Shatter (Bnha x Male oc)

34: What Are You Waiting For?

5 rounds and five teams in each class. Naturally Nao was in the last round, and up against Monoma. But that wasn't even his current problem. 

"Uraraka I am in a very precarious position right now." Nao said, biting the inside of his cheek. The brown haired girl looked at him curiously so he elaborated. "Well for a little while I was part of a hero team of sorts-".

"You were what?! When?" The pink clad girl asked, shocked. "During the internships I was on a team with Yaomomo and Kendo. We had our pictures taken a lot, we did a commercial and we may have caught someone dealing trigger once but you can't tell d-Mr. Aizawa about that, okay?". Uraraka nodded, still looking a little shocked. "We went with team Uwa because of our mentor. Anyways I got really close to both of them and we consoled Kendo the day after the beauty pageant. But now they're going head to head and I don't know what to do.". 

"I think you should cheer for Yaomomo, since her victory is our victory, but you can congratulate Kendo if she wins too." Uraraka said. Ah, such sensible advice. 

To be honest, it was just a training exercise, nothing was really dependent on this but still. It was important for Nao to know where his allegiances lay. Like at the sports festival when despite being a little closer to Todoroki he cheered Midoriya on because of the argument he and peppermint had gotten into before. 

'Ugh, Midoriya' He thought immediately after 'Why'd I have to end up in his group?'. Nao didn't hate his classmate, in fact he ended up agreeing with the philosophy of no dating until you're a pro but it hurt to be called secondary to a rivalry. And now they were on the same team...today was not going to be easy. 

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"We have to focus on subduing Midoriya, he's our main threat." Monoma said with a serious expression. Nao promptly threw a rock at the blonde's shoulder causing him to glare back at them. 

'Why am I never the threat?' He wondered bitterly as his own team began to talk strategy. "We should get zombie boy first." Mina said. 

Uraraka shook her head "He's not the main threat, their whole group has quirks that would make it easy to ambush us.". Everyone nodded and huddled back in. "I'll be the bait." Nao said quicky "I'll alert you with a massive forcefield if I'm in a stick situation.".

Everyone seemed to agree except Midoriya. "Its okay, I'll do it. They'll be going after me anyways.". 'That's a lot of confidence' Nao thought, still bitter as hell, but he kept it to himself. 

"Lets just get going!" Mina said cheerfully, she put her hand into the space between them and everyone followed suit. "Plus Ultra!" She cheered. Okay, maybe that made Nao feel a bit better. 

They decided to have everyone stick together for Midoriya's sake so as he ran ahead the other three kept to the ground, scanning the area for 1-B. They didn't see anything or anyone but they heard something. Uraraka's scream, except Uraraka was right there and not screaming. 

"Toshi." Nao thought aloud. The other two seemed unaffected by the nickname so they continued on, assuming Midoriya would be smart enough to figure it out. Despite their little argument Nao knew Izuku was strong and integral to their team's success in this match. He wasn't going to lose to Hitoshi just because Izuku told him to back off of his rival. 

Suddenly, a massive washer was thrown right at them and Uraraka was barely able to make it float before it smashed into Mina. They spun around to find all of 1-B, obviously lacking Shinso but notably also Monoma. That made Nao worry a little bit. It probably meant Monoma was using Shinso's quirk which could get Izuku caught. 

He didn't have time to dwell on it though as several more giant objects were thrown at them and Nao had to raise a forcefield to deflect them. "Reiko!" Mina said suddenly "The poltergeist girl must be throwing these at us from somewhere!".