battle to end all battles! In the left side of the ring, it is the unstoppable warrior, the boy that has taken every single one of his opponents with quick efficient techniques and quirk usage. I give you, Izuku Midoriya!" Present Mic was hyping up the crowd immensely and they were eating it all up.

"On the right side, I give you the prodigal hybrid that has been dominating his opponents with only one half of his quirk. Let's see if Midoriya can make him show the other. Give it up for Shoto Todoroki!" Loud cheers vibrated the stadium after our names were called while we just kept staring at each other.

Midnight stepped up to her podium with the flogger whip. She waited a few seconds to look at each of us before cracking her whip to signal the fight.

Green lightning surrounded my body as I unleashed full cowl at my max 25% while Todoroki raised his arm with the palm facing me as he unleashed a large wave of ice towards me. I threw a right straight that destroyed the blocks of ice then pushed off with my right foot towards him. He retaliated with a hand touching the ground, making the direction of my run turn into a skating rink. I made an erupt twist into another direction that would flank Todoroki as I prepped a large force blast in my right hand. Todoroki wasn't going to wait for that and sent a spear of ice that impaled into my right hand while I still kept on moving forward. I ignored the near blinding pain as the ice sunk into the flesh as a roundhouse kick made its way into Todoroki's left side. I stayed where I was as I watched Todoroki save himself from a ring out by creating a wall of ice to stop him.

He sent that ice wall into my direction, this time he made it the size of at least ten feet tall, I sent another punch into the wall then shot blue lightning from my fingertips right into the right side of Todoroki. He was not expecting it and it stunned him just enough that I threw a right cross to his cheek followed by a knuckle jab into his floating ribs. I finished up the combo with a knee strike into his solar plexus which had him begin coughing and spitting. I guess that must have set him off as he shoved me away with a blast of frigid air and snow that contained tiny ice needles that pierced my skin in multiple areas.

I was unlucky in that some of those needles went into my eyes which blinded me for a couple of seconds. Todoroki took that time to create a large iceberg-like glacier that formed around me. Surrounded by ice and having the biting cold hit my closing wounds made me irritated. My eyes glowed red in rage while Todoroki walked away as if he had already won. This set me off even more as I collected the force until it surrounded my body then exploded outwards, destroying the ice and creating some tears in my clothing.

Todoroki and the entire stadium were shocked that I managed to get out of there. "How!? How were you able to get out of that?" Todoroki looked absolutely livid and I was weirdly enjoying the emotions rolling off him. "Force repulse. Now you better take this seriously because I am done playing games with you." Cracking my neck and letting off the gravity until I was down to 5x Earth's gravity, my sprint looked like teleportation to normal people without special eye focused quirks or training in seeing this speed as I appeared right next to Todoroki with a right hook into the back of his head that slammed him down into the concrete.

"I told you that I would send you into the concrete if you did not take this seriously." I got a solid fist shaped ice block into my gut that had me sent flying back which I twist flipped into. "Why? Why do you want me to use 'that' side of me? I refuse that quirk of 'that man' no matter what." Todoroki spat harsh venom at his father while his left side started to smoke up with frosted breathing being exhaled in exhaustion.

I gave him a serious look before grinning a bit. "It isn't his quirk you're using. Same way how it ain't your mom's either. It's yours, it came from you and will stay with you for the rest of your life. I am not saying to forgive your father as he is a piece of shit, but to accept yourself and finally give me the fight I have been waiting for. Become the hero that you want to be, not who your father was forcing to become." Todoroki looked at me with a gaping mouth, like a fish out of water, before closing it and looking down.

I ran right at him with another punch and force blast coming his way.

Suddenly…

Fwoosh!

A torrent of hot burning flames came hitting into me. I quickly formed a force shield, 'huh no idea how I am doing this but sweet', it protected the majority of me before the masses saw that I was charred to a crisp. No need to give anyone nightmares. By the time the flames died out, I stood defiantly tall with a confident smirk on my face. "I knew that you could do it. Now let's get this fight started!" I then heard suddenly rapid clicking of hundreds of phones and cameras going off. I tilted my head in confusion before a small breeze let me know that I was currently shirtless and giving a good show for the people here.

