CHAPTER 65 ALL OUT

CHAPTER 65 ALL OUT

I was walking out to Tsuyu soon enough. She was a ways away. Bending down I crouched beside her. “You did great,” I said. She looked over. Blushing as she did. Helping her up there were plenty of cheers for her. She latched onto my back as we walked to the waiting area. “You almost had him, you know,” I said.

“Yeah,” she whispered. “I saw the mistake. Gotta keep pushing. No leeway. Like you said.”

“Good.” Patting her hand she held on as we got inside.

Ida and Mei were up next. Mei was one of the Support Students. A great engineer she could make most any gadget for heroes. I knew she used her time in the arena to show off her gadgets to the crowd, then let Ida win so I didn’t bother to watch.

“How can I help you feel better?” I asked.

“Buy me ice cream,” Tsuyu said from my shoulder.

“Deal.” We sat at one of the benches without a back as we watched the fight from a small TV. “Why no gloves Toru?”

“How’d you notice me?” She whined from behind us.

“Your smell,” I said with a laugh. “What flower is that?”

“Lavender,” she said.

“Ah of course.” Tsuyu and I looked back at where she should have been. “Nervous for your fight?”

“Totally,” she said sitting next to us on the bench. “I’m worried my plan won’t work.”

“That’s normal,” I said. “What about you Tsuyu? Did you have a plan going in?”

“I did. But it went bad quickly.”

“Tends to happen. Back in America in the 21st century there was this famous fighter. He had a perfect saying. Mike Tyson said ‘Everyone has a plan till you get punched in the mouth’.”

“How does that help?” Toru asked.

“It means you have a plan and so does your opponent. And both of your plans will be thrown out the window once the fight starts. That’s why we train. So that when we get hit and our plan gets thrown out the window. You act on instinct. You don’t have to rely on logic,” I said.

“You know, sometimes you say annoying stuff,” Toru said. “Then other times you say stuff that makes me feel a lot better.”

“You’re welcome?” I asked. Confused.

“Sorry, just your speech earlier. It really inspired me. You um really respect those that don’t have noble reasons for wanting to do this?”

“I do,” I admitted. “It takes a special person to want to protect people. You’re both special.”

Tsuyu tightened her grip around my neck. Toru leaned against my arm. We watched the fight wrap up. “Now my best imaginary friend, go give that belly button shooter a good beating.”

“Can do,” she said. She moved around giving me a kiss on the cheek. I doubted Tsuyu noticed.

We watched her go...kind of. She put gloves on for walking out. They showed a heat signature of her for the audience. I couldn’t help but nod at the curves. They looked about how I imagined.

The fight began. Yuga fired his navel laser randomly. As she got closer to him the lasers got closer to her. I noticed a distinct curve to them as they passed her body. I grew excited. She was within a few paces. One of the lasers got close then she kicked him in the side.

He whirled around shooting randomly but Toru was on him. She kicked him hard and he went rolling off to the side. She dodged out of the way of another beam but was then back next to him. I watched it all and saw how hard she had been working.

He tried to run but she was on him. As he jumped in the air to shoot his beam at her she didn’t guard against the navel laser. Taking the brunt of the hit she pushed him off the edge. Then the crowd went wild.

I got up looking out the window. Apparently when the beam hit her it overpowered her quirk. She became completely visible. Her yellow/green hair was unruly and down to her shoulders. Her skin was pale. Thighs and body milky pale. Tsuyu dropped down as I ran out to her.

She had won by knocking Yuga out of the ring but she was covering her body up. Ripping off my hoodie I threw it at her. It landed close and she quickly grabbed it. Throwing it on. She stood up on the stage to cheers. Her face red, she took the win and was running away.

I chuckled and followed. I noticed Midnight eyeing my naked torso up and down. Sending her a wink I headed after Toru. She wasn’t too hard to find for once. In one of the back locker rooms she was huddled up in a corner.

“What’s wrong?” I couldn’t help but ask. So close I could see her image shimmering. Like she was a hologram. Her light bending powers struggle to catch up once overloaded.

“Half of Japan just saw me naked!” She yelled angrily.

“Oh wow. I didn’t think of that,” I said. Laughing loudly she got up to hit me but I grabbed her fist. “It’s easier to block when I can see you.” She frowned but there were tears in her eyes. “What’s really wrong? It looks like this is fading. You’ll be invisible again soon.”

“You were supposed to be the first one that saw me,” she said. Her mouth frowning. “I kind of got a hold of it a few days ago. And I made myself visible for the first time.”

“That’s awesome,” I said. A wide smile on my face. “Don’t give me that look. Who cares if they saw you. I get to see you and touch you when I want.”

“You never get to see me,” she said. “It’s just guess-“

“Hey, I knew you were beautiful,” I said. “I could feel it.” I grabbed her chin, lifting it up to look at me.

