𝒦𝑒𝑒𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒴𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓈𝑒 | Katsuki Bakugo x OC

Chapter 19 - Flickers of Green

I'm alive! Sorry for disappearing for a month. A lot of stuff happened. I graduated (honestly it still hasn't sunk in that I can call myself a scientist), I revamped my resume, and now I'm officially on vacation for two weeks. Weekly schedule should be back by August, but until then, enjoy this tension and revealing chapter <3

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Katsuki

Today couldn't get any worse.

Final exams for the first semester are battles against the teachers. And because the staff royally hates me, they put me together with my childhood lying rival and my love against my hero.

How is this even freakin' fair?

Yumi and I finally got to an understanding about Deku. I stay away from him and then I can keep the peace between us, otherwise I have to be at least civil.

I don't even want to remember that conversation.

But I can't help but recall that evening as I kept an arm around her shoulders as we walked past the park near Aldera.

I understand you don't appreciate how he hid his quirk, She said then. But don't repeat history as Kousuke did with Zuko. Try to learn from his mistakes.

Dealing with the Nerd was the one thing I thought Kousuke did right. Turns out if I don't want Yumi to look at me as disappointed as she did then, then I havta be a little considerate.

But effin' hell that idiots freckles and his green curls infuriate me more than I care to admit.

And now we havta work together?!

Screw that. I'd rather fail than work with him.

And I don't care if Tangerine (Stupid Yumi) is not on my side.

But hell it stings as she glares at me as she is now.

We just came back from All Might battering us to a near loss. If it weren't for Yumi's metal wall and Deku's quick reflex to bounce away like a stupid bunny, we'd be toast.

"We have to work together," Yumi says moments later, still heaving for breaths and holding her side.

All Might must've hit the wall when she was still controlling it.

I reach out to touch her and her orb of metal turns into a spike facing me.

It's a silent warning. Don't you dare even think about it. She's saying with her glare. You don't deserve shit after the shit you pulled.

I clench my fist in anger, jerking my head away.

"We- we need to run from All Might. There is no- no way we can beat him."

Anger boils over. Who is he to say shit?! The over praising bastard!

I explode the wall so he's flushed against it in fear. I see Yumi ready to attack from the corner of my eye, but she stays back when I glance at her from the corner of my eye.

She must've seen something cause she freezes with a distant glaze covering her eyes.

I look back to Deku, who's still shivering like an idiot in winter with no proper clothing.

"Ya think All Might is gonna let us run away?!" I sneer, "Ya said it yourself, Deku. He's too good. He'll stop us before we can even run far enough. And then we're dead meat, ya hear."

Something must've clicked in the Nerd's head, because then his eyes brighten in that disgusting way whenever he sees heroes shine.

"You're right, Kacchan," He says. "But we can't beat him in a fist fight."