Most children get along well, they all are unique in there own ways and it didn't affect the way they played at all. Everyone always had a smile on their faces and made the best of there days.
Well, most kids did.
Young bakugo wasn't exactly the sweetest person but he did show some signs of compassion as a child. He wanted to play with the other kids, but he always felt as if he'd do something wrong. All Might and the other heroes noticed and would try to help bakugo feel normal around the others, but sometimes it wouldn't go as they planned.
There were some days where bakugo would make other kids laugh without telling a joke. They once visited the public pool together and all of class 1-A was having a blast. Kaminari and mineta noticed bakugo was splashing alone so they walked over to him.
"Katsuki! What're you doing?" Kaminari asked watching bakugo sway his hands back and forth.
The other boy shrugged and continued to sway. "Just splashing, I guess."
Mineta took one of the grape balls off his head. "You guys want to play catch?! Oh wait, this is sticky…"
"I would use my quirk, but I think I'd kill everyone." Kaminari joked but not really. "Could you use yours in water katsuki?"
Bakugo didn't really think he could, but he looked at his hands and wondered. "I could try." He said as he put his hands deep in the water. just to be safe he made a tiny explosion, causing a lot of bubbles to float to the surface. He did it again a little stronger this time and the water popped up splashing mineta and kaminari. "S-Sorry."
"What for?! That's amazing! Everyone look at what katsuki can do!" mineta yelled and within seconds all of his classmates surrounded him giggling. He smiled before making a big explosion in the water, causing it to come up and splash everyone around him.
"Woooaah!" they all yelled and began playing while bakugo continued to make explosions. That day, he felt good about himself.
However, other days he did not. There was another time the students were building a giant tower using the blocks Aizawa had bought for them. He wanted to sleep so he hoped this would distract them, which it did. Everyone was fully engaged and did there best to contribute to building the ultimate tower. Bakugo however, did not get too close. He handed his friends blocks from a distance until one of his friends called him out on it.
"Hey katsuki! Come! You get to put the final piece to the tower!" sato handed a block to bakugo and he gave him a funny look.
"Are you sure?" bakugo asked and everyone nodded there heads excitedly.
"Of course kacchan! You can do it!" izuku chanted.
So bakugo stood up and walked over to the tower. They all had done such a good job building it, it almost resembled an actual tower in a way. Bakugo tried to be as careful as possible, seeing that the last piece was going to be the most fragile to put on. He tried to take it slow, but suddenly he ended up being too aggressive and as he reached to put the last piece on, he knocked into another one causing everything to fall. The tower fell and the pieces surrounded bakugo as he looked at them in shock. He then looked up at his friends and hoped they wouldn't be too mad at him, and they weren't. They al sighed but gave bakugo a warm smile.
"That's alright, it was pretty fragile anyway." Tokoyami shrugs and smiles at bakugo. "Plus we can build it again!"
"Yea!" everyone chanted and immediately got to building. "Come on, katsuki!" Shoji called out to the only boy who wasn't helping but bakugo turned and walked away.
"Thanks, but that's alright. I think I'll just go watch TV…" bakugo said hanging his head low as he walked away. He wasn't aware but all of his friends watched him until he disappeared with little sad faces.
Not everyday was great for bakugo, but he hoped today would be different. The heroes had taken all of class 1-A to the park! They had a giant field where the kids could run around for hours and play. They were practically bouncing off the walls on the ride there in each of the heroes cars.
Upon arrival they all yelled in excitement and scattered. All might did his best to do a head count every five seconds to make sure that they were all there. "Don't go off to far! I have to be able to see you!"
"And don't talk to strangers!" Yu added. She waved to the children as they all ran off to play.
The day seemed to be great so far. Some kids played on the swing set, while some played on the jungle gym, and others just ran around like little clowns. Everyone seemed to be having a great time, except for bakugo. He sat in the sandlot by himself, pushing it around in circles.
"Aww" Yu cooed and her lip quivered at such a sad sight. All Might was beginning to walk over to him, but Yamada placed his hand on his shoulder to stop him.
"Wait, wait, look." All Might looked in the direction Yamada was pointed and he spotted two little boys quickly making there way to bakugo. Kirishima and Izuku stopped in the sandlot and they both held out a hand to bakugo, which immediately warmed the heroes hearts.
