Midoriya's eyes opened slowly. He took in his surroundings through bleary vision.

It was dark. Too dark to be anywhere near time to wake up. He searched the table beside him for his phone and checked the time on it once he found it. The display on the screen read 3:16 AM and showed he had texts from half his class plus Hatsume.

Great. Just fan-fucking-tastic.

The greenette took pause for a moment as he realized how much swearing he'd been doing both out loud and internally. All Might and Bakugou were becoming bad influences on him in that regard.

Bakugou...

The greenette sighed knowing the violent blonde was the reason he was awake at this hour. A mental block preventing his sleep. Then his eyes bulged out his skull realizing something. He had no idea what he was going to tell All Might or even Aizawa for that matter. Damn it.

He was so stupid. None of this would of happened if he just kept his mouth shut. Slowly the boy got out of bed and threw on some pajamas. He wandered into the halls, into the main room, he came across the last person he wanted to encounter.

Bakugou. The blonde stared at the greenette in shock. Both felt very uncomfortable.

"H-hey." Midoriya sputtered out. The blonde just grunted in return. He seemed surprisingly not angry to the other boy. He just seemed….sad? That couldn't be right, surely? "Listen, about-"

"Don't Izuku." The shorter boys mouth dropped at the use of his first name. There were tells Midoriya could pick up on from Bakugou, twitchy lips, jittering hands, unfocused eyes. If the boy hadn't known Bakugou for as long as he had he would be worried he'd been drugged but as he was, Midoriya knew it was the blonde trying to reign in his anger. "I don't want to hear some lame ass undeserved apology from you when I'm the one in the wrong. I was the one who told you to jump off the roof. Shit I can't believe I ran from a fucking weakling like you. Why the hell am I even saying this? U.A should have been proof I was the best and all its done is prove me weak and now make me weaker!"

Midoriya saw red. For very different reasons this time and he dealt with it much better than the incident that had started this. He took in his surroundings again while composing what he wanted to say. He noticed then that Bakugou's phone was on the table. It showed the blondes messaging history with a certain red-headed boy.

'Bakugou…please don't text/call/talk to me right now. I can barely stand to look at you with all of this. I don't know think we should be friends anymore' – Kirishima, 5:00PM, Yesterday

Well that just confirmed what Midoriya was thinking. He took a deep breathe, trembling slightly, and said it. Something he should of said a long time ago.

"Katsuki…." He started looking at the floor before lifting his gaze to look the blonde in the eye. "You are an asshole."

The blonde sputtered and then went to say something but Midoriya just raised a hand to tell him to wait. 'Holy crap what the hell am I thinking, Shut up before you get yourself killed.'

But he couldn't stop himself.

"Your physically strong sure. But you are also a crude, unlikable jackass. Its funny, in a sad kind of way, how much you try to prove your not a 'weakling' as you put it. I always thought you were insane, well I still do but at the time it was because I thought you were nowhere near being a weakling, now I realize that you always were." A fire of rage lit up in the blonde's eyes. Had this been any other time Midoriya would of run for the hills. Make no mistake he was trembling and screaming at his insanity internally but still the words continued. "Every single time you've gone out of your way to prove your not a weakling 'like me', physically you may succeed, but mentally you just become more of a weakling. I don't know why I tried to emulate you so much." Midoriya glared straight at the blonde who was sat, shell-shocked. "I have friends, powers and a future in heroics. All things you tried to make me think i'd never have. I used to believe you when you said you would be the next number one hero. Now I know its just another delusion for your fragile ego."

"What the hell did you just-?!" Bakugou finally cane out of his shock. Midoriya wasn't done though and he wasn't putting up with interruptions.

"Keep quiet until im finished. A hero who hurts innocent people is no hero at all. You can't so much as be nice to your own friends. You used to shout at me about how I don't deserve to be here but now I think about it, it was the other way around. Until you can get your head out of your ass and realize that not everything is about you and your physical strength you shouldn't be in any Hero School, let alone U.A." Midoriya's gaze finally softened. "Now your pissed off but look me dead in the eye Kacchan. Did losing Kirishima hurt?"

The explosive boy's eyes widened briefly before he looked away with a frown. That was all the answer Midoriya needed .

"That's what I thought. Say it." The greenette demanded camly.

"What?!"

"Say losing Kirishima hurt you." Midoriya repeated. "Because it did, didn't it?!"

"You don't know a damn thing about me Deku! LOSING SHITTY HAIR DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO ME." There he was, the Bakugou Midoriya knew and mildly tolerated. But not any longer.

"I know way more about you than you like to admit it. Like it or not I've known you for years. Don't lie, please. Say it Kacchan, Say the truth. Or are you trying to prove you are weak?"

