CHAPTER 1: TRUTH OR DARE?

"So, Katsuki Bakugo, why are you here today?"

Bakugo looked away from the woman in front of him with a scowl on his face. She knew damn well why he was here. Hell, if it were up to him at all he'd be as far away from this damn room as he could be. Out the window behind her he can see everyone else leaving UA to head back to the dorms. A head of red hair stood out to him particularly.

"Because I have to be" He says through a clenched jaw, still refusing to look at her. He couldn't help but feel humiliated being forced to sit through this.

"That's true, but why do you have to be?"

Bakugo couldn't help but roll his eyes at that. Here we go, he thought, some stupid shrink bullshit trying to make him dig deep.

The woman began writing in the notebook on her lap after a minute with no response. The sudden movement made Bakugo glance back at her.

"You know Bakugo, since you have to be here you might want to think about what you can get out of it. All we want to do is make sure you're doing okay after the series of events you went through. At the end of the day you get to decide how you come out of this. Whether you let this make you stronger, or if you let it break you. All we want is to be able to help you become the best hero you can be."

Bakugo could feel his heart beat hard and fast against his chest "I don't need anyone's help" He practically growled. Bakugo tried to calm himself down, it was a well known fact that he was a hot head but if he blew up, maybe even literally, in front a shrink they might just go ahead and try to diagnose him with anger issues. The last thing he needed was to give them a reason to make him come back more times then he's already being forced to.

After taking a deep breathe through his nose he continued, "Five weeks, that's all I have to do, just five Friday's. So what could I possibly actually get out of this?"

The woman smiled a little at that. Bakugo couldn't deny that she was pretty. She had long blonde hair that rested on her shoulders in waves, a thin face with big blue eyes. He honestly couldn't remember her name, he couldn't even remember her telling him what it was. But he didn't trust strangers let alone shrinks. How people could just blindly open up to a stranger was beyond him. Hell, he wouldn't even open up to friends… that is if he really had any.

"Think about how much you can learn in a day at school. The five hours we get to spend together is a little like that. And yes, it probably won't be anything monumental but if we work together you might get to learn more about yourself than you think you can." She said with a smile still on her face.

"Tch" Bakugo felt annoyed. "Fine, but only because it'd be even more excruciating to sit here for an hour and just stare at each other. But i will not talk about anything that I don't want to." Crossing his arms over his chest he slumped even further into the seat.

"I couldn't ask you to anyway" Flipping a page in her notebook and clicking her pen twice she began asking questions "There are some preliminary questions I have to ask you, and that's really all we have to talk about today. So, to start I'd like to know how you're feeling today?"

"I feel fine, annoyed mostly."

"How have you been feeling over the past three weeks?"

Bakugo hesitated. Had it really been three weeks since the villain attack? Three weeks since he'd been rescued? Three weeks since he moved into the dorms with everyone else?

"Fine" He could hear his voice break a little. He hoped the shrink wouldn't hear it too. He didn't want her to look into that too much. Because he had been fine. At least as fine as he imagined he could be.

"How well do you sleep?"

Hesitating again Bakugo thought back to just last night. He could hardly get his eyes to close for more than two hours before he woke up sweating and shaking. Just like he had every night since he's been here.

"Fine."

"Would you say you have a healthy relationship with food?"

This one caused Bakugo to snort out a laugh "Yeah I'm absolutely fine with food"

Most of the questions carried on like this, just trying to get a baseline of where to start with Bakugos treatment. He mostly answered quick and short. He felt no need to delve any deeper he just wanted to get out of here and go back to his quiet peaceful dorm. Only did the last question really make him think.

"Do you have many friends here? Anyone else to talk to?"

Bakugo didn't really want to tell her he didn't. He wasn't ashamed or anything like that. He liked to think of himself as a lone wolf. He didn't need anyone else in his life. He was strong he could take care of himself and didn't need anyone else holding him back. He did have Kirishima and he was definitely the closest thing he had to a real friend but he mostly just helped him with his homework. He wouldn't really call them best friends or anything like that. But he did however worry about giving her any reason to add more than five weeks of this. Everything had to be carefully calculated to make sure this was as painless as possible.

"Yeah of course." He said with confidence.

"Well that's good. During hard times like this its good to have a support system."

