Fiery Hearts (Bakugo x OC)

Chapter 21 (Rejection)

We all stood outside with Aizawa at 5:30 in the morning. "Good morning class. Today we begin training that will improve your strength. Our goal is to increase your skills exponentially, so that each of you earn a provisional license. This will allow you to face the dangers that continue to fester in the darkness.

Proceed carefully. Look alive, Bakugo." Aizawa said and he threw a ball to Kacchan. "Try throwing that for me." Aizawa said. "Yeah, sure. Just like in the fitness test." Kacchan said. That's right. When you first started you hit 705.2 meters. Let's see if you've improved." Aizawa said.

"Oh, I get it! We're checking our progress!" Ashido said. "A lot's happened in the last three months! Maybe he can throw it a whole mile now!" Sero said. "Come on, get it Bakugo!" Kirishima yelled. "Make sure none of you blink! Now DIE!!!" Kacchan yelled as he threw the ball.

"That was 709.6." Aizawa said casually. "That's it? Kinda disappointing." Sero said. Kacchan looked shocked and mad. "You've had a single semester at UA, and due to your various experiences you've all definitely improved. But those improvements have only been mental prowess and technical skill.

With a slight increase in stamina thrown in along the way. Your quirks haven't really grown that much though. Not on a fundamental level. So now we're going to focus on improving your powers." Aizawa smirked. "This training camp is gonna be so hard, you're gonna feel like you're dying everyday. Let's hope you all survive." I smirked. "Heh. Bring on!" I said.

This week Aizawa let me know that I was gonna be improving my ability to to transition between my quirks. So I have to teleport around the training grounds continuously and every time I teleport I have to stop, strike the air with a different part of my body and then teleport again right afterwards.

While I was training I got to thinking. 'I wonder if I should ask Kacchan about what happened at the mall. He's been acting like it never happened and acting normally, so maybe it's not as big of a deal as I'm making it out to be...I think I'll just ask him about it anyway. Just to clear things up.'

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We finally finished the first day of training and back at the camping grounds. "Like I said, we won't be cooking for you anymore!" Pixie Bomb said. "If you want to eat, you'll have to cook it yourselves! Starting with curry!" Ragdoll yelled. Everyone groaned.

"Yes ma'am." We all said sadly. Ragdoll started laughing. "Oh man, you guys look exhausted! But that doesn't mean you slack off by making sloppy cat food!" she yelled. Iida gasped and started mumbling to himself. Then he stepped up in front of everyone. "Let's all make the best curry ever, everyone!" he yelled.

"Yeah." Everyone said, not nearly as enthusiastic as him.

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Todoroki lit his wood with his fire. "Hey, Todoroki! Can we get some fire too?" Ashido asked. He walked over and lit her fire. "If you rely on others you'll never learn how to get by yourself. We should focus on acquiring new skills." Yoamomo said. "Yoamomo's right." I said. I tried to make my fire light with another stick but it wasn't working.

"Here, let me." Todoroki said. He bent down next to me and lit my fire with his flames. I looked at him, and blushed a bit at his looks. 'Hey...Todoroki's pretty hot...pun intended.' "Oh, thanks, Todoroki." I said. He looked back at me with his beautiful eyes and smiled slightly. 'Wait, what am I saying!!!!' I thought. I shook my head and snapped out of it. "No problem." he said.

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"We did it!" Everyone yelled. We all scarfed our food down as fast as we could! We were so hungry. "If I got this at a restaurant I'd send this crap back! But after today, I'll eat every bite!" Kirishima said.

"Don't say that!" Sero said. "What do you mean!? This actually does taste absolutely garbage, but since we made it, it somehow doesn't taste as bad as restaurant garbage food! Ya feel me!?" I said. "I actually don't, but who cares! Food!" Kirishima said.

After we all got done with dinner I saw Kacchan walking to the building. 'This is my chance.' I thought. I ran and caught up with him. "Hey, Kacchan!" I called out to him. "Huh? What do you want, snowflake head?" he said. "Can we talk?" I asked, nervously. "Huh? Why?" "Just come with me!"

I dragged Kacchan to a corner where nobody could see us. "What did you want to talk about then?" "It's about what happened at the mall..." I trailed off. "Huh...Oh yeah that." he said casually. "What do you mean "Oh yeah that"!? You telling me you don't feel any kind of way about it!?" I yelled.

"Well...It was kind of awkward..." he said. "Kind of-" "How do you feel about it?" he asked. I paused. 'How do I feel about it? I mean...I know it was awkward, obviously, but do I feel any other way about it?' I thought. "...What if I told you...that I didn't mind it?" I asked shyly and blushing with my head down.

"...Then I'd think you were joking...And even if you weren't...I don't like you in that way." Kacchan said. My breath hitched at those words and felt a pain in my chest. 'Rejection...The one thing every girl is afraid of.' I plastered a big fake smile on my face and burst out laughing.

"Can't get anything past you, huh! You know me so well! Of course I was joking! I was just clearing things up so that things weren't weird between us, ya know." I chuckled.

"You moron. You dragged me out here just to say that? That's not important. Obviously things aren't weird. Can't you tell!?" Kacchan said. "Yeah, sorry." I said scratching the back of my head. "Hurry up. We should head back now." Kacchan said. "Yeah. I'll catch up with you in a sec, 'kay." I said. Kacchan paused then walked off.

'So...Kacchan doesn't like me in that way...Man. This hurts worse than not being the best. It's overwhelming.' I thought.