Chapter 21 - Explosion Boy (1/2)

Excitement.

'Been awhile since I've had a girl's day.' Mina thought as she suċkėd up her drink. She was sitting with her female classmates, at least a few of them, since Tsuyu had rejected the idea on the reason that she had to make lunch and dinner for her siblings today. It was their one day off of the week from school, and while she originally wanted to go on a date with Naruto today... he had actually turned her down. Apparently, today he and his uncle were going to be training together. 'I wonder what his uncle's Quirk is?' Mina didn't even know that Naruto's uncle had a strong Quirk, at least strong enough to hold his own against the freak of nature that was her training addicted boyfriend.

So here she was, with Ochaco, Toru, and Momo as the four of them sat in a family diner.

”It's a shame Jiro and Tsuyu are with their families today, it would have been nice to have all the girls together!” Toru's excited voice broke Mina from her thoughts, and she looked at the invisible girl... taking a bite of a sandwich. It vanished the second it entered her mouth, so it was amusing just watching her eat. They were all in their pretty casual clothes.

Ochaco just had a water, and a side of fries in front of her, preferring to snack instead of have a full meal.

Strange.

”So Yaoyorozu, what was it like fighting alongside a pro?” Ochaco asked, who they believed, to be the only person in their group to fight alongside their local celebrity. Sure, Naruto wasn't an actual pro hero, but the fact that he knew All Might personally, combined with how many heroic feats he had under his belt, it was only a matter of time before he became a member of the Top 10 heroes himself one day. He had already been labelled as the strongest student in the class, with Momo being labelled as the smartest, and even Todoroki was given a firm number 2 in strength. The three of them had already cemented themselves as the strongest three in the class, with their high scores, and powerful Quirks.

Momo put a finger to her lips.

”I haven't thought on it, it seemed his mind was somewhere else during that training. He seemed like a good person though, and he was willing to play along with my plans.” Momo had been the one who really wanted to get into character. He just went along with it, and with his appearance, it would seem that he was easily more villainous in appearance than she was.

Toru snickered.

”You really don't look like a villain.” Toru's sleeves pointed at Momo, who puffed up her red cheeks in embarrassment. She had looked over the footage from her battle, and even she would admit she looked nothing like a villain. Her plan had worked against Sero, but putting a black cape on something, and making them smart didn't a villain make. In retrospect, Naruto with his threatening demeanor had been the better villain. Even the likes of Bakugo in the first battle had played the role of a villain far too easily, and Tenya had tried his hardest to act like a villain.

Mina nodded.

”Speaking of looking like a villain, I think Bakugo has some pretty bad attitude problems. What he did to poor Deku-” Mina had heard Ochaco start calling him that, and decided it was fitting. ”-was just wrong. He seemed really angry at the guy for something.” She had watched that fight, and Bakugo had just been vicious to Izuku. He had beaten his fellow student to a near pulp. It was only because Ochaco had done her part as a hero that allowed them to pass, and the building collapsing because of Bakugo's explosions helped her use her Quirk.

Said girl shivered.

Honestly, Bakugo and Naruto scared her a little.

How strong was a person to make All Might shiver like that?

-With Naruto-

”Come on Deku, get your shit together!” Naruto caught Izuku's fist with his hand. He had heard several people in class calling him Deku, and the nickname just stuck with him. Izuku had a black eye and a bloody lip, but he was trying his hardest to land a decent hit on Naruto. He was only able to bring out 7% of One for All, but that much wasn't enough to land a clean hit on Naruto in a straight up sparring match. 7% hadn't even been enough for him to defeat Bakugo in the battle training, so there was no way it was going to help him against a student who used almost solely hand to hand.

All Might watched in his shriveled form.

'He's trying his hardest, but he's thinking too much against Naruto. Against an opponent who fights using instinct, but still has a mind for battle, using just your mind won't be enough.' Toshinori thought as he watched his nephew and charge fight. So far, Izuku hadn't even been able to match Naruto use his Quirk.

The point of this training was for Izuku to land a hit on Naruto, that was it. This wasn't One for All training, this was martial arts training using One for All. Watching the boy, Toshinori could actually see where he was going wrong with his fighting style. He was trying to imitate the All Might fighting style of punches, when his body just wasn't built for lots of upper body martial arts. He needed his own fighting style until his body was capable of using 100% power all over, as it stood, he wasn't a fist fighter.

Naruto looked a little annoyed with Izuku.

Naruto used two fingers and grabbed a lock of Izuku's hair, before he yanked his head down with it. He punched him in the nose and knocked him off of his feet, before he grabbed his ankle and slammed him into the sand.

'I can't read his moves... it's like he has a dozen different fighting styles, and never sticks to a single way of combat.' Izuku, even in the sand, had the wind knocked out of him as Naruto put his hands in his pockets.

He liked observing others and how they fought, and used their Quirks, but everything he learned from watching Naruto was useless. The second he tried to fight Naruto's current fighting style, Naruto just switched into a different way of fighting and threw him for a loop. When he tried to adjust to the new style, Naruto switched into the old one, or a new one. No matter how much he tried to take control of the battle, Naruto didn't let him, and he had no way of predicting what Naruto was going to do next.

”Come on kid, get back up.” Toshinori whispered as he encouraged Izuku.

This was his successor, he needed to support him right now, not Naruto.

”I'm done.” Naruto turned and started to walk away.

”What? I thought we were suppose to be fighting all day!?” Izuku jerked up as quickly as he could, and he wobbled to his feet, before he ran at Naruto. Not to punch him, just to ask him why he was giving up. Naruto turned around and placed his palm on Izuku's head, before he pushed him onto his buŧŧ, right back in the sand.

”You're not ready to train with me... even if you could use 100% of that power you have. That body of yours isn't the only thing holding you back from making me take you seriously. I'll train with you again, when you understand what you're doing wrong.” Naruto was done with Izuku.

Toshinori didn't say anything.

Izuku was far too predictable, because he thought out all of his moves. He was easy to trick into acting a certain way, and no amount of speed or power would change that right now. He needed to learn how to think on the fly better, and act on instinct more. As it stood, no amount of training with Naruto would help him with that.

-With the Girls-

”So what do we talk about now?” Mina asked as they all got their food. They had a full day of fun planned, but right now they were going to sit down, eat, and maybe gossip a little.

”... Boys?” Toru asked.

”I'm not interested, right now, I'm focused on becoming a hero.” Momo rejected it. She wasn't going to be trying to get into a relationship with any boys until she had become a pro hero, and had gotten used to that harsh life. A relationship could wait until she was an ȧduŀt. ”You can talk about it, I just won't have much to say.” Momo did relent when she saw Ochaco blushing, and Mina seemingly uninterested. She was kind of interested in why the most tomboyish of them, Mina, seemed like she didn't care too much about this topic.

”Like what, who is the hottest in class, or boys we like?” Mina didn't really have much to say.