Cry a little to be fine ~TodoBaku~

Chapter 15: taken

TW // minor amount of self-harm, slight reference to being outed, mentions of somewhat gruesome death

Katsuki Bakugo

Me and Shoto had been together for....maybe a week and a half? It had been a fun ten or eleven days, with lots of cuddles, nicknames, and secret make-out sessions in empty rooms. None of the extras apart from Ponytail knew, I hadn't gotten around to telling Shit Hair, since I hadn't been away from Shoto in ages.

We had decided that today, on this rainy Sunday, we were going to go back to my home. Since Father and Mother were imprisoned, the house stood empty, and I would be able to go in and collect the few possessions I had left. This was to be a final goodbye, seeing as it'd been listed for sale. The money for it would be kept in a trust fund until I was 25, which seemed kinda stupid to me. I need it fucking now, so why wait?

We walked close under the umbrella that he held, body heat pooling between us, and arrived at the rundown looking house. Shoto unlocked it with the key, and we stepped slowly inside. He took a good look at the mess, regarding the belt strewn on the floor with a scowl. I kept close to him, my head starting to swim with bad memories.

I remembered being positioned over Father's lap as he cracked the belt down over my bare back, the sting of it still seeping throughout my back as if it were yesterday. I felt a single tear trickle down my face, but quickly wiped it before Shoto could see. I led him slowly towards my room, and he pushed the door open with caution.

My familiar bed called out to me, and I slumped down onto it as he poked around the room.

"There's...not a lot left, huh..?"

"No, I brought most of it...the main thing I came for is....this!" I said, pulling the cash I had stashed by my bed. He looked a little surprised, but soon after joined me on the bed, just cuddling in the remnants of my upbringing, merging my old life with my new one.

We lay there for....maybe ten minutes before Shoto stood and pulled me up, exploring the rest of the house. He went to the bedroom Father and Mother used, while I went into the bathroom. I picked up a couple of old shampoo bottles to bring with me, and checked the cupboard under the sink for more.

That wasn't what I found there. A familiar razor lay abandoned on the floor, practically fully red as opposed to the metallic silver it should be. I picked it up in my hand and curiously held it against my arm. It hurt, just like the knife had when I'd tried that, which had confirmed to me that I had lost my nullification of the pain. Whether this was a good thing or not was unclear, but I left the razor sat there in the cupboard as if it'd never been moved.

Rejoining Shoto in Father and Mother's bedroom, I leaned over his shoulder as he looked through a photo album. Pictured there was Father and Mother, smiling as they held the hands of some boy I'd never seen, his black curly hair unrecognisable to me. The boy had a big smile on his face as well, and looked to be perfectly healthy. It unsettled me seeing Mother and Father smiling, especially with the child around. He can't have been older that six or seven years old, and looked to be having a great time at....

....the zoo. The same one Shoto took me to. Why did they never take me..

"It says here...his name was Hikaru....and he died when he was seven...." Shoto said, reading a small note beneath the picture.

"....it was the day after this picture was taken......he'd been out with his friends and they'd crossed a train track....his foot got stuck, and...."

"....Yeah...."

"I'm....I'm guessing they never got over it, and took it out on you after you came into their care...."

"......I still don't forgive them...no matter how bad that was for them I didn't-"

"I know Suki, I know. You never deserved any of it" he said, closing the album and hugging me tightly.

We left shortly after, a small bag filled with the things I'd intended to come for in my hand. As soon as we got back to the school, however, something awful happened.

"Hey Bro! Congrats about you and Todoroki by the way!"

Huh? I never fucking told him...how did he know...?

"....bro? Everything ok...?"

"Shoto, c'mon" I said quickly, and we charged off to his room.

"I'm gonna kill that fucking Ponytailed bi-"

"Don't blame her, she wouldn't. It...it must be something else-"

"WHAT else, Shoto? She's the only person that got told about it!"

"Katsuki, calm down, let's just-"

"No, I'm not going to fucking calm down! This is fucking awful!"

"KATSUKI! Please listen to me! Yaoyorozu is my friend, she would never betray my trust like that! Or yours! Now, I'm going to speak with her, and make sure. You coming...?"

"....yes, but if I think she's lying-"

"She won't be! This is the problem, Suki, you need to believe in people!"

"Well someone exposed us, and she's the prime target. Forgive me for being sensitive about this!"

He came over and hugged me, wiping away the angry tears threatening to overflow.

"It's ok...we'll..we'll get through it, ok? We're still together, it's all ok.."

"....let's just go to Ponytail, ok...?"

"...yeah..."

Turns out he was right. She was genuinely devastated when she heard, and once I was satisfied, I flipped Shoto off when he gave me a smug look as we left.

"Fuck off! We still need to find out who, remember?"

"Why not just ask Kirishima who told him...?"

"....shut up, but good idea."

We went to Kirishima's room, and after kicking Dunce Face out, we found him and his twin/boyfriend, which still freaked me out, and interrogated them.

"Um....well, it was Tetsu that told me..."

We both turned to look at Silver the fucking hedgehog with expectant eyes, and he simply said "I dunno, it's just that Kendo told me she saw you guys snogging in a classroom, and then I asked Kiri if you guys were together. I told him what Kendo had seen, and he said he'd ask, so..."

"So he decided to be an idiot and make assumptions?" I finished, and Shit Hair avoided my gaze. "You fucking worried us, jackass!" Turning to Tetsutetsu, I added "Did that one you mentioned earlier tell anyone else?"

"Kendo? I don't see why she would, she only mentioned it to me because she knew me and kiri were together, and that you and Kiri are like best bros."

"....ok. Thanks, I guess...." I muttered, before storming out of the room. Shoto followed closely after, and we both breathed a sigh of relief once we were back in his room.

"I told you it'd be fine, Suki~"

"......shut up"
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Fact of the Day: Kirishima is Knuckles, Tetsutetsu is Silver 😌