Souls Hero Academia (Rewrite)

Chapter 52: Sports Festival (14)

The stadium boomed with the cries of its audience, their cheers reaching even as far as the sky. Izuku couldn't help but clap at the ending, the fight truly the flashiest of those that came before. He could see Katsuki huffing and puffing, clearly winded from the fight, but the glimmer in his eyes didn't fade, not one bit.

He was going to be a fun opponent in his next match.

On the other hand, Kaminari was out like a light. Probably had a bad impact against the wall once Katsuki blasted him out of the ring. Recovery Girl truly had her work cut out for her during the Sports Festival. If it was this destructive during the First Year's day, who knows how chaotic the Second and Third Years' would be.

"Damn, didn't think sparkplug had it in him to drag out the fight that long." Jirou mused, her ear jacks dancing around the area like mini-snakes.

"Still, that's gotta hurt, right?" Uraraka winced as she saw the medi-bots haul Kaminari's unconscious ass out of view, clearly heading towards the infirmary where he would no doubt be treated. "Just imagining being in his shoes... Brrrr..."

"Girl, where's your courage?" Ashido glomped the permanently blushing brunette with a wide grin. "Why? You scared to get beaten?"

"I'm scared of getting knocked into next week by Bakugo!" She pointed towards the ash blond with a trembling finger. "I can already see the bills for recovery piling up..."

"... You do know that our health is practically paid for by the school, kero?" Tsu commented, but that didn't stop the brunette from spiraling down deeper into the recesses of her mind.

"But what if they make you pay it back when we get our jobs!? I don't have to tell you about how bullshit student debt is!" By the end of her rant, Uraraka had slipped back into her kansai dialect, the girl blushing furiously after she realized she had just blurted out her accent after she had tried hard to scrub it out when trying to talk with those other than her parents.

"Oh? You're from the countryside?" Hagakure asked from her seat, her floating set of clothes jumping up and down as her sleeves waved around in the air. "Kind of cute though, your dialact, that is."

Uraraka made a noise that sounded the same as a dying cat. She further shrunk into herself as the girls laughed at her actions.

"By the way, Tokoyami's next, right?" Ashido asked and the birdheaded teen nodded, slowly standing up from his seat while Dark Shadow hovered menacingly behind him. "Kind of bullshit how you were allowed to continue instead of Toga because she was too beat up to fight."

"Indeed. A shameful mark I must bear on my back for all eternity." Tokoyami grumbled; eyes closed as he gritted his teeth. "I will not let this opportunity pass, however, and Dark Shadow shall show the priestess of the light how truly fearsome the dark is." Tokoyami vowed, gaining confused and amused looks from his classmates. One even snorted at the remark and Tokoyami's feathers visibly ruffled.

"Sure man. Whatever floats your boat, eh?" Mineta snickered and Dark Shadow was this close to jumping the little midget.

"I shall be going now. Preparing for this fight would be paramount to winning it all." Tokoyami bolted for the door, clearly flustered from the snickering coming from his classmates. Even Izuku had to wince. It was just that cringy, and he sucks at social things.

"So, who do you think is going to win?" Shoji asked, his eyes closed but the ears on his dupliarms wide open.

"To be fair, the fight could go either way, kero." Tsu hummed, her eyes looking to Izuku. "Midoriya, what about you? Who do you think is going to win, kero?"