Chapter seven: Improvement

" Don't be so down, Ashido. You did great! " Kirishima told the frustrated Pink-skinned girl.

It was now a day later after the USJ. Midoriya and his team had gotten lots of praise for being the first to complete their fight. Ashido was down in the dumps after losing five times in a row with her team.

" I can't help it! I wanted to be first, but Midoriya took it! And Aizawa-sensei got me all scared after telling us we'll get expelled! " Ashido explained, puffing up her cheeks on the last part.

" Yeah, I'm mad about that too, mutter, but there's no point in being frustrated about it. Mutter."

" Alright alright, I'll stop, mutter. Ugh, but first,"

She moved her hand to midoriya's horn and rubbed it all the to the point. Midoriya gave a quick screech, dropping his thoughts and his book of Heroes, quirks, and whatnot.

" A-ashido! " Midoriya let out, turning around to her, with a light blush on his face.

" you were mumbling so I did what I had to do. I would be sorry but your reaction was priceless. " Ashido giggle, removing her hand.

" haha very funny." He said sarcastically, bending down to pick up his book. He flipped back to the page of his most recent battle. He took a deep thought of what she said about her quirk, consume the oxygen around her to then burst out in flames. Why must my quirk be this hard to master? I already have bad control over my quirk! But didn't she tell us how she did I it?

" well, the reason I was stalled for a second before attacking, I was just channeling in the fire. I had a Visual image of what I wanted the fire to be and then output it. Pretty hard at first but gets easier over time."

Visualize it? Why would that work? Might as well give it a try , He then stopped moving. The three were walking to Yuuei, and wasn't too far away. Kirishima and Ashido stopped and looked at him. He had his eyes closed and breathed slowly. " Uh, Midoriya?" Kirishima started.

Having them blocked out, he pictured it. A tiny flame blowing gently. Now imagine it's growing, more and more. Then if it was being shot like a flamethrower.

He opened his eyes with determination, inhaled deeply, then exhaled out a bright flame. Both Ashido and Kirishima backed up because of the heat. " Wow! You're breathing fire Midoriya!" Ashido said with glee. Midoriya coughed up as he stopped, sparks flying out his mouth.

" Ahk- yeah, it was easier to do thanks to someone. But way harder to hold now that I did it."

The two smiles at each other. Ashido went for a high five, which was received with contact. Then Midoriya looked over at Kirishima. " what's wrong Kirishima-kun?"

He then motioned his mouth before saying, " if you can breath out red fire, what about blue fire? "

" hm, it's a possibility. I mean, blue flames are hotter than red so it should have more affect. But not only attack wise but my throat wise. I could definitely feel the heat when I was using it. If i was to use blue flames, I'd probably wouldn't be able to hold it for a second. This also occurred when I was using the acid I found. Though, it stung instead of burn. Yet, Kaminari-san said I had yellow horns, which probably meant I had electricity like quirk then. But I couldn't use it. But would it come out my mouth or somewhere else-"

" Midoriya, this is the longest I've heard you mumble for. And I couldn't even understand it." Ashido aid, with a exhausted look. " anyways, enough of that. Let's get a move on if we wanna be on time for school!"

" This one should be something you lookup for. Last time, more than half of you failed at USJ. And even after going back to fight, you failed. But of course, it was against a pro hero that you probably didn't know anything about. This time, you won't need to worry about that. In this case, The sports festival is what to aim high for. Sadly, I can't expel you for failing this."

"That joke is getting old now."

" Who said It was a joke? "

The class had left to go to lunch. Aizawa had informed them about the Sports Festival. Next week, they'll have to work hard to exceed on this. Which means, lots of training, the mind, and the body.

Midoriya would normally sit alone, in his last school. But he sat with Ashido and Kirishima.

" Kirishima-Kun, what are you gonna do to prepare for the sports festival?" Ashido asked, pointing her chopsticks at him.

Before Kirishima answered, he thought for a second. Then said, " Well, nothing much. Probably gonna do a daily routine of working out and improving my quirk.". He then shot back the sat question to her, " what are you gonna do?".

" Train with Midoriya! You should join us." Ashido said.

Midoriya choked his food. Beating his chest to get it out, he questioned, " W-why train with me?"

She rolled her eyes before saying, " Well if I train with you, We can help each other. Plus, I am pretty sure you were thinking about somethings back when we were walking to school. "

" heh, well I was just thinking about your quirk. How you could have better control over it. Somewhat the same as Kaminari-san. But I don't think I could imply it just yet. I'm still confused about how it's gonna work."

" hey! I've got better control than Kaminari!" Ashido pouted, before stuffing down rice. " I'm not saying one of you has better control over the other. My point was that there could be a better way to use your quirk... Now that I think about it, it might be a good idea if we train together."

Ashido gave a smile, " Ha, told you it'll be a good idea! " she then turned to Kirishima, " Join us Kirishima-kun!"

He scratched the back of his neck. Then looked at her saying, " sound great. Maybe Midoriya could help me with my quirk."

Midoriya smiled as well, " of course I can!"

The training had started. The three met up at a beach that had a beautiful sight. The spot was picked by Ashido of course.

Midoriya first started with just brainstorming how to divide the training up for the week. While he did that, Kirishima and Ashido stretched.

After that, the three first did a run across the while beach. Back and forth five times. Ashido was the only one with great energy when they're done.

Midoriya then had an idea of what they could try next. The idea was to test our quirks. Then went up from the beach to three nearby trees. The test was to see who could damage the tree the most in fifteen seconds.

As the timer started, Kirishima turned on his quirk and bashed the tree. Ashido placed her hands on the tree and melted it as fast as she could. Midoriya took a breathe and breathed his acid quirk.

The timer beeped and they stopped. Kirishima fell over in exhaustion. Ashido took a look at her true, which was melted down from a large hole, then dripped down.

Midoriya had his melted in sprays. The drops would collect and make them bigger.

Kirishima tree was just bashed. Lots of bark laid on the floor next to him.

Overall, Kirishima won with this one.

Then Midoriya wanted to get to the ideas he had.

" So, What was the idea you had? " Ashido asked, taking a sip out of her water container. Midoriya chugged down his. Wiping his mouth and said," Well, I noticed that you'd throw you acid in clumps. I thought it was ineffective. "

" mhm, I guess I can see that being useless." Ashido agreed. Midoriya shook his head, " I didn't mean it was useless. There are moments where that will come. But what I meant was that you could make a better way to, uh secrete your acid. Maybe like a faster projectile."

" I see what Midoriya has in mind. Maybe like a gunshot. " Kirishima added, then making a finger gun." Try it."

Ashido imitated Kirishima and pointed at the tree. Then releasing the corrosive liquid, it shot at the tree. It was stopped for a second but blasted out the back.

With a stunned, but excited look, Ashido blurted, " it worked!"

Midoriya was fascinated by both their advice working, he went to his book that was on the floor next to his bag and flipped to Ashido's page.

Quirk edit: after a test, The user was able to shoot the liquid out their finger like a bullet. The impact, at first, wasn't surprising. But giving it time to take effect, it eroded through the test object(tree).

Update after test of different ways to emit liquid.

He put the book back and went to Ashido with more ideas.