Bitter ☆ Smile | BNHAxReader

The licensing exam was approaching faster than you could ever imagine. You had been sparring with fellow classmates as well as Kiki in her human form, but it didn't seem like enough for Mr. Aizawa.

"L/N, I have a challenge for you." He calls you over. You're not sure you like the sound of that.

"You've missed many very important opportunities and lessons this year that you now have a chance to catch up on. Before summer break your class had to beat one of our staff to be able to participate fully in the training camp. You don't have the experience with villains like the rest of them, but I believe you can do this. I have just the teacher for you." He explains. One of the staff? You bet you could do that. Plus they can't kill you without losing their job so you have nothing to worry about! Right?

"Sounds like fun! When is this happening?" You ask.

"Right now."

"Wait what-"

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"Is that Y/N? Why is she being recorded?" Kirishima looks up at a computer monitor near the doors of Gym Gamma.

"Woah, this is just like our final exams!" Ochako points

"Probably to make up for lost time." Todoroki blankly states. Though he wouldn't admit it, he was sneaking glances back at that monitor a bit too much.

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"Kiki hold the camera higher! If I get jumped out at and murdered I want it to be a good angle!" You joke. You weren't sure of this teacher's quirk at all so you were admittedly a little nervous. This was a test of strength as well as image. Aizawa wanted to see how long you could keep up the cheery girl act before you gave up. Lucky for you, you aren't a quitter!

"Alright...dark hallway. Perfect for someone to sneak up on me...Oh look! A shadow! Okay, I'll shut up before I get spotted!" You address the camera like a youtuber, walking through the run down building Mr. Aizawa practically threw you into. You assume to scare you.

"Hm? The shadow's gone! I thought for sure someone would be in here! Can YOU find the scary villain?" You ask, doing your best dora impression. Before you can joke any more, an inky tentacle wraps around your waist and drags you into a more open area. Your dress! You'd have to dread the trip to the dry cleaner's later, as you just got thrown against the wall.

You flick your fingers, sending a cluster of stars hurdling towards the tentacle. It starts bubbling and melts into the ground. Just then a figure emerges from the ink puddle. She had blue and turquoise tentacles sprouting from her head where her hair should be, and her eyes were all blacked out. Scary!

"Oh looky! There's who i'm fighting!" You address the camera with a smile but don't take your eyes off of the squidy woman. She wastes no time using the ink to push her off the ground and lunge at you.

You punch her, small stars scattering around her torso, but she quickly recovers. Before you can react she spits ink into your eyes.

"HEY! Nice try, I'm used to not being able to see!" Your tight lipped smile remains. This really sucks.

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Sucks?

You keep your grip on the woman firm and reach for her hair. Suction cups! They stick to your hand effortlessly, which you then swing backwards. The woman follows suite, slamming against the ground. The suction cups release.

You use this opportunity to run. You were planning on getting to the door before the time ran out. But if worse came to worse, the handcuffs were the only other option.

"Annnnd we're on the run! The exit is outside somewhere, I'm just not sure how far down the drop is! Hopefully I find an out soon!" You wink at the camera. Was anyone other than Mr. Aizawa watching? You secretly hoped so. But alas, there was no way of knowing.

Before you can run any more, a gross blobby creature appears out of a splotch of ink on the wall. It leaps at you. Yuck! You roundhouse kick it on instinct and it bubbles out once again. Though while you were dealing with one of the creatures, another appeared behind you and it hit. It hit hard.

You were sprawled out unto the floor, a blob of ink on your face. You couldn't breathe. You were drowning. Drowning in ink.

You kick and scream but can't seem to get this thing off! Everytime you try and grab it, it slips out of your fingers. How can it be so liquid but so solid at the same time?

Mr. Aizawa was probably thinking how pathetic you were...No! Focus! You're literally about to suffocate. You think about what Midoriya said at lunch...

"Can you target different areas of your body to release the energy?"

You can sure as hell try. You focus. Harder than you've ever focused before. You can feel the energy rising to your head. Light starts to spill from your mouth, burning a bit. So weird..

You smack your lips together as best you can. While the ink was still in the way, you could make enough contact that stars burst out of your throat and into the ink. After a few seconds it exploded and shrivelled. You spit ink onto the ground and look back to Kiki, who was still floating there recording. You know she was instructed not to interfere at all but watching her just watch you suffer was annoying.

You didn't have much time to recover, as the squid girl appeared once again and was making advances at you.

"Okay! She's slowly closing in...that's fine! I am A-OK! The adrenaline isn't wearing off anytime soon, that's for sure!" You weakly smile at the camera, sweating bullets. She corners you, your back against a balcony railing. You can't see the ground.

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"What's she gonna do!?" Mina gasps. The class have almost all halted their training to watch you every now and then.

"JUMP!" Sero yells as if you can hear him.

"She can't just swing from building to building like you, dumbass. She doesn't have the quirk for it." Bakugo scoffs, going back to his explosions.

Your classmates could tell you were stuck. Even so, you didn't dare let your smile fall. It was to be expected, you were such a happy person inside and out! But what they didn't expect is what you pulled next.

"SHE FELL?"

"No she totally leaned back on purpose!"

"How the hell is she going to survive? That's like twenty stories!"

"Oh my all might she's dead...."

Todoroki seemed to be the only person that noticed you, glowing faintly rainbow before taking the plunge.

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"In the end there's only me! My competition is no where in sight!" You beam, jogging in the direction that you saw the exit.  You could hear your opponent sliding down the building. You keep running. You angled yourself perfectly so that the door would be right in front of you when you landed. It turns out your calculations were a few centimetres off, though...

You ran right into the side of the door. Embarrassed, you brush yourself off.

"Whoops! Uhm...I win!" You blush, tapping the top of the door as you walk through it like a middle school boy.

You've never used your ultimate attack for transportation, but you pulled it off! Right before you went splat onto the pavement, you activated it. The beam shot you back upwards and softened your landing from ten stories to about one or two. While you still clumsily collided with the ground, bruised ribs are better than death!

There's just one issue. How are you going to find your way back?

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