Remember that concussion I mentioned? It was a minor concussion, but still. Disappointing enough, the students didn't notice. All Might noticed because he is staring at me, but I gave him no choice when I left.
BUT OH BOY DID SHOUTA! Let me show you the scene.
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After Lesson
Alright, time to go piss off Recovery Girl! Oh boy, yeah, that is definitely a concussion. I guess the adrenaline rush covered everything because now I'm feeling nauseous. I'm forcing myself to walk normally here! The pain doesn't help.
Take note: Don't let Bakugo shoot you in the face with his explosions. They hurt!
Suddenly, I feel myself being lifted bridal style. Instantly, I struggle.
"LET ME THE FUCK GO, DUMBASS!" I scream, and that hurts my ears, mainly because it echoes down the hallway.
"Izuku, it's me! Settle down!" Shouta growls, tightening his grip on me.
Oh. Wait.
"Why are you carrying me bridal style? I can walk."
"I don't care. You shouldn't be moving at all. Your eyes are shaky, you were twitching unusually, and you look like you should have already fallen over. Stay awake and tell me what happened."
"Bakugo nailed me in the face with an explosion." Shouta sighs.
"And you didn't call it off? When did this happen?" That takes some thinking as I lean against him unintentionally.
"This is within the first seven minutes of the match."
"So 20 minutes you could have told All Might or me?"
"That's one way of looking at it!"
"I feel like he should have noticed this."
"No cameras in Walmart for him to look through for some reason."
"Stupid." Yeah, this is boring.
"You're supposed to be carrying Hizashi like this, not me."
"He isn't injured. You are."
"So, he has to hurt himself to get carried?"
". . .just shut up, brat."
"..."
"..."
"You know, your jawline looks weird at this angle. Handsome but weird."
"Sometimes, I wonder how you come to these conclusions."
"I don't fucking know."
"Language."
"Fuck you."
"I will force you to cuddle with me, problem child."
"And I will force you to stay awake."
"I know your weakness." That takes a moment.
"Touche." For now.
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With that fluff (?) out of the way, we are now supposed to be on the final exam.
Suppose to. Am I? No! I have an important event before that!
So it is about a week before the final exam, and a reasonable person studying. Well, when your teacher happens to be a genius rat bear thing for the majority of the classes, you don't have a paper test. Nezu believes in testing by doing the experience. It is pretty much an internship without getting paid. The disappointment. Though I could hack a bank to get my money.
Or do freelance work.
Or...something. I could probably come up with a million ways to make money.
Anyway, I have way more free time then my fellow colleagues. Kaminari and Ashido seem to think the world is ending, but Momo is saving their asses. She is way too enthusiastic about being able to throw a study session. She must have been anti-social or something growing up.
I get it. Barely. Okay, probably not. I need to stop getting distracted.
I have been preparing for this for a month, at least. I'm going to leave this whole thing a surprise, like always, but let me tell you what I had to do.
First off, I had to get reinforcement because this involves the government. I could hack through it, but I would like to attempt this legally. Thankfully, Nezu was willing to help me in this for curiosity's sake of what is going to happen, so he got all the permissions I needed to do this. It was so much paperwork to fill out that it's ridiculous. I also need to hide this from Shouta because he would be pissed over this. He will learn eventually! I don't need him stopping me now, though.
The government had to officialize everything and get the project ready for me. They are awfully suspicious of me, and that has caused some problems like creating additional paperwork. I have put 70 hours of paperwork into this and preparing everything as well. Then, I had to convince Nezu to let me out during his class time, so Shouta won't know!
Now, here I am in front of a prison! A high-security prison, I must add! I show my well-earned key card to the front guard, and another guard leads me through the whole place. It takes all my energy not to flinch at how dirty it is. The people are interesting, though! They kept screaming for me to let them out!
Natural selection, bitches! We are just wasting our materials on you life-time in prison people! I hope people in that position can't read this as they will probably be offended, but it's the truth. Well, there are things to do in a prison that does help society, but that's if they decide to do it. Most, unfortunately, wallow in despair that they got caught. It's rather disappointing.
Finally, they lead me to the very back of the prison, open the door, let me step in, and shut it behind me. Before me is a rather large room. There are guards outside in case something happens, but I deny it will. The room is all tan with padding all over the place, like your typical insanity room. In the center sits my reasoning for coming here.
"What up, Mister Stain?! Or should I call you Akaguro now?"
