My Silenced Quirk (Deaf Bakugo, TdBk)

Chapter 10: Fine, Ill do it.

I gasped, now awake. I could hear the faint sound of my alarm clock, as it also flashed lights. I sat up, sweat falling from my face. I stared blankly, shocked at whatever it was I had just expeirenced.

"That was terrible." I mutter, and went silent again, just listening to the beeping, it being the only thing to remind me that it wasnt real.

After a few more minutes, I turned off my alarm. It was 5:00 am and tuesday. Usually Todoroki comes down to make sure I wake up and say hi at 5:30, so I had till then to shower and put my thoughts together.

While in the shower, I remembered him asking if I would learn asl. Then the image of him in that dream flashed before me, him crying out to me, but I couldnt hear anything. The flashback caused a shiver down my spine. It really had been a terrible nightmare, yet I couldnt imagine a world where I was unable to understand him at all. Yet it was so close...

It was in that moment that I reasoned maybe it wouldnt be so bad to learn asl.

Todoroki never came by that morning, and didnt even approach me at breakfast. This pissed me off. I was so used to him annoying me constantly and always being the one to approach me, but now when I have an answer to give him, hes acting like I dont exist.

Sure maybe hes trying to give me space to think but its annoying as fuck.

Even after class he hadnt approached me once, and at this point I was over it. I was in my dorm room working on honework and just slammed my book shut, before angrily going out to my balconey and climbing the ice ladder.

I knocked rapidly on his window, fuming, until he looked up with a look of surprise and let me in.

"Bakugo?"

"You asshole, ignoring me all day!" I snapped at him, "I didnt expect you to be all resectful or whatever. Dont look down on me! Dont give me that " Oh Ill let him think" shit!" I glared.

"Uh sorry?" I saw him blurt out a half assed apology before I interrupted again.

"Do you want to know my answer or not?!"

His mouth opened as if to say something else, before he closed it and nodded.

"Ill do it, okay? I agree. Ill learn the stupid sign language."

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The next day, instead of pretty much ignoring me, the icyhot bastard would not stop staring at me. Usually he wasnt too obvious around others that we were friends, but now he was full on staring. And wouldnt stop. After class, I confronted him. "Why tf were you staring at me?!" Then this boy flat out denyed he was.

Of course, I didnt give up there, I knew for a fact he was staring, but the more I pushed the more he denyed, even going as far to say he hadnt glanced at me the whole time. As he denyed however, his face got redder and redder, and when I noticed such, I finally gave up, deciding it wasnt worth the fight. Expecially if he was going to get embarrassed to the point that his face was all red. With his obliviousness he might have been doing it unconciously anyway. Ugh.

"Whatever. You gonna teach me asl or not?" I asked with a huff, and he nodded, thus beggining my first asl lesson.

•••

Noone had bothered to tell me that Todoroki was a shitty teacher. The first thing he did was try to explain how the grammer of it all worked, and it was way more complicated than I thought. What on earth, time signs first and what last, it was overly confusing, expecially since it was so hard to understand him. Eventually I snapped at him about it, but it still took another snap for him to realize oh wait I should probably start easy and with the basics. Fucking finally.

Over the next few days, I learned some basic signs, like hi and name and some food signs. Then days after that we focused on the alphabet. This was when it started to become difficult.

During lessons, I kept getting frusterated, as I often confused letters for eachother. Why must they make the P a rotated K and same with H and U? It was so easy to confuse letters and I started to confuse other things as well.

At one point I kept messing up and just broke down. "Fuck this shit!" I yelled, curling up on my bed and refused to look at Todoroki. Why was it so hard? I agreed, that was supposed to be the hard part, why must they make it so complicated? At this point, I couldnt even put a full sentence together yet.

I felt tears start to fall, and hid my face in my knees, muttering to myself as I did. I couldnt hear todoroki and of course couldnt read his lips like this, so I had no idea what his reaction to this was, and I felt ashamed for breaking down like this but just couldnt take it anymore.

Then I felt a pair of arms wrap around me, and glanced up for a brief second to see todoroki hugging me. My shock was brief and soon followed by acceptance as I leaned into the embrace, and he just held me as I cried.

Even the silence was comforting, and it felt like for once, there was someone who understood me and how this was hard for me.

It could have been an hour or a few minutes, but once I felt better I sat up and said, "I'm ready to continue now."

Why am I bothering to try and make these kinda similliar chapter lengths. Whatever. Remember to keep breathing kids. Yeah. Thats all I have to say cuz I need to add this other part lol.