Yaoyorozu sighed with a sense of grief, gazing out her regal window as god's tears descended upon the earth below.
"Momo?" Ochaco walked over worried-like, tilting her head in slight confusion.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just wish she were here…" Yaoyorozu closed the window blinds while mentally kicking herself for all the damage she'd caused. She thought she'd learned the difference between right and wrong, but all she'd learned it felt like, was that she was great at being a thorn in her friends' rears. Especially Bakugo's, whose forgiveness she longed for.
"Do you…" Uraraka picked at her fingernails while crunching her feet at the thought of her devious acts. "Do you think it's because of me?" Mina's words still scarred the poor girl's heart. Although she didn't know that Ochaco and Bakugo had actually been sharing a bit of intimacy as of late, Uraraka couldn't say that she hadn't felt the least bit of guilt afterwards. Nevertheless she felt even worse for letting her feelings get the better of her; it didn't matter if they weren't together, she saw the way Katsuki looked at Mina every day. And that was more than enough evidence- not to mention, pushing Bakugo away wasn't any help as she was treating him no better than Mina had.
He had a choice to make, and neither one of them considered how he felt so long as it satisfied them...
"Ochaco…" Momo placed a hand on the bubbly girl's shoulder, and held a solemn fist that said 'I am here'. "No- come on. Today's all about, friends, relaxation, and- MINETA GET OUT OF THERE!"
In light of the weekend drama from weeks before, Yaoyorozu attempted to settle her classmates down with a night at her place. She could, of course, house all of her classmates, as her house was practically a mansion.
But she wouldn't house all of her classmates. Two were missing- one of which was just so filled with despair she couldn't move.
The other wouldn't even dare to step foot in her 'god-forsaken' home.
Bakugo laid in his bed while covering his eyes with his arm, trying to get some shut eye. But he was cold, his body was in stressful pain, and his heart ached; Mina could mend all of these afflictions. Her laughter was playing on loop in his head, and he'd kill to see her if only for a second.
"Rr...dammit!" Bakugo shot from his bed and shook his head.
Meanwhile, at the Yaoyorozu residence, everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs to a jump scare.
"I-I-I didn't see it, what happened!?" Ojiro blinded his eyes with his hands.
"I don't wanna watch this anymore!" Kaminari hid under a blanket with Mineta.
"Whose idea was this!?" Jiro held onto Tsu for dear life.
"I was trying, you guys!" Not even halfway in and Hagakure was regretting her 'scary movie extravaganza'.
Midoriya, Ochaco, and Iida weren't holding up so well either. But at least Ochaco's ears were fine-tuned to distract herself.
"Hm?" Was that the door? The manipulator of gravity looked around for the master of the residence, as she couldn't just go answering the door of a home that wasn't hers.
But there it was again! She was sure of it, someone was at the door, and with the pouring rain, she'd hate for anyone to be out there in the cold.
"I'll be back." Uraraka whispered to her friends, before scrambling to her feet.
"Uraraka?" Izuku looked back, wondering what the sense of urgency was.
Ochaco looked around while walking to the door, but the knocking was apparent. Wasting no more time, she opened the door slowly.
In sync, Uraraka and Bakugo's hearts stopped beating, caught in each other's gaze.
*sneeze*
"Hm... you're gonna catch a cold…" Uraraka looked down to her feet, and Katsuki could already feel and see her crumbling. "Should I even ask?"
Silence. That was his answer. He surely couldn't say anything else.
"Just…"
"Uraraka…"
"Please. Just..."
"Don't do that…"
"Just come inside!" The sound of the movie drowned out this heart-breaking moment, as Bakugo couldn't bear the white-hot eyes which brimmed with tears, glaring him to ash. "You're not serious…"
"What do you want me to do...what do you want me to say!?"
"I want you to-!"
"Ochaco, is everything alright?" Yaoyorozu peeked around the door in a cooking apron only to be just as shocked as Ochaco was moments ago. "I...*ahem*. I, uh, I didn't expect you to show up."
"Don't flatter yourself, I'm not here for you." Katsuki looked even more intimidating, standing just shy of the rain, wet hair shading his eyes just enough to emphasize the ruby glow.
