Chapter 40: Selfish
The one hundred students who passed the first phase of the exam were tasked with rescuing members of the who are trapped in the disaster zone. They are a group of professionals who have trained to act as citizens in need of rescuing. They dressed up as injured people and put themselves in situations for the students to rescue them.
Y/N expected it to be easy but it turned out to be a worse situation for her. Depending on how the citizens were injured, the heroes needed to help them. For her, it was a bit difficult to understand what situation the people were in certain places. Her quirk would literally be of no use in the situation. She did rescue some people correctly but since most of it was turning out to be disastrous, she decided to focus her attention to the zones where fire broke out. After that she mostly did her work of putting off the fire or soothing the burnt victims. So in a way, it worked out.
But their work doubled when Gang Orca and makeshift villains attacked them. There were still people who needed to be rescued. She knew what to do.
Y/N had a pretty good idea of how useless she was in the matter of rescuing survivors. So she decided to assist Todoroki and the other overly enthusiastic guy, Inasa, who seemed to have some kind of beef with him. While her focus was on using her quirk to attack the sidekick villains, Todoroki and Inasa were having their own little brawl in the middle of attacking Gang Orca.
"Are you shitting me right now?!" she shouted while attacking two villains simultaneously, "You guys didn't get a better fucking time to sort your shit out?!!"
They probably couldn't hear her, or chose to ignore her. She was already having a hard time herself in keeping the villains from going near the survivors of the disaster. So she decided to maintain her distance, and use her quirk as much as she was able to. Ofcourse, the sidekicks were having a hard time approaching her too when their cement guns were of literally no use in front of her quirk.
She didn't yet use any large-scale attack in case it affected the survivors, but looked like the villains were now starting to focus on her when she stood as an obstacle in their path. Their numbers started multiplying as they started surrounding her and taking steps forward. Ofcourse, she wouldn't be able to keep this up any longer if those dumb boys don't start concentrating on what they were supposed to do.
"Men and their stupid ego," Y/N muttered, clenching her teeth.
[ TIME SKIP ]
"86?" Y/N muttered looking at her report. Out of all the names displayed on the screen, she was surprised to see her name in it when she did terrible in the second exam. She was bad in rescuing the survivors and bad in keeping the villains away. At some point, when they started using their guns together on her, she wasn't able to get out of it. The guns shot out cements which hardened quickly. Even water is useless when it is used in huge amount.
"Your man failed huh?" Kyoka asked, amused.
Y/N glared at her for a moment before laughing out loud, "Yeah, he's crap at rescuing people."
"Why are you laughing, your points were deducted mainly on rescuing people."
"Hey! Atleast I did better than him. I mean, I talked nicely right?"
"Yeah sure because how you doing is the right question to ask a man stuck under a rock."
"I panicked?!"
As they were on their way back to their dorm, Y/N noticed Bakugou sitting quietly in the bus and looking out the window. Was she feeling pity for him? Nope.
Even the judges know how much of a good hero he is capable of becoming. He was soon going to retake the exam in April.
It was evening when they reached their dorm.
"How are you still awake?" Kirishima asked, "You were badly thrashed in both the exams."
"Well, I guess I'm too happy to sleep now," Y/N replied with a smile, clicking a photo of her new license and sending it to her parents and brother, "And...um..did you talk to him?"
"Oh he's pissed."
She looked worriedly at the blond. She knew he was going to be fine. But she sensed something different. It was different from the usual Bakugou. He's always angry, ofcourse, but this time his presence felt colder than before. And usually, it meant he's going to burst out soon and it's gonna be bad for someone.
After their dinner, while everyone was spending some time talking in the common area, she noticed how quiet Bakugou was. Kyoka made her sit beside him to make some progress but Y/N knew it wasn't the right time. But she wanted to know what he was thinking. "If anyone's gonna make it to the top, we all know it's you for sure," she said.
Bakugou got up and walked away from the sofa they were sitting in. He stopped by his tracks. Y/N decided to take it as a clue and followed him. From the looks of it, he was walking back to his room. She blushed for a moment before coming back to her senses again, when Bakugou slammed the door shut.
Oh Kirishima was right. He was pissed.
He said, "With the new quirk Deku got?"
Y/N's eyes widened at the words. She cleared her throat and said, "Yeah, cause you know how to handle your quirk."
"He's-" he stopped himself from saying further, as if someone would hear the little secret, "With the kind of quirk he got? And from the person I admired?"
"Quit feeling sorry for yourself," she said and looked at him with furrowed brows, "You can't be full of yourself while also feeling you've got the worst. You're being selfish."
"You knew about it, ofcourse you're gonna defend him. Like always," he muttered the next words in a very low tone, "Nothing has changed."
"I'm not defending him. I'm speaking facts. You think he had a great time with that deadly quirk? You've not seen him train half as much as I've seen. He admires All Might as much as you do and you already have a good quirk. You want every fucking thing, don't you?"
"I can be better with it!" he shouted.
"Keep your voice low. I don't want to get teased about being in your room. Some people know how I feel about you," she said a blush covering her face. She was too embarrassed to look at him.
"Do I look like I fucking care about that?"
Ouch.
"You know what?" She looked at him angrily, "Sort your shit out like Todoroki. Fucking talk to Midoriya instead of blaming me. And yes, I knew about it. Why would I tell you about it when I know him better than you? I didn't even know what we were, and you expect me to blurt the secret out to you just like that? Just because I like you doesn't mean that I forgot all my morals."
The silence that followed was deafening. "Besides," she sighed, speaking out her thoughts, "I'm just another extra to you."
Y/N walked out of the dark room, leaving the door open behind her. She wasn't expecting to be chased. It's Bakugou we're talking about. He...just said that he didn't care. Yet she couldn't help but turn back to look when she heard his footsteps.
Oh.
Retracting footsteps. He was going back to the common area. He walked out his room, shutting the door like he always did, as if nothing happened.
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