𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 𝗌. 𝗍𝗈𝖽𝗈𝗋𝗈𝗄𝗂 「✓」 - Chapter 10: Chapter 10

"𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨."
"for our first battle, we have..."
"izuku midoriya versus hitoshi shinso!" present mic shouted through the microphone, causing aizawa to side eye him, since he was so loud. the battle started interesting as the green-haired boy was about to walk out of the barrier, but he was somehow able to break out of the trance that he was in and won.
next was todoroki v.s. sero. now sero had everyone in the first half, but todoroki turned the tides when he made a giant ice mountain that left sero covered in ice from head to toe. making the half and half boy the winner. while sero was getting defrosted, many people yelled out, "nice try!" which will surely haunt.
then it was y/n's turn.
[mother's name] stood next to the fiery pro as she watched her daughter walk onto the platform. y/n stretched as she waited for present mic to tell them to start.
kaminari flirted, but she had no time for that and rushed towards him the minute present mic had started the match. the electric blonde was scared as she continued to advance towards him.
coming to his senses, kaminari let out a lot of electricity causing y/n to jump back. unfortunately, she was hit and the impact made her fall to the ground. her mom winced as she fell and shouted out, "come on get up y/n!"
not knowing who had spoken, y/n sat up and rubbed her now hurting forehead. who knew that electricity could do all that? grateful that he didn't accidentally kill her, kaminari let out a breath of air. "sorry about that l/n." he apologized.
"you shouldn't be sorry, we're fighting."
"right."
y/n got off the ground and moved a little farther back just in case the electric type would let out another burst of electricity. she thought of a plan then proceeded to slowly advance towards the boy. "kaminari~" she sang.
"get back!" he exclaimed, not fully trusting what she was doing.
"don't be scared, i'm not going to hurt you too badly."
"ok, wait what?!"
he had no time to react as y/n wrapped his arms behind him and pushed him down onto the ground. she held his arms down as she sat on his back. "i won~" she sang into his ear.
after a couple of seconds, cementoss announced her win and she got off of the boys back, then helped him up. the audience clapped and cheered for y/n. tobio and ochaco being the loudest.
"woo! go y/n!"
"that's my girl!"
y/n and kaminari shook hands and walked out of their respective side of the arena. happy about her daughter's win, [mother's name] smiled to herself before turning to leave her spot in the stands.
"where are you going?" endeavor questioned.
she turned around, "to go congratulate y/n."
"i'll go with you."
"no you don't have to." she knew that y/n wouldn't be comfortable if he was there as well.
"i want to talk to shoto, so i'll just go now."
"ok." she nodded then turned back around and left, endeavor following behind her. [mother's name] froze when she saw y/n walking into the hallway. "y/n?" she whispered. the h/c haired girl turned towards the voice and her expression fell at the sight of her mom and endeavor.
"mom."
"i wanted to congratulate you."
"thanks but i don't care."
"you did well out there, you barely used your quirk though." endeavor said making y/n clench her fist. "no one added you to the conversation endeavor." she said with hate dripping from her words. he furrowed his brows in anger and walked off. "i have my own matters to attend to."
y/n stuck her middle finger up at his back as he disappeared down the hallway. [mother's name] sighed. "there was something else that i wanted to talk to you about." the h/c haired girl looked at her mom. "what?"
[mother's name]'s mind was running a mile a minute because she was scared that she would stumble over her words or give off the wrong energy. "i'm sorry."
"for what?"
"i've been a horrible mother and wife."
"yea, you have, but i think it's too late for an apology."
not expecting that response [mother's name]'s eyes widened. she knew that y/n might not accept her apology, but she didn't know it would be like this. "how could you just do that?"
"do what? tell the truth?" y/n didn't want to be rude because she was talking to her mom, but she didn't feel like holding back.
"i-"
"no, you don't get to emotionally neglect dad and me for years. just to come back with some shitty apology!"
"y/-"
"i was always proud to call you my mom when i was little, you know because your a pro and all. hell, i even looked up to you, but once i realized that it was all for him, i couldn't even bring myself to think that we were related."
"all of what? and who's him?"
"training me to no end, mocking and taunting me, lowering my self-confidence just so yours could rise. you did that so you could stay on endeavor's good side. that's who it is. it's always endeavor this or endeavor that with you. that's what you and dad would argue about when i was little. you might've thought that i couldn't hear you guys, but i did and maybe he wasn't the main topic, but his name always came up more than once."
y/n felt her eyes water as she let out everything that she's been holding in and it felt good. like a weight was lifted.
