Bakugou awoke with a start, the images of from his dream still flashing in his mind. Rapid breaths escaped his mouth as he tried to calm himself. Looking around it took him a moment to recognize the dorm room he had moved into during the day.
He'd been having nightmares every night since his kidnapping and the fight between All For One and All Might. He hadn't told anyone about them because he couldn't stomach the thought of someone looking down on him for having them, or god forbid they pity him.
A sudden restlessness filled him and itched at his brain to move. Bakugou threw off his blanket and got to his feet and began to pace. The restless itch failed to be alleviated by his hurried steps and the walls started to seem to close in on him. He needed to get out of this room.
Opening his door, Bakugou poked his head out to take a look at the hallway. The hallway was dark, silent, and empty. He walked out of his room, closing the door behind him and moved to the stairs to quietly descend them. Everything was dark and quiet, easing his frazzled mind. He reached the bottom of the stairs and walked out into the common room.
Moonlight streamed in through the large windows, illuminating the common room with its cold light. Bakugou halts in moving through the room when he spots a figure in the dark. He looks at the scrunched up figure under a window and recognized the figure to be his classmate Tokoyami. The shorter student glanced up to lock eyes with Bakugou before sliding his gaze back to the floor, ignoring the blonde.
At seeing him, Bakugou wondered if the bird headed boy was also thinking about the night at the training camp. He quickly discarded the thought, it didn't matter what the reason the other was there. Bakugou wasn't sure what it was that made him walk over to the windows and sit with his back to them, yards away from the other boy.
Maybe it was the moonlight coming in through the windows, maybe it was the open space, he wasn't sure but something about the evening calmed his thoughts and settled his nerves.
A flicker of movement in the corner of his eye caught his attention, he turned and saw that Tokoyami's quirk, Dark Shadow, had emerged and was getting its chin scratched by its user. Neither the quirk nor user said anything and not for the first time did Bakugou wonder how the quirk worked.
Bakugou and Tokoyami sat in silence a comfortable silence for over an hour. Bakugou decided it was about time to try getting back to sleep, his thoughts calmed and nerves settled. He paused in front of Tokoyami, setting off a small explosion in his hand. "You better not say anything, bird brain," he growled before stalking back to the stairs.
Back in his room, Bakugou settled down on his bed and was able to quickly fall into a dreamless sleep for the rest of the night.