Bakugo Katsuki, the shipper of UA
Chapter 1: Context
He was tired. He was frustrated. He was annoyed. But most of all, he was angry at all of those bastards. Why you ask? Well there were a lot of reasons to be mad at all of them.
Like the times that the retarded version of Pikachu otherwise known as Kaminari, one of the members of his own "squad" (he didn't even know when did those idiots started calling themselves like that), said practically anything in regards of the stuff that he was talking about at that moment. He seriously thought that his quirk was starting to affect the little brain cells that he still had, if there were still there.
Or when Kirishima started acting mellow and stupid while he found, heard, saw or had anything to do with anything "manly". Sometimes it was hard to not consider if he really had "Hair for Brains". And those two where some of the most notable cases, even though Sero and Mina were close behind in regards of annoying him with their antics.
But he could almost tolerate them. Almost.
There were some people that he couldn't tolerate. Mainly that half cold-half hot bastard and that stupid Deku. Albeit for different reasons, but those two weren't his favorite companions inside of the class or the dorms or pretty much anywhere that they were at the moment.
Mostly because Half and Half owed him a real rematch after the stunt that he decided to pull at the Sports Festival. And because he always had to best him with a smug smirk in his face. It didn't help that it seemed that his friendship with the broccoli with feet was a strong one.
And then there was Deku. The reason to be mad at him was simple.
He was Deku.
A quirkless.
Good for nothing.
NERD.
"Still, he's my dearest and most close friend", he thought while he released a sight as he dragged his "infuriated" self to his room.
Today had been an exhausting day at the academy. Class-A had to endure a surprise test from Eraserhead, a pretty long lecture from Present Mic about his podcasts and his career in the media, a pretty uncomfortable lesson with Midnight about sex-ed (almost everyone was uncomfortable, except for the purple-pervert midget in the class) and a very long session of practical training.
Saying that the students felt or look tired was an understatement. Every member of Class-A felt terrible. Nobody spoke, at least while they headed to the dorms after practical training, which Bakugo was grateful for. "Thank god, some fucking silence", he thought.
After he entered his room, ignoring that bunch of losers as he always does with a scowl plastered on his face, he closed his door and locked it up. Mostly a sign for any intruder to stay away from his "territory".
Then, in the loneliness of his kingdom, he could let loose freely without fear. He just laid in his bed with his face buried in one of his pillows and, after confirming that no sound could leave his room, the dam opened up.
He started crying, as he had been doing since the past two weeks. He felt terrible. He felt weak. He felt that he wasn't improving. It didn't help that almost everyone had their provisional licenses and he didn't. Sure, Half and Half didn't also, but that wasn't the point. He was starting to hate that sensation. That fucking feeling thatdidn't disappear, no matter how hard he'd tried to get rid of it.
That nauseating feeling. That guilt.
He was starting to feel guilty. For fucks sake, he was the great Katsuki Bakugo, the one destined to be the greatest hero that has ever existed, he shouldn't be feeling fucking guilty about anything. But that didn't help him get rid of how he felt.
This thing started to get him after one evening at his place with his favorite person in the world: Deku. He had the memory still fresh and could replay each and every one of the events that occurred that day almost by choice.
It all had started one Friday, two weeks ago. He was having an awesome day. He got the chance to beat some Class 1-B students in a joint drill exercise session, then he ate two food portions at lunch due to a bet that Sero had lost with him and Deku had been quiet all day, so he was at peace. But oh boy, he knew better than anyone that when that goddamn annoying nerd got so quiet and serious, it meant that something important was bothering him or he was nervous about it.
It pissed him off. But he decided to ignore it. The sound of the bell indicating that classes were over was like heaven. He could get to his room early and get some peace to end his day. But when he was finishing packing his stuff, his day started to change.
"K-Kacchan…c-can I talk to y-you for a second?" asked the nerd while looking at the ground and shuffling his feet. After this words escaped his mouth, almost everyone in the classroom got quiet. All of the attention was on them and Bakugo was starting to get mad at that.
"The hell you want nerd?" asked in a serious and monotone voice the explosion lover boy.
"U-um…well, you know…I was wondering if your mom had relayed you t-the message…" answered the green boy while he slowly raised his gaze, unaware of all the attention that they were gathering because of them interacting "peacefully".
"Spit it out already" stated Bakugo while getting notoriously angry by the inability of his "rival" to speak things in a concise way.
"S-sorry, I-I was just gonna tell you that, y-your mom wanted to celebrate my mother's birthday at your house, s-so she invited us and I-I didn't know if you knew" said Izuku while looking nervously at his childhood friend and sweating at the annoyed and angry look of the other boy.
