(BNHA) The Path He Chooses Book 2: Scary Pasts

Chapter 3: Nejire Hado (Part 1)

Nejire Hado's brain was working in hyperdrive right now. During the last two events for the first years, her sights had been set on Izuku Midoriya, not romantically though. This was mainly because during the last two events, he had place high in positions without even using his quirk.

She was amazed that someone was so intelligent that they could come up with a plan to finish first in the obstacle course without a quirk! Sure, he had used his quirk in the second event, but that was barely for 10 seconds, she had so many questions for him. Not to mention he'd passed the first round of the 1 on 1 fights without using his quirk....kinda.

The most info she'd gained about his quirk was that it could produce high amounts of wind, that was interesting, but it made her think about why he wouldn't use it. Did have some kind of cooldown? Maybe a horrible drawback? The possibilities were literally endless.

Currently, she was in the stands for third years setting between Mirio and Tamaki, her two best friends. They were apart of a group called the Big Three. Being in the big three meant you were among the three strongest people in U.A. She was proud to be one of the big three, she definitely worked hard to get there. So as Izuku walked onto the arena to fight Shoto Todoroki, Nejire knew she would end up seeing his quirk. After all, he was going against the son of Endeavor, the number 2 hero.

Izuku walked onto the Arena with a plan in mind, after Todoroki had told Izuku about his past, Izuku had thought of ways to defeat him. Eventually, he came to a revelation. One for All is a strength enhancer, and strength is tied to agility. So it wouldn't be impossible for him to use One for All with his legs.

He was taking a huge risk though, not only did he not know whether or not it would work. It could also hurt him like during the entrance exam and he might not be able to control it. Once Midnight started the match, Izuku immediately powered One For All to his whole body. It was only at 5%, since that was the most he could control without harming himself.

Even though it was only 5%, He felt faster, lighter, and as if he were constantly on adrenaline. Upon controlling OFA at 5%, green lighting started arcing around his body, shocking everyone who knew him.

"Whoa, is that lightning on his body?!" Sero said.

"I'm not surprised that Midoriya has developed his quirk even better than before." Iida confidently said.

Todoroki was also shocked by this, but he didn't show it, he kept attacking with waves of Ice, not once letting down. Izuku though, was able to easily avoid his Ice with his newfound agility. It worked! It actually worked! He was so proud of himself, he had to tell All Might later.

Nejire on the other hand, was estatic. She wondered what class he was in? It'd make it easier to find him. He had to be pretty intelligent if he'd came up with a plan like that. She watched in awe as destroyed wave after wave of ice with kicks. He seemed to be talking to the person he was fighting. Were they friends?

That didn't matter though, because soon enough, the Todoroki kid suddenly started releasing flames and launched himself toward Izuku. In response, Izuku had just ran toward him, lightning still arcing off of his body. He lifted his leg, aiming for a kick, when concrete walls started to form in the middle of the arena.

It was too late to stop the incoming attacks though. The after effects of the attacks weren't good, bits and pieces of rock flew at high speeds toward the crowd. Hopefully no one was injured. The sheer amount of power from his kick shocked Nejire, this kid must be powerful.

When the dust settled, Todoroki was shown to be out of bounds, his entire body engraved into the wall next to the bounds. Izuku was shown to be kneeling in exhaustion before he promptly passed out onto the ground.

"M-MIDORIYA, WINS!" Midnight shouted, causing the crowd the cheer for him.

This included Nejire, who was cheering very loudly, those with heightened senses would be able to tell that she was cheering louder than most of the crowd. All she got in response were Mirio and Tamaki covering their ears. Nejire then got up, and walked down the stairs that lead to the lower part of the stadium where participants were being treated. She absolutely needed to find that kid.

Izuku was feeling terrible when he woke up on the infirmary's bed, not only did he accidentally break his legs when they hit the concrete walls, he also knew that Recovery Girl had healed him, and he would be feeling very sleepy soon. He didn't even notice the periwinkle haired girl that stood over him until he opened his eyes. This surprised him, causing him to suddenly throw his head up which banged into hers. He instantly put his head back down, groaning.

"Owwww." said the mysterious girl, her cheeks were puffed out and she was rubbing her head over and over. Before he got the chance to say sorry however, she was already deep into asking him questions about his quirk.

"Why didn't you use your quirk during the first event? How did you make that lightning go across your body like that? Why aren't you answering my questions? Did you hold back during that last fight?" They just kept coming, question after question after question.

"Umm, who are you?" Izuku said, too confused to even realize he was talking to a girl without stuttering . His question had brought her out of her rambling before she smiled and introduced herself.

"I'm Nejire Hado, a 3rd year of class 3-A! Nice to meet you!" Her cheerful tone had gotten him to notice that he was indeed talking to a girl, and almost immediately after, his face had become the definition of red. If you searched up "Red", Izuku's face would've popped up.

"Y-Yeah, w-what are you doing h-here?" Izuku stuttered, doing his best to not make a fool of himself, which wasn't much.

"Hm? What am I doing here?" Nejire questioned herself, Izuku just deadpanned in response.

"Oh! I came to ask my cute little Kohai about his quirk!" She finally realized.

"C-C-Cute!?" It was probably Izuku's first time getting a compliment from a girl. If it wasn't, then he didn't remember.

"Yes, cute. Now, time to enlighten me of every fact about that quirk of yours." Nejire slowly came closer as her periwinkle hair flowed behind her.

Oops, Izuku passed out, probably from getting so close to a girl and getting complimented by one in less than a minute.

A/N: Sorry it was so short, It took me a day to write this instead of 30 minutes since my head wasn't in the right place and writer's block hit me hard out of nowhere.

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