Chapter 46 - Finals (1/2)

Deep, calming breaths.

'As injured as he is right now... I have a chance. I can do this.' Mina thought to herself as she stood across from Naruto. She wasn't a part girl, in or out of battle, and mostly relied on her intuition for combat. If she thought something would work, she went with it, and didn't usually have to think twice. In normal situations, it didn't matter if Naruto was injured or not, her victory chances weren't great. Naruto was injured, he had refused to be healed from his last fight, and he had been through more fights than she had. He had to be low on blood, and slower than he usually would be too. 'Right now, I can win...' Mina lowered herself and moved her arms back and force.

She could do this, she could do it!

Naruto ġrȯȧnėd and held the side of his head.

'I can't believe I passed out in Recovery Girl's office. Thank god Momo was there... but I can't believe I had another dream about that little girl.' Naruto frowned to himself. According to a blushing Momo, he didn't know why she was blushing, he had passed out for close to 45 minutes in the medical wing.

Mina gulped.

”Fight!”

”Sorry Mina, but I just want to get this tournament over with.”

Mina felt pain in her gut as she was bent over almost instantly, the distance between herself and Naruto gone. She had started to run at him when the match started, but she hadn't even noticed him move until she felt an ungodly amount of pain. Her lunch wasn't in her stomach anymore as she was lifted off of her feet, hanging in the air by Naruto's fist holding her up. She threw up, the force behind the punch getting her far more hard than she thought Naruto would be able to manage in his injured state. Her legs dangled helplessly, before she was tossed to the ground outside of the ring. Mina finished puking up what was left in her stomach, thankfully she puked no blood so nothing vital was injured. It would seem that despite Naruto wanting to finish her up as quickly as possible, he was still taking her health into account by only hitting her hard enough to stun her, so he could toss her out of the ring.

'... Should have known, I didn't have a chance...' Mina wasn't able to properly stand by herself, so the medical men came and got her, picking her up and carrying her off to the medical area just like the rest of Naruto's opponents.

Naruto was a nice guy, but people didn't usually fight him without paying a visit to the hospital after.

”I surrender from my match with Bakugo!”

Toru shouted towards Midnight from the stands. She knew she had no chance of using her luck to try and make a win against the explosive wonder himself, she was more than likely going to be blasted off of the stage like Denki had been before she could even get her shirt off. A guy like Bakugo wouldn't hesitate to blast her to pieces either, so this was as far as she was going to for in the tournament. The fact she took down two opponents alone was enough to get her some good notice, and giving up against an opponent vastly stronger than he could be seen as a good judge of strength. Not to mention, even if she lucked her way through Bakugo, she wasn't going to be taking down Naruto, whose bad luck would somehow counteract her good luck, and possible make the entire stadium collapse as a supervillain attacked it with a giant rampaging fish or something.

There was silence.

”Can she do that?”

”... I'll allow it!” Midnight shouted after a moments thought. It was up to her if she was going to allow such a thing, but it didn't really violate any rules.

*BOOM*

Bakugo, in the stands, propelled himself down towards the stadium with an explosion, using a smaller explosion to guide himself to the opposite end of the ring to Naruto. He had a wide, wicked, grin with red angry eyes as he looked towards Naruto. Walking through the hallways wasn't fast enough of a method, not when he was going to be getting to fight the one person... well the second person he wanted to fight the most. Since the person he wanted to beat the most wasn't in the tournament, he would settle for this, and earn himself the number 1 spot that he craved... that he deserved.

”I've been waiting for this chance since I saw you... I'm going to turn you into a bloody stain!” Bakugo shouted out his usual pre-fight banter.

Naruto wasn't phased.

-In the Stands-

Momo limped into the stands, still somewhat hurt from her fight with Naruto, but she had a more concerned look on her face when she saw that the fight was about to start, before she could put a stop to it. On her way to the stands, she had passed by a defeated Mina... and she had heard Toru forfeit smartly.

'This isn't good... Naruto doesn't look like he's going to hold back... if he uses his Quirk right now, he might actually kill Bakugo...' Momo thought to herself as she took her seat. She would try and stop the fight... but honestly, she didn't think she could even if she tried. Naruto wasn't a person to back down from a fight, and Bakugo was sure as hell not going to do that.

”Are you okay?” A fully healed Tsuyu asked as she looked at her fellow victim of a Naruto-fight.

”I'll be fine, she wants to heal me little by little to conserve stamina. I'm more worried about this fight.” Momo furrowed her brow.

This wasn't going to be pretty.

'Fight!'

-Naruto vs Bakugo-

*BOOM*