STRINGS // KATSUKI BAKUGO [2]

Chapter 7 // A Call

When you woke up the next morning, Bakugo was still asleep, which meant his injury must've taken a major toll on him considering he's an early riser and usually wakes up before you.

Just as you sat up, swinging your legs over the edge of the mattress, your phone rang, vibrating against the surface of small, wooden table pressed up against the side of the bed.

You grabbed the device and didn't even look at the caller ID before answering the call, too tired to check as you stood up and made your way to the kitchen.

"[L/N], are you okay?"

You were confused to hear the panicked voice of your homeroom teacher so early in the morning.

"Hey, Sensei," you replied as you poured yourself an ice cold glass of water to wake yourself up. "I'm fine."

"Clearly you're not if you somehow managed to make the news here from all the way over there," Aizawa replied, and you sighed.

Of course you made the news in Japan all the way from America.

"I'm fine," you stated once more. "My idiot boyfriend isn't, but he will be. We're taking a few days off."

You heard the hero let out a deep exhale, and you shook your head at the idea of managing to make the man so stressed even from the other side of the word.

"They plastered that villain's face everywhere after people realized he was reminiscent of Overhaul," Aizawa eventually stated. "Do I even want to know what he said to you?"

"Just talked about how he was a fanboy and wanted to finished what Overhaul couldn't, keeping ahold of me," you explained while leaning back against the kitchen counter and taking a sip of your drink. "Kat took care of him though. He did it stupidly, but he took care of it."

"How is he?" Aizawa asked, referring to your boyfriend's state.

"Hurt," you answered. "The only major injury is a wound on his ribcage, which he hid from the paramedics. I patched it up, but I'll probably have Star and Stripes bring in a doctor."

"Did you lecture him?"

"A lot."

"Good," Aizawa commented, "and you said you're taking a break, right?"

"Star and Stripes put us on leave until the weekend," you said. "She wants us out of the public eye until this whole thing dies down a bit."

"Probably for the best," the hero sighed. "Have you talked to your parents?"

"They're kinda anti-news people," you responded. "I doubt they even know what happened."

"Are you gonna tell them?" he wondered aloud.

"I wasn't gonna," you replied, which earned another stress induced sigh from the man.

"[L/N], they're your parents. They should know," he stated.

"I know, but I'm completely fine," you began. "If I tell them, they're gonna be concerned with me staying over here, but I'm the safest I've ever been. This is the only major event that's happened since we got here."

"Must you be a problem child even from the other side of the world?" Aizawa asked with an exasperated sigh.

"I'm sorry," you apologized, "but were doing good over here. I don't wanna ruin it and have my parents wanting to drag me home."

"Maybe this is a sign for the two of you to come home," he argued. "You two have been gone for a month. I'd say that's plenty of time for an internship, and there has been no sign of the League recently. Activity has died down here."