"Well." Now that he'd disrespected her in the one place she never would have dreamed, Momo was officially hurt by Bakugo's words. "If you're looking for Mina, she's-"
"No." Bakugo's eyes had never left Uraraka's, and she could feel his resolve, or at least his attempt to find one. Again, and again, she was getting lost in these...goddamn eyes of his! Why!? Why could he melt her so easily!?
"Momo." Ochaco returned his sight with equal conviction. "Can you give us a minute?"
She should've answered faster. Much faster.
"Now you listen to me…" Bakugo crept closer, and even Momo took a few steps away as he targeted his prey. "I should kill you just for sticking your nose in my business."
"Bakugo!"
"Stay outta this!" Ochaco grew livid, seething while watching the creator grow smaller and smaller in the explosive boy's presence. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't send you to hell right now…"
"Stop it!" Uraraka demanded.
"Tell me dammit!"
Uraraka came between the two and used her quirk to push Bakugo back as far as she could muster, before quickly releasing him. Not even Katsuki expected that, feeling rage that rivaled his own, pouring out in waves.
"Look at you...!" The pink-cheeked shuttered with bottled temper, growing more upset with Bakugo than she ever had. "You're falling apart!"
It was like the most pleasant nightmare she'd ever lived through. She knew what would hold him together and make a future which shone bright for Bakugo. But she wasn't a part of those things.
She was.
"What is it...!?" The angel-faced girl rattled her brain over what it was that made her so damn special. Bakugo might've been in front of her, but his heart was elsewhere, so out of reach she couldn't believe it.
"I...I gotta go." She glanced down at a river of flowing water carrying dirt and debris across the stone porch, before slowly turning to walk back inside. Meanwhile, the explosive boy was forced to just stand there, weak and feeble.
"Come back...get back here dammit!" He shouted, but his thoughts only bounced around in the dome of his mind as the grand door clicked shut.
Bakugo slid down the cold door lifelessly, wiping his face with dirty, defiled hands. His lungs were failing him, panting while realizing that the road he'd been lustfully following for months now had finally ended.
He was starving.
He was...he was sad.
He burrowed his face in his knees in frustration, cursing like no other. Katsuki wanted to see her. Feel her warmth once more, and just admit how wrong he was. He didn't care if she pushed him away once more. None of that mattered. He loved her more than anything, and his heart— as though for the first time— truly ached.
He stood up, and began to knock on the door...but his fist lay suspended in the air, before falling to his side completely.
Then he traversed back into the cold without a moment's hesitation.
Ochaco too lay with her back to the door, and as the subtle splash of fleeting feet grew weaker, sunk to her knees and began to ball her eyes out. However much she wanted his happiness, she so desperately wanted his touch.
But it wasn't her that Katsuki wanted.
Mina was scrolling through her phone in the darkness of her lover's room. All of the posts of her friends having a blast were enough as it was. The pitter-patter of the rain was amazing; it was wonderful to know she wasn't the only one crying. But Ashido's tears were internal now, she'd drained her eyes and was just crushed.
*bzzrt…! bzzrt…! *
"Not now Momo…" Mina rolled over in distress, would it kill to have some peace? Well, maybe she was just concerned. "I'll give her a call ba-!"
That was the common area door...someone was here.
But it was the weekend. And everyone was out at Yaoyorozu's. Why would someone be here?
Mina's heart was beating out of her chest, conceiving the worst possible outcome: a villain.
The footsteps were getting closer, more erratic. They were coming straight for this room. Was she being targeted!? Mina's legs rattled as the footsteps stopped at the door, and the doorknob began to jiggle.
"Crap!" Mina jumped out of her skin as the door was blown down completely! She coughed at the subtle debris, and squinted through the screen of smoke before her eyes widened completely.
He didn't have his key. All this commotion because he forgot his damn key at home. It was such a Bakugo thing to do...
Katsuki was drenched, and out of breath, exhausted from the great distance he'd crossed just to see her. And now he saw her clearly, in all her beauty. So where were his words? Bakugo could only pant while Mina stood there frozen, fragile body scrunched up frigid-like.
Then he was rushed, and Bakugo couldn't remember an embrace so warm in his entire life. He forgot how much he was freezing moments ago, and the cold he had probably came down with. Those were all things of the past now that he was before Ashido.