Bakugo didn't doubt that it was true. He'd never admit this to anyone not even himself, but it would be nice if he could have a least someone to share a little of this burden with. It was a heavy thing to carry by yourself. Maybe that's what he'd get out of this. Just a little tiny sliver of weight lifted off his shoulders. He could live with that.

Bakugo left the counselor's office feeling pretty damn exhausted. He could fight all day but the minute he has to sit down and talk it feels like his soul has been sucked out of his body. As he made the quick trek over to the dorms he prayed everyone would just ignore him and let him walk up to his room with no interuptions. He was ready for the weekend. He could go to bed early tonight, wake up early, go for a run, do some homework. He wouldn't have to think about stupid therapy until next Friday. Now he could just enjoy his night.

Thankfully when he entered the building only damn Deku and Uraraka were in the common space and Deku wouldn't dare talk to Bakugo. Especially with the frown he was sporting. He shot daggers their way, squinted red eyes telling them not to even try it just in case.

He got to his room quickly, entered, and slammed the door behind him. Practically dragging his legs he made his way over to his bed and collapsed onto it. He could hear the door next to his open and close and he knew what that meant. Shitty hair was about to knock. And that's the last thing he needed right now. That annoying hair for brains coming over with some stupid request or question. Bakugo was already pulling himself up to a seated position before the knock even came. And when it did he couldn't help but sigh.

"Hey, uh, it's me" Kirishima said quietly.

Bakugo couldn't imagine why he would bother practically whispering after knocking so damn loud. He felt his face scrunch up in a scowl.

"What?" He barked.

"Can I open the door?" Kirishima asked a little louder.

A groan escaped Bakugos mouth "Fine!"

Kirishima opened the door and popped his head in with a big smile on his face.

"Hey! I looked for you when we were done today but didn't see you anywhere. Where did you disappear too?" He asked as he strolled over to Bakugos bed. He lingered next to it clearly not sure if he would be allowed to sit.

Bakugo rolled his eyes. "No where shitty hair. What do you want?" there was less bite behind the bark today. He just didn't have anymore energy to put up a fight. He just really wanted to go to sleep.

Kirishima shifted awkwardly "I hate to ask so often… but could you help me with some math homework again? I'm just really struggling and I-"

Bakugo waved a hand cutting him off "That's fine," He said letting out a sigh "I have to work on mine too."

Kirishima's face lit up and he smiled so big Bakugo could've sworn he could count all of Kirishima's pointy teeth.

"Do you wanna come over to my room? I have my homework set up over there already and I have some snacks." Kirishima was already walking back over to the door so without a word Bakugo grabbed his bag that held his homework and followed behind.

It really was very convenient to dorm right next to the only person Bakugo could actually stand for extended periods of time. It wasn't so much that he likes hanging out with Kirishima but he didn't make Bakugo feel murderous and that was definitely something.

He walked into Kirishima's dorm room and sat down on the floor. There was already a mess of papers strewn all over the place and Bakugo couldn't help but smile at that. It's pretty amusing just how much of a mess Kirishima can be when it comes to school work.
Kirishima plopped down across from Bakugo. "This is what I'm having a hard time with" He says as he hands the textbook over to show which equations he can't do. Bakugo nodded slowly

"Those are easy start working and tell me when you get stuck."

"I don't even know where to start" Kirishima said with a sheepish smile to which Bakugo could only roll his eyes.

"Alright look.." And Bakugo began to explain how to exactly go about the problems.

After about 45 minutes of lots of sighing and frustration Kirishima started to seem like he was really starting to get it. Bakugo was able to finish all of his homework, using the time Kirishima would take to finish one problem to tackle as many as he could. Now he sat leaned back against Kirishima's bed watching him chew his pencil with those sharp teeth as he worked. Bakugo couldn't help but wonder how he hadn't managed to snap the pencil in half yet.

Kirishima grabbed his phone which had just vibrated. Bakugo jumped, he hadn't realized how still the room had watched Kirishima carefully as he looked at his phone, he had an uneasy feeling and the way Kirishima looked up at him made him sure he had every right to.

"Yo, Sero just texted me saying Kaminari snuck some beer into the dorm he just asked if we wanna come hang out." He had such an excited look on his face Bakugo could have gagged. The last thing he would want to do is hang out with all the extras at this school. Let alone get drunk with them.

