A/N: My friends and I made a hear me out cake and tell me why none of them were listenin to what I was preaching. I put Kuroiro on the cake and everyone yelled at me 😭
This chapter is a bit shorter than what I usually write. But I will be updating again later tonight.
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Wednesday: 08:30
"I may have mentioned this already, but your main focus this summer is obtaining provisional hero licenses." Aizawa says, "Yes sir!" the class responds in unison. "Do not take this lightly. A hero license means you're responsible for human lives. You can imagine the exam to receive one is very difficult. Only 50% of students pass the tests required for the permits each year." He informs us dryly.
"Its that hard to get a provisional license??" Mineta gawks and I scoff, "Even if the test had an 100% passing rate you'd still find a way to fail." I say with an eye roll and Bakugo cackles. Aizawa glares at the class, "In order to prepare, today you'll concentrate on creating something new." The door then opens to reveal Midnight, Ectoplasm and Cementoss. "Two ultimate moves." Aizawa says.
"Ultimate moves?" Kiri and Kami ask excitedly. "Exam is a normal school thing!" Kami and Mina say, "But this is total hero work!" Kiri and Sero finish excitedly. "When we say ultimate we mean a move that will ensure you win against your opponent." Ectoplasm tells us, "An action so unique to your identity that no other person can hope to copy it. Simply put, you must learn to lean into your strengths." Cementoss finishes. Midnight then says something but I dont listen.
'Ugh what do I use for an ultimate move???' I think as I pull on the roots of my hair, head in my hands. We are then told to change into our costumes and meet in 'Gym Gamma'. Once we arrive Cementoss builds a large cement terrain for us to use to work on our ultimate moves and Ectoplasm creates multiple clones for each of us, scattered around the terrain.
I jump up as I navigate my way around the cement pillars, going to the back of the terrain to meet with a version of Ectoplasm. "Got any ideas?" He asks and I sigh shaking my head in response as I look down. "Yes, it may be tricky with your quirks but try coming up with something you've used before and making it stronger until its flawless." He tells me and I scratch my head as I think before I click my fingers, pointing to him.
"I've recently learned I can use my enhance quirk to enhance the durability of my skin cells, what if I was to strengthen that until my skin is durable enough to withstand harsh blows?" I ask and he nods, "good idea. Work on that as you think of another ultimate move." I then nod and ask if I can go grab a classmate for help and he agrees as long as it will help them too. I run to Midoriya.
"Hey Zuku!! Do you need a punching bag?" I ask and he tilts his head, confused. "Sorry!! I mean I need to work on increasing the durability and strength of my skin cells so I can withstand powerful blows, so I thought to ask if you would help me. Unless you're busy!!" I tell him as I wave my hands around and he nods, "Sure!" he says and I concentrate on enhancing the skin cells on every part of my body.
"Okay, ready!" I say and he launches at me throwing a punch at my stomach to which I fold over. "Okay maybe not ready." I say, my voice strained and he shrieks, "IM SO SORRY (Y/N)" He says about five to six times bowing his head and freaking out to check on me. "No, no. I'm fine don't worry Zuku. It's just that when I enhance all my skin cells it's harder to make it stronger since it's such a mass area." I say with a sigh.
"Wait! this kind of reminds me of my quirk!!!" He exclaims excitedly and I look at him, confused. "You see, when I applied my quirk to my arm or finger it was so strong that it broke so to decrease the strain it had on my body I would use my quirk over my entire body right?" He says and I nod remembering our FaceTime calls as he practiced during internships. "Sooooo, to strengthen your durability and strength try predict my movements and only enhance that part of yourself!" He suggests and I gasp, "YOU'RE A GENIUS WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT" I say as I grab his shoulders and jump up and down excitedly.
"Okay let's try it, I'll tell you what I'm doing just so you can get the hang of it and then you try predict my movement's afterwards." He tells me and I nod. "Okay imma go for the same place as before" He says and I nod again, putting all my power into enhancing that section of my body. Midoriya applies his quirk and punches me and this time I don't feel it at all.
"IT WORKED!!" I exclaim and he laughs. "Okay good, now we can spar and you can try predict what I'm doing." He tells me and we begin to spar, sometimes I avoid his hits by enhancing the right section of my body and other times i'm not as lucky.
"Y'know Zuku, since we were using your quirk as inspiration for me I can only think that we could do the same for mine. Your arms are damaged so you have to be careful with them, so why not use kicks?" I suggest and his eyes widen, "I could do that! It would be a good adjustment which would also throw people off guard since I haven't tried it before" He says while punching the air in front of him. We both nod excitedly, still full of energy before continuing our training. Midoriya using kicks now as well.
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I flop down onto the floor trying to catch my breath as I lay in a starfish position, Midoriya next to me. Everyone was finally told they could take a break and that we were done for the day and my entire body was aching. Being a punching bag hurts.
"Get up dumbass" A gruff voice says as Bakugo's figure stands at the base of my head, looking down at me. "No, my muscles hurt and I'm gonna have bruises everywhere" I whine and he scoffs. "You have three seconds to get up or I'll show you real bruises." He says, annoyed and I smirk. "I'm pretty sure you already have" I say, teasingly, as I smirk at his confused face. "What the fuck are you on about?" He asks and I shrug. "You really want me revealing that information in front of Zuku?" I ask and he looks over at Midoriya next to me before what I said clicked in his head.
"FUCK OFF" He yells as he grabs me by the shoulder and yanks me up, effortlessly. "You freak." He continues as he pulls me further away from Midoriya. "THANKS FOR YOUR HELP ZUKU!!" I yell out before Bakugo closes the gym doors after we get outside. Slamming me against them, everyone had already left. "You're such a loud mouth. I don't need that damn nerd knowing my business." He says lowly at me. Both his hands on my shoulders as he pushes me against the door.
"Chill out. He's my best friend anyway it isn't that big a deal. He's also very clueless" I tell him as I hold his hands with mine. "I thought dunce face was your best friend?" He asks, confused, "Bakugo you can have more than one best friend y'know. But personally I think you can only have one BEST-best friend" I say and he furrows his eyebrows, "The fuck is a BEST-best friend you idiot?" he asks, "Y'know like your ride or die, you know that you're that persons number 1 and they're your number 1." I inform him and he scowls.
"What- so shitty Deku is your 'number 1'?" He asks angrily and I shake my head, "Nope, afraid that would be you." I tell him before standing up on my toes and kissing his cheek. He scowls and looks to the side, "I- uh... found this place I thought you'd like. Wanna like go there or something on Saturday?" He asks and I smile, "are you asking me out on a date Katsuki?" I ask as I lean closer to him.
He shoves me away, putting his palm over my face and shoving my head backwards, "Tch. No." he says before his eyes widen and he snaps his head to look at me, "Wait no- I mean yes. Yes." he says, worried that I would get the wrong idea from his attitude. "I know, I know. I would love to" I say as I hold his hand that he had previously used to reach out to me as he freaked out. "You're cute" I tell him before dragging him to the school building by his hand as he swore at me loudly.
Unfortunately Midoriya had overheard the whole conversation when walking towards the door to exit.