"Please don't leave me again…"
Mina burrowed deeper into his chest as her tears seeped into him— as if he weren't wet enough already. There was sharp pain streaking throughout his body, but it stemmed from his heart. All of the pain she was feeling, it was pouring into him in waves as her body shook weakly.
"Mina…"
"Please don't leave me!" Mina gripped either side of his jacket, pulling him closer. Bakugo held her head to his heart, but only to comfort her. He didn't deserve this...this begging.
He didn't deserve Mina, not anymore. Not after shedding her tears yet again.
"We...have to talk."
"You went back to her, didn't you?"
Heat rose in Bakugo as he gritted his teeth, Mina smiling sadly when raising her head to look at him. She just cupped his face as usual and sucked him into a dream world with hypnotic eyes. But only for a second.
"It's ok."
Mina cleared her throat and fix Katsuki's jacket, reassuring them both that it was indeed ok- even if it wasn't.
"We can move past that— it's not even a big deal."
"Mina, I…" But she wasn't listening, just still laughing and babbling with her own sense of denial.
"As long as you're here, everything'll be fine."
"Shut your damn mouth already!" Bakugo, fuming, heaved heavily while holding either side of Mina's arms. "How can you say that!?" He was shivering, but partly with rage. Mina looked just as shocked and at a loss for words the first time this happened: he'd lay the answer down on the table for her, it was like taking a test over and over because her grade was so poor. Ashido could never get it right.
"Say wha-"
"Everything won't be ok!"
Mina took a step back, the words like daggers cutting into her heart. Tears spawned slowly as she held her mouth, shaking her head in misbelief. He was just joking, right?
He wasn't walking out of her life again…right?
"Stop it..." Bakugo tilted his head, confused.
"What?"
"Stop talking like that..."
"Mina, you're not being realistic."
"You're not being realistic!" Mina gritted her teeth, enraged, shouting just as she did on the shoreline. "Dammit Katsuki, don't you get it!? I'm not like you!"
Their roles were reversed, Mina turning the tables the second her explosion burst with a force that rivaled Bakugo himself. "I wasn't born talented- I don't have talent, stupid! You're literally the bar everyone's struggling to jump over, and you know that! You make it known every single day…!"
Bakugo watched foolishly while Mina spun around to dig through her bag lying around wherever it was. She pulled out her Hero License, holding it up real good for the eye, just to throw it at the blonde boy's chest.
"What- you think just because you don't have it, you're not qualified?" Mina folded her arms, narrowing her gaze to illustrate how ridiculous Bakugo was being right now. "Like Bakugo, I swear- if you weren't yelling and angry all the damn time, I'd think you were laughing in my face." She said while rolling her eyes.
"How the hell would I be laughing?"
"'How'!? Just look at yourself!" Mina was growing more worked up, tears of frustration spilling over. "And then look at me…" Her world grew exponentially smaller as she came to realizations.
"Ashido…"
"No." The acidic girl turned sternly, holding out a finger while walking over and stabbing into Bakugo's chest. Looking into Mina's eyes was impossible, Katsuki feeling like she was melting his very soul with hellfire. "You don't get to do that. You don't get to just...'check-out' when you're wrong." Mina folded her arms, taking her eyes off of him momentarily.
The silence was enough for maybe a breath or two, the dark, greywolf skies providing just enough of murky light to see each other's figures in the room. Bakugo could hear Mina's sobbing. Although suppressed and faint, he could make it out, and watched her shake her head to her thoughts.
"I mean, just look at you." Mina turned back only a little, scanning every aspect of Bakugo's being- whatever she could make out anyway. "You're so...perfect. And I'm just..." She slapped her hands back down in the fold of her arms, struggling to find better words while angry.
Kinda' like him.
"You had a girl like Uraraka...so what were you doing with me?" Mina wondered, not even looking at the boy behind her. She thought this was all one sick joke, and she was done being a part of it. But she gazed with saucer-like eyes, her arm grabbed, and she was whirled around.
Mina had never been lost in more honest eyes, Bakugo's eyes.
"Because she's not you, you idiot!" Katsuki spat, shaking some sense into her.