The blonde whipped around with sparks flying from his hands and roared. "HOW THE HELL WOULD ADMITTING IM HURT I LOST EIJIROU DO ANYTHING BUT MAKE ME WEAK?!"

Silence permeated the room following the outburst. Bakugou just stared in shock while Midoriya stared at him with a slight smug look he couldn't help, though admittedly he was still kind of surprised. "Wow Kacchan, his first name? I've never heard you call anyone by even there second name most of the time."

The blonde growled. He looked as if he was about to stomp away. Midoriya took in a deep breathe. At the start he had just been getting the feeling he had towards the blonde of his chest properly but halfway through he had realized something he could do that was much more productive. He remembered something he had once watched a hero say on an interview.

'Always try to be nice but never fail to be kind. You can't know whats going on in another person's head. A villain will have choose that path for a reason, if you can help them realize there errors then maybe, just maybe, that act of caring will save them from themselves further down the line. That doesn't just apply to villains of course, it can also apply to family, friends and anyone. Those who are in the wrong need help just the same as any of us, just a different Kind. Kindness will always be the first step to getting them back on track, even if you can't be nice about it.'

'Time to go in for the kill.'

"Remember this." Midoriya told him. "This is what real strength, emotional strength feels like. If you can't acknowledge your own emotions then…well im sure you understand. Honestly I think im mad for even saying this but…..We both need a second chance, a do over."

"Like any of those-"

"Classmates."

"Huh?!"

"You were going to call them extra's, call them classmates. Just try." Midoriya asked. He had no idea how he hadn't been exploded even once during this, maybe his initial outburst got to the blonde more than he realized The blonde grunted but actually complied for once, to Midoriya's surprise.

"Fine. None of our classmates are gonna give me a second fucking chance. In case you haven't noticed they are all pretty damn pissed off at me." The blonde yelled. It was never said but both knew what went unspoken, 'as they should be.'

Midoriya sighed. "Your right, this isn't going to be easy. We can't expect anyone to just forget this. They won't be given second chances themselves. They see you a specific way now, and the only way for them to accept you is to see you've changed."

"Changed?" Bakugou asked incredulously, he was about to berate him telling him he would never change, because he was already perfect as he was and didn't need to when all Midoriya said finally sunk in for good. This was exactly what the boy meant about him. That was a sobering thought. Then he realized he never would have been upset of Shitty Hair disliking him in the past but now…shit he had changed….

A hand was held out in front of the Blonde. "Kacchan…..the first steps got to be this. Lets start over, together."

It felt like an entirety passed as the explosive boy looked down at the smaller boys hand. Contemplating. Finally he made a move.

Midoriya braced for an explosion, expecting Bakugou to storm off pissed off. To his surprise that's not what happened. Instead the blonde took the greenette's hand in his own, looking aqay slightly uncomfortable once more.

"Fine. I guess we can start over Dek-" The blonde stopped, as if considering something. "Midoriya…. I suppose I should only be calling you Deku in training."

"There we go, see. Thanks for proving your strength Kacchan." Midoriya beamed at the blonde. The explosion quirk wielder would never admit it until the day he died, but for the first time ever he kinda saw what people meant about Midoriya being cute. Then the boy turned around as if the last 24 hours Hadn't happened and asked something that Bakugou never thought he'd hear from the boy. "Please, call me Izuku or something like Izuchan though. Hearing you say Midoriya is just weird."

The blonde grunted but nodded. He felt….wrong. The boy made it to easy. He was forgiven just like that?

Before the blonde could mull over it anymore the grennette said something that surprised him once more. "Well, I better go talk to Kirishima."

"Wait what?! why?!" The blond asked.

"Well part of having friends is having help. I know your not one to ask, though you need to learn if you wanna get stronger. No one is perfect on there own like you seem to think. Even All Might needs help sometimes before you say it. This is the first step towards getting better. Will you let me?" The boy asked. Normally the blonde would have probably attacked the greenette by now if he said something like that but right now…..

"Fine ok. Just wait until morning Zu-chan" He said, barely registering the name he just gave the smaller boy. Said boy however noticed and it made him smile brighter than he had in a while.

"Right! Well then I guess I better go back to bed. You should probably sleep as well, Aizawa is not going to be happy tomorrow." The greenette said walking away. He scratched his head nervously knowing his teachers inevitable bad mood would be his fault. He stopped on his way and turned around briefly. "One last thing Kacchan, I don't agree with a method like yours but…If you go back on this tomorrow without even trying to uphold it, I swear I will punch at 100%"

And with that, A urge weight felt as though it was lifted from the boys shoulders. When he finally got to bed he set an early alarm. After all he was going to need some time before class tomorrow.