Hitoshi was nervous. Who wouldn't be nervous when going up a sentient quirk who you have no idea if you can use your own quirk on them or not.
Well, like Izuku says: Fuck shit up until you find the solution.
But in this case, Hitoshi can't "fuck shit up" and there wasn't really a "solution" because he's fighting not inventing. Kami, why'd he have to make friends with chaotic support course students? He could have just coasted through the hero course without friends and then become an Underground Hero, but no he just had to get kidnapped on his first day. Great.
Focus Hitoshi. No need to get distracted and lose first thing.
"The mysterious Shinsou Hitoshi from class 1-A who has yet to show his quirk!" Yamada-sensei spoke. Hitoshi's glad the man didn't announce his quirk, though he has a feeling if Yamada-sensei had to, Izuku or Mei would probably hack into the speakers like Mei already did and interrupt it.
"And the Dark Samurai Tokoyami Fumikage, also from class 1-A. His quirk is Dark Shadow."
Hitoshi sighed, listening to Midnight-sensei talk about the rules. He just wanted to get this over with. He wants to take a nap.
Right as Midnight-sensei called go, the shadow flew out from behind Tokoyami, heading straight for Hitoshi. And Hitoshi? Well he started the game of cat and mouse. It wasn't a fun game in the slightest. It made him tired and sweaty, but he's in the Hero Course so it's to be expected.
He tries thinking of strategies; tries thinking of ways to see if Dark Shadow can be affected by his quirk, but he doesn't have the time to test it and fail.
You'll never know if you don't try. Jump headfirst and find the answer . Izuku's voice rings in his head. Hitoshi wonders why the Izuku in his mind is always so poetic and shit when the physical Izuku is just a teenager on crack and caffeine.
Fuck it . Hitoshi thinks, wondering what kind of question he could ask to get a response.
He dodges the sentient quirk a few more times before he finally comes up with something.
"Are you just going to make your quirk do all the work?" Hitoshi asks, dodging another jab.
"Of course noー"
"He's not making me do anythiー" And Hitoshi grabs onto the strings. Or well, string. It's weird in a way he doesn't think words can describe.
It's thicker than the other strings he envisions when he uses his quirk, but it's not too thick that he can't grab hold and keep it in his grasp. Both quirk and teen stop, almost like they're frozen in time.
"Walk out of bounds." Hitoshi instructs, watching as Tokoyami turns around and starts walking, Dark Shadow following behind. Right as Tokyoyami is about to step out, however, the thick string in Hitoshi's mental hold becomes thin like one of them snapped out of it and he sees the raven headed boy turn towards him, Dark Shadow still flying out of bounds. Tokoyami, unrestricted by Dark Shadow's movements, began walking towards him.
Shit .
"Dark Shadow, drag Tokoyami out of bounds." Kami, he hoped this worked.
Tokoyami looked taken aback when his quirk came back to pick him up and drag him out of bounds.
"Dark Shadow! What has gotten into you? Do not let the darkness prevail!" Ah, so he was emo too. Hitoshi had guessed that ー with the whole aesthetic he had going on ー, but he was surprised to find out that he was right. Trippy.
Hitoshi watched as Tokoyami was dragged out of bounds, the teen trying to get his quirk to cooperate with him.
"Dark Shadow, stop this nonsense right now!" Tokoyami exclaimed, voice going high. Weird.
Hitoshi released his hold once Tokoyami was on the grass outside of the ring and sighed in relief at whatever the fuck just happened. At least he has new information for Izuku.
"The winner is Shinsou Hitoshi!" Midnight-sensei called. At least Tokoyami didn't pass out like what happened in Izuku's fight. Although, Hitoshi thinks that that's because the blonde tried to do something with his quirk and Izuku's quirk.
Hitoshi feels like his fight was anticlimactic in a way. Not in the way that Izuku's was where that Monoma kid just fainted, but in the way that it wasn't even an actual fight. He ignores Tokoyami's stares as he walks up to where Izuku and Mei are sitting if their excited yelling is anything to go by.
Izuku bounces from one foot to the other. Toshi had just used his quirk on a sentient quirk. It was strange to see from an outside perspective, but he had immediately begun talking with MeiMei about what they could do with the new information.
"Izuku." A voice says from behind Izuku, hand grabbing onto his shoulder. Immediately, Izuku's jabbing an elbow into the person's sternum and flipping the person over his shoulder.
"Oh shit. Goldie, hey. Sorry 'bout that." Izuku apologizes, helping the blonde up.
"No dude, it's cool. I shouldn't have snuck up on you like that. Where'd you learn to do that anyway?" Goldie asks, waving off Izuku's apology.
"ZuZu your instincts are way too honed." MeiMei says, cackling and holding her stomach.
"I would hope so." Izuku says, turning to the pink haired inventor. "And you don't need to know."
It's not unkind, but it's not kind either. It's a guarded sentence and his voice clearly portrays how he doesn't want to talk about it. (It's similar to his Canary persona, but no one has to know that.)
"Right. So Shinsou? What's his quirk?" Goldie asks, clearly an innocent question, but Izuku knows what Toshi went through and he's not willing to let him go through that again.
"Why?" It's harsh and Izuku knows it's mean, but he doesn't care. He also knows that MeiMei's looking at him with concern in her eyes, and again, he doesn't care.
"I just thought it was really cool!" Goldie says, either not noticing, or ignoring Izuku's harsh tone.
"He can tell you himself then." Izuku says, trying to calm down. When he sees Toshi walk into their area, his mood goes from slightly sour to ecstatic.
"Toshi! Toshi Toshi Toshi!" Izuku exclaims, running up to the boy. "We have new things to test now!"
"I had a feeling you'd say that." Toshi says, sighing in faux exasperation.
"Heya Shin!" Goldie says, bouncing up to them.
"Hi." Toshi responds, bored and tired.
"Bye boys! Gotta go show off my babies!" MeiMei exclaims as she bounds up to them.
"Bye!" Izuku calls after her.
Izuku laughs as MeiMei toys with RoboKid and then wins when the boy gets fed up with her shenanigans and rushes at her, unable to stop once she dodges.
The next fight is quick and the winner is announced not even 5 seconds after the call for start. Izuku kind of wants to experiment on the boy's quirk. No not on the boy himself. That's inhumane, why would he ever do such a thing?
Goldie, somehow, wins his match with the frog girl and Izuku thinks it's because the discharge of electricity dried her skin out and she probably fainted from lack of oxygen. Strange but so fucking cool . Kami, Izuku wants to ask her so many questions.
The last match finishes with the 1-B kid winning. Izuku already knows, however, that he's going to be asking the Yaoyorー fuck , creation girl, about her quirk. MeiMei's obviously going to be there with him though so she can figure out babies for each student.
Izuku looks at the screen that displays the names for the next round and hums.
Yamazawa Izuku v.s Kaminari Denki
Todoroki Shouto v.s Shinsou Hitoshi
Tsuburaba Kosei v.s Hatsume Mei
Toshi groans beside him when he sees his name and Izuku laughs. This is going to be an interesting next round.
(For all that Izuku has honed instincts regarding dangers and fighting, he doesn't notice the blonde haired boy looking at him with a blush on his face. Oh well.)
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