[Kaede POV]
When the course ended, only forty-two of us made it to round two.
"Round two of the UA Sports Festival will be... Calvary battle!" Midnight loudly said while standing on the stage.
Midnight then starts explaining the rules. For the cavalry battle, four people will form a group. One at the front, two at the back, and the three support the last person sitting on their shoulders. Each person will be given points for how well they did in the obstacle race; the one at the top will be wearing the headband with the total number of points from the group. To earn points, each group has to steal the headbands from the other group, and we will have to protect our headbands from being stolen. You won't get out even if you lose your headband or fall onto the ground.
"Now that's all the basic rules! However, there's one thing you need to know, the person who got first place will have a point total of ten million! That lucky star is Kaede Uchiha!" Midnight announced and looked at me with an evil smile.
"Oh, that's right!" I said and slapped my fist with my palm; I finally remembered the special rule in this second round.
'Wait a minute....' I froze and glanced around.
I felt the other students staring at me with greed. Mina and Ochako gave me a pitying look. Especially Baguko and I felt uncomfortable under his gaze, I think he won't hesitate to attack me as soon as the match starts. I chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of my head.
"Now, you got fifteen minutes; quickly form your groups!" Midnight said and a giant timer behind her started counting down.
[3rd POV]
"Sorry, Kaede-chan, but I have to win no matter what...." Mina said with sadness.
Ochako nodded, and Kaede waved them off, understanding that she would do the same in their shoes.
She hurriedly looked around; everyone was avoiding her as they all knew that people would immediately target her for the ten million points.
She sighed in frustration, but her mood quickly changed when she saw someone being alone. Shoto was also looking around, and nobody wanted to approach him because of his usual expression.
Kaede happily appeared behind him and tightly hugged his back: "Let's be in a group Todoroki-kun!" She said with an excited tone.
Once again, Shoto suffered a heavy blow from Kaede's denseness, and he reluctantly nodded as no one else wanted to group up with him. Fortunately for him, Kaede quickly let go and he felt the two soft bulges moving away from his back.
Shoto felt his heart skip a beat again just like last time; suddenly, the hair on the back of his neck stood up; he sensed two killing intents from the spectator seats, it was suffocating, but luckily, as soon as they came, they disappeared.
ten seconds earlier...
Fugaku and Itachi spotted Kaede hug Shoto and stared at him with fury.
Mikoto saw her husband and son staring at the boy with extreme hatred and frowned. Before they were going to do something stupid and embarrassing, she quickly built up a chakra in her fists and smacked both of them in the back of the head.
*THUD*
Both men slumped in their seats, unconscious with red, swollen bumps on their heads. Mikoto knows they were very protective of Kaede, but sometimes it's too much, and they weren't trying to hide it.
'How will Kaede be able to marry in the future with the two of you trying to murder every boy that got close to her?' Mikoto thought and sighed tiredly.
Present Time...
After Kaede and Shoto teamed up, Momo (Yaoyorozu) and Ibara (Shiozaki) from class 1-B joined as they suffered the same predicament. They decided that Kaede would be the one on top while Shoto was in the front, and Momo and Ibara would be at the side.
[Kaede POV]
I have grouped up with Todorki, Yaoyorozu, and Shiozaki. I was given the role of being at the top. We then created a genius plan that could take out multiple groups. A UA staff then handed me a headband, and I wore it on my head. When every group was ready, a loud buzzer sounded, signalling the start of the second round.
Immediately, our group moved to the corner of the field; unsurprisingly, many groups followed us, including Midoriya's and Bakugo's groups. As they got closer, I smirked and activated my Sharingan, and they instinctively looked directly into my bright red eyes.
As expected of Midoriya, who observed our quirks during the combat trial, he shouted: "Quickly, don't look into her eyes!"
No one other than Bakugo's group listened. No matter how much Bakugo hated Midoriya, even he has to admit that Midoriya won't say something like that without reason. Unfortunately, the rest of the groups were still blindly charging at us.
"Freeze," I said, and all of them momentarily stopped due to my Sharingan.
There were too many people, and I couldn't completely stop them. However, that pause was enough time for Todoroki to use his ice to trap everyone's feet, and I effortlessly snatched the headbands off their heads. I glanced at the group, only Midoriya and Bakugo's group managed to escape Todoroki's attack.
We ran past the groups stuck on the ice; however, Bakugo's group quickly blocked us off. He leapt off his group's shoulders and flew at me with his explosive quirk.
[3rd POV]
Katsuki flew towards Kaede at a fast speed. He realized that Kaede's eyes could affect other people, but out of habit, he still looked. He flew at an insane pace and grabbed the ten million-point headband off her head before Hanta(Sero) used his tape quirk to bring him back.
"Did you get it?" Hanta asked.
Katsuki nodded and tied the headband to his head.
"What are you doing Bakugo-san??" Hanta then asked, confused about why Bakugo was touching his head with his hands.
Katsuki was confused and realized that there he never got the band, 'It was all just an illusion!' He thought with a shocked look.
[Kaede POV]
I trapped Bakugo in my genjutsu, and our group quickly escaped. Before he can once again chase after us, other people block him, and he's forced to deal with them. I lightly slapped the top of Todoroki's head and pointed: "That way, that way!"
I think I saw a tick mark on his head, but he still followed my orders and went in the direction I pointed.
Suddenly Midoriya's group cut in front of us. His group was like the canon, with Tokoyami at the front and Ochako and Hatusme at the back. Tokoyami used his quirk Shadow to attack me while Hatsume used some net launcher to trap us, and Midoriya jumped towards us with a... IS THAT A JETPACK????!!!!
Yaoyorozu created a shield and blocked a strike from Tokoyami's shadow. Todoroki destroyed the net with his fire. Shiozaki tried to defend me from Midoriya with her vines, but he dodged them, and his distance between me started to shorten.
I leapt off of my friend's shoulders and reached Midoriya; I spun in the air and swung my heel in a downward motion. Midoriya instinctively blocked and I smashed him into the ground. Unfortunately, Tokoyami managed to catch him with his shadow while Shiozake did the same to me with her vines.
After that brief exchange, we went to another location in the field. Bakugo and Midoriya were unrelenting as they continued to pursue us. Todoroki got wind of this and activated his quirk to the maximum; with a swipe of his hand, a vast ice wall came between the rest of the competitors and us.
"Good Job Todoroki-kun!" I said while patting his head.
His face got a little red, and he just nodded. Shortly after, Midnight announced: "That's it, folks, round two of the UA Sports Festival have ended! This is the list of people that have made it into the final round!"
Midnight then pointed at the screen behind her, and a list of names came up:
Shoto Todoroki
Ibara Shiozaki
Momo Yaorozu
Kaede Uchiha
Izuku Midoriya
Ochaco Uraraka
Fumikage Tokoyami
Mei Hatsume
Katsuki Bakugo
Eijiro Kirishima
Mina Ashido
Hanta Sero
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu (Apparently that's his name)
Juzo Honenuki
Hitoshi Shinso
Tenya Iida
I was glad the second round finally ended. Now the third round of the UA Sports Festival will start soon. If it goes to the anime, it will be a 1v1 battle!
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Btw what will Kaede's hero name be? Comment your ideas below, and I will choose the most liked ones.