An Unlikely Partnership~Tododeku

6~ Deep Water Diving

"Hello. Welcome to the corridor of gems. I see you've found the first clue, made it past the door and had enough courage to come down here and press the button. You will get the clue at the end of this trail. But. The trail is not over yet."

The hologram disappeared and a new doorway uncovered, leading to god knows where.

They glanced at each other. What choice did they have? There wasn't anything else that could be done.

So the group headed towards the unknown doorway with Midoriya in the lead. Prepared to pass the next test. Prepared for whatever was going to come.

The thing was. They weren't. They weren't prepared for what was coming. Not in the slightest.

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As soon as they disappeared through the door, they fell. The fall was short and quick, and hitting the floor didn't hurt either. 

Midoriya stood up. He, Todoroki, Kirishima and Bakugou were standing in front of four doors in a small room.

The room around them was barely four meters wide and five meters long. The roof hung low, around two meters at most. There was no exit, just the four doors. 

On top of each doorway was carved a name. On the doorway to the very left, Bakugou's name was carved there. The Midoriya's on the next, followed by Todoroki and finishing with Kirishima.

"It's kinda creepy how that know our names. Then again... They're probably some remarkable spirit." Kirishima smiled, and activated his quirk. "Let's get the over with."

But before Kirishima could finish his sentence, an invisible force pulled them towards their marked doors. The doors opened and sucked them in. A white flash of light illuminated the rooms, revealing a sign the heroes had not spotted before.

A little wooden sign was hung on the wall behind them. It read, 'Deep Water Diving. Dive into your own past but don't get drowned by it, or you'll never make it out.'

Kirishima sat up and groaned, still half blinded by the godly sized light flash. The scenery around him was very familiar. 

The walls of the cave were grey and lines with small quarts rocks that sparkled in the blue light. The source of the blue light was just a lantern painted with glass paint to give off a blue glow, but it still had a homey feeling. Diagonally to the right, there was a cave entrance covered in green ferns. 

Kirishima smiled as he remembered the day he had spent cutting away the vines on the inside to trim them. He eventually borrowed a potion off one of the third years to stop them growing over the entrance.

There were little niches carved out of the rock. Each niche held a small blue everlasting candle. The candle was made with several special types of wax and lit with Dabi's blue fire. Kirishima had collected some when they were battling with him.

At the back of the cave were two sleeping bags on a long mattress. The cave wall was lower there and he had installed a small midnight coloured curtain decorated with stars in case he wanted to spend the night. 

He whipped his head round excitedly. A little to the left sat the dining table and water flow. The dining table was a low Japanese table surrounded by little beanbags. The water flow was a little stream that ran down by the table. In the blue glow, it looked azure and glittered with the momement of the water. It was mesmerising to look at. 

Above the stream, several picture frames hung on the wall, each with the same gold plated frame that glowed gently like a square star. Several pictures were of him and all his friends at U.A. and a few images of him and his best friends. There was one in a red frame right in the center. It was an image of Bakugou and Kirishima on graduation day. Kirishima was the one who took the photo. He had a wide grin while Bakugou tried to hide his smile and look annoyed.