Izuku walked out of the conference room.

Well, that went well. It's a good thing nezu was so cooperative or things would have been much harder. Izuku thought.

"Komori." Said a familiar voice from behind him.

Izuku froze.

There was a pause and then Izuku turned around to face his childhood terror.

"I had a feeling you would figure it out," Izuku said with a sigh.

"No shit. I'd have to be a complete dumbass to not figure out that the guy whose nickname literally meant bat, was the bat-themed vigilante." Said Bakugo said.

"Maybe we should have this conversation somewhere else," Izuku said.

Bakugo grunted. "Schools out any way we can talk on the way to my place."

"Uh sure?" Izuku said not sure why Kacchan was being so…..not Kacchan.

Later a Bakugo's apartment

It took longer than it should have to get to Bakugo's apartment. With Izuku insisting that Bakugo could only enter the Batmobile if no one saw and so they had to find a way for Bakugo to sneak in.

Izuku walked around the small apartment in confusion. It was not run down or even in bad condition it just seemed…..ordinary.

"Are you sure you live...here?" Izuku asked.

"Yeah. Got a problem?" Bakugo responded.

"No! It's just…..not what I was expecting from you." Izuku said.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm a highschooler, most people our age don't have huge mansions and endless piles of money. It was either this or stay with the hag and that would be even more embarrassing." Bakugo said.

Izuku didn't really know how to respond to that. Part of him wanted to offer him some cash to get a better place, but he would probably consider that an insult.

"You can take off the mask you know. No one else is here but us." Bakugo said.

"Right," Izuku said lowering his cowl.

Bakugo looked at him for a moment before chuckling.

"So you want to tell me how you went from weak, defenseless brat with no money, to rich, versatile, vigilante?" Bakugo asked lowering himself onto the couch.

Izuku sighed seating himself on the opposite couch. "It's a long story."

So Izuku explained most of his story to Bakugo while leaving some details like who it was who killed his mom and his goal.

"And now I'm here," Izuku said.

After that, the two of them just looked at each other silently. Bakugo taking in everything Izuku

Said.

"S-so that's what happened to me. What about you?" Izuku asked. "You certainly seem…...different," Izuku said nervously.

"You mean I'm not a complete asshole," Bakugo said bluntly.

Izuku's eyes widened in surprise and he was too stunned to say anything.

Bakugo grinned at this and explained. "U.A. was weird. In a good way. At first, I was still stronger than anyone else in the class. I started getting even cockier and full of myself. Then out of nowhere three of the people who weren't anywhere near as strong as me, suddenly started to surpass me. I finally realized that something was wrong when one day me and that cartoon faced asshole kicked my ass hard. I thought it was a fluke at first. I said to myself, there's no way he could have beat me. His quirk is the lamest out of the entire class! So I demanded a rematch. I lost again. This repeated for hours until I couldn't even use my quirk. I…...did not react to it well. I started training harder than ever before and challenged cartoon face to a fight almost every day. I lost all of them. Eventually, I started overtraining and my body couldn't take it. Cartoon face's wins became easier and easier with each day until all it took was one punch to knock me down. Then guess what. The fucker looked at me and said that everything I was doing was wrong. I was too exhausted at the time to yell back at him so I was forced to just listen. He said that it wasn't just the quirk or the training that made his strong. It was the fact that he could admit he was weak and strive to be stronger, that he knew that no matter what even after becoming so strong, that he could still be beat. I wanted to tell him to fuck off and that there was no one stronger than me, but the fact that my body didn't move while I was laying down defeated in the dirt, with my opponent untouched. I had no choice but to acknowledge my own weakness. I was in the medical bay for days after passing out. I spent that time looking back at everything that had brought me there. Once it was all said and done I came out knowing I wasn't invisible. After that everything changed. I started to take people more seriously. Then you showed back up. The second I heard that some guy was dressing up in a bat and fighting villains quirkless, I knew it was you. I sat around for months hearing about how literally the weakest guy I knew became this fucking super ninja or whatever you are. So yeah that fucked with my head for a while and I just kinda…..calmed down. I guess life can only fuck with someone's head so much before they just expect it and stop caring." Bakugo said.

"...oh." Was Izuku's response.

Bakugo stared at him strangely before he burst into laughter. "Oh? That's all you have to say?! You may have gotten tougher but I guess whatever training you did was fucking useless in improving your social skills."

