The teachers' instruction was to find 2 more partners and you'd all be done for the day. After Kirishima left, you battled against Kaminari who was not a fighter at all. He threw average punches, surely learning it from getting into scraps with neighborhood kids. He had no technique or awareness of himself so it was easy to bust out a couple of hard hits before he went down.

Next was Midoriya. He was a more interesting case. He was a thinker.

Midoriya was able to read some of your movements by studying your form and did a great job of blocking and evading. However, he didn't have a fighting style of his own. He merely dished out attacks when you had pushed him too far into a corner. You tricked him with a few fake-outs punches and then slammed him onto the floor.

"Whoa," Midoriya breathed out as you helped him up. His face was slightly pink from the rugged exercise. "You're really good."

"Thanks! You're a lot stronger than you look," You grinned back and squeezed his arm for emphasis. To your surprise, however, you found his upper arm to be thick with muscle. You openly gasped causing Midoriya's face to light up bright red. 

"Wow, your clothes do not do you justice," You murmured, your own skin feeling warm now. He was wearing a UA gym uniform and yet it seemed one size too big. You thought this was because he was more lean than the others but this boy was packing. Nice arms were a weakness of yours.

"Haha, sorry." You pulled away nervously. You were going to switch the topic when a thought came to you. "Wait, does that mean you were holding back just now?"

The male's gaze flitted away from yours in a flash. "Uh, wha...what do you me, no! No, I..."

"I feel like you could have hit harder if you really wanted to," You continued, raising an eyebrow.

Midoriya couldn't mask his guilt even if he tried. He gave in with a sigh. "I'm sorry, I just...I didn't want to hurt you."

You pouted and crossed your arms. "Midoriya, this practice is all about getting hurt. How am I supposed to learn to defend myself if you're not giving it your all?" His head was hung low while he fiddled with his hands. You knew he was a sweet, soft-spoken kind of guy so your words weren't to chew him out rather they were for him to take you seriously. 

You came up to him and lightly brushed your knuckles into his jaw, tilting his head up to yours. His anxious glance fell on your playful smile. "Hey, don't underestimate me, kay? Now you owe me a rematch."

"I guess that's only fair," He chuckled softly. 

"I'll be expecting it so stay on your toes!" You said before joining everyone else who began to gather. Many were finishing up their sparring sessions.

"Alright, Alright, everyone stop what you're doing. If you didn't manage to fight 3 students today that's fine," Aizawa spoke in monotone.

Sekijirou joined in. "However, we want to do one last exercise before we leave today."

"Raise your hand if you managed to beat all three of your opponents."

You gently raised your hand unknowing of the consequences that could lie ahead of you. You looked around and saw two other hands. Your lungs sunk to your stomach when you saw who one of them belonged to.

Of course it had to be Bakugou.

"That's too bad. The number's uneven," Sekijirou mused. "But at least we have one person from 1-B."

"(l/n), Bakugou, Todoroki, come forward," Aizawa singled you three out. You began to regret admitting your victories when the judging eyes of the classes followed you.

"Congratulations on achieving 3 wins in a row. It's a good show of your battle skills. But in order for you three to truly push yourselves, we want to have a final match," Sekijirou explained. "We had hoped there'd be an even turn out between the classes, but I suppose we can make this work out too."

"(l/n), are you up for taking them both on?" You teacher addressed you. "It'll be separately, however I don't want to unfairly over exert you."

You wanted to escape any interaction with Bakugou, but you feared being humiliated by the students if you didn't do the challenge. In the end, your panic got the better of you. "Sure," You gave in with a shrug.

Aizawa nodded tiredly. "Alright then, that settles it. Why don't you and Todoroki go first and get this over with." The classes backed away to give you two some room, but remained circling you. You noticed 1-B had stationed themselves on your side and 1-A on Todoroki's.

Speaking of Todoroki, you found him to be quite odd. You weren't sure if he had dyed half his hair white and the other half red or if that was just his natural color. With society's quirks today, you could never be positive. Under his red hair, he had this harsh burn around one of his heterochromatic eye. Even so, it didn't deter his looks. He had this cool handsomeness to him.

"Well it's nice to meeting you, Todoroki," You awkwardly greeted seeing as how you never met the dude and now you were gonna punch him in the face.

He nodded. "Best of luck, (l/n)."

You held your fists up defensively and paced around him looking for an opening. Todoroki also warily hung back and kept his distance.

Each second felt like a minute in this stand-off. Behind you two, your classes cheered you on, encouraging a raging fight. You came to the conclusion that, like Kirishima, he didn't want to make the first move because you were female. Whether as a kind gesture or a demeaning stereotype, you didn't know. Either way, you gave up and swung at him with your right.

He dodged it just barely due to his surprise by your swiftness. He retaliated with two jabs at your chest. You managed to block one but the other landed just above your boob. "Shit..." You hissed under your breath. That hurt.

You sent your heel straight at him and even though his forearms took all of the impact, you threw him back a couple inches. Todoroki's collected composure broke down a fraction as his eyebrows furrowed. He came back at you with a series of punches that were meant to confuse your defense. Each one struck you erratically as you did your best to dart out of their way.

"I see," You thought aloud. "You're pretty good."

