Firecracker- A Katsuki Bakugo fan fiction

CHAPTER 15: Hopeless

After seeing the situation Nine was in, I thought it'd be best to just deal with the whole Eijirou thing myself. My feelings were still there, in fact they had gotten stronger. The more time I spent here, the more I realised all he'd done for me. I had to pay him back somehow.

I had to get out and meet him on the other side, because he's probably waiting for me too.

I didn't care if we became lovers or friends. I just wanted to see his beautiful face again.

"All right class!" Nine's voice interrupted my thoughts. We'd gone out into the field for Hero training. We were wearing our sports festival uniforms in preparation for combat, but honestly I couldn't care less for once. There was just so much on my mind. I just wanted to get out of this hell already.

"Now I've already selected your sparring partners. First up we'll have Bakugo and Midoriya. Good luck!"

I groaned. Why'd it have to be Deku?

"3....2....1....go!"

Deku was the one who made the first move, using his legs to try and kick me. I dodged, grabbing his right foot and getting ready to add explosions, but my heart froze all of a sudden.

It was my quirk. It wasn't working.

Midoriya used his other leg to kick me, and so I fell to the ground in shock. The class looked at each other, clearly stunned.

"Bakugo, are you...are you okay?" Eijirou looked at me with genuine concern, and my heart melted at his face.

"It's my quirk...." I looked down to my palms, realising what was happening.

"It....something happened to my quirk.....what the fuck happened to my quirk?!"

Nine immediately understood what was happening.

"Let's go to Recovery Girl's office. The rest of you stay here."

"Wait!" Eijirou called out. I stopped, looking back at him. His eyes were serious, and he looked like he wanted to give me a hug.

"Good luck Bakugo."

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"So did you catch on?" I asked Nine. She nodded.

"Yup. Let me guess, this is your test?"

"How am I supposed to clear being quirkless?!" I gritted my teeth. I couldn't help it. I felt so goddamn weak. So hopeless. Like nothing. Nine saw my pain, but decided to ignore it.

"I think it has something to do with Midoriya." She said. I was about to ask her what the fuck she meant, but within seconds she had opened the door to Recovery girl's office, and we were no longer alone.

I guess it would just have to wait.

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"Everyone!" Nine announced. The whole class looked at her nervously.

"I regret to inform you this...." She looked at them with saddened eyes.

"....but it appears as though Katsuki has somehow lost his quirk."

Everyone was stunned, so I took that as an opportunity to say my piece:

"OI! WHAT ARE YOU FUCKERS GAWKING AT! YOU DO REALISE IM GOING TO GET MY QUIRK BACK YOU ASSHATS! SO QUIT ACTING LIKE ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!" I clenched my fists, looking at them intensely.

"You better give every day your all. I'll catch up to you and be back on the top, so you don't need to worry about me!"

There was silence for a moment. Then all of a sudden, Eijirou grinned.

"I'll do my best Bakugo!"

I smirked. "You better."

The truth was, all of this? It was scary. But I wasn't going to fall and just give up. I was never going to collapse ever again. I had to be strong.

Just like a fucking hero.

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The rest of the day went by in a blur. I basically sat by and watched the rest of the sparring matches, observing everyone's fighting. Before, I'd always think about them as future opponents, but now I was weirdly a lot more relaxed and decided to try and see the progress each of my classmates had made. Needless to say, I was surprisingly impressed. Of course Eijirou was just as good as ever, but I didn't expect people like Pikachu to have made it so far. It was so weird. I'd never actually noticed that a guy like him was working just as hard as Deku or half and half bastard. I grinned.

Good. I couldn't wait to overtake them.

Before I knew it, the day was over, and everyone was going back to their dorms. While many people gave me sympathetic looks, no one actually said anything to me, to my relief.

I was about to turn away and go back to the dorms myself before someone tapped on my shoulder.

"Kacchan?"

I'd recognise that wimpy voice anywhere. I turned around to face Deku, not pissed, just annoyed. I wondered if he'd laugh in my face and bully me or something, kind of like how I was when we were younger.

But instead, he looked at me with concern, his green eyes staring into mine.

".....do you mind if we talk?"