AN: I would like everyone to know that's reading this, that this isn't the original chapter. I decided to rewrite the entire chapter. I removed a few things, also changed some stuff things like grammar and added more to this chapter so its longer than it originally was. I hope none of you guys mind this. Anyway hope you enjoy.
Chapter 7 An Explosive fight, 2 years later
Alex's P.O.V
I look at Bakugou's glare. I could feel so much anger from his eyes. He looks pissed. He wants to fight. I can feel it. The words he said "You and me, right now, you fucking bastard." just confirmed what I had thought. I look at Bakugo with an intense stare.
"Ka...Kacchan? Wh...why are you here?" Izumi had stuttered out. Bakugo had glare harder then shouted "Deku, stay out of the way, I want to fight that fucking extra who thinks he's a damn hotshot." I frown. I really didnt do that much though. I get a little annoyed when he said that last statement.
From what I've seen just today of what kind of person Bakugou was, he was prideful. I am too but at a different level. At least with me, whenever I got too prideful, Roshi would kick that notion out of me. Bakugou was different. He seemed to be angered just because I just happened to be physically better, and that's only because of my type of training.
The glare, the attitude, and add what Izumi told me during gym. I may love a fight, but fighting just because someone was a bit angered. Because they hated how strong we became. All that made my answer pretty simple. Or at least I thought it would be.
However that word caught me off guard. Deku? From what I know and what Izumi tells me is that Izumi and Bakugo weren't close friends anymore. Izumi had told me that she still calls Bakugou by Kacchan because of how she admires him. Bakugo doesn't seem to be the type of person. So why would he do that...unless.
I look at Izumi "What does Deku mean?" I ask her. She stiffens up. I think I hit a nerve. She turns and she stammers "No...nothing...just a...a nickname...noth...nothing else." her voice was telling me it was nothing, but her eyes and posture tell me that she was lying.
I look to Bakugou. "I'll do it, if you tell me what Deku means." I shout loud enough for him to hear. I wasnt expecting an answer, maybe either a flat out rejection or even a hint.
Bakugou then replied "Worthless, that's why she has that nickname. She's just a pebble in my path of greatness. A quirkless Deku." Bakugo held his hand out to let sparks out before a small explosion out of his hand. Which makes Izumi jump.
Ego. That's why he pushed away Izumi. The sweetest person anyone could meet. not just because she didnt have a quirk, but also because she was in the way. What was my previous answer complety did a 180. I drop my back pack to the ground.
I turn to Izumi as I start taking off my school uniform. "Izumi, I need you to hold my school uniform." her face turned red and ask "Why are you getting naked in the first place? Theres no poi..." she stopped when I reached for my shirt and notices the gi underneath it.
As I gave her my upper clothing as I removed my pants revealing the gi underneath as well. I take off my shoes and moved them to the side. Finally removed of my school uniform and left in my training gi, I walk towards him. He wants a fight. I won't give him one. I'll just do what Roshi taught me whenever I got out of control.
I'll put him in his place.
Izumi's P.O.V
I watched as Alex walked closer to Kacchan. The two facing off. I didnt like this feeling. Kacchan may hate me, but I still don't want to see him get into a fight. Alex is my friend. As much as Alex is tough, so is Kacchan.
I'm nervous for both of them. I can hear Kacchan trying to get Alex's attention but he remained quiet. This scared me. Alex was joyful, he got serious when training or doing meditating, but he always gave a responds. This time he's quiet.
Alex stops 5 feet away from Kacchan. Alex gets in a stance his right hand to his side hands close and knuckles down toward the ground. Alex's left arm up, all fingers are up but bent at certain degrees. His legs in a stance with the left leg being in front with his right leg behind.
Kacchan tried to get a rise out of Alex, but he couldn't. So Kacchan did what Kacchan does best. He attacked first. Alex moved to the side to dodge. Kacchan almost slipping on himself recovered and tried to punch again. Which was the same result.
Kacchan would try attacking Alex over and over again, only for Alex to costantly dodged. I can only stare in amazement. The fact that even though Alex looked mad, he wasnt bothering to beat Kacchan down. He was doing the one thing that I never thought anyone would do. Damage his ego.
The weird part was that neither were using there quirk. It was all physical. Alex had a look that I could only describe as calculating. As if he knew where Kacchan was going to hit before it happened.
During the fight, Kacchan had thrown a jab at Alex's face with his right fist which was stopped when Alex grabbed Kacchan's wrist stopping the fist progression. I watch in awe as Alex wasnt even trying to hurt Kacchan. Just slow him down to a complete stop.
