A Bad Hair Day
* Chapter 1: I'm a Boy
Midoriya Izuku's mutation quirk is one of the most normal looking one ever recorded.
The part of his body that mutated? His hair.
Long, luscious, incredibly strong green hair. Its extremely sturdy, nothing can cut through it, its also fire proof, bulletproof and explosion-proof. Surprisingly, its only the hair in his head that posses such quality while everything else is normal.
Many companies salivated at the thought of reproducing such material. A natural substance that is already recorded as one of the most sturdy material in the world. Unfortunately, they do not have the strength to pick even a strand of hair in little Izuku's head as a sample. They just don't have the tool sharp enough to cut through one.
Midoriya Mom and Dad was first curious towards their son's quirk, as both of them doesn't have a mutation quirk, but accepted it pretty quickly, more happy to the addition in their life than the strange quirk.
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Bakugou Katsuki was four years old when he met the prettiest girl in his life. She was smaller than him, shyly hiding behind her mother, Aunt Inko, only peeking towards him every now and then. She got a very long green hair, the longest he had seen ever!, with shiny green eyes and little dots in her cheeks.
He ignored the old hag's, his mother, cooing. Instead, he marched towards the girl, surprising her into hiding deeper behind her mother but Katsuki is having none of that.
He took her small hands, secretly marveling at the soft touch. Katsuki can feel his face heating up and his mother's loud laughter is not helping. Ignoring everyone else, he pulled the girl out of her hiding place, forcing a cute squeak out of her and standing face to face with the her.
"I'm Katsuki! Nice to meet you!" He introduced himself like how his mother told him to and waited for the girl to do the same. He never let go of her hands though, afraid of the girl running away and based on the constant tugging, she is planning to.
The girl shuffle nervously in her feet, constantly looking at the ground, to him, then to her mother, and back to her feet. Katsuki belatedly noticed that the girl is wearing a boy's cloth, though that still doesn't hide the fact that she's a girl. Katsuki wondered why she's not wearing those pink dresses that other girls wear but then again, she's already pretty without it so she'll probably be even prettier when wearing one and then other kids would want to play with her too but Katsuki won't let them. He found her first. She's his.
"I-I'm Izuku... Nice to meet you Ka-Katsu-Kas... Kacchan!" The girl, Izuku, stammered, tripping over his name as if its the hardest thing to say. Katsuki scrunched up his noise at the new nickname. Kacchan sounds girly, it does not suit him at all. He opened his mouth to say so but stopped at the shy smile Izuku is giving him.
...
Fine, he can accept Kacchan. Kastuki is very manly anyway, a girly nickname won't change that.
But that doesn't mean she's getting away with it.
Silent mulling Izuku's name in his mouth, a bright idea popped in his mind.
"Deku!" Both the mothers and Izuku was startled at the sudden sound, the latter almost jumping into the air. Laughing at the reaction, Katsuki grabbed Izuku's shoulder, shaking her for good measure. "Your nickname is Deku from now on!"
Izuku, now nicknamed Deku, just stared wide at him before nodding enthusiastically, taking his own hand into hers and shaking it. With a wide smile that sent Katsuki's face another wave of redness, Izuku replied, "Okay, Kacchan!"
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"Y-y-you're a BOY?!" Katsuki screamed, pointing an accusing finger on Deku.
Said green hair 'boy' blinked in confusion at his outburst, like she, he, didn't understand what set off Katsuki.
"Kacchan? Whats wrong?" Deku had the gall to ask, looking lost and hurt. Katsuki is the the one that feels lost and hurt the most!
His bestfriend! His first... crush... actually turned out to be boy!
Katsuki want to bury himself in the sand box and never come out again. He can't take the shame.
Let's go back to a few minutes earlier.
As usual, Katsuki and Izuku, Kacchan and Deku, met in the park during their scheduled play dates and as usual, Katsuki dragged Izuku towards the sand box to play.
Its been two weeks since Katsuki met Izuku and he has to say, he really like the girl.
Sure, she's more shy than other girls but she's not as squeamish like them! She's always ready to play any games that he likes, even though other girls don't like to play it cause it makes them dirty but Izuku doesn't seemed to have any problem of being dirty.
Katsuki is very proud of himself for picking a friend like Deku.
It was during that time a another boy whom Katsuki has played with before Izuku came and asked if he can join them.
Katsuki scowled in reply with Izuku just stared in surprise. The other boy, who must older than the both of them, keep glancing at Deku that it annoyed the hell out of Katsuki.
Standing up, he hid Deku behind him, glaring at the other boy in hopes he'd go away.
...it's not working.
"I wanna play with you." The boy, Hideo, Katsuki remembered, asked again, now staring straight at Deku behind him and ignoring Katsuki as if he doesn't exist.
It ticked him off. Katsuki stepped forward, ready to beat up the boy for being a nuisance when a small hand pulled the back of his shirt. Surprised, he turned towards Deku whom smiled in reassurance before nodding towards the boy, giving Hideo a permission to play with them.
The loud laughter that the older boy let out almost made Katsuki want to fill that mouth with sand to shut him up but Deku never let go of his shirt, never letting him do some bodily harm towards the boy.
"Deku-!" Katsuki didn't whined. Whining is for pansy and Katsuki is not a pansy. He was just complaining why Deku even wanted to play with a loser like Hideo when she got him.
Izuku just gave him the best puppy eye she can muster and Katsuki didn't even last even a second.
Hideo will be playing with them.
