No.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own My Hero Academia.

(Warning for Baku-stans: A certain Pomerian was not harmed in making this fanfic)

(A/N: This story continues like canon until Bakugo apologizes. This is a one-shot. Story continues.)

"I always looked down on you. Just because you were Quirkless." Bakugo was not making eye contact after he said that.

"You were always far behind me, yet..." Flashes of the small creek entered his mind, where Izuku tried to help him for the first time.

"...I felt that you were somehow miles ahead of me." Again he was not making eye contact.

"I hated that. I didn't want to feel like that. And I didn't want to recognize that." Now Izuku was looking at him wide-eyed.

"It's why I grew so distant from you and always tried to beat you down." It was like in middle school again.

"I opposed you and tried to show you my superiority. I always lost. After entering U.A...." There was a pause before he continued.

"...Absolutely nothing went as I thought it would. I spent all my days trying to figure out your strengths and weaknesses."

"It probably doesn't mean anything telling you all this, but..." There was a pause again before he continued.

"...That's what I really think." He made eye contact with Izuku.

"Izuku..." He faced the ground in a slightly hunched position.

"...I'm sorry for everything I've done until now."

'Wha... What did he say?' was what Izuku thought after Bakugo finished saying his apology.

"No." Just as Izuku uttered that one word, everyone's eyes widened, including Bakugo's.

Izuku would have never imagined himself opposing the Blonde, let alone rejecting him. He always placed his once best friend just on the same pedestal as All Might. He always looked up to him. But when the Blonde told him that the bullying, death threats, suicide baiting, and turning his former classmates and teachers against him were just because of his Insecurity. He knows that not all the fault is in Bakugo, the society twisted their young minds after all. But still, a Hero aspirant should at least have the common sense to not bully anyone.

"You are right Kaachan, it doesn't mean anything telling me all this," Izuku said with barely restrained anger.

"I always thought that you hated me because of my quirklessness. I thought that maybe, just maybe if I had a quirk like everyone, you would stop hating me and become my friend again." Izuku looked straight into the Blonde's wide eyes while saying every word.

"I always looked up to you Kaachan, because you had everything I did not. Strength, confidence, quirk, you had everything. But, when everything you did to me is just because of your insecurity, because you were jealous of me? Right now I just want to laugh." Izuku let out a tired, hollow chuckle, his voice sounding very hoarse, probably due to dehydration. He is too tired to even keep his emotions in check, and One for All is digging into his deepest, darkest corners of his mind. Bakugo opened his mouth to say something, but Izuku beat him to it.

"You don't know shit about what I went through, Kaachan." Tears started to leave Izuku's eyes. All the memories he had buried away started to resurface. The bullying, be it physical, mental, or emotional, his classmates and teachers mocking him, saying he couldn't be a hero, every little memory flashed inside his mind.

"Even recently, after I told you about One for All, and invited you to my meetings with All Might to discuss any new developments to my quirk, what did you do? You always dragged a twenty-minute conversation into an hour because you couldn't keep your mouth shut about how useless I am or how you are better than me. Never mind me, you even insulted the previous holders of One for All!" He took a step forward, it was wobbly, and stabilized himself a bit.