"i know that i put him over you and your dad more than i should have and i feel horrible for doing that, i really do, but can you listen to what i have to say?"
"i guess, but you got." y/n checked the time. "10 minutes."
"thank you. i just want to start by saying i'm sorry once more and that i have a lot of things that i need to do to prove that i can be there for you. no, i have to prove that i want to be there for you. i need to prevent you from ending up like me."
"what do you mean?"
"i mean someone who runs to the wrong person for comfort. i should've been more open with your father and with you. i guess i was just... scared."
"scared? we would've been there for you."
"i know, but i didn't realize that till now. i'll completely understand if you don't accept my apology, but please consider it at least." y/n thought for a while before answering. "i'll think about it. i have to go now." then turned to leave.
"i still love you princess. please remember that."
not knowing how to respond, y/n kept walking. deep down, she still had love for her mom but wasn't too sure if she was able to accept that yet. she blinked and felt a tear fall out of her eye. "shit. i'm crying." she mumbled before wiping her face with the sleeve of her jacket.
[mothers name] went back to the stands and was grateful that endeavor wasn't back yet since she was crying as well. her conversation with y/n didn't go exactly as she would've hoped, but she was happy that her daughter listened.
once y/n got back to the section of the stands that class 1-a sat in, she took a deep breath and sat next to ochaco. she looked down at the field and saw iida and some pink-haired girl, but they weren't fighting.
"what's going on?"
"it's a commercial i believe. i'm not entirely sure." the brunette said as she looked over at y/n. she recognized the look in her friend's eyes and instantly hugged her. "we can sit out in the hallway if you'd like." she whispered.
y/n hugged back and shook her head. "it's ok ocha. i'll be alright."
"ok, but remember to let me know if you need something."
"of course."
uraraka pulled away and looked at y/n. "congrats on your win by the way!"
"thank you. where's tobio?" the h/c haired girl asked as she looked around.
"he's in the waiting room. we can go see him, i don't think that this match will end soon."
"yea let's do that."
the two girls left the stands and made their way to the waiting room. once inside, they saw tobio sitting in a chair and staring at the wall.
"tobio, are you good?" y/n asked as she tried not to laugh. he was spooked and fell out of his chair. "i can't believe you've done this." he exclaimed as he laid on the floor.
ochaco and y/n walked over him. "is he dead?" uraraka asked as she looked over at y/n. "uhh.." the h/c haired girl kicked his foot and he let out a "hey!"
"nah, he's alive."
"dang it."
tobio pouted as he got up and looked between them. "you guys are so mean to me. i want a hug as an apology." the two girls laughed at him and he deadpanned. "i don't know what's funny."
"oh, you're serious."
"yes. now hug me."
"fine, but just this once."
y/n and ochaco walked over to tobio and hugged him, he hugged back. they pulled away after a few minutes. "thank you i feel better." he said with a smile.
"of course."
not long after, it was time for tobio to go out to the field for his match. they said bye and went their separate ways.
the first round was over and the second round started. tobio ended up losing and so did ochaco. y/n comforted them, well ochaco seemed like she was ok, but tobio on the other hand was devastated.
"i don't want to go on anymore!" he shouted as sat down his seat in the stands. y/n shook her head and ochaco giggled.
"you got next year tobio."
"that's too long."
the conversation was interrupted as heat filled the arena. the cause of it was that todoroki used his left side for the first time in a while. y/n was shocked and confused about how midoriya was able to get him to do that. speaking of midoriya, he had multiple broken fingers due to him countering todoroki's attacks.
endeavor yelled out some nonsense about how shoto had unlocked his full potential. which made y/n roll her eyes then focus back on the match. the two boys were shouting at each other, but it wasn't easy to hear what they were saying.
then, they both activated their quirks and rushed towards each other. knowing that they could kill each other, midnight told cementoss to put up walls between them and he did.
the impact of their quirks on the walls caused them to break apart and the temperature in the arena drastically heated up then cooled back down. once the smoke cleared, an out of bounds midoriya and a tired looking in bounds todoroki were visible. meaning that todoroki had won.
midoriya was taken to recovery girl's office and todoroki walked off of the field with half of his jacket burnt off. the ground was messed up, so everyone was given a break as cementoss fixed it.
in the tunnel leading to the field, todoroki encountered his father. endeavor told shoto about how he was happy that he used his fire and he could teach him how to use it properly.
shoto wasn't having any of it and told his dad that he completely forgot about him at that moment. endeavor was shocked and tried to talk some sense into his son, but shoto ignored him and kept walking.
the ground was fixed and y/n was going against iida. they faced each other and got ready to fight. "l/n i am hoping we can settle our differences with this battle." iida said referring to how they started the year disliking each other.
