The Bookstore

Chapter 12

Katsuki and Izuku sat in the hospital chairs munching on their cinnamon rolls silently.

When Katsuki finished was when he finally decided to speak up, "Is it true?" He asks.

Izuku stopped chewing and looked over at him, "Is what true?"

"Is it true that it's my fault you're deaf?" He asks not to make eye contact with the other man.

This question caught Izuku by surprise, but he knew one thing was true and it was that he wasn't ready to have this conversation just yet.

Katsuki raised an eyebrow at the silence which told Izuku that he was waiting for an answer.

He knew this conversation was going to come up either way as long as he kept running into Katsuki.

He took a deep breath and said "yes."

Katsuki just let out a whisper, "When?"

"It was that day after school when you got mad at me because I applied to UA, when you made that explosion."

Katsuki remembered that explosion clearly, he remembered that he slightly lost control over his quirk and made a bigger explosion than normal.

He played it cool like he intended to do it and left Izuku on the ground, he would have never expected something like this would happen.

"I'm sorry," was all he could say.

"I know," Izuku said standing up, "Even as bad as you were as a kid you would never try to hurt someone permanently. What happened was an accident and you didn't mean it, no one would have guessed that the outcome was the loss of hearing."

Katsuki was crying now.

Not a lot of tears but just a couple streamed down his face.

He sniffles and wipes his nose with his hand.

"Do you hate me for that?" He asks.

"No, I don't hate you." Izuku says, "It was years ago and it isn't that big of a deal anymore."

Izuku had thought about these conversations for days since Akio last brought it up, in the end he decided to forgive him.

He was just a stupid kid when he did it, its obvious that he had matured and isn't that bad anymore.

Katsuki smiled and got up to throw his napkin away, he came back to ser Izuku on his phone.

The door rings and both Katsukis and Izukus eyes dart towards the sound.

Izuku groans as Denki Kaminari enters the room.

"Oh hey Freckles, um yeah, so my nose started hurting a lot and there was a hospital right here where I decided to check it out." Kaminari says, he turns towards Katsuki and smiles, "Hey Bakugou! What are you doing here?"

"I'm just here to make sure his friend is ok," Katsuki says, "What are you here for?"

Kaminari turns his head at an angle facing Izuku.

Izuku's face was red and he was trying not to laugh waiting for him to answer.

"Someone decided to attack me at the fucking cafe today," Kaminari says, keeping eye contact with Izuku.

"Aw that sucks, there are some really crazy psychopaths out there who do stuff like that. I hope you're ok," Katsuki says sitting down next to Izuku.

Izuku's eye twitches, "Maybe the person had a perfectly good reason to punch you."

Kaminari was now the one trying not to laugh, "Deku! There's no good reason to randomly punch a hero at 9 am."

Izuku took a sip of his coffee, "You'd think so."