Chapter five start

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Todoroki's PoV

Midoriya walked away from the two of us, and Mayhem turned to me and smiled.

"Come on, I'm pretty sure Mido's got some sort of hair dye in his room. Besides, I wanna talk to you." He slung his arm around me, and started leading me upstairs

"So Todoroki, what are your feelings towards Deku?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you want to be our friend, our co-worker, our partner in crime, his partner in other things, friends with benefits, like what's the vibe you want to develop with him? I promise nothing that you say will leave my head."

"I don't know, I at least know I want to get to know him, maybe be his friend?"

"Alrighty then, tonight is going to be a good step towards that." He opened the door to Midoriya's room. It was plain, with the same grey walls and dark wood floors as mine. It was tidy, but in the corner were posters of various pro heroes, most notably All Might, all with their eyes crossed out.

"I think he bought a ton of extra hair dye when we did this." Mayhem pointed to his vibrantly colored mop of hair.

"You guys must have done that in the last week or so right? I mean it looks fresh enough that I would never guess it wasn't natural, especially with your eyes."

"Heh you right." He turned towards the bathroom and moments later he walked over with a large black box.

It contained black, blue, yellow, red, purple hair dye, a large bucket of bleach and something labeled developer. A couple of the boxes were open, and the scent that was brought with all of it made me slightly dizzy.

"Well we will have to get rid of the red, obviously, and I don't know if we can keep the split color. It's fairly unique." Mayhem sat me down in Midoriya's desk chair.

"Well what would you suggest? I'll let you do whatever with it, I'm not attached to it."

"That's good to hear." Midoriya walked through the door with a small tray of alcohol.

"I thought you were gonna grab a bottle of vodka and go?" Mayhem was just as confused as me

"Well he doesn't do this often, so why not ask Kurogiri for something to get him used to it, besides, we can keep some of this up here." His smile was contagious, it made me giddy for what was to come.

"Alright whatever floats your boat, now what to do with his hair."

"Well what if we mixed these two, and then put it all over."

"Hm that could work, should we cut it?"

"Idk man, what if we took a lot off the sides, and then a little off the top, then we put that gel we got-"

"That could work."

Midoriya passed me a bottle as Mayhem started mixing dyes.

"Last chance to back out."

"Fuck it."

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Mayhem's PoV

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I did not think I would be coloring a repressed gay's hair tonight but here I am. I just wanted to get drunk, run around the city one last time, and possibly, if not probably, break into a random building.

"So Shouto, how'd you get the scar?" I inquired

"Oh my god May you can't just go around asking people why they have scars."

"No it's fine. I got this scar when I was really young. My parents were never happy together, Touya could probably tell you more about what was always going on between them. I was born to be the perfect hero, my father bought my mother's hand in marriage and once he had her she wasn't treated well. She went insane and attacked me one day, thinking I looked like my father."

Oh fuck

"She poured boiling water on my face after calling it unbearable, there when she realized what she'd done she used her quirk to try and help me, but it just left this." He pointed to his face

"So that's why it's not the same as Dabi's burns"

"Yeah, he doesn't have a way of regulating his body heat like I do, and the reason he has burns and my father doesn't, well Touya's flames are a lot hotter than that bastard's."

"I see."

Shit I don't know what to say, why did I ask him that? We were just supposed to talk to him normally, not unlock his tragic backstory.

"Sorry to be a buzzkill."

"Hey it's all good dude! We all have our shit, I was bullied for years and then found out that the man I idolized nearly killed my dad." Midoriya chimed in, giving me a look

"Oh yeah. We all have our reasons for doing what we do, my parents were pieces of shit. We all have had to deal with shit, and trust me, your trauma is valid and you deserve justice."

He gave us a small smile at this.

We fell into fairly comfortable silence, passed the bottle around and washed and cut Todoroki's hair.

"Oh damn, I don't look like me."

He was right, he now had dark blue locks, cut close to his head except for the top which had a bit of gel to give it a natural wave.

"I-it looks really good Shouto." Midoriya smiled at him, by now we were all very inebriated and there was a buzz in the room.

"Alright grab the hoodies, we ride at dawn!" I pumped my fist

"You have school May, we ride now." Todoroki rolled his eyes

I blinked twice, "you right."

I shoved a black hoodie over my head and the two of them did the same.

"Alright! To the outside world!" Mido cheered

"To the outside world!" I replied before finishing off the bottle we had.

"Ok, so where exactly are we going?" Todoroki slung an arm around Izuku

"Well it's currently two am, so idk we could go to the park, maybe one of the shopping districts is open?"

"I'm down for whatever, ooo wait what about that beach you cleaned up?"

"Hell yes!" Todoroki suddenly got really excited

"Beach it is,"

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Bakugou's PoV

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Why was I up at two in the fucking morning?

I don't do that shit. I've never done that shit, maybe once in my life when I was on a sugar high to outer space.

I was supposed to be sleeping, I go to bed before everyone else, I wake up before everyone else. That's how I lived my life. I finished my homework early, I trained constantly, I am going to be the next number one fucking hero.

So what was keeping me up at night?

I threw the covers off and headed towards the door.

I made my way to the kitchen as quietly as possible, but it seems I wasn't alone in my unrest.

"Couldn't sleep?" The purple haired chick inquired

"None of your business." I growled in response

"I'll take that as a yes. You're Bakugou Katsuki right? You made a lot of heads turn today."

"Yea, rightfully so. I scored at the top, I deserve recognition. Who are you?"

"Jirou Kouyka."

"Hm"

"So what do you got to be restless about? I doubt it's the move."

