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Katsuki rushes at Izuku, his palm alit with explosions. Due to the short distance between the two, Izuku didn't have much time to react and if it had been him from months ago he would've been caught unaware, but today he was ready. He had seen that charge more times than he can count and in recent times, countered it dozens of times.
Katsuki's right hand swings towards Izuku, and the greenet prepares to redirect the blow away from his body, only for Katsuki to twist his hand towards the ground and launch himself above and over Izuku with a small blast.
"You think I'd make the same mistake as ever? How dumb do you think I am?!" Katsuki sent a blast down towards Izuku mid air, causing the greenet to roll out of the way and gain some distance.
The two teens landed and steadied themselves on opposite sides compared to how they began, now the distance between them was greater than at the start.
"C'mon Deku, where did all those tricks go? I thought you were training to be a hero? Or did you finally wake up from your delusions?!" Katsuki called out, and watched as Izuku shifted his stance, shuffling his legs in a, now familiar, pattern.
"I've literally been watching you fumble that shit from the beginning! You think you can get me with it Deku?!" Katsuki prepared for the charge that Izuku trained minutes prior, spreading his palms to cover a large area with his explosives, as Izuku continued shuffling his feet.
Izuku watched as sparks ignited in Katsuki's hands, a blast had just begun to spread from the blond's palms, creating a zone of concussive energy and blistering heat covering a wide area. From Izuku's quick analysis, he knew that the full explosion would be spread in such a way that he'd be unable to move to neither side to avoid it, thus he chose to move beneath it.
'Got the nerd!' Katsuki thought as the explosion covered the beach, he knew that Izuku had no way to escape it, only to feel a harsh impact in his stomach. Looking down he saw Izuku's form sliding underneath the blast, his fist buried in the blond's stomach, the impact of which caused Katsuki's feet to be lifted off the sandy beach and the blond launched back into a pile of junk.
Izuku steadied himself, having Flash Stepped into a slide to avoid the blast, he gave the blond's junk covered form a blank look, then stared in amazement at his fist, unprepared for how strong a flash step assisted hit would've been.
"Who the hell do you think you are, Deku?!" , another explosion shook the beach as the pile of junk was launched away from Katsuki. The blond roaring as the sand and trash smoldered around him.
"My name isn't Deku!" Izuku couldn't help but shout back, as he dropped into a ready stance.
"You've always been a Deku!" Katsuki roared as he lunged at Izuku - "just because you got some cheap shots in you got a big head thinking you were some hot shit!", throwing out a barrage of explosive punches.
The explosions managed to clip Izuku's shoulders but they didn't do much else as the greenet danced around the blows, each hit rocking him back and forth like a boat on a sea during a harsh storm.
"News flash dumbass you are still the same useless" explosive punch after explosive punch was launched at Izuku, "Weak" each hit aimed at his vitals, "Quirkless" a small but blisteringly hot explosion following each hit. "LOSER!"
"You are nobody, nothing!" but neither the impacts nor the explosions seemed to bother the greenet much, with every punch thrown, it seemed as if his chances of dodging them increased exponentially. And with each missed hit, Katsuki's punches became more and more desperate, his voice almost cutting with exhaustion.
"You have always been nothing;
AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE NOTHING!" Katsuki threw out a last explosive haymaker, aimed at the greenet's head but the attack was dodged as Izuku rocked back on his feet.
"If I'm 'nothing' then what does that make you Kacchan?" Izuku's voice came strong as he finished rocking back and his body flashed forward "Being someone so Obsessed with nothing," a blisteringly quick Straight striking Katsuki in the gut, "so Threatened by Nothing." The hit spurred Katsuki from his tired state, allowing him to once again lunch an explosive punch towards Izuku.
"Do you think it makes you strong?" but the explosion was dodged once more as Izuku used the force from the blast to rock himself back and forth, launching another Straight that came faster than the previous one.
"That it makes you into a hero?" Katsuki roared and retaliated, the hits he had taken and the words spoken reigniting a rage within him, giving him a second wind to launch another barrage, faster and stronger than the first.
"No, it just puts you in equal footing, it makes you NOTHING as well." But it felt as if no matter how fast he punched, how strong of an explosion he launched at the greenet, none of them ever managed to do much else to him other than rock him back and forth faster and faster, each one followed by a punch stronger than the last, launched with devastating power and precision.