"No thanks I don't do that."

"Have fun?" Kirishima asked with a laugh

"Drink." Bakugo dead panned.

"What? For real? Why?" Kirishima blinked at him

Bakugo shrugged "Why would I want to do something so reckless that could damage my future career as a hero? Not to mention it's not pleasant feeling like you aren't in control of yourself shitty hair." He had to throw the insult in. He felt like he was being too vulnerable. What did that shrink do to him today to make him feel like he can open up at all?

"Ah come on man! It'll be fun! It'll be good to do something so normal after…" Kirishima looked nervous like he was about to say the wrong thing "all the stress lately"

Bakugo rolled his eyes, a common theme of today. He was tired of people acting so nervous around him when it came to the villian attack.

"Did they even actually invite me?" Bakugo doubted it. Everyone acted like he was a villain himself there's no way they would want him to come hang out. His chest tightened at the thought. He was tired of people thinking that way.

"Well they didn't say your name but they said everyone's invited and you're apart of that!"

Kirishima always seemed genuinely blind to the fact that everyone else didn't want him around.

"Please Bakugo just come for a little and if you hate it you can just leave I mean we're not even leaving the building!" Kirishima looked at Bakugo with such genuine hope that he'd say yes he couldn't help but cave.

He felt his shoulders slump forward. "Fine. But if I'm bored I'm leaving immediately."

Kirishima threw a fist in the air "Alright! Man you wont regret it I know you'll have fun!"

"But I'm still not drinking."

"Whatever, more for me!"

A couple hours later Bakugo glanced at his phone. It was almost 9:30pm and he still hadn't gotten a text from Kirishima. After they finished working on homework Bakugo came back to his room and took a quick nap. He even set an alarm so he wouldn't just end up sleeping through the party, if you could even call it that, straight to the next day. He tapped his foot anxiously. Why did he even care if Kirishima texted him or not? If he ended up not going it would be better, right? Then he wouldn't have to spend time with all those losers, right?

But a part of him did want to go. A part of himself he didn't like very much really wanted to get that text from Kirishima. But it wasn't a text he got. Instead it was a faint knock on his door, so soft he almost didn't hear it. He got up and wiped his sweaty hands on his jeans. Why were his hands sweating? He walked over to the door and cracked it open a little to see who was on the other side. Kirishima was standing there with a mischievous smile on his face.

"Are you ready to go?" He whispered. Bakugo nodded in response and stepped out into the hallway.

"We have to be really quiet we don't wanna wake up anyone, especially Iida"

"Well we probably shouldn't be hanging out in Kaminari's room. They're right next to each other." Bakugo walked in stride next to Kirishima

"I know were going up to sero's room."

They were right outside the stairs now and Kirishima quietly pushed open the double doors. They stopped and listened and they could hear soft footsteps above them. They held their breath and waited until they heard nothing. After waiting a few seconds more to make sure whoever that was is actually gone they quickly tiptoed up to the fifth floor.

Outside of Sero's door he could hear a bunch of voices. Bakugo couldn't help but groan. Why had he even agreed to come? He already wanted to leave.

"Come on man, at least give it a chance." Kirishima said as he knocked.

All the voices inside immediately went silent. Sero opened the door just a sliver to reveal Kirishima and Bakugou. With a smile on his face he swung it open to let the two enter. Everyone else was sitting on the floor already drinking. Sero closed the door behind them.

"Go ahead and grab yourselves some beers. We can't be too loud just in case Todoroki hears and gets mad."

Bakugo remembered that that Icy-hot fucker lived next to Sero. He doubted Todoroki would even do anything. That idiot was always so emotionless he doubted he would even care if they were loud.

Bakugo watched as Kirishima walked over to a box on the floor. He pulled out two beers and sat on the floor next to the pink girl. He gestured for Bakugo to come and sit next to him, and he did so reluctantly.

"Here." Kirishima went to hand Bakugo one of the beers he grabbed

"Tch" Bakugo shoved it away "I told you I wasn't drinking." He narrowed his eyes as Kirishima smiled with guilt on his face. He even looked like he was blushing a little. The sight made Bakugos stomach twist.

What the fuck?

" I just thought I'd get you one in case you change your mind."

