~8~

Bakugo POV

The first event was about to start. My body became tensed with every minute that passed. I felt my heart beat going faster and a very annoying feeling crawled into my head. I was nervous, but admitting it wasn't an option. I knew I could win, I trusted myself-but I couldn't help it. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't stop being nervous, I couldn't get this feeling out of my mind. And of course I couldn't show it. Not in front of the audience, not in front of the students in my class and not in front of Deku.

Deku.He looked very surprised when I asked him about the light that he probably saw around me a week ago. He was stunned, he didn't even care about the glances we got from the students who passed us in the hallway.He asked me what the meaning of the light is.His eyes shined in curiosity, hope and surprise were in them too.But I couldn't answer him. How could I?

I thought he knew that already. How come he doesn't?

I mean... didn't he talk with his mom about that? He seems like the type of person who share everything with his mom. The type of person who actually tells his mother all the things that happened to him, even the embarrassing ones, when she asks him how was his day at school.

I couldn't stop myself from thinking that maybe he was toying with me, maybe he knew everything after all. Maybe he wanted to tease me and laugh at me. Maybe he doesn't want me to be his soulmate.

I guess it will make thing more simple.

But deep deep inside me I knew he wasn't joking. Deku was my childhood friend, so I knew him for a long time. He would never do something like that since he is too innocent.So innocent that he couldn't abandon his dream even after he found out he was quirkless.He still had a little hope that his dream will eventually come true.

How could I be mean to someone so innocent and pure? Immediately, shame and regret started to fill my body. Along with the nervousness, I felt as if I was sick. Very sick.

Why am I thinking about him anyway!?Something is wrong with me.

I need to concentrate on the competition, I have no time to wonder about things like that.

The voices of Hizashi Yamada sensei (hero name: Present Mic) and Aizawa sensei, were calling all the students to get out of the waiting rooms and come to center of the stadium.

It's finally happening. A little smirk formed on my lips as I stood up and walked out the waiting room. I was nervous, yes. But I was excited too. Soulmate or not, I'm going to put it all aside and win the sport festival. Soulmate or not, I still promised that I will never lose to him. So I can't let him distract my mind.

Ms. midnight was standing on a stage in the center of the stadium, waiting for us- the students- to gather in front the stage so she could explain us what will be the first event of the festival.

A race. She said that the first event will be a race, and only the students who will win the first places will be allowed to participate in the second event. My legs were shaking out of adrenalin. I knew it's not going to be a simple race. I was a student in the UA academy, so I had to expect at least one or two challenging obstacles to stand in my way.

I will go through them all. I will crush everything and everyone who will disturb me.I will win the first place.

*time skip to after the race*

I ended up in the third place.

Fucking third place. I wanted to blow something up. I wanted to punch someone. I wanted to punch myself. How could I be so careless?

I was trying to run faster then Todoroki who was really close to me all the damn way, when Deku suddenly flew up in the air right above us and used a metal board (why did he even take it with him??) to activate the mines which were placed under me and Todoroki. He was using the blast to keep moving forward while both the half red half white guy and me fell down.

To be honest, he ran so fast that I couldn't get close to him again. He was leading all the way back to the stadium. He won my first place.

He is stronger than I thought.I could imagine his leg muscles move under his pants, trying desperately to move faster and faster... trying to achieve the goal that everyone told him he could never accomplish.

What the fuck am I thinking about!?

I lost! I lost to him! To the quirkless crybaby. To the (strong and quick) quirkless crybaby!

Not to mention that now, in the second event where we need to obtain as many points as possible, his headband worth 10 MILLION points! Fucking 10 MILLION points!!

Even Todoroki's headband value was bigger than mine!

Anger throbbed in my veins, the fact I was running as fast as I could and I still didn't manage to win the first place made me frustrated.

However, I wasn't planning on give up. They will need to work much harder than that in order to beat me, and it's not like I'm going to sit down and watch them trying to do so.

I won't let them look down on me.

*time skip to after the second event, oh and I hope that all those time skips doesn't bother you too much ;-;*

Second place.My team members and I won the second place.Kirishima, Ashido and Sero looked very happy and proud in themselves, but I couldn't understand them at all.How can they be so happy and relaxed when we didn't won the first place?When we didn't managed to steal Deku's headband before Todoroki's team?

It's true that a little part of me was satisfied, after all I was ranked higher than Deku who won the 4th place.

But it wasn't enough.

I can do better than this. I thought as I walked down the stadium hallway. The competitors had a little break before the third event, which was- as Ms. Midnight said, actual battles.

It was perfect. The only ways to lose in a battle were to give up, cross the line that surrounds the stage or to get hurt so badly to the point where you can't keep fighting anymore.

And since the phrase: "giving up" wasn't a part of my vocabulary, there were only two ways for me to lose a battle. But I was ready to fight in order to stay on the stage. And I was ready to blow up anyone who will dare to fight me back.

It was the last event and I knew it. This time I won't lose. Not to Deku and not to Todoroki.

I kept waking in the hallway until I heard two voices talking quietly. Normally I wouldn't pay those kind of things any attention, but after I identified the owner of the first voice I stopped.It was Deku's voice.He sounded a bit worry... or scared?

I peeked from behind the wall, I was careful and quite. I didn't want the shitty nerd to see me spying on him.

Wait, am I spying on him!?

I was about to run away from there before my thoughts will go crazy and I'll do another dumb thing, but seeing the owner of the second voice who was standing right in front of Deku made me stop again.

Why is my soulmate talking privately with that stupid half and half boy?

—————————————————-Hello 👋🏻 This week I was on a trip of 5 days outside my house, and I forgot to take my charger with me🤦🏼‍♀️So my phone died and I was afraid that I won't be able to write the next chapter on time because of that, but somehow I made it XD

I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter~And goodbye ;-; I have so many homework I need to do ;(((((((