changes - (katsuki bakugo x reader)

tempted delusions

"My head is filled with parasites, black holes cover up my eyes," -Freaks by Surf Curse

You had been fighting to stay awake while the fog entrapped you in the villain's grasp. The thick purple air felt like restraints that kept your body still. In attempt to fight back, you raised your arms up trying to grab onto something- anything.

Fading in and out of consciousness, suddenly you fell onto a hard wooden floor. The cold hardwood sent shiver down your spine. Unable to even move your head, you brought your eyes up to the figure that was standing in front of you. It was the crusty man.

"Look at sleepyhead here!" the man sneered. "How 'bout you take a little nap?" In an instant, his shoe met your face hard enough to knock the consciousness out of you.

You opened your eyes, but this time, you were back to the fated accident in the forest. This time, it felt more real. The people were no longer breaking the fourth wall of your nightmares.

Your attention was brought the blonde kneeling next to you. His features showed his ego was booming, despite his youth.

Your mouth spoke but you couldn't control it. Everything you wanted to stop yourself from doing happened anyway. The past can't be changed even in your imagination. "Bakugo, what should we do?"

"Shut up," he whispered and rolled his eyes. His voice was higher-pitched than it was now, but he still had his attitude. "You're gonna get us killed."

You shrank back down, this time focusing on the villain ahead. "Yeah, but we can't just do nothing."

"I'm thinking, Y/N, stop talking!"

The woman's scream shot through the air like a shotgunned being fired. The mere sound of it made you flinch back into a bush behind you.

This time, when you looked, the woman had blood spilling down her body. It was dripping onto the ground below, pooling up.

"She's going to die!" you whisper-shouted. "I have to help!"

Carefully with intent, you raised your arms into the air, grabbing the woman despite the man's hold on her.

"Y/N! What are you doing, idiot?" Bakugo tried to tackle you, but you rolled aside.

Through heavy breaths, you said, "I'm helping."

"Like hell you are!"

"Just watch!" you shouted back, annoyed he didn't trust you.

You kept your hold on the woman, trying to release her from his grasp. Eventually, you were able to wrench her out of his ginormous hands.

"Y/N," Bakugo said sternly.

"Shut up!" this time you turned around to face him. Your blood was boiling inside you.

"Y/N..." Bakugo's face was full of fright. His eyes looked through you, as if you weren't there.

You looked back to see what he was watching, to realize that in your anger you had dropped your arms. Your eyes found the woman, limp, laying in the pool her blood that she was raised over just moments ago.

Through shaky movements, you looked down at your hands. You clenched them and released them, slowly, watching the hands of a murderer. Tears dripped down your face and onto your hands, but your body was numb. A ringing noise was stuck in your head with seemingly no end. You lowered your head to the ground, and closed your eyes.

When you opened your eyes back up, you found yourself in a bar. You were restrained against a wooden chair, your arms tied back behind and your feet tied to the floor. Both the crusty man and Kurogiri sat in front of you, alongside a few new faces.

Except that one was far from unfamiliar. "Dabi?"

"Hey," his raspy voice flashed you a smile. Seeing his face, you relaxed a bit in your seat.

Back at quirk camp, Dabi was one of the "mentors" in charge of the kids. He was specifically assigned to you and 4 other kids.

Over time, you had grown accustomed to him. Despite the age difference, you found comfort and trust in each other. Day by day, the walls cracked down and became a friendship.

You both didn't take a liking to the heroes. He had reasons he didn't want to share, but yours were all clear.

"Why are you here?" you asked. He left the camp a year before you did. Seeing him here now just built onto your confusion.

"I'll take the rest from here," said the crusty man. "My name is Tomura Shigaraki. These are my coworkers, Dabi, Twice, Toga, Mr. Compress, Kurogiri, and Spinner. Together we are the League of Villains."

You scanned your eyes over the people, picking up their names. Just because Dabi was here, it didn't mean you weren't still suspicious.

"I'm sure you want to know why we brought you here. To simply put, we've been training you for the past few years of your life. Crazy, right?" Shigaraki laughed creepily. "How do a bunch of villains take over a hero-run facility? Well, one of the doctors is one of our own. If you know the situation in America, you know neither the government nor the people would bat an eye at a place that trapped kids with dangerous quirks."

You did know. The quirk situation in America was one of the scariest things a group of humans could do. Despise their own people just because of a superpower they can't control if they have or not. America has the lowest percent of quirk-wielders in the world.

Other than that, learning the new information made your blood boil in rage. How could they put you through those years in hell, and then kidnap you?

Shigaraki looked as if he read your mind. "Now, now, obviously the whole facility wasn't run by villains. That would cause too much suspicion. So all the pain you faced, was all regular humans going to work. They purposely made the training as close to torture as humanly possible."

You sighed, knowing the only good thing that would come out of being a pro hero was shutting all those camps down. "So why did you kidnap me?"

"I want to kill All Might," Shigaraki said as if it was an everyday occurrence. Your eyes widened in shock from his answer. He continued, "and I want you to join me."

Now that was the shocker. Despite all your hate for heroes, your last thought would be to turn into a villain. And how could he expect you to join him so quick after just meeting the guy who kidnapped you?

"We know you hate the heroes just as much as us," this time, Dabi said. "So join us. Be the Princess of Darkness side by side with our leader."