Bakugou's P.O.V
She hasn't changed one bit-personality wise. She definitely changed with her physical appearance. I mean her hair is longer and her eyes are brighter. She's still shorter than me but I didn't exactly expect that to change.
Her body has changed, she's curvier and her chest- stop Katsuki don't be ridiculous she's your best friend don't think about her like that.
"Can I get a spicy rice bowl with wagyu beef?" She asks Lunchrush. She really hasn't changed. Still loves spicy food even more than me…
"'Suki? You gonna order?" She asks, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Right! I'll have the same thing," I say nodding to Atri. Atri smiles at me taking out her wallet. I stop her without thinking slapping down a few bills to pay for both hers and I's.
"Katsuki- I can pay-" she says.
"It's fine, plus today's your first day so I want to pay for you- please?"
"Did Katsuki Bakugou just say please?" She asks, her eyes widening as Lunchrush hands us our food. She grabs a cup heading with me to the soda fountain.
"Oh shut it," I growl softly. She laughs, placing the cup under an American soda.
"Wait-no Strawberry sparkling soda?" I ask her, surprised. Strawberry soda was always her go to she wouldn't drink anything else but I guess she can change in a couple years… Fuck I missed so much.
"Well, I discovered this drink in America called and honestly-I think I'm addicted to it," she smiles as she fills her cup with a brown fizzing soda.
We take our trays and drinks to an empty table by the windows overlooking the city, a two seated table where no one would bother us. Hopefully.
She picks up her chopsticks, easily getting into eating her rice bowl with a grin on her face as she observes the rice and beef. I look at my own reluctantly, tearing my gaze from her to observe my own food.
The beef is cooked to perfection with the right amount of wasabi and dried peppers as well as perfect rice with the right amount of soy sauce with a hint of teriyaki. She gives a little moan as she bites into the beef clearly relishing in the flavor.
"God- I forgot how good food is here, America has good food but they like to use a whole bunch of different countries' styles of cooking,'' Atri says. " I mean not that I'm complaining because they had delicious spicy food but I missed Japan's cooking."
"I missed your cooking-" I murmured. "You'll need to cook for me sometime. You're staying in the dorms right?"
"Yeah I am, I'm on the fifth floor room number 20."
"Me too-not room number 20 but I'm number 14," I say hurriedly.
She giggles before taking a sip of her soda.
"Well we'll have to hang out then," She laughs. "Movie nights like we used to remember? When you weren't busy with training."
I grin thinking about the dozens of nights we had movie nights together; we'd have two bowls of popcorn, one spicy popcorn the other buttered popcorn, but Atri would get annoyed that the buttered popcorn didn't have enough flavor so she would dump the buttered popcorn with the spicy popcorn making it all spicy popcorn. She always had to have Hi-Chews though. I remember grape hi-chews were her favorite. I wonder if she still likes those.
"You still like Hi-chews?" I ask her. She looks startled, a smile forming on her face.
"Yeah, actually," She laughs reaching into her pocket pulling out a package of Hi-Chews. Grape nonetheless. "They have them in America. Honestly it was the only thing that kept me awake through the quirkless classes they have there."
Her blue eyes twinkle as she pushes them back into her pocket. I can't help but notice the little scars on her face, they were little white marks all over. I couldn't remember if she had those before or not...So the logical thing was to ask her about them.
"What are those on your face?" I ask her.
Subconsciously she takes a hand running it along her cheek looking deep in thought.
"This is from a mission I went on for a sort of work case studies… I got captured and the villains used their quirk-fire spark- to shower me in the fire sparks," She explained slowly, shuddering as she thinks back to it. "My body was really tired and I couldn't use my quirk for some reason...but luckily the pro heroes got there in time. I only had to spend about two weeks in the ICU."
"The ICU?" I ask her, surprised.
"Yeah...one of their quirks made my insides almost shut down but I only had a few ruptured organs...so I'm fine now thankfully I only needed stitches and some blood," She laughs good naturedly like she usually did whenever something hurts her deeply.
"We might want to finish up...I'd like to get to Hero studies early because I want to see everyones quirks and kind of want to show off mine….not to mention I want to see how much you improved," She grins as she begins to shovel food into her mouth unaware of my concern.
We enter the classroom together Atri still acting her peppy self as she takes her seat towards the back of the classroom when people start piling inside the room.
Once everyone was settled in came in saying we were going to do some more training on our ultimate moves with a demonstration from Atri to see how she had fared. Atri grinned giving him a thumbs up as he told her that we were going to watch her first.
