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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Chapter Four: Revelation

The next Monday when she was walking to elementary school with Izuku, Kagome kept playing the events of the weekend in her head, causing her to blush yet again. Her mind had been playing that same scene over and over again, not letting her forget what she had done to Bakugou. How was she going to face the other boy now?

Izuku stopped talking about heroes when he noticed that Kagome wasn't joining in like she usually did. "What's wrong, Kago-chan?" he asked her as he saw her face grow red.

Kagome jolted from his voice. "Wah! Nothing! I was just lost in thought, that's all," she quickly replied.

Izuku stopped walking and put a hand to her forehead. "Are you sick? Your face is really red this morning."

Kagome shook her head and try to calm herself down. "I'm alright. The redness will go down as long as I get some cool morning air," she replied, trying to ease her way out of this situation. "So… what was your favorite part about the new All Might episode?" she asked in an attempt to change the topic.

Izuku was quick to drop the subject as his eyes sparkled with excitement. "He was so cool!" Kagome let out a breath as she smiled at the excited boy, glad to have finally turned his attention onto something else.

The two of them kept talking about All Might all the way to their elementary school. Once they got to the gates, she was nervous to go in and have to face the explosive blond. I hope he doesn't make it too noticeable that something had happened between the two of them. Throughout their school life together, the two have been sworn enemies, always playing pranks on each other to the point when other kids saw the two of them in the same room, they would often part and move out the way so that they wouldn't get caught up in the fight. She really hoped that Katsuki was smart enough not to draw attention to the both of them. She was embarrassed as it is.

The two of them made it to their classroom door, where they could already hear the voice of their bully on the other side, laughing with his buddies. They both gulped down their nerves, for two entirely different reasons, before opening the door and making their way inside.

Izuku quickly made it to his desk without making eye contact with anyone and took out his books. Kagome walked in a much calmer manner as she made way to her desk beside Izuku's, but not before accidentally meeting eyes with Bakugou. When their eyes met, she quickly looked away with another blush, making the other boy smirk at her. She quickly sat down and buried her face in a random book, not even noticing that the book was upside down.

She heard a hand slam down on her desk, and without even looking up from her book, she already knew who it was. "What do you want, Kacchan?" she asked him as she continued to hide her face.

"Why are you hiding your face, ugly?" he asked in his usual tone, but she could guess he just wanted to mess with her and wasn't really upset like his tone seemed.

She looked up from her book but still had it cover most of her face. "Maybe I finally decided to take your advice and hide my ugliness from the world," she simply stated while rolling her eyes. "Now would you please get off my desk and leave me alone?" she asked him while trying to shove his hand off without releasing her book from her face.

"We're pretty much enemies at school, so please don't talk to me," she whispered to him. "Just forget what happened on Saturday alright? I don't want to create a scene." She looked around and saw other kids leaning towards each other as they whispered and looked in their direction. 'Too late.'

Bakugou kept his usual attitude so that other students wouldn't get a clue that something was up. "Whatever, ugly. I'll deal with you later," he said as he left to go to his desk with his hands in his pockets.

"Did he just challenge her to a duel?" she heard one student say.

"Why would he fight her? She was just a quirkless loser, just like her friend." Kagome gripped her book in her hands, feeling her anger building as they bad-mouthed Izuku again. She didn't care what they said about her, but how dare they say that about Izuku. He wasn't a loser, he was more like a hero than pretty much every kid in the class who did have quirks.

When it was lunch-break and Kagome stood up from her seat when she saw the girl who had bad-mouthed Izuku walk outside to eat her lunch with her buddies. "I'll be right back, Izu-chan. I just have to take care of something first," she said before following the other girls out. In her anger, she didn't notice a certain blond boy watching her leave in the corner of his eye.

Kagome walked outside and found the girls sitting on a bench while taking out their bentos their mom's had made for them. "Hey!" she called out. The three girls turned their heads to her direction.

"Oh great, it's the loser," one girl leaned over to say to her friend. The girl wasn't very quiet with her whispering, but Kagome thought that she was doing it on purpose anyway.

The ring-leader put her bento to the side and stood up to look at her. "What do you want, quirkless?" she asked.

"I want you to take back what you said about Izuku. He's more a hero than any of you!" Kagome balled her fists. "He works hard and studies every hero out there. He knows how each one fights and how to counter certain attacks, but what do people like you do?" She pointed at the girls. "You just sit around thinking everything will be handed to you on a silver platter just because you have a second-rate quirk."

The ring-leader glared at her. "Second-rate? That's rich coming from a girl with not even a minor quirk," she replied, as her hair grew from unleashing her quirk. Her two friends got up and began showing their powers to intimidate her. One turned her hand into stone while the other could shoot small fire puffs from her fingers.

"You're not allowed to use your quirks to harm others at school," Kagome told them the rule the principal had told all the elementary schoolers when they first started the school year.

The ring-leader shrugged. "They won't know who did it and after we're done with you, you won't be able to tell them anything." Her hair shot at her like whips as they wrapped around her limbs and held her in place. "Maybe this will teach you to learn your place."

Her two buddies came up and one punched her in the face, while the other one seared her hair and clothes. Even if their attacks did hurt a bit, it was not enough to destroy her will. "Is that all you got, you losers?" she taunted despite her cheek bleeding a bit from a cut by the rock fist.

"Still have the will to talk, huh. I can't tell if you're brave or just stupid," the main girl said as she stood back and let her two friends continue to beat her up. "How does it feel to be beaten down by 'second-rate' quirks?"

Instead of replying, Kagome shut her eyes as she braced herself for another punch to the gut. But it never came.

A boom sounded in front of her as the hair around her burned and released her from its hold. "You guys need three people to take on one girl, no wonder she said you guys were second-rate," an all too familiar voice said.