"You're not so bad yourself," Todoroki commented, trying to avoid your own chain of attacks. "But I'm afraid I'm better." You were stunned when he grabbed the arm that had flew past his head and yanked it forward. Before you knew it, his knee had collided with your stomach. The sudden strike pounded the air out of you and left you feeling nauseous. Fuck.

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Bakugou watched as you went toe-to-toe with the icy-hot bastard. You both appeared to be evenly matched combatively. He found it oddly fascinating and strange how he had never witnessed this side of you. His impression of you was dorky and cheesy but watching you like this...it shocked him. He had never seen you as serious as you were now. You rounded, dodged, and snapped back at the bastard like you were already a pro. Todoroki was more attacks were more straight forward and basic while you had an intelligent, trained edge that could be observed just in the way you struck at him. He had to admit, you were a damn good fighter.

Bakugou heard you say something in a breath, but couldn't make out what it was. His fellow loud-ass classmates made sure of that. Icy-hot responded just as he managed to capture your incoming hit and rammed his knee into your torso. The blond grit his teeth in a wince. Your gasp of forced air was audible and visible as your features contorted into a strained pain. The teen's anger flared and his eyes darted over to the prick enraged. Motherfucker!

You were writhing when Todoroki shoved you aside in an attempt to knock you down. However, miraculously, you stumbled and forced yourself back up before it could count as a win. In that moment, Bakugou felt a surge of pride.

"Son of bitch..." He heard you laugh quietly in a low tone. You touched your injury for a brief second and dove back into the fight. This time your energy seemed to have been renewed because you were non-stop hammering in several blows. Todoroki was able to block some of them, but realized that you were actually trying to push him into tight spot.

Not liking this, he began to hit back with his own punches and kicks. The determined glares on both your face managed to fool the other students that you were still in top condition despite the prolonged fight. However, Bakugou noticed your speed had dropped a little and your defensive prowess in the beginning of the battle started to reveal gaps. Even Icy-Hot was showing signs of slowing down.

In one of your not too quick moments, Todoroki managed shove his foot into your chest. The aching hit sent you faltering backwards, almost losing your footing. You still caught yourself again though, this time with an annoyed huff. "That's it."

Bakugou stared with anticipation as he saw you sprinted towards the bastard. Todoroki aimed to block a fist you had held up, but at the last second you grabbed his shoulder and threw your legs around his back. From there the blond watched you maneuvered your way around his body until you positioned yourself with the bastard's other shoulder and launched him straight into the dirt.

Bakugou would've felt an overwhelming joy in seeing your win if it wasn't for the way you ended up. He didn't understand why, but he felt a twinge of annoyance stab through his chest.

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You had just had it with this dude. Sure, his arrogance wasn't as severe as Bakugou's but the fact that he belittled your abilities own pissed you off. He was also able to hit you twice in the torso which made your body throb and your temper rage.

"That's it," You hissed venomously, knowing exactly what to do. You were gonna take down this fucker; you just needed to break through his barrier and time it right.

You use your opponent's witling precautions and focused his attention on your raised clenched hand. A smile wanted to break out on your face when you saw that he had took the bait.

Making sure to get as close as possible, you launched yourself at Todoroki's body. You propelled your legs and arms all around him while he tensed up in an adrenaline filled confusion. You caught his opposite shoulder and with all your strength, slammed him down onto the ground.

However, your exhaustion peaked through as you lost your balance in the landing and slipped. You threw your arms out to catch yourself but you stumbled right on top of Todoroki, just inches away from his face. You both blinked in surprise and glanced away from each other as your cheeks began to burn.

The crowd around you erupted into whoops of laughter and cheers, but you didn't really care. You were more concerned with the awkward situation you had gotten in.

"That was a stimulating fight!"Sekijirou clapped proudly as 1-B joined him in his praises. "Nice work, (l/n)!"

Aizawa's normally disinterested gaze also looked impressed. "You've got a drive, kid."

After getting off of Todoroki and apologizing profusely, he smiled. "I underestimated you and I must say you're win was much more compelling than any of mine. I'm glad we had this match."

You nodded. "Thanks, but don't sell yourself short. You're really great to spar with as well."

"Hmm, then maybe we can train together sometime," Todoroki mused. "You'd make a good partner."

You were shocked that he'd want a 1-B student to train with, but it seemed he didn't care about that. He only wanted an opponent stronger than him so he could push himself further.

You gave him a small shrug and a smile. "Yeah, maybe."

"Alright, settle down," Aizawa raised his voice, irritated. "We have one more challenger left."

A pang of anxiousness rose from your chest as you turned to glance at Bakugou. His lips were curled into a scowl; brows deep set over his narrowed red eyes.

Oh this is gonna go terribly...

This would have gone up yesterday if my internet hadn't suddenly decided to malfunction. It's been wacky all day. Anyway, I'v recently wanted to try and update this book every Saturday if I can. School has started for me so I don't know if I'll be able to keep up, but it's worth a shot right? I also have rough drafts of some future chapters so that may help me. 

But that's all I wanted to let you guys know. If I don't update Saturdays it'll be up Sunday or as soon as everything's good to go. Hope y'all enjoyed this chappie! If you did, drop a comment! I'm excited for you guys to read the next!! X)