Under pressure

Chapter 25

Final exams were in a week, after that announcement, everyone proceeded to freak out. (Y/n) was a little nervous herself, but placing fifth in the class on the midterm exam, she was in no room to complain.

She watched as around half the class flocked to Momo, all agreeing to study at her house. She seemed ecstatic to be tutoring all of them, and (Y/n) thought it was incredible.

"You're too good for this world, you know that Momo"

She turned around and gave a sheepish smile.

"Thank you (Y/n), would you care to join us as well, the more the merrier!"

"I would love to, unfortunately I don't exactly thrive when studying in groups, so I prefer to work independently or with a partner, sorry"

Momo nodded in approval.

"It's good that you know what learning conditions you work best with, shows why you're fifth in the class!"

(Y/n) smiled at the compliment, it only proved her previous words, Momo really was too good for this world.

"You're fifth in the class?"

She looked aside her at the question.

"Yeah, how well did you do Shoto?"

"Sixth"

"You see, that's karma for beating me in the sports festival"

She laughed and he rolled his eyes at her antics, though letting through a tiny smile as well.

"Anyways, did you want to study together, we have before so I know we work well!"

Shoto nodded his head, having the words taken out of his mouth for him.

And that's what they did for the next week, after school they would immediately go to the library and iron out any concept that they didn't quite understand as well as they wished. Often times, they would walk back to (Y/n)'s dorm, eating dinner and falling asleep to random animated movies. He even brought over a change of clothes and a sweatshirt one night because he was tired of falling asleep in his school uniform.

The only time he wouldn't spend the night is when his Father would call and demand him to come home for whatever reason, and while she hated his guts, (Y/n) understood where he was coming from.

"You know out of the entire week, I think you've spent more nights on my couch than in your own bed"

The two were on her way out of her home and on their way to school when she made that comment the morning of the finals. Last night they ended up sleeping to coralline.

"Yeah, thank you for continuing to have me now that you mention it, it's one of the highlights of this week if we're being honest"

(Y/n) took his hand in her own and they started to walk to school, fingers laced together gently. She offered him one of her headphones, as she claimed that listening to good music before school helped with focusing, he didn't know how much he believed her but Shoto followed this ritual with her anyways. Right before they made the last turn to the gate, their hands fell apart as they usually did but they kept their proximity to each other.

Taking out the headphones, she noticed that everyone was hyper focusing for the exam that was taking place in a few minutes. She sat at her desk, started to review a few notes, and waited for the day to start.

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Written exam over with, she felt confident in her answers. While walking to the practical location with her group of 6, they exchanged either confidence in how they did, or they were a little nervous for their scores.

She entered the arena to find out who she was partnered with for the practical, and she couldn't be more excited. She turned quickly and gave Ochaco a warm hug and it was instantly returned.

When they were told they would be fighting teachers, everyone was extremely nervous. But they took a small comfort in knowing they had partners, and (Y/n) personally though she had the best one.

Ochaco and her had been dreaming about combined fighting since day one at UA, and finally they could.

They were over the roof ecstatic, but Ochacos face dropped slightly when it was announced that they would be fighting possibly her biggest role model, 13.

"So what were you thinking, how should we go about fighting her?"

"Hmm, I'm not sure..."

Ochaco seemed space out towards someone, looking behind her, (Y/n) found her gaze locked onto Midoriya.

"I wonder what Deku would do?"

"Why?"

Ochaco looked at her in a little bit of shock, even disbelief of what she said.

"Because he's incredible, no matter what he does he always comes out on top, he never gives up and..."

"Yeah but he's not like, I don't know, a god or whatever. He's actually not too far ahead of you if you really think about it"

"What do you mean?"

"Well first off, he's the same age as us, in the same class, and he's only beginning to get a handle over his quirk. Not to say Midoriya isn't talented, he definitely is, it's just that, well."

(Y/n) knew about Uraraka crush on Midoriya, practically the whole class did, so she tried another approach on telling her.

"Remember the sports festival?"

"Of course, how could I not?"

"Yeah, well, let me tell you that was one insane move you came up with. It genuinely shocked everyone, you've already proven to be quite a big threat. I'm just trying to say that yeah, he's good, but at this point in time, the two of you aren't that far apart when it comes to skill level, so following what you think he would do is hit or miss because there's a huge chance we could come up with something better? Does that sound rude, I'm sorry if it sounds rude"

Ochaco looked at her a smiled, her determination now in full swing as an idea popped into your head.

Explaining her plan to (Y/n), both of them became elated at the plan.

"Alright, so I'll distract her by attacking, and you get everything set up?"

Ochaco smiled confidently, letting a bit of her ego show at the prospect of using her own plan.

"Yep, I'll get everything set up (Y/n), and she won't know what hit her until it's too late"