Along The Path Of Vengeance(Sasuke/Mha)

Chapter 45: Chapter XLV: Joint Training



Life became somewhat normal the next day after returning to UA. Sasuke sat at the large lunch table with everyone while slowly eating. He thought, 'Danzo, Sasori, Deidara... all dead. All that's left is AFO himself. Kurogiri is also in Tartarus with him, but he's not as important...' Sasuke narrowed his eyes, 'What are you waiting for? I know things won't end in that prison.'

Kirishima had stars in his eyes, "Endeavor was so manly out there earlier!"

Kaminari said, "Was he copying All Might's pose?"

Midoriya chipped in, "No, All Might did it with his left hand."

At the other end of the table, Mina asked Hagakure, "Hey, what you mentioned before about checking out a new dancing game at the arcade... I'm down now."

The other girls turned to her and Hagakure asked, "Are you sure?"

Mina rubbed the back of her head, she replied softly, "Yeah... I gotta start getting out more.

Tenten visited Mina later that day, and things slowly returned more and more to normalcy over the week until the day of Joint Training arrived.

The whole class met outside on one of the UA training grounds that imitated an industrial site. Hagekure wore only gloves and boots, "I'm so pumped for this!"

Jiro asked, "Aren't you cold?"

"Freezing!"

Mina sported a fur collar and puffed it, "My winter style is pretty cool."

A lot of the students discussed their own suit changes while Class B approached them. Monoma said, "Slacking off, are we? Is that your way of underestimating us?"

Kirishima replied, "Oh they're here! Nope, just excited."

"Oh is that so? Too bad for you... the tides are rolling in our favor now. Hear me Class A! Today is the day we settle this rivalry!" Monoma posed like he was a British vampire in front of the rest of his class.

He continued to yell manically while pulling out a paper, "Check out this survey I took at the Cultural Festival! What did people prefer? Class A's rinky dink concert or Class B's high-quality theatrical production? Well, take a look!"

Kirishima squinted at it, "We lost by one entire vote?"

Jiro said, "Well, we didn't see their show, so we can't argue with it."

Kaminari blurted out, "These results gotta be more rigged than a Jake Paul boxing match!"

Monoma laughed and shook his head, "Don't be sore losers! You've been hugging the spotlight like pigs ever since school started, but those days are coming to an end! Because today it's A vs B! Our first joint bat—"

Bandages wrapped around his throat and Aizawa stated, Quiet you. We have a special guest today, so try not to make fools of yourselves. He's hoping to transfer to the hero course."

The new student walked up the stairs and Midoriya smiled seeing him. Aizawa continued, "It's Hitoshi Shinso from Class C of General Studies."

Sasuke gave him a look over, 'Didn't he mind control me back then?'

Aizawa told Shinso, "Go ahead, introduce yourself."

"I had encounters with several of you during the Sports Festival, but don't think we're friends just because we fought. I'm not the type for good displays of sportsmanship... and I'm already so far behind, so I'm doing everything I can to keep up. I'll be a great hero and help people one day, so all of you are just obstacles to overcome. I'm not here to make friends."

Uraraka said, "How... delightful."

Sero said, "Reminds me of pre-upgrade Todoroki."

Monoma said, "I like this guy."

Aizawa stated, "Let's get right to it then. Battle training time."

Vlad King and Aizawa explained the rules of the Joint Training. It was a set of 4v4s with one 5v4 match on each side incorporating Shinso. The goal of each match would be to capture 4 members of the enemy team and put them in a jail. The first match was Shiozaki, Shishida, Rin, and Tsuburara vs Kirishima, Kaminari, Koda, Shinso, and Asui. The second match was Komori, Fukidashi, Kuroiro, and Kendo vs Tokoyami, Hagakure, Momo, and Aoyama. The third was Tetsutetsu, Honenuki, Kaibara, and Tsunotori vs Iida, Todoroki, Shoji, and Ojiro. The fourth was Tokage, Kamakiri, Awase, and Bondo vs Sasuke, Bakugo, Sero, and Jiro. And the last match was Monoma, Shinso, Yanagi, Shoda, and Kodai vs Midoriya, Uraraka, Mina, and Mineta.

Midoriya smiled, "Wow Sasuke, you and Kaachan on the same team should be a guaranteed win!"

"Without a doubt. You guys should have round 5 pretty easily too."

Midoriya rubbed the back of his head, "We'll see about that."

