the battle

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Jayden pov:

At the end of the day I start to feel guilty for what I did to Bakugou. When my last class period is over, and he's still not back I decide to pay a visit to the infirmary.

When I get there I see a sweet old lady. "Is something wrong sweetie?" She asks. I shake my head no. "I'm just here to visit a kacchan.." I wisper. I didn't know if that was really his name. That just what I got from izuku. The old lady seem confused. "What does he look like?" She asks.

"Blonde. Always angry?" I try and hope it will ring a bell. She snaps her fingers. "follow me." As she starts to walk off, I follow quickly and quietly. When I finally get to the room he's being held I walk in. He's awake and when he sees me his normal scowl deepens.

"What the hell do you want, mutt?!" He yells. I scuff. "can I not make sure your ok, I did this to you after all" I say tilting my head. Now it was his turn to scuff as he crosses his arms like a child and looks away.

"Why are you so childish" I scuffed. He growls like a fucking dog. "What the hell did you just call me!" He yells. "Child.ish." I say plainly. He goes to stand, but I raise an arm threatening him. He stares at me as he slowly sits back down.

I smirk at the submission. Maybe I could get along with boy. After a few quite moments, I finally speak up. "So.. are you ok?" I ask my quietly. He hesitates to answer, most likely still holding a grudge. But he nods. "Tell me about your stupid quirk." He demands looking down at his hands. I nod and tell him everything I told izuku.

"Do you know izuku? He could be a good influence" I say. He scuffs. "Oh shut up" he grumbles. "He's useless. That's I think about him. A deku." He says with distain. I shoot him a glare. "Don't call him that" I hiss back.

"Don't tell me what to do" he shoots back. I flip him off. He grunts and rolls his eyes.

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The next few days our teacher tests us to the limits. I have to get a new inhaler and I'm experiencing an low. A bad one. I should have expected this would happen when I used my quirk so much... But oh well, this is what I signed up for.

I was surprised by izukus quirk, surprised by how much it hurt him. I hurt me so much to see him hurt. I don't know why I cared so much...

At the end of the day he offers to walk me home. I hesitate, but agree. We both walk down the road. When we get their he asks if I need help studying. I decline. Needing sometime to myself after the long and eventful day.

As I walk inside. I hear my grandma yell. "Your back late" she sounded angry.  "Something came up. I'm sorry." I call back as I head straight to my room, not wanting to be bothered with having to face her. I plop down on the bed. It had been a stressful week. And I don't know how to handle all the stress. Well maybe I do..

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I walk toward my jewelry box and dig into the bottom. I flitch as I cut my finger on blade. I grab the sharp blade and pull it from the box. I grab bath stuff and walk into the bathroom. "Taking a bath" I yell to my grandma.

I start the water and undress. I have the water as hot as it can get to have the nice burning sensation. I climb into the burning hot water and wince. I place the blade on the edge of the bathtub. I clean myself and my hair. I raise one leg above the water. I grab the blade and bring it down to my skin.

I feel the shape poke, and drag the blade letting it tear at my skin. I watch as the memorizing blood seeps from the wound. I feel relife and comfort wash over me at the sight of it. I watch the blood drip down my leg and stain the water a dark red.

I keep going and going making hundreds of marks. Some deeper than others, some longer than others. Once I decide I'm done the bath water is as red as the color of blood. I dry myself watching as the towel absorbs some of the blood. Finally I get dressed. Not bothering to bandage the wound.Not that I ever have. Or ever will...

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Summary: she relapsed while taking a bath then got dressed.

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Bakugou pov:

I can't help but notice the small limp. I've been noticing a lot. There's something about this girl, something about the fire she has.. it makes me worried. I walk up to her. "What is wrong with you brat?" I ask. Fuck. Always talking before I can think.

She shoots me a glare, a hit of scaredness behind the anger. "Nothing wrong." She snaps, clearly not in the mood to play games. "I can see your limp as clearly as that pimple" I point to her cheeks.

She moves her hand and covers the signs of acne. "I twisted my ankle" Jayden mumbles. I could tell she was lying by the way she carried herself. "bullshit" I say with anger at being lied too.

She scuffs. "Fine don't believe me" she mumbles and walks away. I reach for her arm. She winces at my grasp, I pull back. "What happened to your arm?" I grumble pulling you closer. "Why do you care so much?" She asked and tried to pull away but I stopped her.

"I-" I pause. "I don't know, but I care ok?" I mumble. She pulls back, I let her go this time and watch as she walks away quickly. I feel disappointed that I didn't do anything. I could have done more. I could have been there.

I huff stuck between two decisions. Leaving her be, and believing her pitiful lies, or going after her...

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Jaydens pov:

I can't believe that just happened. I'm freaking out. No one was supposed to question me. Or my limp. As I slightly stumble down the hall I run into izuku. "Jayden! What is wrong?" He could see the freak out on my face. I quickly cover it up.  "Sorry, you scared me" I lied.

He gives me a questioning look. "Are you sure you're alright? It looks like you were freaking out, not just scared." He says as he reaches for me. I pull away before he can grab me. "I'm fine really, like I said, you just scared me..." I say

"If you say so" he says and gives me a suspicious look. "Did you ever finish that assignment for math?" I shake my head no as I start to stress about all my missing assignments. I don't know how much longer I can handle this.

"You seem stressed, are you sure your alright?" Izuku asks. I sniffle trying to hold it all together. "You know it's ok, to not be ok" he says.

I turn and walk away tears building in my eyes at his words. No one has ever told me something like before. I hear steps following me and I walk even faster trying to lose whoever was following me.

I leave the school, when I turn the corner I run. I hear the footsteps following me. Suddenly I get pulled into an alleyway. "Let me go" I demand and blindly swing at my enimie. I feel a hand get placed over my mouth. "Shhhhh" says a male voice.

In their hand is a cloth with some chemical on it. Slowly I get lightheaded, my struggling becoming less and less. I start to see spots. Evenchully I loose cautioness....

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