Water Under a Bridge || BkDk || MHA

(Chapter 2) Return to U.A

*Bakugos P.O.V*

After Round Face's riveting speech and so many tears, we finally convinced those annoying extras (that we allowed to live here) that Deku should be able to go to his school.

Deku was finally back in the dorms, after getting a single whiff of him the extras decided that the first matter of business was to get Deku into the shower.

With his disgusting costume removed I got to see how completely battered De-Izuku looked. He had scars and bruises all over, he had dark eyebags and he looked much leaner.

Izuku caught me staring at him and met my gaze. It was hard to tell what he was thinking and we just stared at each other for a bit until he smiled at me.

I lifted my head in response.

After Izuku was all clean he joined the rest of us. All of the 1-A boys were relaxing in the hot tub.

I could tell Izuku was finally relaxing as he lay his head back in the water and closed his eyes. Seeing him look peaceful lifted a weight off my chest I didn't even notice I had.

I just stared at him for a while watching as I saw all the tension leave his body. When he wasn't covered in dirt and blood he actually looked quite pretty, I had just never looked before. He had long lashes and freckles that were so perfect they looked hand painted. His lips were slightly parted and looked soft, I smiled watching as his chest rose and fell with his gentle breathing.

Izuku's eyes fluttered open and he caught me staring. A sudden realization of what I had been doing hit me and I splashed Izuku with water and spun around.

I can't believe stupid Deku... Izuku caught me staring at him.

"Kacchan!" Izuku whined, coughing out a little water.

I hadn't meant to disturb Izuku's resting, I just got startled and ended up reacting, which hurt Izuku... again.

I don't even know why I jumped; it wasn't like I was doing anything wrong. I was just looking at his dumb face.

I composed myself and turned back around to face him. "I'm sorry... Izuku." It was still strange for me to call him by his first name.

Izuku seemed to like me calling him his real name because all the previous annoyance evaporated off his face.

"It's okay Kacchan." Izuku smiled such a cute smile. I can see what Round Face sees in him...

I have to get out of here, the lack of sleep must be deluding me.

I rose out of the water without a word, quickly got dressed and went to my bedroom.

I smiled to myself, maybe me and Izuku could go back to how we were when we were younger. No, back then I was a dictator over him. Back to before I got my quirk when I didn't care so much about winning and all we wanted to do was watch All Might.

I felt a small seed of hope start to bloom in my chest. I needed to be able to make it up to Izuku for all the years of bullying, so what better way than to be a good friend to him.

Was I being too rash? Would Izuku even want me in his life after all of the shit I put him through. Well whatever I had to do to get Izuku to forgive me, I'm sure I could do it.

I flopped onto my bed feeling exhaustion eating away at me.

I had only been able to sleep for a few hours before I awoke with a start, falling out of bed.

Hitting my head on the wall I winced and held my knees to my chest. I had a nightmare that I hadn't been able to move fast enough when Izuku was fighting One For All, and he was the one who got stabbed. The dream felt too real.