Inquisitor

- Chapter: 9 -

Katsuo was packing his bag to head to training with Izumi when the one and, the only Katsuki Bakugou started talking to him.

"We need to talk, you and me."

Katsuo looked up with a tired expression and saw the Pomeranian looking at him with surprisingly no violent intent. Mulling it over a few moments he responded.

"Why? What do we have to talk about with each other?"

The Pomeranian responded with a single word.

"Izumi"

Katsuo was now intrigued by the answer. What type of idiocy would the Pomeranian tell him, he didn't know. He was interested in what he had to say though.

Nodding his head Katsuo responded with a "I'll be right back".

He then went to Izumi and told her to wait a bit and then followed Bakugou to the front of the school in an isolated area off to the side. Katsuo sat his backpack down against a tree and turned to Bakugou.

"Okay, what do you have to say about Midoriya?" Katsuo didn't want to waste training time and was trying to speed through the conversation.

"What are your intentions with the nerd?"

"I'm just training her to become a hero." When Katsuo responded with the truth the Pomeranian visibly grew angrier.

"WHAT!? WHY WOULD YOU TRY TO HELP THAT USELESS LOSER?!?" Bakugou was quite angry, who was this new kid to come on in and start treating Deku that way? Like she wasn't going to get hurt fighting villains? "SHE DOESN'T HAVE A QUIRK, HOW CAN SHE BE USEFUL?!?!" She was just a weak little pebble, why was he interested in her?

"SHE COULD GET KILLED" 

Bakugou stopped talking and looked worried now, Katsuo however grew a mischievous smirk. He had just figured out why the walking bomb was asking about Midoriya, why he told her to give up her dreams, why he had bullied her, attacked her.

He cared about her.

Based on the light blush and how he was now acting, he cared for her as more than a friend.

To Katsuo, this was a jackpot. He could tease Bakugou all he wanted now, and it would drive him insane. Just the type of mind games he liked playing with others.

"Oh, why would you care about that? Does somebody have a- HUH? OOOOH....."Katsuo pretended to figure it out and leaned into Bakugou's ear whispering letters to spell a word.

"C-R-U-S-H"

Katsuo leaned back and looked at the slightly blushing, more so embarrassed, and extremely angry boy. The boy then asked a question.

"What do you really want with Midoriya? I know it's not just training her to be a hero, I can tell you aren't like that Aizawa."

"Ohh, running away from my accusation?" Katsuo didn't want to answer the question just asked. More like he couldn't. That was a secret he was trusted with by complete accident, something he couldn't share with anyone.

"Tell me your motive, I know you have one, no-one else can tell that your up to something. Only I've noticed. Now tell me what you want with her or I'll kill you."

Katsuo mentally kicked himself as his deception hadn't worked. He didn't want to hurt Midoriya, for from it. He was going to continue to test her to see if he should have her meet a certain man. Someone who she shouldn't meet unless she is capable of lying. Exceptionally good at lying. But he couldn't tell the person questioning him. He wasn't going to be able to properly accept what information he held.

He decided to try and calm down the boy. He had lost all forms of embarrassment and small sparks were shooting from his hands. "Okay, I don't just want to train her. I can't tell you wha-" Katsuo was cut off by a huge explosion.

Apparently he was serious about the killing part.

Katsuo flew back thirteen feet before landing on the ground and rolling another two. He could feel broken ribs, most likely where he got hit. He stood up shakily and saw his vision was doubled. Shaking his head he looked up and saw a flash of blond and a palm reaching up.

He felt the heat spread across his face as another explosion was released into his face, weaker than the last but sill strong. He staggered back and closed his eyes and focused on breathing. Clearing the ringing for just a second he swung his fist and felt it connect. Opening his eyes to a Bakugou stumbling back holding his stomach.

Katsuo was still dazed but realized he would have to use his quirk to walk away still breathing. But he didn't want to. He couldn't use a power like his at will. He needed his bag, that had what he needed.

He moved as fast as he could to the bag but couldn't reach it before seeing Bakugou explode over him and blast him again. Falling over Katsuo landed on his back and had trouble breathing. He had a slight moment of thinking about how strong Bakugou really was before something caught his eye.

Going back

Izumi walked out of the school to see Bakugou attack Katsuo, who then retaliated with a punch to the stomach. Katsuo didn't wait to start running to his backpack. She was horrified by what she saw, more so when Bakugou caught up and launched another explosion at Katsuo.

She didn't know what was happening but she was suddenly running forward to Katsuo's backpack. Bakugou didn't notice her as he was saying something to Katsuo while sitting on top of him.

She reached the bag and grabbed it, running behind Bakugou she swung it and hit him in the head getting him off Katsuo. Katsuo reached up and grabbed the bag, opening it and searching through it desperately. Izumi was taken aback by how desperate he seemed. She thought he was unbeatable, taking down Bakugou without even breaking a sweat. This showed her she was wrong.

Katsuo found what he needed in his bag.

Izumi watched as Katsuo's eyes glowed red and his hair started floating up, his clothes seeming to also lose weight and swaying like wind was blowing from underneath him. He then put a piece of metal around his mouth. It had a piece loop around his head connecting with a another piece form the other side.

Katsuo was now wearing a mask. It had several layers with a connected middle the rippling out till the part the wrapped around his head was reached. Izumi watched as he seemed to grow calmer and his breathing evened out.

He then stood up and rushed at Bakugou, who tried to use an explosion to hit the boy who now seemed very dangerous to him for some reason.

Katsuo slid under it and was right below Bakugou. Bakugou felt an impact on his face as Katsuo landed an upper cut to his face. Bakugou retaliated by shoving his palm into Katsuo's face and using his quirk.

But nothing happened.

Katsuo then put his own palm against Bakugou's stomach as Bakugou remembered what Katsuo's quirk was.

An explosion was fired into Bakugou's stomach sending him flying.

"Ahh, so your quirk is one of those styles, sad you didn't realize earlier. Here. let me show you how it should be used."