•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 118: Einstein with his tongue out selfie

"NOW ITS FINALLY CLASS A VS B! TIME FOR YOU TO SEE OUR PROWESS!" The blonde squealed, looking awfully out of place in his tailored waistcoat.

I sighed loudly.

"You know you'd be so handsome if you just kept that mouth shut."

He froze, his face burning a bright scarlet as Kendo snorted, giving me a, and I mean this literally, large high five.

"That's enough," Aizawa spoke, appearing before us alongside 1-B's homeroom teacher, Vlad King.

"Today there will be a special participant," Vlad announced, Aizawa swiftly following that with "try not to embarrass yourselves if at all possible."

'He knows us too well...'

"This person is interested in joining the hero course, from general studies class C." 

'Class C...? OH!'

"Shinso-!" "EINSTIEN!" I cheered over the crowd, receiving a few confused looks in return.

The purple-haired boy sighed softly, giving me a deadpan look and attempting to hide his amused smile in his muffler.

"You'll get brainwashed if you talk to him, mes ami," Aoyama spoked in a hushed tone to the class but I waved him off.

'For some reason his quirk doesn't quite work on me so, I think I'll be alright...?'

Aizawa then invited the boy to say a few words and I found myself slowly moving in front of Katsuki.

'Can't be too careful knowing the fuss the kicked up before the sports festival...'

Ignoring the blonde's protests, Shinso spoke.

"I'm Hitoshi Shinso, I've already faced some of you in the sports festival, but we're not friends just because of that. I don't subscribe to that sort of sportsmanship."

"Huh, that sounds oddly familiar," I whisper to and elbow the Icyhot boy beside me.

He gave me a rather cute expression, brows furrowed and lips pursed into a thin line, a dapple of rouge on his cheeks and nose.

'...cute? GET YER SHIT TOGETHER YAMADA RYO!!'

I quickly turned back to Shinso as he wrapped up his introduction speech.

"I'm here to compete and I'm already countless steps behind. I need to prove myself. One day I will become a proper hero, and use my quirk to help people in need." The fire burning in his eyes had only seemed to grow brighter since the sports festival.

"All of you are hurdles I must overcome to do so. Thanks for having me."

I join the classes as they clap respectfully, stifling a small chuckle at how antagonistic his words had been only to end it off so politely.

"He's taken intensity lessons from you 'Roki," Sero teased from the boy's left and I snorted.

"Is that so?" he mumbled, clearly wondering why two of his classmates had now pointed out the connection.

Before he could be left to come up with some convoluted way that Shinso was the secret lovechild of some relative of his, Vlad King began explaining how the combined training would work.

"It will be Class A versus Class B! You will be in groups of four, each competing one at a time."

"With Shinso, that makes 42, there are 2 people leftover," a particularly hairy boy from class B spoke.

"Yes, which is why someone from Class A will have to partner up with Shinso and they will both participate twice, once for Class A and again for class B." He held up a chart with a few magnets on it.

"In other words, there will be two matches of 5 vs 5 with Shinso and his partner on opposite teams each time."

Sure enough, the magnets were organized in groups of 4, aside from two matches that were a 5 on 5.

'Hooh, wonder who that poor soul will be?'

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"Yamada," Aizawa spoke and I jumped.

"Mr Aizawa please don't say what I think you're gonna say..." I whined but it was no use.

"You will be Shinso's partner."

All at once I felt numerous hands from my classmates patting at my back, a silent 'there, there' hanging over my head.

"But why me?" I sighed, already accepting my fate.

"Shinso mentioned how you appear to be impervious to his quirk, we thought it would make the teams more fair. Besides," Aizawa gestured at the purple-haired boy, "he requested for you to be his partner as well."

I look over to the boy who has a hard to read expression on his face.

"Fine," I huff, crossing my arms.

"Bring it."

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"You'll win if you capture four villains, eh?" I mutter to myself, thinking over Vlad's criteria for winning the matches.

"Means we can afford to avoid one person per match..."

I was currently pondering my next moves, using a stick to draw notes into the sand beneath me.

I would be joining battles 1 and 5, seeing as those were the ones Shinso and I drew.

The first battle, I would be on Class B's side, against Denki, Kirishima, Koda and Tsuyu.

The fifth, I would be with Midoriya, Ochako, Mina and pervert boy.

In both battles, I'd be against Shinso.

'Strange, I wonder if he'd trying to find a way around my immunity...'

"Oi, you think you have time to be mumbling to yourself?" Blasty's voice shook me out of my thoughts.

"Sorry, just go wrapped up in my thoughts," I laughed gingerly, getting up from my crouched position.

"I'll head to my team's basecamp."

Before I could walk off, a hand gripped around my wrist.

I turned around to find out what he wanted.

"Don't be a dumbass."

I snorted, "I'll keep that in mind."

Once again, I try to walk off but his hold is still tight on me.

I turn back once more.

"I mean-" He cursed under his breath before looking up to lock eyes with me.

"You're good, so don't go losing to some extra."

'oh.'

-

I grinned, pulling my hand back, which in turn pulled him forward.

Into a big bear hug that is.

"Thanks Katsuki," I mumbled into his ear before pulling away quickly and running off.

'Before he blasts me to pieces for that, I'd better get out of range.'

I waved the strangely still boy goodbye and set my sights back onto the battle.

"Now he's said that, I can't exactly afford to lose can I?"