“You think I’m beautiful?” She mumbled.

“I do,” I nodded. “Always have. Or did you think I hit on you so you’d stop haunting me?”

“I'm never gonna stop haunting you,” she spat. Her face scrunching into a defiant glare.

“Good. I wouldn’t have it any other way,” I said. Leaning down, I kissed her lips. There were some tears in her eyes. But she didn’t look sad anymore.

“I was gonna make it a surprise tonight,” she said.

“Well consider me surprised,” I said. “How’d you figure it out?”

She put on a wide smile. “I bought more of those flashlights. I kept them focused on me for a long time and eventually my power just turned off. It couldn’t handle all the light.”

“Did you shimmer like this?” I asked. She nodded, her mess of hair jostling with her. “Damn you’re beautiful.” I couldn’t help but kiss her again. She leaned into it this time and was soon on me. We made out for a long time. Me pushing her into the lockers. Her legs wrapped around me as we explored one another. About 10 minutes in she became invisible again but I didn’t care.

She giggled happily as we continued our heated exchange. And by the time she had calmed down people were yelling for me.

“Ugh, party poopers,” I groaned.

“We can continue tonight,” she promised. I kissed her again and turned away. I was a few steps away before she reminded, “Your hoodie.”

“Oh right.” I watched her take it off and stared where I guessed her boobs were.

“You can’t see them anymore,” she reminded.

“I can imagine,” I said. Giving her a wink I walked away. Midoriya found me and was soon following me to watch the next fight against his supposed best friend.

I got outside and was met with cheers. Bakugo was waiting for me. The white spiky haired man had an angry sneer on his face like usual.

“Fall asleep again?” Bakugo asked.

“Nope. So you won your fight with Uraraka?”

“Of course,” he spat angrily.

“That’s what you said to the last girl,” she said.

“Gooder luck,” I clarified. She giggled and grabbed her gloves from the top of some lockers. Heading outside her foe was Momo.

It ended too quickly in my book. Momo made heat sensing goggles and used a net catcher. Toru left sadly but I promised to kick Momo’s ass for her. Which cheered her up.

The next fight was Midoriya versus Ibarra. Ibarra was a woman with vines for hair from 1-B. It was a good fight and I wasn’t sure how she wasn’t in 1-A. But Midoriya won. He had been practicing a manageable amount of his All Might power and wasn’t hurting as much.

Next was my fight against Tokoyami. The bird guy sure felt scary. But I heated up the area around us until he retreated then threw he and his shadow out of the ring.

Momo and Midoriya went next. That too was easy to guess. Momo made a cool cannon but Midoriya dodged quickly and knocked her down.

“Still want me to slap her around?” I asked Toru.

“Please,” she whispered as we sat and watched the fight. “But him first.”

“Yes ma’am,” I said. We made out a little while the last break happened. Giving Midoriya time to catch his breath. When it was my turn Toru gave me a kiss and pushed her boobs in my face.

I headed out into the arena with a smile on my face. Cheers went out as I walked. Midoriya was walking in from another entrance. I didn’t know why we hadn’t just all congregated together. But it had taken Toru and I time to find a more secluded spot.

“How do you want to do this, Midoriya?” I asked as we stood apart from one another.

“What do you think?”

“Well you don’t have a bunch of broken limbs for once,” I said. “Shall we go all out from the get go? Or warm up to it?”

He smiled at me. “Yeah gotta say thanks for that. How did you come up with that idea? To use a little bit?”

“Saw it in a show once,” I said. I didn’t have the time to explain the whole microwave burrito thing his trainer did.

“Let’s start slow,” Midoriya said. “I’m curious if I can fight against you without going all out.”

“Works for me,” I said. “You make me try hard enough, I might skip my afternoon training session.”

He laughed and we ran at one another. My face was still stinging from my Bakugo fight. But I had the heart bandaids on so that helped. He hit me hard across the face.

“Tsuyu hits harder than that,” I laughed. Sparta kicking him away he blocked it with his arms crossed. He started speeding up so I did too.

It was an actual good fight. First simply going to the brink with our physical bodies we hit, blocked, kicked, headbutted, and had a far more active brawl than Bakugo and I had.

Then I noticed the lightning around him. Just a simple streak. Signifying he was using All Might's power. I reciprocated by channeling some chakra. Pushing it through my body my reactions became quicker.

Our fists collided and he was thrown back. More lightning moved around him. He did a roundhouse kick making me stumble back. I channeled more chakra. Yelling as I jumped up aiming for his face with a kick. He slid back. His boots squeaking as his footwork took him out of my range.

I sped up more. My lungs filling and blowing out what felt like steam. Which reminded me. I began to use my quirk. Pulling out the energy behind me I pushed it toward him. Heating him up.