"Aww Yes! That's my kirishima!" Yu threw her fist in the air and aizawa chuckled.
All Might smiled as he watched bakugo take both of the hands stretched out to him and get up. He saw kirishima and izuku was saying something to him before all three of them ran to play on the twisted slide. All Might rested his fists on his hips and laughed greatly.
"You see that my friends? That's the power of friendship and izuku's smile! My boy is going to be a fine hero." All Might chanted. Yamada chuckled before he heard his name being called.
"Yamadaaa! Look!" Jiro called out and she immediately caught his attention. She was standing in front of some sort of pole with a hole in it. the pole travelled around the jungle gym and came out threw the other end. Yamada realized it was a type of commincation system like telephones.
He ran to the other end of the pole and yelled back into. "Oi Jiro! Are you having fun today?!"
"Yea!" she yelled back into the other end of the pole.
"I can't hear youuu! I said, are you having a great time today?!"
"Yeeaa!" Jiro yelled back at the top of her lungs.
"Now let me hear you screeeaam!"
"AAAAAH!"
"AAAAAAH"
"AAAAAAAAAAH!"
"AAA-"
"Alright! That's enough of that!" Aizawa says swatting yamada in the back of his head. Jiro giggles at the other end and it's enough to warm yamada's heart.
Later that day, All might thought it would be a good idea for the kids to play a game all together. He and the other heroes gathered them up in the field part of the park.
"Okay everyooone! We're going to play a game!" Yu chirps and the kids clap there hands in excitement.
"What kind of game?!" Tenya asks.
"Welll…"
"That's for you guys to decide," aizawa cuts in. "What do you want to play?"
"Something that could get everyone involved!" All Might says.
"And lets try something where no one can lose too." Yamada winks at the children and they begin there thought process on what they want to play.
After a couple of minutes koda, spoke up. "I know! Tag!"
The other children gasped and jumped in excitement. "Tag! Tag! Tag!"
"Alright tag is it, who wants to start?" Aizawa asked.
"Me!" Kirishima raised his hand. "But now I'm passing it over to mineta! Tag!"
Kirishima reached over and tapped mineta on his shoulder. All the children immediately scream with glee and ran away from him. Mineta looked around clearly confused. "Wha?! Hey, I wasn't ready!"
Mineta takes off running looking for the closest one to him. The heroes stood back and watched along the side lines. All the students ran around laughing and playing as mineta tried to reach someone. Even bakugo seemed to be enjoying himself. When mineta realized he wasn't fast enough to reach anyone, he came up with a better idea. He took one of his grape balls off his head and threw it at the closest person. When it hit Ashido in the arm, he jumped in glee.
"Tag!" he yelled and ashido took his ball off of her.
"Heyyy!" She laughs and immediately looks for someone else to get. After a couple of minutes she gets shoji. "Tag!"
He huffs but immediately tags Tenya because he's real close to him. "Tag tenya!"
Tenya laughs and everyone takes for the hills but of course, tenya catches izuku within seconds. "Tag!"
Izuku giggles and takes off. After a two minutes he gets yuga. "Taaag!"
Yuga fakes shock that he's it but immediately tags bakugo, seeing he was right next to him. "Tag Katsukiii!"
Bakugo is having so much fun that it doesn't matter he's tagged. He chuckles as he looks fr his target. Momo? No, too far. Tsuyu? She's too quick and she'll just tag him back with her tongue. Bakugo spotted kirishima and he immediately took off for him.
"Here he comes!" Kirishima giggled and began to run. Bakugo chased kirishima for a full minute. The speed he was running was causing him to sweat.
"I'm gonna get you!" Bakugo called out making kirishima laugh more. When he was literally centimeters from touching him, bakugo felt something coming but it was too late to stop it. Out of no where, bakugo made a tiny explosion with the hand he used to reach for his friend. Kirishima was hit slightly from impact causing him to fall over and hold his arm.
"Ow!" Kirishima yelled as he looked at his arm. Bakugo stood in front of him in horror. He didn't even know what happened, but it must've been becuae he was caught in the moment. The rest of the kids stopped running around and jogged up to kirishima and bakugo along with the worried teachers.
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, I don't know what happened I just…I just…" bakugo struggled to find his next set of words.
Kirishima was clearly in pain but he did is very best not to cry and give his friend a smile. "It's okay katsuki, I know you didn't mean it. It happens!"