Kacchan - 0 | Deku - 26
And just like Katsuki thought, the boy was circling around Deku like a fly and keep asking stupid question and ignoring Katsuki.
"What's your name? Katsuki called you Deku, is that your name?"
"N-no. Its a nick-,"
"Oh! Then can I also call you that? I'll call you Deku too!"
"Umm.. o-okay?"
"Where do you live, I live near here. Its an apartment a few blocks a way from here! We live in the fifth floor. Its pretty high up there that you can see the whole city! My mom told me-."
Deku sent a pleading look at Katsuki, obviously not expecting the constant barrage of words that keep coming put of Hideo's mouth. Katsuki is very much tempted to just leave her on her own, that would teach her for ignoring his decisions when he obviously known better, but when tears started gathering in those green eyes, Katsuki didn't even think about being petty anymore and just took Deku, lifting her towards his side and going between her and Hideo.
Ignoring the 'hey!' coming from Hideo, he kept on building his castle that have been left alone since the menace appeared.
Katsuki is planning to make it a big castle, like the one in stories where kings, queens, princes and princesses lived. This is the castle that he and Deku is gonna live in.
Of course Deku will be the princess while he is the knight that protects her. Hideo can be the dragon cause he's annoying.
He perked up when he heard a particular question that have been bugging him from the start but didn't ask because is not his business. How unexpected that nosy Hideo will ask it.
"Why are you wearing boy's clothes, Deku-chan?"
Katsuki slowed down his hands, staring expectantly at Deku's answer.
In fact, Katsuki has a theory of his own.
He had once gone to Deku's home for a sleepover and saw some picture where Deku is wearing girls clothes, she's very cute in those, but most of them are all in boys clothes. Deku's room is not much different than his, only there's a table with a big mirror that he only saw in his mother's room with lots of hair ties, clips and combs, he also saw some cute dresses and skirts in her closet but like the in the picture, most of the clothes inside are for boys.
So Katsuki theorized that Deku only wear girls clothes when she needs to be presentable. That coincided with his knowledge why girls don't want to play with boys cause they don't want their pretty clothes to be dirty. Since Deku is wearing boys clothes whenever she plays with Katsuki, then she doesn't have the same worry as most girls.
It all makes sense! But he still needs to know if his theory is correct. Now he just needs Deku's answer.
"...cause I'm a boy."
"WHAAT?!"
And now we're back to the present.
"Y-y-you're a boy?!"
"Y-yes?" Katsuki wanted to throttle Deku for that very uncertain answer.
She,he, whatever!, doesn't even know her,his, own gender!
"I'm a boy Kacchan." Answered Izuku with more conviction, staring at the two boys like he doesn't understand why they would ever mistake him as girl.
Katsuki is too surprised that he doesn't even have an ability to talk anymore. Fortunately, Hideo has recovered pretty quickly and decided to ask more questions to get a clear answer.
"Then, then why is your hair so long?"
Yeah. The long hair is what made Katsuki assume that Izuku is a boy.
"It's my quirk. It makes my hair very very strong that it can't be cut."
Silence.
"Your quirk is your hair? How lame." Hideo snickered.
Izuku flinched, as if been hit. His shoulder sagged, his head lowered down to his chest and he...
Katsuki stopped, staying still.
Was that...
The sound came again and Katsuki is now a hundred percent sure that it came from Deku.
Sniff.
He grabbed Deku's head, raising it from its lowered position and there it was, tears.
White hot rage suddenly came from nowhere and Katsuki now just want Hideo, who made Deku cry, gone.
He felt a heavy feeling in his chest, suffocating him. The lump in his throat prevented him from expressing the burning rage that's coursing through him and he can feel his hands sweat.
He wanted Hideo gone and something tells him that just a little contact with his sweat can do the job.
He raised his hands, stretching it towards Hideo. When it almost came in contact with the older boy, something pulled him back, pulling him away from the boy and the pressure in his body exploded outward.
A mini explosion echoed in the playground, silencing every children and parents before all hell breaks loose.
Hideo run screaming, and so does all every other kids and that set off more children until every single kids is crying and their parents panicking to soothe them.
His hands hurt very much and Katsuki vaguely heard somebody shouting his name but everything else feels muted, and an extremely loud ringing sound taking over any other sounds out there.
He felt a small hands taking a hold of his wrist, his hand that just exploded,and its full of scratches and blood, and its dragging him away.
Deku, he slowly realized. Its Deku.
Then he remembered what happened a few seconds earlier and violently broke their contact.
Thankfully, his hearing is slowly returning and his blurry vision clearing and Katsuki is scared.
His hands exploded. It was very bright and very loud and very very scary.
He is shaking all over, and he doesn't know whether its because of fear or shock, maybe its a combination of both and Katsuki can feel the feeling in his legs disappearing, his sight blurring and he can feel himself falling, falling, falling...
"KACCHAN!"
Katsuki snapped out of revery, realizing that, yes, he didn't fell in the dirt, and yes, its Deku who is supporting him.
He doesn't know where he got the strength in his arms but he hugged Deku very tight, as if its only Deku who is anchoring him and not letting him fall. The feeling of smaller hands curling behind him, soothing him, slowly and surely calmed him down.
"It's okay. I'm here. It's okay." He can hear Deku whispering in his ears and Katsuki suddenly feels very tired. Deku's voice became fainter and fainter and nothing hurts anymore.
Katsuki fell asleep.
Thats how Mitsuki and Inko found their children, hugging each other with Izuku slowly rubbing Katsuki's back in a soothing manner and asleep in his arms.