Secrets (Baku x Deku)

Secrets

"Hi everyone I hope you enjoy this story."

Chap 1

(3rd person POV)

The class of 1A filed in taking their seats, all but one. There were a few glances at the empty seat by the window but no one gave it much thought. Bakugo huffed at his seat and drew out his books. This caught the attention of some of his classmates more than the vacant seat. An eager to learn Bakugo was something they rarely saw unless he was competing against someone usually Midoriya.

Mr. Aizawa walked in sleeper than normal and stood at the front of the class. As the class fell silent he began to speak.

"As you will surely have noticed we are down a class member. Midoriya will not be with us for the rest of this year. But he will be back for your second year."

Everyone started talking at once asking him questions, demanding he tells them why he wasn't there. He silenced them telling them that it was none of their business and to get on with their work.

One keen-eyed girl noticed that there was one boy who did not react the way she thought he would. Backugo sat staring at his open book and taking notes. He hadn't asked a single question.

Bakugo was sitting at the lunch table with Kirishima and Kaminari when Mina plopped herself down in front of them. She drummed her long pink fingers on the table staring at Bakugo until he finally met her eyes. Both stared at each other unblinking, neither one wanting to break eye contact first.

"Sooo Bakugo, do you know what's up with Midoriya?" she asks, folding her arms.

"No, why would I care. Now I've got one less extra to worry about getting in my way of being the no.1 hero," he said flatly.

Pursing her lips together she narrowed her eyes briefly before accepting his answer, thinking maybe she had just read too much into it this morning.

About a week later and still no one had heard from Midoriya, all their messages and phone calls were unanswered and unseen. Mina was walking back to the dorms after school when she heard someone talking. Just in the tree line near the dorms, she spots Bakugo with his back to her, his phone to his ear. She stops walking and watches her friend. His head is leaning on the tree in front of him, he looks beet.

"Yeah, I know, me too. Ok, anything else? Hey be careful." he hangs up the phone and lets out a long sigh.

Before Bakago turns around Mina starts walking looking the other way trying her best to not look like she heard part of his conversation. Her pulse began to race as she heard footsteps come closer but suddenly they sounded like they were heading in another direction away from the dorms. Mina glanced over her shoulder and saw Bakugos back as he rounded the corner back towards the school. Puzzled, she stopped in her tracks staring. He was definitely up to something and she was going to find out what.

Back at the dorms she gathered up the class and told them what she saw and heard. The class agreed that Bakugo had been acting a little differently but they didn't think there was a connection to Midoriya. While they are still speculating on who he was talking to Bakugo came back to the dorms. Everyone quickly fell silent as they watched Bakugo walk in with a plastic bag.

"What you got there Bakubro?" Kirishima asked, leaning over the sofa.

"What are you, the snack police." He said as he headed to his dorm.

Kirishima looked at the others. Mina stood up and folded her arms.

"I told you something is weird with him, he never shouted or swore at Kirishima for being nosy." Mina pointed out.

Now the rest of the class was more curious about what he was hiding. They decided that they would each watch him but take it in turns so that he didn't catch on to them. Since it was normal for Kirishima and Kaminari to go spend time with Bakugo in his room they decided they would casually go up there and see him, hopefully, get a peek in his back of snacks for a clue.

They knocked on the door but there was no answer. Kaminari tried the handle and to their surprise, it opened. They slowly walked in, Bakugo was not there neither was the bag he had just come in with. With a puzzled look at each other, they headed back to the common room to tell the others.

"Where did he go? He definitely hasn't been back through here someone would have seen him." Momo piped up.

The group of friends sat close together chatting in whispers completely immersed in their conversation or rather planning and didn't notice the blonde boy sulk into the room. Bakugo watched the class with curiosity before he spoke up.

"What are you all up to?" he said leaning closer to them.

Uraraka let out a squeal in fright and a few others gasped. Everyone hastily started shouting out different excuses at the same time earning an angry and confused look from Bakugo.

"Whatever. It's not like I care what you're doing," he said as he let his head flop back on the sofa closing his eyes.

Mina walks up to him staring down at him. Bakugo sensing eye's on him lifts his head back up to stare at her. She looks at him with concern.

"You know we're all worried about Midoriya, have you heard anything," she says, making her eyes big and sad looking.

"Nope," Bakugo says, pushing himself off the sofa heading back to his dorm alone.

Over the next few months, the class begins to see less of Bakugo and when they do see him he seems to be doing extra schoolwork or training late into the night. Unfortunately, they don't get much more information than that and no one seems to have heard anything about Midoriya either.

Finally, the mood in the class seemed to lift up as it was the last few weeks of term. Everyone was excited about the holidays and there seemed to be a change in Bakugo's behavior. For a few days everywhere he went he had his phone in his hand and it wasn't on silent. What was stranger was that Aizawa allowed this in class. Every time it made a noise Bakugo would snatch it up and Aizawa would watch him until he shook his head. Everyone was so used to this that when it happened again nobody looked up until they heard a scraping of a chair.

"Right class, you can have the rest of the day off," Aizawa said walking out the door with Bakugo. The class peeks down the hall after them. Aizawa has his hand on Backugo's shoulder as they quickly round the corner out of sight.

The class looked on in silence, it was only 9:45.