All I Have Is All You Gave To Me [Young!Aizawa x Reader]

42 Wish - Nine Inch Nails

This is the first day of my last days

I built it up now I take it apart 

climbed up real high 

now fall down real far

The finals had been approaching much quicker than anyone had anticipated and soon we all spent countless days and nights at Oboro's little apartment, studying for the exams. Honestly, none of us were model students, but at least we knew how to cram for an exam last minute.

And once the written exams were behind us, it was time for the practicals which consisted of pitching two pairs of students against each other. The pairs were determined by random draw and whereas I had been lucky so far to usually have been paired with someone I actually liked, it was kind of different now.

I had been paired up with Hideko. It was good in a way that I knew how her Quirk worked and we knew each other, but... well, we hadn't exactly talked during the last few weeks. And I didn't feel like opening that whole can of worms just before our finals. After all, this was pretty important.

What was worse was that we had been paired up against Yuki and a guy called Yuga, one of Yuki's new friends, apparently. He had a Quirk where he could teleport non-living objects and he was super sneaky, too. He'd be a challenging opponent, especially when I was already anxious about doing this with Hideko. And against Yuki. Yuki wouldn't hesitate to murder me.

"So... we got any plans on how to do this?" I asked Hideko once we were partnered up. We were up first, so we had only a couple of minutes to make up a strategy for this. A strategy not to fail the exam.

"We're gonna lose anyway..." Hideko scoffed in reply, looking somewhat nervous. What the hell was going on?

"Why? And even so, losing doesn't mean we failed, they're testing our strategy, teamwork and resourcefulness. Come on, Hide-chan, I know we haven't been on great terms, but can we at least do this without failing the exam?" I asked her. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"You don't get it, do you?" she replied. I rolled my eyes. Didn't she understand this was going to affect her grade, too?

"What? What don't I get? Hideko, you're being ridiculous. We need to think of some sort of strategy right now, or we'll fail the exam!"

"Well, that's unfortunate. But I can't win against Yuki. She's... she couldn't deal with it. I have to lose to her..." she mumbled and looked around nervously. I raised an eyebrow. What the hell was she saying?

"Come on, Yuki isn't forcing you to lose, is she?" I asked. I mean, that would be ridiculous. I didn't think Yuki was that fucked up.

"She is." Hideko replied quietly. My eyes widened. She was actually being serious. I thought I had seen enough fucked up things the last few weeks, but apparently I was wrong about that.

"Okay. So... we have to lose? Well, then we should make a strategy to lose in a smart way." I suggested. I wasn't actually planning on losing, but without Hideko on my side I kinda doubted that would be possible. Anyway, I hadn't made any promises to Yuki that she could hold over me, so I would give it my best.

"How do you suggest we do that?" Hideko asked.

"Well, we have to capture her or get her to walk out of bounds, right? Or make her give up. I can use illusions to make her do that and you won't need to do anything, just make sure to keep Yuga off my back. Once we have her eliminated, we can focus on him. If she falls for my Quirk it won't be your fault she loses, right?" I answered. Hideko didn't look so sure anymore.

"I don't know. I guess so..." she replied. I grinned at her and dragged her towards the training grounds.

"Good, we have a plan then. This'll be over in no time." I said and glanced over at Yuki who was smirking at me. I gulped. I wasn't feeling so sure about this anymore, but it was too late now. We were on the training grounds, the exam would begin any second and if Yuki had a better plan, we were fucked.

"Ready? Start!" our teacher then shouted. I wasn't really prepared and had almost been hit by one of Yuki's ice shards.

"Well, here goes fucking nothing!" I yelled at Hideko and ran off to try and get towards a hiding spot. I had my eyes fixed on Yuki, desperately trying to uphold the illusion of me standing right where I was, at least until I was in a hood hiding spot. It was difficult to run and focus at the same time and I just knew I was going to get the worst migraine of my life from this.

Hideko was trying to focus on fighting off Yuga's attacks which was honestly not as easy as it looked. He was fast at what he was doing and he was good. And it also took a while to tire him out.

"She's using her illusions!" I heard Yuki shouting. Fuck, they had figured it out already, huh? Well, I probably just had to play it by ear now. I dove behind a tree and crouched down, focusing on trying to get Yuki to think the boundaries were further away than they actually were.

If Hideko would only get close to Yuga, so he couldn't effectively use his Quirk anymore without actually running the risk of hurting himself... But Hideko seemed to struggle against their combined attacks. Damn it... Maybe I could throw Yuga off for a short while? I stopped focussing on my current illusion and made a new one - a huge rock falling directly onto Yuga.

And it worked - at least somewhat. Yuga was distracted and stumbled back, watching out for the rock for a few moments, before realizing it was an illusion. It seemed like they still hadn't spotted me and Hideko had finally made it closer to Yuga, charging at him and shooting a few microscopic blades at him.

Yuga stumbled back, trying to teleport them right back at her, but they were too small and he didn't have enough time to focus properly, so he was hit in both arms just as Hideko ran into him, pushing him out of bounds with ease. But just as he stepped out, he grabbed her costume and pulled her out with him.

So it was just Yuki and me, huh? If I fought her head-on I'd lose. I had to sneak up on her, but I could feel my focus slipping and it was more difficult to keep up my illusions. This was bad, I had to end this quickly, but I couldn't, unless I'd get into an all-out fight. Maybe I could sneak up on her, if I gave her some sort of disorienting optical illusion that would confuse her.

It was worth a try. I focussed on her with the last bit of my mental energy and made her see herself falling down into nothingness. She screamed instinctively and I quickly ran at her, hoping the illusion would last long enough for me to attack her and still have the surprise effect.

As I was getting closer I jumped at her and the illusion stopped. I hoped I'd have enough momentum to throw her out of bounds with that, but I was wrong. I misjudged from the distance and before I knew it, she drove two ice shards into my wrists and threw me into the air.

I knew I was out of bounds, before I even hit the ground. We had lost, but only by a tiny bit. It was kind of frustrating, to be honest, but right now all I could focus on was the insane pain spreading in my head and the sting from my bleeding wrists. I'd definitely need to go to the nurse.

I knew I was losing consciousness for a few seconds when I hit the floor, as the breath was knocked out of my lungs. When I opened my eyes again, I saw Shouta, Hizashi and Oboro leaning over me with concerned faces.

"Come on, guys, give her some air to breathe!" I heard our teacher say. Shouta held out his hand and I grabbed it, so he could pull me up.

"You okay, (L/N)?" the teacher asked, while Shouta was gently rubbing my back.

"Yeah, I... I think so..." I mumbled. I hoped I didn't fail.

"Alright. Go and see the nurse when you feel well enough again. You did good."