Izuku crossed his arms. "Like your much better."

Bakugo stopped laughing but his smug smile still remained. "Oh? Was that a challenge you want to fight Komori?!"

Izuku smiled back the tension that he had left him completely and stood up pulling his cowl back over his face. "Alright, Kacchan."

Bakugo's grin widened.

Then he launched himself at Izuku with his explosions.

Izuku backflipped onto his hands and as Bakugo flew over him, he kicked him onto the ceiling.

Not wasting any time Bakugo once again launched himself at Izuku, but before he got close Bakugo changed his direction mid-air and landed a foot behind Izuku.

Izuku was about to counter Bakugo's attack but instead of attacking from behind like he thought Bakugo launched himself to the left landing with his feet on the wall before attacking Izuku's now exposed form blasting them both out a window.

Izuku elbowed Bakugo off of him before taking out his grappling hook and reeling himself onto the roof.

Soon after Bakugo followed and they stood on opposite sides in a standoff both of them grinning like mad.

This time it was Izuku who made the first move and pressed a button is utility belt revealing that in the seconds before Bakugo followed him to the roof he had covered the place with remote smoke bombs.

Bakugo launched a large explosion in front of him clearing up some of the smoke.

Unfortunately for him, Izuku had already disappeared.

Bakugo closed his eyes and heard the sound of something coming at him. He blew up the area beneath him barely avoiding the bolas coming to ensnare his legs.

Bakugo flew up and looked at the partially smoke covered roof below waiting for any sign of Izuku.

Then from one of the smoke clouds at Batarang flew up at him.

Bakugo grinned seeing an opportunity, all he had to do was avoid the Batarang and attack its source.

As Bakugo flew down he dodged the Batarang and was ready to go full force towards Izuku when suddenly before the Batarang flew past him it exploded in a bright flash stunning Bakugo and causing him to lose control and crash onto the roof.

Izuku ran up behind him ready to end it.

Bakugo, still blinded, heard the footsteps and let Izuku get a close before releasing an explosion in front of him blasting him back into Izuku.

Bakugo took this opportunity to get a hold of Izuku's wrist and threw him over his shoulder onto the ground.

After that, he unleashed several explosions directly at Izuku's chest. His attacks shrouding Izuku in smoke.

Bakugo felt Izuku stop struggling and stopped his attacks but still keeping a tight grip on his wrist.

When the smoke cleared Izuku was seemingly unharmed.

Bakugo's eyes widened in surprise and accidentally loosened his grip.

Izuku took advantage of this and kick Bakugo off, freeing him.

Izuku jumped back onto his feet. "You're going to have to better than that Kacchan. This armor can take a hit from All Might and keep going."

Bakugo cursed under his breath.

All Might huh? Guess I have no choice but to use my ultimate attack. I just need to find a way to get him into the air. Bakugo thought.

Izuku threw another Batarang at Bakugo, who having learned his lesson about underestimating these blasted it apart….which was unfortunate for Bakugo as it was an explosive Batarang.

The ensuing blast knocked Bakugo to the edge of the roof on his side.

Izuku ran at Bakugo's fallen form this time ready for him to blast himself at him but nothing happened.

As Izuku approached Bakugo remained still which but Izuku knew he was still conscious because of his scanners.

"Stun grenade!" Bakugo yelled as he released a flash from his hands, stunning Izuku.

Bakugo took this chance to get up grab Izuku and lift him over his head before blasting him into the sky.

Izuku recovered and faced himself downwards ready to use this to his advantage. He pulled out a few batarangs ready to attack. But Bakugo never gave him the chance.

Aiming both his palms at Izuku, Bakugo braced himself for the kickback.

"NAGASAKI IMPACT!"

BOOM

From his palms came a massive explosion, big enough to engulf a building, breaking the ground below him.

Izuku barely had enough to activate his mouth guard before the explosion engulfed him.

Most of the city could see the massive explosion and thought it was a villain attack causing people to panic.

After half a minute the explosion died down.

Bakugo looked up trying to see Izuku past the smoke. His arms felt like they were about to snap in half and his legs hurt like hell.

Izuku Midoriya had been through a lot of pain, but even so, It was rare that he had ever been in as much pain as he was now.

His bat ears had been blasted off, his armor was cracked and burnt and part of his mouthguard was destroyed.