The first match ended in a decisive victory for Class 1-A, and Class 1-A nearly won round 2 with Tokoyami as the MVP, although Komori pulled out a potentially lethal final move and manifested mushrooms in his windpipe. Class 1-B won again, and the sectors had to be swapped due to the destruction. The classes took a break in the meantime.

Sasuke sat near Tokoyami, "Never thought they'd go that far to win the match."

Tokoyami felt his throat, "Me neither, I would have won otherwise."

"Someone like that is someone that has to be targeted early on."

"Agreed, but Todoroki and Iida should make up for our loss."

Sasuke nodded and saw Bakugo following off after Midoriya and All Might, but before he could see anything else, Vlad announced the beginning of the next round.

The third round had been an intense back and forth that left nearly everyone collapsed in exhaustion and ended in a draw.

The fourth match was ready to begin and Bakugo explained a plan to his teammates. Jiro yelped, "Yikes! You're seriously suggesting that?"

Sasuke stretched, "Good strategy."

Monoma had a crazed expression, "This is it! Each class has a single win, so if you lose or tie this next one you lose no matter what!"

Kaminari replied, "Chill out, man."

He ignored him, "And ooohhh I've been waiting for round 4 in particular! Why? Because Tokage is in the mix! Bakugo and Sasuke better be ready! Tokage is the other 1B student here on special recommendations. She's a nasty customer!"

Kaminari stated, "Sasuke was at that exam too! You have no advantage!"

Bondo conversed with his team, "In this terrain, Sero and Jiro are gonna be trouble."

Awase added, "Then there's Bakugo and Sasuke, the 2 strongest students. Their team is kind of stacked."

Kamakiri interjected, "Who cares about all that? Just let me carve them up."

Tokage smiled, "Early bird gets the worm. It's as simple as that."

Vlad announced, "Each team has one win with a tie from the last match! But if you think they're evenly matched then guess again. Class 1-A's single win was mostly thanks to Shinso!"

Vlad laughed at his own comment, and some 1A students protested, "That's just mean, Vlad-sensei!"

Back down in the fighting sector, Bakugo yelled, "Hurry up, slowpokes!"

Sasuke ran alongside Bakugo, but Jiro and Sero fell behind somewhat. Jiro shouted, "But I'm trying to listen and keep up!"

Sasuke stated, "Just stay near us, Bakugo will be in the front regardless."

Bakugo called out, "Stop, they're here! Lobes!"

"I have a name you know!" Jiro's Jacks plugged into the pipes as she sensed the environment. After a moment her eyes widened, "Oh no, they've got us!"

Sasuke spotted a floating mouth and pointed at it, "Watch out!"

Bakugo turned to it and it spoke, "Yes, it's all over now."

Fifty pieces of Tokage started barraging Bakugo with hits. He grimaced, "These hits aren't that strong... but they're too small to hit."

Sasuke built up energy in his left eye, but changed his mind, 'I can't do something like that in a training session.'

Sero shot out his tape and created a web-like structure around the pipes. "Bakugo, in here!"

Sasuke saw Bondo out of the corner of his eye as he tried to spray some glue-like substance on them, 'That's different though, Amaterasu!'

A tear of blood dripped down his cheek while the black flames turned Bondo's attack into mist. Bondo reeled back, "What was that?! He's never done that before!"

Kamakiri cut multiple pipes from above and dropped them on the group, but Sasuke grabbed both Jiro and Sero and swapped places with him.

Kamakiri blinked and looked around stunned. Tokage called out, "Dodge!"

Kamakiri barely dodged his own attack and spotted the three 1A students above, "Don't know what that was, but it doesn't matter!"

He charged up at them, ready to slash them in midair, but Bakugo blasted him away as his teammates landed safely. Sero waved his arms, "Thanks, man, but what the hell was that?! You've never done that before!"

Bakugo sneered and side-eyed Sasuke, which he noticed. He answered, "Something I've awakened recently. It's complicated."

Bakugo turned away, 'They're giving out quirks like buffets nowadays... what the fuck is all that?... the gaps just gonna get wider now… can I…' He clenched his fist, 'Of course I'll keep up! And I'll crush him too eventually.'

While the rest of the class spectated, Midoriya was scribbling in his notebook. Todoroki smiled, 'Took him long enough.'

Mineta ripped balls out of his hair, "The gap keeps getting bigger!"

Hagakure asked, "Hey Mina if you had his kid doing, you think it would have like six quirks or something?"

She blushed, "What kind of question is that??"

Vlad King asked, "Aizawa, what was that? I know he had a second quirk, but that flame was different."