"WHAT. THE. FUCK." Started shouting Bakugo whilst sending off little explosions around him, scaring more the puny kid in front of him. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT OLD HAG? WHY WHOULD SHE DO THAT IN OUR PLACE? FOR FUCKS SAKE" It was easily noted that he wasn't thrilled with the idea of having Deku at his place, not again at least.
After he screamed that, Iida snapped out of his trance, as almost all of the class that had stayed to presence this "conversation" between…rivals? Childhood friends? Nobody knew exactly what kind of relationship those two had with each other.
"Bakugo, watch the language that you're using! It is not fit for heroes in training" practically screamed Iida from his place.
"Shut it, Four Eyes. This is between Deku and me. So fuck off before I explode your brains out. Same goes for all of you extras that have stayed here." He said without looking around at the class and only looking at Midoriya, making the former even more nervous. "Now, tell me what you know about my old hag wanting to do that at my place instead of yours this year" stated seriously.
It was then that everything started.
Izuku lowered his head so his unruly bangs of hair covered his eyes while he looked at the ground, tears starting to form below his eyes and mumbled in a tone so low that only Bakugo could hear due to their closeness at the moment. "This week was the 10th anniversary of my father's death. You remember, right? That plane accident while he was traveling back from the U.S. to celebrate with us? He died a day before my mother's birthday…"
Shit. He had forgotten about it.
He could see his tears starting to flow, but he didn't have the courage to tell him to stop. So he did the next reasonable thing.
He let off a big explosion from his right hand to scare everyone out of the room. "Didn't you hear me? This is between him and myself. Now fuck off" he shouted again, visibly angry and almost with a murdering aura surrounding him.
Surprisingly, everyone obeyed and got out, although not without giving confused and concerning looks at him and one of the sweetest members of the class.
When he got sure that nobody was left at the classroom, he got up to him and hugged him. At this, the nervous kid tensed up and started mumbling stuff about not wanting to die and a lot of apologies for being weak.
"Shut up" he told him in a calm voice.
Midoriya complied, but not without asking "W-why? Why are you hugging me K-Kacchan?"
"Because you need it, moron. I'm sorry, I forgot about the date. You know that your old man wouldn't have wanted you to see you like this. Better than anyone. Just…I'm sorry Deku. We'll welcome you at my place. Tell Auntie that I'm sorry too, and that I'm looking forward to seeing her again." He finished saying this while hugging his annoying and irritating rival. His first real friend.
"T-thank you. I'll tell her and we'll definitely be there this weekend" spoke the other boy after they broke their hug and he dried his tears.
"See ya there, man. Just relax a little bit, maybe punch a bag or something. It always works for me" He stated after he started leaving the room whilst not facing Izuku and just sending a "goodbye" with his left hand, leaving the green kid alone in the classroom.
All this emotional stuff had been stressful. Sure, he hated that kid's guts. Why? He didn't even know. They were good friends back in the day, but that started to change at some point. When? He didn't remember. But, even though he hated him and everything involved around him most of the time, he had to admit that Midoriya was special to him. So, watching him like this because of a painful anniversary that he had forgotten about, hurted him. A lot. Mostly because it was a pretty tough moment in his first friend's life. And he really had a lot of those.
All of this thoughts were rambling inside his head while he headed out of the room, looking at the floor as he left walking at a slow but steady pace, not noticing the surprised brown haired girl that stood nearby the door with a look of fear and astonishment.
Fear of having being caught spying on the two childhood friends and astonishment of finding out the feelings that each other harbored in between them. After realizing that she hadn't been caught, she only directed a sincere and grateful smile in the direction of the hot headed blond that was leaving before she headed inside the classroom to speak with her best friend/crush.
After that, it was only a trip in silence to the dorms. He was alone and quiet with his thoughts in the meantime. When he arrived, he entered the dorms and headed into his room still thinking about this feelings circling in his head until he felt someone yanking his right shoulder. This made him spin rather fast and almost trip with a step, infuriating him and making him ignite little explosions in his palms.
"What the hell was that for Shitty Hair?" Asked angrily at his self-proclaimed best friend.
"We all want answers bro. What was all that about? Is Midoriya all right?" Asked the hardening hero-in-training with concern as Kaminari, Mina, Sero, Jirou, Yaoyorozu and Todoroki started to approach him with the same expression in their faces.
"Yeah man, is something wrong with Midoriya?" asked a concerned Sero.
"Is he okay? Did you do something to him? You did, didn't ya?" asked a concerned and frightened Kaminari, before Jirou elbowed him due to his lack of tact.
