a Whole Lotta Smut

secretary (dekubaku)

Come outside later. It’s about your quirk.”

The words echo in Izuku’s mind as if they were yelled into the open night sky; even as he trails behind the silent blonde with the dorm building growing smaller in the distance and they leave it and their oblivious schoolmates in their wake. He can hear them, and even feel them, weighing him down heavily.

Kacchan had approached Deku with the invitation- no, it was more like an ultimatum- to meet him away from the dormitory to talk. With every attempt to get Katsuki to tell him what they’re doing, where they’re going, what he wants to talk about, he receives only silence and Katsuki’s agitated hunched over posture in response.

Trailing behind Kacchan isn’t anything new to Izuku. He’s done it his whole life, his devotion to his friend never unyielding. Entering U.A together not only allowed him to watch Kacchan in fascination as he continued to grow but let Deku flourish as well, closing in the chasmal rift that had been created between them.

Ground Beta was Katsuki’s destination, and he stands still on the spot as he takes in the faux-cityscape around them. “This is where I fought you for the very first time in combat training- and lost.” His voice is an eerie kind of calm, something Deku isn't quite used to hearing.

Izuku can only watch in silence as Katsuki slowly spills and bleeds his thoughts and feelings into the space around them, his words hanging between them like smokey remnants from a fire, thick and suffocating and throat-burning.

“Just thinking about it made me sick to my stomach.”

“By a miracle, you got accepted to UA, and by an even bigger miracle, your quirk manifested out of thin air…”

“You’ve been growing more and more this whole god damn time, you even got your provisional license, and I fucking failed!”

Izuku makes an attempt to defend himself. To explain how it was not just luck, not a miracle, not some gift he’d been given with no repercussions, but something he’s worked hard for; trained himself to exhaustion and beyond- but Katsuki shuts him down with a resonant, “Shut the hell up and listen!”

Katsuki had seen the evidence; he’d put the pieces together because he’s not stupid. Between Izuku’s change and accelerated growth, All Might’s interest in the smaller boy, and the hero’s recent loss of strength...

“You got that power from All Might, didn’t you?”

Izuku stays silent, stewing in his punishment for not protecting the secret, his body stiff and hunched with bated breath. Regardless, Katsuki continues to make an attempt to extract an answer from him, demanding the truth, wanting to not only hear it but see it.

“You’re gonna fight me, right here, right now!”