The scratching

Chapter 3

He was just taking a walk outside when he saw Deku limping out of the gym. He couldn't see much from where he was standing but the other boy looked beaten.
Deku held his arm around his stomach mumbling something about how useless he was.

Katsuki was shocked. He had never seen Dek-, no, his childhood friend that beaten. Of course, during middle school, Katsuki beat him up but never that much. The last time Izuku was that beaten was on his last day of middle school.

Deku came into class and told everyone that he would be dropping out of school because he was too dumb anyway. Safe to say that Katsuki was shocked. Izuku was one of the smartest people he knew. Hell, that boy was smarter than some of his former teachers. Katsuki didn't have time to think about why Deku was dropping out because when Izuku made his move to sit down, Katsuki could see the limp in the boys walk and the wince the boy let out as he was sitting down couldn't be overheard.

Katsuki didn't see his childhood friend anymore after that. When he had asked the old hag about it, she just told him that Izuku had moved in with his father.

So either Izuku was training till he hurt himself or he was being abused. Bakugo hoped that Izuku was just training too much. He wouldn't know what to do when Izuku was being abused. But who would abuse Izuku? And why?

Questions started to form in Bakugou's head. He would need to investigate the situation some more before he could act.

He continued his walk trying not to think about it too much right now. He would see what tomorrow would bring. Maybe he was just overthinking everything. The nerd would have told someone already. Maybe not Katuski himself but surely some of his stupid friends. Deku was safe. He wasn't sure of that but he'll do anything in his power to make sure that he was.

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The next morning when Katuski woke up he made his way into the bathroom, only to see red water in the bathtub. Okay respectfully, what the actual fuck. He quickly took a picture of it before running outside of the bathroom. "EVERYONE, BATHROOM, NOW!!" he yelled. He had to wait a couple of minutes before everyone had arrived. Half of his classmates looked like they just fell out of bed.

"Bakugou what's with all the screaming this early in the morning?" the class rep asked.

"Look for yourself" he took a step aside so everyone could look into the bathroom. He saw some people inhaling sharply.

"Does someone care to explain huh?!" Katsuki asked everyone.
He looked around and saw that no one was making a move to explain. "If no one explains in the next 5 seconds I'll fucking get Aizawa." he threatened.

"I-I washed myself yesterday n-night. I had r-red p-paint all over m-myself, I f-forgot to drain the ba-bathtub sorry K-Kacchan." Deku explained.

"Red paint from what huh?!" Katuski asked.

"I don't think it's any of our businesses Bakugou. Please stop yelling. As for you Midoriya, please remember to drain the bathtub next time!" Iida scolded.

"Y-yes I'll remember n-next time s-sorry everyone!" the boy apologized. Katsuki just huffed.

The class went on with their days. Some going back to their room while others went to the kitchen to eat something. The only one not doing either was Izuku. The boy just went outside walking to school. Weird.

Of course, Bakugou didn't buy the story with the red paint. Why would the nerd paint that late? It was 8:45 when Izuku limped out of the gym. The boy would go to sleep soon after. Just like Katsuki. Both boys had the same sleeping schedule. With the only exceptions of Izuku going to sleep half an hour later than Katsuki and waking up half an hour earlier too.

So why would he have fed paint on his body? The water didn't look like paint either. Katsuki took out his phone again and studied the picture a bit longer.

It looked more like blood than paint. But that would be ridiculous right? Because why would Deku be bleeding? Had it something to do with him limping out of the Gym? Maybe he hurt himself a bit but if he did, why would he lie? Or why didn't he just go to recovery girl quick? The women was still there at that time, leaving at 10pm when everyone was in their dorms. Just what the hell was going on?

Deku was giving him a headache. He put the picture into a folder to make sure that he would still find it. He continued getting ready, promising himself to take a closer look at Izuku today.

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Easier said than done. Izuku jumped out of his seat as soon as the bell for lunch rang. You could think that the boy was just extra hungry since he didn't eat that morning but when Katsuki walked into the cafeteria and his eyes flew over to the nerds friends he didn't see said person sitting next to them. Weird.

He got his food and went over to them.
"Where's Deku?" he asked them.

Uraraka looked up at him. "Oh he hasn't been eating with us for quite some time now. He said something about not feeling hungry and preferring getting some fresh air. Why are you asking?" she explained.

"Just wondering. He jumped out of his seat when the bell rang so I thought he was just very hungry." Katsuki shrugged and walked away. He was having a strange feeling.

He sat down next to shitty hair and started eating.

"You okay Bakubro?" Kirishima asked him.

He grunted as a response.

"What did you talk with Uraraka about?" he continued pressing.

"The nerd." Katsuki kept his answer short.

Kirishima got the memo and continued talking with dunce face.

After lunch, they made their way into the locker rooms to change. Denki opened the door and revealed an already changed Izuku.

"Oh hi Midoriya!" Denki greeted.

Izuku gave him a quick wave before going out of the locker room and making his way to the gym.

"Mido was pretty quick, he's so motivated. How manly of him!" Kirishima exclaimed.

Katsuki watched Izuku leave not taking his eyes off of him until he couldn't see him anymore.

Bro my motivation was suddenly back so I wrote this. I'm so excited to write the next chapter because we be getting Aizawas POV!!! 🥹🥹🥹