"I'm as lost as you are, looked like Crow's quirk... I'll have to ask him later."

Monoma put his hand on his chin, "What's this? Bakugo protected them? And Sasuke is copying my thing?"

Back with the fighting students, Jiro said, "Thanks, Bakugo."

He snapped out of his thoughts and flew back up, "Don't mention it. They escaped so go find them! Whether it's training or whatever, I'll achieve absolute victory every time! We're taking this 4-0, no casualties! The strong don't settle for anything less!"

Bakugo flew ahead, but Awase ambushed him and welded his arms between two pillars. "Job complete!" Sasuke quickly jumped up and broke the bindings allowing Bakugo to focus on Awase.

"Nobody welds me and gets away with it!"

Awase tried to cover himself in armor to shield himself from Bakugo's explosion, and Bondo tried to come and assist him, but Bakugo swapped targets to Bondo while Jiro vibrated Awase's armor off him, leading to a quick capture of both students.

Sasuke spotted Kamikiri and his purple eye spun, 'I can't only use it two times for now, but the others should be able to take care of Tokage.'

He threw a kunai at Kamikiri and swapped with it before slamming him unconscious into pipes with a Susanoo hand.

Lastly, using Sero's tape, they tracked down Tokage's main body while she was regenerating, and Bakugo knocked her out with a stun grenade.

Done in less than four minutes, class 1-A's teamwork led to a flawless victory.

The squad made their way back to the rest of the class, and Aizawa gave a thumbs up, "You all kept the damage to a minimum and were very efficient from start to finish. You all worked together perfectly making up for each other's strengths and weaknesses."

Vlad King grimaced, speaking to his students, "You all had a solid strategy based on previous info... but the plan was too rigid, unlike Honenuki's more flexible approach!"

Tokage looked down, "Sorry for dragging you all down."

Awase waved her off, "Nah. I mean, we were fighting against the two strongest students, and Bakugo was using teamwork; we never stood much of a chance. Not to mention the random quirks coming out of Sasuke."

Kamakiri said, "Let's etch this brutal loss into our souls."

Their classmates praised Bakugo for his teamwork, and Midoriya called out to Sasuke, "Sasuke! I'm glad to see you're finally using all your powers; I had no idea you had a quirk just like Crow's, too! Honestly, you two look really similar like you could be brothers or something. Are there any other quirks you might have?"

Midoriya held up his notebook, but before Sasuke could answer any of his questions, Aizawa called out to him, "Sasuke. Can I talk to you for a minute?"

Sasuke sighed, "Yeah."

He followed him to a distance out of earshot, and Aizawa asked, "I'm glad to see it, but what caused the sudden change of heart to use your second quirk? And what was that fire ability?"

"I got over my own mental blocks. As for the fire, that's... complicated."

"Try me."

Sasuke paused momentarily, "I must have been given them as a kid and just not noticed until recently."

Aizawa raised a brow, "It took that long for the quirks you've had as a kid to awaken."

"I suppose things work in weird ways when you have four quirks instead of one."

"Hm... you're likely not wrong... alright then, that's all."

By the time they got back, the fifth match already started with nothing of note happening until Midoriya's arms exploded into black whips that coiled around everywhere and destroyed many of the structures in its path.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, 'Could Midoriya have another quirk too?'

It was as if Midoriya was being thrown around by the whips coming from his body as he teared up and tried to suppress his own power, "Stop it!"

Eventually, Uraraka hugged him and called out to Shinso for help. While they dealt with Midoriya's situation, the fighting continued below where Mina and Mineta fought Kodai, Shoda, and Yanagi.

Mina shot off some acid bullets at them and Yanagi increased the size of a pipe to block it. Shoda retaliated by throwing a circular handle at her, but Mineta blocked the hit for her with a shield of his balls. "Oh, thanks."

Mineta took advantage of the hit and used the momentum to try and get pressed against her boobs, but she side-stepped him, "Not for you!" She ran toward the 1B students and jetted toward them on acid partway through, catching Shoda off guard and letting her kick him in the stomach hard enough to send him through a pipe.

Yanagi stated, "We're not done yet!"

Yanagi threw some barrels at Mina while Kodai increased their size, but Mina ran through them, melting them in the process, and yelled, "Mineta! Give me your balls!"

Mineta blushed, "Really? Right here?"

"You know what I mean!!"

Mineta wasn't sure what she planned but complied and threw a couple. She caught them and negated the stickiness by separating them from her palms with acid. After this, she threw them like baseballs at Kodai, keeping her feet planted and landing critical blows on both her and Yanagi.

