Chapter IX: A Good Friend

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The sun rays shined through the clouds down to the dirt below of the open field, and the commotions below sent every animal running.

"SMASH!" Sasuke's purple rib cage didn't even budge, he gazed at Midoriya with low eyelids and rubbed some dust off his shoulders.

"What was that? Like one percent of One For All? Did you even activate the power?"

"Hehe... Sorry... I'm still not really fully comfortable with punching a person," Midoriya rubbed the back of his head. 

Sasuke shook his head, "Well, you better get used to it, whoever you face in the tournament won't feel the same way."

"Well, whoever I face probably doesn't have to worry about accidentally killing someone..." he mumbled.

"What was that?"

"AH! Nothing, Sasuke," he jumped, "Let's try again." 

Sasuke manifested his ribcage and Midoriya pulled back his arm, "SMASH!" 

The vibrations from the force of the hit could be felt throughout the ribcage, but it maintained its integrity. "Ah, not bad. How much do you think that was?"

Midoriya started playing with his hands, "Uh... Maybe... 3% I think." 

Sasuke leaned against a fence and observed the forest scenery in the distance, 'I'm not getting as much out of this training as I thought I would. It's only been one day but still...' The wind blew his hair over his eyes and he turned back towards Midoriya. 'At this rate, I won't be able to get any proper practice with my improved Susanoo. For someone who's supposed to succeed All Might, I expected something like maybe an inexperienced young All Might, but it's more like I'm fighting All Might if he was ten and he was half paralyzed...' Sasuke paused. 'Paralyzed…'

He strolled over to a sitting Midoriya and squatted, "Hey, Midoriya you're really stiff. If you're getting into an actual fight, shouldn't you be able to jump around and dash like All Might? With the way you're fighting, it's like you have no powers 99% of the time, and then you pull out your one ability before going back to your normal slow self. Why don't you just have it active all the time?"

Sasuke raised an arm showing some of his energy, "Like when I manifest energy around my body, I have it on the whole time throughout my body, not just right before I'm going to hit something."

Midoriya blinked a few times before becoming wide-eyed and smiling. "Sasuke, you're a genius!"

"Huh? Yeah I know," he blinked.

Midoriya got on his feet and braced himself, lowering his gaze, "I was so focused on the thought of ‘using’ it, where and when I needed to. Like flipping a switch, but that's made my reaction time slower... What I should have been doing was flipping all the switches at once the whole time!" he glowed as green lightning sparked around him, "I gotta hold the image of holding it uniformly around my whole body!"

Sasuke took a few steps back and smirked, 'He learned from that tip really fast. Alright, maybe I was wrong."

Midoriya gritted his teeth, "Steadily all the time, at 3%! That's my upper limit!"

"Can you move like that?"

"I... I think so!"

Purple energy flared up and coiled around Sasuke's body, "Why don't I test that?"

"Please do!" Midoriya smiled as he met Sasuke's gaze. Sasuke dashed towards him and Midoriya jumped to the side. However, he lost control of the jump and ended up ramming into a wall. He lost focus and stopped glowing. 

Sasuke skidded his feet on the ground and turned to Midoriya and charged again. 'Damn it! Not enough time to spread it across my body!' His legs glowed and he jumped high into the air. A bit too high actually. "AHHHHHHH"

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