Damaged Survival

Ch 14: Current Mistakes

Training with Aizawa was not turning out to be easy. Karian had not struggled with training this much since he was a kid. He had no control over this quirk at all. First he was just trying to control the output and level of the field. Aizawa had to help him often and the man was always complains of dry eye. 

Bakugou knew there was something wrong with Karian but the male wouldn't talk to him. They were barely speaking at home or at school and it was beginning to piss Bakugou off. Karian kept coming home with burns and bruises he said were from extra training with Aizawa. Now where had he heard that before?

Bakugou stayed after school one day to spy on Karian and of course Kirishima joined him. The red head being worried for their friend as well. They soon found out the extra training was true, but from what Bakugou could see it only explained the burns.  Somehow Karian’s extra quirk would cause burns right before Aizawa would shut it down. 

The boys hid as Karian was leaving training. Kirishima wanted to approach the male, but Bakuou stopped him. Training ended to early to explain why Karian was always home after dark. Karian’s next stop is what sent Bakugou over the edge. Karian was getting into street fights. Instigating it and then not fighting at his full ability. It was like he wanted to be hurt. Then what Karian said the other day made some sense. It was Kirishima who moved first. Kirishima ran over and began pulling the opponents away from Karian and sending them flying. Bakugou soon joined. Once the group was scared off, Bakugou rounded on Karian.  Karian was on his knees on the ground, looking down. 

“What the actual fuck, Karian?!” Bakugou yelled at him. “And I wont take some half hearted answer this time. You are literally letting people hurt you and beat on you on purpose.”

“Its the only thing that helps,” Karian said softly. Both Bakugou and Kirishima stared at Karian for a long time before speaking again. 

“Helps with what?” Kirishima asked. 

“Everything,” Karian said. “I dont know how else to explain it. When i cant focus. When the stress and anger is overwhelming inside me….the pain is the only thing that helps.” Bakugou actually began to feel bad for Karian. The male had been beat on and emotionally empty for so long that he didnt know how to deal with his own emotions anymore.

“This ends now,” Bakugou said. “You want to get beat on. Then you spar with me. I wont take it to far, but you got to try and fight back. I wont fight some weakling.”

“You cant force me into anything Bakugou.” Karian said as he stood up. He used the end of his shirt to wipe the blood off his face. One of his eyebrow piercings got pulled out and was bleeding. 

“This ends or Im telling Aizawa about it,” Bakugou said. “You need to learn how to deal with your emotions in another way than this.”

“Like youre any better with emotions than I am?!” Karian challenged. 

“Well Im not the one letting random thugs rearrange my face on purpose now am I?” Bakugou shot back. “You cant keep doing this. What about your goddamn siblings? You think they dont realize something is going on with you?” Karian looked down. He felt a little ashamed now. 

“I dont know what else to do,” Karian said softly. “And Ive never been very good at asking for help.”

“Youre not asking this time,” Bakugou said. “Im fucking forcing it on you….again.” Karian sighed and just gave a soft nod. “And no trying to be sneaky and keep coming out here. You're gonna learn to deal with shit. At least enough that you can manage without getting beaten like your damn father used to do to you.” Karian froze for a moment. He had never really connected the two. Was he really that fucked up in the head?