Make it stop!

Chapter 12

Enough is enough for Mina. She twists the handle and opens the door, it's not locked. "Holy shit, Bakugo! BAKUGO!" She nearly slips as she squirms across the water covered floor to where he lifelessly laid. His head is pulled up and out of the bath by the collar, flopping on top of Mina. She rolls over and starts to give her remembered first aid chest compressions until he makes movement and gasps for air.

His lungs feel shitty so he opens his eyes and sees pink? He questions if it's Pinky and blinks to make sure. When she's in view, Mina stares with tears in her eyes before slapping Bakugo across the cheek. "The fuck?!" He croaks.

"How dare you!" She gasps, trying to calm herself down. Great another plan failed, he's really fucked now. Unless...

She helps him stand up, letting him use her shoulder to balance. The boy takes a proper look down at his clothes and he is drenched in bathwater.

"We need to go see Aizawa, come on." She pulls by the arm, but Bakugo refuses.

"He's probably busy, it's fine. We can do it later--."

She sends a shiver down his spine with the glare. A warning. In a motherly tone she replies, hand on her hip. "Oh hell no boo, you nearly drowned. We are seeing your damn teacher. I'm not losing my best friend to suicide."

The frank wording caused Bakugo to stutter on his words. He didn't want or feel capable of responding, keeping his head low as she drags him by the arm - he knows he won't get a chance to attempt any time soon, so it's a pain.

As they walked, he still refused to talk so she took the chance to add salt to the wound. "Why did you lie to me earlier?"

"When?" He mumbled.

"When me and Denks came to check on you! You said all this crap about being fine. You can talk to me about it for God's sake. I know Midoriya didn't help earlier and I scolded him for it, don't you worry but this isn't working either. You need to talk to us, we want to help."

He scratched his neck. "It's cause you guys will see me as fucking weak but I guess I shouldn't care anymore."

Mina stops walking and turns around to face him. "Bakugo fucking Katsuki, hear me clear for I'm not a liar even in times like this. Nothing about you is weak, in fact, I see you as so strong. To have all this pain and mental illness as well as the struggles of day to day life in this world and still be able to stand is courageous because I know it takes so much strength within to. You have such a high standard, we don't view you as weak either. Just let us, me help."

Her words gave the hug he craved for so long, to feel enough. It was overwhelming and Bakugo curled up on the floor to sob, sob as much tears as he had built up all these years. He felt her whispers of reassurance and hugs to help soothe.
"You're so strong hun, we look up to you and love you. Don't let this world kick you down, you kick it back!"

"For so long, I fucking wanted my mother to tell me those words, I relied on her. I only let her down."

"To be brutally honest, your mum sounds like a bitch."

Wiping tears, Bakugo chuckled. "Yeah, probably. But she's my damn mother and I looked up to her as wise. She told me to never cry."

"She's wrong Bakubabe, I'm not sure why she told you all that but it's stronger to be able to let your emotions out. Don't listen to her crap anymore, if you ever need support, please come to me. I mean it."

He looked up at her, lips forming a smile. She smiled back and extended her arm and he got up to interlink it. He guesses he'll tell Aizawa the truth. At least for Pinky's sake.

They told All Might about wanting to talk to their homeroom teacher so now they were waiting...

Aizawa walks out and looks at his students, focusing more on Bakugo. "Why are you completely soaked?"

"Teach, I'll be honest with you but all I ask is for a private place." He pleads. Aizawa agrees and they search. It doesn't take long until a classroom is found. He pulls two seats and one for himself, too. When the group were sat, he cleared his throat as sign to continue.

"You see, I uh... well what happened was... er so."

"Can I tell him?" She asks, being replied to with a brash, "yeah".

"Okay Sensei, so when Bakugo came down to the common room Midoriya and Todoroki ran up and started bombarding him with questions. It overwhelmed Bakugo so he ran and when I came to check on him he had his head in a bathtub, nearly drowning."

Seconds took its damn time to pass, making the hairs on Bakugo's back stand up. God damn it, say something don't just look at him with those sadness in your eyes, he doesn't want pity!

"I thought it was suspicious you chose Mineta. I'm assuming it was so you had less privacy?"

Their teacher doesn't beat around the bush so with the last of the blonde's pride gone, "yep."

"Well, I think we will have to switch around who you're sticking with. I'd rather you stay with me, Bakugo."

His eyes widen. "But, what, huh?!"

"I want you to stay around me, especially with how the others have made you feel. They are not as experienced with this and you are in a fragile state so I'd rather you are with me so it doesn't feel worse. In the future, I may talk to our class and educate them on this."

What a fucking embarrassing situation to be in. He isn't a fucking toddler, there is no way he will stay with a damn teacher. He'd rather be with Dunce face.

Aizawa's pov.

I notice the problem kid isn't pleased but unfortunately this is for his own good. "You don't get a choice in this Bakugo, but I won't be prying, you will have your privacy. I only have to ensure you are safe."

The student rolled his eyes and that's the best I'll get out of him. "Thank you Ashido for helping him. I'm going to take him to my dorm to get settled as it's getting late. Can you tell Mineta he is free from the duty?"

"Of course, Sensei. Thank you so much!" She bows and walks off.

Bakugo smiles at her and I can tell he values her. It's nice to know he has close friends by his side. I stand up and signal for him to follow me. I hear a grunt and some footsteps so I know he is following. We reached his dorm, a few students saw but didn't interrupt us. I open the door and wait outside. "Pack the things you'll need, at least just for tonight and don't try anything." I emphasise with my no bullshit tone.

He soon comes with a decently packed bag and I check with him and then we start working over to my dorm.

Bakugo's pov.

I got a good amount of stuff, I doubt I'll be leaving for a while and I'm not going to risk losing being a hero so I'll have to listen until things settle. We get into the elevator and teach presses the 5th floor. I've never actually been there so when we walk out it is interesting to notice the differences. Like how the carpet is green instead of the usual blue and the different shaped lights. We walk down and he unlocks the door, waiting for me to walk in first.