"same here iida."
present mic started the battle and instantly iida ran towards her. the two fought until the battle ended with y/n pushing iida out of bounds with wind. she walked over to him and helped him up after her victory was announced. they shook hands and squashed the pointless beef that they had.
the second round ended with y/n, bakugo, todoroki, and tokoyami advancing to the final round. the first match of the last round was y/n going against tokoyami and she won by figuring out that his weakness was light. she used that to her advantage and used fire to push him and dark shadow back until they walked out of bounds.
todoroki and bakugo's battle was about as eventful as todoroki and midoriya's. the ash-blonde was pushing the half and half boy to use his fire side. shoto used it for a split second, but couldn't go through with it which ended with him getting knocked out by bakugo's special move.
the stubborn hot head wasn't able to accept it so he tried waking todoroki up, but midnight used her quirk to make him fall asleep. the last and final battle of the day would happen after bakugo woke up.
the fight between y/n and bakugo was long and grueling. one would land a hit than miss the next and so on. it also didn't help that neither of them wanted to back down. they stopped their advancements and took a breather for a few seconds. bakugo smirked, he finally found a worthy opponent. "you're not tired nature bitch?"
"no, ugly ass pomeranian." he snickered and rushed towards her. he faked her out by pretending like he was going to punch but kicked instead. not expecting that, y/n fell.
she quickly got back up and shot a powerful stream of water at him which he barely dodged. "that's all you got?" he asked. "no, but i can show what more i have if you quit your talking and come over here."
y/n finally knew what she had to do to win, use her space quirk. she hasn't used it in a long while, so she hoped that she wouldn't accidentally kill bakugo. all she needed was for him to get close. she needed to touch him once and she could win.
growing restless, the ash-blonde slowly made his way over to her being wary of what she might do. "you're planning something aren't you?"
"why would i tell you?"
"tch."
as expected, he lunged at her, so she sidestepped and grabbed his arm, and activated her quirk. bakugo screamed out as a sudden feeling of pain and pressure washed over him. she held him down and his screams became louder and inhumane. "i'm so sorry, but i need to win!" she yelled out hoping he could hear her over his screams.
after a few gruesome moments, he passed out from the pain and y/n let go of him. that's what she hated most about her space quirk, the amount of pain she was able to inflict on a person.
y/n was breathing heavily as she looked at a knocked-out bakugo. she couldn't believe that she beat him, that she won, but she was mad at herself for using the quirk and for not stopping sooner.
[mothers name] was wide-eyed, she had forgotten about what that part of y/n's quirk could do. the crowd was a mix of boos, cheers, and some people who didn't know how to feel.
one thing they did know was that bakugo's screams wouldn't be leaving their minds for a while.
y/n made her way out of the arena with the first place medal feeling out of place on her chest. after allmight had given the winners their medals, y/n had slipped out unnoticed or so she thought.
"l/n?"
she turned around to see todoroki walking out of the building. his 3rd place medal shining in the sun. "congratulations on 1st place."
"thanks." she replied. "congrats on 3rd."
"thank you." todoroki tried to keep the conversation going. "so what element was that?"
"space."
"i've never seen you use it before."
"yea, that's because i hate what happens when i do."
he nodded. "i wonder why they put bakugo in chains."
"same, but all i know is that they're horrible for doing that. especially after what happened." he hummed in response and no one said anything else. the two continued to walk, to where? they weren't too sure, but they kept going.
todoroki looked between y/n and the ground before speaking again. "i hope you didn't take what i said in a bad way." she internally groaned in annoyance because she was hoping he wouldn't bring it up. "it's ok, i don't care anymore." she lied as she stared straight ahead.
he tilted his head at her. "really? you looked upset earlier."
"i'm fine."
silence again. although todoroki knew that she was lying, he didn't bother her anymore. y/n felt her phone ring in her pocket and dug it out to check it. after opening it, she saw that ochaco and tobio had texted her and they were asking her where she had gone.
"i don't want to go back." she mumbled before typing home and tapping on send. she turned off her phone and stuffed it in her pocket before any more text could come through.
"yamada and uraraka?" todoroki asked once she had finished putting her phone up. the h/c haired girl nodded in response, not bothering to look in his direction. todoroki noticed her distantness and decided to head back to the arena. "well, i will see you in class l/n." y/n didn't respond and kept walking.
she didn't want to go home and she didn't have enough money for a train ride to the hospital, so she sat on a park bench and started thinking of all the places that she might be welcomed. then the answer came to her and she hopped up off of the bench and made her way to her next destination.