Bakugo grabbed the drink out of Kirishima's hand and put it on the floor. He wasn't going to drink it but he didn't want to look at Kirishima anymore.

"Do you guys wanna play a drinking game!" The pink girl said. She looked really excited about the idea but Bakugo thought that sounded pretty lame. They didn't even have enough beer for all of them to get drunk.

"Like what?" Kaminari asked "We don't have a deck of cards or anything really"

"We could just play truth or dare and incorporate drinking"

"If someone refuses to tell the truth or do the dare they could have to chug for 30 seconds." That short perv interjected

"Yeah! And of course you can dare people to drink"

Sero nodded his head "Sounds fun let's do it"

Bakugo didn't plan on doing anything but before he knew it they had all sat on the floor in a circle with him and Kirishima.

"I'm not playing."

"Aw come on!" Kirishima moaned "That's not very manly of you."

Bakugo felt his face scrunch up in anger. He wasn't afraid of a little game. He would just only do dares.

"Fine" He growled

"I want to start!" Pinky said raising her hand "Sero, truth or dare?"

"Dare?" Sero said more like a question than a statement. You could tell he was nervous what she would make him do. A mischievous smile was plastered on her face.

"I dare you to tape Bakugo to the ceiling."

Bakugo immediately put his hand up about to send an explosion his way "I will kill you"

Sero audibly gulped and grabbed his beer "I'm just gonna drink " He said with a nervous chuckle.

The girl looked smug, like that was the exact outcome she not only expected but hoped for. Bakugo didn't like being used as the villain again. Someone to be afraid of. He could feel anger swell in his chest. Before he could do anything about it he felt a hand on his shoulder. He glanced back to see a smiling Kirishima.

"Cool it Blasty if you blow up seros room we'll all get caught."

Bakugo turned away but leaned back and dropped his hand.

"Alright" Sero said "Kaminari, truth or dare?"

"Truth!"

"Have you ever kissed a girl?"

Kaminari smiled awkwardly glancing sideways really quick. Bakugo followed his eyes over to the punk girl sitting next to pinky. She was playing with the label on her drink.

"Yeah…" He said slowly.

"What!? Who?" Pervy demanded

"Hey I answered my truth and now it's my turn! Kirishima! Truth or dare?"

Bakugo rolled his eyes. This really was lame. Everyone would probably be too scared to pick him anyway.

"Truth" He said with confidence.

"Do you think anyone in our class is hot?"

Bakugos eyes went wide when Kirishima's face turned almost as red as his hair. Even his ears were a striking red.

Without even answering Kirishima picked up the beer in front of him and chugged.

"That's not very manly!" Kaminari quipped "Dodging a question like that!"

Kirishima set down his beer. Face still red he let out a nervous chuckle. He turned to look at Bakugo and when their eyes met he quickly looked away.

"Bakugo, truth or dare?"

Bakugo blinked at him, actually surprised he picked him. Well, not that surprised it was Kirishima who made him play after all.

"Dare."

Kirishima smiled. Maybe because he was excited that Bakugo didn't just say no.

"I dare you to drink."

Bakugo frowned "Are you kidding I literally told you three times I wasn't going to."

"Well either drink for your dare, or drink because you're a chicken those are the rules" Sero stated matter-of-fact like.

Bakugo glared at Kirishima "Fine." He grabbed the beer and with a clenched jaw cracked it open. He took a sip. He never understood why people liked this it tasted disgusting.

"Not just a sip!" Kirishima said when Bakugo pulled the can back

"Too bad, you weren't more specific I'm just taking a sip."

"Alright… now it's your turn to pick someone."

"I know that" He snapped. This is the part he really didn't want to be a part of. He didn't even know most of their names. "Uh, Pikachu, truth or dare?"

Kaminari gave him a look "Dude do you really not know my name?" Bakugo shrugged. He did know his name at least but he wouldn't give the bastard the pleasure of knowing that.

"Dare" Kaminari said rolling his eyes.

"I dare you to electrocute Kirishima" Bakugo dead panned. He could see Kirishima's head snap out of the corner of his eye, but he couldn't make out the expression he was making.

"What! I can't do that!" Kaminari practically yelled causing Sero and pinky to shush him.

