Time Changes Us (DekuBaku)

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Deku POV
I woke up in a cold sweat for what has to be the third time this week. Another nightmare, this time Kacchan was kidnapped by a group of villains and held hostage. All because I couldn’t get to him in time.

I looked back at the pillow to find Kacchan sleeping peacefully without any signs of the nightmares, he was even smiling. He snuggled the pillow inching closer to where I just was and I heard him cooing my name. That sweet smile I love so much on his relaxed face did an amazing job of calming me down so I could lay back down next to him. I watched him taking deep calming breaths and before long I find myself matching him, his eyelids fluttering showing that he was dreaming and from the way he is smiling and how he had said my name I can only guess it was a pleasent one.

My heart still feels like it’s pounding in my chest and I don’t really get why. Maybe it’s the sports festival tomorrow? We have all been so excited about actually being able to participate that we really haven’t been able to focus on anything but school and training for a few weeks now. We have even been called for a couple missions too but last time they said they wouldn’t call for us unless there was no other choice thanks to the festival.

I blew out a long breath of air. I need to calm down. They are only nightmares, they aren’t even real…

But they feel real. That day that my sperm donor left everthing seemed to change. Including how Kacchan treated me. I wonder why? It’s not the first time I’ve wondered about it and I even asked once but Kacchan just smiled at me and said; “I finally woke up and realized how much of a brat I was being.” What kind of answer is that?

I don’t know what I’m going to do if these nightmares don’t stop soon. Images of Kacchan being mean and hurtful have been plaguing me for weeks now and if it wasn’t for that day that everything changed I could see our lives going exactly like they did in my nightmares.

But life is funny like that, I mean All Might is my dad now. THE All Might and I have a baby sister and a big brother, of course Toshi is only a couple weeks older than me but that hardly matters. I’m married to Kacchan and I have a baby sister-in-law too. Aiko and Yuki love each other and are always telling everyone that they are sisters no matter who they are talking too or why. This is my life so why won’t the nightmares end?

“Deku?” I looked up and see Kacchan rubbing at his eyes but his face is soft like he only just woke up. His everything is soft when he is with me, his voice, his eyes, his touch, his kisses…

“Deku, what’s wrong?” He asked and he looks alarmed and it’s not until he wipes away tears that I even noticed that I was crying.

“I- I- I don’t know,” I hiccuped a few times, I really don’t know. Why won’t these thoughts leave me alone? Why can’t I just be happy with the way my life is? Why does my life feel more like a dream than my dreams do?

“Hey! Shh, it’s okay now. It’s okay. It was probably just a nightmare, I’m here. Everything is okay now,” he whispered pulling me into his arms, his warm comforting arms. Everything is better when he is holding me, or even better still, when I’m holding him. I cuddled into him, his wide strong chest cushioning my face while I tried to bury myself in his arms. He chuckled a little at my antics but he didn’t stop me. When I finally stopped and sighed out in relief he just wrapped his arms around me and tangled the fingers of one hand in my hair.

“I’m here, I’m never leaving you behind,” he whispered and everything just feels right. Yes, this is what I need. Kacchan is always right here for me. Sometimes it feels like he knows exactly what happens in my nightmares. The fear of losing him, of him turning his back on me, it’s too much and it just hurts.

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“Woah! What happened to you two?” Toshi asked when we came down for breakfast. “You look worse than I do on a bad day.”

“Har har,” Kacchan rolled his eyes and went to the fridge to make us breakfast; pancakes and eggs.

“I had a nightmare and woke him up. Then I couldn’t fall back to sleep,” I looked up rubbing my neck nervously, meeting his eyes. Toshi knows about my nightmares, unlike Mom and Kacchan he doesn’t completely panic when something happens. I mean it IS just a dream. It’s not like it’s real or anything.

“Oh but the beginning of my dream wasn’t so bad. Kacchan won the sports festival but that’s not going to happen this time,” I forced a smile and Kacchan chuckled.

“You’re right, this time I’m going to win even easier and flashier,” he held his head up before bringing Toshi and I our breakfast.

“Dream on Brother,” Toshi smirked before taking a big bite of his food and we were all laughing. Last night Toshi told us that he wanted to start sleeping by himself and that he should have started a long time ago.

“I mean how long am I supposed to sleep with an old married couple?” He teased but I know that he was nervous about being on his own. So the two of us hung out in ‘his’ room and while Kacchan was being dragged around by his friends we hacked into the school database for the sports festival.

“So are you ready for today?” He asked lowering his voice and I grinned in response. We had spent a long time making plans for the different courses we were expected to run.

“Any more and I would be cheating,” Kacchan smirked shrugging at us and we all kind of laughed. The sports day festival is to judge how well we would work against villains so that means as far as this goes U.A. would be the villains and we are on a mission!

We finished our food just in time for everyone else to start coming in and we left to get dressed for the day. It’s going to be so much fun, I can’t be thinking about nightmares now, now can I?