"Is Midori fine? What happened? We all are worried about him, Bakugo." Said Mina sincerely, while everyone that gathered around him nodded and the ones that weren't nearby but heard the interrogation did the same.
"Everyone shut the fuck up." He responded menacingly "I will say this only one time, so shut up. This is something between his family and mine. We've known each other since we were kids and I know a lot of stuff about his life that you morons wouldn't even start to believe if it were told. This is a pretty sensitive time of the year for him and his mom, because of something that happened a long time ago. Don't bother him about it. He doesn't need that right now. Just support him and try to make him smile as always. Ignore this topic. He will be better on Monday. Just…please don't ask him questions about it. When he wants to talk about it, he will." He finished in a calm and serious voice, leaving everyone speechless.
They all just witnessed Bakugo acting caring for someone who wasn't himself for the first time. And he just acted like this for Midoriya, nonetheless.
After a few seconds of not getting a response, he continued his way towards his room in silence. But before the doors of the elevator closed, he heard Kirishima stating the next thing with a little smirk in his face.
"W-wow bro, that was…shocking. You do care about him, don't ya?"
He could only answer in a low voice before the elevator doors closed in front of him "Yeah…more than you idiots know…" And with that, he left to his room and ignored everyone for the rest of the night. He decided to eat something of the stuff that he had stored in his room to continue avoiding everyone and surrendered himself to a good night's sleep. He would definitely need it.
The next morning came pretty fast and he met up with the nerd at the entrance of the dorms to travel back home. His mom had planned to celebrate his aunt all day, mostly to keep her out of bad thoughts and feelings involving this past week's commemorations.
It was a silent trip. Neither of them spoke to each other. They just traveled together. When they arrived, they were surprised to see Izuku's mom already there. He gave a strong hug to his aunt while he spoke his condolences to her, but when he released her, everything in his world started to change.
"Don't worry about it dear. I know that my husband wouldn't want me to cry about this and that he would be extremely happy to know that I have amazing friends like your parents to support me in times like this. And he also would be happy to know that you two kids have grown into such a wonderful pair of heroes in training. He would've been proud of our baby Izuku for getting into U.A., for making such amazing friends in there and mostly for having you in his life." Inko Midoriya stated while looking him in the eyes, before eyeing them both and continuing.
"We know that your relationship with each other started getting difficult since you discovered your quirks and that you had a lot of fights. But even after all that, Izuku always has forgiven you because he considers you a very special person in his life. And I've always forgiven you, Katsuki, because you both have always been good friends, even with your differences and problems." She finished with a motherly-smile, before hugging them both and starting the preparations with Mitsuki for the day.
To say that Bakugo was stunned was an understatement. After all the shit that he said. After all the shit that he did to Deku when they were growing up, he still forgave him? He was shocked. He felt like trash. An enormous bucket of guilt had been thrown at him and he didn't know how to react.
Nonetheless, he masked all those thoughts and focused in celebrating his aunt's birthday, not just for her sake. For everyone's. After a pretty eventful day involving some chit chat between parents and a "light" sparring session between both heroes in training to skip the embarrassing conversations that their parents would bring upon them, they left Bakugo's house to get back at the dorms before curfew.
As if it was a repetition of the morning trip, neither of them spoke. It was just a quiet travel. The only difference was that Deku was smiling. Why? Katsuki didn't know and he didn't care. At least, not that much.
When they reached the door of the Class 1-A dorms, Midoriya stopped in his place and spoke out loud to his childhood friend. "Thanks Kacchan. For agreeing having us at your place. For being supportive with me and my mom in times like this. It…it means a lot to me. After all, what mom said was true. You are a very special person to me. Good night, Kacchan." Finished Midoriya with a big grin towards the person which he considered his first friend whilst opening the main door and entering the complex.
It was the second time in that day that Katsuki felt shocked. He felt stunned, unable to move or speak. But he couldn't stop a smile forming on his face while a pair of big and fat tears ran through his cheeks. "Damn it, nerd" he mumbled before rushing in so nobody saw him in that state.
After a few hours had passed since he drifted off to sleep in his room crying again while replaying the events of that afternoon, he woke up because of a grumbling sound. He hadn't eaten anything. He stood up from his bed and, after changing into a pair of baggy pants and a black wife-beater, he headed downstairs towards the kitchen to grab something to eat, not caring about the hour that it was.
