Author: undefmidi
2018
Boku no Hero characters, original story, and everything belongs to Kohei Horikoshi, the author of said series. I only own the Plot.
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Chapter 13 – Izuku vs. Todoroki: II
Izuku was burned out. His breath was ragged, irregular. The heavy sweat dampened him as he fiercely prepared for what was about to come.
He could faintly see Todoroki's silhouette in that building's darkness. They were in a closed space with almost pitch-black shadows, albeit the cobweb of cracks they made while crashing in the inner wall of the building.
It had been hour-felt seconds. Izuku kept en guard for any sudden movement from Todoroki who silently stood up in the darkness, but he didn't have much time to analyze the situation. He had to gain that time if he wanted to win—
SKREEEE—BAM!!
"GAHH!!" Izuku's pain-filled scream was muffled by the building's walls.
He had taken a step back and flicked Todoroki before he could do anything. There was no time for pointless waiting so acting instantly was the best option. Izuku was in no position to do otherwise.
His flick made a pseudo-spear of air that flung in Todoroki's direction in a missile's speed. However, he was quick enough to thrust himself with ice and dodge the incoming burst of air by a haywire. The burst of air finally crossed the wall behind him, creating a hole wide enough to somewhat illuminate the place,
Todoroki almost hit the wall to his side but was able to cushion his impact with an arch of ice. He followed the small path of ice with his momentum, finally reaching the ground with an audible slam, falling onto the cold cement, but quickly regaining his composure. He glared at Izuku who prepared his next attack.
Why isn't Todoroki attacking?!
Izuku's mind questioned that over and over again with a huge sense of anxiety. He couldn't predict Todoroki's next move with so little intel. He didn't have much knowledge in combat, nor did he have any safe ways of using his quirk. He was visibly tired from all of the fights they had, and the constant running away he had to do drained his energies to a tee.
Four of his fingers were also broken and burnt with his quirk's usage, including the one he had just used on Todoroki.
"Midoriya," Todoroki called amidst the tense atmosphere.
"W-What?" Midoriya answered with worry and attentiveness, but also with curiosity.
"I won't hold back," He said that simple phrase, yet his voice held a mixed turmoil of feelings; from gratitude to a bitter feeling that Izuku couldn't quite describe. He could, however, feel one thing from that bitterness... It was directed at him.
"Me neither," was the only response Izuku had the option to say. If he didn't, why would he pour so much of himself into his dream? Why would he waste more than a year of his life?
Those were the feelings traded with simple words. Between a rock and a hard place, both of them geared up and prepared for a fight that never seemed to start.
As if it was the small spark that lit a bonfire, interrupting that silence, a small part of Izuku's recently-made rubble fell on the ground in a bang.
The curt words turned into actions as they wordlessly began to fight: Todoroki shot sharp edges of burning ice at Izuku, who swiftly dodged it in a desperate waltz. It was obvious that Todoroki had the advantage, yet Izuku couldn't bring himself to accept defeat.
He finally landed on the ground safely and noticed that Todoroki was preparing his next attack.
SKREEE-BAM!!
Another spear of air seared in Todoroki's direction, who jumped to the side with help from his ice. Izuku used the momentum that Todoroki had and—
SKREEEE-BAM!!!
"GWEH!!"
With those two consecutive shots, Izuku was able to land one hit on Todoroki, who was launched like a javelin towards the hole that lightened the room, eventually falling outside of the building onto the ground. He rolled two to three times before finally stopping.
Izuku, on the contrary, had used up six fingers; he couldn't use one hand properly. He bit his lips, holding in that gut-wrenching cry of pain. He stepped out of the building in order to continue fighting.
Todoroki, due to his intensive training during his sorrowful childhood and the constant beatings he received from his father, recomposed quickly and faced Izuku. Their resolute eyes glistened before the action began again.
This time, however, Todoroki's left side emerged in a current of flames, lightening the countless tubes and pipes that surrounded them in a magma-red color. Fire danced back and forth, provoking Izuku in their aggressive nature. The crackling of flames and the stomach-wrenching smell of sulfur reminded Izuku of their fight during the Sports Festival. He was defeated, even if he managed to rescue Todoroki.
He couldn't let Todoroki win again, he wouldn't do so, no matter how many fingers, bones, and muscles he had to break.
It didn't matter to him that the assignment had no apparent reward apart from grades;
He had to prove himself to his peers, to his teachers, to his mother, to All Might, and to the Big Three that watched over his class.
Izuku didn't need to say anything; One for All coarsed through his legs in an electric current, zapping the air with a non-stop crepitation. He didn't have the power to use his quirk through all of his body, so he had no other option than that. He had no strength left to do anything else, for that matter: his body was almost at its limit. This would be his final struggle to win.
Todoroki, on the other hand, burned and froze at the same time. Flames swirled around him in a criss-cross of hard edges, and the melting-cold vapor of ice was expelled by his body. Ice emerged from his feet as the left side of his clothing began to disintegrate.
"WRAAAAAAAAAHHH!!" Both of them screamed. Their bodies were yelling in pain, searching for any way to stop, yet they couldn't do anything against the two unbreakable wills that commanded them.
BRWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
In a final clash of motives and feelings, Izuku leaped and ripped the oxygen around him while approaching Todoroki by the nanosecond. His legs were completely burnt, broken and useless. They cracked and wobbled with the high speed of the air that constantly slapped Izuku's body.
Todoroki, instead of following what he did during the Sports Festival, created the thickest wall of ice he could, and with a controlled temperature of the fire, he melted that ice, creating an opaque smokescreen of vapor.
Izuku wasn't expecting that: his body rammed against the ice, smashing it and breaking his body. The only strength he had was completely gone, and all that was left was his momentum.
SKREEE-BAM!!!
"GWEEEHH!"
Before he hit the ground, however, with the last remnants of strength that he mustered from the adrenaline and endorphins that flowed through his body, flicked his broken finger towards Todoroki in the last protest.
Izuku finally hit the ground and rolled countless times before crashing onto a wall stomach-first. His smash, however, was too fast and unpredictable for Todoroki to dodge: it slammed one of his legs, spinning Todoroki face-first onto the ground.
But Todoroki was able to protect his fall by covering his face with his arms. He was able to lose only one of his legs.
He still had conscience and condition to think, yet fighting was something he wasn't so sure of.
In contrast, Izuku, who hit a wall stomach-first, was still like a rock. He still breathed, for the teachers' relief.
Todoroki had won another fight...
Maybe that way—
"... Will she... notice me?"
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SURPRISE!!!
Here's an extra chapter for ya!
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