♞ 𝔗𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱 ♞ ʙᴀᴋᴜɢᴏᴜ x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ

Chapter 7: He Hates Arachnids

The lesson ended pretty quickly after that. Everything happened so fast. My cousin, Izuku, got really injured in his fight with Uraraka against Iida and Sero. He broke his arm and a finger when he was going against Iida one-on-one. He spent the rest of the afternoon in the infirmary with Recovery Girl healing him. School ended, while some people have already left, I was talking to Kirishima, Tsu and Uraraka when Izuku slowly walked into the classroom all bandaged up. "Hey, Izuku!" I called out to him and approached him. Kirishima and Tsu introduced themselves to him with glad expressions and they talked about how he was feeling and how cool his quirk was. Ashido and Kaminari also joined in the conversation moments after.

My mind began to wander as I listened to my classmates converse. He used his quirk pretty well against Iida. Izuku has a very strategic and intelligent mind, despite his body not being able to handle his quirk. Though, I did notice that he's getting better and better every time, both at increasing strength and minimising the damage on his body, which was a good thing. As the group was talking, I spotted something dark and furry on one of my classmates' desk in the corner of my eye.

Out of curiosity, I turned my head to the unknown entity. It was a black spider. "Hey there, little buddy, what're you doing here?" I asked the arachnid before going to my bag and grabbing my notebook. "Let's get you out of here, this isn't a place for spiders like you." The group turned to me, wondering who I was talking to. Tsu, Uraraka and Ashido squealed when they saw the little animal.

"Why is it so big?!"

"It's so furry!"

Before I could scoop the spider up, someone came and smacked it dead with a copy of our mathematics textbook. Splat! What the hell? It was just an innocent spider. "Hey!" I yelled as I looked up at the person who killed it. "What's the matter with you?! I was just about to throw the spider outside!" The person lifted the book up. The surfaces that came in contact with the spider had its insides spread all over them. Wet sounds were heard as the little body parts moved around. Ew.

I looked up with glaring eyes and I was not even surprised. "The girls were screaming and it was annoying me," Bakugou complained as he scraped off the spider guts from his book using the edge of our classmate's desk casually. "If you scooped it up, they would scream louder." He shrugged as he took back his book. "Besides, the little guy won't survive for long in this environment. Might as well put it out of its misery."

I scoffed, "Still, that was not cool." He rolled his eyes at me in response.

"Doesn't Kouda understand animals though? Isn't it his quirk?" Kaminari suggested.

I mentally gave myself a facepalm. "Well, what can he understand when the thing is frickin' dead?" I emphasised on the word 'frickin''. Despite my comment, Kaminari still called Kouda over. When Kouda laid eyes on the spider corpse and its guts all over the desk, he screamed and hid behind Uraraka. "Kouda! It's alright," I assured him, waving my hands around. "It's... Uh... Dead..?" What else is there to say? I mean, it can't hurt you now that it's dead and gone. Reluctantly, Kouda quit hiding and slowly inspected the spider. "Honestly, Kaminari, why are we doing this? It's already..." I was cut off by Kouda looking up at me and shaking his head.

"Huh, what do you mean, Kouda?" Asked Kirishima. Kouda looked at him and started to make hand signs that I could barely understand.

"It's not a real animal?" Tsu tapped her chin, intrigued.

Kaminari tilted his head to the side, "What do you mean it's not a real animal?" Izuku and I looked at the spider with furrowed brows and focused eyes. I think we both had the same thing in mind.

"What do you think, Izuku?" I rubbed my chin as I turned to him.

He rubbed his chin as well, his face clearly focused and his mind was thinking. "If they aren't real animals, then was the spider artificial?" Izuku suggested.