in the shadows - Bakugou x reader

34 - the reveal

Katsuki's POV
Shadow was running a lot later than she should've been, I was waiting for an extra half an hour and she wasn't picking up her phone.

"Katsuki! Hey, sorry I was late! I got caught up with work."

I raised my eyebrows, spotting the smear of what looked like blood on the side of her face, "yeah, I can fucking see that."

"What?"

I huffed, throwing the spare helmet at her, "clean that shit off your face before you put my helmet on."

She pulled out her phone, using the front camera to check herself, as she rubbed the smear from her face, "oh, thanks."

—

The next evening, before I left to pick Shadow up from work, Kirishima came up to me in the kitchen, "Hey, Bakugo, I know that Shadow is your case, but since she's been sighted with the league, my guys had to do a bit of investigating,"

I glanced up from my cooking, silently telling him to continue.

"We've got some footage of her and Dabi with some kid- she looked pretty terrified; there's not been any missing reports matching her description, but we've done some digging and are gonna check her address anyway. I thought that since you have experience with being kidnapped by villains when you were a kid, maybe you could come, too."

Back in my first year of high school, I was kidnapped by the Musutafa Villain Assossiation, because they thought I'd be an asset to their group.

I raised an eyebrow, "so that little shit is kidnapping kids, now?"

He shrugged, "I mean, that's what it seems like. They're probably manipulating her and other children to expand their group." 

"Tch."

—

"Isn't kidnapping kids a little low, even for you?"

She glanced over at me from her bed and sighed, "you've made a habit of simply barging into my room. Brilliant."

"You were literally fucking preaching to me about how you don't involve random civilians in your shit, then the next day you and the ashtray are caught with a little girl- probably trying to brainwash her into becoming one of your little pawns."

"Oh, her. We weren't kidnapping her, she was lost, we were simply helping her find her way home."

"Tch."

She sat up and made her way over to me, "is that really what you think of me, Katsuki? You think I go around kidnapping children, turning them into monsters?"

"I wouldn't put it above you."

"Ouch." She raised an eyebrow, stopping right in front of my face, staring into space as if she was thinking before darting her eyes back to mine and smirking, "well... I guess you'll never know."

I glared at her, but she didn't move from how uncomfortably close she was to me as she mockingly smiled, "you know, you've clearly realised that you're not gonna get any intel from me, so why do you continue to let me stay under your roof? I'm a villain, isn't that a little low on your part?"

I turned my head away, rolling my eyes, "tch. I didn't invite you to stay, that was shitty hair. Remember that."

She didn't move, "you also didn't ask me to leave."

I groaned, "get out of my damned face, you fucking weirdo."

She shrugged and made her way back over to her bed and collapsed back onto it, "get out of my damned room, you fucking weirdo."