I looked down to make sure that my pants were still there and luckily they were, a bit burnt at the edges but still intact. I heard a snort of laughter coming from Todoroki before he smiled at me. "Let's get this fight over with. Hmm, Izuku." I smiled right back, "Yeah and after this we can all hang out somewhere to eat. How about it Shoto?" He nodded then shot a wave of flames at me which I countered with a force push. I disappeared then reappeared again behind him with a ball of lightning being sent into his back. "Force Maelstrom!" Shoto skipped across the concrete with a torn shirt and a bleeding shoulder that made him look like he got out of a massive car wreck. I didn't let up either as I sent an elbow into the gut then a palm strike into the other side of his floating ribs.

Our fight continued back and forth for another minute until Todoroki's skin looked dried up and ice covered the right side of his body. I kept hearing the constant clicking of cameras as I flexed my muscles with a massive increase of force boost that made me feel sore and tight. We both launched at each other as I sent another maelstrom into him but this time I added on a force blast as well. He sent flames into my body before he flew into the ground floor outside of the arena. I landed in a back flip then turned off full cowling as I felt my body go into shock from major overuse. My body was healing when I heard the announcement, "Todoroki is out of bounds! The winner and champion is Izuku Midoriya!"

We had to wait until Todoroki was healed from his multiple broken ribs, lightning burns, hypothermia, dehydration, and a massive scolding from Recovery girl for going way too far in our fight. I got screamed at as well for doing this amount of damage before I used force heal to repair scar tissue and mend the bones until he was healed enough without any scaring. After all that, Midnight was introducing the number one hero in an awkward cut-off followed by congratulating each of us, Me, Shoto, and Katsumi for being in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. We did go to a restaurant after the festival where I gorged myself in meats and vegetables while trying to ignore the giggling of the girls and women that were eyeing my now heavily clothed body.

'This is going to be forgotten right?'

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"They're still staring at me aren't they?"

Izuku had a palm covering his face as multiple people were looking over the small group of students in the train with them. "Yep. Some of these girls look ready to jump your bones, including some of the women." Katsumi snorted out as she peeked at her screensaver of a shirtless Izuku with green lightning surrounding him. "Hey, at least you don't have every single person walk by you while saying 'you tried your best'." Sero looked downtrodden as another chorus of it was heard from a group of girls.

At the school gates, reporters were shoving each other trying to talk to or interview some of the students walking in.

"Wonder what's that about?" Ochako had a finger to her lip as if trying to come up with an answer.

"From what I am hearing. It's about me so how about I force cloak us all and walk in the school unnoticed." I suggested. Everyone agreed and we managed to get by them and make it into class where a large stack of papers were at my desk along with Katsumi and Shoto's. I read one and knew that these were pro heroes who invited me to be mentored by them.

"Man look at Izuku's stack compared to us! I only got ten of them." Mina pouted and grumbled a bit in mock humor before going back to her smile. "That battle was awesome though. It is no wonder the heroes all wanted you." Kaminari added in while looking over at his thirty or so letters as well. Momo looked at her 500 hundred or so letters before sighing and looking at Izuku with pride in her eyes. 'That's my Izuku.' The class quietened down after Aizawa stepped into the classroom. "After you choose who's agency you will be going to, submit it to me and prepare yourself for an entire week of being under them, you will be given your hero costumes as well. Oh and before I forget. Midoriya, the principal wants to see you after school." I nodded my head while being confused for why he wants me.

...

"Did you want to see me Principal Nezu?" I poked my head in to make sure that I wasn't interrupting anything. "Yes, come in Midoriya." I walked in and noticed that All Might and Aizawa were both in the room as well. "How have you been feeling? I know those reporters must have been a pain." I could only nod my head, "Yeah, they have been annoying me and my mother for a while now. I have been trying to find out who leaked out that info and I was wondering if you could help me." Nezu looked at me with a glint in his eye. "There is no need to keep looking for one of the sources because I was the one to let out who killed Darth Brutus." A freezing breeze swept over the room as Aizawa and All Might eyed me carefully. "What? Why would you go and do that!? Do you know what my mom has to go through everyday because of that? I expected the villains to do this, but not you principal."

