Downward Spiral (Izuocha)

Chapter 51 Fear

Third person P.O.V.

The walk back to the locker room was a silent one between the two rivals, but not because of Izuku actually beating Bakugo, even if he had said that he did not 'go all out', but rather due to their homeroom teacher asking to speak to both of them together in private after school in their classroom. It wouldn't have been such an important matter if it weren't for the fact that he sounded somewhat menacing according to both their students and looked much more awake. Something they had only seen present back when villains had been involved. The tension could be felt by both of them but neither one wanted to admit the possibilities of this meeting. What did Aizawa want to know? And what will happen afterwards? Katsuki was most afraid of the last answer to those questions, starting to feel a one of a kind fear that he never felt, one that Izuku had to face when meeting his idol for the first time. Rejection. Rejection of one's dreams and potential, despite the fact of their present accomplishments. One's past can hunt them down depending on how terrible or not it may be, and Bakugo didn't even know that Deku knew exactly what was going through his mind.

Once they had arrived to their enormous door, it was Izuku who knocked on it twice, wanting to get this over with. He didn't want to face any sort of emotional dilemmas, considering he would be pondering on those thoughts with Ms. Joke on his next session. It was his free day, but it seemed like he couldn't get a rest for a small time, something major happening to him constantly. Aizawa opened the door and motioned them to enter and pointed to two seats he had moved closer to his desk for them to take and as soon as they had gotten comfortable, he closed the door and sat straight ahead of them, glancing at both before sighing and looking down. Midoriya was clearly nervous while Bakugo tried to play it off with his hands in his pockets but knew that his posture signaled he was not as relaxed as he claimed to be. "I'll get straight to the point, this is about you problem child. Joke has told me about your progress and I'm glad. She also told me that your past is quite messed up but didn't tell me the specifics, so you can relax."

Aizawa had started speaking with his tired expression, making both boys relax a small bit and Izuku even more after he heard that Ms. Joke had held up her part of their agreement. "Hell, she even told me that it makes her furious, and she's never said that about anything ever. However.." his voice went back to the serious state they had experienced back at gym gamma, making both of them tense up at the sudden change. "This is where you come in Bakugo. You went to the same school since you both have use of memory and Joke said that Midoriya's past was full of soft mocking to full out bullying and physical assault. The first day, you seemed quite aggressive towards him and many days after as well, so I'll only ask once. Were you or were you not part in Midoriya's bullying?" Bakugo stayed seated and looked at him deadly in the eye while Midoriya started to sweat bullets. If there was something sure is that Midoriya couldn't lie to save his life and Bakugo was not raised as a liar towards towards others. "Yes..... I was involved." His voice was low and soft, not trying to deny his past anymore and being upfront with what he once feared to accept.

"Bakugo, this is a hero school. You understand that bullying your classmates at any point in time, therefore being a cause of said classmate's deteriorating mental health is heavily frowned upon, right?" He just nodded in response and this led to Midoriya to stand up and pace around the room. This was exactly what he wanted to avoid and rightfully so. He feared this would make him the bad guy. He feared that this would lead to Bakugo's unleashed rage towards him after basically crushing his dreams for running his mouth too much. Fear that he was the cause of crushing someone's dreams, and therefore making them feel like he once felt. "You are lucky that Midoriya vouched for you with Ms Joke. I had pieced everything together back in the hospital when his mother told me he was quirkless most of his life so I had planned on this meeting long ago, but problem child seemed to beat me to it. You won't be expelled because he is able to see your potential and growth as a hero and person. He saw that you were taking steps in the right direction to write your wrongs."

Both Katsuki and Izuku released a breath they didn't know they were holding. The nerd had helped him out in this one, and he owed him big time. Not only because of this, but because of everything he did. Ever since that night Bakugo feared that he had taken it too far in their days prior to U.A., constantly telling himself that he had done nothing wrong as teachers didn't mind or even encourage it sometimes. Deku had just been weak. But Bakugo soon came to realize that Deku was the strongest of them all. How had he not tried to this before baffled him, and now most of his dreams were short lived and full of green haired teens jumping off of buildings or hanging themselves. "You will still take anger management with Hound dog and we may even put you into community service or something, we don't know. When I say we, it's me and the principal, no one else. This stays here, now off you go, time is precious." He hurried both of his students out of the room and closed the door while they just stood there in silence trying to process what had happened.

"Hey Izuk.... no, Midoriya" he didn't feel like he had the right to call him by his first tame anymore, reality hitting him straight in the face like a speeding truck. He just turned his head expecting some sort of anger outburst but was met with a set of blond hair and hidden eyes. "I'm sorry." He walked away, thinking on many different things. Now he feared on what would happen if Deku wanted to ever get even.

Heyo, that's a chap done and I'm back. Surging fists will be probably updated on the fourth, we'll see. Next chapter tomorrow, back to daily, and yeah, thanks for everything. Remember that you are all amazing, I hope you had or have a great day, and yeah, that's all.