KLEXOS ≽⁺. [ My Hero Academia ]

UA Sports Festival

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Miku's POV

"Damn it, I'm so nervous!" Sen looked like he was shaking in his shoes next to me. I pat his back trying to calm him but he was still shaking.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous, heck– I was near to the point where I wanted to bunk school and not go today. And if I did, Kendo would probably go and drag me out of my bed. But this is a great opportunity, putting Vlad's words into action: 'This is a chance to gain recognition from other pro heroes in this world'.

"It's just the pre-game jitters dude! Once you're out there, all of this will go away." Tsuburaba said, swooping in to comfort Sen too.

"I'M SO READY TO SHOW THE CLASS B SHOULDN'T BE UNDERESTIMATED! AGHHHH—"

"Shut up Tetsutetsu!" Kamakiri yelled back at him. 

"C'MON KAMAKIRI!!" 

"Tetsu-kun, please calm down." Kendo intercepted, placing a hand on his shoulder, but he didn't let up. Kendo turn around and shot me a somewhat desperate look for help. I sighed and nodded, walking up to Tetsutetsu and placing my hand on his unoccupied shoulder. I could tell he felt our presence behind him.

"You'll do well. Right?" I said with a little bit of intimidation and a half smile to complete it all; it made everyone's sweat drop– and now he was shaking in his shoes. I snap out of that aura and rush to face him with a small pout forming along my face, "Nooo, Tetsu-kun, I'm sorry—"

"No. Thank you Kimura-chan—" Huh? Why is he thanking me? "I'M MORE PUMPED UP THAN I WAS BEFORE!!"

'Well that didn't work–' The collective of us thought, seeing the metal boy start screaming again.

"We have 5 minutes until it starts!" Shishida announced, walking through the door to our waiting room.

"Ahhh, is it just me or is it cold in here?" Setsuna was rubbing her upper arms, trying to warm them up. "Or am I just nervous? I'm nervous aren't I?"

Both Kendo and I nodded, as the girls and I went to calm our resident chatty girl. In this room, you were either sitting and waiting, shaking in your sports kit or comforting others – no in-between. But it's fine, we've all worked hard to get to this point, and if we didn't Vlad was going to give us extra training. I clenched my jaw, thinking about the continuous hours of training I had with Aizawa and Present Mic. Around 20 hours of training, I can't let it all go to waste.

"Guys, times nearly up–" Vlad entered the room for a final check-up on us, "OKAY– CLASS HUDDLE!"

Once he announced that, we all rushed towards him, copying how he had a hand out in the centre of circle. The atmosphere around us immensely shifted – nervous to anticipation, scared to excited. Vlad knows how to stir us up, and encourage us. We all had our right hand in to the middle, looking towards Vlad.

"You all have come a long way from where you started a few weeks ago. You've all done amazing work and had outstanding resilience, so give yourselves a pat on the back! The training that you have done since the first week until now – don't forget that, utilise those moments and you can strive. You laid down the path to the start, now run." He started; Vlad is really one with his words, "Do the best you can, that's all I could ever want from you all. I want you all to go out there and show what Class B is all about! YEAH!"

"YEAH!!" We all yelled out in unison. Vlad had left the room to go to his position in the teacher's spectating box. As we were about to disperse out, Monoma raised his hand.