Behind a smile

Part 14~Sports Festival

The room was quiet. No really talked in this room any more. Yuta had yet to leave, looking awful, she barely slept or ate. Slowly wasting away.

Yao-momo and Kamanari tried to keep her happy but they couldn't do much. Bakugou often came by as well, telling Yuta about how her brother used to act when he was little. Most of the time she would correct him on where he used the wrong name.

It became a sweet reteen for the group. They now just had to wait for them to wake up.

"Hello!"! Hello! Hello! Welcome to the U.a Sports Festival!" The school buzzed, students preparing for the start. Heroes guarded every entrance and exit, checking every member of the public to keep the villains out.

"Welcome to the stage, from the hero course, class 1-A!" The class of students walked out at Present Mic's call, not looking around in the slightest as they made their way to the first.

Class 1-B came out next before eventually everyone was standing in the field.

"Now, for the athete's oath, Izuku Midoriya!" A small boy covered in bandages stood up next to Midnight who gave him a sympathetic look.

"At U.A we... we want you to stay... to stay strong... not give... give up and to give it your all!" Midoriya spoke shakingly while smiling. If this was a normal year, many of the students would have complained that the oat was given by the best of the hero course, but that didn't cross their minds as they watched the USJ hero, as every newsagent called him.

Midroiya had woken up three days ago, and had no chance of competing, something he found devastating but he knew not to fight.

"To start this festival, we shall have a-" Midnight pointed to a screen where a slot machine-like effect appeared, "-Obstacle course!"

"You will take... take one lap around this building, leaving... leaving through that exit. We... we shall watch them through... through cameras made by the support... the suppor course." Midroriy announced while pointing at the exit.

"You'll have ten minutes before we start." Midnight finished off as Midoriya sat down on the stage, his legs dangling off the edge.

"Ready?!" Midnight asked after the time was up. "Set, go!"

Everyone couldn't help but cringe as the hundreds of students tried to squeeze through the tight gap.

Naturally, the hero course students were the first out, Todoroki taking an early lead by freezing them to the ground.

A low rumbling caused the dual hero to stop short as the zero pointers stood up.

Present Mic was announcing murder annoyng the many heroes and students listening.

Todoroki didn't seem bothered by the robot as he quickly froze them and ran forward. Many others trying to follow his path but ending up buried by the falling zero pointer.

Todoroki, who was watching the others, almost missed the wire that went for his head.

A boy wearing a green and black tracksuit with familiar cat ears. He wore a mask with his tongue sticking out.

"What?! I thought Midoriya was sitting out this time!" Present Mic jumped up while screaming.

"Yes, while our brother has, we made no sign we were. It's pretty obvious, afterall, only two of us actually want to become heroes, most of us are quite happy in the role of a villian. I suggest you are careful, no holding back," Midoriya- or Kashikoi- said before sending another wire at Todoroki who dodged and sent ice to him.

Koi found it easy to avoid the attacks until a familiar shout came from above, "Die!"

Before Koi could react, the explosion hit him in the face and sent him crashing away.

The heroes in training didn't wait a second before running forward. Of course it didn't take long of Kashikoi to recover and stop the ones left over.

Todoroki and Bakugou kept head to head as they ran to the next obstacle. The drop. Bakugou didn't hesitate to start exploding his way across the area, but Todoroki was a bit more hesitant after last time, he's suspicions being proven when a sudden crash stopped Bakugou and threw him into a nearby plot of land.

Song singing could be heard in the area as a boy with huge black feathered wings flew into centre view. "Trend clearfully, children. My song may be sweet but my sister is anything but," he sang as a girl jumped up and landed in the middle pillar.

The boy and girl were both wearing the tracksuits all Midoriyas wore. The noticeable difference though was the girl having long hair and a femine body unlike her many siblings. "Come on boys, unless you're scared to be beat by a girl."

Mei and Sora were their opponents.

With the new challenge clear, Todoroki finally moved. Using his ice to move along the rope. Unlike last time, he was able to dodge the attack sent at him, being a golden coloured chain.

Both Todoroki and Bakugou quickly realised that if it could be avoided, fighting the Midroiyas shouldn't happen so they attempted to dodge every attack and turned to the other side. Not too surprisingly, the two 'villains' didn't follow them once they got to the other side and meaning they were back to running.

The final obstacle, the minefield. Both were hesitant but as they couldn't find the green haired kids decided they had to just try. They got about half way before anyone arrived and at least another 10 minutes past before a sighting of the green head, or at least the effect of their quirk.

Boom!

The ground erupted causing many students to fall over and onto a mine exploding themselves.

The ground didn't stop shaking as a familiar green head appeared at the end, his hand touching the ground at all times. "While my part in the play is very small I think you shall find me most inconvenient, still I shall say, watch your back, he is coming."

"You didn't think it would end that f**king easily did ya?!" The rough voice made it easy to identify the angry sibling; it was Jack, meaning the other was Hazama.

Without much choice other than to confront these two, Todoroki changed his tactics. Using his ice to stop the mines going off he quickly made his way forward.He sent a way at the duo which they didn't bother trying to dodge. Instead they stood there and watched it come forth, when it was a few seconds away Jack lifted his hand and the ice moved directly around them. Bakugou sent a quick explosion at them but it didn't work. His quirk deactivated leaving him to fall harshly into the ground.

They had to do something, Turning back around to attempt an attack together but once again it didn't work as Bakugou's quirk wouldn't activate and Todoroki' ice didn't reach them.

Something had to work. This time almost everyone past the minefield tried to attack the deu.

As the attack was about to land the two disappeared from the stage. Despite their confusion the students ran to the finish line, Todoroki getting first and Bakugou getting second.

"What?! The! Hell!" Bakugou shouted after he finished.

"W-What? We... we said we could... couldn't compete... that didn't mean we couldn't... we couldn't help at all." Izuku laughed from the stage while speaking.

"For those of you who were confused, Midoriya's quirk allows him to create copies of himself which were the students playing the villains." Midnight explained as Izuku yawned.

"I... I think we... we should move on, Midnight or... or we will be here all day."