Deaf Bakugo AU

Chapter 1

Bakugo walked to the school building, listening to some music. Usually it would be calming, even though it was blasting in his ears. Today, though, the music seemed quieter.

'Could have sworn I left the volume alone....' he thought to himself. He turned the volume all the way up and it still seemed muffled, as if someone was blasting it from a boom box a block away. "Shitty dollar store earbuds...." he muttered, but after that he didn't think much of it.

He sat down at his desk, staring out the window with his face contorted into an annoyed expression, hoping that no one would talk to him. Despite his confidence, he was quite introverted.

"Hey Bakubro!" A bright redhead greeted him.

"The fuck do you want, shitty hair?" He replied.

"I just thought I'd say hi since it's your birthday and all that!"

'Shiiiiiiiittttttt........' the blond thought. He always hated how many people talked to him as is, now everyone's gonna be saying "happy birthday" and shit like that. 'I should have faked sick.... godddamn it.....'

"Is that it?" He said with some hostility.

"Yeah, pretty much." Kirishima chuckled. "I'll leave you alone..." He walked away to take a seat.

Bakugo made an annoyed "tch" sound and got back to staring absentmindedly.

After a few more "happy birthday"s and more annoying humans, class started.

"Alright, so for the next few weeks we're gonna be doing sparring." Mr. Aizawa droned. "So get into your gym uniforms and meet us outside."

"Us?" Midoriya asked.

"I'm here!" All Might said coming through the door. "Sorry I'm late!"

"Hi late, I'm Dad." Aizawa said under his breath while Jiro almost burst out laughing.

"Just get changed so we can get this over with." Aizawa said.

"Yes sir!" The class said in unison.

In the locker room, Mineta was attempting to peek into the girl's room once again.

"Come on, dude, stop that, it's not manly." Kirishima said.

Mineta chuckled. "Like you would know what's manly, you stupid tr*nny."

Kirishima froze.

He quickly put his shirt back on and bolted out of the room, breathing heavily.

'How did he know?!' He thought to himself. 'I've tried so hard to pass, my scars are barely visible....'

As he ran down the hall towards the exit, his vision got blurry with tears and he didn't know where he was going, but he didn't care.

He sat against a random tree, tucked his knees to his chest, and started sobbing.

'I'm so weak......'

Everyone's attention was caught by this incident, including Bakugo.

"Can you go after him, Bakugo?" Sero asked.

"Why can't you morons do it?" He replied.

"Come on, pleeeaaaassseee?" Kaminari said. "He really likes you, I think you're the only one who can talk to him in this situation."

Bakugo felt his face heat up the tiniest bit. "Fine. Whatever." He walked out of the room.

As he walked out, he heard more talking.

"Don't you mean she?" Mineta said smugly.

"Mineta, I know I'm not allowed as a hero, but I am going to kill you." Todoroki said.

Bakugo tried looking around the building and in the men's bathroom, but couldn't find Kirishima so he figured he was outside somewhere. He decided he would look around the school grounds, and if he wasn't there either he would look in the dorms.

'Better than talking to those morons.' He thought.

He looked around outside until he found a person underneath a tree, curled up into a ball.

He sighed and sat next to him.

Almost as if Kirishima felt his presence, he looked up and wiped his eyes.

"It's fine. Let it out, I won't judge." Bakugo said. It was the best thing he could think of.

"I don't know how he knew...." he said softly.

"Hm?"

"I'm......" Kirishima started, but his voice trailed off due to more tears cascading down his face.

"You don't have to tell me."

"I-I'm... I'm transgender....."

"And, let me guess. You didn't tell anyone and that little shit somehow knew your secret."

"Are you psychic?" He joked through his sobs, trying to find an ounce of happiness.

"I was born as a girl..." he started. "I told my parents as a little kid that I was a boy, at first they didn't believe me and thought it was a phase. But it never ended. After they had done some research, they figured it out. They wanted me to transition as soon as possible. I've been taking testosterone ever since I was 11, I've even gotten top surgery..... I tried so hard to act like a boy, to be myself..... but Mineta still knew...."

Bakugo didn't know how to respond. "I'm sorry..." was all he could manage.

Kirishima chuckled. "I never knew you could be so comforting..."

"I'm not. I have no idea what I'm doing." He admitted.

"Well, whatever you're doing is working."

Bakugo was suddenly engulfed in a hug. He tensed up a bit, but eventually put his arms around the other boy.

"How about we just go back to the dorms and do nothing?" He asked.

"Sounds great." Kirishima replied.

But something about his voice had a far away quality to it....