Save My Soul : Bakugou x Reader

14 - The Quarterfinals

You watched as the robots hauled Uraraka off on a stretcher and cringed, drawing in a breath. Bakugo was ruthless on her but it's nice that he didn't treat her any differently just because she's a girl.

"Oh Bakugo way to play the villain!" You heard the way Kaminari and Kirishima jeered at Bakugo for being 'un-gentlemanly', this went on for a while before you had had enough.

"Will you shut up with that 'go easy on her because she's a girl' bullshit? It's not chivalrous, it's offensive." You huffed and gave them a treacherous glare, that made them apologise quickly. You turned to Bakugo who looked at you expectantly, "you did the right thing." It was painful for you to say those words to him but you had to drive the message home.

You observed the other matches before yours, going off of what you've seen you'd predict that you would have to face Todoroki in the final especially if  now his left side was on the table. Good on him for pissing off Endeavor before, though. You got up and stretched as Iida pushed the vine haired girl out of bounds. You began your trek to the field as you thought about your strategy for the next match.

You knew as you stared him down that Tokoyami would prove a bothersome opponent, his quirk was extremely versatile, good for both offence and defence. Dark shadow hadn't been the biggest you'd seen it before which baffled you, 'I wonder if he's been holding back.'

"The pole wielding (L:N)! Versus, the powerful Tokoyami!" You shrugged mentally before readying your stance, you'd have to go to him in this match, you had watched how he simply pushed Yaoyorozu out of bounds in their fight.

You rolled your shoulders back and moved your head from side to side and the start signal sounded. You dashed at him as dark shadow surged towards you, just as it was about to smack into you, you dropped and slid under it. You got up and continued on your charge, dark shadow quickly turned around and rushed back towards you so you side stepped out of the way. This wasn't enough as it hurriedly whacked you to the side, you created a thick wall of diamond, which you slammed into, to stop you from rolling out of bounds.

You gave yourself no time to rest before returning onto your feet and sprinting to Tokoyami once again. If you could just get to him and knock him out. Dark shadow wasn't going to allow that and you knew it, it barrelled towards you close to the ground this time, 'smart thing.'

You created a large club of Anoddium in your hand and swung, hitting Dark Shadow square in the face and effectively forcing it out of your way. You knew it had already recovered and was on it's to you. You could see it's shadow approaching and once it got near enough you flipped backwards gracefully landing on dark shadow, straddled over it's back. You quickly pressed your hands to it's black back and shot a rod of Anoddium through it and into the concrete, you made the ends of the rod wider than the rest of it so that it couldn't just easily rip it out the ground.

You hopped off of it and ran towards Tokoyami who was stood in shock a few feet ahead of you. You could hear dark shadow struggling to break the rod and free himself as you jumped up and off of the darkness attaching it to the boy and manoeuvred to bring your foot onto Tokoyami's cheek, knocking him out.

You nudged his unconscious body with your foot to make sure he was out cold, once satisfied that he was you let the rod that was still stuck through dark shadow disintegrate. You wiped your hands and faced Midnight, who seemed a bit taken aback at your slightly ruthless strategy.

"Uh, Tokoyami is unable to fight, (L:N) moves onto the semifinals!"

Cheers greeted your ears as you exited the field, and made your way to the class in the stands. "Well done (Y:N), I thought Tokoyami was going to win for sure, ribbit." Tsu complimented as you sat down and rubbed your legs. They were starting to ache from all this physical exercise.

"Thanks..?" You replied unsure of whether you should be offended at her lack of trust in your skills or not. You looked to your side where Bakugo should be sat. 'Oh wait, his match is now.' You shook your head and faced front again to see Bakugo opposite Kirishima. This should be fun to watch.

Bakugo won, surprise surprise. Though you'd rather Kirishima have one, he was more bearable than Bakugo. Then Todoroki beat Iida, making him the first known finalist, which you had guessed was going to happen. 'I'm a prophet, it seems.' You walked past your classmates as they shouted wishes of good luck to you.

As you approached the concrete square, you quelled your nerves. You had to win this, you could not lose, losing is for the weak. You took in the hot headed blond before you, he was glaring into your soul, his top lip drawn upwards in a snarl. His hands were shoved deep in his pockets, his shoulders squared, 'He's trying to intimidate me.' You smirked to yourself at that, it takes a lot more than that to scare you and even then you'd never let him see you flinch.

"No holding back on me (L:N)!" He hollered from across the pitch, lowering into a fighting stance.

You cracked your knuckles again, mirroring his actions as you too readied yourself to fight. 'This won't be easy, but it's gonna feel real good when I win.' You gave him a sarcastic smile and shrugged, everything about you screaming 'nonchalant' which ticked him off.

"I wouldn't dream of it." And just like that, the fight began and you were definitely not prepared for how it would end.