Katsuki grumbled as he woke up to the sun in his eyes.
Stupid gas ball.
Katsuki pushed himself up from bed, he ran a hand through his hair and started walking over to his bathroom and took off his pajamas.
Turning on the water in the shower he jolted and immediately hissed at the chill, frowning at the sharpness of the cold water on his skin the entire time until he could get back out and feeling much more human than before.
Waking up was the shittiest part of his day, caked in dry sweat from his quirk's constantly pissing out more throughout the night.
His folks bought him special sheets so he didn't have to deal with being in a puddle of it on top of that even if he had to remake his bed every morning.
Speaking of Katsuki grabbed his PJs off the floor and went back to his room, tossing the clothes in his basket and started to strip his bed, the sheets and blanket quickly following the clothes into the basket as well.
Then he went over to his drawer and after some thought picked the black ones for today, because it was the first one he could find and not the color of them that made him pick that set.
Of course, it was not because he still hadn't looked at the messages the penguin duo left him since the day before yesterday.
Absolutely nothing to do with them.
Katsuki threw his pillow onto his bed with far too much force causing it to land wrong and he had to fix it so that it was rearranged to look right.
Getting frustrated Katsuki turned away and moved to grab his mini wheel and a glob of clay, dunking it in some water before crushing it in his hands.
Pottery, surprisingly, was a great stress reliever since he could mash it all up and still end up with something worth a few bucks by the end of it.
The fact it would be hard to fuck up was actually helpful to him to keep from stressing with the activity like he would other ones.
Like cooking, he liked cooking but the chance of fucking up was pretty high if he didn't wear the gloves and handkerchief his parents got him, mainly because his sweat even in small concentrations could be dangerous if consumed by others.
As it was for almost every other thing he did.
Not for lack of trying out different crap, but he had probably given up at some point since he was too focused on getting himself ready for U.A.
He painted when he was still in pre-k with Izuku, but painting was messy and most were combustible so that would be more hassle than he wanted to deal with.
Drawing was okay, but other than his and Izuku costumes he didn't have much interest in it or any other form of art barring the clay stuff he was doing.
Most physical shit was also a no brainer since his sweat was toxic and most sports had some form of contact or infuriating to him because of their rules.
Hiking with the hag was nice though.
Hell he couldn't even think about fucking touching someone without considering if they were wearing enough clothes to protect them from his sweat and if he could get away with a quick brush against them.
He only got away with longer stuff with his folks because his old man's quirk left him safe for the most part and the hag took meds to counteract the side effects in addition to her other meds.
Auntie took the meds too and Izuku didn't need them since he could process the compound better, it just left him feeling hazier or out of it.
Katsuki's thoughts were interrupted by his phone vibrating and he flinched when it continued to vibrate until his phone kicked the call to his voicemail.
He wasn't avoiding them.
Katsuki just didn't want to talk with them right now, which was fully within his rights.
If he didn't want to deal with them right now then he didn't have to.
And he did not feel guilty about it in any way shape or form.
His ignoring the two had absolutely nothing to do with why he got up from his wheel and grabbed the bottle dye and the red and yellow glitter.
Katsuki was not making a brand-new piece for the two of them because of the fact he wasn't responding to the calls or messages.
He was just making it because he wanted to.
Adding the black dye he carefully molded it so that the black didn't fully cover the gob of clay and shaped it until it looked like black deer with blue-grey 'socks' and sprinkled the red glitter on top of it, painting white gaze on the deer to form spots and an underbelly.
The second one was much larger solid black and a big rack before adding the yellow glitter and painted the tips of the antlers white.
And put the one in his oven after cleaning his hands off, taking a big drink from one of his water bottles before settling down in front of it, moving his head side to side cracking it before rolling his shoulders.
Ready Katsuki placed his hands in the slots on both sides of the oven and turned on his quirk, small bangs filled the air with little puffs of smoke coming out of the top in a rush, being forced out of the oven.
Seconds later Katsuki opened the oven and examined the deer before nodding to himself that it looked alright and got the other one and repeated the process.
With more booms to score the surface, adding a nice change in the regular black and the burned bits.
Placing the two together Katsuki couldn't help feeling prideful with his work as he wiped his hands clean again.
A knock on his door left him to grunt in replay, his old man sticking his head in "Busy morning Katsuki?" his old man asked and Katsuki nodded.
"Well breakfast is made, feel free to come out when you get hungry." his old man offered.
"Whatever geezer." Katsuki replied putting down the rag and walking to the door to get something to eat since he was feeling peck-ish.
