Downward Spiral (Izuocha)

Chapter 53 His story (Kacchan)

Kirishima P.O.V.

Mina, Kaminari, Sero and I followed Bakugo to his room as soon as he decided to ignore us once he had come back from his talk with Aizawa. Something had clearly happen as his crimson eyes did not hold the raging fire and he just overall didn't look like himself. He looked broken, or at least the Bakugo we knew had been broken, turning him into what could be a much more polite? No, that wasn't it. He looked like he was pondering something, and we all knew that we had to follow him and asked. We are friends, of course we would worry. Although some may think that this radical change for the blonde would be better for everyone, it just wasn't the Bakugo we got to know in the course of around six or seven months. Even if he could be rude and somewhat rash, he still deep down cared for others and was very cautious towards others, even if he didn't explicitly show it. Hell, he even tutored me when I needed it and he had offered to do so. We reached his door and it was left wide open while he sat in his bed just looking at the ceiling waiting. We took this as our invitation and entered the room.

I entered last and closed the door behind me and took a sit on the small couch he had next to Mina and Kaminari while Sero just sat in a bean bag chair he had. "Bakugo, what happened? Is something wrong?" Mina was the first to speak, her cheary and over the top attitude completely gone and her eyes constantly looking for some sort of answer that came from the explosive teen. There were a few moments of silence until he dropped his head and sighed. "I royally fucked up." That was all he said to just shoot our concern over the roof. Todoroki was very explicit on describing Aizawa's tone when he had called him and Midoriya to speak, and this didn't help. "Are you getting expelled? Wait, IS MIDORIYA GETTING EXPELLED?" Kaminari shouted, trying to come to terms with the small bit of information that Bakugo had given us. "Shut up dunce face and let me speak. No one is getting expelled, but that is thanks to De..... I mean, Midoriya." We all decided to shut up after he didn't call the bone breaking green bro 'Deku' like he always used to. This was serious.

"I may have been part of the cause as to why he did.... what he did." His voice broke a bit, but no one dared to interrupt him. "I've known him for so long and he did nothing wrong, but what did I do? Beat him to the ground constantly." He started raising his voice a small amount, clearly agitated and frustrated. But it wasn't directed towards any of us nor his classmates, but rather himself. "W-what do you mean?" Sero decided to ask, trying to give Bakugo a moment to relax before continuing. "Midoriya is a late bloomer. Pretty sure most of you know that. He had to get his body ripped to activate his quirks but the doctors didn't know that, so he grew up quirkless.... for ten fucking years he was quirkless. Me, on the other hand, started making little pops out of my hands when I just turned four. And guess what, I was fucking amazing, or at least the teachers said so. While Midoriya, he was just no one..... I grew up believing that the Heroes only beat the bad guys, and those who are weak are bad. At least, that's what they taught me."

His implications were clear, with even Kaminari understanding that Bakugo had just admit to possibly hurting Midoriya to some extent. We kept our silence, there was clearly much more he wanted to say. "For ten straight years. FUCKING TEN. I mocked him, punched him, even went out of my way to hurt him. Why? Cause he still wanted to be a fucking hero, and I wanted to deny him of that. Who am I to deny anyone's dreams? The worst part is I fucking enjoyed it back then. Punching him, exploding him, kicking him, seeing him on the ground and hurt. I did so much to him.... I even told him....." He couldn't complete the sentence, tears already running wild down his face. It was weird, yet disheartening, seeing such a strong hero with an even stronger resolve and personality finally break, and due to no ones fault but himself. "What did you tell him?" I asked with the softest voice possible, already regretting of the possible answers we could get. "I TOLD HIM TO JUMP OF A ROOF AND PRAY FOR A QUIRK DAMMIT. AND BECAUSE HE IS SO FUCKING NICE, HE STILL FORGAVE ME. HE SAID SO IN THE LETTER AND EVEN IN THE HOSPITAL."

Bakugo just proceeded to punch his wall with all his strength, getting bloody knuckles in return after his outburst. "I caused the nicest kid in the fucking country to try and kill himself. And for what? Something he couldn't even control. What if he turned out a villain? What if he had try to jump before. I made his life hell and the teachers fucking encouraged it. Why did no one try and stop me. Why did it have to be shoved straight in my fucking face? Am I THAT bad? That much of a villain?" He asked us, taking glances at all four of us who just sat there, wide eyes and tears trickling down some of our eyes. Our friend considered himself a villain and, even worse, had done despicable things to one of our own classmates that we all consider somewhat of a friend, especially me, out of all of us. I stood up and sat down next to him while I hugged him from the side. He didn't have the strength to oppose and soon enough, everyone joined in. "We forgive you. We all do, even Midori." Mina stated in a caring and soft tone.

"You aren't a villain ad you aren't that bad. Like Aizawa said, the world is unfair. I can't say that what you did was right, but what is important is what you do next. How you redeem yourself." I gave him my personal opinion, knowing that he had somewhat changed. He was aware that he had to do something about it, and that was a step on the right direction, and I would be there to guide him if needed. "Thanks shitty hair, and this isn't very fucking manly you know?"

"No way! Hugging and being okay with it despite gender is very manly, especially a bro in need. So just shut up, we are all being very manly right now." He just responded with a rough chuckle while more tears spilled down his eyes.

Heyo. Did I make Bakugo too nice? Did he deserve worse than such easy forgiveness? Meh, I really think it went well with this story. Realization hitting you in the face is great, especially to somewhat as expressive as Bakugo, so I think I described how he would react quite well. Either way, hope you have or had a fabulous day, remember that you are all cherished and cared for, and I'll be back tomorrow, maybe sooner than expected?