All that he could think about was that guilty feelings that he kept having. He didn't know how to get rid of them. Well, he did know. But he didn't know what to do. He had to repay Deku for everything he had done to him. He had to compensate. But he knew that the green moron wouldn't accept a present or money or something because he didn't want it. It was frustrating. He was about to set an explosion in his hands due to the frustration in his way to the kitchen until he heard something.
No. Someone. There were voices coming from the kitchen. That wouldn't be surprising unless you knew that it was almost midnight and the majority of the students were already in their rooms sleeping. But what surprised him the most were the voices. They were only two voices. One that he knew too fucking well, this one being Deku's, and the other one a more feminine and high-pitched voice.
Who was with Deku in the kitchen this late? What was that moron doing up anyway?
He approached silently to the doorframe of the kitchen's entrance and stole a glance of what was happening inside. It shocked him to find that it was Round Face who was with Deku alone in the kitchen. You had to be pretty dumb or really fucking dense to not notice that she was pretty in love with that nerd. But well…Deku was both, it didn't surprise him that he hadn't noticed.
Even though, he paid close attention to the interaction of both of them inside the kitchen. Why? He really didn't know. It wasn't strange, but somehow he felt that he shouldn't interrupt and should only watch while hidden for a while.
Meanwhile inside the kitchen, not noticing that someone was technically spying on them, Uraraka was busy preparing a snack for Deku and herself.
"And…there we go. This is how we usually have this vegetable cake at my home" said the gravity user excitedly while looking at her best friend with a snack in her hands.
"Wow Uraraka-san, that's the first time that I see that way of eating Chinese cabbage inside mocha" replied the One for All user excited as well.
"Ok! Here! This is your portion, Deku-kun!" said Uraraka while handing the shy boy a plate with some of the snack that she had just prepared.
"Eh! It's okay, I was just passing by…" tried to deny the mumbling boy in front of his crush due to him being still not used to this kinds of interactions with her alone.
"It's alright. It's no fun to eat a snack by yourself" replied casually the gravity hero with a big grin plastered on her face, "besides, I was thinking that I would like to have you taste my home cooking in advance" finished excitedly the girl. When she processed the words that had left her mouth, she started blushing like crazy. If you compared her with an apple or a tomato, she would've been an even stronger shade of red.
When she started stuttering and blushing furiously, Midoriya just asked with concern "Uraraka-san? Are you all right?"
She just dropped her plate, covered her red face with both her hands and accidentally activated her quirk on herself, which caused her to start floating around the kitchen. This shocked Izuku, who could only worry about her and asked "Uraraka-san, what's wrong?! Isn't it dangerous to float here?!" meanwhile the embarrassed girl muttered silent "No's" behind her hands.
While all of this happened, Bakugo watched the interaction and suddenly a bright idea occurred to him. He knew how to repay Deku. He knew what to do. But when he was about to enter silently to not disturb the awkward pair of blushing idiots, he heard something behind him.
"Oh Bakugo" said out loud the Half and Half bastard, that was accompanied by Four Eyes. "Yo! You came for a snack? We were also…" started speaking Iida, before Bakugo cut both of them with a menacing look and igniting small explosions in his fingers.
"If you get a step closer to the kitchen, I'll kill you" stated with a menacing aura the blonde student.
"What? Did you burn something?" asked Todoroki with an unamused expression on his face while Iida simple started speaking "Everyone males mistakes! There is no need to be shy about it Bakugo".
After silencing both, he went inside the kitchen to find Deku and Round Face talking normally to each other, as if nothing had just happened, but with a light blush in their faces. He ignored this, grabbed an apple, prepared a peanut butter sandwich and went straight to his room without addressing any of the other people in the room.
He had the perfect plan to repay that nerd. But he had to act soon. So he just waited.
Saturday, 2:36 AM
Kacchan: Hey nerd, you up?
Deku: K-kacchan? Why are you texting me?
Kacchan: Just answer me, damn.
Deku: Yeah, couldn't sleep. I have been having some nightmares.
Kacchan: Same here man. Could you come down to the common room to chat? I want to tell you something important.
Deku: Um…sure, what is it about?
Kacchan: It's about getting you and Round Face together.
Deku: …
Deku: WHAT?!
So! I finally finished writing this first chapter for the story guys! I'm sorry if it took me a lot of time, but I've been busy with work. I hope that this chapter makes you feel excited and I would love to hear your thoughts about it. I'll try to update this story as quickly as possible, because I have a lot of ideas for couples in this format. Next chapter we'll start with IzuOcha (with some awkward scenes and important cameos of a pretty young and cute little girl who deserves the world and a young boy with a hat with two horns who idolizes our favorite green bean), so if you're a fan, continue reading. If not, your comments are well received.