"Yea!" the other kids chimmed in trying to make bakugo feel better, but instead it only made it worse.
"No! No it doesn't just happen!" Bakugo turned and snapped at his friends. "You guys don't hurt anyone with your quirks or ruin anything! I'm just different!"
Bakugo couldn't help but tear up. He was so frustrated with himself he had no words. He pushed pass all his friends and ran to the corner of the field to be alone.
All Might watched bakugo sit by himself and pout. Yu looked at him and tapped his shoulder. She knew this was a job for him. Yamada and aizawa took care of kirishima's injury while Yu ran out for band aids. All Might walked over to bakugo and sat next to him.
Bakugo face was really sour and he looked more mad than sad as tears ran down his face. All Might patted his head and tried his best to make it soothing.
"What's going on my boy?" All Might asked.
"I ruin everything, and I hate it." bakugo growled. All Might was hoping that bakugo's childhood form would rub off on his teen form so he could be nicer, but this wasn't helping much.
"You don't ruin everything. Everyone has there days and everyone's different." All might smiled at him but bakugo balled his hands into little fists and pouted more.
"But I'm too different! I can't play with everyone! I try to make friends and have fun, but I always ruin things for them…I'm too different." Bakugo says and his face goes from made to sad. All Might knows exactly what he should say.
"I'm different too. So is Eraserhead, Present Mic, and Mt. Lady." Bakugo looks up at all might. "Sometimes people think that I'm too strong. Sometimes people think that Yu gets too big, or yamada is too loud, and aizawa is too…boring."
"But…I like you guys the way you are." Bakugo says wiping his eyes.
"Exactly my boy! And we love you just the way you are too! Being different is what makes you unique. You have a heart of cold my boy and I know you'll be a great hero one day because of it. All your friends are different too, but they all survive in this life and strive to become great heroes like you do. Accidents happen all the time. Kirishima knows you didn't mean to hurt him, he'd really like it if you came back actually."
Bakugo looked back at his friends and realized that All Might actually had a point. He was different,but the fact that his friends were different too, almost made him the same. He looked back to All Might and nodded. All Might stood up and held bakugo's hand as they walked back to the group of children. Everyone made way so that bakugo could get right to kirishima.
Kirishima's face lit up at the sight of bakugo. "Katsuki! You wanna play again?!"
But…But your arm." Bakugo muttered. Kirishima giggled and held up his arm to bakugo. There was a little band aid on it with exlosions all over it in different colors.
"It's okay! I got a band-aid! And there's explosions on it! When we get home I'm gonna right your name on it!" Kirishima giggled and rubbed his band-aid.
Bakugo felt his heart grow lighter knowing his friend wasn't mad at him. "Listen, I'm sorry that I got out of control and I'm sorry that I snapped at you guys. You're all great friends and I'm glad you accept me like I accept you."
Everyone stood in silence staring at bakugo. An apology that long was the last thing they expected from him. Soon all the children began to giggle, causing bakugo to become paranoid.
"What?!" he boomed as his face went sour again but he dropped it once kirishima threw himself onto him and squeezed tight.
"Of course we accept you! You're gonna be the coolest hero ever! I'll follow you anywhere and we'll be best friends forever! I love you katsukiii!" he shouted.
Yu literally almost fainted from the sight. Bakugo was a bit thrown off but kirishima's words meant the world to him right now. His face slowly lit up and a smile crept on his face. He looked up at All Might and gave him a thumbs up. All Might chuckled and returned one back.
Suddenly izuku starts to laugh as he throws himself at bakugo too and holds him. "I love you too kacchan! Best friends! Best friends!"
"Me too!" Kaminari yelled and joined the hug.
"Me too! Me too!" Ashido yelled and did the same. Soon every kid was on top of bakugo yelling how much they loved him and how they'd all be best friends for ever.
"Haha! The power of FRIENDSHIP!" All Might boomed and scooped up all the kids in his arms.
Yu was next to get excited and she grew to a gigantic size and picked up everyone, including yamada and aizawa in her hands. "The power of FRIENDSHIIP!"
Bakugo poked his head out and smiled a great big smile. He also tapped tsuyu on her forehead. "Tag." He said lightly and giggled.
She immediately stuck out her tongue and tagged him back on his own forehead. "Tag!" she said and bakugo sighed heavily seeing he was still it.