"Tch! W-what the hell's that supposed to mean!? You jerk!" Mina was absolutely flustered, more red than pink.
"It means you're an idiot!?"
"What did you say to me!?"
"I'm not perfect Raccoon Eyes...!" He shoved her away at arm's length, but only because if she were any closer, he'd explode. Mina's heart grew weak as she dove into sunken carmine eyes, the same eyes that nearly melted her days ago. Fighting stupid tears, Mina placed a pleasant touch upon Bakugo's scarred cheek, then couldn't fight back her urge any longer...
...she laughed. A light sneer, a small chuckle, but she wiped the streaks from her face, before smiling warm-heartedly. Ashido swathed her arms about Katsuki's neck, and pulled him into a loving embrace he dreamed would last forever.
"W-what are you..."
"I don't care about any of that." Ashido only held him closer, lost in the moment and letting her heart do the talking. "Who cares if you're a screw up? I'm a screw up. So, instead of you turning everything into a competition again..." Mina dazzled Bakugo with a cute face, cheerful personality, and foolery that his head would surely never wrap around. "Can't we just be screw ups together?"
Where was the logic in that? Ugh, who was he kidding: Mina didn't use logic.
"Mm...that's stupid." Bakugo pouted.
"You're stupid- woah!" Mina tripped on her own feet while going for a clean shot on the blonde, falling over and atop Katsuki. They lay battered on the floor atop a pile of clothes, Mina straddling Bakugo, while shuttering with pain.
"Fine."
The look of surprise struck her face like lightning, Mina pausing from rubbing her poor head, to looking down to the boy who continued to pout and avoiding eye contact.
"We can both be screw ups."
Droplets of water beat against his chest, Bakugo watching Mina fall apart while balling his shirt in her fist. "Dammit- why are you crying!?"
"Stupid, it's just dirt in my eyes!" The pink girl began to wipe the tears from her face once again, but the gesture was done for her before a searing kiss of harmonic passion was delivered, engulfing the two in a sea of flame.
There was a faint musk alluring in the girl's nose, the lightly damp clothes of Katsuki filling the air. Ashido grasping his face while delivering her love with each kiss. Divine passion was swirling around their bodies, lusting appetites nipping at one another's lips. They paused for a breath, but seeing Mina overcome with joy, tears spilling obnoxiously, made him smile too.
"Uh…" She was blushing, Mina avoiding eye contact. The moment was lovely an all, but the pressure on his body wasn't doing him any favors- well…
"This is usually when one thing leads to another with us, but…"
"What is it? Did I do something?"
"No silly." Mina laughed, shaking her head to reassure him.
"I just...can't, right now…"
Seeing as he was still confused, she knelt down, and whispered into Katsuki's ear about why sex would be off the table for the next couple of days.
"Oh…"
Sweet laughter accompanied Bakugo's embarrassment before Mina rested her head on his chest. His heartbeat was the most soothing lullaby she'd ever heard. "Can we...stay here, for a little bit longer?"
"As long as you want." Bakugo strummed her Ashido's hair, kissing her head before slipping his jacket off and cloaking her body.
He would never be able to recall such a moment of happiness. Nothing else mattered. These past few months, his failures, it was but a storm, just passing by like the one outside. The sky was clearing up, the orange skylight creeping into the crisp air of Katsuki's room, and upon the two who were basking in each other's love.
Bakugo just wished that he could be the sun that shone bright after Mina's rainy days, as she was for him.
He was laughing, the most genuine laughed Mina had ever heard from him.
"What's so funny?" Ashido pouted.
"Nothing Mina." Bakugo looked down, and captivated Ashido with eyes that roared with the sun's red-orange light.
"I just love you, that's all."
Quite the wait...apologies! I can't even express how busy I've been, and then this story making me want to jump off a cliff! I had a finished version of the story, then I scraped it. While working on a shit storm of other stories, the Bakugo x Uraraka pairing grew on me...a lot. So much so, it stalled this story because I find more parallels between those two. So I had to redo everything, take some steps back, find new inspiration & not rush this.
Plan on refurbishing this story so that timelines with other stories match up, so keep an eye out for that.
As always: be sure to go Plus Ultra. ~Nyan