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MHA Chapter 51: Round 1
🕑 Added 2025-03-06 20:47:10 +0000 UTCNote: Chaos Gacha's Beta will drop this Sunday.
~Shoto Todoroki | 3rd Person~
The fanfare of the crowd blared in Shoto's ears as he stepped onto the stage and so did his opponent, no, enemy. Hakari looked unbothered with his hands in his pockets as Shoto glared at him.
While the excitement of the crowd was at its peak, Present Mic's voice broke through.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the second round of this tournament! And we are starting it off with the two top contenders!!! Hakari Kotaro versus Todoroki Shoto!!!"
Shoto glanced at his father watching him from the stands, his arms crossed in an expectant fashion coupled with his everpresent displeased frown made him scowl as he pressed his foot down on the ground and felt on his ice with his gaze firmly on Hakari who still seemed unbothered.
He would prove that he didn't need his power.
"I'll finish this quick."
Todoroki stomped his foot on the ground and sent a wave of ice massive careening towards Hakari without any fanfare, just aiming to finish him off as fast as possible while Hakari closed his eyes and sighed despite the wave of ice coming his way.
"Such a boring man."
When he opened his eyes, they glowed with a golden hue alongside his body being enveloped in a glowing aura as he raised his hand and blue flames covered it in a bright blue and white glow.
Boom!
The stadium shook like a missile had been dropped as the wave of ice was shattered by a bellowing stream of frostflare amplified by Offensive Form when Hakari raised his hand out and sent a wave of freezing flames in retaliation.
As the freezing mist covering the arena cleared Todoroki held a frown that was mirrored by Hakari's own.
"A contest of ice power at this scale!? What the hell are they feeding these kids!?!?" The commentary fell on deaf ears as Shoto glared at Hakari who met his gaze with a glare of his own before being the first to speak up.
"Alright, since you are so insistent on being stupid I'll match you." Hakari stretched while shaking his head, clearly not taking this seriously to Shoto's chagrin. Making Shoto raise an eyebrow as he prepared to send another wave to catch him off guard but his next words threw him off balance.
"I will only use half of my available abilities to fight you. It's only fair no."
Todoroki glared at Hakari with a murderous glint in his eyes and gritted his teeth, charging up his ice.
"Don't mock me-!"
But before he could finish his words Hakari's body transformed, his teeth and fingers sharpening and a scaly tail growing on his lower back alongside the skin around his jaw cracking. And then he seemingly vanished, only leaving behind a cracked floor.
Crash!
"Grhh!"
It was only thanks to his great instincts that Shoto was able to raise a wall of ice in front of him just in time but it was not enough as Hakari appeared in front of him with extreme speed and shattered the wall and Shoto behind it with extreme speed and power. Thanks to the worst of the blow being absorbed already Shoto was able to guard himself with his arms and take the blow.
Following it up Hakari stomped his foot on the ground, cracking the stadium underneath their feet and punching while at the same time, Shoto conjured an iceberg to hit Hakari with. The two forces clashed, and the icy mass shattered but Hakari's punch was negated, but the following icebergy Shoto sent was immediately cut into 6 pieces without resistance by his claws before Hakari appeared before him and kicked his side, not towards the edge for a ring out but toward the middle before he managed to stop himself with an iceberg and clutched his side, feeling his bruised ribs with a scowl.
"It should be pretty clear-" Hakari stomped on the ground and shattered the ice that suddenly covered it, trying to freeze his feet onto the ground. "-That you can't stand against me without your quirk, so why are you being so stubborn about using it?"
"I don't need to use my fire to win! I'll surpass everyone without it!" Todoroki sent an even stronger avalanche of ice but Hakari jumped above and perched on top of it while looking down on him.
"It's quite obvious that you can't, why are you so goddamn stubborn about not using your quirk anyway?" Hakari's nonchalant tone grated his nerves.
"Why do you care so much...!? Why does it matter to you? Did my father buy you off? Is that it?"
Todorki glared at Hakari who changed his expression to one of annoyance.