Around the same time, Midoriya knocked out Shinso, and with Monoma already captured, they won the fifth round.

Sasuke wore a proud smile and Kirishima said, "Since when could Mina pull off moves like that?"

Todoroki stated, "I see she finally learned the traversal trick."

Sero said, "She's gotta be the strongest girl in the class now, right? Not many of us are pulling off a 1v3 like that."

Tokoyami mumbled to himself, "Trauma is a dark power..."

After the formalities reviewing the joint training finished, school finished and later at night, All Might, Sasuke, Bakugo, and Midoriya all could be found in the main training room. Midoriya explained everything he experienced in his mental scape to them, and Bakugo asked, "So, All Might, did you know about that black quirk already?"

"Today was my first time seeing it; the bald predecessor is interesting; I recall my master saying the one before her was a dark-haired youth. I doubt she knew that all their quirks were stocked up in there."

Bakugo asked, "Dweeb, any idea what triggered it?"

"No idea... they just told me something about how now was the time... it could be some external factor."

Sasuke spoke up, "Something to do with All For One... he's the one that basically created your quirk after all. If you're gonna end up having six quirks, then you should get a handle on them as soon as possible."

Bakugo said, "Speaking of multiple quirks, dickhead. How about you tell us what was up with the quirks you showed off today?"

All Might said, "I'm aware of that quirk that lets you swap places being the one AFO gave you, but what was that black flame?

Sasuke thought about lying like with Aizawa but decided against it. "Don't tell anyone else about this, but during my work study I was given a quirk duplicate."

Bakugo tilted his head, "The fuck is that? Pawn store quirk?"

"It's a process originally developed by a scientist close to AFO to duplicate an exact copy of a quirk with someone's DNA. I was given this in the form of a needle a couple of times."

All Might leaned in, "Do you know the name of this scientist? And who is giving these needles to you?"

"I never learned his name. As for the needles though, it was..." 'Don't wanna put Hawks in a bad spot and explain more.' "Someone that used to work in the HPSC. He's no longer around."

Midoriya asked, "Wait so... it's not just similar, but that black flame really was Crow's quirk?"

Sasuke nodded and Midoriya pulled out his notebook. Bakugo asked, "Hold on, junkie, you said a couple of times. You got another quirk in there too, right?"

"Yeah, it's called Chidori." He raised his left hand and allowed lightning to manifest and crackle around it. "It's like a blade of lightning that surrounds my hand."

All Might smiled and thought, "Young Sasuke's abilities always have a common theme of being lethal."

The lightning fizzled out and Bakugo scoffed, "That Chidori one is a scam, dollar store Kaminari! You already use a blade anyway!"

Sasuke replied, "It's not the best; I'll have to see what its limits are in the future. Enough about me though, "Midoriya, can you use those black whips now?"

"I don't think I can..." he strained his hands, but nothing came out.

Sasuke said, "Personally when I had issues activating additional quirks, it was usually because of a mental block. Do you have one?"

Midoriya blinked, "That is... more than likely the case, yeah."

Bakugo groaned and stood up to leave, "Contact me when you can actually control it, this is boring."

All Might stated, "Young Sasuke, you could be a good teacher for Midoriya considering your experience with additional quirks."

Sasuke thought about it before answering and shrugged, "Sure."

The next day after class ended, Aizawa made an announcement, "Before you all leave, know that next week you'll have special visitors."

Hagekure asked, "Ooo who is it, sensei?"

"I was getting to that. For the first time in UA's history, foreign hero students in training will be visiting to meet both class 1A and 1B."

There were cheers and Iida asked, "What activities will we be partaking in with the visitors?"

"They're coming to get a full experience of our hero course, so after a general tour, you guys can socialize with them or do something like what you did with Mirio."

Kirishima palmed his fists, "Nice! Can't wait to see what some other countries have to offer!"

Tokoyami recalled the conversation he had with Tsunade and asked, "Is there a lists of the students who will be coming?"

Aizawa answered, "There is, but you'll get the chance to familiarize yourselves with them once they come. Class is dismissed."

Uraraka pouted, "Aw man."

While the class left, the lists of the students' names laid on the podium reading: Naruto Namikaze, Neji Hyuga, Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame, Shikimaru Nara, Gaara Kaleshi, Sakura Winter, and Lee Chun.

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Sorry if the pacing seems too fast, there's just nothing really interesting to write for the 3 first fights which would be basically the same.


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