My eyes glowed a deep red as I stood up. Aizawa looked prepared to activate his quirk until a purple static surrounded him and paralyzed his entire body along with All Might's. Izuku lifted his hand in a grasping motion which held Nezu, who was holding his throat. "My mother was threatened at least 20 times since I have been back. Not to mention the death threats and the looks of disgust people have given her. Did you think I wanted to kill my family? That I enjoyed it? You had no right to have done what you did. I don't care for the reason why anymore. You should have at least told me before letting the information go so that I could keep my mom out of this. This is not what a hero does! This is what a VILLAIN WOULD DO!"

Izuku had pure rage on his face as he slammed Nezu down to the ground. He took a deep breathe before his eyes went back to their bright emerald color. Nezu coughed for some time before looking at Izuku in trepidation and fear with shame hovering both feelings. "I know and I do apologize but it was the only way we could track down the other source of the leak. We had pro heroes who were supposed to be on watch of your mother to make sure she was unhurt. I understand that you are upset and I can't express how much regret I have for putting you and your mother through this." He then bowed his head while I let go of the force stasis on Aizawa and All Might. Aizawa sprung into action but before that could escalate, All Might held his shoulder and shook his head which deterred him from further action.

Izuku slowly nodded his head in understanding before looking at All Might, not in shame but disappointment, "You knew why too. I let my mother into your home while you knew what Nezu was planning. Don't bother saying anything. I'll go to this Gran Torino and receive his training. I'll see you all a week later." I stomped away while the three just stared at my back with a different array of emotions. All Might looked up in shock, "D..di..did he just read my mind?" The silence was deafening in the room as they were close to creating one of the most dangerous villains in the world.

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'This is the place huh. Doesn't really look like a place that anyone could live in.'

Izuku has since calmed down from the incident with principal, but now Aizawa is more careful around Midoriya while All Might has been getting the cold shoulder.

The place that Izuku was looking at was near Hosu. It was a two story building that had cracked bricks and broken windows. The trash in the alleyway reeked and the aura the place gave off was a 'Do Not Disturb' type of feeling. Izuku shook his head out of the negative thoughts and knocked on the door. The door opened to a short old man that was lying face down in a small pool of red liquid. Immediately, Izuku froze up before taking a deep breathe and tapping his foot against the old man's leg.

The old man shot up gasping, "Aww man I dropped my sausages and ketchup." This made Izuku sigh in relief before asking the old man, "Excuse me. Are you Gran Torino? All Might's former master?" The old man squinted his eyes, "Yagi? Is that you?" Izuku shook his head, "No, I am Izuku Midoriya. All Might sent me here so you could train me." The old man tilted his head, "Nana?" Izuku gave a tired sigh before walking away towards the door as he felt this was a waste of time. That was until he heard a jet of air and dodged a kick coming from behind. "Oh you have good reflexes and a stronger body than what Yagi had when he was your age. Come and try to catch me." The old man, who was on the wall then shot to the ceiling before ricocheting around the room.

I took this as a challenge and closed my eyes in focus. I used my ears to track him as those jets of air were a tell tale sign of him moving. Right when the jet sound came close, I let out a quick burst of full cowl, shooting my hand out and grabbing on to something. Opening my eyes, I saw that I had his head in my grip. "Hmm, you have ability to channel One for All. Your patience is pretty good and the use of your other quirk is a surprise to me, for one of the Midoriya to not use the Force so blatantly says a lot about the type of person you are."

I let him go and looked at him warily, "You know about my family?" He nodded his head and gestured for me to walk with him to the sofas, which I just noticed along with the rest of the house, as it looked completely different from the outside as it actually looked like a decent home except for the ketchup spill. "I know about them as I have fought along side some of them and have fought against some others. I think I could guess why All Might called me beforehand to be careful around you." I stiffened up a bit before staring straight at his eyes. "You still lack control over some of your emotions and it is getting worse everyday you get stronger. Correct?" I nodded my head in shame. He sighed then popped his neck. "I guess we have some work to do after all. Don't worry. By the time we are done you won't get affected by nothing that you don't want to affect you."

Izuku nodded his head and gained a small grin. 'Maybe I won't have to wait a month after all.'