"Bitch please, as if I would take the deal of that shit-ass. I have no intention of involving myself in whatever fucked up family problems you guys have." Shoto's eyes widened.
"I am doing this because it pisses me off." Hakari met Shoto's stare with his own indignant one as he hopped down from the icy mass and down to his level.
"Everyone in this class is giving their all, because they want to become heroes who help people. Hell, I'm doing the best I can despite who I have been. But you aren't." Shoto stood silent.
"You are here, spitting on the face of everyone who is trying their best. Simply because you can't handle the shadow of your father. And it pisses me the fuck off." He clenched his fists hard enough to draw blood and bit his lip as Hakari kept speaking.
"I don't care about what sob story you have behind you or what vendetta you have in your heart. This is not about your dad trying to buy me out, this is about you refusing to do your best. And it pisses me off."
"Shut up!" A sharp iceberg cut through where Hakari was standing but he easily dodged it and chopped it in half before kicking him away as Shoto grit his teeth hard enough to bleed while forcing himself back up with his stiffened limbs.
Scared of your father's shadow.
"It's a shame really, you could have been a great hero." Hakari walked slowly, prepared to land the finishing blow as Shoto was forced to recall his mother's words.
'You can still be a hero.' His mother's words echoed in his head but he still grit his teeth and glared indignantly.
He felt his body get even colder as he channelled his ice. His limbs felt stiff.
"I don't care. I can become a hero even without using his quirk! I won't give him the satisfaction!" Hakari tilted his head as he dodged another wave of ice.
"So, it's not your fire but your father's quirk now? Is this what this is about? Spiting your father?" Hakari scowled and glared at Shoto as he breathed heavily conjuring another spike from the ground to hit Hakari that he easily kicked apart.
"You think this shit is a game? Look at this bastard, do you even want to become a hero!? Are you here just to show your father up? You wouldn't use your powers to someone who needed help? What? Because you want to be a petulant baby who insults the meaning of a hero?"
Shoto clenched his fists, this time Hakari's words genuinely hurt. Because despite it all he-
"I do want to be a hero. But I refuse to become with his help-"
"Shut up."
Hakari cut him off, this time, his voice was more emotional than he had ever heard him speak, it felt like Hakari would genuinely rush forward and rip his head off if he said anything more.
"Do you know why this really pisses me off?"
Hakari tore the sleeve off his uniform to reveal a very scarred arm, but the most distinctive scar was one that was the large one that wrapped around the entire circumference of his arm.
"I try my best, every day I do, because I have to, to be a hero despite what I am I have to do everything I can. I got my arm torn off trying to save everyone against the Nomu, the only reason I still have it was because I had regeneration. Yet here you are, blessed with such a powerful quirk yet you refuse to use it and claim that you will become a better hero than me."
Shoto clenched his jaw and his eyes widened in shock as Hakari glared at him with a downright murderous gaze.
"You claim that you will be better than me while you put in such a half-assed effort while I spend my days risking my life, being broken in half and training? You will surpass me with that bullshit you are spouting? You can fuck right off."
Hakari held his fist out in front of him with a challenging look in his eyes as they drilled into Shoto's own.
"So, if you are going to say that you want to be a hero, prove it to me. Use your damn flames and face me with everything you've got! If not, then throw yourself out of the damn ring and quit the school while you are ahead!"
Shoto hung his head down and clenched his fists.
He wanted to be a hero like the ones he saw on TV with his mother, one of the brief respites he had back in his childhood.
But he couldn't, not with his flames.
"I want to become a hero with my own merits, not with his-" He was cut off again.
"His his his, who? I am not seeing anyone here but you! It's your goddamn quirk, isn't it!? So stop screwing around and just use it and show me you are willing to be a hero!"
Shoto's eyes widened as far as they could as he remembered the words of his mother that he had slowly forgotten over the ages with his bitterness blocking out the rest of her words.
'It's okay for you to become a hero Shoto. You don't have to be a prisoner of your blood. You are your own person, it's okay for you to be who you want to be.'
He felt his body heat up as his breath got caught in his throat.
