While all the girls shared a single hotel room, the boys were split into two due to their numbers with the teacher's room between the girls room and the closest boys room. It came as no surprise when Mineta's scream of terror could be heard in the middle of the night, no one left the room to see the sight they all knew was taking place. Surly Aizawa was the one that caught the clearly lost boy before he could even be seen. Their teacher's incoherent cursing could he heard as he dragged something back to the boys room the furthest from the girls and a door slammed shut. Haru giggled with Uraraka as they listened to the late-night entertainment.
The next day, after the class finished their beach training, they were allotted their relaxing time. Once again Haru was about to join Sato to try some new sweets on their walk along the boardwalk of the public beach nearby.
"Come with me." Bakugo stated as he walked past her in the direction of the boardwalk. Looking to Sato he gave her a smile and wave, before he went his own way.
"Okay, where we are going?" she asked joining him. Bakugo stared straight ahead, he honestly didn't expect her to be so ready to join him.
"To get your junk food." He answered shoving his hands into his pockets and continued to walk like the adorable thug boy he was. Smiling to herself at her thoughts she clung to one of his arms, watching his face as he pretended to be annoyed but she could feel the sudden surge of energy within him. They walked together, him looking like he was about to commit murder at a moments notice and her smiling brightly.
"You worried about me?" she sang.
"You seem to attract problems." He answered with a frown.
"Like I don't know about some of the famous things that happened last year." Haru stated.
"We didn't ask for any of that." He objected.
"And I don't ask for any of the problems that come my way." She objected right back.
"Stop being so nice to everyone." Bakugo growled.
"Should I be more like you?"
"It'll get people to leave you alone, you'll seem less approachable." He explained with a huff.
"First off," she snapped forcing them to stop, "while I understand what you're trying to say it's coming off as victim blaming. Nothing I do will ever mean that I'm asking for it." Bakugo's face started to turn red.
"That's not what I meant." He objected.
"second," she continued, "I used to be such an emotional gump too. But I got lonely, so I decided to change." She finished pulling him to continue walking.
"Can't imagine you not being friendly." Bakugo admitted as they stopped at a stand selling fried squid, he overheard her yesterday when she said she never tired it before, and he wasn't about to let her eat nothing but sweets all day.
"That's because you've never meet the old me." She admitted watching the squid cook. "I was lost in my anger, it consumed me, it was suffocating. Nothing but pain. When I moved here, I decided to fake it until I make it."
"That so?" he asked paying for the squid and refusing to let her use her money.
"that's right. But now I've made friends with everyone in the class, I no longer need to fake it around any of you anymore." Looking down at her squid she added in a whisper. "I feel so safe, I can really be myself."
"And outside class?" he asked quickly looking away to hide the blush he got from her whispered confession.
"It can be difficult." She admitted taking a seat on a bench and opening the sweet drink he picked out for her.
"I would like to see what you used to be like, even if it's just to a stranger." He admitted with a smirk.
"Just imagine a female version of Shinso and you basically got the idea." She laughed not noticing how he frowned.
"Is that how you were able to make friends with him so quickly?"
"Yeah, we called it Depressed Buddies." Quickly taking a huge bite of his squid he hardly chewed before he swallowed and asked the question that had been on his mind since watching her dance at his birthday party.
"Have you been with him." It was no secret how highly Bakugo valued honesty, and he was there when Haru answered Aizawa that day she first played that song on her guitar. He knew that if he asked her this question, she was going to give him a brutally honest answer, possibly the reason why it took him so long to ask.
"you're my first and only kiss, and you kind of stole it." She added the last part with a playful push of her shoulder into his arm.
"I'm not sorry." He announced with a smile, looking at her in victory, his chest swelling with pride as she smiled back up at him.
"I didn't expect anything else." She giggled. He stared down at her, she was so much shorter than him, even when they were sitting. That much wasn't a surprise as she was shorter than Izuku by about four or five centimeters, and Katsuki sat in the top ten of the tallest in the class.
"What did surprise him was how he knew her fighting prowls, with how fluid her movements and the amount of control over her quirk, he understood better than anyone else in the class just how dangerous this girl could be if she ever chose to be. When he heard of her nickname back in the States, he didn't believe it until he saw how she danced around the girls. No one else seemed to understand, Bakugo was pure fighting instinct, he was born with it, but so was she and she was taught.
"Yes, he understood better than anyone else just how dangerous she could be. Sitting next to her small body, her slender neck in full view of him, her swimsuit showing him so much of her body. And that smile, dear god that smile.
"Can I say it yet, or will you start screaming at me again?" he asked his eyes locked on her lips.
"You're one to talk, you're always yelling about something." She teased.
"Just answer." He growled.
"but I like giving you a hard time," she whined, "it can be so easy and sometimes it seems like everyone else is too scared to do it."
"you're not scared of me?"
"not at all." She laughed.
"you should be scared." He said in a low voice leaning closer to her. "It could be more than an act." He added with a growl.
"Are you saying that I should stay away from you? That you'll hurt me?" she asked seriously.
"No." he choaked out sitting back up straight.
"Then you shouldn't joke about it." She said to herself, her eyes looking past the scene before them and into something painful in her past.
"Are you going to answer my question or not?" Bakugo huffed finishing his food in another large bite.
"No, you can't say it." She answered taking a sip from her drink before admitting that he was right, she loved the drink.
I wanted to add a little note before someone makes a comment about it. Bakugo is not the type to victim blame, but sometimes when we're talking we say things that come off as something different than what we mean, which is what happened to Bakugo. Haru knew this was the case, but she had to speak her mind about how his words came off. because as we all know, it's never the victims fault (like i said, Bakugo knows this too).
Another thing i wanted to bring to attention was when Bakugo was making the "you should be scared of me" joke (and he was only making it as a joke) it's there to point out how there are a lot of "romantic" relationships i've seen/read that have the guy saying this to the girl and the girl seems to swoon over this statement. in real life, if you're ever told this by someone, please leave right away, it's a sign of future abuse. Again, Bakugo was making a joke, but still Haru forced him to confront the joke and shut it down because she's seen it before when they weren't joking.
Bakugo is not abusive, i will not write abusive relationships.