"Morning brat, going on a hike after filling up, do you want to come and burn off some energy?" the hag asked pausing from eating her bowl of food.
Katsuki considered it for a moment.
He'd definitely like to get out of the house but his nose scrunched up the thought, he liked stomping around the woods, especially since he always found cool shit out there to add to his clay sculptures on top of a safe workout.
But he didn't want to slather himself in sunscreen and bug spray today, or deal with the boneless-ness afterwards.
"Hell no, ain't being bug bait for you bitch." he told him her flipping her off making her start spitting and hissing at him, repressing a grin when she did.
Falling into one of their pissing matches for the next half hour stretching out breakfast for much longer.
Katsuki had missed this, it helped relieve some of the tension when he could have these spats with her, and there were never any hard feelings by the end of it because people talk crap all of the time.
Returning to his room Katsuki grabbed up his laundry basket and headed for the bathroom to clean it up, pouring his and his old man's detergent in and a handful of those orby things which worked together to make their sweat a non-threat.
With nothing to do Katsuki went back to his room and got started on his homework and studying.
Which he must have been pretty sucked into it for him not to notice how much time had passed afterwards.
Katsuki did notice however when one of the two birds broke into his room and tackled him in a hug.
"Bakugou!" said shadow bird chirped in his ear and took advantage of his shock to nuzzle him.
"Potty, what the fuck are you doing here?" Katsuki questioned pushing the shadow off of him.
"Fumi and I are here to kidnap you!" Potty cheerfully answered.
*The fuck?* Katsuki thought one of his eyes twitching as the shadow's twin entered his room.
"Apologizes Bakugou, I tried to talk them out of this, but Sadi was insistent." Patchy said covering his face with one hand and looked bashful about the whole thing.
"The fucks that supposed to me- Mother fucker!" Before Katsuki could properly interrogate Patchy, Potty wrapped themself around him to the point he couldn't move and only watch as he was dragged out to the living room.
"Thanks for letting us kidnap your son Bakugou-San! We'll have him back by nine." Potty told his old man while Patchy buried his face in his hands hissing at his fucking twin that was still holding him captive.
"Have fun and stay out of trouble boys." his old man replied, not doing anything to stop the two penguins from taking him out of the house, traitorous bastard.
It was only after they were all outside the apartment did Potty let him go and he immediately rounded on the two and grabbed Patchy by the collar "The hell do you two think you're doing?" he spat at them.
Patchy gave an alarmed chirp hands flying up in surrender "There's a festival and Sadi insisted that we should bring you despite your lack of an answer to us asking you to come." Patchy told him, at which point Potty hugged him again making him let go of Patchy's collar.
"Because Bakugou clearly needs a day out and to have some fun, so come on Bakugou or we'll miss our train." Potty confirmed somehow dragging him and Patchy off without letting either of them get a word in.
And despite his protests Katsuki, totally against his will mind you, was forced on a train and found himself standing besides Patchy and the physical bird paid for their entrance to some Inuyama festival.
The only reason he hadn't punched them in the face was because unless he used his quirk then the shadow penguin wouldn't even feel it and Katsuki wasn't going to get himself a record for either of those dumbasses.
"Look they're selling kimonos over there, Fumi we need to get one for you." Potty exclaimed pointing to one of the booths at the entrance "Oh, oh and one for Bakugou too! He'd look so cute in this one Fumi." Potty continued to say as they held up one of the kimonos, one that was black with gold trim and red feather details stitched into the cloth.
"Sadi!" Patchy hissed feathers ruffled and trying but failing to hush his excited twin, of whom was determined to find a kimono for Patchy that wouldn't clash with the one they had picked for Katsuki himself.
"For fucks sake you'd think this is their first bloody festival with the way their acting." Katsuki grumbled and Patchy flinched.
"It... kind of, is?" Patchy told him and he stared at the bird with a 'what the fuck' face, Patchy ducked his head and crossed his arms.
"Sadi wasn't allowed out in public like this, being officially a familiar quirk now we could file for a permit and they can be let 'out' of me up to three meters around me legally, so this is their first festival Bakugou." Patchy explained to him.
Katsuki grumbled under his breath and pinched the bridge of his nose, of course that was why Patchy's backbone was on sabbatical at the moment.
"Look at this one Fumi, it's perfect!" Potty said coming back with a dark red one with black trim and a yellow band.
"... Thank you Sadi." Patchy said after a moment taking the kimono and checked the price tag and winced at it.
Looking between the two Katsuki, though irritated, didn't feel the need to leave and after cursing himself out for it in his mind snatched up both of the kimonos and went over to pay for them.
