Chapter 9 - Aftermath

In the past year and a half, Michael had grown to be 168 cm tall, after the fight with Muscular, Kota started to idolize Michael. During these two years his skill grew enough to defeat his sensei Haruto, who was one of the few who could compete with him, on a regular basis, winning at least 80% of their fights, with his losses usually him being forced to hold back in fear of hurting Haruto seriously or being caught by surprise through Haruto's wide range of experience in fights. His style grew to the point where he could use the best parts of every martial arts style, with only a few of their weaknesses. As opposed to his mainly using one at a time, with the others to supplement it.

At school, Michael managed to keep his number one spot, whether it comes to athletics or academics. Winning many different prizes for the school. He was offered many scholarships to both hero schools and normal schools. he was even scouted by schools overseas, his fame in the media grew because of this. He made his intentions of going to U.A known and declined all offers from other schools.

He was also offered opportunities as a model, some of which he took help his parents work less, they might have been a middle-high class family but his parents still had to work hard every day, which took its toll on them. The money he would receive from accepting just a few of these opportunities would help his parents with their retirement fund, as well as saving for a rainy day, which was likely to happen with the massive amount of property damage during some villain attacks, or major earthquakes which were more likely in Japan.

His modeling, which was a great success, raised him to an "Idol" status in Japan, when he was merely a very well known student previously. He ended up gaining a number of fans, charmed by his appearance and personality, his social media accounts exploded, gaining just under a hundred thousand followers. After his new fans found out about his intelligence and athletic skill, more information about him spread which caused him to have a fan club.

The fame he gained through this was more of a hindrance than an ȧsset to his career currently, however there wasn't much he could do about it. Michael and his parents ended up moving to another neighborhood, due to the publicity they got and being bothered by the attention.

The neighborhood they had moved to was much quieter, but he had to start going to a different school, another issue was that it was farther from U.A, as well as no longer being able to go to the same school as Izuku, who he had promised would still hang out with after school, as well as during weekends. This all happened just months after the Muscular fight.

As Michael thought about it, Katsuki's reaction to Michael moving was hilarious, however, he instantly started calling him a coward for leaving, running away from fighting him and his amazing explosion quirk. He also mentioned he would blow up the 'Stalkers' so Michael would face him like a man instead of running away to another school, one without the 'Great' Katsuki Bakugo. He was obviously upset at losing his rival and it was a great blow to his pride that he wouldn't be able to get back and surpass Michael.

"We'll meet at U.A Bakugo, i'll just keep beating you when we get there. I probably should have said this sooner, but your personality and arrogance aren't how a hero should act. Look at All-Might, he's always smiling when he saves someone, he doesn't show his anger and scream bloody murder at every villain or civilian he faces. This school might only lightly reprimand you, but that's because its a normal middle school, while U.A is the best hero school in the country, they wouldn't allow this kind of behavior, they probably have hundreds of other choices of people to accept into their school. In just this school, there's already me who's stronger than you. What about U.A?"

"You're not stronger than me you ****, who cares about them, let them come and ill blow them up one by one."

"You're proving my point, you cant keep acting this arrogant, you don't know who or what you're up against."

"It doesn't matter i'll surpass you and everyone else at U.A, then top the hero charts and become number one!"

"I can't say I didn't try to warn you then. I can only hope U.A fixes that attitude."

Michael walks away with Katsuki screaming profanities at him.

Michael honestly didn't want Bakugo's talent to be wasted when he could make such a great hero, one that resisted the league of villains when they kidnapped him. Michael might know he would be a good hero, but the staff at U.A wouldn't. They'd probably see a potential villain, instead of a possible hero. The show was unrealistic when it came to disciplining Bakugo, and he didn't want him to be expelled from U.A for his bad behavior. He couldn't force him to act differently however, even though he did try to get him to tone down his behavior.

As Michael thought about this, he remembered the events last week, where he sent his application letter to U.A. He had been approached by detective Naomasa Tsukauchi again. However this time it was an offer to receive a scholarship to U.A, all expenses paid, with a room on campus provided to him if he needs it. He could also choose whether he wants to take the entrance exam or not, they were sure he would make it into U.A with or without the recommendation later.

Especially after two years of further developing his skills and quirk. They had seen the video of him fighting with Muscular and his sheer potential shocked them, he could potentially become the next All-Might, or even stronger than that. The ones that knew about All-Might's secret were given even more of a shock, when they thought about how strong he would be if he inherited One For All. Night eye considered him as a good candidate to inherit One For All, so did All-Might. He had another 6 months to think about it however as the entrance exam to U.A wouldn't be for another 11 months.