The next morning, bakugo walked down towards the gates of freedom beside toshinori. He was beyond ready to go back to earth. He wanted to look into the people, the nature, and the activities people enjoyed about earth. He wasn't so sure if he was ready to run into that boy again, but if he did he decided he'd deal with it when the time came.
"Okay, so you remember what your mom said correct?" toshinori asked once they reached the gates.
"Yea yea, follow the rules and don't make a fool of the gods and myself." Bakugo said as he walked through them.
"Close enough." Toshinori chuckled and bakugo looked up at him.
"Hey, why are you doing this for me? Is my dad paying you or something?" bakugo asked actually curious. Sure the other gods were nice to him, but they never tried to convince his mother otherwise for him. What was toshinori's goal?
"Young katuski…the world is an amazing place filled with amazing people. You are the only one who seems interesting in exploring that. So I'm going to help you anyway I can." He said and patted bakugo on the back once they reached the end of the clouds.
"Well, thanks. I know it's hard to speak to my mom sometimes about her views but-"
"Enough talk! Off you go!" toshinori cut bakugo off and once again, pushed him off the cliff of clouds.
Bakugo was obviously once again thrown off and pissed as ever. "OH COME ON!" he yelled as he went down. He quickly positioned himself so that he was going to land on his feet if anything. He prayed the same thing would happen when he got to close to earth.
To his surprise, it did. When he was merely moments away from plopping on the ground, his body stopped in mid air for about five seconds before just dropping him on the floor. This time bakugo landed on his rear, seeing he wasn't prepared for such a terrifying landing at all. Maybe one day he'd get it right.
"Geez, what's wrong with that guy!" bakugo says as he stands up on his feet. He looks around and notices he's in the same exact area as last time. He knows he has no time to waste so he immediately begins moving around.
One thing bakugo loved about earth was the greenery. In his kingdom there was nothing but clouds, but here there was brown trees, green grass, blue waterfalls, red flowers, and so many wild life animals. He wasn't the type to get mushy inside but he couldn't help but feel excited by the fact that he was here again. It was literally a dream come true.
Some sounds of voices and movement pulled bakugo out of his thoughts. He looked around and noticed he wasn't too far from a town. Without much thought he begins to walk towards it. He knew mortals didn't look so much different from gods but he still wanted to see them up close. Just when he was a couple of steps away from the path to enter town, he stopped.
Something came over him that actually made him feel, nervous. He had never really felt nervous in the past so this new emotion really freaked him out. If this was his home land things would be different, but it wasn't. Here, he was a stranger. He was the different one and he had no clue how people were going to react to him. Sure, he did look like a normal person but what if people started to wonder who he was and where he came from? He couldn't handle so many eyes and questions and he knew it.
More importantly, he would already be breaking one of his mother's rules.
Bakugo sighed and slowly backed away from the town, careful not to be so fast and grab someones attention. He walked deep back into the forest and looked at his surroundings while he wondered what he could possibly do now. Then he remembered, one reason he was here was to practice summoning his spirit creature.
Seeing bakugo already knew what he was, he wasn't so sure if he wanted to summon something like that here, but he did tell toshinori and his mom he'd try, so he guessed he had no choice.
"Oh man, please don't let this be messy…" bakugo said and he sat down and crossed his legs. He closed his eyes and fell deep into focus.
Izuku had made sure that all of his chores were done early that day. He made a promise to himself last night that he intended to keep. He really wanted to know who this mystery boy was. There was no way of telling if the boy was still going to be there somewhere in the forest or not, but it was still worth a try. Plus it would help getting izuku's mind off other things.
As izuku made his way threw town to get out of it he was asked to complete all sorts of task. He had to move another cow from the road, carry a ton worth a chicken feed to a nearby farm, and he even had to push a home a little to the left because the sun was beaming down on it too hard making it unbearable to live in. Izuku had a handful that morning, but when he escaped to the forest, he knew he wasn't going to be bothered for a while.
"Okay…maybe I'll get lucky, just maybe…" izuku told himself as he walked threw the forest. He immediately started his search.
He looked up into the trees, low behind rocks and even stuck his head in a river, but for a while he had no luck. He got deeper and deeper into the forest and knew it would take him a while to get back, but he really hoped the walk would be worth it. A good hour had gone by and izuku still hadn't found anything, or in this case anyone. His body wasn't becoming tired but his heart was from all this believing and hope he was carrying in it.
He stopped walking, and he stopped looking so hard. He threw his head back and ran his hands threw his green locks while groaning. He didn't even know what he was looking for at this point. He sighed an let his hands fall to his side as he sat in the grass. "Maybe my mom was right, I was just trying to hard to figure out what makes me different. I probably imagined I saw someone…I'm really an idiot."
