just behind you ~ Katsuki Bakugou x fem O/C

post mock-battles

sorry if the last chapter isn't great, I'm inexperienced with writing fight scenes >:(

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All in all, our battle lasted for just 3minutes 52seconds, surprisingly fast and efficient.

"Well done Hero team!" All might congratulates us as soon as we're out of the building, "you managed to capture the villain team as well as capture the weapon, all in under four minutes! A very impressive feat.
You combined the uses of your quirks and strategized together, predicting your enemies moves and leaving them with no chance of beating you. Both of you show a lot of promise for becoming excellent pro heroes!"

My face lights up and, despite my fatigue, I practically start floating at All Might's praise.

This is the number one hero, and he's telling us that we have a lot of promise?!?

I can feel the blood rushing to my cheeks, as admiration for All Might fills me up.

"ThankyousomuchAllMight, it'ssuchanhonortohaveyouasourteacherIcan'tbreatheohmygosh, butIpromiseIwilldomybesttokeepimprovingunderyourguidance!!" I exclaim, eyes shut and fists up in excitement.

There's a brief silence, and I open my eyes, scratching the back of my neck sheepishly as I realize I was literally floating. I lower myself to the ground, dispersing the light under me and grinning up at All Might's powerful figure.

"I'm glad to hear it, young Hagakure!" He laughs raucously.

I then notice my classmates oogling at me from behind our teacher. I lick my dry lips, smiling happily and waving to Ashido. All Might then goes on to assess Kaminari and Sero, who're are looking rather dejected.

"I'm glad I got partnered with you, Shoji, our quirks were really compatible during that exercise!" I say.

He mumbles an agreement, then I go to Ashido and Jirou, the former of which pulls me into a hug.

"Hell nah, I'm all sweaty and gross," I wrinkle my nose playfully, but she just squeezes tighter before releasing me.

"I like 'em better that way." A small purple-haired kid says from beside us, leaning up against a light pole, making both me and Ashido freeze.

"Ew, it's vermin." Jirou sneers.

The boy with balls for hair ignores this comment doing the motion for grabby hands, "so... where's my hug at, Hagakure? I wanna feel how taut your tummy muscles are." He says the last sentence under his breath.

For the first time, a flash of regret for my costume design enters my head, but I quickly push the thought away, knowing how excited I'd been to finally get it made.

Also who the fuck says 'tummy muscles'?

I look at Ashido, and she looks back at me in absolute disgust, both of us pulling away from our hug to stare at our pervy classmate with our hands on our hips, the same stance that Jirou has.

"Who even are you?" I ask in disbelief, "and where did you get the audacity to be talking like that when you look like that??"

Before the grape-boy can respond, or either of my friends can add on to my sentiment, a well-aimed explosion knocks the little boy away, and all three of us giggle at how he bounces on the concrete road.

"Fucking extra in my way." Bakugou seethes, continuing to walk right past us, not giving us a chance to thank him for inadvertently saving us. Though we didn't need saving. He also seems perfectly fine, probably pretending as though earlier never happened.

"Well that was a sight to see." Ashido sighs as we start walking back to the observation building.

"What age do you think he stopped growing at?" Jirou wonders.

"Mentally or physically?" I ask wryly.

"Both."

"Probably at about four."

"I'm gonna go for six."

"Please. I've seen six year olds taller than that."

"Yeah, my four year old brother is more intelligent than that."

We all laugh, then Ashido slaps my arm happily, seeming to remember something she was going to say, to which I frown at her.

"Babes, I was gonna say that you did so good what the hell!!" The pink haired girl says.

"Yeah, and you barely took any time too." Jirou adds.

"Awh thank youu," I reply, the frown immediately being turned upside down, "but do you have any water, I've got a headache coming on."

"I have so-" Jirou starts to offer me her bottle, but is interrupted by a spiky-haired redhead.

"You can have some of mine! By the way, you did so good in your battle, the other guys didn't stand a chance," he flashes me a shark-toothed grin.

"Thanks Kirishima," I take his bottle, giving Jirou an apologetic look, but she just pats me on the arm in amusement. I'd learnt most of my classmates names from Ashido, who somehow knows everyone.

"I love your costume by the way! It like, totally suits your quirk." I add, gesturing to Kirishima's rugged look before taking a long swig of the cold water.

"Thanks, that's so cool of you to say! And, by the way, I had no doubt you'd win against those two since seeing your power the other day in gym Gamma."

Kaminari, who's trudging back to the group after being lectured by All Might, perks up at this comment, somehow hearing it from that far away.

"Hey!! Not cool dude!"

Kirishima shrugs, sending him an apologetic look, "Sorry man, just the facts."

Kaminari huffs, and I send him a smile, glad he's back to normal again. For a second I thought he'd got permanent brain damage from that shock.

"Thank you Kirishima, I'm glad you had faith in me."

"No problem bro." He offers his fist, and I bump it with mine.

Once I'm done drinking, and Kirishima is done asking me how I train, it's time to head back inside the observatory building to watch the other matches.

As we're all trudging back, I feel a set of eyes boring into my back. I turn confusedly, accidentally bumping into Yayorozu's shoulder and apologizing, but no one's looking at me. Strange.

I shrug off the feeling, continuing the chatter with Jirou and Ashido, though the sensation of being watched never leaves me.

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