My feeling of amazement changed to fear as I saw a familiar spark on Kacchans hand. Which then an explosion came out of it hitting Alex's face. My heart stopped. Kacchan also realized what he did and look scared. As tough as Alex is, that could have easily caused permanent damage or even...
I stop when I feel wetness on my face. I rubbed my eyes to see that I'm crying. I'm crying. My friend, no, my best friend got hurt and I couldn't help him. Everything he had done to cheer me up, make me smile flows into my memories. The tears come faster than before.
Suddenly I hear Kacchan grunt. I look up to see Alex is still standing. The smoke starts to dissipate and I dont catch a good look at his face but i notice something that worries me. Blood.
Alex's P.O.V
Fuck! That hurt. I think he got my left eye pretty good. I didn't think Bakugou would blast me so hard. Even with Ki protection, he did some damage. I look at him, trying to hide a bit of pain. He look surprised...I squeezed my hold on his fist harder as I see him wince in pain.
This fight has gone off long enough. I'm ending this. I do the one move that Roshi did on me whenever I would stay up too late to train. I aim for his neck as I do a neck chop to knock him out...only for me to hit the wrong spot on his neck.
"Ow." I heard Bakugou complain. FUCK! I missed. Screw it. I punch him in the stomach hard enough to knock him out. He collapses to the ground as I let his wrist go. I walk back to Izumi holding my bad eye. I look at Izumi who hugged me out of nowhere. I wonder why, until I remember that she probably thought I was hurt badly or even killed.
As we partly separate from the hug, I see tears leave her eyes. I brush them aside. "I'm sorry I scared." I whisper. She buries her head into my chest "Please." is all she muttered out. I pull her in more. "Please don't die." She mutters.
I process her words. We are both trying to become heroes. The job of a hero is dangerous. Anything can happen, death being one of those things. I want to be honest, which is what I'm going to do. I'll be honest.
I place my chin on her head. "I promise. I won't die easily." I say confidently. I make a new promise to myself, for her, you can not die. No Matter What.
She hugs me tighter and we stand there for a whole minute. I suddenly feel her stiffen and suddenly back up 2 feet away with her face flushed. She starts to stammer, "I'm sorry for that I didnt mean to hug you for so long, not that it wasn't bad, not saying it wasn't great..." she starts to stammer. I poke her forehead.
I smile "Its ok, you didnt do anything wrong. I enjoyed it. Now if you need me I need to take Bakugou home. Quick question where does he live?" I said. Izumi quickly shook her head quickly and gave me the directions. I told Izumi to take our stuff and bring it back to the apartment and get the first aid kit out which she turned and started to leave.
Third P.O.V
Alex walked over to Bakugou and lift him over his shoulder and walked towards the angry blonde's house. 5 minutes into the walk Bakugou started to stir. "Urg...Wh...wha...where..." he had started to speak out. Alex spoke over my shoulder "Relax a bit, you're tired. The punch I gave you took all the wind out of you while knocking you out." Bakugou fully waking up started to shake like crazy. "What the? HEY LET GO OF ME YOU DAMN EXTRA BEFORE I BLOW YOUR FUCKING ARMS OFF!" he had started to shout.
Bakugou had started to shake himself off Alex's shoulder. Alex having enough of it spoke up, "Fine if that's what you want." The saiyan pretty much dropped him. "Let's go." He then told him as I walked ahead.
Bakugou growls at me "Why the fuck would I follow a weakling like you?" Alex does not turn but he reply as Alex shouts back to him "Two things. This weakling knocked you out and unless you want to sleep in the streets tonight, you'll follow me to your house."
Bakugou mumbled but walked with the other boy. They both walked in silence for a minute until he spoke up "How did you get so strong?" Alex turned. He knew what Bakugou was talking about, although I was surpised.
"What makes you think that the strength I showed you wasn't my quirk?"
He scoffs "You told us about having a fire quirk. Unless I've gone fucking blind, I didn't see any fire on you."
Alex smirk at his response. He's pretty smart. Unstable, but smart.
"My mentor taught me before he passed away. He practically trained me until I was was bleeding out of the pores of my arms and legs" The ki user tells him.
Bakugou looks confused with a slight look of anger. Although that might just be natural. "So that strength wasn't part of your quirk?" he asked. Alex shakes his head. As They walk Alex starts "Look Bakugou, you have potential. More than possibly even me. I was dodging all you attacks to show you that there are those who are stronge" He then proceeds to wipe some blood off his face and show him his hand.
