Kuno was in a waiting room until the arena is fixed. No one was in there except him, he had his legs up on the table leaning in his chair and eyes closed. The door swung open, he knew who it was because of her voice "so your the pipsqueak who's announcing this year" Kimura Chiaki
"Yes I am" he didn't really care about the insult kuno was use to it by now "I saw you 'calm down' that kiato guy and there was one thing you missed.." she pulled him off the chair by the collar "fear" her eyes started to smoke but his were closed " really? Is that all you talk about fear?" She didn't answer.
"Kimura Chiaki Quirk: Gate Way, you are able to show a person and see their memories" she was surprised at his knowledge of her quirk "but you can only show them their fears if they don't allow access. If they do give you access you can see their memories but no one ever has so you rely on one trick, fear" kuno's eyes were still closed but he could feel her anger.
"I allow you access to my memories so you can dig too deep and see..." kuno opens his eyes showing his cold dark blue eyes "real fear" they make eye contact and seconds pass feeling like years as she starts to shake and letting go of his collar. She collapses to her knees and continues shaking.
"Most people have irrational fears like a giant spider or a scarecrow coming to life, but my fears are real and I have plans to get rid of them" kuno fixes his collar and walks to the door and opens it "I'm done running from my fears, so you can tell your precious Natana that" she looked at him shocked "don't look surprised, you were too obvious" he was about to leave when kimura said "after everything you've been through how are you still you?" "...I'm not" with that he left.
A few minutes later kuno walks back on to his stage "before we start the second I have some bad news, Kimura Chiaki has, unfortunately, had to back out of the sports festival because of medical reasons"
"Cleric" "yes Isa?" "What medical reason?" "She looked terrified and that's all she told me so my diagnosis was a quirk backfire" "interesting"
"Could Leo Koto and Kami Mazuki come to the arena"
They both walk on to the arena "no hard feelings kami" "yea yea let's get on with it" she said rubbing the side of her head "still have a headache huh" "yea hurts like hell" "then forfeit"
"BEGIN"
Diamond covers Leo's right arm and stone covers his left shaped into a claw, as he sprints toward kami 'I cant use my quirk or I'll pass out... Quick think!' Kami stared intently at leo '*sigh* I can't win' kami raised her hand "I forfeit" leo stopped dead in his tracks "what?" "I cant win and if I use my quirk I'll be in the infirmary for the rest of today... so I forfeit"
"Kami Mizuki forfeit meaning Leo Koto moves on to the semifinals"
"You ok?" Leo actually looked worried for her "yea just tired and have a headache" she looked at him and narrowed her eyes but then it changed to a bright smile "you actually care! I knew you couldn't be emotionless forever" leo roled his eyes and helped her walk back to her seat.
"Could Hashi Yoshino and Okada Kazuki come to the arena"
Hashi had goggles with black lenses which had a tube running down his left side to a bracer he was wearing. Okada was in his normal gym uniform.
"Begin!"
As soon as kuno said that Okada fired a beam of light at Hashi's eyes but he didn't flinch as the light did not go through the goggles "you have blackout goggles on but you know you can't see in those right?" Okada said tilting his head "hmm" that was all Hashi said as he started to walked to Okada.
Okada then sent a beam of light at Hashi's chest. Hashi's bracer flipped open revealing mirrored surfaces, the light beam hit the bracer and got partly reflected and partly absorbed. From his point of view a small red dot appeared on the inside of his goggles and sprinted full speed toward it.
Okada created a light blade and waited for Hashi to get in range, once he was Okada swung but Hashi dodged gracefully elbowing Okada in the side. He jumped back a few feet and the sword disappeared as five yellow dots appeared at his fingertips, glowing bright, each one fired a beam.
Hashi managed to reflect three but still got hit one in the shoulder and one in the right arm. Holding his shoulder he grunted in pain "you're stronger than I thought but it's-" "time to end this" "you stole my line 'light-mare' ".
'Why couldn't I think of that, Light-Mare is so much cooler than Wattage' okada shook his head and stared at Hashi and held out a hand "Light-Rain!"
Cylinders of light started to form above Hashi, he held his open bracer over his head and crouched down. It expanded a little more but only enough to shield his head. The light cylinders started to rain down on Hashi burning his clothes and scorching his skin.
