Explosive Touch [Bakugo Katsuki x OC] - Book 1

Chapter 4 - What A First Day

Here's the thing about Quirks. They were... different. Chances are, you wouldn't be able to find two unrelated people who possessed the exact same ability. Sure, it might've looked the same, but the fundamentals of two Quirks which might at first appear to be identical, will likely have nothing in common.

As such, Quirks had a wide range of applications, possibilities, varieties. As endless as the different snowflakes falling from the sky whenever snow poured down in the chilly winter months.

But as such, not all Quirks are equally fit for all areas of use.

Now, what does that have to do with everything, you may wonder?

A test of Quirks. That's what Aizawa had called it. Unlike most tests though, this wasn't one you could just study up for and pretend that it's fair and even for everyone (looking past the fact that this test in particular came as a bit of a surprise, of course). Because this depended on Quirks.

Sure, there was technique and resourcefulness. But at the bottom of it all was still everone's individual ability.

Or so Atsuhi kept telling herself.

She was pretty worried. Was her Quirk weak? Not really, no. But it had a pretty specific use. And that did not include activities such as standing long jump, sprinting, endurance running, and so on. Unfortunately, Atsuhi could do very little to improve those scores.

It's moment like these I'm glad I'm actually fast.

Her greater than average speed of movement, coupled with some very minor things she hoped would help her here and there (like, for example, heating up the ball to make it travel just a smidge further), were pretty much all that set her scores apart from those of a Quirkless person.

The only exception was what she could only describe as a bit of an exploit during the grip test. She'd thought she should try and overheat the little device used for measuring this particular discipline's score. Naturally, said device stopped functioning correctly and displayed a non-sensical score as a result. It was only at that moment she realized this might have been against the rules. One look at Aizawa though seemed to suggest otherwise – the man just wrote something down and called for the next person (Atsuhi might've been imagining things but she could almost swear he now held a small grudge against her as he had to go and fetch a new device).

And so on, and so on. Technically, all the different tests were unique and exciting, presenting numerous different applications to numerous different Quirks. Yet, after a while, it stopped being quite as interesting. By this point, everything was just passing by in a blur. Atsuhi spaced in and out, vaguely taking note of who'd already taken their turn and remembering a couple of the more impressive scores.

Midoriya's turn at the softball throw was the first thing Atsuhi tuned into after a couple minutes of staring at nothing in particular. Coincidentally, she had also taken note at his attempts at the remaining disciplines, curious about the over-powered Quirk with unfortunate consequences she'd witnessed at the Entrance Exam. And she'd noticed something quite surprising.

Midoriya-kun... hasn't used his Quirk yet... It surely would've helped him with just about every test we've done so far... He's doing quite poorly without it too. So then why...?

Is it possible that what happened at the Entrance Exam is going to repeat again? Which is why he's avoiding using it? That makes sense... and yet... it sounds even more confusing...

Even after 15 years of using his Quirk, he still isn't used to it...?

All while getting lost further and further down the rabbit hole that were her racing thoughts, Atsuhi was looking at the boy, who prepared for his moment. Just as she'd expected, his arm began glowing a faint green, then he whipped it forward and threw the ball, which flew off and fell-