"-And unlike you I've known from the beginning that I was Nothing, I didn't delude myself into thinking that I was the next big thing since sliced bread, the second coming of All Might." Katsuki kept up his barrage, but Izuku swapped his targets, instead of hitting Katsuki's body, his fists struck Katsuki's palms the moment they started moving and sparking, halting the blond's arms in their path and snuffing out any spark.
"I was Nothing and through blood; sweat; tears; hard work; suffering at the hands of others such as yourself; the hope and belief of a few within me-" slowly, Katsuki was being pushed back, his back hitting another pile of junk, as Izuku's punches sped up and his own were stopped before they could even pick up speed, until-
"This Nothing became SOMETHING!" the final punch ignored Katsuki's palms and went straight to his face.
Katsuki was launched back through junk pile after junk pile, until he came to stop dozens of meters away from where their initial clash happened.
Izuku was left at the battle site, breathing harshly, throat sore from yelling his heart out, but something within him felt light, free, but something else was there, less metaphysical and more physical, something sharp and hot.
He looked down at his fists and couldn't help but flinch, as he saw his knuckles which were scraped raw, with blisters running down the back of his hands and fingers.
"Ah!"
A spike of agonizing pain rushed as he tried to clench his fists, hissing from the pain, Izuku relaxed his hands, turned his back to where Katsuki landed and made to walk away, massaging his knuckles while trying to calm his breath.
"No more punching explosions from now on." Hissing from the pain, Izuku continued to walk away only to stop as he felt the hair on the back of his neck stand on end, a heat creeped up his spine, smell and taste of something sweet rushed to him as his ears heard a buzzing hum.
Not even a moment later, a cataclysmic explosion rocked the place where Katsuki crashed, automatically turning towards it, Izuku raised his fists once again for a clash only to wince in pain once more.
Steadying his hands, Izuku looked towards where the explosion happened expecting to see Katsuki only to see smoking debris. Looking around, Izuku was confused on where the blond could've gone only to hear a rapid popping sound coming from the sky, the frequency of the pops getting faster and faster with each second passed.
Looking up, there Izuku saw Katsuki who had blasted himself into the air and used his explosions to spin himself into an areal spiral moving faster and faster like a rocket, and just as Izuku noticed him, the blond completed an arc in the air and rocketed towards where Izuku stood at a nearly incomprehensible speed.
Izuku sensed the buildup of power within that blow and he understood that he wouldn't be able to block or redirect it so he Flash Stepped as far away as he could as fast as he could.
"Howitzer Impact!"
A deafening boom rumbled throughout the whole Dagobah beach, even his fastest Flash Step couldn't let Izuku escape the blast radius unscathed, as he was taken off his feet and tossed through trash piles by the shockwave, the smoke raising off his body.
Even this far away Izuku could feel the blistering heat wash over his back as superheated sand particles peppered him, punching tiny holes through his clothes but bouncing off his skin harmlessly.
As the smoke cleared, Izuku saw Katsuki standing in a multiple meter wide smoldering crater, the sand and trash closest to him melted into glass, steam was clinging to the blond, like a cloak of wrath made manifest, small explosions continually igniting in his palms and causing sparks to light up and trail up around his forearms and biceps, the cloak of steam carrying the explosive sweat, creating an armor of explosions.
Katsuki's eyes were closed as he was heaving and wobbling, barely capable of standing upright.
Suddenly the blond took a deep breath and opened his eyes. Tilting his head, he instantly spotted Izuku even when he was surrounded by piles of trash from all sides, as if his eyes were magnetized to the greenet's from.
And when those eyes turned to Izuku, he couldn't help the shiver that crawled up his spine. The dull cherry red of Katsuki's eyes were gone. The iris was alight like an accretion disk of a black hole, malicious red light leaking like a dying star, while the pupil was dilated and glazed over, as if the blond wasn't conscious.
The blond's face stayed blank even as his eyes followed Izuku's movement without any trouble.
Throughout his life, Izuku had seen Katsuki in countless emotional states but this blank look, and those blazing eyes made him shiver, it made him feel as if he was being stared at by a predator, no… not a predator, that look wasn't of someone who saw prey, it was as if a being beyond his understanding was observing him like a curiosity, as if he was an ant before a God.