"Midoriya? Of all people, I would not have thought you would be the one doing this. Akaguro is fine, but what are you doing here? Here to argue your beliefs?"
Yes, I have come here to talk to Stain. The Hero Killer: Stain is my reason for spending so much time. He stands before me in a quirk-suppressant collar and orange jail clothing. I can tell he has lost some muscle, and that is expected when you are tied to a chair and on a limited diet. Without all the cool clothing, you can see his hair down that is ratty just like Shouta's but worse. He actually looks human now! Back on topic.
"As fun as that may be, that's not what I spent over 70 hours of my life to do. Besides, with our abilities, we would get nowhere. Thus, I'm going to pull at common grounds here. You see, you being trapped here is a waste of your skills. You have top, if not, the top fighting skills I have seen. Despite your beliefs, you can influence the future heroes in a new way. You can train them to fight. However, you need to prove yourself first.
I will be coming here for a few hours for the next seven days. Within those seven days, you teach me whatever you like. You can either throw this out the window. You can show me your fighting skills. You can teach me to train. Whatever you want to teach, you can." Akaguro looks at me, shocked.
"You really are smarter than you look. Either that or insane."
"I mean, you aren't wrong. Resources need to be used. Whether you believe it or not, All Might will have to retire eventually, probably soon based on calculations, and my generation is going to be the first generation in a while without the 'Symbol of Peace.' We need as much help as possible." This seems to shut him up for a moment. It takes a minute before he steps up.
"Alright, I'll do it. I will not go easy on you. So be prepared. You need to train your body for speed, not strength. Your body is lean muscle, not bulk. The bulk will slow you down tremendously. Your body seems to be developed in that way, so that is not a problem. You need to work on speed and reaction. Your stamina, from what I know, is impressive as is, so keep that up. Let's get to it." Akaguro quickly approaches, and I hop back, grinning.
LET'S GO, QUEEN!
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"HOT DAMN, YOU KNOW HOW TO GET ME MOVING!" I scream, able to stand still for once. I'm impressed! I feel my blood pumping. WOOOO!
"As a future hero, you shouldn't be cursing, kid." Akaguro scolds. Wow, he really is different from Stain.
"All Might told me that too."
"Huh...is your story true?"
"With All Might? Yes. I am many things, but a liar isn't one, Akaguro." Most of the time.
"Wait, so the alcoholism is true, too?" I forgot I said that!
"Yip yip! That's why I consider Eraserhead a true hero compared to All Might because he helped me out of that. I would not be here without him. All Might receives attention for his work. Yet, Eraserhead gets nothing, and he is content with that."
"You're close to him, aren't you?" Called out.
"Trust him with my life."
"That's powerful. He is a good fighter; however, he got distracted with that Ingenium kid and got caught off-guard."
". . . WHAT?! WHY WASN'T I TOLD THIS? I AM SO FIGHTING HIM AFTER THIS!" I would if I didn't have to hide this.
"Hyper. Most people would be struggling to speak at the moment, let alone argue. Back to work." WEE WOO!
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That's pretty much how my week went. During Nezu's classes, I would leave UA, go to prison, and learn from Akaguro. After some intense training, I sneak back to Nezu's class, listen to the rat rattle for five minutes, and lunchtime. Nezu is VERY interested in my progress, and we will see how much I have improved at the practical exam.
Akaguro has proven himself to be a valuable teacher. We did a test of how fast I can run before and after, along with how long I can last in a fight without being hit. Both skills have improved TREMENDOUSLY. I AM VERY IMPRESSED! He even remained unpredictable to an extent! His teaching skills need some work because you can't punch students, but he can always improve as long as he is open to it. He could be a fantastic teacher. Of course, he was limited to only hand-to-hand because you can't really give a guy in prison a sword, but his hand-to-hand is still great. I think he is on the road to improvement! I will even visit him sometimes to see how he is doing because they are already planning a class for pro-heroes interested.
They better know it isn't an easy class, though. I have an overload of energy, so it wasn't too bad, but it still gave me a challenge. For an average person, it is probably hell.
Meanwhile, Shouta was in heaven because not only am I too busy with Nezu's class to aggravate him, but he has put all his classes as study time. He has been taking plenty of naps; therefore, he has been in a much mood lately.
Nemuri and Hizashi are trying to help out the class the best they can, but when you have Kaminari and Ashido in your class, it's hard. They are reviewing over EVERYTHING. They are in the opposite position of Shouta.