We all grab our costumes and change into them. I pull on my boots getting stopped by Kirishima and Denki.
"You are so in love with her aren't you," Denki asks.
"MOVE!" I growl at them blocking the doorway.
"Not until you answer our questions," Sero Hanta says, coming around me into the front of me with Kaminari and Kirishima. Dunce face and Shitty Hair both cross their arms Tape Arms following in pursuit.
"Fine...what do you want to know?" I ask them, rolling my eyes.
"First… How long have you known her?"
"Maybe around five years?"
"Did you two date?"
"No-"
"But you want to date her that much is obvious-" Dunce Face interjects.
"Might want to get with her before one of us snatches her up-" Tape arms says.
"STOP!" I shout feeling extremely angry, my head throbbing from their persistence. "I do like her alright but it's not like I can just ask her out the first day she gets back okay?"
I say the last part quietly worried that she was going to somehow hear me say this.
"But for now if I hear any of you ask her out I will end you-" I promise.
They nod before allowing me to leave the locker room walking down to the ground zero training facility. I see Atri standing with a bunch of girls dressed in her costume. She is wearing a red body suit made out of a stretchy durable fabric with black lace-up boots that reach her knees.
A belt was swung around her waist, a couple packages of healing supplies hanging off of it. Her hair is tied up in a braided crown around her head.
She was deep in conversation with Racoon eyes before she noticed me giving me a tentative smile and a small wave of her hands.
"Alright class...Atri will you come up to the front of the class?" asks with Cementoss and Ectoplasm next to him.
Atri nervously goes up to the front of the class, her face a vivid red as Mineta catcalls her when she passes him. I growl to myself but don't do anything right now.
"Please explain why you're demonstrating…" says sleepily.
"Well… in America I studied with Pro-heroes which is why I got accepted here because I had over a dozen letters of recommendation from the heroes there-" Deku asked her to list the ones she had studied with which she did quickly. "And I worked on Ultimate moves with them for a long period of time so I have developed my move already and I was asked to show you guys mine…"
"Alright now show us," Cementoss says.
"Do you want my Defensive or my Offensive or both?" She asks suddenly serious.
"Let's see both," suggests.
"Alright then I need some help, someone needs to attack me…" She shrugged. "Uh...Bakugou? Want to help me?"
Eyes look back to me as well as the teachers who weren't objecting.
I nod walking towards her.
"Don't be afraid to go all out," She says smirking towards me. Her quirk warmed up as the lights in the building flicker signalling that she was ready to use her quirk to its full extent. Knowing she won't go easy on me I decided that I was going to do my best to test her.
I smirk back and use my highest power blast aiming it at her automatically knowing she'll be anticipating this. She jumps out of the way rolling onto the ground and flipping her body off the ground into a standing position.
Her quirk surrounds her the darkness and the lightness in the room channeling through her creating a sort of torpedo around her; her eyes closed as she calls it to her hands placing a well concentrated blast towards me. I dodge it but just barely a searing pain erupts from my back and I know she hit me.
I release another blast towards her this time ducking when she slides to the right striking me with the back of her hand a giggle escaping her as I crumple rolling out of her line of fire.
She almost floats back and calls all of the energy that she was manipulating to one hand swiping it with one stroke towards me. It knocks me off of my feet and she throws a bright ball of light at me that encases my body into a sort of immobile state.
She sends every ray of energy back to where she borrowed it from except for the one around me. Walking to me the light starts to get to normal. I feel her pulling me to my feet dragging me by the energy to the shellshocked students who were gaping at us mouths wide as she settled next to .
"As you can see...I can control the energy in the room; the name of my quirk is called Light and Dark which basically sums it up. Depending on the amount of light or darkness in a room I can choose to use one or both to capture or harm my opponent. I can use it for a period of twenty four hours before I need at least a days worth of rest before I can use it again." She explains drawing the energy from around me, her eyes not meeting mine as she sends the light back to the single light bulb towards the front of the center.
"What are your drawbacks?" Deku asks at the same time as Hot and Cold.
"Well...it takes away a small amount of my life source inside my body from my injuries which means I really only have a limited time to use my quirk... But if I take a break for a long period of time- like lets say a week then that life source can be restored, which is why I rarely use my quirk…" She says happily as to not worry anyone in the room.
I never knew this… Why didn't she tell me? We always used our quirks together...I wonder if that was the reason why she went to America where Villains were rare but they did happen. Why'd she come back?
She looks at me with a smile on her face as we prepare for the next lesson of the day...