Wasn't like he used his pocket money for much, and he didn't need to save up for helping Izuku like he was before.
He did not feel vindicated for doing it when Potty let out a series of thankful chirps and nuzzling him again even more, he just pushed the bird off him and went to put on his kimono in one of the available booths.
Slipping into the kimono Katsuki begrudgingly had to give Potty some credit in picking one of nicer ones that actually felt soft against his skin so at least he wouldn't have to deal with wearing some half-assed itchy shit for the next hour.
Katsuki was grabbed as soon as he came out by Potty and he was dragged around with Patchy to the other booths, letting Potty coo at all the cheap shit that was normally found at these places.
It was annoying but bearable for the most part as long as the shadow penguin didn't stick the barbecued mice on a stick he bought for them in his face.
Then he was almost tackled by a big ass lab and he immediately started cursing as he reeled back.
"I'm so sorry-" The man walking him tried to say but Katsuki flipped him off.
"I don't give a flying fuck! Keep your rapid mutt on a leash or go the fuck home, spineless cunt!" Katsuki hissed quickly stomping off from the main area and away from the damn dog.
The flightless birds found him still fuming under a tree a few seconds later.
"Bakugou are you alright?" Patchy asked first and Potty surprisingly followed up with "Do you need to go home?"
Katsuki tsked avoiding looking at them "As if some dumb mutt would fuck me up that bad." he snapped back.
Potty moved to hover into his view "Are you sure? It's okay to go back early. We could just hang out in your room and watch you make more clay stuff or blow up some more anger dolls." Potty suggested and Katsuki scowled at that.
"We ain't ditching, I just- fuck." Katsuki spat back before turning away from them both with his arms crossed.
"Was it the dog?" Patchy hesitantly asked walking over to his side.
"No, yes, screw you." Katsuki hissed back with no real fire behind the words.
"Are you allergic or something?" Potty inquired softly and Katsuki shot him a look.
"Are you kidding me dumbass? My sweat is basically poison to the point where I can't touch people for long without sending them to the hospital, that suicidal mutt would've been dead in minutes if it licked me cause animals handle it even worse than humans do you moron." Katsuki exclaimed letting off a couple small pops from his hands.
"Oh." Potty squeaked back "So you've never had a pet before?" Potty asked and Katsuki rolled his eyes pinching the bridge of his nose.
"And just what kind of pet could I get where I wouldn't get in contact with it or its food?" Katsuki sassed back.
"Right, do you want to go back now Bakugou?" Potty asked and Katsuki just nodded, walking back into the line of booths.
Walking around for a bit, Katsuki calming down from the animal scare though he kept a more weary eye out just in case.
"Fumi look! We have to play that one now!" Potty insisted pointing to a random booth and dragged Patchy off, Katsuki grumbled shaking his head and followed the two penguins over to whatever booth Potty wanted to check out now.
Only to frown confused as he stared at game stand with a bunch of fish in glass bowls and a balloon dart wall.
What the hell about this stand that got Potty's attention? Did he want to eat one of the fish?
He didn't care much either way, and watched as Patchy tried his best to get three out of five of the balloons.
Just barely managing and Potty cheered.
"Alright, kids which one do you want?" the lady behind the counter asked and Potty rushed to grab one of the bowls, proudly revealing the yellow fish with red spots all over its fan-like tail before offering it to Katsuki.
"Potty, the fuck are you doing?" he questioned meanwhile Potty proudly puffed himself up.
"This, Bakugou is a pet you won't have to touch and can use gloves to handle it's care. And Betta's like this are super hardy, cute and aggressive, just like you." Potty told him placing the bowl in his hands while his brain blew a fuse.
"Sadi they are going to release the lanterns soon." Patchy commented and before Katsuki could deny keeping the stupid fish Potty was dragging them all over to watch the line tree floats as they released the multiple lanterns.
"Bakugou look at how pretty they all are." Potty chirped hugged him from the side and nuzzling him.
Katsuki stared at the shadow being clinging to him who decided to 'kidnap' him for the day and tsked.
"Just a bunch of fire balls Muppet face." Katsuki huffily replied.
And Potty chirped again in a twittering laugh of sorts "That's why I like them, they're just like your quirk." Potty said.
"Fuck you." Katsuki spat back.
Katsuki: I am toxic in literally every way possible.
Sadi:... He shall be mine.
Fumikage: Sadi, NO.
Sadi *rolls eyes: Fine, we'll share him Fumi.
Fumikage *Ungodly squawk*
Fumikage *voice cracking and feathers ruffled: That is not what I meant.