This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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Denki hears his name being called. He wakes up. He feels his hand running a  slap across someone's cheek.

Shit what had he done now.

Denki carefully opens his eyes and blinks to see Bakugou holding his hand against his bright red cheek while grinding his jaw in anger at Denki.

While Kirishima Erijiou whispers near Bakugou ear, "Stay calm bro, he was having a nightmare. Stay calm it is natural for anyone to slap the person near them out of fright".

Bakugou makes a 'tsk' sound and mutters, "Shitty hair make sure he reaches the dorm building. I am off".

Bakugou with one last look stares at Denki with such intense red eyes.

The stare makes Denki go pale and tremble in his seat slightly. First the nightmare and now Bakugou's scary glare stare.

Bakugou scoffs at Denki and steps down from the bus.

Denki stares at Bakugou walking towards the dorm building gate through the window.

Denki feels someone rubbing his mouth with a napkin. Denki looks to the side only to freak out by looking straight into Kirishima's red eyes. But his eyes had a gentle and worried look in them.

'Ah his face is too close!'

Denki gulps down at his thoughts.

Denki calm down..calm down. Avoid talking about the nightmare.

Kirishima looks at Denki with a soft smile and asks quietly, "You good bro? Was the nightmare that bad".

Denki quietly nods his head twice at the two questions.

Denki felt his tongue would betray him if he spoke about it. So he just nodded his head instead of speaking.

Kirishima sighs and says, "Let's go back to our dorm building. Everyone is waiting for us there".

Kirishima Erijiou extends his hand out for Denki to grab. Denki hesitantly takes the hand. Both the boys step down the bus. Denki catches Midoriya still standing by the bus staring quite intensely at his phone screen while muttering to himself quietly.

'Odd for whom he was waiting for?'.

Denki moves towards Midoriya and taps him on the shoulder. This causes Midoriya to shriek and he juggles his phone in his hand and now holds his phone so tightly that makes Denki  afraid with the thought that it might break at such  strength he was gripping his phone in his scarred hand.

Denki with an amused face tries to look at Midoriya's phone screen.

Midoriya blinks his  viridian green eyes and stammers at Denki as he says, "D- don't ever do that Kaminari-kun!. You nearly gave me a heart attack-".

"What are you looking at Deku~" Denki asks with curiosity present in his honey golden eyes, tries to stare at Midoriya's phone only making the nervous boy hide his phone behind his back.

Denki pouts as Midoriya hides his phone from his sight and turns to look at Kirishima and say,

"See Kirishima-kun, Midoriya has become a big naughty boy now~".

Both Kirishima and Midoriya go red in the face and scream, "Kaminari-kun!".

Denki starts laughing at their hilarious looks and starts running towards the direction of the dorm building while saying, "Race you both to the dorms and no quirks are allowed in the race~".

Denki while running towards the Height Alliance building drops his Hero case into the robot worker's  arms who will take their hero costumes for laundry and polish their support weapons.

Denki while running politely bows his head at the robot worker and says cutely, "Thank you for your hard work".

This causes the robot worker to bow back to Denki out of politeness and happiness on being thanked.

In the principal's office,

Nezu stares at the computer screen and smiles and this causes Aizawa sensei to stop explaining to him about how the exam was conducted differently than the last two years.

Nezu now stares down at the Bakugou and Torodoki's files and says, "Don't worry about it Aizawa, they both will pass the re-take exam. This year's batch has a better potential of becoming the best heroes than the previous ones with whatever experiences they are gaining along the way  they will definitely  become the next symbol of peace. I have faith in them..no doubt".

This makes Shouta smile slightly at the mention of his class and says, "Your right sir".

Somewhere else,

All Might along with his friend Tsukauchi were returning back to UA high now.

All Might was fuming in anger silently in his seat. He kept clenching his bandaged fist and unclenching the same injured  fist while his friend who was driving gave the skeletal man worried glances.

All Might had sent a message to Midoriya Shounen to keep a watch on Denki. He did not like the intentions of All For One which he had set up for the poor boy.

Flashback of the conversation between All Might and All For One in one of Tartarus prison meeting rooms.

All Might was fuming silently while All For One kept talking endlessly about verbal diarrhea. One point triggers All Might when All For One says while grinning evilly that his successor Shigaraki Tomura will bring the hero society to its ruins and asks how the people must be feeling after losing their pathetic symbol of peace.

This makes All Might stand up abruptly causing the chair to fall down loudly in the room.

All Might bangs against the glass window and says in rage, "I will smash your so called envision as long as I am life and here".

His nemesis chuckles to himself while the speaker informs them that their time is up and asks All Might to move away from the glass window in an authoritative tone leaving no room for arguments.

All Might sighs and was about to step out of the room. When he hears All For One speak in his possessive tone, "Oh, I forgot to ask how is my Angel of Salvation doing?".

All Might whips his head around to stare at All For One as he spoke his next words, "My angel must be delighted with the quirk that I have given him".

All Might walks up to the window and smashes his knuckles on the window screen causing it to crack slightly.

This action causes the warning alarms  to ring erratically. All Might stares at his slightly bruised and bleeding knuckles as he looks at All For One with furious rage and his blue eyes were flashing dangerously now as he spoke his next words with venom laced in them, "I will not let that boy become your pawn All For One never".

All For One smiles darkly and says in a monotone voice, "That's not for you to decide dear Toshinori-kun. It's the quirk that will be the deciding factor".

All Might was being pulled away from the glass window by three buffed up guards now

All For One makes sure to land one last final blow on All Might by saying darkly, "At least I got my Angel of Salvation. What do you have?".

All Might tries to question All For One, on what he meant by his words but it was too late the three guards already escorted him out of the room and the electronic automatic lock door slid into a lock mode which prevented him from going back inside to question his nemesis.

Leaving All Might back in the dark.

when  he actually felt like he was making some progress. But All For One caused his illusions to break.

All Might now felt like  he was back to square one despite his efforts.