The Phantom Hero

8. Costume?

"I... can still move," Izu said determined as he clenched his fist with his broken finger.

"WOO! Now that's a hero-like record if I ever saw one," the girl with short brown hair exclaimed with a cheer.

"His finger appears to be swollen. Thinking back to the entrance exam... what a strange quirk," Ida said with a thoughtful expression.

"Stylishly done," a sparkly blonde boy said as he watched Izu.

Although they were all shouting this, I hardly registered any of it at all. Still in complete shock that Izu has a quirk. How dose he have a quirk? How long has he had it? Why hasn't he told me about this before?

"What the hell? Explain yourself, Deku," Katsaki screamed in rage braking me out of my thoughts, made a dash at Izu.

As Izu made a shout in fright. Before Katsaki reached Izu a long white cloth or scarf wrapped around Katsaki was struggling to see who was doing this as he grunted, "what the... this cloth... it's stiff!!"

"It's a 'capture weapon' made of carbon fibers and a special alloy wire. Geez. Stop using your quirk already. I'm getting dry eye over here," Mr. Aizawa explained with a glare. While he yanked on his long capture weapon as he used his quirk.

"What a waste of time. Prepare for the event," Mr. Aizawa said with a sigh as he released Katsaki from his quirk and capture weapon.

"Is your finger okay," the girl with short brown hair asked Izu worriedly. I would have asked Izu too if I wasn't so shocked and up set with him. I mean, why didn't he tell? Did I do something wrong? Arn't we friends?

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Before I even knew it, the events were over. We all stood in front of our teacher awaiting are results and although I know I'm not last it still didn't help my nerves. We all stood and stared in silence as he said, "moving along. Time for the results. Your total scores simply reflect your performance in each of the events. Explaining the process would be a waste of time so all you get are the final rankings."

"Also, I was lying about expelling someone. That was a rational deception ment to bring out the best in all of you," he finished with an unsettling smile. Or maybe its a smirk.

Everyone shouted out in shock at what he said, some of them didn't shout at all. Some barely even reacted to the result at all. Then a girl with black pony said, "well of course it was a lie didn't take much to figure that out..."

Although I had no reason not to believe her something in my gut tells me he wasn't lying. Mr. Aizawa didn't give are shocked expressions another glance as he turned away and said, "anyway. We're done here. Your documents about the curriculum and such are back in the classroom. Give them a look."

"Midoriya. Have Recovery Girl fix you up. Tomorrow's trials aren't gonna be any easier," he said as he turned to Izu with a slip to the nurse's office. Once I finely got over my shock and got a hold over my bearings, I looked at the results. To my surprise, out of the 21 students in my class I got in 5th place. I got 5th place? How'd I manage to get 5th place?

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When the school day finally ended, I couldn't help but to think about the quirk assessment test we had today. About Izu... and about his quirk. I still can't believe he has a quirk and never told me. We've been best friends for practically are whole lives. Why didn't he tell me?

I mean he knows about my quirk even though a part of me doesn't think it's a quirk. How could he keep this from me? I mean we are friends, aren't we? I just don't understand.