I'll be a Hero | BNHA x OC | {To be a Hero: Prequel}

Chapter 21: Hoshi v.s. Bakugou

I stand next to the Ash blond who glances over my smiling and scarred form. "Oi. Suteki?" I turn to to him, "Hm?" He shoves his hand in his pockets, "Don't those burns still hurt?" I wink, and bring my pompoms up a bit "Nope! I'm all good!" He grunts, "Stupid Suteki. You went past your limit, got hurt really badly, scared everyone, and your still smiling. How can you be so fucking happy all the time?!" I turn away ignoring his question, he sees the change in my mood and drops it, looking away. "Alright everyone! Let's have fun competing in the recreational games! When that's over the sixteen from the four teams that made it to the final round!" The board displays the setup for the final round, which is 1v1 battles, except it doesn't show who's against who yet.

"I'm gonna stand on the stage I watch every year on tv!" I skip over and swing an arm around Kirishima, "This was always my favorite part of the festival! I've always loved watching 1v1 events!" Kirishima looks over at me, "What about you Cute Bean?" I ask giving him a large smile. "Oh! Totally! The final round is always the manliest of the events!" I smirk, "Wait, was it a tournament last year?" I ask trying to remember the festival from the year before. Sero joins into our conversation, "It's different every year, but there's a one-on-one competition every year. Last year, it was a sports chanbara match." I nod now recalling how a guy with a water quirk had to go against one girl with a plant based quirk, the girl won.

Midnight steps onto the stage, "Now, let's draw lots to determine the bracket. Once the bracket is determined, we'll have the recreational games and then start. The sixteen finalists can decide whether or not they want to participate in the recreation. I'm sure some of you want to rest of save your strength. Now, from the first place team--" Ojiro raises his hand, "Um...! Excuse me. I'm withdrawing." I glance over to him, "Oji! Why? This is one of three chances that you'll get to be noticed my pros!" He looks at me, "I barely remember anything from the cavalry battle until almost the end." I glare at my brother and hit him on the head with my pompoms, "HITO YOU BIG IDIOT YOU USED YOUR FREAKING QUIRK ON HIM?! HE'S YOUR CLASSMATE!! YOU'RE SLEEPING OUTSIDE TONIGHT YOU BIG DUMMY!" I compose myself and turn to Ojiro, "I'm sorry that he used his quirk on you Oji! Most people are too scared to talk to him once they know his quirk so he probably did it out of habit." I then look back to my brother, "Now, what do you say?" He looks at me confused until I step on his foot. "OW! Right! I'm sorry Ojiro, I was afraid that you would reject me and did the only thing I could think of, but this is a huge chance for you-"

Ojiro clenches his fist, "I know that this is a huge chance, and it'd be foolish to waste it, but everyone here has competed by giving it their all! I can't... I can't be up there with everyone without knowing what really happened." Toru turns to him, "You're worrying too much about it! You should just make sure you produce results in the finals! If you're going to say that. I didn't do anything either.." he sighs and places a hand over his face, "That's not it... I'm talking about my pride here! I can't... Also, why are you guys and Kaminari wearing cheerleader outfits?" I giggle, "Oh! Kaminari's wearing one because I wanted to see if Hito's ga- I mean because he's a pervert and needed to be punished. And I think us girls look hella cute-- but Kaminari and Mineta tricked us."

A short round boy from Class B speaks up, "I'm Nirengeki Shoda from Class B, I also want to withdraw for the same reason. Regardless of ability, don't you think it goes against the goal of this sports festival for those who didn't do anything to move on to the final round?" Kirishima has tears in his eyes, "What's with these guys?! They're so manly!" I chuckle quietly to myself as I pat his head, "This is an unusual turn of events..." Present Mic says. "Youthful talk like that is something..." Midnight cracks her whip in a diagonal motion, "...I like! Shoda, Ojiro, I accept your withdrawal!" She thinks for a second, "In that case, we'll have to move up two people from the fifth place cavalry battle team..." A girl with long orange hair in a side pony cuts in, "If that's what's going to happen, then rather than us, who'd barely did anything during the cavalry battle," she looks over to one of her classmates, "it should be them, right?" She turns to those her were on her team, "Right?" They nod in agreement, "The ones who fought til the end and stayed at the top, team Tetsutetsu, right?" Once again her team agrees with her. "Kendo...!" I look at the boy who spoke, "He's the one who has a similar quirk to Kirishima." The girl smiles at him, "This isn't a collusion or anything, it just makes sense." He starts to cry, "Y-you guys!"