Ice, Fire, Love, Explosion: Season 1 | My Hero Academia

Chapter 97: Hero Too

3rd Person POV

It was now officially the day of U.A.'s Cultural Festival!

The time was currently 8:45 a.m., and Class 1-A were busy setting up everything in the gymnasium.

"It's almost time! My nerves are killing me!" Kaminari panicked as he shivered with a super scared tone. From beside Tokoyami, Yao-Momo was trying her best to calm her nerves, "Just take a few deep breaths. Try to center yourself, Kaminari." "Are you sweating, Yaoyorozu?" Tokoyami questioned in shock.

"We went through the trouble of having shirts made, so put yours on, Bakugo." Kyoka stubbornly told Bakugo, but the hothead was still giving off a pissed aura as he clutched his drum sticks. Meanwhile, Miku was leaning on Bakugo's right arm, her right hand gripping his A Band shirt, "Come on, Katsuki, you've gotta wear your shirt." "Hell no." he growled back like an animal.

Miku groaned a sigh, standing up straight, "Look, I get you think it might look 'cringely stupid' for you to match with us." She then whipped his A Band shirt through the back of his skull with a loud SLAP! "But we match all the time, so what's the difference here?!" "Well, you're a whole different damn story!" Bakugo immediately fired back.

"Our dance outfits are perfect!" Mina fangirled as she examined herself, Ochaco behind her unwrinkling the pink-girl's large skirt. "It's crazy we managed to find these." Vanessa smiled softly as she approached the two girls on her crutches, "Sure, they were pretty much ready-made, but it's a miracle we managed to add some flair to them."

"Midoriya's not here..." Todoroki spoke to Aoyama as he walked beside the French boy dressed in his hero costume, the dual haired boy carrying a box of supplies. "He's gone to purchase rope." Aoyama replied as he fixed his metal collar.

"He's taking a long time, though, isn't he?" Todoroki asked, slight concern filling his emotionless face before—

"Todoroki! Let's go over the sequence one last time!" Mina shouted from behind, and the dual haired boy quickly turned to them and walked over to them. However...

"Princess? Are you alright?" Todoroki stared down at the brunette who was chuckling like a mad-woman with crazy-eyes. Her crazy-eyes shot up to her boyfriend, and he felt shivers sped up his arms. "Yeah I'm totally fine what could possibly be the problem— Oh wait I KNOW."

Lifting up her right crutch above her head, she slammed it down against the floor, creating a loud banging sound. "It's fifteen minutes until the festival begins!! I swear to God—!! I'm gonna kill myself if Midoriya doesn't show up!!" "Please don't do that, my love." Todoroki frowned as sadness filled his eyes, taking her literally.

"Don't worry about Nessa— She's just anxious." Mina reassured the panicking-brunette's boyfriend, "Now, let's go over the sequence one last time...!"

Never taking his eyes off his panicking love, Todoroki began explaining his role in the concert to show that he understood what to do. Meanwhile, eventually after more pissy moods from Bakugo, Miku decided to forcefully shove the A Band shirt over her boyfriend's black collared shirt. However, Bakugo didn't care anymore, and just gave up trying to not wear it.

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It was only two minutes until they began the performance, the time currently 9:58 a.m.

The dance and band team were already ready behind the closed curtains of the stage, while the effects crew were on the high back stage stands at the end of the gymnasium, up above the entire crowd.

"Ugh, where the hell is Midoriya?! He's playing badly with my anxiety!!" Vanessa panicked as she aggressively slammed her face into Todoroki's chest. "Yeah, he should be back by now. It's odd." Todoroki added as he placed his cold hand on the back of her head and ran his fingers through her hair reassuringly.