Burning Caramel

Chapter 19

Bakugo's POV

"Don't worry, We'll get her," Aizawa tells Bakugo as he places a hand on his shoulder. They had arrived at the scene where she was before she was taken. Sora of course, was no where to be seen. ant she had been gone for hours. But they were on the right trail. Bakugo was feeling helpless. 

"I was right there with her a few hours ago! She said something had seemed off lately! I should have taken it even more seriously. I should have gone with her and kept her safe!" He yells, his vermilion eyes clouded with regrets. 

Aizawa felt his heart clench, anxious for the young woman he loved like a daughter.  Just the thought of never seeing her again made the Pro hero and teacher turned father nearly tear up. 

"When we get the  okay to go in, you'll be one of the first faces she sees, I promise," Aizawa murmurs to Bakugo, knowing that there was only so much active hero work he could do after his last fight with Shigaraki. He'd lost his leg, but refused to let that keep him down.  A lot of recuperation and work led to him being able to do hero work again, but it wasn't the same. 

 Bakugo gave his trusted teacher a nod and tried to take comfort in the fact that the phone signal wasn't jammed, so her location was still being fed, but they were on the move again. Whomever had taken her wasn't taking precautions against the signal as much as they were moving around. Or so it seemed. 

There was no way to tell if Sora actually had her phone on her or not. She had not used it or picked up any calls since sharing her location. The agencies had tracked it and there was one stop for over 5 minutes, but when they checked it out, no one was there. 

"I think they transferred vehicles. There's no way... Unless.... AH Let's go guys, we got a ping on some suspicious activity near the dock house on the harbor. We'd better check it out," An officer speaks up nearby, his voice hushing the chatter of those who were sent out to search. 

Bakugo scoffs, his angry red eyes slightly sunken from fatigue. He'd not slept properly in weeks. Watching the worry his girlfriend had gone through had worn him down and he was ready to just bring the dark haired beauty home and rest with her.

Half listening, they were told to move out and headed for the docks, several miles away. 

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Sora was in a small room, the door locked to keep her inside. She wasn't too fond of how things had turned out, or the events that led to taking her here. She also had no idea where her phone was at. In hindsight, it was probably in the hands of one of the villains and she knew she'd have to rescue herself. 

The man that had her in his custody was insane.  Adachi... The way that he looked at her made her skin crawl, like bugs had come alive under her skin.  His gaze was filled with promises of things she hoped he would never make good on.  Her heart ached for home, the familiarity of her room, of Katsuki's smell as she pressed her nose to his shirt. 

A creak of the opening door and the bulk of Adachi Takumi filled the doorway and took up more room than Sora wished for. His frame filled most of the space between them and he leered at her, his hooded gaze making her shiver. 

"You look just like her, you know," he murmurs, taking his hand to capture a strand of Sora's hair as she shivers in response, not trusting him enough to look away. 

"Like who?"

"Your mother. She was supposed to be mine, you know. She was supposed to love only me. Then she left me for Kuran Nagi. She broke me. But you, you'll be what saves me, right? You'll be better than your mother ever was, and you'll never leave me," his voice echoes in the space between them.