Black scorch marks covered the arena as Hashi wobbly stood up "I will say, I underestimated you Okada but this invention was made to specifically to fight you" "but you only learned about my quirk yesterday" "Yea why do you think it looks so shoddy-" he said waving his wrist "-it's a prototype" Okada's eyes widen "but it has a special feature. Named after my favourite move" Hashi pointed the now-folded bracer at Okada.
"REVENGE COUNTER"
A massive beam of light was sent out of a small hole at the front of the bracer Okada tried to manipulate the light but it didn't work the blast covered Okada's chest completely, destroying his gym uniform, and sending him flying out of bounds.
Kuno's jaw hit the floor 'i need one of those' before snapping out of it "H-Hashi Yoshino advances to the semi-finals" the crowd burst into cheers.
"Are final round before the semi finals is between Kiato Nensho and Tokada Nori"
'Smoke, smoke, smoke, how am I going to beat smoke!' Kiato frowned 'why don't we have a science teacher that would help a lot right now..."
"Begin"
Kiato ran forward igniting his fists and throwing punches but tokada would turn to smoke then turn back and try to make contact with kiato.
As the arena had started to heat up and each time tokada turned to smoke she would rise higher than she wanted and only go higher. She was at a hight where if she would reform tokada would be injured '30 seconds until I have to reform-'she smirk, as much as smoke can'- he's smarter than I thought'
She looked down to see kiato waving his hands to disperse the heat as much as possible. Tokada reformed and started to fall, raising her leg and getting ready to axe kick kiato. He brought up his arms in an x above his head.
Her leg connected and the grown under kiato cracked 'dam she's strong' then it hit him, she made contact, tokada can now turn him to smoke.
Tokada lands gracefully and raises her hand about to snap her fingers to turn kiato to smoke when she made eye contact with a being that looks like a shadow 'dad' he just nodded and she sighed
"I forfeit " kiato's head snaps up, kuno looks at tokada then at the tunnel she was looking at. Kuno locks eyes with a man of shadow, who he thinks is scowling, then he disappears.
"Kiato Nensho goes to the semifinals"
'So you have more spies Natana, your more rooted in than I thought' kuno was thinking as he watched the contestants leave the stage.
"Can I have Leo Koto and Hashi Yoshino"
But only Hashi was there with Maki Kuma "Yea we forfeit, I don't want my bones broken by diamond" Hashi said "and I don't want to become fried Chamelion" Maki added "ok then, we'll move straight to the final"
"Can I have Leo Koto and Kiato Nensho to the arena for the final fight of class 1-A's sports festival!"
Kiato stood at one end, his gym gear sleeve rolled up and his eyes were dark uncaring.
Leo stood opposite him, a glove covering his right hand. He had never seen kiato like this.
"Begin!"
Kiato's hair and fist ignite as he ran to leo who quickly covered his left arm in stone and held it up bracing for the attack. Kiato's fist collided with Leo's arm smashing the stone that covered it to pieces, his knuckles were bleeding from the attack but no pain was felt.
Leo jumped back, stone reappearing on his arms, and got into a fighting stance "kiato snap out of it" "why... why do you have to know more about him"
Kiato walked forward throwing a punch 'nakano?' leo thought "why do people have to see me as who I was and not who I am" he throw another punch. "Why do I feel so weak!"
He kept punching over and over as his fist became bloodied, leo could barely block let alone attack 'I can't use diamond my time limit's up' "why leo!" this punch destroys any remaining stone on Leo's arm and bring him down to a knee "TELL ME" his flames became white 'goddamit kiato'.
Kiato's fist connects scorching parts of Leo's arm which was covered in diamond. Leo stood up and removed his glove as the only skin left on his right arm turns to diamond "because I've known him longer kiato" leo kick him in the side and punched his chest.
"Because they will always see you as the monster they think you are" leo struck kiato in the stomach, he leaned over holding his stomach as leo grabbed him by the hair lifting his head "because you need to be stronger" he let go of kiato's hair, the fire not bothering him, and wound up his leg.
"there, I told you"
Leo roundhouse kicked kiato in the side of the head making him fall to the ground, knocked out.
Leo let out a breath.
"Leo Koto is the winner of 1-A's sports festival!"
Cheers erupted from the crowd, the silence in the arena gone replaced by excitement. A small but genuine smile placed on Leo's face.