Class 1-A...it's a bloody mess. I'm glad I got out.
Now, it is time for exams! Well, the paper-part first. The practicals come later. I only have three classes to do because Nezu simply does not believe in that kind of testing: Shouta's class, All Might's course, and Maijima's class. Too bad, all that was easy for me.
The hard part was sitting there and waiting for everyone to finish! Shouta tried to keep me busy by giving me one of those puzzles you have to pull the rings off of, but that only took two minutes. About ten minutes in, Shouta kicked me out of the class and sent me to Nezu. THANK GOD ABOVE THAT HE TOLD THE OTHER TWO TEACHERS TO DO THE SAME THING! OTHERWISE, I MIGHT KNOCK MYSELF OUT IN THE CLASS!
It took three days for the paper exams to be done. You know how, when you spend too much time with someone, you start arguing about random shit? That is precisely the point Nezu and I got at. I'm not going to tell you about what because it was inappropriate as fuck and involved Nezu being an animal.
Yip, I went there! I WAS CURIOUS, ALRIGHT? Nezu had to send me to Lunch-Rush because Lunch-Rush is the only person available to deal with my bullshit at this point. He actually let me help him cook! It kept me busy, and he willingly (I think) listened to my conversations without saying a word. Well, he rarely talks anyway.
His cooking is amazing, and he taught me! Of course, it takes way more time for me than him because his quirk makes him Jesus, where he can make food VERY quickly. I actually stopped and watched it sometimes. I mostly helped by getting him ingredients and throwing them to him as he can make at least a hundred meals while I could only make one at the same time. I helped him through lunchtime because he has a lot of work on his hands. I think he appreciated it because when we were finished, he took off his glove and ruffled my hair that I just removed from the hair net before washing his hands and putting the glove back on.
Then he handed me a sandwich! I felt terrible, so I sat in the kitchen and ate with him while talking.
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I should make this a daily thing. This man is so underappreciated and could use all the help he can get, quirk, or not.
Oh, and bonus: he is the same height as me!
After eating my sandwich, I head back to class, where Shouta tells us to get our costume on. Once that is done, we get on the bus to take us to the field for the practicals.
Speaking of costumes, remember the CAT costume, my public costume I'm calling it? Well, I had to change my now-called underground costume design. Obviously, if I'm going to change the layout, I'm changing the features too.
The design is basically a black rubber body-suit that is rather tight. Not tight as in you can see my ass tight, but tight as in nothing can get caught if a knife were to be thrown at it. The jacket is exchanged for a thin bullet/quirk-proof vest that can be open to reveal some throwing knives. I always need those. The helmet stayed the same, so I'm happy about that! Thanks, brain-dead self! We still have the electronic batons and swords on my back with the backpack carrying my laptop and random shit. However, there is now a new backpack in between the original bag and the weaponry. Remember that Attack On Titan mobility gear that I only used once? Well, it's making a comeback! Kinda!
You see, the mobility gear is bulky as fuck. That is horrible when you need as much speed as possible. I also wanted grappling hooks. In the Hosu Incident, when I hip-hoppitied up that building, it took a ton of compressed air to do to the point that. In the end, I barely had a thing. That is luck saving me. I need to preserve that air, thus grappling hooks! The hooks are on the utility belt and harness I added to the costume to hold bombs while the wiring is in the new backpack in my back, leading to hundred feet max for each grapple. A bit up there, but better safe than sorry! You may be wondering, if you are paying attention, why around my waist and not my arms like with CAT at the Sports Festival?
Simple: I need my arms. The grappling hooks on my arms in CAT can be used as weapons. For this costume, my batons do that. I want to be as flexible as possible. Hopefully, it works out well. That's all that really changed with it, though.
Back to the bus!
From what I am hearing from the students, they think it is going to be us fighting robots. Sounds fucking stupid to me with everything going on, so I'm willing to bet, based on that fact I saw Shouta checking over his gear earlier, that we are fighting the teachers. Joy!
And I was right too! I ain't smart for nothing! All the UA teachers stand in front of us while Nezu pops out of Shouta's scarf and explains the whole thing. Each pair of students will be facing a teacher. We have thirty minutes to either escape the place or place a cuff on the teacher. The teacher will be weighed down with bracelets, so it is possible to win. I just hope I don't have a bad partner.
Shouta starts telling the teams before the final names are announced.
"Izuku and Bakugo, you will be facing-"
"I AM HERE!"