I Can't Lose You Again

Chapter 4: Training My Ass Off

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(Four fifty-seven a.m)

The fucking sun wasn't even up yet, so why did Katsuki have to be? Correction, it was peeking over the tops of the trees, but same thing!

Sighing with tiredness in his breath, Katsuki continued down the sidewalk toward the garbage beach All Might whispered for him to go to yesterday. It was filled to the brim with broken, wasted furniture and nobody went near it. And his point was proven further when he saw that no one was around, along with the trashy beach piled up higher and larger in size.

"People can't learn to throw their damn trash away..." Katsuki scoffed before bending down, picking up a shriveled up can of soda some junior high schooler could've dropped on purpose because no one got in trouble for this kind of litter, and nobody cared. Walking toward a recycle bin to the side of the fence surrounding the sandy trashed beach, he threw the rusted can into the bin, muttering to himself, "Don't care about clean-up... Don't care about looking for Deku either..."

"Ah, Young Bakugo!"

Blinking sleep from his tired bloodshot eyes, Katsuki glanced behind him, watching All Might; in his skinny form, sprint lightly on the large pathway before entering the trashed sand toward him.

"Like being places early, hm? Getting a head start without me?" All Might chimed while slowing his pace as he got closer to the blond before stopping completely in front of him.

"Huh? Sure..." Katsuki replied, unsure by the second question, but he'd probably get an explanation later, along with why meet here.

All Might nodded to Katsuki before turning his gaze to the large pile before them, his blue eyes glittering as the sun started rising more, with the metal parts shining rusticly and reflecting.

"Tell me, Young Bakugo, how do you wish to find Young Midoriya?" All Might questioned after a while of silence between them, turning his sun reflected blue eyes back on him. Katsuki was about to answer, opening his mouth before All Might held his hand up, correcting, "Let's think small first before forming a plan. What school? How do you want to train both your body and quirk?"

Yeah, guess that's simple enough. Though, if it was, why hadn't he thought about either of those questions, huh?!

"I suppose for the school..." Katsuki gritted his teeth as the line started slipping out, stopping himself before he could fully finish it.

He wanted to go to the most prestigious school. He wanted to go to U.A. High School, but... It didn't seem right for him to attend. He and Deku as kids dreamed of attending that school together, train together, fight together, and just overall be there. But now...

"...Shiketsu High."

The words slipped from his mouth before he had a chance to stop them, but oh well. He hated being second best, but what he hated more that overruled that was the walking through the streets, seeing a flash of green and hope fluttering in him of it being Deku when it's only a simple green colored flyer. He hated the remembrance and just wanted him back.

"Shi... ketsu...?" All Might blinked down at Katsuki at his answer.

"Yeah?" Katsuki side-glanced the questioning hero, noting to himself, 'He's caught on, hasn't he...?'

"Oh, it's nothing, Young Bakugo, I don't know... I just figured you would try and strive for-" All Might rubbed his neck as he rambled on about what Katsuki feared.

"I know what you're about to say, but don't." Katsuki interrupted. Turning his red gaze away from All Might, who went quiet, he sighed, "I want to... I do, truly... But it's just going to give me a hindrance... Izuku and I both wanted to go to that school, and with him not there... I can't... Even if it's second best..."