"That back blast was pretty nasty, are you sure you're alright?" Izuku asks as he and Momo walk towards the infirmary still carrying an unconscious Shouto over his shoulder. "I remember the first time my dad tried teaching me lightning bending and it didn't end well."

"The blast didn't hurt all that much, though it jammed my finger pretty badly. It was more me hitting my back on the ground after getting launched backwards is what hurt." She responds, pulling a back roller from her arm as she creates it. Izuku looks mesmerized by the use of her quirk, staring in awe at it. "So, what was the story of your first time lightning bending?"

"I didn't get a scar from it, same can't be said for my dad when he started but I was about 9 years old at the time and was getting frustrated with my friend Kacchan being able to beat me at our agni kais we would fight." Izuku begins. "So after I lost again to him my father took me aside and asked if I wanted to know how to make lightning. I agreed but I may have been a bit too excited with it because the first time we tried it ended up exploding in my face and blew a hole in the fence at our house. We weren't allowed to firebend at the house anymore after that."

"You get sent flying by your own bending too?"

"Oh yeah, I went further than Shouto did today and it ended up breaking my index and middle finger on my hand. I was in a cast for 4 months." Izuku says holding up both fingers causes her to laugh slightly.

"Thankfully that didn't happen with me, but I'm not sure we can say the same for our friend here; he seems to still be out cold." Momo responds by gesturing to Shouto who is being carried like a ragdoll over Izuku's shoulder.

"Nope. I'm awake, I'm just lazy." Shouto responds, picking his head up. "And my hand hurts like hell."

"That's because you probably broke it." Izuku responds as they get to the clinic entrance. "I'm not carrying your sorry ass any further. You can walk. Lazy bones." Izuku says before dropping Shouto on a chair unceremoniously. "You know, I could help train you in lightning generation, do you know how to redirect it?"

"I've seen the technique done a few times but I haven't learned how to do it properly." She responds as Izuku opens the door for her to walk in. "But, if you're willing to assist me with this I'd really appreciate it."

"Well, can you give me your phone number then?" Izuku asks, causing her to arch an eyebrow. "I-I'm n-not hitting o-on you or a-anything. It'll j-just make it e-easier to k-keep in touch and to g-get in contact wh-when you're a-able to train." He stutters.

"Smooth Deku. Real smooth." Shouto says sarcastically.

"Sure." Momo responds before creating a post it note with her quirk with her number already printed on it. "It's helpful that the practice rooms are close to the infirmary, something tells me we might be frequenting here." She responds before walking inside.

"I'm surprised that it worked."

"Shut up and go fix your hand dumbass." Izuku responds, grabbing Shouto's finger and yanking it causing him to yelp in pain and sock him in the shoulder in order to free his hand. The two stare at each other as if they're going to challenge the other to an agni kai before they crack up and walk off.

The Next Day

The earlier classes went by rather quickly, well as quickly as boring mathematics and grammar courses can go. With the slog of basic academic classes over the start of the firebending courses begins just after lunch. Today Endeavor is leading this class but with his focus mainly on Kaminari and bringing up his ability to firebend leaving the rest of the students to train through their katas and technique sequences on their own. As they begin their afternoon free training, Momo comes over towards where Izuku and Katsuki are and observes the two of them passing a lightning bolt between each other with redirection.

"Don't you think there's a less dangerous way to learn how to redirect lightning?" she asks as Izuku catches the bolt on his fingers before shooting it back into a tesla coil that was set up in the training field.

"This is the less dangerous way. There's tesla coils around the training areas used to teach students how to redirect lightning just using static electricity. It's not nearly as powerful as any normal lightning but it works as needed." Katsuki replies before stepping aside allowing Izuku and Momo to start with the training cycle.

"You know the basics of the technique right? Draw your fingers down your arm, to your stomach then up and out the other side of your body." Izuku explains showing her how to go through the motions of the redirection technique. "Let's go through this a few times before trying it with the tesla."

"Wouldn't it be quicker to draw your hand through your chest in this?" Momo asks, copying the motions that Izuku is demonstrating.

"No. That brings the electricity across your heart and unless you're stupid lucky you'll probably die so it needs to go through your stomach then out through your opposite hand. This move doesn't have to be in the opposite direction just so long as you take in the bolt then direct it through your stomach and then out the other hand, the lightning will follow where you point it." Katsuki says sternly before walking over to the button beside the tesla coil. "Practice times over bitches, let's do some practical training now." He declares before slamming his hand on the button causing a bright purple bolt of static electricity to jump out of the coil and towards Momo.

"Dude! A little more warning next time she hasn't learned how to do this yet." Izuku shouts but Momo manages to catch the bolt with her hands and begins to go through the motion of redirecting it.

"Yeah well the best way to learn is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire so that's w-OWWW!!!" Katsuki retorts before suddenly being zapped in the ass by a redirected bolt of static electricity from Momo. "You're a fast learner." Katsuki responds by turning to face Momo as he rubs the sore spot on his butt. The firenation princess smiles cheekily at what she did before the tesla coil spits out another bolt that Izuku manages to catch and then go through the redirection process.

"Catch." Izuku says before shooting it towards Momo who manages to catch the bolt. She brings her hand down, across her stomach and at Katsuki in a firebending game of catch of sorts. "Good, how does it feel to redirect lightning?" he asks before catching the bolt sent from Katsuki and sending it back towards Momo.