Izuku folded his arms and rested his head in it, he was seconds away from giving up. But then he heard a noise. Not a noise that a forest tree, river, or animal could make. It had to be a man made sound. Izuku's head shot up in surprise. He silenced himself and held his breath waiting to see if it was all in his head.
"God damn it!" he heard a raged filled comment enter the air and he quickly scrambled to his feet. Who was that? Could this be who he was looking for?
"That wasn't so far from me…" izuku mumbled to himself and before he could process another thought he was off. He ran in the direction he heard the first scream. He paused for a moment to see if another one would come and it did. He followed the second one and it led him closer.
Izuku was running at full speed now. Too many emotions filled his body and he was becoming less aware of all of his surroundings, including the branch he was about to trip on…
"Fuck!" bakugo cursed out loud. He was sitting in the grass and had been practicing for a while on how to fully summon his spirit creature, but he didn't have the best of luck.
The situation was exactly what he asked for it not to be: messy. When he felt he was getting the hang of it, nothing would happen. But when he would barely try, he could feel something building up inside him that was ready to come out. However, even when he was that close he messed it up by starting to force it and thinking to hard.
From the constant going back and forth motion between human and creature, bakugo took on a weird form at the moment. He was still in his human form, but his skin was somewhat red and he had sharper teeth and nails. Little horns formed in his head but they were barely noticeable since they were hiding in his blonde hair. One thing that was noticeable though, was some of the scales along his body and the little tail sticking out behind him.
This clearly wasn't bakugo full creature form and it was killing him mentally. He didn't understand why he couldn't fully turn into the animal he already knew he was. Was it because it was too big? Was it the area he was in? was he just not ready to summon such a creature? Bakugo lost his temper once more and punched the ground.
"Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Bakugo was so busy torturing the earth that he wasn't aware of the being creeping closer towards him. When he had stopped punching the grass, he heard the fast pace of footsteps but it had been too late for him to react. His eyes widened and he knew he might be in trouble.
Bakugo stood up and got into his best fighting stance. Seeing that he didn't even look human right now, obviously whoever this was, was most likely going to attack him. Bakugo realized that he'd probably have to knock this guy or girl out before they could do some damage. But when bakugo watched the mortal who had been running, come flying threw the bushes yelling, and then land on his face…he couldn't help but feel bad.
He immediately dropped his guard and looked down at the still figure who's face was still well printed into the ground. "Umm…"
"Gaah…" izuku slowly lifted his head and he was immediately dizzy. He thought he was seeing stars and five people in front of him. However, when he shook his head a bit and his perfect vision returned, he saw he was looking up at the boy he was chasing.
Bakugo's eyes widened with shock. "Y-You…"
Izuku was frozen, all he could do was stare at the other boy who had a clear different image than him. "You…You're…"
Bakugo snapped out of his thoughts and remembered what he looked like at the moment. "Tch!" he took off running without a word, causing izuku to panic.
He couldn't lose him, not now. "Wait!" izuku yelled and immediately hopped on his feet ignoring the pain in his legs from the fall and took off running after bakugo. This time he was in serious mode. He made sure that he stayed right on bakugo's tail and didn't lose him.
Bakugo noticed his company and was confused on how a mrtal could possibly be this fast. "Back off!" he yelled not caring to find out why he was being chased.
"I can't! Listen, I actually just want to talk!" izuu yelled back and continued his chase. They both ran around for some time, bakugo would try to lose izuku through the trees but it didn't work. He tried switching directions but it was no help. No matter what he did, izuku didn't seem to want to stop. Bakugo was impressed but he still didn't want to make his mom mad.
"Enough of this! Toshino-" bakugo called out to the older god, but before he could finish his name, he tripped over a branch just like izuku in the beginning. Once his leg came in contact with the wood, he went flying in the air for a moment and came down hard on his back. Izuku winced a bit for bakugo, he knew that had to hurt.
When bakugo had stopped skidding across the grass from the trip, izuku ran over to him and fell to his knees to catch his breath. He hasn't run like that in years and he had a feeling neither did the boy in front of him, because he was wheezing for air too. When bakugo felt he had enough air in his lungs, he tried to get up and make a dash for it again. Izuku panicked realizing his didn't have the energy for another run so he grabbed hold to the closest thing to him on bakugo's body and yanked it back.
Unfortunately for bakugo, it was his little tail and he yelped in pain. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Bakugo boomed and rubbed his rear.
Izuku, still overwhelmed with feelings, stood up and jumped towards bakugo. Bakugo was completely thrown off when the slightly smaller boy tackled him to the ground and pinned him under him. He was unbelievably strong and it freaked him out a bit.
"W-What the hell?! Hey! What're you doing?!" bakugo looked up at the other male. To his surprised the other boy was smiling hard while he gasped for air. "Huh? What's your deal?"
Izuku's face was red from the running and excitement but he didn't care. He smiled harder at the fact that he met someone new, just like him. "We're the same!"