"I'm not restless."

"Then why are you up?"

Why was I up? I shouldn't be.

"I don't know."

"Well, here's to unexplained insomnia." She held out a glass of water

"To unexplained insomnia." I took it from her

We sat in silence for a bit. That was one of the longest conversations I've ever had without insulting someone.

I didn't have that energy anymore, it didn't make me feel tough, I already knew how people saw me.

They all gave me a wide berth.

"Ya know, I heard somebody talking about you earlier." Jirou spoke again

"Oh really? About my scores or the papers?"

"Blog."

Explosions or Omen of Death: who is Bakugou Katsuki and why are his friends dying?

A lovely piece written by some hack blogger.

After Kemuri and Futtota's bodies were found it didn't take long for people to tear into that case.

When the papers interviewed me about their deaths the internet had a field day. Did Bakugou Katsuki kill his friends? Wasn't he the kid who got saved by All Might? Wasn't the kid who died on All Might's watch his friend?

Bad luck, omen of death, etc. I was called all of those things, then my old middle school classmates joined in, telling lies that the internet ate up.

"Let me guess, they were worried that people would start dying around me again." I didn't want to talk about this

"Yea, but it's pointless. I doubt you had anything to do with it."

That surprised me.

"Why is that?"

"Because there have been plenty of kids dying. Not just from your old school, you remember those four first years found dead a few weeks ago? They were all from Ashido's school, apparently she was friends with them."

"Who's Ashido?"

"Pink hair, black and yellow eyes. Constantly happy."

"Oh, Pinky. Got it."

"The media had their pieces on it, but it only got half the coverage as your story did. Then there was Endeavor's son who died, the six kids from the Kanto region, even in the Kemino district. There have been twenty kids who have died nationwide but they focus on you, because they know that they can milk your story."

"Why me?"

"Because you are a promising young hero in training. Ashido is to, don't get me wrong, but the media saw you interact with All Might, and tragedy followed."

"Stupid fuckin reporters."

"Preach, if you need to maybe talk to Ashido. I don't know if it would benefit you or her more but either way it could help."

"I'll… I'll think about it."

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Todoroki''s PoV

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Everything was kinda fuzzy, but somehow we made it to a beach. The sand still held some form of warmth.

This was the first time I'd been to the beach.

"Can you believe I cleaned this whole Fuckin place for All Might? Like why couldn't I have worked out in a normal fashion?" Midoriya nearly face planted into the sand

"I don't know man, but it's pretty cool. Shame that people chose to destroy places like this." Mayhem swayed slightly

"What if we just destroyed the whole city? That would make everyone have to clean up." I muttered

"Yes! That is an amazing idea. Eco-Terrorism" Midoriya started laughing and eventually we all joined in.

I couldn't remember a time before this that I was this happy.

Not at home, not at school, and not in training. This brought the me genuine joy.

He brought me genuine joy.

What the actual fuck. How did my whole life change so fast? One minute I'm on a death march to a school I didn't care about, the next I'm being dragged to my brother and it's because of this boy.

"What;s the vibe you want to develop with him?"

Shit.

I am so fucked.

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Midoriya's PoV

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He had a nice laugh. I mean all of him was nice, but I liked his laugh the best.

What about his screams? What are those like?

What could we learn about him?

Reflexes, reactions, how does his quirk work?

Is he resistant to certain things because of his quirk?

He would be interesting to study. I needed something to entertain me… that's all.

Mayhem had been gone for so long that I just needed something to work on, right?

It's not like he would actually be interested in anything other than partnership. We worked well as a trio. But I want to know more, want to experience more.

Now that I have enough power to bring people like Shouto to our side, well what else would I do with it?

What else would you do with him?

"Midoriya."

I look over to see him, framed by the moon on the very edge of the tide.

If this was life playing some sort of trick on me, I may just go along with it.

"Come on Izu, this is the last night before it begins." Mayhem smirked

Right, because in a few weeks All Might would be dead.

Then I start my climb one step over Tomura.

"Alright, lets go out with a bang!" I pumped my fist and tackled Shouto into the ocean

"FUcK!"

"Not without me!" Mayhem promptly body slammed the two of us.

"Guys I can't breath!" Shouto flopped between the two of us

"Then get us off of you, come on you can do it."

I felt him shift under us, he was trying so hard it was funny.

We let him struggle of a bit, and then, slowly but surely, he started to lift us off of him.

"Bastards, I could have died!"

"Chill Todoroki, we like you enough not to kill you." Mayhem started chuckling.

I guess he wasn't too butt hurt because he started laughing too.

"Wanna grab something to eat?"

"Why not. You're paying thou." Shouto smiled

"I see, fair enough."

"Lets get eat or something."

"Dude, who the hell would be selling that, this early in the morning?" I looked at my best friend

"Look, I don't know what sort of food they are gonna have at school. Can you blame me for wanting something?"

"No, but seriously use your head my man. You're gonna need it if you are serious about going after Kacchan."

"Who?" Shouto looked cute when he was confused

"The future number one hero, my childhood friend, and bully. Mayhem as a thing for messing with people's heads, and their trust."

"Aw, flattery will get you nowhere my friend."

"By the way, I don't actually know your name. Mind sharing." Todoroki focused on him now

"Well, if you must know."

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Who do you think Mayhem is? Comment below and let me know?

Sorry that this chapter is so short, but I thought I would give you guys an extra one since I haven't published in a hot minute. Also sorry for the rant at the end of last chapter.

Anyway hope you liked it! See you next time!

—Jade