Akari Takahashi and her younger brother live with her grandparents after a tragic accident with her parents and goes to the same schools as Katsuki Bakugo and Izuku Midoriya. Against her own hesitance, she applies to UA and gets accepted as well. Bu...
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"The UA Sports Festival is about to start. It's true that joining a famous hero agency can garner you greater experience and popularity. One chance a year, three chances in a lifetime. No aspiring hero can afford to miss this festival. That means you better not slack off on your training," Mr. Aizawa had said.
There were things he had to me alone. "I also know that you inherited both of their Quirks which created a very powerful Quirk. Mindfulness. You have the ability to be a very powerful hero with such a Quirk, but yet, you are still holding back your potential. If things had happened differently with your parents, you would have been here based on recommendations and not by the normal exams. I expect much more from you and you have not impressed me. Because of this, if you don't place in the top 3 in the Sports Festival, I will expel you...I know what you went through was traumatic, but you can't let your past define you. You have been skating by using your Quirk minimally as well as keeping yourself unnoticeable to not bring attention to yourself. Though, I'm afraid you can't do that forever. This tournament is going to be broadcasted live, and the media will be all over it, especially you. You need to get over this fear you have of others fearing or judging you in order to improve your Quirk. I wouldn't ask this much out of you if I didn't think you were capable of it."
I gulp. The UA Sports Festival is just as big as he said, and though the media is going to be all over it, I need to come out of hiding. As much as I fear the hate, in order to prove myself, I have to show the world that sometimes bad things happen to good people—that I'm not the next supervillain. I change my thoughts to begin to think on how the festival is going to be set up. Students are separated by class year, and then the support, business, general studies, and hero courses all fight against each other in a bunch of preliminary trials. Whoever makes it through the initial games face off in the finals. It's basically a big round-robin tournament. One thing is for sure, I have to step up. I can't hide in the shadow my parents created no longer.
Something catches my eye and make me look up to see my classmates staring out at the open doorway. I pull my earphones out to hear what's going on and gather my things as well to walk over there where I see a huge crowd of other students at the door.
"U-uh, why the heck are you all here?" Uraraka asks them.
"Do you students have some sort of business with our class?" Iida asks as well.
"Why are you blocking our doorway? I won't let you hold us hostage!" Mineta shouts.
"They're scouting out the competition, idiots," Kacchan tells them. "We're the class that survived a real villain attack. They want to see with their own eyes."
"Let's just hope he doesn't explode anybody," Izukun says nervously.
"At least now you know what a future pro looks like. Now move it, extras," Kacchan shouts at them.