His breath hitched, what was he supposed to do other than shrivel up and die. What would ant be able to do against a God other than sate its curiosity?
As these thoughts were going through Izuku's mind, he felt a hand grip his shoulder and a wave of clarity washed over his form, steadying him.
Right! He was Izuku Midoriya, ̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶G̶o̶d̶future Pro Hero and currently he was ̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶Sparring with ̶a̶ ̶M̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶/̶D̶e̶m̶o̶n̶/̶G̶o̶d̶Katsuki Bakugo, all is well.
Taking a deep breath and closing his eyes, Izuku entered a meditative state, slowing his startled heart and calming his mind.
Opening his eyes, he saw Katsuki still watching him, with the same blazing stare. The moment their eyes met, Izuku knew, the next move would end the fight.
He saw the small explosions around Katsuki's arms increasing in volume. It appeared that the blond was prepared to attack and a single hit from that would be devastating, but he had nothing to worry about.
All was clear in his mind.
Breath and heart in tune as one, Izuku prepared for Katsuki's charge, his knees slightly bent and relaxed, his right hand palm up was partially extended in front of him chin high, while his left hand was in the crook of his right elbow, resting.
There was no starting signal, no countdown, one moment Katsuki was standing in a smoking crater the next he was right in front of Izuku.
Katsuki's charge was blisteringly quick but he had lost the mental battle, fully giving into beastly rage. His charge lost all strategy, no flash, no flare, just speed.
Katsuki appeared right in Izuku's personal space, right hand lashing out with an explosive Hook.
Izuku was barely able to see Katsuki's charge; but he didn't need to, he had read the blonds Intent and already prepared for the incoming hit beforehand.
His extended right arm connected with Katsuki's right fore arm, his torso turning with Katsuki's momentum, guiding him away instead of blocking, the explosive sparks danced across their joined hands, carving blazing trenches in the skin of Izuku's right arm but he paid it no mind as the explosion was redirected away from Izuku and carved a smoldering ravine across the beach.
At the same time as all that was happening, Izuku's left hand followed the motion and slid down his own elbow, then the forearm, onto his wrist and glided down onto Katsuki's forearm; the blond's momentum and motion guiding Izuku's left hand into his elbow; and up the bicep, bumped up by the shoulder and struck a knuckle first backhand into Katsuki's nose.
All the force from the hit was taken from the blond's charge thus the moment the hit landed, his movement was arrested, as he hung in the air momentarily.
Meanwhile Izuku's torso continued rotating, and his legs finally followed, his back leg coming up in a lazy half circle and striking heel first into Katsuki's back
All of this happened within a single moment, the charge, the transfer of momentum, the strikes. Katsuki wouldn't have had time to process what happened, much less land on the ground even if he were fully conscious, as the kick struck his back. Sadly due to being in the air and channeled with only leftover force the kick didn't have much energy to it and only managed to toss the blond away a few meters into a sand pile.
The sand pile shifted and Izuku prepared for a retaliation, but none came as a snore was heard from within the pile.
Shoulders sagging, Izuku breathed out a sight of relief, as finally the blond was fully unconscious.
As Izuku was prepared to take a seat on the beach to take a momentary rest, he heard countless sirens approaching the beach. He could only groan in annoyance at the lost opportunity to rest and pulled out the blond from the sand pile after a moment of digging.
Tossing the unconscious Katsuki over his shoulder, Izuku quietly made his way out of the beach and away from the approaching sirens.
After all he had experienced within the last few minutes that the fight lasted, he has some questions for his sensei but they could wait till he gets the blond home and away from the possibility of ending up in a jail cell for being responsible of turning the Dagobah beach into a warzone.
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AN: Izuku copies Kendo Rappa's technique, finally experiences catharsis for over 10 years of bullying and moments later has his first encounter with unfocused Intent and overcomes it with some help from Tenno.
I reread the previous chapter when I started writing this one and I got to say, holy shit how did so many mistakes slip by? After publishing this one im gonna go through the previous chapter and fix the mistakes, but none of you need to worry about rereading it, im not adding any details or anything just fixing grammar and spelling mistakes.
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