"Where's Ida. Is he still on the call?" Mina asked.
"Nah scratch that, where's Izuku and Uraraka?" Kirishima asked, a little concerned with the sudden disappearances of their classmates. He can't have them miss his match with Momo now.
"We're here!" They saw as Izuku and Uraraka walked towards them.
"Gurl what happened?!" Mina shouted in concern, noticing Uraraka's eyes were red.
"The hell nerd?! I didn't know you were an asshole too!" Bakugo shouted, thinking that Izuku had made Uraraka cry. Uraraka laughed at his outburst.
"It's fine, Bakugo. Just got some sand in my eyes. Izuku just came and helped me, that's all." Uraraka tried laughing it off. Mina raised an eyebrow.
"Since when did you call him Izuku?" Mina commented, as Uraraka used to call him Deku because in Japanese, it almost sounded like the phrase for 'You can do it!'.
Uraraka stammered, her face becoming pink like mochi. " W-well... Wh-why not r-right?"
"Hmm???" Mina got closer to Uraraka, her smirk widening, though someone suddenly pushed her back gently. She looked to see Sukuna looking down at her.
"What did we say about getting into other people's business?" He asked her, raising an eyebrow. Mina laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her neck.
"Hehe... Oops...Sorry you two..." Mina bowed a little, with Uraraka and Izuku frantically trying to get her to stand up straight.
"And now for the last match in the first round! We have Yaoyorozu Momo from Class 1-A! And Eijiro Kirishima, also from Class 1-A!"
'I wonder what tactics Momo would utilize?' Aizawa thought to himself, watching the two students staredown each other. 'Though it's just a fight between brains and brawn, so I doubt she has to think much.'
"Fight!"
As Momo expected, Kirishima charged first with his body hardening. He had no other choice but to get within punching range and overwhelm her, but Momo was already five steps ahead.
Kirishima's Quirk only improves his durability and striking power, not his base speed, so Momo had tons of time to prepare.
"Think fast chucklenuts!"
Kirishima widened his eyes as Momo suddenly threw up to four flashbang grenades at him. His vision immediately blurred, his ears ringing painfully as he tried swinging at Momo through the sensory disruption, missing her completely.
Momo ducked beneath his swing and stood behind him, already creating another object. Kirishima turned around only to be faced with a gun like object. Momo pulled the trigger, sending a giant net that captured Kirishima.
Kirishima grunted as the net suddenly started shocking him. Momo watched as Kirishima's body became more rugged as he tore through the net, before charging straight at her again.
Momo dodged a punch that would've most definitely break her nose, before quickly creating a bunch of smoke bombs and dropping them. The smoke screen covered the whole arena as Kirishima kept moving, fanning away the smoke with his hands.
Another electric net captured him outof nowhere, as he gritted his teeth, ripping it off him. He could tell that the material of the net was stronger than the one before. Momo was clearly evaluating him mid-fight.
"Come out already!" Kirishima shouted, as the smoke cleared, Momo nowhere to be found standing anywhere, that is if she's standing.
"Sorry, Kirishima." Kirishima stared up at the sky to see Momo floating, carrying a jetpack as she held a rocket launcher in her hands, aiming straight at him.
Firing the rocket, it flew straight towards Kirishima. Many wondered if she was going to kill him via the missile, but that wasn't the case. Kirishima gritted his teeth as the rocket started pushing him back, even though his hands were blocking it, fighting it off.
The missile was not explosive, it was to push Kirishima out of bounds, challenging his strength. Kirishima's skin hardened further, his strength increasing. Finally, the missile stopped, its fuel had run out.
Kirishima threw it away before looking at Momo standing before him. He charged straight at her, but found his vision blurring suddenly.
"What's.... happening...." He muttered as his movement slowed down, his eyes starting to close, his skin returning back to normal.
"The smoke." Izuku mumbled, realizing what was happening. Momo had laced the smoke bombs with a sleeping agent, and since Kirishima had spent all that time and stamina fighting the missile, the sedatives were starting to take effect.
"I'm gonna go... take a nap..." He mumbled incoherently before slumping down on the ground, snoring loudly.
"Winner! Yaoyorozu Momo!!!" Momo gracefully bowed a little at the audience as medical staff took Kirishima away. Present Mic then continued to announce.
"And that's it for the first round of the tournament! We will now take a 45 minute break before the quarterfinals start! So go enjoy the festival for bit and don't forget to come back! We've got some really interesting fights in our hands for sure!"
...
Sukuna and Mina were walking around the festival, squeezing through the crowd. Mina had deliberately wrapped her arm around Sukuna's, 'so she wouldn't get lost', was her excuse this time for initiating unprotected physical contact.
"See honey! What'd I tell you!" They heard a familiar voice gasp as they finally got out of the crowded area.
"Mom!" Mina shrieked, seeing her parents hanging out with Sukuna's parents.
"Hey, looks like someone's having fun." Maya grinned, pointing at her daughter's hand around Sukuna's. Mina widened her eyes in horror, immediately pulling back her hand, hiding it behind her back.
"No need to be like that, Mina-chan. You can continue what you were doing. Don't mind us." Kaori giggled, a hand covering her mouth. Sukuna was deadpanning at them, something that amused his own father.
"C'mon, let's get out of here. Once they start they won't stop." He grumbled, gently intertwining his hand with Mina's before walking away, dragging a flushed Mina with him.
"Good luck with your matches, you two!" Maya shouted, waving at them. Jin resisted a sigh, watching his wife take pictures of Sukuna and Mina walking away together.
"All that and they're still not dating? They really need to get it together." Kano crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow.
"But I swear if your son is playing with my daughter's heart..." He muttered under his breath, glaring at Jin who in turn raised his own eyebrow.
"Are you claiming that I haven't educated my son properly on feelings, boundaries and the likes of them? Despite how my son acts, I promise you he's more educated than most."
"How should I know? I've only met him for a few seconds." Kaori and Maya sighed, both pulling their husband's ears.
"Settle down, dear." Kaori mumbled, dragging her husband away by the ear with Maya doing the same.
"I wasn't done talking to him, dear." Kano mumbled. Maya shook her head.
"If I let you two continue with your 'talk', I don't think either of you would be talking any longer. C'mon, I wanna go to the General Studies course's personality test booth."
...
"You gotta be kidding me!" Mina whined as she saw the matchups for the quarterfinals.
After the break was over, Midnight had declared the new matchups, which were Izuku vs Todoroki, Mina vs Sukuna, Ida vs Denki and Bakugo vs Momo.
"Oh my..." Maya whispered in worry, from what she saw of Sukuna, her daughter was going to be in for a hard time. Meanwhile, Todoroki was staring straight at Izuku who looked back in determination.
"C'mon Todoroki! Let's settle this!"
To be continued.....