"Even after all my training, you managed to do damage to me. You're gifted Bakugou. If it wasnt for your ego, you could have won." Alex state while wiping the blood off by using his gi. Bakugo scoffs. Alex sigh once more and tell him "Look Bakugou, I can tell you want to be best, so do I. I know you think help is for the weak, but if we do work together, we can become stronger in the process."
Alex stops for a second and hold his hand out "Look we dont have to be friends, but I could use a rival. Besides you're the only one strong enough to keep up. So let's put any bad blood between us away. I dont want every day of school ending with one of us bloody while the other is knocked out." He says
Bakugou scoffs and turn his head. I expect a rejection "Only if you give me the same kind of training you gave Deku." he says while looking away. Alex looks shocked for a second. Bakugou rolls his eyes "Come on, new kid plus Deku getting some muscle. It cant be a coincidence." he states while putting his hands in his pockets.
Huh? So this guy is smart. Going to have to be more careful about that. I ask "Will you drop the names?" He growls "Fuck no." he responds. Alex sighs. That's the best he was going to get out of him wasn't it. "Deal." Alex reply.
After parting ways, Alex heads home, however he can only think about one thing during the walk. "I hope Inko doesnt get too worried about this."
When both teens returned home, they were bombarded by the mothers of the households. For Bakugou's case, it was a lashing of his mother's words when she had wondered where the angry boy was. For Alex's case, it had been a worried lashing about where he was, why his face had blood on it as Izumi cleaned it up.
Inko was extremely worried about the wounds inflicted on the boy, when in reality it looked worse than it actually was. He would have to wear a few bandages on his face, but from what it seemed like, his face wouldn't have any scars or markings once healed. Not to mention Alex's left eye was ok surprisingly, just a little sore to bright lights but besides that, it would heal sooner than anyone thought.
However not all was perfect, as the pre-teens when to school the next day.
To say that the classroom the next day was filled with tension would be a large understatement of the year. The room was quiet, yet the other classmates saw the same thing. Bakugou being quiet while Alex's face had a few bandages on it.
Many would assume that Alex had gotten his ass handed to him by Bakugou. However that's when the other students realize that it could have been potentially the other way around. Bakugou was quiet while Alex's attitude didn't change one bit.
This trend would then stop later on in the week, but something else came from that moment. Whenever Bakugou and Alex stared each other down during class, whether it would be working on assignments together or facing each in competition, people can only compare that stare down to one thing.
An old western stand off.
Bakugou was ego bruised. Sure he got some nasty hits in, but it was Alex was the one to end and win the fight. Knowing someone in his class can beat him with one attack made think twice about yelling at him.
Of course his way of "Thinking Twice" was basically with the first thought being filled with Ego and the second one being filled with more ego on a booster shot of adrenaline.
However he did think about what Alex said about his friendship with Deku.
Alex had been wary of Bakugou since the fight. It wasn't that the Ki user was afraid of him, it was more or less how he would react that worried him. Would he say anything in class? Would he get in trouble? Would Nezu find out?
Alex had been given another chance and he was hoping he did not blow it with his actions. Plus he was worried about what Bakugou had ask for.
He wanted to be trained like how Izumi was trained. That was a complicated matter. Firstly he would need to make sure Bakugou didn't say a word to anyone, and secondly the issue with Izumi's and Bakugou's relationship.
Those two were...complicated from what Alex had seen. Bakugou seemed annoyed by Izumi for some reason and Izumi still treats him as a friend.
Alex was dreading training for this reason alone. Until one incident happened just a few weeks after the fight.
It was during P.E. one day. Alex was currently stretching while Izumi was changing in the girls room. The teacher had forgotten her clipboard and agenda in the office, so the adult has to retrieve it. Strangely Alex had not seen Bakugou, considering that the guy was usually one of the first students out.
Suddenly Alex hears three different sounds. Izumi shriek, An explosion, and one word
"DIE!!"
Suddenly a brown haired boy came flying out of the girls dorm room. As he flew in the air, Alex's eyes were able to determine that the boy was thrown. His theory was confirmed when the boy landed on his back and slide across the floor until stopping at Alex's feet.
Alex looks down in confusion a she scans the boys face. Surprisingly the boy didn't have any explosion marks on his face. The rest of his clothes were torn and burnt sure, but his face was intact. Except for one thing that Alex had learned from Roshi is a bad sign.