He had no time to focus on the intense pain though. As he was still falling through the air.

Izuku reached for his cape so he could guild down, only to find that it had been burnt to a crisp and destroyed.

Izuku then pressed down on his shoulder armor and activated his parachute.

Unforchinitly in his panic Izuku had not noticed that he was still partially on fire, and it quickly spread to his parachute.

Still, Izuku had made it most of the way down before it gave out and landed on his side only breaking a few more ribs.

Izuku slowly flipped himself over and looked at Bakugo.

Izuku now had several broken ribs and some burns.

Bakugo, on the other hand, was even worse. Due to all the sweat, he had been using he was starting to get dehydrated. He arms and legs were also just a few explosions away from snapping.

Despite this Izuku knew he wasn't going to surrender.

Izuku smiled. Alright, this has gone far enough. Time to end this.

Izuku looked down to see his utility belt had also been destroyed.

He sighed pulling himself up onto one knee. He pressed down on his thigh armor which opened up a hidden compartment containing a capsule and a Batarang.

Izuku got up and threw the Batarang at Bakugo who blew it up when it got close.

The Batarang then broke apart into smaller pieces of shrapnel that were still headed toward Bakugo.

Panicking Bakugo retaliated. "Ap shot: Auto-cannon!" He yelled as he shot multiple small explosions destroying the shrapnel.

But while he was distracted Izuku had thrown the capsule at him.

When the capsule hit Bakugo it exploded into a mess of foam.

Flailing around Bakugo expected it to try and trap him but to his surprise, the foam seemed to have no effect.

Izuku walked up to Bakugo with a grin on his face. "I….win Kacchan."

Before Bakugo could reply Izuku walked right up to him surprising him.

Bakugo raised his palm and aimed another explosion.

But nothing happened.

Izuku grabbed Bakugo's outstretched palm and pulled him forward delivering a knee to Bakugo's stomach.

Bakugo spits out blood but recovered quickly and grabbed Izuku's shoulders trying to use his quirk but to no avail.

Realizing that the foam was probably doing something to his quirk Bakugo went for the next best option. He headbutted Izuku's chest.

Normally this wouldn't do anything but with Izuku's broken ribs and cracked armor it hurt like hell. However, that cracked armor was still hard as hell making Bakugo's headbutt almost as painful to him as it was to Izuku.

Izuku kicked Bakugo away and charged at him.

Bakugo tried to punch him but Izuku dodged and delivered a blow to his chest.

Following it up Izuku delivered a chop to Bakugo's neck.

Bakugo tried to grab at Izuku, but Izuku's guard was up now, and when it came to hand to hand Izuku was clearly superior, and he foiled any of Bakugo's attacks while delivering his own in return.

Izuku knocks Bakugo back to the ground.

Bakugo tried to get up. But between his exhaustion and his injured arms, he knew that wasn't happening.

Bakugo knew he was beat.

"Alright….You win…..bastard." Bakugo said.

Izuku smiled and let out a breath he was holding before falling down next to Bakugo.

For a while, the two of them just laid there breathing heavily.

After a few minutes, Izuku got up and offered a hand to Bakugo. Bakugo took it seeing as it was the only he was getting up.

Hoisting Bakugo over his shoulder Izuku help Bakugo down from the roof and back into his apartment.

Izuku laid Bakugo out in the coach took out a first aid kit from underneath Bakugo's other couch.

"I don't remember that being there," Bakugo said.

"It wasn't. I thought something like this would happen so I put it there when you looked away." Izuku said taking off his upper armor.

"Of course you fucking did," Bakugo responded.

Izuku bandaged the two of them and applied some ointment to their burns and cuts.

"So mind telling me the fuck that foam was?" Bakugo asked.

Izuku flinched.

He stood silent for a moment before answering. "You see when I went to U.A. I thought you might find out and...attack me. So I prepared that foam to absorb the nitroglycerin on your body, and make it so you couldn't use your quirk."

Bakugo looked away his face contorting into a scowl.

Then he came to a realization.

"You piece of shit. You mean to tell me that entire time…..YOU WERE HOLDING BACK!" Bakugo yelled furiously.

"Wha-No! I mean I was. but not because I thought you were weak!" Izuku defended.

"THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT USE THAT FOAM AT THE BEGINNING!" Bakugo screamed.

"We-well….I….I wanted to see it." Izuku said.