"Nah it's fina man! I'll just make my body hard" Kirishima said while activating his quirk. Kaminari looked relieved he went over and sent a few shocks through him. Kirishima said he still felt it and it was weird but it didn't hurt.

Once he was sitting back down he leaned over to whisper in Bakugos ear "Payback, huh?" It sent shivers down Bakugos spine.

"You deserved it." Bakugo mumbled.

He heard Kirishima laugh quietly.

The rest of the night pretty much carried on like that. No one else picked Bakugo, probably afraid he would use Kaminari to electrocute them too and not everyone could make their body hard as a rock. Kirishima however seemed to be everyone's target. It didn't take very long for the group to realize Kirishima is a fucking light weight and he ended up drinking the most out of anyone. Eventually everyone decided to call it a night they entrusted Bakugo to get Kirishima back to his room. The fucker could hardly stand on his own two feet. Bakugo really didn't sign up for this when he agreed to come but what was he supposed to do?

Getting Kirishima out the door of Sero's room was hard enough he was dreading the stairs. While thinking of how horribly this will probably go he was surprised to hear talking. He looked towards where the sound was coming from to find Todoroki's door open just a crack. He recognized the voice. Small and incredibly annoying he realized it was damn Deku. He couldn't understand what they were saying and before he had a chance to leave with Kirishima Deku stepped out into the hallway.

Deku's face drained of all its color. He looked absolutely mortified.

"Ka-Kacchan?" Deku whispered. He started waving his hands around "I was just- we were- I don't" Bakugo cut him off.

"I don't care."

Bakugo bent down slid one arm under Kirishima's legs, and the other around his back and picked him. It would be much easier to get him down the stairs this way. Bakugo strolled past Deku, who hadn't made any attempt to leave Todoroki's doorway, and headed for the stairwell. Taking the same caution as before he listened to make sure it was empty. Once he was sure he carefully carried Kirishima down. Kirishima was resting his head against Bakugos shoulder and clutching onto his shirt. He looked really peaceful with his eyes closed. Almost like he was sleeping. Bakugo couldn't fight the small smile that crept it's way onto his face.

BAkugo finally got Kirishima to his room after hitting his head on the doorway, twice. Kirishima now had his eyes open but didn't seem too upset about his current situation. He probably knew he couldn't have walked there on his own so Bakugo had to carry him.

Bakugo walked over to the bed, not aware that Kirishima was very much awake right now, and tried to carefully lay him down on his mattress. Kirishima still had Bakugos shirt held tight in his fist and while bakugo tried to be carefull the unexpected weight pull on the front of his shirt caused him to fall forward right onto Kirishima.

"Shit! Let go idiot!" Bakugo said trying to untangle himself from Kirishima.

But he didn't give up so easily. Instead he snaked his arms around Bakugos neck pulling him just a little bit closer. Bakugo could feel his hot breath touch his face and Bakugos stomach did a flip.

"Thank you for getting me back" Kirishima whispered mere inches from Bakugo "If you want you can stay over"

Bakugo realized he was still right on top of Kirishima and quickly sat up pulling Kirishima's arms off his neck. He tried to ignore the heat in his face and looked away.

"Why would I do that, idiot. I live right next door"

"It could be fun!" Kirishima said with a bright smile

Bakugo got up and walked to the door. He paused a second and listened to his heart beat hard in his ears.

"Goodnight Bakugo" Kirishima slurred. It sounded like sleep was already taking over him.

With that Bakugo left his room walked straight into his and shut the door. He walked over to his bed and threw himself onto it. He placed his hand to chest feeling the rapid pounding and whispered aloud to himself.

"What the fuck?"

AN

Hoped you liked the new fic! I honestly don't know exactly what I want to do with this yet, a part of me thinks I should just leave it as a one shot (because I don't know if I'm ready to invest in a long fic again), and another part of me is like ten chapters minimum. All I know for sure is I had an idea in the shower (the place of all great ideas) and couldn't stop thinking about it for days and now here I am writing it. I want to write more (The story is based around the therapy (At least that's the idea now) so it really needs more to be the actual story I'm trying to tell) so if you guys read it and like it and want me to write more please let me know! Comments, reviews they give me life! And if we're being honest I've already started the second chapter it just might never see the light of day! I really hope you did like it! I feel like I'm crawling out of the shadows after years of hiding from this website so bare with my shaken confidence!