A small twinkle of blood running down from his nose.
Alex then proceeds to have flashbacks of whenever he saw a bloody nose like that when he lived with Roshi. All of those times were filled with either his old mentor giving a naughty look at his magazines and times that Alex had pulled his teacher out of woman's hot spring.
Needless to say that the moment Alex had connected the dots, from Izumi's scream to the boy at his feet, Alex got a glare on his face as he lifted the boy up by the collar of his shirt.
"Guessing from where you landed and my friends tone of voice, I can only guess that you might have been peeping. Of course, you wouldn't do that, Would You?" Alex finishes in a deep angry voice.
The boy before was letting a few drops of sweat fall as he didn't want to mess with him. After Alex's question, the boy was dropping waterfalls of sweat as he had been figured out.
Before the boy could think of an excuse though
"Don't listen to whatever lie he's going to say. He's the class pervert." Bakugou states as he is followed by a blushing Izumi.
Alex looks away from the boy "Oh Really now?" Alex asks in the same angry tone.
When the boy heard what Bakugou said, he paled. He probably had a small chance to escape, but the blonde had to ruin his chances.
The perverted boy then did what was possibly the worse thing he could ever do in front of the two boys.
He defended his perverted actions.
"I..I'm sorry it...its just tha...that well Midoriya got so hot in the last couple of days. I'm not the only one that notices how good looking she got, I mean look at her."
The room was silent. The girls were silent for two reasons, the same with the boys. One reason being different for both genders and the second being the same.
One of the reasons as to why the girls were silent was because of how disgusted they were with the boy. Sure Midoriya was a quirkless loser, but she was still a girl and the fact that the boy had said that made them all disgusted by him.
One reason the boys stayed silent was because even though they weren't stupid enough to try it, the perverted boy had a point. However they weren't stupid enough to admit it.
The second reason why both genders in the room were quiet was very similar. A dark look passed both Bakugou's and Alex's eyes.
As Alex's fist was coated in blue flames and Bakugou began to spark explosions from his hand, everyone in the room can agree with one thing.
They did not pity the boy.
After a painful 6 minutes, the teacher returned with almost everyone in the room looking pale. The exception to this were three students.
Bakugou and Alex were normal and relax.
The unconscious brown haired boy had burn marks on his clothes and on his face. Holes that were caused by either explosions or flames damaging it.
The teacher walk over and checked up on the perverted boy.
"What happened to him?" he asked everyone.
Alex and Bakugou stare at each other. To other students and the teacher they looked like they were mentally communicating.
This was a theory that they assumed was correct because at the same time, the boys said the same thing.
"He fell down the stairs."
Any respectable teacher would have called the bs of that statement. Keyword being respectable. Since Bakugou was involved, they didn't want to get their star student any issues, so the teacher pretty much went with their story as he carried the boy to the nurses office.
The rest of the day went as normal, with a small exception that a few students stayed away from the two boys.
However after school was different.
"Hey Bakugou!" Alex yells as he catches up with the explosive blonde
The blonde turn and glared at Alex "What do you want, you extra?"
Alex was surprised at the nickname but decided to ignore it "I want to say thanks for helping Izumi with that pervert."
Bakugou turns and growls "I didn't do it for her. I just got tired of that guys fucking actions and the girls being mad at the rest of us."
Alex smiles internally. Something tells him that what Bakugou said wasn't the complete truth.
After the incident of that day, Alex had time to think about it. Most likely the pervert had done this before and Bakugou could have simply walked away. Yet he took his time to help Izumi not be creeped up on by that asshole.
Alex chuckles. He guesses Bakugou really isn't as bad as Izumi says.
"So you busy this weekend? I'll need to get you accustomed to our training method and the weights you'll be using." Alex states nonchalantly as he leans against a nearby wall.
Bakugou looked at Alex with confusion "The hell do you mean?"
Alex smiles "Your training of course. You said you wanted to train right? Well if you dont want me and Izumi to leave you in the dust, you'll need to train as well." he jokingly says.
Bakugou sighs "Yeah I'll be free, and you better not hold back on me. I can take whatever you got to offer, Fireboy."
Alex smiles "The confidence of this one is something else. Oh Bakugou if only you knew."
"Ok Explosive Mouth, I'll pick you up at 10 on Saturday and we'll get you started." Alex says as he turns around and walks back home.
"THE FUCK YOU CALL ME?!?!"
Alex turns his head "Hey I can have nicknames too."