Embers flickered in his vision as Hakari's frown lightened.
'It's... alright for me to use it. ...Right?'
Roar!
A great inferno enveloped the entire arena as all the ice melted away while Hakari smiled and turned Defensive Form and looked at Shoto who was covered in flames that melted away the chill rooted in his body. He looked at Hakari, not with the anger and bitterness that plagued his sight before but now with renewed determination.
"I... will be a hero!"
Hakari grinned wholeheartedly as he stopped back too, an exoskeleton armour covering his body getting reinforced by Defensive form while his body was covered in his freezing flames.
"Now that's the spirit."
Another inferno flared up, this one blue that covered the other half of the arena as they both stared at each other with excitement boiling in their eyes.
"Now, show me a good time Shoto!"
It was time to fight for real.
A/N: Part 1 of the Todoroki fight and I hope I delivered, the fight was mostly about ideals than an actual fight as it's nigh impossible for a cryokinetic to defeat Hakari. This chapter should show how much Hakari has developed as a person since the start.
He started off the fight just following a script to get a reaction out of Todorki but as it went on he realized what he personally felt about it outside of everything else. Anyway, did you guys like how I did this fight and Shoto's awakening? I wrote it mainly from his perspective to really emphasize it too. I hope I did a good job. What did you guys think? I'd love to know.
Comments
Colin Peden
This was a very exciting chapter. I am happy that you showed this from Shota's perspective, as it showed the turmoil he was going through, and when things started to fall into place. I also like how Hakari opened up. I read the other comments and know you had him follow cannon to get a rise out of Shota, but the rest was all him. Him showing us how he has grown, by opening up, about what has him so pissed about Shota and what he goes through. Amazing! I can't wait for the next chapter.
Colin Peden
I personally think Bakugo remained an ass the whole story, but that's just because I have always disliked him. He should have turned villian and been Deku's nemesis and AFO's successor. I heard rumors that was the original plan, but that he was so liked that it was changed for Shigaraki.
dragongod0117
Hyped for the full fight next chapter
dragongod0117
Probably meant stopped holding back
Uudles
Four Words for you Bronz: That was SO COOL!!! ——— I loved reading this chapter and I cannot wait for whatever comes next in the story.
Quyan640
(SPOILER WARNING) For MHA, if you don’t want introduce magic, you could make it a bloodline or dragon transformation at high proficiency since that’s basically what happens if a slayer excessively use their magic without a literal dragon sleeping inside their body to create anti-bodies to prevent dragonification
Chichi son
Hakari grinned wholeheartedly as he stopped back too, an exoskeleton armour covering his body getting reinforced by Defensive form while his body was covered in his freezing flames. stepped back?
Better World Project
Do I hear a gacha upgrade?
BronzDeck
Yeah, pre-tournament Shoto was an ass like Bakugou.
BronzDeck
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I wanted Hakari to get Shoto to use his flames in a different way from canon and then it eventually led up to a more organic scene of Hakari accidently opening up to Shoto which he hasn't done to anyone but Toga as of yet, this chapter was as much about Shoto as it was Hakari.
BronzDeck
I completely forgot about those ngl since I only watched Fairy Tail as a child. I'll see if they fit in the gacha, good suggestion.
Better World Project
Finally shoto has it laid out in front of him. I get his personal problems but man does he underestimate the advantage he had in the tournament. Now only that he purposely steeped on others dreams to just not exert effort. Man did he grind my gears back then. Glad we are on the path to the better and cooler version of him.
Rez
I really loved this chapter, the character development from Hakari, the development in Todoroki's mental state, hopefully this makes it so his flame develops more sooner rather than later , we saw with endeavor that flame abilities on that level ar over powered if in the right hands, cant wait to see the prize Hakari gets for such and achievement , trully opening up himself to show Todoroki he can use his full power.
Quyan640
Is Slayer Magic from Fairy Tail in the Gacha? Because that’d be overpowered against certain characters. Sky Slayer Magic would be overpowered regardless of the character since air is almost everywhere and easily accessible to boost power and recovery