"It's strange." She responds before catching the bolt. "I feel a tingling and warm sensation along my fingers and arms before it goes into my stomach where it feels like those whiskey chocolates I ate when I was little."

"You stole those too?" Katsuki asks in a half laugh before catching the return bolt from Momo. "Deku and I snuck into his dad's office and found a bunch when we were about 10. We thought they were just chocolate truffles and ended up eating them all and got drunk."

"Yeah he wasn't all that happy after that." Izuku jokes as he catches the return strike. "When aunt Mitsuki found out she started laughing but I don't think either of us ended up getting grounded for that one."

The three spent a good half an hour passing the bolt between each other in order to get Momo accustomed to lightning redirection. Izuku opted to try to move on and into lightning generation but Endeavor put a stop to the advanced level due to them not being in the proper class for it. Katsuki ended up losing interest in just passing about a wimpy bolt of electricity and walked off to go do his own training but as soon as he blew up a target he was told not to use combustion bending either. He grumbled about not being able to use the powerful stuff but walks off to go hit the punching bag for the remainder of the period. As Izuku and Momo take a break from their practice, one of their classmates, a boisterous black haired and freckled girl named Kihon Surei, had decided to march over towards the two of them while they were enjoying a water break.

"You that Yaoyorozu chick I've been told about?" Kihon asks in an expectant and almost bitchy tone, prompting Momo to arch an eyebrow at the rude greeting.

"I am Yaoyorozu Momo, yes." Momo responds, putting the lid back on her water bottle and sitting up straighter. "I'm sorry, I haven't gotten everyone's names yet for our class. Who are you?" She asks politely.

"I'm the one who's gonna prove that you royals are nothing like the powerful firebenders you used to be." This causes Momo to furrow her eyebrows and stand up. Her tall form, of nearly 5'10" towers over the shorter woman who was hardly 5'0". "I challenge you. Agni Kai."

"Uhh... what?" Izuku asks, completely bewildered as to what is going on.

"Very well. Professor Endeavor." Momo calls out, catching the attention of the 3rd rank hero. "We are going to fight an Agni kai duel. Are there any arenas available?" She asks, her tone is still serious and professional but continuing to be polite.

"Damn teenagers, why can't you talk out your problems." Enji groans. "Who challenged who?"

"I challenged her to prove that the royal family are just full of hot air and are nothing like the powerful firebenders like Firelord Ozai and Azulon were." Kihon declares pointing accusatively at Momo.

"Right... you think that the current generation is weaker than two genocidal tyrants that drug this country through a pointless war that lasted nearly 140 years." Endeavor pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs deeply. "Fine. Head to the far side of the gym, there's a training arena there."

"How did this happen?" Shouto asks. walking up to Izuku while sipping on boba tea.

"One of our classmates thinks that the royal family aren't as good of firebenders as they were 400ish years ago when Ozai the mad was on the throne." Izuku responds following the two girls over towards the Agni Kai arena. "I'd have thought it was going to be Chan giving Kacchan a rematch challenge for the first duel in the class but this was just unprovoked."

"Over under on the chance the short chick gets roasted." Shouto asks between slurps of the tea.

"Oh she's going to get torched, but Yaomomo is pretty humble so I don't think it's going to get too violent." Izuku responds as he and Shouto sit on the floor in front of the arena.

"I think you're forgetting something there buddy."

"What's that?"

"She." Shouto says pointing at Momo. "Is part Azula."

"Oh." Izuku responds in a moment of realization just as Endeavor haphazardly rings a starting bell for the girls to begin their match.

As the bell rings Kihon spins with incredible speed to face Momo who was barely in the process of standing up. The cocky firebender throws a series of quick jabs spurting bursts of fire from her hands towards Momo. The calm princess of the firenation doesn't even look at Kihon before countering the blasts of fire that she can feel getting warmer and closer. Kicking her right leg behind her and doing a standing vertical split, a massive wall of blue fire erupts from the ground stopping the four or so measly blasts of fire her opponent had shot at her. Spinning on her anchor foot, Momo turns to face her opponent before swinging the foot that's in the air behind her, all the way forwards into a high ax kick and bringing it down hard. This causes the wall of flames to grow even higher before being thrown towards Kihon. The fire encompasses a straight line from edge to edge of the arena and moves like a wall towards the once cocky firebender. With zero space to evade, Kihon merely brings up a sphere of flames around herself to protect from the wall. This does nothing to stop the wall of fire from bulldosing her out of the arena and into the dirt, victoriously Momo marches over to the edge of the arena.

"Now you see the difference in power that a member of royalty possesses, how dare you make a mockery of my family, comparing us to my ancestors who could barely light candles compared to the modern day Firelord. This defeat will shame you for all time and you best remember your place." Momo declares, shocking the rest of her classmates as she glares at the defeated form of Kihon who is still laying on her back in the dirt.

"Um... Yaomomo?" Izuku says cautiously. "You're Azula is showing."

"Oh my," She says, regaining her composure. "M-my apologies. I don't know what came over me for a second."

"Again, the part of you that is Azula." Shouto says to further embarrass the firenation princess. This year is going to be interesting to say the least.