An Unlikely Partnership~Tododeku

7~ I don't forget...

A/n: Before we start this chapter, if you want to read another fanfic I am currently writing, follow the link! It's a deaf Bakugou AU and written like a diary. 

Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/263039176-i-can%27t-hear-you-anymore-bnha-mha-au-kiribaku-deaf

Anyways, let's start the chapter!

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The flash of light was back and Midoriya sat up in the room he started in. Todoroki and Kirishima were both next to him. The first thing that popped into all of their heads was...

'Where's Bakugou!?'

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The door with Bakugou's name on it was open. He hadn't returned yet. All of the others were there, so why wasn't Bakugou?

Midoriya frowned. Out of all four of them, Bakugou probably had the most bravery in terms of emotion and going on quests. If they all faced something bad from their past, there wasn't anything that Bakugou regretted, was there?

Then something popped into his head. 

"Kirishima-Kun! Todoroki-Kun! Guys! You don't think he's stuck in there because of me right?"

Kirishima looked slightly confused. "What do you mean...? You haven't done anything?"

Todoroki seemed to get it. "Are they showing the times he bullied you?" He put his hand on the shoulder of the green-haired male. "Then we have to go help him. Tell him it's ok."

Midoriya nodded and the three of them faced the door and jumped in.

There, was Midoriya's high school classroom. There was no one there except Bakugou who was curled up in the corner.

Once they entered, they were stuck too, and the only way to get out was to get Bakugou to forgive himself. 

They had come through what looked like the classroom door, but there was only the hallway outside.

"Kacchan... Look at me! It's not your fault"

The blonde shook his head violently. "I told you to take a swan dive off a roof! A SWAN DIVE!" He gripped his hair tightly and curled up even further. 

Kirishima walked over and gave his boyfriend a hug and frowned. Bakugou had never shaken so much before, in Kirishima's memory anyways. It was heartbreaking to see someone who had always seemed so headstrong, someone who'd always been one of the best, someone who had jumped into danger for others without a second thought, break down.

It was clear that Bakugou had regretted what he'd done a quite a while now. The boy had probably acted tough on the outside to stop the horrible feeling that he had on the inside. But now the shell was cracked and there was nothing they could do.

Todoroki, who before had been standing awkwardly by the door, shuffled up to Midoriya and whispered something into his friend's ear. Midoriya nodded and crouched back down next to Bakugou.

"Kacchan... Listen. Kirishima was bullied back when he was younger, right?" Midoriya winced. He didn't want it to turn out like that. "Uh... Sorry Kirishima-Kun I don't eant to upset you."

"No, no Midoriya! It's fine! Do whatever you need to." 

Midoriya nodded. "Look where he is now. Does he look like he's been affected by it?"

Bakugou had raised his head slightly to look at Kirishima, then back at Midoriya, flicking his eyes between the two of them.

There was a prolonged silence. The clock ticked steadily on the wall soundlessly. 

"He forgave them Kacchan. He needed to get over it, so he forgave them. It wouldn't affect his future because he forgave them and moved on! Don't you see? He's now even friends with them!" Midoriya's speaking increased in speed. "Yes you bullied me! I got over it, and look! I'm fine now, we're friends and that was in the past!" It doesn't matter anymore because I've forgiven and you've learnt something out of it! It's a win-win situation! I don't forget! I forgive and move on! Use that as a stepping stone Kacchan! Please!"

Bakugou's teary eyes looked at Kirishima, who gave him an encouraging smile. He then looked over at Midoriya. "Thank you... Izuku..."

"Guys look! The door's open again! We better head out!"

Midoriya stood up while Kirishima offered a hand to Bakugou. The four of them walked out of the room and back into the room with the four doors. 

Something shot up from the floor and they all jumped back. It was a hologram with a message on it. 

Please stand in the circle in the middle of the room for the next part. You will be left behind if you don't. When you are ready, say 'Clue one, rise.' and that will trigger the next part. Good luck!

The heroes shrugged and deemed the message not to be a threat and stood in the middle of the circle together. Then they muttered in unison, "Clue one, rise!"

There was a slow creaking before something started moving under the plate. The ceiling opened up in panels in a circular form that matched the floor segment that was rising up. The floor passed the section in the ceiling and stopped. 

'Please step off the elevator.'

They stepped off and the circle retracted back into the ground, what was once the ceiling and now the floor, turning itself back to its original state. 

They were back in the room they started in. This time, instead of a red button on the altar, there was a glass case. 

Kirishima gently poked the glass case and the gang jumped out of their skin. 

"I see you have made it this far. You have passed your test to recieve your first clue." The hologram vanished and the door of the case swung open. Todoroki picked up the strip of paper and pocketed it in a safe compartment of his hero suit.

"Let's look at it back at the agency so we have less of a chance of getting ambushed." Todoroki looked over to the doorway of crystals. 

They started moving, through the hallway of crystals, up the staircase of gem and precious metals, and out of the building. 

Bakugou told the heroes to meet them back at Dynamight Agency as they had the next clue. 

The door to the staircase had been left open. A shadowy figure growled and zipped down the stairs and through the hallways, skidding to a stop infront of the empty glass case. 

An ear-splitting shriek pierced the room and the glass case shattered, spraying glass everywhere. The clue she'd been looking for was gone, and by the looks of it, the heroes had found it first. That was bad. Really bad. 

She zipped out of the underground place and back to her base, ready to tell her master what had happened.