"See what!?" Bakugo asked still angry.

"I wanted to see everything I had been wanting to see from you since we were kids," Izuku said sadly.

Bakugo's anger faded into confusion. "What?"

Izuku looked away. "Ever since we were kids...I always thought you could be a great hero, the best even, that's why I looked up to you, that's why I followed you around all the time. Even after you started bullying me I still looked up to your strength and determination to win above all else, so I ignored your flaws and justified them, saying that I must have done something, or something else."

Bakugo was silent. His eyes darkened.

"Kacchan, my goal is not just to take down villains, but to expose and take down hero's abusing their power to perform illegal actions. And you were the second person I looked up. I was worried that you had gone too far. That your superiority complex would turn you further away from being a real hero….I was worried that I would have to face the fact that my friend was never coming back." Izuku said shedding a tear.

Bakugo clenched his fist.

"So when I got here a found out you had changed, I was ecstatic. All those worries I had about having to take you down were finally relieved. So when you challenged me I wanted to see everything you had. I wanted to see the hero I saw in you back then. If I used the foam then I couldn't see you at your fullest. That's why I didn't use it." Izuku finished.

Izuku looked at Bakugo for a response, but for a while there was none.

Bakugo laid on the couch his expression almost unreadable, clenching his fist.

"Well, I guess I'm the asshole now huh." He finally said. "Then again I was always the asshole. After my friend didn't get a quirk what did I do? Treat him like shit! I looked down on everyone else, I beat other kids for no fucking reason, every time I fucking lost I called it a fluke, I was such an ass that one of the softest people I know literally had to check up on me to make sure I wasn't actually fucking murdering people or some shit! God fucking damn it! You shouldn't have had to be fucking relieved that I didn't do anything illegal! Fuck." Bakugo yelled punching the floor. It hurt his hand but he didn't care.

For a few minutes, they both sat in silence, Izuku looking at Bakugo with concern.

Izuku tried to apologize."Kacchan. I'm-"

"NO!" Bakugo screamed cutting him off. "You didn't do a damn thing wrong so don't start fucking apologizing! You shouldn't have made excuses for me back then and you're not fucking doing it now!"

Again the two of them sat in silence neither of them knowing what to say.

After five minutes of thinking, Izuku came to a conclusion.

"Kacchan, we both made mistakes. Who's mistakes were worse doesn't matter. It's all in the past now. You've changed, and for the better. The old Kacchan would have never even admitted to being wrong let alone everything you just said. I think we should move on. So, Friends again?" Izuku asked extending his hand.

Bakugo looked at him confused before smiling and shaking his hand. "You're a fucking idiot for trusting me. But I know if I say no you'll find some way to blame yourself. Dumbass."

They both laughed at this however there laughter was cut short by the sound of sirens.

"Fuck! They probably saw the giant explosion and thought it was a villain attack." Bakugo said.

"And your license only lets you use your quirk to fight in the case of an emergency. Kacchan tell them there was a villain attack and that you were fighting them off, but they got away." Izuku said helping Bakugo to his feet.

Bakugo got up and walked to his window to see the police outside.

"I don't think they're gonna buy that," Bakugo said.

However, when he looked back Izuku was already gone.

Bakugo groaned and rushed down the stairs. "I fucking hate ninjas!"

Bakugo went outside and found the police had formed a line outside.

Pulling out his license the police backed down and the chief went up to Bakugo.

"What happened here?" He asked.

"There was a villain attack and I fought him off. They escaped through." Bakugo said.

"Well we're gonna have to do some investigation and-" The cop was cut off when his phone rang.

"Hello….Why?...understood." The cop said before putting his phone away and facing Bakugo again.

"Have a nice day sir." He said.

Bakugo looked at the police confused as they all went back into their cars and drove off.

Bakugo went back to his apartment to find Izuku on his couch with his phone.

"Sorry about leaving you I had to make some calls. It's scary, the number of things you can do when you're rich." Izuku said.

Bakugo gave him a look before taking his phone back and laying on the other couch.

Then something occurred to him.

"Fuck. My landlord told me no explosions. When he's see's the damage to the roof the fucker will kick me out." Bakugo said.

Izuku smirked. "Don't worry while you were dealing with the police I bought this building."

Bakugo groaned. "I fucking hate you. You god damn rich ninja bastard."

Izuku laughed. "Your welcome."