The guardian chronicles : Nirvana (Todoroki Shoto x Uzumaki Naruto)

Chapter 38

Should I just be predictable and just go for a single punch with Ashido?

Naruto swirled her can of soda, blue eyes fixated on the logo of her drink. In just another fifteen, the first rounds would start and her match was going to be the first one that everyone would see. She took a deep breath and she took another sip of her soda, relishing at its sweet taste. Too much sugar was bad for one's health or so she had been told, but it was the second best thing to destress her.

The first was of course the sweet taste of ramen.

Ashido's Quirk was considered to be dangerous since it had acidic qualities. Naruto nibbled her bottom lip, her eyebrows knitted together. They will think that I'm not capable of anything but clones, strength and transformation...which isn't true. I have got three more jutsu that they don't know about. She stretched her fingers and rubbed her stomach.

The door to the waiting room slid opened and Midoriya stepped in, green eyes flickering through the mostly empty waiting room. Green eyes widened at the sight of her, which made Naruto frown because her classmate should know that it was time for her to prepare herself for the next match.

"I-I'm sorry, Uzumaki...I didn't know you were here." Midoriya reached his hand out to open the door but Naruto released a loud sigh. Her classmate blinked, clicked his heels together before turning his whole body to her. The blond-haired girl forced herself to smile before patting to the empty chair in front of her.

He smiled at her, but there was a slight tremble in his smile telling her that he was nervous about something. Naruto nibbled her lips and knitted her eyebrows together as her hand continued to swirl the can of soda. Midoriya darted his eyes from her drink then to her before looking at the television screen, where the recreational games were still being shown.

"Nervous about your match?"

It was the only explanation that could explain his behavior.

Midoriya furiously nodded. Green eyes focused on the table in front of them, never looking at her and the blond-haired girl placed the can on the table. Her head rested on the table, head tilted to the side as blue eyes focused on the boy that kept shifting in his seat. If he kept shifting side to side then Naruto might just have her eyes rolling out of her face. Honestly, it felt like the whole world was spinning if she just fixated her eyes on him.

"Ojiro-kun told me about Shinshou's Quirk." Midoriya finally said.

Naruto blinked. "His Quirk? Does it have to do with why he refused to fight in the tournament?"

"Yeah," Midoriya pulled out a notebook and flipped to a page and blue eyes widened at the diagrams and annotations made by her classmate. He grimaced. "It's a really powerful Quirk when I think about it and it worries me too."

Naruto held a finger up. "What is his Quirk, Midoriya? You act like I should know it."

The boy flushed a light shade of red and rubbed the back of his neck as a nervous laugh escaped from his lips. Naruto just rolled her eyes, lips curled upwards to a point where she was nearly smiling and then it stopped. As much as she liked Midoriya and cared for him, there was no way Naruto would allow herself to get vulnerable around him. Out of everyone in their class, he was the only one who had seen what she could potentially do.

"Shinshou can brainwash people," Naruto blinked as Midoriya pressed his lips into a thin line. "All he needs is for someone to answer him for him to brainwash them. It was how he got Ojiro, Aoyama and that guy from Class B to work with him. Ojiro only realized what happened when Bakugou brushed against him since it snapped him out of it."

It sounds almost similar to the jutsu that Ino used on Sakura in the preliminary rounds of the Chunin Exam. Naruto clasped her hands together as Midoriya gazed down at his book, lips pressed into a tiny frown. She inhaled as her fingers began to trace patterns all around the table, blue eyes looking at the clock as a pair of faded green eyes flashed before her eyes along with the slumped body of a platinum-blond haired girl.