Kagome looked up at the boy who stood in front of her. "Bakugou…" she said weakly as she let her body fall down so she could sit on the ground to rest her aching body. She didn't think she would have to be saved twice by the boy.

The girls got a bit scared now, knowing way too well who the boy was. "Why are you blocking our way? Don't you dislike her too?" one of the girls asked him.

Bakugou's hands popped with small explosions. "That's none of your business. Just know that she is my prey and I don't plan on letting you losers hunt her down," he stated. "Unless you want to be on my hit-list too, I don't want you guys to come after her again."

The ring-leader was scared by the boy's smirk as he showed them his quirk. She didn't think her quirk was weak, but she had enough common sense to know his was stronger than any of theirs. She looked at her burned off areas of her hair from his quirk and knew she didn't want the rest of it damaged by him.

The girl scoffed and turned around to grab her bento box. "Come on, girls. We've done enough for today," she said as the other girls followed her to go somewhere else to eat.

Kagome watched them leave as the boy bent down to her as he put his hand on her cheek to inspect the damage. "If you're keeping everything a secret, I don't see why you would pick a fight against three girls," he said.

Kagome wiped the blood from her lip using her arm. "I wasn't going to just stand there when they say horrible things about Izuku," she told him.

"All of this is because they said stupid things about Deku?" Bakugou growled out. "You really are stupid if that's why you decided to let yourself get to this state."

Kagome glared at him and turned her head to the side. "If you think fighting for your friends is stupid, then you could've just ignored me and not bother helping."

Bakugou sighed. "I already knew this, but you really can be quite stubborn." He turned around and bent down. "Get on. I'll help you to the nurse's office."

Kagome looked at his back and then back at his face. "Why are you helping me?"

"Do you prefer if I left your bleeding ass here?" he replied in a harsh tone. Despite his tone of voice, she couldn't help but chuckle. What he was doing was a bit sweet, but his words were as abrasive as ever.

She slowly climbed onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck as he held her up by her legs. Once she was completely on his back, Bakugou began walking in the direction of the nurse's office.

"Thank you," she whispered softly.

Bakugou turned his head so that she couldn't see the slight blush on his cheeks. "I'm only doing this so that I don't have to owe you for healing me yesterday." She chuckled again as she laid her sore head on his shoulder.

After they got to the nurse's office, Kagome was cleaned up and bandaged after making up an excuse that she was running outside and had fallen onto some rocks. The nurse reprimanded her for being careless and to be more aware of her surroundings next time, to which, Kagome nodded her head in understanding.

Once she was patched up, she made her way back to the classroom. Bakugou had left earlier so that the other kids didn't think they were together. She couldn't help but think about how embarrassed he was about helping her earlier. 'I guess even boys like him have their cute sides,' she thought.

When she opened the door, Izuku quickly ran up to her and began fussing over her injuries. She rubbed the back of her head and laughed it off, saying she was just a bit clumsy today and told him the same excuse as the one she used on the nurse.

The rest of the day went by like normal and the other girls didn't approach her again since then. They were probably too scared of Bakugou's threat to say anything against her or beat her up again.

Izuku didn't have a quirk, but despite that, he found himself to be rather bright even at his young age. He wasn't considered a prodigy like Kacchan, but he was good at analyzing situations and taking detailed notes. He was good at observing and seeing the problem from different angles. He was also able to see changes in behavior in other people.

And right now, he noticed changes between Kacchan and Kagome's relationship as they continued to progress through the school years together. The two of them still fought and argued a lot even as they got into their late years of elementary school, but it seemed more playful now than it did years ago. Kacchan would often do things to annoy Kagome, but it was not as mean or rough as before. He also noticed how the other boy seemed to always watch Kagome from the corner of his eye. It was so subtle that he doubted the other kids noticed, but Izuku had.

Kacchan also decreased his bullying tendencies towards him, especially when Kagome was around; as if he knew that if he bullied him it would make her very upset at him. Whenever it was just Kacchan and him stuck to clean the classroom alone, he was still as mean to him as ever, but whenever Kagome was involved, he seemed to show a slightly nicer and caring side. He never thought he would use those two words to describe Kacchan before.

When Izuku tried to subtly ask her if anything had changed between her and Kacchan. Kagome would just be her usual self and tell him how annoying and a jerk Kacchan was. It was as if she hadn't noticed the change in the other boy at all. How he almost seemed to care for her over everyone else in the class. Even over his "buddies" he would hang out with.

There were times Izuku and Kagome would get pushed around by other kids (even some from other schools) for being quirkless—Kagome would take more of the beating since she would refuse to get out of the way and let them beat on him. It was during those times that it seemed as if Kacchan would come out of nowhere and fight the other kids to save the two of them.

After the other kids run off, he would quickly see to Kagome's injuries, and wonder if he needed to call anyone to get her help. She often shook her head and told him to not worry her mom and would just lean her head on his shoulder as she closed her eyes to rest. It was in those moments that Izuku got the chance to get a good look of their relationship-change up close. Kagome wouldn't know this since she had fallen asleep from exhaustion, but the blond seemed to bring her closer to him as he held her battered form in his arms.

If Izuku didn't already know there was a change in their relationship before, he definitely knew now. Even if neither party would admit to it or even if Kagome didn't really notice it, it was still as plain as day to anyone looking at the two; at that moment, anyone could see that the blond cared for her. The way he held her gently and let her set her head on his shoulder. The way he let out a small smile (a real smile, not a smirk) as he had her in his arms. The explosive boy didn't know it himself, but he was slowly and steadily falling for her.

Red: Kacchan protec, Kacchan attac, but most importantly, Kacchan has her bac. ;)

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