Sword Art Online: Integral Factor

A/N Hello everyone and welcome back to another chapter of this story! I hope you all have enjoyed the story thus far as much as I have! I know that it's been a few days since we last saw one another in this story but just know that I've been working on a new story. It's called War, for those of you who aren't in the know about it... it's a more hyper-realistic story that I thought up. Ignore the snot coming out of Izuku's nose!

After getting out of Recovery Girl's office, Izuku stretched his limbs. He had been asleep for about half an hour before he woke up from his stress/exhausted conk-out session after his win. It was also here that he realized something that never happened before today. He had his first win against Katsuki in a controlled fight. He smiled to himself as he thought more about it.

Walking through the halls leading towards the Award Ceremony Izuku felt as though hundreds of eyes were watching him. Once he stood on the podium that placed him in first place, he couldn't help the small smile that tugged at his lips. Looking to his right he found Todoroki and another student on the third-place platform, and Katsuki on his left.

The boy however looked as though he wanted to be anywhere but here. Believing that his loss against Izuku was nothing more than a fluke against his life. There had to be no way a Quirkless fuck like Deku could defeat him without having trained hard enough for 10+ years. 

Izuku watched as the boy was practically placed in a dog cage with a muzzle to match his ferocious attitude. He couldn't help but think that if Koharu was here right now, she'd be giggling to her hearts content at how ridiculous Katsuki was being. And that brought a whole new can of worms into Izuku's heart, now that he thought about her.

What was he going to tell Koharu's parents, and other family? Would they blame him for their daughter/granddaughter's death? So many things were moving through his mind as he thought about the what ifs... that it managed to leave his mouth through familiar mutters to Katsuki.

"Just fucking talk to her family?! I don't care about your worthless life Deku!?" Katsuki practically screamed through his muzzle.

"S-Sorry for letting my thoughts out like that. I-I haven't done that in a... long time." Izuku mumbled, as he looked away sheepish.

"You mutter to yourself?" Todoroki asked, curious.

"W-Well I used to... not anymore. That was a first in a long while." Izuku clarified as Tokoyami beside Todoroki nodded along.

"Revelry in the Darkness." The boy said, ominously.

"Revelry in the Darkness as well Tokoyami-san." Izuku replied as the bird boy happily chirped.

Soon enough, however, the podiums were lifted from the ground and everyone got to see the winners of the First Year's Sports Festival. As their placements rose up from the ground, Izuku heard most of the population cheering for Katsuki, Todoroki and Tokoyami... but nobody was happily cheering for him... aside from his classmates.

He looked to see who was willingly cheering for him, and found that Pony, Kendo, Tokage, and most of Class 1-B were cheering for him within the crowd. And that girl from the Support Course, Hatsume if he remembers correctly looking at him intrigued. That was when he heard Midnight talking through the intercom.

"This is our winners for the First Year's Sports Festival! Let's give them all a round of applause!" Midnight's voice happily cheered from her position. 

'Don't believe their hatred of you. You won fair and square.' A voice rang from his head causing him to look confused and turn behind himself.

Standing not too far away from his shadow, was a blue wisp of a girl he'd once seen. Her brown hair flowed in the air around him as her green eyes glowed brightly in the sunlight. It nearly brought tears to Izuku's eyes seeing her here right now, as Katsuki glanced over at Izuku with confusion. Looking behind the boy as well to see nothing but seeing the boy with a tear forming in his eyes confused him greatly.