Alex then turns his head forward and continues to walk home, leaving a surpised, angry, and yet surpised look on Bakugou's face.
Over the course of two years, Alex Washington, Izumi Midoriya, and Katsuki Bakugou would be considered the strongest people in their entire class.
Alex had kept his promise to Katsuki to train him. Needless to say Bakugou had hell to go through while Alex and Izumi chuckled on their friends predicament. Katsuki eventually learned about Ki and once tried to tap into it. It didn't end well as Katsuki needed a senzu bean to heal his palms.
Although the two weren't close friends, Alex and Katsuki had a small respect for each other and would agree on a few things, like them being competitive or one trying to be stronger than the other. Izumi could only sigh as she would watch the two spar.
In that time Katsuki and Izumi become good friends again, sorta like siblings except Katsuki wouldn't admit it out loud to anyone. They've became so much like good friends, that Alex and Katsuki shared this one famous rule that they made sure every boy in middle would learn. Izumi, their wonderful, kind, and pure friend, Was Off Limits.
This rule was even enforced even more when one day during gym a pervert in their class had tried to spy on Izumi changing. Let's just say one explosion from Katsuki and fire punch from Alex made sure that everyone got the message.
In the two years, physically Alex was the strongest followed by Katsuki and Izumi. Academically however Izumi and Bakugo were pretty even with Alex behind them. Alex wasn't stupid, it just took him longer than the two to process information. Once Alex understood it, slowly it became no problem for him.
In this time Bakugou had become a tiny bit more mellowed out by both Alex's strengrh and Alex's training methods. By no mean is Bakugou a nice person now. Instead of a 99 percent chance of him blasting you away, now there is a 80 percent chance. He now stood at 5'7 and had a perfect body shape of an 8th grader.
Alex...is still Alex. Idiotic, looked for trouble if it meant helping people, strategic in battle, and overall the same. The only difference being that he's now the tallest of the three friends standing at 5'9 having muscles that a sophomore would would have and having better control of both his Ki and Quirk.
Izumi in this time had become a little more confident. She stutters less and wasn't as scared as she was before. She still muttered but there was really nothing that could change that. She now stands at 5'6 with having the best athletic figure of all the girls in school.
The day came where the 8th graders decided to choose what they want to do with their lives.
"As third year students, you need to think seriously on what you want to do with your lives" the homeroom teacher had said. Everyone was listening, Alex wa busy looking outside the window at smoke. He and Izumi had watch the pro heroes Kamui Woods and the newest pro hero Mt.Lady.
Alex used this time to think. In one year, his friends would find out about his teaching at U.A. Alex had accepted it. Although he was still a bit nervous. Alex's thoughts were interrupted when the teacher said "...but I think we all know that you all want to be in the hero courses." Which then the classes exploded in yelling and many proclaiming that they'll be good heroes. It stops when one voice speaks up
"Teach, dont lump me in with these extras. They'll be lucky if they become sidekicks. Realistically only three of us in this room have a chance at U.A. Two if you wanna talk about the hero courses." the voice had said. The voice belonging to one Katsuki Bakugou. Acting cocky as usual. The class starts to argue which he stands and declares how he'll be bigger than All Might.
Alex rolls his eyes and continues to look out the window. Which after that the teacher decided to speak "Oh yes, Washington and Midoriya are also planning on attending." If this Katsuki not been made a little humble he would be mad or snap, but after Alex and Izumi had shown their strength, he had lost that rage...kinda.
Katuski was still mad that Izumi was joining, he thought it was a terrible idea. She was quirkless, even after all the training they did, Katsuki still had his doubts. Alex on the other hand had a different perspective. Alex had heard what the teacher said.
His inner child crawled out and just stood up and spoke to the class "Of course I'm trying to go to U.A. It's the greatest school in Japan. I'm excited just thinking about." although he wouldn't admit it to anyone, he was also a bit nervous. If it involved a physical test, then he would be fine. However if it was something like a real test then he would need to be careful.
The other kids begin to murmur, Alex didnt hear much but the words he made out were "Makes sense." or "Of course the strong one is going to U.A.". In reality the middle school class could see Alex attending U.A. Before the class could talk anymore, the bell rang signifying the end of the school day.
The three had just planned to go to their separate home and relax. Something normal. No training(much to Alex's dismay), no fight(now to Katsuki's dismay), and no weird stuff.
Little did the three friends know though, that today would be the day that Izumi would discover something and not only get a quirk but also become the successor to All Might.