Silver and Gold // BNHA OC

Fourteen

"And now, the battle we've all been waiting for! Ichika Sakurai, who has been showing some incredible strength with each of her opponents, and Katsuki Bakugo, who had an insane victory last round! Both are insanely powerful and I just can't tell who's gonna win! Is everyone ready to get this started?!" Present Mic called out, and cheers roared from the crowd.

Ichika grinned at her opponent, getting into position to start. This was it. The moment of truth. This would be her turning point.

"Don't hold back, Sakurai," Bakugo grumbled as he met her in the middle and shook her hand as they had agreed. This was so nobody would heckle Bakugo again.

"Wouldn't dream of it," Ichika grinned at him, going to her side of the arena.

"And, start!" Midnight slashed her whip down.

Bakugo wasted no time in racing at Ichika, and everything seemed to slow down. The people in the stands disappeared, and Present Mic's voice was reduced to a mere buzz in her skull.

Ichika stood there, waiting for him to get close, and jumped out of the way at the last second, as she would have if he had been a charging bull. She took that chance to sweep his legs out from under him, but her attempt failed when he jumped over her leg and went to grab her.

He's gotten quicker since his fight with Midoriya, she thought.

They were both quick, and kept taking swipes at each other and missing.

As he tried to grab her, she did a quick somersault out of the way, grabbing his arm and punching him in the stomach.

Violence rose within Bakugo and she got some distance between them, preparing to use her quirk. However, as she took a deep breath, he closed in on her and landed a blow to her back.

Ichika shouted out in pain and whipped around. She started singing, watching in relief as his red eyes glazed over and faded to silver. Bakugo slouched over like a zombie, and she could feel him fighting her grasp on him. His fighting against her quirk made her more nauseous, but she managed to hold on.

She didn't want to hit him while he was defenseless, so she planned to make him walk out of bounds like Shinsou had planned with Midoriya.

This, sadly, ended similarly. Bakugo broke free from her hold and ran back at her.

It broke down into a fistfight, Bakugo using his quirk and Ichika occasionally using hers to slow his movements, but she could never get more than a few notes in before he silenced her with another hit.

Neither would allow themselves to be pushed out of bounds, so this battle would end with one of them being unable to move, or rendered unconscious.

Bakugo got a hold of Ichika's arms and tried pushing her on the ground, only to have her twist an arm out of his grasp and elbow him in the stomach. She punched his face, landing a solid hit on his jaw and going for another punch. Her knuckles screamed in pain, but she fought it.

Bakugo caught her fist and hit her in the stomach. Thanks to that, doubled with the violence coming from him, Ichika threw up a little in her mouth, but she swallowed it back.

That was gross, she shuddered.

Bakugo took this chance to pin her to the ground, holding down her arms and straddling her waist.

She spat in his face, and he recoiled instinctively with a look that said, 'Did she really just spit in my face?' As he did, Ichika head-butted him in the nose and scrambled out from under him.

He shouted in a mix of anger and pain, his hands flying to his nose. She shoved him off of her, but he was already getting up as she scrambled away.

"You didn't even say goodbye!" he shouted at her.