Kirishima had to hit him a few more times, but Katsuki decided to talk. All the way from the beginning when his quirk manifested, to the day of the sludge guy incident. When Katsuki started to talk about how horribly he treated Izuku, he started to hyperventilate slightly. It took an extra three minutes for Kirishima to calm him down, counting to ten repetitively and breathing with him.
Katsuki vented about his frustrations of Izuku hiding his quirk for so long, making him believe he was weak. He told Kirishima about the hearing aids but refused to mention the arm brace, only referring it to as "the secret".
Kirishima was nothing short of shocked when Katsuki finished his story. Everyone knew that Katsuki and Izuku had history, and that Katsuki often treated Izuku poorly, but he could never have imagined it to be this complicated and extreme.
"The answer is simple," Kirishima said. "Tell him the truth. All of it."
"You and I both know it isn't that fucking simple for me," Katsuki hissed. "I can barley stand to be in a ten meter radius of the nerd without feeling guilty enough to beat my own ass, how am I supposed to have a real fucking conversation with him? It's probably better that he fucking stays away from me, it was fine like that before," he argued.
"You two are both miserable, Bakugou. It's affecting the rest of the class too," Kirishima replied.
"Whatever," Katsuki hissed, stepping onto Kirishima's balcony and jumping onto his own.
On Sunday, class 1-A decided it was time to take action.
After weeks of begging, they had received the keys to the empty dorm rooms so they could transform them into anything they needed (game rooms, art rooms, more common rooms).
The room beside Katsuki was still vacant though, everyone besides Kirishima and sometimes Kaminari (on a good day) were much to scared that someone would come and explode them if they were too loud.
Today the class was thankful that the dorm was unused. Getting Izuku in there was easy enough, the kid was pretty small and much too nice to use his quirk on them. Katsuki was the real struggle. It took Kirishima, Todoroki, IIda and Kaminari to drag Katsuki out of his dorm room and shove him into the empty one only a few meters away.
All the escape routes of the room were blocked off, frozen and taped shut. There was no way to leave unless Katsuki decided to blow a hole in his own dorm wall.
Izuku sat on the floor, facing the bare wall and huffed while Katsuki banged on the door and threatened his peers.
The only response he received was from Kirishima who yelled, "Work out your problems, then come and kill us later."
Katsuki could only sigh, there was no way he could somehow break though to his own dorm room. Aizawa would probably have a stroke if he did anymore damage to school property.
Lowering his fist from the door, Katsuki sat beside Izuku on the floor.
"Look, Izuku," Katsuki said, only to be interrupted.
"Don't call me that. My name is Midoriya," Izuku said harshly.
"I'm sorry Midoriya," Katsuki said shamefully. It was a sentence he could have never imagined himself ever saying. Yet, he just blurted it out.
"Sorry for what?" Izuku snapped, clearly unconvinced.
"Everything. I'm sorry for treating you like shit, I'm sorry for forcing you to fake dating me, I'm fucking sorry for everything okay?" Katsuki's words were desperate. "I am a fucking terrible person and I know I don't fucking deserve to be forgiven."
Izuku's jaw dropped slightly. Katsuki apologized? Katsuki sounded ashamed of himself?
Before he had a chance to reply Katsuki continued talking. "If you want, leave now. I won't tell anyone about last weekend, or the arm, or anything else. I'll tell the bastards it was my fault, that I forced you into it all."
There was a few minutes of strangling silence.
"Kacchan, you're wearing your hearing aids." Izuku said quietly, and Katsuki could actually hear him.
"Well, I fucking told you that I would do it," he huffed.
There was a bruise on Katsuki's jawline. It was a light shade of purple and looked like it was slightly swollen. Izuku subconsciously traced it then poked it slightly.
Katsuki tensed up slightly at Izuku's touch, but didn't protest against it.
"That should get some ice," Izuku suggested, out of his good-nature.
"Probably, but I also fucking deserved to get hit," Katsuki mumbled.
Izuku decided not to press him about the subject, though he had his own theories about how it appeared.
"Do you hate me?" Katsuki asked quietly, with his head hung down. "If I were you, I fucking would."
"No."
"How?"
"I admire you too much. Respect? Not really. But, I do look up to you Kacchan."
"Thank you, Deku."
"Why are you thanking me?"
"Just take the damn thanks."
"Okay."
"I didn't know that they would be on the balcony."
"I know. I'm sorry for snapping. I was frustrated and scared."
"I fucking deserved that too, though."
"Maybe you did need to be put in your place a little bit."
"You and Kirishima both did a hell of a job, too."
Katsuki rubbed his jaw briefly.
Izuku let out a small giggle.
Katsuki felt his heart flutter.
"Fuck, I think I'm in love with you," Katsuki whispered and Izuku went silent.
Katsuki snapped his head up to see Izuku looking at him with wide eyes and an open mouth.
"Sorry," Katsuki apologized quickly.
"Don't," Izuku said. "Apologize."
A look of confusion furrowed Katsuki's brow.
"Kacchan, I've been hopelessly following you around since we were four."
"I know that muc-"
Before Katsuki could complain about their childhood, Izuku pressed his lips against Katsuki's.
"I've never been more grateful for your mother's lies."
"Shut the fuck up and keep kissing me, Deku."
a/n
this was such a fun book to write! i meant for it to only be a few chapters long but i accidentally wrote ten of them. thank you to everyone who read this book and commented and voted! i'm super overwhelmed with all the positive feedback!
i have another bakugou book that i am still currently writing, and i would appreciate if you could give that a read too!
i'm currently working on a short tododeku book that will only be one or two chapters (about 2,000 words).
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Fanfiction"Obaa-chan is coming is coming over this weekend," Mitsuki said quickly. Katsuki could hear a small amount of guilt in her voice, but he decided to ignore it. "Whatever. I'll be home anyways," Katsuki said boredly. "I told her you're in a relations...
