Suicidal Todoroki x Midoriya | What it Means to Love

11 | The War Succeeding Peace

Izuku Midoriya

Kacchan sprints to evade the instantaneous onslaught of opposing teams who wish to claim the ten-million point headband for themselves. One of the teams in close proximity to us is Kaminari, Kirishima, Iida, and Uraraka. Iida can unquestioningly run past Kacchan in a heartbeat, so Yaoyorozu expeditiously creates a long strand of white cloth that acts very similarly to Aizawa's. Todoroki generates a tall, thick glacier of ice immediately in front of Iida's team as a brief blockade to provide Yaoyorozu the time to create a pair of rubber gloves.

Once Iida leaps over the ice wall with the help of Uraraka's quirk, Yaoyorozu whips the Aizawa-style weapon and snatches Kaminari around his torso. The cloth wraps around Kaminari and holds him fast, which leaves Kirishima and Uraraka to prevent him from being ripped off of Iida's shoulders. As expected, Kaminari sends a crackling wave of electricity down the cloth, but it has no effect on Yaoyorozu's rubber gloves. She grins a bit and yells at Kacchan to create an explosion behind himself while she creates a fire-proof pair of gloves and slips them on. The cloth catches fire as Kacchan activates an explosion nearby it, and the flame travels along the hard cloth sparking with electricity.

Now Yaoyorozu thrusts the sturdy cloth at Iida's team. The cloth hardens and smacks Kirishima, Kaminari, and Uraraka in the heads. It softens after striking the three, and since it's literally on fire, the three scramble to ditch it.

In front of us charges Tokoyami, Sero, a girl with green hair that looks like vines (who I eventually come to know as Shiozaki), and a guy with lilac purple hair and an aloof expression like Todoroki (also known as Shinsou). Sero launches his white, durable tape at us, to which Kacchan reacts swiftly and propels himself into the air using an explosion of swirling orange and yellow from his hands. Todoroki sends a wave of irksome ice down at the team, although Tokoyami's Dark Shadow has no problem busting through it.

Sero strikes again once the ice is cleared, and Dark Shadow rockets through the air towards us.

"Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami shouts. "Grab one of their headbands!" Dark Shadow nods and dives straight for Todoroki while Sero's tape wraps around my arms.

Yaoyorozu strains to create a large shield before Dark Shadow can come into contact with Todoroki's pillar of ice he's just now created. Kacchan purposefully unleashes a mass of bright explosions that force Dark Shadow to recoil and become quite meek. Nonetheless, Dark Shadow persists as Sero starts to yank me back, which results in me almost choking Kacchan. Luckily, I'm not the one sitting in the middle on his dependable shoulders.

"Glgh! Watch it, Deku!" Kacchan snaps.

Todoroki propels us up and over Tokoyami's team using his ice to form a curving arc of sky blue glittering in the sun. Since Sero's tape is still wrapped around me and is tight to reel me away from my perch, Todoroki takes advantage of this and ends up yanking Sero and his team backwards as we fly over them, using the ice ark at our disposal.

However, what we all failed to notice was that Dark Shadow still managed to snatch Kacchan's headband through the blazing turmoil of rapidly rushing ice through wind and fire.

"Still in the lead is Team Todoroki!" Present Mic shouts. "In second place is Team Tokoyami! In third is Team Iida! In fourth is Team Tetsutetsu! Eight minutes and twenty-seven seconds remain!" That's an oddly specific time marker.

Somewhere over the bedlam of the stadium, I hear someone shout, "I never knew we were on a first-name basis!"

Yaoyorozu creates a small pair of scissors and easily snips me free of Sero's tape, which is still threatening to force me off of Kacchan's shoulders. With my arms free, I thank Yaoyorozu and peel the rest of the tape off. Sero and the rest of his team, however, are blown back from the sudden loss of tension pulling their weight around from the tape.