A/N: 60,000 hits! Yay! Also second part of the breather arc... The minor subplot was one I was debating... but hopefully you'll like it. Enjoy!
Chapter 28: Trying to be a Better Person
Bakugo walked into class, he had gotten used to the glares by this point. Almost no one in class liked him. He was surprised that the harshest weren't in the therapy group, then again it made sense at the same time, they were told about the bullying long before then.
However the harshest was Tokoyami, thanks to the fact that he met Inko.
With Kaminari as the next, though he would look away if Bakugo glared back.
He headed to his seat.
He saw Izuku entered the classroom with his friends.
"That's really cool." Said Toru.
"Do you want to see it before lunch?" asked Momo who seemed embarrassed for some reason.
"Why are you embarrassed?" asked Mashirao.
"Well it's just that… the songs she writes… well you'll see when I show you." Said Momo.
Bakugo didn't know what they were talking about but he didn't care.
"Hey Bakugo!" said Kirishima.
Bakugo grumbled.
"Hey during lunch you want to do that thing we talked about?" asked Kirishima.
"Fine." Said Bakugo.
Kirishima knew about what he was going through. And wanted to help him.
(Flashback)
It was during the few days before work week, Bakugo was leaving class.
"Hey Bakugo!" said Kirishima.
"What do you want?" asked Bakugo.
"Just thought…" said Kirishima.
"Why are you doing this?" asked Bakugo.
"What" asked Kirishima.
"Just leave me alone." Muttered Bakugo.
"Look I get you're having a hard time…" said Kirishima .
"The rumors are true!" said Bakugo.
"What?" asked Kirishima.
"I did it." Muttered Bakugo, "I was an ass! I did something I regretted so stop pitying me and leave me alone."
"Wait, who said anything about pitying you?" asked Kirishima.
"What?" asked Bakugo genuinely confused.
"He has a really weird issues with people being nice to him." Said Toru walking passed them.
"Will you shut up!" yelled Bakugo.
"But it's true!" said Toru.
Bakugo glared at the invisible girl.
"Come on! We both know you're trying to be a better person! And you have someone else who wants to help you!" said Toru.
"Wait… you're trying to be a better person?" asked Kirishima.
"What is it to you?" asked Bakugo.
And it was there that Kirishima decided to help Bakugo with his goal at being a better person.
(End of Flashback)
Of course Toru was helping him in her own way, but he knew that she was busy with other things as she was a reincarnation too.
Still Kirishima was trying to help him.
Soon enough lunch came. Momo pulled up a video on her phone.
It turned out Chouko appeared on a morning show that day during a segment about lesser known heroes and their non-quirk talents.
"Hello! I'm the hero Lady Sol. I'm going to sing two songs for you today." Said Chouko (wearing her light pink dress) and holding a guitar.
That was when she began to shred the guitar and began to sing death metal lyrics about the pain of knowing death.
The other four members of the group as well as Tenya didn't know how to respond to the song. Especially thanks to the contrast of the seemingly prim and popper woman signing death metal.
The other students in class heard this. Though both Tokoyami and Kyoka walked over to see what they were watching.
"The hero I did my internship with." Said Momo.
"Hardcore." Said Kyoka impressed.
Her second song was something else and was a rather sweet and quiet song about being true to yourself.
It was clear that Chouko was happy with the contrast and had a sly smile at the looks of the morning show hosts who were just confused by her song choices.
"She wanted to teach me how to play the the guitar like that during the internship." Said Momo with a sweat drop.
"Wait… was the whole metal thing from this life or her past life?" asked Mashirao.
"Past life." Said Momo.
"Wait… didn't you say she was queen a in her past life?" asked Ochaco.
"Well she lost the throne twice… but yes." Said Momo.
The others who were part of the conversion were weirded out. After all it was queen who played heavy metal was just weird image.
Meanwhile, Bakugo and Kirishima sat down for lunch.
Durring that time Kirishima helped with a new step in being a better person. Knowing his classmates quirks.
Some of them he knew… but that was only because they were kind of easy to remember, or they made an impression.
Right now he was helping him with the harder ones in the class.
"He's a bird." Said Bakugo.
"No… he has a living shadow that lives inside of him that fights for him." Said Kirishima.
"Seriously?" asked Bakugo.
Kirishima sighed. Then he pulled up Koda.
"Something to do with rocks." Said Bakugo.
"No, he can talk to and control animals." Said Kirishima.
Bakugo froze when he said that.
"What?" asked Bakugo.
"Yeah…" said Kirishima.
That was when he put together the pieces. The unexplained cats.
"He's behind the cats!" yelled Bakugo.
"What?" asked Kirishima.
"That's not of your business!" yelled Bakugo.
"Okay… next…" said Kirishima.
However Bakugo knew what he had to do… unfortunately he knew it might cause problems later on.
After class Bakugo walked over to Koda.
"Hey Rockhead we need to talk." Said Bakugo.
Koda sighed knowing he would have figured it out eventually.
"Bakugo…" said Tokoyami dangerously.
Koda signed him that it was fine.
The two of them left.
"What is he doing?" asked Izuku slipping into Sanji mode.
"Oh it's going to be fine." Said Toru.
"You know I don't want to know what you know…" said Izuku with a sweat drop.
The two found a place to talk.
"You're the reason why cats have been bugging me lately! Aren't you?" asked Bakugo, "Why? Why have you been doing that?"
Koda was extremely shy and rarely talked to humans. But he knew this was going to happened eventually and gathered all of his courage.
"I… I heard that guy from general education telling you to kill yourself." He said.
Bakugo froze when he said that. He didn't think anyone from his class had heard that.
"I don't know if you told Midoriya the same thing is true…" said Koda, "But it's still not right."
"Well I did." Muttered Bakugo who looked like he was going to break down, "And the really fucked up thing is I don't even remember doing it!"
Koda sighed when he admitted that, like he was trying to figure out what to say.
"But you do feel bad about it, right?" asked Koda.
Bakugo didn't answer, however Koda knew it was a clear yes.
"I know you're trying to do better." Said Koda.
Bakugo grumbled.
"Also the benefits of petting animals when someone needs it combined with the health benefits of purring…" said Koda.
"I don't need a lecture about petting animals!" said Bakugo.
Koda quieted down.
Bakugo walked away.
"Just keep doing what you're doing." Muttered Bakugo.
Koda smiled and nodded.
It was clear between the two, that something had changed…
And Bakugo realized something else, there was a third member of his class trying to help him.
Even though later he found out he was super shy and it took all courage just to hold a conversation, but least there was someone there for him in class, even with all the glares.
Next Time: The group deicides to meet Luna after all. What kind of pony is she? And what sort of properly does the dream world have? Also in order meet Luna they have a sleep over Momo's mansion. Just how big is it? Find out next time!