Puppetry

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It's now Kuroza's group's turn to do the race, and Kuroza is in her starting point waiting for the signal to start. "Alright... let's do this" She hears the beep and takes off running, "Let's think... where would All Might hide? He wouldn't hide too close to one specific person to make it unfair, but probably not in the exact middle of where we all started, and not where he's been before... got it!" She takes a turn at the crossroad she found herself at, quickly making her way up the top of the maze of pipes, and looks around. "Hm..." She moves her sunglasses to the top of her head, and keeps moving, effortlessly jumping from pipe to pipe, using the smaller ones as either platforms to sit for a second or gain more momentum to make bigger jumps. "Where is he...? If I'm right he should be somewhere around here... I've been searching for a while, I have to be close" She keeps searching the area, and hears Bakugo's explosions coming near, "Crap... he moves much faster than I do, I need speed this up" She can hear Bakugo much higher up than her, not only having a better viewpoint but also staying far away from her to avoid her quirk, but there's one difference between them, Kuroza can more easily see in the more closed-top areas, which leads to her seeing All Might's hair, "Found him!" She jumps down and runs over to him, winning the race, All Might leaving to find Ashido and Kirishima and bring them to the others, trusting that Kuroza and Bakugo know the way out on their own.

"Dammit! I was about to win!" "Well I beat you, so deal with it" Kuroza goes to walk away, but Bakugo takes a swing at her, which gets met with her grabbing him arm and flips him over himself onto the ground, and presses her knee and hand on his chest. "GET OFF ME DAMMIT!" "You tried to hit me while I wasn't looking" "So what if I did?! Now get off me!" She sees him start to raise his hand, "I would put that back down. I know you hate being under my quirk's control, one sign of you about to attack and I activate it" "FINE!" "Good. All I ask is that you apologize for trying to attack me while I was facing away" "Tsk. I'm sorry" "Thanks Bakugo" She stands up, "I'm heading back to the others now, see ya" She puts her sunglasses down and walks off. When she gets back she gets met with Jiro and Midoriya. "You were awesome Azugo!" "Oh, thanks" "You actually got Kacchan to back down?" "You guys saw that?" "Mhm! It was really impressive!" "He was the one who started it, I just was the one to end it" She walks past them and joins the others.

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"Hey... Mom?" "Yes Sweetie? You just got home from UA, what's wrong?" "Nothing is wrong exactly... I just... need some input" "I can't help you with your homework anymore you know, you're 15, you can figure it out yourself" "It's not homework, it's uhh..." She scratches the back of her head while blushing lightly, "W-what should I wear on a date to the movies...?" "You have a date?!" "Y-yeah" "Who?" "It's uhh... Kiri" "Kirishima?" "Yeah, he asked me to join him in watching a movie at the theaters and then I had asked if it was a date and he answered yes" "Finally! I was wondering when you two would start dating" "MOM!" Her mom laughs "I'll help you out, don't worry" "Thanks Mom, he should be getting back to me on what movie we'll be watching and when pretty soon" "Alright, let's go find something for you to wear" The two go to Kuroza's room, "Hmm... let's see what you have in your closet" "I don't think I have anything super fancy, but we don't need that since it's a movie" "I know, but you still want to look nice" "I know Mom" Her mom looks through Kuroza's closet while talking, "So you and Kirishima, how long have you known you had a crush on him?" "Oh, I noticed right away, but in terms of how long I've liked him, since the first or second day of UA" "Really?" "Yeah, he's really nice" "Is that all you like about him?" "Not at all, he's really fun to be around, actually likes the music I listen to, even if it's not something he'd listen to all the time he doesn't talk bad about it and question why I listen to rock music or say something about how a lady shouldn't listen to that type of thing, I'm getting a bit off topic, he's just in general a really great guy and not to mention good looking"