He began to drip with sweat like he was in a sauna. I pushed the issue closing the distance. Hitting him in the side he was knocked off his feet but he caught himself with his hand kicking out at me

“That’s one of Tsuyu’s moves,” I noted. He nodded. Slowly switching from heating the area in front to cooling. It dropped in temperature progressively.

“Gotta say. I don’t have much more my body can handle without damage,” he admitted.

“Then let’s take it up a notch,” I said with a big grin. “Fingers or fists?”

He cracked a smile. “Fingers.”

“Let’s see it then,” I said. Bashing my knuckles together. He frowned at me. “Come on. I want to know if I can take it. Do it.”

I channeled chakra into my feet. Taking up a guarded position. “100% Midoriya. Do it. Or I’ll start my move.” I was getting excited. I had beaten something All Might had. But he was weaker. I wanted to know the full strength. What it really took to be the best.

“Alright,” Midoriya said. Extending his hand out he made a motion of acting like he would flick his finger. His concentration increased. His gloved hand began to glow. Then a sonic boom was let out as the air pressure in front of me increased. Pushing me back.

I felt my face ripple with the force of it and I couldn’t believe I thought I was a match for the real All Might. Midoriya was much stronger than when he used 100% on a finger to throw a softball. It was like a wall was coming at me.

My feet sticking to the concrete I was pushed back while standing. I went a good 20 feet before the force of the simple flick moved past me. It wasn’t so much about hurting as it felt more like unadulterated force.

“Nice,” I said. “Well let’s take it up that notch. I’m curious how many fingers you will go through before I take you down.”

“I’m aiming to win, Weston,” Midoriya said and he ran at me. I smiled big. Running at him. His fingers glowed ready to let loose and I met him head on. Dodging out of the way of an outstretched hand I kicked him in the side. He was thrown away but landed on his feet as he ran back to me.

Chakra was filling my body. But it wasn’t enough. He was willing to hurt himself to win. I had to do the same. I ran at him. My head down, I grabbed him from the front. Pushing with all I had.

“Let go!” Midoriya said

“No, you’ll have to hit me point blank if you want me to,” I said. Pushing and pushing we were getting close to the edge. I pushed him a little more. Letting go I began to jump back as he sent another shockwave at me.

I let it carry me but was soon sliding on the arena floor. My chakra coated hands slowing me down. I stood quickly and began to scratch.

My mind opening to it more quickly the air began to ripple around me as the first gate opened. He knew what I was doing. Running at me he was closing the distance fast. I opened the second gate. Healing began running through my body.

He was only a few paces away as I started on the 3rd. I hadn’t practiced. I honestly feared it wasn’t there. But as I pulled and prodded it began to crack open. I entered a long trance moment. Considering putting him in a Genjutsu to give me the precious seconds I needed. But as he extended his hand I felt the 3rd gate crack open. Momentum would carry it the rest of the way.

I ducked down. Moving in slow motion as the chakra filled me. Pouring out of every pore as I felt my skin heat up and my hair stand on end. I ducked down as he let his finger go. And as the shockwave was let loose I punched him in the gut.

Dodging to the side I missed the brunt of the attack. He knew he was too late. Lightning around his body, he increased his speed. Kicking at me it was slow motion as I dodged to the side. Then with all I had, I kicked him in the ribs. It was at the perfect angle.

He went flying. So close to the edge he was over the grass in an instant. I thought I had it but he surprised me by flicking his finger at the ground. Breaking his finger without hesitation the reflected shockwave threw him back toward me.

He was spinning wildly. When he was over the arena again I jumped up and kicked him harder. He went flying further this time. Unable to fight back. With the force of the 3rd gate he flew over the grass until hitting the bottom of the arena with a thud. One on one, if he could use 100% power in all of his body, he would have won. But with the 3rd gate open my body was at 100%. I could move faster, see more, do more. He lost as soon as the 3rd gate was opened.

I landed on the ground and immediately shut the gates. Exhaustion moved through me in waves. I stumbled to my knees as I took the first breath in what felt like a long time. My sweat steaming on my body I took in huge lungfuls of air.

It wasn’t till Midnight was next to me that I recovered a little. She grabbed my hand and raised it. I stood slowly. Waving at everyone. It was hard to focus. My head swimming, I left the arena. Walking to Midoriya I stumbled and sat beside him.

“Damn,” he whispered. “Thought I had you.”

“You about did,” I said. “How’d you know it took time for me to call upon my strength?”

“I watched it,” he admitted. “Sorry.”

“Don’t be. It was a good strategy.” Looming over him I asked, “No hard feelings?”

“Nope. I’ll just have to beat you next time.”

“I’m looking forward to seeing you trying. But I’ll be way stronger next time,” I warned.

“Same.” He said. I stood back up and helped him to his feet.

“I need some Recovery Girl kisses,” I said. “And more heart bandaids.”

He chuckled. “Me too.”