"𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚐𝚐. 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜."
- 𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗
13
Bakugou collapsed beside me and we both attempted to catch our breath. We were silent for a while.
"Well..." I laughed
"Yeah..."
Bakugou turned down the bed so we could get under the covers.
"Why are you all the way over there?" He asked
"What? I didn't think you'd be the type who would want to cuddle after." I said—half joking, half serious.
His expression went completely flat, earning him a fit of giggles from me.
"GET OVER HERE!" He yelled
"Just fuck up my ear drums for the rest of my life, its totally fine." I muttered sarcastically as I snuggled close to him
He wrapped his arms around me in response.
"...Let me tell you something, and I'm only gonna say this shit once, so you'd better listen, okay?" He said
"Okay..?"
"I don't do this... whatever the fuck this is. Not normally, anyway."
"And you think I do?" I asked "I don't even know what 'this' is, Katsuki. So much is happening lately, I feel like I can't keep up. And then theres you... this all happened so fast."
"I know." He sighed "Earlier today when we couldn't find you, it honestly made me feel... scared. I was terrified thinking something happened to you."
He was?
"I'm sorry. When I saw Ichiro, I just wanted to get him as far away from you, Kirishima and Denki as I could." I said "I panicked. I never meant to scare you, but you know you don't have to worry about me; I can handle myself."
"I know you can. Its okay, I'm not mad or anything. I'm just pissed off that I felt like that. I'm not used to—"
"Feeling things? Yeah, I've noticed."
"Yeah... whatever. I started to think about how horrible I'd feel if I ever couldn't protect you—because for some god-awful, pain in the ass reason, I want to keep you safe. Its been like that since we met and I can't explain why."
"I feel the same way about you, kid. I don't know whats gonna happen. I also don't know if what we just did is gonna change things. We both have some issues, clearly, but... I like you, Katsuki." I admitted
His eyes widened and he looked away from me.
"I like you too... alot." He mumbled "Even if you are the biggest dumbass I know."
I flicked him in the forehead, kissing the spot immediately after.
"Shut the fuck up. Goodnight, Kacchan."
"Goodnight."
—-
Bakugou's Point of View
Kowai wanted to get some training in the next morning, so she headed to the gym. I had an early meeting.
It didn't take too long to find her afterwards. She was in the same section we sparred in a few days earlier, standing on top of one of the building structures. I noticed that she had the dummy targets activated.
"You ready to go, extra?" I called up to her
"Just a minute!" She replied "Kirishima, Todoroki! Are you guys timing this?"
Todoroki...?
I turned to my left, thats when I saw Kirishima standing there with him.
"What the—HALF AND HALF BASTARD!"
When the hell did he get here?
"Oh, Bakugou, yo." He said with that same aloof, look he always has was on his face.
"Hrnggg.." I grinded my teeth "Yo."
I don't really have a problem with Todoroki, especially now that I'm the number 2 hero and he's number 3.
Hmph. I always knew I was better than that guy.
He's my friend, he's just annoying as hell.
"Yep! Ready when you are!" Kirishima called back to her
"What are you guys doing?" I asked, walking over towards them.
"Oh, we ran into Rei-chan on our way in to do some training." Kirishima explained "She asked me to time her while she takes out the targets."
"NOW!" She yelled
Kirishima hit start on the stopwatch and Rei took off. She makes a ton of noise when she's moving around so she can use her quirk, she lands really hard, bangs on things, yells, then sets off explosions—its pretty crazy to see. We watched in awe as she took each target out without missing a single one.
Kirishima glanced over at me.
"Whats with that smile, Bakugou?" He joked, nudging me with his elbow
"SHUT UP! I WASN'T SMILING!"
"Its an interesting quirk for sure." Todoroki mused "Must've been hard to master that..."
I don't like him gawking at her like that.
Who the hell does he think he is?
Rei dropped down suddenly with a loud thud.
"How... long was... that?" She panted
"22 seconds." Kirishima replied
"Dammit."
"Whats wrong with that?" Todoroki asked
"Nothing. I just want to get it down to 20." She said, frustrated "Ever since I started wearing these amplifiers from Hatsume, I don't need as much noise—so I keep overdoing it and the explosions end up being too big. I'm still trying to adjust."
"Can you turn the amps down?" Todoroki asked "Do they have intensity settings?"
Whats with all the damn questions?
Doesn't he have somewhere to be?!
"They're already on the lowest one. I don't want to have Hatsume adjust them, I want to adjust to them. I've needed something like this for a long time, so I really want to be able to use them properly."
Icy hot fuckboy opened his mouth to say something else to her, but I interrupted.
"We can work on it together later, if you want." I suggested "You ready to go?" I asked
"Sure, I'll go change." She turned to Kirishima and Todoroki "Thanks guys—Todoroki, it was nice to meet you."
"Likewise." He said with a nod
She jogged off towards one of the locker rooms.
"Alright, Todoroki, ready for me to kick your ass?" Kirishima said, putting his fists together
"Actually, theres another reason I'm here." He divulged "Bakugou."
"...What?"
"I don't want you to be alarmed, or get upset. I came to warn you about something."
"Warn me? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Is Reiko a villain?" He asked
"She was—what does it matter to you?" I asked suspiciously
"Look, this isn't coming from me, its just something I heard. Other heroes are talking. They think you're not thinking this through."
My jaw tightened, I could feel the anger building up to the point where it was making me shake. I tightened my fists.
"WHO THE FUCK IS—"
"What...? What are they saying?" Kirishima gave me a warning glance as he chimed in
Todoroki let out a sigh.
"They think that he could be putting us all in danger by having her around, that she can't be truste—"
"WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY KNOW?!" I shouted
I attempted to calm myself down by taking a few deep breaths, trying to remember that I'm a pro now and I needed to handle this like one.
Even though I want to torture icy hot into giving me a list of all of the heroes talking shit and kill every single one of them.
"Do people really think I'm the type to not think things through? I mean, seriously—I barely trust anyone. Ever. Besides, Rei's not... she's not like that. Even so, I always have my guard up."
Maybe I'm getting defensive because half of me already knows exactly what Todoroki is talking about. I've said this shit before, I'm aware that she could be manipulating me, that this could all be apart of some bigger plan set forth by her and her family. I fucking hate thinking about it because I don't think she's that kind of person.
But anything is possible.
If I'm wrong and I end up dead because of it, thats on me. I'll have nobody to blame but myself.
"I'm with Bakugou on this one." Kirishima agreed "Rei-chan is committed to this."
"Hey, like I said, its not me." Todoroki said "I just wanted to make you aware so that you don't get blindsided, okay?"
"Well, thanks, I guess." I said
I wish everyone would just shut the fuck up and let me live. I know what I'm doing.
I think.